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The Huron Expositor, 1891-10-02, Page 1m 44. NU. A our order stance bit, as ember week 1)48) IT new iflery dY to lorrow Indinz waft track sport& Bapect- Tr;very is the in ex- trenise gh this , comes , Kerr t little 'moved erably. 1i into George re this chased 41 fact !. to be dap is is only , ta last return- tda in liiliam_ of fa, i highs ill will borate ,: -Black i black - he has, irkina, dition. Med_ to< in and Welt& tips,— isiting ilia,— ! theme echool int in Mat to the iiitticti traitry ! short e seen r our S and ef the ive to We !: boys Oore.' re as as ement lspecte , ' ' - eIrotate Which ,esday ll ate time ' for a i . 4 for, ! done r more L tea - ;attune a will &even .flow- ed to ell-, oi After graph eagre- e sold meeds i good LeMil- sti- wance, liwasf ieman Sab- ie Old ering- Mag- Meeks rM.. A - On on Imany 'labor *part when , , TWIINTYTUIRD YEAR. WILGUS NUMBER 1,242. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891. LMoLEAN BROS. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. 0. GILROY, the People. We are now ready to do busi- ' aeas with you, and we are happy to Bay that our position is snch that we are able to give you. such aajiction as you could only hope to rective in the large Centres of Trade Fashion. We have packed au place with the Best and New-, et Stuff to be found in the princi- pal ViTholesale Centres of the Do- minion. Already we have gained the reputation,of keepingnot a trashy, cheap, low-grade stock, but al4Tame for fligh-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 eflorts. OUR DRESS AND MANTLE11.1.A.KING DEPART- MENT has developed into a most =qualified success. When we be- gan 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 be suited at once. The same may be said of the Mantle and Cloaking Goods. Come and see us. O. GILROY' , CLINTON. SIGHT SEEING IN SCOT- LAND. (Written for The Expositor. Timm was devoted to Hugh and a waI of three miles broug Oromarteri the place of his birth. arty reminded us of Bayfield. once an important fishing villag , butlof late no new buildings have btea added and many that are there are in quite a t dilapidated state. Still the ni(=ogles of the past nisde the place quit inter - eating to us. . The roads here ar e fine, so hard and clean. The .treetal in the towns and villages are swept every day, which makes the piece have a very tidy and clean appearance. Passing along the road near Cromarty we met several bare-footed fisher women,with ?reels on - their backs,going to search of log -worms for bait. They get them in the sand out a mile or two frone the village. It seemed to me they had a burdensome life walking miles with their' creels on their backs. Cromarty harboe was the first real at- traction. We Were much surprised at the number of vessels -anchored there. The day, though quite warm, portended a storm. We were told here that there was not another harbor in the United kingdom opal t Cromarty foe safety. Once through tlie sutures the largest vessels are, Bemire from the wildest storm that may blow. The thought oc- curred to me that it was a mat pity that it was not attested where there was more traffic. Once in the , village, Hugh Miller filled our thoughts, so we turned our feet in the direction of his house, The house he was born in is still standing and has lately been repaired by his son from the West Indies. It wee built in the year 1711 atid there is an ! old ser - Miller, t us to Crom- It was vant there who t and shows visito unprententious thatehed, built the road. A s been inserted i night to look out. of hi neighbor sniftin • angered him and, ry and rezover hie ortunately fdr hi wever it aronsed heart that When h de his familyelprom side of the g te of t on the resu the first to g cause and g s °emptied sides with mime to put th on his g o was done s ce was almo ices charge of, the place L8 through it. It lea small stone dwelliOg, straw ith the gable end to all plate of granite has the 'end with his name, his Th to un 11 hi ou th be hi 11 Pr ea al ye be to tri in we Tr fin si of th date of birth and death inson ed on it. Paasing through an iron gate We knock- ed at a low dooe, around and over which climbed a beentlul bramble b'sh. Being lt admitted we too one step dowil and eight tiup, a pieoe f rope acting as a battle trade, to the reoms where the relics are kept. The !first room we entered contained three show cases 8 feetby tvvo and a half. - In one were spe linens of fossilized fish, in the thir shells. Al were neatly la the centre of the room stood . From Hematite to Hardware.[wITTE:s YOB. TILE EXPOSITOR.] The old out nail is gone—poor, old, I'mh, brittle fellow, that could Dever stand the strokes of any but a professienal hemmer. In his place tam come the bright, dapper steel wire nail, with sharp point, corrugated neck and circular crown. He never !loses his head when buffeted by unskilled hands and may be bent, • clenched and re - straightened without losing his temper. He is a dlrect descendant of the red irea ore that is found in abundance along the shores of Lake Superior, Smelting is the first process, the huge !furnaces, that may be seen in every little town and city' in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, are charged froni the top with ore, limestone and coke or coal in carefully weighed quantities; the lime- stone serves as a sort of strahaer to separate the metal from the foreign sub- stances with which it is combined. The ore could not be smelted without lime- stone any more than without coal, and, indeed, sand for making moulds is in- dispenaribIe too. The air that is blown into those blast furnaces is first heated in large iron chanabers ; blast of cold air would lower the teroperatare of the fire. The molten iron is run into moulds three or four feet long,four or five inches deep, and two or three wide. This ia pig iron, each bar is called a "pig," and the big one, formed in the passage, or holloway, so to :Teak, is called " the old sow." The whole looks like an im- . desk, and arm" chair. The the one on whiith Hugh Miller had done most of hi" w iting. It bor evidences of it too, in th In the high ba for holding specimensiA sey that I,hav fortable ones. fossilized ailed. In LIS writing desk was shape of ink tains etc. k of the desk were niches anuscripts, letters and out the arm chair I must sat in much more corn - Under the sh w case in this room la bound copi a of " The Witness "Idle paper he editedin Edin- burgh, and through which e did such good service for the Free church, the disruption. In the next recti t in t jus ith, hini o ma aye • that • t for • window and saw the line fence. he went to law lost ground, but , he lost the case, much enmity in was dying, he se to bury him the cemetery, sg morn he would Heaven to plead ice. His request t hie enemy, to be made his heirs y cart loads of very year. This through time the otten, but a few from Edinburgh he story and paid ed up." Thin is ge to say, many scions of it, while mg to see the spot. way birds have rs ago a gentlerne ame interes d in aye the spit tid e history AD stra Cromarty ar Imo did so much ram ia it is that 'Far feathers." fore we go baok were stay in • . the . Walking here as it is word "b chine or dogcar ro gh as our w ci ies the wheel as ur wagon w ri e very easy. aturday we In 'ernes'. W ea the court h pa streets of t an a half in F hi 1 to the towe L rd Nelson. ca e inside. T fo m of the rig w repays ma es di sti oa room stood three • sitnilar cases. The tune of the ing, both poetry and prose his early firat contained his first atterript at writ - drawings nd,Enctid all done with his own handl. In the second his correspon- dence was ketlt. Many interesting docu- ments were !here. One from Queen Victoria to bis wife after his decease, also hie last letter to his wife. Several were from and state, femme. Ag that I ha book wit I would 1 the third fled. In the fashioned the visito noticed n spent a very enjoyable couple of hours _romping about in the surf and on the sand{ After our " swim " we walked around, viewed the town and ate pop corn. Two of us went up to the tok of the 'obser- vation tower and got a tine view of the surrounding country. This'tower is a -skeleton structure of steel and is said to be 350 feet high. Another thing well worth seeing is a large, wooden summer hotel, built in the shape of an elephant. It is familiarly known as the Coney Island Elephant, and its huge form can be distinguished . for miles. Whether it has been a success as a hotel or not, I can't say. Having seen about all there was to see and get- ting tired of loafing around, we bade farewell to Coney Island, and after a short ride by train and a delightful sail over the inner bay we landed in New York. LYONS'. Lyons' is a large restaurant on the Bowery with an individuality all its own. There is probably not anoth- er quite like it- in the world. It has as great a name in this section as Daimon- , ice's has in the upper and more aristo- cratic part of the city. You can get a good solid meal any time for amuarter, and can add on as much more as you wish. If you are " broke " you can get filled up for ten < or fifteen cents with good wholesome food, or if you happen to be " flush " you can get rid of a dol- lar without any apparent difficulty, or even aeveral of them. Mr.Lyons start- ed in a small way only a few years ago, but the merits of his place were soon recognized, and now he feeds thousands to Allerton, where hree miles seemed a not thought so much t ho ggy" , and gomi of t so we wr of repres this room out of th effice. place tol very an -mallet or prominent men in church !such as pr. Rutherford, Pro - said etc. I 'regretted much not taken pencil and note me. There was to much that ke o have jotted down. In were shells ORS ent ma ne te nti sto de he us iou mense red hot grid iron, half buried in sto sand-, The stuff is used for .ballast on is in the oss railways and instead of gravel on road- ways. The next step is the manufacture of steel " brooms " or " billets," out of the pig iron, although scope -iron is put to this use. The billets are about four inches square and four feet long. Them are then taken ta the rod and wire mid, heated to a white heat, passed between a series of rollers until the short thiek billet has been stretched out into a coil of wire many feet in length and of the tlaickness desired for a nail. The nails are made out of the cold wire by machines that require scarcely any attendance. The wire is - straightened, a head put on the end, groovea hollowed out on both sides to give the nail grip, cut off the proper length pointed and all this is done so 2 quickly that you cannot follow the -pro- cess when the machine is going at its ordinary rate. A few dozen busy threshing machines would be delightfully quiet neighbors compared with an hun- dred of those small nail machines. A hollow notching cylinder containing a few quarts of saw dust wipes off the oil receive(' by the liana in their passage through the machine, and a sieve takes ont all the small pieces of iron or broken nails that may have found their way into. the pan. There,in the other ware- house, in the quiet repoae of a keg, you would not recognize in the nail of com- merce the red ore you saw in the shed at the fanaace, -P. Q. e of the room opine?. table a ook.. Glancing over it I frora the cou ty of Huron, t: urs end had the pleasure g out' county. At one end of d a small hall table made k he used in the Witness ld lady in charge ot the hat Hugh Miller's son was to possess his father's e hammer, which I believe salon of a matt near Hamil- ton. We tent red the room he was born in and noticed the photo of John KDOX scending the entered the t cakes were oing through d some ivy home to Can- to the spot. of the house Outside the ands Miller's countrymen. ot ascertain, thought it at gh ineluding statue at the top of it, with his face to- ot yet classi- stood his old d on it lay e. You never hear here, it is ma - they are about as ride in. In the e cabs are as stout eels, !at home, but they spen wen use a e cit Me, bui Itis e top ing o for t the immedilte ne eases. Fo rounded- b enjoy the w thout expos A HOBO ablishment or t situ hill. mou re to S GHTS AND hanging on the wall. D steep narrow jistair case we living roOm here some o toasting before the fire. the back garden I pick which intend bringing ada in memory of my visit A steep street at the bac leads up to the cemetery. cemetery on a lofty hill a monument, erected by his Its exaot height we did but judging by the eye w least one hundredfeet `'--On Saturday, 19th ult., Mr. Wm, Gray had the ends clipped off two of his fingers while using the buzz planed in the Union Furniture Factory, Wing - ham, and on Tuesday of lest week- Mr. Jas. Hamilton ha,d three fingers badly cut, while at work in the same factory, sight seeing in up castle hill and d jail and princi- . We spent a day climbed the .cluny It in inemory of uare with a stair is finished _in the _a ship. A grand Bing to the top. gbhorhoocl is an e curing of lung tion it is unique, and trees. You tains and sea air t. Y IN SCOTLAND. SCENES IN T NEW K. (Written for T EXPOSITOR.) LI ER O. VIII. c Whether C Land or only oast I never e purposes f this article it doesn't ue,h matter. Suffi!ce it to say that at e time it w s the 'most popular sum- er resort ne r Nev York. Now, how - ver, it haihve y m y attractive rivals •i ad is not pat oniz by the best class f people, bu ' itil it enjoys probably wider celebrity than any of the others. 1 4twiteuntet,adnodwani ne S turday this summer ith a party to see the bee oney Island ,e osed of man ta level best noney with he minimum of exertion rom the gull ble p blic. It is a city of ; aloons, concert h Ils, side shows and fakirs. Youl Ian from the train in a remendous `f L " shaped building, one ing of whiCh is yccupied by shooting alleries, phonographs, candy stands, tc. I thought I would try a phono- graph, and got one in which was a brass band with a cracked voice. It appeared to me the tune had rheumatism in its lower limbs; it cotildn't walk steadily; it kind of hobbled and jerked along. I've had_bad luck with phonographs. The first (moil ventured ta tackle was in Detroit. There was one in the depot with a sign that r the slot, pull the hear 'The Band sung by -ems—, •' pulled the handle to materialize. T me the machine wouldn't work. I haven't nearly so good an opinion of Edison as I used to halm. Other striking features of the place are an artist who makes a crayon portrait of you from life for a quarter; a woman with a *heel of fortune, and another wonian in la gaudy cabinet, who tells fortunes by the science of palmis- try. The other wing of the -building bontains a large coMcert hall, where the, programme goes �n all day and night. The "open !sesame " is, the price of a !glass of beer. . The first thing outside that attracts' our attention was a piece of mechanilsm with the euphonious name of " Razzleddazzle." It is a ibrt of compromise between a swing and a merry-gomonnd. As far as I could make NY ney I a part ould LAND. land is really an of the Long bland make out, but for wards the sutors, his around him. A specinae hand and the other resting books at his side. Near by stands the Gaelic Chapel built in the last century. Descending the hill we went to see the Established church, built over three hundred years ago. From there we went to the Cromarty gardens. After the few hours we had been living in the ant it was very pleasant tie come back scotch plaid of rock in one on a pile of to the fruit and flower grapes in the hot ho tempting. To fruit we treated there. We pass tong tunnel up to Creme out to the graveyard t a tells us of in hie "Legende of the north o Scotland." To those who have not rea the story it is worth repeating : "Long mia ago there lived in Cro arty two mer! under the one roof. Th garden at th4 back of the house was qually divided between therm The on, a shoemakeri fancied that his yard was getting smallee but could not account f r it. Day after day the place was noticably growing less and less. He was greatly puzzled, but one night being ill, he rose up in the th er hal defi par o ex fellows from the In- ing seen all there was ition I can give of vast machine cern- each part doing tact the maximum of every day and pockets a handsome, though well deserved profit. The place is not stylish, -it makes no pretence that wemat all, but everything is as clean and neat as is possible where so many come and go; the waiters wear neat, white jackets and aprons • the food is wholesome and you get lots of it, and the building,no matter what the season, is always comfortable. Lyons' is what might be called an intensely cosmopoli- tan place. The aristocrat is he who most liberally fees the waiter ; the plebie,n, he who fees not at all. You may meet there a representative of any class from a pickpocket to a clergyman. One day a big, burly fellow with an un- der jaw like a bull dog came in and sat down at the table I was at. Ele rather worried than ate hie food, and when he got up and went out "John," one of the waiters, told me he was a pugilist. By the way, John himself is quite a character. He is stout and pleasant looking, always good natured and oblig- ing, with a word for everyone, and he never forgets ameorder or a preference. He probably getstrour oe five dollars a day in tips in addition to hie regular wages.' When you(eit down at a table, you may have opposite you a soldier, a sailor, a fireman, a theatrical manager, an acrobat, a professional gambler, a doctor or a divinity student, and the man by your side may be a bunco steer- er, a safe cracker, a detective, "wan av the foinestm in full lig, or a newspaper man. In fact you may meet a repre- sentative of almost any nation, calling or profession, or one iof that numerous class who have none of these, only brains and the ability to spend money lavishly when they have it, or live ap- parently on nothing when they haven't it. It is unnecessary to say, under the circumstances, that the range of sub- jects you hear discussed is rather astounding. At five o'clock every morning anyone who wishes may go in and get his fill for nothing, as they give away what remains of the food cooked the dam before. Apparently there is honor even on the Bowery. I have been in Lyons' a good many times and yet I never saw anyone try to defraud the proprietor, theugh that would be an easy matter as a 'rule. When you are through eating the weiter hands you a check for the amount of your bill and you in turn give this to the cashier near the door with the money necessary to cover it. As there is generally a crowd near the desk and everybody is engrossed in his own affairs nothing would be easier than to gip out with the check in Your pocket, and walk out with the reet of the folks, yet, as I said, I have never eeen it dome or even attempted. One day I_ changed my clothes before going over to dinner and forgot to change my money with them. When I felt in rnyTocket for the money to pay my check there was none there, and I was in a fix. I turned from cold to hot and vice versa, so quickly it's a, wonder my boiler didn't burst. I explained my predicament to the cashier, and luckily he knew me by sight, so I was 0. K. THE WANDERER. paralyzed the body he suffered no pain, and yet his mental faculties maintained their natural vigor, and with his own hands be rendered no small assistance in the efforts at.extrication. The fatal occurrence took place at 11.30 and he breathed his last at 6 o'clock in the < evening. --At the Toronto Industrial Fair' Miss Emily Williams, of Watford, was awarded secood prize for a drawing room scree.n. —Mr. John °Dunn, a well-known Hamilton lover of sport, died unexpect- edly on Friday. He was an enthusiast in rowing, and was always on hand when a big race or a regatta took place. —Mr. A. Hagle, of Warwick, Lamb - ton countymame near being killed lately by a drove of cattle crowding hint against the side of the barn. He got off by three or four ribabeing broken. —A splendid new schoolhouse will be opened at Drumbo before the close of this month. Hon. G. 'W. Ross, Mini- ster of Education, is expected to be present at the opening. —A number of farmers around Paris have been shipping turnips already to Buffalo. Notwithstanding the heavy duty on produce going to the other side, they are obliged to buy turnips from our Canadian farmers. —Mrs. Clark, the 'widow of J. A. Clark, of Drumbo, who was accidentally shot by the discharge �f a gun, has just got a settlement with the Foresters. She received a cheque for $1,000, being the amount for which her late husband was insured. —A man calling himself Joseph Smith, who has been going around the country asking and receiving almii 012 the plea that his arm was broken was arrested i at Sarnia the other day a d on examina- tion the arm was found t be all right. He had it done up in plaider of Paris. —While Mr. N. P. Dunn, of North Oxford, was working on his farm one day last week, a sneak thief entered his house and stole $35 in cash and a new suit of clothes. The clothing was subse- quently found hidden ia an` adjegiiiing field. No clue to thethief. —Mr. Geer, of Canning; who had been shipping some hogs, had more than ! he could comfortably put in the cars,! and kept them over in the pens, at Paris I Station, which is contrary to the by- law, in consequence he was fined $1 and costs. —The winners of the Ontario Jockey Club races on Saturday were Ayrshire' Lass, Glee Boy, 13ullfinch, Mackenzie,' Long Shot and 13ob Thomas, The first three are owned by Mr. Wm. Hendrie," of Hamilton, president of the jockey" club. gardens. The se looked very are generously d through a ty house and Hugh Mille ad "Put a nickel in handle, and you will Play Annie Laurie,' I put the nickel but the is -and failed en a small boy told was out of order and the latter a former neighbor and intiinate friend of Mrs. Mitchell, went to Toron- to' that evening. About 1 30. a. m. on Tneeday the afflicted lady died. The r mains were brought home and yes - t rday afternoon were interred in Ayr c metery. Mrs. Mitchell was formerly h iss Janet Gerrard, whose, father form- eely 'resided on the farm still occupied le Mr. Mitchell. One son, Mr. James II Rebell survives her. eShe was aged sixty-five years. ! —The unfortunate man Coats, whose arraignment a year ago before the eoroner at Mount Forest, on the charge cif drowning a baby in a cistern, will be elemembered, died the other day at the 4sylum in Hamilton where he was oom- Mitted after his trial for infanticide. His body was taken to Holstein for in- terment. —A peculiar battle took place at eel's one day last week. A swarm of lack ants and another of red ants were bserved to meet in the air, and were ugaged in a hot contest for quite a !while, the black ants getting the beet of lit all through, and eventually brought !the battle to an end on terra firma by !pulling the redrants to pieces. —A young 'woman named Maggie !McMillan, visiiing at G. W. Hutchin- lson's ranch, Springbank, Alberta, was terribly burned on Friday. She was starting a fire with coal oil, when an explesion occurred in which Miss Mc- Millan was badly burned about the limbs and abdomen. There- is very little hope of her recovery. —Three Gaelph men, who are nearing " the end of their term in the Central prison, were given their third and last flogging on Tuesday morning of last week. The three men committed an as- sault on a girl named Elizabeth Rich- ardson, two years ago,:and were sen- tenced to two years in the Central prison and three floggings each with the —The Messrs, Wolverton, of the Wolverton Milling Company, have be, gun the erection of a handsome grain elevator close teethe station at Drumbo. out it is intended of a ship at sea. by is a maze of wi o imitate the motion Another fake close re netting where you can get loet foe the small sum of five cents, and if youj fail to find yourself you just holler and one of the attendants does the rest. Feom here we went, to a bathing pavilion, passing several large steam merry-go-rounds with loud-vbioed mechanical I organs, saloons and beer gardens without number, and a large and varied lassortment of all the fakes you ever saw, in a lifetime at fall fairs gr rac track. The streets are wide, . straight and well paved, but most of the buildings are of a nomewhat flimsy character:: 1 At the pavilion we each got e . a bathing snit and a dressing box, the key of whibh we were to hang around our necks with a rubber band. Bathing' suits are great levellers and no respeetors of persons.; Even the President could- n't look dignified in one. I'll never for- get the sty of the young -man who took his best girl down to Coney Isla,nd for an afternoon's surf bathing. When she appeated in -bathing mg he didn't , recognize her and ' refused to belitve , the feed board and slipped slowly into even when she protested with tears that I the cylinder, which, revolving at light - she was herself, but kept waiting for a ning Speed, literally ground his leg to girl who never came. When we had 'eces from sole to hip. Surgical aid donned our rigs we proceeded down a long covered walk to the back where we heir to 875,000 startled the community not many weeks ago. Her married life has not been a happy one, and she was deserted laet year by her husband, since which time'she has been staying with her mother in the -city. bout midday on Friday the unfortun te young woman took a large dose of oil of tansy, and was s found by her mother'a couple of hours insensible. The removed to the under close medi- ught now that she later lying on her be half-dead woman wa City hospital, where cal treatment it is th will recover. —Mr. John Kelly, of North East - hope, won a large number of prizes for sheep at the Toronto Industrial, —Benjamin Newstead, Esq., died on Saturday, 19tla ult., at the residence of - his eon -in-law, Mr. Wm. Martin, near Canning, in the 89th year of his age. The deceased left England in the year 18t36, from Yarmouth, and crossed the ocean in the ship Wellington, and made the trip in seven weeks and four days (on the same ship with Mr. Wm. Revell) and came up the St. Lawrence 012 the old Durham boat some times drawn by oxen and some times by horses. He -settled on a farm west of Paris Station, and for a number of years carried OD farming successfully, -and accumulated considerable wealth and was known as a very honest and careful man. —James Doherty, for some time Ham- ilton correspondent of the Temente Em- pire, and ale° for a time on the Hamilton Spectator staff, died at Denver, Colon"- - do, last Saturday. Being stricken with consumptiou, Mr. Doherty -underwent the Koch treatment in Hamilton city hospital, but not being materially bane - fitted he went to Denver, and again in a hospital there was treated with the Koch Lymph and sent out as cured. Re- cently, however, he suffered a relapse, and death ended his sufferings. De- ceased was greatly respected, being of a kindly and generoes disposition. A widowed mother is left in Hamilton to mourn his loos. —A sad and serious accident occurred on Wednesday evening of last week, by The building will be about fifty feet high, which Wm. Brown, a well-known, pros - and will have considerable storage ca- perohs farmer near Innerkip, had both pacity. It is intended for use in the his legs broken. Mr. Brown, with other spring time, when the roadeare bad, as neighboring farmers, was assisting frequently all communication between Francis Malcolm to fill a silo, when, on Wolverton and Drumbo gets cut off. quitting work for the evening, Mr. —During the severe thunder storm Brown undertook to throw off the driv- ing belt connecting the engine with the which oecurredon Saturday night, 19th inst., the lightning struck a large tree cutting machine. The belt was running at a high rate of speed, arid by some near Mr. James Smart's barn, close to m Ingersoll. The electric fluid ran alongeans caught Mr. Brown in its folds and swept him with the rapidity of lightning a barb wire fence from the tree to Mr. Smart's pig pen, knocking off the boards up to and against the cutting machine. He could not lahnself believe at first that and killing one of the porkers. The rest of the herd were badly stunned, but ha was much nurt, but it was soon found that both legs were broken, splin- no further damage•was done. ters of bone protruding in a sickening —Mr. David Elliott, of the 10th con- manner. Drs. Rice, of Woodatock, and cession, Blenheim, Oxford county, rem C,tement, of Innerkip, were sent for and dered valuable assistance by signalling set and dressed the injured limbs, which a train on the C. P. R. at the time of the painful operation was borne manfully by washout near his farm on August llth, Mr. Brown, and without the aid of any and thus prevented heavy damage to anaesthetic. Mr. Brown is reported to property and probably great loss of life. be doing as well as can be expected. A few days ago he received $10 front the company, together with a pass entitling —On Weduesday night last week, after the family of Duncan McDonald, him to travel free over the C. P. Be e .Mr. Elliot modestly says he but did his depaty reeve of Matilda, and residing duty. - near 'Morrisburg, had retired, Miss —Mr. and Mrs. Leonard, of Aylmer, Jennie McDonald was diaturbed by a slight leek° coming from under a toilet parents of Mr, W. E. Leonard, of St. table in her room, and fired a pillow in Thomas, celebrated their golden wed - that direction, supposing that a mollies ding a fea days ago. Mr. Leonard,who is 75 years of age, was born in Syracuse was therm when a man jumped from under the table, with the pillow in one and came to Elginrmarly" in the thirties. hand and a revolver in the other. The villian made straight for Miss McDonald, who sprang up and ktiocked the revolver out of hi q hand and grappled with him. The chairs, tables, lamps, etc., were turned upside down, but • still Miss McDonald never lost her nerve. The brute got Miss McDonald by the throat and pounded her unmercifully for a time, but it did not have the desired effect, so he bolted down stairs, and passed the servant girl on the v,ay. Both Miss McDonald and the girl recog- nized the scoundrel as a young man who had previously worked for Mr. McDon- ald. He left his ehoes, revolver and knife- behind. Barry Gale, the young man in question, was captured in Madrid, New York, and brought to Morrisburg. Gale confessed everything and was com- mitted for trial. —An exciting encounter, which was the cause' of a good deal of rnerriment to persons who witeessed it, took place on Queen street, near the Daily News office, Berlin, on Saturday. The News, which Is edited and published by Mr. P. E. W. Moyer, haft been attacking Mr. D. McDougall, ex -registrar for the county, for some sixteen months past in- s series of articles on his management of the registrar office and his conduct gen- erally as registrar. Many of these arti- cles have contained charges of the gros- sest kind, anclhave been generally re- garded as offensive and brutal in their character. The News of Friday even- ing ;contained another of these attacks, whieh the ex -registrar evidently decided - to resent by corporal punishment. Ac- cordingly on Saturday afternoon, Mr. McDougall, who was awned with a horsewhip, met Mr. Moyer and lashed him aharply with the whip over the bead and shoulder. Mr. Moyer, who had a heavy walking stick in his hand, sought refuge in Groff & Co.'s store near by, leaving his hat and sipectacles oil the field of combat. Mr. McDougall en- deavored to follow the retreating editor, but the door was closed. He then chal- lenged Mr. Moyer to come out and he would finish the castigation, but the latter did not accept the invitation, —The other day while Joseph Mahler, of the Forest drying factory, was riding along on his bicycle, he struck a high crossing while going at full speed, whic threw him about thirty feet. He sus tained severe bruises about the head an shoulders and was unable to work for couple of days. —The thirteen -year-old son of Mel Clement, a Union Point, Manitoba!, farmer, was playiog with a gun in the field, on Saturday last, during his father's absenee. The gun accidentally discharged, and instantly killed hie brother, aged five, the charge going• through the little fellow's heart. —Rev. W. J. . Dawson, an emine preacher, lecturer and author, of Gla, gow, Scotland, is:in Toronto. Five yeats of his ministry have been spent in Loi- His wife, nee Miss- Atlanta Culver, was don, where ho occupied the John Weald), born in Elgin _county, and is 71 years of Chapel in City row. The last thr4 age. Her mother, a lady of 90, is still years he has been minister of St.Johel's living and attended her daughter's gold - church in Glasgow. en wedding. —The biggest of all the big potatoes —Bothwell of late 'seems to have be - was grown this season on the farm pf come quite an Eldorado for robbers, Mr. John Munro, of Benningtois, -Ohn thieves and drunkards. Only about five ford county, and weighs three pounds. weeks ago Mr. Kinney was robbed of Mr. Munro would like to hear from idly $50 near his own house; about two other bachelor, or even benedict, wile) weeks ago Mr. 3ussex'e store was burgle - can produce anything that can beat the rized, and now comes the post -office above. Canada. Messrs. Hunter and Crossley have opened a series of evaugelistic meetings in Paris. —Rev. G. II. Davis, a noted Metho- . 1 —Mr. Paul Wickson, a promistrig dent one although only about $7 was young artist, of Paris, has attained min- taken. Drunkards stalk the streets in siderable celebrity from his artistic broad day and frighten and annoy painting of " Tristam " a fine horse, the people at night. property of Mr. Whitlaw, of Perlis. —Mr. Innes, the township clerli at This picture was exhibited at tihe Brookedale, Oxford county,disposed of a Toronto Fair, as was also his paintin of carload of fine cattle at a remunerating robbery, an exceedingly bold and impu- Mr. Conwortide Shropshire sheep. figure, fattened on a field of corn sown _Mrs. W. F. Pringle, a lady ab ut in June. A correspondent says the 55 years of age, living on Talbot str et Brooks district has nothing to boast of west, near St. Thomas, was gored by a but good roads, excellent cheese and an mad steer Saturday afternoon. One of extraordinary crop of corn. Messrs. her ribs was broken and her side bs4ly McDonald, Young, Innes and others bruised. The attending physician states have huge crops now ready for the silo. that it is hard to tell what the reslult, The clerk has another patch left for may be. winter feeding, Which has attained the —The German Jew from Bavaria, height of 14 feet. Adam Singer,who gave himself up abput —A sad burning accident occurred oa a week ago for burning the barns, grin, Saturday night at 3 Maud avenue, stock and itnplemente of Farmer Sn4der Toronto. Mrs. Mary Ann Crane, a at Thornhill as a revenge for being dim woman about 40 years of age andmother charged, was on Saturday sentenced j by of several children, went to bed about Judge McDougall to ten years in King- 9.30 and began reading a newspaper ston Penitentiary, after she had retired. Somehow or —Mr. T. B. Miller, cheese inspector, other it came into contact with the reports the following cases of milk tam- lamp, caught fire and soon set the bed- erin • Before J. Barker, J.P., at Tiv- clothes and her nightgown ablaze. She was badly burned over the entire body and it is feared she cannot recover. She was taken to the hospital in the ambu- lance. . Her husband is a gatekeeper 011 the Canadian Pacific Railroad. —Mr. John Hunter, of Plympton, near Sarnia, has recently become the possessor of two Dorset Horn ewes im- ported this summer from England by W. Ile Beatty, of !Westminister. The breed is as yet rare, in Ontario, and will doubtless be the niost profitable sheep raised in the Province. Although their average weight when full grown 18 up - quality of After a time, thinking the coast was wards _of 200 pounds, the clear, Mr. Moyer came out to recover tton is equal to the Southdown,wlaile on Saturday, 19th inst., four cl. t divine died at Peterboro on Friday erton, at the age of 72 years. . —Kenneth Murray, Tavistock, whose horse ran away with him on Saturday, inflicting serious injuries, has since died. , —Rev. A. J. Snyder, of Leamington, has been prostrated w,ith typhoid fever, but has now got the , turn towards re- covery. —A horse owned by Peter Dennis, of and stock raising, has Jest comple the 6th line of Warwick, worth $125, tour of Manitoba and the Northwest, choked to death on new oats one day and has decided to take up land wiith a lately. large party of North Dakota settlers in —Finlay Clark met an awful death on the Prince Albert district. Thursday last week while threshing at —The Ayr Recorder of the 24th ult., the barn of J. C. Huff, of Black River, says ; About three weeks ago Mrs. in Prince Edward county. Clark was Wm. Mitchell of the Blenheim terwnline coming down from the mow by way of went to St. John's hospital, Toronto, to the feed -table of the machine, and 'while have a surgical operation performed being warned of danger stepped upon . which it was hoped would prolong! her day. She appeared to be progressing favorably until last Friday whetma- favorable symptoms were manif sted. On Monday alarming tidings wer re- ceivedand Mr. Mitchell, accompanied by urgh, atrons of the Glammis factory were t $10 each and costs $6, and on Thurs two patrons of Star factory fined and costs' $6.50. He also has fur —Mr. Antoine Marcelin, tilted cases on band. ned Lay, $20 her United States mail contractor, of North Dakota, who had been eng for the pest ten years there in far Iga, ged ing d a was procured as apeedily as possible, but proved of no avail. As the shock Mr. D. Goldie and Mrs. S. Kingsb - the wool is nearly as fine Merino, but the most peculiar trait is their re- markable fecundity,. producing their offspring semeannually. —A young married woman in Hamil- the swinging horsewhip. A large c eon, nanaed Louisa DeGear, came very crowd gathered on the scene, and Mr. nearly, on Friday last, crossing Moyer was subjected to a good deal of that bourne from which no traveller has ever I guying and chaff. He left his retreat returned. Mrs. DeGear is a daughter of the bricklayer Robert King, the news of whoite alleged good fortune in falling his hat and spectacles, but was again met by Mr. McDougall, who was wait - lug in a doorway next to the News office, Mr. Moyer again retreated from bareheaded and under protection of the chief of police, who hat! ..1,reared to pre- vent any further hoetili'iee.