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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-12-31, Page 14, 1886; Boy Tit - 'y Days Night4 F Ids Mem of the nizhr„ givrt us lots of at r these C>.A.Ts .ors 1.v face he Dry Goods .his place. dnight rouges • some store sold a,s cheap -days of yore .ped her gait, es she tore, gracious sake .t 3IeFaul before! and Boys' Over - Clothing, is one e county. Fit— :exoelled. Don't. f Clothing until gh our attractive [FOR A a. treat Don't he to the reliable, ice Clothing De - NUL S linery and Cloth- a.forth. sr snoh work are of doing so now, nci need of send: rnprove the law .ohibitory liquor from the Local Parliament &Ione matter. A pro - also in favor of Measures, is not snperance people I House. 1Iow- 150 for the Scott inaj ority against 5tiou will be an eaar..aeam Balfoar closed !and left on the twee. Sound; to h relatives. On ee ch,arge of the time ago it was be made by the ifovvick, to elect be favorable to aning municipal thing about such ave the Howiela in the temper- neas. Ox Oh UrCh annt-, tea meeting ia ist, Miss Edith united in mar- es, of London. 'bloods _were re - costs for ask - daring prohibit - 'John Kipfer, of ped into atab of Iy scalding her of S. Marys, -et for the stone erten township, knd A McIntosh, Lay other two in ig match for $50 tudents, -Mit- esfal entertain- rhich hated the Orleans Jubilee a the Congrega- rel, - last week. ingtng Was, of . of the 13th s lately observa dogs killing his be procured his `canine. il slick looking $10- counterfeit upon several he police got /lake an arrest. raeka out of the • entertainment e Mode School 3rhools, in Mit- ning last week, wincipal of the Is, he was pre- ies with a hand- -noon last week, son, of Logan, teeident. The 'hich they were ! neck yokee and mar/cable. The st a telegraph brown out, and • hurt. xe years teacher in, association -uccessful enter - 1 at Bornholm, inst. The pro - At the ed Miss Ander- nn the school, :ake basket and lea 4 •""'• NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 994. SEAFORTH, FR DAY, DECEMBER 31, 1886. McDBAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. How Are You GOING TO VOTE? Are you a Grit or a Tory 9 While these questions are being asked and answered in all conceivable ways and places Geo. Good, Of te Star Grocery, rs busily preparing for a big Christi -nag and New Year's trade. Nobody will be disappointed at the Star Grocery. Don't -let political or party strife Make you oblivious to the more important duties of life. If your ambition to be a member, or a Mayor, 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 the STAB GROcERY says he can improve on the above stanzii.~ He says political and niunicipal honors sire 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 bigzest Turkeys, the fattest Geese, the nicest Ducks and Chickens? Where can we get barrels Of Candies, Sacks of Nuts, boxes of Rais ns, cases of Oranges, the best Teas and most fragrant Coffees. Where ! where can we get for nothing the biggest, nicest and funniest books? 'Where do they give away Handsome Lamps, Books, China Tea Sets, Glass Sets, Handsome Plates, Beautiful Goblets, Vases and Ornaments. He claims the Star Grocery is the place, and he poetizes thusly : From early morn till frosty eve, With uncovered head and rolled up sleeves, We are selling such parcels you could hardly believe. • And how 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 ean 'touch. Some say we give them far too math, And we are pleased, and then try to do better for such. We like to be giving Bargains. And then we have Groceriesi so very fine We do all others far outs14ne, Teas and Spices from the Eastern clime, If you want cheap goods, now's your time. We are giving awful bargain s And if it's Boots you want both strong and neat Made with care to fit the fleet, Strong or light for cold or heat, In their soles there's no deceit. Come along for Bargains. The styles are new, the prices cheap, If you saw thein once you could hardly sleep, Come i•I,g-ht 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 pri,tes down We have still the cheapest stock in town. So spread the tidings aronnd, Let folks all rally to the sound Ofinirgains.' And the Head Clerk says: Pshaw„ you have left th.e best part out. Why you never say a word about that—that—that—Iot--that lot of Lamb. sale naps, reduced to $3.50. - ! George GHood • I SEAFOR Til Holiday Goods, Holiday Goods. JUST TO HAND AND— OPENED; 'U. —AT TILE— Cheap Cash store Hoffman ce Company, A great variety of useful ancl suitable goods for holiday presents, of which the following comprise a few :' Ladies' and Misses' Fur Sets:; Gents, Ladies', Misses', Boys' and Children's Fur Caps, Pur Capes, Wool Shawls, Wool Clouds, Wool Hats, _ Wool Tam O'Shanters, Wool Squares, Silk Handkerchiefs, Cashmeres Gloves, Kid Gloves, Knit Gloves, Hose, Corsets, ties, Collars, Fallings, Dress Goods, Flannels,Tweeds, Underclothing, Blankets, in fact every- thing reladingto Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, 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 convinced. No trouble to show the goods. Ho man cE Co., - Cheap Cash Store, Cardno'a Block, Sea,forth. Agents for Butterick's Reliable Pat terns and publications. me Pi.elates That Put Protes- tantism in Dangefi. KNOXONIAN IN THE CANADA PRESBY- TERIAN. The Protestantism of Ontario, we are d, is in danger. There are six Pro - tants in Ontario to st how that one Cathol dangerous for the six P t been made clear.* Du ular War an Irish so, a dozen prisoners. Hi er asked him how he ha ny. "Sure, sor;" ans '1 surrounded them." m y, perhaps, that one d the six Protestants s mewhere else. He tem. Whilst Dr: ,Laine and other e linent men are heading q. Archbishop nch, and keeping the ne catholic f m surrounding the si address ourselves to ty of narning a few pre ink do Protestantism m an Archbishop Lynch urse we are quite liable our opinions ha regard tes. We have -never be the sublime height of in me protestants rise to. nscious of the fact that ake mistakes. This fact rrible disadvantage, w ith some of the critics ynch, for of course they llible as the Pope himsel do or say anything that i 1 te and perfect accord wi s andard that can be appl a Mons. Let us name t at we think are doing n ore harm than Archbis ing or can do ARCHBISHOP PENUB. i a bad prelate. He stril t e Schemes of the Churc ay cripples Protestanti t e sinews of war, and ma A ry weak in battle. Wh • shop gets a fair hold of an, not the Archbish yee 5 cents for Horne M for Foreign Missions, 1 eel thing for Augmentation • ount for the Aged an. ters' Fund. One of the out this prelate is that 1 the Churches, and carr e ations among all class e eripples Protestantisria t d managers of the funds Had to go to the bank oney to keep the wo wing to the villainy of s me of the worn-out mini-ters are ke 1 ne Oatholic. cis tb make otestants has ing the Pen- dier brought superior of cm p OA red • so ered Patriek, 11 some such atholic may to prison or 4ty rround Pro be tes rstants, iumbler hat we h mdre harni doing. Of - bo be wi crag o those pre - I able to rise allibility that Ye are sadly e sometimes laces us at a n compared Archbishop re all as in- Theynever not in abso- ' the highest d to human few prelates 'rotes ta n tis m op Lynch is VSNESS s directly at and in this n. He cuts 'es the Church this •Arch - man he—the • ,—generally sions, 1 cent for Colleges, and the same Infirm Min - worst things travels over s on his op - • of people. o badly that are often cpme and borrow k going on. this prelate, • the verge of starvati ..ship Lynch did anythin ould be lynched. Stra.n • the people who made e ishop Lynch are the f rchbishop Penuriousnese Sometimes ese people pay a cent fo the defence d prepagation of Prot stantism and s metimes they don't • ARCHBISHOP JEA a dangerous prelate. ainly .at the clergy of lii I reported that at times 1 ( ctors of divinity, coll d other distinguished en. This re- • ort may be as truthful s the report at Archbishop Lynch prepared the criptureselectrons forthe ublic schoo's. may be more so. Ar hbishop Jeal- sy often gets possession of ministers. r. A. makes a good speeeh at a meet - n. , If Arch - like that he e to say, some ar .on Arch- st frionds of orsa He strikes diocese. It e enter e into ge professors g, gets the ear of the pe vourable impression and two of applause. Th ts on the platform, with a thunder cloud. Wh eak he tries to be sarcas ut only succeeds in bein ies to sneer at M h. A. b °thing but making the p imself. What is the tro ? Archbishop Jealous ay to him that emnebo reacher. "Never heard r. B. The Archbishop gain. Say to him tha oing good work in his Hope it will last," snarl rchbishop has him down at somebody writes a Never read such stuff," he Archbishop has hi er. In fact, Archbis ttacks some ministers far than Archbishop Lyn e keeps some ministers f g a good sermon, or a g ading a good article. relate. He takes 'the inisters' bones, and give nd angry look. He is a s BISHOP STRIF a dangerous prelate. hurch courts, and does s t times. Sometimes he prence, or General- Assent r Presbytery, and makes ct in such a way as to co hat the doctrine of entire as no foundation in fact )ple, makes a gets a round Rev. Mr. B a face as dark n he rises to ic on Mr. A. stupid. He t succeeds in oplel sneer at hie with Mr. is ' in him. y is- a fine him," growls has fgot him ,sornebody is congregations. Mr. B. The Say to him good article. e hisses out. worse than op Jealousy more violent - h eVer does. om ever hear- od speech, or e is a cruel esh off some them a lean bad. prelate. e attacks the d work there Esters the -Con- • ly, or Synod, the members vince, people sanctification whatever it ay have in books. Bishop Strife has een known to -demoraliz ntil the superior courts re. He has torn many a oft into fragments, and n aughingstock in the conam uined the character of ban, and made him a n °immunity, when he mig seful citizen and good nei Iltrife is one of the worst ootstool. Strange circu ot that some of those pe ess to have a holy ho. ishop Lynch have such a ng toward Bishop Strife. hreatens to make neig ach other as they did in 3elfast? Presby teries ad to inter- ood congrega- ade religion a mity., He has many a good isance in the t have been a •hhor. Bishop relates on this istance is it ple who pro- ror for Arch - friendly feel - even wben he bors butcher -ARCHDEACON SL, s a dangerous prelate, an )rotestantism. He som inisters and elders, an( ures their influence for g he church more than Arc ver hurt it. Some of th • rchbishop Lynch are on rms with this prelate. RURAL DEAN 0 isturbs more Protestant ND ER 1 often injures times attacks seriously in- od. He hurts • bishop Lynch se who attack • uite friendly SSIP congregations in one year than Atchbi hop Lynch ever . disturb sevving opened. !some o the pre .hurts P man C ,hurts it is not fierce. Some of be ma ing war agains quite a Worldly as the • DEAN ALCO is, next in the Protest t has do professStange t bishop with D If t e that si one dot gvern t soaked, his bre! t d in his life. It is said that circles. are his favorite field of ns. This may be as true as •the election stories we read at ent tine. • CANON WORLDILIN ESS otestantism more than any Ro- tholic prelate in the Dominion The war- aaralinst this prelate hose who should the Canon are anon himself. OL to old Satan, the worst prelate Dominion, He 'destroys more ts id a wee than Romanism since Cana1a was settled. say some o the people who o be terribly afraid .of Arc nch are on ve y friendiy ter •s an Alcohol. e is one spe table in Ontario kens decent +pie, and males btt whether Canadians are fit to emselves, it is Oat of a whisky - t jabbering a out the " whole hile his speec is "thick" and - smellslike a open sewer. .A Fe • DEA has be drouth part o so _mud the w. thegrcv severe, thoug by th their s Wheat ri good, b great b 1 Here t e yield per acre 30 bus be ab barley Tbose cdllent to extr total f whole it farmer price o ing ab hard. ' 'Words F om Dakota. Hicandain, Cass onnty, Dakota, Decen ber 22nd 1886. j EXPOSITOR.— ur past summer noted for its • igh winds, heat, ot winds an. hail. In this he territory' e did not suffer from the dro th as they did to and north West of us, for in ng seasori we erefavored with ell timed lo al rains, and al- ur crops were at times wilted ot winds the soon reeovered ngth from' the cooling showers. ur main depe dence, was extra h in quantity and quality, the of the cropg adingNo.1 hard. rangedlrom 15_to s, the average for this part will .22 bushels per acre. Oats, d rye were'ir in fair to good. o had corn pi uted had an ex- ield. Potath s -were from fair ood. Turnip poor, with us a ure. Taking the season as a las been a fav rable one to the s far as tbe yi Id went, but the heat ,has liee very low, keep - t 54 cents per bushel for No. 1 he extra yield and grade .help - ow price cons derably, aid it ature's fault that this crop was y remunerativ one tothetillers il. A few da s before we be- rvest, this pal t was visited by structive hail storm which de- nd damaged a large acreage of ing crops. I ill give yeti the a few of the r ‘sidents here who were residen s near Seaforth number of bus els of wheat they this year's crop, and their 1 loss bus els by the hail It will give s me of your many n idea of the large amount of ised here. s 1 s ed the was no not a v of the gan to a very streye thegro v nanies former with t had fr estima e storms. readers • wheat James Andrew Wm. Cos Wm, C. Wm. No Jas. Cal Geo. Pa Geo. Cal ,Hugh fel ,We labor, 1 easy pi ished t in. U no 8110 that d and by which South - local tr fall w tell th- since c snow a in Nov of the usual dry, a of moi fail. the tiv be aim ine. 'gives dread, is mor than fe terse t for co abroad weathe presen have a ty of s the sn 'a r- ushels. Bushels. ott ' saved ,000, lost over 5,000 ,600, " " 2,500 1,100, " " 1,500 2,650, " 1,300 2,600, " " 400 ell.. ...... " ,000, "• " 300 t rson 2,400, " " 200 2,400. " 200 lntosh, jr" 2,850, " 000 d a fine fall for all kinds of •t the ground as rather dry for ghing. Most farmers had fin- ir ploughing before the frost set • o the 22nd N vember, we had but early i the morning of y a wheel and s ow' storm set in, 9 a.m. a severe torm was raging, 1 sted two days, blocking the Yestern Railvv y and stopping el for a few ays. The snow - very heavy, jut we could not •epth owing to the drift. Never ing here had e such a severe • drift or so low a temperature • ber. The nil an'a snowfalls ia;t two years ere far below the rage, and e ground is very in great need f a large supply re. Our well are beginning to next year sh uld be as dry as •receding ones wqre, we would certain of ha ing a water fam- o ar, the snowfall of this winter mise of freeing us from that o it has been excessive. There ow at present on the ground ltogether in our last two win - act is, we hade too much snow rt either at home or for going Since our st • snowfall the as been very tormy, and from ppearances e are going' to Id-faehioned inter, with plen- , and no lac of wind to keep • moving. R spectfully yours. HIGHLAND. ldwell 11 tt ith.... " tg 0 The unty Co Scott t 1 EXPOSITOR.— fl the County C Mg to petition t I for the ap Magistrate for e fact, that no in will be ag oining yearemi h the result d so that the n whtch the 'be over 1,600 o h. among them ce and who ar very tempera ill have tem bout him to 1 nd vote only known a d pledged te believ in conversion. doctri e as firmly as but 1 e ieve it possi some •c asions and u cumst n es to get cony for his o n good or th munit . Such I thi sions lich take place electio 1. When a ma known anti -Scott Ac strong te perance adv an ol ct on, I fear th DE. action in refu ernme Police also t these this in to pu then st County carried know tempe ly trus Count enough one side cil and the ct. n view of the uncil, last June, the Ontario Gov - ointment of a the County and doubt many of in seeking office ht it not be well of the vote as it lectors of Huron Scott Act was a majority, may are the 7riends of not: 1 earnest- ce elector in the erance principles ave partyism to or those who are perance men. I hold it as a ny other person, le for a man on der certain cir- rted too speedily good of the com- k are the conver- on the eve of an who has been a man, becomes a cate on the eve of conversion has been too Dervous 8 office upo great a ris on probe. giving h thorough sound - in for the on Reeve wi his meta present fact that fessedly and rev( most in County, to tem pe best thin County year's re that the repentan that all istood 'in their Ju lish the at that seconded 37 of the amended ment be sudden and the shock to his stem of laying the burden of his shoulders would be too c. I would suggest putting him on for a year, or in some way m a year's rest to becotne confirmed, and then if he's the faith and otherwise fitted rous duties �f Reeve or Deputy y, give him a chance toprove • We have the record of the ounty Council and how sad a orne of those men who are pro- ristiau, and even.holding high sible positions in some of the uential denominations in the nd yet we find them opposed ance legislation. I think the the temperance people of the an do is to give these men a from their onerous duties so may have plenty of time for e and amendment. In order ay know just how the Council the temperance question at meeting, will you please pub-. llowing report of -their action eeting:—Moved by Mr. Wilson, by Mr. McMillan, that clause Finance Committee's report be and that the Ontario Goverra memorialized to appoint a Police Magistrate for this County at an early date. Upon the narnes being call- ed their Votes for this amendment were Messiest Beattie, Scott, Smillie, Horney, A. Mcgurchy, Strachan, Black, Mc- Millan, Currie, Struthers, Wilson, Tor- rence and Corbett -13. Against it for the origenal report, Messrs Walker, Andersoe , Hays, Britton,Manley,Oliver, Bryan, rNIcPherson, Sanders, Campbell, Griffin, Howe, Wray, Kalb- fleish, Rennie, Esson, Johnston, Beck, Kelly, Clegg, Cameron, Eilber, Rollins, Roy, Cone,' Durnin, Allen, Elliott,Rogers, Beacom, Bissett, Kane, Jacques and D McMurchie. Tne amendment was lost by a majority of 22. Yours ..for prohibition, GRT, Deamber,27th, 1886. The t west mo and 900 — Hen sentence Prison f —The .drink sh doing bu • —Dr. W. J. B. Canada. tad strength of the North- nted police is now 1,000 men orses. y Scott, of Strathroy, has been to six months in Central ✓ refusing to eupport his wife. keeper of a tobacco and soft p at Halifax has been fined for iness on the Sabbath day. obert Hobbs, for upwards of twenty years jail physician in London, died on —Cepa over the 1onday last in his 86 year. alists who have been looking round at Rat Portage with a view to t e erection of mills prOnounce the situa 'ion excellent. — Soni time during Monday night the Gran • Trunk Ticket office, at Hamil- ton, was obbed of $2,300 cash. There is no clu to the burglars. —W. ). Morden's barn, near Hamil- ton; wa fired by tramps last Saturday night. oss about $700; insured for $500. — Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brantford, has in co rse of preparation a memoir of the late ev. Walter Inglis, of Ayr. —The residence in Montreal of the' late Sir rancis Mucks, which cost $32,- 000 a fe years ago, was sold Friday for $10,160. — Hull, at Ottawa; is threatened with an epider ip of diphtheria, whichdisease has bee becoming more and more pre- valent ch ring the past few months. —Mrs. Samuel Powell, of Aylmer, re- tired in ood health a few nights ago and was found to be dead a few hours af ter war . —An xchange of reckless typographi- cal habit states that in Perth county re- cently 'M bushels of cats were threshed in five h•urs. — Win ipeg hotelkeepers report busi- ness bet r and the average daily num- ber of g ests in excess of any period since 188 —Mr. ames Gow, collector of inland revenue r Windsor, Ontario, has been appointe inspector of inland revenue for Win sor district. —Twd Warwick woodcutters are .boasting: f their big trees. One cut 11 cords ,fro a single maple tree, the other cut 15 c rds from one tree of the same kind. — 0 hristmas day the St. George's Socie •f Kingston, distributed edibles to the, h ads of one hundred deserving families. —Mrs Robt. Bedgood, of London, a woman 4 years of age, eommitted sui- cide, by • anging, at her husband's resi- dence La -t Sunday. No reason for such an act is known. —Whle levying on a farmer named Ritchie, at Neepawa, Manitoba De- puty-Sh riff Shorey was 'clubbed' and shot by arnes and Joseph 'Ritchie, and was badl wounded. —Las Sunday morning the new Sal- vation rmy barracks at Kingston, which c st about $6,000, was opened. At all the services there were large con- s' gregatio —M. killed fo heaviest lage. It ed 2,000 —Las hotelkee each, an liquor co Scott Aa —The a cow en tario an the cong collectio —A purchas ward it It was t and eac the prop tion of t was pur wore it the expr Thonias. served t se . Barn, a TilsOnburg butcher, Christmas beef the biggest and teer ever brought into that vil- as a, three years old and weigh - pounds. week four Grenville county era were fined $50 and costs - one $106 and costs, for selling trary to the provisions of the Creemore Advertiser says that ered a church in Western On - drove the choir out, and that egation immediately took up a and bought the cow. oung lady resident in Detroit a seal jacket intending tp for - o her mother in St. Thomas. be sent as a Christmas present, of the sons and daughters of sed recipient subscribed a por- e purchase money. The jacket based in Detroit, the daughter cross to Windsor, and left it at ss office to be forwarded to St. The Customs officers had ob- e young lady alight from the •s s 1 ferry boat, and suspecting her objecl the jacket, and on Thursday it was soli with other smuggled goods. —Abe Sinclair and his son, of the In- dian Reserve at Hagersville, two weeks ago went to Muskoka to shoot deer, and: they have just returned with twenten two carcases of venison. —Miss Flora McDougall, a daughtee of Rev. John McDougall, the Methodist missionary in the North-west, has just been married to Mr. Magnus Begg, 1111 dian Agent at the Blaekfoot Reserve. —Without any special appeal thei Baptists of Woodstock realized by theii Sunday collection and ,Monday evening tea meeting, the handsome sum of $7001. This sum is intended to assist in paying off recent repairs on the church. —Mr. George Rainboth, D. L. S. whO has just returned from a trip to t4 North Saskatchewan, reports quite a boom in the gold dietrict there. An assay from the lode he iespected provee that the quartz ill run about $48 to ton. — On Christmas eve Dr. Sippi, organ- ist of the Memorial Church, London, was presented by members of the con- gregation with a purse of geld amounting to $50, as a mark of their ap- preciation of Dr. Sippi's indefatigab* and successful efforts for the efficiency f the choir. —Fifty years ago ' nine men met itt Mr. 'Alexander Watt's barn, in the town- ship of Nicol, for the purpose of orga s - izings a church, the result to -day being the congregations of Knox and Chalmers' churches in Elora. Seven of these mei] are still actively engaged in church work. —It has been discovered that a map na.med Lapierre, a junior clerk of th Montreal corporation, who suddenly lo t his employment without notice, a fell,/ weeks ago, had embezzled $1,500 of the city's funds. The amount has bee made good by his father. — Bruce county council has made p. grant of $900 towards the enforcement olf the Scott Act. The amount due thp county for fines imposed upon violatode of the Scott Act is placed at $1,140, The sum granted for enforcement was the amount asked by the Scott Act Commissioners. — A large quantity of stone has beep shipped from the Macpherson. quarryi, Rama, this fall. In North Victoria, in the vicinity of Kinmont, there is a large marble quarry. It has latelybeen bough by Mr. McConnell, of Port Perry, wh intends td work it and 'convert the mad- ble into monuments,. etc. —The death of Judge Ramsay, o Montreel, took place quite suddenly on Thursday last week, from a paralyti stroke. Deceased was born in Ay Scotland, in 1826. He was considered an able man in his profession, and bijs loss to the bench cannot be easily ref - placed. —The inmates of the different char" - table institutions throughout the Pr vince, notably Toronto and Londe , were well looked after at Christmas b the kind friends 'who took an interest i them, and many had good reason to remember the day as one of unusual pleasure. — Henry Fox, proprietor of the larg6 planing mills in Toronto, was found dead in hisarinchair, Christmas morning where he had been left sitting when the family retired the previons night.' His death is attributed to a stroke -.of paralyi- sis. He has been in excellent health. He was 61 years of age. —The Windsor Hotel at Port Arthur was totally consumed by fire early od Friday morning. The guests had a nail- row.escape, many having to jump frona the windows in their night clothes. The loss will be heavy. The hotel was owri- ed and occupied by Wm. Merdill. —A serious accident happened Satur- day afternoon to a 13 -year-old son of Rev. D. Thomas, of Toronto. His to- boggan collided with a tree stump, and he was thrown violently_forward, his left arm and leg being broken, besides receivieg other injuries, which, it its thought will not prove fatal. — At the Elgin Assizes last week, Peter Wright, one of the notorioies "Bayham Lambs," was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years; Samuel Plain, a Southwold crank, got two years, and George Carey, the St. Thomas jeweler and counterfeiter, will = pine in, prison for ten years. —A few 'evenings ago a harlwarp clerk in Peterborough went into his store and saw a man opening the safe by the light of a match. He at once stole off and aroused the police and returd- ing captured the supposed burglar, whp turned out to be the proprietor of the store. Mutual explanations and laugh- ter followed. —By some means Miss Amend Ziegler, a young woman employed in flip Berlin shirt factory, got her long hair entangled in the shafting, and was drawn and carried once around the shaft beforlp she could be rescued, receiving such serious injuries that her life is despaired of. —Last Se.nday two cars on a passen- ger train on the Rocky Mountain divisi- on of the Canada Pacific Railway, be- came detached and ran three miles down a heavy grade, jumped the track and were smashed. Express Messenger McNally and an unknown passenger were killed. Twenty passengers were badly injured. followed ter to the express office, seize —It is rumored that the /vIontreril syndicate who purchased the Corriveau silk irnlls will sell the machinery tla Montreal _capitalists, who purpose tb form a joint-stock company for thle manufacture of broad goods', handken- chiefs etc. The building will probably be employed for an entirely new includ- try in Canada. —Edmund Ross, of Stoney Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, has just entet- ed his 80th year. For fifty-two years Mr. Ross has been a professor of religion and has taken an active part in everD7 Reform movement in his neighborhood since that time. Mrs. Edmund Rose, aged 75 years, has a religious experiende of fifty-four years. She was the first him. From many sources have come female to sign the temperance pledge in Pubnico fifty-four years ago, at the first temperance meeting held in that place by the Rev. Thomas Crowell. —Two men were arrested at Essex Centre the other day, charged with manufacturing illicit whisky. One of expressions of deep regret, as Father Baueange was a very popular clergyman wherever known. —The windows of the Orangeville Catholic Church have been smashed two or three times latel'Y, by some one un- known, after night. them was discharged; the other, named'—At Barrie the other day a horse ran Thompson, was fined$250 and $6 costs into the door of a grocery store and was and three months in jail. In case the half way through the shop before it fine is not paid within three months the could be stopped. —Adam Daring, Deputy Reeve of Wilmot township, died at his residence at Philipsburg, on the 21st inst., of in- flammation of the lungs. He was a good, honest man, and much respected; —Mr. L. LaPlante shoemaker, of Til- bury Centre, was robbed of $295 in bilis one night lately during his temporary absence from the house, although a workthan was in the shop in an BA:did= to the house. Entrance was made from the rear, the door being milocked. The bureau, in which the money was, had been ransacked, and the bedroom gave evidence of having been thoroughly searched. —Mr. Will Fried, of Parkhill, who recently lost his arm at Dashwood, had the misfortune to fall while walking - along the street the other evening and his arm was again broken at the place where the former fracture had not yet completely knitted. Although the pain was extreme he went to a doctor at one and had; it re -set, and on the following day was attending to his work although still sufferiag. a —The -people of Labrador live from hand to mouth, and are at best in a state of semi -starvation. For.some years past they have unddrgone very great hardships, owing to the scarcity and low price of fish; and had not the Do - min ion Governtnent come to their aid on several occasions they would have starved to death. It is now proposed to transfer some hundreds of families across to shitish Columbia, where the fisheries are of great value and the coast not so unprofitable. These hardy people would make a great acquisition to the Canadian Pacific coast. —The death is just announced of Mrs. Wm, Patterson, a very old. and respected resident of Guelph township, who was well known to all the early set- tlers, not only in the township, but in that district. Her father was Captain John Porter, of the Royal Marines. She with the family emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland, in 1834, and irreprisonnient will be extended to an- other month. —Another " oldest man " has been discovered. An exchange says: " John Hedgeman, a colored man, whose home is in Amherstburg, is probably the old- est living person in the Province. He was born in Fredericksburg,. Virginia, in 1776, and is 110 years old, and though feeble in body is sound in mind. He was a slave for 55 -years." —On Monday last week Heber Raw-, lings of Bosanquet, shipped to a Sarnia butcher, five fat sheep for the Christmas market. Two of the animalsweighed 565 pounds and were considered the best pair of sheep ever killed in Lambton. The other three, which were lambs, weighed 125 Ms. each. --News has just reached Ayr of The sudden death of the Rev. Mr. McRutr, for p.nurnber of years pastor of Kii x Church there. He moved to Gen ry county, Missouri, sixteen years ago where he preached at different statiens up to the time of his cloath. He alas sitting talking to his family when ibe fell from his chair and never MOV!ed. again. 1 —At Athol, in the county of Gldn- garry, on Thursday afternoon last we 'In 1, a fatal accideut occurred to Mateo m Aird, aged seventeen. While atte d- ing a circular saw in motion, he Was struck by some falling wood from the pile. The force of the blow was such he was knocked over on the saw, ' a id before the horrified onlookers could save him he was cut right in two. —Last Friday morning the inter- national revenue officers of Guelph seiz- ed an illicit still in full operation in the cellar of Edward Johnston's hotel, at Eden Mills, about seven miles from Guelph. Some distilled spirits and a considerable quantity of wort in different stages of fermentation Were found. Johnston made a determined effort to escape, but was arrested after a hard chase. —A collision occurred at Komolta about 7 o'clock Christmas morning. The came to Guelph, She was married. to Pacific express, going west, ran into a Mr. Wrill Patterson, the following year, special freight. Both engines are a total and from that period lived on the old wreck. The tender On the express train homestead near the Model Farni, till telescoped the ,baggage car. The second- about six years -ago, when the old couple class car was wrecked and a first-class wont to live in Guelph, removing a few coach damaged slightly. Both engineers months ago to Mount Forest, where are slightly injured ; the firemen some of their children reside. escaped. No passengers were injured. Traffic was delayed on the branch and main lines for a few hour. —The other morning at Bothwell station a farmer named Tinney under- took to cross the track with his team while the West bound mixed train was shunting. The train was backing up at the time and etruck his sleigh, knocking a boy about 10 years of age, the son of James Fleming, of Bothwell, off the sleigh on to the track, the wheels of the car passing over both his arms crushed them to a jelly. No hopes are entertain- ed of his recovery. —J. P. Smith, of Forest, has sold his fast carriage " Golddust" stallion to a Wisconsin buyer,.for the sum of $1,900. " Golddust " was imported from Ken- tucky, and was known throughout Western Ontario as the best horse of his class that was ever owned in Canada, and it is to be regretted that his value was not sufficiently appreciated by the farmers of this country to enable Mr. Smith to have kept him here. He was noted as a world-beater wherever ex- hibited, as he was never beaten in com- . petition for prizes at any show, —Mr. George Buskin, missionary of the Algoma and Northwest Evangelical and Colportage MiS8i0D, is in London at present seeking aid for the work. Dur- ing the past four years more than 1,000 Copies of the scriptures in thirteen lan- guages have been supplied, and 2,000 Scriptural books. Also large numbers • of religious tracts and magazines have been distributed and many religious services held. Thedistrict is large, and most of the people are laborers; engaged at railways, lumbering, mining; etc:, in various parts. The work is a needy one. —The Teeswater News of last week says,—We are grieved to hear that Rev. Mr. Wardrope, who has been indisposed and unable to attend to his pastoral duties for sometime back, has resigned his charge of Westminster Cherch con- gregation, as it is doubtful that he will ever be able to resinne them. Mr. Wardrope has been a resident of Tees - water for many years„ and is highly esteemed by his congregation who will sadly miss his earnest, but kind and fatherly advice and direction in tempor- al as well as spiritual patters. —At Orillia one day lately a ma,n pretty well under the influence of liquor went into a drug store and presented an order demanding a quart of whisky for medicinal purposes, which was supposed to be signed by- a medical man.' .The druggist, seeing the condition his C114S- tomer was in, and being unable to refuse under the circumstances, directed his sub to prepare a quart bottle of aqua fontana—spring water—and hand it to the sick man. This was done, DO charge being made, and the unsteady 'victim of misplaced confidence pursued his way rejoicing. —Rev. Father Bausa,nge met with an accident at Newmarket recently which caused his death. The decased was riding along in his carriage, and had his foot down resting on the step as was his habit. Something caused the horse to shy to one side, catching the, reverend gentleman's heel in the wheel, but the animal could not be controlled until his heel was twisted off. From this terrible wound the pain and swelling Worked its 1 way to his head and, of course, killed Perth items- -It is proposed to enlarge the market ground in Stratford, to afford more accommodation to buyers and sellers. —The anniversary services at Knox church, Stratford, on Sabbath 19th inst. were conducted by Rev. Dr. Thompson, of Sarnia. —The new Methodist church at Lis- towel was opened on Sabbath last, and over e$8,000 secured towards the pay- - ment of it. —The wife Of Mr. Duncan Bowie,- of Montreal, son of Dr. Bowie, formerly of Mitchell, has fallen heir to property amounting in value to $250,000. —" The Christian's responsibility at the ballot box" was the subject of Rev, McLaurin's sermon in the Baptist church, St. Marys, on Shriday evening —The readings of Miss Knox at th St. e opera house, SMarys, the other night; were highly creditable to the fair dome- tionist, and were much appreciated by s. large audience. —Mi. James Gilmour and family left Kirkton last week for their new home in distant Montana. Mr. John Irvine han purchased Mr. Gilmour's farm for the sum of $5,000. —Mitaffell is gay and festive thie week on account of the number of marriages taking place, some font or live couples being expected to make vowsee kat the hymeneal altar during the w —Mr. Alex. McDonald, sr., one of the very first farm reeidents about Listowel, passed away on Saturday, 19th inst., at the age of 78 years. Of late years the deceased, with his sons, engaged in the mercantile business in the town of Lis- towel. —The other day in Stratford an ola man named John Scott, belonging to fell off the north end of the long bridge and went through the ice. He died a few days later, at the jail, from the effects of his fall and cold bath. —While raising the bents at the new skating rick in Stratford the other day, an immense one slipped from its founda-- tion and came down with a crash, being, demolished in its fall. Some 20 or 30 men were grouped about and their escape was most miraculous. —An emory wheel burst in Scrim-- geor's mill, Stratford, a few days ago. Geo. Robertson, one of the workmen, was struck on the forehead by a flying piece sustaining an ugly gash, and the knife which he was grinding was driven. against his hands in such a way as to nearly sever both his thumbs. —Mr. John Dawe, a farmer residing on the outskirts of the town of Mitchell, Hibbert township, went out to feed his cattle on the afternoon of Christmas day, and was gored to death by a vicious bull, The brute had always shown ,a disposition to he ugly but was not con- sidered dangerous. His wife being attracted by a noise in the barnyard, rushed out and at the eight of the bleed- ing form of her husband, dropped dead. They leave a large grown up family to mourn their sudden demise, a number of whom had come home to spend their Christmas, which instead of 'being one of rejoicing was turned to woe and lamentation.