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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-05-06, Page 1- • 11)011 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. } WHOLE NUMBER, 1,273. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY- 6, 189. {McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. SPRING HATS. It's about time you had a new hat and you want something that is new in style, light in weight, strong and durable. its just such hats aa these we are offering, and we have many choice novelties to show you. IN FEDORAS we show Blacks, Browns, Cubas, Drabs, &c., ranging in price from $1, to $3. Our celebrated $2 Stiff Hat beats the world. If you want a medium priced hat in a nobby style try one of these. CRUSH HATS in six colors, at 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.50. IN STRAW HATS we are ready with a complete range of new styles in Boysand Men's goods in colors and plain white. GIRLS" SCHOOL CAPS we still have a few left, they're a rare bargain, secure one at once. JACKSON BROS., Men's - Furnishers, - Seaforth. The Crops and Live Stock of Ontario. PRESENT CONDITIOI.CS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. The Ontario Department of Agriculture has -issued a bulletin referring to the con- dition of the crops and live stock in the province up to April 22nd, the bulletin be- ing a summary of reports furnished by over six hundred correspondents. The following is a summary: whole, at least one fifth of last year's wheat is yet in farmers' hands. Oats are every where reported plentiful. A large portion of the extraordinary crop.of 1891 still re- mains unmaiketed, especially in the eastern counties. It may be worth while calling attention to the contraet between the above report and that of May, 1891. One year ago hay was abundant and cheap, oats very scarce and dear, and many farmers were buying their flour; thia spring hay is scarce, wheat plentiful, and oats abundant. The supply of fat cattle is hardly up to the average,' owing to the shortage of hay. Beyond the requirements of home demand and those already disposed of, there are not many fat animals available, but the supply is greatest in the West Midland counties. The supply of store cattle is up to the average'and is a little greater than home demands. CONDITION 01/ LIVE STOCK. Stock of all kinds have conte through the winter in fair flesh condition. a little thinner than usual owing to the limited supply of fodder, especially of hay. Sheep have suffered considerably daring lambing season owing to the unfavorable cold damp weather, and many lambs have been lost. The litters of pigs are not, according to many reports, quite so large and promising as desired. The health of stock during the winter was exceptionally good. Beyond a few reports of ringworm in pigs, lumpja,w in cattle, and grub in sheep, the only disease very prevalent or causing much loss was dis- temper in horses, reports of the existence of which have come from all parts of the pro- vince. The supply of food was quite ample where used economically, and where stock were properly houeed. Hay wee most de- ficient, the price being $10 to $16 per ton. In some sections there was some old hay to meet the deficiency, and on the whole, grain and roots were in fair supply: while there were here and there cases of absolute want, there appears to have been sufficient in the province for all requirements. Many had enough to bring their stock through in first- class condition, a few were able to buy from their neighbors, some were compelled to re- duce their allowance, and as a coneequence have very thin animals. There is a very general desire expressed for a rapid improve- ment in the weather, and the growth of the grass, as though early and rich pastures were especially needed this year. - FALL WHEAT. The past winter has proved a very favor- able one for fall wheat, and the crop— particularly the early sown—presented an exceptionally promising appearance when spring opened. Being protected by a suffi- cient depth of snow, it suffered but slightly from winter killing. The snow left very rapidly, and fair growth was made until about the end of the first week in April, when the fields looked at their best. Frosty nights, sunny days, and cold winds then followed sa that at the time of writing the weather was particularly detrimental to growth, and it is reported that on this ac- count the young crop has received a notice- able set -back and now presents a somewhat browned appearance. The fear- of a con- tinuartee of such conditions was causing some anxiety, and warm moist weather was earnestly looked for, as with its advent, if not too long delayed, the crop will doubt- less quickly recover itself. As regards the condition of the crop on various soils— although there is much uniformity—it is looking particularly well on light, warm learns and well drained clays and clay loams. On black mould and on low-lying wet lands it has suffered to some extent from frost. The damage from insects, ect., appears to have been inconsiderable, The Hessian fly did slight injury in some localie ties on early sown fields, as did also the wire worm on recently broken pasture lands. Practically the only unfavourable reports as to the condition of the crop come from the County of Essex and vicinity, where, on acoou,nt of local drouth, the crop did not start the winter in very satisfactory shape. Excepting in this locality, the present indi- cations are that very little winter wheat will be ploughed up, and, provided the critical time between now and the middle of May is successfully passed, the prospects for a good crop are promising. GENERAL REMARKS. Our correspondents are unanimOus in re- porting the past winter to have been exceed- ingly favorable for the farmer. In most places there was a fair amount I of snow, whioh covered the ground uniformly, and which remained until- spring. The roads were in gated condition. Cantle , were not exposed to any very severe storms. No damage of any extent was done to fruit trees, and the prospects at preemie in this industry are very favorable. In Kent and adjacent counties some ploughing and sowing were done before the first of April. In the eastern and northern districts spring opera- tions were just beginning about April 15th. Although the snow left early the return of cold weather put back the spring work, and only now in the middle of April can the work of ploughing and. sowing be ssid to have fairly commenced for the whole pro- vince. As regards improvements in agricul- ture, most reports refer to the introduction of improved tools and machinery and the advantages of underdraining. The advan- tages of better stock and better systems of feeding are repeatedly referred to, and an increased interest is being manifested in regard to the silo. Although a few state that the supply of farm help will meet the demand, the great majority state that there is and will probably be a scarcity. One correspondent states that in his township alone 100 additional farm hands are needed. The cause universally given is the removal of the young men to Manitoba, the North- West, and the States. Their planes are supplied principally by Young men from towns and immigrants equally inexperi- enced. The use of machinery decreased the demand for help, but in the case of careless farmers the increased expense is said to be very great. There is constant cemplaint as to the low prices for farmers' produce, and tendency is indicated toward dairying and stock feeding in place of growing grain for market. In the old barley dietricts the farmers appear to be in doubt as to what line of agriculture they should pursue. WINTER RYE. Mach that has been said respecting winter wheat applies also to this crop. It suffered but little froni winter killing, and its appearance now is generally quite satisfac- tory. The crop is grown only to a very limited extent, and is utilized as a rule for early soiling. try for a laborer, and in which he seems to doubt the veracity of some statements I made in a former issue as to wages paid in North Dakota. Evidently "Laborer" is laboring under a delusion, In the Mgt place he makes out that I am of the opinion that "far away fields ere green." Not so; for nowhere do fields appear as green to the as here in North Dakota, and if 'Laborer" had the same experience in working in both countries as I have had be would,I am sure,be of the same opinion as I sm. He then goes on to eay that fermere are as well or better off in Ontario than in Dakota, and cannot pay such wages as I stated are paid hero. Whether they are better off or not I am not going to dispute, but I do know that a great deal better wages are paid here than in On- tario, and for "Laborer's" benefit I will just state that I commenced to work on the first of September het at the harvest, and after working about three weeks at it,' I went threshing and when we quit threshing on December 17th I had cleared about $156,1 besides being at home nearly two weeks during that time. I do not mention this ae a boast, but as proof that my former state -I ments were correct. Next he says, "Why is it that so many] come back to Ontario for the winter?' Surely "Laborer " does not insinuate that we go home to work for the _few short months we ate allowed to stop there; or worse, does he think that we have to go down there to get something to eat? I sin- cerely hope that "Laborer" has not so pots; an opinion of us laborers in North Dakota, No, friend "Laborer," we do not - go home for either, but to have a season of rest and of pleasure, and. more than all, to see those wbo are near and dear to us, our parents, our brothers and sisters and friends of our childhood days, who, though so far away, are ever fresh in our memory. And then, the pleasure of being once more at hone where we spent the happiest days of our life, our childhood days. "A home, that paradise below, Of sunshine and of flowers, - Where hallowed joys perennial flow, By ealw, sequestered bowers." If "Laborer" knew what a pleaaure it is to be at home after a few years' absence, he would not ask in so slighting a way why people go home. He again says that $28 per month ought to be enough to induce peo- ple to stay here. So it does. I have yet to learn of a case of a man who werked here for a few years and then desired to go to Ontario to work. He also says the thresh- ing season is short. I worked 50 days -last fall, and had winter not set in I could have worked 20 days longer, with a machine. Yes, the seasons are short, but we can gen- erally do a good deal of plowing in a short time, as three horses will plow from 4 to 5 acres a day. To cap all, "Laborer" says that Ontario is as fine an agricultural coun- try as is in the world. Different here. Dakota, for a poor man or laborer is far aheed of Ontario, and I do not need to say anyithing to prove it, as the number of farm- ers and,young men'who are leaving Ontario for the Went speak volumes in favor of Mei; country:- Lastly, "Laborer" seems to think that we are net sure of our wages here. I have been working out off and on for the last 6 or 7 years, and never lost a cent of my wages yet in Dakota, and have yet to hear of a case where a laborer did. In conclui sion, I would respectfully invite "Laborer'? to come out for one season and see for bim self the vast difference between the wagee paid here and in Ontario, besides which, thwork is not nearly so slavish or uncongeniai as in Ontario. Yours truly, PETER STEWART. CLOVER. As in the case of fall wheat,clover winter- ed well. The crop had not, however, made much advancement at the time of writing, and no very positive opinion could be ex- pressed as to the out -look. The present in- dications are that over the greater portion of the province, it will average a light yield. The most'fa.vorable reports come from the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay counties— particularly from Simcoe, Grey and Bruce— where the indications for a fair yield are satisfactory. In nearly all other parts of the province the drouth of last summer did much harm to old fields, while the catch of seed in the fall was for the most part un- even. The plant is consequently too thin on the ground for a heavy crop of clover bay to be looked for. Elsewhere than in the districts above mentioned, con- siderable damage has been caused from heaving, eapecially on old meadows and on low, undrained soils. The recent heavy frosts have also injured red clover to some extent. VEGETATION. The spring opened up somewhat earlier than usualrbut as the weather remained dry and cool, vegetation made but little head- way until the beginning of April. During the few warm days at the early part of the month, grass made a vigorous start, and the fields in the southern and western portions en the province are quite green. But on account of the unfavorable weather at the middle of the month, all growth e was more or less arreated, and vegetation is now in a backward condition. In the northern and eastern districts hardly any progress is yet observable. Labor in Dakota. LANGDON, April 20th, 1892. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—In your issue of April 15th I noticed a reply to Mr. Stewart's letter from "Laborer." He seems to doubt the said gentlema,u'e statements in regard to the wages of farm laborers in Dakota. Now, Mr. Editor, it looks very much like as if he had never been outside the township of Morris, or, at least, not very far from home, and, if such be the case, how is he able to judge of the merits one country has compar- ed with those of the other? In his letter he says that Ontario is as fine a country as there is in the world. No doubt it is, but let him wait till this country is as lung settled as Ontario and I think it will com- pare with any. country in the world, too. As I am a laborer myself, and have travel- led and worked in different parts of Mani- toba and Dakota, I never met with a farmer who was not able to pay hie hired help and the highest wages at that. He also wants to know why so many men go beck to On- tario in the winter. It is true there is not much work to be got here in the winter, but when men get such good wages here in the summer they can easily afford to go back to visit their relatives and friends in the winter. How many of them stay there when they go back? Do they not return in the spring again? Again, he says that . the threshing season only lasts a few weeks. In this he is greatly mistaken,for it lasts at least three months, and a good ma,n can earn as much money in that time as he could in Ontario in eight months. He also states that if Providence does not send the farm- ers a good crop of wheat they have nothing else to depend on. Well, dear laborer, they do not depend on wheat alone. They grow oats and barley too, and most of them have considerable stock to depend on. I might also say there is far more pleasure in work- ing on a farm out here than there is in On- tario. There are no thistles or noxious 'reeds to contend against, and there is not half the drudgery about the work here that there is, there. Now, Mr. Editor, taking every- thing into consideration, I think this coun- try a far better plate for the laboring man than Ontario. I will now close by inviting "Laborer," whoever he is, to take a trip out here and get his eyes opened. Trusting I have not imposed on your valuable space, I remain, your constant admirer, S. CRERAR. Free Trade and Some of Its Benefits. DEAR EXPoSITOR,—It seems strange that among the many undoubted Free Traders in Parliament to -day among the Liberals, there is not one, apparently, so brave _as to do the Free Trade policy reverence on the floor of the House. Who is going to be the Cobden of Canada, is a question which often occurs no doubt to many a Free Trade Liberal. The coming Messiah, however, does not yet hold a seat aeemingly in Par- liament and the Free Traders are unfortun- ately without a leader there to espouse their cause, although backed by some very able journals and men throughout the country. "There is a tide in the affairs of every man, which if taken at the flood leads on to fortune." This was evidently the belief of Sir John Macdonald, as evidenced when he inaugurated the National Policy. He struck just when the iron was hot, and at the most opportune moment. Every one knows the results which followed and which made him' and his party all powerful ever since. The tide is again at the flood, and history is re- peating itself. The same condition of affairs again confronts Canada, only worse con- founded. The same depression and unrest is again hovering over the country after 14 years of a trial of the great patent medicine, which was to have increased our population, without any doubt, to ten millions by this time. The Conservative party then howled blue ruin till their lungs grew tired, just -as they say their unpatriotic opponents do to -day, which last goes to show that human nature is pretty much the same whether Grit or Tory. The same opportunity is now presented to the Liberal leader to seize the bull by the horns by declering for the genuine medicine for national prosperity, viz., Free Trade, and ride into power just as his great antagonist did with the bastard policy of protection, although he at heart, at the time was a Free Trader. The country's extremity is Mr. Laurier's opportunity as politics are played. New is the day and now is the hoar to strike for Free Trade aud liberty, and not stand as we do between the devil and the dark blue sea, by annexation on the one hand or a gradual process of ex- tinction, notwithstanding our wonderful re- sources, on the other. Will he do it, if not why not? That is the queseion. Political Unionists, Ubrestricted Reci- procitists, Imperial Federationists, Annexe- tionists, and last but not least the Exodists are all travelling in the same direction, look- ing for freedom and larger extension of trade. Why make_ three or four bites of a cherry, or travel by circuituous routes to the ultimate destiny of this continent, which is Free Trade? It seems to the writer that Canada is essentially an agricultural, mining, lumbering and fiehing country, and that Free Trade is as necessary to the one as to the other. Notwithstanding the fact that all the world is privileged to dump its pauper and protected manufactured indus- tries on the shores of England, how far does the world succeed in swamping and driving out the British manufacturer. Not- withstanding the facts that the world is privileged and does dump its surplus bread - stuffs and meats on the British Isles in enormous quantities, the British farmer lives and moves and has a being, and it is heralded over the country here, as a great and important event if at any time a batch of these IMMO farmers can be induced to settle in this oountry by our immigration department. Under Free Trade all our natural industries. would thrive and prosper, and our manufaoturing industries - would keep pace with them in a legitimate way, in FARM SUPPLIES. There is barely sufficient hay in farmers' hands to meet local demands, and only in rare inatances is there any for sale. In some dietricte not more than one twentieth of the wheat of hist season remains unsold,in other districta at least one,third has been held for a higher price. Taking the province as a the same relative proportion, and would be much riches. Doctors say both are in - on a sound basis. Surely the lot of the jurious. Sc i chemists give US the properties Canadian farmer would be immeasurably of different reed. One hundred pounds of improved by Free Trade. No one how the following foods produce the following attempts to argue about the home market amount e of flesh: Potatoes, e lb.; Swedish doctrine; that is relegated to the past, but it is to the Free Trade country of Great Britain they are told to look, by our Tory Government, and in such an insinuating way, that I believe a great many firmly believe it is a privilege only accorded to the Canadian farmer. It is incornprebeneible how any farmer, by his vote; will aid and abet a protection government in competling him to buy in the dearest market and seil in the cheapest. Why does not the faemer hold hie rights just as dear as the manu- facturer, or who ever heard of a protected manufacturer putting party before busipess interests, whether he were Grit or Tory. In other words, does it ever occur to the faemer that the protected manufacturer openly ad- mits that he cannot live without the tariff, and that his business would be unprofiteble unless the farmer by his vote comes te his assistance and gives him a bonus of 35 or 40 per cent. over the natural price of the goods, more than could be got if the same were sold in the open market, and that this bimus comes from the unprotected farming indus- try which has to sell ite goods in the open minket. The writer is sanguine enoug to believe that population from the Old'Cou try would come to our land and fill up the great North-west much more freely under a Free Trade policy thee under protection, and that very large additions would come from the United States. The reason being, that Canada would soon become known as a cheap country to live in, where a dellar ;would purchase a dollar's worth and not merely 60 cents worth. In order to meet the legitimate revenue of the country the government would have to be carried on under strict business principles, exteava- gance would have to beelone away with in every form, boodling could not hold up its ugly head, and there would be no Red Parlor mine to draw from. All the vicious systems which protection always fosters would be rooted out. The vast and expen- sive legislative machinery of Canada would have to be simplified and no doubt Maritime union would soon -follow. All unnecessary public works and railway subsidies, for which money is now so freely voted simply to bribe whole constituencies, would be looked after with jealous care. All sinecures, and perhaps the Senate, would go. These reforms would surely follow in the wake of Free Trade, simply because the people would not tolerate any government that would not be conducted on economical and honest lines, consistent with the public goodl In fact there is no reason why our Federal gov- ernment could not be conducted in the same careful way that our County Coencile are. Simply because direct taxation means intelligence and knowledge, as opposed to indifference and ignorance in indirect taxa- tion—the present system. All power to John Crerar and Senator Boulton, and may Mr. Laurier lead where they both. have inti- mated to him publicly they will follow, Yours, LANGDON, NORTH DAKOTA, April 23, 1892. DEAR EXPOSITOR. —In your issue of the 15th of April there appeared an article headed, "Dakota Against Ontario Labor," and signed by "Laborer," in which he tries to make out that Ontario is the better cotui- R. G. REYNOLDS. Goinducii, April 26, 1892. Reply to Leadbury. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—For two weeks the monntain groaned- in agony and brought forth a mouse, bundoubtless, the fond parent deems it a prodigy of literary merit and political wisdom. In my reply to Lead - bury I was careful to avoid all abusive per- sonalities, and can only regret,for bis own re- putation that my critic has disgraced himself and soiled your pages with unprovoked per- sonal abuse, the like of which could ecercely be equalled by a London fish -wife. Te this part of his last epistle I have no reply, as it is beneath contempt, and only proves that he has lost control of his temper, and hence his cause is only weakened by such an advo- cate. But we need not wonder at such con- duct, as be aptly copies, in this respect, the teachings of the Mail in its unregenerate days, and regards such weapons as all pre- vailing, as they are so frequently used by his great preceptor, Creighton, of the Em- pire. Leadbury's advocacy of his political opinions is about on a pan with his effort in the other direction and about as effective, but I will, with your -permission, in the near future, draw attention to some of tee ab- surd conclusions reached by him in appport of his pet political views. Thanking you for so much of your valuable spaoe, and wishing my friend Leadbury abundant suc- cess in his agricultural operations, I have the honor to subscribe myself, Yours, EGMONDVLLLE SCRIBELER. turnip, 1 lb.; Mangolds, 1 lb.; Green oats, 1 lb.; Oil cake 22 lbs.; Oatmeal, 18 lbs.; Barley meal, 13 lbs.; Peas, 13,1 lbs.; Indian corn, 11 lber And the same weights pro- duce the fojlowing of fat form : Potatoes, 18.9 lbs.; Swedish turnips, 5.2 lbs.; Man - golds, 12,6 ths.; Green oats, 8.e lbs.; Oil cake'51 lb.; Oatmeal, 51.1 lis.; Barley meal, 52 lime; Peas, 41,9 lbs,; I dian corn, 66.7 lbs, Ih 100 lbs. of oats, 23 lbs. of hulls are good for nothing except f el. Now, I will leave it to your readers if wbisky, tobacco and turnips are is ood as the majority of people argue and say they know. If they are, then doctors and o semists are humbugs and science e farce, COMM N SENSE. McKlug or, ay 2, 1892. Canada. The fire t pcean steamship of the season arrived in Montreal on the 22nd nit, — Between $12,000 and $15,000 in prizes will be given at the Winnipeg Fair this yearj —Joseph Myers is in custody for stealing 700 gallons of wine from a Cookeville vine- yard. — Mr. J Union, Elg hn H. Laur has ju in county, aged 74 t died near years. He had lived on the same farm 51 y ars. —Rev. Robert McCosh of 1etro1ea has assumed the incumbency of Christ Church, Chatham. —Mr. Deeke, the retiring mathematical master of Chatham Collegiate Institute, was presented with a gold watch and chain. —The ladies of the East London Metho- dist churchnetted over $100 at their late hazer, the total receipts being about $130. — The butchers of Hamilton, Woodstock, Brantford and Guelph wilt hold a demon- stration at Brantford on July lst next. —Non-union moulders are coming to Hamilton from Montreal and the Western States, and getting employment. —Seven thousand five hundred pounds of pickerel were- shipped from Waubaushene the other day, being the catch of one night. — The three excellent iron bridges in Paris coat $33,036, repairs on which for the past ten years amounted to $3,501, —The total number -of students in attend- ance at -Queen's College, Kingston, during the past session was 484. — Two new wholesale manufacturing establishments and one wholeaale house have been added to Winnipeg's business institu- tions lately. —The Imperial upper and kip tannery of Bowman & Zinkan, Southampton, WAS de- stroyed by fire early Thursday morning. Lose about $25,000. —A by-law has just gone into effect in London which requires, that all bakers carry scales on their delivery wagons for the pur- pose of weighing bread. —Hon. end Rev. R. Moreton toneis ill. He has been troubled nia for some time, and his nervous system is run down. —Mrs. Jane Clement, an ol years, walked to the polling bo on Monday last week and reco vote. —Thomas Keown, of Ailsa in hey and cattle, has assigned 200 acres of land in East Willie Gillivray townships. , —Fred. Daly, ten years old, Deering, eight years old, fell fr which they were playing, at Su urday, and both were drowned. — Mr. Robert Wilson, of the sion of Usborne, purchased a s acre farm in the township recently fpr $4.700. ; —The ;Parkhill Gazette has changed ford, having as assumed , of Hamil- with insoin- Feeding Cattle, or Turnips and Whisky. DEAR ExPOSITOR.—Your readers are mostly interested in Agriculture and as the raising and feeding of cattle belong to that branch of husbandry, I ask you to publish the following: D. D. Wilson, Seaforth, has a herd of cattle that is not only a credit to the township but to the province. The Model Farm at Guelph cannot beat this herd for the care, condition, a,ppearapce and stabling, and number of animals. The Mod- el Farm has angreater variety of breeds, but for the number of Durhams and eommon cows and care given, Mr. Wilsoe beats them. It would pay any farmer in the county to make a visit to this farm, if he would only follow the example in feed and cleanliness half -way. Farmers argee thus: ."It is no use to try t� feed as Mr. i Wilson does, he is rich." Now if it makes a profit for him to feed, it will make a prefit for a poor man also. Yet if a poor man writes' about how to feed or tries to show; the ex- penditure in high places, the farmers say let some rich man that knows how to make money write on such tbings ; thus, the average farmers cannot be suited in advice. This County has about ten thousand farmers, and out of that number there are not Ave hun- dred who have their cattle in as geod con- dition as they were in last fall, and it will take one month on the best grass of ;the year to get the cattle in the same condition as they were the first of October. Ilor eight months in the year, cattle are fed on the principle of keeping alive and if they have cast their old hair the first of June And each year's stock one year behind what they ought to be if well fed, their owners think they have done well. Mr. Wilson's cows give as much as 50 and 60 pounds of milk each in the day, while the average fed cows do not give 30 pounds. There never was 'inch a crop of oats and roots in the county as last year and yet cattle are in no better condi- tion than four year ago, when feed was scarce and roots a poor crop. I have not much faith in turnips for feed. People who favor turnips do not test the feeding quali- ties with other food. One acre of ground prepared for oats as for turnips, weuld give 70 bushels with less labor and would yield just as good a crop next year. People tell us "yon cannot feed without turnips." They also say, "-Men must drink whisky and use tobacco and neither will hurt as some men live to old age and get rich who use both." But, women who do not as a rule use either, live just as long iiiII , make as lady of 89 th at Milton ded her first raig, dealer o the sheriff s and Mc - and George m a raft on ton, on Sat - 4th oonces- lendid 100- f Plympton hands, M. Mackinnon, of Me purchased l the businese. He full contrel and management. — Mrs. Johnston, the lady b Kingston penitentiary, was in other morning on her way to bring some prisoners east. —There are at present 51 i Elgin Howie of Industry, th years.. Last year the eeerag inmates was 72. , —Benjamin Ferguson, Iii Edward clounty, had a cow giv calf, part of the body of which with wool and part had neith hair on i . —Dnri g April 4,237 actual rived in Manitoba, and they cars of stock and effects. Dur months of this year, 9,294 settl rived and 813 cars of ;stock ancl effects. —Mr. George Hague, ma ager of the Merchants Bank, Montreal, historical atone of the Young tian Association building, in May 9th —Rev Dr. Kellogg, of St. Presbyterian church, Toronto accept 4. position as co-tr Scriptures into the Hindoo will go to India for that purp —George E. Lundy, forme township, county of Peel, wa iliff of the London the Windsor to lisinnent in Georgetown. After their mar- riage the couple kept a hotel at Edmonton, Peel county, for a time, subsequently remov- ing to a farm of 70 acres which Lundy's father gave him. A verdict of wilful mur- der was returned by the jury on Lundy's case. —A citizen of Hamilton recently purchas- ed 140 acres of land at Burlington Plains, and has since been gratified to learn that a portion of the soil submitted to analysis con- tained 22 per centage of aluminum, 44 of silica and 14 of iron. e --Ralph Murray, of Rommore, died on Thursday, 28th ult., at the Kyle bouse, Belleville, from an overdose of morphine, taken to relieve a headache. Murray, who w:015686m20yree.ars of age had for several years menaged the Rathbun Company saw mill at —Tho London Advertiser says: Ensign VVoodgate And wife of the Salvation Army, left Thursday for the Maritime Provinces. Mr. Woodgeten health having failed him. He had been in the city some months and had labored for years in this district. he is a gentlemanly and popular officer. —The winter butter -making experiment in the east and west Oxford cheese factory, near Woodstock, proved a grand success. The result was most satisfactory, inasmuch as from 15 to 25 per cent more butter was obtained, especially from the milk of -"strip- per cows," '—Hugh Fraser, of Bullock's Corners, near Dundas, bade his .mother and sister good-bye on Wednesday morning, last week, the next day his body was found in a mill pond near by, and whether it is a case of suicide or an accident is not known. —Two petitions, prepared by Mrs. John Rockwell, of Kingston, and signed by eigh- teen thousand Canadian women, are to be presented to the Dominion Parliament, ask- iwntlikfoerr the extension of the franchise to the —Mr. James Taylor, of Manchester, Eng- land, while attempting to walk a distance of four miles through the blinding storm which prevailed throughout Manitoba on Thursday, last week, missed the trail, and being compelled to remain out all night died of exhaustion and exposure. —One evening lately while Mrs. John Moll, of Harrisburg, was carrying a lamp upstairs, she by some means tripped and fell, breaking the lamp, which set fire to the upper part of the stairs. The fire was got under control before much damage was done. —Mr. De McCormick, Q. C., a well known barrister of Montreal, has disappeered un- der mysterious circumstances from that city. He was trustee for several Private partial, and it is feared that he has lost money in speculation. A guardian of his estate will be appointed. - —Mr. Wm. Saunders, Canadian Commis- sioner to the World's Fair. has been notified by the director-general that space has been allotted for the exhibit of Canadian Hoe - stook at Chicago as follows: 75 horses, 150 cattle, 300 sheep and 100 swine. It is pro- posed to allot the number fairly among the different Provinces. —The post office at New Lowell, near Owen Sound, was recently entered and a letter containing $77, $53 worth of postage stamps and a lady's gold watch taken. The following night the offiee at Hillsdale was entered but nothing removed, and still later Meaford was visited. So far no arrests have been made. —Rev. Peter Currie died on Friday even- ing, last week, in Strathroy. He had been a retired Presbyterian clergyman there nearly ten years, having formerly been lo- cated at Teeswater to which place his body was taken for interment on Monday. De- eeased wes about 75 years old, and was well and favorably known throughout West- ern Ontario. —The suit brought by the Winnipeg Catholic !school trustees against the city to eecover 'honey collected from them during 1890 and, 1891 has been decided by Judge Killam. . He holds the city liable for the taxes collected in 1890, as the new Mani- toba School .Act did not go into force until that year, but held them not liable for 1891 or futnre years. —Mrs. A. 13. Clarke left her purse and $20 on a Canadian Pacific Railway car win- dow at the Union station Toronto, on Wed- nesday eeening. She decided to take a Grand Trunk Railway train and did not miss the purse until asked for her ticket. TelegraPhieg to the conductor at Streets- ville, it1 was returned to he; by the 9.30 train. —Mr., .Andrew McNaughton, stipendiary magistrate at Sudbury for Algoma and Nip- issing districts, died at his hoine there on Sunday, and the funeral took place to the family burying ground at Port Newcastle to- day. He was for some years president of the Reform Association in 'West Durham, while he was one of the leading baldness men in Newcastle. —Mr. H. B. Knistere of Comber, met with a paiuful if not fatal accident the other day. He was repairing the flat roof of his store and dwelling, and while climbing up a ; ladder with a pail of boiling pitch the ladder broke and Mr. Knister fell to the ground, the pitch flying into his face and scalding him badly about the eyes. Mr. Knister may lose his eyesight. —Mews. Roswell and James Goldie, jr., caught, at Guelph, a speckled trout, weigh- ing 5e pounds and measuring 20 inches in length and 3 inches thick, in the dam at the head of their mill race Friday. The mill was besieged by people to look at the speck- led beanty, and he was a beauty, speckled and spotted from the tip of his nose to the points ef the fins on his tail. —A eingular accident occurred on Friday in the factory of Messrs. Crench & Fralick, of Nepenee. While the machinery was in motion the joining of one of the driving belts came apart and a small bent wire link flew out, passing eight:through the wind pipe'of Mr. George Cole, until it partly protruded through the skirt on the opposite side of his neck. It was easily removed, and no very serious harm is expected to result from the accident. —The 10 -months -old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. John Gregory, of Chatham, had a narrow escape from death Saturdey morn- ing. The infant got hold of a metal "Jack," a small six -pronged toy with which boys aid girls play the old time game of " jacki stones," and swallowed it. By the time the mother had reached the doctor's office, the child was black in the face. Dr. Holmes succeeded in dislodging and drawing out the article. A few moments later and the child would have suffocated. —Soya the Kentville, New Brunswick, Star: , "Nola F., infant daughter of J. G. and Ivy D. Ward, was recently taken to Blackniver on a visit, and was there greeted by till° following relatives, all of whom were resent:tFather, mother, grandfather, grandMother, two great grandfathers, one great 'grandmother, one great great grand- mother, two uncles, four aunts, five great uncle', two great aunts, and a number of cousins. This 'child has living the follOw- ing relatives Father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, two great grandfathers, two great grandmothers, one great great grand- mates in the lowest for number of lier, Prince birth to a as covered ✓ wool nor settler, ar- rought 214 ng the four re have ar- will lay the Men's Chris - Kingston, on ames' Square has agreed to slater of the language, and se. ly of Toronto caught in the storm at Reaburn, Manitoba, on Wednes- day, lase week, and perished rom exposure. —E. B. Stewart and Georgh Fox, of Ruth - von, are on their way to the Old country to prove their heirship and that of other rela- tives in Ontario, to the James Stewart estate in Scotland, which is valued at $80,000,000. —Mie E. King Dodds, publisher of the Canadien Sportsman, has received word of the doth of his eldest brother, A. M. Dodds, Of Preemie, in the Orange Free: State, $outhere Africa, where he bas been a prominent trader for over 30 years. —Thj • steamship Manitoba, Captain Anders n, of the Canadian Pacific Railway line, cl .ared from Owen Sound for Fort Williant last Saturday afternoon, being the mother, four great great uncles, six great great aunts, sixteen great aunts, twenty-six great uncles, seven uncles, eight aunts, and cousins too numerous to mention. Who can beat this record? —Mr. John Striker, of Bloomfield, near Picton, is the owner of a dog worth having. Mr. Striker heard his dog barking in the vicinity of the shed where his sheep were sheltered. He immediately went down, but discovered nothing. Later on the noise in- creased, when he went out again, and by the time he got to the shed there was one dog dead. One sheep had been killed by the intruder, but Mr. Striker's dog had resent- ed in a most unusual manner by literally tearing his victim's head to pieces. —A sad accident occurred the other morn- ing at the old Northern railway workshop, Toronto. John Allison a married man, who had been working in the shops for a number of years, had hie left eye gouged out by a piece of steel ,which flew with great force from one of the lathes in operation. A doctor was called, but it will be impossible to restore the organ. Anout three months ago Milson Jost his right eye in a similar manner. The poor fellow was taken home to his wife and two children at 93 Defoe street, but he will never be able to see them again. —The Picton Times says: A farm in Hil- lier, valued less than a dozen years ago' at $70 an acre, was sold a few months ago for $2,270, which is not more than $22.70 an acre. A farm near Wellington tha,t in 1885 was sold for $6,350 was again sold last week for $3,000. Forty-three acres within the corporation of Wellington were not long ago bought for $1,000, and the same 43 acres were valued when the right of way was ac- quired for the Canadian Pacific Railway, at $80 an acre. —Miss Williams, of Guelph, bas institu- ted legal proceedings against Mr. C. F. Whittey, of the staff of the Government Ex- perimental Farm, Ottawa, for alleged breach of promiee of marriage, claiming damages of $10,000. The lady states that arrangements had been made for the marriage to take place in June next, but it transpired that mean- while Mr. Whittey suddenly became enam- ored with one of the capital's fair damsels, and on March 24th last carried her captive to the shrine of Hymen. Messrs, Fold & Wissler, of Guelph, are counsel for Miss Williams, — Oldest settlers in the Prairie- Province agree in calling the atorm of Wednesday afternoon, last week, an old-time blizzard of the rarest kind in Manitoba. The barometer was exceptionally low; the wind gauge re- ported the gale to be 60 or 70 miles an hour, and a velocity of. even 90 miles an hour was said to have been reached in some places. Many wires and poles were prostrated, the electric street lights disappeared and various other modern conveniences of city residences suffered more or less demoralization. Many large buildings vibrated, to the disturbance of timid persons, though no collapses were reported. —Last Saturday night at Sault Ste. Marie, the steamer Peesadena caught watch- man George F. Ford against the dock at the canal and literally crushed him in two, The under part of the body dropped into the caned slid has not been recovered. The upper part of the body with his heart fell over on the dock. The Passadena was enter- ing the head of the canal, bounddown, when Ford started to climb down the keel rope to take the line. He got too far, but did not notice it until the steamer was too close to the dock to raise himself and the dock was too high to reach. The next instant the steamer bad lined him against the dock tim- bers. Ford's parents reside near Courtright. He had been a school teacher at Sornbra, near Sarnia, and this was his first and last trip. —Mr. George T. Blackstock the well- known criminal lawyer and politician of Toronto, was sighted recently in a western town by a correspondent who refers to him thusly : Mr. Blackstock has a practice that brings him in something like $20,000 a year. Besides this he has a very rich wife. But one would not think, to see -him on the street, that Blackstook was so well off and such a money maker, He carries an old rusty valise worth about fifteen cents, with G. T. B." in white on one side; wears corduroy trousers that have seen better days. His hat sits jauntily on his head, but is much too smalnfor him, andhis overcoat fits so tight that it looks as if it might belong to his little boy. An old - clothes man would look a long while before he would give $10 for Blackstock's outfit, —A Haysnille correspondent writes Mr. M. Calanan has bought the house and out- building erected in this place by John Blatchford, -Sr., nearly forty years ago he is moving the house to the east end of the village, on the lot that Mr. Calanan resided on before he bought the farm he is now re- siding on. The taking -down of the above house brings to mind the parties the old gentleman used to have. In sending out his accounts at New Years he would mark on the hill: pay day—Jan. 8th, dinner at I p. m., and I can tell you there were not many who forgot to go and get a good din ner, even if they did forget to pay the bill. It was looked upon as a holiday, and if tbe bill Nee only 25 cents they would eat and drink 50 cents worth, and in the evening the young people would come in and have a dance, and it would be morning before a good many thought of going home. Most of the old people that used to attend, have passed , away, but old Will Lake and his wife, now residents -of . Plattsville, old friends of the Blatchford family, are still alive. first steamer from any Geor lake Superior. —The sales of the Caned department last month w the company's history. Ov were Bald, nearly all in Yea of it td actual settlers, *h sessionJ —114. Douglas, an empl TelephOne Company ae aroused from slumber min a tapping at his Window. windo* a revolver shot, but fortunately missed. ' N —After lingering four da Kavan gh, of Ottawa, su effects of a dose of carbolic inadvertently took. Deceas daughter of the late Wm. Warwick, booln- seller, of Toronto, —A Brampton dispatch says: Just at the moment when James Lundy shot his wife fatally, one of the guesta in the drawings room was singing," Only a Pansy Blossom." The Lundys were married 25 years ago. Lundy was then a clerk in Brampton, and leader of the brass band. Miss McKinnon was a daughter of Squire McKinnon, of Hal- ton. She taught echool at Norval, and sub- sequently conducted a dressmaker's estab- ian bay port to an Pacific land'' re the largest in r 66,000 acres itoba, and most are now in pose yee of the Belt Brantford, wee uesday night bY On going to the as fired at him, o clue. s Mrs. Michael climbed to the acid which she d was the eldest —Rev. Sampeon Nichols, pastor of the Congregational -Church, Listowel, was, a few days ago, made the recipient of a hand- some parlor set of furniture, the gift of his friends and congregation in that town. Mr. Nichols came to Canada only about a year ago, and has been the pastor of the Congre- gational Church, Listowel, since Christmas. He bas endeared himself to his people in no small degree. The gift was quite a surprise, and in acknowledging the same MT. Nichols; very feelingly referred to ,the many acte of kindness he and his family had experienced since coming to Listowel. —The regular monthly meeting of the At- wood Auxiliary of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterien Church, in tbat village, held on Tuesday afternoon, last week, was one of more than ordinary significance and interest, as it WAS the closing one of the Presidency of Mrs. Calder, its first and only President since its organization. Greatly beloved and respect- ed for her devotion, zeal and earnestness in all Christian work, and for her kindly dis- position and sympathetic nature, her de- parture from the community is much regret- ted by all. After the election of Mrs. Jos- eph Priest as President, Mrs. Hammond as Vice -President, and Mrs. R. Knox as Sec- retary, Mrs. J. L. Mader read a most feel- ing address, and Mrs. A. Campbell handed Mrs. Calder a costly and very beautiful gold watch, in acknowledgment of her suooeleful term of office. 41 7