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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-12-24, Page 1Paul's n 0 the rikhk. t;41\--= us' lutS of likkt t these CD-A:rS_ faee Dry tioods'Itan" • place. trht rounds sonte store" sold as cheap! lavs of yore ed her gait,' ztl-the tore. gracious- sake -f 31e-Faui before r afnd Boys'. Over.. Ic*.bbi.ags County. xeelled. Don't Clothing until onr attractive rFOR A V. treat. ,Donl ni to the reliablei Clothing De - S inery and Oloth- f orth. lat the Gsange .s, James Dwici- other ; Ward at the Belek, 'a 4ot i, con - Deputy Return- at- di vision Nos section No. 7, iVtn. geGavin, ; Ward No. 1,, neasehool. house,. - acession 4, John It ming officer ONe. .,,atSVm, . turning officer. he Deputy, Re- poli clerks be Smith, Of the :on the sick list led her last 011 remains 'were cemetery.1 She tinily who have nmuity. pulpit of' the cupied lag Sane er, who is. to be :this church ia to assume charge no doubt, .e from the1con- Merner " ancl s, both of the nited in eatri- 1 We wish them, Y.—Mr. S. E. night from a E. Hill, who in Hamilton, is uds here.—Mr. Brunson Line, enry • Or t wine, by H. J. Solders, Mr. Murner ,of land.—Mr. ed te his recent- % R. Hamacher house, now Own, - Ir. F. Demuth's G. Menials has Inlet into one of you want o to a "tirell's ;yant a nice par - H. Well's and Vent to make s present for a, 's gift go to D... P. A, Wag - n et's stores. If e 0 od Chriatmas hiatus for their =ant a nice and ive go to V. F. E. ltoedd r go to F. liege' want good fit - Lippert. If you ‘.t(sf go to Etardy want a Surprise 'tine go to Ga- n the hest wash - want a sporting Tana's. livery. art a.ted resident 4th inst., aged was for nearly Nj church, Ayr, faithful an4 ef- a-leo for many gn.tfis on t two yearago- age and feeble- ry to reti re_f foal =fly() deaths of lso occurred in (Llf Mr. DoUgla.S. laughter of Mrs. day, and Mrs. dug dart2hter died on ItteS-- ;-atiall jj• 3 NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NITMBER 993. How. Are - Yo GOING TO VOTE? Are you a Grit ora Tory While these questions 'are being -asked Lod nswered in all conceivable ways and plakei3. Geo. Good, Of the Star - Grocerif, Is builv preparing for a big Christmas and Mw Year's trade. Nobodywill be -disappointed at the Star (rocery. Dont let political or party strife Make you oblivious to the more import duties of life. yotii ambition to be a member, or a Ma) or a Councillor be denied, The greater reason that: the inner man sh be well supplied. We aro giving great barga The new clerk at the STAR GROCERY he can improve on the above stanza. He political and municipal honors are not the important matters at this festive season. platform is how and where can we get the gest and best 101 CHRISTMAS DINNER Where can we get the. bigzest Turkeys, fattest Geese, the -nicest Ducks and • Chicke Where can we get barrels of Candies, Sack Nuts, boxes of Raisins, eases of Oranges, hest Teas and most fragrant Coffees.. W oh ! where Caal, we .get for nothing; the bigg niece' t and funniest books? Where do they away Handsome Lamps, Books, China Tea S - Glass Sets. Handsome Plates, Beautiful Gobi Yeses and Ornaments. He .claims the Grocery is the place, ,and he poetizes thusly: r, Id s. y8 Y8 St. is• he s? of he re st, ive ts, ts, tar From early morn till frosty eve, With uncovered head and rolled up sleeves We are selling such pareels you cou• ld ha I believe, ' It's a tip top store -for Bargs And how it can par I cannot conceive. i ns. Presents for English, Scotch, Irish, Dutch At prices no other store can touch. Some say we give them far too much, And we are pleased, and then try to do be ter for such. 11 •We like to be giving Barg ns. And then we have Groceries so very fine We do all others far outshine, Teas and Spices from the Eastern clime, g you want cheap goods, now's your time. We are giving awful barg And if it's Boots you want botli strong and Made with care to fit the feet, Strong or lig-ht for cold or heat, In their soles there's no deceit. Come along for Barg The styles are new, the prices cheap, If you saw them once you could hardly al el.), Come right along and take a peep Then put your hands in your pockets deep And get a share of the barg ns. We were first to bring the prices down We have still the cheapest stock in town. So spread he tidings all around, Let folks all rally to the Bound Of lvarg no. 5 at. JHB. And the Head Clerk says : Psha,w, you ave left the best part out. Why you sever s a word about thatthat--that,—lot—that to of Latub Skin Caps, reduced to $3.50. George Good, SEAFOR 11 Holiday Qoods, Holiday Goo JUST TO HAN! AND OPENED U —AT THE— Cheap Cash S t o —OF-- ffm Hoan &Compa .A.H1 A great variety of useful and suit goods for holiday presents, of which following comprise a few: Ladies' Misses 1' Far Sets ; Gents, La Misses', 13oys' and Children's Fur Fur Capes, Wool Shawls, Wool Clo Wool Hats, Wool Tam O'Shan Wool Squares, Silk Handkerch Cashmeres Gloves, Kid Gloves, Glovits, Hose, Corsets, Ties, Col Frillings, Dress Goods, Mannels,Tw Underclothing, Blankets, in fact e thing relating to Staple and Fancy Goods, and we are marking them a the smallest possible advance on in order to make a speedy elearan the whole stock. Call and be convii No trouble to show the goods. kkJ ble the nd Ps, ds, rs, efs, nit ars, ds, ry ry at ost, e of ced. 11 Hoffman cf Co,, Cheap Cash Stor.e, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. Agents for Britterick's Reliable terns and publications. Pat The Scripture Selections. The following letter, written by Rev: Dr. Dewart, so thoroUghly.explains and socompletelycovers the 'Whole ground relating tO the Scripture selections ,pre- pared by the Educational Depattment for us.e iu the public schoole, that we commend it to the careful consideration of our readers, While it ise perhaps, too late to affect the issue in 'this con test it will serve te: allay any feeling of uneasiness that may have arisen in the wands of any on this important Subject, and will lead them fa see; that de.spite all that has been said, the . Department have simply done in the premises that which they Were. asked to do by the representatives of all tl,e Protestant de- nominations of Ontarso.. Dr. Dewart says: ' I shall endeavor to show that there was no just ground for the allegation that the readings were the project of Archbishop Lynch, and introduced into the public schools to please him and the Roman Catholics, but on the contrary, the causes which kd to the adoption of this method of supplying a felt want, and the circumstances under whieh the work was prepared.and approved, unan- swerably proved that they both had a Protestant and not a Catholic origin. A great deal has since been written on the Subject in the Mail which evinces an intense desire, but sma .1 ability, to sus- tain the charge that Archbishop Lynch was at the bottom of the whole matter; but most of this writing has been made up of irrelevant assertions and insinua-` tions that could not be proved. Nothing has bee't brought forward that at all ac affects he force and relevancy of the facts st ted by Principal Caverraad Ithy- self. s3ht lest my sile ce should. be mis- construed, as an adi ission .th,t the lengthy disquisitions.a d captiou iques- tionings had any re 1 relevan i y and force, I claim the privi ege of ma ing a Mr. few additional remark' in the w, y of a McMurehy, o • brief review of the sub ect. ' come to the -rescne IF EVER THE. BOTTOM ;OULD documentary etriden BE :iAID TO . HAVE FALL'N N OUT • facts really go to Sho of any base, this can b truthful1 tare Readings sup,plt dieted of the charge t at the in asked for. Itsis dnI tion of the "Scripture Readings' for the side he espou Roman Catholic sch me. Th draw from his inne brought out in the ontroreraJ,r opinion as to what completely confuted those wh do in a certain ea urged this charge agai st the Minister of nee at th main tent and a Conserved), e in politics, who consulted about the w rk with si ch men as Rev. ;Dr. Nelles, 1 ev. Dr. C chrane and Archbishop tynel before M :Ross knew anything of the natter. 2. The Ontario Tea -hers' Assdciation and the representatis es of IhelProtes- ta,nt churches both t rged. the Ontario Government to make- suitable selection of Scripture reading for ' the ' use of schoufs. -3. The Minister of ,duction dame. to the conclusion that th best way Of meet- ing these demands wa, by adopting such a selection of Bible re dings as Mr. Kerr had outlined and sugeested. ' 4. He therefore p inted and sent copies of these seleeti us to each mem- ber of the different ch reh deputations, appointed by the Chu eh of England and th Presbyterian Synods nd e Methodist Conferences, and also o leading . clergy- men of other religio is bodies that had not sent deputations among others to Dr. Castle, Archbisho Lynch, and Rev. M. Burton. 5. The Minister o - Educatin then called the members of these different church deputations t gether toleonsult them and to hear the the publication of the jugs for use in schools 6. As might be ie. some diversity of opi gentlemen as to the e ligious instruction cot public schools. But versation discussing conference SgAFORTH, FTIIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1886. 7 was inserted in a tv the incorrect impr t adapted to make esion that it was voluntarily taken r m the Globe. Mr. . Hughes' criticism di I not controvert a single fact nor mint an argument pre- sented by me. Itsain ioutention was that, though Dr. aten aside I might be sinoere hi what w virote, yet that, for- If t, ere was any letter read that made sooth, we 'did no This was a000fllpai questions iiisinuatiii and, irrelevant facts, dare to assert, like 4. ing no proper evide case, tries to draw o some admissions that his contentions. W if copies of the Rea( Archbishop Lynch a Toronto in a coach an that alter the fo -ce have been stated? his fellow-complame that if they can 4n1 bishop Lynch -wee c Readings, or kythin is proved against the an assumptions ind EVERY REASO. not blinded by tint admit that since ther olic children in our Catholics, as wel should receive du the arrangethents for the schools. To injustice, inconsi rights and fair pla boast. As to the an of the facts o -necessary to male. probably as well inf ject as Mr. Hugh s, has not been able to facts that at all jt sti legations so freel bishop Lynch's IiO13 matter. . self. Dr. Laing has intimated that there ' was a letter from Archbishop Lye ch'read to the Joint Committee, and the Mail has kept clamoring for its pub ination as if it contained some dark plo . Now, is this kind of performance woi hY of a man in Dr. Laine's position? now all the fonts ! an ied by a series of thel some imaginary lett which he did not res' awyer, who, hay- suc ce to sustain his mo t of the witnesses wb ill give color to , t does it matter nu ngs were sent to rea d , every priest in unl six.? How could or of the facts that has r. Hughes and all bus seem to think show that Arch- nsulted .about the else a great crime overnment. Such ensible. ABLE MAN, an feeling, must are 50,000 Oath- blic schools, the the Protestants, sideration in all he mana,gensent of this ih Intolerant with the ecru- al all of which we go of being ignor- e case, it is un- ny reply. I am tried on the sub - At any rate, he ing to light any the positive al- ade about Arch- ection with this , oronto, has also f the Mail. His and statement of that the Scrip - what the teachers' when in his zeal s he ventures to consciousness an e teachers would at he says anyo elp the opposing o for nothing as Ir. Millar's let - Mr. Maegur- en te li y pre- redue- 'was a facts' have have thing adapted t Education. . A brief gl party. But opini n facts of the case will ionclusiveI. show a substitute for fats this to be so. ter is a sufficient rep . 1. The Bible Readings, fioally adopt- chy's aseumptions. ed after some chang s, were orieinally After the Globe's selected by Mr. Kerr; staunch rotes- Mr. Langtry's lett necessary for me to recollections of some' place:in the joint co gether by Mr. Ross, quite correct. - I ken one or two others co measure of ' ".religi schools than the rea tures. .According t what took place, it rather than between whole Bible, that th judgnaent was sho was in favor of mbr in the schools. I % the opinion that an rect religious ihst made up of child churches would Ile dissatiefaetion, that up OUR EXCLLENT SY. TE Of course, persone/ li .in favor of separa Might deem thi4 the country have a ion. It seems tom complains as if Hitt paeticular . viewS though they are ;no people of this clou ment it would hay they had been adept a d Mr. Langtry- w SG ools were Protes in tead of being s children of all e question is not wile Laing, or I, might schools wholly E teria,n or Methodis ticable.or expedient tended by children es. They innocent Minister of .Edne stood in the way nf favorite methods; i the fact that no sys struction could be fairly consider the terests of the whole cellent gentlemen h ride their hobbies, right to denounce o they decline to Mo them.. My friend, the, I taken a pecu1ia4' i reference to these' He was I believe, ution of the unite asked the Educatio " same similar reiig what was containe Readers: He was mittee who present Presbyterian Synod THANKED THE bqN for publishing thi member of the •joi aentroVed of the readings for the tis a member of the •su Vised the work. A on all this; and gat 3er up every trifling thing he can trump icup to make it appear that the publicatii p and use of this excellent volume 1 a ivery bad thing. Some of his facts a d rguments seetn to j be very trifling: aid far-fetched, and quite irrelevant. Ile justifies himself in atsailing the Rea lin e, on the ground that he has got nen i light lately. Well nig ardly in dealing I 'fa to see in all he that upsets the WITH PEACTICA approved of the publi tions in book form, an committee, represen churches, to go over vise it for publicatio with great care. Th cation imposed no res mittee. 7. Some time after the book, when an at the Mal, for an es dent purpose, to represent the Script Roman Catholic proj Bible, the ministers sub -committee of rev at Knox College a, planatory memoran signed and publish ment they repudiate construction put upd the readings, and m portant advantages' gf such, readings in ot This mentoranchim the Rev, Provost Bo( lege. These are all the e ing to the origin and 'adoption of the Scripture Readings, they completely di that the work was o out at the suggestia Ctholic Archbishop (flureh of Rome. T written in the Ma' though evincing no 1, ✓ judgme e Seriptur t as to Read- pected, there wasni •ion amo g these tent to w sich re - Id be give in our after a free con - these points, the RI UNANIMITY, ation of the selec- appointed a sub - ng the 4ifferent the work ,and re - This Was done Minister lof, Edu- raints on this corn - 1.e publication of etnpt was made in re Readings as a et hostile to the ho eenstituted the sion Met together d adopted, an ex- am which they . thile docu- he false and unfair the publieation of ntion several im- Hied by the use of ✓ public schools. vas drawn up by y, of TrirtitY Col- sential facts relat- nd I maintain that prove the charge iginated.or carried of the Roman or to please the e critics who have 1 on this subject, -ant of disposition, have corripletly fail; d to bring out any additional facts tha at all contradict or weaken this co 'elusion.' 'Indeed, from:the nature of th ease, if:the above statements are corree , nothing that has been insinuated., evei if true, could dis- prove THE CONCL1.'SION WI1ly11 THEY LOGICALLY EriTA n My letter was sent to the Mail before being- sent to the Globe of News, though when it app ared in the former paper in small, solid type, accompanied by Mr. HugheS' atter 1 0 re rs rn te in a. el cl n. re nt U C larks on Rev. it is scarcely anything. His ngs which took ttee, called to - ems to me not ber that he and ded for a larger instruction" in 7 of the Scrip - recollection of on this point, ctions and the ief diversity. of Mr. Langtry igious teachings ired to express mpt to give' di - ion in schools from all the to collision and vould tend to break OF PUBLId SCHOOLS e Mr. L„ who are church schools, misfortune. But ery different opin- that Mr. Langtry e it wrong that his .ere not adopted, t e views of the . In my judg- b en a calamity if d. Both Dr,. Laing te as if our public an church schools, °els attended by nominations. The Mr. Langtry or Dr.- deem advisable in scopalian, Presby - but what is pree- n union schools &t- rona all the church - y write as ff the tion's whitn alone he adoption of their teed of recognizing m of religious in - opted that did not convictions and in - people. These ex- am ai perfect right to but they have no her people because nt and ride behind tr ev. Dr. Laing,- has consistent course in cripture Readings. party to the resol- conference which al Department for ous instruction" to in the old National member of the coin - d a report to the which OF EDUCATION. book. He was a t committee which blication of these of schools. He was -committee that re- d et he goes back if he has he is very it out to others. has written anyth statements I have proof that the re work of Archbisho pt at a reply, it they were the wor ng lready presented, in dings were not the • feynch as much as f Dr. Laing or my- important revelation why not state facts like a man? I remember no n from Archbishop Lynch being , and I don't believe there was any letter read. Several other gentle - who werepresent, the only ones to • m I have spoken about it, AGREE 'WITH ME ON VHS POINT. even if there had been such a letter , -what in the world does it matter, ss it contained something iinproper rong. It seeins tome that Dr. Laing overdone this Archbishop Lynch ness. He has not, 'like John Gilpen, "k' pt his balance true." It is hardly to the old Archbishop, even though a Roman Catholic, to make a bug - of him, to frighten weak-minded le, in the way my good friend Dr. •g is doing. If the book was a good ; if the Minister of Education did ood thing in publishing it; if it had the means of bringing -the reading precious Bible truths into a great y schools where they were not for- ly read; if a company of sound .estant ministers, who knew the full ort of their action, accepted and en - ed the volume„ I am wholly , at a to see how Dr. Laing, or anyone , can learn anything that cap annul force and significance .of these facts. , it is said, the Archbishop was eon - ed ! The proofs were sent' to the hbishop ! And why not? If there .50,000 Roman Catholic children nding the public schools of Ontario, dd it be decent, or corteous, to 'say ing of fairness, to consult the re- entatives of every other church, and over the Roman Catholic Church? t to be taken for granted that noth is. right or proper unless the Cattle - condemn it? If so, then what shall say of all our legislation in which - holies as well as Protestants concur? eld to no man in loyal attachment to testant principles, butI do not be- e that. the interests of religion are ,at • remitted by such appeals to religiolps Onsy.and prejudice as have disfigsir- good deal of the recent writing lin Mail on this subject. E. II, DEWART. fai he bea peo, Lai boo a bee of ma mei Pro im do los els th Bu sul Ar are att wo no pr pa Is in lie we Ca I y Pre Het all j ea ed th The Berlin la to playa game o —Counterfeit nada. rosse club is arrangii skates. lalf dollar pieces are being circulated in St. Thomas. —Sir John Roe, of- Canada, is to married in January to the Marchion of Tweeddale. —Professor .6.4 site for the _Maui west of Winnipe —In Hamilton school scholars, and the libraries —A number of The Duty of the Hour. To the Editor of THE 111./RON EXPOSITOR. IR,—With your leave, as the period of the local elections is very near us, I should be glad of space for a few reflec- tions on the matter. There is at present a desire in some quarters to make political capital out of a religious cry. Now, if any point of religion were in danger, I trust I should be the last to din-egard the call to defend it. But so far is this from being the case in the present juncture, that the very 'opposite ex sts. The fact is that what, on calm refection, all must allow to be the only tree religious, especially the only true Protestant course, has been that endeav- ored to be pursued by the Mowat Gov- ernment, and that their opponents, in attacking it, are really advocating a coarse both irreligious and, • above all things'un-Protestant. should surely be the 4sire of all well-wishers of the country to see, as far as possible, the religious disagreements beeween Catholics and Protestants en- tirely done away with, so that there may be no more likelihood of quarrel between them than between Baptist anli Presbyterian, or Episcopalian and Methodist. I have lived for many years near Catholics, and often worked with them, and have never ,found any more reason for dispute in the one case than the other. But, sir, these disputes are occasioned and kept alive by men who have nothing else to do—no means of arousing attention otherwise. What can be a better plan, in the present state of Ontario, occupied by pe3ple of these different sects, than so:to arrange our public schools that children of both denominations can study there, certain that no attempt will be madei tO meddle with their faith by either religi- ous body? A plan has been adopted by the leading Protestant and Catholic ministers, giving Scripture readings which both believe in. No better, no other plan is possible, if the Scripture is to be read there at all. For by this plan fifey thousand Catholic children come to study in our Ontario public schools. Is not this far better than indocing them to start separate schools in every locali- ty? When Protestant and Catholic children thus study together is it not far, more likely to conduce to the future quiet, prosperity, yea, and religious feeling, true religious feeling, of the country, then the system -some pow pre7 teas} to demand, of reading the whole Bible, which is not at all necessary for the Protestant children' who have it in full at horoe, but wouldsimply send the Catholics to schools of their own, excit- in I separationist and adverse feelings which it was the hope of all religious men we had found a way of avoiding. And this cry has been got up, not that any one really has any objection to the system of co-education, or that any one disapproves of the selections (for the Mail, which now attacks them, praised them highly when they first appeared) bat simply to get up a religious cry\ w iich shall overthrow the present Local G vernment, which they- can atcack in no other way. It is certainly- the duty of every fair-minded citizen to support the Local .Government in this election fdr the very reason that their opponents have raised this cry. The Government have tried t� be fair to both sects, and td bring up both in unity, the very thing nSeded here, as every one admits. All aamit the danger and the utter useless- ness of religious discord; here. The an- swer to those who are raising it should be most conclusive at the polis, and all should do what they can in the matter. Yours, &c., December 17th, 188ii. I PROTESTANT. have arrived at settle in the wes —John Waggdnhammer, of Glenall who a few days' go was fined $50 a costs tor an inf Act, has abscon —Alex. Beeto Kincardine tow shonlder badly h trt and his collar bo broken by a tree !falling on him. —Owing to Ole -prevalence of di theria, in and around the village Thamesford, the public schools ha been closed. --Mr. Wm. Russell) of the Guel unders has located a oba experimental fa in there are 9,599 Sanday aught by 931 teaehels, contain 15,148 vol u nuts. Russians from Pola d Winnipeg, and. w 11 en. ingement of the Secitt ed. , of the 2nd concessio ship, recently had ljis of ve 1-1 Novelty Works has shipped to bourne, Australia, forty lawn mowe s, and some sickle kripders...' —George Whitfield; a lad who co- structed a bomb Fwhich he exploded in night school in Brantford, has been se to jail for six rndnths. 1 7—It will take eight months to cut t preliminary tunnel under St. CI River for the Grand Trunk ' tun there. —W. Storer, a blind man, who did large commission business in dry goo in New York, has goee - to Cana leaving debts to the amount of $50,0 —A young man managed to Tun 11 board bill of $190 at a Victoria, Brit Columbia, hotel; by describing hims as a son of Senator Wilson, of Montre —In St. Andrew's Presbyterian chur Toronto, on Sunday, 12th' inst,, the c lections in aid of the a.ugmenfation stipends amounted to the handsome s of $1,609. 1 —henry GeOrge, the distinguisl ed lis io Las to a Lt ir el a 5, a, 0. a sh lf 1. h, 1 - of American workman, has cancelled lecture appointnaents throughout Onta until after thelelection excitement 1 —The closing exercises of the Toro Nortnal School took place last Fri a,y night. The report of the examilh rs showed that 82 ladies and 37 gentle en heal passed their examinations. ' —The new snnwsheds of the Caned an Pacific Railway underwent a severe *st a few days agd in- the Selkirk range, which they stood in a most satisfactOry manner. —Mr. John Goodfellow, an old resi- dent of Ayr, was found dead in tais house, \where he lived alone, on Thurs day last week. Deceased was _a rained farmer, and had been for years afflicted with heart disease. —Alex. McKean, aged 40 yeartin a Canadian and unmarried, was instantly killed on Saturday night in Buckley & Douglas' camp, in Crown, Manistee county, Michigan. His remains were brought to Manistee city for interment. —One night recently a tramp 'ladled Joseph Woods sought shelter in a barn neat Glen Williams, and the night being verycold both" his legs were frozen near- ly up to the knees, and will have toi be amputated. subsided, Wilkins was brought before the mayor of Galt last week and fined $201, and costs Or thirty days in jailfor disturbing the Salvation Army. Galt magistrates are determined to protect the Army, —The Rev. Mr. Wyllie, of Parise re- cently- gave a lecture in Knox chutch, Ayr, to a large congregation on the ub- ject "Representative Seotelitna,n." principal men Watt, Stevens — Charles M two American le -ave Guelph in that= city they were bo authorities o Brantford have be notified to look out for them. — Two -Montreal lawyers caused a emit sation in the Circuit Court the ofher. day by engaging in a furious contro- versy, in the course of which one of tpe disputants accused the other's partner of committing an act of " unqualed rascality." he that he spoke of were n and Chalmers. ckie and John Hinehie, thieves, were warned to aturday. They arrived ti the morning and Paid nd for Brantford. {MCLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Graves knocked the steer down the mother also fell, and when the steer be- gan to sprawl and kick, the mother did the same, and in the lag agonies of death the mother went thrOugh the same convulsions. Some little time after Mr. Greaves and others who witnessed the whole affair, went out to the cow and tried to arouse her, and after some effort got her en her feet, and after shaking 'her head she appeared completely recov- ered. —Archie Livingston, a young man em- ployed in Lucam's saw mills, about five miles east of Petrolea, inet with an acci- hair, also setting fire to his clothes as well as burning his hands alniost to crisp, leaving him In a horrible state. His face was scarcely recognizable and both hands utterly helpless, and„ al- though progressing well, it will be some length of thine before he will he able to do anything; It was only by the heroic effort of Mr: Pickerel thatthefireWasex- tingnished. —gr. A. Huson, of Paris, has receiv- ed word of the sad death of his half- - sister, which occurred in Kansas on the '25th salt. Her son, a, boy of about 1(5 years, was carelessly handling a pistol,. dent some days ago. His leg got caught not knowing it was kaded, when the in the chain that draws the logs up to the saw in the mill, injuring it so badly that it was necessary to amputate it be- low the knee. —A young lady in Montreal who earns her living by short band writing and who had managed to save euongh Money to purchase a Remington type writer, valued at $100, had the article stolen from her room by some unknown person while she was away at dinner. —When the grand jury made their presentment at the Criminal sessions, Toronto, last week, they spoke strongly them for their services, and asked that grand jurors be allowed not less than per clay. His honor promised to lay their request before the proper parties. —Five servant girls at a hotel in Windsor were nearly suffocated by gas last Saturday night. The trouble was caused by the loosening of a brick, which permitted the gas from a chimney to pass into a flue opening into the sleep- ing room. The girls will recover. —A few days ago the dying wife of a working man in Montreal. informed her husband that he would find in oiled the drawers of her bureau a sum of money, which she had saved, ceat by cent, since - their marriage. Upon examining the drawer a sum. of nearly $900 was found. —The high license law has just been put in force in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saloons are entirely abolished and noth- ing but hotels and shops are allowed to sell liquors, and these must not sell less than one quart, and, hotels only to guests. The result is that two thirds of the drinking places are closed. —The Belleville Board . of Education has decided to supply every pupil in the High and Public Schools with a Bible, to be kept in their desks, and also that after the Christmas holidays a portion of Scripture shall be read responsively likewise. by the teachers and pupils at the open -e —At the last sitting of the Renfrew ing of school each morning. =Sheriff her, of Essex County, has offered the owners of the. steamer City ;of Dresden, $100 to deliver the writ and 'ballot boxes for the coming provincial election at Isle an Pelee, which is a portion of the South Riding of the County, but it is doubtful if a passage can be forced, through the ice. —Mr. Wm. Joiner, a young farmer of Southwold, was in the wood's on Fri- day felling trees, when he was struck by the limb of a felling tree! and seriously injured. Besides being 'badly bruised all along the side of the body, his skull was fractured, and he was suffering from concussion of the brain. —The banks and police have received. information that the chief cities in Canada are being flooded with counter- feit bills by an American gang of count- erfeiters. A large number of t WO: dollar Government bills have been counterfeited of the B series, in which the Dufferin vignette is perfectly. done. —Ata meeting of the Oxford Temp r- anee Association held !last week Woodstock, Mr. J. Kilbdrne of Plat s- ville was unanimously chosen as a snit - able man to be recommended for the of- fice of county police magistrate in place of the late Henry Parket, and a dep- utation was appointed to lay the matter before the Government. —The Whyte Brothers, of -Paris, are singing in Brooklyn, New York, in evangelistic services, in 'connection with the Eighteenth street Methodist Episco- weapon was accidentally discharge.d, and the bullet struck the mother, kill- ing -her instantly. —Enormous catches of very large sized codfish are reported from Cape Sable, Nova, -Scotia. The oldest fisher- man does not remember such a large 'catch, nor such big fish. Some of the fishing boats were obliged to tow the fish when landing as they had more than enough to swamp -their frail fishing boats. The good fishermen of Cape Sable have given up the idea that union with Canada has destroyed the fisheries. —On the 7th of December, in Biehop against the smallness of the fee allowed Walsh's private chapel, St. Peter's Pal- ace, London, Miss Ida Joy of Tilson- burg, our celebrated Canadian artist, was married to V. A. Didier of Lnxen- burg, Grand Duchy of Luxenhurg. nit ceremony was perfonned by the Bis- hop. The happy couple will re- side in Pittsburg, .Pennsylvania, where Mr. Didier ie the owner of the extensive iron works known as the Pittsburg Smelting Company, —Last Friday a farmer named Alex. Macdonald, wile lived on the eighth lino of West Zorra, was sitting at dinner with eight or ten others at the Elgin House, Woodstock, when a pince of meat stuckiin his throat and be 'began to choke.- Every effort was made to afford him relief but havain, and in a few minutes he was dead. A doctor was sent for as soon as the case appear- ed to be serious but it was too latewhen he arrived. —The Oakville Star says that for violation of the Scott Act, a Mrs. Gor- ing was fined $100 and costs, it being a second offence. As the defendant had no goods and chattels, two mouth& im- prisonment was ordered. Her step- daughter was fined $50 and costs for a similar offence, and in default of pay- ment two months in prison was her fatht —Mr. Richard Venning, a Dorchester farmer, Saturday delivered to a London butcher a well bred fat heifer less than. eighteen months old and weighing over' 1,400 lbs. Venning bred and fat- tened this fine animal on his own farm. —The Canadian Customs DepartMent have refused to grant the application made by Detroit residents to be .alldwed ian to tow pine lo side of the D: them in such time to time b —Early Mo s in rafts to the Cana troit river and re ove quantities as may from required. nday morning the oarn owned by Jacob Mains, near Ridgeway, was destroyed ,13y fire, with the cont4nts, including farining implements, 'two - horses and sevdral cows, also a qua ain. Loss about $1, ing Thamesville station orning the Jamaica Sir ,1(1's private car, lwas rojecting piece of flser freight train and seteral smashed. 'None of the e car were injured. Sheer was caught whisky into the N of hay and g insured for $50 —When lea last- Sunday ri John Macdon caught by a from a passing of the window occupants of tli —One Mike ring a cargo of tity 00; run- rth- west last week ,and fined $400, with six mOnths' imprisOnment, at Macleod. Two policemen who were detailed to spill the liquor got drunk and each got three months with hard labor. —A very remarkable oceurrenee is said to have taken place recently on the farm of Mr. Gt'naves, of North Oxford. Mr. Greaves Was killing a young !steer in his barn, the mother ofnyhich was standing with her head from the 'barn about thirty ,rods away. When Mr. lj Connty Court five constables were charged by the License Inspector with refusing to serve sammonses hi Scott Act cases. They .pleaded guilty., and the prosecutor not desiring to press for punishment, but simply to make their duty known -to them, they were bound in $100 each to appear for judgments: when called upon. Three of the five have since resigned. —Some two years since a farmer of Metcalfe Middlesex county, named Frank Meyer, sold his farm and stock, deserted his wife and five small children, and ran off to California with a -Glencoe girl of 16 summers. , The deserted wife's maiden name was Lizzie Robinson, daughter of George Robinson, of West- minster. A few days ago the London Advertiser .received a letter f roma party in California, enquiring the whereabouts of Mrs. Meyer and family, and offering assistance should they be in need of it. ---The third annual Christmas fat stock show, of the Oxford Fat Stock Club,was held in Woodstock on Wednes- day last week. Competition was this year confined to the county. The fine heifer shown by Wm. Donaldson, South • Zorra, won first in her class and a sweepstakes; the immense steer shown by Stephen Hall, reeve of Bknheiro, won first in his regular class ansi two sweepstakes; and the immense pig ex- hibited by J. F. Wilson won first prize and sweepstakes at the Provincial as well a.s at Woodstock. The latter ani- mal weighs 700 pounds. pal church, with good success. They j —The Ayr Recorder of last week says: will return to Canada for a few days at After- a lingering illness of some months, Christmas time, and in January they go John K. Sear, proprietor of the Netts - to Newhaven, Connecticut, to Sing in ville- House, died last week; aged 58 connection with Rev. J. 01 Peck's church. -s-The twenty-four d'clock system, which has been found to ;work with such great satisfaction on the western division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, will b put in operation next week on the M toba and Northwestern, and at the next change of time -table on the eastern divi- sion. It is also about being adopted by the Union Paesgiven —Notice in the Canada Gazette of an application to Parliament by the Primitive Methodist Coloniza- tion Company, for an act ,empowering that company to receive the paid-up stock of its share holders in exchange for lands or other property of the eam- pany at such prices as may be agreed upon. —A proposition is on foot; origin- ating, it is said, with Lady McDonald, to erect a permanent art museum and' industrial science college in Ottawa in commemoration of the Oueen's jnbilee, the building to cost' at least $100,000. The site, it is stated, has been chosen, and a committee of ladies has been formed for carrying out the object. —A 12 year old son of Mr. F. W. Hore, of Hamilton, left home on Tues- day last week, saying he was going '. skating. Since that time nothing has keener to leave Burtons employIt been heard of .him in spite of anxious appeared from other evidence that after and thorough search. It is feared he has the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Burton did years. Deceased was well and favorably known in this district, having for many years been eng tged in the hotel business, both at Dundee0toseville, and Platte- ville, The cau4-of death was rather peculiar. He had enjoyed. good health until about six months ago, when he began to find it painful to swallow solid food owing to some obstruction in the aesophagus. This obstruction or growth was at the entrance of the stomach, and. kept enlarging so that for some months he lived entirely on liquid food. All that medical skill could do was of no avail, and at last nothing could pass into his stomach, and he died from pure star- vation, He leaves a wife, daughter and two sons. —An amusing suit came before the Toronto Division Court on Thursday. County Constable King sued Mrs, Peter Burton for $70 commission for pro- curing her a hnsband. Plaintiff alleges that he was commissioned by defendant to engineer a scheme for getting Mr. Burton, a well-known citizen to marry her, and also to get a handsome young widow, who was acting as Burton's housekeeper, to give up her position. King was succeseful in arranging the marriage, but failed. to induce theheuse- been drowned in the bay. Mr. Hore offers $100 reward for information leading to the recovery of his little son. —One day lately John Pickeral,of the 16th line, Plympton, opened his writing desk to look for the keys of his watch, and not thinking of his powder flask that he had left there, struck a match. Some of the fire fell on a few grains of loose powder in the bottom of the desk, instantly exploding the flask. Part of it went through the ceiling, setting fire to thewindow blinds, burning Mr. Pickerel's face severely, singing his whiskers and not live happily together, and finally the wife diecovered that the housekeeper was administering to Mr. Burton a cer- tain love philter. Mrs. Burton procured. a bottle of this wonderful mixture which she administered to her husband by pouring small doses upon his coat tails. But as it had no effect she commenced to punish him id various ways till finally he deserted her. Defendant alleges that her solicitor breught about the marriage between herself and Mr. Bur- ton, and not plaintiff. Judgment was reserved.