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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-05-27, Page 17 t• • • • • ,• •P ...--- / NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,015. SEAFORtH, FRIDAY, MAY 27,187. 11 • cLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Hoffman & Co's. Mr. O'Brien and Lord Lansdowne. To the Editor Of TITE HORON EXPOSITOR.. was vety much surpriged MILLINERY comnton, doubtlese, with many of your ' readers, to learn, lin your otherwise ex- cellent editorial on Wm-. O'Brien, M.P., NOW IN FULL BLAST. that "it is only .very recently any tom - plaint has been made against him (Lans- downe), and he cannot have been very jest opened another new lot of - bad or we would, have heard of his al - HATS. BONI4ETS leged offences before now." You must 7 7 surely have penned this passage hastily d without due reflection because it is SHAPES) FLOWERS F NAT ERS, ORNAMENT GAUZES, SATINS, - &c. Also- a WI stock of P-RINTS, GINGHAMS1 SEERSUCKERS, MLTSLINS, PARASOLS, LACES, EMBROIDERIE • CORSETS, ; GLOVES, HOSE, HOOPSKIRTS, BUSTLES, , PANNIERS, DRESS -IMPROVERS, FRILLINGS, RIBBONS, BUTTONS, STRA'W and FELT HATS, 0 —FOR--- ••• Me , Boys, & Children AT THE— Cheap Cash Store of Hoffman d Co, Cardno's Block, Seafo th. May No. of Butterick's Faith on Sheets Just to Hand.' About Right. [ The women never seem to gtet excited like the men. No one hears ;of women raising a row over a stump Speaker or threatening to make matters tenpleasant hy mobbing a politician in the ranks of the other perty. They - have I too much sense. Why men should allow their feeling& to get the better of their judg- ment is not clear. That men have many things to emery them in their daily avocations is true enough; but so have women. How meekly they Rub -- mit to ell the trials end tribUlations of house-cleaning, and what an example they set to the sterner sex in putting up with the minor disappointments of every- day life 1 And after all it is the little things that try_one's soul. • Men are al- ways held up as marvel e of str regth and endurance, yet a man. will ake more fuss if he loses his collar -bet on than a woman will over the bursting f a water - it pipe. What a fuss a man wil make if he gets soap in his eyes and t . en cannot flied the towel the first time h grabs for it! Why, women are marv ls of pa- tience in comp -risen with Men. Any dentist will tell you that women stand pain much better than inen, and yet men go about boasting of their fortitude and puffitag themselves up as the lords of creation. Some men ought to be kicked; they make such a fuss about trifles, and find fault with everything. It is a won- der indeed -that some shrewd woman has not invented a kicking-machihe for the benefit of bad-tempered . men. She would make a fortune by it. . Some Famous Old en. The longevity of femous tesm:en is remarkable. imagine Lord Palmerston acting vigorously as Prime. Minister of England when over eighty, governing the vast British Empire with steady hand,. teed making speeches. three hours long in the Haase ef Commons, andtrising- .next day as-freah as a man of forty. Think of the venereble Guizot, the French statesman,. who at the age of eighty-seven wag still writing historie-s„ preeiding over religious conventions, and earrying on lively discussions in the Frehch Aced- , emy ! The late Lord Lynelheirst made able speeches _in the House -of Leeds when he bad passed his ninetiety year; and his "Ong -time rival, Lard Brough- hana wrote his autobiography in three good volumes: when he had reaeh'eO nearly ninety years. The Margais of Lansdowne,. who, as Lord Henry Petty, Was leading member of the I "All the Talents" cabinet, of whieh Charles James Fox was the chief, in I 1806, was - stilt an -active member of the Hauge of Larch.; nearly sixty years later, in. 1863, and died in that year at the age of eighty-three. The Duke of Wellington took pert in public affairs until his death in Wet, in his eighty-third year. In former generations energetic statesmen of advanced years are found thickly eeattered through the pages Iof history. nen! was the Marquis of Winchester, who remembered Edward Y., the first York sovereign, in 1483, and who, when he died in 15,72,at the age of ninety-seven was holding office under Queenitlizabeth. 1:.eferring to the statesmen of our own efluntry, it is a familiar fact . that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third Presidents, both died on the 4th of july, 18'26, lust half a century from the day 011 which both :signed the iteelaxation of Independence- Adams being ninety-one and Jefferson eighty- three. President Andrew Jackson lived to be eighty-two, John Quincy Adams to be eighty-one , and Madison to be eighty -five. ---Youth's Companion, almost impossible that you can have for- gottep of the .many protests that were made against his appointment as our GovetnortGenerat in 1883 on ,account.of his alleged heartless conduct towards his tenantry. For many year's •the name" Lansdowne has been synonymous with rack -renter in. Ireland, Mr. Stew- art French, late agent. for the Lans- downe estate, and the father ofthe pres- ent agent, in his "Realities, of Irish Life," says " At least 5,000 persons' mustIleave: died of starvation within the union of Kertmare ;" and it, is: .esti- mated that nearly half as meny More died in the Lansdowne Ward • of the New, York city hospital. This .was• -daring the famine of 1847-0 When the father of the present Marquis wile land- lord. Unfortunately for the present lord: he too seams to have earned for himself the reputation of being one of the very worst rackrenters in Ireland. Daring the famine of 1879-80 he was al- ways referred to in the Irish ,papers as "the Crontwell of Kerry." 4meg Red- path, in. his letters to the New York Tribune, and " Nasby" his letters to theToledo' Blade, both writing from the scene of .his evictions,.chargedhim again and again With ;the most heartless in- humanity towards his tenantry. Michael Devitt and the ' correspondents Of the Dublin Freeman's Journal made a tour through Kerry 'Mid confirmed their re- portst So did the reporters sent by the Tory papers. to vindicate. Lansdowne.. They were unable to do so. "Worse than alit" says -Mr.. Redpath, "a cor- oner's lary returned a verdict ;of 'Died of Starvation.' on the body Of one of Lansdowne's.. -tenants," These two gentlemen, Redpath and Neshy are among the most eminent American journalists of the day; but, being for- • eigners, lest their testimony should not be constclered impa-rtial by some of your. readers, I will qtiote a few extracts from the report of the Han. • Chas. Russell, whom Mr. Gladstone specially commis- sioned for this purpose in -1880--a time when he felt far less kindly towards Ire- land than he doe e now. Speaking of .the rents he says ; Compared with other estates which -I visited, the rents tested by Griffith's valitation are not the high- est. Indeed., taking some dozen cases or . more, found that the rent did not generally exceed the valuation by -more then 50 per cent, ---not always so much, —and yet I believe the cases to be ex- ceedingly few iteWhich the tenants could, out a the land, pay -the existing rent, if they reserhed to themselves 5,utificiency �f feod and clothing for decent main- tenance." : The following extracts will - illustrate the character of 114s Excel- Iency's model agent: It is 'curious that(the present •age.ht seems to have de'itied strenuously the existence of distress on the Lansdowne estates in 1879-80 and to have refused to act non any of the several relief com- mittees established in the neighborhood. I To Mr, J. A. Fox the Government In- spector, to. Mrs Fletcher, a member of the Duchess . of Marlborough's Relief Committees and to the. Rev. :Canon 13ag,ot representing the Manston House- Conitai.ttee, he is reported he have given emphatic denials. of the existen.ce of any. distress in the. district, . The first occasion. Oil which he ad- mitted its existence wa' s in April., 1880, when he applied to the Mansion Heuse Committee for funds to promote. a new emigration eche-me. "I mention with pain one fact," Miss M. F. Cusack., known as the Nun of Keninaret one of the sisters in . the Con vent of Poor Glares Kenmare (a • lady, not leas known for her active benevo- lence than for her literary work) in her printed expression of thanks to Arneeice for Ithe funds entrusted to her for ree iievi:ng- the distressed tenantry, Says under the date' of Easter week, 1880 : 'One land agent said to. me that when he saw the distress coming he told his noble master that it would be the best. thing that had ever happened for the landlords—they would have their ten - ante, at their Mercy,: she adds,' These same land agents were the principal cause of the distress being denied,. for clearly if the distress were -admitted., to demand rents and rack rents from . the starving people would have been , too groes an act of inhumanity.' • ' - "It can hardly be doubted to. whom this language refers. I hope it May be shown to have been the result of some grave misappteh-ension. This lady by her public appeals collected a sum, ef about :05,000 which was .in greet patt expended in South- Kerry. She assured me that many tenants of Lord Lans- downe had been recipients of blankets, meal, seed potatoes, and clothing. _ "A gentle -man conversant with the action of the -Relief Committee in the town, informed us that fully.half of the relief which passed through his hands had been given to Lord Lehadowne'§ tenants. He said, 'My belief is that were it not for the relief given by our- committeeet a great number of Lord Lansdowhe's tenants would have 'died.' "1 confess I was incredulous- for a. long time until I was informed by the Rev. Mt. McCutchan, Protestant rector of Kenn:we (himself a sturdy North - enter) that if the shopkeepers had not act- ed with greater humanity and .forbear- ance than the landlords, five -sixths of Lord Lansclawne's tenants would have been absolutely ruined; and. indeed to my observation it did not seem that they were in fact far -removed from ruin- as it was. It is significant, of the want of e sympathy between the landlords and their tenants that when their trials were greatest the tenants turned to the Catholic priest and tei the Protestant rector for advice and help. So far as I saw, this part of Kerry is free from at least one evil; there are of course re- ligious differences; but there is no re- ligious bickering or ill -will.". - I will not eintrude on your space by any furtheuquotations from the report, though seveiral interesting accounts are .given of the many methods, as ingenious as they are villainous end despicable, by which Mr. Shylock Trench manages to increase the rents and to punish ob- noxious tenants. But if there be still any doubting Thomases a.mong your readerstrpossess the Hon. gentleman's full report, and will let them exatnine it if. they 'SO desire. Many accounts similar to, this appeared in some of the Canadian papers at the time. Surely if we have not heard of "his alleged of- fences" before now, the fault must rest with ourselves. You state that most likely fault is to be found en both sides. Perhaps so, but if the tenants who are now being evicted have sirniliery to those describe Mr. Russell, I think it generally conceded that a very large i . portion of the fault rests on one side. The statement, that p rhaps those evictions (whieh Mr. Gladetone has -de- shribed :as • almost - equivalent to a sentence of death') have been carried on without His Excellency's 4Dowledge or consent is altogether too childish to re- quire serious notice. The Globe on Wednesday last stated that- the people of Canada are not coneern Lansdowne's private bu actions with his tenants. doctrine -for the Globe. I axiom that has been more more hackneyed by that j the past 4'er 5 years it i dishonest and godless in h can never' make an u official, and it can be easi y understood t how a private business tr nsaction may be most shameless and cri ninal, especial- ly when the weak .party i has no. other alternative! than to accept the terms offered be) the strong. 'Let the Globe then, weigh Lord. Lansdowne in the smile balance it would' use towards political opponents—towerds Boultbee, Rykert,, and John Shield, for instance— and let Leed Lansdowne tell us his side of the story and then we will be in a better posi ion to judge % hether he de- serves our espect or our condemnation. Respectful y Yours, SPECTATOR. een treated by the Hon. ill be pretty ••• ed ;with Lord siness trans - This is a new there is one cherished and urnal during that a man, s private life right public ay -23n1, 1887. Horses and Horse , ; . eeding in Canada - Royal Artillery, Rernoun , Estahlisht ent; , Woolwicti, 27th April, 1817. To the Minister of Agricelture : ' SIR,—Iii compliance *ith the reel etst contained in your depadmented le ter, I heve thelhonor to forw. rd the fol ow- ing remarks which have occurred to, the officers of the British -W t Office Com- -mission relpecting the h rses in Can da. 1. The result of the h rse trade o the Dm inionis -not an eas matter to ar- • riv at, for theteare no itOvertised orse or cattle fairs, or other organized live stock markets, where collection of horees and animals are o be foun on sale, as is the case in 11 other hlorse produciine countries. Even just adross the bOrcrer in the United States, the .horse rearing localities have their peri- odical coed days, when,- according .to the season of the year 'a considerable number,' or smaller quantity of anitnals , are offered on sale; and - it would be -much to the benefit ot the Canadian breeders if some simile plan could be introduced by co-Operseion throughout .districts, on fixed tnark t or exhibition days, as a i means of br ging the pro- ducer and purchaser to ether in greater numbers, with correspo ding advantages for both aides, thus up etting the exist- ing monopoly. .„ The hole horse and cattle trailIe of Canada i at present in the hands of Americans and a.few other dealers, with some amateur horsemen in each districte who regulate the rates, rule the beeeders in them respective dis- tticts, and give whateeer prices they choose, which are low, nd in the case of the. American deale s are so sinall that it repays them to t ke horses adross the frontier to the exte t Of 11,000.1ast year, and yet be able to pay an import duty on their'entering the ,States of 20 per cent. on the dechirell lalue it-, each animal. . . -2.- The ignorance and ineocence of the breeders and owners as to the compara- tive value of their anintals' max here be instanced. It is stated. hat in some places Where local . or tth e exhibitions of stock- were being held the agricul- tural..authorities had Me t generously got togethier subs.cripttlms- to help our Work, and offered conhichtrable- money prizes at the autumn shove for horsee best fitted for British Min ary purpeses, i when such indifferent atiit als were ex- hibited fo t these prizes Th. t it was not possible -foe us to ewer a iy preini ims, or even purchase any hit .g. In ther parts of the sante toevet where we had appointed., good and 1 ex ellent horses were .col ected for us I to see, many of which we purchased, and in one or two cases had the greatest 1dif calty to in- duce the owners to enthr heir animals - so that we might award hem • a prize, and thus give whattamoun ed to a high- er price for their horse. In this matter ther people require education, and time to; understand the system of' dealing withitheir stock. 3. It may be desirable here to remark that if the opinions g nerally of those men in Canada who are, at present, in- terested in or connecteO with the horse trade were asked, they might be found antagonistic to these proposals; as up- setting their monopoly, and it is be- lieved..that the Canadian , farmer is se slow to act or observe that he might not at first appreciate what, rif once intro- duced. and carried out, would prove to be for his material adventege. 4. In the present state of the horse trade of the Dominion, no English or Auropean dealer ,(where after all the great market is to be looked for) could afford the time or expense of moving about the country along great distances, and only being able to purchase a very li nited nuniber of good, unblemished, sound animals. 5. The price of a horse kill over the world is fictitious, uncertein, and de- pendent on what his manners are like, What he is fitted for, his size, breeding, action, color, appearance and power, &c., whether he is for riding or draught, whether a good hunter or an indifferent h ck, whether he is blemished or not, a d to ensure a good price he must be s und and otherwise perfect, and any d parture from these may depreciate his value, whereas the price of a bullock not so regulated, it beeornes a law of Ipply and demand, and is dependent on 1, e amount of hu an sustenance reguir- , whether meat r mile. Many ef the rses of Canada are very good, and if a. -operating market could be -intro- ced, buyers from Europe, giving good ices for good animals, would assemble; d the breeders would get higher er i ices. ,,or 6. We think it right you should be formed that during our visit to the °minion, which occupiecl 167 days, we t 'evened 14,755 miles, we examined 7 674 horses, of which we registered, to 1 ok at a second time, 1,025, with the suit that we were only. able to pur- ase for the Government 83 horses. 7. The prices of the whole of these ere Very reasonable and moderate, and I was no question of money in the ma - j rity of cases which prevented our pur- hasing in larger numbers. - We found that the great proportion of orses met with of the size and sortsult- ble for British military purposes were nsound or blemished, from the farmers • verworking their stock - when too oung, thus breaking down the young •nes before they have developed into orses. The attention of breeders andlarmers annot be too- strongly drawn to this eribus deterioration, and when the t tares come to be bred from, their ills re transmitted to their young stock. 8. The number of faulty -and unsound tallions in districts is also great, and reating much harm. . 9. A malformation in the Canadian 1 orses which rnight advantageously be 1 rought to the notice of bree,ders is hat their quarters are short and very rooping, a serious defect in a military orse. Indeed'we had to reject as un- uitable a considerable proportion pn his account; this is not only a 'great issight, but where a mounted soldier las to carry a kit on his horse's back it mounts to an insuperable objection; it las arisen from the too extensive use of he American trotter for stud purposes, his defeat being very _ apparent in that terse. This is an additional reason fee. he more continuous introduction of the triglish T. B. or such horses which ate ery straight in their backs and guar- ers, with tail set on high. lO. Then, of course, the American eaters do not take away the worst of he horses, and purchase many very aluable mares, leaving in the Dominion he unsound malformed stock to be bred rom, Which, put to unsuitable and in nany instances unsoundstallions, trans- it to' their progeny their various arental ill, for uusounditess in the orse is as surely hereditary as con- umption, cancer, scrofula, general eakness or unsoundness; is. among the uman race. 1 • 11. It thus becomes a question evheth- ✓ the Canadian Government cannot af- ord some direct help to this very valu- ble industry, so needful and remunera- ive in time of peace, so requisite and ndispensable in time of war; and it is uggested, oneomewhat similar grounds s has been successfully' established in tkustralia, there should be an inspector f horse breeding operations in Canada. 12. It is not desirable to interfere ith free trade in horses or in any way o place a prohibition or prohibitive duty n the sale or export of mares, but on the other hand a considerable number of remunerative premiums might he offered ley the Government in districts (for the next ten years) for brood mares of &cer- tain size, weight and standard, which Must be laid down, with foals at foot, oily $20 per head for the ten best, $12 per head for the 2nd ten mares, at each district show, with still larger premiums for stallions, which would have also to he of a fixed Weight, standard and qual- ty, thus inducing farmees to keep their best stock in the countryl. 13. Owing to the extended rail com- unication in the DoMinion, farmers have not now so far to travel with their ight, quick going horses alorg roads as they had twenty years ago, and the large cities and towns sp inging up hay created a demand for eevier horses; thus breeders have been turning their attention more to th a class of Clydes- dale, Shire and larger herses, and have ceased to breed so rhanet as formerly 0 the lighter, better bred, general purpose horse which is that required for army purposes. Again, the people of Canada are not a riding race; you never see a boy riding a horse to plough, nor a man on the back of an animal going to th- village forge. All travel on wheels in summer, or hitch their horses to sleigh in the winter time. The only' ridin horses made use of are purely those fo pleasure with the limited number o hunt clubs and the still smaller quenti ties of people who, independently of thos who hunt, take horse exercise in an about the larger towns, together wit such horses as may be used in the yeo manry and ether mounted corps. 14. The consequence is that it is qui the exception when a horse with length rein and quarters, good withers an lengthy sloping shoulders, suitable fo riding, is, met with, this strain bein only procurable by a judicious admix- ture of the T. B. horse which should be liberally subsidized by Government wit extensive premiums for all that ar 1 1. • sound, ef good size, bone, color and ton such such tie will provide the require- ments ox th Western market. (The imp dation into England alone it over 17, 0 horses annually, all from fereign sourees, so that this trade is worthy of chnsideration.) 15. What,has been said respecting the the horses in Canada West is also appli- cable to those bred on the ranches, *here excellent mares ef size, color aed quality are to be met with. which require j dicious weeding oat and then mating t T. B. hiprses with bone, power and action. We have the honor to be, Sir, yOr ost obedient servant, F. G. Revneniee, colonel, R. A.,1 Inspector and Purchaser R. A. Horses. P. S.—Three hundred horses may he bought n Canada next year if they can be obtained within the prices' and of the etamp required. F. 0. RAVENHAL, Colonel R. A. Cana hop attle, mimed total. po —Re Eftreet Marcie —Th eudienc pight t I —In dry we price of pound. 1 —Re Ir eeasrtsa.mi rder t emith, 94 hor on_dsT, ti NyVoaolldsh ridges. —Bu e in and Fr dry we —Th " I Canada. a luring 1886 sent to Bristol, , iverpool and London 67,248 4,36 sheep and 70 swine. . mairville is said to contain 299 ed *omen and 129 widows. its •ulation is 3,767. , . G. D. Johnson of the G re ethbdist church, 'Hamilton, as 65 couples during the past ye r. RM. Canon Wilberforce had an • of 2,000 at Hamilton the ot er her him lecture on tempera e. onsequence of the long continiled ther, London butchere raised the beef to from 10 to 1q cents Der e Dr. Clarke, professor of New nt 'Exegesis for the past four MdMaster hall, has resigned in regnme pastoral work. • eriek Mackenzie, a young bladk- f Hiamilton, claims to have m de eshoes in 52 minutes and 5 ec- us beating the best record. fish in the river Thames n er ocki are said to have been n ar- lled by the ase of dynamite c rt - h fires have done immense dtlan- he ,Ottawa valley and in Hastikgs nt•Mac counties during the Ilate ther. rei are at present no fewer than six per -onil detained in jail in Weed - stock e lanatics, because there is hot room f r them in the asylums. - —Th eight year 'old son of John i A. Vongu ten, of Galt,. was accidentally ,drown d in the Grand River Satutday afterno n. 1 —Re . aug&el Currie, M. A., former- ly of T re e Rivers, Quebec, has been in- ducted into the pastoral charge of the Glenco Presbyterian ;congregation. . . 1 —T o Chatsworth Men went to spend a day t out fishing last week. They; re- turned in the evening 1 with 124 speckled beauti s, weighing in all 23 pounds. —A Montreal flip1 have already.en- gaged 00 hands forithe manufacture of the , fin'r 'kinds of Aper, as a result of the net duty on theiforeign-manufactur- i , • I ed erti le . ----It is expected ' that the ernbJtle- ments f the absconding Grand Trnnk Railwae cashier, J. C Sulliven,of 13rant- ford, illi amount .t6 $1,000. No one knows vleere he has gone. —A Toronto eonstable captured five suspici us looking • tramps at York station the other night. One of them drew a revolver, but the officer battoned him be ore he could uhe the weapon. —R v. Mr.! McNebb, of Lucknow, left las Week for ElMira, Illinois, where be inte ds to' remain for a few months in hopes is health may be improved by the change —A complaint was last week lodged agains -ten hotel -keepers in Luck ow i and ne ghborhood for selling liquor on- trary t • the Scott At. ' Trials to c me off this week. , I . —As a !result of the Nanaimo boa mine d sagter 39 widows and 106 chil ren are wh Ily destitute) besides nume ous familie Whose suppprIt has failed coking to the lose -of single rrien. It —Ki cerdine is eoasidering the glee - tion of iVing a $6,009 bonus to the Kin- cirdin illing Coutpeny. A by-la%v is to be a b itted to the ratepayers on the subject 1 I i . --Ja es Manning', middle aged man, was hillect by a train near Chatham Sat- urday afternoon." He was walkin0 on thetra Its 'Papers found on the body show t at he belonged to Detroit. ' —MIs Cartmell, who for several years past ha been engaged in the missimeary work i Japan for the, Methodist Chirch in Can da, is on her Way to her home in Hamilt n to recruit her health. —A on of Chas. Abraham, of Sarnia,. aged o, out 6 years, while playing al out his fat er's ashery, fell accidentally nto a cauld ort of lye, some of which e ter - ed his hroat, causihg death on the fol- lowing. ay,. f —Jane Edwards, an old Certtral Prison nr , who attempted to wreck! the G. T. • xpress at Oakville on the 10th inst., b placing obstructions on the track, N 'a I arraigned before Judge Mi: - ler the t er day at Milton, and senter ced to five e ts j,n Kingston Penitential+. ----Th tillage of Hagersville, 'leer Brantf rd . has a truant officer, who has the aut o ity to arrest all boys or irls betwee t ie ages of 8 and 14 feint on the st ee s during school hours, -ho have n lid reason for being away I from sc 1. . —Th -Matte cif Springfield in the I County of Mihlesex, was stirred to its ' centre ty a romantic marriage which oc- curred h re the other day. Mr. Jodeph . Ensmi ge , a wealthy stock . raisen of Tucsbn ma County, Arizona,'arrived at dSspr field Pn Monday, last week, • d for hotne Tuesday with1 his bride, daughter of a resident of that m he heel married two hi, urs place, after h •id seen her face. Ensmi ger inserte an advertisement in the neves- papers i timating that he desired to find a wife, and among the correspondents was th 1 dy whom he has now made his i i 1 1 wife. AAer a few letters had passed be -1 tween the ttarties,photos were exchanged, each was mutually satisfied and the marriage was tlee outcome. The happy; couple leftler their future home bn the; men lost all their tools, and its() pea shelling machines, valued at $600 each, belonging to Mr. C. P. Chisholm, were destroyed. The building was owned by Mr. R. S. Wood, of London, and was Santa Grin and Southern Pacific railinsured, but Mr, McDonald's loss willbe ---- roads, 40Q miles from San Diego. 10,000. No insurance. I —The Dominion Express Company —A young man in Shelburne, Grey offers 8300 reward for information which county, about to be married by same - will lead to the arrest and conviction, body, or about to marry somebody, and afraid he might offend the other local of the parties who recently stole the $5,000 express package which has since been recovered. ' —A bo ' t end shoe company is being incorpora ed in Wyoming with a capital!, of $20,00t. Its place ef business will b the villa e of Wyonling, and Thoma Clark, sl oedealer, • is the first name director. —The two whisky detectives, th Jaynes brothers, who have been opt erating tbrough the County of Oxford) were arrested on Friday last, on a charge of perjure laid by A. Hayward, hotel. keeper, of Woodstock. ; 1 —11;tin is heeded in the country surt rounding Kingston in the interest ot agriculture, and of very valuable prot perty, whose destruction is threateneck by fires. The flames are running ove miles au4 miles of country. —Mc illieray township boasts of att old marred douple, Mr. and Mrs. Jame Doyle. They have been married at leas 67 years, both are in good health, ana Mr. Doyle is 92 years old, while hi faithful helpmate is 86 years of age. —The city council of London has tic; cepted estitnates for the Western Fair building, amounting in all to $60,000, The main building, 200 feet by 80, will cost $20,000; horse stalls, $S,000; cat- tle and sheep pens, $5,000; field -mar -chinery hall, $4,000. il —The annual convention of the Uni- versalist Church of Ontario will be held in the. Olinda church, county of Essex; conhmencing Friday, June 17, and con- tinuing the two following days. Rem. Dr. Demarest, of New York, will be present. —Mr. John i . t Balmer, a well-knowie Halifax lawyer who contested Cumber- land at the last election with Sir Charles Tupper, as a prohibition candidate, is suing the Halifax Chronicle for 525,00i for libel in publishing a false report of trial in which Mr. Bulmer was plainti —At the annual meeting of the Hamilton Methodist Districtlast Friday', a resolution was adopted protesting against the repeal or mutilation of the Scott Act, and praying the Dominion Parliament to pass the amendments de- sired by the Dominion Alliance as pro- vided in Mr. Jamieson's bill. I —There was a very large attendan 'e at St. Patrick's church, Montreal, o the occasion of the religious services qf Father Dowd's jubilee as a priest. e T1 sermon was preached by I3ishop Wa1s11 , of Londpn. A number of eminent clergy, - men weie present from various parts qif Canada and the United States. —The Bruce county treasurer's selar has be n fixed at $1,500 per annun An arra gement for deposits in the ban is made so that the treasurer will never have more than $5,000 of the countly funds a his own credit. . Had this been done be ore the county would have been over $2,000 better off. - —The musicians of Hamilton are pre- paring a musical festivel in celebration of the Queen's. -jubilee, to be held on June 21st and 22nd, which will be sale of the grandest ever heard upon Ur continent. The peformance will be held in the Crystal Palace Exhibition Hall, and there will be seating a commodation for 4,00Q, , —A. W. Landoll, 48 years old, a co mercial 'traveler, swallowed twenty-fi e grains ef Morphine at Detroit the oth r morning and died. He was desponde t because he could not get employmen . A widoiv and three children are left mourn. Landon formerly belonged Brockville, and had property in C ifornia worth $9,000. - —No poison was found in the stoma h of Mrs. Hendricks, of Thedford, alleg d to have been poisoned by Mrs;Ityckma The coroner's jury found a verdict a cordingly on Friday and Mrs. Ryckm n has been discharged from the jail t Sarnia.It is likely that the case of her daughtevirelaw, who died in Virginia, will also be dropped. , —In/ense indignation has been aroused in Wirtnipeg over the receipt of Sir George 'Stephen's threat to give that city the _ got -by , and the people are de- termined to have a railway to the boundary at all hazards. An engineer has been engaged by the . Manitoba Governinent, and plans and specifications will be got' out-immOiately. —The death occurred on the 191h inst, of Mr. Thomas Carr, probably the oldest resident of the County of Oxfor 1. He was born in England in July, 179l. In 1839 he 8ettled on the fine farrn over- looking the town of Woodstock and cn which he remained until his deal Mr. Carr had been a subscriber of the Sentinel Review ever since its founda- tion in 1854. —Mrs. McEachran, of Sarnia, -vies crossing the street near her, home an Tuesday, when She was attacked by a IL cow, which tossed her with its horns a d then trampled her and gored her as ,s e lay helplese. Her clothes were torn rags, and the was covered with blood and dust, but an examination showed that, though terribly bruised, #o bons had been broken. —Early Sunday morning, the Itth 1 inst., the barn of Mr. Geo, Kirk, East Nissourt, near Lakeside, was hurtle( 1 The barn and its. contents, includie three valuable horses, also a wago , some pain and agricultural implements 1 were b rned. The horses broke loose and go, as far as the barn door, bit could nbt he rescued. Mr. Kirk's los is about $4,000, with $1,600 insurance. The fird is supposed to haVe been caused by an iecendiary. ; 1 —On IThursday last week at Oakville a fire broke out in the large brick planing - mills occupied by Mr. Jas. McDonald. The mils were totally destroyed, as b.liio was a large stock of dressed lumber. The 1 preachers if he gave the job to his favor- ite spiritual adviser, issued the following notice to the preachers : " Dear Sir, I want to be married. 1 warit; it dun cheep. How much do you w nt to do it. Am 'rain too the other p eechers, but if youre tender is lowest I twill cum tho-,-3u —The residents of Coaticort , in the Eastern townships, near Montr al, have been greatly distarbed recently by out- rages committed by opponen s of the Scott Act. A few nights ago the resi- dences of three active workers for the Scott Act in the county, were stoned.. Snell occurrences have extended over several months, and the Scott Act people are subjected to a systetnatic per- secution. —Mr. C. F. Smithers, President of the Bank of 'Montreal, died in that city last Friday at the age of 65 years.; He was both President and General Manager of the bank. Mr. Smithers was a financier of the highest reputation. The opinion of leading bankers is that his action and course of dealing in financial matters saved the Whole Doininion froM a severe financial crisis on several occasions. —"The other day a large, ark-corn- plexioned, farmer -looking man, with full-sized whiskers and moustache, called at the banking office of Cameron & Cantpbell, in Lucknow, and offered for discount a batch of about a dozen notes, pnrporting to be signed by different far- mers. Mr. Cameron, to whom the notes were offered, had doubts as to:the genu- ineness of the signatures, and openlur ex- pressed such doubts, whereupon the stranger evinced great nervousuess and alarm, and. hurriedly gathered up the notes and left the offi-cet A few minutes 'afterwards he drove rapidly out of town and has not been seen Since. It was un- doubtedly a bare -faced attempt to pass forged notes. 1 —Mr. Isaac Deyell, of -St. Thomas, is the inventor of what has been shown by severe tests to be a perfect smoke and spark arrester. The device, by the force of the exhaust steam, carries tthe smoke -and cinders through a large flue to a receiveror hopper at the top of the smoke -stack, from which they are return- ed.:to the furnace and there burnt. All the tests show that there is no possibility of clogging in the flues, and that the consumption of cinders makes a ma- terial saving in Mel, while danger of fires from the escape of live cinders is wholly avoided. --When the party got on the sleeping car, at Syracuse, bound for Niagara Falls, Mr. O'Brien fainted away on his bed from pure exhaustion. Dr. Gregory Doyle, of Watertown, who examiped Mr. O'Brien, pronounced. him suffering from severe internal injuries caused by the attack of the Orangemen at Kings- ton. His body was bruised and battered in several places, and inflammation of the lungs threatened. Physicians pre- scribed some days, perfect rest, at Ni- agara Falls, as absplutely necessary to Mr. O'Brien's convalescence. —Mr. Andrew Upper, o f Thorold , township, lays a charge that his son, while incarcerated in the Hamilton In- sane Asylum, experienced brutal treat- ment at the hands of the attendants. It is specificallY charged that the young man had one of his ribs broken by being thrown down and having his body goug- ed by the knees of the keepers. The occurrence alleged is stated to have taken place nearly a year ago, the patient being now discharged front the asylum. Inspector O'Reilly says that when com- plaint is definitely made the case will be thoroughly investigated. —Last Friday, at Halifax, Clara Louise Kellogg, the prima donna, met with an _accident while driving about the city with Strekosch, her manager. At Point Pleasant, where the Atlantic Ocean rolls in with great force, Miss Kellogg alighted from her carriage and went down to the water's edge to gather sea plants. . She was standing on a rock when her foot sipped and she fell into the water. She was struck by an im- mense wave and carried out some dis- tance. Strakosch rushed to her rescue and succeeded in getting the singer ashore. She was not much the worse, but was unable to appear at the special matinee that day. —Friday at noon a young 'woman in the employ of Messrs. Reid, Birley .86 Co., Hamilton, had a very narrow escape from being killed. In company with two other girls she went out upon the flat roof in the rear, and walking along did not notice where she was until the glass skylight gave way beneath her feet. The other girls screamed for help, but the victim of the mishap citing to the iron Sash, and this, with the assist - twee of a, telephone wire which was for- tunately stretched at the place she fell, seved her life. She was kept suspended until help arrived. Had she gone through she would have fallen through another opening to the ground floor. —Last Saturday afternoon a barn be- longing to the ItIlethodist parsonage at Sparta, near St. Thomas, caught Bre from some unknown cause. After the fire had made considerable progress Rev. Joseph Ward, pastor of the church, was seen to enter the barn, but the smoke was so ,dense that he was almost overcome. He finally escaped with his hair and beard burned off. and his head and hands fearfully burned. He was carried to the parsonage, where his wounds were dressed, but on Monday was still unconscious and suffering ter- ribly. Unless inflammation :sets in he may recover. The barn was 'burned to the ground, with its contents, except a, carriage and harness. • f •••