Berrow's Worcester Journal from Worcester, Worcestershire, England • 6

BERROWS WORCESTER JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896. TIDAL-WAVE IN CHINA. WHOLESALE ORDER TRIAL. THE MATABELE RISING- g6ituart. DR.

JAMESON AND HIS COMRADES. RESPONSIBILITY IN BILLS OF EXCHANGE 1 Ta House of Lordsgav judgment on Friday ia 1 $povt anb $m0. CRICKET. THB FINAL TBST HATCH. For th final tort match aaainst the ntrlia.

decided at the Oval oa August 1 1 ST? BP staves have been Ustaitoiy awed aptm. A iuL the name will show that A. C. WcliJren swC Brawn, wh took part in the 51 not been invited to play, while iiunn EZ3 MSCELLANEOTJ3. The road foreman at Putney is to be supplied with a fifteen -guinea btoyole by the parochial authorities.

Mary Rogers, domestic servant, oomtnitted suicide by setting fire to herself at Churchdown, Mar Gloucester. A bronze statue of Barns' Highland Mary, erected at Dunoon to commemorate the centenary of the poet's death, was unveiled by Lord Kelvin. The Lords of the Admiralty have decided to set apart the Sunday before Trafalgar Day for a collection throughout the Navy for the Marina) Orphan Home. A scene was created on Monday at an inquest held at Poplar by a working man, summoned as a juror, protesting against being deprived of hit holiday by the mandate of the Coroner's officer. According to a private letter from one of the patrol in Portland Convict Prison, Jabex Balfour "appears to have lost all bi- old fat." while Wells, of Monte Carlo fame, it cheerful and a good conduct man." An International Homoeopathic Congress was opened in London, on Tuesday, by Dr.

Pope, who reviewed the progress that had been made in the art of healing since Hahnemann propounded kit views in 1796. The Queen has approved of Sir Hercules Robinson, G.C.M.G., taking the title, on his elevation to the peerage, of Karen Roamead, of Rosmead, in the oocnty of Westmeatb, and of Tafelberg, in South Africa. At the Waaleyan conference the death was reported from fever of the Rev. W. F.

Somerville, who recently acted as Chaplain to the Ashanti expedition, and who had been deputed to occupy Coomsesie for mission purposes. The War Office has ordered that specimens of the cartridges which were issued for the Martini-Henry rifle at the Bisley Meeting, and which have been largely characterised as defective through their varying quality, shall be sent to Woolwich for special examination. The Parks Committee of the Manchester City Council has intimated that the summonses issued against Mr. Heir Hardie. Mn.

Psnkhunt, toe i 1 choice. The list i I follows W. ml Lilley. A. S.

Stodilart. S. Jackson Hay ward, Abel, Richardson, and players wij oe teiected Drav Hynyard. tawJtswtx and J. I.

naame. TUB GLORY OF GRACE. It I sot easy to find wont la which to -la Mr. W. a.

Grace's latest field. Hi 301 against Suaaex it Bristol score this season, in first-class cricket uJj exception, the highest he has e.er rand ui ant match, being only inferior Us hi iirVqaetad 31s oot out in the season of 1876. It i iJr.llT 'w to say that tbe history of cricket afford m3Zf such a career aa his. It i just over ji mad hi first hundred in a big match, irotsaau out for England against Surrey 14,1 When last year Mr. Grace vcore.1 J.iwonuw matches, with an areragenf ii, the mob LSCiS! was astonished, but it is quit po.H.,h,e even better this season, a he has 2 ran, aad ha still a month cricket Sfon nim 2S -r!" Australia next Monday.

WORCESTER SUCCESS AT BEADIHr REGATTA. UG At Reading Regatta, r.u Monday, the iiliiwn i ing Club were represented by two rrea-s i -T2 Erleigh Plate the senior -rew, i rt ij Jackson, s. Spwabwt. and Woodward beaten by M.rlow to their heat. Ths Rea linttSuX.

Bowl waa won by tbe Worcester w' ST R. Ward. Beoiwtr. and Thomas istroke) wkw ing for the first time in Has have only been once hsatea rhi. enr mil kT, jone-i dj irw istraa To carry the thousands ef Race Une London South tv, train had to be run.

Mala by Veracity- Rngenie. ha hand, her purchaser beini- Mi II Barwln Caldar's patrons, ami she reni it the ''iJZH establishment. At Wood Gram I Phut-Beit- n. went against tbe world's record iinm VJ j' etad in beating it, tit thai lmin. Msec.

Racing ia becMning more in.1 m. re interna I to breed, when we hav Awstraliaa, tawiUaa, Crenel anil Argaatias horses competing. Now. in Itaiiantw' year-old has arrived at Whiter'-, at At the Bristol Somh Knd F.r vr were well to the fore in tbe mile. Xtnetasn buS and A.

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Cheques, Postal Orders, London and Midland Bank JOHN 'BLE LTD MANCHESTER. Mr Andrew Melville, the well-known theatrical roaaasrer. died ai swu oo Sunday. The dear is rep-wted from cholera at Simla of Sir William ri-ton Ellea, K.C Commander of the Foroes in Bengal Sir George Kerdinand Radxivill Walker died at Monmouthshire, thus -rniDg. loo sae a soo of the Bret baronet, and ia tne barooetcv by Captain Oveorge Ferdinand Walker.

The Bjjrhc Hon. Sir William Fnbert Grove, F.B.S., retired Jndge of the High Court of Justine, ui a man mat scientific attainments, died on Saturrlsy London. Mr. Grove, who ttaasatl a Q.C. 1853 was for mine yean the Inner of the South w'ale and Chester circuit.

He retired from the Bench in 1887. Sir William FnfcAp geve i iroixTtant discoveries in electricity and optic, and wa- President of the British Aaaociatior 1866. Arohdeacoo Rohesoo appeal- for further contribution to ibe fund for establishing the eee Bristol. The Biirht Rev John Shaw Rnrdon, D.D., has resigned the Bi-horvie of Victoria. Hong koog, to which he wa apt -in ted in 1874 in succession to Bishop C.

A ford. Dr. Burd was trained in the Church Missfnarv V)Heg-, Islington, and on his ordination in 1852 proceeded as a missionary to Shanghai. The whole of hit ministerial life has been peased in China, and it is understood that on bis retirement from act i ve service he will till continue to ess de there, engaging principally in literary work. literature anb Jlrt.

A sew beak, "Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals," is to he published shortly by Messrs. Maomtllan. It has en written by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson for the use of sculp' oca, painter-, naturalists, and taxidermists.

In the third volume of Mr Wallace's edition of the Life and W.irka of ihert Burns," which is to be published i mined at lv by Messrs. Chambers will be found nearly 30 le'ters never before printed in any life of tne poet. Some of them throw light on a remarksMe controversy between Burns and the London Ximmtan during the Ellialand period. An interestit iiok uf reminiscences by Mr. Augustus J.

C. Hare, entitled The Story of My Life," containing references to many famous people Tennyson, Carly le, Scott, Shelley, Raskin, Dickens, Land-ir, the Brownings and Arnolds, Lady Blemington. ird Houghton, amongst others will be published early in October by Mr. George Allen. It will be in three volumes and will be illustrated.

About four yean ago Canon MacdoneU. of Peterborough, who was for many yean on terms of intimacy with Archbishop Magee, under to ik the work of arranging ths correspondence of the Archbishop placed in his hands, and of writing the life of his friend, which Messrs. Isbieter will publish in two volumes bearing the title of the Life and Correspondence of Archbishop Mtsjnr" early in the autumn. Science anb givcfyaeoZocii. The Zopherus melicanus is the only known species of he American beetle that has strength enough in its mandibles to cut metal a fact accidental! discovered by i Dovoe, Specimens of the beetle sent from Brazil were confined by him in a jar with a pewter top, and in less than 48 hours they bad cut boles in the metal and got their beads out.

The bean the Philippin island from the coast ear Manila is so like the pebbles on the beach as to he easily mistaken for them. It is about an inch or less in length, is of a pebbly colour, varying froir clear to drab, and is often marked with parallel lines resembling agate. Moreover, it is so hard as to clink when struck, and can be cat with difficulty with a knife A short time ago Professor Flinders Petrie discovered, at Thebes, a granite tablet, containing tbe first-known Egyptian mention of ths people of Israel. It was erected by Merenptab, whose portrait-bust was recovered at the same time. Professor Petrie has written for the August Century a full account of the finding of tbe tablet, and of the character and reign cf Merenptab.

This king has been supposed by scholars to he tbe Pharaoh who released the Children of Israel from the bondage imposed by his father, Kameves tut this tablet records that he himself conquered the Israelites probably in Syria. JKustc anb te Jrama. Mr. F. H.

Cowen is putting tbe finishing touches to a new orchestral symphojy. It will be produced for tbe first time in public during tbe coming season of Halie orchestral ooooertg Manchester. The season was inaugurated at tbe Surrey Theatre, on Monday, by 'be production of a roelc-draroa by Mr F. A. Scud amove, entitled "Against the Tide" At the Olympic, Lt in New York." a new comedy-drama by Mr.

Leonard rover, was produced. Qenevat Blews. POLITICAL. Tbe princiiial conclusion arrived at by Mr. Horace Plunkett Recess Committee, as set foith by a report jost issued, is that the administration of State aid to Agriculture and industries in Ireland should be under th- care of one department of tbe Government, con isticg of a Board with a Minister responsible to Parliament.

TRADE Fifteen bnndred miners have been thrown idle at tbe National Collieries, Rhondda Fach Valley, by a strike of stokers, who are demanding 124 Per cent, in wages. LAW. The Corporation of Manchester has at length aaeoeedeJ in obtaining for its four public libraries the exemption from income tax to which "literary and scientific icstitutiuns are by law entitled. Both tbe Div sional Court and tbe Court of Appeal (tbe Master of tbe Rolls dissenting) decided against the Corporation, but on appeal to tbe House of Lords that judgment was reversed. The Lord Chancellor thought the exemption ought not to be allowed, but Lords Herscbell, Macnaghten, and Morris were of the contrary opinion, and the appeal of the Corporation was allowed, with costs.

ACCIDENTS. Frederick Collier, aged 9, was drowned whilst bathing in the floating dock at Gloucester on Friday. By tbe capsizing of a boat in Shields Harbour, on Saturday, a boy named Stephen Taoegsy was drowned. William Cunningham, Volunteer marker, who wa- accidentally shot at Canty Bay ranges, Berwick, died on Friday. Mr.

Arthur Lamb, solioitor, of Basingstoke, and clerk te the county magistrates, has died from injuries sustained by being thrown from a librae a week ago. On Friday the axle of the engine of a passenger train neped as it was proceeding through Har-psnden on its way to Hatfield. The passengers were greatly alarmed, and the driver and fiieman badly shaken. On Saturday morning a domestic servant employed by Mr. der Noble, Northampton, fell from her bedroom window and sustained shocking injuries.

It is presumed that the girl was walking in her sleep. Four young men were out for a row at Claoten-on Sea on Monday mcrning, when in changing their seats they overturned the boat. Three clung to the vessel and were rescued by boatmen in an exhausted condition, but the fourth, William Hammond, aged 22. of Colchester, was drowned. A man named lobn Morrow, employed at Paul's bottle works.Camlschie.GlasgoWjmet with a shocking death on Tuesday.

A smelting furnace burst tad encircled him with molted glass. His fellow workers tried to reach him by breaking through the stone wall, but unfortunately tbe man was roasted to a coder Whilst a party of excursionists from Birmingham wars driving through Portland -street, Ilfraoombe, for the purpose of visiting the scene of the recent sue, the horse bolted and ran into a market cart Four occupants of the trap were thrown into ths roadway, and two, named Pea roe and Mason, were seriously injured. Colonel Barclay, of Manor House, Tingrith. Beds, in company with his daughter, was riding through Woo urn Park when Miss Barclay missed her father. On returning some little distance she osu-d the Colonel lying uncenscious on the road with his face bruised and a serious wound on the forehead.

He was conveyed home, but did not regain consciousness until tbe following morning. On Tuesday a party of pleasure-seekers wen returning to Birmingham from Tarn worth, where they had been spending tbe day. All went well until Tyburn was reached, when the break was overturned and all tbe persons were thrown into the road. Eight persons were severely injured, and one man bad to hare his foot amputated. Assistance was rendered by those who had escaped, and a telephone message was sent to the Aston Fire Station for the ambulance.

CRIMINAL Pstst Macdonald. labourer, aged 34, indicted at Liverpool for tbe murder of Ellen Lennon. his paramour, at Droyladen, was found guilty of man slaughter. Tbe judge sentenced him to penal servitude for life. At Edinburgh, John McGuire was fined 50, with the alternative of 60 days' imprisonment for carrying on a betting house in Lothian-street and two men who were found in the house war fined 10a.

or five days. Sarah Brady was, Wednesday, indicted at Liverpool for wilfully strangling her husband. Ths jury found her guilty of manslaughter, and atenor was defarredT The accused and be? husband ware both addicted to drink, and frequently wMtslbd. At Liverpool Saturday, John Vaughan. straw.

Sri was indicted for the murder, at Wigaa, John Green, his brother-in-law. by striking bun ftlsthss dirith i In 1 I ayaaajsj Ha ssi hi wall guilty of manslaughter sssitsnosd to years penal servitude. James Rendis, butcher, of Long Acre, Aberdeen teat, at Clerk en well Polios Court, sentenced to thres months imprisonment with hard labour far exposing bad meat for sals in a shop is Hill bum. 1 1 wa stated the meat was tsberouieoa. and totally bean four onhl for food, and that the sowed had tvwtsd for similar sBsaoss ic FifTuu Death Surrxjiors.

A Daily Newt Vienna telegram, Friday, says An extraordinary trial, which has lasted rix weeks, was concluded at Agraan to-day. The aooossd, who numbered 36, were members of a band of criminals, and were charged with 18 murders and numerous assaults and robberies. Of the 36, 15 were sentenced to death. The sentences pronounced on the others ranged from 10 yean' penal servitude upwards. One of the accused was found guilty of six murders, and at to the murder of his own father an open verdict was returned.

Among the others sentenced to death are three women. Almost all the accused belong to the peasant claw. The band not only lobbed and killed on their own account, but their services were in requisi tion mailt country around. Whenever a young wife to get rid of an old husband, or a husband of a rich wife, these professional murderers were consulted, and did their work with great despatch. Most of the murders were committed by poison, tome by drowning, and a few with the knife.

LI HUNG CHANG IN ENGLAND. Li Hung Chang, the Chinese statesman, arrived in England on Sunday evening, and was received at Waterloo Station, London, by Sir Halliday Macartney, Sir William ColviUe, the Chinese Minister, and various members of the Embassy. There was considerable cheering as the party drove off in State carriages to Carlton Hon sate rr ace. Li Hung Chang spent a quiet day on Monday at the house provided for him at Carlton House- terrace. The only recreation taken by him was a drive through the Park and West End of London in the afternoon.

His appearance excited considerable interest among the spectators. Li Hung Chang, after an interview on Tuesday with Lord Salisbury at the Foreign Office, paid a visit to both Houses of Parliament. The famous ysllow jacket was a conspicuous feature in the Special Gallery of the House of Commoas for fully half an hour, during which time its distinguished wearer oonversed with Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Curzon In the House of Lords the Throne was uncovered in honour of tbe visitor, who left as soon as the Lord Chancellor had taken hie teat on ths Woolsack.

Li Hung Chang left Carlton House terrace on Tuesday forViotoria, en route to Osborne to present his credentials to the Onsen. His Exoellenoy and party were driven to Victoria in Royal landaus, and the appearance in London streets of so many Chinamen in their picturesque costumes provoked moon public curiosity. Cn arrival at the station the chair-carriage used on Li Hung Chang's visit to the Foreign Office, on Tuesday, was dispensed with, and hs walked across the scarlet carpeted platform in a manner which suggested that the carrying procession wss a concession less to physical infirmity than to Oriental dignity. The distinguished envoy, who was accommodated with a luxurious saloon, was attended by a staff of 19 chinamen, and was accompanied by the Hon. W.

J. Co! lite, the Queen's Master of ceremonials. When ths special train from Victoria readied Portsmouth, the Chinese visitors were received by a number of distinguished naval officer, including Sir Nowell Salmon and Sir Edmund Freeman tie. A quantity of luggage having been placed on board ths Royal yaoht Alberta, the Viceroy himself stepped aboard and took his seat on the bridge. At this point the Chinese standard was broken at the main, and this was a signal for a salute of 19 guns, which wss fired from the flagship Victory.

The yacht oast off for Cowes at 12 o'clock, and made a detour of the harbour to give he party a view of tbe fleet, which saluted ths Viceroy. Li Hung Chang arrived at East Cowes at one o'clock, accompanied by his suite. The Royal yacht Alberta, flying the Chinese national flag standard, was preceded by the Elfin, from which the Marquis of Salisbury landed. His lordship at once entered a Royal carriage in waiting and drove to Osborne, to be there at the presentation. The Chinese statesman immediately proceeded to Osborne in a carriage drawn by four horses with postillions.

After a brief conversation with the Prinoe of Wales, thrt Chinese Envoy was presented to the Queen, to whom be handed his credentials. Her Majesty welcomed him very cordially. Early in the afternoon Li visited the Prinoe and Princess of Wales on board the Osborne, and subsequently the Chinese visitors steamed slowly through this Fleet. They spent the night at an hotel at South -sea. The Queen hat made Li Hung Chang an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, and his elder son an Honorary Knight Commander of tbe same Order.

SOCIALISTS IN CONFERENCE. Upon the resumption of the Socialist Congress i nj London on Friday tbe French majority circulated a statement referring to the split in ranks, and accused tbe minority of carrying off bundles of mandates and of frandulent oonduot. The attendance of the public showed a decided falling off. The President of the day, M. Vaillaot, som-plained of gross calumny on the part of the capitalist Press in commenting on their proceedings.

The Congress then proceeded to consider the report of the Commission on Education and Physieal Development. It was laid down in the report as the duty of the State to provide a complete system of education accessible to every citizen, by freedom from fees and by scholarships covering maintenance. There were also proposals as to raising the age of obildren exempted from full attendance, and suggestions were made with a view to regulating the employment of young persons and imposing upon em-ployen additional responsibilities in regard to work done in factories and at home. Mr. Keir Hardie's amendment was adopted by 14 nations to 6, expressing the view that maintenance and education at the University should be free, irrespective of the capability of scholars or scholanhips.

Mr. Hardie argued that whatever the expense might be there would be compensation in the diminution of ariminale and in other improvements which superior education would bring about. Tbe report as amended was then adopted. After luncheon the Congress proceeded to deal with the report of the Commission on Organisation, whioh discouraged the establishment of an international newspaper on tbe ground of the cost. Suggestions were made in favour of tbe appointment of international committees and tbe establishment of international bureaux for information.

It was also recommended that arrangements should be made between European countries and trans-oceanic Continents for the distribution of information amongst emigrant at European ports and on board emigrant ships. On Saturday some British delegates circulated a protest against tbe exclusion of Anarchists and anti-Parliamentarians, who nevertheless believed in tte direct action of organised bodies of workers for the economic emancipation of labour. A resolution was passed expressing the opinion that the disturbances at Zurich resulted from the servitude of workers, and urging Socialism as the only remedy for such labour troubles The question of the international situation of the seafaring population was put on the agenda to be considered at the next conference. A considerable falling off in the attendance of British delepKes wss observable when the Congress proceeded to deal with the business on the programme. This included the report of theEoonomio and Industrial Commission, which urged the socialization of the meant of production, transport, dintri Hut ion, and exchange, the whole to be controlled by a democratic organization in the interest of the entire community.

There was also a minority report in whioh workers in all nstions, and particularly Trade Unionists, were invited to ttudy the important question of a general strike which might be decided on at the next Congress. There were eleven amendments to the majority report, eight from the British Section, and it was decided to take them without speeches. The amendments were mostly additions to the majority report, whioh was adopted, the minority report being rejected. Resolutions were carried declaring the importance of the combination of workers locally and internationally. Workmen were called upon to obtain an amnesty for political prisoners, and the desirability of free registries or labour bureaux conducted by municipalities with bonA-fide unions was enforced.

The Standing Orders Committee's report with respect to the constitution of tbe next congress gave rise to some differences between tbe Social Democratic Federation and Trade Unionists. It wis decided to hold the next congress in Germany in 1899, but. should it be impossible to have it there, to bold it in Paris in 1900. This ooncluded tbe business of tbe Congress, whioh was brought to a close with cheers for the international solidarity of the workers, followed by the playing of Auld Lang Syne upon the organ, and the singing of the Marseillaise." SINGULAR DEATH AT GLOUCESTER. A Gloucester carnage maker named Lawis has been found dead under mysterious circumstanses.

Decease 1, whose wife died three months ago from small-pox, want on Sunday evening to tbe house recently occupied by him, but now empty. A search there for him on Monday revealed his dead body in a recess under tbe stairs, hi head being between hie knees, and his arms tightly folded across his breast. His features were swollen and distorted. It is suggested that he caught his foot in a step, and was flung into bis peculiar position, from which he was unable to extricate himself. The inquest was held on Tuesday.

It was conjectured that deceased's tripped, fell into the position in which he was found, was on-able to extricate himself, and died from strangulation. The jury returned a verdiot of "Death from accidental strangulation. MISSING BULLION. A suit arising out of an alleged robbery of bullion occupied the attention of Mr. Justice Mathew in the Queen's Bench Division en Wednesday.

The plaintiffs were the Colonial Bank and the defendants the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The former sued to recover 1,000 whioh they alleged was abstracted from a box after it was delivered to the defendants for ship ment to Jamaica. Defendants denied that the money was lost while the box was in their custody. A fter hearing evidence Mr. Justice Mathew gave judgments for defendant with ousts.

WHERE DID THE HAMS GO TO? A provision merchant in the Brompton-road on several occasions missed hams from his cellar, and wa unable to account for their disappear an no At length suspicion fell upon two drotman employed by the Kensington Vestry. The hams were counted before the men came upon their round, aad were re-counted immediately after they left. Four ware missed, and these were found in the dust cart wrapped in old sacking. The men were charged with the theft at tbe Westminster Police Court on Wednesday, and their defence was that the hama had got into the oart aooidentaUy. They ware committed for trial.

FOUR THOUSAND PERSONS DROWNED. A Renter Shanghai telegram. August 1. says 8 News has been received here that on the 26th July a tidal-wave five miles in width inundated the ooaatat Hai chin, in the north-east of the province of Kiang-su. Several villages were destroyed.

and it is estimated that 4,000 of the inhabitants pen shed. Large quantities of cattle worn alto lost, and tbe rice-fields are under water. A famine is consequently feared in the autumn. AN EXCURSION TEA IN WRECKED. FORTY-THREE DEATHS: PAINFUL SCENES.

A Renter New York telegram, July 3L says One of the worst railway disasters that have happened in Lower New Jersey during ths past half century occurred last night about four miles from Atlantic City, on the Pennsylvania Rail way, when a Philadelphia and Reading Railway express ran into and wrecked a heavily-freighted excursion train. According to ths latest estimate, forty-three persons were killed and forty injured. The work of rescue is rtill proceeding. Most of the injured were conveyed to the hospitals in Atlantic City, and others were oared for in private residences. To-day thousands flocked from tbe summer resorts outside ths city to the soene of the catastrophe.

Tbe scenes wbhh occurred after the collision were cf the most heartrending description. Many of the injured begged that if they could not be rescued they should bs put oat of their misery, fearing that they should be burned to death. Ths fire, however, was extinguished before it reached any of tbe sufferers. It was quite dark at tbe time of the collision. A passenger who was in a smoking oar, none of the occupants of which were injured, states that he and his fellow passengers hastened forward to render all the assistance in their pswer.

Some of ths survivore they helped out through the windows and through openings in the roofs of ths wrecked coaches. The tint woman rescued had had one of her legs torn off, and the next person reached was a man whose back was broken. In a short time, 25 persons, all apparently dead, were taken out of tbe ruins. Several entire families perished. The baggage-master was found in a ditch crushed beneath the locomotive, having leaped out in the hope of escaping, while the engineer of the Pennsylvania train ia safe, hit escape being due to the fact that be did not jump.

The engineer of the Reading train was found dead with his band on ths throttle. His wife, on learning her husband's fate, dropped down dead. One passenger who was travelling with his familv, seeing that a collision was inevitable, threw his baby out of the window. He himself and all the other members of hit family were killed, but tbe baby was found quite uninjured. In another case, a man and woman were found dead, clasped in each other's arms, he having apparently thrown bis arms around her to shield her.

At the hospitals and at the morgue terrible scenes are hourly enacted. At the bedside of the injured sit sobbing triends, to whom, in most oases, no hope held out that ths sufferers will survive. Tbe Coroner's jury, having viewed the remains oi toe aeaa, laid out in to coffins at the morgue, have gone out by train to the see: of the disaster. TAXATION RIOTS IN SPAIN. A Renter Ma -i rid telegram, August 5, says The imposition of the new octroi duties gave rise to further rioting in the province of Valencia last night.

The outskirts of the town of Valencia were paraded by a band of 50 armed men with rifles, who attempted to shoot the octroi officials. They also opened fire on a strong body of police which attempted to disperse them, and four persons were wounded, including a woman whose condition is serious. Several villages in the province were also invaded by armed bands, and detachments of cavalry had to be sent from Valencia to disperse them. A number of arrests were made in the course of the night. It is believed that these riots aie to some extent organised by tbe Republicans.

Two persons were arrested who did not form part of tbe riotous bands, but who disclosed the place where arms were stored. The wounded, who included an inppector of police in addition to two gendarmes, were conveyed to the hospital. The news of the rioting, which was believed to be part of a revolutionary movement, bas created great uneasiness in Madrid, and fresh details are awaited with anxiety. INS0ERECTI0N IN MADAGASCAR. Thru E.i bushmen Mitkdbkd and Motilatkd.

Tbe Madagascar correspondent of the Figaro reports a number of massacres on the road between the capital and coast. Ou June 15th 600 rebels attacked a caravan from Majunga. composed of six men and 80 mules, with 2,000 worth of goods. Three Frenchmen were killed, one dangerously wounded, and two escaped. Within a week afterwards two mining prospectors were surprised and killed by rebels, who afterwards attacked and destroyed the village of Andriba.

The rebels operate within five miles of Antananarivo with impunity, and the garrison are powerless against them. Another correspondent says that three Englishmen, whose names are unknown, have also been murdered. The bodies of the victims were cut up and mutilated, and the heads stuck upon posts. THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. An Ambas3aoob'8 Opinion.

Monir Bey, the Turkish Ambassador in Parts, interviewed with reference to tbe situation in Crete, said th it the revolt itself was insignificant, and would have been peacefully disposed of long ago but for ths encouragement the movement received from a certain portion of tbe Greek people. His Excellency did not accuse the Greek Government of having favoured the insurgents, for they knew well enough thst the ttalm quo would not be disturbed in the East without Sible disastrous consequences to Europe. Munir thought that the Powers individually and ctively were animated by a sincere desire for peace, and addel that order would be very quickly restored and without bloodshed if the Porte were given liberty of action, for the Cretans must not be taken too seriously or at their own valuation. A SAD ACCIDENT TO CHILDREN AT A FAIR. Fits Dead i lives Seriously Injubid.

A FortWorth Texas telegram, Wednesday, saya A serious and curious accident occurred yesterday at the fair now being held here. While a merry-go-round composed of wooden horses, every one of which was occupied by a child, was turning merrily the machinery suddenly went wrong, and the wheel stopped almost instantaneously. Every child on the machine, numbering 48 in all, was pitched violently off. Five children had their necks broken, 11 are so seriously injured that they are expected to die, and of the balance most of them are suffering from broken bones. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A PIC-NIC IN TENNESSEE.

A terrible event occurred last week at Lake Ottcse. a pleasure resort five miles from Knox-ville, Tennessee. A Suuday-schoel pie- nic party had gone out there, aod some of them were in a boat going down the Chate, when the boat collided with another which bad started on the journey about the same time. The second boat overtook the first, and dashed into it, killing four and wounding 13 of the people in it and throwing those on the second boat into the water. Two of those in the second boat were children of tender years, who, in spite of desperate efforts to save them, were drowned.

THE VISIT OF THE CZAR TO FRANCE. The Soled says that the visit of the Czar to France is now definitely decided upon, and all the details have been arranged. The Emperor will oome direct from Russia by sea and will arrive either at Cherbourg or Brest on September 15. He will be met upon landing by the President of the Republic, with whom he will then journey to Angouleme in order to witness the grand review at the conclusion of the annual Army manoeuvres on September 17. Whether the Czar will afterwards oome on to Paris is uncertain.

HEW RAILWAY IN SALVADOR. The first train of the Santa Anna Railway, Salvador, with the President of the Republic, arrived safely on Friday. Ten thousand persons bad gathered at the station, and it is impossible to describe the enthusiasm manifested by the populace. At a special function the Bishop of Salvador blessed tbe engine. Tbe railway will be open for public traffic at the beginning of September.

Tbe bonds of the railway are all held in England aod on the Continent. A FRENCH COLONEL MURDERED. A common soldier walked into tbe officers' mess-room at Algiers, and, before anyone was aware of bis intention, deliberately blew out bit Colonel's brains. It appears that Colonel Brabant had had occasion to punish the soldier for some trifling broach of duty, and this so enraged him that be took this means of revenge. Colonel Brabant was much esteemed, and the feeling against his brutal murderer runs very high.

SHUT UP IN A HOOSE FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. A special despatch from Tarantn to the Paris Journal says that it hat been discovered that a young man. named Bianchi, hat been entombed in his father's house for 17 yean. He it now 24, and he was first shut up in a bole in the roof when only seven yean of age. Hare he remained until found the other day by a detective.

A doctor pronounced him an idiot. The parent's brother and a servant have been arrested. REPORTED SI LEASE OF A FAMOUS REEK BANDIT. According to a despatch tent out by the Turkish Embassy at Paris, a famous Greek bandit, Gondi-Ogdoloplo, who three years ago was condemned to 80 years' penal ssi i ilmle in Greece, hsa recently beta relies nd by the Greek authorities, and, accompanied by a hand of seven followers, has esnsatd over into Ottoman tstiltmy, in order to stir up trouble. Measures are now being taken to ssenrs hie capture.

FURTHER FIGHTING. DESTRUCTION OF REBEL STRONG HOLDS. A despatch from Capo Town states there hat been farther fighting in Rhodesia, in whioh too column from Gweio aad Victoria, under Major HurrelL defeated the rebel chief Ndema, and burned his kraal. Two whites were killed. Some other tribes have also been defeated.

Colons! Plumers column has attacked a force of 400 Mata-beleon the Matoppo Hills, and driven them from their position with a loss of 30 killed. A Renter Bnluwayo telegram, August 3, says At dawn to-day, Colonel Plumert column left Chabez Valley. Three men belonging to ths column are misting. Yesterday Colonel Plurr.er shelled Icyanda mountain, at killed five rebels Captain Lloyd received a slight wound in the thigh. A oava full of grain was found in ths stronghold.

After burning tbe kraals, tbs fores proceeded to Maayankubi and Secombo, bnt found no trace ft the rebels, who had retired. Numerous scherms and kraals were burned, and the column then returned by tbe Tuli road to Dawson' Store. Corporal Joseph Kirk Porter, who was wounded in Nichclaon'e Inugo engage ment on the 25th has died. A telegram, August 4, say: Soma troopers were engaged yesterday in loading arms belonging to friendly natives at Sparzos Stores, when as elephant gun exploded, killing Trooper Little, who received the full charge in the heart, and wounding in the aims Troopers Champion aad Sieberhageu. All three men belonged to the A Squadron.

The injured men were -lonveyed to ths hospital. Despatches have been received at tbs Colonial Office from Lieutenant-General Goodsnough, giv ing particulars of several ollisions with ths natives on the part of Major Hurrell't force. Many kraals and stores of grain had been burned, and severe lost inflicted on ths natives. Trooper Mathieaon and Dao Hayes and two Cape boys were killed. According to Wednesday's telegram from Bula-wayo.

Captain White's patrol has relieved ths beleagured white people at Hartley Laager. Tbe Captain had bad several severe fights with the natives. The Hunan arrived at Mangwe Tuesday, and were sect forward to ths Khami River. A BURGEON-MAJOR'S HEROISM. After distributing tbs prize at Netley Hospital, on Friday, Lord Woleeley addressed the etudents.

Speaking of the heroism ef the medical side of the profession of arms, Lord WoUeley alluded to a dying sot of heroism performed by Surgeon-Major Landon, in a rather unfortunate sxpedition the name of which he would not mention, but which took place 15 yean ago. At any rate they were driven back, and there were several wounded collected together on the ground partly sheltered, and one of these was ths deceased surgeon. He had been shot through the back and hi spine was so hurt that bs could not even sit up; but during the time he ws there hs kept telling a man of the Army Service Corps who was with him bow he could help tbe wounded. At last the man in hit effort to help tne wounded got snot in Dotn arms. The enemy came up soon afterwards and were verv kind.

They asked ths doctor what could be done, and he told them to inject some morphia into ths poor young man. They attempted to do so, hut caused him so much pain that the doctor urged thsm to bring him to him. This they did, and tbe deceased injected the morphia, aad this gave tbe orderly the greatest possible relief. The Burgeon then sank down, aod died half an hour afterwards. That wa a deed that should be recorded in our pages of history devoted to heroism.

Lord Woleeley concluded by wishing ths students a very bright and prosperous future. A REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN. Mr. Frank Barter writes from Sutton Veney, Warminster, under date August 2 "A wemsn, aged 105 yean last May, Mrs. Major by name, passed away en Sunday morning from anonlexv.

within 24 hours of the seizure. Up to that time she could walk about witbout other help than two sticks, and retained all her faculties and mold well recollect Waterloo, and other incidents prior to the Queen's reign. The said lady kept the village inn for 40 years, and boasted that she never drank one pint of beer or ale (although they brewed themselves) nothing stronger than cider. She was twice married, and survived both husbands. and eight out of nine of ber children, only one a daughter being left It may be added that the lady never uvea any where else than in this village, and, to the best of her knowledge, was never oat of it longer than seven days together." DEGREES AT EDINBURGH.

At Edinburgh University, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Canon Gore, of Westminster, and on Principal Miller, of Madras. Tbe degree of Doctor of Law was conferred on Sir Charles Elliott, late Lieut. -Governor of Bengal Professor Walker, Institute of Technology, Boston and Sir D. Bran-dis, late Inspector-General of Forests. The degree of M.D.

was conferred oa 76 students and MB. and CM on 151, including two ladies. When the latter were presented, they ware received with loud applause, while several gentlemen were also singled out by the public, among them being Mr. J. W.

Simpscn, the well-known Scottish International Rugby football player, and Mr. C. H. Kriiger, a nephew of the President of ths Transvaal Republic. SCENES AT THE BIG WHEEL.

There have been exciting scenes at Blackpool Wheel einos the decision of the High Court. On Friday morning at six o'clock two men served the workmen with a copy of the judges' remarks, pointing out tbeir liability for contempt of Court if they proceeded but they were ignored, and the papers were torn up Later similar notices were served on the directors. Ae a consequence the men were stopped at noon temporarily. After making the engineer a presentation they indulgsd in a demonstration. 'Some of ths man brought musical instruments, snd othen sang "Say Au Revoir, but not good-bye," and "Nobody knows me now I'm poor," to tk evident amusement of the visitors.

SALVATION ARMY EXHIBITION. A Salvation Army Exhibition hat been orened at the Agricultural HalL The display, which brings before the public an illustration of the meant by which the work of ths Army ia organised and maintained, fills the whole space of the large hall. The industries connected with the enterprise are largely represented. There are the boy carpenters, the boy tailors, tbe girl workers, the men's training home, the women a training home, musical instrument making, the bonnet factory, tbe uniform factory, stationery, hardware, glass and earthenware works, and many others. LADY TRAVELLERS ON RAILWAYS.

A circular letter addressed by the Board of Trade to the Railway Companies Association, in calling attention to the recent assault on a lady in a carriage on tbe Brighton line, inquires as to recent experiments with electrical or other com-municators, and suggests that tbe regulation directing railway servants to find separate accommodation for any lady requiring it should bs made universal, and bs given full publicity, as many women-travellers do not know of it. THE KILLARNEY MUSICIAN. You will get no satisfaction from me a to who I am and where I came from," wa the remark made to the police by Henry Johnson, who had been arrested charged with attempting to ootain money by a trick. It was stated at Lambeth that his practice was to go into shops, represent himself as an American or a visitor from Johannesburg, and sndeavour to borrow money. Johnson, who admitted that he was a "musician," and had lived at Killarney, was remanded.

TRACTION ENGINE RUNNING INTO A COTTAGE. A Man Killed. On Friday morning, as a traction engine wa descending a hill at Waltharaatow, tbe driving rod broke, and tbe driver lost control of the locomotive, whiob ran into the front of a cottage, where it became embedded. A man was thrown from the thrashing machine attached to the engine, and instantly killed, his neck being broken. THE BEVERAGES OF THE PEOPLE.

Let us glance at the ordinary breakfast beverages of tbe people. Tea, even if properly infused, is only a stimulant. It is not a nourishing beverage, and as usually decocted is washy, trashy, and deleterious. Coffee, even when of the beet, and prepared in perfection as you will find in the East, where Mahommedans are forbidden by their religion to use alcohol, is only a cardiac or heart stimulant. It increases for a short time the power of that organ without being in any sense of the word a nourishing beverage.

oeoo. The ordinary cocoa ia not by any means nourishing beverage. Its good qualities either in the English or foreign varieties are smothered in starch and sugar that induce and promote indigestion. Dr. Tibbies? Vi-ocoa ie a nourishing beverage, containing four great restorers of vitality.

Cocoa, Kola, Hops, and Malt, It stands out a a builder up of tissues, a promoter of vigour, and in short it has all the factors whioh make robust health. Being a delioioosly flavoured beverage it pleases tbe most fastidious palate. Its active powers of diastaser give tone to the stomach, and promote the flow of gaetrio juice, and however indigestible tbe food taken with it at any meal it acts as a solvent snd assimilative. All the leading medical journals recommends Dr. Tihblea' Vi-Ooooa, and Dr.

G. H. Haalam writes It rive me great pleasure in hearing testimony to tbe value of Vi-Ooooa, a mixture of Malt, Hops, Kola, and Caracas Cocoa Extract I consider it the vary best preparation of tbe kind in the market, and, as a nourishing drink for obildren and adults, the finest that has ever bean brought before tbe public. As a general beverage it excels all previous preparations. No bouse should be witbout it." Dr.

Tibbie' Vi-Ooooa is made up in 6d. packets, and 9d. and la 6d. tins. It can be obtained from all chemists, grocers, and stores, or from Dr.

Tibbies' Vi-Ooooa, Limited, Suffolk House, Cannon. street, London, E.C. At an unparalleled test of merit, a dainty sample tin of Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cooae will be sent free oo application to any address, if when writing (a postcard will do) the reader will name ArrrsVl Worcester Journal. a oasa of considerable interest to ths commercial community.

Tbs Earl of Londes borough waa the acceptor of a bill for 500, but tbe inatr oment waa ao framed by the drawer that he left space into whioh he could put the words a well as tbe figure to convert it into a bill for 3,500. Tbe bill, when accepted, bore a stamp whioh covered tbe fraudulently altered amount. The Earl of Londesborough was toed by the bona- fide bolder for the value tbs ground that but for bi negligence the fraud could not have been committed. Ths Earl denied that he had been guilty of negligence, or that he could be held responsible for tbe subsequent fraud of tbe drawer. This view of the case was taken by Mr.

Justice Charles, who admitted that an acceptor of a asgotiabla instrument did incur a duty to those who subsequently took it not to be guilty of negligence with reference to the form of the instrument, but Lord Londesborough had not been guilty of such negligence as to render him liable for the fraud. The Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Lopes dissenting, took a similar vi-sw. The Lord Chancellor, in moving that the appeal should be dismissed, held that there was nothing suspicious in tbe appearance of tbe bill when tendered to Lord Londesborough for accepts calculated to put him on his guard. It would be a very serious proposition to lay down ibat a minute examina tion of every bill tendered for acceptance should be mane. 1 be appeal was accordingly dismissed with costs.

ARRIVAL OF MR. BARNATO. POPCLAB DlafORSrsATION. Mr. Barney Bamato arrived on the Soot at Southampton oo Friday, where he was met by a number of influential City gentlemen, who subsequently acoompanied him to London.

Upon the arrival of the train in Waterloo Station a large crowd greeted tbs popular African millionaire. and he was loudly cheered a hs drove ou of tbe station. Mr. and Mrs. Barn to will remain at Spencer House, Earl Spencer' town residence, for a couple of month.

A correspondent of a Paris paper interviewed Mr. Bamato, who spoke in terms of warm approbation of Mr. Chamberlain's attitude during the recent crisis, and said it was entirely owing to the tact of both him and President Kriiger that war waa averted. The future of Couth Africa, said Mr. Bamato, i now full of promiee, political difficulties having in great part been moved away, and there is every indication of a year of threat prosperity being at hand.

Mr. Bamato would not ay anything of his own projects, beyond that, after having consulted with a number of persons interested, he hoped to be able to bring forward a scheme which will prove unexceptionable. INDIGESTION AND DEATH. Dr. G.

Danfurd Thomas, Coroner, held an inquest at Islington, on Wednesday, respecting the death of Robert Harris, aged S3, a master butcher, lately residing at 77, Upper-street. Henry Harris deposed that tbe deceased wa his father. For tbs la it week or two be had been a martyr to indigestion. On Saturday evening, before going to bed, he ate a very hearty supper of mutton and green pea. Early on Sunday morning witness was called by hit father, and found him in great pain, sitting in the armchair.

Before any medical aid could be summoned be said "Good-bye," and sank back into the chair dead. Dr. Charles Beard more deposed that he was called to the deceased and found him dead. A po-t-mortem showed that the stomach was extensively ulcerated, caused by indigestion. Death was due to syncope, from sudden failure of the heart, whicb had been caused by lbs exoessiva pain of tbe indigestion.

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. Qrnpevxat HOUSE OF LORDS. FRID AY. Ibish Land Bill. Tbe Marqui of Laasdowno, ia moving tbs second reading of ths Irish Land Bill, explained at great length the provisions of the measure.

Speaking of tbe fair-rent olauees, he said they did not constitute any very aerioua invasion of the privileges of ths owners of land in Ireland. As to tbe clause relating to ths tenant' ssunrity in his holding, he believed that the landlord interests were fully safeguarded. In reference to the purchase nit usee, he remarked thst much was to bo said for a reduction of the interest paid to mortgagees of mortgaged estate, is ths landlords had to pay to them ve or six per and leoeivsd only two-and-a-half per cent, on the amount of the price retained by the Court. He believed that, if they would consider th Bill calmly and dispassionately, tbey would find it contained many excellent provisions, and that even those provision of which thsy were most auspicious would, after examination, prove to bs far lea harmful than they supposed. The Marquis of Londonderry, speaking on behalf of th Irua landlords, said that they never bad the slightest intention to oppose the second reading of this measure.

They admitted that a Land Bill waa necessary ta remedy tbe imperfections of the Land Bill of 1881, and that, in refusing to oppose tbe second reading of this Bill in the House of Common, they had accepted tbe principle of th present Bill, although they objected to aorae of its detail. He stated his objections to a considerable number of clauses; and made a strong appeal to lb elnglish landlords to support the Irish oass. Ha hoped the Bill would beao amended that it would bs sent down to the House of Commons in a shape which would satisfy the aspiration of evary honest and right thinking man in Ireland, and if tbey did to they would have mad one gigantic stride towards solving the problem of the Irish land questicn. An animated dabat followed, and the Bill waa read a ascend time shortly before midnight, TUESDAY. LisocBtas (Ibbxahd) Bill.

Tbeir lordships west into Committee on this Bill. The Earl of Arran moved the reinstatement of a clause whch originally appeared in the Bill, but whioh bad been dropped tbe Commons, providing that on complaint being made to the Local Government Board that improper lettings that ia to say, lettings to persons who were not agricultural labourer had taken place, an inquiry should be held. Lord Ashbourne explained that this Bill pasted through the other House as a non-contentious measure, and this clause having been found to be keenly contentious had been dropped by the Government. If the clause were insisted upon, it would mean that it would kill the Bill, which wa a convenient, useful, and simple one. 1 he amendment was carried by do to 19, and the Bill paused.

The Conciliation Bill. The Earl of Dudley, in moving thst ths House should go into Committee oo the Conciliation (Trade Dispute) Bill, said that in 1894 as many ss 9,200.000 working day, and in 1893 as many a 31.200.000 wotking day, had been lost through strikes and lockout. The evil was, there fore, a serious one, which, it waa hoped, the Bill would mitigate. The Government orooosed to follow tbe voluntary principle, and tbey did not attempt to interfere with the ay-tem which had in the past been so successfully adopted by the Voluntary Boards throughout the country. On the contrary, they sought to encourage and increase ts growth.

1 hey had adooted the principle of conciliation and persuasion, and bad not had recourse to drastic and coercive measures. Hs did not think that the Bill would put an end to trade disputes, but was confident that it would lead to lessen strikes and lock-outs. The Bill nasaed through Committee and waa re ported, without amendment, to the House. Lismt Railways. The Earl of Dudley, in moving the second read ing of the Light Railways Bill, said the measnie was Drought forward mainly in the interests of tbe agricultural industry, and he did not hesitate to express the hope that it might be found a uaefal addition to ths other measures by which the present Government had sought to relieve to some extent the depression which admittedly existed smong many of the agricultural districts of this country.

It waa proposed to net up a Light Rail way Commission, to whom all applications for power to construct Ugbt railways must be submitted. Lord Jersey had consented to act as chairman of the Commission, and of the other members one waa a gentleman of legal knowledge. whilst the other was a gentleman of great engineer ing ability. The Bishop of Salisbury inquired the estimated cost per mile of such a railway. lha ot Dudley thougnt tbe cost would be between three and four thousand pounds per mile.

Tbe Earl of Morley, while sympathising with the objects of the Bill, rather objected to Parlia ment delegating its powers in favour of an uncon trolled ijoveramenl Department. The Bill waa read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY. Ta Cahkiaob or Mile.

Sir John Dorington ssked tbe President of lha Board of Trade whether he was aware that the Great Western and Midland Railway Companies, having established rates for tbe carriage of milk over their respective lines for distances between 40 and 100 miles at Id. per gallon, empties free, were entitled to make a charge of per gallon when conveyed such distances over the two lines combined, and when conveyed jointly over the Great Western, Midland, and Taff Vale line 1 jd. per gallon. air. rutcnis said ins companies were entitled to make a charge a great deal higher than that referred to, but they put in fores the rate mentioned, which was a considerable concession on their part- THS IBISH faiaOXBBS.

Mr. Mcrton advocated the release of tbe Irish treason -felony prisoners, and was supported by Mr. Dillon and Mr. Davitt. who pressed for tbe same clemency to them as had been shown to Dr.

Jameson. The Home secretary spoke ot the serious nature of their offence, and said that their case would bs treated neither better nor worn than other case cf long sentence. He saw no ground for exceptional treatment, but it would be a great relief to mm it, when tne time came round for dealing with these cases in the ordinary way, he wa able to release them. Mas. Matbbicc Renlving to Mr.

Pritohard More an. the Home Secretary taid that in tbe Autumn be. with the assistance of the Lord Chancellor, had fully considered tbe case of Mrs. May brick, and bad oome to tbe emDhstio conclusion that it was not his duty to exercise further clemency in the caw. TUESDAY.

Tn Rbtobm Pbibokkrs. Mr. Chamberlain, questioned aa to his intentions with regard to Messrs. and Davie, the Hsfuira prisoners who refused to sign the petition far pardon and are MUl tore ton Uaol, said ha had advised the gentleman in question mors than oooe that they would be acting not inconsistently with their own dignity and for too filial good if they joined with the other ia signing the petition to tbe South African Republic tor clemency, Aa his advise had been diaregarded, ha waa not able to carry thatntttn any further. FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANTS.

RETURN TO HOLLOWAY GAOL. In accordance with the decision announced by the Home Secretary in the House of Commons oa Friday. Dr. Jameson and his comrades were removed in the afternoon from Wormwood Scrubba Prison to Holloway Gaol, where tbey are treated as hrat-olaaa Tbe Central News aaya Th decision to voke hs Majesty's prerogative of meroy on behalf of Dr. Jameson and his officers was taken at the Cabinet Council on Friday, and tbe Home Secre tary left the Council Chamber half an hour before hi colleague, in order to communicate with the Queen on the subject.

Her Majesty pleasure was sought and ascertained by telegraph, thus reodenna- it possible for Sir Matthew While Ridley to make a statement on tne subject in the House ef Coin moos in the afternoon. When the newt reached tbe prisoners they weie in tbeir cells, wearing convict garb, and since Thursday evening they had subsisted on the ordinary prison fare. They were taken back to Holloway Gaol to serve their rentenees. '1 he efforts whioh were being made on their behalf were mad known to ths prisoners, but Dr. Jameson bad informed hie solicitor that he and his comrades ware quite prepared to perform their sentences to the letter.

Consequently, Mr. Hawksley had taken no part intbe at jvemstst for commutation of ths sentences. The Press Aaaoo ation states that, in spito of ths orders to the effect that Dr. Jameson and bis nve companions were to be treated as ordinary convicted criminals, the officials si Wormwood Scrubba prison were much exeroised a to the saner in which the orders should be carried out. Every indignity that wa possible was spared tbe prisoners.

They were kept isolated from tbe ordinary occupants of ths gaol, snd were not put on any task or work whatever. They were placed in ordinary cells, but, instead of having to lie on tbe hard plank bed, each man was supplied with a mattress and a pillow. Al six o'clock on Friday morning they were aroused in common with the other inmates, aud donned thtir prison garb. Their breakfast consisted of six ounces of dry brown bread and a pint of cocoa, the latter being substituted for the ordinary akilly uy sue uootor a oraers. ax ter oreaata-t came chapel, wuiuo lasseu aoout nan an Dour.

IB-, service was conducted by tbe Rev. A. W. Baldwin, the prison chaplain, all th other prisoners in the gaol being present but Dr. Jameson and his comrades occupied a pew by themselves, sitting a yard apart, the whole party being screened off from tbe rest of the osngreganou.

Upon the termination of the service, Dr. Jameaoo and party were conducted to one of ths courtyards of the prison for exercise, under the charge of a warder. Tbey had to walk in single file as ine orainary prisoners, and no conversation was allowed between them. This is not the usual hour for exercise, bat in order to spare them mixing with the other prisoners ths exeroise was taken somewhat earlier. They occupied their time afterwards in reading, books being specially fur- nisnea to toem irom tne library tor that purpose.

11 appetra it is the duty of the Governor of tbe prison to visit each prisoner under bis control daily in his cell, iu order to see each man p-r onally aod ascertain if there are any complaints. Captain Price visited the prisoners, and later the chaplain of the prison bad a separate interview. At noon dinner wa served in the usual prison tin. About two p.m. much excitement was caused among the prison officials by ths arrival of a telegram addressed to the Governor from the Cimmissiooer of Prisons.

It directed that Captain Price should at oooe have Dr. Jameson aod bia five companions removed to Holloway Gaol, aod that they were to wear their own clothes, and further, that as soon as these orders had been carried ont, and the prisoners had left the precinct of the prison, a telegram was to be sent to ths Commissioners com muni oating the fact. Captain Price at once ornceerled to each cell, and communicated the intelligence to the occupant, and later, in company with the prion doctor he visited the prison infirmary, and imparted to Major Coventry tbe news, adding that tbe order implied that, ia future, they would be treated as first-class misdemeanants. Orders were then given that the eix prisoners were to be saaen to in reception-room, where their clothes, together with their valuables, money. A were restored to them.

The exchange from prison clothes to ordinary garb was quickly effected. Two private broughams were sent for and arrived at the prison shortly before four o'clock. The Governor to formal leave ef Dr. Jameson and his companions in the courtyai and bade them good-bye. They walked aerosa the prison courtyard ia a body, apparently quite unconcerned at the change in their prospects.

Dr. Jameson. Sir John Willoughby, and Major Coventry, attended by a waruer, sea tea memseive in tbe Orst vehicle, while the other was occupied by the two White, Colonel Grey, and a principal warder, who was in charge of the entire party. Tbey then left on their journey to Holloway, and a telegram was st once forwarded to ths Commissioners of Prisons to that effect. Dr Jameson and party arrived at Holloway Gaol about 5 p.m.

"On of tbe Jury," writing to the before the Home Secretary's announcement, said The shock to the public conscience caused by the statement that Dr. Jameson snd his gallant comrades are to be treated with auoh a degrading severity of prison discipline most profound. I do not heitat4 to say that, had such a possibility been present to the minds of the jury, tbe ends of justice would have been defeated by an overpowering sentiment of sympathy with the offenders. The verdiot of the jury vindicated the law in the eyes of tbe whole civilised world. If the verdict had not done so our country would have been indelibly disgraced.

Why, then, need tbe vindication of the law be fallowed by so vindictive a punishment?" An interview with Mr. Hawksley, ths solicitor to the Chartered Company, has elioited the fact that the reports as to the relaxation of the regulations governing the treatment of Dr. Jameson and his fellow prisoners at Holloway are untrue, asd have caused much annoyance and inconvenience. The Governor of the prison acts under tbe provisions of the Local Prisons Act, 1877, which prescribes the routine for first-class misdemeanants. Tbe prisoners are not allowed ts smoke, nor are they supplied with spirits.

The letters they write, as well as those they receive, are opened by tbe authorities before being, in the former case, passed out, or in the latter case delivered, and only two visitors per week, on a day fixed, are allowed. Mr. Hawksley says that tbe prisoners grearly resented uheir transfer to Wormwood Scrubba, as an insult to whioh they should not have been exposed, when it is remembered that no reflention was cast upon their honour. They gratefully accept the exercise of the Royal clemency, and now desire that all agitation on their behalf should cease. They appeal to friends not to seek interviews, which, under the prison regulations, can only be distasteful, and not by mistaken kindness to bring into ridicule the serious punishment involved in a long deprivation of liberty.

MEDICAL ADVERTISING. On Friday, the nine section ef tbe British Medical Association held tbeir concluding meetings at Carlisle. In tbe Ethics section an animated discussion took place en th ethics of advertising. Dr. Brute Dingwall introduced the subject.

Advertising, he said, was generally held to be unprofessional, and yet to a certain extent it was prsstissd even in the highest spheres. Its tendency was undoubtedly pernicious, and it should be put down. The evil, however, should not be magnified It was not generally diffused, nor were there many prominent case. On the whole, then? was good reason to be proud of the general good behaviour of medical men in the matter. Dr.

Broad bent (Manchester) read a paper on the oonnection between quackery and advertising. The essence of quackery, he said, was to mke a noise or bluster like a goose. If a man oouducted himself is a quack he wss one, though qualified. The man who obtained patients by unworthy means, snd at the expease of tbe good-fellowship and esteem of others, wss a quack, rohiemiodibs recent practice of placing on doorplatea "Physician and surgeon" wss advertising. (Ciies of "No, This practice teemed to have arisen of lata yean through young practitioners wanting to impress on people that they knew more than tbe old ones.

Dr. Kingsbury, of Blackpool, taid there had never been a discussion on advertising as pertaining strictly to hydropathic establishments. That day, in the Medical Journal, thty would find an advertisement of Matlock Hydropathic, which gave the name of a member of the oounoil a physician (noa-rasident), aad it gave his qualifications and his fees for consultation at the establishment and at his private He bad asked to be allowed to advertise in the same way for Blackpool. His name had been associated with two hydropathics in Blackpool for 14 years. Dr.

Hardman Dr. Ruxion tel's me he objected. Dr. Kingsbury He I not here, and I flatly contradict it. (Laughter and A Member asked if a member was entitled to give another member the lie.

Dr. Kingsbury It is Dr. Hardman who hsa given me the lie. Dr. Greenwood (Coventry) said the matter excited a great deal of personal animus, and it would be well to discontinue the discussion.

Dr. Hardman (Blackpool) took up tbe discussion, but was shouted down on making per oal references, being told to "Shot up" He managed, however, to get in a reference to quacks, and pointed to a pillmaker who made a great fortune by pills whioh were made of bread crumbs and gamboge. (Laughter.) They were ao badly made that one pill contained enough gamboge for six and the othen were all bread crumbs (Laughter.) He also argued that tariff bids at hvdruDathio establishments were simply an extensive means of advertising certain doctor. A Member here called out, nave you taken your last pill (Laughter. The subject was then dropped.

Dr. George Lee, Vice-President of the Cork Medical and Surgical Society, introduced the sub ject of clubs, reprobating the praotioe of men in comfortable position of life obtaining medical relief for themselves and their families at rates suitable only to poor artisans. Vr. fearson (r'orttmouth) said tbe only way to bring about an improvement wss for medical men to combine together and refuse to attend the clubs at tna low rata now paid. ROWLANDS' lalTDOB invaluable for tbe akin in hot weather; eooU and refreshes it; remove Freckles, Tan, Sanborn, Bedneaa, Roughness core aad soothe Irritation, Insect Stmga, Cutaneous Eruption produce, soft delicate, akin and a beautiful fair complexion.

Bottles, as. 3d. and ia. 3d. BOWLlSBS'tUCA-SiB OIL prevent hsir falling oft or heenaitnar dry la summer tna amllrats scurf also ia Ctatden Colour, bottles 3a sd 7a, 10.

M. BOWI.1SB3 ISO WTO whiten the teeth Drngglat or Store far Bowxajms atJraa. free bv A. Bowaaad at Sk sa nZaZZ Oardsn, London, aa receipt of awvettiaed pries in It la upon verv rare occasions that such a strong array of well-known flrst-cU amateurs are included in a tingle team, such aa were to be found ia tbe Harrow Wanderers' eleven, who playeed on Friday at Bough tori. On Che other hand their opponent were much weaker Chan waa expected, owing to several pro' being unable Co get leave from their League gamea.

The wicket waa against Call Moring, and Mr. Foley was fortunate In getting first innings. Arnold and the Rev H. F. Bennett were the first batsmen to oppose the attacks of Ma-urn.

Anuawon and Walker, Che latter bowling his well-known lobs. The score had reached 32 when Mr. Pope took tbe ball at tbe veteran's end and rot Arnold caught at extra cover, a position that held on wa also taken at when 58 waa the total. A grand catch sent back Arnold 9 runs later. Dr Harris, after beginninii slowly, obtained th chief total by some capita play, and, although the full score at the finish only represented 134 runs, it to.

nearly four hours to obtain them. Harrow Wanderer commenced batting at half -past four. Messrs. H. T.

Hewett and A. S. Crawley being the first pair. Arnold and White were the bowlers. The captain should have been caught aod also run out when be had a-ored a single, and, taking advantage of hi left at 70, and another irood bat was beaten, tbe first over he had from Arnold.

Several socceeduv wickets fell rapidly, but Mr. A J. Webb showed a bit of hi aid form. The Rev. J.

tireatorex punished Mr. Bromley-Martin rather severely, but the batsman coold not eet his partners to stay long enough, and carried out bi bat for a very well played score. Hinguiarly. when Che last wicket fell at a quarter past six, th total of the two innings were exactly equal, and tbe game was left in a very interesting condition. Notwithstanding the heavy ram, tbe ground -had dried sufficiently to allow a prompt resumption of play on Saturday.

The Rev. H. F. Bennett and Arnold again opened the batting to the bowling of Messrs. Anderson and Pope.

The professional was nicely caught at 30, and curiously hi partner had not made a single run. He only had two hits before a magnificent running one-handed catch sent bun back. Progress waa vey slow all along the line, and only four of the others were capable ot running into double figures, Mr Anderson's good bowling being backed up by aome fine fielding. The last wicket fell just when three figure went up on the board. The Wanderers appeared to havs a very easy victory awaiting them, as 102 waa a mare bagatelle for such a strong batting aide, bat Arnold was at hi best, and, howling splendidly, sent one after another back in rapid aneeession.

Messrs. Henery and Webbe were tbe only pair to run into a double figure total ami at the finish Mr. Foley's team had won aa unexpected victory by 22 ran, Arnold having captared seven wickets for 32, and White three for 10 runs. WOaCSSTBBSHIBKt First innings. Second innings.

Rev. H. F. Bennett Crawley Pope 15 Webbe Aniler- Arnold Gore Pins IS F. Wheldoo Crawley bPope 14 Henery Clayton 38 st Greatorex Anderson 12 Dr.

Harris Henery Ander- Anderson Clayton rope A. W. Isaac lbw Anderson 15 Anderson Straw Gore Anderson Crawley Pope White Henery Walker P. H. Foley not oat Uxtras Total 1 not out 5 Gore Anderson 11 Extras 134 Total Harrow Wa.ndesehs.

First innings. Second innings. A. ft Crawley Bromlev Martin H. T.

Hewett Arnold R. M. Lawson-Suiith Arnold F. O. H.

Clayton Arnold A. T. Webbe Arnold G. P. Gore at St raw Bromley Martin P.

J. T. Henery Harris Arnold Arnold Caldwell Arnold White and Whits Arnold Arnold Rev. Greatorex not out 2H Arnold C. G.

Pope Bromley Martin 0 aad Waste W. B. Anderson Bromley Martin 4 not oat J. D.WalkercStrawb Arnold Extras Extra Total .134 Total ANALYSIS OF BOWXXNO. Worcestershire.

m. r. w. a. aa.

r. Anderson 14 19 iS 5 1 Pope 24 37 Walker 15 31 1 1 Webbe 7 Anderson bowled one no hall Second innings. Anderson 24-2 6 19 6 1 Clayton 19 6 36 2 Pope 3 I la 2 Webbs I it 0 Webbe bowled one wi, letuid Anderson two no hall. Harrow Wimdbbkbs. First innings.

I 33 7 44 SIB. Martin 0 0 29 0 I Arnold bowled 1 no balL Second Innings, tart 13 12 7 ill ward 4 0 15 0 White IT 1 10 EAST GLOrcKSTKR-SHIRE v. LORD COVENTRY'S Lord Coventry's eleven aaanad a Bjatitttaa aad unexpected victory in the second match of the Weak, defeating East Gloucestershire by 9 runs. This reanit waa aue a one laiungs by toe nev. a Bennett wa scored 71 not out is grand style.

This be followed up by dismissing fuur pponent for 25 runs, while Scott cook five for 50. When East Gloucestershire west ia to get the final scor niy H. B. Champais could make anything like a show against Che spleodid fjewling and fielding, and the game finished early. East Gloi'cbstxbsribb.

H. Jessop Bennett 3 Scow Bennett J. N. Champain Bennett. Scott H.

B. Champain H. Foley Miller 0 Bennett 3l O. L. C.

West a Millar Scott ta bScott F. H. B. Champain lbw Beanett 34 Foley B. B.

T. Stndd Bennett 11 sub Scett E. C. Wright sub Scott 4 Hobsoo J. L.

Rom Miller Scott IS Scott Gould H. Foley Bennett 4 Foley Scott C. J. Cheater VYiiloughby Bennett 6 Bennett H. Powys-Keck not out 4 not ont Extra 8 Extra 15 Lord Covs.vtrt's XL .06 C.

P. Foley B. C. 0 Wright Lord George Scott Wright West Wright w. i orirtfftnan a.

Champain Gould Hon. H. Coventry Powys-Keck Lord Willoughby Gould H. St. G.

Foley Boss Powya-Keck H. Milner Powys-Keck Rev. H. Bennett Gould E. G.

Hobson not out P. Jesaop Gould F. Champain Rose Wright H. Champain Pewys-Keck Powys-Keck not out and Wright H. Champain Gould Wright Extras 07 KM Hanzoa v.

Walsall Groi ht. Played at Hadzor on Monday. The Hon. R. E.

AlUwpp, the Rev. J. Webster, A. Smith, Wooley, and Goodman hatted well for their respective siiles. Turley Cook nine wickets for it run, bowling splendidly for Hadzor.

Haozor. Walsall. Price Turley 0 Swan Turley 0 Cooper lbw Turley Wooleyc Roper bTurley 24 Goodman lbw Turley 20 Robe re Tarley Edwards Turley 1 WootoncJonesbKibert 1 illis Turlev 3 Rev. J. Webster Wooley F.

Han Land Cooper A. Smith Walhs Wooley K. Turley lbw Wooley T. Roper Cooper Hon. R.

E. Allsopp not oat T. Russell Cooper Dr. Hall Cooper T. Jonea Cooper A- Kihart Wooley Packwood bTurley toper vtooley Wallia Extras Extras J.

V. ISAAfS XT K. B. 9TI-DD XX Played oa Friday, and resulted in a win tbe Cathedral ground, i lor Mr. studrt XL Pot the home team Messrs.

Iraac and Whatford played well for their respective scores while for the winning team Messrs. Cole and E. B. Studd were the chief cuntribuCors. Mr Cole's howling was irre.it feature of the uiau-h tad nrnved verv fatal to the home team E.

B. STL'DDS XI. T. O. Cole Junes Williams Moore 47 E.

studd Moore 43 i A. Harrison A. Bol- land Moore ...17 J. Robertson-Walker Lytteltoa G. Lyttelton 42 Collet N'evile 15 Healing J.

Isaac 16 J. V. Isaac's XL G. L. Whatford lbw Cole i W.

L. Moore Cole G. Jones Williams niu out K. Holland Cole W'. Long run out Hon.

J. Lyttelton Robertson-Walker J. V. Isaac run out A. Bolland Healing Col Hon.

G. Lyttelton 0 Robertson-Walker E. B. Studd R. Carr Robertson.

Walker Cole H. Nevile not oot Extra K. Harrison Lyttelton B. Gibhs Jones Williams J. G.

Gtbbs not out 8. Studd Moore R. E. Meyricke Excras ij St. Mast's, Kidderminster v.

Hindlip Played at Hindlip on Saturday, and resulted in a win for Hindlip by five wickets. S. Turner waa msi successful for tbe home team in bowling, his analysis being seven wickets for 10 runs. ST. Mart's, Thatcher Russell Phipps a Rawlins run out Haycock Turner 0, Oethin and Tumor 26, Cheshire Wallis Turner 3, Lewis Turner Lewis Turner 1, Orr Turner 7, Davis Rnsaell Saundereon 0, Gill not out 4, Wright Turner 0, extra 5 total 47.

HIHSLIP. Rnsaell Thatcher 11. Kihblewhite Thatcher Getaia 3, Sannderson not out 12, Phippn Thatcher 5, Uerrard Oethin 13, Wallia not out 3, Turner lwia Thatcher 0, extras 3 total -SO. Dingier, Whiting, Pope, and Matthew to bat. Rain stopped farther play.

With two exceptions Gloucestershire did badly against Lancashire, and suffered defeat on Friday by ten wickets, the Northerners only requiring to win. W. made 42 and Kitcat 31 in a total of 23). Although showing better form Chan on the aneninw day of toe match at Bexhill, the Australians on Fritiav suffered defeat by four wickets. For Earl de la Waits team, J.

Douglas played a brilliant innings of 48 toward the 117 the Englisornen required Co win. In the course of Monday and Tuesday no fewer thaa 41,148 persons paid for admission Co th Surrey and Notts match at th Oval. Warwickshire cut up badly against the Australians at Birmingham, and suffered defeat by an innings and 9 ran. In a single inning Surrey managed, on Wedaesday ta defeat Notts, whea Srst total of 9 waa contrasted with Surrey's 424. fanes shire and Kent drew oa rlamuaaj Mr HacLann basting nearly uva-and-a-half hour for 426 as out.

Somerset and Middlesex alae draw alter an even gam. Gloucaaterahire. aa Vedaaadav. mined tttsir ha victory since June, their single total of Ssi (ind I (inclusbag uraoas au being lai more taaa the two innings' Derbyshire, oa Wednesday, beat TTamnahli with sight wickaas le spare. Dwpite W.

G. Grace's leviathan score of 301, ths Indian Prinoe. BslrQjadnhji, still headed ths bat king on Wedneada aigh hi aggravate tar the aaaswa svfar being "W.O. agaraear LJ0L wtuooghby, the Malvern Collage Cricket Mr. C.

Wadlow'9 XX -ar lanl At PataBnTi. on aWl. tatad six wfcaata for tl rasa, winaiaf the ms tci' van aaily for Mr. Wadfew-s XL "-mates very and others for causing an obstruction ia Boggart Hole Ulourh would be withdrawn. Ibe Jounou has pa noon new by-laws for the regulation of meetings.

The Oueen's Prize for position battery practice was won at Staoeburyuess on Tuesday by the 1st Battery of the ird Middlesex Volunteer Artillery. The Prince of Wales'" Prize in the same competition was taken by the 2nd Battery of the 3rd Middlesex. The Canadians won the Londonderry Challenge Cup. foreign "etps. One person was killed and two seriously injured by a bomb explosion at Vienna on Saturday.

A telegram from Massowah states that King Menelik demands five millions lire for tbe ransom of the Italian prisonett in the hands of the Abys sintans. In oanseauenoe of the continued agitation in Crete tbe men employed at the Turkish Torpedo Arsenal have been working in relays night and day during the past week order to put tbe torpedo flotilla into fighting trim. The Volksraad at Pretoria has passed a Bill providing for the education of tbe children of ths TJitlanders. Tbe law, which comes into force at once, enacts that the medium of instruction shall be the home language of tbe children. A despatch from Tromsd states that the Conway sxpedition bas successfully accomplished the first creasing of Spitzbergen.

The explorers met wish great difficulties, and in one place it was feared that further progress would be impossible. Advices from Cabul state that the Ameer hat invested Prince Habib Ullab (Heir-Apparent) with extensive powers in tbe Government of Afghanistan, only reserving for himself tbe con trol over affaire of paramount importance. Following an acrimonious discussion that has been going on in tbe press at Sofia, the tomb of the late Stambuloff, formerly Bulgarian Prims Minister, was blown up by dynanite. The perpetrators of the outrage have not been traced. A violent hailstorm Bwept over Mad rid on Monday night.aod did an enormous amount of damage Ths sitting of the Chamber, then in Session, bad to be suspended.

Tbe streets were flooded to such an extent that some tram care were thrown off the rails. A serious outbreak of cholera is reported from Manipur. Forty Ghoorka soldiers and many natives died of the disease, while 150 sick soldiers have been removed to tbe cholera cam p. Ths oanae of the epidemic in this oate was undoubtedly had water. Tbe official return of French exports during 1895 show an increase on tbe previous year of nearly 10 per cent.

This it- largely due to increased trade following upon the conclusion of fresh commercial treaties with the United States, Switzerland and Russia. The Maharaja of Vizianagram, as a proof of his sincere opposition to the agitation against the decision of the Government concerning tbe cost of the Indian expedition to Suakin, has offered to subscribe a lakh of rupees towards the expenses of the contingent. The failure is reported from Chicago of Messrs. Moore Brothers, who were engaged in a large speculative deal The losses an estimated at four millions sterling. The Stock Exchange at Chicago was, on Tuesday, adjourned temporarily, and this has.

it is stated, warded off the expected raid on stocks. The Paris Mint has just received an order from the Russian Government for the manufacture of the whole of the new silver coinage recently resolved upon. It ia anticipated that the contract will take three yean to complete. The silver for the new coinage was bought in London. FALL AT A CORNISH QUARRY.

Two Mas Killed. A sad fatality, involving the loss of two lives and injuries to a third man, occurred on Wednesday at an ironstone quarry worked for mad metalling by the III wan District Council. Three men, William Burrell, John Brown, and an elderly companion named Martin, were working alone, when an unexpectei fall of surface debris took place, completely burying Burrell and Brown. Martin, who was the least injured, after soma time crawled out in a very weak condition, and gave idings of th" accident, but though the mass of rubble was as speedily removed as possible, Burrell was dead wheo taken out, and Brown expired shortly afterwards. Burrell leaves a family of nine children.

SLIPPERY SEAWEED. An inquest was held at Filey, on Wednesday, concerning the death of William Renshaw, 60 years old, proprietor of tbe Stand Cutlery Works, Sheffield. Deceased was found dead on Filey Brig, a rooky promontory, at three o'clock on Tuesday morning. Mr. Maohen, solicitor, Sheffield, who had known deceased 30 years, said be was a man very well to do.

The medical evidence showed that deceased had slipped on the seaweed, which covers the rocks hereabouts. The fall had stunned him, and he was drowned by tbe rising tide. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. SENTENCE OF DEATH. At Liverpool Assizes, on Wednesday, Richard Henry Williams, aged 24.

was indicted for the murder of a sailor named John Gibbons, on 20th July. Deceased was said to be a quiet, peaceable man. He had no quarrel with prisoner, and had but slight acquaintance with him. On tbe evening named, the deceased was in the neighbourhood of the Sailors' Home, when he was met by the prisoner and another man, and without provocation prisoner stabbed him with a knife in the heart, causing almost instant death. Prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to death.

STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS. Isaac B. Coaks, solicitor, Norwich, and a Deputy Lieutenant of his county, was oe Wednesday, in the Queen's Bench, struck off the rolls for fraudslently appropriating to his own use large sums of money and for making fraudulent charges in oonnection with the bankruptcy of Messrs. Harvey and Hudson's Back at Norwich, It was stated that Coaks bad made restitution of 15,000 and promised to restore the remainder of the money, but the Lord Chief Justice said that, although be had been a solicitor 40 years, and held a high position, be should not remain a day longer on the roll. TORTURE IN YORKSHIRE.

The Waktte'd Expret publishes the extraordinary investigation which bas followed a local rumoor. Tbe wife of a miner, at a village near Wakefield, was being tormented night and day by tbe most poignant anguish of body and limb, and had been rendered unable to move without aid. The Express reporter hunted up the woman in question a Mrs. Thompson of 30, Crossley -street. New Sharlston but she was So all appearance perfectly well and sound, and candidly admitted berself to be so.

Further questioning yielded the following details. A root 14 years ago, Mrs. Thompson contracted a severe oold, which rapidly developed into rheumatism of the most acute kind. She was known all over the neighbourhood as one of the greatest sufferers in England. Her hands and arms were so distorted with pain that she was unable to cut a slice of bread.

Her appetite failed, and the once buxom young woman became a mere shadow, her weight falling off to tbe extent of three stone A long course of bathe and mineral spring treatment at Buxton and afterwards at Matlock proved unavailing. Askem and Harrogate were also tried in vain. She returned home in despair, and suffered for many years. Bnt a great change was in store. One day, about two yean ago, Mr.

Thompson purchased for hie wife a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and from the time she commenced to take these Pills she immediately improved. To-day she is in tar better health than the bas been for the last 13 years. "'No doubt," says the WaiejUld hxpren, certain people will designate this an advertising but ws can assure our readers on the authority of our reporter, a journalist of 40 years' experience, and on the evidence of many of the residents in Sharks too, that the above statement is literally true and by no mot mi exaggerated. Mrs.

Thompson said I feel thankful that I was ever led by the hand of God to try this remedy. My appetite has returned, and my weight bat gone up from 6 scene 101 he. to about atone." The husband fully confirmed his wife's statement. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are praised amongst all tttawtt at a strengthening and tonic medicine, for men, woman, or children.

They are not like other medicine, nor can they be imitated, as is sometimes dishonestly pretended Ha the Tjaekage bears the waste, Dr. Williams' Pink Pill, for Pale People, and in case of doubt send direct to Dr. Williams' M-d wires Oossptpy, 46, Holboto viaduct, London, EC. at the Pills can be bad post-free, at 2t. or six boxes for Us.

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