HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-5-13, Page 1Volume 19.
PR, torten, POtJI I'itY ReNIN-
ne T, A, IVILLITT$, w'1;a'1'oN, ONT.
Now•a•daya we hear femora hi the
older provinces complain thin their land
ie run down, and in consequence they
cannot grow the crops that they used to
thirty years ago ; this with tho oompeti•
tion from the invoouae grain fields of the
Northwest, whore wheat can be grown
at lose cost, in gt'oator abundanoe and of
better quality, are fruitful Bounce of
complaint.
Why not grow something oleo that will
meet with a ready Bale, and that Offers a
reasonable probability of being remener•
alive? It will be generally admitted
that thous farmers in Ontario and Que.
bed who pity the most attention to dairy-
ing and Stook raising are Inch more see -
useful in their nailing t.,,tn Lhoir neigh-
bors who depend almost entirely on grain
growing. I think I ani putting it milder
when I say that very few farmers will
dispute this.
Now we will compare cattle raising
with growing spring °hickong : You
raise a steer and anti rout when three
years old, weighing a thousand pouude,
for time mons per pound live weight,
thee receiving for an =lima thrtt you
hero led for thirty-six moults and have
]rept housed in your barn for nearly half
of that tiros, and wheel bas had to be
attended either by yonrsn't or your man,
every day that it has been donned, Now
what do you propose to charge for labor ?
to soy notiiitie ut the feed, lu arriving at
xn estimate of rho cost of that steer,
Wo will fi,;nre a little on the cost of pro.
during a thousand pounds of spring
chickens : two hundred pairs of =hike of
the right breed will weigh a theueand
pnnncle at the age of eleven weeks, and it
should not cost over Poor outs per pound
to grow thorn ; leaving their total cost,
exclusive of the mitts from which they
wore hatched, forty dollars, but the cost
of the eggs is Stn important item, you had
to Bet them abort the nest of February,
when they were worth thirty cents per
dozen, and we will sopposn that you set
seven hundred, t,is gives u liberal allow.
auto for infertile eggs told casualties atter
the Chicks are =tutted out, thus malting
the cost of your chicle+ $57.50. These
ciliates if placed on the Toront i or Mont-
real markets but the end of May will
brio;; readily 80 cents per pair, thus
realizing the snug son) of $1110.00 of
wltinli $102•:x0 is or'alit, ..ori it has taken
ju _t fourteen weeks from the time you set
the eggs. Now what about that steer ?
If he coat you nothing for feed, mud you
know only too well that be did, he has
still Dost three years of .labor, which is
about equivaleut to what yon get for hint.
Your thousand pounds of nhlultens give
you over 150 per aunt more clean profit
than the total amount realized from the
sale of -sour thousand pounds of beef.
You dont believe tinct anon a price us
80 coots east bo obtained ; we kern,/ that
it can, but to meet your ideas of the
matter we will say thee yon only realize
00 cents, you Still have left the resportab'e
sum of 003.50 tis clean profit. Even if
yon are now satisfied that this price is
obtained, you perhaps doubt your ability
to handle such ea flock ; and we are per-
haps progressing a little too rapidly, but
I have made thio comparison of beef and
poultry growing to intrust year attention
to what I shall subsequently bevel to say
on the subject, I don't wish you to think
for a moment that. you could aeuomplish
this with yonr present methods, neither
could you harvest forty mores of grain
without assistance if you used the old
sickle of fifty years ago , but the modern
aelf binder enables you to easily dispose
of such a orop. You are quite convinced
that modern agrieultnral machinery is
RD absolute necessity to every farmer who.
desires to keep pace with hie neighbors.
Then why do you still cling to the time
honored methods that were it vogue
when Noah's lone pair stepped into the
ink, in the management of your pool.
try?
NOMINATION D.O.Y.
Last Wednesday was the day appoint -
ea for the nomination of a, nandidate for
the position of Reeve of Brussels, to 811
the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
tion of J. M. Molntosh.
During the allotted hour W. Ila Kerr
was proposed by W. M. Sinclair and
e000nded by P. Scott. Goo. Broker wars
nominated by Thos. Farrow with John
'4Vynu as seconder.
Returning Olitoor Scott gave the ofltoi•
al notification of the election, polling
places and deputy returning officers, after
which it was moved by Jno. Wynn, sec-
onded by W. H. McCracken that F, S.
Scott be the chairman of the atter meet-
ing. Carried.
I6 woo agreed that eaoh aandidate
should have half an hour and the last
person nominated to speak first and have
the privilege of a ten minute reply.
Mr. Basket addressed the meeting brief-
ly, Ile thought elections by acclamation
were played out hone and that a contest
was the proper thing. Considerable
trouble had been experionoed to the last
few years itt keeping the Connell
Board full owing to the removals
of D. Strachan, W. F. Stewart,
Cottneilloro, and ' Reeve Nlolntosb.
ilu urged his claim for tho position on
the ground of being DO old ratepayol' and
citizen and having served as councilman
for several years. .II. , been defeated by
R. Graham when running for tits Reeve -
ship before but believed Me. Graham
made o good Reeve, In his 18 years in
business in Brussels he had had hie
difficulties but he bad done the square
thing with every man and wag as much
entitled to rum for the vaomnoy as any.
body. Another reason he was in the
Reid was because Mr. Kerr could not
qualify owing to his having a oontraut
with the ooeporatfon and having a000nnts
note nupaid. After referring to somo
personal remark made of /aim by a mem•
her of the Board he eonoltided by asking
for the hearty support of the eloators on
the 18th and if ale0ted would do bis boot
for the interests of the place.
W. IL Korr was then called upon. He
said ho had been at the Connell Beard
throe) years, associated with Beeves
mar
BRUSSLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892
Young, Rogers and McUrtwlcorl anti he
had an ambition to li'1 the pooitlnn of
Reeve and get the Co. Council uxporiouce.
The .i00esemeot of the town this year
shows it to be $5,000 in advance of 1801,
If Brunetti wee as hard np as 101r.
Baikar Reid the SRI/DORM of au election.
aoald have been saved by an aoohuuation
and the money devoted to something
else, more s0 as there was only about 7
months of the year left and the officers
Marl eel been Appointed tttnl the 0ontraote
let, Reference woo made to the necessity
of something being done in the way of
industrieo to give employment per
citizens and peep them in town. The
speaker had wrieton to a IIarriston man.
utaoturor, who was talking of removing
from there, in regard to the good opening
in the factory lately built by Meagre.
Smith, Malcolm & Gibson if they did
not continue to ran it, At the Co.
Counoil the question of House of Refuge
would likely come up and if there he
would do all in his power to favor it.
11[r. herr said his quelifioations were jest
as gond as Mfr. Broker' and affirmed
that the ourporatlou clid not owe hon a
cent, Mr. 13roker'o statement to electors
in canvassing ahem that he (Kerr) would
be unseated if elected was not true, was
only en electioneering dodge. Mr,
Kinker had not always snared oiear
himaetf when in the Oouneil. On Doo,
10, '83 he had received $1.15 for tvrod
supplied by him for oh:trity and on Jan.
12, '85 lie pro -tented an account for $12
and moved that it be paid, W. le. Van-
etono furnished 1untbm• to thewerperatito
while at the Beata and Jno, Atnent diel
the same last year. In citing these oases
he dill not find fault with the mon for
they SONS vales for what they received
but lir, Banker has not boat an objector.
After a fow words in reference to Sha
settlement of Lard Improvement Fend
with Morris lir. Kerr took his seat after
asking the hearty co-operation of the
electorate 011 Wednesday nest. If elect.
ed hie bast endeavors would be to pro.
mote the well being of Brnsee'd.
Mr, Balker in his reply said that 11Ir.
herr had read the atatetnent of his ac-
counts et the Connell Board from to slip
of paper. Why did ho not produce proof
instead of trying to deceive the electors ?
'To settle the motor the Clerk was asked
",To settle
the Council urinate book,
which be did ant rho accounts were
foetid ao statist, Mr. Beaker having
neennded the pawing of the wood account
rand mover! tine Oiler.; Iilr. Broker
claimed that he belonged to the Council
that settled the Lend Improvement Fnnd
money with .Morris.
The nloetiug was then brought to a
close.
seetar+0t.rtirlta Now A.
A. Campbell was elootcd nnnyer of Rat
Portage Monday.
Bntbro village, Oxford county, bas
voted to have to $3,5,111 town hull.
In Hamilton, five licenses to sell liquor
have been cut toff, leaving 86 :in force.
Twenty more men have been disaharg.
ed from the G. T. R. car shops in Lon•
don.
Brakeman Williams, of St. Thomas,
injured at Brantford on Thursday et Inst
week died on Friday.
StoutYvflle voted on a local option
Liquor by-law Monday. The measure
was carried by four majority.
The Quebec Legislature will, it is said,
reduce the sessional indemnity from $800
to 0000 and abolish the franlciug privil-
ege.
Eli Redo, aged 21, a son of Jacob75etle,
a farmor,Colohestar, was killer/ by a large
stone about whioh he was digging falling
upon him.
Donald Cameron, of Prince Edward
Island, a popular student of Queen's
College, died iu Kingston Monday of
boort failure.
The funeral Monday of the late Wm.
Bradley, reeve of Greenoolt, who died
suddenly dt Paialoy, was the largest ever
seen in that section,
A Doseronto Junction young man
named Airhardt accidentally tett an
artery in his left arm while whittling
with a jack-knife. Ho bled to death,
The strawberry crop has been seriously
damaged by the heavy frosts. Mr. Blom•
cy, of Oehawa,.says he will take $50 for
Itis crop, which i0 usually worth 0500.
The three-year-old sou of William
Gammas was run over and instantly kill-
ed by au oleotrio oar on the Metropolitan
Street Railway on Young street, Toron-
to.
While playing with D communion a sot
of David Kelly, of Demmer, nue Peke.
boro', had rho tine of a hayfork driver
into ilia head below the eye, and is fatally
injured.
Grade Methodist church, Winnipeg,
has extended a doll to liev. G. 11. Turk,
of Owen Sound, to snowed Rev. ,James
Allenwho goes to Centenary church,
Hamilton, in Juoo.
Tho propeller Celtic, of Hamilton,
foundered off Rondeatt, Lnite Erie, Mot -
day, as the result of a collision with Oho
Ameriottu propeller Russia. The nook of
the Cottle, Margaret Straohen, of St.
Catharines, wits drowned.
W. Buaklugham, formoriy private secs.
eatery to the late Eton. Aloxanglor Itltto•
ketzio, and /ton. G, W. Ross, Minister of
Jfdnoation, oro engaged in the prepare.
tion of a biography of Oho demeaned ex -
Premier, which will shortly b0 pinned be.
fore the public
An iogenions arrangement has been
pimple in one of the New NVosOininetor,
B. C., fire halls, whereby the olootelo
light is turned on at night es soot as urn
affirm is sounded. The ewitolt is eon -
fleeted with the rope that frees the horses
from theft sbodta, and on the fust strolce
of the bell, the hall is ablaze with light.
The 10 -months -Old baby girl of Mr.
and Mrs, John Gregory, Chatham, had
a narrow enema from death loot Friday
mooning. Tho infant got hold cit a /natal
"jack," a small six pronged toy with
whioh boys and girls pixy the old•time
game of lack.etones,t' and swallowed it.
By the time the mother had reached the
doctor's ofilee, the child woo blank in the
face. Dr. Holmes suooeeded in diolodg.
ing and drawing ottt the ertiot°. A few
moments later and the child would have
suffocated.
Mr, Popper, of '.'or'ot,to, has engager/
Ilarry IVilson, of Lucan. Ont., to ride
his jmnphtg horses.
IIigttgate busks of a basket faotory,
'Murphy Bros„ proprietnre, and abotct
twenty hands employed.
Two small hogs, named Daley and
/leering, fell Rif a raft at Button on Sat-
urday and wore drowned,
At the Charleton Assizes on Friday of
last week the Labelle murder trial was
put off until next noshes, 6
Paris, Sbratford and Niagara Falls will
compete for the senior ahantpionship of
the Canadian Lacrosse Association.
Nearly $000 was divided among one
hundred oerporetion teen at London last
Saturday, being their weekly wages.
Mimi Kato McKellar, of Ingersoll, has
recently graduated as a professional
nurse [corn harper hospital, Detroit.
Jumus'farrow, arrested at St. Thomas
for bigamy, has been sontsnotel at OWW8n
Sound to four years in the penitentiary.
Abont 250 members will be added to
the dif[arettt Brandon =urchin es a
result of the visit of Messrs, Crossley and
Hu it tor.
Mire. Kerr, of Drummondville, aged 80,
was run over and instantly kilted at a
crossing on the M. C. R. near Stamford
on Saturday night.
Alex. Jamie'. ,n, a Chatham young man,
is tinder arrest charged with stealing a
letter from the pootniltoo and unlawfully
detaining a post•letter.
L. J. Hooper, buntister, and comity
clerk of Lennox and Addington, died last
week at Neptune. Dee:rased was at ono
time 101. P. P. for Addington.
Stvitehmau McArthur caught his foot
inn a switch on the M. C. R. at St. Thom-
as on Monday, and wan run over by a
train, receiving injariee which will likely
prove fatal.
IV, lei. Moore, of Orillia, sold a collects
tion of rare tains valued at several thous-
and dollars to n Boston man the other
day. They will be exhibited at the
IO'onlcl'e Fiala'.
The outlook for a barge grape Drop in
Essex county is favorable. It will be
remembered that the yield last year was
snmothing euormnns, and it is expected
that it will be greater this year.
A house eb Belleville, tenanted by an
Old woman named McCarty, was burned
to the ground last week and she perished
in it. Tho cause of tato fire, which was
not seen by any of the neighbors, is a
mystery.
J. McKenzie, of Walkerton, teas oft
Priday fined $00 and costs for practicing
medicine, contrary to the provisions of
the Ontario Medical Act, in the county
of Brant. McKenzie was formerly a
machine agent in London.
Duncan ,tloOormio, Q. C., a prominent
Montreal lawyer and active Conservative,
has disappeared and is believed to have
gone to tate United States. A. meeting of
creditors inns been called. He was the
trustee o1 many ptivate estates.
Alban Lizzie Love and her father suer.
ed verdicts for $500 and $700 against
Robert Johnston, of Aldborongh, for
beenolt of promise end seduction teepec-
tively. Now Robert has settled the
claims by marrying Miss Love.
A few months ago a blacksmith named
John Wilson, of Toronto, lost an eye,
caused by a spark of red-hot iron striking
it, On Thursday morning of last week
the other eye was streak in io oimflar
manner and the poor fellow is now nom•
pletely blind.
A'strong local company has =weeded
in establishing it line panning factory at
Kiugsville, with $40,000 capital. The
stone is now on the ground for building
end will be run this season. The betid-
ing will be a two-story brick, iron roof,
022210 long. The fertnors are now sign-
ing contracts to put in tomatoes, corn,
peas, dm. This great fruit point will pro-
fit by so close a home maritot, 100 fe-
males will find employment. A Michi-
gan expert will ounamand the factory.
A lata/ shooting accident occurred on
the river Thames, near Prairie aiding,
Dover township last week, the viobim be-
ing Mary Drage, a little 14 -year old girl,
daughter of a highly respeotable fancily
Of that locality. It appears a fire
was in progress in the house of Wm.
Trndelt, a neighbor living next to Drago's,
and Mtory teas present. Another young
girl Dame out of the house with a loaded
revolver whioh sho was °leaning, and
which, in handling, was discharged, the
bullet striking her playmate and pro-
duoiug instant death.
The steamship Alberta (Capt. MaAllis•
tor,) lett Oweu Sound on Thursday after-
noon of last week with a full list of pas-
sengers and freight). She arrived at Sault
Ste. Maria on Friday eventing. The sea
got up, accompanied by a blinding snow
storm. About nine o'olootc she ran into
an ice lion and while near Passage Island
(which is only a few miles from Isle.
Royal, whore the Algoma was lost,) the
iso brolco three hangs off her wheel, leav-
ing her helpless. As the crow were try
ing to sot the canvas an the vessel one of
the booths jibing struck Second Mate W.
Rixon, of Cwoa Sound, knooleitg him
overboard. No true of him has since
been >omnd, The sOoamottip Athabasca,
which left Owen Sound Saturday, met
the Alberta Dud towed her into port,
from where she will be brought to Owen
Sound for repairs. O1d sailors say that
b'riday night's storm was the worst they
cede axperionocd on Lake Superior.
A sad nnoidenb happened a f ow miles
south of Indian Head, Assn., on the niter -
noon of May 3rd, whereby a mate named
Nathan White, to now settlor from leort-
mgovillo, Orn., lost his life. It appears
that White, who was going for a load of
hay, had for company a man named Wit.
linen Spreedborottgh, who is employed by
the Dominion Government oolleoting
specimens of wild birds. Spreodbonmeglt
jumped off the wagon to shoot what ap-
peared to be ahawk, and in attempting
to again got into the wagon the gun went
off. The charge entered the spinal col-
umn, and death was instantaneous. An
inquest wee held. The jury returned a
vordfot of aocidontrl death, Sproadbo•-
ongh being exonerated. Tho oirown-
otanco has oast a gloom over the entire
0ommunity,. Sts dooeaoed was a quint,
steady man.' lie leaves a wife and two
email Ghfldren in Ontario to mourn his
loss.
The total number of students inattoud-
anoo tat Queen's College, Toronto, during
the poet Elution was 4R1,
Strathrny has inorrtased itt population
=ring the past yenta to ale extent of 011e
hundred and forty fear souls,
Assistant City Clerk Gosselin of Mon-
treal, wire mysteriously rliseppeal'od a
week ago, has returned. He had taken a
trip to Basten.
The Connollyo' defence has been pled.
They deny the claim of the Government
to r000vor lutlf a million and make out a
bill due themselves of $120,011,05.
Hen Bros., mannfaoturers of furniture
at Toronto Junction, brave decided to go
into liquiilatien. Three years ago they
got to bonus of $1,500 from the Junction,
Andrew Aileck, a farmer of Cart
weight, Manitoba, started to drive home
from Winnipeg nue was missing for about
it week, when hie bony was found in the
river near Winnipeg. 'tie horse also
perished.
Tho steamer Paeadena caught Watoh•
man Geo. F. Forth against the dock at
:Sault Ste, Marie papal nit Sunday night
and crushed him in two. The lower
parts of his body dropped into the ortnal.
The upper part, with Itis heart forced in.
to a vein between the neck and eldest, hill
over on the dock, The Pasadena teas
entering the aural, when Ford started to
climb down the keel rope to tnko the line,
Ito got too far, bat did not notice it
until the steamer was ton oloeo to the
docic to raise hintaolf and the dock too
/ugh to reach. In an instant the steamer
had lined him agaitet the clock timbers.
Ford's parents reside neer Courtwright,
Ont. IIe had been a school teacher at
Sombre., near Sarnia, nod this was bis
first and last trip,
Tire twentieth annual report of the
Confederation Life Association, which
has just been issued, shows a record of
steady and substantial progress, and
must indeed give satisfaction to the
policy holders and annuitants of the
association. The guarantee capital and
assets new amount to $4,588,180; the
new insurance written was $2,807,900,
and the insurance now in force amounts
to $90,587,180. The premium income
for the yoar showed an increase of $78,-
071 and the 101010st receipts an inat'oase
of $21.,404, or together over $100,000.
An increase of over $355,00i in the assets
is also shown. The interest and rents
since the company commenced businese,
and adorned up to December, 1801, have
not only been entt-rcient to pay the net
amount of death claims but leave a sur.
plus of $137,671, a result which, it is
said, has never before been attained in
the same period of time, and whioh bears
testimony to the carefulness shown in
the seleetiot of risks and in making in-
vestments. Policies are issuers on all
desirable and safe plans of insurance,
and are free from restrictions as to rood -
donee, travel and occupation. In fact
this assoointion affords all the advantages
of cheap insurance while giving the se-
curity of m well-established and thorough.
ly-reliable organization.
ate'. -moi .fol09'Y es.
Rushville, Nebraska, had 10 iuoltee of
snow last Sunday.
One thousand granite cutters at B-trr0,
Vermont, strttak last week.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President, is
slowly regaining her health.
Severe floods are reported in many
parts of Illinois, paused by heavy rains.
At Jasper, Ind., four Whitecaps have
been seuteuoed to two years' imprison-
ment.
M. Guiraod, a composer and one of
the greatest authorities on mean in
France is dead,
Fifteen thousand people attended the
aotora' fund fair in New York, The re-
ceipts for the day were $10,742,
Mrs. S. A. Frank, aged 72, committed
suicide at Newark, N. J„ by taking
poison. Her mot was due to a family
quarrel.
Patrick O'Sullivan, one of the Cronin
assassin's, died at 7:•10 o'clock last Thurs
day evening at Joliet Prison. He made
no confession.
The largest borne in the world, stand-
ing 22 hands high and weighing 2,200
pounds, owned by T. E. Ridgeway, of
Fort Worth, Texas, is dead.
Three counterfeiters at Brazil, Ind.,
gave a tramp a eprtrions dollar to pass
off. Tho tramp informed the police, and
the three molt were arrested and locked
ups
Break EL Hutchins, of Utica, N. Y.,
was instantly killed by being whirled
around a shaft revolving 140 times a
minute. His logs were torn from his
body.
A storm at Marietta, Ohio, on Wednes-
day night of last weep lifted the roof from
the Leidordooker'Tool Company's build.
ing and dropped it in the street. Sever -
el unfinished buildings . were wrecked,
Nobody hurt.
Thomas Hopkins, a Rochester carter,
tried to kill hie wife with m hatohot last
week, but was prevented by the pluck of
his step -daughter. Then Ire wont out
and cut his own throat, dying immediate.
lyAbbio A. Vinau, of Brantford, Ont.,
loft her hcabend in Canada three years
ago. She applied for a divorce at De.
droit lust weep on the ground of ornelty.
Vinan, it seam, was at one time worth
$25,000 to $80,0110.
A man in letitbrigo, Me., was building
a small sohooter, and was about to out
down a tees for tiro ototn-piece when be
was approaoltpd by an elderly Trench
Canadian, who aoked : "You out down
that tree 1" "Tot," the shipbnfldee re-
plied. "Well, he my safe --I koop my
money he there," the Acadian responded.
Pelting oat a carefully concealed plug at
the baso be brought forth a tin box filled
with gold coins.
Deeming, in tvletbote ne jail, note wears
prison garb and his wrists aro in 'hone to
prevent him attempting suicide. He is
eveitfng an autibiogrephy and it is be-
lieved he will in it confess to and deseribo
all his orimoe, Edo 1s in good spirits but
evidently has no hope of tlemanoy as he
la hastening to demplots his book. He
say s he will bequeath the book to MissBounsovoll, the young lady to whom he
was engaged when arrested.
It le believed tbrtt the toostaeenmplislr.
ed negro undo* in the Vatted Mateo
lives near the small creek of Goosenpolt,
in the Indian Territory, forty, milds from
the ROAMS IMO. HIS /SOROS IS alive with
minima and rate, and le adorned with
bones and skulls. His many followers
believe pito implicitly.
Alexander C. Bannerman, rho famous
Australian cricketer has arrived in New
York to take '.barge of tate (ricket inter -
este of the Manhattan Athletia Club.
The lamoue little "etonowaltor" has been
a member of six A natratian elevens Ghat
have toured in England, in four of them
returning with the higlteet batting aver.
age. His average for the last four
Seasons is Vito phenomenal, no leas them
07 per inning.
Sir W. Minter mentions a mon•oator
who was known to have killed 108 per-
sons in three years, anti an her, which
killed an average of 8e persons a year
for the same period. A third causer/ 1:3
villages to be s.baudoned, and 250 *mare
miles of land to be thrown out of'culti-
cation. A fourth killod 197 portions in a
year, and stopped a publin road for many
weeks.
A dozen persons were injured Times -
day morning of last week by an explosion
of a bomb in a house in the foreign quer,
tor of Los Angeles, Cal. The oenupaute
of the hone'. were Italian and Untied=
families. The bomb was thrown in
through an open window by an unknown
man who wore a Slouch lett drawn down
to his eyes, and a large cape. No trace
et Linn Ran be f.tutel. TI,O Meteor of the
house was wrecked, Al) Italian fruit
vendor named Paoli muerte that the per.
petrrator was a discarded lover of a mar-
ried woman in the house, and that be
had followed lar here from New York to
accomplish hie revenge.
C. J. 11tmlin, of Btf6do, has issued
four very sweeping oballeoges. IIe says
be will match two 2 year olds, three 3.
yoar•olds, one 4 -year-old and one r5•yoar
old, the latter eligible to the 2.21 class,
against any honor in the worldof the
same age, for 9500 a side, the onntest t0
tako place over the track at Buffalo due•
Mg the Grand Cironit meeting in that
city the first weep itt August, Mr. Ilam -
lin will also match a ]corse eligible to the
2.18 class against any horse eligible to
the 2.18 olaos, for $500 a aide for 2
mile race, at the same meeting, Mr.
IIatoliu has deposited $250 forfeit to
bind those challenger with Secretary
Howland of the Driving Park, The ac-
ceptors of thou challenges must deposit
a like sum. The challenges are open
until May 10th,
The big parade of the Foropaugh show
had just wheeled into line on North Tenth
street at Reading, Pa., when a large fe-
male tiger leaped from her corner in the
uncovered cage and sprang upon the man
in glittering spangles who wan seated,
whip in hand, in the iron -hound ca_e.
She struck Itim with both forefeet on the
breast. IIe reeled and fall to the flour,
his whip falling itt a corner. Instantly
the tiger, a heavy 10•yee 'old animal,
s1 rang upon the man and pt'antod her
Protruding claws o. top of bis head.
Then she screamed terribly, and appar-
ently prepared for a time of pleasing
torture before she should !till him.
Lawrence W. Slott, of St. Paul, was the
keeper. IIe instantly began a fight for
his life. With all his power he tried to
raise his head, but the angry animat usod
her right paw furiously, and pounded
Scott almost to insensibility and kept
him down. Then two streams of blood
poured down his face. This seemed to
set the beast in a frenzy. She howled
and pawed, and her chained male oom•
panion in the opposite corner sprang for-
ward as if desirous also of a taste of
human blood. H. 0, Grim, a local pro-
duce dealer, jumped from his wagon and
run to the side of the mage. In the din
and blare of brass bands the driver of
the oage had heard no noise. "Trow
me down the flog -pole I" shouted Grim to
the driver. "There's a tiger in that nage
killing him." Grim had to scream sev-
eral
eeeral times before the driver heard.
Meanwhile the tiger had begun to lick up
Scott's blood, holding her victim between
her (slaws. The driver threw down the
pole, and with it Grim and several others
beat the savage beast oaf the prostrate
man. Several powerful blows were land-
ed on her bead, and she went howling
back into a corner, where her mete
growled and tugged at his chain to be
free. Keeper Scott quickly saw his op.
portunity, He was weak, but he iead
sufficient presence of mind to keep his
gaze fixed on the tigers, as if to defy them.
Step by step backward he went until he
gained the iron door of the cage. Then
like a hash he was out and the door was
closed and barred again. It took 25
stitches to sew up the head wounds.
Scott says he ppuuished the tiger at Potts.
town for attacking a leopard in the same
cage. He thinks she meant to attaolc
him. She itad been very arose and surly
all the morning. -Scott will have to re.
main iu the hospital for sove'ol days.
He is weals from loss of blood and from
the shock, --Now York Sun.
People We h'.now.
Mrs. A. Brood was on Oho sick list this
week,
101iss I1tiza Oliver went to Toronto last
Saturday en a visit.
Stanley Popper is visiting his grand•
parents at IIantiltort,
David Shiol, of Galt, wan in town for
a few days this week.
Cbarlio Wake has boon on the sink list
but is about all right again now,
Min bertha MaCnllonglt is visiting
relatives and friends et Goclerioh.
I. Bowman and wife, of Listowel, Snn-
dayed with Oho family of L. Ltotubly.
W. J. Norton and Frank Kelly left on
Wednesday for Middleton where they
have set:need a situation, They expect
to be away for several months,
Rev. '4V. Smyth, of Iltorrioton, a former
pastor of the Methodist churolt here, wens
in town on Monday Galling on a number
Of his old time [dondte
Samuel 0110509 has gone to Poninsula,
Ont., where ho Ines seemed an engage-
ment for rho Summon. Hie son Fred.
ie working at the same place.
pmemaviriavssmssessilCs
Number 44.
Mire. Ronald and !t'i'res. W. T. Cita ar•
rived home from Toronto last Monday
night.
J, Louilesborri and wile, of Seefartb,
were the geeing of R. lior'ihetviate and
family for a few days this weep.
Wo oh•erve by the Stayuer ften that
Immo Fitzpatrick, formerly of I3rnoeole,
has teen elected Chief Ranger of the
Canadian Order of Fot'ostere in that
town,
J, II, Young writes from lllonsomin,
N. W. T,: --Another 160 +:°res of land
wanted (see birth nigher) Ile also adds
"Spring is Into, seeding is yet unliul.
ed," Tug I'osr ext• ode congratulations
over the boy.
Additional -,oca1 Brows.
Wx, Rename has hung up a new awn-
ing for A. Currie at hie butcher shop
also one for Mies Nellie RON this week.
EAa'r 'Iuron License Commissioners
met tot the Queen's Hotel, Brussels, on
Wednesday and 'tined the new lioonses
and sent away the necessary reports.
A NEW boiler is being put iu place at
the Howe woollen factory which will add
very materially to rho motive power, as
it was not an may matter to keep steam
up with the old one,
REv..1. Ross, I3. A., Ittev. D. Miller,
Rev, S. J"nos, of Brussels, Rev. D. B.
McRae and R. F. Cameron, of Cran.
brook, and Wm. Spence. of Ethel, attend-
ed the Presbytery of Maitland, at Wing
hewn, on Tuesday.
I'r is expected that the first dividend
in connection with the Molrtosh & Mc-
Taggart private bank will bo trade in the
coarse of a fete weeks. Immediately
thereafter the persons interested will re-
ceive their altar°,
AN invitation has heen receiver/ by the
Bruesete Bare Ball Club to play a game
of ball with the "Unions" of Gorria and
Wroxeter, for a puree of $50, in Walker.
ton on June 15th or 10th, on which dates
a demonstration is to be held,
Efuo'rr,t',ns.—Last Saturday Andv
Sample hang 78 rolls of wall' paper in el
hours, Bishop Ward did the pasting. It
will make paper hangers hustle to beat
this record. The boss—W. Roddiok—
will have to leek after his own laurels,
Iln'RovtoENTo.-1Irs. Thompson is
having the building in the south-west
pert of her lot modified, onlarget and
oonverted into a dwelling, where she will
make her home. She has leased her
residence on John street to Rev, D. Mil-
ler, pastor of Knox church,—D. Mc-
Naughton and son will soap have the
oarpentor work on the large addition to
George Crook's house, on Queen street,
finished. Mr. Crooks will have a very
cosy place of it when hie calculations are
completed.
Fon the peat year I have been troubled
to very great extent with dandruff, alae
n dullness of cots in my hair, and
through the advice of a friend (who spoke
from experience) I tried your Anti-
Ilandruff, which, upon the application of
less than a bottle of your liquid, I find
my heed not only thoroughly cleansed
but a vast improvement in the dolor and
growth. I have and do recommend it as
highly beneficial to the profession and
public generally as an agreeable and wet.
cane innovation in the remedies put
forth for public favor. Yours, &o.,
Wit. P. WOLFE.
Advertising Agt., "Frank Daniels Co."
Season 1800-01.
A SYS'roit has been adopted by mer.
chants who give credit in the American
cities, whioh, we think, would be very
suitable here and world save a great
amount of book•koeping and disputes
about accounts. Books of tickets, re•
presenting eums from 50. up, are given
to =stunners, just as bread tickets are
supplied here. For iustane°, a oustnmer
goes to his groper and asks for a $10 book
of tickets. He is charged with $10 worth
of tick0ts and when he makes a purchase
he heads out tickets to the amount of the
bill and these are put in the till and re-
present so much cash. Once eaoh month
or two months, a note is given or cash
paid for the tiokets sold, and no sale of
ticket books amounts to less than $5, so
a great saving in book-keeping is effect-
ed.
POINTERS FOR POST CORRESPONDENTS.—
Send ua news as often and as fully as you
eau. Write only on one side of your
paper and when yonr supply is exhausted
ask for more, Do not seal envelopes, as
they may be forwarded to the Dead Let.
for Moe, when only carrying a one cent
stamp ; if sent to us they coat 4n. to get
them out. Send no items but what you
believe to be facts, and no items that are
intended as personal insults; and noth-
ing in unsealed envelopes except what is
intended for publication. It bas happen.
ed, though rarely, that an indiscreet
postofice clerk, has divulged the names
of persons sending oommmnieetions
through the mail. If oori'espontlente
lcnow of this being done at any time they
should inform us of rho feat and we will
see that the matter is brought to the at.
tention of the proper authorities.
SARA Lone BAILEY.—On Wednesday
evening a largo audience greeted Sara
Lord Bailey, the elevor Boston oloentiot-
ist, despite tito disagreeable weather.
The program eves a splendid one and
carried through to the satisfaction of
everybody as far as we know, Mrs.
Bailey's beat piooes wore "Life for a
Life", and the "Chariot Rape" from Bet
Hue and site proved beroolf equal to the
occasion. In the light numbers she wee
quite at home, "Ruggolses' go to a din.
nor party," "How the Indices usually fish"
and "Experiences of a genius" creating a
greet demi of amnsetnent by the natural
representation of the scones. Ting was
illrs. Bailey's first visit to Brussels but
she will always be heartily woloomed
book. Ln ',doe, gesture and personal ate.
pommies she takes heat rank. The orolr-
ostra of the Methodist Sunday school, it.
L. Jaokeon, oondu0tor, oottributtd tour
selections and rather surprised the
=affirm with the excellent rendering of
the sense. A pretty olarionot &nett was
given by Dr. Oavanegh and 5I, L. husk -
eon. lbov. Mr. Salton is deserving of
thanks for bringing Mee. Bailey to town
and giving Brusselites an opportunity of
enjoying a firtt•cless entertainment,