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The Huron Expositor, 1891-04-03, Page 127, 1891. NEWS. (Opening Seaforth for of you have seen. of ..our elegant, daYs. But few,, Ie lortg, tedious. apon the asaist- E damage done tee aese variety ex_ medal hanging, - etirts—you have ,bbons and Laces !eiItg, and the- rwers and beauti- ful te look at, ening days. lock behind the; was over, the rite Se enchant- thaught of it Sperienced mere when these deli - torn their folds, ..ose their fresh- bec ome subse- e.As itisoar de - o the choicestand estotnera, we in - cease from our' tions, and give -to a first-elasa tery, which after o every lady on Be. r and Satarda.y, i, our Trimmecl the public for aake a very fine nets, all ready to - ,or. The Shapes o latest and the good. Flowers very verietteand s and forget -me - le. Ribbons in effects will be - 'till also- have ids, beads, spantre have a very ;ore for you, and oonaters will rill be ne famine concerned. The ad upon extend - to all, we may t HALF SHOW, ime and see. All Act aul, l'H. !i1111111,L1r211131.41IS ical and fairly figares, the rev - d the great evils, ntemperance, and. Hare to 80eiety total prohibition 1:CTURE.—Mr. J. apector, paid our n Tuesday hist, as weil pleased e scholare were le creditable to In the evening instructive and the subject of tendaeace on the r the lecture, and erary entertain- ;holars, was ex. ed by all present. Non, of Carmel icupied the °hake lecture made a. he complimented ellent address he t ring it had as af moral train - le always being as to the im- and encouraging choice of good give the cold r and sensation a euld have a good- nity. Y. - till continues to- ld reaidents and d upon this- week nother of the old ]onald ROSS—who- at the ripe age of 1 eed was a native dine, Rossahire,. his youth follow- hepherd. When grated with his Natoli County, he cleared a farm years. In 1837 razer, and by her r the misfortune e, in 1847, mend - y her had three >ea Scotia in 1850• leared lot 27, 2nd rhere he remain - was a quiet, and obliging, a the Presbyterian ,ica a Reformer. family of six, and -Hy of the same Cass County, with a fitmily of &Craig, and one hree, on the old er still survives. enoon, llth inst., upstairs of the ['sou, of the 12th , and in a short i and woodshed, lost of the furni- lownstairs were was burned. Mr. NVhitehead, ,em- athes except what trtin Baird had Ind a number of destroyed. The i originated in a '-iere was an in - on the building • sato T WHOLE NUMBER 1,216. WENTY-THIRD YEAR. I • tts SEAF-ORT] {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. 0 THERE'S A BUZZ Of activity at our Print counter. The very choicest designs, lovely tints, fast colorings and good qualities are all there, arid plenty of them. Those very things you have been looking for are likely among the lot. If you want the pat- terns large or small, gay or retired, they are there. If you want what no one else has, you are quite likely to get it there. IS you want Ginghams, Flannelettes or any other kind of washing fabrics, call and look through our select stock. It will pay you three fold, vie.: choice, quality and price. Edward M'Fau SEA FORTH. An Eng1ishinEin's1 Opinion of The Canadian iCapital. Mr. W. Lawson, speeial correspond- ent of the Financial times, London, England, who has recentlit been on a rri visit to Canada., has the fo lowing letter in his paper, written ' fro Ottawa on March 9th : ..d I have spent a day lin Ottawa—the Canadian Washington-eand am. thank- ful that it had not to be a! month. After Toronto or Montreal, or, even Hamilton, Ottawa is slow. It has its sights— Parliament House and the Goverment Buildings, which look like our unhappy Law Courts, broken up in three blocks . and set round three sides of a equare ; the lumber yards which stretch for miles along the river; and the Ottawa itself, which, even when frozen over, persists in being wild and picturesque. But when'the few sights have been alone there is little left to live in Ottawa for, especially when Parliament is not sit- ting.. People don't live here, in fact, in the ordinary sense. They lumber or they play at politics, and when these occupations are out of season there is nothing to fall back on but the everlast- ing sleigh. Everybody sleighs in Ot- twit,' and does it handsomely. Not only is it a healthy, bracing exercise,but it affords the best possible opportunity of displaying the family furs. A smart sleigh is hung all over with buffalo skins. You sit on them, you cover yourself up with them, you have them hanging back and front,of you. In shor' t you mut bury yourself in them in clrder to pro- duce any effect at all. Sleighing is the principal religion in Ottawa, and skating comes next; then Presbyterianism, which includea curl- ing, I believe to a moderate extent. Thee: are about a, dozen varieties of Methodism in Ottawa, as in most other Canadian towns. Even the church of England has not been able to resist the eplitting tendency which develops in communities'ivith too little to do and too Much time to argue. It has hired off into High and Evangelical, and ( an Evangelical would rather be mistaken fora Salvation Army man than for a "High." After the Parliament build- ings, churches are the dominant feature of Ottawa streets. Architecturally, they are the only extravagance that the Ottawans indulge in. The shops are insignificant, and the private houses have seldom much character, but fancy runs wild in chapels. They monopolise the beat sites, and have first call of all the street cornet% When any difficulty seems to have occurred about finishing off a street, the invariable solation was to put up another chapel. The Ot- tawans are consequently very good people, but rather narrow-minded, per- haps. They run too much in one groove for a metropolitan society which is sup- posed to give tone and stimulus to the whole Dominion. From the metropolitan point of- view, I fear that Ottawe has been a great mis- take from the beginning. Canada would have been a muoh bigger and brighter country to -day if - provincial jealous's. had not compelled the capital to be removed from Toronto. As it has turned out, Toronto was the natural -capital of the Dominion. Since the Opening up of the North-West it has become the geographiaal centre—at least, much more so than Ottawa. It ,is rapidly becoming the chief commercial centre. In the past ten years it has pulled up very rapidly on Montreal, and in the next ten years it will have an in- disputable lead. Between 1881 and 1889 Montreal inoreased in population 140,000 to 202,000, end in Lessened value of property fr m 80 million to 110 million dollars. In the same period Toronto grew in pap latiou from 77,000 to 172,- 000, and its assessed property from 56 million to 1L7 million dollars. It is thus • already the wealthiest city in the Do- minion, and, has all the , fine qualities which should accompany wealth. It is Public-spirited, enterprising, and full of confidence in its future. To compare Ottawa with it in any single respect would be making a fool of both. The one is a live city, growing all the time on its own natural resources; 'the other is a lumber camp trensformed into a city by political caprice. The Canadian Dominion has unques- tionably been a great success, but it might have been a much greater one hadnOt two vital mistakes been com- mitted in its infancy. One was the location of the new capital away up in the backwoods, and the other was the idiotic survey of the Intercolonial Rail - Way so as to make it the longest in place of the shortest route from the coast. Canada had in Halifaxone of the finest ports on the Atlantic coast, and her first obvious duty was to connect it with the interior cities by the most direct line that could be built. Quebec might *airily have been brought within twenty-four houre journey from the eoatt; which would have made it nearly as 6aay to get to Montreal from Halifax laa from New York, But "reasons of Imperial olicy " steppeci in and for- bade the atural route to be adopted. It would ave been too neat the Ameri- can boundary as fixed by oar self-sacri- ficing Ashburton Treaty in ' 1842, so to prevent the possibilitrof the Americans ever getng hold of it and cutting Canada o from the coast, it was given a great bend to the north. If it had been built by a s1-.4cu1ative contractor, working for so much per mile, and al- lowed to make his own thileage, it could -.hardly hive been more circuitous. If anyone set himself clown to think out deliberately and thoroughly whatthis one error of itsoinfancy has cost Canada he might produce an atpelling result. It has retarded:the dev lornent of the coantry by many years, has diverted a great ! deal of its foreign trade to A.mericen port, and has given a bad name to a large stretch ; of territory, which, under better management, might to -day have bepn well settled and jpros- perous. Happily, the error is now realized, and measures are being taken to correct it, A series of new lines is contemplated, which will cut out the worst of the bends and twists in the Intercolonial Railway, and give it a chance as a trunk line against the Ne York roads, which now carry two-thir a of the Canadian passenger traffic to t e seaboard. Already the Dominion Government has done much to repair the mischief by improving the train service between Quebec and Halifax. The running time has been reduced o under thirty hours, and special throu h fares are given to all interior point But in order to effect a complete cu e the line must, to a large extent, be r built. The Intercolonial 'Railway blund r we may expect to see emedied within a year or two, but wha about the buc • ram capital in the b ckwoods ? The*, it is to be feared,, is a fixture, thoughj I have no doubt whatever that it wou d pey Canada to lose all( the money se has sunk in Ottawa aid upend it over again in Toronto, whieh is so obviou ly marked. out for her natural capital. Ot- tawa -eau never by any forcing or fostir- ing be made more than a nest of poli cans, but what might not Toronto e - come if to its commercial and tinanc al eupremacy were added the prestige of the Viceregal Court and the natio al Legislature? It would be the m at brilliant and delightf 1 city in No th Arnerica—Chicago, 1uffaio and N w york not excepted. New Forestify Report. To the Editor ot TlIg Ho ON EXPOSITOR, SIR :—I forward y u here with the new Ontario Foreettjr Report whi h, will be seat free to any of your read ra who send their address, directing th m to 251t- Richmond street, Toronto. This report will be found to cont in much intereating and valuable readi g with resPect to the value of forests a d the growing of all kinds of trees. It also gives very full statistics as to he benefit of wind -break e in orchard grow- ing, !gathered from 'many owners of orchards in the States and Canada. It is hoped that all who receive it will give some care to its perusal, and, if owners o land or forests, they will find it repays them. It iti a valuable thing for the .c untry that Government sheuld distribut such literature. I remember well that when engaged many years since in clearing fonests and building habitatio s, no such sources of know- ledge we e available, or we should in many cas a have arranged our farma to greater a vantage. . I am lad to be able to say that he use being made of such reports and of the press in arousing a feeling favor ble to the pr servation of sufficient forest and plan ing lines of trees, for protect- ion, is pr ducing good effeet. Many of the more educated and intelligent farm- ers are lanting rows of trees yearly, and man more would if their means or time alio ed. Still it must be remem- bered th t only a mere commencenient has been made, and that, if we would preserve and add to the woodland I yet interspersed among our farms, Much more must soon be done. I should 'like to see me plantations for timber g ow- ing fret as wi timber. . Isolated trees are valuable eaks, but cannot give k 41ear Yours,' R. W. Paters. TORONTO, Alareh 2Gth, 1891. • I SOlh Huron Farmers' Institute. The Spring meeting of the Sout Huroni Farmers' Institute was held a Brucefield, on Friday last. There -Nee a good attendance at both sittings, an in the afternoon the Oddfellows' hat was comfontably filled, and all present seemed tojtiake the deepest interest in the discus *one In the absence of the President the chair was occupied by Mr. John B. Henderson, of Tucker - smith, who held the position until the new officers were elected. At the forenoonsitting a committee was appointed to- select officers for the current year.! The committee reported the following 'names, which were unani- mously adapted by the meeting, viz: Preeidente Robert B. McLean, Tucker - smith; Vice -President, John B. Hen- derson, Tuckeremith ; Secretary -Treas- urer, John Hannah, Seaforth P. 0. ; Directors --Stephen, S. Hogarth ; Exe- ter, George Samwell ; Usborne, Thomas Russell; Hay, Wm. Buchanan; Stan- ley, John ifietchen ; Tuckersmith, Simon Hunter; Hayfield, Robert Me- Ilvine ; goderich township, Wm. Wise; Seaforth, M. Y. McLean. The first , subject token up –was "Feeding steers for the Old Country markets, by Mr. John McMillan, M. P., who delivered an interesting, in- structive and comprehensive address, dealing witit the subject in all its phases. The, first requisite is good cat- tle, bred with a view to beefing pur- poses,—animals that will mature earl and be realy for the market at twg years old if possible; second, comfort- able housing and kind and attentiye treatment, including cleanliness and regularity - in feeding ; third, eco - may in feeding, avoiding waste and giving such foods as will produce the hest results for the least money. As a cheap and effective ration he recom- mended ensilage, cut hay and meal, three times a day. He prefers corn ,ensilage to roots as being less ex- pensive and equally as good. Sudden changes in food should be avoided, and in substituting one kind Of food for an- other the change should be made grad- ually. Mr. Jolla White, the well kno vn pork packer, °Mitchell, took op "Jog Feeding for Profit." Mr. White, fr rn his long practical' experience, kn we nearly all about hog breeding and feed- ing that is worth knowing. His address was particularly interesting and con- tained many valuable hints. The first requisite in pig breeding is to get a mail animal that will breed straight. 1 In selecting a sow for breeding take one that is even throughout, one on which a straight edge will lie from head to tail. A Yoikshireboar and a Berkshire sow make a good, useful-croes. They give a pig that is a good, healthy feeder and one longer in the body than the Berk- shire. Inbreeding pigs, like everything else, it 'adwayigays to buy the best. The quicker you .an bring an animal to be fit for the market the more profitable it is. One great advantage in pig breeding is the rapidity with which the animal can be made ready for mar et, thus enabling the owner to turn overj his money more quickly than with al ost any other animal. Another requisit in successful pig breeding ie cleanli ess and warmth. The pig is, natural] , a cleanly animal, and if kept in a cl an, warm house, with clean, fresh litte to lie on, it will respond. more quick' to such treatment than any other ani al, and will thrive and get fat on much less food than if not sts well cared for. hey should also be treated kindly and ndt be exeited. As to feed, clover bay is one of the very best foods for • hogs. 1One acre of clover will feed six pigs f r a season. The rent of an acre of gr und is $3. This makes 50 cents per pi for six months. This; with one doilar's worth of meal will make a pig that will weigh.130 pounds in the fall, at a otel cost of $1.50. Six weeks good fee ing should then bring this pig up to 200. pounds, and the total cost will nit be more than $7, while it will sell for $10. This is a good profit. Cornmeal, pea - meal, cut clover hay, potatoes or rti- chokes make a good feed for pigs. Mix together and feed not more than hey will eat cleanly at a time. A ch 'nge of food is also beneficial. ,Ele had found rape a good feed for pigs. it ut, with pigs, as with everything el e, a person engaged in the business lust take an interest in it in order to ma e it a success. There is no danger o the market becoming glutted. Millio s of pounds of pork come into this co ntry from the United States every year. We can make better pork and feed it eh aper than the Americans can, if we only go about it in the right way. The great consideration is to feed cheaply,' A long haired pig gives what is known as streaky pork; the short haired pigs go- ing more to fat and less to muscle. Professor Dean, of the Ontario Agri- cultural College, delivered an excellent address on Dairying. He said; the price for everything the farmer has to sell is fixed for him, as is also the Price of what he has to buy, and hence the only means he has of increasing his profits ie to decrease the price of pro- duction. There is ample rope f r the exercise of skill and intelligence iii this direction. He recommended Dai ying as a ' means to this end. In theel first place dairying is much less variabl than grain growing. The latter being more sureptable to climatic changes, while grass, on which dairying so largel de- pends, is not so subject to inju y by frost, drouth, blight and insects. Sec- ondly, it is desirable to produce n ar- ticle that will sell for the largest gures In the markets of the world in co part - son with the costs of transpo &tiro For instanse, wheat is worth in Lihrerf pool about $20 a ton; che "se about , $200 and butter about $400 pe ten, and they each cost about the sa e tor transportation. Third, it is desk ble to produce those articles which wiltil.draw from the soil the least nutrimen • In Selling grain we take from the soil 6.85 per cent. of the qualities required to produce it, whereas in butter we only; take .22 per cent. We exhaust the soil less with butter than with any other article we can take from it. Besides this, in dairying 80 percent. is returned to the soil in manure, Whereas With grain growing nothing is returned. He strongly recommended a systemof win- ter dairying, and pointed to those aec- tions of country where dairying is largely carried on as being much more prosperous than equally fertile districts, where grain growing is still the leading industry. Mr. M. Y. McLean,' Seaforth, intro- duced the subject, " Redudition in County Councils." He said that one of the many unnecessary burdens be peo- ple of Canada have to bear, is a super- and v after a ew bridges and part manage- ment of the gaol and county buildings and providing for the county debt. If the care of the bridges were given to the local councils, and the management of the gaols and debt to tha Provincial Government, the need for the county councils would be provided for. If, however, this were deezned too radical a change he advocated a teduction in members to three from each riding to be elected for a term of three years by the whole riding, one retiring every year, and to be elected at the same time as other municipal councillors are elected. He thought a body of nine men so elect- ed would be more efficient and would be inore likely to do the business that is BOW d ne by the forty-nine in less time and e A mice last s Secret Legit] Farm chang Mr. Lamb on th ;of Pa 'Leati eipla the fa intere legisi and whicl este. sprea fore f powe °roue and the n Th Esch cussi was '1 ettin o cloc ually as well. esolution was adopted in accord- ith the principle outlined in the ggestion, and the President and ry authorised to memorialise the ture, in conjunction with other rs' Institutes, in favor of such James McLean, of Camlachie, on County, delivered an address " Aims and Objecte of the Order rotas of Husbandry." Mr. Mc - s an organizer for this order. He ned its objects as being to unite mere and workers in their own ts to combat the combines, Bemire tion favorable to their interests ucate the people along , the lines they deem to be in their inter - He also referred to the rapid of the order and predicts that be- ur years it will be an irreetible in the Dominion. He is risteiget speaker, is thoroughly in earliest tide rod Very good impression on eeting. s concluded the day's proceedings. ddress elicited considerable dis- n by the audience, and the time ery fully oc cupied. A very inter - meeting was closed about six T • E EVENING ENTERTAINMENT. A r lusicel and literary entertainment was eld in the • evening. The hall in whic the day'a proceedings were held was eemed too small for the evening, and e nsequently the large hall in con- necti n with the cheese factory was med. Thle was comfortably seated, well warmed and lighted, and was kindi proffered to the committee by the roprietor, Mr. Hugh McCartney. It pr ved a splendid place for the oc- casio . Notwithstanding the stormy night; this hall was packed full by a high l intelligent audience of ladies and gentl men. The chair was efficiently occup ed by the Preeident, Mr. R. B. McLe n, Reeve of Tuckersmith. Ap- propi te and interesting addresses were delive ed by Profeseor Dean, Rev. Mr. Simpson of Brucefield '• Mr. John Mc - Milli id. P.; Mr. M. Y. McLean and other. Several 6f those on the pro- gram e for musical selections were un- able t be present, but Mr. J. B. Jamie- son, of Brucefielci, and his talented daughter fully made up fur any lack in the usical -programme by additional select one. The music furnished by Mr. and Miss Jamieson was of the highe t order, and was evidently much appre iated by the audience., Mr. Baird of Stanley, also sang a couple of excel' nt songs which brought down the • ouse, Miss Fotheringham pre- sided at the organ. A very pleas- ant vening was closed by a vote of th nks to the speakers, and mu- sician., moved in a neat speech by Mr. ohn Hannah, the Secretary, and seconded by' Mr. Jac Patterson, after whic the entire audience united in singi g God Save the Queen, and then dispe sed about eleven o'clock. Canada. Th; estate of the late E. 0. Bick- ford, f Toronto, who died recently, is worti 10,500,000. — I orty-eight new doctors have receiv- ed th ir degrees from McGill Medical oolle e in Montreal. - party of boys are on their way from Glasgow in charge of Mr. Burgea, to be placed among farmers of Canada. ames Cummings, who for 35 years 'flied the position of lighthouse ✓ at Pelee Island, is dead. • 'he monument to ,the late Hon. Norquay will be unveiled at St. s cemetery, Winnipeg, about May has keep John John 24th. ; tion, on th plete th recei New in th gins Wall beech stick, secon menu Cristo Thur in the sor, i he Thousand Island Park Associa- cingston, have already begun work new hotel, which will be COSI- 04 the latest on July 15. ave Bennett, the Hamilton walker, ed $1,600 as second prize in the "ork contest. He will be a starter go-astyou-please race which be- t Boston on April 13. Sarnia wood -sawyer named Isaac ce recently cut a cord of hard and maple, two cuts through each in 1 hour, 48 minutes and 30 s. — deputation of the Canadian corset acturere waited on the Ministers of is and Finance at Ottawa on day last and asked for an increase duty on imported corsets. cry Rev. Dean Wagner, of Wind - the possessor of some very old Ty valuable pictures, which hehas conse ted to exhibit in Montreal, at the reque I; of Archbishop Fabre. —A, ayor Birkett, of Ottawa, who was recen ly unseated, disqualified by the court on the ground of having a contract with he corporation, has been re-eleeted by ac lamation. — n •Thursday evening last as Mr. N. K ine, a farmer near Stevensville, in comp ny with a friend, was returning home from shooting pike fish in Beaver creek they stopped on the way at an old dwell ng. Kline wished to show his frien the farm implements hpt had in the o d dwelling, r. Klin set the rifle p in a window nd in doing sodid not move it very secure. The rifle alipp d and fell over, the muzzle falling again t Mr. Kline's right breast and the hammer of the rifle struck the sill of the abundance of representatives. 1 Taking the County of Huron, for inst4ice, we heave 6 parliamentary sreprese tatives, 49 county representatives, about 109 township and town councillofrs, and about 1,200 school trustees, m king an army of about 1,364 representatives for title county, entailing an annual coat on the people of over six thousand dollars. He thought our parliamentary epreeen tation could be reduced to four, and our County Council be reduced out of exist- ence altogether and no public interest would suffer and a very materiel annul saving be made to the people While county councils have done valuable ser- vice in the past, they have largely out- lived their usefulness. About he only business now left for them besi ea what they make for themselves, is looking 1 window, ball enter below his calibre. clothing the appea tact with —Wolv Winnipeg tiers are afraid. An Indian hunter liv-' ieg near Devil's lake, Saskatchewan, was killed by a bear a short time ago. —At Walkerton on Tuesday. of last ald McLeod was sentenced by condridge to fourteen years in ton penitentiary for setting ouple of barns in Ijincardine some time ago. Refortn Associati,�n of the North R ding of Middlesex met at Ailsa Monday, a large number of being present, and decided to e election of W. H. Hutchins t general elections. Robert Watson of Portage la vas on Monday last, after long a good deal of hunker -sliding on the p rt of the returning officer and his deputes, declared elected for Mar- quette by a majority of 12 and will ntly take his seat in the Do- arliament. asphalt pavement at the corner n and Sherbourne streets, To - aught fire Tuesday by some us means. The burnt portion vement did not exceed half an readth,but ran atlength of:fifteen is is the first time such an in - known to have occurred. rioue accident happened at the inthe Court Hodge on Thursday he outside walls suddenly giv- and shaking the building from dation. A prisoner named as struck by a falling stone, cture dates back about 35 years, °Detraction was very defective. age is heavy. liam Haycock, a member of the oneers, has died at the advanced 2 years. Mr. Haycock came to from London, England, and set- t at Kingston a year or two be - rebellion. For the past 45 years een a resident of Toronto. He ember of the Methodist church cal preacher of some note. Canadian Pacific Railway has new live stock tariff from west - into to Eastern Canada. The ows a reduction of about 20 per mpared with the tariff it super - It has been adopted with the f encouraging the stock-raisizeg in Manitoba and the Ter - licit caused it to go -off, the ng his breast and coming out shoulder. The rifle was a 44 he ball was checked by the nd dropped. The ball had ance of having come in con- ome bones. a in the vicinity of Lake are very ravenous and set - week, Do Jedge Fa the King fire to a township —The Craig on delegate protest t at the la —Mr. -Prairie, delay an consequ minion —The of Carlt rcnto, mysteri of the p inch in feet. T cident i —As St. Hya last by ing way its fou Morin The etr but its The da —Wi York P age of Canada tied fir fere th h:e has was and al —Th issued ern po tiriffss cent. c sedes. NIiew industr ritories —Mr. T. 0. Steele, public school in- spector for North Norfolk, died eudden• ly at hi residence in Simcoe, on Tuesday night f last week. Heart failure is suppos d to have been the cause of death. Deceased was abont 57 years of age, a • rominent member of the Metho- dist ch rch and highly respected by all, He lea es a wife and grown-up son. —Al xander DIcKenzie, of West Zorra, died S nday night, 22nd ult., after an attack f illness which had lasted some time. He had gone to Florida for his health, but not finding any benefit had return;d ,home to die. His mother, stricke by the all too common trouble nowad ys of heart failure, fell dead about n hour after her son's demise. —St phen Nicholson, living near Syl- van, Nv s seriously injured by a bull While riving a herd of cattle to Park- hill M nday last week. He was leading the an mal, which became fractious and; knock d him down. One of his arms was di located and his body consider- ably b uised, and but for the timely ar- rival o his brother he would certainly have ben killed, —A bert Piper, who is 'employed by Mr. A derson, dEast Zorra, met with a pain ul and serious accident Tuesday zriorni g of last week. While drawing some ateeial to the bush preparing for Sugar making he wasknocked from the wago , the wheels of which passed over his b dy, with the result of breaking two ibs and seriously injuring the liver. — ohn Gibb, a bachelor living four miles north of McGregor, Manitoba, in rattle a small house, was burned to deat last Sunday night. The fire is sup sed to have otiginated from a defec ive stove pipe, and Gibb seems to have been suffocated and burned up without knowing anything. Hie house was 'a long distance from any neigh- bor. 1 —Lillovett Lee, daughter of- D. M. Lee'inear Paris, last week was returning frorel echool, when she was attacked by a cow that was being driven from a sale. The now caught the child with a sharp hor4 and inflicted a wound in the leg furI inches deep. She was caught a Iwo; d time on the brute's born and Visaed in the air before the men in charge cou d rescue the child. The Gritty little township of Town- senc in the south riding of Norfolk gave Mr." John Charlton, the Liberal candi- date, a majority of 485 out of a whole vote of lese than 600. There is but one other township in Ontario that can bout of such a net of Grits. , That is Oakland in South Oxford, where out of 110 voters 99 persistently deposit Ree farinNpbeawllsotsa.pe rdom in Ontario west is excited over the purchase of the Patio Star -Transcript by a real live heir ap- parent to an English lordship. He is the Hon, R. N. C. Hill, son of an Eng- lihh lord and reputed to have an income ef 1$39,000 a year. The Woodstock Standard nye if Mr. Hill turns out a gotqd newspaper the unfortunate inci dent of having been born a lord will be moN it a+ .04nr,loo Adamn° keTd. ueaa ny g ha ging himself in the county jail at of last week an insane committed suicide by Simcoe, where he had been confined for the past five weeks. He seemed quite cheerful at breakfast on Tuesday morn- ing, but when the attendant went to tale him his dinner he found him hang- ing to the cell door quite dead. He had 1 taken a eheet from the bed and torn it into strips; he then climbed upon a stool and fastened one, enl of the strip to the top of the door andi the other cnd around his neck, kicked away the stool and slowly strangled to d ath. He was aged about 60 and leaves a wife and two grown-up sons. —Mr. Wm. Morrison, of Owen Sound, well-known throughout Canada as a s rock driller and miner, has been engaged I by the British Columbia Government to take charge of the system of artesian wells being sunk in the arid parte of that province. The Government_ work em- braces a system which will irrigate and make valuable for fruit -growing large tracts of land now idle /tad worthless. —The reported purchelse by the Allan Steamship Company of the vessels of the State Steamship Company, of Glas- gow, is confirmed by the members of the firm at Montreal. The vessels purchased are the Alabama, 2,313 tons ; Indiana 2,584 tons; Georgia, 2,489 tons; Ne- vada, 2,488 tons. It is understood that several of these vessels will be put on the St. Lawrence route during the com- ing season. —The most disasterous fire that has ever visited Beamsville occurred at one o'clock last Friday morning,. The ex- tensive sawmill, planing mill, foundry and agricultural implement works be- longing to C. Russ, on & Co., were completely consumed and several other surrounding buildings were damaged. Much lumber and stock was also burn- ed. The -loss will be in the neighbour- hood of $20,000 or $30,000, with so far as can be learned about $3,000 insurance in the Waterloo Muturq. —Hon. Joseph Martin, who resigned his seat in the Manitoba Legislature to contest the constituenqy of Selkirk at the recent Dominion elections, was re- elected to the Legislature for his former constituency by a majority of 60 over his opponent, Mayor i Garland. The majority is considered' by his friends as satisfactory in view of the facts that there are only four hundred votes in the constituency, and that his opponent is an. exceptionally popular man. —A shocking -story has reached New Westminster, British Columbia, from Popum. An Indian named Pierre, em- ployed as sawyer at Knight Bros'. mill, while woiking at his post fell against the circular saw. In an instant he was cut up in a horrible manner. Another Indian, named Jim, a strong, healthy fellow, saw the accident and its results, and fell down deathly sick at the sight, and remained almostnconscious until early the next morning, when he died. —A Newfoundlandl dog owned by a farmer named H. Bo i man, living near the town of Ailsa Ora g, went mad one day last week, and bit two of Mr. Bow- man's own children. ne was bitten in the arm and the other in the back of the head. The doctors hink that as the dog's teeth went thro gh cloth before reaching the flesh no poison may have entered the wounds. The parente are anxiously Awaiting developments. The dog also bit some three or four other dogs. —Sara Bernhardt, the celebrated French actress'appears in Montreal next week. The sale of tickets opened on Wednesday, ind during the firstotwo hours there were sold tickets to the value of $5,000. Nine -tenths of the purchasers were French Canadians. Bernhardt's fiat and only previous visit to Montreal Was in 1880, when in four performances, including a matinee, she brought in a little over $11,000. This year the seats are placed at $3, $2.50 and $2; boxes $40. Madame Bern- hardt comes to Montreal, from Philadel- phia, and Montreal is the only place in which she will appear in Canada. —Mr. A. A. Baker, clerk of the Divi- sion Court at Guelph, died last Tuesday night. He was the second oldest Divi- sion'Court clerk in Ontario, having held the office continuously for nearly half a century. Up to a few weeks ago he enjoyed robust health, and preserved his full faculties to the:last. A few minutes before his death be shook hands with and bade good-bye to those surrounding his bedside, and evlin had the thought- fulneas to call tli her also a last fare ed the ripe age of 4 the esteem of the e servant girl to bid ell. He had reach - 9 years, and enjoyed hole community. .—A ;shocking iccident took place Thursday afternoon last week at five o'clock in the phosphate mine of Loomer, in the ninth range of Templeton County of Ottawa. Fifteen men were blasting at the time. After the explosion of two blasts, three men having gone down into one of the holes to remove the roek, a slide occurred, and the three men were buried under about five tons of rock. Two were killed, Camilo Tom - beau, a resident of Emit Templeton, and Alfred Bradley, foreman, from' Prescott. The third one, Joseph Prudhomme, resident of Eaat Templeton, received only slight injuries. —A memorial signed by every Roman Catholic clergyman in the Dominien has been presented to the Governor- General -in -Council, praying that. the right of veto be exercised in the case of the Act of the Manitoba Legislature abolishing Separate schools. The Act, the memorial says, is pernicious and subversive of the rights of the Catholic population of the Dominion. The time within which the Act can be disallowed by the Federal Executive expirea on the 10th of April. The presentation of this document, so influentially signed, will not tend to aimplify the Government's course in this delicate matter. —The biggest of the three flowing or artesian wells,bored under the authority of the Newmarket town council, has now cleared itself, and was last Thurs- day morning turned into the reservoir. This well of four inch pipe discharges 200,000 gallons per 24 hours. From the three wells bored by the corporation a total of 250,000 gallons is supplied every day. The water is, of course, perfectly pure and wholesome. For fire purposes the town's system is most complete, and a large number of citizen"' use this water in their houses. The Grand Trunk Railway Company have two tanks at their stationt there to supply their engines. Besides this, there ere several flowing wells owned by private citizens, which are racist excellent and highly prized. There seems to be an 'Immense river or bed of water under -the soil on the west side of the east branch of the Holland river, and water can ibe had by boring at various depths in any conceive- ab—le quantity. Adreadful affair happened last Thursday evening to a well-known farmer, Slyvanus C. Brown, on the Kingston road, near Whitby. The only son at home, a lad of 18 or 20, returning from a business errand in Whitby, found the dead and horribly mutilated body of his father in the stock yard, and a Jersey bull, a valuable imported animal of a vicious temper loose about the straw stack. The aesistance of neighbors was called when the bull was shot with a rifle, and investigation showed that Mr. Brown, in leading it to a trough at the well, must have been attacked by the brute, and though a strong, able-bodied man, had been over- powered and apparently very quickly killed. His watch had stopped at five minutes past eix. Nearly one hour must have elapsed before the 80n38 discovery of the dreadful death his father tad suffered alone, yet 80 near help in the house. —A Winnipeg dispatch says: Mr. Hendrickson, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Land Department, who has been working among the settlers of the north-western portion of South Dakota, has returned. He says storekeepers, implement agents, private bankers, and representatives of loan companies are becoming desperate, and are doing everything postible to keep tile farmers in the district. Emigration agents working in the country are threatened on every hand and crowds gather around them in town and jostle and jeer at them. The attitude of the people has become so hostile that the agents have to protect themselves with firearms. A farmer who arrived from South Dakota the other day says the destitution in that State is beyond conception, and that within the next month hundreds of families will leave and seek new homes in this Province. The storekeepers, loan companies, and other interested parties just now realize the great exodus that will ensue, and are trying to stay the flood. In their fury the other day the residents of Eureka surrounded Mr. Riddle, an agent of the Manitoba & Northwestern Railway, and threatened to shoot him unless he immediately left. He sought the protection of the sheriff, and was escorted to the next town, but he remains in the district distributing literature and imparting information among the farmers. Perth Items. Mr. D. Aden has sold his fifty acre farm, near Monkton, to Mr. Joseph Adair. The price paid was $700, —The First Presbyterian Church, St. Marys, has extended an unanimous call to Rev. T. A. Cosgrove, of Port trope. —Mr. John Fanell, of Milverton, has sold his farm containing 100 acres, to Mr. George Witt. The price paid was $3,560. —The butchers of Stratford have formed themselves into a protective as- aociation to guard themselves against delinquents. —While making a coupling in the Grand Trunk Railway yard, -Stratford, Monday evening, last week, David Cul- liton, who was acting as yardsman, was caught between a car and the platform at the freight shed and badly crushed. His injuries are considered very serious. —On Tuesday of last week, while Mr. Robert Henderson, of St. Marys, was returning home from an auction sale he was thrown from his buggy and sustained a fracture of the collar bone and one of his ribs. He is recovering as well as could be expected. Me. Jo Skelly was in the buggy with him, but escaped with a general shaking up, —The two large stables of the Hicks' House, Mitchell,—room for 200 horses —were completely destroyed by fire, which started about 7 o'clock last Fri- day evening. One horse, with other articles, was burnt. The cause of the fire and the amount of insurance are not known. The promptness of the fire brigade and the good water system prevented the spreading of the flames. —Garfield Blanahard, a young lad be- tween 7 and 8 years of age, who lives with his parents in Stratford, had his left leg badly cut on Monday afternoon of last week. It required some forty stitches to dress the wound. Young Blanshard had caught on to a wagon, but in some way lost his hold and fell under tbe wheel. Before the driver could stop the wagon paused over the unfortunate lad's leg, making a nasty gash just above the _knee. The little sufferer is doing nicely. There is in this accident a warning to small boys which they should heed. —A handsome recognition of the long, active and effective political service of one of the most prominent veteran Lib- erals of North Perth, Mr. Henry Doer- ing, J. P., of Mornington, was made one evening last week. About 100 peo- ple assembled at his residence, and Dr. James Johnson, of Milbank, another champion of Liberal principles, having been called to the chair, an addreas was read and Mr. Doering presented with an exceedingly handawne and cost- ly gold -headed cane, Be responded in an appropriate speech. Mr. James Grieve, the talented and promieing member -elect for North Perth—the first Liberal representative elected since Con- federation—was present and made a splendid speech, which was received with hearty applause. A number of other addresses were given, and the company then sat down to a sumptuous repast. The remainder of the evening was spent in pleasant social intercourse and amusement.