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THAR' WILMA) NUMBER/ 10852, IMAGINATION. apt at is a great thing, With A %Ay imagination a mita writes 4 woucletful book, a great play, a great speech a woman writes a tearful or fearful novel ; without imagination life would be a weary thing for many man or Woman, No castles in the air ; no rich uncle in the old world to leave them several millions. Imagina- ,. tion plays many a trick, Lot a Than go along the street perfectly .cool and comfortable, let him look at some therinometer that registers 90 in the shade, and he'll perspire like a rain storm. If you imagine you can't get good goods here because we have such low prices, your imagination M700T—JS You. If you imagine that our Suits to order at $15 are not worth $17, your imagination fools you. If you imagine that our Beaver Overcoats at $20, made to order, ;won't outwear three readymades, your imagination fools you again. If you imagine that we are not the headquarters for Men's Fashionable Ordered Clothing, your imagination plays tricks with —7" 0 _ Those Irish Frieze -Overcoats that we make for $15, $18, $20 and $22, will wear well ; will hold their color ; are stylish ; are well made and trimmed. Have you ever tried us for good cloth- ing to know how cheaply we sell ? You can't imagine, but,we'll be pleased to show you. JAC ON BROS THE FOR.EMOST AND PRO- GRESSIVE CLOTHIERS, SEAFORTH. t THE GREAT SHOW AT THE WINDY CITY. °IMAGO, November Bth, 1893. Ia the general demolition following the oioae of the Fair, destruction and ruin do not confine themselves to buildings and ex- hibits. Hearts are being torn asunder— ripped, as it were, into inmurmuring romans ticaily—eentimented good finitesimal shreds. Dark -eyed orientals are bys to maddens who have lounged around bazaars, temples and booths through all the long. summer days. In some instances vows are exohanged— vows which will be forgotten in a week and are a thousand times better unkept. There is one particularly fervent and des- perate case, in which it seems inevitable that the hearts—there are two of them—will be yanked right out and thrown away. The thus -afflicted pair consists of an Indian maiden and a Venetian gondolier—romantic isn't—and the story runs thus : Down on 'the lagoon in which the old whaler has been hard aground all summer, under the shadow of the grinning skulls, mummies and things in the Anthropologica,1 Building, in a small tepee lives a tidy little Indien squaw and her pac old Rain -in -the -Face. Now, it 80 happened that the Indian girl participated in one of the weird dances executed by In- dians on floats in the lagooe on (summer evenings. The Venetian came, he saw and went down like 80 much melted sugar ; he managed to become acquainted with her— Indian maidens are not very exclusive—and with every step he sank more hopelessly in- to the mire of love. The maiden reciprocat- ed, They were a- unit on one point—she must be his'n apd he must be her'n. Life wee not worth living to him, without her, while she had an in nerd conviction that she could not exist the smallest fraction of a day Without the light of his presence. Frequent- ly the Venetian wee missed in the evening, and his understudy was called upon to dip in his stead. They stole down to the lake shore of evenings and sat on big hard stones while the sad -eyed gondolier built Venetian oastlee—in the air. At other times he sneaked away his graceful gondola. from its moorings after tbe gates of the White City were closed and the lights were turned out, and took his Indian sweetheart out for a ride on the waters. Gliding noiselessly under picturesque bridges, past moonlight - painted snowy buildings, surrounded on all sides by the solemn hush and serene beauty of night in the White City, he told her of life in his native land. And right here they struck the snag that will probebly knock the bottom out of the romance. The gondelier wants to take the Indiari girl back to the city of St. Mark and introdhce her as his native American bride, while she insists en the Venetian giving up hie city on the sea and settling down to busineesn title side. She ie supported in her demands by her pa, who doesn't wish hie papoose to wander into the country of strange braves. Just what the result will be it is impossible to predict. But a weep- ing, despairing cupid is probably hovering over that section of the White City, and it is not unlikely that two worn•out, raveled and frayed hearts may be found on the banks of the lagoon, when the two principal actors in the tragedy have taken their departures Asiasrhke.to the Dakota hills, he to sunny St. Yrs GLORY TIAS DEPARTED. You have liate-ned to a fine, soul -thrilling !Wady, the rendition of which was faultless technical skill—a melody replete with feeling and expression, every note round, full and perfect. Then, perhaps, the next daY, you have heard the same exquisite composition exeeuted in a purely mechanie nal, slipshod way with here and there a note tiropped out, soulless and bereft of all ex- - aression—well, that is precieely the relative value of the Fair on Monday as cow -pared WIth the Expoeition of to -day, with notes b.eing dropped every hour in the day, mak- ing it only the rhatter of a few days until uothing will remain but the staff. All of the life and soul have flown from the Fair. The hour in which it ceased to be &national enterprise marked its dissolution. It became at that time merely an Illinois ec,rporation cha.rged with the settlement of all financial responsibilitiee connected with the Fair—an additional commission whose directer general and department chiefe must ltePervise the removal of exhibits, and a department of works, whose miesion PaIrripaily deetructive, for the removal of bundings and other park incumbrencest. The '2°.untol ef administration no Longer exists ; VI the department chief* and direetor nen- t the 114 -en who made the interier et the int,s as the ar-n/t/.,-et med. the eat/riot I -=114VO ()Wined tO Ad 44 nal/Wine! agenOihs, What remains of the Fair Is atr aggregation of displays oontrolled by foreign govern, //Ante and individusio—no longsr oompon. out parte of a great exhibition, All pommible measuree are being taken to expedite the re. /novel of exhibits tut exhibitors aro a unit In the desire to get away. Tii0 committee -begisn, opera. Homo promptly on Tueeday morning, The firrt blow of destruotion was received y the high fenoe just outside the tenni a station, through winch tracks will be all the principal buildings on the ground., Chips and fragments of wood, resulting kern, the destructive work, were eagerly gathers& up as souvenir. by visitors, PLAMANCE REVU.LINOS. The reign of Midway is over. Monday night, Tuesday and TueedaY night the hil. arious carnival that has been in constent session on the giddy highway for the last week resolved itself into nothing more 'or less than is drunken orgie with not infra. quent brawls. They became perfectly less and arrest was made impossible by he whole Midway oontiugent forming in a body to protect any offender, no matter how flag- rant the offence, thus preventing the Co- lumbian guard or other. officer from doing his duty. . The drinking places ignoredall regula- tions and boldly kept open all night. Some of the scenes of early Tuesday morning— which were simply disgraceful, --were report- ed to Director•General Davie, who called a meeting and peremptorily ordered that the Plaisance be closed and placed under guard. Quite a spirited discussicin of the subject en- sued, President Higinbotham and several others thinking the life of the Plaisance should be prolonged until it ceased to be a source of revenue to the , Exposition. The meeting resulted, however, in an order to close Midway and now all entranqes to that delectable section are barred and Columbian guards are stationed at the viaduct Paseage connecting with the main grounds under in- structions to allow no one to enter without a pass from the proper authorities. The day of surging Midway throngs and bawling bankers ie done. The greasy On - speakable Turks—ugh 1—the quaint, admir- able, cleanly little people front Java, the picturesque Arabs, the black warriore and Amazons from Dahomey, the swarthy Al- gerians, Laplanders, Moors and all the rest of them are no leoger show people ; they are simply tourists e long sray from home and anxioue to return. Thus Midway Pins- ance, the joke of theTair, has expired in a blaze—but the most enthusiastic could not call it a blaze of glory. s THE LADIES. The Board of Lady Menagers held a final and farewell meeting in Assembly hall of the Women's Building at 11 o'clock on Tues- day. Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the Board, addressed the audience in an elo- quent and feeling manner. Among other things, she sail : " It was the proudest moment of my life when I was told on last Saturday, by one of our visitors, with a heartfelt handahake and with accents of the deepest sincerity, that seeing me had given her more pleasure than seeing anything else at the Fair, except the Ferris wheel." An important feature of the meeting was the unveiling of a fine portrait of Mrs. Pal- mer, painted by' Andrees L. Zorn. The picture was made to adorn the women's me- morial museum, and will remain in the ens- tody of Potter Palmer until a museum build- ing is erected. At the close of the exercises Mrs. Palmer announced that her husband would give $200,000 for the erection of a permanent museum building on condition that a site would be procured. With moist eyes farewells were spoken, and the tur- bulent life of the Board of Lady Managers ended, NOTES FROM THE QUEEN . CITY. TORONTO, November 9, 1893. City -Engineer Keating'S report on the water -supply was an event 'of thepast week. He deals with all past schemes end points out clearly why Lake Heron and Lake Sim- coe instead of our own Ontario are the prop- er sources of supply for Toronto. More than that, Mr.Ketsting gives estimates upon what he considers the best possible plan for getting pure water from those lakes while taking full advantage of the plant now in use. As previously hinted, Mr. Beating favors . constructing a subharbor tunnel, about one mile in length,which will connect near Haulan's Point with a new conduit 'through the island to a point of intake situ- ated in 80 feet of water. The present island conduit and steel pipe across the Bay can be used during construction, and afterward as an auxiliary. All existing mains from the pumping station are by this means utilized, a plan much cheaper than that of getting water by gravitation or from Lake Ontario off Scarboro Heights. The estimated cost is $525,000. " The engineer points ou that Ili the cost of pumping water an we do i To- ronto is less than that of collecting in reser- voirs by gravitation, and with th new engines called for the price of 1,00 gal- lons will drop from,2,167 cents per d y to 1,626 cents. Mre Keating advises a im- mediate beginning, and promises the ublie a perfect water supply through the new pipes in two years' time. A BAD PRECEDENT. . The morality branch of the police depart- ment is not in an enviable position at pres- ent. It will be remembered that a dead set was made against the Scott Seed Company, the Chemical Supply Company and others supposed to be operated in the interests of W. G. Oegoodby, formerly proprietor of the Times. The police descended upon the premises and seized a safe found there, to - gather with oceans pf mail -matter. Charges of conspiracy to defraud were laid against Osgoodby, and the police were loud -voiced as to what more they were going to do. Mr. Osgoodby thereupon entered suit for $10,000 against the inspector, who has now backed down and become a party to a saw - off in the matter of legal action. The caseLagainot Osgoodby have been dropped by the Crown, and the former has ti-rown down the stick sharpened for Inspector Archabold. _ THE GAY STUDENTS. On Elalloween the students had a riotous time, and each college mob vied with the next in creating most disturbance. The theaters were captured early in the evening and it is safe to say that none of the Com- panies will desire a repeition of the Toronto Students' night. The police were out on the trail of the undergraduates early, as they feared the events of past years might be en- acted. However, the boys neither fired off the Russian cannons in Queen's -Park nor pulled down histpric-fenctuttfor the most part confining their courtesies to the inmates of ladies' schools where the inmates were not opposed to serenading. One good thing - they did. Outeside. the, Toronto University Building two(' an old tool house of front*, a lic of the rebuilding after the fire. It hall re *es been eyaaere vistitarc A antis i SEAFORTH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1893. of pollooman with drawn baton@ was clent to provont a mob of otudsaie from leeving the tool hooey perfeut wreolt on tho ground, Ouriouely, during tho whole evening but ono hrrort was made, WOOS( YOU TM& WIC Areititeet Lennox gives 'good news to many men out of work, Ile hal arranged to -give employment 4o over 100 men during the winter months on the new City.hall Wilding, He would give good newi to many more if he would praimise to have the large struoture ready for Mse before the eon. tury ends, • BREAD TOO 11q111, • When flour was $6 a barrel in Toronto, bread sold at 12eents the loaf, the price to, day -when flour le $3, The difference goes Into.the pocket of the baker, who thus man. a tee to eke out an existence on the small rofit of over 100 per cent, The Toronto aker has few friends. Housewives can tell how the price of bread goes skyward every time the fieur market rises, but a fall in the product gete no like recogaition. There are three fortune. awaiting a baker who will sell the staff of life in Toronto.at reasonahle rates the near through, THE PRollIBITION COMMISSION. If dietiners, brewers and tellers of ardent spirits are.watching the evidence being taken by the Royal Prohibition Conimission, they no longer can feel muoh anxiety about the ultimate outcome. Li* week the givers of teptimony seemed equally divided on the question of restricting the liquor traffic but the recent Ones place the balance muo'h in favor of the present system. Many ardent temperance men 'nave been before the board, but as a rule theY are very non -communica- tive. On the other hand, much is being said by those who think prohibition legislation will tend to the same abuses es existed when the Seett Act and Duncan Act were su-ppos- ed to be in foroe. Here are a few of the witnesses who expressed a dietrust in a re- strictive measure : Professor Goldwin Smith, the Hon. Timothy AngHn, J. Her- bert Mason, Professor Clark, ofTrinity Col- lege, Robert Davies, Rebert Jaffrey, the Rev. A.'H. Baldwin, the Rev. John Pear- son, Professor J. Gordon Richardson, Dr. Thorborn. Professor Smith, who was once president of the National Liberal Temper- ance Union, maid his society had opposed the Scott Act and thought universal' prohi- bition would discriminate in 'favor of the more ardent spirits,sinoe they could be more essily smuggled. As to the outcome of this Governmental enquiry, opinions vary con- siderebly. Local men interested say the chances are in favor of the plebitscite passing the Legislature, but that any at- tempt to put a bill through the House win be frustrated. AN ANCIENT CHURCH. Set back of Young Street, half -way down town stands Holy Trinity church, which on Sunday last celebrated its 46th anniversary. The church was founded in 1846 by an Eng. lish lady who desired her name to remain unknown, and all seats in the church to be free. The Bishop of Ripon, subsequently Archbishop of Canterbury, saw that her wishes were carried out and Toronto in 1847 consequently owned her first free church. Scoresby, the celebrated Arctic explorer, is one of the oelebritiee who have preached in this edifice. It hafeamong the local churches, ii. always led the van in any improvements. Its surpliced choir dates from 1868, At the nnivereary services Canon Dumoulin offici- ted, beiog sedated by the Rev. John Pear - on, the rector, and Dr. Seaddingswho form- rly officiated there as priest. LEARNING FARMING. On Wednesday last a respectable young ngliehman applied at the &Inert' office in hie city for relief. He said that he had ! aid $400 to an Euglieh company to be aught farming in Canada. He said he had een sent out to a farmer named Mickle, ;ear Wallaceburg, Ontario, where he wee ut at hard work on the farm and compelled to sleep in a loft at night. After eight days of this sort of "tuition " he left. Farmer's Observations on the World's Fair. DEAR EXPOSIT'OR.—I send you a few of y observations of Chicago and the World's air. I saw in THE EXPOSITOR of' October Oth, a pretty good account of the World'e air, signed " G." That letter covered s me of the ground I had intended going over. However, I will try to avoid a repetition. My boarding place was some ififteen miles from Jackson Park, and we hkd that distance to go over twice a day. le lost some time in the morning, but not i the evening,for we went back after night, hen the city was lit up A8 light as day. It ,as a long distance from a boarding place, bht it gave us a chance to see the city and to study American' human nature. We took a cable car for some distance, then we had our choice of tbree different lines to the Pair—the elevated railroad, the Illinois Central and the steamboat, and we patron- iZed all three in their turn. On Monday, October 9th, we boarded a cable car at Mil- waukee Avenue for the World's Fair,and as We moved along we could notice more stores clnsed than -on Sunday. Monday being a hOday in the oity, to commemorate the burning of Chicago en October 9th, 1871, when one hundred' thousand people were ,made- homeless, when 80 business blocks, 2 churches, 17 hotels and 9 theatres were b rued, in al1.210 acres burned over and n arly eighteen thousand houses laid in ✓ ins, and according to calculations, if all t e buildings were plaoed end- to • end they wpuld reach 150 miles.. Now, in 1893, we find a wonderful city for its age, with over oie million of population. As we move on through the city, we notice some blanks where the land has only lately come into 1 market, but we soon come to a well-built .1 el iy, and when rambling through the streets we can see some very tall buildings, some sixteen and even eighteen storeys, and they look very, odd looming up' above the surrounding buildings. The Masonic TEmple is supposed to be the highest build- inglon earth, 24 storeys, and so far finan- cielly it is a paying institution for the sale ofItickets to visitors going up the dome has averaged $700 per day, and the managers apPear to think that will be the continuous daily receipt. After leaving the cable cars there is quite a distance to walk up Madis-on street and on to State Street. Both these streets on Chicago Day were so thronged. with people going to Jackson Park that if a person took his eye off a companion, that person would be lost to view in tlie crowd, and one,would be just as likely to find a neOle it) a bundle of straw. When we came to the elevated railroad, we could not get near the ticket office for the crowd, and there was a regular tug of war going on, pe pie tryinu to get their tickets and get aw y the. firs.t. chance. The city appeared ful of people, the excursion trains from Ca foie Friday and Satutday broug t hate- } dreds of Canadians besides others al ng the route,and the fares ou all the Unite tates the Nellie in from all to ef the Union 1 Rs kends were reduced to ono cent 'le, wh eh came in forte on Sunday an ught by tisomandm, and with the city lot loot for ploaeurs dey it mode a foarfuf throng, Wo worked our way tortite steamboat dooks and had to go with the orotvd, and lea proton got down the life would be orushod -out of him In a low, minutes, We could hear Around tie both Iwomen and oltildren memo. log that they were getting oruehed, and your correspondent t5ot tho kind of *queen he would not like o get again, Still, we didn't hoar of 1 anybody getting meriouili hurt, Crowds eame pouring into ,Isokson Park until about eight hundlred thousand people were on the ground. according to the number of tickets mold, and the dey closed with some fatal and merfpus accidents, for when people were leaving in the evening there was a terrible crush at the "L " sta. don, both men ,end • women fainted in the jam, The excitetnent in the vicinity Wad awful and orie. and shouts from women who sympathized with the sufferers came from every quarter, As aeon as the trouble be- gan,a stall Of employee and guards climbed to the roof of' the shed, then one fainting person after. anether was lifted up. For one hour the people in the rear could see the fainting people being lifted oeer the needs of the crowd and on the roof, and when they got through two of the officers,' com- plained of having their arms nearly torn out lifting hesvy Men and women. At one time two rows of women were stretched lengthwise on. the roof of the ticket shed, and next morning, Tuesday, we saw in the Chicago Record I that 50 men and women fainted in the marsh at the Alley "L" station. That evening 40 women were taken away in the ambulance end patrol wagons though none of theni were seriously hurt, but one - man who was letting off the fireworks was killed by the explosion of a mortar, and in the city three pereents were killed accident- ally on the Onsets, being struck by the street oars, and about 20 others Were sent to the Hos'pinds with broken legs or arms, and some with bad outs- and bruises. It was a very crowded AV Itheit day and a big sno- t:ass financially for' the fair, for on Tuesday morning the offieere made a payment in full for itssue of five million dollars of World's Fair bonds. OBSERVER. Canada. Hon. Edward 'Blake has returned to I England. — Buildingesperations in Guelph this year amounted to about $100,000. —Bishop Baldwin confirmed a class of twenty-seven at St. James' church, Inger- soll, on Tuesday, 3Ist ult. — Sir D. L. Mappherson will probably spend most of the iwinter at Genoa. He left Toronto last week. - , . —A $20 astrachae jacket was stolen from in front of Boughtlet & Beal's show -rooms, St. Thomas, on Thorsday night last week. — Postmaster Meacham, of Belleville, was 86 years old last Monday, and has been 46 years in office. —James Innes, hi, P. and Mrs,Innes .hav e arrived home to Gu 10; from a tour in Scot - health. er land, Mrs. Janes is much improved ip —The Kincardine town council has re- pealed the by-lawl granting a bonus of $30,000 to the Kincardine and Teeewater railway. et -A Belleville -man who visited the Werld's Fair was held up by footpads in Chicago and robbed of $95 and a gold watch. —A leak in the Vifrelland Canal bank at Thorold has neceesitated drawing the water off one level end the stopping of navi- gation through the canal for a day or two. —Burglars got Away with about $200 worth of cutlery frqm the store of Thomas of last week. Lawrence, in Lucks:low, on Thursday night —Mr. James Young, of Bruce, shipped on Thursday a car load of lambs to Buffalo, that weighed 101 peunds each. They were a choice lot for this year. --James Thew, ion of William Thew, of Wiarton, while working in a coal mine in British Columbia, was le‘st week killed by falling coal, —The Wentworth Street Ba_ptist Mission in Hamilton has heen organized into a church. Th'is makes the fifth Baptist church in Hamilton, —John Smith, a respectable farmer of concession 12, Peehlwas knocked down and robbed of $20 by a highwayman on the Salem and Elora road the other night, —Rev. J. H. McArthur, of Toronto, who is about to engage in the Methodist mission work in Japan, expects to sail from 'Vancou- ver on the steamship Empress of India on the 13th inst. —Last Saturday Was Children's Day on the London 'West electric railway. And how the rate of 1 cent for the round trip did take with therii ! 'More than 1,500 children took the ride. —A bullet of large calibre was fired through the windotn _of J. F. Gibson's store in Walkerton the 'Other day, and narrowly missed the book keeper, Miss Sheriff, Who did it is unknown, —The a,gent of the Northrop & Lyman fifm in Toronto, was held up and robbed near Newbury, New Brunswick, on Friday, by two men, who took his gold watch and $175. 1 —The Dominion iGoverument bas imposted a fine of $27,700 oit Boyd, Ryrie & Co., pa- per manufacturerse Montreal, charged with passing false invoichis. The fine is equiva- lent to three timeit the unpaid duties. —Samuel Houston, a sheriff's assistant, left in charge of a lot of chattels near Whit- by, disappeared on Sunday last with sixteen head of cattle, four head of horses and two sets of harness. I —At the enquiry into the Hooper case at Joliette on Saturday, Hooper was committed to stand hie trial 6:1 the charge of murdering his wife before the Criminal Court in Joli- ette, in December. —The death is announced in Chicego, on November 3rd, of Katharine Lilts Lett, sup- erintendent of St.1Luke's Hospital Training School for nursee, land youngeet daughter of the late Rev. Stephen Lett, D, D., of Col- lingwood, Ontarid. —A young Englishman named William Thompson wss arrested at Stoney Creek on Thursday ehargen with stealing a horse and buggy from Alfred Taylor's livery at Ham- ilton, He sold the outfit for $40, the money being found on him. —Mies Mary Matheson, a clever young dancer, has been presented with a gold lock- et, studded with pearls and rubies, by the Sons of Scotland Camp of Lucknow, as a special prize for Highland dancing at Luck - now on Hallowe'en. —Mr. Goldwin Smith left Toronto on Wednesday for a Prolonged stay in England. A large number of prominent Toronto citi- zens gathered at the Union station and gave,. him farewell greetings and cheers. —A well-dressed Englishman, apparently honest and industrious, called on the mayor of Temente the other morning, to ask his assistance in procuring employment as a farm hand, as he was desirous of learning faxin work. He said he had been seven weeks in the meet his ., relative. were well-to-do people is d and he pais' 0000 to an Englielloompany as a premit for being taught farming in Canada, I WAN Soot to a fanner named Micklo, no Welle,coburg, Ontario, whore he wee r quirod to do very hard work, and hod oloop In tho barn, Hight day" of this otth flood to dry him of ouch labor, and he left, The young man Nays 200 other young Engliehmen had paid the same amount eaoh for the NAM Noun,' of instruotion, and wore thus swindled, —The " Gunpowder Plot " was celebrated in Teronto on Sunday, 5th IIIFA„ by a large nutnber of ohureh parader by Orangemen and Other Protestant organizations, Speolal oeheruvric\eheissw. ere held in °several of the oity —Between 20 and 30 boys appeared before the police magistrate at Brantford the other morning charged with malicious mischief on Hallowe'en,and they were fined 50 cents each, —A Temente dispatch says the daughter. of Mr: W. H, Miller have entered an action against Harry Giddings, a fanner near Oak. vine, for alleged slander damages being placed at $10,000, Mr. ifiller is aleo suing Mr. Giddings for $3,000, —While endeavoring to drive a herd of pigs off the treck at Johnstoun Mills, five miles west of Ottawa on the Canadian Peel& railway, Mrs. Kane, the wife of a jobber, was run over by a train and instant- ly killed. —Honorable George W. Ross visited the public schools of Guelph the other day. ' In the winning a conversazione was held, at which Mr. Rose delivered an address, and prizes were distributed to the successful scholars. —Rogers & Simons, out -rate photograph- ers, of Hamilton, who did business on Ktog street, have skipped out leaving an unpaid rent pm and taking with them quite a ehm of money received for advance paymente on phothgraphs. —The five year old, son of Mr. F. °heels- brough, of Hamilton, was run over Satur- day night by the dummy train, which runs between Hamilton and Dundee. The child was taken to the hospital where- he died a couple of hours later. —Last Sunday afternoon the Rev. W. Searles, D, D., made a powerful attack on the liquor train° at the first of the winter series of Pavillion meetings in Toronto, un- der the auspices of the Canadian Temper- ance League. —Sinde the season of navigation began, 1,055 veesels of all kinds have been locked thtough the Rideau oanal. This number falls skort by 176 of laet year's record, the falling off being due to the dullnese of the lumber trade during the summer. —Frank Hawkey, who left Parkhill for Chicago, one- day last week, met with an accident. He fell from a railroad train near Evanston, a few miles from Chicago, and one of his feet was so badly crushed that it had to be amputated. —In the ',eduction case of Kennedy vs. Levey', trietd at Woodetock last week, the plaintiff was awarded $1,200 damages. The defendaet is postmaster and storekeeper at Hiekson and the plaintiff was employed in his house as domestic when the alleged se- duction took place. —The drat detachment of the Irish em- ployees, who were engaged by Lady Aber- deen to attend to the various departments of work in the Irish village, orgauized by Her Excellency at Chicago, sailed from Mdntreal for their homes in Ireland last Saturday. —Sir John Abbott's will was admitted to probate on Saturday. The entate, which is valued at $500,000, after paying an annuity to the widow, 'is to be divided equally laamwoing the deoeased's eight children, with legacies to hid two sisters aud sister -in- ,. — Alex. Robertson's barn, in the ?old concession of Thurlow, was set fire to on Wedneeday afternoon last week, by a four- year-eld child who was playing with matches, The season's crop, one horse and some vehicles were burned in the structure, which was totally destroyed. — At the Infants' Home, Toronto, during the year just past there have been under care 166 children and 67 women. During a period of nearly 18 years there have been sheltered, fed and clothed 1,024 mothers and 2,412 children, ranging ie age from 3 days to 2 years. —Through the efforts of W. A. Charlton, M. In, for South Norfolk, the Ontario Gov- ernment has diSpatched a surveyor to Long Point Island to lay out the cerrect line of the company's marsh landlt and see that they are properly staked., Ti:e people ap- plaud thie eetion. —George Proudfoot, aged! 76, died In Berlin, on Saturday, 28th ult.; ilesesuffered a stroke of paralysis during the prievions night. He was born in Scotland, came to Canada when a youog man, took up land in Wilmot and afterwards lived in Ayr and Berlin. —C. Luckey, who was tried at Brockville .last week on the charge of murdering his father, mother and sister in their home, and then setting fire to the place in order to cov- er up the diabolical deed, was found guilty and is sentenced to be hanged on December 14th. —As Lady Aberdeen was about to take the train from Montreal for Ottawa, on Saturday, at the Grand Trunk depot, she dropped one of her diamond earrings. When the train had gone a Grand Trunk railway policeman saw a man pick up some- thing off the track, which proved to be the missing, jewel. —A farmer named Andrew Wagner and is wife drove home from Hanover on Mon- ey. At the stable yard Mrs. Wagner got ut of the wagon and went into the house, eying her husband to care for the horses. short time after Mr. Wagner was found lug under the wagon dead, his neck being roken. —William Stewart, of Embro, hes been ppointed farm instructer at the Penetan- uishene Reformatory. About 300 friends aited on him Monday at his home in mbro and gave the family some beautiful resents, with eulogistic addresses, Mrs, tewart had been president of the local W. . T. U. for ten years. —Much indignation is felt in Wyoming ver the appointment as postmaster of H. H. unt in place of D. D. Anderson, who sue. eded his late father. A petition signed by early all -the leading residents was sent to eadquartere asking Mr. Anderson's reten- on ; but tfie political record of his family, ho are Liberals, told against him, —The Elora Express tells a good one on • B. Wagner of Arthur. One day last eek he resolv'ed to put en end to the earth - career of a cat—an ordinary domestic nimal of the feline race—whose usefulness ad apparently gone. After carefully tying e midnight marauder to a tree, he pre. ured his gun (which by the way, it) a oubled.barelled geeing that will kill a ear at a thousand yards) and proceeded to xterminete or annihilate pose. The 6ret ot cut the string and liberated the rid in the excitement of the moment her barrel would not go off, He then aired to the house to investigate the cs the farm of IRV bond to reepos# whoa un WWI upon, and whilo the investigation fa W4I4 prooesding, the barrel took * notion or that it WM sway, and el It wont, the oon. e. tents lodging in the olOok on the mints!. to 'Piece, the two bodies left in tho vault at Battle Crook, were ohipped leriday to Tileonburg, Ontario, ai the reclaim, of Mr, and Mrs, Oliver Dorland, They wore tho only two unidentified, and the only 4wo un- accounted for, So the Meade decided they were the bodies of the above•named per so—lisT, he tronbles in Christ church,Amherst burg, seem to be no nearer a Notation, and after aweititag for nearly four years in the hope that something would be done mutual- ly amicable to all parties, the former mern• berm of a the church have decided to 'form themselves into a Reformed Episcopal body and will erect a new church edifice. —At a convention of the Patrons of In- dustry delegate., held in Mon, Saturday, the resigqation of Mr. Nelson Rose from the candidature of the House of Common. was received and accepted and Mr. W,V. Pettet was given the nomination. Mr. Pettet is a wealthy young farmer of Athol, and should make a very strong candidate. —On October the 19th, R. Kinglet! May - bee, aged 32, brother of Peter Maybee and Mrs. Buller, of Simooe, went for a few days' shooting on Rondeau Harbor and has been missing ever since untillast Sunday, when hie body was discovered floating near Mud Point. It was deoided by a coroner's jury that the deceased met his death while in a fit, falling into the water. —The post office department announce the issue of a new eight -cent registration letter stamp. Formerly the public went to the stamp wicket with a three cent stamp and buying a five omit one made the eight cent stamp necessary. Five cent stamps cannot now be purchased, and these regis- tering letters will require to purchase the eight cent stamp issued for that purpose.- -A Regina diepatoh says A few hasty words, a stroke on the head with a shovel, and Vincent Whitman, an old German laborer, lay on the groung mortally wound- ed. Three hours later Whitman died from the effects of the blow, and John McDonald, a teamster for the Western Milling Com- pany, hae been looked up charg?d with the cr_imBee. tter born luoky than rich. Williasti Benjamin Knight, a young Englishman well known in the township of Plymouth, (Lamb - ton county), as a farm laborer on the 6th line, has been left a fortune of L20,000, to- gether with a farm of 150 acres in England, On the death of his grandmother at Isling- ton, near London, she left an estate valued at £50,000 sterling, to be equally divided among two children and five grand -children. —W. IT, Clark, of Sarnia, father of Mrs. Albert Bradley, who with her husband was killed in the Grand Trunk wreek, at Battle Creek, has petitioned the probate judge to appoint him administrator of the estate of the deceased. Mr. Clark will commence suit against the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad Company for $85,000, being $50- 000 for the death of Mr. Bradley, and $35,- 000 for the. death of Mrs. Bradley, —A firm of swindlers under the name of Shaw & Simpson have succeeded in doing up a large number of farmers in Quebec and Ontario to the extent of about $10,000, and le A ly a 0 0e ti ly a th eh a ot of MoLEAN BROS, Publishari4 $1,60 a You in Ailivstu3o, work and at a l000 to know what eitould be (font) &et, that gentle eneoyteging voles . often whiepored " Do tho beet you rums" Brought loco to Ws with -Mill -nit duty, and conocioutt of inability to perform it aright, the voice rarely, if ever, tailed to flay, "Do tho beet you eon," —Prod Roma, of n1110,1411, met with au accident the other day while houling wood, whereby both honey of one leg below the knee were broken, —Siemer& H, O'Hara & Compeny, _ stock and debenture broker& members Toronto - Stook Exchange, 2/4 Toronto 'area, have just completed' the purchaeo of $155,600 of the county of Oxford bonds, payable in 20 equal annual instalment/4 bne,ring 4 per, cent, yearly. Thole bonds sv, te issued for paying for the erootion of "se, handsome county building in Woodetoelt, Metiers. H. O'Hara & Company have ditposed of these bon& to elients in Great Brioefn to yield them -4f, per cent, yearly. —Dr. Niemeier, of Tavistock, recently per- formed a very clever operation on the person of Mrs, R, Woon. She had had the day previous, a sudden attack of What appeared to be inflemmotion of the bowel., and grow- ing worse on Friday, the (looter was sent for when he succeeded in removing from the ab- domen a goose bone an inch and a half or two inches long. ete the patient has suffered at inte rvals in the same) wayformany years, the supposition is thatthe bone was swal- lowed over thirty years ago, Mrs. Woon has recovered sufficently to beabout again —There arrived at Cady'', hotel, Warde- ville, one night recently, two men with a horse which apneared to be very much over- driven. They 'stated they had come from St. Mune] that day. They left next morn- ing without paying their hotel bill, leaving the horse and rig. It was afterwards learned they took the train at North New- bury for Detroit, and had written the own- er of the horse, who lives north of St, Catharines, telling him where hie horse was, and he came a few days after ond took pos- session of his property. They are supposed to be crooks. —Dr. Bucks, of the London Asylum, 'has examined J. F. Otwell, the old man sentenc- ed to two years in the penitentiary for horse stealing, and finds he is not able to '2 realize the meaning and gravity of an act which, committed by a sane man, would be criminal. His mind is greatly enfeebled, and it its probable he will be sent to the asp lurn instead of the penitentiary. This un- fortunate man war a few years ago a.re- spected resident of St. Marys, where he carried on a pickling and fruit canning bud- neLLThe Galt Reformer of' last week says : Professor Hodgson, the Hypnotist, has just closed a very successful week's engagement in this town. His entertainments are very refined and the large crowds who went nightly to hear him were very much taken with the science. On Saturday evening Dr. Virden made a few remarks at the close of the evening's entertainment and -stated that in most of the Hoepitallt in the Old Country Hypnotism was becoming one of the depart- anents of the institutions and that he looked for great results from it when properly us—ed.Toseph Morr ow, of the township of Metcalfe, some time ago had tin Indian named Jacob Fisher employed on his- prop- erty. Morrow kept liquor in the cellar for his own use, but the Indian came across the jar and got drank. An information was laid before James Noble, J. P., of Strath. My, charging Morrow with Aupplying liquor to Fidler. The magistrate found him guilty and he was fined $50 and costs—in ell $83,95. In default of this Morrow took two months at hard labor. The story of the prisoner is that the liquor was in his cel- lar and one day when away from the house Fisher broke into the house and drank the liquor of bis own accord. —A gang of highwaymen are operating in Middlesex county, Mr. Blair, of Cara - doe, driving from town, was halted by two men, He lashed his horses and got away. Mr. Denning, of Metcalf, was held up near the cemetery by two men who presented a revolver at him and went through his pockets. They did not secure anything, in their haste Missing $10 which Mr. Den- ning had on his person. - John Buttery and wife of Adelaide, were stopped at the town - line 'by two unknown men. Mr. Buttery had the presence of mind to pass his money to his wife. The robbers searched him, but did not interfere with Mrs. Buttery, and therefore secured nothing, —Mrs, C. S. Campbell, wife of one of Windsor's most popular merchante, and Jasper Revell, a well-known young man, have eloped. Mrs. Campbell left behind her two children. Revell is a 8011 of Conduc- tor Revell, of the Grand Trunk Railway, and is about 20 yeats of age. Mrs. Camp- bell is an -13xceedingly pretty woman, and although she has been married six years she is not 24 years of agea On all Bidet; nothing is heard but sympathyh. for the unfortunate husband, and the two little children, 5 and 3 years old, of the erring wOman. She bad a luxurious home, and intimate friends of the family say that Mr. Campbell worship- ed her. A later report says, ehe has return- ed to her home and begged the forgiveness of her husband ann he has taken her back. —Rev. C. 0. Johnston contrasted the tesehinge of Rev. John McNeil, the Scot - tittle divine, and Colonel Robert Ingersoll, the infidel lecturer, whom he had heard in Chicago, in Queen Street Methodist church, Kingston, last Sabbath night to an audience that filled every part of the church. His pictures of tendencies and influences of Me- Neilism to give hope to give courage, to give victory to hie followers, was brilliantly ebntrasted vs ith the despair, hoplessnees, and the blottiog out of the future, as offered by Ingereollism. " Which side are you onn " asked the preacher at the close. " All who prefer McNeilisin to Ingersollism tand up," and the great audience arose. tev. Richard Whiting exclairned "Praise God," as he viewed the inspiring scene, and the aseemblage broke into the doxology. have vanished. They advertised largely, asking consignments of all kinds of produce from the farmers. They also appointed agents all over the country, and received car loads of stuff daily. This they sold for °Ash at whatever figure they could gen —Oa Saturday evening lest Rev. Dr. Withrow had a narrow escape in Toronto. He was threading hie way from one street cer to another when he tripped over the tongue of a construction waggon and fell heavily upon a projecting iron itpike. The doctor escaped with numerous painful bruises but will be incapacitated Joe some time erom filling. any of n -lis engage- ments. —" Doc." Andrews,wanted in Toronto for criminal malpractice, has been arrested with his wife in Buffalo on the charge of murder, his unfortunate vi'etim in this instance be- ing Miss Lucy Denning, of Toronto, whose. death last week. wat the result of a criminal operation said by 'her to have been per- formed by Dr. Andrews. This is the same Andrews who served five years in Kingeton -penitentiary for similar crimes to the one he is now charged with, and was liberated only a year or two ago. —On Wednesday evening of last week, a stranger came to Ayton village and put up at the Commercial hotel. The following night he took very ill after going to ,his room and died in a short time. A search of his effects shewed that his name was Joseph M. Halley, and that he had ontil lately conducted a business in Arthur. Dr. Landerkin, of Hanover, coroner of Grey county, held an inquest, which resulted in a verdict of death from suicide while temper- tsa0erii—ZIWYeid.infiGassPn.adelle0° osgpoenoeddbya, saanfde which resulted in a t'er Archibald, of Toronto, who supposed to belong suit for $10,000 damages, has esesped a pos- sible verdict by the withdrawal by the crown of all the charges of conspiracy to defraud preferred against Osgoodby, A. H. Cobett and William H. Stacey. The al- leged offences consiated of guessing com- petitions in cennection with the Scott Seesi Company, the Exquisite Toilet Company and the Chemical Supply CoMpany. —During the violent thunder storm which passed over the vicinity of Hamilton on ttie night of the 2nd inst., lightning struck the barns of John Jackson's Woodside Farm: near Abingdon, and the barns and contents including thirteen prize sheep and one cow, were totally destroyed. Mr. Jackson . took most of the sheep prizes at the World's Fair, and the stock had just been brought back. Some of the sheep were valued at $400. Mr. Jackson estimates the loss at $5,000. — The Earl of Aberdeen attended the Montreal Hallowe'en concert attired in full Highland costume. His Excellency wore a black velvet jacket ridorned with diamond shaped silver buttons', a scarlet waisteoat cut low, a kilt of the Gordon tartan, with a handsome silyer-moUnted sporean. He also wore a short claymore by his right side and a sprig of heather as a boutonniere which had been brought over from Aberdeen's own estates in Scotland by the' Caledonian Society. — Knoxonian,in the -Canada Presbyterian, says : Long years ago it was our happy privilege to enjoy'the friendship of a good old lady who had a peculiar way of saying good bye. She was a ripen -saint of Gdd, a stalwart Presbyterian of the best type, a de- voted mother, a bright, cheery, hopeful wo- man whose presence blessed and brightened a her home and helped on the congregation of which for more than a quarter of a century r she had been a useful and influentiel mem- b ben, Parting from her pastor she always k said in kindly, encouraging tones, " Good- a bye. Do the best you can. The voice that $ need to utter thee* words hes long been *noticed in death, but we hoar it stilt. It hal cosi beck Irony a tbas end it alweye gxtotee wino most modest it pawed with ' What can, be Made out of Whisky? -- The speaker of the House of Represents., tives an Washington, is end to have deliv- ered hitneelf as follows, in an interview re- cently : " The House will have some very important legislation before it at the begin - o f the regular session in December. .14,‘ Wilson's committee will have its tariff bfir ready at an early day. The• sub committee has already decided on rates in the schettnle and the general committee will considIht them some time next week. I believe Mr. Wilson committee will recommend a re- duction of the tariff to a revenue basisr. ccordance with the declaration of the National Democratic platform. The tax on efined sugar may be reduced considerably, at the tax on beer and tobacco and whin- ey may be increased. It is estimated that n lac -realm of one cent on. whiskey will _add 1,000,000 to the revenue. The meant tax onj whisky is ninety cente,- and say it is incrieseed no $1 20, thee weetad MORA ISE 10Erilia0 Oit:4000,001) to the mom a the Goverastost.” re , 1 • t 'e I : t •