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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-09-08, Page 1893, I 1893 sines& I Look at 100CIS tut cOulpletet ,to have yoll look through, of the new 'ound in this FcFaul, irrived home on heard what alto- f.xatt done well , down aia obi r. -reds to build tt a. driving shed •tng the- timber truoture. llett Council idaY, the 25th except James e township wa- le meeting, yeas tarsuant to the imes Se. John 1ihiurveying thee is in its neigh - Concession 3, G, in the town. to the drain-, deepening and 1 that locality, rif- the Municipal et an assessment he lands to be port thereon et il.—The county Mg higher than f one mill and id for township is one and five- requirementi of being consider - aggregate. high - quite were pass - d. Ceuncil ad - Reeve. ;TE.--eMessre. J. id John Bowers, by the County erits of the pe - teat, asking for school section , hove been at lade at the first ey action being of irregularity p councils. At that any award •ram the Educe. - sustaining these rs adjourned to tn, who was to . W. Rose to 1 deciding both *3, Hon, G. W. te Mr. Britton proceed and the laritiea were to Hence the meet- rro, who had re - a copy of this d epartment, also information, and ;:ision on the dis- limed, and also advise the arbi- now necessary ; all concerned and allow the The Minister's i. It reaffirmed' ners, held that advised that a age is necessary, A curious point ehut out the The Minister is ion, besides the form a new sec- „ eiee nor dissolve trued. The 'five ly to casee where ruk. --Hon. 3. C. ey his. wife and 11.ry Jarvis wha some weeks at rom Gocierich by -lety afternoon of eg a number of krable -gentleman , Friday morn- anber of protein- esere Mr. A. Me eel Conservative ee D. B, Ken- 14ritelon and Do- agh the southern ip, calling among ng bee at John where about 2'6 assist. SamPle° and pronounced rd and aseistients ,ad party at din- isited Mr, join; f the township. d kindly rechived his mother—tile laughters. BnY- ed, and the lion. a bring the mat. linpro vemen ts be- t.eing through Old a paid to the ola I, thence to Reeve d, daughters pre- teturning to Clin- ae, the new town ce to serenadeMr. :-..t1 with a coati - band. SatUrd.09 D hours in Wing' uing the Minieter 1, escorted by the Conservative AP ;'es visited vie! Le salt worke ana he visited the - township, and on Mrs. Pattergoe , home at Ottawa enpanied hY D',,,Ire.' ,:retary. Shnut'-' tripeuied ex-Maler try Street Motile: ereing he attende5 th in the compel*? h James Ohr"1813? h Township, MI% might easily ha_ had been thresh., t one side eth°4 tete a drop of tr e straw, which vle 'floor, and took ,ft hie leie 45r on eustained e' ARUM h. 4-••••••• a, itt$111 osil • TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. 'WHOLE NUMBER, 1,343. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1893. ilATSI CAPS. We have now ready for your inspection . the grandest range of Soft and Stiff Hats ever dis- played by any one house. We show many American novelties that will not be shown else: - where. In Fancy Caprs We carry all the latest novel- ties in Boys' and Men's goods. Our Boys' School Cap, at 25c, is just the thing for a durable, knockabout cap—all sizes and varieties of colors. We are leaders in our line, JACKSON BROS., THE FAMOUS HATTERS, SEAFORTH. precisely like one of the little wooden figures in the Javanese theater. A little later two old men entered. One walked up to the artist and said : "This is my brother. He lives in Californy and I live in Ohio. I ain't seen him before in 30 years, and the Lord only knows when I will see him again. We want oil. pictures in a group. Some for my folks and some for hie." 'They wouldn't have any jewelry in their picture. Said they didn't want any high jinks and gim-oracks. As they started out two dapper, straw --hatted young men and two tailor-made young women entered. They evidentially considered the tin -type adventure as a "lark," for the young women frequently gungled ; "How awfully fun- ny ; did you ever hear of such a thing ?" and the young men were so nice , and pat- ronizing to the little artist, .1 Thus they come and go, hundreds, yes, thousands of them. In the meantime, the little tin -type man is raking in a goodly number of depreciated silver and other dol- lars, even at 25 cents per, and the vieltore are carrying away sticky tin -types which, 20 or 30 years from now, they will proudly dis- play as "some we had taken at the World's Fair, you know." THE GREAT SHOW AT THE WINDY CITY. AMUSING INCIDENTS AND GRAND SIGRTS. CHICAGO, August 26th, 1893. Now, then, fold your hands on your lap, ftx your eyes on this hole in the tent, look pleasant and keep quiet ; that's it now I" The speaker was a small man 'Who wore no collar and whose oheckered shirt sleeves were roiled back from the wrists and /held in place by blue elastics. His fingers were spotted with black and yellow chemicals and he carried around with him a penetrat- ing odor which was not exactly Lubin's- extract. He was the tintype man at the Fair, Re has a little square tent in "front of which are two large frames filled with artistic samples of his work. A large ban- ,ner announces that this is the original and only Columbian tintype gallery and that the price is four for 25 cents. The front of the tent constitutes a little reception -room with a weak, seasickily mirror fastened to the tent -pole, to which are hanging, also, a cotnb and brush. The dark -room is no larger than a patrol -box and the apartment behind holds a three-legged camera, some -adjustable head-reste and the "views." These latter are mitster-pieces-ein their way —one seldom sees anything like them. One 'of these "sceneries" as most of hie patrons call them—is a bold daub representing a grand stairway. Another is _supposed to , be a forest. The third is a picture of the Administration Building—so the artist said. Most of the World's -Fair visitors who sit for tintypes preferto have the Administra- tion Building in the background. Now, at 25 cents is sitting the tintype - man must hurry things in order to make a fortune before the close of the Fair—you osn figure it out for yourself. So be wastes but little time in posing his customers. If it is ope person he simply rushes him, or her to the. chair, puts the iron clamp to his or her head, addresses the above instruct - gone to the phtron, wimps his camera for a half -minute, jerks out the plate and rushes for the dark -room. If two persons are to be taken, one must sit down while the other stands behind with the right hand grace- fully and sort of accidentally resting on the shoulder of the first. The artist calls this the bride -and groom attitude, and it is the conventional thing, as shown by the samples in the frame. One couple yesterday wanted ta be "took different from ever'body else," and insisted upon arranging themselves. She stood in front of a painted fence, which looked as if it was•hardly strong enough to support the abnormally -large flower-pote on each end. Ile leaned over from behind, holding her by the hand—he insisted on the right hand because it "looked so kind of trueelike"—and looked her intently in the face. When the pictures were presented to them the young woman was very much dis- appointed. One side of her face showed very well, but the other side vhes lost. As for him, he was sienply disgusted. He had insisted upon wearing hie hat and conse- quently. the tintype represented him as about the color of a Midway South Sea Islander. But the real grievance lay in the feet thet the pictore turned things around, so that he was holding the girl by the left hated instead of the right. "He didn't taken them a bit good," said she. "You couldn't tell that was me, nohow," he re - `plied. Bet they felt somewhat comforted upon the assurance of the picture man that the pictures wouldn't be so dark after they had dried. "But it won't change back to the right hand, will it ?" the young man asked, as he passed out of the tent. Two broad and healthy girls in blue dress- es fussed and primped in front of the look- ing-glase. One Was rubbing her nose with her handkerchief in order to remove the "shine," which in the absence of the pow-. der -box, becaMe more glossy with every rub. The other was trying to plaster her bangs down with soap -suds and hair -brush. "Come ladies can't wait all day ; Ihn-ready for you to set'," said the artist, poking hie ehead through the flap. With a last look in the mirrors the two girls went giggling into the gallery and were shoved before the camera. They, too, were disappointed in the picture. They never knew before ,that blue took white, and why didn't he tell them -about that, and they guessed they wouldn't pay for the pictures. Bet the tin- type man knew tithing or two. He opened his bottle of (fold paint, drew out a camel's- hair brush an% gave each maiden a heavy gold neck -lace and a large ring—in the pic- ture. "That gives it the finishing touch -e sets it oft better," said he. This appeased them, although one of them insisted that the tin -type "didn't do her juetice—made her look as if she was mad at someone." A family of six, and they were honest, - plain people, waited as solemnly as if they were attending funeral services or a surgi- cal operation. They filed mournfully into the back of the tent. At sight of the cam• eia the younger boy set up a howl that could have been heard at the Esquimaux village. , His ma said he wooldn't take a pretty picture with that expression on his face, and the artist evidently agreed with her. The boy was carried back to the te- ceptiere room and the exercises continued with only five participants. Each, parent held a child and one was planted between them. As they had informed this latter offspring that "the man wouldhout hie head off and otherwise mutilate him if he breathed or moved, he was frightened until he was rigid, and in the picture he looked "Shall we go to the stock ., pavilion and see the horses and cows ?" "No ; I am no sprinter," was the brief reply. , 'Sprinter," repeated the first girl, quii- zically. "Why, yes," said No. 2. "Don't you know those awful cows chase every one that goes near them ? They have a conetant, in- satiable thirst for gore. You heard about that horrid animal chasing a poor little red - suited guide -book seller the other day, didn't you ?" "0, yes ; I hadn't thought," replied No. 1 in a serious tone, as they turned their faces Art -gallery -ward. In the foregoing brief conversation is expreesed the opinion of most of the inhabitants of the , city re - larding the serene -eyed Jerseys, Alderney' and Anguses that are wearing the ribbon of honor and chewing the cud of content in the Fair berm To these Misguided indi- viduals a visit to the stock Pt vilion would be a downright blessing. o shall esti- mate the velue of the knowledge to, be gained by any city woman that a cow -does not entertain a perpetual desire to slay— that she is not continually in a state of in- eurrection against human -kind ? Likewise, the city man may discover muoh that may be useful to him, from the study of cattle. The one fact alone, that a cow is not consti- tutionally vengeful, that she does not al- ways lurk in vacant lots with the sole motive of catching city visitors there and waging fearful conflict on them, that fact alone is worth the price of a ticket to the Fair. Besides, after a brief study of the bovine exhibit, the critical visitor will be emp-ow-' ered to return to the Art Gallery and make moat sweeping criticierns on rural land- scapes, which run to cows either before, during, or after milking. A landscape may be fairly well executed without its cows, but it motet ever inspire distrust as to the artist's eineerity. After viewing the fine fat models in the pavilion, a novice will see that not ODb of the consumptive, meager Art -gallery cows could take a single pre• mium if she were plaoed competition. There is, indeed, much valuable information to be gained from these be -ribboned victors that bear themselves with mild humility, and the unbe-ribboned competitors which evince no envy and the sad -eyed heifers, not one of .which seems to exert an undue in- fluence on the too susceptible judges of awards. But, aside from all these reason§ why the stock .should be seen, they should be seen because such royal sPecimens of horses, cattle and blooded stock have seldom been stabled under the same roof or breathed_ the same air. Tuesday evening a procession of 600 of the finest horses in America _stamped and pranced along the white roadways at the Fair, proudly bearing their red and blee ribbons. There were 100 Shetland ponies. All had aristocratic lineage, some of which dated back to the middle of the last cen- tury. The Shetlands led the procession. Then came the Russian, the German and French coach horses next, Fellowing them came the French trotters, Cleveland baye, bob -tailed hackneys, beautiful Morgan horses of Vermont, nervous, elender-limbed Arabs and America Arabs. The draft horses were led by maseive Clydesdales, fol- lowed by Percherone French draft horsesq shires, shaggy -hoofed' Belgians and Suffol Punch. The mules meekly trailed along the last of all. The parade was enthusias- tically applauded by thousands of spectators all along the route. An Ontario Farmer's Wife at the World's Fair. • • 165 000 persons admitted through the gates. of the affected parts again. Mr. Lacy is , were : Mrs. Orr and family; Mr. and Mrs. Milton; 1VIrs. Morton, orof Hamilton- Mr. and Mrs. Tough, of Grand Valley; Mr. 'Wheeler, of Hamilton, and others, —Constable Klippert, of Waterloo coun- ty, came to Stratford on Saturday, and took away, young Wildfong, who was arrested there the other day as a vag. Wildfong is wanted on numerous charges of chicken stealing. It is said that he was one of a gang that has been laying the whole coun- tryside under tribute. One of his pals re- cently got three years for chicken stealing. —Allan Neil McLean made his wife the executrix and his son, Wm. Allan, of Walkerto'n, executor of hie will. He died last May worth $8,743 08. Of this $7,026 is in 'hetes and stooks. The widow gets an annuity of $1,500, and th sou and three daughters each get $300 ann ity, and after a few smell legacies have b en made, shall share the residue equally. —The commissioners of the London Pres- bytery appointed to investigate the petition for the removal of Rev. W. S. Ball, of Van - neck, while not approving of the manner in which the petition originsted, without im- plying censure on any of the parties, recom- mend that the pastoral tie be dissolved and order the same to take effect the last Sab- bath in September. e —Quite a sensation has been caused in Montreal by a report that Mr. L. J. Amedee Pepineau, sr., of Mont Bello, and son of the late Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, has Aban- doned the Catholic faith, and is about em- bracing the Presbyterian creed. He has long been looked upon au a free -thinker, and is said to have seldom attended the Catholic church. —Stephen Hall, sr., of Washington, Ox- for4 oounty, has been very ill, owing to the bursting of a blood vessel. His many friends will, however, be pleased to learn that he is reported au being in a fair way of recovery. Mr. Hall is one of the Oxford county bridge commissioners and a director of the North Dumfries and South Waterloo Fire insur- ance Company. —When the Hamilton express arrived at the Union Station, Toronto, Friday noon, Conductor Johns oalled Grand Trunk Rail- way constable Donald into one of the oars. A well dressed man living in the city would not give up his tioket. He refused to hand it over to the officer, when it was taken from him by force, after which it required the two to eject him from the car and ste- t ion. —A Winnipeg depatoh of August 31 says : Percy Nicolls, Goverment Indian instructor at Poplar River, Keewatin arrived here three days ago and announce'd in the news- papers that hie mission was to secure a suit- able wife. Several candidates presented themselves promptly, and last night Percy selected Miss Sarah Hutton, a young -lady of 20, from the number and they. were mar- ried, leaving for their far north home this morning. —Referring to methods of heating, the Galt Reporter says : It is astonishing the rapidity with which furnaces are supplant. ing the coal stove heating of dwelling houses in Galt and- vicinity. A few years ago it was a distinctive mark of wealth to say that so and so had a furnace in hie house, but now they are so common that a man to make a show has got to brag of a hot water or steam system of heating before he can Every one seemed bent on seeing all they could and the greatest good 'humor and courtesy prevailed. The Canadians do not feel particularly proud of the public Accom- modation in the Canadian building, it being the only place we were in in which com- fortable seats for resting, 'toilet appliances, etc., were not provided. There was a post office and registry, and that was about 'all. Canadians are highli respected on the other side for their sterling qualities ; still, in many things they might take a leseon from the Yankees, and with benefit tO them- selves especially in labor saving machinery abouethe house, little things , which go to make life pleasant. But lest tire you, I will bribg this a close. The first Sabbath here, I went to hear Dr. Withrow, Presbyterian. I was a little disappointed. The next , Sabbath, heard Moody in the Haymarket id the fore- noon, and Rev. John McNeil in the Baptist church in the evening. Had ,read and heard much about these men, but they were better a, great deal than I expected. There is a magnetism about them both, a speaking from the heart to the heart, that is I perfectly irresistible. The peo- ple wdeild laugh one minute and feel like crying the next. Yet they are two very different! types of men. Their power for good great ; they will have Many stars in that day when Christ makes up his jewel.. Their nieetings seem like so many oases in the great desert of the dusty, windy, busy Sabbath -breaking Queen City of the West. A. F. upwards of 70 years of age, and has been Josiah Royce, of Eramoss: Mrs, Butchart,of connected with the Telegraph for nearly 18 years. - --The inmates of the Hamilton Insane asylum were on Saturday given a trip to the Beach by the steamer Mazeppa. On the return trip a patient named La Fortune jumped overboard and was drowned. North Dakota., DEAR EXPOSITOR —As correspondence to your most excellent' paper has been rather limited of late from this part of the coun- try, I thought I would write a few lines and inforM your numinous Teaders in old Huron and regions remote,how this excelsior State has flourished luring the season now utmost pest Ever since the high water receded in the spring (which, by the way, was not nearly so high as reported,) we have had a season of perpetual growth, crowned with an abundant harvest, If I were to state the real facts concerning the groWth ,of our crops here the past summer, I'm afraid my veracity would be called in question by some of your readers in the far-famed dis- trict of Algoma, and perhaps in other re- gions as well. I will, however, state one instance that came under my oWn observe - tion. A field of barley was sown en the 6th day of June, and some of it wee ripe, well filled and ready to cut on the 6th of August, the straw being considerably over two feet long. The yield of wheat' alone in the Red River Valley this year esti- mated at 15,000,00,0 bushels, and this is considered rather under than over the ac- tual amountS The quality of the grain is also abovs the average of the past few years, as the wheat, where properly har- vested, will ,nearly all grades No. 1,hard. Some small showers of hail passed over the south and west of this county. The wheat is nearly all in the shock now, and before this appears in print a large' quantity of it will be threshed, if the present fine weather continues. 14 till the present thde we have had no frost to speak of, the potato and tomato vines being uninjured, and the meadows are ete green as in the early sum- mer. This county (Pembina) is credited with having the hirgest yield of any county in the Valley this year. The published' esti- mates place the amounts .at over 3,000,000 ushels of wheat ; besides fair yields of ay, oats, barley and potatoes. iSmall ruits, such as currants, raspberrieti and gooseberries do exceedingly well and some varieties of herdy apples are being experi- mented with, and I might add with consid- erable success. Parties visiting the World's Fair from Ontario should not fail to thor- oughly examine the North Dakota exhibit, as it -has been prepared with great care, and will certainly prove most interesting, The Prohibitory Liquor Law passed in this state a -few years ago fin generally speaking, a mimes. This is "more lotice- able at this season of the year, when there are so many threshing gangs and foreign laborers in the country. At the last court, which met heiet in July, three parties were found guilty (Id violating the law, and were fined MIMI varying from $450 to $500, and ninety days id county jail, additional, 3. F. LA N DSBOROD GR. VIIIRINA, AUg11113t 31st, 1893. —Mr. Edward Blake voted for 'the third reading of the Home Rule Bill and then left London on a newspaper train at five o'clock Saturday morning to embark on the Lake Huron " for Quebec. —The milk dealers of Toronto have pro- tested against the action of the' medical health officer in publishing the names of milk sellers whose milk on analysis shows less than a certain amount of butter fat. —Some 2,000 sawloge have been picked up inthe coves around Quebec city, part of thirty or forty thousand set adrift all the way down the river from near Montreal by the late storm. —Rev. A. McLeod, B. A., B. D., of New York, on a visit to the parental home in Zorrin.was, a few days ago, attaoked by a vicious cow, and received very grave injuries on the chest and limbs. —The other day Pat Donnelly, proprietor of the Lakeview House, at Niagara, one of the Donnelly family of liddulph,was knock- ed down while trying to stop a runaway team and seriously injured, although he will paebably recover. —Hop growers of Prince Edward county refused to sell their hops at the prices quoted by local buyers. An agent was sent to Toronto, where the hops have been dis- posed of for more.than twice what was of- fered by middlemen. —The Dominion Line steamship Sarnia, 33 days out from Montreal, arrived at Queenitown on Friday morning in tow of the Montevidean. All on board were well, and the cattle were landed in good condition. The trouble was caused by a broken shaft. The following extracts, from a •private let- ter written by a farmer'e wife, who recently visited Chicago's White City, to a friend in Seaforth will be found interesting reading : According to promise this will let you know that I have retUrned safely from my "visit to Chicago, that large,busy, and sad to 'say, very wicked city. I feel more than ever the conviction that, after all, we are highly privileged,who live in Ontario. Nice, quiet Sabbaths, and no cyclones to speak of. We enjoyed the " White City ' im- mensely where we staid for one week. I had a very pleaeant time, indeed. We were favored in having, most of the- time, beautiful weather. It would be impossible for me to describe the show. The' number and size of the buildings and exhibits is so great it would take a whole month of seeing to do anything like justice to it. There are between 700 and 800 buildings, many of them very large, in fact far too large and too many of them. It is said thet the di- rectors Bee now, when too late, that fewer and emaller erections would have been more satisfactory and less expensive. They say it will require a daily attendance of 200,000 during the months of September'and Octo- ber, in order to cover expenses. They still keep open on Sabbath, but the grounds are usually like a deserted village, so few people attend, and so many exhibits are not to be seen. The reason given now for keep- ing the gates open is that under some exist- ing law the closing of the gatem imposes a heavy tine on the directors, which fine ethey had to pay the only day it was closed. We saw a very great deal that was beau- tiful, curious and instructive, and missed seeing a great deal that no doubt we should have liked to see. Heard some good music, notably Thomas' Orchestra and Gilmore's band, I saw many fine paintings, but the one I liked best was by our Canadian artist, Reid, of Toronto, ' The closing of the Mortgage." I liked the ex- hibit of paintings and sculpture at Philadel- phia better than at Chicago, as to my mind they were on the whole finer, though not HO large or so many of them. One thing that ;mpressed me very much was the ample spa8e for going about, no crowding any place ; not a profane or objectionable word was heard by us while on the Fair Grounds, although one day, Saturday last, there were Canada. Sportsmen iaround the Bay of Quints re- port ducks mere plentiful than ueual at the opening of the season. —Grimsby " Park closed one of its moat successful Bestows on the night of the 28th ult., in real old camp-rneeting style. —Mr. John Douglas of near Thamesford, has rented hie fine 200 acre farm to the Knox 1 Broth for $550 per annum. —Mr. Thomas Quinn, bursar at the_ Cen- tral Prison, 1 Toronto, died suddenly at Brockville oreFriday. e - —The Me hodists of Kingston and the surrounding c istrict will hold a grand reviv- al and conference in November next. ' —Thomas iGray was sentenced to six months in jail and $100 fine at Montreal for assaultiug a Policeman. —Mr. William Kough, of Owen Sound, bout $1 000 on his Galloway oat - World's Fair. he Dominion Rifle Association et ' eek, the 1.2th York Rangers —Thsother morning in Toronto pne of Eaton & Co.'s horses backed into one of Hargreaves' plate windows on the, corner of Queen and Simcoe streets. The large glass was completely shattered and about 660 worth of stook destroyed. —Alex. Robertson, hotel keeper at Van- couver, British Columbia, was found dead in his bed on Monday, last week, from heart failure. Deceased left Halton county three yearii ago, where he was a cattle dealer. His wife and family still live there. —Another gusher with a capacity of 8,000,000 feet of natural gas a day was struck at Kingsville a few days ago. Assis- tant manager A. King says the supply is all that is needed to pipe to Windsor and Walk- erville. —There died at Parkhill on the 28th ult., Norah Pauline, wife of George Wyld, M.D., daughter of the late John Willoughby Verner, of Sarnia, and grand -niece of the late Sir William Verner, baronet, of Churchill, county Armagh, Ireland, aged 35 years. —There is trouble in Cooke's Presbyterian church, Kingston. On Sunday the anthem was aung during the collection. Mr. Thos. Lemmon sang a solo. Several old members wereoffended,and manifested their dislike by leaving the edifice. The trouble yeill prob- ably be healed. —Dr. Stearnes, son of Hon. Alderman • hae won tle at the —At matches 1 have carr ed ell before them,- winning in all $1,100, --The British C season. 425,000 c —Miss taken act maker, fo claimed a —Mich saoree n lice., has istrate tn 5 years in the penitentisry. --A compapy, has been formed in Paris with an authorized capitel of $20,000, to manufactnrei a new wrenoh, invented by a —A chenille curtain manufactor; will blacksmith mimed Houghton. shortly be started in Guelph, and it Will be exempted in iproportion to businees dcine and hands em loyed. —Shel on[Ward, ST -reeve of Malahide, over-exer ed himself while rowing on Satur- day, and died from the -effects the sense, day. Deceased and high . —The the old com,muni in the di Stearnes, of Montreal, was drowned in the look down on his next door neighbor. river at that place Friday. Mr. Stearns was paddling a canoe in the river, svhose current had become very strong from recent rains. The canoe upset, and all efforts to —The survey of the ship canal of the St. Lawrence river has been undertaken by the United States War Department under the recent Act of Congress, and a corps of en - save him were useless. ginee re, with all neeessery !equipment, are —Mr. John Orr, aged 26, a Grand Trunk now on the river. The object proposed for brakesman, fell from a box car while shunt- this survey is to sweep the' ship channel , in the yard at Barrie, Saturday afternoon. to a depth of 21 feet below the water, for a The oar passed over both lege, almost cut- width of 2,000 feet, unless restricted by the {McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. and he would only be responsible for about $1,000. Believing the promiees made, he signed the bond, and afterwards found to his sorrow that he had been deceived, and could be held responsible for the whole sum. —Walter Impel!, a painter was sent up for trial by the magistrate at ',Woodstock on Thursday on a charge of neglecting to pro- vide the neceseariee of life fer his children. This is the first prosecution under the new Dominion criminal code, and is of interest as showing the change in the law. Under the new code, Section 110, any parent or guardian who fails to provide for his wife or children, under 16 years of age, with the necessaries of life is liable to imprisonment for three years in the penitentiary. Under the old act a father was liable to imprison- ment should he fail to provide food, clothing and lodgint. —Splen id weather favored the opening day of the Toronto expo:tuition last eTuesday. The gates were opened to the public at 9 o'clock, and from that hour visitors, have been arriving in crowds. All exhibits were in their places and far exceed any previous year. Promptly at 2 o'clock Lieutenant - Governor and Mrs. Kirkpatrick arrived in the main building when the opening cere- monies were gone through. The Lieutenant - Governor touched an electric button which set the machinery in motion, and the shriek- ing of whistles and the clanging of belle announced to the vast crowd that Toronto's great fair had opened. —On their return to Hamilton a few days ago from a visit to Muskoka, the feamily of A. W. McKean. 223 John street north, ais- covered that during their absence their house had been entered and a considerable quentity of valuables including dresses, furs and jewellery, stolen. It is difficult to say just when the robbery occurred, as the family had been absent for alnaost two months and the theft was so neatly done, everythIng in the rooms being left apparent- ly undisturbed, that a tangible clue is hard to obtain. The police are actively engaged in an investigation of the affair. —An unprecedented incident in Captain Clark's careeresays the Guelph Herald, oo- ourred a few days ago. The charger he was riding did not relish the epur and began to buck. It went up in the, air heels first, de- scribed a circle and (lame down on its haunches. Shortly after it came down Cap- tain Clark also arrived and stopped sudden- ly on a stone. The Captain is a little lame to -day, but he doesn't mind that, What troubles hirn is that a common, ordinary, livery horse cavorting to the " lascivious pleasing of a lute," should unseat him for the first time in his life. —According to the British Board of Tsade returns for the seven months of the calendar year ended July, the aggregate trade be- tween Canada and Great Britain amounted to £6,329,447, against £6,818,565 in the cor- responding months of 1892—a decline of £589,118 or $2,869,000. The exports from Great Britain to Canada show au increase, while the imports from Canada ' into Great Britain show a large decline. There is a falling off in every item except cheese and butter. The National Policy clearly is not booming our trade with the mother country. canneries on the Fraser River, lurnbia, are now closing for the t estimated the pack will exceed ses. Roise Silver, of Hamilton, 'has on e,gainst James Evans,a carriage bieaoh of promise. The damages ount to $2,500. . el New convicted of stealing nide and ornaments from the Basi • een sentenced by the Police Mag - ting them off. He was carried into the station, where hal died at 7 p. tre Mr. Orr was 4 general favorite -among the trainmen. —The death of `Elihu M. Schooley took place at his residence in St. Thomas, Wed- nesday of last week, of cholera morbus, in hie 68th year. He was one of the wealthiest men in South Oxford, but sustained heavy losses by taking stock in the Port Dover and Stratford railway, and by reveries in the lumber business. —The Chicago Canadian -American says : Several Canadians who have come over here and invested money in World's Fair hotels have reason to regret their action. They was aged 65 years, widely known y respected. an Sixt, of Doon, over which the notest on the mysterious death of y was much wrought up, rei3ulted coyery that death resulted from natural ausee. —J. T. Litoy, editor of the Palmerston Telegrap , has been forced to retire from active se vide and is offering his paper for sale, Oa the morning of August 23rd Mi. Lacy fo Ind himself suddenly deprived of the almo t total use of his left hand and leg, and his n3edicei attendant tells him that it i shores or other well known obstructions. —The other afternoon Richard Mock, of Harriston, while nursing a child in the woodshed took to coughing, when suddenly the blood was seen to gush out of his mouth in great streams. The child fell from hie arms and he fell to the fioor, the blood con- tinuing to flow. Help was procured at once, but. Mock waa beyond help, as he choked to death in lees than five minutes. The bursting of a blood vessel is said to be the cause. —Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, says that the increase of electric wires all over the country causes drought. have lost thousands of dollars in their en- The electricity latent in the atmosphere is, terprises, and the only consolation they he claims, the oause of rain clouds forming, have is that in their misery they have lots but when the electricity is attracted and concentrated by the wires,the clouds do not form, or else form thunder storms, which chiefly follow the larger river valleys. He suggests that the Government should ap- point a joint commission to investigate this matter. —Senator Frye, of Maine has undertaken the recovery of a considerable sum of money for the Grand Trunk Railway. He has in- troduced a bill directing the payment to the managing director of the cornpany the sum;of $10,770, in full satisfaction of the claim of the company for duty paid by them in 1864 and 1865, and entitled to remission on rail- way iron exported from their branch in the United States to Canada for re -rolling and re -imported to the States for use on the branch. —Mr. C. J. Pasmore, of Rockw-ood, is the fortunate owner of an ancient Roman coin supposed to be about 2,200 years old. The antiquity of the coin makes it a valuable possession. Mr. J. R, Strickland, Grand Trunk railway agent, owns one of the finest collections of postage stamps in Canada, em- bracing about 1,200 varieties, from nearly every stamp using country on the globe, and is the result of over 25 years collecting, ttohel8b suol.k of the collection, being issueol prior —Mr. John Twigg,for the past 40 years a prominent citizen of Picton, and county of- ficial, passed away Friday last. For 40 years Mr. Twigg held the following offices : Local Registrar of the High Court, Clerk of the County Court, Clerk of the Surrogate Court and, then clerk, For a number of years he was a. high school trustee. He was a consistent member of the Epiecopal church, and in all the relations of life as husband, father, citizen and official the same high sense of honor characterized his acts. —It is understood that the Canadian Gov- ernment has made a contract for ten years with the Canadian -Australian Steamship Company. A third steamship will be im- mediately added to the line. Arrangements have also been completed whereby the Can- adian Pacific Railway company will act as agents for the line in Canada, the United States and in Europe. Mr. Huddart, the manager of the Canadian -Australian steam- ship line, is appointed agent in Australia and Sand,,wich Islends for the Canadian Pa- cific railway company. —The congregation of Oak Street Presby- terian church, Toronto, held a special meet- ing the other night to consider the question of the resignation of the Rev. J. M. Camer- on. The reverend gentleman stated that at a critical time in the history of the church he was asked to sign a bond with other offi- cers for the loan raised on the building. amounting to $28,000. He was told that if he did so, other signatures would follow, of company. ° —Dr. H. Frank, who has been acting as assietant physician on the Six Nations re- serve, near Brantford, was a few days ago made a chief by the Piegans and adopted into their tribe. , This is the first time that a white man has been so honored. Dr.Frank leaves for Toronto shortly to complete' his medical studies. —Mr. Wm. Reid of Lieury, near Park- hille had to kill a valuable cow Saturday as a result of her being chased by • hie dog, when she jumped over ,a ditch and broke one of her lege in two place. The dog's happy days are also ended,for as a reward for hie unprofitable work he was killed and buried with the cow. —During the last few years,from statistics - published, Montreal has occupied the llth place among those of the Centinent in the volume of its bank clearings. For the week ending August 24th her place in the clearing house returns was seventh. The decrease in the volume of clearing in the United States is putt downeto the financial troubles. —The blg threshers of Lobo have been getting in their work on the farm of Albert E. Mackay. The deed was accomplished last Saturday in seven hours by William Squires and company, who threshed out 828 buslaele of wheat and oats in the above men- tioned time. One hundred bushels of oats were Pat through the champion whizzer in nineteen minutes. —An attempt was made one night recent- ly to burn Mr. Thomas Staddock's house at Spidertown, in the vicinity of Parkhill, which is oceupied by Mr. John McNeil. The weuld-be-incendiary saturated the side of the Ihouse with coal oil and then applied the match, but fortunately the fire was dis- covered and extinguished before any serious damage was done. —An exciting scene happened on King street,I Toronto, about 11 o'clock a few nights ago, when a man in a top buggy gal- loped along at a furious rate with another man on the sidewalk in hot pursuit shouting at the top of his voice, " Stop, thief. The horse is stolen," etc. They quickly dis- appeered, and nothing. more was heard of them. —A very pleapsnt family reunion took place at the residence of Mrs. E. gic'eyce, Acton, on thes 17th ult., when her I four daughters and one son assembled to offer congratulations and their good wishee on the 80th birthday of their mother. She was made the recipient of a nnmber of beautiful presents, for which she expressed her grati- tude. It may be mentioned that Mrs. Royce is quite active, both in body and mind, and the members of the family hope that she may be spared to ses many more doubtful if he will recover the use anniversary days. Among those present —Mr. Voice, a real, live British sailor, with a jaunty seamanlike air, from Quebec port, is at present visiting his sister, Mrs, Eaton, of Chesley. Mr. Voice belongs to H. M. S. Blake, which was pronounced by generaropinion as the most imposing and formidable Man of War at the naval display in New York harbor in connection with the World's Fair. This blue -coated sailor has been in actual naval service 11 years. He says the total number of sailor soldiers on the Blake is 675, and that the monster ship is under the command of Vice -Admiral Hopkins. From Quebec, where she lies at present, the Blake proceeds to Halifax, thence to the Bermuda harbor for winter. —Francis Malcolm, for many years a well- known farmer of the township of Blandford, near Bright, is dead. Deceased was a high- ly successful hod unusually progrepsive far- mer. He was one of the pioneers in the dairy business, one of the first to see the possibilities of the Canadian farmer in the production of fine cheese and butter, and one of the mod successful in seouring large returns from his cows. He was an excel- lent writer on farm topics, and win] a frequent contributor to agricultural jour- nals. His ability was recognized many years ago by Sir Oliver Mowat, who ap- pointed him a member of the Agricultural Commission. The funeral was of an unusual charsoter. Mr. Malcolm was an agnostio, and, as his convictions are shared by mem- bers of the family,there was no religious ser- vice at the funeral. William.Algie, a well- known manufacturer near Orangeville, a warm personal friend of Mr. Malcolm, and one of the prominent free thinkers of the country, delivered a funeral oration. Mr. Algie's tribute to his dead friend was ex- tremely touchiog and eloquent. within the last few months. The surviving members are besides Abraham, Andrew on the old homested in Ireland and, Mrs. George Hamilton, of near Carlingford. De- ceased visited this country in 1862 and occupied the puplit of the Presbyterian church at Carlingford, and the pulpits of the neighboring churches on more than one occasion. —Mr. and Mrs, 'Thomas Crozier, of St. • Marys, have hit upon a novel way of spend- ing their honeymoon. Instead of taking e trip to Switzerland they are drivieg through Western Ontario, taking in the sights by the way. —Mr. Gus Brethour, of Kirkton, is the champion dealer in agricultural implements within 50 miles radius of St. Marys. This season he has sold 35 Maxwell mowers, 10 of their binders and 12 raket, besides num- erous smaller wares. —Mr. Wm. Taylor, of Mellbank, has pro- cured a family knitting machine, and is bus- ily occupied night and day preparing for winter's warmth. He thinks there is more money in it than in some more popular em- ployments. — At a meeting of the King's Daughters, at Motherwell, it was decided to have their Harvest Home concert on September 13th, in the Presbyterian church, the proceeds to be devoted to the seating of a church at Saltoo ate, Manitoba. — Mr. Thomas W. Whaley, of the Mil- verten Sun, announces thst he has sold hie paper and business to Mr. Malcolm Mc - Beath, of Walkerton. The explanation which Mr. Whaley gives is that he has been " called to a wider and more useful sphere." — During the holidays Mr. H. Y. Smith, of Atwood, wheeled o'aer a thousand miles - on his bicycle in viqiting various places in the Province. He was accompanied throughout the greater part of the trip by C. J. Wynn, of Newry. —A meeting of the Perth Veterinary As- sociation was held Thursday, last week, in the Royal Hotel, Mitchell. Messrs, Gibb, of St. Marys ; Hutchings, of Mitchell ; here, of Kirkton ; and McMaster, -of Stratford, were the only ones present. No business of public interest was transacted. —Mr. Hubert Thorne, of London, was is Mitchell last week on a very interesting mission. He took back to London with him a young bride from a good Preihyterie,n family in Downie. Mr. Hubert is a popn- lar young fellow and is doing a fine boot and shoe trade in London. —Mr. W. Pomeroy hal slid out his cheese factory and buqinest, in Logan, to Mr.James Porterfield, of Elms. The latter has taken possession of the factory, and Mr. Pomeroy will move into Mitchell and enter into the employ of -.Messre. John Whyte & Son, as their local and district hog buyer. —Mr. Moses Hanna, near Chiselhurst, threshed his fall wheat a couple Of weeks ago, the yield being 35 bushels per sore. The threshing was conducted on McKillop rules viz : discussing of politics, no. smoklng and no whistling of party tunes. Twelve Tories and two Grits 'sat down to dinner. —Mr. D. J. Coughlin, usually one of the heaviest shippers of cattle from Stratford to the Old Country, is practically out of the business this season. " Everybody in losing money on it," he says, and he has no desire to do business under such circumstances. He has bought a few cattle for shipment to Montreal, but none for export. —Four young women from Sangamon county made their first visit to Jackson ipark last Wednesday. They walked through the Fisheries, Government, Manu- factures, Electricity, Mining, Agricultural, and Transportation buildings, and the Illi- nois, California and Washington State building, and left for home the same night. They said they didn't think it was much of a show. —Last Friday Mr, James Morton, of St. Marys, together with his wife and grand- child, were driving on the road near Lake- side when -the horse suddenly bolted, capsiz- ing the buggy and throwing the oacupants out. Mrs. Morton received serious 'internal injuries, from which she died ehortly aftdr. Mr. Morton and the child escaped ^bout being seriously hurt. . E. Mason, a student of t e ou- t - gregational College, Montreal, wild*" hela been ministering to the congregation of she Congregational Church, Stratford, for 4,11111 past four months, is about to return to hie studies. Tuesday night he was present- ed with a purse and a gold mounted feun- tain pen, on behalf of the congregation. Perth Items. Dr. John Cavan and friends returned to Toronto last week, after a stay of over two months at Motherwell. —Mies Maggie Sterritt, of Motherwell, has gone to Deserouto, where she has been engaged as teacher in a school. —Mr. George Pringle has purchased the homesteau at Motherwell from hie brotherott $6,000. —Wm. Kyle, Wm. Elliot, Fred. Sawyer, and Dr. Burritt represented the Mitchell bowling club at the Niagara tournameut last week. —A field of Red Amber wheat belonging to Mr. James Russell, at Rnoteldale, when threshed averaged 48 bushels to the acre. The grain is very fine quality too. —The Gloor farm, lot 26, concession Logan, was sold by auction, the other day, to Mr. August Hintz, for $3,505, $500 lees than was offered for it last fall. —Mr. Wm. McFadzen bas bought the homestead at Motherwell and rented it to Mr. A. Oliver, of Avonbank. Mr, McFad- zen purposes going to St. Marys to live. i —Mr. Peter Stewart, having rented his farm at Brocksden for a term of Aare, to his son and grandson, Messrs. Stewart & MoNab, left on Tuesday's excursion for a few months' visit to friends in Manitoba. ----Professor Guest Collins, who has spent the past three years completing his musical studies at Berlin, Germany, is at resent in Listowel, the guest of Isis brother, —The Mitchell Reoorder says : "A valu- able horse belonging to Df. Willmot has stood in a box stall in the Hicks House stsbles for nine months without seeing out- side of the door. On 1Wednesday the hos- tler took him out to see the outaide world ; and the poor animal must have realized what a hard lot it is to be imprisoned for debt. The horse is behind in hit board s Mr. James Colquhoun, of Mitchell, was driving his lively turf skipper through the Main street, attached to a covered buggy on Wednesday evening, last week, a boy just learning to ride a. bicycle ran. blindly into him. The beast reared and jumped clear over both boy and bicycle without injuring either, but the buggy was considerably damaged before the animal was quieted down. The front street is no place for fresh bicyclers. —3,1essrs. Tracey Brothers, the well- known contractors of St, Marys, have erect- ed ten bank barns, all of mammoth dimen- sions, since the first of April lae't. Chief among these are the following ; One of 72 feet by 122 feet, for Mr. John Blair, the cattle king of East Zorra ; another for James Sutherland, of East Nissouri, of 52 by 72 feet„; and one for Richard Stephens, ot the River Road, Blanshard, of 44 by 64 feet, —The novel method of displaying the ad- vantages of belonging to the Salvation Army was presented in Stratford for the firet time Thursday, last week. Ire the regular even- ing parade was a horse and buggy, driven by a man who had a black bottle end was supposedly in a state of beeetly intoxication. He was unable to sit up straight in the eeat. Following immediately after the buggy was a Salvation Army soldier, carry- ing a eign bearing the words " After I join- ed the Army." The man in the buggy re- presented " before taking " and the soldier Ftlr. A. J. Collins. following the buggy repine/cited " after —The Weber _estate, on the townline of taking.' se, Wallace and Howick, has been purchased —Martin John Hickey, a fbrmer employee by Mr. Lambkin, of Ilowick, for a good of the Grand Trunk Railway shops at Streit - sum. He takes possession on the first of ford, dropped dead in Buffalo on Sunday, March. The Misses Weber intend taking the 27th ult. He had just finished a con - up their residence in Waterloo. versation with two friends when he fell —Mr. Abraham Davidson, of Carlingford, over. He did not die instantly, but before a ls.tely received intelligenee of the death of hie brother, Rev, John Davidson, of Drum- quin, county Tyrone, Ireland, which took place recent! 7. The reverend gentleman bad reached the age of 78 years and bad ministered for more than fifty years to the doctor could arrive life had gone. Death, the phyeician said, was caused by an ever - flow of blood to the heart. He was only 34 years of age, and his phyeical appearance gave promise of a long life. The late Pat- rick Hickey, of St. Mary's, for many years same congregation. It may be truly said of familiarly known as the " Mayor of the him "That he neter had changed nor wish- West Ward," was the father of deceased. ed to change his place." A large number He died a couple of months ago, at the age of this once numerous family have died of 104 years. : ' *, a 4