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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-12-23, Page 1ijority ieeting • other mem- a tie, wlao 'earing 6nd his ad the r fired arthies as ime and -acant,. Letters, icular- ern al- ichers, ichers, d hire sets of utmost he day r, they E little sentet1 t, and I affing, to the them leg va.- resume- school first of ing the d mak- of the urn for sermsel chair - ir con- udfoot, re out to t their aid not a every and in ere re- n. Sa , apirits ey have t busi- lason," te cool forming on, etc. success ring the ringing ara v - pie, to t. But had not Ts own in the card, I .ablic •a.nking tkintion for me or that ace in 7 eraer. School 1 house embers wenty- d from -ter due engar eery of sa The Saturs k p. n'a School e, when. resent s Atkin- Gee. G. lect all - him by nectioe as ht meet - uses" Ea the ill' d to paY or post- - for the thorized .stee for and at` the year to ine4 ,rd Mow k p. one ef assed to )0.a i4 paraiY815 active, •an. )ert, wile° paralyse, - ve %bout one side; ein, act' oyer hert, tehc an ab- dayit ago and haa Ifully re - to be olie practice' 1 T WENT Y -FIRST YEAR. WHOLE, NUMBER 1,045. Ai. • itataast, SEAFORTH, F1VDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1887. 0, • { McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. • Gre at Bargains OUR MANITOBA ' ,LETTER. -1 • (From Our Own Correspoinident.) WINNIPEG, Degember 16, 1887. G-reat Bargains ! es. In the same copy of Tut: EXPOSITOR which -contains my laet letter, I find that ; a gentleman from the north side of the JUST AT THE TIME Big Plain at Carberry, is made to say, perhapsby a reporter who imperfectly comprehended the drift of his converse- ! tion,that there is a scarcity of hay which unfits that section for mixed farming, that only one crop of timothy can be raised of any value, and that clover Wont grow at all. Well,I passed a load of timo- thy, the first year's growth , that was over two feet long, very rank, and two or three farmers around; here told me •that their stock preferred the second or third year's growth to the first because it was finer, 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 and showed me their stacks ofTehis later Grey and Persian Lam , growth timothy hay. I don't approve 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 boast. are making no idle Remember the place— Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Co., SEAFORTH, of timothy at all, it is an exhausting And. a lot of others ; also a lot.of crop everywhere, inakes dry hay and is not a pasture grass, the thing we want nrost here. But in spite of that I say that it is and has been grown two and thdee years in anccession on the same land in that particular district. The ;proper grass to grow in Manitoba, though many people don't seem to know that such is the case, is blue grass. The Poa Pre- tensis of English botany, for the more it is eaten and trampled down, the more it will flourish, and keep green in early 1 spring and late fall, the very seasons when timothy, like the wild grasses of the prairie, is ready to blaze up and carry destruction to the buildings,iwhich if surrounded by a few acres of green meadow grass, would be. safe from all harm that prairie fires could bring us. WILD HAY is not plentiful on these lands. Many people talk of matters as if it was a shame that Providence, in addition to stumping and stoning the land, did not also provide herbage that would grow anywhere without care on our part. There was, and is now, enough of wild hay in the country to keep us going till we have found out the sort of winter feed that is most suited to our climate and conditions, and we have no right to expect more, People farmed in the old world long ages before the introduction —At Tilsonburg one night lately a of potatoes, turnips a,nd drainage set the aand entleman, who were oat on present fashion of farming. If we can- 11vnot follow those fashions here, we must find out something we can follow. Clover, too, let me say, will grow any- where in Manitoba that you prodide proper food and shelter for it. It was confidently -asserted forty years ago that clover would not grow in Southern Min- nesota. I have since seen red clover growing freely three years in succession, a thing I never saw in England; I want people both here and in Ontario to keep in mind that we have all a good deal to find out yet about the capabilities of our soil. Finality Jack, is a great oracle in his way, can always tell you what can and what cannot be done, and generally gets laughed at just as all over -confident people must in the long run. g Waterous' pond, accidentally skated into an air hole. About twenty-five other persons immediately rushed to the rescue, wlaen the whole sheet of ice gave way, and all were thrown into water ten feet deep. By tearing boards off the neighboring fences and pushing them out to those irf the water, all were got out safely, not, however, before one lady had been nearly drowned. Others had close escapes. —In his autobiography, the Rev: Philip Hoffman, a German clergyman, es -ho died near Cassel not long ago, claims that he 'discovered the art of photography in 1833, or six years before Daauerre's discovery, but was unable to ap;ly or utilize it owing to his lack of else (1- D1'\( OF OUR WHEAT knowledge of chemistry. is a topic of considerable interest here, —Some person broke into O'Flaherty and as some people even here don't seern & Quirk's stable, in Stratford, the other to see straight about it, it may be as well pOLITICs nictht, aud stole their horse. The thief I should try to makc it clear to faribio,,rr a ticklish subject, and I am some it a few miles from 'town, tied it to readers. When a uniform system of tinics a little too outspoken. But I grain inspection was some years ago re- could not, if I would, tell much about solved on the Dominion Parliament our situation just now. According to called in the best counsellors available, the oracles the Norqusy Government is tottering to its fall, but it is hard to say when he is coinered. It is certain that both of the railway schemes, on which in deference to popular clamor, his Gov- ernment embarked are to -day badly water-logged, and the Norquay Admin- istration more nearly stranded than they have perhaps over been before, and it is understood that as a last resource, Dr. Harrison, Minister of Agriculture, has been sent east to negotiate terms with the Federal. Government. He is much the likeliest man to accomplish that diffi- cult feat, but even if he so far succeeds, there are one or two kickers such as Leacock and Prendergast, and C. P. Brown, that will join the Grit leaders to turn them out on a vote of confidence, or rather no confidence. Before this finds its way into print -there may be new developments, but I fancy I can see in the strong lines of Greenway's face, more of assurance than I ever saw before. saint and his their fathers • "CLAW day and glorify the land of ese, I'LL CLAW YOU " " Oor noble sells, and whaas like us" is,if not the precise wording, the main barden of their discourse, and it is cur, ious how many people who are some- thiug else all the rest of the year, turn out to have Scotch blood in them when there is a haggis on the table. I think the Scotch Clenadians are. oven more en- thusiastic than the "real Mackay, "and all of thein who can safely climb so high, stand with. one foot on their chair and the other on the table, while the pipers Prance round the hall at the head of the procession whose principal man bears the great national delicacy. It m-ust be " rich " as Burns remarks for it is distributed in mere mouthfuls, and never gets half way round. Besides the national feed and beverage, one or two self the most eloquent of the fraternity vie With each other in praising the burns, braes, birks oroom. and bonnie lasses of the mother iand, their bard recites, and a dozen vocalists sing Of Bruce and Wal- lace and Robin Tamson and the Laird e' Cockpen. If all the Scotchmen and their descendants in and around Win- .rlipeg were to attend it would take the market square to hold the lot, from big John NorqUase downwards. A St. An- drews dinned does not draw together nearly such a 'typical crowd, as a • 4.1%7DREWS- CONCERT with say Qaptein Wm. Clarke of Ba- toehe fames in the chair. You see all sorts and sizes and ages, ministers and lawYers, and ladies and washerwomen crowded into the biggest hall of the city, with half a dozen .capital vocalists, stal- wart fellow* who rim out " Scots wha hae " or the "Mardi o' the Cameron men, " ancli lasses with the bloom of the ;heather fresh on their cheek and the "Broom o! the Cowden Knows" or "When the Kye comes hame " as their song. What tremendous encores they get, and how astonished Canadian Scotch people of the third generation are to hear those real Scotch lassies talk the - old tongue so easily. . AMONG THE, BEST FARMER.S WE HAVE here in this new northwest are the Irish Scotch from Ulster whose forefathers ereigreted from south western Scotland two .centuries ago. Whenever I see King Willis m on a yellow horse, marshalling queer host of saints and angels on a big picture in the best mem, I always expect good farming and good cattle. The southwest is our chief hot bed of these Orange brethaen, who are about as zealous " after their own fashion in July, as the other kind of brethren in November. They are about the most warm hearted and hospitable people I ever met, and that is saying a good deal. I have been often asked at ten o'clock to stay for dinner, and I have never seen a cabin so small that they could not find 'room for me over night. Canadians do have faults but want of hospitality is not one of them. When I am played out for any thing better I shall start out with a buck. board aud drive around. I could picnic that way for twenty years to come. their own time in selling grain, as a good few of them can well afford to do. At this moment the RED RIVER VALLEY RAILWAY is about as good as dead, and there must a good few people who very sincerely wiali it had never existed. The very latest rumor is that the Northern Pacific Company, which owns the road to the south which connects with ours at West Lynne (or was meant to connect) have made an arrangement with Ven Horne, which would practically kill off any chance of reduced freights in that direc- tion. If that is So, then competition would be a farce, and we would have to take such terms as the Canadian Pacific Railway would see good to give us. The Winnipeg citizens,who were prepared to give $300,000 to help to finish the road, have declined, as I think very properly, not to do anything till they are certain how the land liea,and there is little chance of anything practical coming up till Par- liameut meetk here on the 12th January next. W. a fernier's gate in the Gore of Downie, and for some reaeoa unknown left it there, and pursued his journey on foot. —The other day while Mr. Thomas Boyle, an employe of the Weir Brothers, St Marys, was climbing a ladder with a fork its Ms hand, he fell to the ground a distance of about 20 feet, badly break- ing his left leg a little above the ankle. The bones protruded several inches. He was sent by the evening train to the London Hospital. —Mr. Wm. Dale, at one tinae head tna.ster of the St. Marys high school, has been appointed one of the exa.min- ers of Toronto University in classics. Readymade CLOTHING. Immense Stock of Everything to alleeose From. 0.1 First Class in QUALITY and. !LOW IN PRICE. BITYERS tafaY8' 41-ir BRCOATS, CAPS, siCA RFS, Nit E BM EAR ke., &c. A ad EN'S FUR CAPS, UN DE BSW EAR OVERCOATS, READYMADE - SUITS, &c. Clothing Department. lidward McFaurs POPULAR DRY GOODS, Mnery and Clothing House SEAFORTH, ONT. the Boards of Trade and the great mer- chant millers, and the sum of their sug- gestions was embodied in legal form. That law which fixes a certain standard for different qualities of wheat is the guide to the experts who every year meet to fix froth samples !collected all over the Dominion, the particular stan- dards for that year. The wish to " boom " thereputetion of the North- west as a choice wheat country was per- haps the motive for fixing a high and in- flexible standard for No. 1 hard, which is from 30 to 25 per cent. higher than the same grade in Minnesota, the rival wheat growing centre. So long as we were getting a few cents a bushel more for our wheat than could be got for the same nominal grade in Duluth, their shipping point, it did not matter for a standard a few degrees up or down, but we have now found out that while our standards were inflexible the price was quietly sliding down till we are now actually selling our No, 1 hard at .about the same as theirs, which is inferior in its proportion of hard wheat and ought to bring less money in the world's mar- kets. The standard at Duluth, let me explains is not inflexible like ours, but is permitted to slide up and down with the QUALITY OF EACH SEASON: CROP. This year, for example, • the severe drouth in Soutkern Minnesota and Dakota has made. their wheat harder, and their standard his accordingly been placed higher than usual, and nearer ours. - As the wheat grown along their side of 49' is about as good as anyof ours the low grade is eery unjust to Northern Dakota for they can't get any more for their beat than the price of No. 1 hard of their standard, though I have seen wheat there worth some cents more than that raised south of 46. What is wanted is a uniform grade. for . both countries aud absolute, certainty that our high grades shall not bo • doctored on their road to the European markets as we are pretty certain is now being done at Buffalo, and perhaps at Montreal, perhaps before it gets so far. A moder- ately high standard .and strict honesty in dealing with it are the only testa that can stand out. 1 may say more on this rather dry subject by aud by. • A LIVELIER TOPIC FOR, Som E REA DER:-; will be the St. Andrew's Society gather- ing which was held the other evening in the McKenzie Hotel, a big building of the "boom times," which is now divid- ed up into little sets of apartments heat- ed by steam and let by the month to people who "_room there and take meals or not, just as they choose, at the dining hall of the establishment. About 450 met to do honor to the old fisher The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company. DEAR EXPOSITOR, —In reply to Mr. Beattie's article under the above heading in your last week's issue, I will pass un- noticed the little sarcasm respecting my- self that it contained. The only attempt he makes in proving his position is the recitation of the last clause of section 11 of the Company's By -Laws, and by say- ing that the Company would have paid Mr. Govenlock's loss if the animal had been killed on lot 28 in the 8th conces- sion, instead of on lot 27 in the 7th con- cesSion. Then if that is the case, the only point of difference between Mr. A. Govenlock and the Company is that the horse was killed on his premises but out- side of the lot on which the buildings were situated. Now Mr. Beattie is one of the managing directors and is inspec- tor for theCompany and knows all the set fire to Leason's buildings under penalty of being shot if he refused. There are signs that the vicinity has suffered from the acts of a regularly organised gang of firebugs, and exceed- ingly st4tling developments are looked for at the preliminary exaniination now being held. Public indignation runs high and threats of vengeance on the fiends are freely and openly made. —Mrs. W. LI. Sanderson, of Toronco,' had her $175 seal skin cloak stolen from the rack in the hall of a house on Bond street at which she was visiting Triday afternoon. The detectives warn citi- zens against leaving then' front doors unlocked at any time, and especially after six in the evening. —Professor Trowbridge, alias Baker, and half a dozen other naines, the no- torious horse thief, who operated. in Brantford district some tine ago, has been arrested in Columbus, Ohio. As he took Canadian horses into the States, the owners will go to Columbus to pro- secute. —James Dean, aerescally and unprin- cipled fellow who has been doing a loan, and general insurance business in Essex Centre for the past three years, has skipped Over the border, leaviu a num- ber of farmers and others to regret they had ever listened to his hypocritical tongue. —Miss Sadie Stephenson, of Wood- stock, died at Ottawa, of typhoid fever, on Sunday, llth inst. She had been at the Ottawa Normal School studying for a professiOnal second-class certificate. Four weeks ago one of her brothers died of typhoid fever, and two sisters died previously of the same disease. —P. E. Pearsoll, of Peterboro, and wife attended the Salvation Army Tem- ple in Toronto last Sabbath evening. Duribg the crush at the door Mrs. Peareoll's pocket was picked of $120 in cash and about $2,000 in notes and checkf. They were on a brief visit to To - circumstances of the case, and why they ronto, and did not think it worth while refused to pay the said claim, and there- fore his statement of the views of the directors ought to be correct, and the directors in their official capacity ought, "if they wish to follow the golden rule," to be willing to endorse what Mr. Beat- tie has said in the article respecting Mr. A. Govenlack's claim in your last issue, under the corporate seal of the Company and the hand of the Secretary and Presi- dent. It is quite easy for Mr. Beattie to make statements but another thing to back them up substantially. Mr. A. Govenlock informs me that he will call upon. them to do so, and I think your readers will agree with me that it is quite reasonable for him to ask the Company to endorse,officially,what their Inspector has said as to their position in refusing to the paying of his claim. JOHN R. GOVENLOCK. Winthrop, December 15, 1887. A STRONG MANITOBA PARTY, with, if possible, a coalition of the best men of all parties is what wemost need. How and by whom it could be pieced together is more than I could venture to suggest, but it is quite certain that the country and its justifiable hopes for a fresh immigration will be kept on the drag if we don't see light soon. It is easier to read the signs of the times in anotherdirection. You see on the sidewalks huge elk, moose and small deer, as they have been brought in fro outlying points where such grand game are still comeata.ble. Only the other day a grand elk was killed by Indians in the woods between the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Assiniboine, 80 miles west of this, and net so far to the north they are not at all scarce. crearsemAs men NG, Canada. —A young man named Harris has been fined $5 for misbehaving in the Baptist church at East Nissouri. —The number of municipal voters in Toronto has more than doubled in ten years. In 1878 the total vote was 7,109 and in 1887 it was 16,058. —Findlay Rutherford, a young man living near Tilsonburg, fell off the steps while coming out of the Methodist church and dislocated his shoulder. —A Sabbath school convention for the schools of McGillivray will be held in the Lieury Presbyterian church on the 6th of January, 1888. —Mrs. Ferguson, of wellesley township, is the possessor of a turkey which laid during the past season 115 eggs: The first batch numbered 28, all of a hich she hatched out. , —The crockery establishment of J. A. Skinner & Co., Toronto, was robbed Thursday eight of last week of fourteen dozen silver-plated knives and forks and other silverware. —In Harriston the Taylors are coming to the front in municipal matters. W. Taylor, J. M. Taylor, R. Taylor, and Bradley, the tailor, are all out for muni- cipal honors. No one here now talks about the three tailors of "Tooley street." —George Pollock, a former resident of Kincardine township, was recently killed at Superior City by the accidental dis- charge of a Winchester rifle in the hands of a companion named Eli Hutchinson. His remains were brought home and in- terred at Bervie. —It is fifty years since the Dumfries street Presbyterian church in Paris was organized, and the Jubilee services are being held. Last Sabbath appropriate services were preached to large audi- ences by Revs. W. H. W. Boyletnd Dr. Cochrane. —In coming down stairs with a light- ed lamp Friday night Mrs. Chas. Mason, of London, missed her footing and fell to the bottom, fracturing her arm below the elbow. The lamp being shattered the oil took fire and Mrs. Mason was badly burned about the hand and face. —The sum of $370 has been presented to the six servant girls who lost their du at the late Commercial' hotel fire in Guelph. This sum was collected by a number of the young ladies as follows: Royal hotel girls, $156; Wellington hotel, $112; American hotel, $100. —Mr. Dan Elossick, recently a popu- lar Cobourg barrister, and whose name was a year ago mentioned in connection with the Liberal nomination for the Commons for West Northumberland, is now studying for the ministry of the Presbyterian church. —The village of Irish Creek, near Brockville,and farmers in the near vicin- ity have, during the past two or three months, suffered from ten tires, all of which every one strongly believed were incendiary. The last two fires destroyed Hunt's carriage factory, at Irish Greek, with a lot of finished cutters, and the barns and outbuildings of a farmer. The suspicious actions of Joseph Ryland, Wm. Lee, jr., and Hugh McDonald in connection with these fires led to their arrest. One of them has turned Queen's evidence and says that he was forced to and those deer and bears and big oxen will make' a great show some of these days in the butchers' stalls. We hear even now, at the close of a rich harvest, of dull times, but the money spent here about Christmas is prodigious, and the butchers find it hard to get hold of any- body so humble that they will buy the meaner parts of those carcases. One of them told me iu summer that if it were not for the Indians, who gather wild fruits, and with the proceeds buy big loads of. scrap meat he would have to bury it,so few are there willing to take it at any price. I saw to -day half a dozen, men one after another, look at a small' load of poles and go away because the owner would not pay more than a dolla for cutting them into stove wood. Time may be tight for some, but we are as people a good ways from absolute pover ty, and cheap as we sell our produce w have such a lot of it, that farmers tak to bank the funds. —Thos. O'Neill, Concerned in the lar- ceny of $62.44 worth of fish from a tug of J. S. Clark, Friday surrendered him- self to the Canadian authorities and was locked up in the Sandwich jail. He has elected to be tried in Canada on a charge of bringing stolen goods into the Dominion, rather than return to Detroit and be tried for the larceny itself. —Mrs. Dignam, of London, is now one of the managers of the "Associated Artists' School of Art" in Toronto. Of her the Globe says: A bright, pleasant - faced lady of liberal art culture, ranks as one of the first artists of the Domin- ion and probably unexcelled on the con- tinent in her talent in producing flower studies. '—A son of Mr. Geo. Dunn,- Fergus, will be considerably disfigured from the effects of a sleigh -riding accident he met with the other' day. Two sleighs col- lided and young Dunu got struck on the upper lip with the point of therunner witlirsufficient force to cut the lip clean through, breaking out several of the upper teeth and removing a part of the jaw. —The West Nissouri cheese factory was totally deatroyed by lire on Sunday night, together with the October make of cheese, and the Bamberg cheese fac- tory, in Waterloo county,has been again destroyed by fire, with the entire con- tents. There was about $3,000 worth of cheese consumed. The loss is about $5,500 and is covered by insurance. —Thos.Thompson andJanet M alcolm, aged respectively 21 and 14 years, pur- chased tickets at Oak Lake, Manitoba, on Saturday, for Guelph, Ont., where they intended to be joined in the bonds of matrimony, against the wishes of their parents. A telegram to the chief of police at Winnipeg stopped the run- away couple and they were sent back to Oak Lake Monday morning. —In Paris, Monday night, a little pup, owned by Mrs. Wm. Whitehead, while frisking about the sitting -room, manag- ed to pull off a tablecloth. A lighted lamp stood on the table and came away with the cloth, smashing the lamp and igniting the oil, and creating quite a blaze. With muchpresence of mind Mrs. Whitehead seized a loose piece of carpet and succeeded in smothering the flames. —Mr. R. Williams, cashier at the city regietry office, Toronto, received a tele - grate stating that his brother, Lieuten- ant J. D. M. Williams, of the British army, had been killed while alighting froina, train at Appleton,Wisconsin, Mr. Williams was on his way to Toronto to spend Chrietmas. He had served in ths Indian mutiny and Zulu war, and receiv- ed several medals for distinguished ser- vice* in the British army. —A train of 22 cars loaded with tur- key. for the New York merket pa.ssed eastward from Ottawa (seer tile Canada Atlantic Railway Thursday night last week. The train load was valued at $45,000. The duties on tbis shipment willbe about $4,500. The turkeys were purdhased in the neighborhood et Carle- ton !Place, Smith's Falls and Perth. Friday afternoon &bout five o'clock --- Mr. Matthew Fullerton, for many years clerkof South Dorchester, went out to his "barn to do his evening chores. A little while afterwards his daughter had occasion to visit the barn, and found her father lying on the floor, cloak He had been in his usual good health. He was about 76 years old, and had lived for many years in the vicinity of Lyons, Elgin county, highly respected by all who knew him. —The grand jury at the Woodstock sessions last week found a true bill against Mr. Heury Dickenson, formerly principal of the Stratford schools, for alleged felony in writing a threatening letter. The same case was tried before Police Magistrate Field a short time ago tin wh- in ing No wh ba wh Al br da in We wa no 1. -Review for $5,000 for libel. The had been doctored in this way. With le affair has created a great interest his betties in his basket he made the oodstock, especially since the find- tour of the railroad, and the navvies of the grand jury was made known. parted with their hard-earned money for Thomas Moore, engine driver on the his vile stuff. .It is probable that the thern and Northwestern Railway, man Kelly, who died in the jail some o was seriously injured about the weeks ago, fame to his death from k by the collision of a freight train drinking such doctored stuff, as the doc- ch he was driving and an express at tor'a testimony.proved that he had died andale on Thursday last week, was from the effects of alcoholic -poisoning. ught to his home in Hamilton Fri- —J. H. Stiggles, a New York- broker . Moore was the only person injured and capitalist, is in Ottawa just now the collision, though both engines applying for a renewal of the charter to e terribly smashed. The accident build a road from Calgary, Northwest cauaed through a semaphore signal Territory, north to Athabaeca. Leading, being raised in time. beyond Edmonton. He says the road A young fellow, resident near Shel- will be built within a few years. Mr. bu ner-has had a rather hard experience. Stiggles is also taking up a scheme to The other day he went to Shelburne to build a railway from Quebec to the east bura wedding present for a -friend that coast of Labrador, and t� place a fleet of 8 getting married. He had a $5 Wil- fast veesels on the Atlantic:. He thinks ti when he arrived. He bought a this would solve the questionofquick na cup and saucer and intended to transit to and from Europe, claiming the a pair of boots with the balance. passage could be made from Labrador to ore buying the boots be went into England in threeand a half days. —The Woodstock council, at its last meeting, by what was virtually a unani- mous vote, rescinded the vote of cep - sure on Rev. W. A. McKay for his criti- cism in Kincardine on the Mayor and. some membeas of the Council. Before the vote was taken Mr. McKay wrote an open letter to Councillor Swan, in which he says: "1 cannot withdraw one word or in any way modify any statement I made in my Kincardine ad- dress regarding the Woodstock Mayor and some members of the Council, but I am prepared to substantiate what I then said, at the proper time and place." The vote is considered a great triumph for the clergymen and the temperance party. —A young Man named. Donald Mc- - Donald, who attends the high school in Petrolea, left his boarding house the other day to walk to his home in the country. He started clown the Michi- gan Central railway track, and when midway on the long bridge he saw a special freight corning after him. He started to run, but seeing that he would be una,ble to reach the end of the bridge before the train, he swung himself over the side and hung on to a tie till the train passed. The train being a long one, he was so tired by the time that it passed that he could not pull himself up again and had to drop about 25 feet. He was considerably injured by the drop, but considers himself lucky in faring no worse than he did. —Dr. Brown, of Beachville, on Friday had a very narrow escape from what might have been instantaneous death. As the noon express on the Canada Pa- cific Railway was nearing Beachville Dr.Brown was approaching the crossing. The train came thundering along, but the Doctor did not -notice it until it was too late. He reached the crossing at the same time as the express. The engine struck his horse, throwing it and the faun c)f 168 acres, on the 3rd eonceS- buggy-sorne rods. The horse was killed wa lia ch bu Be an, hotel with some friends, and soon fortgot about his intended purchase. When he had spent all his money be rted for home, and in coming out of hotel he fell and broke the wedding sent. A terrible accident happened on lot 2nd concession of Westminster, Fri - y afternoon, whereby . one man was led -and other seriously, if not fatally, ured by the falling of a tree. The first victim was Mr. Thos. Pargater, an ol 1 and. well-known resident of the county of Middlesex, who was, instaetly killed, and the second was his pepheW, la st th pr 4, da ki in ely out from the old country. Me. rgater was a man of some 45- or 50 y ars of age, and leaves a wife and two g own -up daughters, one of whom is arried. —When Mr. Sol White, of Windsor, was running recently for re-election to e Provincial Legislature he and a rmer named John O'Reilly had some ouble about politics, which resulted in rather sensational case. Each accused e other of assault and O'Rielly was -rested, but finally discharged. He en caused the arrest of Mr. White, a ti a ti h.ch trial came off on Thursday last eek, before Judge Elorne,at Sandwich. large crowd was on hand to hear the e idence, and there was a short and s arp legal battle, resulting in the ac- qaittal of Mr. White. The latter at once procured the arrest of Mr. O'Reilly who was locked up in the Sandwich gaol. There has been a lot of excitement in Windsor and throughout Essex county over the ca,se. —Major Glasgow, of Hamilton, -has sold one of his farms, on the Gth conces- sion of West Flamboro, to Wellington Griffin for $7,000. The Ireland estate, containing 200 acres, adjoining Water - down, has been sold to Robert Thomp- son, of Hamilton, for $9,000. -A. W. and J. W. Ryckman have- sold their sion of \Vest Flamboro, to B. Shepherd almost instantly and the buggy was for $13,000 cash. W. H. Rutledge, butcher, Acton, has purchased a farm of 24 acres from James Matthews, post - smashed to smithereens. The Doctor was thrown between the horse's feet, but fortunately escaped with but a slight master, for $2,400 cash. injury to one of his limbs. The Doctor —Jas. Cavers, the young man from does not know - how to account for his Galt who obtained notes for large sums not seeing the train. - from three German farmers of Middle- , ----Mr. Reuben Brown, druggist and ton on Equal' orders for fruit trees, was news agent,of ananorlue, lefthishouse tried on the 15th inst. at 8h -ileac before the other morning between five and six His Honor •Judge Livingstone. There- o'clock to eecort to the dock his sister - were three indictments against him and in-law. Not corning back, at about - he was found guilty on each count. His half -past eight Mrs. Brown gave the Honor sentenced him to three years in alarm and innnediate search was made. the Provincial Penitentiary at King- The river was dragged, and at three stop. Cavers is said to be respectably o'clook his body was found, about forty connected in Galt and to have previous- feet from the dock. His sister-in-law ly borne a good reputation, but the evi- says she said good bye on the dock and denhe was most convincing as to ,his that he,dicl not go on the boat,and when the body was found his cane was held guilt. the man named George Robinson was under his arm, which verifies the gener- arrested at Hillsburgh on the 13th inst. al belief that after leaving Mies Ea.cutt on a vp-arrant issued by Mr. Gray, Police he turned around to go home and in the Magistrate of the County of Dufferin, darkness walked off the end of the dock. and lodged in Orangeville jail under a Mr. Brown was a very popular business charge of having been implicated in the man, a strong Methodist and a great dynamite outrage at the house of License worker in the Young Men's Christian Inspector Anderson on the night of Nov. Association. He was a member of the 15 last. The prisoner had been in Canadian Order of Foresters, and re - Orangeville for several months, but corder of the Ancient Order of United went to Hillsburgh about the time of Workmen, and will be greatly missed in the explosion. His life recently has the community. He leaves a wife and been somewhat reckless, spending his four children, the youngest of whom is time about the lowest groggeries in the about four years old. saocctieertsy. of the most depraved char - years of age, dauehter of Mr. R. Wright —Misa Jean \Vright, a young lady 20 —In the test case at Quebec against of Fergus died very suddenly on Satur- the Salvation Army the police judge day the 10th inst., Miss Wright has decided that there was sufficient evi- been keeping house for her brothers 2i dance to put the accused Salvationists miles from Fergus. Friday last she at - upon their trial for the offence of creat- tended to her household duties as usual, ing a public nuisance by their parades. went visiting in the afternoon, and was They were accordingly arraigned and bright and lively and feeling well. pleaded not guilty. They were then Coming home she made tea ready and asked whether or not they would take a sat down with her brothers to enjoy it summary trial before the Police Court, when she suddenly felt ill. She rose with all points of law raised to be re- and walked around a little and then served for decision by the Court of Ap-. threw herself on the lounge and com- pels, or leave their case to a jury at plained of sickness and pain, but did not the Queen's Bench in April. Their think it was much and would not allow counsel requested delay to consider, and her brother to go for the doctor. As the case was accordingly adjourned to she did -not get better the doctor was called and arrived shortly before eleven. the 28th inst. —On Saturday morning, 10th inst., The patient was then in a deathly con - Mr. J. 13. Powell, Collector of Inland dition of coldness and faintness. It was Revenue at Guelph, who had got on the hoped that by using restorative means scent of an illicit still in Nassageweya she would revive, although the doctor drove to the suspected 'premises, the was convinced she was suffering from in- house of one Hanlon near the new ternal bleeding. Slight recovery began shanty of the Guelph Junction Railway after over an hour's efforts, but it did construction gang at Corwhin. A not last. The patient grew restless and thorough search was made of the prem- rapidly worse, and ie about three hours ises, and in the garret, which was occu- and a -half,. or eight and a -half hours pied by a man named. Robertson, from after first complaining, she breathed her Gleugarry, a large quantity of liquor last—conscious to the end. A post was found put up in packages of different mortem examination. showed plain sized bottles; and a quart bottle of fusel ly the cause of her death. The rup- oil, very poisonous. In his trunk was tured. vessel being found and found a worm, which, along with the the result of rupture in the abdominal prepared liquor and a five gallon keg of cavity being full of blood. Evidence whisky, was taken in charge by the that nothing could have been done to Collector." A search through this local- save life. _The deceased was a tnoet ity failed to bring to light any further estimable and highly respected youug traces of a still, so the searching party, lady. and the charge was then dismissed. It with Roberton as prisoner, came back did not end there, however, Mr. Dicken- to Guelph whence Robertson was taken son was indicted before the grand jury Thursday with the above result. It was for reporting this case at the time of the preliminary trial that Mr. Dickenson has had a writ issued against the Sen - by County Constable Ingram to George- town where he will be tried. It appears to have been Robertson's practice to dose the whisky with fusel oil to make it taste strong, as all the stuff seized —The county council of Perth offer $200 reward for the arrest and convic- tion of the person who broke into the new court house in Stratford on a recent Saturday night aaid seriously damag- ed the steam heating pipes. •