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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-5-16, Page 1t Volume 17. Political Notes. Toronto Equal Righters have nomin. atnd Ald. Reid and 14, D, Armour. In the Legislature just di.eolved there were 67 Liberals and 58 Conservatives. A. 11, Pettit, of Grimsby, one of the lending Conservatives of the county, is out in opposition to Mr. Rykert. Josiah Hampton, Reeve of Mount Forest, was nominated on April 26th as the Conservative candidate for Ent Wellington. The Globe of last Tuesday says :—A. H. Musgrove, the Conservative candidate for Best Huron, Bays in hie address to the electors of the riding :—"Our fore- fathers handed down to us from man a blood-stained field the rights and liner. ties we so happily enjoy, and we should be recreant to our trust didw a not trana- d mit such libertine nullas re to our des cendants." It is funny to think of a Tory boasting of the liberties his fore. Emboli a handed down "from many a blood-stained field." What would Mr. Musgrove say U Mr. Gibson wore to ask his Tory opponent for dates and places? Rarely has there been a larger and more enthusiastic Convection of the Liberals of South Huron than the one lucid at Hensel' last Tuesday. Every municipality but ono Bent a fall repre- sentation, there being 114 delegates present, besides a large number of staunch and true Reformers who had gathered from all parts of the country to show their sympathy with the oaueo. It was very evident from the hearty and unanimous expressions of opinion that the Mowat Government has lost none of its popubcrity with all classes of the people in the several municipalities re- presented at Tuesday's Convention. At the last Provincial election the Reform majority in South Huron was over 500 and if the enthusiasm of those present Tuesday may be taken as a criterion, the above majority ie likely to be great- ly increaeed at the coming election. The nomination of Mr. Holmes, a young To- ronto lawyer, after the lending Conserva- tives in the riding bad refused to stand is unmistakeable evidence of the weak. nese of the Tory party in South Huron. Idardly any candidate could have been a more forlorn hope than this deluded young man. Alter the work of re. organizing the Liberal Association Tues- day, Archibald Bishop, who for the post eighteen years has represented the riding, was unanimously chosen as the candidate- It is needless to add that lir. Bishop's election by an overwhelm- ing majority is certain. iI. B. Clarke addressed the electors on behalf of the Conservative candidata at Seafortb on Tuesday, but found the people of Sea - forth in euoh hearty sympathy with the Mowat Government that he will be most wide to give this pisco a w da berth iu. future. BRU:,SELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890. Nurnber 44, TUE CI\A::CI.1L RECORD. Moderate and reasonable opponents of the Mowat government do them the jus - tire of sayiug that upon the financial re- cord the Mowat goternment is unaessil able. But some carping ethics endeavor to pielc flaws, not iR their financial ad- ministration but assert that they are de. ;riving the municipalities of funds that should be enjoyed by the municipalities and bringing the province to the verge of direct taxation. A little attention to the subject will show how unfounded ie the first inference, that the Mowat gov- ernment's financing is detrimental to the municipalities. Within the twenty-two and a half years since the confederation of the provinces, of which term about ntueteen years have been under Liberal rule and nearly eighteen under the pre. miership of Hon. 0. Mowat, the total Provincial expenditure has been $01,821,• 722. This is an aggregate large sum, but after all, it only represents, in nearly twenty three years, the amount taken out of the baxpeyere by the Dominion Government is Lees than a tenth of the title—in two years. And thie is how the amount is chiefly made up—that is, the principal,itoms of Provincial expendi- ture. inucotiou 410,722,800 Maintenance of Public InstItutious 0,712,401 Administration of Juslioe 6,920,049 Public Buildings 5,518,815 Md to Railways 5,164,010 Civil Government 9,040,401 Legislation 2,089,410 Agriculture and Arts 2400,148 Colonization Roads 2,170,354 A little consideration of these figures will show that there is no foundation for the charge that the Ontario government is, and has been, placing burdens on ns and robbiug the people who compose the municipalities. The 410,722,865 repro. Bents a corresponding amount of relief from direct taxation for the education of the children of the country. Snores and scores of them who are now at man's estate and taking part in making greater the greatest pr0vlil08 of the confedera- tion have received the benefit thereof. The 511,712,461 expended upon the main. tonna() of Public Institutions represent a corresponding amount of direct taxa- tion, for the Dare of the insane, the deaf and dumb, the blind, who must have stat. fared neared for or hove taxed the en- ergies and absorbed the money of the mdnicipnlibies. From both a humane and financial point of view,' ,this exlhel- clitma should aloe° the month of flaw. finding critics who would,to gain a point, rob then antortnnatee of tho care and oomforb they enjoy under tho liberal policy of the Ontario Government, Other millions have been spent upon rail. ways, with the toetit of opening up new rotntry, filling it with an industrious and enterprising eines of a0111e•s, when wants result in in creation of a tl0• Inn far the wares and produote. of our merchants and huanufaatuters, building up oar towns and (titles and flooding our forest with the Over widening flow of the tido of civilization. Agriculture, which is the backbone of thee province, has beou aided and enoouragod ; the high. ways of the settlers have ben made Ede:tight and rt11 round the province has benefitted- And all Cite immense enm 1•epreeents n divot relief of the ramal. panties to a aorrespoltdlug lmntnt, Compare the expentIitere in gaostiou With the results of the expenditure of a like sum in the Dominion In the Inst two years. Where are those results ? What benefits have Canadians received in re. turn for the sixty million dollars which in the last two years they have paid into the Dominion Treaeury 7 Out of this euro of $61, 821,722, only a little over six millions—about ten per oent.—has been spent in the post of running the tuaohinery of the government. Who can consider these facts dispassionately and come to the conclueion that the Mowat Government is the enemy of the munioipalities, or who on consider those i° contusion o stl facts withoutcoming ing to ' i of the organ of Mr. RferaduEl , the Mail , when it says :—"Tho (Mowat) Govern- ment itself aftBB 0 f 1 p an make out a 'oo [ neltc ds in regard to its adminietration of the finances ?" Washington Letter. to (From our Regular Correspondent.) WAsainorox, May 0, '00. The debate which opened Wednesday in the blouse of Representatives will have important results, in one way or the other, either for good or for harm, to the people of the nation. While the tariff in some of its aspect(' is and must always remain a local question, in others it in a subject of national and even uni. vernal interest, since the measure adopt. ed touches at many points the vital In- terests of the Union at large, and at a smaller number of points the interests of humanity at large. The nine dis- crimination repaired in settling a national economical policy can hardly be over valned. Not only is it important to know the wants of each and every oommouity, but it is indispensable that this knowledge shall dovetail with the rights and interests of the whole people, so that uone shall be ruined that others may be promoted and that the best good of the whole shell inter -relate with the beet good of these parts. This subjeot of the national revenues has so long been before the country, arid has been' so ex- haustively discussed in and out of Con- gress, that it would seem on a stlperfi• dial 011310 that no further debate was necessary. But the question is a large and ever changing ono. Even since the last presidential election not two years ago there hits beou modification in cir- cumstances. The possibilities of further change during the few months before e congressional011041on shall again neer make fho topic one peculiarly delicate in the handling. Congress cannot, there- fore, be too deeply impressed by the re- sponsibilities of the situation. Three weeks from next Monday th0 actual work of taking the 0011888 will be begun. The preparations are now well under way, and when the 1st of June arrives the 40,000 or more enumerators, armed with paper and penal will be ready to begin their rounds. The busi- est place just now in connection with the census work in the ware -house in this city where the population schedules are stored. There aro some 20,000,000 of these schedules and a force of men are hard at work packing them into boxes to be sent to the oaten supervisors, corm - spending to the number of districts into which the county is divided for census eur ogee. The schedules are sent to the npervisors to be distributed among the enumerators. They are packed in 4,500 boxes in all and by the end of the present week it is expected that they will all be shipped. The boxes are sunt by mail which means of course, that they aro carried in the mail cars instead of in the express cars. They are, perhaps, the bulkiest pieces of mail matter that have over been received in e, postal oar, each box weighing 237 pounds. Tho death of Senator Beck has made speculation aotive in regard to the en - cession. Many points were developed at the time when a rumor was currant that Senator Beck would resign as the result of ill health. Naturally ox -Speak- er Carlisle is looked as a man whose (vide experience and broad statesman- ship particularly 41 him for the United States Senate. The Domooratio side has developed enough material to fill the Speaker's chair acceptably if the next House should be Democratic and 1MIr. Oarlisle not a member. If a Southern Democrat is needed Judge Crisp, of Georgia, is available. If a Northern Democrat is required Wm. 11. Springer is at hand to fill the oohing void. Sena. tor Beak was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial attune, and will probably be stoaeeded by Senator Harris, of Ten- nessee. Even the old -stagers in the House cannot endure too much in the way of tariff talk. When the debate wee open- ed Wednesday nearly every neat in the hall was filled. Two hours and a half later hardly half of the seats were oc- oupi'ed, yet the discussion was unusual• ly interesting considering t1101 it related to the tariff. The foot is that the studious members of the House do not depend much on their ears to keep trash of the opinions and utterance of their aesoaiatos and opponents. They re- ligiously road the. Congressional Record and thus have the benefit of dolibsrately ariticieing what lute been said after it appears in cold type. It was expected that Speaker head would on Wednesday anent= tlio ism pOintmet+t8 to 1111 the vacancies on the committees on rifles and appropriations caused by the death of Mr. Randall it being understood that Mr. Blount, of Georgie, will secure the forme' and 141x. ldtit0Ule•, of Pennsylvania, the latter place. The reason for the delay in the urn 03180oment ie said to be that the 'Speaker will await the result of tho sena- turittl contest in Inentsokyy before minting the neeeseor to Mr, Randall an the 40311- mittoa on rules, In 0480 Mr. Carlisle is elected to 1110 Senate there will be two places instead of ono to 130 fined. Very recent events toad to corroborate tin gamut] estimate of Col. D. Lamont's wertih as private secretary. Four white molt and fortybee n blacks were lost by the 810013 of' the 5011oot141' .l4liza Mary 0u the coast of the New flobriclts, many of the viabfins he- ron tenlahswketl by the savages, wiSIIIenn LIMITS POLICIES. Under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act the Minister of the Interior may sob apart any tract of timbered ter. ritury and divide it into berths not ex- ceeding 60 square miles euoh, t0 be re. served from sale; and under regulations respecting ground rents, royalties and other dues, leases of right to out timber on sun berths may be issued under the following berme 1. The Governor -in -Council may order that the leases be offered at public auction at an upset bonus fixed in tfae order and awarded to the person bidding the highest bunes therefor, each bonen to be paid in oast at the time of sale. 2. The Gevernor.in•Oouncil may also authorize the issuing of a lease of right to out timber to any person who is the solea lioant for berth the PP any bonus to be fixed be the Order anthoriz. ing the lease and to be paid in oath. 8. When one or more persona apply for a lease, the Governor-in-t)ouocril may authorize the Minister to invite tenders from the applicants or the publio, and the person tendering the highest cash bonus wilt be entitled to tee lease. 4. Leases of berths are issued for a term not oxceeding one yen, without claim for renewal tunes provided by the order•in-Council authorizing the lease or by the conditions of sale or tender, 6. The holder of a lease is required to erect ono or more eawmille upon his berth of a minimum nutting oapaoity, and in addition to the bonus he is re. quired to pay a yearly ground rent of 55 per square male and a royalty of 5 per sent. on the sales of the products. In the Province of Ontario the Com- missioner of Crown Lands disposes of timber limits subject to the following regulations, adopted for the most part twenty years ago and only modified by the Moreno of rates and dues as 0ircum. stances have appeared to justify : j.. If the timber is in unserveyed ter- ritory, the Commiesionsr causes the section of oountry where it ie intended to allot the berths, to be run out into townships, each of which shall consti- tuts a timber berth ; but the Commis. Blotter may cause a township to 1/0 sub- divided into as many berths as he thinks proper. 2. The berths or limits when so sue- veyed are explored and valued and then offered for sale by publio notion at 111001). set price fixed by the valuation, at such time and place and subject to nob con- ditions as the Commissioner may direct by public notice, and each berth goes to the highest bidder for cash at the time of sale. 5, All timber licenses expire on the Nth of April after their issue, and hold- ers who comply with all existing regula- tions are ontttled to have their licenses renewed on applioation to the Commis- sioner or his local agent made before the Ist of July following the expiration of the last preceding license. But no re• newal is granted until all arrears for ground rout, dues, oto., have boon first Laid. 4. All timber limits are subject (in ad- dition to the bonus paid for at the time of sale) to an annualround rent of 411 g per :quern mile, payable able in advance be- fore fore the iesuiog of any original leaseor its renewal ; and all timber out under lioense is eubjeot to the payment of dues axed by the Commissioner, according to the kind of timber, being for red and white pine ab the rate of 51 per 1,000 feet board measure. The Dominion act permits berths to be disposed of in three ways, vie., (1) at public auction to the highest bidder, at an upset bonus axed in the order of sale ; (2) to any person who is the sole applicant for the lease, at a bonus fixed by the order authorizing the lease to the party ; (3) by tenders received from two or more applicants or the public, the person tendering the highest bonus to be entitled to the lease. The Ontario regulations allow of berths to be acquir- ed -at publio auction only, and by the highest bidder. No provision is made for private sole to an applicant, and during the past twenty years there to not an instance of any berth, Targe or small, leaving been obtained sxeopt at the competition of a public auction. • .Brussels Council. The meal meeting of the village Coun- cil was held last Monday evening. All the members of the Board present ex- cept Councillor Strachan. The minutes of last meeting read and approved. Accounts were presented are follows :^--- Mrs. Wallace, goods 5 2' 00 Mrs. Hart, charity 2' 00 Beattie Bros., Fire Department,2' 00 Thos. Stewart, St. improvements2 00 Mrs. J. Blashill, charity 6 00 Mrs. Brown, rent for Mrs. Wallace, 8 00 7. Maxwell, rent for airs. Williams 8 00 Geo. Birt, St. improvements......,. 5 00 Walter Smith, St. improvements11 26 P. MoKenna, St. improvements10 75 Turnbull di Ballantyne, itnp'bs, &o2t 00 ll, Stewart. Assessor's salary40 00' Moved by J. M. McIntosh, seconded by W. Ainley that above accounts be paid. Carried. Moved by J. 1I. MoIntosla, s000nded by W. F. Stewart that Conti of Revision be hold me the evening of Monday, June 231d, at 8 o'clock. Carried. The tender for graveling was truss - forted from George Avory to David Shine en motion of W. F. Stowers and W, A.inlay. After some general conversation 0u enneary street improvements the Conn. ail adjourned. A somewhat novel suit, in which a member of the Dominion Parliament will appear ao the defendant, is likely to be hoard at the next assizes. Weilnes- day counsel acting on behalf of ,Pahl( Becker, applied for an injunction to re. straits Jas, Livingston, M. P., South Waterloo, from peeping ilealcor, who married Mr. Livingstone's daughter, apart from his wife. Becker has also annimeneed ate notion against 1Ir. Liv- istgsbonefar (1201080 datnag05 foe ellen- Ming the Elf eetions of ilio wife and toe depriving him of her eoolety. The story goes that Becker was a eater in Mr. Livingetonu's store at Baden, Ont., and he formed an a1ta0hmenb with blo master's daughter 110.0. The young couple were married on the sly, and the match was distasteful to Mr. Livingstone, who separated the couple and refuoea to allow his daughter to see her husband. Huron County. 0. 0. Seine, of Gerrie, is laid up with a sprained ankle. W. Coats has been appointed Chief of the Clinton Fire Brigade. T. Veal, of Elimville, boasts of a row ofotatoes upreedy for hoeing. W. H. Elmsford, of Boston, has pre - 'tented Clinton with a handsome British flag. g Hughh Ross East Wawanoeh sold a fine mare to Mr. Lucas, of Calgarry, for 8250. An orchestra has been -formed nn con• section with the. Blyth Methodist church Sunday school. Michael Swans, of the Maitland con., Colborne, has a lamb which at birth weighed 23 lbs. Fred. Gemeinhard, of Bayfield, shot a fine large hawk, which measured over four feet from tip to tip. A. two-year-old filly, the property of John McCartney, of Goderieh township, turned the scales at 1,400 lbs. A grand concert under the aaepioes of the Huron 'screens olob will be held in the Grand Opera House, Goderieh, on; Tuesday, May 20th. Arbor Day, Friday, May 2nd, wag observed at the Goderieh Central eohool by the planting of flowers, to which a half-day was devoted. Fall wheat in Dungannon looaliby is apparently improving, and, eo far es present prospects appear, may turn out to be an average Drop. The Exeter baseball club has entered into an agreement to play the club of Parkhill a 'game of ball on Thursday, May 22nd at Parkhill for a puree of $26. On Wednesday of last week David Marwick, of Goderieh, lifted part of hie nets that had been down for eight days and enured a haul of one ton of sound fish. A petition was signed by the leading btslurss men of Exeter for the closing of their respective places of business on and after the 5th of May, 1890, at the hour of 7 o'clock p. m., Saturday ex. elusive. 7. Reich, who left Clinton some time ago intending to settle in British Colum- bia, did not find the inducements as promising as he anticipated. He is at present working in Tacoma, Waeltingt ou Territory. Lr eomplianee with a largely signed requisition Mayor Butler, of Goderieh, has issued rt proclamation naming Mon- day, the 26th, as the day for celebrating Ger Majesty's Birthday, the 21113 ooming on a Saturday. Redgrave has among its public build. ings a handsome little brick church, an Orange and Temperance Hall, post office, 000pershop, dressmaker's shop, the last of which is at present vacant. The pop- ulation is about 140. Mies Millie Verity, of Exeter, met with a bad acoidsnt. She was abont to open the front door when she tripped, and her arm going through a pane of glees, it was ant severely, several of the arteries being severed. Allan McLean, formerly of the Sea. forth Expositor, has purchased a neat and newsy paper in Walsenburg, Colora- do, called the Walsenburg World, and will conduot it hereafter in addition to hie ranching and stock raising business. A mars belonging to Jae. Ford, on the 2nd con. of Hullet, dropped a tip-top filly foal from Oburohill & Wallaoe's "little pony" Fleetwood. The Dolt measured 61 inches un the front leg and 7 inches on the hind. 1t ie from a light Canadian mare. Rose v. Township of West Wawanoeh, —Before Justice Street, in Toronto, the following deoision was given on May 2nd. Judgment in action tried at Goderiob, without a jury, on 1st April, 1890. The plaintiff olaimed to be the owner of lands in question under the will of bis father, subject to the life estate of his mother, Isabella Rose. The action was brought to restrain the defendants from removiug gravel from the land in question. The defendants claimed the right to take the gravel under a by.law passed by them, ostensibly under Boo, 560, sub. -sea. 8, of the Meniaipal Aot, It. S. 0., eh. 164. The by.law provided that the path -masters and other employees of the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to enter upon any land within the munici- pality,when necessary to do so, save and except orchards, gardens and pleasure grounds, and north for and take away any timber, gravel, stone or other mater. ial necessary for making and keeping in repair any road or highway in the town- ship, and providing that the right to enter upon atoll land, as well as the price or damage do be paid to any person for guar timber or materials, shall, if not agreed upon by the parties concerned, be tattled by arbitration, etc. Street, J., is of opinion that in passing the by-law fu thio form the council did not °eery out what was intended by the Legislature by the section referred to ; and what the Legis- lature did intend was that the onuneil should, as noaseltity arose for their doing so, enrolee the right to take gravel from any particular parcel or parcels of land, having nest declared the n0cessity to exist and chosen and doeceibocl the land from which the parcel was to be Is n't by a bylaw; that the by.lrtw is 11p0r1 its face illegal because it purports to confer upon the officers powers Inn wider and mute extensive than the statute authorizes ; and that tle010 is nothing in no. 398 of the Municipal Aot to psevet t the plaintiff front. maintaining tibia action s0 far as it is based upon a claim to restrain further damage. The defendants also denied the plaintiff's title to the land upon which they Moline(' the right to enter, &ltd this involved the constrection of the will of his father, upon th40 the omninsnn of the learned judge le that the property of which the teat131013 int01110d to diepom was bis own property, situate in the Heaond uunaoesion of West Wawanoeh, upon which, or upon part of which, he was living, and that any further desorip. lion inconsistent with this construction should be rejected. 11e, therefore, holds that the plaintiff is entitled ander the will to s voted remainder in fee, and, by virtue of that estate, to nautili the de. fendante from bus injuring inheritance by taking away gravel and to the injuno- tiou asked. The defendants to pay the costa of action. No inquiry as to damagee. Garrow, Q. 0., for plaintiff ; Oamcron (Goderiob) for defendante. The farmers of Huron and Ashfield townships have formai themselves into a joint stook company to erecta grist mill in Homlook City. They have over the amount of money required, some 86,000, and the buildingis to be ereoted as soon as they get the harter. The Clinton New Era says :—"A lady residing in this neighborhood, and who has lived here for 80 years, attended n public entertainment a few nights ago, the first she had ever attended." Now that you have the electric light there is not Bo much danger of persons getting mired who go out after dark. The Exeter Advocate says :—Posters have been issued announcing the oelebra- tion of Her Majesty's Birthday in Ex- eter. It will be oslebrated by a grand baseball tournament, rapes and various other sports. The celebrated baseball clubs of Brussels and St. Marys will be here, also other flret-class clubs. Mies Maggie Spicer, of Exeter, met with a Bever° &amdent. She bad just Detailed a small washing, and was in the act of parrying a. boiler containing a small quantity of water across the floor, when, tripping over a dog she tell to the fluor, the boiling water splashing over her face and body, scalding her person most severely. A little child of J. W. Hill, Clinton, stet with a painful accident. She was playing around the rosin, with the poiut- ect end 01 a pencil inwards, in her month, when she accidentally fell forward, the point of the pencil piercing her throat. The blood flowed so quickly that it al- most choked her, but it was stopped be. fore any injury resulted. The barn of William Jordan, Holmes- vitle, was struck by lightning and one of the ridge boards, together with some of the shingles were torn off. William, bis father, and a son of R. Glidden were in the barn at the time, but received no severe injury. It is thoughtthat had there not been lightning -rods on the barn both it an. its inmates would have been destroyed. Perth County. St. Mary's has a population of 3,844. The Stone town will celebrate the (7ueen's Birthday on Monday, May 26. rho natural gas well is to be sunk on Wm. Gordon's property in Romeo ward, S trntford. Mrs. Jane MoAinsh, of St. Marys, will through the death of an uncle in Ireland, Dome into possession of about 560,000. The late Joseph Eidd, formerly of Dublin, who died ea Sioux City on May 3, was 78 years of age at the time of his de b. E.alL. Flagg, nephew of J. H. Flagg, of Mitchell, passed very creditably in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, elocution, etc., at the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal. Henry Gilkinson, 14 eon. Eton, has a ewe that gave birth to a lamb one day recently and eight days after dropped an. other, the latter weighing 6 pounds more than the former. The Mitchell cricket club has been organized for 1890 with the following oflioers :—President, Mr. Coutes ; Cap- tain, W. Forrester ; Secretary, C. W. Pollner ; Treasurer, R. Wynn. Thos. Forbes, of the 2nd con. of Eima, is the owner of a cow which recently gave birth to three calves. A year ago she had two oalvee, also two years ago, making seven calves in three years. She is six years old. Tho Reform nomination for North Perth was offered by the convention at Stratford on Monday to Robert Cleland, but he declined. Aballot was then taken which resulted in favor of Dr. A, B. Ahrens of Stratford. •.4.13 J. Trenaman, recently of Stratford, has peen appointed a district superin. tenant of the main line of the G. T. R. from St. Lambert to Portland, and also the Richmond, Point Levi and Cham- plain and Valleyfield lines. Tee Monkton school made a most ex- cellent showing at the recent county ex- aminations. Twenty candidata' were Bent up for promotion and all succeeded in passing --the lowest having 68 marks and the highest 296 marks more than were required. The total assessed value of the town of Eh. Marys is 51,268,110, an increase of 51,720 over last year's roll before it was revised. The number of acres of resident 1n130 assessed is 2,016 acres and nee. rosidett 12 acres, add the total popula. teen is 8,644. The egg men of this district met in Stratford last week to discuse matters aerating their interests. In view of the recently imposed United Status duty it will be necessary for those in the trade to lvor'1t together if they would preserve their interests. The St. Catharines Athletics, lastyear's emu Inu10555 abatnpions, have invited the Stratford Laurogue Club to visit that oily 011 May 26111, 1110 maatei011 of the Queen's Birthday celebration, and play an exhibition game. The invitation has been aeoepted. 'Iltos. Pall, nn employer; of the Classi0 City mills, Stratford, scent up in the loft Tnaeday to shovel a fond of bran down the chute. By some 1000110 110 got in the auto himself and was smothered.. Ile had bene empleyed in the mill fora year. llis wife 18 110w nl Toronto hospital. Stratford O. T. It. aro brigade have laid a 100 yard eituder sank on the coin. patty's vivant lot 0n. Patrick street. This they will use to praotiee on for the grand annual G. T. R. fire brigade tonrrtrtment. The tnnrnanlett wits hold last year h1 Montreal and able year le to be held in dtratferd. The eopnittion of Stratford hae evi- dently been steadily inoreaeing. In 1888 it was 9,002 ; in 1889, 9,404 ; this year it reaclhee 9,906. The number of canines - in the city this year is 464. The equine population is 849. Tho bovines number 287 and the swine 14. Within Ebe city limits are 21i &ores of orchard. The members of the Perth county bee keepers association met on Wedneeday, the 7th inst., to discuss the new bill just passed by the Ontario legislature for the °oppression of a disease known as foul brood in bees,which has become too prevalent in soe sections of the province. Wrn.a v the ins eo M E oy, h tor, is shortly to visit this county and enforce the law in all cases where neooesary. The Direotore of the South Perth Far. mar's Institute purpose bolding a meet - in in Mitchell on May27th and 28th. g A number of subjects'n connection with 1 agriculture will be discussed. Promin- ent amongthose that will address the in- stitute arJohn McMillan, M. P., Huron; Thomas Ballantyne, M. P. P. ; F. C. Greenside, professor of veterinary science Guelph ; J. 0. Snell, Edmonton ; John Hannah, Seafortb. George Richmond works off the follow- ing joke in last week's Atwood "Bee" :— To Robert Cleland, Reeve of Elma. DEAR Sm :—If by accident, earthquake, or other nun not now explainable, yon should be elected to the Local Legieln. tore at the next election yon will be pleased to bave a law enaoted making it punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the disoretion of the Judge, be. fore whom the ease shall be tried, for any woman who shall wilfully and 'with malice aforethought refuse or neglect to give her husband or other male mem- bers of the household, over which at the time being she presides, one week's notioe of her intentions to commence house cleaning. lloueral Nowa. Detroit has 1,015 saloons. Prince Bismarok's health is much ire. proved. There was a slight shook of earthquake at Sofia, Bulgaria, on Saturday. Stanley deplores England's laxity in regard to her interests in Africa. A destructive tornado visited the region around Akron, Ohio, on Satur- daThe use of the Russian language in the saboole of Finland has been made nom. pulsury. It is understood that among the 60,- 0011 Hebrews in Now York there is not one single saloonkeeper. Hon. Reuben R. Thrall, the oldest practising attorney in the United States, cis dead. He 40118 in his 95th year. Talmage is to receive 510,000 for twenty addresses which he will deliver before Chautaugna societies this sum- mer. Queen Victoria Monday unveiled the memorial statute of the Prince Consort, the Jubilee gift of the women of Eng- land. The women who were eleoted as mayor and council of Edgerton, Kansas, have grown disgusted with their offices and resigned. 'mit intimates that he is in D t Pasha a possession of information regarding Stanley which would make a sensation if made public. Monday a cyclone visited Jefferson City, Mo., and neighborhood. Many houses and and were wreaked, but no loss of life is reported. During the severe storm last Sunday evening the Eiffel Tower, at Paris, was etruok six times by lightning. No ser- ious damage was done. An aged negro, who is believed to have been over 110 years old, died near Iberia, La., last week. He was born 10 Carenero, La., and left 69 descendants. The sheriff has taken possession of the Iron Car Company at New York on an attachment for 550,000. The capital stook of the company was 52,500,000. A runaway horse at Hastings, Eng., dashed into a van in which 40 little 011114ren from one of the Barnardo homes were taking an airing, killing four and pounding ten. The many friends of Sam. Grigg, (late of the Grigg House, London,) will be pleased to learn that be has been ap. pointed manager of the Northfield, (Masa) Summer Resort, owned by Evangelist Moody, at that place. The wheat situation in Illinois may be summed tip as follows :—Tho are of win- ter wheat in Illinois, by winter killing, floods, fly and other causes, has decreased from 2,062,888 acres sown last fall to 1,286,161 sores uow growing. The win- ter wheat product last year in Illinois was a little over 85,000,000 bushels. This year it will not be over 17,000,000 bnsbele. Artificial coffee is manufactured on an extensive scale in Germany. It is made from linseed meal, roasted to a dark color and mixed with some glutinous substance before passing through machines, whish turn out the compound in the shape of a real ooffeo bean. When the false bean is well mixed with the genuine product only an export can do• toot the different). Shipments for the California orange season are about to close, and it seems that southern California has shipped for the season about 2,800 oar -.loads, the greater part of which have beau sent to the eastern market, The prices realized for oranges have been very satisfactory, and as a whole the season has been a very eneessful one. The result is that hundreds of acme in tho foothills are being planted to manges, and tbat the demand for young pees is greater than over before, The in0r0aefng sign of Atlantic livors is likely to anise the Liverpool dock authorities muds worry and expense. The neeessiby of deepening the Hersey bar was recognized a long time ago, but the entrance to the dolts themselves must be widened and deepened unless big vessels lilts the Majestic are to be driven away to other ports. During the repent low tidos 1110 Ittajeetio was UR. able t0 pass Oyer the shallow 5111s, and had to be discharged, loaded and coaled by lighters, at heavy eepens0,