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Weduesllay. O'tober 5th, ISST
LOCAL NEWS.
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and Alrounud the "flub."
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BOY WANTED to learn 'the print-
ing business ; must be a fair reader
and intelligent; one living with his
parents in town preferred. Apply
at THE NEws-REoonn office.
WOOLEN MILL STORE, Cooper's
old stand. Yarns, flannels, shirts
and drawers, topshirts, tweeds, &c.,
all factory maand at prices that
cannot be undersold—F. E. CORBET'r
Oatz GWderich correspondent is,
taking in the Detroit excursion.
MR. S. J. ANDREWS cider mill is
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booming.
MRS. HOLLOWAY Sundayed wit
her daughter in Exeter.
L. 0. L. 710 meets next Monday
• evening.
Tuns week's edition of THE NEWS
RECORD is 2,500 copies. Our ad
vertising rates are as low as ever.
Mns. VICKERS and daughter
Maggie from near St. Mary's re-
turned home yesterday.
MR. ROBERT PORTER, M. P. was
in town Monday night and Tues-
day forenoon. He will take in the
Great Northwestern Fair now be-
ing bald in Godet'ich,
A female preacher occupied the
pulpit of tho Ontario St. church
last Sabbath evening. There was' a
very large congregation. It is said
that she will hold nightly meetings
duringthe corning week.
How IT WAS DONE.—
Said the widow, mendacious young Airs.,
I really dont know what a kl•s.;
The lover in haste
Put his arm ]round her waist
And promptly but firmly said tins.
MR. EPH. DOHERTY was present-
ed with an address and handsome
testimonial by his fellow employees
in Hamilton the other day on the
eve of his leaving to go into busi-
• ness for himself.
DIoNDAY was a wet, raw and
gusty day, and Tuesday Was no im-
provement. Sorry to see such
weather as it is ;likely to mar the
prospects of the' Goder•ich show
which has cost so much to prepare
for.
REV. JOHN GRAY preached a •ser-
e mon in the town hall last Sabbath,
. • to the Foresters. It was a power-
ful exjeosition of the interdepend-
euce of humanity, and its depend-
ence withal upon something higher •
than ourselves. •
, SATURDAY afternoon the tooting and
puffing of, a portable engine, on -
'the street near the Salvation Army
barracks, caused the' Conimer•
Bial bus team to take French leave
and "go it" on it their own hook.
Mr. Moore, however, captured there
before they had gone far, not, how-
ever, before the incident had•eaused
quite a sensation.
IT WAS Mrs. Robert Proudfoot
that our Goderich correspondent
nu ndonad"hst'— wade; not -Mr.
Proudfoot as we had it. Our God-
erich Cor's manuscript is usually re-
markably. legible, and in this in-
stance we aro quite willing to boar
the onus for ,the awkward mis-
print.
JUSTICE AND LAW.—An.Illnois
paper recently brought suit against
forty-three non-paying subscribers.
Twenty-eight of them ]rade oath
that they had no property ; these
were arrested• for •petit larceny
and bound over iu the seal of `$300
etch. All but six gave bonds, and
these were sent to jail. The new
postal law maims it petit larceny to
take .a newspaper and refuse to pay
for it.
A TANGIBLE YET CURIOUS REA-
SoN.--.A miller in a neighboring
town, who was supposed to 1)e a
supporter of Co itnorcial Union,
was asked his reason. "Well," he
• said, "we're paying too • high for
wheat iu Canada. If we had Com-
mercial Union I could. buy my
wheat on the other side and make
tho farmers here take other sido pri•
CPS," "Well, but would that not be
a great injury to the farmers hero ?"
"Yes, perhaps it would, but what do
the farmers hero care' for me and
why should I care for them 1"—Galt
Reporter. •
HATRED AND SYMPATHY.—One
thing on the part of those who
hash conceived :an intense hatred
fo4. 'lto1c1kecper is the assumption f
that drunkards are martyrs and j
the ;keepers of the public houses p
iles[rieable creatures. Now, no u
drum:arc[ is an acquisition to a e
hotel, and no hotelkeener wants ll
one ah&ti't•his premises. The drunk- '1'
mrd shol4ld he frowned upon, nut v
pampered, las every walk of life. Irl
]t should be remembered, however,
that the 1• lotelkeeper,less than any
other business man, presses his
goods on the public, This staking
martyrs of those becoming drunk-
ards tv}.ile rWanting the keepers of
public houses they atter of their
own volition iu unreason,iblc, and
works injlny to society. 'f'oo leech
maudlin sytnhaiily Li wasted on tiro
dlunk1u'd, and ltitr;lkc,'pery urn Cull-
' lorutIr1J too flippantly,— 141'',(/)?"
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. E't"toivr, of'Goctovielh, ie
visit,}pp, friotl46 (n town.
t� SrLENBID rde% .stone crossing
has been put in at Wets crossing.
Mn. T. C..DOHERTY's carriage
team were admired by crowds on
show day.
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MB. Ian. Say tl.,t,E's ue r% property
is finished. The general improve-
ment to property on Rattenbury
street adds greatly to its appearance.
Alii. ROBERT WELSH has bad a
now stone foundation, cellar, and
other improvements Inade to his
residence. The property presents a
neap appearance.
PROGRESS,.—The people of Galt
are alive to the necessity of keeping
up to the tunes. They have already
secured the electric light and are
now preparing to inveat in water-
works which will cost about $125,-
000.
Bean FIRES.—The smoky atmosp-
here of the past few weeks must have
been caused by bush and swamp
fires. Around Woodstock ashes
fell quite heavily for a time. The
swamps in the vicinity of Stratford
are said to bo on fire.
CHEAP AND SOUND.—A clergy-
man on a --sultry afternoon paused
in his sermon and said : I saw an
advertisement for 500• sleepers for
a railroad. I think I could supply
at least fifty and recommend them
good and sound.
THE EMPIRE.—David Greighton,
M. P. n of Owen Sound, and Mr.
Birmingham, of Toronto, were in
Wookstock, Saturday on business
connected with The Empire, tho
new Conservative organ. They re-
ported excellent success in getting
stock -takers, having secured about
$200,000. The paper will appear
in about six weeks.
ORANGE. --As previously stated
North and South Huron committees
.will tweet in Clinton on Friday of
this 'week. Arrangements have
boeu completed for a supper in the
evening at the Grand Union Hotel.
Tickets have been issued and the
affair promises to be a grand suc-
cess. Let there bo a turnout with
an unbroken front.
EINE I' IGURING—A scientific
savant has figured out that the hairs
on the tip of a dog's tail, of the
average of 13 inches (tail, not hair),
are tatade to travel 25,433 miles by
the simple act of wagging, during
the ordinary happy life of nine
years, two months and 11 days,
which is the mean lifetime of a dog,
thoughI
the lifeof manymean
dogs,
reaches throe score and .ton. In
order to round of this century of
grand and wonderful achievments
all that will be necessary now is for
some deeply -learned mathematician
to figure out the mean velocity
melted _the .lower jaw of the
neighbe•.by,t'hoo(l gossip in talking -
about the latest scandal. We have
matldeniatical talent in Clinton
capable of figuring out any prob-
lem, whether it is the "mean" vel-
ocity of a gossip's jaw, or. the speed
of a feline's paw, with the garden
fence for a track and followed by an
old boot jack. Fortunately for so-
ciety, but unfortunately for the nra-
the.maticia,us.gossips in Clinton are --
few and far between, so that our
learned -calculators will ]lave to go
elsewhere for a subject in that line
but by keeping their weather eyes
open in tlieir midnight vigils they
might' get.a chance to figure out the
velocity transit of the latter.,
MARRiED, SND A'. -On Tuesday
morning, Oct. 4th, at the residence
of the bride's father, Miss Alice C.
Smith Was linked for"lifo to Mr.
Chas. Cole,. Bev. John Gray officia-
ting. There were a number of
friends • Present from Detroit and
Woodstock, besides those residing
iii"Clfutou. Among the latter worn
the Mayor and Mrs. Whitehead,
Mr. and Mrs. .Tosh Cole, Mr. and
Mrs. Whitely, Miss Noble and Mr.
Atkinson. bliss Edith Ayers, of
\\roodstock, supported the bride,
and Mr. Cole, of Toronto, did the
sank for the groom. The wet and
boisterous weather of the lnorning
and previous evening prevented
Goderioh friends and others from
being present. The marriage cere-
mony completed about 2.5 persons
sat down to a rlejernaer a la four-
chette, garnished with cakes and
pastry in quantity, profuse and de-
signs artistic which mast have taxed
the ingenuity of the providers to
the utmost. The ceremony com-
menced at 6 a. i11 And as the scin-
tillating rays of the chandelier
dallied with voluptuous array of
condiments $111(1 played over the
eatures of a compan s'•lulent with
oyousness, not the i'•.. -t i, 1ppy ap-
orn'ing ones being the recently
sited bride anis groom, one could
iyy.ily recall an eastern fairy scene
t up with. the heap of Aladin.
he presents to the bride were
ailed, valuable and exceedingly
)prop•1•iate. The happy couple
mete accomp,i�tIlied to the early train
by n numbers of friends who were au
joined at. the station by others, and V.
lir si)ite of the unpropitious weather v
there was quite a crowd to wish the 1 ea
young couple "rood hick " sh
n
.$TttT. ENot pu "PoerAflEa--'A; note
rpm the Dead Letter Moe, Ottawa,
infogms of that there is a: letter
there,, dated Auburn, chargeable
with two Vents postage. Our cor-
respondents will please be particu-
lar not to seat envelope when there
is only a one cent` stamp thereon.
The letter in question evidently
contains "printers copy" and had
only one cent stamp on, which
would have been all right if enve-
lope had not been sealed.
A GooD STORY. --A few days ago
the editor of a Port Arthur paper
wrote about the first discovery of
gold in Algoma,land the intelligent
compositor made him write about
'When God was first discovered in
Algoma., Tho Algomans are indig-
nant.
ndipnant. This incident recalls a story
told by a British Columbia pioneer
about the visit of two Americans to
that province many years ago, when
the Hudson Bay Company were in
possession of the whole country, and
when almost every building, fence,
flag and vessel bore the letters, 'H.
B. C.' One of the visitor's asked the
other what it Meant. The party
addressed said ho did not know, but
that he presumed they signified :
'Here before Christ.
A Public Officer Corraled in His
Own House.
Though the management of the
Clinton Fire Department has often
been criticized, and not always ad•
versely, it yet remained for the
members to deliberately lay plans
against the peace of their Chief, --Mr.
Geo. E. Pay. In pursuance, there-
fore, of a premeditated purpose, and
with beneficent intent aforethought,
tho members did knowingly enter
on the premises of Mr. Pay at the
hour of 10 of the cluck on the night
of Thursday, 29th September, and
in the' name of the Clinton Fire
Brigade request an interview with
Chief Pay. .Capt. Scrawl headed
the force. His muscular physique
disarmed opposition. When all•
were seated, Mr. Pay, with valor
born of conscious innocence, wished
to know to what he was indebted
for the honor of a visit from those
whom he had hitherto looked upon as
friends. Captain Scruton arose armed
with the following which ho proceed-
ed to read, while the oilier members
of the brigade posted themselves so
that Mr. Pay could nob escape. Tho
document read as follows :
To Geo. E. Pay, Esq., Chief of the Fire
Department, Clinton :,
DEAR Sut,—Thu members of tip% Fire
'o
1311 ads •c' .
d-.0
offer some expression of
their a t reciation of1
vices during ayour valuable- ser-
vices long period of years, during
which time you. have always had the
confidence of the men under you. They
feel they would desire to acknowledge
their appreciation of your valuable ser-
vices, and would ask you to accept the
accompanying medal -as a token of their
appreciation and of the regard they enter.
tarn for yon.
I have the honor tube;
on the •bahalf of the
Fire Brigade,
Yours truly,
J. SCRUTON, Captain:
Clinton, Sept. 29th, 1887.
Captain Scrutou having • read the
above document as justification for
their intrusion handed Chief Pay a
beautiful old medal r
o ed. l au i clasp.
Mr. Payr' - Bong-h---retrl-ly--stt-rprised-at-
-•this unexpected manifestation of
good will, on the part of his con-
freres, gratefully accepted the hand-
some and valuable present. TIis
surprise was partly caused by a
knowledge that, • titgtt ;