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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-01-21, Page 11887. GO season with h -NS 1 'new sea ise our great Dom •Elt e y depart - we have 1 :rifice. S and Cloth - visiting his salmon with ebserve the during the :511 - it evas stated hIcClinton encilmen 1Suther1and, s en the sick hawse is the this week.— hiblic School ,week.—Mr. to Clinton holidays :at Id and. wife hirs. Coates. to Toronto Janet Dey .s been away John Ding - ter spending Ashfield.— Win.. Pot- ctive schools Br ethers st of cutting -Mr. James the skating tit spring. aished work king a few Q•uarrie is sect by his ee it against red together delay night tripping . fight came jahan has a - condition •e of J. N. ler has his h all kinds no a large rospects for .--Mr. John :Concessions cet of pine saw it into- er and then ;from' North- Ideesday 11 Salisbury. Me and his lat the talli- th of Hyde . It seems etrel and he crossing in rain, which escape from fiched Lon - 'ed. at Gran- -let eity. It Mr. Wrig- iewn cause, doetor for eseriptien of the doctor Ihring from k to give the 'the meth- 4iven, to the eve niinutes sr in half an e defaulting :Janet Beak, ted a in- iane of for- . -riff of Ox - :et. Paul de - mi Portland ug the bank secured by cdatieus ex - two years. oli.owing his ardpeg. He Cex. NINETEENTH YEAR., WHOLE NUMBER 997. Oreat Cheap Sale —NOW IN - 1 - T -T L L S —AT THE— CHEAP-CASA STORE MAIN-STre SEAFORTH. 1 We have just finished going through s diet whole stock, marking down every - :shtick in each dtepartment Never be - lore did we make each sweeping reduc- Itionsa a great Many lines away below T 'wholesale prices The following are e w of the leading lines : Dress Goods, Prints, Gitighams, Shirt- ga, Cottons, Denine-s, Ducks, Table mens, Towellings, Hoariest:Is, Lace Cur- t ins, Hosiery, Gloves, Corse* Rib- hlonse Embroideries, Frillings, Yarns, - 1 trinkets, Cloths, Tweeds, Ulsterings, lannels, Underclothing, Boys' Suits, Jackets, Jerseys, Shawls, dlouds, Scarfs, Leggings, etc. Remember the place— Squares, Hoffman ci Co., oheap .Cash Store, Gard -no's. Block, Seaforth. —The work of sinking the, shafts for tee St Clair tunhel is being pushed with 41 possible energy, and is making favor- able progress. On the Sarnia side of the ever the shaft has been put down 60 o 40 feet has been reached. The soil is f et, and. on the Michigan side a depth al stiff and compact blue day, and is 11. ost favorable for work. . —The annual convention of the Grand 4ivision of Ontario Sons of Temperance as opened on iTuesday in -Brampton, ith a large attendance of delegates fern.all-parts of the Province. — While Francis Meyers, an elderly f. rmer, who lived in Marrnora, near elleville, was working about a hay- s ack, on Friday, the top part of it slid • o and fell on him, infl•icting injuries f me which he died on Saturday. —A man named Michael Delane, a is dim man•from Cataract, was found cad a short distance from the Canadian acific railway station, Elora, Tuesday caning. It is supposed he was killed some: way by the train. —An ice jam, et Cornwall, early Tues - ay morning, flooded the town, su bmerg- t g the cotton mills and destroying the !machinery and an enormous_ amount of stock in process, of manufacture. One roan was drowned in the Canadian cot- ton mill, and a large number 'of horses and ceWs were drowned in their stables. Many of the houses- in the flooded dis- trict were under water above the second storey, the inmates being rescued by boats and rafts. —The Toronto branch of of the -Queen's University Endowment Association has assed resolutions advocating the expe- diency of the friends of the university 'Leasing $250,000e and urging the eoh operation of the Ontario Government in establishing a school of Practical Science for Eastern Ontario in Kingston. ., --An insane man named Pilon enter- ed Rosenthal's jewelry store Tuesday afternoon, picked up a heavy cane, and amashed everything within his reach, in- cluding several statues, two show cases, hall' e dozen clocks and other things. The damage will amount to several hum dred dollars. Pilon was overpowered by the police and taken to the station. Two years ago he was arleading whole- sele merchant in Montreal, but suffered heavy .losses, which broke up his bush ness and unseated his mind. — In regard to the smuggling now ' going on across the ice at the head of Lake Erie, a Toledo correspondent says ; There are probably 1,.000 Canadians , along the shore who make their living, by dodging the revenue officers, while the Canadian revenue officers actually help them all they can. At the present i time they use Canadian ponies and sledei told come across in the night, bring* ne brandies, Piper-Heidseick wines, barley and hops. The brandies and seines are sold mostly to Toledo dealers; and the barley and hops to Toledo brew- ers. One of the ponies a ill cross the lake in about four hours, without trot -t- ide. They smuggle back calico, and barbed. wire for fencing, and our revenue officers do not prohibit the business be- cause they are not paid for doing coast guard duty. Two successful trips make - of the smugglers as much money as e whole year's labor on a farm Would If ring in. . 1 , I , —Mrs. Rat. Elgie, of 1 uckersmith, who had her arm. broken by a fall is now nearly recovered. It is very singular that she had her arm broken two years ago by a similar- cense. . . 11 11 -From Southern Mainitoba. SNOWFLAKE, January 7th, 1887. DEAR EXPOSITOR, —Well, Mr. Editor, it is now some time since.I piped my little song to you and your readers, and as your "Own Correspondent" does not seem to have the floor' I might, with your permission and the patience of. your many readers, collect together a few disjointed sentences in my own humble way. I might say that I have no desire to take any undee advantage of your "Own Correspondent" in the matter of "getting there" first with any little fragments of gossip that Imay present gratis to your valuable paper. I have the honer of being' slightly ac- quainted with Mr. X., and I do not pre- tend to assume that he would accuse me of' anything like that, though we may differ widely on some • questions, and it -would be very strange if we all thought alike. I suppose, therefore, if I refer briefly to the Provincial contest, that was so recently fought in this/ Province Twill differ very widelyfrom Mr. X.'s opinions -regarding it; and no doubt he is as sincere in his convictions as I am in mine, for there is hardly any question of importance or aline of policy but has its two sides, and either side well' polish- ed up by a good platform spehker'of which we have quite a feW in 'Manitoba, most certainly has its influences. Bet I hope • that party will -never become so strong that the good points on each side will not be carefully ' weighed by every elector and an intelligent vote cast for the best policy. .But I fear such is not always the case, for during- the recent election I heard old Reformers say.em- phatically that they could not support Mr. Greenwey's policy, and yet when - the supreme momept:eame they fell into line and -voted as before. The actions of Such men -remind me very forcibly or the Irishman who, on being questioned what his politics were replied by says ing : "Be jabers, I vote agin the Gov- ernment." There is one feature in con- nection with Mr. Greenway's policy that I do not quite understand. I have fre- quently heard him speak on the public questions of the day relating to our adopted Province, and in all his plausible arguments to sustain his position that Norquay made a bad bargain in accept- ing $100,000 in perpetutity in lieu of our public lands, he does not commit himself so far that he would better the 1 bargain one single cent were he and his party in power. He is also just as cun- ning in; regard • to what is termed -the monoply clause in the bargain made be- tween the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Dominion Govern- ment ; he does not tell us decidedly th t i he would betterms4hr condition in th t respect one iota. He also tells us th t he could effect a large's:eying in the cost of Governinent, and iceenake a stronger case he makes some 'very unjust, com- parisons between this new Province, - whose wants are many, and some of the old established Maritime 'Provinces. The battle has been fpught and won mainly on these issues and Norquay has been annointed ruler and dispenser of the shekels; and I do not propose now to write you a political essay, suffice it to say, that although Mr. Greenway was elected for Mountain by a majority of 15, there were enough Conservatives in the three Wards forming the east half of the municipality of Louise who abstained from voting through indiffer- ence and over -confidence to have turned Mr. Greenway's majority into a min- ority, which enables us to fairly class Mountain as a Conservative constituency. One more word—Did not South Huron do well on the 28th ult. AIDNICIrAL MATTERS. The municipal elections in this muni- cipality created very little stir. Things were a little Warmer in Derby Munici- pality, which -resulted in Mr. T. S. Menarey, an old Huronite, being elected Reeve by a handsome majority. Good boy, Torii. MARKETS. There is a pleasing feature about the markets this year that was conspicuous by its absence last year, and that is this: When a load of grain approaches any- where near the limits of town, two or three buyers join • in a foot -race to see who will be the lucky purchaser. Last year the buyers done their pedestrianism in the opposite direction. Wheat sells at from 58c. to 60e. per bushel, with an upward tendency; oats bring. 30c. to 34c. per bushel readily ; barley, 30c. to 32c per bushel ; potatoes, 25e. to 30c. per 'bushel; hay, fram $5. to $8 per ton and very scarce, and will be very dear before spring, owing to so much having bee.n destroyed by fire last fall; pork and beef range very low, pork is $4 to $4.50 per 100 Ms., and beef, $4 to $6. ANOTHER KIND OF MARKET.—The matrimonial market is fully more active than a year ago. Our' good minister commenced the New Year by melting a Snowflake .couple happy this week. There is no visible sign of aaiy declipe in this commodity, and it is thought by quite a few thet the Government should reduce -the price Of the necessary docue merits to a morediberal scale. I do not know whether or not the reverend gen- tlemen of our fair Province haVe beee petitioned to accept trade for their ser- vices. However these questions of trade and Home Rule are the vexed q iestions to be settled yet. ! • WEATHER AND SoCIALs.—The winter so far has been very agreeable, though we have been treated to. two co d dips, and the atmosphere was not so ry that our ears and noses did mit ieel it. At present we have just enough now for sleighing, and farmers are takin advan- tage of it by marketing their a in and other produce, hauling wood an other- wise advancing their, work., - he first two weeks of December we had neither good wheeling nor sleighing. ut noad the sleighine is good. and socials are the order of the°day, not Only as a source of amusement but -to help liquid te the church debt. There is one fe tore in mannection with Manitoba social , thatI mush in iny haste not omit, alt ough I SE FORTH, F am not quite sure that it i a matter to be boasted of. It is simply amazing how the good things disap ear after a Manitoba crowd arrives ou of a tem- perature of say 20 below Que ec. I can assure you after the loves and fishes are distributed that there is no number of baskets left, I mean to say asketsfu fsrisr our appetites axi not s keen that the empty baskets are not di ly respect ed. After all, these ocials accomplish good in more ways'th u one; they not only bringthe people t getheand create a friendly social feeIng th it tends to smooth the cares of life fir the time being, but they hel to ducate the young who take parti and I sten to the readings, recitations nd vo al and in- stumental music. TIMES.—Owing to •t e mis ortunes of the farmers last yea by h ving their crops frozen, and in many ases a big shortage this year, so e few armers are throwing up the spo ge, this king that there are better plac s to pit; up wealth than °Manitoba, and Ithe c nsequences are California, 13riti h Col mbia and Ontario will receive a ew se tiers from Southern Manitoba in the a ear future. And, there is no de ying the fact that the crops, prices and istake T. number of farmers c mbin some cases made th pros dark. But l'prophesY that t point has been reach d, an better times is at han . Of c deriends on the crops rid pr Manitoba farmers could raise age of 20 bushels pe acre, on au aherage of even 50 bushel farming would ,pay, fo properly equipped with th ma', inery of the day, can li le help handle 75 acres of INFORMATION WANITED.— Editor, before I close ma favor of you for th bene and others, and that ij te giv tonal on the Script re Sel are read in the Ontar o scho your opinion did Archbisho Toronto, havetmore of a voi selections than he, as head of Catholic church of Ontario, to,or more than the Mowat gives him credit for having. given us your opinion on thi I have failed to see it and of a large d, have in ects rather e turning, an era of urse much ces, and if on an aver- nd receive cents per one man, improved with very rop. ell, Mr. I ask a t of myself us an edi- ctions that. Is, also in Lynch, of e in these the Roman ad a right overnment f you have question, wish to be excused. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year, I remain yours truly, W. BARBER!. After receiving the above letter we received the following not from our esteemed correspondent, whi h explains itself:' DEAR SIR,—If you publish my letter that I mailed to. day before receiving EXPOSITOR, please omit the sentence which reads that "South Huron did well on the 28th ult." The telegraph reports of election told us that Bish p was de- feated by over 200 of a maj rity, and I really thought that South Huron had done nobly until THE E'en SITOR told me that Bishop had a larg r majority, when my joy was turned to trief. From British Colu 1 NEW WESTMINSTER, Deeem or 29, 1886. . CHURCH AMUSEMEN S. In the way of amusements, New West- minster has recently had a fi 11 share. A week ago the Baptists opene I their new church, and on the Monde following gave a. very enjoyable concer , the choir of the church being assiste by several talented friends from Vic oria. The Baptists, as a denomination, have made most astonishing progress i this city. Twenty-two months ago the e were but four Baptists in the place, while now they number :a couple of hundred. The church which they have just edicated is a plain, unpret24c.entious brie building, Isoy arranged to N modate t e Sabbath School in the b sement. nside it is fitted up in a qui t, yet attr ctive man- ner, which kives it an air f lightness combineda with comfort an strength. It is also the first church in ewWest- minster to be lighted wit gas. The entire cost of the edifice wa $5,500, of Which all but two or, three h ndred dol - ars is paid up, so that the co a gregation, With their esteemed pasto , the Rev. Mr. Lennie, can occupy t e building • yvith no drawback in the wa of a mort- gage. Holy Trinity Church Episcopal) as also contribuuted , to the festivity of he season in the way of a fancy fair, oncert, tableaux, &c. It was a fair pure and simple; objectiona ale features, such as raffles, fish -ponds, &cs not being given a place. The ladies eking part Were attired in fancy dresses a few from the Mikado, and others in ea ly English eosttunes. This fair was h Id in order to raise funds for the ieompl tion of the bell -tower, the church' havin a very fine peal of eight bells wh'cli vver presented to the diocese by arones Burdette • Coats. At present he bell are lying useless in an old sh d, but we are in hopes soon to have them han ing, and as there are several persons here who understand chime -ringing a e may ex- pect occasionally to e favo ed in this way. THE COD The discovery of 'coast of Vancouver Is s ly been raising the h bia. 1 ANKS. black od off the and ha • apparent- Tewfound- , and it is le number d settling sough good to be had, eked -up to he eastern fresh, the d is much fcundland the ;vaters n those of r not, it is mains that nt to much ng as the ast year to in parties ped from on caught rked their re bruised pes of land andLabrador .fisherme reported 'that a co sidera 'think of leaving the there. Now the blac enough when nothin is, by no means, what be, and is very inferi fish. Even if cooke 1 whe flesh is dry and test less, a less firm than that of he Nes cod. Whether this is due to of this coast being warmer th the Newfoundland fisheries difficult to say, but the fact r the black cod will never amot in the eastern market as 1 other can be get; Considerable harm was done our salmon trade by cert. about Kamloops, who shi there a car load or more of sal there. These salmon had w way up from the sea, and w east a cod, t else is it is cr r to and altege fresh, and after a tri consequenc the lot wa, thing to d mon. Althougl to attract fessional m else. On doctors th which, aft be, for the doctors ant a living. tion is no men in Vi ment to st University ly pointed no need fo is no local there is n when the certainly vince who professors, rate degre posed univ of very do holding it. TH ! The ope lature, wh' already, h January 2 mors of in ments of t nite is .kn official ci Nanalmo, the death immediate in time for seat when politics ar seat vacan though th dates ther to issue th though th talk soon about the Charlton, and is no the stoves groceries. Vancou cept a few Although is still try pnegressin came ther ing compe the street number a Westmins other port it may be way get t ly nothing simply liv Church o building Presby ten pleted. sociation able ansp suitable Hudson's building which is t town. The we very open over a mo ful. Flo gardens, a of Decemb near the e easterners snow and of the yea The sh of railwa Manitoba. --The horses bei has been r — The r London co to the wei —The yards long in ten sec — The seized at be destroy —The $20 to the vention of —The weekly, h May succ -s-A fa several of have falle —A bar Sarnia for were ship freight on — WM. Erie on M cross over seen since. — Corn Nation Ar visit Win moting th —Mr. has enter against th $20,000 d —The ance meet Edward B tion.quest his person —The lt Manitou, following: cases of su potted, bu a man D vain, lost and had b frozen. Boissevei agony, ant IDAY, JANUARY 21, 1887. ter unfit for feed, even when \mulct be much less fit. to eat across the cntinentJ, The is that in Toronto, where sold, no one will hahe any - with British Columbia sal - IMMIGRATION. this province is endeavoring mmigrants it wants no pro - n from the east or anywhere chool teachers, lawyers and e is a local prohibitory tariff • all, is, perhaps, as it should rovince now is overrun with lawyers endeavoring to make 'he outcome of thid Protec- seen in the action of a few toria, who wish the Govern - 't (and subsidize) a Provincial As the Columbian recent- ut, however, there is as yet such an institution. ' There population to supply it, and hing for its graduates, to do get its degrees. There is lack of persons in the Pro- vould be capable of acting as nd the possession of afeurth such as one from the pro- rsity would be, is, after all, btful utility to the :serson LOCAL LEGISLATURE. 1 ing of the Provincial ILegis- h has been twice poritponed s again deen deferred until th. Although there are ru- nded changes in the Orange - e local cabinet nothing defi- wn, at any rate outside of les. The nomination for to fill the vacancy caused by sfMr. Raybolcl, will be held and the election will be held the new member to take his he House opens. Dominion remarkably dull. The only is for New Westminster and re are any number of can di - is no word of any intention writ for the election. Ai- re was considerable election ter Mr. Homer's death, and ime Of the visit here of Mr. . P., it has all died away sore to be heard even about of hotel lobbies and , corner ANCOUVER CITY. ✓ city is deep in the mud- ex- treets that are planked over. he Canada Pacific Railway g to boom the place it is not to any extent, may who expecting work in plenty be - ed to be idle and stand on orners, while a considerable leaving the place fur New r, Victoria and Portland, or, on Puget Sound. Whatever fter the Canada Pacifie Rail- road completed it is certain - now, and the people there are ng on one another. The England congregatien are fine new church, and' the ps have a good one coin - Young Men's Christian As- s been started under favor - es and purpose ereating a immediately.1 The 3ay Company also purpose store on Cordova street, be one of the finest in the THE CLIMATE ther in this part continues There has been no frost for th though rain is toe plenti- rs are still blooming in a few d though it is now the 29th r it does not really seem so d of the year at all events to who are accustonfed to see e in abundance at this time Canada. if has seized $10,009 worth debentures of Rapid City, mbargo against Canadian g taken into the Uuited States ised. of of a brick livery stable in lapsed the other day, owing ht of snow on it. ' uelph toboggan slide is 400 and the distance is tra.versed ds. So says the Herald. •pies of the Sporting World Ottawa on Monday last, will d as indecent literature. overnor-G-eneral has donated, • ttawa Society. for the Pre- ruelty to Animals. ris Star -Transcript, a newsy been enlarged to eight pages., s attend it. ily of the name of Teetze1,1 whom live in Elgin Oounty,' heir to $4,000,000. el of apples passed through hina the other day. They, ed from Guelph, and the hem amounted to $8. o•ok and John Booker leftFort nday, 3rd inst., in a -hoat to o Buffalo, and have net been ssioner Coombes, of the Sal - y, Toronto, will hortly peg for the purpose of pro: work in the Northwest. ohn MeLay, late registrar, an action for alleged libel county of Bruce, and claims sages, so it is said. ev. Dr. Potts, in a temper - g at Toronto, endorsed Hon. ake's position on the prohibi- n and paid a high tribute to 1 character. ercury, paper publiehed at outhern Manitoba, gives the It is not often that serious ering from exposure !are re �n Saturday night, let inst., ed Robert Sifton, of Boisse- is way while drivitt home, th his hands and feet badly e unfortunate man reached next day, suffering _untold it said nothing was done to provide remedies or relieve the- pain . until Monday morning, when he was put on board the train, and Conductor Dor- sey and Mr. Firstbrook took him in charge, and after puncturing the huge blisters- which had formed on his hands applied oil and bandages which :Ionsid- erably eased the pain. It was thought that all the fingers on both hands would have tobe amputated, but his feet did snot appear to be 80 seriously affected. The man was taken to the hos- pital at Winnipeg. —Two Italians in Toronto, who had been imbibing lager beer together the other night, afterwards fought a duel with knives with the result that one of them was: slightly and the other very severely wounded. —Mr. Malcolm Campbell, of Lucknow, has been presented by Messrs. McMaster, Darling &I Co., of Toronto, with a' large and handsomely framed picture, entitled "The Gathering of the Clans." s—During 1886 100,700,000 feet of Canadian: lumber. was shipped from Montreal,' employing -181 steam and sailing vessels. In 1877 3,400,000 feet were shipped, ten vessels being engaged in the trade. —Mr. D. S. Anderson, conductor on "the Grand Trunk Railway main line, between Sarnia and Teronte, is lying seriously ill at his home in Toronto, with paralysis. Mr. Anderson formerly ran between London and Stratford. —Last summer the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Company built miles .of snow fences and now they are reaping the benefit. Notwithstanding the heavy snowstorms trains are detained very little. —The annual meeting of the Ontario Poultry Association was held on Thurs- day last week in London. Notwith- standing the roughness of the weather there was a good attendance of mem- bers. London was selected as the next place of meeting. —Having had a few weeks' rest, the Rev. David Savage has returned to his evangelistic work in the Montreal Con- ference. He has spent upwards of four, months east of Montreal holding meet; ings at Compton, Danville, Coaticook, Stanstead, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke and other places. —The report of the commission Of officers sent to Canada recently to put - chase remounts for the British cavalry, and the trial horses taken to England have proved so satisfactory to the War Office, that orders have been given for the purchase of 300 more Canadian horses next year. . —Mr. J.11 A. Davidson, . of Nelson, purchased aitwo-bladed pocket knife in April, 1848; which he carried and used continuously until April, 1886, when, with much reluctance, he had to lay it •past as it would no longer keep an edge and its usefulness was gone. ss —The snowstorm which set in on Thursday last week wan general through- out the Dominion. • An immense quanti- ty of snow fell, impeding traffic and blocking railways in every direction, while country roads were rendered im- passable. . —Alex. Crawford, a well known Du- luth iron manufacturer, and a former resident of Sarnia, where he has many friends and relatives, has received notice that by the death of a cousin named James Thompson in Australia, a fortune of over £1,000,000 has been left to him and his four brothers. Crawford has not seen his cousin for fort' years. —During last summer Mr. Robert Hood, of Galt, raised a fine collection of pansies from seed purchased from -T. A. Simmers, Toronto. In the month of September he sent a collection of these pansies, of 35 distinct colors, to•Toron.- to, which were exhibited at Mr. Sim- mers' store, and which were admired by hundreds of pansy growers. One and all pronounced them the finest lot of pansies yet shown or grown by any one person. —Mr. Wm:Kidd, for over forty years a resident of the township of Dumfries, died recently at his residence on the farm near Ayr, at the ripe old age of 88 years. He was in the enjoyment of his usual health on New Year's Day, when he went out to see his horse and accidentally fell and brokehis leg, from the effects of which he did. Deceased leaves a wife, but no family. J—Mrs. Sisley'of Richmond Hill, on the 11th of December reached her one- hundredth birthday. The aged lady has two sisters living, Mrs. Armitage, with the Woodgates of Stouffville, aged 89, and Mrs. Playter of Reach, aged 86, and a brother, Mr. John Wilson, of Whitechurch, aged 82. The united ages of this long-lived family makes 357. The family consisted of eleven boys and girls, and the father was a U. E. loyal- ist who went to New Brunswick during the struggle for American independence, and came to Ontario in 1811. —The Berlin News of the 12th inst. says: Mrs. Catharine Breithaupt, mother of the late Louis 13reithaupt, died this morning at the advanced .age of 85. She was born in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany, and came - to America about 43 years ago, residing in Buffalo, where she remained till 1866, when she came to Berlin to -live with her son, and has lived with his family until her death. Her husband died in Buffalo in 1851. He was a tanner by trade, as was also his father and his son, his grandsons, the Messrs. Breithaupt, of Berlin, being the most extensive leather dealers in- Ontario making four genera- tions of tanners. —Mr. Alexander McDonell who died in Toronto, last Friday morning, was an extensive contractor of public works in Canadal for a period of 48 years, and will be remembered, more especially, as a man of high sense of honor and in- tegrity in his business dealings. He was a man of splendid physique, 6 feet 3 inches in height, of handsome person- al appearance wirh a -genial and kind- ly manner. appearance, was descended from a good loyal stock. One grandfather came to Upper Canada with Sir Wm. Johnson in 1783 on a trail through the 11!i fillers*, .c {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. wodds from the Mohawk valley, New York. His grandfather, McDonell, came from Glengarry, Inverness shire,' Scotland, in 1780, and settled in Glen- garry, Canada. Deceased was better known as "Big Aleck," from his large physique. Among his many contracts have been lockat Lockport, Erie canal; the feederlock and others on the Wel- land canal; large contracts on the Great Western, Grand Trunk, Intercoloraial and Canadian Pacific Railways. He Was eighty years of age. - —Rev. Messrs. Crossley and Hunter 'are engaged in evangelistic work at Pie -- ton and are meeting with marked success. All the Protestant churches have united in the services, and untold good is being accomplished. —Colonel Gibson, M. P. P., of Remit - tom. who is a member of the 'Ancient Order of United Workmen has an- nounced that he will leave the amount accruing to him from his membership in the; Order to found a scholarship in University College, Toronto. -+--Canadian cattle shipments by Allan steamers from the St. Lawrence during the season of navagation, 1886 amount- ed to 19,747 cattle, and 12,889 sheep. Their destination was Glasgow, London and Liverpool. The percentage of mor- tality was 0-167 in the case of cattle, and 2.15 in that of sheep. +Mr. A. McIntosh, at one time con- neched with the Galt educational staff, but more lately assistant master in the Prclvincial Model School, Toronto, has -received the appointment of head master of that institution as successor to Mr. Chas. Clarkson, who has removed to Seeforth. —Mr. A. B. Macklin, of the General Passenger Department of the Chicago and Alton Railway, has been appointed Cadiadian passenger agent for that sys- tem, with headquarters in Toronto. Mr. Ma.icklin assumed the duties of his new ppsition January 1st. --I-eFarrner Bateman, of Myrtle, near Totonto, came into that city Thursday with two tubs of butter. He put up at the Royal hotel and stored his butter in the stable. Two hours afterwards when he went to remove the butter nothing could be found of it 'but the lids of the two tubs. -4--Mr. Samuel Smith, of the township of Moore, Lambton county, recently lost one of his prize' horses by inflam- mation. He had recently just been of- fered $460 for the team, but he preferred the horses to the money, having taken four first prizes with them he did not like to part with them. —In connection with the Canadian Militia, a proposition has been made to mark the Queen's Jubilee by the grant of a long service medal to those officers and men who have served since 1868, in which year the militia, as it at present exiets, was created by Act of Parlia- ment. is understood that the Depart- ment of Agriculture is now so well con- vinced that pleuro -pneumonia has been eradicated trom the Levis quarantine station that allethe cattle confined there will be released oreehe 1st of March, when the 90 days from the date of the last case will expire. —Rev. F. McCuaig's location in Brit- ish Columbia will be at Chilliwack, on the Fraser River, and within a short distance of Yale. Chilliwack is a ris- ing place on the Canadian Pacific Rail- way branch from Yale to Port Moody. The Kingston- presbytery has arranged for the translation. --Last Saturday morning Mrs. James Kilgour, of London made the sale of a hake brick block of stores on the princi- pal street in the town of Cornwall, On- tario, realizing a handsome sum therefor. The sale took place and the transaction closed by the use of the telegraph wire, inside of three hours. —The Blue Ribbon Temperance So- ciety, which has existed in Ayr for some years, has now a large end increasing membership and is doing good work in the noble cause of temperance. Mr. J. H. McHardie is President; Rev. T. H. Orme, Methodist minister, 1st Vice- President,and Rev. John Thompson, Presbyterian, 2nd Vice -President: --The serious illness is reported of Miss Aggie Noble, daughter of the Park- hill postmaster. She inet with a serious accident while tobogganing a couple of years ago, from which she had not yet fully recovered, and while skating one evening lately she received a sprain which affected her previous injury, so that she is at present confined to her ro. e acs r -i--Farmers around Hamilton found great difficulty in reaching the city with their produce after last week's snow storm. Saturday morning dozens of farmers with loads came to grief owing to the blocked state of the roads. Ten loads of hay stuck in the snow were counted on concession lines a few miles south Of the city. One load of straw upset on the Jolley Cut and was whirled by the wind down the mouetain side. -1-The Canada School Journal has paused into new hands, Mr. J. E.,Wells, an experienced journalist, having as- sumed the publishing and editorship. He has occupied a place on the editorial staff for two years, and therefore enters upon his duties with a full sense of what an educational journal should be. Mr. Wells was formerly a resident of Wood- stock.las_A lastw eek, residents in Ottawa were t a late hour on Thursday- night startled by , a deep detonation,'accom- panied by a vivid flash of lightin the heavens. A panic ensued in consequence. It turned out to be a dynamite explosion and one which has been most disastrous in its effects. The explosion took place in 'the house of a man named John F. Patton, who, with his brother Samuel, had established a dynamite factory a few miles outside the city. Owing to cold weather they had recentlY adopted the plan of mixing some of the least dan- gerous compounds in their dwelling- . house. One of the brothers was thus busily engaged, calmly smoking a cigar at the time, when the ashes fell into the mixture and immediately filled the room with blue flames. The family, consist- ing of a wife and two little children, to- gether with the two brothers, escaped through the window with difficulty. A quantity of nitro.glycerine was stored in the kitchen, as well as some fifty pounds of dynamite. This being acted upon by sulphine flames, exploded, blowing the house, a substantial stone structure, to atoms. Immense masses of debris were thrown as far as 400 yards. The earth was shaken for a considerable distance round, end the houses in the neighbor- hood were shattered by the concussion. The Patton family miraculously escaped., although all were more or less seriously in worth recording: Duncan Macintosh, lot No. 36, second conhession of Lancaster, recoreed his vote on the 28th December, 1886, in favor of the Reform candidate in Glen- garry, and marked his ballot without assistance. He Will be 99 years of age in March next, has been an elder of the Presbyterian church upwards of fifty years, and never recorded a Tory vote. He plowed a furrow on his farm last fall May his remaining years be Nes- tled to him and his! Can' you beat this record in the Dominion? --The annual convention of the West- ern Dairymen's Association met in Inger- soll last week; the President, Thoma Ballantiose, Al. P. P., in the chair. Among ;those in attendance were Mr. W. D. Hoard, editor of The Dairymen, Fort Atkinson Wisconsin; Professor Arnold, of Atkinson, New York.; Professor Robertson, of the Ontario Ex- perimental Farm; Mr. A. Blue, Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture Mr. John Ctaig, of Woodstock; Mr. C. E. Chad- wick, of Ingersoll, Secretary of the As- sociation ; Mr. Wm. Symington, - of Camlachie, and Mr. Jas. Sutherland ,M.P. —The four year old eon of a Hamilton -woman named Smith, who is now in the Mercer Reformatory, was found by Sergeant Prentice of that city the other. night sleeping on a few rags in an un- furnished room at. the house of George Watt, with whom the boy has been since his mother's arrest. The poor child's feet were badly frozen, and one may have to be amputated-. That part of the house inhabited by Watt and his family was quite comfortable, but the friendless child was in a rear build- ing where there was no fire. Watt is now in jail on a charge of neglecting the child, who has been sent to the hospital for treatment. —A meeting of the directors of the Ontario Creamery Association was held in Toronto last Friday. There was a fair attendance, but several were unable to be present owing to the snow block- ade on the railways. By-laws were adopted and it was decided to hold the ahnual convention in that city, on Feb- ruary 16th and 17th, when several im- portant papers will be read. With a view to more rapidly introducing the 'creamery system and raising the states dud of ,butter, the following gentlemen were appointed to deliver, lectures wherever farmers desire their assistance: D. Derbyshire and John S prague, east, and M. Moyer and George Browning, west of Toronto. —A wrest fall of rock occurred at Niagara Falls on the night of the 12th inst. Over 223,000 yards of solid lime- stone and slate rock went out of the bank just above the Prospect House, near the Horseshoe Falls on the Canada side. It fell with a tremendous crash that was heard and felt for miles around. The break has considerably changed the 'appearance of the benk at this spot; and now a dark chasm ean be seen behind the Falls from the bank above. All this rock for 60 feet wide by over 100 feet long and 170 feet deep, parted from the main rock, leaving a perpendicular wall. It is most likely that the tremendous weight of ice, accumulating the past three -weeks, with steady frosty weathers and the low water was the cause of the bre—akT.hu rsday last week a young man in Toronto named Wm. J. Cantwell met with a painful accident. He was en- gaged in unloading boxes from a car, when one of the eases fell on him, crushing him to the ground. Young Cantwell has been very unfortunate. He served with the Grenadiers in the Northwest rebellion, and at the battle of Batoche was wounded in the neck, arm and leg. The committee appointed to inquire into the cases of the wounded allowed him, including his Wages, $240, seemingly ignoring the fact that his wounds had effected -a physical wreck. Cantwell is a married man, and as he is unable to help himself the Government should re -consider his case. He gave up his strength and health for his country, and the country should see that he is properly eared for. —Lyttleton H. Wood, organist of the Carlton street Methodist Church, Tor- onto, died a few days ago. Deceased was a young man of singularly pure and unsophisticated character. The almost tragic circumstances of his death tend- ed to deepen the sympathy which was naturally roused by the untimely cut- ting off of so useful a life. The cause of death aras hemorrhage of the lungs. The first atta.ek occurred at the Sunday morning service. He played out the piece which the congregation was sing- ing, with one hand, while with the other he endeavoured to stay the blood that oozed from his lips. He was taken home, and from that time till his death the attacks were frequent and severe. Weakened in frame, his spirit was yet as serene as it had ever been in his days of health and strength. In the last hour, with his latest breath, he sang with singular power. f` All Hail the Power of .1 -este? Name," and when his voice died away he still faintly waved his arm as if leading the invisible choir, and thus his eyes closed in death. What leads an additional touch of senti- ment to the death of young Wood ii that a youug lady to whom he was ett.- gaged watched with his mother through the long hours till the last.