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Drives a Cow In Harness.
In Springfield, Ohio, there lives a
▼enerable citizen, who Is known as
Father Danforth, the crusader, Re-
cently he has taken to driving a cow in
harness, says the Cincinnati Post.
Father Danforth la quite a character,
and he is always given a hearty wel¬
come wherever he goes, His horse
died some time ago, and be thought he
would try hitching up a cow. The ani-
Kial took to harness good-naturedly,
and after a few lessons became man¬
ageable with the bridle. It can now be
driven anywhere as easily as a horse.
Danforth tried an older cow in harness,
and met with success, and afterward
he alternated, He milks both cows
and sells the milk, establishing what is
known as “The White Saloon."
Danforth also conceived the idea that
leaves could be utilized as food for
cows, and he has been feeding them
right along, He has recently estab-
lished a business where leaves are
handled and baled for sale.
On Time,
And. vory early too. That's what any one should
be in treating one’s self for inaction of the kid¬
neys and bladder. The diuretic which experi¬
ence indicates as supplying the requisite stimu¬
lation to the organs without exciting them, is
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Don't delay; Sid¬
ney inaction and diseases are not far apart.
J^or fever and ague, dyspepsia, constipation,
rheumatism and nerve debility, also, use the
Bitters.
Don't you often tire of the bicycle tire, and
feel that it is a good feat to spend more time on
your feet.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00, at all
druggists.
__ __
The steel rail may try to hide, but the loco¬
motive always gets on to it.
We think Plso’s Cure for Consumption is the
only Springfield, medicine for Coughs.—J ennie Pinckakd,
Ills,, Oct. 1, 1894.
SCROFULA SWELLINGS
On Our Boy’s Heck Crew
Larger and Larger
Until we became aJarmed. In May we pur¬
chased a bottle of Hood’s Sar&tvp&riila and the
child began taking it. Wegave our son Hood’s
Sarsaparilla uutil the sore was entirely healed.
He is now permanently cured, M W. C. Krisa-
MBH, Milesburg, Pa. Remember
Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla
Is the best— in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hood’s Pills SWSSSSSfia. wah
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pooka- Short time. Cheap board. Send for cavalogue.
Bubbles or Medals.
“ Best sarsaparillas.” When you think of it how contradic¬
tory that term is. For there can be only<ftae host in anything—one longest
best sarsaparilla, as there is one highest mountain, one
river, one deepest ocean. And that best sarsaparilla is--?....
There’s the rub! You can measure mountain height and ocean
depth,but how test sarsaparilla? Youxouldif you were chemists.
But then do you need to test it? The World's Fair Committee
tested it,_and thoroughly. They wont behind the label on the
bottle. What did this sarsaparilla-test result in ? Every So it make
of sarsaparilla shut out of sarsaparilla the Fair^excopt.Ayer’s. admitted the World’s was
that Ayer’s was the only it the boot. They had to for
Fair. The committee found no room
anything that was not the best. And as the best, Ayer’s Sarsa¬
parilla received the medal and awards due its merits. Remember
the word “ best ” is a bubble any breath can blow; but there are
pins to prick such bubbles. Those others are blowing pricked more the
“best sarsaparilla” bubbles since the World’s Fair
old ones. True, but Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has the medal. The
pin that scratches the medal proves it gold. The pin that pricks
the bubble proves it wind. V/e point to medals, not bubbles,
when we says The best sarsaparilla is Ayer’s.
HORSES ON SNOWSHi
Only Way They Can Travel Over Twenty
Feet of Snow.
A11 the horses working at the placer
mine under the shadow of Pilot Peak,
Plumas Country, California, wear
snowshoea. The altitude of the place
Is about 6,500 feet and enormous quan¬
tities of snow fall there In the winter,
not Infrequently reaching to the depth
of twenty feet, says the San Francisco
Call.
"To overcome the disadvantages of
the snow and enable us to carry on our
projects there,” said Mr. Bowman, one
of the owners of the mine, “we put
snowshoes on the horses. By doing
this we are able to bet in our supplies
of groceries, meats, canned goods and
other things, and to transport the pro¬
duct of our mines. All our picks,
shovels, giant powder and similar
things that have to be taken about in
winter ore handled in this way.
“Only California-bred horses are
used. It has been found these are the
best, and, if possible, we get mountain
horses—those that are raised at high
altitudes. The horses go right along
in the snow. They usually take a fast
walk, but sometimes they trot a little.
“They get so accustomed to the snow-
shoes that they don’t stumble or fall at
all, and they like them so well that
they don't like to walk without them.
They will put up their feet to have the
snowshoes put on.
“We used wooden shoes at first and
they worked very well, but now we
have something a great deal better. It
consists of a thin steel plate eight
inches In diameter, through which are
hole3 for the calks of the ordinary
shoe. The plate is fastened by a steel
spring to the lower part of the hoof,
and there is a nut on it so it can be
screwed up tight with a wrench.
“On the bottom of this steel plate is
a coating of India rubber, and this, by
the way, is a great improvement in
horse snowshoes. It keeps the shoe
free entirely of snow, whereas former¬
ly Bnow used to clog and fill up on the
plate. This would cause the horses to
slip and flounder around. Even when
the horses are fitted out with snow-
shoes far the first time they rarely
ever fall, though, of course, they are
usually steadied a little till they get
the hang of things. We are careful not
to select nervous horses. We don’t
want a horse that’s too high-spirited.
We rather prefer those that are quiet
and not easily perturbed.
“The trained snowshoe horse can go
anywhere, no matter how precipitous
tne mountains are, or how deep the
snow Is. We tried for awhile
making snowshoes out of alumin¬
um for the horses. The metal
was light, and it was thought for
a time that it would be just the
thing. But we found that the alumin¬
um, unlike steel, would bend, so we
gave up the new white metal and stuck
to the stdel, using a thick rubber coat¬
ing for the bottom.”
Her Dream of Bliss.
Cobwdgger—Isn’t that the dress I
gave one hundred dollars for that you
are wrapping up?
Mrs. Gobwigger—It is, my dear.
This little affair tonight is what is
known as a “charity party. ” Each of
us contributes some cast-off garment
to the poor.
Cobwdgger—You don’t mean to say
you are going to give that dress away ?
Mrs. Gobwigger—Most decidedly. I
would never have accepted the invita¬
tion only I knew that by donating such
a gown I could set all the women
present talking about me for the next
month.—Judge.
They Were All There.
The wild-eyed gentleman passed and
looked long and earnestly at the little
wheel ventilator, which was whizzing
nroung in the window pane high over
his head.
“Can it be,” he asked half aloud.
Placing one finger to his right ear,
he olosed his eyes thoughtfully for a
second.
“No,” he said, with a Sigh of relief,
as he moved on again; “it isn’t one of
mine, lost from its place. They’re all
there.”
Unlike most men he could count his
wheels.—Cincinnati Tribune.
Duty.
Sergeant—I see by your report that
you shot some people in the line of
duty today.
Patrolman—Yes, sir.
Sergeant—Mad dog scare, I presume.
Patrolman—No, sir. Resistance to
arrest.
Sergeant—You don’t say so!—De¬
troit Journal.
HIGH WATERS WILL PRORABLY
DEMOLISH THEM.
SEVERAL LIVES ALREADY LOST,
Missouri Lands Being Rapidly Submerged.
Rescue Steamers Are Doing
Valliant Service.
A special from Memphis, Tenn.,
says: A levee near Carruthersville,
Mo., broke Thursday afternoon, but
whether any damage was done is not
yet known. Private reports are that
it was simply a break, while the
levee board declares it was the result
of a cut.
There were no additional drownings
reported during the day but the ru¬
mored drowning of five from a bridge
in Arkansas was confirmed. The victims
were a mother and four children.
It is now believed the vast majority
of imperiled people within reach of
Memphis have been rescued. Theive
are about 3,000 of them in the city.
The relief committee has wired Gov¬
ernor Jones, of Arkansas, for state aid
and urged that he seek federal aid
through Arkansas congressmen.
He replied that there were no funds
at his disposal for that purpose, and
that he could do nothing to aid the
refugees from his state.
1 he war department notified Cap-
tain Fitch, of the Lnited States Engi-
neering Corps, that $10,000 had been
assigned to his order for use in main-
taing the levees of his district.
sReports from the levees to the south
are not encouraging, From Helena
to Belief, Ark., the levees cannot pos¬
sibly stand, it is asserted, and from
there to Modoc, a distance of thirty-
six miles, there is grave danger. In
fact, the report from Modoc is that
they cannot hold the levee.
Rescue Steamers at Work.
The work of rescuing the carried people in
the flooded district is being on
night and day, and Thursday morning
half a dozen steamers reached Mem¬
phis with over 1,000 refugees. The
steamboat men tell some harrowing
stories of suffering and death.
One woman who was rescued
held in her arms a dead infant that
had perished from cold and hunger.
Another family of four, when res¬
cued related that two small children
were drowned in sight of their helpless
parents. and in the
Islands Nos. 40, 37, 36 34
Mississippi river are completely sub¬
merged, and the inhabitants, to the
number of about six hundred, have
abandoned their homes.
BLOCKADE TO BEGIN,
Greece Will Be Forced to Withdraxv Her
Warships.
A dispa.ch received at Rome, Italy,
Thursday from Canea announces that
the blockade of the Island of Crete by
the fleets of the powers will begin on
Sunday morning and that a notifica¬
tion to this affect will be addressed to
the governments at Athens and Con¬
stantinople.
It is further stated that the powers
will also communicate the steps taken
to the government of the neutral
states.
The limits of the blockade will be
between longitudes 23.24 and 26.30
east and latitude 25.48 and 34.25
north. The blockade will be general
against Greek vessels, but other ships
will be allowed to land goods, pro¬
vided they are not destined for the
Greek troops or for the interior of the
island.
RUSSIA FORW ARDS TROOPS.
Intended the Oe-
The officials of the Russian embassy
at Constantinople have notified the
Turkish government to the effect that
a Russian transport, having on board
troops intended to form 'occupation the contingent
of Russia for the of the
island of Crete, according to program
drawn up by the admirals, will shortly
pass through the Dardanelles.
The embassies of the other powers
have not raised any objections to this
proceeding, although by the treaty the
straits are closed to the warships of the
foreign nations.
Large numbers of the Greek army,
the reserve men and other volunteers
are leaving for Athens.
RANSOM’S SUCCESSOR.
Clayton, of Arkansan, Get* the Plum.
Other Nominations by the President.
The president Thursday sent to the
senate the following nominations:
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister ple¬
nipotentiary of the United States to
Mexico; William M. Osborne, of Mas¬
sachusetts, consul general of the Un¬
ited States to London; J ohn K. Gowdy,
of Indiana, consul general of the Unit¬
ed States at Paris; Joseph Brigham, of
Ohio, to be assistant secretary of agri¬
culture; Perry S. Heath, of Indiana,
to be first assistant postmaster general;
Sylvester Peterson, of Minnesota, to
be register of the land office at Crook-
ston, Minn.
B. AND L. RECEIVERS.
Report of Special Mauler in a Knoxville,
Tenn., Concern. •
Special Master J. W. Caldwell made
his report Friday morning to Judge
Clark, of the United States court, at
Knoxville, Tenn., in the matter of
receivership prayed for the Southern
Building and Loan association.
The report is to the effect that the
association is technically solvent, the
assets being about $2,500,000, but he
recommends the appointment of a per¬
manent receiver.
SURVIVING BILLS REFERRED.
The Senate Turtles Work Left Over from
tABt Congress.
A largo number of bills, most of
them survivors of the last congress,
■were introduced in the seuate Thurs¬
day and referred.
Correspondence of the German gov¬
ernment relating to insurance compa¬
nies was taken up and referred.
The constitutional amendment for
the popular election of United States
senators was reintroduced by Mr. Tur-
pie, democrat, of Indiana, who an¬
nounced bis purpose to address the
senate upon it Monday. Ohio,
Mr. Giear, republican, of
from the committee on Pacific rail¬
roads, reported the bill which was
pending last session for the adjustment
of the government debt through a
commission. The bill was placed on
the calendar.
Mr. Lodge, republican, of Massachu¬
setts, offered a resolution which was
agreed to, instructing the committee
on foreign relations to inquire and re¬
port whether the islands of St. Croix,
St. John and St. Thomas, in the West
Indies, can now he purchased from the
Danish government, as by the treaty
of 1867.
At the close of the morning business
the senate at 1 o’clock p.m. proceeded
to the consult ntion of executive busi¬
ness, and at 3:15 o’clock adjourned un¬
til Friday.
The house reassembled at noon
Thursday pursuant to adjournment.
The speaker laid before the house the
recommendation of the postmaster
general for an appropriation of $200,-
000 to be immediately available to en-
a ble the government to defray the nec-
e ssary expenses of the postal congress,
w hich will assemble in Washington in
May next. Mr. Henderson, republi-
call ^ 0 f j owa> stated that the eommit-
^ ee 011 wa y S and means would not be
ready to report until Friday; there¬
fore he moved that the house adjourn,
which was agreed to.
GREEK SHIP SUNK.
A Sh’O* From »x> Austrian Gunboat Send!#
Her Down.
Advices from Canea state that the
Austrian gunboat Sebenico has fired
upon and sunk, near Candia, a Greek
vessel loaded with provisions and mu¬
nitions of war intended for the Greek
forces in Crete.
It appears that the Sebenieo, while
watching the Greek ship, was fired
upon by a party of insurgents. To this
the Austrian warship replied by sink¬
ing the Greek craft and driving off the
insurgents. be¬
It is feared that when this news
comes generally known in Athens it
will serve to greatly irritate the popu¬
lace and may have influence in precipi¬
tating the crisis which the powers are
striving in every way possible to avert.
COMPLICATIONS IN HAWAII.
Customs Authorities Stops the Landing
of Japanese Laborers.
The following advices from Honolulu
were brought by the steamer Australia
which reached San Francisco Thurs¬
day: anticipated here
Serious trouble is
over the refusal of the customs author¬
ities to permit the landing of 537
Japanese laborers brought here recent¬
ly by the Kobe Immigration Company’s
steamer Shinshu Marau.
The local agents of the Japanese
company have been placed under ar¬
rest charged with violation of the laws,
and Captain Mischaki, commander of
the steamer, has been refused clear¬
ance papers unless he agress to take
hack to Japan the rejected immigrants,
who have been detained’at the quaran¬
tine station since their arrival in port.
RIALTO BURNS AT SEA.
An Explosion of Chemicals Caused, the
Death of a Seaman.
^ Lin<J steamer Cnrth .
agenian, which arrived at New York
Thursday morning from Glasgow, res¬
cued the crew of the Wilson steamer
Rialto, which took fire and was aban¬
doned March 5.
The Rialto was bound from New.
castle for New l r ork loaded with a gen¬
eral cargo, including a large quantity
of chemicals. She left port on Febru¬
ary 21st, and experienced strong increased wes¬
terly gales, which gradually
in violence until March 3, when a ver¬
itable hurricane was blowing.
At 6 o’clock in the morning a ter¬
rific explosion in the forehold blew the
hatch covers into the air, killed one
seaman and injured the chief mate.
SENSATIONAL CONFESSION
AlleKed to Have Been Made l>y Scott Jack-
eon, tlie Condemned M urderer.
The Cincinnati papers issued extra
editions Thursday stating that Jack-
son and AValling confessed that Dr.
Wagner, of Bellevue, Ky., assisted
them in part, and that Peal Bryan
was taken to Dr. Wagners house
Wednesday night and was murdered
the following Friday night and that
after the murder Dr. Wagner was con-
fined in the Lexington asylum.
This is the first evidence as to the
whereabouts of Pearl Bryan on
Wednesday night. Dr. Wagner has a
wife and two daughters. One of the
daughters lias frequently called on
Jackson at the jail.
AGAINST FIGHT PICTURES.
The Massachusetts Legislature May Bar
KinetoR«ope Exhibitions.
Representative Sanderson, of Lynn,
introduced » petition in the Massa¬
chusetts house of representatives Fri¬
day afternoon, which proposes legisla¬
tion to prevent any exhibition in the
state of Massachusetts of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mill at Carson City,
through the agency of the kinetoseope.
The petition has already been signed
by the majority of the leaders.
TARIFF PROGRAM NOT SATISFAC¬
TORY TO DEMOCRATS.
NEW RULES CAUSE J RUMPUS.
Republicans Determined to Pass Tariff
Bill Without Delay and Outline
the Program Therefor.
A Washington dispatch says: The
republicans of the house have cleared
the decks for the great tariff fight.
There was a preliminary skirmish
Friday in the fight over the rule pro¬
viding the manner of the consideration
of the tariff hill, which indicates the
treatment which the measure itself
will receive, hut the rule was adopted
by a strict party vote.
The democrats were formed into a
compact by body by the program adopted
the republicans.
Party lines were at once drawn and
democrats rallied as one man against
the tariff. The debate brought out the
fact that the democrats stood ready to
forget all other questions, for the pres¬
ent at least, and unite on the tariff as
the great issue.
The administration program is be¬
ing followed to the letter. The rule
admits of comparatively little debate
considering the magnitude of the meas¬
ure and eliminates even chance for
amendment.
While on its face it seems to give
opportunity for the consideration of
amendments proposed by individual
members, that provision is rendered a
nullity by the rule which gives amend¬
ments proposed by the committee the
right of way at all times.
The rules of the house are absolutely
superceded by this special rule, which
gives the committee the power to force
the consideration of its amendments
and its amendments alone, no matter
what may be pending.
Mr. Bailey, of Texas, set forth the
democratic position in his short speech
against that rule. He declared it his
belief that the sooner the republican
program was put into legislation
the better it would be for the demo¬
cratic party, for that much sooner
would the futility of the proposition
that prosperity can be brought about
by taxing the people be demonstrated.
He protested against the arbitrary
action of the majority as embodied in
this rule, but declared the democracy
was filling to abide the test of the
tariff bill os a prosperity restorer.
Speaking for the minority, Mr. Bai-
ly said: ‘‘The passage of the bill will
not be antagonized by filibustering
opposition. Knowing that we cannot
prevent its passage, we feel it to be
the best policy, from our standpoint,
that you should pass it speedily. If
it shall accomplish what you claim for
it, the president should not be de¬
prived of the benefits that are to flow
from it. If it should not prove to be
what is anticipated for it, the sooner
it will be repealed and the people re¬
lieved of its unjust exactions.
“I never was more confident of any
event of the future than I am that
this bill shall demonstrate the futility
of the pretenses on which it is based,
and I firmly believe that you won’t
live long enough to get a patient bear¬
ing from the people on the absurd
position that you can make them
perous by taxing them. (Applause.)
“We challenge you to pass the bill
because nothing can more
prove to the people that you are
worthy of the trust now reposed
you.” (Applause.)
HEAVY WIND STORM
Does Considerable Damage in Texas
Friday Night.
A heavy wind storm, which in some
places assumed the appearance of a
cyclone, passed over a part of Texas
Friday night.
At Plano the gale leveled the sheds
of the Cotton Belt and Central road,
blew over freight cars and unroofed
several residences. A number of per¬
sons were injured at Plano, but none
were killed. Considerable damage was
done by the storm near Itasca and
Hutchinson. Telegraph aud telophone
wires are prostrated and it is difficult
to learn the extent of the damage.
The worst damage reported so far
occurred at Denton, where over one
hundred houses were struck by the
storm and all more or less damaged.
AWAITS GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL.
Tennessee Cojistitutional Bill Has Passed
Both Houses of Legislature.
Both houses of the Tennessee legis¬
lature adopted, Friday, the report of
the conference committee on the con-
R titutional convention bills, and those
measures now goto the governor for
hi( . approval.
^s agreed on> this question will be
TO t e( j on the first Tuesday in August
if a convention is called ninety-nine
delegates not less than twenty-seven
y ears c f a ge will be elected the first
Xti e gday in October, election officers to
serve -without pay. The delegates will
reC eive only $2 per diem and sit only
seventy-five days.
DEMOCRATS SELECT CANDIDATES.
Members of tlie Tennenwe Legislature
Hold a Caucus.
The democratic members of the Ten¬
nessee legislature met in joint caucus candi¬
Thursday afternoon to select
dates for. state offices. William S.
Morgan was renominated for secretary
of state, receiving 56 votes to 32 for
John W. Morton. Edward B. Craig
was renominated for treasurer by ac-
clamation.
FLOODS’ FURY UNABATED.
Stories of Death and 1)1.aster From Raging
Waters Still Colne.
Advices from M-unpins state that a
half-inch rise in the Mississippi proba- means
the devastation of property and
ably a loss of life uuequaled in the
flood history of that section. The rise
is threatened because of continued
rains.
Seventeen persons are reported
drowned fifty miles below Caruthers-
ville, Mo. A stretch of country over
100 miles long from a point of seventy
miles north of Memphis to a point 50
miles south of the Tennessee metropo¬
lis is submerged in plaoes to a depth
of ten feet. The fertile valleys of
Tennessee and Arkansas are completely
inundated and many lives have been
lost and stock drowned, fencing and
dwellings swept away, inhabitants des¬
titute and homeless, and left to starve
or drown by the remorselessly rising
tide.
Eeports from tributary streams show
rains and rapidly rising rivers, floods
which will soon be emptied into the
Mississippi, adding to the danger when
burled against the already weakened
levees.
The levees are patrolled hourly by
armed and desperate men, provided
with sand bags to strengthen weak
places or to close threatened crevices,
and rifles with which to shoot down any
miscreant who. would venture to cut
the embankment and allow the waters
on his plantation to find vent into the
lowlands of his neighbor. nature
The floods now partake of the
of a deluge. As far as the eye can see
nothing but water meets the gaze.
MANY LIVES LOST.
Filter Reports from Ark an s as ‘ Slio'vv Num¬
erous Brownings.
Dispatches from Gavan,. Ark., state
that for many miles the country is
flooded, and the water is- up to the
Iron Mountain tracks. Hundreds of
section hands are striving to- keep it
back with dirt bags.
At every station the negroes- are
gathering, waiting to be taken away.
Many get on the trains and are carried
without pay.
The list of fatalities is said to be
long and probably never willibe known.
A mountain of household goods is
piled up at every railroad station.
Whites and negroes beg for help from
every train crew.
Houses along the road- are sub¬
merged to roofs, and cattle standing
in the fields with only their heads
above water.
Many corpses of hogs and cows are
washed up by the water.
BRAINED HIS CHILDREN
Horrible Deed of an Old Genfedbrate
Veteran.
Wright Smith, a farmer living: near
Harlem, in Columbia county;. Ga.,
murdered two of his children: and then
killed himself.
He brained the little ones with his
crutch and committed suioide by shoot¬
ing himself through the head.
Smith went to Thomson Thursday
and drew his pension, he having serv¬
ed on the confederate side during the
late war. He returned home in the
afternoon in the best of spirits.. He
had been in the house but a few min¬
utes when a disturbance arose between
he and his wife. Bather than fuss
with her, he gathered his crutch and
walked out to the corn- crib- to get corn
to feed his pigs,as was Ms evening
custom, In the crib were his two
boys, five and three years old..
The little fellows were enjoying
.heir sport in the crib, and upon the
sight of their father they ran to him
with great glee.. Seizing blow his crutch
he dealt each of them a over the
head, knocking their brains out.
They fell side by side in a, pile of
shucks, dead.
W ILL FORM A FEDERAL UNION.
Transvaal ancl ©rang® Free Staler to Work
Together.
It is stated at Cape Town, Africa,
on what is regarded as good authority
that as a result of the visit of Presi¬
dent Kruger of the Transvaal, to Presi¬
dent Steyn,. of the Orange Free State,
a federal union of the republics has
been decided upon.
Such union is regarded here with
much concern, as it would seriously
complicate the situation.
The result of such a union would
not only open the whole question as to
the position of the Transvaal republio,
in & political sense, in south African
affairs, but would probably give Pres¬
ident Kruger greator strength.
PINGREE LOSES FOR ONCE.
Supreme Court Decides Against Him an
Mayor of Detroit.
A Detroit, Mich., dispatch says:
For the first time in his political ca¬
reer, Hazen S. Pingree has received a
terrible jolt. The supreme court has
declared that he was no longer mayor
of Detroit and ordered that his suo-
oessor be chosen at the regular election
on April 5th next.
The court held that Pingree’s elec¬
tion to the office of governor vacated
the office of mayor. The fact is, that
his gubernatorial job has not come
up to its occupant’s expectations.
The legislature has failed to pass his
pet bills.
CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
The Liberal Candidate Returned to the
Houbu of Common*.
The election of the Canadian house
of commons for the county Bonaven-
ture has resulted in the return of
Francois Guite, the liberal candidate,
by about 750 majority. manifested in the
Great interest was
election because of the efforts of Mgr.
Blais to secure a promise from Mi,
Guite to rote against Mr. Laurier’a
settlement of the school question.
