HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-26, Page 4Locals—A. Good.
Honey—G. A. Deadman.
Coming—Parker Dye Works.
Mortgage sale—E, M. Ohadwiok.
Garfield House—W. Nightingale S: So.
Servant girl wanted—Mrs. D. A. Smale.
.gin safe Vat.
FRIDAY, rl UG UST 26, 1887.
Tns petition against the return
of Hoa. Edward Blake for West
Durham has been abandoned. The
petitioner has addressed a declara-
tion to the ldigh Court of Justice,
in which he says Le has been ad-
vised by his counsel that he has not
'sufficient evidence to support his
petition, and he therefore prays a
day may be appointed for hearing
his withdrawal.
TEE situation in Manitoba is in-
creasing in interest. The U. P. R.
have carried out their threat of
obtaining an injunction to prevent.
the competing line passing through
their property at Morris, and the
Norquey Government propose to
disregard the writ and push on to
the frontier. It is not probable
that an injunction, without actual
physical force behind it, will be
any more effective than a paper dis-
allowance. When a whole coin
munity is as determined upon an
object as the Manitobans appear to
be, legal formulae lose their effect
ivenese. There is a talk of putting
the law into force by bringing a
body of British troops on the scene
but a more suicidal course could
scarcely be thought of. Bad as the
Biel rebellion was this new depart•
ure would exceed them tenfold.
The 0. P. R. is no doubt in a
bed plight but the people of Mani-
toba evidently mean business and,
the squabble between Norquay's
Government and that of Sir John's
will be watched with interest.
War should not different railways
in Canada reduce the railway rates
from 8 cents to 2 cents per mile is a
conundrnm often asked by the tray
elling public. Surely the latter
rate a onld pay them a great deal
better than the 8 cents per mile did
years ago. Tbere is a steady going
and coming of passeugere in this
day and the number would he large.
ly augmented if the railroads made
the reduction. The Toronto World
advocating the change says :--Talco
the question of the 8 cent rate. Is
it just 2 Is it necessary 2 The
railway companies will take it hog—
a .four -legged one—say, weighing
200 pounds—will lift: him an the
cars—Dare for him while ',hoard—
transport him to ilinntre.11 im n fast
freight—lift John off attain tier( fur -
nigh hint with a place lo stop in for
aDoat 20 cents a bemired pounds,
or 40 cents in all. A 200 pound
man has to gat aboard himself and
carry his grip sack with him, attend
to his own wants while in transit,
climb off when Le gets to hi jour•
nay's end, and in charged $10 for
the trip. And the man won't get
into Montreal much tload of the
hog either.
AN exchange expresses our son•
timents as follows : —A. struggle not
without interest to the people of
this province is going on in Mont-
real between the sugar refiners and
a combination of wholesale grooera
on the one Land, and two or three
independent grocery firms on the
other. Taking advantage of the
almost prohibitory duty placed upou
sugar, the refiner's and wholesalers
combined to raise the price, but a
few in the trade refused to join the
ring, though threatened with boy=
cotting by the refiners. Nothing
daunted, however, they persevered
in their opposition, and despite the
duty, they have succeeded in obtain-
ing supplies of sugar from Scotland
at a price wbich enables them to
undersell the monopoly. Such
grasping conduot as that of the
sugar monopolists, who have abused
the protection granted in order lo
foster native industry, to extort,
unfairly highprime from the eon•
sumer under the impression that
the tariff shut out all competition,
furnishes the' fres traders with
their strongest arguments. If their
example should be generally follow-
ed by protected manufacturers in
Canada there wnuld very soon be a
revulsion of popular sentiment
spinet protection. The tariff upon
manufactured goods was not intend-
ed to become an instrument of ex-
tortion in the hands of unserupnlous
rings. Consumers as well as pro-
ducers ought to be oonsidered in
legislation, and if the N. P. is to re-
sult in raising the prises of the ne-
oesaal'ioe of life ill order to give ex-
orbitant profits t, a fow—tta loos
been the case in some linos of man-
ufacture in the United Stotos•--it
will very quickly lose its popularity.
Tens Hartford Currant, in speak-
ing of Commercial Union, eaye :
The Hon. Benjamin Butterworth is
making by speeches, lettere and pamplets
a vigorous campaign in favor of the re.
ntovnl of all restreetions and tax upon
trade and commerce between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada.
While an ardent proteetiouist so far as
our (rale with distant nations is con-
cerned, Mo. Butterworth is one of quite
a number of eminent americans who
have reached the eonolusion that it would
be for the benefit of this country to treat
our northern neighbor as a member of
our own family. Tbere are obstaolos in
the way, bot the advocates of the projeut
do not regard them as insuperable. The
Wet one would be the necessity of ex.
tending our tariff rates to the Dominion
seaports, and possibly pooling receipts
and dividing the customs duties after the
manner of the German zoliverein. Some
modifications of the internal revenue
system would also be necessary on each
side of the line. On the other hand the
benefits to be derived by. each country
are regarded= far outweighing all ob-
jections. In the first place it would ef-
fectually do away with the friction and
annoyance of the contemptible but un-
ending fishery disputes. Geographically
the two nations are so closely conneoted
and their interests aro so similar that
freedom of trade would be as reasonable
and reciprocally advantageous as it is be-
tween the different states of our Union.
There is no suggestion that we need the
revenue derived from the importation of
Canadian lumber, etc., and, says Mr.
Butterworth, 'the proposition that the
underlying and controlling principle in
our protective system would be infringed
is not for one moment tenable." Tho
territory of Canada is larger, than that
of the United States, and it is rich in all
the materialresources to make a pros-
perous people. Our trade with Canada
greatly exceeds our trade with the re-
publics of Central and South America,
with whom it was proposed a few years
ago to establish a commercial union.
How much wiser and more profitable
suggests the advocate to establish a zoll.
verem with our Euglish-speaking next
door neighbors than with the Latin and
other races of South America. Mr. But-
terworth is careful to have it appear that
he is in no way favoring political union,
and to those who urge that he is turning
his back on the protective system he
says : "I am a protectionist, but we will
agree that protection properly deals with
the unequal conditions which exist in
the field of competition as between our
manufacturies and those of the old
world. Those conditions, relating in the
main to the cost of labor, and being so
largely in favor of the plants of Europe,
manufacturers there are in certain lines
enabled, in the absence of the influence
of our protective system, to control the
market at our very doors. But this rea-
son has no possible application to Can-
ada, and the reason ceasing, the rule
ceases with it." The question is an im-
portant one. Mr. Butterworth proposes
to push it before the Doming Congress,
and ho means so have' the people of the
country well informed on the subject so
that the matter may be oonsidered on.
its merits and if possible without partis-
an bias."
•CIsen1at ial1 Newel.
Frost destroyed fruits and flowers in
tho township of Huntingdon, Hastings
county, the latter part of last week.
A political picnic will bo held at Levis
on August 81, at which Mr. Laurier and
Mr. Mercier will deliver addresses.
A by-law for $20,000 for the construe.
tion of waterworke for the town of Milton
was carried on Monday by sixteen ma-
jority.
Erastus Wiman, on the invitation of
the Board of Trade of Napanee and the
local Farmers' Instituto, will speak at
Napanee nu the 5th or 6th of September,
on the subject of Unrestricted Reoiproo.
fry.
Robb. Dunsmuir, member for Nanaimo,
has been made President of the Council
in the British Columbia Cabinet, and Jas.
H. Turner, member for Victoria, has
been appointed Minister of Finance and
Agriculture.
The Stirling News Argus reports that
Robt.Danford,of Sidney, who is 85 years
old, the other day walked to Belleville, a
distance of sixteen miles, in less than five
hours. Mr. Danford's father lived to be
111 years old.
Journal of Commerce :—Sherbrooke,
Que., has•droppped the imposition of the
Commercial Travellers' Tax, and it is not
now enforced, although they, along with
Three Rivers and Quebec, had the prim,
lege of enforcing it until May set, 1888.
Some excitement is reported over a
very valuable deposit of crystalised phase.
phate which has been discovered at Noe-
bonsing Station, on the line of the C.P.B.,
about fifteen miles east of North Bay. It
is the opinion of mining experts that
the deposit contains 90 per cent. of phos-
phate.
Acegrding to The Peel Banner William
Kirk, of Huttonville, recently threshed
on Wm. Arnott's farm, lot 1, eon. 5,
Chinguaeousy township, 280 bushels of
wheat, 487 bushels'of nate and 840 bush-
els of barley, in all 1,057 bushels of grain,
in 7i hours. The work was well done
and the grain nicely cleaned.
Brantford Expositor: --Some months
ago an east end Salvation Armyman sent
to p to herhis swa tto rt in tb s the wit , hat d uthey
tmight be happily united for life, after 'a
painful separation for several years. She
came, and the other day the Army man
went to the emigrant sheds to claim his
bride -elect. Virginia Caroline by name,
when he was harrowed to find she bad
taked up with a fellow•omigrant mined
Wm. Henry Robbins, and they had been
married by Rev. Mr. Shaw as soon as
they arrived in the city. The Salvation
Army man bawled like a calf, and during
the day the police had to be summonean action. It 15 understood that the
twine to quell the boisterous meeting of bank will loeelnothing by Jones, as they
the three. are fully secured by big securities.
THE BRUSSELS POST
The village of Watford and Townsend
Township will etch grant a bonus of $5,-
000 to the Brantford, Waturloo and Lake
Erie Railway.
The Bishop has appointed the Rev. S.
L. Smith, Rector of St. John the Evan-
gelists Ohnroh of Berlin, to the office
of Rural Dean of the County of Water.
Loo,
The Comber Independent newspaper
has boon aurohased by Jacob 111. Keln-
nedy, publisher of the Essex Centro
Liberal, who will bereafter conduct both
papers.
It is reported that tate cod fishery on
the northwest coast of Newfoundland is a
total failure this year, and that many
families ars already in a state of more
than septi -starvation.
The Lieotse Commissioners since the
oommenoonlent of the year have granted
no less than 1,106 licenses for the sale of
liquor in Montreal, and have refused
only 102 applications.
Saturday evening Wm. Frost, a bar-
tender for a hotelkeeper at Iona station,
decamped, taking was arrested at Shod.
deft and taken to St. Thomas, He pload-
ed guilty to the theft.
Dr. Grant, of Queen's College, has
been very successful iu his collections on
behalf of the endowment fund. He has
already the promise of $140,000 and bas
only fairly entered upon the canvass.
Winnipeg Sun :—Manitobans are pre-
pared to accept Commercial Union if it
is offered to them, and they aro for the
moat part convinced that such a policy
would be to their material advantage.
Hon. Mr. Mowat has written to Hon.
Mr. Mercier that he will reach Quebec
about the 10th of September. Mr. Mer-
cier has decided that the inter -Provin-
cial conference will take place in Quebec
from the 12th to rho 15th of September.
A heavy wind and hail storm passed
over Ingersoll on Monday night. A
number of buildings and trees were dam-
aged. The roof was blown off the gas
works, and a large chimney at the Bell
mill was blown down. It fell on the
mill doing considerable damage to the
building.
One day last week an old man residing
in rear of Point Levis, Que., fell in a fit
of epilepsy, and remained so long speech-
less Dud motionless that he was given up
for dead, and arrangements for thefu-
neralwere commenced. These prepara-
tions and the grief of his family were
somewhat abruptly terminated by the old
man opening his eyes.
The other day an elderly gentleman ar-
rived at Dorchester, N.B., by the early
morning train from a St. John River
county to marry a lady whom he had
never seen. He came to the house of bis
fiancee, he saw her, and after breakfast
and a brief interview he quietly slipped
from the house and disappeared, not
waiting for the wedding ceremony in the
evening.
A correspondent of The Pontiac Ad-
vance writes from Rowan's Landing :—A
fisherman said to me last week that one
of their mon took the row boat and land-
ed on French Island, and that in about
fifteen minutes he killed about fourteen
black snakes, or racers, as they are more
properly called. A host of them made
for him, when he had to beat a hasty re-
treat and take to his boat. There is also
an island below here that no man dare
land on as the rattlesnakes are so numer-
ous.
James Clark, of Hamilton, has in his
possessiontwo valuable old papers. They
are copies of the London Times of Thurs-
day, November 7th, 1805, and Thursday,
June 22nd, 1815. The former 'oontains a
report of the battle of Trafalgar, with a
full list of the killed and wounded, a let-
ter from Admiral Nelson and an account
of the death of the great man. The ]at -
ter gives a thrilling account of the battle
of Waterloo, also with a list of the killed
and wounded. and a message from the
Duke of Wellington.
A man who gave his name as Couley
hired a horse and buggy at a livery stable
in Belleville Monday morning and visit-
ed several farm houses in Sidney, where
he demanded money, watches, jewellery
and clothing from the farmers' wives,
producing a revolver at the same time.
The women generally ran shrieking from
the houses, and the robber got nothing
except a coat at John Wilson's. The
neighborhood was soon aroused and sev-
eral men went in pursuit m buggies.
During an exciting chase the horse driv-
en by the robber fell and he took to the
woods.
Bailiff English, of the Central Prison,
Monday undertook to escort six prisoners
from the Toronto jail to the Central Pris-
on. They were placed in ono hack, and
among them was Lon Cornish, the negro,
who was sentenoedlast week to two years'
imprisonment for assaulting Police Con-
stable Beatty. Cornish was handcuffed
to another prisoner named Edward
Brom, from whom he succeeded in separ-
ating himself by moans of a file concealed
in his clothing. Near the corner of Queen
and Chestnut streets Cornish leaped out
of the hack and, darting up Chestnut
street, was soon lost to view, the bailiff
offering no pursuit on account of the
other convicts.
The excitement over the failure of the
Bank of London had subsided consider-
ably when it was rumored that George
Jones, the accountant of the Watford
agency, had made off with some of the
funds of the Bank and that he had gone
to Alvinston, and had hired a liyeryman
to drive him to Courtright on Sunday
night, where he crossed over to he land
of the free. The safe of this agency be-
ing a donble combination, of which the
accountant kept one and the manager
the other, the accountant's combination
had to bo received from the head office in
London before anything could be aster-
tained. When the safe Was opened on
the 29rd inst., it was discovered that
about $2,000 was missing. The only op-
portunity which Jones had of taking
anything was the tow minutes from the
time orders were received not to open
till the cash was locked up, and' 'he must
have slipped the packages of exchange
and greenbacks into his pocket instead
of putting them into the safe. The a-
tilt hue created quite a sensation, as
Jones was very highly =spaded and not
a person ettpposed to be capable of such
Inooudiarism 15 now suspected in con-
neetimt with the horning of the City of
Montreal.
Ottawa County local election will take
place on the 14th, instead of the 10th of
September,
Sewer excavators In Montreal have bit
on the wall of Le Olutliieres' fort, built
about 1095,
Alex. Mills, of the Ord con, of Broolce,
a few nights ago w001 out into 11ie yard
and shot one of his best Cows in mistake
for a burglar.
W. B. Wilson, formerly chief coasts,
bee of Ingorsoll, has commenced eh not-
ion for $10,000 damsgss for libel, against
Mayor Buobanan, of that town.
Victoria, B. C., papers are protesting
against the continuance of a lottery held
in the Chinese quarters at 8 p. m. daily,
and in connection with which white eiti-
zous invest large sums of money in
tickets..
The Globe train Saturday morning
beat all previous rewords, as it came from
Toronto to Windsor in five hours, includ-
ing all stops and changing engines at
London. From London to Windsor, a
distance of 100 miles, the time was 2:.7.
An Order -in -Council leas been passed
pleasing on the free list wird of iron or
steel, galvanized, tinned or ooppered, or
not of No. 12 page or smaller, when -im-
ported by me nufaturers of wire oloth and
works to be used for manufacturing pur-
p05
es.
Messrs. LeFebro and LaFleur, 000001•
parried by three ladies and four children,
were Monday arossiug the river near
Bouoherville, Que., when their boat upset.
The men were able to swim, but the
women and children clung to the boat
and all sank.
F. T. Shutt, a fellow of the Toronto
University for a number of years and a
chemist, has been appointed chemist in
connection with the Central Experiment-
al Farm. In company with Professor
Saunders he has just returned from a
trip to the best known laboratories of the
United States.
The Montreal Stook Exchange, in un-
dertaking a crusade against the bucket -
shops of that city, is a good deal like
Satan rebuking sin. There is about as
much moral difference between the op-
erations in futures on a large scale on
'change and the small transactions at the
buoket-shop, as thereis between playing
faro or poker at a fashionable gambling
house for stakes running into the thous-
ands, and the more limited operations of
the celebrated, though unpretentious,
Thompson street poker club. The way
to abolish the bucket -shops is to suppress
gambling deals on the stook exchange.
The Montreal Star of Saturday after-
noon says : "Another Masonic misunder-
standing is on the topics, which promises
to prove as much a cause cerebro as the
reoent quarrel between the grand lodges
of England and Quebec. The present
trouble is between the :Deputy Grand
Master of the grand lodge of England,
Wm. Hutton, and the Master of St.
George's lodge, S. B. Thompson. The
former has requested Mr. Thompson to
deliver an order to burn the books of the
lodge, which he hos refused to do, and
has consequently been suspended by the
Deputy Grand Master from all Masonic
privileges, the suspension having been
read in several lodges of English register.
It is understood that Mr. Thompson re-
fused to recognize Mr. Hutton, claiming
that his appointment as deputy is illeg-
al,"
As Mr. and Mrs. George Stanhoff, of
Norwich, were driving near the village of
Putnam, in Middlesex county, the lady
discovered smoke issuing from under the
lap robe, and exclaiming "There's fire in
the buggy," threw the robe from her,
when a volume of flamesehissed from be-
neath the seat on wbicb they were sitting.
Mrs. Stanhok's olothing was blazing
fiercely, and, jumping from the buggy,
Mr. Stanhoff, with the only means pro.
curable, his naked hands, managed to
quench the flames on the garments of hie
wife, which were almost burned from her,
but,strange to say, the lady herself was
comparatively uninjured. Mr. Stanhoff
was terribly burned. The buggy box and
top were completely ruined, three washing
machines in the beak of the rig were re-
duced to a mass of molten metal and
nothing was left of a halter, which was
in the rig, but a buckle.
The Hespeler correspondent of The
Galt Reformer tells the following story :
A most heartrendering ease came to be
known here on Friday laid, when the
history of a new arrival in the place was
learned. A respectable -looking young
woman applied for work at the office of
Forbes re Co., and was assigned to the
weave -room, where Mr. Matlatt gave her
work and good pay, but in a few clays she
gave out, and was taken suddenly ill at
her boarding-house. Dr. MoIntyre, being
hastily summoned, gave it as bis opinion
that she would only survive e few hours,
as she was suffering from brain troubles.
From her incoherent ravings, and an ex-
amination of her memorandums, it was
lammed that she was worked nearly' to
death, running three looms for $2 per
week in a woolen mill at dampbeliford,
from the effects of which she in now suf-
fering. She is a Knight of Labor, and
the local assembly here have sent two
nurses for each night during her sickness,
and have provided her with all neons.
series.
Tho Petrol= Topic relate that thirty
yeere ago Chas. Byam married a wife at
Lexington, Mioh. The issue of the mar-
riage was four children, two of whom
died When the war broke out Byam en-
listed in the • 2nd Michigan cavalry and
subsequently saw much active service.
After the war he moved hie family to
Myrtle, Ontario, where unable to find
work, ]lo broke up his home. His two
children were placed in charge of rela-
tives and the mother went to friends in
the States. Byam went to 0i1 Springs,
where be married Miss Anderson. After
the Springs oil boom bad died out he
moved to Patrolee, where lie lived until
his death a short time ago. By his
second wife Byam had quite a Large
family. In the meantime the first wife
had been looking for her husband. She
found her daughter where she hod been
planed, but could got no trace of the eon,
wito had been removed to Petrol= by hie
father. It was only last week that elle
succeeded in locating the family at Pe-
twoie, finding her eon and learning of
her husband's death.
YOUR .DEBTS.
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of tate Association throughout Canada and
United States. Thal membership now num-
bering many thousands, and is aekuowlsdg•
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COLLECTION OF DEBTS,
Having flyer 0001]etablished Agencies.
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50 50 ; and pans e5, if renewed wlth-
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exp,ree.
And upon receipt of which, Oertifioate of
Membership, delinusut book, full supply of
notices with complete inetruetious for using
Association will be sent. Send for testimon-
isle.
.r. ITIDWELL 7A ILLS .11 Do. Mgr's.
:E3ca.1.ltom., Orat,
Bt. Lawn. Analysis.
Chloride of Sodium 677.4782 grains
„ „ Potassium 113.6170 „
„ „ Lithium 1.6147
„ „ Barium .6099
„ . „ Strontium .5075
„ „ Calcium 3.8388
• „ Magnesium59.0089
Iodide „ Sodium .2479
Bromide of Sodium .8158
Sulphate of Lime.0694
Phosphate of Soda .1699
Bi-Carbonato of Lime29.4405
• Magnesia 82.1280
„ Iron .6856
.5880
1.8694
1.0118
Alumina
Silica
Density
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I hereby certify that I have analyzed a
sample of "St. Leon Water," taken from
the bulk from the store Dollars 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, 1888 ;
also the analysis of Prof. 0. F. Chandler,
of Columbia College, New York, made in
1876. (Signed). 3'01IN BAKER EnwAnos,
Ph. D., D.0.5., F. 0. S., and Ex•Pro-
fessor of Chemistry and Public Analyiet.
Adam Good,
Agent, Brussels.
AUGUST 2(3, 188 7.
pow "a,
GROWL
--EVIaN T',F---
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 en the
15th inst., and all kinds of
School
Books I
will be required.
There may be had at Dan POST
Bookstore
Books, Slates,
Copy Books,
be11, Pencils,
Scribblers, &C.
Special Value in
Express Wagons and Handy
Baskets.
—CALL AT—
Tho Post Bookstore.
Keep as Coal as possible. Near
a Cabbage Leaf in
YOU?' Hat.
OVED!
Dan. Ewan has removed his Blacksmith business from Hunter's
Old Stand to the
New Queen's Shoeing and Carriage 8ho1]s,
Opposite the Queen's Motel Stables.
No change the laws of Nature know
Unalterably fixed are they ;
They were, and are, and will be so
Tho past the future as to -clay.
But tho 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 many more.
From the Carriage making Department he can guarantee vehicles
of all descriptions in first-class style, on shortest notice, and cheap
as the cheapest, as he will have in connection the well known car-
riage wood -workers, Messrs. Walker & Humphries, whose work in
this line cannot be excelled, while
Everydescription of Blacksmith work
will always be 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 Shoeing and Carriage
Shops, Opposite Queen's Hotel Stables.
SATISFACTION
GUABANTEED.
D. EWAN.
CARD OF TIIANKS.
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 further merit it in the Now Queen's Shooing and Carriage
Shops. Remember the place—opposite the Queen's Hotel Stables
Yours respectfully, DAN. EWAN.