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EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 967
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SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 25,
1886.
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42e G-reen, are giving lereat satisfaction.
Another big la, of Raisins at 5c per
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—AT THE—
Cheap Cash Store,
Dress Goods,
Prints,
Corsets,
Bustles,
Buttons,
Mantle Ornaments,
Silk Gloves,
Dress Mullins,
Ginghams,
Hoop Skirts,
Parasols,
Dress Clasps,
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NOTICE.
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call and get one before the supply runs
out -
A COUNTY POOR HOUSE.
To the Editor of Tim HURON ExPowoR.
DEAR Sta,*--With your permission I
beg leave to make a few remarks on
your able article of the llth hist., on a
House of Refuge. I suppose I am one
of the "Stalwarts," having voted against
•the $15,000 for the erection of a poor
house, consequently it will not be, I
trust, out of place to term our oppon-
ents " Pigmies, ' but I fail to see what
either term serves in the discussion of
this question. If it cannot stand on its
own merit let it go. Judge Price in his
address to the grand jury at Kingston
on -the 8th of Jpne, advocating a change
in the maintenance of paupers, said
"Each municipality should take care of
As poor, and thus avoid the imposition
now practised upon private charity and
scandals now incidental in the treatment
of paupers." Since I had a seat in
the council I advocated that course
which is the .proper one 1th pur-
sue. It would be very pleasant to the
ordinary individual to be held -up by the
press of his county as being liberal, bene-
volent, humane, tender, progressive, and
possessed of every characteristic which
enobles mankind. But if my conscienti-
ous convictions must be sunk to obtain
such approbation, I at least prefer to
follow the tenor of my convictions. I
am not aware that -public opinion is
changing in this mattere As the coun-
cil now stands there is a majority of
eight against it if all were present, and
voted, while ten years ago it was defeat-
ed by only two of a majority. We have
no organ who represents the majority
in the council, while every newspaper in
the county, without exception, _ repre-
sents public opinion in the towns and
villages only, on this question but I
deny that they reflect public opinion in
the rural districts, with a few excep-
tions, if judged by their representatives.
Those who represent the rural districts
surely know what they are doing. They
are just as intelligent and .benevolent
towards the poor, and send as few to the
county jail, an abominable practice to be
committed by a Christian community.
Many of those who prate about the poor
being sent to jail for no other crime than
being poor, are the very municipalities
who fill the county jail with the pooreon.
the false pretence that they are. unable
to provide for them, whiles thousands
are spent in luxury and folly. I hold
that every municipality has a right to
support their own poor, recognizing that
we have the poor always with us, hon-
estly and manfully pay for them out of
the funds of their municipality, not
striving to place their legitimate burdens
principally upon the township -munici-
palities, and make them pay to -keep the
poor. The establishment of a poor
house would, I admit, be an excellent
arrangement for the to' ns and villages.
,The whole of them put together would
pay very little more than the township
of Howick alone, for the erection and
maintenance of a poor house. If the
town of Seaforth paid double what it
does now after the house was erected in
support of their poor, I -would then free-
ly admit that charity was the ruling 'ele-
ment in its advocacy. But I know their
proportion would be a trifle to what
they say it is now, I am wicked enough
to believe that with them and others this.
may be the ruling motive in its advo-
cacy. It is nonsense to tell us that the
keeping of the poor in Waterloocost the
county only $38.13. There is nothing
included in that statement but food and
clothes'all other expenses are left out,
viz., interest on capital and -sinking
fund, and officials, and $4,000 expended
last year on permanent improvement
was not estimated, nor $2,420 for inter-
est and sinking fund, in fact by keeping
items such as these out of the statement
you can make the cost of maintenance
anything you please, and besides 10
cents per day is no great luxury to sub-
sist on. But even if we had the total
cost per inmate,Waterloo is notreproper
comparison with the county of Huron.
The county of Middlesex erected a poor
house which cost $30,000; Welling-
ton, $24,000; and Waterloo, $22,000.
The cost of inmetes per Week in
the county of Middlesex, adding in-
terest on capital, pay and board of of-
ficials, was $1.71/ per week, 14 cents
per day. Waterloo, counting ,all out-
lay, cannot be much less. I have a de-
tailed statement from the county of
Middlesex, which gives the exact cost
for _188l, and the total cost of maintain-
ing their house was $7,212.75; but the
sinking fund is not included, which in
all probability would bring the -,cost of
maintene,nce up to $8,000, less $18.35
worth of produce sold off the farm.
That our poor house would only cost
$15,000 is mere guess work; that
amount being put -in the report because
there was some hope of it being earned
by making the sum smaller. But even
if it could be built for that, the cost
of maiutenance would be the smite, less
interest and sinking fund on $15,000.
You require a keeper, matron, inspector,
engineer, medical doctor, one male ser-
vant and female servant. All these in-
cidental expenses must be included in
the cost of maintenance. This:method
of keeping the poor would be antiexcel-
lent arrangement for the towns: If I
am not mistaken, it would double the
cost of keeping the poor to each. town-
ship. For every dollar Seaforth" would
pay Grey would pay about $5, and it is
time this should cease. Farmers can-
not bear any more burdens, in all con-
science we bear enough already. If the
poor cannot be maintained, Iiiiwever,
without this I am willing to keep them.
But I am not willing to bear this extra
expense when the poor can be kept hap-
pier and betterifor at least the one-half
of the expense to my township. I will
be told I am narrow, prejudieed and
ignorant. That may all be, but I am
willing to incur the odium and abide by
the consequence. I am not going to be
hoodwinked -into this measure, as, I am
thoriinghly acquainted with all. its re-
sults. I have many other objections
which I need not now enumerate, but I
know if that amount was expended in
maintaining the poor at home there
weeild be no necessity for sending them
to jail or poor house. By inserting the
above you will oblige, Yours Truly,
THOMAS STEACHAN.
Brussels, June 17th, 1886.
[ED. NOTE.—While Mr. Strachan
makes out about as good a case as is
possible from his side of the question, it
would not be difficult to satisfactorily
answer every point he raises in oppo-
sition to the poor house. We leave this
task, however, to some of his fellow
councillors. But, as Mr. Strachan
seems to call in question the reliability
of the figures we gave, we may say that
our estimate did include the entire an-
nual cost, viz., interest on capital ac-
count, sinking fund and the entire
cost of maintenance, and the whole only
amounted to $19 more than is now paid
by the several municipalities. Mr.
Strachan can verify this statement by a
reference to the. reports submitted to
and received by the county council of
which he is a member. It is quite
gratuitous on Mr. Strachan's part to say
or even insinuate that THE EXPOSITOR
supports the poor house scheme because
it would lighten thetaxes of the town of
Seaforth. Such an argument ; is un-
worthy of a gentleman of Mr. Strachan's
ability and intelligence,and only serves to
show the weakness of his position. We
do not know of a single individual in
Seaforth that is eligible for a poor
house, while we know of at least two in
Mr. Strachan's own municipality that
would be in a poor ho-iise did one exist.
But aside from this, THE EXPOSITOR
does not discuss public questions ,on any
such narrow premises.]
Notes from Southern Manitoba.
(Froin Our Own Correspondent.)
During the list half of May and up to
the 10th inst. we, in Manitoba, had a
spell of very dry weather, so dry, in-
deed, that farmers were beginning to
complain of the drouth. But the past
few days have even us plenty of warm,
showery weather, which has freshened
thecrops wonderfully, and rendered the
prairie sufficiently moist for breaking.
June is regarded here as the rainy
nionth, but until the date mentioned
people were beginning to fear that the
month of rains would go back on its re-
cord, a condition which would not be
desirable, as it is during this month that
breaking must be done. It is next to
impossible to get on with this work
when the prairie is dry and hard. So
that rain, after seeding is over, is very
welcome, and, now that it has come,
farmers are happy. There is no time of
the year, next to harvest, when Mani-
toba looks as attractive as now. In our
own county, the banner county of the
Province, we have the green carpeting
of the virgin prairie dotted here and
there at short intervals with patches of
a deeper and richer green, which later
on will take a golden hue and finally
evolve into fields of number one hard.
Away to the north and east may be seen
the dark foliage of the woods which
border the Pembina river—a. pleasing
-break toe the monotoey,of prairie land-
scape.
THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT.
The prospector no longer travels
through Southern Manitoba by buck-
board, or wagon, or saddle, or "hoof,"
as was the common though inelegant
expression. Starting Winnipeg, he
will leave that city in the morning about
eight o'clock, and about the same hour
in the evening he finds himself in the
bran new town of Boissevain, Turtle
Mountain county, the present terminus
of the Southwestern Railway. But a
year or two ago the settler waded
sloughs, and fought mosquitoes for more
than a week to make the same trip. Of
course the railway is more direct than
the old trails, and the distance travelled
by wagon in those days was nearly
double that by rail now.
KEEN COMPETITION AND STERN RIVALRY.
The construction of this line has done
Much towards laying the spirit of dis-
content which for several years stalked
through Southern Manitoba. Although
there was not a little growling last
winter, caused in a great measure by the
damage to crops from early frost, and
by the low prices for good wheat, still
the building and operation of the road
has greatly modified the discontent.
The railway; however, has been the
means of producing a state of affairs be-
tween rival towns which is in every way
undesirable. In our county we have
three towns on the line of railway with-
in a distance of ten miles, viz.: Clear-
water, Crystal City and Pilot Mound.
The strongest rivalry exists between the
two last mentioned. The towns are five
miles apart, and they watch each other
with great jealousy—a jealousy which,
to some of the residents of each place,
has become a mania. The struggle of
each thwn is to get the lead in the hope
that the other will die a natural death.
It would- be amusing, if it were not so
contemptible, to see men who for years
have been fast and warm friends, be-
come the most uncompromising of
enemies, because they happen to reside,
the one in Pilot Mound, the other in
Crystal City. Nothing is too bitter or
too false for them to say of each othera
and what may seem strange, those. who
are bitterest and falsest are those who
he the least at stake—who do not own
a foot of property in either of the towns.
Those who have the most at stake,
while using every honorable means to
advance their town, are willing to admit
that the world in general, and Manitoba
in particular, were not made especially
to promote the interests of such town at
the expense of a rival. But the irre-
sponsible whipper -snappers, big with
their own importance, encourage every-
thing tending to keep lip the rivalry,
and by their _underhand scheming drag
others whb ought to know better into
their quarrels. In their philosophy
they do not dream of such an adage as
" Live, and let live."
LOCAL -POLITICS.
Election matters are beginning to
claim attention from the people, though
it is not expected that the elections will
be held until after harvest. Both par-
ties are organizing for the fight, and
both are confident of success. The Re-
distribution Bill, recently passed, which
onght to be called a Gerrymander Bill,
will, no doubt, somewhat handicap the
Liberals. Several of the " pocket -
boroughs " on the Red River, with only
500 or 600 of a population, have been
retained. When taxed with the in-
justice of allowing these parishes to re-
main on an equal footing with western
constituencies, having from 5,000 to
7,000 of a population'the Premier gave
as his reason for so doing that the old
ties and associations which clustered
round these "boroughs" must not be
rudely broken and cast aside. There
was considerably more poetry than
argument abbut this style of reasoning,
but the Premier's follow ers would rather
deal in poetry than in argument, and
the parishes- remain. Organization
grows apace i -however, and despite the
Gerrymandet Bill the Liberals are con-
fident of winning the day. In our own
constituencyo that of Mountain, which
was changed somewhat by the above
13111, Thoma ii Greenway, leader of the
Liberal party, will again be the candi-
date. He has represented the Riding
Mime its fonnation, and the bold stand
taken by hint for the rights of Manitoba
when he was almost- alone in their ad-
vocacy in the Assembly, renders him
certain of reselection. The Norquay
party are at a loss for some one to op-
pose him. They do not intend to allow
a walk -over, and any of the Norquayite
aspirants to whom the matter has been
broached are, loth to undertake the ex-
pense of an election simply for the pur-
pose of becoining a defeated candidate
for a party Which is likely to lose their
grip on the tteasury benches at an early
-date. But then " this Greenway must
not be alloveed a walk -over," and no
doubt the Norquayites will drum up
'some one who will offer himself up in the
interests of the party. X.
Rock Lake County, June 14, 1886.
Canada.
In Kingston district there are 27
Salvation Army outposts.
— Montreal citizens have sent $3,000
to relieve burned out Vancouver.
—A lady caught in one day 204 trout
in a small lake near the Batiscan river,
Quebec.
—The Loyal and Patriotic Union of
Toriento have sent another $1,000 to help
the Irish Loyalists.
—W. E. Patterson, of Guelph, has
been fined $50 and costs for a violation
of the Scott Aot.
—Last Sabbath was the 49th an-
niversary of the day on which our
good Queen Victoria commenced her
reign.
- Wm. Baker, the veteran mer-
chant of Ayr, took in on one day lately,
over a ton of butter, and 600 dozen eggs.
Not bad for one day's purchase.
—The immigrant agent- at Kingston
has received two thousand applications
for domestic servants and has not as yet
filled one-fifth.
—Three hundred car -loads- of gravel
are being brought from Komoka for the
improvement of the roads in Strathroy
and surrounding townships.
—Mr. S. F. Wrigley has purchased
the seven -acre swamp lot behind the
school -house in Ayr, from Mr. Robert
Black, for $300. Cheap enough.
—A four year old child fell from a
four -storey window in Montreal the
other day and was internally injured,
besides breaking one of its legs.
—A large niarble monument, erected
by Mr. Walter, Barrie, North Dumfries,
in memory of his late wife, was placed
in position in Ayr cemetery a few days
ago.
—The residence of Mr. Daniel Mc-
Lean, on Wellesley Crescent, Toronto,
has been purehased by a New York
lady. The price realized was $32,000
cash.
—On Saturday evening a freight train
was derailed near Brantford by a mis-
placed switch, five cars being thrown
over a steep embankment and badly
wrecked.
— A calf, only three days old, belong-
ing to Mr. Angus McLeod, of the 4th
concession of Kinloss, ran away to the
woods, where it remained twelve days
without food. -
—A shipment of its creamery'butter
has been made by the Ontario Agricul-
tural College, from Guelph to Edinburgh,
Scotland, and it is intended to continue
consignments.
— Grain shipments from the west over
the Canadian Pacific Railway have in-
creased so enormously that the company
intend building another mammoth ele-
vator in Montreal, to cost $200,000.
—During May the depoaits and with-
drawals in the Postoffice Savings Banks
were respectively $671,850 and $600,-
296. The balance to the credit of de-
positors on May 31st was $16,405,049.
—The crops throughout the Province
of Quebec are ih a most flourishing con
dition, and etre promise of a larger
yield than for many years past. The
harvest will be considerably earlier than
usual.
- —Mr. Duncan McIntyre, of Canadian
Pacific Railway fame, has purchased
fifteen acres of land within the city
limits of Montreal, belonging to the
family of Mr. Coursol, M. P., for $175,-
000.
— At Kingston a lad named Mawhin-
ney fell in the water opposite the bar-
racks, when Gunner Boutilier leaped in,
and, after shoving the boy to the wharf,
took cramps and sank. Gunner Lang-
lois, who was in the hospital and has
been unable to move about for some
time, having rheumatism, saw him sink.
The sight gave him the use of his limbs,
and leaping down -stairs he plunged into
the lake and rescued his drowning com-
rade. When Langlois drew himself out
of the water he was unable to walk back
to the hospital. Both soldiers were
highly complimented by the Colonel for
their bravery.
—Thelast small -pox patient, a child,
was discharged from the Montreal hos-
pital on Tuesday, and now the city is
free from the plague.
—Mr. Hugh Sutherland, M. P., in a
letter just received at 'Winnipeg, ex-
presses himself as assured of the success
of the Hudson Bay Railway project, and
is convinced that the work will be com-
menced this year.
.—Mr. Thos. Biekle; an old and re-
spected reOdent of Cobourg, was clean-
ing an old Colt's revolver when a cham-
ber which he thought was empty was
discharged the bullet passing through
his heart, dlling him instantly.
—There have been seventeen entries
for prize farm competition in connection
with the Agricultural and Arts Associ-
ation of 0 tario. The Judges started
out on Monday to visit the competing
farms.
—Alex. 13nrnett, one of the old pion-
eers of Galt and North Dumfries, died
at his residence in Galt on Wednesday
last week, in the 91st year of his age.
For a number of years he occupied the
position of market clerk. '
—Lady Macdonald has gone by the
Canadian Pacific railway to Regina,
North West Territory,"where she will
remain as the guest of Lieutenant Gov--
ernor and Mrs. Dewdney, until the ar-
rival of th Premier on his way to the
Pacific province.
—The children of Mrs. Robertson, of
, a few clays ago were driv-
oughbred cow and a steer
gh the bush, when a large
over by the force of the
on both. of the animals, kill-
tright.
ther day 'Mrs. Donald Mc-
arriston, while attempting
e grass with a sharp sickle,
severed her forefinger mid -
Eden Mill
ing a tho
home thro
tree, blow
wind, fell
ing thern o
—The
Niven, of
to cut so
completely
way betwe n the first and second joints,
also inflicting an ugly gash on the second
finger. i
—One drier lately Mr. Geo. ROBS, jr.,
of the 2n4 concession of Kinloss, was
training a stolt to drive single, and while
doing so the animal became unmanage-
able and he, was thrown from the rig,
breaking one of his legs, and was other-
wise hurt. ,
—Rev. John Irvine, who for many
years was 'pastor of the Glenallan and
Hollin Presbyterian churches, died at
his residenee, near Harriston, on Satur-
day, 12th inst. The deceased gentleman
was well and favorably known through-
out Peel arid Maryborough. ,
—The attendance at the Toronto
musical felstival last week was as fol-
lows: Tuesday, 2,600; Wednesday,
matinee, 2,400; Wednesday evening,
3,200; ThArsday, 3,300; total, 12,000.
About 11,0 people attended the public
r
rehearsal o Wednesday night.
—At th meeting of the Waterloo
County Connell last week a grant of
$800 each was made to the Berlin High
School ancl Galt Collegiate Institute.
The sum o $300 was also granted to
aid the sufferers by the disastrous fire
at VancouVer, British Columbia.
—A convict named Verdun, who was
recently released from St. Vincent de
Paul penitentiary, where he was serving
a four year' sentence for highway rob-
bery, on the doctor's report that he was
dying, was arrested for burglary in Mon-
treal on Sa urday morning;
—A fin maskinonge, weighing -14i
Ms., was aught by some boys while
trolling with an ordinary bass spoon in •
the St. Lawrence river in the vicinity of
Morrisburg. The boys. had all they
could do to, get the finny monster secure-
ly into the boat.
ii
—A seven-year-old son of Mr. J. Car-
penter, of Brockville, was riding on a
waggon load of manure, and the wheels
suddenly going down into a rut the boy
was thrown off, and the wheel passed
over his head, crushing his skull and
killing him instantly.
—At the closing exercises in connec-
tion with ,Torooto Normal School the
Prince of IWaleg', gold medal was pre-
sented to Miss Mary Ann Moir, of Can-
field, Haldimand, the student who had
the highestinumber of marks in all sub-
jects, including teaching.
—The young lady, Miss Shearer, who
was missing from the 9th concession,
Culross, f a couple of weeks, was
oil
brought hoe on Friday by a farmer
from the vi inity of Brume's, where she
had wandeeed. Her return has relieved
her friends of a great amount of anxiety
on her accoimt.
—The other day Mr. Angee, of Palm-
erston, drOve to Ha.rriston to visit
friends: lit the evening as he was just
stepping into the buggy to return, the
horse made a bolt and started off, never
stopping until he arrived at his own
stable in Palmerston. The buggy was
badly wrecked, but the horse escaped
injury.
—Rev. Hugh McKay, a missionary of
the Presbyterian Church among the In-
dians of the Northwest, lectured in
Chalmer's ehurch, Woodstock,last Wed-
nesday night. The Presbyterian church
has no more brave or devoted missionary
than Mr. i McKay. His narrative of
the late rebellion was very interesting.
—Six carloads of immigrants ex steam-
ships Sarnia and Manitoba, arrived at
the Union station, Toronto early Friday
morning. Thirty-five children were on
the train, 'destined for the Home in
Hamilton. i About four carloads out of
the total number remained in Toronto,
the others went west.
--There ?las just been completed at
the Windsor Carriage Factory, Mon-
treal, an elegant phmton, built expressly
to the ordeir of Mrs. Samuel Morran, of
Auckland, New Zealand. The frame is
of second -growth ash, the panels of
whitewood and the wheels of second -
growth hierkory. The body, which is
supported on four springs, has a pro-
minent English splashboard, and a seat
behind for a footman. The phreton is
fitted both with shafts and a pole, and
so can be drawn either by a single horse
or pair. Altogether this is a piece of
work which does credit alike to the
firm in that distant land and the Do-
minion, and will be a good representa-
tive of the skill and mechanical ability
of Canadians.
•—Detectives on Wednesday last week,
raided the premises of John Smart, of
Owen Sound, and discovered a complete
set of tools for coining bogus silver, and
a quantity of coin in different stages of
manufacture. Smart was arrested, and
the police are on the look -out for his
supposed accomplices.
—A happy lot of deaf and dumb child-
ren arrived in London__ the other even-
ing by therrand Trunk en route to their
homes. Ten or twelve changed cars for
St. Thomas, and 22 went on towards
Windsor. Mr. Mathison, the superin-
tendent of the Institution at Belleville,
was with them.
--Walter Young, of Crowland, Wel-
land county, got married a short tine
ago. A lot of young fools charivaried
him, and he closed the programme with
a shotgun, filling some of the charivarists
full of shot. He was arrested and was
tried at St. Catharines, Wednesday last
week. The jury acquitted him.
--The well-known Kennedy family of
vocalists sailed for Canada on the 3rd
inst. They will open their concerts in
Halifax and work their way west, ar-
riving in Toronto during the time of
holding the Industrial Exhibition there.
It is their intention to make a complete
tour of Canada, not missing any place
of importance.
— Hundreds of tons of crushed and
ground Mineral phosphate are now
being shipped to St. Catharines, Ontario,
for grape culture. It is something new
to have apatite offered in a dried and
ground state instead of in the raw rock;
a grinding company has recently begun
operations at Buckingham.
— A bear with three cubs made after a
man named Kelly in the woods of West
Luther recently. In answer to a cry
for assistance, a neighbor came on the
scene, and found the bear chasing Kelly
around a tree and trying to bite him at
every jump, but on seeing a second party
the bear made off, and has notsince been
seen. So goes the story..
—The decrees of the Roman Catholic
Council recently held in Quebec having
been approved by the Pope, Cardinal
Taschereau has issued a pastoral letter
against' secret societies, Avhich was read
on Sunday in all the churches in Ot-
tawa. The pastoral especially con-
demns the Knights of Labor and Free-
masonry.
While witnesses were being -examined
in a case in the county court at Ottawa
it was found that the Judgewassound
asleep and that he had mit taken the
slightest notice of the proceedings for
some time. The lawyers, officials and
spectators were afraid to arouse him lest
they should be committed for contempt,
and so everybody went away, leaving
the Judge to enjoy -his siesta.
--While the Pullman show company
was exhibiting in St. Thomas a few days
ago, Collector Flynn, of Her Majesty's
Customs at Niagara, made a descent
upon • parties connected with the show,
who were charged with smuggling a
quantity of silverware across the bridge
wrapped in the show tent. They paid a
fine of $200, and the silverware was re-
leased.
—On Wednesday evening last week,
some boys went into Jacob Y. Shantz's
pond in Berlin to bathe, amongst them
being Henry Reitz, aged about 13. The
latter got too near the floodgate and was
carried into the deep water below and
was drowned. The other boys tried to
help him out but did not succeed. The
body was found about an hour after-
ward.
— A boy named Sangster, aged four-
teen years, shot a huge bear at the
Brule Lake Beauport, nine miles from
Quebec, on Monday night. The brute
had carried off a lamb a few days ago
from the neighborhood of the house, and
on returning he was killed at the first
shot. The bear was in very fine con-
dition, and the youthful huntsman sold
his akin for $12.
—Mr. and Mrs. James Warwick
celebrated the 40th anniversary of their
wedding on Friday last' week at their
residence near Mapleton, in Elgin
county. It is estimated that fully
1,000 persons sat down to ;dinner
in the orchard adjoiniug the resi-
dence, while many hundreds more
came too late to participate in this part
of the programme.
— A committee of Montreal citizens
has made an appeal for subscriptions to
erect a hospital for the cure of the Pro-
testant insane of Quebec Province. The
Provincial Government offer to loan
$25,000 at moderate interestto begin the
work, and will pay $115 per annum for
each inmate. The promoters have pur-
chased a farm of 110 acres with buildings
thereon close to the city for $18,000 as a
site for the hospital.
—Among the delegates to the Guelph
Methodist Conference at Goderich were
six members of the secular press; J. J.
Crabbe, of the St. Mary's Argus; T.
Hilliard, of the Waterloo Chronicle; T.
McGivern, of the Galt Reformer; W.
II. Kerr, of the Brussels Post; C. W.
Rutledge, of the Markdale Standard;
and H. P. Moore, of the Acton Free
Press.
—The May exports of produce from
the two easternmost counties of Prince
Edward Island,irecluded 396,105 bushels
oats valued at $141,284; potatoes to the
value of $36,360 ;-52,172 bushels of
these went to other Provinces, the re-
mainder abroad -204,138 dozen eggs,
$22,084; cattle, horses and sheep, 89,-
701; lobsters, $4,827; fish, $2,102;
pork, $5,180; starch, $8,442; hay,
leather and miscellaneous products. The
total value is placed at $249,439 for the
month. Of this BUM $43,463 went to
other Provinces, the remainder to for-
eign countries.
—While a lady resident of Omemee
was fishing the other day at the old
railway bridge, she had a terrible ex-
perience. She had a young child with
her, ancl for the purpose of keeping it
quiet she gave it a small fish to play
with. The child in some way managed.
to nearly swallow the fish, -and the lady
had to catch the minnow by the tail and
kuli it out of the child's throat with her
fingers. To add. to the excitement,
shortly after the child fell into the
water and had a narrow Tescape from
drowning.
—The Prescott Telegraph says: On the
arrival of the western train at the Grand.
Trumk Railway station on Tuesday, the
conductor deposited a little' girl about
two years old in the waiting -room. The
child was neatly dressed and had a
paper attached to her hat bearing the
address of her mother at this place. The
young traveller had made the journey
from Toronto under the kindly care of
the train hands. The proprietor of the
Ryan House took her in charge, and
during the day she was claimed and
taken home by a party from the vicinity
of Edwardsburgh.
—The Guelph Merenry says: The
regular meeting of the Young Women's
Christian Temperance Union, was held
Monday evening. June 14th, in the
Society's rooms. Mrs. Parker was ap-
pointed Superintendent of the flower
mission work taken up by the Union:
After the regular business meeting, a
most interesting and instructive Bible
reading was _ held. The Rechabites
were mentioned as being the first tem -
Terence society. Out of the 261 times
which wine is mentioned in the Bible,
121 of these are warnings, 71 are warn-
ings and reproofs, 12 times it is spoken
of as poisonous, and..5 times to be en-
tirely abstained from.
—Mr. Robert .Leslie and family, who
live two miles and a half from Milton,
011 the first line of Trafalgar,were awak-
ened by the noise of someone throwing
stones at the door. Finally an entrance
was made, and the stranger then began
an attack on Mr. Leslie's bedroom, at
the same tirne calling out to Mr. Leslie
that if he did not let him in he would
knock his 'brains out. In the meantime,
however,Mrs. Leslie had broken through
a back window and had gone for assist-
ance. The hired man had gone on the
same errand, and soon help arrived and
the unknown was arrested. He gave
his name as John Kelly, from Hamilton,
by way of Orangeville.. A magistrate
considered his ease and sent him up for
trial. Kelly is an entire strange': to the
Leslie family, and the cause of his
singular conduct is a complete mystery.
Perth Items.
St. Marys has a potato famine.
—Rev. Mr. Cunningham removes from
Mitchell to Stratford this week.
—The Ladies' Aid Society of Knsix
church, Mitchell, intend holding a
bazaar on 1st July.
—Miss Agnes Knox, of St. Marys, has
taken high honors at the Philadelphia
School of Oratory.
—Rev. Mr. Herriclge'of Stratford,
has been superannuated. He will re-
move to-Bram-pton shortly.
—Richard Kiley, a former well-known
resident of Downie, came to his death
by drowning, in the Western States, re-
cently.
—Past Master George Hodge, M. D.,
was the other evening presented with a
handsome jewel of solid gold by Tudor
Lodge, Free Masons'Mitchell.
—Rev. W. Davis, father of the pro-
prietors of the Mitchell Advocate, has
been reappointed President of the Huron
College Association.
—Messrs. A. Dent and W. R. Davis
attended the Episcopal Synod of Huron,
which met in London last week, as
delegates from 'Mitchell.
—Re -opening services will be held at
Roy's church, Fullerton, on Sabbath,
June 27. Rev. Peter Wright, of Strat-
ford, will conduct the services.
—Mr. A. L. Struthers, merchant,
Stratford, died on Sunday, 13th inst.,
of consumption, caused by a cold caught
when a boy of twelve years.
—The anniversary picnic in connec-
tion with the Presbyterian church of
Cromarty is to be held in Morgan's
grove, east of Cromarty, on, Dominion
Day.
—The libel suit of a female book agent
against the Stratford Beacon resulted in
a verdict of one dollar, the question of
costs being reserved.
—Mitchell temperance people have
sent a resolution of sympathy to Mr.
Monroe, Police Magistrate of Orange-
ville, whose premises the Anti-Scottites
have tried to blow up at four different
times.
—The musical entertainment held at
the opening of the new organ in the
Methodist church, St. Marys, proved a
very enjoyable affair for music -loving
people.
—The pedlar, named Barber, who,
while stopping at a hotel in Milverton,
fiendishly cut and slashed the faee of a
man with whom he had some dispute,
has been sentenced to four months in
jail with bard labor.
—A number of young lads in St.
Marys are making nuisances of them-
selves by congregating around public
buildings on Sunday, and throwing
stones, firing revolvers, and engaging in
other annoying and disgraceful conduct.
—Mr. Geo. Davidson, of Mitchell, re-
turned a few days ago from a trip to
Muskoka, bringing with him the heacl
and horns of a monster deer. The head
is very handsomely stuffed and finished,
and is placed over the bar of Mr. David -
son's hotel.
—On Saturday evening, 12th inst., as
Mr. Geo. Hamilton, of the 6th conces-
sion, Fullerton, was on his way home
from Mitchell, while crossing the rail-
road bridge, his horse became frightened.
by the approaching train, which calmed
him to run away, throwing Mr. Hamil-
ton violently on the ground. It was at
first feared that he had received fatal
injuries, but on medical aid being sum-
moned, he soon rallied and itwas dis-
covered that his injuries were not very
serious, save a severe shock to his ner-
vous System.
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