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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-1-31, Page 111 Volume 17. Letter from Manitoba. To the 1;diter of nut POOr. Srn,--Aa 1 have nor, seen any lettere in Tuns POST for some time from 01111 parti- cular part of the Catechism North-west, 1 faro taken the liberty to address a few lines to you, which may be interesting to some of the tonere of your journal, as I find by the perusal of your paper that there still remains 1(0030 of the old ro81- 0011t0 on the fourth lino of elooria. 11 is 11 few months more than nine years einee I. cameo to Manitoba, aud, tlrrongh God's Providence, I em still enjoying excellent health, which is the lint and best of all the blessings 0f life," 118 x100 fa each member or my family, who joie in wish. lug This Posx and its publisher a happy and prosperous New Year, We are 11010 enjoying the coldest part 0f as Manitoba winter. Enjoying did 1 say? Well, at least, wo are enduring it, although forty below zero in not, by any tueols, 110 m0et dinagrocable weather to experience, as it is a great deal more per- rei08ible than ninety -live in the shade and 110 rain previous for two months, as eve had it here Met summer. Since J882 there appears to have been less rain and snore fall in each sno0eeding year, but I think that the climax las been reached in the year which has just vanished. Present indications aro evidence of more moisture during the year upon wlioh we now have entered than the preceding ones. The opinions of the early settlers and also the propheoios of the present descendents of the aborigines of the Province confirm the idea that there will be deep snow and much rain during the present year. They base their °envie. tions on the operations of oertain wild animals, such as muskrats building high and warm houses. Should their prog- nostications prove correct it would be the media for n foaling of extreme felicity throughout the Province. Owing to the drought and ravages of the gophers (especially in the western portion of the province) the year 1889 will bo long remembered by Manitobans, although I don't believe there is another province on the face of the globe, if visit- ed with the same amount of dry weather, that would produce equal results. It is surprising that there was even a light crop in some districts, as I am quite cer- tain there was not more than an inch of rain fell, and very tittle dew, from seed- ing until the grain had reached maturity. Wheat averaged from three to twenty bushels per acme, according to condition end elevation of soil. Whore the laud was thoroughly cultivated before and atter the seed was sown best results were obtained. Oats and barley, in some cases, were a complete failure, which makes those oeroals a luxury that every- one oannot afford to indulge in. Hay 0180 ie a very unique commodity, many farmers having to go farcy miles to pro. awe a sufficient supply. Straw is there. fore largely used at a substitute. The issue of this will be quite serione, as it will result in very deficient horses for the amount of labor which they are coo. pelted to perform throngih the summer season, for the judioioue employmont of horses is the num of our opulence in this most decidedly agricultural distrix, The scarcity of coarse grail, too, will have a serious effect, as the deficiency will be supplied from the eastern portion of the Dominion, principally Ontario, and may be the mean of introducing 80011 noxious weeds. as Canadian thistles, wild mustard and wild oats into our vire gin soil, which at present is quite free from those weode. During flys past year the gophers com- mitted terrible des0rlotion on the crops, in some plaices their ravages exceeding time of the drought. All sorts of pians were adopted to cheek their devastations, and to trynd exterminate them if pos. •sible, Tee ppiug, shooting and poisoning t summate!are the meesummate! means of destroy. ing them, rend of those three poison is the most effeotlive. However, if we have a cycle of w( t seasons it will. do more to- wards an ihilating the gophers and ening heir injurious attacks on t1 grain tha 1 all the combined efforts of man. W at season seem to be lase favor- able to teleir increase, as they appear to have mut tiplied very rapidly during the past dry melons. It is generally believed that heav rains drown a great number of the yo fig, and also in the dry seasons previous 0 settlement and the raising of grain flu y died for want of moisture, there bei g no substitute for grain from which Do y could imbibe moisture. The present 1ear is going to be one of ex- treme pm ation bo some, (still 1 believe the presort • tag( will be small when corn. pared witl that of other countries that have node rgono a period of similar ad- versity) ar el unities the Government Makes an effort o assist those parties in pro- curing seed grain there will be a decrease in the a ount of grain sown in tho looal• flies wlupro the drought was most severe. Manitlobl appears to be struck with a mania f r building railways. They are being constructed in all directions, and will to doubt prove a benefit to ,lose localiti, 8 which they intersect, and will be a fee 'tor in tine production of a larger amoun 0 of grain, as it will plane olevatore within the reach of all, and thereby nate the long lhauls to market. When I looatr d in this district, in May, 1881, the ne0,r000 point at (Minh I oould roach a male ad was Portage -la -Prairie, a die - tame f 77 milds. Wo are naw supplied with t le Oanadi0te Pacific, renting ease and lv000; the Northwest Central, run. Mug horth:0v0st 1 the Aouri0 Branolh, rune t g south.weet, and the Northern Peel o 1C Alanitoba (not you in operation) elate 1 g ,the city from rho aouttt-easy, As 0 matelot is in the entire of all 101. mon 0 grain proclucfng distriab the addl. tion ,of the now railroads to t10 C. P. I•l. will flame Brandon a place of ooneidal- alir ; mportenno. /loading to 0110 advo- natc ;' of the N. P. de M., that road, when con toted, will redeemer) the price of win 1 and. v `t• t tel cents oc bushel, enc IVO s 1 l r r. r .., the 0 hope i ill but, ud fn from e t 0 010 bt ag n j g g ton with 1 Government 1 the contract wi h the G v e' f 1� limn, rates now charged on the Portage axle'+',• si0n, it appears to bo shadowed wfP 11!11 doubt. Tho ex001101on of the Se { fi h� 1 � n 6o thocord fields w3 t 110 v .n ul 0L (10 it a at 001 110 ,111 Settlors 1000 great b t 1 (i . • hbf r 1 bl BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1800. as it will settle the question of fuel, at leant for the presort, mud place the price within the moans of all, In the motor. time we have to haul our wend from a awemp coat of Brandon, a distance of about twenty-five miles. It may appear a long way to go fpr wood, hut, AS WO build shantlea and stables in the swamp and take two dura to a trip, we 800111 to get along without experiencing any great diftioulty. The political arena at present is 001110. What agitated over the proposed ol,olitlou of Separate aeboolo. The contemplated change wee sprung upon the eleetera00 without rt moment's 1(0(01ug, and it 8eetne to have originated in the pro. (lighters intellect of the Honorable the Attorney -General, at least 11e wee the harbinger of it at a meeting in Portage. le -Prairie during the vial of Dalton Mc- Carthy. There was no mention of any snap ehnnee in the school ay8t0(11 during the last political campaign, nor was It introdeced in the least sitting of the Leg 181810re, and the people are not at all prepared, nor do they take kindly to ouch a sweeping departure. Had it been a plank iu the platform of the (Government the result of the election would have been different, and it would be certain defeat should they appeal to the country on the question at issue, as the people of the Province are not willing to pay the price of exohsnging the present school system for a system of godless schools. Holing I have not imposed too 03101 on your good nature, and thanking yon for a space in your columns, I remain, Yours truly, A. K. ELLIOTT. Brandon, Jan'y 15th, 1880. [Nome )1x Era—Weber e to hoar again from the writer et the stewed Morris Council Meeting, The members of the Municipal Coun- cil elected for the current year met per. anent to statute and subscribed the nocee- sary declarations of alias and qualifica. tion. The Reeve took the chair. Min• of last meeting for 1880 were road and paeaed. Moved by Jas. Proctor, second- ed by C. A. Howe that Wm. Clark be re- appointed clerk at a salary of $125.00.— Carried. Moved by S. Caldbiok, second- ly Geo. Kirkby that Richard Johnston be re -appointed Auditor,—Carried. Moved by Jae. Proctor seconded by C. A. Howe that John Watson be re -appointed assessor of a salary of $80.00 and no ex- tras.—Carriod. The Reeve appointed Wm. Laidlaw second Auditor. 'loved by 0. A. Howe, amended by Geo. Kirkby that Phillip Ellison be paid $10.00 for digging a ditch on sideline between lots 5 and 5, con. 7.—Carried. Moved by James - Proctor, seconded by George Kirkby that a Board of Health be appointed, consisting of the Reeve, Clerk, Thomas Laidlaw, Geo. Hood and W. J. 7011na1on, with Dr. T. G. Holmes Medical Health Men—Carried. Accounts here ordered to be paid as follows :—J. Sellers, gravel, $10.43 ; Jnr. Mooney, Oolleotor's box, $1.50; 7. Bell, ditch and pipe, $4.75; J• Sommerville, removing floodwood and repairing bridge, $5; Misses Exford, charity, $15; Geo. Goodfellow, repairing road, $1; Watson C Cummer, printing, 34.75; Jno. Mooney, Collector's salary, 885 ; W. Clark, Seam oial statement aud nomination expenses, $8 ; H. Mooney, financial statement, $2.50 ; Jae. Seals, ditch at lot 15, on 6th lino, 35 ; E. Littlefair, remission of Statute Labor tax, $4, A °me municatiou from Janes Craig in reference to Town- ship Engineer's work was read and filed ; Cleric to correspond with Engineer in reference to the matter in question. By- law No. 1, 1890, was. duly read and passed. The Council theuradjournod to meet again, en ther24t11.11'eb'y next., Wxt,'Co,.tus, Clerk., liowtelr Farmers' alatuat Fire lnsnr. 11114(4( Company. The annual meeting of the Howiok Farmers' Mutual Firelneuranoecompany rvae held in L. Campbell's 11(011 Gerrie, on the 10th inst. The Direoore' report shows an increase in the business of the company over the year 1888 of $91,580 and the auditors' financial report leayos a Dash balance to the company's credit at the close of the year of $8,283.82. On all members who gave a premium note of 5 per cent. on the amount insur- ed the rate of assessment for 1889 was 2 per cent. on the premium note and on the members who gave a premium note of only 8 per cent. on the amount Maur - ed, those risks were taken during the year 1887.8 when the period of insurance Was limited to three years, owing to the short date of insurance the rate' on prem- ium notes was redacted from 5 per cont. to 3 per cent., the rate was 8} per mut. on the pretniam note, making the coat of insurance to each member for the yea0 on each $100 insured, 10 cents. The directors and °diomes of the comp- any for the present your are : Jamee Ed. gar, President ; Wm, Douglas, Vice. President ; Direotors—Robb. Scott, John R. Miller, Edward Ieryans and Wm, Mo - Karcher, Secretary and Treasurer, W. S. MOKero110r. Porth County. County Council is in session at Strat. ford. Chrietopllor 0. Tanner, of Sarnia, was frilled at Stratford on Saturday night while oouphiug oars. W. H, ((railing, 0110tor for ,I. I(talt. lino, merct10(12 tailor, Prig street, Strat- ford, w08 quite severely injured by the explosion of a bottle of s1oenal(0r's oemolb, nmol leo was shaking in the neighborhood of rho stove. After the ex- plosion the fluid caught frro and burned Mr. Retailing so se'lonoly that he will bo confined to the house for several woofs. Robert Cleland, the President of the Went Ontario Dairymen's Association, has received a letter from T Eaton, the we111mo1V1 mouol ant of Toronto, name. Inge, cheque of fivodotla s for the moaner tion, with a letteranying that ho noticed that there was a deficit In the fonds of the A00aai0tion and being interested in their +York, be wished to sot an exampie kd others to 11111 moott ulna amount mt halt• frig, FROM HONG KONG, CHINA, °Llunla 0111T11. il•e1Tlti1'i:n 01n031 I.AOT 10l:138.( The feeling of dl.'satnsfnci.ioll among tile crew was in 18ns0 and it was not lose. enell when we were not allowed to get aahare, even in that desolate spot. It, although so far from eivilizetiml, la a place of soma imp(rtence. hero is where the Chilian penal colony fs situ. luted and it is also it wasting station for 0001(11(0(18 from the 3VOst Dud vice versa. We left there on Jan. 2, '80, fm• 801110 small islands ins the 801'ltite toward the Atlantic side, 11011111g and gaming for a 0oapin of days, then away to the L 111)0. '1101 Iriends, arriving in Port Shanley o11 Jan, 8, 1 hod 1102 011011(1 1)112 when 030 wore anchored nevi when I wort on deck 1. was supriaed. here WO wore, totally allrren110:1 by land ; n0 visibly opening, The soma is applicable to Hong Kong. A entail colony, some 400 but very neat and attractive, A large trade is dela with the mother country in meet, principally mutton. There were a groat many old jiullts lying about, `01110 with Interceding histories. Olre wa8 the Brat steamer that crossed the Atlantic, another was chased by the, "Alabmun" and escaped, do. While lying hero wo sate a schooner 0301 thing -only 11 Unna that came out from Southampton about a month previous. We loft on Jan, 14th for Montevideo, arriving there on the 21st. After our arrival several transfers wore made between the ship and our first sergeant was ordered home in U.S.S. "liearsage" as duty eeargent. Our doty sergean0 bad disgraced himself while we lay in Now York by jumping the ship 008 night, so could not be rated. A corp- oral was given the rate and the d. s. transferred to the "1'allaporsa," giving us all Australian sergeant for a German one. One of the privates was according. ly pun on the gangway (the quota is 4, 1 sergeant, 2 corporals, 1 acting corporal) thus making two acting corporals, and one had to got the rate. I was th0 one to got the highest marks, it being a com- petitive exam, so was rated accordingly. On March 11 we left Montevideo for Cape Town, arriving there on April 17. On the passage across we had some pretty rough clays, were "hove to" one time for three days and another time for eighteen hours. During the first storm we were driven elle first and second day at the rate of 9 miles per hour to leeward but as that leas the direction we wanted to go it was so men good. Tho seas 030(0 terrific. One time on the crest of a wave and the water seemingly 30 or 10 feet be- low you and again in the trough with the water seeming to be piled 11q mountains high. On board things were in a fearful state. The fires night no hammocks were served out, the weather was 80 008911, and on the berth desk mess gear, pots, pane, and kettles were scattered hero and there. The morning of the 3rd day we could not take our hammocks up to the netting, Life lines were '001.000110d the length of the ship, 08 it woe 11 MIMEO to 'trust neer self on the deck without it. The second night, jest before midnight, tho skipper despaired of weathering the storm. He said, "If the men on board this ship only 118010 how near they were to death last night they would have something to talk about the remainder of their lives." One time . the; main -yard touobed the water and it was hang 03 lest above the water's edge and is 80 feet long. Wo survived the storm, however, and got into Cape Town. We Wena to go into dry dock when we arrived in Cape Town bot the skipper decided not to until we got to Hong Kong. Cape Town is a pretty oily and a splendid view of itis obtained from Table Mt. It seems very panor- amic. Hero you see ships coming in and going out, a little nearer the land in the doeke you see the chain gang like ante at work and a flash now and again shows you where a sentry is. Farther along are the docks of the mail service, of the "Chain" line and "Castle" line, the negroes carrying coal and cargo aboard on their banks, the "Viotorias" (hansom oabe) flitting hero and there, the railway 11110 a serpent drawling along, the street care moving like a snail, dcc. Every- thing is visible. When we were there there were scarcely any workmen to be had. A large merchant ship could not get men enough to set sail although offers of £8 per month were made. The Jobs amesburg gold and diamond fever was at its height. Men, boyo and women of all nationalities were flocking there. A large wholesale dealer told me ono day that the Wednesday proving no less than 70 ox teams started out for the diggings. Each team had fourteen oxen. We lefb of Afay 8th oeteneibly for Lawsiban but were disappointed 00 we brought up at a small hamlet on the hest coast of Mada- gascar, Tullear Bay by name. We found out that we were sent to look for the murderer of the Minister to Madagascar, Washbnrne. Ho was not there so left for Murandeva, a misai1nary station 60 miles up the coast. Here we found that the murderer was cm a small island 18 miles south. We got up anchor to go in search of him bat whet we were about 8 miles out a signal was hoisted trailing 610 book. When we returned found that 00me men had gone down the day before and had oaptured their elan. Ho was brought on board and was immediately pub under surveillanoo, a sentry being pat over him. With him mime his wife, 0hf1d and bro0hor.in-law, as well as Bowl witnesses, all for the plaintiff. There were two nem -spoke English, a St. Helena men, and a Chnriston, S.C. negro, Tho man who murdered Washburn( has a1 history. Dorn in Halifax of French parents the was sent to lel'anoe to 110 ado 000033, joined tbo Fron0lt army and was sent out to Madagascar fn the capwiby of 001101110010110110, 03110 naught trying to sell the F renelt troops to the Malagasy, was tried by (lelornl Court Alertiel aucl expelled from the servlae 1Iot hon came tote to U.S. and wan n junior hutment tel 1 ]alit In the 110 Alnnt laall al`1' 1a n \ p Wee e v o nlled fol tended tending to the (lostt11ottam of good metals. leo thea went into the mn0011ant i)0(8(eo as 089110aiu of a email ooh000er, loaded her with goods for Mad. 1111(0001(, 0aa1110 01111 and (1f111hmg0d 113.1 gob a cargo for :it. Melena. Lie got there all right and while there by his stories of the l.siand enticed a man and boy to go with him. The alta was an experienced miner and 10118 to 91) and examine the nada, cam, and the boy as a cabin bay, They came out to the west coast and in a blow he ran itis ve0081 011 a rocky oottet and it was with 4181101110y that the people saved their liven. fie a safe -guard he had Ills oharta and chronometer tied round him so they would not be Inst. After getting him on board we prom:mica to 1lozambigne arriving in that ancient town on June 1. Teo town is of very little importance since the suppression of the 01x00 0r0il( 110 111: 00111'11,1Plin., Washington Letter, tFrnn, 0(11 teenier erwrospondout.) 1011011190TH h:, ,tan. a The Hoare committee on ruh•s 1in:1 a meeting of an hour niel a ha1Po clnratinn yesterday morning, all the members ex- cept Mr. Randall being present. They discussed the various details of tile code submitted by itir. Reed and some merely verbal changes were made, but they did u0t get Over the whole node, and another mooting will be held today. It fe doubt- ful whether they will finish at to -day's meoting even, though they may. Mr. Cardillo maintains iris opp0sition to the principal features of the case and will prepare is, strong minority report. The Democrats are satisfied that there are no parliamentary tactics by which they clan prevent the adoption of Reed's oode provided ho gets the (united follow- ing of his party. Their reliance is in the aid of individual Republicans whose in. termite will be affected by depriving them of the power to make dilatory motions. There is undoabtetlly Republican op- position at this time to Reed's pls.n. If Reed's rules are adopted the purpose of the Democrats is to see that they aro strictly adhered to at all times and to regulate allpr0000dings, with the idea that whatever oppressive features blare may be in them shall be felt by the whole 9201190. , When any partie011 action is proposed to which the Democrats are earnestly opposed they intend to learnt upon 11e presentee of a quorum of the Republicans to pass it. They propose to break a quorum by refusing to vote when they deem such 8. coarse necessary, and if the Speaker attempts to record them as "present but not voting" to make up the quorum, enough of than will leave the hall to break the quorum. The only way they can bo brought back is by a pall of the Hoose. The call may be made and show a quorum, but on the very first vote the quorum may have dis- appeared again, and a call would have to be resorted to again. This may continue mdeloitoly unless the Republicans get a quorum of their own members. Mem- bers might be fined, have their eateries suspended, or even be imprisoned for re. Cueing to attend the sessions in obedience to the House ; but in order to take any small action a quorum must be present. Many of the suburbs of Washington are 11(510rio. Visitors are often shut up to a single mode of lambing these and other points of interest whioh surround the national capital. In the nature of progress this state of things oannot con- tinue. The people demand and will have thoroughfares to and from all places of pleasure and resort near choir country's political (entre. Ono of these planes, the one of which the associations ate more sacred than those of all others, is whore the first President lived, died and was buried, Tho means of amass to Mt. Ver- non are notably inadequate. But this exclusion of the groat mess of the public is nob to last long, for 11e Virginia logia. later° has just chartered a railway to run from the city of Washington, or, rather, the Virginia shorn opposite it, to the 110038 of Washington, and there is res. son for expecting the early opening of the route. There are four members of 11e II. S. Senate who can never bo coudidates for the Presidency of this Republic under the Constitution, because of alien birth, Senator Jones, of Nevada, was born in Herefordshire, England; General Mo• Millan, of Michigan, in Hamilton, On. tario ; Senator Beek, of Kentucky, in Dumfo'dehire, Scotland, and Senator Pasco, of Florida, in London, England. While it hi exceptional rather than other- wise that a Senator was born in the State he represents, sectional linos have been closely observed. Of the Northern Sen- ators only two were born in the South—, Senator Cullom, of Illinois, in Kontuoky, and 0ellat0r Hawley of Connecticut, in North 00rolina. Not one Southern Sen. ator fa of Northern origin. Early in the nation's history the tlavy father thau the army was 11e pride and expectation of the administration and people. Mr. Jefferson 0308 an advocate of the building of a large flotilla of gun boats. Nothing practical ever came of those magnificfeut projeo00, but our little navy distinguished itself in the war of 1812 and the war with Algiers, and nat. Tonal pride was not abated. The board policy, it 10 understood, will now mom. mend the construotion of 102 vessels of all sizes and (lasses, to be built in four. teen year0 at au aggregate 00x1 of $280.- 000,000. The board hada that the cost of maintenance of nal a iloct would be ono -quarter only that ar the old sort of vessels, Senator Ingalls has sought to teach his follow Senetor0 the prmnnlcintiou of many 1111081301 words by reason of the pre010101108 Iia 111001011 in mobilo ad. dresses. It was therefor0rathee ranee t. able that in the Welted sp000ll tondo yesterday 10 should 11110111'0001111011 two such ordinary words 00 "enamel" and "decile," Mr. Coltor's appeal against the judg. meet of Air justices ho aloetbrid3 a in tato Ilnh nnttut election 1 d d 1 otle o has o n can 1 been s missed end Kr, Colter is unseated. 70hn Johnston of Toronto led m narrow 0800pe from 8(1(10us injury Set - trilby by the fall of a derrick at tho new City Hall works, .lie wee struck by one of the 11110101114,anti reePited a ge"1 rn1 the head three or feu' Melva' 1.1119. &uro17 County. 911 a 112111 dept of Clnitnn 8:1 138,100 . Cllnt,n is after a union Creamery turd it town pet•1K. The West Riding Agricultunrl tiociely repo+ t it ehor1age "f 9132, '1'110 County Omega Lodge of South 1101'011 w111 meet, at Exeter 00 Tneudny next. The feelerioh Signal 0:170 : -.'Monday last, der, Witklua.,n1 brought. into this 001.110 a cumber of dandelions in bloom, which lin had 1J101(ec1 on rho 110 11.11 in front of 1'1reaiibeneo, 1'"x,1111 pro:+, n(. .a,,prt; 10110Ce 2)1e010 will ire n( 11000 in bl„nn1 ((11- t11 nft.cr tin 1.7241 of March. Muter 1100 0(11110 at la -et, 0(0.1 lush to it. The 80110Wing il.'r0m,9 wa'e 3100101 nnuneoiun with tl,0 Clinton Board of Trade :..–Wm. Jackson, Preevient ; 1t. Holmes, Vico•Presicleut; W. S. Semi. lielri, Sccrelary : Wm. (1a:ets. 9'r.+asnre. 00111,:11. dos, Fair, .9011(1 1(an11 (11, d, : Irwin, 19. Irtt'In. Go,,. I:. Pey, Ie. Jack son, J. C. Stevenson, lsnel Taylor, W. '1'. Whitely, N. 11 00>1,, Wm. Harland, D. Cantole(, The Clinton New 1.111 says :--W. Mug. ford, wihco has resided on the Young firm, 10th con. of Guderieh Townsbip, for some time, has skipped, leaving some unpaid nocounts. Several years ago he beug10 this farm, paying a small anlo0nt down, since which time he has made other payments, but the greater part of the purchase money, the aro informed, is yet unpaid. The meeting of the Huron Medical As• 80018. ion was held in the Large room of the IYleahanice' Instituto, Seatorth, on tbo 21st inst. The members present were Dr. Irving, Kirkton, Vice.Pres. ; Dr. Elliott, Brumfield, Sec..Treas. ; Dr. Wood, Mitchell ; Dr- Stanbury, Bay- field ; Dr. Armstrong, Fullerton Corn- ers ; •re. Smith, Campbell, Bethune and Mackid, of Seafortb, with John McFaul medical student. A large number of patients were presented and reports read, and the association was busy until six o'clock. Dr. Irving was elected Presi- dent, Dr. Wood, Vioe•President, and Dr. Elliott, Sec.-Treas. On motion of Dr. Smith, aeoonded by Dr. Campbell, Dr. Sloan, of Blyth, was nominated for the medical council, in opposition to Dr. AIo- Arthnr, of Landon. We hope Dr. Sloan may be elected for Tecamsethi division in tbo medical council. Ue to a t';:L I IV a sv,.. Niue -fishermen were 11(101711ed fu the bay of Donegal, Ireland. A despatch says hundreds of persons in South Dakota are going mad from starvation. Lord Randolph Churchill will present a bill iu Parliament embodying his views on temperance. The Chicago Masonic fraternity has just purchased a site there for the pro- posed $5,000,000 temple, It looks as if the Japanese would soon distance the Americans in divorces. In 15 urban chariots of Tokio in October the records show 008 marriages and 258 divorces. At the miners' conference in London it was resolved to demand an increase of wages for the miners of Grant Britain of 10 per cent. A tornado lest Sunday night struck the east side of the town of Clinton, Ky., demolishing 55 homes, killing 11 people and hounding 53. A women and three children were suffocated by escaping gas at Thobou, Hungary, on Monday. Their dead bodice were found lying together. A passenger train fifteen miles from Indianapolis, Ind., of the Monet route event over a high trestle, killing seven pa09eng000 and injuring ten others. A Berlin peofessor, while dissecting a shark, found in its stomach a dolphin weighing 128 pounds, 43 fish, a decom- posed seal, a woman's arm and four human logs. Moro than 1000 torts of material have been worked into the British battle ship Royal Sovereign during the last three menthe. This vessel will be the largest war ship in the British navy. There has been a prolonged snowstorm in Hungary and Styria, Houses were demolished end many lives have been lost. S0. Martin's Cathedral at Press- burg was damaged by the storm. The employees of the Birmingham rolling mill, 1000 in number, have struck and the fight between the men and the Company promises to be a bitter one. The weekly pay roll of the mill is 928,- 000, Bill Hnloee, a lieutenant during the war under Qunutrell, the notorious guer- illa, died near Independence, Mo, on Saturday. Though a desperate cher. aoter daringtho war, hie conduct since has always een that of a poaoeftil, hard. working 0iti8en. The German eteamor"Savona," which left Now York on Jan. 3rd for Hambnrg, was abandoned in a sinking condition on Jon. 13th, All hands were saved, The "Savona" carried a cortege of 900,000 worth of corn and 3100,000 worth of cotton. The vessel was valued et $100,. 090. The crew consisted of 30 men. A terrible 0olli0iotl is reported to have watered at Camp 1rf1l on the Savannah eft Western railway Saturday afternoon, Five men ere earl to have been killed, two engineers, ono Froman and two train h0tul0. Others were W011021021, A wreak- ing 0(0111110s gone to the sane, This is the 23rd wr0ck on that road in three 1000111, Since the establishment of the Vienna free kitchens the number of dr11ulmrd0 is said to have pettily diminished. The medical profeesian testify to snormem improvement in the ltealtlt of the lower classes. Derangements of 111e stomaohr formerly the most frequent eases in Vi- ollne, 1100pilala, have doareased to ono. third of the number of ton 70000 atm. A crate t 01 sOraWborriess wa shi 1 ILL1 ac from. Charleston, South Carolina to New v York, Monday g. K. 901 lay 1113i11t They were. grown in a field i11 the Stlbtl11.'be and in then open p,2r. Should the warns mealier continuo the annual strawberry crop will be ready for lnarkethr . The strawberry 0018011 fl 1)p, is ,unrafty about 11Iarn11 or April. But the fruit is now tip0ning Number 29. rapidly and the en111•0 crop, which alp gradates about 1,000,000,000 quarts, will be harvested before 3Ia1011 1st, uules0 a buzzard 0011100 laioug Coffee planting fu Brazil, on au ee- l -emit) scale, is a comparativelymodern industry. The that eargo of coffee chip. ped to 11,, United fitlttes /in 181110) was only 30,0(10 ponds. In 1888 (•11001 212,- 000 tone of coffee were shipped to the U. S., while the total crop was 110114l7 600,- (8111 tole, worth about '..120,000000. This year's crop 10 a s',"rtmin, bat 11 will be at lease 500,009) tmv. During ,----i-•mation sorvir.s at St. .fe'n's l:pieeepel clulreh Phialdelpliii Sunday eve'aung an atpparelatly de:xre111ed young 1111211 rum here tris seat end point- ing a revo'ver at BioJnlp Whitt:lke, fired. Tile ball went wid0. 'fate mut 00,10 0r - mated, lie 00100 his name 111 11:tvid tlexande•, "f Pnil.tcf,lirhit. 1I•, told a rambling story 111„1111 ,t lea '.-r .v ,1'111 111- 1 1101 to Mahn f 1011 1113'+n1p2 rel rho lir.: of the v0n0rabln pr.:fa,c. 2:reataecliat.tt No, NV.... A gushing natural gas well has been sunk at roreet. The editor of the St, Marys Argus is an agent for wind 1111115, Hon. G. W. Ross oponol Ryerson School in Hamilton Tuoada,v. Sergeant les, Ward, a, veteran of the Crimea, died on Monday at Kingston. A somnambulist in Hamilton fell out of a window and broke one of his hips. Sir Richard Cartwright was Tuesday elected President of the Ontario Reform Club. North Oxford has gained 678 voters since 1880, and South Oxford has de. creased 203. Hon. A. Mackenzie completed his 08th year Tuesday, and was the recipient of numerous congratulations. About 900 hogs were sold on the Chat- ham market the other day et $5.35. Eight carloads were shipped off. Afarm laborer named John Finnigan jumped from the Michigan Central train near Fargo, Ont., and was killed. Brantford City Commit for 1880 favor the abolition of exemptions of taxation on Churoh property and all places of wor- ship. Miss Tailor, daughter of Henry Taylor, of London, has died in Frame, where she had gone for the benefit of her health. A motion was introduced into the York County Counoil Tuesday approving the issue of all bank bills by the Dominion Government. The new Nicholls Hospital, Poterboro', was, with its endowment of 936,000, handed over to the Trust by Mrs. Nichoila Tuesday. Mr. MoCarthy on Wednesday intro - rimed his bill to abolish the official ase of the French language in the Northwest Territories. Departing from the usual °eatom, 1e made quite a lengthy speech on introducing the meaeure,and his 0900021 was of a nature to cense considerable feel- ing among the French Canadian mem- bers. Michael Mara, a laborer, leas drowned in the bey, Toronto, on Saturday night about seven o'olock. He. was walking along 11e look at the foot 052- West Mar- ket street, when he fell through a hole in the planking. His cries attracted the• attention of Constable Dodds andt¢thets •} but he nae dead before they coald reach him. When the body was token from tihe water life was found to be extinct, and the remains were couvoyed to the itforgue. Deceased had a wife and family but was separated from them. The statement of letters received at the Dead Letter Office during the year ending Janne 30, 1889, is as follows : Letters on hand June 30, 1888, 10,230 ' ; dead lettere received, 778,840 ; special letters received, 108,422—total, 893,202. Of these letters 27,790 contained mouoy or other articles of value, amounting in all to $361,202. The list of the contents of the lettere, as usual, reveals some cur- iosities. There were 22 oortilieetos of marriage, 7 baggage checks, i diamond ring, 2 false teeth, 8 railway passes, a largo amount of jewelry, 103 insurance policies, eta. Judge Lorangor rendered judgmenb on Tuesday iu the ease of the heirs of the late widow of Oliver Lorangor against rho oburo1wardans of Notre Dame. The action was for 32,000 of account of the accidental death of Mrs. Loranger, who was killed after attending worship by falling through a trap door left open In the oh1roh by the negligence of the au. thorities, The Court refused to allow any damages "for quiet," but granted 9753, the actual damage suffered through deprivation of the old lady's services by the family and for expenses attending her funeral. A' heroic net was performed at Strath. roy Sunday by a young 10011 named Bradshaw. About 10 o'clook in the morning 0110 of the inmates of the Homo of Refuge, an old man, was walking on the G. T. R. track, which is only a short distance from the Home. Behind him a train was fast approaching, and the old man being lard of hearing slid not know of his danger, Bradshaw, who happen- ed to ba passing by at that time, hoard the whistle of the train 1 he knew the old man to be deaf, and realized his danger. Being a fest rnnnor he fortunately gait- ed the old man's side in time to grab hie arm and jerked him off the track as afast express dashed by at the rate 01.10 n1f100 an Hoar. A peculiarly sed case of snioide hag oc• carred neer Iiowit*, ('heteanguny, County. A well -m.20 farmer named Alexander Logan, aged about 40, out his throat while his wife and little child wore away on a clay's Vinit. leo warlord tlu'0ngh the day as 1(01101, at night feeding the stool( and bringing in the wood. When finished b1 rent up to his bed. room, and, 00.0081119 before the looping 'lass at his it tis 0 n not with his ram. 1, a or. Atter giving n g the fatal gash he had wipod the e blade of the razor and lad i n 1e. IX t on tl human top. When found he had been dead nom time. The suicide can only be accodntod for an the ground of tom- p0rnry insanity. The 110(000011 was a v01.7 0001101,1.0.40 a d t ante ru^ t (1(4 highly re8pe01od,