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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1885-2-13, Page 1VOL. XII. OCMMUNIOATIONs, # I{rumelite {cord from. To the editor of Tot! Pram, Dams Srn;--As I promised to write to you, when 1 loft Boise°le, about this coun- try 1 have been waiting till 1 know more oitement recently preveilin{; ]dere not so cold 044 people say it is. It general- ly runs from 10 to 20 degrees below zero end it Raw:allore gets clown to 40 or 45, but there is not any wind when it gots very low and the Air La dry, so that you do not feel it so cold and it only lists for two or three days at a time, Wo can plow up to rude awakening at the War Office telhgenoo of the disaster aeon spread about the 101.1 of November The crape are this morning when the sub ofldcial BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1885. KHARTOUM LOST. present etuergency is eagerly awaited, The Cllr 1r, the hands er n,c ]echos.- Mariy predict it will result in the fall C3eneral Clprdorl Gone, ' eerehere in General fat echo's aunp of the Gladstone Government, The The Getters' is ltabaed In the Ilnelc. mused the-111easter.-7,We or his garrison. mutiny. London, Feb. ;i,-,-To•day tbo ex. about it. 7111s 1s a very Ale country, tho reached its climax when the Startling eumuter ie very p100ant noel tbc, winter is news was receiver] from Lord Wolse- ley of tho fall of Khartoum, General Gordon betrayed and captured, and Iiiilson's relief forces wrecked and wantiug relief thniueelvos. It was n first news of tho fall of Khartoum re- [Byo0lved by Wolseley WAS brought b a 'special Telegram.] y •No news in good news' is an old and oft messenger, who left the island whore repeated maxim and it viae fondly hoped Cul. Wilson wait stranded, and came that the distressing and enntilmod 8th co on foot to Gebat. Two messengers ronnernfng tllo iota of tlln mldnnnted Gor• ]msec ct t Int her don, idler tho fall of Kbartouln, vnnlyd b 1 e 1 to Kort] via Abu Idea and Geltdnl. They roaohscl their destination safely, owing to the fact that the news of Khartoum's fall had not reached the desert. Tho in - far and %vide, and some of the tribes good round ]dere this year. 1 tbreahel Go received the despatolies anti learned hitherto pr.fossing friendship for Om - mow of wheat Which made ..;1011 haehels, ih , England have declared for tho Muhl. Tho Arab garrison at Motemma re- ceived 1110 news with 0111V00 of artillery Whets Wilson's flotilla reached Om - 1• an average of 40 bushels per sore, C horse c Matt. relggrame wore at once of barley, 2611 bushels, averaging 50 buehela sent to the members of the Cabinet. per neem Potatoes and outer roots aro a To Gladstone who is w00dchoppine price 11cre at present but wo have the quan- , lily to make up for it, if you choose leer Castle ; to Norlllbrooke, at Seat- drlrintttl it was discovered the enemy ane give this space in your paper, I think to, Hll a, Ilauts ; to Iial•ennrt, at Now was in poseesei011 of the Island of any man that welds to farad eau not do F yon orest ; and to Lord Iluutington, Tufa, just outside the city. The - better than (01114 to Ma,itoba. Any grails , who is 0,.. .,lhg• The n Tl English 1 h t'1 splendid crop. Wheat is rather low in i at Iiaw'arden ; to Granville, at Wal - that is froetrd here this year is the peoples Wows, ceiveil, was from „Lord Wo1 o1av at ns rog s s 1 1 pushed ahead, beet were any mon to Midonodismayed to find the garrison emu - own fault. 1 d frost(dgmin in all my crop of 3,400 bushels. .17.. frost( to the effect that an Arab 000e. monee firing upon them. No Hags Gats are worth from 30 to 3i, cents per ' ler from Metemma had arrived at Ins were flying from the public) buntlines bushel , wheat, I have not uold any yet but f think they are paying from 00 to 70 Dents for No. 1 hard and there is plenty of it hero. toursrespenfully, JAMS Warr. Brim -tweed, Man„ 1)ec, 23rd. 1884. A trip to einem, fh'egon. headquarters with the information and the town appealed to be in units - that Col. Wilson had returned from pitted possession of tho enemy. The Khartoum, to which place he had palace seemed to have been gutted. been despatched witu a small force on Rumours concerning the fate of Goe- the steamer found at 11Otemula upon don aro many, but all agree that the 1 its capture, and reported that Mar- Matadi captured Khartoum by tread'. I toum ]lad been captured by the este- 87y The most reliable reports say : i my, and that General Gordon had —Perez Pasha, being left in charge of the ramparts, opened the gates 011 Jan. 26 and admitted the enemy. Some rumors state that the llandi with a few Lovantines is cooped up in a church. Others tiny Gordon hoe been seen wearing the lefandi's uni- form. The majority agree, However, that Gordon has been ]tilled. Wilson had three steamers, two of which were wrecked in the Nile between Khar- toum and llotemm0. The third, bearing Col, Wortley and party, brought the news to the British camp near lletemma. . been made a prisoner of war. Col. e the adore std Ten T'os1•. prat 8e0,-P1ea'e allow me a email doNn the river b0 was constant] bar- becued in your valuable paper for a little re- y bealsal of my trip litre its 1 have been out assed and subjected to a heavy fire Wilson said that all along his retreat in this far western arruntry about '2 years. We left Bruseela cn the 1st of March 1888, and got to idem on the :1711, of the! same month, anrd we had a very pleasant trip. We arrived in London the memo day we left that beloved town Brussels. After one day in the city we left for the west at 0 in the evening and arrived at Detroit at mid- night Here our American life began. Al we passed along very little was to be seen. We took the emigrant (rain at Council Bluffs and the sport began. There is beau- tiful scenery all the way. Soon the up -hill business began and wo gradually as - Many of tho ebots struck the steamer, but without doing serious damage. Everything wont comparatively well until within a short distance of 1110 - townie, when Ins vessel ran 061101'0 011 one of the 111auy 15111nde and was totally wrecked. Col. Wilson stated that Khartontu fell on the 2(it11 nit., and he arrived off the city two days after its fall. Ile expresses the belief that the capture- of - this city 'was sende:l till we reached the highest point brought 111)0116 by the treachery of over 111ic11 the railroad passer, the Becky some of the natives that Goa. Gordon mountains and we were three thousand bad pressed into his service. Col. five 'hundred and thirty-five feet above the Wilson with bis litho force at last 00 - level of the sea, From this onward tho scenery was wild and romantic, the high counts was still o11 the island on mountains arcual, in many places deep which 11e was wrecked, awaiting a reviles and great rocks while seatteied hero awl there were evergreen trues and low shrubbery, Flowing over the rocky bed was the clear rippling water, We reached Ogden, where we changed On. This is a Mormon land. 111 a few hours we reached Great Salt Lake but we did not see much of this for it is some disbnnco from tbo track. 1t is a most beautiful, broad expanse of clear, shining water part- ly surrounded by hills though which yon could see blue mountains whose lofty tops were capped with snow. Onward we go to Echo Canon and as wo pnsserl through we beard the echo of the whistle from the en- gine very distinctly. The Devil's Slide is quite an oddoty. It is, as near as we could tell, two feet wide and many hundred long and looks like many largo rocks piled on edge in shape of a water trough. We be. gen to pass through little log -cabin and dugout villages and among hills and for several balms at a time we would not see any sign of a human habitation. unless, perhaps, a forlorn looking, forsaken dug- out leaking the great barren plain look still more dreary. Now we have struck the doll may scenery of Nevada, all around stretching far and wide was the desert, no steamer to take them to 1letemina. 7.110 courier reports, added General Wolse]y, that the fall of Khartoum had caused afeeling of gloom though - out Gen. Stewart's camp, and that fears were freely expressed that unless teillforcenieuts soon arrived their fate would probably bo soon sealed. Your correspondent, immediately un receipt of the first information, drove to the War Guice. There he found the Duke of Cambridge's secretary, General Whetmore ' Sir Ralph Thompson, Permanent Under Secre- tary of War ; Dike and Obamberlain; and General Bulwer, in attendance. They looked worn and anxious, not to say dismayed. One of the group said :—"You may say what we now fear is that the Math is advancing by the southern or Babuicla route, avoiding our troops, who are advano- iug by the Motelnma route, no doubt living el'eatnre wall ill sight olid no vegeta- � with the intention of striking at our tion excepting the low alga brush dotted I Kotti base. No doubt Wolseley has the e sandy plain. Wd had a ear wreck recalled General Earle, , le, to make a on this plain and 1 hada good walk, its wo were delayed 8 hours, no one was hurt. California is a beaulif01 State where every- thing looked flourishing. Sacramento is a magnificent city but we aid not see .(1011 of it, 'when wo some to Galclena it was night en wo took the ferry to San Franois. 00 whole we remained 2'days. Wo had e great stroll in this city a,:d it is a grand pleco. We saw the hotel that is claimed to be tho largest 111 tho world, If I mis- take not it COW rs one (flock squere. 1 waa through the principal part that is inhabit- ed by the Chinese and they ere hard -look- ing B 1eeinie 10 of Iumonity. They do em- ceedllatsiness Bich as bankers, grocers, ho- tel -keepers and doctors. Hero we tools the great big ship and were three days and three nitride on water. As the water was calm our trip 1.1(0 a very pleasant one, We reached Portland about midnight end stay- ed till three in the afternoon, so T tools it in. It is a nice City and full of buaineea. Soon we reach Salem and our journey is at an end. Salmi is a stiring place, the coun- try is nice and the vegetation is very good. The scenery is beautiful, for we eau see reouutaiue the year round that are covered With 011011 and if we cannot have a sleigh ride Ivo .1011 1001.01 tbo 0110w in July. The Ilan -1050f these molntains are Monet Rood and Mount Jefferson. Mr. tailor, 1 saw in Tux Poor some big theeohieg of one hundred and forty ocld bushels in one Hoer. That would bo 0ou0idel'erl very small work in this country, for they thresh with a J.J. Case threshing machine, six bushels in ono minute. They started one of those mach - 11100 en Sunday at noon and threshed one week and they had threshed 14,000 bushels and they got five cents per bushel. Now, Mr. Editor, as 1 have already trespas0od too long on your valuable time and paper 1 011(111 draw any totter to a close, tvf0hlng you long life and success, I remain, yours, Jenne thenntwoon, Formerly of Grey townshir. strong defence at his present heed - quarters. We thick—but the news Is rnengre—that General Gordon sent his fele trusty men in the two steam- ers that met Ge,. Wilson, thereby loving liimdelf in the hands of the treacherous remainder of Egyptians and natives. Unfortunately rein- forcements cannot be sent on account of tho season of tho year and the ine- pos5ibility of knowing to what preoise point to send. Mr. Cebu/stone on lemming of General Wolesley's de- spatch, proceeded et once to his of- ficial residence In Downing street and immediately issued a summons to the members of his Cabinet request- ing thole presence at once. Mr. Gladstone appeared to bo greatly agi- tated and his action in calling a meet - big of the Cabinet was said to be for the purpose of tendering his resigna- tion, Mr. GIadstone is said to he fear- fully disturbed by the news and some people behove that be will resign. The removal of all doubt that the Mandi holds possession of the town Las raised the the excitement in Lon- don, and everywhere throughout tbo. British Isles, to fever Lent. Not since tho passage of the .Derdenellee by the Britioh fleet, during the Turco. Russian war, bas there been such wild excitement in the city. On et). ery street corner groups of excited people drsouss and spoon/ate as to the result of this new disaster in Egypt and the action of the Ministry in the Brussels Kook Parliament. The:weekly session was held on Wednesday evening, the Speaker in the chair. After opening exorcise the Minister of Public Works, J. klar. greaves, presentee] a Bill for the 111141• ing of a branch of the 0. P. R. from Elora to Goclerioh. 1±. 0. Scott, Geo, Armstrong and W. B. Dickson spoke briefly in opposition to clauses of the 13111, while A. Strad/tan and A. Good addressed the House ,n its defence. The second reading was passed. 13. B. Wade moved the 3rd reading of' the Bill for the Abolition of capital punishment which was carried. F. S. Scott road a private .13111 for the Abolition of Oaths which passed its first reading without opposition. The House then adjourned for two weeks. The subject for next night will be the Independence of °amade. A Royal commission has been appointed to ,]lake the necessary report, $Eait•Ual CJOurlty -N. oiler... Potatoes aro in great demand at lilvth. Wingham won't bo happy unless they get a snow 1 low. Exeter is booming itself as the 001111. by seat of a to be newly created county. a of $21 511 2r) of Not ono of the lady voters at Tees- witch nam the patrons receives nett, water exercised their frauchiee at the 1 (x. 1!. clear of all expanses) $21,101.41 late municipal elections, Wm. White, of Exeter bought it fine span of four year old Porcherone from Wm. Paynter of Blan011ard for x¢875. The merchants of Wingham take a novel mode of attending customers, viz.: buying butter for 15 or 16 cents per pound and retailing it at 12} cents. John Cooke, Township Clerk of Ashfield, was found dead in his bed the other morning. Decensed was forty years 0 resident of the township, and (Mark during nearly the whole of that time being tho first gentleman to 1111 that position for the township, and he filled it to the day of his death. He was aged 77 years. On Friday morning its a young man domed Louglleed, of West Waw - =ash, was driving over the railway 8t MoLean'e crossing in Kinloss, one of tho liorsos was struck by a passing train and instantly Milled. It ap- pears that no alarm was sounded by the engineer and tho driver never noticed the trails mail' the horses had . roaohed the trach when ono of the en - =ale suddeuly bolted forward and. breaking loose from the whidletreos stood square 1101008 the trash, All the harness wan completely torn off the other' horse, which fortunatly os• caped unhurt. put an end to by some cheering report u leis safety. Snell is not the ono, however and confirmed news has boon received o tho brutal assassination of the brave mon NO, 32, I C0tilraltcdictit IV -vt',.i, There is some talk of forming a Gaelic sooietq in Embro. YerwoOd, the defaulting bank cash. ler, has been brought back to Belle- ville, Alfred Mapes and Hugh 11oQualo, of East Niseonrl, recently out, split i Iand piled on the farm of Hugh Me - Ronald, 18th coticossion, eight cords Ono of the treacherous Paellas in the be . of hard wood in lues than seven hours, - Ibis they consider fast work and hard y- to beat. t Masers. John and Thomas &IoAu- lay, of Hammond, a few days ago, ' out, split and piled a cord of two foot • wood in thirty minutes. The wood was ant out of t140 log, with a cross- cut saw, which was nut in very good trite either. (Instant officers have seized the fil- led and unfilled fruit cans in store fu the Fort Erie Canning Feet,,ry, on the ground that the sulder with which they were made was smuggled from Buffalo. The seizure has caused groat excitement m the village. A writ was issued at the instance of G. R. Sanderson, solicitor for Rev, Timothy O'Connell, against Messrs. McNab and Collett, church wardens of the Chapter 13ouse, London, to re- cover $850, being the amount of a quarter's salary which ho claims to be due him. Some time ago Lieut. Col. ]iams, M. P., made a proposition to the British Government, offering to raise a regiment of Canadian volun- teers for Imperia! service, It 18 re- ported to -day that hie offer has been accepted, and that Col. Williams will proceed to enlist men at onto. The regiment will bo 000 etroug, and will do garrison duty In Bnglaud, A heartless talo of cruelty comes from Gloucester township, It is said that the son-in-law and daughter. of an old woman drove the latter out and left her in the snow to die. Some parties near by, hearing the moans of the old woman, gave her a night's shelter, and as her friends refried to take her back brought her to the Protestant Hospital where she now lies. A mighty weather prophet, by name Milton Payne, has arisen in East Zona. His first prediction reads Inds :-"In the month of ]larch we are not going to have, as we have had, a cold 1. oath. It will be mill; in ot, more e1 than in former years. n the menthe of April and May we re going to have very cold weather, hat is, colder than is usual for those hoods. Throughout the Provinoo the total umber of births registered for 1888 way 42,981, being 552 more than 1, 882, the marriages numbered 14,277, dug 828 more than in the previous ear, and the deaths registered were 1,049, a decrease of 751 as coulpnr- d with the 11nm1.ier returned in 1882, he total registrations, therefore, mount to 76,807, as against 75,978, 1 1882, an increase of 629. -, The noted Australian sprinter and taper, T. ]tib Malone, early in Dec. t the Mansfield, Victoria, sports, on four out of five events, and in le running long -julep raised 1115 re - rd to 2811. Jin. On Dec. 17th he ceessfuly essayed the fact of heat - g George 'Walsh's English profes- onal record of 408. for 850 semis, sting home its 88 2.6s. on the poor eels. at the Agricultural Society's rounds, Sydney, 11. S. W. S'rn emo INOXnENT.—The Rev. D. Maodonnoll during service at 'Pa- nto on Sunday morning created iie a sensation Imy alluding to the the of Shebatc,ts's wells, and 11 - ting the incident of the elie,ge of o guardsmen to get water foe the Name men of tho equate', who wore lug of thirst. "'Thank God," said sciged town marched the garrison to t1 Hide of Khartoum nearest Omburman, sa ing a rebel attack was expected from tba quarter, In the meantime another traitor. cos Pasha opened the Rates at the other end and allowed ilfandi's troops to enter Collard Gordon was stabbed as 11e wn leaving the Government House and ]lis troops massacred. The 000n0s of slaughter are describer] as surpassing Bulgarian atrocities and revealing worse horrors than the Sopoy mutiny. Great excitement pro. veils in England and troops will be dos - patched at an early day. The Soudan will witness many a battle before 1885 closes and the Arabs will be taught a lesson they 1101101• will forgot for the foul murder of General Gordon and hie followers. E lrall,-On Tuesday General Earle's column attacked robes strongly entrenched at Bolka, near Bertr, and after 5 hours of desperate fighting carried the position at the point of the bayonet. Earle fell while lending the attack and General Breeken. burg has taken command. Throe officers and eight men killed, in addition to Marie, and 311 wounded. Great slaughter among the enemy. There aro still small hopes of General Gordon's safety. 11?erth County Imiotess. Attwood is organizing a brass band. Mitchell wants a monthly cattle fair. An oyster supper was tendered to Moses Harvey at Wynn's hotel, New- ry, recently. New °runty buildings will be er ected at Stratford at a coat of about $40,000. A Young Men's Christian Assoc- iation has been organized in Stratford. The assooiatiot Has purchased Prin- GM Hall for $4,400. Messrs. Lang and Thompson, the noted shorthorn breeders, St. Mary's uoighborbood, will hold their arnual sale on the 4t11 of March. The Indian Sunday School at St. Clair is supplied with what is known as the "Bore= Cluster" by the Meth- odist Soliool of St. Marys. John Townson, the cheese maker at Avonbank, is about to enter the t lecture field. He intends delivering . several lectures on elioosemaking, a subject in which he is thoroaglily fa versed. A by-law is being submitted for the issuing of debentures to the amount a of $3,000, to aselst in the eroetioh of it grist mill within the limits of Pella- eroton. Robert and Alexander Watt, of Rothsay, have stated the conditions n on winch they will erect a mill. The votes of the ratepayers are to be taken on .friday, the 13th of February. b Cnc:ESE REPOET.—The annual 1'e. pert of Elmo, Cileo00 and 13u1ter Mfg. 2 Co., limited, shows as follows for the e past ocasou:—Lbs. of mills received, a 2,289,948; required an average for a the season, 10.43 lbs. milk to make iI one lb. cheese, hence the cheese manu- factured was 214,010 lbs. at an aver- lu age wholesale price of 11,42c. per lb., a realizingtotal ,Y w it Under the 'memos of tho Literary Club, St, Marys, the first 'nesting of parliament Sy145 held Thursday even- ing lest its tho town hall, The fol- lowing wits the program :—Leader of the Government, W. 0. lloscrip ; Leader of the Opposition, Goo. Moir, of Exeter ; Subject of discuselon— Alnendment to the address in favor of the Federation of the Colonies. lir. Moir wee supported by Messrs. Dickson, L. H. Diokson, 11', McFad- den, Richard (Jahns, and other gen- tlemen from Exeter. St. Marys will he represented by Messrs. Moeorip, Smith, White, Levan, Riddle, Ham - son, Box, Laird, Jamoson, Wholihan, O'Brian, Heretone, and Drs, 14latllhe- son, Sinclatr and McCullough. Speak- er of the Llouse of °oWmmons, S. S. Myers. Clerk of the Bolles, F. Chap- ple. His excellency the Governor- General, hie Worship Mayor Sharp read the speech from the throne, at opening, 7:80 p.m. It is reported that the Scott Aot will probably be voted on In Essex some time in Auguet next, The proposal of the Forest City Board of Health to appoint a medical health efflux, for the city at an animal salary of $500 was rejoeted by the commit on the plea of economy, co su fn si ge tr G ro qts ha la th fig dy t11 m Qu to is Go wl rig Go mo ing M 118 of to dWe ver o reverend gentlemen, ",11;01 suds en lived who would die for their eon and country, and for their fel- e, then," and as tho eloquent min- or, with fleeting eye, called on the d of battles to protect our soldiers ID were fighting the e,11150 of Lite hteone, and the organ pealed out d se the Queen, and the emigres Men, who were greatly moved—ltl- st to ebeorfug joined in the sing - Utile glorious old hymn, lir. aodonnoll tusked the oongroatmo,1 to e the word "doviliss" tricks instead "knavish" tricks, to express "eon- mpt for the misguided 111011 who ret eaori6ciug Itvos 81141 preporty by melte," Tho ovholu 80151110 was y stirring and wi11 not soon be for- otteu by those who were present.