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The Huron Expositor, 1888-02-10, Page 1• H A I 1\1- s Ls,, bhs, id Jackets, YEA-. lanke:ts, 'oats &c. a- Goods sw weeks, and the r Stock must be 'AUL, Z.TH, a'=-=zs-de=s-sawsisa- was excellent in tea was served and istice to the good aisles were cleared vi, and the second programme corn - literary and II1USi- ). H. Bridgeman, chair in his usual uanneT. The pro- ning of naudic, readings, ises, and was car- er creditable to all halogue, entitled a" or "The Roughs ; the closing or last ne, was especially to throughout by such pleasure and Ise took part in it: Wm. Evergreen; a Blenheim ; viiss y, or Lady Ever- yre, as servant or eue, which requir- e, to render, was at a. single -mistake. ()flawing a. social which was even ed than the tea, ing taken up and assages crowded. e evening was un - dialogue above given by special is of the tea and rty. ibbert has been old_ end esteemed iers of the county. deserves this dis- is of his fellow- s:, knee him will ,election has been iaird will fill the v and efficiency, re, make as popu- i been a comacillor. SOCIETY. —At the te Hibbert Agri - following officers in. Oliver, Presi- 11, Vice -President ninglaw, Thomas ms Miller, James • McLellan, Geo. a Directors. The that the society more prosperous present. e --The Farquhar y has at length bert Gardiner, the ps down and out. senior of Hibbert, sostmaster in his Hay still acts as cc will not be re- proved himself to sd obliging poet- ic' to; see that he sue of the farmers 'y busy at present umber, etc., with. g in the spring. rand J. A. Mc - bank barns next Rost of the mater - Mr. Peter Mel- often.gaid purpose putting substan- lerneath. These w that it pays to 'ler their stock. e the contract of and Mr. Robert ract of Mr. Mc- mgald's. lush, re- bad in many teo deep for good. prophesied a, mild fall of snow are heir minds oft the ne is getting in a i pays the highest tees has sold his s to his neighbor, i5 and purchased o' h." 1, 0 I 0. The 10o acres and is. ----Mr. A. T. Cole, is making pre - a fine barn next tedium of the 7th te build a brick f the- young men s vicinity to the Lieen last fall have t- report dull times - der. --d,inother of hicli have been so line of Morris of londav last when united in marriage daughter of Mr. of the 6th line of TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,052. S. 41 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888. {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. .... _A= TEIE Cheap Cash Store _ Hoffman SEAFORTII, THE RAMBLER. BY JAMES SMILLIE. DEAR EXPOSITOR,—As the above nson de pinmc attaches to a Canadian, with whom I have become associated, I shall, in this series, connect my narrations with his erratic and rather remarkable career. By way of introductipu, 4 re - Csume of his life before crossing; the 0 . , equator in 1885 may be allowable, after ; which we will confine ourselves, to anti- podean experiences in the dusky green lands, whose insular and isolated shores are lashed by the foamy terraced Waves of the perpetual summer seas. Can be had some very good bargains for a few weeks, in the following lines : Dress Gods, Mantle, Jacket and Ulster Cloths, Shaws, Jackets, Blankets, Furs, Fla.nnels,-Clotlas, Underclothing, Gloves, Hose, 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. NOTIGE.—Agents for Buttericks Reliable Pat. terns, Fashion Books,. Sheets, etc. —At Gravenhurst on Friday, John Hagley, of that town, defeated C. Boy- den, of Bracebridge, in a skating race for the championship of Muskoka. —Ten valuable horses and three ponies were lost on the last voyage of the steamer Alcides, from Glasgow to Hali- fax. The vessel had a stormy passage. The horses were Clydesdales. —Mr. and Mrs. James Havill, resi- dents of Galt for the past 44 years, cele- brated their golden wedding on the 29th ult. They were married at Trinity church, in the Parish of St. Mary's, London, England, on January 29th, 1838, by the Rev. Gilbert Chesiautt. —Rev. Mr. McConnell, Presbyterian minister at Craigvale, n,ar Barrie, was brutally assaulted. Tuesday night last week. The reverend gentleman was re- turning from the Presbytery, and had just lett the train to go to his house, when he was followed by John Gregg, who knocked him down and kicked him • about the body.. Mr McConnell was I picked up and taken to the house of Mr. Crow, close by, and was followed by Gregg, who tried to break in and renew the attack. Gregg is one of the number who went into the church at Craig vale about a year ago and Made a great dis- turbance, for which he was given six months in the county jail. —Mrs. Mary Queen, a refined-leoking as---' woman, was arrested th&s ° lot. night in Hamilton for being ,funk. Site was placed in a cell aboatelso'clock, add two hours later was found hanging to the door. She had taken off her under- clothing, put it over the iron bars, and then put it round her neck with the in- tention of committing suicide. Dr. Anderson sucseeded in restoring her to consciousness. She had several fits immediately after, but she is all right again. At the Police Court she said she had been taking chloral under a doctor's direction, and was under its in- fluence when arrested, and knew nothing of what she had done. She wa.a remanded. daIt is stated on first-class authority that there are at present lying on the Canada Pacific Railway roads no fewer than 80Q car loads of freight. From -all the towns and stations along the line comes a cry for cars. Every available plaee is packed with wheat, and thous- ands of bushels are stacked about the stations and in the streets, the latter, of course, being totally unprotected, ex- pose4 to the- weather, and liable to de- struction. There are no less than eleven hundred cars of wheat between Winnipeg and Port Arthur. Cars that left Carberry seven weeks ago have not been received 1 Winter- had thrown his icy emantle over the woodland plains of Ganada, a thaw had set in, and a drizs.ling rain was falling over thewestern part of ,On- tario ; but during the night therelaxing elements were arrested and a Alight o frost had suspended -many icicl s around the log -house eaves; or hung t ern high among the branches of the rees. So that when the sun rose bright nd clear on the morning of the 16th of ebruary, 1854, the silvery sheen that a iimr»ered on every hand -was like the s ark,le of diamonds in a sea of crystal n such a glorious morning, near the w 11 -known city of Toronto, our hero, wh se Chris- tian name is Frank, first open d his eyes on this mundane sphere. He i of Scotch extraction, for his parents had just arrived a few months before from the native shire of Burns. His father was a fine looking man, six feet high, muscu- lar, symmetrical, of dark •complexion, and highly intellectual with the dignified bearing of a prince, while his mother was a small, undecided brunette, with finely chiseled figure and features, much admired in those days of long Ilya! Years roiled on, brothers and Sisters succeeded, Canadian snows had 14icces- sively fallen and melted, and othee con- temporary changes had taken place. Frank was going to school in Wintenbut like many other boys of that agricaltural country had to atop at home in stimmer to assist his father on the farm. -He had never been particularly fond of work, so at about the age of 18 he decided to be- come a candidate for a place in the more ethereal world' of letters anol quit an occupation Ithat had never been; very q9 it It cannot be of much interest to follow him through the coremop rou- tine of an eiticational course, which is told with a few variations in the -lives of • thousands, so we will skip a decade and meet him in this Australian la d,shiftiug e yellow any inter- pany- his oxing-day, round the rolling banks and over the ely ian harbor of Port Jackson. It ie coal for this season of the year, but the threatening rain will prevent many from carrrying out their holiday programme.; I leisure- ly strolled down to the General Post Office to post a letter to my father, - and fearing it might be overweight went into the inquiry office to see. rWe always like to send as much as we can, and often get very close' on the authorized allowarMe—one half' ounce—which takes a six penny stamp. The official in eharge was engaged for a few minutes with a lady, and while I was waiting a fair complexioned mate about my own age mad size entred and also stood awaiting his turn. I took more notice of him than I generally do of strangers, on ac- count of hie wavy hair, which was longer than the fashionable man wears, and which I imagined gave him a very pro- fessional air. When my letter was in the balance, his eyes, from which there seemed to be no escape, caught the ad- dress,and without ceremony or introduc- tion he ejaculated, "I suppose you're a Kanuck." Afterl exchanging experiencet fora few minutee he said, "I could have told with the coiner of my left eye that you werenonative cif this land of mutton." As " distance lends enchantment to the view," or " far off fields look green," so countrymen meeting on a distant shore, look only for the good in each other, and soon be me quite friendly and confiden- 1 tial. il's business on this opeasion was to find how much the postage would be on a NeW Year's card addressed to Miss ii M—, B -h, Albury. Here was nother rivet link by which we could joi experi- ences; for I had been in Albuhy could corroborate; the eulogistic urns he Was piling up, on the recipient of the card he held in h She is the only daughter of the tor of a large vineyard on the the Murray. Her father emigre the " Fadder Land " many y ars ago, and from a comparatively small begin. ning has grown wealthy with the devel- opment of the country. A sm 11 gran - at Ottawa yet. Wheat shipped in the i middle of December to eastern points is ' not reported at its destination. If grain men raise their voices it means business death to them. For the past six weeks h they have had absolutely to decline to accept orders from the east for grain to Ise delivered within a short specified I time. -A peculiar and serious accident I happened to Albert Humphries, the five- 1 year-old son of Mrs. Thos. Humphries,of 1 Tyrconnel,Elgin County. While,with a number of little girls, he was amusing him- self with sewing, and reaching over for a piece of cloth to sew, in so doing ran - a needle its entire length between his ' ribs into the base of his heart:The needle was entirely buried in the flesh, and could only be noticed by the pulse- , tions of the heart, causing it to jerk at • each pulse. At first the movement was quite plain, but as time passed the needle kept working its way further in. Dr. Ling was sent for, but did not arrive until four hours after the acci- dent happened. He found it necessary to make an opening in the skin, and re- move a large quantity of fat before he was able to extract the needle. Strange to say, as soon as the needle was re- moved the child felt as well as if no -thing 1 -ad happened to hire , from place to place—like t sands—and by and by relate eating events that may acco movements. It is the afternoon of IF 1887 ; low fleecy clouds hang Glances from thy radiant orbs, I cannot well define, But they have left their impress deep, On this poor heart of mine. But I may drop my pencil, The pen has ne'er been seen, That can describe the loveliness Of Albury's Getman queen." Frank is not the kind of stuff usually put up for a "ladies' man," or in colonial parlanoe a " fancy man," but he is con- siderable of a flirt and very fond of romance: His perceptive faculties are well developed. His nature is sufficient- ly versatile and cosmopolitan, and with a keen sense of the ridiculous and a close acquaintance with the waySof men and women, he makes an agreeable and interesting companion. Far from home, half way round the world, we stand by the Sydney great stone postoffice, with many interests in common. But the afternoon is not more than half gone, so We will "do . the block," not to see the merchandise of nations on display, for the business houses are closed ; but it is nice to walk under the verandas, where the evergreen decorations of .yesterday are still td ba seen. Besides, perchance we may meet someone we know. Many people are in from the country, and seem to have "the block" pretty much to theineelvei The towns- people have gone elsewhere for amuse- ment, glad to -get away from the mono- tonous bustle in the arteries of a great city. Frank made many comments on the variegated characters we met, con- trasting the girls and boys with those of Canada. He said, " look at these men and boys from the bush, you can tell them by looking at their trousers, which are always creased from having been folded carefully away. Then the gait, and the seemingly unconscious lack of decision in the expression of the face, with a certain laxity about the muscles that maintain the equilibrium of the mouth." I told him not to be too hard, for they did not seem so much out of place as the judge's. daughter, who was up country for the first time at her uncle's station, . and who wished that cow standing in the paddock, for the last two hours, would sit down for she must be tired. We had not gone much further when we met a typical " larri- kin "in tight boots, tight bell bottomed trousers, close fitting. sac coat, with the three battens behind. A slouch hat was well down on his ill -shaped fore- head, a red tie ook the place of a collar, 1, and with his In nds in his pockets - he went shambling down the main street of the city. The rule of the foot -path— " keep to- the right "—is not much observed here. Old " chems " met and stand up to "pitch a yarn." Mobs hang round the street corners, as if they hardly knew what they were there for, and "boozers" are in front of the " Pub " doors ; so that the " mashers of the block," well dressed ladies or respectable" men, have to de a good deal of zig zagging as they pass up or down. All are having their Christmas in their own way. The evil doer of the south is soon lost in the medley crowd, oo, and encomi- ould be s hand. roprie- anks of ed from entirely, in nutny cases, fru' that mild feeling o' .prejudice in the . minds o' mony o' the Scotch, English, an' Irish against the Yankees, whilk it appears they canna get rid of. Even their sell -interest (and doubtless that's strong enough) will not allow them to admit the undeniable truth, an' I must say that at ane time a' indulged the like feeling, but a' am glad to say 'ave got over 't now, an' for ma part wad verve. willintly see a' our Dominion annexed to the United States for many reasons. Chiefly because they are the maist go- ahead 'people in the world at the present day an' are setting the best example to the ither nations o' the earth, no eating out the verra vitals o' the commonwealth wi' an expensive army o' armed men an' munitions o' war to kill, their neeborS wi' ; like the miserable Monarchies o' Europe. After getting rid o' that filthy legacy left them by Britain they dis- te monument in " God s acre, corner of the estate, marks th place of "mien frow," and the on the resting id man, who must soon be carried to the same place and laid beside her, is proud of only two things—the vineyard, which is a testimon41 to his industry aad skill, and his only .daughter, Strangers, who wish to be shown over the vineyard, are always welcome, and the honest old man takes a great deal of pride in explaining the caltivatioef the vine, or the process li by which the lj ice is extracted from the gra ; but he would consider his duty incon plete nt'l you are invited into the house and int oduced to his daughter, who is request d to bring on thp glasses, while he goes on to explain that this was 1 mile by himself six years ago, and that he fault of all the wine y u get to buy i that it is too pew. Befotle closing the nvelope Frank, for this was he, took. he card out to show it to me. On it w s a bunch of forget -me nots, en- circle I by a golden horse sho , and on the Bk the following lines were care d : fully written with his own ban To Maggie; From Frank, meregentle echoes answer where? 1-;e4icath what sunny skies, s there a touch that moves us more Than woman's sparkling eyes? pital suffering from his wounds and loss of blood. • Jimmie Hiscot is under arrest charged with aggravated assault. —The Trade Forwarding and Pro- moting Company, of St. John, New Brunswick, have decided to forward an assorted cargo of Canadian products to the Argentine republic, to arrive there during the visit of the Argentine Com- missioner. —The other day Hope Longley, a young married man of St. Catharines, was working on the ladder. of a pile driver on the Niagara Central,. when a wooden block fell and dashed him to the ground, crushing in his skull so badly that he lidfd only a few minutes. —At the court held at Milton for the trial of corrupt practices at the Halton election, James Bell and Wm. Bullivant pleaded guilty and were sentenced re- spectively to $25 fine and costs and eight hours' imprisonment and $10 fine and banded their army an' settled down to costs and five hours' imprisonment. commercial quiet, like sensible aids as —Judge Neilson, who presided over they are, an' literally fulfilled the pro- phecy in heating their swords into pleughshares an' their spears into prun- ing hooks, whereas if they had been possessed by the spent o' conquest like the tyrants o' Europe they wad hue wheeled about an' gave Canada a guid . licking for her ill -manners in laughing at them in their struggle, an' they could easily hae had us a' t' themselves if they had wanted, for what could 3,000,000 hae dune against 35,000,000 if they had been determined. For the above, an' many other reasons, a' have been con- verted to Yankeeism; a' also want to get a share o' that $5,000,000 that they get free us yearly in Custom duties, which, if spread among us farmers, wad gar Us cock our lugs fu' brawly, forby if we had Annexation there wad be nae need o' a' this fichting about fishery laws, or three mile limits, an' a' that nonsense. We wad just ha.e a' things comnion, like the first Christians, an' could live together in unity as our Maker intendit us t' do, an' this Ontario o' ours wad form a nice big state o' the Union an' lute her am n laws the same as she has noo anhfull liberty tae inforce them without Tory interference frae Ottawa, as is now too often the case. the trial of the Tilton -Beecher case in New/ York some 13 years ago, was a Canadian, and having died last week his remains were conveyed to Morven, Lennox County, and there interred. He was born in Ernesttown in 1813, and left the country when a young man. —Constable O'Brien, of Uxbridge, and his assistant,arrested Adam Wallace and Geo. Armstrong the other morning in Goodwood for violation of the Scott Act in November last, and took them to Whitby gaol to serve a term of 30 days each. The parties have been evading the law since November. —The secretary of the Toronto Hu- mane Society, Mr. J. J. Kelso, has re- ceived a check for $500 from a generous lady in Park dale, towards the support of the work undertaken by the society. The society seeks, briefly, the preven- tion of cruelty and the diffusion of a humane public sentiment. —On Friday night, 27th ult., Mr. Andrew Grundy, of Lucknow, had a narrow escape from serious, if not fatal injuries. He was in the hay loft of the barn at Cain's hotel, and in the darkness fell through a trap hole' to the floor below, some 12 or 14 feet. He lay for some time unconscious, but fortunately Besides, it wad pit an end to Tory his injuries were only of a slight nature. boodlers, an' a' sic' trash, which wad —The other day a three-year old contrast favorably wi' the present state child of Mr. Andrew Skinner, of St. o' thins, which fulfills the auld Scrip- George, got hold of a bottle of strong ture statement to a nicety, namely, "On each side walk the wicked, when vile men are high in place." 0, man, but a' was pleased to see ye gee that silly bodie o' the Empire sic' a cluff the lug, for his impudence is greats I am, Dear Editor, Your e Truly, At: ell PAUL PRI. Belgrave, Jany. 31, 1SSS. Canada. Over $1,000,000 worth of lobsters were shipped from Halifax last year. --There were 8,959 convictions in the Recorder's Court at Montreal in 1887. —Dr. -Bernardo expects to send 50 as he gravitates towards his own level boys to Canada in March. like the sewerage of the metropolis. The town clock has struck five, so we start for home, after having arranged to meet at Her Majesty's Theatre, et 8 o'clock. After the play -- a realistic drama, cleating with incidents which actually -occurred during the persecution —A depressed condition of affairs and massacre Of the Jews in Russia in exists in Manitoba at the present time 1879—a presentation will be made to owing to the railway monopoly. —Passenger rates between Winnipeg and Vancouver have been reduced from $57 to $50. —A formal call to Rev. Mr. Fleck, to assume the pastorate of Knox church, Winnipeg, has been sent to Montreal. Hnla.n by the Mayor of the city, and he and Beach are expected to address the people. The holidays will soon be over, in a it few days 1888 will be ushered in with all the ceremony that has marked the beginning of the cycles down through the sweep of years. But in no other part of the world can these four figures create such a furore. Nowhere else can they mark such an important epoch as Australia's Centennial year. Extensive preparations are being made for the celebrationon the 26th of January, and many distinguished visitors from Ameri- ca, "Home"and the " Continent" have come over to see what it all meant. Come and see us. All the world is invited. (To bb continued.) A Scotchman's Opinion of' Commercial Union. DEAR EDITOR.—It seems to me an' a deal/ o' mi neebor farmers, that this CoMmercial Union, or Free Trade question is getting rather; low speerited o' lte, and especially sin your un- answerable retort to the new fledged Empire paper about our Ontario ex- ports to the United States, which4, a' was real glad to see. For there are a great many o' our ultra loyal folk wha wad threep doon ma' throat that what we export to the ,United States is a mere bagatel in comparison wi what we export t' Britain, an' believe me, your statement wad be t' some o' them a vera eye opener on that subject, that is if its' possible to open their een ava, which is doubtful, an a great many o' them are just as igeorant as to the amount o' goods imported by us from the United States, which in 1886 aMounted to 44,858,039 dollars' worth, an' that same year we exported to the United States 36,578,76P dollars' worth, but in the face o' a' this, a' was tell't the ither day by ane e' oer ultra loyal- ist a that Commercial E4JInion with the theited States would o us no good. Now sir, it's an historicail fact (tho' they may no ken that) that while we had Reciprocity with the United States be- fore, our trade wi' them increased in he -12 years from 2O.O00,000 to 884,- 600,000, an' will they say that was no benefit to us. A tell ye :the farmers o' than days thocht it was. : Then we sent a' our beef cattle to th§ Albany, New York, an' Boston marke s, an' got more per pound for them the, than we get to -day, an' we saved the earriage across the big water, an' it piloved also mair nsercifu' to the beasts. But it's a fact, Mr. Editor, that a greet deal o' this oPpositioe to Commercial Union springs —Fifteen hundred cotton mill opera- tives are on strike in Cornwall against a reduction of wages. —A gang of six burgars, the eldest of whom is 20 and the youngest 16, have been captured at Montreal. —The other evening in Toronto a young lady had a Persian lamb cap snatched off her head while walking along Chestnut etreet. —Sir John and Lady Macdonald are regular attendants of the revival meet- ings et the evangelists Crossley and HuntPr. The Premier joins in the hymn -singing. —The recent chinook wind in the mountains struck the MacLeod vicinity, Northwest Territory, with tremendous force. Buildings were unroofed and other damagb done. —The Penny Savings Bank in Mon- treal shows gratifying increase in business and usefulness. The deposits of last year being largely increased over those of the previous year. —Seven cock -fighters who were in possession of eighteen birds were arrest- ed in Toronto Saturday., Some of the birds were suffering badly from the effects of previous battles ad several soon succumbed to their injuries. —Mr. P. J. V. Bisurdon, a commercial traveler from Montreal, was -attacked by three men on Dalhousie street, Toronto, last Sunday night, evidently with the intention of robbery, but, being a powerful man, he succeeded in driving them off. —The test well sunk by Glencoe is now dow-n 1,020 feet with no indications of water. The council have let the con- tract to have it bored to a depth of 1,500.feet. The whole cost of the ex- periment will be $2,600. —Dr. Richard Zimmerman, a well- known medical man, died at his resi- dence Hamilton Saturday morning in his 37th year. He was a son of the railroad king who was killed at the Des- jardins Canal.accident in 1857. —Jimmie Hiscot and his brother Cherlie a.re two of the best known stocks with E. Strachan Cox and A. T. Kerr, of Toronto, and speculations con- tinued up to the present, when loss after loss compelled him to close the doors last week. The creditors are princi- pally retired farmers and money- lenders. —An attempt has been made to black- mail certain hotel men in Napanee. They have been sent several letters ac- cusing them of Scott Act violations and demanding the payment of large sums of money as a condition of non exposure. The scheme has failed. —The Donald, British Columbia, cor- respondent of the Calgary Tribune says: Much has been written about the evil that is in Donald, but the half has not been told. The record is black enough to please even his Satanic Majesty and must give him unbounded satisfaction. The abuse of the license system of the Province in our town is shameful, notorious and most disgraceful. Li- censes ate granted promiscuously to applicants and prostitutes living in the saloons are serving at the bars. —The following are the occupations of the convicts in the penitentiary at King- ston : Carpenters, 45; blacksmiths, 25; stonecutters, 61; masons, 32; quarry- men, 36; tailors, 42; bakers, 6; farm- ers and gardeners, 36; engineers and assistants, 16. The rest are variously engaged. The total is 50. There is no contract work at the penitentiary. Of those imprisoned about two-thirds are unskilled. The proportion of men re- turning after being liberated is 11 or 12 per cent. —Samuel Thomas, aged 96, who has just died in the Finlay Asylum at Que- bec, had quite a history. He was a native of England, and while still a boy entered the navy on board the famoas "Bellerophon," being one of its crew at the taking ,of Algiers and during the conveyance of Napoleon I. to St. Helena. In 18'22 he came to Quebec with the "Bellerophon," and deserting settled at Cape Rouge near the city, where he be- came a stevedore until old age and its infirmities compelled him to find shelter in the asylum.- —A farmer named James McIver, of the township of Bedford, near Kingston, has died under circumstances suggestive of a coroner's inques. Some days ago he set out for a neighbor's farm, on which he intended to cut wood, and stopping by the way ata place where liquor was to be -had, drank freely. During his stay here a quarrel occurred between some men and he ascended a stair to see it. While viewing the fray he was struck in some way and knocked down the stairs, sustaining injuries internally, from which he died the same night. —The eighteenth Provincial Con veniton of the Young Men's Christian Association was held in Toronto last week. There was a large attendance of delegates and others and the proceed- ings throughout were exceedingly in- teresting and were brought to a close Saturday evening, when an evangelistic meeting was held. Several addresses were delivered by delegates. s In the afternoon three evangelistic meetings were held, one for young men, one for women and the third for boys. Friday afternoon Mayor Clarke delivered an address of welcome to the delegates. —Dr. John- H. Thrall, one of Wood - stock's leading physicians, died at his residence Thursday last week, after a few days' illness. Deceased was born in Canandaigua, New York, in 1830, and came tp Oxford 28 years ago, Dr. Thrall took a keen iuterest in public affairs, both of the town and county, and in the wider field of politics. He was an ardent supporter of the Conser- vative party, in which he has always exerted a wide influence and was a can- didate in North Oxford at the last Dominion election. He leaves a family of six, three sons and three daughters. - —A curious case was decided in the Court of Chancery at London, England, a few days ago. The question was whether one Collyer, a farmer in Mani- toba, had a right to take his son, 15 years old, who has been living with relations in England, to Manitoba for education as a farmer. The English relatives urged that the £600 which the boy possessed be used to educate him for the army. The judge described the application as an unwarrantable inter- ference with the father's right, and gave the father leave to take his son to Mani- toba, where the money could be more profitably expended than here. —Wm. Henderson, who kept a hotel on the Hamilton road in London town- ship, was fined 8100 and costs about 4 months ago fcir a breach of the Scott Act. Instead of paying up he skipped out to the Michigan lumber woods. He came home Thursday night last weeks got " full " to celebrate his return, kicked up a row at his house, and drew general attention in the neighborhood to himself. He intended to leave again next morning, but Detective Allen heard of his return, and was around bright and early Looking for him. Hen- slerson was lodged in jail to serve a -two months' sentence. ammonia and swallowed a portion of it. Aid was prompt and the drug re- moved from the stomach, but the lining membrane of the mouth and stomach was badly burned and the child was suffering great pain. —Two thousand tons of rails for the Red River' Valley Railway are at Morris. The remainder of the 6,000 tains required for the road are lying at Montreal await- ing payment of the freight charges. It is said the Greenway Governmeet will enter into negotiations with Messrs. Ryan & Haney, the former contractors, for the completion of the road. —The officials of the Canadian Pacific Railroad predict that within a year they will be able to take passengers from Europe to Yokohama in 21 days. A line f very fast steamships is run in connec- tion with the railway from England to Halifax, to which point connection will be made to Montreal. At Vancouver they Till have steamers that can make the trip to Yokohama in eleven days. —During last year Police Magistrate James Noble, of Middlesex, imposed fines for violation of the Scott Act to the amount of $12,800. There were 275 cases tried and 225 convictions made. The total amount of fines collected was $9,445. 'Twelve persons were committed. in default of payment of fines, to two months in gaol, and two were convicted for third offences and committed for two months. —At the annual meeting of the To- ronto Boardof Trade,Presidentelect W. D. Matthews, jun., in his address said the selling of bank and other shares for the purpose of influencing their financial standing, and not in the ordinary way of, business, was wrong. The selling of shares on speculation should occupy the attention of the Goverment with a view to preventing such transactions. Bucket shops weee nothing less than leeches on society. —Two young men named Moran, re- turning from Dakota to visit their sick father, near Arnprior, were accidentally smothered at a Chicago hotel by an escape of gas. The remaining brother went to Dakota to arrange the affairs of his dead brothers, and taking ill there returned home but to die himself. A short time before the death of these young men by smothering the first one of the family died, and now comes the news of the death of the father. elocutionist, gave several readings, and Rev. Mr. Thompson sang a couple of piect a to the delight of all present. The proceeds amounted to about 8140. —The opening of the new Presbyter- ian church at Milverton took place last Sabbath. Rev. P. Mel?. McLeod, of Toronto, preached morninue and evening. • —A sweet, coy, young maiden of 15 years, in St. Marys, eloped the other day with a gentleman from Toronto. Her brother is making vigorous search for her. —Mr. M. H. Ludwig, son of Mr. John Ludwig, of Sebrhsgville, headed the list at the recent examination at Os- goode Hall, Toronto, for second inter- niedi ary. —Messrs. Thomas Ballantyne & Son, Neid path farm, Downie, have purchased. an imported yearling shorthorn bull to head their fine herd. He was lately im- ported frons the famous herd of E. Cruickshank, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. —Mr. Edward Trow, youngest son of Mr. James Trow, M. P., has just passed his examination for barrister and solici- tor at Qsgoode Hall, Toronto. He stood high in the honor list and passed with - nut an oral. —Mr. W. T. Andrews, who left Mitchell last spring for Denver, Colo- rado, met with the misfortune a few weeks ago of getting his leg broken. Apart from this the family have all done well since going to Denver. —The members of the Listowel Snow - Shoe Club are making good use of the deep snow -fall of this winter. Forty- eight of them tramped down a twenty acre lot on the banks of the Maitland the other night. —At a Sunday School entertainment recently held at Donegal, Miss Minnie Knox ,organist of Trinity church ,was pre- sented with a gold chain by the mem- bers and friends of the church, accom- panied with a complimentary address. —The "Globe flyer mail train met with its , first disaster last Saturday morning. Shortly after passing Prince- ton and between that place and Wood- stock one of the driving rods broke and the next instant the engine was in the ditch with the car trying to climb up on it. At the time of the acoident the train was going about sixty miles an hour, but strange to say no one was hurt. The engine was pretty badly shattered. —A delinquent lady subscriber of the Picton Times recently sent in her money accompanied by the following note Enclosed is three dollars for the Times since April '85, which should have been paid long ago. Of course newspaper men are a sort of good natured, -spiritual beings,that can live on air. They are characters in the city . of Hamilton. a much abused people who do not re - The family have lived there for many quire money, and I do not know that a years, and Jimmie proudly wears a publisher who will allow a subscriber to badge designating him the " official " take a paper three years without paying chimney sweep of the city. They have deserves any money." been a very dissolute pair, but lately, to the astonishment of every one, Charlie .was converted by the Salvation Army. This has disgusted his brother very much, and the other evening When Charlie returned -from the barracks, Jimmie taunted him with being a "Sal- vation bum," and a fight resulted in which the former was terribly beaten about the head and now lies in the hos- —Owing to the winding up of the Federal Bank and heavy losses sustained W. II. Cutten's private bank, known as the Guelph Banking Company, are obliged to suspend and go into liquida- tion. Cutten's real estate is mortgaged for 830,000. The deposits in the bank are estimated at from 815,000 to $25,000. It is said the cause of the col- lapee began with heavy dealings in —Two deaths of well-known residents of Mitchell occurred last week. Mr. James Bartlett, a resident of that town for the past 28 years,was buried on Mon- day, and Mr. Thomas Gourley, aged 24 years, was followed to his last resting place on Tuesday. —The Listowel fire brigade is report- ed to be in a very inefficient state. At a fire which occurred there Wednesday morning last week not a sixth of the citi- zens, and but very few of the fire bri- gade, knew until the property was all destroyed. —The other day a Gypsy horse -trader kicked up a jolly row on the street in Mitchell, and the constable unable to handle the burly fellow batted him over the head and then by drafting assistance plunged the disturber into the cooler for an hour or so. —Miss Mary Moscrip, of St. Marys, was awarded the silver medal at the recent art exhibition in London for her work of art. The subject is ea interior view of a house in St. Marys. The pic- ture was purchased by Mrs. Dr. Eccles of London.' It is regarded as a work of art of high merit. Perth Items. A span of horses was cremated with a stable belonging to Mr. John Conolly in Listowel the other morning. —Seven sleighloads of cheese were brought into Mitchell the other day from MT. Robertson's factory in Elms.. —Mr. Geo. Getz, from Alsace, ,Ger- many, is on a visit to his brothers and sisters in Sebringville, some of whom he had not seen for nearly 10 years. —The Salvation Army in Stratford purpose building a new barracks next spring. They have already purchased the bricks. , —Messrs. Hay, Ohmic and Kidd Bros. shipped a car load of horses at Listowel last week for Montral. -They report the market very dull. '—At the Presbyterian church anniver- sary services at Motherwell two weeks ago, Rev. John Thompson, of Ayr,10ffi- ciated, and at the Monday evening, tea - meeting Miss Agnes Knox, the famous —The barn and outbuildings of Fred Denstead, lot 32, concession 15, Ellice township, were consumed by fire on Tuesday morning, together with their contents, consisting of 16 head of cattle, 3 horses, 100 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of peas, 70 bushels of barley, and about 5 tops of hay. The cause of the fire is supposed to be incendiarism. Insured in the Perth- Mutual. —On Monday night last week at Rus- seldale Mr. J. D. Stewart's blood mare and one of Mr. J. Clark's horees held a high carnival in the stable of the latter. The animals got loese and began to dis- pute each others right to the freedom of the premises, and a ghastly sight of Highland gore presented itself in the morning. A veterinary surgeon was sent for and after a good deal of trouble succeeded in getting all the wounds sew- ed up, and the belligerents are now both doing well. —A meeting of the farmers of the township of Downie was held at St. Petits on islonday last week to consider and discuss the subject of Commercial Unin. The chair was taken by Mr. Peter Smith, end the first speaker was Mr. Trow,M.P., who had been asked to be present. Mr. Trow gave a general re- view of the question, and was followed by quite a number of farmers who spoke with much force and intelligence on the subect. There was no one who spoke directly against it, though a small number expressed their doubts about it. —Mr. F. Goebel, who left Mitchell for the South some weeks ago with the intention of settling there'returned last week. He is not at all favorably im- pressed with the sections of the south - that he visited, and. has given up all in- tention or desire for that part of the world. While in Alabama he called on Mr. Andrew Minto, formerly of Mit- chell, who, he says, was doing very well, but met with an unfortunate fall from a ladder recently that is likely to prove a serious matter to him, if not fatal. • --The Mitchell Recorder of last week says: Mr. Francis Elliott, formerly of Loan, and brother of Mrs. N. Brisbin, is On a visit to friends in this section after an absence of 25 years. When Mr. Elliott left here he went with a large family to Dakota, and he is now the owner of 11 quarter sections of land and carrying on farming on an extensive scale. He left his home about two weeks ago for a general tour south and north, and had only got about one hundred miles from home when the great blizzard caught him, and he was detained five days in Huron, Dakota. During that five days he saw several len brought in frozen solid as stone, and four days after that he was under a hot sun where the flowers were in bloom and the strewber- rice and fruit trees were in blossom. Spending a few days in New Orleans where everything was in the freshness of spring, he started north and came direct to Canada. He will remain in this sec- tion for a week or so and then return tn his home.