Evening Telegram (St. John's, N.L.), 1883-07-03

              Evening Telegram. Vol. 5 Price—One Cent. St. John's, N.F., Tuesday Evening, July 3, 1883 $3.00 Per Annum. No. 144. Latest by Telegram. TAMATAVE BOMBARDED AND FIRED. The Alexandria Massacre Instigated by the Khedive. FRIGHTFUL DEATH-ROLL FROM CHOLERA AT DAMIETTA. New Guinea Not Yet Annexed. HEALY ELECTED FOR COUNTY MONAGHAN. Sending Baok Poor Irish Emigrants. Halifax, N. S., July ;$. The French fleet have bombarded and set fire to TamaVave, the chief town in Madagascar. Randolph Churchill, in tho House of Commons last night, handed (jladstonc aflidavits and documents proving that tho Khedive originated the Alexandria massacre. It is reported that one hundred and eleven deaths from cholera have occurred at Damiotta in twelve hours. Lord Derby intimated in tho House of Lords that New Guinea had not yet bcon annexed ; and Gladstone made a similar intimation to tho House of Commons. Hoaly, Home Ruler, has been olected for the County of Monaghan. The United States authorities continuo sending baok poor Irish emigrants. BURIAL CUSTOMS OF THE FANTIS. 4  A Fanli lives to a good old age ; white hair is nothing uncommon amongst them ; but die he must in duo course, by rum, or in the natural order of events. Great pomp is the rulo on nuch occasions. Professional mourners—Negro mutes—are hired for the event ; a sheep is killed for the funeral feast, and the shoulder-blaid laid on the grave, where it is permitted to remain for some length of timo. The man who buries another succeeds to his property—but he also succeeds to his debts. In the first case the heirs take very good care to put their deceased relative under the ground, but with the defsulting debtor there if not the same stimulus on the part of his relatives to perform the funeral obsequies on his behalf. It is bad enough to have the trouble and expense of burying, but to bo ssddlod with the debts after performing this good office is simply outrageous ! Accordingly, in tho vicinity of every Fasti village, corpses will be found lying exposed on a platform merely covered with a cloth, nobody having been found courageous cno ugh to bury them. As on every other occasion of Fanti mirth, grief, or piety, insufferable noise accompanies the funeral rites. If the deceased has been a man of any note, all his friends—and a great man, as all the world over, haa ia Fanti-land an infinitude of friends, even after he is dead—squat in front of the house and celebrate the inauspicuous event by drinking, yelling, singing, smoking, and firing of muskets. A dog is sacrificed before the hut, after which the corpse is buried along with considerable sums of money, gold, and jewels of some value. The first thing an enemy does on entering the Fanti country is, accordingly, to rifle the graves, though, indeed, this is sometimes performed by the relatives themselves, in spite of all the terrors of fetish and demon.— From " The People (/the Worll." THE Evening Telegram. TUESDAY JULY 3, 1883 OUR ANNUAL "DERBY DAY." The Committee's PrepiirntloiiH for the Great Event. Thk Annual Regatta, under the pstronsgo of His Kxcellcncy the (Governor, will bo hold, weather permitting, on Wednesday, August Ist, on <Juidi Yridi Lake. The Committee have decided that the age of juvcnilo-rowers shall not exceed 18 year*, and that the separate crews must enter a week previous to tho general entrance night, so as to enable the Committee to arrange matters in a satisfactory manner to all parties. It has also been decided that the native scull race shall tako place prior to that of the imported soulls. This will enablo tho native bosts to compote with imported soulls, on entering for both. In the Fishermen's race, sny two crews from one settlement may compete for tho honors. The gentlemen appointed to ' tsko up tho collection' arc :— St. John's West.—Captain Perez, Mr. J. 0. Callanan and Mr. A. Hiscock. St. John* East.—Messrs. F. St. John, J. F. Morris, T. P. Walsh, J. O'Mara and John Burke. A FEW OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE DOCK. ♦ No Allowance for High Tides. tiditor Evening Telegram. Bik,— Having visited tho site of our Dock operations soveral times, if appears (judging from what I see) that when it is finished it will be no uncommon thing to have the whole affair covered with water. The bane of tho shod built by tho road and the coal lodged by it would have bcon eighteen inches under water last fall ; and how many times dating the past twenty yoars have the water risen ho as to be level with the plank on the Bridge, I know not. Our ebb and flow lides now arc no criterion for November and December tides, when tho 4 rough blasts of old Boreas/ contending for the mastery with tho spiteful efforts of receding Notas is in full force. Or, if you like Longfollow better, take "The "furious," fierce Kabibonokka, Issuing from luh lodge ol snow-driftu, From Jim home among the icebergs, And his hair with nSow besprinkled; Streaming behind ititn, like a river, Like a bleak and wintry river, As he howls and harries Mouth ward, Over frozen lake and moorland." causing as much disturbance in tho realm of old Neptune, as is to be found in the M warring winds" of Chaos, older still. At that season the strong current border of the Gulf Stream often washes our coast as far North as the Straits of Bclloisle. This, acted upon by the Arctic current, striking it at any particular point on our coast at the full or change of the moon, backed by conflicting winds, would, no doubt, give higher tides at thst period of the year, viz. : Deoember, than at any other time. We know thai they do rise higher at that season from some cause, that they vary in certain years, and that they (the tides or currents) are scted upon by the force of the wind ; henoe wo have conflicting ebb and flow tides, and from such a cause as render it impossible for any one to foresee their time of appearing higher than the ordinary maximum. Messrs. Simpson & Co. cannot know snytbing about the tides here. Somebody, no doubt, have advised them, and, for ought I know, they may intend to raise their dock-works, &c, six feet higher. They will therefore please pardon mc for this interference. The highest tide known since the time of 1846" msy be ascertsined by the height to which it arose over the floor of some of our merchants' stores, south of Water Street, during the last 37 years. Surely the Dock should be built eighteen inches or two feet above the highest tide ever known. Yours, &c, OBSERVER. Tftlv / CAJLKM>AR \nf. Tir July. \ Fop the Week | 27th Week. (From the Newfoundland Almanac.) Moon's PhaSSS.- -New Moon, 3rd <lay, llh, 'Mm, rv*g .Sun rises :,,. , andHctaatS'^J***' St John*! John«. t Mjosobavda. July. •lon., 2 1.13 7..m 0.0: i 0.27 Toss, 3 1.13 7.W 6.62 7.X, Dog Days begin Wkd., 1 1.11 7.54 7.41 8.05 American Indep., 1776 Thus, 5—115 7.54 8.30 8.54 Prcs Helena mar.. 18Gfl Kkim., 5—4.15 7.53 0.19 M 3 Lord Dslhowfe d., 74 Sam:, 7 116 7.53 10.08 10.32 Free Td 1 Act pnd, 1855 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Board and Shingles sec tthp.i Ayre _ Marshall Opera Notice I W Baird Land for sale John B Curran k Co Cabbage James Hynes Schooners wanted Harvey k Co Annual Contest Xfld. Rifle Association Melodeon, Books, etc John B Curran k Co Wanted—General Servant . Apply at this office AUCTION SALE On TIII'HSJMV, Hk in.t., a I 12 o'clock. BY JAM! S HYNES, (At his Rooms, opposite Job Bros, k Co.'s.) —20 Barrels — CABBAGES. jy3 To arrive by Steamer " Alhambra/' On THURSDAY next, .1 1 o'clock, FN THE  Commercial Sale-Room, I_i S" lltl:*,,J thi "_TION __.1T„, — AND— _ Now'fid. Government Debentures of $ _00 each, interest 5 °/o (To close an Estate.) GILLAJftD k SMITH, jy- Auctioneers. For Sale. A ISOUT Scvru XvvvH Good Arabic ____~D3 Situate in the principal pari >>l Holyrood, and bounded by the Main Road ; also, A handsome Piece of LAND, ©n the Topsail Road, near St. Ann's Station, and containing about lo acres. No reasonable offer will be refused for the above as it must be sold without delay. Apply to JOHN 13. CURRAN k Co. jy_tf_ _ COAL.===COAL. Now landing at the wharf of J. WOODS & SON, Ex "Morn.."* 445 Ton* B«rM — Glace Bay Coal, ItltlCll I AND HOI \l>. Sent home very cbeap while discharging jy2,4ifp NOTICE. rpiiK annual «ovn:*T tor Ihc <_Volci Medal, presented by A. J. W. KcNEILY, Esq., Q.C., to the Newfoundland Rifle Association, will tak<* place at Noagle's Hill Range on the sth inst. V OHHIAII, jy3,'2i Secretary. arxxst Received, Per S.S. " Hibernian," Scotland* Pride-Abernethj BISCUITS, Fame -Scotch Short BREAD (Jlory-OATMEAL CAKES Boast EDINBURGH ROCK Sold in small tin Boxes 1, each ; also, a variety of Fancy Biscuits. <••<■., Pure Vegetables, Chare* bal Biscuits, used as being bo efficacious and useful in cases <>f Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Gout, Rheumatism, Biliousness, etc. Sold in At ANDERSON'S POLYTECHNIC 26 Now Gwer Street. je2o,2iw,t,f,fp ~M_m_am rpARDs;" Neatly printed at this Office. jeBo,tf FOE SALE CHEAP, At the City Auction Sale-Rooms, I Second-hand 5 Octave MELODEON, in splendid condition, manufactured by George A. Prince. also, A Lot Second-hand Books, Historical. Classical and Scientific (Standard Works). Part of a Gentleman's Library. Must be cleared out at any price. jy3 JOHN B. CURRAN k Co. Wanted. WANTED SCHOONERS TO Lighter Cotton from St. Shott& to Trepassey. Apply to iij__:_=LVJ~r_r cfc 00. iy3,tf  117 A "KTrnnn A CHBNEKA— Ser\A/ A \ -j • vant. Most be a good yviili 1 JjJJ, c")k- Aw,iy at tf:ie- GEAM office. iy3,2ifp NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. *_■ ■ i 9 B___4__l K;<> - jm C**l^tf# ' J^*V _T Ha B B_ v,«j» ____'*l._T __?£___> up v__ ap*** _■ Pi _i _? ■•'* • /_B ___c __■_ *\ \ __b_t _h k \»__ " fl Hr  ''''' ___T __*M_sM_H_ OLIVETTE To-Mig\ht 1~l full Costume. AdmiM»ion-BH«ak Neat*, tuid <»nllery .tO €tM. B«n«rve«I Meat*, hh iimuhl. Fret lil^liWl The subscriber has jnsl opened ;i New Lot of Room Papers, LITEST OHSIOIVS. ■■ ' _T_3-W O-OOIDS Received by every Nteainer, to keep a mil aftftortment or Mock in every Department. Now on h;«nd. ;t choice »toe* of SUMMER GOODS of every variety, too nunieron Mi mention. ON SALE-A HANDSOME French Plate 3V_ i_•_• o _•, « feci by i fi»eg T-.ill be <M5J«i cbeap. f fl_'nw Vw3(  juneS.fp.tf L-- ■ ■■ J ' I . | j_i i. ! , 4TH OF JULY E_CO_r_^SIO3STOH HEMKMDAY, .July 4th an ■_*< TUIIOI THAI \ will leave ST. JOHN'S at 10 a.m., _f@m _E_CJ>J_,"_T_3LOO__t and Intermediate Station*. Arrive at Holyrood II o'clock. Returning—leave Holyro >d : o'clock, arrive at St. John's fi.oo p.m. »F«re» at iiMial lv\ciir»ioii rate*. jc3o,tf H. B. SMITH* Superintendent. ON AND 4FTER JUNE 2:* rd, till turther notice, Trains will run as follows, between St. John* and Holyrood, except SUNDAYS :— Leave St. John's 10.00 a.m. Leave Holyrood 4.00 p.m. " Topsail 10.60 M " Kelligrews 4.40 " " Quires' 11.02 " " Squires' 4.55 M " Kelligrews 11.is " '• Topsail 6.07 " Arrive at Holyrood 12.00 p.m. Arrive at St. John's fl.oo ** (WEATHER PERMITTING,) Evening Excursion Trains WILL BXm BETWEBK  ST. JOHN'S AND SQUIRES' ON EACH  Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Ev'g., 49 FOLLOWS : 001110. BETUWUNO. Leave St. John's 7.00 p.m. Leave Squires' 10.00 p.m. " St. Ann's 7.23 " Topsail 10.10 M " Topsail 7.40 " St. Anns 10.30 " Arrive at Sqniies' 7.50 Arrive at St. John's 11.00 " Round Trip Tickets to Squire*' 70 Cent*. Round Trip Tickets to Topsail SO " Round Trip Tickets to St. Ann's. 40 M K2P* On each Monday morning a Train will leave St. John's for Squire*' at six o'clock* Returning will leave Squirms' at 7 .'■'>' \ a.m.; Topsail, 7. i". St. Ann's, 5.05; arrive at St. John's, 5.30, a.m. Iteturn Tickets good on thin train. jtine2o,fptf H. JEm. SMITH, Superintendent. IIMIJ_'» Blacking -blacker than any " Blacking. Boston Traveller says—•« This Is Boston Polish on my boots." "No, Mr,' 4»y» tb« naM •• that Is Newfoundland Polish."