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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-07-29, Page 1R92 t e e or Wise Al - II, spent e Sathe on Sat - 13d wife Charles t.—The visitors , to the -Haying • Alfred Gutt- nnat last peaks in ittridge. of Que- ives and :onsider- going on a of our investi- I, Creech 47 -ho will for last, treet t bet ere hy the dieturb- dy 10th, r. John_ is place, rothere, -A large re doing oars. W. eload of -Messrs. re busy • for Mr. They -esidence cm Road villagers . White - held in by terian cl report- ived the s on our ge num- epertdirk , having vvy rain - hail and a Friday atarted e stand in.—The • cutting ry heavy ,ty in se- t will be haying. sre some All the ed Mrs, -„ She leaves a ler loss. o lea - is barn osh had -on and are the . They men rend h their —It is around ✓ of the ched yt-A writing et from ass and f ee/ ired on hanging he root e sahooi he gen- esa was ory last aunt of necl out malty. on and 01h:treys Jennie g a few .—Miss ar Sea- Jeseie ncley at urney, friends kerton, ichigan kPlIn her son a ughte re theyk his son f Blue- Gem - sr., from a ely is com- treeted line, to er son derich age of rty, &I- lk for he hip a pits - g the ayfield 11 .e " TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,285. SEAFORTH, FR/IDAY, JULY 29, 1892. e soubrettes pranced and kicked eibout the CitteEditor, who had just missed his five - T stage ; the old, old young nightingale put in center. her " positively last appearence, when the manager announced that the new favorite `i singer, Grace Conroy, would now make her We have been busy during all this appearance. At mention of her name a hot spell by offering many bargains. stir went through the house, for this wo- A FAO The people now lobk for the next Special Sale with interest, and hold their purchasing power till they see our announcement. We're Still At It With Special Bargains at lowest prices. On Saturday and Monday Next we offer a big range of Boys' Suits, two lots, at the following prices : LOT NO. I—Price, $2.50. They range in value from $3 to $5, all sizes sold on above day at $2.50. LOT NO. 2—Price, $3.9. A better class of goods, well trimmed and made former prices $3.50 to $7. Don't forget, its only on the two days named that you have this big chance. Come early. JACKSON BROS., BOYS' CLOTHIERS. A ROMANCE FROM REAL LIFE. BY R. J. DUNSMORE. [Many of my esteemed friends have recent- ly asked me why I did not write a story—a connected narrative— as a change from my ueuel deecriptive style of writing ; and though that field of the literary ranch is pretty well oceupied by really able writers, I venture to relate a romance of real life, which I may perhape do justice to, 'coming, as it did, under my own personal observa- tion, in the discharge of my duties as a news- paper reporter on one of the weetern sensa- tional journala of a year or so ago ; which journal, I may add, is now defunct, whether as a result of my labors on itto columns or from a disease peculiar to newspapers—lack of finances—tradition saith not. Suffice to say, here is the story, if THE EXPOSITOR is hardy enough to publish it, which I present to its readers deliberately, but without ma- lice aforethought, or from any feeling of spite against them.] THE STORY. Some two years ago now I was engaged as reporter on a morning newspaper in Seattle, my district of labor being the then notorious Whitechapel district, so called after its famous namesake in the British metropolis. From the hours of seven p. m., until two Or three o'clock a. m., I prowled about among the variety theatres, the gambling houses, and disreputable places generally in that most disreputable of places ; haunted the dance house, prowled through the dark, nar- row passages separating the long, low rows of houses of the demi-monde, built as they were over the tide flats, standing twenty feet above upon piles driven into the soft mud, and underneath which the ever -restless tide ebbed and flowedabearing with it mys- terious secrets and countless crimes away out to be commingled and lost forever in the bosom of the mighty ocean ; a counterpart of the thousand of restlese souls ebbing to and fro above it in au equally purposeless manner, as the crowds of men and women surged to and fro in an ever -restless search for amusement, within whose breasts were carried whan mysteries, what secrets, wlaat crimes, whet depths of sin and evil and in- justice, to be carried with them throughlhe ebb and flow of life, and finally swept out and absorbed. in the bosom of the great ocean of illimitable eternity, even as the tide of salt water underneath crept noiseless- ly out to its inevitable destination, amid the waters of the Paoific. What a study to watch these countless faces as they thronged by ; in some we read the story of wicked- ness, of selfish pleasures and self gratifica- tion ; coarse motives, reckless enjoyment of the present, and the joys of those able to afford it ; and again we read the story of despair, want, and forlornness ; men with noble attribates crushed and trampled out of existence, till nothing elevateil or manly is left ; only sordid, gross, human clay I. But these were common sights to me, and a reporter has little time for sentimental re- flections in his busy calling, no I brush them aside and enter the doors of the " elite Va- riety theatre," one of the " toughest" places of amusement it had ever been mylot to become familiar with. But I was well- known there, it being in my special round of duty, and, indeed that self -same place fur- nished me with a considerable amount of news, from the frequency of fights and other interesting (?) events that the present generation taie such a keen delight in. This evening, contrary to my usual custom of going into one of the so-called boxes in the gallery, I took a seat in the main body of the room, half•way to the stage. The performance consisted in great part et singing and dancing, by painted damsels remarkable for nothing but their utter ab- sence of any feeling of 'modesty, and" poor singing. I had begun to think this par- ticular evening was to be very scant of news, for every one seemed unusually good- natured and supernaturally sober, and at 9 o'clock there had not been the faintest hope of any one being shot, As the performance dragged its (to me) weary length along, I could not help noticing a young, fine-look- ing man, who had come in soon after I did, and occupied a seat directly in front of me. He was bronzed and travel-stained,and there waa about him an air of weary listlessness that somehow excited my curiosity. He was well-dressed, and different from the • usual class of the patrons of the place, and he had evidently only come there to kill tame, as he paid little attention to the stage, and appeared loit in thought. The man was indeed a favorite, Mid they all braced up to listen. Grace Conroy had been there only a week, but she had already won a place in the minds of the fickle public. She was one of the exceptions, a sweet, shy manner, large, pathetic blue eyes, and a melodiously sweet, touching voice, that thrilled many a rough heart, and as the well-known old melodies which she invaria- bly sang rang through the long room, puri- fying the very atmosphere, tainted as it was with everything vile, many a coarse brown hand was hastily drawn across bleared old eyes that had never known gen- uine emotion since leaving a mother's divine influence ; and made many a sin blackened heart ache with a feeling of emptiness, and a desire for something better. Ah, what in- fluence that sad -eyed girl had over the rough hearers. As she quietly walked upon. the stage, dressed simply mod modestly in black, a storm of welcome met • her, and a moment later perfect silence rleigned, and was maintained until the close df her song, a respect never accorded to any on that stege before. This shows that even in such a place and amidst such chiracters, virtue and mo'clesty will win respect, even if it does not exercise a greater influence. The stranger in front of me did not move or look up. His thoughts were far away, doubtless, Grace Conroy paused a moment, as though to steady herself, and then sang that ever new, ever touching, ever sweet song, " Home, Sweet Home," written by one who so well knew what it was to have no home. And as the clear, sweet, pathetic voice rose and fell, now rising in despairing volume, now gently dying away in inex- pressible pathos, men no longer furtively wiped away the tear that would come, but allowed it to roll unheeded down the beard- ed cheek, a silent tribute to the power of virtue and song. The stranger before me had started at the first note Grace uttered, and throughout the song had gazed spell bound, terminated, at the fair singer, who appeared as much out of place as a calla lily in a patch of nettles. And as the last note died away, and the enchantrese modestly bowed and re- tired amid a shower of money on the stage (for that is the way they show their appre- ciation of an actress oht west—much more Aed,—oh, yes I forgot, they were mar- ried iand lived happily forever afterward ; and now I have wound up this story in truly etor'i book fashion. And really it is a nice wept° wind up, for I'd hate to think they quar6led forever after, considering how nice 1 got them to make it up. For I always have had an idea that I was the principal acto in bringing about that little tableau, after: all. • THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE. . (WRITTEN FOR TIIE EXPOSITOR.] It is rather late to comment extensively on this affair, but es it has not, as yet, shown any. signs of abatement, and the State troops are still on the ground., perhaps a shOrt history of this trouble, gathered from lthe beet and most accurate accounts obtainable, would be of interest to Canadian readers. The Homestead Mills are situated a short disteece from Pittsburg, and are owned and operated by a company, of which Andrew Carnegie is a leading member. The work- men affected by the proposed reduCtion of wagee are paid by a sliding scale, based on the selling price of steel billets, the crudest production of the mills. When the price goes up the wages go up without limit, wheO the price goes down the wages go down till a certain selling price is reached. Beyond -this point the wages do not de- crease. Thus the scale has a minimum but no maximum. This scale is adjusted in each year, in the month of June, in which month the Labor Union has its conference, fixenthe scale, and submits it. to the em- ployers singly or to a representative commit- tee. At the time the scale lately in opera- tion was fixed, steel billets were selling at $26.50, and the minimum was fixed at $25. For some time, however, the selling priee has been below the minimum. It now stands at $22.50, and shows no signs of rising. During the three years in which the present scale has been running, the Homestead Cons- pani has put .in about a million dollars' worth of new -and improved machinery, whidh increases production, and, conse- quently, the wages of the employes, and lessens labor. The changes which the Company gave notice of making in June were three : 1., A change in the time for the expiration of the scale. 2. A reduction in tonnage rateal 3. A reduction in the minimum from $25 substantial than hotplate, by the way,) the to $23. stranger hastily called a waiter, and bur- Their reason for making the change in riedly asked where the stage entrance was. time was that as most of their contracts The astute welter informed him that if he were made in January or early in the year, wanted to see the girl who had just sang, and extended through the year, it was that was an impossibility, as she never on any consideration, saw visitors, and in- variably left the theatre in a hack for her hotel, immediately after she had performed her part. A look of despair came over the stranger's face, and I, having kept near him, for I, with the Pews seeker's instinct had determined to watch him, touched his arm, and suggested that a tip migbt induce scale, provided that it did not bring their the waiter to help him in some way. With a wages lower than they were before the put - grateful " thank you " he again hunted up ting in of that maeisinery. In other words, the waiter, and a dollar bill, with my inter- that the Company were under increased ex- ference on the stranger's behalf, as I was pense for repairs and supervision of ma - well known to the fellow, brought' about the chinery, that they had to pay for this ma - desired result, and the stranger was quickly chinery, and pay interest on the capital piloted through a narrow passage, dimly invested in it, and that, coneequently, they, lighted by gas, toward the stage 1 tagging and not the men, sholild reap whatever gain perseveringly behind, for met'hought I accrued from its introduction. smelt an item. He was ushered -into the In regard to the change of the minimum, dingy " green room," with whose .mysteries the Company held that, as the price of the I was familiar, and I slid behind a scene to product had fallen very far below what it await the outcome. The waiter went and was when the scale was made, the men called Mies Conroy to come into the green should be willing to consent to a change in room for a moment, whiCh she - soon did, the minimum, and that they thought $23 was a fair figure. In all 325 men would be affected by the reduction and they but very slightly. The amalgamated association refused to entertain the proposed changes and Mr. Frick, the President of the Company, gave notice that the new order of things would go into force on the 24th June,that any workman who wished might go to work under the new scale and that the places of those who re- fused to accept the _scale would be filled with new men. He also gave notice that he would not treat with the Amalgamated Association or any committee thereof, but would employ and deal with the workman individually or not at all. Rumors and threats filled the air and the Company pre - stranger and his actress just yet, 1 climb- pared their works, as far as possible, for ed up beside the driver, and presently they I protection from mob violence. otime out. They entered the rig, and we 1 Three thousand eight hundred men went drove cidickly to the Ruse House. There 1 out on strike, took possession of the works they went into a parlor and held a long and avowed their intention of allowing no pow -wow, and I had just begun to get im- man to enter them without their consent. patient, when they reappeared, she looking They even took possession of the town and teary around the eyes end he intensely allowed no one to enter or leave without happy. He bade her good night tenderly knowing his business. The sheriff of the at the foot of the stairway,and then entered county made a demand for possession of the the emoking room and threw himself into works, but was warned to keep out of the a chair, near me. I offered him a weed, way • Hie deputies were treated likewise. which he did not accept, and I felt thank- He posted a notice of warning on the gate ful, for thst was one 1 had " collared ' of the mill property and went back home. on the city editor's desk, and knew it to be The company then employed some 270 men a genuine, good five center. through the Pinkerton agencies in New York and Chicago, to act as watchmen at Well, by a little diplomacy and adroit the mills and protect the property from in - questioning, the whole story came out : An- iurv These were brought from Pittsburg nie R— and he had, six years before, lived . - ' on .two barges in tow of a .steamer, The in a little town in Mania. They loved A strikers were warned of their coming and each other and were engaged. (He seeme" flocked to the river armed with rifles, shot. a sensible enough fellow too !) Harry, (the guns and revolvers. The beets attempted stranger) ecooepted a position in a neigh- to land inside the mill property but the boring city, and for awhile all went smooth- strikers tore down the fence and reached ly. But by and by rumors of Annie's un- the landing before them. Then a striker faithfulness to him reached Harry's ears, and after finding whit he considered indis- pwlacedfi hdis foot ohn the gang plank, It gun as re somew ere and the fight began. putable evidence of it, he struck off into The strikers took 'position behind piles of the wide, wide world without a word of his rails and other metal implements, then ea - intentions to anyone, except a curt note to cupied both banks of the river and finally Annie relinquishing all claim upon her af- , orought up two small cannon. They at- fectiona. In the course of time he drifted tempted to burn the boats with their living to Australia, and began to do well, and at freirht by flooding the river with oil and the time I met him he was on his way . e . -, e . t . . then setting le on nre, euz railed. Finally home to claim a large amount of money the Pinkerton men surrendered, and, on left him by an uncle in Portland, Maine. romi . se oi protection, gave up their arma. He had come to San Francisco, thence to .heis occurred a scene whieh, for brutality, Vancouver, and had run up the Puget has not been equalled in this century out - Sound for a few days to renew old ac- side of Indian warfare. As the defenceless quaintances in Seattle, but had failed to Pinkertons marched through the street the find any, as, like the restless western people mob broke through their guards, stabbed they.were, they had drifted elsewhere. them, beat them with clubs, stoned them, Annie, who, by the way, was not untrue shot at them. One woman poked out a to her lover at edl, had met with re- detective's eyes with the end of an um - verses. Her mother had died, her father brella. Everyone of these helpless prison• being in financial straits, committed ani- ere was wounded more or less severely. cide, thus saving her the trouble of pro- When the Governor of the State found viding for his old age, and she had recourse that the sheriff was utterly powerless, he to her one gift and accomplishment—sing- called out the State National Guard, who ing—as a means of livelihood. In the are still at or near Homestead. course of time her erratic profession brought Since the troops arrived everything has her to Seattle just in time to meet tlsat been quiet, but there is no telling what may jealous lover of hers, and bring him to a happen when the company begin to bring sense of his shortcomings, which sense I in non-union men, which they will do in a think had already come to him long be- day or two, the time limit for the old work - fore judging by the sudden change from men to re-engage having expired. the 'depths of despair to the heights of The influence of this strike is being felt gladness observable in his demeanor at the throughout the length and breadth of the different times I saw him. land. A crisis has been reached in the Well, I got the whole story from him, history of the country, The question is and then advised him to go and sleep, as I not whether a workman has a right to re - had ,already spent too much time upon fuse to work for any man or any company him (I didn't tell him so,) and I went forth of men but whether the rights of property into the cold, cold night, and hustled ta the and the laws of the commonwealth shall be office in time to catch the last form before broken with impunity by any one class of it went to press, and a " blessing " from the necessary that they should know what their wage bill for the year Would be, as nearly as possible, in order that they might be able to figure closely on their contracts. They held that as the improved macilinery enabled the men to make more money with less labor than formerly, the men should be willing to accept a slight reduction in the wonderingly, already attired for the street. The stranger stepped, forward, and holding' out his arms, said, simply, in a faltering voice " Annie i" The girl stopped,turned whiter, if possible, than ever, and into the large eyes stole just a look of fright, then a flash of recognition, and with a glad cry of " Oh, Harry !" she fell forward into the arms outstretched so pleadingly to receive her. And then—and then I just didn't want to stay there any longer, so I went out into the cool air and lit a cig r and wished to goodness I could recognize some- body suddenly—like he did. I knew the driver of the hack that W&B waiting to take the actress to her hotel, so as I eid not mean to lose track of my McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. men have trespa ed on and taken possession of private pro rty, have shot down the watchmen e loyed to protect it by the owners, and held a part of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania under martial law. thus proclaimiog a revolution, numbers of newspapers, add practically all of the labor unions in the country have espoused their cause and are sending them financial assistance. It is here that the danger lies, and it is certainly a grave one, These were not ignorant, degraded,uneducated laborers, but skilled mechanics. Neither were they driven to madness by hunger or by seeing their wives end children suffering from hunger. And the men who have promised to see them through, to stick to them through thick and thin, are not men who cannot tell wrong from right, but are the skilled workmen of the whole country. What will come of it no one 'can tell. Let us hope that it will be settled now and for- ever. Come what may the right must be supported and the laws of the country re- spected. The authorities recognize this fact and they are on their mettle. Gover- nor Pattison sari he will see order restored if the troops stay at Homestead till dooms- day, and when the money in the Treasury gives out he will mortgage the State. The Christian Endeavor. EDITOR,—I exceedingly regret the references of your New York correspond- ent, in last week's issue to the Christian En- deavorers and their great Convention held in that city a few days ago. Can it be pos- sible that an- intelligent man like your cor- respondent spent the three days of that Con- vention in New York, and saw nothing more worthy of his pen than a saloon and card table scene. That there were some of the 30,000 delegates who were untrue to their vows, and unfaithful to their mission, I will not deny. It would be very strange if there were not. The proverbial " black sheep " turns up in every flock. But, is it fair to take the weakness of one, or even the errors of half a dozen, (the one who was drunk confessed that though having a badge he was not an Endeavorer) and make that a feature of the Convention, and leave entire- ly out of view the devotion to and the en- thusiasm for Christ, which characterized the great majority of the delegates. That un- fortunate spirit is all too common in our day. Their name is Legion who are eagle-eyed for faults, but near-sighted when good appears ; who speak of the sun as " the thing what's got spots on it," who, blind to the great army of consecrated men and women in the church, and the throbbing life which evi- denceethe Spirit's indwelling, and a living, present Christ, see only a few hypocrites in it. Mr. Editor, we generally see what we are looking for, in this strange world. The British officer in India saw many tigers but no Christians. The missionary saw no tigers but many Christians. The taste of the in- dividual will determine what he sees in any given place. The New York papers have only words of praise for the Endeavorers, and their great Convention. One of them after stating that " they filled every place in the city except the barrooms," says, " they left behind them a good record. Christianity will have a better name in Now York for their hav- ing been there." And the Independent says : " It was a peculiar crowd that filled the streets of New York. There were twen- ty-five or thirty thousand of them, and not one of them was &treated for drunkenness ; none were standing up before a bar ; scarce- ly any appeared on the streets with a cigar or cigarette in hie mouth. There was no swearin,g no disturbance of the peace ; the judges of' the police courts would not have known they were in town. It was a, very different ,crowd from that which filled the streets of Minneapolis and Chicago a few weeks ago (at the great party conventions.) A pure -minded, clean -mouthed, earnest - hearted body of young people, absolutely decent and respectable. More than that, honest and upright, They represented to the public what Christianity proposes to be to the country and the woryldo.u"ra, Fleneall, July 26th, 1892. J. S, H. 1 The Meat Trade of Great Britain. Mr. G. F. Frankland, of Toronto, the well-known cattle dealer and exporter, who has, just returned from a visit to the Old Country, gives the following interesting par- ticulars regarding the meat market there. He setts : Canada. —The smallpox scare is subsiding in Cal - but a brother-in-law in Montreal, whither he was travelling when the accident oc- curred. He was well dressed and aboat 35 g y. Cixford. —Hog cholera has broken oiA in North . , years of age. He asked f.or a. priest, but 'none could be got to reach him in tune. ; —In Ottawa there are 3,000 dogs which ere taxed. 1 —London has sent a second $1,000 to the St. John's fire sufferers.* —A well dressed baby was found on Mr. Day's doorstep in Brantford the other day. —There is excellent base fishing in the nicinity of Kingston this season. 1 —Counterfeit $10 bills of the Ontario Bank are in circulation in Montreal, , —Sixty Michigan farmers left Sarnia last Friday night for the Canadian Northwest. —Manitoba voted overwhelmingly in favor of prohibition on Satuo day. —Rev.- Benjamin Dawson died in Mon- treal on Sunday, aged 88 years. —Brantford has voted a bonus of $75,000 to the new railway via Hamilton on its eompletion into Toronto. —The death rate of Montreal during the fax months ended June 30 was only 2.42 per theusand. - --A Toronto crook named Charles Nor- man has pleaded guilty to ten robberies around the district of Sarnia. —John Milton and John Smith, two thieves wanted for a daring robbery in Woodstock, have been arrested in Buffalo. —Canada will have 10,000 square feet in the agrimilturel building at the Chicago World's Fair. —Seven hundred excursionists going to the Northwest from the eastern provinces arrived at Winnipeg last Friday. —An Ottawa dispatch says prices of lum- ber have nearly doubled for various grades eince the opening of the season. ' 1 —During last week there were 19 failures in Canada, as compared with 23 for the cor- responding period last year. — Coal has been advanced to $6 per ton in Hamilton, with the prospect of a further advance on August let. —Malcolm Urquhart, one of the pioneer Hudson Bay officers, was drowned at Fort Qu'Appelle on Saturday. —W. R. May, a :St. John, New Bruns- wick, merchant, was decoyed across the line and taken into Boston charged with smug - ii li—ntir. M. W. Waitt, one of the oldest a, nd best known business men of Victoria, British Columbia, died on the 19th inst., of smallpox. —One thousand eight hundred French Canadians arrived last week in Quebec from Michigan to make a pilgrimage to St. Anne de Beaupre. —The annual Flower Show now open at he Horticultural Pavilion, 'Toronto, is the est and most complete in the history of the ehow. ', future. Considerable alterations will be —The Hamilton street car horses, about ; made during the month of August with a 150 in number, were sold by auction Thurs- view to fitting the shops for occupation by day. They brought pricee ranging from $35 the Verity Plow Company, about September. to $80. —D. E. Brown, general passenger and —Mr. Donaldson, who owns the Zehr freight agent of the western lines of the medal farm in Zora never had such a hay Canadian Pacific railway, has sailed for prop as this year. He took 60 loads off ten Chins. He will also go to India and New Zealand. One of the purposes of his trip is a c r—e sT, he Rev. Mr. Haigh, who has had s to arrange for an Australian line of steamers eharge of the Presbyterian churches at ti,o %ion io, connection with the Canadian t an c roau. Doon and Hespeler for many years, has re- —The other day a special engine and eig_neRde. ports from the Upper Ottawa River tender on the Kingston, Napanee and West - state that 150,000 saw logs for the Ottawa ern railway collided with a mail train near B&W mills are hung up, and will not be Erinsville station.An engineer and fireman available until next spring. were instantly killed, about a dozen persons —The balance on hand of the stock of were seriously injured, the two engines were smuggled whisky was closed out by auction crushed out of shape, and some of the cars on Friday at Ottawa. The proceeds will of the mail train were reduced to fragments. foot up about $30,000. —Rev. Egerton R. Young has gone on an —An Epworth League and Christian En- extended tour to the Northwest, journeying deavor excursion will be run by the Grand by the Canadian Pacific railway to Winni- Trunk Railway to Grimsby Park and peg. At the mouth of the Red River he is Niagara Falls on August 8th. to be met by some of his old Indian parish: —A company has been incorporated with oners and be taken on a several weeks tour a capital of $500,000 for the purpose of among the missionaries stationed on the manufaeturing rolling stook for railways. northern part of Lake Winnipeg. The chief place of business will be in To- —On Sunday afternoon, 17th inst., Mr. Isaac Bechtel, of Waterloo, was attending a route. young horse which was sick. While he was —Rev. E. P. Crawford, rector of the church of the Ascension, Hamilton, has ac- rubbing some liniment on the animal it at- cepted an invitation from the congregation tempted to break away. In his attempt to of St. Luke's church, Halifax, to become hold him Mr. Bechtel was knocked down reotor of that parish. Stipend, $2,000. and the horse fell upon him, injuring him —The funeral of J. W. H. Wilson, Grand severely. He was very low for a time but is recovering, and is now out of danger. NI:aster of the Manitoba Masonic Grand Lodge, which took place in Winnipeg on —There were two terrible accidents in Thureday of last week, was one of the Toronto last week. A man named Muldoon largest ever seen in that Province. was run over by a Grand Trunk railway train and his leg cut off. He lay on the —Pat Davey, years ago one of the foremoet track from 10 o'clock p. m. Thursday till 5 horsemen of the Continent, died in Toronto a. m, Friday,,when he was taken to the hos- , a few days ago. For years deceased kept pital. A young man named Woolings got ' the Brockville Club House. He had been ill for a long time. caught in the machinery of Te.ylor's Don Valley Pressed Brick works and had his leg — Ogden Rahor, of St. Thomas, aged 10 torn off. He will hardly recover. years, had his foot taken off by a, mower, in Yarmouth, on Thursday evening, After the —Mr. James , McSween, of the London Muitorn house, had a narrow escape Friday amputation he was taken to the Amass Wood hospital. evening. He was carrying an umbrella, and did not notice an approaching street car. He —There are several cases of smallpox at was knocked down and run over by the Gretna, Manitoba. The disease was brought team of horses, but the promptitude of the there by a Chinaman. The plaee has been driver in checking the horses saved him. carefully quarantined, and there is not the The horses had stepped over him, so that he elightest fear of any spread of the disease. was unhurt. The umbrella was damaged — Mr. M. J. Feron, of Montreal, thought beyond repair. two policemen were using a drunk toe ' —Very Rev. Vicar -General McCann, of roughly and interfered. As a result he St. Michael'e Cathedral, Toronto, celebrated was himself arrested and roughly treated the silver jubilee of his ordination to the and now he sues the city for $5,000 dam4 ages. priesthood on the 21st inst. Special ser- vices were held in the cathedral, Addresses —Edward Morris, a farmer at Silver of oongretulation_ were presented from the Creek, near Ottawa, hid himself under hie clergy and various 'societies. The clergy barn during Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of last week to await the abetment of hie *leo premented him with a gold watch and chain, and the laity a purse of $300 in wife's desire to treat him to a lecture. He should move out West and get a dieorce. go—lcLwm. J. Woods, who left hie wife and —Thomas Hume, aged 16, a resident of seven children in Owen Sound 13 years ago Georgetown, was instantly killed by light' and went to Colorado where he since died, ning on Tuesday afternoon of last week was the part owner den undeveloped sileer His companion, a young man named Grant, mine at the time of his death. The mine was prostrated for over an hour by the was eubsequently developed, and after a shook. ' prolonged fight in the United States courts, —At Ingersoll a few days ago a younif the deserted wife and the other heirs have 'man named Henry Helprnan while reinoving secured possession of over $3,000,000 and re - hay from a fork in Dr. Carroll's barn wai tain part ownership in the mine. struck by the carriera and knocked insensi- —A despatch from San Francisco, dated ble. He also received a severe pooh on the 22nd inst. says : Jack Allan and Mrs. thi_ghTrheeqGuirrainngd fiTvrennshtithdesc. 1 Hebden oft Montreal, who have been at a hioago & Grand fashionable family hotel here as J. S. Adams Trunk railway Companies have just issued and wife, of Quebec, have slipped away. the annual order to employees to be vacoint Ever since the publication of the fact that ate& As the companies transpott thousand"' they were the couple whose elopement scan - of emigrants it is thought best to take this dalized the fashionable society of Montreal they have kept closely to their rooms. pre—cam.urt!o Andolphe Davis, formerly manager Wednesday the preeture of notoriety became of the North Shore railway, and an applii- too heavy and they left, taking pains to 0614 for the position of superintendent of thp conceal their route and destination. weterworks in Montreal, has entered an se- —Information regarding the -Canadian and tion for $50,000 damages againet the Wit- United States apple crop is now coming to hand. A leading exporter, who has made a ness newspaper for alleged libel. —Mrs. Owen Hitchoox attacked the show tour through the apple districts of Canada, bills which disgraced the dead walls of writes to the effect that there is a short Brantford in her recent campaign under the yielddn some sections ; but, on the whole, auspioes of the Royal Templars. The mayor, he thinks that a fair average crop may be who was in the chair, immediately promised relied upon in Canada. The same investi- that the indecent posters should be torn gator, whe is now in the United States, says that th.e crop of apples in New York down or covered up. —The other day at Iroquoian near Mont- real, a tramp ettempted to bortrd a freight train but missed hie footing and fell under the rear car, the wheels of which peeled over him, nearly severing him legs from his body, He was brought to the atation and died soon after. He conversed freely after he was brought in, laid it was entirely his own fault, had no friends in this country —The following new post offices were 'opened in Ontario on July 1st : Glenalda, East Peterboro ; Jamieson, North Lanark ; Kimbo, South Wentworth ; Lorne Park, ,(summer office), Peel ; Silverdale, Monck ; ,Snider's Corners, Halton ; Widder, East Lambton. —Joseph Codville's hardware store at Woodstock was burglarized at an early hour the other mousing, $150 worth of goods be- ing stolen. Among the articles missing are ten dozen razors, seven or eight revolvers, two dozen pocket knivee and some gun fix- tures. — Wm. Job, a merchant of St. John, Newfoundland, was married on the morning of July 1. He stared on his wedding trip, the fire broke out and he Was recalled by telegram. On his return he found all his property destroyed, wedding presents in- cluded. —Charles Hodges,the farm laborer who was under indictment for the murder of Benjoilnin Hubbard, a fellow laborer, at Gearey's farm, London township, a year ago, died at London on Saturday. He was out on bail, and as his health was shattered, it was known that he could never have been brought to trial. The Masonic Grand Lodge at London dis- cussed a resolution prohibiting the use of intoxicating liquors in Masonic lodges. It was during the debate admitted generally that the use of such drinks is on the de- crease, but the motion was not carried to prohibit it. —The death of Mr. Francis A. Stout, a prominent New York contractor took place .at Alexandria Bay, Thousand 'Islands, on "Monday of last week. - Mr. Stout went to the islands about three weeks previously in search of relief from a catarrhal difficulty. His disease developed into acute pneumonia, Wednesday evening, at Port Stanley, two boys were playing in a boat tied to the dock. One of them, son of Mr. Alonzo Herrick, about eix years of age, lost his balance and fell into the creek and was drowned. The body was recovered in about 20 minutes, but the vital spark had fled. — The oldest resident of Embro is Mrs. Angus McKay. She was married and moved into t he house in which she now resides in '1842, which makes her &resident of the vil- lage for 50 years. So far as the Courier knows there is no other person living who has resided in Ernbro for 50 years. — It has been decided that the Wisner shops in Brantford will be closed down on the 1st of August, and the work done there in the past will be done in Toronto in the It is difficult to answer satisfactorily why trade and the supply of meat has been so much out of proportion to other years. Bnt first allow me to impress upon Canadian farmers the absolute necessity of breeding and feeding the highest class posaible of cattle and sheep. It is surely understood Great Britain is our only outlet for our sur- plus stock—and, indeed, for all other na- tions, especially the United States. That country has at least 16,000 head of cattle more than its 60,000,000 of people can con- sume every week, and about that number alive and dressed find their way to Scotland and England every week. This has been the means, this year at least, of confusing the market to that extent that the British peo- ple have been supplied with an abundance of animal food at much less than they were raised and fed for—taking into consideration the expense of sendinii them across the At- lantic,. Competition is great. Yet Canada , must and will hold her own. And I desire; to place on record that Canadian oattle sur- pass all and any animals that seek purchas-1 ere in Great Britain. In regard to the sheep trade let me call the attention of your read- ers to the vast changes that have takenj place in the supply of mutton to England during the last lit years. In 1880 the first 400 carcases of frozen mutton reached Eng- land. In 1865 the number had grown to 778,000. In 1890 the number had ire:tress-I ed to 2,948,000. And last year the large steamers employed in the conveyance of re- frigerator mutton toted up to 3,324,000 ()sar- casm Multiply these by 60 pounds, the average weight of each carcass, and it shows that a colony of Great Britain delivers to the motherland 199,440,000 pounds of mut- ton yearly. Canadian farmer. ! do you realise what competitors you have to con- tend with ? and all this weight, this stu- pendous weight, of mutton is added to the thousands of their own sheep. Therefore, I think your readers desiring Information will readily understand why the markets are de- pressed. No matter how large ,and nuther- ous the population of a country may be, it oan be over -supplied, and England, at the present day, is overwhelmed 'with home and foreign supplies. Thank Gol,d that it is so—for the day was in my time when animal food was only procurable for one day in thk week for the working classes of Lanoashiret and that was Sunday. Every other dayi they had porridge, bread and treacle or al bit of fried liver with potatoes and' salt, But, sir the earth is neer and accessible, and, what with steam and' electricity,we are drawing nearer and nearer to every part the people. In spite of the Not that these the world. lot bringing $5 to $5.50 per barrel ; a later report says that $4 50 to 35; were rujing rates. —Under sanction of the Sanitary Board of Detroit the garbage collected in that city has been regularly carried by boat at night to Amherstburg and dumped in the river a short distance above the Waterworks dock., . The townspeople proteeted io vain and on Wednesday night of last week sent out a, tug which captured the American craft and crew. On Friday the owner of the boat wee fined $400 for violation of the customs' laws, in discharging cargo without clearance papers. —Montreal is being flooded with circulars of the " Little Louieiana Lottery " of Chi- cago, Kansas City and New York. If these circulars could be sent through the United States mails there would only be a charge of two cents at the most,but they are posted on this side of the line,by a company at Sarnia, which costs three cents. The circulars are full of instructions to " send money by ex- press," and adds : " Congress having lately enacted laws prohibiting the use of the mail to all lottery companies, our correspondence will henceforth be answered by express." —A remarkably fast passage across the Atlantic has just been made by the Dominion line steamship Labrador, Captain McAuley. Thie steamship left Montreal on Wednesday, July 13th, arriving at Liverpool at 1 p. m. on Thuraday, 21st. This would make the time of the Labrador from Montreal to Liv- erpool :eight days and three hours. The agents claim that this is the quickest pass- age across on record. The Labrador is the new steamship of the Dominion line which was completed laet year. —On Saturday, 16th Inst., about 128 per- sons gathered at the farm,of Wm. R. Buch- ner, a little east of Courtland, the occasion being the annual reunion of members of the Cohoe family. Four generations were re- presented in Mr. Buchner's family, the old gentleman being now in his 82nd year,while Mrs. Buchner is 73, and both are hale and hearty. William Cohoe, of Norwich, is an- other who has passed the four score mark, and many of those who were present lived more then the allotted three score and ten years. —A valuable and extensive deposit of peat and marl has lately been discovered on the lands of Mr. J. Potter and the Water- works company, adjoining the corporation of Berlin. Allan Huber, who made the discovery, has secured from the owners of the proPerty the exclusive right of extract- ing the substance, and is now working -with a staff of five men digging it out. The de- posit covers an area of 15 acres, and at some ,places is 75 feet in depth. The peat is claimed by thoee supposed to know to be of the beet quality and equal to that found in the Irish and German bogs. —The new Canadian commanders of the Salvation Army, Commandant Herbert II. Booth and Mrs. Booth, have issued a pro- elemation to the Army and its friends throughout Canada. In it they say " Let us assure you at the outset that the General never commissioned um to a place of duty where we felt more proud to go." After a reference to the difficulties of their task and ringing appeal to the members of the Army they close with the words, " Then, forward. We know of no debt, or devieor despondency, or dissppointment, which may not be met and quelled and overcome by a united force and a fervent faith." —A Buffalo dispatch says : Wm, Watts, a well-known produce dealer in the market, who brings most of his goods from Canada, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of smuggling opium. He had been under sus- picion for some time and had been watched. The officials learned that he was in the habit of bringing over about $3,000 worth of opium each trip. His scheme was ingenious. He lined the bottom of his wagon with eggs and in the centre put a quantity of opium. The bottom layer of the egg crates was usually filled with opium. Watts made about $3 a can on the stuff. He boeght it in Canada for $5 a can and sold it for There are a dozen Chinamen implicated in the smuggling scheme. —Several thunder storms occurred on Friday in some parts of Ontario. In the section about Ridgetown barns were burned, telephone poles stru3k, fences and trees blown down and standing grain prostrated, Mrs. Jeremiah Rushton, a lady well and favorably known, was in the act of calling up a neighbor's.house by telephone to ascertain if one of her children was safe, when the fluid struck and instantly killed her. At Newcastle, north of Toronto, heavy hail prostrated and ruined the grain crops on several farms, and the number of windows smashed was very large. At Bloomfield, near Picton, rain fell in torrents with hail, and with such force as to completely flatten the standing grain. Lightning destroyed the telephone wires and instruments in P. Burr & Son's store. —Robert G. Dalton, Q. C., master of chambers of the High Court of Justiee, died at his residence in Toronte, Monday, at the ago of 74 years. —An accident occurred at Kincardine on Saturday, bv which James McCallum Cos- bie, son of Mr. R. H. Cosbie, of Toronto, lost hie life. He was learning to swim, and was taken with a cramp in deep water. He was dead when brought trim the water. —The Dundee Banner says : It in being said that the best proof that the woman who hit Mr. Gladstone in the eye with a piece of gingerbread did not Mil113 tO do so is the simple fact that she hit him. If she had thrown the ginger bread on purpose to hit him she would have missed him, as women are terrible failures in throwing anythin?. They say that one of the funniest things an the world is to see a woman throw a stems at a hen. The only safe place under such cir- cumstances is where the hen stands. If you are anywere else within range you are liable to get hit. How is it that women are such poor shots, After they have pegged stones for a while at a hen without hitting it they grab their skirts and run towards it crying " shoo," and the poor hen, thinking they are out of their minds, goes away. —Last week's Stratford Beacon say' Thursday night two wee, weary, travel - stained urchins presented themselves at the city hall, One carrying grip and the other a basket. They gave their names as John Wilson and JohnetonWilson, aged seven and ten yearn respectively, and said that they had traveled all the way from Springfield, Massachusetts, and had been on the road for two days and two nights, They were in search of their brother, who, they said, was a resident of Stratford, and was to have met them at the station. Janitor Cooke took them in charge and made every effort to find their relatives, but without success. The Janitor got them a bed at the Royal Hotel, and learned next morning that a telegraphic State, which promised such good results a enqiuiry had come from Palmerston for two learned that their little sister was to have accompanied them, but for some resson re- mained at home. It was evident that the destination of the little travellers wss Pal- merston, not Stratford, and Mr. Cooke put Montreal market has already received three them on the train for that place, where at is carloads of Southern States fruit, the first to be hoped they found them brother. short time ago, will now give only half an litt e boys and a little girl, On enquiry he average -yield, while a considerable portion of the fruit is gnarled and spotted. Miseonri, Kansas and the other Southern States ere said to have crops much below the average. Still, according to the Trade Bulletin, the