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more than 63 miles . "Weston continued walking for over two hours more , and then rested for some seventeen minutes . By midnight Weston had walked over 11 G miles , and O'Leary over 114 miles . At the end of the second day , however , the position of the men was greatly changed in
favour of the latter . When the second twenty-four was completed , O'Leary had retired to rest some time , having walked 208 miles , while Weston , at the same time , had gone over 194 miles . O'Leary covered his first 200 miles
in the unpi * ecodented time of 45 hrs . 21 min . 33 sec , or less by lhr . 13 min . 57 " sec . than the fastest time hitherto on record . At the end of the third iay , O'Leary had done 294 miles , and Weston nearly 275 . Further details must be reserved for next week .
We are sorry to see that the present holiday season has not passed without some fatal casualties . On the afternoon of Good Friday a party of threo excursionists from Liverpool went for a row on the Dee , near Chester . On returning , either through carelessness or other cause , the boat was
upset and the occupants were precipitated into the water . One of them , a woman , named Mary McOutchon was gallantly rescued by a soldier of the 106 th Regiment , but the two others , who were men , were both drowned . On Saturday afternoon , a somewhat similar and equally fatal accident
occurred on the Thames at Teddington Weir . Two young gentlemen had hired a boat from Richmond and rowed up the river ; when near the Weir , just above Teddington Lock , they met a steam launch , when , owing to some cause , as yet unexplained , the occupants of the boat were soon
overpowered , and as the tide was on the ebb , the boat was drawn through the puddles of the weir and instantly smashed to pieces . Several attempts were made to rescue the unfortunate gentlemen . Joe Sadler and others put off in boats from Messenger ' s Ferry , but accomplished nothing ,
owing to the rapidity of the current . A young gentleman named Ohappell and a Mr . Wilkinson , who were on the lawn of a house abutting on Weir-bank , plunged unhesitatingly into the water , when they heard cries for help , but they were unable to do anything , and were themselves able to return to land only after great difficulty , and thoroughly exhausted . The Eastern Question seems but very little nearer solution than it -was last week . True , the Protocol on which Russia appears to have set her heart has been signed by all the Great Powers , provisionally by England , and it is said likewise by Austria . This , in the opinion of many people ,
was to determine the whole difficulty , but diplomatic difficulties are unlike others . No sooner has that happened which we are given to understand will set matters right , than some fresh obstacle presents itself , aud the end appears to be as far removed as ever . This appears to be
the case in the present instance . Everything depended on the Protocol being signed . It has been signed , and lohen Turkey and Montenegro have settled the terms of peace between them ; when Russia and Turkey are agreed to a mutual disarmament ; ivhen the former is satisfied that
Turkey is serious in the reforms she is introducing ; and ichen Turkey is able to satisfy Russia that no more outbreaks will occur , either in the provinces now disaffected or in any others , then , it seems , but not till then , there is a prospect that war will not ensue . This is not exactly
reassuring , but we cannot say it is entirely unsatisfactory . It is impossible we can continue much longer without gathering the real character of Russia ' s designs . She it is who has been throughout the main obstacle to a settlement . We are not hazarding any opinion in writing this ,
but stating a simple fact with which the whole world is acquainted . Her anxiety is for peace , while her acts are warlike . But she cannot continue fooling the rest of Europe for ever . If she is sincere in her desire for peace , the peace
of Europe may be assured to-morrow , and the world generally is beginning to recognise this fact . Tnrkey may be as black as she is painted , but this is doubtful . Russia is not as honourable as she would have us believe she is . This is not doubtful , though some may have elected to think so in the days of the " atrocities . "
In a report on a Widows' and Orphans' Home and Industrial Scbool , which was agreed to at the Annual Communication in Yicksburg , on 7 th February , of the Grand Lod ge of Mississippi , aud is appended to the Masonic Jewel for last month , we find some very interesting details as to Masonic Institutions established , or in contemplation , in
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various of the United States , and elsewhere . Connecticut , it seems , is about establishing a Home for Aged and Infirm Masons , their Widows and Orphans , but before any attempt is made at organisation , it is proposed to raise a fund of one hundred thousand dollars by contribution , but
whether by voluntary or enforced contributions is not stated . In Kentucky for some years past a Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home has been maintained under the auspices of Grand Lodge . The subscriptions received from the outset from Lodges and the Ladies' Aid Society
amount to nearly 149 , 000 dollars . There is an endowment fund of close on 138 , 500 dollars , which yields an income of about 10 , 000 dollars per annum . Since the opening of the Home , a hundred and eighty-five widows and orphans of deceased Kentuckian Freemasons have been admitted ,
and there are at present one hundred and twenty-eight inmates of the Institution . The expenses for the year ended 31 st August 1875 amounted to , in round figures , 39 , 800 dollars , but of this sum 25 , 884 dollars were expended for building purposes , so that the actual current expenses of
the year were only 13 , 815 dollars . The Home is governed by a board of fifteen directors , five of whom retire annually . In Missouri , we are told , the Grand Lodge once built and owned a Masonic Orphans' College , but after the lapse of a few years it was abandoned , as it was found that it " cost abcufc
four times as much to educate each orphan in the school as it would to pay their tuition in the regular academic and public schools by the Lodges themselves near their own homes . " The College was accordingly closed , and presented to the Central Female College , which grants free
tuition to thirty orphans if Grand Lodge desire it , but Lodges now attend to their own orphans , and are , in consequence , excused from paying any Charity Fund to Grand Lodge . North Carolina formerly appropriated 2000 dollars annually for the support of two Orphan Asylums—one at Oxford and one at Asheville . At the last Communication
of Grand Lodge the latter was incorporated with the former , the annual subvention being continued . The two Institutions since their establishment have fed , clothed , and instructed 145 orphans , taken from the most needy in the State . In Nebraska a fund is being raised for the education
of indigent children of deceased Masons , and now in Mississippi it has been determined to erect a Widows' and Orphans' Home and Industrial School . An endowment of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars , calculated to yield an annual income of ten thousand dollars , will be raised in
the first instance , and then a sum of fifty thousand dollars will be secured for building . The Institution will be governed by a Board , consisting of the Grand Master , Dep . Grand Master , Grand Wardens ex officio , and fifteen members , elected at the rate of five annually , each class of five retiring in turn , in order to create the requisite number of vacancies .
We have received copy of a Petition or Memorial which will be presented at the next Quarterly Convocation of Grand Chapter by the three Principals of Royal Union Chapter , No . 382 , Uxbridge . It appears that in the beginning of this year Comp . M . Cooke , M . E . Z . of the
Chapter in question , with the other Principals , was summoned to appear before Col . Burdett , Grand Superintendent of Middlesex , to show cause why the Chapter should not be suspended for non-payment of dues to the Provincial Grand Chapter from the year 1872 till the present . Z . f H .
and J ., however , acknowledged the receipt of , but did not obey , the summons , and as a consequence , sentence of suspension was passed against tho Chapter , while the Principals were suspended from all their "Royal Arch Masonic Functions . " At the last meeting of Grand
Chapter an attempt was made by Comp . Cooke to present his memorial , but owing , we presume , to tho non-observance of certain formalities , the reception of the memorial was declined . We trust the document in its present form will
be found sufficiently formal , and that the appeal will be heard forthwith . It is unsatisfactory to have cases of this kind left unsettled , especially when the important question of jurisdiction has been raised . We reserve our opinion on the case till it has been heard and determined in Grand Chapter .
The General Committee of the Boys' School will meet this afternoon at 4 p . m ., when , as we understand , the question of tho extension of the School will bo taken into consideration .
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more than 63 miles . "Weston continued walking for over two hours more , and then rested for some seventeen minutes . By midnight Weston had walked over 11 G miles , and O'Leary over 114 miles . At the end of the second day , however , the position of the men was greatly changed in
favour of the latter . When the second twenty-four was completed , O'Leary had retired to rest some time , having walked 208 miles , while Weston , at the same time , had gone over 194 miles . O'Leary covered his first 200 miles
in the unpi * ecodented time of 45 hrs . 21 min . 33 sec , or less by lhr . 13 min . 57 " sec . than the fastest time hitherto on record . At the end of the third iay , O'Leary had done 294 miles , and Weston nearly 275 . Further details must be reserved for next week .
We are sorry to see that the present holiday season has not passed without some fatal casualties . On the afternoon of Good Friday a party of threo excursionists from Liverpool went for a row on the Dee , near Chester . On returning , either through carelessness or other cause , the boat was
upset and the occupants were precipitated into the water . One of them , a woman , named Mary McOutchon was gallantly rescued by a soldier of the 106 th Regiment , but the two others , who were men , were both drowned . On Saturday afternoon , a somewhat similar and equally fatal accident
occurred on the Thames at Teddington Weir . Two young gentlemen had hired a boat from Richmond and rowed up the river ; when near the Weir , just above Teddington Lock , they met a steam launch , when , owing to some cause , as yet unexplained , the occupants of the boat were soon
overpowered , and as the tide was on the ebb , the boat was drawn through the puddles of the weir and instantly smashed to pieces . Several attempts were made to rescue the unfortunate gentlemen . Joe Sadler and others put off in boats from Messenger ' s Ferry , but accomplished nothing ,
owing to the rapidity of the current . A young gentleman named Ohappell and a Mr . Wilkinson , who were on the lawn of a house abutting on Weir-bank , plunged unhesitatingly into the water , when they heard cries for help , but they were unable to do anything , and were themselves able to return to land only after great difficulty , and thoroughly exhausted . The Eastern Question seems but very little nearer solution than it -was last week . True , the Protocol on which Russia appears to have set her heart has been signed by all the Great Powers , provisionally by England , and it is said likewise by Austria . This , in the opinion of many people ,
was to determine the whole difficulty , but diplomatic difficulties are unlike others . No sooner has that happened which we are given to understand will set matters right , than some fresh obstacle presents itself , aud the end appears to be as far removed as ever . This appears to be
the case in the present instance . Everything depended on the Protocol being signed . It has been signed , and lohen Turkey and Montenegro have settled the terms of peace between them ; when Russia and Turkey are agreed to a mutual disarmament ; ivhen the former is satisfied that
Turkey is serious in the reforms she is introducing ; and ichen Turkey is able to satisfy Russia that no more outbreaks will occur , either in the provinces now disaffected or in any others , then , it seems , but not till then , there is a prospect that war will not ensue . This is not exactly
reassuring , but we cannot say it is entirely unsatisfactory . It is impossible we can continue much longer without gathering the real character of Russia ' s designs . She it is who has been throughout the main obstacle to a settlement . We are not hazarding any opinion in writing this ,
but stating a simple fact with which the whole world is acquainted . Her anxiety is for peace , while her acts are warlike . But she cannot continue fooling the rest of Europe for ever . If she is sincere in her desire for peace , the peace
of Europe may be assured to-morrow , and the world generally is beginning to recognise this fact . Tnrkey may be as black as she is painted , but this is doubtful . Russia is not as honourable as she would have us believe she is . This is not doubtful , though some may have elected to think so in the days of the " atrocities . "
In a report on a Widows' and Orphans' Home and Industrial Scbool , which was agreed to at the Annual Communication in Yicksburg , on 7 th February , of the Grand Lod ge of Mississippi , aud is appended to the Masonic Jewel for last month , we find some very interesting details as to Masonic Institutions established , or in contemplation , in
Our Weekly Budget
various of the United States , and elsewhere . Connecticut , it seems , is about establishing a Home for Aged and Infirm Masons , their Widows and Orphans , but before any attempt is made at organisation , it is proposed to raise a fund of one hundred thousand dollars by contribution , but
whether by voluntary or enforced contributions is not stated . In Kentucky for some years past a Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home has been maintained under the auspices of Grand Lodge . The subscriptions received from the outset from Lodges and the Ladies' Aid Society
amount to nearly 149 , 000 dollars . There is an endowment fund of close on 138 , 500 dollars , which yields an income of about 10 , 000 dollars per annum . Since the opening of the Home , a hundred and eighty-five widows and orphans of deceased Kentuckian Freemasons have been admitted ,
and there are at present one hundred and twenty-eight inmates of the Institution . The expenses for the year ended 31 st August 1875 amounted to , in round figures , 39 , 800 dollars , but of this sum 25 , 884 dollars were expended for building purposes , so that the actual current expenses of
the year were only 13 , 815 dollars . The Home is governed by a board of fifteen directors , five of whom retire annually . In Missouri , we are told , the Grand Lodge once built and owned a Masonic Orphans' College , but after the lapse of a few years it was abandoned , as it was found that it " cost abcufc
four times as much to educate each orphan in the school as it would to pay their tuition in the regular academic and public schools by the Lodges themselves near their own homes . " The College was accordingly closed , and presented to the Central Female College , which grants free
tuition to thirty orphans if Grand Lodge desire it , but Lodges now attend to their own orphans , and are , in consequence , excused from paying any Charity Fund to Grand Lodge . North Carolina formerly appropriated 2000 dollars annually for the support of two Orphan Asylums—one at Oxford and one at Asheville . At the last Communication
of Grand Lodge the latter was incorporated with the former , the annual subvention being continued . The two Institutions since their establishment have fed , clothed , and instructed 145 orphans , taken from the most needy in the State . In Nebraska a fund is being raised for the education
of indigent children of deceased Masons , and now in Mississippi it has been determined to erect a Widows' and Orphans' Home and Industrial School . An endowment of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars , calculated to yield an annual income of ten thousand dollars , will be raised in
the first instance , and then a sum of fifty thousand dollars will be secured for building . The Institution will be governed by a Board , consisting of the Grand Master , Dep . Grand Master , Grand Wardens ex officio , and fifteen members , elected at the rate of five annually , each class of five retiring in turn , in order to create the requisite number of vacancies .
We have received copy of a Petition or Memorial which will be presented at the next Quarterly Convocation of Grand Chapter by the three Principals of Royal Union Chapter , No . 382 , Uxbridge . It appears that in the beginning of this year Comp . M . Cooke , M . E . Z . of the
Chapter in question , with the other Principals , was summoned to appear before Col . Burdett , Grand Superintendent of Middlesex , to show cause why the Chapter should not be suspended for non-payment of dues to the Provincial Grand Chapter from the year 1872 till the present . Z . f H .
and J ., however , acknowledged the receipt of , but did not obey , the summons , and as a consequence , sentence of suspension was passed against tho Chapter , while the Principals were suspended from all their "Royal Arch Masonic Functions . " At the last meeting of Grand
Chapter an attempt was made by Comp . Cooke to present his memorial , but owing , we presume , to tho non-observance of certain formalities , the reception of the memorial was declined . We trust the document in its present form will
be found sufficiently formal , and that the appeal will be heard forthwith . It is unsatisfactory to have cases of this kind left unsettled , especially when the important question of jurisdiction has been raised . We reserve our opinion on the case till it has been heard and determined in Grand Chapter .
The General Committee of the Boys' School will meet this afternoon at 4 p . m ., when , as we understand , the question of tho extension of the School will bo taken into consideration .