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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Send for Circulars and Price List to the
ATLANTIC SEED HOUSE AND NURSERY,
MITCHELL, - ONT.
a �ivmonsY NE11,J
Proprietor.,
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