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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-01-31, Page 11890. ioOds Iuuar 1& week, ALL AT. e CCSt. Lines : SHAWLS, DOL HOODS, WOATS, )VER.CQAT, I LES, - BLAIT.KETS we have - only cad in order to a Profit .t.s I -I_ 'AUL, a 1TH. is beforeleavingfor ►ve decided to make :allh Pelton, for- a-, has purchased f the old Budget and has started ti I called the Bee.— ma a visit here from has been for the . sin returned West ame as of yore. He family West in the Lain.. ance Electric Light rkmen putting up light. _ Theyare i run it for thirty ,dvertisement.. —Dr. +corida on business. Methodist minister, I here, preached on in the Presbyterian Iethodiat church in also lecturing every t the Town Hall.--- ?., left last week to t Ottawa.—Mr. H. week attending- his She was buried in. ,oey shipped a fine OM here last week to Anderson, son of 'n, of the Boundary' in Manitoba `for 7 ' his friends here. Wingharn, went on the funeral of his 'Ids,: of the township ,',ounty of Peel,who leers of that place,, ett. --In justice 4 my- o state that it has edge that some un- -tive person has been to the effect that I ode an aeaignment. those who may not umstanees, I beg to eh report is false. I ul circulator of this er person to produce ook account -against duster and frugality one of the most s in the county and topay one hundred ar every time.—JOHN council elect for the ett for 1890 met at. Monday, the 20th. sent. By-laws : were sed- fixing salaries of ppointments of town- 1890. Messrs. David ohn McLaren were rs ; Robert Smith, as Neilans re -appoint - es. A few accounts, 5 were passed and On the application e council granted the s. Mesamore, a woman noes, the same . tobe he direction of Conn- he clerk was authori-, for tenders for et rn plank for the use he said tenders to be ext meeting of council ebruary 3rd, at ane !ifl TWENpY-SECOND YEAR. 'WHOLE NUMBERS 1,155, , SEAFORT ig FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1890. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Great . Bargains —AT THE— Cheap Cash. Store —OF— HOFS=MAN $i. CO. Great Bargains going in good useful - and suitable artie:lea for Holiday Pres- ents at our CHEAP SALE, Of which the following are a few ; Dress Goods, Mantles, Mantle Cloths,Furs, Blankets, Shawls, CIouds, 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 comp eting your purchases, at the thea Gash OF' Store Reaction in Missionary Effort. (Read by Dirs.. C. Fletcher, of Thames Road, Usborne, at the annual meeting of the Wo- men's Presbyterial Convention, field at Seaforth, January 21st.) Reaction ! Who 'does not understand its meaning ? Is there a woman,who has net had the experience of commenc- ing work, some morning thinking the world bright and beautiful and her task a delight, but by night, although the sun shines never so brightly, her world looks dark and dreary, the accomplished work altogether undesire- able ? Trudy we know that the night's rest wilt restore our jaded nerves, and give us the proper appreciation of our 'efforts, but at the time we feel, with intensity even, that all is vanity and vexation of spirit. : Practical experience then, has taught us that we' women are frone to reaction, and, no doubt, it is a air presumption that men, though not Iso subject to nerves, -succumb some• trines to the same disease, for such it is. We know indeed, that nations lie pros- trate under it for indeanite periods, and socommon is it that instead of hunting for causes producing and remedies re- lieving we are apt philosophically to say, with a shrug of our shoulders, " such has always been, such will always be." Reaction in commerce reaction in sani- tary reform,' reaction in the Temperance movement, reaction in revival work, re- action in missionary efforts, and one might enumerate "ad infinitum," but the above is enough to let us see that H OF F M AN the trouble is not a skeleton in the closet but a living, persisting thing, liv- ing everywhere. For the pulpit warns 3 us of it the press talks in columns of it, CARDNO'S BLOCK ing no barriers in the way, let us not be led lute the mistake of demanding a harvest before the seed has time to grow. Naturally, we are all impatient mor- tale, wanting our desires granted here and now, and we grow tired of giving ; doing, doing, all the time, seeing no end to the one nor to the other. Let us take courage ! " He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved " ; " Be not weary in well doing, for in due season s e shall reap if we faint not." When the work is fresh novelty lends an inspira- tion, but after years the freshness gives place to monotony, and then it is that our trial is at hand. If we at home grow weary,what about our colleagues abroad? Years of study at the language before 'properly qualified to meet the require- ments of the work ; the climate often trying in the extreme ; the conduct of so-called Christians, to their shame be it said, sometimes such as to prejudice the minds of the natives against the Gospel of Christ ; the superstitions of ages to wrestle against,—our discouragements, vanish by comparison, and we prayer-. fully resolve not to add to their burdens by thrusting forward our own. The cry, continually, from the great, restless world, is .for something new, and so incessant is the demand that. scarcely do w''e�`ee adjust ourselves to one set of nircum'stences before another is upon us, and in spite of protests, it may be, on our part, move we must, or be left far behind. No wonder in these times that there is a leek of sustained effort, when it seeins as if the world did not want anytone thing continued too long. Remember this is not the man- ner of other people only. It is also our own ordinary manner, and herein we can detect what may prove .the most fruitful source of a reaction in'missions. Missions,do not mean work tb-day and a holiday to -morrow, something' to be un- dertaken,when we feel like it, and let alone when we feel like that too.go put it in very plain English, we must notin- terest ourselves in the work because it is fashionable, and turn. our back upon it, when a new fashion sets in: • Fashion is fleeting, and reaction is ever at her elbow. Principle alone can give us sus- taining power. Without it we are -vi- sionary, impractical, impulsive, indiffer- ent, antagonistic, each and all by turns. With it, the face is " set like a flint," to go to all the world with the Gospel of salvation, with no expectation of fail- ure, no expectation of reaping what has not been sown ; no blind following of a mere whim or passing fancy, no turning aside in search of novelty, but a steady marching on, praying without ceasing for wisdom, for courage, for zeal, for en- durance. Reactions in worldly enter- prises, we may ace, but in missionary effort let us say "Never," • If,therefore, our Presbyterial societies or any of its auxiliaries find the meet- ings poorly attended, the members cold, the offerings given grudgingly, "the dreaded reaction is finding a door open inviting entrance. Quickly let us close it with prayer and watchfulness. Bar it against the enemy, but fling wide the, portals for any new comers, remember- ing that recruits infuse new life. • Nor should we neglect to attain that accurate knowledge of the work, so necessary to leaven the whole church . and keep our- selves in touch with those in the field. With every member present at the monthly meeting, each one trying to make it more interesting, all our self:an aims lost in view of the great end, and possessed and prepared by a spirit of prayer, the strong auxiliary encouraging the flagging one, the year 1890 would record such an enlargement of borders and strengthening of stakes, as to make it a year of unmistakable action, and re- action not to be named amongst ua. but most convincing of all we feel it, and S E A F RT 14. -what we feel is more or less absorbing to ourselves. Feelings, of course, are all very well or very i11, as the case may .be. Though some think mere en- during would enertainly be better, but, DO matter whet: our principles as we Has Conquered never overcome our feelings as long as the point of a pin keeps up , its uneasy prickings. Should we? Christian resig- nation makes us amiable under adverse circumstances, but Christian teaching is not that one should calmly endure without enquiring into the cause or remove it when found. Fancy a person so indocile as to say, " Dear friend, I find that the pin holding my collar has got out of place. I am suffering some inconvenience to be sure, but I will en- dure it and smile as if all were well." When a reaction in` trade sets in do the producers and traders sit with equanimity? Not they. Certainly they do not always reach the cause of the depression with unerring accuracy, but there is an honest effort after it, . and what is the meaning of all their regula- tions of trade, new commercial laws, etc., if not remedies for the trouble. We have come to talk of the temper- ance wave, in the most matter of fact way, admitting by this phraseology, its advance, its recession, its advance,and°so On alternately. Thoughtful writers on the subject seek after the causes for these alternate movements, and while , seek- ing find encouragement in the fact that as each wave strikes us we are sent just a little farther Ion. There is an old saying about not go- ing over the bridge to meet trouble, and something about trouble coming to those who watch for it. We are not in the ebb of reaction ! No ! We are on the advancing tide. Never was mis- sionary zeal more -fervent ; never was the Lord's treasury ;fuller for the work of evangelizing the heathen; but, " Wat.hman ! What of the night ?" Is it to find us weary, worn, dejected, dis- Gpirited, the burden dropped all distaste- ful, or is it to find us 'weary and worn, perchance. in body; but bright of soul "hoping;al1,things; enduring all things ?" Judging from our tendencies the former would seem to be our inevitable end, and our wotk also cone to be .characterised as 'a missionary wave. The flow we see, the ebb we will see. But, is re- action a necessary law of life or of Chris • tian work ? Are we not ourselves to blame in this matter ? We have no Scriptural warrant for anything but go- ing on "even unto perfection," and as we search into the difficulty we .fear it a lies where we would much rather it could not be found, and as if to blind our vision we ascribe it :-all to natural tendencies, buttressing this opinion . by the many illustrations at hand, forget- ting sometimes to make a distinction be- tween an inflated and a solid body. Bubbles, burst, be they commercial, political, or what not, but the world moves on, and so a work founded on onr imaginations will collapse, but Faith, Hope and Charity abide. We build with highest authority on a living Rock for eternity, and if the_ . por- tion of the. wall we build totters to its falling let us look to the workmanship and not bemoan the ways of walls that will fall. With such a. foundation as Christ, with such authority as "Go ye. into all the world and preach the Gospel" if we say "this missionary work is all a huge bubble; prepare for the collapse." Not in so many words perhaps, but in our attitude of expect- ancy we say it to our condemnation, for in this very way many /a dire -.result is brought about. To draw the moral then : "We should not expect little; neither should we expect too much." For €ill remember the Scott Act vote in this county. With what enthusiasm it was thought that such an overwhelming vote meant success, but did. it? No ! That was only a preliminary step, the enforcement of the Act was to have been the second, but- difficulties seemed insuperable, and the next appeal to the - polls showed us the reaction. Denying ourselves to provide the means to equip missionaries for work in foreign fields is the first part, and a most important part, but after that we must not forget that the missionary can- not build-up a church in a day and that years sometimes elapse before he, tremb ` tingly, sends home the report of one be- ing rescued from heathenism. With our organizations so complete, our zeal find - SCIENCE And made it possible to'Restore Defec- tive Eye Sight to Normal Vision. I meeting of the Elms on held in Atwood re- wing were elected of- Wm. fWm. Shearer, re- elect-. W. Mcitain, lot Vice art Morrison, 2nd Vice Dickson, Jr., Secre- .• Chairman. of Ward ob Bray,` Wm. Shearer, i'. S. Burnett, James orge Inglis and Ferdi- meeting of the Fuller- Society was held in the Thursday, 9th inst., ing officers were elect- `t year : President, Geo. president, Thomas Han` GUI ; directors, Wm. Woodley, jr., Captain Bain, Thomas Green- oodley, Wm. Porteous R. B. Pomeroy -wa tary-treasurer,and jo ampbell, auditors. J. S. Roberts Ia happy to announce that he has secured Patent Dioptric :Eye Metre, which will enable him to fit all defects of vision, ASTIGMATISM, HYPERM ETROPIA, MYOPIA, PRESBYOPIA, OF.. ANY COMPOUND DEFECT. Astigmatism is due to irregular shape of eye, and is nsuaIly 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 qui te as g a malform- ation e nd o dangerous defect.—Hypermetropia ationwhich 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 result in nervous depression and pain, and even prostration.—Myopia is a.diseased condition of the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to prevent an increase of the defect, and perhaps ultimate 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 serious illness, are brought on by one or more of the above defects. Remember, no charge for testing your eyes. J.S.ROB'ERTS, Chemist & Druggis CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTII, variety, while ferns grow to a very large size ; some of thein are very hand- some and deserve a place in any garden where handsome plants are appreciated. Some of the shrubs are also very hand= factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was educated at the public school of Iskney Island, and was in the Hudson Bay Company's service Labrador, and in 1846 settled in Upper Canada. He some. British Columbia is noted for its ' was taught his alphabet by Sir John trees, and deservedly so. They mar be Franklin when a boy at Cumberland seen in acres'rising300 feet and 9 to 12 house, where Sir John spentone winter during one of his earlier ex editions. After his return from his Arctic voyage - Capt. Kennedy married a highly culti- vated English lady named Franklin. His wife and two grown-up children survive him.. 1' feet in diameter at the base. There is stump in one corner of my garden which by actual measurement is forty feet.- round at five feet from the ground. This` is by no means a large stump as under- stood here. These are principally cy- press (or thuja), called cedar. The pines grow as tall, but on an average not quite so thick, although some - very large ones are found. The supply of timber is a great source of wealth to the Province, and already large quantities are shipped to foreign countries, especially to Australia. The lumber mills are running night and day to supply the demand, and from five to nine ships are always waiting in the roads ready to take on board their car- goes of lumber as fast as it can be pre pared for them. Two other. mills are proposed, and it is expected will be run- ning next year. All these companies employ a large number of men, while the shipping makes work for as many more, to say nothing of the good they do to trade in general. Another great source of wealth is the fisheries, in which salmon comes first and with some firms all the year one way or another, as when not actually fishing they ace preparing cans and vari- ous other work connected with their business. Then comes the minerals, which are being worked more every year. Some claims are very promising and nearly all are paying backs money invested. The great drawback is want of roads ; thiswill be remedied soon, and then there will be such an out- put of the precious metals that will sur- prise any one not acquainted with the country. There is nothing to prevent this Pro- vince taking a front rank as a gold pro- ducing country, while her forests and rivers, coupled with the climate, will in a few years cause people to flock here from Eastern Canada, and not a few from over the border. Yours truly, RICHARD T. ROBINSON.' Bill Arp among the Farmers. Bill Arp, the Georgia humorist, has':; been among the farmers. He says : By invitation, I made a speech not long ago at a farmers' barbecue in a neigh- boring county, and I 'spread myself in encouraging our people to keep up with the age, and I pictured the innocence and honesty, and independence of .a farmer's life in multitudinous language. I was cheered and congratulated of course, and when I got through, an old, grizzly .fellow, with brass -bound spec- tacles, came up and says he to me : " My friend, you talk mighty well ; you talk like a lawyer ; but I would like to know if you can tell me what kind of a calf makes the best . milch cow ?" " A heifer calf," said. I, and the crowd just yelled. I got the grin on the old man, and so says, "Let me ask you a question and yip may ask me another, and the man whin can't answer his own question must treat to cigars.." "All right," says he, " now go ahead." Said I, "How does a ground squirrel, dig his hole without leaving any dirt around the top ?" He studied awhile and then gave up, and called on -me to answer. Why, ' said I, " he begins at the bottom." " Well, but how does he get at the bottom?" said the old man,as though he had me. " I don't know," said I, " but as it - is your question, you must answer it or man surrendered and bought the cigars. The crowd yelled. again, and the old Canada. Mr. Robb, Q, C., of Simcoe, bas been appointed county judge -of Norfolk, vice Livingstone, deceased, —Messrs. -Back & Locke, leather - dealers, Montreal, have made an assign- ment with liabilities !of $76,000. —The Kingston `Fair lacked almost $500 of paying expenditures last year, but there were exceptional outlays abov9 result. If she had not been dis- covernd 80 soon, and the fire got more headway the three ladies, the only occu- pants of the house, would very likely have been burnt to death, as the hall was at the head of the stairs and their exit would have been cut off. —Mrs. Dennis Walmsley, wife of a Tilbury East farmer, committed suicide Friday. She was married four years ago, and the union has not been a happy one, She left behind her two little children, one of them being a babe not a year old. -Detectives are looking around St. Thomas for Ella C. White, the Elmira, New York, adventuress, who was ar- rested for forgery, but who escaped from jail. She was traced to that place, and is supposed to be in the neighbor- hood. A reward of $200 is offered for her recapture. • - —One of .the oldest an richest farm- ers of Brant county died on Saturday from pneumonia, the after results of the grippe, in the person of Mr. R. Ker, who had lived near Brantford since 1835. He was a bachelor, and leaves as his only relatives a brother and two nephews. • —John Gorley and three children perished by fire Monday night at St. John, Newfoundland. Gorley died in the flames while making a third attempt to rescue his children from a burning house. His remains were found with his head burned off and a child in bis' arms. —The Brantford, Waterloo & ake • Erie Railway will be open for traffic on the 1st of February. —Abraham Henderson, a well-known Toronto military man and a member of "A" Company Royal Grenadiers, died last Friday. —Rev. Dr. Murdoch, of St. Cath- arines, has accepted a call from the Baptist church at St. George, Brant county. . —A man named Michael Mara fell through a hole in :,the wharf at West Market street, Toronto, Saturday night, and was drowned. —The Winnipeg health officer has discovered a disease among some newly - arrived Russian -German emigrants which greatly resembles leprosy. —Mrs. Fred. W. Avery, wife of F. W. Avery, lumber broker, and a promi- nent leader of society, died at Ottawa on Sunday. —lion. Senator C. S. Rodier died on Saturday night at his residence in Mon- treal. —A photographer in Brantford lately took a picture of a family named Secord belonging to the neighborhood of New - Durham in Burford township, There were the father, mother, and fourteen children in the group. —Fire Monday morning destroyed. Duncan Walker's large mills five miles from St. Thomas. The mills which were among the finest in the country, were purchased from H. Payne, now of London, for $7,000. Since that tine several thousand dollars have been spent by Mr. Walker in purchasing new ma- chinery and improvements. As there was no fire in the building on Saturdt'y, the origin of the fire is no doubt incen- diary. The loss is $10,000-; insured for only $2,000, From British Columbia. (By a former Goderichite in The Signal.) Vancouver is still progressing, and ao are most of the people round about it. The city has made great strides during the past season, everything and every- body is on the move. Frame buildings have been torn down and replaced by brick and stone ones. The country is keeping pace with the city, and in every direction one may see houses springing up, and small clearings where, a few months ago, nothing but trees and ferns stood, and everything points to a still greater activity next spring. The build- ing trades have been, auk still are very brisk; although there will be two months -during the rainy season when little' can be done outside. Carpenters earn $3 per day of nine hours and plast- erers $5.00, other trades in proportion. Laborers get $2.00 and Chinese $1.25, -- of the latter of which we have more than enough. What we need is farmers to take hold of the country. Nearly all our food iti imported either from Manitoba or Ore- gon ; this makes it expensive. Thefew fanners that are here are all doing well, and there is room for hundreds and a good market for all their produce for years to come. I may mention that fregh eggs at the present time are fetch- - ing 60c per dozen, and in the summer they brought 35c and a ready sale. A small fortune could be made frpnia well kept poultry run of a few acres!' In other branches of farming the soil and climate are favorable for almost anything,' espec- jelly root crops, while for fruits they cannot be beaten in the Dominion, large as it is. I saw ripe raepberries picked from the plant on the lst of December, They were thoroughly colored and of good flavor ; that will tell you what the climatels like. The variety of wild fruits in the Province is enormous. There are three varieties of raspberries and of a size equalling any of the culti- vated ones, while blackberries swaem everywhere ; huckleberries, both red and.Ittack, crabs, cherries, eranberries, and lets that I never saw before, and all grow to a size they do not attain in other phones, with . one exception, the cra.b, which is a miaerable little fruit. In trees and shrubs there. is an endless New York ,Letter. NRW YORE, January 27th, 18g0: The great excitement of the week has been the flying trip around the world, which was undertaken aimultaneously by two young journalistic women, and which has just been concluded. Miss Bly, who was sent out by the World made the circuit in an easterly direction, first going across the Atlantic, while, Miss .Bisland, of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, traveled in the opposite di- rection. That the circuit of the globe can be made in less than eighty clays, which has heretofore been regarded as visionary, is now conclusively establish- ed by the arrival of Miss Bly, on Setur- day, she having made the trip in seventy-two days. At this writing,Misa Bialand is still on the sea, though she left. Liverpool on Saturday, the 18th inst., and thadihe steamer been a fast one she would have arrived in New York two or three days ago. The publicity given to this race around the world, and the interest taken, have proven gool educators. Maps and time•tablee have been scanned as never. before and thous- ands have been figuring up days, hours, minutes and seconds until thoroughly bewildered. DOCTORS DENOUNCED. Now that the ill -named " grip " has partly passed away, the doctors are coming in for a large amount of well deserved criticism. , People who were led to believe that the epidemic was nothing more than a liberal dose of sneezing, have become indignant to find that it was really a great auxiliary to pneumonia, bronchitis and consumption, The serious nature of these latter were well known, but to laughingly allow the —Rev. D. J. Macdonnell, pastor of St. Andrew's church, Toronto, arrived at home on Thursday after a trip in the North-West and British Columbia. —The annual report of McGill Uni- versity in Montreal shows that there are now in the institution 690 students. Musie has been introduced es a definite study. —The Canadian Itacific telegraph line is noW complete from Halifax to the Pacific over the 4,00 peating. —W. Bogue doors to bleopened to these diseases un- der a misleading name seems very much like imposition. Either the doctors knew the seriousness of this epidemic, or they did not. If they knew it, why did they noi caution the public ? If they did not 'know it, then why not!' There is a weak spot somewhere, and I, for one,. would liko an explanation. The public are just beginning to realize that an epidemic which adds a hundred deaths in: a day is hardly a matter for amusement. USING THE ELEPHANTS. The Board of Park Commissioners has ordered one of the Central park elephants to be fitted out with a how- dah, which is a sort of basket for carry- ing passengers, such as is seen in the East. The idea is to use the elephant for both pleasure and profit—pleasure to the children who frequent the park, and profit to the managers of the inter - prise, who will charge the children 5 cents a ride. Central Park Jennie, which is the animal's real name, is already getting into condition for her summer's work. She has been taught to kneel and treat the children with kindness, and act as a good elephant should. She is said to be very gentle and a fevorite with the young folks. Her pew rig will be a gorgeous affair and will no.doubt prove a great attraction to our- little ones. Donkey rides and goat rides will herea.fter take hack seats. EDWIN ARLINGToN. —Capt. Wm. Kennedy, who was one flames which were blazing up about six of the crew sent out .by Lady Franklin feet high, and carried the unconscious to search for her husbend, Sir John, in young lady to bed and sent for a doctor. Arctic regions, died. near Winnipeg, I Her limbs and other parts of her body Saturday. He was 76 years old, and I were badly burned. Miss Nolan had oast, and messages are sent miles of wire without re. - jr., of London West, secured 23 prizes\ on 24 entries at the Chatham poultrii ishow last week ; also four diplomas for the best pigeons on exhibition. —The salaries of all members of the Toronto police force have been increased on an average of about $1 a week each. The increases will total about $10,000 per year. —Vandals entered a Presbyterien Mission Church in Parkdale a day ortwo ago and burned up a number of Biblen of clothing laid by fer the poor. —Last Friday the house of Mr. B. E. Vanalstine, in Smith towns)tip, defective stovepipe while the fafnily were at tea, and was destroyed. —The Dominion Dairymen's Aeso- elation annual convention will be iteld in Ottawa on February 17, 18 and 19, and the Fruit Growers cenvention the liith, 20th and 21st. —The Presbyterian church at Kil- donan, Manitoba, gave a call to Rev.' W. Macdonald, of Hamilton Presbytery - which he has accepted, and which was ratified by the session. The stipend is $1,000 and a manse. preached in Metropolitan' church,. To- ronto, last Sabbath morning. The large edifice was crowded, and the sermon wee listened to with the closest atten- tion by the large audience. —The Presbyterians of Ailsa Craig and Carlisle are moving in the matter of a. manse. A committee has been ap- pointed to carry out the -project and the contemplated cost is from $2,000 to $2,- -Andrew Schen°, a' twelve -year-old son of Wm. Schario, .of Guelph, while hunting a squirrel on Sunday afternoon, fell from a tree a distance of about 35 feet and sustained such serious injuries that he died on Monday morning. —Burglar Ryan, when being sen- tenced at Hamilton on Saturday, ex- pressed a preference to spending three years in Kingston Penitentiary to eigh- teen months in the Central Prison, and the obliging Police Magistrate gave him four years in the former. . —A Hamilton despatch says : It is probable that the seiner diepute between this city and the townaltp - of Barton which has already eaten up about $3,006 in law costs, will now be settled amica- bly withoue4ncurring any fresh ex- pense. —Wm -O'Connor, the champion scal- ier of America, and as an aspirant for the world's championship, left Toronto a few days -ago for San Francisco, from which place he sails February 8th for Sydney, Australia, where he intends rowing for the championship. have to buy poultry for their customers in lidontreal. —Mr. James A. Clark, who lives on the town line, Euphitteia, and St. Vincent,Grey County,lost an interesting little girl 2 years old a few days ago by poison. He had been troubled with rats and . when in town purehased strychnine, which was in a phial and placed in his vest pocket. On his re- turn home he took off the vest antl- left the phial in it. ,-The child got it and olsuck the cork. In half an hour it be- came evidently sick and ROOD. died. —Mr. Andrew Gemmel's barn, on lot 13, concession 6, Huron township, was destroyed by tire Wednesday night last week. AD the summer's crop, farm im- plements, vehicles, and one heifer was burned. The balance of the atock was saved with difficulty, es the fire spread rapidly. Mrs. Gemmel, sr., had her arm badly sprained while endeavoring to assist in , rescuing some stock, Mr. Gemmel's total loss will be about $2,000; insured in the Western Wa.wanosh for —A fatal accident occurred Thursday last week on the farm of William Humphrey, near Strathroy, in which a young man named Joseph Anderson lost his life by falling from a tree. -It seems that while Anderson *est out in the woods felling trees, the tree that was being felled lodged in a limb of another tree: • Anderson immediately went up to cut iticlown, but juet • as he got up he slipped and fell to the ground, alighting on hie head, breaking his neck. He Only lived a few seconds afterwards. —The death of Mrs. McKenzie, mother of Mr. K. McKenzie, of Kincar- dine took place near Armow, on the 20t1; of January. The deceased was eighty-nine years of age, and survived her husband who passed away about v. year ago at ninty-two years of age. Deceased came to this country with her husband. and family. from Sutherland - shire, Scotland, in 1847. After living in Zorra about five years they came to Kin- cardine township, where the trials and hardships of ea•rly backwoods life were cheerfully encountered and .over- -A St. Paul special says : Canadian lumbermen are stealing billions of feet of lumher from tbe greatest northern pine timber belt of America. The north- western representatives in Congress will immediately urge that measures be taken to provide against this wholesale rob - 'leery which the Indians declare has been carried on for twelve years. About. twenty steamers and tugs ply from early spring tilt late in the fall on Rainy . River, ite branches, and the Lake of the Woods, conveying stolen timber to Rat• Portage, Keewatin, and even to Winnipeg. —The other day in Woodstock,during the absence of Father Brady, Dan Mc- Donald hitched up the Father's fine - team of drivers and started out for a spin. When out a, short time the team became unntanageable and ran away. Dan was thrown out and more or less seriously injured. One of the horses, a colt, which was a present to Father Brady, fell down in the course of the runaway, and was dragged for a con- siderable distance by its mate. The re- sult was that the colt received such in- juries that for a time it was thought it• - could not live. The buggy was ams.shed and the harness torn to shreds. —J. T. Porter, one of Orillia's most enterprising and best-known business men, died suddenly last Sunday night. Last week he was in Toronto doing -business, and op Thursday night while running to catch the train for home he became overheated and was seized with an attack of influenza accompanied by a severe pain in the side. This was fol- ' lowed by pleurisy, which terminated in • his death. Mr. Porter was well and favorably known to the people of Orillia and surrounding country for nearly 20 years. He leaves a wife and four chil- dren with main, friends to mourn his death. Deceased was about 36 years of age, but his life was a particularly active —Felix Brant, an escaped Siberian exile, is at present sojourning in To- ronto. He spent seven years in a Rue- sion prison in solitary confinement apd —Dr. A McKay, of Underwood, near Kincardine, Reeve of Bruce township, has decided to remove to Woodstock, succeeding to the practice of the late Dr. McKay, of that town. He.has been. a resident of Bruce township for the past 19 years, and .was a very popular citizen. —Miss Powers, the lady missionary to China, who was left in the hospital at Winnipeg suffering from an attack of measles, has recovered.' She will re- main in the city with friends until about the 13th of February, when she will join another party, who will leave Toronto on the 9th. and proceed en her ----ahe statement of the claim of 'Miss Ivy Longbottom, in the action of Long - bottom vs. Worth, has been filed at Os- goode Hall by plaintiff's solicitors. The action is for $5,000 damages for breach of promise of marriage. Miss' Longbot- tom is a governess, and the defendant, Wm. Worth, is a retired elderly gentle- man, residing at 390 College street, Toronto. —The Hespeler Methodist Church, which has beee resealed andlembellished at a cost of sixteen hundred dollars, was re -opened on Sunday. Rev. Dr. Suther- land, pastor of Elm Street church, To- ronto, and Rev. J. E. Howell, President of the Guelph Conference, officiated. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Cornish, reported that the contributions of the day amounted to $1,470. —The other day Andrew Seaman, of Kingston, met a horse on the Lombardy road, drawing a cutter and apparently no one in the rig. T -he horse -was stop- ped, when a mad was found, his leg caught in the fender and the body drag- ging on the ground. He was almost dead. He had been dragging for near- ly two Miles. In his pocket was found a bottle of liquor. —Last Friday John Finnigan, a farm laborer, married, living a mile and a half weat of Fargo, on the Michigan Central Railway, jumped off a train near his home, lost his balance and fell toward the train. One leg was rim over by a coach wheel and cut off at the knee. Finnegan was carried into Fargo station, where all possible was clone for him, but he died Saturday inorning. —Two of the carriage horses recently sold by S. B. Fuller, of Woodstock, have found comfortable quarters, to say the least. They, were a mare by Ohe- Eyed Lapidist and a horse by Eden Golddust. They are now in Mr. H. Van'derbilt's Idle Hour Stables, just completed at a cost of $38,000. The mare is considered one of the fineit car- riage horses in the stable. --Henry Willie, a small boy, sued the corporation of Toionto and F. W:Itl-ye, • —A very serious case of burning took Once at the residence of Miss Skelly, in Haysville, recently. About three o'clock in the morning Miss C. Skelly thought she heard some one groaning, and on opening her bed -room door was horrified to see her niece, Miss Sarah Nolan, lying on the - floor enveloped_ in flames.' Miss Skelly with great presence of mind. picked up an old skirt that was near by and succeeded in subduing the of the Roasin Bente block, for $1,000 • damages for injury sustained in - the eleven years in exile. He is described fracture of hie elbow on October 14th last. He wad walking along the side- nvalk and fell into an unguarded coal 'hole. The defence lodg.ed twits careless- ness on his part. The jury gave a ver- dict for $300 with costs against the Cor- poration. .—The Quebec Government, during the present session' of the Local Legislature, will propose that to every mao in the Province who has twelve living children Shall be given 100. acres of land; At Trois Pistoles two families named Rou- lette and Belzie have each 15 children. The Gingraa, in Beliechasse, have 34; the Cretiene, in L'Islet, have 27 ; and the Viliancourts in Kamouraska, have just had their 37'th baptized. —The Lanark Township Council in the county of Lanark, has a standing a blacksmith in Aurora, Ilhn.ois, some twelve or thirteen years ago, and had a family of four chilaren. Four years ago, Campbell deserted his 'wife and family, and in company with another woman who had deserted her husband, came to Canada and settled down at hia business. About a year ago he opened a blacksmith shnp on the fifteenth side- line in Brant, at Hampsort's corner, five miles from,Walkerton, and here under the name of Crawford, was peacefuliy ursuing his business and establishing had been in poor health for years, suffer- ing with rheumatism. He knew Sir John well, having been employed on his estate prior to the expedition. He was born at Cumberland house, on the Sas- katchewan river, his father being chief been suffering from the influenza that is so prevalent and had got up and gone into the next room with a small hand lamp, and was returning to her room when,she faihted, and the oil running out of the lamp it caught fire with the as a man of medium size, with brown eyes, and a fa,ce in which gentle - nem and melancholy -seem to strive for the mastery—the last man in whom one would expect to find a Nihilist, a deminkne, or a political agitator. Meanwhile the premature greyness of his hair and beard, the sunken eyes and the mournful melancholy of his face tell more vividly than words can do a story of undeserved miseries such as it falls to the lot offew to suffer and survive. —On Tuesday of last week a smart good-looking Yankee woman about 30 years of age, giving her name as Mrs. Campbell of Aurora, Illinois, arrived in Walkerton on the search for her hus- band. The Herald says that she had been mended to a man named Campbell, offer of a bonus to farmers building wire fences on their property and public highways,and quite a number of farmers have " caught on " to the scheme and secured the reward. The object 'of the Council is to do away with rail and wooden fences, so as to prevent the roads drifting up in winter. Their -ex- ample might be followed in other town - lady in this town who keeps about 50 Jo chickens aseures us that the eggs from 'himself as a respectable industrious cat - her fowls during the year calculated at zen, when his wife, accompanied by one market prices, paid for the grain fed to of her children, dropped down on him. them, as well as to one horse, two cows and three pigs, and that the chickeuis killed were to the good beaides. This is a good living profit, and, ought to pay farmers in this section a good deal better than cutting down their sugar bushea, as so many are doing now. It is a reflection on the enterprise and in- telligence of our farmers that it is simply impoesible to get fresh eggs in town M any price and that the butchers Crawford was shoeing a horse for Mr. Wm. Cahoon when a strange woman drove up in a livery, and lifting her veil revealed to his astonished gaze the fea- tures of the wife he had so cruelly wronged. The guilty wretch was para- lysed at first, but speedily recovering his nerve, kissed his child and set about the difficult task of arranging matters between the two women. We have not heard how he succeeded.