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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-3-23, Page 1Vol. 21. ;No. 80• BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.5, 1894 FL.A..X yr r. �. & J, LIVINGiSiON —MANE (- 1000 Bushalt of Bost DDTC11 SEED For farmers in the vicinity of Brussels, who intend raising San during the coining season, whioh they are prepared to deliver in quan- tities to suit flux growers, Cau be got al the Brussels Max Mill, W, H, Mo raoken's grocery, Brussels; Wm, Neal's store, Walton and J, J, Vincent's store, Jamestown. Seed given out at 81,80 per bushel and on the usual ,come, ()war early and. Ineuro a supply. For flax grown from this seed $10 Per Ton will be Palde If of good growth, harvested In proper season and delivered at the Flax MG1 as soon as At for threshing, We will also rout. a number of good sod fields for the purpose of growing ilex. N. H, -.Farmers aro strongly advised to sow their flax on good land, well plowed and harrowed, not on low lauds, and the yield will bo from a ton to a ton and a half more per acro. Flax grown on low land will not grow there to: give the weight. W. BIIIGHT, J. Jt J. LIVINGSTON, Manager. Proprietors.. MILLINER 1 a MISS MaPHERSON has re- tnrned from- the cities bringing with her the very Latest styles in Huts, Bonnets' and 0 .Millinery Goods. A. Measure to show intending purchasers the bargains. The date of Spring Opening will be announced later. You can't miss it by buying your Spring and Summer Milli- nery from • Miss McPherson, CITY MILLINER, Ferguson & Halliday's store, Br us eels. 1 Butter and Eggs taken as Cash. ARE YOU GOING TO taint Toy, ;douse OR DO ANY Papering this Spring ? If so, now is the time to consult us. Tho LARGEST, CHEAPEST and BEST as- sorted stook in the County, to hand comprising the following BIRGE c& SONS CELEBRATED PROCESS, GILTS, BRONZES, SINTILARE, AND IN- GRAINS, with gorgeous freizes and ceil- ings to match. Also the Handsomest stook of window shades ever shown in the County. Nothing but the purest Leads and Oils that can be found in the market used in all our work. Farmers and others hav- ing olcl rigs to paint comp and see us at once. Satisfaction guaranteed. RODDICK WAKE, House, Sign, Carriage and Decorative Painters. P. S.—Thanking all old customers for their favors during the past tweuty years I have been in business I solicit a con- tinuance of the same and the patronage of the people generally for the new firm, W. RODDICK. License District —)OF THE(— East Riding of lluron1 To the Tavern -Keepers and Shop - Keepers and Others whom it may concern. S OTIOII is hereby Rivet' that Applications for Licenses. for the sale of liquor hi the EAST RIDING OF -HURON for the License Yoar1501.45,which amnion - cos on the 151 day of May next, will be re- ceived by the undersigned from the present data up to April Ist, 1894. inclusive. Applioaats must furnish the nomad of two good and sufficient sureties AS bondsmen at the time of malting appllga• tion• • Any -appllmut for m now Iloenne mast furnish a aortiificate signed by a majority of the electors untitled to vote at elections for the Legislative Assembly in the. Polling Sub- division in whioh the premises sought to be licensed aro situated, and the said majority must include at least ono -third ofthe said electors who aro etthe time of such ap- plication residents within the said Polling Bub•dlvlefon, JOHN R, MILLIIIti, lnspootor, EAST HURON MEMBERS. tenni Wed Dontlniiitc Polities. On Tuesday T. Gibson, M, P, P. for Bast Huron, spoke in connection with the Budget debate, He referred to the Sand - field Macdonald surplus, holding that Mr. Macdonald had put a million and a half of that surplus in such a position that it could nob be used for anything else but railway assistance, while large portions of the alleged surplus then had claims upon It which would prevent its being considered proper portions of the surplp4e. Of the whole, $3,800,000. the sum 5f $2,300,000 could soaroely be eon• eidered as legitimate surplus, and the rest was really devoted to railway extension. Mr, Gibson then referred to the part the opposition had played in oritizing ex. penditures, and held that their course in assentinto the great majority of the items of expenditure inourred made them equally liable with the Government to the country. As for the administration of the sums appropriated, Mr. Gibson stated that the expenditure per head per year in the asylums under Mr. Sand - field Maodonald was. $134, under the Mowat Government it was $136, only $1 difference. In other items the same oon- tinuanoe of the economy of the Sandfield Mapdonald regime cotld be seen. He denied that the license system was used politically as far as hie own comity was concerned, and he knew of Conservative hotel keepers who told him that they would prefer the present system to that favored by Mr. Meredith. 'Mr. Gibson (Heron) moved, on Mon• clay, for an order of the house for a re - tarn showing the number of agree sold by the Government in what was called the disputed territory, and showing also the number of square miles of timber limits under license therein, and what has ao. caned by way of revenue up to the 15th day of March, 1894. Mr. Meredith said that if the motion was to pass, it should, to be worth any- thing, contain also the iafprmation as to what sums have been spent in the dis- trict, and also the liabilities existing for Indian claims. It was useless to show one side of the ledger without the other. After some discussion this amendation was agreed to, upon the understanding that no admissions prejudicial teeny case the Government has on band need be made. On Monday Dr. McDonald (Huron) resumed the debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne. Like the previous participants in the de- bate, he commenced by extending oon• gratulatious. to the mover and seconder of the address, and expressing the septi. menta of esteem and affection for the present occupants of the Government House. After remarking ou the now less frequently heard charges of disloyality against the Liberals of Canada, he de. Glared that the members of that party were most truly loyal to the mother country, and, above all, were loyal to their own country. Passing on to dis- cuss the address, he said he proposed to deal first with the external trade of Canada, about which the Government were so pleased that they inserted e, paragraph of congratulation in the speech from the throne. He proceeded to show bow trade had grown, so far as some im. portant countries were concerned. Tak- ing, first, the South American countries, in 1889 Canada sent them exports to the value of 11,507.000 ; in 1890 the value was only 91,327,000. There had beau is falling off under this Government in this important branch of Canada's external trade. With regard to Germany, in 1892 the value of the exports was $934,000, while in 1893 they had fallen 8200.000. With France special efforts had been made to establish greater trade. Pleni- potentaries were sent there, negotiations conducted, and money spent in that effort ; yet the figures were corroboration of the statement that the trade bad stead- ily deolined as a result of the policy. In 1873 the exports to France were valued at $882,000, and in 1883, after five years of the N. P., they were only 1617,000, while in 1893, after ten years more of the N. P., and the successes whioh the Government oleim they have achieved, they were only $204,000, or only one•tbird of the trade of twenty years ago. The Government bad no better names in the West Indies. In spite of the visits of commissioners and the Minister of Finance himself, and the expenditure of money in annual subsidies to steamship lines, the trade which in 1873 amounted to 43,989,000 had fallenin 1893 to $8,146,000. In these facts Dr. McDonald said, he could see 00 ground for satisfaction. Referring to the trade with the Australian oolonies and the mission there of the Minister of Trade and Commerce, he quoted from the speech made by him before the Manufacturers' Assoo;ation in Toronto upon his return, in whioh the Ministers told the mann• faoturers that when five years ago the Massey -Harris Company first sent their machines to the oolonies the Australians did not know whore Canada was situated. This is what the Minister told the mann. faoturera, said Dr. McDonald, and yet the faot was that five years ago the exports of Canada to Australia amounted to 66 per oent. more than they did last year. In 1889, when the peoplehad shown they were in ignoranoe whore Canada was they took 9661,000 worth of Canadian exports but last year, with their better aiquain• tanee, only 9289,000. He was sorry, he said, and the country would be sorry, to see that the Government had declared iu the speech from the throne their deter- mination to maintain the principle of protection in the proposed changes in the tariff. Proceeding, the Doctor roundly denounced the defective system as the cause of combines, and told the House in illustration of the prevalence of thio evil of an experience he had last summer. He wanted some plate glass asked for tenders from all the companies of Ontario. Their replies were all on paper beaded "The Dominion Stained Giese Company." There was only three or four or five dollors' differentia between them. Subeegtently he had found a company outside Ontario not in the combine, and by buying from it saved 175 on a purohase of 1325 worth of glass. The aobten combine, finding this market overebooked,last year sent their surplus be the China market, where they sold it in competition with the British and United States ootbons, and yet they raised the price 15 per cent. in Canada. This was the way the system worked which the epeeists from the throne said would be continued. (Applause.) Another criticism was that the tariff discriminates against the poor man, and he supported this contention by a list of duties, in all of which the poorer quality was taxed from 6 to 20 per cent. above the average of 30 per cent., and the dearer qualities taxed less than the average. Then, dropping into rhyme, he put it in this way :—"Yes, the tariff is a tax, and the poor man gets it where the chicken got the axe." Speaking of the advantage to the farmers of free trade with the United States, bo referred to the position the Canadian farmer had taken at the World's Fair in horses, cattle, Shoop, swine and poultry. Canada exhibited 1,847 animals, and 963 of them took awards, or 61 out of every 100. The United States exibited o: the same aril. male 4,005, of which only 1,494 reoeived awards, or only 37 out of every 100. This proved, Dr. McDonald contended, that these Canadian products could success- fully compete with the United States' products in the large oities of the States, where there is a ready class of consumers. In cheese Canada swept the boards, and product, too, a large trade could be built up with Amerioan oities if the market were only opened. In the concluding re. marks of his excellent apeeoh he referred to the large fortunes which manufaotarers are taking , from the consumers. Mr. Massey, of Toronto, he said, has amassed such a large fortune out of the farmers by the aid of the tariff that, after keep- ing, as muoh as be wants for his family, he is giving large sums away and getting the glory and praise of it. But who would say, be asked, that it would not be better for the farmers themselves to give away their money 7 (Applause.) Dominion Parliament. Parliament was opened Thursday af ter - noon, of last week, when the Governor- General delivered the following message : Hon, Gentlemen of the Sonata; Gentlemen of the House of Commons : In the Queen's name I greet you for the first time since assuming the high funotions intrusted to me by her Majesty; and it is with feelings of the liveliest satisfaction that I thus meet yon assem- bled for the labors of another session of Parliament. This feeling of satisfaction is enhanced by the opportunities which I have already enjoyed of visiting, and in my official capacity renewing acquaintance with several of the chief centers of the enterprise and activity of this Dominion ; nor need I refrain from assuring you that I have been deeply impressed by the heartiuses of the reception accorded to me as her Majesty's viceroy and representa- tive, a reception which has once more manifested the tepidity, the cordiality and the public spirit of the Canadian people. My predecessor was able to express gratification to you last year onan in- creaseintrade and on the continued progress of the Dominion. It is gratify - mg to me to observe that the expectation which was then formed—that the volume of trade during the then current year would exceed that of any year in the history of the Dominion—has been fully realized, and that Canada's progress con- tinues with every mark of stability and permanency. It may be observed with satisfaction that a large proportion of this increase is shown to have been due to an extension of our commerce with Great Britain. It is a cause of thankfulness that our people have been spared in a very great degree from the sufferings which have visited the populations of some other countries during many months past, and that while the commercial depression pre- vailing abroad could not but affect the activity of business in the Dominion, we have been free from any extensive financial disaster or widespread distess. The revenues of the year have been ample for the services which you provided for, and have met the expectations on whioh the appropriations of last year were based. The peaceful conclusion, by the award of the arbitrators at Paris, of the contro- versy which had prevailed ao long with respect to the sea fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, and the rights of British subjects in the Behriug sea, has removed the only source of contention whioh existed be- tween Great Britain and the United States with regard to Canada.' There is every reason to believe that her Majesty's Goverment will obtain redress for those Canadian subjects of her Majesty who were deprived of their property and liberty without just pause while the cou- broversy was in progress. At au early date a measure will be laid before you, having for its object a revision of the duties of customs, with a view to meet the changes which time has affected business operations of all kinds throughout the Dominion. While my lliuisters do not purpose to change the principles of whioh the existing onaot- monts on this subject aro based, the amendments whioh will be offered for consideration are designed to simplify the operation of the tariff and to lessen, as far as can be done consistently with those peinoiples and with the requirements of the treasury, the imposts which aro now in force. There will be laid before you. a measure on the subject of bankruptoy and insol- vency which will, it is hoped, make more adequate provision than now exists on that subject for the increasing trade and commerce of the country and for the greatly expanded trade between the several Provinces of Oanacla. Measures will also be submitted to you making more effective proviaiona for our linos of steam communication ou the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, for improving the law with regard to Dominion lands and wide regard to the management of Indian affairs, also a bill respeoting joint stools companies, another with respect to the fisheries, and several loss important measures whioh experience has suggested with regard to various matters under your control, Gentlemen of the House of 0ommons The public acrouuts will be submitted to you at an early date, and also the estimates of the expenditure which has been oonsidorod necessary for the ensuing year. 1•lonorable Gentleman of the Senate ; Gen- tlemen of the Honseof Commons : While it is hopped that the public measures which will demand your atten- tion will not be very numerous, sumo of groat weight and importance, and it is my earnest hope and prayer that the core and zeal which you will apply to the deliber- ations of the session may bo aided by the abundant blessing of the Almighty. 0 Orangemen in Session. The West Ontario Grand Lodge mob ab Chatham me• Tuesday of last week, being the 8411 anneal session, with a large attendance of delegates and mem. hers. Amongst these were the following from this county : J. Mooney, Brussels ; A. M. Todd, Olinton ; John Dane, jr., Gerrie ; M. Mains, Londesboro John Neil, Centralia ; James J. Mo4labh, Goderich ; W. J. Green, W. id. of 767, and Robt. Scarlett, of 813. The report of G. Id. James L. Hughes dealt with the N, W. T. and Manitoba eohool laws, the retirement of Mr. Glad- stone from the leadership of the British Government, Imperial Unity, the On• tario eleotione, and a brief reference to the Sons of Eogland and the 0. P. A. The report of the Grand Secretary Lee, stated : Intimations during the year, 1,808 ; oertifioates deposited, 657 ; rein- statements, 164 ; expulsions, 51 ; remov ed by death, 156 ; the net increase be- ing 2,442. In many oounties the meet- ings were largely attended and a lively interest manifested. One new district lodge has been formed in the county of West York, to be known as West Toronto lunation District, and ten warrants to open and work new pri• mary lodges have been issued. The Grand Treasurer, Bro. E. F. Clarke, presented a very cheering state. men,. The bolo -nee,. intending accrued interest at the credit of the Grand Lodge at the date of the last audit, amounted to 11,111.62. The receipts from the Grand Lodge dues up to Maroh 1, 1894, amounted to $2,265 60, and the interest on the bank balances to 120.53, making the total receipts for the year, including the balanoe from last year 43,397.80. The expenditures to March 1, 1894, a- mount to $1,882,30, leaving a balance at the credit of the Grand Lodge on March 1, 1894, of 91,535.50. At the date of the closing of the books the arrears outstand- ing aggregated 9837, but this monist is materially reduced by dues received since. The Grand Bleak Chapter elected the following officers for the ensuing year : Grand Master—W. L. Bell, Toronto, ra.eleoted. Deputy Grand Master—Heory Burn. est, Brampton, re•eleated. Asenciate Deputy—S. R. Hammond, Hamilton. Grand Chaplain—Rev. Wm. Walsh, Brie. Grand Chaplains—Rev. E. Hughes, Lebanon ; Rev. R. S. Cooper, Interkip ; Rev. Alex. Samson, Toronto. Registrar—Lieut.•Ool. James 11. Scott, Kincardine. Depnty Registrar—W. G. McAndrews, Hamilton. Grand Treasurer—Edward Medcalf, Toronto. Deputy Treasurer—Horace Bates, London. Lecturers—James Fulton, Toronto, and J. J. Mo Math, Goderioh. Censors—John Hogg, Coilingwood ; James Donald, Cookstown. Standard bearers—T. L. Belford, To. route, and A. M. Todd, Clinton. Pursuivant—James Brodie, Vandalour. Grand Committee—Martin Gill, To- ronto • F. Parnell, St. Catharines ; W. H. Wilson, Toronto ; James Elliott, Markdale • M. Mayne, Londesboro ; Thomas Woods, Listowel - A. Irwin, Dresden ; Wnl. Lee, Grand Secretary, Toronto ; Wm. Burns, Zone ; D. of 0., Jenny 3. Dep. G. M. The election in Provincial Orange Grand Lodge resulted iu the re-election of the most of the old officers as follows: —R, W. grand naster—James L. Hughes, Toronto. - R. W. deputy grand master—W. M. Lockhart, Everett. R. W. junior deputy grand master—D. M. Jermyn, Wiarton. R. W. grand chaplain—Rev. William Walsh, Brampton. R. W. grand treasurer—E. P. Clarke, M. P. P•, Toronto. R. W. grand secretary—William Lee, Toronto, R. W. grand lecturer -0. H. Bailie, Toronto. 1t, W grand director of ceremonies -- Robert Burns, Toronto. R. W, D. grand secretary—Col. J. H. Scott, Kincardine. 81, Catharines was ohoeoS as the next place of meeting. Wm, Conway, of West Zorra, tapped 200 sugar maples. It is no uncommon ooaurrenoe for women to leave muffs, wraps and sundry other articles in railway carriages when travelling, and even man is apt to forget hie umbrella occasionally. Col. Mc- Knight, who runs between Stratford and Wiarton, had an ezperience the other day, however, that was very much out of the ordinary. He had as passengers on hie trip north the other day a woman and her little daughter aged about two and one half years. At Hanover the woman left the train—and her youthful daughter, At Elmwood a telegram was handed the colonel stating the ohild bad been for- gotten and asking that she be returned. The little girl was well taken ogre of by the raiiwayauthorities at Elmwood and the next train bound south restored the. child to her anxious mother. Council meeting will be held on Mon. day, 26th fust. S. Forsythe bad a wood bee on Wed- nesday of last week. Mr. Graham, of Toronto, is visiting at Jas. Hall's this week. We regret bo learn that 385. Nethsry, West boundary, is seriously ill, Geo. Parker is out buying cattle to stook his grass farm this Summer, Ed. Nichol is engaged with Mr, Tam, an, near Blyth, for the Summer months. Rumor Saye "Rob" 15 drawing stone and sand preparatory to building a house. John and Wm. Robb have a number of fire, -class steers ready for the grails this Spring. Wood.bees, quilting bees, and weddings are all the rage on the 1st and 2nd cons, at present. Dame rumor says there is going to be a couple of weddings in the centre of the township before long. John Douglas has rented the Seale farm for one year. It will suit Mr. Doug. las well as a pasture lot. Mrs. Robert Mathere, of the let con., is at present seriously indisposed. We wish her speedy recovery. W. Whiteford and family have remov- ed to their new home in Ueborne town- ship. We wish them prosperity. The Morris bridge case is before the Appeal Court at Toronto this week but decision was not given when we went to press. Thomas Russell, jr., who has been pressing bay with Mr. Ouch -core for two months, is home for a few days this week. Mrs. Henry Robb, sr., of the 1st line is at present confined to her bed with sciatica of the nerves. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Alex. Nichol, jr., had a stone bee on Friday afternoon of last week, prepara• tory to building stone work for stabling under Ms barn this coming Summer. W.33. Wilkinson met with quite a loss last week by the death of one of his pure bred Shorthorn cows, which he recently purchased from Mr. Russell, of Exeter. J. Douglas, 6th line, and J. Nesbitt, 7th line, bad each a wood bee on Wednesday of this week. A party at Mr. Douglas' fa the evening greatly delighted the young folk. Silas Johnston. of the lsb con., started on Monday for Boiseevain, Manitoba, where he purposes staying for the Sum. mer. He will be greabiy missed in the Johnston neighborhood. The question now ocouping the minds of the lsb line folk, is, "Who was the strange lady seen on the let eon. last Thursday night ? Perhaps one of our lsb line boys could inform us. G. A. Hood and wife returned to their home in Kincardine on Tuesday of this weak, alter spending a couple of weeks visiting with friends in this township. Mr, Hood's hand, we are pleased to learn, is about all right again. We regret to learn that Peter, eeoond son of Jas. Hall, who has been in Mani- toba for a number of years, met with a painful accident by getting his arm badly lacerated in a grain crusher, which he was operating on his farm there. One day last week Ohms., sou of James Davis, who has recently moved to the 4th line from near Lindsay, had the mis- fortune to have the thumb of his right hand badly injured by being caught in a machine they were putting together. It will lay him up for some time. MATRIMONIAL,—A very pleasing event took plaoe Tuesday evening at the resi- dence of Mrs. Geo. Moffatt, of Morris, on which ocoaaion her daughter, Mise Bella, was united in marriage to Robt. G. Mitchell, of Turnberry. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Thos, Davidson, 141. A., and was witnessed by a large number of friends and relatives of the oontraoting parties. The bridesmaid was Miss Aggie Moffatt and the groomsman Frank Mitchell. The bride was made the recipient of many valuable and use- ful preseute, whioh was eafiioient to prove that she was highly esteemed in the neighborhood in which else lived. Over one hundred sat down to a sumptuous repast prepared for the oncesion. The remainder of the evening was spent in parlor gatnes and tripping the light fan- tastic, after whioh the guests dispersed, all feeling satisfied with the evening's en. joyment and wishing the newly married couple a long, happy and prosperous life. Clessaaclbant NO«'e3. Navigation is open at Goderiob, J. B. Johnstone, fishery inspeotor at Winnipeg. is dead. Mac Whirrell has been sentenced to be hanged on June 1. Euibro is agitated over the prospect of an electric railway to Woodstock. A herd of 000 Jersey cows will beeshab- liahed on Bow Park farm, Brantford, in the near future. Miss Hanna Land, a returned mission- ary who spent some time in Japan, died at the house of her parents in Wooistoak on Saturday night. At Tiverton on Friday evening Dan. Molienzie, aged 45, and father of a fam- ily, went out and hanged himeelf. He left a hots saying he bad already lived too long, John MoGovern. I3. 111, austoms oMeer at the Niagara Falls carriage and foot- bridge, has beoome a raving maniac. He is a bachelor, aged 45, and was ap- pointed by the Mackenzie Government in 1870. Alex. Green has received the oontreat for the erection of the G. T. R. station and local freight sheds at Owen Sound. Mr. Grey, of Harriston, was given the °entreat of the ereotion of the round- house and through freight shade. Work wilt be commenced at an early date, and pushed to an early completion by J. 0. Boyd, theoonbraobor, J. S. Brierly, of the St. Thomas Jour- nal, has purchased the Chatham Banner, and will shortly establish a daily in oon- nogtion with the same. Mr. B. will have assooiated with hire in his new under- taking J. R. Gemmill, for many years editor of the Banner ; 11. ifoBride, of the Journal, and J. F. McKay, late of the Leaniitgtoe Post. W. H. KERR, Prop. William Wray, a respected Citizen of Strathroy, euisided with Paris green Monday, Senator. Botsford died at his home in Sackville, N. B., Monday, in the 91st year of his age,' The L, 0. L, convention voted down 8 motion to exclude intoxicating liquors from lodge rooms. Rev. Menta. Oreseley and Hunter, the noted Methodist evangelists, now in Toronto, have received an invitation to hold services in Calcutta, India. J, S. Muokleston, treasurer of the Mae. Donald memorial fund in Kingston, Lae received a cheque for 1500 from Lord Derby, late Governor•General of Canada, as a oontribntion to the fond. Little girls who should be at eohool have been going around Toronto Belling paper flowers and other small artiolee. Hereafter the Children's Aid Sooiety will prosecute the parents of suoh child- ren. Robert Wright has retired from the treasurerehip of the Grand Trunk Rail- way, owing to ill health, and is succeeded by Charles Percy, J, J. Limning ie pro. rooted to Mr. Peroy's position as assist- ant to General Manager Seargeant. Jonn Fraser, who has for the past six. ty-two years lived on the farm he now owns on the 8th oon. of North Dumfries bas decided to retire and will have a sale on the 28th inet. Mr. Fraser tells many stories of hardships of the early settlers of that part of Dumfries. The Patrons' lodge at Oakwood, having seen the resolution regarding the old po. Mica' parties passed at the reoent meet- ing of the Grand Lodge at Toronto, have declared themselves opposed to any at- tempted tyranny, and have formally dis- banded. An unknown man, said to be from Ot- tawa, undertook to run the Richelieu. rapids one round log at Chambly on Sat- urday. He was evidently no novice, but after pestling two chutes successfully he struck a pier of the 0. V. B. bridge, lost his pole and fell, but clinging to the log he drifted down the river for nearly a mile when be was drowned. Mies Adams, sister of Porter Adams, living near Queenstown, Ont., met with a peculiar and most painful accident in having a thumb torn off one of her hands. She was engaged on Friday in leading a Dolt, while driving with her brother up the St. David's Road. The colt was suddenly frightened and reared. The halter rope was wound around Mise Ad. am's hand in suoh a way that it formed & noose over the thumb, and when the horse bolted he pulled the thumb from the hand. Boman 18 Dass 1x A Sxownnrsr,—A. Teeple, of Reoforth, Ammeter township, lost a turkey in the big snowstorm on Feb. 18. After searching a couple of days for it he gave np the hunt, thinking it was dead iu a drift somewhere. When leaving his house on Thursday last he heard a noise in a bank close by, and to his surprise saw the head of his turkey sticking through the crust. He broke the snow and let the prisoner oat. It flew about 20 feet high when it was re. leased, and does not seem any the worse for its long imprisonment in the snow, except that ib is not quite so fat. People We Snow. Miss Graham, of Atwood, is visiting in town. Jno, Pugh has been suffering with sciatica. H. Dennis and Prank aro holidaying in Toronto. Robs. McAlpine is in the Queen city this week. Miss Minnie Moore will spend Easter in Goderich. Miss H. Francis is visiting her sister at Toronto. Miss Jennie Forbes is visiting at Plat- teville for a few weeks. James Timmins, merchant, Bluavale, was in town on Monday. George Good, of Seaforth, was in town on Thursday of lest week. Miss Annie Ferguson, of Walton, was visiting in Brussels this week. W. B. Ballantyne was off duty for several days owing to sickness. Miss Emma Vincent has been making a visit with relatives in Wingltam, J. A. Stewart, of the Standard Bank, will eat his Easter eggs at Toronto. Mrs. G. A. Deadman fs spending the Eastertide with relatives in the Queen WV- Mrs. (Rev.) Cobbledick, and son, are visiting relatives in Exeter for a few days. P. Stewart returned to Dakota this week after a few months holidays in Brussels. Mise Nellie Bradwell, of Clifiord, was renewing old friendships in Brussels last week. Mies Eva Turnbull, of Tan POST staff, was under the doctor's care during the past week. Mrs. W. 0. Holmes and daughter, of Luaknow, were visiting Mrs. R. L. Tay. for this week. D. Scrub and 0. Gabez, who were severely burned at the fire last week, are improving nicely now. Inspeobor Hopkirk, of Stratford, paid an offioial visit to Brussels Poet affirm on Tuesday. Ile found it O.K. R. 0. Struhhere, who owns the Garfield block, Brussels, is about to erect a reel. dense on Central avenue, London, that ll Dt $10,000. W. osR. Stratton left for Sabrieber last wi Monday. He visited hie sister at Chat. ham while on his vacation as well as calling on old friends here. Assistant Postmaster Ross hits been having a oatob•as.oatoh•oan with La Grippe during the past week and for a time was unable to attend to his duties. S. W. Laird and wife, of Stratford, tyre visiting in Brussels this week. Mr. Laird's engagement with the Ballantyne cheese firm has been renewed for another year. He is well up to his business. Last Tuesday while Geo. Crooks was riding one of R. Leabherdale'a horses the animal stepped into &hole and ebune- bled landing the rider ou the road. His face was bruised and bis bead badly injured.