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 CIRKEST ET;NTS. 'ti. 1883. *« render •., I deter. F*' genera! le U8e of I '•w Mr. \v i J^f until h,: liters. TT I-. 'Jol ,l«l CANADIAN. • pow 3 € finitely announced that Parlia- f'Vill be convened at Ottawa on the "?â-  f January for the despatch of bnsinesa. Vaistrous fire t'^ok place at the Walkerville i^||*rv. i^ar Windsor, on the Guh iast., f400 caccirt fattening in the stables were ' „i; evidf Dce of the progress of the Do- I ,n Lord Lome stated in his Liverpool y\ that the number of letters from Eng- '^^^1-0 the 'North-west bad increased from iiulSSO to 1-2,000 in 18S2. ipz-ording to the official Gazettf the total mber of immigrants arriving in Canada 'to October 31st was 160,933. against i- 055 up to the same date last year. Of 'â- "je over (JT.OOO passed on to the United \livor Beaudry, of Montreal, announces jn^el: as a candidate for the mayorality ' the tenth time. He has certainly some ter tnemies, but the successful results ;â-  that he has also a great many warm '-ieDc= in Montreal. Very Rev. Uean Baldwin, of ^lontreal, re- ntly elected Bishop of Huron, expects to ' ronstcrated at London, Ont., on the 2Sth IV Revs. 1 r. Carmichael. of St. George's, luicb, Montreal and Dr. Wilson, of King- •m are spoken of as his successor. Cae S-lvation Army have nearly eom- â- â- leil a new brick building for a "barracks" Kinsston. It is a plain, substantial brick •IciiES. capable of accommodating pro- V,lv a'tliousand people. It is expected it'i" •â- 'â-  '"J*-' ;urma!ly opsned on the IGth ;t. Th2 New G1u.sg;ow, N. S., glass works are J to employ 130 hands, and to be run- ir';r ni^ht and day. Such glass works must n:n night and day, if run at all. The â-  apante, (lut., glass v/orks are closed and â-  is liot intended to open them this year i"',e ii'lmircrs of the late Rev. Dr. Ryerson are le.u circulating subscription lists for a .eEiorial fund, and «Dme§3,G0O has already ;-en subscribed. It is hoped to raise the jiouiit '.0 $0,000 if practicable. The sub- ..ribers are largely those engaged in con- :ection with the schools of this province. Lord Lansdowne had hardly become set- â- .'.ei in his new Vice-regal residence at Otta- wa when anonymous letters began to be sent .o liim threatening his life. It is hard to ;ell whether these missives are the mischiev- .oua pranks of men with little better to do, :,r the work of fiendish Fenians. The election of Mr, Hammill, the Con- â- ervativc M. r.P., Cardwellwas declared void by the court on the 6th inst., in con- .cusociULOce OS the corrupt practice of sev- ;ral agents and friends keeping their bars ;pei: and li(iuor selling on the day of the .ettii n. At. it was shown that bars were it-pt open by the friends of both sides each paity t:vd to pay its own costs. At an Oranee meeting in Brockville on •.:.e 5th J(ihn White, M. P., stated that he -ttii dtit to introduce his Orange incorpora- :.in bill figain at the next session of the rlv'.iso uf Commons if the liupreme (irand 1,-u.eof the Order desires him to do so. The ::iatter was left in the hands of a commit- tee of five at the late session of that body, ' i.d it lies with them to decide what course â- .0 take. The Halifax Chronic'e states that the dif- r.culty of proc;urini7 home female labor for •:,£ Moncton knitting factory is so great â- .".It opLTators have to be imported from the /pp..!* i'rovinces. It deplores, at the same ;;:;.i-, that hundreds and hundreds of girls arc ..E=tai-.t!y leaving their homes in Nova --C'.ia i- r employment in the United .^-..-itt-^, thinking they can do better there â- -! :.n at iiome. 'a Thanksgiving day a new Orphans liotit; building was" formally opened at Tor- ";to, f; e Mayor presiding at the ceremonies. iht niw building is situated on Dovercourt r.ii, at the north-west corner of the city. 1; M i.t' " Modern English domestic " archi- â- â- ijtiirt' built of redbiick, 150 feet in length, :-ur stories high and very tastily finished. -iMiple accommodation is provided for 200 .-.il ucii, one half of the space being arraug •â- â- .â- ; L.-r t.i'j 'irls. oiriK:-, .lameison, of Kingston was sen- :-...Ldon the :;rd inst. to fourteen years im- ;:i:r,nmcut in the penitentiary for burning e barn.'-, and their contents of a farmer _re- i i!:-l; near the city. Jameison was convict- 1 1 â-  n his ov.n confession. ilo stated that • -andered into the barn to sletp_ one â- â- 'â- s t i.i an intoxicated cordition, and in at- .â- ;i.'.iu:r to light his pipe sst fire to the t.T;v,-. 'lie confessed his crime and wanted " 1 â-  sent to penitentiary to get out of â- .-.â- i.nt;tion3 way. II J was cnce before in ;..-iin :or barn buruicc's. I iier..' ^vill probably be a very lively con- ^.â- : in Lennox County for the seat made ^-^.ant i:. the Houce of Commons by the 'jurt avoiu.iig the election of Sir John A. iacdonald. Sir-lohn declined to become candidate apain, preferring to retain his 'at for Carit;,a County, and M. W. Pruyn, ^•â- 'i of Nap;;aee, has been nominated by -hy Ctiiicrvatives in his stead. Mr. D. ^^ â-  dison, of Adolphinstown, the former can- ^u!ato, was nominated by tho Reform con- 'â- ectiou. Both parties are now hard at work. it h;;s net yet beta announced when the 'â- -' -tier, will take place. (IKEAT EKITAIN. â-  t a fair at Ruth Keale, a few miles cfif i. .iieriek, a faction fight took place re- ^^ntiy and forty persons were wounded. lively tight also took place between the â- "Oh and t'le police, but a few arrests were M. 3rs. Moody and Sankcy began a series 'j; evant'clistic meetings in L' nd( n, Eng- land, on the 4th insr. The ircn hall, built n purpose for their services, holds nearly -OtO persona, and is said to be a fine suc- w^s. The prospects are for a very success- ful series of meetings. The ex Goverpor General and the Princess L-.ui£u arrived safely m England on the 5th inst., after a short and pleasant voyage. Tii.y were received with great demonstra- t'-ci, j at home. The Pope is reported to have expressed i'ia-.self ni very strong cppostion to_ the ?;hemeof the British Government ot the v.bo:e-rale exportation of Irishmen from li-'ii- li'.tive lani. Whether this will have the eflfeofc of checking emigatioQ to mach extent remains to be saen. The new County Franchise Bill in the Mother Land, besides enfranchisine the great mass of farm laborers, wiU do so for the people of one hundred and fifty towns or places nat purely agricultural, in which tnere IS a popuUtion of over 10,000 persons, their total reaching three mUlions. The ex- tent of the reform proposed can be jadged by these facts. UNITED STATE.S. Thursday 29th inst, has been appointed rhanksciving day in the United States, by proclamation of President Arthur. The total receipts from the United States internal revenue for the fiscal year endinc J un e 30 th last were § 1 44, 00«, 000, .T^^^cf^^ P*P«" «*y *^a* *^^e cotton crop of that State is nearly one-third leas than last year. The crop is reported light all over the Southern States. AuAmoricoa papsr says "Tiieexp^3rt Lm" ooJ? ""otry exceeded the imports by «ill7,32G,9C9 during the past year. Our imports were $54,744 662 leas than for 1882 and our exports §7i.ooii,7JJ ^rea.er. The United SUtes Postmaster-General is now considering the advisability of »llowin/ an increase in the weight of letters for bingle postage from one half ounce to one ounce. Some such increase is needed in Canala. A Panama dispatch reports that 10,000 nien are at work on the Panama Canal, and that the number will be increased to 15 000 next year. There are in use 30 steam excavators, 40 locomotives and SCO tip carts. The immigrants coming to Ami r"ca during the past season by the aid of the Tuke fund numbered about 5,000, of whom all but 1,800 came to the States. Most of them are'now comfortably settled in various employments, and are justifying the good opinion which caused their selection by the committee in Ireland. The first bale of cotton ever picked from the field by machinery was exhibited at the Charleston Cotton Exchange a few days ago. The condition of the cotton was pronounced by cotton men as good as that of hand- picked cotton. 1 he machine used will har- vest two and a half to three full bales a day. At Steubensville, Ohio, at an old Roman Catholic burying ground, one day last week, a metallic coffin was opened containing the body of a young lady in a good state of preservation. The position of the body gave unniistakable evidence that she had been buried alive. No cue seemed to know who it was. The State elections in the ten states that took place on Tuesday 6th inst., were, on the whole, favorable to the Republicans and go to give more favorable indications for the Republican party at the Presidential election next year. A notable feeture of the elections was the defeat of Ben Butler for Governor of Massachusetts by a good ma- jority. There seems to be very sericu* difficulty brewing in tho Southern States m resrard to the irrepressible "color question." At Dan- ville, Virginia, recently a deadly con- flict took place between a crowd of whites and negroes in which six negroes were shot and others wounded. Such con- flicts, it is feared, will become more general as the ill feeling increase.'s. There is yet an intense excitement. At Madison, Wisconsin, the entire roof, inside walls, and the iron and atone columns of the new south wing of the State Capitol building fell in on the Sth inst., killing sev- eral of the workmen and badly injuring others. The cause of the accident is sup- posed to have been the defective iron col- umns. They were made of large plates of boiler iron put together stovepipe fashion, and the joints wt.e not bolted together. A thorough investigation of the case is or- dered. A farmer named Jacob Lieb, living near Erie, Pennsylvania, recently concealed all his greenbacks, mortgages and other similar papers in the oven of an unused parlor stove in order to escape thieves. The first of the month there was a snow storm and the farmer, being out at the time, his wife resolved to please him by a warm parlor when he got home, to hie; dismay he found his hid treasure, amounting to about fifteen thousand dollars, the earnings of his life- time were consumed. Another destructive cyclone passed through some parts of Missouri recently Hundreds of houses were demolished and others more or less injured. In and about SpringPeld ten persons were instantly killed and over fifty more or less ipjured. In that locality a Roman Catholic church was wrecked, a cigar factory destroyed, and a school house blown down, from which about fifty children escaped without much serious injury. The path of the storm was only a few yards wide, but wherever it struck the ruin was appaling. m â-  â-  -t-^^^-**^^â€" A Child for §20. The Columbia, (Neb.) Democrat siys Oa Monday last a man with four children, claim- ing to be from I\ibrara country, this State, arrived in town, and while here he met another mover, to whom he proposed to sell his little, four years old. As shockmgly inhuman as this may seem, the little boy was then and there sold to the stranger for the sum of §20. The little fellow, when told by his beast of a father what he had done, and that he must go with the stranger, wept bitterly, imploring his father not to take him away from his little brothers and sisters. "No you can not stay, you must go," was the stern command. The child again kissed his brothers and sisters, and was put in the stranger's waggon and started ofl" but so grieved and pained was his little heart at bein' thus ruthlessly torn from those he loved that, after having gcn3 a short dis- tsnce, he jumped out of the waggon, went back again and b?gged not to be sent away with strangers. But he was taken buck and put into the waggon. S touching was this inhuman circumstance that the wife of the purchaser wept bitterly. Every subscriber for a paper can do i. ach for the paper by becoming a reporter for it. That would greatly help the edi'or :n get- ine out a readable sheet. The trouble wnh the average subscriber is that h« is hr.t ion- tent with being a reporter. H-. wanti to ivrite the editorials. Straet Scenes ta ZJsboB. Among the street scenes in Lisbon may be noted two men carrying a bedstead and mattress slung upon a pole, a la Chinatown; a man driving a flock of turkeys places at toe public fountains divided by classes â€" this side for gentlemen, this for menials, etc. the Praza do C jmercio, or, as the Eog- lish call it, 'Black-Horse square," after the equestrian statue of Joseph I. which stands in the middle the Passeio Publico, with its marble basins, its trees, flowers and pretty girls the cathedral, rebuilt since the great earthquake of 1755 the palace Ajuda, where the royal family (the population of Portugal is scarcely more than one half that of the state of New York) usually dwells and the theatre San Carlos. The male peasant wears a woollen night cap for a head-dress, the female, nothing. The male of the genteel class wears a shiny silk hat with a very narrow brim the female, what- ever may be the fashion in Paris. The gentry wear French costumes the peasants black homespun woollen jackets and trous- ers. You meet English people at every turn. Most of the few industries which flourish in Portugal are in their hands the wine trade, the fruit trade, the shipping, the mining, and even the sardine flshery â€" in fact, since the Methuen treaty Portugal has become little more than a British province. It has nominally a protective tariff, but really enjoys free trade, the entire coast and the frontiers being in possession of smuggl- ers. What with ihe small population of the country, its almost ruined condition, and its utter dependence upon Entrland, its crown becomes a mockery, and both its "ancient" and "modern" nobility a carica- ture. â€" Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Smoking In Mexico. While waiting for coffee, and afterward during pauses in the conversation, the gealle- men of the family â€" and not infrequently the ladies also â€" settle gracefully back in their chairs and enjoy a cigarette or two. I learn- ed a lesson at my very first dinner in Mexi- co. It was at a hotel table, and a stranger Mexican seated beside me, who happened to finish his dinner first, innocently lighted his cigar for the usual table smoke, which I, in the depth of my ignorance, regarded as a personal insult, and indignantly left the table. Since that day I have become "learn- ed in the ways of the Egyptians," and can- not only tolerate the national custom with equanimity, but (be not horrified, oh, fas- tidious friends) occasionally take a dinner cigarette myself. When one is in Rome it ia well to do as Romans do. These tiny Mexican cigarettes, rolled up in corn husks or tissue paper, are not at all like the strong smelling things we have in the United States. These are not much larger than straws, the husk is sweet to the taste, and they have a delicate fragrance which is very pleasant. In Mexico everybody smokes at all times and in all places â€" at the theatre; in the ball-room, everywhere. In making formal calls or more extended visits, polite- ness demands an immediate and frequent ex- change of cigaretttea and "light"â€" with many courteous words, as "after you, sen- ora " (referring to the match)â€" precisely as our ancestors were wont to proffer and ac- cept the civilities of the snuff-box. Every Mexican lady's pocket is supplied with match-box and cigarette-holder of more or less elegance, and the dainty fingers of many a fair young senorita are discolored like pol- ished bronze at the tips from much cigarette rolling. Turklsb Brigands. A new and very successful way of dealing with brigands has been adopted by the in- habitants of the village of Kossovo, in Tur- key. For some time past the numerous bands of brigands in the district have render- ed life almost intolerable. They not only infested the roads, rendering locomotion im- possible, but also made raids into the neigh- boring villages. The whole of the villages in the district of Dike at last hit upon a novel expedient for restoring peace. When- ever the prolonged absence of any villager gave rise to suspicion that he was doing a little bit of "brigandism," his house was im- mediately set fire to and burned to the ground and when the missing man return- ed, besides finding his house reduced .to ashes, he w-as subjected to the additional annoyance of being at once handed over to the authorities. This system has been car- ried to such an extent that several persons suspected of brigandage have besn actually compelled by their neighbors to set fire to their houses. It is to be regretted that the same plan can not be adopted with burglars in the metropolitan district, several of whom are supposed to occupy surburban villas, and who would be iccft'dbly disgusted on return- ing home after a successful venture to find their dwellings in ruins. â€" St James's G(c- -H'.r. How Medletne Is Taken It is to be feared that to most peop^.e medicine is not an erudite science or learned art, but is little more than the common ad ministration of physic. They cannot under- stand medicines without drugs, and its vir tue and power are popularly measured by the violence of its operations. Its very name is, in ordinary parlance, synonymous with physic. Take from it its pills and po- tions, and for them you take away its whole art and mystery. They do not believe in a scheme of treatment, however deep laid and skillful, which does not include a certain statutory dosage. So that, as a rule, medi- cal men are practically compelled to give their patients a visible object of faith in some form of physio, which may be at most designed to effect some very subordinate purpose. And it is remarkable how strongly even among the educated classes, this feel- ing prevails. Cures by the administration of mixtures and boluses is so fixed and aA- cient a tradition that it is only very slowly that the world will give it up. The anxiety of the friends of the patients wants to do more than follow the simple directions of "nursing," which have been so carefully indicated, and possess apparently so little remedial power. There is nothing of the unknown about them in which a flattering hope of great advantage can nestle. Thus it is necessary to educate the world into a belief in medicine apart from drugs, which finds its power ia curing in adaptation of the common conditions of life and appUoa- tions of physiological facts â€" a mod icine which takes into its hands the wh-rl; life, and orders and fashions its every detail with sci- entific definiteness. It is found in every- day practice that this popular understanding of the modern spirit of medicine constantly checks the little tentative advances of a more scientific treatment, and it is necessary that it should bs generally understood how powerfully the various processes of the economy may be affected by the manipula- tion of the condition of commjn life. â€" Brit- ish Qtiarttrl)/ Revific. Twins Born in a Street-Car. Between S and 10 o'clock on a recent night two babies were born in a street-car on Fifth Street, near Franklin avenue, St. Louis, Mo. The mother, the wife of a German lumber-piler of North St. Louis, named Lutz, had boarded the car at Park avenue, in the southern part of the city, and was on her way home when the trouble came on. The car was stopped, a physician sum- moned, and the patrol waggon called. They wanted to 'place her in the waggon and take her home," but she insisted on riding home in the car. They let her have her way, and although a monster crowd collected and travel over the car line was stopped, the car remained stationary until two children were Ijorn. The car then proceeded north- ward, and the mother and the babies rode home in it. At last accounts all were doing well. " I see you are growing a mustache, George," said she, as she caressed the lappel of his coat. " Ye-es," stammered George, blushing furiously, " Iâ€" I am trying to cul- tivate one, Arabella." " Don't it feel funny on your lip," she asked. "Well, no," he laughed, regaining his composure, "it seems to be quite natural." "I wonder how a mustache would feel on my lip," she said, with a far-away, absent look in her eyes. "Y'oi needn't won-Jer long, then," said George, as he bent down. "Oh, you for- ward thing " she exclaimed • " I've a good mind to make you take that back again." And be did. A DUprovea Theory. " What's the matter, Slooam 7" asked one Brooklyn, K D., young man of another, who wore a bicycle cap, and looKed as though he ought to be in B E D. "I was going across a vacant lot last night after I left my summer girl's house, ia Bushwick, when a big beast of a dog chased me." "Citchyou?"' " Ya-as, rather." " Why didn't yon shoo him?" "Well, you see I had no gun, and be- sides I'd been reading a story that's going the rounds of the papers now about the Hon. Puil Hoyne, of Chicago, therein he says that he frightens dogs by taking his hat off. His theory is tbat the dog reflects, and thinks the human apparition is tearing himself to pieces." " Well, did you try ths honorable gentle- man's racket " " Umph, umph, I guess he thought I wasn't tearing myself to pieces fast enough, and he took a holt to help. The (his lan- guage was such) brute has my new Fedora hat yet, unless he's through with it." â€" Nsw york Truth, Starters lor Stories. Following the prevailing literary fashion Slush, slush, slush 1 first saw the light of day " Push the eglantine aside, Hes- ter." -It was nightâ€" night in the great city. It was night â€" night on the lonely downs. A dull sun was rising on a per- fect day. A dull drizzling day on the Cornish coast. It was Hefbet Delany's 21st birthday. It was a beautiful after noon toward the close of August. -G ^f- frey Marmalade had been u bachelor for many years. Born of humble parents, John Gray grew up to manhood. Yes, it was very hard for all of us to part with Lilith Jane but Only a gin-miller't daughter â€" And yet how fair â€" how wonder- ously fair she was On sultry day to- ward the close of August, IS â€" the heir of .Jagshurst lay dying. Tne birds weie twittering sweetly that morning in leafy June, ivtien Clara Montmorenci "No! The speaker was a fair pale girl of somt nineteen summers. A bright, glowing fire, a cheerful room, books everywhere- what more did Herbert Vane need to be happy? â€" Puck. No wonder Cetewayo, is always at war. He has 400 wives. Even in this civilizsd country a man with that many wives could- n't expect to have much peace. Adverse to a Miscellaneoas Crowd It was in Chicago, of course, though for that matter it might have been in any city of Connecticut or Massachusetts. " Will you goto the ball, this eve?" he incjuired. •' Not this eve," she replied, certainly in not the most gracious manner possible and then she added, "S'mother eve, possi- bly." "Bit Mrs. Stockyards Pjrciae csrtunly sent you an invitation " "0.1, yes, of course but I felt obliged to present my compliments and regrets." "Well, if you ain't a funny woman. The soiree will be one of the most fashion- able and select given on the west side, this season." " I suppose so, but still I did not wan';.to go." " Private reasons, eh " " Wtll, if jou must knosv, all of my di- vorced husbands have been invited, and I don't wish to mix promiscuously in such a miscellaneous crowd." A Russian Victim. The return from Siberia of the Rjssian writer Tehernischefski. who has been in exile since 18G2, is announced. H^ is now turned 60, and it can well be believed that, apart from the effest of years, he has greatly aged. Hs was until the time of his arrest the edi- tor of one of the leading Russian reviews, the Sofremennik, or Contemporary. But al- though the tone of the periodical was under Tchernischcfski's direction liberal and even radical, it was not to his connsction with the Sovreraennik that his deportation was due. He was accused of editing one of the secret revolutionary prints which in lS6t! first made their appearance in R issia and, charged with high treason, was found guilty and sentencsd to capital punshment. The sentence was afterward commuted to deport- ation for life. \\i was exposed in one of the public E(|uare8 in St. Petersburg, a sword was broken over his head in tok n ot loss of nobility, and he was carried away to the gloomy region from which he has just come back. â€" St. James Gaztttp.. ih. t4Ji' WHO 18 UNACQUAINTED WITH THE HEOCRAPHY OP TKIS COUNTRY, WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE Chicago, Rock Islai^o Pacifec R'y, Belns the Great Central Line, affords to travelers, by .-caeon ol its unrivaled geo- sraphlcal position, the shortest and beet route between the East, Northeast and Southeast, and tho West, Northwest and Southwest. it Is literally "nd strictly truo, that its connections are all of the principal lines of road between the Atlantic and tho Pacific. By Ks main line and branches It reaches Chicago, Joltet, Peoria, Ottawa, Le Salle, Ceneseo, Moline and Rock Island, in llllnolE; Davenport, Muscatine, Washtneton, Keokuk, Knoxvillo, Oskaloosa, Fairfield, Den Moines, West Liberty, Iowa City, Atlantic, Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrio Center and Council Bluffs, in Iowa Gallatin, Trenton, Cameron and Kansas City, in Missouri, and Leaven- worth and Atohison ;n Kansas, and the hundred; of cities, villages and towns Intermediate. The "GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE," As It Is familiarly called, offers to travelers all the advantages and comforts Inoidant to a smooth track, safe bridges. Union Depots at all connecting points, rast bpress Trains, composed of COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL HBATBD, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELEGANT DAY COACHES a line Of the MOST MAGNIFICENT NORTON RECLINING CHAIR CARS ever buiit PULLMAN'S Aitsst designed and handsomest PALACE SLEEPING CARS, and DINING CARS that are acknowledged by press and people to be the FINEST RUN UPON ANY ROAD IN THE COUNTRY, and in which superior meals are served to travelers at ths tow rats of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. THREE TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER. TWO TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, via the famous ALBERT LEA ROUTE. A New and Direct Line, via Seneca and Kankakee, has recently been opened, between Newport News, Richmond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and La Fayette, and Council Bluffs, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Intermediate points. All Through Passengers carried on Fast Express Trains. For more detailed information, eee Maps and Folders, which may be obtained, as wall as Tickets, at all principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada, or of R. R. CABLE, E. ST. JC HN, Vice-Pres't GenM Manager, Oen'l T'k't Pass'r Ag'to CHICAGO. j:-' â- ii