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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-9-9, Page 5Sun,. 9, 1887 T'I-IE BRUSSELS POST S+.tttt .:i'i q y{i`hl� hl )Inv.. i•;'N:� waving purchased our Fall Stock early this season we have secured all our Dress Goods, Plannels, Winceys, Jacket Cloths, Plushes, Velveteens, Shirts and Drawers, Tweeds, Tickings, Cottons, Cretonnes, Hosiery, Carpets, etc., before the late advance in prices, and will be able this Pall to give Customers Goods far Below their Market Value. OUR STOOI OF BOOTS & SHOES always Complete and at Prices far Below Competition. i.TIR., aTOCm will be Complete in every particular this coming Season. We feel assured that Customers will be d ing justice to themselves to purchase their Pall Stock of Millinery at the Garfield House, Brussels. Your Obedient Servants, ILriIi"INGALE 41 CO. 3x5irx.d Naos. laciafrpn. Joseph Hodges and mother have re- turned to our village from Wingham and purpose residing here. The Sunday School pia-nia of the Methodist church was held in Wm. Bawtinhimer's grove on Thursday, Sept. 1st. The day was fine, the attendance targe and an enjoyable time put im R. Sperling was called to the chair and ehort spicy speeches were given by Rev. R. Paul, of Brussels, and the pastor, Rev. J. H. Dyke. The joint choirs of Henfryn and Whitfield's supplied ap- propriate musk:. Gerrie • Miss Loundeborough, of Tuokeremith, has been visiting with Jae. Rogers. Wm. Dane is preparing to rebuild the Albion hotel stables, lately destroyed by fire. Mr. Talbot, of Wingham, ie running of the stools of boots and shoes of Jas. Crookery. Jno. Sanderson is veneering and other- wise improving his residence. When completed it will be one of the nobbieet honees in town. Our popular jeweller, W. H. Ostrander, is away on a holiday trip. Wo under- stand that he intends visiting Toronto, _Montreal and Qnobec. It is reported that an opposition bakery is going to be started in town by Jno. Toombs. We think it is doubtful if Ger- rie can support two bakeries. A fashionable wedding is reported to come off in the near future. Wake up Gorrie boys and do not allow outsidera to carry of all the fairest prizes. Quite a number from here took in the S. S. excursion to the forks of Credit end Dufferin lake on Friday, August 26th. They reported a very pleasant time. .)Ethel. Mrs. Cale, of Mitchell, is visiting her son Dr. Cale. Morris Fogel is away at Lockport vi- siting his brother. Miss Tompkins, of Lockport, is visit. ing friends here. Mrs. Fisher, of Vaughn, has been vis- iting at Lawrence Dobson's. Mos, Annie is home from her visit to Lockport, much improved in health. Arnold Panabaker, of Heepeler, is vi- siting his brother A. W. Panabaker. A number from this section are intend- ing to see the eights at Toronto next week. Dr. Cale and family are now occupy- ing the house lately erected by R. Dil- worth. It is a very neat residence. Rev. D. B. McRae gave a very interest- ing and instructive account of his trip to the Pacific coast, last Friday evening. The attendance was very good. We omitted to state last week that Rev. R. Paul preached the funeralsermon in connection with the decease of the late Mies Mary Tindall in the Methodist church on the Sunday afternoon of Aug. 28. There was a large audience. The text was "Mary hath chosen that good part which shell not be taken away from her." .A.twood. The annivereary services of Elme (Atwood) Presbetorian ohureh were son - dilated on Sunday, 4th inst. by the Rev. John Ross, 33. A., of Brussels, who deli- • vered able and appropriate diecoureeeto large and appreciative audiences. The aisles had to be utilized in the morning and the church was filled again in the evening, although it has a seating papa,. city of about 500. The anniversary ton meeting was held on the following even. ing. The church was literally crowded. After all had partaken of a really excel- lent tea in the basement, and had as. gambled in the auditorium the pastor, Rov. Andrew Henderson, M. A., took the chair, and in hie introductory remarks gave some very gratifying statistics res - panting the work and progress of the congregations of dime Centro and Monlr- ton. During the past year 66 were re- ceived into church fellowship and 27 re. moved. Pastoral visite made 473, mem- bership, when he accepted the pastorate five years ago 276, membership now 478. Debt on ahuroh building completely paid off during the past year. The addressee given by Revels. Messrs. Ross, Daek and Ferguson, were earnest, able and prac- tical, and were well received by a very at- tentive audience. Mesio of a very high order was furnished by a large choir under the eminent leadership of Prof. Wilson, of Atwood. Mies Knox, of St. Marys, gave a reading in an admirable manner, and W. E. Burgess, of Lietowel, e recitation. Both were called to the platform a second tines by the audience. Proceeds of collections on Sunday and tea meeting 3243. Grey• Mies Bertha Heritage is visiting friends in Beaton. She will be away fon several weeks. Thos. Davidson. lot 10, con. 11, has a ben that is making a record for herself in the big egg lino. He brought ono to Tam Pees Pubhshing Renee last week that measured 7x8 inohes. These big eggs are frequently layed. Thos. Calder, the veteran horse power thresher, ie hard at it this season again and although the whistle of the steamers can be heard on all sides he ie kept busy every day. Those desiring horse power can't find any better. A union Harvest home will be held on Monday afternoon of next week in Mr. McDonald's grove, 16th con. After din- ner addressee are expected from Rev. G. A. Gifford, M. A., Rev. C. V. Lake and Rev. J. T. Legoar. Vocal soleotiong will be supplied by the united ohoire of Hen- fryn and Whitdeld's appointment, and the Kerr quartette, of Brussels. If the day is not suitable for out -door exercises ar- rangements will be made for holding the gathering in -doors, A pleasant time ie anticipated. SCHOOL REPORT.—The following are the names of those who were most suoceseful at the written monthly examination for Angnst in S. S. No. 8:—Fourth class— Marks obtainable, 692—let, Catherine MOTaggarb, 602 ; 2nd, Jane F. McNair, 497; 3rd, Elizabeth Fulton, 473; 4th, Margaret MoTaggart, 374. Third olass— Merke obtainable, 500 -1st, Rebecca Mc- Nair, 420; 2nd, Ellen Shiels, 397; 8rd, Sarah Willie, 316 ; 4th, Jessie Sinclair, 800. Seooud class—Marks obtainable, 266 -1st, Jacob Ziegler, 204; 2nd, Dan- nie McNeil. 202; 8rd, John A. McNair, 196; 41h, Eliza J. McIntosh, 195. Part second class—Marks obtainable, 210—let, John McIntosh, 147 ; 2nd, John McNair, jr., 124 ; Ord, Margaret S. McNair, 104 ; 4th, James A. McNair, 101. Part first class—lot, Mary A. Clerk; 2nd, William Molunes ; Brd, Gilbert Willie. O. Bow- mnnun. Teacher. Some heartless wretoh, about six feet high, with a dark suit on, passed along ono of our concessions a few days ago and set fire in eight or ten different places near the roadside within a distance of three miles. The first was in a pile of rails, worth over thirty dollars, then some sticks of square timber were fired. The rascal was seen at this and the fire was put ont before the timber was much the worse, All the fires were set in or near Biles of wood, logs or rails so that he evidently meant mischief. A rifle in the vioinity, which is a sure shot at nine hundred yards was procured, but as he moved along at a rapid pace and was not noticed by some until their attention was attracted by the smoke he got out of range, perhaps none too soon for his own safety, Breaking stones inside of those high walls in Toronto or Kingston is boo good for such a fiend. "Limy," �B,Ilae-vale. Lnoy, owned by 36r. Nixon, of this place, succeeded in taking a prize at the Seaforth trotting races and another at Clinton. Both our teachers have been re-engag- ed. This speaks well for our future as Iter. Thompson and Miss Laing evident- ly are heart and soul in the work. This is not intended to slight Mrs. Thompson but after Idrs. Thompson alien coulee the school. Perhaps Mrs. T. is on one side of hie heart acct the Wheal on the other. Dr. Snyder and wife left Bluevale, then book the L.13.I3 eolith at Wingham going to hliahigan. We hope they may still continue to enjoy life and may they soon return to visit us again. The fence has been torn down that hid the Foresters' hail. This will allow the boys a chance to see it now and commit any depredations they see fit, without the neoeseity of climbing the fence. Mr. Garniss had his sale announced last week on Friday and ie new thinking of AIgoma. His many friends will be sorry to lose him but hope he will pros- per in the future as he has done in the past. Rev. Mr. Thynne occupied the pulpit of the Preebyterian church morning and evening last Sunday. His subjects were interesting and strikingly presented. Bluevale people will be glad to hear Mr. Thynne again. The plum trees are loaded round here but the owners might as well have none, for the sneak thief is abroad. One of our residents had three trees well loaded and they only got a pailful off them. Such work should be stopped. If peoplo can- not live without stealing they need not be surprised if they see their names in Tan PosT. The funeral of the late Robt. Johnston, of Newbridge, reached here about 4 o'clock, the procession was joined here by the Orange Order and the Forestere, to which Mr. Johnston had belonged, ani proceeded to the graveyard. The Church, Orangemen and Foresters all joined in the burial service. The funer- al was the largest seen for seine time. Mr. Johnston was at one time well known through Morris, where he lived, and when he left for Howick he oarried many well wishes from his many friends. The last acknowledgement they could make of the esteem in which he was held showed on Wednesday last by the large number of sad -faced Morrisitce who gathered round hie grave. 1Viorri.e. Township Council will meet on Monday of next week. There are 925 voters in this township this year. 847 in Part I ; 66 in Part II, end 22 in Part III. 420 are competent to serve as jurors. HanvneT Hous.—On Thursday, 15th inst. the annual Harvest Home dinner of the Johnston appointment (Methodist church) will be held. After dinner ad- dresses are expected from Bev. A. E. Smith, of Wroxeter; Rev. A. Y. Hartley, of Bluevale ; W. H. Kerr, of Tun POST, Brussels, and others. Music will be sup- plied by Rev. A. E. and Mrs. Smith and the ahuroh choir. A base ball match, croquet, foot -ball and a chili exercise will also take plane. Proceeds in aid of par- sonagofund. They always have a good time at the gatherings ab Johnston's (thumb. Oair-CHAT.—There are too manypeople in this world, particularly of the male persuasion, who think all, they have to• do is to ask a girl to have her. There ie one lives in Turnberry'of that nature and the disgraceful conduct of that man is enough to make anyone blush with shame, If he does not want his name published ho had batter say nothing,— We have been threshing this week and it le a little break in the monotonous routine of our everyday life. Some thresh with berme, some with steam. It is a vary simple thing to learn. One . man stands on a machine like a wheel, which goes round when the horeee do. He must have a good whip and be a good whistler. Then the maohine in the barn needs a feeder. Ono of tho threshers dons this. The Way you San tell him is by a lovely smile he wears all the time, end his very dirty faoe. One of them told me he washed nearly ovary day. The men in the mow throw out the sheaves on the table—it has no cloth—and the fender puts it in the machine. The straw goes to the straw stank. I did not got there, however, In the granary we began to talk about Timothy Blunderhead, spino who lied not seen Isis ]otter ie the Ex. positor did not know, but he was as bad as they made out he was, Now, 1 have this to say to Tim., yon are a vory nuns follow, but mind your own affairs, you muet bo able to backs whet you say. Please tell ins, when does a youtig lady become an old maid ? How do you know the young ladies in Walton have attained that ago? Who mode you a judge? Now, Mr. Level Head and Harry Burton seem to strike too heavy. Strike light. his feelings may be tender, and you may attain by coaxing what you cannot do by other moans. Also remember that his name indicates that he is apt to blunder. No person will be injured by each remarks ae he makes, It shows plainly he knows not of what he speaks. Thank goodness Morris at thie end does not have such and I sincerely trust he does not live in Morrie. Yours truly, Bann. tut -enact -al Ne woe. Teemer won the single -scull race on Saratoga Lake. A heavy gale has wrought greet dam- age in Britain. Every trace of the Colorado beetle has been destroyed in Germany. A church organ oonetructed entirely of paper is on exhibition at Milan. A theatre fire at Exeter, England, canned the loss of about 100 lives. Wealthy Russians are considering the establishment of cotton mills in the Bok - harem country. Prince Ferdinand bas forbidden Bul- garian offioers to act as newspaper cor- respondents. The Pope has received contributions amounting to 6140,000 to defray the ex- pensssin connection with his jubileee mase. It has been announced that the Queen will confer the order of Knighthood upon Dr. Morrell Mackenzie for his services to rhe German Grown Prince, It is stated that the French army mo- bilization experiment has shown that all the reserves could be embodied in three days, and that all the various regiments are ready to march. A ahuroh member in Oakland was re- buked for doing a real estate transaction Sunday. He excused himself by saying that if land, like bread, will rise Sunday it must have attention. The expenses of the forthcoming mar- riage of the Emperor of China are esti- mated at nearly two millions sterling, to be raised by special contributions from the different Provinces. A dispatch from Weavertown, Pa., says : Baird Knox Snyder, a young Eng- lishman, attempted to murder Mabel Hayton in the parlor of the handsome res. idenoe of her father, James Horton, near Weavertown, on Sunday evening. tie had boon her ,maimed Iover, end she had just told himshe could no longer receive his attentions, when he drew a revolver and fired two shote at her, one taking ef- foot in her left ear. Is. is thought Mine Hayton will recover. The Sidney Morning Herald quotes an official report relative to attempt to sup- press the rabbit plague in Australis and says: --The evidenoo goes to show that the present system for the destruction of the rabbits bas been a complete fail- ure. There has been 3364492 spent and 7,853,787 rabbits have been killed. That is, every rabbit has cost nearly a shilling to kill, while the lamentable fact remains that the rabbits have not decreased in numbers, but have rather increaeed. Fredericksburg, Va., has a big pickle faotory that ie supplied with encumbers from the lauds adjoining the city. This season the supply has reached 30,000,000 oueumbers, those engaged in their pro - (Indian furnishing from 200,000 to 1,. 000,000 each. An acre will produce 100,000, and they sell in Fredericksburg at 80 cents per 1,000. The object is to get them ail inch or an bushy and a half long. and this require active picking be- fore they inoreaee this size, A boy will pink 3,000 in a day, John H. Arnold, of Ballston, N.Y., has a curiosity in the shape of a parrot. Some tiino ago it was noticed that the bird would try and follow Mr. Arnold's little girl when she said the Lord's prayer on retiring at night. Tho bird has kept on from night to night, tintil he can repeat the whole prayer. Some evenings he will repeat it several times. But at no other time of the day is it possible to get him to repeat it, and no ono oan induce him to repeat it more than once in the even- ing bet Mr. Arnold's cinnghter. • The cholera is fairly established in Rome. Hand -painted coffins are the latest so. ciety freak in Boston. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., ie flooded with counterfeit Canadian money. Prince Bismark has interests in three largo distilleries in Germany. In Greenwood Cemetery, New York, 240,000 parsons have been buried since 1840. The Bulgarian Government is trying to negotiate a loan throagh a Pesch banking. house. The Washington Critic calculates that half the population of the United States were born since the war, Venezuela has contracted for the es- tabliehmene of telegraphic communica- tion with the United States. Tha Liberal League has resolved to establish branches wherever the National League is prohibited in Ireland. Emperor William attendedthemilitary review ab Berlin Thursday, and eurprie- ed all present by his physical vigor. The North German Gazette, which speaks for Bismarck, says that Germany cannot countenance Prince Ferdinand. The seventeenth annivereary of the battle of Sedan was celebrated throughout Germany on Friday with great enthusi- asm. The Salvation Army were rotten -egged at Carleton Place the other night while performing knee drill in front of one of the hotels. It is reported that the English medi- ation in Abyssinia has failed. It is stated that an Italian expedition to Abys- sinia is being prepared. The new English game of "topsy ter - my" consists fu heading s fellow in a barrel and rolling him down a hill. The spectators get all the fun. Herman Stricker, of Reading, Pa., has refused an offer of $13,000 for his collec- tion of butterflies, said to be the largest and most varied in existence. A. rich deposit of brown ochre is said to have been discovered on the farm of George E. Henderson, lot 12, 9th con- cession of Elziver township. - One of the queer things of the age is that where one can be found to work for $2 a day four can be found to sit on the fence and look at him for nothing. A United States Treasury Department clerk has invented a look which can be looked with any one of 10,000 keys, but can bo unlocked only by the original key used to loon it. An engineer on the Wabash railway, whose train has yet to inept with its first accident, attributes his good luck to a cat that has been his constant companion in the cab for a year. President Cleveland writes all hie let- ters and addresses them with his own hand, Retried dictating to a stenograph- er some' time ago, but found that he could do hie work mush better when he wielded the pen himself. A railway man of Indianapolis, says that from statements made by employees of the Toleda, Peoria & Western rail- road, who worked at the Chatsworth wreck, he is convinced that 126 lives were lost by that accident. Tho first litigation growing out of the Chatsworth horror Dropped outThursday in the shape of 19 damage suite, nggre- gating $127,500, which was began in the Girona Court. Ton are for $50,000 each —all death maeas.° The others aro for in- juries, baraiodiara Ttl'eNv r'e Tha Tilsonburg firemen netted $396.07 out of their tournament. Chub Collins has been appoiuted man- ager of the reorganized Hamilton base ball club. The Leamington as St. Cleft Railway was finally opened on Friday evening by a special tram being ruts from Leaming- ton to Comber. Alexander Percy, who went through the whirlpool in his life -boat, made an attempt to go. through and go down to Lewiston on Monday afternoon, but after once getting into the whirlpool he could not get out, and after being whirled and tossed about for an hoer in the seething and boiling waters, he pulled for the shore, nothing the worse of his adven- fire. At the Foresters' demonstration at Brantford a 3400 set of furniture was of- fered to any oouple who would consent to be married in the Park. No one accept- ed the offer. ' In Paris, Ont., a blander of 3100,000 in adding up was found in the aseees- ment rolls, and at the last meeting of the oounoil a new by-law had to be prepared for striking the rate, which is 18 mills on the dollar. Two Chatham naturalists, Messrs. Jones & Burt, have found the bones of a mastodon giganteus in Chatham town- ship. The find cocsksbs of one tusk, 92 inches long and 28 inohes in circumfer- ence ; dile humerus, or the large bone of the fore -leg, 3 feet 1 inch long, 19 inohes at its smallest circumference, and 27 inches around the knee joint ; one pelvis one tibia ; one atlas, or the first vertebra of the neck, the dimensions of which are: —1571 inches in length, 9a inches between_ the vertebral same, 10} inches in height, 471 inohes across the spinal canal and weighs 71bs. 2 oz. ; four verbebroet; one fibula ; four portions of rib bones, and one shoulder blade larger and heavier than that of Jumbo. Alive, this animal was larger than Jumbo was. Calculat- ing upon the proportions of Jumbo in flesh, and in skeleton, the mastodon, whose bones have just been discovered, in life stood fourteen feet high, and could reach with his trunk a distance of 35 feet, and weighed 20 tons, a veritable moun- tain of flesh and bone. He measured at least six feet over all around the knee. The Greenook (Scotland) Telegraph of Aug. 9 has the following :--A distin- guished native of Renfrewshire, the Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brantford, Ont. who was Moderator of the Presbyterian Gene. rel Assembly of the Dominion a maple of years ago, contributes an interesting paper on Scottish -Canadians to an Amer- ican periodical, The Canadian -Scotsman. He remake of his brother Soots in the Dominion that, while they are proverbial for genuine patriotism and naturally pre- fer a constitutional monarchy to every other form of government, it is right only to say that there are not a few, in. Ontario at least, who sneak of the possi- bility of another order of things in the future, unless a change takes plaoe more in accord with their natural love of an economical and judicious government and a homo-generous nationality. "Scotoh- men," says Dr. Cochrane, aro not easily moved to speak in opposition to the,rul- ing powers, but when they do the nation or oolony of which they are for the time being citizens must hearken, The in. oreaemgly heavy burdens of recent years, coupled with sectarian strife and jealousy, have unmistakably given cause for die- eatiefection, not lessening their love for Canada, but fostering a strong desire for lees selflehnoes end greater care in the administration of public affairs." "Diogenes," who has been writing from Sault Ste. Marie a series of letters to The London Advertiser, says in his last I ani reminded of an historical. fad of considerable interest relating be our canals that veru few people know anything about. The first camel ever built in Canada was made at this point, Bet having been a private undertaking there are no remade of the work in any public department, British or Canadian, and all partioulats and evidence on the subject must be obtained from the docu- ments of the old fur trading companies, which are not aocessible to everybody. Towards the end of last cantuary the Northwest Company of Montreal made a survey of the peninsula to the north of the rapids and opened a canal over half a mile in lenghb, with a wooden loch that raieod the water nine feet, It was made by removing the boulders from the oontre of the most northerly one of the numerous streams that still cross this neck of land, and pilling them tip on the sides, as they may bo teen to this day. The company also erected a sawmill, storehouses and other necessary buildings at the foot of the canal, and built a plank lad along the pnteido of it the whole way at a tow path. 'The boats were drawn by oxen is primitive style. The laudinglawas close to where the old HudsnpBay ne post now stanch,. Blit the canal was destroy- ed and all the buildings pillaged min burned by a company of American Sol - diets in the summer of 1814,