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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-12-16, Page 1Rama ad - with few 1g of urch, Mr. r the Oiest- e fols FOCjat ris of ling take 22aci, I are sjdes eake, pro- da.y s the is the the PoI- Miss [chool acher istees ; their ince's ard is se has ion of Son stand iiext out busy nting owe rect- rises 0 art and the a y of ; -erre, F4usie e the itrely iptu- a, to ace. rous (yang Mr. COU1- oral. uity te of tide as a the facts sted har. re is e so the 'Mr. this t he gong ady. that man and -rain ? so Ie to f the eto capy the Ed - tart - the sclaY sting veg- Ind in- - The well [open end - Mc' S. the ction :ears, re - gage rty eve tiftdi PTIECOLE NUMBER 1,044. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. / SEAFO TH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1887. {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, ill Advance. Great Bargains! Great Bargains ! JUST AT THE TIME When They Are Wanted. We have been fortunate in -securing a -large line of Ladies', Misses', Children's, Men's and Boys' Fur Caps in Grey and Persian Lamb, And a lot of others ; also a lot of Ladies' Jackets In the newest styles, all at about Half the Regular Prices, And we are going to give the public the benefit of the advantage we got on them. Please call and see the prices, and be convinced. that we are making no idle boast. Remember the place--; Cheap Cash Store Hoffman & Co. SEAFORTH. FARMERS OF ONTARIO: ter item with the sum of $500 THEIR PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY. an overestimate, but then a sa Gian open letter by Professor Brown of the on- our present purpose. Now in tario Agricultural College.) fprm the balance may be st GENTLEMEN,—It may ad -em an out- farmer handles five rents pe ra.geous statement to make, as I now do, the mean rent of the provi that you do not know what you have,'1or $2.97 an acre, and in Order to what you are doing, individually or ea- discussion I beg to give in rou lectively, on an average. The same for easy remembrance, a brie thing may be said of the farmers of an3; View of this average farm, th country, for they are not yet business men,, nor readers even of their own literature. I mean the average man. This is a terrible adthission and. an ex- posure. • The Government of Ontario, by the hands of Mrs Blue, has just issued 400 pages of what, in my opinion, exceeds in _practical value to you any previous re- port by any department, without excep- tien. I refer to the annual report of "The Bureau of Industries for 1886." It would be well to know how many farmers study this work. Assuming that 5,000 copies are issued, and that three-fourths are sent to farmers, the 3,750 thus distributed do not reach one in every thirty of yourselves. How then cam you know what we are doing as a section of a great nation, and where we are in the world's race of progress ? _ From this interesting volume I pro- pose to cull those points that to me ap- pear of more than usual signifieance— that are largely unknown, and that de- mand your serious consideration, bOth as individuals and professionally: I think the best way to do this—in place of quoting quantities of figures—is to ab- stract the cream and make it take the shape of the average farm of the coun- try; hence anyone can • place himself above, below or on a level. I noteahere that for a certainty the facts to be brought out will be keenly handled in all other countries, especially in Britain, because, as you shall soon see, of the comparative, or rather the incompar- able, positions of agriculturists there and here. The Province of OntariO, according to organized townships, has '22,000,000 acres of occupied land, of which almost exactly one -hall is cultivated, the other half being under forest. Here at once is something mach unknown to most of us. That oae-half our occupied area is still covered by natural forest is perfect- ly true, so that nationally you are not over -cleared, though sectionally and in- dividually you are very considerably so, for the proportions run all the.way from lb to 75 'acres of forestto every One hundred of the land occupied. It is, therefore, evidently not yet too late to conserve the bush in certain parts, and of course the proper re -clothing should net be delayed in others, for all over it is assumed that one-fourth is ehough to Make the balancingifor the best condi- tions. The representative' owner holds about 190 acres, cleated and uucleared, —The works and plant of the Ayr American Plow Company, which were offered for sale by auction on the prem- ises in Ayr on Friday the 2nd inst. failed to sell, and were withdrawn. The liquidators will ende.a.vor to re- alize in some other manner. —Mr. W. Fink, of Millbank, recently issued a challenge to any player in Perth to a match of 20 games of checkers. Mr. Chas. Casson accepted the offer, and accordingly they have just complet- ed their tourney. In the first ten games played the result was Casson 3, Fink 2, conveys a principle not known body: Interest on capital of $S,740 at 0 per pe Gash payments, as voted Household allowance Permanent improvements, or bankin To compare with gross crop recet Here then is material enou ternational and provincial th criticism, and I .shall open ti average farmer of the Provin ario is doing well, is actual money. He has, by his own to our statistical department - u last five years been receivi g crop value of $1,924, say $2,0 all sources; this is the first p admission, doubted by no o comment necessary on this ite s be the lowness of the estimat of timber; many men with ha f realize as much as $550 annu 111 gross crop value of $2,000 is pr live stock maintenance, and s production, of crops in corn and as I have never yet seen just prepared to show, all t and going of this intricate ci and death. There is no class keeping. so puzzling as the a and indeed it may be adrnitte an impossibility. Who, let prepared to place in two s umns the items of interest depreciation or increase of t exhausted or unexha,usted ap labor and materials, such a -the valuation -of and where to paid labor, the cost of house tenance, etc., etc. Not onl it not usually much guessiu cow, or any of the animals, and credit year by year? The farmer may well say much, and at the year's en much on hand, but here the is just what he got and wha hand, for he does not know t would be required by an ac I ask you then to take the crops and dispose of them di in the above abstract of 00 'things ; and yet, again, if 'o a full account of all the agen on every farm, and may hintila maintenance of live stock, amount of labor in cropping,',Ot ing present prices, I must re one who attempts it, to gp course of a rotation, through t the practice and science thatin does lead us, whether we alp it or not. My plan is simple tically correct. As you c&n assuming that the whole capi .740 is a mortgage at 6 per c is not, so much .the better.' actual cashpayments are full, include the working horses. land the tenant speaks of th one for the proprietor, one f and- one for the farm, and co is then doing) well. You are fully five rents; but rent wi very indefinite and, possibly, valued thing in our rural How common the remark th in Canada are best off, and c seem to support•the position. and five draws. Last week the other the whole valued et $38.50 an acre, 10 gamea were played with the follow- $8.50 being the proportion for buildings, ing result : Fink 4, Casson 2, and four draws—Fink beating in the two contests by one game, leaving hirn champion of so that dwelling -house - and barns are worth $1,615 ; thus the a verege farm stands at $7,315. Your farm impletnents Perth. on an average cost $2.50 per cultivated —Henry Latham, employed to attend ,cattle in Walker's immense kard, back of Walkerville, county of Essex, is a young married man having a sister-in- law, whom he warned against keeping company with one Edward Paxton. This gave offence. to the latter, who, arming himself with an axe, on Tuesday even- ing waylaid Latham returning from his work about seven o'clock.. After ex- ehanging a few words Paxton strack Letham a number of blows with the axe severing the nose 001311 his face except a small piece �f skin. Latham managed to reach home. The severed organ was replaced and the doctor has hopes that it will be saved. A severe wound on the forehead indicates that the blunt part of the weapon struck that portion of Latham's face. Paxton decamped immediately after dealing the blow and has not been apprehended. Re4.d..-ymacie: CLOTHING. AN Immense Stock of ve ey thing to Choose From.• 5 01 °01 mmosemsnarmi.1.. First Class iii 1 QUALITY and LOW IN PRICE. BUYERS BOYS' ERCO ATS , SUrrs, CAPS, SCARFS, ITN *BRIX EAR &e., &O. w. A MEN'S FUR CAPS, UNDERWEAR OVEItCOATS, READYMADE SUITS, &c. Clothing Department Edward 111cFaul's PS. ts a acre or $475 and live !stock of all kinds is worth $950, --or $5 an acre; so then the total capital required for such an estate is $8,740—say :1:1,,830 sterling. The taxes are somewhat uniderione cent on the dollar, and as asseesedl value is $19 per acre—about tl.vce-thials--our average farm pays aenually $36 for municipal and school purposes ; in dther words ten pence an acre. I give these sterling moneys to enable cemparison where it is sure -to be used. That is the subject ; what has it dono in the way of annual produce ? For five years the systein of cropping has been roughly—one-half grain, one-fifth hay and one-fifth pasture. But this as- pect is so practical and interesting that some details are necessary. Eight acres of winter wheat averaged 22 bushels an acre, and fetehed 90 cents; 5 acres of spring wheat gave 17 at 90 cents ; of barley gave 2S at 56 cents; 15 of oats gave 73 and 35 cents per bushel; 6'1 acres of peas averaged 22 bushels at 64 cents; 111-, corn gave 67 and 28 cents; 21 acres of hay 1 4-10 tons per acre gave $10, together with about 2 acres of tur- nips, mangolds, carrots and potatoes: 22 acres of cultivated pasture, 1.;.i acres of orchard and garden crops and 41 acres of odds and ends—in all the 95 acres of cultivated land. The values of these crops are given upon the mean of the five years in question, and ean be thus accurately analysed: 44 acres of grain 21 acres of hay 2 acres of roots 22 acres of pasture, dairy value 1/ orchard and garden., 44 other crops 44 acres of straw, one-third value of hay.. Value of 95 acres of bush, sales of fuel fencing, railway,timber and pine, etc.. Gross crop receipts \ St 1,924 From cultivated crops Ontario receive§ a gross value of $15.7-0 per acre. This must be characterized as an unsatisfac- tory result, when climate and soil are considered. Without reference to cost of production, the highest to lowest value per acre has been roots, corn, wheat, barldy, hay, peas, oats and pas- ture. I have no intntionmeantime to enter upon all the details, but purpose showing your financial position by a balance sheet applicable to the case, which can be fairly put by charging all actual cash paymente and the mainten- ance of what may be termed. nonpro- ductive essentials, such ti.s some horses. Let us have the statement first and then the criticism. 1 farm laborer, whole year 1 farm labomr, half year Blacksmith and saddler Taxes. Insurance and incidentals Keep of four horses Actual cash payments St 526 Dairy products iu winter, fat stock, wool, lambs, calves, pigs and poultry are neither credited 'for debited ! neither have we done anything for seed, the farmer's own labour or that of his family and no statement of household main- tenance. It is safe to set aside the lat- POPULAR DRY GOODS, Millinery and Clothing House, sEAFORTFI, ONT. obably one for atever k, the nnum, • being cilitate figures bstract I think every - it..$ 500 500 500 . 500 ...$2,000 for in - ht and :—The of Ont - mak ing mission 'big the a total 0, from oof and Were t would for sales he bush . This arily for ndly for years; am not coming of life account ultural, s almost ask, is rate col - capital, capital, cation of enures; pply un - Id main - o, but is o takt a ud debit hink so. ceive so have so ole thing e has on n as they ntant. $2,000 of ridicated 1 for four demand s at work a loss in and an erbala,nc- uest any 11 cl of ri $ 671 300 77 286 50 68 142 333 Bad Boy," and "One -Eyed Zeke, the Terror of the Staked Plains." The boys also possessed nearly . $100 in - cash. Three hours later the father of young Gibson arrived, having followed them on the first train, and at 11 o'clock at night all three took a train for home. —An etnigrant ladnamed Alexander Eider, aged 14, has entered the -hospital' at Kingston with a broken thigh, caused by a kick from a farmer in Lansdowne for whom he worked. —Mr. A. Sutherland, of Stayner, shot an old horse the other day and left it for dead, but to his surprise the poor brute turned up at the stable door a few days after: —After nine years' experience in Kin- cardine, Mr. Benjamin Freer, head mas- ter of the high school., has resigned, to accept a more lucrative position in To- ronto. —The Oxford Couhty Council have adopted the following scale of fees for peddlers' licenses: Single man on foot, $20; manwith horse, $40; man with team, $1�0. —Prior to his departure forMexico, Wm. Mellis,telegraph and express agent at Lucknow, was presented with a purse of some $45 and an accompanying ad- dress, by his friends. —Robert Gauld,-of Oil Springs, shot the other morning a, large wild cat near that place. [ The animal measures feet from tip to tip e weight, 32 pounds. Ile sold it inunediately for $5. —A little son of Thomas' Gibson, a York Road, near Londen, dairyman, jabbed a table fork in one of his eyes, puncturing the ball in two places, in trying to get a knot out of his shoe lace. —The citizens of Waterloo last Fri- day carried a .by-law granting $40,000 in, aid Of the Berlin and Waterloo branch of the Canadiasi Pacific railway, only eight votes being recorded against it. e—Mrs. W. H. Middleton, whose sud- den departure from Ottawa caused finch a scandal a short time ago, returned a few days ago. Shewas metat the station by her solicitor, Mr. J. A. Gemmil, and driven to her father's house. —The funeral of 'Sister Ambrosia (Miss Kelly), of Guelph, took place from the House of Providence, Dundas, a few days. ago. Sister Ambrosia has been suffering for about three years fromeon- sum ption4 —For Making a disturbance' in the Salvation Armk Tetnple, Toronto, last Sunday night, three young men were fined. 11. Hint $15 and costa or sixty days, Smith a nd• /v1aybee $3 and costs each or thirty 'days. - —A mammoth stable, for holding four hundred horses is to be built in Mon- treal by the Canada Pacific Railway. he whole Company, to accommodate the rapidly A 160 90 45- 36 20 165 I have no hesitation, the again repeating that you ar doing well and making moue placed in the bank, in improv in mortgage ; but you are act by cable to Java and Sumatra and to Madras, India, thence to Aden, Africa, and up the Red Sea to Suez, across the Mediterranean to Trieste, across Europe to London, and thence by Atlantic cable. —The Evangelical Alliance of Brant- ford, cotnposed of the local ministers, has nesolved to co-operate with the dif- ferent tetnperance Societies of the city in holding monthly gospel temperance Meetings after the Sunday evening ser- vice in the different churches represent- ed by the Alliance.. —A.grain blockade is inevitable at an early date if the Canadian Pacific does not increase its rolling fitoek. The com- pany is now unable to 'supply cars, all the elevators in the Province are full, and the, storage capacity at Port Arthur is almoet taken up, owing to the stop- page of navigation. The railway officials are doing all in their power, but are un- able to satisfy the farmers' detnands. - —Win. Crowe, a young man of Arran, Bruce County, jumped off an elevation in the Mow ofa. barn and alighted upon a hay knife, partly covered with hay. The blade struck him under the right thigh, inflicting a eut seven inches long and clean to the bone. It will be months before he recovers. —The St. John, New Brunswick, Globe tells of a woman of that ,place sc. addicted to liquor that on one occasion when one of her children had been drowned through her earelessneSs the liquor which some of the neighbors - brought in to bathe the body with, was drunk by the inhuman mother. —A person is operating in seed whea in the -county of Halton. He gets sao seven farmers to enter into an agreemeu to sow each four bushels of ,the wheat then shoulders the whole burden of pay ment upon. one of them, taking lei promissory note for $240 for the 2, bushes. .—Miss Phelps, of St. Catharines, ha recently delivered addresses in Galt Brantford, Mitchell and Pa-rkdale, and expects soon to •be in Streetsville an Brampton, and calls are coming for he from Eastern Ontario, the unions -gener- ally gla,dly availing themselves of he services. —The Government has sent an orde to the Collector of Inland Revenue a Montreal to procure 38 samples of spices throughout the city and have them slit- mitted. for analysis. 'Should any of th- samples be found injurious the parties from whom the samples were procure will, be prosecuted. —Anew industry, the Canadian Lun ber Cutting 'Machine Company, h located at Belleville in consideration exemption from taxation for a term. years. The company, which has a cap tal of $350,000, is composed of influe tial citizens of Toronto, and will emplo about 100 hands. The premises hal been sec Tel and work will be con hor t time. ay of last week word W;obert Pollock, of the 12 e light of Increasing trade in shipping ranch horses w -a-days nowledge id prac- seeo fI as als,n- nt. If it 'hen the and even In Eng- ee rents; r himself siders he receiving li us is a an under - economy. it renters ur figures efore, in not only , whether ments, or ally weal- thy. When any farmer can pay six per cent. on what he gave for land and rnily $500 have one - y past or ps, he is have ,ever wenty-five show this, ell. Take est wishes working appliances, give his f to help keep house, and then fourth of the whole left to I speculate with in future cr second to no profession 1 known. Farmers of Ontario, am I per cent. wrong? If you can even then you are doing et these statements with my and the hoe that yon think more of your splendid possession. , Wm. BROWN. Ontario A College, Guelph, Dec. S. to Eegland. • —The Clarke farm on the 10th conces- sion, Kincardine, one hundred and fifty acres, has been sold to Archie McDon- ald, of the 'B line, for $6,500. The lat- ter has sold his farm of one -hundred acres to -Wm. Semple for $6,000. —Mayor. Howland, of • Toronto, left fors New York on Saturday at the request of a number of prominent citizees of that • place to de- liver an address on "Sabbath and Tem- perance-" in Steinway Hall on Tuesday, the 131h inst. —A woman named Mary Regan from Biddulph was arrested in London, Mon- day. She had been.pesteridg the Chief of Police for some days to have Hon. Edward Blake and • a num.ber of other parties arrested for various crimes. Canada. The Welland canal closed for the season ou Saturday night. —Sam .ones is expected to conduct a series of evangelistic meetings in Lon- don next March. —Four Dundas boys were fined the other day for disturbing a Salvation Army meeting. —The outside work of Knox Church, Ayr, is nearly competed. The spire is now being slated. —The Toronto Relief Society has be- gun its winter's work. It is feared it will be More arduous than in years past. —Tile rich mineral deposits in the vicinity of Port Arthur and outwards are attracting considerable attention in England. 1 . • —Wm. Gilleaby, a prominent wood and grain merchant and for over 40 years a resident of Hamilton, died last Saturday. —Robert Blair, a well-known mem- ber of the Beaver lacrosse team, died at Woodstock on Monday. His remains were taken to Brampton for burial. —During the past three months, Scott Act Inspector Beaton has secured thirty- two convictions in West. Elgin, the total fines aggregating $3,250. —Samuel Gibson, aged 15, and Arthur Do.miney, 14 years of age, were brought to the Detroit Central Police Station by [ Patrolman John M. Brown at 7 o'clock Thursday night of last week and regis- tered under a charge Of truancy. The boys reside in Ingersoll, and had left home to go hunting the wild Indian of the West.- Their baggage consisted of a Remington carbine and half a dozen books, such as " Wild Bill," "Peck's stripped and the clothes left beside the excavation. The remains were placed in & barrel and left in a barn on the lake shore'until removed a few nights later. Mr. Delmarsh found his daughter's slipper on the road tss he was going to the graveyard, and here and there por- tions of her hand were found. —Mr. Palmer, one of New York's wealthy men, visited Alvinston and Oil City last week, inspecting his in- terests in the many stave and hoop mills that he has in Canada. Mr. Palmer had just returned from Southwestern Mis- souri, where he is heavily interested in wild timber lands. It is the first time he has been to his mills in Canada in one year. —Sir Charles Tupper, Canada's repre- sentative on the Fishery Commission,remained over at Chicago on Sunday, en route from Washington to Winnipeg. Regarding the fisheries question, he said he believed there was little left now of the irritation that inspired the non:inter- course and retaliation movements of last winter. He was confident that the Commisioners would bring their labors to a satisfactory -conclusion. —Hamilton is being flooded with five - dollar bills of the Bank of Montreal, Bank of Commerce, and Merchant's Bank which have been cleverly raised to tens. Some sixteen cases of these bills being passed in that city and Dun- das have been reported to the police. The raising is so cleverly done that as a general thing the merchants do not dis- cover the difference until they present their deposits at the bank. -d-A sample of gold -bearing quarlz, taken from the Ranger mine, near Sud- bury, on October 13th, has been received at the Geological museum at Ottawa. It is a lump of hard grey rock about twice the size of a brick, with little eplashes of yellow metal inibeelded here and there in the side of a fresh fracture. The Ranger mine is about twenty miles from Sudbury, on the Algoma branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. --The extensive flouring mill of Mc- Millan Brothers, in Winnipeg, the sec- ond largest in the Qanaclian Northwest, was totally destroyied by fire on the evening of the 8th inst. The mill hands were absent at supper at the time and it is not known how the fire started. Loss $50,000; insured for $14,000. Their large elevator, immediately in rear of the mill, whieh contained $30,000 bush- els of wheat, was saved. —A public meeting called by the Ot- tawa branch - of the Irish National League was held in Ottawa the other night. Among those present were Mr. Costioan, Minister of Inland Revenu.e, and Senator Scott. Both gentlemen ad- dressed the gathering and urged a con- tinuation of the present agitation until Ireland obtained justice. A subscription list was opened and ward collectors ap- pointed. —Constable Finbow, in serving Scott Act summonses at Shelburna, in the county of Grey, on Friday last, was assaulted and badly beaten. He was recently appointed, and this was the first attempt made to do his duty. War- rants were iesucd against the guilty parties, but the other constables iir the village refused to execute them, and they are being proceeded ago:hist for neglect of_aluty. —The village of Ayr has become rather noted of late for disorderly con- duct. The council had up before Messrs. Howell, Wyllie and Watson, J. P's., Thos. Shields and Ji.Stevenson for fight- ing on the. premises of the Hilborn House. Shields was fined 810 and costs, amounting to $20.40, and Stevenson $5. The hotels will be more closely watche after this, as the Council are deter mined to make a bold stand for peac and order. i—Chief of Police Randal, of Guelph, last Monday arrested J. Roots at his home in Parkdale on a charge of man- slaughter. The coroner's jury at Guelph on the body of Charles Rake, who was burned to death during the fire in the Commercial Hotel there on the 3rd inst., brought in a verdict of manslaughter against the man who euperintended the putting in of the furnaces, as it was shown that negligence in the work was the cause of the fire. Roots was taken to Guelph. ,—Mrs. Barber of Preston, while step- ping over a hot air register -in the floor with a lighted lamp in her hand tripped and fell. The lamp broke and the oil taking fire Mrs. Barber was immediately enveloped in flames. Her husband suc- ceeded in smothering the fire, but not before Mrs. Barber was very severely bnrned. Her arms and side having been burned to a crisp—all the skba being burned off—and it will be a long time before she is able to be around again. —A few nights since three men broke' irito the store of Hugh McRae, post- master of Strathburn. They carried off a sout $15 in postage stamps and $2 in coppers, three pairs of shoes, under- clothing, a dozen pairs of socks and other goods to the amount of $60. The three burglars left their old shoes about 30P yards from the store, where they were found next day. Three tough -looking charaeters were seen in Wardsville that day, walking towards Strathburn, who are suspected. —On Wednesday of last week one of the most critical operations known to shrgety was performed by Dr. Mc- Clure, veterinary surgeon, of Wood- stock, on a stallion belonging to him- self. The operation consisted in the re - 'novel of the thyroid gland from the neck, something that is rarely attemp- ted because it is usually considered im- possible. The thyroid gland consists of two lobes situated close to and behind the larynx, beside the two first rings of the trachea and connected by means of the isthmus which passes across the anterior face of the trachea. The ani - Mal in question was affected in one lobe which gave a peculiar shape to the beck. The difficulty of the operation is du.e to the close proximity of the jugular eins and carotid arteries and the enor- —G. Rushbrook, a settler at Moose Mountain; .Manitoba, set out on Novem- ber 22nd in search of • a band of ponies and has not since been heard from. He is supposed to have missed the trail and perished on the prairie. He was a young Euglishmatt of 22. —Robert Struthers and John Leslie, the latter also known as John Shed or Shead, twe of the gang captured in Ox- ford county some weeks ago have been sentenced to nine years each in Kings- ton penitentiary. They are now both safely. 'lodged behind the bars. —Patrick Kelly wart found dead in the Kingston Courthouse Saturday morning in a small room full of gas. Friday night he had $180 in his pocket, but next morning only a few pieces of silver were found on his person. Foul play is suspected. —Wm. Nicholson, of Millgrove, who lost two children by poisoning recently, is suing Dr. J. E. Anderson, of Mill - grove, J. Zimmerman and J. Winer & Co., the retail and _wholesale druggists, Hamilton,. for $5,000 damages for the bass of the children through negligence. menced in a —On Mon received by concession, Huron, that his son Gorcl had died very suddenly the day befo at West Superior. The body was brougl home for interment. Deceased w twenty-nine years of age, unmarried,ar had been away about two years. —Our excellent contemporary, ti e, Kincardine Reporter, appeared last week in entire new dress. This looks lile prosperity, and we trust the worthy proprietors, Messrs. Deck & Deck, may continue to mount the, ladder towards competency and independence, gaining many friends on the way. —During November 58 persons obtained papers from the American Con- sulate at Ottawa as emigrants from the Ottawa district to settle in the United States, the total value of their effects being estimated at $4,430. The district papers also report an unusually large exodus from all parts of the Ottawa Valley. —Last Saturday afternoon while Mrs. Daniel McLaren, of Tharnesford, was laying a carpet she turned to her (laugh:. ter -in-law and asked her to pass a tack hammer and then fell back and expired. The deceased lady was in very good health and was very active and went through a large amount of work. Heart disease was the cause of death. —On Friday four prisoners were fined at Tamworth, Addington County, for selling liquor in violation of the Scott Act. One offender was fined $100 and costs and three $50 and costs each. One of the convicted is the son of a man who offended on the same premises, not long since, and had to be gaoled before he would pay the fine. —An award of five dollars was recent- ly given against a man in Kinloss, by arbitration, under the Ditches and Water Courses Act, but he appealed against the conviction and carried his grievance to a court at Walkerton. The appeal was dismissed, and now instead of paying five dollars he will have to pay about fifty. And still he is not satis- fied. —During a recent visit of a Women's Christian Temperance Union organizer to a certain Ontario village a gentleman who is to run for deputy -reeve came up and signed the pledge, when the follow- ing loud whisper was heard: "How times haite changed! Before when a man wanted office he had to drink, now he signs the pledge." True, and signifi- cant. —Messrs. Crossley and Hunter, evan- gelists, are still holding services in Carl- ton Street church, Toronto. Last Sab- bath evening, after a song service, Rev. Mr. Hunter spoke of three Bs he wished all—especially the young—to avoid: "Blasphemy, Billiard-romns and the Bar -room." Spell "murder" backward, he said, and you have the cause of 99 criminal cases out of 100 --"red rum." - —The Kingston News reports a shock- ing outrage on Wolfe Island: Miss Del - marsh, who was to have been married at Christmas, died late in last month and her remains, clad in her wedding appar- el, were interred in the Island cemetery. But they were not allowed to rest long. The grave was robbed and the body —The four year old daughter of An- drew Toms, of Norway village, near Toronto, during the temporary absence of her mother the other morning, acci- dentally fell on the stove, and her cloth- ing catching tire, she was so terribly burned that she died in two hours. —Mrs. 3. L. Burgess, wife of the post- master at Drumbo, and sister of the late Dr. Rounds, died last week rather un- expeetedly although she had been ailing for about a year. She leaves a husband, family and aged mother to mourn her loss. —On October 18 a pig belonging to E. L. Flewelling, of Garafraxa, ran in- to a hole in a straw stack and remained there until November 30, when the ani- mal was accidentally discovered. As a result of the 43 days imprisonment its weight had shrunk from 300 to 200 lbs. —Captain Warren,of Victoria, British Columbia, left Ottawa for home last Friday night, having completed the de- tailed claims of the nine British Colum- bia sealers seized in Behring's Sea, amounting to about $300,000. The docu- ment will be forwarded to Washington at once. —In these latter days the rapidity and readiness with which news travels around the world is wonderful, as illustrated in the following: neves of the recent Beach-Hanlan boat race at Sydney, New South Wales, reached this country by overland telegraph to North Australia, and from the gland. In this case the blood vessels were extrtfmely large,being fully one fourth of an inch in diameter. It, therefore, -required 'great precaution to avoid hemorrhage.1 Fortunately the gland was removed. With scarcely any hemorrhage until the _animal was about to be liberated when & very violent effert to rise caused a rapture of a small artery. This gave a little trouble but was speedily checked in the ordinary surgical way. The horse was operated on about 1 p. m., and at 9 la m. was eating hay and oats, the operation so far being a success. Dr. McClure was assisted by Dr. McClurg, M. D. and Dr. Irvine, V. S. —Owing to .the refusal of the St. Thomas city council to grant an increase of salary, the whole of the city fire de- partment have decided to resign in a body. —Mr. Alex. McDougall, who lately went from Berlin to reside at Pasadena, California, writes: It costs 50 cents a night for a bed here, and from $7.00 to $8.00 a week for board and room. Ready -make clothing, aud almost every thing that a person needs is just as cheap here as in Berlin, but board and lodg- ing and tents are very high. —We mentioned in our last issue the death of Adam, son of Mr. Hugh Cuth- berston, Ayr, from typhoid fever. We now have to record the passing away of another son, Hugh, from the same ease. This is a peculiarly sad case as he was a most exemplary young man of 23. years and was married but seven weeks. He was agent for the Bell Tele- phone Company at Ayr. —Three years ago Miss Annie Nor- mandy, of Windsor, slipped and fell, in- juring her knee cap. Nothing was thought of it at the time, but it -gradu- ally kept getting worse, and soon devel- oped into a white swelling, then she be- came lame and latterly she has been a • confirmed invalid. The best medical skill was obtained, but an agreed that amputation of the limb was the only thing that would Save her life. This has been accomplished but she is in a very low state. —Miss Cross, of Guelph, who lives below Goldie's Mifls, bad the misfortune some days ago to swallow a large braes pin, about two inches and a half long, with a large round brass head. She is in the habit of holding pins in her mouth-, and had this large pin there for the moment unthinkingly, when a remark by a companion caused her to laugh and before she could recover herself the pin went down her throat point first. She suffers considerable pain in her stomach where the pin appears to be lodged., cannot eat much, and is troubled with nausea. She cannot move freely, and unless the pin is passed soon, it is ex- pected that an operation will have to be performed to reach it, and to save her The formal opening of the "Joseph Gould Institute" took place at the town of Uxbridge Friday evening. The building is a handseme brick and stone structure, with tower and clock, and. -cost within a trifle of $4,200. The plans were prepared and approved by the donor shortly before his death, and his intention of founding a Mechanics' in- stitute with free library and reading - room, for the benefit of the people of Ux- bridge, has been carried. out by the ex- ecutors of his will in a spi-rit of the Most commendable liberality. Hon. Mr. Ross, Minister of Education was present by special invitation. —There was a very large and enthusi- astic gathering itt Toronto on Thursday night of last week to do honor to Alex- ander McLachlan, the Canadian poet. While the speeches dealt fully with the poet and his works the object of the movement was not given much promin- ence to. Briefly stated, it is to raise funds wherewith to present the poet, Mr. Alex nder McLachlan,of Amaranth, 4 Ontario, ith the farm on which he re- sides, and., which is encunabered to its full market value. The poet is in his 68th year, and his admirers, who num- ber a large proportion of the Canadian public; are determined that no pecuniary anxiety Bhould trouble his declining years. —The Argue, published at Portland, Maine, prints a SP Cand - letter from the Attorney -General of Nova Scotia, Hon. J. W. Langley, on " The fishery diffi- culty and associate subjects." He reiter- ates his assertion that ill -feeling engen- dered by the revolutionary war is at the bottom of the trouble so far as the United States is concerned, but denies that Canada entertains ill -feeling. He advises the adoption of Gen. Butter - worth's bill, and says Great Britain would not he injured by Commercial Union, nor would it object to it when it found the people of Canada wanted it. He says the United States should take the initiative step, and that the Canada • Government will quickly respond or be swept out of existence, and another Government elected that will give effect to the popular will. —On Wednesday of Ia.st week James Stephenson, a respectable farmer of the township of Asphodel, near Peterboro, wasseated. in a light buggy and was driving a pair of horses toward town. His daughter was seated beside him, and his son was about a mile be- hind hauling a load of wheat to market. When about three miles from town, at the top of a hill, the horses be- came unmanageable, and went down the hill on the gallop. The tongue broke and the buggy was sent to one side of the road and upset. Mr. Stephenson weds thrown violently against a fence, and Miss Stephenson suffered two pain- ful wounds in the head and several bruises on the body. It was found that Mr. Stephenson was fatally. injured. He died about ten minutes after the acci- dent happened, before his son drove up to where he was. On examination it was seen that the base of the skull had been crushed by the fall. The deceased was over seventy years of age, well con- ous size of the blood vessels leading to nected and highly respected.