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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-12-17, Page 1isas. Boys L)Amr7N iy Days Nights, eF s em of the night ,vs us lots of hat s these face • (;oods Man" i'ss Place. [night rounds -.some store" sold as cheap tISS s of yore! Dial her gait o,s she tore, gracious sake Mcaul before ! and Boys` Over- Vicithirtg, is one r county. Fa—. Dont r Clothing until ft our attractive FOR AV. • treat. Don't a to the reliable, ce Clothing De - VIM S irtery anti Moth - *forth., ey has been wise - which, all wise mate, but when ef electioneering :of anything else u-ge. He also e attacks of the Educational De - manner pre - 1 on the electors ifidence in him, in the Mowat known for its to Provincial legislate in this in the victories nian domination ni-v-t- Council in Li Streams Bill, , • He defined his tion question to •.in-tpera,rice sup- e broke up with .n1 the Reform hn Tippett who ncessful harness - some time, ft for Michigan rn. He started - laving towns in , g the people or 1.r -tied to Varna cider main He ! here. w evenings ago 1.. of the Varna , the number of vell armed with exit- formidable tt the residence t of this place ce. After gain - mantled of the ' frightened pro - sr should, appear nii-ae Mrs, Mc- `ummons, when complimentary , a handsome and 1 . .Mr. MeCly- 1 fe nsa.de a happy ' - whieh the bas - most swap - all. The re - was pleasantly :social converse. been for years et church here, ut to retire froni tatiori was made liug and efficient in this position Mtn. Was delivered by in the Nietha- her evenings and 7, ti Ull i011 WaS members, which Li!.u.s.i.—Rev. Dr. 'the WeilingtOR o.s,r)so nal 1\1 issIons OsIff ot list church .• r s. Mr Thos. 't r nirepratary to ostsaer. --Mr. and ' !ary' 'llle are, at e frieniTs here. Ineighborhood 'ontention at viiie lost a val- fite Fraser -will -i I • e Lome near leill spend the ill.. be delivered in, liv the Rev. : aubjeet" Un - prise parties are tr rather night. a eek and two ceic. - NINETEENTII_ YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 992. SA ORTH3 FRXDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1886. {McIJEAN BROS. Publishers. 131.5p a Year, in Advance. 11 ow Are' You GOING TO \)10TE ? sAre you a Grit or a Tory . while these questions are !being asked and answered in all cancels able ways and places Geo. Good, Of the Star Orocery Is busily preparing for a big Cbristmass and New Year's trade. n'obeee win 15(1 disappointed at th,e Star Grocery. t Dorn let politica' or party strife Make you oblivious to the more important duties of life. If your ambition to be a member, or a Uayor, or a Councillor be denied, The greater reason that the inner man should be well supplied. We are giving great bargains. The new clerk at th-c STAR GROCERY says he can improve on the above stanza. He says political and municipal honors are not the most important matters at this festive • season. His platform is how and where can we get the big- gest and best CHRISTMAS DINNER? Where can we get the bigg st Turkeys, the 'fattest Geese, the nicest Duck and Chickens? Where can we get barrels of Candies, Sacks of Nuts, boxes of Itaisals, cases of Oranges, the best Teas and most fragrant, Coffees. 1Where ah ! where can we get for nothing the biggest, nicest and funniest books ? Where do they give away Handsome Lamps, Books, China Tea Set, Glass Sets, Handsome ,Plates, Beautiful Goblets, Vases and Ornasnents. He ' claims the Star Grocery is the place, and he poetizes thusly : I - From early niorn till frosty eve, With uncovered head and rolled up sleeves, We are ,selling such parcels you could ihardly 'believe, And howi it can pay I cannot conceive. It's a tip top store for Bargains. Presents for English, Scotch, Irish, Dutch At prices no other store can touch. I Some say we give them far too much, I And we are pleased, and then try to do better for such. We like to be giving Bargains. And then we have Groceries so very fine I We do all others far outshine, Teas and Spices from the Eastern clime, If you want cheap goods, now's your time. We are giving awful bargains. And if it's Boots vou want both strong arid neat Made with care to fit th a feet, Strong or light for 'cold or heat, In their soles there's no, deceit. Come along for Bargains. f The styles are new, the prices cheap, If you saw them once you could hardly sleep, Come right along and take a peep Then put ,your hands in your pockets deep And get a share of the bargains. We were first to bring the prises ddwn 1 We have still the cheapest stock in town. So spread the tidings all around, Let folks all rally to the sound Of bargains. And the Head Clerk says: Pshaw, you have left the hest part out. Why you never say a word about that—that—that—lot—that lot of Lamb Skin Caps, reduced to $3.5o. George Good, SEAFORTE Holiday Goods, Holiday Goods. JUST TO HAND AND -OPENED UP -7--AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & C9mpany, IrETTER FROM MR KIN a W ELECTIONS ARE CONDUCT ,‘D IN 'UNITED STATES, AND OTII 0..R IN- TERESTING REFLECTIO„. The -following very interes as written by our old friend ing, forinerly of Dublin, b n Francisco, California. I ressed t� Mr. M. Williams, rough•whose kindness we to publish it : MY DEAR WILLTAMS,--LI h the late Canadian Paper e soon to have an election, e just after getting over tl re, I thought a sketch o sings are managed here mig ting to yourself and my ol tends. The first official d e proclamation of the Gone tate and the mayor of the 'c ie notice that on the sec ovember a general electio ld throughout theState and o d naming the officers to hich are for the Sate: teutenant-Governor, Secreta omptroller, Treasurer, Aft al, Surveyor, Clerk of th ourt, Superintend•ent of Pub lc Instruc- on, six Representatives to ti e Congress' the United States, thre Railroad ommissionersa four memb rs of the nate Board of Equalization, hree Assoe late Judges of:the Snpreme 'ourt, also Iudges of the Superior Cot rt, besides rty State Senators and eiglty Assem- pile's for the State Legisla ure. Next mes • the municipal office s for the ty,—Mayor, Assessor, Sh riff, Audi - re Tax Collector, Trea urer, Re- rder, County Clerk, Dist ict Attor- iinistrator, f Streets, wo Police ace, twelve ool Inspec- e same as the Mayor The can - offices are ld by the the ticket, . eed -in the ns. Mee t- nusic, fire - p to make loing their G. IIE ing le ter Mr. Thos. it now of was ad - f Dublin, re permit- , ve noticed thap you andis we at big job how such t be inter - Canadian • cument is nor of the ty, giving nd day bf will ba n the city, e elected, Governor, y of State, rn ey- Gen - Su perior y, Coroner, Public Adi • urveyor, Stiperintendent • uperintendent of Schools, udges, five Justices of the P upervisors, and twelve Scl o rs. The Supervisors are t idermen with you and witl rm the city government. idates for the state and eit lected at conventions h veral political parties, and it is called, is at once pi eld and then the fun beg gs are held, and bands of erks, borfires; &c., &c., he ings lively, each party - est to abuse the other fel ows. And is said, and not without some show of, ruth, that a man does not know what te is until nominated for some office, en if his mother's cow's bn ther was an -cyou may bet the public 'will know all so tine in here should f their an - bit him, and as this is a tanadian politics candidates e able to defend the fame taking a poor hat on n e eetion bet. A great . amount o od natur- ed- banter is indulge,in lid no per- son thinks of resestin -• anything said in election times , Ti e smoke of the batt!e soon clears away, business re- sumes its usuat course, and 2 11 is forgot- ten. The lucky ones rejoice, and the other fellows may we p if hey choose, for there is no law top -event them, but they generally submit o th inevitable with a good grace, ae d t e American • eagle may soar in pe ce fi rtwo more years, when she will bc agai I called on to plume her feathers for a father battle ,at the ballot box. Of course the party ews. per takes a hand in the struggle an give: the fellows on the opposite side an thin: but taffy. I think the following fr in ti -eDaily Alta hits off tiaesaverage ne% spap a- reports of 'election ;meetings, and as it applies equally to. Canada, 1. how ht 1 would send it along: CAMPAIGN ST_ TISTICS. The fight is over' now and we ea o stroll on the eiden s. This State . TI e traditions of )endegast and ians, nd • they have blic s maker. Then, Stet ,, stump speak - e for other forms of whie attend it are to be praised, willing chnek- vell turned as remains taken , • battle field , and review its it is an oratorical battle groun Baker and Clfroth, of Randolph, are upon Califor a ready sympathy for the p in the remoter regions of th -hog is a desirable substitu amusement, and audiences not linoited to the party w ieh i and men of opposite faith. are as lers over a good joke or a oint are the- others. A view it the through the columns of the party papers reveals -one hundred and ten on etinss held "spell bound" by the speaker. In loin ty-seven audi- ences yowcould have " head a pi i drop.". One hundred and thirty audiences we c " wildly en- thusiastic." Each speech n ade vas "the best ever heard here," according to ap )roving papers, while in the opposition pres "th speaker's own friends labored to conceal ticir e agrin." "He denounced the candidatesof t e opposition" seventy-nine tittles. There Were() ie hundred and' two "volcanic onteursts of el quence." The candidates had bne hundred a d twenty-one "ovations," and by the way, th t word dasen't come from ovum, an egg, aS nian suppose, but from ovare, to exult, and kebab] canoe into its present rise because in Rome o e crowd would ovare when the other fellow- was it by an ovum. estors in the coming strug de; Print- r's ink is freely used at elcctiobs here — nd thousands of cards of ev ry size and olor are distributed all ovea and every vailable space is covered with flaming osters containing the name and qualifi- ation for office of the candidate, and -very wagon, dray, or buggy has one or ore cards tanked on - showing the olitical leaning of the driver. Previous 1. the day of election the ' Ticket" is sued by each party with the' name of he candidates printed on it in the ori- er named in the election proclamation. he tickets or ballots are all of a nni- rm size and color and are furnished y the state.. Each party distributes n own tickets, mostly by mail on the ay previons to the election, or the oter can net a ticket frOni the agent. f his party who is stationed' at his pol- ng place, or precinct, as it is called • ere. Should he be a Rep tblican and ote the straight party ticket he goes o the poll and deposits his ballot -as tinted by his party, but should he , ish to put on the parne of a ca,udidate rom some other tin et he can do so' by . rawing the pen th ough the name he bjects to and writing the name of the ne lie selects. Thus on the Democratic icket he finds the name of James J. lynn for county clerk, he prefers Mr. lynn to W; - J. Ruddick whose ame is on the Republican ticket for aunty clerk he strikes out Ruddick's ame and substitutes Flynn's.. This is ailed a "Scratched " ballot. ' The ame rule holds good on any ticket. The wo great parties are the Republicans nd , Democrats but, there are several ide shows such as the Labor party, litizen party, Native American party, he Prohibition partyainc., &c., but hey don't amount to anything and ever elect anybody. The manner of oting is a good deal like that ' of the lanadians. The polling places are umerous and orderly, and no person ut the election officer and his assistants nd the judges, as they ar,e called, are llowed within a hundred feet of he booth. .Outside than liniit ' -the gents of the several parties are on hand ith a supply of tickets for tlhe voter, hould he not be already provided. :verything is very -quiet and the police - Ian on duty at the polls has nothing o do and for one day at least his lot is happy one. There is one feature in he voting here which I think is an inn- • rovement on the Canadian method and hat is the urn or ballot box is made of lass and all parties can E es that, the tillot is properly placed. I think this s an improvement on the Canadian tirr annister. Election day is observed as public holiday and very -little is done in the way of business.The poll opens n six o'clock in the morning and closes t half past six in the evening, so that 4very person may have opportunity to Vote. Of couree there is geeat anxiety, o find out who is elected ami he news - 4 aper offices are surrounded- an eager rowd waiting to hear the les elt. About en O'clock the news begin to come in, ut on account of the number of names e each ballot the count goes on slowly and next morning the MAN'S boys reap a arvest selling the morning papers with 9'all aboutthe election." • Bets on the. esult of the election are verynumerous, iome of them most absurd, but the rincipal bets are for hats mil the hatters ,ejoice at the sale of so many of their Dest goods, as no one thinks of giving or A great variety of usefui and suitable goods for haliday presents, of which the following comprise a few: Ladies' and Misses' Fur Sets: Gents, Ladiesl,s Misses', Boys' and Children's FurICapS, Fur Capes, Wool Sha,w1s, Wool Clouds, Wool Hats, Wool Tani O'Shanters, ‘Vool Squares, Silk Handkerchiefs, Cashmeres Gloves, Kid Gloves, Knit Gloves, Hose, Corsets, Ties, Collars, Frillings, Dress -Goods, Flannels,TWeeds, Underclothing, Blankets, in fact, every- thing relating to Staple and Fancy Dry Coods, and we are marking them all at the smallest possible advance on cost, in order to make a speedy clearance of the whole stock. Call and be con ninced. No trouble to show the goods Hoffman cf Coq Cheap Cash Store, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. Agents for Butterick's Reliable Pat terns and publications. I send you some ballot pap and other campaign literature, a glen ernat which may be of use to some of you cahclidates, and may give them a new, i ea or two. I Suppose the good peciple o Canada are getting tired of the old par y war cries, and should any of the woul -be legisla- tors mak-e an innovation on the old style I shall not have sent them •n vain. . - From this slight 4etch you will no- tice that the people here have a direct iaite in the selection of 2 municipal officers, and ini • t very different from canad people have nolvoice in the ..very many officers silo 'and responsible positions directlyresponsible to such , as Registrar, Sh ' urer, County Attoriiy, o judges,- all being a pain Local or _Dominion Gov faithful party service -endered and not ,usually._becanse of th. ir es ecial fitness for the office. Now there i a good deal to be said for and against he election of such officers as those n med. -Here it is :claimed that no Man h s§ a right to an appointment that in in, ny cases is a sinecure and that the peo le, net the Government, should nhoo et the office- holder, and that ke ping this fact in view the incumbent o an ffice will be more likely to keep -a clean record, fear- ing his re-election. -against appointments are held by nien who position by Ireason who employ a depu ty percentage of the fee the work which his w ant employer is -Climb' draws the salary all t not, It is well -know very many persons w fice would not be ele It may be said that t peopte of such o.ffici practice; but I would, ask s hat in the -nanie of common.sende has ritish prac- tice to do with a free pe ple like the Canadians.The days wh n such non- sense; passed • cur ent are gone, and while Old ngland has no an the Can- not follow customs of should be g country at ,Republic ancecl . civil- pean nations. 11 state and is regard is , where the selection of old valuable and are not he electors, riff, Treis- any of the ed by the aliment for nother argument is tha many offices are t nfit fon the f in opacity, and , wh for a small s Of t e office does ell pad but ignor- to do, yet ie, fin -get it Canada that now in of - y the people. tion by the not a British e sa in o ar eted e ele ls is more toyal subje ts t adians are, it does that the time Worn the mother couotry • adopted in a yo living alongside a gr which claims a more ad ization than any of the Eur Canada is not old enough nor rich enough to support a lot of the shape of pensioners an democratic enough to m suitable to the condition o Your • national debt is no proportion to. the popula ultimately become a burd to be ' borne. Tis true y are great and will yearly er but it seems like bad tr count your resources in advance. As I parasites in is I am sure ike the laws her people. out of all ion and will n too heavy ur resources ecome great - ding to dis- am a Canadian at heart, I f in all that concerns the co , always call home wherev and will always rejoice at or sorrow at its decline. I wish you to distinct1 that my remarks have no ing or bias whatever and a expression of my thoughts erence to any political par You have good men in bot yet better men who belong and it will be a happy da when party lines will not an interest ntry I shall r I may be, tti prosperity understand olitical lean- -e merely the without ref - y in Canada. parties and to no party. -for Canada ie so tightly drawn and the best , men are selected ics. It may id is advanc- arty will be near future. ry, a noble, regardless of party poli take some time but the wo ing and country before • the cry of the people in th You have, a great coun generous people,whose good nature and hospitality are proverbial nd boundless .as your prairie or fores s. 'Tis true your winters are cold but the hearts of your people are warm and the needy or the stranger is not turned away hungry from your gates. A eorea future is in store for Canada and she.,, -ill at no dis- tant day take her. place amongst the nations of the earth. S mote it be.. Speaking of elections rein lids me of an election in Perth in the g ,ere the gerrymander or the ballot was thought of. What fun there was in those days, both of your local candidates will rem(rmber the good old times and a hearty laugh will be the result, and in this -coneection lea me say that . the people of j udgmen didates. reproach is e1ecec1, South Perth will be honestly and int lligently represented in the Local Pa litunent. Please remember me most kin ily to all my good friends and believe nje to be ever your -sincere and gratefin friend • • T. KING, San Franei South Perth have shown sound in the selection of Local can - Both are gentlemen above and no matter which of theta • co, Nov. 23rd, 1886. Canada. Straahroy Public School Board are taking steps to open a fifth forth. —The be held i —The to be agi salaries. —The appointe Labor C --The tion hav the 1,+.13chi — The ing for a Donald treal - --The Peterboro' Town Council have passed a by-law prohibitingioasting or tobogganing on the public streets. •—Tweive dogs were poisoned at Brad- ford the !other night, and the poisoner is ext Proviacial Exhibition will Ottawa op Sept. 19, 1887. livil Service at Ottawa are said ating for la general increase in on. Mr. LArmstrong has been chairmanof the new Canada mmission. directors of the Guelph Exhibi- given $250 toward improving ition Grounds. Winnipeg curlers propose play - cup to be presented by Sir lyrasitha snow and rain storms in Mon- day considerably impeded busi- promise is caugh —The Associat the plac tion. —Mr. '.a -coat of tar and feathers if he Ontario Agriculture and Arts on -have fined upon Ottawa as for the next provincial exhibi- David Moore the well-known lumberman,' died in Ottawa on Thurs- day, last! week; aged 62.years. He had been ill — The Church, Mr. Sco gational st Sunday contributing $3,000. —Iron has now been laid on 20 miles udson Bay Railway, and the oing on as steadily as the supply d rails will permit. g November 649 immigrants Winnipeg. Altogether 13,865 ts have arrived in that city for 11 months of this year. ambling den on King Street nday morning and a complete t found. Sneven, men were, ar- or severa1 days. debt on the new Presbyterian ilsonburg, has been wiped out, t a member of the congre- of the work is of ties at —Dur arrived i immigra the elev —A. west, To -onto, was raided by the police early St faro out rested. —Herbert Fox, 14 years of age, while sell a revolver in a second-hand oronto on Saturday night, was lly shot through the heart and n a few minutes: w $5,000 Presbyterian church was opeified at Ivan, in Lobo, On Sup - day, 5th. Pastor, _congreg trying t store in accident expired —A n inst., and is a credit to the Lev. John Johnston, also to the tion. . ---,Wald committees of women work- ers have been organized in Toronto. The object is to secure more temperance influence in the City =Council and. the Public School Board. —It is proposed that Canada and the United States shall jointly send a cricket team to the West Indies during thespriiig. The project of sending a team to tugland has been abandoned. —Rev. Canon Mulholland, who has tor of St. George church, Owen or nearly forty years has been an assistant in the person of P. Ireland. been pa Sound, granted Rev. W —Mr. Hugh Sutherland, President of the Hu another expects now gra —Wil wealthie the Ma land, N aged 69 —Hy Gatinea andin p a fortun an uncle —Sir has bee expecte( of the duties o the Sen —Dr. lic• sch appoint school I the rece for high —Fer son's Bay Railway, will make trip to England shortly. He that the 41 miles of the road led will be railed by Christmas. iam D. Lawrence, one of the t ship-build'ers and owners in itinie Provinces, died at Mait- va Scotia on•Wedne,sday night, cinthe Loyer, a basket maker of Point, Quebec, 64 years old Dor circumstances, has inherited , of $300,000 under the will of in Trance, lately deceased. Alexander Campbell's. health - 1 completely restored and, it is , he will be able at the opening ession to: again undertake the leader of the Government in te. M. J. Kelly, Inspector of pub - 018 for Brant cohnty, has been d, in conjunction with high spector Hodgins, examiner in tly established training schools school masters. inand Scliiverea, the Brooklyn evangerst, who has been laboring in Toronto for a couple of months, deliver- ed a stiairing temperance address before the Yong Men's Prohibition Club in thar cit, bat Sunday afternoon. —Ge rge Cunningham, a respected farmer cff Ameliasburg township, hang- ed himself in -a cow shed on his prem- ises. The deceased was nearly 77 years of age. Family trouble is said to have been th cause of his suicide. —The Canadian order of Toronto Forresters have handed over - to the managers of the Home for Incurables, in that GAY, the sum of $110.20, being the collection taken at their anniversary services on Sunday, November 28th, —4 cat made its way into one of the :Mond:ton, Ne B., churches on Sunday - evening and • introduced a new element of interest hito the proceedings by jump- ing over benches and occasionally drop- ping into] the laps of members of the congregation. —An tilarmitig piece of news has been received at Kingston, from Paris, i France. Mr. J, W. Brown, of that city, a l rominent Orangeman, got into a discussion in Paris with a Nationalist of Chicago about • Irish affairs. The .Nationalist called Mr. Brown a vile od old days name,: when the latter struck him. The former threatened vengeance, and one of Mr. Brown's friends has Written to Kings- ton that Mr. Brown was missed by him on the night of the trouble, and had not been seen since. He thinks Mr. Brown has got into the ha us of the Com- munists. a smooth surface when the foot is push- ! 1 ed_forward. Three men in a boat went along to assist King by the whirlpools. King moved along all right for a third of the way,„when he struck a swift cur- rent and was thrown forward on his face. Those who witnessed the feat are —A movement ha been started to of the -opinion that the shoes could be establish industrial f rra schools in the made practicable in ordinary waters. Northwest for the t aining of English —The Fat Stock Show at Guelph, last boys sent out to this c untry. The Do- iweek, was not very largely attended. minion Land Act pro -ides for granting Twelve prizes for fatted cattle were won land for the purpose nd.er certain con- by H. & I. Groff, of Elmira, and 18 d itions. prizes for sheep were won by Mr. John —Rev. Sam Jones, t le Georgia evange- Rutherford, of Roseville: The Rein - list, arrived in Toronto Saturdayi He hart gold medal, valued at $30, for the held serv,ice the sa ne evening and best pair of fat cattle not exhibited pre - preached three times on Sunday to in- vious to 1886, was won by Mr. George mense audiences. Han dreds were unable Keith, of Elora, for the second time., to gain entrance, even ,for standing room, He now becomes its owner. at eachof the four se4vices. —Mr. Wm. D. Lawrence, one of the —A 'deputation wai ect upme the Legis- wealthiest shipbuilders and owners in lative Committee of the Toronto city the Maritime Provinces, died at Mait- 'council Friday, and u ged that steps be Ilaucl, 011 Wednesday, the 8th inst., aged 69 years. Mr. Lawrence made his first money in manufacturing ship's knees, and gradually extended his busi- ness until he became one of the best- known contractors of big ships in r attract his attention, and handed him the world: He began life in the very poorest circumstances. —An Ayr correspondent says: When the valve of Watson's hose went wrong at the time of the recent fire, Mr. John George Watson immediately sprang in- to the water box up to his breast in water and worked there for three-quar- ters of an hour. 'There are:- few bosses who would not have requested some ,of their employees to take the unpleasant position. But John G. is not built that taken to remedy the evils of baby -farm- ing. A resolution w the council to apply legislation. —The first shipment of lumber from New Westminster, 3ritish Columbia, Pine and cedar in arrived in Mon - the Canadian Pa- s passed advising for the necessary consisting of Douglas thirty feet lengths, treal on Saturday ove cific railway. —Wm. Brett, of T on the St. Lawrence of Canadian Pacific mangled on the trac from Ottawa. It is struck by a low brid the brakes. = --Mrs. Alexander onto, the other day land, $2,100 towards ing the Industrial school at Mimic°. This is Mrs. Cameron's second donation, given $6,000 to - building. —Gilbert Craig, of St. John, New ronto, a brakeman nd Ottawa branch ailway, was found about three miles supposed he was e while applying Cameron, of Tor- ent Mayor How - he cost of furnish - she having previously wards the cost of the I Brunswick, cc nvicted wife a,nd rape on his ter, was on Saturday years for the former prisoned for life for t mence at the expir ; term. —A detacht;nent of from Toronto- arrive -firday. They began on City. Hall square. much appreciated. mild, over 2,000 peop the spot. —The Montreal have appointed a P at a salary of $300 pe go on duty at the P all feznale prisoners placed under her inittee have done thing. —The ministers in chargkof churches of all denominations fn the eity of To- ronto have received cirmilar from the of assault on his 3 -year old daugh- sentenced to ten rime and to be ha- le other, to con - tion of' the first he Salvation Army in Winnipeg Sat - !work immediately Their singing was ,he weather being e were attracted Eto Police Committee lice Court matron • annum. She will nice Station, and will henceforth be hatge. The com- wise and proper Carriage Drivers' Pro asking their influen efforts to obtain legis to the stoppage of Si Mr. Benjamin Cla cession of Thurlow, visited Belleville an is arrival home!in his horses from the carriage and wei t to the pump fen the purpose of water only pumped a few dead by the trough. —Last Sunday m, rning a fire broke out in Portage la Prairie, which destroy- ed $30,000 worth of iproperty. At one .time it threatened the destruction of the entire place, owing to the failure of the fire appliances, and assistance was tele- graphed for to Winn -Peg, but once the fire apparatus got to work the flames were speedily got under control. - — In St. Mary's cathedral, Kingston, last Sunday morning the congregation were requested to kneel and pray for Bishop Cleary's contention, namely, that the combination' attacking the Catholic church, and endeavdring to take away its separate schools and the grants to its charitable institutions, maynot have tho power to succeed. l —Joseph Young, Who resided midway between Charing Cress and Bucichorn, on the town line, w se found the other the bush with his is supposed he cut lodged and swung n the head, killing leaves a wife and ective Association, e and aid in their ation with regatd nday labor. p, of the 4th coil - Wednesday, and on I the evening anhitch ing them, but had uarts when he fell day by his tvife in skull smashed in. I down a tree, which round, striking him him instantly. He same as on the Atlantic. It is expected that the black cod fisheries will soon draw a large number of fishermen to the Pacific. Concerning Hudson's Bay, the Canadian authorities maintain that it is a close bay and deny that Americans have any right to fish there. The much vexed headland question is involved here however. . —Some time ago a hardware merchant in Toronto had a dispute with his den- tist about -some teeth which he alleged had been improperly filled. He WAS so indignant that he refused to pa Y the account. The hardware man. attended. Sam Jones' meetings in Toronto and became converted. lOne night, in the midst of a great wave of religious fer- vour, as be was about to kneel he cauglst si it of the dentist's earnest red. face %.1.1 lo • , g up over the back of the pew praying fervently, while the tears were coursing down his cheeks. The sight proved too much for the hardware man's quickened conscience. He walked °vet to the spot where the good man was pouring out his heart with his eyes closed, touched.him on the shoulder to way. —The French Canadians announce that it is now their turn to elect one of their nationality Mayor of Ottawa, and have fixed upon ex -Alderman, Charles Ghristin as their candidate. There are several otherlaspirants anda contest will o'clock on the 8th inst., and at four ! the marriage ceremony was celebrated certainly take place. It will probably is_ in the house of recent mobrning. The be fought on national and religious sues, a Protestant electoral association, happy groom is the son of Mr. Hugh formed some months ago, being deter- Allan, retail dry goods merchant. mined to assert the rights of its mem- —Mn John Bovay, of Rossmore, bers. - Prince Edward County, died a few days ago at the age of 94 years. The Belle- . —Fred Collier, the 17 yearold son of constable Collier, of Picton, recently ville Ontario says the deceased was born in Devonshire, England, Sept. 16th took a midnight ramble through the streets, clad in the rather airy costume 1792. The stirring events of those .of a night shirt. The young somnambu- times tended to develop in early life an list was entirely unconscious of his ac- adventuroue disposition. In 1806, at dons and condition until he found him- the age of fourteen, he .embarked on self 'standing in an almost nude -state in board a man-of-war, and spent nearly Captain Babbit's porch. He was taken eight years in the service of his country, passing through some of the stirring nto that gentleman's house and well naval events of the early _part of thin cared for. The night was the coldest of century. He left the service when. the season, and the falling snow was. drifting furiously. •peace had apparently been assured by —On Saturday night, between 8 and the imprisonment of the great Napoleon 9 o'clock, Mr. Dawson and Mr. Mulli- in the island of Elba. He then spent a year hi Newfoundland, and thence pro - gam, two farmers, were driving home ceeded to the .West Indies, where he from Brantford in a wagon, and when remained two years. From the West about a mile south o=f the city they were attacked by three men. Dawson was Indies he went to Toronto, then a small village known as Muddy York. .1.1is knocked almost senseless with a stick and then pounded, receiving some ugly next move was to Prince Edward County, where he resided continuously until his cuts on the head. Mulligan, an old man was pulled from the wagon and death. Mr. Bovay was twice married, and leaves a widow and numerous family robbed of from $75 to $80. He is unable to mourn his loss. to give any description' of the robbers, - —A few years ago A farmer verging on who. as soon as the booty was sccuned, made off. three score and ten years, named —The Iniuse of Wm. Brimblecomb, Church, residing at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, married a handsome young girl. farmer, township of Peel, was entered named Christie and settled ,58,000 upon the other night while the inmates were asleep, and robbed of $81 in bills. The her in her own right as one of the terms thief was a young Englishman, who is of the marriage. The bride soon tired about 24 years of age, five feet high, of the monotony of country life, and fell round, red face, small red moustache, in love with a young man named Wm. turned up nose, sometimes . sore eyes. Litlagow, son of wealthy and highly coo- tie had on a dark, checked, Canadian nected parents. The husband becanie overcoat, undercoat of the same, black furiously jealous, 'and a separation fol -- curly cap, and new shoes. He is sup- lowed. Subsequently a legal document posed to have gone to London or Strat- was drawn up and agreed to, by which ford. she returned. to his home in the capacity of a friend and companion, but not to re- -.-A. petition to the Governor-General from settlers living in Manitoba prior to sume the relations of 'wife. T his state of affairs, however, was of as brief dura - the transfer of the country to Canada setting fonth that the properties acquired tion as it was unsatisfattory, but Lith - by them under the then laws have not Pw's persistence in continuing his at- tentions to Mrs. Church soon enabled been recognized by the Dominion Gov - the husband to •obtain an absolute di - eminent, which has. given patents to other parties for it, and detailing other vorce. Then Lithgow, the co-respon- dent, married the divorced wife. As grievances, has received 600 signatures. It will be sent to Lord Lansdowne in Soon as that was accomplished, Church brought an action against him for Jauuary. The settlez s say that they alienating his wife's affections, and ob- have been appealing to the Department tained $1,000 damages. Next he brought of the Interior for fourteen years with no suit tit) recover the $8,000 settled upon result. Now they will lay their case be suit woman when he married her. Chief fore the representative of the Queen. Justice Macdonald has given a verdict —Mr. ' Steele. barrister, and Mrs. in his favor foe the full amount, with in - Harry Mackelcan, members of St. Thomas' ehurch choir, Hamilton were tetest and costa . the amount of the account. —An extremely romantic marriage took place at Ottawa, on the 8th inst. Miss Elizabeth King, of Rochesterville, a maiden lady, eighty-two years of age, d.ied on Sunday 5th inst. She was pos- essed of considerable wealth, estimated at about $100,000. In her she left it all conditionally to Miss Chrissie King, a young lady of 19, who had lived with her as a companion, and to Gilbert Allan, a young man of 24, who had paid considerable attentian to Miss Chrissie and had wog the favor of the old lady. The ponditibn was that the yonng couple should be married to each other the day the testatrix was buried. The burial took place at three five small children. He was about 50 driving mitt° Trinity church, Barton, , —Mr. Edward Hooper; President of years of agewhere a service was to be held, when the Canada Permanent Loan and Say- -Captain Cuthbert, of Trenton, has the horse ran away. Mrs. Mackelcan ings Company, and his estimable wife celebrated their golden wedding en just ccimpleted the model of a new cen- jumped and escaped with a severe shock tre-board cutter -rigged yacht, which it and some bruises. Mr. Steele had a leg and arm broken and. his skull injured. He was taken into the house of Mr. Thomas Orchard, where he died at 5 o'clock next morning, having' remained unconscious to the last. Mr. Steele was it, rising young barrister, and was a general favourite in social circles in the Thursday, 9th inst. They held a recep- tiou at their home, "Farnham Lodge," is hoped will beat anything on the lakes Veer Park, Toronto, in the afternoon, next season. The proposed dimensions and a great many old friends called and are: Length, 69 feet keel, 74 feet over tendered them their hearty congratula- all, 18 feet beam, 7 feet draught of tions. The venerable couple, who are Water, and carrying thirty tons of bal- enjoying excellent health, were the last. The construction will be com- menced at once. --t•The mining company who recently commenced operatiops at Banff, North West Territory, have struck a seam of anthracite coal seven feet six inches in diameter. There are six seams of hard coal in this locationj varying in thick- ness from three feet to the monster just uncovered. That lbcation alone will supply coal for all ofIthe Northwest for the next 50 years. ' —Robert Timson, of Holland Centre, near Owen Sound, d'ed on the 17th ult., at the age of 82 y ars. A correspon- dent of the Markd le Standard says: "He claimed. throu h life to be a Eree- thinker, but those wo waited upon him during his last hour'. say he called for mercy. He had fermed his opinions from reading infidel books and hearing atheist lectures." — Alphonso King, a young French - Man, recently accepted a bet of $3,000 that be could not walk across the Ni- agaraRiver, a distance of 00 feet, in a pair Of shoes of lis own invention. Saturday forenoon, he went down to the ferry landing and prepared for the trip. The shbes used are shaped like a fish, and arel 32 inches lo g by eight wide. They are provided o the bottom with paddles, which are ade so as to make city. , —A few days ago passgngers by a Manitoba Southwestern train were wit- nessers of a rather novel occurrence. At Manitou a man and his wife with two little children, the youngest six months old, came on the train. On board there was likewise a gay young gentleman who had before endeavored to induce the woman to desert her husband for his better company; and he renewed his efforts in this direction on the train, and with such good effect that the two le- vanted at a small station, leaving the husband behind with the two small children. He took the matter very cooly, and came to Winnipeg with them. —Mr. Foster, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, says the appointment of the proposed American commission on the fishery business will not in any way tend to a complication of matters. He says the attitude of England in this business has been firm and strong and entirely in accord with Canadian views. Very vol- uminous correspondence on the fisheries question will be laid before Parliament next session. Speaking of the Pacific coast fisheries the Minister said our itglits there should be protected, the recipients of a large number of beautiful and. costly presents. As an acknowl- edgement of the kindness of Providence extended to him and his wife, Mr. Hooper has given liberal donations to the various charities throughout the city, including among them in recog- nition of his wife's faith the Jewish charities. Mr. Hooper relates With quiet humor that when he got married fifty years ago there were no railways, and when he and his wife lift Toronto' on their wedding trip thny took the stage to Dfindas. The roads at the time were very bad, and al heavy rain did not -mend. matters. Whiie the stage was proceeding from Hamilton to Dun- das it upset, and the occripants were pitched on to the muddy road, a rather disagreeable incident for a newly married couple. —Word has been received from Souris City, Manitoba, that Mr. Thos. Corey, formerly of the West End, Tuckersmith, has been so unfortunate as to have all his outbuildings burned to the ground by a spark from a steam thresher. Mr. Corey lost all this season's crop and 200 bushels of last year's oats, and it was only by hard work that his dwelling house was saved.