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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1896-9-11, Page 1w.w.gwsrm Vol. 4. No. 9. RCOUSLEY Redid* e86'Loan Agent, - Brussels. Money to Loan on Farm Secur- ity at the Lowest Rate Of Interest. Money Loaned on Notes and good Notes Discounted. Sale Notes a Specialty. Fire d Life Insurance Written. Special Attention given to CONVEYANCING. COU LE Office over Domain= & McCall's Stora, BRUSSELS. IRANDIRLINICAMT, 2 60 DAY HARVE ST EXOURSI ONS TO = Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest Round Trip Tickets from all stations on the Grand Trunk Railway System will be issued on Sept It Valid to re18n until Oat.81st, Sept. 15, Valid tolath, lace, return until Nov.. To , , DI:LORAINE RESPTON SINSOAT V N )3INSR • 14IUOS0 hCIN �28 MOOSEJAW A gyp, �y PRINCE ALBERT f 1. tb7 Q 3 5 CALGARY TEDD DEEREDMONTON } $ 4 Tull information on application to any Grand Trunk Ticket Agent. J. N. E-,NDALL, G. T. R. Agent, Brussels. GNew rocery Store IN BRUSSELS. %. 11. Pelton. Has opened out a New Grooery Store in connection with his Restaurant with a full line of Fresh goods. We want it big trade from the start and in order to get it we will not only sell at the following wonderfully low prices but we will give away a large part of what we save on ex- penses in handsome prizes Pure Ceylon Tea for 25 Cents 25 cent Japan Tea .... . 20 80 cent Japan Tea 25 36 cent Japan Tea 30 25 cent Black Tea 20 85 Dent Black Tea 30 40 oent Young Hyson Tea 30 All kinds of Soap from 2 up. 12ao. Canned Salmon for 10 So, Currants for 5 8o, Raisins for '0 10o. Box of Matches for 8 Essanoes per bottle 6 to 8 Vinegar per gallon 32 Potted Ham per can, 8 Tapioca 5 Sago 5 Canned Corn 6 Starch 6 Pickles. 10 Baking Powder 10 Baking Soda 8} Mixed Bird Seed 6 We intend to cultivate it good Tea trade and now Teas will leave our store that we oan honestly recommend. Teas are in the market to sell as low as 10o. but obofae Teas are so. Cheap that it does nob pay to buy the poor kinds. The most profitable kinds are those ranging from 20a. to 80a. for Japans and in Blacks and Green 250. to 85o. The Kolona Pure Ceylon,Tea at 40o, is a Tea At for a,king. American Silver Taken at Par. Money Saved is Money Gained FREIGHT Drawn for 2 ante per hundred' small parcels, 6e. empties returners Free, Job work done reasonable. W. H. Pelton. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1896 Brussels Council. The monthly meeting oe Brussels Council was bold on Tuesday evening, all the members present, Reeve in the chair, Minutes of laet meeting reed and pan - ell, Tho following aooments were presented : Wilson t4 Son, scales of sadden yard $75 00 Jno. Wright, salary 80 00 IVfoDonald Bros., lumber .. ,, 25 00 World Pub. 04., Register 8 83 E. James, filling Gana2 50 Moved by Geo. Becker, seoondod by It, Leatherdale that the foregoing no. counts be Paid.—Carried. W, M. S;uolair addressed the Counoil relative to the eleotrio light and stated Hat be was malting arrangements for the introduction of an inaaudeaoent plant and expected to soon have it in operation. A petition was presented from the residents of Flora street asking that the ditch leading to the river be cleaned out so as to relieve them from overflow of water. The Oounoil agreed to see that the work was attended to forthwith. It was deoided to use quarry stone in- stead of field atone for the new etreat aroseings and t0 proceed with the work at once. The crossings will be. about 4 feet wide, and the firet one to be built will be opposite the telegraph offioe. The question of the water tank was talked over and as water is decreasing the tank will have to have another coat of cement. Council then adjourned. Morris Gennep. Meeting. The (Donnell met according to adjourn- ment at the Council room, Morris, on August 24th, Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. Moved by Thee. Code, seconded by Geo. Kirkby that Jae. Marshall be authorized to inspect Muni- cipal drain on let and 2nd cone. and ascertain the amount of repairs neves• sary and that the Reeve and Jas. Bow- man be authorized to have the same put in a proper state of repair. Carried. Moved by Jas. Bowman, seconded by Thos. Code that Wm. Iebister be in. atrnoted to have a drain constructed in the locality of the weigh soales in the village of Belgrave. Carried. Moved by Wm. Isbieter,seconded by Geo. Kirkby that John Mooney be appointed Collector at a salary of $80.00, on furnishing sats• factory security to the amount of $14,000. Carried. Moved by Geo. Kirkby, second. ed by Wm. Iebister that the Reeve and Treasurer be authorized to borrow $1,- 400 to meeturreut expenses. pensee. Carried. Moved by Geo. Kirkby, seconded by Jae. Bowman that the Olerk be instructed to notify the Engineer to have the Cloakey drain completed according to the award. Carried. By-laws Noe. 7 and 8, 1896, were duly read and passed. The follow- ing accounts were ordered to be paid :- 0. Campbell, gravel, $2.80 ; W. Iense, gravel, $2.80; R. Woolsey, printing, $20.- 00 ; G. Maxwell, printing, $2.50 ; Jno. Oakley, gravel, $3.44 ; H, Ramsay, do., $5.60 ; T. Straohan, do., $3.76 ; Geo. Peacock, do„ $11.75 ; Duff & Stewart, building Sunshine bridge, $034.00 ; Duff & Stewart, plank on North boundary, 54 cents ; Jas. Marshall, surveying, 55.- 00 ; Jas. Gibson, fenoeviewer's fees, 54.- 00 4:00 ; Wm. Pollook, do., $4.00 ; Jas. Bow- man, inspecting ltuttan's bridge, $10.00 ; H. MoonsY, inspecting Sunshine bridge, $12.00; Wm. Iebister, inspecting Ar' bridge, 59,00 R. Jameson, part pay- ment on Rattan's bridge, 5363.50 ; E. L. Dickinson, legal advice, $8.00 • Thoe. Russell, ditch and culvert, $4.76.. The Oonnel then adjourned, to meet again on Oct. 5th. W. Crane, Clerk. Presbytery of Maitland. INDn0T10N AT SINLOnen. The Presbytery of Maitland at a special meeting in the Presbyterian obarob at Kinlough on Sept, let, induct- ed the Rev. John Maxwell, lately ordain. ed missionary at Lion's Head, Presby- tery of Owen Sound, into the pastoral charge of the united congregations of North Kinloss, Riversdale and Enniskil- len. There was a fair oougregation present. • leer. 11. MacLeod preached an excel- lent and comprehensive sermon on Jer. 8:15—"I will give you pastors according to ming heart, who will find you with knowledge and understanding.", The preacher spoke of God's interest in the oburoh in providing such pastors, their speoialfuuotions and whet God expects of the people. The Bev. A. MacKay presided and put to Mr. Maxwell the questions of the formula which he answered satis- faotorily. The Rev. I McDonald, of Glamis, sat with the Presbytery. Rev, J. Macolm delivered the charge to the newly inducted pastor, dwelling on the duty of always setting forth the great central truth of the Gospel, "Christ and him unified," to preach with simplicity, direotness and tenderness. He dwelt on the importanoe of pastoral visitation,the necessity of diligent Andy and voice vulture, to have the heart filled with the Spirit and lead a holy life. Rev. A, McKey addressed the congre- gation and spoke of some oharaateristios of good hearers. They aro regular and punotual in attendance. They fear God, are reverent and prayeefgl. They are attentive and obedient to the menage and will support the Gospel at bome and abroad, They will reaped and anon. age their minister. Such hearers will have a Godly minister, will envoy faith- ful preaohing, will confidently look for the out -pouring of the Spirit, the weever. sin and Sanetifi0ation of souls. A cardial welcome was .extended to. hfr. Maxweli by Otte congregation by a hearty haudebake as these; were retiring from the churab, Mr. Maxwell enters upon the duties of the pastorate in these united congregations under meet favor- able hueppion and the happy and harmon•. ions settlement it ie confidently hoped, Will bo orowned with abundant. blessing. The oburoh hero le a meat and corn* modious building suitably fai'aished land has an excellent basement for Sabbath School, eto. The aervlee of prance is led. by en effioieut ohoir with organ a000m. panieaont. After the close of the pnblio service, the members of the Presbytery, elders 'and their wives, were invited to a lunch in the basement, prepared by the ladies of the congregation. The rioh repast, so kindly and hospitably provided was much enjoyed and a sooiablo time spent, which shall long linger in memory. We congratulate these congregations on the kind and friendly spirit manifest. ed among them, which augurs well for hearty ao.operation in promoting the highest interests of each congregation and the cause of God generally. JouN Malan, Clerk. Laoknow, Sept. 2nd, 1806. Cit4ria41litt.ILL Nee wee. Dr. Harris, of Brantford, died sudden- ly. Clheeley is going to have a new railway station. Judge Laoonrse, of Waterloo, died at Berlin. Fire did $300,000 damage at Sault Ste. Marie, Miob. W. F. Powell was appointed Chief of Police at Ottawa. Paris is agitating. for a new postofboe and custom house. Cattle shipping from the Northwest is very brisk jest now. Reports from the "Soo"Canal show a big falling off in business. Charles E. M. Pointon, of Toronto, is applying for a divorce from his wife.' Immense quantities of apples are be- ing shipped from Montreal to Liverpool. Berlin banks have deoided to charge smell depositors from 26 to 50 oenta per month for bundling their neonate. John Gray, of Eima, suffered from blood.poisoning for some days recently. The trouble originated from an insect bite: , The Canada won the deciding yacht rave for the championship by 26 seconds time allowance in a twenty miles an hour breeze. Two young men shot a Canadian grey eagle pear Brantford the other day that measured 3 feet, 4 inches from wing tip to wing tip. Peter D. Wheeler, the murderer of Annie Kempton, was hanged at Digby, N. S., at 2:80 o'clock on Tuesday morn. ing. No disturbance took plaoe. The Manitoba crop bulletin for August estimates the total wheat yield at 18,- 565,198 bushels, oats, 18,633,222 bushels, and barley at 3,698,460 bushels. Dr. V. A. Moore, of Brookville, was elected President of the Canadian Medi- cal Association, and Montreal was again chosen as the next plaoe of meeting. There is a serious split in the Inde- pendent Foresters of Quebeo over a die• mote between the English and French members on the question of the offices. Mra. Michael Boyle, of Owen Sound, was arrested on a oharge of shooting and wounding a young men named Wm. Hughes, who, she claims, insulted her on the street. Five men and a span of horses htoke through a floor in Jas. Forrest's barn at Uxbridge, and fell to the oeliar floor. .8. son of Frank Read, of Siloam, struok on bis head and broke bis neck. The Provincial Synod will shortly be et in Mon tread to m9 freer to anent the resignation of Bishop Sullivan, of Al- goma, that he may accept the rectorship of St. genies' Cathedral, Toronto. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Quebeo L 0. 0. F., it was decided to transfer the Brockville Lodge to the To. ronto juriediation. It was also deoided to adopt Jibe assessment system of in - serene. Monne Forest Representative :—In the work of remodelling an old hoose in the town the carpenters the past week.disoov- ed a mouse nest surrounded by a great lot of light, combustible stuff composed of bits of paper, rags, eta., and a number of matobes, ono of which had not been ignited. The others had apparently been setoff some time. The whole combine. tion presented a very dangerous one ap- parently, causing any one who saw it to readily understand how a five might arise therefrom which would puzzle those in- terested to account for. Gaudette, the Canadian oarsmen, won the rowing championship of the world and $2,500 Monday, in addition to the Sportsman's oup, defeating Jas. Stem bury, of Australia, who recently defeated "Wag" Harding for the ohampionehip of the world. The course was the usual championship course, four miles straight away, from Putney to Mott Bake. Gamlen won by 20 lengths. After 12 false starts both men took the water together. Stanbury had a slight lead at Craveneleps, but soon afterwards Gaud- ette pulled up, took the lend and main- tained it to the Crab Tree, where it was alleged a foul occurred. Staubury there. upon stopped and appealed teethe referee. The latter, however, would not allow the foul, and Gaudaur, finished 20 lengths ahead, in 2310I. "Jake" Gaudaur has held the professional championship of America since 1800, and twine before, 1886 and 1887, he held the same honors. Gaudaur and Stanbury last met at rho Austin, `.Galas, regatta in 1803 ; but Stanbury was not in good form. Since that time Gendanr has defeated Edward Heiden, Geo. Bubear, Rogers, Hackett sed other professionals. At the Halifax regatta he also stroked the "four" which boat Bubear'e Pinghsh oombination. The new ohampion had visited .England twice previously. In 1883 he was over with Geo. Homer, Ed, Hanlon, and Wallace Ross. But he bad to suooutnb to Hanlau and Ross, despite his olever style, whioh was very mnob admired by the English experts. In 1886 Gaudaur rowed Beath, the Auatralien, from : Putney. to Mort Lake. Stonbnry won the Australian championship in 1801, when he defeated' John Mof,ean on the Paramatta River. Bolh men were in excellent pbysioal von., anion. Gaudette weighed 175 Denude. He is six feet high, while Stanbury is about seven pounds heavier and one inch taller, W.. KERR, Prop. At the Oobnurg Aseizes the Grand Jury found a true bill against Arthur Prentiss for the marder of Thomas Ling. ard. William Stook, a West Flaniboro' far- mer, wee fined $10 and aunts for having punished a pedlar dor leaving the gate open. Petitions are being circulated, asking for the release of Donald MoLeod, con• vioted of firing a barn in Kivaardino township in 1801, and sentenced to thin. teen years in the penitentiary. Herb. Ruesell, of Milibroslc, who has been troubled for 16 years with a pain in hie abdomen, had a large needle out out of his body a fete days age, He is sup. posed to have swallowed it when a boy. The Kingsville Preserving. Company employ 75 men and women and put up from 10,000 to 12,000 cane of corn each day, and 300 to 400 bushels of tomatoes. They are now in addition putting up 1,• 000 bushels of 50501103. Reeve Dougherty alone opposed the. payment of $500 in settlement of the claim of Mrs. Seebaoh, of Logan, against the town of Mitobellfor sending her eon home to her when he was ill of ema11 pox. The other eleven members carried their point and the $500 have been paid. At a special meeting of the City Ooun• oil of Guelph on Thursdaynight, it was decided to take prooeedings against Ed- mund Harvey, the late city Treasurer, to recover the indebtedness due from him to the oily. The criminal pr'000edinge will be referred to the Crown. The Toronto Mail and Empire' says : George Moore, of Elizabeth, N. J., is the contractor who hasseourad the job of laying 800 miles of track for the Huron and Ontario Electric railway, wbioh is to connect Port Perry, Kincardine, Meaford and many other points. Fifty or sixty miles of track will be laid this Pall we- nding Kincardine and Goderioh, Flesh- erton and Meaford, and other intervening points, Promoter Pew, who returned recently from New York, says this entire line will beiu operation early next year, and promises to do a rushing Summer business, connecting as it will Central Ontario with Lake Huron and the Georg. ian Bay. Ele says the wild sonny of the Eugenia valley from Flesberton to Meaford is not eolipsed anywhere. In cue plane there is a drop of 474 feet in a mile and a quarter, and a series of vas. oades and waterfalls on the river, which follows the valley. Tuesday was Citizen's Day at the big Toronto Fair, and the attendance was the largest, withoei exception, of any day since the Exhibition was started. The day was marked by the presence of Li Hung Chang, the distinguished Ohina• man, about whom all the continent ie talking just now. The Oriental Prince and his retinue were shown every at- tention and evinced a good deal of inter- est in what they saw. A few minutes after three the party reached the Exhibi- tion grounds station, being met by Mayor Fleming, Col. Denison, President With. row and Manager Gill of the Exhibition Assooiation, and other prominent gentle. men. President Withrow formally wel• oomsd the Earl, end Lf responded that he was glad to be able to visit the Pair and get an idea•of the resources of Can- ada. His Excellency then took a seat in his their, and, borne by four stalwart policemen, entered the grounds and was forthwith almost lost to. sight amidst the thousands upon thousands of sightseers, who crowded to see the Celestial visitor. Li 1' L Ikea t loo at r o k machinery ands a Y o t hieown re not a firs g a, was t borne to Maah• inery Hall, where he examined the exhi. bite. Thence he wee conveyed to the Main Building, and when he emerged, thane, to escape the throng, he entered the Lieut.-Govoruor's carriage, which had been sent to meet him, all bedeoorat- ed with ribbons of yellow, Li's favorite oolor. The carriage, guarded by a strong cordon of police, proceeded at ouce to the horse ring. 'Wingfn 4.; an. Our grauolithic sidewalks, are fin as far as completed. Wingham Fall Fair will be held on the 29th and NM hats. Wingham Tanning Co. havo started work again and are now ruuuiug at full blast. Willie Mallow has accepted the position viofllSecretary of the Y. M. 0. A., Belle - Mayor Mckenzie, Reeve Sperling and other prominent citizens attended a meet- iug in Tetrnberry last Saturday, relative to the proposed electric railway. a Geo. Shaw is the first business man iu town to adopt the plan of putting clown brass name plates in the granolithic walks. It is a mistake to allow any signs to be placed in the wails. At a special meeting of the Council of East Wawanoeh the contract for building the Wage between lots 85 and 87, con. 1, was awarded to John Ferestor, Wingham, at a Dost of $2551. W. H. Green was in Blyth, where he had been called by the Loan Co. of To - Tonto to valuate Mr. MoKellar's electric plant, which has been pnrohasod by E. Livingston, of Belgrave. Wtannlvo,—A very pretty wedding took place at the residence of Moe. Lindsay, Shuler St., on Wednesday of last week, when her daughter,, Mise Lorne, was united in martioga to Robert S. Reid, to promising young farmer of East Wawa. nosh, The bride was handsomely attired in cream cashmere trimmed with sable ribbon and lace, and carried a bonnet of roses. Miss Millie Lindsay, who attend- ed the bride, wore a beautiful cream anti lace dress. Tho groom was supporbed by his brother, Bert. J. Reid. Rev, Dr. Gifford, aesistod by Rev. E, A. Slew. of Belgrevo, performed rho ceremony in the presence of the relatives of the ooutraot- mg parties. Mr. end Mrs, 11015 left Thursday to spend their honeymoon in Toronto, St. Catharines and other East- ern points. The estimates for the fiscal year laid on the table of the Roueo amount to $41,. 847,000. Donald IVfoPhnil, 4th eon. 13ruoo, had 89 Green Gage plums en a. branch only 9 iuotes long. CHURCH Uf11111:Gg. Maitland Presbytery will meet on Tuesday of next week, A farewell eoaial was tendered Mr. Stewart, at Melville aharoh, on Thursday evening of this week. klarvoeb Thanksgiving services will be oondnoted in St, John's ohurah on the evening of 22nd inat„ by Rev. Mr, Bain. son, oA Walkerton. Harvest Home servioos will be held in the Methodist oharoli, Brussels, .on Sab. bath, 20th inst., when Rev, Mr. Rigsby, of Blyth, will preaoh morning and oven. ing, A thank offering will be taken ie. stead of holding the ouetomaey supper. Rev. Jno. Rose arrived home from hie holiday outing at Clifton Springs, N. Y., last Monday, and will resume his pulpit next Sabbath. Rev. Mr. Stewart, who bas rendered suoh acceptable service dur. ing the vacation, will return to his home in Stratford for a few weeks before going to Toronto to oomplete his course at Knox College, whore he has already spent several terms. SMNDAY SCHOOL STATreTlcs.—Rev. Dr.. Cornish, General Conference Statiatioi,gn, Methodist church, has just completed the Sunday school report for the past con• nexional year. It shows an increase all round of schools, teaohera and scholars. The totals aro 3,340 Sunday schools, 32,- 671. officers and teachers and 262,915 sonars, the latter having increased by 7,028. Tho eel:mole have contributed abort 525,000 to various funds of the Methodist churab and raised for school parpoeee 5118,281. DI0TBIOT MueTINa.—Thu Finaooial District Meeting 01 the Methodist church, Wingbam Dietriot, was held at Kinnard. ins on Wednesday, Sept. 3rd. Some of the brethren were absent, owing, in some instances to indie osition of health and n in others to absence from home. Rev. Dr. Gifford, of Wingham, presided with commendable ability for a new chairman and Rev. I. B. Wallwin, B. A., of Look. now, filled his office as Financial Secre- tary with credit. The spiritual aepeot of rho District received special attention. Class leaders Conventions are to be held at central points daring the year and an Epworth League and Sunday School Convention is to take place in Wingham during the early Winter. The meeting closed in time to take the evening train to Brussels and intermediate points. Kincardine is a most attractive town, with wide, well kept streets, beautiful residences and imposing water front. It is unfortunate for the place and travel- ling pnblio that the railway accommo- dations are not better. A town of more than average beauty and inviting environ. menta should not be as, muoh hampered as it's present railway accommodations necessitate. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Sam. Carter is on the sick list. Ben. Avery is now a resident of Obi. cage. ear. Davis and wife are visting at H. Dennis'. Mies Frank Felton is holidaying at Woodstock. W. J. Bozell, of Wingham, was in town on Monday. aliens Seger, of Mitchell, are visiting Mrs. Koenig. Nelson Currie, of Seaforth, was in town on Wednesday. Dr. Davidson was viewing the Toronto Fair this h is ee -. w b Mrs. R. Woolsey and daughter are visiting in too Queen City. Jno. Ament and wife were holidaying in Uncle Sam's possessions. Andrew Carrie and wife were visiting relatives at London this week. lOIrs. (Rev.) Boss and obildren were visiting at Goldstone last week. Mies Pearl Birt was holidaying with Mrs. Thomas Ainley at Lietowel. Pira. Scott and ohildren, of Lang- don, are visiting friends in. Brussels., 0, R. Vanstone, of Southampton, was renewing old friendships here last week. A. Strachan was doing the Queen oity. this week combining business and pleas- ure. Ryall Palton, a former resident of Brussels, is renewing old friendships in tow u. Mrs, Henry James, sr., is enjoying a visit with old friends in Toronto this week. Thos. Oollins has taken a positioh with a Toronto book concern. We wish him encoeso. Robe. Malcolm, of Kincardine, was re- newing old acgnaintan0es in Bea seals on Labor Day. Reuben }Endes ie ill with typhoid fever we are sorry to hear. We hope be will soon be better, Mies Mary Sample, milliner, will take A position in the millinery department of T. Eaton as Co.'s store, Tbronto. J. A. Stewart, manager of the Stand. ard Bank, Brussels, is enjoying a holiday outing et Toronto tend other points. Mrs. W. B. Dickson and children, of Langdon, Dakota, are the gnats of Mrs, Adam Reid. Mrs. Dickson is a daughter of Mrs. Reid's. Cleveland and Clarks Allin, who were visiting relatives at Bowmauvillo, arrived home on Friday evening.. Rev. 11'lr. Allin took an 80 utile spin on hie wheel that day, after 10 a. m„ to meet them. Luther Ball, atter taking a comae in the Embalming School, Toronto, will leave for Portage -la -Prairie, Manitoba, next week, where he bee secured a lucra- tive equation. We wish Mr. Ball stto• one, This week Pun: PosT had a call from George J„ youngest son of Henry Taylor, of Grahamville. Mr. Taylor, who is company tailor in Oo. D, 19th Regiment, U. S. infantry, was here on furlough. He has been stationed at Fort Brady, Sault Ste Marie, for the past 8 or 4 years, but the Go. has exchanged posts with Fort Wayne, below Detroit, and Mr: Taylor will report there in November. He served .big apprenticeship in Braeeels with Messrs. Riehardsbn and Senate and has a good thing in his present employ. ment 00 addition to his pay as n soldier. It is about 16 years since Mr. Taylor loft Brussels. John Robb has been i11 this week with inflammatory rheumatism but is improv ing. We are sorry to hear that Editor Brown, of the Wingham Times, had the miefortune to break two of his fiogore, on el'ueeday morning, while running the Gordon press in bis office. He will be laid up as far ea prase work is nonoerned for aome'iime. .Additional Local News. Mee. E. Roans has eugaged Miss, Dunbar, of Guelph, as milliner for the coming season. Inn Directors of the East Huron and Grey Branch Agrionitural Societies met in Brussels ou 'Wednesday afternoon. Judgea were eeleoted for the. coming Fair and other necessary arrangements men, There was a good attendance, Presidents Ferguson and Smith ; Vine -Presidents Gardiner and Pollard ; Secretary-Treas. urer Stewart ; and Directors, D. Milne, Geo. Johnston, Jas. MoOnalom, T. Mo- Lauohlin, Jas. Speir, W. H. Kerr, Geo. Thomson, P. Scott and W. H. McCracken being among the number. DEATH or JAIl[ES Bon.—The Huron Expositor of last week, in epee/Ong of the late James Boyd, says :—Sad indeed were the oiroumetanoes in connection with the death of James W. Boyd, young. est son of Moore Boyd, North Main street, Seaforth, and a brother of W. H. Boyd, of Luoknow, and Mee. J. Robb, of Morris, When a young man of seven- teen he went to attend Toronto Veterin- ary College, with the object of fitting himself as a veterinary surgeon, but he had only been two months in the city when he oontraoled typhoid fever and for seven months lay in Toronto general hospital. Dr. Reilly, of that institution, said that in all hie preotioe he bad never seen a patient come through snoba siege of fever and live. He came home a mere wreck and was never able to shake off the after effects of this severe illness. He subsequently learued the trade, of a baker and while following this occupation in Brussels, was seized with tubercular meningitis, and in spite of the kind at- tention of his friends and all thet medi- cal skill oonld do he sank rapidly ,notil death relieved bine of all suffering. He was unmarried and leaves behind him his aged father, who will ever cherish in fond remembrance the affection of a dutiful son. The interment was made at Blyth cemetery. C7 wn sa cti f a, n. N e w. s. The Hanover musical society will be re -organized. Brakeman Kemp fall off a train near Welland and was killed. The rate of taxation in Chatham this year wilt be over 21 mills. Hon. Mr. Daly ie spoken of as a prob- ableoandidate for Brandon. Howry & Son's mill at Fenelon Falls was burned, entailing a loss of $40,000. Alex. Wherry, Inspector oe Public Schools for Peterboro', was drowned. The Young Women's Christian Asso. oiation of Canada is meeting in Hamil- ton. The Conservative Aldermen of St. Thomas are boycotting Lord Aberdeen. They refused to attend a meeting called to prepare an address to his Excellency. There were 11 appeals in Bast Brace by candidates who were pinked at the recent Entrance examination The County Bond decided not to entertain any of the appeals. Miss Jessie Ducker, of Palmerston, has been engaged for piano accompanist and violin soloist by a fiest•alass convert com- pany of Toronto at a salary of $100 per month and expenses, for a trip extending to the Oanadian PaaitOa coast. Li Hung Chang reached Winnipeg shortly after noon, on Wednesday en route to Vancouver. After a brief stop the special continued West. The Earl received a despatch daring his journey stating that the Queen had conferral orders of Knighthood ou himself, his two sons and the Chinese Ambassador who accompanies the party. Sir Oliver Mowat, as Minister of Jus- tice, bee deoided that a number of eon- traets for militia clothing and other things made by the late Government aro illegal, and they will, therefore, be an- nulled. Ile has also decided int in oases where an office is abolished the officer is not entitled to superannuation allowance. A mass meeting of the Patrons of Industry who are attending the Fair was palled by Gtand President Mallory, and about 100 members responded to the gall. The meeting which was held in the Temperance Hall, Toronto, and only those possessing credentials showing them to be members in good standing were allowed to be present. To a Globe correspondent, after tha.meeting, Mr. Mallory stated that nothing of public interest bad transpired. The meeting bad been palled simply because there were a large number of Patrons in the oity attending the Fair, end he had thought it an opportune time for them to get acquainted. No one, he said, bad suggested any olfange in the platform of the par0yt They had eimply met to spend a pleasant eveniug. Meesre. Curry, Gifford, Haycock, Maybery and Secretary Wrigley were among those present. That a body of trustees could not be held personally liable for a mortgage con- tented by the body for width they acted, was the gist of an important judgment handed down by Justice Falooubridge et Osgood° Hall the other day. The case wee a 0010 brought by John Beaty, of Parkdale, against elm crevices of the TJanadowno avenue Baptist ahureh, To- ronto. Mr, Beaty held a second inert• gage on the churab property for 58,200, and tried to realize on it by suing the trustees. Judgment, however, was given for the trustees. His Lordship. bolding that the defendants were only liable as a corporate body, and that there was 00 individual liability. As tkeeohurah prop. arty is covered by a first mortgage, held by the Star Life 0o., Mr. Beaty can Scarcely reaaver, The suit has attracted a good deal of attention from triose hold. ing mortgages on oburoh property.