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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1890. Number 19.
BIROHALL HANDED..
Birchen mot his awful death bravely
at Woodstock jail on Friday.
The heavy oaken door of the old prison
was swung open about seven o'clock, and
the first one of thine who had been grant-
ed a pass to the seine of execution ad-
mitted, But before the sun had made ire
appearance, almost before it gave any
warning of its approach, a little group of
man stood without the jail walls, eager to
learn eomething of the approaching
tragedy. And their numbers grew until
nearly one hundred people were in wait-
However, after the doors were opened
the number did not increase, as enough
of those wbo put in an appearance were
provided with the necessary slips of paper
vith the Deputy Sheriff's name attached
hereto to keep the crowd from growing.
.tleputy Perry himself took the posses at
i`he door, a constable assisting him, and,
as one after another of the witnesses of
the last ant in the lite of John Reginald
Biroball filed in, the envy of those who
had not been accorded the privilege (1)
became more apparent, but to no purpose.
And as the numbers on the outside of
the jail diminished, the gathering in the
enclosed wort yard increased. Between
ball -past seven and eight o'clock the
larger portion of the spectators arrived,
until about
200 PEOPLE WEne 014108ENT.
Al this time all Was bustle and esoite-
ment in the jail and court yard. Report-
ers predominated, and one hundred note
books and pencils seemed in constant use.
The oliok of a telegraph instrument was
resounding above the low din paused by'
tho hurried conversation going on—the
questioning of the newspaper men, wbo
thronged around the few jail ofoiela, and
the "I wonders" of those wboeo idle ouri.
osity had brought them thither.
THE HA1OMAN
had been sitting in the jailer's offioe, talk-
ing freely, as though he were just about
to start on n pleaanre excursion, for near.
ly half an hour. The venerable old
Sheriff was there in bis "robes of office,"
but wearing an entirely different look on
his pleasant oountenauoe from that which
covered the face of the Englishman who
was to take the leading part in relieving
unfortunate Birohall of his life.
When Constable Ward, of London,
walked up to the door, the executioner
arose and extended hie hand to Ward,
who shook it warmly. The two men con-
versed for a while. Suddenly, as if the
thought of his duty had just occurred to
him, he left Ward and uttered a few
words to the Sheriff, who nodded his
assent. Then he picked up
THE 00L1 conn
which was to do the work, and, putting
his wide -rimmed slouched bat over his
head, he walked out of the corridor into
the western yard, drawing at a briar root
pipe. Immediately all eyes were turned
upon him, and he was scrutinized from
head to foot by the assembled throng, but
he seemed to oare not the slightest ; in
faot, he rather enjoyed having the Oben.
tion bestowed upon him. He walked
straight over to the
AWFUL ENGINE OF DEATH,
which stood grimly in the north east
corner of the western yard. Arrived
here, be raised, with the assistance of a
constable, an old ladder, and immediately
began running the rope through the acv
eral rings and pulleys. The 860 -pound
weight which was to give the fatal jerk
lay on the ground, and when the rope had
been attended to, leaving the end at which
was the hangman's knot in position, the
otber end was attached to the weight.
Here the exeontioner betokened to Corn
stable Ward to assist liim in raising the
weight, but met with a refusal. Then
another constable was palled and the iron
was raised 1111111 high enough to connect
it with a heavy Main which hung from a
ring fastened in the cross -beam of the
gibbet; and there it bung, leaving about
015131/3 FEET Or 800011.
All this labor 000npied about fifteen
minutes, and, after looking carefully over
the workings of ilia instrument, the hong.
man walked back bo the jail door, and,
with a notion, informed the Deputy
Sheriff, who was standing there, that all
was ready. Then for five minutes there
was another buzz of excitement and aw-
ful suspense. Mau walked hither and
thither, wondering what prevented the
arrival of the expected.
0 reocie18(0N Or DEAT1I.
Ab length word coma that it was about
to appear. A constable stood at the door
and waved to the ()rowel, which had
surged up around the scaffold to examine
Its grim details. They had hardly com-
plied when footsteps were heard Doming
down the iron stairoaae, which winds its
way down into the centre of the jail from
the corridor wherein Birchall hes been
confined. Quiokas a flash the sound was
taken up, and before the stentorian notes
of Rural Dean Wade'a volae were hoard
in the lower corridor everyone know that
ib WW1 coming.
I am the r8sm'r0011011 and the iife,
eaith the Lord ; he that believeth in Me
though he were dead yet shall ho live ;
and whosoever livabh and bolisveth in Me
shall never die, were the words as thoy
oamo train the lips of the Dean before the
procession 00110 1n view. Dean Wade
led, followed closely by Birohall, who
took a hurried glance et the arowcl, and
smiled faintly,
1111 WAS PALE,
but hrigilt-oyed ; his flush seemed to have
decreased somewhat, but there Was no
particular change noticeable from the
time he sat in the prisoner's bar in rho
old Town Ilan a few short weeks ago,
anal heard the death sentence passed up.
on him. He stood lu the Moor for a
moment, the) walked down the stone
steps and toward the manifold. When
within twenty foot of the scaffold a halt
Was made, the Dean ropoating tite Psalm
meanwhile, 810011011 was supported ou
ono eide by hie
01 n COLLEGE 0110.E,
Arthur lie Leathern, of lMonteeal, and
in the profession Gaoler Cameron, Dr.
Chamberlain, Inspeotor of Priaona, and
Deputy -Sheriff John Perry. Sheriff
Perry name as far as the door and their
remained.
Then followed the scene whish proved
the most trying to the nervaa of all.
Standing
Ivan 1308 ME TO THE N00011,
which was dangling in the soft breeze
Birchen was compelled to remain during
the long drawn-out psalm. But he stood
it bravely, throwing forward his right
leg in a enrolees way. It seemed as
though the psalm would never be ended,
but at length it was finiehed, and then
the procession moved rapidily forward
at the familiar words "Mau that is born
of woman hath but a short time to live
and is full of misery."
Arriving beneath the scaffold Birohall
was faced around, and looked steadily
into the eyes of the epeotators for a
moment or two while the hangman stoop-
ed down and pinioned his legs, his arms
having been soourely strapped before
leaving his cell. Then lie took a last
farewell of his old friend Leathern. The
parting was full of
INTENSE 000141,
and almost indescribable. The two men,
strong in life, so Boon to part forever on
this aide of eternity, grasped each other's
hand and shook ib warmly, and then
their lips met. Biroball'e smile as he
let go of his true friend's hand for the
last time was one never to be forgotten
by those who witnessed it. The minister
came to the words, "I heard a voice
from heaven saying unto me; until hence.
forth, blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord, even so aaith the Spirit, for
they rest from their labors,' and when
he had finished he extended his hand to
Birchen, who instantly seized it and
went forward as though to kiss the Dean.
Noticing this, the clergyman also leaned
forward, and Birchall
IEPLANTED A 14188
on Mr. Wade's right cheek, following it
with each another faint smile as he had
bestowed on Mr. Leathern. The recital
of the Lord's prayer was then begun, the
Dean appearing to hurry through it at
suoh a rate as to names the hangman also
to hurry. However, before the black
oap had been slipped over his face and
while the noose was adjusted, Birchall
gave his band to the executioner, who
stood with bared head.
"Good.bye," said Birchall.
"Good-bye," returned tho hangman, as
he gave the extended band a quick shake.
"God bless you. Do your work well,"
were
THE LA8T MUDS
that escaped from the lips of the doomed
man.
The prayer was tniehed before the
drop fell, and there was a breathless
silence in the moment that followed its
conclusion, as the executioner tugged
three times at the rope which was at.
tached to the weight. Bub at the )bird
pull the chain slipped its hold and the
weight shot down, burying itselt in the
ground a couple of inohes. The jerk
which the condemned received was beard.
bly euddeo. He
snot INTO 010E Ant 05001 EIGHT FEET,
going first to one side and then straight
up. Then followed the death struggle,
and it soon became evident that his neok
wee not broken and that be was choking
to death. Ilia chest heaved terribly, and
his arms and lege were drawn up and re-
laxed fifty times, while hisfingere twitch-
ed fearfully. The hangman stood by and
held the feet of the dying man to steady
1»m, For one and a half minutes these
convulsions lasted, and then all seemed
over. The swinging body was soon sur-
rounded by a host of doctors. At two
minutes after the drop his pulse was go.
fog at the rate of exby.
AT 8Ix MINUTES
life was extinct.
Birohall's two supporters burst into
tears as the unforbunabe young mon was
hurled into eternity. Leathern struggled
hard to control himself, but large tears
Welded down his cheeks and ho occasion-
ally sobbed audibly. Guard Perry gave
more outward signs of his grief, and his
tears were mingled with 0011elIISive erica.
STHANazED.
The black oap had nob Dome below
Birahall'a month, end as beg swung
around before being cub down his face
and lips were seen to have swollen ter.
ribly. Bfs neck, where the knot was,
bad been slightly scratched also, and
terribly stretched, and it was painfully
visible that the rope hacl not bean slack -
el suflioienbly. Before the body was cut
down—at 8;44—every one but the jury
and doctors were cleared out of the yard
aucl jail. Tho
POST Arol1Tltn
then proceeded, after the body had been
oarrled into the jail corridor on a stretch-
er. When the blank cap was removed
his whole fano was sivoll511 fearfully, and
two of his front teeth had penetrated his
tongue,
Several witnesses ware examined and
a vseliob given that death had resulted
tram etrangulation.
Trill WORE WELL DONE,
The opinion of the goal officials and
Dr. Chamberlain is that the exeontion
was well done. Dr.l Chamberlain says
he 1laverlsew a more finiahed execution,
and in his judgment Birohall felt nothing
three sococde after the weight had been
tipped.
Tho body will be buried in the Reel
yard, but whereabouts the officials will
not divulge.
1510 LA1T (100160.
Birehall's last Mamie m1 earth were
most unhappy. Parting from doer friends
seemed to worry him moat, and wben
the final leave taking bebwee1 himself
and his faithful wife took place, 13ir0hall
was completely unnerved. The soon.to-
be.aaWidow arrived at ,tits jail about 7;15
and was admitted to her hueband'l cell,
Olre, Went.Jonee accompanied her, but
did, not remain long, bidding Birchen a
last gg oed-bye before leaving, Tho hue.
band and wife were oloaely wetohed by
kis gnnrd, Goo. Peery, There Were ileo the guard throughout ttleit lest balk to.
gather, Mrs, Birchall remaining until
one o'clock Friday morning.
A short time after Mrs. Birohall's ad.
mittanee to her husband's oell, the Rev.
Mr, Wade, the prisoner's spiritual ad.
vises, arrived. IIe was ushered into the
oorridor and remained throughout the
entire night, never leaving the prisoner
until after his execution.
Birchnll's collage friend, Mr, Leathern,
and the Dean were the last to be with
the doomed man in his cell, and both
seemed to feel the mental strain more
than slid the murderer. Prayer was fres.
queutly indulged in for the soul so soon
to take its Sight, Birohall finally joining
in ; and when the Deputy Sheriff and the
executioner arrived at the door of the
condemned's cell and rapped lightly the
three were upon their knees, Birchall re-
peating the prayer which the Dean was
making. They at once arose, and
Birohell'a last obanee to use hie arms
freely was soon gone.
stns. ni0OueLL.
After the unfortunate lady's return to
her hotel, whither she was escorted from
the jail by Arbher Leetham, wbo had had
an interview with Birohall through the
bars, she retired. Awakening at 7 o'clock
she was given an opiate, and slept sound-
ue%fi after the execution had taken place.
Mr. Leathern said she was awake at 11
o'olook, and seamed to take the terrible
affair very well
THE 0L011105 HE NODE.
Birohall's.coat and vest worn to his
execution were the same as he was daily
attired in during the trial. His troneora
were of tweed, the pattern being a broad
check of dark material. He wore patent
leather boots. A white flannel shirt and
black bow tie completed the outfit. Just
above his breast pocket a spotted silk
handkerchief was visible. The condemn-
ed man's hair was neatly parted, and
his moustache carefully curled.
The hangman's clothes were the same
as he wore at the Smith execution—blaok
Prince Albert and light trousers.
Mrs. Birchall passed a comfortable
night Friday, and next morning was
more composed than at any time since
the exeoutton took plane. She still re.
fuses to be interviewed by reporters.
Mrs. Birobell and Mrs. West•Jones will
remain in Woodstock for a week or two
at tenet, as there are some business mat-
ters which have to be attended to before
they sail for England. It is stated that
another effort will be made by Mrs.
Birohall to get possession of the body,
and that if she is successful it will be in-
terred in the Church of England ceme-
tery at Woodstock.
I3ow. to Ship Eggs to Great
Britain.
In view of attempts being made on bhe
part of Canadian exporters of eggs to
open up trade with Great Britain, the
following brief summary, prepared by
the London (Eng.) oorreapondent of the
Canadian Groner and Generel Store.
keeper, Toronto and Montreal, will be of
great value :
LoxnoN, 111Na., bier. 8,1800.
soait008 Or 500100.
The trade here 15 eagerly competed for
by the neighboring continental countries,
such as France, Holland and Denmark,
ovary facility in point of quick despatch
and cheap freightage being given by the
respective railway and steamship com-
panies.
In many cases the eggs get into oon-
sumption within a week after leaving
sources of supply, thus ensuring the pro-
duce arriving in such a condition as to
secure the full advantages of the market.
In order to reduce laydown cost, every
attention has been paid to economy in
colleotion and cheapness of packing.
Experience has shown suppliers the most
pourable modes of working the business,
combined with the reduobion to the lowest
cost of outlay in placing on this market,
in a good merchantable condition.
OG\niiE1.
As may be imagined, in a oonntry like
our own, which gives but little attention
to dairy outran, there is an extensive
1oope forforeige supplies. Supplies all
find a ready demand, prides varying ma -
cording to the condition of the trade.
Competition serves to keep prions at a
moderate level; the fact, also, that goods
have all to be sold directly on arrival,
bends to lower rates.
Supplies so far have not overtakes de.
mend, blit ciroumstanoes point to the
fact that any largo influx of eggs would
havo to be introduced with the greatest
caution, and by those firms possessing it
knowledge of the handling of bhe trade.
PaIOE5,
Those vary according to rho season of
the year, but may roughly be said to
vary on best selected qualities from 9s.
to 100.; medium 7s. 61. bo 8a. Gd. Small
parcels of Canadian, its a novelty, have
found buyers as high as 10s. Od., but
with regular supplies prices would soon
Ana their own level.
an51,00LE5 TO BUSINES0.
These are chiefly due to the 110005001ily
longer transit, as compared with Con.
bimetal supplies. Whatever facilities of
cheap end rapid freight transit ere pro.
vided by those steamship lines anxious to
pioneer the trade, the undoubted extra
cost, which must of necessity be inourre l
before 10914100 channels of outlet are
found and rho trade shapes itself into a
groove, would neoeaeiate that, the eggs
5honld be laid down here in an equally
fresh condition as the boat Frelrb qual-
ities, to insure them obtaining that aver-
age level of price which we estimate
would pay Canadian expoeters. The
question, after all, turas on the blunt
point, whether quality for quality, and
pejo for price, Cauedian eggs ala allow
equal, or better, value as compared with
those supplies whtoh have so fax served
this market so well.
A further dillioulty would be found in
the inexperi000e the Canadian shippers
possess as to rho various dotails of seloe-
tion and packing demanded by the trade
here.
These can only be acquired by expect.
lanae which will have to be bought, and
it will not be until shippers havo been
able to grasp full details of 110 various
requirements of our trade, that full
market value can be obtained for their
shipmonte.
PA1EINO,
That the requirements of this market
are not understood is shown by the one
or two sample abipmeets, either arriving
in ingeniously constructed boxes, com-
partmented, or in ordinary sized barrels,
both packing being of far too expensive a
character to compete with the more
economical and, at the same time, more
effective method adopted for bringing
eggs to this market from the Continent,
which is as follows :—Each Daae contains
twelve long hundred (120)-1-1.10 eggs,
banked between thin layers of straw.
These cases aro further divided into
halves by a double erose -wise partition,
which allowe of the case being cut into
halves on arrival—this method being
found to ensure safer transit. Each half
of the case contains 720 eggs, peaked in
layers of about 180.
OENE8AL P1108PE0115.
Provided ehipmenta of supplies are
controlled, and shippers generally avoid
showing too great an anxiety to cultivate
business, we have every reason to believe
a trade can be effeotually worked up on a
sound basis, It Is certain, however, that
before establishing their business here,
Canadian shippers will have to pay their
footing and proceed very oautioasly in
their competition against those other sup-
pliers wbo possess a highly organized
system for fighting fresh comers.
Washington Letter. •
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
WAenrvsTON, Nov. 7, '00.
The interest taken in Washington in
the elections, which rose to fever haat
Tuesday night, shows little. if any, signs
of abatement. Trus, the 't xuberanoe of
spirit had calmed down considerably,
but there is an undercurrent of grat-
ification and delight that manifests itself
plainly enough wherever two or three
Democrats are gathered together This
feeling is not, however, displayed in noisy
demonstrations. The victors demean
themselves modestly, and are as a rule,
not disposed to crow over their Repub-
lican friends. Republicans are visibly
oppressed. The terms "landslide,' "cy-
clone," "tidal -wave," "revolution," are
spoken by them in sepulchral tones. If
there is a silver fringe to the universal
black cloud that lines the Republican
horizon the local followers of the g. o. p.
seen unable to discern it.
The victory of the Democrats is more
widespread than the most sanguine mem-
ber of that party oould have expoctsd.
That most of the obief strongholds of the
Republicans have been wrested from
them and a Democratic majority in the
popular house of Congreea of more than
a hundred should heves been returned
is a result ao sweeping that it cannot be
fully grasped. It strains the mental
faculties to 0onoeive of the lose, of such
grates as Massaohuesetts, Michigan, Kan-
sas, Wiaoonsin, not to speak of the great
state of Pennsylvania. Nothing short of
a popular upheaval could have taken them
from the Republican column where they
have been so long the chief reliance.
Tho gains the Democrats have made
in the Senate House. They had no
chance in that body of getting a majority
at this time and the situation was goner.
ally regarded as such that they oould not
hope for control there for a number of
years. The gains they have made at this
eleotion, however, give them some hopes
that if they elect the President in '92
they may at the same time gain the Set -
ate and gat ooutrol of the government.
The Republican majority in the Senate
during the short session of Congress will
be fourteen, the new Senators to be ad-
mitted from Idaho and Wyoming in-
creasing the total membership to eighty.
six. Hence in the Fifty.seoond Congress
a gain of seven Senators by the Demo-
crats would tie that body on political
questions and give the Vioe-president the
deciding vote, '
The mated for the Speakership of
the next Reuse was a subject much dis-
missed in Congregational oiroles at the
close of the past %melon of Congress,
when it was understood thea the Demo-
crats would almoet certainly prevail.
At that stage there tette considerable
apeoulabiou as to 1115 control of the
Farmer's Alliance would have in the
organization of the House, on the seppos-
ition that the Democratic majority would
range betweee ton and thirty. Under
the conditions that were expected to pre-
vail, it was natural that the Southern
candidates for Speaker wore regarded a0
having the advantage, bub the overwhelm.
fug victory whioh gives the Democrats an
unlookod for majority in the House, puts
an entirely naw fano on the matter. As e
faotor in the election of a Farmer's Allf.
mice will not have the weight expected.
In fact the members eleotiou by that or-
ganization are a small minority compared
with the great majority rho Democrats
will have auybow. A.e the gains made
by the Dsmoarats were mainly in the
North, the Domoorats from that section
will be es numerous as those from the
South, en unprecedented state of affairs.
So if the Speaksr5hil contest should bo
made on Sectional .lines, the eandidatos
from the Northern Statue would be at no
disadvantage.
It can be stated 011 the authority of a
cabinet Dither that the President will not
call an extra mission of Congress, The
let of December 50m05 on Monday and
Congress will meet in regular session ion
Chet day. Thera is no argeloy demand -
111R an extra session, am nutted on the
same authority, and the reasons that
were potent in suggesting it several weeks
ago, de not hold now. Only four weeks
110nuti1l before the regular session could
hardly arrive hors lu time for a session
if 0110 were galled. Those and other
120000015, it is claimed, heyo lad the Pres•
ideut to the determination nob to Dell en
extra 80581011.
Now that the committees at political
headquarters have stopped oondiug 001
e0ulpaign doatlments the thrlfy hoaeo-
wives all over the land aro wondering
where their next supply of kindling mat,'
orial is to come from.
It was very thoughtful in the Repub.
thane to admit nix new states, The
Democrats have taken posseselon of about
alt the old ones.
Cst,usLe iau Ne wee.
Wallaooburg has 88 active firemen.
Chicken thieves are operating exten-
sively in the neighborhood of Welland,
R. M. Wanzer & Co„ sewing machine
and lamp manufacturers, of Hamilton,
have called a meetingl, of their creditors.
At a meeting of the traeteea of the
Galt public schools, Chief Constable
Ahern was appointed truant officer for
the town.
Rev. Wm. Patterson, for four years
pastor of Cook's church, Toronto, has re-
ceived into its membership during that
time over 900 members.
'(he young ladies of Galt and vicinity
have lately organized a walking club with.
about thirty members. The object is, of
course, reareation and pleasure.
John F, McKinley, one of Wayne
county's newly.eleoted representative In
Michigan State Legislators, is a son of
Police Magistrate John P. McKinlay, of
Ridgetown.
Roland Jackson, the boy who lost a leg
last spring, being ran over by a street
car, has begun suite for $1,000 damages
Kunst the Walkerville Eleotrio Rail-
way Compan
The protesty against the election of W.
D. Balfour, as M. P. P. for South Essex,
has not been filled, and as Wednesday
last was the last day for filling papers the
proceedings will be dropped.
Owen Sound wants Tara to give a
bonus of $10,000 to secure railway con-
nection with the first named town. The
leader says that Tara might give $8,000,
butt the sum asked for, never.
An enormous scarlet radish was grown
this year by Chas. H. Fore, of Crow.
land, It weighs six pounds and ten oz.,
and measures two feet two inches in
length and twenty inches in circum-
ference.
John Bullock, Platteville, took out of
his garden a few days ago a geranium,
the like of which was perhaps never be-
fore seen in Paris. It is over 8 feet high
5 feet broad and some of the leaves
measure over 8 iuohoe in diameter.
Robert Kenyon, lame and paralyzed,
has been arrested at Comber charged
with having stabbed Loughsed in the
arm duringa quarrel over the mutilating of
Kenyon's hat at a Salvation Army meet-
ing of Sunday night. Lougheed's wound
is not .dangerous.
Wm. Muir, aged 9, and Curry Morrison
11 years old, of Windsor, have filled their
boyish minds with dime novel trash to
anal) an extent that they skipped out on
Tuesday lamb in "search of Adventure,"
and every effort to find their whereabont
has yet been of no avail,
John Shannon, of Beat Zorra, arrested
on the charge of shooting School Teacher
Damm, was brought before the magis-
trate Monday, and admitted to ball. He
gave his own recognizance for $2,000 and
two sureties—father and brother—$1,000
each. The ease was adjourned until the
29th inst.
Rev. Dr. Carman, general superinten-
dent, and Dr. Griffin, Stratford, leave
on Mondey for Philadelphia to attend a
meeting to make arrangements for the
Ecumenical Council of the Methodists of
the world to assemble in New York in
October, 1891. The Council is the first
held since the gathering in London in
1881.
The Directors of tite West Wawanosh
Fire Insurance Go. held their monthly
meeting recently, and it is reported that
owing to heavy losses this year the tax
will be eight per cont. on the premium
nota. The West Brace Co. have also
met with very heavy tomes, and the tax
will be in excess of the Wawanosh. Per-
haps, next year both oompanies will be
able to report a very small assessment.
Rev. Wtn. W. Oarson, a well known
Methodist prenoher, has been celled to
take charge of Jefferson Avenue Presby-
terian ah00011, Detroit, the loading con-
gregation of that denomination in the
oily of the striate. Mr. Carson's salary
will be $6000 a year—a big jump from
his present biome it! Kingston, which is
less than $2000. The rev. gentleman has
many friends in the west, he having been
pastor in Hamilton and Woodstock.
At Sundridge last wook while Patsy
Higgins was engaged in hauling tiro wood,
and on Doming to a mall hill, the tongue
slipped through the ring of the yoke on
the cattle, which sent the load down hill
at a aonaidcrttble rate of speed, throwing
the driver under. The front wheel
passed over him, and be was naught by
the hind wheel and shoved along the
ground over roots and stumps for a eoa-
skis able distance before the oxen stop-
ped. The poor fellow died two hours
atter the aooide)t.
The following from a Toronto exchange
indicates that the erase for notoriety is
spreading into all walke of life ;—"Rev.
J. E. Laneeley, of the MoCanl street
Mebliodisb (thumb, has just completed ar.
rlmgemeuta for a concert to be held in
the clluroli at an early date, in which all
the numbers will bo given by ministers,
Several noted olerioal vocalists from a
distance aro to appear, and the eervioes
of a distinguished accompanist --a Pres-
byterian minister --have also been se-
cured, This will be an exceedingly uni.
quo concert."
The richest deposit of nickel yet found
in the .Sndbery district have been dis-
weered in the township of Craig. Tha
ore is a mixture of nickel with copper
sulphate and is valuable both on account
of the copper and of the nickel. The ore
is its rioli as those worked at Sudbury
and the deposits are much more exten•
sive. The facilities for )mining opera.
tions are very good, as in the viulnity
there is plenty of water power and rim•
her for mining purposes and the location
is only between two and three mi10e
from the mein lino of the C. P. 11. The
lode is auppoeed to be idontioal with that
which rens nomas the magnificent niolcel
property 001110li% by Prof. Fairclough,
of Toronto, only a short distanoe further
)vest.
Alvineton is to have a new skating
rink.
Several valuable doge have been poison.
ad at Essex lately.
L'Ebeudard, the Ultramonteme organ
at Ouobeo, has suapended its morning
edition,
Blenheim and Leamington have re.
duoed the number of their oounoillors
from three in each ward to two,
L. Willson, Welland, had a Swedish
turnip 31i inches in circumference. He
can oleo dhow purple top turnips from 28
to 32 inches in oiroumferena.
Roland Jamieson, tho boy who lost a leg
last spring, being ran over by a street
car, has began suit for $1,000 damages
against the Walkerville Bleatrio Railway
Company,
The St. George oases are now disposed
of, the moult being that the jury are
held to have disagreed, and that a new
trial will be necessary if the ease is not
carried higher.
Before the Montreal Superior Court
on Saturday Mee. Kirby recovered $100
and costs from Edward Costello, a saloon
keeper, who furnished liquor to Kirby
after having been warned not to do so.
Withinthe next six weeks there are to
Le four murderers hanged in the two
provinces of Ontario and Quebec. A.
large Dumber, it is true in so short a
time, but crimes always come in waves,
These four unfortunates are ;—J. B. H.
Morin, Montmagny jail, to be hanged on
Friday, Nov. 21st, 1890 ; William W.
Blanchard, Sherbrooke jail, to be hanged
on Friday, Deo. 121b,1800; Arthur Hoyt
Day, Welland jail, to be hanged on
Thursday, Deo. 18th, 1890 ; Remi La-
montagne, Sherbrooke jail, to be hanged.
on Friday, Deo. 19th, 1890.
During the past three months 80 0,000
Polish peasants and Jews are eabd to
have left Russia for Brazil.
The first English patient Buffering
from toberoulosia has been eucoeesfully
inoculated with Coob'a curative lymph.
Kate Riordan, who shot the Ltev. F, J.
Bright, M. A., master of University Col.
lege, Oxford, has been oonvioted and
sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
Geo. Boulanger will spend the winter
in Egypt, He returns to the Island of
Jersey in the spring to take charge of the
management of a daily newspaper which
will be published in Paris.
The result of the sculling contest on
the Paramatta river at Sydney,N. S. W.,
Monday afternoon, furnishes a genuine
surprise to the entire aquatic world.
John McLean defeated Jas. Stansbury
over the usual oourea of 3 miles 330
yards. From the moment the match
was made the greatest interest was taken
in ft, as a good deal depended on bhe
result. McLean was anxious to row
Peter Kemp, who defeated him once be-
fore, bat Kemp declined to enter into
further matches anal his raga with W.
O'Connor in America in March next
takes place. McLean therefore talked of
claiming the title of champion of the
world, and as Stansbury and Kemp be-
long to the same "stable" this inatoh on
the Paramatta was arranged to stop Mc•
Lean's harangue. Now, although Peter
Kemp was the acknowledged world's
champion rower, it was generally oon-
coded that Stansbury could oubrow
Kemp, so that as McLean got away with
Stansbury, McLean is, in the opinion of
Australians, to all intents and purposes
champion of the world.
People We Know.
Mrs. Graham's mother is visiting her.
Postmaster Farrow was 111 Hamilton
this week,
E. Danford was in Toronto for a Atef
days this week.
Mrs. Carter, of Blyth, paid her parents
a visit last week.
R. L. Taylor visited Goderiob on
business this week,
Mies Ycuhill, of Winghem, was visit.
ing this week ab W. J. Fairfield's.
Wm. Laird', tonsorial artist, London,
was in town for a few clays last week.
Miss Annie McMartin has arrived
home from a visit with relatives in El-
mira.
W. B. Dickson was in Goderiob for a
couple of days last week on legal busi-
ness.
1 • R. Henderson, of Chesterfield, was
vieitieg his brotior•in-law, Geo. Cardio',
this week.
Albert Denny, who was visiting Isere
for several weeks, bee returned to Ni-
agara falls.
W. A. MoEwan, of Toronto, formerly
of Brussels, has gone to the Pacific) ooast
on a prospecting tour,
Allan MoNanghton, who has been laid
up several weeks with inflammation, is
able to get about again.
Jno. McKay, of London, was i11 town
this week endeavoring to establish an
Independent Order of Foresters' Court.
Miss Jane Dundas, who has been visit-
ing, hex sister, Mrs. Wm. Kueolnlel jr., is
seriously ill and ander the doator'a ears.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman McKenzie and
little Maud, of Teeswater, and Mos.
Diok and daughter, of Pine River, were
visiting Mrs. Dan. McKenzie last week.
Last Sabbath afternoon C. Morton, of
Montreal, addressed the Metbodisb Sab-
bath school. He was spending Sunday
with his old Maude, 1'. C. and Mrs.
Rogers. 11fr. letorton is an enthusiastic
worker in the church in Iiia own city.
Martin Y. Farrow, eon of Postmaster
Farrow, of this place, has given up farm.
ing in Menitoha and has taken a situa-
tion in a Winnipeg store. 1:to heal bad
luck as a tiller of the soil losing his
crops two seavons, We wish trim sac.
toes in ]iia new avocation.
Tho Winghsm Advance says; —Gideon
Perris and Welter Soott, of Venoouvor,
B. C. wore in town on Tuesday on their
may to their former hone in Brunets.
Porrie's big figure is almost as familiar
in Vancoevor as that of the Mayor's, On
the Pacific ooaet he is known as Camer-
on, and there is none Who can compete
with him in wrestling or other branches
of ethlebioa. Scott 1s a brother to tho
renowned Amine, and a better man. Ho
also le capable of vanquishing the beet
0(0n e11 the mist lit his epoolaltiee.
I1ltron'a athletes Oro legion,