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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1891
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THE WORLD'S FAIR.
The Columbian Exposition, or World's
Fair, will open iu the oity of Chicago on
May lab 1899 and will run tl months,
closing Oct. 80th, The Park, where the
Fair will be held, is eight miles distant
from the business centre of Chicago.
It contains 050 acres, the property of the
oily, and is known as the Jackson (An.
drew) Park. The land is low and marshy
and coneequently the improvements be.
ing made are taken in lieu of rent by the
civic authorities, who purpose axing the
grounds for a park when the Fair ie
over. Wonderful improvements are be-
ing made toward the beautifying of the
place, five months being spent in con-
verting the swamp into a imitable site for
the Fair. Long snatches of wharves
have been built, miniature lakes ar•
ranged, flower gardens planted, shade
teem; set out, avenues and driveways sur
veyed and neither time nor expense is
being spared by the Committee of Man•
agement in flue particular. There are
45 local Directors nearly always on hand
and no less than 115 of the gentler sex
en the board of Lady Managers, who
will, in addition to doing their own work,
see that the masculine contingent mind
their P's and Q's, Airs. Potter Palmer
visited the Old Land and secured the
support of Madame Carnot, the wife of
the President of the Freuoh Republic ;
Princess Christian and other members of
European families.
Rapid progress is being made in the
coustruotion and emotion of the noose•
sexy buildings to accommodate the
world's exhibits. The plane call for the
most elaborate and extensive designs ever
produced. D, H. Burnham is the chief
of this Department. Building operations
began about the 1st of June and the
official date for their dedication is said
to be Oct. 12th 1892. 100,000 feet of
lumber have {teen consumed in the
Woman's Pavilion. Contracts aro let for
the nines and mining buildings ; the
electrical building ; transporbation,manu-
facturers', administration and other
structures,
25 miles of side tracks have been put
down in the Park by the Illiuois Central
Railroad at a coat of $500,000 and already
freight and passenger tariffs are being
arranged at greatly reduced rates. The
date for the opening of the Live Stook
department is fixed for August 24th, con•
tinning to the close of the Exposition—a
period of 0 weeks and 4 days.
The leading nations of the world have
already signified their intention of being
represented and large sums of money are
being set apart foe this purpose. It is
also expected that'royalty will grace the
exhibition hallo as several of the rulers
of the countries in both Europe and Asia
are arranging to be present.
020,000,100 is estimated as the sum
necessary to equip and manage the Ex.
Position. Congress has already granted
1,F millions towards this object and over
00,000,000 has been subscribed by Chica-
go citizens. The City Council has voted
$5,000,000. Twenty-eight States have
made appropriations varying from 05,000
to 0900,000, New York being about the
only State refusing to aid, for the reason
that the Fair was not held in their city.
A European Commission is now doing
the old land and arranging the prelim..
inaries with the various oounbries and
pushing the work in a very successful
manner. Chief Ives is soliciting an art
collection from the leading artiets of the
woe Id.
A. visitor at the Jackson Park today
might have seen 2,000 men at work ar-
ranging the landscape features, building,
eta.
From 95 to 40 loaded ears arriving,
laden with material for the construction
of the various buildings.
Directors appo,tioning locations to the
represenbabivee of the various countries,
and states.
The 7 wonders of the world will be no
where compared with what there will be
exhibited at the World's Fair of 1803..
There will be a representation of all the
small crafts of the known world from bre
Indian's canoe, swan boats, dug -outs end
electric launches to the basket boats of
the Alaskans on the lagoon, or lake, run-
ning from one extremity of the Park to
the outer, eaoh managed by an inhabi•
taut of the country represented.
A fao.similie of ChristopherOolumbus'
"Sante Maria" in which he sailed, will
be there ; the cabin of Sitting Bull, the
great Lndiau chieftain, and the stuffed
akin of the oelebrated cavalry horse that
was the sole survivor of the terrible In-
dian massacre at Little Big Horn, the
tome General Custer and command met
their death. The horse was 45 years old
.and died last week,
Theodore Thomas, the Musical Direct.
•tor of the Exposition, is having a Music
Hall 150x250 feet to cost $100,000 erected
gm au island formed by the lagoon, sur-
rounded by flower gardens, ibo., 10 scree
in all,
The famous Edison is arranging and
developing very startling novelties in
eleotrieity, one feature being an ordinary
kitchen in which all, or nearly all, of the
1,000 and 1 things having to be done by
the housewife will bo performed quickly
.and aoourately by the nnexplanable
power of the electric motor.
080,000 is being placed iu the bands of
bho women of Illinois for expenditure by
them in conueotion with the Fair and an
sore and a half of land has been allotted
theta for their display,
A building in the form of an ioebetg
will be put up and acompary of Estitmos,
aocompanied by reindeers, sleds and
fare will exhibit it in representing the
frozen north.
Varfoas Orders, Lodgee and Commis.
sions are already taking initiatory ]tope
for holding gatherings on the great Park
and it is expected thab bnndrode of
thousands of people will visit the Fair.
Tho Cunard steamship company is
building a, fleet of rapid sailing vessels,
and some of the railroad lines ate ex.
porimenting on anile-a•minute treble, in.
eluding stoppages in the race for passen-
ger traffic to the Ittxpositicn, •
Every convehienee will l:e afterdded the
public On the Park in the way of tele•
graphic, tolephonie, railwayand the.
rlage facilities and a number of news-
papers will bo lathed almost hourly on
the grounds.
Great advantages aro expected to re-
sult from the gatherings of the nations of
the earth et the Fair in the way of
friendly •intercourse, examining the vari-
ous products, inventions and the like and
above all in broadening our views re.
garding others and proving the great
brotherhood of mankind.
Great Britain will take no small part
in this Fair and the finest portion of
British possessions—the Dominion of
Canada—will there, as she has done on
poet occasions, prove her right to occupy
the proud position she closs to -day a•
mong the nations of the world.
There has been an expressed desire on
the part of sone people to open this
Great Fair on the Sabbath day but it le
thought that the voice and vote of the
thousands who reverence the 1st day of
the week will over rule this saoriligious
proposal. Already very pronounced
opinions have been expressed upon the
subject.
Washington Letter.
(Prom our Regular Correspondent,)
WAfin1NGTON, Nov. e, 'al,
It is jest now an interesting fact that
the ordmauoe department of the navy is
in a stage of the highest efficiency. The
gun shops ab the Waehingtou navy yard
are being worked et a great pans, the
Melees „sing kept iu motion twelve hou;•s
a day. The men employed are divided
into three sections and the system has
been so perfected that on very short
notice the foundry can be run night and
day without cessation, thus doubling the
output. The only limit to the capacity
of the works would be in the supply of
material. Yet there has not been the
least trouble eo far on this score. Au
udditienal fact of importance is that the
steel that is being furuiahed by the pri•
vete firma to the department for the
manufacture of gone is of the highest
quality, ae evidenced by the record of the
past year. The guns are now lying in
the works as thick as cigars in a box, of
all calibers, from stnall rapid•fire cannon
to great 12 -inch rifles, The bureau re.
garde the results of bbe preliminary ar-
mor tests recently made at the grouuds
down the Potomac with extreme gratill.
cation, particularly ae the records of the
ufliue indicate a great improvement in
nickel piste making during the past year.
A comparison of the reoent tests with
those of a year ago at Annapolis shows
that the best nickel plate of tette produo.
bion, which is of American manufacture,
is far superior to the best nickel plate at
Annapolis in 1890, which was of French
produubion. This superiority of Ameri-
can steel is regarded by the department
with euormous satisfaction, as indicating
blab great progreee has been made,
Absence of any very large betting in
this city on the results of the elections
did not mean any lack of interest, On
the contrary, it was but an intensified ex-
pression of the interest, and further de-
monstration of bhie was given 'Tuesday
night by the presence for nearly five
hours of thousands of persons at the
places where, upon a large illuminated
bulletin, were displayed the returns from
the pivotal States. There were many
classes of persons represented in the
throng of humanity. A targe proportion
of the employees of the Government De-
partments who had been uuabls or dis-
malined to go home to vote were there in
full furca, and their voices helped to swell
the cheering, which was liberally distri.
buted among the various candidates and
their chances.
The result of the elections is stilt being
discussed with the deepest interest at
Washington, and with some excitement.
The oonseneus of opinion appears to be
that the Democrats have lost but a email
percentage of the advantage indicated by
the last congressional election. There is
a feeling among old poutictaus, Demuarats
as well as Republicans, that this campaign
has settled nothing in the national issues
as between the two parties, though it has
probably determined some paints of dif-
ference as to the policies of the parties.
For instance, the election of McKinley is
expected to draw the liepubbioau party
up in line on the McKiutey law as au
issue, practically to the exoiueion of other
queetious, That the tariff will be the
national issue, so accepted by both parties,
ie a belief shared by the Democrats.
The news of the revolution iu Brazil
excited the greateebinterest in Washing-
ton yesterday, especially when it was
annouuoed early in the day from the
State Department that the ieformatiou
was correct. The corroboration was in
the form of a cablegram (rout Minister
Conger briefly stating that the Congress
had Scan dissolved, and that martial law
had beenrdeulared. There is very little
that this Government can dein theprom.
Mee beyond seeding a war vessel to Rio
to see that the American interests and
residents there are not planed in jeopardy.
Phis will be dame ab once, although at
the State and Navy Departments yester-
day it was said that no fears were outer -
tamed. '1'be quarrel is a family cue,
and while it may prove to be serioue, no
hoebile feeling to the tinned States, thou
as has lately been manifested in Chili, is
anticipated. The State , Department
anthoritieshave good ground for the be.
lief that Brazil will see that this country
dues not suffer in any internecine war
which may afflict that country.
There is an active movement in the
Navy just now, but not of len especially
beligerentoharaeter, several of our veaeee
having been dispatched to various parts
of the globe, But there is fro appearance
in their movements of anything like a
naval oonoentration in Ciili an waters,
nor is it likely front present indioatious
that any such concentration will be re.
gnired either there or ha the China seas.
It is gratifying, however, to mote any-
thing like a distribution of Uncle Sam's
fleet. Even if it is not composed wholly
of fir:A.eiaes grips, it is a geed thing to
have the old flag floating where truce of
the world eau 800 it, and to lcnow thetby
degrees (ha Navy is asehming a megn-
tnde and quality teat will everywhere
command teepeob.
(:.tttriUittttt ]eu,w.
11'Inmps are prevalent in Windsor.
A Chinese laundry is being started in
Rothe.
There are over 4,000 vacant hones fa
Toronto.
Chatham now has a Young Conserva-
tive Club.
The river polite at Quebec have been
dismissal for the seasou.
The Western Fair directors made $0,-
500 out of the show this year.
Brantford ie negotiating bo give a 010,-
000 bonus to a boot and shoe factory.
T. Deluge, of Kingston, has completed
a cell,rigged ship in a half-pint bottle.
Galt expeots to have its new system of
water works in order by December 1st.
Crossley and Hueter, evangelists, have
donated 0400 boward Alma College debt.
Jos. L. Grant Ss Co., of Ingersoll, bavo
now capacity to kill 1,000 hogs per day.
The first Ottawa snowfall of the
season began at a late hour Sunday
night.
Francois 'Boutin, trader, of Quebec
oily, had his 17th child baptized on Sat-
orday,
A company has been formed in St.
Thomas for the manufacture of wire
fences.
Tileonborg offers a reward of $00 for
the aonviotion of parties who have been
poisoning dogs there.
The venerable Dean Geddes died in
Hamilton Monday of pneumonia. He
was born in Kingston in 1811.
Richard Small, of Yarmouth, aged 84
years, went to his son's eot•n8eld• last
Wednesday and husked 20 shooks of corn.
The Women's Hoapibal Aid Society, of
Galt, will shortly build a 03,000 cottage
for the treatment of infectious diseases.
Since the let of January of this year
no less than 24,978.160 Canadian eggs
have been landed at the port of Liver-
pool.
The pork•packing, cheese, butter and
egg industry of James L. Grant es Co.,
Ingersoll, do a business of $1,250,000 per
year.
A party of four hunters in one outing
on Seal Island, Quebec, killed 108 black
duolcs, 21 geese and a number of other
birds.
The Kingston dry dock has already 10
applications for accommodation, three of
which are from Cibola, Campana and
Ohioore,
The Quebec Bleus are endeavoring to
induce Senator Masson to accept the
leadership of their party in the provincial
legislature.
The polios found the doors of a bank
and a printing office open in Guelph the
other night. How careless millionaires
do become,
Ground has just been brolcen in Nap.
]nee for the new barracks of the Salva-
tion Army. The building will be of
brick, and will cost $1,500
Rev. D. 0. Hossack, Presbyterian min -
later, in Orangeville, has created a terrific
ferment in that town by sermons on
municipal and public wrongdoing.
Four libel suits for $50,000 each have
been entered against the London Free
Press for printing a document filed in
conneotion with the Hyman election peti-
tion,
The Goldie dt McCulloch Co., of Galt,
last week shipped to firms in Roumania
two very large safes, one a fire and
burglar proof and the other burglar
proof,
J. B. Hampidge, of Aylmer, has this
year shipped over 12,000 barrels of ap-
ples to Great Britain, and the other day
shipped 100 cases of eggs to Liverpool as
en experiment.
Mies Nora Clench will make her fare-
well appearance in Ontario in a• oottoert
at Hamilton on November 25, previous to
going to Brussels, Belgium, to study for
two years under speoial masters.
A joint stock company is being formed
in Orangeville now to manufacture the
Molblaster self -binders. Its promoters
want $80,000. Over $10,000 has already
been subscribed by citizens and neighbor-
ing farmers, -
Robb. M. Fawcett, of Warwinlc, says
the Sarnia Sun. is reported as gone Bence
*not to the happy hunting, but over to
the majority on the other aide of the
border. Fawcett was a farmer, and re.
port says that he left several mourning
creditors, a heavily mortgaged farm, elet.
Robert is a nephew of Thos. Fawcett,
7110 left Eur Michigan a few years ago,
Mr. Claris, his son mud two 01 three
others came to Blenheim from Buffalo a
few days ago to enjoy a week's duck shoot-
ing. Last Friday afternoon, as Mr. Clar-
is, sr., was firing at some (Melts, he was
seized with apoplexy and fell bsckwarde
in the boat. I3e never moved nor regain.
ed consciousness afterward, and died
early this morning. He was super.
intendant of street railways in Buffalo.
His son took the body home this morning.
The Berlin News says :—On Saturday
nighb as a carriage load of Berlin young
people were returning from a neighboring
teem where they had been attending a
dance, the ,axle broke and precipitated
the whole party into a very muddy road.
A number of young ladies wore injured
and one so eerioasly in the eye, that it
was found necessary to remove it. The
others tell easbaiued slight injuries, The
carriage wits it complete n' -salt and the
driver was sent to Berlin on horseback,
to preonre enobh,-r.
Ridgetown is the center of the bean
growing district, and the shipment to the
U. S. amounts to about 200,000 bushels
twee:11ly. There aro seveteel commission
msrohatsts who dcel largely in that pro,
duct, and who employ quite a number of
lands pinking beano, preparatory to
shipment. Cochrane & Wilson employ
about 20 hands, mostly girls, and export
about 40,000 bushels annually ; Thomas
Steele, about 20 Mende, and exports 85,-
000 bushels ; Ooehrane & Rushton, about
20 bands end export 85,000 buehele ; J.
Elliott, from 12 to 15 hands and exports
26,000 bushels I Patterson .8 O'Keefe,
Omit 25 (hands and exports 40,000 bush.
els ; Tye & Stringer, about 10 hands and
exports about 15,000 bushels, These
lime at the present time are shipping
mostly to the ,New England States, as
the Westsin machete are being supplied
by the Michigan growers. About ten
carloads are shipped weekly.
Wnt. I3awdon has sold two hundred
three of his land in Exeter—the Tower]
property and a part of the Piokard estate—
to Thee Yellow, of Tnokersmith, aoeepb.
ing as part of the consideration 100 acres
of land on the Ifaron road, near Sea -
forth.
Port Arthur will soon be the happy
possessor of what aro claimed to be the
that street oars in Canada warmed by
electricity. Two earn for that ente•prie•
ing town aro in promise of oomstruction
at Messrs: Patterson drdbrbin's, in St,
Catharines.
A gun accident of a serious eharaoter
occurred in the bush hunk of the Wal-
k.rton reservoir. Some boys were shoot•
ing squirrels when one of them, named
Frank Hurd, who was behind a stump,
suddenly rose up and received a ebob in-
tended for the squirrel. It will probably
prove fatal.
The Ridgetown Pleindealer says Leg-
gett, barrister, Windsor, was in Ridge.
town looking for a bonne for the Lake
Erie & Detroit River Railway. He asked
012,000 from the town, The company
promise a $6,000 station, Seine of the
councillors want the line built to Sb.
Tuomas before the bonne is given.
Viva prize cheese were shipped over
the Erie railway for Liverpool and Glas-
gow, weighing a total of 27,000 lbs, The
largest weighed 0,520 Ib'. They were
made by James Ireland, Ingersoll, who
sold them to James Lipton, Chicago, who
shipped them. They ars for the Christ-
mas market. The large ones go to Glas-
gow.
John Morrison, a well known farmer of
the townline of Egremont and Arthur,
had a bell whittle was troubled wish an
abscess on he neck, and while lancing
this, about two weeks ago, some of the
matter discharged got into a soratoh on
his hand. Although the laud and arm
became swollen and painful nothing- ser-
ious was anticipated and a doctor was
not consulted until too late to save his
life. •
The grave of the late John Macgregor,
of Askilton, N. S., who died a year ago,
was opened a few nights ago, the oof8u
smashed and the remains left exposed
until discovered by some of the neigh-
bors. It was rumored after the funeral
thab some money, of which he was sup-
posed to have considerable, was placed in
the coffin, The seeming of the money
is supposed to be the objeot which actu-
ated the grave robbers.
Through trains coming from the wart
to go through the tunnel will be an-
tnounoed by telegraph from Durand six
hours ahead of their arrival. When
oroesieg at Fort Gratiot they will be en-
nouuued from 0. Jr G. T. Railway junc-
tion two hours prior to their arrival
there, The time on a train of 24 oars of
export beef through the tunnel was nine
athletes from bank. By the time every•
thing is settled it is probable that brains
will make the run through the under•
ground way in from three to dos minutes.
A frightful accident is reported from
Macdonald's Corners, in the county of
Lanark. On Thanksgiving Day two softs
of Daniel Buffan went out to shoot part.
ridges. Daring the day the young men
parted on the side of a ]sigh hill, one go.
lug around it one way, the other in a
contrary direobion. Some time after one
of the boys Dame upon his brother bathed
in blood and dead. Is would seem that
the boy had pulled the brigger, but the
gun would nob go off. He had then start-
ed upon an examination. Standing the
gun on the ground in a slanting position
he held the mouth of the muzzle in his
right hand and looked down the barrel.
It then exploded, the obarge entering his
mouth, passing through its roof and peen.
etrating hie brain. Death was Mateo.
tarsen.
A good deal of excitement has been
occasioned throught Ontario by the An-
nounced suspension of the well known
firm of Wigle etc eon, of Leamington and
Kingsville. The financial position of the
concern has been reported sloaky for
some days past, in consequence, it is
understood, of Gault, of Montreal, leaving
pushed for immediate payment of their
account. The crisis, long imminent, was
thus forced to the front, and the firm has
now formally assigned to Henry Barber
& Co., the Front street accountants. No
estimate of the firm's indebtedness hae
yet been made, nor will any etaboment ue
possible until Mr. Barber, who is now
on the spot, has made an examination of
the books; but it is said the liabilities
will reach the neighborhood of $100,000.
The business consists of two general stores
and miscellaneous farm properties, as
well as a horse breeding establishment,
Many of the farmers around Essex county
are said to be oreditors for money lent.
Jbmr. Wigle, was for many years in Perlin.
meet as the representative of his county,
and was &teated at the last general
election.
Before the Master•in-Chambers at To-
ronto counsel on behalf of the Order of
Chosen Friends asked the di}•notion of
the court as to what should be done with
$1,000 which they aro reedy to pay to the
proper heir or legatee of Samuel Leah, of
Ingersoll, Ont. Samuel Leah was engng.
ed to be married to a young lady named
Miss Margaret Roddy and the wedding
WAS to leave halter plane in September
last. Leah belonged to the Order of ,
Chosen Friends and held a beneficiary
certificate for $1,000 and when the oerti•
Scats was made orb ho said to the secre-
taryof the lodge. "1 ata to be married
to Mise Roddy in a few weeps, so you
make the certificate payable to my wife,"
So it was made payable to Mre, Margareb
Leah, a person who at that time did stet
exist. Surveil Leah, while still a bault-
elo•, wont on an cxoursion to Eutbro,
Where he wee drowned while hoeing.
The relatives of deceased got Miss Roddy
to sign a paper internecine her right to
participate in the inesrttnes money on
the life of her lover, bub now elle has
been instructed that she has a right
to the $1,000, and wishes bo revoke the
reiens° she signed. So elle pr's in e
claim. Janes L bah, brother of deceased,
bus taken out administration papers for
Samuel's estate, and opposes Mite
Roddy's (taint. The Master ordered the
$1,000 to he Odd into court and he Will
de lee whethee Or not be will try the
lathe or send It on to the Oxford Aseizee,
(# vss5't-sI0 News.,
ws.,
Pi•iuce Gemge of Wales is very ill with
enteric fever.
The voloanoof Colima, in Mexico, is
main in a state of eruption.
.Smother rravolt of Indians hi reported
from Pierre, North Dakota.
The British North Atlantic squadron
Imo reached quarters in Bermuda.
The coal famine at the Chicago dooke
is giving steamboat owners a good deal of
trouble.
At Chicago on Saturday James Charles
fell from the top of a Restore building
and was smashed to a pulp.
Peter Shirk and Benjanam Dean, of
Stsvetevili, Ont.. carpenters, have been
run ave of Buffalo under else alien labor
Jew.
A memorial service to the late Mr.
Parnell was held in the Academy of
Music, Now York, last Monday night,
Mfr. Chauncey bL. Depew beteg the
eulogist,
The manufaolureof oleomargarine in
the United States last year was much
larger than in any previous cue, 1'38,000,-
000 barre's of the ell being exported to
European countries,
The wife of M. B. Curtis (Sam'l of
Posen). hoe sold property to the value of
$125,0001 and will use the money in trying
be save her husband from the gallows.
Curtis he under sentence its California for
shoptiog a constable.
Frank Alex, of Rochester, N. Y., 27
years old, was married last Thursday to
Mrs, Robert Kirkpatrick, a widow of 80
summers•and a bank a000unt of $50,000.
The couple went to Hamilton on a wed-
ding tour. This is the fifth bridal hour
Mrs. Alex. has taken.
Dr. L. S. ]Major, a temperance man of
Chicago, has sued Dr. Keely,of inebriate
reform fame, fur $10,000 because Dr.
Major's name was printed in one of Dr.
Keely's circulars and brought a large
number of letters enquiring as to the
nature of his intoxication, bow long it
took him to be cured, ebb.
A Delaware cobbler gave his wife a
certain sum of money eaoh week for her
personal use. He never inquired what
she did with it, but after thirty.nine
years of wedded life the wife died, and in
a drawer of an antique table the husband
found a bag containing gold, also a roll of
greenbacks, amounting its all to 010,00e.
Joshua Coleman, a riot Green County,
Pa., farmer, had a presentiment that his
death was near at hand. He made his
will and had a coffin .sent to his house.
The members of los family didn't grieve
enough over the prospect of his death to
suit Coleman and in his wrath he resolv-
ed to live in order to spite then, He
has had the coffin lined with slue and
now uses it for a bath tub.
'Phe ruling sensation at London at pees•
ant is the extraordinary leap made by a
mem named Milraen Nigg, w•hojutnps 205
feet from the top of the Aquarium and
lauds on his feet on the bare floor. He
wears the costume of an American Indian,
and his rapid descant is broken by some
patent arrangement invisible to the audi-
encs. Nigg began his performances re.
cantly and all London is rnnuing to see
the startling feat and to discuss what it
is that breaks his fall.
The southern provinces of Ayacucho,
Parinaoho}tas and Lacunas clep trtmeuts,
stud as far north as the Provence of An.
dahuaplas, Peru, a terrible plague of rats
palled iuuches, has made its appearance,
tend the inhabitants are in a perfect stets
of consternation, The little brutes root
up everything in the Earme, and destroy
whole plantations of grain, not leaving
even a blade of grass to be seen in the
pastures and fields. Wherever they peas
they lea's'e on the earth a new layer of
very fine dust, The natives, to save
what little they have in their granaries,
keep watch all night and light fires around
the houses, thus keeping off the rate.
Mr. Edison's new process of iron re.
(Motion has brought a vast deal of new
ore Into bhe market. He and his part-
ners have secured milei of iron territory
in the mountains near his home, and,
Mr, Edison Bays, the e is 550,000,000
worth of iron ore in sight. He showed
an instrument for determining where
iron ie. It is shaped like a compass, and
a needle points to figures showing the
character of the magnetic ore below it.
This ie known by the dip of the needle,
and Mr. Edisou's surveyors now make
maps of mining countries and tell just
about where the veins of iron ore are
located. There is such a map of a
o.unty in Michigan, lonating with car
taint), the various deposits.
Oct] night last week four cattle drovers
went to the house of Joe Reagan, in Hen-
derson County, Nashville, Tenn, to collect
nosey doe them. Ragan claimed he
oould nob pay, and asked the men to give
him more time. They roiused, and told
him if be did not pay at once they would
levy on his cattle. This angered Reagan,
and he determined upon a plan to square
the debt and get even. He invited the
four men to remain fur supper, and 'dur-
ing the meantime brought }a some white
mire whiskey, of which all partook, The
debauch eoubimisd far htto the night, and
cue by one the teen fell over into a sleep,
from which three of them nave: atvakeu-
ed. They had been poisoned. When
found Jack Baiter, John fiery tend Sam
Wilson were dead, anti Wm. Ilegelin was
unoorseions, bet wan revived. Reagan is
tinder areesb. lie is oenaidurel to be
partly insanes
With theesbablishmeet of winter tine -
tables the invariable custom has been
heretofore, when any ohango in time at
all wets maga, to Imigtheu the henrs of
actual running tend in slnuing to reduce
them, the conditions of track and Meetly,
er being much owes favm•able for amu•
mot than in whiter, lint this yetis has
been a notable exception to the rule, Bays
the Chicago Shinn. `}felt the railroads
both east and west of Chicago, instead
of preparing for the rigors of winter, ars
bidding them defiance and putting into
effect soheciules which even in summer
they have not dared to make operative.
It is a prelimtttary cropping out of the
World's Fair begrime, and, without a
strong agreement uniting Lire tnanagers to
the contrary, the oonpebition will doubt-
less lead to soma stilt morn marvclmte
eohsdeloe next summer.
Number 19.
Persons living at M Leder], N.1)., have
just rimmed possession of the cabin in
whiter Setting Bull epent the last years of
his life, and in which he was hilted last
whiter. It is their intention to take it to
the World's fair and exhibit it, World's
fair Commissioner P. B, Wickham says
the men who have the cabin paid for It
$1,000, a two•year-old sheer and two silk
dress patterns.
A native bride in Hlndostan is loaded
down with all the jewelry she can get.
She has a girdle at the waist, nameroue
rings, anklets, bracelets and bells and
decorations for the hair. Although site
has never seen her intended husband she
goes and site beside him on the day of
the cerernoey: The priest takes a corner
of the bride's veil and ties it to the
groom's shawl, and they are married,
'Phos. Flyau, a currier, employed at
Gallun's tannery, Milwaukee, while eat.
ing supper at Mrs. Long's boarding
house, Pearson street, swallowed hie false
teeth and choked to death. Flynn was
about 60 years of age and was a bachelor.
Flynn was in the best of health a few
moments before he sat down to eat his
supper. On examination the doctor
found that ]portion of the lower set of
teeth had fa}leu into the throat, together
with a piece of meat, and that another
portion of tbe•plato teas wedgedon top.
Perth County-.
Aid. Hodgins is a oondidate for the
Mayoralty of Stratford,
Rev, T. W. Omens, of Trowbridge, who
has been suffering from a severe attack
of typhoid fever, is rapidly recovering.
Richard Horn, 14th con. of Elm, sue-
oeeded in shooting a white partridge.
This species of the feathered tribe is
rarely found in this vicinity.
The G. T. R. shops at Stratford are to
be lighted by electricity and the uontreat
has been awarded to the Reliance Elec-
tric Light Company. The arc system
was adopted.
Col. McKnight, of the 28th Batt„ has
had rooms fitted up in the drill shed at
Stratford for the use of non.00mmission-
ed officers of the battalion, and it is his
intention during the winter months to
hold weekly meetings for their instruc-
tion.
S. McAllister, of Donegal, had a three
year old colt very seriously injured the
day last week. In attempting to join the
other horses and while goiug at a high
rate of speed its shoulder came in violent
contact with a harrow booth, driven in
the gate post to hold the gate in its
plaoe, pausing a terrible wooed.
The Good Templare, of Trowbridge,
hold their meetings on Saturday nights
now on Account of epeeist' services. The
following officers were installed at the
last meeting :—C. T., M, Delyea ; V. T.,
M. A. Griffin ; Sec., '1'. Adams ; Asst,
Sec., B. Jackson ; Fiu. Sec„ B. McCor•
mirk ; Treas., M. Tughan ; Marshal, 0.
Leslie ; Deputy Marabal, L. Covens ;
Sentinel, R. Oliver ; Guard, R. Code.
G. Roinil is Lodge Deputy.
Sense fearer five years ago John Brot5n,
proprietor of the Russeidale Hotel, Mitch-
ell, loot his reason, and his friends found
it neoessary to have him confined in the
asylum at Hamilton. A couple of weeks
ago be regained his senses, and bis rola•
tives got him out of the asylum and took
him to the home of his brother, near
Simooe. But his constitution was so
broken down that he died on Tuesday.
Deceased was well thought of in this
section, and many will regret to ]tear of
his demise, bub death in his case only
brought a happy release from all his
troubles.
About two years ago Esther, telly
surviving daughter of Henry Metcalf, Sof
Mitchell, married James A. Goforth, of
the earns place. Since then she has had
poor health, being troubled with soma
internal disease. Two weeks ago she
was advised to go to the London Hospital
to undergo an operation, which was sue•
easefully preformed on the 5th fret„ and
the sbrongsst hopes were entertained of
iter ultimate reoovery until last Friday,
when a turn set in for the worse, and the
poor woman continued to grow weaker
until Sunday evening, when death put an
end to her sufferings. Her husband and
brother Frank and wife, of Blyth, were
present at the time. Deceased was high-
ly respected.
For some weeks small advertisements
have been inserted in the Empire and
Hamilton Spectator calling attention to
the "Industrial Protective Aliianoe, de-
voted to the interests of the merchant,
the manufacturer and meohaoio ; head
office, Stratford, Out." These gasbily
worded advertisements usually ended
with a "send stamp for reply." The
Alliance consisted purely and simply of
a Beacon compositor named W H.
Spectre, who hit upon this suhetne to
swindle the unwary. He got several
hundred lettere, messy of them enclosing
stamps, and ib is said he got from $50 to
$100 from "members" who were imbeoile
enough to send him $L Monday he
learned that the game was up and left
for Bullet o.
Alexander Barrington Orr, an old and
prominent resident of Stratford, (lied at
the General Hospital there Fri.lay night
after a prolonged illness. Ile 11 st came
to Stratford just previous to the rebellion
of 1837.8. In 1840 the family bought
the Earns lob Nn. 40, con. 1, North East.
hope, from John A. McOarbhy, sr. and
lived there tor some years, afterwards re-
moving again into Stratford, where he
engaged in the foundry business, Leav•
lug the foundry hareems he was appoint.
edpoebmaster. In 1851 when Stratford
was incorporated as a village, Mr, Orr
entered the first counoil. Mr. Orr
was als' a member of the county ronnsil
during 1850 7 8, in the latter year being
warden of the &gutty. Dnrine the Fen.
an raids Mr. Orr lived in Buffalo, N. Y.,
whe.e he was British vice consul. Re-
turning from Buffalo to Stratford he
lived a retired life. D'oeesed's wife,
who was a daughter of the tate Col.
Daly, elrvivea him, along teitb ono
daughter, Mise Mary, living int Stratford
tend three toeie—Thee. Orr, connected
With the Iinion Panitlo, at Omaha, Neb. ;
Geo, Orr, in Utah I and Jatnes Orr,
Boston, Detheeefl was born be the Isle
of Man 70 years ago,