HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-11-12, Page 1BRUSSELS, ONTARIO,
FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1886.
1.41 7'..34114.1 JOE.
To the lyditer of 'Prue Poor,
Damn Sim—Feeling a strong interest in
your journal anis knowing that yon are
always on the loot[ -out for interesting
itonuu, I have decided, with your permis-
sion, to supply a weekly a000unt of my
mervatione, opinions, and news items
at may escape the eagle eye of your re.
eters, during the winter months, as I
1 have some leisure time et my die -
sal. Wishing Tan PORT great success,
eubecribo myself. Vno a J014.
SETTLING ur.
At this season of the year I generally
commence settling up my accounts with
the grocer, hatcher, baker and printer, so
as to start the now year with a clean
sheet. I'm always itchy when 1 owo any-
body, but this is a rule that only seems to
work one way, as almost everybody else
appears to bo itching to got owing me. I
run a email bnshnoss for the purpose of
scouring the where -with -all to keep the
material and immaterial parts of my be-
ing in close proximity and of all the lies
some of my customers toll, It is enough
to cause a brass monkey or a tombstone
to blush. Here is a sample of what I
have recently mot with and will illustrate
my point :—Last week a man stepped up
to 7110 and said he would pay me every
eent he owed if he lived until Saturday
night. I presume the man cliod. An-
other said he would pay in a clay or two
as sure as he was born. Qusry—Did the
man chin, or was he Hover born ? Another
said he would settle as sure as shooting.
I am heel to the conclusion that shooting
is decidedly uncertain. Another hoped
he would go to the devil if he did not pay
me within three weeks. Haven't seen
him since ; but trust he diel not hope in
vain. Ono man told /no two mouths ago
that he would pay me as soon ea he got
some money ; that man would not lie,
and of som'ee he hasn't had a cent since.
And soft goes from Alpha to Omega and
I•commence to think that there is a great
neosesit5' for that warner clime where
palna-le vel fans and linen clusters would
be a luxury, so that these leeches, who
make their living on the toiling of honest
men, may have meted out to them a just
eonteooe. If 25 persons would deoide to
square up it would make such a move in
business that people would commence
using such terms as "boom," "rush,' 2o.
I have not lived these many years with-
out knowing that I am speaking the
truth. I want to be honest and pay every
man what I owe and the only way to en-
able me to do this is for everybody who
is indebted to Poole Joe, to make a B lino
to his place of business, pay their money
and get a reoeipt. This is all I have to
say this week. UNCLE Jon,
U'rnioral Nesv►a.
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od Don -
t sliakcin
ping but
vel all night
a wintry ap-
oro was oold and
is shore Donovan
rriage to Dr. Clerke;i;
r c was examined and one
is ribs mvasfound to bo broken, , Re
duos not, however, anticipate any serious
trouble from this, and is gnhte elated over
Lis feat.
f1Lorris Coiaueil,
• The Council met pursuant to adjourn-
. meat in the Council Room, on Oct. 25th.
Members all present, 'the peeve in the
ir, Minutes of last meeting read and
` ,ed. 'The following accounts were
red to bo paid :—Geo. Moffatt, culvert
:north boundary, $8;' Wm, Thompson,
. fort on north boundary, $5 ; John
alien, bailiff's fees for Voters' List Court,
$1.60 ; D. Geddes, gravel, $2.40';. Win.
Biennium, boxth'ain, e3 ; Jas. Jackson,
gravelling road' and repairing culverts
011 i M. Roland, new top on bridge, lot
t
28, Goa. 10, $15 ; C. A. Howe, box drain,
$2,50 ; T. Pasmore, printing, 04.20 ; Wm,
Marabou, new culvert, 03 ; R. Smith, box•
drain on south boundary, $4 ; Geo. Proc-
tor, drain across road, $2 ; Wm. Ellis,
balance on ditching, 049.11 ; Wm. Ellis,
oulvert at Harrison's crossing, $2 ; John
Smith, cedar for culvert, $4 ; P. Bally,
gravelling, 030 ; B. ,Conner, ditching,
40 ; a. Smith, lumbar for culvert,
Thos. Russel, sham and culvert,
; I. Rogerson, repairing Hogg's
and culvert, 085 ; I. Rogerson,
, eking and repairing bridge and cul-
verts, $27.34 , Goo. Goodfellow's ditoh;
$1.00 ; T. Fernald, repairing culvert, 75o ;
A. Clark, Judge's Court fees, 020 ; John
Taylor, gravel, 03.12 ; Misses Lxford,
charity, 010 ; James Newcombe, serving
notices, $20. Moved by S. Caldbiok,
seconded by E. Bosman that the Clerk bo
instructed to make application to tho
Provincial Treasurer for amount of Land
Improvement Fund clod the Township.—
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Carriod. Moved by H. Mooney, sec-
onded by C. A. Howe that the Council
ow adjourn to meet again onNov.3n
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—Carded. WW1. Clan; Clerk.
Ill9rltsasyelec *lchool Eton rd.
The regular meeting of this Board was
held in the Council Chamber on Friday,
Nov. 5th.
Members all present except E. E. Wade
and F. S. Scott.
Minutes of last meeting read and con -
Armed.
Moved by H. Dennis, seconded by Dr.
Hutchinson that Thos. Fletcher take the
chair.—Carried.
Miss Jessie M. Rose sent in her resign-
ation.
Moved' by Mos. Smith, seconded by II..
ramie -that this Board advertise in Daily
Globe, for two Satmuclay insertions, and
Tau Bnussm s POST, for a female teacher
having 2nd or 3rd class oer'tifioate, salary
not to exoeed 0250 por year, and one who
has some knowledge of Itho Kindergartin
preferred. Send testimonials,
Principal Shaw presentocl report of past
oath, as follows :—
Depts. 1 2 8 4 5 Total.
verage 35 31 '38 44 73-291
0. on Roll43 40 48 54 95--285
Complaints have been made against
1 tour boys belonging to the school, whose
nameslarelnmown, for taking front gate
from off the fence of school yard and oar -
rad it away, should the same again oo-
our or any other part of sohool property
be destroyed they will bo proseouted ad -
cording to law.
• Tho Board the adjourned to meet again
on thio let Friday in December.
There was considerable excitement ab
' Regina, N,W,T., on Monday morning last
at Police headquarters when it was dila
coverall that five' members of the forth
dosorted, taking with them the pay of one
troop, amounting to not less than 02,000.
Tho names of the deserters aro A. J. Cul.
los, J. McRae, Carleton, Sutton and
White. Several squads of police are in
pursuit. It is supposed the deserters are
malting south, but hopes of their capture
are entertained': at headquarters. Troop-
er: Rattan hag been put minder arrest on'
snepioiot of being conrtectocl with the de-
serting party.
An Indian named John Toby did solve
extraordinary shooting at Blaolc Lake.
Toby was "still hunting" for deer, and
shot one on the "runawa ." Reloading
his single -shot breech loading rifle, he was
just in time to hit a big she bear in the
head ; not stopping it with the first shot
ho 'slipped another oartridge into his Miloand killed it, Another bear followed and
bas settled by one shot, still another and
mother followed until four bears lay dead,
'oo deer and four bean (mother and three
bay killed in lees thou twominutes with
',inglo shot rifle was not bad work for
' .or Indian or white man, Several gon-
11.00 voualn for the truth of the story,
1y having heard the shots and soon the
uglltered game, --Port Hope Guide.
Scotland hoe recently been visited by
heavy storms.
Spalding is said to havo macho 0200,000
out of base ball,
Light million munhrellas aro mado an-
nually in the United States.
Prince and Princess Kannatsa and suite
of Japan, arrived at New York last week,
on a visit.
From the latest returns it would ap-
per that the Democrats will have twelve
majority in tho next House.
The House of Representatives for Ver-
mont State, U.S., passed the Bill grant-
ing suffrage to women by 135 to 82.
During bho past year M, Pasteur has
treated 2,490 cases of hydrophobia, of
which number only 10 terminated fatally.
Seven thousand, five hundred dollars
was subscribed at Chicago for nemv bar -
reeks, by tho Salvationists. Gen. Booth
was there.
Awomau it Austria found a 02,000 dia-
mond pin in a can of Chicago pork recent-
ly. It is not stated whore the root of the
hotel clerk was found.
Andrew Carneglo's new castle in the
Alleghenies, whish is to oust $1,000,000,
will be built entirely of undressed surface
stone fount ou the plaoe.
Wrn, Cramps ce Sons, Philadelphia,
have made arrangemeuts to construct in,
six months for the Government a dyne.
mita gem cruiser which will be capable of.
making 20 knots an hour and of firing, a
200 -pound dynamite shell every 100 mm -
utas. Tho vessel is to oosb not more than
0350,000.
One day last week near Hawkiusville,
Ga., a crow with orumplod horns was lick-
ing her calf when by some means the calf
gob its head in time circle of the horns and
could not extrimate it. The oow became
excited, and in het 'efforts to get rid of
the ogle strangled it anti broke her own
nook, and both died almost instantly.
Fred. Arolisr, tho famous jockey, is
dead. He was 20, said was a native of
Prestling, langlanid. He was 5 feet 8
inoher in his Soakings, and weighed 119
pounds. He was worth about $400,000.
Hie income was about $95,000 annually.
He died from a piste]. Shot wound infliotod
by himself while in a elelfrhun resulting
Irani fever, ached myon more than 2,800
races.
The j?reeeat system of lighting the stat-
ue of Liberty on Bodloe's Island, New
York, is So smsatisfrotory that' the auth-
orities will probably have it changed. It
was originally intended to have tan 8,000
candle-power lamps suspemletl above time
statue, eo that the blaze of light around
the torch could bo Shen foe thirty miles
out to sea, Lieut. )Molls eltorel the
plans almcl planed the lights inside the
toroli, whore they tow shine out through
glass lentos liko a dim glow mvorm, and
nava no more affect than an ordinary
ohms light. Then is also double about
the general management of the statue
arising froma conflict of authority, Man
of tho emanate for lighting tiro statue
have expired, o,nc1 there ie' no rod certain.
ty that the statue will be illuminated
from night to night.
P,arealy $?ea-itonal.
Mrs. W. J. R. Holmes, of Godorich, was
visiting lu town this weal[
Frank Deematilloo, of Dublin, is visit-
ing Eddie O'Neil, this week.
W. B, Diolceon and wife put in two or
three days in Godorich this week,
Miss Aggie Skilling, of Stratford, was
visiting Miss Mary Buyers this week,
Samuel Rivets end son are away to
Wiartoa engaged in getting out telegraph
poles.
R, G. lvollwood and family, of Wing-
bam, formerly of Brussels, have removed
to Illinois,
Arehmie Scott is spending a weak or so in
Brendle recruiting, after a siege of ma-
larial fever,
J. W. Fear and wife spent Sunday in
Ssafortln visiting tV, J. Fear, L. D. S.,
and I. V. Fear, druggist.
Win. Mooney Is away to the lumber
woods, Michigan, He oxpeots bo put in
the winter there.
J. J. Gilpin is away this week attend-
ing to business matters concerning his
farm near 81. Marys.
ane. Soli, a former resident of Brussels,
is filling the position of moulder in the
Ronald foundry.
J. D. Smith, of Gorrie, has been sworn
in as Polio° Magistrate for Last Huron,
without salary.
Miss Zillah Smith, of Brussels, is on a
visit to her friend, Miss M. Nottorfiold,.01
Lower Wingham.—Adlvanoe.
Miss E, E. Kerr leaves this week for
Woodstook, where she goes to act as
bridesmaid for Miss Jsnnio Newton.
Mrs. Wm. Revell, of Toronto, is expect-
edto sing at the Goose imolai in the Moth-
odist church on the evening of Thanks-
giving day.
.G. L. Ball, L. D. S., will discontinue
his professional visits to Brussels after
this week, as he has sold out to L. A.
Martin, L. D. S.
The Mitchell. Advertiser Bays :—Mrs.
Nightingale, of Brussels, is spending a
few days visiting her mother and sister,
Mre. Tom Jones.
Miss Doubt, S. Weld, wife and son and
A. Deadman, all of Delaware, spent sev-
eral days with G. A. Deadman last week.
Mrs. Weld is a sister to Mrs Deadman.
Miss Jessie Ross hoe tendered her re-
signation as teacher of the Primary De-
pertment of the Brussels Public Sobool.
Musa Ross has bean a very successful
teacher and has done good work in the
school.
Jno. Tait and wife are away at Ayr,
this week, attending the wadding of ,Miss
MoGeorgo, We hope our friend Tail will
nob take the start of the groom in saluting
the bride Os he has been known to do bo -
fore.
We regret to Hear that Thos. Watson,
who has been a resident of Brussels for
years, has aooepted of the position of
general travelling agent for the Massey
Co., of Toronto, and expects to shortly re-
muve to Harriston. Mr. and Mrs. Wet.
son will bo missed, especially by the
Methodist Church in wbiob bosh of them
were willing workers. Wo don't like to
see them go.
At the Perth Co. Teachers' Convention
Wm. Shaw, brother to Principal Shaw,
of Brussels, introduced the subject, "Col-
lege of Preceptors," and as the various
eubjeots introduced during the former
part of the convention were warmly dia.
cussed by the teacher of County, so this
one called forth a few remarks from sea.
area, after which the President spoke of
the impossibility of forming the said
"College of Preceptors," and appealed to
the teachers of tho County to rather. try
to raise their social status by literary cul-
ture and true superior worth.
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A i'1ALLELUJAlI WEDDING.
On Monday night the Princess hall was
well 511011 with an audience who expected
to see something interesting and also
amusing, if it is possible to judge by the
expression of ,the face, and any person
who was not in tho secret would be very
much puzzled to know what was the
0auoe of so muchbhmshing and smiling and
anxious• whispering, especially among the
young lasses that were present. But the
oaptam would soon sot hie mind at rest by
ammouuoing thetas the Rev. Mr, Cunning-
ham 01 tho Central Methodist church was
in a hurry to get away to a meeting in the
city hall, they would get through with
the "hallelujah" wedding se soon as pos-
sible: When the sensation of the eu-
nounoement had passed away and the
hall was quiet again the captain read time
articles of marriage, which every couple
who wished to light the battle of life to-
gether must pledge themselves to if they
desire to be united in the holy bonds of
matrimony mujsr the Army flag: and if
the present couple were willingto abide by
those articles he asked them to stand up
and come to thci front of the platform. As
thoy stopped forward there was such a
hearty volley of amnions" and "hallelujahs'
as only those who have been brought up
to shout when they feel liko it oan minder.
stond,
Rev. Mr. Cunningham performed the
legal part of the ceremony, and Eli Lamb
mud Miss Sarah Jane Henry were pro-
nounced man and wife as long as they
both shall live.
The captain then said he thought the
bridegroom: could not do bettor than 'give
the bride a kiss, which 11e was not . at all
baokwardnn doing, and did it so naturally
as to leave the impression that it was a
Matter of every day lifo with him. The
lieutenant whispered to the captain that
he was not half sharp enough or he would
have bad the first kiss, but he answered
ho did not want to go home with two
bleak eyes. His kissing days have not
coma yob. They then soma
"Oh, I'm glad I'm ready,
Ready with tho %yearling garments on ;
Oh, I'nn 6ilad nu ready,
Ready for to joiu the happy tht'oag,
And thou the meeting closed.
Some went borne thinking one thing
and Homo another, but all looked as though
they had thoroughly enjoyed themselves,
and nono looked more happy than the
bride and bridegroom. --Stratford Bea-
con,
Perth. County Notes.
Roy. Mr. Kerr, the ineumbont,hasmov-
ad to Mitchell,
St. Mary's expecte to noun connection
with the C. P. R. system.
Diphtheria, which has been prevalent
in St. Marys, is now uprooted, no new
oases having been reported.
Elora Council offers 050 for inform-
ation loading to the conviction of the per-
son who fired Hiles' bridge, 00n. 18.
Wiarton is going to oxomptat Mr. Kerr,
of Mitchell, from taxation, provided he
°roots a tanuery in that village, and em-
ployes not less than ten mon.
Thorn is still no improvement in the
ooltdition of W. B. Oliver, of Downie,
whose spino was injured by the hammock
accident. He still lies at his home, it is
said, helpless.
Robert Moderwoil, who was the first
Sheriff appointed for the county of Perth,
died the other day at Stratford, aged 81
years. He was gazetted Sheriff in 1853,
and retired about 1870.
Sparling me Robson shipped 140 heal of
prime cattle to the Montreal and Englieb
markets from St. Marys on Saturday last,
and on Wednesday Sinkin S Dawson
shipped 20 head of stockers.
In a list of the prinoipal prize takers at
the Toronto Industrial Fair, we 'ford the
name of W. Somers, of Blanchard, down
for 095 on hie Loiaestors, and W. Oliver,
of Downie, $89 on his Lincolns.
The extremes of age roeide iu the house
of James Grant, Granton, in the persons
of great grandmother Weir, aged 90
years, and her groat grandson, G. H.
Grant, aged 13 mouths—four generations
under the same roof,
A Conservative convention for the
North Riding of Perth will be held in
Princess Hall, Stratford, on Tuesday, the
23rd of November next, at 1 o'olook, for
the impose of nominating candidates for
the Dominion and Local Parliaments.
On Thursday morning about 6 o'clock,
John Morrison, of the 611i con., Elms,
went out to feed his stook. After feeding
them he laid clown the lamp while he
went out for a pail of water. During his
absence, one of the colts being loose, kick-
ed the lamp over, it is supposed, setting.
fire to the barn and stabie, which were
entirely oonsiuned with contents. Small
insurance.
Some days e.go a stranger, named Wm.
J. Jackson, visited Stratford and began
oironlabing spurious silver dollars pretty
freely. A warrant was got out for his ar-
rest, and he was token into custody by
Deteotivse McCarthy and Tobin. On
Thursday he was taken before the P. M.,
but pleaded innocent, as he was not aware
that the money was counterfeit. When
arrested ho was found to have eleven bo-
gus silver dollars in his possession, besid-
es five that he had succeeded in passing
He was remanded for eight days to await
investigation.
][•1ierou County Notes.
It ie reported that Deputy Reeve Cook,
of Howiok, will run for Reeve next year.
The Exeter Reflector has ceased publi-
cation, and the material is under seizure.
The store of W. Gallagher di Co., of
Blank Horse, was robbed recently of $120
by one or more safe-breakers.
John Wien, of lot 24, Stepbon, shot a
buok deer, in the vicinity of Ronnie's mill
Hay township. The animal weighed 194
pounds.
Ed. Floody, of Clinton, has handled
1,000 barrels of apples this' fall. A dozen
oar loads have been shipped from that
station last week..
Mrs. John Anderson, of the Thames
Road, Usborne,_ is the owner of a oat,
which is 20 years of age, axil which she
raise. from a kitten.
An engineer from Watertown, New
York, was in GOderioh last week prepar-
ing a report on the projected waterworks
system £or that town.
R. Anderson, of lot 11, con. 4, Stephen,
showocl us the other day a white onion
which measured 14e by 15a inches, and
weighed 11b. and 3oz, Bxeter Times.
Mre, Moffatt, of Clinton, has bought
the farm of V. Roth, near Bayfield, con-
taining fifty sores, with good frame house
and barn, paying therefor the sum of $1,-
350.
A mooting of the MoKillop Mutual Fire
IneuranceDompany was hold at Seaforth,
at which the board. of directors decided
bo'pay the'full amount issued ou contents
of thulldings fn case of loss by fire, the
same as surrounding companies.
The North American Bee -keepers As-
sooiation have eleotod the Ron, A. M.
Rose, Minister of Agriculture, and M. P.
P. for West Huron, an honorary member
in recognition of the personal and omoial
interest he has taken in tho promotion of
the bee -keeping in securing the grant to
assist time Ontario Boo -keepers Assooia-
tion in making their display of honey at
the Colonial Exhibition,
At a meeting of the Prosbytory of Mait-
land, held fn Ripley, the long etanding
dif0oulty between John B'IoBay and the
Ripley session was brought to a speedy
and eatisfactory settlement. There Wag
also sustained a oral from Luoknow, to
the Rev.' G. Munro, of Embro, with the
promise of a stipend of 01,200 and mama.
Die expeeted Friday, the 1911 inst.,
will he the date of Sir John A. afaedota
ald'e Vigil to West Huron, arul that ho
will bo a000nnpanied by Eon. W. R. Mere-
dith, Hon. T. White and Hon. Mr.
Thompson. A mooting will bo Held at
Duogalmon commencing et 1 p. in„ and
one in Godorich town commencing at
7:80,
•
The Godoricim Signal "ysayye :—Messrs.
Farr, coopers, are rapid workmen. Their
Bluff is composed of. rushers. An order
for 200 barrels carne in on Saturday, 28rc1
inst. They got all hands to work at 12
p. m. on Sunday, and had the 200 barrels
ready in ten hems, the time specified.
The benefits of judioioue advertising
were clearly demonstrated in the case of
A. M. Todd, one of the proprietors of the
Huron News -Record, Olintou. He had
advertised for two or three weeks for an
apprentioo without avail, mobil last Sat-
urday, when Mrs. Todd presented him
with a twelve -pound baby boy. The ad-
vertisement will likely be taken out.—
Woodsbook Daily Sentinel -Review:
The fall wheat has attained a great
growth on many farms, and if no ill be•
falls it during the coming winter, the
prospects for a bountiful harvest will bo
grand. Some farmers have before now
out down a too luxuriant growth of fall
wheat, and their orop has been simply a
prodigious 0110 the following year. Itis
not an oxtraclordinary proceeding to eith-
er cut the fall wheat, or allow the cattle
to feed on the crop in the fall. Such has
been the oxperionoe of several of the best
farmers in this County.
.ss malla,ea Nevers.
Peterboro' has 2,302 voter.
Waterloo curling club has over 40 mem-
bers.
Grave robberies are reported from Sid-
ney, Out.
Montreal is agitating for a new graving
dock.
Morrisbu'g's water -works by-law has
been oarried.
The Governor-General arrived by the
Parisian on Sunday.
Brighton has contributed $100 in all of
the Southampton fire sufferers.
A detachment of the Mounted Police is
to be stationed at Saskatoon for the win-
ter.
A new sisterhood, comprising both
Catholics and Protestants, is about to bo
established in Montreal.
L'Lloeteu', of Quebec, says that the
nominations for the Commons will take
place on or about January 14.
On the 25th Guelph will vote on a by-
law to grant 0175,000 to build and iron
the Guelph junction branch of the C.P.R.
Miss Jane Bulyer, of London township,
has taken action againet Andrew Elliott
for $2,000 for broach of promise of mar-
riage.
The late R. B. Butland, Music dealer
of Toronto, has bequeathed between 000,-
000 and 070,000 to the Toronto General
Hospital.
hThe WoodstockAgricultural Soohety
ass decided to purchase the Watt proper -
,y for fair grounds. It oomprises 21 acres
and cost 0800 per acre.
Those members of the Northwest
Mounted Police who were under fire in
the rebellion will shortly be presented
with modals.
H. H. Stove', editor of the Mount For-
est Index, published -his yalodiotory last
week. H0 has published it 20 years, and
intends settling in the Northwest.
The Indians of the Chippewa Reserve
have voted 1$200 in aid of the Southamp.
ton fire sufferers, and the Berlin and
Brantford Councils have each voted
0100.
The Northwest Council have adopted a
motion granting pensions to the widows
and orphans of the Prinoo Albert volun-
teers who warn killed during the rebell-
ion.
Mrs. Henry Parr, of Elora, a woman
weighing over 200 pounds, and standing
five feet ton inches in height, met with an
accident while attending to ordinary dut-
ies. The unfortunate woman, while
washing clothes at the river bank, slipped
on a round stone and fell, breaking one
log between the knee and ankle.
Dr. Platt, of Piotou, has a bird of rano
intolligenoe which he has taught several
curious trioks. One of its tricks was to
light a match and hold it for the dootor
to light his pipe. This trick it began 00-
hearsing in the dootor's absence not long
ago, dropped a match on some loose pa-
per on tho floor, set the woodwork of a
window ablaze, and the dwelling narrow.
ly'escaped destruction.
A Nowoastle constable arrived at Bello -
villa the other night in seasoh of a parson
aconsocl of molesting o flagman on the
Grancl Trunk railway. Re was awned
with a pair of handoeffs, a pair of old-
fashioned brass oome-a-longs, a long piece
of strap, several yards of ropo, a baton,
two revolvers, and a gun. It is major for
a haystack to get through the eye of a
camel than for a prisoner to (soap° from
a Newcastle constable,
The four -oared shell race between Han -
Ian, Timer, Hamm and Teneyolc in one
boat and Ross, Lee, Bubsar and Perkins
in another, was rowed on Monday on the
Thames. The race was for 4100 a side,
The course was fromBettersoaall ohuroh
a flag boat moored opposite Gwynno's
Engineering Works at Hammersmith,
Hanlan's aroma made the best start, and
soon had a lead of a length. This was in.
'creased at the end of the first half mile to
two 'lengths and to four lengths when
Putney was reached.
At the autumn meeting of tho West
Bruoe Toaohere' Aseooiatiou bold in the
Kinoardine Model School recently, the
following resolution was passed with only
two diesonting 'Moe :-."That in the op-
inion of the teachers of West Bruoe h1
oonveutfon assembled, it is desirable, for
the purpose of promoting sound learning,
and of advancing tho cause Of education,
that a college of procoptors be established
bond upon the principles and embracing
the nnain features of the [shone outlined
by Principal Diokson at the last annual
mooting of the Ontario 'Weaabsre' Amodio -
tion in Toronto." Moan. Front and
Powell were elated delegates to the Pro.
vhnofal As000iation,
Number 18.
1.
Thousands of barrels of Nova Scotia
applee aro being shipped to New York
every week,
John Carson and .Edwin Chown an-
nounce through the Whig that they are
candidates for the Mayoralty of King-
ston,
A oat, not liking the new home at
Greenfield, N.S„ to which she had been
removed, took her six kittens and walked
with them bank to her former home at
Milton, a distance of 10 miles.
Asa Lewis, an aged farmer at Duns -
well, Quo., retired in good health one
night last week, awoke during the night,
asked his wife to get him a gloss of milk,
and was dead when she returned to the
room.
Agnes Saunders, the young girl who
mysteriously disappeared from the Coffee
House at Ottawa a few days ago, after in-
timating to a friend that she would drown
herself, changed her mind, returned to
her boarcling house, and is alive and well.
The Evangelical Alliance of Halifax,
N.S., are protesting against the running
of horse oars in that city on the Sabbath.
The agitation is wise and timely, and
should be resolutely proseouted. If the
American Sabbath is ever introduced in-
to Canada, depend upon it will be by the
street oar or Sunday newspaper route.
At St. Thomas on Friday evening last
a fancily named Gloisau partook of mush-
rooms for supper, and shortly afterward
the father and two daughters were seized
with severe pains and vomiting. An ex-
amination revealed the fast that several
of the mushrooms were of a poisonous
species. An emetic was admfnisbered
and the patients restored. The oonse-
quences would probably have been much
more serious had it not been that all ate
sparingly of the plant.
It was noticed that au old man at St.
Georgia, N.B., spent a great deal of time
Mu piece of adjacent woods, and curiosity
was excited to suob a point that he was
followed one day lately until he stopped
before an open grave. It was found that
in this grave a box had been placed and
springs arranged so that a man could lie
down iu the box; and pull clown a board
when the grave would 111 with earth, and
brush arranged for the purpose would cov-
er the mound. The discovery was made
barely in time to save the old man's life,
as every detail of his scheme of suicide
had been completed.
The Graysnbursb Banner observes :—
"It seems to us that hunting deer with
dogs should bo prohibited altogether;
there would be more sport in still hunting
and there would not be anything like
wholesale slaughter of deer. Is a country
like Muskoka, where there are many poor
settlers who depend to a large extent up-
on the clear for their supply of meat in
fall and early winter, it is an injustice to
them that outsiders with a paolc of dogs
should come its and exterminate the sup.
ply. We wonder that the settlers do not
petition the Legislator( to pass a lawpro-
hibiting the use of hounds for hunting
deur in the districts of Muskoka, .Parry
Sound and Nipissing."
The Victoria, B.C., Standard gives the
following account of the execution of
Sproule :— "The heads of the spectators
were uncovered out of oonsideration for
the culprit as slowly, but with firmness,
he approached and walked up the ladder
leading to the trap of the scaffold. No
weakness or faltering was noticeable, al-
though the prisoner's emaciated body and
Bulbs demonstrated but too plainly the
work resulting from monthafter month
of delay and almost unbearable suffering
and suspense. He appeared and behaved
himself as a man thoroughly resigned to
his inevitable fate, and, as he bad fre-
quently stated to Rev. Mr. Fraser, he evi-
dently "wished that the past might re-
main a thing of the past ; that ho bore no
medico or hatred to those he was about to
leave behind, and that 1m trusted the fu-
ture to the mercy and sparing of his God."
That he was prepared to die with an abid-
ing hope for forgiveness, if guilty of the
terrible crime laid at his door, could not
be doubted by those who witnessed his
palm and collected demeanor. Ho had
slept well during bis last night upon earth
and awoke with all his mental faculties
about him. After the hangman, who was
OM under -sized, wiry -built man, had
placed the prisoner in position on the
trap, immediately under the noose and
facing the spectators, the condemned
man, in alow and deliberately uttered
words, heard distinctly throughout the
courtyard, sail :-"My friends, this is a
very sad situation in which to bass away
from this world—in such a condition; and
I trust that this will be an exempla and
warning to all—(here tho prisoner pausal
for a minute or so)—who commit eine—
(again pausing). The charge that has
been preferred against me was wrong. T
was not guilty of the grime of which I am
aroused. There wore eight witnesses who
earth to Victoria to swear against mo, and
they bore false witness against mo which
led to nay conviction. They know as well
as I do the wrongs they have clone. (Pris-
oath hero paused again and for a moment
or two seemed to engage in deep thought
as to what other statement bo aouldrmnako,
and then continuing ;) 1 have nothing
further to say only "good-bye to all" "
'Pile hangman then proceeded to adjust
the noose about the condemned man's
molt, aid as he did so, Sproule, feeling
the pressure of the rope, said in pitiful
tones : "Don't, oh don't strangle ors."
But the baugman pr0000ded with his duty
and Sproule repeated in pitiful accents :
"Don't, don't strangle Mia" Thoth were
his dying words. Wlnhlet the noose was
being'placed in its proper position Rev.
Mr. Eraser offered up a brief but fervent
prayer for the safe keeping of the son -
demand man's seal, and scarcely lmad the
final sontonoo of the solemn sup1plioatiou
to the Almighty died away, when the
hangman shot the bolt, and with a dead,
resounding thud, abort Evan Sproule
was launched into eternity."