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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1887.
Number 2.
CANADIAN ORDER OF FORESTERS.
REP0fT or OJIAIIZ 1AN Or $EDIQAL IMAM),
1'o the Officers avid Members ej the R. TP
Court, 0. 0. F.
Bnnrunns.---Tho numerical and finan
oial growth of our Order daring the past
71; year has been suoh that it given ma vary
great pleasure in presenting thio, my
eighth annual report of your Medical
Board. How well Ihave succeeded in my
work, with what care and watobfulixees I
have guarded our Order against the ad-
mission of undesirable rialto, and the re-
sults that aro likely to follow, I leave you
o judge.
During the past year there have been
submitted to the Medical Board for in-
• speotio n and approval 2,582 applications ;
of that number 2,672 were good first-olaes
risks for life assurance, and as such we
recommended certificates of membership
to bo granted them as soon as the R. W.
High Secretary had received due notice
of their initiation into the Order. The
remaining 160 were rejected for the fol-
lowiag reasons :-Family history unsat-
isfactory, 60; personal history, 51 ; oc-
cupation, 2; excessive u90 of alcoholic
stimulants, 15 ; disproportion between
height, weight and chest measurement,
12; and the remaining 20, a combination
of'two or more of the above causes.
In selecting risks, we have practiced a
rigid exclusion of all doubtful applicants,
believing that only such would maintain
our low death rate, and retain the envi-
able position we occupyaamonget life se-
eurance companies -both straight and
oo-operative. 1t may seem to many that
we have rejected a very large percentage
of the whole number received, but you
who are more intimately acquainted with
She care necessary in the selection of
risks in order that our presentpremiume
may pay our endowment claims for all
time to come, I am sure will sae the ne-
cessity of giving the Order the benefit of
every doubt, so that the interests of the
many will not be jeopardized through
charily to the few. Therefore it is that
the Medical Board requires totake into
consideration factors other than possible
present disease in arriving at a judgment
upon the assurability of a life risk, and
that we must expect every now and then
to have to commit the seeming absurdity
of refusing an applicant who at the time
of examination is the picture of physical
health.
The number of death claims that have
been paid during the year is 29, which,
computed upon an average membership
of 5,800, would give a death rate of 5 per
one thousand of the membership. If we
compare this low death rate with any of
the straight life or co-operative insurance
companies doing business in our own
country, we will find that there is much
reason to congratulate ourselves upon the
physical character of our membership.
The ceases of death ars MS followe :-
Pneumonia, 6; consumption, 8,; typhoid
fever, 8 ; congestion of the brain, 2; ac-
cidental drowning, 1; accidental fraoture
of the spine, 1; chrome "liver complaint,"
1; caries, 1 ; fatty heart, 1; anaoenia,
1. Cancer, 1 ; paralysis, 1 ; "general
prostration," 1, and cholera morbus, 1.
It will thus be seen that 14 have died
from chronic disease of steno kind, 18
from acute disease, and 2 from accident.
In my report of last year I directed
your attention to the importance of as-
certaining definitely the family history
of the applicant, and ones more, I would
like to call the attention of our examin-
ing physicians, and the other officers of
our Courts, to the matter of the roopons-
ibilities of their office amid the necessity
of their exercising a many aided care in
the recommendation of applicants.
Hence to family history must be paid
doe deference, and a risk may often just.
ly be condemned on this aoore alone, even
though the parent, dead of phthisis, was
healthy when the subject was born, and
even though the subject himself be entir-
ely free from all present suspicion of
oonetitutional disease of any kind.
HAnrTs or L1rs.-Two men of equally
healthy stock, and of equally good con-
stitution, may follow the same calling of
life and yet the one grow old and die of
old age's methods twenty years in ad.
vanoe of his own natural term of lite.
The former will have been a bad risk for
assurance and the latter a genuine, and
the single factor determining the differ -
once between the two epees will have
been drink; and that not necessarily
drunkenness, either habitual or sporadic,
but a drinking entirely respectable and
within bounds, so far as somal considera-
tions are concerned, but, a drinking still,
Which, with the ruthlesenee0 of chemical
and physiological ways, bas ineidiouely
sopped vital resistance. So some early
old age, and a premature death to prove
that the habitual nae of intoxioants do
not make paying rioke for life assurance.
Hence we need to be apprised in a
straight -forward way of exactly what the
habit is in the matter of partaking of
alcoholics in order that we may judge, by
our experience in aeanran00 results,
whether end habit be likely to shorten
the flatural duration of life or not. We
therefore ask the oflioiel of the Courts
to be particularly thorough in their en-
quiries and reports in this twitter, and
not to allow themselves to be put off, with
general replibs AB "0, 1 an a temperate
man, or I don't drink much, dm , &C.
Although of loss profound effect than
aleoholio indulgence, yet exeets In eating,
working or worrying May tell enough on
Vital endurance to seriously affect the in.
suability of a life. Ittgniriea on these
pointe should, therefore, be a part of the
examination, and any undue excess in
any of tittle directions should engage the
exeminor's setione thalfght in the form-
ingof his own judgment, on the life. The
matter of hygiene of the alIplicant's life
should be another subject of iuveatiga-
tion, for two men, say Distally sound
i
j'
physically, and of equally good habits
and heritage of constitution, may yet
offer lives of very different aaeurable
value, simply because the one can afford
to live in oloan and healthy surroundings,
and the other either Can not or will not.
Lastly, we wish to remind our Oourt
Physicians in particular of the great
weight their own judgment of the life
before them oarriea with us. For though
of the bearing of definite facts on assura-
billity we can perhaps judge as well a
thousand miles away as the examiner on
the spot, yet there are many little indi-
cations of a general appearance impossi.
bit to convey in a written report, which
may be all important in estimating the
value of a life. Of these, therefore, the
examiner is perforce expert, judge and
jury. Oar parting advice is to tape these
little showings well into consideration,
and if the examiner find, that despite the
negative results of an examination, he is
01511 possessed of an involuntary feeling
that an applicant is not a good risk, he
should not stifle that feeling, even though
he Inay not be able to justify it himself,
but reject the applicant on general prin-
ciples, and his course will be upheld by
every high-minded, right-thinking mem-
ber of the Canadian Order of Foresters.
During the year I eau assure you that
both myself and the Order have profs ted
much from the able assistance rendered
by my associate, Bro. Dr, Young, and
Bro. Dr, Flock, in determining the accep-
tance or rejection of doubtful risks.
In closing, allow me to nay, brethren,
that we have reason to thank God for his
continued goodness is us as a society dur-
ing the year. Some have had to suffer
affiliations and some have been taken
hence to join the majority, and we have
had the privilege of sympathising with
them. The hearts of the widow and or-
phan have been gladdened by the tangi-
ble sympathy shown them by the Order.
Let us ever remember that He alone is
the author of (real good,) and that we
can only expect his blessing as we are
"workers with Him."
Yours in L. B. & 0„
U. M. STANLEY,
Chairman of Medical Board.
A Trip to the West.
My last letter left us at Port Arthur.
We arrived there about eight o'clock
p, m„ Toronto time, but only seven
o'olook here, by following the sun we
have lost one hour, but will pick it up on
our return home. This is a delightful
little town, a Redact oasis in the desert.
The lake terminus of the C. P. R. No
doubt there is here the embroy of an
important city in the near future. They
seam to be constructing a new break-
water for the protection of the harbor.
The Presbyterians have built a ten thous-
and dollar church and nearly all paid.
Although the lend immediately around
the town is rough, I am told there is
good agricultural soil further inland, but
we had namely time to look out of the
window while the train stopped. There
seems to be more attraction for the
0. P. R. company at Fort William, seven
miles further on, they having extensive
Works there. We were allowed twenty
minutes for meals if we chose to invest.
There is very little satisfaction in those
wayside meals. It takes a stranger a
few minutes to find a place, then some
time to get nerved and a short time to
get back to the train, the time left for
eating is very short. An aged gentle-
men, whose teeth had seen bettor clays,
remarked that he had just time for a bis-
cuit and a cup of tea, for which he paid
fifty ciente. Those who are able to afford
seventy-ftve cents for a meal would be
better to take their meals in the dining
car. Those who oannot afford so much
should take a lunob with them, and so
disappoint these greedy waysiders. The
kind of work they prettiest on the unsus-
pecting is little short of highway robbery,
they are like so many eagles watching
their chance to pounce upon the prey.
We have over four hundred and twenty
mines to Winnipeg yet, so we must move
an. From Fort William we follow, for
some miles, the windings of a river, and
then plunge into a wilderness, rough and
rugged, bleak and barren, for over three
hundred miles. Again night overtakes
us and all nature as shrouded in darkness,
while the train pursues her way from
thirty to forty miles an hour, according
to the grade of the road. June 9th-An-
otber fine morning. No improvement in
the country as yet. The next glace of
importance is Rat Portage, one hundred
and thirty-two miles from Winnipeg.
This place is pleasantly situated on the
margin of the Lake of the Woods, It is
rather a nice little village. Train stop-
ped thirty minutes Here. A few of us,
being more thirsty than hungry, endeav-
ored to get a oup of tea„ The first place
we tried the landlord said yes, but his
better -half demurred, so we decamped and
succeeded better at another place. Tho
next place of note is Whitemouth river,
sixty-one melee from Winnipeg, We aro
now done with the rooks, and instead
have fiat marshy land. Onitivatiotx now
begins on a small scale.. The land im-
proves all the way to the oity, and as we
advanoe farming becomes more general
and the appearance of the °wintry .is
quite inviting, being a great ooutrast to
the wilderness which we had recently
passed through. Since leaving North
Bay we have travelled through nearly
one thousand smiles of barren, sterile,
country. A peesou may be inclined to
ask the quoetron, why so muoh waste
land ? Just as well ask, why so , muah,
sea? There ate no waste lands while
there is enough of good land capable of
producing plenty to satisfy the Waste, of
both nub and beast, besides, the untold
tvealtlt of the country may be lying
hidden away underneath the rooky sur.
face of the °wintry which we have just
passed through. We are now nearing
the end of our journey. The trip so far
has been very pleasant and agreeable,
have had good company and the train
ofliciels have been very civil and oblig-
ing. What about this great highway on
whieh we hayo been travelling, extending
from the far east to the ehoree of the
Pacific, such a splendid smooth road out
through thousands of miles of rooks,
monntaina, swamps and prairiee? The
vast undertaking has no parallel in rail-
way history. It is an honor to the mind
that first conceived the idea, and a oredit
to all, from the engineers who marked it
out down to the navvies who handled the
pith and shovel. The 0. P. R. company
also deserve credit for pushing it through
to completion so energetically. By look.
ing away ahead we eau now see the tow-
ers' and turrets of that remarkable town,
the Queen oity of the West, tee open
gateway to broad rolling prairie and
cloud capped mountains. Although
there are no historic remains in this new
land, in the shape of ancient cathedral,
pile or stately monuments to perpetuate
the memory of illustrious men, The
history of the country is but of yesterday,
so to speak. Part of its history has of
late years bean indelibly written on the
prairie, with the life blood of a number
of our brave Canadian eons, veritable
veterans, of whom Canada may justly be
proud. The mention of such plaoes as
Duck Lake, Fish Creek and Batoohe will
move the feelings of many a. breast for
long years yet to come,
Walton, July 15. JAS. S:axLLls.
Brussels Caledonian Society.
At the annual meeting of the Brussels
Caledonian Society, held in the Council
Chamber last Friday evening, the follow-
ing officers ware elected :--
Chief, F. S. Scott ;
let Chieftain, Jas. Young ;
and Dan. Ewen ;
Ord H. Dennie
4th Robt. Graham ;
Seo: Treae., Jas. Ross ;
Asst. Sec., J. G. Skene.
D. Ross,
R. Williams,
A. Currin,
P. Soott,
D. Strachan,
R. Leatherdale,J
Thos. Ballantyne, Pipe Major.
Dan. Stewart, Piper,
It was deoidad to hold their annual
games, on Victoria square, on Friday,
Sept. and.
Committee.
CRICKET MA.TCi].
sluesni8 Ve. HARRraTON.
The return match between the above
mentioned olubo was played on Victoria
parkin this place on Wednesday of this
week. The game commenced ou the ar.
rival of the train from the east, Brussels
going to bat. The innings was not any
way eventful excepting the fine more of 24
made by D. 0. Rose. He opened the per-
formance by making 10 in three hits. The
innings totalled 60. Schmidt and Stafford
did Borne good bowling. The visitors were
then sent in to defend the stumps but
Dennie and J. Rose did their work with.
such effect that 7 were clean bowled out, 6
retiring with "goose eggs" and the aoore
bookonly crediting the Bide with a total
of 19. In Brussels' second innings D. 0.
Ross rolled up 21 more, 0. Waterer 19 and
H. Dennis 19 and with the assistance of
the other members of the club the respect-
able number of 71 was reached before the
last otumpfell. Stafford did very effeo-
tivebowling in this innings. 8arriaton
once more took the willow but with poorer
raucous than in the first attempt as be-
tween good bowling and sharp fielding 10
was all they could muster, the two innings
netting them 28. J. Hitchen and D. 0.
Rose took a hand in the bowling in this
innings. E, E. Wade and C. Ballantyne
performed the duties of urnpiree very sat-
isfactorily. The following official score
indicates who dict the work :-,
nRn/BBLa.
lot innings. andInnings,
Malianghtoa, b Stafford S b Schmidt 1
McLennan, b srisbin... a b Bohmidt,,,1
0.Rose, b Schmidt 24 b manure,
Gilhoa1y 21
Dennis, b Stafford, o
Hanson 9 b Bah midt ,.. 19
0, lines, b Stafford Si b Stafford 9
Currie.b Stafford 0 b Stafford 1
Shiel, b Schmidt 1 not out
Veal, not out 4 b Blefferd.,.,,,,,,0
Waterer, b Bohmidt,- 0 b Stafford, o
Laidlaw 19
Kitchen, run out 1 b Stafford 0
Con 'ley, b Bolimldt S b Sohmidt 9
Extras ,,,W 4 Extras 5
Total 00 Total 71
Grand total 181
neauuerox
lab Innings2nd Innings,
Hotham,b Dennis a b Sitaben, o JO,
Rom - 2
Brigham b Dennis 0 b Kitchen 0
Shannon 5 Rose o Kit.
when 0 b J. Ross, o Ito
Naughton - 8
Stafford, b Ross 0 b Hitchen, a
Dennis 0
Schmidt, b Dennis 0 b d, )tees 2
Harvey, to Rose 8 b Dennis, o D,
Bose • 1
Brtebin, b Douala, o
8blol 5 b J,Roas 0
eilhouly, b Ross 0 b Donal e 1
Laidlaw, b Boss 0 b J. ROS o 0
Hansen, b Donnie, 0 Cur-
rie 2 b D, Boss 1
Uoltou, not nut 0 not out 0
extra1 Extras _o
Total
Grand total .,..,,., Total 10
Brussels won by 108 rung,
The society young man of Moaford is
reported to have adopted the habit of
wearing a bullfrog on hie °oat lapel by
way of a bouquet.
Wm. MoPhedran, while oroctiag a
barn for John Lang, Nassagaweya, slip-
ped and fell 88 foot, alighting on his
feet and hurting himself quite severely.
TERRIBLE RAILER» ACCIDENT,
17 People Killed.
The most shocking accident that has
ever happened in this eeotion of the
country occurred at St. Thomas last Fri-
day evening about 7:80 o'clock, Men
and women were rushing to and fro, cry-
ing and seeking for their friends, whom
they though were among the lost ones.
A special f reight train on the M. C. R., in
charge of engineer O'Shea and combater
Ersatz, was creasing the London & Port
Stanley track near the M. 0. R. station,
An excursion train from Port Stanley,
loaded down *ids London and St. Thomas
exousioniato, rushed headlong into it,
striking the freight a few Care book from
the engine, and almost instantly the
wreak was one mase of flames. Unfor-
tunately, two oars of petroleum consign.
ad for Windsor beoamo ignited, and the
fire spread with such rapidity that in a
very short time the whole neighborhood
was ablaze and all approach to the amens
of the oruahed and burning exonreioniate
was out off, The fire brigade was soon
out, but for over an hour could do nothing
but confine the fiames as far as was pos-
sible to the buildings which were already
burning. The eight was one that appal-
led the hearts of the bravest, and will
never be forgotten by those who caw it.
Engines approached the wreck from three
direotions and pulled the burning care
which still remained on the traok out of
the heat, and the bre in these was soon
extinguished, A orowd of eager helpers
then turned their attention to the burning
mass of oars and human beings. 8.11 but
the two front cars on the excursion train
wore shoved out of the road and the fire.
men were rapidly gaining control over
the fire in the wreck when one of the oil
tanks exploded with a terrific boom,
scorching and burning hundreds of per-
sona in the crowd about, causing a dread-
ful panio. Women fainted and were
carried off in all direotions, home with
broken limbs, and doctors enough could
not be found to equal the emergency.
After the expiation the work of rescuing
the unfortunate victims pinned under
the wreck commenced, and in half an
hour's time the charred remains of nine
persons were rescued, all of whom ware
burned beyond identification, but ware
thought 50 be mostly women and child-
ren. About 9:80 o'olook the remains of
Engineer Harry Donnelly, of London,
one of the oldest engineers on the G.T.R.,
was released from underneath his engine,
which had toppled over on him while he
was in the aot 05 jumping for his 1 ffe.
The fireman, whose name is not known,
saved himself by jumping, but was badly
burned. A number of excursionists who
were in the rear end of the front coach
escaped death in the flames but present-
ed such a shooking appearance that it is
feared many will succumb to their in-
juries, Fireman Ponsford, who was on
top of a building near the wreck when
the explosion took plaoo, was one living
masa of flames, and before• he could be
reached was so badly burned that he is
now dying from his injuries. An unus-
ually large crowd went from St. Thomas,
it being the 000asionof the annual Baptist
pic-nic.
The cause of the accident was entirely
the negleot.of the dead engineer, against
whom the semaphore was turned. It
bore testimony to the many thousand
people present at the wreck until it was
reduced to ashea. The destruction
caused by the fire will not be so greot as
was at first supposed, owing to the stren-
uous exertions of the plucky fireman, al-
though the loss to both railway compan-
ies will be severe. A frame dwelling
house belonging to John Campbell was
totally destroyed. No. 1 warehouse,
owned by M. A. Gilbert, and about half
of a lumber -yard owned by Chas. Conrad,
were bursa. Besides these a number of
frame buildings, considerable of which
were railroad property and not of great
value, were destroyed.
The following is a complete list of the
identified dead :
Engineer Harry Donnelly, London.
Mrs. John Baynes, London. •
Edna Baynes, London, aged 11.
Vina Baynes, London, aged 7.
Lylia Baynes, London, aged 11 mon.
Mrs. 5, Fraino, wife of Samuel Fraise,
St. Thomas.
Frankie Fraino, S►, Tbomas, aged 8.
S. G. Zealand, St. Thomas, clerk for
J. & W. Miokloborough.
Annie Zealand, St, Thomas, aged 2.
Mrs. S. G. Zealand, St. Thomas.
Mrs, Smithar, St. Thomas, wife of John
Smither, drygoods ,merchant,
Robbie Smithar, St. Thomas, aged 0
menthe. -
The remains of two grown persons
have been removed, but it is not known
who they are,
EmLEn DT e'xns` ExPI,OSION.
Mrs. Howarth, of Scott stroot, St.
Thome, wife of W. E. Howarth.
H. Ponsford, of the Dake house, St.
Thotnas.
An unknown child was found in the
ruins of Mr. Oampbell'e house.
BT. 0100019 MIME I 20151115 II/ Iaxetinnori.
Mrs. MoGinnis, badly burned and ankle
sprained.
Ald. Cookran, both hands singed.
Samuel 13owlby, fireman, hands burned,
Conductor Matlock, hands burned,'
Orin Ellwood, badly bruiood mad burn.
ed.
. T. Comfort, builder, both ]lands burn-
ed while attempting to save Berman
Ponsford.
Alex. Austin, G. T. R. engineer,
shoulder dislocated. -
Thos. Robinson, fireman, badly burned
about the head,
Chaim Delco, badly burned about the
head auclfate.
Wm. ]foots, Rieman, badly burned,
;,tlir. Pretty, run over by boo° reel, hurt
about thigh, side and arms,
Albert Hutson, Superintendent of St.
Thomas cemetery improvements, hands
badly burned.
j. J. Andrews, American Express office,
leg injured.
MoOoll,d nu of McColl & Mia
Rolla eg broken, burned about the
body.
Mr, a ewooribo, of Bawerde & New -
(tooth, badly burned.
Bober t Edgar, Air Line fireman, hands
burned.
A. Ohudley, shoemaker, badly bruised,
being run over by hose reel,
Deputy Register Clark, neck badly
burned and several teeth knocked out,
Barney Reece, fireman, badly burned.
Wm, Barclay, fireman, scalded.
Wm. Morris, fireman, badly burned.
Wm. Foley, fireman, severely burned
all over the body.
Titan. Palmerston, Superintendent of
the St. Thomas Street Railway, struck
by plank and thrown twenty feet, severely
burned.
W. H. Walbourn, chief of the fire de.
partment, right arm, hands and f nee se-
verely burned.
Wm. Reath, of Reath & Elliott, sever.
ely burned.
Wm, Joyce, G. T. R. engineer, severely
burned,
Hon. Allen Francis, United States
consul, hose cart ran over him, injuring
his head severely. Hie injuries are sex-
ione.
Mrs. Bains, of London, was among
those badly burned.
Manitoba and Northwest.
Sir John stated in Toronto to a World
reporter that he expected the disallow-
ance difficulty to be settled amicably and
soon.
A carload of cattle and hogs from Min-
nedosa, and a oar load of hogs from Nes.
paws where shipper] to Winnipeg by
John Wake.
J. H. Brownlee, the surveyor, met
with a serieua accident at the Lake
Dauphin district, axdihas been compelled
to return to Winnipeg.
The Ogilvie milling company is ship-
ping out all the grain in the Neepawa
warehouse. When that is done the grab
in the elevator at Minnedosa will also be
shipped.
Over 55,000 was expended iii cattle and
sheep by the Taylor Bros., butchers, in
Minnedosa, during the months of May
and June, Tbis indicates that farming
is Minnedosa is no experiment, but a
basins sestablished on a solid basis.
Admiral Stewart, who is the owner of
what is known as the 'Oolquhoun Farm,'
near Stoney Mountain, and who arrived
at Winnipeg a short time ago on a visit
to his son who is managing the farm, has
just received notification that he has
been treated a G.O.B. The Admiral is a
great friend of this country.
Count do Dory, of the Hungarian colo-
ny, had a pig penned up to fatten, a bear
game along, looked upon the pig and caw
that it was good. Bruin accordingly
climbed the fence, lifted the porker out,
and parrying it to a quiet spot sat down
and feasted to its heart's content. The
Count in looking for hie pig found noel-
ing but a remnant of skin and the bones.
Rutherford & Co, sold a block of land
last week of 1,600 scree in townships 9
and 10, range 1 east to English capital-
ists represented by Miller Christee,
The price obtained was a highly eatiefaa•
tory one. The purchasers are settling
ten families on this blook of land, allot-
ting to each family 80 acres. Houses
are now being contracted for for each
family. Ball family will also be sup-
plied with oxen, farm implements and
everything necessary to make a good
start. Three of the families have already
arrived and are going on the land at
once. This ie a thoroughly praotioal
colonization scheme and starts out with
every prospect of enooees. The demand
for farm land near Winnipeg is inoreae•
ing.
An editor in the Western States recent.
ly got his reports of a cattle show and a
high concert rnixed with the following
result :--"The concert given last night
by sixteen of Storm Lake's most beauti-
ful and, interesting young ladies was
highly appreciated. They wore elegant-
ly dressed and sang in a moat charming
manner, winning the plaudits of the en-
tire audience, who pronounced them the
finest breed of shorthorns in the country,
A few of them are of a rich brown Color,
but the majority are spotted brown and
white. Several of the heifers are fine
bodied, tight limbed animals, and prom-
ise to prove a good property." The that.
ter of excitement which the item caused
amongst the first families was so groat
that ho has since left for parts un
known,
Mr, Haney has adopted a new plan in
oonneation with the sub-contraote for the
grading of the Valley Railroad, A small
potion only of the line running through
brach or gorilla the rest being open pra•
iris, he Ores invited the oontraotora to
state in their tenders tine amount they
want for sarub and also for prairie work.
They wote also to state how mach they
would be able to do. He will then dig -
tribute the work on the prairie in .pro.
portion to their ability to perform it, and
then dividing the sorub work equally
amongst than all. By this means all
tare oontraotora will be treated alike,
and there will be no Damien for grumb-
ling, M r.. Haney reooived s telegram
trona Met .Ryan, who is at present in
Yeeitres 1. The messege wag to the effoot
that he Stud peeehased the stook and was
on the paint el closing the bargain for
the rape. The stook and rails will prob.
ably he shippod over the 0,P.R„ as very
little credence is given to the rumor that
such transportation will bo refueod,
OOMMUNICATI ONs
A Denial.
To the Editor or Tan Pon..
Doan Sun. --Please give me an oppor-
tunity, through Toso Pose, to eorreot a
report that has been oiroulated lately in
the town, that I was the writer of a letter
that appeared in your issue of last week,
oigned 'Temperance." To the friends,
who appear so anxious to oonfer that
honor upon me, I would just say that I
did not write it, I do not know who wrote
it, and I never saw it until I read it in
Toe Post, JAS. Buroite,
Brussels, July 20tH., 1887.
An Opinion.
To tbo Editor of Tna Pose.
DEAa Snt.--Will you allow a subscriber
for several years to your paper to say
that since you assumed its management
nothing hag so completely surprised and
even disgusted your readers, or, at any
rate, the respectable portion of diem, AS
your admission into your last issue of an
outrageous and cowardly libel upon one
of the most universally respected citizen
whom we have in Brussels, the writer of
which had not manliness enough to sign
his own name, but like the moral assassin,
whioh he is, hides his scoundrelly person-
ality under the non de plume of 'Tem-
perance." Temperate he certainly is in
abstaining from the remotest approaoh to
truth or decency. Such creatures were
fit1 y desoribed by one of our ministers in
last Sunday's sermons, as those "who do
the Devil's retail business. Now, sir,
you may say to this' that your paper is
your own, that you aro controlled by no
man or party and have a right to do as
you please, That newspapers should be
open to puhlio disoussion, which mast
necessarily be, to a large extent, an.
oaymous, and that unitise the slander is
true it hurts no one. To all of these
your readers say no, that your paper is
to a certain extent their property, that
they have always found is decently and
fairly conduoted and have a right to ob-
ject to such a very decided departure
from that lineof conduct. Secondly,
that a direot accusation, suoh as this,
should, where affecting private character,
be made to the proper authorities and
not through the public press, or that at
any rate it should be fathered by the man
who gave it birth, and not left to wander,
the dishonored offspring of a still more'
dishonored sire. I do not urge that all
communications should be signed by the
writers, but personal ones of this nature,
should be so, or else rejected by decent
newspapers, who otherwise make them-
selves simply instruments to indulge the
spits and venom of persona perhaps dis-
appointed in other aims. Lastly, sir,
false as this moat infamous libel is it
hurts the object of it more than if true.
Trusting and believing that you will, with
your usual fairness, insert this, I am
Yours truly,
Brussels, July 20th. Emmen.
•Ganaaian News.
Laprairie Local eleotion takes place
July 80.
Burglars are still plying their vooatiox
at Toronto.
A Belleville dealer has made a ship.
meat of cheese to Japan.
The Manitoba Turf Club has declared
a dividend of four per cent.
Ottawa lumbermen express themselves
favorably to Commercial Union.
Quito recently a quarter section farm
near Brandon was sold at auction for
51,000
Canadian horses have ,been found to
coat too much to be bought for British
army purposes.
The Brantford Street Car Company
keeps wet sponges tied to their horses'
heads during the hot weather.
The Canadian orioketere at Edinburgh
made 259 runs in their two innings,
losing the match by ten wickets.
A two thousand aore farm at Oak
Lake, Manitoba, has been opened up by a
reoent arrival from Pertholine named
McLeish.
N. Robertson, principal of the High
School al Smith's Palle, has entered a
libel suit against the Kingston Independ.
ant for 85,000,
The Saukville (N,B.) Post telleoi a Jar.
soy oow belonging to J. L. Blank, .illi, P.
P., seven days' milk from whioli produced
16 ds butt
]rpounighty-coveof n burer.gesses of Woodstock
have been summoned for not paying
their dog -tax, and se the fine is five dol-
lars, "lots of fun" is expected.
In the Lacrosse match at Riohmond
Hill on Saturday between Woodstock and
Richmond Hill, Woodstock won by three
games to one, Time, two houre and a
half.
The Canadian cricketers won the re-
turn match with Ireland by a more of
200 to 109. Ogden soored 00, Gillespie
80, and Henry 25. Armand took five
wickele for 85 runs.
The groom in a recent Rev/enable mar-
riage is toad by a local paper to have
"appeared to be one of those happy.look.
ing individuals who are rarely to be
seen on this mundane Bphere."
Some mysterious trouble is making
havoc among the thorough -bred Durham
cattle in somo parts of Darlington town-
ship, county of Ottawa. No fewer than
ton belle have died within the last few
weoke.
Some people, drying fish at Newell -
town disoovored the. end of a piooe of
wire protruding from the ineide of a split
fish near its back bac h the thiokeet
part of the meat* On being abetraoted,
it was found to be a large hairpin, et
the ordinary kind, a little rusted lint
otherwise as perfect as When it was air
article of the toilet,