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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-9-2, Page 1Volume 18. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPT, 2, 1887, Base Ball Match,. 1✓rugsels ve` Gerrie. Last Monday afternoon the Gerrie baso ball club (made op of 6 from Gerrie, A. Patulin, of Wroxotor, and W. H. MoDon- ald turd Will Yonhill, of Wiugbam,) ad. ministered the first defeat to the Malt - lands. The game aborted with the visit- ing team at the bat and being big dont fellows they batted out 5 runs in each of the first four innings, then to vary the thing, in the fifth they mach 8, They only got 1 in the sixth, and 3111 the seventh innings, making a total of 32, TheMatt- lands did not fare so wail. McLaughlin's curves bothered thorn and Nash did his work so well behind the bat that base stealing was not in order. Three goats of whitewash were put on the home team in the lot, 2nd and 3rd innings. In the 4th and 5th they got on to the carves and soared 4 and 8, respootivoly, but their op- ponents had too big a load on them and the 1 and 1 in the two last innings only totalled them 14, thus leaving the Gerrie. iter victors by 18 rano. The Maitlauda did not play as well as usual. Jas. Russ umpired the game to the satisfaction of everybody. In the Gorrio club there were 2 editors, a dentist, a druggist and ft University student. The boys play a tip-top game and will shako it up for the most of the neighboring clubs. They can wax oven Clinton, we believe, if "Prof." Barge stops home. Tho following is the score :- 0111e00r,0. Runs. Outs. W. Grower, p 2 4 J. Stratton, c 2 2 G. Halliday, let b 2 1 N. Gerry, and b ,..... ,1. 2 P. Stratton, 3rd b 2 .2 T. Ross, a s 2 .` 1 A. Fitzpatrick, rf 0 4 J, McBain, 1 f 1 8 D. Wilson, cf 2 2 21 14 OOnant. Runs. Outs. G. Nash, c 5 2 j 1I. Johnston es 4 8 jf W. McDonald, 2udb 3 3 T. Nash, 3rd b . 0 1 McLaughlin, p 6 1 J. Hutchinson, r f 3 3 A. Paulin, let b 3 8 J. Rapper, c f 1 2 W. Yo hill 1 u f 2 3 82 21 4 5 6 7 4 8 1 1-14 5 8 1 3-82 Innings -- 1 2 3 Brussels, 0 0 0 Corrie, 5 5 5 A Trip to the West. Dean Spm --A few more remarks abou Winnipeg especially the wood and h markets. These places are not at all i keeping with such a find city. The woo is very inferior, being principally popl and tamarac. Most of it is brought fro a long distance. I was speaking to man who had cone twelve utiles with ▪ small load of half rotten poplar poles fo whioh he was asking 62.25. Quito a num bar had been standing in tho market fn hours with ox teams, some of the oxo lying panting in the sun. The content ' of the hay market is also of an in/erica quality. Saw as many as twenty load of poor weather bleached prairie hay fo which they asked 58 per ton. The: tin: othy, likewise, is of poor quality. Di not see any grain offered for sale. Th land for miles around the city le chiefly owned by speculators. It still remain in it0 natural state. Although it is rath- er flat, with drainage and good cultiva- tion it would be likely to produce im- mense crops, whioh would be a greet benefit to the city. We will now bid farewell to this magnificent city for a trip westward as far as Regina. Not- withstanding the reserves sot apart for the Indians, there aro quite a number of them straggling round, swathed in their blankets. As we prooeed westward the land is a little more rolling, farming be - winos more general and 011 towards High Bluff and Portage -la -Prairie the soil cannot be surpassed. The crops look ex- cellent. The Portage is a beautiful town but I understand they are embarassed with debt at present. The land around there for twenty or thirty miles is nn - equalled in the Northwest for farming purposes, such is the testimony of those who are in a position to know. Further westward, about ono hundred miles, the ^land becomes hilly and the soil sandy. There is a great deal of small . scrubby trees very much scattered. There are no settlers in that part. About thirty utiles further on towards Brandon the country is much improved. It is a splen- did situation for a city, high and dry, situated on the banks of a river. It may yet rival Winnipeg, being surrounded by a fine farming country. We saw two Ili- dinians standing at the station in fd11 dress, black goats, white vests, and a feather stuolt in their hats waving in the wind. Just passed a man breaking up prairie land with a sulky plow drawn by four oxen. From what I had Beard about the prairie I had expected to see a strong growth of grass but it is not so, except m what is called tho elonghs. The dry land being nothing more than good. pasture. It is easy to know the nature of the soil by the oolor of the grass, on fertile soil it is a rich dant glosey green Dolor, on poor soil it is of a whitish wiry nature. ,Chore is a good deal of sandy,; gravelly land all along the 0,P.R„ 'but railways as tt rule do not go through the beat part of the o0untry, There are very few edgers along the lino, I supposo the land is hold at a high price near the rail. way, Theo la a small solitary bottle some distance off to bo seen now and again. Wapolla is the next place, two hundred t ed and ti ut t y five milds west. M here with huu old friend, Geer c Mor son, eldest son of Matttw Morrison, Walton. He and his brother Andr have land near Wapelia, George present, has a store in the- village. was quite well and told ms he was r on ing to Ontario by andbye for a wife. would infer from that, that he was sari fiecl with the country and intended ma ing his home there. Wo ofton hear pe ple say they meat keep up with the tin but here, ea at Port Arthur, wo found were one hoar ahead of the Broadvie people. Bought two small loaves broad ]torn, paying ten cents 00011, a wheat selling for fifty gouts a lush The hail is good now all the way toll Bina, uvhtbli place is three hundred an fifty six miles from Winnipeg. It most charming to ride aoroes tho pram when the eye beholds nothing but va prairie salt!). its over changing beaus and encircling vastnese. In some par the ground is rolling and undulatin beautifully and sometimes for miles a miles it Is as level as a table with :loth ing to intercept the view until the visio is lost in the mists of the horizon. W now tomo to Lldian Head, On the B Farm bore we saw six sulky plows work close to the track. There aro sixty four thousand acres in the farm of whiol four thousand five hundred are in crop this year. Attached to some of the plows et On the afternoon of Aug. 26th the barn ri. of John Iiiddsbrant, three mild from of %uriob was Yby s desttw od firc O anrte t w t ,� tt s. The fire ata tad from with shits om a spark at 13o an s- k- 0• es w0 w of ai d. ol. 0• d is is at is n5 e Be a were three span of horses and on other two. There are splandidbuildinge on th farm not far from the railway track Wo reaohod Regina in the night tiro and stayed at the Palmer House. Thi is a poor situation for a oity, the lan being exceedingly flat, There is n ohanoe for draining or hating cellars be Mw the houses. There are quite a num bor of small frame bottles which have apparently been put up in a hurry. A heavy rain had fallen toe previous day and partially flooded the place. About e mile to the south is the jail—a brick building. Two miles westward is the Governor's residence and the Mounted Police barracks, and with those excep- tions there is neither house, treoor shrub visable to the naked eye—nothing but a wide expanse of level prairie in its nat- ural state, no cultivation whatever, I enquired by what means the place was supported and was told principally by the Government. The only stir about the place was a nnmber of Mounted Po- lice moving about clad in bright uniform, also a few wandeting Indians in their dirty blankets. The place was formerly called the Pilo of Bones, from the im- mense quantity of buffalo bones lying around, the Indians at onetime having an enclosure thereinto which they drove the buffalo end slaughtered them whole- sale. J1s. Stumm, Walton, Aug. 2515, 1887. Number 88. of an engine. Alex. Bossenbery was threshing. The fire spread 50 rapidly that not oven the cleaner could be saved, and it Wag totally destroyed. Loss about 5000 en the barn and 5200 on the cleaner, No insurance. Tho Union Literary Society met at the residence of lamoa Wylie, Turnberry, on the evening of Friday, August 26th, the President, J. S. Wilson, in the chair. Tho meeting was . opened by singing "What a friend we have in Jowls." Geo. Chrysler gave reading, after whioh came singing, "Who are those in bright array 7,' by the Misses Caldwell. Miss Aggis Caldwell recited "A mother's treasures," which was well rendered, . "Old arm ohair" was then sung by Misses Bently and Wylie. "The Scotch Tailor" was read by Miss Maggie Hastings, which was followed by instrumental music by Miss Hennings_ The dialogue, "Taking a photo," seas given a 1. Mise Barbara Fortune gave a reading entitled "Mrs. MoDuffy's criticism on base ball,' which was well rendered. Mesio followed by the Misses Hastings, after whioh Win. Gemmill, jun., favored us with a reoita, tion. Then followed singing by Mr. and Miss Bentley, whioh was well rendered. The President, after giving Addison's s : "Golden soales," asked the members to e apply Addison's conclusion in selecting items for their program. Messrs. Jno. e and Duncan Gemmill then favored the s audience by a dialogue in song. After d securing a sufficient list of names for o next program the meeting was -closed by singing "God save the Queen." The • nest meeting will be held on Sept. 981.1, at the residenoe of Mrs. Oaldweli, eon. 8, Turnberry, Perth Comity Notes. The Stratford base ball olub scored an easy victory over the Mitchell team on Wednesday -17 to 8, Miss Macpherson arrived at Stratford froin England Monday morning with 80 boys, ranging from 10 to 20 years of ago, and ton email girls for the Orphans' Home. Men svho know all about running news. papers—and there are acorea of them in this beautiful little town of St. Marys— are lualcy, as they don't seem to know how to run anything else eucoossfully. J, J. Crabba, late of the Argue, Ieft hero on Monday for Toronto, having se - mired a position 10 the employ of Messrs. W. J. Gage and Company of that city. Messrs. West & MaLood, of the village of Brighton, assume the management of the Argus. Early Sunday morning neighbors no- ticed that a part of A. 1lirst's frame mai- dance, on Ontario street, Stratford, was in flames. They shouted to the inmates, but failed to arouse them. A ladder was procured, and the family got out at the window. Mrs. Hirst, her sister, Miss Hattie (lathers, and her father, Joseph Gathers, had to be carried out in their night elothes. Some of the furniture was saved. The building was insured in the Porth Mutual for 5600. and Ilia furniture in the Mercantile for 5060. The theory is that the fire originated from an ash barrel in the rear, where the flames were first noticed. Huron County Notes. A Lucknow cow has :a calf with a snake's head, Police Magistra to Williams, of this County, during last week imposed fines upon violators off the Scott Act to the 'amount of 5950, • Mrs. Garfield and family, accompanied by Mra. Richard Hawley and Mrs, Stev- enson, of Goderich, . were guests at the Point, Goderioh, last week. The Huron township Agricultural So. piety will hold their fall show this year on he new Agricultural park, in the vill. ago of Ripley, on the 2815 and 29111 Sep. tember. The oat meal mill of A. L. Gibson; Wroxeter, is having another story added to it and the new Hungarian system of rolls: will bo put in, taking the place of the old time stone process. They do a large trade. , The monthly meeting of the Howick Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held at Gerrie on Saturday of last weak. 88 applioations were passed amounting to 158,733, Several small claims were settled by the Company. Alex. Xs Gibeon n Y o and Relit. Miller, of Wroxeter, loft far Scotland on Monday of this week, per the Parisian, of the Al. lan lino. They expect to be away for two or three months. This trip is taken for pleasure and the benefit of Mr. Gib. son's:;:limalth, Canadian IV eery f Berne:We great circus will show in Toronto, Sept. 8111 and 9th. Paisley has declared in favor of a by- law for the erootion of water works by a majority of 54. A gale on. the Newfoundland coast on Friday and Saturday caused great de. atrnotion to shipping. Typhoid fever is reported to be epidem. ic in Onondaga, butit is decreasing in the city of Brantford. Prof. Goldwin Smith when at Winni- peg purchased 110 acres of laud near the city. The price paid was 545 per acro. The Manitoba exhibits for the Indus- trial Fair are now being poked on the oars .and will come East in a few days. Miss Annie Faller, of Hentvillo, N, S., has secured against Alfred Harron a• ver - diet of 5750 for breach of promise of mar- riage. ' • The death is ennounoecd? of Rev. Hugh Rosa pastor of Knox Church, Elora, re- cently called to Erskine Church, Hamil- ton. Some of the Manitoba people aro anx- ious over the delay of tho Canadian Pa. oiflc in forwarding material for the Red River road, Sir George Stephen and Mr. Van Horne make very severe remarks on the Manitoba people and their efforts to break the monopoly. The Indians ,n the 1Vlaokenzio and Lit- tle Red River districts were last winter redueed to starvation and in some oases resorted to cannibalism. ' A by-law to raise $20,000 to built a nese Collegiate Institute wag adopted at Linsday by a majority of 100. The build- ing contract will be lot at, ends. The petitioners against the return of Sir Heotor Langevfn for Three Rivers give notice of withdrawal, to whioh Mr, Pelletier, the unseaoeseful candidate; objects. A new commission to examine into the points at issue between Canada and the Slates respeotiug the fisheries is to bo ap. pointed, with Mr. Chamberlain as prin- cipal Commissioner for Britain. rl leading Conservative; who has just returned from a trip through the Musko- ka and Parry Sound Districts, says that he Sande the lnmberers and mill•owuers praotioally a unit in favor of Oommer- otal Union, Somebody locked the - choir in Knox church' at Canniugton, the other night, and the pastor, who was present, had to descend ibta ont o the ocular craw1 f one of the windows and open the door before they could got out. The nut drop; this season fn Western Ontario promises to be the heaviest known for years. Walnuts and butter- nuts are of ;prodigious size. Hickory nuts 0lgo prom10o to be plentiful, while the chestnut crop will be fully an average. John Ogilvie, of the firm of Ogilvie & Co., has returned to Winnipeg from a trip to the West. He is confident the amount of wheat for export will he 'be- tween,seven and eight: million bushels. The averages for the provinces will not be less than twonty.fivo bushels per acre. The town of Windsor, N. S„ ohallong- es Halifax to an exhibition of beautiful young women. The suggestion is that Halifax shall send twelve of her ltand- somost daughters to the Winded fair, and that Windsor shall match thane with a like number of her loveliest. And should they nob also :select twelve of the fairest from sono other town to pro- nounce tho decision ? Plenty Saunders, of Oak Lake, lost his voice two yeats ago through exposure in the Northwest eobellion, and has singe been completely dumb. The physicians had given up al] Hopes of his rot:m.7 'y. One morning last weep Mrs. Saundoro was greatly surprised at her husband tak. ing part fn the conversation as though nothing had occurred. Mr. Saunders was a resident of Winnipeg during the boom. The Government greeted hint a yearly pension of $200, which he now prays may be continued. . The T grading of the dm Red d lt'var 1" g r alio railway is completed. Y Petroiia has beau promised a branch of the Bank of Toronto. Manitoba syill Bend a carload of pro- duoe to the coming Provincial Exhibi. tion, Two convicts of the Kingston Psniten. Cary escaped in Warders Lavell's yaoht Tuesday, Tho Oakville Star has been paroltased by J. 1ST. and 0. Shaw, late of the Elora Express. The Lc i am ngton & St. Glair Railroad is now ready for traffics On Wednesday the M,C.R. sent up a stock car. Several farmers fn k'Ialahide have been swindled in their purchases of Red Lion wheat to the extent of 5200 to 5300. The Baptists of Essex Centre have purchased the M. E. Church, which has lately bean used as a High school. Professor Sannders will leave Ottawa in a few days for British Columbia to pate:. a site for the branols Experimental John Raven, of Brookville, has got the contract for constructing the Guelph Junction railway while Cox & Green, of Montreal, supply the steel rails, Chatham Town Council has passed a by-law to enlarge, the town's limits by annexing portions of the townships of Chatham, Marwick, Raleigh and Dover East, 0, W. H. Ball, of Galt, has a hat which belonged to General Brock, the "hero of Upper Canada" The hat was twice used in the removal of General Brook's remains, the Last occasion being to the monument at Queenston Heights, whore in the vault "lies all that is mort- al" of the great general. The hat was given to Mr. Ball's grandfather by Gen- eral Brook's -aside -de -camp. Michael Hagan, a Hamilton plasterer, was sentenced to twenty days in jail, without the option of a fine, for calling another workman a •'scab" boomed, he worked on Saturday afternoon. A sample of Russian wheat sent to Manitoba by Prof. Saunders, of the Ot- tawa Experimental Farm, ripened one week earht'er than -a sample of Red Fyfe. wheat sown on the same soil 24 days earlier. A Brandon farmer who also tested a sample of the Russian wheat olaims that it is three weeks earlier. The old steamer City of Dresden had a narrow escape from fire and panic the other day while conveying between G00 and 700 exoursionists between Windsor and Pelee Island. A lamp left in the hold byono of the hands eat fire to the oil waste end woodwork, but the dames were discovered and extinguished before the passengers knew anything of the danger. A hunting party consisting of E. Bar- ing, of the firm of Baring Bros., the prominent London, Eng., banker's, and two nephews, with their guides, passed through Winnipeg lately en route to the Rookies. The party on reaching Dun. more will go south to Lethbridge, and from there will ]runt over the mountains and around the head waters of the Sas- katchewan River. Three actions, claiming $22,000 dam- ages, have already been entered against the Grand Trunk Railway Company, arising out of the recent accident at St. Thomas. S. Fraise claims $15,000 dam- ages for the death of his wife Mary ; Alva B, Ramey, 52,000 damages for in- juries sustained in rescuing passengers from the oars, and W. Westlake, $5,000 for injuries sustained. These actions will likely be tried at the approaching Assizes if settlements are net in the meantime reached. The Guelph Township Board of Health are inquiring into the cameo of the death of numerous cattle along the River Speed. It seems that the disease will spread by innooulation. A man who had a slight cut in his hand while skinning one of the dead animals afterwards suffered severely from the wound. Prof. Brown, of the Agricultural College, could find no pois- onous plants along the stream eseept old hemlook, whioh is thought to be poison- ous to cattle, bud he is making an expert. went on a pig and a iamb with tea made from its leaves. Another auspieion is that as a paint -house was burned in the vioinity where the deaths have occurred and the paints washed into the river the plants along the river might have been poisoned. Prof. Bryce, of Toronto, has taken away for analysis the blood of one of the animals that have died. Tho local Board will spare he pains to reach a so- lution of the mystery. Chao. Alexander Percy, of Suspension Bridge, a young man 27 years, old, and by trade a wagon.makor, carriage trimmer and painter, mado a safe trip through the Niagara whirlpool rapids on Saturday in a lifeboat built by himself, and upon the , oonstruotion of whioh he has been engag- ed during the past glimmer. The boat is about seventeen feet long, with air drams bora at either end, in one of whioh Percy made the 'voyage. Itis rigged with a spat so that the navigator can atrap himself in it and travel outside if he wisltee, The keel is weighted with 240 pounds of 1000, and bads of sand are carried in the hold so that it will right itself, An iron weight attached to a long rope trailed from the stern so as to keep the! boat straight ahead. Though it keeled in a threaten. ing way, the craft rode the breakers and great wawa without onee upsetting. Tho eight was a very pretty one to thee° on shore. 'After entering the whirlpool :begin Perot' came out and rowed himself ashore. Hie .object is not for glory, he says, The journey wag simply esporimontal, and the boat havingeoin0 through all right, be will now model a lifeboat on a large Beale and aalc for a patent. The Strang. est part of it le that Porgy hag no Reedit., , al knowledge of boat building, Iles work was done in genet, and no one but lilts brother hadfbcon allowed to see the 'boat until Saturday, when it was launched rathroy Is to have a riding club, Guelph wants a naw G. T. R. depot. Burglars are doing a lot of work in a around Brantford. The plump crop in Neva Bootie is ported to be a dead failure, The Montreal Ilsreld was burned 0 Thursday night of last week. Stops are being taken to provide Cha ham with a proper sewage system. Ingersoll wants a waterworks :vet and the ooet is estimated at $42,398, Counterfeit hills and silver are somewhat free circulation at Sault S Marie.Mr. Greenway still holds to the bell that the 1Vianitoba Government will ha a new election held this fall. Settlers ontbe Cochrane lease, in th neighborhood of Calgary, are reported have formed a protective committee; Indian outrages are causing muoh at xiety to settlers around Cleetoben, N. W T., sue police protection is ((emended.A Brantford youth named Aolcers wa terribly injured about the head and foo the other day by the berating of a oho gun. Joseph Priostman was found dead i Parkdalo on Thursday morning of las week with a bullet hole through hi head. Five thousand corps on the 13611 Farm in Manitoba are under crop this year, o whioh all but fifteen hundred acres ha now been out. The O.P.R. magnates beat a hasty re treat from Winnipeg early Thursda morning, to avoid being subprenaed a witnesses in the injunction ease. 9. private cable from London receive in Ottawa °aye that capitalists there who were prepariug to invest in North west enterprises have been alarmed by the disturbances in Manitoba. The ferry boats of the G. T. R. at Point Edward are disabled at present, and the through freight of the Buffalo and L. E. line of the Grand Trunk pas- ses round by way of Windsor. Hon. Mr. Mowat is now spending a few days in the North of Ireland. He sails from Liverpool on the and of Sep. tember per Sarnia. He is in very good health, and has been greatly benefitted by the trip across the Atlantic. The Quebec Government have decided to constitute a special comission of agri. culture, to be composed of all the mem- bers belonging to the agricultural class. The object of the Commission is to study all the reforms whioh are wanted to re -organize the agrioultural system. vets as an immense concoaree of people at Grovesdale Tabernacle, Kings- ville, Essex County, on Sunday, at the opening of what promises to be a moat suooessful camp meeting, ander the direc- tion of the Canadian evangelists, Revs. Crossley and Hunter, and the Windsor District Methodist Church. Miss Dims - dale, the lady evangelist, preached in the evening, His Honor the Lieut. -Governor has boon pleased to make the following ap- pointmonts:—Matthow Charles Brown, one of the town of Sim, the County of Norfolk, to be Police magistrate in and for the said town of Simcoe, without ss.. lary. John Maitland Best, of the town of aeaforth, in the County of Huron, barrister -in-law, to be a Notary Public in and for the Province of Outario. Not less than 12,000 people listened to the sermons Rev. Sant Jones preaohod at Grimsby park on Sunday. Tho day woe a charming one. Nearly 2,000 teams from all over this section' have passed into the gates. The best of order prevail- ed. "What I have written I have writ- ten," was the morning text. At 2:30 pee. the largest audience ever gathered in this park assembled. Mr. boos took for hie theme, "Whateoever a than soweth that shall he also reap." Again in the even- ing a thud audience of a least 4,000 eagerly listened to a sermon from the text, "The wages of sin is death." The following is the result of the writ- ten examination of students -at -law for the second entormediato recently held by the Law Society: 1 W. Mundell, 2 S. A. Anderson, 3 F. Reid, 4 H. M. Johnston; 5 W. H. Williams, G C. Kemp and A. B. Thompson (ceq.), 8 B. Wilton, 0 E. H. Jonh3ton, 10 J. B. IDavidson (to write for honors), 11 F. H. Sangster, 12 S. W. Pery, 13 A. E. K. Greer,14fra Standish, 15 J. B. McCall, 16 A. L. Baird, 171, W. Bannerman, 18 A. W. Burk, 19 C. D, Macaulay, 20 H. Holman, 21 W.A. Ohis. holm, 22 F. B. Feabherstonhangh, 28 A. F. Lobb, 24 M. F. Muir (without an oral), and T. Graham and J. S. Walker (to take. a al). At a meeting of the Millers' Aseocia ti0n of Huron, Perth, Grey, Bruce and N. Wellington, held at Palmerston, the fol.' lowing memorial Was adopted :—To the Toronto Board of Trade,—We the mem. bona of the Minors' Association of Huron, Perth, Grey, Bruce and North Welling- ton, assembled at Palmerston, feel cons- trained to again call the attention of your Board to the system hitherto followed in the villages, towns and cities of Ontario in the purchasing of grain.. To pay the came prioe for a sample of wheat badly cleaned and poor in quality that is paid for a wall cleaned and gobd trample is un. fair and unjust to the farmer and the miller, and also prejudicial to the intor. este and reputation of our oeuntry at. home and abroad. A largo portion of the wheat crop of this season is of an in- ferior quality. Thfa grade of wheat is unfit for the manufacture of flour. As an association we have resolved not to pur- abaso this grndo. We aro firmly . per. seeded that it will bo beneficial to our country, ail whole, to have wheat bandied on fie merits. We therefore urge on your Board the serious oonsider- dime of this matter, and hopo you will lend .your influence and oo.ope0ation in establishing the system of putohasing drain according t0 its teat value. 1Vi1- ham Barclay, ,Hanlon, Sec..Treae., nd re- ut ern in to 01 00 0 to 1. s t0 Ve Y d Maud Williams, of the Bleak Horse ho tel, has been dommittodto gaol for a vio- lation of the Scott Apt, Her hnsband re wetly nerved two months for a like offense. Albin Rawlings, of Forest, has been ap- pointed by the Commissioner of Agri. culture to suoeoed the late Stephen White of i onbon, as member of the Councib l of the Agriculture and Arts As. sedation. CharleyMeOann, a Welland youth, went ' i0Niagara Palle the other day to jump from the Upper Suspension bridge into the river, but could get no one to go oat and pick him up with a boat. He was also watched by the police.. Mr. Wragge denies that there is any truth in the rumor ihatthe Grand Trunk intend to double track their line between Toronto and Hamilton. The matter has been talked over, and when the traffic warrants it no doubt it will bo done, but not at present. At the Woodbine Driving'Club's races at Toronto, in the 2.40 class, Sheldon Brea.' (Chatham) eh. g. Regulator won Ibe 4th, lith apd 6th heats, and secured first money. Beet time, 2.38, G. A. Forbes' (Woodstock) black mare, Mamie 0., was among the starters, but failed to secure a place. In the free-for-all W. Bishop's (Strathroy) 'Victor won the sec- ond money, making the first and seoond heats. The Saskatchewan Herald says: Some weeks ago a colony of grasshoppers hatched out on the plants between the bush and Eagle Creek, on the Swift Cur- rent trail, and for the distance of about a day's travel gleaned off every green thing. But their appetites were stronger than their growth ; they ate down all that mal Within their reach while they were yet too young to fly, and so starved to death. Rev. Dr. Douglass, of Montreal, his daughter, and Dr. Anglin, of Kingston, were fishing near Thousand Island park on Wednesday of last week when the boat was suddenly capsized and threw them into the water. The blind clergyman showed wonderful presence of mind, and managed to keep afloat until the doctor drew the lady to the boat, whioh she seized. He then led the clergymen, who could usohis legs freely but not his arms, to the boat also, after which the resourers arrived and towed the skiff ashore. While struggling in the water Dr. Douglass asked if his daughter was safe, and being told she was, he would not allow his friends to pull him back into the boat lost another capsize should odour, He remained in the water till the shore was reached, The affair created a sensation, as no Canadian is more widely and fav- orably known than Rev. Dr. Douglass: The following from the Ayr Recorder, apeper fearless in its exposures of frauds and swindles, will be of interest ,to aur farmers :—Information has reached us that some sharks, in the neighborhood of Kincardine, Bruce county, are selling the "Garfield" wheat at $5 a bushel, This is the variety of wheat which was christened by Thos. Mitchell, of South Dumfries, and first grown by him from two stray heads which he picked up a few years ago. Mr, Mitchell had sown and re -sown the seed until he has been able to supply his farmer neighbors with it, as well as many others, who applied to him for samples for seeding, Though ha could have realized big prions for this Garfield wheat, Mr. Mitchell has steadfastly re- fused more than one dollar a bushel for it, his sole desire being to give his brother farmers any benefit there may be in this now wheat. These facts were stated months ago in the Recorder. This wheat has become very popular, and makes flour of rare purity and quality. Though Mr. Mitchell has done all in his power to keep the wheat from the hands of greedy speculators, it would appear that he has not altogether succeeded, if the report be correct that the game wheat is being sold in Bruiseeounty for $5 a bushel, The Bruno press shonld frown down this ex - tartlets. If any Bruce farmer wants the "Garfield" wheat for seed, be can obtain some from Thomas Mitchell, Ayr P. 0., for $1 per bushel. There is no occasion , for anyone paying $5 whore $1 will dos— Bruce Reporter., It was about 4:80 o'alook Friday morn- ings and Parkdale Constable Smitlr was extinguishing the lamps. on Dufferin street, when ho come across the body of a well-dressed man lying on the sidewalk opposite the Exhibition grounds, Ea. amination showed that a shocking tragedy had taken place. A bullet wound over the ear on the left side of the head indi. dated the immediate cause of death, and although the pistol, an ordinary six- ahooter, was found near the body, the fact that aeoea:ea was right-handed is taken as evidence that the fatal shot was not fired by his own hand. Tho pookete in the clothing were rifled of everything valuable, including, as was afterwards learned, a gold snatch and a number of gold coins. A number of papers of less value were scattered around. Constable Smith at once secured assistance and not- ified Coroner Lynd. It was then diseov- ered that the remains were those of Jen Priegtmar, jun., of Dunn avenue, Toron- to, agent of the Chicago Masonic Incur, once Association, and farther inquiry lloited the fact that he left big home Thursday evening about, 0 o'clock to visit ome party on Queen Street, and great. urpriae Was experienced at his non -re- turn. Mr, Priestmau was about 45 years f age. He leaves a widow and three dung daughters. Up to the present here as not the slightest clue to the )<psr- atrator of the crimp, but the detectives re bnsy at work. The revolver, which was found near the ciecoaoed, lead only uta chamber ocoupfed, and that was with the exploded cartridge. Mr. Priestmen ane to Toronto about two rare ago r om Port Colbor110, :e 0