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The Huron Expositor, 1890-02-21, Page 1FE BTrititY 14, 18964 _IrmoTasiesma..wiesnmemit McFaur EARING SALE FOR o. Weeks Only the course of a few weeks pec t our shelves and counters tilled with new and season- zoods for the Spring Trade,: n order to make room for and prepare our stock for Ming seagOn, we will sell for xt two weeks the balance ot inter Stock at holesaie Cost EPGIR, Mr-IPAUL SEAFORTEI. happened by mere accident that Ir. Hartley, a former minister on 3Uit, was visiting at Mr. Smith!". particular evening and took part social feeling expressed. After ig a very enjoyable evening the- ly joined in singing "Jesus lover Soul" after which Mr. Hartley ,proper ending by offering prayer penediction, Leadbury. ise—Mr. and Mrs. Money and, hit Rubinson, of - Kirktont were. ;- relatives in this section last -Mr. Getty intends having am sale on the 17th of this month, tory to the removal of the family gerthwest in the early spring. f Mr Getty's eons arenow located -It is not Mr. Barry who bought nib's farm, aa stilted by a McKil- wiespondent. It is Mr. Barrows ide the purchase.—A feeble effort , put forth to have another school 'hed on the 12th concession, 3r this will take place or not the will decide.—Quite a number of pie Imre been prostrated with, pe within the past fortnight. :orrespondent has escaped tic up ta the itresent.. • Exeter. NOTES—Many of hiss ol& were pleased to meet Mr. Alex. iun, of Douglas, Manitoba, in, is week. Mr. Calqutioun likea. tai and is.doing well there.—Thee the effects of the late Jas.Hoopere Tree, near here was held on Mon,- he stock sold well and the whole, ',Used about $700.—Mr. R. 0. ion late of Mooreville, has re here with his family and will ir conduct the buisineas OL on & Reid . --The village council lently waking up and are going caprovement. At the last meet . - lotions were passed to cedar ave the west side of Main Street ackman's corner to Hawkshaw's so to lay a 12 inch sewer front Office to Hawkshaw's hotel anti under the creek to Carling's, n old and highly respected of Exeter in the person of Mr. alsden died on Friday evening the age of 69 years. A short go he fell from a wag- nd he never recovered the injuries, he then re. The Fire Brigade will have- ual concert on Friday evening grand torch. light procession, y the Exeter brass band, wilt ce previous to the concert.-- hn , Crocker, of this place, met ery severe accident on Sature which might have cost her life, ars she was engaged in her id duties and by some meatut nth- the trap door which led te ar and in the fall broke her She is, we are glad to say, re. Westfield. •—Mr. J. Woods, of Donnyv- visiting at Mr. J. Parks thit e intends returning home short- s -M. Parks purposes going back , we hcipe she vrilI enjoy her- e away --Mr. Wallace Jackana out to Manitoba in a few weeks a brother Tom.—While Mr. 'L hell was loading up turnips in on last Monday his team took t something and ran armlet a turnip here and there throne till at Iast they dumped the a a fence corner and damaged on considerably but the horse, unhurt.—The wife of Mr. Choi ng presented him with a'Ins oy last Sunday night. We hope bring him up in the way he 0.—We are sorry to report that Scott is very low. This is the troke she has had. We litr will Soon be around again. tobertsen was visiting old &a- ces around here last Saturdale edad to see him looking so wen. Vm. Steakhouse who was &nen her mother Mrs. Simpson itt on, returned home last weseelre ott kept house for Willie WI e home.—.A number of oat, eople went down to Anburg day to hear Miss Williams, re highly delighed with the MAW Leh she cored ucted the servicegge nleaeed to eay that the peopIedtt n are perfectly satisfied isitrf ng school teacher, Mr. J. v r I' a WHOLE NUMBER 1,158. TWENTY-SECOND YEARSEAFORTH FRIDAY, FEBRIJARY,21/, 1890. . {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. dust to Fian'!ti —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF-- HOFFMAN & CO. New Spring Jackets, New Prints, New Shidings New Cottons, New Corsets. 2 • The above are all extra value. CALL AND SEE THEM AT THE Cheap OashH Store —OF— HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORT H SCIENCE Has Conquered And made it possiblt to liestore Defec- tive Eye Sight to Normal Vision. J. S: Roberts li happy to announce that he has secured Patent Dioptric Ere Metre, which will enable him to fit all defects of vision ASTIG ATIS HYPERMETROPIA, MYOPIA, = PRESEYOPIA, 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—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 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.ROBERTS, Chemist & Druggis, CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH, The Manitoba School pill. The text of the new School Bill to be laid before the Manitoba Legislature this Session has been published. This Bill abolishes separate Schools in the Province. It also organizes a depart- ment of education, which is to cOnsiet of an executive council, or committee of the council. This shall have the dis- tribution of petronage, appointment of officials, inspectors, examiners, etc., and shall prescribe forms, etc., for the Gov- ernment of what are to be known in fu- ture as public schools. An advisory board is to be appointed, consisting of five members, two appointed by the Gov- - ernment, one elected by the public school trustees of the province, one by the high and public school teachers, and one appointed by the university council. Contrary to expectations, there is no • provision for the appointment of a Min- ister of Education. The advieory board „is to have sole power regarding the technical work of the schools, text- books, qualifications of teachers, etc. Regarding religious exercises to be adopted in the new system of schools it says : Religious exercises in the pub - lie schools shall be conducted accord- ing to the regulations of the advisory board. The time for such religious ex- ercises shall be just before the closing hour in the afternoon. In case a par- ent or guardian of any pupil notifies the teacher that he does not wish such pupil to attend such religious exercises then such pupil shall be dismissed before such religious exercises take place. Religious exercises shall be held in the public achoole entirely at the option of the school trustees for the district, and upon receiving written authority from the trustees it shall be the duty of teachers to hold such religious exercises. The public schools shall be entirely non sectarian, and no religious institution ox exercises shall be allowed therein except as above provided. The Act is to come into force on the let of May., —Too much credit oaneot be given to Mrs. Taylor, widow of the late John d Taylor, of West Wawanosh, near Dun-, gaunon, for raising pork. We have , been creditably informed that the veteran lady recently sold to a pork dealer in1 Goclerich a porker that weighed 569 pounds, aged about 1 year and 8 months. We would like to hear from any one who can beat that. Mrs. Taylor is an old settler and is quite advanced in years, being up -wards of four-saore, and as yet it (mite vigorous and healthy. A DEFENCE OFMANITOBA. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—Trustiing that an- other letter from my part of Manitoba will - be acceptable to the Expositor, I shall attempt this time to deal more fully with Manitoba than in my last, but more especially I shall deal with allusions made by Mr. Townson in your isaue of January 10th. Now Sir, Mr. Townson goes on to praise up this country and run it down alternately but in such a way as to cut his own throat, pew it up again and then by a blunder step, fall and burst the stitches, thus leaving a bad gash in a worse condition than at first. fie thoroughly condemns Manitoba simply because he happened to @pend last summer,- the very worst year Manitobans have aver experienc- ed, in the west, and then draws his conclusions from such a bad season. Why, Mr. Editor, if he is allowed to cendemn Manitoba on such basis, why not condemn Ontario as a fruit grow- ing country because last year it was a complete failure: He would, also, as leave have three acres of grass in Ontar- io as ten in the Prairie land. Well now, Mr. Lawson the gentleman with whom Tam atopping,-esays the grass is far richer and produces more milk than inOntario. Re also says that two of his cows out here are quite as good as the same two with the addition of an- other equally as good, in Ontario. This is actual experience and is derived from dairy produce of last year, which as I before stated, was the worst year Mani- toba has ever known. What would it have been had the year been an average one. I love my old native land, Onta- rio, but I defy you to meet one man in ten, there who does not complainof "hard times," while here, notwith- standing the poor crop last year, 1 can truly say _I have never heard the term. Mr. Townson states that the grass when eaten down, takes years to grow a up again. He says this of the North- west, but the Northwest and Manitoba are under the same control, i.vhatever affects one, affects the other. Does Mr. Townson consider, that Ontario timothy does well in Manitoba? Mr. Lawson informs me that he saw a second growth crop of timothy equally as good as any he ever cut in Ontario. By this I mean the second crop in the same year. Of course the crops in Manitoba last year were poor, yet not so poor but that there is plenty of feed, and horses and cattle, so far as I have seen, are in excellent condition and show signs of coming out well in the spring. • People out here count no more on a thousand bushels of grain, seemingly, than people in Ontario do on two or three hundred. People in Manitoba will say they had no crop, and at the same time they have from 15 to 20 hundred bushels. Now this, in my my mind; goes to show the readers of THE EXPOSITOR how largely people in this Province calculate, not the neces- sitated petty calculations of the Ontario farmer. Mr. Townson says that Ontario lands are going up, while Manitoba lands are decreasing in value. Suoth an absurdity! The common laud here is held at $10 peracre,while some unbroken land is held at $20, while the farms in Ontario, as the people well now, are decreasing in value every year. If one acre of land in Ontario is worth ten in Manitoba and the Northwest, how in the world is it that as a general thing, one in ten, to be safe, and possibly more, of the farmers in the east are breaking down annually? • Now, Mr. Editor, nearly all these farmers who fail in Ontario remove to Manitoba and plenty more would come if- they could dispose of their stock. Oh! does Mr. Townson really think that he is highly recommending Nova Scotia, when he says, " he knoWs of an excellent 200 acre farm there -with two good barns -and a fine house for the small sum of $225. " My ! my! that sum of money would'notbe - a 'start to- wards building the barns. In the Can- ada items of the same issue in which appears Mr. Townson's letter,it is stated that $32,000 worth of butter is stored at the different towns between Winni- peg and Deloraine, a distance of about two hundred miles. Is this a butter country? The weather is very fair'but Feb- ruary came in rather wild. The snow is not so deep but that the stubble can be seen all over the prairie. THE EXPOSITOR is a very welcome weekly visitor, and besides being a great source of pleasure to me, is beginning to be read with much interest by those privileged to see it out here. Ho -ping that I have not taken up too much space in your paper, shall con- clude for this time for further study of Manitoba and its people. • Yours truly, • ALTON ANDERSON, Piloit Mound, .Manitoba. • New York Letter. (Regular Correspondent.) A PARISIAN SENSATION—CHILDREN AS ACTORS—A GHASTLY JOB. NEw YORK, February 17th, 1890. The arrival in this city last week of 1two French detectives on the trail of a murderer serves to extend to America the excitement in a case which is the present sensation of Paris, Michael Eyraud, the murderer, is supposed to be in this city under the surveilance'af the police. His victim, who was a tithe collectot ; by the name of Gouffe, was reported:. to the Paris police -as missing last July', He was last seen in the com- pany of Eyraud and the latter's mistress _Gabrielle Bompard, known "the handsomest woman in France." Gouffe had just received a large sum of money and was spending it freely for drinks. some weeks afterwards his body was found in a ditch near Lyons, and close by was a broken trunk. About two ,weeks ago, the women Bompard, who after the murder had disappeared with Eyraud, suddenly entered the office of the Prefect of Police and stated that Eyraud had killed- Couffe while she looked on. She had brought the victim to her room and while his arms were around her, the murderenwho was con- cealed behind a mirtain, stole forth and `strangled him. They hada trunk prepar- ed and in it Paced the body,which they afterwards threw into the ditchtmar Lyons. The woman expected to receive inienunity by turning State's evidence, but in this she will' be disappointed, as the law does not allow it. To PREVENT CHILD ACTING. The question as to whether children under sixteen can legally be permit. ed to appear in any performance or ex- hibition is being settled this aieek be- fore the Court of General Sessions. A number of these little tots, who repres- ented the- children of the "old woman who lived in a shoe," have been delight- ing the audiences at Niblo's for some time pant. The Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children is _prose t- ing the matter, and Mr. Mead , the manager of the theatre, has been hauled up for a misdemeanor under the Pene.1 Code. A great deal of interest is centet- ed on the trial, as this is regarded as a test case. The manager claims that the children -are well treated and that they contribute materially to the indome of their parents. He also says it is unfair to attack him and allow other managers to go unmolested. There is no doubt, but that public opinion is with the manager. The Society is very incon- sistent, and seem filled with some queer notions as to " cruelty," which it has often displayed before. if it exercised half its diligence in looking after the -pinched-up children employed in fame tories, &c., and the worn -mit cash -boys and cash-girle its usefulness would be much greater. CLEARING OUT A BURYIN.G GROUND. A rather ghastly work is being per- formed this week, which consists in the exhuming and cremating of the bodies of persons who died of contagious diseases, and were buried in the Quar- antine cemetery. There are 300 of these bodies nitogether and they have been accumulating .during the past 25 years. A temporary resort has been constructed on the premises into which the remains are thrown in batches of fifty or more. The bodies are first dug up and piled in a heap until a batch is obtained when they are placed in the furnace. The work is being done by the same contractor and the same men who cleaned up the debris after the flood in Johnstown. EDWIN ARLINGT014. Travels in the Old World. (Written for Tius ExPosrron by a Huron Lady.] NEWCASTLE -ON -TYNE. - A little after five o'clock the London train drew up at Newcastle station. Coming from London we expected to find this station , quiet by comparison, but inl this expectation' we were entire- ly disappointed. The bustle and busi- ness here were quite equal to that ot i and ef the London stations we had seen. It was dark 4when we drove through the streets from the station any little could be seen of the town, but daylight revealed to our astonished eyes an unexpected feature of the place. The town was evidently built upon the side of a hill and up its steep, stone - paved streets the horses might be seen drawing their loads with more or less difficu I ty. After some friendly visits had been paid, our thoughts turned toward sight- seeing, so we bent our steps in the direction of St. Nicholas church, which has but lately, I believe, been dignified by the name of Cathedral. This Cathe- dral has a most beautiful dome, it is said to be one of the finest in England. The guide told us that Americans have vainly tried to imitate and equal it. About the chancel of the Cathedral is some beautiful carving in pure white stone, and a great deal of finely carved oak. The place, I understand, has been newly Btted up, for all this work is quite recent. Another thing of beauty in the Cathedral is an alabaster pulpit, with vaiiious figures carved upon it. Many things in the place are exceeding- ly old, Our attention was drawn to an old oak chest, whieh stood in an ante- room. We were told that this chest was once taken from the church and was entirely lost sight of. I cannot say how long it was missing, but it was at last discovered in a shoemaker'a shop where it had been used as a table upon which to cut leather, recognized and restored to the Cathedral. After we had seen and properly ad- mired the beauties of St. Nicholas church, we turned our steps in the di- rection of the castle. This interesting old place was begun by one of William the Conqueror's sons. When it was built it was called the New Castle, to distinguish it from an older one which was then standings thus in time giving the name of "Newcastle "to the large - town which has sprung up around it. We spent a good while in this interest- ing old castle which is in a good state of preservation yet. Though a won- derfully massive structure, it would be rather a cheerless dwelling place I fancy. We climbed up the winding stair to the top of the highest turret, and were interested to notice how, from this vantage ground, the river could be swept of assailing foes. The wall on the ground floor was, we were told, seventeen feet thick. Higher up it was fourteen feet thick and here there were little rooms in the thickness of the wall. We visited the chapel of this ancient -place, where we rfouncr some curiosities, among which was the cof- fin of an ancient Briton, which looked very much as if a log of the required length had been taken, rounded off at each end and then split down the middle. The body must then have been laid in one half, while the other half served as a lid. We also visited the prison. In the centre of this room was a massive pillar to which, understand, the prisoners were chained/ in days gone by. There are other in- teresting things to be seen in Newcaitle, such as a fine monument to Earl, Grey, another to Stephenson and els° the High Level Bridge, which was almost as much of a curiosity at thc/time of its erection as the great Fetth Bridge of Scotland is now. - Gateshead lies just/ across the river, and it apparently/ corresponds with Newcastle as far ail being built on the side of a1 hill is concerned and rather a pretty sight iito be seen from one of the higher/streets of Newcastle, after the, street lamps have been lighted. There is he slope down to the river and ten the opposite bank rises dim- ly thro-ugh the haze which hung about it/h the evening when we saw it, dot - )ed with innumerable lights. We visited A handsome Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle. The stained glass, windows in this buildieg, as in so many of the other large chutches and cathedrals in England, well repay study. Here we saw a woman approach the altar and drop, some money into a box. She then took a candle, of which there was a supply near at hand, lighted it and ieft it burning. We did not know the significance of this act, but I suppose she departed well pleased with her bargain. There were several confessionals about the Cathe- dral, each one marked with the name of the priest who usually occupied it. Newcastle also boasts a large muse- um, in which many interesting things are to be sen. At the risk of being hought highly unappreciative, we must say that the time spent in this was much more enjoyable than that spent in the British Museum in London. Except an interesting - collection of the autographs of celebrated people, which we saw there, we could find very little of interest to be seen. This of course must have arisen from ignor- ance on our part of the best parts of the large building to visit. In the old days before railways came into general use the coach passed through Newcastle on its way to Lon- don, and a steep old-fashioned stony street was pointed out as the old route of the London coach. Fancy con- jures up the well-appointed coach with its driver reining in his four spirited horses and the guard winding his bugle born, sweeping down the stony street. Elow its approach would dil the quiet place with excitemeet, surely its com- ing would be one of -the events of the day. That claim to importance has passed away from this particular steep street forever with the doing away of the stage coach, but the memory of its former dignity still hangs about it. TRAVELLER. Canada. Mr. T. H. Preston, late of the Winnipeg Sun, has purchased the Brantford Expositor and takes charge this week. —The straits of Mackinac are blocked with ice, and a transfer steamer with sixty passengers on board was frozen in last week. —Eighteen families from New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia passed through Montreal the other day for settlemen in British Coltimbia. — Louis Rubenstein, of Montreal, hat won the championship of the world at St, Petersburg, Russia, for figure skating. — The first Young Men's Christian Association convention of the Canadian Northwest, held at Winnipeg, last week proved a great success. —Good coaIl is said to have been dis- covered 85 miles north-east of Ignace station, which is 150 miles west of Port Arthur. —At Lucan the other day a farmer named Morrison, of the 6th • concession McGillivray, was relieved of $30 by persons who knocked him down, —A child of Mr. Douglas Wilson, of Quebec, Was killed by a fall of snow and ice from the top of a house while the child was playing in a sleigh below. — Mr. George Dunn, now an eminent electrician of New York and formerly an Owen Sound boy, has been visiting his old home at the Sound. —In St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, Ottawa,on Sunday, Rev. W. T. Herridge declared in favor of the revis- ion of the Westminister Confession of faith. —The Canadian Pacific Railway are about to build seventeen new Mogul lo- comotives for the Rocky Mountain sec- tion at their shops. The increase in traffic is said to warrant this. —Daniel Fetterley, at Bracebridge, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years for a criminal assault on Mrs. George Spiers, of Chaffy town- ship. — Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, of Jackson, M ichigan, the ifamous temperance orator, addressed the Gospel temperance meet- ing at Association hall, Toronto last Sunday. • —A large quantity of salmon trout eggs from Georgian bay, and millions of white fish eggs from the Newcastle hatchery, were the other day deposited in the Dominion hatchery at Ottawa. — Delos Hinckley, travelling from Southern Kansas in a canvas -covered wagon, drawn by mules, reached Kings- ton last Friday, after almost three months of travelling. —A Hamilton correspondent says: There is no man in this city who is more widely honored and respected than dear old Edward Mitchell. To know him is to love him, Esnd it is doubtful if he has an. enemy in the world. He has for years taken an active interest in Free- masonry, and has ascended step by step to the topniost rung in the ladder of that great brOtherhood. At a meeting of St. John'siChapter No. 6, R. A. M., he was last Friday night again honour- ed with a mark of the esteem in which he is held by the members, being pre- sented with a handsome address and a gold chain and seal. Mr. Mitchell was completely taken by surprise, but re- plied in his usual happy manner, thank- ing the members for their loving remem- brance. —Mr. Robert E. Fair, son of Mr.John Fair, -Beryl°, has passed a brilliant ex- amination in law and is now a full fledged barrister. He will practice his profession in Collingwood. —There are nineteen prisoners:in the Dufferin county jail, qfteen males and four females. All are vagrants, except a youth from Shelburne, who is serving a short term for larceny. —A unanimous and cordial invitation has been extended by the congregation of Norfolk Street church, Guelph, to to Rev. Dr. Willoughby to remain their pastor for the thirti year. —Thomas Kane was hanged at To- ronto'Wednesday morning last week, for the murder of his sister-in-law, with whom he lived as his wife. This time there was no bungling in the work. — Hundreds of men are at work har- vesting ice on Lake Scugog, opposite Port Perry. Special trains pass out daily loaded with ice for Toronto deal- ers, and some for American cities. — The borers at work at Lawrence station, Elgin county, have got down to a depth of 150 feet and several samples of black shale or rock taken from the well are shown, which it is said, will burn. —A woman named House, who de- serted her husband at Comber, Essex County, in August last, has been die covered in Belleville living with a man named Allen, alias Hotwell. She has 'promised to return to her home. —A Government inspector seized up- wards of 500;000 shingles and some lumber in Minnedosa, Manitoba, recent- ly. They had been manufactured with- out the manufacturers first interviewing the Government. —Charles Walters, of Toronto, a well known and somewhat wealthy young man about town, who owes his fortune partly to the Louisiana lottery, attempt- ed to commit suicide recently by taking a deadly poison. —Fire on Saturday at Orangeville de- stroyed a brick terrace on Mill street, occupied by J. Hughson, J. W. Fergu- son and J. Glover. The terrace was owned by J. Hughson. Loss, $2,000; insured fote$1,500. —A serious collision of freight trains occurred on the Michigan Central, near Dufferin Station, .on Thursday night last week. 'A car load of bogs were mostly either killed or mangled and 16 horses were killed, but no human life was lost. —On Wednesday night last week as James Hogan, of Inverary, was coming up the shaft in Foxton a mine, near Sydenham, he weakened and fell a dis- tance of 90 feet, sustaining fracture of the skull, from, Which death resulted almost instantaneously. —A deputation from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, has arrived at Ottawa to urge on the Govei ament the importance of deepening Etter. -River at Pictou for the navigation of large ships, in the inrteerest of the great coal and iron letha- rtis. l —The Ottawa contractors and build- ers have adopted a resolution to pay carpenters and joiners by the hour in- stead of the day as formerly. The change has been adopted to meet the demand made by the men for a nine - hour -day. —One of Bowmanville's moat influ- encial citizens, Mr, John McDongall, dropped dead on the street on Monday evening about 10 o'clock. He had been down at the rink curling and was heard to complain of a pain in his chest, On his way home he dropped dead. —Some forty farmers in Brantford township have formed themselves into a company for the purpose of starting a cheese factory. Messrs. T. Good and T. W. Charlton left on a trip Monday for Ingersoll, Woodetock and other places, in order to get -pointers. —A young English girl named Matil- da Buckle died at the hospital in Ham- ilton the other day. She had no friends or relatives in the country, having come out to Hamilton two years ago mean emi- grant. The St. George's Society claim- ed the body, and gave it Christian burial. —In North Norwich oetFriday a fatal accident occurred,wherle'by George Lous- ing, of near Newark, het his life. De- ceased and his son Were chopping in the woods'when the former was strucheadon the head by a falling limb. He was killed instantly. Mr. Lossing was a man about 65 or 70 years of age. — An employe of the Grand Trunk at Ingersoll met with a frightful acci- dent at that place about eight o'clock Saturday evening, He was either walk- ing on or crossing the track, when a train struck him. His legs were both terribly mangled below the knees'One foot was completely severed. He died on Monday. —The Provincial Board of Health, having ascertained the existence of two cases of glanders in Quebec and in Lo- rette, has called the attention of the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa to the fact, asking him to immediately en- force the law respecting contagious dis- eases affecting animals'enacted by the Federal Government in 1886. — Mr. J. M. Scribner, of Hamilton, has invented a patent spring bed for invalids. Mr. Scribner, a couple of years ago was the victim of a severe at- tack of rheun atism, and it was while suffering thesevere tortures of this com- plaint that he first thought of 'contriv- ing a bed which would enable the suf- ferer to rest with some degree of com- fort. The bed when not in nee for an invalidiiconstitutes an ordinary spring bed, b t whennecessity demands, it can by the turning of a crank at the head be so transformed as to raise the patient to a sitting posture or any other desired incline. If necessary the suf- ferer can be turned from one side to the other without being touched and in fact there is no conceivable position in which the occupant cannot be placed and that without the slightest effort, or jarring. —Lieut -Col. Robinson, late of Her Majesty's 44th Regiment, died at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Satur- day. He was a native of that country, and at the age of 21 years received a commission in the army, and served with distinction in the Crimea and the Indian mutiny. He wore the Victoria Cross and British, French, Turkish and Sardinian medals for service. —Charles Herbert, an employe at the Wisner Works, Brantford, who was so severely injured the other day, is doing as well as can be expected. It is esti- mated that he was carried round the shafting some seventy-five times before the machinery was stopped, and the wall is distinctly marked where he struck at each revolution. • —One night lately a farmer tied his team in front of a hotel in Kincardine, leaving them there without any cover- ing for several honrs. The wind was blowing a terrific gale at the time and the thermometer was away below zero. The cruel wretch should have been taken out of the bar room and been tied to the post himself and the horses taken home and sheltered. • —A correspondent of the Globe in referring to a recent minstrelshow given in the lecture room of a prominent dhueih in the western part of Toronto, where the performers appea ed with blackened faces and went though the regulation "clog , dances," et le, desires to know if the Globe can assist him in defining the difference, in these modern times, between the world and the Church. --eAt 9 o'clock. lest Sunday evening two men, accompanied by a Port Huron hack driver, presented themselves at the Astor house, Sarnia. Lodging was asked for by the hack -driver for the two men, who, it was claimed, had broken jail at Port Huron, and in making their escape one was shot in his side and the other in his wrist' by the jail guards. Landlord Joy refused to keep them, but they remained in town. • ---Lrwo women who forsook charming homes, one in Deseronto, the other near Belleville, for the company of libertines, are now repenting amid desolation in Rochester, New York. One has been deserted by her lord and has to earn her daily bread, while the other pair still live together, but have to work in fac- tories for their maintenance. The de- serted husbands have left the Women to their fate, denying them the right to see their own offspring. —Mr. Wm. Russell, of Hamilton, is the patentee of a aide hill attachment for self -binders which is especially adap- ed for harvesting on hilly farms to keep the binder from upsetting or sliding. Farmers using it for the last two years write about it in the highest terms, and state that the best work can be done with a binder where it is safe to drive a team of horses. Messrs Harris, Patter- son, Noxon, Watson and other leading makers are manufacturing it. --The Women's Missionary Auxiliary of the Norfolk Street Methodist church, Guelph, have received from Mrs. J. W. Holmes, of Owen Sound, a quilt in satin and velvet text. On the corner of the quilt is a piece of satin on which is in- scribed : "Presented to the North street' Methodist church ward, in the Guelph General Hospital, by the young ladies of the Methodist church, Owen Sound." This gift is said to be only an- other evidence of the Christian endeavor exemplified by Mrs. Holmes while in Guelph. —Frank Morrice, of Sackville, New Brunswick, was married on Monday to a pretty Norwegian woman, whom he met years ago at a Nova Scotia port where she, then a young girl, was with her father, a sea captain. The girl went home to Norway, where she remained until three years ago, when she came to Philadelphia and toek a course in medi- cine. The acquaintance Was renewed by correspondence and the couple met at Halifax on Saturday. On Monday they were married and proceeded to Sackville. —M r.Upton, of Bordeau, Muskokinmet with a very serious accident a few days ago by a falling tree which struck him in the breast and jammed one ieg Very badly. Two doctors said that there was no use in amputating the leg ati he could not live more than 48 hours, and they left him to die. Instead of dying, however, he began to get better, and the doctors were called in a second time to amputate the limb. He is now fast recovering. Mr. Upton is fortunate in having two good industrious sons to lean upon. —An appalling accident occurred near Thamesville on Wednesday night of last week, in which John Shaw, a farmer, lost his life.' He was going home from town in a cart when, from some unaccountable cause, he was thrown forward from the seat, his head becoming caught between the right wheel and the shaft of the cart, and in that position was drawn about two miles, as his hat was found about a mile from town. Fie was found in his barn- yard on the cart in the position described about 7,30 Thursday morning. De- ceased was about 43 years of age and unmarried. —Staff -Captain Sharp paid his first visit to Actbn Salvation Army on Sat- urday, 8th inst., waiting over for the grand wedding banquet on Monday evening. The contracting parties were Mr. D. McDonald, teamstergfor Beard- more & Co., and Captain Blain, who was for some time in charge of the corps at Acton. Rev. Mr. Rae tied the knot. It may not be out of place to mention the fact that Captain Blain is the third officer who came to take charge of the Army in Acton and was subsequently captured and wed by Acton young men. Acton has apparently been an -attractive field for female officers. Perhaps this accounts for their withdrawal by head- quarters and the location of Captain Joe Thompson. —The special committee of the counter council of Lincoln appointed to investi- gate the charge preierred against offi- cials of tampering with the pay rolls of jurors, have closed their labors, and re- commendthe warden to • call a special meeting Of the council for the 20th inst., to take action. The frauds rite said to be most conspicuous. It is alleg- ed that large sums of money have been improperly paid, and that in some cases signatures have been forged and in other cases figures changed. The full extent of the fraud will not be known until the council meets. —Mobbing ef Protestant evangelists in Hull has been discontinued* under 'the strong- arm of the lavi. Last Tuesday evening's meeting in the same hall, con- ducted by a couple of young men from Ottawa, was undisturbed. —The death of Mr. Wm. Gerrie sr., of Nichol, county of Wellington, Which occurred last -week, removed the oldest man in that district. The deceased , was 95 years old last July. He came out from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 53 years ago, and bought a farm of 100 acres near Elora. The deceased was in good health until a few days before his death, when he was attacked by la grippe, which carried him off. He had a family of eleven children, eight of whom are living. He had also 35 grand- children and 25 great -greed children. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and was respected as a conscientious, honest man. —At the Oxford County Sabbath School Convention, held recently at T3urgessville. Mr. Peter Marshall, of Ayr, gave an address on primary class work that was very instructive and practi- cal. Mr. Marshall has taught infant classes,. for 22 years and knows hy practical experience whereof he speaks. Among other things he said Two quali- fications are essential in primary class work: First—Love for souls. Second— We should have a place equipped for the work. A great many plates for in- fant classes are what we farmers would call a good turnip cellar. We should have nice, light, airy, attrattive rooms with low seats. —Some very expert pick -pocket work has been done in 'Toronto within the past few days. A . Miss ilewson was standing,. Saturday afternoon, at the corner of John and King streets when gentleman asked her for direction as to the shortest,route to the Parliament buildings and left her. The lady car- ried a handbag, in which she had placed her purse containing $30, but five min- utes after the stranger had departed she noticed that the bag had been opened under her eyes and the purse extracted. Dr. A. H. King also had his pockets adroitly picked and his gold -watch stolen while leaving the Opera House. David Levi, a dashing New York Hebrew, well dressed and of evi- dent refinement, has been arrested on suspicion of having committed both thefts. —The University buildings in Queen's Park, Toronto, were wreckd by fire on Friday -night last. . The fire was start- ed by the breaking of a coal oil lamp on one of the stair ways. The oil spilled on the wood work and caught fire and before any assistance -could be procured to stamp it out, spread until in a very short space of time the whole east wieg was a mass of flames. The loss to pri- vete individuals, to the city and to the Province is inestimable. The library which contained many rare and value able works, impossible to be replaced, is all in ashes. The museum though partially secured, suffers the loss of many valuable specimens. Professor Vandersmissen, _chief librarian says The tend number of books on the cata- logues was 33,000, and they were all of a character that made them indispen- sable to both students and profess- ors. The werks in the Archeological Department were particularly valuable, and many of them ciannot be replaeed. Four large volumes of Audubon's Birds of America, valued at $1,500, were de- stroyed. These were the most valuable works in the library, and there are but four other copies of them in America. A number of valuable Arabic documents were lost. The greater part of the library can be replaced, but it will in- volve a law expenditure and a great deal of time and care. Me. Vander- Smissen.valued the collection of books, which was second only to the Parlia- mentary library at Ottawa, at at least $100,000. The University classes were resumed on Monday in different hall* in the city. —Mr. Samuel Edwards, who left Mitchell a few months ago for Weod- atock, has returned with his family, and says he can do better in Mitchell. • —The Mitchell Recorder says Mr. Thomas Colquhoun's sale of Clydesdales On. Wednesday attracted a large trowd, but owing to a similar sale being held at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the same day, very few American buyers were present. The gathering vms composed mostly of local horsemen and the bid- ding was not very spirited. " Raker - field " was bid in at $1,750; and only stallions and One mare were sold. The highest pride got for any of the animals, disposed of was $860. —A few days ago Miss Lucy Halford, of Cleveland, who had been spending a. few weeks in Mitchell with Mis8 Etta Phinnimore, left for her liorre by way of Detroit. On reaching the latter city, Miss Halford bought ten cents' worth of fancy candies and, mailed them to Mitchell for -her friend, Miss Phinni- more. The latter in due time receive& a notification from the Customs author- ities at Stratford that there was a par- cel held there addressed to her, which would be forwarded on receipt ef It cents duty. The sum demanded VOA sent and the parcel of candy came to hand all right. These little trifles may very properly be elassed atriong the sweets of the National Policy.