HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-7-22, Page 4THE BRUSSELS POST
:ear A4veutis mutts.
Removed—D. Ewan.
St. Leon—Adam Good.
Voters' list—Wm. SpenCC.
Srtayed--Valentine Simeon.
Now's the chance—T.ur1 Poet.
Agents wanted ---W. A. Sims.
New Firm--•Mattice & Juhnetml.
Farm for eale—Dougald Streohan.
fl 7Cclinuotis rest,
FRIDAY, JULY 22; 1887.
AN indnetrial school for training
Indian youths, to cost 25,000, will
be established at Begins by the Do•
minion Government. One to cost
$10,000 will bo established at Peace
Hills. Tho former will be under
the control of the Presbyterian de.
nomination, and the latter will be
in charge of the Methodists. The
Government have already establish.
ed industrial schools at Qu'Appelle,
High River and Battleford, which
are proving suceessful. The first
two are under Roman Catholic sup-
ervision and the church of England
bee charge of the last.
Perth County Notes.
Jas. MoD. Coven has been appointed
an exoieo officer for the district of Strat-
ford,on probation,
Last week Robt. Lang, of the 12th
con., Elme, had one of the largest barn
raisings ever seen in this part of the
country. There were upwards of 139
men at the raising.
One of the most destructive Sures that
has ever taken place in Wallace 000urred
about noon on Tuesday, 12th inst., when
the Wallace Joint Stock Cheese Co.'s fine
factory, on the 3rd line, together wito its
entire contents, fell a prey to the devour-
ing element. The fire started in the
boiler room while those employed in the
factory were at dinner, and in a very few
moments the factory was a mass of
flames. Out of the entire contents, con-
sisting of about 600 boxes of cheese,
machinery and other plant, books, etc.,
only seven boxes of cheese were saved.
The new post -office division, with
headquarters at Stratford, will consist
of the counties of Perth, South riding,
and Huron, and the townships of North
and South Easthope, in Oxford .county,
to be detached from the London division ;
North Perth, Wellington and Waterloo
to be taken from the Toronto division ;
and the counties of Bruce, South Grey
and North Grey to be withdrawn from
the Barrie dirilion. Mr. Hopkirk, late
private secretary to Sir Alexander Camp-
bell, as previously intimated, hes been
appointed inspector of the division.
Alex. Cavan, Government Revenue In-
spector, captured two young mon by the
name of Allan Boyd and Benjamin
Brandt, ofjthe township of Elms, on
suspicion of being connected with the
manufacture of "swamp whiskey" in the
township of Elma, and brought them
prisoners to Listowel. In company with
the town constables, Mr. Cavan, through
informatian given him, visited a bush lot
known as No. 25, on the 3rd con., where
he found the usual apparatus required
for whiskey still and took them away.
He failed, however, to find any "spirits,"
as it appears that the machinery had not
got fairly into working order.
Huron �'i0� Notes.
James Hazelwood, of Lakelet, has sold
his 60 acre lot to James Horton for $2,-
500 and intends to retire.
A few days since Geo. Cantelon, jr., of
Goderich township, came across a full
grown porcupine in the orchard, and
killed it with a club. Such an animal is
exceedingly ram.
The town treasurer of Clinton, paid
out on behalf of the town, during the
past six months, the sum of $7,902,68,
leaving a balance in the treasury of $77.-
05. Of the amount expended, $412.66
was on streets and sidewalks ; over $674
for salaries. Over $6,000 went towards
the High and Public Schools and for the
purchase of the former's debentures.
The Goderioh Signal Saye :—.In our re.
port of the Caledonian games last week
we omitted to state that one of the most
enjoyable features of the day was the
Seofch reel that was participated in by
Mrs. Coutts, an old lady of over 84 years.
She tripped along the platform as grace-
fully as the youngest could have done,
and received the hearty plaudits of the
spectators.
At Norwich on July 1st, R. J. Eaorett,
an Exeter boy, carried off several prizes
given for athletic sports, as follows
1st, one hundred yard race, hurdle race,
} mile race, long jump—distance 19 feet,
high jump -5 feet 7 inches ; and 2nd,
hitch and kick, being five first prizes and
one second. There were at least seven
competitors in each contest. R. J. has
succeeded in attaining coifsiderable prom-
inence in sporting circles.
On Tuesday afternoon of last week in-
formation was laid against W, H. Barton
Locket, of Tees at r
HenryL w e who
and r
were running a stall in Gorrie, for in-
fringement of the Scott Aot. A search
warrant was issued and the tent emaroiled
by Constable Ardell, and a keg containing
whiskey was found. The parties were
arrested and brought before R. Roes and
J. D. Smith, J, 1"e, who found them
guilty and fined them $50 and costs,
amounting in all $08.44.
At Goderioh a sudden judgment over-
took a vagabond whose lay was the mot.
shell game. A stranger was just going
to bite when one of the Stratford excur-
sionists gave him a pointer on the gams,
The thimble.rigger objected to the inter-
ference. and the altercation brought Con.
stable Yule to'tlre spot, who, seeing what
was going on, p,rabbed all the moveable
part of the fakir's paraphernalia and
threw it in is faoe. Tho cheat began to
talk, and the constable thereupon smash -
ad hie whole outfit against the fence.
It is intended to have a re.Opening so0.
vine in connection with Ontario street
ahurob, Clinton, early in September. An
effort is being made' to secure Bishop
Carman for the occasion, if possible.
John Topin, an old and highly respect.
able citizen of Howick. dropped dead
from a chair he was sitting upon in front
of the door without a struggle. Up to
the instant that he fell, lie had been in
his usual good health, and Lea been out
to the pasture ,field asd brought the cows
for milking, and had just sat down for e
few minutes when the unexpeoted sum -
MOM Caine.
As 0. Avery, of the London road, was
leading a vioious bull down the road to
Bruaefield, for shipment, holding it by a
ring in the nose, bo which was attached a
stick. A sudden toss of the bull's head
broke the stiok, and almost before he
knew it Mr. Avery had tumbled over a
barbed wire fence to a place of safety.
Knowing that to recapture the boll in-
volved risks which ho was not willing to
take, lOr. Avery sent the hired man down
tolehoot the bull, which he hid.
The Clinton News -Record says :—The
St, Thomas holocaust, Friday haat, at,
which about 100 persons were more Or
less burned and 16 killed outright, arae 1
brought painfully home to some e oar
citizens. Mr. Zealand, brother-irelaw t11
Robt. Holmes of the New Era, and his
infant child were burned beyond recogni-
tion, except by their personal effects.
Mrs. Zealand, escaped through
a oar window but was so impeded by her
clothing that one of ber lower limbo was
broken in two places. Her clothing also
caught fire and every shred burned ex-
cepting her corsets, which, fitting closely
to her body, resisted the ravages of the
fire fiend and was probably the means of
saving her life. As it is both hands are
terribly burned and her hair completely
singed off. Though her injuries are very
serious, hopes of her recovery are enter-
tained, Her mother, wife of the Assist-
ant Provinoial Librarian, was at Strat-
ford on her way to Clinton but at once
proceeded to the scene of acoident. The
cause of the fatalities was the running of
an excursion train into an oil laden
freight train at a crossing, the oil taking
fire and spreading death and devastation
all around. Humanity shudders at the
fearful nature of the injuries sustained
by many of the survivors, and we in
common with our fellow citizens, offer
our town confrere and family our pro-
foundest sympathy in the deplorable oir.
oumstan0es which so grievously affect
them.
General N ew8 .
Emperer William's health is improv-
ing.
Riots 000urred in Liverpool on the
12th.
Krupp, the famous maker of Dannon,
is dead.
Another British vessel has been seized
for sealing in Alaska waters.
German residents in parts of France
are persecuted by the populace.
Sandwich Island affairs are going on
smoothly under the new regime.
Prof. Tyndall bas again attacked Mr.
Gladstone in a virule t manner.
Lieut. Warren, 1st Middlesex Regi-
ment, has won the Queen's prize.
The Irish Crimes Bill has passed its
final stage in the House of Lords.
Six tourists have been lost in the Swiss
Alps owing to severe snowstorms.
A New York Public school teacher,
whose salary is $700, was recently fined
one cent for being late two minutes.
There are $100,000,000 invested in the
watch industry in the United Stater+.
Berlin officials disoredit the reports
,concerning plots against Emperor Will-
iam.
There is now direct railway communi-
cation between Calais and Constanti-
nople.
New Jersey farmers cut their hay by
moonlight to avoid the intense hen o
the day.
Depression continues in the E atop
stock markets, espeoially for Rua
curities.
Russian merohants on the
have been ordered to dismiss their Ger.
man clerks.
The consumption of bear in New
York city is estimated at 18,000,000
glasses per day.
Prince Jerome Napoleon will publish a
book entitled, "Napoleon the First and
his Detractors."
The frequent train robberies in Texas
have resulted in a decision to arm eight
men on each passenger train.
Lord Lucan, who has just been made
a field marshal, is 87 years old, and has
eerved in the British army 71 years.
A cable dispatch has stated that all
soldiers in South Russia have been
ordered to join their colors at Odessa.
Minneapolis has passed an ordinance
removing all restrictions as to the hours
during which saloons skull be kept open.
Sir Stevenson Blackwood, Permanent
Secretary of the Imperial P.O. Depart-
ment, will make a thorough tour of Can-
ada.
A sotsntilt momentarily startled the
gas monopolists by manufacturing an ex-
cellent illuminating gas from potato
bugs.
An elevator with a capacity of 4,000,000
busholo was reoently built in Ohioago,
from foundation to rooftree, in fourteen
days.
Between twenty and thirty women and
children were drowned in Oanareie Bay,
Long Inland, on Sunday, by the oapsiz-
ing of a yacht.
The Emperors of Germany and Austria
are to meet at Gastein early in August,
and Emperor WIlliam and the Czar at
Dantzic in the autumn.
The average age of horses in Germany
is eighteen wears, in England twenty-five
while in France and Belgium it only
amounts to twelve years.
Private Gilliers, winner of the Prince of
Wales' prize, and Lieut. Mitchell a
former winner, have been invit r•d • Mitchell,
with the Prince of Wales.
Mrs. Kendal, the British a
for some years been making
yens. "I began my career," ah
8 years of age ; now I am 88.
The United •
States Governs
send special officers to the Sandwich
Islands bearing new instruments to the
mmandors of its war vessels.
The German Crown Prince is decidedly
improved in health.
John Shaw, of Shamokin, Pa., does
not wear a ooat, He swore that he
wouldn't wear one so long to the United
States had a Demouretio .President.
The Philadelphia bakers who made
watery colored burse with chromate of
lead have been looked up, but the man
who advised them to do it goes free.
The King of Sweden has appointed a
Swedish State Agent to live in Manchest.
er, for the purpose of extending the sale
of Swedish dairy produce iu England,
Massaohusetts bas followed the lead of
New York in legislating against the oar
stove, The Oonneetiout legislature has
also taken hold of this important r eb-
ject.
The Hawaiian populace rose in arms
about the let init., forced King I{alakaua
to dismiss his Ministry and appoint it
new one, and to make other months.
81005.
A Minneapolis mietrees was recently
fined 010 for slapping her hired girl. If
somebody will fine a girl for "sassing"
her mistress the account can be called
square.
Religious fanatics at St. Petersburg
attempted to kill the wife of Grand Duke
Nicholas Oonstantinovitoh, amnia of the
Ozer, because she persisted in remaining
aLutheran.
The latest reports from Italy indicate
an abnormal death rate among those
who are stricken down by the Aaiatio
cholera. Out of 200 cases in Catania 140
Have been fatal.
David Thurman, of Fremont, 0., rests
his claim to fame upon the fact that he
drank one full gallon of buttermilk iu
the small apace of seven minutes, and
thereby won an accordion valued at 63.
George W. Childs has added another
to his great collection of souvenirs. It is
the silk hat that the late General Grant
wore during his tour around the world.
The late General's initials in gold-plated
Ietters are placed on the lining inside
the crown.
Jonathan'Houston, a farmer of Thom.
aston, Me., died recently in extreme-des-
titntion, and the authorities ordered hie
clothing to be burned. Before the order
was carried into effect his rage were ex-
amined, and money and seouritiee worth
64,600 were found.
Before being lynched Wednesday night,
says one of Bell's Dakota exchanges,
"Col. Hosedealer handed us 62 and re-
quested that the Hayrake be continued to
his family for another year. The Ool. is
a gentleman and a public-spirited oiti-
zen." Our best wishes accompany him.
A big rooster attacked a 2.year.old
child who was playing about the yard of
ber home in St. John's county, Fla. Her
screams attracted members of the family
who found her lying on the ground,
while on her breast stood the rooster,
Growing triumphantly. One of the eyes
of the girl had been picked out.
Twelve miles of elootrio railway will
be built this fall in Cincinnati, thirteen
miles in Richmond, Va., and one mile in
St. Joseph, Mo. Atlanta is to have an
electric system, Binghamton has four
and a half miles and Wilmington will
have a road a mile and a half long. A
six -mile road will run from Baltimore to
Ellicott City.
The "eleven most popular Americans,"
a000rding to a competition induced by
The Judge are, in the order of their pop-
ularity, J. G. Blaine, P. T. Barnum,
Grover Cleveland. Roscoe Oonkling,
Chauncey M. Dephew, Wm. M. Evans,
David B. Hill, Wm. T. Sherman, John
Sherman, Philip k1. Sheridan and T.
DeWitt Talmage.
Of the twenty.six appeals down in the
first list of cases to be heard before the
British Privy Council at its next sitting,
no fewer than eleven are from Canada,
and four of them relate to the power of
the.Proviooial Legislatures iu relation to
taxation, the financtal corporations of
Quebec resisting the direct tax imposed
on them by the Quebec Government.
Many people do not know that Jeffer.
eon Davis is blind of an eye ; and more
do not know how he was thus afflicted.
When he was about fourteen years old
heand hie cousin, Joseph L. Davis, were
shooting with orosabows ata mark on a
pine stump. Gas of the bolts fired by
young Jefferson flew bank - and struck
him fairly in the eye, putting it com-
pletely out.
Sam Jones recently preached four
days in Henry County, Kentucky, with-
out making a single convert. At the
close of his last sermon he remarked :—
"The sermon which I have just preached
at you was the one wbioh converted Sam
Small. I therefore thought it ought to
make at least one convert here, but I
had forgotten that this congregation is
composed of citizens of Henry County."
The city authorities in Paris have just
tested an Austrian invention for automa.
tically lowering oof6ns into graves with-
out ropes. A coffin was placed on a kind
of rectangular platform, and surrounded
with funeral drapery, which concealed
the grave. When a spring was pressed,
the platform, with its lugubrione burden,
descended slowly into the earth. The
price of the ,apparatus is £80, and the
inventor states that itia used in Vienna
and Milan, the rate payable being six
franca for each burial,
The best paid minister in America is
Dr. John Hall, of New York, who has a
salary of $20,000 a year, and receives $5,-
000 for his literary writings, Dr. Marg.
au Dix, pastor of Trinity Church, re.
caivee 615,000 yearly and Dr. William L.
Taylor is paid the same. Dr. Charles
Hall, of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian,
has $15,000. Dr. Parkhurst, of Madison
square, has 612,000. Dr. Paxton reoeivos
615,000 and Rev. Robert Collyer, the
blacksmith preacher, is paid $10,000.
It ie stated that thirty-three mission-
ary societies now have workers in Africa.
The dark continent is encompasod on
every side and, like the divisions of an
inveeting army, these missionaries ere
moving towards the center, and (losing
in upon the last strongholds of heathen-
ism and the slave trade. hundreds of
natives in the seminaries are preparing
to labor as preachers or teaohere, and
thousands of ohildren are receiving
Christian instruction, It ie said that
the Scriptures have been translated, in
whole or in part, into thirty-six of the
dialects of Africa, while the whole bible
has been rendered into eleven languages,
spoken by multitudes of natives.
Calcutta, Indite has a population of
nearly 700,000,
The oldest man in the world is said to
be Jarnes Samoa, a colored citizen of the
United States, who resides at Santa
Roth; Mexico. He is 186 years old. He
wee born near Dorchester, S.C., in 1759.
He was one of the laborers al Fort Moul-
trie during the uusaoosssful attack by
the British fleet iu 1770. He was then
twenty-four years old. His master,
James James, manned one of the guns
during the fight. His last owner was
Henry Jamee, who moved into Mexico
in 1858 in order that his slaves might be-
oolne free before his death, Al present
the rhen+natism keeps James from walk-
ing, but he can drag himself a short dis-
tanoe, and otherwise is in fairly good
health.
It is stated that a petition is oiroulat
el in Oakville asking the Government to
appoint a commission to investigate the
affairs of the town, as they are all mixed
up and no minutes have been published
for years, and Mayor Andrewe keeps the
town fends in his bank for safety,
rARM FOR SALE,—THE STJB•
farm,eb being lot 8, offers
le, aGreyl Township
Huron Oo„ for sale, There aro about 75
norms cleared and In good heart, There fa e
log houeo, good hank barn, boating orchard,
and all the neeeesary co0yentenees on the
premises. For further particulars, as to
price, terms, 550, applyto the Proprietor,
Taos. HIBLOP, Clar(t10., S.W. T.. or to
2-00 DODGALD BTRAO0AN, 13ruseels,
Brussels Lime Works I
STILL AHEAD.
The subscribers take this opportunity of
returning thanks to the inhabitants of
Brussels and vicinity for pastatronage
and beg to state that having made noveraf
improvements in theirkilnand mode of
burning they are nog in e bettor pposition
than over before to supply the Puhllc with
First -Glass Limo.
This being the Thirteenth Season of our
businose dealings in Brussels, and having
given ungnanaed satisfaction so far the
public can rely on reoelving good trealmeet
and a First -Class Article from us,
First-Olaee Lime at 15 (tents at the kiln.
We also burn a No.1 Lime for Plastering at
15 cleats,
Remember the 511ot--Bru8eels Lime
Works.
41 Town & Son.
Voters' List, 1887.
Municipality of the Township of Grey, to
the County of Huron.
Notice is hereby given that I have trans-
mitted or deliver ed to the portions mention-
ed in the 9rd and 4112 sections of the "Voters'
List Act," the copies required by said section
to be transmitted or delivered of the list
made pursuant to this Aet, of all persons ap-
pearing by the last revised assessment roll
of the said Municipality, to be entitled to
vete in the said Monicipality at elections for
the Members of the Legislative Assembly
and at Municipal Eleetioas, and reel the
said List was first posted et my cillos in the
township 01 Grey. on the 22nd ot. July, and
remains there for inspection. Electors are
called upon to examine the acid List and It
any omissions or other errors• are found, to
take immediate proceedings to have said er-
rors corrected according to law,
WM. SPENCE, Clerk.
Ethel, July 2114,1887.2-2
NEW FIRM !
Robert Matticc., of St. Thomas,
and W. Johnston, of Salem, de-
sire to inform the Public gener-
ally that they have formed a
co -partnership, and have leased
the blacksmith shop from Mr.
John Wynn, lately occupied by
John Alexander, where they will
be prepared to do all kinds of
BLAOKSMITHING.
Plows, Wagons, Carriages, &c.
made or repaired.
Horseshoeing
A Specialty.
Interfering, over -reaching and
flat footed horses treated with the
best results. We have had 20
years experience in dealing with
these diseases of the feet and
have worked in the leading lime -
shoeing shops in Canada and the
United States.
We • are prepared to temper
Stone Hammers, or any edged
tools.
Please give Us a Call.
Shop near the Town Hall, op-
posite Beattie's Livery Stable.
Repairing promptly attended
to.
MATTICE & JOHNSTON,
Proprietors.
JULY 22, 1887,
4101011Eil
D. EWAN
Having purchased the Black-
smithiug business of MESSRS.
WATTS & MoKAGUE, opposite
the Queen's hotel stables, has
taken possession of the new prem-
ises and will be pleased to see
all his old customers and as
many new ones as feel like favor-
ing him with their patronage.
Look out for Adift. Next Week.
Now's the Chance !
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With a view of extending the
circulation of
Ito
we will send it, on a Trial Trip
for the
Balance of 1887
for the small sum of
50 Cents
in Advance.
—0—
Now is the time to commence as
our
NEW STORY,
--ENTITLED—
"PRI Asunder,"
BERTHA M. CLAY,
will start Next Week.
5i MONTHS FOR 50c.
Tell your neighbor of this •
Offer.
100,,000 lbs. 'Wool
W ANTED
for the Season of 1887, at the
LISTOWEL
WOOLEN
FACTORY !
HIGHEST1 PRICE PAID,
I wish to oall your attention to the fact
that I keep on hand a tremendous stook
of geode to exchange for Wool. I am de-
termined to make Chia Wool season one
of the largest, and as the Wool season is
at hand, it will be necessary that you
should look around and decide whore to
make your purchase in
WOOLEN GOODS.
My stook is open for your inspection, and
is the best selected stook ever shown by
any Woolen Factory in Canada.
My Low Primas will asters everybody,
Do nob be led away by Shoddy Pedd.
lers and others, but come and deal direct
with one who is endeavoring, to the best
of his ability, to give first-class work in
Roll Carding, spinning and-lnalt-
ufactu-ring Tweeds, Irlanncls,
Blankets, the.,
and deal honestly with everybody.
Thanking my numerous customers for
their past favors, would hog to say come
and bring your neighbor to see my stock,
as you will be highly pleased to see goods
so low in price. You will find me ready
to give the most prompt and careful at-
tention to all.
Yours respectfully,
B. F. Brook.
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