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NVIODE NUMBER 1,042. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 1387.
f kcLEAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advaiade.
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'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
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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
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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.
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