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The Brussels Post, 1896-5-1, Page 1Vol, 28. No, 42, BRUSSELS, ONT.A.RJO, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1896 W. H. KERR, Prop, WAGONS AN -.Ital.-, V. p A RIAGES ARTIES intending to purobaee Wager or Buggy will find it to their interest to ball and examine my stook. I would like to dispose of about 60 wheeled rigs this season, and I will guarantee no better class of work can be found in town, It is not necessary for me to be telling you every 3 o 4 weeks, through the press, that I turn out'firsb.olass work. If my work for the last 85 years, spread over Morris and Grey, don't speak to my in. terest there is very little use for me to be blowingmyown born. T think I can do better for you, taking QUALITY and PRICE into oousideration, than ,you can do elsewhere. All old work Repaired, Painted and Trimmed if required, as low as it qac be done for first•olaee work. I keep a first. claim Painter always on hand. J. Y tis' Y / tl N, Manufacturer of Carriages and Wagons, Brussels. SPRING i MILLINERY Thanks to the Ladies of BrtiS- eels and vicinity for the large and appreciative number of visitors to the Millinery Opening last week. My aim is to Show Stylish Millinery, The Newest Stock at Reasonable Prices. The Show Room is filled to re- pletion With the moat worthy ideas in headgear, trimmed and untrimmed. Yours is among them, let us help you select it. All ready for the Spring Trade which has already made a fair start. >C -SATISFACTION ASSURED. Miss Ilioddick. rand Trun RAILWAY. WHERE• TO SPEND YOUR IOLIDAYS. The ideal Summer Paradise Is the Georgian Bay and Muskoka Lake Region, "THE HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO." Lasily reached from all pointe. For Rest, Reoreation, Fishing, Boating, Bath. ing, Camping, eto., this favored Dietriot (500 ft. above Lake Ontario) is unequalled. A special folder with maps and full in. formation can be had an application to 3. N. KENDALL, G. T. R. Agent, Brassele• NEW iiicVer SVop1 The undersigned has open- ed up a Butcher Shop in the. SMAU BLOM BRUSSELS 1 ! where he will keep constant- ly on hand a supply of the I3est Meats Procurable, sold at reasonable prices. A share of public patronage solicited, S. WAL1E I+. , Meat delivered to all parts of the town. Ytrussels 8ehcof Board. The Public School Board suetursuauh' to adjournment at the Oounoil Chamber, ou April 28th, and adjourned to A1110401:411 Hlotel on account' of the Baud practice. Members all present except Rev: J. Ross. The following tenders were read, for building f t ca none having g been received for malttiog waiks as levcllwg grounde Geo.:llldwavde $43 75 Wm. Sample 52 00 R. T. Hingoton 58 00 J.0;Halliday 54 00 Moved by A, Reid, seconded by H. Dennie that the fender of Geo, Edwards be accepted and bbat,he be awarded the contract for building fence at $40.75. Carried, Moved by A. Reid, seconded by H. Dennie that the Committee appointed to arrange for the work, viz., Dr• Graham, D. 0. Ross and A. Koenig, be empowered t h the have t o levollig g of the ground d n oand making of walks completed the best way they can get it done.' Carried, Bachelorhood in the West, DEAR Sm, -They tell ue some funny tales about those bachelors of the West— those hardy agriculturalists with bronzed, stubbly faces, brown old overcoats, some- times a comfortable wombat, economical looking trousers which have suffered visibly from shrinkage ; but nothwith- standing all, with happy, open faces, on which manliness and honesty are plainly stamped'. Not infrequently we meet with one whose disappointed, caro -mark- ed face tells you that things have not gone just as he had hoped ; that fortune. and happiness are still only a dream; while occasionally you find one whose' ex• preseion indicates the resignation of utter' hopelessness, as the tantalizing oup has often touched hie fingers and rudely been withdrawn, so that he now no longer stretches out his hand to grasp it. Some of these men in their batching experience clearly illustrate that necessity is the mother of invention (of cooks) and good ones too, if we aro to believe the reports of some, alio' the majority of them con. ,fess they are very tired of it. Some of 'them have enviable success. One tells of never once having bad bread and that on one (sweeten the bread rose so high that it cracked' the oven of a "Queen of the prairie stove." Some of them admit an occasional misfortune. In my search' for laud last Summer I Dame across a farmer whp told me this amusing tale. He had employed three hands tohelp him in his harvest operations. He therefore, hall an hour before noon, hurried to his shanty to prepare dinner. After the po- tatoes and meat were on the stove be brought out a large parcel of rice, brought from the village four miles .distant, the previous svening,and put it on in water, what he considered a sufficient quantity, for he had never cooked it before. While busy settingthe table he glanced toward the stove. The rine vessel was overflow- ing. He brought out another pot and put the surplus amount in it. In a short time the two kettles wore full. Still the grain continued to swell andswell, until every available dish in the house was full. In despair he called in the -men and in- quired an explanation of the strange con- duct of the intended dessert. The men laughed until ho lost his temper and he flung the betvitohed potful outside. "The wheat yield," he said to me "has often been good, but I never yet saw a yield anythiug like that rice." They tell me, too, that frequently these poor fellows be• come rather miserly in this landofprairie and long Winters. Much could be said to justify them for poverty on a prairie farm, as it is a bare, repulsive thing, and little wonder then that they prize filthy lucre," which has the power to banish this ugly phantom which haunts so many Homes. At any rate I don't believe more than cue man was ever this careful. A ruddy, broad•sbouldered, genial husband• man, on rho shady side of thirty, lived all clone, save for the company of three oats. One long Winter evening a friend came home with him from the office. It being quite dusky in the little shanty the hoot at once set about making a candle. This article consists of lard or tallow, atwisted bib of cotton and a sinker, a button being generally used for the latter: But this evening no button or suitable substitute could be found, so in desperationhe dived Ma hand into his pocket and drew there- from Ms smallest coin, a ten cent piece. The candle was soon burning and the eveuiug passed pleasantly in social chat and the disonssion of the contents of the one weekly paper, Tmo Posx.• Morning came in doe time, as it always does to the working man, and after three clay's dish- es were washed up he bethought himself of his ten cents. To his astonishment the saucer was empty and tho money gone. "The cats," In thought. Immodu- ate]Y he summoned the trio and death for of theft was decreed. The guiltiest looking met his death from theion ofrifle, p o s with a pathetic "mee-yow," and iuspeo. tion proclaimed his innocence. Not un. til the three had paid the penalty of one's crime was the missing coin recovered. Now, do you believe this story ? Prob- ably the full facts of the case are not known. It is possible the crime was greater and the slaughter not so whole: sale. Probably the slayer was a Scotch• men and the oats had swallowed a Globo or a Poss', or possibly eaten the conteuts of a well filled missionary box. We must not judge too severely. Quiz. The Welland Canal opened for traffic Tuesday. Sir Mackenzie Rowell refused to join Sir Charles Tupper's Cabinet. Constable Kern, of the Northwest Mounted Police, is believed to have been drowned. W. Es Tookey has deotined .the Patron nomination for the Commons in South Wellington. There is trouble in the Port Colborne• Separate sohool between Rev. Father Trayling and Mina .Reddin, the .teacher. The trustees are equally divided and the feaoher 10 applying to the court for pro• teotion in her position. Protection a Hard Master, To the lIctitor of Ton P0051-. Droit Stn,—A. 'persistent 'effort is being made by the protection- ist .orators and press of Canada to lead' electors to belisVe that the abro- gation of protection fn Great Britaio was followed al' farm au values' oliow d Uy a .f 1 to a xi� 1 d va ee iu that country, and that the competition induced by this measure brought on the agricultural depression that now prevails there. The notion that farm land In Great Britain foil in value after the final abrogation of protection in 1859 is ab- solutely False and contrary bo fact. It equally false to assume that the competi- tion indneed by free trade reduced the farmers' profits. The broad fact is that rho average value of farm land iu Great Britain advanced steadily for 87 years after the first great move towards free trade became law in 1842. The official returns give thetotal rent of farm land in England and Wales for 1848 and 1880 as follows ;-1843-$200,890,000 • 1880— 8250,000,000. These floret( indicate an advance in rent of 80%. The fact that rents did advance during this period proves that the competition induced by free trade increased the profits of agri- culture, for owingto the monopoly of the land by one °lass, the lauded gentry (10,- 207 of whom own two-thirds of the land of England and Wales) and the oompeti. Mon among the farmers (who are con- tinually increasing) for the privilege of renting the land, rents are always at a point that leaves the farmer but a bare living. Therefore a steady increase of rent such as we see book place after pro- tection was abolished must have been the result of an increase in farmers' profile. A reference to a list of prices for this period such as you will find in Mullhall's Dictionary of Statistics, discovers the fact that though competition and other causes reduced prices pretty generally, the price of all the farmer had to buy fell at a greater ratio than the price of the things be produced. When we consider theethat brre t ' truth at the farmers of England, no our own, have only one way of profitably utilizing their surplus pro- ducts andthat is byexchanging them for things ings they cannt or do nob produce, itis easy to understand why the English farmers profits increased as prices fell. These profits were promptly -eaten up by an advance in rent. The following is one case out of many that' came before the "Royal Commission on Agricultural De• pression iu Great Britain" (the final re port of which is in course off; preparation) that points to the real pause tf the dis• tress amongst English farmers. It ap- pears from the books of a well managed farm in Lincolnshire that between the years 1879 and 1833 the net profit to the tenant was 8275.00, or about 919.00 per annum. During the same period he paid bis landlord in cold cash as rent the enormous sum of $09,435.00, or about $5,000 per annum. 2nd report, nage 52. In 1548 Latimer in a sermon before the King and his courtiers, rated them sound• ly for rack renting their tenants and causing the suffering amongst the agri- cultural class of the time. According to the late Prof. I. E. T. Rogers, between the early part of the fifteenth century and 1879 the average rent of English farm laud advanced 9000%, or from 12o. to $10.80 per aore. According to theNew Doomsday Book published in 1870, the farmers of England alone paid 9621,000,- 000 in rent and tithes for the year 1873. Enoy. Brit. Vol. 8, page 228. The peculiar conditions under which Agricul- ture is carried on in England (the con- ditions in Ireland and Scotland are more favorable to the tenant, owing to the long leases in one case, and Government inter- vention in the other) must always tend to increase reute at a greater ratio than farmers profits. Hence we find that dis- tress has overtaken tho English farmer when prices have been excessively exalted for any length of time, as when prices are normal, as at present. It willbe seen from the foregoing that English farmers wart benefitted by free trade, as farmers anywhere in the world would be benefit. rod by a similar measure, that the real cause of their distress is the enormous burden of rent and tithes they are obliged to pay for the privilege of tilling the soil. Protection is fast forcing the once inde- pendent yeoman farmers of the U. S. into a similar subservient position. Ao. cording to their last census 52% of tho farmers there are now roub paying ten- ants. Before probeatiou was introduced in the sixties rent paying teuauts were almost unknown. According to our last census we increased the number of ten- ant farmers iu this free Canada of ours 50% more rapidly under the first decade of protection than we did under the last decade of revenue tariff. Partnere of Canada, whither aro you drifting ? 40% of the value of the farms you. have with such infinite toil won from the wilderness has ahead been frittered away by th e rt t Government Canada, G ver o was most cou � L over curvet) with. Remember rhoP rivi• leges granted under protection can be voted away but landlordism cannot. H"WAsnnisrott, Ottawa, April 15,'86. e WillE Lavni- The fall wheat looks well. Lott & Sturdy lost a 'valuable horse from pneumonia. The Alert fire brigade is making a flower bed in front of the town hall. The Alert I'Ire Company is making preparations for holding a cooaert on May 8111. The I. 0. F. will hold their annual service and sermon in St. Paul's ohureh on Sunday, May 10th. John E. Swartz shipped hie driver, Prank, to Aylmer, Ont., having sold it to a gentleman of that plass. C. A. Campbell, loenl manager of the Bell Telephone Company, reported 15 'phones out of repair after the recent storm.The Bell furniture factory is work- ing overtime in order to fill the ordure they are daily receiving. At present they are utilizing all available force in filling an order from a large hotel in Ot- tawa. Thee: Bell has purchased from A. E. Smith, banker, all the lumber and fix. tures of the MoTavlsh & Co. furniture factory, Tito following licenses have been grant. ed in Wingham by the Went Huron license board :—Alfred Roe, Jho, H. Dolmage, Jno. E. Swarbs, John Dinsley and Ferdinand Kavanagh, Dn shipped i trotting J. II, imagohis stallion, Saranac, to Detroit to be train- ed under the (are of the celebrated train. ere, Stanley & Dunbar, The colored' gentleman, Oliver, went in oharge. The Field epee is still the absorbing topiohere, Sheriff's Officer Grundy ar- rived here Tuesday night on the L. H. & B. train armed with 30 subpoenas for witnesses, A number of those who oould be used as witnesses are nob sum- moned, and it is expected that they will be indicted by the Grand Jury as prinoi- pale in the affair. A Provincial dstectfve has the case in band. Great ekoitement prevails in the to at sent. p town pre rtXcB )lop. Wm, Rae, of Toronto University, is home visiting his parents at present. John Kners has purchased a stallion which he purposes travelling this season, John Bepain and J. J.Trvine each lost a valuable horse a few days ago from in- flammation. Reeve Bennewies, of Logan, will be the Returning Officer for North Perth; at the, Dominion election. • Sohn Kerr, a gentleman over seventy years of age, has taken to himself a wife for the first time. Better late than never, The Fall wheat in this section, does not look very well and will require very favorable weather to some near an aver- age crop. Wm. S. Shannon, J. J. Irvine and J. 0. Morrison attended a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Conservative Asscoiation in Seaforth. The sale at John Common's was well at. tended and prices were good. A working team brought nearly 8200 and cows rang- ed from to 30 940 each. $ Thos. Davidson bad the misfortune to moet. one of hie eyes injured a o o o le of months ago, which hasseriously affected hie sight. We hope the defects will be soon removed. Sixth. Joseph E. Taman is laid up with a sprained foot these days. Will. Begley, shoemaker, is confined to the house with quinsy, WIlford & Whetlaufer, briekmakers, have received a new boiler for the engine this week.' James Sparling and family moved to Seaforth last week, where he has secured a permanent sit. Balton Bros. have had a new engine and boiler placed in their tannery dor. ing the past week. A fife and drum band is being organ- ized in oonnection with the Orange Lodge of this town. Mr. Hardy and family intend moving from this village bo the Nile, where he has purchased some property. The Passion Play will be exhibited under the auspices of the Methodist choir in Industry Hall on Wednesday. Miss Spooner and Miss MoGregor, of Clinton, have opened out in the dress- making business in the post office build - ng. Mr. Gibson and family, one of the firm of the Blyth flouring mills, has moved into Mrs. Helps' residence across the river. Wm. Hanna, jr., has rented his father's farm. H. Hall was visiting friends on the 6th con. on Sunday. Miss N. Prioe was visiting at Hugh Hanna's on Sunday last. Jos. Smith, sr., is able to be out again after a severe illness of several weeks, Robert Shortreed was on the sick list last week but is considerably better now. Robert Armstrong and wife of the 4tb line, Sundayed with relatives in Sea - forth. Jas. Holden is attempting to ride a bike. We trust you will be successful James. Jas. Smith and wife, of McKillop, were visiting at John Smith's, on the 6th con., on Sunday. E. Cantelon's diver, that recently got kicked, is doing well and will soon be all right again. Fishing seems to be a favorite pastime with some people on the 7th line, especial. ly on the Sabbath day. A fine now bank barn will be bnilt by James Ryan, South boundary, Ibis sea. son. Thos. Newsome bas the contract. W. Cunningham is having his barn raised and a number of improvements made. Wm, is a hustler and always in the vasof progress, a, P g r '•tt n of Grey, IP were visitingH. MoOntoheon's on at W Sunday last. Mr. Speirau is a brother to Sirs. MaCatoheon. There is a young man on the 78h cot. who gots fishing on Sunday. The con. manicy around thinks he might be better employed, particularly as there is a law to prevent it. Some of the young men of the 0th eon. have thought it wise to remove the cover- ing from their upper lip. Joseph evi- dently intends to have a new moustaohe for the coming 12th of July celebration. Paorrato.—Gordiner Nioh6lson, who lives near Belgrave, has a bound that reoently presented bin with 13 puppies. Assessor Watson called a little too soon. Mr.Niobolson should be able to gather in all the game in the locality if he raises the litter. The 'Gorillas," or more properly speaking, the "Swamp Angels," have re- oenbly organized for the season. In the party are to be found some stalwarts, Recently portion of this intrepid band went into a farmer's field, on a Sunday evening, bitched the more foolish of the party to the farmer's plow and dragged ib around the field, making a mark with the plow -share as deep as they possibly could. Foois and madmou seldom change their hinds, 3fre, Frank Baines is baelt from an enjoyable visit with relatives in James- town, N. Y. Hugh I3anna was visiting at, R. Gib• eon's on Sunday last. Mrt, Gibson is a daughter of Mr, Ranna's, Rev, D. A. Shaw preached on Armenia and the Armenians, last Sunday, at Sun- shine, The amount oontriboted to the relief fund was 917.50. ',Unman Sonoors•—Robert Armstrong says that owing to oironmetanoes over wbioh he bad no ooetrol, he had not the opportunity to put the following resolu- tion to the Reform Convention held in Brussels on the third ult;—Moved by Robt. Armstrong, seconded by Hugh Mo. Quarrie, That all parties of the Domin- ion of Canada do agitate for the repeal of that part of the British North America Aot wbioh relates to Separate Schools, and to have established Secular, National, Public sebools throughout the Dominion, and ilius put an end' to all mummeries, dogmas or formulas in the school system of Oadada,which have b e cellae of so much e otarian been 6h strife and discord, ill feeling and bad blood amongst the people of Canada for the last forty years. CIJUISCIL SJIILMII i. The horse sheds at Melville church have been shingled. This work was to, have been done last Fall, but the cold and snow prevented. Next Sabbath morning Brussels Odd Fellows will attend service at Melville church, when Rev. Jno. Roes will preaob the annual sermon. Rev. G. H. Oobblediok is announced to preach Epworth League sermons in Rat- tenbury street Methodist ohurob, Clinton, on Sabbath, 17th inst. The Grey and Morris District and Wingham District will hold a joint Bab. bath School Convention is the Methodist church, Brussels, on Wednesday, May 27. There will be three sessions, commencing at 10 a. m„ 1:30 and 7:80 p. m. An in- terestingprogram bas been arranged. Last Sabbath Rev. R. F. Cameron, of Oranbrook ocon led the pulpitit of Melvil- le church and preached two interesting discourses. In the morning "The sower, the seed and the soil" was his theme and in the evening his text was "A new Dom. mandment I give unto you, that ye love one another." An exoellent program has been prepar• ed for the Wingham District Epworth League Convention, wbioh will be held in the Methodist church, Brussels, on Tuesday afternoon and evening, 26th inst. The ministerial session of the Dia. trict Meeting will be held on Monday 25th and the laymen will attend on Tues. dap forenoon, Rev. A. K. Birks, L. L. B., of Tees - water, will preach the Sabbath school An. oiversary sermons in the Methodist church next Sabbath. The morning ser• vice will be directed to the pupils, who are expected to occupy the centre pews, and along with the Orchestra will lead the singing. Mr. Birks will also preach at 7 p. m. Rev. Mr. Cobbledick will take the work at Teeswater. s Dr. Sutherland, Secretary of the Meth- odist Missionary Society, will leave next week for the Coast to attend the meeting of the British Columbia Oon• ference, to be held on May 14th. On his way baak,'..'ill be present at the Win. nipeg Confk; ere, which opens on June 4th. The a sirs of the Indian missions will occupy bis attention. Methodist Conferences will be held as follows during the approaching season of religious conventions ;—Toronto Con• ferenoe, Trinity ohursb, June 11 ; Lon- don Conference, Central oburob, Stret- ford, June 4 ; Iamilton Conference, Galt, Jane 4 ; Bay of Quints Conference, Wes- ley church, Trenton, Tone 4 ; Montreal Conference, Staustead, P. Q., June 4. On the day previous to these dates a meeting of the ministers will be held, at which matters of private business will be dismissed. In the report of the examinations in Higher Religious Instruction, in omen - tion with the Presbyterian church in Canada, for the year 1805, we notice the names of several young people of this County, who received honors. Iu the junior grade, Biblioal department, Mary McEwen, Ella Maliwen and Elizabeth MoEwen, of Stanley, receive honorable mention ; also Annie E. MoEwen, of the iutermediate grade. Mrs, Neil Riohard• son, of Brussels, stands high in the senior grade, "Sabbath sohool lessons" and "Life of Christ." In tate doctrinal de- partment, Arohie Dongtas Baird, Wm. Baird and Peter Baird, of Stanley, have passed well, as have alvo Maggie McNeil and Janet McNair, of Brussels, ends ob- taining a diploma and prize. Graeme and Lyle Richardson, Brussels, also ob- tained a diploma each. Monday evening the annual entertain- ment of the Methodist Sabbath school will be held iu the Town Hall, comment:. ing at 8 o'clock sharp. The program an- vocnged will be as follows :— O sping hymn, .Standing on the Promises," sohool and Orchestra ; "Honeymoon March," Orchestra ; song, "The Brook- let,' (oalistbedio) by 12 girls ; recitation, "The King's Diss," Miss Norah Maund- ers ; song, "Our Shepherd," by 18 girls ; recitation, "Lazy and Busy," by 10 little boys ; song, "Bobby and his Sled," by 9 boyo ; violin solo, H. L. Jaokson ; guar - tette, "Hie Praise is Delightful," Misses Semple and Moore and Messrs. Aillongh and Gerry ; cantata—Missionary—''Sow. ing Light," by 9 girls ; medley overture, arranged by L. L. Coffin, town Band ; Bong, "A Baby of Your Own," by 10 little girls ; recitation, selected, Miss Myrtle Nott ; solo, selected, Miss Belle Smith ; reading, "Only the Brakesman," Mies Minnie MoNaughton; song, in oharaoter, "Twelve Little Eskimos," 12 little boys ; piano duett, Mrs. H. L. Jackson and Miss Norton; reading "Poor Jim,' G. D. Lamont; ; song, "Marching Ou," by 8 boys in uviform; instrumental, Orobes. tra ; closing hymn. The funeral of the late Sir John 9ohultz, ex-Lieutenant•Goveruor of Manitoba, took plate from the Legis. )alive chambers at Winnipeg to St. John's cemetery. It was attended by the military and official bodies. People We Talk About.. Edna Good is ill with btonohitis. B, Dunlop broke a rib last week. Sam. Beattie wee visiting in London, Mise Lillian Ainley is home from Olin- ton, Mrs. Fonts, of Rostock, is tbsguest or Mre. Jno, Ament. Wm. Habkirk, of Teeswaber, was- in town on Thursday, Jas. MoAlpine, of Mount Forest, was in town this week, Mary Ross, John street, has been quite ill with the measles, Lawyer einolair wee in Arthur on k bueinese trip the other day. Mrs.' W. A. Roes, of Fergus, is visitin g iter parents for a weekor eo. Jas. Moore, teacher, was calling on his friends in Brussels this week. Mrs. Joe Pugh, of Bluevale, was visit- ing ab Victoria Cottage last week. George Crooks has been laid aside from work by an oattack lumbago. i S. Carter an wife and Miss w M e Hart, of Owen Sound, Sundayed 1n Goderioh, George Blashill has scoured employ- ment mployment for the Summer near Bruoefiold. S. Beattie and Miss Maggie were visit- ing in Clinton for a few days last week. Rev. R. Paul is enjoying a visit at lien - sail where be will preach next Sabbath. Jno. Leckie and son Jaok, of Toronto, were in town this week for a day or two. Miss Annie E. Smith, of Grey, was visiting Mies E. E. Kerr in town this week. Brien and Stewart Scott were visiting their grandparents at Seaforth for a few days. Councillor Leatherdale is still a prison- er to the house from inflammatory rheu- matism, B. Gerry, Mrs. Gerry and Miss Thursa spent last Sunday with W. H. and Mrs. Willis, in Seaforth. Miss Annie Taylor, of Blyth, former- ly teacher in Brussels Public Sobool, was renewing friendships in town. Myrtle Wilson is making noticeable' improvement and we hope she will soon be able to run about as u ofyore. We observe from the press that T. Russel( Fletcher, formerly of Brussels, was eleotad Secretary g of the Kingston origkot club. Mr. and Mrs. McKibben, of Walton, have taken possession of the property they recently purchased from BIshop Ward, Queen street. Wm. Bright left Florida last Tuesday for home. He fa greatly improved in health. After a visit at Arthur and Lis• towel he will cone to Brussels. A. Reid will represent Brussels Court, Canadian Order of Forresters, at the High Court to be held in Montreal on June 16. Mr. Reid has been and is an active worker in the Order. Mrs. Faoey and Mrs. Cole, of Russell - dale, sisters of Mr. Green, and Miss Patton, of Michigan, sister of Mrs. Green. were in town last week attending the funeral of Willie Green. George Rogers, to whom we referred last week, took a turn for the worse on Thursday of last week and bas been con- fined to his bed again. The trouble is neuralgia of the stomach. We hope he will soon be restored to his usual good health. At the Goderioh town Council the other evening a communication was read from Cameron, Holt & Holmes, on behalf of D. M. Scott, claiming $10 for damages sustained to bis bicynle, through a leg in the street in front of the Albion hotel. Referred to the Public Works oommittee. AN AnnEutrnN.—One of Brussels former citizens has been recognized across the border by the American people. Robert Nott, who ten years ago left Brussels and went to the U. S„ has just been eleotad an Alderman in the olty of Urbana, Ohio. Mr. Nott was one of Canada's pushing young men and we are pleased to_see him olimbing the ladder. Mr. Nott bas not only beau suooessful in a political way, but has acquired quite a snug little amount of property in his Urbana home. We are always glad to hoar of the emcees of our friends wherever they go. Cocnncliaox Weave's. Work has commenced near the smelt- ing works on the new Hamilton Radial Railway. The Qaeeu's Own Rifles have aooepted the invitation to spend the Queen's Birthday in Kingston. Charles Sweeney was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the peniteu- tfary at the \Velland Assizes for the robbery of Customs Officer Charles Young• Joseph Martin, a well known horse owner, wns attacked by highway robbers at the Woodbine track, Toronto, Tues- day nigbt and probably fatal injuries in - Rioted on him. James Philpot, of Guelph, was arrest- ed on the obarge of manslaughter in con- nsetion with the death of Lizzie Griffen - bar U was Griffen - bans, who w e killed byfalling afwall, g tvhioh the prisoner had left unproteoted. Mr. Ernst, of New Hamburg, who was bequeathed some thirteen grandfather's cloaks recently, sold them at auction the other day. The 13 realized the stun of 9184. Relic searobers were present from all parts of the Provinoe as well as from the state of Michigan. Alderman Dan. Miller, of the Wood- stock Shooting Company, picked up six young foxes on the beach on Friday. They were fat little follows of a fete days old, and had their eyes still closed, He took them borne with him and will make thorn the nucleus of a fox farm in Oxford County. The Mayor of Vanoouver has received a letter from Potento written in the interests of the young women in eastern. cities. The writer elates that aocordfng to statistics, there 10 a shortage in the female population M the 'West amount- ing to about 40,000 and there is is east• ern Canada a oorrespondiug overplus of unmarried women. It is proposed to transport young women of good health and moral character wort to be dietribut- ed where the demand is greatest, and for this purpose ib is sought to establish a looms at Vancouver for the reception and distribution of the young women of Ontario and Queboo for British Colombia.