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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-12-02, Page 1R•P. 1.11111ftwat L, - YETs Ni 0-0titnu. The,se (1 a Ida Grena.t, goods - ..ed some. [le price CE or I Cloth- nts per en and g is the - °P pub- ie_ka :— t Kate I Btslla Maggie ah Bal- Me - Sarah tusselle Fulton. s, '2,nd sell. ler the )11 miles ;ar bar - !en and pair of area. xl a sale er, still outAve ly other rs A. R. ly A. R. want a by any he mar - foolish people. taney is 1040-a annual ag and in the he fel- t. Gra- 'atone, Robert . The nly A. , he re- coa- urselay slaews ieve in being ler the e Tern- ite the . The 'y thing court ; case 'a and urned Friday , costs, f Gor- it I. J. t sidea Linton, a. keeting ri- the pre& ssed: $34.38. ramine lots• t with [at the be re - ale df ewer, ted to kid aPs led to- >ecem- Mc- s Pal- au Mr. Or the l seven SI3eath s John a, and ;where aunt- turned Mr. a, but oaf for gr. A- limsinst lased rush" larveY what minds. - Banff' d. vto ohs at at trs • 01110 Ler s' • Io• a rn . ,.. nitt ril ' ,... ..„,„ $.1 ' - t ..• .1* . , ..., ...'-*--.---- •-••••• Zs7— • ..... -_-.:--- .--.- -.--' --.....-________:* .••*"44 ,•.,,.,,, - • •%; ijifts); , . ...,:. . .. -414 ' TW EN T Y- FIR ST YEAR. t . NVIODE NUMBER 1,042. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 1387. f kcLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advaiade. . ; THE C '41 EAP OUR MANITOBA LETTEps. the night. Two powerful fellows took most graceful in a jig that the Province house it is feared serious results m. y below, and all rushed pell-mell for the MOVeMent, they are yet to remembe CAS H STORE IPACKED FULL EVERY1 S OF KIND OF—Two Wint er Goods I And intending purchasers will find it to their interest to call and take a look through the different lines of goods. The following arc a few of the many special bargains : Plain, Striped, Checked and Curl Dress Goods ; Mantle and Ulster Cloths in Cords,. Cheeks, Stripes, Buckles, Naps, Sealettes, etc. Under- alothing far Ladies, Gents, Misses, _Boys and—Miss C,hildrens. Shawls in Double, Sing -le, Shoulder and Opera. Scarfs, Clouds, Hoods. Fascinators and Wool Caps, the beet assortment in Seaforth Ja-kets and' Ulsters far Ladies, Missesbeen and Children, very cheap. Also, just to hand, Corsets, Gloves, Ties, Frillings, Dress Trim- mings, Buttons, Bustles, Collars and Cuffs, Ribbonsetc. , wa have just opened the best assortment of Sint, Liners, Lawn and Cotton Efandkerchiefs that we ever had A few Bar s Cloth Suite and Overooats to. be sold off cheap. Our Idillinery stock has just been replenished with, some of the very- latest styles of shapes hat and materials. Remember the ' ' Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Co • a °-'--'- --'--''-• Agents for Butteriek's Reliable Patterns, F ashion Sheets and Books of the very latest gales. (From This is Thanksgiving apart by order nor and Council bountiful crop which we have that the President ordered a similar in that case may be constrained Lyman Beecher- " -Speak for speak for yourself." they tell of devourers, are called on small mercies. In this quarter grateful enough. ple, take up bard and say, goings of the to rejoice ; Thou makest blessest the crown—est the all pas ll Thth upon the pastures the little hills valleys also they shout for have never favorable season In some spots age, but not try's yield has while the accompanying great. Even parts of the track w -ere green and the level though the ' much less than years that were Speaking me that the Pacific Railwaya-west, tentionally or either through the sand banks Lake, for example, don, yOu skirt able way, and on the other smith of these most beautifully countries you the same way, through some sandy soil with ally mean trees here and there middle of this upon a thriving find a magnificent try close up close- to the :station 40 bushels of a three miles 000 bushels ped off there almost a,s much as a strander e man had cut worth $10 foot long, lieft how deep and has never had it Not far . which only two I must say else seen 80 an exhausting wheat, and - heaviest soils. less than. ten -.Oxford county, goers are there tCame with some went too fast, style, got in rule the same over the country. a little money and industry, showy men slid An old friend here had just and sold at from it, besides large stacks thrashed, which spring for a bushels for the the last. I was throwing acre plot. It and is still three level as if they I am afraid mate of that tempted to Munchausen grain crop I field of oats, tening in th lbbushel of cents . On t nortifof Carberry, up and fenced are not so numerous places. They of the grain,but and they have Two or perhaps put up together for the separator with such a you seem to and the rough the farmers, logs with piles A day or two to go around whom were running They had beeu week, putting wheat a day did not expect more; with 30,000 have possibly s gotthrou,gh. lost an hour in the two spent with them, stacks, 415: bushels for two more would clear off Our Own Correspon Wrmineso, NoVember of the Lieutenant to acknowledge and choice been favored. of manifestation a good few to on a certain, yourself If excessive drowth, are half true to give thanks we We might, the song of " Thou makest morning and Thou visitest it soft with springing year with d drop fatness, of the rejoice omevery are covered joy, they in a lifetime than this hail has d011e two per cent been lost general benefit Tains has the sand hills Canadian in the prairie amass actual rain - I have less fruitful of these sand main line of runs, not I can or alongside in the country. out sand hills ha vei poor, hand. But sandy ridges wooded could set nearer Winnipeg, thirty miles mean Vegetation of spruce over it. poor stretch town, and AT CARBERRY rea.ch to the place. made 'wheat per acre, radius of the of wheat were one day lately, surprised would have 200 tons a ton, and on his Wheat strong was a stamp or off I saw a stones have that I have much timothy crop; quite can Only do This place years by andago most yet. of their went in for debt and bust thing has' Those and a good crawled up very easily withwhOmIstaidanight threshed 00 the elevato4 tailing. of it from 10 he will rise. He first threshed, picked np a to the colts, had been feet long, had been o tell my old crop, your hink I have , .I think have ever as level as bright July these, our price is BIG PLAI.'t every in with wire as take trouble, every one some choice four large with just to get great proportion see nothing and ready most of their of straw for AT VIRDEN'.d after this among old a thresher in the same through for four cents to get away bushels as much more They yet from bad hours and ran through in all, when I lefte-whicle before closing d Day -season the of say, old all i some cannot the old the showers, thereof Thy wildernoss, Over also seen has sharp of in been along Pacific end fall seen hills the hardly Of west from for a swampy close is and, eyes of and But right if . of The thie station cut. by been. of timothy thick fields the a stone half -section yet not aas at well was aroup of.g Young father's buggies up, happened who deal hill down. acres 2,400. acres hold reckoned sheaf part pretty the sorte&by friend's readers read the Seen a floor sun. section fences. in some to goes room in between, under else buildings barns roofs. I took friends, 1250 a bushel, for throvh before have weather, a little and ent.) 17th, hered -over- I States thou his with occasion gentleman, the and of for be as one Hebrew the evening the ; goodness, they side, with sing." a been the this • frOm Railway of August, of flowers, has in reminds Canadian whether ,about At consider- cane upon. you very and oak you you grain section year and 'I and what stubble, showed soil, been abywhere here. much on settled thmsteada men inoiey and invested of while of bushels He has still over and of oats high heads may prettiest is such .and For is about is fence for eXaMpleS stacks enough but being some on shares. quarters bushels three more two were down 1887. notice people stories insect them earth Thou Thou drop corn, more here. d•am- coun- way, very some been other Bran- land to of fertile poor equ- dotted in come alight coun- about within drop-. I hay, which upon seen. so from push wheat on 35 of hand. Baron taken Cattle other colts, grain stacks a - days they their never largd they , set the with has gh Dr very half peo- out and the the -in- say, aal Oak the the In go the 100- was saw One a on It is as the wh ‘ nd as a all the 20 uu- till 30 for he a 30 cut as esti be -a glis-, a 36 -20 ti opt are and of of day of - a of and and I' setl for turn mill. sun into straighb inside from they would m ontiss. farming done : money James ed. wheat newly roof, year. of wheat . the hired summer, house ; new sand building. m(!)rniuo elelven hit summers Ives I and a team el -61p. ao-kjes of oxen, bushels ing nia.rket, with in Scotland took accomplish difficulties just your people couldn't more their very be.as records else. to make and thing would up tai:gled Railroad, the few ment to give us, host mixed thine part; it is to carse bell; pie/bent come ful US up turn business that tion. joint, in spite I been sonally one Isis mired. community. lower defeated who ler, in 'of the ia member horseback." was home. is a interest little terest : pretty has since, our threshers, was Afierce kota, . setting unless winter," by fore 25° be by Mild which samples both that the pleasant day horse streets. winter we the ing short, go in ing, ganing 1 concerts I gets aware there of your for example vents pleasanter River whole is himself measure, of his I about to rush the sheaves into the A straw roofed shed on poles, a shade for cattle, had been turned a ranary, the clay floor shoveled gt, and pine boards fitted all round the pots Into this the bags the inifl Wei:e being shot as fast as were threshed and all the crop have to lie there perhaps for This is rough and rea.dy I allow, but everything must be cheap here, if we are to make any by selling, at 48 or 50 cents Madill, a Canadian, just thresh- out, three miles from this, had his crOp of 28,0000 bushels' inside a built stone barn, with a straw but will put on another storey next This man had just 3,060 bushels and oats by his own hand for season, with i 8 weeks help from a man but he had worked in three sis! eeks on his dwelling and scraped out the site of that barn and hauled together, lime, and most . of the stone fori that A Scotchman I saw next e at Virden with grain, had acres plowed by neighbors on homestead out on the Pipestone, fiye ago. Next eummer when he hired out for good wages his wife their boy of 12 or 13 prepared with of oxen 50 -acres for next year's To -day he has 300 out �f 320 broken up,a team of horset,a yoke two good working boys, 2,200 of wheat which he will haul dur- the winter a distance of 20 miles to and a few cattle.. He started $150, and would never have been more than a hired man. It that family of four a big push to all that in five summers, but, were made to be overcome by such people. I am sure some of readers must be acquainted with who went to Manitoba and get on at all. A great many must, I dare say, have made up minds by this time, that I am a big " blower," and it may perhaps well if :I give those big farming a rest and 'turn to something But I can get affew more blowers affidavit to. What I have seen said, and pass on meantime to some else. POLITICS perhaps be the next topic to take but the only topic just now is the one. of the lled River Valley and everybody, exc(spt perhaps Free Press, seems to be giving it a days rest. The Call, our Govern- ( rgan, would perhaps be more glad • ) thsubject • t th f at a ses an any o for it has a hard task to fend off the of suspicions and dark insinuations with very -direct charges,of every-' unworthy now being hurled at its chiefs in the Cabinet. But the daily business of the Free Press the Norquay Government with book and candle, or any other im- of rnalediction that happens to bandy, and it now takes a power- deal of that kind of thunder to rouse very much. Something is sure to ' about this Red River alley upV before lone, the latest rumor is long, La. Riviere has sent in his resigna- If so something must be out of for he wont go4=Out for a trifle. . . PRE3fIER NORQUAY, of all the bard things that have' so often said against him, is per very much liked, and socially of the most attractive of naen, though style of beauty is not generally ad... Out, is essentially a democratic A rather high-toned fol- of the burly Premier was badly at last election by a farmer is at this writing operating a, thresh- and takiug his regular turn at feed- her. AS :rough -tongued Scotclunan same party said, " We don't want here who does his farmingon And the big English swell triumphantly elected to stay at THE WEATHER handy topic when others of greater get played out; but we have so variety here that not much -of in- can be made out of it. It was a cool spell on October 24th, but been beautifully calm and mild ever the plough going everywhere when farmers ,vere not engaged with the butyesterday morning there a sudden break of this plegsant time. flurry of snow came tip from Da- several inches deep, and frost is in, which is likely to stay this happens to be the "squaw which ' may be followed a spell of milder • weather be things get down to hard pan and below, which it is pretty certain to Christmas. There is not much here now either summer or winter, is fortunate, for there can be few of it on this globe, which for quantity and quality can equal of the Red River country. TodayA jingle of sleigh -bells is perpetual, the atmosphere and general holi- being a substantial reason for every e in the city havine a spin on the You who hate all sorts of weather may perhaps wonder how get through our long winters. In country,people who have much team- to do sometimes find it a month too and when they are at leisure they for so much simple fan and feest- for debating clubs, - curling, tobog- on slides built for the purpose, and tea -fights, that the ground , bare in March before they are 1 of it. I IN THE CITY is still ampler variety. Have any readers seen the Red River jig ? My own wooden leg pre- me from dancing, but I know no dancing to look at than a Red jig, and I like it better than a circus. Our 300 pound Premier a mighty dancer, of this lively and agile. beyond belief. One daughters is perhaps the finest and • can power clear derful. is summer and which American- John people was tion church, In curling, toboggan most positively opportunities which Then and fired Governor have of is foes, assiduity of ajax yond deed he in and badly Prairie liament, count many Red it debate, outcome, all time the ands in early zero Rome be son •with lege, ball fever. typhoid has and Jas. - down cut W and over accepted dress December Temperance," already Twenty-twO since tario so into and he drew's other crowded Question" rig stock, captured, to been tration way, the they C. night by Railway inst. 365,000,000 by about of est Christian waited last soientific be cardine,bas off crew recently had her. Mr. Yarmouth, was John built kitchen the covered caught hastened who saving were in turn out, of a first-rate and stimulating - . THEiPOINT a little, friendly on ex last night the above Consul Macdonald, besides, a Young meetbag and fact church sleighing, slides, distressing y a we l' PARLIAMENT two ancient off at considerable steps for months hearing the eloquent,- while little of a latter-day of the Government endurance. which ever failed the raw, it unfaltering spare from bu and i -quiet River Valley for short, and willdoe parties the Canada work it of tons on it for the -Rev. Sam this month. —The thermometer at Winnipeg —Bishop in a f absent t —At Galt of John a pean —M. Kavanagh, and a 1 team, —There are fey 60 cases another —Mrs. Wilson, Wilson, the cellar a terrible —The stables innipeg, six valuable $:3,000 —Mayor an in Ste_nway 13th, —Five applications in fOr Confederation, and six —Wm. White,the badly injured London, his right sustaineq —Rev. D., church, sermon congregation in —Wm. Deiggan, from Samuel .and fted tiled, a year inithe —St. George's awarded with who had rear of the offered —Miss Luey VvIlliston, of last the collision, tr4n —During the different fifteen 1886, Which, for twenty large deputation' Temperance upon Friday, temperance taught in —Captain! losthisschoonertheMarwood Marquette, were all purchased only made : —Monday Thomas two burned and a a fire and cattle_ the from back escaped nothing. lying ill being removed i and the speed and staying dancer in this climate is - i DOUGLAS TENNIS CLUB party that plays -Mayor Logan's grounds, they. had their ball, John Norquay, the son of ' and lots of pla made merry. Then there Men's Christian Associa- in the Congregational other smaller gatherings gocials, concerts, bazaars, skating rinks come upon us with frequency, and we ansur d feited of enjoyment, for all are duly expected to MEETS , Hudson Bay cannon risk, when round to open it, and,we a mighty opportunity eloquent Premier, for thunder out defiance at Joh Martin, with a mosquito and the acrid Thursites, tortures bench almost It is a dull debate Joe can not enliven, and to 'poach his big antagonist is not for want of diligence. We could the M. P. P. for Portage his place in our little outside of it he is of no ferior in personal weight Men on his own side. Railway, as we will be a very live topic whatever may be its future looked forward to With keen interest. Meark- Pacific Railway has needs to move out the thous- of grain that will be poured next four months. . our won all at the Sir in and al- are with th of pay.' are the he his the wit- the be- in zeal, la Par- ac- to The call �f by a W. for will Col foot 50, of fell and Loss has ad on and are On- was steer ribs and An an- to and was has arbi- Rail- on of 9th Of cut cut that Kin- The had he with , ... of of son the feed dis- and - if k 1 - a follow. John Kelly, the son, lost ficiVwraetehu and $100 cash. All t b t an organ was consumed. —Jame s Gilmore, of •Clandeboye, lad about 17 years of age, was in the a of shooting a black squirrel, when t musket exploded, blowing lock, sto and part of the barrel to atoms. escaped with a severe cut on the side his face. • —RJLeslie, BA a. . . ., only son MPayor Leslie, of Kincardine, died Monday last in Toronto, after a wee l illness of acute pneunionia. He lit just passed his final examination barrister and solicitor, and was a yea man of great promise —The annual health report of the c of Hamilton' shows a total of 1,728 ea contagious disease reported durrngljie year, 1,277 of which were measles, o two deaths, however, resulting. Tie death rite is a little over seventeen thousand —Mr1 Malcolm Campbell, the pion( merchant of Lucknow, and - who 1 been for the pa,st 28 years engaged the general store. business there, has cided to retire from active service, aid taken.as partner into the firm Mr. WeJ. Brumpton, of Rothsay. —Mr. Thomas Littlehales, of Ha ton, has returned home from Leips Germany, having taken Miss Littlehe to the famous Leipsic Conservatory finish her musical education. He s that the professors there expect 1%, Nora Clench to achieve a ,world -w reputation as a violinist. —During October goods to the va of $10,841,511 were exported from 1he Dominion. The total value of the , goods hnported during the same modth . was $8,465,706, of which $5,253,150 were dutiable goods for home consuppp- tion, tho duty collected amounting $1,700,000. ' —On theoccasion ofthe marriageof Cap- tain Steele,of Picton,toLieutenantSel*rs (the former a converted Nihilist and porter), Commissioner Coombs anno ced that he had appointed Divisio Officer Spooner to the command of Ottawa and Montreal division n headquarters at Montreal. Spoo takes the rank of major. —Last Friday evening as H. Baxter was stepping from a street car London he was knocked down and over by a team, crushing his skull breaking his collar bone. The inju man was carried home insensible Mayor Cowan. It is feared his injw are fatal. Mr. Baxter is the venerable secretary of the Masonic Mutual Ben•fit Association of Ontario. —On Saturday night last Jai Hodgins, a Michigan Central railmad brakeman, while coupling cars at Eat- wich, near St. Thomas, was caught tween the buffers and received such • juries as resulted in his death_ the lowing morning. Deceased was a 22, and had been a brakeman but th'ree months. He was a son of John 11.4- gins a farmer of Holyrood. The remr were forwarded to Lucknow. —Last Friday evening in Que while Mr. Pampalon, of the 13; , eonomie was passing alone, d,L sr_ sue' on the icy sidevkg teet he and striking his head with great fc against a window sill inflicted a d-ee gash. He was taken home in an conscious condition,and remained so til the following orning when de ended his sufferings -e-About a year ag6 a Guelph n warned Adam Horne suVered severely having both his legs broken while wo ing on a building. He i'lek still being s( ly afflicted. Thursdayi one of hia 11 children was lying dead at home and sn- other was expected to breathe her lett every minute,while two of his stepdau ters are lying in the General HospCal. Black diphtheria is the terrible all tion. —Bishop Cleary's recent ' _speech Napanee was considered at a meetins the Kingston Teachers' Association 1 day last, and a resolution was mu mously adopted condemning efforte create dissension between Protesta, and Roman Catholic and defending character of our Public School instr tion from his Lordship's aspersions. —An illicit distiller in Halifax, months ran a still in the very heart the city, only a stone's throw from - principal hotels, academy of music in1 Roman Catholic Cathedral. Curliss, customs detective, knew the man End knew his occupation, but could 3 locate the plant until a chance delive: the delinquent into the hands of theg gers, who came. down upon the ent prise with a heavy hand —A woolen mill has been opened Rapid City, Manitoba, and it has j sent a consignment of yarn to Stoba Sons & Co., of Winnipeg. The staff the mill will shortly be increased, as 'the company is arranging to put in loo for the manufacture of blankets good supply of excellent wool is f nished by the country surroundiag Rapid City, and the mill has given impetus to the sheep raising industry that district. —The trial of WmHarmer befcre . Magistrate Bartlet, at Windsor last F day, attracted a large crowd and t proceedings were watched -with interest. Harmer is the hotelkeeper at Comb( who the previous Saturday night tri to quell a disturbance in his place aid used a poker on the heads of the riotei They complained of him and the mag trate fined him $12 on each of the t% cases against him. —An exciting time was experiencrct in one of the London Public Schools ju before the forenoon recess on Frida, In the head master s room - the stove enclosed in a jacket, and for sone une plained reason a quantity of. hay lu been placed on top of the stove. One the hope it is said, stirred up the ha and almost momentarily it ignited, ti flames reaching the ceiling. The chil- dren became greatly alarmed and ma( for downstairs. The stampede create brought out the scholars of the rooms a e . a t ie •Is , e of • of i n 's d as g y e8 ly er er as in e- il- c, es to ys tSs de ue to re- n- al he ith er A. in un nd ed by ies ; es se- in- ol- ell ins )6c nk he lk, rde i - in- Os an by k- re- tie h. W- . at of ri- ni- to ts hp ejr- ' Or of he h . a ed u,- it at st 4 at n r ri to i ., ii is r; d s.: se o e .1 is i -, c.L f , e e d doors. Mr. Wilson, the head master, happened to be in the room adjoining his own, and lost no time in extinguish- ing the flames and quieting the fears of the pupils, not one of whom, strange to w say, as hurt in the slightest degree. young ladies, well dressed and refieed-looking, were passing the Bay street corner of King street, Toronto, a day or two ago. As they passed a re- porter one of them said, with a look of incredulity, evidently at something her companion had told her, "Oh come off 1" " Honest Injun," said the other, with"emphasis. And then they passed out of earshot, leaving the reporter al - most paralyzed —Six members of the family of Mr. Ilegh Clithbertson, of Ayr, are down with the typhoid fever, including Mrs. Cuthbertson. The Recorder says :—We are happy to state that though the lives of some seemed to hang by a thread the brightest hopes are now expected of a safe recovery. Young Adam especially has been in the very jaws of death. A well which had become contaminated by dea.d animal matter is blamed for the trouble. —One week's accidents in Paris lately were : Dan Shower's fingers badly crush- ed in a stumpina machine. John Clegg, r, Paris station-, foot severely mangled in an elevator at Penman's. R,. Smitincigar maker, stepped off the sidewalk near Walker's store, and his foot slipping under the sidewalk, his leg was broken. Sidney Bowlders severely cut on his thigh by an axe in the hands of his bro- ther. The accident took place at La- Pierre's place —" A little girl" sent a rhyming con- gratulation to the editor of the Toronto Mail congratulating him on his conver sion. A few numbers of the edition containing the lines were printed before it was discovered that the verses were an a,crostic, the first letters of the lines making up the following sentence : "Our Renegade Editor is an Ass." That morn- ing edition was only about half an hour late in consequence of • h-aving to kill those lines. —The will of the late Dennis laloore,of Hamilton, bequeaths $25,000 to Victoria College, Cobourg, for the founding of a chair or professorship in the faculty of arts, $600 a year for ten years to the Methodist Missionary Society, to the Boys' Home and the Protestant Orphan Asylum of Hamilton $500 each, and $300 each to the Girls' Home and the Home of the Friendle_ss. His estate is be queathed to his wife and family, after making provision for carrying on the business. —The new Women's Christian Tem- perance Union of Paris has begun a series of Sunday night meetings irk that town. Mrs. 0. Hitchcox, thepresident, occupied the chair, and delivered a short and impressive address, explaining the aims of the Women's Christian Temper- ance Union, after which helpful and practical addresses were given by Rev. _J. K. Unsworth and Rev. W. H. W. Boyle. Mr. W. J. Robinson also made a few remarks. Saitable selections of music were rendered during the 'evening. —Mr. John Duncan and wife, of Austin, Manitobamm , formerly of Plyp- ton township, near Sarnia, are -now back on a vieit to their old friends They have beehs in Manitoba over ten years, and Mr. !Duncan states that he would not now exchange his farm there for any one of ' the same size in On tario. He has raised big crops there, and this year got 55 cents per bushel for wheat, 25 cents for oats and 25 for potatoes. He has 480 acres well stocked - —The only Canadian exhibits at the Chicago Fat Stock Show just lately held were fat sheep and Sussex cattle.. Mr. Rutherford, of Roseville, near Ayr, took twenty-three first prizes, four second and six third prizes in the different classes of sheep ; also the gra,nd sweepstakes for best carcase of mutton. He had five successful prize winners slaughtered. The rest of his flock will be exhibited in Toronto from the 13th to 15th of Decem- ber. He received $850 in prizes for sheep alone. —Another story is afloat illustrating the horrible danger awaiting girls who go to strange cities where they have no responsible friends. Two young French- Canadian girls went from Montreal to Lowell, Massachusetts, on the urgent in- vitation of a female cousin, and were taken by her to a fashionable house where they were offered high wages, fine clothes and little to do. In a short time their suspicions were aroused as to the nature of the house, anad they telegraph- ed to their brother, who traveled down and brought them home again, thankful for their narrow escape —Mr. Fleming Ballagh, for thirty years a farmer in the vicinity of Tees- water, died last Friday at tine age of 67., Mr. Ballagh was a gentleman of quiet and unassuming manners, but possessed many sterling qualities,which were brought into active sertice as school trustee, councillor, and other offices, by the choice of his neighbors,as well as Justice of the Peace for the County. As a constant attendant of ZChurch of that village, where he ion urc held the office of Elder for many years, he will long live in the memory of the congregation. —The following sensible remarks con- cerning the Salvation Army are from the Pembroke Standard it—On Thanks- 1 giving night the Salvationists held their -I usual meeting on Main street. We can i not help passing a deserved encomium I_ upon the thoroughly respectableand cre- ditable conduct of the crowd upon this occasion. The boyt were there, but there was not a lout . oice hearelnieither a yell. nor an oath. When they had done exhorting they marched off, and not one yell followed them. How greditable this muss appear to strangers m reflect- ing upon our town and children in coin- parison with other places. Evidently parents have at last impressed upon their boys their daty in this matter and have explained to them that although not endorsing their ideas in this religious - that the God these the streets is the of all sects, are taughtm and that it is the same Jesus, they I most unseemly to these people as they yells, oaths, coarse ---The other day tain H. Rowe, eight yearsh, was He put it in his into his throat, where fore medical aid could boy died. —Fifty well -t families have left vicinity, in Queb;c, since the begin Perhaps some of before another su Bert daughter of the way agent at Mo ly returned fro she has held a operator for seve gone a sinoular troubled for knee, which k more painful. ness could not be few days ago whe the flesh at the needle came to b to herself and pa —The Women Union of Hamil library of about '100 Hospital and h of temperance meetings during establishment of under discussion eral promisds This is for rel _who desire to le: such it will al under helpful in can be procured tor eligible. —Conductor S ed in the Metho Sunday evening 1,300 and 300 more adrnittance. . Be, that he would perience of th Grand Trunk l.ailway also stated tha the audience and Snider, I knew You when you werel were a tough oiled' call to preach sone the date, hovvever, yet. —The seine) Oswego, went t Point Pelee, I, last week. Ca Hunter spent t rigging. They ageous party of W. Grub, J Wtigglemooth The rescue parte; times in making surf. Through .he night the two imperiled rigging with the ing over them. the wind changed enough for the dourageous breast the wav . Hunter is iu a precarious it is feared he vessel is a total —A nevv Pres opened _ at Calgary, Robertson condacting assisted by the Methoditt minister. Rev. C. P. Pitblade, to an audience' young men to take predicted a gra,nd for this part of the gary in particular. the united Methodist choirs. The chnrch stone, with a seating and is lighted heated by hot somely painted and glass windows, finest church in cost will be about a small debt reniains. —Mr. Robert spected citizen Lucknow, died ult., after. an illness appears while engaged for James Murdoch, the ladder on which standing broke, across a joist, ribs. Not thinking serious had occurred, work for two days to lay down his hammer H last time. He after a few days Death was caused lungs along with Mr. McMillan was citizen, but a warm moral and religious was 55 years of age. —A mob of 60C1 Salvation Army . Friday night. : stoned and a windows broken. called to the rescae, Detective Walsh The French-Canadians are not granted the Army in parading take the law into circular is to be issued, upon all French routing the Army affair is dwindling dice. Saturday night vicinity of the filled with a hosvling authorities fearing ahould the Army attempt vised them to refrain public f r that evhning, no m dh. The c d e streets an . three Ding mob people call upon ii same God to whom we to bow tbe knee sae great master, tie invoke, hence it i meet the appeals o -finish speaking witl jeers, if no weree. a little son of Cap of Owen Sound, age( playing with a copper month and it shave( it stuck, and be be procured th -do English-speakire Stanstead county ate for the Pacific Slop ring of last minima' them will come bac] liner is ended. e Donnelly, eldes. Canadian Pa.cific Rail int Forest, who recerd s Bowmanville whet position as te'learap al months, has uli- del experience. She ha some time with a lam pt gradually gettin "he cause of her lam( accou-nted for until a needle came throng knee joint. How th in her leg is a myster ents. a Christian Tempes•anc or has placed a littl volumes in the Cit distributed 1,000 pap macts at the mother the last month. 1'1 a. "Rescue Home " and has received sei f substantial supper ased women prisonei d a better life. To a rd a temporary shelta uences until situatiot those who -may 1 in -Jones Snid-er preacl ist church, G-uelph, ea lately to an audience , had - to be refuse we believe, state not exchange his e: t night for half ti system. It an old lady rose i shouted, " Well don nineteen years ag a yorngster, and 37( Mr. Spider has Sunday in liamiltoi has not been fixed . r White Star, owned i pieces in a gale nek ke -Erie, on Thursda t Murphy and The is night lashed to ti ere rescued by a con sherrnen, Adam 'Ope and Gra: were swamped sever their way through ti early part of tl men were in ti waves constantly deal Early Friday inornic and the sea went (haw fishermen I s in their small boa .condition an cannot eervive. TE reek. yterian chnrch has bee the Rev. Jam( the first servici Rev. Mr. Betts, tl: In the evening a of Winnipeg, spol of 600. He exhorte a stand for the righl and glorious futin Northwest, and Ca The singing was h and Presbyteria building is of soli capacity of 40( with electric lights an air. It has been hane fitted with staine and is by all odds th the Northwest. Th $10,000, of which onl McMillan, a highly se of Paramount, nes on Saturday the 19t of a few (lays. . I building a holm of the lake shore Mr, McMillan wa causing him to fel breaking one of hi anything ver he continued t when he was oblige and saw for th Was taken home an of suffering died by conjestion of tie internal injuries not only a peaceabli supporter of al movements. IL persons attacked tin in Quebec lasi The barracks wak large number el The police wee and Col. Vohl and received some injuries, claim that if they sa.me privile m as the a, the streets they will an Janes a their o. • 1 1 . _ it is said, calling Canadians to join in from the city. The down to race preju- the streets in the barracks were again mob, and the the consequence to march ad from appearing in and there was ty is still in a tumult, lied m htl with a g y • Canada Small lectures . marked Monday. Cleary intends w days. His ree month. the other day the Flynn was choked t. of the ember of the champion died Monday over 400 cases r in Ottawa. on hand, another 45. aged 76 -ex-M. P., of Brantford, stairs a few gash in her head. at Drewty's were burned the horses cremated. Howland, of invitation to deliver hell, New on " The for next session divorces have sixteen from Quebec. Lobo while driving has since died. arm were eevere internal acnn J. Mdoell, Toronto, last Sabbath on opposition to who stole P. Thompson, to London, convicted and Central Prison. church, $1,075 as a result the Guelph Junction taken a right church plot,and but $650'. • Williston, Blenheim, died week from injuries with the Erie on the evening i . the past season feet of lumber firms at the per centless however, was years previous. from Unions the Minister of when he promised instruetion the public schools. John McPherson, Lake Superior. saved. The the vessel, two or ethree morning the Kelly, J. P., miles from to the ground. laboring man, in the wood stove went to the In a short time house was on a defective chili and alarmed in their night Two of the with malarial to a , in Ingersoll 20° below • leaving Lordship 4 -year-old to death Ottawa of typhoid of malarial One doctor over years, wife days ago brewery, other night Toronto, an York, Sabbath divorce of the Senate been granteci. frpmd man who a Six broken, injuries. of St. preached night "The Liquor prohibition. a hors of Wood- where h sentenced Guelph, of of way for,which daughter Wednesday received and Huron of the a total has been Chaudiere, than the the larg- the Women's in Toronto Education should of captain and trips :residence farmer, St, Thomas, His arose early, in barn to they 'fire, having -limy. They the family, clothes, daughters fever, neighboring —Last Walkinshaw as teacher after a number aient services. and popular positions NESS Walkinshaw Popular with the her conneetion the town has accepted Aurora, that she that her fall in pleasant —Several to the families residing in third concessions before Magistrate Tuesday settling about aus night, Freely used. sl pent up For many graceful For tis.e prosecutors the defendanta. whole afternoon, most contradictory. that two Iwo others third, Thomas, or of the 610, the total '.io within ?retty steep eared from that the week's Recorder tays :—"Miss ha.s resigned her position in the .Nlitchell public school of years of the most effi- Among the most efficient tea.chers who have held in the school since we knew it stands to the front. with the people and popular pnpils Miss Walkinshaw severs with the school and with very generally regretted. She . . a similar situation at. and we will be pleased to know is bettering iser position, and future residence and lot may places." of the young irken belonging of Pullmans and Nixons, the east end of tbe second and of Hibbert, were up Fleeof Mitchell, on °ce of last week,?orethe purpose of a row they had the previ- in which fists and clubs were The row was the rupture spleen that had been brewing months mad WaS a most dis affair. Mr. Hodge appeared and Mr. Goodeve for The trial lasted the and the swearing was - The result was of the Nixons were discharged, were fined $2.00 each, and a who seamed the instiga- whole trouble, was mulcted in fines and costs amounting a few cents of $25, which Was for an evening s fun. It is threats afterwatds made matter will not end here. Read.ymade CLOTHING. - 0 0 0 0 . y AN Immense Stock of Eve.-ything to Choose From First -Class in QUALITY and LOW IN PRICE. B •••••••••••wazi•••••••••••••. 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