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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1889-12-27, Page 1iy pile a il :nce cod ally BUG - the the wi Bar- fcsr :res. Mop ship irary eting: the a of ising she'd Ren - 1 the trdiet amaa i de - 1 the >.itings rliday t at inst. !cided Gom- if the I Sea - read Ross, take f or as ed to to the Cam: ving Fund remain ler. A in and m lenne- s, that r wire ceasion Mer- ited for for the 'gal ex - school. Weather ided be- thowino in the epils of teach- Camp- sion by Met C. JohnpLpil� - ger,'ItMc- 'tai with tir -ready Cts. that I thereby ir teach- ty among The pro- rmiegled :v credit - 1 -A num- an setae - teachers f labor at the saquently leee dings; liendsome ery auita- lcItadzetin rig reply. Tacker, er, of the Ierritary, friend& e in Mit- : ,t 1 - - - 4, • • TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 'G' 1,150. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1889. Great Bargair)8 t —AT THE— Cheap Cash &colt —OF— HOFFMAN & CO. Great Bargains going in good useful and suitable articles for Holiday Pres- ents at our CHEAP SALE Of which the following are a few: Dress Goods, Mantles, „Mantle Cloths, Furs, Blankets, Shawls, Clouds, Scarfs, Hats, Caps, Hoods, _Corsets, Gloves, Mitts, Hose, Collars, Cuffs, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Ribbons, Lace Curtains, Milli- nery, and a. host, of other articles too numerous to mention here. Please call and take a look through the stock be fore completing your purchases, at the Cheap Cash_ Store 0 F c HOFFMAN & CO., • CARDNO'S BLOCK • SEA F 0 RT H.- 4 Great Inducement! Commenchsg SATURDAY, DECEM- BER 7th and lasting till New Year's Eve, Every_ Tenth Purchaser, No matter what the amount of pur- chase may be, will receive A Beautiful Present 1 Recognizing that Money is scarce J.. S. Roberts • Has determined to make it as ealy as possible for his customers to purchase their Christmas and New Years presents and has determined to offer his entire stock of Christmas and Fancy Goods —AT A— Discount of 10 per cent. for cash There is no space to enumerate but his stock will be found complete. -COME IN AND SEE and make your selection early, when by paying a small deposit the article will be put aside until oalled for. EXTRA INDUCEMENTS offered to presenta- tion committees and to school children making • presentations. J.S.ROBERTS, Chemist & Druggi s CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH, Perth Items. —Mr. A. Davidaon ex -deputy -reeve of Fullerton, has been seriously ill. —Mr. James Drummond has sold his feria adjoining the village of Milverton, to Sibert Snyder for $4,500. JE111108 J. Conacher, of Gretna, Manitoba, is visiting home and friends in Stratford. —There is a grand diaplay of fine beef and mutton carcases in the Stratford Christmas market. —Miss Maggie Davis fell from a buggy in Kirkton the other day dielo- eating herterm. —Mr. John Kelly, of Dublin, on Mon 'day, 16th inst., succumbed to injuries received by an accidentsome time ago. There was a very large attendance at his funeral. —Rev. James Livingston, of Clinton, preached the anniversary sermons in the, Methodist church, Listowel, on Sunday, 15th inst. Re also gave an address at the social oil Monday evening. —Mr. Gus. Goebel hastpurchased the east end livery stable stock and interest, in_Mitchell, from Mr. John Farrow, for $900, and will take possession of the premises at once. —At Mr. Murr's auction sale on the 15th concession of Logan, Wednesday of last week, very high 'prices were re- alized for eVerytlaing. Sheep brought $25 a pair ; cows from $24 to $35 each. Mr. Jones wielded the hammer. —Mr. J. M. Moran, late of Stratford Collegiate institute staff, has been offer. ed and has accepted_ the principalship of the Barrie Public Schools at a salary of $1,000. The pupils and friends of Mr. Moran, in Stratford, presented him with a parse ,of $60 on his retirement. -2,-Mr. Hunt, the representative df the Ball Electric Light Company, slip': ped on sorne wet planks in Mitchell the other'tlay• and broke his knee pap. He had intended leaving for Toronto the same day, buts laid up at the Hicks' House by his accident. —Mr. Greensideg, sr., of Iditchell, met with a serious accident at Monkton a short time ago. While working in the niill yard a log, somehow,. rolled on to him and broke one of his legs. Be- ing advanced in years the wound will lay him up most of the winter. —At a recent meeting of the Mit- chell High,School Board the head mas- ter, Mr. W. Elliot, B. A., and Mr. George Malcolm, second master, were re-engaged at their old salaries. The resignation of Mr. Peafen, third teach- er, was accepted, and Mr. W. Nugent, son of Rev. F. E. Nugent was engaged to fill the vacancy at a salary of' $500 per annum. „ {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. e1.5O a Year, in Advance. EAST HURON. FARMERS' INSTITUTE. (Concluded from last week.) SATURDAY'S ArEETING. - . The Institute opened on Saturday , . with fully a larger attendance than ian the previous day. This seasion was opened by a talk on hoes and cows by Professor Robertson. There is no more important industry on the farrn than the growing of hogs. At the college they grow hogs from 25 to 122 lbs -at a cost-ef 2k lbs of shorts meal to 1 it) of live weight. As the hog be- comes heavier it costs morol to feed him. From 75 to 150 Is it costs 25 per cent. more feed. It never pays to feed hoga after thoy get to be 225 lbs weight. " It, pasts to feed hogs on Borne bulky feed such as clover, as well as with grain. Wheat, is as good food as can beggiven and when it is very cheap it pays better to feed it to hogs than t resell it in the grain. Barley also, isgood. It does not pay to sell barley for 40 cents per bushel, but if fed to hogs it will realize $1.25 per 100 lbs of gram when sold in pig\ instead of irs bag. In this way it pays to grow barley. t There is no, ad- vaittage in souring or boiling feed' for pigs. He always puts the meal dry in theAroughs and mixes it with water be- fore the pigs are allowed tio get at it. For breeding sows, howev r, feed should be boiled. Breeding so/ws mist get milk producing food. A? sow suckling ten pigs will give 30 Ms tel milk a day, as much as a cow and ofrot much richer i , quality, and if she does get food to produce this milk, she Must draw it from herself. Pigs should con -ie ip the spring andiall and should never be kept longer than from six to nine mouths old. The cheapest time to sell pigs is in the fall; more money will be made by sell- ing them from April toJuly. Pork can he made tkt ii cost of-acents per pound; he would as soon sell pork at 4i cents live weight as at 5 cents dressed. A farmer should keep two hogs for every cow he keeps. In speaking of cows he advised farmers to have one half of their cows to come in in the fall from September to November. , In this way they could make butter ail winter and , have it t6 sell when it is at its highest. price and these cows will give as ,Much milk to the cheese factories in July as those ,that calf in the spring. IntIthis way also,the calves can be more cheaply reared, as the fall calves will be sufficiently ad- vanced to make their own living on the grass as soon as the grass comes in the spring, and there a•ill be more milk to spare for the spring calves. We must not forget the rearing of calves if we want to mette money out of stock. With judicious managemeut calves can be successfully reared, and butter, and cheesetmade all the year roundeand to rear calve e profitably they should be bred and fed so that the steers will be ready for market at two years old. He hoped soon to see all the factories mak- ing cheese in summer and butter in winter. In this way, by making butter in winter and cheese in ummer and rearing our calves and pigs and adapt- ing our system of farming to producing :the cheapest kinds of feed to carry tout this end, we can make farming pay, rind we will do away with: the hard tithes which now visit us. This is no vain or visionary theory. A few years ago in the small kingdom of Denmark, where the climate is very similar to oui, the farms became exhausted and farmers became impoverished growing grain. They turned their attentiou to dairying and stock raising in the manner advised and in a -few years the lands became re- cuperated-, farming paid and the people are now on the high road to prosperity. The cry2of hard times is seldom heard. The same was the case in Wisconsin and other Statesand the same results followeda What has been done in Den- mark and,Wisconsin can surely be done in Canada. Mr. Thomas Bayles, of Molesworth, also spoke on the subject of "Hogs and how to make them. profitable." He appke strongly of the necessity of treat- ing-40gs kindly and of taking care of them as of any other animal. If this is done the hog will prove as profitable an animal as can be raised on the farm. It is two often the case that the hog is the most neglected and abused animal on the farm. He is sheltered on the lea side of a wire fence and is greeted with a kick with the foot or te blow with a club. This however, is not the way to make him profitable. To make him profitable, his wants must be studied. He must be warmly housed, well fed and kept clean,even washed if necessary. To such humane treatment the hog will respond every time and will give better returns for good treatment than almost any other animal on the farm. Pigs can be raised with a net profit of 50 per cent. Pork can be raised -for 3 cents per pound. There is a possibility. of turning all our coarse grains into pork at a profit of 50 per cent. on the cost of produc- tion. A neighbor of his in the town- ship of Elma, a leading farmer there, told him that he had kept" 21 chester white hogs at a coat of 13 cents per hog, per day. Another farmer wintered 15 hogs on a ten of cut clover and $15 worth of shorts and sold them in the spring for $1'50. A third farmer in the same Vicinity sold 20 spricg pigs for $200 and gOt the 'same price, for the same nurriber of fall pigs and cleared $150 oh each lot. This shows -that growing pigs does pay if properly inan- aged. He did not believle in selling live hogs aa buyers always heck too much for shrinkage. 'He was strongly in fa- vor of the Chester White as compared with the Berkshire for profit.' One reae son is that the former is more easily fed and produces a larger amount of good meat. The Berkshire carries fourtenths of his weight from the back of the shoul- ders forward. Tag meat is much less valuable than that carried back of the shoulders. The ---Chester White is light from the shoulders forward and heavy back, and consequently produces 'a lar- ger Amount of high priced meat. The ,Chester White is also smaller inside than the Berkshire and thus gives more meat for the feed consumed. He therefore strongly recommended the breeding of the Cheater White. The Berkshire, however, seemed to be the favorite pig with a majority of the meet: ing. _ , This address closed Saturday fore - „noon's proceedipgs, , ; SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The'first proceeding was the election of officers for the current year, which resulted as follows; President, U. Mc- Fadden ; 1st Vice President, J. McRae; 2ud Vice President, A. L. Gibson • Sec- • retary-Taeasurer, W. Bishop.Direc- tors, Hullett, R. McMillan and. John Britton; McKillop, T. E. Hays and- A. Gardiner ; Grey, R. Dilworth and D. Robertson ; Morris, J. Sharp and S. Walker '• Turnberry, T. Mosgrove and S. Black; flowick, R. Edgar and W. MCKerracher ; Brussels, W. H. Mc- Cracken and J. N. Knechtel ; Wroxet- er, T. B Sanders and A. L. Gibson. _ The Auditors report showed a balance in the Treasury of $15. Several mem- bers present spoke in high terms of praise of the efficient and energetic ser- yices of Mr. Win. Bishop as Secretary - Treasurer and expressed their convic- tion that othe high standing of the Insti- tute is due largely to his energetic and self-sehrificing labors. They showed also that their appreciation was not limited to mere words as they, 'teased a resolution unehimously making his re- muneration for next year $20 and giv- ing him $40 for his services for the past two years. , Mr. W. H. ' McCracken, the well- known prize winner, read a short but excellentt paper on "The Farmers' Garden.” He said that nothing a farmer could have would pay him better than a small root and vegetable garden with a few shrubs, such as gooseberries and black and white or red currants, some choice raspberries and a well -kept bed of itrawberriee. The roots and vegetables should be as follows ; cabbage, cauliflow- er, beets, carrots, parsnips, celery, onions. tomatoes, beans, peas, cucum- bers, citrons, greens and salads -of dif- ferent kinds. With such a ° garden, properly , looked after, dkrery farmer would hare not only the necessaries but also the luxuries of life and would save him besides at 1eas*'50 per year, which if put out at 7 per cent. interest for 20 years and allowed to compound would reach the nice little sum of $2,000. Not only is there a gain in money matters, but also there would be a gain ie health, as it is a well-known, fact that those who eat freely Of vegetaras are less liable to many of the dia,,aaes now com- mon to mankind, such as dyspepsia, constipation and rheumatism, causing •a great saving in doctor's bills, to say, nothing of how much more labor he or. she could persorm in the absence of those diseases. Mr. W. R. Bishop read a paper on "Root Crops," whiche had evidently been carefully prepared and contained much useful information 8n the subject. The better the stocie on a -farm the more - readily will it respond to treatment, be it good or bad. Experience has proven that it is diffilult, if not impossible, to keep stock well without roots. Wher- ever the best farmers are there will be found root crops. Roots are the , best crop to manure the land rith, as there are always more or less foul seeds in the -manure, and the rigid cultivation re- quired for roots, kills the weeds and clears the land. As a rule the land for roots should be plowed twice in the fall, and well manuredtaf ter the first plowing. He did not approve of spring plowing for roots. He thciught they did better with the land plowed twice in the fall aud lightly cultivated in the spring. Ile then gave the best methods for sowing and harvesting the crop, and the relative feeding properties of turnips, rnangolds and carrots. „. - The discussion of Mr. Bishop's paper was interrupted by the arrival of Mr. •Hays and Mr. Plewes, the President and Secretary of the Ontario Millers' Asso- ciation. The meeting had been looking forward to the arrival of these gentle - m en with a good deal of expectancy, and their appearance was a signal for a cessatiou of hostilities on the turnip question. . Mr. Plewes took the platform and at considerable length explained the diffi- culties under -whichhe millers labor, 1 and the causes of the differmaces exist- ing between the farmera and the roller millers. He said the whole, fraternity were in ignorance of the roller mill busi- ness, and were working in the dark, and gaining knowledge by experience. They could net pill as cheap under -the eoller -mill system as under the old system. The interest and insurance on the old mills would be abo:ut 000 a year, on the new mills it was about $14100, and that wet the reason -that they liad to charge more. He charged that the farmers brought the roller mills here themselves: M r. 0 oldie, of Guelph, had the first roller mill in this section an& far iers would pass the old mills and ge 2- miles to take it to the roller mill. Teat s the reason roller mills were brought in. The reason why five cents was take off the the 57 lbs. was that there were no good cuts in the 57 lb. wheat. rt was only good for low grade flour. If the farmers and the rest of the world would eat low grade flout they would get a good price for that wheat, bet the people were cry- ing for high grade flour. There was 7/1 cents differtnee between the wheat that weighed 57 and 58 pounds in the De- troit market on the 6th. Light wheat came in the same category as the poor lean beef. The Manitoba wheat was worth from 10 to 12 cents more in Liver- pool than Canadian, owing to the vast amount of gluten it contained.° The time was conting when the miters would have to say to the farmers, 'If yoUr wheat weighs 57 pounds you will have to take it to some other market.' There was a larger duty on wheat coming into. the Dominion than there was on the. flour, hence thereason the American millers coeld flood the market with flour. The speaker was elttsely questioned' and bantered considerable, but he proved himself equal to the occasion. The following resolution Was then proposed: Moved by John Forbes, seconded by Henry Mooney "That this Institute de- sires to express its opinion that a tariff that places 71i cents duty on ci bush- els of wheat (the Government stan- dard for a barrel of flour) and only 50 cents on flour, whereby the privilege of grinding American wheat for con- sumption in Canada, whereby the United States miller gets the privilege for 21i cents per barrel at $60,000 an- nually leas than the Canadian miller can obtain it, is a great injtistice to our milling industry; antlthe tariff' is also deceptive to the farmer, for while the duty is 15 cents per bushel on flour, our protectionis only a trifle over 10 cents on wheat, wherefore be it re- solved that this Institute petitions the GovernMent to reinedy above grievan- ces by placing $1.00 per barrel duty on flour (similar to that placed on Canadian flour going into the United States) till such time as the American Govern- ment grant us a Reciprocity Treaty in bread stuffs, grain and the productsctof the farm." Moved in ameudment lSi Thomas McMillan, seconded by Alex. Gardiner, " Whereas the present tariff on wheat,' flour and other coarse grain is highly injutious to the agricultural interests of Canada, be it resolved that we, the farmers of East Huron, hereby demand' that these duties be entirely yen -roved, thereby removing those unjust restric- tions on the farmers, and that a copy of the resolution .and amendment be forwarded to our representative, Dr. Macdonald." The amendment was carried; almost unanimously, by a standing vote, but the meeting endeavored to soothe Mr. Plewes' feelings by giving 'him a most enthusiastic Voto of thanks for his ad- dress, thus showing that they appre- ciated his efforts in their behalf, al- though they could not coincide with his views. This closed one of the most intereet- ing and successful Institute meetings,„ ever held in Huron. . Canada. . —About 1,000 people have gone east from Manitoba and the isibrthwest on the Christmas excursions: t =At) Brantford milkmen have de- cided to discontinue the delivery of milk on Sunday during the *inter tnouths. - —The town of Windsor has .made ' building improvements to the value of $300,000 during the current year. —The safe at the Royal Hotel, Wood- stock was burglarised the other night to the extent of $175. It had been acci- dentally left unlocked. —The quantity of plaster (gypsum) shipped from Windsor, Nova Scotia, in the last nine years is over a million tons. —Mr. A. McIntyre, of Aberfoyle, the other day delivered at Strand's tannery, Galt, 12 cords of hemlock bark for which he received $4.75 per cord. , —Tiffin BrOhers, wholesale tea mer- chants and ikrocers, Montreal, have suspended payment. Direct liabilities between $50,000 and $60,000. — James A. Burdick, farmer and cat tle dealer'of the township ofj Malahide, county olElgin, has made an assign - Ment to W. W. Disher. Liabilities about $8000 .. assets, $6,000. — Thenrollment at Alma College, St. Thomas, has reached 160-125 boarders and 35 day students. This is largely in excess of the record of any preceding year. if —Goldie & McCulloch of Galt, have received an order from the Dominion Government' for a $30,000 vault for the use of the Post Office Department at Ottawa. , — After having a Division Court in Ayr for nearly forty yrars the people of that place are now to be deprived of this convenience at the instigation, it is said, -of the Galt and Berlin lawyers. —The committee which had charge of the summer can ival a.t Hamilton, is in the hole to the extent of over $34000. Of this amount about $1,500 is owing to the newspapers for printing and adver- tising. . —Mr. T. R. Douglas, a well-to-do young carpenter of Mount Vernon, was driving home from Brantford Saturday night when he was attacked ' by two highway robbers and relieved of 8132. There is no clue. 1 —The steel car 'ferry built by the Polson Iron Works for the Canadian Pacific Railway for transporting trains a7ross the Detroit river was successfully launched at Owen , Sound , a few days ago. - —Braeside, near Paris, was berned recently. It was a handsome villa resi- dence occupied by C. R. Fitch, barrister and proprietor of the Paris Review, and valued at $12„000. The furniture, which was valuable, was not insured —The members . of Division street Presbyterian church, Owen Sound, have bought a_ vocation for $1,000, which will supplant 1 the present reed organ. The new instrument will be in place by -the beginning of th new year. . ii ----A --habitant named alliers, of Levis, Qaebec, was killed' a few days since while skinning a cow which he had slaughtered, by the support on which the animal was suspended sud- denly breaking - and striking- him on the head. . . —On Wednesday last week Emerson Sampson., 'who had been farming in the Northwest, came down to Hatchley, near Brantford, and married Miss Morris, of that village. After the celebration- the gentlemen friends of the happy couple became 'jubilant, and some of them vented their, enthusiasm by shooting off revolvers. The bride felt a stinging sensation in her arm and complained of being shot, but. the pain being, so slight she laughed it off. 1\then on the train bound for Toronto the pain increased so much that it was found necessary to get off at Hamilton and take the bride to a doctor, when it was found that the pullet had entered the arm three inches above the wrist and had passed down to the wrist, where it had lodged. —The Institute fbr the blind, at 'Brantford closed for the Christmas holidays on Friday evening, and Satilr- day some 50 pupils left for their re- spective homes. The majority of the pupils remain at the institute during the holidays. —dlr. Robert Beattie, of Tilsonburg, who died a few days ago, was confined to his house -ior only a few days with erysipelas in his leg, which turned to blood poisoning, and took him off very suddenly. He was 42 years of age and leaves a widow and five children, who are not very well provided for. —John Pelman who lives near Port Colborne, was, the other day taken in hand by the Customs officials at Buffalo for smuggling. fliehorses and wagon, 1,200 dozens of eggaand 200 pounds of butter were seized. Pelman was allow- ed to go after giving satisfactory ans- wers to the questions put to him. —The young ladies of the Brantford' Presbyterian 'Ladies' College gave their annual Christmas concert on the evening of the 19th inst., to a crowded audience'. Dr. Cochrane, the Governor pf the,Col- lege!, presided and introduced the dif- ferent parts of the programme. The college will re-epen on January 7th. —The Church of England authori- ties have just opened a new mission on the Canaria Atlantic Railway, with headquarter a at Alexandria and taking in Cesselman and Maxville. The mis- sion -is in charge of Rev, F. W. Squire, late of Termite. —While sliding on the balustrade on the third floor of a Hamilton house Friday, David Lewes, a lad of about,13 years of age, missed his hold and fell over to the ground floor. He was pick- ed up unconscious and lies in a pre- carious condition. — The trial of McDonald for the poisoning of the wife of Dr. McRae, St. John, New Brunswick, was begun last week. The evidence for the ,de- fence closed Saturday and the jury re- turned a verdict that the prisoner com- mitted the deed while insane and was therefore not guilty. The verdict gave general satisfaction. —Mr. S. C. Hagan, of Thessalon, Al- goma, has been selected by Captain Keetch to attend the Military School, Toronto, for the Thessalon Company. He will leave Jannary 1st, and will at- tend schoolthree months. Mr. Hagan „has been a volunteer for about twelve years. ' —Mr. John Elliott, B. A., who has been Mathematicai Master in Brockville High School for the past four years, was presented by the students with an ad- dress, accompanied by a handsome gold watch on the occasien of his leaving to take a similar' position iia the Walkerton High School. —About thirty members of the Blue Lake Bible class atsembled two weeks ago at the residence of their teacher, Mrs. Alexander Kelman, near Glenmor- ris, and presented her with an eulogistic 'address accompanied bya handsome Bible and satchel as an expression of their appreciation of her services as teacher of the class. — Mr. Robert Tinling, who left the Town Line --Dumfries and Blenheim— two weeks ago,and returned to his home at Ossian, Iowa, was one of the pioneer teachers of Dumfries, having taught in Union school section No. 12 thirty-eight years ago. He has now a familyof pros- perous children, thee of,his sons having important positions on Wrtern rail- ways. —Mrs. Fuller, a native of Sweetsbnrg et wtth' a Colorado. was WM- 1 became Missisquoi 'County, Quebec, terrible death recently in She was riding a pony which ally tractable, when the anim unmanageable and threw her. Her foot remained fastened in the stirrup, and the animal ran and kicked, striking her , on the head. She lived only two hours. —There is not one of the 33 prison- ers who are in the Kingston penitentiary for life that does not expect to get freedom some time or other. In fact,. they expect it when they ee in fifteen years. An old fellow is now serving his seventh term in prison. Altogether he has spent 33 years of his life there. 'He is about 75 years old. —A serious accident happened en the Canadian Pacific Railway Thursday afterhoon last week 1.near Sudbury. Through a misconstruction of running orders two freight trains pitched into each other. One train caught fire from the engine, and two freight cars were destroyed, with their contents, before the fire could be stopped., .The fireman of one train was seriously injured. —Sergeant D. A. E. Macdonnell, a member of the Northwest .Mounted Police at Fort McLeod, is in Kingston on a visit to his mother and friends. He has received two months' leave of absence. It is seven years since he left Kingston. He was through the late rebellion, and was among those under the command of Major Steele, who have quelled several insurrections during the past three yeara. —An odd case was tried a few days ago in Hamilton, by a petit jury. Early last October Mrs. Martha, Overell was walking along King street; and, happened tepees Messrs. A. R. Kere & Co.'s dry goods store just as some of the clerks attached to that establishment were letting down the awning_ in front of the store to get rid of sOme rain water which had accumulated. Owing to mistake or neglect Mrs. Overell re- ceived all the water, as she passed by, on the bead and shoulders, and got so chilled before reaching home as to be consequently laid up with rheumatisra and fetter. She claimed $200 damages from Mr. Kern and in spite of a clever defence made by Mr. Frank Mackelcan, Q. C., who hung tenaciously to every point for his client, she was awarder' $100 damages, $60 of which goes to her husband. —A horse was abandoned by a Wolfe Island farmer recently. It was, impounded and fetid by the corporation of the island. The price paid for the animal brought $40 more than the ex- penses. This amount was proffered the original owner, but he refused it, say- ing he did not want to have anything to do with the horse, because it was possessed of an evil spirit. —Mr. David Goldie, of Greenfield Mills, has resigned his position as trus- tee on the Ayr Public School Board. His reason for retiring is, that he amine ed office a year ago at the urgent solici- tation of his friends in the hope that as - a member of the Board he might during the year be able to draw the discordant elements -together and effect a comprom- ise between them in the interests of the people of the village. In his attempts to do this he had been unsuccessful, and he now deems it his duty to retire. — Some tvvo weeks ago in Teeswater, Mr. Geo. Colvin's cow disappeared and all efforts to discover the whereabouts of the missing bovine proved futile until Tuesday morning, when she was' acci- dently discovered imprisonedthe cel- lar of an unoccupied house. The en- trance had been covered with boards, which the cow having stepped on, gave way and allowed her to drop into the cellar. —A lumberman who has explored the whole northern region of the Northwest, states the Government has lost three million dollars in timber dues alone since 1862 through fires set by Indians; He says one hundred million dollars would not cover the amount of timber destroyed by (fire- between Lake Dau- phin and Lake Winnipeg. The In- dians set the fires to drive the game and signal friends. — Mr. Charles Turnbull, ofGalt, and the Messrs. Forbes, of Hespeler, have purchased the Wardlaw factory in Galt, designing to go extensively into the manufacture of knitted goods and yarns. The new firm will make very consider- able additions to the machinery in the factory, of the latest and most improved discriptions, front English and Scotch makers, and expect- to have everything in running order by April next. —Twenty lots of mining lands in Algoma and Thunder Bay District, were sold in Toronto on Wednesda:y of last week by the Provincial Treasurer's Department for taxes, fees and charges. Mr. of Oliver, Coate & Co-, conducted Dixon,e sale, and it lasted 'only about fifteen minutes. The Hon. A. M. Ross was present and among the buyers present were Messrs. C. 11. Ritchie, Q. C., T. D. Ledyard, Wm. McCabe,F. Schilling, T. 1-1, Bull, C. W. Irwin and A. M. Bunting. t — Wm. Foley, a young man 20 years of age, a resident of Welland, was killed while -in the act of jumping on a freight train at the Michigan Central station at that- place Saturday morning. The unfortunate young man's great failing was drink, and it h supposed he was under the influence of liquor when he was killed. His widowed mother, two brothers and two sisters, who are well and favorably known, have the heartfelt sympathy oftthe community. —Saturday's London Advertiser says; Great crowds of people came to the city on all the railways this morning with the object of purchasing Christ- mas goods at the metropolis of Western Ontario. Hundreds came in from each and the London, Huron and Bruce train on the Grand Trunk Railway alone brought a small army. As they trooped along with empty baskets a Richmond street merchant remarked : "That's the best Crowd of people that ever visited this city. They all buy some- thing or other." — The revenue from fishing licenses issued under the provisions of the modus vivendi Wit year amounted to $9,985, as compared with $3,831 the previous year. The licenses do not give the privilege of , fishing within the three-mile limit, but permit of the entry of foreign fishing vessels into Canadian ports fonthe pur, chase of ice, bait, etc., and for the privit lege of shipping the catch over Canadian' railways in bond. If the modus con-, tinued in operation a few years it would' be possible to arrive at what value these privileges are to American fishermen. —The other day in Belleville a woman with four girls, the eldest of whom was about twelve years of age, whilst the youngest wart a babe in arms, applied to the Mayor for relief. The woman, who gave her name as McDonald, said that about six weeks ago she came from Scotland to Toronto, on the representa- tion of her hushand that he was there in geed circumstances and wished her to jot him. She had been unable tofind him there, although aided by the police, and had been passed on to Cobourg, thence to Belleville. She was given a pass"to Kingston and some financial aseistance. —On Wednesday last week there died in Woodstock, a distinguishedAged resident of that place in the person of Mrs Alex. Rose. The deceased lady was born in lnvernesshire, Scotland, on February, 20th, 1806 and was therefor nine years old when the battle of Water- loo was fought. She had very „distindt recollections of that event, foul' of her uncles having been killedthere. ILI her girlhood she attended a Sunday sehool in the town of Inverness. Her teacher was Lydia Fraser, afterwards Mrs. Hugh Miller, wife of the great geelogist, She married in 1826. In 1834 she with her husband and the four eldest of her family came to Canada. They were 11 weeks on sea and thought they made a pretty good trip. III 1835 they settled on the 10th line of Zorra on a farm, where she opened a Sunday sthiool in her own house, tbe first Siinday school taught in Zorra. The late Rev. Donald Mackenzie about this time became a settled pastor in Zorra, having been previously engaged its a missionary to •et J the"scattered Presbyterians in that part of the country. He proceeded to orga- nize a congregation. There wei e eight elders elected and Alexander Rose -was one of .them. " The firat communion of this congregation was held in June,146. Mrs. Rose thought she was the Jeep survivor who partook of this first com- munion in Mn Mackenzie's congregatiQn . In 1839 they purchased A farm on the 3rd line of Zorra, where Mrs. Rose still kept both Sunday school and day school. They come to Woodstock 'in February, 1871. Mr. Rose , died iu Woodstock, August the 8th, 1871. Their family were twelve in ,number, six sons andsix daughters, all of whom lived to grow up. Mrs. Rose had forty grandchildren tend eleven great grand- children. All her life she took an active part in Christian work and was a great friend of temperance. On the 2od of November,1889,- she fell on the side- walk fracturing her thigh bone and re- ceiving other -severe injuries from which she never recovered. —A large bed of genuine Irish peat has recently been discovered on the farm of W. H. Petereon, located almostwithin the corporation limits of Colborne, Northumberland county. A careful ex- amination proves it to be of superior : quality. : —The statement of cost of building improvernents that have been completed in Windsor this year shows the amount to be over $300,000. The east end has been and is exp`eriencing quite ,a. b,00m, caused by the rapid progress Walker - Ville is making in manufacturing indus- tries. The west end also keeps up the roceffivc_eocrird. pa3irs, 5a00,000 bnshels of grain passed om the,Canadian Pacific Railway t Port Arthur it is learied that through their elevators there during the past season. Of this grand total 1,500,- 000 was American grain, and 2,000t000 from the Northwest. - It is expected thet the carriage of grain through this pert. -will be fully doubled next aerosol]. —In a French settlement, in the county of Hastings, four wiles from Tweed, there are an unusual number of families of the same name—Courneyert They are all related, either as coutins, • second cousins or third cousins. Like every other nationality they have a fav- orite christian name and theirs is Nul. There are about twenty of them mairied and each. has a Paul. The way they are known is as Paul, Big Paul, Big Paul's son, Little Paul, Long Paul, Short Paul, Black Paul, Blind Paul, Cross Paul, Quiet Paul, Paul Peter, Peter Paul, Paul C.. xlaul J., Paul Christmas, Paul Xavier, Paul Sivisire and Francis Paul. It takes a new set- tler in that locality a long time before he is able to call the several Pauls. —On Monday morning, 16th inst., Mr. Wm. Stroud and family of Dercte ham township, near Tilsonburg, near- ly lost their lives. Immediately after t . breakfast all were taken with violent retchings and unmistakable— signs of poison. Dr. S. Joy, of Tilsonburg, was promptly summoned, and by taking at once the right measures soon had the family out of danger. Dr. Joy pro- nounces the cause of their 1. iolent sick- ness to be due directly to arsenic, but by whom administered is a mystery., The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Stroud, two girls and a hired man. The arsenic is thought to have been put in the water that was used for breakfast. —The Sarnia tunnel workmen en- counteredtheir first difficulty since the work of tunnelling commenced, on Sat- urday 14th inst., when they -s-truck- a vein of liquid clay in the heading. For about thirty-six hours they were kept busy, shoveling the pasty ittuff, without being able to make a foot of headway, The ground over the spot, including a part of the street and a considerable space on the coihmon to the west of the tunnel, sank several feet. The trouble was ovetconie on Monday, and the work has been going on since, with its accustomed regularity. The tunnel is . now over 500 feet from the portal, on this aide. —Quite a romantic story has woven itself about the lives of a couple of young people who resided in Acton sorne years ago, and whose fortunes - were united at Detroit on 'Thursday, 12th inst. Away back about 1876 or 1 1877 while the young people were at- ' tending public school together an in- timacy sprung up between them which eventually ripened into lasting affection. The young lady with her parents, re- moved to Clifford in 1878, thence to Palmerston and eventually they settled in Winnipeg. Her hero tried his for- tunes in Buffalo for a time thence hewent to Australia and New South Wales. But though be rated by old e - % earth herself their heart continued to beat in unison and a cheri ed and regu- lar correspondenee was maintained. .About a year ago thyoung man re - turned to America „ and eettled in De- troit, and on Thursday, 12th inst., the tried and true lady love arrived in that city from her western home, and the twain were made one flesh. The princi. pals in this event were Mr.. Henry P. Hill, youngest 801). of Mr, C. T. Hill, merchant of Acton,_ an -d1 Miss Lillian Racking, eldest daughter! of Mr. Joseph H. Hacking, the fourniertof the Acton Pree Press. —As Mr.J.Tink was cutting wood in the bush of 1V1r. J.ISmith, of Fullerton, a limb of a tree fell I striking him on the fore-, head, cutting' it severely and also tear- ing the eyelid and cheek. Another man working near by saw the accident and. • at once procured help and had him driven to his home in the village, where - the wounds were dressed and stitched. t —Mrs. Dawson, the wife of a laborer living on the farm of Mr. J. Mordent on tbe 4th concession ofWestNissouri, . was found dead in bed the other morn- ing; her usband had been working in St. Marys ring the week. It wasthought she had een dead about four days be- fore being discovered. 1. tea