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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-11-29, Page 1Volume 17. The Wants and Wow of the Teacher. (Continued from last week.) The seoond Woo of the Teacher is Poverty. I shall bo compelled to touoh this topic with a rapid and gentle hand, loot the rooital of this greataorrow should overcome ue with grief ; for Tor stern - the 0011, withoi tumoo ea unto. hour In the presence of this audience it will be most prudent to pass lightly over the painful foot that the human rano has never rewarded its teachers well, and has often treated them with scorn end ornelty. The Greatest Teacher that ever trod on this earth was so poor that he once had to take the tribute money from. the mouth of a fish, and at another timo, when he was housoless by night, he was constrained to say, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has not whore to lay Itis head." 'l'he most God -like intellect of Greene, that land of culture and intellect, was extinguished for time, when Socrates, like Christ, was put to death on a false charge. Time would fail to tell how penury and persecution have been the °amnion lot of the teachers of our roes. On Galileo and Descartes and Milton and Freobel tool thousands less illustrious, this woo los fallen. The teaohors of the world h,00 often beau compelled to do their work and fulfil their great missions in ciroantatances of poverty and neglect. But they were "borne up bravely by the brave heart within ;" they were the atrongeet souls of their generations; and though, like Milton, "tried ab once by pain, danger, poverty, obloquy and blind- ness," they "saw with that inner eye which no calamity Gould darken ;'' and they have left us the imperishable legacy of their great thoughts and their shining example. Tho foots of the muse In Ontario aro very plain and simple. Skilful teaching commands lea money than any other equally skilled labor in the market; and it commands a lower prise in Ontario than in any of the States of the adjoin- ing Union. Take nay town of 1,500 to 9,On0 inhabitants and you will Mal agents, ouctiouoora, nesignees, barbers, butchers, banlcoro, book-keopur.a, blacksmiths, coeh- iers, cabmen, milkmen, merchants, mil- lers, salesmen and so forth.—through the whole alphabetical lint of occupations— inking more inouey than the principal of the Put.lie school, A good salesman or book-keeper will bo receiving from 8000 to $000 a year, where tbo principal of tho Public school, with eight to twelve departments, receives from $500 to 0700. A commercial traveller is paid from 81,900 to $2,000 a year and expenses, and some of them also sell on commission and make another 01,000 more. But in this province there aro only three or four Public soh'ol teachers who salaries resell $1,200, and the principal of the largest Public school in the Dominion does not rooeivoquite 01,500, and only ono High school teacher receives over $2,000. The facts aro stern and simple. If any man or woman becomes a teaoher there will be little temptation to serve Mammon, nod I do not believe that any true teaoh. 0r, alive or dead, aver remumod in the salmi room ror bhesako of making money. And this reminds us of the hundreds of our follow teachers who every year leavo our ranks for other walks in life, whore their energy and ability command butter remuneration at loss sacrifice of health and labor. Well, how shall I treat this woe, this chronic woe? Before I touch ort this polar I think 5 had better perhaps request reporters and strangers to retire, for in some oases they have circulated reports that Conventions of teachers are chiefly occupied in devising ways and means to raise the salaries of teachers. Now, in the lint place, let us reflect that the salaries of teachers aro slowly but surely improving. Twenty-five years ago $800 was about the salary of a and - master in a High school ; at present it is , between 01,000 and $1,200. A teacher with a first-olastt Normal Sohool certifi- cate could at that time get;aboui $400 to 0600 ; now he can get 0700 to$1,000. The, principal of a certain grammar school in 1876 received about $1,000, the second master $800,.anct the third 0500. The sante ach0ol now pays $2,350, $1,500 and $1,200, and this eaao is typical of what has happened all one the ,province.. I spent my first year in the school 'room for the sum of $250. Now my pupils can go out and get 0350 to $450, with no higher qualification than I had to begin with. Matters have dooidedly improved in twenty .years; how can, we help to malts them improve more rapidly in the n8xt ten year'? • i,—First of all by drawing closer to. gether. Individually, in our scattered homes, we do not wield vast influence, in the aommtinity. United in our county and provincial associations the influence of teachers counts for a good deal. It would be very easy to prove this by re- ferring to our past history, and to the history of the legal; the medical, and the dental associations. If all the teachers in, tbis province were ae solidly united as the millers, or the printers, or the oil men, salaries would prooeptibly advance. But on what ground omz we combine? As I am !tore treading on very delicate ground, I shall merely mention two or threethings whichthe teachers could certainly obtain by united notion through• out rho province : •its in (a) The total abolition of perm . any form whatever. (b) The extension of third -plass oertifl- oatesto fiveyeare ser'ice. (e Tho exteneiou of tiro Model Sobool sessions to n full year, with a real ex- amination at the end. (9) The doubling or trebling of the Normal School staffs and the extension of the °ours() to a full you before a life certificate is granted on an efaminabion that Woold oomman9 reelteet, (o) 'By rho £0'mation of Teachers' Leagtios, With paid officers, to protect the intoost0 of the pv040051011, in rho Roane way ae the interests of the dotter and tho : dentist aro protected, c. g., the rloteo- ti0tl,and p19ni011utont o£ those who obtain it and will follow it. * * ' Work is BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOV. 29, 1889. ,.m.. oertilloates or situations by frond—a common offence. (1) Election of toaohors to oily', town, township and 00000y councils and to Parliament. The small experienoo we have bad shows that no bettor men Gan be Bleated. The Minister. of Education, ox.Prinoipai Oookburn, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Perceive and others are a credit to the teaching profeeeion. Wboever holpo to draw toaohoro together and secures united cation to elevate their general status is working successfully towards in. creasing the average salary of teachers. 2,—By cultivating in every possible manner the professional spirit of the teachers. I shall simply mention one tat two methods : (n) Town and Township Institutes. The public will think more of our pro- le sional services when we show prac- tically that we think something of our profession. (b) Edticational Columns fn Local Papers. The public will esteem our ser. vises more highly when we educate them through rho press to understand tbo 015. ferenoe between teaching and "henring lessons." A now generation is arising of native Canadians whose ideal of a teacher is not drawn from British or foreign schools. Through the press we con con- solidate the public opinion of this native element and make it effective in the im. provemenb of our schools aid the increase of our salaries. But I leave this woe to mention another loss painful. The third Woe of the Teacher is the Yearly Engagement. This is in reality only a single wave of the ocean of root lessueea and change that covers every part of this vast continent. It may in- deed bo fairly questioned whether it is a woe to the multitude of teaohers, who are merely occupying the teacher's desk for a few years until they can equip themselves for some more lucrative em- ployment, Bub very few will dopy, I thiuk, that the incessant change of twat'. ors is a very serious detriment to the su1m01s of this country, and therefore re- flexively an iujary to tltn general states' of Mechem. As long as the avorage teacher is looked upon by the public eye as a bird of passa;e, hero today, aloe - where io.tnarrow, so long will the re. lnnueratlon of teaching be lower than it is in permanent and coraolidated pro. fessions ; so long will n third class diva siert court 151050r ncalce a better income than a nahool principal, who has gloater natural ability, and baa undergone long- er and more severe training for his special work. This is a fandanloutal problem in edu- cation, and I shall not attempt to offer my own solution of n difficulty that has hitherto baffled the skill of the greatest educational thinkers on both sides of the Atlantis. Perhaps an approximate solu- tion is the only one possible ; and I am glad to be able to refer yon to the history of the last forty years in Oannda and the United States to prove that such a solo. tion is slowly but surely getting itself worked out as the years roll past. Pro- bably none of the present generation will live to see the prizes of the teaching pro- fession so largely inoreased that the beat intellectual blood of the country will make teaching its life work. But it is satisfactory to compare the present with the past and to observe that schools are now open the year through, that the teacher does not board round, and that for a longer or shorter period of service the very flower and blossom of Canadian youth engage fn teaching. The progress already made in this,direotion is earnest of better things yet to come, when every school will have attached to it a decent residence and a neat garden and orohard. When we consider the enormous sums already spent in providing good school houses, apparabns libraries, &a., we may fairly Gonjeoturs that the stream of pro- gress will continue on into the twentieth century, and that by and by equally ample provision will be made fur a permanent staff of highly trained teachers. One day it will dawn upon the public mind that public money cannot bo better spent than in making reasonable provision for mar- ried teachers, and thnsoheokingthe great exodus which carrice annually out of the school room about 1,000 of the beat teach. en just when they have acquired mature' teaching power and are becoming skilful and valuable in their profession. There are unmistakeable signs of this coming day in the High schools. The number of changes in the staffs of the larger schools is growing sensibly loss every year, and the highest honor mon in the Universities, are looking forward, in greater numbers, to the teaching profeseioO' ae thein life work. The principals of Public schools who have proved themselves master workmen also retain their positions much longer on the average than formerly, especially in our oities:and larger towns, and'atrnstees show more reluotanoe in malting' the sweeping annual' changes that were once the rule rather than the exception. On a general' survey, from the time Dr. Ryerson was appointed Chief Superintendent to the present,year enormous progress has been made to- wards permanency, and the survey strengthens our faith that thefuturp will see the teacher in all the older and more wealthy parts of Canada pleated in cir- rh>retansee of comfort and seourity that 1 ill go very far towards inducing him to give up his ancient, hereditary tondeney to rove about the country. I have mentioned some of bho Wants and Wote of our lot. There aro others that might easily bo enumerated, but am 0ure I have already taxed Sour pa- tience eufloiontly. I have tried to state some quesbions that are worthy of careful study both by tsaohera and by statesmen. I have en- deavored to point out several things that can be trade bettor than they now exist, and I hope I have avoided a gloomy and hopelo05 picture of the future. I than conclude with a short quotation from Carlyle, wltioh indicates olenrly the true spirit of the toaoher,1toping 'tbat it may cheer aon0 of my fellow. workers as it baa often 01100red m0: "Blessed is bo svbo llasfound ltiswork ; lob him aslt 110 oilier blessedness. Ha has a work, a life.purpoao; ho has fotnlri of it religious uaturo ; work is of a brave nature ; which it is the aim of all re- ligion to be. * * * In all true work there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the Earth, bas int summit in Heaven. Sweat of bho brow, and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart; up to that'Agony of bloody sweat which men have galled divine 1' Who art tbou that oomplainest of thy life -toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother ; see thy follow -workmen then, in God's eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving ; sacred band of int• mortals, celestial Bodyguard of tho Ent. piro of llfaultind. * * Thou too shalt return home in honor ; to thy far distant home, in honor ; doubt it not --if in the battle thou keep thy shield 1 * • The 'wages' of every noble work do lie in Heaven, or else nowhere. * * * My brother, the brave man has to give bis Life away. Give it, I advise thee—thou dost not oxpeot to sell thy life in any adequote monitor 7 Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a sat- isfactory manner. Give it, like n Royal heart; let the prion be Nothing; thou hast then, in a 0 rtain sense. got all for it! * * * No man has worked, or eau work, except religiously. * * • All mon, if they work not as in the Groat Taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, 'will work unhappily for themselves and you. * The latest Gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it. * * • Know what thou const work at, and work at it, like a Hercules ! .,m Vow Polsters on UGi„s rer November. Remember tient the profitableness of the hog will increase two and n half times as fast as bho horse, cote or sheep. This i+ rho time to see that your bust friend is properly housed, warm, a clry bed, fair ration of well saved corn, out short, with a little bran or shorts sprink- led over it, or better still a ration com- posed of say, 1 bag of peas ground fine, 100 pounds of shorts and 100 pounds of bran all well mixed with gee n clover out or corn, turnips, mangolds, carrots, or better still, paranipe boiled, mashed and fed a little warm. Don't thick that the time spent ii1feeding boos is lost and start by giving tho hogs into the care of the small boy or rho wife, or worse still to nobody's care, or to aarefcr itself, stop and think. Nature lots not provided ex• tre covering for this portion of God's creation, therefore, study its oomfort, see it is well oared for, it will repay you 50 per cent. Once more, don't first delay the copulation of your sow. It will make five dollars difference in the price of the next summer's litter. Don't take her to a snob boar if there is one handy and you can have his services simply by call- ing him in off the ajghroad, free of charge. A poor artiole 1st dear, as a gift, if you don't believe they are dear try and sell a scrub of any kind. Remember, now is the time for your laying the foundation for the bog supply of next winter. Stop and think, be sure you are right, then go ahead, if your breed don't satisfy you, don't be afraid to ask for information of your neighbors ; if they don't satiofyyou still go on, remember perfection is only gained atter hard and persistent labor. Don't melte the fatal mistake of feeding your younk shoots too high and aoceen- trated food, don't forget to provide the necessary food to produce bone as well as flesh, lean as wall as fat. Meats failing in these things drove our meat from the European markets years ago, and only reoantly are we recovering from it, and it behoves every one that is raising hogs to see that he is breeding in the lines in- dicated above. It is a foot, whether well understood or int, pork can be raised with a greater profit than any other meat. 2 am not afraid to place two sow pige in competition with the best mare for ten miles east or west for five years, cost and profit considered, or two Bows against throe average cows for the same time, all things counted, or two sows against the best 10 ewes for the same timo and the same conditions or 3 sows againet.the beet 10 sores of land in the townships of Elma or Grey, you to have the privilege of cropping how you like for five years. Now, Mr. Editor, from those foregoing statements it is easily seen that the hog is the farmer's best friend. Use them kindly and with judgment. Don't throw whole peas into the snow leaving the pig to, dig them out. shivering with cold, then blame the pig for not paying well. Thanking you for this space I am,*Years, Taos. BAILIE), (,i-terttveratl Newt's. Tho newsboys of the mitt' of Mexico' are all girls. There are about 600 women in Chioago who own and ride bioyoles. In Iceland there are no prisons and no officers answering, to our policemen. Holzhey, the Gogebio, Mich., bandit has been sent to State prison for life. Portugal justifiee her claim to the Zam- besi o0nntry on the ground of discovery arid exploitation. Itis supposed that the Cronin mate will not go to the jury before the l0bb or 11th of December. By the fall of a belfry at Olahuifalu,' Hungary, Friday, six persons were killed and many injured. By an explosion in a powder factory at Heivau, Germay, Friday, eight persons were killed ,and 28 injured. The bop crop of Europe this year is oebimnted at 102,000,000 pounds, and that of the U. S. at 85,000,000 pounds. Near Cyntbiana, lfy., Saturday, Annie Rees and Sadie Math were drowned while crossing a swollen stream in abuggy. Many of the now' apartment houses be - Mg created in London are fifteen storeys high. Tho air at that height is fresh and cool, and it said to bo mite living' in the country. 32. 0000116in, proprietor, and 1011. Del., annoy, engineer, of the onrbridge faotory which exploded in September and tamed tho death of many peroome and great tie. sh'ricbion of property, were oolvicetod of mautlaughber Wednesday, Oorvilaie Vas sontemcod to four yam and six months, and Dolnunby to oleo year and sit ni011tbs' impri'aonmott and to pay a Ono of 2,600 franes'ench, a Washington Letter, ;From our Regular tlorrue(021 lent.) VAennNoomN, Iiov.22,'50 "Who is ahead today 7” This is the quastiou on the lige of every politician up town, but no one hos any real inform, tion to impart. The Speakership prob- lem is eti11 the Gordian Knob of diens. siooamong the anions assembled in Washington on the eve of Congress, end Oongrees is the only Alexander who can really solve the question Mr. Reed's friends claim everything for him and do not seem to rogard with any degree of seriousness any cue o1on's candidacy. They are positive that co ninth strength will bo developed on the first ballot that their man will undoubtedly be chosen when the second vote is taken. To off- set these claims lire a good many very interesting statemento.. McKinley's sup- porters say, with considerable earnest- ness, that the Maine candidate is going to be disappointed iii Pennaylvania, and they assert that at least twelve of the Pennsylvanians will vote for the Ohio statesman. On this line it may be stat- ed as reasonably correct that a good round dozen from 111e big repub:ican state have already pledged themselves in writing to McKinley. That a number of false aeaertioni have been made by tho friends of bho several speakership oandidates is obvious from the fact that no loss than thirty of the new members have Bron maimed by two or more aspirants. As no figures are given utIt by States it is difficult to tell in jest what localities the onndidntes 0x - 1)e01 to got their reserve support. The Nortbwest and South are yet open to conviction, and n gram& deal of work is being done at the present time among the Reproseutativos from thoa0•eeot.ions who are not in the city. Naturally it would seem that the Northwestern candidata would favor one of the western man, but this is by no means assared, and they havo kept th,ir counsel well. It is generally agreed taut Reed is going to show up with more votes than ar.wote sloe at the start. All the can- didntes and their friends will agree to that. But they all appear to bo as con- fident as candidates eau well be. They expect that the fight will be a long one anti thick that the victory will go to him .whose fricntle have the oust staying qual- ities. Every ono of them fs in the hold to stay and none is anxious at this time to claim more votes than Homo outer man has, They profess to feel no alarm at the olaims of Mr. Reed's friends. They simply dispbte the claims and add that he cannot bold out all the votes be will have on the first ballot. Naval officers are just 10w engaged in guessing no to the results of the recent; trial of the new cruiser Baltimore It is understood that the Cramps are claim- ing that she developed an indicated horse -power of 9,600 or 500 over her ecu- traot requirement. It will be remember- ed that this is the seooedof tial trial and that there was some disputa at the Navy department between the effioials and the contractors as to who should pay for the first test. The bills for this amounted, it is said, to about 015,000, being some. what swelled by an indefinite item callod a "steward's account." This, rumor Bays, consisted vary largely of the cost of certain pleasant liquids, which on that oocasion, flowed quite freely. The contractors urged that they were entitled to a new trial and finally persuaded the Secretary to approve the first bills. They ubiltzecl, it is said, every possible cent in the lice of improving the service on the trial. It is said that the steward's bill was mucic smaller and tont the trial, as far as the officers went, was corn. pnrabively a vary dry one. The result of spending money in the engine room in• stead of in the ward room becomes ap- parent in the increase of the ship's power. Senator Stockbridge has' views of the coming Congress and its work that are not at all optimistic. He was :saunter- ing easily up the Avenue yesterday after- noon enjoying an A 1 Havens and the temporary cessation in the rainfall, and conversing with your correspondent over the things whish might ba done during the session. "There will bo a great deal of talk," said the Senator, "but I feel satisfied that results will be few, and, from a patriotic standpoint, unsatisfao. tory. But little legislation of any'na- tional importance can be looked for." "This condition of affairs," continued the Senator, 'ought to ;give the District of Columbia a thence for needed'legielation, and I believe it will. When we do but ,little really great or national, we gener- ally attend pretty faithfully to minor matters." The President of the United States ban leave the Capital of the nation for a week's dunk shooting, and the entire 60,000,000 people whom he is supposed to govern will take no further interest in the matter, if they hear of it at all, than to with him moons, or a professional liar in command, if the dock§ won't bite. When a continental monarch goes lark. ing he wears bullet-proof' armor. This is the difference between being a servant of the people and an, absolute monarch. It is reported that to mammotic hotel will bo built near the 0.P.R. station at Windsor. On Thanksgiving day a real live deer strayed into the -barnyard of 9'. S. Mc- Donald, reeve 0f Huron, near Ripley, Tho deer was skipping around the fields in fine style and than paid the barn a visit. If utero pati been any porson but a young girl in the house at the time, the reove'e family would doubtless have had venison for sipper. Hoo. Obarles Drury, Minister of Agri maitre for Ontario ; William Saunders, director of the Experimental Farm, Ot. taws ; J. H. Panton, 1011. A., (professor of botany and hortionlame .in tho Ontario Agrioultural College, Guelph; T.T. Lyon, prooidont of the Michigan Horticultural 50015ty, and 0. W. Garlield ex.seoretaryq of therintorloan Pomological Sooiety, will abbgll1d the meeting of the Trait Groworn' A.811060,000 to. be ]told in 'Windsor Deo. 1.0E12,1101 and 12th, tool will tante pair do the discussions and peocoadingst assemenuostawoosammarea Grey Council Meeting. The Council met at Boston's Hotel, Ethel, Nov. 10th 1880, pursuant to ad- journment, members were all present, Reeve in the chair, minutes of last meet. ing read and approved. Petition of Alex. Stewart and others prayingfor aid to Mrs. Robertson, an old inigent lady. Sire. Oliver was instructed to attend to the matter and make arrangements for bar board. George Crooks applied to have `the drain inspector examine the ditch or drain at lot 3, oon. 0, with a view of having said ditch or draiu elem. ed onto the party having been notified ac. cording to the provisions of the Ditches and Watercourses Act 1883. Moved by Wm. Brown, seconded by Arch; Ilielop that the Clerk notify the township En- gineer to make the neoessary examine. tion. Carried. Moved by Walter Oliver seconded by Edward Bryaus that the nomination for Reeve, first and second Deputy ltoove and Councillors for the year 1890 be held 10 Tuck's Hoot, Cram. brook, at noon ou btouday. the 30th day of September, 1889, and in ease a poll is demauole11 that the following persons be appointed Deputy Bottoming Officers in the respective polling subdivisions viz : Ne.1, Duncan MoLauchlin, at school house, S. S. No. 4. No. 2, Thos. Calder, at sellout house S. S. No. 1. No. 3, An- drew Turnbull, at school hones S. S. No. 2 No, 4, James McNair, at school honso S. S. No, 9. No. 5, Wm. Spence, at Burton's Hall, Ethel. No. 0, James Lindsay, at school house S. S. No, 5. No. 7, A. Reymann, in Dames' Hall, Cranbroolt. A By-law was passed con- tinuing the above appointments. The following accounts were handed in and ordered to be paid, viz : Wm. Mitobell, gravel, 099.90 ; Jas. Scott, repairing bridge at lot 60, con, 1, 03.00 ; Wm. Mit- chell, repairing bridge at lot 52, eon. 1, $0,50 ; Johm Brisbin, repairing bridge lot 65, con. 1, Gros share, $7.45 ; John White, ditch at lot 70, con, 1, $8.80 ; Wm. Turnbull, repairing culvert and finding stones, lot 7, con. 15, 03.50 ; R. Alcock, culvert ou side road 3, cons. 10 and 17, $17.25 ; 11. Alcock, enlarging ditch lot 15, con. 16, 519.00 ; Mrs. H. Stew,rt, clothes to Mise McMartin an in- digent, 53.71 ; Matthew Hestia, rep,airiug road Romper, 55.00; Adam Foster, ditch- ing and culvert on side road 4, con. 12, Engineers award. 037.00 ; P. OloGraw, ditch and culvert, side road 6, sons. 16 and 17, Engineers award, $10.50 ; R. Livingston, gravelling at lot 31, con. 14, 021.00 ; Wm. King, cleaving out award ditch, lot 32, con. 13, $8.07 ; Jelin Long jr,, gravelling at lot 22, con. 12, $4.50 ; Thos. McGregor, cleaning out at lot 9, son. 9, $6.00 ; Thos. Strachan, repairing culvert and cleaning out ditch, lot 3, con. 8, $0.00 ; Lorenzo Frain, repairing cul- vert at lot 4, con. 3, 02.50 ; James Bis - bop, gravelling at lot 6, and lot 8, con. 3, 525.00 ; Win. McKee,- dltcbin" at lot 30, oou. 1, 01.95 ; Alex, Campbell, ditch on boundary, Grey and Howlett, $1.00 ; Jas. Bishop, culvert at lot 15, eon, 0, and re• pairing culvert at lot 4, eon. 4, $6.49 ; S. MoCutaheon, cutting hill between lots 80 and 31, con. 1, $23.00 ; John Pollock, re. pairing road lots 10 and 11, eon. 2, 06.40 ; Robt. Rao, gravel and timber for unlvert, 02.65 ; Hart es Co., 1 quire Jurors lists, $1.00 ; John Jackson, onlvert at lot 9, con. 4, 04.40 ; John Smith, culvert lot 13, and repairing bridge at lot 14, oou. 4, $9.25 ; P. McGraw, rag bolts for culvert on side road 6, cons. 16 and 17, 01.60 John Long sr., charity to Mehin family, indigents, 813.09 ; Wm. Fulton, charity to Mrs. Robertson, an indigent, $5.00 ; Robb. Holland, gravel, $L80 ; Thos. Strachan, gravel and damage to road, 08.00 ; Peter Robertson, ditching at lot 6, cone 0 and 10, 010.80 ; Robt. Bowen, fence viewers fees aolleotod on Roll, 02.- 00 ; Dr. Cale, mediae' examination of Miss McMartin, an insane indigent, 02.- 50 ; Robt. Coutts, repairing side road 6, mos. 11, 59.75; Robt. Coutts, gravel, 90o. ; Hugh Stewart, keeping Miss McMartin, tin inoaue indigent, 082.00 ; J. 0. Tusk, gravelling on side road at Crattbrook, $4. OD ; John Lindsay, cutting hill, lot 26, cons. 3 and 4, $21.00 ; Maloolm Mc. Nichol, cutting hill, lot 26, cons. 8 and 4, 521.00. The t7ouncil then adjourned t meet again ab Dames' Hotel, Cranbrook, on Friday, the 13th day of December next. Wo. SPENaa, Clerk. Huron County. Drunkenness is getting quite common at the Nile again. ' The people of Lakelet want better mall connection with Gerrie. George Miller is busily engaged' in erecting anew store at Cromarty. There have been fewer bricks made at Orediton this year then for some year's. The Modellite ekteminatione con. meuoe on the gbh and 10th of Deoem- ber, Mies M. Taylor bas been engaged for the lower room of Clinton Public school. H. L. Peine has sold the Comma/dal hotel, Zurich, to Ohos. L. Shoemaker, for the sum of 05,000. 7, Barbour, of Wawanosh, has par. chased a house and lot born J. J. Atider- son, of Wingham. Moos young men who wanted 000061se, walked to Goderioh and back on Sunday evening, from Clinton. W. Doherty & Oo. have enured a pat. alt in the 'Oohed States for their Moan proof orgal pedal, good for 17 years. John Soandrotb of Belgreve, in order to a000tn modato the nubile, is building a'. new driving shed in connebtiol with hie hotel. Miss H. Forton retuned from Mani• toba last week, and ou Tuoeday wept to Toronto, to pros0cut0 her studies at TO. rotito School of Medicine. 31, Williams, of Farquhar, shpt ono of his o0ws after being bitten by a mad dogg. This ie rho oocond 0111121111 Mr, Willfame has lea$ to kill, b. McDonald, Clorl; of the Crown, Goclerioh,.is reeovorbog from a very se. yore throat disoaso which at no time threatened to prove serious, On bile 1001 of thlo nconth 111'. hurl Mrs, Davis, Of Wingham, had boot mar. Number 20. ried twenty years, tboroforo they cele- brated their orystal weddtug. Jas. Anderson, bnggagoman G. P. R, station, Wingham, has been lranoferred to Cavanvillo, a small station on the O. P. R. between Toronto and Peterboru', The employees of Mr. Ben's faotory; Wingham, have organized a band ; the instruments have been purohasad, and a goodly number are already on tbo list. There will be a meeting of the Conserv. Mine of West Huron at Smith's Hill on the 10th December. A oaodidate will then likety be selected to contest the Biding for the Local Legislature. Upon the application of aha Reformers, Revising Barrister Doyle, ad led 15 names to the Dominion Voters' List for Clinton and etruolt off 37 names. Upon the application of the Conservatives he 11,dded4 names, and tboro was no appli- cations to strike any off. For n eousiderable time the fingers on the left hand of Jos. A. Clark, with Can - talon Bros., Clinton, !rove been in a cramped position, owing to injury ems. taiued. Ile has just undergone the pain- ful operation of having the cords out, for the purpo+e of straightening the fingers. It will lay him up for a couple of weeks, but he expects to be all the better for it afterwards. H. 11. Attrill, of Goderieh, has offered to that town, through the Board of Trade, a large building, rent free for five years, for the purpose of starting a creamery or canning factory. He also offers an acro of good slay land towards the establish. menu of a brick yard. His generous offers have been aeoepted, and the Board of Trade will make an effort to have those industries established in the town. The Hamilton Presbytery at its session ' ' sustained a unanimous onll from the united congregations of Strabane and Kilbride to Rev. D. G. Cameron, of Dun- gannon. The stipend promised is 0000 a yes:, with a fres manse and globs of seven acres. Mr. Cameron has been n period of five years at Dungannon, and in the face of many di9iculties has done a good work. If he a0cepts this call, Dungannon ane! Port Albert will ions a faithful pastor. His decision will likely be given at the meetiug of the Maitland Presbytery at Wingham on December 10. The Exeter Advocate arias : Ono day last weep, the of Mr. Trampship tone, proceeded down the London road just south of the village, and entering every house pretending he was a physician, and demanded to examine every one in the hoose. In some cases he would make the lady sit down, show liar tongue and feel the pulse and would tell them . they had some ailment. In some places they would not allow him to come in, and be would thea produce a revolver and level it at them, in some instances scaring the inmates. At last he met his match, Wm. Bnikwill who applied the boots to him for about forty rods, making Mr. Tramp sorry he had ever entered there. He should have been arrested and given a month or so in Goderiob. A Bayfield correspondent writes :—"At the close of our jubilee service on Sunday lash in Trinity church, Bayfield, the Rev. Mr. Regina made the pleasing announce. ment that he had, during the past week, secured the disobnrge of the mortgage on the Rectory. The amount paid within the last three year has been 01,432,75, all of which bas been collected through the personal solicitations of the Rector without any resort to tea -meetings, soci- als or any other doings of like ohmmeter. This parish has suffered greatly through the removal of some of the best families owing to lank of business in the village, but in spite of this we are making good progress. We aro now free from all debt, have put new roofs on two of our church- es, painted them within and without, built a new shed, etc., within the past year, and every Sunday finds our chnrob- es filled with good aongregationsof'hearty worshippers. Itis needless to say that Mr. Hodgins is very popular, having labored faithfully among us for nearly five years. Local News Items. A S.uvcTIoN Anux Wannrxe.—The fol- lowing is from a Colorado newspaper and concerns a former reeident of Brus- sels—Miss Ida Stacey—now Mrs. Rich, ardson :—The Salvation Army gave a banquet at Boulder, Colorado, on Nov. 6th, iu honor of the wedding of Captain Richardson. and Captain Ida Stacey. Prom 850 to 400 people took supper, wbiuh was given from 5 to 8 o'clook p. m. The viands were superb, and the best that friends oonld furnish. It was a jolly party, and every person in any wayconneobod with it was beaming with smiles and happy greetings in the midst of bustle and stir. When the 7 o'clbok train aerated from Denver, bringing with it Major Gay and twenty noble soldiers and the brass band, a large concourse of the army and admiring citizens marched to the depot to receive them. Here they fell in lino, and being led by the band of eight aims, matched to the Salvation Army ball with Major Gay in command. The reoeption was a truly glorious one, if'domonotrations and babble are evidence of woloolne. After a tiresome waiting by about 200 persons in Armory hall, the grand feature and cause of this amenably marched into the scall and ascended . the stage, the bride and groom being placed in rho center near the foot•lighls, with Sister Linda Raba ae bridesmaid and Cadet Craig groomsman, and Father Marble, the minister, seated n little to the right of the happy cooplo. Behind these marched by twos about fifth soldiers and took seats on chairs .ar., ranged on the stage, It was a very pretty sight indeed, and after a sories of singing and short prayers and talks, the marriage eero1nmty teas performed by Itev. Father 'Marble and Major Gay, after which sectoral "valleys were fired." It was then ann0unnod that the wadding tit' per would be served at the Salvation hall, to wltioh all present wore invited, and about 6150 persons accepted thein. vit11tien. It wet the greatest event 111 the history of BoOldsr, Nevor wag ft Wedding to well attended and thoroughly advartited, forthe 41' 04 Witt immune° and most jovint, the Meng and hallo hljahs exooetlingly numterono.