HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-9-3, Page 1VOL, XIV.
COMMUN1CATION,
An Explanation.
To the Editor o!4'nn POST,
Duan lane, --In reforanoe to Mr. Grant's
charge against mo permit mo to say that
I novo, once repudiated Mr. Grant's
claim and had I known on leaving Brus-
ee1u I should not return immediately I
would have left a settlement behind me,
but expecting to be baolc on Wednesday I
preferred bolding the money. I could at
any timo have sent Mr. Grant a cheque
to cover the account bad he sent me the
amount. Tho arrest was purely owing io
a misunderstanding and Mr. Grant has
inlg°n me a me from any attempt ora d1 sire°to exonerat-
ing
Yours sincere"
Sept. Sud, 1880. Le. B. sincerely,
"That 1ferre "lace."
To the rdditor of Tres POST,
Dna Sxn:-Will you kindly allow mo
the opportunity of replying to an article in
your paper of Aug. Oth in a letter about
That Horse Race," where that knowing
man of Moorefield says the judges did per-
fectly correct in awarding his brother's
horse, "Little Billy," lot prize at Tordwioh
on July let. Mr. Editor, I did not think'
there was a man in this country so ignorant
f horse in 5 :meld beyou bas to y a horse rbaking°B
t
8when 2
first heats, no matter how many seconds he
took. If your correspondent were to look
up the Mail of Aug. 21ab:he will see that at
the trotting races at 'Utica, hub perhaps he
would say the judges were in not
awarding"Eleotrio" lot prize who he took
2 firsts, 2 seconds, and 1 third, while "Pit.
ot Boy" in the first fire heats only took 1
first, 2 seconds, and 1 third, but the race
was not finished as it was at that big city
of Perdwich, they trotted 8 more heats and
"Pilot Boy" won let money. It was a
blessing for "Pilot Boy" that the judges
were not as, ignorant of tho turf as your
correspondent or the judges which decided
at the
owner of "Little Billy" wilh. Your l°ndent matohs "Little
Judy" for $100, but how 7 Give him an old
plug race, his own track, and probably ho
wants his own judges and he will trot half -
mile heats. Such stuff. Now, I will match
Kinfor 8100 aittle side,udy" mileaheats, beet ainst tle 8 lin 1 5,
draw for choice of tracks, Canadian Turf
Club Aescoiation rules. I think this should
satisfy your smart man from Moorefield
and end all talk, Thanking you, Mr. Ed-
itor, for printing the above, I remain
Brussels, Sept. let, '86 our• s Tilos. HALL,
Grey Council Mooting.
A. l
of
the
Reeve pwas hold at Tuck's hotel called Cranbrook,
July 27th, for the purpose of meeting a dep-
utation from the Brussels Council andhear-
ing their views in reference to the interest
due from the Land
Members all present,Reev°ehi the the
After hearing the deputation and carefully
consulting the Act passed at the last mission
of the Ontario Legielaturo relative to said
interest, the Connell considered that they
bad no jurisdiction in the matter as a final
settlement had already been made with the
Brussels Council in 1882. Moved by Ed-
ward Bryans, seconded by Walter Oliver
that the Reeve be instructed to interview
the Provincial treasurer in the matter ha
order that the amount due to this municip-
ality may be paid over to the township
treaCar-
lied,
Moved by Edrer at as early a t
EdwardBryans, e as 080ondod
by Thoe. Ennis that this Council grant the
SUM of 825 to be expended in making a
road
ou the boundary der• line between and
Elms at con 4,providingithe hne Council
grant an equal sum Carried. The follow-
ing orders wore granted : Hugh Lamont,
gravelling in div. No. 3, con. 8, $11 ; Robt,
MoOutcheon, gravelling at lot 26, eon. 2,
38.52 Grey and Elmo as per itEnginee s aon ward boundary
Grey share, 811,64 ; Goo. Brigham, repair-
ing bridge at lot 10, eon. 14. 82 ; Isaac Cur-
rie, drawing lumber for bridge, 60e. ; Thoe.
Strahan, expenses to Goderih on township
businees, 80. Council then adjourned.
The at Robortson''s hotel,meeting thel, 0n Auof the g il2088,
pursuant to adjournment. Members all
present. Minutes of last regular and
Mot/ d by Edwardecial were read
secondednd approved.
Oliver that the "Reeve and Treasurer be auth-
orized to borrow the sum of 8500 from Mc-
Intosh & MoTaggart's Bank, Brussels, for
township purposes. Curried. Petition of
P. K. Matheson and 12 others praying to
. have a ditoli dug on side road between lots
80 and 81, sons. 16 and 17. Moved by Ed.
word Bryans, s000nded by Thos. Ennis that
Messrs. Stranhan and Oliver be inatruoted
to examine the promisoe and report at next
meeting. Carried. Application of Thoe.
Taylor for a ditch to bo dug on road in
front of lot 15, eon. 7. Moved by Thos.
Ennis, seconded by Jas. McDonald that the
Reevebe instructed to attend to the matter.
Oar led. By-law No, 5 to detach the N of
lot 1 and 2 in the let con, from U.S.9. No,
16 • owiolc and Grey and attach them to
U, ,
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wink and Ourssberry, was
read nud-
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out any
under 8
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, affeoti
wore h
curio
$680
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Assad. A letter was read from
n forbidding the Council to pay
r a ditch on lot 28, con. 18
and Watoroourses' Act of
o is no legal award
following estimates
' trustees for the
8,8. Nc. 2
4 8850 ; S.
] 8.8. No. 7
0, 9 me. 5.
600 ; U.S.S.
By-law read
on the dollar
1 a mill on the
e current year.
lauded in and
Iiarbottle, ditch-
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SSELS
$RUSSELS,ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1886,
ing and culvert lot 81, oon. 16 se pox engin-
eer 'e ewerd, 818 ; James Kelly, cleaning oat
ditch and repairing onlvert lot 13, eon, 14,
34 ; Mrs, Meliay, gravel 82 ; John Dillon,
repairing solved lot 17, con. 8. 83 ; Bobt,
Lang repairing abutment to .'Ethel bridge,
$23 ; B. R, Alcock, repairing and ditching
at lot 6, eon. 14, and gravelling sod two cul-
verts at lot 5, eon. 16, $80,92 ; Thoe, Both-
well 120 rods of ditching at lot 8, con. 11,
and building approach tobridge lot 4, eon,
12con, 14, 86Al000k hare 841.20 '; Mr, CampMr, Grey at ten-
gineer's expenses on Grey and Moltillop
boundary, 81 ; W. R. Wilson, now road
scraper, 36 ; W. H. Kerr, printing, $88,50 ;
Rich. Loos, gravel, 36 ; Alex, l'rasr, ditch-
ing on lot 20, eon, 16, as per engineer's oer-
tifionte, 3228. The Council then adjourned
to meet again at Dames' hotel, Oaanbrook,
on Friday the 24th day of September.
Wet. F3ruxas, Clerk,
Jottings by the Way,
Ta the 1l ditor of Tun 1bsa,
DEAR Sin. -I Bent you the last few jott-
ings from Minuodoea. Man., thinking we
would have time by the way to drop you a
few more lines but we found the Vancouver
fire engine so energetically pushed ahead
that wo all arrived at desttiination stop anywhere
at
the same time. At once set up and tested
engine to their entire satisfaction, throwing
large, powerful streams of water from the
sea all over the new city for threesuccess-
ive days. The next clay it was accepted
and off wo sped that afternoon for Victoria
bsteamer and safely arrived boat to oateh the California
•oafter tree
days pleasant trip.
seetne m if
send you isthe tgra rdstgodnews
news Vo b to
the
most successful completion, m such a sub-
stantial, first-class manner of the C.P.R,
It is allastnishinto see tude of they
work, to the thoroughly magni-
tude
all its gene al equipmeof the rock nt,s eassecondrato none
on the continent, Pullman and dinning ear
arrangements superb. Leaving Winnipeg
on Tuesday at 0 we arrived at Port Moody
on the Vancouver is not quion te finish The
track
lea
further down the bay) which was reached
by the commodious steamer, "Prinoees
Louise," in one hour and we had a good
dinner on board. The accommodations
aro excellent throughout and will soon
command a largo trade to California as
well as to British Columbia. Ai Vancou-
ver we saw the first tea ship discharging
her 1,000 tons of tea into the C.P.R. oars,
filling several trains, and three-fonrbhs of
t was dispatched
er fourthw°asdi charged, destire k
destined for tall
oints, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, New
P
the York, a others On
ay witl similar cargos which awi71
prove a great revenue to 0.9.R. and Can-
ada in general. Tho bright, new paokages
of tea were pretty to look at.
In rairies it
was a mournfulslops
sight to osee the eat remains of
the extinct buffalo distributed all over in
white, bleached bones, some of the passen-
gers picking up a few nice horns and oth-
er remains' of a race of noble animals we
all 105210tive1y declare it was such sacril-
edge to destroy, Robina and Calgary wore
passed at night but like Brandon and oth-
er N.W. towns are full of life and enter-
prise. We intend stopping to see on our
return trip,
T
ocky
description and on tain our scenery'gis .. is bolder,
found on the U S. railwnder mid MOTO ays, thanostio
ys, ndstill our
grades are easier 1 Such natural wonders
and grandeur is the treat of a life time.
The everlasting snow-capped mountain
peaks, anuli immense mountadne of rooks,
nature in its wildest and moat fantastic
forme of immeasurab
leearns r
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s
g a th
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railway winding its way up and down the
mountains, crossing rho great gulches over
almost superhuman structures, in one ease
winding down and down 9 miles tb make
2 miles headway and looking almost per-
rt-
pendicularly
re.oross bare scenes never to over where we bo forre got.
ten and well worthy a visit from every
person in the Dominion. By all means
take a trip to Vancouver as soon as possi-
ble. The mountain district is covered in
timber of best quality, Donald is a hole
in the wodde, in a broad valley in a central
mountain district and end of railway di-
vision. where ouse,
large station houses, locomotiveround
d o.are about hcom-
pleted. It is full of life and stir, lots of
workmen and lots of new made stone and
tents are to be seen, As we speed along*
we find hundreds of laborers, both 'Chinese
and whites, busy erooting snow sheds suffi-
ciently strong and elaborate to sustain a
scow Rooky e. Noisxpooaae ie spared, rthan a
tho won.
der to me was where does all the mouoy
come from to pay all these thousands of
workmen.
The climate is delightful. The BPacific
breezes give braoing energy, oven when the
sun ie strong and the nights invariably so
cool a blanket is oomfortablo. Port ?deafly
is a scattered, small vjllags-poor touvn
site and will never become much of a°town,
Vancouver is a beautiful town site and has
a grand harbour of about 8 miles in die-
meter, arm of the sea from Puget Sound or
Straits of Georgia. Before bho fire it had
soma fine buildinge, with probably 2,000 to
8,000 population, and since the fire it has,
in only 7 weeks, neatly grown to its origin•
al size, with some good buildings, and some
poor °neo, of course, at first, but it le doe.
tined to bo the City of ,the Pacific oast.
Our hotel faced the sea sod our hotter half
aujoyod biro refreshing breezes and the
sight of vessels and steamers in the bay,
Whilo I was attending to business', The
oily is full of bustle in the °°0atruotion of
sidewalks, docks, railway track and houses
On a largoscale with the prospect of vioing,
in a fow years, with Winei tog horsolf,
JOON D,
Sas lrr:melee°, Cal. Aug.12, 18861toNAnn,
A TRIP TO NEW Y
ORI(, I Park was exoeaeivelyhot yet the re-
peated but divereified exhibitions of
(00NTI men mow LAST I800
Among its finest edifices
new post office, city hall,
house, Trinity church, Grace
the gotbio cathedral of St.
built of white marble the lar
finest church in America,
of Music, Cooper Institute
numerous great hotels, T
government is compoeed of a
13oards of alderman hnd con
and bureaus of variotis
monte. A sanitary squad ha
of the public health. If the
of New York are specimens
care of this squad, then we o
that they are not very partic
to the amount of filth allows
cumulate on some of the litres
commissioners of charity and
ton have direction of asylums,
ale and prisons. Commission
emigration receive and attend
wants of immigrants. The
tear brigade of firemen has b
placed by a paid Fire Depa
which is found to be much mo
(active for the protection of pro
Now York is the great centre of
e and commerce, receiving 6
ant of all imports and sends
er cent. of all exports. New
as founded in 1621 and teak
he kinglish in 1664, At the
the revolution it was smaller
hiladelphia or Boston bubas,
importance, especially afte
ompletion of the Erie Dana
paned to it the commerce o
net. In 1789 the oity was eco
y yellow fever, in 1892 by oh
d in 1845 a large portion o
sinus part of the city was
eyed by fire with a loss of mil
dollars. In 1741 in oonsequ
a supposed negro plot to bu
y 15 negroes were burned at
Ire, 20 hanged and about 78 Ir
rted. The popular fury was a
nod toward the negroes in 18
,jot caused by the conscription,
tubers were put to death.
rtality of the pity is about t
cent., the population over a
and a half. The avenues of
are fine, 5th avenue beiug
st swell. Rooms can be had f
te, a day and up, meals in a
rant from 20eta. to Saito. and
de. The population of the
fly 'Consists of Americans, Can
, Germane, English, Irish, Soo
nese, Jews, Italiana, French a
&nese. There were two forei
ccs 1n the city during our ei
prince of 13razil and a Japan
ce) but we had not the pleasu
eing them. So eager was t
oe of Brazil to see the eight%
,York that every morning ha
ordinary clothes, he was fou
ng the stroke long before b
dents had quit their pesos
bore. Business in New York
on scientific principals. In
commercial centre like the me
s ample scope is afforded f
ay of the largest and rarest sal
and nearly every man has bio
lily which he plies, paying li
ention to the rest of the world
toh is the one thought prodom
over all others. Everybody
butcher to banker, is in a hurry
anner of oonveyancea seem t
slow to satisfy the desires o
tithing masses. Everything
n the old maxim, "Time and
pito for nobody."
he city are many public and
parks and squares, covering
bout 1,000 acres or 1.14 of
ire island, ()antral Park, the
of all, was laid out in 1857.
miles long by - of a mile
nd oontaing about 850 acres,
rolraee of the laud with im.
ente and expenses up to the
time cost about $20,000,000,
welve grand entrances, oon-
lr miles of bridal paths, 9 •
f oarriago roads and 27 milers
a, It is laid out in the finest
landscape gardening. I will
amt a complete description
park with its menagerie of lit/
ale, birds of gay plumage,
Will and ornaments! foul•
rrao„es, stairways, 0cuipturos,
, ruetio arbors and the 'vol-
earanoe of the graesoo and
s I do not feel equal to the
at all events 11 would fill a
d book to do so. This park
the world. It is visited by
,000,000 people annually and
avorite resort of all (llama.
the day we visited Contra!
n'1 genius, beauty and taste prevented
are the' us from becoming the victims of wear-
oustoms jaws, At one time tbie piece ofiend
church, before being purchased by the city
Patrick, and transformed into iia present ap•
gest and pearanoe was considered worthless on
Academy 0000unt of its rocky soil. The pari,
and the contains the new reservoir and the
he city old, the pond, the lake the oonsorvat-
Mayor, ore, water, the pool, the Harlem mem.
ucilmon the 1ooh, museum of natured history,
depazt- the art museum, the menagerie and
s charge the oboliak. The park is open every
mai-
ofeets the form sn arehonduty day and eight and
onolude are remarkably courteous in furnish-
ular as ing visitors with information respect•
d to s'0• ing park oarriagee and the park.
is. The These carriages convey visitors all
°erreot• through the grounds for 250te. with
bospit- the permission of staying as long as
era of they wish at each point of interest.
to the I cannot quit the park without giving
velum. the readers of Tua POST a short his-
een re- tory of the obelisk. Little did the
rtment mechanics who fashioned this mono -
re ef• lith, dream that thirty-five centuries
party hence it would bo looking down up-
finan- on the million dwellers of the city
6 per of New York, whose eight even was
out 50 unknown to the eastern world, when
York this obelisk lied an existence of two
en by thousand years. This ancient relic
period of maeonary was presented .to the
than city of New York by the Kedive of
eased Egypt. After a struggle of three
r the years Lieut. -Commander Gorringe,
1 had U.S.N., obtained poeseesion of it and
1 the moved it on a raft across the Atlantic
urged when finally it was swung hate poeh-
olera tion at noon, San. 22nd, 1881, at a
f the cost of nearly $100,000. The height
des- of the obelish from base to tip is six -
lions tynine,feet, two inches. The meas-
enoe urement of base through its axis is
ern the seven feet, eight and three fourth in -
the dies. The entire weight of it is two
aus- . hundred nineteen and one-fourth tons.
gain It has four faces cub out of one piece
68 in and is broader at the base than at
and the top, at a short (Estancia from
The which the eider; form the base of a
hree pyramidion in which the obelisk ter-
mil- minates. One of its faces would in -
the dicate that "Old Salt" bad been
the the victim of smallpox as it ie thoro-
rem ughly covered with hieroglyphics.
res. This obelisk, together with the one
up• In London on the Thames embank-
0ity meat, formerly stood al Heliopolis
ed• and was subsequently re•erected by
toll Mimeses II at Alexandria and was
nd popularly known as Oleopatra's Nee-
gu dlo. Since it was quarried near'the
ay torrid zone it has traversed the en -
se tire length of Egypt, most of that of
re the Mediterranean sea and the whole
he width of the Atlantic ocean, thus
of proving itself to be a renowned mar-
bit- iuer far an "Old hard heal" of thirty-
nd five 0enturies, In Egyptian art those
is obelisks served for the same purposes
fal as the stelae of the Greek and col-
io umns of the Romans and appear to
a have been erected to record the tie -
0• umphs of the monarch. The obelisk
or in the course dais long existence has
• had many a human gaze. If the
a photos of all who ever gazed upon
t• this marvellous piece of ancient art
• was stamped upon We monolith we
• would recognize among the noted
onee that of Moses, Pharaoh and hie
. host o iu the
Red Sea,gto thou Sl.tishak marching sito the
f conquest of Jerusalem, Oaambyres
desolating the land, Heroditus, SoIen,
Plato and other Greek students of
Egyptian lore, Alexander the Great
on his victorious expedition through
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Although
re supported by Oho well-to-do reef -
dents of New York and is free to the
public Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, To visit the Metrop-
alitian Museum of Art le indeed a
grand treat. The Museum of Neter-
al t-
tractionns to reeidentsis one of hand e ast angendard rs.
Vieitore can here see an astonishing
number of speolmona of wood, stuffed
and mounted serpants, mammalja,
curious skeleton, animals of every
kind and shape, dolphins and every
specimen of representative fishes,
thousands of varieties of beetles and
other insects, 'Sponges of all sizes and
kinds from the East Indies, and oth-
er
es too
rneroua to men-
tion. The buildings alone cost about
$500,000 and the exhibits amount to
almost au equal value.
The menagerie comprises elephants
lions, tigers, leopards, bears, many
s of
prairie doge," Kerry cattle, eacred ox,
antelopes, inonkies, dc. Also birds
of various kinds, shapes and plumage.
In one cage of two departments hewn
out of the solid rook, with aguatic
furnishings, are fourteen black and
two polar bears. Those polar bears
make a terrific noise when both want
a bath at the same time. In one en-
closure there are fourteen fine ele-
phants. In another enclosure situat-
ed on the slope of a grabey bill are
about a hundred prairie dogs playing
as it were hide and seek as they pop
in and out of.their holes. The hum-
ming of carriages, cabs, and park
conveyances, the moving masses of
thousands of pedestrians, the prano-
ing of hundreds of horses on the
bridal path, the numerous fountains
flinging aloft their feathery spray,
the noise the sweet omelodysdof fthe dfeathhered
songsters, .the tempting nooks and
arbors, the beautiful lakes and grounds
with naught to cause a ripple save
the swan or row boat, the abundance
of natural, ornamental, and rare
specimens of trees bending beneath
their graoeful foliage, the endless
variety of flowers of every hue all
seem to claim ones attention and ad-
miration in a manner almost bewild-
ering, A. Moiler.
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centuries of Roman sovereignty and ( 40 ro
ohrietian struggle at Alexandria, all Saturda
the long line of Moelom rulers since
Caliph Omar, A, Hunter, A. R.
Smith and your humble servant.
About 200 yarda from the Egypt.
len Oleliek is the Metropolitian Mus-
eum of Art containing a choice and
rich collection of magnificent paint.
iuge by moderu and anoint masters,
many of them °eating thousands of
dollars each. I thought my friend
Hunter would never leave the picture
gallery. Tho numerous beautiful
marble statues of life and limit, size
is another important feature on ex-
hibition which galls for the admira-
tion of visitors. The stone, bronze,
andiron ages arc represented here in
the shape of rare wine, juga, pottery,
and thousands of other ancient and
valuable artiolos. Many of Oho stat-
uary and other articles exhibited have
boon discovoted ad dug up on the.
'eland of Cyprvs under the supervis-
ion of Gen. Di Cosmole and brought
Jo Auterica by him. This ine1itntion
ratford defeated Berlin at cricket
runs and an innings,
roe million feet of boards will
d in the new 0. P. K. elevator
ntreal,
Paris spaniel, which was de -
of its litter of pups, adopted a
and is roaring it.
Mounted Police oat °entreat,
0pounds, has been let to Chas.
rt, at 81c a pound,
ate t
s accounts Portage la Prater•
no Town Council and was to
by a citizen's committee.
t. Thomas b111ardroone keeper
en committed to gaol in de-
f payment of a fine under the
ot.
s Deep°, of Kirkton, carried
bred 1st prizes at the Botha
eat athletic sports, viz., run -
jump, running long keep
ning hop step and jump'. ,
baggage belonging fo Sir
Bike and Lord Kingston,
ontly passed through Winnh-
their way to the Pacific, was
y the Northwest Mounted Po -
entering the Territories for
ing liquor.
litmus went to Palmerston on
y to see Forepaugh's showTim ,
weather has
been , warm
during someof the days oftthe last
two weeks.
Arcanum letter from I. D. Ronald
h0 crowded out of this issue. 11 will
appear next week,
Tan Listowel cricketers oam0 to
town on Tbureday of this week and
played the return match with the
home club, The store for the lot
innings was Listowel 86, Brussel? 84.
The second innings was in progress -
when we wont to press. Scorn and
particulars of game will be given
next week.
Two base ball matohos were play-
ed last week between tams chosen
from the oast and woes skies of Turn-
berry street., Both games resulted
in favor of the west, the scores being
8� to 6 and 28 to 17,' A club was to
have gong t0 Tooswator on Wednes-
day to take the $20 prize but owing
to the nbsenoe of some of the players
the project fell through,