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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-14, Page 6Subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly will please notify ne at once. Call at the office for advertising rates, THE EXETER ADYQC.&TE T.HURSDAT. OCT. 14, 1897. The Week's Commercial Summary. Failures in the United States last week were 209 against 315 for same week of last year. The wheat markets are depressed. Offerings are liberal, with the demand from Britain less urgent than for some time, The stocks of wheat at Toronto are 80,073 bushels as compared with 124,288 bushels at the correspouding date of last year. Money continues to rule firm on Wall street at 2 to 3 percent. The rates of sterling exchange are somewhat better than at the end of last week. Canadian Pacific is one of the strong- est stocks on the Canadian stock ex- changes. Large heereases in earnings ars waking it a.favorite with speculators. The visible supply of wheat iu the united States and Canada iucreased e,- 403,000 bushels lust weekend the total is now 10,543,000 bushels as against 48,- 715,000 bushels a year ago. The amount on pe to Europe shows an increase of 1,6~0,000 for the week and the total is 25,440,000 bushels as iigainst 24,160,- 000 bushels a year ago. The elevators throughout the province Oaf Manitoba are becoming el ked, with wheat in spite of the mutts of the transportation companies to relieve them. Such a rush of deliveries at this time of the year was never known before in the Canadian Northwest, and neither the grain /nen nor railroad companies were prepared for it. The earnings of the Canadian. Pacific Railway for the month of August were as follows: Gross earnings, $2,232,114, an increase of .$`343,030 over the same month of last year, Working expenses $1,229,707, increase over same month of last year $155,084. Net profits$1,004,407 being an increase of $189.546 over same month of last year. Gross earnings from Jan. lst, 1897, $14,051,811, increase over same period of last year $1,209,090; while the net profits for same period were $5,- 585,958, increase $963,927. The statement of the business of the Post -Office Savings Bank for the year ending 30th June, 1897, has been pre- pared in the department. There was de- posited during the year $8,223,000, being an increase of $8,947 over the previous year, and being the largest amount of deposits in any one year since Confeder- ation, with the exception of 1887, when the deposits were $30,000 in excess. The average amount to the credit of each account was $238.58, the largest sum In the history of the bank, There are 779 banks, an increase of 4 over the preceding year. The total amount with- drawn during the year was $7,656,086.64.. The amount of interest allowed to depos- itors during the year was $1,024,511.74. The total amount on deposit in the bank at the close of the year was, $32,380,000, as compared with $28,032,029.68 in the preceding year, but there was transferred from the Dominion Government Savings Bank during 1897 accounts totaling $1,- 586,473.31. The number of accounts opened during the year was 30,236 and the number closed was 26,669. Curious Word Studies. An enthusiast was originally a lunatic who believed that he was God. and that God. lived in him. Excruciating, the ad waive, once signi- fied such pain as one would suffer when undergoing crucifixion. Grotesque ornaments were first discov- ered in grottos or excavations in the ruins of ancient cities. The palace of a king is so called be- cause Augustus built his imperial resi- dence on the Palatine Hill. Style was originally an iron instru- ment having one end like an awl and the other like a paper cutter. Slave was orlginaily a title of honor, being the name of one of the most war- like East European tribes. Maiming once meant, not any kind of mutilation, but such a wound as less- ened a man's ability to figl.,t. Dollar was originally thaler, the name being applied to a lump or bar of silver from Joachim's Valley in Germany. Shawl is the name of a valley in North India, where the manufacture of these articles was once extensively carried on. Biscuit once meant simply to bake twine, sea -bread being prepared for keep- ing during long voyages by double bak- ing. A mirror was once simply something to be wondered at. The first looking - glass undoubtedly caused great astonish- ment. TOPICS OF_TIIE WEEK There never was, and never will be, a universal panacea, in one remedy, for all ills to which flesh is heir—the very nature of many curatives being such that were the germs of other and differently seated, diseases rooted iu the system of the patient—what would relieve one ill in turn would aggravate the other. We have, however, in Quinine Wine, when obtainable in a sound unadulterated state, a remedy for many and grevious ills. By its gradual and judicious use, the frailest systems are led into convalescence and strength, by the influence which Qui- nine exerts on N'ature's own restoratives. Itrelieves the drooping spirits of those with whom a ehronic state of morbid des- pondency and lack of interest in life is a disease, and, by tranquilizing the nerves, disposes to sound and -refreshing sleep- imparts vigor to the action of the blood, which, being stimulated, courses through- out the veins, strengthening thehealthy anima' functions of the system,'. thereby making activity a necessary result, strengthening the frame, and giving life to the :digestive organs, which naturally demand .increased substance result, im- ptoved appetite. Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given to the public their superior Quinine Wine at the usual rate. and, gauged by the opinion of scientists, this wine approaches nearest perfection of any in the market. All druggists sell it. HERE IS THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Tidings from all, Parts of the Globe, Con- densed and Arranged for 3tusr Readers. eANADIAN. Hamilton assessment returns show an baarease of $1,.-78,530. Mr, T. O; Wisner, a prominent manu- facturer of Brantford, is dead. A bush The has been in progress in the Embro swamp for some days. A boy named Allen was caught in the machinery of Gilmour's mill at Trenton and killed. George Lawrence, of Guelph, com- mitted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. The failure of the Labrador fishery is complete. The catch is even below that of last year. The London • Police Court has had 1,282 cases during the year muted Sep- tember 30th. St. Catharines' assessment shows a gain of $273,000 in property and in population over last year. Prairie fires have caused a loss of seven lives near Winnipeg, and destroyed an immense amount of property. The assessment of St. Catharines 7. shows a gain of 4«.,a,000 in property and 250 in population over last year, The Monarch mine at Rat Portage has been sold by the Bullion Company for 335,00u. Toronto menare the purchasers. While driving to his home near the village of Senable, Mr. Hugh Fletcher fell out of his wagon and broke his neck, Mr. E. Leblanc, of Ottawa, dropped dead at a meeting of the Reform Associ- ation in the hall of the Reform Club. F. Rowland, collector of Inland Reve- nue at Kingston, has been superannuated at his own request, after 29 years' service. Mr. Adelbert Wyctott, of 'Piston, at- tempted suicide by cutting his throat in a Kingston hotel while temporarily in- sane. Wheat deliveries in Manitoba Friday aggregated 210,000 bushels. The price declined to five cents throughout the province. Guard Alex. Spence, who had charge of the two convicts who attempted to escape, has been suspended pending an investigation. Mr. Charles R. Devlin, appointed some time ago by the Dominion Government Emigration Agent to Ireland, has sent his resignation to Ottawa. A. large staff of men is employed on the old Great Western section ' between Niagara Falls and Windsor replacing the old-fashioned iron with 80 -pound steel rails and otherwiseplacing the road and roadbed in the best possible condition, The Dost of rebuilding this 200 miles of road will be enormous. That the C.P.R. have had a successful. year is plainly shown by the statement just issued, which shows a gain for the first eight months of the fiscal year end- ing August 31, of 8962,927.02. In Au- gust, 1896, the net profits were 8'414,- 861.01, and from January 1 to August 1, 1896, there was a net profit of $1,632,- 033.46.• The gain in net profits ov.e the same periodlast year is, therefore, for August $189,546.10, and from January 1 to August 31, $962,927.02. firs. Celeste Coon,, Syracuse, N. Y., writes : "For years I could not oat many kinds of food without producing a burn- ing, excruciating pain in my stomach. I took Parmelee's Pills according to direc- tions under the head of 'Dyspepsia or In- digestion.' One box,entirely cured me. I can now eat anything I choose, without distressing mein the least." These Pills do not cause pain or griping, and should. be used when a cathartic is required. UNITED STATES. The organization of the American Malt Company, which is to control the out- put of malt, is completed. The anti -cigarette law of Tennessee has been declared by the court at Nash- ville to be unconstitutional, At Kingfisher, 0,T , Fred D. Warn- ock, President of the People's Bank, hanged himself in his apartments. AU the recent reports from Dawson City show that provisions are nearly ex- hausted, and that famine is inevitable, Archbishop Potter was still too 111 to attend the convention of the Protestant Episcopal church for the diocese of New York. The price of beer in San, Francisco has gone up fully one-third within the last few weeks, and is expeoted to climb higher. The appraisers of the late James G. Fair's estate has completed their task and will present their report to the Pro- bate Court in San Francisco in a few days. Gen. Neal Dow, the great temperance orator and the author of the Maine liquor law, died on Saturday afternoon at Portland, Me. He was ninety-three years of age. A Short Road to health was opened to those suffering from chronic coughs, asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, lumbago,. tumors, rheumatism, excoriated nipples or inflamed breast, and kidney com• plaints, by the introduction of the inex- pensive and effective remedy, Dr. Thomas' Ecieotric Oil. The C.P.R. will build into Roseland at once, and will erecta smelter, so that the ores will be treated cheaper than they can be across the line. , The jury in the Tarte-Grenier libel case at Montreal, after being out only a few minutes, returned a verdict of guilty against the accused Grenier. Mr. Walter S. Booth, railway mail clerk between Ottawa and Montreal, fell off the C.A.R. train between Alexandria and Glen Robertson and was killed. Reports have been received in St. John's, Nfld., that three sohooners have been lost off the Labrador coast, and five men and one woman were drowned. A fire at Kingston destroyed six cot- tages and other buildings. An infant was burned to death, and several of fisc resi- dents suffered severe injuries from the fre. Mr. John Murdoch, of Caledonia, was thrown from his wagon on the mountain top at Hamilton. He was removed to St. Joseph's Hospital in a critical con- dition. Clearing t=of the Winnipeg clearing house for the week ended Sept. 30th, amounted to $2,649,507. Total clearings for the month ended September 80 aggregate $8,035,201. The body of a man named Buchanan was found near the Grand Trunk rail- way tracks at Rockfield. The remains were very much mangled, having evi- dently been run over by a train. .A. special committee of the Toronto Public Sebool Board refused the request of the Anglican denomination to be al- lowed to give ministerial instruction to pupils in the regular school hours. A special from Winnipeg states that this year has witnessed a remarkable in- crease in the volume of traffic on the Canadian Pacific railway and also in the total sales of the land department. The Ottawa correspondent of the Lon- don Times says that after the expiration in July, 1898, of the commercial treaties now in force, Canada will adopt a tariff that will be essentially pro -British. Mr. S. Schofield, who represents two of the prominent steamship companies doing business from St. John, N.B., is urging upon the Government the claims of St. John as the Canadian winter port. It is reported in shipping circles that there will be a new steamship line to Liverpool next season, and it is said that Elder, Dempster & Co. will run some of their vessels there as well as to Bristol. It is reported that a line of steamboats will be run from Chicago to Parry Sound, and at Swanton, the Canada Atlantio will connect with the Central Vermont and the Boston and Maine roads. The Ogilvie Milling Company.. which has been boycotted by farmers at many points because it did not open its eleva- tor at the beginning of the season, when prices were high, is now paying two cents a bushel more than other compan- ies in order to get wheat, Several cases of a contagious ophthal- mic disease among horses have occurred at Sebringville. Cases of a similar kind have . previously , been noticed in the neighborhhood of Mitchell. If taken in time the disease may be cured, but if neglected blindness inevitably results. Cattle may also be affected with the dis- order. Donald A. Pelves, a Wagner car por- ter on the North Bay route to the Grand Trunk railway, • attempted : to board a moving street car in Toronto 'Thursday afternoon, slipped, and was thrown under the trailer, which passed over him: He died in two hours, at St:,'Micbael's hospital. John MaeBeth, who was a member of local Legislature from 1884 to 888 the Leg 1 , died on Sunday at Denver of consump- tion. He was a descendant of one of Lord Selkirk's colonists, who settled in Red River in 1815. Hes was born in Kit- donan parish in 1854, and was a lawyer by profession. FOREIGN. General Baquedano, commander-in- chief of the Chilian army, is dead. It is reported that Turkey is negotiat- ing with Germany for a special defensive alliance, It is expected that the Duke and Duch- ess of York will be sponsors for the baby Marlborough. The Russian Czarina will visit the Queen, incognito, about the middle of the present month. The Paris Eclair advocates the forma- tion of a French -Russian -American agri- cultural alliance. The betrothal is announced between Princess Feodora of axe-Meininen and Prince sienry at Reuss. The Spanish Cabinet has resigned. Senor babasta, the Liberal leader, will be asked to form a Cabinet. The •Clyde shipbuilding returns for August show a great falling off, owing to the strike of the engineers. The family of Sir Julian Paunoefote will return to Washington from London towards the end of October. Count Tolstoi is publishing his diary in the London Chronicle under the title of "The Demands of Love." The French are encroaching on the British sphere of influence in West Af- rica, and trouble is expected to result. Dr. Fridjiof Neilsen, the Arctic ex- plorer, will sail on October 10 to fulfil his engagements in the United States. Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Liberal leader, has been entrusted by the Queen Regent with•the task of forming a new Cabinet. The London Daily News says that the fifth Venezuelan arbitrator will be an international lawyer of the highest repu- tation. • A learned professor at Geneva, Switz- erland, states that France drinks more alcohol annually than any other nation in Europe. During 1896 there were stamped in Austria 1,721,245 decks of playing cards, for home use and 931,730 for export. Only 2,985 decks were imported. A new Anglo -Russian newspaper is to be published at Moscow as part of the scheme of promotion of commercial rela- tions between England and Russia. Criminal proceedings have been com- menced against the Frankfort Zeitung, on the charge of lese majeste, for criti- cising the erratic course of Emperor William. The Pope .has granted absolution to the Prime Minister of Austria for hav- ing fought a duel with Dr. Wolff,.. the leaderof the German Nationalists in .the Reichsrath. It is not expected that Sir Michael Hicks -Beach, the Chancellor of the Brit- ish Exchequer, will return a favorable answer to the American Bi -metallic Commisssioners. • It is reported at London that the tor- pedo boat commanded by Prince Carl nearly foundered in a storm while re- turning from the jubilee festivities of the leing'of Sweden. The new German Naval bill will : de- mand an expenditure of 410,000,000 marks, to be spread over seven years. It is expected the bill will be rejected, and that a crisis will betheresult. Lord Landsdowne, Secretary of State for War, has presented Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the 'United. States army, with a Lee -Enfield cavalry carbine and a British cavalry saddle and bridle com- plete. No family living in a bilious country should be without Parmelee's Vegetable Pills: A few doses taken now and then will keep the Liver active, cleanse the stomach and bowels from all bilious mat- ter, end prevent Ague. Mr. ,J. L. Price, Shoals, Martin Co., Ind., writes "I have tried a box of Parmelee's Pills and find them the best medicine ler' Fever and Ague I have ever used." THRIWNG RESCUE. .• YOUNG LIFE SAVED IN A RE. MARKARLE MANNER. Florence Sturdivant, oCGrindstone Island, Saved From au Untimely Death—Her Parents Saw Ser Dangerous. Predica- ment, But Were Helpless to Aid Her-- How ereHow She Was Rescued. Among the,. Thousand Islands is one called Grindstone. It is seven miles long and three wide. The inhabitants of this island are a well-informed plass of people who devote their energies to farming and quarrying for a livelihood. In the home of one of these islanders resides Florence J. Sturdivant, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sturdivant, In February, 1896, she was taken with scarlet fever, and after the usual run of the fever she was left with a weak back and gradually began to lose strength, until finally, despite the best efforts of physicians, her life hung in the balauoe, It was at this crisis,' when . all seemed darkest, that an angel of health appeared on the scene and released little Florence from pain and suffering and restored her to strength and health. This remarkable occurrenee is best told in the words of the father. h f ath r . Mr. Sturdivant said: "Florence was taken sick with scarlet foyer and we im- mediately called a physioian. He pre- scribed forher and we followed his direr- tions closely, giving our little patient the FLORENCE J. STIIRDIWANT. best of care. After two weeks the fever subsided, but Florence was left with a very weal: back. Severe pains were con- stantly in the back and stomach. We did all that possibly could be done to relieve our little sufferer, but to no avail. Tho difficulty seemed to bailie the efforts of the physician. "Finally at the end of four months of treatment, we found our patient com• pletely prostrated. At this time we cancel another physician, who agreed with tine ditignosis of our own doctor, and said that the trouble resulted from the .uarlot fever. He prescribed a source t.t treat- ment and we followed it fwte:ul'y for three months, but instead of n,.l:ruving, Florence failed. "Mrs. Sturdivant and myself were completely discouraged. A brother of my wife, who was visiting us, advised us to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I purchased a box of the pills and began to give them to Florence. This was in October, 1896. After using the pills a short time we could see an improvement. Her strength began to re- turn and she would sit up in bed. Her appetite was restored and she ate heart- ily. We also noticed a gradual brightness in her eyes. "We eagerly purchased a further sup- ply of pills and watched with delight the change for the better that was being wrought daily. From sitting up in bed at times during the day and at times standing on her feet, Florence finally became, strong enough to walk a little. She gained in flesh and strength rapidly and the pains gradually left her, In a month's time she had recovered her health and strength. "We cannot praise too highly the worth of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. I am positive that without their use our child would have been to -day in the same sad oondition of her early sickness—a con- firmed invalid if indeed she had bad the strength to withstand so long the ills of her affliction." (Signed) WILLIAM H. STURDIVANT. Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixth day of April, 1897. H. W. MORSE, Notary Public A Turkish Reward. The Sultan has decided to create a new form of the ancient order of Iftikar for the officers and soldiers who distinguished themselves in the Greco -Turkish war. The patent is somewhatcuriously word- ed. It reads as follows: "Patent of the insignlum of honor specially institute,: to perpetuate the memory of the valor of my troops and the victories which they won in the war undertaken with Greece in order to defend the rights and the grandeur of my empire, and to appreci- ate the personal courage of each of the combatants. This patent has been deliv- ered to ---, who by his conduct has meritedthis his honorable distinction." Drain the Cella,. Wet or damp cellars mean foul air and consequently diphtheria, malaria, rheu- matism and bronchial affections. 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