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THIRTEENTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER, 62a.
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1879,
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H 1 LL B ROTH ERS.
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO.
We take pleasure in thanking the
public for the hearty way in which they
have responded to our circular.
,THE LARGE BUSINESS
That has been done in our House dur-
ing the, past two weeks shows that our
Opening:Weeks tell of
CHEAP GOODS AND
PLEASED CUS1OMERS.
While we are thus convinced -that we
have satisfied a.11 who have given us a
call, that we sell
TH EAPEST IN -TOWN.
We propose to do still more, and intend
to sell during the next month
COODS AT SUCH TEMPTINC PRICES
As will not fail to satisfy the closest
buyers.
- DRESS GOODS AT COST.
WINCEYS AT COST.
MANTLES AT COST:
SHAWLS AT COST.
CLOTHS AT 'COST.
CLOTHING AT COST.
HATS AND CAPS AT COST.
BUFFALO ROBES AT C OST
SROCERIES CHEAPER THAN EVER
Rememlier the Place —Opposite the
Commercial Hotel.
HILL BROTHERS,
Main Street, Seaforth.
{ McIMAN BROS., Ilublishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
THE CONDITION OF MEMPHIS.
THE INVESTIGATIONS OF TilE -NATIONAL
BOARD OF HEALTH—A. TALK WITH
ONE OF THE EXAMINING PHYS IICIANS—
How THE CITY ELLS BEEN CONVERTED
INTO A PLAGUE SPOT—HOW THE NA-
TIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH PROPOSE
TO DEAL WITH IT.
NEw Yo, Dpeeraber 12, 1879.
The National Board of Health during,
the last six weeks has been investigating
the present condition of the yellow- fever
plague' spot, Memphis, and h s gathered -
the most extetasive informati n with re-
gard to the causes -which increased the
disease in that city, with the assistance
of large and. competent corps of United
States inepectors and civil engineers.
They have examined every -house in the
place from garret to cellar, every yard,
street and alley, and. now know the con-
dition of Memphis iu all its parts. The
Board called upon some of the most
eminent physicians of the country to
visit Memphis and act as counsel to aid
itt discoverina the best plan to cleause
Memphis and to provide effectively
'against the recurrence of the dreaded
epidemic. Among others, one of the
most experienced physicia,ns of this
city, whose name is preminently con -
'meted with the New -York State Coun-
ty and City Health organizations, was
invited to take part in the investigation
as an expert, and consalt with the board.
He has just returned to this city, aird'-
on Tuesday he spoke in effoct as follows
to your correspondent:
The natural advantages for drainage
in Memphis are excellent—better than
these. of New York. It should be one
of the best drained citie„A in the country,
whereas it is not drained at all. Every
one knows that it sits on a bluff which
slopes down to the Mississippi River on
one side and to the gullied strearn, the
Bayou Gayoso, on the other. This Ba-
you Gayoso is blamed for all the sick-
ness that has occurred in that city; for
there is thrown garbage and all con7
-ceivable species of filth; but there are
miniature- Bayou Gayosos in almost
every street, alley and byway in Mem-
phis, which are infinitely more detri-
mental to the public health than the
Bayou Gayoso. The Bayou , Gayoso
could easily be sewered aud drained
just like our covered sewers, its side
grassed and Sloped, and then it would
be an ornanieut rather than amoffence.
Memphis is dirtier than I ever heard or
dreamed of—dirtier than Havana, which
is saying much. The puly recleaning
feature is that they have throwu the
swill and garbage into the river eince
the frost last touched the city. Bet all
the rest of the fl!th goes into the streets,
"which are never swept.
The greate-e and most disgusting
sanitary d.efee: is that the large stores
of the city, w -.oh can be &muted by
the hundreds. have no proper closets -at
all, but simply _provide as substitutes
pits in the cellars. From one to four
such pits can be found in hundreds of 1
the larger stores. Over many of • the
stores people live. The blocks of ground
on which the,stores stand are complete-
ly covered by the buildings, and this, I
suppose, Was the reason why the cellars
were used. in this manner. From the
cellars arise the disease -generating atlas
which fill the buildings and come out
through the sidewalk gratings, shaking
the finger of death in the faces of pass-
ers by. These stores and wholesale es-
teblishmente are owned, of course, by
_ the largest capitalists and property-
holders—the rich then—of the city.
They are the great cause of the epii-
demic. One man owns some 'of the
largest stores in the city; in the cellar
of which are a number of these pits.
He has no sanitary arrangements even
in his private home. He owns hun-
dreds of negro shanties which rent from
$1 to $5 a mbuth, and are absolutely
destitute of sanitary provision. He is
probably worth more thau millian of
dollars. The filthiness and meanness
of such men in great part brought the
plague upon Memphis. These are the
ceases of the sickness.
The usual position for the vaultfor
private houses with grounds is 20 er 30
feet away from the wells. Soakage
takes place, and the conta,minated well
water is always used for cooking and
washing and. often for drinking. The
city has inadequate waterworks to con-
vey some of the splendid water from
the Wolf River to the city, but there are
no sewers, no closet system. Every time
the Mississippi rises the Bayou Gayoso
overflows into the -Wolf, contaminating
the entire water supply of the city, and
the people drink the water just the same.
An epidemic is, therefore, augmented by
a rise of the Mississippi.
Very little bedding, clothing, Mini -
tare, carpets, etc., used by yellow fever
patients has been destroyed. Store-
room upOn storeroom is stacked with
mattresses saturated with the poison of
fever patients,. and. carpets, sofas and
chairs stuffed with yellow fever germs.
The inhabitants are too mean to burn
up an old infected blanket. If they
were let alone they Nebula use these
filthy things. They want the use.
States to supply theni with new furni-
ture and blankets and bedding. They
have brought it all on thenaselVes by de-
liberately preparing a pest -hole to -live
in. One would expect cleaner habits
from savages thauthey have practised.
The better class of negroes in the
mule stables are the cleanest People of
Memphis.
Pure earth, pure air, and pure water
are the great sanitary requirements.
Afeitiphis gets plenty of pure air. The
streets are broad, but there is pestilence
in it because of the city's `filth. The
-Wolf River, water is among the best
that has been analyzed, and if the
water works were moved two or three
miles up the river from their present
position the city water supply would be
pure always. The earth of Memphis is
good clay and gravel, but every inch of
ground under -Memphis has been con-
taminated by its careless inhabitants.
They want, first of all, several thousand
brooms with which to sweep the cellars,
streets, yards and alleys, and an ade-
quate number of shovels, hoes and dirt
carts to remove the sweepings. The
inhabitants should be taught washing,
scrubbing and cleaning as children are
taught the alphabet. The street gut-
ters should be put in order. They are
now all of wood—except a few feet in
isolated places—which is everywhere
decayed and broken in, and many of
the gutters are simply earth trenches
two or three feet deep, filled with filth,
decomposing water, etc.
There arethousands of bales of cotton
lying in Memphis at present in the gut-
ters and dirty streets. They are saturated
with yellow and. malarial fever poison,
and will take it wherever they go.
Eighteeu men in the employ of -the
Iowa Central, who handled them, died
of the yellow feaer. I saw Memphis
while I was there literally wake up
from the dead. Hotels with three or
four persons in them were filled in a
day. Empty streets became full of
carts, and cotton was flying about every-
where. If the citizens are let alone
they will surely sell and send off the
contaminated cotton of which I have
spokeu. Caricatures ucw appear in the
shop windcws making fun of persons
who established quarantines against
Memphis cotton. They do not think
anything about'scatterine the disease.
If the National Health Board has its
way, an epidemic will not revisit Mem-
phis. It is decided definitely to stamp
it out. The National Board will re-
commead iu its report the Waring sys-
tem of sewerage and drainage, which is
doubtless the best, , cheapest and
simplest for a small city, and least like-
ly to get out of order, and this system,
at a cost of $250,000, will probably be
put into Memphis. They cannot easily
get this system outof order, and we
know that they would. destroy in a
short time anything which could be in-
jured. The whole cost of cleansing and
redeeming the city will be $1,000,000,
and the United States cau and will do
the work by spring. The investiga-
tions are completed. The cleansing
work will begin as soon as the cold
weather .sets in. Memphis says she
can pay only $100,000 toward the work.
Tennessee should pay the rest,but if she
refuses the adioining States will be ap.-
pealed to. IfLthey do not furnish the
money. forthwith, the United States
will in all probability think that it is
best to advance the funds: At Memphis
they have yellowfeverthe year round.
They had a dozen cases in six days
while I was there that they did not re-
port: Even when frost is in the
ground, if you close up a building and
light a fire you will get disease, because
it is in the houses. The air of the
place now is likely to make intermit-
tent fever, 'measles, smallpox, scarlet
fever, malarial fever, or any disease
epidemic. If you put a spark of any
disease into the place, it will flash it
over the city like fire on a prairie. I
have not exaggerated these facts one
heir's breadth, as you will see when you
read the report of the National Board.
of Health.
•
Canada.
An old resident of Port Hope, Mr.
Archibald Sands, died recently, aged 78
years.
—A new Presbyterian church is to be
opened at Selkirk, Manitoba, about the
end of this month.
—Six gentlemen of Toledo, Ohio,
have visited Madoc to prospect in iron
ore mining, and others are expected.
— Measles are very prevalent in Tor-
onto. Thirty two children are down
with the disease in the Girl's Home.
— John McKinnon, who for the last
year or two ran a threshing machine itt
the neighborhood. of Teeswater, skipped
out last week, leaving a large number
of unpaid accounts behind him.
—A terrible 'explosion of dynamite
took place at Tangeir, a gold mining
district sixty miles from Halifax, on
the eastern coast. One man was killed
instantly aud two more were so fear-
fully mangled that they cannot live:
—Some specimens of ore containing a
large percentage of lead and some silver
have been taken -out of the mountain
range running through Grimsby. A
couple of mining experts who have
seen the specimens pronounce them
valuabl e.
—Mr. Angus Morrison has received
$2,000 from the Grand Trunk Railway
for injuries received at the Credit Val-
ley accident in Toronto, which happen-
ed some mouths ago. Mr. John Mc-
Nabb receives $450, and Mr. Samuel
Beattie $650.
—Col. Force, who was deputed to
survey the Neebish Rapid, near Sault
Ste. Marie, and Rondea,u Harbor, has
recommended in his report that in order
to make the former channel- perfectly
safe, it be deepened fifteen feet, and
made 300 feet wider. The work is es-
timated.to cost over $30,000.
—At Cobourg, Thursday night of last
week, a stranger attending Court there
entered the Arlington Hotel and called
for a drink. Mr. Herbert Stanton, the
clerk, refused to attend to his wants,
whereupon the stranger drew a revolver
and shot at Mr. Stanton, but fortunate-
ly missed. his victim, and shattered a
plate glass mirror.
—The fastest time on record was
made at a walking match in Brantford
one day last .wcek. The contestants
were named Quirk and Clark; the lat-
ter making 100 yards in 91 seconds.
The fastest hundred yards recorded.
time to date is k seconds, made thirty-
five years ago by George Seward, an
Englishman, on a turnpike road at
Hammersmith. '
-1--T-The parties who broke into Mr.
McLean's store iu Teeswater, a short
time ago, and blew open his safe, are
ideutified as being the same partiesevho
burglarized Secord's store in Lucknow
the following evening. They were ar2
rested in Listowel and brought back to.
Lucknow. At the examination they
proved to be two notorious characters
named McDowell and Whelan, both
,• well known by the city police authori-
ties as daring and desperate men.
They were sent to Walkerton for trial,
where no doubt they will get their just
deserts.
—The fine iren bridge on the Credit
Valley line, over the Grand River at
Galt, is about completed. It is one
of the finest structures of the kind in
the Pravince.
— An old man has been complained
of in one of the Walkerton churches for
annoying the congregation by letting
his cane fall on the floor. Some peo-
ple are very easily disturbed in their de-
votions.
—Mr. C. Gifford, of Oshawa, has
offered to match ten men from the
township of Whitby against a like num-
ber from Clark and Darlington, in a
pigeon shooting match, ten birds each
man, for $50 a side.
—At the Edinburgh cattle show,
held on the 10th inst., a Durham heifer
bred at Guelph, Ontario, was exhibited
by Mr. Beattie,- and took tho first prize
in her class, besides standing well for
the cup offered for the best animal in
the show. She will also be exhibited at
the Carlisle show.
-7The good people of Walkerton are
still in a ferment about their High
School. The trouble now is that the
trustees have engaged to pay the new
High School teacher, Dr. Morrison,
$1,200, instead. ef $1,100, the sum
mentioued in their advertisement for
applicants.
. —Mr. G-eo. S. Wait, of South Dum-
fries, sold to Mr. George C. Clemens
his farm, it being part of lots 3 and 4,
4th concession, South Dumfries, 85
acees, for the snug little sum of $8,000,
or over $94 per acre. The farm is well
under -drained and in the best, of condi-
tion, with good house and barns.
—Mr. Joseph Brown, of Dundas, has
the largest willow ware factory in the
Dominion. Mr. Brown has about forty
acres of land, twelve acres of which
sentenced to two years in the Pro-
vincial Penitentiary for each offence,
the senteuces to run concurrently.
Gibson is respectably connected, and
has previously borne a good character.
—Mr. George E. Murphy, Town
Clerk of Petrone, disappeared'mysteri-
ously last week from Sarnia, and- his,
nephew on Monday received a despatch
from Chicago informing 'him that Mr.
Murphy is there ill, in the care of the
Masons, to whose order he belongs.,
—A man named Daniel Winger, /Ilia
siding in Harwich, fell out of a wagon
and injured his spine to such a degree
that he died a few days afterward. • The
deceased was seated on a barrel in the
wagon, when the horses starting, the
barrel suddenly rolled back and he fell
over the back board. He leaves a wife
and eleven children to mourn their sad
loss.
_
—A by-law was submitted to the
electors of G-uelph on Friday for the
purpose of irocuring $25,000 in addi-
tion to the $ 5,000 previously voted for
waterworks. There was considerable
feeling, owing to the fact that all the,
money previously voted had been spent
without, apparently, a full account be-
ing made public. The by-law was car-
ried by a substantial majority.
—The improvements on. the Midland
Railway are being energetically pushed
forward. That pertion of the line
between Lindsay and Beaverton will be
relaid with the steel. tails lately purchas-
ed by Mr. Cox. Since the rise in the
price of. the 4,000 tons of steel rails
ordered by the President of the road,
cpuld not be purchased now for $20,000
more than the figure agreed upon when
they were ordered,.
—The extraordinary sight of a goose
alive and eating with its head cut off
may be seeneat Watford, in the posses-
sion of Mr. Baker, of the Baker House.
It is fed through the gullet, is able to
walk and takes its food quite naturally
under the circumstances, appears other -
are now under willow crop, aud be sup- wise to feel happy. Physicians think
plies with the raw material all the lead- it may live for an indefinite time. It
ing manufacturers in his line in Ontarica is of the Bramah variety. The circum-
ilacluding the Government workship at tance is very extraordinary, but is
the Brantford Asylum. This factory cruel and unnatural.
4 was established about eight years ego. —That schooner load of nitro-glycer-
-John Ross Robertson, proprietor of ine has been landed at Sandwich. near
the Toronto Telegram, the other night the sulphur springs, and. now the peo-
purchased at Coates' auction rooms
the Masonic diploma of Souter Johnnie,
Burns' friend in Tam O'Shanter, for
ple in that vicinity are frantic to have
it taken away. A petition to the coun-
cil is going the rounds for that purpose.
4178. In the copier of the diploma is A shed has been erected on the banks
fastened a lock of Highland Mary's Of the sulphur springs canal to hold the
hair. The certificate bears the seal of Vessel's cargo, and the latter is large
St. James' Lodge, Ayr, Scotland, and enough to blow a hole hall a mile deep
6th October, 1790. It is looked on as in the ground if it should take a notion
the oldesi. Masonic relic in existence. to go off. Better dump it in the river,
—Some enterprising parties in Ham- and done with it.
ilton are sending out a ship load of —Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd Wilson, of
manufactures to Australia. The cargo Newcastle,passed their Golden Wedding
is to consisl of a number of houses on Sunday, the 30th of November.
packed like shooks and complete from They were born and brought up in
basement to roof, ready to be erected Yorkshire, England, and on the 30th of
the moment they are landed. They Nov., 1829 they were married in East -
can be rented at about $200 apiece. rington Church. In 1832 they emigrat-
They can be shipped at a good profit, ed. to Canada, and settled in the Town -
material and wages being lower in ship of Hope, near the town • of Port
Canada than in Australia. The barque Hope. In 1845, they emoved to the
will also take a number of oarriages and. Township of Clark, and. in 1874 they
organs. retired from the business of farrniug and
— A couple of young fellows from located in -New Castle, where they , now
Crieff took a trip over the Credit Valley I reside. •
Railway to Toronto one day lately. ' —A few days ago a you're man of
On returning they happened to remain Ottawa while at the Russel House door,
in a car that was to be left behind, and imagined he had met a friendjust corn -
their mistake was not discovered until ing out, and. extending his hand greeted
the train had left. The two worthies him with " How do you do Mr. McNeil?'
The gentleman who was accosted, smil-
ed and suggested that there must be a
mistake somewhere. "My name is
Winter, not McNeil," said he. "Well,
hang it." said the other, Give us a
then decided. that rather than wait 24
hours at Streetsville, they would walk
home—a distance of between 20 and 30
miles. This they did, blessing the Credit
'Valley at almost every step.
—On Tuesday night of last week a shake anyhow, my name is Snow."
brakesman named Jones, of Belleville, The appropriateness of the meeting so
fell off a freight car on a train going struck the two gentlemen that they ex -
east, two miles west of the Trenton changed cards and retired for cigars.
station. He was not missed until the —A man named Watson, of Massa -
train arrived at Belleville. Word was chusetts, has become purchaser of the
sent back to Trenton and search made, Shogornoc property in New Brnnswick.
when the remains were found com- The property was purchased with a
pletely cut upearms and legs lying in view of erecting mills for the extraction
different directions. It had been rain- of liquid of hemlock bark, this being
ing and freezing, and the tops of the one, of the very best hemlock locations
cars were covered with glare ice. in New Brunswick. The number of
—The plowmen of Huron I township ares in the property is twelve thou -
lately issued a challenge to he • plow- seal. Mr. Watson is having a -million
men of York, for a match, N hich the feet of sawn logs put into the stream
latter have accepted, onthe following this winter, and has contracted for a
conditions: The match to coesists of 12 million and a half of shingles to be de -
plowmen on each side, the amount to liVered . at Canterbury station. The
be for $2,500, half of which amount price said to have been paid for the
is to be subscribed by ach county. mill and lanais $12,000.
The men of York express heir willing- —The ineuest on the exhumed bodies
ness to either give or alIolv reasonable of the murdered man Brown and his
expenses. Go in, yeom n of Huron daughter, of West Winchester, wasleld
and sustain the repute ion of the on Saturday. The marks on the body
Western peninsula. of the girl were closely examined with
a view to discovering whet er they
were inflicted with an axe or ith the
knife recentlylound in the cel ar. An
inspection of photographs of er eyea,
evealed
objects,
he was
e or by
— The other night in -Sarnia a
stranger, name unknown, was placed in
a cell for prisoners at his own request,
and upon a plea of vagrancy. He was
found dead next morning. - During the taken a few hours after death,
nicht be contrived to upset the pe- the presence of two indistinct
from which it is inferred that
murdered either in the da,yti
troleum lamp, and it is supposed he
was asphyxiated, as there was no venti-
lation to the cell. An inquest was lamplight. No object whate er was
held upon the remains in the morning, visible in the eyes of the oldee
when the jury returned a verdict to the Suspicion still continues to be !directed
effect that deceased did. from want, ex- to the mother of young Brown as his
posure and suffocation the latter being accomplice in the crime, and be has
caused thrqugh want f ventilation in been arrested.
° the prisoners cell. --s,A most heart-rending
case was to
- —Alex. ibson, of Princeton, was be seen at the Police Court, in Port
tried at the Police Court, Brantford, on Hope,, Monday morning last week. A
Thursday, or having in his possession young woman named Mary Troy, alias
a gold chai stolen froin Mr. Miller, of Beatty, was charged with keeping an
Princeton, last October. Mr. ,Miller's improper house on - Protestant
residence a Princeton was entered by When she was arrested, she was in a
thieves on abbath evening in October, most beastly state of intoxication, and
when the f mily were at church. Silver bore races of over indulgence when at
plate, napkin rings, gold , ebain and the ]?elice Court. She said she was
other articles, valued at about $300, 28 years of age, and. it was evident that.
were stolen. No clue to the thieves at one time she was more than ordinari-
could be found until Wednesday, when ly good looking, by her side stood a
Gibson offered- a gold ohain for sale in little boy about five or six years of age,
a jewellery store in ! London. The and very few minutes he would say to
jeweller having had the chain before, -her:
° identified it as Mr. Miller's immediate- more
ly and sent for the police. Before they heav
arrived Gibson cleared out, but was af-
terwards -captured some distance north
, of Brantford. His trial came off at
! Brantford on Monday. He was also
I charged with having stolen an overcoat, Befo
I and was found guilty in both cases and that
"'ISIama;don't diuk whiekey no
I don't like it—I want to go to
n," but the poor abandoned crea-
ture as heedless to the appeals of the
Mail innocent at her side. After hear-
ing the evidence, the Police Magistrate
sente ced her to three months in gaol.
e she was taken away, she said
her friends lived in Belleville -
4
that they were wealthy and respectable,
and that she had not always led an aban-
doned life. It was as piteous a case as
the authorities ever had to deal with.
—Last Friday night Mr. Archibald
McDonald's saw mill, in the second
concession of Elderslie, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $1,200; insured
for a small amount. .How the fire
originated is not known.
—Saturday afternoon a man named
Stevens, who has a job of grading a
section of the Port Dover and Huron
Railway near •Chesley, got badly hurt
by a tree falling on him. Very poor
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
—A. magnificent new Presbyteriau
Church in Brockville, which cost about
$30,000, and which seats 1,000 people,
was the other day dedieated to divine
service. Nearly $1,000 was raised by
collectiou at th.e opening services.
— On two occasions recently, and in
two different churches; the pastors of
Burford had to stop and. reprove the
younger portion of their audience for
misbehavior. This does net sound
well for the youths of Burford.
—On the premises of Mr. Wm. Werry,
Selina, Durham county, Mr. Alexander
McLauchlin, with one of L. D. Sawyer's
machines, threshed 40 bushels and 6
pounds of clover seed in 7 hours and
20 minutes. This is a feat worthy of
I notice.
— While Donald McDougald, of the -
6th concession, Plympton, was boring
for water last week, when at the depth
of 120 feet, 20 feet of which was drilled
into rock, struck gas and water, which
overflowed and. filled ditches so as to
run for two miles.
—Dr. McLellan paid a visit of in-
spection. to Owen Sound High School a
few days ago. When passing through
the yard he the morning, he was rather
startled by a snow -ball striking him on
the head. The culprit got out of it by
declaring the snew-ball was "not in-
tended for him."
—Last Sunday in Penetanguisheiae,
While a number of young people were
put on the bay skating, a young man
named Joseph Gendon and a young
fp,irl named Amelia Coutie, while cross-
ing a weak part of the ice, broke
through, and although a number of
people were with them on the ice, be-
fore they could render them any assis-
tance they were both drowned.
—The annual report submitted at the
last meeting of the Dominion Grange,
shows -that since last year 55 subordin-
ate and four district granges have been
organized, making in all 766 subordin-
ate and. 51 division granges. The
addition to the membership is about
1,500, and the removals by d.eath and
other causes about 1,100. The Order
now numbers about 36,000 members in
good standing.
—One evening lately Mr. Henry Rim -
mel, mason, of Berlin, while blowing
his nose burst a blood vessel on hisfore-
head, when the_ blood immediately gush-
ed forth from the nose, eyes and. ears
with great forceenearly suffocating the
poor man. A medical gentleman was
immediately called in, and after a good
deal of difficulty succeeded in arresting
the flow of blood, and Mr. Kimmel who
, was for a time in4reat danger, is now
recovering.
— Mr. B. Hartoock, of Mariposa;
Victoria County, killled theother day a
calf eight mouths and three weeks old,
weighing when dressed 320 pounds. The
hind -quarters brought $5 per 100 lbs.
and the fore -quarters $4; the ` hide
brought $4; and the head, tallowl
$1.59, making over $20 for the animal.
It has -been fattening caily five weeks
..but of course was always in good con-
dition.
— Mr. Audrew Colvin of Delaware,
Ont., writes to the Paris Transcript,
that for over 40 years he was an
inveterate stammerer. Recently he
placed himself under Professor Suther-
land's treatment at London, and in
one hour was cured aa efiectually as if
he had never been afflicted. And he
has had no trouble since. This is joy-
ful news for stammerers.
—The residence of Mrs. Gunn, Owen
Sound, was entirely destroyed by fire
on Saturday, 8th inst. The fire broke
out about ten O'clock p. m. The bossof
the building and its contents was al-
most complete. Mrs. Gunu has been a
great sufferer, having lost her- husband
and one daughter by death, also having
a case of severe sickness. Her house
was also struck' with lightning. All
these calamities happefted within the
space of three years.
—A young man went to sleep in
Hand's billiard parlor. Petrolia, a few
nights, ago, and another yomig man,
just to have some fun, took a rifle
in the room used. for shooting at a tar-
get, which he supposed was unloaded,
and placed the muzzle of it alongside
the ear of the sleeper, and pulled the
trigger. , The bullet cut a fuerove
through his hair and went through the
top of his hat.
—A terrific explosion, which alarmed
the - whole neighborhood and shook
every building for miles around, oc-
curred. last Friday night on Fox Island,
in the river near Amherstburg. A
large quantity of nitro-glycerine and,
Mica powder for blasting purposes was
stored on the Island, which by some
means exploded. The place where the,
magazine stood is now a hole sixty feet
in diameter and fifteersfeet deep. The
shock was distinctly felt forty miles
distant.
—A young woman named Elizabeth
Wells, daughter of Me. James Wells,
Beet Williams, was married on the 19th
of November last to Mr. Lot Willey. A
few days after marriage she was visited
with a severe attack of neuralgia, in the
head, when Dr. Stevenson, of Strath-
roy; was. called. to her assistance. At
first hepronounced it a simple case, and
said she would in all probability be
around in a few days. But on the 3rd
inst. the doctor was sent for, and pro-
nounced her case rather serious, seeing
that it turned to congestion on the
brain. Another doctor was called in,
but could do nothing for the unfortu-
nate woman. She died on the 5th
inst., a bride of sixteen days. Much
sympathy is felt for the bereaved
friends.
—A most vicious and unaccountable
abduction took place in Toronto on
Wednesday night of last -week.- Mrs.
Deal, Mother of the yeung men who at-
tempted to kidnap Mr. Jaffrey some
• time ago, was walking quietly alone
Jarvis street about seen o'clock in the.
evening, when she was suddenly seized
by two men. After throwing a shawl over
her head, containing chforoform, they
placed her in It baggy where a woman
was seated, and drove her as far BA
Avenue Road, Yorleville. The chloro-
form stupefied her at first, but she re-
covered after driving a few miles, and
by some means escaped out -of the hands
of her captors on Avenue Road. She
had several struggles before getting free,
during which her clothes were com-
pletely torn off. She finally got clear
and ran into the porch of tlae residence
of Mr. John Macdonald, ex -M. P., and.
that gentleman ordered.•his coachman
to drive her home. Mrs. Deal was not
indecently assaulted, nor was she rob-
bed, and no explanation can be given of
the abduction. She has since been
confined to bed and' is suffering from
nervous prostration. The matter has
been placed in the hands of detectives:
—The record of Mr. George Hum-
phreys, wagon -maker, at Lotus, in
Manvers township, is so remarkable a
one that it deserves the fullest publicity.
Mr. Humphreys was born in Cavan,
Ireland, just 52 years ago and his wife
was born m the towns -14 of Cavan,
Canada, about the same year. Since
he was twenty years of age be has been
married, and a member of L. 0. L. No.
79. He turns the scales at 180 pounds
and his better and heavier half at 200.
He has earned. $5 per day, in Fares
Fonudry, -wooding plows, and his
quickest feat in this direction was
wooding a plow in -40 minutes. Ten
years since he comp!etely wooded a
threshing machine itt ten days, and
out of the rough wood, without the
readymade hubs and spokes of the
present day, he turned out a complete
set of wagon wheels in 20 hours. But
the most startling portion of his and.
his wife's record is yet to come. They
bave been married just 32 years, and
are the parents of 19 children, 16 of
whom are now living. There have been
as he himself expresses it, "four pairs
itt the lot." The youngest is five years
of age, so that they have all been born
to their parents in 27 years, This
prolific and happy couple, have 29 grand
children, and are now only 52 years of
ace, and are apparently in the best of
robust health.
Perth Items.
The DeceMber Fair at Listowel was
one of the most successful of the season.
—The town of Listowel is trying
the experiment of a free Saturday
market.
—One firm of wheat buyers in E3t.
Marys, Messrs. Carter •ct Son, have
been buying from 2,000 to 3,000 bushels
a day.
—The church at Avonton has lately
*been re -roofed and. lathed and plastered.
anew, also the beating apparatus
much improved.
—Mr. James Trove, M. P., has sea
the Poole farm Morning ton township,
to Mr. George Shearer, of Musselburgh,
for the sum of $5,800.
—The fashionable parlor concert
style of raising money for church pur-
pbses has been adopted by the ladies of
Knox Chetah, Mitchell.
—Mr. john Skinner, of Mitchell, has
rented his' green house and lands
attached. to Messrs. Gowans & Jackson.
The former is an experienced florist.'
—Mr. L. Cruttendonrwho has occu-
pied the position of town- clerk in St.
Marys for the past seventeen years, is
about to resign on account of olcl age.
—Mitchell has a set of young vaga-
bonds roving the streets, whose iaaorals
would be greatly improved. by a. term of
years in the Penetaugnishene-Reforma-
tory.
—Mr. W. G. Hay, of Listqwelesold,
the other day, a farm of 100acres, in
the township of Howick, to Mr. John
Wringler, of Wallace, for the sum of
$3,000.
—Mr. Robert Large, jr.'just now on
a visit to his friends at Poole, comes
from the Black Mlle Dakota, and
speaks highly of that region as a mining
country.
=Wife beating has become the favor-
ite amusement of a certain class in
Stratford. This kind of sport ought al-
ways to be followed up by the "cat -o" -
nine -tails."
—On account of the number of sheep
worried. recently, the Logan Council
have decided to put a tax of three °dol-
lars for each dog more than one kept by
,every farmer or householder.
—Mr. B. Sarvis has been engaged.
by the Listowel Public School to teach
vocal music in the schools for the year
1880, at a salary of $20O; two days in
each week to be devoted to his pupils.
—That fire -scourged hamlet, Mill-
bank, has again suffered from the de-
vouring element. This time the Rob
iRoy Hotel, stables and shed, have been
;consumed, and. Mr. Wm. Mitchell; the
'proprietor, is the loser,by some la undreds
of dollars.
—Two little boys, sons of Mr. Pierce,
of Mitchell, had a narrow escape from
danger a. few days ago. They were
seated in a wagon, when the horses be-
ing untied started off, running furiously
down the street. Fortunately the ani-
mals were stopped before any accident
happened.
—Mr. Edward Stiles, of Mitchell, has
returned from his trip to the North-
west, and speaks itt high tenme of
the climate and fertility of the soil in:
that part of the Dominion. He has
made sales of a large number of wagous
and implements through Manitoba and
the Northwest.