The Huron Expositor, 1894-08-03, Page 11894.
! 27th, 1894.
p another ship.
for July trade,
LAWNS
LINS
'ZS WOK -
:S
GS
MITTS
TESTS
ORSETS
ILKS
1.1BONS
)R HATS, ez.c.
omplete in every
MaFaul,
TEL
v-^
a
1.
heir garden perties
this year their suc-
ver. The Seaforth
lance and excelled
pre had they played
sely a pause in the
11 p. ism except
the hand;inen to
and whilst the
leadership of mi8s
s some cheruses in,
The Seaforth band
ames the title new
band this side of
glad to hear them
ow- how to, behave
'oceeds amounted to
and...some balance to
7s,. We noticed the
est with his wife..
Mr. John D. Mor-
riss Maggie Brown -
also preseut, They
E Varna. The resi-
-even.ted from being.
uses. What might
a to the rector, was,
at the prompt as -
:7. Thomas_ Beacom
pears the Rev. Mr.
werheatecl, through
Ba.yfiehl to Varna
garden party aud
eas taken seriously
gentlemen above
all right after two •
rs. Armstrong and
e -keepers, and Mr.
)od salesman at the
te prineipad thanks
we girls By the
. Mr. Kerrin is go -
more of more work
t staying a while
ntt orethe choir ex -
Sarnia, some goina
they saw the Blue
els ehoirs did well,
m. The day was
tig. The Brussels
on are talking or
oe on the 4th and
they meet with the
ewe, will hang up
flawing races: )2.45;
ear old race; and a
rhomas McLachlan
a the road north -
Loudon township,
said two hundred
is a first class farm
is Ball, a farmer'
despatching sev-
which have been
s the beat way to
it of trouble.—
• hisale of titer-
esf July, and sold
Low prices for the
his etock is firsts
P., from Peel,
id not seem aey
eel as local men.
dem were present
,Initario.—Farmers
Lifting of the fall
pod in this locality
• a larger amount
bout 75 acres more
L gives employment
; next few months-
lut the drug busi-
es Fox, of Wrox-
nay taking stock.
r man to our town,
all as his predeces-
M.S secured the.
e Pacific railway
Pepper.
"plasma of business
Aric light, as well
eivate residences,
otate that the new
good satisfaction,
et many who were
,areaiow ordering
ave them are hav-
eaks volumes for
e Royal Electric
ec-i with the effici-
ssrs. Cook Bros., -
dynamo is situ -
the world moves,
er so ago, pre -
1 a enjoying elee-
more preteeti-
they would have
tevait the electric
to see that Mr.
wait to Dr. Mac -
covered from his
sage in his duties
Murray, of Olin -
ase, is spending a
cads herc.--Mr.
egether with his
in-law, Mr. and
been camping at
past week. --The
F:5 village, was re-
diehigan, visiting
r. Wm. Thomp-
ia and his friend,
eago, have been
visiting relatives
ends of Mrs. W.
'aril that she is,
a- some time, and
-Picmic parties
the order of the
'athroy, is visit -
W eleh. —Mise
- her sister, Mrs.
xeter, is visiting
.is, merchant, of
has the frame of
contractors are
vaommossom
TWENTY-SEVENTF1 YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER,. 1,390. j
positor4
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1894.
McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
$1.50 a Year in Advance.
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A TRIP AROUND THE
• (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, I
HONOLULU, June 7.—It was
In the afternoon when at San
stepped aboard the Alameda of t
Steamship company, our Cap
ene of the most genial, popula
commanders who ever sailed th
and the Pacific .occan are ol
lances. He has been in 17 hu
safely outrode them. Profusio
ORLD umbregeous, the iloralized, the orcharded, of pandeinonium I Cainpfire of the ar-
894.]
2 °Week
ranciseo 1
e Oceanic
ain Morse
and able
seas. Ho
acquaint-
icanes and
.of flowers
were sent up the gangplank, and the
masses of people on the wharf who had
come to see their friends off w yed hand-
KILAUEA.
kerchiefs and threw kisses a
laughed as is usual when an
�r Is about to start. The gong
the leaving of all those fro
deck who did not expect to ac
The whistle blew for looseni
wharf, and the screw began t
the ship moved out toward
Gate.
d cried and
cean steam -
sounded for
the ship's
ompany us.
g from the
whirl, and
the Golden
The Pacific ocean met with waves
high enough to send many t their berths
and to arouse in the rest of us1the question
why so rough a sea should be a1led the Pa-
cific. And for two days the 11, the jerk,
the rise, the fall, the lunge, t e tremor, the
quake spoiled the appetite aid hid from
sight the majority of the pas engers. But
after the third day the ocean and the ship
"eased their wrestling, and peace smoothed
the waves and hushed the inds, _for the
same Lord who took a sot walk upon
rough Galilee takes a longer Iraik upon Pa-
cific- seas. Different from riost voyages,
there seemed no disagreeabl s on board—
enough passengers to avoid loneliness, not
"soraany as to be crowded. What difference
between a sea voyage now, with all com-
forts afforded and •the table containing all
the luxuries that can allure a weak appe-
tite, and those days when the missionaries
orossed to Honolulu in. vessels greasy and
rude' and with food rancid or stale, and
withsail full of whims, now full curbed
and now limp and idle!.
,Politics has never done much for the
Sandwich Islands. If a man have no ex-
pectations for these gems of the Pacific ex-
cept that which comes from human legis -
the forested, the pictn/resque Hawaiian Is- mins of Diabolus! Wrath of the mountains
lands. They came in upon us as much as in full bloom ! Shimmering incandescence!
we came in upon them -In the morning. Pyrotechnics of the planet! Furnace blast
Captain.Cook no moo discovered them in , of the ages—Kilauea!
1778 than we discovered thein today. He Once upon a time all the geysers and
saw them for the fy,st time for himself, boiling springs and volcanoes of the earth
and wo see them fq the first time this, held a convention to elect a king, and Etna
morning for ourselttes. - More fortunate was there,' and Hecla was there, and
are we than Captain"Oook. He looked out Stromboli was there, and Vesuvius was
upon them from a filthy beett and wound there, and Fusiyama was there, and Mauna
up his experiences Ilk furnishing his body Loa was there. The discussion in this con-
es the chops and Oteaks of a savage's vention of volcanoes was heated. They all
breakfast. We frona.a graceful ship alight
+xi spouted impassiemed sentiment. Some
amid herbaeo and eirborescence and shall were candidates for the throne and crown
depart witiTthe good wishes and prayers
from all the islanders.
High Official Courtesies.
As you approach? the harbor there is in
sight a long line (*surf rolling over reefs
of coral. High moltintains, hurricane cleft
and lightning splitput their wounds band-
aged with the green of perennial foliage.
In a few minutes finer landing a chamber-
lain of the queen nailed to invite us to her
niansion., and obla Justice Judd called
with a delegation $:$ ask inc to preach that
afternoon. I accepted the invitation
brought by the chamberlain and was
beautifully entertained by the queen.
With President :30ole of the provisional
government and) Chief Justice Judd I
went to the exocutive buildings, which
were formerly Mod palace. The council of
the president we already assembled in
what was originally the throneroom, and
taking the chair .4on the platform he called
for order and -Own rose, and all the coun-
cillors arose with him and he led them in
prayer, saying, as nips; as I can remember:
"0 Lord. God4of nations, we ask thy di-
rection in the Matters that shall come be-
fore us. Give ins Wisdom and prudence
and fidelity in be qischarge of our duties,
and thou shalt'have all the praise, world
without end. nan." I have not been
told whether most of the presidents of the
United States 'have opened their cabinet
meetings in that Way, but it certainly, is a
good way.
- At 8 o'clockthat afternoon the Congre-
gational churph was packed to overfiow-
ing with a xxipltitkide, about one half na-
tive Hawaiians and the other half people
of many lands. it was amazing to me
that with such a short notice of a few
hours such n thrOing could be gathered.
But the Honislulu papers have been pub-
lishing my sermons for years, and it was
really a gathering of old friends. An in-
terpreter stood beside me in the pulpit,
and with marvelous ease translated what
I said Into the Hawaiian language. It was
suoh a scene as I never before witnessed,
and I shall never see it repeated. After
shaking hands with thousands of people I
went out in the most delicious atmosphere
and sat down under the palm trees. What
a bewitchment of scenery! What hearti-
ness of hospitality! The Hawaiians have
no superiors for geniality and kindness
In all the world. In physical presence
they are wondrous specimens of good
health and stalwartness. One Hawaiian
could wrestle down two of our nation.
The Land of Flowers.
laden, I would think he would be as de- Miracle of productiveness, these islands.
spairful as was Kamehameha, the third Enough sugar to sweeten all the world's
king of the Sandwich Islands, when on
beverages• enough bananas to pile all the
his dying bed he said: "W
of my poor country? Th
follow inc. Queen Emma
Lunalllo is a drunkard, a
a fool." All that has be
llatvaiian Islands has be ri clone by our
gracious God and the missionaries. A for-
eign ship brought them tie. mosquitoes.
The foreign sailors brough them the lep-
rosy. American politics brought them the hats and hung on necks and embroil -
devil. Had it not been for the gospel
ered on capes -and sacks. Tuberoses, gar -
those 'glands would have been putting to denies, magnolias, passifioras, trumpet
death women for eating bananas when for- creepers, oleanders, geraniums, convolvali,
bidden to do so and bowing to a disgust- fuchsias, hibiscus red as fire, jeasraine,
ing idolatry, and in all the islands it
Which - we in America carefully coax to
would have been a midnight of cruelty climb the wall just once, here running up
and down and jumping over to the other
side and coming back again to jump down
thls side. Night blooming cereus, so rare
in our northern latitudes we call in our
neighbors to see it, and they must come
right away or never see it at all, here in
these islands scattering its opulence of per-
fume on all the nights, and, not able to ex-
pend enough in darkness, also flooding the
day.
Strugglirag to surpass each other, all
kinds of trees, whether of fruit or of rich
garniture, mango and orange andbamboo
and alligator pear and umbrella trees and
breadfruit and algabora and tamarine,
and all the South sea exotics. Rough
at is to become world's baskets, enough rice to mix all the
re is no one to world's puddings, enough cocoanuts to
do not trust,
powder all the world's cakes, enough fiow-
d Kala.kaua is ers to garland all the world's beauty.
n done for the Banks of flowers white as snow, or blue
as skies, or yellow aS sunset, or starry as
November nights, or red as battlefields.
A heaven of flowers—flowers intwined
in maidens' hair and twisted around
because of one pre-eminence, and others -
for other. superiorities. But, when it was
put to Vote, by unanimous acclamation
Kilauea was elected to be king of volca-
noes. Allthe natural forces of the earth,
all the vapors, all the earthquakes, all the
hills, all the continents voted aye! And
that night was the coronation. The throne
- was of lava. Tho scepter was of smoke.
The coronet was of fire. And all the sub-
limitiee and grandcurs and solemnities of
the earth kneeling at the foot of the burn-
ing throne .cried out, "Long live Kilauea
of the Hawaiians!" And a voice froin
heaven added mightiness to tho scene as
it declared;iHe toucheth the hills, and
they smoke."
I must leave to mY next letter the pont-
. ical aspects of the Hawaiian Islands, and
the story of my visit to the president and
the ex -queen, and my opinion, of both of
them. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
'NOTES FROM THE QUEEN
CITY.
TORONTO, July 30th, 1894.
Together with 6,000 delegates to the Bap-
tist Young People's Convention, 4,000 excur-
sionists availed themselves of the cheap
rates to see " Canady." The .Convention
, was a great success; every meeting was
crowded and as the collections amounted to
$10,000,•the delegates must have been en-
thusiastic. The ceremony of saluting the
flags of the different States, on Friday, was
a pretty one although the. Canadian Bap-
tists were -a little shocked at the various
"calls," which seemed more like " yells ". of
college students than of religious bodies. Dr.
Chapman, of Chicago, was re-elected presi-
dent, and it was decided to hold the next
Conventioa in Baltimore. The Baptiet pul-
pits of the city were filled by visitors on
Sunday. On Monday morning the exodus
began. The Cibola took away a great num-
ber, and as she left the dock a delegate arose
in the bow and, waving the •Stars and
Stripes and the Union Jack overhead, sang
"God Save the Queen," in which the pass-
engers all joined. It seems that even the
effect of our sepulchral silence on Sunday
could not out -weigh the visitor's verdict
that we are a hospitable people.
THE OBSTREPEROUS KELLY.
Citizen Kelly was fined $25 for driving
his busses last Sunday week without a li-
cense; Mayor Kennedy's hack -driver -escap-
ed. There was more fun last Sunday, f9r
Kelly put his family in a 'bus and, mounting
the box, drove from his home westward in-
tending to attend St. -Helen's Church,
Brockton. He was stopped by many police-
men but,when they saw that Kelly only
drove his family they let him proceed. But
at Yonge , Street, Inspector Archahold ar-
rested Kelly, family and rig, taking them to
headquarters, where after a short delay In-
spector Stephens persuaded Archabold he
had made a mistake, and -Kelly was allowed
to go amid the cheers of 500 citizens who
had. gathered.. Kelly entered suit against
Archaloold for damages, on the ground of
assault andenaliciods detention, through his
lawyer, ex -City -Solicitor Biggar. It is be-
lieved that Kelly is getting legal advice at
every Step he takes and that Very shortly he
will have the police authorities jest where
he wants them; to inaugurate legally a Sun-
day 'bus system. Then for Sunday cars!
A RICH MAN'S WILL,
The late George W. Kiely's will contains
bequests to charitable institutions amount-
ing to $17,000. The widow receives a $10,-
000 annuity during her life -time,• together
with the,Jarvis Street establishment. The
total estate amounts to nearly $1,000,000.
The day before Mr. Kiely's death he bought
200,shares of stock in the new Toronto
Railway Company.
THE POOL ROOM MAN AT IT, AGAIN.
Mr. Gillis, just released from -his 60 -days
sojourn at the jail, on Saturday last went
out -to Port Credit, over the Peel county
border, and opened a big tent pool -room.
The sports frem town arrived at 3 o'clock.;
Betting was very slow, but the arap-game
in front of the tent flourished. The people
of the little hamlet like the invasion and
are raking in many extra dollars. Gillis
paid $1,200 for the lot he occupies and is
aonfident of winning his case even if Peel
County prosecutes, as County -Crown -Attor-
ney McFadden says it will during the week.
The Attorney -General states that if the
county neglects its duty, the Provincial
Government will step in, as after the • con-
victions in Toronto, Gillis's ground is very
very slippery. 'Gillis at first re-opendd his
Bay -street room in town With telephonic
communications to catch the bets of those
unwilling to go out to "the Creclit,i' but the
police's action forced hire to close it up.
GOOD CROPS.
Advices received from 95 representative
members of the Dominion Millers' Associa-
tion in Ontario, go to show that the fall
wheat mop now being . harvested, and the
spring wheat crop will be heavier than the
average, although the area planted is con-
siderably less, showing that wheat growing
is being rapidly dropped for better paying
farm products. The area of spring wheat
is from 5 to 75 per cent., and of winter
wheat from 20 to 100 per cent. less than
formerly.
DULL BUSINESS.
Toronto hotel men are complaining that
this has been the poorest season in many
years, the number of touring Americans be-
ing very small. Some of the big hotels have
been running at a loss since spring. But a
remarkable thing is the large business being
done by the local steamboat lines. The
present season was never approached for ac-
tivity and most of the passengers are Can-
adians. In spite of the hard times they are
spending their money with both hands.
DEATH OF A RESPECTED MAN.
Major Frank C. Draper died at his resi-
dence, No. 100 St. Patrick , Street, on Wed-
nesday. He was the youngest son of the
late Hon. William Henry Draper, C. B.,
president of the Court of Appeals of On-
tario. The deceased chose law as -a profes-
sion and studied in the office of the late
Hon. John Crawford,afteryvards Lieu tenant -
Governor of Ontario, but eventually he gave
up practice. While still major in the
Queen's Own Rifles, he took office under
Captain Prince, then chief of Police, suc-
ceeding to that position himself, in 1874,and
holding it for 13 years. Major Draper was
a strict disciplinarian and brought our local
police force to that high position it now
occupies.
TO DEEPEN THE CANALS.
The Canal Convention, which, according
to Alderman Thompson, will attract to To-
and abomination.
The Annexation Q
But the missionaries ca
years 12,000 people gathered into the
churches and 26,000 children into schools
proposing Christian civilization, which
now holds a beautiful supremacy over the
Sandwich Islands. There are two great
parties in the Hawaiian Islands—royalists,
who want the queen, and annexittionists,
who want to come under our eagle's wing.
Neither of them will triumph. The
final result will be a republic by itself, of
which the present government is an ante -
past. The Hawaiian -nation is strong
enough to stand alone. Because a nation
estion.
e, and in eight
is not gigantic is no more reason why it cheek of pineapple against smooth cheek of
should not have self control than a man- melon. The tropics burning incense of
with limited resources of Physical or linen- aroinatics to the high heavens.
cial strength. should be denied independ- The World's Greatest --7,17o1eano.
once. . These islands are volcanic results. The
If God had intendedlionolulu to belong volcanoes aro giants living in the cellars
to the United States, he would have plant- of the earth and warming, themselves by
ed it hundreds of miles nearer our Anaer- subterraneous fires, and when they come
ican coast. The United States government . out to,iday they toss islands and sometimes
is not so hungry for more and that it needs in their sport they sprinkle the sea with
to be fed on a few chunks Of island brought the Society islands, and then they toss up
from.1,800 miles away. the Navigator islands, and then the Fiji
No danger that some other foreign na- islands, and then the Hawaiian Islands.
tion shall take possession of the islands They are Titans, and when they play
and give us trouble when we want to run quoits they pitch islands. When the earth
into Honolulu for the coaling and water- finally goes, as go it will, while it will be
big of our ships. With some ironsides a very serious matter to us, it will be only
from our new nail, and the aid of our the work of volcanoes, which in their sport
friends on the islands we would knock in- are apt to be careless with fire. While vol-
t° smithereens such foreign impertinence.
Besides that, if we become as a nation a
great maritime power, and we will, none
of the islands of the Paeftic would decline
us sheltering harbor or supply for our
ships. What though they belonged to oth-
er nations, they would sell us all we want.
It is not necessary to own a store in order
to purchase goods from it.
Hawaiian PrOgress.
These areheenerable islands. Those who
can translate the language of the rocks
and the language of huinan bones say that
these islands have been inhabited 1,400
years at least. When found in 1778, they
were old places of Jatiman habitation. The
Lost unique illustration in all the world
I:1
a what pure and simpl Christianity can
do is here. Before the upernatural force
began infanticide was eommon, and not
by milder forms of .assassination, but bur-
ied alive. Demented people were murder-
ed, old people were allowed to die of neg-
lect. Polygamy in its worst form reigned,
and ' it was as easy for a man to throw
away his wife as to pitch an apple core in- ,
ed.. Al up and down these islands are
to the sea. Superstitien blackened the
dead volcanoes. Rocked in cradle of earth -
earth and the heavcins. Christianity •
quake, they grew up to an active life and
found the Sandwich Islands a hell and .
came to their last breath, and the mounds
turned them into a semilicaven. As in all ,
under which they sleep are decorated with
the other regions where Christianity tri -
tropical bloom. But the greatest living
umplied, it was maligned by those who
: volcano of all the earth is Hawaiian and
came from other lands to preach their in-
' named Kilauea. What a hissing,- bellow-
iquities. Loose foreigners were angered
ing, tumbling, roaring, thundering place
because they were hindered in their disso- is Kilauea! Lake of unquenchable fire!
luteness by a new element they had never - Convolutions and paroxysm% of flame!
'.There is Honolulu, '' cried many voices Elements of nature in torture! Torridity
before con fain fed.
' and luridity! Congregation of dreads!
this morning from the 'deck of the ilame- Molten horrors! Sulphurous a,byS1:1181
da. These islands, called by many an . Swirling mystery of all time! Infinite tur-
archipelago, 1- °ail them the Constellatien ;: bulencel Chimney of perdition! Wallow -
of the Pacific, for theY Seen1 not so inucii . ing - terrors! Fifteen acres of throat.
to have grown up as alighted from the Gloonas insufferable and Dantesquet
heavens. The hrialt. the redolent, the Caldron stirred by the champion witch
ronto nearly 10,000 people interested in
deepening the waterways of the St. Law-
rence, has been postponed until September
17th, the Pavilion not being available soon-
er. Beginning August 1st, the building will
be devoted- to a season of comic opera, fin-
ishing With exhibition week.
C4IADIAN PRODUCTS TO BE SENT TO I
AUSTRALIA.
'Sect tary Wills, of the Board of Trade,
is being importuned by prbminent Austra-
lians th agitate for an eahibit of Canadian
prod:uets at the Australian Exhibition. The
propotal will have the support of our Board
of Trade, because of the great good likely
to accrue to Canada at the present juncture,
when both colonies are wide-awake as to
trade extension.
RE -UNITE THE OFFICES.
The Provincial Secretary promises that
the Government will duly consider the City
Council's petition asking that the Toronto
registry offices be reunited. Peter Ryan
was understood to have resigned one of
these registrarships, and the Ontario Gov-
ernment had arranged for a string of pro-
motions as soon as Peter went back to the
auctioneer's hammer.
CANADA'S GREATEST SHOW.
Manager Hill is the hardest worked.
man in town at present. Canada's Greet
Fairavill not open for six weeks yet, but
preparations were so forward at this date.
Already many stands which were at the
World's Fair have been stationed in the
main building. Montreal, for the first time,
is te make a showing worthy of her reputa-
tion as the country's manufacturing centre,
and; a special agent is down in Montreal
booking applications for space. The man-
ageinent does not take stock in those who
deein the amusement portion of their two
we
an
rig
cle
chakling a marine battle, perfect in detail.
In fthe Natural History department a spec-
ial y is to be made of fish exhibits, the chief
featmires being fish incubators, which the
Ot awe Fisheries Department has kindly
lo ed. These will be in operation showing
th means by which the Government is
se king th restock our depleted waters with
w .ite fish and salmon. Entries are allowed
tijl August llth in every department.
ks' programme frivolous and ungodly,
promise surprises for the multitudes
t along the line. The fire works specta-
will be the "Siege of Algiers," larger in
respects than that of last year's, and in.
thing over 30 bushels to the acre. But
here, where the Dawson head averages some- I
thing over two inches in length with a
yield Of say twenty grains to the head,
these tremendously long heads attract at-
tention. -
—One of Ontario's oldest Oddfellows
is W. Matshall, of Guelph, aged 69, who
joined the order in New 'York forty-eight
years ago.
—Hereafter any circus which visits Ren-
frew will have to pay a license of $150, At
Lindsay the license has been raised from $50
tos5
—Picton was awarded the paint at the
Sunday school Festival held in Napanee last
week, for having the most artistic and ef-
fective banner carried in the procession.
—Mr. J. Murray Smith, Manager of the
Montreal branch of the Bank of Toronto,
died suddenly at hi,s summer residence,
Beaurepaire, Lake St. Louis, a few days
ago.
—During a heavy storm Thursday even-
ing last week, an Englishman working with
Mr. John McLeod, at Wolseley, Manitoba,
was struck and instantly killed by light-
ning.
—Mr. George Hamel, aged 74 years, died
very suddenly at the Grand Trunk Railway
station, New Hamburg, Friday morning,
204h ult., of heart failure, while waiting for
the train to go to Petersburg. •
—Gussie Kinsella, the 9 -year-old boy who
broke his leg escaping from Woodstock jail,
has been placed in the cells awaiting his re-
moval to the Mimico school for seven
3
years.
—Mrs. Fred. Varndell, of Thornyhtfrst,
Lambton, in jumpingout of a wagon put
her left ankle out of joint. In an agony of
pain she gave it a wrench that pulled it in-
to joint again with a loud snap.
--It is 40 years since the Galt branch of
the old Great Western Railway was opened
for traffic, and during all these years not a
passenger has been killed on the line or even
seriously injured.
—The Keewatin Water Power Company
expect to furnish power for Winnipeg estab-
lishments over electric' wires from their
new dam. The current will have to be
transmitted over 140 miles of wire.
—Harvesting is going oil this week in
several parts of Manitoba. This year's har-
vest will be earlier than for many years
past. It is believed that the average will
be 20 bushels to the acre.
—Liberals of Welland intend to held a
monster picnic at Crystal Beach Grove, on
August 7. It is expected that a number of
the Ontario Cabinet Ministers will be pres-
ent and deliver addresses.
- —The Dominion Government has granted
$48,000 to the Strathroy and Western Coun-
ties Railway Company, for 25 miles from St.
Thomas, through the counties of Elgin and
Middlesex, towards Forest station, on the
Grand Trunk Railway.
—This year's statistical abstract will show
the population of the two sexes as follows:
Ontario, in 1881, 508 men to every 494
women. In the whole of Canada, in 1881,
506 men to 494 women, and in 1891, 509
men to 491 women.
—Woodstock's handsome new opera house
has been leased for three years to C. J.
Whitney, of Detroit, and will be included
in the circuit. Marie Tempest will open it
on September 17th as The Fencing
Master."
—The Foresters of Embro held a garden
party the other evening, which was con -
eluded' with a dance. Rev. A. McKibben
wrote a long letter to the Courier, protest-
ing against the "strange and unexpected
revolution" by which the garden party de-
• veloped into a dance.
--Lewis Wilkinson, an employe of the,
Buffalo Fish Company, recently caught ae
sturgeon off Leamington which weighedi
200 pounds and measured eight feet
length. It sold for $16, and. is said to have
been the largest sturgeon ever taken out
of Lake Erie..
—Miss Jennie Trench, of School
Section NO. 8, Carrick, has paesect
the recent Public School Leaving Examina:
tion. Owing to the difficult papers set fot
this examination only five out of the thirteen
candidates in East Bruce were successful;
and Miss Jennie heads the list.
—The Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition
which was held last week, was a decidid
success. The attendance during the fuer
days was thirty-two thousand, equal do
about twenty per cent. of the entire popu-
lation of the province.
—The report of the death in Ireland !of
MraVankoughnet, until lately Superintend-
ent of Indian Affairs was founded oak a
misapprehension. Mr. Affairs,
is alive
and well, and will doubtless be someWhat
surprised to read in the Canadian presi of
his sudden demise.
—James F. Stewart, of Parkhill, has pur-
chased the promising young mare Npllie
Bruce, from D. A. McEwen for the sum of
$700. Nellie Bruce is five years old and has
shown remarkable speed. She finishedisec-
ond in a 2:22 class this spring. She will
likely be sent on the circuit this fall.
Canada.
!The electric street railway between
Galt and Preston has been opened.
—The petition for the repeal of the liquor
license reduction by-law in Hamilton, con-
tains 4,627 signatures.
—Near Alvinston is a 200 -acre field of oats
unbroken by a fence, which, it is thought,
,will yield 12,000 bushels.
—A net recently taken from the river
near Cape Vincent and burned, contained
over 80 pounds of black bass.
—One thousand men are at work on the
Wiscasset & Quebec Railroad, and the July
pay roll will be over $30,000.
—Aneaster farmers who have threshed.
find their wheat turning out from 27 to 30
bushels per acre.
--Mr. R. Ferguson, of Castleford, Ren-
frew county, was killed by lightning While
working in a field on Friday last.
—The mayor of Chatham has issued
a proclamation brirtgingthe Compulsory Vac-
cination Act into force.
—"Con" Deary, a life convict, who killed
a Montreal policeman in 1875, died in King-
ston Penitentiary Friday last,
—The turnip crop in the vicinity of Paris
is going to be an almost total failure. Some
fermata are ploughing up the land.
—The little 2 -year-old daughter of Capt.
Naud, of the Montreal fire department,
drank some lye and died after greet suffer-
ing.
. —A London grocer's horse wears a large
straw hat tied over his ears on all scorch-
ing days. This is very sensible ancl humane,
if not elegant.
—Professor J. W. Robertson, of the Do-
minion Experimental Farm, Ottawa, will be
married shortly. His future wife is said to
be the daughter of Rev. Dr. Ryckman.
—It has been discovered that the much
dreaded Russian thistle exists in one or two
Manitoba districts, and the Government is
taking prompt steps to exterminate it.
—john Morrison, head moulder of the
Vulcan iron works, Winnipeg, and a well-
known citizen, fell dead at his work, Satur-
day.
—George Curtis, aged 11 years, died of
lockjaw in Hamilton, the other day. Nine
days ago the lad stepped en a rusty nail,
which caused a wound in his foot.
—The License Commissioners of llasnilton
are cutting off twenty saloon and tavern -
keepers, and depriving ten grocers of their
liquor licenses.
—Rev. Dr. Chiniquy celebrated his 85th
birthday on Monday, 304h ult., in Mon-
treal, and was presented with an addreas and
a purse of money.
—The 80t1t anniversary of the Battle of
Lundy's Lane was celebrated on the battle-
ground, Wednesday, 25th ult., by the
Lundy's Lane Historical Society.
---john Bushell, of Windsor, has been
awarded a scholarship and the first prize in
Hebrew by Trinity University, Toronto,
where he is a student for the ministry.
—Twenty-one'head of cattle on the Ex-
perimental Farm at Brandon, Manitoba,
heve been slaughtered, owing to the exist-
ence of tuberculosis among the herd.
—Owing to the numerous robberies and
sandbaggings of late in Ottawa, the city
police force is to be increased for the next
couple a months.
—Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill
were in Montreal this week, whence they
proceed at once to Vancouver, British
Columbia.
--Watfordites are doing considerable kick-
ing over the raising of salaries of the High
School teachers, and the board is criticised
for their generosity with the ratepayers'
money these hard times.
—The famous racing dog "Doc," has a
rival named "Victor," a collie. A race
between the dogs will cense off at the Tor-
onto Industrial Fair. The stakes amount to
$550.
—In Toronto, Saturday, while Mr. W.
Van Winkle was making repairs to a boats
house, his hammer slipped from his hand in
the act of striking and struck him on the
nose breaking that organ.
—Mr. J. Howard Hunter, of London, in-
spector of insurance, fell heir to a quarter
of a million dollars recently, by the death of
his uncle, and left a few days ago for a holi-
day trip to the old country.
—The Galt Reporter has been presented
with some heads of Red Clawson and Velvet
Chaff wheats, taken from a field on the side
of the Owen Sound road, about five miles
above Durham. The field was about
eight acres in extent, planted about half in
each wheat, and the size of • the heads at-
tracting attention, without' selection, a
number of them .were gathered. The Vel-
vet measures five and a half inches in length
and the Clawson slightly more. A few
heads rubbed out gave a result of from 50
ANCIENT HAWAIIAN TEMPLE.
oanoes are assigned to the destructive
agencies we see here what they can do as
architects. See here what they have build -
horning the unruly 1;rute, were quickly on
the sPot and rescued the supposed to be dy-
ing nitan. This was no sooner done than the
doctOt rnounted the brute, sticking to him
like n. terrier dog, and lacing him to a post,
he had his horns off in less time than it took
to pencil this item. Strange to say- Mr.
Kennedy was not seriously injured,
—Adolphus Martin, the wealthy Maid-
stone, County Essex, farmer, who was ac-
cused of cutting the eyes out of some of his
.
pigs because they insisted in getting into his
eropS, was on Monday fined $20 and costs, a
total of $46, or two months in jaiL The
fine "Ar8,S paid, and Martin's lawyer gave
not* of appeal.
--rhe late John Ferguson, of Thames -
vile, died without a will, and leaves the
largest estate ever admitted to probate 'in
Kent county, an approximated value being
$198:1000. One-third of the estate will go to
the widow, and the balance will be equally
divided among the members of the family.
The:Ontario treasury will receive 2a per
cent. on theentire estate, or $4,950.
—At Leamington, Essex county, the
berry season now closing has been the great-
est in the history of that fruit town. From
the time strawberries first turned
red until now, there has been a constant
shipment of the various small fruits. • Sixty-
two tons of berries having been shipped up
to date. This amounts' te 80,000 baskets,
tfohrewitruicihtm$e7315.00 were paid into the hands of
e.
—Quite a severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Lindsay on the night of the 26th ult.
Thnre was a tremor in the earth which last-
ed two or three seconds and was followed
by*. reptant or explosion which sounded like
a iiannon that had been fired a long dis-
tan,Lee off. Houses were shaken and. win-
doids rattled. Quite a number rushed out
of their houses, thinking a mill boiler had
exploded.
4 -Last Monday the large frame barn
owtted by Mr. Daniel Murphy, of Mount
Forfest, and its contents were entirely de-
strlyed by fire. The building contained
°sr 100 tons of hay, 25 head of fat cattle,
six hogs one driving horse, a steam thresher
ana a lo't of farm implements, all of which
wete burned. The estimated loss is over
$7000. Insurance $2,400. NO. insurance
onstock.
da -The other day a number of the circus
men were looking in a Woodstock cemetery
for the grave of Ben Brown, which they in-
tended to decorate, but were unable to find
it Ben was an old Woodstock boy. He
-vies killed while travelling with the show
in -New Jersey in 1887, by being ktiecked off
a„Is' elephant car while going under a low
bridge. His remains were sent home for
n Act on the ground that the girl
'it -Principal Miller, of the Tiverton
was acquitted of a charge under the
id not know whether she was under 16
When the offense was committed. The
Walkerton Telescope says "Law is law,
and newspapers cannot always say just
*hat they'd like to,but if it wasn't for the
law we'd take very much pleasure in giving
the ex -principal of the Tiverton school a bit
'of our mind. •
—The neighborhood of East Zorra is
;greatly excited over the strange disappear-
ance of the young Englishman, Arthur
1Benjamin Bulley, of the Stratford Boys'
'Home, who had been in the employment of
W. H. Bickle, a farmer on the eleventhp
line, East Zoira. It is supposed he has
taken his life or gone wrong in his mind, as
' he had acted very strangely for two or three
weeks back, thinking the people looked
down on him as if he were nothing. He
was of a religious turn of mind.
—Messis. Joseph Pelton and James Mc -
Irvine, residing near Paris recently lost.
three cattle from the effects of eating Paris
Green. The cattle were in a pasture field
next to which was a potato patch that had
been sprinkled. with Paris Green the day be-
fore. The man who used the poison hid it
in the field some place with the intention of
continuing his work the next day, but dur-
ing the night the three cattle got into the
field some way and partook of the poison,
which promptly did its work, and in a few
hours the animals died.
—A large crowd at the C. P. R. station,
London, Saturday evening, witnessed the
arrival of Mrs. (Commandant) Booth, of
Toronto, the handsome and accomplished
daughter-in-law of the famous general and
founder of the Salvation Army., She had
come to London to open the new barraeks,
or Salvation Citadel as it will be called, and
took part in the Sabbath meetings pre-
liminary tci the opening. Mrs. Booth cap-
tured all hearts by her modest and pleasant
manner, her lovely singing, and her sensible
and clever addresses.
—The Strathroy Age says that at the last
regular meeting of the P. P. A. council at
Keinoka, a number of its members were
brought to task. They were summoned to
appear to give an account of how they voted
at the last election, being charged with a
violation of their obligation. The president
of the council was the first to be dealt with!
He would not tell any of them how he
voted. So he was accordingly expelled
from the order. Some of the other doubt-
ful ones will be dealt with at the next meet-
ing of the council. If they say they voted
for Alexander they will be kept in the
council, if not they go out.
him to Stratford. He had a dangerous
looking revolver on him at the time, fully
loaded, but with two of the cartridges ex-
ploded. On his way to the city Scott asked
Constable McCarthy for the revolver, but it
was refused him. His case was adjourned
until Wednesday. While in the jail Scott
told. one of the prisoners he had purchased
the revolver with. the intention of shooting
his wife and afterwards making away with
himself and it is believed that had Con-
stable McCarthy given him the revolver
when he asked for it on the way to town he
-would have committed suicide.
Perth News.
Rev. Father Downey,. of London, has
been appointed curate of St. Joseph's
church, Stratford, in succession to Rev.
Father Gnam, who has been transferred to
Hessen parish. Father Dow aey is a native
of Huron county.
—A lively runaway occurred one day
lately, at Avonton, when one of Mr. Alex-
ander Hotson's drivers took it into his head
to demelish a fine buggy, which. he Aid to
his entire satisfaction and the discomfiture
of the -owner.
—Mr. James Frank, one of the prop
etors of the daily Patriot, Jackson Mk
gan, at one time an employe of the Jackson,
Advocate office, is in that town spendinl
few days with his father-in-law, Mr. John
Robb.
—The sad news of the death of Mr. 33.
Aubry, the famous horse buyer, will be
learned with exceedingly deep regret by
his- many Mena, and pa,rticularly by the
farming- community. He _ was taken sud-
denly ill a short time ago with a severe at-
tack of inflammation of the lungs and after
four days of intense suffering succumbed to
its fatal effects. Mr. Aubry has for many
years made Mitchell one of his principal
inarkets, and during that time purchased a
vast number of good horses. He was a
buyer of no mean repute and his death wilt
be keenly felt indeed, by the community.
—Frank Green, the flim-flammer, known
to the police of Stratford, and who ffim-
flanimed several Stratford merchants ,a few
years ago went down to Kingston for five
years on Monday Of last week. Green, who
escaped from the Central Prison while eery-
ing a sentence for swindling, and was subse-
quently arrested at Brockville for a similar
offence, and sentenced to five years in. the
Penitentiary, completed hie term in the
Central last week, and hninediately on his
release was taken in charge by Sheriffs
officers and escorted to Kingston.
—On the 23rd of May last a note eves put
in a cheeie made at Elma factory -with the
name of the President of the factory at-
tached, asking a report on the quality of the
cheese. The other day Mr. Hume, the Pres-
ident, received a letter from a London, Eng-
land, dealer, enclosing the report of the
retailer who found the note, and who re-
ported the cheese of fine . quality of flavor
and fat. This dealer, says the -wholesaler,
is one of the largest' retailers in London
and one of the best judge,s -of cheese. The
price he paid for the cheese was 48sh. 6da
and his letter was dated at London, 134h
July, 1894. The last week of May cheese at
Elm was sold at 9gc.
—Charles Wright, Charles Wagner and
James McDonald, th.e three tramps who
entered the house of William Frier, in El-
lice, on Sunday, July 8, and stole $10 in
money and a $50 note, were on Monday'
afternoon of last week- sentenced by Police
Magistrate O'Loane, of Stratford, to - two
years each in Kingston penitentiary. The
magistrate suggested sending the prisoners
to the Central prison for vagrancy, at which
the trio caved in, confessed the burglary,
telling how they entered the house and
forced the trunk where the note was fouud.
The prisoner McDonald has a brother-in-law -
who is a guard in Ceotral prison and he did
not want to go the Central because of the
disgrace it would bring on his family.
—On Monday night of last 'week, Mr.
James Tudhope died at his residence on
Main Street, Listowel, in the 70th year of
his age. He had taken a light paralytic
stroke early in the morning but retained his
eonsciousness throughout the day and svas
thought to be rallying. He had driven out
the day previous visiting a friend in Elms,
apparently in his usual health, and, al-
though he had been for years troubled with
a weak heart and his general health has not
been good since an attack -of thegrip a
couple of years agd, no immediate danger
was anticipated. The deceased was born in
Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 124h of Sep-
tember, 1824, lacking thus, at the time of
his death, but two monthsof completing his
70th year. He came to Canada with his
parents and four brothers when he was 12
years of age and settled in Oro Township,
near Orfitut, his father dying shortly after-
wards. Mr. Tudhope came up utto the
Queen's bush and purchased one hundred.
acres of bush land on the 3rd of Wallace,
about forty years ago. He cleared up and
improved the land stald made it one of the
finest farms- in the township, Some yearti
ago he sold his farm, moved. to Listowel and
purchased the residence in which he has •
sines lived. His family consists of three
daughters, two of whom survive him. In
the early days Mr. Tudhope was connected
with the Congregational church Listowel,
but in his later years became a free -thinker
and severed connection with all churches.
—Mr. Edward Axton, of Paris, Acked
from his garden the other day, a few -very
fine " Apricots" that were as ryas* as
gold, and were about the size of !small
peaches; They are very rare in this part of
the country, and it goes th show gait they
can be cultivated successfully.
—Sandwich has been invaded by tate Sal-
vation Army of Windsor, who on "ft -in- day,
15th ult., began a series of camp meetings
in Prince's grove. Beautifully lighted with
fifteen incandescent lamps, seating accom-
modation for 450, and the strains of the
Army's brass band floating on the breeze,
attract crowds nightly.
—A patriotic and public-spirited Cana -
lin has purcha,sed Wolfe's laword, together I
and msta,ntly lunged. into the water to the
--A heroic act of a young woman averted
a fatal accident at Rondeau on Friday last.
Alfred Northwood attempted to cross the
harbor in a canoe, when. the waves over-
balanced the craft, throwing him into the
water. One foot became fastened beneath
the seat and he was sitting below the surface.
Miss Georgie Stephenson, daughter of Mr.
Rufus Stephenson, ex -M. P., of Chatham,
with Col. Dunn's , Victoria Cross, medals
and oil portrait, the latter a replica, of the
painting of the hero, which was executed
for the Victoria Cross Gallery, London.
These valuable historic relics will be brought
to Ottawa. '
---The body of Patrick Purcell, ex -M. P.
P. for Glengarry, which was stolen from the
cemetery at ,,Flanigan's Point, .$ununers-
town, near Cornwall, on the night; of May
14th, 1891, was found SaturdaY floating
in the St. Lawrence river, neat. Dundee,
Quebec. There was a rope about ;the neck,
and the body was much decomposed.
—Last Friday, in Hamilton, Patrick Han-
ley, a bricklayer, was working oil Welling-
ton street south, when the stone window-
sill on which he was standing gave way, and
he was precipitated to the ground, 25 feet
below. He sustained such serious injuries
that he died three hours after the accident.
Deceased was 35 years of age, and leavee a
widow ahd several small children.
—One day recently a remarkable occur-
rence took place at Princeton. Mr. Kinney,
who was driving a bull to the barn yard for
the purpose of having him dehorned, as he
had been unruly on a former occasion, was
about half way down the lane when the in-
furiated animal attacked the driver. The
pawing and roaring of the beast, together
with the yells of the injured man fairly rent
the air, so much so that the family, the
field all over was estimated to yield some- had just driven up for the purpose of de- arrested Scott on Saturday last and too rock him in his cell.
to 60 grains to the head. The crop on the neighbors and Dr. Fasken, of Paris, who
imperiled man s rescue-. Retarded by her
heavy clothing, her progrers was slow, but
the noble young wo.-nan reached the upturned
canoe. She succeeded in getting the drown-
ing.man in the canoe after righting it, and
landed him safely.
—Recently a large tract of swamp land in
the township of Brooke, Lambton county,
was reclaimed and put under cultivation by
the Messrs. Fairbanks, of Petrolea. This
year 400 acres of the land were sown to
oats, and there was every prospect that the
owners would reap a big harvest. A few
clays ago, ho erever, it was noticed that the
leaves and heads of the oats had. been- en-
tirely eaten off and only the bare stalks re-
mained. On examination it was found that
the ground was literally alive with small
worms, which had been feeding upon the
oats. Off one square foot of ground no fewer
than 460 of the worms were secured and
placed in a glass jar, where it was noticed
that they bred very rapidly. The pest has
been sent to the Experimental Farm for ex-
amination.
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—George Scott, of South Ea,sthope, a
big farmer, was charged Monday afternoon
of last week, with assault, wounding and
carrying a revober. The complainant is
his wife. From the evidence it woulcla ap-
pear that Scott has been abusing his wife
for some time. County Constable IsIcCarth
—A short time ago a man named Weiss
was _arrested while drunk, for Treating a
disturbance in Stratford. He was fined $.5
by Police MagUstra,te O'Loane the following
xnorning and m the absence of the necessary
was about to be sent over to Castle Nichol,
when a man named Barber, a bed sprin
maker, appeared on the scene and at Weiss
request paid the fine. Weiss had been
working With Barber. Since then a war-
rant was issued against Weiss by Barber,
charging him with the larceny of some tools,
and while police court was in progress, Mon-
day, Weiss, not knowing he was walking
into a trap, entered the eourt room to wit-
ness the proceedings. He had not been in.
a minute when Chief McCarthy spotted
him. The chief walked out ofthe room in-
to the corridor, motioning Weiss to eome
ta
him, and Weiss innocently followed the
chief_into Janitor Cooke's room, from which.
the stair leads to the cells below, Immed-
iately the chief entered. the janitor's room
he closed the door, which is fitted with a
snap lock. 'Then the spectator's in the
court room heard a scufffing and Policeman
O'Donnell went to where the clrief was.
The scufffing increased and then County
Constable McCarthy and Constable George
Durst, who were in the police 0011111 room
followed, and uthe spectators went after
them. Weiss, when he learned what was
wanted, made a dive for the- window at the
end of the janitor's room and would have
jumped to the ground had he not been
pulled back by the Chief aid Policeman,
O'Donnell. He was half way through the
window when he was caught. Weiss is a.
short, thick set man, very muscular, and he
had just enough liquor in him to make him
fight—and he did fight. The space was
small in which to work and it required the
combined efforts of the four policemen to
et Weiss to the bottom of the stairs and.
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