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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 39, 22 January 1886, Page 23

Full particulars have come to hand from Bishop Buginier regarding the martyrdom of the Chinese priest, Cap. For "three days he suffered excruciating torments. On the fourth day tho mandarin asked him to translate the Lord's Prayer. When be catan to the third petition, " Thy Kingdom come," he was asked of what kingdom he spoke, ile replied "Of God's Kingdom." The matt* darin immediately ordered him to be buried alive. A new and authoritative denial is given to the old calumny that Pius IX. was, in his youth, a Freemason. This denial is published by M. Hubert, and consists of a letter written by B. Fischer, " Counsellor of the Chancellory of the principal government," in the hope tbat such publication " will put once for all an cud to the affirmation so often repeated that Pius IX. even for a single moment belonged to Masonry.' Fischer writes :" I have the honour to notify you that th« pretended diploma which would establish the so-called initiation of Piua IX. iuto Masonry is an invention, and the whole thing ttn iuaue foil. . There never existed a Grand Lodge of Bavaria. . The pretended diploma is not in the archives of the two lodges of Nureinburg. No one knows whence comes continually this absurd invention, to which an absolute denial in various journals has been frequently opposed." The letter of Fischer is dated " Gera, September 16, 1885.' v A good number of years ago people were startled by a report respecting a young man iv the western part of what was then U|>per Canada. He went to the woodß one winter morning to fell timber. During the day he felled a tree which lodged. He attempted to fell another on the first one to bring it down, but did not succeed. He went up to one of the leaning trees to attempt to dislodge them, when suddenly the upper tree fell and caught the young man's loot between the two, at the same time throwing him over backwards so that his shoulders just touched the snow. He was alone, for in the bush bis voice could not reach his friends, and, it being a cold day, be must soon perish. But be was a man of strong will and was equal to the occasion. He took his knife from his pocket and cut the flesh around the bone of the imprisoned leg. As he came to au artery, he held it uutil tbe cold congealed the bio *i and theu proceeded. If he felt his strength beginning to fail, he batbed his face with snow. When he bad the bone bared, he reached his axe, and with one blow severed it and was free. He crawled out of the w kxJs and across a field to the road, when a parsing team took him home. '1 hat young man, says Mr. Doogail, V. C, of Belleville, Oat., was afterward a member of tbe Dominion Cabinet, a Cabinet Minister, and is now known as Mr. Justice O'Connor, who ia on the Bench at the Belleville Antes.— Pilot.