ticulars of the frightful atrocities at Nossi-The Madaguosar papers give some yar be which were reported in a telegram from England o little while ugu. Nossi-be, Belanona, the ne of the outrages, is within four days' journey of the, capital of Madagascar, The massacre, which appears to have taken place in the early part of January, surpasses in fiendishness the inst horrible: of the so-called Bulgarian atrucitis and in its details of wanton cruelty is equal to the murat of the carnivals of "Hod for which Dahomey is notorious. Fur sume years, it appears, the people of the district have been. groaning under the exactions and ill-treatment of their Guvernor, Ramiakatra. In despair of redress through ordinary moaria they wnléa lust. Noveuber to. the Prime Bither from ignorance or indifference, he sent them back without enquiry. "They then attempted to. plead their cause with Ramiakatra himself, but the latter ordered his troops to drive them away, and they encamped to the number Of shunt two, hundred ea & neighbouring hillside. Ramiakatra then collected some five hundred men, from the neighbouring villages, and in conjunction wi is brother Rasamuel, led these troops against his unfortunate victims. The details of the massacre which followed are horrible beyond description. Men, "women and children were tortured with beat refinement of cruelty which the fiendish ima; nation of the Governor could devise. Rasaniuel with his own hands took part in the slaughter, and after the work was finished the bodies of the slain were thrown to the village dogs." When the wail left, the soldiers ut Ramiakatra were still hunting down a few remaining fugitives who had succeeded in escaping to the woods.—China Mail Music an Mear.—It may interest our readers to know, on the authority of the "Musical World" (London), that the great songstress, Adelina Patti, habitually uses Liebig Company's Extract of Meat us a vocal aid nervine "refresher." deep-sounding cough. My wife and I feared sulted the doctors, who said, "Yes, your daughter hax consiomption." "What a sad H.BM.'s SUMMARY CIVIL COURT; or us!
About Christmas, 1885, I. removed _my family from Huntingdon to Manchester. Poor Shanghai, 8th April, 1891.
Kate was too weak to take the journey with us; she remained with er grandmother at Before RW. Masserenp, Esq., Thorp Farm, Norfolk. Still the dear child Acting Assistant Judge. sank from week to- week, What was our surprise, some time afterwards, to receive a Tan Suisy-sue o, Hastuton, i letter from grandmother reading like this This was a claim by a Chinese. "boy"
Kate is very much better. She is eating well who had also acted s cook, to recover $7.50 and sleeping well; and the roses are coming wages from his late employer. i into her thin cheeks.". What could have Naintiff stated that on March 14th happened? In another mouth we had the went away on account of being sick, ai happiness of welcoming our daughter in our a friend to take his place. On the! new home in Manchester. How great was 15th defendant discharged the friend, our joy when we saw the wonderful change plaintiff returning on the 16th. On the which had taken place in her, She is now a fine, healthy child, and never ails anything 26th defendant accused plaintiff of breaking more than any girl may. a saucepan, and as defendant "all the time make bubber" and there was "tuo!
Now, what wrought this change? What muchee pidgin " in the house, plaintiff said gave us back our daughter, seemingly almost from the brink of the grave? 1 will answer he would replace the saucepan and leave. frankly, for there is nothing to conceal: Defendant told him that he must stay to-Seeing her deplorable state, and that none of the end of the month or forfeit his wages, the medicines she bad taken proved appro-but plaintiff preferred to priate to her strange nialady, her grand-Defendant said that plain iff asked for mother one day said to herself, "I think I leave to go away for two days, on the 14th. will give Kate dose out of my bottle of Permission was refused, but he nevertheless Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." Her grandmother bad received great, benefit from this went away and did not return till the 16th. medicine herself for " complicated disease, On the afternoon of the 20th, when dete Tt was given to Kate and the good effect was dant told him he would have to pay for th mediate. She at once rested more tran-racked saucepan, the boy packed up quilly and had something of un appetite, and bed at once and went away, leaving defen: a little later her grandmother was justified in dant and his family to get' their dinner as best they might. Defendant told him three writing to. us ae I have already, stated (Signed) Frederick Butcher, 6, Birch Road, times that he would not get his wages unless Crampsall, near Manchester. he stayed till the end of the month, but the Mr and Mrs. Butcher are people of the boy said he did not care, and that he would highest respectability and well educated.
to the consul if defendant For some years Mr. Butcher was an assistant at the great shop of the Messrs. Lewis, wages.
Market Street, Manchester, and an impartial with a new saucepan and dent acquaintance writes that Miss Kate Butcher cracked one in exchange for it. Defendant is one.of the brightest young girls to be met refused to take it and referred him to the ith anywhere—quick, precocious, and full of consul, Defendant was subsequently char-vanity and wit. Speaking of the daughter's ged for the new saucepan by storekeeper, recovery her mother says: "*I do not care who had been told by the boy to charge it chat anyone nay say, there is no medicine to defendant. good as Mother Sigel' Cun One of the atorekeeper's men deposed rioters of that plaintiff ordered the saucepan on the Syrup desire to make no false impressions, 26th and said it was to be charged to his She suffered from indigestion and dyspepsia, ie young gil did not have consumption master, His Honour said that as plaintiff had gone and from poverty of the blood, like myrinls of her sex. The hollow cough, which sounded away without giving notice he was not s0 consumptive, was one of the symptoms, entitled to his wages, Judgment fur defen-hot the disease" She needed life and strength dant. from her food, but how could she get it with her stomach' torpid and dead? Mother Seigel's Syrup corrected the ailment at its
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