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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-12-23, Page 9„ 1 - — - • " ' !"' 'V? • FIFTFIENTR YEAR. NUMBER, 734 •., _ SEAFOR1TH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30,1881. Lannon e Attractions —IN— READY—MAO OVERCOATS, ULSTERS ANI ULSTERETTS, AT Wi CAMPBELL'S GREAT CLOTHING HOUSE, f EAFORTH. The Public ; e particularly invited to look at This Stock B�jre Buying Elsewhere_ These are ll warranted to give satis- faction, andt they are sold at olose figures. The Stock Ji, as usual, well assorted in all the ancy Suitings for nobby suits. A large stook of FUR CAPS, the newest tii1ng out, in PERSIA LAMB, SEAL, &C. Gloves of 411 kinds and: Winter Flan- nels in endle s variety. .vrM. CAMPBELL. SMI Have begin H & VVEST their Closing Sale. This effords the Public one of tlae best op- portunities securing Goods, Rea Clothing, at ey have ever had for upply of General Dry y -made Overcoats and argely reduced prices. SIVIrTI-1 —C.ATSTI 1 TEA HERE WANTED. TEACHER WANTED—Male or renao.le, ho I ling -a- a third cla certificate for School Se ction Dirties to commence January 1, us will close on the 15th of JOHN DUNN, Secretary, 730 No. I, Stanley. 1882. Applicati December, 188f Blake P 0. A SSISTAN T EACI11R—For school section No, 10, 11 for 1882 Appliea ions with testimonials and salary received by the under- , signed. EGET< P., TERS9?7, Secretary, Hensall 732-3 I MPORTAN T N 0 TICE S TOCK FOR SALE—The undersigned has two heifer calves sired by "Worm .xford," and two y&rliiig hei-ers sired by "Young Earl of Goedness," Le on reasonable terms . hey are all fost-eladigreed animals .1 ..'S Tuckersmi h. 7$2x4 _ S1100TING- TCH—A grand Shooting Match, will be held at Pc..1 turner's Hotel, Bruce - Reid, en nday, December 26th, 1881 A large number of turke."a and other fowl will be on hand. All lover of sport should make it a point to attend- R. J Ta. 732 VINBURN C ESE FACTORY—The annual meeting ofthe Shareholders and Directors of the Kiriburn qheese Manufacturing Company win take place a Brownee's Hotel, Kmburn, on Wednesday,Dee mher 21,1881,at 10 o'clock A M, for the purposelof electing Directors and the transaction of otiher bneiness A meeting of tee eatronswin be )a dd in the Temperance Hall Kinburo, on thelsarne day at 1 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of r ceivirg a statement of the past seasou's operatic) s and making arrangements for the next seasen.j a full attendance is particular- ly -desired. . COLWELL, President. eee EXECUTORS 0TioE—In pursuance of Seo - tion; 34 of C apter 107 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, ooti e is hereby given that all ore -'i -- tors and other- a‘ing eleints against the os'ate of the late Mary Atm Brry, deceased,. in her, lifetime of the to nship of Hay, County of Huron, acd Proviece of attar), wite of Adam Berry of the same ride°, airrier, are requested to eend them tc the unti rsigned executors, on er before tho first day of T4arrh. 1882, for adj astmea, as after that date < e undersigned executors of the last will and te tament of the said Mary Ann Berry, win roc( ed to distril ute the assets of the eind deceased a ongt the parties entitled thereto; aud that the sai exi cutore will not be lie.ble 'for the mid assets, any part thereof to any pert -en or pertone of w ose clairns not ice shall not Faye been received h. the underaigned Its aforefoid. Dated at Her sal -j this 5th day of December. 1881. WM. BIICHANAJ: and TROS DICK, Executers. 731-4 The R (LATE o'sral hotel, CARMICETA EL'S) SEAFORTHI ONTARIO. JAMES WEIR BEGS to informhis old friends and the travel- ling public that having purchased this new and coaunodious build -in • he has thoroiigh- ly re -furnished and re fitted it from top to bot- tom, and it is noW one of the most comfortable and convenient hatels in the county. By strict attention. to the i,vants of his customers he hopes to merit a share Of public patronage. The rooms are zkil wen furnisthed and wen heated. The bar will be kept supplied with the best, and an at - tentative and trust worthy hostler will always be in attendance. (Nod sample rooms for Coalmen eial Travellers. Remember the 'Ittayal Hotel," corner of Main and Ooderich Streets, Seaforth, 733 JAMES WEIR, Proprietor. {McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. EDUCATION OF FARMERS' CHILDREN. BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. If we have been rightly taught that "the mind is the standard of the man," then whateveris productive of the best condition of a man's mental powers is best for the man himself in all circum- stances and places. We have high authority for the truth of the above adage. The thought was first uttered by that profound philosopher Seneca, who said "I do Dot distingnish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man ;" and Dr. Watts repeated it in the words above -quoted. It is especially true in our country, where a man is estimated for what he really is and not for what his ancestors were nor for what he has. Here a farmer's boy rises to the higheet social positions, and our history is full of examples of great men who saw the light as it gleamed through the win- dows of e. rural homestead, who began their active lives in the light boyish labors of the farm and whose first edu- catiou was gained at the public schools. It is well kuown, too, what difficulties fell in the way of these aspiring youths by reason of their inferior facilities of sentimental idea of how isolate offered them for such an education as they would be on a farm and surround would have greatly helped them in ed by farmers with whom they never their early progress. How many more i h. ave any sympathy. The farmer live examples might we have had of 'this 1°. a kind in our history if the common coun- with try schools could have afforded a better to ° education? But perhaps we might be w°r, bettet, justified in saying how much operate of education that leadsa youn better fernaera might have been made map:to. despise this world .of conten had a higher education been in reach and quiet comfort which is found i of the youth who could find no oppor- the homestead of an industriousfarmer tuiaities of elevating themselves in the A farmer cannot be too well °ducat worldaway from farms. For we do ed. iltle may, and should be, possesse not wish to be understood to mean that of all the practical knowledge whio a good farrner is not as useful a man to relatee to his business. This should b the world as a good lawyer or a mem- tatight in rural schools as soon as th ber of Perliameut, or a Governor -Gen- first tudinaents—the three R's," as the era( even, although a good man in these have been humorously called—hav positions has a nanah wider field of use- beeu ,metitered. This will require som fulness than the farmer ever can have PrimitfY insight into mechanics: ny in his retired home. But there will drostetics, botany and chemistry. T Mind that has been proper' nd has not been misled thes a very fairy land of wonders any clear idea of what he should d elsewhere. Fortunately, a young Can adian does not often fail in finding som opportunity of making himself useful a far as Ids capabilities may permit, fo there is work for ell in some way o other or in some place or other. This howevet, is an advantage which is ao cidental, and foe which he does not de -serve any persbnal credit, and whic may be but emporary, and cannot therefore, be always depended upon and, further, oriportanities are left be hind which he might have improved iq a very useful manner. For while vi farm is left uncultivated and is &pant doned to weeds for want of well applie labor, an injury is done to the world All the desolate homesteads and farm are not barren or hopelessly cumber() with rocks and stones. Once all thee farms were occupied by thrifty, indus trioue farmers, who reared happ familes in Itmoderate but substantia contort. These old farmers .were no made ntiserable by brooding over th.ei isolation from the world, which is recent discovery altogether and only s much talked about of late by iprofes sional writers evho know nothing a,bou it, b t have, or think they have a sor ittle world of his own., in which contentment, he can find enough cupy his hands lima head either at or rest ; and it is a mistakeii always be thousands of farmers for a Y°1411 every member of Parliament, and hun- trai pad dreds of thousands of them for each will One Governor-General, and in the aggret which t e boy or girl may explore wit gate, therefore, it is even more feir- the geetietest advantage and delight,an able that all these farmers should be in which every discovery will tempt t capable and intelligent men than that further explorations. Sach a stud one out of their number should be able will make farm life vastly more inter to reach the highest position in the estiug and delightful than the super oouutry. fiend and frivolous existence which i , For the work of the farmer- lies at toceoftee passed by young men in town the basis of the world's prespetity. The aim oities, where questionable, if no better man and the better farmer he vicious, excitements are frequentl may be, the more thrifty and prosper- sought to mitigate the real isola,tio found OL18 will be the Nation and the more he which may be more often in will benefit the world in his individual 1 city than in the ooautry. Some of the i e capacity. It is, therefore, of the highest most lonesome memand women ar importance that the farmer should be found in cities and towns and in th an intelligent and well educated man, midat of orewds.- Where one oanno that he natty fill his place in society in find enjoyment in his own surround the best and most useful manner. But ings there be is isolated, as if he wer there is a popular impression abroad alone in the desert. that a good farmer or a good shoe -mak- The education given in countr er or mechanic may be spoiled by too schools should be as complete as tha much education. If a good education of town schools. Those scholars wh prevents the ODO from growieg good wish "should have an opportunity o erops. or the others from making dur- studying languages, especially Latinl table shoes or 'building Solid houses or without a knowledge of which one cant barns, there might be some truth in the net really understand English. Mathei idea. But why should the cultivation matics,at least as far as algebra and get of the mind have this deplorable re- ometry, should be taught to the oldee suit ? It is very plain that if such a students, and hietory should be made a result should be produced, something study. It would be a useful thing for a ie wrong in the education, and it has farmer's boy to know that faxmers have not been of the right kind. And It is sometimes occupied the first places i4 here where failure is made in those the world;- that it was a farmer who; eases where the eduation of farmer's while plowing in his fields, was calle childreu results in dieappoiptment. by messengers to becom-e Dictator o We cannot deny that in my oases par- ents have been disappointed in this Rome and General of the Roman Army(1 and who, leaving his oxen, obeyed th way. Children have been sent to coun- call, vanquished the invaders and enel try schools, and every year their minds mies of his country, and in 16 days rej and hopes have been turned further turned again to his plow. Cincinna-1 away from rural pursuits; from farm tus, the farmer, General, and deliverer life and workt and in a drection toward of his country, might well be held as au city life, witleall its ambitions, until, ornament to the profession' of an in -1 when they have become freed from dustry that is too much in danger of parental restraint, they have turned being despised by thoughtless persons theit becks to the old homestead, and It would be useful alao for our daugh the old folks have been left desolate ters to know that the first ladies o snd alone in their old age, when most Rome used the spinning wheel and they needed the society -and help of were the best of housekeepers. Studies: their children. of these kinds would, of course, require The fact is that there is a good deal good teachers. Good teachers should be secured and encouraged. A farmer should at least be willingto expend as much on the comfort,welfare, tied educa- tion of his children as he would on the stabling and the training of a colt. But time and space fail, and it may be enough to say in closing these sugges- tions that when a really good education; is provided for farmers' children in tha! country schools, there will be less thought or heard of the isolation and disagreeableness of perm life. i Canada. of injudioious and superficial teaching in the country schools, more of the arti- ficial and less of the real solid and use- ful training of the mind 'then there should he. The knowledge conveyed is not always such as will train the mind —for acquiring more knowledge of a higher cbaracter, not such as will en- able the youth to learn by reading and observation after he has left school; in short, the -child is not taught how to learn, but on the contrary is crammed with some facts and some crnde ideas, and when the course of instruction is completed he or she is sent out into the Waterloo County Council has world with a belief that there is 00 granted $100 for the Muskoka fire more to learn, and yet having but sufferers, little which can be usefully employed m —Forty-seven paupers have been' the roanner of life in which the student admitted to the Waterloo County Poor has been brought up. With a mind un- House daring the year. trained to thinking for itself nothing —A daughter of Jos. Hunter, Esq., of can be learned from present associa- Brant,inBrucecounty,died recentlyfroui tions, and the starved intellect wanders- blood 'poisoning through defective vac - abroad in the endeavor to -find else- oination. —Professor Wright, of Toronto Uni- versity', gave eight free demonstrations in miceology for the benefit of the stu- dents lest week. --Twenty-five carloads of dreesed beef were shipped from Toronto to the Eastero States on Friday last over the Grand Trunk. —Mr. R. P. Wyllie, station master at Ayr, had three fingers of his left hand very badly crushed a few days ago while assisting in coupling some cars. —At present there are 1,000 patients confined in the Longue Point Lunatic Asylum, fifty-seven more than have t ger been confined there before. --The Ottawa City Council has adopted a report recommending appli- cation to the Legislature to enable the city corporation to give 8100,000 to the Canada and Atlantic Railway, three- fourths of the sum to be paid when the where what it cannot find at home. After uselessly trying a year or two on the farm without heart for farm work, with a perverted idea that it is degrad- ing and unfit for a young man of ambi- tion. and in the hope of finding some employment that will be more enitable to his talentssthe young man flees to a city- or to the West to add ono more to the crowd of disappointed- fortune- hunters. In this respect "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Not because the knowledge itself is useless or dangerous, but because the little there is of it does not form any, settled basis for useful work, but being unbal- anced hy any practical paeans of a,p.- plying it; and because it has diverted the mind from a proper course of thought or study afterward, it leaves the young man in an unsettled and un- satisfactory condition, neither content- ed to remain where he is not having railway is running and the balance when the workshops are located at Ottawa. —Burglars blew open the safe of Mr. Reuben Law, merchant at Niagara Falls, and secured some 880 belonging to the Presbyterian Church at that place. —Messrs. R. tit J. White have sold their steam sa4 mill at Pembroke, and their ltlaskrat and Indian River limits for the plump sum of $50,000. —Mr. McKay, the Deputy Warden o St: Vincent de Paul, has been super - &matted with $900. The vacant pb- sition has ieeen given to Telephore Cole. —R. W. Bro. Richard Bull, P. D. G. M. of Hamilton district, forty years a Freemason, was presented with a Con- gratulatory address on the anniversary of his initiation the other night. —Dr. Cdchrane, of Brantford, has been unanimously nominated by the Manitoba Presbytery for the position of Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, ueit year. —A man named Jacob Tunis has been refused the prize money for a span of horses exhibited by him at the West Flamboro Agricultural Show, on the ground that they were borrowed for the occasion. —Hon; Alex. Mackenzie, Hon. T. B. Pardee, Messrs. John Charlton, M. P., G. W. Ross, M. P., and P. Graham, M. P. P. are announced to speak at the Reform Convention at Waterford, on the 5th January. — The Edmonton, Northwest Ter- ritory Bulletin announces that the stores in that "city" will in future be closed on Sunday, which is a eign that the morals of the place are improving with its material advancement. —Mr. Miller, on retiring from Walk- erton Public School, of which he had been the successful and much respected Principal or the last ten years, was presented with a complimentary ad- dress and a well filled purse. — Sir John Macdonald and Sir Leon- ard Tilley have invited Commander Cheyne to visit Canada for the purpose of interesting Canadians in a scheme for reaching the North Pule by a balloon expedition. — The patients in the insane asylum in Toronto, of whom there are at pres- ent 671, had their share of the general Christmas rejoicings. A Christmas dinner was given them on Sunday, and Monday afternoon they had a dance followed by a Christmas tree in the evening. , W. Hill and .; J. M. Whitlaw, two Woodstock grain:buyers, have in- vented a ma.chine foe. the ,separation of oats and barley. The machine will also beard the harlest and remove any- thing in the shape of iiibbish, and will no doubt prove -valuable to the in- ventors. — A trial of speedy exit from a the- atre in London took place the other night. Grand Opera House was ern- I tied of 1,300 people in less than four minutes in the midst of a pelting rain storm. All of the fire exits were thrown open as an experimeut. —Mr. A. Losee, of Burgessville, ' within one week 'buried his whole family; on Tuesday last week he buried his oldest child, on Sunday his wife and on the folk -wing Monday his two last children. Diphtheria was the cause. Mr. Losee has the sympathy of the whole community in his great afflic- tion. — The stations on the Canada Pacific Railway air line between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg are to be as fol. fowsethe distances mentioned being from Winnipeg :—Air line Junction, 1.5 miles • Winnipeg West, 9; Rosser, 15.1; Garfield, 26.2; Reaburn, 33; Poplar - Point, 40; High Bluff, 48; Portage la Prairie, 55.5. —The London Whist Club sent a deputation consisting of Messrs. Josiah Blackburn, Edward Harris, W. C. Furness, D. Macrie, W. R. Meredith, Dr. Fenwick, Richard Bayley, A. Mac- Rae, John Marshall and F. A. Despard to Hamilton on Friday evening for a social toernament at the residence of Mr. F. Broughton. — One morning lately seme miscreant entered the Morrice Oil Works at Wy- oming, and turning the faucet of the agitator, allowed about 100 barrels of refined oil to run down the water pipe into the ditch. The loss will be in the neighborhood of $800. A reward of $100 is offered for the arrest and con- viction of the guilty -party. —The late Alexander Meiklejohn, whose death occurred at Harriston on Monday of last week, for two years pre- vious to 1853 was a resident of Toronto. He was one of the leading merchants of Harriston, and first as Reeve and then as M_ayor he was honbared by his fellow -townsmen. His funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in Welling- ton. — Mr. jonathan Jarvis, of Dickson's Corners -who with his wife went last fall to South California, died recently. He witataken illwith inflammation of the lungs and died after a short illness. He was for many years Reeve of North Oxford and filled the office with great ability. He was widely nown and highly respected. His , bodY is to be brought to Ingersoll for interment. —A newly married man left his bride in the Great Western Station at the foot of Simcoe street, Toronto, on,Fri- day night while he went into a hotel near by. Meanwhile the engine white tled, and the man thinking his wife would be on board, ran out of the sa- loon, jumped on the train, and was borne away, leaving his newly -made better -half behind. —Thomas O'Brien, the Montreal butter merchant, once a millionaire, -who was sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary for forgery of $11,000, was brought to Kiugston on Saturday. He disdained the prison uniform and bracelets, and wore a fur coat, gloves, and a high bat while he walked up and down the floor of the depot along with a prison officer. If his orgery had been of low amount he 'would likely have been in prison garb and manacled as are all other convicts wjho have no influence. — The relief committee ii connection with St. George's Societ , Toronto, distributed for Christmas pheei 7,000 pounds of beef, 1,200 loa,ve of bread, 700 pounds of sugar, and 2 0 pounds of tea. Those favored by tris Society were all English. One Id woman, when asked if shehad a hnsband, re- plied that she had not, 'thit she - had enough to do to keep her elf without keeping a husband. —An old. fool named Josph Benard, seventy years of age, tri d to shoot Eliza Bonnean, at Laprairi , last week because she would not arry him. He was fined 8100 with th alternative of Hilt months in gaol. H was also bound over to keep the pea4e for a year, on pain of $400 forfe tura. The prisoner amused Eliza. vrho is now about 21 years old, of haviizg promised to marry him, and then b aking faith with him. - — In Belleville within he last five years the following mueici al officials and ex -officials have died F. McAn- nany, W. A. Foster and HL Corby, Sr., ex -Mayors; George Neils n, ex -Chief of Police; A Diamond, P lice Magis- trate; J. H. Hambley, A. Et Proctor, M. Jellett, Aldermen; P. Lawlor, W. Daly, H. C. Snider, Police- ifficers and donbtless others who cann t at present be called to mind. —The opening of the ne stock yards in Montreal was made he occasion of an exhibition of beef o ttle for ex- port, substantial prizes bei g offered by the varions,steamship lines nd the lead- ing shippers, as well as by he principal live stock salesmen in B itain. The exhibition proved a great success, at- tracting drovers and stook raisers from long distances, and it is cal ulated that some 4,000 people visited the show. —A sad case of drowning occurred at Balsam Lake, Victoria County, a few days ago. Henry Myers was returning from a neighbor's place across the lake after dark, when be broke through the ice, and no one., being near to render assistance, he perished. He appeared to have made a desperate fight for life, as the ice was broken for a considerable distance around where he fell in. The body was eecovered the following day at the same plane iti 25 feet of water. The deceased leaves a widow and seven children. —Whilst the frieeds and supporters of Mr. Gagaon, the member elect for Kamouraska, were celebtating their triumph at St. Pascal on Tuesday an ac- cident attended with a fatal result oc- curred. ilt appears that the firing of a cannon caused a horse belonging to one Jean Baptiste Moreau, of Kamouraska, to take fright and ran away. In the mad career of the horse, the vehicle came in contact with a fence, and Moreau was thrown out, end striking against a poet, his neck waa dislocated. —As •Mr. Jabez Thurston, lumber merchant of Dunsford, was retiring to bed in Toronto one eight lately, he un- thinkingly blew out the gas instead of turning it off. Fortunately, oue of the officials of the hotel suspe ting some- thing was wrong, entered h s room and found Mr. Thurstou in tin unconscious state. Medical aid was ills antly called and ho so far recovered a to be able to return lacitue the day fol owing. He will, however, be likely to remember after this that gas is not o be trifled with. —About five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon as a farmer was descending the Cotes des Peres, at Le is, Quebec, with a load of wood, the eleigh slid sideways, and ettaking viol° tly agaiust the railing on the edge of t e precipice (which is about 60 feet igh) carried it away, and horse, sleigh wood and man went over. Fortunat ly no injury occurred to either man or beast, and even the sleigh was not in ured. The brave habitant; when he recovered from the surprise naturs4 attendant on the aocident, proceeded to reload his wood, and went on his w. y rejoicing and thankful. —Mr. Wm. Smith, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, eturned to Ottawa from Washington 4 few days ago.. While in that city 9e was pre- sented by Postmaster General James to the President, with whom he had a private interview. The President in the course of conversation 1 with hitn stated that he had some vey pleasant reminiscences of New Bruns ick, which place he visited some years Isinde. Mr. Smith also occupied a seat cn the floor of the Senate Chamber at t e invitation of Hon. Mr. Ferry, United 3tates Sen- ator for Michigan, and ex-iri e -President of the United States. —A body snatching s nsation is agitating the nerves of the people of Mount Forest. A few days go the arm of a man was found on a table in a room of the Central Schoo . One of the teachers, who is studyi g surgery, admitted that the limb ielonged to him, and stated that he g•t it from Toronto. Not many hours afterward the body of a man, minn the legs, arms, and head was discove ed tied up in a sack under a culvert. A_ portion of the scalp was also foun . An in- spection of the graves at th Cemetery revealed the fact that the • may of John McLachlin had been s °len, but whether the remains foun and the missing body are identical h s yet to be sabisfactorily proven. It is :aid that a mark on the scalp found wi h the body ithows it to be McLachlin's. Naturally great indignation is felt and expressed.. —Recently attempts wer made to blow open safes at Forest and Park- hill. Two men, named beet Rose and. James Christie, were rrested on suspicion and examined at orest, but the evidenoe adduced not being con- clusive they were acquitted of the charge. However, they were subsequently taken to Parkhill, where the estab- lishment of Mr. Adams, hardware, and Messrs. Muncey & Milburn, dry goods, had been broken into and robbed, and a -eonsiderable quantity of money and goods were carried off. 'The next morning after the crime was perpetrat- ed these two men were seen in the vicinity of a barn about three miles from Parkhill, and subsequently in the were found concealed a por- e goods, which were identified. ther points of strong testi- mony against the prisoners came out in the seco4c1 trial, which resulted in a committal of both Rose and Christie, two fortnidable looking young men. struotur tion of t Several Perth Items. Mr. Wm. Lang, of Downie, has sold to Mr. John Hooper, of Blanshard, a prize Durham bull calf for the sutn of $175. —Mr. Isaac Draper threshed for Mr. Josiah Murphy, of Logan, one day last week, 1,500 bushels of oats in less than nine ho4re. — Mr. J. Rosburgh, a patron of Ful- lerton Cheese Factory, supplied to that factory during the past season 73,671 pounds of milk. for whioh he received the sun i of $615.28. This is pretty good for one farmer. —Mr. James Vance has bought a farm, lot from Mr William lately bo 54, concession 2, Wallace, James Simpson, for 84,200. Vines, of the eame township, ght a fifty acre' farm from Wm. Beason for 3700. —A fire broke out, in the moulding shop of ' MODonald, McPherson and CompanY's foundry, Stratford, one night last week. The fire was discov- ered in tinae, however, and was ex- tinguished before any serious damage was done. The loss will not exceed one hundred dollars. —On Friday night last a valuable horse belooging to Mr. W. M. Climie, of Listowel, was killed on the street. Mr. Climie's son was coming down the street on horseback at a lively gait and met a team going in the opposite direction, when a collision took piece, and the pole of the wagon struck the horse in the breast, killing it on the Spot. " —Mr. 4-. E. Askwith, of Ottawa'the contracter for the new post offitte building et Stratford, arrived in that town on Wednesday of last week to make artengements for going on with the builug. Mr. Askwith's tender, report saYs, was about 820,000 less than the lowest Stratford tender, which shows among other things, that it re- quires considerable experience to esti- mate on overnment work. — The Listowel Banner of last week says: An onth or two ago our towns - nen, Mssrs. J W. Scott and D. D. Campbel , with Mr. J. A. Halstead, of e Mount Forest, during their visit to Manitoba, purchased a small block of land, for which they paid 81,600. The property as disposed of the other day , and now almost every per - n is talking of going to Mani- ake their fortune. nnual statement of the Ful. 8880 Factory for the past sea - that the number of pounds of milk • received was 2,069,960, the number of pounds of cheese manufac- tured wae 196,1s 5, the average number of pound e of milk required to make a pound of pheese was 10.5, the average price at Which the cheese was sold per pound wes 11 cents, the greatest num- ber of cheesetinade in a day was 31. One man l realized the sum of $56.74 a cow durieg the _season. —At tbe annual meeting of the Black Creek Cheese Factory, iu the township of Downie, held last week, there was an immense attendance of people. This is said to be the oldest cheese fate- ' tory in the Huron Tracteas well as the largest. :It is owned 'wild worked by Mr. Thornas Ballantyne'M. P. P. for South Perth. During the past season 3,067,573 pounds of milk were manu- factured in this factory, and the cheese realized lio tbe patrons the sum of 832,687.66. for 89,00 son in to toba to —The larton 01 son show —Mr. joianson Stewart, who resides near McIntyre's Corners, in the town- ship of Blanshard, lost a valuable horse last week. It appears that the horse, which was tied in Mr. Cathcart's stable, slipped the halter and started for home. While crossing the railway track about a mile west of the town, the horse was struck by a.passing train and insta tly killed. The animal was beautifil one and a great favorite of Mr. Ste art and his family. He lately re sed 8250 for him. —A young man went into Mrs. Mc. Laren's store in St. Marys the other in rsill day, and rter buying ten cents worth of cakes,eented a five dollar b payment. Mrs. McLaren gave the proper change. Shortly afterwards she found that the hill was a "raised" one dollar bill. • The young man that would play a trick like that on a poor struggling woman deserves a vigorous applicatien of the lash. The name rascal got rid of several other "raised" bills at various places in town during the same day. —One night last week the Hicks House in Mitchell had a very narrow escape from destruction by fire. The sample thorns ,were all occupied, and one of the large public'parlors up stairs was given up to a commercial traveller, who, after opening up his goods, locked the door end went out tol see some merchants. In his absence a lamp in the chandelier burst, and the oil ignited and fell th the floor. The inneates of the house heard the cracking, and the alarm being given Mr. Hicks burst in the door, when he found the place in flames.. With considerable difficulty the fire was extinguished, but bad it not been noticed the moment it was the whole building would certainly have been desteoyed. —The ease of Burroughs vs. Bell, tried at the recent sittings of the County Court in Stratford, is a remarkable instance of how easy it is to run up legal expenses and how -a little contu- macy on the part of litigants may in- a volve both themselves and the county in a large 6xpenditure. Suit was brought by an Elms, farmer egainst a neighbor who performed an operation on a horse for which he was to receive a dollar. The auimal died under or soon after,the operation, and -the action was to recover its value. Twe whole days and part of another were con- sumed in the examination of witnesses, the addresses of the lawyers and the deliberations Of the jury, which finally brought in a veidict for the defendant. The expenses of witnesses, counsel fees, &c., would certainly not fall short of 8200, while the expense to the county would foot up fully another -hundred— enoagh to have paid for the laorse three times over. fovern —Thowieg advertisement print- ed on a neatly framed card made its appearance on the walls of the post office in Listowel a few days ago: The people's church, Listowel, Wm. F. Clarke, Pastor. •This church is for the people, govern( d by the people, and its officers are responsible to the people. It owns no creed but the Bible. It is not "priest ridden" 111 any , sense, for neither bishops, ecclesiastical court, conference nor any earthly power, has the slightest authority over it. It acknowledges no Lordship but that of Christ. This is the only church in Lis- towel that OWLIH its own property, and manages its own affairs without outside interference. Ties church receives all Christians to its fellowship. It extends a friendly hand to all good people. Its object ie not to build up a sect or "ism," but to make the wor d happier and bet- ter. It considers humau creeds ir- reconcilable with free thought, and plants itself on the immortal maxim of Chillingworth, -The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protest- ants." Hours (4 eervice on Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 6,30 p. m. Seats free. Manitoba Notes. A pork dealer in Nelsonville pur- chased a dressed hog the other day which weighed 473 pounds. This is said to be the largest "porker" ever grown in the settleitieut. —In Whiteharen school district in Morris township, the land has been - assessed at a valuation of 816 per acre, and the school tax is seven and a quarter tax. rtermxills in the dollar. A pretty —On the Lowe farm, near Morris, owing to the cold weather, threshing operations have been suspended for the winter, but the amount of grain that was threshed — some four thousand bushels of wheat and three thousand bushels of oats, besides a quantity of barley—panned out well, the average yield per acre being twenty-seven and one-half bushels. ----The Winnipeg Free Press of the 21st inst. says: Mr. John Gregory, ef Wingharn, Ontario, is in the city. He has been dabbling in real estate, and succeeded. in clearing a little matter of $58,000 in one transaction the other day. ' All that is necessary to ensure a competence for the -peop:ie of Ontario is a brief visit to this city. Winnipegers are all rieh -now. Yeu couldn't find a poor 'one with a microscope. —The Air line of the Pacific Rail- way from Winuipeg to Portage- la Prairie is now completed and trains are running on it regularly. No a.twange- ments have yet been made about the operation of the old line of the Canada Pacific Railway between Winnipeg and Stonewall, but it is probable that the Cress Lake train will be rtiti to Stone- wall as a mixed on Tuesdays s.nd Fri- days the days on which it is not in use on the eastern division, as it is con- sidered that the traffic on this section will not warrant the running of regular daily trains. *—There are now thirteen teachers I engaged in the Winnipeg Public School i and the trustees have decided to engage six additional ones at the eommence- ment of the new year. 'The following are the salaries paid: Head, or firat teacher, $1,000; second teacher, 8800, third, fourth and fifth teachers, each, 11700 all other male teachers, 8650 each head, or fuest female teacher, $600 i second female teacher, $550; third female teacher, $500; all other female teachers, $480 each. There is now a school population in the city of 1,600, but the average attendance at school is only about 800. —An extensive bed of lignite coal has recently been discovered near the new town of Moberly in the famous Turtle Mountain district, and as a result of this discovery Moberley town lots are all the rage -and are going off like hot cakes at heavy figures. The coal is said tb be of very good quality and easilytgot. Moberley is situated on the shoree of Whitewater Lake, a body of water, twelve miles in length and five in width, and has been selected by the Government as tbe site for the new Registry Office and Court House for Turtle Mountain County. So upon the whole' Moberley's San is in the ascend- ant keit now. • —The following 1;bel upop. our county town is perpetrated by the Clinton New Era, which say s: "The little "village of the setting sun" called Goderich, is fast becoming "beautifully less." Amidet all its railway and waterworks talk ettery person who can is preparing to lea there establ trifle, penal great. his b e for Manitoba. A businessman the other day offeeed his whole shment to a Clinton man for a but the latter declared_ that the y of living in Goderich was too Another Goderich roan offers ck of goods at low rate on the dollar, and still another, this time a acturer, seeks only a little is- ent to locate in Clinton. Alas! orrick." The people of Clinton tly do not love Goderioh. At te, he of the New Era is a hard d, bad tnaia to say such naughty thing e about our dear eounty town. mann duce poor evide any _ heart !.? 1 11, ,*•