... A SWINDLER SWINDLED. II Hungry Joe waa one of the most notorious swindlers in New York, and on one occasion he gob bold of a good subjcct in a ranchman from Texas named Benjamin Ashley, who was on his way to England. Joe got 4,000 dols. out of Ashley at poker. As Aehley bad to go to Europe somehow or the other, he offered to give Joe and his partner a mortgage on his ranch for 4,000 dola. ...

... Lord Emly has been deprived of his magistracy for his advocacy of the Labour cause and refusing to deny, qualify, or explain his speech to a labour meeting at Killmallock. Mr. Kendal O'Brien (Nationalist), chairman of the Tipperary County Council, has been removed from the magistracy by the Lord Chancellor for moving a resolution congratulating the Boers on their victory at Glencoe over the ...

... While the late Lady Salisbury's father never consented to sit in the House of Commons, he once canvassed Newark for the Conservative can- didates. Baron Alderson professed himself amazed at the extravagant quackery of the Liberal canvassers, who included fifty virgins with flower baskets. The letter in which he made this allusion was smilingly recalled by his daughter when first she was ...

... About two o'clock on Monday morning the Hull steam trawler Sparta, owned by Charles » Hellyer and Co., Hull, which was returning to Hull with a valuable cargo of fish caught east of Gullive, ran ashore in a fog four miles south of Filey, on the Yorkshire coast, Captain Griffin and the mate, whose name is stated as Walters, and boatswain, got into the ship's boat for the purpose of taking an ...

... About midnight on Saturday a terrible acci. dent occurred at a house in Garden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, occupied by a family named Crewe, All had gone to bed excepting a child named Roseline, aged about twelve years, and the mother. A lamp was hanging from the ceiling, and it appears that the girl stood on a table, and blew down the glass to extinguish the light. An explosion followed, ...

... I am certain sir the so called economists will tremble at the heading of this short article, but they need not alarm themselves, it will not end in a trip even to Gronant. As a visitor I like to pass away an avening no matter what the object of a meeting is; being from a town where there is something to draw one's attention each night it is only natural one feels inclined to attend all kinds ...

... VISITORS should make up then minds how much 5s. ought to;buy, and then come to Amos Brothers Establishments, 13, Sussex Street, and 6, Wellington Chaiab ra, to be surprised: ...

... FULL WEIGHT WITHOUT THE PACKAGE.—Horni man's Pure Tea guaranteed full weight without the package. It appears that many Packet Tea Houses have made a practice of weighing paper with tea, and in defence, plead it is the custom of the trade. Horniman & Co. emphatically deny that such custom is universal. Sold by — At Rhyl Messrs Bendall & Son, Queen St.; Jones, WellingtonRoad; J. C. Wood, Abbey ...

... A NEW ROMAN PROPAGANDA. Cardinal Vaughan on Sunday opened a Roman Catholic Church at Ealing, erected by the Benedictine monks. Speaking of the dawn of the new, century, his Eminence stated that the Catholic Church in England had decided to inaugurate a national propaganda of that re- ligion, and this would be done by means of lectures, sermons, religious services, and by the distribution of ...

... INCIDENTS OF THE FIGHT. The 9th Lancers attempted to intercept the Boers' retreat at Enslin Pan and succeeded in reaching the enemy, but a severe fire was opened upon them from a kopje and they were forced to retreat. Remington's scouts also faced a terribly severe fire when charging the enemy. General Cronje was with the Boers. Our casualties were not so severe as at Belmont. Among the Boer ...

... De Aar is the Clapham Junction of South Africa. There is a million pounds worth of stores there. E'fe trrnner in aid of King's College has been postponed until February 14th, when Mr. Balfour hopes to preside. Sir John Lubbock has been elected president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, in succession to Sir Stafford Northcote, the new Governor of Bombay. The important subway at the ...

... The Nizam of Hyderabad has given 15,000 rupees to the Fund in aid of the wounded in South Africa.. Mr. Cornwallis, M.P. for Maidstone, recently had a narrow escape. He was driving down a hiU near his residence in his pair-horsed brougham when the horses bolted. After going a short distance they foil, overturning the vehicle. One horse was killed the other injured. Mr. Corn- wallis escaped ...