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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-1-14, Page 5JAL 14, 1887, Oiatxiti Tdv$, 1, v th. 1 i.. Marshall is at present indisposed, P. Kelly it Co. are buyiug largo (pent. bias of eaw logs. W. Glazier, of Clinton, event Sunday in town, Mrs. F, W. Watt, of Clinton, ie at present visitine in town. Mies Ifoss, of Listowel, is tit present visiting Moeda in town, Miss Ruth Jones is at present visiting friends in Thorold. Will Milne returned bo Toronto last week to (Abend the Medical College, Mise Allis Taylor, of Clinton, ie at present the guest of Miss Ells Moll;innon, The regular meeting of the Council was hold in the Orange Sell on Wodues. day evening. Wm. Livingston, baggage master at the G. 2', R. station hero, returned to town after an Oconee of 8 weeks holidays. Mrs. Grace McElroy wont to Port Moron last week to attend the funeral of her brother, Thomas, who died there re. (tautly. During the present month the baud purposes giving a grand concert. Great panne ran being taken bo melte it a grand 8000055. Mee. Jas. Alexander and family loft town last week for Michigan to join her husband, who has been over there for Rams time Jas. Logan is st present confined to the h'uso with a severe attack of inflam. mabioa of the pangs. His many friends hope for his speedy recovery. Owing to the very stormy weather the trnir,e have all bee, delayed on this lite The Toronto papers, which should come eveew afternoon aro delayed till next Monday. The Anniversary services in connection with the Episcopalian ahurolt were hold lest Sunday. Rev. Ur. Young, of Lon- don, cocitpied the pulpit end delivered two excellent addresses. Tho lllyth Advocate has at last ceased to exist. The last ism of it was pub- lishrd last week. Mr. Passmore, pro- m toter of the same, purposes staving in town and running a job ottani. On Sunday bet the Rev. J. E. Rowell, of lieaforth, preached the anniversary services in the Methodist church and de. livered two excellent dieoourses. Dee ito the unfavorablewetther there was large tura,-out both morning end evening. On the Monday following the tea -meeting was held end there was a largo number present. After satisfying the innor.man th andieeee assembled in the Tompor- aneo Hall, where addresses wore deliver- edbythe visiting olergyrnan. The hand- some sum of $55 was realized. Morriss. Mrs. Jamas Mo0allum and her brother, James Newcombe, have goneto Neenah, N. J. 1bIr. Newcombe will look out for a situation there. Alex. Connor has ranted from M, M. Cardiff hie splendid 125 acro farm, part of lots 24 and 26, con. 5, for a term of 5 ye8Lrs, with the privilege of making b 5. He lake, possession April lst. Puesaureetote—Tho Victoria Warder, published at Lindsay, gives an moment of the presentation of a beautiful hanging Library tamp, accompanied by a kindly worded address, by the Model School pu- pils of that town to Rich. Lees, Model :School teacher, formerly of this township enthe eve of his departure for Brampton. He also received 8 copies of the history of Theme from the teaobore of St. Andrew's Sunday School; wboro he was a faithful and zealous worker. We hope the ltrn.rnpton people will treat him well. On the4bh Rust, tho Sabbath School en- icrteinmont,candy sooial and Now Year's tree that was held in Sunshine was a grand success. Thera was a good turu- out and when the church was comfort- ably filled the pastor, Rev. John Ken. nodi, reeled the Superintendent of the School, T. P. Nugent, to the chair. The meeting was opened by a piece of music, "Anniversary Greetings." Music was fornishod by G. G. Hood, leader of the einging ie the school, Mrs. hood preside ing at the organ and along with the es- Aisbanoo rendered by some other Mende lidded greatly to the evening's entertain. ment. A. vorylong and interesting pro- gram of readings, rooitations, eta„ was provided by the sohool, with the egoist. tame of genie sutsiders, among whioh wars Charles Harris end family, who gave some choice selections of maeso ; a Scottish recitation by William McKay, of Ebenezer, veld in the Irish dialect by Henry Clark, both were no dieeredit to their mother tongue (that is the parties). Charles McLellan, of Belgrave, gave sono grand selections, being on Dred. After this part of the evening's pro ped. ing over the pioking and distributing of the fruit on the true came next, after which rho meeting was brought to a close with the feeling that the entertainment was one of the best thet Sunshine has (overload, Theprooeedsamounted to $28. Wo understand from tho reading of the report that the sohool is in good ulrcum- etanoes for going forward with the work for another year and the tsaohors and of- ficers all appear to have the work at heart aucl anxious to the the sohool pros. Igor and ibo children brought to Jesus. May their highest ambition be gratified in this .respect is the wish of your ror respondent. %Vin Itassn. About 8 o'oloek 'Tuesday morning fire broke out in E. Talbot's general Moro, totally destroying store and stock. Cause of fire unknown. Insuettnee $0,000. Thomas Ramlyn. an old employee of the G. W. Railway, and for the last' ton years airman carpenter on the L, 11. ds (3. brunch, died vary suddenly at Wing - ham on Tuesday morning of last weals. The dtiaoased. was in poorhealth for some time, but was working on Monday. He retired in usual health, but during the night Syne attacked with heart disease and passed quietly away. The Wingham 'Caledonian Society has chosen the following officiate for .1887 ;— Chief, J. J. Andoreon; 1st Chieftain, J. Henderson ; 2nd Chieftain, 0. Dallas ; 3rd Chioftaiu, Geo, McKay ; 4th • Chief- tain ; John Hardy; Somrotary, t iiliam Robertson ; Accident Secretary, Jas, Lottg ; 2`reastirer, J. A. Morton ; Stand. ; ard.bearere, John McLean and Samuel Leggatt ; Mended, Welter Scott ; Deputy Marshal, I). MoOrimnton, The Wingham 'Timor says;—There was no little (Reappointment among the people of the Fourth Ward when it was learuod that John Norris, one of the most popular mon in the ward (a former resi dont of London), Riad issued a afronier requesting bis friends not to vote for him ao Councillor, as "circumstances 0050 which he had no control" would prevent loin from taking a seat at the Council. 115r, Norris had accepted the nomination in good faith, and entered the contest with a determination to win and with every prospeob of nneoess, when, at the last moment, he received notice from the G. T, R, authorities that he meet Dither retire from the contest er give op his situation, Ile soon arrived at the eon - elusion that it would pay him better to continue driving an engine on the L. H. & B division than to enter the employ of the town as oounoillor, and he therefore at 0130e throw up lois chances for the lat- ter, But for thio circumstance, Mr. Nor- ris would uudodbtedly have polled a very heavy vote and been cleated. 11 Reams that there is an old rule on rho G. T. R. books that no one in the employ of the company shall hold any mumoipal office, and, although it had boon very little heard of before, the rule is being rigidly enforced this your. Grey. The now Council will assume office next Monday at 12 o'clock, at Cranbrook. Gideon Perris is spending the winter in California, He likes the country well. It is reported that Miss Caroline Zim- mer was united in marriage to a Mr. Ziggler ou Thursday of this week. A, G. Welsh was elected trustee for S. S. No. 6 for the ensuing year, at the an- nual school meeting. Oliver Smith has returned from 0hes- ley and will go in with hisbrotlior, Thom- as, into the new planing mill and sash and door factory to be built at Brusseis next spring, Ile is a worker and will push things. A nephew of Tames Mitchell died, in Londou, last Tuesday eveuing. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell aro away attending the funeral, which' takes place on Friday. Consumption was the oaose of rho young man's death. At the recent entrance examination to the Sigh School, held at Liebuwel, among tile successful pupils were Lizzie Wellaoe who took 489 marks, and Josiah McKee, who seemed 881. The pass mark was 375. They are pupils of S.S. No. 6 and are under tbo careful instruction of Gee. Thompson who is doing excellent work in the school, Last Monday to span of horses belong- ing to Donald Motauohlin, lot 2, con. 7, was weighed on the Brussels market. One of the animals is a 2 yearold filly and the other 5 years old. They brought the beam up at 8,100 pounds. This is a good weight for a team, especially at the years stated above. Who is the next heavy draught man to toe the eeratoh Dnsamie,—Tho young men of the vicin- ity will have a meeting in Shine's school house, 12th eon., on Wednesday evening, Jan. 19th, for the purpose of having a debate. The subject being "Resolved that free trade would be the most benefic- ial to Canada." There will befour speak- ers on the side of free trade and a like number for protection. Free to every. body, Your regular correspondent is too sundoot to rection credit for tbo doggerel whioh appeared in the Grey notes last week. The lines denote a brain of feathers, With wit that's flighty, learning light, For in this modern poet's flights; I'm sure it may bo justly said His feet are useful as his head. MA'ramteenee. Joshua Bateman, of the fibh con., hos taken unto himself a wife in the person of Mies Julia Hughes, of Wingham, This pleasant event took place ou Tuesday, the 11th inat., at the residence of the bride's father, George Hughes, cattle exporter, Wingham, in thepresenco of quito a number of friends. Mr. Bateman is a very quiet -going fellow but still water runs deep. Wo all join heartily in wishing them much joy and a long and bappy sail on the matrimonial sea. • .Ethel. Sausage boos aro a new feature Isere. Scarlet fever reported to be in the vill- age. Ethel Maud S. is getting in good con- dition. Jamas Spence is able to got out again and carry the mail. Ethel station boasts of another addition to its population. Rebt. Vodden ie reported sick. We hope he will bo able to get out soon. A tea meeting and a couple of lectures are on the tame before the winter is over. Wm. Thompkms hurt his leg by elipp- iug through a holo in tbo gangway of Wm. l0ilno's saw mill. D. Portio occupied rho pulpit in the Presbyterian ohuroh last Sunday and preached a vary aceeptablo sermon, M. S. B. lemon lost a horee Jest week. Several sick horses in the village during the last few days, good opening for to Vet. D. Duuber is bound to go ehead with a new hall, It will no doubt bo a remun- erative investment as rho hall would be a requisition throe o; more nights each week. George Knight, who has for several years occupied the position of telegraph operator at the railway depot, Exeter, has boon promoted to the more lucrative position of station agent at Ethel. Report says that Thee, Ratolif£o per - domed a village lot and immediately re. sold it. to Robt. Dellsworth; ,who will move our oldeolnool house onbo tho prem. beeand fit it up for a dwelling hone. Alf. Henry, formerly of Ethel, was in our village a fete days sines. He is now agent for patent rook lifteee, and for chin is the "beau ideal" Of au agent, "Ifo • waprtod to bo an agout and with the ((gouty( stand." An oyster.-euppor Was lookers for by' lento parties in our village, but wo 'think the one who was to lava given it has postponed it until next July, as the Weather will be warmer and .oysters will be cheaper and go farther. THE BRUSSELS POST n Btobt, 1Ia11 1s reported on th0 sink limb, Bobby ,nest 111„.1, ihotter hours. Thesday evening the libhol band ser- enaded our worthy Dr. Cale s.ud eolwith• standing t110 luolemonoy of the weather, had a very plangent time. Resides the good things of life tbo Dr, donated sumo Of bis surplus wealth to add to the band funds, People ere getting impatient regarding a 5erlalnn affair ilntt WAS expected to have taken place abnut the first of the mouth, but trorn the firing in the future residence the plaster must be nearly dry, and we ratty look for an bunt of interest in the near future. IVa omitted last week to report tbo grand torah -light procession held on the 3rd inst. in honor of sleeve Milne. It was lad by the Abel band. Mr. Milne, although taken soonewbat by eurpriss, made a neat enamel thanking them for the onthuniaem manifested in his election; Last Sunday evening Rev. J, S. Cook, of Blnavale, preached a missionary ser- mon in the Methodist ()beech. On Mon- day evening the ennui missionary. meet- ing was hold. 1'na. Goober occupied the chair. Short addresses were made by Rev, Messrs, Cook, Smyth and Poul. The innds aro in advanan of last year, Satnl. Amos jr„ who has been living in Manitoba for rho pet year, sunt his father-in-law, Joseph Whelpton, the leg and foot of a fowl infected with a disease peauliar to the feathered tribe of that lo- cality. A hard substance sontothiug like waste conies ou the logs and gradually grows toward the bode and kills the bird. The only salvation is to take it in time. A short time since the band visited Lrdwerd Slemmon who has been confined to the berme throneh sickness for some months. After playing several pieces the band was invited iuside, where a spread was prepared in a style rarely equalled. After justice wee done the vi- ands, string music, songs, rec., were giv- en until the cloak proclaimed that the year 1886 had passed away, when all made for their homes higbly pleased with the evening's amusement. We are sorry to learn that on Sunday last Mr. Stem. mon vies not quite so well. The Grey cnrresponclsut seems some- what grieved that the temperance people did not Ruppert rho temperance candid- ates and from hie view he may perhaps be right. Bub the temperance peoole here look at things in a diffetenb light and look to those whose record is good and not to a lot of promises made 011 the eve of election, for the sake of getting in. Gray correspondent had bettor try again, or turn his whole leisure time to poetical offunious. filet would save a dispofeary a fortune in a short time by saving their tartar emetic. fJanli;irrlONS,—In an item that appear- ed iu TUE Pose, of Dec. 31st, referring to Wm. Sharp, the following corrections are asked to be nada with a few additional facts, lin only residers in Oxford town- ship 20 years and came to Grey township 33 ysers ago when ho pu'ohased the farm ho now resides of and where bo has lived since the pneehase. Thorn ars 11 child- ren living, 6 daugbtore and 5 sons. hfr. Sharp was married in 1834 to Miss Eliz- abeth Hunter, South Gore, Co. Grenville, and although now nearly 70 years of age she is almost as hearty as ever, and has proved a helpmate indeed to her aged partner in battling against the stern real- ities of life. (,0 enc r'al Ncwnx. Russia is arming her soldiers with a new repeating rifle.. The bbtarohioness of Queensberry is ap- plying for a divorce. Tho victims of the meet Madras fire are efiioially numbered at 405. Jews are being expelled in largo num. bora from Odessa two( Wolvayshai, Rus- sia. The Duke of 'Westminster has sont 1500 to a charitable institution in Lon. don. Gen. Sherman is said to have a fear that he will ho the next of the war heroes to die. Governor Leo, of Virginia, is oreditod with being the champion checker player of the South. A Kansas woman, on trial for murder- ing her another, hes hoe divoteed husband far her attorney. The return cricket motels at Melbourne between the English and Australian elev. ens eesnitod in a dram, guano, The United States Senate has passed, without division, the Bill to pension Mrs. Logan with $2,000 per year. The Italian people ore about to erect a monument to Garibaldi on the Tanioul nm, ito Ramo, to cost 1,000,000 frames. Hiram P. Revels, the first colored man elected to the United States Senate, id now to wail -to-do farmer in Mississippi. At St. Potorsburg the Government has suppressed .Pueskoie Dille for publishing an article violently attacking Germeny. Little Johnny Blossot n, of Harrods- burg, Ky., has swallowed 10 conte in pen- nies and tstree.cents pieces, and has rev or been (doh a day. The debt of the pity of Buffalo is only twice las largo as bloat of the State of New York, and it is growing at about the veto of $200,000 a year. Mr. Sussex, a Newbury barber, snoozed violoutly on Stanley morning, imbuing a blood voseel in his head, from which ho nearly bled to death. Advi oss from China Say the Tseng Li Yemen have agreed to pay $26,000 to the Amer iea 0 tnis5iona•im5 who suffered losses during the reeenb riots. The ghost that haunted a Devonshire graveyard has boon arrested and sons to gaol for two months. She was a domestic maned Ellen Cook. A lyro five foot hlgl, loos been found by Dr. Sohlienann. The Norristown Her- ald declares that they have bigger liars than boat in the Ileitecd States. • Philadolphiareokons np 1001:ivee sport flood to level crossings in that oily last year. J.iue outdoes the 0holora, smtill. pox, and other clangorous diseases. Wm. Blaen, the novelist, has obtained a verdict for $600 deenagee ageinsb Bow l3ollsforlibolloueassertions respecting lois early life and persimanions habits. The orgen•grinders of Now York city have a bake union of 882 members, Ilia like some of rho other labor organisations, they arc in laver of at "grinding melon- poly.” elon- poly ' The wheat harvest in Victoria, Aintree lia, ie 12,000,000 bnsbsls, x011 a 0000111 of 12 bushels per acro, J0oportettlons exceed R 160,000 tons, or 60,000 ions over that of i preeediug yeer. The libel late of England, says Tho i London Times, ie now such that "almost any rogue or vagabond can put a paper to an immense expense in almost any naso ho may wish to trump np, The Duke of Clomutught, who has ro- oently been made a member of the Coun- cil of the Presidency of llombe,y, and 1'rinoess Beatrice will, it to Raid, bo the heirs to (anewVintoria's ilnlnonse for- tune. Fearful snowstorms aro reported at Florence, Perugia, Venice, Gonna and in • the wbnla of Piedmont, interrupting mil- Secy and telegraphic oomrnmoioatloo. Rho incessant downfall of rail at Rome threatens to ranee an overflow of the Tfbar, Ona clear night, when a man 55 forty feet tip a tree, the elootric lights of Now Orleans can bo seen for fifty miles, At the sumo time places not 200 feet from bh' towers are as dark as the iuside of a tar barrel, Fourteen women left widows, and 85 children fatherless, ie the sed story tient closes the chapter of the last unprofitable and disastrous sea -on of the berrly Heher- man of Gloucester. .Sub mon must work and woman must weep. President Gravy, of the French Ropub- lic, receives a salary of $240,000 a year and is allowed $20,000 for hosting and lighting his houate and his servants ; $60,0011 for his euteriaitunonts, and $25,- 000 for too maintenance of his game pre- serves. A farmer near Waldron, Mo„ has a healtihy four-montlts•old pig that has two fest on ecce leg, and on mash foot five toes. Suoh a breed of pigs would be pre- (table in e, community partlat to pickled pigs' feet. The annual accounts aro coming from Dakota of the snowballs, some the size of apples, others as largo al neck measures, that cover the moire there. These balls are rolled by the wind and ,there ere thousands of them. A young man in Nebraska City offered a prominent citizen $50 to get him a wife. Tlio offer was accepted, and the girl se- lected agreed to the proposition eft eon- eidoration of a sewing machine. The two were then married, and apparently are as happy As two turtle doves. A Dotroit dude, who has oeugbt the toboggan infection, The Evening News relates, attended the Athletio Association slide Monday owning in eompauy with soma ladies whom he was going to ini- tiate into the mysteries of the festive slide. IIe was in the act of arranging lois now toboggan at the top of Woo slide, when his feet went from ander him and ho slid all the way to the bottom, His trousers were packed so hard around his nook that he was sent home in a blanket. A C hioago merohantdeoided to surprise his wife on Christmas dayprosentiug hor With a $20,000 policy on his life ; but ha neglected to apply for the polioy until the day before Christmas. Thein he was told that the tpplioation and the report of the medical examiner would he Bent to the New York office, and the policy would come back in a fow days. This wooldu't do. The merchant suagestod telegraeh- ing. The moclioal examiner was sunt for, his report and the appliontlon were tele- graphed to Now York, and in less than six )noire from the time of application the report was accepted in New York and. the polioy received in Chicago. This is said to bo the first transaction of the kind. Ceteoreeeiaatt i'354 vas. Dr, Oaegrain, of Windsor, and Setuue(. Mother, of Now Hamburg, have boon called to the Senate. During 1880 187,680 cars crossed the Dotroit river at Windsor, cast -bound, and 180,040, west•bound, a daily average of 1,007. Mayor Rowland and S. H. Blake, Q. 0., aro spoken of as probable candidates at Toronto for the Commons in the tem- perance interests. Lientenaut-Governor Robinson, Col, Fred. Denison, 0. M, G. and Edward Gurney, as Conservative candidates, and Robert Jaffray and Ald. Hunter, as Reform candidates. Donald McQuarrie, ex -Reeve of' Cale- donia, was killed at Burlington village last week. Ho and his son went down to start the grist mill. The son went back to the house and on returning found his father's dead body where he had fallen from the stairs in the engine room book - wards on the driving pulley. About 4 O'oloolc last Thursday after- noon a fico WAS discovered in a House iu the west end of Ingersol, owned end oc- cupied by an elderly woman named 115re. Scott, Whon the firemen arrived the house was partly destroyed, and on enter- ing the house they found Mrs. Scott dead, and burned almost beyond recog- nition. it 18 not known how the accident happened. • 4. shocking and fatal ncoident mounted on an up freight spored on rho pastern division of the 0. P. R. on Monday night, two milds east of Nspigon, A ca'pont50' named Gordon, from Port Arthur, wee riding on engine 269, together with Brake- man Frederick, Pireutat plasty Brunoll and Engineer Ramsay, when the omen shoot burst. The frightful rush of steam blow rho three first named men out of the angina on to the track, whore they had to lie in the ooid, with tin temperature 40 clogs, below zero. All tare terribly seem. ed. and frozen. Gordon diad two hours after with a broken bask, Tlla firemen had ono log broken, and was badly frozen on rho face, lianas and foot. Tho brake- man was belly scalded and smashed about the fano, but was able to walk. The engineer escaped bijary Victoria, Australia, has 1.50,000 tons of wheat to export. Tho Blytlo Advocate has suspended publication and nothing boot a job oMMee will now bo run int that burgh. Blyth has bad a very varied experience with its nswspeyars during the paint ton years. To those requiring aide to vision. 13a sure in asking for Lnenanoo'e spectacles that you get 13. LAW105'oe'e—ae thorn ars imitations in the market, and sea that ovary peer is statnpod 13, re, without which none aro genuine. Do not be do - coated by 10uy ,i milinrity in the 00100130. °' :tea E ST Has a complete as,sor't/nent of all the School Books, Slates, Lead grad Slate Pencils, Ink, Pens, Chalk Crayons, 'Scr'ibbler's, Ask to See the "Scholar's Companion," Foolscap ctmcZ ,;•V'ote Papers, Envelopes, the best La the Market - Try The Post Bookstore': The attevtioll of the public is directed to our excellent,''; e,nd well , selected stock of Furniture, made up of • Parlor Suites, .Drawing- Room Suites, Bedroom Suites,. Chairs, Tables, Lounges, Bedsteads, Cupboards, &e., &e. A Spec- ialty is made of Haiui.Madc Furniture. Orders filled promptly and satisfaction guaranteed, A splendid assortment of Picture Frames and l'4ouldings nal stock; Undertakin Department, Two splendid Hearses, 0110 white mid the other black, are ks;at. in connection with the business. Caskets, Coffins, Robes, &c. a-1•,' ys ort hand. lu inspection at our meellent stock asked. Our piens will elms- pare wait any 03habil:ill Milt fn the uOttntrp. Repairing attended to with neatness arid tlespattch. I will take any t nalltjty of SAW :CAO s '1 exchanger• •: ,l 1 „ �,' 11 for l�tt.,,t,�ilrt?. MRS. W. LONG,