BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Announcements under this heading are charged for as follows: Marriage, 2s 6d; Death with funeral notice 2s 6d; Obituary Notice, 1s 6d; Birth, 2s 6d. In every case such announcement must be prepaid and duly authenticated.
Births
HUGGINS -- August 22, at Willow Bank, Staines, the wife of Neville Huggins, of a son.
LIGHTON -- August 24, at 36, Queen's Gate, London, S.W., the wife of Sir Robert Lighton, Bart., of a daughter.
LYNN -- August 25, at Albany Cottage, Carrickfergus, the wife of Henry Lynn, of a son.
OSBORNE -- August 22, at 10, Hornton Street, Kensington, London, the wife of Commander J. W. Osborne, R.N., H.M.S. Warspite, of a daughter.
TOOTELL -- August 21, at the Grammar School, Marlborough, the wife of the Rev. Henry Tootell, of a daughter.
TURTLE -- August 27, at 76, Alfred Terrace, Belfast, the wife of Robert Turtle, of a son.
Marriages
DICKINSON--MACHELL -- August 22, at the Parish Church, Roos, Holderness, by the Rev. Richard Beverley Machell, Canon of York, and Rector of Roos, father of the bride, assisted by the Rev. T. Briarly Browne, uncle of the bridegroom, William George Dickinson, only non of George Dickinson, of Roos, and Elstronwick, to Beatrice Cassandra, younger daughter of Canon and the Hon. Mrs. Machell.
OATES--SPENCE -- August 22, at St. Mary's Parish Church, Richmond, Yorkshire, by the Rev. Canon Roberts, M.A., Rector, John Oates, eldest son of Joseph Oates, Esq., Portland Crescent, Leeds, grandson of the late Rev. John Oates, M.A., Vicar for fifty-six years of Winksley, near Ripon, nephew of the Rev. John Oates, M.A., Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and cousin of Charles Cecil Oates, Captain 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, to Rachael, youngest daughter of Robert Spence, Esq., Zetland House, Richmond, Yorkshire.
Deaths
ARD -- August 27, at 1, Georges Terrace, Mountpottinger, Belfast, Eliza Ard. The remains of my beloved wife will be removed for interment, in the family burying-ground, Ballylesson, to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Friends will please accept this intimation. JOHN ARD, Newtownards Road.
BRAMLEY-MOORE -- August 15, John Howard, eldest son of the Rev. William and Eliza Bramley-Moore, aged 22 years.
CRAWFORD -- August 27, at his residence, Smithborough, County Monaghan, Robert Elder Crawford. His remains will be removed to the Presbyterian Burying-ground, Smithborough, to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Friends will please accept this (the only) intimation.
FOAKES -- August 22, at Adisham House, Gravesend, Dr. John W. Foakes, of 45, South Street, Park Lane, London.
JAMIESON -- August 25, Arthur Victor Ottley, the dearly-loved son of Rev. Campbell and Margaret Jamieson. 49, Atlantic Avenue, Belfast, aged 29 years. Funeral to-day (Tuesday), at eleven o'clock, for Knockbreda.
LEESON -- August 21, at New Barnet, Herts, Hubert Seymour Leeson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, London, aged 48 years.
PAYNE -- August 27, at Beechcroft, Holywood, Rev. G. T. Payne, M.A., aged 69 years. Funeral private.
REYNOLDS -- August 17, at Schafberg, Austria, John James Reynolds, J.P., of 14, Dorset Square, London and of Hereford, aged 64 years.
TURNER -- August 25, at Cloughmills (by accident), Fredrick William, eldest son of Alexander Turner.
Clippings
ULSTER TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION -- STAR OF ERIN LODGE. -- On Saturday evening last the members of this prosperous lodge had an evening picnic to Crawfordsburn, the weather being all that could be desired. The party left town by the 3.5 train, arriving at about 3.30 at Helen's Bay Station, from whence a start was made for the beach. On arrival at their destination several games were heartily engaged in, after which refreshments were partaken of. The company then separated, some for a stroll along the seashore, others for a ramble through the picturesque grounds and Glen of Crawfordsburn, which for beautiful scenery are almost unsurpassed. The party re-gathered again at the station, where they took the 8.40 train to Belfast, which was reached in due time, after having spent a most enjoyable evening.
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GHOSTS, PAST AND PRESENT.
Ghosts belong to all times; they are not, like will-o'-the-wisps, here one moment and gone the next; there is no reason, so far as we can see, why the ghosts of our remote ancestors should not be among us still. Yet it is curious and instructive to observe how amazingly they have developed, and how closely their development has followed that of their human progenitors. This is the more remarkable, as there is one great difference between the two; the individual man settled down into a particular groove and nothing can stir him, but the individual ghost adapts himself to every age and every change of circumstance. No matter when his separate existence first began, his appearance and manners are always modern. Those old Roman ghosts who still haunt the scenes of their victories over their Saxon foes have laid aside the toga and have forgotten their native tongue; after having patiently endured many changes which were meaningless to them, they now wear the commonplace black coat and top hat, and talk Cockney English. At the same time, it must be admitted that the primitive ghost, intellectually considered, was a very poor creature -- a sort of court fool, promoted to that position only by reason of his utter want of sense. His humour, if so it could be called, never got beyond a practical joke of the clumsiest kind. He drew his chief amusement from the terror of women and children. This, indeed, seems to have been his sole raison d'etre. Heo was a bogie, and nothing more. But afterwards came a more practical age. It was also the age of hard drinking, hard swearing, and hard hitting. There was a charming thoroughness about the men of those days; they were genuine slashers, priding themselves upon the girth of their legs and arms. The ghost determined to justify his existence under these altered conditions, and accordingly developed muscles, or at least the spiritual substitute for muscles. His intellect, however, still seems to have been a little defective, for his manner of displaying his now powers did not greatly differ from the antics of his predecessors. He amused himself by smashing crockery, making extraordinary noises, slamming doors, and disturbing the arrangement of the furniture. This was but poor fun, and he soon tired of it; or perhaps it was the success of a number of professional conjurors who imitated, and even surpassed, his most wonderful feats that drove him into temporary retirement; at any rate, when he appeared again it was in a more highly-developed form -- as a ghost with a motive. It may be remarked that now, for the first time, appeared the novel with a motive. Not that we would for one moment suggest that the novelist created both the novel and the ghost; we mention the coincidence merely as showing the birth of a new epoch. At first, even in this stage, the instincts of tho ghost seem to have been wholly malevolent He had a motive, it is true, but it was invariably revenge. He had been wrongfully beheaded; therefore, carrying his head in his hands, he followed his enemy with the persistence of Io's gadfly; or he had been defrauded, and though now indifferent to money, was determined never to rest until he had terrified the thief into disgorging. We have reached, you will observe, the rationalistic age. Henceforward, if any ghost should venture to appear without a plain motive as a credential for his existence, it is only to be summarily dismissed with contempt.
Though the next step may seem a short one, its accomplishment occupied a considerable period. The ghost had been too busy with himself to think of others; he had been foolish and vicious; he now became virtuous, the indefatigable champion of the oppressed. Notice here his two-fold nature, the struggle between good and evil, and the ultimate defeat of the latter. This is as it should be. The dark ages are now left far behind; we are in the enlightened times to which we ourselves belong. The modern ghost scorns the silly tricks of the early members of his race, and would indignantly deny that there was anything in common between him and the ghost who lived only for revenge; though he dabbles in evolution, he admits its principles only so far as they apply to others; he is wise as well as virtuous. If he wilt pardon the metaphor, he has cut his wisdom-teeth last. It is his business to hunt up missing documents, to make himself generally useful to humanity, to aid in punishing the guilty, and in rewarding the innocent. In all this may be detected a lingering trace of the once popular creed that all created things, even to the sun, moon, and stars, are intended solely for man's use, a creed somewhat derogatory to the ghost as an independent being. Perhaps some suspicion of this has dawned upon him, for already he seems to be on the point of a fresh departure. He is no longer a machine -- a sort of lever for upsetting tables and chairs; he is not even content with being the shadowy presentment of a few simple vices and virtues; he has developed into a psychological problem about which many treatises have been written, though without exhausting or elucidating the subject, which is at once so wide and so complex. He has senses which man never dreamed of, and feelings too subtle for words. Indeed, many new words have had to be invented in order to describe his faculties with anything like accuracy. Once he was confined to a particular spot, sometimes a house, sometimes a room, and he had no power to leave it; he was never seen anywhere else. All that is changed now. He has devised, among other startling novelties, an ingenious method of telegraphing, or, more strictly speaking, telepathing, not merely his ideas, but even himself along a set of invisible wires; indeed, it is asserted by those who ought to know that he can telegraph himself simultaneously in different directions. Science has not yet settled how this is done, but doubtless we shall be told in good time.
It is clear to the meanest intellect, however, that an extraordinary change has taken place in the ghost's nature. In the good old days when men drank to the King, he was a Tory of the Tories; he lived with the highest in the land; if sometimes he paid a visit to a country squire, this was not often enough to provoke comment. He was then part and parcel of the patent of nobility. Alas, even he had not escaped the contagion of Republicanism. As in fiction, the hero is no longer a lord, so in real life the ghost is no longer the companion of lords. He has abandoned his former notions as old-fashioned prejudices; he scoffs at his old associates, and prefers the society of the uneducated -- in a word, he poses as the friend of the people. What further development awaits him it would be difficult to say. If we would see the ghost of to-morrow, we must first see the man. -- Morning Post.
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THE STRANGER WAS HER FATHER.
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN OTTAWA.
OTTAWA (CANADA), August 12. -- On last Thursday evening Brice M'Neeley, residing at Carleton Place, on going to the front door of his house, just before retiring for the night, found an old man sitting on his steps in an exhausted condition. After seeing that he was unable to proceed further he took him in for the night. The stranger could give no account of himself. He remained in bed and gradually became worse, and a physician was called in, who pronounced his case hopeless. In handling his clothes several letters fell out, one of which was addressed to James M'Dowell of Belfast, Ireland, while another bore the address of M'Neeley himself. As James M'Dowell was the name of her father in Ireland, whom she had not seen for thirty years, Mrs. M'Neeley read the letter to find that the one in whose possession it had been found was none other than her parent, while the one addressed to M'Neeley was from a brother-in-law in Belfast, who informed him that the old gentleman had before leaving for Canada made a will, in which he left Brice 12,000 dollars. Yesterday the old gentleman died, never having regained consciousness.
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CUSTODY COURT -- Yesterday.
Before Messrs. F. J. MacCARTHY, R.M.; THOMAS GAFFIKIN, J.P.; J. A. TAYLOR, J.P.; and WM. M'CAMMOND, J.P.
DISTURBANCE ON BOARD THE BANGOR BOAT.
Three young men from Portadown named Collins, Walker, and Lisk were charged by the Bangor and Larne Steamboat Company with having created disturbance on board the Clandeboye on Saturday afternoon while coming up by the one o'clock boat from Bangor to Belfast.
Mr. Spiller prosecuted, and Mr. M'Erlean appeared for the prisoners.
Mr. M'Cammond did not adjudicate in the case.
Captain Hunsdale was examined, and said he saw five or six persons holding down Lisk, who was being disorderly, but he did not see him assault anyone, as it was after the alleged assault that he came down to where the prisoner Lisk was. It was his opinion that Collins had had some drink, but Walker and Lisk were perfectly sober. He was standing on the bridge and saw an encounter between Collins and the man at the barrier, but he did not see the latter give Collins a violent shove.
Thomas George stated be was a mate on board the Clandeboye, and was on that boat on Saturday. He saw a crowd round the three prisoners, who were fighting among themselves. The prisoner Walker had struck him so severe a blow in the eye that he had to get the wound stitched. After the assault the prisoner was taken down and put in irons.
Thomas Reid said he was a seaman on board the Clandeboye, and saw the prisoner Walker assaulting the mate. Witness helped to put Walker in irons, and in doing so he had struck him on the cheek and on the ear, causing the blood to run down his face and neck. He also saw Lisk being put in irons, but he did not see him assault any person.
Arthur Hunsdale stated that he saw Lisk strike Reid in the side of the head, and saw him fighting with others and trying to create a disturbance during the voyage.
William Stewart was called as a witness for the defence, and stated that he saw the captain knock down the prisoner Collins and choke him till the blood came out of his mouth, after which he was taken down and put in irons. He also saw Walker arrested, and saw him struck twice because he said he would swear against the captain for the assault he had made on Collins.
Joseph Totton and John Toal swore to having seen the mate strike Walker several times in the face.
Joseph Toal and John Wisdom corroborated the previous evidence as to tho assault on the prisoners.
Mr. M'Cammond said he was on board the Clandeboye both going to and coming from Bangor on Saturday, and if the solicitors wished he would give evidence which would throw some light on the treatment the passengers received from some of the officers on board the steamer.
Mr. M'ERLEAN said he was clearly entitled to do so.
Mr. M'Cammond then entered the witness-box, and said, in reply to Mr. M'ERLEAN, that he was on board the boat on Saturday, and when the ticket collector told him there was a disturbance on the steamer he replied that he was not at all surprised at that from the treatment the passengers were getting from the officials. When the collector was lifting the tickets there was a woman with a child in her arms whom the collector told she would have to pay threepence more as her ticket was for the steerage, and spoke to her very roughly. The woman replied that she did not know, and the collector went away, but returned soon after demanding the threepence again. When about halfway on the trip he heard a noise on deck, and saw the captain rushing forward and pulling out handcuffs. He saw a man in charge of the barrier who looked very excited. A woman who was standing inside the barrier said to the man. "You are the cause of all this," who replied, "You are a liar," and repeated it again. Witness told him not to mind the woman. He would not say the man was drunk. After that the captain came up from the steerage, and went on the bridge, and three or four respectable men asked the captain not to be too hard on those boys, to which the captain replied in a very abrupt way.
To Mr. SPILLER -- He understood Captain Hunsdale was a long time in the service of the Bangor Steamboat Company, and he had never seen anything but civility with him.
Mr. M'ERLEAN asked their Worships to discharge the prisoners with 20s costs.
Mr. MacCARTHY said he would like to remark to the people taking advantage of those excursions that if there had been a case clearly proved against the prisoners the very severest penalty they could would have been inflicted, as the public would have to be protected on those boats, and respectable people would not travel by them if such scenes place, but really in the case before them the disturbance was originated by some of the officers on the boat.
The prisoners were then discharged.
LARCENY.
John M'Coy, Wm. Sweet, and W. J. M'Glenaghan, three militiamen, were arrested by Constable Banks on Saturday night on the charge of having broken a pane in the window of Mr. Cochrane's shop, Great Patrick Street, and with having stolen therefrom a parcel containing a quantity of tapioca, value 3s 6d.
Robert Cranley, assistant in the shop, stated the pane had been broken a short time before, and had been but newly glazed costing them 3s 6d.
M'Coy was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and the other two to one month each.
DISORDERLY.
Two young men, hailing from Dublin, named Cullin and Dalton, were arrested at the Great Northern Railway Station, and charged with having been drunk and disorderly on the platform.
Mr. J. M'Lean, jun., prosecuted.
Mr. M'Crudden, stationmaster, said the prisoners were fighting on the platform, and he had advised them to get into a carriage, which they did, but afterwards came out again, and began quarrelling about a stick.
The prisoners were fined 2s 6d each, but made so strong an appeal to their Worships that they were discharged with a caution to be very careful in future when going on excursions.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
James Douglass, residing at Clonakilty, County Down, was charged with having carelessly driven his horse and cart in Ballymacarrett, on Saturday last, thereby running over and killing a child named Richard M'Grath.
Mr. Spiller prosecuted, and Mr. F. Kerr defended the prisoner.
The accused was remanded till to-day, pending the inquest on the child.
ALLEGED DESERTION.
Thomas Kelly was charged by Constable Burnett with being a deserter from the Royal Irish Rifles. The constable stated when he arrested the prisoner that he had assaulted him by butting him with his head and knocking him down. When he was putting on the handcuffs he had received a blow from a brick on the back of the head.
Captain Spencer stated the prisoner had deserted from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles.
The prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour for the assault on the police, and at the expiration of that term to be tried on the charge of desertion.
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SUMMONS COURT.
The Honourable Colonel FORBES, R.M., and Mr. W. J. JOHNSTON, J.P., sat in this court, and disposed of a number of cases not possessing any feature of public interest.