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IRLSSELS
POST.
VOL. Xlll.
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1886.
`WRAP I SAW IN KANSAS,
On the 18th of March I went out in 111e
country with R, Broadfoot, who lives about
13 inilee from Abilene. When a little piece
from the town I counted 13 hay sleeks in
ono field, of about ten tons in each, The
prairie is quite rolling and is just tie smooth
and nice as any person would wish for.
There aro lots of wire fences and hedges.
The fields are a great deal larger than in
Canada, 80 and 100 aures in a field being
quite common. Cattle are driven on horse
back, if it is only 300 yards and every far-
mer has a pony for the cattle, 11, Broad.
foot has 480 acres of land. Two of his
farms have good buildings on them—as
good as bo had in Canada, better houses if
anything. He has done well. The hogs
chop the wood here ; they throw the un-
shelled corn to the hogs and they eat the
corn off the cobs. The oohs are then gath-
ered for firewood. Tho land is blank olay
lone, greasy kind of land, very deep soil.
I visited Thos. Nichol, late of Tuokersmith,
and was shown over his place. .Ile has 30
spring calves, 5 thoroughbred cOwo and 150
bead of other rattle. He shipped 16 head
of two•year-olds and they averaged 1,490
when shrunk, and Ido notlmow how many
hogs he has for he did not know himself.
Ho has 1,280 acres of land and good build.
ings. After leaving kir. Niohol's I visited
Gibaoue and Baileys, formerly of Mullett,
They keep 0 very heavy stock of cattle and
hogs as does Hugh Mustard, formerly of
Stanley. He has a very fine place. Every
person is busy plowing now. I saw them
burning off the stubble and the fire runs
faster than a person could run. Hardwood
lumber is worth $60 per thousand feet, corn
is worth 21 cents per bushel wheat, from
26 to 52 teats per bushel ; eggs 8 to 10 eta.
a dozen ; butter, 12 to 15 Dont; ; Hay $4.60
per can ; pork, live, 03.75 ; cattle $5,25 per
owl. ; good mules are worth 0160 ; good
mares se =oh as you like to ask. We
started for R. Laidlaw's and we did not go
far until we eaw 2 prairie wolves. They
are about the size of a dog, light grey in
color. Wo also saw some quail, they aro
about the size of a half-grown partridge.
Focnd the Laidlaws quite well and Mr.
Laidlaw looks 10 years younger than when
in Brussels. They have a comfortable
plass, 160 acres and a nice house on it and
they are doing well. They are about five
miles from Solomon City. We passed a
corn crib 50290 foot and 18 feet high with
4,000 bushels in it. This a beautiful coun-
try to travel over. If some of the Brussels
boys were out here they would get lots of
shooting. The Betz boys have a beautiful
farm and they like the country well. The
boys have 160 acres each. Neither of them
are married but if all goes well it won't bo
long, so it is said, before they are. Cotton
tail rabbits are plentiful, I saw 10 in one
mile. As R. Laidlaw and I were taking a
walk ono day I went within 6 feet of one.
I took off my boot and threw it at it but
did not kill it. On April 1st I went to Ab.
'lent with seed corn for Hon, T. 0. Henry.
Saw his stock consisting of 90 head of fat
cattle in one yard and a herd of 160 hogs.
Saw boys going to school barefooted. The
mud sticks like glue to your boots after a
heavy rain. Killed a gopher. It is just
like a squirrel only the stripes run length.
wise. They eat the corn when planted. A
big fire on the hills to the west of here
broke away and burned over miles of prair-
ie. consuming bogs, stables. etc. Moulting
birds very plentiful here. I found 6 of their
nests and intended to bring some of the
young ones back with me but the snakes
robbed every nest and killed some of the
old birds. The snakes climb the trees and
kill the birds. They are very plentiful es-
pecially near the hills to the west of hero.
A Mr, Ross killed from 4 to 6 rattlesnakes
every day while plowing 15 acme. He told
1130 he almost gave the job up. They soil
fight buthe t theyead IIIthe c nnotnum and far thenPraiive
rie
chickens, quil, snipe and plover are very
plentiful. The best way to shoot prairie
chickens is to get a team and waggon and
then you can drive close up to them but
you can hardly get within gun shot on foot.
I just saw two prairie wolves while in Kan-
sas. Rabbits are very numerous. You egn.
not walk far without starting some up. I
often orossed the North Denver trail, it is
about 1 miles north. of the South Denver
trail and is 26 miles south of here. Itis on
the south bank of the Smoky Hill river, a
slow running, muddy river. All the river;
and creeps out here are muddy. No trout
' 1n the creeks, there are, however, cab fish,
bass, suckers, pike and gars. The soil is
a black clay loam, very rich and produces
very find crepe of wheat corn and oats.
Wheat, this year, in ''ansae will not bo ov-
er one Half 0 Drop, some fields on new land
will turn out 80 bushels to the acre and the
farmers 8111011 that one half crop will pay
as well as a full one did last year. One
man told me he was offered last fall for a
load of wheat 18 cents per bushel, when I
left it was Worth 70 cents. Corn last fall
was worth 15 cents when I left it was 230.,
had been 35c., but farmers calculate to fend
it all, I imagine corn will be worth lOets.
thio fall for the appearance when I left was
splendid, some of it was 4 feet high. One
baebel of seed will plant 9 acres and put
that at 60 buehelo per acre, whioll is not
the highest yield, they have 70 and 75 to
the acro commonly, so you see it pays them
after all. They do not out mer -callow al.
though I neVer saw weeds grow so fast any
place but the prairie grass grows very elow.
There ie pasture for the cattle in Canada
nearly se soon as in Hanna, only timothy
and clover is about six weeks earlier than
the prairie erase. The price of land rune
from $10 to $50 per acre, 050 is the highest
that I heard of and that is in the Canadian
Settlement. I forgot to mention Robert
lYLoOall, who was so well known about
Brussels. He has a beautiful place, about
6 miles north of here, ho has good buildings
and a good stook of everything, hogs with-
out number. Flo has 480 sores of as' fine
land es ever the sun shone on, in fact the
land is all good around that station of
country. Some odd placer: you will see
reek Cropping out bitt last 8 spot end they
are scarce, so is sand. Yon may get a cob
to throw at anything but you cannot get a
stone. D, Dobson has 160 110008 of land on
the Solomon valley near R. L idlaw's, or.
rather joining it. It is a good place, I be-
lieve itis a beautiful olimato and a part of
the world that is 'worth going to see. There
Is plenty of everything but one thing and
that is money is scarce but not any worse
than in Canada, J. G. Sgcreo,
TRP LOSS 01? Tim ALEIOIit.
Tho steamer Athabasca, which reached
Port Arthur on the evening of Novr. 0th,
reported the steamer Algoma wrecked on
Isle Royale. She went ashore one mile
north of Rock Harbor lighthouse in a anon'
storm, about 4:30 on her up trip. The boat
is a total wreok. All that remains of her is
from the boilers aft.
The Atllabasaa picked up the following
persons, who are all the survivors so far as
known :—Captain Moore, 1st mato Hast-
ings, 2nd mate Simpson, wheelman Henry
Lewis, wheelman Jno. McNabb, fireman P.
McCalger, deck hands R. Stephens, James
Bolton, and Daniel Laughlan, passengers
W. J. Hall and A, B. McArthur, of Mea -
ford.
The tug Siskiwit has gone to pick up any
bodies that may wash ashore and secure
wreckage, Thirty-seven persons are sup-
posed to be loot. The steamer Athabasca,
which left Owen Found two days after the
Algoma, came upon the wreck at Iola Roy -
ole and found the crow and two passengers
in a perishing condition on the Ieland. The
wreck had been dashed by the waves
against the rock and had finally beaten
against the shore of the island. The crew
and two passengers saved themselves by
taking to the lifeboat and battling with the
waves until shore was reached. The boat
was washed over several times by the way -
es, but righted again while the men clung
to its sides. They aneoeedod in reaching
land, almost dead from exposure and ex-
haustion. The storm continued to rage
furiously all night long. The rescued re-
mained on the beach watching the wreok
beat againet the rock-bound island and see-
ing the dead bodies dashed in the surf
against the shore. The Athabasca came
along about noon, and. as the channel is
narrow, could not avoid seeing the wreak
and the distress of those on the island. A
boat was sent aahore and brought the res-
cued to the Athabasca, which sot sail for
Port Arthur, where she arrived about seven
in the evening.
Mr. Mackenzie, nephew of Hon. Alex.
Mackenzie, is purser.
E. Dudgeon, of Winnipeg, received the
following telegram :—" Algona gone down,
your wife and two children are drowned."
Signed, "Joe Vivian." Dudgeon's wife is
35 years old, and children are boy and girl
six and four years old respectively. Dud.
geon is from Owen Sound.
The steamer Algoma left Owen Sound on
Thursday, 6th inst„ with 530 tons of mer-
chandise, 5 cabin passengers, 6 steerage,
and 40 of a crow. The cabin passengers
were two that 'arrived on the steamboat
train, arriving on the day of sailing, and
three who booked from Owen Sound, es
follows :—Mrs. Dudgeon and son about 10
years of age, and a lady and gentleman
named Frost or Foster, relations to R. P_
Butohart, of Owen Sound.
The crew consisted of the captain, nate,
and second mate, first and second engineer,
purser and steward, eight waiters, steerage
steward, watchman, two oilers, FAX firemen,
two wheolsmen, ladies' maid, porter, eight
deokhaads and three cooks.
Of the names of the missing are :—Goo.
Pettigrew, Chief Engineer; Alexander Mc-
Dermott, 2nd Engineer, of Sarnia ; Alex.
McKenzie, Purser, of Sarnia ; Chas. Tay-
lor, Chief Steward, of either Buffalo or
Cleveland ; H. Mortimer, deck watchman ;
a man named Jones, steerage steward who
came over in one of tho ships.
The Algoma and the other two vessels of
the 0. P. R. hoot, the Athabasca and the
Alberta, were built in 1888 by Aikin &
Mansell and Chas. Connell Co., Glasgow.
She made the trip across the ocean in ex-
oellant time, and weathered some severe
storms. At Montreal she was cut in two,
and towed through the St. Lawrence Can-
als and up Lake Ontario to Buffalo, where
she woe put together again. No provision
for safety seemed to have been omitted.
The hull was built of shell plates of varying
thicicnese, the frame having It moulded
depth of 23 feet 3 inches She was 270 feet
long by 88 feet beam, and a depth of hold
of 15 feet. The Plimsoil mark—a novelty
on the Canadian lakso—allowed her to load
to fifteen feet of water, on which it woe es.
timated that oho could carry 2,000 tons,
dead weight or freight. The hold was di-
vided into compartments by nix watertight
steel bulkheads, between which there was
n0 communication. When the steamers
were out in halves they successfully stood
the test of being towed up the lake against
the bulkheads, and it was said that twenty
feet of the bow might be knocked off with.
out affecting the seaworthiness of the voe•
soh The indicated horse -power of the en-
gines was 1,700. The blades of the screw
were bolted to the centre piece, so that on
injury to one blade would not necessitate
the removal of the whole screw. She ear.
rind two steel masts, with a full spread of
ford and aft comae. She had two separate
and independent sets of steering apparatus,
eaeli worked by steam. In all, there were
15 separate engines on the boat, giving her
the appearance of a huge factory. The
compose was that invented by Sir William
Thompson, and generally used on the ocean
steamships. Elootrie signals conveyed the
captain's directions to the engineer. Sho
was announced to carry six large lifeboats,
600 life.preservers, and a liberal allowance
of life -buoys. She was built and equipped
according to the English Board of Trade
regulatlone. The fine lines, rafting chim-
neys, and generally smart appearance of
the Algoma ,and her companions exalted
great admiration. Sho and her consorts
were undoubtedly the faoteat and best ap-
pointeil crafts on the lak0rt,
COMMUNICATION.
Wil Y P1111 RATE IS HPOA.
K'n the Editor of Tim pea's,
As several ratepayers are enquiring why
the rate is so high this year and as some
members of the old Council assort that it
is on account of no act of theirs and that
the present Council expended more than
they should, might it not bo well to com-
pare the doings of the Councils of 1884 and
1885 and let the ratepayers judge which
has done things cheapest and best for Brus-
sels. 1884 Council received the treasury
with a surplus of 0200.63 ; 1885 with a de.
ficit of 0474.00, those figures aro aocoiding
to the Auditors' Report. Itis therefore ev-
ident that had 1884 Council left the treas-
ury as they found it the rate would be in-
creased to 21 mills and the present rate re-
duced to 22 3.5 mills, with the following
additional amounts to collect, over which
1885 Council have 110 control :—llowo By.
law 5100, County 580, receipts of License
Fund 5550, or in all 5730, whioh means a
rate of 2 3-5 mills, which if deducted will
leave the lotto this year 20 mills and 1884
21 mills.
But as everyone knows that the only rate
over which the Council has any control is
the local, might it not be well to examine it
aecording to the Treasurer's books. 1884
Council found the local account with a sur-
plus of 0163.00, 1885 Council with a deficit
of $427,00, and in addition 5262.00 of ac-
counts to be paid, making a deficit in all of
5689.00. 1885 Council paid $300 coats in
Ronald appeal suit which should aleq bo
included, I think in justice, in 1884, ds it
was not a debt contracted in 1885, making
a deficit of $989.00 ; to this add 0550 re-
ceiyed from License Fund in I884, not now
received, which makes 01,589.00, or equal
to a rate of 5 mills on the $, which if added
to the local rate of 1884, which was 4} mills,
would make it 9t mills. If we deduct 8
mills, the amount of 1884 deficit for this
year's rate it will he 5¢ mills being
4 mills in favor of 1885.
The amounts expended and to be expend•
ed by 1885 Council under local account up
to the end and of the year, being in fall of
all demands, unless some unforseen expen-
iture has to be made before the end' of the
year not done other years, are as follows:—
Fire Department, .. .. .. ..$140 16
Salaries ... .. .. .. .. .. 354 00
Street Improvements, .. .. .. 856 92
Band Grant, .. , . .. .. .. 76 00
Legal . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 884 96
Mecbanioe' Institute, .. .. ,. 25 00
Constable . .. .. .. .. .. .. 47 00
Charity . .. .. .. .. .. .. 77 68
Interest„. .. .. .. .. .. .. 100 00
Printing ... .. .. .. .. .. 41 00
Election expenses, .. .. .. .. 24 00
Taxes remitted, .. .. .. .. 26 00
Miscellaneous, .. .. .. .. .. 72 67
Fuel, .. . .. .. .. .. 55 00
Postage, ate., .. .. .. .. . , 20 00
Total.. 02298 81
including 0800 costs of Ronald appeal.
In 1884 the following amounts were ex.
pended :—
Fire Department, .. ..$871 45
Salaries ... .. .. .. .. .. 607 00
Street Improvements, .. .. .. 594 63
Band ..126 00
Mechanics' Institute„ . .. .. .. 25 00
Charily . .. .. .. .. .. .. 115 00
Interest . .. .. .. .. .. .. 65 25
Printing,— .. .. .. .. .. 148 77
Election expenses, .. .. .. .. 61 95
Taxes remitted, . , .. .. .. 28 00
Miscellaneous, .. .. .. .. ., 143 00
Fuel,,. 48 00
Postage, eta., .. .. .. .. .. 31 64
Total ... .. .. .. .. .. $2869 69
or $671.00 more expended by 1884 Council
under local account than by 1885 Council.
The following is the standing, according
to the Treasurer's books, of all aocounbe in
1884 and as it will be of 1885 when posted
and all debts of the year are paid :-
1884. 1885.
Cr. Dr. Or. Dr.
County, 88 18
Looal, 689 160
Railroad, 126.80 9
.Fire engine, 48.82 7
Ronald, 88.84 46
Front street 88,97 80
Howe, , 200 7
School, 40.60 40
Totals -- 5342.78 5977 8291 525
If anyonedoubts the figures given in this
article they can be verified by examining
the accounts and books of the Corporation.
The rate is high this year but I think I
have shown you why. Had there been a
deficit left for 1886 the rate might be less
but the Council saw as a unit on having a
clear sheet for °nee, or rather a surplus.
Reepeotfully yours,
Brussels, Oat. 9811. F. S. Saoox.
Brussels School 130015.
The regular meeting of the Brussels
School Board was held last Friday,
Present—E. E. Wade, Dr. Hutohin.
son, F. S. Scott and W. R. Wilson.
Minutes of loot regular and adjour.
ed meetings were read and confirmed,
A communication from Miss Ham-
bly, of Luoknow, was read accepting
the Board's offer.
Miss Richardson refused to a000pt
the offer of the Board.
Doctor Hutchinson moved and
W. R. Wilson aeeonded that this
Board advertise in The Huron Ex-
positor and ME POST, once, for one
female teacher, Applioatioua stating
salary, enclosing testimonials from
Inspectors, received until Friday, the
20th inst.
,Hebert RQ06' account 1308 rotorred
to Property Committee,
The Principal presented his report
for the month of October, ordered to
bo placed nn the minutes,
1st 2nd 3rd 40h 6th Total,
Average— 86 34 38 44 65 —202
Roll No,— 48 41 44 49 78 --266
The Board then adjourned to meet
again on Friday, 20th inst.
REEL'S 1)0013.
Ottawa, Nov. 9.--Riel has been
granted a further respite until Nov.
10. Itis generally believed in offic-
ial circles that this further respite
was given to enable the condemned
man to prepare for death, and that
the sentence will undoutedly be par-
ried out on the date mentioned.
Montreal, Nov. 8.—La Petrie says
about Riel's fate :—Only four days
separate us from the time of Riel's
execution. Complete silence reigns
in Government journals on the final
decision of the Cabinet. A. veritable
conspiracy of silence bas been estab-
lished around the unhappy prisoner.
The medical commission which Sir
Hector Langevin formally undertook
to organize has seemingly fallen
through and is not even spoken of.
Those who will be held responsible
for his execution, or those who have
despised the unanimous sentiment to
the French Canadians ; those who
have had the baeonese to turn from
the prisoner of Regina the sympath.
ins of the clergy ; those who have en-
deavored not only throughout Can-
ada, but throughout .France, to crush
out that public opinion so patriotical.
ly pronounced against the sentence of
death passed by an iniquitous tribun-
al ; those who from jealousy prevent-
ed indispensible funds from being
raised to save him from the scaffold;
those who had not sufficient heart to
undertake the task of defending Riel,
and who prevented ; at the instigo.
tion of Sir John Macdonald, those
pledges to do all in their power to
save him ; in brief, those who are
mainly responsible are those who say
apologetioally : "The Government is
authorized to hang Riel from the fact
that even the French press demands
his head."
Quebec, Nov. 9.—Up to noon to.
day F. X, Lemieux, who presented
the petitiou to the Dominion Govern-
ment asking the appointment of a
medico' commission to examine into
the question of Biel's sanity, had re•
calved no intimation of the Govern-
ment's intention in the premises.
Mr. Lemieux does not appear to
believe that his client will be hanged.
Perth Counts, Notes.
One hundred ladies voted at the
Brantford mayoralty contest, recently
held there.
J. Grayson Smith has received the
appointment of revising barrister for
North Perth, and Sidney Smith, for
South Perth.
The city Of Stratford offers a hon.
dred mores of land and $10,000 if the
Government will erect the proposed
military school therein.
Adams, a young oarpenter engaged
in building a house for Thos. Mc-
Farlane, on the 12th conoeesion of
Erma, fell from the roof to the floor
below sustaining severe injuries to
the head and shoulders.
John Grieves recently of Millbank,
bought a horse. He immediately
hitched the animal up when the bug-
gy upset, the shaft became uncoupled
the liorso started off at break neck
pane, running against a telephone
pole, killing himself instantly. The
animal was valued at $175.
A ten -year-old daughter of Thos.
Greenwood, of Fullerton, was play-
ing around while her father was un •
hitching a team of horses. The foal
of one of the team whioh was hanging
around its mother, kinked the 11tt10
girl in the side, causing injuries
which resulted in her death three
hours after the accident.
At a meeting of the Directors of
the Elmo Farmers' Mutual Fire In-
auran0e 'Company, held at Attwood
on the 27111 Oat., all the members
present, applications for insurance
were reooived and accepted to the
amount of $19,250 ; last meeting
$8,550, making in all since lost re.
ported $2'7,800, Tho question of an
assessment was taken up, andit was
agreed to levy the enm of 2 per cont,
on all premium notes in force on the
15th ,September loot, and the Secre-
tary -treasurer was instructed to talcs
the necessary stege for its collection.
Meeting then adjourned till Tuesday
the 811t JDooeutbor.
NO. 19.
Cana.fltnn Now ts.
Simooe bas n peanut vendor on ite
streets.
Hotel sneak thieves are plyiug their
vocation in St. Thomas.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the
great Brooklyn divine, will lecture in
Galt on Wednesday, Nov. 18,
The Stratford Herald Las entered
upon its twenty third year of publica-
tion and is just as lively as ever it
was.
Two young residents of West Duna.
fries have invented a turnip gather.
ing machine, designed to cut off roots
and tops and gather the turnips.
Ohae, Jacobs, another of the thiev-
ing gang who have been terrifying
Toronto people recently, Lae been
sent to Kingston Penitentiary for
three years.
It is rumored that Jae. Sommer.
villa, M. 1'., for South Bruce, will
not run again, and that D. E. Cam.
oron, banker, of Lucknow, is now as-
piring to step into his shoes.
The drillers have struck paint in
the Port Colborne gas web, at a
depth of 880 feet. After the red
strata is passed itis expected gas or
oil will be found in abundance.
Belleville newedealers have been
notified by the Knights of Labor that
unless they cease selling the Toronto
Mail the Knights will boyoot them.
The dealers will not yield to the de.
mand.
The members of "B" Battery who
have been in the Nortbweat for the
last six months returned to Quebec
Friday morning. They were met
by a large number of friends and
citizens.
J. Grant, of Puslinoh, is the pos-
sessor of the largest bald-headed eag-
le ever caught in the county. The
bird got tangled in a clothes line and
thus met its fate. 1NIr. Grant will
have it stuffed.
The plant for the Danville Electric
Light Co, has arrived in Dunville
and the village will be lighted by elec-
tricity 1n a fortnight. The dynamo
which weighs 4,600 lbs. will supply
85 aro. lights.
It is charged agaiust a Belleville
law student that he induced a B. A.,
of Cambridge, to personate him be-
fore the law examiners at the recent
law examination and to pass in the
student's name.
To -day the Salvation Army has in
Cloned; 186 stations, 69 outposts,
426 officers and over 20,000 soldiers.
The contributions for the year were
over $90,000. The circulation of the
War Ory was 1,802,000,
The Executive of the Dominion
Live Stock Association intend to in-
dict the Corporation of Toronto on
the charge of mantaining a public
nuisance in the Western cattle mark-
et, with a view of compelling them
to remedy its present filthy con.
dition.
As corporation laborers at St.
Catharines were digging in a gravel
pit one of them unearthed a petri.
fied tooth about a foot long and
nearly 24 inches in diameter. Those
versed in such matters declare it to
bo a mastodon's tooth,
The Manitoba and Northwestern
Railway has completed fifty one and
a half miles of track of this season's
extension from Minnedosa to Bird
Tail Creek. Premier Norquay and
colleagues inspected it on Saturday,
finding the traok and structure most
satisfactory.
While Wm. Hughson, who lives
southwest of Harrow, was digging a
ditch the other day he found the mon-
ster tooth of some long extinct ani-
mal. This extraordinary tooth meas-
ures 8 inches in length, five inches
aoroes the fiat surface and weighs six
and a half pounds.
J.D. McOoll, the athlete, of Forest,
writes to say "It is reported that the
London Caledonian Society ie willing
to bask D. 0. Ross against me in the
challenge which 1 issued about a
month ago to Ross on an all-round
heavy weight contest. Now, to show
them that there is 110 fear, I will
match anyone, D. 0, Bose or any
other man 1u America can bring to
London, for $500. If I camp from
Cleveland, or some other plaoe in the
'United States, I would be counted a
good man, but because I was raised
on a farm I am conejdered no use,
but J, will show thorn whore the good
men come from." Mr. I1IcOo11 is to
trifle previous in reporting that the
London Caledonian Society is willing
to back eitner hull or Boss, It has
other busine:o to *third to.