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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-01-10, Page 1r 3, 1890. )0_ PAUL, IC.A.1\T OODS House, )RTH, improving this :unity by thank - S. customers for own -him daring just closed. i'ear upon which we promise the and community ices. ua.-1, will be filled pg with the pro- -tonle and foreign Id our aim will - to place s4 -let and quantity on, le lowest possible FAUL MTH-. residence on Tues - were removed to the lurch and after ser- nducted by Bishop L8 were consigned to tance of the church. had returned home he hits been very ith inflammation. — al and family from town visiting rela- lr. Wm. Grigg,. Jr. aomaia formerly of iting relatives.—Mr. elph, is visiting at k Gill.—Mr. dson's Bank of To- vieit. noch. — Wood bees are the neighborhood, wide considerable em played. —Messrs. nd Jamea Scott are Manitoba. Each of iya in Halton county rie.—Messrs. James id arrived home on the Western States, Da some five or six bay quite naturally idays, and his sole D thermometer a/ere that the old veoorien he Aurora Borealis geese and so produce unknown in the en- ;ination.—Mrs. Mor - 'g to Clinton as won_ tulle ta do so. --:Miss las gone to Halton th her cousins, the- e—Mr. John Coutts to ManitOba in the McDonald goes to to reside with_ her Galt Collegiate In - Anderson is unwell e„—An interesting the township elec- Friday last a public Id in School :Section was well filled with and all seemed to lengthy programme ging and recitations children perfarmed ceptablie In con - f the pupils kr.Jas. address and Mae- terfield presented Richmond, with a ph album. and _gold n the afternoon of the pupils of Ford - he closing one of a entertainment which our of each sehool e programme began of the hand," a song • and accompanied - rts by natural and ing. Recitations, followed in pleasing he youngest pupils eeniors in making , elightful one. Nine uted song presented the truth God is - (4- song was one un- eature of the enter - striking incident e programme with %reefing as to merit was the reading of - teachers Mr, P. D. ker, &tad presenting ndsorne album and a dressing case. eying the school ancl 1y worded addresses esenta are indicative in which they are • .. • Misa Riddell at the mutilation in North rendering of several with an eloquent B. Watson, of St. -ent one of the most4 be remembered en - 3 TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER" 1,152 • SEAFORTH, FRIDAY JANUARY 10, 1890. McLE.A.N BROS. Publishers. 14.50 a Tear, in Advance. From Down By The Sea. Great Bargains Armoomim, Nova Scotia —AT T11E— _ EDITOR EXPOSITOR,—Having lived in the counties of Huron and Perth for Scotia, December 25th, 188. some ten years, and having beeu a con- stant reader of THE EXPOSITOR during that time, I- made many acquaintances, and it is for those of my friends and ac- quaintances and others who contemplate emigrating from Ontario; either in search of more land, better climate or from any other cause, that I am writing this letter. I spent ten yearearoundiKing- ston and within 20 miles of it; then in Iluron and Perth ten years, and last summer in the Northwest, all the tune in the cheese business, and, consequent- ly, always amongst farmers. Now I am here in Nova Scotia, having arrived here some seven weeks ago, and from experience thus far, I intend remaining here the balance of my life. I believe this to be the finest country under the sun for dairying, good grass, good water, and lots of it, and farms cheap. One hundred acres can be) got at from one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars, including good baildings, but not bank barns. The railroad has not been long through this part, hence its not being found out before, and it has been very poorly farmed. I never saw finer land, and such potatoes, and oats and apples. The grass is quite green while I am writing, but winter is expected any time. The cheese industry started two years ago, one pound of rich cheese was made from ten pounds of milk, and all sold and gone soma three ago. I had rather have one acre here or in Ontario than ten in the Northwest. A cow can be kept the year round on an average of three acres of land, while in tbe North- west it takes ten acres to keep one cow, and after the grass is eaten bare in the Northwest it takes it years to grow again as it was. I made particular in- quiries, the Northwest has more pic- Cheap Cash Store ---0E-- HOFFMAN & 00. • - treat Bargains going in good useful and suitable articles for Holiday Pres- ents at our CHEAP :-..-$ALE, Of which the following arfa'aiew : Dress Goode, Mantles, Mantlea.Cleths, Furs, Blankets, Shawls, Cloude,tSeatfs, Hata, Caps, Hoods, Corsets, e Gloves, Mitts, Hose, Collars, Cuffsgelifandkerchiefs, Laces, Ribbons, Lace .Curtains, Milli- nery, and a host of Other articlee too numerous to mention here. Please call and take a look through the stook be- fore completing your Tiro:hes-es, at the Cheap Oa.sh:,' Store HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFO RT H. 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 Patent Dioptric Eye Metre, which will enable him to fit all defects of vision, ASTIGM ATIS M , HYPERMETROPIA, b.1Y 0 PIA, E'RESBYOPIA, OR ANY COMPOUND DEFECT. Astigmatism is due to irregular shape of eye, and is usually congenital. Many school children with this defect are called stupid, but with pro- perly fitted glasses they may become the bright- est of scholars. This is quite a common and dangerous defect.—Hyperrnetropia is a malform- ation which keeps the ciliary muscle in constant, use, whereas in a normal eye it is at rest when tooking at a 'distance. This defect if neglected may result in nervous depression and pain, and eyen prostration.—Myopia is a diseased condition of- the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to prevent an increase of the defect, and perhaps ultunate blindness._ Presbyopia is a loss of ac- commodation in the eye, which may cause catar- act unless corrected by artificial aid. Frequently nervous or sick headaches, and also serisue illness, are brought on by one or more of the above defects. Remember, no charge for testing your eyes. J.S.110 B ERTS, Chemist 84 Druggis CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH, . An Old Friend Heard From. IiiRDEZf, Manitoba, December 25th, 1889. DsaA EXPOSITOR.—Another year has passed away, and in renewing our sub- scription I would say that the past sea- son has been the most unpropitious I have ever seen. The spring opened un- usually early with fine weather, and every one was jubilant in anticipation of an early, unfrosted and abundant har- vest. And for a time all went well. But the fine weather continued too long, the fine rains did not come, and before long the crops began to Buffer. The grass on the unbroken prairie around became withered, the gophers, driven from their haunts, came in thous- ands to devour the wilting grain. And by the 1st July the hopeful expression to be seen on the farrner's face in May, had given place to one of anxiety, only in time to give place to one of disap- pointed resignation. On the 28th of June we had a scorching south wind, (I never felt a hot wind be- fore,) and after that the crops were doomed, and it was quite apparent that the yield would be very small. But the threshing machine showed the reality to be even worse than the appearance, and I believe that the average in our county will not exceed two bushels per acre on the land sowed. As a conse- quence a great niany are in straitened circumstances, feed is awfully scarce, and unless the Governments give assist- ance thousands of acres will go unsowed next spring for want of seed. tures on the dark than on the light side, notwithstanding my old friend Archie ° NEW YORK, January Oth, 1889. Malcolm, of Oak Lake, Manitoba, The old adage, "a green Christmas and others to the contrary. I took makes a fat churchyard," which people particular pains to make myself fully' are accustomed to sneer at,is being veri- acquainted with the facts both in Mani- tied in an alarming manner. The num- toba and the Northwest. True, I never ber ofdeathsin this city last week was head as rich milk as in the Northwest, double that of the corresponding period but the grass don't again grow after last year. Of 164 which occurred with - once eaten, and notwithstanding its in twenteefour hours, fifty-six were good soil, which I must admit is excel- caused by pneumonia, twenty-four con - lent, and a fine country, cheap land am:Lydon and twenty by bronchitis. In and healthy climate. What does it take a great number of cases the victim be - to build and fence and make a home, gan with an attack of grip, and gre.du- and then you cannot become a general ated from it into one of the fatal- forms farmer, that is mixed farming. Frost of throat or lung trouble. In many all summer. The general verdict of the other cases the European malady, seiz- majority I asked was a crop once in ing upon one who was already suffering three years, and the Canadian Pacific from bronchial troubles or languishing Railway takes in all profits. Ontario in consumption, has hurried the victim • farms will yet get to be worth one hun- to the grave. People who have sneered dred dollars per acre, while Manitoba at the idea that New York was under and Northweet lands will remain ,as siege from the Russian influenza or the they are, or go lower. I have no axe French "La Grippe," and insisted that to grind, T am simply speaking the people might be having colds in the truth, I had every chance to settle and head, but no "fancy disease," are grow - was importuned to do so and make ing more respectful and more careful. money; but as a lady school teacher, The fact is there is hardly, a family in whom I met from the vicinity of Galt, the city but has been attacked by it. said, when I asked her how she NEW YEAR'S EAU,. liked the country "Ontario is good The holidays having passed, we have enough for me." That would be now 'plunged into the social season, the reply of hundreds if they would which was inaugurated by the brilliant speak their minds, and) could get ttkir New Year's ball, at Metropolitan Opera money gathered in thitir pockets that House last Thursday night. This is they had when they first arrived. Now, one of the three great balls of the year, if a farmer with fifty or one hundred the others being the Charity ball, and acres is comfortable in Ontario he had the Patriarch's Ball which comes off to - better remain there, but if he or his morrow night. The New Year's ball sons want to buy more land I advise was one of exceptional eplendor. In them to see this country. I know of a order to make the participants feel that fine, extra fine farm, 200 acres, excellent they were in a ball room rather than an house and two good barns for two bun- opera house, the boxes were hidden be- dred and twenty-five dollars, all clear- hind the folds of the richest floral cur- ed but fifteen acres of hard wood. In tainings, and were not occupied at all. fact there are any number of fine farms A great canopy of holly and other greens near the border where cheese and cat- covered the entire auditorium on the tle can be shipped from Halifax, only level Of the tops of the first tier of boxes, a hundred miles distant. Ontario farmers ,,and there were raised platforms richly would make money here, where in the carpeted aud furnished with sofas and Northwest they would not. I predict divans all around the dancing surface. the land here will double in value in Over 1, 500 guests were present,and the three years. The religion of the peo- affair cost $15,000. ple seems about divided half Presby- ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS. terians and English church, and the A new building to cost $200,000 to be other half Roman Catholics, and all devoted to art, will soon be erected in are friendly.- Yours truly, — this city by the American Fine Arts JOHN TOWNsON, Society, amalgamation of the Society of Cheese Maker. American Artists, the Architectural League of New York, the Art Students' From Manitoba. League, Society of Painters in Pastel DEAR EXPOSITOR.—During my -last and the New York Art Guild. ° A Life few weeks in Huron, I came in contact Fellowship Fund has been created to en - with many friends who insisted on re- able those interested in the progress of ceiving letters from me when I got set- art in this country to identify them - tied in Manitoba. Now, the almost im- selves with this movement and become possibility of writing so -many individu- directly associated with the objects of al tetters is quite clear to the careful the different societies. All'contributors thinker. Consequently in order to pre- of $100 to thie fund will be made Life sent my general views of Manitoba and Fellows of the American Fine Arts present them generally, I 'conclude to Society, and will receive certificates of intrude,. if permitted, on a small space life fellowship. of Huron's best paper, THE EXPOSITOR. ELEVATED RAILWAYS My trip, which lasted four full days, At last we have a plan for an elevat- was brightened by Ontario associates ed railroad on Broadway. This time it and the wild,rocky scenes which aremost is to be a cable road, and to be operated prevalent along the great Superior more rapidly than the present eleyated shore. Of these scenes I will not deal roads, or for that matter,. faster than very fully as the vast amount of snow • any other cable road in use. The Rapid Transit Cable Conipany is the name of the concern which proposes to do the business for us, and its promoters have their plans almost perfected. They are to introduce some entirely new features in the cable principle, and also some im- provements on the elevated road system. Among others are the doing away With ties, thus allowing the light to shine through, self switching motors, a new kind of grip, and more real rapid tran- sit. Sufficient power to work the brakes . will be stored in each ear. There will be duplicate cables, so that, in case of accident, transfer can be made from one to the °then in less than' five minutes. The expense of operating_ the proposed plan is claimed to be much leas than of present methods. It took 'twenty years of persistence to get an ordinary horse -ear road on Broadway, and their will no doubt be vigorous, op- position to the present scheme. lent I suppose that, in the nature of things, it will. come to it some day anyway. HELP FOR THE HOSPITALS. Saturday and Sunday, just past, were also for being the place in which I came to dwell. The origin of the name, Pi- lot Mound, is explained in the fact that a hill about one mile in circumference and one hundred feet high, close by the town, was useful in days gone by for *belonging to the Saturday and bunday piloting travellers across the prairie, Association, covering every breach of they having been able to see the medical and surgical work. During the Mound for fifteen milesf, on either side. year now closing these twenty-seven I will not pursue this description furth- hospitals eared for 13,500 bed patients, er, but Will proceed to give a few facts of whom 10,100 were free. They also of interest to farmers. From Pilot gave inedical aid to 128,700 free dispene- Mound, during this season, $75,000 ary patients. The expenses of caring worth of cattle were shipped, besides for all those have been more than $700, - poultry and other produce of which I 000, of which about one -fourteenth, or cannot state figures. The entries at the $50,000, is raised by the Saturday and Pilot Mound fall fair last year number- Sunday collections. The remainder is ed within a few of fourteen hundred, made up by income on invested funds, and this fact is still more wonderful, paying patients, and the city. The col. when we consider that at Crystal City, lections are taken up in churches, syna- only five miles distant from here was gogues, erades and professions, The also a first-class fair. The yield of collection boxes are also placed on the 1wheat in this section ean scarcely be elevated railroad stations and other calculated, as some had eighteen bush- places for several days. els to the acre, while others had not • NO STREET SIGNS. over five. This city is suffering lamentably from The weather is clear and frosty, a lack of street signs, and not only about fifteen degrees below zero, which strangers, but old residents, merchants, seems to me no more effective than the and others are complaining bitterly one Ontario atmosphere at froin one to five, account of the inconvenience caused Considering that I have not yet been thereby. There ate so many streets in two days on the prairie, I trust the this great city that it would take an ex - people of old Huron will not tire of perienced one indeed to know them all. such a vague description, but will bear This, of Jourse, is a practical impesst- with it and trust in the future for a bility, and hence all the streets are sups\ more studied account of the prairie posed to be labelled properly. Before, • land. The little bit I have written is the advent of the electric light, this done so far as I can judge, in the eim- was admirably accomplished by paint - pleat, most easily 'understood, language ing the names on the sides of the street I could select. lamps, so that they could be. read as I sought a land easily at night as in daylight. The elee- ne'er had found, tric light lamps make a very poor sub - But found it stitute in this -matter, lend therefore When I reached the Mound. travel at night in some districts is ex - Yours for remembrance, tremely inconvenient. Worse than ALTON ANDERSON, this ; in some localities there are no Pilot Mound, Manitoba. names to be seen whatever. The same nature of compiaints is applicable in the NeW York Let'ter. greater degree to the numbering of 1 what is called "Hospital Saturday and The former maintained that he Sunday." They are designated as the had given the latter $20, hence days on which,the annual collection for the, suit. The learned Judge, after the benefit of the hospitals is taken up. heaiing the evidence, held that the There are twenty-seven hospitals now defendant was mistaken as to the • amolint of money that he gave the (Regular Correspondent.) houses. This is done so poorly that one often walks for nearly a block without being able to discover the number of any house. -The citizens are protesting against these neglects and they have good cause. There seems to be no well defined system, and it is high time there was. EDWIN ARLINGTON. I am pleased to _Stele, however, that we encountered after leaving North your old Rodgervilie friends are un- Bay hindered considerably my view of usually fortunate, and have fared much better than most of those around us. Indeed the township in which most of us are located is called the fortunate one, showing an average of about 4t, bushels per acre, and the Rodgerville squad have an average of about 8 bush- els per acre. _ Now, sir, I am quite well aware that it is looked upon as an awful sin to write or say airy -thing which may appear to be against this country, but these are the facts, and when I write to my old Huron friends I mean to write the truth, quite regardless of a few puf- fing rand agents, who as a class do mighty little for the country, after all. Besides, I know that I am writing for sensible men, who know: that every country has its bad seasons. I under- stand that you have had a few of them in liturort lately. Yours truly, JAMES ELDER, Virden, Manitoba. -these wild desolations. But, oh the old saying "ye may expect a calm after a storm,' rose up in my mind th iugh in a different form viz: Smooth sailing be- yond the waves. Shortly before corning into Winnipeg I was overjoyed to be- hold the beautiful level country which became mare beautiful the farther west I travelled, broken only by about ten rhiles of rough travel in crossing the Pembina Rie en My Huron friends must not imagine that the Pembina River is ten miles wide. Oh! no, not so, but the tacking course of the 'train consists of that apace before fully making the pass. As most of you know, I came to Pilot Mound, a beautiful little village of some five hundred dwellers, for the pur- pose of pursuing my profession of school teaching. _Pilot Mound is one hundred and twenty-five\miles from Winnipeg on the the Canddian Pacific Railwayi Southwestern, noted for the great ?mount of business carried on and plaintiff and gave judgment accordingly. —Messrs, Shurly & Dietrich, of Galt, presented each of their employees with a gift on Christmas eve; that to the married men being a magnificent turkey, and to the single men $2 each, taking 45 turkeys and $82. —The 10 -year-old son of Mr. W. For- rest, of the Grand Trunk Railway, St. Thomas, fell from a derrick, a distance of 25 feet, and lighting on his head on a rail, received a scalp wound six inches in length. —It is said that half of the citizens of Winnipeg are affected with "la grippe," Premier Greenway among the rest. The dectors report more typhoid fever and other sicknesses in the city than has been known for years. —At Quebec on Saturday two child- ren were eliding on one of the Levis hills, when their sleigh ran over the cliff and was precipitated with them a hundred feet below. Strange to say both escaped with scarcely any injury. —On Sunday evening while Mr. Wm. Welsh, 3rd concession, Huron township, county of Bruce, was putting; his cattle in the stalls, one of the animals turned suddenly and threw him against the wall, fracturing his right collar -bone. —Two more -freight trains are to be placed -on the Canadian Pacific through Mainetat once to accommodate the in - °resoled business between St. John and Montreal. This makes five through trains per day over the road, and shows that the traffic is increasing. —One evening lately Jas. Mackenzie was thrown ont of a wagon on the lake shore road, near Kincardine, and had his arm badly fractured. The night was very dark, and the cause of the accident was the wagon running over a high root of a stump. —Mr. F. Schiverea will commence evangelistic services in Guelph on Sun- day, January 12th, after . the Week of Prayer. It is not determined yet whether he will conduct union ser- vices, or labor among •the Methodist churches. —James Lawson, shot by Mary Monre taine near Trenton a couple of weeks ago, died from the effects of his wound last Friday morning. He suffered greatly. The woman has been com- mitted to gaol. She will be indicted for manslaughter. —The extreme mildness of this winter in Ontario has enabled ploughing to be carried on even in January. D. M. Campbell, of East London, has been ploughing on December 25th and 27th, -and also on January 3rd. The ground worked well, in fact never worked bet- ter, which is something unusual at the season. —Tiffin Bros., .wholesale grocers, Montreal, who recently suspended pay- ment, had liabilitiee amounting to $482,- 000 of which $57.587 are unsecured claims, and $231,194 indirect liabili- ties. The firm has offered 40 cents on the dollar at three, six, and nine months. Canada. The Methodist Church at Dutton, County of Elgin; was destroyed by. fire on Saturday afternoon. —Dr. Brien, M. P., Essex Center, is seriously indisposed from malarial fever. —The Galt Snow -Shoe Club has 'been re -organized, and now impatiently, awaits the fall of the beautiful. —The Provincial Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations will be held at Brantford on February 1st to 10th. —St. Johns, Newfoundland, in eighteen months has had 2,064 cases of diphtheria and 401 deaths bythe same disease. —Influenza is very bad in Montreal, and there are few business houses or large establishments but are short- handed. —Rev. Professor Caven addressed a meeting at Paisley, Thursday evening last week, on the Equal Rights ques- tion.; —On Thursday of last week deetruc- tive fires oc... rred at Port Arthur, Bar- rie and Picton, in the business portions of each place. —Senator T. D. Archibald, of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, has gone to the States, to be treated for his eyes. He is growing blind. ; —This open winter has saved the lives of a good many. small boys. They haven't broken through the ice 14116 drowned. —S. •Augrove, landing waiter at King- ston wharf, picked up a glittering ob- ject, took it to a jeweller, and found that it was a diamond worth $700. —Folger Bros. have eecured a lease of Cedar Island, about five minutes' ride from the city ofKingston, and will fit it up for a Summer resort. —Louis Rubinstein, the champion skater left Montreal last week for St. Petersburg, Russia, to compete for the world's championship. —Mrs. -McCurdy, of Baddeck, Nova Scotia, is suing the Government, for $80,000 damages, for gypsum and plas- ter lands taken by the Cape Breton Railway. —Mr. John Lucas, of North Freder- icksburg, Addington county, dropped dead on Monday while returning from the township nominations. He was 76 y ea_r &fa% McSween, of the Inland Revenue Department London, left last week for Guelph where he will- remain for a ehort time to assist the department. there. —It is reported that the residence 'of Sir Richard Cartwright, King street, Kingston will be purchased by the Synod of Kingston, for an Episcopal resi- dence ; price $12,000. —It is estimated that there is about $32,000 worth of butter stored at the different towns along' the railway be- tween Winnipeg and Deloraine. —The Government has been informed that 150 families at Belle Isle are in a starving condition. Relief was sent from Halifax, but owing to the ice the steamer was unable to reach the desti- tute harbours. • —Captain Healey, of the 47th Battal- ion, Elginburg, injured two Weeks ago by a runaway accident, died on Friday last. He was one of the moat ardent temperance workers in Frontenac cou_nAtyn. interesting case was tried at the Guelph Division Court on Thursday, last week, when John Wilson, • chief clerk at the Royal Hotel, sued John McAteer for $4. It appears that the plaintiff entered the defendant's place and asked for small change for a twenty - dollar bill. McAteer, it was alleged, only handed over $16 in change, when Wilson called his attention to the fact. failing health for nom° time past, and went west thinking the climate would benefit him, but his time had come and he Watt, summoned to Ms long home while walking around the house on Christntas day. Heart disease was the cause of his death. —Barns belonging to L. Nathan Par- son and Henderson Bros., near Dela- ware, on the town line, were burned down last • week. Mr. Parson's loes is serious his barns contained 40 tons of hay, besides wagons, harrows binder, etc. The Henderson Bros. lost two horses. Parsons has $1,100 insur- ance. — --A sensation wss teamed by the an- nouneeinent that the young wife of a well-known citizen, the son of one of Winnipeg's oldest residents, had eloped on Friday last with a young man be- longing to the sporting fraternity. The lady was only married six months. She was arrested at Grand Forks, where her husband will probably go tq see her. —During the year 1889 the London fire department attended 123 fires and worked at 75; 80 were fires, 29 chim- neys, 9 false alarms, and 5 tests. They travelled 127 miles and used 331,600 gallons of water. Eight buildings were destroyed, chiefly sheds. The total Joss was $21,284, and the insurance $381.- 800. Last year 89 alarms were given, the loss Was $78,523, and the insurance, $334,191. —James Swinton, a molder in Hamiltonwhile,4 suffering from cramps Saturday evening, seized a bottle containing a quantity of laudanum and swallowed the contents, supposing it to be something else. The mistake was not discovered until Swin- ton had partaken of his supper, after which he became very 'ill. An. emetic was administered, but it failed to dis- lodge the poison and Svvinton died be- fore medical' aid could be procured. --Tickets were distributed on Friday night to over one hundred Hamilton newsboys for a supper to be given them. A good many youngsters were detected palming themselves off as newsboys, so an amateur detective force was institut- ed on the spot, and the officers e.ppoint- ed spotted all the impostors and saw to it that only bona fide newsboys got tickets. • —Last Sabbath Chalmers church, Kingston, costing $32,000, was dedicat- ed by Rev. Pr. Grant, -moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbytetian church. Rev. Dr. Burns, of Halifax, spoke in the afternoon and evening. Rev. Dr. Burns was pastor at the incep- tion of the church. until a few months before his death which took place at the residence of his - son-in-law, Mr, Joseph - Bloore. Ris remains were interred in the Kincardine cemete,..y. —A :earful accident happened to a young man named Thompson Gaskell, near Hamilton, a few &eye ago. The young man was attending a steam straw - cutter. The straw clogging in the ma- chine, he took a short sticle to push it if.way, when the straw yielded and Gas- kell's arm slipped in between the fast - running knives. Before the machine could be stopped the arm was cut off at the elbow and the rest of the arm badly mangled. Gasket' is in a low con- dition. —The council of Galt decided to pub- lish the assessment roll this year, and the Reformer thinks next yeag's council will take ateps to have it out in time. to permit of its being distributed before the Court of Revision. The demand for the printing of the roll has become so general that an effort may be made at the next session of the Ontario. Legisla- ture to amend the Assessment Act •by making it compulsory for municipalities to have it printed. —An extra east -bound train on the - MichigateCentral Railway ran into the rear end of another extra east -bound. • freight on the Grand BAver bridge near Cayuga at noon on Monday, and seven empty coal cars, two flats, and the ca- boose tumbled into the river, twenty feet below. The engine was also wrecked. The trainmen =eseaped by climbing -up on the bridge.. Another extra freight jumped the 'track a mile east of St. Thomas, and four cars were conipletely wrecked. —There were in 1889 about 600 per- sons employed as ()amain on the St. Lawrence river; in 1883 there were per- haps 100. There were last, summer 36 hotels, capable of accommodating 4,000, people. Six years ago the hotels could accommodate scarcely 1,000 people Be- sides these there are now 30 boarding houses with a capacity of 500 ,guests. There are between 600 and 700 cottages used exclusively by summer resents. From $1,000,000 td $1,250,000 was spent on the river last summer by tourists, exclusive of railroad fares. —The mountain quarries at Hamilton were to be opened on the '2nd inst. to give employment to those fleecing relief at the Mayor's office, but owing to the mischievous skylarking of some thought- less jokers the work has had to be post- poned. The tool house was set on fire on New Year's eve, and the explosion of the gunpowder stored there blew the building into fragMental The shoves, crowbars, picks and other tools were twisted out of shape, and all work is blocked for some days to come. —Karl Hoff, of Colorado, now on a visit to friends at •Tavistock, came to Tavistock seven Years ago, a poor boy from Germany • he is now the owner of 480 acres of land in Colorado. He is an example of what can be accomplished by industry. He will take with him on his return, to enjoy with him his broad acres, i blooming bride in the person of Miss MargaretaPantz, of Tavistock. —Hon. J. G. Blanchet, M. D., for many years a- prominent and popular figure in the House of Assembly and Speaker of the House of Commens,' Ot- tawa, died at his residence, Levis Heights, on the 2nd inst, He resigned his seat to accept the collectorship of customs at Quebec, which post he held up to his death: He was Speaker of the House of Assembly for a long period. —The head schoolmaster at Donald, British Columbia, has fallen in great luck lately. Somebody wrote, in his name, to a lady advertising for "corres- pondence, and what it may come to." The consequence was that he received a fetter and a check for $250 on the National Bank of Minneapolie, andan invitation to come at once and get tnar- ried and reeeive $10,000 on his wedding day. The teacher is thinking the mat- ter over. —Sixty-two cendidates were success- -Otto Klotz, Esq., of Preston, ful at the late entrance examinations in Kingston. Richard McClymont, a news- boy, headed the list, making 603 marks, the highest ever obtained by a pupil of the Kingston school. He is twelve years old. A candidate writing at the examination in answer to the question, " Who are the leading writers of the Victorian era?" replied, "Mr. Donovan, inspector of Separate Schools." —When the organist at St. John's church, St. -Thomas, was playing the voluntary at the service on a recent Sunday morning, all at once the organ emitted a few queer sounds, and .then refused to further act. An examination led to the discovery of a cat in the in- side of the instrument. The feline was in an emaciated condition, and appeared -to have been penned up in the organ for Immo time. —Rev. Professor Clark, of Toronto, 'preached at St. Paul's church, London, last Sabbath morning, taking for his text Luke,_ii, 3. In his discourser he laid particular 'Area's on the fact that man was more than a superior animal, owing to his sense of right and Wrong, but his motel senseneeded union with Christ to perfect it. The preacher con- cluded by appealing to all to begin the new year with a determination to live in that love of Christ in which alone true joys are to be found. county of Waterloo, has just been elect- ed for the fiftieth time to the School Board of that village. Mr. Klotz has been Secretary -Treasurer of the Board for nearly the whole • of that long period. . A family residing in St. Thomas had a little unpleasantness the other night. During the affair the wife threw 'a lighted lamp at herhusband and cut I open his head, The husband retaliated with a kettle of boiling water which he poured over his wife. A doctor had to be summoned by the neighbors to attend to their injuries. —A number of the ladies of Knox church, 'Glatt, have purchased a fine crayon portrait of Miss Edith Smith, daughter of Rev. J. K. Smith, formerly pastor of Knox church, Galt, and who died a few months ago in California,and sent it to San Francisco as a present to Dr. and Mrs. Smith. —Dr. Fafarde a prominent French- Canadian doctor at St. Boniface, Mane- toba, died under peculiar eircuinstances on Friday last. He had been drinking heavily for. some time, and it is thought had taken a dose of chloral to help to sober up. He was found in a -dying con- dition, and every effort to restore him proved futile. —Mr. William Rich, conductor on the Union Pacific Railway, died on Sat- urday last at Omaha, Nebraska, from injuries received in a collision on that road on December 20. He was former- ly a resident of London in the emplo3; of the Grand Trunk Railway, and was highly thought of by all with whom he came in contact. Bis body was brought to London for interment. —Six young ladies have been recently accepted by the China Inland Mission, and will leave for China on January 13th uext. Their names are as fol- lows:. Miss F. Miller, of Brantford; Miss B. Ross, Guelph ; Miss M. Fair - bank, of Jamestown, New York State; Miases Maggie and Tina Scott, of Mar- tintown, and Miss R. Power, of Barrie. —The sudden death of Mr. adab Johnston, late of Cornwall Centre, at the residence of his son in Dakota, on Christmas day, was learnecl with feel- ings of regret by a large number of per- sons in Cornwall township, evhere Mr. Johnston resided from childhood until about a year ago, as well as in the town, where he had many warm friends. Nadab Johnston was an upright, honest man, a true Christian and A. friend to --On Saturday night Hiram Stevens whose home was at Fort Covington, visited the International hotel at Dun- dee, in the vicinity of Cornwall. After having a few draughts from the cup that cheers but also inebriates, in company with some friends he left the hotel. Fifteen minutes later he was found by one of the parties with whom he had been drinking that night lying with his head on the ground and his feet on the platform—dead: His neck had been broken by the fall. —Mr. Adam Hodgins, of the Durham • Line, near 13ervie, in Bruce County, passed peacefully away on Saturday morning, 21st _ult., at the age of 48' years and three months. Mr. Ilodgins had always been a healthy and robust man until within about a year and a half ago, when he contracted a severe attack of rheumatism which settled finally upon him, and along with other diseases caused his death. He wasborn and raised in the township. of Biddulpla, near Lucian, but not fancying that sec- tion of country as a place for residing permanently he moved to his farm near the poor and needy. He had been in 'the village of Berm, where he hved • _ —At -four o'clock Monday morning the barn and driviug shed of Thos. Hayes, of Devizes, township of West Nissouti, were destroyed by an incendiary fire. In the barn and shed were five heal of cattlei which were suffocated, besides a few pigs. The farm implements and season's crop of hay were consumed. The loss to Mr. Hayes will be heavy. There is no doubt as to the fire being the work of an incendiary, as no light, had been used about the premises for many hours Pre—vAimlyaolu374 farmer named C. Reding, living near Ancaster, was on Monday evening of last week terribly torn and bruised by a boar. -Reding went into the sty of the boar, a Berkshire, when the brute attacked'him savagely, bit his leg and thigh and dashed him againat the side of the pen. 'Reding managed to drag himself out of the sty, but the boar broke out ofithe pen and attacked him again. Reding was weak from loss of blood, but succeeded at last in get- ting away from the vicious brute and dragged himself to Mr. Law's residence, The wounds are severe, and Reding is in a critical conditition. —About 100 .teams were engaged one day last week carting cheese from Wee foxd to the Grand Trunk station loading five refrigerator cans; others shipped at Thedford, all going forward to be sold in England. This -cheese had been purchased by the Im- perial Produce Company of Toronto. This company is non -speculative and has some of Toronto's leading and most respected citizens on its Board, includ- ing Hon. Chas. Drury, Minister of Api- culture. Thefarmers are also subscrib- ing for stock in the company. Applica- tions have been made for 40 share) ($4,000) from one factory. —The Owen Sound Times tells of a peculiar case of blood -poisoning which occurred in that town a few days ago resulting in the death of the wife of Mr. David Redfern. • The cause of death is attributed to blood -poisoning which originated in a most peculiar manner. One evening about two weeks ago while holding a lighted match she burned her finger. Paying such attention to it as is ordinarily given to these every day occurrences, the wound nearly healed. A few days previous to her death, how- ever, she felt a stinging sensation in the .finger, and it gradually grew worse and began to fester. A physician was con- sulted and poulticing was prescribed. The treatment was unavailing, and on Thursday of last veeek her condition be- came alarming and she gradually [tank until death -relieved her sufferings. —The Drumbo Record of last week says: Archie IL Mama and Arthur J. Muma, the match twin brothers, are at home spending their holidays with their grand -parents in Drunabo, Squire Mum& and Mrs. Marna, Archie is a, salesman in Grant's dry goods store, Brantford, and will return to his work when his holidays are up. Arthier is a student at the Woodsthek Collegiate Institute, and will return to his studies on the 6th instant, when the school re -opens.- The boys look well, healthy and jolly. So nearly alike are they in looks, size and weight that even most intimate friends are at times puzzled to tell them apart. May they long live and prosper. 0