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TWENTY-THIRD YEAR,
w01.1331 NUMBER 1,241.
SEAFORTH,
RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1891.
J. C. GILRO-Y
To the People?
NN:r are now ready to d busi-
'th you, and Ave -are happy
that our position is such
we are able to give you such
action as you could only hope
nes&
to sa
that,
sati
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 Do-
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
know, are the Cheap Goods. WE
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 appreciate
our efforts. OUR DRESS AND
MANTLE MAKING DEPART-
MENT has developed into a most
unqualified success. When we be-
gun we had no idea 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 certainly
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 simply
lovely in themselves, and Ladies
looking for Costumes in any of the;
leading fabrics of the season, may
SIGHTS AND S ENES
AND ABOU NEW - •
YORK
[WRITiEN FOR Tn 1 XPOSITOR.]
LETTER NO. 'II.
.41. FREE ICE -WATER FOUNTAIN. •
Strengers are apt to be astounded on
corning to a city like New York to ses
the enormous number o saloons that
fiouri h to a greater or 1 as extent on its
11
etreet oind they wonder ow so many caa
exist. Yet it- is little t be wondered
at after all. Take the w nter season, for
instance. In these larg cities the air is
eeldom frosty and braci g like it is iu
the country, but the col is that clam-
my, damp, raw kind tit t pierces to a
inan'avery marrow iu pite of warm
blothes. The snow, hen it fella,
deem' t remain hard nd white, but
!speedily becomes a as of muddy,
filthy slush, in which o e sinks some-
timeseilmost to the ank es. At such a
time, when •a man is c nfronted with a
sign, suivertising a long list of steaming
hot drinks at five cents each with a free
i o
het lunch the very th ught of which
isends'a thrill through his chilled frame,
lis it sny wonder if he suddenly stops,
feels in his pant's pock t for a niekel,
'then opens the door an steps into the
warm', brilhantly-light d, often hand-
some i.00m ? Is it a wonder that one
visit doesn't satisfy, or that the viijta
become very frequent ? If any .of THE
EXPOSITOR readers has a couple of thou-
sand dollars and want e it to go a long
way in doing good to h inanity, and at
the same time make a good living for
himself, I'll give him tip : Come to
New, York, make a ca efui study of the
methOds of the most s sceusful saloons,
then btart one yourself with big mirrors,
flashing cut glass and 11 the etceteras.
Get a big canvas bugle in painted with
something like this: t offee, tea, niilk,
beef tea, lemonade, ate;ming hot, for a
nickel, ree hot lunch 11 day ; then put
your sign outside and taitt business. I
don't think you'd hav long to wait for
customers. In fact, I eally think be-
fore very long you'd have to extend
your, business by st rting a branch.
This is not a new idea but it 'has never
been carried out on a really business-
like basis as the salo ns are managed.
Consequently it has f• iled while they
have prospered.
But it is in summer hat the saloons
flourish like Canada t istles. When the
whole city is sweltering, the pavement
be suited at once. The same may
hot, the bare brick wa la glaring in the
be said of the Mantle and Cloaking heat and painful to tihe eyes, when the
Goods. Come and see us. perepiration starts from every pore, and
even a lightiatraw hat seams burdensome
to the head, it is a strong man indeed
who, with a spare nickel in bis pocket,
LINTON can pass a place wher he knows there is
a chair to st on, a j delightfully cool
J. 0. GILROY
—Mr. Aaron Buck was married on
Wednesday evening to Miss Elizabeth,
daughter oi Mr. Thomas Colquhoun, of
Hibbert. The knot was tied oy Rev. A.:
F. Tully at tite bride' e home in the
presenceof a few friends and. relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. Buek are highly esteemed
in their circle of acquaintances, and we
wish them all happinees in their new
venture.
—Wednesday efternoon in St. Mary's,
while Mrs. Dr. Spark's sister was out
driving, the horse became unmanageable
and in order to prevent a runnaway she
drove it into some trees. The buggy
was overturned and its occupant throwii
out, receiving severe injuries about the
back. The horse started for home
and demoliahed the buggy in its wild
escapade.
—T. Maurr, is a blacksmith out
Rostock. A slick looking gentlemen
called there a short time ago and did
the 'blackmith up for a note for $25,
representing that he had the right to
sell Taylor & Jadd's Reversable Harrow
Clip for the township. Maurr was loo14-
ing around the police court Saturday
mornieg and showed an agreement fen
which he gave the note.
--A serious and what might have
proved a fatal accident happened to Mrs.
Daniel itatcher, of Paramount, one day
recently. It _ appears that while in
seerch of eggs she minted her footing
and fell from the scaffolding to the barn
floor beneath, breaking three of her ribs
and a collar bone in the fall. She was
afterwards found in an unconscious
state. Medical -aid was summoned
and the patient is now doing nicelY.
—Wm. Irwin, principal of the leis -
towel High school, is married to Miss
Ida, daughter of Rev. C. Ilamilan,
Glenallen, Rev. Mr. Livingstone, Lista
wel, Rev. Ur. Moir, Alma, and Rv.
Mr. Smith, Moorefield, assisted the
bride's father to perform the ceremony.
The bride was formerly a teacher in Lis
towel, and her advancement has been so
rapid that she now has charge of the
master of the echool.
—Mr. A. Frazer, of Thames rod,
Fullerton, met with a serious accident a
few days ago, Having occasion to fix
something about the homes and being in
a stooped position, one of the horses
kicked him on the head, breaking in the
skull and rendering him insensible. Dr.
Irvine, of Kirkton, and Dr. Armstrong,
et Fullerton, were called in. After some
very tedious work they succeeded in
raising the broken part of the skull from
the brain. At last accounts Air. Frazer
wa.s io a dangerous condition.
—Mr. Henry Schmidt's and Mrs.
• Wettlaufer's farms adjoin each other in
North Easthope. Some time ago they
decided to erect a new boundary fence
sawdust strewn floor,1where the air is
kept constantly in motion by revolving
fans, and where he can get a big glass of
foaming, ice-cold lager for that self-
same nickel. I never' knew the value of
cold water till I earns), to New York. I
have always lived where cool, sweet
water was as commOn as dirt, but it is
different here. The tester comes miles
and miles through pipes, and in sum
mer time is. quite tepd. The only way
to make it even palatable is by icing it,
and ice is dear in New York. It is
small wonder then that the saloons do a
rushing trade, and one can understand
'what a boon free ice -water is in a
crowded tenement ditrict. We have a
fountain in front of the building which
is supplied with ice by Mr. Colgate, a
wealthy manufacturer of this city. Last
year it coat him froni three to five dol-
lars a day, but this year it. will not
amount to so much,as ice is considerably
cheaper. This fountain is used by
thousands every day, and on hot days
there is a crowd around it all the time.
A student of character could stand for
hours at a time watching those who par-
take of Mr. Cogate'a svery practical
charity, and never lose interest, though
he might be very much pained some-
times, for some of them are not very far
removed from the brutes. They fight
and snarl over the glasses sometimes like
the doge of Constantinople over a stray
bone. One Sunday I was standing at
the door, and there was a large ad
rather quarrelsome crowd around the
fountaiu when a big, burly, red-fac d
man carne up: He watched the people
hindering each other and depriving
themselves longer than was necessary by
so doing, andfinally took the matter
into ! his own hande. He introduced
some system into theething, and scion
everyone was satisfied and the croivd
had melted away. He then helped him-
self, and as he passed me, looked p,
smiled arid said, -" I know how to in n -
age , 'ern, don't I?" or someth ng
to that effect. He was probably
nothing better than a hustler at a dime
museum or sideshow of a circus, or a
book-ma,ker at one of the race tracks,
but nevertheless this one little act of
kindness made him. feel better I know,
said he left that fountain feeling better
satiiified with himself than he did beide°.
I have known people who when they
had bought a suit of clothes wohld
reason something like this :
see, I paid Smith $25.00 for this stilt.'
If I'd got it from Brown he'd have
charged $27.00. Well, that's two
la rs saved; I guess I can afford a new
pair of boots," and they would go and
buy a five dollar pair of shoes. , Meny
people are just like that with their
charity. If they give a quarter th a
begar, or s dolalr to missions, they feel
liquor traffic that ! the saloon -keepers' will be illegal shortly for juveniles under
would have to use their political pull 18 to partake of nicotiuous joys. At
and have a law passedtagaiinst the Om present the statute roads 14 but is read-
ing away of icelivater, or a high ly transgressed everywhere. Doctors
license charged on ea h fountain in order unite in saying smoking hurts young
to restrict a traffic
mental to the intere
inft uential portion 6
Th re is a ealoomke
pie e who has a fou
w ere a man can wa
co rse this makes
th'rety, but when he
of water he finds th
intentionally of Ooui
goiss into the salmi
prntirietor catches ci
,th s ingenious plan.'
ho men's minds 'become warped by.
pr judice or long hebit. I noticed a
reviler old toper, about half drunk at
th time, taking a lol
ink oneay, and
as ed him how he eked water for a
ch
an
do
it
ke 's better." I really believe the old
fe ow was in earnest too, .though whis
keyhad stolen awa-
ol thed him in filth*rags. Of course
his .manhood and
wt can't estimate the exact amount of
go d that has been done by this foun-
tisn. If it drowned out even one germ
of
m
if
ye
ni
m
every city of America, and really there
is no reason why there should not be.
THE WANDERER.
orrEs. FROM THE QUEEN
CITY. '
TORO:ire, September 21st, 1891.
The great Indnstrial Exhibition has
hich. was detri- 'lads. Would it not be better this year
ts of a large and for the Alliance to see that the iold law
the community. be oarri d out to the letter ?
per up the street a
tain of his own
er his horse. Of
the man himself
tries to get a drink
fountain broken,
se, arid naturally
. No doubt the
ite a few nickels by
It is remarkable.
nge. With thei
wered " Well,
't think its good
item; it chills t
itmost gravity hei
it's not bad, but I
for a person to take
he stomach ; whits -
evil, that is a great deal, for what
ght not that one germ have produced
Bowed to increase for a -hundred
rs ? I wish there were a thousand
re such fountains in this city, and as
ny in proportion to population in
CO
Cr
Uptil
themsel
for Pro
A PROVINCIAL MUSEUM.
some wealthy men take unto
es a fit of generosity our longed
'neje' Museum will not event-
uate. Mr. Mowat was waited on in all
humility by members of several anti-
quariau societies, but not all their ear-
nest so icitation could force from the
little P emier the word of comfort or
aympaijietic tear. Enlarging on the
Prom e's poverty, Mr. Mowat stated
that the private purse could alone be
drawn upon. May the high one of On-
tario, be/suiting Caledonian blood, be
pestered not by ghostly visitations of a
figure like unto Sir Walter Scott's!
Tin ATHLETIC HOME.
On Monday afternoon was turned the
first sod on the site of the new Athletic
Club. The affeir was an extremely
happy one, and preeages good things for
the future. A building, perfect in all
respects for the physical development of
our young men, is to be put up at a cost
of $150,000. The location is good and
central, being in Sleepy Hollow, long
known to local fame as the Robinson
homestead and the residence for over 40
years of Hon. John Beverly Robinson.
The village of colleges hemming in To-
ronto University is directly across the
street. Speeches from Sir Adam Wil-
son, Dr. Lerrett Smith, the Hon. G. W.
Ross, the .Hon. J. B. Robinson, Prof.
Goldwin Smith, and others were listen-
ed to, and contained many happy senti-
ments upon the necessity of a strong
body in which to put a strong mind.
THE WEST GETTING AHEAD. ,
It used to be 'Toronto the Good."
But the name didn't stick. It fell off
me and gone. There was an Immense when Mayor Howland's term as Chief
owd of people in town, and the
wipather throughout was favorable.
% bother the shoW, was better than for•
merly or not so pod it is ahnost impos-
sible for -any persen to say. It isnot
too much, however, to say that in all
its distinctive feetures it is gradually
suming more and more the character of
' show " and coerespondiegly lees that
an "exhibition." There was a good
deal of growling this year, and with
✓ aeon, on acoount of so Much of the
ain building being takenup with candy
a ails and other; devices designed for
lightening the poakets of visitor. These
✓ dors occupied considerable room that
should be used by exhibitors. The gate
receipts also shew a slight falling off
this year, as compared with last. The
total receipts in 11890 were $69,317.90,
and this year the receipts amounted to
$66,954.85, showing a falling off of
$2,353.05. The increased receipts Oil
days were as follows : Third day,
$,175; fogeth 'clay, $853.55; eighth
der, $837.27; ninth day, $600.60: The
decreasee were: First day1$245 ; second
• clay, $283; fifth day, $830.45; sixth
day, $1,269.35; seventh day, $2,973.30;
tenth day, $607.80.
THE TORONTO HARBOR SCANDAL.
Citizene were interested in observing
the charges fall through which were
made against officials of the Public
Works Department. No evidence was
forthcoming to allow that the contract•
era for the Toronto harbor improvements
had bought the acceptance of their ten-
der. The work has been going on for a
!limber of years. The harbor cominis-
sionere have just made their annns.1 in-
spection and report satisfactory pro -
at both entrances. At the western
gap $50,000 has been expended in crib-
bing off and dredging the steamboat
channel.
Mr. W. R.. Meredith, leader of Her
SHE OPPOSITION LEADER.
Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Oa-
ts io Legislature, is daily expected home
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fr m England, where, with his family,
al summer he has sought uessation from
the clinking cares of law and politica.
The rumor is still afloat that Mr. Mere-
dith may be, taken into the Dominion
cabinet- at Ottawa when the pro:nised
reconstruction takes _place at the close
of the session.
THE BEEF BARON HAPPY.
No more cries of ululation from the
vicinity of patriotio• Alderman Frank
land, the titled man of beef. On the
contrary. he has been felicitating by
ord and letter all thbse whom he called
t arena to resist the Government's
t reatened admission of American cat -
t e for slaughten- here and sale in Eng -
1 nd. The 'scheme for a mammoth
a au hter house at Three Rivers, the
beef baron generously declinee to inter -
f re with. He has won his point and
ill let the Trifluvions build as mud). as
t 'ey like, now that His assured the cat -
t e- will come from. Canadian farms.
ore than the alderman are pleased
ith last week's legislation, it appeare
7
f oin talks iwith cattle raisers.
SAD EVENT.
j; Last September Oliver Morphy, a
ell known young man cf this place,
eras drowned in Lake Winnipeg by the
dapsizing of e. yacht. The body was
found last month and on Wedneeilay ef-
ernoon the funeral took place from his
other'e residence, No. 648 Church
treet. , A brother of M. de Beanjen,
rowned in the same accident, camp up
rom Montreal to attend the funeral.
lany of the deceased's military friends
ttended.
CONVENTIOKS GALORE.
Taking advantage of the cheap fares
afforded during Fair time, no less than
ix conventions are holding council at
he present time. They are the Domin-
ion Alliance, the Ontario Alliance, Pro-
icial Undertakers, Dominion Letter
carriers, Central Farmers' Institute, and
4ivision Court Clerks. The Alliances
e preparing for a fight against liquor
traffic and will make it in a very ag.
save fashion. Recommendations
jaased this week call for a total aboli-
on of bars and the stoppage of licenses
or shops. If they have their way it
es
of
and the old one was taken down. Lete- so good they have to indulge in a little
ly Mr. Wettlaufer erected her part of
the fence, but, according to Mr.
Schmidt's story, she appropriated some
of his land in drawing the line. Since
then they have been having a hot time
about their fence, and Mrs. Wettlaufer
says Schmidt threw her fence down and
also assaulted her. Saturday afternoon
they appeared before P. M. O'Loane,
Stratford, to decide the matter. After
hearing the evidence pro and con he ad-
ourned the case for ten days.
extra wickedness to get even.
That fountain is a most effective tem-
,
perence lectere. It reaches about three
thoteand people every day. It is
known all over the eaet side, and 1 have
known people to walk half a mile to get
a drink from it, passing a dozen saloons
and as many temptations. If there were
one every two blocks, so that every per-
soncould get a drink of pure, uold
water without going out of his *ay,
there would be such a falling off in the
Magistrate expired, and now London is
bidding for the title. A recent move
W&8 a deputation of men and women
who waited on the City .Council and
asked that a by law be passed prohibit-
ing the sale of tobacco to boys under 14
years of age. The request woes assented
to, and the youthful smokers and
chewers of London will soon have their
supply of nastiness cut off. Girls and
gurn should be included in that whole-
some municipal enactment.
THE PIBROCH SOUNDING.
Toronto is to have a kilted regiment
and the Dominion Government has
voted $5,000 to start it. The gallant
Queen's Own will need to look to their
laurels now, for the picturesque kilties
are exceedinglyattractive, and the.
pipers cannot play "Annie Rooney."
THE GREAT SCOTCH DIVINE.
The Rev, John McNeill's visit to
town has been a hopeworthy event. Ho
preacaed in Mutual street rink on Sun-
day. Mr. McNeill ia fampue for his
sayings and doings in Regent square
Presbyterian church, London, and
proved a drawing card for 6,010 people
at each of his two services. Onr cler-
gymen could take many a leaf out of
tbis Scotchman's book. They should be
able the better to trai
eloqueaCe against the
sinners and the iniquity
of which evidences are 1 tely appearing
so alarmingly frequent in the !opal pa
pers. In fact, Mr. McNeill, from his
manner of smiting at .
churches, would seem t
above taking pointers
their guns of
ell conditioned
in high places,
McLEAN BROS. Publishers.
1 01.50 a Year, in Advance.
ous to paying the hands. He left ,for was thine, and he went away as tickled
dinner at 12 and locked both doors' of as pie. Now, in a less prosperoua year
the office, but didr not lock the sfe. he would have hung out for a consider -
When he returned at 1 o'clock he found ably larger discount than this, and
both doors opened and the, money goue. might not have bought at all. I took
41 to an attack of dropsy that proved
"Ong and painful. Deceased and her
late husband catered to the wants of
the travelling public for many
years in the well known hotel on lot 26,
One of the employes named O'Grady the transaction as a very encouraging cbncession 1, Ellice, which was erected
said he tried both doors about five 'pointer' on the outlook for fall." 1 away back in the thirties as a post
minutes to 1, and found them locked. A —The Harris implement factory at house or way scation for the pioneers
search of the employes was instituted, Brantford has been amalgamited with that came pouring in about that period.
which failed to throw any light on the
— Mrs. Donald Patience, of East
Nissouri, mother of C. R. Patience; of
Ingersoll, has received notice of her
heirship to the estate of her late uncle,
Colon Reid, Inverness, Scotland. The
estate is said to be quite extensive.
— At a meeting of the London City
Council the City /solicitor was
structed to prepare a by-law prohibiting
the sale of tobacco to minors in accrd-
anoe with the act relating to the saMe,
and to fix a sufficient penalty to ensure
the carrying out the by-law.
—S. Donner, the merchant who was
recently fined $2 and costa in Orange-
ville for an infraction of the early elos
ing by-law, declines to pay his finend
declares emphatically that he will ght
the town to the bitter end if an attempt
is made to collect it.
.—Hugh Patterson, south of Rodney,
the other day threshed 272 bushels of
peas from ten bushels and one Peck
sown on six acres. ars wheat icrop
averaged 35 bushels to the sere, awl 347
stocks of oats yielded 466 bushel' of
grain.
—With about $2,000 capital. David-
son & Ellis opened an undertaker's shop
in Paisley. Whether the people in that
ypoerisy in our
have been not
iven by some
ene who really believes the veneer has
dropped away from Toronto's virtue in
presty large chunks. The ministers of
the city, at all events, cennot have heen
greatly pleased at what the reverend
visitor had to say in relation to them-
seles and their etyle of working.
Canada
David Nesmith, Toronto Bicycle
Club; challengea any Caeadian amature
to a race from 50 to 200 miles.
—Mr. John Wettlaufer, of Harriston,
had his right band badly' smashed in the
rollera of a flax, threaher the other
day. . ,
—Mrs. A. Legault, formerly a Mrs.
Clapp, and for many yeas in the grocery
and liquor business in Ottawa, has
assigned.
—Owen .Sound hat, a new $3,000
organ 'in the Presbyterian Church.
There are 38 pipes in it, and it is to be
worked by a water mothr.
—Conductor Snider has taken up the
"punch" again after a few weeks well
earned vacation, which he devoted
mainly to lecturing.
ego; bound for
valuable cargo
eported lost off
rew was saved.
or many years
engaged in the millin ry Lousiness in
Quebec, has been aske to assign by a
To -ionto house. She o es ' $2,200.
—Miss. Sarah Baskt, cheesemaker
for John Geary, London township, secur-
ed two first prizes and a sweepstake
gold Medal at the Sherbrooke, Quebec,
fair.
—Roy Kennedy, formerly of Aldboro,
has disposed of his property in Ogden,
Wyoming, for $15,000, and will return
to his native township to follow his old
vocation --farmin g.
—Finley Clark, of South Marys -
borough, near Milford, died on There -
day last week, from the effects of injur-
ies recived while tending a threshing
machine.
—Thomas Hall, of !Oakland, Brant
county, had an S5th lefrthday celebra-
tion on Tuesday, 15th inst. There are
120 descendants, of whom nearly all
were present, their evil! aggregating
3,181 years. The Wilsrville band num
plied music.
—.Btween the hours of 12 and . 1 on
Saturday $1,100 was tolen from the
vi;
safe in the office of Bur Bros., furniture
manufacturers, Osha a. The book-
keeper had drawn the money from the
bank and deposited it i
—The steamer Mon
Dundee, Scotland,with
of grain and cattle, is
Newfoundland. The
—Miss Mary Mahon,
Massey works at Toronto. The com-
pany is now advertising tinder the joint
name of Maesey-Harris Company, limit-
ed, and will concentrate the head office
in Toronto. How far the union will
affect Brantford is not yet known.
The works will be continued in full
force if manufacturing can be done
more cheaply than in Toronto. Perth Items.
--Warren McHugh, Harriston, met
Miss ; Edna Dickenson is the new
with a serious accident in Toroiato,
organist in Anderson, Mbthodist church.
while crossing from the grounds of the
—The new bridge across Flat Creek,
Industrial Exhibition. He tried to
hi ear Anderson is now completed.
e—There were two deaths from diph-
thrie in Stratford last week.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. Dent, of Mitchell,
are in England.
—Mitchell's rate of taxation has been
struck at 20 mills on the dollar.
—Mr. Archie McIntosh, of Listowel,
haw purchased the American House,
Stratford, the consideration being
$7,100.
—A. Baker, 8th concession of Em%
realized 80 bushels of black oats from
two bushels of seed grown. - They were
the Golden Giant variety.
--Monkton's baseball boys won $20 by
defeating the Staffa °nib in Mitchell on
September 4. The game was the best
ever seen on the Mitchell grounds.
—Mr. J.H.Flagg,of Mitchelaattended
the annual meeting of the Dominion
Prohibition Alliance held in Toronto
lastweek.
—Mr. McDonald bas a lumber busi-
ness at Newton which is growing exten.
sively, upwards of 40 car loads having
been unloaded their this season.
—In future the members of the Minis-
terial Association, Stratford, will visit
the hospital in rotation, each one be-
ing responsible for one week when nec-
essary.
— Mrs. Duncan, an elderly woman
was struck by an incoming train on the
Goderich track at Stratford Wednesday
morning and was knocked insensible.
She died shortly after.
—Mr. James Arinstrong,.of the Grand
Trunk Railway shops, Stratford, was
severely bitten in the hand a few days
ago while separating two dogs that were
fighting.
— Mr. lleman Hurlburt, of Mitchell,
filled Rev. Mr. Christie's appointment
is the second horse that Mr. Krantz has
lately lost in this way. Two others nese, vvhich has caused- insanity. She in Zion church,Staffa circuit, on a recent
were covered with black oil Of a tarry leaves a husband and six children. Sunday, and preached a very good ser-
mon to an interested audience.
—Some unknown wretches entered
nature.
—A single refreshment stand on the the premises of D.` Cummings and D. —Dr. Burt, of Stratford, went to To-
ronto the other day where he delivered
his black "Chicago Volunteer" mare to
a gentleman of that city. The price re-
alized is about $200.
—At the Toronto Industrial Fair the
young stallion, Roeewood, by Thorn-
veood, belonging to Mr. Wm. P. Kerr,
of Mitchell, won second -prize in the
three year old standard bred roadster
stallion class.
—A man named Roberts was kicked
in the breast by a horse the other day in
Downie township. He managed to make
his way to the residence of Thomas
Wilson, where be died from his injuries
shortly after.
—Mr. James Stock, of near Kinkora,
lost a valuable colt raising two years
old, by a small cut caused by an old
grass scythe that was lying in the pas -
hey were both exceedingly kind and
any a weary traveller thanked God
hen he reached the shelter of their
hospitable roof. The greater part of
deceased's widowhood was spent in
Stratford at the boxne of her daughter
Mrs. M. Schweitzer.
jump off one street car and was run
down by another coming in the opposite
direction. Being unconscious when ?ic-
ked up he was conveyed to the hospital
ID an ambulance. There is a eevere
scalp 'wound, and poseibly hectare of
the skull.
—Thousands. of bushels of plums are
being brought into Kincardine and are
readily bought at from 35 cents to 75
cents per bushel. A few days ago over
$1 was patd for superior varieties, but
as the outside market is getting over-
stocked prices have been dropping. The -
very finest Washington and the luscious
egg plumbs have been sold for 75 cents a
bushel. Kincardine district is perhaps
the best plum growing part of the Pro-
vince. The apple crop will ibe very
town are too healthy to support an es- light this year.
tablishment of this kind, or whatever —An unusual scene on an Ontario
the reason may be, the firm has been in- farm was witnessed on the far% of J.
dnced to assign. D. Kern, of Oxford, near Woodstock, a
Wm. Cluxton, a Peterboro soene commononly among the .farmers of
merchant, recently shipped from Mon- the prairies and the grain growing see-
treal to London, per Allan steamer tionsof the Western States. The thresh-
" Rosarian," over thirty thoueand dol. ing machine was set in the field and teams
lars worth of cheese, July and August were drawing the grain to it. It requires
make, bought from factories between
Peterboro and Kingston.
—John Leyden, of Wakefield was
thrown from a railway car near Ch laea.
He jumped clear of the track just in
time to prevent hie life being crashed
no extra aseistance and the farmers are
not put to the trouble and expense of haul-
ing their grain to the barn, storing it
therein and being forced to pitch it Out in
the end.
—Mrs. Burney, wife of J. W. Burney,
out, but his left hand grasped the rail of Forest, committed suicide on Statue -
just as the wheel caugh it, and at but day while temporarily insane. She was
the thumb was taken off. missed from her house, and her sister,
—A farmer named John Krantz, who who was waiting on her, went out to
lives on London and Biddulph town line, look for her. On eeeing the- cover of
reported to the London high constable
Friday that during the night of the 16th
inst. some one killed one of his horses by
stabbing the animal in the breast. ' This
the well off, an alarm was immediately
given, but owing to the depth of the
well, before assistance could be given
life was extinct. Mrs. Burney for the
last year has been subject to a severeili-
Torouto Fair grohods sold on Monday
of last week 400 pounde of choculate
drops alone. • Doughnuts were served
on the grounds in bushel baskets, and
sandwiches by the 100,000. Up to
Wednesday night, the hist week, the
Toronto Biscuit and Confectionery Com -
Stokes, Rodney, and induced therefrom
two doge, one of which was locked in
the kitchen and the other tied outside.
By some means they were spirited
away to the road, where the dogs were
found, with their throats cut from ear to
ear, their stomachs efit open and their
pany had disposed of over two tons of entrails taken out and strung along the
confectionery and many hundred -weight road for some dietance. The neighbors
of biscuits op the ground. in that vicinity are somewhat agitate
—In.July., 1881, the steamer " City over the affair. . .
of Winnipeg," with several barrels of —Professor Shaw,of the Ontario Agri
prime Whiskey in her hold, was sunk in cultural College, has returned from
Lake Superior, just opposite Duluth. visit to the States in the interests o
agriculture and judging at exhibitions
The professor visited the experiment&
statione in Minnesota, Wisconsin an
Michigan. Each of these stations, h
/said, is expending a large amount oIf
money in plant and equipments generj
ally. He is of opinion that while mucsi
good work is being done, these stationia
are not working so directly in the line of
farmers' generel interests as the station
home a reception was tendered him by
in Guelph.
—Algoma Advocate: There is no
hall. Tea was served and an enjoyable
the congregation at the Temperance
country under the sun better suited for
the raising of sheep and cattle than Al-
tiln—eAWasiNtaletIlet1;011 correspondent says:
goina, and our farmers should give spe -
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ial attention to this industry. The
and Clip" swindler has been in this vi-
farmrs on the Manitoulin are finding
einity and in consequence Mr. W. II.
this out, and this summer several here
Lorland and Mr, Upton have been re-
lieved of some of their hard earned
"-1LA Mr. Mathews, son-in-law of Mrs.
John O'Shea, Bibbert„ from Brooklyn,
New York, reached Stratford Wednes-
day evening, and as he got on the Gode-
rich train he noticed that his child
was very ill, and in a few minutes it
died.
A special . .
imnagrant train frorn New
York bound for Chicago passed through
Stratford Sunday. While stopping at
the depot a little chid about 18 menthe
old died. The corpse was taken along
to be interred when the parents arrived.
at the end of their destination.
i—Peelestrians on Ontario street,Strat-
ford, the other evening after the heavy
rain werenot a little amused at a warp-
ing notice attached to a stick which was
standing in the middle of a hole in t 'e
pavement with about three inches
water in it. The notice read " Bewa
from far distant points on this con-
. .
linent took place a few weeks ago at a a lake."
—The picnic held on Monday latit
Winnipeg hotel. Among them was
week, at the church west of Gowrie, an
Chief Factor Cannel' and Chief Trader
connection with the Friends' Bible
Reid, from a part of the Arctic Circle on
School was a splendid success. The
the Mackenzie River; Mr. W. H. Gra-
attendance was even greater than was
ham, from the Athabasca ; Factory
anticipated, as the turrounding country
Chief Graham, from Norway 'lenge, oirn
was all well repreeented and also some
in -
of —thOeirewetnesr.ning to Portage la Prairie
from their trip 1.-. the old country Rev.
Capt. Lloyd is now raising the vessel,
says an exchange, and he lute invited a
party of bosom friends to be on hand
when she reaches the serface, in oder to
sample the whiskey that has been in
cold storage at the bottom ofi Lake
Superior for ten Years.
—John Woods, of Strathroy, lhad a
narrow escape .from being asphyiated
while staying at the City Hotel, Lon-
don, -last Friday night. When ex-
tinguishing the gas light he turned the
meter too far, thus letting it' ; again.
He was unconscious when found not
morning, and it required a gooddeal of
hard work to restore him.
—At Wookstock some daya ago,- the
American Express agent received% tele-
gram that a. heavy case would arrive on dred head of cattle and sheep have been
the 5,20 express, aud that he must be exported. One buyer alone recently
ready to remove it quickly. He was— shipped from the Manitoulin 100 head of
and the box, containing a new dynamo, claim and 700 sheep. Cattle and sheep -
weighing 5,000 pounds, shipped from raising will some day in the near
Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the Woodstock future be one of Algoma's most impor-
Electric Light Co., was removed from tent industries.'
the car in four minutes. —A group of the Webb family repre-
-David Ferguson, Napier, was senting four generations, preeented
severely injured on Sunday morning by themselves at Cooper's photographic
his bull. He was out in the field where studio, London, the other day, to be
the animal was when the enraged beast photographed. A fifth generation being
made a, rush at him, pitching him several represented by a daguerreotype. A
feet into the air, and after hie! decsent curious and noteworthy coincidence is
began attacking him again. The man's that the living persons photographed
cries artraeted the attention of one of not only represent four generations, but
his neighbors, who came at onae to his they arefour first-born children, they
assistance. are four sons, and they are four Wil-
-On Tuesday last week George liems—anovel quartette. The daguerreo-
Davis, of Uhthff, came to Orillia on his type of the deceased Mre. Webb was
way to Toronto Exhibition. He called taken about 30 years ago 'oy the late
at Rev. J. II. Armstrong's to see his John Cooper, of London.
daughter, who was employed there, and —A gatbering of Hudson Bay officials
complained of not feeling well. Going
to the Russell House he received med-
ical attention. He grew rapidly worse,
however, and died shortly after noon on
Wednesday, the direct cause of death
being heart disease.
—They- are having an exciting time
with thieves in Colchester. Absalom
Quick, of the Potleg road, has a fine
peach orhard, and the thieves have
been paying him nightly visits. The
other night they stoned him ont of bis
orchard, and he went to his house and
loaded up an old horse- pistol. He fired
and the bullet struck one of the thieves
named Kislinger in the shoulder, pro-
ducing a wound that may prove fatal.
—Tne idonetany Times says A sub-
scriber from a thriving western town, in
expressing himself on the improved
prospects for this fall's trade, gEtvp this
as an indication of the present condition
of the farming coimnunity in his local-
ity : " kfarmer came into our store
•the other day to buy a rubber cpat. He
wasisoon suited. I saw he wasn't in a
haggling ' mood, and after he had
bought a $3 hat he asked if we couldn't
throw off 25 cents from the total ur-
n the safe previ• chase Of nine dollars and a half. his
ture field.
—The Rev. A. H. Drumm, of Avon
ton, was married at Georgetown on
Thursday 10th inst. On his arrival
the Nelson River; Cuthbert Sincl
formerly of_ieiford House on Lake W
nipeg ; Kenneth McDonald, from
siar distric ', on the Rocky Mountains
, Peter Wright, 13,, D., formerly of Strat-
and Chief Factor McFerinear the Yukon River, close to • Alaska,
ford, was presented by the Young
ane, who also address,
People's society of Knox elaureh with an
lives so far north ou the Mackenzie that
study larrip,and Mrs. Wright was made
accompanied by a ' beautiful
he does his reading in summer by he
light of the midnight sun. These men :
rarely have a chance of nieeting each
the recipient of a handeOme silver pud-
other, and still more rarely do they get.
to a comfortable modern hotel, such as
the Queen's in Wineipeg.
—Mrs. Seebach, one of the very oldlest
settleraof the Huron district, pas ed
;
away Saturday a2th inst., at the r si-
deuce 6f her son Lewis, in Listowel, nd
was hurried beside her late husband,iat
the Lutheran church two miles west of
Sebringvill, on the fella:min Mond&v.
ding dish.
—A laugh was had at the expense of
a resected citizen in Listowel who
thought to please hia wife by purbasing
apiece of silverware at an auction rale
the other day. His wife was preterit
and took a notion to the ssme article
and they being mutually ignorant of
each other's presence bid against each
other, but the wife was finally victori-
ous at about three times the amount of
She was ha her 75th year szuT succn the original bid.
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