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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-02-27, Page 1VTSe ted pieces trei now different p4tern. erns in pleids and.' _gee_ IAM& patterna r ONS heavy in white ING8. s, fast ince ices, ADE or, ana, he best patterns,„ the kind to give. ction.. we hold in large. blic may rely up - the very closet 1117 AleF kTHt be, who ha been Ie of Mon hs, to- lrereresidin at her- e', of the ondon eek for hotrie. We ity. --a-The enniver- :ction with !Carmel as we intimated a on Sabbe h next tvening fal owing. , A., of Baussels,_ end evereng,e and Mg a tea -meeting ice cif thelectureas the congregatios. de to se ure a 'ee- 1, at 1ea8t the one no doubt that the with the' manage - access. ma. lowing are the of - _independent Order 3cige in this place, trter Lt Dt, Miss a, Robert Clark; iani; V. T., Miss • Mntolh ; R. St, , Annie McIntosh atley ; F. S., Rob- , Sister .ressie Mc - Mary Anb Staples; . Clark. This lodge condition, new arty every night. Brother e Rapson present quarter. y enioyable time -eaidence , of John asday evening last to the number of se was, spent in the pping the "light famished_ by the then. Early next 1 home with many tin and tasters, to tdehted for their Letvo . r'elling of last week _ was drivaig along 1 lots 5 and 6, the i = oke, tbroiwing Mr. ithe horn to take rr Heedlese of where Intel ran i into the [ -i Scottwhen the t with 4 valuable the tw, - vehicles • tthe horse lost them lard, both Ets, total, [erary anId debating. 'ling on Tuesday of johnstm4s hall and ed. The chief at -- vg was the debate, Resolved that the , let free into any native was upheld, pie, assisted by Mr. , negative by Miss -- Alexander Pardon Mr., Geerge Barr Se and his support - in in favOr of the . 1 arn Hogarth left day. He goes in if horses; and in: ernmar.--4 rather 0 happened to one ' at a, party a few tppened to get at - le of the girls of ' who pitched into ci won the round in a. No blood was 4- club of th-is place iie with the whole iling Kirkton, one a were defeated. • of his age, after a- il I de ss, Mr. Thomas ,bia home in Listo- He was a native zghshire,. Scotland, in 1838, and resit:1- r Morrington a num- la family of eight and three daughters her respected resi- 'raper, died on Fri - Draper had lived in ars, and had filled tions of -honor and He was married to at Shakespeare, in age family survives' imoossestolailw • te- '‘ , ,1 •-•jill 1, -• r, • • ;:re,` TWENTY -THIRD -YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER '1,211. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1891. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. FEBRUARY. Large guantities of New Goods arriv- ing for the early Spring Trade. Already our stock will be found very attractive, and those wishing to make early eelec- time will find a fine vatiety. Edward M'FaU I SEAFORTH. WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. A FARMERS' VIEW. „ At the Covservative meeting held in Seaforth last Friday, Mr. Christopher Dale, one of the leading farmers in the Huron Tract said: " I have been a life-long Conservative," he said, "and iny sons and I own over nineteen hun- dred acres of the best land in Heron, and when I say the farmers are in a bsd position I know what I am talking about. Politics are all right in their place, but when a person has a lot of fine horses which are worth $30 to $40 less than they were a year ago, I think the farmers should drop party and go in for the policy most likely to help them out of the difficulties which that miser- able National Policy has brought upon 119." WHAT A LEATHER MAN THINKS. Mr. E. Felerdean, a Urge leather merchant of Quebec, eays : "At one time we had confidence in protective, but alas, it has vanished, and we now look to free trade as a redeemer. Sir A. P. Caron is 'afraid to present himself in his own county, so certain he would be of defeat on account of all the farm- ing country crying for a change to keep starvation from their door. :the gene- ral opinion here is that free trade will do good to the farmer and to every per- son in generel. The farmers alone will give Laurier an overwhelming majoritys say three-fourths of the counties. A certain number of business men consider that free trademay do harm to the naanufacturer''but the predominating opinion is that if there will be any change it will be for the better. Ac- cording to all we can learn Laurier will carry 40 counties out of the 68. A PORK PACICER TURNGRIT. Mr. G. L. Kavanagh, pork -packer of Toronto, says: On the front psge of to -day's issue of the Empire appears an article headed " Chicago and Toronto Prins," which reads as follows: "If any farmer interested in the hog - raising and pork -packing industries is yet in doubt as to what effect commer- cial union would have on his trade let him take the prices quoted for bog pro- ducts in Saturday's Chicago papers and figure what he would get for his hogs here. A local packer did so yesterday, and found that to compete with Atneri- CM provisions they would have to buy dressed hogs at $3 to $3.25 here. Yes- terday dealers paid $5.25 to $5.50. We would have to give up hog -raising alto- gether—that is, we would throw away a yearly income of $9,124,472 so that we might get a free entry for our $2,000,- 000 worth of eggs, and for which we can find a matket in the mother country." To say that the -above is misleading -would be'ptitting it rather mild. The man whe wrote that article is either a knave ora fool. The average prices paid for dressed hogs on Toronto market on Sitturday was $5.37 per hundred. This mens .$3.57 per hundred live weight, 33a per cent. being the shrink- age from live to dressed weigbt on fat- ted hogs. have slaughtered hogs where the shrinkage was 40 per cent. and over. The Chicago markets on Saturday, February 14, ranged from $3.35 to $3.60 per hundred live weight; Buffalo markets same day, live hogs, $3.80 to $3.90 per hundred, Buffalo be- ing 10 per cent. higher. Now, if any farmer or butcher who knows anything about slaughtering compares the three markets fairly, the difference they will find will be small, but a person ignorant of the business would see blue ruin in reciprocity, as the Empire paints it. Instead of reciprocity destroying our hog -raising as an industry it would boom it far beyond anything heretofore. Free corn would be a bonanza to farm- ers, and would emtble them to make more money out of their pork than ever before. Canada under the fostering care of the N P., has been raising a breed of hogs that now controls the Government at Ottawa, and is fast has- tening the country into bankruptcy. I mean the Redpsehs, Drummonds and their ilk, the few who are favored at the expense of the many. This breed of hogs we purpose getting rid of. As re- gards our egg trade, for which we are told we will find a market in the mother country. The merchant who tries it will pay dearly for his experience. Wilson, of Seaforth, the lergest egg shipper in Canada, had a trial of it, and he wants no more. He shipped selected eggs to England and the culls to New York. The returns were in favor of New York by a large majority. Talk- ing nonsense or telling lies does no geed. A cause that requires to be thus upheld is rotten to the core and deserves de- feat. My vote shall be for reciprocity as advocated by the Liberal party, though I have never voted Grit before in my life. G. L. Kevesetet. To-tusTo, February 20th, 1891. A \\ 110LESNLE MERCHANT FOLLOWS StIT. Mr. W. El. Lockhart Gordon, a large wholesale merchant of Toronto has written a letter to the Liberal Candidate for east Toronto from which we extract the following. He says; Although I have not the pleasure of your acquain- tance, yet, as I have the strongest opinion that unless some commercial arrangement is made with the United States on a broad and solid basis at an early date we shall be forced by the general depression and in order to stop the exodus from our country that is now going on to acet almost any terms -the people of the United States -may see fit to offer us, I have decided to write you this letter and offer you my services dur- ing the present campaign. Up to the present time I have always been a faithful supporter of Sir John Macdonald, never having given a vote against him during the twenty years I have resided in Canada, tion now before the pub importance to this count I believe, Canada remai the British Empire will upon whether we novs r ment men who are re make a reasonable com ment with the Ianited that it is encuMbent oti people of this Dominion those whom we believe this matter, After what we ha streets of Toronto durin weeks, when large bodies of men clamer- ing for work a pealed to our mayor to enable them to nger that their re enduring, and case in nearly of this Province, 11 farmers and ble to eke ont a, consequence of y to sell any of he farm or field the .McKinley stand' why the s now endeavor es (which have ri the attention real question of re most likely us at the earlies e eell our pr4, rates and th ploy our surplu probably be ex e enormous nat. aye at our very but as the ques- ic is one of vital y, and in fact, ing a part of greatly depend turn to Parlia- lly anxious to ercial arrange- tates, I think allthe loyal to support only re in earnest in e seen on the the last few do something or them t stave off the pangs of h wives and little anal w after what I knew is th all of the ruler Sections that hundreds of our em i3 settlers; are sciircely miserable exist nee i the absolute impossibili the natural prodects of owing to the e ect of Bill. I cannotl unde Government of the day ing by raising a de iss nothing in them) to tur of the people from the the hour'namely, who to be able to obt in for lit possible date a arket duce in at re sanabl capital we require to eni labor which would mos pended in developing t ural resources taat we doors. A CATTLE DROVE One of the largest Ontario says; The would accrue t4 the should he obtir free a kets of the Un: ed Stat calculable. To begin between Ontari6 and t —the best markets in t —is a great deal less th sarne States and the Ag of the interior. The ci and Boston are easy of tario. Then the Dom vantage of cheaper lab tures for the flocks a cheaper railroad freigh ern States. Under ex we have to pay a duty upon all kinds of cattle almost prohibitory in i Canada do not fear an the Americana can bri far as our local mar Americans can get a b own markets than the ours. Another thing stricted "reei procity a cattle would be fed an ada than there are 'Free Trade we woul United States corn to and taiewould obviat our shipping so many _European markets at $25 per head for expo could keep our cattle we would command WANTS IT. attle dealers it advantage tha anadian farme ono to the mar s would be in ith the distance e Eastern Statea e, commonwealth h between then icultural Statee ies of New York access from On nion has the ad - r, of better pas', d herds and 4 s than the West - sting conditions', of $10 per hea This duty i a effect. We i opposition tha g againat us si ets go, for the tter price in thea possibly can i if we 'had unr reat many mo -fattened in Ca now. If we had be able to Oa feed our cattle, the necessity Of Lean cattle to t n average cost ting them. If and fatten the more money f them in the United States, and we wou have the manure to enhance the pr ductiveness of our-farins. In short, the advantages of a free and open market for our cattle ifi the United Stateli would be.that wewould have two mar- kets instead of one;I that, when, the Stove works, Belleville, coat $60,000, offered for $1,0,000. - Stove works, Parkdale, cost $30,000, turned into other business. Stove works, Peterborough, cost $50,- 000, gone down. I venture to predict that nother five years of high tariff on raw materiel and limited market in Canada will be -very apt toacsomplish Mr. McClary's -pur- pose, but whether even he will be left to enjoy the millenium i another ques- tion. Reciprocity or no reciprocity things can't be any worse. Therefore let us get a 65,000.000 market in exchange for a 5,000,000 one. I for one am willing to run the risk of resulta. A STEAM ENGINE MAN NOT AFRAID OF YANKEE COMPETITION. Mr. Frank Leonard,of the well-known firm of Leonard & Sons, London, says: A good deal is being said on the plat- form and in the press about the manu- facturers of Canada, and the great dis- advantage they would be put to by a reciprocal trade with the United.States. Nearly every advocate of the National Policy has declared that we would be crushed out of existence by thia market being flooded with Ainerican goods. Let us look into the matter aquarely. The price of any manufactured article is fixed by the cost of its raw imaterial, the labor to make -it, the cost of selling it and the margin of profit. Now, the success of a -factory depends on,the sum of the cost of these requireMents. I contend as a manufacturer that every• thing being on the same footing we are . just as likely to succeed in the race with our neighbors in the United States -as we are with our own countrymen. The gentlemen- in our line seem afraid to Meet them on the same level, but let them think for a moment. In the matter of pig iron we will be able to buy at about $5 per toe less than we can now, say 20 per cent.:' bar iron 10 per cent., machinery steel 10 per cent,, riddles, brushes, shovels and fac- ings about 20 per cent. less, and coal 60 cents per ton less. • So far at raw material is concerned we will be on the seine level, and as well off as they. As regards labor, will any person deny that labor in Canada is not now lower than in the United States? Not ono; for we all know to our great inconveni- ence at times that mechanics are all the time leaving us for better wages in the United States. Yes sir; our labor hi -10 to 15 per cent. cheaper, so on that score we have that important iten coating less. , As regards the cost of sellin and col- lecting, will any Canadian a Brother Jonathan is any shre figure better, can use sounder than we can in any husiness ? The fact is, they are capt young men every day to fill p responsibility and trust from Canada. No sir; we have bra and energy sufficient to com our neighbors every day in th To sum up the position, we 'pig iron to ceat us less than iron and steel leas than now, necessities leis than now, labo with them. How with these advantages be crushed out of existence 1 pannot see. y chances o a larger come out English market is g imminent to the shi stock, we can forwa York ; thattin this w loss—$20 a head at. have had to bear in t saved. Again take h ra s. Under tae McKinley tariff we ave to pay a duty of $30 per head on all erns transperttd to ithe United States o 'less than $150 n e value , and upon al animals vain d above that sum an a ditional 20 pr cent. has to, be paid. This means that on a horse -of the valu of $40 or $50 the Canadian farme who seeks the United States market would realize the magnificent sum of 511, or at the most $20, and if he had to say the freight out of that what would b left for him? This is how dutywill bear on our- farmers. They will be obliged t hold on to horns of poor quality, for it would be manif st folly for them to pa t with them such terms, and only first-class anim will be shipped to the neighbori utted and a len per of Canadian d them to New y the enormous times—which we 4 past would he country.You can see that there is no possible chance of shipping even a mediuin priced horse upon anything Ike rentunerative turns." WHAT THE N. I'. HA' DONE FOR 'IIEE STOVE BUSUESS, Mr. T. Doherty •f the well-known Doherty Company, manufacturers of stoves, furnaces, etc. at Sarnia, writes as followei to the Lon on Advertiser — We hear that Mr - porting the N. P.. cab This is most remarka of the stove combine, House, Toronto, abo this month, the write John McClary addre and he then contend "If the present st tinues he for one wo sell out bisplant for Probably Mr. MX the negative, that present state of affai little longer all the be wiped out and he the tale. Is this his his former good judg Since the meeting place, what.are the f Stove Works, Dun gone down; can be McClary is s p- idate of London. le. At a meeting held in the Rossin t four years agd listened to Mr. sing those prese t, d:— te of affairs c n- ld be willing j to 50 cents on, he ary's ideas are in e believes if he s are continued a ther foundries ill alone be left to 11 idea, or has he ost ent referred to t ok ctei? as, cost $25,000, ought for $.5,000. mit that der, can udgment, ring our sitions of 11 parts of ns enough ete with week. will have now, bar tools and less than we are to I for one am willing to take of a larger market and try to business, for I feel sure I will ahead ie the end. I do not attach a great deal to the "special line " argurne In our own business we fin company who can sell a coin of engine, boiler, and mill stands the best chance of cap order, and the same rule app out doubt, to furniture of stoves and tinware, and iron working tools. The largest establiehmen United States have to carry and different grades of -their 1837 the site on which it stands was sur- veyed, and half acre lots•sold on Collins street at about £35 sterling. The town advanced slowly until the discovery of gold in 1851. Then it grew in a mar- vellous fashion. , Enormous warehouses, rain storm set in, which lasted five days. The seines= were almost all upset and the herring lost. The captain re- portsvery mild weather in Newfound- land. i The American vessels, which lost their seines and cargoes, sailed for home splendid stores, large hotels, churches, and abandoned the herriug fishing for theatres, and all the other buildings found in large cities arose in a few. years. The city is spread over a large, extent of ground. The principal streeta are one mile long and ranety-nine feet wide. Though built in a comparatively short time the buildings compare well with those of any other I city as regards elegance and durability, the stone used being of an almost imperishable charac ter. Cable cars are used on the streets. , New South Wales, ' as seen from the train while passing from Syd, ney' to Melbourne, is an undulating country, clothed, in great part with timber and scrub. , In many places the timber is thin and the country used as .pastoral land. Herds of cattle tiesd borses are seen here and there. Ai we cross into Victoria the land improves in appearance. There is more open court - try and more cultivation. Grain crops are seen -at intervals a some in the stook and some uncut. The nearer Melbourne the more evidence of, cultivation. Gippslend is a district lying to the south east of Melbourne. It is one the older settled and oee of the beet farming districts of Australia. The land was originally bought from the Government at £1 stet litig an acre; now an average farm with buildings, fences, etc.man hardly be bought for £20 an acre. The average farm approaches 1,000 acres in extent, and a visit to the neigh- borhood involves some traveling. The proportion of cultivated land is small compared with Ontario, especially of late years, since low prices for grain be- came common. The grains grown in- clude maize, wheat, barley, oats, beaus, peas and flax. Wheat is not grown ex- tensively in Gippsland, as it can be grown to better dvantage in North Victoria. There iwheat and wool are the staple crops. Barlee surpasses any- thing ever seen in Canada, both as regards quality and quentity per acre. Beans yield fifty to sixty bushels an acre. Peas and oats do fairly well, blut they suffer in a season like the present— cool and cloudy — from the at- tacks of caterpillars. The flax seed is also very much spilled out by these de- structive insects. ThreShing is done on the field, and the grain only is conveyed home. The farmers need no stabling for stock, as everything lives nutside all the year through. Horses are very numer- ous and cheap, and no expense to keep, save the grass they consume. Horse- back riding is the fashionable mode of travelling. Every boy old enough to wear trousers rides like a cow boy. The aoys hunt up the cows to be milked, on horseback. • The working horses are gathered in in the same manner. When there are any races, tournaments or shows of any kind, the riders are seen flying along the road a like charges of cavalry. Harvest work is done during this month. Farming machinery is double the price it is in Caned. The land is not so uniformly good as in Ontario. Large stretches are kept permanently in pasture. The most of the trees on this ground are killed by the ring -process, to allow the sunlight and rain to reach the 'he dead trees tand like whited 'giving an appearance to the try which is scarcely pleasing to of weight t. that the late outfit achinery, uring tae ies, with - 11 kinds, nd wood- s in the full lines ares. •Another point must not be lost sight of, which is our advantage inbeing able to purchase land and erect buildings ars. less cost than our neighbors. Our capi- tal acCount on this score will be light compared to theirs. We payl $5.50 for bricks and they $10. We pay $3.50 for masoneand they $4.50, and iso on, in all the rind of building. From Ausirali . (Written for 1115 EXPOS! OR.) GIPPBLAND, Australia, Janhary 8, 1891. Leaving San Francisco on he 15th of ; November last we had a se voyage of twenty-eight days Vefore reaching Syd- ney, New aaouth Wales. Twenty-five days is the time allowed by the time table, but our boat, being very foul on the bottom, lost time. The trip was, however, .very enjoyable on the whole. With the exception of a ' few days the weather proved excellent. Our passen- ger list was full until wetreached Hono- lulu, where about fifty left us to sojourn for a season amid the palm • groves of that favored spot. A great variety of genies and pastimes were carried through grass. spectre the co the eye f the lover of nature's beauties. Much of this dead timber will stand and remain sound for nerdy half a century, and furnish good firewood. The farmer has abundance of dry wood ready to cut at any time, while the land is em- ployed in the production of grass for his cattle. Large herds of cattle are kept on these stretches of grass, but they do not represent the wealth cattle do in On- tario. Good fat cattle, weighing thir- teen or fourteen handled, live weight, are not worth to the grazier over £6 10s sterling, apiece, while young stock and cows can be bought from £2 to £4. G ippsland Lakes, lying about 150 miles east of Melbourne, are brought to the notice �f pleasure seekers andtour- ists as being worthy of a visit. They are reached,—by rail from Melbourne,— at Sale or Bairnadale. Small steambioats run daily. The distance from Sale to Bairnadale through the three lakes, King, Victoria and Wellington, is from 95 to 100 miles, and the area of water about 200 square miles, The scenety is not very striking, and when one hears that the lake district ie regarded as, one of the most attractive in the country, a suspicion arises , that Australia is, not very rich in fine scenery. J. ALLARDYCIE. Oanada. Miss- Lillian Phelps has been lectur- ing on the temperance question at Ayr. —A hotel. to cost -$30,000 will be erect- ed at Thousand Island park, St. Law- rence River. --Cardinal Taachereau, of Quebec, Kingston mill during the past 12 months wits 2 000 000 or 615,460 lbs. ,—At Madoc last Friday morning a bailer exploded in Cassalman's saw mill. Ohe of the proprietor's sons was thrown a distance of 30 feet, and was terri- bl the season. —Mr. James Hill Hunter, M. P. P., died last Sunday at Durham, after only one day's illness; He leaves a widow and five children. —The other day Mr. Chas. Sproal of the 4th concession, Culross, sold a dressed hog in Teeswater that turned the scale at 564 pounds. —Some 200 or 300 persons destitute are being fed daily at the Salvation Army soup kitchen in Toronto. On Sunday the number reached 400. —Miss Zoe Gayton, the actress, who is walking from San Francisco to New York for a $2,000 prize, arrived at St. Thomas, Thursday last week. —Terence Reardon, whose spine was broken by a fall out of a sleigh while he was returning from the Hamilton races on the ice a fortnight ago is dead. —The Western Fair Association, Lon- don, has re-elected its old officers and decided 'upon the 17th to the 26th Sep- tember for holding the fair. — A soft elm log, containing 1471 feet, was brought to Teeswater Satur- day, by Mr. P. J. O'Malley, of . Bel more, The tree grew on the farm of Mrs. Jeffray. — A large peril), of gentleman farmers, with their wives and children reached Montreal the other night from 'England on their way to British Columbia to take up land on a large scale. belonging to a farm labourer, wo king childree out of a family of etight, near Walkerville. Essex county, ditall of di ph week on board during the trip, so that the time did not drag wearily. We entered Sydney Harbor during the forenoon of the 14th December. This harbor con tains about twenty square miles of water, and has a coast line of fifty miles. The largest ships can enter at all times. Sydney is a fine atone city of 400,000 inhabitants, including suburbs. About 800 acres of ground are divided into numerous parks and gardens here and there. The. Botaiiical Gardens are especially beautiful, containing the hardy deciduous trees of Northern clime alongside the palms and, bananas ef the tropics. Sydney's street tramways are propelled bp steam locomotives, and numerous ferry boats communicate with the suburbs across the harbor. The main thoroughfares are well pave with wood while the others are macada ized. Melbourne is only half the age of Sydney, yet it is ilOW th home of as large a population. ity in the world has made such rapid regress, In heria . within a period of three recently. lex. MacDonald, for 30 years an official in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto, as messenger and clerk, died Wednesday last week from an attack of pneu onia. tie was 77 years old. ; — everal Hamilton capitalists are. considering the advisability of building a pipe -line from that city to the nateral gas well at Welland. The distance is 40 man and tae cost would be about $500,000. —A newly born infant was found be- tween the two doors of the St. Roche, Quebec, Presbytery the other s morning. The little stranger was baptized by the Rev Mr. Belanger and then sent to the hosiiital. —.The Ridgetown - Plaindealer says that Mr. Thomas Breton, of Howard towaship, in Kent county, has fallen heir to about £80,000 in England, in- cluding an -estate which will make him Lord Thomas Breton. —The Canadian Association for the Enfranchisement of Women iutend pe- titioning the Domiuion Parliament to pass a measure giving women equal privileges with men in Parliamentary elections. —Word comes from British Columbia that cases of leprosy are being discover- ed among the Chinese there, and that the loathsome disease is being communi- cated to the Indians. A Government investigation is asked for. --Miss Galt, daughter of Chief -Jus- tice Galt, of Toronto, and niece of Sir number of children admitted will be in-, creased to 500. The destitetion this winter in Toronto, owing Ichiefly to scarcity of employment foe working mem is greater than ever beflare known in that city. One person in every twenty-five is receiving aid from charit- able organizations or benevolent soci- ties. —Count de Roffignac, formerly of Paris, France, who owns a large farm near Whitewood, N. W. T., is prepared to erect a large beet root sugar factory if the Dominion Government will admit the necessary machinery duty free. In the event of being released the mill will probably be erected on the American side of the live. —Mr. David Guinter, a prominent and well-known farmer of Pelham, near Welland, died at his residence Thurs- day. He had just returned from a trip to Florida, where he had been in hopes of bettering his health. Deceased leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. —The boiler attached to the Grand Trunk waterworks at Wyeming, ex- A an in ly T. Galt, of Montreal, is a Lieuten- t of the Salvation Army. She is now the work in Montreal, having recent - come from Halifax. —At Toronto James A. McDonald has served a writ on Mr. H. A. Massey in a suit for $10,000 damages on behalf of A.W. Taylor for imputations against this character of his daughter Emma Toler, in connection with the Johnson - Taylor scandal. 1 ---Alfred Laidley, the telegraph op- erator who left his post.when the Grand Trunk trains collided near Ballantyne stetion some time since, has surrendered himself to the authorities at Kingston and. gave bail to appear for trial at the Spring Assizes. t ---D. T. Gillies, of Muirkirk, Elgin coenty, has received word that an uncle wao left Aldborough nearly 50 years age, has just died in Livingstone, Mon- taoa leaving a large sum of money, w ic'h is to be distributed among his .11___ relatives in Kent and Elgin. George A. Badgerow, son of the Y rk county crown attorney,was thrown frem a horse at Davieville the other evening and instantly killed. Mr. Badgerow was about 21 years of age, and was a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Rifles. i —Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of Kansas City, is to deliver a series of lectures in April under the auspices of the Alumni Associatien of the Hamilton Ladies' College,on the subject of "Cook- ing." Many citizens will gladly take tickets for their wives. —A shipment of 130,000 yards of' cot- ton cloth was sent from the Kingston cotton mill for China last week. A like shipment was made in January. The total export of cotton to Chinafrom the sistance was soon at hand and the in- jured man conveyed to his home, when Dr. fienweod was called in and dressed the wounds. The doctor considers Mr. Fcwler seriousaahurt, but believes he will come round all right with proper care and attention. —Mr. David Mills, a widely -known drug traveller, of St. Catharines, vsrites to a friend from -Buenas Ayres, Argen- tine Republic, South America, that he recently was walking on one of the prin- cipal streets in that city wben he sud- denly canto face to face with A. M.Mac- ra.e, formerly secretary -treasurer of the St. Catharines Security Loan and Sav- ings Company, who absconded with $30,000 of the company's money in Sep- tember last. —Fire on Saturday night, 14th inst., did about $10,000 damage to the New York post office, but not a letter was burned. Two newsboys were eadly berned. Three dynamos belonging to the United States Electric Light Com- pany, valued at $15,000,were destroyed. —Two freight trains on the Canadian ploded Monday morning about nine Paci ie railway near Lachute, Quebec, o'clock. The engineer wes severely scalded and otherwise injured, but not fatally. The building and machinery are a total wreck. The cause of the ex- plosion is unknown. —William A. Stephens, the pioneer poet of Ontario, died at his residence in Owen Sound on Saturday afternoon. cont.:lea Friday morning. The fireman of one of thetgtaains was instantly killed, and three otetsitta train hends were severe- ly injured. One of the trains caught fire and seven care loaded with goods were reduced to cinders. A ceroner's Jury returned a verdict censuring the train despatcher and operator at St. He was born in Belfast, areland, in Therese, and blaming the company for i1809, but has resided in Cenade since quite young. His first volute() of poems was published in 1840, ana was the first book of verse published in Upper Canada. —Mrs. William Mee. ormick, of Pelee Island, died on Friday. She was 99 years old. Mrs. McCormick was tho mother of 16 children, none under six feet in height. One of her sons, who is living on Pelee Island, weighs over 300 pounds. She is said to have 30 grandchildren and three greittgran,d- children. —An explosion occurred op Saturday in a coal pit at Springhill, Neva Scotia, by which about 150 men and boys were killed. Over 100 bodies have been re- covered, many of which wore mangled and crushed. Business is entirely sus- pended, and the people neat paralyzed by the awful calamity that has come upon them. —Archbishop Fa.bre, of Montreal, has issued a pastoral charge to all the pastors of parishes within the archdiocese en- joining them to exhort their+ people to remain, steadfast in their loyalty to Eng- -land, arid to have no part in the support of any policy or Government discriminat- ing against British trade a.nd tending possibly towards annexation. —What might have proved's, serious accident occurred at the Mr. George Sherritt, at Tuesday evening last wee means the lamp upset an stove breaking the bowl an Oil, which bedtime ignited. The blaze Set fire to one of the children's clothes and before it could be extieguished had burnt the little one severely. —The Rev, Rural Dean Wade, of -Woodstock, who recently excited so• much attention by daring io permit a Presbyterian minister to -preach from the pulpit of Old St. Paula! church, and partake (4 the sacrament, isas been in- vited to assume charge of the ehurch at Simcoe, the pulpit, of which was lately made vacant by the death of the Rev. John Gemley. —The Dominion Directory which is pie of days, and hadbeen in the habit of just issned contains a tabulated return using chloroform to quiet his nerves. has just celebrated his 71st birthday anniversary. —Mayor Birkett, of Ottawa, has been unseated in the Toronto courts on; the ground of a technicality. -Litlenry Gale, near Deloraine, Mani- toba, fell headforethost into a well the other day, and was found dead. —Miss Hattie Sleeper, a reporter the Port Huron Times, went under river to Sarnia on Monday and made the return trip in 35 minutes. —A reduction of 20 cents per dezen has been made to female knitters in the hosiery mill at Kingston. Fourteen ac- eepted the out and four are out. - —Captain Ozen, of the schooner Vir- gene, from Fortune Bay, Newfound- land, reports bad weather in tnose waters and a loss of ()Vier twenty cargoes of herring, caused byanunprecedeeted rain storm. The irgeso and gamut twenty merican and Nova Scetianves- sels mace extraordinary stops, while the seines ere moored, awaiting cold weather, so the fish could be frozen., A wing to prevailing destitution, the for. the scalded. He will not recover. An- ther her was also injured, but not fatally. e building was a complete wreck. -r-M188 Helen Gregory who some motiths ago contributed a number of in- teresting letters from Manitoba to the Tbronto Globe, returned to her home in amilton to be married to Mr. Fletcher; of Deloraine, Manitoba. who has an ex- t naive fruit farm in California. —Every Sunday evening for the past tjvo months a bright gospel service and benntiful tea has bcen given to 325 poor children under fourteen years of age, in Richmond hall, Toronto. The means to carry on this benevolent work has been supplied by one gentleman, who does not wish to have his name made public, nd at his request the managers have decided that for the next few Sundays, reeidence of Harpley, on . By some fell on the spilling the not having operators at the principal stations. —A couple of Sundays ago as Mr. John M. Histand was backing his young mare out from the hotel shed at New Dtindee, the bridle bit broke, allowing the spirited animal to get beyond con- trol. Running across the street the mare knocked a veranda post from its fastenings and then struck a tie post with such force as to crush in her chest and cause deeth in a few minutes. The mare was riting four years old and was a valuable animal. .—A horrible accident happened in the Grand Trunk Ruilsvay yards at Point Edward on Thursday night last week, wherein Angus McDonald, formerly yardmaster at Fort Gratiot, lost his life. 1, He was switching cars during the night, land the yard engine and eight cars ran over him twice before it -became known he was hurt, - His body was cut in many pieces. His head lay twenty feet from the largett portion of the body; his arms and legs were cut to shreds and scattered around the yard. McDonald was a single men, his parents residing in Point Edward. —Valentine Ingle, of Avon, was tried before Squires Peters and Keys last week in London,on a charge of cruelty to ani- mals in sawing off the horns of his cat- tle with a handsaw. After hearing the evidence, Mr. McKillop, for the prose- cution, presented a report of a case tried in England, where all the expert veter- inary surgeons gave the opinion that the operation was a most cruel one. Mr. Ed. Meredith, Q. C., for the defendant, quoted the frequent practice of the cps - tom in the United States, and the au- ,thorities who denied its cruelty. The magistrates reserved decision. —Mr. D. C. Leitch, of Dutton, was found dead in his bedroom about 11:3e o'clock on Tuesday night last week. The deceased was a prominent resident of West Elgin, formerly a resident and practitioner of St. Thomas, where he owna considerable property. He had not been in the best of health for a cou- of the population of the leading cities. Montreal heads the list with 275,000, and is followed by Terouto itb 226,000, Quebec, 64,000, Ottawa, 17,000. - St. Jeanie, Newfoundland, is credited with 45,000, Hamilton with 44,309, Halifax, 40,000, London, 36,000, Winnipeg, 33,000. , r—While attea on Friday evening Mr. Angus Poison, of East Kitdonan, near Winnipeg, waestricken with paralysis and fell deed. Mr. Polsonwas the last male member of the Pelson family, which settled on the Red River in 1812, under the auspices of Lord Selkirk. He was born in Kildonan in 1822, and re- mained all his life in the perish, follow- ing the avocation of a farmer. : —The other evening Mr. Reeves, of Williamsville, near Kingston, went into his barn -to feed his hens. While scat- tering seed about a eat tamped down from the loft and bit himion the hand. He tried to strike the cat with a tin pan, when it again jumped at him and drove its teeth into -one of the rubber boots he wore. The wound on hishand is a bad one. —Mr. Donald McDonald, one of the oldest residents of Zorra, died on Mon -- day last week, having emigrated to West Zorra from the Parish of erla.ndshire, Scotland, in 1 half a century resided on which he died. He leaves behind him a family of eight—five daughters and three sons. Mr. McDonald lived to the ripe old age of 86 years. —Joe Harper, the northerp mail carrier to Rockton, Wentworth - county, Was returning from his trip the other day, and when crossing a creek his horse went through the ice. Joe was waken- ed up when he was- dashed into the water. He had a lady passenger with him who was nearly drowned. Joe res- cued the lady and himself, and then got his horse out of the creek and started for Rockton very cold and wet. —On Wednesday, 18th inst., an ac- cident of- a serious character occurred to a young man named Wm. M. Fowler, at Burford, county of Brant. Mr e Fowler was coming down from lively pace, when the- n loose and the pole dro ground. The wagon was thrown up and over to a ditch about six feet. The horses being still hitched, strpggled to get away and pulled the wagon -over on the teamster, who had his shoulder - blade broken, his face and nose badly smaahed, besides internal injuries. As. reich, Suth- 35, and for the farm on urford at a ck-yoke got ped to the He went to his room at 10 o'clock. Oa entering it an hour later his wife found him dead, with his face in a handker- chief saturated with chloroform, which he held in both his hands, —Mr. " Billy " Paterson, the Liberal candidate in South Brant, is famous for the strength of lais voice as well as the breadth of his views. When Len- nox sent Jamie Allison to parliament at a by-election, the new member was ex- ceedingly anxious to hear the celebrated Brantford orator. His friends told him on the afternoon that Mr. Paterson was to address the house, that he bad better sit close to the speaker of the day or he would not catch a word. Mr. Allison consegtently took up his position imme- diately in front of Mr. Paterson's desk. Just when Mr. Paterson had warmed up to his subject Mr. Allison moved two blocks off—to save the &urn of his ears, some folks said.—London Advertiser. —Mrs. Brethour, wife of Mr. 11, W. Brethour, merchant of Brantford, died last week from cancer of the liver, after -weeks of iutense suffering. Mrs. Brethour's maiden name was Charlotte Kent. She was born in Cornwall, Eng - gland, in 1825, and came to Canada in early life, -finally settling in Brantford. It 1365 she was married to Mr. Breth- our. She was a devoted and highly intelligent member of the Brat Avenue Methodist church, being at the head of all good movements, and loved by every one, She was prominent in the Women's Christian Temperance Union circles, having at one time been presi- dent of the Ontario Union. One daugh- ter, Mrs. S. Livingston of Hamilton, is left to mourn her departure. —A very interesting and successful surgical operation was performed at In- nerkip a few days ago by Dr. Welford, of Woodstock. The patient wasJoseph Johnson. He received an injury about three months ago, which finally result- ed in inflammation of the bowels. Or- dinary m_edical treatment did not have the desired effect and Dr. Clement, who had the case, decided that in order to save the young man's life a surgical op- eration was necessary. He therefore called in Dr. Welford, As a result of the operation about two gallons of uid were drawn from the patient and he ie now doing well. This is one of the first cases of the kind on record in On- tario, or, indeed, outside of the hospi- tals or the practice of the more eminent; European surgeon, a t• ,s