The New Era, 1882-10-05, Page 10INTON NEW ERA.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1882.
Iowa. c1ouiioo
INSURANCE. -At a meeting of the di-
rectors of the McKillop Mutual Insurance
Company, on Monday, Mr. E. Turner, of
Tuckersmith, was allowed the fulLamount
of his insurance, viz., $2,000.
LenuE LoAD,—A few days since M'r.. E.
Glenn, of Stanley, delivered at Irwin's
storehouse here a load of ninety-seven
bushels of wheat, or nearly three tons,
which is an exceptionally large load.
LARGE POTATOES.—Mr- A. Jordain
has left with us about a peck of potatoes
of' the Beauty of Hebron variety that sur-
pass in size "anything we have yet seen.
They are truly whoppers.
FIRE. -On Monday last the flax -mill of
Mayor forester caught fire under one of
the eases, from a spark, but was noticed.
before any headway had been made. Had
it got in among the flax,it would have
been impossible to have saved it.
NOTICE.—A meeting of the directors of
the Township of Hullett Agricultural.
Society will be held at Kennedy's Hotel,
on Saturday next, at 2 p. m.,.for the pur-
pose-
of settling all business connected
with the .late show. A f611 attendance of
`.the directors is requested.
`1VIECHANICS' INSTITUTE. — A special
meeting of the directors'. was held on
Thursday' evening, when a somewhat
animated discussion took place in refer-
ence to the; proposed purchase of Apple -
ton's Encyclopcedia, at a cost of $90; which
it was finally decided not to purchase,
"..DisaiissED.—➢Ir. J. T. Marsh, of this
place, came up for examination • on the
charges against him at Exeter, on -Satur-
clay, and was acquitted`on both ,of them,
which were embezzlementf.a horse and
of securities of a machine that was his
own. He has enteredaction\against the
Company for false arrest.
INDECENT ASSAULT. ---On 'Saturday
evening a youthin town followed a young
woman on one of the back streets and
made indecent proposals to her, when she
turned and dealt him a smart blow in the
face, but instead of accepting the well -
merited punishment, he struck at her,,
causing her nose to bleed.. A good caning
would have done him, no harm,
PROPERTY : CHANG,E.—Mr. E. Carter
has sold a quarter -acre lot south of the
Grand Trnnk to Mr. W. Cooper.
MR. S. DAVIS has sold half acre owned
by him in 1 ondesboro, to Mr. E. Walker,
for the sum of $50. •
MR.HENRY. CARTER has Sold his house
and' lot on Maple street, to Mr.J. Shipley.
Goon WORK.—On Friday last Mr. T.
Johnson of Varna, came up here to help
Mr. John Copeland to take up potatoes,
and in five hours and a half they dug one
hundred bushels of the Surprise variety ;
of course the potatoes turnedout well.
However, it was big Aork for, two men, one
over 60 years of age,. to do in,s`uch'a short
time.
. QMISSIQN.—The. following prizes were
accidentally omitted from the list in other
• column; of those taking them at the
Western ll;air :-Heavy draught 2 -yr old
stallion -2nd, J. Mason Londesboro.
Foal, J. Horton, Hensall, Span draught
mares; 1st J—McMillan—Conistance, 2nd,
T. Bissett, Exeter, 3 -yr -old Durham bull,
3rd, Jas. McLean, Kippen.
AN AMATEUR ARTIST. -At the West-
ern Fair, "a son of Mr` W. J. Biggins,:: of
the London Road, took 2nd prize for still-
life water color painting. As he is only
12 years of age, and there were :a number
of competitors'it will be seen that his suc-
cess is particularly noteworthy. He is a
pupil of Miss C. Mountcastie, and reflects
great credit upon her training.:.
SLIGHT ACCIDENT. -On Thursday as a
young man .named Miller was driving a
team attached to a reaper, near Fair's mill,
the ring of the neckyoke slipped over the
hold -back on the tongue, letting the reap-
er run on the horses heals; causing. them
to run away, smashing the reaper consid-
erably, but doing no further damage, al-
though the team came very near running
through Cantelon Bros. window.
OPENING. --The large fashion empori-
um of Craib, Macwhirter & Co, will be
formally opened for the season on Satur-
day next, .when such i .display of new and
original designs in millinery, and mantles
will be made as will surprise even those
who have seen Messrs. Craib, _Macwhirter
& .. Co's display of former years. Their
stock is always well selected and wellbought
in the most fashionable centres, and conse-
quently the very latest styles and best
quality may be expected. 'Don't fail to
call on Saturday and see fol yourself.
A BAD LOSS.` We are sorry.' to learn
that Mr. Chas. Morrow, of Spiritwood,
Dakota, formerly of Crinton,.has just'sus-
tained a heavy loss by the burning of: a
portion of his crop. A heavy; wind- blow-
ing carried sparks from his house to his
hay stacks, three of which were burned,
and twostacks of grain situated at a con-
siderable distance were also ' burned, to-
gether with a stable. . His loss is estimat-
ed at $1200, with an insurance. of 5300.
This will prove a bad loss to Mr. Morrow,
and may deter him from his anticipated
visit to friends in this section.
TOMATOES.—Although thisscrop at one
time promised to be a very large one, the
yield of ripe tomatoes will be small in
proportion to the actual growth, owing' to
-the unfavorable weather for ripening.
They sold here as low as 50 cents a bushel,
but have since risen and'are not likely to
come down again unless the weather con-
tinues warm. Mr. Stewart, of Benmiller.,,
who is the largest grower in this neighbor-
hood, tells us that his orders far exceed
his supply, as he only anticipates that his
garden will yield him about 400 bushels.
Goon SALES. -At the Western Fair last
week Mr, John McMillan, M. P., sold
his splendid span of heavy draught mares,
that were considered to be unequalled in
the county, for the sum of $800? That
seems a big price to pay for a team,, but
they were evidently worth it. Messrs. I3
Snell & Son sold five Leicester and Cots-
wold lambs to Mr. Salkeld, of . Goderich
township; at an average of about $45 each,
which is a better figure than eyen politic-
ians are supposed to pay for "lambs.'
They also bought of J. Snell, of Ednion-,
ton, a Berkshire boar ata high fghre.
"t/DE WESTERii STATION. -It is reported,
but with what 'degree of truth we have
not been able to ascertain, that the Great
Western station in this town is to be dos -
"ed in,a few days, and all, business trans-
acted from this Grand Trunk.. Wescarce-
ly anticipate, however; that this will be
done, until some better accommodation is.
provided at the latter, as the present
freight building will certainly -not do for.
the traffic of both roads, ,and to , use two
freight sheds and one station will make
it very inconvenient indeed. Wesuppose
all the public can do, (whose opinions are
not likely to be consulted, and not a par-
ticle of whose interests, .more than . abso-
lutely necessary;cwill be considered;); will
be to await the action of the railway au-
thorities. We believe it would be to their
interest to keep open, both stations.
MILLINERY OPENING'.—Those who
visited the establishment of Mr. John
Hodgens, on Saturday evening, and 'anti-
cipated a beautifuldisplay of goods, •cer-
tainly realized their anticipations. The
store, from front to rear, was very tastily
decorated with the most attractive articles.
The: first thing touetch the eye on enter-
ing, was the fine display of beautiful •rib
bons, 'in All the newest shades and tex-
tures, which hung in graceful festoons from
the sides and ceiling. Reaching the show
roam proper, one is struck with the mag-
nificent display of mantles, dress and—
trim-ming silks; etc., but what appeared to en-
gage -the attention of the lady visitors' was
the trimmed 'millinery. There are hats
and bonnets of" every conceivable shape;
and color, trimmed in every imaginable
style that is new and pretty. A number
of the new hats are a modification of the
Gainsborough, for .:large hats a-re'to be
worn, and some are :especially handsome.
We will not attempt a detailed description
of all that was to be seen, in the way of
head, covering for the fall and winter, be-
cause our descriptive powers would give.
out before we got through. .This we can
say, that the exhibit embraces everything
requisite in this line, and was a credit to
tliose having charge of the same. The
millinery department, we may add, as still
under the personal superintendence. of
Miss Brown.
Although nospecialannouncement was
made' of the intention to make an exhibit
of millinery goods, Mr. R. Beesley had a
display which was indeed a credit to the
place, and the fact that it was visited by a
large number, showed that it had'attrac-
tions not inferior to others. Beautiful
trimmed hats Of all; forms, and the essen-
tials with
ssen-tials`with which to trim hats, &c., formed
-the principal features of the unique
display. .,
BRIErs.=Mr..Geo. Swartz owns one of
the prettiest little buggy horses in town—
and there are some nice ones owned: here.
This is "'evidently Indian summer. The
first car was_run on the new switch'. con=
nesting the Grand Trunk and Great`Vest-
ern. last' Friday, and the 'track is now
ready for constant use. • Messrs. Craig and
Cudmore &Matheson each shipped a car
of cattle last Friday, to Montreal. The
demand for cars was so great last week
that forty of them could have been used
in a few hours, but they could not be got.
No less than fourteen ," soap',pedlers,"
,stopped In town one night recently.—
It is not expected that the new Grand
Trunk station will' be used much before
December, 'although it is ` rapidly ap-
proaching
p proaching completion. Our readers will
see by reference to another column that
Miss Fannie May, who started early in
the summer' for Fort Edmonton, has reach-
ed her destination and changed her name ;
we understand that notwithstanding the
length of the journey, 3;000 miles. she had
a very pleasant trip. On Saturday, while
a team belonging :to Mr. Malcolm .McEw
an, of Stanley, was tied in front of a store,
they got frightened by a barrel hoop flying
up and striking them; in their attempt to
getaway, both their bridles were broken'
but Malcolm held,on to their noses, and
thus prevented them running. The mon-
ument referred to in last week's NEw ERA
was placed in position in the cemetery on
Saturday. Mr. Austin Callander shipped
a car load of .bob_sleighs for Manitoba, on
Monday. "A youth on -leaving the Metho-
dist church, on Sunday 'evening, fainted
on the steps, and falling struck his head
against the bricks, but was not injured.
Mr. Sam: Notley has resumed his old po-
sition in Kennedy's bakery. During the
month of September about 800 tons of
freight were exported by the G.T.R.' froth
this place, the freight on "which amounted
to;$2,500.' On Friday last Mr, R. Irwin'
took in 2,300 bushelsof wheat and
barley in rddition to a- quantity of other
grain Mr- .Malcolm Campbell, of this
place expects to rnoye on his farm in Stan
ley, in the course of a few weeks. One.
day last week while in an 'establishment.
in town; a NEW ERA reporter picked -up a
gun with:. the familiar remark "'didn't
knew it was loaded," and proceeded to ex-
amine it it was a breach loader, .but so: .
rusty hatit could -only e=worked with
difficulty, and in the barrel was a:''ball
cartridge the presence of which was :::un-
known to any, member of the establish-
ment. Hoiv' easy an accident mighthave;
resulted from a careless handling of the
gun, can be surmised ; the cartridge was
subsequently; removed to prevent accident.
A gentleman, who was insultediby a num-
ber of youths on the street:. on Sunday, .
wishes to know why they are not ,prevent-
ed from gathering at the street corners;
there are a few corners in town where the .
boys congregate every Sunday and some
of themuse language that is.simply„clis
graceful ; the matter was referred to attbe
council board on Monday, and it is hoped
-the evil will, cease. Abdut 25 persons. left
by the Western division, on the Chicago
excursion, on Tuesday; 'abort a dozen,
went by .Grand Trunk. Op Monday the
longest train that ever ran on the . West-
ern passed up, and, consisted of 50 cars,
some loaded, but most. were empties.'
Among the `sleighs Mr. J. Leslie.is..m i%,
ing for Manitoba; is one 25 feet long frohi'
the tip of the tongue' to the heelof the
runner --pretty long. Hallowe'en night,
will soon bey along now. A. new time
table ofthe railways will be issued, next
week, 'when a number of changes in the
departure of trains from this station will
be made.' ,Thie'week a number of --the
Doherty organs were shipped to' Mani
toba. ' Mr. Robb, of the High School,' sus -
'Pained a severe sprain of his foot, on the,.
school ground, on Tuesday. Mr. W.'Core
is putting a foundation under his build-
ing -on Huron St.; result of the N.P. •again.
Capt, Macwhirter has ordered Glengary
caps.for the:vokiinters of this place, as it
will be some time before they- are able to.
gethelniets, which, however, will be'.pro
cured as goon as'convenient.r v
JI%CKSON
TME HATTER,
smooivm
Grand
SATURDAY, OCT'
A magnificent display of TEs, SCARFS,'PINs
CUFF BUTTONS, COLLARS an
(TUFFS, WHITE ciL'
• COLORED SHIRTS; UNDERCLOTHING, GLOVES,
•HANDKERCHIEFS, &C:
The most complete stock of
HATS CA"
IN THE. COUNTY.
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Boy's School Caps, : s cents.
Roy's F(cli. Hats, 50 cents.
Men's 'Weed .Hits; 50 cents.
lien's Feat ' Hats, $1.00.
lien's. Stifle Hats, $1:00.
The above are the Biggest Bargains ever
offered iu Clinton.
CLINTON,
M' TS W im-
i1-e are showving on.e of the best
selected stocks in the County.
See our
ress Goon
Department <oMple.e.
AWLS, WOOL GOODS.
This Department in -full blast.
irts, Drawers, Flannels,
[ankets,
Made to order, ,.with ,:every - guar-
antee of a perfect fit..
The y Goods Erriporium, Clinton.^
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:RIS. DICE
RE LI TCN
CITY BOOK STORE, C
CHAIR, MAOW,ITTRT"T+ER Si CO'S OLD .S1.'ANI).. `.-
1 Or r one week loner . We will
continue the sale of . aur
W ' ch hake sold beyond •still expect
hi
nation: The are. the reatest•
bargain evve�c ` offered.
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JACKSON,
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