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The Huron Expositor, 1888-01-27, Page 1f •a• 20 J8S. leFau tso_ YEAR kINS Jackets,. Lnkets, Goods r weeks, and. the Stock must be AUL, ras 1[11119111111MINSIMI!Inillmt- paying for re - was $263.55 in etors de:stared a 'hare, or 8 per k. Mr. A. Z. cheese for three cents per hum After a vote of >rs and the -ahair- peered with his dividend to az are present. The Smilie L. Mc - Jas. Ryan Mid; inanirnously re - rear. SOCIETY. —The members of the kancle Agricul- on Thureday of report showed 'le past year had sad the disburs- ig a. balance due This is an un - this society as ;e surplus- to the ver entirely to ler at the fall on that occasion ereas they would strider favorable akever, is one >w business, as sty cera and est the clerk of silowing officers lanty e, larqu- Villia, Hay, Vice Secretary ; W. Direetors—John Chrietie, Jas. ells - Jas. Oke, inters and John [. Eacrett and S. uditors, ay morning last se of our respect- ey to the Great 43 years and 8 id lingering clis- r. Luxton had three years. He and industrious every one_ His ars ago, leaving [siren to care for f sickness. Mr. 6 mernber'of the esters, who took n and his family was also a mem- lepartment for a ectered his resig ) on account of the meetings • to the Exeter ,and were buried >f Foresters; who ef their late de- -family has the le village in this iarlett's stock- of Reasall on Fri - Hemet -14 having Mr. Scarlett will in few days. -- k-21, together with in new quarters ry. They have :ratty vacated by alders on Jame a very dull ap- et. --Mr. Joseph it last week in and David Mc, arthweet Terri - ha town. —Quite _passed away a oggareing at the • week.—Exeter h A. M., intend ew's Opera Hall. January 31st. seen at Messrs. store. --Messrs, iUis sold their ellion, 'aver [oily O. Dwyer, fur $2,200. He tock, horses in es of brick come e large number 'eated here this ekibert Ford is re intends buitd- nce on Huron fernan, of -Sea,- last in to•wrt.- tem engaged as Lw House„ Sea - right man in the -il met on Mon- iaration of office. trains on the ce were several t of the snow TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUIABER 1,050. ALT TII Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Co., SEAFORTH„ Can be had some very good bargains for a few weeks, in the following lines : Dress Goods, Mantle, Jacket and Ulster Cloths, Shawls, Jackets, Blankets, Furs, Flannels, Cloths, Underclothing, Gloves, Rose, Scarfs, Clouds, Fascinators, Hoods, Caps, Tam O'Shanters. All kinds of Millinery, in fact every kind of goods in our establishment. Call and take a look through. HOFFMAN & co., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH. • NOTICE.—Agents for Buttericks Reliable Pat- terns, Fashion Books, Sheets, etc. The Presbyterian Sabbath School Convention. The Presbyterian Sabbath School Con- vention of the Presbytery of Eluron was held on Wednesday, the 18th inst., in Thames Road church, Usborne. The work of the convention was divided into three principal parts. In the morning the topic "How to gather the children into the Sabbath School" was discussed. In the afternoon, " The best method of organization," and in the evening Teaching, or Upbuilding." In the afternoon a large number of children assembled to listen to addresses by members of the Convention ; thereafter Miss Mary Govenlock, of Seaforth, taught a primary class in a very inter- esting and impressive manner. Mr. D. D. Wilson, of Seaforth, Convener of the Presbytery's Sabbath School Committee, occupied the chair during the greater part of the day, and contributed not a little to the success of the proceedings. At the close the results of the conven- tion were summed up in the following RESOLUTIONS. 1. That parents have their attention called by sermon or in any other way which may be deemed best to the duty of giving every encouragement to the Sabbath school teachers, and of helping them to make the teaching of the school's as efficient as possible. 2. That this convention regards it as a great help in obtaining and maintaining a vigorous school, that suitable accom- modation and apparatus be provided by the congregation. 3. That it is important that Sabbath schools be used as a means of cultivating an interest in mission work at home and abroad. 4. That it is desirable to hold nude- nosainational township conventions, wherever possible, once or twice a year, as may be found convenient, so that all Sabbath school teachers may have the opportunity to attend such, and may thus receive a training and a stimulus in the work which would enable them to discharge their duties with greater effi- ciency. 5. That it is very important for Sab- bath school teachers to keep before the mines of their scholars the truth that temperance is a religious duty, and also advantageous for schools to assign,if pos- sible, to some suitable person the duty of organizing Sabbath school choirs whereby the singing may be improved. 6. That the thanks ef the convention are hereby cordially tendered to the Sabbath school committee, and especial- ly to the convener, for the manner in which the duty entrusted to them has been discharged, and also to all those who have contributed to make the con- vention interesting and profitable by taking part in it. 7. That the cordial thanks of the con- vention be tendered to Rev. C. Fletcher and Mrs. Fletcher and to all the friends who have 'so hospitably entertained its .1.nembers during the time of their at- tendance upon the business of the meet - The Goderich Star of last week has the following: We are in a position to state that the only case of diphtheria now in town is with a child belonging to :Sir. Spading, and the attending physician anticipates i ts ear I y reavery. The terrible affliction of the Mcriatosh family, in which four children have died, is clearly due to defects in the family premises, but steps are being taken to thoroughly correct these. We understand that extravagant statements are being made throughout the sur- rounding country as to the alleged prev- alence of diphtheria in Goderich. They are so wide of the factsi as to be totally unwarranted. There is probably less sickness of any kind in Goderich, even at present, than in any other town of its sie in Canada. MISSIONARY LIFE IN AFRICA. i --- The following letter was written by Dr. A. 11. Webeter, who with his wife, a, niece of Mr. eillex. Murchie, postmas- ter at WinthroPe left Dakota last spring as a medical Missionary to Africa. 'It has been kindly furnished us by Mr. Murchie• for peblication, -and will be found interesting: 1 BAThi:NDA, Africa, Sept. 23, 1887. DEAR FRIEN:pS,—We have been in Bailunda fifty days, but days seem short, although they 4re of equal length with the nights. We were abundantly setae. fied with traveland.ready to apprecikte a good long sto in one place when we reached- Beilum a. In all, by land and sea, we have raveled more than pen thousand miles since you saw us 1st. No you wonderwe were tired ? Yet we - have been, well,?neitherk of us has seen an hour of severe sickness in all this ast seven months. Where are we now ? As you will re- member, our latitude is twelve and ne- half degrees smith, midway between the equator arid the southe n tropic, and i fif- teen degHes ea4t of Gr enwich. In other words our mission stet on is in the • or- tugeee provinca of An ala,two hundred miles in a dir'ect line east of the si all seaport town ot Benguella, on the w st- ern coast Of Africa. If you refer to an ordinary map of rete t date, you will i note this egion has n -streams of any considera le s4e, which will at once suggest tl4at the eleva ion is high, and especially as You see that many large tributarieS flowing north to the great - Congo, and to the south to join the Zam- bezi, have thek source in the elevated , ridge stre ching far off into the heart of the conte ent, bf which this is a pert. So if you hould wake ap some morning in the. Bai undWinissioe station, without having e. perieced the tedium of the long jour ey, yOu might imagine your- self in s me Wild uncultivated part of Wisconsi or Minnesota, except possibly your eye vould be attracted to the .ba- nana and °mon trees growing near, or further o -the short mountain range ris- ing up from the level country around, might lead you to doubt your position in those States. But a second look at our houses and the fences around the station, and many other lesser objects, would be- wilder you; I think. So it is, while we are living under a tropical sun, our elti- tude, of dve. thousand feet, only 200 miles from the great Atlantic, makes it _possible fi.r the great majority of the vegetable, plants and shrubs found in the temp rate zone, to - flourish here. Heavy fro ts and a little ice are occasion- ally seen t the beginning of the dry Sea- son, in A ril or May. The therraometer hanging i Our sitting room has never yet regist red 85 degrees in the hottest day, and et in six weeks from now the sun will b vertical at noonday, and the strange p rt of all is that we do not feel the heat a all when the mercury stands at eighty. In proof of this, let me pay that- the tl ermometer hangs only twerityt- four feet fJrorn our large kitchen stove with only a. cloth partition -between, end that I wear just as hea .ry clothing as t" ever wore ,in Dakota in the summer, anc heavier than I did in t ie hottest weath- er, and yet the two solitary fans we. broug,ht with us are packed away it a trunk because we havemo use for them, and room is precious in our heuse. Do I tell you that a vertical sun is not hot ? No, indeed, on -a perfectly clear day,and I have not yet seen a really eloudy, one in Bailunda, I do not think of keeping out in the 'sunshine more than five or'ten Minutes at a time in the middle of the day, for it fairly burns, but sultriness we do not know as you do in Dakota. We perspire very little. I have done a good deal of work since I have been here —manual labor—Werking hard. all day long, in the shade ef course, and I have not yet at any time perspired enough to make me uncomfo table from dampness of my clothing. I don't think you can say as much for this summer, if reports are true as to hot Weather. But I have no thought of enticing you to this out of the N orld place. I simply want you to he-ee he comfortable assur- ance that because we are in Africa does not necessarily me n that we are afflict- ed in a [furnace of lery trials. t Names of places in this part of Africa, at least, are usuallar names of a tract of country governed by a certain king. So Bailunda has rather indefinite boun- daries, but our mission station is less than two miles fro the residence of the king; and on one of the most traveled roads from the co st, from the centre of the continent and he great lakes. film surprised to find t le number of inhabi- tants small. as compared to the area of the country. Th- king's village, or Omabala, as, it is c lled, is estimated to contain five or six hundred people. This is considered a la ge village, ,probably the largest in the ingdom. There may be twenty or thirt villages varying from half a dozen to t «o hundred and ' fifty people, each withi a radius of fifteen miles. So you wi 1 observe that the pop- ulation is nothing in comparison'; to the same are of Chin orIndia. As. -n, mat- ter of feet -reliable estimates of the num- benof inhabitants here cannot be made from thedata DONpossessed by the mis- sion. The native subsist sdrnost vholly on the products 9 the fields, cultivated entirely by . the women. They grow corn, mandioc, sur et potatoes and Irish potatoes in abund. nee. They have noth- ing in the line of f Lvls except chilckens. 'A very fair breed if cattle is raishd, at least as to size ane quality of meat, but the use o the cows niilk and the art of making butter seem not to be known. A few fine large sheep are found here, but they hay e no woola c arse hair from one half fe) an.inch in 1 eth taking its -place. A' fine breed of oats and .a very bad breed of hogs seem to flourish z,vith- out care. There are very few vild animals or reptiles in this part of t e country. The beasts of prey consist of a few hyenas, an Occasienal leopard and it is said a SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888. lion occasionally comes about. In some places a few days travel distant, the latter have ,been quite troublesome. Boa constrictors are known to the natives but rarely captured or even seen. The soil is .not up tothe average in fertility, imber comparatively scarce, trees seat ering, small and crooked. From wh t I have seen I should say there was great variety of woods and nearly all are very hard and some of great beau y. Native fruits are numer- ous, but fe v, however, are of any value. :Banana and lime (a species of lemon) and orange trees do well when cultivat- ed. The attempts to atart pear trees and grape vines are so far successful. Nearly all the vegeteples grown in the Northern states thrive here under pro- per cultivation. The natives grow their own tobacco in abundance. Experi- ments with American wheat have been quite successful. Wild rice is fountl in adjacent parts. The natives are off -shoots from the Bantu race, which peoples the greater part of the center and southern Africa, quite distinct from the negro race proper, found north of the equator and in Liberia, I think. Those acquainted with both, claim a great superiority for the Bantu race I believe. My own opin- ion based on what I have seen of the black race in our own country and along the west coast, is that they are a very favorable people among whom to work, and that civilization and christianization together, will result in raising up men well fitted to carry on the work which we at best, can only begin. Many of the young 'ones are bright and active, but riot much could be expected of a race so long buried in superstition and ignorance. A small volume would be required to narrate all their habits and customs, but one of the most prominent is slavery. Under certain conditions the slave, according to native law, may enjoy peculiar and even superior rights and privileges, but at best the picture is a dark -one and the bright spots only heighten the contrast. The people know nothing of canibalism and are not even warlike. They are great traders, and as animals are scarce there is very little hunting done, and so trading becomes the chief occupation of the men. As regards medical work I will simply say, I have been so occupi, d in getting well housed before the rainy season be- gins, that I have given it but little attention. Of course 1 can rdo but little in that line until I gain a knowledge of thelangubaee. And now I suppose you would like to know how we enjoy the prospect that is before us, and if we have realized our brightanticipations. To the first I should say, very much indeed, as a whole. There are disagreeable features to the work and to living in this heathen land, but they are insignifi- cant incemparisou to the boundless op- portunities for doing good.. I was never so well satisfied withl,, my eurroundinge in my life as now. \.esesq realize our anticipations and we are i.e happy as an be in our new holme. With health and strength we hope to enjoy our chosen work as well as any dour friends at home will enjoy theirs. . I hope from time to time to inform you as to our condition a.ncl work. Yours sincerely, A. FL ,WEnsTtin. -- A Tuckersmith Ioy in Australia. We take the following extracts from an interesting letter written by Mr. Abner Cosens, son of Mr. N. Cosens, of the West End, Tuckersrnith, who is now sojourning in Sale, Victoria. THE MANIA FOR HORSE RACING. The great yearly horse race of Austra- lia was held in Melbourne, three weeks ago, and people have got so they will talk about something else at last. There was a week devoted to horse racing, but the big day was November 1st, when the Melbourne cup was run for. This cup, race occupies" the minds of all Austra- lians for months before it comes off; men, women and children talk about it ; the best newspapers devote columns to it ; the telegraph lines are Onlisted in its service ; the pulpit cries o aagainst it, and away in the back townsl ips work- ing men hoard up their mono moner in order to go and see " the cup." On the day of the race the railroads run at -reduced rates, all banks and state schools are closed, a public holiday is proclaimed, and even the parliament is adjourned, in order to let the legislators of the colony see the fun with the rest of the boys. The immense 'amount of betting done on this horse racing is beginning to alarm even the secular papers, and while some apologize for it, others openly assail it. The comic journals deal some telling blows at it. " Tit Bits " represents the betting mania as a huge vampire bat that is steadily sucking the life blood from fair Victoria. Australian "Punch" shows the betting public as a thoughtless lamb standing close beside two Jewish butchers with long noses, who are sharp- ening a couple of large knives with which to take its life. But, in spite of everything, the hearts of the people of Victoria are in the race, as may be seen from the crowd of 150,000 people who annually go to witness it, and that the better classes patronize it is plain from the fact that Lady Loch's hands decor- ate the winner with the badge of honor. WHAT A USTRALIANS KNOW A,BOLIT ONTARIO. In the Museum in- the city of .Mel- bourne are some specimens of the Colo- rado potato bug, and an official docu- ment hangs beside them, commencing to read this way : " Whereas, word has been received from 'Ontario, Canada, that the.Colora,do beetle has been ruin- ing the potato crop in that town and the surrounding country," etc. Now, what must be the gross darkness andeupersti- tion of a people whose law makers mis- take a province with 100,000 square miles of territory and two millions of people for an unknown town somewhere in; the Canadian Vastness? The Melbourne Museum has many interesting and won- derful curiosities in it " but as Allah liveth, the tale that this official docu- ment told me I hold to be the most won- derful of all." INDIFFERENCE OF THE PEOPLE TO PIII3LIC AFFAIRS. The government of this colony not only owns and operates all the railways, but controls the telegraph lines, main- tains the police system, builds all the state schools, and fixes and pays the salaries of all the teachers. This, of course, puts a large amount of patronage at the disposal of the Government, but since coming here I have not read an article accusing the Government of cor- ruption. True, there is a coalition gov- ernment in power at present, which may in part account for it, but the average Australian does not care a fig for poli- tics. Let him get astride of a good horse, and he don't care who runs the country. GOOD FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS. will try and give an idea of how the school system of this country is man- aged, and will not charge Hon. G. W. Ross anything for any pointers he may get. Examinations are held as in On- tario, and when young teachers pass their names are taken down, and as soon as a vacancy occurs they are let know of the fact by the Government, and whoever has been longest waiting gets the situation. Each teacher starts work on a fixed salary of £85 a year, with a chance to increase his pay £40 a year by results, and according to re- sults and -length of time in the service the promotions are made. If a teacher in a good position dies' or retires there is a general stepping up all down the ranks. One advantage this system ap- pears to have over the Ontario plan is that experienced teachers are the rule and not the exception, and teachers do not use the profession simply as a step- ping stone to something else, as in On- tario. In the country places the state schools are built with rooms in connec- tion to accommodate married teachers, and the school house is often a post office as well, thus saving the country extra expense, and being a great advan- tage to the farmers, whose children -can bring home the mail every evening. The expense to the State must be great for the teachers' galaxies, and the expense of building the school houses all comes out of the general revenue of the colony, no special school tax being levied. CANADIANS EVERYWHERE. Canadians are a restless class of peo- ple. There are 3,000 native Canadians in this colony alone, and a Canadian club has been established in Melbourne. In the town of Sale, from which I write, I have found a number of my country- men. Mr. James Coverdale, the post- master, is a pative of Kingston, and came out here in 1853. He went to school with Sir Richard Cartwright, and knew Hon. Alex. Mackenzie when he first came out from Scotland. He knew Hon. 0. Mowat when a boy at King- ston, and was acquainted with Hon. 1'. Pardee on the gold fields of Victoria. Mr. Coverdale is held in high esteem by all who know him, and justly deserves the responsible position he holds under the government. Dr. McDonald is a native of Pictou, Nova Scotia,' and is a true Canadian,and misses no chance of glorying in the fact. A few weeks ago he astonished the natives by some re- markable feats in a birch bark canoe he imported direct from Canada. He is another of those who came to Victoria during the gold excitement. Near town is a farmer named Robinson, a native of Ayr, Ontario, whose first day's work in starting for Australia,, in 1853, was to walk 40 miles through the woods, with the snow up to his knees. He is still hale and hearty, and gets up at 4 o'clock every morning. Mr. Anderson, another of those who left Ontario while it was in its infancy, lives in Sale, and enjoys in his older years the comforts of an easy life. Mr. Robert Moore, of Guelph, Ontario, Vice -President of the Canadian Club, handed me his card the other evening. He is a young man only four years in Victoria, and has been entrust- ed with the work of collecting informa- tion to be published in a work called " Victory Past and Present," to be pub- lished next year, in connection with the big exhibition. Canada. Big Bear, the celebrated Cree chief, died last Friday morning at Battleford. — While coasting at Guelph the other day a lad named Marriott ran into a bobsleigh, tearing a ,three -cornered wound in his groin which required nine stitches to repair. —Word has been received at Guelph of the death of Rev. Mr. Pierce, former- ly of the Methodist Episcopal church there, at St. Augustine, Florida Where he was an itinerant minister under the Florida A. M. E. Conference. —During the month of December last the amount deposited in Government Savings Banks was $314,967. The amount withdrawn during the same period was $366,620, showing a decline in deposits during the month of $41,953. —The aation for damages arising out of injuries sustained by falling on a de- fective sidewalk, brought by a Mrs. Douglas against the town of Strathroy has been compromised by the town pay- ing that lady $200 damages and $100 for legal expenses. — Rev. Messrs. 'Wielcoff and Goforth and Messrs. Swift and Bassett, mission- aries and teachers, en route to China and Japan, left Winnipeg for Vancouver Monday, to catch the Canadian Pacific Railway steamer for Yokohama. — A patent medicine man named Ben- nett defies the market clerk and police magistrate of London to stop him from earning a livelihood on the market. He has been fined twice and has appealed the case. His practice is to appear daily on the market with his medicine bottles and a string of apples over his shoulder, and sell an apple for 25 or 50 cents and throw in one bottle, large or small, of his medicine. Market Clerk Wilson is bound to stop this, and backed by the city solicitor's opinion is laying fresh informations against Bennett, who contends he sells the apples and gives the medicine away. —Some time since James Montgomery, of Union, had his right hand severed while attending a circular saw in a mill. Last Friday his remaining hand was weight in a saw and his little finger was severed. But that his mitt gave way he would have been drawn upon the saw. —Wm. Harris, a Grand Trunk yard brakesman, slipped on the track at Guelph on Saturday and was run over by the yard engine. It passed over his thigh, crushing him badly and fractur- ing both limbs. , It is expected he will recover. —Mr. Abel Steele, Ferguson post office, London township, has received from a Philadelphia seed firm, of which he is a customer, $15, being first prize for best head of an early variety of cauli- flower. The competition was open to a1 customers growing cauliflowers from seed sold by the firm. The heads were judged in Philadelphia. —A Toronto girl about 13 years of age, living with her parents on George street, had been troubled with neuralgia, and a few days ago the pain became so intense that one of her eye -balls burst. The doctor was called in, and after an examination removed the ball from its socket. The pain has left and the girl is doing nicely. —The new laundry at the London asylum has been -finished by the con- tractr. The new kitchen, which will be finished in the spring, will embrace the kitchen, amusement room, and one or two other apartments, and the pres- ent rooms will be converted into rooms for patients and afford aceommodation to about 100 additional inmates. —The new Wagner sleepers have ar rived on the Canadian Pacific Railway. They have 12 sections elegantly uphol stered in red plush and finished in polished mahogany. In the smoking apartment there are door chairs in addition to the ordinary seats. They are similar to the Wagners on the Michigan Central Rail- way between Buffalo and Chicago. —The Postmaster Generel states that the convention for the parcel post servic_e between Canada and the United States has been signed by himself and Postmaster -General Vitas, and only re- quires the signature of President Cleve- land to make it legal. The terms agreed upon were satisfactory to both Govern- ments, and it had been arranged for the service to be inaugurated March lat. —Mr. Angus McDougall, of Lucknow, met with a very painful accident on Saturday, 14th inst. He was in Mc- Donald's saw mill when Mr. G. McDon- ald was endeaVoring to turn a large nut, when the wrench slipped and struck Mr. McDougall a severe blow in the right eye. At first it was thought the ball of the eye was destroyed, but we hope it is not the case, and that he will be around again in a few days. —Alfred E. Ridley, insurauce agent, St. Thomas, was arrested by Sergeant Ross, Friday evening of last week on a warrant sworn out hy Crothers & Croth- ers, barristers, ehhrging him with having forged the nam 'h of Samuel Haight, farmer, near Sparta, as endorser of. a note for $1,500. Mr. Ridley has played a prominent part in public affairs in St. Thomas, and his arrest created no little excitement. —In connection with the report that there is a likelihood of the herd of buf- falo owned by Warden Bedson, of the Manitoba penitentiary, being purchased by a wealthy American, the suggestion ie made that a portion of the herd at least should be purchased by the Gov- ernment ancrput 'in the National park at Banff. It is well to do so,it is argued, in view of the otherwise certain ex- tinction of this once numerous quadru- ped. —A dynamite blast at Bell's new factory, Guelph, the other morning caused quite a commotion. The con- tractor for the excavating was endeavor- ing to loosen the frozen ground with dynamite, and the charge was heavy enough to break some window panes in the factory. It also splintered the box over the charge, raised the heavy stone fifteen feet, and shook things up gener- ally. —Miss KateAmbherst, a former resi- dent of St. Catharines, while coasting with a party of young people in the vicinity of Ridgeville the other day, met with an accident which may terminate fatally. The sleigh upon which Miss Ambherst was seated in company with two lady friends was coming down hill at full speed when it stewed, striking a barbed wire fence, and throwing the party off. The faces of her two friends were badly scratched„ but they were otherwise unhurt. —On :Tuesday night last week while crossing the track a farmer's sleigh was struck by a Canadian Pacific Railway train in the vicinity of Woodstock. The sleigh was smashed to fragments, and Wm. Hutchinson, of the 15th ;conces- sion, East Zorra, and Thos. Dell, a laborer of Woodstock, both sustained severe injuries, one of them being car- ried seven -eighths of a mile on the cow- catcher. They were taken to Wood stock and cared for. —Edward Krum, a resident of Har- row, Essex county, while strolling about Windsor on Saturday evening suddenly found himself in the toils of three foot- pads, who had, it appeared, been dog- ging his footsteps for some time. They relieved him of his watch and $30 in cash in a very professional way. The mau reported the affair to Chief Bains who, with the help of Detroit detectives, suc- ceeded in tracing up and arresting the trio. —John McKinnon, father of Alexan- der McKinnon, of Lucknow, passed away- peacefully at Langside on Monday last week. Deceased had seen the snows of many winters, having lived to the good old age of 92. His boyhood was passed in years fraught with mighty moment to the world's history, and in {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. his long lifetime he - endured many crosses and losses, all of which he bore manfully. He was a very devout man, upright in all his tw-ays, God-fearing and God -loving. He was interred in Culross cemetery on the following Thursday. --Arthur. J. Sharman, of the town ship of Oakley, about 12 miles from Bracebridge, committed suicide the other day by blowieg his brains out with a revolver. He went into tee bush about half a mile with a looking glass and a revolver, placed the looking glass on a stump to see what he was doing, and de- liberately shot himself through the head. His body was found three days afterwards frozen stiff, with the re- volver still in his hand. Sharman was about 36 years of age and unmarried. .--While the Foreign Mission Com- mittee of the Presbyterian Church in Canada was in session in Tornto, ob the 16th- inst., a cablegram was received from India stating that the Rev. R. C. Murray, missionary at' Ujjain, had died from the effects of a sunstroke. Mr. Murray was sent out to India abouAs two years ago, and was supported by the congregation of St. Paul's church, Mon- treal. Mrs. Murray died less than two months ago. Another missionary will be sent out next autumn to take Mr. Murray's place. —After 'having been up at some five or six Courts, judges or juries disagree- ing each time, the suit of Geo. Pritchard, of the Empire Loan Company, against Wm. Moore, of the Gore of London, has at last been decided. Pritchard claimed that he had overpaid Moore $50 on a cheque. Moore denied it and Pritchard sued him for the amount. The case occupied all of one morning at the Division Court held the other day in London, when Judge Mackenzie and a jury heard all the evidence that could possibly be brought on the transaction. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Pritchard. —During one week the following acci- dents from coasting are reported from Hamilton: Miss McLeod, of Duke street, had her collar bone broken at one of the toboggan slides on Friday evening. Maggie Semmens had her right leg broken while coasting. • Nelson Gain, a 6 year-old boy, had his thigh broken while coasting on Saturday. The 13 - year -old son of James McCleary, freight agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, had his leg very badly fractured while coast- ing on Saturday afternoon. John Glasse° fractured his hand while coast- ing on Saturday. —Early last Friday morning; through the leakage of a streefagas main in Owen Sound, gas began running into an old drain and into a cellar under a tenement house on Water street. Four persons named Million, being in the house, were partly asphyxiated. Fortunately one of the night watchmen was in the vicinity, and Knelling the gas,- traced it up, made an entrance to the house and carried the family out. Had it been a few minutes later they would have been past re- cover. Oue child is not yet out of dange . The gas used is water gas. —L Courrier du Canada gives the folloLv ng statistics with regard to the Roinae Catholic church in this Province. There ' are 1 ,4&3,000 Roman Catholics, directed by 1 Carchnal,2 Archbishops, 1 Apostolic Prefect and 1,546 priests and religieux. They have 957 churches, 28 seminaries and colleges, 232 0i:invents and 69 hospitals. The different ecclesi- astical provinces into which the ,province is divided ate peopled as follows by Catholics: Quebec, 729,000; kontreal, 619,000; Ottawa, 137,000. In the -Dio- cese of Quebec there are 666 priests, 411 churches and 108 convents, 10 seminar- ies and colleges, 25 hospitals ad 1;927 schools. —One of the cases which camh up at the Hamilton Assizes last week Was that of Trice vs. Robinson. It was an action brought by Mrs. Alice Trice, against Robert Robinson, keeper of an hotel in Orkney, in the county of Wentorth, to recover damages for the death of her husband, Henry Trice. The plaintiff claims that Robinson supplied her hus- band with liquor in excess on June let last at his hotel in Orkney, and that his death on the Grand Trunk Railway, about a mile from Capetown, on the same day, was the resutt of drinking to excess. The plaintiff claims $1000 dam- ages, the full amount allowed under the liquor license law. —An odd occurrence took place at. Peterboro a few days ago. Mr. John J. Hall, Inland Revenue Inspector, re- ceived instructions to get several. speci- mens of milk for testing for use in a Government report. In order to get a full complement of specimens he dropped into Councillor Yelland's residence'a few doors from his office, and asked for a pint of milk.. Thinking that he want- ed it to drink the milk was handed to him. But it was skimmed milk. It now comes out in the report that Mr. Yelland sells poor milk, and orders have been issued thet he shall be prosecuted. Councillor Yelland is highly indignant that he should be charged with having sold milk, far less skimmed milk. --An old resident of British. Columbia, who is now in Ottawa, says: "I am • personally cognizant of the class of men it is proposed to send to British Colum- bia from Scotland. TheSe crofters are neither fishermen nor farmers; they are not artizans ; they cannot cut -a stick of wood. All they do for a subsistence is to dig up a quarter or lialf an acre of land, put in a few potetoe, and with a little fish they can catch with very poor tackle they manage to exit. Take them out to British Columbia and they will he a source of expense to the Provincial Government for years. If these people cannot make a living at home I do not see how they are going to do it on the Pacific coast." —The villages of Spencerville and Kemptville, near l3rockville, are greatly excited over the enforcement of the Scott Act. George Ferguson M. P., of Kemptville'who has been prominent in enforcing the measure, has received a finely -written letter, covering four pages of foolscap, in which it is etated that ar- rangements have been completed for ending his career unless he quits helping the enforcement of the law within three weeks. The deacons of the Baptist church, Kemptville, have been notified that unless they dismiss their present pastor the church will be burned, as was the Methodist church Ei few days ago. The churches in both villages are now under guard. The guards at the Metho- dist church, Spencerville, are convinced that had they. not been vigilant some suspicious characters who came up and prowled around about 2.30 in the morn- ing recently would have done some dam- age. --The captain of the Government steamer Newfield hes forwarded to the Marine Department at Ottawa an en- velope, on the back of which is scribbled a brief message. The letter was picked up at Sable Island whilst the Newfield was on her way back to Halifax with the automatic and other buoys which had been gathered in from the coast for winter. The writing is in French and is as follows :----" Newfoundland, 12th November, 1887.—Dear Parents,—I bid you farewell forever, 1 will soon be in another world, not alone, however, for we are, 890 passengers in terrible des- pair. Only one half hour to live and then farewell, Do take courage and think no more of me." At the bottom is apparently a signature which was read as "L. Linther, of St. Nicholas, Meurthe." The captain of the New- field did not say under what circum- stances he found the envelope or whether it was contained in a bottle or any kind of covering. The Marine Department are making inquiries respecting the matter. - —At the recent annual convention of the Ontario Creamery Association held at Guelph, Professor Robertson read a paper on "The Outlook for Creameries," showing that there are 900,000,000 pounds of butter produced by Canada, and only 50,000,000 of this is creamery butter. This left a great margin for possibilities. In discussing a pa,per on ensilage, Professor Robertson said that Guelph College had sinned in the past in opposing ensilage, but had repented. Ensilage was a cheap food,healthy food, easily digested and a well -flavored food. He gave statistics showing the results of experiments to prove these as- sertions. The annual report of the Guelph crsamery showed the -sales of the year to have been $9,029.86 worth of butter, $289.30 worth of buttermilk, and $229.40 worth of pigs. The expenditure had been the same amount less $404.57. The patrons received $6,700.49 for cream. The election of the Advisory Board re- sulted in the appointment of Messrs. D. Macfarlane, A. Crosby, J. Carter, A. McIntosh and J. Lennie. —At nine o'clock last Saturday night an alarm of fire was sounded in St. Thomas, and in a moment flames were seen shooting from the city hall. In a -short these the brigade was on the scene, and the doors were chopped open. On the ground floor of the building is situated cell No. 1, to which prisoners from the other cells in the city are transferred for the night. To this cell two hours before a tramp who had ridden between two cars on a Michigan Central train from the west was consigned. The tramp fell from the cars as they reached the spot, benumbed with cold, and wandering don the city asked the Police Constable to give him lodgings for the night. The flames leaped up to the roof, and in a few minutes the whole building was in a blaze, making it so difficult to reach the cells that fifteen minutes had passed before the prisoner was reached. He was carried out, but the fire had done its deadly work and life was extinct. His death was doubtless caused by suffo- cation, as his burns, though terrible, were not sufficient to cause instantaneous death. The building was saved, though the police magistrate's books and many valuable papers were destroyed. —Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett, wife of Mr. Wm. Barrett, the well-known Gospel temperance worker in Hamilton, has just met her death under very sad cir- cumstances. Some time ago her young son had his back injured from a blow and his leg poi:staled by a, wild planaand on being taken tu the hospital the case was thought to be hopeless by the doc- tors. The boy was then taken home to die, but his parents' attention continued incessant, and resulted, after long nurs- ing, in the spinal injury being remedied and the poisonous wound in the leg get- ting better. This wound required fre- quent washing, and upon rinsing some of the clothes last week Mrs. Barrett unknowingly took some of the poisonous matter into a small cut in her thumb. Twenty-four hours after the hand was extremely painful, and on Tuesday the entire arm had greatly swelled, and mortification had set in on the hand. A consultation of several doctors decided that the only slim hope was in removing the arm, and it was then amputated. After the amputation the dreadful pain still continued, and she died, leaving her husband with seven children to Mourn her loss. She was 39 years of age. •-• —The West Wawanosh Mutual Fire Insurance Company held its annual meet- ing on Tuesday 17th inst., pursuant to notice. It was well attended by the directors and others frem the surround- ing townships. Mr. Ballantyne of the township ot Huron, preided over the meeting in a vry satisfactory and busi- ness like manner, and for which he was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks. J. M. Pobrts, E,(1. ; seeretarytreasurer being c idled upon to give a statement of the bus ness transacted during the year 1887, did so in a very clear and satis- factory manner, and it appears the Company is in a prosperous condition. There was a unanimous approx al of the report. The following gentlemen were chosen Directors in lieu of the retiring ones: C. Girvin, President, West Wa- wanoth, J. Griffin, Ashfield, and Haake a the township of Kinloss. 4,14 I • 3 I