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PUESDAY MARCH 31 Prose © MONEY FOR ROYALTY. Hogland's Nobles Interested in the South Africa Company. Founded by a Number of the Quoen's ¥rivy Councii-The Cause of the Presont® Trouble in the Transvaale While there are some who allege that, owing to its aristocratic composi- tion,, tho chartered company of South Africa, of which Mr. Cecil Rhodes is the presiding deity, will never forfeit ite: charter in spite of the inconceivable aot of aggression upon the Transvaal ropublic by its officers and adminis- trators, there are others of n more cyulcal tuim of mind and aequainted with the financial cireumstances of the company, who claim that the forfeiture of the charter would be the happiest thing that could possibly happen to the company, and that Dr. Jameson's raid neross the British border was undortaken with the express purpose of bringing about that event, 'There is no doubt that the company for some timo has been in a very bad way finun-« cially, that It finds itself unable to ful- _, MI its promises and pay to its stock- ~ holdors dividends on the shares which the present holders have purchased at enormous premiums from the moble founders of tho enterprise. If the company wore to go into liqui- dation by ordinary banlauptey, due I to the failure to fulftll its undertale- ings, thero would bo & terrible row in London, one which might affect even the stability of the thronc, since it would be found that not only members of the aristoorney but even of the reign- ing bouso have realized, vast sums of money by the sale of shares in the con- corn at huge premiums to the present «nfortunate holders, most of whom will bo ruined. 'The natural disposi- tion of people under such (circum- stances is to allege fraud, and, unfortu- nately, thore has been muck in connec- - tlon with tho enterprise that appears excecdingly fighy, to say tho least. Now, a forfoiture of the charter would practically rellove the company of much of the odium with which It would other- wigs bo saddled in the event of failure, and tho blame of the Iatter could be laid to a great extont upon the govern- , mont, the directors of tho company claiming that they could easily have fulllllod alt their engnigoments bad not the British government stepped in and ruined the concern by repealing its charter. (fhis is the only plausible excuse for the otherwiso absolutely insane freak of Dr. Jameson, one of the most clever, fevol-headed and Lbailliant of licuten- ants of Mr. Cecll Rthodest-in one word, w roun possessing a. the traditional shrewdness of the Scotchman coupled with tho spirit of adventure of the Englishman. Heis jfustthe kindof man ready to sacvifice himself to cover the rotrout-tho financint vretreant-of his associates and friends,. 'The founders of the company arc, firat and foremost, Cecil Rhodes, a member of the queen's privy council and prime minister of Cape Colony, next fm importance to his principol partacar in the concern boing the duke of Fife, son-in-law of the prince of Wales, and tho ono of all the members 6f the British novility to whom the queen has shown the greatest degreo of favor,. Then there is the duke of Abercorn, chief of the prince of Wales' housshold, the leader of the conserva- tive party in Ireland and brother of Tady Blanford, mothor of the duke of Marlborough. A fourth is Earl Uray, son of that Gen, Gray who was so many years private sceretary to the queen and the prince consort and governor of the princes of Wales before the latter attained his majority. Lt will be seen {rom these nimes that the social and political fmportance of the leading spirits in the South Africa company aro such that neither Lord Salisbury nor Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, would dare to take upon themselves the responsibility of annulltug the charter save with the consent and approval of the two dukes, the carl and the privy councilor and colonial premier chiefly interested. in the affair, Lot it be added that there is hardly a meinber of the royit family, from the prince of Wales down to Prince Henry of Battenberg, who has not miude money out of the concern and held shares in it, and thoe same may be said of the principal mombers of the royal house- hold and society, the grand send-off whichCecil Rhodes' company recoived boing in a great measure due to the discrimination which he displayed in allotting founders\ shares only to those who, either through their social or of- ficial tufluencée, could: promote the in- terosts of tho concern, Most of them, howover, havo been clover enough to undoad theiv holdings when the shares were at tho Righest noteh.-Chicago Record, A Mx. Malaprop,. A real Mr, Malaprop was discovered the other day in the person of a Broad- way eable-car conductor, 'Cle car was on- & downtown trip, and had but few passengers until it reached Fourteenth street. 'Thore half a dozen people, five warien and one man, gotaboard. Three | of the women and the man foundseats togother, but the other two went to an- othor prirt of tho car, thereby leaving it doubtful as to whether they were members of the party ornot., Theman with the three, Instead of giving the ex- aat chtoge, offered a hal{-dotlar in pay» ment of thoe fares, und the conductor was is much in the dark as ever. Toin- quire was plainly the ouly way to arrive at the truth. With a polite wave of kits hand. toward tho two women in the further corner, he asked blandly; \Are thoss ladies tmpliented?\-N Y, Trib- dng. «-To dream about tho gallows ts the Anoldest dream a man can have; {t fore- bodes that he will become rich, arrive hon ork an s houp TOUGH MEXICAN PONY. Falls Three Hundred Feet and Doesn't Break a Bone. Dr. John C. Barron, the president of the Lyons & Campbell Cattle company, whose ranches ore in New Mexico, tells this story, in the New York Sun, of a fall from a precipice of a Mexican pony ridden by one of a hunting party, of which Dr. Barron was a member, in the mountains last September. Dr. Barron, by the vay, brought home as a trophy the skin of a large grizzly bear which 'he shot. The skin is now a rug in his library at his Tarrytown home. They wore making the ascent of a high peak, and the path was very pre- cipitous and dangerous in places. At the point where the accident happened the hunters had dismounted and were Ichding: the animals. They came to a narrow ledge, and at the point where they struck it it was several {eet above the path. The horses had to jump up on it. On the opposite sile of the ledge there was a precipice, broken by several ledges. It was 300 feet to the bottom. The pony referred to jumped,but fail- ing to measure the distance correctly gave himsel{suchimpetusthat ho went sheer over and down the precipice. The men looked over the edge and watched his descent. He turned over and over. About, 72 feet down he struck and broke off two saplings, and a little lower he struck the first ledge. A second ortwo later he struck another. He had on a good saddle, and thinking that the pony had been killed the party sent a tuan down to get its saddle. \Imagine our surprise,\ said Dr. Bar- ron, \when the man sent down shouted up to us: 'Heisn't dead! He'sstand- ing up drinking water!' Then wewent down. Sure enough, there he was on. his feet alive and without a bone broken. Thero was a great cut in his neck and'a hundred or more wounds in various parts of his body. The saddle, was split in two. He got well and is' still alive.\ FIGHT. WITH WOLVES. Trapper Barker Vanquishes Three of His Bloodthirsty Assailunts. A trapper named Barker, while vis- iting his traps in the St. Francis bot-. tom, near Forest City, Ark., tells of. an experience he recently had. The hour was late in the afternoon and snow was falling, his accustomed. trail was hidden from view, and he\ soon realized that he was lost in the wilderness. While fighting his way through the tangled underbrush and cane he was horrified to discover that a pack of wolves were hot on his trail. Having only g limited amount of am- munition he resolved to sell out as dear- ly as possible. Selecting a large tree in a dense canebrake as vantage ground, he awaited the coming of the ravenous beasts. Darkness at thistime had thickened around him and the howling of his pursuers rang out in tones of terror upon tlie stillness of the A IIAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTER. night, and in a moment he was sur- rounded by his foes. By steady nerve and careful aim three of the five blood-, bent animals weltered in gore as he: poured lead into them from his trusty Winchester. His ammunition being ex-. hausted at this point he firmly gripped. his rifle for a hand-to-hand encounter with the remaining two, which, possi- bly being dismayed at the loss of their companions, stood sullenly at bay, with an occasional howl through the long hours of awful suspense, and only sneaked off at the break of day. The trapper secured the scalps of his would- bo murderers, and found his way to camp in an exhausted condition. Not Cause for Divorcee. The bicycle as a cause of divorce is something new. A male petitioner in a recent New Zealand divorce case lad the audacity to urge it. He urged that his wife was nearly always away from home wheeling about in rational dress and neglecting her domestic duties, und he contended that this amounted i» \habitual desertion\ within the meaning of the act. 'The judge, how- ever, was unable to agree with him in this lntter contention, and New Zea- f land married ladies with a fondness for p ir noel now. breaths mo cely THE MOONSHINER OF FACT. Vastly Different from the Wild Creatures, Pictured to the Reading Public. He is neither a bandit nor a highway- man, a disturber of the peace, nor. in respect to formularies other than the revenue statutes, a law-breaker. Least of all, perhaps, is he a desperado. Within a month of the present writing, a traveler on one of the Tennessee rail-, ways entered the smoking car of the train. + In the rear seat sat an officer in- charge of a \covey\ of moonshiners flushed by him on the mountain the night before. There were 12 in the party; they had yielded without resist- ance to one man; and-most singular circumstance of all, in the south-the deputy had not found it necessary to put them in irons. At their trial the members of th.s party will doubtless plead guilty to a wan, though a little hard swearing would probably clear half of them; they will beg for mercy or for light sentences; and those of them who promise amendment will most likeiy never be again brought in on the sanie charge, for the mountaineer is prone to keep his promises, amendatory or otherwise. A venerable judge, in whom judicial severity is tempered by a generous ac- mixture of lowing kindness and mercy, and whose humane decisions have made his name a word to conjure with among the diwellers in the waste places, tells a story which emphasizes the promise- keeping trait in the mountain charac- ter. A hardened sinner of the stills, whose first dnd second offenses were already recorded against him, was once again brought to book by the vigilance of the revenue men. As an old offender, who had neither promised nor repented, it was likely to go hard with him; and he begged earn- estly, not for liberty, but for a com- mutation of his sentence which would send him to jail instead of the peniten- tiary, promising that so long as the judge remained upon the bench he would neither make nor meddle with illicit whisky. He won his case, and was sent to jail for & term of 11 months. This was in &ummer, and six months later, when the first snows began to powder the bleak summits 'of Chilhowee, the judge received a letter from the convict. It was a simple-hearted petition for a, \furlough\ of ten days, pathetic and eloquent in its primitive English and quaint misspelling. Would the good judge let him off for juct ten days? Winter was coming on, and the wife and children were alone in the cabin on the mountain, with no one to make provision for their wants. He would not overstay the time, and he would \certain shore\ come back and himself. e His petition was granted, and, true to his word, the mountaineer returned on the tenth day, and gave himself up to the sheriff. He served the remainder of his sentence, and, after his release, kept his pledge so long as the judge re- mained, on the bench. - Lippincott's Magazine. MILLIONS IN COUNTERFEIT COIN Large Quantities of Spurious Stuff Passed ' in New York Daily. The making and passing of small counterfeit coins is said to be an in- dustry almost entirely confined to the Italians. Indeed, the racial aspect is one of the most interesting features of counterfeiting. While the Italian,is content with the small profits resultigg from \shoving\ spurious nickels, dimes and quarters, the American counter- feiter devotes his talents to producing bank notes of the larger denominations. \Sweating\ gold is the favorite scheme of the pditent, industrious Russian, who keeps his large family of children 'ereployed in this slow but sure method of defrauding the government. To the ingenious Frenchman we are indebted for the cunning glass dollar, which has deceived even the most expert. 'The Bowery crook still depends on the con: federate bill as a means of turning an honest penny, and the police reports would go to show that this old swindle is not too threadbare to.catch its vietim, most persistent \shovers of the queer,\ and, while the individual amounts have been small, the profits in the aggre; gate foot up large sums every year. Probably the greater part of this spurious coin is passed by the push, cart men, whose calling gives them, great facilities for getting rid of it with little danger of detection. The victims are mostly persons hurrying home- ward to the ferries at dusk, who stop to purchase fruit from the carts that line the gutters of certain streets dur- ing the rush hours. . If the peddler is disposed to be dis- honest he can swindle with the great- est ease, for everything is in his favor. The customer is in a hurry and seldom more than glances at his change. As it is counted out piece by piece into his open hand he can see that the amount is correct, but there is no tell-tale ring, as if the money had been put down on a. counter. In the dim light, which the peddler's torch makes more uncertain, there is little chance to detect the coun- terfeit coin. Not until he has reached the ferry does he find out that he has been swindled and then it is too late, for the push-cart men are constantly on the move.-N. Y. World. Conscientious About It. . \Edith called out mamma from the sitting-room, \are you stirring the Tour into that batter as I showed you how to do it2\ \Yos mamina,\ said the little girl, tiny arm is getting awfully tired. Yoo ud it unmix it if I stirred it tite Jor yay on little while?\-Chicago b Lts. The Real Reason. always buy my clothes in ha: non. - t.auppiec-So do 1. These New Yok tmlohs ah so neah home they can dun ous pebsonally.-Trat... The Italians have been always the: goop CHAsB sTORY. Brought from South Africa by a Re- turned Gold Hunter. South Africa has of late bounded in- to sudden prominence owing to the gold. and diamond discoveries, and not a few Americans have gone out to that coun- try, and some of them have returned. The other day a Cincinnati Enquirer re- porter met one of these wandering ad- venturers, and this is the half comical but interesting tale which he spun about a crab. His name (the story teller's name, not the crab's) is 'T. B. Newcome. He gave his residence as Dayton, but after bearing his story the reporter feels warranted in expressing SETTIXG THE TRAe. grave doubts as to the truth of any thing the man says. However, here is Afr. Newcome's story: © \They bave a crab out there that climbs the cocoanut trees and bites off the nuts and lets them fall to the ground. Then he backs down the tree and eats the fruit. \The natives who inhabit the regions infested by this ill-conditioned erab are well aware that the lower portion of the crab's anatomy is soft and sensitive,, and they believe that the crustacean was thus constructed in order that he, aight know when he had reached the ground, and when, consequently, he, might with safety release his grasp of the trunk. \So what they do in ordsr to stop the depredations, whicly often ruin ' the, cocoanut crop, is this: While the crab 4s engaged in nipping off the cocoaunts; they climb half way up the trees and there drive a row of long nails round! the tree, allowing an inch or so of the pails to project. - \The crab has no knowledge oflisas-. ter, nor yet of the fitness of things. As ke descends the sensitive part of his body suddenly touches the nails. Think, ing he has reached the ground he natur-' ally lets go. Instantly he falls back- ward and cracks his own shell on the. ground,.\ DONKEYS IN COURT. Yong-Eared Witnesses Create a Ridicu- lous Scene in Paris. There was a most ridiculous scene in a police court at Paris, France, a few days ago. There is a man there who drives through the streets several shej asses that are duly milked at the doors of consumptive patients, for whose malady asses' milk is supposed to be a specific. Now this milk vender had. a difference of opinion with an Arab, who sold sweets, and as neither of the disputants understood the language of the other they came to blows, and were promptly arrested and taken to the office of the commissary of police, the donkeys trailing disconsolately in the rear. j The police court was reached, the commissary was about to commence the interrogatory when there was a tremendous clatter on the steps, vari- Lf l. af ¥ % al THE DONKEYB IN COURT. pus unholy exclamations from people whose toes had been troddem upon in the entrance, and the three donkeys dashed into the room and crowded be- hind their master, shaking their long ears and their bells triumphantly in their joy at having rejoined him. It is satisfactory to relate that the owner of these interesting quadrupeds and his\ antagonist were both dismissed with areprimand and a small fire, and left the court arm in arm, the donkeys clat- tering at their heels, to the edification pf the passers-by, who were consumed with curiosity as to what unlmown crime the amimtls, usually called \mokes\ in England, bad committed to have been summoned before the stern justice of this country. King Without Ready Cash. The king of the Belgians is very hard up in consequence of a long career of gayety. Lately he was in Jaris impor- tuning the government tq purchase the Congo Free State from him. He made the acquaintance of a new ballet girl, but failed in his other purpose. Then he went to London and worried the British government to help him out. He offered the Congo very cheap, but the British have enough to occupy them in Africa . © ITHE KEY Sata - . - 2 ~ like for Infants an Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhcea, Eructation, Kills Worins, gives sleep, and promotes di- 'Without injurious medication. \[gestion, \'the use of ' Castoria' is so universal and [- its merits so well known that it seems a work - of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who 'do not keep Castoria within easy reach.\ CaRLOS- MarTYyx, D. D., New York City, The Centaur Company, '* Castori® is go well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any pre- '. maas i » scription known to' me.\ H. A. ArcHER, M. D. « 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y, \For several years I have recommended *Castoria,' and shall always continue to de Bo as it has invariably produced beneficial results,\ EDwix F. PaRDEE, M. D., 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City, 77 Murray Street, New York ”Cit‘y. ul 7 0 A isent THE NAME OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT or tue UNITED STATES - WILL BE ANNgUNCED IN o TO RK WEEKLY TRIBUNE OF NOVEMBER 4th, i896, Public interest will steadily increase, and the question how the ment whose votes furned the scale at. the last election are satisfiel with the results under the administration they elected, will make the campaign the most intensely exciting in the history of the country. } THE NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, | the leading Republican fimily newspaper of the United States, will publish all the ©, political news of the day,'interesting: fo every Amerlean feitizen fregardless of party affiliations. ] Also general news in attractive form, foreign correspordence covering thefnews- of the world, an agriculturai departine»t second to pone in the country, market re- yorts which are recognized auttority, fascinating short stories, complete in eagh number, the cream of the humorous papers, foreign and domestic, with their best comic pictures, fashion plates and elaborate descriptions of.woman's attire, with & varied and attractive cépartment of housenold:interest. 'The \ New York Weekly Tribune\ is an ideal family paper, with a cirealation} larger than that of any oth@r weekly publication in the country issued from the office of a daily. Large changes are being made in its details, tending to give it greater life and variety, and especially more interest to the women and young people of the honsehold. a + + A SPECIAL CONTRACT enables us to offer this spleadid journal an@ © \* The Niagara Democrat and Sun\ for ; - ONE YEAR FOR ONLY $1.75. CASH - IN \ADVANCE. -.- . (The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.50.) Address all orgera to SU SCRIPTIONS. MAY BEGIN AT AXY TIME, UNIOGN-SUN CO,, FRED W. CORSON, Manager. 1000 No: 16 Hodge Opera House, Lockport, N. ¥. Write vour name pnd address on a postal card,. send it to Geo, W. best, :* Room 2. Tribune Building, New York City, and a sample copy of TME NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be mailed to you, W. 8, POUND i G0. We now have the largast and finest Stock of Fall and Winter Cloths ing ever seen in the County. All New Goods and New Styles. We bought sarly s2zd got tho advautage of the low market and there- tore can sell you chsaper than aver hafore, W. S. POUND &c 72 Main Street., HATS AND QAPS. FURNISHING GOODS, Goods to special orders. 660, - Wq madk Custom a & SEED TIME AGAIN. DARRISONS! -Full Lines up to Date. -Many Novelties and Oddities. -Specialties Not Neglected. CLOVER AND TIMOTHY. Field, Garden and Flower Seeds in season. FLOUR-FEED-GRAILN. Office and Salesroom, . 13, 15 and 17 Buffalo Stréet, (OPPOSITE BIG BRIDGE,) mh1S-w2m. LOCKFPORT, N, ¥, IHS *+ ‘fiwmrg. R22 Is the exact reproduction of one set up Z nearly a half century ago by the JESUIT 1 Missionaries to the FLATHEAD INDIANS Fin Montana. It is upright in the ground 2in front of an. old church in which these iIndians have knelt and worshiped for {Lo, all these years. ~f The history of this old Indian Mission of ST. 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It will be of especial advantage to you during the Presidential Campaign, sas it i published every other day, except San- day, and has all the freshness and time» - liness of a daily, .It combines all the' news with a long list of inferesting de- partments, unique features, cartoons and % x u & graphic illustrations, the- latter being a .. specialty. : All these improvements have been made without any increase in the cost which remains at one dollar per year. | We offer this unequaled newspaper and The Niagara Democrat and Sung Together One Year for $2.00. « The regular subscription price of the: two papers is $2.50. - NION-SUN -CO: FRED W. 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