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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-05-02, Page 11890. WALS DAy AT OD s; aTttle House rock attractive in PARASOLS, HOSIERY, RIBBONS, RES. a large range of iugha.ma, etc. and Led with TICKINGS, "ABLE LINENS.. assertment of Cs Clothing,. SOLD CHEAP. at the lowest pos- e. Produce. PAUL, nber of farmersare eker fishirtg is the a number of our • every night and ds. neein. ndaynight the shop, Cawas broken. , and a large quan- oadkerchiefngloves, other small goods - trance was effected. rear, it being pried which was entered and an inch block of ever, which started te window was easily stare removed by the . t -as locked, but the - aside. No clue has ties only that there - persons in town- the ley were atanding at e a.in., and staid hips were opeued, erne bread and cane Thonason's,and two ea A. Currie, They id very BnaPidOUS- Iteir appearance and r got these articles :er the bridge, but some of the citizens etreet It is sup- e out some place, and anfederate and -were es as they passed r. There is ery lit are: the parties, and should be on the t of medium size and ater than the other, tstache, the other • both had their hair d wore brownish col- ts, but as there Wag ng in Nightingale' new suits. The one s dark complexioned. e aed to be of sandy th have the appear- ts. sene has again been r the Board of Health, [teeter has commenced I are this year es - thorough clean up by fn. George Haycroft leLaughlin and Thos. et for Kansas on a, ,oft has gone for the Ith, which has been - The case against Twylor was dimne- ss on Friday of It ma has finished his ng Turnberry street,. well. -D. Stevrart is h with his duties. of ra,ne & Johnstone, of moved to this town out their business as - re trust they may do a they come well recent - se ball club are having ations to play ball on but as yet have made They have not yet -It is reported sing to have a couple -of -eek.-James Stretton. ork on his new Kook. I McCrae, son of Jolla even, has been visiting e last few days, rfe is • New York State.-Idat er df W. A. Calbeck, : for some time, died on week, of brain. fever. went a few weeks be- lumbia for his health, tit there. Troubles ta sot come single handed, ly, especially Mrs, Cele ertfelt sympathy of Dickson, who has been years in the drug stare , has gone to Dakdtat aured a situation near rs reside. -an Mond); vvell team ran from the twn. Henry 1Y-1°°11eY'' ard - re was thrown forw which he clasped eal le whole distance. Fla' a he would have bee° ie captured them oPe`ne, When releasedgraul-ven ,rly exhausted, but Tar ete*WWel---e ritil TWENTY-SECONti YEAR. i WHOLE NUMBER 1,168. SEAFORTH, F RIDAY, MAY 2, 1890. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. #1.50 a Year, in Advance. New Millinery Goods AT— HOFFMAN & 00. New Hats, New Flowers, New Feathers, New Gauzes, New Satins, New Silks, New. Ribbons, _New Laces, New Ornaments, etc., just opened -AT 71E_ Cheap Cash Store -OF- HOFFMAN & CO., CARbNO'S BLOCK,: SEA F0 RT H. NOTICE.—Agents for Butter- ick's reliable patterns and publica- tions. Perth Items. Mr. Fred Stark, a member of the Mitchell band, is removing to Listowel. -Mr. Wm. Shea, son of Mr. M. Shea, Logan, who has been in Manitoba for the past six years, is now home on a -Dr. Gunn had a runaway in St. Marys the other day, in the course of which he jumped from the rig; receiv- ing a bruised head. and leg. -Twenty-three pupils wrote at the County Promotion Examination from School Section No. 2, rElma, and all ex- cept one succeeded in passing. -Rev. D. L. McRae, of Jamestown, New York State, conducted the services in Knox church, Stratford, on Sunday last. He has a good many admirers in the congregation. -The Ball system of electric lighting in Mitchell, by which the streets are illumineted, is giving very poor satisfac- tion. The dynamo is continually giving out. e -In the section between Mitchell and St. Marys fall wheat is looking very much better than it did at the same time last spring. -St. Andrew's church, Berlin has tenderej a unanimous call to Rev. ,A. B. Winchester, who during the winter fill- ed the pulpit of Knox church, Stratford. The salary is $1,400„ -Peter Lillico, private banker of • Listawel, has suspended payment, ow- ing, it is said, to his having too much money locked up he real estate. He is supposed to have-abOut $30,080 deposits in his institutiottie - -A young man. in Mitchell was put in the lock up the other night for being drunk and disorderly. The copetable let him out after he had got sober, and upon promising to do better he was not brought before the Police Magistrate. -A young man named James Harris, formerly of St. Marys, died on the 14th ult. in Southern California, whither he had been sent two months previcusly by a physician, in the hope of restoring his health. -Avondale cemetery in Stratford has now 2,100 interments in it. The firat person buried there was Mr. Wm. Smith, first registrar of the county of Perth, whose remains were placed there in 11171. -The farm of MT. John Harmer, on the th concession of Fullerton was sold by auction last week, to Mr. Sohn Prid- ham of the same township, for the sum of 13,510. Mr.. Harmer paid over $5,000 for this same farm a ,few years ago. -On Tuesday of last week G. A. Deadman, of Brussels, had shipped to hint a pure bred Jersey heifer, and Dr. T. G. Holmes, of the same place, a pare bred Jersey cow and calf, also a half bred Jersey and Ayrshire. -A man named Brett, who stole an overcoat out of Mtel John Payne's office, Stratford, and ap T. Maxwell's resi three years in the ary. Brett also t a coat from a reeid but as he was goi was pluckily cella the house and ma - Joseph H. D known upholders ball in Stratford, ult. He had fo OUR MANITOBA LETTER. (Froth our own Correspondent.) WniztrAe, April 28th, 1890. We have been so busy the last few months setting our house in order, and watching those so employed,- that I have forgotten my eastern friends. But I am glad to ,see that Mr. Barber has tried to give you some impression of what we • have been doing about the dual languages and other matters that That Sep- ibuted to ancemen this pro - The sort engrossed our legislature. arate Schools have not cent the social and educational ad of the French themselves in vince , can hardly be denied. of citizen that has bee e carefully taught to tell his beads, but cannot write his own name, is not the man to build up a strong commonwealth , and the most biting argument of our very caus- tic Attorney -General was that in which he showed that a huge majority of those who signed the petitions Spinet the proposed changes had to maketheir mark over against a signature written for them by -some one deputed by them to attend to the work. We have had to pass a law in a former session of the house to prevent any man being elected to a place in the municipal council who was linable to write his own name, and this law bore only against the French settlements. It is not as asserted on that side of the eetse, their religion and language that is being assailed, but their ignoranee, and the perpetuation of the forces that buttressed the wretched system which, for its own purposes, cherished that ig- norance. Joe• Martin, as we still call him, had never a more united phalanx of men of all creeds And politics at his back than when - he set himself to de- molish the snake fence -that enahrined the gross ignorance of the people whose presence in a district medals as a rule retrogression and'agrieultural stag- nation. Land rises in value whenever a preponderance of English speaking pop- ulation gets hold of it, though, as a rule, the Quebec immigrants whom the zeal of the priests has brought this way are a most industrious and well-behaved community. Free whisky is perhaps a still greater canker among both English and French communities than want of school learn- ing, combined with superstition, can be. In the worst of times you ' can always find groups of young men hanging around billiard tables, and taking sly hands at cards, paying all losses with drinks at the bars, and a man that the very sheriff is after can always raise the dimes to pay up there. Of 'course it would never do to allege that the countless dimee paid at every little grog- gery for stand up drinks have any ap- preciable effect on the finances of such a respectable people as we are,btit some of us are bold enough to say soeand are called fanatics for our pair really not so difficult to gul two-year-old steer as some of perance friends imagine. We have -for some time been busy counting up the anti -license votes of the electors of Winnipeg, but it is rather a loose way of getting at the truth. Ther it are BO many people dependent in some way or other upon the good will of die whisky consK out of Mr. W. eece, has been given bagston Pennitenti- ed to make off with nce in Romeo Ward, g out of the door he ed by the woman of e to disrobe. fton, one of the best of lacrosse and base- ied. on Saturday, 19th several years been identified with both clubs and has held offices in them. He was universally respected, and a ong the better class of sporting men -those who uphold -out- door sports for the love of them -Joe. ys recognized as hail taly twenty-nine years a young wife and two uliar accident happen- oney, veterinary sur- geon, of Mitchell, recently. Mr. Honey left Stratford heft sulky, leading a stal- lion. The horse became frightened and leaped on top df- the tsulkye and came near killing Mr. Honey. The animal became entangled in the wheels of the vehicle, and it was with great difficulty that he was extricated. The sulky was badly broken, the horse considerably hurt, and Mr. ed: He certai frost being ki Dugton was alw fellow. He was of age, and leave small children. -A rather pe ed to Mr. W. oney severely frighten- ly had a narrow escape ed. s, It is down a my tem- traders and their friends that not say one word against them. they will The past has really been a very hard winter upon people against Whom no possible charge of unthrift can Crops in some places were p even careful calculators had an The want of rain made it imp vegetation totake up the abun be made; orer than idea of. ssible for ant plant food in the soil, and so the evheat we hooked when half ripe for ten bushels an acre did not yield five. The same was true of fodder. A ton of hak was not. worth a ton of the hay of former years, and people who felt sure they had enough of tough feed, even burning geed wheat straw to put it mit of the way, had to haul some other man's old straw 10 miles to keep their beasts alive till the fields were bare enough to give an out- side bite. Of course the plant food is still there in the land, but we would all have been much more delighted had the season allowed us to draw still more upon our capital stock in the bank. Last season was specially discouraging to those Ontario men who came -Alp and bought at stiff prices, tempted by the early promise of that very early season. I met one of them since I began to write this. He is a badly ,disgusted man, beeause of the dry fall and very cold winter, and was anxious to sell again. I wanted him to sell his hall section at the price he had paid for it, but hie disgust had not got into that shape. He inuat have $500 advance and won't sell for less. Even for the sake of getting a grumbler out of the country, I would not ask anybody to pay that amount of rise, so the poor man must hang on to hie bad bargain. It looks a much better bargain for him aid all of us than it did a week ago. A 'rattling wind storm came up from Daketa on the 19th, with thunder and 'a little rain after it, and since then we have had rain enough to ensure a capital gerrninatioe for all grain, and easy work for the stubble yet unplowed on which we will sow a good breadth of oats and barley. Grass is shewing well already and grain will do well till -June brings us the chance of the summer rains we were accustorned to in the early days of settlement. The losses on last year's- crop from drouth have been very unequally divided. The men wile had a 25 -bushel average and sold it at over 70 cents had a very choice season, and some on upland prairie after stubble bad not their seed. The snow- fall within a radius of 60 miles around Winnipeg has been very abundant and at several other places has been quite plentiful, but those upland prairies that proved drieat last fall had the least snow in winter. There is when I write such a rainfall as we have not seen for two years, and farmers have a more jubilant feeling- than for many months, and will go n now to seed every acre these efforts will he an underground turned to Detroit, preferring to dm they can get turned over for the next system of railrci,ads throughout the whole three weeks. city. Broadwak and Fifth avenue below - The crack spring show of the North- 59th street are likely to be exempted, west is that held at Portage la Prairie, though one of t where the best stallions of the country vides for an un come out. Three top prizes were got by way which will Everest & Kerr, the noted horse fanciers, avenue. The with "Granite City ;" "Lord Coleridge" Commission to a good second, and the choice Hackney, blocks between "Firefly," all of Beith's importation. I believe would "Bounding Willow," their other crack the routes woul Clyde tra,vels-the Brandon district. Mr. more direct, es McGregor, Brandon, had first prizes for of the city. t choice specimens of Shire and Blood done very soon horses, and -the general purpose classes present facilitie were worthily filled. We have had a vated roads a dozen other local shows, all with enough Anyone who is good horses to give a choice of good down town m ones for colts of every sort of cross. made to feel Our City Committee have finelly re- manner the pr solved to go in for a first-class exhibition ment. in the fall,and are now busy with prelim- inary arrangements. With the good crops we anticipate, farmers will en- thusiaeiteally respond to the call for ex- hibits, also all the authorities from Premier Greenvvay and •the railroad companies downward, Mayor Pearson being one of the most forward. There are good men pushing, and we hope to have some things in the 'line of both stock and produce to open the eyes of eastern vieitors. e bills referred to pro. erground road on Broad. - branch off at Madison bills also authorize the ocate routes through the the streets, a plan which meet with approval as thereby bo made much ecially,in the lower part omething ought to be in this matter, as the of horse cars and ele- e entirely insufficient. onipelled to ride up or rnings and evenings is o a very uncomfortable ssing need of improve - New York Letter. (Regular'Correspondent.) NBW YORE, April 28th, 1890. One week from to -day, on Monday, May 5th, will be. inaugurated in this city the great struggle for eight hours of labor. The movement is already un- der way in Chicago, having been started there by the carpenters two or three weeks ago. The carpenters are also to take the initiative here, and if their demands for an eight-hour day are not conceded, they are prepared to make a desperate and prolonged struggle for sUccess. , The men in other trades will fall into line later on, but it ia very likely they will be guided by the suc- cess or failure of the carpenters. A formal demand for tlie eight-hour day will be made, and if .not granted it is estimated that a general strike will take place affecting 100,000 workingmen in and around New York. The men say they anticipate no serious trouble, as most of the employers are willing to concede the eight hours at once. This is apparently true, as the employers are not making any combined effort to oppose the movement, but seem to be trusting to circumstances. There are a few minor strikes now going on and the chances -are that these will be merged into one general strike on the first Mon- day in May. It will doubtless be a memorable struggle, and at this writ- ing it is hard indeed to estimate the re- sult. A MASTER OF HORSES. The famous horse trainer, Professor Gleason, who has been giving exhibi- tions here for the past week or two,seems to be one of the few " professors " whose notoriety is founded upon some- thing substantial. In fact, to the aver- age observer, Professor Gleason seems to be endowed with an extraordinary, mys- terious power, which enables him to conquer tbe most vicious horse and cure him of any of the objectionable "tricks" in which it may be his custom to indulge. His successes are really wonderful, and one can hardly believe that the cases he handles are genuine, but such is the fact, and many of the horses tamed by the Professor have been known to be vicious -for years. Not , only doers he conquer these aniiiialsebut he actually trains them in a few miuutes to obey his slightest command. He use no cruelty, but only a strong hand, an iron will, and a thorough knowledge of equine ways. It is said that he has handled more than 1,700 vicious horses during his career and has mastered them all. RE -OPENING THE MUSEUM OF ART. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, which has been closed for several weeks for repairs, will be formall-k re -opened on next Monday. The building will be lighted by electric- ity hereafter, and will be opeeed several evenings of each week. Between forty and fifty men are at present engaged in doing carpenter work ; plastering, gild- ing, hanging new pictures, painting and putting.up the electric lights. The lights are being arranged with great care -so that the pictures may be seen to the greatest advantage. A press view will be given on 'Saturday, May 3rd, when the building will be lighted by the new system for the first time. The Spring reception and nineteenth semi-annual exhibition will take place with the for- mal re -opening on next Monday. THE GREAT AND ONLY SHOW. P. T. Barnum's great and only she* opened its American tour at the Polo grounds in this city,last Saturday night. The show this year is larger than.ever before, occupying no less than twenty- six tents of all kinds. The grand torch- light parade took place on Friday night, and, it is needless ta say, drew out an immense' multitude ofe sightseers who thronged thnsidewalks and streets along the whole twenty miles sof • the route. Twelve hundred people actually take psrt in presenting each performance, 800 of whom are whatis known to the theatrical profession as ," supes," they being engaged to- personate soldiers in Nero's triumphal entry ihto Rome. Many new features have been added this year, and during the coming three weeks, the show will certainly be the central attraction for all the youngsters` in townu.NDER • GROUND RAILROADS. Some serious efforts in the direction of rapid transit are being made just now, and it is not improbable that New York city will soon have something of the kind worthy of the name. Not Only are there two bills on the subject now pend- ing before the Legislature at Albany,but Mayor Grant has also appointed a Rapid Transit Commission under the existing act of 1875. The prObable outcome of AN INTERESTING EXHIBITIDN. The Edison JI Lyceum, for th Exchange for past week has Everything w Paris Exhibitio phonograph ex ful. One of th an orchestral e fidelity. The motion, and th of it, by puttin their ears can latest operas piano as disti though given b xhibition at the Lenox benefit of the New York omen's Work,during the been a great success. ich . Edison had at the can be seeinhere. The ibition is truly wonder - se instruments furnishes tertainment of startling little cylinder is set in hearers ranged in front the conneoting tubes to ear selections from the erformed by cornet and ctly and perfectly as Levy and Joseffy in the same room. The electric lighting appar- atus, the talki combinations,a ous and wonde and the ladies success of the g dolls, the telephone d a score of other ingeni- ful things are here also, are making a splendid undertaking, besides a enug sum of money. EDWIN ARLINGTON. 4.- anada. , A census just completed places the population of Winnipeg at over 25,000. -Hamilton 'bakers have raised the price of the Nur-pound loaf to 11 cents. -Miss Eby, daughter of Rev. Dr. Eby, of Japan, has entered Alma Col- lege in St. Tho as. --Plans for a$4,000 church at Dutton for the Methodists have been approved of. It will sea 400 people. -Archbisho Tache is at present dangerously ill, and fears are entertain- ed he may not recover. -Two men and two women have been arrested In Montreal on a charge of stealing $8,r0 from Fred. Walton, of Dallas, Texa . -A frightful railway accident was averted by thediscovery of a huge boulder in the Canadian Pacific Rail - .way tunnel nea Rat Portage. -Mrs. John Ludgate, a woman about 60 years old, was killed instantly by a Grand Trunk train near Pickering while walking on the rack. -Hr. J. Ha Mon Racey, who ran as Labor candidat for the Local House in Hamilton in 186, has died at Los An- geles, Caliform . -Mr. Pharis of Woodstock, a recent graduate,has applied for pastoral charge of the First Baptist church , at North Buxton in the county of Kent. e -John Farre with Ed. Holla day, bit off one and tore the ey Holland's life i , in danger. -The population of Chatham is 8,730 an increase of 452 over 1889. The total colored populatton in 1886 was 746 ; it is now 736. -Mr. and Mrs. Archie McPhee, who the 12th concession of - for the last 40 years, farming and moved to Mylesby, a successful ed his farm near Inger- his fine herd of stock yoming to try sheep Matheson, of Armow, colt one night last week. in good condition, and to the fitable after drink- ropped dead. Donald, aged 75, drop - stirs. Blachford's estab- lishment on K ng street, Toronto, on Friday. He h d been 25 years in the employ of the rm. -:--Rev, Mr. Carmichael, who was known as a lo churchman while rector of the Church f the Ascension at Ham- ilton, is now re tor of a high church at Richmond. H has a cress on the altar. -The Wo en's .Christian Temper- ance Union in London have passed a resolution protesting against the grant- ing of additional liquor licenses in that city. -The new Toronto, to b of the Wom opened Frila ate ceromonie -Mr. Fred known Caned ed the mode Gzowski. T the Niagara -The Glo Abbie M. De for violation by the sale of part of her cargo of fish and the purchase of ice at Canso, Nova Scotia. afternoon a Grand Trunk e arrived in London having calf on the cow -catcher. as struck near Watford, ged in so firmly that it n be dislodged. time ago Wm. Cole, of ed a slight swelling on his- isited Dr. McGraw, of De- onounced it a cancer, which 1, in a drunken fight d Marmoreethn other of the latter's fingers, lid off his right eye. have resided on West William have retired fro London. -Mr. Alber farmer, has lea soli, disposed o and gone to ranching. -Mr. Donal lost a mare and The animal was had just come i ing, when she -Thomas M ped dead in M while undergoing the operation rather than wait for strangulation.. The opera- tion was performed, and it was thought that he would recover, 'but he died after lingering for two days. -Thomas Kimber, a young English- man from Topsham, Devonshire, who arrived in Montreal on the 5th inst., has mysteriously disappeared under circum- stances which give suspicion of foul play. -It is likely that an action will be taken against the Canadian Pacific rail- way in connection with the destruction of 1,500 sheep at Gull Lake, caused by a prairie fire said to have been started by a spark from a passing engine. -While digging a deep ditch a few days ago, Mr. Wm. McEwen of Dere- ham, came on an immense pair of deer's antlers in a commplete state of preserva- tion. They measure four feet in length and three feet in width. -Mr. A. Blais, proprietor of the Vic- toria Hotel, Ottawa, while returning from the Union depot Thursday night drove into a drain. The horse was killed, and Mr, Blais -received such severe injuries as are likely to cause his death. -Over two thousand immigrants are expected to arrive at Quebec during this week. A number of colonist cars ar- rived at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot Monday morning to convey those en route to the boundless prairies of the Northwest and the Pacific slope. -Crowfoot, the famous Chief of the Blackfoot Indians, died on Friday at the reserve near Gleichen, Alberta. Crowfoot was the most respected and important chief among the Indian tribes of the Canadian Northwest, by birth be- longing to the Blackfoot nation. -A by-law to raise $162,233 for pub- lic improvements was carried on Friday last at Brentford. The items provided for are electrical fire alarm, police build- ing, additions to Collegiate Institute, sewage, extension of waterworks, and a new central school building. -Mr, David Schell, who was so badly injured by the premature exploeion of his gun at Sylvan, Middlesex county, is able to be around, but is greatly en- feebled. Owing to one of the breaks in his jaw bone being. displaced, the doc- tors had to set his taw bone over again. uilding on Sumach street, devoted to the purposes n's Medical College, was evening with appropri- . A. T. Dunbar, the well - an sculptor, has complet- of a half 'figure of Col. e statue is intended for alis Park. ' cester fishing schooner, ring, has been fined $800 f the Fishery Convention -Monday railway eng. the body of The animal and was we could not th -A short Sarnia, noti neck. Hes troit, who p would cause him to die of strangulation inside of five weeks. The doctor said there was one chance in 10,000 of suc- cessfully reinoving it. Mr. Cole came home, adjusted his affairs, and bidding an affectionate farewell to his family re- -Charles McDougall, 10th con- cession, Kincardine, has a mag- nificent four-year-old Canadian -bred entire horse. He was weighed the other day, and the beam registered 1720 lbs. Another horse, owned by James Caskey, was weighed the same day and registered 1400 lbs. -A few days ago a fatal accident happened to Mr. Joseph Burkholder, a much respected farmer living about one mile from Thamesford. He was draw- ing out manure, when on his way from: the field his team ran away, killing him, instantly. He leaves an aged father, a mother and three sisters. -Geo. Robinson, while trimming trees on the farm of Geo. Chambers near Hamilton, Th treday afternoon, lost his hold. on a tree end fell to the ground, alighting heed firer. His neck was dis- located and he died in a few minutes. He was 60 years old, and leaves a wife, but no children. ed, States, all of whom continued to work with Mr. Scott at the building trade for several years after coming to this country. Mr. Scott also followed farm- ing Dumfries. Blenheim and near St. drowned them one after another in a rain water barrel. He then tried to commit suicide by taking carbolic acid, end from. the effects of whieh be died Monday. His wife was away from home at the tune of Thomas, but latterly liyed a retired life the tragedy, visiting a sick sister. It is in Galt. Mrs. Robt. Maxwell, of Wing- supposed the terrible act was the result ham is a deughter of deceased, - of a fit of temporary insanity, as Morri- -At a recent magic lantern entertain- son was a kind and tender lather and ment in Fairbank, County of York, respected by the whole neighborhood. Presbyterian Chureb,one of the subjects -One of the pioneers of Waterloo illustrated was Balsam's Ass." The county, Elias -Snider, died on Wednes- lecturer explained that the ass spoke, day of last week, in his 75th year,at his but John J. Davidson, one of the audi- residence, jnst north_ of the Waterloo ence, denounced the statement as a base town boundary. Until e few years ago fabrication. His language was so strong he owned and operated the Snider mill that Squire Wingfield fined him $1 and in the toan of Waterloo, and his- sons costs. have been for years among the most MEC- -Dominick, a 10 year-old son of Jas. cessful and extensive millers in Western Lewis, Smith's Falls, has disappeared, Ontario. A sister of dem:teed, Mrs. The father gave him "a pretty good Samuel Snider, also a resident of Water - licking" for truancy, and next morning leo, died the day previous to her broth - threatened him with another if he did ea's decease. not go to school. Dominick and his -Mr. John Adams, of Belmont, sued brother started, but after two blocks Geo. and Zepaniah Grice, father and were traversed he said he had lost his son, of South Dorchester, to recover pencil and would have to look for it. some $670 due On notes, and obtained, The brother went to school, but Domi- judgment, The defendants sold out nick failed to show up. their farm stock and effects, realizing -John Day, an East Nissouri farmer, some $1,300, and it is charged paid off was driving to London with a load of all their creditors but Mr, Adams. The straw when a wheel of his wagon broke, balance of the meney the father gave to throwing Mr. Day out and upsetting the his SOO. They were arrested, but were load by the roadway. His foot became. subsequently admitted to bail, themsel- featened in some way, and he was thrown ves in $1,000 each and Mr. D. F. Moore, into a pile of wood on tho roadside; his of South Dorchester, in $2,000. injuries were severe, a bad fracture of -A good deal of excitement was the leg which was caught _being the caused in Toronto Monday by the rash most serious. deed of a young woman who shot her - -The other day Horace Goddard, 'of lover -and then attempted to poison her - Windsor, visited Joe Winters' club self. The girl, it appears, alleges that house. Winters, who is known as a she had been been betrayed by a manilla - crack shot, offered to shoot thecigar ist employed at Burke's factory, Rich - from between Goddard's lips with an air mond street west, and failing to get any rifle, and Horace consented, but unfor satisfaction from him she visited the tunately jerked up his chin and received factory and shot her lover in the head, the shot in the jaw. He bled copiously, following the act up by swallowing an but a doctor extracted the bullet and re- ounce of laudanum. With the assist ports that his patient will recoverance of the doctors, it is thought both -Mr. L. F. Barber, son of Rev. J. F. parties may recover. Barber, of Ingersoll, has just chased an -Rev. D. A. McGregor, Principal of unusually brilliant course in the medical McMaster Hall,Baptist College,Toronto, faculty of Toronto University. He has died in New York last week, from the won the first echolarship in every year effects of an operation. He had been a of his course, and closed his scholastic severe sufferer for several months and it career by capturing the Star gold medal. was hoped the operation would lead to It is expected that the university gold his recovery, but it resulted otherwise. medal will also be awarded to him, as He was in the prime of life and was held he stood first in seven departments out in high esteem as a scholar and a Chris- -The Montreal Transportation Com- pany's new vessel, the Minnedosa, was launched en Saturday, at Kingston, amid the cheers of 5,000 people. It will class Al for ten years, and 'will carry 90,000 bushels of wheat on a, draught of sixteen feet of water. She cost $70,- 000. -By intelligence just received at Tor- onto, from Tokio, in Japan, it appears that Rev. Mr. Large, one of the most able of the missionaries., has been killed. How, it was not known, but in his death the work of the church has lost an able and zealous laborer. -Rev. J. W. Hamilton, D. D. of Beaton, one of the most noted of New England's Methodist divines, preached tw ice in Trinity Methodist c hurc h, Toren- to,last Sabbath. He is said to resemble greatly in appearance, Mr. Laurier, the Liberal leader of Canada, and is a brilli- ant preacher. -Thos. Everest, a young fireman in Toronto, perished while in discharge of duty at a fire. in the city a few days ago. He leaves a. widow and five children who will be provided for by the city. Wm. Christie,of Clinton, Brown & Com- panyeon the day of thefuneral handed the Mayor a $100 cheque for the bereaved family. -The East Lambton spring show at Watford was a decided success. Nearly every class of horses on the prize list was largely represented. Many of the animals shown were of a very superior class. The heavy horses were out in great force. The total number of entries this year is 60; number of horses ex- hibited, 44. -A Toronto boy named Harper was bathing off the Credit Valley docks and but for the bravery of a companion would probably have been drowned. Charles Deheny plunged into the water and rescued Harper just after he disap- peared for the second time and swam with him to the dock, which was reacb- ed with some difficulty. -Madam Rosa D'Erina and her hus- band, Mr. G. R. Vontom, are at present in London enjoying a few days rest. Mme. D'Erina will be remembered by many from the successful concerts given by her in this?, section several years ago. They intend visiting the principal Cana- dian cities prior to their final tounwhich. will include Australia. 1 their way to London, England, where -A much respected resident of Galt, 1 they, will make their home in future. Mr. James L. Scott, died on the 22nd Mr. Macleod having decided to retire ult., at the advanced age of 82 years. Mr. Scott was bern at Bsuakehill, Dum- friesshire, Scotland, in 1808, and marry- ing there Miss Ellen Nichol, of Canaby, near Langholme, their family were all born there. In 1855 Mr. Scott came to -Canada, accompanied by Is family and three young men who had served him as apprentices. These men were Mr.Robt. Maxwell, and Mr. Murphy, of Win ham of eight. tian. The text chosen by Rev. Dr. -Rev. Dr. Willoughby, of Norfolk Thomasefor the memorial sermon preach - Street Methodist Church, Guelph, has ed in Jarvis Street Church,Toronto,w-ould announced his intention of retiring from well indicate in what esteem the late the ministry at the end of the present Professor was held. It was, "Know ye Conference year. Latterly he has not not, that there is a Prince fallen this been in the best of health, and his eye- day in Israel." sight, more eepecially, having failed -A lady residing on Craig street, somewhat, he deemed it his duty to him- London, went to the door of her house self and the church not to undertake an- Saturday morning in answer to a ring of other year's work. 'Rev. Dr. Willoughby a bell. Two gentlemen who were stand - has spent 34 years in the work of the ing outside wisted her gooddaaorning Methodist ministry. most affably and asked for two difshes -Says the Drumbo Record: Thos. of oyiters. The lady was astonished Moffatt was a wide awake English lad and asked what they meant. " Why!" twelve or fifteen years ago employed in was the answer, "you have a notice up . the vicinity of Drumbo. Now he is a that you keep oysters." The lady indi- prosperous planter in Louisiana. He gnantly denied dealing in bivalves, and has 300 acres now under cultivation near looked for the said notice. The wind Baton Rouge, and this year he will ex- had reversed the "To let" notice and peed $7,000 on his corn and cotton the other side read " Oysters, 25e. per crops, and expects very large returns plate." m frothem. Mr. Moffatt is kindly re- _Tee A- yr Recorder tells of a call re- membered here by many of his former oently received from MT. Christian friends. Overlade, formerly of Ayr, who has -Two sisters in Halifax named Grace been engaged by the Massey Manufacs and Lois Flaherty, aged 17 and 16 years, wring Company, of Toronto, to go upon slipped out of their father's house Wed- their foreign staff. He expecte to go nesday night, and repaired to the red- shortly upon a trip through Germany, dence of a clergyman with two boys Roumania and Denmark, of which letter named Bates and Brace, where they country he is a native. The firm is were married. Bates is 18 years old, manufacturin- g a binder for these conn - ani the other lad 17. The girls after- tries, specially adapted to tall grain. wards informed their parents of the Over 700 hands. are employed in the marriage and were taken back home, works and the output this year will be but without the companionship of their 7,000 binders and an equal number of husbands'. mowers. Mr. Overlade's application -A terrible accident befell a young had to ie made in three different man by the name of Geosge Harris re- languages. cently at Mount Elgin, Norfolk copnty. -At the beginning of 1889, the Royal He Was standing near a stallion oTened Arcanum bad in Ontario, 2,539 members by his father when the vicious brute and at the tdose of the year, 2,766. caught him by the hand with its teeth, There were 326 initiations. During and would not relax its hold until he had thirteen yeare' existence in London, bitten off the whole thumb, which the every obligation of the Royal Arcanum animal swallowed. The cords were has been promptly met, and over drawn out of the yonng man's hanci 000,000 have been paid out te bene - about eight inches. The beat medical ficiaries of deceased members.' The skill was called, but it is feared lockjaw cost of management has only been 2i may set in. . per cent and the cost .of $3,000 benefit -The older residents of Parkhill are at average age, including dues,- has sorry to learn of the death in Scotland been less than 8 cents per day. On of the widow of the late Rev. D. Sage. January 1, 1890, there were benefit h. who was at one time pastor of -no' certificates in force for thesum of $280,- Presbyterian Church, Parkhill, and sub- 000,000., sequently of Kelso, Scotland, where he -The new steel car ferry " Cana - died about six years age. The death of dian," built for the Canadian Pacifies his widow occurred on March 24. She Railway service between Detroit and was a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Thomp- Windsor, has been completed, and is eon, author of "The Land and the now en route for Detroit. The vessel is Book,!' and she leaves four orphan chil- the largest and heaviest boat now on dren. any Canadian lakes. Her dhnensions -A public farewell meeting was ten- are : Length, 297 feet, width of beam, dered Dr. Maggie McKellar at Ingersoll, 41 feet - ; width over guards, 71 feet; on Tuesday evening last week. Miss draught, 9i feet She is built of steel McKellar intends to engage in mission throughout, and is equipped. with the work in Central India, but before pro- most powerful eugines of any vessel on ceeding to the east, will spend three -inland waters. She is a side wheeler, months in the London, England, hoapi- and each wheel is driven by a separate. tale. Rev. Dr. Wardrobe, Rev. Dr. Mc- engine, the two combined developing Tavish and Mrs. Harvie, of Toronto, 3,000 horse power. The cylinders of and others were present and addressed the engines are 50 inches in diameter, the large audience assembled to bid this and the stroke 114 inches. These are brave young missionarylarewell. fed with steam from four boilers each 13 -According to the Glencoe Transcript feet 3 inches in diameter and 14 feet of last week, Mr. Macleod and daughter long, built to carry 95 pounds of steam - Jennie, of Edinburgh, Scotla,nd,and Mr. working pressure. The paddle wheels and Mrs. ,Neil Macleod, of Manilla, weigh 60 tons each, and are sheeted Philippine Islands, arrived at that vil- with steel to break the ice when neces- lage a day or two ago. Mrs. and Miss sary. Macleod are on a tour round the world, and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Macleod are on -Miss Mary Dentzer, of South East - hope, drove into Tavistock the other evening with a high spirited mare, On crossing the railway track the mare be- came frightened by the whistle of the locomotive and turned sharply around, upsetting the buggy and throwing Miss Dantzer out on the heed road. She fend- ed on her head and was -carried to Dr. Niemeier's office unconscious, in will& state she remained for nearly tvio days. and it was feared she would notrecover. Fortunately she is now improving some- what, and hopes for her reooviery -114* and Mr. Harkness now in the T3iited I their beds whiasleep-and deliberately entertained. - from the business in which he has been engaged in the Philippine Islands for the last twenty years. —A terrible tragedy occurred in the township of Melancthon, near Shelburne village in the eastern section of Grey county, on Wednesday night of last week. A man named Morrison, hitherto regarded as a quiet, respectable citizen, took his three youngest children out of