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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1891-10-23, Page 1e - TINENTY -THIRD YEAR. ItTliOLE NUMBER 1,245. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891. MoLEAN BROS. Publiehers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. J. O. GILROY, opii\Trz,ow.. MANT A Mantle rush b inskes big spaces in, day. People who other stores give ug ing the best assorta the lowest prices. only get every. one Jacket to look,here, very iew pircha where. Every con and size, beautiful i and the prices are a can be, what more itg a cheap -81a,nt ES. s set in that our racks every have been to credit for hav- ient in town at If we could who wants a there would be es made else- eivable shape -fit and finish, right as right an be desired? that's wanted, we OA suit you, f its More ele- gant stuff, they are here too. - NO IVIISi-AKE. Buyers should come threct to our establishraent. You can make no mistake, our took is replete with new Goods most desirable. New things cOmin to hand all the time, new black and colored Plush - es, new Flannelett s at Be per Yard,' new Grey Coton at Sc worth 10c, new Blankets, newlOomforters,new Grey Flannels at 19c, worth any where else '25c the cheapest Underwear iri the ounty. Dress- making is booming with us. The people have found out where the' style, fit, finish an comfort is to he found. J. 0. ILROY, CLINTON. Perth Ilems. Mitchell tome couviicil have an in- teresting law suit on hand. —Rec. A. F, Tullea of Mitchell, was last week called to the bedside of his mother, who is very iL, in Peterboro. —Mr. Alex. afeEivan has sila his. farm at Avant on for the stun of $3,100. MTalcEwen intends Moving to Harris - ton to cantinue farming. —FaIlertan ataple 'augers were busy loads of the fruit for Manitoba, and SIG TS AND SCENES IN AND ABOUT NEW YORK. (Written for Tim EXPOSITOR.) LETTER NO. IX. SOME TYPES. Some exceedingly "queer " have appeased and lingered horizon since I came here,— words have made the Icstitute head quarters for a time, and these while he moved among me his special confidante wh account of that subtle affinity exist amoug a certain class of whether from some other caus 't say. Anyway their friendship has doe me to tarm but on the contre y has, I hope, bro tdened by sympa.thies if noth- ing more. Besides that, I hair derived no inconsiderable amount of pleasure from the study of their chalet) ers and lines of tbought. If I could m ko you know them as I have known t rem, my ambition would be entirely sit; fied, but I ciinrot hope to do that in on letter, it woull take volumes and e en then one can bardly show with ink and paper that subtle spmethin which makes the personality and is t e essence of the charm, sa I must trust v ry lerge- ly to the imagination of my re ders. The fiist subject is "Jim ea is COM plate name was Jimmy J nkins, a typical street arab, born to po tarty, d- uettfed in the streets and radua ed from the sehool of experience. Ele-es fearliss, independent, yet SUB iCiOUS of everything and everybody a d elw es on his guar -J against surpris a of ny kind. I can see Jimmy yet s I ew him the first time. A sh rt, stu by body, with a fat rather intel igent ace and rcsy cheeks. Sleeping in agoss nd • boxes and living oa seven c nts a ay didn't have much effect o. Jim cheeks. He wss dressed i cloth. few SIZ-I'F.4 to large for him, he pant. of which were ornamented w.th a 11 go hole exhibiting a pair of fiery red under- garments. The suit had oac been b ae and Jimmy proudly told me e got it or eighty cents. His greatest charm as his intense hopefulnt S3 and an earn st way he had of speaking, whi h, with is pure Mulberry street " ccent as irresistible. Jimmy had ha his b ot blackening oatfit stolen and as a.nxi us to have another, but was de d broke, so we started him in business cents which he was to pay rate of ten cents a week. his name (he had learned t write a little at night agreement and had it all pa last week shipping car from Mitchell station other places. —Miss Kate Ric School Section No. been re-engaged for t the handsome salary o mond, teacher of near Poole, has e ensuing year at $450. —Rev. W. J. Brand n, of Monkton, has been sick again. His health lute been poor of tetLe, but is friends hope he may soon renover. —Mr.Tboniai Sherri formerly °a Mitchell, complimentery suppe place, by a number of Wednesday evening 1 —Mr. Frederick Te dent of Fullerton, is prestnt, from cancer His irecavery is rec ful. —Mr, James arwin, who carried on business in Atwood far meny yeers, is moving to Bruseels w the dry goods Outlines Bain, formerly of List —The Forreeters a ian Order of Forreste on Friday evening 6li Mr. Sim Fax played t a principal role. The. proceeda amou and the enterteinmen RUCC8138. I —IL. Francis who y, of Woodstock, was tendered a at the latter his old freinde, on st week. ry an old res - seriously ill at in the stomach. oned very doubt - aractrs 03 Ur n other. sort of each of • rna e ther ird s I ea ere he goes into with Mr. Mc- wel. Attwood, Canad- a, held a concert inst , at which ted to over $70 every way was a as received sup- port from the township o Fullerton for some yeare, was reported ill and unable to care for hiateelf. The council have agreed to get him int better quarters, and have souse one t he is 90 years of age. —Mr. Gearge Lar ford, ha3a turnip on weighs 25 pounds, a store, 'Mitchell, t her tunale the scales at , last was grown b Mr. John Etty, of Logan. —Mr. Michael Crowley, of Kinkora, returned home a week ago from western Kansa, where he bad been on a three week& visit to his brothers-in-law, Thos. Hyde and W. P. Smith. Mr. Crowley says the crops are large and the, country looks well, but he prefers to live in Canada. —Mr. Richard Wilkinson, of Logan, returned recently from a three weeks' outing in Muskoka. He says' that country is a very good place to go to in the summer months for re few eh week& coting, or rambling about for health or recreation, but it is not so good for farming. At the South Easthope and Zorra th Fair held last week e following is the actual measurement of some fine agri- cultural specimens : Squash, 6 ft. 2 in. in circumference; turnip, 3 ft. 2 in.; mangold, 2 ft. 6 in., and 22 inches long; potato, 18 inches in circumference; cab- bage, 3- ft. 6 in. —The other day while taking a cart load of stone to the kiln a horse belongM- ing to r. J. Selater, St. Marys, choked and lost his footing far the instant,when the.cart ran back, taking him along and tumbled down a high embankment through the roof of the sheds connected with the wood kiln'. When found the horse was sitting in the cart with no further apparent damage having been done than a pair of broken shafts. ke eharge of him; worthy, of Strat- exhibition which d at Davis' grocery e is a turnip that 281 pounds. This y's a with fi ty ack at the Ile signed read and hool) to the d in a week. But Jimmy had an over-weening ambi- tion that worked havoc with his busi- ness; he wished to be a tumbler in a variety show. pied all his thoeghts and his business whenever t chance to practise, so that tinually hard up. Finally his cherished outfit to bet tights. When I taxed him denied it, and said the man professional This occu- e neglected ere was a e wes con- e sold even a suit of with this he at the news- quaintance you will say audyet there a better side to his nature. He is war hearted and generous naturally, there a sort of sad resignedness to fate abo him that strikes _you and in spite of h serious failings there is an innate refin ment about him that wins your respe —almost. .'He has always had a bi salary, forty -to fifty dollars a week an expenses, and has ns,eer learned the va1 u of money or how to econoarize or save This summer be has to job and is dow in the depths. The best he can do i his dilapidated state is to get an ol job at dishwashing in a restaurant, an this, with an oecasainal boest and th hope of a sit when the season opens, ha kept him alive. We got talking one da about poetry and found out we bot hal a weakness for that beautiful poem' " Gray's Elegy." • From this we drift ed ta his life and experiences. It wa. the old story that makes one's heart ae.h S) often: "Jt might have been." II summed it up ahoet this way :1- " Whe I was young I wished to become an en gineer. I had mathematical ability an a love for such work. I might have ha a life worth living, but I got the chanc of a b;g salary in the show line, and took it. Now I am too old, my cours ia life is hid out and I beve no optio but to follow it." I will not so'on forg the hauntingsadness of those few word. very quietly spoken. The latsst addition to my subjects Col. A. H. Royal. The last name used for the occasion, it would hardly fair to give the right one. He is Southerner by birth, a membersof large family, everyone of whom occ pits a high posit;on in life. At fou teen he was in the Confederate Arm at seventeen he was a Colonel., t twenty-one a member of the No: Camilla,. Legadature. At that time h acquired a liking for liquor, the 'tee of which he hal not known befor Front politics he went into journal's has at two different periols owned p - pers of his own and has worked on leo •t •of the leading dailies in America. ke was on the "Herald " at the time Hen M. Stanley was employed by that pap and was personally acquainted wi him. But his liftehas been one consta battle with his enemy, whisky, and has gradually sunk lower. I saw hit to -day, after a three weeks' spree, dirts unkempt, almcst a wreck, begging f five cents for ear fare. He is little ov .forty, but to -day he looked almost slat He tad me he bad got to the end his tether, and was going to brace up, that he woula SSC me again before long, when he wouldn't have to be so ashamed of himself. I sincerely hope he wi 1 1. sacceed, but — well, why should I doubt it? • THE WANDERER. s'' boys' home had seized it fors unpaid lodg- ings and offered to brioit with him lg next time he came, but I never saw him again. I was sorry, for I liked him. He was so hopeful and sa mac in earnest, so innocent yet so depraved, a type to be found only in large cities,, The next type we will call P. G. Wolfricson, though that is not quite his right name. He' is tall and slight, light -haired and blue- eyed, with pronounced, shr aad a high-pitched voice medley is Wolf; a pronoun P. professed misanthrope, ewd features A strange ced agnostic, but tender hearted withal and overflowing with the milk of human kindness. He is an Englishman by birth, well educated and brought up, left by bis parents at their tence out of y those who ds, and sent money and his nature ceday, laut a death with an ample comp which he was " euchred" called themselves his frier out int O the world with n no profeesion. This soure and made him what he is t • • Antigonish County, Nova Scot*. [WRITTEN TOR VIE EXPOSITOR.] Of all the places washed by the Ga of St. Lawrence none excels in beaut the fine agricultural county' of Ant gonish. Its charming scenery and c cellent natural resources are the the of each and every one who has t pleasure of visiting its rural district, When I look around aid behold t glorious panorama everywhere unfolde to view, I cermet resist the overwhel lug impulse of raising my voice and a iterating in harmony the significant e prestions, " What resplendent beauty "What a striking illustration of man intelligence arid God's omnipotence I've never seen the oft -lauded lsk of Killarney, and the probabilitiea are never shall. Their fame has long be sounded, and whereventhe "art divin is practised, their charms find expre sion in music, both sweet and classi I am not going to compare Lochab Lake with Killarney, but I belie there .are certain features of this'sple did sheet of water, which will well co pare with any part of Nature's han work. • It lies in the extreme southwe of Antigonish county, and is about s • • bit of wreckage on the ssa of time, no miles long by three-quarters of a mi hope, no ambition beyond a living. He in breadth. Under the dazzling co has maeaged even to entirely eradicate pliments of a flickering sun the wat his English accent so that none can pot- itself appears to palpitate in the se consciousness of its own beauty. He and there along the shores can be se exquisite clumps of trees, hanging li curves of beauty over the grandtailuri reflection. Verily the poet woad moved to repeat here that " Angels often pausing there Doubt if Eden were more fair." The Summer School of Sciencek eo prising the teachers of Nova 'Scot New Brunswick and Prince Edw Island, held their annual meeting t year in the picturesque town of A gonish. Eight miles from town is well-known summer resort of Mahon Beach, along the sea -board of St. G ge's Bay. A more desirable haven rest cannot be easily found, and h have been erected two hotels fpr accommodation of the pleasure -eek Farther en !a'the rugged Cape Geo a good fishing station.Salmon, stern and cod have been very ple during the season. This, allied good prices, has rendered the -stu fishermen more than usually genial. Agriculturally Antigonish is pri pally a grain -growing county, eel animals and their products: Cer grow rerisarkably well. Wheat and in partidalar as respects length of at and head and plumpness of grain, pare most favorably with any I've seen produced in Ontario. The far ippear to realize *Italy the foll selling much of the crops from t farms, thus deteriorating the sail robbing it of the three essential cons ents of plant growth, viz., nitro phosphoric acid and Potash, which plant takes from the ground. By ing these plants to animals they their food to the extent of 12 to 20 cent.- -So in selling animals and products,only about 85 per cent - of substances which,the plant takes the soil is retained. Butter-makin the last few years- ban been languis sibly know he is an Engl shman. Ile laughs at the mention of patriotism and says it is simply a myth used by shrewd politicians to further thei own ends. 13 Poor old Wolf. Yet he ge erally has a place in bis room for Co eone poorer than himself and even when he is almost " broke" will buy a meal for another. Re is general agent for a patent sue- pender button and is a hustler to can- vass but his present plan is to extend his operations through others, having has several remittances rly as they his heaiquarters here. 11 agents on the road but the don't always come as regul should. One morning he came in ex- claiming, " Well i Of all 1ho fools I'm the king; here I've exist d for forty- eight hours, not lived, me ely existed, on a sandwich and a glass of milk, with fifty dollars worth of stock in my room. I thought the city was entirely worked out on the button racket but I had to do something so I went out this morning and how many do you think I sold? Why, sixty cents worth in minutes. I'm going over :square. I guess I'll ca,ny for a few hours a day after this," One day Wolf brought •n a straggler queerer than . himself, na ed Maurice Jacobs, who has been with us every day almost glace then. Maurice is thickset, swarthy and unprepostessing,with thick black hair, low forehead, rather coarse features, bushy, short moustache and about fifteen o get a good ss regularly i short neck. He s a nationality, nothing mucl and a theatrical manager He has been in every noo almost, of America, hay nected as business manag more or less successful variety shows. The as neeted with his business lized him till he has los his energy, his indepe moral sense. Not a ve ebrew as to at to religion by profession. and corner, ng been con - r with several burlesque and ociations con - have demora- his manhood, dence and his y desirable ac - whilst the cheese -industry is all the rage. During the past few yeara factories have been erected in quick aucoession, whese products, under tho superlinteudence of the most.elficient cheese-inakers attain- able, are gaining an enviable reputation in the markets. Canada. Captain John Trowel!, the well- known lake mariner, died at Kingston oa Friday. —The 250th annivereary of the found ing of Montreal was celebrated on Thursday, 15th inst. —Some of the public schools in Tor- onto have been closed on account of the prevalence of diphtherea. —The Ayltner canning factory is can- ning 600 bushels of tomatoes daily and evaporating 220 bushels of apples. —Young Brcs., Port Bruee took from their nets last week over twenty tons of fish, mostly blue pickerel. —Mr. Louis Kuntz, the welaknown brewer of Waterloo, died on Friday, 9th inst. Kuntz' lager is known All over Ontario. —The women employed in the eensus department at Ottawa made very much better wages than the men under the new system of piece work. —The city council of Winnipeg is about to.undertake $1,000,000 worth of sewerage, piving and either civic im- provements. — George Ryckman, Seven Mile Creek, Lincoln county, has sold about 4,000 baskets of peaches and expects as many more off four acres. — J. G. .Dark, of Glenford, county of Wentworth, has purchased the late Widow Rireal farm for the sum of $3,635. The farm contains 88 acres. —Valentine Guest ham sold his 100 - acre farm'lot 6, con. 71, Londoa 'town- ship, for $6,500 cash to Jamea H. Shoe - bottom, of Ballymote. • —De Illaqueire's mill, 3,000,000 feet of lumber and the surrounding tenements of Leg Lake, Muskoka, were destroyed bh fire on Wednesday last week. —An electrical apparatus has been supplied to a leading baker in Ottawa, by which all the bread ie mixed in one- fifth of the time it forMerly took and without being touched by hands. —The newly -appointed Tormato As- sistant School lospecter Chapman has been left $5,000 and some books by hie grendfatber, the late Thomas Williams, , of St. Thomas. —Mrs. Haven, of Fingal, was eatini chicken at dinner Friday when a piece lodged in her throat, and the physician was unable to remove it till the next morning. . —Dui A. A. McCriMmon, of St. Thomas, has been appointed physician of the new Allen Line steamer Numidian, and sailed from Montreal for Liverpool on Thursday. —Mayor White, of Parkhill, has gone to Colorado Springs, Where he will spend the wiuter, in the hope of bene- fitting his health. —The tubular bridge ;between Chem- bly Canton and Richelieu was destroyed by fire the other morning. The Richelieu paper mill was also consumed. Esti- mated loss, $153,000. —Rev. J. A. McDonald, of Toronto late editor of Knox College Monthly, has received a unanimous call to, the pastorate of Knox church, St. Thomas, ata salary of $1,800 per year. —Mr. J. B. Wateon, St. Marys, who has been ill in St. Thomae, is recover- ing, and lectured to a delighted audi- ence on Friday night. He is one of the vereofirst orators of the Dominion. —Mrs. George Mills, of Thamesford, fell a distance of 12 feet out of an apple tree, and broke her arm near the shoulder, and fractured the shoulder blade. —E. Tennant, V. S. of Lucan, lost a valuable brood mare, kosa L., the other day, valued at $600. She gave birth to a foal sired by Carlisle, and died in a few hours after. —Mr. Samuel Williams, a wealthy and philanthropic citizen of St. Thomas, has donated $500 towards the purchase of a site for the new Young Men's Christian Association building in that city. --Dr. Lafferty, of Calgary, the best known and most popular physician in the Territories, was stricken with para- lysis Thursday night, and he is now in a very low condition. He was the Liberal candidate at the Dominion elec- tions. 1- f - a, rd I8 ti - '5 r- bf re he TS. go, ob- • ty ith dy 1. II C;4 come over the ocean. Constable Huff- man introduced her to her erring hus- band, and she demanded the protection and asisstance of him who should be the bread winner. The gulf was bridg- ed over, and the reunited man and wife left for Windsor next day. —The other Cay two cows belonging to residenta of Waterford, met on the street. After sparring at each other for minutes a furious fight began, w en one cceeded in breaking the ther's neck d killing her instantly. —Rea. Father Fermin Vignon, S. T., died at.the Hotel Dieu in Montreal, on gundays aged 73 years. He had cele- brated bis golden jubilee, and only the previous Tuesday preached at a fetreat. —The Hon. Senator Gowan has sent the Rea. Dr. Grant $500 as a nucleus of a fund to establish a scholarship in the New Sdience Hall, Kingston or in other ways to be identified with the name of Sir John MacDonald. • —Edmund Wright, of Sackville, Col - cheater] South, assaulted Arnold Mc- Cormick, the teacher there and black- ened his eyes because he had punished Wright's son. Information has been laid against Wright for assault and battery. —In the vicinity of sides an old lady na who, the neighbors sa good evidence to be 104 years old, yet she is smarter than most women of one- quarter that age, and can actuelly threaa a needle without using eye-glasees. St. Thomas re- ed Mrs. Jones, is ktown on I wrote to a feller out here three miles wanting to trad? heifers with him, and dern me if I evee got 'an answer. You cau't fool me inth writin' again. Not by a long chalk. lo more letters for pe. I'll do without yhur bloomin' old wheat first." [ —Windeor ha& a trotting dog that is a woeder. He is owned by Willie Far- quier and the ray he reefs off a „half inile would make a pony turn green with envy. At the Driving Park the other afternoon he trotted the attire circuit without ta skip in 3:05. He is the winner of al number of prizes and has only one seperior in Canada, the trotting dog Dool --Mias Jerreie YiTood, Maidstone, says Henry G. Arnold, of the sarne place, is false and fickle, and she has entered a snit to recover $1,000 from him. Both parties belong to wealthy families. Ar- nold claims that the engagement was severed by mutual consent. A Windsor firm of lawyers 'represents Mies Wood,. and a Chathant firm represents Mr. Arnold. —On Friday, 'while removing a barn from the old Mottgomery farm, near St. John, Middlesex county, Bernard Flood, was seriously injured. The jarring of the building lohsened a -heavy beam, which fell, striking the man on the head, knocking hiin senseless and laying the skull bare 0 a considerable extent. A physician pronounced the wounds serious but not —Early on an incendiary concession of boye, by whic stables and ehdds of Mr. Artemus Bice, together with the entire creep of 200 -acres and a thoroughbred bell, were destroyed. Tito lots is estimated at $3,500; insurea for about $1,800 in the McGillivray Township Insurance Com- pany- Grant, of Sarnia, who -is sinking the gas well at Belleville, has struck a Etre te of rock which bears unmistakable evidence of silver and grey copper, but in what quantity cannot be stated until the quartz haa been examined in New York. The reek is found all the way from 160 to 200 feet, and Mr. Grant thinks it looks like- Colorado silver. Other local 'nen have given the same opinion. —Tbirty-nihe new postofficee were established throughout the Dominion since the beginning of the present month. Five of these are in Ontario, namely, Elm Tree, in Addington; Long te —Over 40 ca:s of small -pox are re- ported from various parts of Quebec, and the health authorities of Montreal are already making preparations to trekt the disease in CBSS it should break out in the city, as the scourge seems to- be,warking westward. --Mrs. Owen Hitchcox, of Paris, last week 'delivered a series of lectures in Hespeler under the auspices of the Royel Templars of Temperance. The lectures throughout were well attended, Mrs. •Ilitchcox being a very eloquent speaker. —john Kerr, s well-known fernier of Westminster township, was unfortunate enough to break his leg the other dee'. He was on his way home, and had a load Of empty barrels. One of the bar- rels fell off, and this cauted Mr. Kerr to tamble, breaking his leg just above the ankle. —Tee Farmere' hotel at Ripley,,owned and occupied by Robert Morgan, was to- tally consumed by fire on Thursday last week. At the sa,me time John Martin's blacksmith shop was burned, the con- tents being partially saved. There was no insurance on the hotelgand the lose to Mr. Morgan is over $2,000. —The residence of Sir Hector Lange- ttitwa was offered for sale by on Friday,' but was withdrawn. hest bid made was $4,490. Sir • 01- ing ale ats aw mu - ver ers of eir by itu- ED, the ed - toll per heir eae TOM for ing, —Mr. Alexia Chapedeleine, the firat settler in the parish of St. Baraabe, county of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, anti his wife. Dame Julie St. Jean; cele- brated the 50th anniversary of their marriage on Wednesday. - —Mr. James Weir, of New Theses - in, Algoma, had ripe strawberries in his garden last week, and Mr, James Kinoh, of the same place, had a crab apple tree in bloom. The loss to Skinner & Co., of the harne works at Gananoque, by the fire on Wednesday night last week, turns out to be $50,000, with insurance of only $15,000. The efficient water works system saved the town from an immense conflagration. —Rev. SolomoriPeter Hale, the cele- brated and aged colored orator, deliv- ered one of his inimitable lectures az Alma College, St. Thomae, last Friday night, which was received with great delight by the students. —Last July a man named Page wooed and won the heart of a widow of a year, whose home is Da the North part of Kin- cardine. The day of the wedding ar- rived and Page applied to h clerical gentleman to tie the knot that would add another Page to his life's chapter. The clergyman asked Page if he had ever been married, and his reply was, " Yes." When asked again when his wife had died he replied : "She didn't die at all; she's living in England." The ceremony was not performed and the match was declared off. Lest week Mrs. Page and son arrived in Kincar- dine from Windsor, having recently yin in auctio The hi Hector paid $6,000 for the property, and $6,000 was the reserve fixed when 'it was placed in the hands of the auc- tioneer. —A Cornwall township farmer named W. A. Roys, has sold his last load of grapes of this season's growing. From a vineyard of about 5 acres he aold close on eight tons of grapes, which were sell at an average of six cents per pound. This beats most kinds of farming • all hollow. --The Galt Reporter says: The yield of potatoes in this section this year is large, and' in most cases is of good quality. Here and there, on low lying or heavy lands there is rot, but this danger is not widespread nor, exten- sive enough to cause much uneasiness. In general the size of the tubers is abnor- mally large. —The new Mennonites, who have been holding a camp meeting for the past two weeks in Plattiville, broke up camp on Monday. On 'Sunday they performed the ceremony of baptism by immersion on the new converts before a very large concourse of people. The ceremony was performed in the river jutt west of the village. — William Wilkins who lived near Port Burwell and who for some time had been suffering from a form of in- sanity, told his wife the other morning that he must kill himself, as there were two men after him to arrest him. Some hours after he was found with a rope around his neck, suspended from a beam in the barn and life was quite extinct. &tel. Tuesday morning last re occurred on the 2nd cGillivray, near Clande- h the extensive barne, —Mrs. Eliza Donohue attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Niagara River, at Fort Erie, a few days ago, but was rescued. Mrs. Donohue is the widow of Clutch Donohue, the no- torlaus express robber,who stole $40,000 frorn the American Express Company several years ago, and who was pardon- ed out of Kingston penitent!ary only to ,die outside the prilson whale. —The other day a resident of Massena Point brougbt over to Cornwall twenty bags of onions, and sold them to an unsuspecting party without taking the trouble to call at the customs house. The customs officer having got wind of the affair, the Massone, Point mart was brought to bay, and had to pay the price of the onions with duty added, which amounted to $25. —Hunter and Crossley returned last week to St. Themes after conducting union evangelistic services in Paris for three and a -half weeks. Between 400 and 500 professed conversion. The rev- erend gentlemen ere now in Owen Sound, and after holding a series of meetings there will proceed to Victoria, British Columbia. —A Torontonian, who was out at the Cookeville fair the other day, relates an amusing incident which happened at that place. One of the old residenters, who was anxious to secure some Mani- toba. seed wheate applied to the gentle- men in charge of the C.F.& exhibit an di was directed by them to write to the avfanitoba agency at Toronto "Not by derned sight," replied the Cooksvillian, 64 you can't get me to write, Never writ but oneletter in my life and you bet I won't be fooled again. ie see 'twee this way. Thirty years ago next Michaelmas ' - which was the final document of a testamentary character made by Mr. •Purcell. The codicil merely removed James Stewart, an executor of , the first will, and aubstituted the name of John Bergin, thus to all appearances reviving the firat will. As Mrs. Purcell is bene- fited more by the second will; ttan by the first, she has iseued a writ againet John Bergin to have the second will de- clared valid and the first set aside. It will be one of the most important cases of the kind that has been in the Cana- dian Courts. —Some excitement has been caused in aVaterloo by the disappearance of Louis Witte, a laborer. On the evening of the 13th inst., he left his home supposed to be in a bewildered condition, result- ing from illness. " Searching partiei have been out but unable to find aim. He wore a black felt slouch hat, short home- . made brown coat, red and white print handkerchief on neck, white striped pants, hair dark or brownish and me- dium lengta, light colcr whiskers and moustache. avore gaitera, and was about i ' 5 feet 10 nchen and about 36 years old. —The report of the Waterloo county jail at Berlin, for the year ending Sep- tember 300, 1891, has been published., During the year there were 95 commit- ments, 89 males and 6 femalei Five of.- these were under 16 years o age ; 50 were committed for the first time, 17 for second, 14 for third , time, and 6 for more than three, 27 accinitted on trial, and 66 sentenced for various terms by the courts; 4 sent to Central Prism, 2 to the Mercer, 4 to the Penitentiary. Those maintained by the Government numbered :36, by the County 59. The nationalities are: Canadians 29, Eng- lish 7, Irish 9, Scotch 2, Unied States 8, others 10. Thirty-one were married, 64 single ; 49 temperate, 46 intemper- ate; 13 unable to read or write. —Winnipeg's industrial and agricul- tural exhibition this year was an ungali- fied success. The last exhibition Was held in 1883, the total e tries then amounting td 2,552, thought to be a wonderful record. This yea they were cies?. upon 4,000, the horses numbering 411, cattle 258, sheep 102, pigs 48, poultry :356, dogs 200, whilst in the ; dairy; field, domestic and manufac- turers' departments the en -tries were correspondingly large. In Manitoba and the Territories, as in British Col- umbia, the onward progress made is very marked in every braTch Of hus- bandry. Point, in Leeds; Perrault, in Renfrew; —The convention of the North Grey Springhill, in Russell, and Royston, itt. Teachers' Inetitute aseembled last week Muskoka and Parry Sound. Nine post - offices have been closed in the same time, three of which, Hoodstown, Melissa and Watibe.rnick, were in the last-menticned district. -e-The Presbyterian Sabbath School Union of Toronto held the first meeting .of the season last Friday _night in the schoolroom of Kcox church. Mr. Ham - occupied the chair, Ad - delivered by Dr. Parsons, Fotheringbam, Rev. Mr. ilton Cassels dresses were Mr. David McCrae, miesionary to Trinidad, and others. Tae choir of Weetmineter vocal music uring the evening. The Fresbyteriatlichurch rendered some good room was w11 filled with an apprecia- tive1 audienc , who partook of refresh- ments serve by the ladies after the lighter entertainment, was over. —Crops are reported as generally good on tile Manitoulin, and of late years farmer tion to stock cattle and Kagawong t s are paying much atteti- Seven hundred head of' sheep were shipped from is fall, and a larger num- ber from Gore Bay. Splendid prices were realized, one buyer paying 13.25 for lambs and $4 for sheep. The class of settler w settler and peering fro .when the la good ridditnee to bad rubbish. o was part lumberman, part art roadbuilder is disap- the Leland. People say t one is fired out it will be —A young man named James Whalen, engaged in al sawmill owned by the Pe- trolea Oil Company, on the 10th con- cession of Brooke, met with a terrible accident a few days ago. Whalen was taking away slabs from the saw, and whileaso eirgaged stumbled backward against the ;belting, in which he was caught and carried through the pulley. The belting nd gear were slashed, and the sew went up through the roof in pieces. The young man was terribly crushed and mangled. His legs were. ground to a pulp, one arm was broken in several places and his body laid open. Whalen was 32 years old and unmarried. at Owen Sound. The attendancewas large, and the papers read were • numer- ous, and showed advanced thinking on educat'onal matters. Mr. Selby, of Toronto, Was present with an exhibit of kindergarten material', and the illustra- tions of the methods used were highly interesting. The Ladiec' Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association tendered the teachers a reception in the Astociatiorbuilding. The convention, which has been one of the most success- • ful ever held, was brought to a close by an address from Rev. John Somerville, M. A., the well-known pastor of Divis- ion street church, and president of tbe Alumni Association of Knox College. —Medical men throughout the prov- ince are greatly interested in two cases which will be disposed of at the Elgin assizes this week. The first is that of Mrs. Donald Munro, who sues Dr. Ful- ton for damages for the lose of her hus- band, who died while under the influ- ence of chloroform administered by the doctor and a student. The other's that of Jeremiah Donahue against Dr. Mc- Callum, of London, for alleged slander in circulating a report that he was af- flicted with a certain disease. George Tate Blackstock, Q. C., will be counsel for the plaintiff in both cases, and it is understood Mi. W. Ia. Meredith, Q. C., will act for the defence. Several To- rcnto physicians will be among the wit- nesses, and nearly all the local medicos will be called. —An application has been made in the Surrogate Court, Ottawa, for the probate of the will of Jane Wadsworth, of Hull, by James Clarke and Thomas Langrell, Executors. The estate in Ontario is valued at -$28,000. : The tes- tator was the daughter of an English Protestant couple named Wadsworth, who came to Ottawa about the year 1840. They died of -emigrant fever prevalent at the time, And the nuns who nursed them took charge of their little orphan daughter. Jane. The child was brought up in the couvent on Sussex etreet. When she wan about :30 years of age she happened to be sent to nurse a Mr. James Wadsworth. She had been told by the Sisters of her parentage, and knew her own name was Wadsworth. It turned out that she was a distant rela- tive of her patient. Mr. Wadsworth one day proposed and was accepted by his nurse and they were duly married. Wadsworth, who was a wealthy man, died several years ago. —A team belonging to William Camp- bell, North Dorchester, ran away the other afternoon, with a pair of whiffle - trees attached to them. When about a mile north ef Belmont they overtook Miss Matilda. Willsie, who -was on her way to that eillage,when a horse went on each side of her wagon, and after turn- ing it around pulled away the hind wheels and her horse ran away with the front wheels. The team was captured near the village, and Miss Willsie's horse was alao caught about the same place. The lady sustained a few slight injuries andrher wagon is almost a total —A curioas will case will clime up at wreck. the next Asaizes, at Cornwall* About six months afgo a rich contractor and ex member of !Parliament, named Patrick Purcell, died worth about $1,000,000. Shortly after, his body was stolen from the churchylird and has never been re- covered, The deceased, who Was an un- educated man, left two wills ,and man- aged to bungle them up pretty well. Will No. 1 was drawn on May 14th, 1890. Under it various beemests were made to. his wife, two children and other relatives, besides large bequests to Roman Catholic charitable and religious societies and institutions. Will No. 2 was drawa on January 10th, 1891. Many of tile bequests to charitable and religious ntititutions were leesened or revoked utider this will. The trouble, however, arises over a codicil to the first will dated March lath; 1891, 1 1 • ; —Mr. Geo. T. Odbert, formerly of Stratford, lately attending the Normal School, Toronto, has been awarded the principalship of the public school at Breslau for 1892 at a salary of $450. —Mr. Joseph Hodgson, stenographer for some large firm in Toronto, and manager of their business at Port Perry, spent a few days recently with his father and family in Hibbert. Mr. Hodgson was returning from a trip to California. —A Fullerton correspondent Quite a number of farmers around here, anticipating a rise in the price of dry goods, have invested largely in shoddy goods, which were hawked about by a fakir from Toronto. We hear that some of them are already dissetisfied with their bargains, but we have no pity for sucb, as the villege and neighboring towns bave good reliable merchant -3 who would be willing to sell them a good article at a reasonable price. 1 — =w.