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FATAL PARISIAN FIRE. ^e Opera Comiqne Takes Fire Duriug a PerformaDoe, OKAFHIO DE8CKIPTI0H OF THE TKAOEDT Two Hmidred Persons Cremated in the Parisian Fire. Kxtraordlnarily ExrilinB Srrnei - ThrMtrr I'rrTloiiiily ContleiuDed. The A last (Wednesday) nifjht's Paris des- patch says : The O^wra Couiiijue took fire this eaening, and the whole building is now wrapped in flames. Several persons have been injured. Fonrteen jtersons who jumped from tlie windows arc dead and 43 were injured. It is probable that many were crushed to death in the galleries, but at present this is uncertain. The tire broke out during the first act of the ojx-ra " Mignonue." One of the wings caught tire from a gas jet, and the entire stage was immediately enveloped in damos. The fire soon spread to the whole house. Madame MergviUier and Messrs Tas-^uin and Bo<|uard were on the stage when the fire broke o'lt. All the actors ran out in their â- tage costumes. The audience got out easily, but the gas was turned oS before all had left the building and it is (eared some were left in the upix^ tiers. The rc>c>( soon fell in. sending showers of sparks around. With the exception of Madame bellier, who perished in the flames, nil the actors eacaped, though several of the supernumer- aries were injured severely. Five bodies, terribly burned, were con- veyed to the National Library. Among them was the body of a woman grasping a little boy in her arms. The money receipts were saved. The firemen showed the greatest courage. Ileasra. Goblet, Tbibaudm and Gagi^on were on the 6i>ot soon after the fire started. and they remained throughout with the lire officials. The Military Club rendered great assistance in the work of rescuing the people. Nineteen jierBons are now known to be dead. Many of these were supers. An artificial lire a|)paratus, which had been placMi in position in readiness for the burning of the place in the second act, rolle<) down from its place near the roof and exploded below. Women, half-clad and oarr,\ lug their costumes, fled from the stage â- creaming. The supers aiid members of the chorus were terrified, and some of the latter fled with nothing on but tights. The flames spread with such rapidity that in fifteen minutes the stage was a vast fur- naoe. Several actors escaped by climbing to the roof on the side of the Kue Marivanta, where they were rescued. The audience was delayed a few minutea by a dense smoke and insufficient light. The direc. tor of the Solnl, his wife and two children, escaped without injury. The killed in- cluded four firemen. There was not a frantic rush in the theatre, but it is believed that the staircase became blocked. M. Tasquin implored the audience to remain seated until the exits were opened, which they did. If they had made a rush for the dooni the loas of life would have been ter- rible. The (Kilice outside were unable to restrain the crowd, who besieged the building, inijuiring for their fru nds inside, lUitU a military cordon was called. One man, who wanted to rescue his brother and sister, raved and tore his hair and menaoed with a stick the people who vtopfied him from rushing into the blazing building. The scene outside was one of wildest ci. citement. Falling embers struck horses in the surrounding streets, causing them to plunge and rear. Flames shot out of every window, forcing the crowd into the narrow streets, where the crush was ter- rific. A fii^rante says there were IM persons on the stage when the fire broke out. She heard the glass falling like a hailstorm, bnt told the other girls not to mind it. Bnt while hhe was speaking a column of flame burst through the wings with a roar, and all rushed pell-mell from the stage. It IS still unknown bow many persons were unable to escape from the doomed btiildlng. Only a fortnight ago M. Stenackors called attention in theC'hamber of deputies to the dangerous condition of the 0|H.'ra Comique, which was the oldest theatre in I'aris. The Figaro also called attention to the same thing after a recent twelvebour benefit performance. A last (Thursday) night's I'aris cable â- ays : The greatest excitement prevails in the city today over last night's terrible accident. At first it was thought the loss of life was small, and that only profession- als were burned, but every hour adds to the number of the dead, and not alone ballet girls and stage hands fell victims to the cruel flames, but also many well known in the best I'aris society- At exactly a quarter before il, just as the curtain was about to fall at the end of the first act of "Mignou," Mile. Merguillier, who, as PhUtnt, was singing the waltz song to the chorus accompaniment, suddenly ceased singing and disappeared. Bhe had stood in front of the oottage at the right of the stage, which was overhung with trees, when ihowers of glowing cinders began falling about her. The instant she van- ished M. Taskin, who sang Lothario, stepped to the front amid the falling embers and said : " I>on't move! It's nothing." In the stalls and the pit, where the danger waa most evident, the audience began rapidly but <juietly to leave the house. In the galleries, where the magnitude of the fire was not visible, people remained seated. By the time the stalls were emptied the bouse was full of smoke and the entire â- tage ablaite. Boenes of terror followed. The screams of the ladies mingled with the â- bouts of the people upon the stage. A frantic crowd came tumbling over each other. Pretty women in full evening dress and delicious toilets from Worth, Felix and Bouff, rushing pell mell with shop girls ai>d f(Voff<'»,oame pouring out like an avalanche into the Place Boieldieu. Cloaks and wraps, of coarse, were left behind. A cold rain came down steadily, but luckily there was not a breath of wind. Other scenes of panic occurred in the Hue Favart, where froin the stage entrance bevies of ritiurantei and half dressed ballet girls came tearing down, followed by chorus singers, the scene shifters and the carpenters. No one knew as yet whether there were any casualties. There were hundreds of people in the galleries, but the police and the firemen declared that the most of them escaped. The official report, however, staU'S that there are 17 dead and 110 wounded. I saw one scene shifter â€" a young-lcoking man, with bushy black beardâ€" dragged out of the flames, suffo- cated and bleeding from a bad gash in the head, and brought into the ultra fashiona- ble Cafe Anglais, at the corner of the Boulevard des Italicns and the Rue Mari- vaux, where he was placed on the dining table, and died in about five minutes. Six stout firemen made a gallant charge, axes in hand, through the flames, and rescued an iron safe containing the receipts of the evening, which they carried to the editorial rooms of the Gauloii, near by. The consternation of the boulevards reached its climax at about 10 o'clock, when at least a hundred thousand people blocked all the streets leading to the burn- ing theatre, while the firemen, in brazen helmets, aided by a battalion of the Hist regiment of the liiie, kept back the crowd and hcl^jad to take the wounded to the police station of the Rue Uechlieu, where military ambulances stood in readiness to convey them to their homes in cots. At the police station I saw three Anuriintff. pretty young girls, lying dead. Their clothing' was burned off them, and their chests and arms were black with the flames. The number of dead in this police station is eleven and the wounded twenty- eight. Men and women were lying about groaning with pain from burns, while the doctors are hard at work doing their best to resuscitate those who are bnt partially suffocated. Mile. Merguillier, who played Phtlenr, gives the following graphic account of her experience: "Ah! my poor theatre 1 1 loved it so! " she exclaimed, tragically. " It seemed a part of me. 1 was in the scene with the choristers when the fire began. I had finished the duo with M. Soulacroix, • // laut SarioT,' when he said to me, rais- ing his eyes, 'Look! we are afire I Save yourself without delay-' I left the stage in the midst of the scene, but, notwith- standing, cast my eyes over the audito- rium, where already the people were springing to their feet, climbing over the stalls and rushing rearward with cries of terror. 1 hurried to the greenroom, where I hoped to find comrades whom I could accompany to the stage entrance, but it was deserted and almost dark. The lone- liness terrified me, but I tned to collect ray thoughts. I remcmbereii that a corridor running parallel with Hue Marivaux ended in an exit reserved (or the administration. In two seconds I was face to face with that door. It was fast. I knocked violently with bleeding knuckles, but without answer. At that moment I was filled with a terrible anguish. I was caught in a trap. 1 was lost. My retreat across the stage was cut off. I felt that behind me were attaches of the Opera Comiqae made to- day shows that seventeen actors and em- ployees are missing, exclusive of the super- numeraries, who were engaged nightly as they were needed, and of whom no record was kept. There are one hundred missing ; that is | h^uDREDB to say, there are that many whose relatives and friends have reported them to the police as having gone to the Opera Comique on Wednesday night, but who have not turned up. This brings the total list of casualties up to 226. Crowds stand around the police stations eagerly ga/ing at the face of each newly uneanheti victim, in the hope of finding a lost father, brother, mother or siHier. The streets are filled w th women in tears. Nearly all the bodies are those of well-dressed persons. Almost all still have on their gloves. Many of the bodies are twisteti into strange, weird shapes. Some seemed broiled, as if on a gridiron. Under the debris of a narrow staircase I saw a group of seven corpses, who^ charred and blackeneti members were inter- t\vine<l in almost Laocoon coils. One of these was that of a woman whose face was literally roasted like au overdone piece of beef. In her ears glistened a pair of large solitaire diamond earrings. Her right arm was fractured ; her left arm was wound about a smaller corpse â€" apparently that of a nirl 12 years old â€" probably her daughter. Other corpses in this group were so black and so mangled that it was almost imi)OB.sible to say whether they were the remains of human beings or of animals. \ tevt yards distant were the remains of a young ballet girl. Her limbs were still clothed in rose-colored tricots that made her look as if still living. No part of her body was burned, nor did it bear any tracts of wounds- Her death was evidently caused by suffocation, for the poor girl had torn from her skirts a handful of gauze which she had crammed into her month in her vain efforts to keep out the smoke. DISASTROUS C0XFUGR.AT10N. Million Dollars' Worth of Property Destroyed in New York. RKMARKAHLB RK-SCI'i:. A Child Pulleil 1«0 With Feet I'p a a Ufiok. A San Antonio, Texas, despatch says : Tli^ atory of a singular and serious acci- dent comes from a German settlement near New Braunfels, fifty miles north of this city. One of the farmers in that vicinity recently started boring an artesian well in his back yard. .\fler going lt)0 feet without signs of water he abandoned the proje t and removed the framework around the well hole, which was eleven inches in iliameter. From time to time neighbors examined the well and by this means the hole was left uncovered. One day this week the farmer's 2-year-old child was playing in the vicinity of the well and when its mother came to look for the little fellow he had disappeared. Becoming alarmed she searched the yard, and going to the well heard from its dark bottom the plaintive cry of "Papa! papa! papa!" When the woman realized the truth she unknown horrors. I knew not where to ' was frantic, and running to the field called turn (or aid Alre^ly the corridor^ *as I her husband and his helpers. The news quickly spread among the neighbors, who (ull of smoke, which choked me. Then, in sheer hopelessness and despair, I shrieked. .\ voice without answered, ' We wil save you !' The door was burst in, and I fainted. I ranie to in a cafe on the Kue Marivaux. Then after a little time 1 came home. 1 am sure that many unfor- tunata people have been lost. Oh ! I am â- o sorry."' At mnttlai congregated to offer assistance. At first the parents could think of no wav to rescue the child. K rope was dropjied <3own, but the child could not grasp it. The cry grew fainter and fainter, and at the end of the first six hours a stout iron hook was low- ered; and after many fruitless attempts, occnpving two davs and nights, the rtis- 2 p.m. twenty bodies, in a terribly I tracte<l iMireiiis siiccwded in dragging the kted condition, have been recovered j child to the surffifiejuore dead than aHvc. from the rums. The remains are princi- The little fellow nfSv liA-hf< ye^y optical pally thoae of^ ballet girls.^choristers^^and | condition, its body,' fearfull* lacerated by ' "" *â- ""â- ' ~' ''"" ''"' '" the hoop and greatly exhausted from it's machinists. Five of the bodies are those of elderly ladies, and one of them is that of a child. The firemen are lowering some of the bodies from the fourth story of the theatre by means of ropee. At 4 p.m. twenty more bodies were re- covered from the ruins of the Theatre Comique. The search for victims con' tinues. The remains of three men and two OF H0a8£8 ROiBTEJD ALIVE. K last (Friday I night's New York despatch says : The Belt Line car stables, extending from 10th avenue between 53rd and 34th streets westward to about the middle of the long block, took fire about 1.30 o'clock this morning. The hay made a brilliant blaze at firat, but soon plouded a large part of the neighborhootl in dense smoke. The general call for all engines was sounded. The flames leaped across 10th avenue, 53rd and .i-Jth streets, and set many frame dwellings and stables on fire. These were all destroyed. The police reserves from all the adjoining pre- cincts were called out. The stables, which were of brick, were entirely destroyed. The rapid spread of the flames was due cluefly to the fact that a strong wind was blowing. The inflammable character of the building, divided up as it was into stalls with loose wooden panitions. and the great amoimt of hay and straw stored in it, contributed to make the spread of the flames almost irresistible. There were very few watch - -nen or stablemen on duty and the flames were so fierce and spread so rapidly that only 25 out of the 1,H00 horses m the stable were got out before the smoke and flames drove the men from the vicinity. The houses OD the east of 10th avenue were two story frame structures and burned fiercely, the inhabitants bein^ forced to rush from their rooms to the street in their night- clothes in order to save their lives. In the rear of the tenements was a large coal yard, which caught fire. .\ six-story tenement house on Fifty-fourth street, opposite the stablas, was next seen to be in flames. .\s far as is known all the tenants escafied with their lives and without serious injury, but none of them were able to save much furni- ture or clothing. The streets were filled Well Hole with THB P4.N'IC-STRICXEM OCCUPANTS of the tenement houses, not only those whose houses had been burned over their heads, but others who feared that in so tremendous a conflagration their homes also would be destroyed. Notwithstanding the kindness of neighbors, the night was a hard one for many who were thus rudely driven from their homes. Two policemen and a number of firemen were overcome by the heat, but they soon recovered. In the first few minutes the fire had gained head- way the horses screamed terribly, but the dense, black smoke from the burning hay and straw soon did its work. At a quarter to 3 the fire was burning in four separate blocks, and on the west side it was spreading toward 11th avenue, the firemen being so closely occupied that they could not check it in this direction. The rear of the houses on aSth street to the north were also catching on fire. By 3 o'clock the fire was rapidly spreading southward and threatened to entirely consume the block bounded by 10th and 11th avenues and 53rd and 52nd streets. The fire was finally got under control at 4 o'clock this morning. The stables with contents and the frame houses on the opposite bide of 10th avenue and down .'>4th street were destroyed. The loss will be over $1,000,000. Elizabeth Walsh, aged <!>, on« ol the men pane of houae 540 west 54th street which was burnett, was sick in her be»l. The police rescued her and brought her to the sidewalk, where she expired from fright and th( shock. long immurement. UTINO OFF LIK»: 8HKEI>, Jl'MPKO FROM A WINUUW. A I>rlri>lt llutrl Uoanlvr Thniwii IlliniwU rrtiiik H Fourth .**tury Wluilnw and Is Uitahrd to Death. A Detroit despatch says : Chas. M. Haslett, A'ho arrived at Detroit about a week ago, and for the last few days was at 1 FrlKhlful Ravaco* of Cholent at Buenos Aylfii. A Philadelphia telegram says : Chief Oiticer Gray, of the barque McLeod. of 8t, John, N.B., which arrive<i at this port ^ , women were found in the stage box, where today from Buenos Ayres, tells a frightful ' stoppiirg at the Brunswick Hotel, the victims had taken refuge from the | story of death from cholera in that portion < o'clock yesterday morning jumped from flames. It is aaoertained that many bodiM of the .Argentine liepublic. He says that ! the wind'ow of his room in the fourth story lie buried in the drbrtt in the upper gal- ! *hile his vessel was lying in the harbor of and struck upon the stone pavement be- leries, from which escape was exceedingly i Buenos .\yres the people of that city and neath. He was frightfully crushed and difticult. Late this afternoon the bodies of I the suburbs were dying off like sheep, and died almost imme«tiately. The coroner eighteen ladies, all in full dress, were found the di». ase seeme*! to spread like wild fire. 1 was summoned and began an investigation lying together at tne bottom of the stair- j The wife of the captain of the barque and took charge of his effects, which con- case leading from the second story. These , Golden Rule, the chief mate and one man siated principally of a gold watch and some ladies all had eaooris to the theatre, bnt no of the banjue Bremen, and four men of the »70 in money. ' From a letter found in remains of men were found anywhere near barque Wylower, were stricken down with i Haslett's satchel it appears that he waa a the disease while the McLeoil was in port. ! druggist, and had come to Detroit to nego- As fast as oases were disoovereil the patients tiate for the purchase of a drug store. A were removed to a hospital in the cit) , and letter was also found, evidently from a HATE MiT> JEALOCST Result In an Extraordinary PoUonlnr Tragedy In Austria. A last (Thursday) night's Vienna cable says: Five-thrilling acts might easily be made out of a peasant tragedy just reported from Galicia. In a little village with an unpronounceable name lived a happy familv, consisting of an old man called Uaikof, his wife, Maruncka, and two sons, .Josef and Peter. Some time ago Josef was married, and in due course his wife pre- sented him with two children- The extra- ordinary fondness of old Dackof for his grandchildren awakened the jealousy of Maruncka, who. after watching her hns- band, came to the conclusion that he was carrying on an intrigue with his daughter- in-law. Meanwhile Peter Dackof , the un- married son, had grown suspicious that his brother was trying to clieal him out of his inheritance. ' .Jealousy soon turned to hate, and, after talking matters over, mother and son resolved on vengeance. The next Sunday they asked Josef's wife and children to dinner and set a hearty meal before them, with a tooth- some cake to crown the feast- Nobody touched the cake that day. however, which was lucky, for it was poisoned. The Sun- day following Martmcka reneweil the ex- periment on a more elaborate scale. This time she made two similar cakesâ€" one poisoned, the other' harniless â€" and to in- duce the victims to eat she herself took a piece of one cake. A few hours later she expired, having eaten of the wrong cake. Peter Dackof now tried his hand and suc- ceeded better than his mother. One day he contrived to put some poison into the soup of his sister-in-law and her children. The children both died in convulsions, but their mother, having taken very little soup,, recovered after a terrible illness. The murderer, happily, did not escape. Having been arrested on suspicion, he was tried and condemned to death. His appeal against this sentence has just been rejected, and Peter will shortly be handed over to the hangman. A PRISON ROMANCE. A Banlcned Criminal Heforined by the Wire He Married lu His Cell. A Wilmington, Del., despatch says : Charles Blake, a onoe hard criminal, was released from Newcastle jail to-day, after finishing a three years' sentence for bur- glary. When he began his term of im- prisonment he was required to stand in the pillory an hour, and was to have received thirty lashes ; bnt, through the fileading of Blake's sister. Governor Stock- ey remitted the lashing. He escaped from jail three times while serving bis sentence, but was as often recaptured. A glamor of romance surrounded Blake during his entire term at Newcastle. Women ad- mirers kept him supplied with flowers, fruits and dainty trappings for his cell ; and in September, 1W84, Sheriff Martin permitted him to be married to the woman of his choice. The bride was MissOussie Turner, of Philadelphia, and the wedding took place in his cell. She has since beea very assiduous in her attentions to him,, and was at the jail when he was released, so they left Newcastle together. Blake recently signed a pledge to abstain from alt intoxicating liquors, and declaretl to the Sheriff and others at the jail his intention of leading a respectable life. It will not be the fault of his devoted wife if he fails to- adhere to this laudable determination. where the women were burned to death. This theatre was first oi)ene<l in 183H, it being built upon the site of the Favart suffering they were at once removed, and ' 2nd and signed " Hattie." In it she urges their bodies burned. It was only after him to beware of his failing, hopes for the earnest efforts and appeals that the body I best, but fears the worst, saying, " But if as saved ' vou do as I think you will "do, then God help you." The dead man waa about 35 years of age, with dark brown hair and short side whiskers, and presented the api^earanoe of a thorough business man. O'lirien at .Montreal. A Montreal despatch says : The demon stration in honor of O'Brien last evening I l{e' had been drinking heavily for the past was most enthusiastic. There were about few days. 1,500 torches in the procession, in which were four bands. As they passed along the streets O'Brien and Kilbride were loudly cheered. Chaboillez sijuare, where the meeting took place, was filled with people. In his speech Mr. O'Brien strongly de- nounced his assailants in the west and inveighed against Lord Lansdowne- Reso- lutions were passed condemning the attacks on Mr. O'Brien in the west and Lord Lansdowne's treatment of his ten- ants. After the meeting O' Brien was banquetted at the St. Lawrence Hall by the local branch of the National League. From 100 to 150 persons sat down, repre- sentatives being present from Ottawa and other places. The Common Council of TItioa, N, Y., has passed an ordinance which retjuires farmers who sell their products from house to house or on the streets to pay a license fee of 85. John W. Keely, having, as he says, com- pleted his great motor, is at work on an improved telephone. But where is the nifitor moting ? Probably the largest vineyard in the world is that owned by Senator Stanford, near Vina, Cal. On a 3O.00<tacre ranch he has 3, ,500 acres planted in bearing vines. The vineyard is divided into 500-acre tracts, and most of the work is done by Chinese. A prominent nursery man say s that nursery practices in peach propagation and culture have weakened the vital power of the tree, which is unable to resist as depressing influences as formerly when the trees from seeding grew well and lived to old age. Hall, which was also destroye<i by fire, i when death relieved the victims from their ' lady friend in Three Riveis, dated May The theatre was situated alongside of the " ' ' ''" Boulevard des Italiens, facing on the Kue Favart, the Rue de Marivaux and the Place Boieldien, and one of the landmark^ of the | of the wife of the Golden Rule w period of Louis I'hillippc. The interior, from cremation. construction was in every way defective, and It has been often reiiiarke<l that should a tire ever break out a terrible catastrophe would result. The seating ca|>acity of the house was about eighteen hundred. The main exit from the Opera Comique was on the Rue Boieldien. The walls of the theatre began falling this evening and the search for the bodies had to be abandoned for the day. The library attached to the theatre was entirely destroyed, with all its contents, in- cluding many valuable scores. Six thousand costume* were burned in the wardrobe. The Government propose to close several of the theatres because of their deficiency in exit. The work of searching for the bodies of the victims of last night's fire was resumed tonight, and a number more wera ex- humed. The official statement says fifty bodies have already been recovered. M. Keveilfon, a Deputy, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon, eati mates that at least 200 persons lost their lives in the fire. The Chamber of Deputies has voted a credit of 200,000 francs for the relief of the sufferers by the Opera Comique fire. The 0|>era Comique was insured for one million francs. To-day 15r> missing i>ersons have been inquired for by relatives. 'J hey are sup- posed to hav<i perished in the flames. The botto. i of the theatre is flooded with water Xn a depth of five feet and sixty bodies hava been found floating in the water by tlie firemen. The finding of charred remains continue. The remains can be identified only by means of trinkets. A Paris cable says : The roll call of the Canada's Halt FUh Trade with Spain. A London cable says : The English Consul at Cadiz says the Canadian salt fish trade with Spain has for years been heiwily handicapped. The anticipation that the Dominion would secure a fair por- tion of the trade as a result of the com- mercial convention between Great Britain and Spain proved fallacious. The Govern- ment bounty enables the French colonies to undersell ours, the difference in prioe amounting to eight or nine shillings per fifty kilos. The state of affairs is [leculiarly hard to our colonies, for while taking on an average 150 cargoes of salt yearly from Cadiz we do not sell a single cargo of fish. KILLKU BV A SPIDER. Death of an Infant In New York After Twenty-Four Hours' Agony. A New York despatch says : Fritz Kibitz, 1 year and S months old. was play- ing about the floor of his home at r>50 Fifth street, about 4 o'clock on Saturday after- noon, when suddenly he began screaming. His mother ran to him and saw a big spider on his left hand. The little fellow held the hand up and acted as though he was in great pain. Mrs. Kibitz killed the spider, and observing a small red mark on the child's hand, concluded that the spider had bitten it. She applied some lotion, but the child still continued its cries. A few hours later a small red lump appeared on the hand, which kept spreading until. th» swelling extended to tne arm. A physician was called in, and measures were taken to stop the spread of the poison. His efforts were unsuccessful, and on Sunday the child's arm almost to the shoulder waa badly swollen. The little fellow suffered great agony, and cried incessantly until Sunday night, when he died. The spider was described as having a small drab body. Tracedy at a Revival Meeting, A Charlottetown, P. E. L, despatch says : At O'Leary Station, a school teacher and singing master named Mackinnon got into an altercation with one Currie at the close of a meeting held by Blue, the evangelist. Currie took off his coat to fight. They clinched, and Currie was heard to exclaim, " My God, I am stabbed." The fight was stopped, and it was found that Currie was stabbed through the left lung. Currie can- not live. Mackinnon was arrested and committed for trial. He says he acted in self-defence. A span of mules drawing a plow near Montgomery, Ala., were attacked by a swarm of bees a few days ago and stung to death. The driver saved his life by running away after a vain effort to drive the bees from the mules. Late 8«Dttlsh News. Mr. William Watson, late Sheriff-Substi- tute of Aberdeenshire, the pioneer of the movement which resulted in the introduc- tion of industrial schools into Scotland, died in Edinburgh on the 12th of May. A committee of gentlemen has been ap- pointed to receive competitive designs 'or a statue of Burns for Ayr. Sir John Mc- Dowall, AthHns, has generously offered a. block of mar'cle for the pedestal of th» statue. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, New York, has,, through Dr. Charles Rogers, of Edinburgh, requested to be allowed the privilege of contributing a bust of Sir Walter Scott tO' the Statuary Hall of the National Wallace Monument. Mr. Thomas Stevenson, C.E., son of tb» builder of the Bell Rock Lighthouse and father of the distinguished essayist and storyteller, Mr. Louis Stevenson, died on the 8th of May at his residence in Hsriot row, Edinburgh, in his 6!Hh year. The Original Ragged School, founded by the late Dr. Guthrie in 1847, was on the- 6th of May removed from Ramsay lane,. Castle hill, Edinburgh, to new and com- modious premises at Liberton, which have * been erected at a cost of about £10,000. Rev. Dr. Story has resigned his charge as minister of the parish of Roseneath. Dr. Story was recently appointed Professes of Ecclesiastical History in the Glasgow University, and in consetiuence he has been obliged to sever his long connection with that parish. « In Pittsburg, Pa., a few nights ago a 80m» nambnlist walked off a balcony, fell abonk twenty feet, was picked up anct carried into. the house, and after a time he awoke. The shock of the fall, which sprained bis foot and bruised him generally, did not roue* him from bis sound sleep. f^ •^ â- yWW-^^lltD^