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This is imperative. w. Editor and Proprietor. $00.001 $00.00 020.00 50.00 20.00 12,00 1 0 8.00 0,00 Silas At The Fair. (FROM THE RAtt'S HORN.) Dana BEIIANTEY,—Ib jest happened to come into my mind today oz I was a knmmin home from the fare grounds in Sites karridge, that I bedaub never told you nothin about the river they hav here, and so I bleeve that ez I dont peer to hav so very many other noabnns in my heel tonight that Ile do it now. They call it a river, tho it bidet mutoh wider than a kriok is with us. Its a windin piece ov dirty water that looks black snuff to ynee far ink, and it smells a kun• siderable sight woes than it looks. If I had to be baptized in it I kno I wud put off jinin meetin ez long ae I oud. It looks to me oz tho evrybody in the whole town damped all their swill and other dishwater into it, without keerin a butter- nut whether it giv anybody the fever and ager er not, and yet they say bogs wont drink le, cad eo I spoze there meet be sum whisky or nam other aeoh thing mixed with it to spite the taste. Bao is I hav told you before this, they dont peer to low nuthin in this town to go to waste, and so even the dirty river with all its na.eneee is yulagized and worked in to help make thing's hem. In fact, fbenegnthy, the black windin stream ov slop ie plead ez a ,tablin place fur the ships cad other boats whioh kem and go from ell the ends ov the earth with the projuioa ov hill and valley, whioh no poor farmers hav been able to git together by hard diggin and ekratchin and eel] at so =itch a bushel, in order to git means with which to buy groceries and pay taxes. Ime afeerd that sounds kansider- able mutate like poetry, but it slipped in onawaree, and as its ez tree as preeohin I wont ekratch it out. About all I ever 'mode about ships afore I kum here was what Ivo read about Noahs ark and seen ov the ferry boat whish rune ekrost the Wabseti river at Gooeeburg, bat a body kin leers more ab00t nm in a mini'. here than he over dreamed ov in all hie life. I tell you what it is, old woman, theme a powerful sight ov ehipa in the world when you kum to git um all together, ez they peer to list' ben a doin here. There$ spots here whore the flag poles ov the ships on which they pot their sales when theyre out at sea, are a etickin ulh so thick that it looks fur all the world hke a biokory deadnin, and its anuff to make a body feel ez tho they badeut never dun any vieitin in their life jest to stand on a bridge fur a spell and look at am, and that puts We in mind that I hsint told you nothin about their bridges, whioh are ez motels ov a eight to e stranger ez sem wimmin wud kunsider a new bonnet. You see when the ehipa kum here theyve got to go up the river smote to onload their !actin and take on another pasele afore they start out agin, and ez their spare and other timber is as jintlee ez a telegraff pole and.oaut be let down to let um under abridge, the only way they kin parseed up the river is to take the bridges out ov the way ontil they page thru. I kno this will puzzle you ez match as it dud me to make out how fokee kin ever understaud eaoh outer when they tawk dutoh, and so Ile try to tell you bow it is. You see their bridges are all made like a womane tang, feet in the middle and loose at both ends, and like a fools head they kin be turned kleer around a good deal easier than a preacher kin jint up stove pipe without feeliu that he ort to be a better man, They hav a Menne ingine up overhead whioli whirls the bridge around whenever seob is wanted. The feat time I Been the eight T had to pinch myself twice afore I oud Make sure that I was awake. I was a goin along manohin a few orackere whioh I had plotted up at brek. fast and put into my pocket, when I heard a dinner bell go to ringin rite in frunt ov me ez energetic as a woman a jawin her htrsban, and immejutly eery body around mu basun to run Lords the bridge with all their might. 1 dident line what under the sun oud be the mat- ter, onlese it was a dog fight, and go pick. in up 3T1y feet I began to put ground behind me like the rest, bat when I got within about eix rods ov the bridge I was So Week with bewunderment at 060io it begin to totter and twist, that if Ide a Beau a duller on the ground I dont Heave 1 cad a pioked it up. Ez I got there along kum a little steam boat 0. splutter - in like a boy a pullin his eled up hill, and if yule Heave me it was a pullin along 8 ship thee was more than big muff to diekiver Ameriky with, and it was a doin it easier than I cud lead a kaff to paster, too, tt wen, Rz the ehip peised thrit the gap the end ov the bridge kep a folleri 1 it, and by the time the Fillip was out ov the way the bridge had notched itself into the bauke and was ready to do bizniee agin ez rho betide had happened, and quicker then 1 Itin tell you the teams which had beu kep waitin was a paesin over by the duzrin. Out at the fare yisterday I met Dook Piltesber and Kaptun Pusher from Cider, vibe who was both so glad to toe me that I did-nt hav to pay nuthin fur paenute ner Tey dinner, and they also took tae into a kupple ov allows tint Ire bon a warttin to gee, but I woo ateerd ov the ex, pease. In Wen ov nm X seen tum kart. mol and a lob its, haltered fakes who oud tawk latah, Dook Pilteter said he wad pay the damages if I wud take a ride en a Wilma!, but I told him Ide rather not. I bleeve tho, that this wee the feet bele I ever let a chance slip ov gittin eumthin fur nuthin in my life. A kemmol is oeoh a terrible long legged beast that I }mode if he was to throw me it wud be like fallin frum the rule ov n house, and then I dident like the looks ov the fallen eye, ner the way be carried hie under lip nen the way he benched up hie bank, and 00I kunkluded that I wud rather stay on the ground and not run no reek. Kaptun Pusher tho, was more venter- some than me, and took a ride up and disown the lane on their oroesost 100131n beast. I breathed a heap minter when I saw him git bank onto the ground safe and sound, and I dont bleeve he will ever be any paler in his lmffin than he was when them dutch niggers fixed hire in the saddle and the kammel raired up. The other plane they took me into was an animal show whore the dumb krittere had ben tarot to do about evrything but read and write. There was lions there big anuif to eat a now and kaff, and ylt they peered to be ez peaceable as white mice. They was put thru kapere that yon audent beach a dog to save your life, and seemed to kno a heap more in sum ways than atom men I kuo who vote. I dont think I ever felt any better 'satisfied at a sirkue than I did at then show. After niy friends left I kum to where there was quite a passel ov big arm aheere made out ov sem kind ov basket stuff, anddroppin down into wan ov nm in two minite I was sound asleep. I bad amon. sus relreshin nap in whiohl dreamed that I was a diggin up munny with a pick, but when I woke up it was after eix oolook and the roomytiz was a givin it to me in evry jint. I got up and stretched myself and blowed my, nose and started off, when e. brustlin big feller in a uniform a good deal like the Pipetown rangers wear, planted himself rite square in front ov me and deklared that I owed him two dollars fur the sleep Ida took. He sed the cheer was hizzen, and that he had stood there and fanned me and kap the tlize off of me all the afternoon, and before I went any turder he wanted his munny. There wuz- zent any help fur it, and so after a good deal ov argyfyin, evry word ov wbieh was wasted, I had to take out my pooketbuke and onwiud the strap and saygoodby to a kupple ov the purtiest dollars I ever seen in all my life. It seems to me things has kum to a party pave w11011 to man kin be robbed in broad daylite like that. I tell you what it ie, old woman, the longer I stay, in this town the better sat- isfied I am that there is a devil, and that he dont take no time to rest. Before I kern bare I wudent a bleeved that there was so many ways ov robbin a man with. oat doin it with a pistil. Iwo dollars fur a snooze in a rookin cheer. You cant make me bleeve that Jobe ever had to stand anything ez onreasonable es that. It makes me feel ez 06o I had a bone .in my back to think that fur what it cost me to fool away my time there in sleep I might a had that feller a pnshin me all over the grounds on the trot, and ben a eeain sights without havin to blister my feet. Ive ban a etudyin all day how I kin obarge that two dollars to the $aff Raizere Klub in each a way that they will hav to pay it. I bat, a]reddy eot down against them the half a dollar that Dook Piltester paid fur my dinner, but when it kums to what I shall put down next Ime stumped, I cud say more if there was a good rea- son fur it, but ez there halm I bleeve Ile gait. So good by far the present. Mourn right smart, SILAS GANDEnroaT. Gorsie. A large quantity of grain is being mar. keted in Gerrie. Bobt. Blow returned from his hunting tour in Muskoka, bringing a fine deer with bim, D. S. Taylor le away to Maryland on business in commotion with the estate left to iiia family there last year. Jas. Laces has moved out to the farm recently purchased by Wm. Ashton from E. Pllair and will run the lime kilns the coming season. Rev. Mr, Green, of Gorrie, gave a lecture on hie trip to the World's Fair at the last meeting of the Epworth League at Orange Hill. The revival meetinge being held in the Methodist ohuroh, conduoted by the Misses Hall, are being well attended and the interest is growing, Mr. McConnell did not lecture here on Weduesday'of last week on "Proteatante Awake 1" as the audience did not mater. ialize. The few who went,got their mon• eyibaak. We regret to learn that Mise Barber, who bag long been a resident of Gorrie, is lying seriously ill at Alex. Smith's, where site has made her home reoently, with but little hopes of her recovery. ft'o Ei8. lop. Wm, Rae, who was very ill with typhoid fever, is recoveribg nicely. Mies Kenny has beeu re•engaged to teach the school in sciatica No. 8. She is 1811 energetic' teacher. F. Henke/ell has returned home from British Columbia. He will probably re- main here during the Winter. Mrs. T. Menarey, who wee 'felting her sitter and has been very ill, returned to her home at Cartwright, 181811it0ba. Mr. Ferguson has purchased one of the barns of Henry Bennawies. It has been taken down and will Le hauled away. The social at Bethel, whioh took place a fete evenings ago, wile fairly successful. Upwards of $16,00 was realized, which will be expended in improving the parsonage. Godoi81c1 . Nine fellow oreaturee are in the county jail because they have no other home. The Deoomber seeeiooe open in the Court house on Tueerley, 12th Deo, with a not very long list for trial. Geo, Aoltoeon met with an accident recently by being streak on the knee with an axe halve whioh out almost in to the bone. John E. Davie, favorably known to the people of this sestina, has bought out the drug business formerly carried on by F. Jordan at the Medical Ball. The amine) meeting of the West Huron Liberal Conservative Aoaociation takes place in Godorioh on ;l`resday, Dao, lath, commencing at 11. it, m. 'The de• pariure !tom the old undoes' of westing At Carlow is Woad by the want of proper ao0omtn0datien for the dolegaten' horses. Dr. 0. J. Hamilton, of Cornwell, a former pupil of Goderieh Oogeglate In- stitute, tins kindly offered a medal to the pupil obtaining the biglemst next midsummer p midsummer in ei*be the second or third Blass rooms. Exmtelrs A whist club has been organized its town. Wm. Dearing, Jr. marketed two turkeys in town wbiob weighed fifty pounde. The two elk brought here from Mani. Lobe by James Westoott have been per - clamed by Messrs. Tenant and Fish. A publio meeting was held in the town hall on Wednesday evening, the 151h, for the purpose of organizing for the prohibition vote on Jan. let. The Main street Methodist emigre. gation have every reason to feel greatly elated over the suooeee of the annlver. eery. The proceeds amounted to $100.. Georg Bowden and James Jewell, who are nutting wood in Robert Leatborn's swamp a little southwest of the village, were surprised Tuesday morning on arriving at the swamp to find the pile of wood in whioh they had left their axes burned to the ground. A stump close by had been fired the day previous which bad eptead to the wood. Clinton. Mre. James Finale bas a hen that has just brought out a brood of ohiokens ; We is something unusual for this time of the year. The annual dinner under the auspices of Murray Camp, Sone of Scotland, took place at the Queen's hotel, Clinton, on the evening of Nov. 8081a. D. A. Burgos, formerly a teacher in Clinton Collegiate, and who graduated from Toronto Univereity in 1890, died last week, at 55 Grenville St., Toronto, after a long illness. , Dr. Horsey, (and wife) formerly of Clinton, were stere on n visit. They leave New York this week for England; and from there proceed to Chinaand around the world, in the interest of the Sun Life Insurance Company. Regina, N. W. T., had a big fire last week. Amongst those who Buffered was Charlie Howson, a former Clinlonian, wholesale liquor merchant. The build- ing wag insured for $1,000 and the stook was removed, but damaged. Before Judge McMahon at Toronto, on Tuesday of last week, in Attorney -Gen- eral for Ontario v. Brunedon, P. Holt, for the persons olaiming to be the heirs and heireeeee at law of the late James Stavely, appealed from the report of the looal Master at Goderich finding that James Stavely was illegitimate, and that the Crown had established title to bis estate. Garrow, Q. C., for the defendant, contra. Reeerved. Lueks.no`vv. The large panes of plate glass for the store windows of Mrs. Murray's new brick block have arrived. The special revival 0erviee0 are still being held in the Methodist church by the Rev. Arthur Browning, of Toronto. James Murchison, who iejetudying for the Methodist ministry, and who has spent two years in the North West Ter- ritories, was visising friends in the village. The annual Thanks -offering meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society whioh watt held in the Presby- terian church St. Helene, on Wednesday, was largely attended, about one hundred being present. There were represents. tives from Dungannon, Ashfield, "Galvin" East Wawenosh, also from the Metho- dist churches at "Bethel" and Donny- brook. A long end varied program wan given of wbiob not the least interesting Ma an address given by Mies Mao. Williams, of Guelph, lately returned from India she will do good service in awakening a deeper interest in those at home as there is groat need for workers in that densely populated land. The en- velopes were opened and bbd enaloeod. tests of Soripture read by the Secretary, The offering amounted to 946. Altogeth. er it is the moat eueosoldul meeting of the kind ever held here. The Rev. A. Fiudlay, superintendent of missions in the Presbyteries of Barrie and Algoma, gave an address in the Presbyterian church, Lucknow, on Tues. day, 21st inst., in the interest of the mission fields that be superintends. In the western section of the Presbyterian ohurob, oomprising the provinoes of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia and North West 'Territories, there are nearly one thousand miesion stations. There are about 0n0 half of these stations in the territory woet of Ontario to the Pacific ocean, and one fifth or two hundred mission stations are in the Presbyteries of Barrie and Algoma and under the supervision of Mr. 1!indly. These stations are supplied with the means of grape by catechists, theological etudeute and ordained missionaries. Some are without ordinances daring the Winter season owing to the look of 111011 and means. Many of these mission station's contribute . liberally for the support of ordinances among themselves end for the general Home Miseion Fund. At 00131e points, eepeaialty along the rail. way lines, churches need to be erected and also manes, in a few places. For theme objeete, the people eontrib to to their utmost ability, but find themselves unable to do this work alone, and the Presbytery of Algoma appeals for aid from the congregations in the aburoh in Western Ontario. A oolleotion was taken at the clone, General Nowt". France may impose fines on railroad trains behind limo. Prendergast, the player of Mayor Her. Oman, whose trial was set for some day next week, ie not pleased with the de- fense his lawyers have deoided upon. "They propose to mutat a plea of insan- ity," eaid he on Monthly : "I shall object to that. I want to acknowledge the oommiesion of the crime, and plead and prove juelifioation." "Its what way will you move juetifoation ?" "The broken promise to make me corporation counsel. And than there are outer things, But it will all dome oat at the Wel. Pm very meals diopleaeed with the idea of entering the plea of insanity, I'm not lntane. I was justified in the shooting. Tho way the newspaper. handled Curl 'story wag amueing, and also displeasing, They galled me prank, lunatic, insane, and to lot of other things, And the p10tures, some of them were simply horrible. I'm not 10388100, And don't want that (tied of a defence." • Direotum and Allx have been ;unbolted to trot at Fleetwood parlt next 'Tuesday for 85,000 a side, On Saturday the trolley was tried as a means of populeion on the Hobe canal, and proved a aa00e0. A projeot is on foot for an underground railway in New York oily, to run from the Battery to fort George. A Hurley, Wig., telegram sari 20,000 people are on bhe verge of 'starvation through inactivity at the iron mines, The returning o5ioer, on Friday formai. ly declared Joseph Martin, Liberal, elect. ed member of the Cons/none for Win- nipeg by 425 majority. The ofiloial nominations of candidates for the vaoanoiee in the Legislature for North Bruce and East Lambton were held Saturday. Ward's natural eoionoe oolleotion at tbo World's Fair has beets bought for the Columbian museum for $100,000 cash, which is the largest sum ever paid in America for a nature! soioneo collodion. Alfred E. Carter, formerly 065001st of the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto, has lately000npied the 501136 position in St. Luke's church, Buffalo. The rentor of Bt. Luke's is something of an athlete. He drives a horse, rides a bioyole, weighs about 168 pounds and stande nearly six feet in his etoolringe, bob be didn'b have iuueole or weight enongla to prevent re- ceiving a beautiful pair of blank eyes from Mr. Garter. Carter was discharged het week, but persisted in opening the guild for rehearsal. Mr. North protested and oommanded him to leave the prem. ises. The organist is a small man but a bard hitter, and the prelate was forded to .all for recruits from the police station. Mrs. Carter says that there are large biaok and blue spots on her person that were caused by the, knees of Rentor North in the fracas at the guild hones. Five minutes before rehearsal last Thursday night, the Carters say, Mrs. North brought to them a note from her hus- band, is whioh the latter warned Carter to keep away from the building. Carter, howevee, declares that he has been pre- senting himself there by itdvioe of hie lawyer, and that is why be went that night. In the trouble that ensued the reotor and Sunday School Superinten- dent AfeEwan were ejeoting I,Oarter from the building when Mrs. Garter used her umbrella vigorously in whacking Mo- Flwen over the head. The Carters declare that Malwen 'Amok her Sret, and that lift. North's son struck her several times. As bebwean MoEwen and Carter the or- g.uiet We there WAS u0 assault on either side. Several eases of assault are likely to arise oat of the affair. alto Mat' Lino. SOYAf, MAII', STE4JISIIIPS. Between New York and Liverpool, via Queenstown, every Wedlneaday. 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