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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-19, Page 4.BRUSSELS POST DEW Adlare tt ,exaxtuts Local --Adam Good, House for Sale—Robt. Boss. Cheap Exourslon—G.T,R, (ley. Girl Wanted—Poser Pub. house. Allan Line Sailings --j. R. Grant. Exeoutors' Notice—A. M. McKay and Wm. Slemmou, INOWSIOw ONO Orly Nrusseis Vint. .FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1887. THERE appears to be a elrenge and terrible fatality about noun Bion treine this summer and some of the reports given of the dreadful suffering of some of the victims la harrowing indeed, Instead of one conductor having sole ch'•rge of 1,000 passengers on an excursion train there should be two or three and let every man know his work and attend to it. On ordinary paeeeuger trains people get a seat end usually keep it, but it ie very different on an excursion train where hundreds of people well eo- quaiuted with oue another congre• gate and keep on a continual move. It Lae been said that in reality the exou rsioniete run -the whole train. It is a dear way to bay experience, as exemplified at Galt, St. Thomas and Chatsworth, Illinois, and these scenes of disaster and death, to say nothing of the thousands of dollars involved, should speak so loudly that every railroad officia and employee would exercise the greatest caution and forethought. Human life is too precious to be frittered away and there are plenty of ways to be hur- ried into eternity without getting up a wholesale slaughter. To read the terrible dataile of the Chatsworth disaster is, enough to make a per- son shudder. THE Si. Mary's Argue says, edit- orially :—"The question of the re- peal of the Scott Act in the County of Huron is being vigorously dlaous- eed among the people. The antis are getting up petitioue requesting the government to allow the repeal to be submitted, and they are of course being largely signed. We have no fear as to the result. It ks true that the Act has in a measure been defied, and that the lovers of liquor have been able to get, in a great many cases, all they wanted, ) lit tttill the traffic has been made disreputable. No honorable man would be willing to steal in by bank doors and drink his whiskey in dark corners, nor would Honorable hotel keepers want to sell liquor under such circumstances, and the result is that while there are men willing to drink and sell in this way, the great majority refuse to du so. The temptation hue been removed to a considerable extent Rum the young men, and tine great couslcler. ation is worth fighting for by the temperance men of iduron. The antis have a good deal of nerve to attempt to overcome the adverse majority of nearly two tbonsaud they Neve to meet at the very begin ping of their campaign.i n. We un- derstand that there is to be no env- ing of money in their attempt to carry e repeal eal b -hew." P by-lew." exchange says :—This year of heat and drouth is proving a terrib• le one for insuatuoe companies as well es farmers, sad the destruction of property by fire has been simply appalling. In July the losses in the United States and Canada were about• $13,500,000, or donble the average for the same month in the last ten years. The preceding Months of 1887 had made almost as alarming a showing, and it is prob- able that the total deetruotion of property by fire for the year will be nearly $10,000,000, or $40,000,000 in excess of the worst receet record. August has started worse than July, and with the country parched by drouth and heat the outlook is not reasenring. An unusually large percentage of the big fires have been in buildings well covered by insur- ance, and the underwriters claim t$at nearly every company in the country has lost money this year, many of them so seriously that their withdrawal from business is likely. This means no dividends, and a lose of inoome in hundreds and thous- ands of fernlike which must be sev- erely felt, and it twill probably re. suit also in forcing mauy companies to crowd borrowers to the wall who might otherwise have been granted more time by thee) great money- lending corporations. Certainly the enormous fire waste is oue of the worst features of this year of diens- tore and calamities. tion of the Red River Valley Rall. road, without even au attempt at actualintorfereuoe by the Federal Government, ate already ooueider- iug the.dosirabiltty of conetrecting other oompetiog HIM; for the bene- fit of the western section of the Pro. vinoe. As the Winnipeg Sun pointe out, without western correction the farmers et a dietauoe from the new hne, and depending eolely upon the C.P.R. for en outlet to the east, will receive none of the benefits of com- petition. The local rates from the west on the C. P. R. will bo placed so high that the through rate via the Red sliver Valley and the Amer. loan system will be little, if any, lass than present freights on the Canada Pacific. To remedy thie state of affairs, it is proposed to connect Brandon end Portage la Prairie for a eubeidy of $200,090, and it is hoped shat connection can be made with Brandon by projectors under- taking the scheme purely on its merits as a commercial enterpriee. If the Manitobans are wiee they will prefer to build these roads as they are now constructing the R. R. V. R. —es a public work, to be owned and managed by the Government. If they give the control of a portion of the competing system to corpora tions, what guerautee have they that the latter will not sellout to the big monopoly and leave thein just where they are now ? Ton Manitobans, emboldened by the progress made in the construe l,eneruf New,+. The Ameer has won a victory over the Ghilzai rebels. King Humbert wishes to make the Pope a jubilee present. The Bulgarian War office is buying horses for the Army. Cholera is prevalent on the frontier of the northwest provinces of India. The Knights of Labor in the States are discussing the question of tariff reform. A. French fishing vessel was lost off the Iceland coast and twenty-two mon drown- ed. The Chicago authorities are preparing an application for the extradition of Mo- Garigle. The Canadian cricketers had a drawn match, slightly in their favor with Hamp- shire. The drought in Wales is stopping work in the quarries for want of water power. German ;clerks are said to be employed by 84 per cent, of the business firms in London. Clifford Lloyd, of County Kerry fame, has been made Lieutenant -Governor of Ceylon. Cream is sent by post in tin cans in England with perfect success, oven in the hottest weather. The great fire at Pittsburg on Friday night, is supposed to have caused loseee .to the extent of $500,000. The British Cabinet has again adjourn- ed without deciding as to the proclama• tion of the National League. Count Iialnoky, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, exhorted Prince Fer- dinand not to go to Bulgaria. French papers say that England and France have agreed on a plan for the neut'alizstiou of the Suez Canal. It is a fact not generally known that Harrison, the boy preacher, is a brother of Carter Harrison, of Chicago. It is said that the Empress Joeephine had 88 bonnets in one month. No won- der onder the whole family failed in business. Grace Blankey, a Fort Hamilton girl, thirteen years old. swam the New ;York Narrows, a dietance of a mile and half. Under the new law of Texas, people arecarry adeadly weapon forbidden to wee on openly or concealed, loaded or unloaded. P The Manchester Guardian and other English provincial papers have been se- verely criticising Canada's tariff policy. Cholera claimed 79,000 victims in the Northwest Provisoes of India during Juno and Fuly. Prinoe Ferdinand is said to have insur- ed his life for about $800,000, Bahram Agha, of late the Sultan's chief confidential adviseris dead. A oyoloue in the vioinity of Lezlgnen, Franco, enured some lues of life and property. The drought was broken in many dis. triota of England Saturday by a copious fall of rain. Edison has invented a machine which he claims transforms the combustion of coal direotly into oleotriaity. The Prince of Wales has given instruc- tions for the Imperial Inetitute building to be proceeded with immediately. The Gladetonians were victorious in the Northwich election on Saturday, thus gaining another seat from the Unionists.. An Ottawa correspondent of The New York Herald has invented a seneatiomel story about a schooner being sunk by a Canadian cruiser. Susanna M. Salter, mayor of Argonia, Saye she prefers her offoial duties to house keeping, Her husband's views on the subject might be of some interest. A little Methodist girl attended a wedd• iqg in an Episcopal Ohuroh, and when she went home asked her mamma : "Why did the man in the nightgown ask if he would promise to love oherries ?" The scholarship system 10 in a state of high development in Germany. From recent statiotioo it appears that more than 25 per cont. of the German students are in receipt of more or less support from public, funds. Ex -Gov. St. John, of Manses, says:— The Prohibition party, which oast 151,- 000 votes in 1884, oast over 300,000 in 1885, and will surely oast 1,000,000 in 1888. It is marching on to victory, and will become a majority party before many years. The late John Newton hlappin, brewer, bequeathed his paintings, valued at over £60,000, to the people of Sheffield, Eng- land, and left £15,000 with which to erect a gallery for their reception. The building has been erected in the Weston Park and was recently opened. Sixty thousand orangetrees are on their way to California from Japan, where they were shipped on board of an English bark in the harbor of Yokohama about two •weeks ago. With them also conies a miscellaneous aseortment of over 90,000 treesand shrubs, indigenous to Japan, which it is proposed to acclimatize in California. An Arkansas man under charge of as- sault with attempt to kill has neither hands nor feet, his lege are amputated below the knee, his left arm is off below the elbow and his right arm above the elbow. Yet the assault was committed with a Winchester rifle, and he is said to ride and shoot as well as his associates. He hasthe reputation of being a desper- ate character., The damages on account of the Chats. worth, Ill„ accident will be short of $1,- 000,000. Probably 80 people will die, and $5,000 is the limit that can be collected for a dead person. This item will figure up to $400,000. The seriously wounded may collect $10,000 or $15,000 eaoh. Add to this the lose of business and the dam. age to property and the disaster will coat the company ct round sum. An immense turtle weighing 1,482 pounds was naught by some Portland (Me.) fishermen the other day. Its length was eight feet and a half and between its forward flappers it measured nearly eight' feet. Captain 13. J. Willard, "one of Portland's oldest oaptaine," says that 50 years ago a vessel having on board ten Southern turtles was wrecked off the Mains coast. He thinks the apeoimen captured is one of them. This is intend- ed as a variation merely of the: sea set, pent hypothesis. The Arabs know how to carve a fowl without have the bird migrate all over the table and finally land in the lap of one of the diners. Five Arabs seat themselves„ around alone bowl,of rioe surmounted by a fowl. Two `seize the wings with their fingers sandew othele8. s and simulteneous- ty tearing these off, leave the carcase to the fifth. Itis probable that they draw lots for the honor of being the fifth. It must be abed omen to have six men at the table when'a fowl is carved in thio fash- ion—that is, bad for the sixth man if he is fond of fowl. Boston has just received from Africa the largest gorilla ever landed in thin country. His name is Jack, and he is five feet in height when standing erect, and measures seven feet from the end of one outstretched band to the other. He weighs about 125 lbs., and exhibits en- ormous strength, compared with which that of man eeeme like a child's. Ho ar- rived in a large box made of planking. 2} inches thick, and when being removed from the ship he tore large .splinters from the hardwood planke with as much ease as a child would break a twig. The hair, which is very coarse and from 2 to 4 inches in length, is of a greenish gray dolor, and on the back, lege and arms in- clines to a blaoli. His shoulders are im. mense. The expression of the face, which is block, is soowling. The eyes are small, sunken in the head, and the lips large and thin. A queer development of the mother.in- law element in human nature is reported front Valetta, France, near Toulon. Julee • Anieet, a young grocer, four menthe ago lost his young wife, of whom he was very fond, The bride's mother had lived with her son-in-law andthey had not got on at all well together, but after the funeral An- itet discovered that Mme. Frebois, his wife's widowed mother, was very much like her daughter, fell in love with her and .proposed, although hit tdotherein-law was more than twenty ycare hie senior. Mme. Frebois refused and persisted in her re- fusal, although Anieet renewed his offer frequently. On Tuesday . Agioet return- ed from a cafe after drinking to calm his chagrin, and, entering hie mother in-law's room, proposed once more. She refused again, protesting that it would be improp- er for.amother to marry the Husband of her daughter. Anieet thereupon drew a revolver from his pocket and shot hie mother -in -late dead at the: foot of the ataircaseby which she had tried to escape. He next fired two bullets into his own body and threw himself out of the window into the street. The 1,200 policemen of Philadelphia are organizing a oo-operative society for mutual aid on occasions of sickness and death. The Subsidiary High Court of Fores- ters for the United States threaten seces- sion from the High Court on the color question. The Captain General of Cuba and the Spanish Minister of the Colonies have had a quarrel over some alleged utterance of the former. A Turkish laborer's wages is 15 to 25 Dente a day. Masons and carpenters are comparatively well paid, receiving• about 90 oente a day, Postmen in Turkey are armed and travel in squads. Belays of horses are stationed along the road, and progress is kept up night and day. Sandford Flemin's Pacific oable scheme has fallen through, owing to the refusal of the Imperial and Australian Govern- ment to grant subsidies. The Buffalo Courier says it is safe to say there are seventy-five thousand peo- ple inlBuffalo to -day that never saw Niag- ara Falls nor heard their roaring. The Prince of Siam says ho will intro. duos typewriters into that country if they can be made to write Siamese, which has 84letters in the alphabet. The City of Smyrna, in Attie Minor, is celebrated for its beautiful women, the descendants of Europeans who have in- termarried with Greek and Jewish wo- men. The Director of Agriculture in the Northwest Province of India has issued a note showing the position of India as a competitor with America in the wheat s Tpphe astonishing story is told that a Maine Woman has not only made, bat aotuallly has in her house at this time a collection of between 800 and 900 aped.. mens of candy. Out of twenty young mon who cooper. ed for a West Point cadetship at West- field, Mass„ ten were rejeoted by the physician became they had "tobacco heart," brought on by cigarette emir - 188. .P4 Y' YOUR DEBTS. MERCHANTS' PROTEOTIVE .-0260-- aaI,I,Fa'rzd'G 4$80CId117ON ])an. Ewan has removed his Blacksmith business from Hunter's —notn0alleiNnesIN— Old Sattler to the CANADA AND UNITED STATES. zX5se�4. New Queen's Shoeing and Carriage Shops, Having for its object to collect. from all that is possible to collect from, then pub- lish the names of all that cannot or will not pay, which list is supplied to every member of the Assooiation throughout Canada and United States. The, membership now num- bering many thousands, and is acknowledg- ed by fillto be the most powerful organis- ation in existence for the COLLECTION OF DEBTS, Haying aver 200 Established Agencies. Membership Fee t 1st year 5110; 2118 year 87 10 ; Soul year 85. If renewed with - 1n 1 month anter membership expires, And upon receipt of which, Certiaeato of Membership. deliuuout book, full supply of notices with complete instructions for using Aseoemtion will be sent, .Send for testimuu- lste. J. IKIDW!LL MILLS A Co., Mar's. zsemeoi1tose, oat.. St. Leon Analysis. Chloride of Sodium 677.4782 „ „ Potassium 18.6170 „ „ Lithium .•,1.6147 „ Barium , , , .6099 „ Strontium .5075 „ „ Calcium 3.3388 Magnesium59.0039 Iodide „ Sodium .2479 Bromide of Sodium .8158 Sulphate of Lime .0694 Phosphate of Soda .1699 Bi -Carbonate of Lime29.4405 „ Magnesia 82.1280 „ Iron .6856 Alumina .5880 Silica 1.3694 Density 1.0118 I hereby certify that I have analyzed a sample of "St. Leon Water," taken from the bulk from the store oellare in Montreal, and I am able to confirm the general re- sult of the analysis published by Dr. T. Starry Hunt, F. R. S., published in the report of the Geological Survey, 1863; also the analysis of Prof. C. F. Chandler, of Columbia Collage, New York, made in 1876. (Signed). Joan Barna Enwutoe, Ph. D., D. C. S., F. C. S., and Ex -Pro- fessor of Chemistry and Public Analyist, Adam Good, Agent, Brussels. grains DON'T GR OWL —EVEN IF— This Is August ! You have noticed that it is hot and that people growl a good deal about it. Yon also know that Rural Schools open on the 15th inst., and all kinds of School Books . will be required. There may be had at Tan POST Bookstore Books, Slates, Cody Books, Ink, Pencils, Scribblers, Special Value in &c. Express Wagons and Handy Baskets. —CALL. AT— The Post Bookstore, Opposite the Queen's Hotel Stables. Keep as Cool as possible. Wean' rt Cabbage Leaf in Your Hat. No change the laws of Nature know Unalterably fixed are they ; _ They were, and aro, and will be so The past the future as to -day. But the laws governing the destinies of nations or individuals must ever change to suit the exigencies of the hour and so Dan. Ewan, General Blacksmith, finding his rapidly increasing business demanding a more central location has made the above change, where with increased facilities, good assistants, and strict attention to business he hopes to retain all his old customers and merit the patronage of 1l6113' more. Fl mu the Carriage making Department he can guarantee vehicles of all descriptions in first-class style, on shortest notice, and cheap as the cheapest, as Ile will have in connection the well known car- riage wood -workers, Messrs. Walker & Humphries, whose work in this line cannot be excelled, while Every description of Blacksmith work will always bo attended to. Horseshoeing will be made in the fut- ure as it has been in the past—a Specialty. GIVE US A CALL at the New Queen's Shooing and Carriage Shops, Opposite Queen's hotel Stables. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. D. EWAN. CARD CF THANMS_ To the people of Brussels and vicinity, I would tender my sincere thanks for their kind patronage in the past and would respectfully solicit a continuance of their confidence by giving me a chance to still fort her merit it in the New Queen's Shoeing and Carriage Shops. iiemember the place—opposite the Queen's Hotel Stables Yours respectfully, DAN. EWAN. r iGOLDEN AMBER J. •Farmers, grow the Golden Amber, it is the largest seed, is more free from rust anis is consid- ered the BEST bald wheat in cultivation. The heads are long and close and set with a remark- ably good straw. —0 -- See what Mr. Hope, of Bow Park Farm, says : —DEAR Sras.—To your inquiry I would say we have- grown the Golden Amber on Bow Park farm for the past three years,startingwithafew 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) Y. HOPE, Manager. We have had this wheat on trial in different parts and it is 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, Democrat, Manchester, and Mummy Pea. All kinds of Permanent GRASSES for Sale. --0--- Send for Circulars and Price List to the ATLANTIC SEED HOUSE AND NURSERY, MITCHELL, - ONT. a �ivmonsY NE11,J Proprietor., u 't` 4 •