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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-01-03, Page 1.1rit TWENTY-SEOOND YPIAR. WHOLE NUM -BEM 1,151. SEAFORTHJ FRIDAY, JAN ARY 3, 1890. Great Bargains —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— HOFFMAN &•CO. Great Bargains going in good usefur and auitable articles for Holiday Pres- ents at our - CHEAP SALE! Of which the following are a few: Drees Goods, Mantles, Mantle Cloths, Fut*, Blankets, Shawls, Clouds, Scarfs, Hats, Caps, Hoods, Corsets, Gloves, Mitts, Hose, Collars Cuffs, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Ribbous, Lace Curtains, Milli-, lieu, and a host of other articles too nutuerous to mention here. Please call and take a look through the stock be- fore completing your purchases, at the Cheap • Cash Store HOFFMAN & CO. CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA FO R7,11-1. SCIENCE Has Conquered And made it possible to Restore Defec- tive Eye Sight to Normal Vision. J. S. Roberts Is happy to announce that he has secured a Patent Dioptric Eye Metre, which will enable him to fit all defects of *ion, ASTIGMATISM, HYPERMETROPIA, MY 0 PIA, PRESBYOPIA, OR ANY COMPOUND DEFECT, Astigmatism is due to irregular shape 'of eye, and is usually congenital. Many school children witb this defect are called stupid,,but with pro- perbr fitted glasses they may becomeAhe bright- esiof - scholars. This 'de quite a •eominon and dangerous defect.—Hypermetropia is a malform- ation which keeps the • ciliary muscle in constant use, whereas in a normal eye it is at rest when looking at a distance. This defect if neglected - may reillfit in nervous depression and pain, and even prostration.—Myopia is a diseased condition of the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to preYent• an increase of the defect, and perhaps ultimate blindness. -7 --Presbyopia is a loss of ac- commodation in the eye, whit& may cause catar- act unless corrected by artificial aid. , ,Frequently nervqus or sick headaches, also serious illness, are brought on by one 6r more of the above defects. Remember, no charge for testing your eyes. J.S.ROBERTS, Chemist & Druggis CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH, —The Pilot Mound Sentinel says : A strange agitation exists amongst the fish i5Swan Lake and the Pembina river. The water is exceedingly low in the river as well as in the lake and the fish are seemingly afraid of being frozen in or perishing for lack of air. , To avoid the danger they are making an effort to pass up the river to Rock Lake, which is Much deeper and contains a large body of water. The settlers of 4-11, through which township the river passes, have been capturing hundreds of fish by removing the ice from a portion of the river channel end using small spears. —Last spring Thomas Rutherford, the eldest son of Mr. Robert Ruther- ford, of Haveksburg, near Prescott, left his fathertefarm and went to settle in the Northwest. A few days before Christmas he started eastward for a holiday visit to the old folks at home, but the first news they heard was that their son had been suffocated with gas in a Chicago hotel. Father and, uncle started at one and brought the -body home to Hawksburg. Thomas Ruther- ford was a powerful man, weighing 210 pounds and standing six feet two. He was 23 years old. This does not seem a case of blowing out the gas, but of . a leaking pipe or a tap turning too far. The room door was broken in at 10 a. - rn., and Rutherford was unconscious, but death did not take place for nine hours, —Mrs. M. C. 'Feast's tesidence, 144 Cameron street east, Hamilton, was the scene of a somewhat unusual marriage ceremony on Christmas Day, being the wedolbag of two deaf mutes, Mies Linnie Feast and Albert E. Smith, of Toronto. Rev. Mr. Bovine read the marriage ser- vice, which was interpreted to the happy couple by Will B. Feast, brother of the s bride. The ceremony waa unique one and interesting to the invited guests. The nevely-married pair left for Toronto in the evening. —A distressing accident has ocenrred, brought about by mistaking poison for medicine and which resulted in the death of the wife of Mr. Alexander Douglas, secretary of the Mosa and Ekfrid Agricultral Society. Mrs. Douglas had been indisposed of late and on Christi -nes morning took in mistake a dose of pure carbolic acid in place of her usual medicine and which produced fatal results in a few hours. Medical aid was hastily summoned and every effort made to relieve the distressing symptoms, but in vain. OUR MANITOBA LETTER. (From Our Own Corresiiinclent.) WiNroeso, Decinber 28th, 1889. This last has been even a finer fall, so far, than last year, and I have seen cattle going into the bush and staying over night to save themselves the trouble �f going home. When a Mani- toba fernier is found in the middle of December driving without gloves, I look on it as tdo much of a good thing and would rather see a good old fashion- ed storm of some sort which is just the thing we don't get. We have hada few inches of snow but it gets out of sight. Tempted by this fine weather I lve been training and tramping around l a .little, both in Manitoba and North Da- kota. The great and ugly fact on both sides of the line is drouth, that has been licking up all the sap below ground and about every drop in the sloughs which used to supply water for all the stock away from the streams. Even the streams themselves are in some cases nearly out of sight, and but for the certainty that the same thing has 'happened before again and again to be followed by very wet seasons, I should begin to feel very blue about our prospects. I have this very day walked over ploughed land so dry that it could be harrowed, and unless we are to have snow and a deal of it either before ()later seeding, gertnination will be ahrZet impossible. Farmers' Clubs are becoming a great institution all over this province, and -promise to be very useful in more ways than One. The diecuseion in an orderly and thorough way of the various prob- lems of cultivation aid production are sure to be both interesting and in- etructive. But they ,go further than that. We want not only_ to -raise a 'good crop, but if possible, to get a high price for all we produce. This is ac- complished here in the following way. Instead of selling on the street a single wagonload, they get their stuff graded by a competent man, and sell by car- loads to the highest bidder, and a committee attends to this, meeting weekly. The total crop is shrinking, while we have large milling industries at Winnipeg and Keewatin dependent fee running at all,, on our production. In consequence -of this and the well directed action of those cominittees,thei wheat is now worth 7D teents in car- loads a higher figuyeethan has yet been reached by single sellers. - Our farmers, 4.. at least . those of them who are to stay in the country, now begin to find:Xi:cat their best friends are not the menewho , proclaim a big yield, but thosetterrho show that the : Wheat th bid for it yield being limi , those who want it must make a • of the very best is not worth over 60 cents over the line, because there the big increase of - the Central States keeps down the price of the limited yield of Dakota. I hope I do not 'need to convince any Ontario farmer that the big yield, 44,000,000 bushels, claim- ed for the two Dakotas by Cori-mission- er Hagarty„ are purely imaginary, and not one whit more reliable than those Df the very queer authorities among ourselves who speak of an export of eight or ten million bushels from Mani- oba, . There is not in any township of Da- kota, large as it is, a crop fit to be seen alongside of the yield of No. 1 hard het has been and will be taken for years to come from township 13, range 7, on the Portage Plains. Our boom patriots take a lot of trouble, for which I don't thank them, in collecting items discreditable to Dakota, but it is not bluff but a plainfact that nothing within 300 miles can this year Ouch he wheat yield of the Northern margin f the Portage Plain; nearly all of it No. 1 hard, and standing by the acre he test as no other similar area can pproach to. The gradual recession orthward of Lake Manitoba has left here a deposit wilds°richness and taying power are only now beginning o be understood. Mr. Sorby, who ame up from Guelph last spring, has ow over 800 acres ready for seeding iii he very township I refer to e that will ive interesting records for years eio ome, and Macdonald station near a orner of it will show an ,output this ear to beat -some, much better, -known lame I met at St. John DakonstI , where ey had gone over with a grist, Wil - am and john Barber, who/are settled ear the line opposite that te'ven. Their uron Wends will be gtad' to learn at through a favoring slutiver John has bushels wheat and 25j of oats, per re, a figure a good why above the neral average this se as not so fortunate. Speaking of St. Joh . John has been on anitoclefarnos, !as efeernt ousing thepeople more favored placing with appeals on half of • the distre 88,4d farmers there. find. that most •of ithe distressed far- rench half-breeds, o crop in any year lowest ebb finan- loans of $5 or so ✓ cent per annum, ig risk a chattel ✓ three ponies for libel on the genuine 0 a th 11 th 15 ac ge cet.Williarn renainds ma that there is a great -Cr of deatitution frdm sortie places in D ,kota,' of which St . One worthy citizen. mhge ef dead beat in be niers are in reality growing a mere pota and always at the °jelly, negotiating at from 60 to 250 p and giving for this mortgage on two security. It is farmer to have a sort of citizens, who are graded let ewho and the benevol the United States Government as In& nntdelegate - cailedfarmers,t ga pleaded their cause, 's openly accused by his dearest neighbors of having appro- priated to his °wit use nearly all the Money he collecteA for these hard -up " farmers. " Dakte 'pta is nogoing through the same !experience as Mani- toba did seven yearts ago; she has lots of settlers, but cooly a sprinkling of real farmers and the loan sharks will adventurers, who lie the best of seasons make a terrible ,slaheghter of these poor h would do xio toed :to themselves or the Zountry and in thedr present surround- ! ings have no chance whatever of keep ing hold. There are no doubt many of these in sore need, but so lOng as un- worthy agents are allowed to keep the field, charitable people will_ be in a bed quandary for channels through which t� beatow their bounty. I heard ,of but one case of 'real heed on our side, and the people of Virden promptly raised enough to meet the demand. .,. 'I can hardly go anywhere without finding Huronites capable of giving a good account of themielves, and giving demonstration that the hard life of the Ontario pioneer, is the best preparation for real work anywhere. I heard the other day of a fnning aspirant with whom a•good preimumowas paid, who it'll when asked if e cattle were steers or heifers, said e had not been long in the country and did not know, and next day kindled the fire in the oven and shut the dopr. A secretary of a London emigration societm, lately ad- vised a would be immigrant that his oxen would not only plow his land but yield all the butter, and milk he wanted. Manitoba, in spite of the present drouth which we share in common with all other countries, West of the Missis- sippi and Red Rivers, is a good enough country for the right man. We have a huge advantage over Dakota in our. lake country to the North where many thousands of cattle are now wintering almost Without any shelter and witti as yet scarcely a bite of hay consumed. One young fellow writes me from the bush that he has not seen his horses for a month and adds, "We get word from them now and again and that saves us looking after them." A warm bush and plenty of rough feed is better than rustling around a straw stack on the open prairie. , Weare now getting in our Christmas cheer, Moose Elk, small deer, very few bears now., and oxen, some of which weigh a ton on foot. One car from the Virden district, of 2 ,and 3 years old, came in yesterday, 16 head of steers and heifers, amounting to 23,500 pounds live weight. 1 think there must be 2,000 people from this weat country, chiefly from the great Red River Valley going east to see old friends in Canada, and as they are in great force from the other side the line perhaps this may tempt. some of them to say their say either for or against me. Had the boundary line here been 49 ° instead of 49 ° this would have been a big country for Canadians, but though some here are Ameeicans, in the old eastern homes we are all for the time, John Tamson's bairns. ..es_ A Guelph Gentleman in ' Southern Europe:. , Nics, November llth, 188. We are now taking the last of our summer. To -morrow [forenoon we ex- pedt to be in Paris, where the ther- mometer is sure to be a good deal lower than it is here. We left Genoa on- Fri- day afternoon and had a most enjoyable trip along the shore to Monte Carlo. This part of the Mediterranean coast is the great invalid resort, and in ,addition to the lovely climate the scenery is won- derfully beautiful. The railway follows very closely the windings of the coast line, so that there is a constant succes- sion of varying views. The only draw- back is the great number of tunnels,. which, however, are not quite so'numer- ous, Or so long as between Pisa and Genoa. There are long stretches where the track lies quite close to the water's edge, so near that one could drop a stone from the car window almost into the surf. 'The shore is rocky, the spurs of the hills being worn into many fantas- tic shapes by the waves. Between the rocky eapes there- are numerous sandy bays with a stretch of level land running back a piece from the sea, and in each of these there is generally a town or village. Everywhere trees with oranges ripening on them and extensive olive orchards are seen. The olive oil trade 4 is h large one. • On every bold promon- tory is a castle or tower or old ruin. He* nd there a lofty island off a cape with• pe on it, and as a setting for all this t e blue waters of the Mediter- ranean oneenii 'tide and the mountains on the other. Viten the full moon, came hp to put a finish to the picture, whieli will leave a lifelong impression. Monte Carlo, where we spent the night and part of Saturday, is ten or twelve miles beyond ,the French boundary. We passed our eighth custom -house exami- nation at Ventimiglia, ou theline be- tween France and• Italy, where the Ital- ian language came to a sudden stop among the railway officials and the French took ite place. San Remo, a famous reaort for invalids, is a few miles on the Italian side of the bound- ary, so is Bordighera, where George Mc- Donald the novelist lives. On the French side between Ventimiglia and Monte Carlo, is Mentone, another health resort, while beyond this between Nice and Marseilles, are Cannes, Toulon, &c., all thronged in the winter time with invalids and pleasure seekers. Monte Carl?, the great gambling resort, is a charming spot. High rocky mountains close be- hind it, deep gorge with waterfalls close at hand, a beautiful bay with the blue water of the sea beating in snowy foam along the rocky shore, luxuriant vegeta- tion,palmitrees 40 or 50 feet high,hedges of geraniums and heliotrope, flowering maples 15 and 20 feet high with woody trunks several iuches in diameter, and a great reteny plants which we in Ontario . grow in pots are here growing to the height of trees in the open air. A large number of villas and hotels, all white or pale yelloW are in Monte Carlo, and the glorious sunlight, with a delicious air and a temperature that makes one prefer . the shade and find comfort in sitting clowleThere are splendid gardenslwith ell kinds Of tropical plants attached to the Casino and freely open to the public. "Where every prospect pleases, And only man is vile." ' For this is the "plague spot of Europe," AfoLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, In Advance. • the great gambling establishment. We went to the Casino twice to see the play. It is a splendid building, the best of music twice a day, reading rooms, & all epen to any one. The only check is that you must give your name and get a card when you go in. There were five tables, four for Roulette, and one Rouge et Noir.' Fifteen or twenty gamblers were sitting at each and quite as many standing up behind them and betting on the tables. A good deal of silver wtte on tbe Roulette tables, nothing less, how-, ever, than five franc pieces, but at Rouge et Noir nothing less is put on the table than a Napoleon (twenty francs.) Some enormous sums are won and loet. Saturday afternoon when we were a young man, I don't know of ,what nationality, put a pile of notes and some gold on the table. The cards were dealt and helest. The croupier raked in the pile. He at once placed another pile On the same spot, this time he won, The croupier raked the money towards him and carefully counted the note. There were eight of 1000 francs each, besides some gold. This man did the same again arid again, winning each time. How long he continued I do not know, but in the few minutes we were there, he Won between 16,000 and 20,- 000 francs. tilnat of the bettbeg, howee tweet is On imemeger eseseieee A great maiktrisk ditly sene7tapctleen at a time,' or &et 5 femme piece. A great many women, young& and old, were sitting aitiend the tables and watching the game, betting all the time; and all this goes on, from 11 o'clock a. m. to 11 p. m., seven days a week. -Monte Carlo is in the principality of Meleaco, the Prince of which receives 4.80,600 et year for allowing the establishment. The last Prince died a few months ago and the present Prince was married in Paris last week. We came to Nice, Saturday evening. The hotels=the town is largely composed oft hotels—are very empty yet, the season has not yet set in, but people ere beginning ti arrive and things are booming. We vent te the Presbyterian church on Sunday, a very nice, comfortable church, but very small congregation, not more than 40eor 50 being firesent, a very excellent ser- -mon waadelivered by Rev. Mr. Murray. ,It is .861 there is a large congregation, in winter. Nice is not nearly so pretty as Monaco, but it is a very fashionable place and people from all countries come here to spend the winter. A great any Russians leave their ice bound native homes and spend the win- ter luxuriating in this lovely climate. We leave. here to -day for Paris at 12,36 and expect to arrive there at 9.30 to- morrow. forenoon, 675 miles. It is a long joUrney hitt we cannot afford a sleepieg car, which are in this country only for millionaires.—Pmzemon. The Whiteley Poisoning _Case. The adjourned inquest into the Whiteley poisoning case, which has caused sucha great sensation during the last six weeks, was resumed at Clinton on Monday, in the Towu Hall before a very large crowd of people. Many of the audience were old people from the surrounding country who knew the de- ceased and prisoner during their child- hood. The expert medical evidence was given by Drs. McDonagh, of Tor- onto; Whiteley, of Goderiela, and Ap- pleton, of Clinton. The evidence of Mr.. Calbeck, of Wingham embalmer, showed that he had embalmed the body, tilling a pint of fluid, butdid not know what the liluid was made of, as he procured it from his predepessor. He had injected a pint of this fluid through the nostrils and mouth. The coroner stated that he had writ- ten to the analyst stating that as an em- balming fluid had been used, and in case arsenic was found he had better state whether he believed it to be in the em- balming fluid or not. The analyst, Mr. W. H. Ellis, of Toronto' reported that he extracted from 100grams of the viscera 20 inilligrams of arsenic. Thiel he regarded as a very large quantity, and thought that it might be due to the use of the embalming fluid rathe‘ than from arsenic absorbed by the tissues during life. He said that a person dy- ing with a considerable quantity of arsenic in the stomach and bowels might also have as much arsenic in the viscera as was found, but it is not usual to find so much. Jas. Whitely, of the town' of Gode- -rich, sworn, said: I was called to see the deceased on the let of May, 1888. The first symptom noticed was conges- tion of the eyelid, and I noticed the tongue coated. There was tenderness over the stomach and liver and abdomen generally, also a jaundiced Condition of the skin. The temperature was about half a degreebelow normal, and the pulse small and rapid. I did not detect any enlargement of the liter. I found the case to be chronic congestion of. the liver, and an irritable condition of the intestines and, stomach. There was vomiting and.purging at times. I pre- scribed for the symptoma. and saw him again on the 3rd or 6th of May. The symptoms were the same as at the first visit, but much weaker, and I think at this time I noticed a rash. I expected deceased to have some other medical man called in and came again with Dr. McDonagh on the 7th of May. The symptoms were similar to the former visite and there was a partial paralysis. We decided the case was uncertain and were in doubt about the diagnosis. I did not suspect arsenical peisoning. The symptoms were such as would be pro- duced by slow arsenic poisoniug. They were also symptoms that would be pro- duced by acute yellow atrophy of the liver. Slow arsenical poisoning would produce yellow atrophy of the liver. In my opinion urinic poisoning might be caused by arsenical poisoning. G. R. MoDonagh, M. D., of Toronto, . sworn, said: At the request of Dr. Whitely I visited deceased on the 5th of May, 1888, and found him suffering from extreme prostration, pain and tender- ness over the stomach and bowels, weak and rapid pulse, inflamed, watery eyes, and rash on the skin. These were the moat prominent symptoms. From the history of vomiting and purging extend- ing back over three.or four weeks, and loss of appetite, I formed the opinion that the symptoms were produced by some irritation of the blood, causing in- flammation of the storoaeh and bowels. Inflammation of the stomach and bowels would be a sufficient -explanation of the' tvomiting and purging. The condition in which I found him could be produced by slow chronic poisoning, and arsenic might have produced the symptoms as described by Dr. Reeve, There were patches of rash which I noticed that would be found in acute yellow atrophy. This is not a symptom of areenical poisoning. I think it would be impro liable for a man to take three or four grains of arsenic at dinner and not feel the effects for hours afterwards. I am of the opinion that arsenic could not be in the soup without being fatal, judging from the quantity taken by him. I am not prepared to give the cause of death from the evidence. Robert Appleton, M. D., of Clinton, sworn, said I visited Hugh J. Whitely with Dr. Reeve in consultation on the 20th April, 1888, and found the pulse week and slow. The temperature was about normal, tongue meld andfluffed in the centre. 1 found iio tenderness over the stomach. The body seemed to have lost flesh. I noticed no rash. The skin was slightly yellow. I was told he had taken soine chicken broth the day previous, and was _ very sick. I was shown the spoon from, which the soup was leaken. The spoon was not fit for use. My opinion is that sickness was caterer by, inflammatory cold, causing itilleanmation of the stomach and bowels, I had no idea of poisoning, and this was never mentioned in connection ;with the case. I gave my opinion to Mrs.,' Whitely that he might recover, but was doubtful. When I made my visit there were no symptoms whatever of arsenical poisoning. I would net say that arsenic might not be the cause of death. Mrs. Quade, recalled, said that the chicken was made into soup abeet dark Monday evening. There was also soup made from chicken on Saturday and Sunday evenings. We examinedthe uncooked portion .of -the chicken and found it all right. Dr. Holmes, the-- Coroner, then charged' the jury in a very -fair and im- partial manner, and was complimented ,on all hands for the-eatisfactory manner in which he has conducted the inquest. Every latitude was allowed the jury and counsel to bring out evidence bearing on the case. Mr. A. Ball, of Woedstock, watched the interests of the defence. The following men coMprised the jury : J. Ransford, foreman; Geo. Swallow, H. R. Walker, D. McCorvie, Wm. Alexander, Alex.. Ewing, Wm. Keys, Geo. Hanley, Robe Fitzsimons, David Cantleton, John McMurray, J. C. Stevenson, D. A. Forrester, A. McKen- zie, Thomas Cottle, Henry Steep, Israel Taylor and James Keane. The following verdict was brought in by the jury :— "That the said H. J. Whiteley came to his death from arsenic, criminally ade. ministered by his wife, and we desire to record our opinion that the use of arsenic or other poisonous drugs in embalming fluids should be prohibited by law." Four of the jurors dissented from thia verdict. Canada. 14 Five convicts escaped from ' King- ston penitentiary on Christmas eve. —A farmer near Brockville spent the day after Christmas ploughing. —Th estimates of civic expenditures next ye r are $306,000. —Infiienza in a mild form is very prevale t at present in Winnipeg. —Mr. John M. Howells, son of Mr. W. D. Eowe11s, the Americanmovelist,is visiting riends in Ottawa. —Th number of licenses to sell liquor iil Halifax for the ensuieig year is 118. A ir —The influenza epidemic' has reached Montreal, there being several cases in the cafe,. --,Mies Tye, the popular teacher of Pert Stanley, has accepted a position in the Toronto Hospital. —The recent smallpox epidemic in Southwold county of Elgin coat the township $4,093. —The estimated population of Mon- treal city alone is 235,000, or including the suburbs, 274,000. —Statistics furnished by Mr. Lowe, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, place the present population of Canada at 5,075,80. _ —The commercial travellers' ball at Hamilton last Friday night was a bril- liant affair. —Six lads in Toronto confessed to having stolen a hand-eleigh in order thatthey might besent to the Reforma- tory: --Saturday morning, near Montreal, a young man who had been dritiking, was found frozen to death on theitide of the road. —The number of immigrants who have settled in Manitoba and the North - 'west this year is 22,000, against 17,186 last year. --Five men have been arrested, at Chatham on suspicion of having twice attempted to wreck a Grand Trunk 8 train near London. —Robert Noble, a farmer who resid- m ed about eight miles from Cobourg, $ drove into that town on Christmas eve, and after atteeding to some business, c left for home late in the evening. At 5 the foot of Allan's hill, the horse and u buggy and driver fell over a steep em- p bankment, about ten feet deep. Young p Noble's neck was broken, and, the horse Ar was killed by the fall. Mr. William er Noble, the father of the deceased, is one of the most wealthy and respected far- - ia mere in the riding. Deceased was un married and a well-to-do farmer. —There are at least 1,500 person employed in the shoe factories of Ter onto, while the city of Montreal ha probably 7,000 shoe operatives. — Considerable damage to building from the wild blow of wind on Wednes day morning last week is reported from Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, and othe places. —Evangelist Moody is expected to arrive in London on Saturday, January 4th, and will remain for one week He will be accbmpanied by Mr.Stebbins the wel-lknown singer. — Judge- Loranger gave judgmen against the Montreal Street Railwa Company for $500 on aceount-of one o its cars killing a child. It was ehow that the driver's sight was defective. —Mr. P. A. Ballingall, of Nort Dumfries near Ayr, has purchased th Plasket farm in Zorra, one of the bee in Oxford county. It contains 14 acres and the price paid is $10,500.' —Rev. Mr. Rees, of Perth, is laid aside fromeTiervice by an attack of facia paralysis, known to medical men a "Bell's paralysis." The affection in volves one half of the face. —Sidney Harvey of Woodstock, wen out with his gun on Christmas eve t secure a Christmas dinner. He brough down a goose belonging to- a neighbor and for so doing is new lying in jai awaiting trial. —Miss A. M. Dundee has been re -en gaged as principal of the public schoo at Putnam, Oxford county, for 1890 salary $350. Miss Brown, of Belmont has been engaged as assistant teacher salary $220. —Several boys, while playing on the beach near Kingston on Thursday,found the boat stolen by the five escaped con vial sunk in the water a short distanc from shore. It was loaded with thre large stones. Nothing has been heard of the runaways. —In illustration of the extraordinary mildness of December in Prince Edward County, robins were seen flying alma in the middle of the month and on to ward the close snakes were seen and frogs were seen and heard in the creek and swamp's. —At Woodstock, Friday, Henry Mat thews, of the International, was fined $40 and costs for allowing a tur key raffle to take place . in his hotel And A L. Dent was fined $50 at the Police Court for selling liquor in les quantities than three half pints. —Joseph Symonds, a Barton town ship farmer, claimed $249 damages from the city of Hamilton for injury to his crops, which, he claimed, was in eon sequence of the overflowing on his I land by water from the reservoir. He con- sented to accept 830 in payment of his claim. —Mr. J. H. Metcalf, M. P. P. jus returned to Kingston frorn the iorth west, brought home a handsome robe and coat made of the skins of husky dogs utilized by the freighters in draw .ing their goods through the country. —The prize offered a year ago by the American Institute of Sacred Litera- ture, of which Dr. Harper, of Yale, is principal, for the best examinations in the Hebrew language and literature, has been awarded to Rev. P. K. Dayfoot, of Strathroy. There were 700 competi- tors. —About two o'clock Friday morning John Betzell, a eigermaker, in Hamilton about 40 years of age, !ell from a third storey window of the Franklin house, and sustained' severe, though not really serious injuries. He has been in the habit of getting up and sitting by his open bed -room window when unable to sleep, and that night, while indulging in his customary habit fell out on the roof of Thomas' piano factory, bounding from thence to a shed below, and then to the ground. He lay wbere he had fallen for three hours until discovered about five o'clock. hours, to say, no bones were broken, but he was bruised and cut about the body and face. —The book, reception held in the Young Men's Christian Association rooms, Woodstock, Thursday night of last week, was a splendid success. The price of admission was a book, the ob- ject of the entertainment being toassist hi -procuring a library for the Associa- tion. About $100 worth of books was received. —The late school inspector, Mr. Carson, of West Middlesex, died liter- ally in the harneas. On the very day of his death a card was received by Mr. Bigg, of Parkhill, written the day be- fore, relating to the entrance examina- tion papers, the reading of which Mr. Bigg and he used to divide between them. —Two weeks ago Lucan High School Board asked for tenders for a tcaretaker for that institution for the incoming - year. Four applications werereceived, viz; dames Burnett, $120; John Dea- con, $100; James Sceli, *100; Wm. Kent, $85. The latter was appointed. —There is some talk -of extending the telephone system through McGillivray township, with offices at Moray, Green- way, Corbett, Offa, Lieury, West Mc- Gillivray and Brinsley. It is thought the farmers vvould give such a line ma- terial aid, and Parkhill could also afford to lend it assistance. —At the seventeenth annual meeting of the Commercial Travelers' Associa- tion of Canada, held in Toronto last Friday, there were over ZOO present. The annual repoit showed the member - hip to be 2,925,an increase for the year f 207; surplus, *171,972.97; payment ade under the benerieiary amounts to - day, and somewhere in the neighbor- hood of a dozen couples were made s happy. One of them was Wm. Hay - stead and Miss Rankin, the latter a s popular Scottish vocalist, and a member of the Rankin Scottish Concert Cone- s pany. —The smuggling of Canadian gin in bales of Canadian , hay imported to the ✓ United States is a 'subject the treasury special agents are looking iuto just now. A large quantity of liquor, which unmistakably never passed • through the Custom House, has been placed in several towns in Maine and Massachusetts. t —The largest trunk factory in Canada y is in Toronto, which, although started f by the principal partner on a rather n small teale some 35 years ago, ,employs' in the, neighborhood of 150 person% h The cepital invested in this factory, which is that of H. E. Clarke & Co., t is about $75,000, while the output of 0 trunks and bags has reached the value of about $200,000 Per annum. —A large deputation from Prince 1 Edward, Hastings and Northumberland s counties waited on Mr. Mowat, Friday, to ask aid to the extent of $6,000 per mile, of the Ontario Government in ex- t tending the Ontario Central Railway o system from Coehill, the present term - t inus, to Sudbury. The result will be , considered. I —A delegation of Russian ciadl engi- neers stopped( in Ottawa last week on . their ay from Japan, via British 1 Colum la, to Montreal. They were , sent ou to inspect the construction of the pr jected great railway through Siberia They chose the Canadian Pa- cific R ilway as e model on account .of its grea length. —A young man who was driving twol pretty girls arouud in Hamilton the e other d y in a hired rig was eenzlered e powerl se to finial' the tour by the ac- tions o the horse, which commenced to kick fu iously on the corner of King and James ltreets, and wound up by send- ing his kind feet through the 1 dashboard t and smashing the shafts. . —Lord Stanley kept up Clutiettnas at Rideau Hall, in the old-fashioned Eng - s lish stye, with a joyous family? party. The fes ive season atGevernment House - will co mence with a brilliant obser- vance of vvold Twelfth Night. The house- - hold . II have a ball about New Year's . There ill be a series of balls and din- ners,cozimencing with the re-assemblings of Parlament. —Onl Saturday night there was a row at 4ne Salvation Army barracks in Harriet , by which the Captain had one of tae small bones of his leg broken. The ye ng man who was the cause of the inju y celled round next morning and expirsscd his regret at the occur- rence, aiad the whole matter was agree- ably settled, the young man paying all t cods. - - —Isaac Walker, a well-to-do farmer, living about six niiles from Ailsa Craig, while on his way home Christmas eve, was drowned. It is supposed that the buggy wheels must have got into a rut and upset, throwing Mr. Walker into v. deep ditch that at the present time is swollen into a small torrent. The de- ceased was a bachelor, about 40 years old, and was highly respected. —Mr. Metcalfe, M. P. P., who has charge of the intelligence office in Winnipeg, reports that a large colony of Icelanders from Nebraska and Dakota settled, lately, north of Calgary. They make excellent farmers and good stocele raisers. A large German colony has been formed at Dunmore and in the Ha vicinity of Medicine t. Other settlers have arrived in that district from Southern Russia. A new settle- ment of Icelanders is reported/24ST Lake Manitoba. They are extensive cattle raisers, and build subdantial residences and barns. They are doing all they can to eneourage emigration from Iceland to the Northwest. They are specially adapted for the country. —Solomon Devis, proprietor of the Niagara Falls Museum, died at the family .residence on Friday night after an illness of ten day& He was born in London, England, March 12th, 1807. He has been identified with the Museum for forty years'the greater part of the time at Table Rock one the Canadian . side. He leaves a widow, four sons and four daughters. —The pulpit of Park Avenue Presby- terian Church, London, was occupied last Sabbath by Rev. W. P. Mackenzie, It A., who is now taking a postgradu- ate course in Auburn Theological Sem- inary, N. Y. He is a graduate of Knox College, and is fast coming into promin. mace as a poet, his lavolume'‚ st Voices and Undertones," having been, very fa- vorably received by leading American and Canadian Reviews,. —Mrs. Sylvester Cronk, of Wager - villa, near Kingston, went out for a pail of water; when the cover of theNwell gave way and she dropped into eight feetof water, but fortunately caught • hold of the stones and kept her head out until the family came to the rescue. In trying to- get her out one of the Men dropped in also. After hard strug- gling and pulling both were rescued. --etdr. Andrew Brown, who died re. cently in Biddulph toweship, was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, Feb. 16, 1805t Coming to Cenada in 1835 he' settled in that part of 13iddulph where Mooresville now standa. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for 22 years, and tine of the oldest Irish Masons in the 'Country, having first seen the light which none but craftsznen see some 65 years ago. —The death of Mr. G. F. Durand, the well-known architect, occurred on Friday, 20th ult., at London. He was taken ill about a year ago. After suf- fering greatly for several months he recovered sufficiently to be able to at. tend to his duties, and his friends hoped that he was on the way to recovery. A few weeks since, however, he Wee itgain stricken down, and contin;ued to grow worse until his sufferings were termin- ated by death. • 11,358. —Capt. Gilroy, the young woman in - ommand of the St. Thomas corps of the alvation Army, was on Christmas l day nited in marriage by Rev. Mr. Boyle, tutor of Knox church, to Joseph Kil- &trick, a member of the Salvation my Band. The couple left for De- oit to spend the honeymoon. —There was a rush in the matrimon- 1 market at Woodstock on Christmas