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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-1-5, Page 4area. d, and minus au e eouuting an Tuesday ,ve, and Proprietor, he Fair. nAtt's aoate 'r,—Ive b•., a thinkin a f-' ins to try to tell ekrabohin sum ov the neve peer to hav in tryinto livin. Ike epeokt tho, from ve sod about so many peepul a the street all the time, that jos at yuve got it into your hed that things about ez easy here as 'ens git the gape, and fur after I knm I raaly thought but Ime a beginnin to find out d many ov the fokes here hay a tiff time ov it. stance, therm a set ov fokee ey nail ragpiekere, who go around age on their hacks, a nozin and 'bra the streets and alleys, a pink• erything they kin find, Crum a I a button, and puttin it into their Frum what I oud find out about seems that there haiut nuthin so ea that they ha" t 1}lad to git it, ekraps ov papakilld bits ov rage shoee and bottl and each, ontil our head ake o think about it, t n hip o2..that kind hat wun dii>zt 's ez tho there t kin be burnt t is allowed to go in up sech things y who goee at it 'oto new truck rwards sent into to as poor fermin iny, or sum other t us a heap ov n to raize and git okee mannidge to that I now always row my ehavin paper where euro ov um kin burain it np as I yust to ou kno, Semanthy, 1 bein ginerone and when they was real ehly if they showed that to do eumthin fur their- ent above exoeptin things e myself. hav jest wrote, I dont oke a gimblet to git the bead that sum ov these ul bad off, and if yure e Ike epeokt you moat two or three ov them ham nt a doin nobody any good r smoke house. If it wuz• ere wud hav to be irate paid ere, I wudent begrudge um ,e -I reckon its about ez sire sass that it dont s happen over month that seoh fakes ez these ',whin about ever knows what it anuff to eat, and yit I reckon you e up a bushel ov stuff around that the pigs wudent keer so h about. an a'kuneiderable many ov um 'shed to me ez tho they dident aff ez much as they do sopa. bat theyre nearly all dredful ut fixin theiraelves up, and nthin'more ov wearin a shirt nth than 1 wud ov goin to sat a kote. I goin fur evey that kin be had at a 000eon- oead ez long as 1 hav a wife how to handle a washboard, 'n to try to keep myself a lookin e. Sumhow I dont bleeve there so mulch miecheff a goin on n if there was lees dirt. It e ez tho they sell too match d nob baff snuff sope. When I on with a thrashiu maeheen, and b fur weeks at a stretch kivered ff and dust, you kno yourself lust to make me purty ny too mtimee to tell the truth, and that the main reason why there ,ah killin and lyin and aheatin Ikea out ov their munny a takin e evey day, is that sopa and altogether too ekeeree where it the most. Its my noehun that al ov airneet misghunery work an here with a ekrubbin brush v quarts ov soft sopa. aeon my way to Sites store poetoffis the other day, where o mail a letter, I saw a blind eettin on the Ridge ov the aide• layin on a muziok box which nk to it, and I dont think I ever life heardanything in the shape that was so depreeein. The so had a baby in her lap, but ae face kivered up to keep it n cold, and I oudent see how it I never beard Boob waleful use the time Sar Stamms was ,. play .on the fiddle, ez knm out Ix while that poor woman tot turned the orank. You ondent imagine nuthin more dismal to, onion yuve beerd whiselin (yard after night, which 1 dont eve you bay. 1 tell you it feel oz the I was at borne in It to listen to it. The woman ,n her box with readin on it, e was ez blind as a bat and dredful mutoh, and there into which munny id look so mulch die. THE 1JssE QS'1' d, and the mauiok sho ground red to try go hard to express her that it modema feel SO Sal= all fore I had been gbandin there a that .to save me I jest COMA keep abbin eu hand Info my packet, and PQM. what 1 wee e dole I had d out a two Oent pleoe and tiroppod the onp with a jingle that made omen jump go the slag was shot, and iy gat jcg too quiets, IPS epeokt the lowed wud want aura age back, but I dident, kno yule blame me fur bein born gin. t, and say I orb to pub cotton In my rt wren I go round amungeb egoli . pee. lbtIt Imo nob goin to it, I deaf; eeve that no man kin feel ez sorry fur he poor as I do without loin eumtbin anal fu awhile to show it. I kin most alwas control my (satins when its a goin 0 Dost me ready munny not to do it, but Bumtimes I sant. This was wen QV the times when I ancient. I felt right smart put out tho, when Silee teamster bold mo afterwards that the poor blind woman is wan ov the richest men, fn Sheltawgo, and that the baby she had in her lap wart either made out ov rage or wax, and is the [same size now oz when he feet seen it five•yeers ago, I met Bruther Sollymun Gimps out at the fare today, and was terrible glad to the him, tho ab fast 1 didept hardly kno him. I never had no idee that it oud make so mutoh differenoe in any bodys looks to go away from home ez its dun with him, Ile deklare he looks ez chip- per ez a yungun with a klean face, and laffed out loud inside ovthree minits after I fast saw him. IIeze ben here most a week, he eez, and it a stayin at BrotherJavlune hoose. He found out sumhow or other that I got a kupple ov weeks board free by goin to see the preeoher, and so he thought bade try it. It may be that wan reason why his face has shortened up so match is on akount ov hie havin seal' a splendid ohanoe to git sum ov his quarteridge back, tho I cant see that belongin to church ehud ever hav ben matob ov a strane on him, fur it has alwas ben his way to pay fur his preeohin in buttermilk and mob. I did low to say more, but ez its about bedtime I guess I wont. Yourn and so fourth, SILAs GANDHRFoOT. Luo know. Dungan MaQuaig, of the Owen Sound College, was home for his holidays. The Hon. A. G. Wolfenberger and Prof. A. B. Huckine held a meeting in the town hall on Friday evening, in the interest of the Temperance cause. On acacmsc of thenob-arrival of .the epealers and carafe singer from Toronto, dile Orange concert announced for Tue. dajl of last week was postponed bill some future date. A large audience was present et the Christmas tree entertainment in the Town Hall, under the auspioes of the Sunday school of St. Peter's Episcopal choroh. The fan drill by sixteen young Iadies was a very pretty sight. A tramp named John Valentine was brought before Magistrates Thos. Law- rence and aw-renceand Reeve Bryan by Constable. McLeod, as a vagrant. Although a young man about 25 'years of age he was a hardened case and told the court he was a tramp by profession and only worked when it was absolutely neces- sary. He was sent up for six months to the county jail from where he will be transferred to the Central Prison at To. ronto. Exeter. On Friday night several members of Court Pride of Huron, No. 7885, A. O.F., participated in an oyster supper served at the Central Hotel. Owing to the unusually heavy rains last week the river raised to a ooneider- able height and by its tremendous forge caused a large portion of the dam to Dome to disaster. Mechanics are busily engaged in re- pairing the interior of the Oddfellowe' blook which was so badly damaged by fire, The front will be much improved to that of the old one, by a full plate glace. At a vestry meeting of Trivitt Mem- orial Church congregation held in the Church Hall, Thursday evening, 21st, the following resolution was moved, second- ed and carried. "That this vestry cam not let this opportunity pass without pas- sing a vote of sincere sympathy that 000aeion should have arisen to cause the Hey. F. H. Fast, to tender his resignation as rector in charge of this Parish, and this Vestry hereby feel that he has shown himself honestly zealous in every good work and in the welfare of thio .congre- gation andcan only add that wherever Mr. Fast may go from Exeter, we wish him every blessing and may God speed him in his good work." Goder ieh. A young man named Schuyler, who hoe been visiting Clinton, Goderioh and other pointe for a couple of weeks passing himself off as an agent of the Toronto Empire and collecting subscriptions therefor, was overhauled at Aylmer, and last week was sent to jail for six months at hard labor. ,s.At the recent Trinity University ex- aminations Mies Elwood obtained stand- ing in the Honor examination as follows : First in clave for general proficiency; first position in Latin ; first position in French ; first position in modern Lang. uages ; trot in Italian. ; and first clave honors in mathematics and German. The lady was a graduate of the Goderioh Collegiate Institute• A letter to the Signal last weekoeye An is usual every year the prisoners in the jail had for their Christmas dinner roast beef, mashed potatoes, bread, tea and pudding, and there ways no falling off in quality or quantity spread before the inmates who sat down to partake of the Christmas dinner. After the inner man bad been satisfied temperance papers were distributed, and a vote on prohibi- tion was taken which stood 14 for and 5 against. Ib is to be regretted that no Christian mag or minister of the Gospel had been to the jail to bold divine service with these unfortnnate"onee, for whom Christ died, since Capt. Gibson had to give up the work over a year ago, owing to hie being unable to attend to it and do justice to his other duties. The captain' was always a welcome visitor to the prisoners, and did his work regularly and faithfully every two weeks for over twelve years. Who will now take his place, seeing that they ' not have to go to'. faraway China . field to later to ? ritoy;a~k+r A number of Olintooiane went to Sea. h o hearh Sea - forth t the r enowned Norah Clench. The Board of Trustees of the Collegiate Inetltube have engaged a Mr. Moliecto, Of Forest, as Soienoe Mater, to auoeeed Mr. yy, ,asst eek about 80 of the friends of A, Morrie, on the ave of his marriage, pre, gented him with an address and a beauti- ful set of china, J, C, Linklater, 'formerly of Olintou, now prinoipal Of the Model school at Gananogne, has bad his salary iuoreased by 8100, making it now 91,000. The townbaUd drove arct nd .onXmas day and serenaded quite a number of our citizens, realizing over 9100 as a contri- bution towards meeting their current eXpeuses. W, B. Hale, of Chicago, ie spending his holidays in town. Mr. hale was Spanish representative of the Western Electric Oompany at the World's Fair and expeote to visit Mexico and South America in the interests of his oompany this Spring. Sealorth. The following are the officers elected for Malloch Chapter during the current year :—Rev. J. H. Fairlie, P, Z. ; J, Mo. Intyre, P, H. ; Rev. 1. W. Hodgins, P. J. L. G. VanEgmond, S. IJ. ; D. Moore, S, N. ; Geo. Whitley, Treas. ; A. Siem - mons, P. S. ; J. Scott, S. S. ; Geo. Ew- ing, J. S. ; Geo. Patterson, Tyler. A very pleasant event took place in The Expositor office on Saturday evening, Deo. 28rd. Just before leaving for the night, the employees assembled in the business oflfoe, and the foreman, John J. Darwin, in behalf of hie fellow -workmen, and in a few well chosen words, present• ed the Editor, M. Y. McLean, with a handsome, plush covered chair, as a Christmas present and a mark of the good will which exists between the em- ployer and employed. Car.nadtaia N'ewet, IIp to Deo. 11 there have been 370 marriages reported to the oity clerk at Ottawa. 0. H. Blathers, editor, of the Nepawa Register, died Thursday morning. Rev. T. W. Winfield bas been appoint. ed: chaplain to the Governor•General at Rideau Hall. No less than 48 candidates for the town council were nominated at Picton this year. Fortunately only a few of them can be elected. There are no laza than four bankers now in British Colum,,.a , penitentiary. The last one sant was young deeiett, for forgery, formerly of Peterboro, Ont. A private conference was held in Montreal on Saturday evening to dittoing the proposed foundation of a grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work- men. The proposal met with unanimous approval. Bronze medals and oertifioates of the Royal Humane Sooiety of England have been awarded to A. W. Morris and G. H. Duggan, of Montreal, who were instrumental in saving at least six lives. foxlig 0. P.R. land Sales ba i•sM8 amounted to 107,60onaccrree,tt00. alizini, 9058,000. tMiss Kate C Strong, ooprano, well known in =Meal sireioe in Canada, was married last week in Naw Yerk oity to George Melntyre, an Ontario man, Sint Fax, of London, hag already filled 48 eonoert engagements this season, He bas been engaged for the Burne' anni. vereary concert in Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 251b, On Thursday afternoon of last week George Williameon was shot by his brother at ()memo, Ont. Morgan Wil^ Brunson and I. 'Poole were returning down the river from hunting, when they shot at the snrokgotaok of the old saw mill. George, who was in the mill, re, oeiyed the ball from his brother's ride in the fieshY Part Of his right shoulder. The wound is not fatal. Mrs. Andrew Trim and an unknown man were drowned near Detour, Thurs. day while crossing the ice from Dratnt- moud Island with a dog team. Rest- dents at Detour heard a womau's soreame on the river, They could see 110 one, but went in search in boats, Soon they found a team of dogs and a dog sleigh. On the ice were discovered a man's gap. A holes in the ioe showed where the un- fortunate prime had broken through. On Friday afternoon of last week Rev. Cyrus H. Rice, a prominent young Methodist minister, and eon of Rev. S. $. Rice, of tit. John, N. B,, committed suicide at the reeidenoe of Senator Lewis by putting a bullet through hie heart. Last Spring be graduated from Mount Allison with honors, and abthe last Methodist Oonferenoe wag admitted as probationer, and sent, to Grand Manan bo labor. AN was 22 yoare ofage and. particularly bright.He arrived- in St. John on Monday of last week, being oom- pletely broken down by overwork. The inquest revealed the fact that he bad been in n despondent mood forsome days. Rice went into the bath -room and there took his life, The verdict returned was. that deceased Dame to his death by a bullet, discharged from a revolver in his own hand. Two of the most daring and indepen- dent prisoners ever captured in Rochester were George Stover, aged 14, and Robert Roes, aged 11, who were arrested by officer Vaughn, Thursday night. Both are Toronto boys, who left their homes over a month ago, and for whom Nye To- ronto police have been looking ever since. Stover's home is on King . street, and Rose' father runs the Clyde Hotel in King street. Young Stover worked in the hotel and ran away because be had to labor seven days in the week. His father treated him with cruelty, too, he says. The Rose boy, who has travelled as Stover's brother, was forced to go away by his comrade, who choked nim, be claims. The lads are penniless. At the American they worked on the sym- pathy of the people to the extent of 910. Since leaving "home the brazen -faced youngsters have travelled over 1000 miles.. They were sent home Friday. Itis said that the stories told by the boys were fabrications from beginning to end. Stover blanked boot around hie establish. went a month or so ago. Rose' mother is a wash.woman. and does odd . jobs around the hotel. W1VL Rdaa Wishes to thank his customers for their liberal patronage during the past year and also to intimate to the public gener- ally that he has recently had his roller • mill put in thor- ough repair and it is now in better position than ever to turn out >ARST CLASS FLOUR. In the Chopping Line We are prepared to do work promptly and in the Very Best Style as we have recently started a new run of stones for that purpose. Full Return Guaranteed. Best Flour and bill Feed at Reasonable Prices And delivered any place in town without Extra Charge. A Limited Quantity. of good Milling Wheat purchased at the Mill. WM. ROSS, Brusels. NOV. 21st, 1893. Wall Paper SHOULD `c EAUTIFY Not simply hide bare walls. As discordant strains of music are to the ear, so is the eye tortured by out -of -harmony paper on the walls. If you look to cheapness alone you might as well cover your plaster with penny -a -dozen newspapers.. But if you appr"eciate real beauty you should consider many things in purchasing papers—the location, light and woodwork of the room, etc,,... "' Our stock includes something especially adapted to every room —more colors and patterns than any other wall paper store in the tcrisn. Our Good Papers cost you no more than the poor ones others sell. Call and see our thousand -and -ne styles. Persons thoroughly versed in Wall Paper will wait upon you and aid you in making selections.. We hang paper in a first-cltg iss manner and are prepared to ex- ecute the best kind of decoratio€is. WINDOW BLINDS. --t have an elegant steels of Window Blinds, well assorted, that. 111 only need to be seen to be .appreci- ated. They may be had either trimmed or plain by the yard. RODDICK, ign, Carriage and Ornamental P•ainter.' J R, 1, J,894 Dailars Saved are flollars GaillGd The way to Sabre Ntoney is to call on M. Melia & Cc, And see their prime stook of Hard- Ware, &e , &c,, before purchasing elsewhere, Cross Cut Saws. Wo handle the Celebrated "Leader," the Galt"Lance,"and the Toronto Blade. Satisfaction guaranteed in saws. We do a large trade in this line. Hanging Lamps. A large and well assorted stock of beautiful n Han i for and Table Lamps that cannot fail' to rs please , purchasa;•e lease g , . OTJT...LEItY. Splendid stock of Table Cutlery, Pocket Knives . and all other goods in this line. New, good and cheap. SILVERWARE. We have a very superior display of silverware suitable for holiday or birthday gifts. .Our stockis well as- sorted and sold at Close; Prices. Tip-top Line in New .hammers. Sleigh Bells, Whips, Chopping Axes and everything else usually ,,. found in a First-class Hardware Store. Strict attention to business, selling on close margins and giv- ing satisfaction' to our patrons are the lines on which we ` aim to gain and retain trade. A. M. M'KA'Y 6Z CO SANTA CLAUS to the PRO1YT Now is the time when Christmas gift making comes up for consideration and it is no easy matter to decide what to purchase. TIE POST Ioolutore Has put in a large stock of Tas Ly New Goods comprising Photo. Albums, Toilet Oases containing comb brush and Mirror, .Shaving Cases, Work Boxes, Fancy Ink Stands. BEAUTIFUL DOLLS Ranging in price from 5c to $1,25. Toys of All Kinds Such as Trumpets, Balls, Tops, Dishes, Horses, Trains, Whips, Brooms, Whistles, Drums, Animals, Tools, Magic Lanterns, Guns, Pails, Washboards, Drawing Slates, Paint Boxes, Stoves, Rattles, Harmonicas, Pis- tols, Watches, Jack Knives, Sic.,'&ec. A Splendid Range of Picture Books. New Stook of Bibles and Hymn Books. J See our Mechanical Banks. They're Fine. Buy early and thereby get a good selection. Goods ,may be left in our care until Xmas if so desired. Solid Bargains in All Holi- day Goods. POST Bookstore., BRUSSELS.