HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-9-23, Page 1i
Volume 18.
COMMUNICATION.
Boca ise and.. Slacker:.
d'o tho Editor or Tan Yost,
Dean Snt,-I addressed a few lines to
you two weeks ago, veinal' you were good
enough to publish. That letter has boon
commented on by people from many and
widely different points, showing oonolus-
ively that Tns Pose has a very large oir-
oulation and is an excellent medium for
the diffusion of such useful and timely
information es was contained in my let-
ter. There is a very confirmed idea in
the minds of most people that wholesale
shoe manufeoturers area very unsorupul•
ous class of people. That they make up
all sorts of trash, polish it well and sell it
to the innocent and unwary retail mer-
chant as iireb•olass goods, so that when a
pair of shoes f Dile to wear well it is the
manufraturer who is to blame and not
the retail tnorahaut. The charitable ex-
pression is generally made, "I cannot
blame you because you did not make
them yourself." There is not the slight.
est ground, as far as my experience goes,
for auoh a fueling in regard to wholesale
shoo menufaetntor
• s. I have
been oon•
nested with the shoo trade, more or loss
during the past sixteen years, and nearly
every shoo manufaetursrin Canada has
either sold or tried to sell mo shoes, and
I have never yet found a single one who
attempted to doaeive me in regard to the
material need in the construction of their
•shoes. Indeed, many of the moat respect.
able manufacturers do nob wait to be
asked for such information, but will, in
showing their samples, say that this boot
is such a price, but has a ahoddy stiffner,
this has a shoddy insole, this one is
sowod with cotton thread or this one
with silk, and ee on. If anyone gets a pair
of shoos that don't wear well they are jnsti•
fled in believing that the party who sold
them was aware of it; so satisfied am I
of this that if any person gote a pair of
boots from us, guaranteed to be solid
leather, and turns out to be shoddy, we
are willing to bind ourselves to return
not only every Dent paid for the boots but
double the money. It would be very lit-
tle use for manufacturers to treat us less
candidly, as :being practical shoemakers
we would soon detect any fraud, it being
our invariable rule to take a pair out of
a case and take it to pieces. Drygoods
a
and others,
not in 90 good
morahants c
maynot be treated so
position to judge, P
osr 1 o
g,
fairly, and if this, tmfortnuabely, should
be the case, an agitation should be com-
menced at onto for the passage of a law
compelling manufacturers to stamp on
shoes the kind of material they are made
of. Although when we remember, as I
pointed out m my last letter, that all re-
spectable mannfaoturers stamp their
names on their solid leather work, the
public are not so mach at the mercy of
the storekeeper if they will only exercise
their judgment. Trusting you will par-
don the length of my remarks in the in-
terest of the public, I remain,
Yours truly,
AD= Goon.
Brnssele, Sept. 01., '87.
Brussels Council.
A special meeting of the Village Coun-
oil wee held last Monday evening, Coun.
Milers Wynn, Braker and Kerr present.
Couooillor Wynn was voted to the
chair.
Moved by W. H. Kerr, seconded by
Geo. Broker that the Clerk be instructed
to prepare a by-law striking the local rate
for the year at 0 mills on the dollar.
Carried.
The Council then adjourned.
Base .Ball.
Alnitlaitds vs. Eclgrave.
On Tuesday afternoon of this week the
return match between the above mention-
ed olabs was played at Sunshine, on the
farm of Isaac Rogerson. Three of the
Maitlands could not be present so their
places were filled by Robt. Ross, Robt.
Thompson and Geo. Armstrong. (Tho
latter was in braining with the married
men last week.) Tho Maitlands had the
game all their own way, the pitoher and
catcher doing their.part like olook work,
and the fielders giving, them good sup-
port. Only five innings were played.
Thos, Ross had one of bus digits injured
while filling let base. The following is
the score:-
st0ru'LA Ona.
Rune. Outs.
W. Grewar, 0 4 1
J. Stratton, 0 0
T. Rose, 1st 3
N. Gerry, 2nd b 3 2
F. Stratton, 3rd b 3 1
B.
R. Thompson, 11 1 8
A. Fitzpatrick, rf i 3
Armstrong, _
�) G. g, 0 f
22 16
n1.Ge
nAVn.
Rous.. Outs.
0 2
1 1
Barkley, 1St 10 '2 1
:Bowman, 2nd b 1 2
Smith, 8r11 b 0 e
Potter, 0 0 0 3
Wood, l f 2
Hendorsee, c f 0 2
4 15
Innings.- 1 2 3 4 5
Brussels, 0 3 2 7 4 --- 22
Bolgtave, 2 0 0 0 2 - 4
H. Moflardy umpired the game in a
very matisfaotory manner. R. Armstrong
scored.
rail :tat �\
Agnew,p
Clark, o
Smith, a f .... , • 0
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1887. Number 11.
SOME SUGGESTIVE CREAMILY
NOTES.
icy Wllllaut Brown, t', 11,, Prorcesor tor
Agriculture,
During the °lose of the recent severe
drouth, in the two first weeks of August,
wo tested the butter value of milk stud
Cream from nine distinct sources on this
farm for comparison with the average re-
vived from the patrons of our creamery,
whioh is manager!, on the ordinary gath-
ering plan, and also in oonnuotion with
the vary dry conditions and shortage of
pasture. (1) Our creamery patrons are
instructed to set milk in cans, 20x8 in-
ches, and keep in water not over 60 0 ;
skimming is dons by them, and the
cream valued by the "Comp 011 Tester,"
purposely at irregular intervals, and paid
for a000rdrngly. Tho standard for 000
pound of butter is one inch on the oream
eau, 12 inches in diameter, or 16 gauges
or ounces on the oil tester. (2) We took
some thirty innings, and portions of
milkings, from Short Horn, A. A. Poll,
Hereford, Devon, Holstein, Ayrshire,
Guernsey, a spayed common Canadian
now, and Short Horn grades, on our per.
- n all 13 cows.
l i
t as
moment oto plots
-in
2 inch test tubae
The milk was at in
and iced water, at from 40 0 to 45 0 for
twenty-four hours, so as to copy ae near-
ly as possible the conditions of the cream-
ery patrons. (3) It is not contended
that condition were exactly alike on an
average, nor that our cows under all the
variety of circumstances wore alike to
the 800 whiolt supplied our creamery,
but it is plain that large averages eau be
°hooked, and material of this sort gath•
Bred year by year for reference and ulti.
mato practical guidance. Itis to be re-
gretted that our Jerseys and Galloweys
have not contributed to this experiment,
MS we expect they will do for another in
the course of a mouth. (4) The per
cent. of oream from all our sources was
only 11 on an average, cows being on
pasture and getting 31bs. bran per head
daily, those on permanent pasture ex-
cepted. Classifying these sources, we
have a moan of 12 per cent. from the
three prominent beefing breeds, named
Durham, A..0.. Poll, and Hereford ; from
the two heavy milkers, Holstein and Ayr-
shire, 7a per oent. ; from the two ac-
knowledged butter breeds of the number,
Devon and Guernsey, 12* per cent., and
per grades 12 ae
ut. stream. The
aro Y
separation n of cream was ver indistinct
in the eases of Devon and Ayrshire. The
highest per cont. was a mean of 18.8
from the Guernsey, and the lowest 0}
from Holetin. The oil tester showed
the following quantity of butter fat,
namely, ounces per inch of the cream
can, 18 being the standard for one
pound of butter ;
Durham 16*
A. A. Poll 17
Hereford 17
Devon .. 11
Holstein 7
Ayrshire 10*
Guernsey 17
Spayed grade 15t'
Grades on permanent pasture 13*
Mean .. 140
(6) Tho mean of 208 tests at the
creamery during the same period wae
139•, and for the previous part of the
season 14. (7) The first thought upon
those facts is the oream lowness of all
the make of 86,000 lbs. of butter at our
creamery up to 17th August. Tho cattle
of the district aro principally Durham
grades, with a touoh of Devon, Hereford,
Ayrshire and Galloway here and there.
But ie it particular breed, or manage-
ment, or a tester too high for our con-
ditions that loan regulated the 18* in
plane of giving 15 gauges a My answer
partly to this is the check from the
thoroughbred and grade cows of the Col -
logo. They have not, as a whole, ever
reached the standard of the oil tester,
but, excluding the Devon, Holstein anti
Ayrshire, they gave 16*, which may show
that the area of the cream can has been
based upon a different source, or sources
or conditions of milk from those of our
creamery supply. (8) Another thought
is the character of the skimming by pa-
rent; a0 tt whole, which may have been
deeper than what we did, for of course
we took the oream only. Yet, as I have
shown, three of the pure breeds gave as
low an 07, or actually 40 per cent. less
than the creamery. Where then lies the
actual cheek 'tie difficult to say. It is
proper to note that in Durham, A. A,
Poll, Holstein, Guernsey and grades wo
have cows not used in any previous test-
ing here. (0) Taking the standard of 16
on the oil teeter ae a baso of oomparison,
it restate that, irrespective of quantity
of milk and of quantity of moan, the
three beefing breeds, Durham, A. A. Poll
and Hereford, have given ono ounce over
the pound ; the grades exactly the pound ;
the two heavy milkers, Ayrshire and
Holstein, seven ounces under, and the
two butter breeds, Devon and Guernsey,
two ounces also under this standard for
a
pound.(10)
But,with the
quantitytit
of
cream acded to butter valueby the meth-
od adopted, there results this very sug-
gestive list :
Gusrneey.... 30 per cent, over standard.
Grades.... . 14 „ under „
Hereford .... 18
Durham .. 20 „
A. A Poll.. 25
Ayrshire .. , . 66
Devon 70 ,
Holstein . . 82„
Hondo, if the standard represents 8f*
pounds of butter to the hundred pounds
of milk,' dm Guornosy would produce 4*,
and the Holstein two-thirds of a pound
per hundred. ,
Noir,-Some readers may have to b0
told that an "Oil Tester" is a recent in-
vention by which aroam le subjooted to
repeated churning and heating, so that
in the . course of three houre there is a
very dietinot separation of the curd, the
whey and the fat or oil ; hence the name
"Oil Tester." It has also to bo noted
that this almost pore melted fat or oil hi
muoli loss in bulk proportionately to ite
milk, or to the oream from ilesamo milk
under ordinary rising, -as much possibly
as would raise the Guernsey from 4i to 0
and the others correspondingly,
.b-
4-entarui Newt..
A New cattle dhotiso is reported from
Illinois.
Famine ie causing groat distress in
Asir Minor.
Haulm, the oarsman, has arrived at
Auckland.
Twenty-five Socialists have been arrest-
ed at Breslau.
Emin Boy has been apprised of Stan-
ley's approach.
Mark Twain will bo fifty-two years of
age in November.
Tho Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic
railway has reached the Sault.
Sam Jones, intends making Washing-
ton his permanent abiding place.
Charles Diokens,rest novel-
ist, will sail for Ason of the great
cm Oct. 9.
Tho Oswego Board of Trade is taking
up the Commercial 'Union question.
Prance is reported to bo hard at work
on fortifications on the German frontier.
The total loss of the San Francisoo
wheat oornorera is now put down at about
07,000,000.
Art
Dillon, in an interview, described
the winter's prospect in Ireland in gloomy
terms,
A, pamphlet issued at St. Petersburg
announces the re•orgaeization of the Ni-
hilists and their readiness for action.
Phil. Armour, the millionaire meat
packer of Chicago, has given $400,000 for
a mission, school which is.said to be a
model of its kind.
The British agricultural papers are
keeping up the crusade against the Can.
adian live stock trade.
A humane man in Syracuse has provid-
ed a near-sighted ]corse which he owns
with a pair of spectacles.
There are 3,000 shooting and deer
forests in Scotland, which afford oonstant
employment to about 0,000 mon.
The Independence Lelge says that
Prince Napoleon will issue a manifesto in
reply o I to that of the Comfit of Paris.
J. Tt Brunner, the newly elected
member of Parliament for Northwich,
has given $6,000 to start an Irish relief
fund.
Inspector Roughen, of the Kilkenny
police, has resigned, as a protests against
the conduct of the police at Mitchelis-
town. •
Sunday night the Chicago polies arrest-
ed ninety Socialists at numbers 322 and
295 Clark street, where they were playing
bnngloo.
A Spanish gunboat on going to estab-
lish a coaling station on a Red Sea island
found that the English had already taken
possession.
A collision occurred on the Miclland
railway of England near Doncaster, by
which twenty perso ns were killed and
over 70 injured.
Cassey, one of the men who was wound.
ed during the melee at Mitohellstown,
has died. On Sunday he swore to a de-
position identifying the oonetable who
him.
In a duel Sunday Maurice Bernhardt,
son of Sarah Bernhardt, severely wound-
ed a journalist named Alexis, who had
written artfolos reflecting upon the fan•
ons actress.
The Leader, of jiollingor, Tex., has
been imposed upon so often with canards
that it gives liars fair warning not to
approaoh within 40 rods of its office on
pain of death.
A New Yorker advises Americana to
]reap away from Cuba. He is an object
of Hatred end contempt, and plenty of
men can be hired for a five -dollar bill to
put a knife into him.
The Chicago Farmers' Review says the
weather has continued favorable for the
ripening of late planted corn, though rain
is badly needed in many sections for tall
food and fall plowing and seeding.
A correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph sends that journal a letter of
about 50 words written with the sediment
of throe ounces of Thames water, token
from near the Envoi College at Green-
wich.
Dr. Carver, the rifle champion, broke
100 glass balls in two minutes and fifteen
seconds at Cedar Rapids, Ia., on Friday,
beating all former records. He also
broke 200 hallo in four minutes and for-
ty-eight seconds.
The printed forms of petition to Gev.
ernor Ogles, of Illinois, appealing for a
commutation of sentence for the condemn-
ed Chicago Anarchists have been gotten
out, and are now being forwarded 00 all
parts of the country.
a mani-
festo,
Count of Paris has loaned
in which he domande hie rights as
King of Prance, and oonoludea,-" May
all good citizens, whose hopes have been
compromised, and whose conscience have
been wounded by the present regime, join
the laborers of the first hour to prepare
a coronion salvation. May they second
the efforte of him who will bo King of all
and the first servant of Franco."
The State of Kansas has adopted the
policy of paying a bonus of two cents a
pound on nil the sorghum sugar produced
in the State. The ro0nit of this has been
an unusual degree of interest in sorghum
oultivation. The Fort Scott tvorlc0, with
the aid ofmodernvacuum pans, is pot-
ting good tomtits from tltie cavo, roalieing
in its early work 104 pounds of sugar and
twelve gallons of syrup to the ton. The
State subsidy, therefore, amounted to
$2.04 to Ito ton of Bane,
Mr. Jardine, of Saltflest, bus plotted
over eight tons of hops from his 18 aoro
patch.
Bush fires north of Owen Sound have
done great damage on the Indian penin-
sula.
A canary that had been the property
of R. Turner, Brantford, for over 16
years died last wook.
Sixteen tons (82,000 lbs.) of plums were
shipped from Thornbury, Grey county,
railway station in two days rooently.
The Delhi Canning. Company have 125
names on its pay roll. The factory cann-
ed 62 tons of corn in five days recently.
D. McIntyre, of Dutton, has an apple
tree part of which is in full bloom, while
the other part is loaded with ripe fruit.
Hamilton Assembly, No. 7,847, K. of L.
(the barbers' assembly), has withdrawn
from the Knights of Labor and dissolved.
A Mrs. Richards had her log broken
at Parry Sound by the falling of a seat
at a Salvation Army meeting at that
place.
Sir Adolphe Caron, Minister of Militia,
has been offered the Lieutenant -Governor-
ship of Quebec, and will make known his
decision within a few days.
The Union School building in Bow.
manville wascompletely destroyed b fire
oo e
tel
P Y by
fire
on Tuesday night.Loss,$15,000 • insur-
ed for $10,000. The' fire is supposed to
have been incendiary.
A guessing contest over the number of
shoe pegs in 8 glass jar has just been
ooncludod inBrantford.
Tho correot
number was 13,245. Miss Bertin James
guessed 13,222 and,took first prize.
Sir Charles Tupper will be accoiitpan-
ied on his return by Lady Tapper and
Mr. Chipman, his private secretary. Sir
Charles, it is understood, will remain in
Canada for the remainder of the year.
John Barclay, of Guelph township, has
the champion egg story. Four young
turkeys healthy and lively are trotting
around io the yard. They were hatched
out by the sun John solemnly declares.
The Beach train on the N. & N. W.
R'y ran into a flock of sheep three miles
from Hamilton last Saturday, didn't kill
any but carried a sturdy lamb on the
pilot, uninjured, right into Hamilton.
The St. Catharines Journal says :-
There is a kind of a half petted rat that
occasionally appears from its hole in one
of the windows of John Nay's grocery
and amuses itself by catching and eating
flies.
r' bin f the
Tho peculiarity of the clot o
P
Y g
man found drowned near Oswego loads
the Kingston Penitentiary officials to be.
lieve that the body is that of Belly, the
engineer, and one of the lately escaped
convicts.
John Hope, of Bow Park Farm, suc-
ceeded in taking the following prizes at
the St. Paul (Minn.) Exhibition held this
wook :-first prize on Shorthorn bull ;
fire4t and second on cows, and first on 2
year olds.
The Brantford Mendelssohn Society has
ohosed the following officers :-John H,
Stratford, Honorary President ; Dr. Me-
Intyre, President ; Dr. Heath, First Vice.
Presideut; E. Sweet, Second Vioo-Presi.
dent ; S. F. Passmore, Secretary ; Dr.
Hart, Treasurer ; Miss Shannon, Pianist ;
Prof, Garrett, Conductor.
Jos. R. Guttridge, of Guelph, killed a
obioken recently, and found a milk snake
about a foot long in its gizzard. The
reptile had in all probability been swal-
lowed alive, as the head and tail protrud-
ed from the digestive apparatus as if try-
ing
rying to escape from its prison. Joo did not
eat chicken for his dinner that day.
L. A. Mehlenbaeher, harnessmaker, of
Delhi, showed a strap one day this
week measuring nine feet Dight inohes,
which was out from ono side of leather,
the hide being taken from a western
steer. He claims this to be the longest
strap he over saw cut from one side of
leather, and that it is seldom exceeded in
longth.
Several farmere around Belmont have
been swindled to the amount of $7,000 by
giving their notes for the Red Lion
wheat. It appears they were to have
this precious Lion wheat by 1st of Aug-
ust, but the clay has Dome and gone and
still no Lion is to the fore. Tho class
of men who give their notes for wheat
want to get rich in a day.
Michell Riordan, of Elora, caught a
strange bird of gorgeous plumage whioh
entered his bedroom through the window.
He placed it in a sago from which it
escaped before any naturalists bad a
chance of examining it. None veho did
900 it were able to classify it, though one
gentleman who has travelled extensively
declared it wee 0 Mexican oriole,
in Priostman vs. Brad0treet, which re-
sulted in anon -suit Wednesday evening,
Mr. Osler, in the coarse of his cross -ex.
amivation of the plaintiff, said :-"Do
you know anything about bucket shops; 7"
"What's that 2" 2000100 Galt demanded.
"Why, that, your Lordship, is a method
of gambling by which a man retains his
ohuroh membership," was Mr. Oslor's re-
ply. The truism was intensely appreci-
ated by all in court.
Major Wiokstead, whose retirement
from the position of ,paymaster of the
Governor, -General's Foot Guards appear•
ed in tato militia -general orders, is ono of
the oldest of0oors in the Canadian militia.
Had he remained in the foroe for another
month he would, have completed 50 years
of service. His first oommiesion was in
the Royal Quebec Volunteer Artillery, is
elated November, 1857, and was signed by
Lord Goeford.
The ohooso factory inspeotor was at
Springfield factory some two weeks ago,
when he took samples of Oho milk brought
in by each patron. On examination it
was found that soma of the f001110re had
skimmed their mills, while alien had
mixed it with water. The proportionate
value of the patrons milk was made
known to them ono day last week, Sonia
Wore marl at the inspootor, and some
wore ashannoil of their dioltoneely.
Over 820,000 will bo expended in Wal. Jarvis has a 19.year-old M.D.
latieburg for new buildings this seem. Wm. Kay, of the Chesley Enterprise,
Muddy Creek, Prinoo County, P.E.I., has sold out to A. W. Robb.
possesses a Frenchman who is the father Sir Adolphe Caron has been offered
of 83 obildren. the Lieutenant -Governorship of Quebec.
A•colored man named Britton, of Wind. It has been decided to hold the annual
sot, has been sent to penitentiary for five rifle matches of the 22nd Batt. at the
years for stealing a cow. Woodstock range on Oct. 12.
Eighty mon are to be drawn from "A" it in said that the Queboo Legislature
and "13" Batteries to form a nucleus for will be called for the dispatch of business
"C" Battery at Victoria, B.C. on the first Thnreday in November, thus
The jury in the case of Stevenson, retaining to the old and more convenient
charged at London with killing Ralph system of autumn sessions.
Shaw, a Chatham volunteer, disagreed, Hon, Oliver Mowat has returned home
At Odessa the ether day a man named
from England. He told a Toronto re.
Anderson was assessed $45 damageses forr to
ill-using a child of whom he was guard- 00 ono meter that do the argumentris Otto St. Cath-
ian. crines Milling. & Lubber Company ap.
It is understood ;stood that the Governor- peal, the hearing of which, however, will
Gentsl will shortla be asked to al of the
not be resumed this year.
a vote in St. Thomas on the repeal of Oho
Scott Aot. Ales. Dickinson, f.P., of Arkona,
The Windsor Connell has passed a by. wants $2,000 from John Livingston, of
law giving the Poundmaster a fee of 51 Bosnnqust, on a case against the latter
for each oow captured, instead of 30 cents, for defamation of oharaoter. He claims
as formerly. that Livingston has repeatedly acensed
Upon the 000asion of the next visit of itim of penury. The trouble arose over
Bishop Baldwin to Walpole Island be a case before Dickenson and two other
will confirm a class of 58 candidates, pre. magistrates in which a man was accused
pared by the Rev. J. Jacobs. of stealing money from Livingston and
Oshawa was lighted
with electricity for disohar e
d.
thefirst time on Monday nigh
t last, and George Bolton of
Paisley
Block,
the Reformer expresses complete sags. Guelph, a young mon
said to be of light
faction with the light supplied. , mental calibre, aged about 22 years, end
It is said that squatters with .tome. a eon of John Dolton, went to look for
some stray sheep the other day and has
stead rights occupy the lots, on account
an injunction against the Red River rail- ins descriptionof which the Dominion Government asks not since appeared. He is ft. 7 in. in
is of the follow -
of
way. height, dark complexion, and of medium
According to The Review, Paris wants build, no beard, blaok hair cat short, thin
a new hotel, a now market, water power fade, brown overalls and straw hat.
now going to waste on the Grand River The great Fair at Toronto closed last
utilized and connection with the Canada Friday night at 10 o'clock. The tick of
Pa"cifio railway. the turnstiles ceased much earlier in the
The Guelph Herald thinks that Rev. evening, with $2,987 to their credit for
Solomon Peter Hale can talk longer and the day, and a total of $52,049 for the
say less than any other living man, entire Exhibition. This includes the re -
judging from his lecture "Time shadows ceipts at the grand stand, and is $11,I52
forth things to Dome." more than the receipts of the Fair of 1886.
The G. T. R. have entered appearances The Exhibition of 1887, with this magni-
in all the actions for damages brought ficent showing, has been an unqualified
against them arising out of the wreck at success, viewed from every point of the
St. Thomas on July' 16, and the oases will compass. The receipts by days have been :
all go to trial unless a settlement is ar- 1897. 1888.
rived at in the meantime. Tuesday 0 414
The Smith's Fails Sohool Board have Weduesday
asked for the resignation of both teach-
ers, who engaged "m a personal encounter
in the school room recently. One of
them, however, refuses to meet the views
of the Board and the school has been
closed for a week.
Geo. Brent, of Warwick, is a believer
or
in ill -luck. He lost 51,600
by the Faw-
cett banking -house failure, and received
his share of the dividend the day before
the suspension of the London Bank, in
which he then deposited his share of
what was recovered from the Fawcett
wreck.
While driving a threshing engine over
the first bridge north of Embro the other
day, George Gordon was surprised by
finding himself and the maohine dropped
safe and uninjured to the bottom of the
river. Aneighbor, who was on the bridge,
pulled out the whiffiatree bolt and released
the horses, as the bridge was giving way,
and they got safely. across.
Woodst Ink Reviow :-Geo. D. Heine,
of Campbo. ford, died a few days ago from
blood poisoning. About ten days pre-
vious he went out for a pleasure drive in
oompany with his wife and children, and
during the trip he stopped and pinked up
some hickory nuts, which he broke open
with his teeth. He had a cold sore on
his lip at the time, which beoamo itchy
and gave him some uneasiness, after-
wards causing death.
The Eganvillo Enterprise says that a
cow belonging to a Cobden merchant one
day recently ate a bag of provender be.
longtug to Wm. Lacey, then proceeded
to the stable of her owner and consumed,
a bundle of hay loft by a farmer ; not
yet being satisfied she broke into a field
of oats belonging to Chas. Coulter and
devoured six sheaves. She then went
down to the lake to wash her supper
down. The following morning the cow
gave a double quantity of milk.
The Guelph Mammy relates the follow-
ing experience of Miss Nancy Miller, of
Naesagaweya, with an enraged cow. The
young lady tent to fetch the slows home
to milk, and finding them in a thicket
sent a dog in to fetch them out. Tho
dog enraged one of them to such an ex-
tant that she became frantic and rushed
out of the bush just when Mies Miller
was standing,' and instead of pursuing
the dog rudbed on her, hooking and
bruising her in a terrible manner. Had
it not been for the young woman's pres-
ence of mind in holding on to a otrap
which enured a bell about the animal's
neck, she would undoubtedly bavo been
killed.
The Bruce Reporter publishes the fol-
lowing letter from Hon. Edward Blake,
addressed to the electors of 'West Bruce
Gentlemen, -In view of the doubts ex-
pressed as to my right to resign 'West
Bruoe, pending the West Durham pro-
test, I thought it best to waive my own
opinion and to defer action. The protest
having boon pressed to a conclusion, it is
proper to arrange at the earliest moment
for the separate representation of each
Riding. Throe times I have been honor-
ed by a double eteotion. On both the
former occasions the general interest
seemed to point to my choosing Bruce ;
and I gave up Durham. At this time it
some for the general interest that I
should choose Durham, and I now give
up Druce, While thus returning into
your hands your high trust, I can only
renew the expression of my grateful
thanks for your signal mark of esteem ;
rand asatire you that I shall own: fool my-
self bound to you by the aloeesb ties, and
anxious to ptomote your true interests, I
indulge the hope that at some future day
I may be permitted to express to you in
person my sense of yout kindness. Your
iaithfttl sorvaht, Iaowann Bums,
'Thursday
,Friday
Saturday
lire aday
Tuesday
791 a 688
2,261 444
8,912 1,08a
8,206 4,071
11.107 0,908
6,882 8,078
19,220 0,180
2,280 4,407
2,087 8.002
052,040 340,897
Showing an increase of $11,150 for the
ton days. Business men in Toronto are
fully alive tc the faot that it pays to aid
in carrying out these gatherings in the
most attractive form.
North Sydney, N. S., Herald: -'The
marriage of Miss Isabella Ferguson, of
Jersey, Eng., late nurse in London Hos.
pita1, to D. McDonald, of Little Bras
d'Or, C. B., which took plaoe here last
Friday, was a pleasing sequel of what
may bo termed a romantic courtship.
As is wolf known here, Mr. McDonald was
one of the Nile voyageurs, having been in
active service in the Soudan. After the
arrival of the voyageurs in London, Col.
Kennedy, their commander, wee taken
down with the most malignant typo of
smallpox, Of the men, McDonald re.
=tined and nursed him until death,
when he was taken down with the
disease himself. Miss Ferguson was the
nurse who attended him through his se-
vere illness. As usual in such romances
an attachment was formed, and before he
left they became engaged. After Mo -
Donald's arrival home, the ardor of his
affection never cooled, but he continued
to oorrospond with her, and they intend.
od to have been married at Halifax at
the residence of his uncle, Hon. Wm.
Ross, bat she decided to come to North
Sydney, and arrived on Friday morning
aocompanied by Donald Ross, of
New Zealand, and John Roes, of New
Glasgow. In the afternoon they were
quietly married at the manse, Sydney
Mines, by the Rev. D. McMillan, and
left for their residence in Little and
d'Or.
At the temperance Convention at To.
ronto last week Mayor Howland tideland
that those who say that more whiskey 10
drunk under the Scott Act than before
lie and figures prove it. Taking the con-
victions for drunkenness in the counties
in which the Scott Aot went into force on
May lst he showed that they numbered
about 200, while thorn wore 500 convic-
tions for the same offence in 1884. This
proved there was less drulconuess. The
convictions where the Scott Aot was not
adopted showed an increase. Irr 1884
there was 22,048 conviotions in these
pinoes, while in 1886 there were 23,014.
e could not understand the marvellous
weakness of men who believe the mis-
statements made by the liquor men. Ho
had a belief that when ho had less of a
thing he had less of it. (Laughter.) He
could not see how moa could believe that
there was more liquor drunk when the
Government returns showed a groat fel•
ling off in the oonsnmption. The oon.
gumption bio o f boor,wine and spirits in
o , p
Canada was 35 gallons per head per an.
num, the smallest of any country in the
World. The people of British Colutnbia
consumed 75 gallons more than twice
the average for the whole of Canada, be-
cause they were a rum -ridden commun-
ity. In Ontario the average was 45 gal•
lens. In Quebec, which wee largely un-
der parish prohibition, it was 81 gallons.
In Manitoba and the Northwest it was
25 gallons, the Northwoet being eubject
to a prohibitory law. In New Brunswick,
were 10 out 18 °buntiee.tad adopted the
Scott Aot it was 15 gallons. (Applause.)
In Nova Seale, still' Moto largely under
the Scott Aot, ft was 1. gallons, and in
Prinoo Ildward Island, wholly tinder the
Scott Act, it wee little over * of a gallon.
(Applause).
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