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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-4-15, Page 4g.xxifvrtis>eaasl tints* Looals—A. Good. Locals—A. R. Smith. Dentiat—E. A, 51artia. Painting—Goo. Phippen. Millinery -F, 0. Roger'. Mare for sale—A. Reymann: Looals—City Carriage Shop. To the Publio—Plum d: Clark. Broadway House—Ross Bros. Giving up business—S. Ostrander. (lice ixirsseis Mist, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1887. Tut Dominion Parliament opened fire on Wednesday of this week. Qu motion of Sir John A. Macdonald, •seconded by Sir Hector Langevin J, A. Onimet was ohoaeo Speaker. Before the motion was put Hon. Edward Blake addressed the Holum at some length. Cnnndinaa New f+. The Coburg Daily World is the latest out. The first potato bug has arrived at Pen- elang. Building operations are very brisk in Toronto. Sunday funerals aro a thing of the past in Toronto. Glencoe boasts of o two -legged calf and a horned skunk. Simeon will this summer put in water- works and the electric light. The band of the Dufferin Rifles will get $500 worth of new instruments. The Militia Department is to be asked to form a city battalion for St. Thomas. A Galt foundry has just shipped $16,- 000 worth of goods to British Columbia. A nine weeks calf raised by Summer Bros.. of Beyham, weighed when killed 368 lbs. B. S. Smith, storekeeper, of Delhi, Ont., has ordered a car load of Limburg• or cheese. In the new House of Commons there are 63 lawyers, 36 merchant, 33 farmers and 6 jonrnalists. The Chatham School Board is in deep trouble over the question of opening the school to colored children. A mission circle of a London Metho- dist church have forwarded au organ to Rev. Mr. Saunby in Japan. David Pike, hostler at hotel is Zurich, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor in bed on Satur- day, at the Commercial hotel. Enemies of the Lindsay Warder tried to set tire to that office, but it was put out before much damage was done. Comber is giving a subscribed bonus of $500 and a free site for the removing of the Wheatley roller mill to that village. The Woodstock School Board has recommended the introduction of the kindergarten system into the schools of that. town. David Gillis, of Carleton Place, bas been sent by a friend at Temisoamingue, a pair of white partridges, caught in that neighborhood. Win. Burnett, Artemesia, lost a horse last week by being booked by a cow in the breast. The auimal bled to death in a few minutes. The Guelph Connell bas accepted the offer of the Guelph Gas Company to sup- ply sixteen electric lights for all night at 43 Dents per light. Thee appears to be a boom in hen fruit at Bothwell just now. A. Chatham merchant one day this weak purchased 2,250 doz,?n eggs in the village. Brant farni rs say the winter wheat has been seiintisly injured on flet and heavy soil by etpitsure to the severe cold and alternate freezing and thawing. At a special meeting of the County Council heed at Walke.ton, Norman Bob• ertson, of Kincardine, was appointed Treasurer of the County of Bruce. A son of J. Kuhn, Balmoral, Man., rode all the way from Greenfell to his home on horse back. It took Dight days to make the trip, a distance of 307 miles. James Hay d Co., the furniture menu factorers, of Woodstock, have,-atablishod an agency in Winnipeg, and purchased a suitable building near the Ontario Bank there. The Alberta Live Stook Journal is au- thority for the statement that the losses to cattle in the West will be considerably loss than expected, and will not exceed twelve per sent. On Saturday John Wortley drew a buttonwood log weighing 92,000 pounds from Essex Centre to Windsor. The load was drown by a single teem on a pair of common trunks. Alex. Legatfit, a hotelkeepor near Mon- treal, a day or two ago was surprised to receive through the mall a letter contain- ing $230, which sum was stolen from his house in November last. The young lod, son of Wm. Watson, of Teesvater, whos leg was caught and in. jured in a horse -power lately, has had to suffer the loss of his limb by ampntetion in order to neva bis life. By the death of a wealthy relative in Fairport, N.Y., lemma Hawkins, fish. dealer, St. Catharines, will come into possession of a handsome fortune esti- mated at $100,000. The breaking of a pinion (worth prob- ably ten cents) at a critieel moment com- pletely destroyed the usefulness of Wing - hem's waterwork, and caused the de- struction of nearly $40,000 worth of prop- erty. During the remelt block tiro Grand Trunk had: no lees than 1,300 care of freight snow and ism bound on their sid- ings at Point St. Charles, every one of which had to be relieved with pick and shovel. Tho building fund for the proposed new Y.M.0,A, building at Ottawa now amounts to 418,500, and eubeoriptions continuo to be rapidly obtained, so that it isexpected the required $20,000 will shortly be raised. Jaynes Oumminge, a Grand Trunk time of the accident in charge of the switchmen, was probably fatally injured Barnum herd of elephants, The latter at the oast end of the station yard at testified that he was worth at least $50,- Bellcvlle. Cumtnjngs was. in the act of 000 a year for circus purpose#. Messrs, rescuing a child when ho was struck in Childs & Hull represent Barmlm & the bail: by a backing train. riatehinson in the suit soon to be tried. Paris is to have another baud. Ingersoll is trying to Bemired it Berlin fnruieure factory; A movemene he on foot to have Chat- ham made a city, Galt Council has imposed a fee of $260 for transient traders, Kingston liquor dealers think that $276 for a licenSe is far too high. Watford Mechanics' Institute is about to collapse for want of funds. Two women graduated this year in the Women's Modiosl College in Toronto. About three thousand immigrants have arrived in Winnipeg already thi. season. Sir Donald A. Smith has given the Winnipeg rowing club a 4400 cup for oompetitiou. Rev. H. T. Croasley and J. E. Hunter, the Canadian evangelists, sre holding re. sisals in Chicago. The Canadian cruiser Vigilant has had an unsuccessful cha o after an American fishing schooner. Noxon Bros., of Ingersoll, propose illu- minating their agricultural works with electricity shortly. Canada is to be represented at the Im- perial Jnbilee Exhibition at Liverpool to be opened next month. It is reported that the Dominion Go- vernment has been asked to purchase the mineral rights of Nova Scotia. Consignments of fish salmon from British Columbia are being received in Montreal over the Canadain Pacific rail- way. T. B. Taylor will present the first baby born in Watford or vicinity ou May rho drat with a magni0ceut carriage, value $20. Kingston Board of Trade has deoided to ask the Government to build a break- water and dry dock in that pity by con. vier labor. Steps are being taken to urge upon the Dominion .Government the desirability of improving navigation at the mauth of the Thames. Dr. Brett, formerly of Arkons, has been appointed physician to the Banff Mines, and has named Dr. Latimer, of Winnipeg, as his assistant. The emplo. ees of the Patterson Works, Woodstock, have organized a benefit so- ciety for the relief of eases of sickness and accident among themselves. Essex Centrewillpay 25 cents for every tree planted on the village streets. They mast oath be at least three years leant. ed and growing befure the money it paid. The Government has decided to Mice extensive precautiona immediatly to pre- vent the threatened introduction of Asia- tic cholera into the Dominion during the conning summer. Hanlon claims to have discovered a new stroke whioh brings a new set of muscles into play, and makes the boat fairly shoot ahead. He expects to make the boys hustle with it. In the Brant Assizes Court Messrs. J. S. Fullerton, Toronto, H. Mok. Wilson and J. W. Bowlby, of the local liar, con- gratulated Chief Justice Cameron upon his being knighted. His Lordship replied at soma length. The Canadian Pacific Beltway have awarded the contract for the masonry work of the Sault Ste. Marie bridge to J. Reed for $280,000, There where seven tenders, the highest being $266,000, and the lowest $195,000. Rev. J. K. Smith, of Galt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presby. terian ohuroh of Canada, and Rev. F. 11. Beattie, M. A., Ph. D., of Brantford, have been honored with D. D, from the Montreal Presbyterian College. Tho fisheries of Lakes Jtaniteba and Winnipeg are becoming a groat indne- try. It is carried on by Ioolauders, half - broods, and settlers. All rho fish for out- iiee markets are ought in the winter months, in nets let down through holes out in the ico. The Palmerston Telegram says: —A bird's nest with three eggs in it, on which one of the buildo-s was sitting, was dis- covered by Martin Buck on Saturday of lest week. If that is not a sign of ap- proaching spring we would like seine 000 to inform us what is. The county of Lanark has paid out over $1,000 in bounties for fox scalps the last two years. The County Council has just repealed this by-law, and it is claim- ed that foxes are useful, when not too numerous, in killing large quantities of field mice and other vermin. Stratford has organized a cricket club, electing the following officers :—Honor- ary president, Judge Woods; honorary vine -presidents, W. R. Tiffin, Jas. Trow, M. P. ; president, H. M. Johnson ; 1st vice-president, H. A. Jameson ; 2nd vice- president, A. Hirst ; secretary, 3. A. Mc- Fadden; treasurer, W. 0. Young. Work on the tunnel, which will be conotrnpted under the St. Clair River near Port Huron, is already well under way. Shafts have been sunk on both sides, the one on the Canadian side being 80 feet deep, and the shaft at the Ameri- can side 58 feet .below the surfsoe. A large forme of men are working on it six- foot driftwey from both sides, which is in reality a small tunnel, to determine what serious obstructions, if any, exist under the bed of the river. Gen. Sooy Smith hoe the contract for this portion of the work, and, according to the terms with the company, be must heve the drifts), completed by next August. Op- erations on the tunnel proper will begin as soon as practicable afteewards. 7ambo'a value as a pisco of circus property is likely to be determined short- ly by a suit to bo tried in New York. Jumbo, it will bo remembered, wee run into and killed by a l000motive on the Grand Trunk railroad. The accident happened jest after J. M. Bailey had sold out to his partners, P, T. Barnum and J. L. Ilutobinson. So the gait against the Grand Trunk toed is brought by the firm of Barnum & Hutchinson. They seek to recover damages of $100,- 000, at which fignre they place the value of the deceased elephant for show Or - poses. Part of the evidence in the ease, has already been. taken in the testimony of Matthew Seotb, who was then, as he had. been for yore, Jumbo's keeper, and of "Prof." Atatingstall, who was at the THE BRUSSELS POST On tile 26tH ult., the wife of Wee Pen. ningbon, of Mmhiliido, gars birth to twigs, sou and daughter, aid on the 28th ult., the wife of Chauncey Silliker, of the same township, gave h to wneco and daughter, 'Rah forbirtthe N:tPi,e, Major-Gonoralllfidiileton, accompanied by Captain Wise, A. 1), 0„ will probably start on his annual tour of inspection early next tnonthl Kingston will be the first oily visited, The General expects to inspect the defences in British Cohen. Ida rho comming simmer. • This settles it forever ! The Mose Lit. erary Society the other night resolved it the affirmative "that the hotel has more influence over men that the church." This is a pointer to the License Commie. shiners, and it will now be in order for them to grant additional 'lounges. Tho National Lacrosse Association on Friday deoided, by a vote of 47 to 18 to maintain the decisionof. the Committee of Management, declaring the Toroutoe defaulters in the championship series. On receipt of this Information the To. rontoe held a meeting and deoided to advise their representatives in Montreal to withdraw from the Association if they thought such a course advisable. THE PEOPLE'S COLUMN. Ci ENERAL PURPOSE MARE • for sole, !1 ysaa4" old. Apply to A. RAMMER, Oraubrook, 40.2 TO RENT OR FOR BALE.—A L 0007) noise., Suet finished, Containing 7 roomswith land fromto 8 acres. Just on out edge of corporatilon. Apply to 87-4* ;OHP WTNN, Brussels. COMFORTABLE HOUSE AND mom to Let, well tented, cellar, shade trees, pleasant nelghborboud. 38.50 per Month. 26* 5. B. GRANT. CIIOICE FARMS FOR SALE.— A few splendid, improved farms for sale in the township of Grey Morris and MoRillop. Appy to A. DE1!,GATTY, Oo. Auctioneer,iirttssels P. 0. AWS GUMMED, FILED AND k Regulated on Lot 11, eon.s, Grey. War- ranted to not break; bend or heat the eaiv. Wood taken for work. T. MOGREGOR. 54.8* IlARhi FOR SALE. The Subscriber offers hie farm, being Lot 2, Con. 0, Grey, adjoining the Village of Brussels, for Sale. The buildings are ex- cellent. The place Is wail watered and in a high state of eultlyatioa., For further par. Coolers apply to the proprietor, on the premises. W. BICHARDSON, 7745 Brussels N.O. LilA1lM FOR SALP.—THE SUrt. scrosen offers for sale bis valuable 100 acro ferm.being lot 0, eon, 10, Grey, and situated 11 miles from Bromide. The .place will bo sold with or without the crop and on easy terms. Porsesssoa will be given at any time. Ivor further partienlare ae t0 price, terms, doe., apply to the proprietor on the premises. It, TfcNAUGHTON, 38.Om Brussels P.O,, L1ARM FOR SALE.—THE UN- dorsigeod offers his excellent 100 acre farm, being North it of 28, Con, 5, Morrie, fir Bair. There are about 00 sorsa Man,••!, the balance hardwood' bush. The builaings ere 10 good repair. Shore is an orchard, wells and nil the necessary conveniences. The farm is only 8 mires from Brussels and in a good looalfty. Possession would be given immediately. There ,ate 80 sores of Pall wheat in. For further partlanhtrs as to price, terms, Ca., apply to the proprietor on the paomleea. EDWARD AUBREY, 00.3m* BrnaselaP. n. EW FIRM. --THE UNDER 1V oiesED desire to intimate bo the pub- lio generally that they have formed a so - i artoelehi0 for the pnrpnso of carrying on Oarriage, Sign and Ornamental Painting' and are prepared to attend to thewants of the public almost reasonable terms. Mr. Ross having bad ,xperisnro in stuns •d tiro best shops In Toronto and bots being mac - heal workmen we guarantee to give oath. faction, Estimates and terms' oheorfttily furnished. Shop in the ole POST Publish- ing Bouse,Ring street, Brvaeele. SA PPII .h Rose. '87. FLAX '87. J. & J. Livingston have for the Farm - ere in the vieiuity of Brussels and Blyth who intend raising Flax during the com- ing Season, 2,000 13us11e10 of the best im- ported HOLLAND OR DUTCH SPED, which they are prepared to deliver at their mills in Brussels and Blyth, to Farmers in Quantibier to suit. To ensure a good crop, the Best Seed is absolutely required. Order Early. For Flax grown from the above seed the Highest Merket Price will be paid if of good growth, and harvested in proper season. J. tic J. LI"VINGSTON, 85 Proprietors. PAINTING! GEO. PEIIPPEIT, PAINTER, BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, I0 rltltl'A1tED TO 00 410 Ingot or Painting, Graining, Glazing, IKalsofnining, Paper Hanging, &c. All work clone Promptly and at Reasonable Rates. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED in every instance. GEC?. PHJPPEN. Amur, i , 2887, 1887SPRING 887 MILLINERY ---0— ,'n UR MILLINERY ROOMS aro Now Open for tho Sea- , son. We Invite the Ladies to view our Splendid .,, Stock which is very complete and more attractive than usual, no pains having been spared to,seelll'e all the Swot tem — 0 MISS GIR, EEN, who has given such universal satisfaction the last two Sea- sons, will be only too pleased to show our very Large and Fashionable Stock in endless variety. We bespeak from the Ladies a Call, even if they don't make any purch ases. We will bo only too happy to show our Stock which will' com- pare with any City. Fr 0. ROGERS, Donninion .House. NEW St GOOD Stock in all Departments is now very Complete anti worthy the attention of every intending Purchaser. We. would wish 0. 001 Special .Attention to our Large Assortment, of DRE GOOaDa' .. Comprising the Newest Importations for Spring and Summer Costumes. A 1 Value in Staples, such as Cottonalles, Shirtii,gs, Grey awl 'White Cottons, Towellings, iIo11ands, Timid igs, &cal }fats, Caps and Straw Goods, the correct Spring Styles. Men's White and Regatta Shirts, Ties, Scarfs, Collars, Cuffs, Braces and Underwear—a Full Stock. A complete stock of Cooper &Smith's Boots & Shoos just opened out and put in stock. Fresh Groceries. Excellent Value in Teas. Highest Market Price for Butter & Eggs at STRAOHANBRO&, - BRUSSELS.