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CANADA.
The twentieth century begins Tame
ary 1, 1901.
Vapcouver Catholics will build a
$60,000 chureh.
Stratford offers 595,000 for the loeal
water-worIrs plant.
J. T. Middleton has been appointed
sheriff at Wentworth,
It will cost $157,000 to run the Ham-
ilton schools this year.
There will uot be any military tour-
nament in Toronto this year.
They have already begun to teach
the Doukhobors English at Winnipeg.
large vein of hematite iron has
been discovered to the ziorth of Wabi-
Tee outlook for the, lunibering busi-
ness in the Ottawa valley next season
is promising. -
Winnipeg already ha,a signs of great
activity in building circles and real
estate during the owning sumnaer.
Tlee teMPeranee people ofeleamilton
will petitioh the City Connell to reduce
•the number of tavern licenses from 75
to 50. '
The Council' of Arts and rndustriee,
at• Quebec has opened a night class
for the making of patterns of beets
and, shoes.
Mr. William Webb of Binbrook was
thrown out of his waggon and killed •
while driving to Hamilton with a load
of wood.
p a Gartei in place of the late Duke
of Northumbeeland,
Saver g fine elm trees in the eele-
breted Long Walk at Wiedsor have
been condemued as unSafe, and are
earning ninier he axe, ,
What would unarmed civilization do
against armed barbaris10 is one o
Lerd Roberts' comments oz the Car's
disarmament proemial.
The appoititnaent of LiPutenant
General Sir Frames Grenfell to be
a general Q11 the staff to commend the
troops in Malta, is gazetted.
The etrike of the Clyde seamen has
collaPeed, the shipowners having been
able to -find crewel for their vessels
without diffioulty at current rates.
It is announced in London that a
Chiriese 5 per cent. eailWaY loan of
$e7,500,000 has beee arranged,- epee
elegy secured 0/1 Cheenese railways.
The Mike of Devonshire and Baron
Nathaniel Meyer de Rothschild have
subscribed Z10,000 each to the Cam-
bridge Endowment University fund.
The will of the late Baron- Ferdinand
de Rothschild left $25,000 to "nay
friend Herbert Wilson." There are two
in London and the executors are in
a quandary.
A number of Montreal capitalists
• have a.cquired. a half -interest in the
gold properties of the Bullion Gold
Mining Comeany of the Lake ot the
Woods district.
Cambridge 'University greatly lecke
funds, and an aesomation has been
formed to aid it, The Duke (if Devon-
shire has given $5'0,000 and the Rothe -
child's fir ra $50,000.• '
The employers in. the 'cotton trade
throughout• Lancashire, 'eXcepting, the
Bolton district, have received applica-
tions for an advance of .wages varying
from 5 to 10 per eent. •,
Sir T. F. Buxton; Bart., G. C. M. G.
has aceepted the office of presideet af
•the British and Foreign .Anti -Slaver'
Soeiety, vacant since the death of the,
late Mr. Arthur Pease, M.]?.
• ellornsey District Council has resolv-
ed to build 60 houses at Highgate, near
London, at a cost of i',15,500., The
rents are to run from 5s ed to 8s 6d a
There is talk in Lendon of putting
the practice of spiritualism on a simi-
lar footing with the practice of medi-
czne, and to provide for the formal in-
struction and licensing of mediums cap-
able .of conducting orthodox seances.
• Twenty thousand pounds has been
subscribed during the Past year for
the East London Church fund. The
Bishop Stepney, speaking at a meet-
ing at Bourneouth, said that this
was a record sum for one year's col-
lection.
UNITED STATES.
Electricity will take theplace of
steam on the Manhattan Elevated
Railroad, New York. --
The West Shore Railway is to be
alasoileed bythe Neer York Central sys-
tem.
The North Dakota law now requires
a residence of one year before a di-
vorce can be secured.
Thomas Sprague is dead at Rossville,
Staten Island, of hydrophobia, He was
bitten by a dog a month ago.
The North-western Chronicle, of St.
Paul, says Archbishop Ireland, now in
Rome, is to be made a cardinal.
A party of German settlers, number-
ing 100, will leave Indiana to settle
in •the North-west Territories • in
April. •
Sixty-seven cadets .,at Chester, Pa.,
were poisoned, presumably from eat-
ing badly preserved cold -storage
turkey.
Rev. Dr. Charles Seymour Robinson,
the Presbyterian divine and • well-
known writer. of hymns, is dead at New
York.
Hon. Cul. McMillan, Provincial Trea-
surer of Manitoba, has returned to
Winnipeg from the Southern States,
restored to health.
Henderson's directory for Winnipeg
places the population of Winnipeg at
49,000, an increase of 4000 or 5000 over
last year. •
E. Bayden, master mechanic at
the Trail, B.C., smelter, has been kill-
ed by an electric shock, while repair-
ing the switchboard.
T. G. Owen, a young Ottawan 22
years of age and son of Mr. Owen.
accountant of the Marine Depa.riment,
Is reported to have made a fortune in
the u on. •
The CataraCt Power Company has
declined to fix the price for power for
Hamilton, but offers to give cheaper
electric light if a ten years' contract
Is signed.
Complaints have.reached Ottawa of
the extensive importation of liquor ine
. to the Yukon. The Ottawa authori-
ties are leaving the issue of permits
to the Territorial authorities.
Owing to the grippe epidemic, the
Kingston penitentiary hospital is so
overcrowded the new south wing had
• o be tinned into service to accommo-
date the convict patients. '
The proposal to establish a military
organization at McGill University is
again being:discussed, and it now looks
as if the scheme would be at accom-
plished fact before very long.
Mr. George Hague, who has managed
the affairs of the Merchants' Bank for
twenLy-two years, has handed over his
duties to the joint manager, Mr: Fyielle.
• Mr. Hague is still attached to the bank
in..an advisory capacity.
iloy of Montreal declares that
an attempt was made by two civic
employees to bribe hina in connection
with a recent appointment by -sending
to his house twelve promissory notes
for 450 each, and requesting. him Co ac-
cent the money for his vote., .
New Westniinster has a balance of
•551,000 on ii•end of charitable funds af-
ter all distress occasioned by the great
fire hes ,been relieved,. and, the city now
has a bill before the `Legislature of
Britieh Columbia...to empoeverethe cor-
• porciticia to spend. the money in public'
woiks 'and thils provide work for the t
nee,dy:
Several deaths- have dowered ree
ecntlyinKingston Penitentiary- front
spinal meningitis. Medical authorities
• have recently diseov'ered that the die- '
ease' frequently originates from a gerra
inoeulated into the system through
•imperfect ventilation or the unsani-
tary condition of public institutions.
P/Iental worry is frequently the cause
of the complaint. • •
Se'yenteen of the conviets concerned
in the recent inueiny at the Kings-
ton Penitentiary have been corn-
- milted to the prison of isolation for
one year, and fifteen of them have had
their lights taken from them for one
month. It is • also said that.. all the
convicts concerned in the revolt will
lose their reinissioe or good -conduct
time:
week, and ep.oh house will have 50 fee
of garden.
At a meeting of the Liverpool branch
of the Royal National Lifeboat beetle
tutioneit was announced that the eee-
cutors of the late Mr: F. C. Baines, of
Liverpool and Cairo, had given £10,000
to the institution.
A trained bird belonging to the
singer, the late Miss Emma Thursby,
New York, aud valued at 510,000, is
the, latest victim of the grip in Goth-
am, •11 spoke in five languages.
The Medico -Legal :Society of New
York hes' adopted restitutions urging
he release 'of. Mrs. Maybeiek from
pei5on in England., and has appointed
eontmittee to- memorialize •-the
Queen.• '
Beoause of continued failing halite
Mrs. J. Myers, a wealthy visitor from
Pittsburg, aged about fifty, commit-
ted suicide by jumping into the ocean
from the end of Young's pier, Atlantic
City, on Monday. '
• Snow is reported as general through-
out Central and Southern tleorgia and
Alabama. In Atlanta nearly four in-
ches fell on Saturday. Three inches
has fallen at Coluinbus • and other
points in South Georgia, and abqut
two inches at Maeon and Montgomery,
Ala.
Tom Salmon, forneer president of
Red Lodge Miners' Union, who killed
Superintendent Connor, of the Rocky,
Fork coal mine, for disebarging him,
was hanged at Red Lodge, Mont., on
'Friday. Salmon was a well known
labour leader in several North-West-
ern States.
• The customs departmant Is coin-
pteting arrangements for the transit
oe goods to the Yukon over the White
Pass Railway in bond. Traies are now
running from Skagway to nearly the
• Caeadian Border, and as soon as the
4inie reaches Canadian Territory a
sealed car Will be placed on the route
• to carry Canadian bonded shipments
from Skagway across the disputed trip.
The returns of letieish imports of
dairy produce last year show that out
of a total of 2,287,166 OWL. of cheese
imported, Canada sent 1,431,781 c•we,
the United States 474,995 cwt.., and
Holland 292,825 cwt. Oe all qualities
Co nadian cheese rues from 2 to 3 shine
files higher than American, One exports
of butter to the British market for tile
• year were 159,865 cwt., ' aa against
100,402 cwt. in 1897; and 88,357 in
1896.•
GREAT 13RtTAIN,
The Earl of Lindsey is dead:
Lord Hallatn l'eneyeon, son of • the
late poet, has been appointed Governor
of South Australia.
The Duke of York will command the
13 r I ash squadron which will tecei ve ISa
American ehips ittjune. ,
Preparatiohe are being made in
Rng-
hind for the 800111 anniversary or the
birth of Cromwell, which oceura
April 25.
The Earl of lillgin, former Viceroy
of India, has been appoiiited a Keight
GENERAL.
Rioting is resulting from widespread
distress among the natives of • Bar-
badoes.
Owing to famine in Persia, murder
and highway robbery is frequent, and
the Shah has had hi a body guard in-
creased.• ,
There hag been a recurrence of land-
slides at Airolo in the Alps, and the
Gothard tunnel is threatened with
destruction. • ••
P.rwenty children are reported to have
been drowned by an ice disaster at the
Village of Werpuleama-Boirhein, East
Prussia,
A plot 'tor tha wholesale murder of
pelieemen hes been discovered, at Leg-
horn, near Florence:, Many Anarch-
ists have been arrested.
A tem employe at Paris named Os -
ins found a packa,ge of 5100,00 worth
of eccurities in the main sewer, and
geve i1 up to I be euthorities.
There tire 40,000 beggars, 10,000 of
whom are eohliers, It lhe City of Ma-
drid, ho authorities tear an eel -
break of lawlessness :led crime.
'1 he terse seals of the season have
been observed oft Cape Dona vista,
Neevfouudlend. The sealing steamers
aee preparing for their annual hunt.
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE
Notes of Proceedinge in the Local
Parliament,
DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS,
ContrarY to the Practice in manY
previous eessions, the debate on the ad-
dress only occupied 011P 8iitthg of the
LegislatUre. It began in be afternoon
and eeded about 9.30 at night. In ad-
dition to the mover, Mr, Serauel Rus-
sell, of East Hastings, and seeonder
Air. P. F. Pardee, of Wet Laraletwe, of
the address, Mr. Whitney and the At-
torney-Generel were the only speak-
ers.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
The following notices were handed
Tho Attorney -General -Bill respect-
eog the moneys oI infants and others
in the High Court.
Also -Bill respeotieg voterse lists in
unorganized territories.
Mr. Davis -Bill to amend the Prison
and asylum inepection act, •
M. Barr --13111 to, amend the registry
act, .
TO SAVE THE FB;UIT TREES.
. One of the most important of the
bills wnieli will be introduced during
the present session will be one to ex-
tend the operations of the San Jose
Scale Act. It provides for inspeotion
of nurseries, and a. careful survey of
all nursery stook.
GAME LAW CHANGES.
Mr. Carnegie will make an attempt
week after, the close season,
wilt ask that settlers be allowed to
•
• FARMS IN A TOWN.
_shoot. deer one week before and one
to have the Game Law amended. He
.! The, teen a Eketer„ is asking per-
•exiission to assess vacant lands in the
corporation as farm lands,
. THE NICKEL RA.wg.E RAILWAY.
One of the many railway companies I
which will ask for inoorporation this I
session is the Nickel Range Railway.
It will run front the Sault Ste Marie
branch of the C.P.R. in the Town-
ship of Graham, and will run northerly
-through the Township of Creighton, to
a point at or near the main line of the
C.P.R.
•
A big grist of petitions were present-
ed during Wednesday's session of the
House. Among them was one from the
County Council of the United Counties
of Stormont, Dundas, and • Glengarry,
asking for the framing of a model and
uniform byelaw regulatingthe use of
public thoroughfares and pathways on
rural roads by wheelmen. The wheel -
men ,of Ontario are watc,hing all mat-
ters affecting them with great interest,
and will be heard when legislation as
to the wheel, is proposed. Several
petitions asking for legislation making
•markets all over the province free to
• all farm produce were presented. A
petition from Carleton County Council
asks that legislation be enacted giv-
ing County Councils the power to ap-
point their own einestabulary,
SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES.
Hon J. T. Garrow has given notice
of a bill to amend the Assessemnt Act.
The object is to require- the • sale of
lands for taxes to be advertised for a
period of 15 weeks, in order that ample
oneortniceemay be given to everybody con -
d.
• THE SCHOOL ACT. ,
Mr. Brower, of East Elgin, has some
changes to propose to the Education
Act. The law provides that a sec-
ond teacher is required in sclaools of
50 pupils. He asks that the number
be raised to 60, and that the rate-
payers' permission be required before
Ian addition is made. He alsonsks for
amendments so that among the ten
men who form the Board of Education
to control the Public school examina-
tion. three must be Public school in-
spectors.
• JUDGES' EKES.
The Ontario Government lhas decid-
ed upon re -arranging the system of
payment of fees of some of the Surro-
gate Court officers,- and in the fol-
lowing way, annually: Judge Hughes,
Elgin, 5081; Judge Barron, Perth, 5873;
Judge Elliot, Middlesex, 5229; Judge.
Doyle, Huron, 551. ' Judge Monck of
•Wentworth gets the' surplus of fees
over amount peed, to Surrogate Sedge,
provided that that sum doesenot exe
need $666, and Judge oegvaye of
tarletaii reCeieres a like -amount.
FOR laiTe DEAF AND DUMB •
•
Mr Davis laid ohthe table Inspector
Chamberlain's twenty-eighth annual
report of the 13ellevilie Institute felt
the Deaf and Dumb„also the twenty-
seventh annual report of the Bran.tford
Institute for the Blind. The reports
are for the year ending September,
18`.:8. In the firstenained report, •that
of tbe Institute . for the Deaf and
Dumb, the inspector • recommends the
erection. of an addition to • the present
building to meet the urgent necessity
for increasing school accommodation,
and for a play -room and gyineasium, It
is also recommended thee the number
of years for the course of tultion be in-
-creased, and that a computsory law be
enacted requiring the atendance, of all
deaf and dumb children in the pro-
vince. Admission to the institutien
should, he says, be free . to all such
children residing in *the Province of
Ontario. The number of pupils on the
roll at the end of the year was 280,
viz e 144 boys and ,116 girls, There was
only one death during the year, and
the health of the, pupils was uniformly
good.. The total cost of ma,inientinee
for the year was 544,887.22, as comPared
with 545,282.70 foe 1897. The weekly
cosL tissr pupil in '97 was e3.26.0, and in
'98 53.22; the yearly cost ixi '97 being
e170e22.6, and in '98, 5167.48.9. The av-
erage attendance of pupils in '97 was
266 and in '08- 268. ••
BR,A.NT,FORD INSTITUTE.
tn. the reports of the Brantford In-
stitute for the Blind • the inepeotor
states that there are 120 i,111llai.e.S, 64
boys axid 62 eerie. There iSurgent ne-
ceeeity, he states, for bacreueed
-remit-node tion eapecially to the girls'
side of the tiled tu Hort. total, eost
of naaintenanee in ,1898 was e33,589.15;
weekly cost of each pupil per week,
35.00.7; yearly cost per pupil 5260:38,
The figures for • the preceding year
' were, total, 532,782.60; crudi pupil' per
weak,5 02 5 ; yerrly eriet per pupil
32"..6.11. Detailed etatextente by
.P111 JIYrtiond and others, d eel i ng avi t
the year's work, are irichidedin the re-
port. '
FTINI).S OF ".1111P., PROVINCE,
Hon. Mr, Harcourt delivered his d-
•
get speech oa Thursday. The Publ
accounts Una year consists of a bo
of 497 pages, considerably larger Lint
former years. In these extra Dag
is given more detail of the revenue a
expenditure of the provinee.
THE REVENUES
The revenues from all eourees dur-
ing 1898 amounted to $3,617,353.05,
while the expenditure totelled $5,8e3,-
081.83, showing a deficit of 5155,728.29,
At the beginning of the year the 5.'reils-
urer had on hand 595,849.51 and $510,-
000 on a special deposit eeeount. The
receipts were as follows:-Consolielata
ed. revenue fund -Dominion a Canada,
1,196,872; intermit on capital, etc.,
304,060; Crown Lands Depertment,
131,100,539; • licenses, $e76,761; law
slarape, e 57,281 ; Educe Lion, Department,
$59,578; succession duty, 13506,185; cas-
ual revenue $108,569; sale of lands,
$42,290; institutioes, $94,113;
Algoma. taxes, $4,133; ePee accounts,
$188,971; total, $3,647,353.
THE EXPENDITURES.
,
ie Bt4it,Jamt rain. Elnet and adjoin -
oh ing towineette, 134,000; dredging Cunard
Xi river, $5,000, Of Liao above amounts
es 0,950 eepreeent.s new votes on capi-
mi tal account, and. 521,401 en repair ac-
count. The estimates for colonigatton
raa,de aro divided as follows: North
$19,450; west division, 512,750;
east division, 1382,950; general purposes
520,550. There Will be less expendi-
ture in the Crown Lends Departnaent.
then before. In mining the eeduetion
is $3,120, For mining, rds oathe esti-
mates are: Bel/City, and Mine Centre
road, 5300; .fa,ckfish Bay and Long Lake
read, te extend towards Ursa 3Iajor
Mine, $400; mining roadsii vicinity of
Rat Portage, 51,000; Markestay and
Kokagarning road, conditional, 51,000;
New Klondike read, extension, 13700;
Lake Wabigoou, mining district roads,
e1,000, other mining roads, 13e,000; mak-
ing a total of .56,400.
• Following are the expenditutes
Consolidated revenue fuud-Civil goit-
enanaent, 13152,988; $165,189;
aeminesicration of ju.stice, $436,e76 ;edu-
cation, 5735,998; p-ublic institutions
paintenance, $815,74e; immigration, re-
meineenance, $815,744; immigration, 57,-
•108; agrieulture, 13106,688; hospitals and
charities, 5184,402; repairs and main-
tonal:ice, public buildings, 579,781;
locks, dams, etc., 58,972; colontzation
reads, 5107,454; surveys, inspections,
etc„ 5859; charges Crown Lands, 5162,-
395; refunds, 527,199; statutes consoli-
dated, $48,851; miecellitneous, $.218,302;
open account, 5349,866; total, $3,903.-
081.83. • ' •
• In only two cases was there all. in
orea.se revenue over 1897. These
were in - interest trope ell capital hel
and, due by the; Dominion, $60,000,,an
in.•the Denartment oe Ediumition, 53,
057. The net decrease amounted. `e•
e507,955, being principally in the Wood
and Voreets where th f 11' te f
amounted to 4315,954. The other de
creases were: -Interest on investment
54,374; Crown Lands, 550,413; rent
1 , licenses,2;512,1330; a.w s a.mps
$2,698; succession duty, 1322,633 casua
revenue, 1319,276; public institutions
58,592. York County- yielded more in
sueoession duties than any othe
county, contributing 569,073, the prin
cipal amounts being 523,659 from th
estate of Sir Casimir Gzowski, 521,500
from the estate of Robert Hamilton
and 512,e40 from that of John Neilson
John Shield,s, 54,500. The Centrae Pri
son cost 589,577,83 during the year
and the receipts from: that institution
amounted to 5100 885.15.
A comparative statement shows! the
in 1898 the expenglitu.re was 53,803,081
as against 43,767,675 int the previou.
DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS.
Director or the Experimental Farms Send
Ing Out Iininpies.
A despatch from. Ottawa, Out., says;
-For the past ten years systematic,
efforts" have bean made to increase
the average returns and to imprcive
the quality of the' ceereals and other
important farm crops grown in Can-
ada by an annual distribution trent
the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, of
samples of seed of the besteand most
productive sorts. These varieties have
beenefirst leated at the Experimental
farms, and only those which have
proven to be the very best haee been
cleosele for this distribution. • The sa.m.-
e ph* •-pent oet ehave . Contained three
o' pounde each, and. every preeaution has
$ lieentalien to have the seed in every
f
instance Lhoroughly clean aiad true to
s name, and the packages have been
, sent free through the mail. Those
who have received such samples and
1
. grown them with care have usually
tad, at the end of the second year,
✓ enough seed to sow a large area, and
- in this naanner careful farmers all
ever the Dominion have been gradu-
ally replacing any inferior and. less
• productive sorts winch they had been
_ growing in the past with superior
varieties possessing greater vigor.
• By instruction of the •• Minister of
Agriculture, another such distribution
t is being made this season, consisting of
• samples of oats, barley, spring wheat,
s field. peas, Licilan men, a.nci potatoes,
year. The receipts of 1898 were
53,647,853, as compared with 54,139,817
the previous year. The great reduc
tion was in the Crown Lands Depart
raent, where the revenue fell from
51,595,369 to 51 100 539.
ESTIMATES FOR TER YEAR.
The estimates were also placed. on
the table -at the Legislature yesterday
They provide for expenditue
amounting to 53,409,507,73. Of this amount
$3,172,161.31, is on account of current
expenditure; 522,875.39, is on refund
These samples will be sent only to
those who apply personally. Lists of
_ names from • societies or individuals
_ cannot be considered, and, only one.
sample in all ca.n be sent to each ap-
plicant. Applications should be ade
dressed to the director of Experimental
farms, and may be sent any time be-
fore the 15th of March, after which
• date the lists will be closed, so that all
e samples asked for may be sent mit in
good time for sowing. Parties writing
will kindly mention the sort of variety
lethey.would prefer, and then, should the
account, and 5211,231; oncapital ace
count. The amount required for the
different departments is as follows:
Civil government 5253,185; legislation,
5105, 200; a,drainistration of justice,
5442,796; educ-ation, 5730,862; puelic
institutions (for maintenance). 5805,-
782; immigration, 57,075; g •
re
5101,217; hospitals and charities, 5182,-
506; maintenance and repairs of Gov-
ernment and departmental buildings,
517,530; public) building,s (repairs,) e10,-
860; public works (repairs), 421,101;
charges on Crown lands, 5136,975;
mieeellaneous expenditure, 5127,000,
and unforeseen and. unprovided, 550,-
000. Total, $3,172,461, ,
CIVIL GOVERNMENT INCREASE.
There is an increase in the estimates
for civil government of 55,257, as com-
pared with last year, and. the follow-
ing items also appear: 'Lieutenant -
Governor's office, increese '5600 ; At-
torney -General's Department, inerease
5365; Department of Education, de-
crease 52; Crown Lands;decrease 51,-
720; Public Works, decrease 53,450 ;
;Treasury Depaiiment, ine'rease $100;
Provincial Board 'of- Health, decrease
5175; Provincial Secretary, decrease
51,22.5 ;• public institutithas, decreage
550; insuranceu
brtal, decrelise $50,;
-Department of Agrieultiire, increase
$450; Dapartinent of Immigrate -in, de -
chase 5150; raiseellaneous•accoune de-
crease 550.
•The sum cd 57,000 is aeked for ex-
penses in the elections, and 51,000 for
expenses in contested elections. G-ra-
tuity to the daughters of the late Alex.
Grant, Osgoode Hall, 52,200; gratuity
to the estate of the late Principal
Kirkland .of the Toronto Norraal
school, 52,500; gratuity, to the estate
of the late Prof. Penton, Agricultural
College, additional, $1,300; gratuity
to C. G. Horetzsky, Public Works De-
Partraen t, 51,100; gratuity to 5. (1,
O'Grad.y. Public Works Department,
$1,050; gratuity to the widow of the
late Aaron Singht, mining. inspector,
$500.
• FISHERIES DEPARTedvaiv.
available stock of the sort asked for be
-exhausted, some other good variety will
be sent in its place.
THE KING TAKES A WIFE.
' MacDonald the Klondike Millionatre
Weds In 'London.
A despatch from London says: -Alex.
MacDonald, a gold miner, of Dawson
City, reported to be the possessor of a
fortu.ne of 527,000,000, was married to-
day in the Roman Catholic church at
Brixton to Margaret Chisholm, daugh-
ter of the superintendent of the
Thames water police.
MacDonald, who is called the "King
of the 1e/bailee," was born in Nova
Scotia, and is 45 years of age,. Mac-
Donald arrived in England shortly be-
fore Christmas. He had never seen the
young woman. he married. He spent
Christmas in London; and afterwterds
delivered a letter of introduction which
he brought with him to Miss Chis-
holm's 'father. He immediately fele in
love isrith the daughete, end that; mar -
ridge evas 'arranged en the quickeet Pose
The newly formed Fisheries Depart-
ment is estimated to cost e25,300, while
for 1898 it was 56,000. A contribution
to the Vietorian Order of Nurses is
pieced at: $2,500, to be expended in New
Ontario. There is an inclease of near-
ly e10000 asked for thp maintenancc.
of public buildings. An increase of
530,000 to repair publie buildingis
asked to be thus .expended :-Asylums,
at Toronto, 5535; Mimieo'52,580; Lon-
don, 57,170; Hamilton, 53,350 r 'Kings-
ton, 54,000; Brockville, 56,805; Idiots,
Orillia, 52,800, Central, Pelson, el15,e00;
Ileforneitore, at Pexietanguiahene, e700;
doe., b'emales, Toronto, 53,000; Deaf
and Dumb Institute, Belleville-, 51,450;
Blind, 'Brantford, 54,5210; Agriculture]
College, Guelph, 54,31e; Educe tion De-
rtment Toronto, 52,e00; Normal,
sehool., Ottawa' 5500; Normal school.,
Londoe, 516,900; Sehool of Preetical
Steele*, Toronto, 4,235; Oegtiode
5e00; New Parliament buildings; 52,400.
• PUBLea WORKS FeePENDITITRE
Following are the sums asked for
public; works :-Gull and Buret River
Works, 56,458; Lake of the Woods, 54,-
000; Star Lake, 541)0; to eemove obstetie-
tione from navigable streams, • 5750;
mointentince of locks, dams, etc., at
tale and Port Carling, $13,500, Be
-
votes were given to Otonabee nivr
5295;, Talbot rieer, el6C0 z bridge tierose
Madawaska -rive r al Burnstown, el ,-
FAO ; Payne river, improvement of bed
of.atreain, 54,000; Iniproveniene of bed
sible time, because of MacDonald's
business -affairs, which necessitateeles
return to the Yukon almost immediate-
ly.
The bride is 20 years old, and very
pretty. She is a descendant of the an-
cient clan of Chisholm, which fought
so gloriously at Culloden. The cere-
mony was performed by the bride's
uncle, the Rev. Canon Chisholm, of
Glasgow. The bridegroom is a big
stern man, andleoks the typical miner.
The chards' was filled mostly with
youngstexs, who stood upon the benches
with mouths agape eyeing the Teton-
diker.
•
A ROAD AT THIRTY -MILES.
:Mounted Police Lessen the Danger% or
Irravel to Dawson.
The North-West Mounted Police have
out a 'road through the country at
Thirty -mile on the Ynkonwhich makes
eravel to and from Dawson far less
dangerous than heretofore. Thirly-mile
is one of the worst places on the river,
and owing to the rapid current the
water seldom freezes over entirely,
and several outfits have been lost at
thie point, The new road cuts across
country and saves seven miles of, had
travelling.
MASSACRED THE CHILDREN.
80 Tern r 'nand red Seized by (h!,n es
bets and. tiOrownoill,
despa Leh f.rom Vancouver says
Empress of China brings edvices to
the effect that Central Chiita isseeth-
ing with diecontens. Rebel Yueelaii-
'.eze it reported to be oo 1.46 'road
agaite and to have taptured two French
Miasi ono ri es,
The rebel's :raided Kueifu, ,and while
several nuad.red children undee the
ate of Roman Cathelies were on their
,way down the Aver, they were eeized
and drowned.
R1ETS OF frifE WORLD.' OysIn
pepsia and digestion„
Prices of Grain, Cattle, Cheese, &
in the Loading Karts.
common diseases, but bard to
0. -
cure with ordinaty, temedies,
yield readily to Niariley's
Celery -Nerve Compound.
W. H. euckingliam, 396 King ,St.
, East, Hamilton, Ont,, Sy:-"
WUS &Quilted with Dyspepsia And
indigestion for a long tline„ mut
)could get no relief untii tried
Manley's Celery -Nerve Coinlimind,
which cured me, and 1 cannot
speak too highly In its praise."
_
DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Toronto.; Feb. Re-Dreesed hogs
steady, let:liveries °illy fair. On the
street to -day farrriene' loads were sold
at around 55.25 for cbeite: lots, and lk
fraetiou lower for heavy weighta, On
the track carloadsold at 54.85 to $5,
mixed weights, delivered: and a fulce
Lion higher for selects. Proyeeion mar-
ket easy-.
Quotations are as follows :-tiry salt-
ed shoulders, 7e; long clear baeon, car
lots 7o; ton lotand case lots, 71-1 to
7 1-2c, and backs, 8 to 8 1-1c.
Smoked meats -Hams, heavy, 9 1-21 tO
btOrelakOcf;amstedibacum,on1:010toi1-021-tte ;atoll le oeiolnlico;
hams, 7 1-2 to 7 3-4e; roll bacon, 8.1-4
to 8 1-2c. .All meat's out of pickle 1
lese than prices quoted for smoke
m
pele1:,;astarb d7-1'1,-‘21 Lard -Tierces, 37_0,10 u lceosna, 71
p 04-14 o 7 1-
, 512-02;
to 60,
• CANADA'S DAIRY EXPERTS.
New zeal:led Government Trying to Get
TWO Mote.
A. despatch from Ottawa, says :-Al
striking evidence of Canada's eutineneet
in dairying and cheese -making is shown
by the peraisteut densaud of distant
o Governmeete for Canadian dairy ex_
d porta. Already two ire in the employ
of the Government cif New Zealand,
Mr. J. A. Ruddiek and edr. Adawan,
aed only the other day two others had
flattering offer a to take employment
under the same Government, Mr, C.
Marker, who is in claaree of the Domin-
ion creameries le Alberta, and Super-
intendent Kinselia, of the North-West
reeeived cables from the New Zealand
Government askiug if they were open
to engagement, and stating a salary
considerably higher than they are at
present reeeivinge Both, huwever, de-.
dined the offer, preferring, as they
said, to remain in Canada, where the
prospeets, of development are better.
essesee
• I3READSTUFFS, ETO.
Wheat -The Chicago market olosed
higher to-daye and cables were also
better. There' was a rather better
feeling locally. Offerings of "Ontario
wheeet light, deraend flat. Holders aelr
69e for Ted and White wheat, norte and
west,. and exporters bid 68.c. No. 1
Manitoba hard, sold at 83 1-2c, North
Bay, and No. 1 Northern at 80 1-20.
Holders ask 80o for No. 1 hard, Owen
Sound and Midland.
Flour --Quiet. Exportere quote 53
for straight roller, in wood,' middle
middle
freight. Sales for local and Quebec
account are made at 53,10.
Millfeed-Sear '.; ton lots of bran at
)Car lots of rolled
the local mills ,. quoted at 514, and
shorts at 516; car\,, \
ets, middle freights,
are quoted at 513. e for bran and $15
for shorts. •
Oatmeal-Steady.oats, in bags, on track here, are quot-
ed at 53.60 per bbl; and ixt lobls, at
53.70.
Peas -Rather firmer. Car lots, north
and west, are wanted at 66c, and east
at 67e.
Oats-Firmee, I White oats, north
and west, in car lots, are quoted at
28 1-2e bid, and 29 1-2c asked,
Rye -Scarce. Car lots, north and
west, sold at 540.; and east at 55c.
Buckwheat-•Searoa and steady. Of-
ferings light; car lots, outside, 48 to
49c. *
Corn -American easier. Canadian yel-
low, Chatham, is quoted at 36c bid.;
American yellow, new, is offered at 12c;
and new, mixed, at 41)1-20.
Barley --About steady. • Car lots. of
No. 1, outside, are quoted at 18 to
DAIRY PRODUCE,
Butter -Market in fair shape, and
without change a5 Lo prices. Choice
dairy is active and wanted. here. The
quotations are as follows :-Dairy, tub,
poor to medium, 11 to 12c; choice, 13 to
140; large rolls, 14 to 15e; small dairy,
lb. prints, about 15 to 100; creamery,
tubs and boxes, 19 to 20e; lbs. 20 to 21c,
with an occasional 22c for select pack-
ages. - ••
Cheese -Unchanged. Chaim stock
sells at from 9 3-4- to 191-2c.
PRODUCE.
Eggs-Martst unchanged. Prices to
day held ,steady. New laid in active
demand. Claoice boiling stock sells at 19
to 200; held fresh and limed. at 14 to
15c. ,
Potatoes --Receipts fair and prices
unehanged, Car lots, on track, are
quoted at, 65 to 58c,, per bag; dealers
sell out o/ store all 60 to 70c; farmers'
loads sell at around, 60 to 70e. ,
noney-Steady. Round lots of choice,
delivered here, will bring about 51-2
to 6c; dealers quote from 6 to 7e per lb,
for 10 60-1b, tins; and in • comb at
around 51,25 to 51.50 per dozen sec-
tions.
• Baled': ha -Lha market • without
change. • S.trietly c.hoice, cay lots is
quoted. at 56.50 to $7.50, per ton; and.
No. 2, at -4e.' ,
•Seraw Eaey. Car lotseare quoted
at 54 to 54.5,0, on track-.
Hops = Fair demand: Dealers here
sell at 16 to 200, and. are eaying
holders, outside, about 14 to lee.
' Toledo, Feb. 10.-Wh,eee---No. 2, cash,
71 1-20 asked; May, '74 1-2e. bid. Rye
-No. 2 cash, 56e. Cloverseed-- .Prime,
cash, old, 53,60 new, 53.99 1-2c.
Milwaukee, Feb. 10 -Wheat -No, 1
Northern, 72c; No. 2, do., 70 1-2c. Rye
-Lower; No. 1, 56 to 56 1-2c CIlarley-
Lower, No. 2, 52 to 52 3-4c; sample,
43 1-2 to 52c.
Minneapolis, Feb. 10.--Wheat-Febeu-
ary, 69 3-4c '• Mae, 70 to 70 1-20; july,
70 15-8 to 70 3-4c; on track, No. 1 hard,
70 34e-, No, 1 Northern, 69 3-40; No.
2, Northern, 673-4e. Flour -First pat-
ents. 43.60 to 53.70; second, do., 53.40
to 53.50; first cleats; $e.60 to e2.80
Bran --en bulk, 510,25 to 510.75.
Duluth, Feb. Ie. -Wheat -No. 1 bard,
cash, 70 5-80; February, 70 1-2c; May,
73 1-8c, 'July, 73 1-20; No. 1 Northern,
68 5-8e; February, 68 1-2c; May 71 1-8
July 71 1-2c. •
Buffalo, Feb. 10.-Spriiig wheat -
Firm; good enquiry; No. 1 hard, 811-4o;
No. 1 Northern, 77 1-2c; No. 2 Northern,
75 3-1ce Winter wheat -No. offerings;
75e bid on track for No. 2 red. Corn
-Easier; No. 2 yellow, 89e; No. 3 yel-
low, 38 1-2c; No, 4 yellow, 380 ; No, 3
corn, 38c. Oats -Dull and easier; No.
2 white, 34 to 31 1-4c; No. 3 white, 33
1-2c; No, 4 white, 32 1-2c; No. 2 mixed,
313-4c; No, 3 mixed, 31e. Barley --Un-
changed ; firmly held; sales of • good
malting, 58c; fancy Western, 58 1-2c,
lo arrive; end choice at 58e to arrive.
Rye -Quiet.; No. 2 offered on track at
Ole. Flour---Wealc.
De tee it ;Vele 10.-Wehen t-Closee; -Nee
I white, cash, 71 &etc.; No. 2 red, creel,
71 3-4e; May, 71 1-4c ; July, '721-4c,
TO REPRESENT THE BRITISH NAVY
despa tall from Kings toe, je lea
eays :-The 13r i Steil first-class battle-
ship leeeown, flagship of tbe North
American and West, .lneioa • squadron',
luta benn ordered Le, eeturn to Bermuda.
foe the eaupeee ce: taking on board
Vice-AdiniraT Sir eohn A. jeieher, Whe
remained there owing to sieleneee,and
So proceed to Rey WeAt, there to tee
ere.eent the at the ape
proachieg naval teVieW hi those 'hater,
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A Marvellous Statement - Rs..
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bays only taken ane bottle of the rem -
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Jinn In ray system. It did me more gen
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