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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