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Volume 18.
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Milk in the Cocoa Nut.
To 111e Realtor en Tin: 1'nsr.
limo Sinn -You no doubt I'avo hoard of
adnlont, nnod], d-forand tour, ilouaattacke
upon rho Brussels post master for the past
few months, although very little hoed
is now padd to these vnporinga as the
public know Mtir. Grant's qualiflcatin s
for the positiou 110 ltold0 it greet deal
better than the moo who toots, has little
horn (ivory week. But, 11fr, Editor, it is
not to ray tine that 1 adilres0 you but to
tot' you that 111'r0 is a power behind rho
thtono and the simple editor is mala 8
1to01 pigeon for this other gabby, meddle-
some, oill'.tongned individual. How do
you know this 7 yon malt. Well, the per.
son throned to Iles made it his bullion
to canvass everybody ho thought hod a
grievanco, whether groat or srna 1, and
made himIalf offohsiv.ly ingni5itive au
playitg Poul 'Pry, I know thio to he
true. I'll give the wheel another turn
and toll you that this same man le Brno
Bels' prospective postmaster, end I 14111
credi'ably informed that he visited the
Inspector and made 8 personal applies.
Lion. Something after the order of an
undertaker in tho West; who wont and
measured a man for his coffin while the
latter wao ill, but the man r000verod and
dug the undertaker's grave. I take
platoon•° in mimloking deoepti0ns, and
I've hoard of people who burned their
jingero by playing with lire. I would
give the following old-fashioned advice to
this man, who apparently has not much
to do in his own lino :"Those having
bnsiuors will please attend to their busi-
ness and go about their business, in order
that others may attend to their business,
and if you are ant of husir„ss you will
so,,11 find business by attending to your
own business." I have a few other
plainer thins I would like to soy but
forbear for tho present.
Brunets, Jan. 25. ONE INTERVIEWED.
"Wonderful and Marvellous
Operation."
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 1888.
Number 29.
10 the Editor of 'ram Pori.
DEAR Stn. --My attention has been cu.
r.eo•od to a great deal of professional, or
ranter unprofessional, ndvor'tising. during
the last few mouths, both in the t ews-
pap. rs of this and surrounding villages,
whioh is altogether reprehoesiblo in the,
ears of the medical prof, 0910)1, and also
mieleadh.g aid grossly deceptive to the
public. Sumo time ago an article ap.
p0a'ed in your columns, it was also re-
hashed and stint to the Expositor, setting
forth that Dr. McKelvey, of this village,
had p,rfo,me11 et "wonderful and mar-
vellous operation" viz., ovariotomy, also
Gott it had only been performed once
5, e1 usefully in 11115 county, both of whioh
ta0,ortions, ore absolutely false and mis-
leading. In the first plane it would ho
into eating, since there has boon so
much blowing and puffing about this
"wonderful and marvellous operation,"
fa the public) to know the true position
this operation holds in the field of sur.
gory. It is one of tho very simplest of
the major operations, one that is attend.
od by the least mortality and can &°a00-
ly bo termed dalgorous, as the following
statistics will effectually show : Lawson
'Gait performed 100 ennsooutive eases
with only ll deaths ; Thomas Keith, of
Edinburgh, 79 without a death; Knowles -
Thornton from Feb. 1882, to Feb.,
1884, two years, performod this oporntion
on 73 patients, taking them fu ,u000ssion,
and they all recovered without a single
death ; Granville Bantook, who visited
Canada Inez August, on his way to the
Mo,t:rel Congress, in Washington, had at
that tamp operated on (10 consecutive
+:uses, without a death. But it Wright
be advanced that these men aro eminent
and stand at *ho head of the profession,
then let ns note the work of those in
comparative obeourity. Take Skeno
Keith, a young marl with no practical
ovperionee about 8 years ago had 0(111 2
deaths in the fit 51 fifty cases of his life-
time; Dr. M. r'oclith had 50 oases and 4
deo ells, ono of w111011 did 1101 result frau
tiro operation ; Dr. Welker, of Petor-
boro', hod 10 eases and 01,0 death. It
has (woo been porton' ed by et Doman in
01111111 in 1884, Miss Elizabeth Roifsny-
dcr, of the .American Woman's Union
i,i.e ion, was the operator. All the oases
that have boon performed by 100141 11101,
iu this Connty and vicinity, have, been
sn:cenaful and even the first man who
attempted ovariotomy, Ephrnitn Mc-
Dowell, of Kentucky, was suoseesful in
1115 very trot case. I could go on muhd-
plyieg to any longth such statistics but
sorely the abovo is sufficient to prove to
rho satisfaction of auy reasonable meson
that it is far from being a ''wonderful
and m801101 on8 operation," )1OW sound-
orful y Wonderful it ie to elo a thing that
'has been donothousands and thousands
of times before 1 What msrvollous mar-
vels some mon taro capable of 1 I °halt-
onge Dr, McKelvey, or thotperson who in-
serted it for flim, to disprove tho above
statements. Again, it is stated that it
has only boon performed once 5ulaeeefully
in this County. This is also maavcllouti-
ly false, Dr. Stewart, tato of Brueofield,
has performed it 8, if not 4 times, sod -
dolefully. Dr. ILarlburt, late of Bruce.
field, now of Mitoholl, has also performed
it snaoessfully, so also .Dr. Gilhee, of
Teoowalor. Bosicles operations requiring
far greater skill and attended by a very
much greater mortality, have bean clone
in this neighborhood withont any puffin{;
or blowing end did not oven roach the
newspapers. Thorn aro at least a dozen
mon do this 00,1111)1 who are not only
Willing, but quite ns capable of perform-
ing the same thing, 0hould the necessity
Moo in their (101101105, but }vo cannot
produoo tumors end must wait for our
patlelt8 to grow thOm, It 10 periiape
woll we cannot or somo of 115 might be
tempted to do to in order to advertiou a
"wonderful and marvellous oporation."
I grad glom up 1:110 idea of calling atton-
[ 101, to the "metrvo11on8" exaggeration of
troubling yon with a latter on 111(1 oub-
ject were it not that the same M.D. ton-
tanu(!e to follow no alio contemptible and
nllprnfesainnnl prnotioe of having his
(lama In the imperil 111 ceuneetinu with
ovary little lrivu'ons accident 1,r opur•
atiol i11 the ordinary couree of pfanlico,
This method of 01108(1 advertising is C011 -
damned by the plbfesetml 011,1 is et breach
of any or all existing 110,119 of n10410E1
ethics, and is only cuunteneoc0rl by in•
forior mon and 0harlatann. It is eon.
sidored by the beet anon of all wont ion
to altv0nr too remelt of quaokory, And 110
much 00 that no 111:111, w'i111 111001" in•
5llnc s, will allow hie name to bo 0110-1p
ed eontinuonsly in thin newepapore to
thole 0a808. it night bo said, 111 1(xtettt.
ation, that these trtioles aro huorlOd
witholb ]tis knowledge, if BO, you oditor0
must bo pretty well up in medical terms,
such as "ovariotomy," "doable ovarian
tumors," t&c. Ion't it "wonderfully mar.
vollous" how easy you can pick up tech-
nical.' terms ? I hold 111111 a parson is.
comely guilty for permitting thorn to
ap ear almost writ after week without
protest and 00 orlitor would per0151 in
doing so f' 1t wero intimated to him that
it woe et violation of medical ethics and
r' 1(0001031 otherwise. I am pleased to
know, for tho sake of aha dignity and
honor of aha profession that some of the
phy-ieians here have intimated the de-
sire that their names should not bo pub.
lished in eonneotion with these items,
rhowing tbo) have no wish to build up
practice by tiny such low methods of
claptrap. Wo need not go far to nook
for a reason for all those quosbionablo
moans of keeping one's name before the
public. It' Is evidently done to bolster
up a meagre( prootice and entrap the
unwary, a1,d is on it par with the elver
Gement of St. Jacub'o Oil and Warner's
Sof,- Cores Trusting that the exagger-
ation of the articlo in question is a suf-
ficient justification for trespassing on
your space.
10!1, yours very rospootfuldy,
Brussols, Jan. 2.1, '88. War. Couleur.
13reiresieI. Pee leo ol el on rel.
A spacial meeting of the above men-
tioned Board was hold in the Council
Chamber mt friday, Jan. 20111, 1888.
Members present—Rev. Jeto. Boss,
(Chairmen) F. S. Scott, A. hunter, II.
Dennis and J. Hargreaves.
Moved by F. S. Soott, seconded by H.
De,uis, that the following accounts bo
paid :
B. Gerry, wood 31 76.
I. 0. Richards, wood 23 35
Ilaycroft Bros., miscellaneous5 27
The Board then adjourned to moot
again tIu' flr-t friday evening in rho
mond) of 1'obrunry at 8 o'clock.
Washington Letter.
tr110at nun nommen 00111tnsroxnEN r.)
waohington, Jan, 00, Boo.
The Senato =do quick work of pass-
ing the bill which had already passed the
House, defining the amount of writing or
printing which may be put upon the
wrapper of a package of lower-olass mat.
ter sent through the mails. This, how-
ever, doos not dispose of the objeotion
raises by Senator Platt to rho ruling of
the Postoflioo Department on the case of
the b. oks se t b, one of his constituents
to the severed members of Congress.
Books aro printed matter, and come
within the third class, 011 suoh matter
even the new law forbids the addition of
anything in 1110 nature of a description
of the sender's business, as for instance,
in the ooze under consicloraticn, the
phrase "advertising agents." This is a
senseless prohibition. 'dhs distinction
between third and fourth class matter
was not made for the purpose of giving
the fourth class any advantage over the
third chitin in consideration of the highor
rote of postage doluanded for it. This
higher rate was coaab;ishod originally for
the purpose of discouraging the needless
nso of the midis for t'anoporting misoel-
lanoous mechandise, as contrasted with
the transportation of printed mattor,
which has a ways been given speoial
privileges in co,sideeatiun of its 'uppos•
od educational quality. It would be a
good thing if Senator Platt Nowell, or
hie OOnstitnents who mailed the mattor
in controversy, wati'd mrkt up a tort caro
for the court8, to 8,rv0 as et pr000dont,
nod shut" whether u0euriptive phrases,
at joust with all fulronw advot,ves strick-
en out, arc not to be aousidored a logiti-
ma1 part of the address of tho sender of
a third -elms package, The Lowrev-
White (mltest in 1110 Meuse of Represnn-
tatioes hits brought into prominence am
interesting 1og11 question : whether an
111ie11, who hasbeen noutra;iz el, but
whose) record of nature -Rowlett has boon
lost, is at liberty to prove hie case by
affidavits, Mr, White, 111e sitting meta•
her, whose uitiz0ur111p hos been uallod in
question, labors under a rloublo disad-
vantage, I3e is himself unable to pro-
duct) 11,0 pnpors issued to 1(1111, 81111, 0c-
cordiug to his statement, tho court whioh
natura,ized him neglectocl to make 0
record of tho transaction at rho time,
now twenty years past, or more, If the
court mord merely had failed, and Mr.
Whit° could produce the p0pors, or if, 011
the outer hand, ho had no pipers, brit
could show the °onrt record, ho would bo
much hotter off. As it is, there is 0. don -
germs pr0cedcnt threatened in granting
his claim, and a serious possibility of in-
justice in denying it, and the committee
on elections will have no Otivieble task
before them when they try les re0oneilc,
or deoido botweon those Warring forces in
their report to the Howie. - 13om0 of 1110
papers aro referring to Mr, Vitae' trans-
fer from tate Postofllco to tho Interior
Department as "a wall-oarnod pr0m0-
tion." But is it a "promotion" 01 all ?
Tho Interior Department stands last On
the Cabinet list as regards ago, Presi-
dent Washington began his achniuistra.
Goat with 0, 00101011 of threw advieots, on.
titled .respectively, the Seovobsri0s o£
81,110, tho Treasury and War. At rho
beginning of hie roma terms art Attorney.
General was 8(lclod, and in 1708 the Navy
Dopertmone cva0 int 100E0 from alta gen-
eral department of war. 11; was not till
1820 that tho Postmaster.Oeulreel was
admitted to tho Cabinet, uta) twenty
years later otill that; a menthol. of 1n10cc1-
taucotts buroaus woo united into 0, 1.1e-
1116rtmnult of ilio Interior. Tho rattle of
seniority is oboe sed, moreover, ill 1110
order in which the Cabinet officers be-
come oliaiblo to tho l'reeidenev Ruder the
aucoessiun 114w• passed by the last Cron.
gross so that 9'It•, Villas, in accepting the
ti onager, actually consorted to step down
a p0g, rather than up, and to put ltlm8elf
(nether away born the ohanou of ra001.
rloutal promotion to that x(1150 which all
good public mon of American birth re -
gout ns among the posoibilitioo of a well.
rnnuded earner. The full Cowan 10ga-
tie1, which reoontly arrived in Washing.
ton, called at the Stato Drpartmont
Tuesday and then prooe'del to the White
Homo, accompanied by Scorotary Bay.
and and Chief C ork Brown. They were
introduced individually to tbo P000ident,
who woloomod them to the United
Status. After a few minnte5' ohat they
withdrew to make way for the Csbinet
mooting, The Coreans worn iu full dress,
their silks riol'er and more voluminous,
their mike more 5ot•en0, and their hats
odder and Idler than ever. One of 61,0
badge• of their ceremonial oostumo is all
immonso belt, width melonds several
blotto; beyond the breast. Dr. Allen, the
foreign secretary of bee legation, acted 115
interpreter.—L,
Finally-ettled,
' Some persons have been asking tines.
tions in the War C•y, in rho Curious
Column, in last wook's issue and as thov
bear on very common place and practical
matters we reproduce them and the an -
ewers given, a' follows :—
CetsnTs V5. 1105Tr,E5.
1. 10 there auy harm in wearing cor-
sets? If not whore is the harm of a
bootlo? Many people die through tight
lacing etc. I never hoar of anyone dying
from wearing a bustle.
"Wo don't quite understand what you
aro getting at, or if you intend to make
out a case against the "corset" or Due in
favor of tho "bustle." Howovor, we
cannot go into those questions in a health
sense or uponany disputed points of
their effect upon the wearers. Our point
is this, all thoso thhnrs aro the outcome
of the spirit of worldliness, they aro con-
(eived in the desire for personal attrac-
tion and to draw to the person or the
ivearor the admiration of the beholder.
They oro extravagant, immodest, and
suggestive of evil, and this b.-ing so are
contrary to the spirit of true religion,
and repugnant to tho instincts of all
Christlike peoplo. In salvationists they
are a denial of the position the wearers
have talion, a scandal and grief to their
00111ra1108, a stnmbling.blook in the way
of sinners, a laughing -stock to the world
at large, and the devil is well pleased
therewith.
xrssna0 'rola BRIDE.
2. Is it a custom or a rule at hallo-
lujair waddings for officers or soldiers at
the oloso of the ceremony to kiss the
bride or to struggle for the first salote ?
"We don't think it i either a oustom to.
a lute. In this country it is a usage
common to all denominations, we think,
for the husband to salot° tbo wifr, but
in the Army nothing more is expected.
True, we have seen on suoh 0000510115 on
Army platforms some individuals ex.
tinguisb themselves with such conduct as
that to which you refer, but wohave nev-
er been able to understand how any saved
pere0u could bo guilty of oonduct so in-
decent and so insulting both to the hue.
band and wife. Suoh a practice can
only load to disturbance and ill-timed
am11110100114, and will so tend to upset and
frustrate the aim and end of these public
ceremonies, which is the salvation of
souls." Some think rho collodion at the
door is the loading featuro.
Morris Council Meeting.
The newly elected members of Cho
llunioip el Council, namely, II. Mooney,
Reeve, 0. A. Howe, Deputy -Reeve, and
S. Coldbick, Goo. Kirkby and J0.9. Proct-
or, Couue1llurs, met pursuant to statute)
at the Town Hall, on San. 1(111, 1888, and
subscribed the 0000esary doolaralion of
office and gnalifioation and the Council
was duly organized, rho Remo moony-
ing the chair. Minutes of last nloetung
of the old Council were road and passed.
Movod by 0. A. Howe, seconded by 7118.
Proctor, that Wm. (Bork be re -appointed
Clerk at a salary of $125. Carried.
Movod by S. Caldbiok, s. oondod by Jas.
Proctor that Richerd Johnston be ap-
pointed Auditor. Carried. The Roovo
then appointed Wm. Laidlaw 50uond
Auditor. Moved by Goo. Kirkby, nee.
ondcd by O. A. Howe, that Johu Watson
ba ro-appointod A'sossor, at a Salary of
$81). Carried. Moved by Goo. Kirkby,
soorn111oc1 by Jas. Proctor that a Board of
Iloalth he appointed for the current
year consisting of the Reeve, Clerk and
Thos. Laidlaw, Goo Hood, Geo. Kelly,
D. Currio and W. 7. Johnston, with Dr.
Holmes as Modioal health Officer. Car-
ried. Tho following account. were order•
od to bo paid : A. MoLoan, gravel, $7.20;
T. Farow, gravel, $5.60 ; 11. '1. White,
ballots $b ; A. H. N. Jenkins, collector's
recoipts, $4 ; T. McDonald, lumber, $20..
71 ; Slater tat Sims, =pairing Sara(1ors,
$7 ; Misses Exford, charity, 010 ; de my
returning officers oath $6 ,•W. Clark,
election expenses, $9 ; Wm. Ellis, (titch
at lots 26 and 26, eon. 7, 05, oleo. an error
in Clog tax, $1 ; Malcolm Walsh, drain
on wast boundary, $3 ; Ino. Moirtor,
gavot, $2 ; Jno. Mooney, collector's sal.
ary, $80 ; school aerations Nos. 1, 5, 7, 0
and 10, polling booths, $3 melt. By-law
No. 1, 1888, deity read and passel Mov-
ed by Geo. Kirkby, seconded by Jas.
Prootor, that this Counoil do now ad-
journ to 1no0t again on the 5111 day of
March, Carried. War. Crams,
,
Grey Council Meeti11g,
Tho Conncil-elect of alio Township of
Guy snot at Tuck's 110101, Crttnbmolt, of
January 10111, pursuant to Statute. The
following monberg wero (1re0ent noel
made rho 1111O00511ry Becht tatiOns of of..
OOo:—Roovo Milne, 1st T)cputy Ilam',!
0)1vor, 2nd Dopoby 'Rowel 1107005, lend
Councillors 13r0wu and Melo)). 'Oho
Roovo took the (+hail' And thn malates of
the hast meeting wort react and parsed.
A ley.l0w was thou iutrodno"d and road
et first time for appointing (Alcorn and
5ralar100 for the (=root year and, on
motion of lahv81'd 13ryons ail Arch.
Hislop, tho Council went into committees,
W11011 1110 by-law (('as road a 'mound time
and the blanks filled up as - follows te-
(louncillors $9 a day while on duty ;
Wm. SOon0o, Clerk, $150 1 A. Ma gnir,
Treasurer, $80 ; A. Reymann, Asnossor,
$80 ; Donald NoLauohliu, 001100tor,
$100 ; Alex. Stewart told .Jamlb Krantor,
Auditors, $10 each ; Lewin Bolton, 1In-
etiueor, The Committee than rose and
the Council resumed, when it was moved
by Walter Oliver, socondod by Wm.
Brown that 1110 By -bats be read a third
thea and passed. 111r. Bryant' objected
to the 13y -law passing, as filled up, and
called for the yeas and nays—Messrs.
Oliver, Brown and iIislnp declared in
favor of the Bylaw, the motion was car.
riod, ,111d the Dy -law road a third tinge
and passed. Application of L. MMNell
for a refund of Engineer's expenses
charged against lot No. 10, con. 13,
Moved by Wm. Brown, seconded by A,
Ilislop that the m -,tzar bo laid over till
next meeting, that the Clerk be instruct-
ed to write to Messrs. Hareottle, Lock.
ing, Ennis and Foster, requesting them
to attend the next meeting of Counoil.
Ca rierl. Movod ty Walter Oliver, 880•
tended by Wm. Brown that all the o d
members of the Board of Health and the
medical health officer be re -appointed.
Carried. The fol owing accounts wore
presented and paid :—Trustees of School
SeotIons Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9, $3 eaoh fee
use of school houses itt election ; Albert
Games, nee of Hall at election, $3 ; Wni.
Spence, me of house at election, $3; Dun-
can McDonald, James Lindsay, A. Rey-
mann, Thos. Oalder, James McNair,
Andrew Turnbull and Wm. Spence, each
$4, services ae Deputy Returning offioora;
Wm. Spence, registration of births. mar-
riages and deaths, $15.20 ; Hart et Co.,
o action blanks, $7.90 ; J9re. Steele, re-
mission of taxes, $2.32 ; Mrs. McIntosh,
remission of taxes, $1.80 ; Joseph Combs,
repairing bridge at lot 7, ton. 2, 60o. ;
John Forest, repairing road scraper, $1 ;
D. Livingston, balance on contract gray.
oiling on silo road 5, eon. 18, $24 ; Don.
'11d MoL auohl,n, salary a• Collector, $100;
Matthew Morrison, refund dog tax, $1 ;
Mrs. Laving, remission taxes, $1.99 ; Jno.
Moffatt, gravel, $2.80 ; Alex. Fraser, re.
p.,iring road at lot 35, con. 8, 50c. ; W.
11. Kerr, printing, $8.25. Council then
adjourned to m. et again at Dames' hotel,
Oranbrook, on the 2nd Friday in Me,rob,
when pathmasters, "tc. will bo appointed.
Wm. Somme, Clerk.
From Dakota.
Co thn )).alto* of Ton Po=
DEAR Stn,—In fulfilling lay promise to
you I um ata loss to find something to
mter'e•t you but as you are inclined to
look favorably on anvching that is of au
historical nature I will give you an idea
of where I ala and a description of the
country. Buffalo is et small village 40
miles west of Fargo and the Red Rives
and has a population of 400. For bush,
ne05:it is as big as a town in our country
of 2,000. Thorn a e three general stores
which d0 a business ranging from (160,-
000 to $100,000 each per annum and
there aro also throe elevators with a
storing capacity of 200,000 bushels of
wheat. It is needless to say that there
is loom for ono more good ono. The
manner in W11011 those elevators aro
conducted i, very different to ours. There
are no buyers, on the street but you go to
the elevator with your reheat and ahoy
pay all tho market will allow. You can
sell than, but if you wish to hold off
you can store it there by paying 1 cent
per month per bushel aud reit whenever
you choose, Thie is vo y convenient for
farm. rs as they grow ledge qu0ntittos of
g aiu and they would require very large
granaries to store it. By the 5,010111 in
V0000 hove a farmer min store his grain
at tho elevator audh,.on watch for prices
to snit him. As wheat isliablo to jump
6 er 10 cents any time it is on tbo mar-
ket ready to take advantage of it 01 o
moment's notice. All this time the farm.
ors ore not out of their money as they
ono tape the wheat °hooks 011(1 drat" on
them at any bank whenever 110 feels dis-
posod to do 80. Thera are throe s"lOnOs
in Ncw Buffalo and as this county has
carried prohibition by 36 of a majority,
it tapes effect on Jan. 1st, 1888, of
mouse wo ore waiting rho result of hav-
ing it carried out, For my part 10x -
poet to sou it rospootod, 0s the liquor
anon havu exp esoocl their intention of
California and thoe is ono thing about it
Gloat Cantata Sobtt Act people ought to
tato al oxamplu from.' ''his is that tilt
first offenoo tho fine is $600, or six
months, and the second 01101100 two
years in Kato prie00, without taw priv.
doge of a fine, This is as it ought to bo
as it has a better eff,ot toward enforcing
the law than all theP.M's and Inspectors
in five oonnties can do. This vi110go is
028 sect higher than Fargo and is 001"
rounded by a most beautiful country, all
well settled and arranged. Tho first
settlor hero was Wm. Grieve, of Hullott,
near Itarlook. He has 640 acres
with a good house) and outbuildings.
Elis son also 1100 it fine phew of 100 nores,
All land hero solle from $8 t0 $25 per
mare, according to location and improve -
model, and as Mt. G's laud in unto'. roar
tho latter figura yon will readily see how
ho has prospered. All of thio land is
ututor cultivation. His farm is also well
stooped, having 20 horses, 00 to 40 oat-
tle, sheep and pigs. Six solf'biudcrs and
all rho nocos5ary machinery roquited for
a farm of that size aro Mao to bo found
on his pommel.. l.. T e ner0ly mention his
name 00 an old Iluronite, but almost
ovary settlor horo has prospered in a tot'.
respondingnor man which, I think, is
aha Oast ovitleneo of tho battering do.
sari(tio( of this part of the c0unlry. I
would strongly 'vivito any one with a
large family of boys to take Horatio Gree-
ly's advice, or barroom with mall means.
1 would ammo. Imo 160 rt.al'cie such an
taan be sot, 11010, well improved,. coding
from (1'),0(10 to $9,0011 than 1.117 100 acro
farm 111 11,0 0011111)' of I)urnn to mato( ;t
living off. Thom IN 14411 work and ninth
money In it.. The weather here le not
11rerhape as 1181101dl,g 148 it is dawn there
let I do not find. 1' 0o bad tis our C'an-
iold0u9 generally do The mercuryshow-
ed 31i below zero on Dee, 28thand I drove
155 miles end was nob the tenet cold and
put in the l.orseo sod if I had not lnlnwn
the memory woo down I world not have
dutented it by the atmosphere, I will
o'nolude this time as I might go on toll.
hoc tho good gn0lities of this place mail
I could throw it into oont0mp1.
Yours truly, (leo. Aneurroasn.
New Buffalo, Dka., 1)0o, 3151. 1887.
,.he ZN ardena
The following gentlemen wore electod
Weedons by the different County Coon -
oils Tuesday :—
Middlesex --S. McLeod, Roovo of West
Williams.
1Iurou-T. ct'. Kay, Reeve of Usborle.
Peel—II. H. Bolton, Beare of Bohtmn.
1[aldimand—W. II. hull, Reeve of
Sonnet.
Lanark—A. Dewar, Reeve of Bock.
with.
Lamb/on--Charles Mackenzie, Reeve
of Sarnia.
Sinecoo—Wm, Switzer, Reeve of Sun-
nidalo.
Iialiburtou--Wm. Gainer, Reeve of
Mi0don.
Lennox and Addington—T. G. Cars-
°allel, lieeve, of Napateo,
Essex—Peter Wright, Roovo of Col-
chester South.
Prescott and Russell—Mr. Quonnevillo,
Reeve of Cambridge.
Frontenao—ll. Smith, Roovo of Port-
land.
Oxford—T. R. Mayberry, Ileevo of
Oxford.
Hastings --harry Bloecker, Reeve of
Sidney.
Elgin—DonalOTnrner,llcevo of South.
wold.
Perth—Alex. McLaren, Reeve of Hib-
bort.
Brantford—J. I[. Fisher, Reeve of
Paris.
Norfolk• -R, Oryolor, Reeve of Middle-
ton.
Peterborough—J. Walsh, Reeve of As-
phodel. e=
Wellington—J. Robertson, Reeve of
Harriston.
Groy—John Clark, Deputy -Reeve of
Koppel.
Welland—J. H. Burgar, Roovo of Wel.
land.
Watt loo—F. Holwell, Reeve of Wil-
mot.
Renfrow—D. Taylor.
Kent—W. A. Hills.
PrinooEdward—L. Motherly, Reeve of
Hillier.
Dundee, Stormont and Glengarry—J.
F. Gibbon. Reeve of Morrisburg.
Nn'tbumberbaud and Durham -0. A.
Mallory, 1t, eve of Poroy.
Bruce—Wm. Scott, Reeve of Culross.
Carleton—J. Dawson.
Halton—W. H, Storey.
York—A. Yule, Reeve of Aurora.
Perth. t;i)(l'il'y Nates.
Stratford expects a big building boom
the coming season.
Thos. Beelantyns, M.P.P., has returned
to Stratford from a trip to the Old Coun-
try
Two rinks of the Stratford Curling
Club went to St. Marys on Thursday and
were defeated by the club of the stone
village by 45 shots.
Rev. Mr. Kerr, incumbent of Trinity
Church, Mitohell, has acceded to the re.
quoit made to hint recently, to become
a0si0tant to Rev. Canon Patterson, in-
cumb-1,t of St. Jame', Stra ford.
The floor of the \lain otroet Methodist
church, Mitchell, took fire the oth-r day,
but the flames were pub out with only
$10 or $15 damages. This is the second
r scope of the building from being burn-
ed.
The following are the officers of the
South Perth Agrionitnrnl Society; Presi.
dent, 1!1. 1I. Brown; 1st Vice, Jas, Clark;
2, d Vico, Jas. Heudel s m ; Directors—
St. filar o, J. Holley ; Blowhard, T.
Evans, J. W. and T. 0. Robertson ;
Downie, John ltoVittie, W. Lang, Keitlt
Leigh ; Fullerton, 7, R. Rodgers ; Audi.
tors, D. Dewar and Davis Swan. W. I'.
Sanderson and Thomas Evans were ap.
pointed repres' ntativea to tho Western
Fair Assooda,ion.
The annual meeting of the Elma Ag.
ricultural Sooioty, was held at Wynn's
hotel. A small attendanoo was present,
owing bo a considerable extent, to rho
Dairymen being in session. Tho follow.
ing gentlemen were elected for the pres-
ent year: President -John B. Hamil-
ton; Vice-President—Wm. Roust; Sec,
Troas.--John Morrison ; Direotors—E,
Henry, jamas Duncan, John Gray, 7. W.
Boyd, Wm. Forrest, A. Baker, J. Howat,
Y. Coulter, Jno. Graham-; Auditors—Jas.
Irwin and Geo. Riohmond.
Tho wife of Henry Stennett, a promi.
vent farmer and bee -keeper of Blanallerd
township, was killed on Alain otroot, St,
Marys, on Jan. 22nd, by being thrown
from a sleigh while returning hone from
ohuroh. The horse bocamo uomanage.
0410 and Mr, Ste000bt, loafing oontrol, was
first thrown out, '1110 horse tiler ran
041.14y and Mrs. Stonnet was thrown
against a post. Sho only lived a few
minutes after the accident. The strode
were crowded with poo(1lo roturningq
from church and sovoral barely o5oape)
being run down by the runaway horse.
A vory sudden and unexpeOted death
oocurrod on the Ind concession of Hilt.
bort on Titeoday Queuing last. john
Moore, an old end highly reepeotod resi-
dent of rho township, was sitting in his
reeidenoo allotting to his family and
friends and had just indulged in a onpp of
nlilkwh(n he suddonly tell from his dhotr
Rod oipirorl in a few nliuntOs, His
rinnu1110r was to bo married on the fol.
lowing morning and a nnmbnr of Mende;
from 1t distance wore a1 rho fnmilq 1051-
401100, and the deceased seemed to be in
montane good spirits all, evening, and
made no 00mp10intl of 1111 8x8. Ile had,
how•nver, boon troobite'tvith hostel, (Bootee
for some tim. 11,• h'rg nl)rnl, 10
it twee,
(:era (;roll N (0WW,
„The Peter's peoee" 10 tho Boo loot
y0 'r amounted to $100,00(1.
An autograph I, Ger of Sara 13nrehardt
has boon sold 10 Berlin for $511. -
Garibaldi's leutobingraphy will be pub-
lishers in Floe once, Italy, about rho end
115 this 010m12,
Tho ponpla of Tokio, Japan, 111095 taken
to o0tiug 110001(118011, and thou, iv vile, n
demand for it.
Louise Micheal woo stint ars,' d'ulgeroe5.
lr wounded while addressing 00 Anarchist
meeting 1,e Hone o11 Bowley •!"ening.
E. 0. Allen, the millionaire publisher,
of Angusta, itlo., used to sell rnspborrioo
from a tin pail in the 0tre0ts of that
city.
The Fishery 1,0gotia11nn0 have appar-
ently Demo to a complete deadlock, and
no sottlem,•nt of alto question 15 likely to
result from them.
The Spools!, Government has ordered
a I mire g0(1011ty of war stores from Eng-
lish houses, apparently for the proposed
Morocco expeditlou.
Iowa, aftor twenty-two year's of the
abolition of the gallows, returns to it with
vigor and hearty enjoyment. One or two
other States have had a similar expor.
10nco.
On the Queen's accession to tbo throne
tater" wore 60,000 convicts in durance vile
in the United Kingdom ; now, notwith.
str-tlding the increase in population, there
are deely 7,000.
The United Kingdom stall leads the list
in the production of coal, with an output
of about 157,000,001 tono last year. The
United Slates stands second, with about
100,000,000 tons, The production. of
Germany was something under 60,000,000
tons ; of Frauco about 20,000,000 tone,
and of Belgium about 18,000,000 tons.
The bridge which is to be built over
tho Straits of Noosing., which separate
Sicily from Italy, will, when completed,
form one of the most striking, works - in
the lino of modern engineering. The
placo ticketed for this groat und.rtaking
is where tbo channel is some two and
one-half miles wide and 961 feet deep.
Two piers will support the viaduct of
steel rails at the height of. 328 feet above
the w„t r.
Al Belleville, Republic county, Ilan.,
last Saturday, whale R. 1I. Gallagher and
a force of workingmen were excavating
for the purpose of sinking a coal shaft,
near tee north line of the pity, a hard
sunstanco was 0110001(1500(1 about ,ix feet
from the surface. The workmen sup-
posed it was an ordinary ledge of rock,
but upon rem wing the dirt surrounding
i., preparatory to blasting, thav found
what proved to Ito a petrified bu'ftlo. It
is of large size and 0s perfect a 0peeimen
of the bison as ever maned the mains of
Kansas. The bnlf0lo will be shipped to
Topeka and *cod on exhibition in the
Rook 1 -land station.
Nebraska City. Neb., Jan.. 21.—Judge
J. F. Kinney, agent of the Yankton I1-
dian agencies, arrived here y psterday,
after being nano dais on the roe 5. Five
days were necessary for the oozy to
travel 30 mites. The thermometer dur-
ing the live days was at 80 degrees below
zero most of the time. The Judge says
the loss of life in Dakota has been under.
estimated. While at one station in lion.
bommo county the judge say% nineteen
frozen bodios were brought into the depot
in one day. In Bonhomme eternity the
list of dead will reach fully 100. Tho es.
timates made at Yankton yeeterday of
the loss of life throughout the territory
reach over 1,000. Tho counties were the
loss of life was largest are: Bonhomme
160; H rtohinson, 1.1; Lin edit, 13;
Beadle, 25; Spink, 12; 11e.nd, 10 ; Weed,
15.
The amount of wood consume t in ono
your in Making "bets” is 01,110 . inoree i-
ble. It would make 181,497 hoe -handles,
227,345 axe -halves; or, oonvettod into
toothpicks. would supply every bran lunch
fiend in Chicago, St. Louis and Ciuein-
nnti for years to come. 'Tho loos to ag-
ricultural interests and ineoal 11 ,ictal be.
dustries by the employment 01 able-bod-
ied men in baseball service is simply
enormous, and 0t the lowest rwlutlatiun
may be put down at $23,170,3.15 per an-
num, Tho oxpendituro of mnsenl1t' en -
orgy in one hotly-eohtestod data, alone
has been estimated to be emit l; '0t to
break two tons of stout, saw 11..2 cords
of wood or hoe seven acres of ground.
The employment if directly or in 'i.. mtly
g1vo5 to the trades and profs,,$ (0 mud
not, however, bo overlooked ; for, as nine
out of ten baseball players g -a broken
noses, sustain emote eternal iniurios, Or
lose thrix teeth, the 5tugioal a1'1 hotel
prof ssions would regrotfully to do upon
its doolioe.
The agonized trios of four Youno tion
who after dark found themselves slowly
floating out into Lake Michigan on huge
cake of ice, brought snores of p0nple to
the piers at Thirty-seventh street, Chi-
cago. The four, Paulson, Thoma, Aelt,
Jamos Johnston tend J. M. Whiteside,,
had been out for a holiday pfrolio on the
ice. Not till 7 o'cloak, on their reotlrn,
did they suspect that the thaw bad port-
ed the ice from the shore and the mass
was breaking un and drifting away. A
shoot of water 50 foot wide lay between
them and the land, and the gap was grad.
natty widening under the influence of a
sharp wind that began to cover them
with. spray, while the rising wavo5 dash-
ed off great motions Of the me floe upon
whioh tho lives of tiro quartet do ended,
For over an hour 111031 W0111011 and Child.
ren on shote watched lielplossly rho four
running frantioally abouton the ice and
(ninety hoard their hoarse shouts for as-
oistanoe, Whiteside, who was unable to
501101, 008100dn04 his companiou0 With
diOloulby front jumping iuto the freezing
flood and 01t0mpting to swim ashoro.
When finally n, boat hod been bre mitt
from alto nearest point, a long (11,1x1101'
up town, it wa( found to bo melting bad.
lv, end the notion who moored 11, :lad to
put back. By thin Gine Wblite$ is woo
newly crazed from cold and flight and
the others were in littlo better conditions.
'1.'1le polite, not without peril to 1)100
solves, managed, howover, to lake them
off merely at last. 'Pliny ware at ono.
carried to Choir henna and putt to hot
nxhmtated 1)111 centrum -4y hooey.