es iB i q 5 2 ' 'i a te a - GENUINE * GUODY-BOOUIES." WOLVES IN SHEEPS' CLOTH. | EX-MONK WIDDOWS SENTENCED To TEN YEARS' PRESAL SERVITUDE, -- am che HOON COMPANION FOR LIFE--II REACT PEO TITS AP hte, -- es OFTHE COCK rickety Ings, £T. The London {Eng.}) Neie-of the 2nd inst. contains the following report of the proceedings of the bs ventral Crimin nal Court on the previous day --e Barleigh an W iddows. were convict ed at the Old Bailey yesterday. Burleigh was described as ** the Rev. Charles Hart 3 t diass- igh Hart,.« clerk in 1 hely orders.' ' He used to give his address, but his name ear in the Clergy List. described as *' the 2 Francis Goorge Widdows, ex-Franciscan Monk, atid recently -minister-of the Martin Lather charch. Speldhurst Road, South ckney. TRE was that of con pep: be and caieeig g together to commit Tous jodecency * with certain pupils of © iit 's hospital. . C, Mathews said ar Goderich pro- seauted, and Mr. Harr and Mr, Besley ap aed for Widdows. " Burleigh conducted his own defence. Mr. Harris took several technical objec- tions to the propane and he endeavo tosbow that the bo in the position of accomplices in took place, and that their evidence had not received any i *) he "did "net feel =| "the In the House of Com- Smith London, May 16 mons last evening Mr. Wm. H. Australian colonies for the purpose of a fence, the sum be "ering interest at 8 | cent. to be rey wi dina period of 12 yanps | He also wsked power to issue £2.6/-0,000 | fe olen seued works of | and coaling c stations | mercantile ea' aime the gar aces aL 'trer artiilery forees- and to coratruct--fresict works, Mr. mest had adopted a pew repeating a which was found to be admirable, Bu ing the last three years no effort had aa spared to perféct the army, Mr. Stanhope, Secretary of the War Department, an- | nounced that the Government would wn- dertake to bave a full inquiry made regard to recent statements whic h T Wheel Mate conrerning™ condition of the country. Lord Salisbury would have charge$ of the, inquiry. Stanhope said that 'the defenve works of ports and coaling stations were already in progress. In the future ships would be obliged to walt for their guna, but they would be ready for them, Aa tor the artillery, it had a better gun than aly army on the Continent, and a supply sufficient "= my_corps. General Sir Hen Havelock-Allen insisted upon the neces aity of par, atrengthening both the naval and 'military ences. e said -- England's position in the matter of guns was inferior to Eurepean optaien! Several members complained of the limitations of the Commission of Ka- quiry over which Lord. Hartington pre- sided.. They claimed that it shouid-have Dees ane to lay down & standard of mi 274 on val sfliciency t to which hethes had Jade weid: 'ustilied j in withdrawing the case from the) iy C. Mathews accordingly summed up Case, and he -- pee jary that possible em to come -- i jaar that the young boys who had re 'the truth, and that th rome innocence the prisoners was Td consistent We te of fle that they had concocted tissue o -- without the slightest roe Satie "Smith, a at the close of the @aée for the-prosecutien: } the ere that if they planed they were at liberty to go into the witness box and make any statement they pleased upon rg prisoner, Burleigh, > fizat sddremsed , the purport of a long 5 antia maprelrtow dental viaatdaceee that were made against Mr. Harris then addressed the jury for the other prisoner, Widdows, and he ar- gued that the greatest difficusty he nad to contend with was the prejudice that was ereated against his client by the horrible ature of the charge," the fact-that was joined-with a man who had already. been convicted of a similar crime. He then proceeded to argue that the evidence for the prosecution had not conclusively | oo, established the charge, and that if specific dates had been given the prisoner might have > heen forward evidence to show that he was innocent, Sut that from the nature of the evidence he had been arg frnm onee se. Mr. Justice , & up the case} cheap female labor y a check to to the jury at 4 aeleck. In the course of siascadiing for ving ao to support his observations learned judge dwelt | , home ; and while be well fora at some length upon the fact that neither | irl tocarn what will valet her while she of the had Sarna Seat ives at home of expense, enab- box io state upon his oath what he re; ling her to dress far beyond what she can sented to be the real nature of the intimacy hope to contions, it is madness that she Sat had exinted Dement him and the boys shsold-seeee n, per- who had given ev ps her own Stasier or brother, by so do- The j reised s at a bwenty minutes past ing, and b ir wages very near to five o'clock to consider their verdict. They | her own financial level. The lines for returned in about a quarter of an hour,.| ,.. s-work-ehculd..be ly drawn, and found both eriowners guilty = the = of the Harris, with the consent of the | Gent, asked the.jury whether they were of eee the boys were consenting parties what the foreman replied pie thought thes were not. Evidence wi von given that Burleigh had been prev a convicted of a similar offence and sentenced 18 months' hard labor. Widdows, it chor had also been convicted of a similar crime, but this was in ja, and there was no official record of the conyiction to be obtained inthis country only. ---- of mi as sen- isdemeanor, year' penal ssa Four Years of Suffering. Mrs. Torrance Me Nish, of Smith's Falls, Ont., after four years' intense suffer- ing with Scrofula, from which her head became ye + cured Sati en jock Blood Bitters, medical aid had failed. Crotter Emigration. London, May rade ayer Pa crofter one hund and thirteen souls ee etnanat tacpeoe, the history snd ' ; ot Mel ai __and Mr. Grahame, Scottish « ' t cf the She Sr = a Ex, es eraea lanl. ellian repay the Mis Edith Fox, Amherstburg, Ont. had) sdvance in eight annual payments, be. | * sevens cass ob telnape She writes "] ginning in fifth yesr. e questi fief. *F pee Ane icine, - got no was raised in ihe Commons to-night® | F Cove was ' ant, agyard's Mr. objected to the Government :. After taking two doses money which Parliment had not ot relief, a and when I had taken three yet Mr. W..H. Smith replied that | P*t™ of the both, Iwas. completely a sanalt party bed. bem ae of | cured. : = watt ther weary grat of Héiiawax's Gavmaees axp Prris.--A a Parliamen the whele-vete-oi £10,000. Mr. Clark potice that he will move to reduce the salaries of the First Lord of the Trea. } the siotion to sustained by a "whe ao 85 to 37, The Gov- an ced that Right Key... Bishop U: ings overntycnt ald eo conform: vuckere lo Australia which t, bie said, te ind itself The How soi upon the motion the grant, which was ernmen the dividends of the Suez Canal shares nad by the Govern- ment --e- ultimately be uscd to cancel the issue £1,500,000 of the amount asked tor Pv be expeuded upon the defence of Malta and Gibraltar, an other points which were to be made safe. --- --- «ee. ------ Women 'and Men. - A PREACHER ON THE FEMALE LANOK QUES- TioN--OrrosiTION TO WOMAN'S AFPRAR- ANCE IN THE PULPIT. to a large the e In asermon at Montreal, congregation on Sunday evening, © review teach of .Soripture on the. question --- women should occupy the pv!pit, --and concluded that.they should not. Incidentally the Bishop sketched the en- croachments of women and men's sphere of labor, aoa indicated' ite dangers -in "It is no longer a question that senti- ment should deal with, but the soundest Female labor in the sphaee of men means the reduction of wages for men to that paint which will render it out of the question for many sustain new homes ; oman's within which, for the nation's i men ee not be tolera ted, and outside of ich she should not be eraployed. "He also referred to the danger to the ----_ well-being of the future wives mothers, arising out of the high pres- ware education of our young girls in use- less branches of learning to result in their "being invalids in the future, -whose ill- health would forbid family supervision, and give home the afflicted air of a hospi- tal, ree all joy with the shadow of a premature ae soeeed to a woman preaching, the Bishop paid a evieg tribute to her value in pend other work, and jinted out that there E many 0 izations claiming her services in w ich ag would utterly fail. He dilated a. _----s over the men ome and on ety,--how she could spread her Christian influence from mo- ther to mother and child te child, ---- 2 +e Use '" Maud 8S." Condition Pow- ders for loss of appetite in your horses and cattle. 'Get sninples Of the teas that: James Corcoran sells at 25 and 124 cents per and, and compare them with what you ve been paying 50 andy 25 cents per pound for. . ou want to be curea of CAL PROGRESS, lpi discovery of the seventeen circulation of the blood. The oat anal discovery of the nineteenth century was an ga vont for the purity- ing of the blood, discoveries, Thuréday ty it eas ie) . e st > i § 5 é 8 viele § i ft i it Defence' of the Empire. | moved that £550,000 be granted to the | | e| f defence at ports | For the defence of | rta, the Government intend { Smith said that the Govern. | days« | Were moving like so many buge shittles, A in as the wap. of 2 ragged looking young man, wearin & CAP. &) stenrmbont; it then shows its real « rT t nw} Pusty blue reeling jacket, a blue iets Tshirt. that of bran iy. It receives ps': and bagry trousers stuffed in hig h rubber Yand rivers, which pass td ' hots, entered the uffice, took off his cap, and tilled with moss and other h fs soon as he ory mid get his Dreat th thus au- rots and \ opet hie 'natier. x drewwed the official: rivers and lakes north of the St "I want to leave my name for the job o) present the sar pearance brakin) on freight train 30. Jimmy-Rile "YS lin _ sunshine seems to be a sheet of liquid out of it. He just got cut in two up in the ambe : yard. The train was comin' in purty in ppadtedtin sng y about the shallower bays and an' the cars 4yas icy on top, The engineer reefs the bens hes of olive green seaweed, the whistled for brakes an' Jimmy started torun | padtish roe ks, the gray pebbles, now and tien over the top o' the train. He slipped an' fell suggested a painter's pale ite lying ina b at in betwixt two cars. He hit on the bumper an'jof yoklien wine: . FREIGHT BR T BRAREMEN, THE FROST ELVES. al . - -- -- ip at elves in the -- av whi on | THE MANY HARDSHIPS OF THEIR WORK IN COLD WEATHER. "He Slipped and Fell --Waiting tor « Chance to Step Into Dead Men's Shoes. 7 coupling Considered the "Top Notch" of Da anger. > mse "WED f . ae ee Ste chiar gt be Hernia'. had A hetero e ry Dark Waters of Canadian Rivers Oo e-ereeree rd uf i calles switches and trains and locomotive ' over whi ch shifting and the air bubbles drawn ew wart ar the ened of the Seite fringe it with amber colored gems. In a9 shadows and the reflections of rocks and tri * gra to~seve -bimself; -but~ he eoatdn't} ketch nothin', an' dropped-on te the rail Both trucks went over him. Me an' another feller was there, an' we started for bere as che water has a remarkably black <i cet fast as we could get to ask for Jimmy's | when a ripple there catches the light < e . I got here first, an' I'd like the job | sky it is intensely luminous by coutrast; and first rate, if you could gtve it to me, sir/" fasmoky air happens to give the sunset @ The railroad officipt promised: to oe Bre the [ruddy hue wijjie a breeze blows, then the 'appltation for -cpmdderstion; iad jsullen-current josks tike a dark molten scta} went out, bridently well pleastd, stirred into vinples of flame.--C, H. Farnham "There is. 10 official when jin Harper's Magazine. He Mad a Poetic Imagination. (Theodwinkle Brown comes into the houge at 10-o'clock with a bleeding nose.) Mrs. B--Theo, what has happened? Mr. B--Stumbled over a post that some idiot ER lying across the walk in the front Mrs] B--A post? You are mistaken. one left a post there, Mr. B--Coukin't I see it? jand bright as day. Mrs. B--A post across the walk? L brakeran. especially on peg ben trains;and- yet, if there should be t brakemen killed on this or any other rdad to-day there would' be as many applicants for each man's place as soon as the news of his death became known. The man who was just here was an eye wits ness of Riley' 3 frightful death, and yet what- ever im made spon him was lost in appreciation of the fact that the dead man had left a place to be filled by some one else. ! a reunen * him to act at once, and he lost @ second in securing all the the advantage | Mr-B--You come out and jook--for-your- priority of application might give him. t welt See that post lying there! - That's what INTO DEAD MEX'S SNOES. 'done it. . "Every railroad has hanging about its! Mrs, B--Theodwinkle Brown, that is noth- yards and stations a small army of these | jing but the shadow of the trunk of that pine anxious applicants for Chances 'to st ep into |tree! men's shoes, They are chiefly scan oe Mr. B--It is, hey? Well, what if it is? have followed oe ee = aged lives, and | Don' t you know (bic) that the shadow of a who have lost their jobs some cause. pine tree is just as hard a thing to kick ilroading is a good deal Like politics, Ifa inst and fall over as the shadow of s man gets inte it once he isn't worth a snap/hickory tree? Sing'lar some women don rie anything else, And soif he gets out of know anything after moonlight.--De xrets it he is constantly on the lookout for the op- Free Press, rsd ge that he believes must come to let | in again. There isn't one among os, clan ot ten fT refer to who does not feel gen- No It's moonlight Much Like Other People. mt not one of them would hesitate to-risk cient reason to believe, the private apart- his own life to savo that of any trainman in;ments of a good many other people's danger, ee he might be sure that the thoughts. The longer we live, the more we death of that man would give hima long find we are like other persons, When I hoped for place on the road; yet they haunt /meet with any facts in my own mental ex- the tracks and the station yards day after | perience, I feel almost. sure. that..I shall find | day, watching the switching | them re: repeated or anticipated in the writings of s to into helplessness. Sone not have enjoyed seems that -- oe two of these men, | without it. near to witness the Yeath of Riley| It aie many readers a singular pleasure today, and when peg it and roi Mee writer telling them something they Riley's Seance ia lnare Sieg amen ge tene-bes which they an bour ahead of them they will bemoan |have never before féund any one to put in the hard luck that had kept them from being | words for them. An author does not always present when the t and {know when he is doing the service of the angel who stirred the waters of the pool of Betheala: Blessedjare those who have said our good things for us.--Oliver Wendell Holmes in Atlantic, . Drilling a Gas Well. having early intelligence of fatelaccidentsto} The cost of drilling a gas well is usually of being early in my office with | from.$3,500 to $6,000. The method pursued the news and an or, acci- | is the game as for an oil well. °The weight « the one in authority a cary These rise and fali four to five I walked through the feet, 'and are comstantly rotated, so as to spot where poor Jimmy le was killed. bring:the bit intoxontact with the entire cir- cumference of the drilling. Fora depth of 500 feet the hole is bored eight inches in diameter and is cased with 55-5 piping. Be- yond this depth the hole is continued with a --* of sig 'inches until gas shall be reached or the well abandoned. A casing of four inch pipe is psed for this lower portion. Jader circumstan COS cee fifty we fata rit he aye Se Me fo the drilling.--Chicago "ru TOP NOTCH .OF DANGER. rf 3 oF i Hy : i 4 A Slim Alligator Crop. "The crop of illigators is decidedly slim in the south, age neato or returned from Florida. "In fact, the supply is giving old eorkad the alligator seems on the ward extinction as as the buffalo. a brid The slaughter for their hides hax teen waged * ant jeq fiercely no wonder the stock has mime d couptin" an" got the been depleted. *} It is Only a mattér Of a few years until the last survivor of a mighty mouthed race will be dodging the bullets mat though, them are with alow off, or (the® hunter. in- some lonely lagoon, and ram dey bap the socket, rn foe ren over |eme? waiting for the end to come."--Chi- or some little thing like that, ong? Tribune road to- Effecta of Moonlight. good many things instance, ~The influence of the moon upon vegetation couplin' Tests Pi, ee t is an interesting problem awaiting solution, Tr ontien tas Rew Year's t0.nttber, |A recent writer upon the subject mentions every day in the year, year inant year cut that wood cutters in Cape Colony and in Just now the icean' E = laa to be cut timber is full of sap and along faster than the wate tos- z{Traveler, want you to know that there's got to be. Too testinais thee About Matters. eran Tor: Little Preveity=Unete, what paint--do-}- Fou use Uncle--For what, dear! vat : "To paint your nose. Isit the same kind ma uses on her cheeks!" the snow is falling on him by. Sapiuny peg Little precocity is hurriedly sent to bed.-- ceramide Parting of the Wass. Little Johnny (efter a spanking)--Aunt Susie, are you going to heaven! '| Aunt Stisie--Why, yes; I-hope se. Jobnny--Well, pug you dieiand I die and |we both go to. beaven and get to be than't fy where you fy.-- Washington Post. j : & g ¥ i g ne Ne Yuer-we-Sedqu . Never mind what the world thinks aboet "a : ne era bel Fare eu een » ¥ou ~will- always > 'chan to-talk; but the ear is better ¢han the . "oe Boy--What 'is aycrank, pa? e. toy eine arta as aman has ay la wuntair te "pm ed bebow = he the ha 'find it sharder-to listen} is bese tte ee eee es Se eiek cia a wis knows whas nae ABRAHAM BLOCK |! I AM NOW OFFERING 90 Drawing-Room A ~and.,.Parlor. Suits, 50" Bed. Room Suits, With Every Other Class of. Furniture, FOR ONE: MONTE, 'Prices That Defy Competition ! Remember the Place: One Door Bast of Dr. Shavers Office, Ontari5 St., JOHNSTON ABRAHAM'S NEW FURNITURE WAREROOMS. WALL 'PAPER. NEW STYLES FOR 1888. es Prices Much Lower. Than Former Years. N. A. BOSWORTH, 17 MARKET STREET, STRATFORD. We have jus' received a Full Assortment of. PREPARED--PAINTS Over 80 Different Colors, in Cans of Gallon, Half-Gallon, Quart, Pint, _---- ~~ ~and-Half-Pint. Sizes !_ --ALSO-- CARRIAGE PAINTS, In Quart, Pin and Half-Pint Cans. W. & F. WORKMAN. YOU CAN BUY --THE-- Best Canadian Refined COAL Ol im --Fror-- 151CENTS PER GALLON WALSH - BROS, The Place for Bargains. W. H. ROBERTS, Watchmaker, - Jeweller, - Etce., Has a Larger Variety this year than ever before, of Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Jewellery,. Spectacles, Fancy Goods, Books, Stationery, Toys, Xmas. Cards, and a variety of Goods too numerous to. mention, all suitable for the HOLIDAY..SEASON.... = Call and see what a a variety I have got, and wast Bargains we are giving. Bpectacles to 'to suit all sights. Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery B Repaired and Warranted, at W. H. ROBERTS'. CORCORAN' i 'Three Grape Co Concord Wine. | siti Siriano anon: uainaas Maloun ances ee one of the Best Wine Makers m the Prevince. It ts Abselutely Pure, First Run Wise of Fine Flavor, and I can sell itffor about the same Price that Mixed Wines _ ef Infgripr Quality are sold for by Parties from the Large Cities who Solicit Orders here. ieee CORCORAN. . sacs samcbesemrniea: 1886.