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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-5, Page 44 ate' gar Oat levitsgu.%ea&t$. Locals—Amont Bros, Local --Geo, Thomson. Book logit—Poaz Pub, House. Don't.growl—Post Bookstore. Golden Amber Wheat—J, Skinner, The Garfield House --W. Nightingale e Co, Grand Trunk Railway Exouraion—W. H. Kerr. 1�r�XC Nnt$seC5 ASt, FRIDAY; AUGUST 5, 1887. a E Tux Toronto Ne We says :—The Y -West bugbear of the anti•oomaier- cial unionists is the well known foot that the agricultural interests of Marne, Vermont, Now Hampshire and the New England section gene- rally are anything but prosperous, and in some localities absolutely retrograding. This, we are assured, will he the condition of Canadian farmers under unrestricted recipro- city. Was there ever snob rtbso. lute rot put forth as argumel,t New England farming is not profit- able cr progressive, simply because a very large proportion of the land there has siways been unfit for agricultural purposes and much of the reel has been exhauetod. The Yankees have grown tired of trying to wrest a bare Rettig' Gut of the sterile hillsides, and have been steadily migrating westward for generations, those who remain hav• ing mostly taken to mechanical or commeroiel pursuits. Nobody pre tends that commercial union will make rocky, barren soil productive. Muskoka and the north shore of Lake Superior will probably remain sparely settled long after we get access to the American markets, be• pause it is easier tc grow crops on fertile soil than on roolte and sand. We make the opponents of C. U, a present of this argument. THE Mitchell paper Bays :-- "The town council met on Tuesday evening and decided to submit a by-law, at last, to raise $20,000 to be appropriat- ed in the way of loans to industrial en- terprises in the town. The by-law is now being prepared and will be submit- ted at as early a date as possible.' Listowel is now talking of a $15,-,. 000 bonus to Hese Bros. to retain their furniture manufactory and it will be submitted in the course of a month probably. The above is the one side of the picture, or act No. 1, Here is No. 2, it speaks for itself :- -Whitby has not been luoky in its bonus speculations. The town has given somewhere in the neighborhood of $110,- 000 to secure the permanenteetablieh- ment of railway shops, and of an organ factory, eaoh establishment to employ fifty hands ; and to -day there is but one man employed in the railway works, while the sole occupant of the organ'fac- tory is a cow." There may be epecial oases where bonuses are allowable but they are the exception to the rule. We believe, under certain circum etan°es, in granting remission of taxes in aiding manufacturers and even this may often be taken advantage of, but in nineteen cases out of every twenty the town granting bonuses come out the smell end of the horn. Competition is so keen and there is so much rivalry between neighbor ing towns that this bonus system has been inaugurated but is, we believe, building up a business on 0 bad foundation. To run a large es- tablishment a man tvante tact, push, bueineee ability, and a clear mind to study the signs of the times, ss well as a pile of deben- tures. We have known more than one instance where a man wall carrying .on a fairly remunerative and growing trade and after sem, ing a bonus he launched out into deeper water, got beyond hie depth and wee drowned financially. We believe this bonus granting sbould be carefully weighed and the post counted before the people are heav- ily taxed for something they will never derive a cent's worth of bene- fit from. Mitchell has burned its fingers before and theyehould make haste slowly. Oananian Ne -ver. War against the buokot.ehope has Som. m0noed in Montreal The county Model aebools open on Tuesday, September 18. The Canadian cricketers were defeated by the Sussex gentlemen on Friday and Saturday, The manager and the editor of Le Monde have been arrested on the charge of libelling M. Mercier. The Grand Trunk Railway Company has called for tenders for the erection of a brink station in Strathroy. Hamilton hos a somnambulist—a 1 young woman who walks the street in her night clothes about midnight. A. petition praying for the repeal of the Scott Act is now being circulated by the hotelkeepers of the County of Halton. The Nicola (B. 0.) mines hitherto own- ed chieflybycitizens New wWestminster has been transferred to en English syndi• oath, Rev. H. A. Young, Methodist minister at Sutton Falls, has just been blessed by an addition to his family of a third set of twine. It is announced in Qu'Appelle that the construction of the Wood Mountain dr Q''Appelle road will bo proceeded with immediately. Since the Scott Aot came into operation in West Kent, May let, 1886, fines amount- ing to 85,100 have been imposed, and not. one ease has been lost on appeal. In Montreal, by a little activity on the part of the Water Works Department in disoovering leaks, the consumption of water has been reduced one million gal- lons a day. A. trapeze performer named William West fell from a high trapeze in Burk's show at Belleville, Saturday, and besides dislocating his shoulder broke one of his lege in two places. The Sherbrooke Gazette calla for rivals to a Plymouth Rook hen egg recently brought to that office, weighing 4f ounces and measuring 8h inches in length by 7 inches in circumference. A. D. Parent, the absconding cashier of the Hochelaga Bank, who has return- ed to Montreal, was finally committed to the Queen's Bench to stand hie trial on Saturday. He will plead guilty. The Inspector• of Weights and Measures at Belleville has seized a number of bushel measures made by manufacturers of threshing machines, which were found to contain from one to two gallons more than a bushel. Superintendent Whyte thinks the C. P. R. Southwestern will have to be extended this fell to meet the demands of Mani- toba's crop. It is reported the crop pro. epects are magnificent. Harvesting is in fall blast this week, Mrs. A. B. McKay, of Embro, while gathering eggs missed her footing and fell from the hay mow, striking a fork handle which was standing upright, The wood entered her body several inches and she 19 in a very critical condition. The Durham Review says :—In this part of the country the crops are very fair, as there has been many tine showers of rain, and with the exception of a little rusrt on the straw the fall wheat Drops are very free from any blight or insect depre- dations, John Forest, of Oxford, was driving a load of hay into the barn, and shoved along with his pitchfork a pole which barred his entrance. It fell on the hay, rolled down and struck Forest's little son, who was following the load, on the head, killing him instantly. The Newcastle Advocate tells of a bull that was tied to a fence with a rope b are- ely long enough to allow him to reach the railroad track that ran near. He made a rush at a passing train, but, finding him- self foiled, turned in hie vexation and kinked out at it with his hind lege. One of the legs caught under the train, was run over and out completely off. The bull died very shortly afterwards. Lawyer Bennett of Palmerston, has suddenly disappeared from that place and a good many people would like to know where he se. He made a present to the English Church choir of several chane, which were not paid for, but which the furniture merchant kindly re - donated. Mrs. Wood, of Bay street North, Ham- ilton, woke up late on Wednesday, night, and in trying to go . to sleep again she yawned. It was such an exteneive yawn that she dielooated her jaw and couldn't abut her month. In this condition she remained until Thursday morning, when, With wide open -awe, the went to Dr. Stark'. office. The dootor, with nom° difficulty got the refractory jaw into place, and Mrs. Wood went Homo with closed mouth and light heart. THE BRUSSELS POST A Brantford man was recently fined 550 and mete for selling liquor to In- If diens. A postal card lies in the Bowmanvllle postoffice addressed to "the wickedest man in town," ' 11r. Goyette, the Nationalist oandidate, was elected in Laprairie, Que., on War. day by a majority of 89. The Montreal Inland Revenue apart- ment is at present engaged in raiding re-. tail toba000 shops for uucancelled tamps. A green worm has attaoked cabbage at Kingston, but thus far has not done much damage. Steps are being taken to kill the poet. George Stevens, a hard diameter, was shot on Wednesday near thenation- al bridge, on the Canadian Too murderer was Peter Nettle e The income of the Canadianthodi t T h T year Missionary Board fo amounts o about $20,000, $12,000 in excess of the previous year. Tuesday night the K City Council decided to pay for damage the Freeman office sustains a hands of the mob which pure William O'Brien. Gophers are doing considerable dam- age in some portions oft Northwest Territories. Mr. Crawford member of the Northwest Council, at the municipality of Indian He whit))) of- fers a bonne for their destruction,in the mouth of May last paid for 0 tails at 3 cents per tail. The press generally throughout the country expresses great s ion at the eppeiutment by the Government of the Rev. Dr. Dewart, editorChris- Can Guardian,to the Sena Toronto Univereityin room of t Judge Cameron. The honor eon on Dr. Dewart is well merited. The Winnipeg Call tells party of Swedes who passed throughpity en route to Minnesota. They intended to settle in British territory,t were dissuaded before they le den by some unknown person, win) a them believe that the Candia Government exacts six years' military a from every settler. The Elora Express, g of a poster printed at the D Times office, says :—"It was not d on a lawn mower, being too larg border looks as though it had been through the oylinder of a thresh machine." The Palmerston Telegraph—"Our cotem. might have added t border was out from a dilapidatedsidewalk plank, the tool used being saw.' Depart- ment b 0 a ltaraote Internation- al side. M; the past being ar. ingston the d at tb pursued iderabl Vie e ;aye that Head, wh r 75,00 rougho 11101051 overnm of the Senate be late tarred of that had bu 1t Sweden o mad Canadian service speaking rayton printed e. The n run lug adds that said a book constantly, boil. T e of the The ArthurEnetrprise says:—Nervous people might not have rested well on Monday night had' they been aware that a`wagon loaded with two and a' half tons of dynamite was in the village. Such, however, was the fact: The .explosive was being conveyed from Hamilton to some point on the upper lakes, and was teamed aerose country as the railroads world not Darr it. The old teamster rode away on Tuesday morning as uncon- cerned as if seated on a load of wheat, He should have been compelled to leave hie dangerous load outside town over night. According to the ,Perth Expositor, Oar. leton Place now' has twenty-seven busi- ness places with plateglass fronto, and fortyeight without (seventy-five), two foundries, two machine shops,' three woolen factories. two planing mills, one roller mill and one ouston grist mill, two saw mills, three tanneriee, three black- smith shops, two carriage shops, two boats liveries, three billiard halls, seven hotels, three school hones (with 12. teachers), six churches, two printing, office;, four doctors, two lawyers, two telegraph offices, the telephone, and the electric light. Last Friday a young man named Hume, living on hie father's farm, about four miles from Mount Forest, on the Owen Sound road, Arthur township, ' bad an encounter with a hoopsnake. He was going along the road when he saw the snake in a ;wail, in an adjoining field, rolling rapidly toward; him, He die. mounted and got behind a tree. The wake came- on over the fence and was passing the tree when the'young. man dealt it a blow ,with a club he had pro- cured. The blow stunned bis snakeehip, and with a knife Mime quickly dispatch- ed it. The'reptile measured 5} feet in length. A novel law suit, in which D. A. Holme, of Springville,. N. s., is plaintiff and Frank A. Robbins, of Robbins' circus, le defendant, will come before the Nova' Scotia Courts, Il appears that the cir- cus billposters for a consideration ob- tained liberty to post their bills on a barn adjacent to the road, and as the plaintiff and his wife were driving by their horee took fright. Whether it was at the pic- ture of the Oircaeeian lady or the fat girl no amount of persuasion would lead the horse to divulge. Both ocoupante were thrown from the wagon and the latter demoliehed. The Suit is brought merely for the price of the wagon, which was paid under protest, and a law firm re- tained to defend the case. The Harriston Tribune 5aye':—On Sunday R• Scott, Minto, was standing in his door watching the thunder storm pass over. Suddenly a bright forked flash of lightning came down at his feet and shot along the' ground into a field adjoining the house, striking a large cock of hay, which instantly burst into flames. Mr. Scott rah down with a fork to put the fire out, but upon plunging the fork into the pile he found it. all in ashes, tite the hay having been burnt in an instant. Fortunately a heavy rain began to fall, otherwise the fire would undoubtedly have been carried to the bath, as a strong wind' was blowing in that direction, which had ignited the stubble, and was making rapid headway towards the building, Bob gays he was not much alarmed at the time, but afterwards when he consid. end how close his call was ho thought it would be as well to live a good Christian life so as to bo ready for such emergeuc- 110. The town of Durham seems to be in a bad way, Within a week there were six' outrages there, of a more or less heinous kind, for which no punishments have yet been inflicted. One citizen's horse was hitched up during the night and driven outrageously ; another had a valuable dog poisoned; the front windows of a news. paper office were badly smashed ; the rifle targets were disfigured and a brush stolen, and there were two fights more or less brutal in their oharaoter. The following officers were elected in connection with the Canadian Press Association :—President, J. J. Orabbe,' St. Marys ; let Vioo.Preeident, A. Pat- tullo, Woodstock; 2nd Vioe-President, Rev. Dr. Dewart; Sao.-Treas., W. R. Olimie,Bowmanville; Aesistent-Seoretary, J. B. Troyes, Port Hope. Executive Committee—The retiring President, the President, Assistant -Secretary and the following five unofficial members :—John Cameron, Toronto; H. P. Moore, Acton; Roy V. Somerville, Dundee ; Henry Hough, Toronto; 0. Blackett Robinson, Toronto. A disastrous railway accident occurred on the C.P.R., eight miles welt of Hawk Lake, near Rat Portage, at a point known as Summit. The trestle had been filled in, but the embankment washed into the lake, parrying with it about twenty yards of track. Through thio opening a heev Cy laden freight train was precipitated into the lake. The engine wan complet- ely sunk in the water, and seven ears al- together were covered np. Several' hors- es belonging to Wm. McKenzie were M - ed. Prof. Tanner was on board the train. There were no fatal casualties, al. though two railway employees received painful injuries. The month of July which has just ter- minated is undoubtedly entitled to the largest kind of a cake for the variety and general "cuseednese" of the weather which it has produced. Taken all over the continent, it has excelled in rainfall, in humidity, in heat, in thunder and. lightning, and in wind, and the amoflnt of damage, death and discomfort that 'it has achieved beats the record. Ito phis - Mal consequences have been deplorable, but its moral responsibility be fearful to contemplate. Tho bad temper, bad lang- uage, bed behavior, and goingto the bad in various ways which has been paused by the month of July which bas, just ended its mad and reckless career are be- yond computation ; but in the great re• cord some extenuation for poor human. ity should be get, down to the account of the weather. Let us hope that August will be kinder to tis. While boring, a well on Amherst Island on Friday gas was discovered at a depth of thirty feet. The drill was removed and a match applied, when flames shot np and a pail of water placed eve r them. The water soon began to he wat- er at the bottom bubbles ow- ing to the gas forcing its way through.'. The well is attracting much atter tion. It is donated about the. middl island. Lambton County Connell has granted 4,289.99 to be used in the enforcement of the Scott Apt, The East Riding gets 5660.66, and the Woet Riding $588,83. On Sunday a painful accident happen. ed to lames Oaloutt, of Port I3'ope, who, while eating berries, was stung ou his tongue. He suffered considerably, but the swelling was.roduoed by tbo applica- tion of Olay, raw onion and bitting. S. B. Morris, Reeve of Aldborough, is slowly reeovering from the effects of the regent railway occident at Galt. When the coach was thrown down the embank- ment and turned bottom side up, he was thrown against the chandelier, breaking hie ribs and fracturing the cartilage on his rigflt side. Mre. Robbins, wife of Col. G. C. Rob- bins, the well-known assayer and mining engineer,00mmitted suioido Monday et den o e Amhoretbur her rest o , below 5, by shooting herself with a small pistol. She had been troubled with softening of the brain for some time. , Col. Robbins ie at present in Eureka, Nev., looking after mininginterests, and her eon Frank only left for California last week. The Banff Coal Mining Co, are now running full blast. They aro shipping to San Francisco and the Pacific coast and have arranged to store 10,000 tons at Winnipeg. The coal is found above rail- road level, is the best anthracite and is giving general satisfaction, The Can- adian Pacific will bo large consumers and the Company are now arranging with the British Government to supply the vessels on the Pacific station. In these mines 200 men are at work, and half a million dollars invested. The gopher plague is looming up as one of the standing drawbacks to agriculture in the Northwest. In the Qu'Appelle district they appear to be peculiarly por- nioious in their operations. Last spring, according to the Qu'Appelle Progress, the farmers took the precaution to kill them off in various ways before the arrival of the breeding season, but it alleges that they are now as numerous as ever. Most of the fields of grain in that vicinity, up to a few weeks ago, it alleges, seemed to be quite free from the pests, but about that time they came in from the vacant lands in thousands. One man had an ex- ceptionally good field of barley of about one hundred agree, and the gophers were scarcely noticeable in it at first, but a little over two weeks ago they began out - ting it down. He immediately set men to work to kill them, and since then over • thousand were killed in that one field, and the work of destruction is still going on. The Progreso tbinke that the Do- minion Government will have to 00me to the roam, and supply the means for the suppression of the plagno. The munici- palities, it says, are unable to Dope with it. The Indian Head Council expended nearly $2,000 thie spring to suppress the gophers, and yet it would take f ally $8,000 more at the present time to rid the munic- ipality of them. When they quit paying for the destruction of the gophers there were apparently very few left, but now they are as numerous as ever. Experi- ence teaches that the work of destruction must go on all summer. An incessant warfare most be waged upon them to ac- complish their extinction. . DON'T GROWL —EVEN IF— This Is August ! You have noticed that it is hot and that people growl a good deal about it. You also know that Rural Schools open on the 15th inst., and all kinds of School Books ! will be required. There may be had at Trno Posr Bookstore Books, Slates, Copy Books, Ink, Pencils, Scribblers, &c. Special Value in Express Wagons and Handy Baskets. —CALL AT— The Post Bookstore, Keep as Cool as possible. Treas. es Cabbage Leaf in Your Hat. AUGUST J, 1867, RIM GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. GrauU Exoiirsiou to Goer!dll 1 A. Grand Stuiday School Excursion and Pic-nic will be run to Godorioh, on TUESDAY, AN. 16, 1887. by Special Train at Low Rates. Everybody should go. 6 HOUbS .AT TH H; LAK. THE TRAIN WILL START FROM LISTOWEL, 7:10 son. Return fare 80c. BLUEVALE, 8:85 a.m. Return fare 65o. ATT WOOD, 7:80 " " 90 WIBGHAM, 8:85 " 65 HENFRYN, 7:42 " 85 BELGRAVE,9:00 ' 55 ETHEL, 7:55 " " 85 BLYTH, 9:20 n 50 BEUSSIELS, 8:10 " 70 LON'BORO', 9:80 " " 45 Children of I2 years and under ONE HA LP of above fares. Train will arrive at Goderieh at 10:40 a.m., and ' returning will Leave Goderich at 6:30 p.m. This is expected to be the Greatest Gathering of Sabbath School Scholars, Teachers, Parents, and Friends ever ass ambled on the shores of Lake Huron. The train will run right through thus doing away with changing cars at Wingham and Clinton. The Committee of Management will have Handbills distributed in a few days giving names of Speakers tor the Platform Meeting in the Grove during the Afternoon, and other portions of Program for the day. sansnmszermarror SECRETARY OF COMMITTEE.. THE GOLDEN AMBER . Farmers, grow the Golden Amber, it is the largest seed, is more free from rust and is consid- ered the BEST bald wheat in cultivation. The heads are long and close and set with a remark- ably good straw. —o -- See what Mr. Hope, of Bow Park Farm, says :. —DEAR Snis. To your inquiry I would say we have grown the Golden ,Amber on Bow Park farm for the past three years, starting with a few pounds. We find the wheat to be exceptionally ,hardy and free from rust. It has by far the finest head I ever saw, besides it will yield more per acre, by far, than any variety grown by us. (Signed) J. HOPE, Manager. We have had this wheat on trial in different parts and it without a doubt that by the testimonials sent to us, which can be given to any that may be sceptical, that it is the BEST WHEAT IN CULTIVATION. List of Seeds Kept : The Golden Amber, Star of India, Scott, IDemocrat,.Manchester, and Mummy Pea. All Finds of Permanent GRASSES for Sale. Send for Circulars and Price List to the ATLANTIC SEED HOUSE AND NURSERY, MITCHELL, • ONT. JG SICINITER, Proprietor. . 11