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UELS DOST.
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FE•B.12; 1886.
NO. 32.
FEBRUARY SKIES,
N, Y. Mail and Expreea.
• ^ If the olouda will only "roll by" this week
star -gazers will be treated to afine eight.
The moon is now on the fourth, and so she
will not eclipse or dim the brilliancy of the
stare during the first week of the month.
Sho will be full on the 113th, so that more
or less moonlit nights :nay be expected
from about the 7th to the 28rd or 24th. Of
memo, people who are out late will have
moonlight to the first of March, but we take
it for granted that our readers are not of
that sort.
Venue has been going bank towards the
sun quite rapidly of late; and cote to -right
soon 'after 7 o'clock, She is still a beauti-
£rel object in the western sky just after sun-
set, bet on the 18th silo will catch rip with
her lord and master, and will be hid from
mortal view for about a week before and
after that event, appearing finally an the
other lido of the gun as morning star.
As this is an inferior conjunction for the
Planet of Love, she has her dark side turn-
ed toward es, and we are only able this
month, even while she is visible, to see her
as it Blender crescent. But that crescent is
a part of so large an apparent sphere as to
more than make up in brillienoy for what
wo lose by not seeing her bright aide. At
superior conjunction she is "fill" to ue„
but no more brilliant than she is now, be-
ing so much further away. Her apparent
diameters at superior and inferior conjuna.
tion are respeotrvely 10 and 62i seconds.
If we could somehow got on the bright aide
of her at inferior conjunction she would al.
most rival the moon in brilliancy.
,Ce a Venue gone down in the west, Jupiter
cornea up in the east, and will remain
throughout the month the most brilliant
ornament of the later evening. Be rices
Monday night about 9:80, and about four
minutes earlier every evening throughout
the month. 111, appears iu the constellation
Virgo, and will he in -brilliant company,
since Spica, the chief jewel in, the Virgin's
coronet, on the one side, and Mare and
Regulus, on the other, attend him Saturn,
too, is near' by, but he is barely visible to
the naked eye, while Regulus and Spica are
stare of the first magnitude and Mare,
though apparently much' smaller now than
he was some years ago, is brighter than
any of the first magnitude stars around
him. Be will be in aphelion, or at his fur-
thest distance from the sun, on the 61h;'and
will then begin to come nearer the ,central
luminary, Iii 1892 be will be at his bright-
est again, and wo shall see him rivalling
Jupiter in glory. • •
Saturn is still `nearly at his beet, 'and
shows about as his two immense oompan-•
ions, Capella and Betelgeuse, who are each
really several million billion trillion times
or eo larger than he. Castor and Pollux,
too, are only a little way east of him, so
that he is even more gorgeonely attended
than bis royal son. He may be found
nearly in the zenith about 10 o'clock.
The moon will bo more than usually busy
this month, for she has engagements ahead
for about a dozen conjunottone, and for no
lees than three prominent occultations—
not oaauitation, remember, youthful reader.
Her ocoultatione, of Jupiter and Uranus,
though important astronomically, are un.
fortunately invisible to observers in this
longitude, but she will hide Aldebaran from
view on the 19th, from 1 to 1:80 a. m.
Aldebaran is a big enough star to make hie
occultation of considerable importance as
a spectacle. He is easily found at any
e time, being a few degrees west of Orion, and
at cpm of the ends of the V formed by the
Hyades, At one o'clock in the morning he
is about half way west of the zenith.
So many fixed stare have been mention-
ed in connection with the planets that it is
unneooesary to point oat their great num.
ber and brilliancy in the February skies.
His one of the moat favorable months for
viewing them, as more stare of the drat
magnitude are visible than at almost any
other time of the year. In addition to the
seven already named are Sirius, the un-
approachable monarch of them all ; Aram,
us, the next largest ever visible here ; Ri-
gel, in Orion', foot, and Prooyon, who forms
an almost equilateral triangle with Betel-
geuse and Sirius. The eastern sky at
abont•10 o'clock is especially brillant, with
the planets Jupiter, Mare and Saturn, and
the bright stars Arcturus, Capella, Beg.
ulus, Sirius,• Proven, Betelgeuse, Rigel,
Castor, Pollux and Aldebaran, all visible
between the zenith and the horizon,
CROOK'S AOT AMENDMENT.
The Toronto Temperance Electoral Union
proposed the following amendments .to the
Croolts's Act ;—In. the matter of proposed
amendments to the Crooks Aot, with special
reference to the requirements of oitios, the
Committee appointed by the Union being
assisted by a special Committee from the
Toronto Minieterial Association, have ore -
Cully considered the matter, have approved.
of the following suggestions or recommenda-
tions being presented to the Government.
let. As to tho•limitation of tavern and,sbop
licenses, they recommend : That from the
first of May, 1880, until the 80th of April
1889, the maximum limit of tavern lionises
he not morn than one for each fill six
Mildred of the population t from the first
day of May, 1889, until the 80th of April,
1808, not Moro than ono for each full 600
population ; and from the first of May, 1892,
not more than one for each full 1,000 of the
population ; the baeie of reckoning' in each
MOO being the last Dominion omen. In
0080 of a special ceneuo being taken, then
the limitation to bo the one seomoading that
wider which the special come is taken,
That the maximum limit of shop Bongos be
not more than one for eaoli full 6,000 of
population, and such shop licenses 00 '10
sued shall be and beooma void in case the
holder at any time daring the currency of
the mid licenses, directly' or: indirectly, or
by or with any partner, clerk, (Vont, or
other person, entries 'on neon the promises
to which such lieeneo applies, or upon any
'Within the municipality in olltieh the lioone-
od protnieeo aro eitonted, the bneineee of
retail dealer in any other goods, were,, or
merchandise.
2nd. As to eaaoolletinn ands-odaetion of
licence ;—That a conviction for infraction
of any of the provieiona of the Aot be regis-
tered on the license. That a second convio-
tieu for violating any of the provisions of
the dot shall forfeit theliaeneo, and make
it absolutely uu11 rind void for any pwrp"se
whatsoever. That all licensee oo made null
and void by operctien of the law as in Seo-
tione 50, 44, 52, 53, 02, and 78 be not re-
newable, but bo doduoted from the number
that may be annually issued ee fixed Dither
by statutory enactment or by bylaw,
8rd. AR to the increase of license fees :—
That the minimum fee payable in orales for
either tavern or shop licensee be 5800, with
prayer to municipalities by by-law or vote of
the people to increase the fee, and that tee
license fee be divided pro rata as follows
Government portion 8850; municipality 5150.
That wine and beer licenses be aboliehed.
That the hours for closing on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and
Fridays bo from 10 o'clook p, in. until 6 o'-
clock the following morning. Saturday as
et present,
4th. Aa to penalties for unlicensed sales :
That for the,8ret conviction es per Section
51, the penalty be not lees than fifty dollars ,
and not more than two hundred dollars with
costs, and for a mond oonviotion, imprison-
ment in the County Gaol for not leen than
six oslender months. That any Inspector
or officio of any municipality, who shall
knowingly within two years from the oonvio-
tion of any mrlioonsed person, lay any in-
formation against the same person as if for
a first offence, shall be guilty of aninfrac-
tion of the law, and shall ineur a penalty of
twenty dollars.
5th. Amend Section 62 by reinserting
the words "any person." and make it imper-
ative,npon tba Inspector, License Commis-
sioners, or County Crown Attorney reason
able proof of violation being shown. Sec-
tion 68 to be re-enacted. Bopeal clause 3 of
Section 85.
6th. In Seotione 95 and 97, give Inepect-
ore, Constables• or other lawful officers the
same right of forcible entry as is conferred
by the Dominion Gambling Aot. Any pres-
enter or complainant other than the, In-
spector or officers of mnoioipality one-third
of the penalty aeoured by the conviction.
All municipal by-laws in respect of which
the Act gives them power to be unrepeatable
for three years from the time of their coming
into operation,
7th. Amend Section 39, Sub -Seo. 2, by
adding,"and no Homed person shall use
or Buffer any such sign or notice except upon
the promises licensed in accordance with the
thirty-eighth section of this Aot."
The above suggestions for amendments
to the Crooke Act were adopted by the
mooting, and it was decided that the omoors
of the Union and the presidents and secret-
aries of ward unions be a deputation to wait
an the Government and present these pro-
posed amendments.
'Phe Soeretary read a history of the Union
since the 1st of September,' 1882, when au
effort was made through the Union to unite
all the temperance interesta of Toronto.
Tho thanks of the Union were due to
Ald Bouetead for the introduction of a by-
law for the reduction di the number ;Aligner
lieoneee, and the members of ,the Union
would be very much disappointed in the
alderman if they did not support this by-
law. .
Bast intron Agl. Society.
A. meeting of the Directors of this
Society was held on Tuesday after-
noon of this week in the Town Hall,
Brussels, the President in the chair.
There was only one Director absent.
A.n offer of $200 was made by the
Wroxeter Horticultural Society 'if the
Riding Shows wore held there this
year. The Grey Branch offered $800
if it would be held in Brussels. Mov-
ed
oved by D. Milne,. seconded by Alex.
Stewart, that the, shows be held in
Brussels. Moved in amendment by
Robert Miller, seconded' by Joseph
Cowan that the offer 'from Wroxeter
be accepted. The..vote stood a tie
and the President deoideu in favor of
the motion. .
The bpring Show was arranged for
Friday, April 16th, and the Fall
Show on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Oct. 511) and 6112 on motion of Robert
Miler and David Milne: -
Moved by demos Ferguson, second.
ed by Robert Gibson, that the prize
list of the Spring Show be the same
as last year with' the exception that
thorn be a separate class for carriage
stallions. Carried.
After the selection of judges the
mooting was brought to a close.
Brussels School Board.
The regular meeting of the above
Board was held on Friday ovoning,
Feb. 511.
Present—E, E. Wade, T. Flotch
er, Dr. Hutchinson tend E. Dennis,
Minutes of last meeting warp read
and eonflrmed,
141oved, seconded and carried that
the followixig accounts be paid:–Hay-
croft tiros., 2 box stores, pipes, el.
bows, &c,, $80,65 ; Ames Oliver,
splitting and piling 50 cords of wood,
$10 ; Robert Ross, account of $40,50
less $8, He agreeing to accept tho
same.
A con txlullication was reooyved
a u
from Mise Richardson to the offoot
that she had auependod from school
Charles Grewar for refusing to sub-
mit to punteliment. Ordered to be
filed.
A list of those who did not comply
with the law during the year 1885
was read by the Principal. Moved,
seconded and parried that the Secre-
tary notify the parents or guardians
of those children to attend next meet-
ing of this Board to show the pause
why they should not be prosecuted
acoording to law.
Moved, mended and carried that
an order be granted in favor of the
Treasurer on the Treasurer of Morris
and Grey for the municipal grants of
said portions of school section.
The following report of the attend-
ance at school for the month of Jane.
cry was ordered to be planed on the
minutes :–
let, lad, 3rd, 4th, 5th,' Total.
Average 48..40..46..,53..86....218.
Roll No 51.•48..85.,.59,.44....257.
Moved, seconded and carried that
F. t3, Scott and Dr. Hutchinson be a
committee to receive the Secretary -
Treasurer's bond
Moved, seaonded.and carried that
the Board deem it advisable that at
any rate during the oold weather that
children coming late should not be
sent home bat should be , required to
bring an explanatory note in the aft-
ernoon, failing which they should not
be allowed to attend in the afternoon.
The Board then adjourned.
East Huron Reformers. .
Last Tuesday afternoon a general
meeting of the Reform Association
for this riding was held at Wroxeter,
E. E. Wade, President, iu the chair.
In the absence of the Seoretary,,
F. S. Scott was appointed "Secretary
pro tem.
Letters were read from Thos. Gib;
son M.P.P., and Mr. Praetor, Secre-
tary of the Provincial Reform Associa-
tion, explaining their absence.
F. S. Scott was appointed overseer
of the Voters' Lists for this riding in
connection with the interests of the
Reform party. A convention for the
Riding will be held in Brussels in the
Month of March for the purpose of
selecting a candidate to contest the
East Riding of Huron for the Dem •
inion House, and transacting such
other•businees as may be brought
before the meeting.
After a pretty thorough review of
the work to be done by the Revising
Barrister the meeting was biought
t0 a close.
Canadian News.. •
Partial assistance bas - been given
already to 69 families, sufferers by
the Belleville floods.
Sir Geo• W. Des Vooux, ex•Gover.
nor of Fiji, has been appointed Goi-
ernor of Newfoundland.
Krao, the missing link, has at last
got around to New York, ^and the
newapepere are flapping their wings
and cackling over her for all She world
like a young and inexperienced pullet
that has gone off somewhere and laid
her firet egg. •
The project of taking part in • the
Queen's jubilee oelebrltion in Eng-
land' has been a .good deal talked
about by the Governor -General's
Foot Guard)), Ottawa, and if the no -
misery permission be granted there
is little doubt that this battalion will
take part in the celebration. •
The Salvation Army presented a
uew and rather startling device at
Welland the other evening to attract
attention, no less than a ballet perfor-
mance along with the march on the
etreet, Tho performer was a man, in
a paper dress, to imitate the Terpsio
horean stars who twinkle at variety
concerts.
Richard Thompson, the beet side-
hild wrestler in Hamilton, bas been
matched to wrestle Richardson, of
London, beet three in five falls, for
$250, Richardson threw E. W.
Johnston in a wrestling match, and
says he will make a match with Rich.
Roach', side ])old, oatoh•as-cateh-can,.
or any other style, for any amount.
The International Cable Co: with a
capital of $5,000,000, has been form -
Odin England and incorporated for
the pnrpoae of laying a submarine•
wiro between • Halifax, N.S., and Bar
=do 'and Jamaica.- _ Other pointe
than Halifax ivi11 be ^touched along
the Canadian coast, and oommunx-
cation is expected within the present
year. The British Government will
grant a elflisitly,
Montreal has an abduotion wand �.
Dutton Buffered seriously by fire
on Saturday night.
The floods at Belleville aro causing
serious loos and suffering. _
Judge'Rouleau, of Battleford, has
entered suit for libel against L'Eten-
dard.
Esterbeo, the Welland murderer,
ie in the Penitentiary Asylum at
Kingston. '
The exports from Kincardine, not
including wheat, for the month of
January amounted to $64,687.
The Methodists of Kenilworth are
going to build a new $1,500 ohuroh,
and nearly $1,000 is subscribed,
Tho Canadian Pacific has oonolud-
ed arrangemente for a -steamship lino
between Vancouver and San Franca.
00.
Scott, the Winnipeg forger, has
been arrested in Mexico, end will bo
taken to the United States for ex.
tradition.
At St. John's N. F., recently a
squad of the Salvation Army, coni•
posed of et man and three girls, were
set upon by a mob, pelted with mud,
and otherwise maltreated.•.
Notman ds Don, photographers of
Montreal, are parrying out with vigor
their order from the Government to,
peeper° .pioturee of principal cities in
the Dominion • for the Indian and
Colonial Exhibition.
Winnipeg also coffers from a rail-
way monopoly, and the Board of
Trade recommends that the city, for
its protection, offer a liberal bonus to
apy railway company which will give
it independent oonneotion with a rail•
way system other thea the Canadian
Pacific Railway, and that the City
Council be memorialized to take stepe
for the carrying out of the spirit of
resolution..
A Kingston despatch says a gent-
leman oonneoted with a large cpm
mission house, and having just com-
pleted a trip through Canada, esti-
mates that 110,000 bushel, of May
wheat have been sold all the way
from 95 cents down to 85 cents. He .
says that if May wheat were to ad
vane° 7 cents or 8 oenta per bushel
the Canadian speculators -alone would
drop over $1,000,000. He also adds
That the Canadians are the keenest,
boldest, and most successful 'speoula-
tore in the market.
The propeller Quebec was wrecked
in the Neebish channel, St. Marys
river, last July. Her owners aban-
doned the vessel to the underwriters,
who had her raised by Call. S. A.
Murphy, of the International Wreck-
ing Tug Company. Sbe is said to
be in good condition, and will be
towed next Spring to Owen Bound.
The•ownors of the boat ware the
Northwestern Transportation Com-
pany. They now sue the Greenwioh
and Continental insurance companies
in the United States (limit Court for
$15,000 and ; $88,126 re'apectively,
beingtheboa
tht.•e amount of the polioios on
-
A girl who has enjoyed the exhilar-
ating spot of the toboggan elide gives
this description of the costume: —'You
first get a long and wide roll of flan •
nel, and, having divested yourself of
the majority of your clothing, you
bold one and of this to your neck, get
your maid to hold the other, and, then
turn yourself slowly around until you
have enveloped yourself from head to
foot. Over this you put a Bloomer
costume of heavy flannel, and over
this again a jaoket and skirt made
out of a blanket. - Draw long woolen
stockings over your lege, . put your
feet into moccasins and your head in
a small woolen sank. You will then
look like an attenuated' football, anti
you will fedi like one. That's what
you call a toboggan snit."
The indications aro that the gener-
oue apace allotted to Canada at Kan-
eington, London, Eng., for the forth.
coining Exhibition will be fully oc•
oupied, and the Massey Manufactur-
ing Company will contribute to it a
frill quota of harvesting implements.
These comprise a Toronto Light
Binder, Massey Harvester, Toronto
Mower (ono and two horses), Massey
Ibtower, and a Sharp's Rake. The
native woods, such' to walnut, hickory,
ash, oalr, birch, ole,, aro neatly com-
biued in the manufacture, and yet the
decorative have been made second-
cry to the substantial points. The
twines and malleable iron parts are
nicely arranged in separate frames,
and beautifully -painted dens will pall
the attention of visitors. Tho exhibit,
as a whole, is worthy of the firm Mak-
ing it, M1
A peculiarly malignant form of
diphtheria has broken out in Hull,
Lord Dufferin received au ovation
at the bands of the natives at Ran-
goon.
A serious mutiny anions; the
Mounted Polio at Edmonton is re.
ported.
A coloured man named Smote was
killed by another negro named Roy
in. Owen Sound last Monday.
The toroute furriers report the
present season to have bean the most
suocesatul for many years.
A. fish and game protective associ-
ation has been formed in Owen
Sonod. T, Cox is President and H.
S. Tooker, Seeretwry-Treasurer.
James Beaty, Itf. P., last week
signed a oontreat in New York for
the building of an independent line of
railroad between Brandon and Battle.
ford, to be called the Northwest Cen-
tral Railway..
A, report of the commerce of the
Dominion from Ottawa shows that
the value of the exports from. Canada
for the six months ending Deo. Slst,
1885, have decreased $5,150,180, as
compared with the same period of
1884. The value of the imports for
the eemo six months also show a de-
crease of about $4,500,000, and the
duty collected on the goods imported
was about $600,000 loss than in the
corresponding period of 1884. The
following table gives the statement of
exports in detail for the six months,
aa compared with the same period of
1884 :—
The mine #2 575;610 8 2,4 14 615
Fisheries 4,451,365 5,296,021.
Forest 15,191,917 15,358,419
Animals and their
produce 15,618,877 18,776,912
Agri'l produoe12,761,590 12,150,461
Manufactures •,.• 1,775,488 2,186,605
Mieoellaneous, 826,372 334,990
Coin and bullion-68,481 1,363,714 •
Totals 059,751,145 357,901,825 •
An analysis pf the foregoing will show
that the largest decrease was in the
exports of animal products, while the
exports of coin and bullion ales show
a drop in 'value of $1,311,289. At
the same time Canada, imported about
$2;821,649 in coin anti bullion, and
goods for home ooneumption wore
valued at $47,077,759, ao against
$52,576,198 during the same period
of 1884. Supplementary to this the
Montreal Corn Exchange gives $25,-
874,898 as .the value of the °eporte
of merchandise from that city for the
year just closed, as compared with
$27,145,427 for 1884. The imports
to the same city show a much larget
decrease, being valued al $87,403,250,
against $42,366,798 during 1884. .
LOCAL 1TEUS,
WHAT about a carnival on the rink ?
Ors day last week Master Aleck
McCall, of Morrie, oalled the attention
of Postmaster Grant to apocket book
lying on the window in the Post Office.
Mr. Grant soon found idle owner in
Mies Crerar, of Grey who wrote a
letter to the lad expressing her thanks
and accompanying it with a substan-
tial reoognation of the boy's honesty.
Ir farmers would heed the follow-
ing from National Live Sleek Journal
the hayfork and lightning .red note
easel would rarely be heard of. The
mere fact that a man signs a doou-
ment,that he has not read should be
prime facie evidence of incompetence
M take charge of• his own affairs, but
is is not simply because that chinas
of eillnses and imprudence is fre-
quently reached by eo many persons
who, on all other subjects, give every
indication of a sound mind, that one
is forced to confess that a man may
be sane, and yeta fool in some par. -
healer or another. It is humiliating,
however, to bo compelled' to admit
that the species of folly is so much
more common among farmers than
among any other class in the com-
munity. It really seems sometimes
as if the reluctance of farmers to
patronize that whirl: is for their in-
tereete is only equalled by the read
inose with which they drop into the
hands of the dishonest schemers, who
cajole them .with fair words and prom=
Mee, which are absurd on their face.
'A lack of common .sense, an exoesi of
vanity excited by the idea that one's
name is of so much importance to the
solicitor's emcees, end the ignorance
of familiar caeca, and of the general
conduct of business affairs, resulting
from an entire neglect to read the
publications that are everywhere of.
fered to theta at cost price8, form the
underlying cause of this species 01
tolls omoni; Sur111e1,'S,