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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-10-28, Page 4THEAuglo-American gocd-will is not yet a year old, and how can the movement do.a giants wort: with the strength of itsfew mouths' work. Every Canadian gray. T3, Sanciers, Editor and Prop' will hope and pray that the time of discord and ill -will between the two kindred nations has gone forever, The THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, '98 surest way to revive discord and ill - will is for Great Britain to try and at" :PORK F,4CK RS J 1;..f) F.IR31,r:RS ilize sentiment for the practical profit a of Canada or any other part of the Em In view of the enthusiasm which pire. At last the great heart of the las recently been aroused for the es- United States has been touched by tabltstimeAlat of pork factories through- proofs of British and Canadian good w illy and the surest way to maintain out the province of Ontario some local the warmth and glow of this new Era Interest ettaehes to a statement made tensity is for Great Britain and Can- sy the Weekly Sun, the Patron, paper ado to severely avoid anything which t��aat the leading packing houses are might be construed as a lookiu,g to 1 ,"ashintou for favors, absorbing all the profits due to the ,� Itig,h price of Canadian bacon qpd pay- L'ng the Canadian farmer little more ehan the Americaus get for their corn - fa hogs. There can be no doubtj;that the packing business is a profitable ' ndertal;ing, but that the Sun has Sufficient groused for susli a sweeping declaration is open to question. The earls paclters of Ontario have done a great deal for the farmers, not only in -providing a market for "bacon bogs, but in teaching the producer how best ra meet the demands of such a market, For some yeare past the owners of these large factories have been enxertie themselves in the task of instructing the farmers how to feed the right sort of !CdO to the right sort c,f hos and it would certainly be a little" early in the glome tea cut off the rewards of an im droved system of restoring to any eueh An undertaker in Philadelphia, who he flisla practices ,AS that Suggested ily' was the administrator of the estate of a the Sun. In auy: event the farmer has servant girl, amounting• to about $1,100 er a v av'ded a '"first class fun• I?OIi.een TO Bnnaa F.s.11it, The Goderich Star tells the following story of an agent'e trials and tribula- tions: Recently George Thomson sold an organ to a lady. in Goderich town- ship with instructions to deliver it at the residence of a married daughter in the same township, but without men- tioning the name of the giver, G, W. T. arrived at the farm and begged, leave to leave the instrument is the house. but neither husband or wife would al low him, and the farmer said: ""You care'. +10 me Thomson; I know the tricks of the trade, It': true I promised to buy an organ from you and I will a soon as I'm ready, but you don't put that instrument in m house." The merchant tried various plans to upload the music, but without avail, and he only got rid of his load by telling the lady that it was a present from her mother. ** w. remedy close at hand, and one, too, gen ou l- pr 1 eras"for her, and thouglntfutly rOtain that has already been inaugurated In ed over :$600 .of her estate to reward himself for his generosity. Inthe spin ioit of the Orphans' Court it is said that au imposing cortege of twelve carriage os Was provided, with sit professional pall bearers, each adorned with a but- t toehole bouquet. while the procession of mourliitig relatives, numbering, but several parts c: the country. If there way carbin.ation of packers to pay ertit;cially low prices for hogs in Caul aala while l routing• by naturally high prices for Cssllaeliara bacon. in l:aalatid, ail the farmer has to de to test the eaten to Vatdbl sltca operative pack- five persons, was not similarly orna- ;•ng eeelees., Sua:b a course wool boson N vomited. The court adds: " This was evidently an oversight of the under ��. s. t �r that suaF®� it I ���I,f11 vrc., 11 t � q, V any .r MA • a i ti Old eta d Q t01. ucd taper, ,�... ewe gold n " rheightt I n � to return 'fin .1,v1 be t+ne of 'idly e u sail, cedar, caucli t.asl,et was provided te, the oldsyste ii of feeding tate rheepe st land used in the procession, and charg -line to itaferieer hos, thus perpeteet• ° ed in the bill, but amid the many de - ng the era of'" "razor yaelte" in which tail. of so elaborate a ceremony and during the very natural agitation. of there was no profit for anybody anal ; the bereaved undertaker, a cheap one rendered my sorrow the more intense. I trust that you will help me in con - soiling myself by sending me very promptly the aforesaid amount, espec- ially after having received my formal. promise—anti I make it to you this very moment—that when the time comes I shall insure my second wife for $6,000, double the amount of iusur- ante of the defunct, My sorrow is im menses however, the prospect that you will hasten to satisfy me sustains me in this terrible trial. In the hope that I shallsoou receive the amount insured, I and my children pray you to accept our sincere gratitude." There is no doubt that the city de- partmental stores are doing an ever increasnng business and that their business is interfering much with the regular trade. One of the Tarouto firms running a departmemtat has the agency of one of the express companies and yet its business with the other ex- press company amounts to $200 for ex- pres charges alone, But what can be done in the matter ? The departmental business is done mostly through ad vertisiug but it would hardly do to pass a law prohibiting the firms from ;actually no market. fun:Ikent far =ten know full well that the credit of erste lacing the, value of the hog as a :arm product is due very largely to the :pork packers. and they will not there lore be too ready to fall in with un- reasonable ideas in regard to the part'. which the paekers'are paying. The same might with quite as good reason be said in respect to the dealers in cheese, yet no one, it is safe to assume, will have the temerity to say that this „great industry does not owe its present status in an important degree to the untiring anergy of conscientious opear- 'tors. al OT :l 1J ete,11 1E T. The average cost of prisoners' daily rations in the Middlesex county jail lar the past. quarter was 6.1? cents. A good story is being told at the ex - cense of an angler from Windsor who recently spent several weeks in Musk- oka. Having enjoeed an unusual measure of success one day, he wired his wife. " I`ve got one, weighs seven pounds, and ie a beauty." In reply came the followings signed by his wife: ., So have L weighs ten pounds. Ile isn't a beauty, looks like you." • was accidentally substituted for it be. fore the interment, eARVINO DOWN a MAN'S NOSE. advertising er publishing catalogues, The only feasible plan is for the merch- ants in the villages and smaller towns to meet them on their own ground and by means of advertisements, circulars, etc,, convince the public that they can get the goads they want at home and at a cheap price. Papers may preach on the duty of loyality to one's own towu until the age of mitlinneal peace aid happiness sets i.0 but stilt people will buy where they are made to be - neve they will fret the best bargains. In every town and village articles are manufactured and sued and goods kept that may ie. the surrounding district know nothing about, simply because Chex are not advertised. Even many of those who know such articles can he had have a suspicion that they are still sold at the old fashioned prices. Vigorous, persisteut advertising with priee quotations (after the style of the departmenta Is) would work a revolution Some Otto who reads this may say or think; "s I ha'e been here for some years and every one knows my plate, Advertising is not of any use to me," Yes, they nifty know you are there and they may think you stick to old prices too, because you never tell them other- wise. Duringa all these veaxs are you not adding any new features to your busiuess its the way of goods or prices that you think the public at least, that you are pursuing the same old way in the same old plaeo and while you are waiting for eustone:we those who should be eustotners are buying in pastures new—pastures they have read aboutut in catalogues and advertisements. Fox Molds T lie Seat. Lindsay, Ont., 24,—The election protest trial of West Victora commeue- ed here this afternoon before Judges Fire McLennan. and Osler, The court room. was crowded, and much interest maul, fested. There was 6S charges made AMBUSHED NEGROES Upon a Sheriff's Posse, in Mississippi. against the respondent and hie agents ONE KILLED --THREE WOUNDED, A preliminary question as to the status of the petitiou was raised by Mr, Nesbitt on behalf of the respondent, Mr. Fox. It was admitted that the petitioner was paid S35 by Dr. Mckay, the Lib- eral, candidate, for his services as ore - taker of are-takerof the Liberal committee rooms at Lindsay. It was contended that. paynaeht disqualified him from voting at the election, and therefore, from be. ing a petitioner. The court overruled the objection. A number of witnesses were called and examined, but nothing of a serious nature was brought out. The trial was continued this even ing, and after going into some four or five further charges and not succeed. ing in any of them, the balance were withdrawn and the petition dismissed, with all costs to the petitioner, Mr. Fox, the Conservative member there- fore, still holds his seat, Dr. Joseph 'D. Bryant, of New York, recently performed an operation au Richard Smith, who came to that city from the Adiroudaeks for the purpose of having his nose carved down to some- thing like normal proportions. The Smith nose was exceedingly grotesque in shape, and measured eight inches at the point of largest circumference. The nose was the biggest ever disported in town, according to physicians who were favored with a glimpse of this anatomi- cal curiosity Smith its former claim- ant, is a lumberman from Lewis coun- ty, and was peacefully pursuing his vo- catiou in the baekwood, where his de- formity would not make him the sub. jeet of general ridicule, when he met Dr. George E. Maurer, of Gen. Fitz- hugh Lee's staff, From him he learned of the probability of becominganother man, and be came to New York to undergo the operation. After three hours of carving, clipping and sewing:, Dr. Bryant's idea of a model nose had been duly whittled out of Mr. Smith's huge organ. Smith will wear a mask of bandages for a few weeks, and will then return and surprise his friends of Indian River. ** APPLB CROP SMALLER. The apple crop of the United States is smaller than it has been since relia- abie statistics have been collected. The total supply from the 1898 crop is 27,700,000 barrels, compared with something over 40,000,000 in '97, and 70,000,000 in the record breaking crop of 18911. The failure is widespread, reaching from the Pacific coast to Maine, and in none of the States does the output of fruit approach an aver- age. In the great apple States of the west the crop is almost as absolute failure, although the situation. in Mich- igan is better than elsewhere, having about two-thirds of the bumper crop of 1895. New York has only one-fifth of a full crop. The failure is attributed to the fact that during the blooming season there was excessive rainfall, which washed out the polled and pre vented proper fertilization by insects, while the cold wave added to the in- jury, and subsequent moist humid weather was very favorable to the de- velopment of fungous diseases. The Ontario crop is decidedly short. The crop of Europe is reported below the normal. LIZARDS re TIIE STOuACiI. 'Whether Guelph has a waterworks system that supplies the citizens -with lizards and such solid food as well as aqua pura is not definitely known, but the Royal city has recently had several cases of people vomiting these reptiles. About a week ago an in - his stomach ;jtanee of a man relieving sof two of these monsters was reported znd just the other day a Miss Janet :Beattie vomited a slimy reptile mea- suring four inches in length. :s*a: The Toronto Peat Company has pur- chased 4000 acres of bog near Welland, and expects soon to be putting out eeveral hundred tons a day. Coal is mot in it when co.npared with peat manufactured by the new process -which Mr. Dixon of Toronto has dis covered. He bas applied for the re ward of £50,000 offered by the British Government to any inventor who would devise a process by which peat may be made a commercial article of fuel. Companies are being formed all over Ontario to engage in this enter- prise, and county rights are being sold. In Presidential eleetions Michigan 'Sas nearly always voted for the policy of extreme protection, which promised to shut Canadian products out of Unit ed States markets, Yet the prosperity of large communities in Michigan, the livings of thousands of Americans in that State depended upon a steady sup- ply of pine logs from Canada. Michi- g an has always been anxious that Ca - median products should not finda mar kat in the United States. When Mich igan villages are depopulated and Michigan Saw mills are idle - because there is no further supply of pine Ings from Canada, the electorate of that State will have a chance to realize that extreme protection is a two-edged 'word. She Took Paris Green, Stratford, Oet. 16th:,— 4iss Bridget Claney, of Shakespeare, was found dead iu bed yesterday* morning with her face and elothes covered with paris green, Miss Clancy was about 95 years old, and lived with a half witted broth. er. She left a tetter saying that no one was to blame for her deed but herself, and providing that $1,000 out of her estate should be used to place and keep her brother in some Catholic home, Coroner Devlin, of this city, investigat- ed the case, and decided that au inquest was unnecessary. The Latest News in Brief Daniel Austin, a farmer of Rawdon, was thrown from his rig near Stirling and killed, The dead body of Cornelius Maibony was found at the bottom of a sewer Peterboro', 11lr< C< J. Jones of Stumm fell from an apple tree on Saturday and broke his collar bone, W. A. Brown, a faro laborer, of Kin burn, was killed at the Parry Sound bridge at Arnprior, Friday afternoon, Burglars who attempted to rob the', Simms postoffice roused the watchman.' who firedat them and frighteued them off; Henry Bell, of Guelph, was terribly burned while attembting to light a gas stove, The flames ignited his cloth- iaj„, John Kirkwood, of Ottawa, was run. down by a train at a station Friday morning and killed oa the spot. Ile was 21. years of age, Mr Mougeau, a laborer, was blown to pieces by a dynamite cartridge which he accidently exploded white working ° ldram at Montreal, i a „ n a d Solomon Day, of Simeoe, had two ribs broken, a leg fractured in two places and his wrist dislocated by beingthrown from his buggy Monday, owing to his horse running away. Miss Ida Smith, the Merrittan school teacher rh o displayed such heroism during duimtheiccenr cyclone, ,las been' grauted a medal by the Royal Caua• dian Humane Association. Russel Cook, a nine year-old Bramp ton boy, died on Saturday from homer. rhage 01 the brain, resulting from a blow on the head from a horse chest- nut thrown by a cotnpat•,ian. Signs of a Hard Winter. The leaves hanging on to the trees so long and looking so green and fresh, in spite of wind and frost,” said a voter au Orange County observer, " is all very nice and cheery and comforting, but it is simply one sign of trouble ahead for those who don't like hard and long winters. The sap is running back to the ground slowly, and it will be just as slow starting upward again next spring. The trees look as if they had just started iu for the summer season, instead of .being on the threshold of November. Next spring when they should begin to show the promise of June, they will still be reminiscent of November. No doubt of it I never knew the sign to fail. " Then as to there being a hard winter impending., did you notice that the crickets and the katydids began singing unusually early this season and became silent two weeks before they are in the habit of doing so? Whether you noticed it or not they dide and this is another in- fallible sign that winter will come in with a whoop when it comes, and will be whooping yet when the johnny- jump•up ought to he pushing their heads above ground. And then the chipmunks. I never saw them so busy and never did they scurry home with cheek pouches so swollen each trip with nuts and acorns as they have this fall. Those wise little providers know what is ahead of them and they are putting in an extra store of winter pro- vender. " As to corn, the ears have a thickness and number of husk cover- ings something remarkable. Don't mis- take that sign. Chesnut burrs are pos- itively lined with something that might well pass for fur, instead of the usual velvety inner coat. Cranberries are always sour, of course, but have you noticed what they carry in their pulp this year? Lime juice isn't one half as sour. When the sour of cranberries sours, then frost and storm all overpow- ers,' I heard my grandmother quote fifty years ago, and the sour of cran- berries has surely soured this year. And' we had a goosefor dinner at our house Sunday. I killed it myself. It was the fattest fowl I ever saw, and its breast bone was snow white. That would settle the question of a hard A certain life insurance company re- cently received the following letter : Dear Sir,—It is with deep sorrow that I take the pen to inform you that my dear wife, Anne Marie, nee Lind- ner, insured with you -you will find the number in your iudex—for the sum of $3,000, bas died suddenly, leaving me in this world in the bitterest des. pair, , This painful blow befell me this very day at 7 o'clock in the morning Will you try to get for me the amount insured as quickly as possible ? The Policy bears No. 21,962. I can say very seriously and very sincerely that she was a faithful wife and an accoinp lished mother. So that matters may proceed more rapidly I send you here- with an official certificate of her death. Her illness has been very short, which Right Between Whits Men and Black-. In All -Day Fight Negroes Lost Tea Men Killed and Several, Wounded —. Governor Sends Men and Good Counsel. meridian, Miss., Oot, 25.—The most bloody race oonfilet that has taken place in Mississippi since the exciting days of the reconstruction period is raging in Soott County, 50 miles west of Meridian. It grew out of an assault on Charles D. Freeman, a white man, by Billy Burke, a negro. Freeman and Burke became in- volved in a quarrel, which ended in Burke assaulting Freeman with a hoe. A warrant was sworn out for the arrest of Burke, and Constable Thompson, with 15 amen, went to the house of Burke, who lives a mile from Harperville, at 9 o'clock Saturday night to exeouto the writ, When Constable Thompson and hla posse arrived they found Burke fortified in nit little log hut with 50 or 60 negroes ambushed on the premises, and the ocer's demand for a surrender was an - mined with a volley, Officer Sibley, one of the posse, was instantly (tilled and three others, intending Constable ghenap> son, seriously wounded. The posse was thrown tato confusion by the volleys, but the fire was returned and for a tune a desperate battle raged in the dark, The negrecs were greatly in the majority, however, and the officers retired and sent runners for help. The Sheriff responded with heavy reinforcements and the battle was renewed Sunday morning. Tbo light was kept up alt day, and when the last courier reached the nearest telegraph office, 10 miles ;from the scene of the battle, at a late hour Sunday night, he reported 10 negroos had been killed and several wounded. Four negroe$ were captured and taken to Forest, whore they aro guai.ded by 00 white men to prevent their reseuo by negro sympathizers, A general alarm has been Bout out over. Scott and the adjoining counties of Beaten, Newton and tnith, and hartdreds of white m.'n are muter arins and on their way to Harpervitle, Sheriff Stevenson, realizing the danger appreohonded,hmuediately wired Governor MoLaurin at Brandon for aid in quell. ing a probable widespread dlatnrb:znee, Brandon Upon receipt HP l � i the or eiut of this telegram t l Gov- ernor procured a special train at 1 n and accompanied by a posse of :10 (nen, armed with shut guns proceeded to For- est. Arriving there early in the evat,ing they found that there was snaz[ll danger of riot assuming proportions beyond the ability of the posse on hand to 'keep order.. Governor MoLaurie of Brandon natur- ally counsels moderation, but in the exalted of the ublie mindind a •goat x d state P fear is expressed that the posse wie not regard this suggestion favorably, Their presence, however, will undoubtedly cavo a groat influence In restricting the num- bor of fatalities after enough negroos have been killed to satisfy the outraged feeling of the whites in that suction, Mr. Lewis Wiekett, cattle and hog buyer, of Caledonia was robbed on Saturday night of $117 paper money and $170 silver, the thieves gaining entrance by the sitting room window. Miss Simmons, of Deseronto, arrived at Cobourg by boat from Charlotte, N. Y., suffering from smallpox. She was immediately insolated and every pre- caution taken to prevent the spread of the disease, Miss Edith A. Cole, of Ottawa, mys teriously disappeared on Saturday af- ternoon and was not seen again uutil Sunday evening, when she was found lying in the hallway of her father's house. It is supposed the young lady was drugged and abducted, Clinton : Wednesday a quiet and pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. Godfrey McGugan, Poplar Hill, when Laura, his eldest daughter, be- came the wife of J. P. Doherty, the genial son of W. Doherty, of this town, the well-known organ manufacturer. Miss Vina McGugan, sister of the bride acted as bridesmaid and A. T. Cooper, also of this place, acted as groomsman - Only the immediate relatives of the families were present. Mr. Doherty is the youngest alderman of the town, and secretary of the Liberal Conserva- tive Association and other organize tions. winter if all other signs should fail. We're going to have it, sure as ' you live. If 'any one should ask me what I would rather have just now, I would reply unhesitatingly :—" 'A corner on coal and overcoats.' ' C Linton : The rector of St. Paul's s had a very narrow escape from meet- ing with what might have been a fatal accident the forepart of the week. While driving along the Bayfield road accompanied by his daughter, Miss Shirley, to visit his sister, Mrs Elliott, the horse fell and broke the shafts of the road cart closs to the cross bar. .As the horse went down the carthood fell foreward and the rector and Miss Shirley were caught beneath. Had the horse been a fractious one there is no saying what the result might have been, but fortunately Mr. Parke had a close grip upon the lines and managed to extricate himself and daughter without any further injury than a cut above the nose. iar-iceillg People. CLINGING TO THE ar.aSTS. Shipwrecked Crew of the Irma Suffered for 29 Hours. Halifax, Oct. 25.—Tho Irma, laden with salt, bound from Basso Terre to Halifax, went ashore at three o'clock Sunday morning during a heavy rain storm and blow. The crew took to the rigging, and were seen in that position early yesterday morning. All day Sunday and last night the surf washed over the vessel. The waves broke over her and both topmasts fell. It was too rough to approach tho wreck until nine o'clook yesterday morning, when a lifeboat managed to got alongside. Tho sea calmed down considerably, and with the assistance of rapes the crew wore safely taken from the wreck and brought to tho city. They had boon exposed to the sea and cold for twenty-nine hours, and could not have survived the cold much longer. Two of the crow had almost per- ished. Clinton: Clinton lost one of its very earliest residents on Tuesday evening by the death of Mrs, A. Davis, at the age of 92 years. Deceased has en- joyed fairly good health all her life, and notwithstanding her unusual age, had the use of all her faculties to the very last. Born in. Borrow Parish, Worcestershire, Eng., she was married early in years to her late husband, and about the year 1847 or 48 they emi- grated to this country, coming by way of the lakes from Cleveland to Gode- rich on a fishing smack. After one year's residence there they moved to Clinton, where she has resided ever since, thus being one of the oldest resi- dents here. Fifteen years ago she was left a widow, and for a considerable length of time made her home with ber, daughter, Mrs, Moffat, at whose place she died. THE STOVEL INQIIEST. Far -Seeing people dou't need to look through a telescope to find bargains when they visit 4lr a store. We have them on ass;. sides. The telescope is all right in its place—locating small ob- jects for instance—and it might be all right to locate things like, our prices, which. aro 00 small that you will wonder how we sell so cheaply. Stove1 Stove5� A FULL LINE OF COOKI NC COAL HEATERS WOOD HEATERS Lot SECOND-HAND HEATERS APPLE PEARERS APPLE WIRE PL A TrOBM SCALES The Coroner's Jury bakes a Recom- mendation in Its Verdict. Toronto, Oot. 25.—Coroner Spencer continued the inquiry last night at Mil - lard's undertaking establishment into the facts surrounding the death of the late Charles W. Stovel of Walkerton, who was fatally injured at Bay and Front streets by a trolley car on Wednes- day afternoon last. After 40 minutes de- liberation the jury returned the follow- ing verdict: "We find that deceased cams to his dsath on Oct. 18, 1898, by collision with street oar No. 450. The jury further say that no blame can be attached to the motorman. and they,rscommend tbai the city pass a bylaw requiring all cars to sound the gongs 'and slacken speed at every through crossing." ... EXETER ..TIE,.. V ris1er �dverlisez • • . 1899 o o • Only Seventy-five Cents .—TO--. January 1st, 1900, Now is the time to subscribe for the best Weekly Paper published in Ontario. Write for low cl ubing offers. Shot at the Robbers. Simcoe, Ont., Oct 25.—An unsuccess- ful attempt was madeyesterday about 2 o'clock a.m. to burglarize the post oface here. An entrance was gained by prying up a window as the roar of the building. One of the party climbed upon a shelf, lighted a match and looked around, at the same time saying "All right." Im- mediately the watchman commenced shooting at a very lively rate, and the midnight callers left very hurriedly with- out any spoil. Shot Himself in the Ear. Gananoque, Ont., Oot. 25.—Joseph Lalonde, who recently returned from the Klondike and bought out the boot and shoe business of J. E. Lewis, tried to end his life last evening about 6 o'clock with a revolver. The bullet' entered the ear, passed through the base of the brain and, taking a downward course, lodged some- where in the jaw or neck. He had been despondent for some weeks past through business troubles. He is not exPectod to. recover. ADDRESS WESTERN ADVERTISER, LONDON, ONT. FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. DUNN'S BAKINC POWDER THECOOK'SBEST FRIEND RGEST SALE IN CAlvA9,.. Lindsay Votes a Bonus. Lindsay, Ont., Oot. 25.—A bylaw was voted on here yesterday' by the property owners for the granting of a loan of $20,- 000 to R. Sylvester, agricultural ifuple- ment manufacturer of Lindsay. ` The Voters gave a majority in favor of the loan of nearly 600. icor TOBR000S� T 86B WILE THE OLD RELIABLE ORINOCA, Mild Long Cut, CHERUBS Pipe and Cigarette, ARE THE BES('. Herbert Baker a young man employ- ed at the Woodstock wagon factory, met with a painful accident while at work Monday. He was engaged in the drying room, piling rims on top of a dry kilo, when he stepped a little, too far back and fell about ten feet, striking,on his head. While threshing at Mr. Adam Bob. son's Ildertou, Friday, Mr. Wm. Woods had the misfortune of having his fork caught in the carriers, as he was rak- ing the straw off, throwing him heav ily, from the stack to the ground, about eight feet down. He alighted on his shoulders and was badly bruised. 4�