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mto m 1m a)? 1 oommercial Bank of Manitoba. It is now pretty certain that the 0 EDDmimon Parliament will not meet antif about the middle of March. Mr. Edward Gurney'r was elected by .aoclamation on Monday to the position of president of the Toronto Board of ' Trade. interesting Items About Our Own Contrary: Great Britain. the United States, 2201 All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. Burglars are operating in Guelph. Ottawa is to have a new $100,000 op- era house. ‘ St. Catharine’s total assessment last year was $3,560,300. Hamilton City Council starts the year with an overdraft of $10,000. The total real assessment of the Proâ€" vince of Manitoba in 1896 was $71,643,- 31432. . gm <mu~< F>Hmmd ENC?â€" >PF Him foxâ€"Lu O<m_~y The directors of the subscribed $500 to t fund. Eon. .Mr. Laurier has subscrioea emu to the fund for the India famine suf- ferers. The Allans of Montreal ihave pur- ehased the steamer State of California for £50,000. , ‘ The Llarkets Committee of Hamilton will recommend the Counml to pass a curfew by-giw. , Mr. Robert A. Robertson, rancher. of Pincher Creek, Alberta, was found The Ottawa City Council has resohfed :to petition the Legislature to abolish civic exemptions on manufacturing con- terns. Dr. Gaudette, medical officer at St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary; recently suspended, has been reinstated by or- der of the Minister of Justice. Councillors of Niagara Falls have pe- ‘titiohed the Local Government not to grant the extension of time asked for by the Canadian Power Co. The Bank of Montreal has subscribed five thousand dollars and the Molsons Bank fifteen hundred dollars, to the Montreal Indian Relief fund. All the Manitoba land companies reâ€" port increased inquiry for farm .lands. Many of t correspondents live in the northern d western States. ~ Rev. Fat-her Laooste, D.D., of Otta- wa University, has received the news ef his appointment as a member of the Academy of St. Thomas, in Rome. It is rumoured that Parliament will he asked to pass an address to the “Queen. inviting the Duke and Duchess 9f York to vi31t Canada this year. The James Bay Railway Company will apply to Parliament for an act authorizing the company to extend its line from Parry Sound to Toronto. Mr. Laurier has cabled, in reply to an invitation from the Liverpool Cham- ber of Commerce, that he would not 3:3}:er visit England for some time. Mr. Arthur Brophy, formerly of the Dominion Express Company at Mont- real, has been appointed private sec- retary to Hon. Mr. Scott, Secretary of State. The analysis of a. large quantity of strained honey, collected in different parts of the Dominion shows a. large percentage of cane sugar and glucose, instead of the pure honey. The difference of opinion between the Canadian Pacific railway and its con- duetors and braxkesme-n, which at one ‘zime threatened to end in a serious rupture, has been amicably 'settled. Judgment has been given at St. Catharines in favour of the estate of Henry Rolls in their suit against the Niagara Central Railway for pay- ment of the first mortgage bonds of The N0Va Scotia Legislature VV as op- ened on Thursday. Ing his address L 1e11- tenant-Governor Dalv referred to the success of the fishing season of the past Year, and stated that the output 9f coa’l during 1896 VVas the largest in the histor) of the province. John Busby and James Quinn were arrested in Guelph changed with be- ing the authors of a number of in- eendiary fires there recently. :Buséby turned Queen’s evidence at the pre- iimina‘ry trial. and (gave evidence charging Quinn with at least one of the crimes. . The opening of the Imperial Parlia- meznt took place on Tuesday. The Earl of. Kim-'berley was elected Liberal leader In the House of Lords. Sir Isaac- Pitman, the inventor of the Pitrnan shorthand system 18 dead. Mr. J ozhn Dillon was re-elected lead- er of the hush Ramona-l party in the imperial Parhament. Lient .-Gm emor Kirkpatrick, who under“ ent an operation 1;) a London .h-ospital. a fen (13.33 ago, is progress- It is thought in London that the Royal Commission will. pursue its ené quiry into the finanmall relations ofi Ireland. ‘Mmh. {itea'est is taken in commerciaft circles m London in the development of trade between Canada. and the South! African coionies. It is understood that knighthood will! be conferred upon the Mayors of the yrincipal Canadian cities during the dial- movnd jubilee celebrations. 1n the Imperial House of Commons an \Vednesday, Mr. O’Brien’s motion for: amnesty for Irish political prisoners was defeated by a vote of 204 to 132; Mr. John \V. Donn} Canadian com- mercial agent at Bristol, says that Can- adian shipmmnts show. a. steady improve ment and are certainly making their own way. 500. the official po_wer_s 1p) GREAT BRITAIN. aurier has subscribed $100 for the India. famine suf- llng 4per _ cent. 600cyear debenture stock of the Commercial Cable Comâ€" pany. _ The loan was largely over-sub- écribed. $ The Baltimore Iron and Tin Plate lCompany, which operated one of the ifirst tin plate factories established in iA'rne-rica, went into the hands of re- icelvers Thursday. l The First National Bank of Newport, :Ky., the German Rational Bank) of. __‘“~ The New Yorkâ€" Board of Health has formally declared that tuberculosis 18 an infectious and communicable disease. “Liabilities of the wrecked First Na- tional Bank of Newport, Ky., will reach; $250,000 in loans exclusively. ' . One man was killed and several in- Jured .by a dynamite exphosmn at Greenwxch, Conn, on \Vednesday. ‘The. sleet, which gave the pavements or Chicago a slippery coating, was reâ€" sponsxble for two deaths. I1: is reported that sex-Governor Long. of Massachusaits has accepted the Secretaryship of the Navy in Mr. Mc- KinL-ey’s Cabinet. ‘ â€"Col. Robert Intgersoll has .given up the practice of law, and W111 de- vote his entire time to the lecture plat- form. Two negroes were blown to atoms and a number of persons seriously injured! in the explosion ofa powder magazine at Mobile, Ala, on Tuesday. The report of the deep waterways commissioners of the United States was submitted to the House at VVash- ington by President Cleveland. UM”, LIIâ€"Cm, UL ULDU mu; \A-v‘. vâ€" --â€"-â€"-â€".- _ v R. Hobbs, because she made hum pay for glass broken in her house. Joseph Jones, coloured, who claimed to have waited on George W'ashinig- ton at the home of. his former. owner. died at Ridgew-ay, Ont, at the age. 'of 115. His widow is 105 years old. In the! New York Senate on Tuesday a bill was introduced providing that whoever treats or offers to treat any person to an intoxicating drink in any puhljio place shall be fined or impris- one “ . Legisgrlkle Efia‘fiié Eiiilâ€"fieâ€"sota. Savings Bank stopped payments on Wednesday. field, Me, aged 16, {has confessed at- Saco, Men of the murder of ‘Mgsg Betsy The Department of Immigration at \Yashington has notified Inspector De- Barry of Buffalo, of the passage of the Corliss bill which provides that only full-fledged American citizens will be allowed to work on Government con- tracts. The advices received from New York indicate no particular change in the business situation during the week just closed. In certain lines a bet- ter demand is reported, which is, to some extent, counterbalanced by low- er prices. An increased demand for materials appears to exist in some di- rections. The failures of the week have had little or no depressing inâ€" fluence. The labour market is in a rather more satisfactory condition, as the demand for skilled labour is im- proving. The market for securities is firmer and the money marketts abroad are more settled, but loans are not eas- ily effected except_ on first-class secur- 11 V ULLL'KV'L‘UU vuvvru __ ~ _ a ity. The commercial outlook is consid- ered to be better than was the case a week ago. Commercial failures for the week in the United States have been 409, compared with 373 in the corre- sponding Week of. last year. GENERAL. Madame Carnot, mother of the late President Carnot of France is dead. The Countess Castellane, nee Anna Gould ,.on Monday, gave birth to a. son in Paris. The native rising in Griqualand is growing more serious, and the Whites are laager'mg. Two cases of the bubonic plague are reported at Kamaran. an island off the vs est coast of Arabia. Col. Seddon, of the firm of \Valter 00., Bristol, Quebec and Chicago, is dead at Penira, Portugal. , .Russia is said *to be secretly treating With the Turkish Government for the use of a port on- the Black Sea. The. Italian Government denies that there have been cases of the bubonic plague aft Massowah on the 38d Sea. It is stated in Constantinople that the Sultan firmly resists European control of Turkey’s finances or admin- istration. A British syndicate has received from the Government of Dutch Guiana. a. concession of a million acres of gold lands. The British militarypost in Urnan, the occupation of which led to the acute trouble with Venezuela, has been abandoned. The Indian Government has ordered the stoppage on February 2nd of all pilgrim traffic from Bombay to Kar- achi, on account of the plague. The expedition sent by the Royal Nig- er Company against the Emlr of Nupe found the Foqlah army dispersed and in flight when It arrived at Kabea. it is reported frqm C‘alcmtta. that the British steamer City of Canterbury It is learned that France is medita- ting the negotiations of a treaty of ar- biration with, the United States sim- ilar to the Anglo-American treaty. A despatch from Teheran says that two thousand five hundred persons per- ished as a result of the earthquake on Kisham Island, on the 11th inst. The British Indian troopship \Varren Hastings was totally wrecked off the Island of Reunion on Thursday. The troops and crew were all. saved. has been wrecked at Hooghly Point. All on board were saved. Dr. Bergmann, of Berlin has been summoned to St. Petersburg to perform an Operation on ihe Czar, Who is suf- feying from the results of a blow re- celved in 1891 frem a Japanese fanatic. A VERY 8L1] MAN, INDEE JAMES J. CAVANAUGH, OF NASHUA, N.H., IS 108 YEARS OLD. A Tailor l'util lle “'as 90. am] “'as once Sworn at. by King “00"39 I‘vâ€"TCHS Stories of the Long Ago. James J. Cavanaugh, \Iashua, N.H., celebrated his 106th birthday last week, and notwithstanding his extreme age ‘he still retains his mental faculties. Save for a slight stoop, and a deafness that makes it very hard to converse with him, he carries his years lightly and a stranger would place his age at 80 rather than 106. His friends believe he is the oldest man in New England. When George III. was King of Eng- land, Cavanaugh- was serving his appren- ticeship to one firm of the many tail- ors to the King, Stutson Housley by name. Not only has he seen George III. and put stitches into the breeches that covered the royal limbs, but he has also cut a coat for George IV., and was, according to his story, sworn at by the King for a slip which he made in assisting him to try on that gar- ment. He formed one of the crowd of. men and boys who lighted the huge bonfires that were burned to celebrate the battle of. Trafalgar. Mr. Cavanauglh‘ was born in county Monag‘h‘an, Imland, in December, 1790. He cannot tell the exact day of the month except that it was a few days before Christmas. When he was 9 years old his parents removed to Eng- land, and he resided there with them until in 1837, several years after their death», when he came to America. Although an Irishman by birth, he became during his boyhood days in Eng- land, imbued with» an admiration for all things English, which he retains to this day. He is very fond of telling how easily England could !have whipped the colonies had she not had more import- ant matters to attend to, and *he in- sists that the United States would stand no show in a war with any of the great European powers to-day. \VELLINGTON AND NELSON are his heroes, and he never tires of singing their praises, and he thinks there were never any statesmen like \Villiam Pitt or Robert Peel, both of whom he has seen many times. VVash- ington is no hero to him, and he always speaks of him with a sneer. “ W'hen I was a mere slip of a lad,” said Mr. Cavanaugln, “ I was appren- ticed to a tailor in London. In those days a lad had to serve seven years before he became a journeyman tailor. instead or a few months as it is now, It took me nine years to learn my trade, for I wasted two years, about a twelve- month after I began my apprenticeship. attending Dublin University. It was there I learned all the devilment I know. and that’s all I did learn, too. 1 went back to my trade after I 'hladspent all old country and in this until 1 was 90 years old. Since then I have let my children care for me. Did I ever see King George 111.? Yes, sir, I have, and many a garment of his remember the day of his funeral as disâ€" tinctly as_ thoagh‘ it‘happened yesterday. “L £â€"â€"â€" nahmmn IV., but he swore a 1: me because I didn’t hold it right when I tried it. on. \Vil- liam IV. I saw once, and Danlel O’Con‘ nell a dozen times. 1‘1“. n o _ _- _‘ “ I have seen Queen VICEOI‘la many times. Once, when she was about 16. she was at Devonshire Castle, on a vis- it, and saw her nearly every day for two weeks at least. You know the Duke of Devonshire was in high favour with her family at that time. SHE WAS A SLIGHT GIRL then, and, so far as I .could see, cared far more for a. good time. and a. romp than for books or anythlng eise.’: Z1 .LUJ. UUUM u; WJ â€"â€" â€"o L'Luau _ Regarding the progress of the rail- roads Mr. Cavanaugh has often said: “The talk that all yqu people have about the opening of railroads makes me laugh. Why, I was at the opening of the first railroad in the world. the one between Manchester and Liverpool. Then we thought the road a wonderful thing, but it was regarded as too dan-x gerous and complicated an affair to ever eb_ sued by the people to any extent.” It is in warlike events that Mr. Cav- anaugh‘ takes the greatest interest. He claims to have seen most of the great Generals of his time. Napoleon he saw at Torbay, England, when a short time after the battle of Waterloo, the Em- peror was at that port on board the ship Bellemphbn. Mr. Cavanau'gh, like thouSv iands of others rowed out in a small Iboat and saw Napoleon pacing up and boat and saw Napoleon pacing up and down the deck. . Mr. Cavanaugm went 'to the United States in 1837, and for twelve years worked in New York, Boston. and Phil-- adelphia. He remembers when Boston ton. On May 1, 1841, hie married Miss Hannah Barrett, the ceremony taking place at Boston and being performed by the Rev. Father Haskins at the Castle Street Church. He was at that time several years older than his bride’s fath- er. and although the marriage was one of convenience, being arranged by ‘hns wife’s grandparents. it proved a *h‘ap- py one. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh-z, five of whom are noyg living. Llrs. Cavanaugh’s early life is one of the most interesting of Mr, Cavanaugh’s reminiscences. Her mother was an Eng- lish woman of good family and her fath- er Was a native and resident of Ire; land. When she was an infant, her par- ents died and the grandparents on both sides wanted the child. Each pushed their claim, and there was a lawsuit which resulted in the custody of the child being given by the courts to her maternal, the English grandparents. and installed her in their comfortable home. The fact that the child was be- ing educated as a Protestant instead of a Catholic trouble-d her paternal grand- parents excessively, and finding that pleadings and threats were of no avail, they kidnapped their grandchild when she was 9 years old. Fearing prosecu- tion, they immediately left England for America. Mr. Cavanaugh has lived in Nashua since 1889, with Dhis daughter, Mrs, Bartâ€" ley McS'hlerry. He lived at \\ atertown Mass, for some time previous to the death of. his wife, sixteen years ago. and then moved to Boston, living for a time with his son Joseph. He has never been naturalized, and takes but little interest in national pol- itics, except as they may relate to the country’s policy toward the European nations. He is still able to go out each day for a short walk, and boasts that no weather can keep him within doors. Mr. Cavanau-ghi reads with the aid of glasses, and spends much of his time either reading or telling stories to his nephews and grandchildren and their playmates. In Ireland a belt of a woman’s hair is placed upon a child to keep harm away, and [garlic salt, bread and steak are put into the cradle of a new born baby,r in Holland. Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their children to preserve them from harm, While Esthonian mothers attach bits of asafoetida to the necks of their offspring. W'elsh mothers put a pair of tongs or a .knife in the cradle to insure the safety of their children: The knife is also used for the same prupose in some parts of England. ‘Among Vosges peas- ants children born at a new moon are supposed to have tongues better hung than others, while those born at the last quarter reasoning. powers. A daughter born during the waxing moon is always precocious..“At the birth of a child in Lower Brittany the neigh- boring women take it in charge, wash it. crack its joints and rub its head with oil to solder th cranium bones.; It is then wrapped in a tight bundle and its lips are anointed with: brandy to make it a full Breton. wwuv The Grecian mother, before putting her child in its cradle, turns three times around before the fire while singing her favorite song to ward off evil spir- its. The Turkish mother loads her child with amulets as soon as it is born, and a small bit of mud, steeped in hot water prepared by previous charms, ”is "v-- I;â€" is stuck (551 its fof‘efiead. In Spain, 'the infant’s facq IS swept with a pine tree bough to brmg good luck. The water of the river Tinto, in Spain, hardens and petrifies the sand of its bed, and if a stone falls in the stream and :alights upon another, in a. few months they unite and become one stone. Fish cannot live in its waters. 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IRWIN, IS PUBLISHED a I‘m, an ‘â€"__â€"_.â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-’â€"â€" iiiiiii lllll WE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. interesting items About Our Own Contâ€"tr", Great Britain. the United States, aid a." Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. Burglars are operating in Guelph. Ottawa is to have a new $100,000 0' - era house. ‘ St. Catharine’s total assessment last. year was $3,560,300. Hamilton City Council starts the year with an overdraft of $10,000. The total real assessment of the Pro- vince of Manitoba in 1890 was $71,0l3r 1 3914.34. The directors of the Bank of Ottawa 1 siliscribed $500 to the India famine, Itlfifl. lion. Mr. Laurier has subscribed SE00 1 to the fund for the India famine sufâ€" ferers. ’l‘hc Allan; of Montreal have pur- r'iiacwtl the steamer State of California r sac/.000. . 3i»,- .\[;trkets Committee of Hamilton , xvii; ri-ciniiiiiezil the Council to pass a curfew iiy‘law. . Ric. lio’ifit .‘t. tobertson, rancher, of ;'{:.‘i on thr- prairie. Sir Sunni-l Strong. Chief Justice of "The §lllil't'lllt‘ Court of Canada, has been Lliliiilliltul a l’i'ivy Councillor. \‘1'. llcspler, \Yinnipeg, has been ap- , points-ii sole liqiiidutor of the defunct {.‘i:.:;'iiiziei'cial lank of Slanitoba. l: is now pretty certain that the Zificininion Parliament. will not meet until about the middle of March. Mr. Edward Gurney was elected .by acciamation on Monday to the position of president of the Toronto Board of Trade. The Ottawa City Council has resolved to petition the Legislature to abolish civic t'Xt‘IlipllUnS on manufacturing conâ€" . 381'th . Dr. Gaudette. medical officer at St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary; recently , suspended, has been reinstated by orâ€" der of the Minister of Justice. Councillors of Niagara Falls have pe- titioned the Local Government not to grant the extension of time asked for by the Canadian Power Co. The Bank of Montreal has subscribed five thousand dollars and the Molsons ‘ Bank fifteen hundred dollars, to the Montreal Indian Relief fund. All the Manitoba land companies re- port increased inquiry for farm lands. Many of t , correspondents live in the "northern .nd western States. . Rev. Father Lacoste, D.D., of Otta- wa University. has received the news of his appointment as a member of the , Acadei‘ny of St. Thomas. in Rome. It is rumoured that Parliament will he asked to pass an address to the Queen. inViting the Duke and Duchess of \ork to Visit Canada this year. The James Bay Railway Company will apply to Parliament for an act authorizing the company to extend its line from Parry Sound to Toronto. 2dr. Laurier has cabled. in reply to an invitation from the Liverpool Chamâ€" ‘1 her of Commerce. that he would not ilkely ViSii England for some time. .‘vlr. Arthur Bropliy. formerly of the ‘ Elh'iliillllnil Express Company at )onit- read. has been appointed private sec- retary to lion. .\Ir. Scot t. Secretary of State. The analysis of a large quantity of strained honey. collected in different parts of the Dominion shows a large percentage of cane sugar and glucose. insiead of the pure honey. The difference of opinion between the afimadian Pacific railway and its con- :‘iticiors and brakEsincn. which at one illtie threatened to end in a. serious rupture. has been amicably'seltled. Judgment has been given at St. Catharines in favour of the estate of Henry Rolls in their suit against the Niagara Central Railway for pay- ment of the first mortgage bonds of 3:300. ’l‘iie Nova Scotia Legislature was opâ€" ened Ullril‘ll'tlI'Sd‘dy. In his address Lieu- -'.chant-Governor Da-ly referred to the s:;«;-cess of the fishing season of the past year. and stated that the output coal during 1896 was the largest in {‘39 history of the province. John Busby and James Quinn were arrested in Guelph charged with lieâ€" iug the authors of a. number of in- cendiary fires there recently. Busby turned Queen's evidence at the preâ€" charging Quinn with at least one of the crimes. G RE .\'l’ B RITA IN. The opening of the Imperial Parlia- ment took pace on Tuesday. The. Earl of. Kimlerley was elected Liberal leader in the House of Lords. Sir Isaac Pitman. the inventor of the Pitman shorthand system is dead. Mr. John Dillon was reâ€"elected lead- er of the Irish National party in the Imperial Parliament. Lieut.â€"Governor Kirkpatrick, who underwent an operation in a London hospital. a few days ago. is progress- ing well. It is thought in London that the loyal Commission will pursue its en- quiry into the financial relations of. Ireland. 9 ‘Muoh interest is taken in commercial circles in London in the development. of trade between Canada and the South' African colonies. ~ It is understood that knighthood will! be conferred upon the Mayors of the principal Canadian cities durmg the dia- mend jubilee celebrations. In the Imperial House of Commons an \Vednesday, Mr. O’Brien’s motion for: mesty for Irish political prisoners was defeated by a vote of 204 to 132; Mr. John \V. Donn, Canadian comâ€" mercial agent at Bristol, says that Can- ment and are certa'ufly making their own way. '- . A ‘blue book contain‘ the official mil in Tandem i C . o mum-1- L‘l-cp‘g, -Xil'tl‘lil, was foundi Ziniinary trial. and gave evidence‘, i Mada-me Carnot, mother of the late adian shipments show a. steady'improve-o _..â€"â€"‘ Messrs. Baring Bros, of London. of- fered for subscrian £400,000 ster- Zing {per cent. BOOâ€"year debenture stock of the Commercial Cable Com- pany. The loan was largely over-subâ€" scribed. A meeting of the. bondholders and shareholders of the Chignecto marine railway was held in London, when a resolution was passed calling upon tho Laurier Governmrant to aid the scheme. A service in memory of Prince Henry of Battenberg. husband of the Princess Beatrioe, was celebrated on \\ ednes- dav at noon in VVhippinghaim church. The Queen, Princess Beatrice, her chil- dren. and other members of the Royal family were present. Official correspondence published on Thursday in London shows that. the powers have agreed to Lord Salisburys lproposition to resort to coerCive meas- lures should the Sultan prove recaICL- l , trant, and refuse to adopt the reforms : unanimously recommended ">3" the g Ambassadors. , The Secretary of the Imperial Adâ€" imirality stated on Thursday, that it ‘ would be impossible for the Government. lto act upon, the. suggestions of the. illoyal Society of Canada and securea unification of time, as any alteration in the. astronomical day would not be agreed to by the Continental powers. 1, UNITED STATES. \V. P. Killner, aged 77, a wealthy :citizen of. Governeur, N. Y., hanged Shimself at that place on Monday. i The New York Board of Health has iformally declared that tuberculoms is I an infectious and communicable disease. ‘ Liabilities of the wrecked First Na- , tional Bank of Newport, Ky., ‘Wlll reach, 33250900 in loans exclusively. ' {Greenwich, Conn, on W'ednesday. l The sleet, which gave the pavements ‘of Chicago a slippery coating, was re- sponsible for two deaths. j Col. Robert Ingersoll has given fup the practice of law, and will deâ€" . vote his entire time to the lecture plat- : for'm. . , It is reported that exâ€"Governor Long" of Massachusetts has accepted the LSecretaryship of the Navy in Mr. Mcâ€" ‘ Kinley’s Cabinet. ‘ Two negroes were blown to atoms and la number of persons seriously injured ,in the explosion ofa powder magazme ‘at Mobile, Ala, on Tuesday. Mrs. Sternaman, of Buffalo, has apv pealed from Judge Coxe's decision 1n pher extradition case to the United 1States Circuit Court of Appeals. l i The report of the deep waterways commissioners of the United States .was submitted to the House at \Vashâ€" ington by President Cleveland. The. Baltimore Iron and Tin Plate “Company, which operated one of the first tin plate factories established in America. went into the hands of re- ceivers Thursday. i The. First National Bank of Newport, Ky., the German National Bank_ of. Louisville and the Minnesota Savmgs Bank stopped payments on Wednesday. . Frank J , Palmer, of \Ves‘t Parsonâ€" ;field, Me, aged 16, has confessed at isaco, Me,, of the murder of Mrs. Betsy R. Hobbs, because she made him pay for glass broken in her house. Joseph Jones, coloured, who claimed :to have waited on George W'ashing- tton at the home of his former. owner. died at Ridgeway, Ont., at the age. ‘of 115. His widow is 105 years old. In the New York Senate on Tuesday :a bill was introduced providing that: iwhoever treats or offers to treat any person to an intoxicating drink in any public place shall be fined or impris- oned The. Department of Immigration at , Washington has notified Inspector De- “ Barry of Buffalo, of the passage of the ‘Corliss bill which provides that only full-fledged American citizens will be allowed to work on Government con- ; tracts. The advices, received from New York :indicate no particular change in the business situation during the week .just closed. In certain lines a bet- ,ter demand is reported, which is, to lsome extent, counterbalanced by low- ier prices. An increased demand for :materials appears to exist in some d1- rections. The failures of the. week ’have had little or no depressmg in- lfluence. The labour market is in a lraiher more satisfactory condition” as 1‘the demand for skilled labourds 1m- ,proving. The market for securities is ifirmer and the money markets abroad ‘ are more settled, but loans are not eas- 5ily effected except on first-class securâ€" . ity. The commercial outlook is consulâ€" ~ered to be better than was the case a week ago. Commercial failures for the week in the United States have been 409, compared with 373 in the corre- sponding week of last year. GENERAL. ‘President Carnot of France is dead. l Gould. on Blonday, gave birth to a son 1111 Paris. l The native rising in Griqualand. is ,growing more serious, and the whites lure laagering. 1 Two cases of the bubonic plague are ,reported at Kamaran. an island off the iwest coast of Arabia. l Col. Seddon, of the firm of \Valter . Co., Bristol, Quebec and Chicago, is ldead at Penira, Portugal. , - i Russia is said ’to be secretly treating ' 'ith the Turkish Government for the w i use of a port on the Black Sea. The Italian Government denies that there have been cases of the bubonic plague alt Massowah on the Red Sea. It is started in Constantinople that the Sultan firmly resists European control of Turkey’s finances or adminâ€" istrastion. A British syndicate has received from the Government of Dutch Guiana a (Ironggssion of a million acres of gold an . The British military post in Urnan, the occupation of. which led to the acute trouble with Venezuela, has been abandoned. The Indian Government has ordered the stoppage on February 2nd of all pilgrim traffic from Bombay to Kar- achi, on account of the plague. The expedition .sent by the Royal Nig- er Company against the Emir of Nupe found the Foulah army dispersed and in “W’Ttmo' firéli’fiwwwfiifi mm when it. arrived. at Kama- ' thoSulitan of Turke has'been unmarked frqm Calcutta-mum in mill: y " British steamer City Of imbury’ . of convenience. bemg manged by his l One man was killed and several inâ€" ;jured by a. dynamite explosmn a The Countess Castellane. nee Anna THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Feb. 4, 1897. has been wrecked alt Hooghly Point. wife’s grandparents. it Proved a he - All on board were saved. .It is learned that France is medita- ting the negotiation? of a. treaty of ar- biratlon with the Unlted States sim- ilar to the Angloâ€"American treaty. A despatch from Teheran says that two thousand five hundred persons perâ€" ished as a. result of the earthquake on Ktsham Island, on the 11th inst. The British Indian troopship \Varren Hastings was totally wrecked off the Island of Reunion on Thursday. The troops and crew were all saved. Dr. Bergmann, of Berlin has been summoned to St. Petersburg to perform an operation on the Czar, who is suf- fering from the results of a. blow reâ€" ceived in 1891 from a Japanese fanatic. A VERY OLD MAN, llllEliD JAMES J. CAVANAUGH, OF NASHUA, N.H., IS 105 YEARS OLD. A Tailor l'mil llc “'as 90. and “us Once Sworn at by Kim: George I'll-"1‘91“ Siurics of the. Long Ago. James J. Cavanaugh, Nashua, NIL, celebrated his 106th birthday last week, and notwithstanding his extreme age he still retains his mental faculties. Save for a slight stoop, and a deafness that makes it very hard to converse with him, he carries his years lightly and a. stranger would place his age at 80 rather than 106. His friends believe he is the oldest man in New England. \Vhen George III. was King of Engâ€" land, Cavanaugh was serving his appren~ ticeship to one firm of the many tailâ€" ors to the King, Stutson Housley by name. Not only has be seen George III. and put stitches into the breeches that covered the royal limbs, but he has also out a coat for George IV.. and was, according to this story, sworn at by the King for a slip which he made in assisting him to try on that gar- ment. He formed one of the crowd of men and boys who lighted the huge bonfires that were burned to celebrate the battle of Trafalgar. Mr. Cavanauglh‘ was born in county Monagh‘an, Ireland, in December, 1790. He cannot tell the exact day of the month except that it was a few days before Christmas. \Vhen he was 9 years old his parents removed to Eng- land, and he resided there with them until in 1837, several years after their death, when he came to America. Although an Irishman by birth, he became during his boyhood days in Eng- land, imbued with an admiration for all things English, which he retains to this day. He is very fond of telling lthW’ easily England could have whipped the colonies had she not had more import- ant matters to attend to, and he in- sists that the United States would stand no Show in a, war with any of the great European powers to-day. \VELLING’I‘ON AND NELSON are his heroes, and he never tires of singing-their praises, and he thinks there were never any statesmen like \Villiam Pitt or Robert Peel, both of whom he has seen many times. VVash- ington is no hero to him, and he always speaks of him with a sneer. “ When I was a mere slip of a lad,” said Mr. Cavanaugh, “I was appren- ticed to a. tailor in London. In those days a. lad had to serve seven years before he became a journeyman tailor. instead or a few months as it is now, It took me nine years to learn my trade, for I wasted two years, about a twelve- month after I began my apprenticeship, attending Dublin 'UniverSIty. It was there I learned all the devilment I know. and that's all I did learn, too. I went back to my trade after I ‘h‘adspent all my money, and worked at it 1n the old country and in this until I was 90 years old. Since then I have let my children care for me. T Did I ever see King George 111.? Ties, sir, I have, and. many a garment of his I have seen in the shop where I worked. I have seen him many a time, and. I remember the day of his funeral as disâ€" tinctly as though it happened yesterday. I not only stitchled a. coat for George IV., but he swore at me because I didp’t hold it right when I tried 1t_ on. W11- liam IV. I saw once, and Daniel O’Con- nell a. dozen times. _ . “I (have seen Queen Victoria. many times. Once, when she was about 16, she was at Devonshire Castle, on arms- it, and saw ‘her nearly every day for two weeks at least. You know the Duke of Devonshire was in high favour with her family at that time. then, and. so far as I could see, cared far more for a. good time. and a romp than for books or anything else.” . Regarding the progress of the rail- roads Mr. Cavanaugh has often said: “The talk that all you people have. about the opening of railroads makes me laugh. Why, I was at the opening of the first railroad 1n the world, the one between Manchester and Liverpool. Then we thought the road a. wonderful thing, but it was regarded as .too dan- gerous and complicated an affair to ever eb sued by tlhle people to any extent." It is in warlike events that Mr. Cav- \ SHE WAS A SLIGHT GIRL claims to have seen most of the great Generals of his time. Napoleon he saw at Torbay, England, when a short time after the battle of Waterloo, the Em- peror was at that port on board the Shlp Bellemp‘hlon. Mr. Cavanauvghhlike thousâ€" ands of others rowed out in a. small boat and saw Napoleon pacing up and down the deck. . Mr. Cavanaughl went to the United States in 1837, and for twelve years worked in New York, Boston. and Phil- adelphfia. He remembers when Boston harbor was frozen over and wood was 'h‘auled across the harbor to East Bos- ton. On May 1, 1841, he married Miss Hannah Barrett, the peremony taking place at Boston and being performed by the Rev. Father Haakms at the Castle \anaugh takes the greatest interest. He Street Church. He was at that time several years older than his bride’s fathf or, and although the marriage was one - now living. Mrs. Cavanaugh’s early life is one of the most interesting of hit. Cavanaugh's 5 \ py one. Nine children were born to I} . E B E u an and Mrs. Cavanaug'h, five of whom are 15 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING remm‘soences- Her mOt‘her was an Eng- n Immaculate annnc HOUSE, nAnAFaAXA smear lish woman of .good family and her fath- er was a. native and resident of Ire;l land. _W’hen she was an infant, her par- ents died and the grandparents on both Sides wauted the child. Each pushed the-1r claim, and there was a lawsuit! which resulted in the custody of thei Chlld being given bv the courts to her . maternal, the English grandparents. l THEY \VERE ‘WEALTHY. and installed her in their comfortable home. The fact that the child was be- ; ing educated as a Protestant instead of ‘ a Catholic troubled her paternal grandâ€" l parents excessively, and finding that} pleadings and threats were of no avail, i they kidnapped their grandchild whenl she was 9 years old. Fearing prosecu- i ticn, they immediately left England for America. i _Mr. Cavanaugh has lived in Nashua i Since 1889, with his daughter, Mrs, Bartâ€" l l l I ley McSh‘erry. He lived at \Vatertown . Mass, for some time previous to the! death of his wife, sixteen years ago. and then moved to Boston, living for a l time With his son Joseph. 3 He has never been naturalized. andi takes but little interest in national p01â€" 1 itics, except as they may relate to thei country’s policy toward the European} nations. He IS still able to go out each ‘ day for a. short walk, and boasts that no i weather can keep him within doors. Mr. 3 Cavanaugh reads with the aid of glasses, l and _spends much of his time eitherl reading or telling stories to his nephews { and grandchildren and their playmates. ; QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. E In Ireland a belt of a. woman’s hair 3 is placed upon a child to keep harml away, and garlic salt, bread and steak i are put, into the cradle of a new born 1 baby in Holland. Roumanian mothers. tie red ribbons around the ankles of‘ their children to preserve them from harm, while Esthonian mothers attach bits of asafoetida to the necks of their i offspring. ; \Velsh mothers put a. pair of tongsl or a knife in the cradle to insure the safety of their children: The knife is also used for the same prupose in some parts of England. Among Vosges peas- supposed to have tongues better hung than others, while those born at the last quarter reasoning powers. A daughter born during the waxing moon is always precocious. At the birth of a. child in Lower Brittany the neigh- boring women take it in charge, wash it, crack its joints and rub its head with oil to solder th cranium bones: It is then wrapped in a tight bundle and its lips are anointed with brandy to make it a full Breton. The Grecian mother, before putting ants children born at a new moon are ‘ around before the fire while singing her favorite song to ward off evil spir- its. The Turkish mother loads her child with amulets as soon as it is born, and a small bit of mud, steeped in hot water prepared by previous charms, is is stuck on its forehead. In Spain, the infant’s face is swept with a pine tree bough to bring good luck. A RIVER THAT PETRIFIES. The water of the river Tinto, in Spain, hardens and petrifies the sand of its bed, and if a. stone falls in the stream and alights upon another, in a few months they unite and become one stone. Fish cannot live in its waters. her child in its cradle, turns three times u I DURHAM, ONT. â€"‘-â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"' ' ‘ \_ \ f -f. I s I I I suascmpnon THE CHRONICLE will be sent to any address, free of postage, for $I.00 per RATES . . . . . year, payable in advanceâ€"5|.5o may be charged if not. so paid. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted by the number on the l address label. 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