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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-04-16, Page 1gs. 1R8 Ly For The ngTr Stock of tings, tonades, ton Yarns, pet Warps;,am a choice Goodt . opened up. AU, kiting :otatenies., Laces and aid Gloves, Drell, ,eh Mantle 9004 - -nily Invited. - FAUL OODS AND HOUSE, - an Cunningham ar • fi to have himself L for Blyth. -At battles' Institute propriate $159s for rabers of the 84. Clinton on Ties- sa.arament of the administered iii abbath. Rey. Mr, officiating.-Siek- , an this vicinity, I chills developing the Iurgs being the „-The fall wheat in good condition sge son n, If the are favorable the ,.1d will be gookl.--- les are building eir tinsmith buil-- a-ill soon be com- a -Oat add to the uge.-A most dig- ' :sal in our village re brought before Matt very leniently irst cdienee. The "atter such fellow& le. se Register. atieed in the Iset ui that the prom- - .tog horsemen of succeeded -inthe i-ew stud book,, a r the tracing and a,f Clt desdaknL ela ; and it would 1,-tural societies and eueouragement ht :are ie 1 animak It. bred horses that: arnte oar Canadite th your permissioa , of the gentlemie Ire Dominion Stud t- a word. First, try animal sought be the prodtlee Of ported Clydesdale lies to the Shire with at least one ie breeds named.:' alering of Rule 8, whether the ani- 'istered is the pro ire or not. The ems te answer ali knay he imported ! breeding in him, r a grade. Fur reads ; "And a. cross of either of Tut an imported registered or the. 'al sire or dam.' : "Any animal - is the produce of le horse and the - Tom a registered - it would have s it is, it is a very - tended to be of tit to those in if horses eligible volumeS.. SO' al that I wish to Dominion Stua ce of a mare from t registeredY, ana horse (not regie- of a registered al is eligible for - Dominion Stuaae aoimal has not ins morethan that _ dam were regie- _partea " is not of would appear, - wishing to Iva - pace and hoping • a place in your •pectfuIly Yqurs) Su Rift. - - were preseutod ,()na on Tuesday - aida, Temperance .t ale. beer and 'sold in countiea adopted, Those _ these petitions their' business - contain several and are manY ng the merabers ithis class were earleton, of Brno; ,1ockburn, Bakert aIlace, of York , Coughlin and WHOLE NUMBER 957. EIGHTEEN= YEAR. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1886. {McLEAN BROS. 'Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. NEW GOODS! -I-AT THE - Cheap Cash Store, SELFORTII Just opened out New Dress Goods, New Ginghams, New Prints. New Shirt- ings„ New Cottons, New Tweeds, New Embroideries, New Laces, New Corsets, New Gloves, Now Hose. We have a large stock of Men's, Youths', Boys' antj Children's Soft and , Stiff Felt Hats To dear at kss than half wholesale cost. Call and take a look through them. 1 Also, Boy's Cloth! Suits away below wholesale prices at the Cheap Cash S tore -OF- Hoffman & Company, Cardno's Block, Sealorth: The Exeter Spring' Show. The annual spring shovv under the auspices of the Stephen and Usborne Branch Agricultural Society was held at Exeter on Tuesday last. The roads were very bad., but the weather was favor- able, and there was a good attendance of spectators. The attendance, however, would doubtless have been somewhat larger had it not been for some mis- understanding in the country concern- ing the date of the sk sw. I As it was, the sum of $53 was taken in,at the gate, an entrance fee of 10 cents for each non- member having been charged. The show, on the whole was fully up to for- mer years, with a decided improvement in bulls. In this latter class there was as excellent show, which embraced some as fine animals as could be found in any ring in Canada. Aged, heavy draught horses were also well represent- ed and made a splendid show. The younger Glasses, however, were light, and while there were two or three very good animals, many of them were indif- ferent. The agricultural and general purpose claSies, were, as !usual very poorly represented. Indeed there are so few of these horses used now that it seems superfluous for show managers to include them in their. premium list. There were two or three good animals in the carriage and road classes, but the show on the whole was very light and the judges had a comparatively easy time of it. The following is a list of the successful competitors: HORSES. Aged Heavy Draught -7 entries. - 1st and diploma, Colquhoun & Dow's " Major;" 2nd, Colquhoun & Dow's Rover ;" 3rd, P. Curtin's "Mark Laddie." Three year old--Jarnes Mil- ler's " Lottie McDonald." Two year, olds -4 entries-lst J. M. Robinson's " Young Major ;" 2nd -L. _Hunter's "Air William." Percheron-Charles Essery, " Donvegus." Aged Agricultural. -Richard Horton's "Matchless." Two year olds-lst Chas. Godbolt's "Lothario." Two year old. general purpose-lst Chas. Godbolt's Young Lothario." JUDGES. -James Ballantyne, Sebring- ville •' George Taylor, Kipper' ; James Bell,Birr. Carriage -aged ---3 entries -1st Thos. Berry, "Fear Not Chief;" .2nd, Cur- tain & Stewart, " Putthoia ;" 3rd- Gar- diner Brothers, " John Scott." Aged Roadsters -2 entries-lst McGregor & McIntosh, "Fulton ;" 2nd, I Thos. Bis- sett, Jr.., "Volo." 1 Junoas.-W. Robinson, Dunfield; John McCurdy, Kirkton, and George Charlton, Lobo. BU LLS. - Aged. Durham -3 entri▪ es -1st John Allison, Usborne ; 2nd, W. Essery, "Prince Hopeful ;" 3rd, Geo. Godbolt, " Crimson Duke." Two year olds- entries-ist and diploma, Thomas Rus- sell, "The Don;" '2d, Walter Oke, " Proud Duke." Year olds -6 entries -1st, Thomas Heywood, "Lord Ches- terfield," 2nd, Thos. Shopton, " Cresar ;" R. Dilbridgee " Fullarton Model." urnan.-H. Sada Hullett ; James liazelwood, Kirkton, and Wm. Prid- ham, Usberne. • -On the Queen's birthday twenty years ago, the second battalion of the Queen's Own camped at Stratford, hav- irto- been called out to do duty during the troublesome times of the Fenian in- vasion. Stratford was then a small place; to -day it is a city. The citizens intend celebrating the event on the 24th of May next. At a meeting last week it was deeided to invite the Queen's Own to visit Stratford and join itt the celebration. A handsome sum has been set apart for the entertainment of the battalion should the official invi- tation forwarded by the council be ac- cepted. A visit to the old camp ground" will- be interesting after a lapse of twenty years. TIMELY HINTS ON AN IM- PORTANT SUBJECT: To the Editor Of THE HURON -EXPOSITOR. SIR, -In response to the invitation of Mr. Blue, Deputy Commissioner of Agri- culture, 1 take particular pleasure in drawing the attention of the farmers of Ontario to some important things in connection with spring wheat. This action on our part is the result of very many inquiries, particularly from Grey, Simcoe and other northern and north- eastern counties during the past winter as to procuring new varieties of seed grain through Government agency. It has been thought by some -that the money placed on the estimates three years ago for importing new varieties of -*heats from Europe should noW--be handled for that purpose or otherwise appropriated for farm seeds. While the goodeinten- tions of the Legislature in this inspect have not as yet been followed up to a practical issue, I think it is not a strong point in the smartness of our farmers that no part of the Province took any notice of the unexpended money until broached at the farmers' instittites dur- ing the past winter. A PRODUCER OF -CEREALS. That the Province of Ontario must re- main a prominent grower of the cereals, whatever branch of her agriculture may prodominate during any particular period, is no doubt true. Competition does not affect mixed farming in com- parison with a specialty such as dairying, and wheat- as an absolutely necessary part of systematic crop growing cannot be neglected in its thorough maintenance by as systematic work in selection, change, and even the making of new varieties. Before submitting the More special subject of this letter, I find it is necessary to say a word on the whole. question of maintaining THE CHARACTER OF WIIEATS in this country. The science of the sub- • ject is not a proininent thing anywhere at present, for what -has been done- is creditable to the practical -farmer more than to the botanist. The world as yet is not well up in what it is that affects the conduct of wheats under all the variety of circumstances and physical condi- tions. Admitting that there is a close analogy in the variation of plants and animals under domestication, the living • thing.that walks about is easier dg - nosed, so to speak, ,than the standing plant, and must always be more inter- esting and receive more study than the other. I think one of the uncultivated fields of wheat improvement is the use of the microscope. If quality, perman- ence, immunity front disease, and other characteristics are not part and piece of the interval anatomy, then all our masters -in physiology have been wrong. Why, then, the neglect of this SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT TEST? There are early, late, northern, south- ern, rich soil and poor soil types of wheat, that tell of their -whereabouts and character by the way the grain and straw are put together. Take an ex- ample of this that occurred in Ontario ten years ago in the case of the Egyp- tian or Eldorado spring wheat, which sold at first for $10 a bushel. Had our farmers and millers been familiar with the proper mixture of science and practice needed to detect t'°nod and bad in this particular line -and which, by •the way, in this case required no micro- scope -they would at once have said, "No,anot even as a gift :" because the coarse structure of the broken berry and the pithy,spongy nature of the straw told of things we do not want, and that this wheat could only produce. The prime objects, of course, are to uphold the best types already in use, and if possible I to improve theft,. to also import new varieties and hylaridise itt view to establishing new ones. This work should be partly the work of ex- perimental stations. Crosses amongst wheats have not, however, made that reliable sort equal to the best original kinds, and at present we cannot ask Ontario to -wait for developments in this way. On the other hand the securing of varieties from Europe has been • hitherto the mainstay of the continent. Even as far back as 50 years THE WHEATS OF AMERICA were found to be identical with the na- tive sorts of Britain, and -it is sornething worth knowing that Britain does not owe a single good variety of wheat to any other country. In this -connection our present and 'future experts should remember that varieties are not pro- duced so Much, if any, by soil or climate influences but by what is termed " the prodigality of nature." Climate possibly can only affect in size, vigor and staying power, and when from such circumstances we have a variety doing well, it is: not so adapted to change on new conditions of growth, while on the other hand, others are possessed of so much variability of character as to con- form themselves to changes readily. And here allow the remark that the idea of producing the best variety for all- distriets is contrary to the true principles of improvement, and in order to grow Many wheats successfully for a period of, years we, must be well ac- quainted with the conditions that made them, as,Ifor example, it may be that high cultivation and thin seeding or early and thin seeding are quiteop- posed to Maintainingtheir whole char- acteristics. I have to thank Mr. Ever- shed, of England, for several of the foregoing, notes. Any country of such importanee as ours should systematical- ly introduce and teat wheats for its people -no sounder politics than this, and the future should not be neglected in this item. Meantime, there is an- othEr work demanding greater attention than it -has hitherto received. A very commonand good practice amongst our i farmers a CHANGE OF SHED one froni another, and from distant parts of the Province. In this respect our leading seedsmen have also done ex- cellent work. . Many of these changes 1 have not succeeded 1where it may be we had become "wise ,after, the event." The wheat regions of Canada are already well outli ed, and Possessing the range we do of altitude, elevation, forest in- fluence aid soil, it seems somewhat strange t at no effort has been made to zone or o tline the country by the kinds of wheat that characterize them. Such is the variety of these conditions, even in Ontario,that we hold in our own hands, possibly,a greater 'wheat variety field than Europe it elf. ,; At the present Mo- ment some of t ie older standards, -such as Red FY-fe, ate said to be doing as well in the northeast of the Province as they did a quarter of a century ago both there and in th more southern districts, where now it is said to be impossible to se- cure the rops of former years, or to up- hold the many goodnesses of such a variety as the Red, Fife. In this there are evid ntly important facts for the Province so much So, 1 think, as to de- mand irn ediate scientific inquiry. Be it soia.cli ate, or Other local peculiari- ties, the e is an incalculable national value in ,he very idea of part of our Pro- • vince be ig able to maintain some wheats for an ',definite period in all their ,original cs aracteristics. The home of a particuld, variety may as reasonably be met by c nditions in the neighborhood of Ottaw as of others, or indeed, of the .very sam kind in Russia, immediately north of the Black Sea, from which some of t e best spring wheats have been obtained. THE NORTHWEST. Anoth r feature of our wheat growing is just be inning to loom up in the dis- tant No thwest. The great field and physical J area being covered there so rapidly s , as likely to illustrate the capabili of upholding the basis of the same or another Wheat life for many years, if .iot permanently, as that refer- red to in Ontario. Itt place, therefore, of longe waiting 'And greater risks by importations it is clearly -the duty of Ontario farmers to immediately secure. THE GOOD OLD FYFE from th Northeast. Several argu- ments co ld be advanced in favor of this recommendation., There is, after all, more cha ce of success by the improve- ment of t ose that have done well with us, both by the selection. of particular berries nd their 1 re -invigoration by studied conditions. : Would it not pay Ontario many hundredfold to be able to see the o d Fyfe daYs again, and there- fore to old a firSt-class experimental expert fo purpose indicated ? I close meantime:, in the hope of see- ing a big response to Mr. Blue's sugges- tion. Y ur obedient servant, • Wilanam BROWN. Ontario grieultural College, April 9. The Dominion' Stud Book. MR, DITOR,-" Subscriber" from Howick; in your last 'issue is incorrect in his ii terpretation of Rule 8.. The supposed case he gives could not be registere at all as the animal has not got two full crosses (See Rule 3). " Subser ber " appears to be under the impressicia that imported animals are usually egistered, ' whereas we Ifind a large nu ber of them possessing two ,and mor4 crosses which have never been placed rpon any 'register. Our rules will acce t of any Shire or Clyde animal .or their 4rosses having at least two full" crosses f- either. But nothing under the two ull crosses: can register. And even in c se of two crosses the Council has discretio ary powerand may refuse regis- try for ---s me good cause. "Subscriber" is unjust and ungenerous in stating that rule 8 is flimsy," and purposely so itt. order tOr bring pecuniary benefit to in- dividual* interested: I can assure him thereis xo such. intention M. the mind of any ind vidual• upen the board as to benefit ny individual or class of per- sons. T e pecuniary benefiteare for the breeders. When our rules and regula- tions aM cOmpleted we will be glad to furnish " Subscriber " with them, and e will join hands most heartily promoting the stock interests mtry. Yours, • . ALEX. McD. Ad:an Dominion Draught • Horse ders' Society. , April 12, 1886. am sure with us i of our co Presiden Bre Goderic The Organ. DEAR XPOSITOR.-In your last week's issue I n ticed a paragraph descriptive of the nalale of action taken by the first Presbyterian congregation of Senforth, as to introducing an organ into their church, namely, voting by ballot for or against, on the Sabbath day, which of late, I ain sorry to see, has become the general Practice in a large number of our congregations. Now, to me and th a good niany others in our church, said practice seems to be a new departure from the authorized rules of procedure as conta ned hi our form of worship, as regar s secular matters eonnected therewit a And although sotne of our minister when •questioned as to the right OT vrong of said action, have an- swered, 1` we do not see any sin in so do- ing," dos not to our mind settle the actionasi right. FOr so might the Old Man hue answered when challenged by Moses a& to his gathering of sticks on the Sabbath. But 'what did God com- mand th be done tp himWhen Moses applied' o him for verdiet ? "bid the whole co g,regation that they stone him to death "and are we to assume that in this age of the church's •history the mind of tod has changed as regards the observan e of his fourth commandment, " Remen ber the Sabbath day to keep it • holy, thou shalt do no servile work therein.' Now, who will deny that voting br an organ by ballot or other - Wise is nt t purely a secular and servile work. d it does seem th me nota little inc tnaruous that under our civil laws yo s polled for any civil officer are •illegal a d the persons punishable who give thei votes on that day, and is it to be ad itted as a fact, or gospel truth, that to- ay the church of Christ is less stringen as regards the observance of the Sabbath by her members than our civil rulers are. There is an old saying, "better be out of the world than out of the fash- ion," which seems to be the sentiment existing itt almost all our congregations of to -day regarding the introduction of organs and all their •modes of action connected therewith. No doubt .you and the readers of your paper are well aware that this organ movement in our church commenced With the city con- gregations Who agreed that because the Roman Catholics, and Episcopalians, and Methodists had organs why should not we also ;-you see, our young people and a great many others of the loose fish in our congregations love the noise of the organ, and surely this being • the case, Gad must love said noise also, for What they love, he must love also, thus reversing God's order of love, who has said, if ye love me keep my commandments. As to the utility .of such an instrument in the worship, of God, who has told us that He is a spirit, and they that wor- ship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, I send to you for publication the following rhyme, written by Alex. Glindinning, about the time the organ questionwas, being discussed in our General Assembly, and which present my views more clearly than I could otherwise express them : An organ ! No, it cannot work' Within a Presbyterian Kirk; H once you hear a single note , From out its deep sonorous throat, The Kirk is there, the lime an' steno, But Presbyterianism's gene. • Our fathers thought the human voice Was, of all instruments the choice - That simple melody of the heart Wants little of the pomp of art. But that's all changed. The moderns say 'Tis cheaper, better every way, To praise (if such it seem to be) Their Maker by machinery. An organ! Why if all are willing Let every man put in a shilling, There may come out an instrument To play on to their hearts content, And keep their voines whole to praise The Queen, and shout on holidays. Israel Hung in their trinkets thus, And forth came a Bueephalus ; And then in honor of the day, They ate an' drank, and rose to play, A happy people ! ,daneing ! drinking! • Saved them the fash of sober thinking. The auld arch-eneiny of man, The devil, tries every mortal plan-, And plies his crotchets night and day To train men off the good old way; Worship, he kens, he canna stop it, His only chance is to corrupt it ; There's naethinggies him heartsick qualms Like hearing Converts singing psalms. He whispers: "Try a pharaphrase, 'Twill answer better now -a -days ; They are sung on Sundays by your preachers, Yell -surely follow your ain teachers. . But your weak vioces, cracled and riven, Can never reach the ear of heaven; Good mercies, the best naediutri found - The organ has a pleasing sound." • 'Tis good:to praise, at morn and even, The maker of the' earthlind-heaven ; Praise Him not only witlAhe mouth, • Praise.Him in spirit and in.truth ; Praise Him -with heart and soul and mind, The Maker, Saviour of mankind. An organ's but an instrument; There's neither soul nor spirit in't- A tinklin' cymbal, sounding brass, Its highest treble, deepest bass, Amount to noise, and noise alone, Meet praise for gods of wood and stone. An organ! What would auld John Knox Have said to such a whistle -box? Could Henderson and Rutherford Have seen the Popish tool restor'd, They had posted up on ilk kirk road A board, and written, " Ichabod !" The Scottish worthies well withstood • Corruption, striving, unto blood : Their's was a barbarous age, 'tis true, We manage matterismoothlysnow ; Our modern watchmen, easy going, Against the current faintly rowing, • Meet and discuss the organ question With pro and con, hint and suggestion, The end 'tis easy to foresee; Touch, taste nit; he' who on his knee, Dandled a Babylonish lady, His virtues well-nigh gone already. An organ! Yea, it will be here Through a' our kirks in tiva, three year, Unless some wife, like Jenny Geddes, The heroine of Scottish ladies, Wi' three-legged cuttie fire a -shot, - And knock the squeaking thing to pot. A PRESBYTERIAN. ° The Mitchell Spring Show. The Mitchell Spring Show was held in that town on Thursday of last week. The roads were soft and sloppy, but the weather was fine and there was a large turn -out of people. The different classes of stock were all well represented, and the ability of the judges was severely tested in awarding the respective prizes. The display of in:plements and machin- ery on the market was never so large, but few sales were reported. In live stock there were 39 entries, divided up as follows: Imported heavy draught horses, 9 - entries • Canadian heavy draught, 2; generapurpose, 1; Eng- lish Shire, 2; Percheron, 2; roadster, 4; general purpose, two years old, 2; imported heavy draught, three years old, 1 • Durham bulls, aged, 4; Dur- ham bulis, young, 3; Durham bulls, calved last year, 4. 'the following is a list of the prizes awarded: Heavy Draught Imported Stallions.- Colquhoun- & Dow, " Major ; 2nd, Colquhoun & Dow, "Rover"; 3rd, Brooks & Colquhoun, " Stranraer." • Heavy Draught, Canadian. -Robert Jackson, :" Young Lord Haddo " ; 2nd, Robert :Morse, "Highland Chief " ; 3rd, Geo: Seebach, "Robert Burns." • Heavy Draught, under three years.- Colquhoun & Dow, " Mollance.' General - Purpose. -Brian O'Hara, •" Young Wellington." • Roadsters. -Alex. Davidson, "Gen- eral Withers " ; 2nd, Robert Brock, " Whip -Poor -Will " ; 3rd, W. J. Lash - brook, " Pride of Perth." • Percheron. - Wh elihan & Evans, "Napoleon"2nd, F. W. Moore, " Suc- cess. • English Shire. -T. Balkwell, "Young Britain " ; 2nd, A. D. Colquhoun, •" Black Douglas." HeavY _Draught, two years old. -J. M. Robinson, " Major " ; 2nd, S. Neth- • ercott, i''•Young Haddo " ; 3rd, James • Watt, Duke of Perth." - Agricultural or General Purpose. -L. Goodwin, "Young Puzzler"; 2nd, R. Beer, "Donald Dinnie." Durham Bulls, aged. -W. H. Gill, 7/ "Lord Afton " ; 2ni, W. Robinson, "Duke of Carlisle" ; 3rd, J. Pridham, "Marquis of Lansdowne." Durham. Bulls, two years old. - W. McKenzie, " Earll of Surrey"; 2nd, Thomas Worden, "Duke ,of Logan " ; 3rd, George Roach, "-Duke of Perth." Durham Bulls, one Year old.-Cephas J. Drown, "Kentucky Wonder " ; 2nd, G. R. Rogers, " Fullarton Duke " ; 3rd, D. Watson, "Roaring Bill." Grade Bulls. -W. Hodge, "King William." • Canada. The fall of snow in North Dumfries on the stormy Tuesday last week was 12 inches,. • • plan for enlarging and improving Alma College, St. Thomas, is under consideration. • -The Salvation Army have actively commenced work on their new barracks in Strathroy. • -A farm of 200 acres, situated one and a half miles froor Picton, sold the other day for $15,000, -Fifty-seven tramps have been accom- modated in the Strathroy lock-up from January 1 to April 3, 1886. -The death of Mr, John G. McKay, a successful grocer, of Woodstock, took place on Saturday, 314 inst. • -A chew of tobacco cost G. Fisher, of Elora, $18. In pulling the weed from his pocket he lost the bills. • -Mr. Archie Kay speared an 18 -inch pike in the creek op the outskirts of Parkhill, the other day. - At the Lincoln assizes John Hilton was sentenced to 10 years in penitentiary for issuing counterfeit -coin. - -A detachment of Rev. Dr. Savage's band of Evangelists, numbering six, is at present working in Walkerton with good success. -Anonymous contributors have sent Rev. Dr. Reed, treasurer of the Presby- terian church, $500 for missions in the Northwest. -Rev. Messrs. Crossley and Hunter are conducting a very successful revival in the church in London of which Rev. J. V. Smith is pastor. -Mrs. and the Misses Rabbits'of Montreal, have fallen heir to a largefor- tunethrough the death of an uncle in London, England. • . -Hon. Geo. W. Ross, Minister of Education, intends leaving for England in May to attend the Indian and Colon- ial Exhibition. -A man 90 years old, named Win. Hearns, was struckby a Grand Trunk freight train about two miles west of Napanee on Wednesday morning, and died in about two hohrs. - Mr. •Tait, a school teacher in Stephen township, h s purchased a farm of 100 acres, near therefor $3,000. A perty. - Mr. Titus Nevins, once a prominent resident of New Hatriburg and first reeve of --that village, died lecently in Cheboy- gan Michigan. • De eased kept a gen- eral" store at Ailsa Cr ig for some time. -Mr. F. J. Gissh g the founder of the Woodstock Rev member of a comp purchase of a large Ontario, California. ° Parkhill, paying. very cheap pro- sense of the word, a thoroughly good man. He was one of the noblest among men and one of the most thorough of temperance workers. - Mr. Alex. McKee, of Teeswater, re- cently sold three young horses, on which he realized $595, a span to Mr. Richard I Harrison -which he shipped to Wirmi- peg-for $375, and a three-year-old geld- ing to Mr. Gentles, of Kincardine for $220. - Waddell Brothers, of St. Thomas, have received with a consignment of tea from Japan a novel work, printed in English, in different colored inks, detail- ing the mode of raising and preparing teas for market. The pamphlet bears the imprint; "Printed at Yazama, Yokohama, Japan." -Five hundred Canada Pacific Rail- way workmen petitioned last week to be allowed a half holiday on Saturday afternoon from this time henceforth during the spring and summer months. The superintendent, Mr. Francis R. F. Brown granted the petition at once. -Mr. A. 13. Vanblaricom, of Picton, has a St. Bernard dog, eight months old, that weighs 133 lbs., stands 30 inches high, measures from tip of nose to tip of tail 6 feet 6 inches, and. girths 3 feet 1 inch. This is by all odds the biggest " purp " we have heard of. Bring along something to beat him. -Hon. Alex. Mackenzie has been pre- vented from attending to his duties in the House of Commons fon over two weeks by an attack of malabal fever. He experienced ' severe - chills on Sun- day, the 28th of March, after which he was confined to his house. The fever has disappeared, but Mr. Mackenzie is yet very weak. - Jos. J. Whiteman, farmer, has been arrested in the township of Galway, Peterborough county, for bigamy. He married his first wife at Trenton, in 1862, lived with her 18 years, bring- ing up five ehildren, and then in 1880 suddenly deserted her. Since that time he has inarried a Miss White. -As Mr. Elleburn was leaving Mild- may the other day, his team became frightened and ran over a 10 feet em- bankment. The tongue of the carriage was driven into the ground about 1-t feet - and the carriage itself was thrown on the fence. Mr. Elleburn was thrown under the horses' feet, but happily escaped without much damage. -A sad sight on one of the principal streets in Windsor the other night was a woinan and two small children singing to a crowd of men. A few questions brought forth the fact that she was a resident of the town, poor and destitute, with a husband lying at the point- of death at home, with no money to pro- cure the necessaries of life. -Zotique Guilbault, a Montreal boat- man, has been presented, with a hand- some binocular glass, for his heroism in saving 30 persons from being drowned in the St. Lawrence. The recipient is only 40 years old. It is only a short time since another boatman in Montreal, named Joe Vincent, was the recipient of a gold watch from the Government for iew,irmed, f is leadingor the 1 saving 40 lives. nyfo - Mrs. Daniel Bonham recently sold tract of land near her farm in the vicinity of St. George, 1 South Dumfries, and in anticipation of _Teeswater is bec ming a hard place, her removal number of her neighbors and if the present lawlessness continues assembled at her residence and vlpresent- respectable people N ill shun the place. ed her with an easy chair and some sil- Fights occur almost very night,Sunday ver ware. Mrs. Bonham has lived her night coming in for a double dose. whole married life on this farm, now -The other night ne of three tramps nearly 40 years, and her neighbors are who had stolen a rid on a freight train loth to part With her. coming into London, fell on the rail as -At Thedford last week, seven of the - he was etepping off tbe car, and was run boys were summoned to appear before gled being liter- E. Roy, Magistrate, on a chare of dis- turbing the Salvation Army, but the boys came forward before the trial and confessed their guilt, so got off with a severe reprimanding, signing a docu- ment not to disturb any meetings in the future and paying the costs. ---Th Picton Times of last sveek over and horribly ma ally torn to pieces. -John W. Patters n, of Lachute, has been burned to death in an accident on the Canadian Pacific Railway near Chap- leau, Ontario. The 4upply car on which he was took fire and ihe was unable th escape. -Rev. Geo. La", St. Paul's Episeopat died very suddenly disease. He expire his chair. He was people. M. A., pastor of hurch,. Beaverton, ecently from heart while sitting in reatly liked by his ...At the closing exercises of Knox college, Toronto, las week, Mr. C. W. Gordon, B. A., Harrington, distinguish- ed himself as one of gie second year stu- dents, taking honors n four subjects and a scholarship of $60. -Mr. Thomas Orr mechanical super- intendent of the Lon on Free Fress, was the other evening the recipient of a valu- able silver set and easy chair from his fellow -employes on the occasion of his marriage. -Two men from escaped death froni blowing out the gas on Thursday night, eaford ,narrowly asphyxiation by in a Buffalo hotel last week. They were discovered only just in time to save their lives. 1 , \ -The female can-il at the Toronto Zoo,last Friday mornmg gave birth to a alf. The mother vicious and would one. In spite of e calf died. f Cowan & Co.'s fine, healthy male hninediately became not nourish her little the attendants' care t -The employees foundry in Galt, entertained Messrs. Thos. and Arthur Cowan to a compli- mentary supper the other evening. This speaks • well for the amicable relations existing between employers and em- ployees in this instanee. . -Mr. D. M. McPherson, of the Allan Grove Cheese Combination, has been ap- pointed by the Ontario Government to assist in arranging the dairy exhibit of that Province at e'thet_Intercolonial Ex- hibition. He leaves by the " Parisian " this week. 1 -Memorial services for the late great temperance worker, John B. Gough, have been held all over the Province of Ontario. Last Sunday afternoon in Tor- onto a large audiencelassembled in Tem- perance Hall, to honor the name of ; Gough. During the ervices Rey. E. A. Stafford said,:when he read in the news- paper the words " i.Tohn B. Gough is dead," he felt he had lost a friend, al- though one whose hand he had never clasped. Gough was, in the highest 1 i 1 I says: The high wind of Tuesday de- stroyed about 50 of the best maple trees in Mr. Jonathan Taleott's sap bush. Mr. Talcott.was boiling sap during the blow and heroically stuck to his post till a tree fell so close to him as to knock the ashes off his cigar and then he quit, and says- he wouldn't have staid any longer for a farm. -The son of General Booth, Mr. Marshal Bramwell Booth, is ex- pected to be present at the open- ing of the new Salvation Army tem- ple in Toronto. The inauguration ser vices will begin on the 24th April, and will be continued for several days. Mr. Booth is announced to lecture in Mon- treal on April 22nd on "The Rise and Progress of the Salvation Army." -A beautiful mirage occured on Lake Ontario Thursday, last week. Portions of Rochester and the -sections of country lying south of it were plainly seen from the lake shore, six and ten miles dis- tant, as though standing erect in the air. Trains of moving cars and other objects were clearly4 defined. The aerial phenomena continued for nearly an hour. --A petition is :in circulation asking the Governor-General to shorten the sentence of George Clark, of Forest, who is now serving a five -years term in the Kingston penitentia,ry for the Shep- pard robbery ip Plympton last August. The destitute condition of his family and the fact that he was convicted on cir- cumstantial evidence are the grounds on which the cominutation is asked. -Mr. John Burns, residing near Ratho, recentlY sold two colts, aged one and two yea,rs,,for the handsome sum of $500. These eolts were sired by the famous stalliop, " Warrior," the pro- perty of Mr. yhas. Dalgleish, Chester- eld, and the price paid for them shows the quality of the animals. They were purchased by a gentleman from Col- orado. 1 - T. EL! Cooper, assistant -super- intendent of the Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal, diedlrather suddenly the other day from ,aneurism of the heart. Mr. Cooper entered the service of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway Company in 1856, as ticket agent at Brantford,. and continued on that road until its amalga- mation With the Grand Trunk, He was for a long time district superintendent at Toronto. -Mr, Geo. Wrigley, of Wallaceburg, and the editor of the Aylmer Hawkeye, are to join forces in East St. Thomas and publish a Knights of Labor organ, -Two young children in Toronto were poisoned the other day by eating chocolate -colored. candy. It`was thought one of them would die. • -The gale of last week drove- a de- tached piece of land to within half a mile of Hamilton piers, where the island settled 'in 42 feet of 'water; 15 or 20 poplar 'trees are growing on it, but the exact size of the island cannot yet be as- certained. It is not known where it came from. -Delegates from all the prominent poultry associations in Ontario were present at a meeting in Toronto, last week, of the Poultry Cornmitttee of the Industrial Exhibition Association, when the prize list for the corning show was revised, the totah amount of money to be given in prizes being over one thousand dollars. -A large party of well-to-do agricul- tural emigrants from England and Wales passed up the Canadian Pacific railway for Winnipeg last week. The majority had already secured home- steads at Calgary, Moose Jaw, and • Turtle Mountain, on which they intend settling with their families. -The final shipment of Canadian ex- hibits for the Colonial and' Indian Exhi- bition, amounting to between five and six hundred tons, will be made from Halifax shortly. -The cp,ptains of American fishing vessels visiting ports in Nova Scotia are reported as taking a4,very defiant atti- tude on the present aspect of the fishery question, and declare their intention of purchasing bait whenever and wherever they please, regardless of prohibition. -A leading cattle shipper in Mon- treal on being asked how soon shipments of cattle from the ranches in the North- west to England were likely to begin, replied :• The cattle ranches at pres- ent in °Ili Northwest have not any sur- plus from supplying the Indians on be- half of the Government. There will not likely be any Cattle down here for two or three years. -Ex-alderman McGill, of Brantford, recently signed what he thought to be a recommendation for a certain Brantford- ite, who was engaged to canvass for a Toronto house. The document has now turned out to be a bond for $300, and as the canvasser failed to perform his duties properly the Toronto people now want Mr. McGill to comedown with the cash. He will dispute the claim. -Mr. Ileckedorn, who resides near New Hamburg, was aroused the other night by a rap at his door. On the question being asked, "Who is there ?" the reply was "Give us out that $200 or we'll blow your brains out." Mr. Heckedorn retired at the back door to arouse some neighbors, and on their re- turn found the house ransacked but no money taken. A few days previously Mr. Heckedorn received an anonymous letter telling him to keep on hand $200. -Judge Elliott, of London, revising barrister for the north riding of Mid- dlesex, sat in the Town : Hall, Liman, Saturday, to consider the revision of the voters' lists of Lucan, Biddulph and Mc- Gillivray.. There were 28 applications from Lucan, 38 from Biddulph and 50 from McGillivray, all of which were al- lowed as voters except four from McGil- livray -tvhich were rejected as not having -the necessary qualifications. Sol White, M. P. P., for Essex county, and a prominent barrister, was indicted before the Assize court at Wind- sor last v -2 -eek for aggravated assault on an old farmer named _Reilly. One day last summer White hada dispute with Reilly about ,some farm stock, during which he assaulted the old man, pulled him out ,of his wagon and gave him a terrible beating. The indictment was continned by Justice Rose until the next term of the assize court. -A nmooth-toagued and sleek -man- nered stranger, who represented himself to be a deacon of a Baptist church in Oregon, which had been burned down, and that he was on a collecting tour to raise funds for its re -erection, was arrested in London the other day on a charge- of false pre- tences. , The sleek deacon succeeded in gulling quite a number of fieople, some of whom had their eyes opened on finding'him throwing dice with the bar- tender of a city hotel for the drinks. -Mr. Anderson, an Icelander from Winnipeg, appeared before the Commit- tee on Immigration at Ottawa the other day. Wheri he arrived in the North- west he was only a poor navvy. He worked, himself up• and attended the College so that he was able th write a work on the resoiirees of the Dominion for immigration purposes. This work was pronounced by Mr. Lowe th be of singular ability, and superior th any- thing yet written in this line. The work would fill a book of 200 pages. Ander- son waS an entire year in compiling the facts. -Mr D. A. McIntyre, a school teacher, died in the General Hospital, Guelph, Friday morning. Some six weeks ago one of his legs was mangled in a threshing machine horse power in Eramosa. The doctors decided that it was a case for amputation, but Mr. Mc- Intyre dreading the operation'and hop- ing to aave the injured limb, resisted this course. It had, however, to be re- serted to some days after the accident in consequence of mortification. After this thelIleg festered terribly, and this, together with continued diarrhea, ex- hausted his strength until there were no hopes of his recovery. -Mrs. E. Curme, mother-in-law of Rev. W. Burgess, of Listowel, died rather unexpectedly last week. She had been ailing only a few days. De- ceased was in her 75th year, and was a native of Wymondham, Eniland.