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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-09-18, Page 1!NG Trade ason is C beauti, ngs for iisiS a L ev-ery SO as Tit pos_ liOnable Ihlished Ivertise ,e-cv jfl Old ;sh have oprietor Where ook in_ aughout lr store, L -son the ed. The [s have ,ety that some - 411 Te is a srnaker making tic) pres- on the, where - hall be ) glad to whether iutside. Le; free, ,derate. silently a shelled t would :iifferenee- he usual is cer-, reed and in the vould be hey had remit of King has ing ham, es.—Mrs. ting rela- ---Mesars. , Marklee idon, and Pillar of Miss ilay Maggio de, Miss spending ev. Robt. London, ing a few home last la pleased art. —Mr. teals very t week.— Wilds are Minton. — ,nd Miss - been the —Messrs. , Andrew eied home and Mrs. rd, are at leacom, of town Sun- ning quite- 'Ishi News - rid corres- ton. It is t Thomas. with some - Camp."— ' barber's' lervices Sunday rowded to .---Instead .1 members - peso hold- septem- I. will be ; and pro- mus:c and aday, Sep .f Stanley noth picuiC 1 o'clock a - o Beyfield for lunch,. by Revs.. Ienderson, others.. (sin in and. r welcome. last Friday to the old reilie spent friends itt it the par- a large- cengrega- bountiful 'ening was' rs. George in Kansas. as far ag o who goes Scrimgeonr eatreal this n with hen laer. Ref - of Niles, me from an is a iaented bbn last week - both doing las gone" physician been giving, ate! y. No boneoL ;olden t ith Sr- • • Oit , • e•0 • t _ • . . „ • TWIANTY-THIRD YEAR. WILOIJE NUMBER 1,240. SE,AFORTH, FRID.Pf.Y, SEPTEMBER 18, 1891. ••• tMcLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. • J. GILROY C 1.1 I 1\T 'I' CD 1\1-_ To the People We are now ready to do bus ileas with you, and we are happ to say that our pcsition is sue that we are able to give you such satisfaction as you could only hope to receive in the large Centres of Trade Fashion. We have packed our place with the Best and New- est Stuff to be found in the princi- pal Wholesale Centres of the Dor minion. Already we have gained the reputation of keeping not a trashy, cheap, low-grade stock, but a Name for High -Class, Stylish, Good Goods, which, as all buyerS knew, are the Cheap Goods. NV* have this season bought the very best and Most Stylish Goods we could lay our hands on, and we are happy to say the people apprecis our efforts. OUR DRESS AN MANTLE MAKING DEPART- MENT has developed into a moat unqualified success. When we gun we we bad no Iea we would be so packed up by the ladies of the town and country, to say nothing of those who come from a distance. Our MRS. KENNY is certaifilly giving the Ladies of Clinton the Style, Finish and Comfort in their Garments that tney have long look- ed for in vain heretofore, as she has not had an alteration of the most trifling nature, and we trust it may continue so. OUR DRESS , GOODS for the Fall are simpli lovely in themselves, and Ladi s ,looking for Costumes in any of the leading fabrics of the season, mak be suited at once. The -same may be said of the Mantle and Cloaking Goods. 00Die and see us. • es • 4. 0. GILROY, CLINTON,. —The Women's Christian Temperance wet, but ac hid put it Union coffee rooms on Christina streetwouldn't pull. , Sarnia, were destroyed by fire tho othet When I got back a - night with the contents. The building ered, fairhaired fellow was insured in the Commercial Union foe $800, and the contents were insured foe; $250 in another company. —Robert Schroeder, hotelleeperi Stratford, died some time ago, leaving sij considerable estate for which there were many claimants in the way of next of" kin in Germany. They are all cut out by an order made by the master for the payment of the creditors out of the estate. When the debts are paid there will be nothing left for the heirs. —The other day while Mr. Magee, of London was discussing with an insurance agent the taking out of a $5,000 insur- ance policy, his factory caught fire. He . was unconscious of the blase until a friend came up and told hirn. The firm suffered greatly, as they were very busy, and had just received an order for 50,000 wneelbarrows from the Maritime Provinces. Mr. Magee cannot account for the cause of the fire. lie had not a cent of insurance on the stock, having been deterred by the heavy premium required. In a few weeks he would bavehad men working night and day who could watch the place all the time. —The Galt Reformer records the death on Saturday, August 29th, of Mr. Alexander Roy, for many years known to almost every resident of Galt by the familiar name of "Sandy hey," in hte 66th year. Deceased was honks slave° in Virginia, in 1824i. He fully appreci- ated his privileges as a free man, and frequently alluded with pride to the first time he exercised his franchise at the polls. It was on the occasion of the Parliamentary election of 1867, when the Hon. James Young entered public life. " Sandy " was at the polling plea, at 6 o'clock in the morning, and pati- ently waited till the polls were opened, when he cast his first vote. On miming out of the polling booth he threw up his hat with a cheer, exclaiming "Now I ani a free man !" --Mrs. Wilson, a widow lady, who resides in Detroit, has had an unplees- het experience of her visit to the Indus- trial Fair. She arrived in Toronto, last week, in the company of a man said to he named McMurray, to whom she was to be married. They registered at the Walker House, and her affianced loirer started out to purchase a license, it be- ing the intention to tie the knot that evening. When he returned he foond the lady indisposed, so they decided, to postpone the event till the next morn- ing. During the evening the lady told McMurray that certain property on the other side in which she had a widow's interest reverted to her children when she was no longer Mrs. Wilson. This little piece of news evidently changed that gentleman's intention, as he is alleged to have left Toronto next morn- ing without the knowledge of his promised bride. To make matters worse Mrs. Wilson had auiwittingly en- trusted her purse and valuable. to Mr. Mclilurray'a care, which he forgoti to return on his hasty departure. This, ieft the lady penniless, and she had to por- n'? money to return home. SIGHTS AND SCENES IN AND 4BOUT NEW YORK. [WRITTEN FOR Tug ErPOIRTOR. 4TTER NO, VI. AC'S DESK. Mac occupieel the first desk in the of.. fice of the Young Men's Institute, and consequently, is the one I everybody strikes for who'comes into the bundling. The Young Men's Institute is situated on the Bowery, and is worked in cont neotion with the Young Mends Christian Association. X happen to I work near birn, and so heir most of his conversa- tions with the various persons who came in. Thetis people I am going to tell you about didn't all come in any one day. I have simply picked •them out as samples, and, for elonvenience sake, we will suppose theylall came in one after the other, and, after looking around to get their bearings, marched to the desk. The first was a swarthy, stunted, shrewd looking little Jew, who says: " Say ! how much is it to join this here Institute ?" "Are you seventeen years old ?" Yes, me rnother'll, tell .you, she lives down here on Maxim! litreet." Mac names the fee. "'Kea eybd join for less than a year ?". t' NOY "Well, ye don't have to pay it Alfa% once, do ye ?" "Yee." " Doeletgiatldt ye into the Gymnasium too ?" '1•o, that costs three dollars more." "Couldn't I pay fifty cents a week ?" "No." And so it goes on till Mac gets imPatient and tells him it costs the Institute just three times the admission fele to supply the privileges to each member. Finally the boy puts down the money; which he has had all the time; and has worked the Institute for all its worth ever since. The next is big, able-bodied fellow with a rose colored nose and . a strong odor of bad whisky. He slays : "Say, ,iboss, me mother's sick over in Brooklyn ,and I want to get over on the ferry. I got two cent* now," displaying two ;pennies' in his dirty palm, "an' all I want's 4 one more. That's all I want boss." , Mac shies him ;up, aqd says he has no Coppers for him.' Then the fellow gets abusive, and says : I‘' Is that what you call Christianity, won't give a poor man a cent to get hornet to see his sick mother 1?" Mac jumps down from his stool and says :i "You ' slid. ' After him comes a ta says he has no money,a to send a letter 'to his f Hampshire. Mac tsk a stamp, sticks it on ti fellow there is a letter corner. I had seen sta often that I slipped on my coat and hat and followed the man. When I passed him he was leaning age' st a lamp post, tryint, torn the stam off while it was t on to stay and ig, broad -should - with a hand like a ham, was talking to Mac. I afterwards became acquainted with this man, and heard his story, which is, to say the least of it, a at -range' one. He was a member of a weelthy Catholic family up town, and was intending to go into busi- ness with his father wlien he grew up. However, he got into bad ways, and became a sort of klepthinaniac. Filially he got SO bad that he had to run away from home and took tip the trade of a professional thief. It got to be a pas- sion with him. He could no more re- sist the temptation to steal than he could fly. He had been in gaol several times, once in the States Prison,and had got down to the towel" oight he dropped i Mission Hall and wa got a job at heavin slide out." He 1, thin man, who d wants a stamp lends up in New the letter, gets ht and tells the box on the next ps asked for so from hill eyes,strong man though he was and he wrung Mac's -hand as he eaid : I` If I cnnld only find my I mother, and ihe wonld take me back. My father nd I left her fifteen years ago, and 1 ii.ire travelled all over America as pro - elisions.' gamblers, and no* he has died nd left me alone. ThelI got on a drunk, and I've been drnn nearly ever t Since till yesterday. 0I! you don't t notch, when one nte the Florence a converted. He Iron some two years ego, and has stuck to it ever since. He is now as honest and earnest a d find. His family , but he thinks he hard for his living. Christian as you coal would take him back is safer while working While he was talking to Mac an old Rounder walked in with that minoing gait peculiar to tramps, and asked for a night's lodging. As he was reeking with liquor he didn't get it. This didn't appear to effect his good nature, however, and he amused us for a while with a lot of yarns about his former life. He may have been educatedbut if so the life he had loci had weakened his mental faculties, for if you held him to one theme he Seemed to get bewildered and could not keep the thread of his subjeot, bat let him ramble on as he liked, from one subject to another, and it was almost is amnsing as one of Bill Nye's lectures'. He hid some peoulisr and tome very sh had seen It. While the young fellow Mao got rid o know What it is to lcve God," end the tears brok "1 don't want money. pay my Way, but I hate th was just going te work th sn front of your buildingwhen I saw hat it was, and somethin told me to of my fath• and I came hisky. Oh, out afresh. can always business. I shell racket o in, and then the memor ✓ and mother came back in. Goed bye. I'll try to remember what emit told me." Perha s you would like to hear about re of Mac's visiters, but my about filled, and I must con- ith this one :—llIe was big ragged and dirty and drunk. is face, was round and red. He had a hristly red moustache, andhitubby brick colored hair. His age it would be im- possible to tell. As be walked rather Unsteadily up to the des out: "I don't want nothin' OCalin, only a kind wor tlsord foif the poor old man know bc4w good it is for a poor old bum like me to hear a kind word. Ihn only d bum," and testy. Mao nese to give him to the oked at the k ome m paclie is lude and fat, wd views of life, is he he blurted young gen: , jist a kind You don't a poor old bum, a poor o fie began to weep bopi honght it would be a kin im a Wash, and directe ash room, but he only 1 water end theo came ba mutterin that he was "only a poor old bum. I ain't done nobody no hand. I'm just a Poor old bum." Suddenlyl he -brighten- . ed up and said; "Sy ! oung feller, have ye got a meetin' bre to -night? I'm only a poor .old bum, ' and he wept en I testify? I'd like t testify, but again. IMac directed hi4t to a place Where they had -a meeting, and he went cut muttering his melancholy refrain. 1 , THE rANDERER. - isTOTII1S FROMTHi QUEEN CITY. old man was talking a ad come in, and as soon as the Rounder he came up to the desk. He was tall 'and straight, clear eyed an like a city yot nerly, straigh come from th open faced, not at all th. He said, in a man- -forward way,that ho had West, because his brother lived here, 1at as he only knew his business address and the train was late, it was after there and the strapped, and consulted wit six o'clock when he get place was closed. He was so had come to us. Mac h the Secretary, and the result was that the stranger was taken ever and give ing house on The next stoutly -built age of 28 o brown mould grip sack, and, in fact, looked like a fakir allover. He seemed to be very much agitated and asked for a pledge. When he had signed it he asked Mac to go sad pray With him, and they went in- to the Private Offioe. I coald hear him orying out in an agonized voice, almost choked with tears: "Oh, God ! Oh, God ! Save me from it. Oh, save me." I will never, while I live, forget the agony and despair of that cry. When they came out the tears were streaming a room in the beet lodg- the street. applicant was a short, man, apparently about the 30 years, with a heavy che. He carried a Attie .. , On Tiiesday occurred ti panadals great fair. rowd Was there and listei General Herbert's warlike, praised !the good eviden round about him. After a f Mr. J. I. Withrow, the p the Fair Association was year. wince, the General atton aid the Machinety id the I rest. Grand we everything look roseate for at record smashing, which Hill's doling object. If ere already in town, althon ,rill evexituate the deluge. People interested ill tit Northwest mrill this' year find the beet exhibit yet cm. thence. Regina is Magnificent' ✓ presented. The visitor u derstand perfectly after f ir ground why the Indu most suecessful fall exhi America.The nationalit cursionista expected over the railwayi this week is being forecasted by many e terprising merchants ; tlieir window" bear -Ing cionspicuoue signs: money taken at par." ; ANCIENT LAW. L The nn th ewas, hit on e h policeman rrested two pa last Sunda'. They refuse, end to tbelir noisy harangues and the police, ha ing ejected thenonce, proP- erly objected to their immhdiate return and gathered them in. An ingeniona young mai named John G. I Holmes, who is legally Versed, then spolled the whole thing by naintainlng an arrest made upon Sun ay exoept for treason, felony, or pesce beeaking was illeg derous tellies current in II's time Were ransacked fact and it so worked up trate's fee ings that he co TORONTO, septem er 14th, 1891. e opening of tremendous ed to Major - tones as he en of peace w wordsfrom evident since etaited, 'ten touched the hall whistles ther makes the attempt is Manager ny strangers h title week town will day in the trial is the ition in all of the ex'. The Perry went Wednesday. DEATH OF "American ; ad when the k preachers to have an east to Oswego on A PIONEER. W. A. Murray, head of the biggest retail dry goods 'establishment in the country, died at Scarboro on Monday. He was 78 years old, and wee twice I married. His lastl matrimonial venture was taken a year ago and was with Mrs. Cawthrs, the weal by resident Of Jarvis Street, A figur, , pieturesqlie and agreeable, has gone from Toronth streets. Mr. Murray's fon riding had for hal noticeable to all. the Hunt Club an Club. He became firm which bears and in connectio purchases since th al. The poti- King Charles to elicit this n the niagis- sented to an adjourllment of the case. The City Solicit& Will be asked If not a right to enforce ress in the ;fans of a back n unrepealed statute. The a cooper, he other a oar were libe ated on bail. Chiltern earth tit scheme f corps in over the to enter thsrranks and iv upon by the promoters. dayCaidiafl this smacks the ridiculous. What has versatile ILi Paddito do with tartans and the other Caledoni n trappings? I shmen have a record of heir own and need not take the back sea in his ifli. landere be raised onians Is I 1 Sunda ninth ;a Army'S works as prooeedi commiss oner, Rees, assisted by the Canadia staff of 500 field officers will direct the line of action. On Monday is called a all day meeting in the Horti- cultural avilion. , A ANKER REVENUE CUTTER. Anoh red off the R yal Canadian Yacht Club's city -side h me the United States rrry has been a thing of or pleas who req over th 30 must Captain a000m Moors hy this have th the city has nable bylaws mber, though preachers, one titer by trade, dnees for horseback a century made him He was a member of the Ontarie Jockey the head , of the big is name 32 years ago, with his European t time had occasion to cross the ocean 125 times. The fun- eral to SOMichaePe Cemetery took place on Wednesday and was very large. High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Dean McCann, assisted hy Archbishop Walsh. THE sTREE1 RAILWAY.' Satisfaction, deep and widespread, shows itself in the itizens' face's at the ny has takeh hold of hey should be. They area during; certain hours and transfer* from any line to any other. Beat of all for theinnthe smoker can puff away on the front platform till he grows red in the face. All these are innovations, and, except the laet, mean money 1* the tired man's pocket. Anoth- er boon is the institution of night cars, running every hour until 5.30, When the day service commences, H I it is any- thing to Presiden Kiely,te can say he is successful in the .public. May a start -off, during • NOT POPUL*TION ineovott. No, we are not going to be sat upon by unreliable comm. gentlemen from Ottawa. This piece, if not good enough to hold her old name of " City of Churches," does riot fancy posidg before the whole footstool as "Toronto, county town of York, Ontario." And t� achieve this end arrangements are forwerding so that after the Fait is over a new enum- eration will be made to see *here we stand as regards bons fide population. In the Government work whole streets are known to have been missed by they of the interrogation point. The city directory firm will likely have Oharge of the new count. THE ENTERpRisiNik ENGLISHMAN, Englishmen resident here are riot given over to strutting and boastfulness, but in their organizations certainly contrive to do much good work. St.! George's ; Society has just 1 laid the fOundation stone of their ne; home in Elm Street. It will cost $18„oand shows the spirit which marks John Bull even When far from the land he I springs frOm. The Hon. John Beverly Robinson,I ex -Lieu- tenant Governor, is the oldest living past president of Sit. George's. HE KILTED LADDIES. n are moving heaven and ring to a succe ful issue the r a kilted Highl Od volunteer oronto. Trou le has arisen act that some I ithmen longed re politely sat To an every - abundantly of way the new comp the reins. And so have three-oent thoroughly ipleasing hey make millions as Exhibition thaw ! Let some eon ht and do even ave done. No of Erin arise as the High - objection can against a regiment of Cork - d Far -downs. ' THE sALVATIO!sISTs. started the cel niversary of aid hpon the existing in th gs will last a we bration of the he Salvation lovil and his s town. The ek. The new venue cutter P interest to those doing business re on the waters. Everyone ested the serVice was shown handy craft so that her crew of have had quite; a busy time. Fenger, who is lin command, is ied by wife and daughter. and men have been treated well ht club authorities and will good word for them in future. The HurOn Assizes. The Fall Assizesifor the County of Huron were held at Goderich lest week, before Mr. Justice Falconbridge. After the usual preliminary proceedings the following cases were tried : Dale vs. St. Johni—This wati an action for slander. The Parties are 'neighbors in the township of Hullett. The plain- tiff's counsel applied for a postponement of the case on acconnt of the s Whence of a material witness." The trial of the case was postponed until the next assizes. `Before that time it Would be advantageous to both partieS if they would settle the difficulty aneicably be- tween themselves. amount with full costs and leave to issue execution therefor. Willis vs. Drake.—An action for slander,—The plaintiff, John Willis, is a farmer residing near Port Albert, in the township of Ashfield, and a barn be- longing to him was burned a year ago last month, with several tons of hay and a reaper that it contained. The property was insured, and the plaintiff subsequent- ly received from the insurance conipany a portion of the amount stated by him in his claim paper. This, he stated, was net enough to cover his loss, but accord- ing to the evidence for the defence quite compensated him. After the fire the defendant, Wm. H, Drake, who at the time lived on a farm across the road from the plaintiff, told shortly after the destruction of the barn to persons con- nected with the insurance company, among others, that he had seen the plain- tiff and his wife setting the barn on fire one night that he was out late in his field. As soon as he had the match ap- plied and a flame started he went home and got in bed without waiting to see the progress of the fire. It appeared that before the fire; the defendant had been before a magiiitrate on a charge of stealing a cow, of which he was acquit- ted; that the plaintiff, John Willis, had been called as a witness against him ; that in consequence the defendant had since had an unfriendly feeling toward+ Willis. It was 510 admitted by the de- fendant that he is new under indictment, charged with burning down his own barn. Verdict for plaintiff and $50 damages. The Queen vs. Clegg.—This was a charge against Mr. ; Joseph Clegg, the well-known cattle dlealer of Morris, for assault, The defendant pleaded guilty, and a fine of $20 and costs was imposed, the whole amounting to over $100. Rogers vu. Banes et al.—Aution for is Lordship ordered tere.d on terms of ied hambers.—Shooting with intent. Case postponed until neat court of assize. New Ycirk Letter. (Regular Co respondence.) Nmw You,September 14th, 1891. Ths prospective oonteat over the will of Mrs. Hopkins -Searles, who left all her property, worth about $75,000,000, to her second husband, is, of course, at- tracting great attention, and may ulti- mately become as famous as the contest over the will of A. T. Stewart. The woman whose vast wealth is in dispute was born in this city in 1817. She was thirty years of age when ihe married Mark Hopkins, end seventy when she msrried Edward F. Searles, who was fifty. When she died the other day she left no children, eiccept an adopted son, Timothy. It is nbw claimed that she made a in 1887 in which she left half of her property to her adopt- ed son and his wife, while the other half I was to be divided among her cousins and neices. This will forms the basis of the coming contest of the other will, which, it is intimated, Was obtained through spirit- ualism. The prospect of breaking the will must be pretty good, for it is said Mr. Searles has offered Timothy over $3,000,000 settle. The chances are that a oom romise will be reached be- fore the ca e is called in court. FOR WHOLESOME FOOD, Morgan vs. Yeo.—Thie wee an action for seduction. The counsel fhr the de- fendant applied to, have the trial put off beesuse of the absence of the ' defendant in Manitoba. His Lordship refused the application and thecase proceeded, and after hearing the evidence Of Isabella and Sarah E. Morgan, was given to the jury. The jury returned a herdict for $600 for the Plaintiff, and His Lordship entered judgment for that &Mount with and wholesomeness, No awards, such full costs and l.&vi to issue execution as medals, jor diplomas, will be made, at once. and the p blic *ill be considered the Carter vs. Rana ord et al. -1 --An action sole judg and j'ury. The Association for construction of a deed of separation and dower. Judgment was reserved. James Scott, Clinton, for plff.; Garrow, Q. C., for deft. Lane vs. Dungannon Dr Association.—This was mer amination of witnesses in th. known case, as directed in the Court of Queen's Bench, fier report by His Lord- ship. O'Neil vs. Murt1ock.—An action for malicious prosecution, the defendants, J. E. McDonald end T. Murdock, hav- ing issued a capia" against the plaintiff, who was in busineis in the village of Hensel", on the ground of ,attempt to defraud creditors. This Was a jury case, and after an holies consideration they returned a verdict for $40 damages for plff.,,which was entered Iv ith costs. Hanna vs. AtChiseetes—Ah action to determine llie Iitindcipey -between the parties' farms.in the .Township of Mc- Killop. At the nonclusion of defend- ant's witnesses, the plaintiff's counsel sulked for an adjohrnment on the ground of the absence of :a material:witness, and His Lordship postponed argument till Stratford assizes, October' 19, where farther evidence can then be taken. Polley vs. Grand Trunk Railway Company and C nadian PaafiC Railway Company.—An action for 'damage and expense incurred in the shipment of a car of horses to Vancouver,' two of the horses having died and ()there become ill, it is alleged ,through defects in the car supplied to Ipiff. On 4pplication of defendants, C. Pi R. Co., tlae trisl was postponed till t next melte" in this county, with leave to amend pleadings, the C. P. R. to pay costs of the day. Mason vs. Van Camp et 11.—An action for seduction. After two hburs' consider- ation the jury eeturned a verdict for $500 damages, and His LoIrdship diesct- ed judgment tie be , entered for that illegal distress. judgment to be e conseut ; minutes The Queen vs. The Foo composed f the leading food manufac- turers ofIhe United States, propose holding a rest food exposition at the Madison Square Garden, during the month of fictober, 1892. The exhibi- tion will embrace everything pertaining to food teriOnomy but nothing will be received unless guaranteed by the man- ufacturers to be the same as they Offer he public. The idea is main- te the manufacture and sale me fhod products and to gene al standard of purity Mantifacturers' Association, some and strictly faithful in historical detail. On Sunday, the second day of the celebration, there were games, gymnastic competitions for prizes, a grand concert, a banquet and speeches. Monday will be devoted to a grand volke-festival, target shooting, etc., and in the evening the celebration will wind up by a grand display of fireworks. READT FOR PATIENTS. The famous Presbyterian Hospital, of this city, which was so nearly destroy- ed by fire nearly a year and a half ago, is now almost rebuilt and will be ready for the reception of patients on October 1. The buildings now occupy the entire block from Mad- ison to Park avenue between 69th and 70th streets, several new buildings having been added which thus greatly increase the capacity of the hospital. The greatest pains have been taken to give the patients plenty of pure air and sunlight,with a perfect system of drain- age. The hospital is not sectarian, as might be inferred from .the 'name, but generously opens its doors, day and night, to people of every creed, nation- ality and color. There will now be 339 beds, and medical attendance will be free to all an long as there is room. The new buildings have been erected at a cost of $850,000, over half of which amount has been received from private subscriptions. for sale to ly to prom of wholes maintain a ving Park ly the ex - now well expects to have the most complete and elaborate isplay of fruits, vegetables, and dairy roduOts that this world has The date has been 'sleeted of ite being the 400th anni- the discovery of America. IGH•FRICED CANINE. Lord Bite, the biggest dog in the world, arr ved here from England last week an Kennel', He was b of Birmin He in th shoulder, nd weighs when in good con• dition 247, pounds. He ie a full-blooded St. Bernard, said bat won twenty-six first prizes in England, as well as a number f cups and medals. Lord Bute has 4 good coat of a rich orange color, but as a ehow dog he is not con- sidered present traveled money fo barrel at way he dollars, and has, no doubt, delighted millions of children. , SIX CENTDRIEs OF FREEDDM. ever seen. on secoun 'rosary of A was , sent to the Menthon t Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. ught from Thomas Shellcock, ham, the price being $3,750. rt six inches high at the assed by his guilty conscience. Though he had never touched whisky before, he took to drinking. He lost a part of the money in Chicago on his way eastward and he pawned his watch to buy a ticket to get back to Toronto. "No one knows, "be says," what it ie to have an accus- ing conscience." Harrington's looks tell plainly of sleepless nights and anx- ious days. —On Thursday afternoon, last week an unknown woman, threw herself into. the Niagara rapids a short distance above Propped Park. A gentleman named Caheim, of Philadelphia, sprang into the water and made a brave attempt to save the woman, but she resisted his effort, and the struggle only ceased when they were near the brink of tbe falls, and Chaeim was only able to save him- self by grasding some hanging branches. —Only a couple of hours later a party on Luna Island was startled to hear a young man near them say, "I'm going good bye ! " and turning they saw him spring into the swiftly running water, and in a moment he disappeared over the falls. His name is said to be Albert Heimlich, a barber, from New York. These two oases of premeditated suicide are as yet wrapped in mystery. The remains have riot yet been recovered. —Some 110- Jewish immigrants are - at the Government immigration offices in Montreal pretty much in the same deplorable condition as when they arriv- ed. In view of the instructions received from Ottawa, the immigration agent is at a loss to know what to do with them. Canada. The Malleable Iron Works, of Walkerville, will start this month with a full force. ----Twenty-two thousand dollars worth of drainage works are being put in in Colchester South, county of Essex. —Mr. Greenway, jr., of Winnipeg, is visiting the Toronto Exhibition in his capacity of newspaper man. —Miss B. Munro, of St. Thomas has taken a position as teacher in the Thomas, Ladies' College.. —The assessment of Hull, Quebec, opposite Ottawa, just completed shows the property of the city to be valued at $2,009,000. —F. T. Harrison of Toronto, will soon take up his residence in London, where he will act as public analyst, and probably also as profeesor of chemistry at the Medical School. —The Centenial Methodist Church on Dovercourt Road, Toronto, the cor- ner stones of -which were laid on Thurs- day, last week, will cost $10,000 and have a seating capacity for 600. —A porset maker, at West Toronto Junction, has been summoned for hav- ing in her employ three girls under four- teen years of age, in violation of the Factories Act. —A new mode of immersion is report- ed from South London. On Sunday morning before breakfast an aged lady had three bucket' of water thrown over her by a not -over -kind huebsnd. —Little Jack Ryerson, aged seven years, only child of Mrs. J. W. Ryer- son, of Sinicoewas killed by a train in that town on Friday. He was the son of the late Major Ryerson. who was drowned recently near Long -Point. —At Sea Cliff Park, Leamington, there is a tree fully 30 feet in circumference, and when two feet from the ground it divides into seven trees, and to span any one of these it would test the length of an ordinary man's arm. —One of the oldest frequenters of the Woodstock jail died there Saturday night, 5th inst., in the person of Reuben Cole. He was about 80 years of age, and nearly half of his life had been a local tramp. In his early life he had a good position as a game -keeper for Lord Ecoleston in England. —Dr. Considine, of Port Dalhousie, has oelebrated the 71st anniversary of his birthday. The doctor, despite his age, is hale and hearty, and claims the distinction of being the oldest practition- er in the county, having been for the last 43 years healing the sick. --Isaso Groff, Waterloo, recently shipped for the old country markets, on the steamship Federation, from Mon- treal, a cargo of 860 sheep weighing on an average 162 pounds. This was the finest lot of sheep shipped from Mon. treal for years'and were purchased from farmers in Waterloo, Wellington and Perth. —The Windsor assessors this year have assessed the Ursuline Academy and the Hotel Dieu "at a fair value and have so entered it on their books. As- sessor Campbell states that the law eel- empted public institutions and publ hospitals, but these he claimed wee not, as they were run for private gain. The matter will no doubt be taken intit the Courts. —On Sunday morning a woman pass- enger on one of the fast Michigan Cen- tral Railway express trains lost her dia- mond ring, and accused an employe of the company in St. Thomas of stealing it. The man was searched and no ring found on him, but the woman demanded his arrest, which was refused. Subse- quently the ring was found near the wash basin, where the woman had left s good as Sir Bedivere, the it, hampion. Lord Bute has —Mr. F. W. Matthews, of the Lon - all over England, collecting don postoffice, has handed in to the en - charitable purposes in a little tornological rooms two monstrous fungi, ached to his collar. In this found by him east of the Port Stanley has, collected thousands of harbor. The largestis over 40 inches in circumference, and 10 inches high. The like of them has probably never been seen in this Province, and they will be examined at once by Inspector Dear- ness, who will endeavor to identify them, —Albert Edward Harrington, the young divinity_ student who has been accused of forgery, has been arrested and lodged' in Toronto goal. His con- fession is a terrible one, told with quiv- ering voice and tearful eyes. He claims to have been impelled by some irresistible fore' to commit the crime and not till it was done and beyond recall, did its hein- ousness appear to him in its true form. Then he was racked with remorse, lie left Toronto, and went to Woodstock, 'then Detroit, Chioego, and %afar west as Topeka, Kansas, but he was still her - The S;iss residents of this city are now havig a great three-day eelebra- tion of the 600th anniversary of their freedom which dates back to the year of our Lord, 1291. The 32 Swiss So- cieties of this city, as well as delegates from all parts of the United States, are celebrating on a scale which has never been eqoalled here since the days of our Own Centennial in 1889. The most imPortant feature of the festival was a naagnificent historical parade, which thok place on Saturdey. The varios epoolis and important events in theistory of Switeerland, aim* 200 years B., C., Were illustrated by a series of tableaux, at once exoeedingly hand —Some time ago James Ward, photo- grapher at Dundalk, deserted his wife and family and went away with Ida Kennedy, who was professedly learning the photographing with him. He went, to Orangeville and worked there under an assumed name, the two living to- gether as man and wife. Constable Pet- erson got track of them, and going to Markham arrested Ward under the Charlton Act, and the girl as. witness. Ward was committed for trial, and Miss Kennedy held as a witness. Botb were taken to Owen Sound jail. —Mrs. Jane Hill, aged 99 years, died in Detroit on Sunday. Mrs. Hill's maid- en name was Hobbs, and she was born in the county _ Tipperary, Ireland. On board the same ship which brought her to Canada in the same locality in Mon- treal, and soon afterward were married. About the same time they removed to the vicinity of London and took up a farm afterwards removing to Detroit. She leaves 3 children, 21 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren and 6 great -great. grandchildren. It was no uncommon thing for her to dine with three genera- tions of her descendants. —Charles Sercomb, a young English- man who has been in Parkhill about a year, thought he would like to visit his native land again this fall. Duncan McIntyre having some cattle to send to the old country, offered Sercomb a pass on the train to Toronto, five dollars and a free passage on the ship as caretaker of the cattle if he would take charge of them. The young man took his pass to Toronto and the $5. but when he got to Toronto he deserted the cattle and took passage to England, leaving them behind. —A Palmerston lady lately received a letter from a friend in Toronto informing her that her son was married, and that his wife was a millionaire. She won- dered that her son had not himself writ- ten to inform her of his fortunate mar- riage and told several of her friends of her boy's good luck. One of the friends, having acquaintances in Toronto who knew the young man, wrote to the city and asked about the bride and her wealth. When the &newer came back that John was married to a milliner, there was weeping and wailing and gneshing of teeth. There died at Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago a wealthy stone merchant, Wm. Gray, who was at one time well known in Bruce and Huron. In 1871 he came to Canada and settled near Inver- boron'in Bruce township. There he was known as Boss Grey, and there he carried on entensive operations. He bought a farmof 200 acres and built a great stone castle. A fine avenue, bor- dered by spreading trees upon either side, led up to the magnificent real - dews. The house was richly and elaborately furnished. In each room mirrors ran from floor to ceiling. There were grand stairways; there were broad and spacious halls ; there were wide, open fireplaces. In every roem the generosity and luxury of wealth were artistically exhibited. But it was oc- cupied for only two years. When the family left the house the rich furnish - Inge were left behind. Nothing was, diatnrbed, nothing removed. The house has seemed to stand through all those years, waiting for the family to come horne. But lately the bedding and the curtains dropped to pieces in one's hands, and decay was upon all within the mansion. Grass and weeds possess- ed the wide avenue, the trice were rag- ged with neglect, the -gate sagged upon its hinges. Mr. Gray alig0 bought up the greater part of the town site of In- verhnron, set up grist and saw mills, and spent many thousands of dollar& in boring for salt, without success. tie had for many years an interest in a salt block at Kincardine. But he realized nothing from all his investments at Ins verhuron. The mills are tumbling ruins, anti have stood idle for years. The grain sterehouses were burned years ago. The hotels are closed. The vil- lage store has gone. The wharves are rotting away. It is but seldom thst a vessel enters the harbor—one of the fin- est nature' barbors on the lakes. This place, once throbbing with life and full of energy, is as silent and deserted as Gray's castle on the hill. Mr. Gray had a fine family of sons and daughters, who added much to the social life of the community while they remained, and they are still well and kindly remem- bered in the neighorhood. •-4 • • •