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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-10-07, Page 2DRY COOK not , es, We Esaaa seonse se Or yea Wasst aua ess his Counts-. eeb s of -otir Gael 11 the fles of ev? a LACK ALL ESI, st and be apest and best est and best F-gsin Cal:sada. -Pest and beet Canada. apest and best Luada. apest and hest :anada. apest and. best Pest and best pest and best pest and beak, pest and best t of Lading . so makes _Department ext week. C MPLETE. totally con - its, consisting ehels of bars Inery, Eiteata preparing the market. The eshich is fully Lone time the if everything Trunk rail- , company of in' Stratford Too much hem for their the other a crowd of les by, whom could scarce- ilst women m by, pail in he neighbor- thro-e- gentle - w days ago radoc, near se a case of Id not have this land of family con- nd four or, ted a roofed a, as being better than time been t these hed glass. They t one of the d-sh.t or ten tark naked, e girls had d the worId One of the rst case of cl he could e ha,c1 he not shocked at unfortunate ke no effort vided for or has just ler, under which will ie absolute itherto had their chit - aa refused. children, at the father , - that the see them what has dges have in order, as s expressly a statute as IL Bat s that law .nistered anship was within rad there - ons of the , therefore, show that intrusted no longer arse. _ .1414 • 101 • 14-4 411A 1 44. 114,..4.4, 4 WY; jiltin i14 FOURTEENTH YEAR. WECOLE NUMBER, 722. IT ISA FACT THAT YOU WILL SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR DRY GOODS, LADIES' MANTLES, READY-MADE CLOTHING OVERCOATS, _ ETC., ETC., —FROM— SIVII'T1-3c -NATS'T W. CAMPBELL., CLOTHIER, SEAFORTH, Has Just apened up a FINE LOT OF SUITINGS 'Embracing Canadian, Scotch and THE FAMOUS BLARNEY TWEEDS. THE HAT DEPARTMENT IS VERY COMPLETE. -Gen& White Regatta Shirts— Perfect Fits. \ 0A..T.J1_4 1!6_1=tr...-Y. 1 ) W. CAMPBELL. Campbell's, Block No. 1. 1•14 SEAFORTH MARBLE WORKS. MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, TABLE TOPS, And work of all kinds executed in the best style of the art, and cannot be surpassed in Western On- tario, The community at large will bear in mind that we do not make a practice of keeping agents to run the Country at the buyers' expense. We will at any time, when requested, give our price on any Monument or Headstone in the burying groundi. We use the best grades of marble, buy- ing (Urea from the quarries. Shop 6n Main Street, near the station. A call respectfully solicited. '721-18 MESSETT. THE HARLOCK SAW MILL. R. K. KNOX, Of the Mirka SILIV MiUe, OU the 12th Concession uf Hullett, has completely overhauled and re- htted Lis Saw Mili, and now has it in the very best of working order, and is prepared to purchase nuroly.:r GOOD SAW LOGS, For -which he will pay the Highest Market Price iu Cash. ousToM SAWING done as usual. ROGA.TC ELM LUMBER. He has also on hand a considerable stock of Rock Elm, three inches thick and ss feet long, suitable for bridges, which he will dispose of °hut)). 721x4 R. H. KNOX. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1881. Sigh Schools and. Collegiate Institutes. To the Editor of the Huron Expositor. Dian Stn,—Having noticed the con- troversy in your paper on this 'subject, each writer venting forth in a loud de- clamatory attack, so permit'me through the columns of your paper to consider the above question in regard to the work done in both institutions, the de- fects in our present system, and to criticize the arbitrary acts of our educa- tional officials. A. great mistake was made when Collegiate Institutes were first estab- lished, but the grievous errcr was not then so perceptible as afterwards. At tlais period institutions were fast spring- ing up, and all means were taken to extend our educational system. It was thought expedient to give an extra grant of $750 to certain schools, em- ploying four masters and having an average attendance of sixty tnale classi- cal students. If the department had been prudent, all might have been well, but a serious crime was soon to be perpetrated. The subject of education was 'dragged into the arena of party discussion. TO Grammar Fichools in the cities and large towns were invested with the new title, and the extra, grant was greedily laid hold of in order to be appropriated. to the founding of scholar- ships and Other inducements to entice students from their homes, thus taking the patronage away from the local High Schwas ; but this swindling did not stop here. Each school issued cir- culars and, announcements containing glowing aedounts of their schools,and the manifold advantages they are enabled to give. But how vain are all delusive hopes! In those institutions boys were crowded. into Latin to satisfy the vault- ing ambition of the directors in their - thirsty geed of gain. Hamilton went further and -issued a magazine, which was used as an advertising medium, and contained notices of valuable scholarships and other incentives,which had. the means of alluring the best students from other schools; but the doings of the Principal, in regard. to the non-payment of prizes, might have learned the Principals of other schools that delusion cannot be exercised in the when the secorid edition appeared, in - educational sphere. deed it was much required, as the first At first the superiority of Collegiate was very inaccurate, what must have Institutes seemed manifest, but when been the opinious of parties who had the present intermediate examination invested in the firsts The second was was instituted, it was 4Served that the to contain fifty addtion al pages on higher local High Schools did' .better wore— Algebra, and also answers to the com- and why? Because in the smaller plete edition, and was to be sold the schools the greater part of the time is" _same as the first, and we also notice devoted to intermediate work, whereas that an abridged edition has been is - in the larger institutitms a premium is sued for the use of Intermediate candi- placed upon University work, andin. i dates. Thus all means were taken to se- termediate candidatei are almost 'neg• cure the golden bait, and the greedy lected. A better illustration may be and monopolizing publishers were hand - given by • comparing, for instance, St. somely enriched. - Catharines Collegiate Institute and Lastly, let us hope, that ere long the Strathroy High School. The former subject 'Of Education will be lifted out of airing its gorgeous title, heralding forth the slough of party feeling and be in birculars its superior specialities, chronicled as' -one of the lasting and possessing a large staff of teachers, most gloriou'S destinies of our noble holding the greatest and most brilliant Province. We patiently wait to see in testimonials, and carrying long and the future, all placed ou an equal foot - flowing appendages to their names, ing, that less acrimony and spleen be holding out inducements in the shape used as machines of the grossest slan- of scholarships, (Ix. But what a tale the results of the last intermediate examination unfolds to the people of seism endeavor to exhibit their talents, to the delight and criticism of the peo- ple in general. When the Messrs. Gage, of .Toronto, assumed oontrol of the ,Canada School Jeurnal, and no sooner was it elevated, as the banner of education than a host of High School teachers flocked around it, -and soon was marshalled a brilliant phalanx of truly infatuated men. Then from their stronghold in Toronto, whence they issued forth anew, in ar- ticles defamatory to other men, soon led another band to cluster together, and with their organ, the Canada Educational Monthly, waged an equal and derisive warfare. What a, blemish those men have brought upou the teaching profesaion, by making -educa- tion a subject for petty strife, like Borne low question of party politics. Indeed, the members of the Central Committee and their friends are very kind, but show their generosity at the expense of the public. They think that the managing and directing of the school system is not enough, but in order to reap another rich fortune by issuing text books, giving the copywright to one individual publish- ing house, thus creating a vast monop- oly. But what else could be expected? When Dr. Sangster issued his series of school -books, the present men of text- book fame raised a cry that the former books were useless, and well were their cries answered. They got themselves ensconced in prosperous positions and. sat there exalted, dictating to the teachers of Ontario a series of rules and regulations indicative of tyranny and severity. Thus Dr. McLellan, anxious to reap part of the golden harvest, is- sued aeries of mathematical works, but hiSAlgebra is the worst exhibition of parsiniony and greed of gain. When it first appeared, the price was fixed at $1.25, but in a few months, a key ap- peared for which $1.50 was demanded, thus the books really cost $2.75, and hundreds—yes thousands invested, as the work was thought to be one of ex- cellent value, it having recommenda- tions from the Press of Canada, the United States and England. But what a crime was soon to be perpetrated der. We hope that the day is not far distant when a general publisher's license will be granted._ and. all copy - Ontario! That noble band that rights be made univerSal, all monopolies went from Huron, intent on high de- properly belonging to feudal times, and signs, brought back the brilliant trophy and renown of having passed only two sickly intermediates. It suffices to say that out of 140 who wrote, only fifty passed. This must surely be a glorious item for St. Catharines to chronicle in its honor record. The latter school passed 18 out of 21. This is surely sufficient proof of the advantages of a small school having a small class. But the endowment of Collegiate In- stitutes was not enough; an extra grant was appropriated to Upper Canada College, an institution which is gener- ally conceded on all hands to have outlived its mission. At the last ses- sion of the Local Legislature, the Min- ister of Education, foreseeing the gath- ering storm, became alarmed for his po- sition, at length came down handsome- ly, and in an interesting speech, but very uninteresting to his hearers, con- sented to make some reforms. Princi- pal Cockburn also became alarmed, and tendered his 'resignation; then there were some hopes of the old fabric going by the board, but how humorously it must have sounda in the ears of its opponents When a new Principal was appointed in the person of Mr. Buchan, late High School Inspector. Next let us notice the unexemplary conduct of the High School mas- ters and the members of the famed Central Committee towards the Public School teachers. When the study of English authors was added to the curriculum, the High. School began to prepare annolated edi- tions of the English classics. Then the section became divided, and shortly we bad rival sets of notes. A few Words in regard to the character of these notes might be appropriate here. Some notes are too long, and others fragmentary ; all passages that present any difficulty or require any extra re- search on the part of the avaricious revived to satisfy the avarice of a chosen few, be swept away as a last relic of barbarism; that the names of our present obnoxious central committee may fade from our view, and their places supplied by men of honor, integ- rity and worth; that the days of Col- legiate Institutes are o'er, and the grant be taken from them and divided amongst the other High Schools. Let it be the desire of all, that Seaforth school continue to do as it has done in the past. We do not intend this communica- tion as a reply to Collegiate Institute or High School, but as a general review of our educational system. I remain yours, Mr. Editor, very truly, A FORMER STUDENT OF SEAFORTH HIGH SCHOOL. • Canada. Typhoid fever is prevalent among sailors in port at Quebec. —The Princess Louise is at present at Balmoral, paying her farewell visit to the Queen before departing for Canada. —Messrs. A,. W. Ogilvie & Co., of Montreal, last week received the first bill of lading for a carload of wheat by the Canadian Pacific Railway. —There has been no frost during the past month, a peculiarity about the month of September, 1881, which will long be remembered. —Geoige Stephen, President of the Canada Pacific Railway, is building a mansion at Montreal, the estimated cost being 5100,000. —Among the pensisitiers for Ottawa district paid last Saturday was Private George McKenzie, a .Waterloo vetera,n, who is DOW in his 91st -year. —There are 446 inmates in the luna- tic asylum and 664 convicts in the peni- tentiery'at Kingston. Of the latter 34 are women. compiler were allowed to go by. Other --`11.1e sixty-third anniversary of the and simpler passages furnished ample Metropolitan Church Sunday School in fruit for the exhibition of what they Toronto was celebrated last Monday consider brilliant attainments, and night, by a large gethering in the their criticisms, quite familiar to the church. students, couched in high -wing —The earuiugs of the St. Paul, Min - language, with masterly displays of neapolis and Manitoba Railway for the rhetoric, carry us back into a maze of third week of September were $112,900, Aryan etymology, involving both them- showing an increase of $42,800 oVer the selves and. students in a labyrinth or. confusion of ideas which will remain OrDiDOIIS and dark. In fact they tell us what we do know and ask us what they do not kneed All along we have an educational pre- judice evinced by certain members of the High School section through the columns of their respective journals. What a disgrace, that parties purport- ing to be learned men indulging in the same period last year. Kingston despatch states that the 'Canadian Pacific Syndicate :has contracted for all the locomotives that the Kingston Locomotive Works can build before the 1st of May next. —The proprietors of the planing mill at Carlton Place, in the county of Lan- ark, have received an order from Aus- tralia for 300,000 feet of planed lumber, the largest they have ever received at vilest slanders and the bitterest Bar- one time. They have for the past two 44,1' (WITH SUPPLEMENT.) weeks been running the mill night and detectives. The Mayor struggled man - day at full speed. As rapidly as the fully for the official chain, which would work is finished it is shipped, put on have been quite a prize, as it is massive the cars and transferred to barges at gold. - Brockville for Quebec, and is taken to —The ceremony of laying the corner Australia by an ocean vessel. stone of the new building in course of —There were 661 letters posted at erection on St. Mary street, Toronto, the Winnipeg post office one night be- for the' use of the Infant's Home; was tween the hours of eight and eleven— performed on Saturday afternoon by and it was only an average night says Lady Howland, in presence of a large the Winnipeg Times. number of the citizens of Toronto. The —The wife of Rev. Donald Tait, of total cost of the building when com- Berlin, died suddenly at Drummond- pleted will be between $18,000 and ville on Tuesday of last week. The $19,000. deceased lady was only daughter of —A. Fair's cigar manufactory, in Rev. Mr. Wallace, of WestEnd Presby- Brantford, and an unoccupied two- terian Church, Torouto. story frame building attached, were —Two burglars tried to enter the completely destroyed by fire a residence of Sir Leonard Tilley, in few days ago. The buildings Ottawa, on Thursday night of last were owned by Mr. Holmes, week. Miss Tilley telephoned for the living near Seaforth. The loss on the police, who disarranged the programme buildinge is about $1,000; insured for of the burglars. $500. A. Fair lost his stock and 100,- -It is said that Major-General Jar- 000 cigars; insured for $6,000. vis, of the Bitish Army, will be success —It is understood that action will be sor to Major-General Luard as com- at once taken to remove some forty mander of the volunteer force of Cana- families of Indians from Oka to Cock - da. General Jarvis is of a well-known burn Island, that number having con - Toronto family. sented to go. Some fifty Protestant —An interesting question is likely to families of Indians prefer to remain, it come up before the Toronto St. George's is said, while the Catholic portion, re - Society shortly, Which involves the presenting more than one-half the en - right of a benevolent associatiop- -to sit tire settlement, are quite content that in judgment on the political opinion of the Seminary shall have possession. one of its members. —The following is a statement of the —There is great distress in parts of value of goods exported from the Do - Anticosti and Labrador. Great distress minion of Canada, exclusive of British prevails where the fishing missed, Columbia, during the month of July: owing to the want of bait. There is Produce of the mine, $221,616 ; produce much sickness, low fevers, etc., owing of the fisheries, $870,674; produce of to want of proper nourishment. the forest, 3,981,054;0animals and English capitalist has written their produce, $2,623,242; agricultural Mr. W. a. Fraser, Dominion appraiser, products, $946,319; manufactures, at Ottawa, in regard to the starting of $423,484; miscellaneous articles, $34,- a cotton factory in Canada. He pro- 828; total, $9,101,217. poses to invest $75,000 in case a suitable —Judge Papineau, of Montreal, has site for a factory can be secered. decided for the Church, in Gibbs v. —Mr. David. McRae, of Guelph, has Trinity Church, that church organs are been elected President of the Ontario immoveable property, and caanot be Mechanics' Institute Association in [seized. It is not a little singular that place of Mr. James Young, M. P. P., of while English Church men in Montreal Galt, who resigned after occupying the are among the richest citizens, Trinity position for 12 years. Church hap been figuring in the law --Mr. Kennedy, Scottish vocalist, ar- courts for debt for several years past. rived in Montreal last week with the This is disuraceful, and. says little in - remnant of his family, who were left deed for either the piety or liberality of him after the Nice Theatre tragedy. those same rich men. He looks very much aged since his last —,Ex -Alderman John Smith, an old visit. and wealthy resident of the city of To- -Wallace Ross has accepted Han- ronto was instantly killed last week by lan's challenge. The amount is 31,000 being run over by a street car. Both a side, this being all the Ross party seem disposed to risk. The race will be rowed at Toronto on the 13th No- vember. Hanlan has already gone into training. —Mr. Edwin Burnell, a few miles north of Nelsonville, sowed two bushels and four pounds of white Fife wheat lest spring, and from this he threshed, the other' day, no less than sixty-eight nesday, September 21st, $47.54; Thurs- bushels of clean wheat. Who can beat day, September 22nd, $307.03; Friday, this? September 23rd, $637.30; Saturday, —London Advertiser: It is doubt- September 24th, $711.13; Monday, Sep- ful if Canada is being improved be the tember 26th, $1,106.88; Tuesday, Sep - importation of street arabs from Euro- tember 27th, $4,910.00 ; Wednesday, —The Governor-General has crossed peen cities. And it is certain that September 28th, $6,296.70 ; Thursday, the Great Northwestern plains and has there are hundreds and thousands of September 29th, $2,117.33. such in Canadian cities to whom we —Last Saturday afternoon as -poor might better devote our attention. and friendless young German- law —The following is the average scale student who lad sought in vain for of wages being paid this season in the employment, became disheartened, and Ottawa lumber districts: Hewers, $40 in a moment acting on what appeared upon two large camps of -Indian% the to $50; liners, $30 to $35; scor- to be a sudden resolve, while walking one Blackfeet, the other Satces, and era, $26 to $30 ; log men, $18 to on the Great Western railway track the Governor-G-eneral had a conference $24; general hands, $15 to $20 ; cooks, near London, threw himself directly in with them, after which they went $30 to $35 • foremen, $45 to $60. • front of the train and the next moment through some military movements. —The assessment of Toronto for 1882 has just been completed, showing a gross total of $56,296,089, or an in- crease of $2,136,436 over the assessment for 1881. The inorease is gratifying, and is principally due to new buildings and the opening of new streets. —Robert Ince, son of Mr. Ince, of the custom department, Ottawa, killed a mad bull last Friday. The animal iittacked him in a field, when the lad picked up a heavy stone and struck him on the head, killing him almost instantly. —The Wanzer Sewing Machine Com- pany in Montreal have been notified that Mr. Wanzer has received royal recognition from forty of the principal crowned heads of the earth for im- provements on the silent Wanzer "C" and "F." The medals are a rare sight. —About ten days ago a number of registered letters were stolen either on the Hamilton and Northwestern Rail- way or in the Hamilton post office. The number of letters missed is about twenty. Detectives are working up the case. —The stables and outbuildings of the Atlantic House hotel at Ingersoll were destroyed by fire on Friday. The hotel had a very narrow escape. The fire was caused by two drunken teen smoking in the barn. The hostler had his head and. arms seriously burned in rescuing some horses. —Mrs. Kennedy, of Alton, who, a short time ago was supposed to have perished in the Michigan fire, returned on Mouday last. She had a very nar- row escape. Her clothes on her person was burned as well as the shoes on her feet. She says the scene Baffles de- scription, —The High and Low Church trouble has developed in the All Saints Church, Toronto, of which Rev. Arthnr Bald- win is minister, and neither party will furnish funds to pay 0806 interest ac- count due. Last Sunday there were 500 five cent pieces in the offertory plate. • —At the ;examination for -junior ma- triculation al Toronto University last week, two young ladies were candi- dates. One only passed, and she is Miss Margaret Nelson Brown, eldest daughter of the late George Brown. Her papers were exceptionally good, especially in French and German. —Major Be.audry, of Montreal, while attending the Garfield funeral was pounced upon by pickpockets while in the procession and his watch and chain stolen from him. His gold chain of office was also pounced upon, when a struggle ensued, in which several of the pickpockets were roughly handled by McLEAN EROS., Publis $1.50 a Year, in Adv e. pet was getting alm.g in its new quer- had completely broken there down. ters, but instead of having the pleasure They had no expectation that their of seeing its familiar face, the owner comrade would die so suddenly, al - was informed that "the missing link" though he had been illsome days. Ono was on exhibition in the country. The of the three survivors looked. as if he indignant owner of Jacko threatens an action for the degradation to which his ringtailed pet has been subjected' by being sent off on a begging trip. —A couple of dealers representing themselves to be from the oity of Ham- ilton,' called upon a farmer in the coun- ty of Wentworth a few days .ago and, purchased a quantity of wool. They gave the farmer a $50 bill, and he gave,thern the wool and some !$20 in change. Nothing more was theught of the matter until some days afterwards, when the farmer presented the bill at a bank in - Toronto, when it was pro- nounced to be bogus. Nothing has since been heard of the dealers. —The Gilchrist scholarship examina- tion has resulted in the following.can- didates passing in the order named: Honors division—Huston, Wm. Henry, University College, Toronto, Murray, Howard, Dalhouise College; , Halifax ; -Ross, George, University Con-ege, To- ronto. Second Division — Harrison, Johns University of New Brunswick. It will thus be seen that Mr. Huston, of Pickering, is entitled to the scholar- ship, but being above the prescribed age Mr. Murray has been awarded the prize. —A singular fatality has attended the family of Mr. John Rutherford, of Waterloo. A little over a year ago, within a few days, three of his children died. of scarlet fever; this spring he lost a child through accidental scalding, and on Tuesday last his little boy, aged somewhat over three years, succumbed to a Severe attack of dysentery, making five deaths in a little over a year. This is a most saddening record, and pro- vokes the warmest sympathy. s —On Tuesday,: Mrs. Tobin, wife of pate& for such a valuable collection. Richard Tobin, was gored by a bull, at This is attributed to the inexperience St. -Francis, about three miles from St. of the majority of Canadians with such John, Brunswick. She was out milk- expensive goods, for amongst the prin.- jug when the furious animal attacked cipal buyers were ladies and gentlemen. her, and no assistance was at hand. from New York and Boston, who made She was injured so that her intestines their selections with the facts before _ protruded, and in that condition she them that in addition to having paid dragged herself to the house. Medical the Canadian duty, the goods had aid was soon at hand, but she died the further to bear the enormous rate of 45 following day. She had a large fam- per - cent. on being taken into the ily of children but lost them all by States. The largest Turkey carpet, diphtheria last winter. which took the first prize at the Exhi- could hardly reach Quebec. —A rather peculiar case. was tried at the Kingston assizes this week. It is that of Potter vs. Gunn et at. In July, 1880, a Miss Potter, of Belleville, was proceeding to join a party of friends bound. down the river on a tour per steamer Alexandria. The night was pitch dark and on the wharf a cab caused the young wotnan to step to one side. Not being acquainted with the locality she made a misstep and fell into the water, and before.she could be rescued was drowned. Her mother sued for $15,000 damages, success being mainly dependent upon the establish- ment of the fact that the wharf was sot sufficiently lighted. A veridict was rendered plaintiff of 4500 and costs. —The passenger train frota Hamilton to Toronto had a very narrow escape from d.estruction about seven o'elock on. Saturday night. After Passing the Humber Bridge the train was running at forty tunes an hour OD a down grade when it struck and killed two cows, one of which was thrown into the ditch, while the other went under the loco- motive. The cow -catcher was smashed. off, and the brakes thrown up the track. The train was stopped, veld as a heavy freight train was following, a man was sent back with a lantern to warn it. He did so, and it was only stopped 150 yards from the disabled train, which was full of passeisgere. Hon. Mr. Langevin was on the last car. —The largest carpet ,sals; ever held. in Canadees the amount being over $7,000, climate -if in Montreal the other day. The sale of Oriental. carpets, rugs, &c., by M. Hicks & Co., did not go off with the spirit that was antici- his legs were broken and he received —A son of Mr. Francis Edwards, of bition, goes with others to Boston. other painful injuries. The night was London township, met with a bad ac - —Mr: Andrew Robertson, president dark, and he was walking along the cident on Friday morning last. He of the Montreal Harbor Board, who ac - track, when he was overtaken by the was driving a harrow, to which were companied Sir Charles Tupper to Brit - car, knocked down and run over with attached a team of spirited horses. Tbe ish Columbia as a delegate en behalf of Brit - the above result. flies, were very troublesome, especially the Canadian Pacific Railway Com- -The correct figures of the receipts to ate of them—a young colt—and the palsy, has returned to Montreal. It is of cash at the turnstiles for the Pro- animal kicked over the traces ee The understood that he brings proposals to vincial Exhibition are as follows : Wed- harrow by some means became' over understood company for the building of the line turned and both the young man and from Victoria to Nanaimo, and. when the horse became entangled in the the diffictilties about the land belt in sharp teeth. The man did not receive the Pacific Province are settled be- au serious injury, but it is thought the tween the Local and Dominion Gov - colt will not recover. ernments, the Company will build the line. Mr. Robertson thinks that on the Pacific Railway being carried had experience that he will not soon through, British. Columbia will receive forget. He saw a ,herd of bison—er_ a large increase of population. He roneously called buffalo—and his party passed through two or three hundred went out in hunt of them. They killed miles of the Thompson Valley, where two fine bulls. They likewise came the Pacifie Railway will run, and says it is well adapted for settlement. —Custom duties eltintig the past two islontns have yielded much more this year than last, both in. the United States and Canada. The increase has been chiefly upon the fall imports of dry goods. This will probably further stimulate home production as well as —The Galt Reporter says ihe tur- further importation next year, and nips in that section have been ttacked by the cabbage worm, and that in Berne fields the tops are partly eaten off, while thousands of the small white butterfly which breed the worms are hovering over the fields. Whatever may be the cause, the pests appear to be more numerous this year than ever before; and should the worms take to ternips as readily as they have to cab- bage it will give our farmers another enemy to contend, with that we are afraid will prove a difficult one to over- come. —Henry Gavan, who was so serious- ly hurt by being trampled upon at the boiler exploeion in connection with- the steam threshing rnaclaine accident near Belleville, is in a. most critical condi- tion. He is only conscious at rare in- tervals, and his physicians have but slight hope of his recovery. Whilst second or third person he spoke to was the face of the little girl Helen Cald- s, lady from Hamilton, Who was on her well, who was severely scalded, was way home from Montreal. Her eyes being dressed, a large button was exs were wet as if from weeping, and she tracted from a cut near the right ear. seemed to be very ranch troubled about It is supposed that it was torn off the something. The question "Did _ you trousers of either.Malcolm or Lloyd and lose any money, madame?" made her driven into her face at the time of the face brighten up instantly, and she explosioneagerly answered. that she had. The _mevi aMieeAthdoadmi4, an aged man and an purse, money and ring were described, preacher, was sen- after which they were handed, over to exo _ia tenced to fifteen days imprisonment at their proper owner. The lady, who is the Fronteuac assizes for having Paris now on her way rejoicing, did not de- sire her name to be published, so that a mntilated corpse rolled down the lit-' The party had the good fortune to be tle embankment — Hugo Schliefer's ' overtaken by a storm on one of the troubles in this world were ended. table lands, in all its grandeur and. —The Rev. J. H. Rabinsom of Lon- don, sold. his fine set of astronomical and philosophical instruments to the Johns University of Baltimore, Mary- land. The price received was $685. A former owner paid nearly $1,500 for the instruments. They were the first set in Canada, and it is not to the credit of our leading educational establishments that they were allowed to go to the States. —An arrangement has been made by which registered mails can be trans- ferred in sealed bags from the principal American postal centres to the princi- pal Canadian ones, thus saving much time on the transmission of this class of matter. It will also doubtless great- ly increase the amount of it, as there has been in Canada at least an old superstition that to register a letter going to the United States was the surest way to lose it beyond all trace. —The other day an old man fishing in the Grand River at Galt caught a large eel. He took it for a snake, and, no amount of persuasion could make him believe otherwise. "Good to eat, do you say," he jerked out; "man, I'd as soon eat my grandmother. Take it off and you're welcome tee it," and he Went and sat down on a stone as far as he could get from the "snake," while a fellow sportsmen took the prize - off the hook and. walked off with it. —About 11 o'clock last Friday night a rush of gas from the oil well being sunk on Lambe's farm by the Sarnia Association took fire from the torch burning some twenty feet off, and has been blazing furiously ever since. It shoots up a steady column of flame to a height of thirty-five or forty feet, and at regular intervals of fifteen minutes a stream of water gushes forth, but without quenching or diminishing the burning gas. —The late Andrew T. McCord, of Toronto, bequeathed the following sums to certain religious and charitable institutions: To the Upper Canada Bible and the Upper Canada Tract for Quebec. They all appeared to be Societies, the Home for incurables, and unwell, one especially so, but as they towel named William Olimie and Wil - the House of Industry, $50 each; to the moved about no notice was taken of ; liana Lochhead, have succeeded in car - Grand Ligne Mission of Quebec, the them - by the railway offieials on the ; rying off the two highest scholarships Baptist Home Mission Society of On train until reaching a small station at the entrance examination at ,McGill tario, the Baptist Foreign Mission So- near Cobourg, when the sickest man of ; College, Montreal. They competed. ciety of Ontario, and the Superannu- the party was found to be dead. On against four hundred students, and dis- ated Baptist Ministers' Fund of Ontario reasthing Bonaventure depot a coffin tamed all competitors, Mr. W. Climie $100 eachwas procured and the body placed. in , taking first prize and W. Lochhead —Some time ago a gentleman resid- it. The men state that they were re- ; second. The prizes are of equal value ing at Galt lent a monkey to the Revturning from the swamps of Pennsyl- of $205 each, $125 being payable, in Mr. Stinson to place for a time in the 1 vania, where they had been employed cash, the remainder being a college Toronto Zoo. Being in the city a few i on a ditching contract, and that the I allowance for tuition and other ex - days ago he called to see how his little malarious atmosphere and bad water penses. fury. bring on a crisis sooner or later. One comfort in view of such a misfortime is the fact that inuch more business than formerly is now done on. a cash or short time basis. Them is probably no danger from over -importation this year, as the harvest has turned out re- markably good, but as goods are now ordered so early that no estimate of the coming harvest can be made, there MII8t always be risk from miscalcula- tion on this score. —One night lately Mr. O'Brien, pro- prietor, of the Windsor Hotel at Eings- ton, picked a small silk purse of the floor. On opening it, it was found to contain no less than two $50 bills, a $5 piece, a valuable ring, and some small change. The finder retained the purse and the contents till the morning, when he set to work to find the owner. The green exposed on his farm and. acces- sible to cattle. The prisoner who her husband, a vsealthy Hamilton mer - resides in the township of Oso, is 50 chant, would not learn of her careless - poor that he could not fee a counsel, ness. but a generous minded lawyer con- s' sented to defend him. The intentions —Mr. A. Eby, of Sebringville, in a of the man were not clear, but there letter to the Beaeon roisamends that, was no doubt of the poison being ex- in a dry season "eh as the one just ex- posed as alleged, au -offence the gravity perienced, farmers instead of driving of which farmers - generally did not their cattle long distances to drink, per - understand. The Judge was, under haps at stagnant pools, should. club to - the circumstances, lenient in his pun. ! gether and sink a deep well in some ishment. • convenient location, say a cross -road, —Last Friday four men took passage at Sarnia by the Grand Trunk Railway and provide it with a wind -power. This suggestion is- well worth considering. —Two young men belonging to Lis-