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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-11-7, Page 1ail 11J Volume 18. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1890. Number 17. Provincial 8, S. Convention. (Continued from last week) The Sunday School Convention resum- ed its work on Wednesday morning 0f Last week at 9 o'clock, President W. N. Iiossie in the ohair. There wore about 1,000 delegates and spectators present. The first half hour was taken up with devotional services, oondueted by the Rev. Mr. Thom. after which the opening topic, Personal Dealing, was introduced by Samuel Tapsootb, of Brantford. He believed the subject to be a practical and vital one. Personal dealing reacts fav orally on the Leather. Jesus worked much on bhie line. Our scholars must Muth our sympathies and oall forth our fidelity. Some of the elements to ranch the scholars wore kindness and home visitation. The toucher should always emery about with him the 'pirib of the Master. The paper brought out marry questions and suggestions from the delegates pres- ent, and the address of Mr. Thom was most practical and beneficial. nonan DISTRICTS. The congregation sang one verse of that beautiful hymn, 'Brightly Beams Our Father's Morey, and the ohnirman oalled upon Itev. John MuEwan, of Lake - field, to deal with rho alibied of Sabbath School Work in Rural Districts. The rev. gentleman began by asking all those present from rural and village schools to stand op, when nearly half of the aud- ience rose to their feet. Ho wished first to spank of the retrospect of the work in rural districts, declaring tbat these schools have by far greeter diffnoulties to • contend with than they bad 25 years ago. There was more diffioulty in getting sill. dent teachers, and they had less mental vigor. It was not doe to an inefficient pastorate, but to a restlessness about the things of the present and future life. Tbie was due to changed conditions in sooiety and an eagerness to get sane - thing rather than to be something. The brains and enterprise, he said, had to a certain extent gone to the Northwest Territory, weakening our country obargee. The question was : What must be done under the circumstances ? It was by no means a lost souse, but great courage was required. It was the duty of the pulpit to minister in an education. al direction. He would urge the pastors to preach loos and teach more. He diel not doubt that many would rebel against this, but Christ had said, "Go and teach." - He believed hand -to hand deal. ing the most fruitful. He urged his hearers to the to it that their sohools were properly organized. As the speaker had reached the end of his time, a num- ber of the delegates wished'to ask quer. tions. Many of them took exception to the etabement made by the speaker that the rural edistriote had been depleted. Mr. McEwen asked all the delegates present who believed as he did to rise, when it was made evident that the great majority of the convention were of the opposite opinion. NOnMA1 CLASSES. After this point bad been discussed at some length the congregation sang 'Sim. ply Trusting,' and Lewis 0. Peaks, of Toronto, ohnirman of the Exeoutive Com• mittee, introduced the question of Nor- mal Classes. He believed this to be ono of the most important questions for this convention to consider. Our Public and High Schoolteaobers received very sup- erior training, but he was forced to say that the training of our Sunday School teachers had been very remiss. This question had received a great deal of at- tention in Brantford at the garment con- vention sixteen years ago. It was neces- sary to know what teaching meant be- fore 'they oould teach. This required study and labor. How are we to cause another to know what we know ? There can be Mo teaching without learning, That is, we must put our ideas in such a way that the pupils will gladly aooapb what we say. By questioning a pupil we can readily findwhether we are succeed- ing or failing in our work. Normal Schools are those where the true method of education he taught, and whole tweet- ers are taught thaw best to teach under skilled scrutiny. The first necessity of a live teacher is a heart filled with devo- tion to the Matter, and the second a clear knowledge of His and book—the Bible. He must oleo have a fairly good general education, and become familiar wibh scholars. No teacher could become a thorough and successful teacher without conebant work. Normal °lessee oould best be conducted in the teachers' moot- ing by devoting a part of the time to that work. He advised dealing with the method of presentation in preference to that of subjoot matter. He also favored tbobuilding of Normal Iusbitutes. Mr. Birchard of the Brautiord Oolle. giate Institute spoke briefly on the best methods of bringing scholars to feel that it was necessary for them to become Christians. Thomas Dransfield, of Rochester, N. Y., addressed the meeting on County and. Local Organizations, He brought free tonal greetings from the President of the Now York State Sunday Solved AS. sooiation. They worn thoroughly organ- ized over there, and he hoped to be able to Derry bank to hie brother% bright news of the world in Canada. In speaking of county and local organisabions ho said that in his State all denominations joined hands in the Sunday School world, ,and a groat many of their officers were ladies, as the people in York State thought tint rho ladies wore a little better Snbbttth i5" obool warlters than the men, they found this the most efficient system. Joint msotinge are held mouth• ly in the various ohnrahes. in tine way all bhedeuotninetions were simultaneous- ly at work canvassing for now schools. At each of these monthly meetings there were a number of pepsin react on the different brandies of Sunday bahool work, and rho best pnpere brought before these meetings were written by young ladies. Ho bellow' that the pastor Should be et ,the head of the Sunday S0hoo1, When Mrs, M. G. Kennedy, of Phila. delphie, President of the International Primary Union, onus forward to addreee the meeting she was reoeived with ap- plause. She is said to be ono of the fore. most Bible Mothers on the continent, andherobject lesson this afternoon on Teaching Bible Geography by the use of the Sand Table fully sustained her high reputation. Mrs. Kennedy has a clear end sweet Now England voice, with a pleasant motherly face. Her mode of tllnetrating the beaching of Bible goo• graphy is unique and exceedingly inter. tiering. A blackboard and a table, on whioh was a quantity of sand, a shovel and trowel were planed upon the plat- form in view of the large oongregation. After a few introduetoxy remarks, in which she said she had made it a special part of her world to study seoular teach. ing, and expressed a belief that Sunday School scholars should be taught in 0 fssoinatiug way, the gifted teacher began her lesson by drawing in colors on the blackboard a picture of the Holy Land, She explained the history of each point as she went along, not forgetting to draw attention to the River Jordan, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Jerusalem, Jaffa, Dan and Beersheba were marked by rod stare. When she had finished the drawing the admiring delegates cheered, but Vire. Kennedy said her lesson was but half finished and turned to the table of sand. In a few minutes sbe presented a model of Palestine in sand, with its valleys and plains, table lands and mountains. So aoourately did she know the geography and history of Palestine that her address was one of beauty throughout. To make the lesson more strikingly clear a small plaster of Paris model of the temple was planed in its geographical position. She explained why she placed a fiah and net on the waters of the beautiful Galilee, why a boat contained Christ and His disciples WAS lying near Capernanm, why images of two sisters, a brother and another were resting at Bethany, and why a cross on which hong the Saviour of the world was erected at Gebheemane. When Mrs. Kennedy had finished her beautiful les- son she was congratulated on all hands, and all the prominent delegates present declared that it was the grandest illus• tration and most instructive address that bas ever been given at any of the Pro. vinoial conventions. TEMPERANCE. There were fully 2,000 people present, every inoh of the old ohuroh being jam- med, at the evening session. Rev. J. W. Bell, B. D., of Hamilton, in rising to address the audiences on "How the Sunday school can best aid the cause of temperance," said that he recognized the audience before him as one of the grandest. Temperance was not a sideshow. Some say that temper- ance is a ha'tidmaiden of religion. He hid not believe it. Temperance is re- ligion itself. "My text is there,' point- ing towards the gallery, upon which was the motto, "The love of Christ conatrain. eh us." Christ oame to help the world, and right there is the key note to the temperance movement. We mast not ignore oonvarsion, however, but we must not ignore information that will enable a mac to do the right thing after he is con. verted. Fight the saloon every way you can, but don't forget to instil into the minds of the children a horror of these dens of iniquity. It was almost itnpos- sible to find a ohapter in the Bible that did not teach tsmperanoe. The law of the land says that intemperance is not a sin, that it is a legal thing. If a man steals once the law sends him to gaol, but if the preacher gets up and declares that the saloon is wrong the law frowns upon him and says that the drunken - thee is wrong bub the saloon is all right. le is said that all things coma to him that waits, but he would amend that and melte it all things come to him who works. We have been waiting too long while the other fellows have been work- ing. So long have we been waiting that alcohol controle England, Germany, America and even Africa to boot. But we ars determined to reclaim these counbriee. When the woman's crusade was started in Ohio some years ago the children were taken into the organize. taco, and on the banner borne by tbeso boys were emblazoned the words, "Let the liquor traffic tremble. Wo will be mon.' What do we find now ? Why these men who were onus boys in Obio have voted the saloon out. He liked to thick of the day when in righteousness men shall stand from the Atlantic on the East to the aaim Pacific on the West, having the .grand aseuranoe that the liquor traffic has been banished forever from our glorious land. ' 908000 001100La AND trIE5I0Ne. The president then called npou Ilov. Dr. Sutherland, of 'Toronto, who took for his subject "The Sunday school in its relation t0 missions, home and foreign." In ancient times they had abatis en's crusades and revolving history has brought about a time when we again have ohildren's crusades. But in the ornsado of to -day we load the children, not to the sepalohre of the dead, bus to the golden throne of Christ and the living. The home and foreign missions aro one. Ho compared the mlesionary work to a great aggressive army. If they were sent out in one large, overgrown regiment they could nobossibly bo as endive es if they were divided up into companies and batbalions with their out- posts and advents° guards. So it was with this groat missionary movement, and he believocd that the brightest crowns i11 heaven would bo awarded to those missionary outposts in the foreign fields who were waiting for ,years with Christian fortitude for reiuforoemenbs. Although this great regiment should bo divided into squads, they mush also be ready at moment's notice to ante into combined action against the enemy. Ono of the most wonderful movements of modern times was the rodent wave that swept over our American collages, the result of which was that between 2,- 500 aid 3,000 of our brightest young stuclenta in Cauaila and the United States bath volunteered for the foreign mission field. And whore did those Christian etudents home from ? They first graduated from many of the Sab- bath (wheels that you represent. So he impressed upon them the fact that part of the future glory of these heroic eta. dents would reflect upon them, and this should bo au impetus to extend the grand worst. In referring to the Mora. turn of our modern Sunday schools Dr. Sutherland felt that he was treading on tender ground, but he would say that if some of his hearers would make a bon- fire of a number of these books he would be on hand with a box of matches. They could not do anything better for the future of the Christian ah0r011 than to get the scholars of their sohools to give freely to the missionary work. He would urge every parent before him who had a family to males an offering of one of those children to the glorious work of carrying the gospel to the poor heathen. This he believed to be the moat glorious calling an earth. TIIE PRIMARY T0ACIIEa, The last speaker of the evening was Mrs. M. Kennedy of Philadelphia, who was again heartily received. Her sub- ject was The Primary Teacher's Work. She said two architects stood looking at a grand cathedral in Europe. One said to the otber, "Could you build such a structure as that ?" "Yee," said his eom- panion, "if I knew bow to plaoe the first stone." That, said ole, is what all pri- mary teachers should learn—bow to lay the first stone. This work might seem slow and unprogressive, but as an illus• tration of the reeult she described bow fine Brussels lane was manufactured. Haab little ring was made by a different hand and in a dark workhouse, not one of the workmen knowing what the even- tual design would be until after eaoh little ring and thread had passed through the hands of the madder workmen. It was the same with the work of primary teachers. Not until our little ones, paid the speaker, had passed through the bands of the Maker and we to our re. ward would we know the beauty of the structure tbat we bad assisted to erect. Mrs. Kennedy said she had not time to speak folly on this snbjeob for want of time. Her address abounded in beautiful illustrations, and, although it was nearly 10 o'clock, and it was oppressively warm in the church, the great gathering listen. ed attentively and eagerly throughout. Before sitting down she urged the teach• ere to study well the nature of children ; to live olose to Christ at all times. Spending a Sabbath now and again with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration would not suffice. Preparation of the lesson involved two things—preparation of the head and preparation of the heart. The former made an interesting lesson, the latter an effective one. Above all teach thoroughly at least one thing. In conclusion Mrs. Kennedy adjured her hearers to work faithfully and earnestly for the Master and bright would be their reward. After the singing of the clovofo~rrf the session adjourned at 10:80. (Continued on page 2.) Washington Letter. (Prom our Regular Correspondent.) W1 sttr0OTON, Oet. 24, '00. The two congressional campaign nom• mittees have preetioally finished their work of sending out dooumente. They are now on hand only to answer letters and meet seoh eleventh -hour demands as may be made upon them for information, Each committee has Bent out enough documents to paper the land over, and if the 00,000,000 people who make up this nation are not educated on the tariff, the pension, the silver and the federal deo- tion question by the tat of Nov. it wont be the fault of the committees. The Re. publican committee have sent out more documents than the national oommittee distributed during the last presidential election. They have sent out more than 15,000,000 documents for the enlighten- ment of the public. One thing that has puzzled them considerably is to explain to the satisfaction of every one that bhp public have no reason to complain about the increase in prices of things the people have to buy, which followed promptly upon the enactment of the tariff law. On this sauna fact the Demo- crats are getting comfort out of the fact that the advertisements of morohanbs in papers all over bio country call attention to pending increase of prices to induce prompt purchase of stook of hand. It is claimed that the Republican campaign committee has nob rooelved a Dent from any government employee for use in the campaign, though a number of offers of money hero been made to them. They started out with the determination to avoid all oribioism on the snore of violet. ing the civil servfo0 law and when clerics have offered to contribute they have re- fused to accept the gift but have offeed to sell documents to the would be eon• tribnter at current rates. Usually, it is claimed, the olerke finding that they were not compelled to contribute thought better of their generosity and failed to buy the books. The literature distribut- ed was by no means confined to the tariff question ; a large proportion of the documents veleta to pensions, silver and federal election questions, not forgetting the revolution of parliamentary methods. The method has boon to thud documents everywhere possible and then to lot the eandidabes fight it onb for themselves with the aid of the looal committees. The various Republican State Assoota- bions in Washington, composed fu the main of Government employees in the elaaeiliecl service, are just now busily en. gaged in drumming up funds for the closing weeks of the campaign and teak. ing arrangement to go home and veto, Modeling to the usual inteepretabion of the civil ssrvioo law their asbivity ft Of a decidedly pernicious and offensive sort, but the work goes vigorously on withoab lot or hihderanoofrom any gunner and at the old "spoils system" gait. Every clerk is expeoted to put up on the usual pains and penalties, and the fact that assessmente art requosbed instead of be. ing demanded le only a slight distinction without any substantial cliffeeence. To ell preened intents and purposes the civil service low is suspended until the polls doss on the evening of the 4th of Nov. It theme pitiable that the civil service taw bas become so utterly die• orodited and friendless that no one in all the great and glorious reform combine. tion oares or dares to come to its rescue. The new Treasury notes design to be paid out for silver bullion aro being eagerly looked for by businese men, who want paper money of small denomination. The 510, $100 and $1,000 Treasury notes are already in ciraulaticn, and at the bureau of Engraving and Printing itis announced that the $1 and $5 bills will be delivered to the Treasury Depart. meat by the lab of next month. The sot establishing the new paper currency was paesed last July, and work on it was at once begun by the bureau, The beaks of the new $1 and $5 bills are al. ready printed and the plates have been engraved for the faces. The plates for the fame have been duplicated as is the practise in rho bureau, so that there are now twenty duplioats plates eaoh of the $5 and $1. bills. Printing from these plates will be begun at once and in a week or so the first of them will be de- livered. Four thousand of the now $10 Treasury notes will be delivered Setmr. day. After the $1 and $5 notes are fin- ished, work will be begun on the $2 Treasury notes and they are to be ready by the middle of next month. Ex -President Cleveland is in Wash- ington, looking, and evidently feeling remarkably well, ss a man who has been highly honored by the people and abund- antly prospered by fortune, naturally should look and feel. All reports as to the impairment of his health, or any superabundance of weight, may be heavily dieoounted. He bas every ap- pearance of a well.to-do, substantial citizen, with a past record to be proud of, a bright future to live for, and no tor- menting ambitions to keep him awake o'nights. It is business before the Supreme Court that beluga Mr. Cleve. laud to the Capital. Senator Quay doesn't appear to be holding a joint debate this campaign with anybody but himself, and that very quietly. The extra session talk has quieted down. It is well for the administration that it did not encourage it. Who Pays the patty ? To the Editor of The 'P i et.' Som—TRE POET says that W. H. Mc. Grethen shipped 500 bushels of potatoes last Saturday to Chicago on which the duty was $125. Who loses it ? If Mr. MoOraoksn, after having paid for the potatoes at home, shipped them to Chia - ego and paid' freight, duty and all ex- penses whatever in connection with the transaction and was not recouped for his outlay by the American who purchased then Mr. McCracken lost. But if Mr. McCracken got the price of his potatoes book, all his outlay in freight, duty, and a little profit on his venture Mao. lost nothing but I would fain hope gained something. The unfortunate American- °oteumer had to foot the whole bill and therefore lost the duty. Yours, very truly, Grey, Nov. 503, 1890. PAn1ER. • Brussels Council. The regular meeting of the Village Council was held in the council ohamber last Monday evening, Present—The Reeve and Oounuillors McIntosh, Stew- art and Ainley. Minutes of last meeting read and pass- ed. The following accounts were pre- sented : H. James, engine and street lighting$24 50 W. 11. McCracken, abarity acab... 8 05 Turnbull & Ballantyne, sundries.. 9 06 Amend Bros., lumber 18 64 F. C. Rogers, expenses re railroad meeting 2 00 J. M. O'Connor, insurance re Howe 03 75 Mrs. Meadows, caring for Hall15 00 Mrs. Blaahill, charity 5 00 W. Smith, street improvements19 16 Geo. Edwards, repairing culvert75 Burns, three', improvements1 25 Wm. Denbow, 2 loads earth 1 25 Moved by W. F. Stewart, seconded by W. Ainley that above a000unts be paid.— Carried. The resignation of Councillor Strachan was handed in owing to his going out of bceiness and the giving up of his rase donee. Moved by J. If. Mnlntosh, am- ended by W. F. Stewart that the resigna- tion of Mr. Strachan be accepted, but on account of it being so near the and of the year no election be held to fill vacancy. —Corried. Moved by Watson Ainley, secouded by W. F. Stewart that the custodians of the Band be caked to hand over instruments, clothing, &c, to the Clerk unbil the Band is re-organized.—parried. Council then adjourned. Fourth Division Court. The usual sittings of the Fourth Div- ision Court was held on the 30th ult., Judge Doyle presiding. The following oases were heard : Cooper vs. IVIoDonald—A, jury Dass. Action by plff. for damages for injuries received by him caused by delta. dog frightening horse. The jury, after de• liberation, returned'a verdict for defb. Hamilton vs. Harrison .-Ga•nishse MAO. Adjourned. Bank of Montreal vs. Scott—An acl. joernnd emit from August Court. Re- sulted in a judgment of non -snit with costs. Mnlntosh ,(111feTaggarb vs, Menton -- A defended action on a promissory note. Judgmonb for stiffs. with ousts. Love vs. Nelson—Faulkonor st al gar. nishoes. Adjourned for soeviee on prim- ary debtor. IIanhofer vs, McDonald—Suit for in. )Miens tolffs. peoporty, Jedgment of etn•stlit by eeneent. Hanhofer vs. Hudson—A sinner ac- tion with same deliverenoe. Wilton sea Denman-Livingetono gar- nishee. Judgment for printery evoelitor against primary debtor 031y. Wymn vs. MoNichot—hisputed ac. oouut, Judgment for pita with coats. Galtz vs, McIntosh -•-Clark garnishee. Judgment for pill. against primary deb- tor only. Hueter vs. McKay—Settled by pathless. A number of judgment summons were heard and the usual orders made. The next sittings of Court will be held on the 20tH December. Ca.uuclian NC "WS. Ten persons in Winnipeg died of ty. phoid fever last month. Another natural gas well is reported from Humberston Township. Incendiarism tae again broken out in the country north of Brockville. The T. H. & B. Railway people are showing signs of activity in Hamilton. Jas. Roblin, of Bowmanville, dropped dead in his garden on Friday evening. The Walkerton water -works bylaw was carried the other day by 89 majority. Snow fell to the depth of about a foot west of Lake Superior on Monday night. A large number of Icelanders have ar- rived from Dakota to settle in Manitoba. The venue of the North Bruce election has bean changed from Walkerton to Port Elgin. What purports to be a narrative of Birahall's doings on Feb. 17th comes from Woodetook. Wm. Tobin, an employee in a Toronto shingle mill, had his body nearly severed by falling on a circular saw. During the year ending August, 1890, Toronto street oars travelled 4,390,509 miles at a coat of 11h 'tante per mile. The inspector of prisons has issued orders that no more reporters or pub. lishers shall communicate with Birchen. The Hamilton Speotator has dropped its morning edition. Both the Spectator and Times have reduced the price to one cent. Newspapers, supposed bo know the mind of the Ottawa Government, hint that the postage rate will be reduced to two Dents. T. Mollroy, an employee of A. Harris, Son & Co., Brantford, got his arm °aught in some machinery on Saturday and pulled out of the socket. At Chatham on Saturday Justice Mao. Mahon sentenced Gustavus Park, who confessed to a oharge of manslaughter, to two years in penitentiary. The Quebec Legislature met Monday. Mr. Marchann was re•eleoted speaker of the Assembly, and J. - Blanohet was ehosen leader of the Opposition. A convention of Essex County prohi- bitionists was held at Essex Centre last week to organics a campaign for the adoption of the local option late in the different municipalities. Alice Walled', charged with the mor. der of her husband, Jas. Wallace, at Port Alma, Kent Co., was on Saturday declared nob guilty and immediately dis- charged by Judge Macb2abon. A young man who was employed by a St. Louis firm, from whioh he stole 570,- 000, was located in Toronto, confessed, refunded $45,000 and left for home on the rnderstanding that be would not be prosecnted. A Halifax man has patented in Can- ada and the States en "ice oyole. " The machine has two runners, driven by a rear wheel with a spiked tire. The work- ing gear is much similar to that of the ordinary tricycle. Jas. McCallum, of Glencoe, was struck by a train between Ridgetown and Blen- heim on Monday and carried 50 feet on the pilot. The man had his left leg broken and was otherwise bruised, but a bottle of whisky in his pookat was un. injured. Geo. Ross, of Freelton, shot himself in the arm the other day. The gun was loaded and left standing up against a log. When Ross returned to get it, lin pulling it over the log it went off, the shot enter- ing at the elbow and lodging in the shoulder. Prsaton Progress says:—Too young girls literally "painted the town rod" one evening this week, having decorated the faeces of Messrs. Wirsohing, Fenwick, Balmer and Nispel with red paint. The girls wore made olean•ths paint off with turpentine. On Friday Daly Bros. moved a frame house from oue side of town to the other, battling it on skids with their traction engine. The novel sight of a house be. ing drawn through the streets by steam was watched by a large crowd. The ex• periment was successful, and this mode of removing buildings may yet become oustomary.—Forest Free Press. Messrs. Crossley and Hunter, the evangelists, will remain in Portage la Prairie two or three weeks, and from there will go to Morden for ten days. Rev. Mr. Hunter will then return home for a few weeks' rest and to visit his fam- ily. On the ooast Victoria, Vancouver and New Westminster will bo visited, and also Porbland, Oregon, and Helena, Montana. About two weeks ago an unknown mac was found dead in a ohair at the Wilcox House, St. Thome, and from the pub- lished dssoription of deooasod it was thought be was John Croft, of Hamilton, who had 1e1b that city two mouths ago. Friends of the Hamilton man went to St. Thome to identify the body, and al. though the hair of deceased was more gray than Croft's was thought bo be, the identification in other particulars Was aatisfasbory, nibs. Croft and members of the Foresters' Lodge of which Ornfb was a member, Mae went to St. Thomas, and it was decided to bring the body to Hamilton for burial, there being soaroe- ly a doubt in the nninds of his relatives and Honda that the body was that of John Croft. The Memel took place frons the Croft homestoacl on Margaret street, a few days ago, and the family have ninon bosh in mounting. Monday a tele. gram was received from London from the genuine John Croft, and he has since ar. rived barna and 10 with his family. As soon as ate. Croft hoard of the 'dekko lee hastened to inform his wife and family that 110 WAS alive and well end now there is meth rejoining in the Croft Enmity. Who the man is whose body was brought from St. Thema and in. toned in Ilamttton is nob known, and it is doubtful if his identity will over be established. Perth County, Fire wood is very saarco in Stratford at present. The amount of duty collected in Strut. ford during October was $3,200.80. The blacic rot appears to be playing havoc with the potatoes in some places. Over one half of them are blaok in the pita, The Methodist authorities in St. 1farye have bad four eleotrie lights placed in the church to be used instead of gas. Geo. Brown, one of Elma's welbto•do farmers, has a ram, dropped in April last, 'whichtipped the scales in October at 180 lbs, John Fairgriove. of London, has made arrangements for the institution of orders of the Royal Scotiish Clans in Glencoe and St. Marys. Thos. O'Hagan, formerly of the Mitch.. ell High School, is now editor of the North-western Witness, a literary paper published in Duluth. The Stratford vital statistics for the month of October as reported to pity Clerk Long are as follows :—Births, 15 ; marriages, 7 ; deaths, 9. Some very large citrons may be seen at the residence of Geo. MoNiohol, Done- gal, One turned the scales at 16 lbs., 12 oz., and five others would eaoh weigh very little less. Wm. Fraser, Avon ward, Stratford, recently dug out of his garden two big potatoes. One weighed two pounds and the other one pound and a half. Both Dame from the same hill. Mise Knox, who has been giving read- ings and recitations along the C. P. R. in the Northwest and British Columbia, will shortly return to Ontario to spend the winter at her home in St. Marys. The employees of the G. T. R. shops, Stratford, have been planed on short time -44a hours per week, instead of 54, as formerly. It is rumored that fifteen men have left the shops in consequence. About two o'clock Thursday morning fire broke out in the livery stable owned by Kidd Bros., and 000upied by D. Situp. son, in Listowel. The frame portion of it was totally destroyed. Lose, $1,000. Covered by insurance. Geo. Sutter, a farmer living about 3 miles from Milverton, was found dead in a ditch on Saturday night. An inquest was held by Dr. Shaver, coroner, and after the examination of e, large number of witnesses the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Following are the newly elected oificere of the Perth Teachers' Association President, J. A. Tanner ; y ioe•Prosident, Miss K. Richmond ; Sec.-Treas., S. H. Harding ; Committee of Management— J. D. Monteith, D. C. Munro, T. G. Rat- eliffe. Miss Quinn, Mise Draper. At a recent meeting of the Stratford Building Society, a dividend of 7 per oent. per annum on stook paid in was re- ported. There are at present 421 shores subscribed, at $200 per share, on which payments of $1 per month per share are made by the shareholders, of whom there are 89. The annual oonvention of the Perth Teaohers' Association opened Thursday morning of last week in the oollegiate in- stitute hall, Stratford, the president, Geo. Hamilton, being in the chair. He sketch- ed the progress the profession had made in this country, and concluded by urging the teachers to use their influence to build up a healthy patriotic sentiment in the minds of their pupils. The sessions ware well attended and the discussions practical. C. Dickie introduced the oub- jert of "Teaching Geography with a Class," and S. J. Radcliffe, B. A., read a very able essay on "English Composition". The address of Prof. Clark of Trinity University on 'Reading and IIow to Teach it," was a treat, and abounded with new and practical ideas. In the evening Prof. (hark gave an elocutionary entertain- ment, interspersed with music by looal talent, the programme being both varied and interesting. A. Stratford despatch of Friday says:— 'Harry J. Croat, for many years city bill poster, died suddenly at his residence, Argyle street, at about 11 o'clock last night. Ile was around in the afternoon distributing stile bills and was as cheer- ful and talkative as usual. Grout went to bed soon after supper last night, as he did not feel wen, and shortly before 11. his wife wan aronsed by two loud screams from her husband. Croat got out of bed and seizing the bedstead in one hand and the door in the other, exclaimed ;—"That man has done it. Sand for a doctor I am going to die." Medial assistance was sunt for, but before it arrived he was dead. When asked what was meant by the exclamation 3—"That man done it' Mrs. Grout said he had reference to the man who bad beaten him in a dispute over a drain last seminar. She says her husband has always complained of polite in his aide since then. The dootor who attended him said the amuse of bis death was heart diatoms, Grout had been a bill poster in Stratford for thirty years. sal ootid r til I.'' (ewes, Another big conspiracy of forgery has been unearthed in Europe. There was another "Jack the Ripper" there in South Hampstead last week. The Germans of New York city cofn- brated Count the Moltico's 90th birthday by mesio, deooratiens and dancing. D. H. Wyokbron & Co., importers of diamonds in New Yarls, have assigned. Their bnsinose aggregated $1,000,000 a year. A law hoe just been prnmelgated in Norway to the effect that no girl shall be eligible for the 00001rieg0 state until she isnrofoiont in spinning, knitting and bakirg. A duel to the death was fought` near Daniclaville, Ga., on Saturday, in which Wm. Saunders, a prominent planter, Was killed, and Wm. Martin, his neigh- hoe, fatally wounded. The 3-year.old son of Colas Elliman of Wichita, 1{s„ fell into a tab of boiling water Sunday while no ono wee present, re- turned and found theeAlla with itsthe etflesh completely 00olc5d.