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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-10-21, Page 44 THE BRUSSELS --max am. ="w m m w.a an wxgrror2_ Its a narntncauwasw wt nRr A'•1 ' &111. etfi'•a/M.0atS. Locals—W, Coate. Local—Adam Good. Crowe Lost—Thia Moe. Arrived—G. A Deadman. Brooch Lost—This Office. Reopening—W. T. Hunter. Wood Wanted—F. 0. Rogers, Stoves---flayerctt it Turnbull. Got The Beet—Advertiser Printing Co, (liZje Nru55.els R Ast. FRIDAY, ©CT. 21, 1887. James Rowand, the nomi nen of the Reform Convention, has been elected for West Bruce by acclamation. In MoxT1uu.L the Stook Exchange has been trying to put down the "bucket" ehope and it looks very much like Satan reproving sin. The Witness, speaking of these shops, says :— "Bucket -Shop speculators are, as a class, either stupid or infatuated or buck- et shops would not long exist. In the first place the a eoulatorgives odds on the bet he is making, the odds being the "commission," es the bucket -shop keeper calls it. In the second place he !'puts up" bis money before be loses. The bucket - shop keeper does not. With the money thus put up the bucket -shop keeper may possibly influence the market by operat- ing against the interests of those who put it up. And in the last plane, if in spite of odds in his favor, of the power of cheating so stupidly planed in his hands, and of other advantages, the buokeb-shop man does happen to lose, he having put up no money, and being a perfectly irre- sponsible person, simply "lights out," as be calls it, with any money belonging to his foolish clientelle which he has in his possession." Hses Is THE trenchant way an exchange puts it in speaking of the Canada Tem- perance Act:— "The people of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry seem to have thought there was some magic in the Scott Act to stop liquor selling whether it was enforced or not. They have by painful experience found this not to be the case.. Even with the most partial enforcement they are better off than they were ; but they still permit enough of drink to be sold to bring discredit on the law for which they fought—so much so that preparations are being made and petitions are being cir- culated in favor of a repeal. The great argument of these promoters of repeal is that the law is a oomplete failure, al- though, if it were, they would hardly be w bitter against it. Their very enmity is a testimony to its effectiveness. If the temperance people do not want to lose their law, and have their last state worse than the first, they should organize all the good citizens they can influence into law and order leagues for every locality, and see to it that from now till the voting day, the Scott Aot is universally en- forced." THE mucrons in Haldilnand County are getting on tbeir war paint for the coming election in that constitnenoy. Lawyer Colter and Dr. Montague have been once more pitted against one an- other. At the last election Mr. Colter, Reformer, was declared elected by the returning officer by a majority of thir- teen, but lost the seat on a' recount, Judge Upper returning Dr. Montague, the Conservative candidate, by one majority. In the trial before Justice Boyd some curious things were brought to light. The following is a oopy of one circular circulated among the Indian electors of that County :— "TO THE INDIANS. The Queen has always loved Her dear, loyal subjects, the Indians. She wants them to be good men and women, and she wants them to live on the land that they have, and she expects in a little while, if her Great Chief, John A., gots into Gov- ernment again, to be very kind to the In- dians,and to make them very happy. She wants them to go and vote and to all vote for Doorou MONTAGUE, who ie the Queen's agent. He is Her friend, and by voting for hint every one of the Indians will please QtEEn VICTORIA." IIuron County Notes. At Seaforth, for Scott Act violation, J. Weir, Dawson, T. Stephens and John Carroll each paid $1011 and costs. John G. Wilson, of Seaforth, has sold Silver Creek farm to F. Case for the sum of $0,000, and Mr. Wilson retains the res- idence and ten acres of land adjoining it. A cattle thief named Heffernan, on his way to Goderioh jail, escaped from the custody of Constable Gill, of Exeter, a few days ago, and at last reports had not been retaken. Nelson McLaughlin, proprietor of the Gerrie drug etrore, was haudlin$ a bottle of mixture containing oil of vitriol, when it exploded, the contents flying into his face, injuring the right eye. A few mornings ago burglars stole 9100 worth of silks, eto., from Duncan & Dun - can's store, Seaforth. Constable Lusby purened them, but after interchanging half a dozen revolver shots the thieves escaped, leaving the goods behind them. West Huron teachers have officered their association aa follows b --President, W. H. Johnsen ; Vice -President, llfise Johnson ; Sec.-Treae., G. W, Holman Committee, Misses Burrows and Burritt, and Messrs. Kelly, E, A. McKenzie and J. Delgatty, A very painful accident happened to John Simmons, son of Charles Simmons, of Wroxeter. He was working in Ear. riston for Mr. Nelsen, enol was in tb act of putting the collar on one of the horses when it turned and bit liim in the face, malting a fearful gash from the lip to the temple, dulcet destroying the sight of the eye.' Perth County Notes. • Burglars are still operating at Strat- ford, The Stratford Presbytery has unani- mously exonerated Rev. 1'. Wright from the chargee preferred against hint by Rev. T. McPherson. G. II. Horne, of the Bank of Commerce Stratford, is to he removed to the Belle- ville branch, and will leave within two weeks for his new position. H. A. L. White has received the ap. pointmenb of post master of St, Marys, in the plane of P. W. Nicol deceased. There were about half a dozen applicants for the position. The brick work on the new G. T. R. shops at Stratford will be commenced in a few days. Over 48,000 briok have been laid on the ground already. The tracer bas been extended from the main shop, and a large water main put in. Perth County statistic show the total number of persons committed during the year was 159-167 males and 22 females. The number remaining in jail on Sept. 80 last was 17, of whom ten were males. During the year 16 persons were commit- ted as Innatics. Following are the newly elected oMeers of the Perth Teachers' Association : J. W. Laird, of St. Marys, President ; Mise Ross, vine -President ; R. Stewart, Secre- tary ; Exeoutive Committee, T. O'Hagan, W. W. Thompson, Mise T. McKenna, W. Leigh, J. S. Kilpatrick. A patient afflicted with typhoid fever was brought into the offioe of Dr. Smith, Stratford, on Friday, by a farmer of Ellice, named Nash, and left there. A constable was informed of the matter, and he gave orders to the farmer to have the patient immediately removed. Nash took the patient, who was his son, home again. At the meeting of the Perth Teachers' Association at Stratford the following resolution was carried almost unanimous- ly : "Resolved, that in the opinion of this Association the new School History is wholly unsuitable for either public or high schools, inasmuch as it is uninter- esting, disconnected, unintelligible, con- tains many errors and is bristling with literary defects." A meeting of the directors of the Elmo Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany was held at Atwood on Tuesday the 27th September. Applications for insurance were received and accepted, amounting to 924,200,000. The claim of Peter Dowd, Sen., for steer killed by lightning, was adjusted and ordered to be paid. It was also agreed to levy an assessment of 3i per cent. on all pre- mium notes in force on the 15th of Ang- ust last, and to be collected in December. Meeting adjourned till Tuesday the 8th November. General News. A hundred Jewish families have been expelled from Kieft. Mr. Chamberlain at Belfast oomdemn- ed Commercial Union. Searchers have been unable to find the British gunboat Wasp. Three now cases and two deaths.occur- red at Tanipa on Saturday. The dash in the U. S. Treasury now amounts to $658,784,680. It is apparently settled that Plymouth church will not call Rev. Dr. Parker. Boulanger has acknowledge his error in talking indiscreetly to the reporters. An expedition is to be Bent out to re- capture Stanly Falls for the Congo Gov- ernment. Serious riots have been caused at Gib- raltar by quarrels between Irish and English soldiers. The Nationalists held a meeting at Woodford, in defiance of the Govern- ment's proclamation. Canadian railway and general secur- ities Buffered, in company with American stocks, on the London' Exchange last week. The Unionists surprised themselves and everybody else by electing five can. didates at the Queenstown municipal election. The linea, offices and plant of the Bal- timore te Ohio Telegraph Company were handed over to the Western Union at midnight Saturday. Powderley and all the other general of- ficers of tho General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, save Barry and Bailey, haus tendered their resigns - lions. A report was telegraphed from Mem. phis on Saturday about an alleged at- tempt to wreck the President's train, hub ib proves to have been entirely founds. tionless. For the past twenty years or more Isaac Pitman, the author of phonogra- phy, who is still a very hard worker ab the age of nearly 75 years, has been a strict vegetarian as well as a temperate man, A St. Louis reporter, who counted the number of people with whom the Presi- dent shook hands at one of his public re- ceptions in that city, says that seventy persons a minute passed for three hours, making 12,600 "shakes" without rest for the President. The statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is it great bird -catcher. The other morning 1,800 dead birds were picked up ea its feet. They had dashed themselves against the light during the night. There were a hundred different species represented among the dead. The largest bird was a Canadian woodpecker and the smallest a humming bird. The light ean'be soon a distance of thirty-six miles. The Oddfellows of Buffalo are making an effort to secure funds to build a tem- ple. Each member has a earl, pictured with bricks, one of which each tubecrib- or buys for five cerate. There are 105 bricks on each card, making the value of the card $5.25, The name of the membora is written on the card, and he in tura signs the names of his buyers. The brick cards are to be buried in the corner- stone of the temple, and the entombed names of ail subscribers will thus be lianded down to posterity. The Czar of Russia plays on the French horn. Five thousand Soudenese rebels have reached Sarraee.. A Manchester firm pays $50,000 a year to a Paris designer. The eat is usurping the plaoe of the dog as a pet in Paris, The Salvation Army has commenced operations in Rome. Mr. Chamberlain is to sail for Amor. ion on the 29th inst. A conference on the Morocco question is to be held at Madrid. A deficit in the. L'gytian budget has led to a Ministerial crisis, The report that Ayoub Khan died in the desert is confirmed. Lady Brassey died on board tko Sun- beam while bound for Australia. Disastrous forest fires have occurred in the counties around San Francisco. One factory in Newark, N. 3., turns out 150,000,000 corkscrews in a year. A number of Aberdeen pedigree cattle will shortly be brought into Canada. The London Times' Paris correspond- ent says President Gravy is likely to resign. Borne mysterious disease is killing the cattle in the southern part of Crittenden Township, Ill. Trouble from idle laborers and an epidemic of yellow fever are said to bo in prospeot for Colon. The constables against who the Mit- o}lelle-town jury found a verdict of guilty, have been suspended from duty. Boulanger has been placed under ar- rest for thirty days, during which time the Ministry will decide his cane. T. R. Buchanan, Liberal 151. P. for West Edingburgh, has become a convert to Mr. Gladstone's Home Tide ideas. There are more students from farmers' families in the Ann Arbor University than from those of any other occupa- tion. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is said to have declined an offer of $90,000 for ono hundred lectures, to be delivered in America. A Georgia debating society discussed the question :—Did Zeke Slade's tobacco barn burn up or down ? It was decided tjsat it did. The output of the various cigar manu- factories of the United States has increas- ed since 1880 from 2,000,000,000 to over 5,000,000,000. The United States Treasury Depart- ment has decided that wedding presents accompanying their wearers into the States are dutiable. A large force of graders are at work on a branch of the Northern Pacific, which will extend to a point opposite the town of Morden, Manitoba. The Mitehellstown jury returned aver - diet of wilful murder against the police who fired on the mob, and the coroner is- sued warrants accordingly. There is no liquor law in Paris, From a statement just published, it seems that as a eoueequenee of this, the drink shops have increased from 14,000 in 1880 to 31,000 of the present time. England and Wales have had heavy snow storms. Snow also fell in many plaoes in America, including Quebec, Brantford and other places in Canada and points in New York State. A. Russian adventuress, known by the nickname of "Golden Hand," has been condemned by the Moscow tribunal to transportation to Siberia for life. This extraordinary woman has been married no less than 16 times, and is described as being remarkably handsome. Her hus- bands belonged to all nationalities aid creeds. She made her escape from two in France and three in Germany, car- rying off as much Of the property as she could lay hands on. Sim was in Vienna in 1878 under an assumed name. She robbed her different husbands altogether of more than 800,000 roubles. When travelling she invariably made dupes-ancl disappeared with their money, jewels; and even with their watches. She is not un- familiar with tier future abode—Siberia —as she was condemned to transporta. tion once before by the Moscow tribunal. She had not been there long before the chief overseer of the place were she was oonfined married her and took her to Constantieople. She left him in course of time, and returned to Russia, where she was only identified by the polies after two years' residence. She speaks fluent- ly Russian, German, French, English and Romnanian. The lawyer who was in- trusted with her defame had an oppor- tunity of experiencing her skill as a pickpooket. When he went to see her in prison after the trial she assured him of her gratitude, and asked him to accept as a souvenir a gold watoh and chain, which she placed before him. He at once re. cognised it as his own. She had picked his pocket and presented him with his Own watch. POST ettleatetReMSIORIAIMARfatelleitt ALLAN LINE Royal Mail Steamships. '87. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. ,87. P.A.xx,xzvG-s- PROSE LIVERPOOL, MAHER. PROM wimple. Aug, lath Sarmatian Sept, 81h Aug. 30t1 Oirssesian Sept. 1051 Sop E. Set Sardinian Sopt,22nd Sonb.Obh - Polyuosian Sept,30511 Sept. lath Parisian Oct. OEb Sept. 22nd Sarmatian 051.10th Supt, SDlts .,...,...... Cironselan Oat, nest. Oet, 030 Sardiulau pot. 27th 051. lath Polynesian Noy, 9th Oot,20th Paxleiao Nov.lOth Oct. 27Eh Sarmatian Nov. 17Eh Steerage Passengers are booked is and from London, Queeneton, Derry, Belfast and Glasgow at same rates at Liverpool, Rates of passage by the Mail Steamers ire m Quebec to Londonderry and Ltaorpool:— Oabin—$50, $70 and 080, Return -9110, 9130 and 9100. Intormediato-920, return 900. Steerage -930, return, 940. Tbo lost train eounoatiag at Quebec, with the Mail Steamers mailing from that port an the Thursday. leaves Toronto on the Wed- nesday morning, The last train oonneoting with the Extra Steamers sailing on the Pk - day, leaves Toronto on the Thursday mom. Inc. Tor tickets and every information ap' ply to J. R. GRANT, AGENT, BRUMES. 11E -OPENING. On and after NOVEMBER 1st the HUNTER BLACKSMITH SHOP will be open to the Public and the undersigned will be prepared to attend to Blacksmithing in all Lines. Horse shoeing a speci- alty. A call solicited. W. T. Hunter, Proprietor. FAIR WARNING! For the next 30 days wo will sell the following first-class Plows, all guaranteed to give satisfaction, with CAST STEEL BOARDS :— The Hill Plow, •worth $16.00 at $12.00 No. 18 Thistle Cutter P1ow$16:00 at $12.00 No. 13 „ „ $14.00 at $10.00 First-olase Lumber Wagon and 1 Set Knee Bob -sleighs to exchange for wood or lumber. We have on hand the following :-- LAND ROLLERS, PLOWS, HORSE POWERS, STRAW CUTTERS, TURNIP PUMPERS AND SLIDERS, CHOPPING MILLS. lam' Points for all Plows kept con• stantly on hand. Repairs of all kinds promptly attended to at LOWEST PRIM. A quantity of first-class Hardwood Flooring on hand, well seasoned. Planing, Matching and Band Sawing in first class style at the BRUSSELS POUfDR3. W. R. ``; ILSON, Proprietor. STOVES! STOVES! Call and See Our Barged ,:.s 1 Stoves. Handsomest Coal Stoves in the Market. SILVERWARE !! p g t LAMP GOODS AND CUTLERY ! Always on Hand. EAVETROUGHING A SPECIALTY. ayoroft 84 Turnbull. Oar. 21, 1887. u,rurrfealal mssiv t lui—cr esr•r: T fl ole 9 On and after the 1sT DAY of NovEMnER 't/0 will be prepared to take ANT Q U4.N TIT/ —OF— Goon. Sound Cordwood. 4 feet long, in exchange for Goods. It must be :DISTINCTLY and POSITIVELY understood that 'rood will not be taken on any accounts incurred previous to this date. F. C. Rogers' Salt Works. BRUSSELS, OOT. 21, 1887. THE P100 Our Stock has been sorted up for the FALL and wo ase: for au inspection of it by tho people of East Huron. Sash and Doors, Bz4ilders' Hct,rclavar'e, Glass, Nails, Cow Chains, Halters, Forks, Shovels, Vic. on hand, and everything else requil'sd by the public in our line. Our motto is Small Yro ats amid Quick l stuns and a Call will satisfy you that our prices aro right. COME UO SEE LIS. A. M. McKay & Co., HARDWARE DEALERS. 7