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8i: Loonu'd “ruby. Hon. Finns. Min- hhr. lava a one. {or Inch-d on oflle- hl tin-inns, 3nd my be gone some '00 . to sub» tube s Chin rinmndont sad 3 Council of Public Instruction for 1 Min- htor of Education. mum tench.” q gnu tho proposition “l” At the London City Council mutin recently, it. was announced thnt Lot Lnnndovno would be unwle to vim the Wanton: Fnir this summon The report. in thst the Ottawa Govern- ment have succude in :mnging until. factory term: with the Manitoba. “ Better Terms" Deloggtiou, md they no now re- turning utiafied. The old stone portion or no): forming the entrance to Fort Gerry ground: at Winnipeg will probably be removed to the new government buildings and per- urved u e relic. Hon. Oliver Mount bu gone to Eng- land, to ugue the Boundary Quad one before the judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It is expected to come up for hen ing in June. One day last week twenty-four thousand musk mt- Ikim were Ihi - pod from Kingston by tvm dealers. ( f these 9,000 were sent. to England and the balance to the States. Sir Charles Tuppor in to receive an ova- tion from the men prominent! Connected with liVU stock shipping. in untraal. in a few days. and then he will take his final leave for his official duties as Agent-Gen- oral in Landau. 1 The Grand Trunk Railway Company Ru auweuded in effecting an amicable settlement. with the widow" and the memo bars of the families of the Humber vic- tims, killed in the collie on near Toronto, last January. The total sum paid was about. seventy thousaxgd dollars. Hun. Senator Mucf’henon has resigned his polition as Minister of the Interim and guen on a trip to Europe 3t once. His friends say that he in aufl‘ering from serious disease and the step became ne- cessary on that account. Judge Hagarty has received his ap- pointment “Chief Justice of the Court of A peals in place of the late Chief Jun- tiee L'pra a, and ‘ took-the Oath of (mice on Munda . Judge Wilson is now Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench and J udgo Cameron Chief of the Common Pleas. There are fears of Indian troubles in the North-Went, Territory. Chief Piapot in reported to Cumplain that the reacvc given his tribe is too swampy a“ unhenlt on thatuccuunt, and his peuple are he on tun much bacun. and are getting the scurvy in cunsequence. He wants a new rvseer near a river where fish can be caught, The other chiefs are making similar cumplaints. l'ulled States Henry Schneidm" a resident of Cleve‘ land, ()lun, aged U3, died from the etfects of a. master’s bite on Monday. The burning nf the Harlem railway shops at Ncw Ymk on Sunday last. in- volved a 1mm of over a. quarter of a million dollars. Another lynching took [flace in South Carolina last Week. At Winston twu hun- dred and fifty citizens took Henry Swain from jail and banged him. He was tc~ cuaed of the murder of Mrs. Han-ion of that phce. Phipps, the Detroit man who shot his wife on the Ferry hunt between Dem-nit, and Windsor, is sentenced tn be hanged next month. As the sentence is by a Canadian (,‘nurt, there, is a. good chance that it will be carried out. Phipps' Am- erican friends are much surprised and are doing their best to get a reprieve or some- thng nf the kind. The plea is that he had been drinking and his “mind wander- ed." ' INTERESTING IEWS. THIS 0R IGINAL DOCUMENT Thouuud- of ur- uou Bhnvoport. Louuhnt, which have not been nub!”- od tor flit-on yarn. hue boon ovo ~ ed. and the mount of (hung. in inculca- lsblo. For mile. the ompo I!" hue to b. replaced. Secretary Chandler hu honed .n o!!- e'ul roclunnuun, Coloring the nvud o! .25, for the tonne of tho Grady u- ploron. but. Inning unprepu'ed v 1- ugainujncurring extmvrdinar pen in the much. since the United tam Iill not wume uxy lhbility ur responsibility beyond the round itself. Cherie- Tsylor, 5 name brake-men on the Ten: Central nilroul ha been in the hsbit of placin "agree. in the tint-clue ctr-on which a worked. He was shot neat Hempatewd on Mundly, end hll aud- den taking off in attributed to thin habit. They heve a yruulpc manner of letting vexed queetiunn at rent in Texan ! Account. from the interior of South I Carolina report many one: of actual luf- ! faring muwd by none being unable. to at food. A hmrgsper nys “there bu g can no your nine? the war when pro- 1 visions have bean no scarce. There) (mu path. I, hundredl in Marion county tau-i day w o cnnnut get enough bread to est. The largest libcmXit-y mun prevail or star. } vatiun in wine instances must ensue. " 5 Application has been made to the com» miuiunen of the lllinuis and Michigan canal fur the right of way dong the canal for a pneumatic tube to run from Chicago to LaSalle, edistance of 100 miles. It is to be eighteen inches in diameter. and is to be used for shipping wheat, packages, em. by means of compressed air. There are to be station: at J oliet. Luckport and intermediate points. The pro )rietor claims that he can secure a spec of a mile a minute, and that wheat and corn when put in bulk will travel faster. Per- mission was granted. The. Gloucester fisherman takes his life in his hand and exposes himself to danger i greater than that which confronts s 801- ‘ diet in battle. Since August last eight- . een Gloucester vessels have been lost, and with them the lives of 24‘.) men. who have left in that portwslready full of mourn- ; erswfifi widows and 134 fatiherless child- 1 ren. Men will brave great perils in the hope of gaining a rich prize, but a Glou- cester fisherman makes only a living. There must be some peculiar fascination} about a business in which strung men, j gmlemtiuu aftjqr generation, so fearlessiy} éacrilice their livei. A retinarkable state of thin a prevails in the Belle Pourche region of acotah, ac- cording to a. newspaper correspondent. A long-continued feud betWeen the cattle men and the farmers has culminated in the death of all the (1(ng owned by the farmers on the iiver, end the burning of the range‘ and drowning of hundreds of cattle. lhe stuck-men poisoned the dogs to keep them from running their stock, l and the {Miners being unable to fence to i save their property frmn being destroyed i by range cattle set the grass on fire. and ‘ the cattle perished in the river. while en- } deavoring to escape from the flames. 1' Mr. C. Meneles, a cotton exporter at Savannah and a large planter in Mississv ippi, who has experimented successfully ; fur several years in the. cultivation 0! tea; expresses the ()pllllun that this industry will in time become so extensive as in du _ away iilnmat entirely with the impm'tatiun 1, uf teas. He says the greatest t.l"iul:lu in ten. culture in this Country in Hut its . teal culture in this country is Hut its growth, hint its manufacture. The war- iuus processes of stemuing, firing, usaurt- ing and fanning em luyed in the tea growing countries will ave to be learned by cxpcricncu, and when this is aim-ump- iahcd thm‘c will be nuthimz to prevent the preparation vi a tea as fine as the finest. from India or Japan. Two brothers in Connecticut married sisters, and the first son of each Couple was born on the 29th of February. Hcre are a number of “Curious Ameri- can l‘pems” clipped from the Uamuiiau American:â€" TIE FARMERBVILLI BIPORTEB,’ IN VERY POOR CONDQTION Mu. Sum Cnnfiold. of Nahum N. 8.. ha a. min {or colloccinfi’bucwm of odd pnttgxfm: She hn utwm of difl’or- A 0.0136. Ind ha “bud unit. “not her husband for ivom. beam in Veal}! no; gin hot the combilotion to ha a o. A and“ luau “I Dublin. 90.. (ound n nt'a nut in tho matted but of her horse’s hi1. The young nu Ion nonrly lull grown. 3m. kind: on one string. ' A Stutford. Comm. womn dmmod t st the nu hot huubcnd killing 3 neigh- bor’s wife. She stoke sud “ruck him in the has bre~ng hi- nose. A clerk in the Manchu-eta State Li- bra: In so deeply inure-bod in tuto- gap tint he cut. the Iigmturol of em- meut men from old document.- lbored in the mkivu. A pretty young hdy of New Lisbon, Ohio, nnnounou herself as the prize in n tameâ€"4 hundred chtncel st 81 apiece. She agree. to mnrry the winner, rovided he is under 40 you‘- of ago, an bear. a good reputation. One of the reasons given by J. P. Hicks, of Evan-ville, Ind., in I petition asking fur an nb-olute divorce from his wife, in that. she prays God daily he may die, and us he is a firm believer in the efficacy of prayer, he is afraid that. her appeal may 3 The United States Sexism is robably 1 the most important collective y of the be insulated. The title of D. D. was recently Confer- .rud on Rev. Prof. Mowat, of Queen gcnliege, Kingstnn, by one of the Scutch itniveraitics. Prnf. Muwat is a. brother 20f the Premier 0f Ontario, and was a ‘member of the first graduating class at 3 Queens. [10 is a Minister in the Presby- ; teriun Chum}: and 'a gentleman of much ‘ religious zeal. The Telegram says :~“The last blow has been struck at the channel tunnel project in the English House of Com- mune, the hill authorizing the construc- tion of the tunnel having been voted down. This is a serious matter, as a con~ siderable proportion of the Work has been done, and it is of a most expensive char- acter. From a commercial point of view a tunnel between France and England Would be of great advantage. It would also be a great convenience to the travel- ling public. as crossing the channel by boat is not the pleasantest thing in the world, the water usually being choppy. Agnint all this, however. was the military objection that decided the matter. Eng- land's most experienced military men showed that as England’s strength de- pended upon her insular position it Would be a. great mistake to open an additional means of entrance to her terri- tol'y." C. H. McCormick, the great agricul- tural implement maker, died at his resi- dence at Chicago, a few days ago, leaving behind him about ten millions worth of pmperty,_all of which he made out of the implement business. ' for mine Linn: to provide it with an en- dowment. The sum desired is $200,000 and of this$lb4,000 has already been pub- tcribed. There is little doubt. but the whale amuunt will be obtained. A grand new Human Catholic edifice has just been completed in Lunden. Car- dinal Manning has recently opened. with great ceremony the new oratory dedicated t0 the Blessed Virgim at South Kenning- tnn. The new churctfi said to have cost fum- hundred :lwuazuu ollara. (ion. Shrrman, one of the ablest 0f the .‘nm-riczm public men, has been thu fuvnritc nf many of the Republican party- fnr Preside-ma! candidate. He has just written a letter, to be read at the Natinnal Cnnwntinn, declaring himself obt of public life, and not thercfure a candidate. The friends of Knox College. Presby- teman, In Toronto, have been at Work Great Britain. Personal. Thone affiliated to this association: were bound to execute private vengeance: fur hire, their wages in such cases being paid wing in tp the associaiion": cashici‘ for distri- fll of iguuon' at certain hxud 'purmdl. “‘As, _f the hnancmlly, the club flourished exceeding- 1y, it. sought to extend its busmeas by establishing a branch in the tuwn of e’by' i, Sicarazzi, where forty five citizens took wurk I the oaths and prucceded to carry out the ‘ e“' i prugnmmenf the parent assauciminn. It D’oooihu been weermined that within a few wa' months thirty persmxs perished at the ’ the hands of assassins belunging to the branch club alone, ‘ ricul- resi- uuon, And it.- mouhon An mull! honoured :- the moat. :blo Inca svuilsblo in political life. Inward w church oun- nootion die preunt member- of on W hum Jason W q kilo-o: Pmbyteriun. 27 ; proopslwu. 16; Mothodigugz ;Congrogstiond;7 _: gui- Emuâ€"'ij " bid; 1' '; Vilouian among. 4; Jet, l. on} 76. D. D. Cslvin. Esq., of Genius lslend. nest Kingston, died st his residence on Sundsy. st the ndvsncsd age 0! 86. Mr. Calvin has been for may yesrs one o! the rominent business men of Csnsds, the fiend o! the firm Calvin 5; Brock, vessel owners end lumber memhsnts. He re- resented Frontexuc County in the 16a! Lgislsture snd of the Count Council when put 80 yesrs of age. I. Cslvin wuss zealous temperance msn snd sttri- buted much of his longevity and good heslth to his buts! sbstinence hsbits. General. A telegram from Constantinople states thst the town of Bei Bazaar, in Asia Min- or. has been burned. There Were nearly 2,000 buitdings deem-ya]. including 95 dwellings, 544 were houses, 11 mosques 15 schools,- and many other buildings Eleven persons perished in the flames. I How Gunter ‘views It: Repnrterwl tsuppone you heard abnut that kissing ! affair between Gov. Crittondcn and Pam! 5 Geraterml heard that thv governnr kissed " Patti before she had time tn resist. but I Won‘t, see an thing in that in vrentv m ? much talk. cpnrtor- You dun't. ! Hur- laterâ€"«Certainly not. ‘l‘hcre is nothing iwrong in a man’s kissing a “mum” old ; enuugh to be his mother Some curious end startling information respecting s criminsl asswietiun hes lately fallen into the hands of the Sicilian police, and the members of which. 104 in number, are to be tried for their lives at Palermo during the lint week in May. ()1: the 15th of A nil, 1883, Signor Antino Scor- dato, tlie eyor uf a small town named Ba heria, situate a. shurt distance from Pa ermo, seenuipenieil sume friends who had been visiting him to the railway station at a. late hour at night. As the party was passing by a small wuml abut- ting an the highmad, sacral shots Were fired from the Covert. and three vi the Maynr‘s companions fell dead upon the grounq. v In the course of the inquiries instituted suspicion fell upon fuur householders of Bugheria, who Were Mun-dilieg arrested and conveyed to Palermo, where they presently confessed themselves L0 be active members of a. murder clul» estab- lished in Bagheria, and numbering fifty- nine members pledged to exurcise the practice of homicide for their common adv‘ntage and profit. Denounced by the Your Baghox'ia mur- derers above referred to all these mis- creants have been animal], and are now lodged in the jail at Palermo. The m.th of Soutlaild recently came in fur the tag end of a slwwu‘ {rum lluclaun‘ the miller Icelandic cum-r. Between. the Orkneys and the Shetlunds ash has fallen so thick that, it had to bu shnvelled 06' the deck of passing vessels. When Skapm broke out violently sumo years since, the fine dust fell in such quantities over Caithneu thnt it entirely killed the crops. A Sicilian Murder Club. a». .m-