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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-10-18, Page 2t_ Subscribers who no eat reeeive)tbetr MP, r premptty w111 please notify Us et once Advertising rates on appll'avion. THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1894. Week's 0011 mereiai Summary. From twelve to seventeen tons of lee can now be produced per ton of ooi,l by the of someammonia, r a d other x n e chemic 1 a refrigerating tIng systems. , In 1835 Jamaica exported 150,000 hop - heads of sugar and 59,090 punoheous of rum, but now the :island produces only 16,000 hogsheads and 14,00U puncheons;. We are pleased to report alarge falling off in failures in the. Dominion last week. They numbered 29, as compared rod with 55 the previous week, and 44 the same week a year ago. Ontario heads the list with 20. Quebec had only seven, Nova Scotia. .and Manitoba one each. The number of co-operative societies in 'England has grown during the last twen- ty years from 746 to 1,65b; their capital has increased from $12,000,000 to $86,- ,000,000, and their profits from $3,500,000 ,to $28,000,000 per annum. These figures are somewhat startling. The eo-opera- tive institutions in the United States that have proved successful may be counted upon one's fingers, An item of interest to those engaged in the oil industry in the County of Lamb - eon has come to our knowledge within the past few days. Hitherto new terri- tory has chiefly been looked for west of Pstrolia, but now a promising find has been made some six or seven miles east, in the Township of Brooke, about eight miles south of Watford, on the Baker farm, in the eighth concession, at a depth of 410 feet. There is a good prospect of oil in paying quantities, and it is, we be- lieve, the feat oil struck in the vicinity, although whether it is the bonanza some think it is remains to bo seen. At a meeting of dairymen recently held at Ottawa the following resolution was passed.: "That whereas it is the general opinion of this meeting of Dominion but- ter manufacturers that something should be done towards having our butter placed in better condition on the British mar- ket, with a view of securing for us a larg- er portion of the trade with that country; Resolved, that Mr. F. L. Tache, John Croll, L. Castell and D. Derbyshire be named a committee to lay the views of this meeting before the Dairy Commis- sioner, Prof. Robertson, in order that he may bring the matterbefore the Minister of Agriculture and members of the Do- minion Government." There is a growing feeling of hopeful anticipation in Montreal trade circles, though country payments are still a very weak feature in the situation. There are those, however, who propose to believe that some improvement is probable in this particular, basing their belief upon the fact that dairy products, wool, hops, ete., are bringing good prices, and upon the expectation that the revised United States tariff will help the sale of lumber, hay, etc. General country and travel- lers' advices would indicate that stocks are on the low side, and there is evidently more of a disposition to buy, though a commendable degree of precaution is still apparent in this respect, and large or- ders are the exception. The stook mar- ket shows a revival of interest, with some notable advances, and quite an active amount of trading in some lines, though bank stocks remain quiet. Money is in ample supply, call loans being readily negotiable at 4 per cent. Dan's review of the trade situation in the United States says: "The lowest prices ever known for wheat and cotton necessarily imply somewhat restricted -consumption of other products. With the chief money crops of the west and soath sinking in value, it is not strange that purchases of manufactured products .are smaller than was expected. Wheat Was touched the lowest point ever known for options. and cotton the lowest ever known in any form, while the present classification and the accumulation of stocks in both products is discouraging- to iscouragingto purchasers for an advance. Prodacers are compelled to sell at prices below the ordinary cost of raising crops, and in some Western States there is also a la- mentable failure of the corn crop. In the eircumstances, it would be very strange it the demand for the manufac- tured products should be quite as large •assn other years. The condition of the industries is in somerespeetssatisfactory. The new demand in dry goods is not as. large as it has been, and in spring goods the market is called remarkably good, 'though there is relatively a good deal do- ing in current orders for the fall. trade. Cotton print cloths are a shade stronger. Woollens are less active, and, while there are numerous small orders for fall goods, the demand for spring goods is as yet not more than about three; quarters of the ordinary quantity, and mainly limited to the cheaper grades. Indicated by the exchanges at the principal clear- ing houses the volume is 11.8 per cent. larger than ayear ago. The failures for the present week have been 2111, against 620 in the United States last year." HERE AND THERE. Graduate your flannels to the weather. and save a doctor's bill. xxx Europe is in danger of war and Rus- sia's man of peace, Alexander III., is dy- ing. xxx When the great powers say they want peace in the East, it is a piece of China they mean. xXX Daring the lull in active hostilities one has time to wonder how Li Hung Chang gets on these cold nights without his yel- low jacket, xxx At Stratford an action for breachof promise brought by a man against a wo- man netted the plaintiff one dollar with - old costs. Wounded hearts of the mascu- line gender secure little sympathy from either judges or juries. XXX' In Chicago the highwaymen assault ' androb the, policemen. In New York the policemen have turned highwaymen and assault and rob the citizens. Surely the U. S. is a great country. Ion pay your money and take your choice, Xxx The former family lawyer of the<Sonlds, Thos. G. Shearrnan, having been un:stie- cessf.al in collecting fxis fees, width hs plaeed at $150,000, for legal servioee ren- dered the late Jay Gould during his life. Mae, has 'begun an ,action ,i n :the Sti. preme Court to recover the amount from the executors. XXX Mfrs, Peary, the wife of the explorer, says it s mistake to allude to her has= band as a seeker for the north pole. His. object has been, an 1 still is, to delineate the northern coast of Greenland. No one can tell how far Greenland extends north- ward, and Lieut, Peary says no matter how high it runs he is determined to fol- low it. Mrs. Peary thinks she may at out a ship herself and return to Green- land next summer. x X x Topeka women suffragists intend to displaydt evidence of their emancipation by parading the streets in knickerbock- ers, The desire for men's dress appears to be a; peculiarity of advanced female thinkers. They apparently associate skirts' with slavery and pantaloons with politics, and set about to obtain the latter garment by the same process as the l itGlo boy does, going firt through a course of knee breeches bob re, attaining the higher distinction of wearing trousers. It is plainly the wearing of the breeches the Kansas ladies desire. xxx Dramatis personals, He and She. Time, Wednesday evening. (Bath going out of the building.) She (putting up her face) -Why, it's raining. He (craning his neck) -0h, no, it isn't. She -But it is, I caught a drop on my face, He (with a world of meaning) -Oh, but you know. Miss Penis, your face would catch anything, Let us hope they will get married and live happily ever afterward. xxx Toronto pays $62 a day for law expen- ses; $68 for jail aeeommodation ; $75 for damage claims; $82 for park mainte- nance , $92 for market accommodation ; $92 for the free library; $11(3 for thelocal board of health ; $271 for civic charity; $$362 for street lighting ; $180 for fire de- partment ; $466 for waterworks mainte- nance ; $680 for police ; $1,828 for schools, high, public and separate ; and $2,424 for interest. This calculation of the per diem expenditure of the city for the seve- ral services named is estimated on the basis of last year's statement, and there has certainly been no decrease since then. xxx An interesting case was witnessed in a Montreal court the other day in which a Chinese laundryman, Ting Kee by name, charged another man with doing damage to his property. The ca -ie was interest- ing on account of the unique mann -r in which the Chinese took the oath. Ting Kee stepped into the box, a china saucer. of very pretty pattern was handed him, he broke it on the floor and Judge Dugas re- cited the following formula : a` You swear to tell the troth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The saucer is broken, may your soul be cracked into as many pieces as the saucer if you do not tell the truth." Then Ting See told his story. OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS. The Extent to Wliioh it Has Been Adopted by Nations. Here is a list of railroads owned by Governments as compiled by the Encyclo- pedia Brittaniea :- Austria owns and operates nearly 2,000 miles of railway. Baden owns 829 miles of railway, Bavaria had 1,906 miles of railway own- ed by the Government. Belgium owns about 2,000 miles of rail- way. Some 181 miles of railroad is owned by Ceylon. Chili owns 670 miles. China owns and. operates all ll her rail- ways. The United States 'of Columbia owned 218 miles in 1890. Denmark has about 1,000 miles owned by the Government.. France owns about 2,000 miles, but most or quite all is leased to companies. The German Empire owns about 21,810 miles, England and Wales own 14,084 miles. Scotland has 8,118 miles belonging to the Slat Ireland owns 226 miles. Hesse owns 226 miles of her railway system. A. large per cent. of the railways of Italy belong to the Government, but are leased to companies. Japan owns 608 miles. The colony of Natal owns 805 miles. The Netherlands has nearly 1,000 miles owned by the Gouernment. New South Wales owns 2,182 miles. New Zealand in 1890 owned 672 miles. Norway has 929 miles or her. own. Portugal owns about one-half of the railroads of the country. Oldenburg owns 222 miles of her rail- roads. Pere has 1,621 miles . owned by the state. Roumania, in. 1890 owned 1,590 miles. Poland and Caucasia. own 5,065 miles. S Neden owns 1,645 miles. Victoria. Au-tralia, owns all her rail- roads -2.84i mills. Some 1,137 mikes of railroad in Finland belongs to Russia. About one-tenth of the Government. S rvia also has a few lines of railway owned by the state. Brazil owns and operates2,091 miles, South Austria o,'ns her railway sys- tem.. God's Country. A few years ago when the annual en- campm'ne of the G. A. R. was held at Portland, a few delegates from the "wild and woolly," of that class who are eternal- ly oralnn t in g the advantages of what they term "God':: country" down everybody's throats, took a jaunt up that way to see the county and sneer at "primitive msthrels." , tc. In a particularly rocky and unrg srction of the State they alighted at the station for exercise, and ran across an aged farmer sitting on a baggage truck and chewing tobacco. Well, ye dctu't look as though ye'd had a boom here lately," said the Kansas man. ad. ea ssing the aged. agriculturist, "you fellows are foolish to stay in this country, w here ye have to do spring ploughing with a pickaxe and yer plant- ing with a shotgun. I she'd think ye'd starve to death. Why don't ye come out to ICaneas? Not a stump or stone in sight; soil ten feet deep; crops o' one seer make ye rich." Tho Maine man Listened with a face fall of interest and finally took a fresh chew of tobacco. He rose from the baggage truck and raced the erowd of Kansans. -"So ye1re all loin' well., are ye ? I'in mighty glad. to hear it, 1 m holdin' six mortgages. on Kansas,farms to -day, and if you fellers will just keep it up and pay your interest DB try ,and ,pull .along .tiela0.°t NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. THE '4'1 EEK'$ HAPPEuN.G$. Interesting Items and Inoidenta, iinnort. ant and instructive. Qathered from the Vartous ,Provictcea, • Inwood wants an elevator, Kintyre, Ont„ has now a postoffioe. Sweet potatoes are growing in Aylmer. Stratford now has. a "Jack the Hug - it er. Galt is to have ineendeecent street lights. The postoffica at Greenway has been robbed. The Guelph Humane Society wants a ourfew bell. Thainis now a telephone office at. Wales, Ont. Thorold is troubled with firebugs and burglars. Alt'inston merchants complain of soar city of iee. Firebugs are operating in Chatham township. In Calgary fine gardens are produced by irrigation. A Belleville man has a healthy second crop of raspberries. Preston is thinking of building a large town hall for itself. Typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent just now in 'Winnipeg. A creamery on the joint stook plan is being erected in Uuiouville. The population of Windsor this year is 11,452 against 10,870 last year. At the Orangeville fair a quilt com- posed of 88,278 blocks was shown, The Ball Telephone Company will erect a $55,000 building at Montreal. Becton will have spent $14,000 for im- provements by the end of the year. There are over 100 acres in the vicin- ity of Georgetown under hop culture. In some sections of Ontario grasshop- pers have destroyed the turnip crop. At Portage la Prairie this season build- ings worth $71.50) have been erected. The Kern Brewery, recently destroyed by fire in Port Huron, will be rebuilt. It is esti•nated that over 1,000 acres are under grape culture in Essex county. It is said Canadian natural gas piped into Buffalo is to be made free of duty. A fine brick hotel is to be erected on the site of the old Batt House, Port Stan- ley. C. P. Cook, of West Oxford, at one shot killed fifty-two blackbirds on the wing. An eagle was shot at Rideau Lake last week measuring six feet five inches from tip to tip. Mayor Stewart of Hamilton has been fined $1 and ousts IQr eerst lting Williattl, Lottridge. The new Methodist church at Moore - town, Gananoque circuit, was opened last Sanday, The travelling dairy from the Guelph Agricultural College is making a tour of Essex county. Rev. Father Smith, the new pastor at he Merritton Catholic Church, has as- sumed his pastorate. The London papers want the G. T. R. property north ofthat city converted into a national park. A few days ago a tree near Fergus was found to contain more than a washtub full of honeycomb. At a meeting of the Quebec Cabinet Hon. L. 0. Tarpon was chosen Provincial Treasurer pro tem. An Indian caught a maskinonge in Sparrow. Lake last week that weighed 35 pounds when dressed. Lewis Dell, an old man from the Nia- gara district, has been fined $10 for hug- ging Stratford ladies. Natural gas has been discovered on the farm of Mr. Matthew Coiling, near East- man's Springs, Ont. Canadian Pacific securities were firmer in London last week. The money market generally was lethargic. There will be a long list of lands for sale in the County of Frontenac on ac- count of non-payment of taxes. This year the Provincial University, Fredericton, N.B., has the largest ma- triculating class in its history. The gospel ship Wm. Booth, which met with serious disaster some weeks ago, is at Port Dalhousie for repairs. William Rand, of Shelburne, threw himself under the wheels of a locomotive Monday. He was cut in twain. The headquarters of the Singer Sewing Machine Company for Western Ontario will soon be removed to Chatham. There is litigation between the widow and son over the will of the late W. C. McLeod, the Woodstock millionaire. The public revenue for the first quarter of the fiscal year shows a decline of $1,- 830,000. A large deficit is expected. Mr. Warner, near Bandeau, recently threshed and sold 830 bush ds of beans. from four acres at $1.20 per bushel. Constable McDermott, of the North- west Mounted Police at Battleford, has just :fallen heir to a fortune of $100,000. Mr. M. Mallick, of Plyinpton, exhibits a tomato which measures twenty inches. in circumference and weighs 2 lbs. 4 oz. Dr. Fournier. of Tecumseh, who once had a large practice, was recently fined $6 for being drunk on the streets of Windsor. Mr, James Robinson, of Caledon, paid 58,509 for J. H, Ourry's 100 acre farm on the town lino between Mono and Am- aranth. Burglars cracked the Safe of the Gris- wold,,'Man., postoffica lest week and se- cured several hundred dollars in tnouey and stamps. The Canadian Bank of Commerce at Waterloo was nearly wrecked by an ex- plosion of gas . Monday. A clerk was seriously injured. A movement ie on foot to pull down St. John's gate, one of Quebec's most attrac- tive monuments to strangers. The gate is an obstructirjuli to travel Department Commander John C. Shotts, of the New York State G.A.R., has appointed J. H. Stone inspector of all Grand Army posts in Canada. Mr.B, McEwen the Dominion J i of dairy commissioner's staff, has been ap- pointed expert in dairying to the New Zealand. Governtnent and leaven for the land of the Niaories in a few days, An old landmark of Glengarry count has passed away he the person of I4rs, Donald Cameron, of Sanlnrustown, who died in her seventy-eighth year, Robert Harrington, the man who jump- ed from. a Grand Trunk train while being conveyed from Strathroy to London in August last, was on Saturday at the Mid- dlesex. . Acsizss convicted of arson. It is said that Stratford, by owning its own electric lighting plant, can save $1,574 annually if seventy-five lights are used, and $2,750 if 100 lights are used, In Sandwich, Out., Charles Stewart, a member of the fire department, has been sentenced to e gttP,:uitolltiary g tor ten �c•oars the settiuIKina fire to a barn. The annual gathering of the Sunday school teachers, lay workers and clergy of the Church of Euglan 1 in the diocese of Huron takes place in Brantford, Ooto- bur 31: At Hartney, Man., Monday night, burglars entered Hartney& Dickson's general store and broke pen the safe, The firm lost about 51,000, the Ogilvies $800, and the Lake of the Woods Milling Company an unknown amount, A PRIVATE RANKER DISAPPEARS.. Mr. A. N. C. Black, private banker and Division Court clerk, of Dutton, seems to have disappeared. Mr. Black was treas- urer of the High School Board, and a short time ago the board, it is said, found a deficit of $2,282.06 in his ac- counts. CANADIAN GAS TO 13D nem.: Advices'from Washington say that nat- ural gas, piped into Buffalo from Canada, is to be free of duty, classed as an unenu- merated, unmanufactured article. The Treasury Department recently placed a 2) per cent. ad valorem duty upon it. This caused much dissatisfaction, and in a short time the rate was reduced to 10 per cent. ad valorem, and now it is to be taken off entirely. TIen DELINQUENT FOUND OUT. The name of the civil servant who has confessed to having obtained his qualifi- cation papers by fraud, through some other party having personated him at the examination three years ago, is H. L. Desillette, a mail clerk from Three Rivers. ,His case has been reported to the Department of Justice. Dr. Thor burn, chairman of the Board of Civil Service Examiners, is in Montreal inves- tigating another case of a similar ohar- acter. WHERE IS THE MONEY? Recently Martin, Mitchell & Co., grain merchants, Winnipeg, sent their buyer, John Story, at Wawanesa, $2,000 by ex- press. Story visited Wawanesa express office, signed agent's book for parcel, but, it being late at night, says he - did not take it with him. The agent says he laid the money beside Story, and thought that when he left he carried the parcel with him. Two suspicious, looking men, who are remembered to have been loitering at depot, may have extracted the money package, but they, like the cash, have disappeared, and Only the mystery re-. mains, .A DUEL .WI'CH DRINKS. Each Had a Reputation to Sustain and Each Sustained it. Two men sat down to a small table in a downtown club a few evenings since for a purpose. It was to decide which possessed the greatest capacity for white wine. Each had the reputation, which he studiously sustained, of being able to stand more fermented juice of the grape than the other, and their criticisms of each other hal become so unbearable that interested persons determined by opposing the boasters to end or mend their talk. So a grand match was ar- ranged. evening On the before re the test a friend of the elder contestant, who was a prac- tical joker, approached one wine drinker, and, laying one hand confidingly on his shoulder, spoke thus : " Look here, old man, I speak as a friend. You've got a reputation to sus- tain to -morrow evening and the other fellow hasn't. Now, as a friend, let me insist that you accept the bottles of wine I, as judge of the contest, shall prepare. They will be filled with water." A sad look of hopeless despair passed over his face. To drink water even though ho won was inglorious ; but to drink wine, and perchance lose, that was infinitely worse. This decision resulted in an argument that lasted half an hour, and the wine drinker was then convinced. On the eventful night the two men sat down to the table, six bottles before them. The younger man was quick to the fray; the elder despaired when he tasted the pare unadulterated water. But he mastered his tastes and drank with a conquering smile. When the sixth cork was drawn each contestant stared at the other. This was wonderfully conducive to cheerful feel- ing, and so they promptly glared at one another. ' That made them rampantly joyous. Down came one ponderous fist on the table, and its owner, the elder man, roared out, "Fool, how can you win? I'm drinking water!" A wan, sweet smile passed over the face of the younger roan, as he faintly mur- mured, "So am I." The Bishop's Triumph. The late Bishop Selwyn delighted to tell the following racy incident in his varied experience : While bishop of Litchfield ho was walking one day in the black country, and observing a group of colliers seated by the roadside in a semi- circle, with a brass kettle in front of them, inquired what was going on. "Why, yer honor," replied a grave - looking member, "it's a sort of wager, Yon kettle is a prize for the fellow who can tell the biggest lie, and I ane the um- pire." Amazed and shocked, the good bishop said reprovingly, "Why, my friends, I have never told a lie that I know of since I was born." There was a dead silence, only broken by the voice of the umpire, who said in a deliberate tone, "Gig the bishop the kettle." When Baby was sick, we gave her Caetoria. When she was a Ohild, she cried for Caetorla.. When oho became Mise she clung toria g to Oae a, When she had Children, she gave them Ct toria: Elijah Bryan, of Nevada, 19Io., who is now in his ninety-fifth year, as a youth helped to defend the homes of the .Nis souri settlers against the raids of Black Hawk's warriors. His family is related to that of Daniel Boone, and he owns an old flintlock which was a favorite with the frontiersman. FROM THE UNITED STATES Dolma MJRO$8 THE LINE. UueLe Sam's BroadiAores Furnish Quit u Pew Small Items that Ware. ortii,a Careful Reading. Minnesota has a, dairy2scliool for wo- men, Japanese bamboo has been profitably grown il.Louisiana, r It is claimed that theca' are about 102,- 000 colored Catlt,ol ics in the United States. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the 'United States has 57,650 members. Mrs, Cleveland's daily mail frequently includes 100 letters and rarely less than 60. The Methodist Episcopal Church South had au increase of nearly 40,000 members M.1892. Oklahoma populists are said to be bound together by an oath similar to that of the Mafia. Among the hills of northern New jer- sey and eastern Pennsylvania buckwheat is a very popular crop, President William R. Harper, of the University of Chicago, is an admirable performer on the cornet. There was a heavy snowstorm in the eastern part of Dakota and the western part of Minnesota on Sunday. Senator Gorman is invariably fixed upon by visitors to the upper house as the handsomest man in that body. The new Planters' House in St. Louis has been opened. The total cost of the hotel and fittings exceed 51,000,000. Marshal H. Abbott an extensive real estate operator in Salem, Mass„ has failed, with liabilities estimated at $500,000. Sixty per gent of the Hungarians that come to this country, return with their Wealth within ten years to their homes. T. V. Powderlyhas been admitted to the Lackawanna bar at Scranton. He ex- pects to open a law office in New York City. Dr. Duggan Clark, of Richmond; Ind., has been removed from the Quaker minis- tery because he submitted to the rite of baptism. Mary Wilmer Smith, a graduate of the Philadelphia Optical College, is one of a firm of jewellers and opticians at Wester- ly, R.I. Joseph Humhal, his wife and three children have died in Chicago from eat- ing toad stools in mistake for mush- rooms. Clarence Lexow was defeated for county judge and congressman at .Nyack, N.Y., before his star arose as a New York State Senator. Ernest Longfellow, a son of the poet, who resides in Manchester, Mass., has no literary ability, but is an extraordinarily good painter. The Presbyterian Church is agitating the establishment of a "temperance Sab- beth." The third Sabbath in November is suggest The Swedish Lutheranlsin America have over 1,000 students in their three colleges at Rock Island, Ill., Lindsburg, Kan., and St. Peter Minn. Another effort is making to erect a monument in Baltimore to the memory of Francis Scott Kay, who wrote "The Star- -Spangled Banner." • The whiskey trust is said to have bor- rowed $5,000,000 in order to pay the tax on liquor now in bond before the new tariff law goes into effect. Deputy -Secretary of State Lindholm, of Michigan, who disappeared last March after embezzling State funds, has been captured in Sweden.' Oliver Sumner Teall, a rival of Ward McAllister for the place of leader of New York society, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. J. W. Egan was at one time a machin- ist's apprentice in the Illinois Central railroad shops, and rose step by step till he became president of the road. An association has been formed at St. Paul, Minn., for the purpose of building a monument over the grave of John. Brown in Essex County, New York. The proprietor of ono of the southern California "truck farms" is boasting of an onion. twenty-six inches in circumfer- ence weighing seven and one-quarter pounds. At Heppner, Oregon, three little girls, the eldest but eleven years of age, have caught this year in traps 1,864 squirrels. Their father also shot and trapped over 1,000. Masked men tarred and feathered Rev. Charles Clancey, of Frontier, Mich., then rolled him down a steep hill, he filling the.air meanwhile with shouts of "Glory to God." • The Carpenters' International Conven- tion at Indianapolis refused to approve Edward Bellamy's plan or any similar one for the national control of means of production. Nine thousand members of the Opera- tors and Cloakmakers' Union, No. 1, met in New York Monday night, and by an almost unanimous vote declared. a gen- eral strike. Mr. John. W. Goff, the lawyer, who has distinguished himself in the Lexow in- vestigation in New York, has been chosen as a candidate for mayor for that city. He has not yet accepted. Wife of the missing Dr. Conklin, of Cassopolis, Mich:, has received a letter stating that her husband is a captive in Chicago, and will be released on payment of a sum of money. The Connecticut State Denial Society is to place a bonze tablet on the granite structure in Hartford occupying the site of the office of Dr. Horace Wells, who discovered laughing gas in 1844. New York has a policeman of his rank who has served twenty-five years without having, a charge preferred against him. He is inspector Peter V, Conlin, brother of the lamented Billy Florence, the actor. Richard. B. Reed has been a letter car- rier in Salem, Mass., for nearly forty years, having been appointed in 1855. At the time of entering the Salem office he covered a, district in which seventeen men are now employed. Chevalier de Tavora, the Austrian min- ister to this country, as been assigned by his Government as minister to Brasil, and the present Austrian minister to Brasil bas been assigned to take the chevalier's place here. General F. A, Shoup,who was chief of artillery of the Co_fsdoratp arm at Shiloh, and afterwards served at General AR if is just -there no lard. a i' fit at f�webT fit +it0rte nitl, $a so wonderfully ly Po lar w:,1t }housekeepers.. 1:317T f E, h i R C isU r E .icfurc HEALTH- r:s. , � � �' � ,� l i-nne.. e.i ' if.i Carl f !gA5anCft odor heeessaril co iiiected de'� r tole la 0 and 5 pound pails by all grocers. Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, Wellington and Ann Stan MONTREAL. Hood's chief of staff, is now a member of the faculty of the University of the South at Suwanee,. Tenn. The final account filed by the executors. of the will of John G. Whittier shows payments for charitable and public be- quests aggregating $81,685 71. The col- lateral inheritance tax paid to the state treasurer on the legacies was $5,286 30. Rev. Father Peter Havermans, of Troy, N.Y., has been a priest for sixty- one years, and for fifty-one years has been pastor of St. Mary's church in that city, which he built and in which he cele- brates mass every Sunday. Since he a� first went to Troy, in 1891, he has taken an honorable and conspicuous part iu the civic and social life of that city, and to- day it contains no citizen more revered and esteemed. A SAMPLE OF THE TIMES IN DETROIT. On Wednesday a workman reported to Policeman Walpole that while on his way to work and near the corner of Cass and Jones street°, Detroit, he had been held up by three men who took his dinner pail frpm him. Officer Smeltzer was detailed to investigate the matter. He returned in a short time, having in custody Chas. Smith, a plumber, twenty-eight years of age, who gave his residence as 686 Fourth street. The man who had been robbed identified Smith as one of the highway- men and Smith was locked up. The officer found Smith in a saloon, but the other two skipped as he entered. Later in the day Austin Milet, of 571 Sixth street, was also arrested as one of the alleged culprits. The times must be very hard indeed when a man is "held up" for his dinner pail. OLIVER W. 1IOLMES DEAD. D. Oliver Wendell Holmes died at his resi- dence at Beverley farm Sunday after- noon. Dr. Holmes suffered from a com- plication of diseases. He had been in feeble health for a long time, but an iron constitution had long battled disease. The last hours of Dr. Holmes were passed quietly with his family by his bedside. He returned from Beverley Farm about ten days ago and the removal greatly fatigued him, and it is thought hastened his end. The family residence was dark- ' ened and apparently deserted to -day, and few knew that Dr. Holmes was in Boston. The news of his death was kept quiet until a late hour. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at Cambridge, Mass., on`Aug. 29, 1809. He graduated at Harvard Col- lege. in 1829, and, after studying law, entered medicine. After attending fa- mous European hospitals he began to practice in Boston in 1836. In 1838 he was elected professor of anatomy and physiology in Dartmouth College, and in 1847 he obtained a similar professorship in the Medical School of Harvard, from which he retired in 1882. As early as , 1881 his contributions appeared in vari- ous periodicals, and his reputation as a poet was soon established. As a writer of songs, lyrics and poems for festival occasions he occupied the first place. He was for many years a popular lecturer. Some of his most famous works are : "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," which appeared first as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, "The New Portfolio," "Sound- ings From. the Atla,ntic," "Guardian. Angels." "Medical Essays," and "Songs of Many Seasons." KENDALL` PAVIN CURE MOST'SUOCESSFUL. 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