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7110141 NUMBER 961.
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1886.
McLEAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
'Pie New System
—OF—
Selling All Classes of
Boots & Shoes, Hats
and Caps
Close on• Cost
FOR CASH,
Has been adopted by
GEO. GOOD
With Great Success.
Our Boot and
Shoe
Stock never was SO complete before and under
the new system prices are lowerthan ever.
Butter and Eggs tak.en in exchange for Boots
and Sh oes.
Star Grocery.
Great Bargains in
Teas, Sugars, Coffees
and Fruit.
Also all Kinds of Gri)celles
We I have reduced our 25c Green Tea to 20c, a
reduction of 20 per cent.
Our 35c Green Tea to 28c, a reduction of 20
percent. :
Our 50e Green Tea to 42c, a reduction of 16
per cent. I
Our 60c Green Tea to 500, a red4ction of 17
per cent. !
Our 30c Mixed Tea to 25c, a rethiction of 18
per cent:
Our 40c Mixed Tea to 35c, a reduction of 15
percent. 1 .
Or 50e Mixed Tea to 42c, a redtiction of 16
per cent. • I
Our 30c Japan Tea to 25c, a redtictibn of 18
percent. I
Our '400 Japan Tea to 320, a redUction of 20
,
per cent.
Our 50e Japan Tea to 42c, a reduction of 16
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per cent. -
Our'30c Black Tea to 25c, a reduction of 18
i
per cent.
Our,50c Black Tea to 42c, a rediction of 16
percent.
Our'60c Black Tea to 50c, a reduction of 17
per cent.
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SAMPLES FREE.
GEO. GOOD.
tar ierby Climax Cattle rood now in stock.
NEW GO0i1S1
—AT THE—
Cheap Cash Store,
SM.A.PaRTI-1_
Just opened out New Dreip Goods,
New Ginghams, New Prints. New Shirt-
ings, New Cottons, 'Net* Tw eds, New
Embroideries, New Laces, Ner Corsets,
New 'Gloves, New Hose.
We have a large stock of Men'',
Youths', Boys' and Children's
soft •and Stiff Felt Hats
To clear at less than half wholesale cost.
Call and take a look through titem.
Also, Boy's Cloth Suits away below
wholesale prices at the
Chie
Cash Store
—OF—
Hoffman & Company,
Cardno's Block, Seetforth.
'A LETTER FROM CENTRAL
INDIA.
The following letter was written to
the Canadian Presbyterian by the Rev.
Mr. Wilson, formerly of St. Marys, and
who is well known to many of our read-
ers. He is now laboring as a missionary
in India:
MR. EDITOR,—An inward monitor
has been disturbing me lately, remind-
ing me that I have not been very punc-
tual in keeping my promise to write oc-
casionally to you. My theory about
writing letters from the mission field is
very good; but amid the multiplicity of
calls on time, I fear my practice is not
so good.
You have already had some account
of our physical environment. To give
you any adequate account of our moral
and social environment would require a
great many letters. But I can only re-
fer to some things in it just now. At
this particular time, during the waxing
of the moon of this month, it is unspeak-
ably bad, and until the moon becomes
full it will become increasingly so. Not
that the moon has anything to do with
our moral surroundings, but India is
just going into her annual mad fit of
licentious revelry; and for the next
week the lowest and basest impulses of
animal nature will hold complete sway
over man made in the image of God.
All classes and castes of Hindus, men
and women alike, give themselves up
for a time to wild riot. The Hindus
have many vile festivals, but the Holi,
which is in progress, is the vilest and
most unholy of them all. It is said to
be held in honor of Krishna's licen-
tious sports, and is kept as a complete
saturnalia. Red powders are daubed
on the images of the god ; and mixing
them in water his worshippers squirt
the red dye over one ,another. , None
but the most abandoned females ven-
-ture on thestreets, and even those who
remain in their houses are insulted by
the most ribald and impure exclamations
and jests by their own sons, brothers
and husbands. Drunken devotees dance
in commemoration of Krishna's sporting
and dancing with the gopis, or female
cowherds. Rough sports, obscene songs,
, loud, coarse music, midnight orgies and
L excesses of all kinds are the law.
The festival will close on the midnight
of the full moon, when a wheaten cake
will be baked on a pile lighted in every
village, and offered to the god. All this
is done in the name of religion.
For a short time our mission work
will be brought to a standstill. Boys will
not attend. the schools, and men will
not listen to the voice of the preacher.
During the festival of the Holi, India
truly seems possessed of an unclean
spirit.
0, India! How much thou needest
the Gospel of light and purity, and how
little thou feelest the need of it ! The
blinding power of sin is no mere dream
of preachers and theologians here. The
sick have need of the physician; but
the sad thing is that the masses in India
do not know that they are sick. Sin,
with them, does not mean opposition to
the will of a holy God, but merely the
omission of some silly, senseless, even
impure rite; and salvation is deliverance
from repeated , births. •
One needs to be brought into direct
• contact with a heathen people to know
the dreadful depths to which human na-
ture can fall. A false philosophy, large-
ly pantheistic, has blinded the minds of
the people to moral distinctions. When
one reasons with the worshippers of In-
dra, for example, and points out that his
reputed acts are foolish and sinful, and
unworthy of a god, the common reply
is: "Such things were not sin to him
To the all-powerful there is no sin."
In reference to their own crimes the
excuse of many is: "God is responsible
for it all. He made me, and dwells in
me, and what Can I 'do ?"
When we seek to explain God's reme-
dy for the world's evils we are met by
all kinds of objections, some of them
subtle and some of them silly, and some
of them, alas! only WO pertinent. Here
are the specimens of objections I have
met with: One man says: "There are
many ways to heaven; you Christians
go by one way, and we go by another."
Another says: " See ! your own people
are no better than we areand some are
a great deal worse." While a third
seeks to turn the argument by pointing
to the altars, crosses, candles, pictures
and images in Christian churches, say-
ing: " You tell us image worship is a
in, and yet you worship images in your
churches." • The people are very quick
in detecting our weak points, but very
' slow to realize that in Christianity,
apart from the lives of its professors,
there is a soul -cleansing and saving
power. But, as a rule, the people listen
attentfvely to the voice of the preacher,
and we know that words of truth will
not be lost.
A few weeks ago I went to Jawad,
large walled city about nine miles from
here. On the way out I met a, company
of Brahmin fakeers carrying water in
jars suspended from poles hung ever
their shoulders—holy water from the
Ganges which they were carrying to the
Nerbudda, as an act of merit. I dis-
mounted from my horse and told them
of the perfect merit of Christ. The only
response I got was, "God is one and his
names are a thousand." -
In Jawad, a white man standing in
front of their chief temple, speaking in
poor enough Hindi, awakened much in-
terest, and a great crowd gathered to
hear for, probably, the first time that
there is a living personal God, who loves
men, and who is willing to save them.
No opposition was offered, and when I
ceased preaching and strolled through
the city, a great crowd of men and boys
followed at my heels, curiously watch-
ing every movement of the padre sahib ;
and on leaving the place I was invited
to return and speak to them again on
these things.
This is the time of sowing. The time
of reaping will come by and by. The
heathen will one day be given to Christ
for his inheritance.
While there are many that raise ob•
jections to Christianity, there are many,
and many more than we know, perhaps,
who are secretly convinced that Christi-
anity is true, but because of caste are
afraid to avow it. Almost under our
very eves, however, we see the bonds of
caste breaking.,
Education and western civilization are
spreading, and the way of the Lord is
being prepared. Let all who have the
welfare of the race at heart labour on,
whether in India or Canada, and all
shall at last share in the glorious con-
summation. W. A. Wiesoet.
Neemuch, Central India, March 16th, 1886.
The following letter from the same
gentleman we take from the St. Marys
Argus of last week:
The purpose to write a few notes has
for some time been formed, but a multi-
plicity of things has kept it from coming
to light. We are now entering on our
hot weather season, after a very pleas-
ant ,winter, in which the temperature
sometimes, in the evenings and morn-
ings, fell so low that we were glad to
kindle fires in fireplaces better fitted for
filling the bungalow with smoke, father
than warmth. The cold of India is pe-
culiar. It is like most things in India,—
the contrary of Canadian cold. Can-
adian cold attacks you fairly and square-
ly from the outside, and you have little
trouble in defending yourself; but In-
dian COM creeps up stealthily, and takes
up its quarters in your very bones be-
fore you are aware of it. The poor na-
tives, half starved and half clothed, as
many of them are, are glad when the
winter is gone. Many of them live on
less than a penny a day, and for cloth-
ing they are content with a cotton
band around the loins by day, and a
cotton sheet thrown over them by night,
as they curl up to sleep under trees,
verandahs, carts- or any other available
shelter. Many children of the poorer
classes in the coldest weather are to be
seen running about clad only in their
brown skins, with a string. of beads
around the neck and some silver orna-
ments'around the ankles. As a rule, I
believe the natives of India like the warm
weather best. There seems to be less
sickness and disease then than in the
cold season; though really each season
seems to bring with it its own peculiar
disorders. This season, that is the tran-
sition from the cold to the hot season,
seems to be favorable for smallpox. It
is usually expected about this time.
At all events it is prevalent here, and
in all the villages round about. It is
no uncommon thing to come across chil-
dren in the bazaar with the characteris-
tic fresh ' scars ! over the face and arms,
scarcely liealed: Hitherto very little
has been done for this terrible scourge
among the people. They are as averse
to vaccination as the French Canadians,
and say that it is wrong to take medi-
cine for it. Smallpox is looked upon as
a visitation frone the gods, and what the
poor, ignorant ;people do is to erect
shrines and preient offerings to the god-
dess, who in her wrath sends the pesti-
lence. An afflicted mother, out of a
bare pittance, makes her offerings and
performs her. Penances that a beloved
son may 1 recover. Should he recover,
she attributes 'it to the merit of her•
offerings; should he die she attributes
it to some failure on her part to please
the goddess 1
It is t in times of sickneas especially
that the superstitions of the people ap-
pear. A short time ago the wife of our,
Sais (coachman) fell ill. As the Padre,
as the missionaries are called here, is ex-
• pected to care for the bodies of people,
as well as for their souls, I was sent for.
Having administered what I thought
would be a helpful remedy, I went back
to see how my patient was progressing.
-When to my wonder I saw the husband
holding under his wife's nosea small
vessel filled with burning coals, ' on
which some fragrant seeds had been laid.
When I asked what that was for he re-
plied, "It is to drive out the evil spirit."
The man is a Mabomedan ; but the
• Mahomedans are now among the lower
classes especially,- not much separated
from the IfindoOs in their superstitions,
and like them believe in charms and
amulets. A proud, self -conceited Ma-
homedan told me this evening that if he
held the Koran in one hand with the
other he could take up a scorpion and it
would not sting him: He proposed that
I should try the experiment with the
Christian, Bible, saying that if it suc-
ceeded he would become a Christian.- I
of course declined. This reminded ine
of Tyndal's prayer test. In India, as
well as in England, there are some minds
that4 can only appreciate evidences in
behalf of Christianity that appeal to the
outward senses.• 1
Indeed the Hindoos and Mahomedans
as a whole,support their religious beliefs
by reference, to the so -believed exploits
and vagaries of their gods and heroes.
and the most absurd, meaningless and
clumsy miracles.
• The other day, in reasoning with an
intelligent Hindoo merchant in the
bazar, on the vanity of worshipping
created objects, as trees, rivers' as mani-
festations of Deity, he pointedtriumph-
antly to ajar of Ganges water which had
been kept for twenty years without
spoiling. This was sufficient proof to
him that the Ganges is a god. Multi-
tudes of yagres or faguires do a thriving
business in this , Ganges water selling.
By carrying it from the river in large
vessels attached to bamboo poles, balanc-
ed over their shoulders, to distant parts
of the country, they Often receive large
sums from Rajahs and- wealthy people,
who hopeby securing the water and
_sprinkling it on the images of the gods
they worship, 0 gain union with deity,
as the rivers miegle with the-sea—the
highest consummation of their hopes. The
Brahma yogres, too, find the Ganges
water a paying business for both worlds,
for in addition t� the tangible harvest of
silver _coins, they suppose they shall
reap untold merit to stand to their ac-
count in the next world. Indeed it
seems as if the one half of the people
here lived on the ignorance and super-
stition of the other half. The work of
undermining and sapping the mass of
superstition that weighs down the people
of this land, is a slow and tedious one.
But amid all the diffieulties it is eurely
progressing; education is doing much.
The religious books are full of false
science, anchas education reveals to them
false science, it shakes their faith in the
Shastess, and in their whole religious
system. Multitudes are to -day clinging
to idolatry, no longer from conviction,
but frorn custom; but this is no feeble
bond—how strong, indeed, it is, one
needs to live in India to realize.
But I must closethis rambling letter,
by which I have endeavored to give you
some glimpses into life on this side of
the world. Had 1 time I would enjoy
sending more systematic accounts of the
customs and religions of the people. But
really this is hardly necessary, as so
much has been written on Indian life
that anyone who has access to a good
library can furnish the chambers of his
mind with accurate pictures of life in
this interesting land.
W. A. WILSON.
Canada.
The population of Berlin is 5,343.
— The population of Lucknow has in-
creased to 1,552.
—A Young Men's • Christian Associa-
tion has been Organized at Lindsay, with
over 100 members to start with.
—The North American hotel, at
Bracebridge, was burned down Friday
last. Loss $3,000, partly insured.
—The Magdalen Islands seal fishery
has been a great success this year, from
12,000 to 13,000 seals having been taken.
—At the Presbyterian Synod, at Galt,
it was decided to form a new Presby-
tery, with Orangeville at the head.
— Galt's population this year is 6,314,
being an increase of 308 over last year.
The town is making rapid trides city -
wards.
— Fred Weeks, of Woodstock, while
playing lacrosse the other evening met
with- a painful accident, his shoulder
blade being broken.
—The railing for Riel's grave in the
St. Boniface cemetery has been placed
in position. At the head is a plain
wooden cross, bearing the words " Louis
David Riel."
—Nissouri correspondents report that
Mr. McQuillan, who mysteriously dis-
appeared some days ago, probably skip-
ped out to dodge numerous importunate
creditors.
— -The Fat Stock Committee of the
Ontario Agricultural and Arts Council,
have decided to hold the next annual
Provincial Fat Stock Show in Guelph
on December 8th, 9th and 10th.
—Rev. John Douce, one of the pion-
eers of the Methodist church in Canada,
died in Toronto last Saturday. He was
ordained in 1834 and was about 80 years
of age. I
— Mr. T. Greenslade'a farmer living
near Allenford, was drowned one day
lately while rafting some logs across the
mill -pond at that place. He was 45
years of age and highly respected.
—Mrs. P. McHugh, of Lindsay, by
the breaking of a buggy axle, was
thrown out of the rig on her head and
face. She 'died shortly after of her in-
juries.
—The United Empire of the North-
west Transportation Company arrived
at Port Arthur Saturday evening, May
1st, the first steamer to reach that port
this season.
— At Toronto, Joseph Tighe got three
months in the Central Prison Monday
morning for brutally assaulting Sam
Lee, Chinese laundryman, on Saturday
night.
—A man who was walking on the
track at Galt, near the Credit Valley
crossing Saturday evening, was run
over and killed. He was respectably
dressed, and had a little money in his
pocket.
• —Five hundred well-to-do agricul-
taral immigrants from England who in-
tend to settle in the Northwest left
Montreal on Wednesday night last
week on the Canadian Pacific through
train for Winnipeg.
—Dr. McLay, of Woodstock, has met
with a painful accident. While work-
ing with some ammonia the chemical ex-
ploded in his face, some of it getting into
his eyes. He will probably be confined
to his house for some days.
—The well ktown importer of
thoroughbred horses, Mr. Charles Dal-
gleish, of Chesterfield, will shortly leave
for the old country to bring out some
more fine horse flesh. Mr. Dalgleish
has three stallions travelling now.
—While returning home the other
day from St. Marys the horse of Mr.
Wm. Burton, of East Nissouri, ran
-away, and in making a short turn Mr.
Burton was thrown out of the buggy
and had his shoulder dislocated.
— At a barn -raising in Guelph town-
ship the other day a bent slipped aud
fell. In its descent it slightly injured
many present, and seriously injured
George Fyfe. Mr. Fyfe had his back
and hip badly hurt, and was otherwise
seriously shaken up.
—John Fitzsimmons died at his resi-
dence, in West Nissouri, on Thursday
last week. He was an old settler, hav-
ing arrived in this country in 1836 with
his father'mother, wife and five
brothers. He settled in West Nissouri
when the place was a wilderness.
—The • immense stone foundry of
Copp Brothers, in Hamilton, was partly
destroyed by fire on Thursday morning,
last week. The fire was discovered
about 8:30 and coule not be got under
control until after 12, noon. So in-
tensly hot was the fire in the store room
that the stoves Could be seen to melt,
the molten iron running • over the floor
and carrying the fire with it. The fal-
ling of an interior wall and three or
four floors caused a great deal of stir
among the hundreds of people who
watehed with intense excitement the
progress of the flames. The floors, laden
with stoves, came down with terrible
crashes, depositing their valuable stock
in a heap below. It is marvellous that
me one was seriously hurt. The damage
amounts to upwards of $50,000, mostly
covered by insurance.
—Mr. Hodgens, Deputy Minister of
Education; has been named as commis-
sioner to investigate charges such as
rudeness to pupils," and using im-
proper influences to get trustees to vote
for him," pending against the Inspector
of Ridgetown.
—" Pica," the best man on the To-
ronto News, is a native of Waterloo
county. His father is Lewis Kribbs,
who, not many years ago, ran for Par-
liament in South Waterloo, in the• Con-
servative interest. " Pica " comes of
good Dutch stock.
—Mr. W. A. Carlyle of Woodstock,
headed the list at McGill College,
Montreal. He took first class honors in
Experimental Physics, Chemistry, Geol-
ogy, Mineralogy, English Materials,
Essays, 'Mining, Practical Chemistry;
and second in Descriptive Geometry and
Theory of gtructures.
—Officer John II. King, of the Chi-
cagapolice force, who had part of his
jaw carried away by the explosion and
received three bullets in his person
during the riots in that city last week,
is a Canadian, and formerly lived near
Paisley, in the county of Bruce.
—Miss M. Salmon, daughter of Rev.
John Salmon, of Toronto, who has been
teaching music in West Zorraefor sever-
al years resigned her position lately to
return home. Her pupils, previous to
her departure, presented her with a
handsome china tea -set. -
—At a barn -raising on Wednesday
last on the farm of Mr. James McWil-
liams, Westminster, a rafter fell, and in
the descent struck Mr. Robert Riddell
on the head, knocking him down, also
striking Mr. Leonard Wilkins on the
side of his head, making an ugly gash in
his cheek.
• —Dr. Allen, an old resident of Corn-
wall, is about removing .to the North-
west. He was the other evening given
a farewell entertainment by a r(umber of
his friends, at which he was presented
with an illuminated address accompanied
by a gold -headed cane and pair of gold
spectecles.
—The Manitoba Government will of-
fer a reward for information as to the
cause of death of one Knox, who is sup-
posed to have had a considerable sum of
money in his possession, and who had
mysteriously disappeared from Winni-
peg. A inurder is believed to have been
committed.
—A most disastrous fire occurred in
Hull, opposite Ottawa, last: Sunday
morning, involving a: loss of $200,000.
101 buildings, including the fine post -
office building built by the Dominion
Government at a Cost of $27,000 and
completed only one year ago are in
ruins. The burned district embraces
twenty acres. 1
— Mr. G. W. Thorp, recently sold a
50 -acre farm in West Garafraxa for
$3,000. The farm is said to be a bar-
gain at that price. Mr. Thorp intends
going out to his cattle ranchein the Al-
berta District in the Northwest, which
is composed of 53,000 acres. , He there-
fore disposed of the above property at a
low figure.
— A few days ago Mr. Morrison ship-
ped from Woodstock, per Canadian
Pacific Railway, between 70Q and 800
young cattle. They go forward to stock
a ranch at Fort McLeod, Northwest
Territory. They were all purchased. in
Oxford county, and will cost by the
time they reach their destination about
$35,000.
—The Waterloo Chronicle Of the 6th
inst says: The death of Mr. Noah
Bowman, of West Montrose, is reported
to have occurred on Tuesday morning.
Mr. Bowman was in town last week,
looking as usual. Be was a hale, hearty
man of about 62 or 63 we should judge,
and this notice of his sudden demise will
doubtless surprise many who knew him.
—A young lad about fourteen years of
age, and lately out from the old coun-
try, met with rather a peculiar acci-
dent at Wilton Grove. He was engaged
using a straw -cutter, .when by some
means.one of the fingers of his left hand
came in contact with the knives of the
machine, and, strange to say, split the
finger open lengthwise, doil no other
damage to the hand.
—Instead of the drawing classes car-
ried on so successfully during the last
two summers at the Education Depart-
ment, Toronto, the Minister of Educa-
tion proposes to give a grant ' of $20 to
each class of ten teachers formed in any
inspectoral division engaging" a compe-
tent teacher. The course to consist of
30 lessons of two hours each.
—The Reeve Deputy -Reeve and Mr.
Webster, of Reeve,
prominent in pro-
moting the Scott Act in Brnt county,
and members of the county ouncil,were
•on Monday night 3rd inst., hung in effigy
to the telegraph poles in the main street of
Paris. Great indignation is expressed
by the respectable portion of the towns-
people at this outrage.
—One who has kept record says this
is' the earliest season in sixteen years for
vegetation of all. sorts. C erry, pear
and plum trees are now in fill blossom,
and apple trees are rapidly opening out;
and all the indications are fpr a luxuri-
ant yield. . The blossoms on the white
plum showed on Saturday, April 24.
The earliest heretofore was on April 27,
)871.
—All the parties wanted by the
authorities in connection with the Kep-
pel tragedy are now confined in jail at
Owen Sound. The last person arrested
was James R. Steinoff, otherwise John
Wilson, otherwise Joe Schell. The
Provincial constable traced him to a
farm in the township of Elderslie, in
Bruce county, where he was keeping out
of the way.
—The wife of John De
Chestnut street, Toronto, di
day under most distressi
stances. Mrs. Demele had
ing clothes and contracted b
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been wash-
ood poison-
ing through a small cut in one of her
fingers. The poisoned finger and the
adjoining one were taken off by the at-
tending - physician, who was, however,
unable to save her life. Deceased leaves
one child, having buried another only a
couple of weeks ago.
—On Sunday, 25th of April, the b • dy
of the lad James L. Sterling, brother of
W. Sterling, V. S., of Waterloo, as
found in the river at New _Hamburg i a
good state of • preservation. It will be
remembered that the unfortunate li tle
fellow was accidentally drowned on he
4th of January by- falling into he
stream, theforceOf which drew 1 im
under heice.
—Messrs.- J. M. Barnard and C. V.
Perrin of St. Ives, North Middles x,
were fined $4 each and costs last w ek
for catching black bass out of seas D.
Mr. Barnard was also charged with ot
having the fish -run on his dam in pro er
order. He agreed to repair it imm di-
ately, and with the consent of he
Fishery Inspector he was let off witl a
fine of only $4 and costs.
—The American Paper Manufactur rs'
Association enibraces all the factories in
the country, numbering probably 1,0)0,
representing a capital of $75,000„
employing between 40,000 and 50, 00
hands at a cost of $12,000,000 annua ly.
These factories pay $50,000,000 per
num for for raw material alone, and ti ey
can turn out 1,200,000 tens of manu ac-
tured product.
—Andrew Sherman, farmer, of Ty n -
(linage, near Belleville, aged 60, ,as
killed by dynamite on Saturday 1 st.
He went out in the morning to blas a
rock, and about 10 o'clock a loud re ort
was heard. Two hours later his on
went over to the field and found his
body literally blown into pieces. A
large hole wee blown through the bo y,
pieces of flesh being found sixty eet
away. Deceased was highly respec ed
throughout the townehip.
—At 2 o'clock Monday morning a
occurred in a, small frame buildin
Owen Sound, which was totally
stroyed. There were four young
sleeping up -stairs in the house at
time, one of whom, Henry Arche
shoemaker, lost his life. Peter Bruc
room -mate of Archer, was also ba
burned in making his escape. The ot
two barely eseaped with their li
jumping from the window in ti eir
night-clothes.
. —One' day lately Mr. John S. Ha
of Orangeville, was suffering with a
stomach, and was told that nutm
were good for the ailment. He ate
nutmegs and paid pretty dearly th
for. A short time after taking t
he became stupid, appeared half p
lyzed and was taken to his home
parently more dead than alive. A
tor was called and soon brought •
around. Nutmeg is poison, the tak'ng
of two drachms generally proving fa al.
—Miss Belwood, of Dutton had an
amputation performed recently. his
was the fifth time she had been un i er
the influence of chloroform. In he
first place she had her arm broken, nd
it was not properly set, and. had to be
rebroken. Then it was put up in plater
of Paris. It appears that was too h rd,
and prevented the circulation of blo d,
so that instead of uniting it begs, to
decay, and it had to be amputa ed.
Still not being properly done, it as
taken off again, about one and a haif
inches above the elbow:
—At Montreal on Saturday Judge
Tachereau, in the Supreme Court, g ve
judgment in the case of Dame Rosa ne
Carr against the city, .plaintiff claim ng
$10,000 damages, for injuries recei -ed
by falling on a slippery sidewalk du ng
last wincer. The court held the city
sponsible and gave judgment -for pl
tiff in the sum of $800, to be paid d
at once, or an annuity of $120 a yea
be paid during the lifetime of the pl
tiff.
—Mr. A. P. Cockburn, M. P., G n-
eral Manager of the Muskoka and Ni is -
sing Navigation Company, has just ad
a boat built on a new principle, from de-
signs of his own, for use by his ci m-
pany. The boat was recently launc ed
at Burk's Falls, Ont., and has ben
found to work admirably indeed, he
captain has telegraphed Mr. Cockb rn
that "she is a credit to her design r."
She is best described as a combi .ed
paddle and screw general pur ose
steamer, and can run either with p d-
dles or screw, or with both.
—At the Bruce Assizes, recently h ld,
the case of McMillian vs. the Gr at
Northwestern Telegraph Company c me
up for hearing. Plaintiff was inju ed
about a year ago by a telegraph • ole
thrown from a train while in motion be-
tween Mildmay and Walkerton b a
repairer in the services of the Telegr ph
Company. The pole bounded along he
track and struck McMillan in he
stomach, injuring him so that he is ot
yet able to work. The case was eet ed
without going to the jury by the c m-
pany agreeing to pay $900 damages nd
costs.
—A Toronto paper says: A cro
gathered about 7 o'clock on Friday ni
on Centre street to witness a pugil.
encounter between " Buck " Mad
and Wm. Churchill. The row star
on account of -some insinuating rema
thrown out by Churchill about Made
wife. Madern seemed to be getting
,worst of it, when his better and Ing
half rushed to the -rescue and -alm
pounded Churchill's face to a jelly w
she held him down on the ground, d
ing which operation she kept ejacul
ing, "if you can't lick him I can."
—The Dominion cruising stem
Lansdowne arrived in the harbor at
John, New Brimswick, on Saturd
having in tow the Gloucester, Mas
chusetts, schooner David J. Ada
which was captured at Digby on Fri
for violating the treaty of 1818, in go
into a Canadian harbor after bait.
prize was placed in the hands of
Customs authorities pending the act
of the Admiralty Court. The cr
thirteen in number, reported at
American consul's office and were
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settle the question whether Canada has
any right to prevent -American vessels
going Canadian harbors for bait, ice
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—Five French-Canadian lads belong-.
ing to very respectable families in Mon-
treal, after being repeatedly refused by -
their parents to be allowed to take a
voyage across the ocean, have just taken
the matter in their own hands and left
New York a few days ago, having en-
gaged themselves as cabin boys on
board a vessel going to Havre. Before
embarking, however, and immediately
after they had crossed the lines, they
informed their parents of their de- _
termination. Time will tell how thee
young travellers will enjoy their trip to
old France.
—A few days ago Joseph Quinn, 'for-
reierlY of Chatham, was shot at his cat-
tle ranche, fifteen miles south of Bran-
don, by a woman known as Della Mon-
tague. She first met Quinn a short
time previous at her house in Brandon.
She rode to Quinn's ranche, called -him
outdoors and demanded that he marry
her. He refused and ordered her away,
whereupon she fired a bullet which hit
Quinn in the neck. The wound is not
serious. The woman then hastened
back to 13randon, where she was arrest-
ed. She is said to be the daughter of a
wealthy family in Chicago.
—A moving event -occurred during
Thursday night last week, near the
Great Western railway station at Dun-
das. A mass of the mountain, four
hundred feet long, one hundred feet
wide and about forty feet deep, slid
down on the track, _completely shutting
off all traffic for the time being. The
surface in many places presents as calm
and unruffled an appearance as if it had
never taken the fearfivl jump from
above, and the sod is undiatifibed.
There are dozens of sumach treee, some
willow, and an especially fine specimen
of balsam growing over the spot -where
the trains used to pass.
—At Windsor, on Friday last, -while
one of the employes of the Windsor
Hotel was at work in the cellar of the
house he found the dead body of a child.
Suspicion pointed to one of the girls em-
ployed in the house named Elizabeth
Burr. When taken to the lock-up the
girl confessed that she had strangled the
child and then kept the dead body un-
der the mattress on her bed for three or
four days, after which she placed it in
the cellar to await_ an _opportunity of
taking it downto the river. When found
the body had a string drawn tightly
around its neck which showed plainly
how it came to its death. The coroner's
jury brought in a verdict to the &ea
that the child had come to its death by
strangulation at the hands of its mother.
She was taked to Sandwich jail to await
her trial.
—The Wiarton Echo tells a sad
story concerning Mr. Thos. Galbraith,
of Colpoy's Bay village. He was brought
before the magistrates of that place • last
week on a charge of vagrancy, but as
the case could not be throughly proven
he was disinissed. He walked out on
the dock and attempted suicide by
jumping into the bay, but. was rescued.
Mr. Galbraith's case is an extraordinary
one, he being in January last consid-
ered the wealthiest man in Albemarle,
courted and respected; to -day he is an
out -cast, and one who no one wishes to
harbor. -In 1882, on his arrival from
Ireland, he won the affections of a young
lady in the neighborhood, and the
coupre were married. It has since
transpired, being told by himself, that
he has a wife living in Ireland. Mr.
Galbraith is put down by the Echo as
arbitrary and unmanageable, and filthy
beyond forbearance.
—The Toronto News of Tuesday says:
The farewell services at the Salvation
Army Temple last evening were attend-
ed by a large number of citizens and
soldiers. Commissioner Coombes con-
ducted the services and made a stirring
appeal to the Army to be staunch -and
progressive during his absence. Several
of the officers gave accounts of their
conversion, and three Indians from the
Six Nation tribe also gave their religious
experience. Those officers and members
of the Army who are going to England
to attend the international congress of
the .Army are: Commissioner Coombes
and Mrs. Coombes,Sta,ff-Captain Glover,
Captains Fisher, Freer, Carpenter,
Scott, Jones, Zimmerman and wife, and
Godfrey, Cadet Paul, Lieutenant Jones
and six Indians. Commissioner and
Mrs. Coombes will sail on the 15th on
the Aurania, and the others on the 12th
from New York on the Assyrian. Cap-
tain Godfrey and several others will at-
tend the traieing school in London, and
the others will return to Canada in
about three months. The command of
the Army in the Dominion will devolve
during Commissioner Coombes' absence
upon Captain Margetts. During the
services last evening several beautiful
solos were given by Captain and Lieu-
tenant Jones,
—The Wing -ham Times says that a
lady in that town ate 14 eggs for dinner
on Easter- Sunday, and that she still
lives. This was done for a bet of 50
cents, and her opponent, a gentlemen,
stuck at the eleventh egg. That lady
will never die of dyspepsia.
—Among a lot of cattle shipped from
Clinton last week was a cot* purchased
from Mr. John Cornish, of Hullett,
which weighed over 1,500 Ths., and s.
pair of young steers, bought from the
Messrs. Stanbury, of the London Road,
which weighed 3,256 lbs.
—The assessment roll of the township
of Stephen shows that the value of real
property is $i,777,418; income, $800;
personal property, $36,325. There are
463 dogs, 1,111 horses, 809 hogs, 1,984
sheep, 1,779 cattle. The population is
given at 4,034, and there were 27 deaths
and 515 births,