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NEWS NOTES.
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The temperature was twelve
FRIDAY, NOV. 23 1888.
! below zero at Calgary on Wed -
MARRIED AN' GONE.
The house is dretful lonesome since
Milly's gone away ;
Though she's only gone across the
road it's 'cause she's gone to stay ;
An' when she comes to see me now
she's full o' talk o' Fred,
Tell I'd like to take him back the barn
an' punch him in the head.
It seems to me the good old days is over
now an' gone,
An.' nothin' left but lonesomeness an'
gray hairs comin' on.
Why, 1 'member when she used to come
a-toddlin' to the gate,
An' be watobin' down the lane for me,
an' couldn't hardly wait
Tell she saw me come a-hurryin' up the
lane to her an' home,
An' then nothin' oonldn't hold her, she's
so glad to see me alma.
Then when old sand -man came around
and sleepy -time would be,
No one could tell the stories right ex-
ceptin' only me.
An' then when she was older, how her
party cheeks would glow
When she'd say "she'd stick to father,
didn't want no other beau."
There's no one now to scold me if I
wear a shabby coat,
There's nobody to lead me in the way
that I should vote ;
There's no,thin' but remember tell
suthin's like to break,
Though I try to seem as clipper as old
times just for her sake.
0, Milly, of you only could belittle once
again—
Jest my four-year-old, that didn't love
no one but father—then
Jest to keep ye so—uuchangin' tell the
sleepy man come round
An' you and me, my baby, slept togeth-
er under ground!
nesday.
It is possible in France to in•
sure the life of a child one day
old.
The Winnipeg market building
was ourned Wednesday morning;
loss, 580,000.
American flour mills will shut
down to a considerable extent in
the next few weeks, as the mar-
ket is glutted.
C. J. Jones, a wealthy Kansas
rancher has purchased the herd
of tame buffaloes owned by Ward-
en Beason, at Stoney Mountain,
Man.
It will be January 14th, 1889,
before President Harrison is form-
ally declared 'elected. Formerly
the Electoral Colleges met on
December 6th, but a new law fix-
es 14th January as the date of
meeting and counting the vote.
A number of Keppel farmers
combined together and shipped
their stock direct to Buffalo. The
experiment turned out a miser-
able failure, and parties who ship
state that they could have got
better prices for the same cattle
at home than they got at Buffalo.
A PLEASURE SHARED BY WO-
MEN ONLY.
da111erbe, the gifted French author,
declared that of all things that man
possesses, women alone take pleasure
in being possessed. This seems gener-
ally true of the sweeter sex. Like the
ivy plant, she longs for an object to
cling to and love—to look to for pro-
tection. This being her prerogative,
ought she notto be told that Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is the physical
salvation of her sex ? It banishes those
distressing maladies that make her life
a burden, curing all painful irregular-
ities, uterine disorders, inflammation
and ulceration, prolapsus and kindred
weaknesses. As a nervine, it cures
nervous exhaustion, prostration, debil-'
ity, relieves mental anxiety and hypo-
condria, and promotes refreshing sleep.
Says the Arizo,ta Sentinel
"Ouche and wife, two strappit
Yuma Indians, worn weighed the.
other day and 'tipped the beam'
at 438 pounds. Tho buck is not
over 22 and the squaw 16 years
of age.'" A family jar in Ouche's
family would begot an Arizona
earthquake.
WIVES OF PRESIDENTS.
They have a curious habit in
the States of discussing the wives
of' the v-ariti'ils Presidents, ns if
they occupied a -constitutional
position. Just now Mrs Harrison,
the wife of the President-elect, is
the centre of' remark, as Mrs
Cleveland has been for these four
years past. Mrs Harrison is.said
to have a good, strong, honest
face, and amiable of disposition,
But all the U. S. Presidents have
not been as fortunate as Mr Cleve-
land and Mr Harrison. There is
a warm feeling through the pages
of history for the widow of Mr
Custis,who married George Wash-
ington, and Dorothy Madison was
sufficiently popular to be general-
ly mentioned as Dolly. The Peggy
O'Neil,who gave Andrew Jackson
his domestic consolation, was a
means to unending trouble and
• onset, being very pretty and
considerably unconventional. The
wife of Mr Polk still lives if she
hasn't recently died, and is a very
agreeable old lady; andtbe Pierce
family have so faded out that no-
body knows whether a .single
member of it is living or dead.
• Mr • Bachacrftrh st h wife- lo -ng -
before he' married her ; and his
neice, who became mistress of the
White House, married before the
expiration of his term. The wife
of Grant is a plain, practical, sen-
sible woman, who will have the
respect of the people as long as
she lives, and thereafter. The
Wife of Andrew Johnson was never
a -prominent figure in the White
•lfouse,though she taught Andrew
to read and write. Lucy B.Ilayes
was and is a motherly woman
without any especial attractions.
The wife of President Arthur was
the daughter of Captain IIerndon,
who went down
wi h his hi
p
somewhere between .'an Francisco
ienchind to another, filling h
is
and New York 4nm�tlne in •vQ stomach with all kinds of mix.
or thereabouts. '-Che wife of (gar-' tures. When he .had eaten 80
cents worth he began to show his
disgust ; at 45 cent's worth he
he stuck. IIe had bet 51he could
cat 50 cents worth of candy, but
he paid it rather than eat the last
iant s' worth."
r
A young lady of respectable
parents in St. Catharines has got
herself into a rather embarrassing
predicament lately. She has been
in the habit of collecting, osten-
sibly for a missionary society,
but in reality for herself. Her
excuse, when questioned • about
the matter, was that she did not
receive sufficient pin money to
clothe her as stylish as the other
girls in her sot, and she decided
upon the course she took to in-
crease her exchequer. She has
left the city.
Mr Casper Douglas Pyne, M. P.
for Waterford West, Ireland,
whose melancholy death from
drowning by falling from a
steamer, is reported, is the Ilome
Ruler who attained world-wide
notoriety by shutting himself up
in his fortified castle at Lisfarny
last year, and defying the author-
ities to arrest him for addressing
public meetings in Ireland, con-
trary to the provisions of the
Coercion Act. He was the son of
an Episcopal rector in ;Galway,
Ireland, and was returned by ne-
clamation at last general election.
NEWS NOTES.
Mr S. D. Ross, mot chant at
Bancroft, Ont.,has purchased the
skins of forty-four bears, all of
which were killed in that local-
ity this season.
A Bangor lawyer, who is noted
for his absent mindedness, went
up his own stairs the other day,
and seeing a notice on his door,
"Back at 2 o'clock," sat down to
wait for himself.
The Manitoba Government bus
stopped work on the Portage
extension for the winter, and
Western Manitoba farmers have
no chance of being relieved from
the monopoly this year.
The Winnipeg Free Press and
Call declined to go on with their
ease against Ministers Greenway
and Martin before the Royal Com-
mission, and the inquiry has fallen
through.
It is stated on good authority
that Rev. Father Chiuiquy has
felt himself compelled, on account
of ago, to give up his travels, and
intends to settle down in Montreal
for the remainder of his days.
A Baltimore dressmaker used or
pr•etendea to use 22 yards of cloth
in a dress which could have been
made with sixteen, and a jury
made her pay for six yards. It
was the first case ever won
against a dressmaker in the State.
The Amhersburg Echo utters a
warning to Essex farmers to be on
the lookout for a party of swindl-
ers who have been cheating the
farmers in eastern counties of the
province, and aro now operating
in IInron county and travelling
to\'; aril Kent and Essex.
Deceased was itt his ,list year.
The manner itt which the Alas-
ka Indians are being corrupted
by the profligacy of miners and
other whites in the Territories is
a burning disgrace to American
eivilizatiou. Mrs Voorhees, a
New York lady who has returned
from Sitka, says it is quite a com-
mon thing for miners to purchase
young Indian girls of twelve or
thirteen from their parents, and
to abandon the poor little things
as soon es from disease they be-
come unsuitable for pandering to
their brutal teassions. It is not
uneomMon for the children to---be-
carried off by force. The revel-
ations she makes 0,are horrible.
Instant action by the Fedora/Gov.'
ernment is called for unless the
object is to destroy the Indians,
soul and body:
A Kansas City confectioner
says that "it is safe to bet that
I nobody can cat 50 cents worth of
candy. I saw it tried the other
day. Two young feliows ;came
in, one of whom bet that he could
do it. IIe started on what he
thought were the most expensive
candies, and missed it. The can-
dies he selected were made prin-
cipally for show. Ile went fr•orn
NEWS NOTES. ' NEWS NOTES. I NEWS NOTES NEWS NOTES.
Something now in polities i@ 1 Asingle bottle of Ayer's SarsaparillaI The Australian Government i
where,a 1)Cal paper states, an as a blood purifier. Many thousands s
reported from Mobile, Ala. will establish the merits of this medicine building a fence of wire netting
elector tried to get a steamboat
mate to have a gang rotten egg
him ata meeting he was to address,
so that he could make political
capital out of the affair.
An ingenious inventor has de-
vised a now screw —half nail and
half screw ; two blows of the ham-
mer, two turns of the screwdriver,
and it is in. Its holding power
in white pine is said to be 332
pounds, against 298 pounds, the
holding power cif the present
screw.
The revenue of the Dominion
from all sources for the four
months ended October 31st was
512,948,053, and the expenditure
59,255,041, showing an increase
in revenue and a reduction in ex-
penditure. The October revenue
was 53,421,409, of which 82,129,-
265 was from Customs. The net
debt of the Dominion at October
31st wtis 5233,666,187.
A Washington despatch to the
New York Herald says there is
the highest authority for the
statement that an effort is being
made to secure the re -appointment
of Lord Sackville as minister to
that country when the Harrison
admiristration comes into power.
Mrs Hannah J. Bailey, super-
tendent of the peace department
of the National W. C. T. U., is
ono of the most notable business
women in the country. She car-
ries on a lunge factory in New
Jersey, a wholesale and retail
stm•o in Portland, and a large
farm near Winthrop. In all she
employs about 150 men.
field, who had more of old-fash-
ioned morality. in. her than her
husband had, is living and forgot-
ten, though comfortably well off
and worthy of the largest respect.
The wife
of :Ster Blaine, for whomm
it is too late to bo President, is Great Cx,_itcmcllt prevails at
Dot popular, .and would bo leas !•,,0 t
if she were.) mare conspicuous. Redwing, Minn., over the report
This brief review skips islrs .Lin- 'p1' a horrible crime committed
(0111, of whom the less $uis the 1 Thursday night, near Trempeloan
Letter, Lut whose weakness went !Avis. :st the opening of the
far to matte president Lineeltl hl'tntil,,r ioason each year the
the mast patient Maul that eVcr' Winnelogos indulge in curtain
lived. ceremonies to proeuro a good
season's hauling. • Theys began
i ,rinei• in the MeekcticaG?lrtet'y thole orgies Thursday evening.
repot l a terrible sl,night•cr on Daring the excitement a young
deer by a elves e-te, a inter, Once ,uek jumped into th(' neater of the
the snow comes these hoists play ring of danecrs,and scizipgti young
havoc with game, Some inhabit- i girl .1)3,4, the hair, di'ngjeett her into
ants in that neighborhood have on the center and eta,hed her several
mere than One Oec9<ion found from ; times in the breast. Ire then
rl:tbbl(•tl his hands in the warm
L1 tnrl \vhirh gushed from the
wounds and smeared it over his
which act was fi1lo\vt. l 1;
•ovet'nl nth('1'-. l vcry elfnrt \sill
1.., tna le 10 ,e("ire 1hr (aidIlt•e of
the ineel„I', r
Peter McMaster hay passed
through the village of Vankteek
Hill with six horses. There have
been warrants out for him for the
last six months, and it seems
that then e isn't a constable in the
county who will arrest hint. ile
is running around the county de-
fying the law and all the con-
stables, carrying agun and a pis-
tol with him,
of people are yearly cured of chronic
diseases by the faithful use of this rem-
edy. It is unequalled for the cure of
scrofula.
"There is a divinity that shapes
our ends, rough-hew them how we
will." Tho truth contained in
this famous assertion is well illus-
trated by the failure of William
Brown, a grocer of Collamer, 0.,
to commit•suieide on Sunday. He
cut his throat and exploded three
kegs of gunpowder in his store,
He spoiled a razor, ruined his place
of business, but failed to ao himself
any aerious physical injury.
Concerning the troubles be-
tween Rev. Mr Jeffery and cer-
tain members of his church and
Trustees itt Toronto, the Mail
says: "What tho upshot of the
whole affair will bo no ono can
say. Each side accuses the other
of deliberate lying, and until the
truth, and the whole truth, is told
there will be discord in the
'Western Methodist Church. IIad
it not been for the present trouble
the new church would in all prob-
ability have been opened ere this.
To -day no one Can say when 14
will be completed."
The infant son of Mr. Foy,
Wilton avenue, Toronto, died on
Friday as a result of a lamentable
accident. It appears that on
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Foy
went upstairs to her bedroom,
taking with her the child. - She
laid the little one down and gave
it, as she supposed, an empty per-
fume bottle to play with. There
was no cork in the bottle, and
Mrs. Foy was not aware that it
contained a number of:.,morphine
pills. The child had scarcely got
the bottle in its hand than it rais-
ed it to its mouth and swallowed
part of the contents. The child
soon after became ill, but' the real
cause of its ailment was not dis-
covered until too late.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
has gained ti temporary victory
over the people of Manitoba. It
is announced from Winnipeg that
work on the Portage link, intend-
ed to give relief to the people
from railway monoply, has been
stopped, owing to inclement wea-
ther. Perhaps it was this result
that Van Horne was fighting for
all the time. His object could
have been defeated if the Domin-
ion Government had not stood in
with him and taken sides against
the Province.
A Dallas, Tex., despatch says
Mss, Jeielbe-Ilireclr; eaf—-avarro
County, gave birth to six children
on the ' afternoon of Saturday,
Nov. 3rd. The mother and :chil-
dren.. are tieing well, and .rho
father is trying to be happy. A
reporter who visited the home-
stead found about 100 people pre-
sent, all examining the babies.
There are four boys and two girls.
The father, George Hirsch, is 31
and his wife 27. They have been
married five yetirs and have three
children besides the recent acces-
sion•Hirsch is of German des-
cent 'and has named the boys
Frederick, Mills, Cleveland and
Thurman. The girls are Victoria
and Louise. oui.•1
c. All are perfectly
tf
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proportioned, but very small.
The babies all seem healthy. The
Hirsch family is poor, and the
mother is a large, healthy woman.
The babies aro all tagged to pre -
their indentity.
thirty to forty good sizel dear year
ly killed by those ferocio'ts boasts.
The government's grant of Cit per
hear} for plc), wolf slaughtered (tors
not s et i to hays tho efleet of intlnr-
ing; many til unset+ll.r' ti ` a:ir'itt
of tiose ;tnim•tls.
The Birmingham Unionists
have decided to present an ad-
dress to Mr Chamberlain on bis
reWr•n home with bis bride. They
will also present an address to Mr
Bright on his 77th birthday.. Mr
Bright continues to be confined to
hie bed with a slight renewal of
bronchitis. His son writes that
it will be impossible for his fath-
er to resume his place in Parla-
ment for a long time.
8))000 miles long, to divide New
South Wales and Queensland, in
order to keep the jack rabbits out
of the lattor country.
The .coasting steamer Vaitaria
which left Cutch, India, for . Bom-
bay with 900 natives on board is a
week overdue. It is supposed she
foundered in a recent cyclone, and
that all hands were lost.
Marriage must be a failure among
the Russian peasantry. Upoaa con-
vict ship conveying women only to
Sagalien, in per cent. of the prison-
ers had been convicted of killing
'their husbands.
Mrs. W. M. Dills, of Springfield,
Mo., has charge of a stock farm,
and is said to be the best judge of
horseflesh in that vicinity. She
comes naturally by her knowledge,
as she is a Kentucky woman,
William Brignall, of lot 19, 4th
concession of Pickering,was found
dead in his bed Thursday morning.
He was fifty years old, and retired
previous night in good health.
Heart disease is supposed to have
been the cause of his death.
The late J. 13. Shurtlefl' of
Ayer's Flat, who died suddenly
about a week ago, has willed the
bulk of his great fortune, estimat-
ed at over 5150,000, to the Con-
gregational Missionary. Soeiety of
Canada,—$25,000 being loft in
legacies to•relatives. Ho specified
that the bequest be invested and
the interest used in missionary
work, one half of it to be used in
and around his nettive town,
Ras Alula, the Abyssinian gen-
oral, is a striking -looking) man,
about 5 feet 9 inches in height.
He is 40 years of ago. Ile is ox.
trcmely muscular, a magnificent
horseman and a find shot. IIis
complexion is coppercolored, his
face ova}, his nose well cut, his
mouth small aitd his teeth are per-
fect. HIO has a Very pleasing
manner at times, and when he
smiles his face is very attractive.
But be is very stern in his duties
as a military leader, and when
engaged` in a diplomatic mission
can be as immovable as a statue.
The following speaks well for
the• wort: of another Canadian
abroad : Mi-. John Robertson,
jun., a younger brother of Prof. J.
W. Robertson, of the Ontario
Agricultural College, has spent
the past season as dairy instructor
in the southwest of Scotland. At
the great dairy show held at Lon-
don, England; his pupils carried
off the first prize for the best ton
of cheese ; second prize for the
best four cheddar cheese, and the
cup and medal for the best lot of
cheese on exhibition. At the
Kilmarnock show •of dairy pro-
ducts, held on the 2Gth of October,
his pupils won the first prize of
£20 for the best cheese of any
make, the first place in the sweep-
stakes competition for the best
cheese of any make, the first for
the best ton of cheese exhibited,
besides .a number of minor prizes.'
Kilmarnock show is the largest of
its kind in the world.
"Dr", David Hostetter, •the bit-
ters man, died in New York city
the other day. IIe was a Penn-
sylvanian °by birth, who went to
California in '50, crossing the Isth-
mus of Panama upon a mule
and going thence to San Francisco
in company with Commodore
Garrison and Ralston, the fu'turc
banker. He kept a grocery store
in San Francisco for three months
and was then burned out. In '53
he began the manufacture at
rittsburg of his bitters front a
formula supplied by his father, an
educated physician, and,it is said,
peddled his goods through the
street in a wheelbarrow. He
originated Pittsburg's natural gas
enterprise,having in '75 taken the
gas in rubber' bags to that eityifor
analysis. IIe carried a life in-
surance policy of over 5300,000.
.Modern conveniences add to the
burdens of the President-elect of
T•
1 States to an
alarming
the
L arise Sat
extent. But the other day Gen-
eral
e
eral Iiari•ison's daily mail rarely
exceeded a dozen let tors and pap-
ers. IIe now receives it in an
express waggpn:. Tuesday's grist.
included fifteen hundred letters
and four bags of newspapers, to
say nothing of a hundred tele-
grams. The General requests the
press to announce that he would
like very mtu li to formally, at
least, acknowledge every (ant=
thlutication sent him, but that
there are now seven thousand un-
answered epistles on his hands,
and he must abandon the at temps
,l very largo proportion ei
letters are reminders from et
}Wising eilirens that. they 1
served the Republican party f:
frilly, and now wish to Outer
ser\'iee of their country.
thirst 1 r oilier is 1.0111;11 10k,
A curious museum has been
opened at Dresden. In it incrcol-
lected boots, shoes and slippers
which emperors, kings, queens,
princes and other famous persons
have.worn. Among them are a
pair of boots worn by Napoleon
h at the battle of Dresden, on
April 27, .1313, and a pair of
w`tite satin shoes embroidered .in
gold, which the same great emper-
or,wore on the clay of his corona-
tion ; another- pair of strong lea-
ther boots which belonged to the
famous French marshal Murat;
afterward Icing of the Cicilies ; a
pair of hint -heeled boots of Maria
Theresa ; hoots of the:philosopher
Kant.
The official report on tho great
Yukon River, just made by the
Dominion ,explorers, shows that
forBritish mile it is
i la BL 1tL h tCr-
600
ritory. This includes 200 miles
of the gold -mining' regions where
the chief mining carnps aro situat-
ed. The river is 2,300 miles long,
of which 2,000 are navigable with-
out a single rapid or portage. Its
breadth is six to seven miles in
places and swinges three:or four.
Rivers emptying into the Yukon
are broader than the Hudson at
New York. Little of the region
traversed is fit for agricultural
purposes, although there arc was•
leys suit alto (or stock raising.
I'otatoes ani) other vegetables
canal to the best produi'ed in On -
.;o air raise) at the further
the tat
ilii'. t ediern poste of the Ilndsnn Bay
arcs (''trnpnn•y. 'i'hc country al ,ntttjs
lid,. \vitlt minerals and the winters ills,
the list more severely fell than
Thr of central l'.aniuln,
Conservatives who subscribed
towards the funds of the Empire
have been notified that the fifth
call on the capital stock will be
made shortly.
James Edward Beswick, a well-
known insurance man, ofToronto,
was accidentally shot and killed
by his friend, Edward Apted, near ee
Ashbridge's Bay, on Thursday.
The legal expenses in connection
with the Parnell Commission are
estimated at 515 a minute. Seven
thousand pounds of the Parnell
defence fund have already been
spent.
A Washington correspondent
'say s President Cleveland has saved
one-half of his salary -5100,000.
As Mrs Cleveland has a fortune
in her own r'ght of a similar a-
mount, the couple will not starve
while the ex -President is looking
for a new lob.
The latest Canadian ranch cattle
arrivals in England are meeting
with better sale. An average of 3s
per stone is now obtainable, equal
to 5d per pound. The first ship-
ments of 430 Northwest sheep met
a market, with no difficulty in
handling. It is believed the trial
will encourage large shipment next
season.
A. town in Alabama, in which
the merchants were very much be-
hind with their collections as well
as payments, quarantined itself
against the world in order to shut
out collectors. In this way they
got time to make collections there..
selves, and when a sufficient amount
was collected to meet their own
liabilities they raised the quarantine
and allowed Mr "Grip -Sack" to
come and get his share of the spoils.
Italian physi(iansare again try
ing the effect of color in the treat-
ment of the insane. It was only
a few years ago that the" blue
light " tram was so much in
vogue, but now everything must
be red. An eminent physician of
Italy cites the case of a person
afflicted with melancholia who re-
fused to eat anything. This pa-
tient was placed in one of these
red -rooms and the affect of the
color was to make.him as cheerful
as a sane person; end in three days
he voluntarily asked for • every
r_resal. A Pittsburgh physician is
testing it in this country, but
most insanity experts put little
faith in the use of colors.
IIadji Bassein Khouli Khan,
Persian Ambassador at Washing-
ton, always sleeps with his hands
resting in a pan of cold water. IIe
got into this habit partially be-
cause he has been Used to a warm
climate and could• cool his blood
in this way, and also because in
Teheran mosquitoes are a great
pest. Iladji claims that a mos-
quito will not bite it man who
g
1 inwater.
has both hands
)l lit C(l
r19 Ot
He asserts that it is heated blood
which a mosquito desires, and
that a person whose veins have
have been slightly chilled offers
no attractions to the pernicious
insect. Ilis remarks in this re•
gard should receive careful atten-
tion, especially in New Jersey.
Chiidren Cry for
An extraordinary burglary occurr-
ed last week in New Orleans. No
rain had fallen there for six weeks,
and a water famine was the consegn
ence. In one part of the city where
water was scarce a -Mr Lorio had
erected a cisteru which he kept
well supplied. The other morning,
however, he awoke to find that
burglars got his cistern, and as he
cannot indentify Iris lost property
the chimps of its recovery are hope-
less.
At Newmarket, on Thursday
afternoon, a man named John
Aikey, after• getting as drunk as the
money he hadwould allow,deliber-
ately mixed five grains of strychnine-
in whiskey, drank some and died.
Drink and continuous quarrels with
his wife were the causes of his sui-
cide. He had no children. He
recti tly served a term in Barrie
jail for some petty crime.
Mr H. J. Drew, who left Osha-
wa a few years ago for Dakota,
has returned and purchased u
farm near Harmony. His fanner,
Mr Jos. Drew, a resident of the
same locality, will return also iu
the spring. They think Canada
is good enough for them.
A young man named Patrick
Collins, while scouting at a pig -
con match on Sleontan's flats;
Guelph, on Thurstlay,had his right
eye destroyed. He was using an
old rifle which had been convert-
ed into a breechloader. In the
hurry to shoot a stray pigeon he
did not properly shut the breech,
and a portion of the charge struck
him in the face.
Mr D. S. Horning, lot 55, 2nd
con., Ancaster,, planted two bush-
els of potatoes last spring, and
this autumn took from the field
itt which the seed had been set no
fewer than 52 bags. In addition
a family of eight had taken their
daily, supplies from early in the
season till the final harvesting,
a few days ago. Is not that a
phenomenal yield ?
Two years ago James Troke,
'75 years old, a resident of'Letang,
in Charlotte County, became
mentally deranged, and threaten-
ed to take his life rather than be
a burden on his friends. IIe built
a edfiiu for himself, took it into
the woods some two miles from
home, dug a grave and placed the
coffin in- it. When found the
coffin lid was raised, resting on a
stick, with boughs and sods on top
of it. The would-be suicide re-
moved the coffin farther away.
Three weeks ago he disappeared
front home, arid when found the
outer day his dead body was lying
in a coffin, which was uncovered.
Several phials, supposed to contaiues
poison, Were found in the coffin.
A special from Springfield, Mo.,
says :—A rumor reached this city
'this morning from Christian county,
the home of the famous Bald Knob-
ber king, Dave Walker, that five of
the witnesses who testified against
him' in his trial 'for murder have.
been lynched by exisBald Knobbers.
It is said the friurids of Walker
waited until the Supreme Court had
passed upon his case, and when -it
was announced that the ex -chief
must hang they wreaked vengeance
on the five leading witnesses who
brought him within the shadow of
the gallows.
The English Board of Trade re-
turns show an improved Canadian
trade. The exports of Canada dur-
ing October expanded £85,510,
equal to 25 per cent. over October
1887. °The ten months show a
decrease cf 0,1 per cent. The
expansion covers horses, spirits,
manufactures and iron. Imports
from Canada decreased $91,107,
eq'lal to 81, per cent• for the month
This is
for
n101ttlie. •
and
13 the ten
chiefly due to the decrease of t101,-
478 in wheat arrivals during the
month, arising frolic the lateness of
the Canadian harvest, Flour in-
creased .C21,760 : cheese, •C27,V21 ;
-,utter decreased X29, lel.
A committee
i 1 •
n tthori�c( the
h
Quarterly Board of the Dimas
Street Center Methodist Church of
London gavea call to the Rev. A.
C. Courticc, 13. A., B. D., now in
his third year itt the Parliament
Street Methodist Church Toronto,
In the earlier gays of his ministry,
Rev. Mr Courtice was paetor of
the Bible Christian ('lttu'ch in ism -
don South. Sinoe et trdisL Union
he has steadily been rising in the
rank; of sltcces:4f11 prca(hors. A
Port hope t11p11lattirnt \v11; after
him in Tor'mtr' at the sante time,
and several other r hnrche- were
ready to t;i\4h hint a (all, batt he
de•id'al in favor n1' 1)'utdas ('enter,
subject to the Stet ioniny att,l Trans-
its'. Committees, end \kill succeed
liev..1, V. Smit,, who it is under-
stood has a (,ill to Toronto.
Oregon and. Washington.
No section of the country is to -day
attracting as much attenion as Mon-
tana, Oregon and Washington; Mon-
tana, because it uow ranks first in
the production of precious metal ;
Oregon, because of its rich valleys,
and Washington Territory by reason
of its mild climate, timber, coal min-
erals and wonderful production of
fruits and cereals. The rapid growth
of Spokane Falls, with a water power
exceeding even that of Minneapolis :
Tacoma, or Puget Sound, the termin-
us of the Northern Pacific Railway,
with 12,000 inhabitants•; Seattle, 30
miles distant, an energetic and thriv-
ing city, mark this section of the Pa-
cifie Northwest as one that' offers • pe-
ouliar inducements to those seeking
new homer. .,
By writing Chas. Fee, General Pas-
senger Agent, Northern Pacific Rail.
way,St. Paul, Minn.,he will send you
illustrated pamphlets, maps and
books giving you valuableinformation
in reference to the country traversed
by this great line from St. Paul, Min-
neapolis, Duluth and Ashland to
Portland, Oregon, and Tacoma and
Seattle, Washington Territory, This
road, in addition to being the only
line to Spokane Falls, Tacoma and
Seattle, reaches all the principal
points in Northern Minnesota and
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, possesses unequalled
scenic attraet' ia aswell as superior
or
tarin equipment, such
as dining cars,
and colonist sleepers ,for the use of
intending settlers, neither of which
conveniences are to be found nn any
other line ticketing business to the
States and Territories named.
BETTER TIIA N EVER.
The�c 1�
A Philadelphia business man
tolls this incident of Mr Blaine's
visit to London. One clay he hap-
pened in the establishment of a well-
known bootmaker and asked .to see
some shoes. having selected a
pair to his liking, Mr Blaine inquir-
ed 'the cost, at the same time casual-
ly remarking that ho- had been re-
ferred to the house by a friend in
Lancashire, front which district he
had himself just run up to London
for a short time, ""tut you are not
tin Englishmen, sir," said the Atten-
dant who was waiting on him. --
"And why not I" said Mr Blaine.
" Do i no look like an Englishman!
And dirt 1 not say that I hailed front
i,aneashive " Von may have ,just
come from Lancashire, and 1 do not
say that your looks are not English,"
ansaere(} the salesman, "l,llt an
Englishman would not have asketl
tho 'ono' of these 1i0e4, A1C lin
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