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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-08-10, Page 13, 1894, Y -J UST 3rd, PerROUGH— Month... -6 RECEIVING til Goods„.. LANCE OF -- r Stoek-:- CLEARED— ;aerifice-:- cFaul, RTH. . L home, while Mr. and, nd Mr. and Mrs. R G. amines are at present erove—Mrs. RumbaII, a visiting her mother, Iif the township of Hay, l to Clinton on accoimt ie relatives.—Miss der esiting at her mother's weeks—Mr. Thomaa ;ham this week visiting, anie Murray.—Mr. W. mercial House, and his tie, have been away , on a visit to relatives liek, milliner, of Wyom- resent on a, visit.— ion in last week's isstre itchell, of Dixie, form-- erought in the very first - Messrs: Cook Brothers' ag over standard. This. eillagers can do when tntion to agriculture.— Miss Ella McPherson, s around St. Helens.— ! THE ExPosinon. will a sudden death of Mrs. f Gra.nclon, Cass' county, di known, in these parte :inky, of the Goshen., leceased - wa,s well and - ,ving taught school. for. She leaves a husband mourn her loss, one be - 7 a few days. The de. el lived, trusting in a.. - D. Weismiller is visit. :amburg.—Miss Brown - relatives and friends in. n. al correspondent.) .--Rev. J. S. Render.- 1•Presbyteriarte Church, e enjoying his summer. end gentleman has well L The hearts of his- t him, and the prayer LS that he may have a le time, and come back a to carry on the good the Master's vineyard. he wishes to combine by spending a part of in 'Moody's school for Carmel pulpit will be: or's absence by a stud - in his second_ year in sate in Arts. !on.—The prayer meet - Endeavor Society, he'd. .armel Chureh, on Sun - i interesting as usual.. ening was Mr. F. Kar - mg by Messrs. Craw- . hose taking part in dim eere the pastor, Mrs. tes Wood and Mr. Wm. 'embers were prepared f time permitted. This y few can be heard int if an hour, but all the -all capable should come e a prominent part in - net either by a ehort /arks, or by reading a. hatever may be said to . erest can not be kept il literary work is ex - are made purely invise. --0,- affa. . John Sadler drew :from, Dublin this week. placing it in the sa,w is a monster weighing ra MeIllhargy is ta nrs. F. Carlin.—Mrs. S Jeane Ha,ysmith and spenit ing a couple of d. —A r, Hugh Millar his new thresher and . work.—Mr. William few days in Seaforth D. Hutchison has re - titer visiting at Sea. ia., and Grand Bend.— t. had the misfortune. n at the wrist this Rill's threshing. Mr. Mg to cut bands, when .y, he falling 011 his aentioned result.—Orte i in Sta,ffa, is a case of s, exhibited in Mr - Mr. Carlin has two sprieg to the case, one laid the other to take esh water inthe ca,se ers are delighted with Fuelled in Ontario.— med the good people strains from his -violin Mop. Les this year in Mc - he potatoes are small, -td -the grass -hoppers .—The wheat is likely fall.—Nearly every e. new top buggy, a, :es, if not this year r near future, as they m fanner's time away ,Messrs. Francis Me- Hudie, Thomas Walsh Ilene LT$ that would be an 1/ani el Manley has a , and William Dicke Viliiam Hogg, Thomas tt and Loui..1 Efagey and some of them are Le minty. McKillop iblines that their in' :an tFat assessed value The insurance agent together.-1-14.nag tar Winthrop is iust ter keeps fine for an - neigh. It consists of rneent grasses. Avila tal spring crop on the just now. Some of about Mowat allowing t be grown, thus ine ; side. —C.oen Ilelerelsummemonstewne 11111411111,. wwwwimmusiount 4111110111111•1111111411111111111111. ositor+ `..11011111011Eamleams• TWENTY-SEVENTH )(FEAR. WHOLE NtIMBER, 1,391. j SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 101 1894. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. OUR SALE CONTI) t ES.. July was a busy month with us, and our low prices which ruled during July will be continued during August. This month must marl an extraordinary ending of a clecessful season's trade. We are determined to clear all sum- mer goods out at ridiculous prices. SAMPLE PRICES 10c Nearwear was 25c and 35c 20e Hosiery was 35c $1 Shirts were $1.50 and $2 50c Underwear was 75c 50c Straw Hats were $1 15c Girls' School Caps were 30c While we quote, only the above, we have many others nbt - noted here. Special prices on all ordered work dur- ing this month. - We are Leaders in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, THE LEADING CLOTHIERS, SEAFORTH. AROUND THE WORLD. DR. TALMAGE'S SECOND INTERESTING LETTER FROM HONOLULU. A Pleasant ChM With the Deposed Queen. The Guest of President Dole and His Ami- able and Talented Wife—Both Sides of the Hawaiian Case. • [Copyright, LOILLS Klopsch, 1894.] Howorafx, June 18.—The chamber-. lath, come to invite us to the residence of the ex -queen, had suggested 11 o'clock that morning as the best hour for our visit. We approached the wide open doors through a yard of palm trees and bananas and cocoanut, and. araid flowers that dyed the yard with all the colors that a tropical sun can paint. We were ushered into the royal lady's reception roora,ewhere, sur- reeinded by a group of distinguished per - Dons, she arose to greet us with a cordial grasp of the hand. The pictures of her hardly convey an accurate idea of her dig - PRESIDENT DOLE. laity of bearing. She has all the ease of one born to high position. Her political mis- fortunes seem in nowise to have saddened her. 'She spoke freely of the brightness of lifo to any one disposed to meet all obli- gations, and at my suggestion that we found in life chiefly what we look for, and If WO look for; flowers we find flowers, and if we look for thorns we find thorns, she remarked: "I have found in the path of life chiefly flowers. I do not see how any one surrounded by as many blessings as many of us possess could be so ungrateful as to complain." Sho said it was some- _ thing to be remembered thankfully that for 50 years there was no revolution in the islands. She has full faith that the pro- visional government is only a temporary affair, and that she will again occupy the throne. She asked her servinat to show me, as something I had not seen before, a royal adornment made up from the small bird with a large name, the Melithreptes pa- cifies. This bird, I had. read, had under its wing a single feather of very exqui- site color. The queen corrected my infor- mation by saying that it was not a single feather, but a tuft of feathers front under the wing of the bird from which the adornment was fashioned into a chain of beauty for the neck. Sho spoke of her visit to New York, but said that prolonged ill- ness hindered her from seeing much of the aity. She talked freely and intelligently on many subjects pertaining to the pres- ent and the future. I was delighted with her appearance and manner and do not believe one word of the wretched stuff that has been written con- cerning her immoralities. Defamation is so easy, and there is so much cyniciam abroad which would rather believe evil than' good, that it is not to be thought strange that this queen, like all the other rulers of the earth, has been beaten with storms of obloquy and misrepresentation. George Wa.slaingeon was called by Tom. Paine a lying impostor. Thomas Jefferson was styled an infidel, and since those times we are said to luso° had in the United States presidency a bloodthirsty man, a drunkard and at least two libertines, and if anybody in prominent place and effect- ive work has escaped "let him speak, for him have I offended." After an exchange of autographs on that day in Honolulu we parted. President Dole Greets His Guest. At 1 o'clock Chief Justice Judd came to the hotel with his carriage to take us to the mansion of President Dole. It was only a minute after our entrance when the president and his accomplished and bril- liant lady appeared, with a cordiality of welcome that made us feel much at home. The president is a pronounced Christian man, deeply interested in all religious af- fairs as well as secular, his priVate life be- yond criticism, honored by both political parties, talented,urbano, attractive, sprang and fit for any Dosition where conscien- ....a.zness and culture and downright ear- nestness are requisites. It was tomo a matter of surprise that at a time when polities are redhot in the Hawaiian Islands, and President Dole is very positive in his opinions on all sub- jects, I heard not ono word of bitterness spoken against him. Hawaiians and for- eigners aro alike his eulogists. When I referred to the tremendous questions he and his associates had on hand, he said it was remarkable how many of the busy men of these islands were willing to give so much of their time, free of all charge, to the business of 'the new government and from what he believed to be patriotic and Christian motives. The president is a graduate of Williams college, Massa- chusetts, and when I asked him if his opinion of President Hopkins of that col- lege was as elevated as that of President Garfield he replied, "Yes; I think, as Gar- field did, that to sit on one end of a log, with President Hopk ns on th6.other, and talk with him on li erary matters would be something lite a 1iberai *education." The president's w fe is a charm of love- liness and is an artt t withal. Her walls are partly decorated with her pencil. And though under her protest, as though the room was unworthy of -a visit, Chief Jus- tice Judd took me to her studio,where she passes much of her time in sketching and 111a1nting. The ride I took afterward with the president and Chief Justiee Judd al- lowed me still other opportunity of form- ing an elevated opinion of the present head of the Hawaiian governraent. The cor- diality with w.hiola we had been received by the present ruler and the former queen interested us more and more in the present condition and the future happiness of tho Sandwich Islands. Hearing Both Sides on Hawaiian Affairs. Aware of the different ways of looking at things and of putting things, I resolved to get the story of Hawaiian affairs from opposite sides. We have always taken it for granted that 2 and 2 make 4, and yet and 2 may be so placed as to make 22. The figure 9 ls only the figure 6 turned upside down.: There are not many things like tho figure 8—the same which ever side is up. The different accounts I here present are reports from different stand- points. I had an opportunity of earnest and pro- longedconversation with a royalist, edu- cated, truthful, of high moral character, beam in these islands and of great observa- tion and experience. The followingeon- versetion took place between us: Question—Do you think the ex -queen a good woman? Answer -1 have seen the queen very of- ten. I have been one of her advisers, and my wife has been with her much of the time from childhood and has seen her morning, noon and night and under all circumstances, and neither of us has ever witnessed anything compromising in her character. Sho has made mistakes, as all raake therar, but she is fully up to the moral standard of the world's rulers. She is tho impersonation of kindness, and nei- ther ray wife nor myself nor any one else has ever , heard her say a word against any one.- that excellence she is pre-em- inent. In proof of her good character I have to state the fact that there is not a household in Honolulu that did not feel honored by her presence. If she had been such a corrupt character as some core- spondents have represented her, I do not think that the best men and women of the Hawaiian Islands would have sought her for guest and associate. Q.—Do you think she has been unjustly treated? A.—I do. She has been raost infamous- ly treated. While our island was at peace and with no excuse for interference the United States troops were landed. A group of men, backed up by the United States ' minister and troops, formed a capinet and chose a president and sent a committee to the palace and told the queen to leave the place. It was another case of Naboth's vineyard. The simple fact is that there were men who wanted the palace and tho offices, and the salaries: From alliuent po- sition she was reduced in position until she had to mortgage the little left to her to pay commissioners to go to Washington and present her side of the case. As I said, she made mistakes, but she was willing to correct them, and in a public manifesto declared she was willing to retrace her steps in the matter of the "new constitu- tion." She had as much right to her throne as any ruler on earth has a right to a throne, but by sharp practice, when she was unsuspecting, the United States troops drove her from the palace, took pos- session of the armament and inaugurated a new government. The Royalist View. Q.—If the choice of royalty or annexa- tion were put to the vote of tho people, what do you think would be the decision? A.—The queen's restoration by a ma- jority of at least 10 to -1. We who are roy- alists are, without exception, in favor of leaving these matters to the ballot box. In the United States the majority governs, and the majority of the people of the Ha- waiian Islands ought to have the same privilege of government. Q.—Are the Hawaiians property hold- ers or nomads? A.—They aro property holders. They have their homes. They have a practical interest in public affairs. Moreover, they are for the most part intelligent You can hardly find a Hawaiian born since 1840 who cannot read and write. Q.—What do you think is the most pro- voking item in the condition of your coun- try? A.—It is that a professed friendly pow- er has robbed us of our government. All the nations of the earth consider that your. nation has done us a wrong. Q.—Taking conditions as they now are, what do you think had better be done, or- is that a hemispheric conundrum? enispherio conundrum. hroned, and her palace forces are in the posses- sion of her enem es. While I cannot see any way in which the wrong can be right- ed, she has such faith in the final triumph of justice that she expects to resume her throne. Her estate as well as her crown taken from her, she deserves the sympathy of the whole world. I believe in republics for some lands and monarchies for others. Ono style of government will not do for all styles of people. A republic is best for the United States, a monarchy for the Hawaiian Islands. Thus ended my conversation with the royalist. The Republican Side of the Case. But I also had she opportunityof learn- ing the other side of this question from a spirited, patriotic and honest annexation- ist, and I a-sk-ed raueli the same questions that I had asked:Me royalist. The following conversation between the annexationist and myself took place: Q.—Do you think the queen is fit to —Ar---Nol By her signing the opium li- cense and the bill for the Louisiana lottery and by other acts she proved. herself unfit to govern. Q.—Do you think that the present con- troversy would bo relieved if the question in dispute were left to the votes of all the people on the island? A.—No! The Chinese, the Japanese and the Portuguese would join with tho na- tives and vete down the best interest of the Hawaiian Islands. Q.—What do you think of the present attitude of ehe United States government With respect' to therSandwich Islands? A.—Most 'unfortunate. We are waiting for change of administration at Washing- • A.—It is a h Our queen is de and her military leek EX -QUEEN LILTUOKALANI. ton. Mr. Cleveland has unwisely handled our affairs We want an administration at Washington which will favor an an- nexation, and your next presidential elec- tion may settle our island affairs and set- tle them in the right way. Q.—What 18 the present feeling between royalists and those in favor of the provi- sional geverament? • A.—Very bitter and becoming more and more dangerous, and great -prudence and wisdom will have to be employed, or there will be bloodshed. Thus ended my conversation with the annexationist. As I said in previous letter, without taking the side either of royalist or an aexationist, the Hawaiian Islands will yet be anepublic in itself. What an amazing thing that after all the trouble the UnitL ed States government has had with the Chinese population now within our bor- ders, trying this and that legislation to suit their, case, any American statesman should propose by the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to add to our popula- tion the 22,000 Chinese and the 12,000 Japanese now living in those islands. If we want this addition of 34,000 Chinese and Japanese, had we not better import them fresh from China and Japan? From what I have seen and heard. in this thy journey I have come to the con- clusibn that it will be a dire day when the American government hopelessly mixes itself up with Hawaiian affairs. It would be disaster to them, and perplexity and useless expense to ourselves. "Hands off" an.d "Mind your own business" are in this case sentiments that had better be observ- ed by English, German and American governments. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Rural England. Mr. R. W. Sawtell, who is just now on a tour through the Old World, is contributing a series of very interesting letters, descrip- tive of his travels, to the Woodstock Sentinel Review. The following, descriptive of "Rural England," will -be interesting to many of our readers: "Rural England" has been a favorite theme fot the poets for centuries, and the subject has not been exhausted, -nor can it well be exaggerated in describing its beauties. -To one, who for months past has wanered so much among the for est of bricks arid mortar in London, the change to the country beauties of Gloucestershire, so near the rich low lands of -the valley of the Severn river, with its wealth of crops, and the varying scenery, in the beautifully un- dulating highlands everywhere met, with occasional glimpses of the estuary of the Severn, the British Channel and the purple hills of South Wales beyond, make a charm- ing landscape, not often met with outside of England. With the summer weather since the 21st, the wild vines in the hedges, as well an the wild and cultivated flowers, have put on their most gorgeous hues. The birds appear to be 'gloriously _ happy. The hum of the numerous mowing machines, and the activity of the haymakers give ad- ditional life to the picture. The roads are as smooth as a bicycle track, and the hum dreds of Wheelers daily passing on the pub- lic road from Bristol to the " Passage " show the appreciation of the ten mile run- to the Severn to see the tide which rises in this estuary, to a height of fifty. to sixty feet. Near where -I am visiting is the residence of the late Sir John Davis, who was a great favorite of the late Prince Consort, and to commemorate that friendship and the la- mented death of the Prince, he erected on his estate a massive stone tower, (from the top of which (being 300 ieet above sea level) a line view of the surrounding leieuntry oi both sidee of the channel ia obtained. • The tower has one of Dent's celebrated clocks, and a set of striking bells therein, which give the time to the immediate country. The tower and clock cost over $5,000. . Another fine estate near by is owned by Squire." Lippincott. It is very large, and the thousands of old oaks and elms, besides other trees, including the cedais of Leban- on, indicate great age; while the great length of the picturesque drive within its Lodge gates, giees an idea of the size of the manor "home" estate. The park furnishes pasture for the lergest herd of deer I have seen anywhere, and the rabbits were exceedingly, numerous. There are some very beautiful bits of scenery, which include the old - cadtle and the Severn. TILE SEER N TUNNEL, which was built by the Great Western Rail- way Company alone, and which cost $30,- 000,000, is too important a work; to be missed by tourists, so my friends here took me over, being only four miles to the Gloucester end. The cutting at either end is about e. mile in length and is about *fifty feet in depth where the tunnel begins. To find room for the earth excavated required a right of way probably 400 feet wide, and being a double track", this forms a great watershed and largely adds to the cost of pumping in time of heavy rains. The tmittel has two bucks and is built of bricks and stone.- The freestone arch and facade at the entrance is a beautiful piece of work. Under the tunnel is another for drainage purposes: On this side a pumping house is _mem mete erected where there are four boilers and two engines of very simple but efficient con- struction, one of which is in constant use and pumps 1,500,000 gallons of water per day. On the Welsh side there are 36 boilers and about half as many pumps. One spring on the side requires 6 pumps to keep it ,clear. Itis said that no purer spring water can be found. The salt water does not get through the 70 feet of earth. The tunnel is five miles long and the cut- tings two more. On entering the .cutting steam is shut off, and I am informed that express trains run down at the rate of 80 miles an hour. The two passenger and one goods train which passed. through while we were there, did not exceed 40 miles per hour. This is one of the greatest' triumphs of civil engineering knoven, and reflects credit on the pluck of a single railway com- pany. The crops aroand here are chiefly pasture and meadow, with occasional fields of wheat, beans and other crops. Some of the fields of hay on she rich low land cif the Severn Valley have quite 35 cwt. per acre and the wheat is very heavy. The pastures are white with the marguerite or yellow with the buttercup, and the hedges are cov- ered with vines of all colors. The whole country, including farms as well as parks, is Much more wooded. than the townships - in Oxford county in Ontario. The roads are often arched overhead by elms and oaks, and nearly all the fields have hedge—rows of elm surrounding them—greatly detri- mental to the productiveness of the land in the vicinity. There are a few old stacks of hay left, notwithstanding that the price ran up _to $40 per ton last fall. .Some shipments of bad. hay from Canada have left a bad repu- tation of the quality of Canadian hay and shippers. I am confirmed in my formerly expressed opinion that laborers here are quite as comfortable and as well provided for as they are in Canada. The only differ- ence being that in the latter place there are greater chances of his being able to rise to the position of owning and working his own farm. A great deal of the land along here is owned in small holdings of from 10 to 20 acres by retired gentlemen who hire their hay made by a farmer, or one who owns a, mower. If he does the whole work, leaving the stack ready to thatch, he gets from gl to L1 -10s per acre. For mowing alone 58. Both prices are higher than could be ob- tained in Ontario. The laborer is paid 3s 6d to 4s per day, which is about the. same as over here. The mowers and implements and vehicles are nearly twice the weight th.ey are in Canada, and clumsy in finish and appeatance. Four men in Cenada would put up more hay in a day than double the numberbere, and this applies to nearly all trades and callings. I attribute it largely to the atmosphere. Here it is heavy and depressing, in Canada it is light and- exhilarating—more buoyant and less needing of stimulants, in the shape of cider and beer. THE CITIES. The same influences seem to have driven people to the cities here, as in America, and the consequences are an im- mense growth of the cities, ancl stagnation; if- not decay, in rural districts. Rents of farms have declined from hall to three- quarters of the old rate. I have been told of a squire near here who has the fee simple to about one hundred good farms, which he has a difficulty to keep tenants on at the present reduced rates, and he is unable to keep up his own house for want of funds, and has rented it to a rich city man. The mercantile men are fast becoming the land- lords, because they have the money to put places in good repair. I have been twice to Bristol tO find that the grand old city is growing in every direc- tion. That old establishment—" Frys cocoa and chocolate "—has doubled its premises, having actually absorbed an old church and secularized it to trade. That old and faithful philanthropist, Rev. Mr. Mueller, still finds food, clothes and. schooling for at least 2,500 waifs in his orphanage, sheering the triumphs of faith and the generosity of British hu- Manity. I took a train along the river bank via Hotwells to the Clifton suspension bridge. The river Avon was then a slimy, muddy stream in the middle of the bed, , the tide" being out. The old shipyard, where I saw the first steamship building for the Ameri- can trade—the "Great Western.".—in 1839, is still there. The bridge nearly 300 feet high, though shorter than those at Niagara, is still a very interesting sight spanning the rocky heights. Since my last visit a lift has been placed to carry up about 20 per- sons at a time; but it seems small and short when compared with the Eiffel tower. It is a great convenience to those who dread the task of climbing. • • A. Quarter, of a Century Hence at the Capital. (BY (JRIP'S CORRESPONDENT. ) &name March 3rd, 1920. In the House of Commons to -day, after routine business, Mr. Patterson, the vener- able member for Brant, made his enquiry, pursuant to notice, as to the report of the Prohibition Royal Commission. The old gentleman seems to have became a crank on this subject, and. has regularly asked the same question eince the session of 1894. -There are, of -course, very few men now in the Houa,e who have any personal recollec- tion of the matter in question, and in fact. the opinion is becoming pretty general that the whole thing is a phantasm of Mr. Pat- terson's mind, one of those strange halluc- inations to which old age is subject. Mr. Pattersen is still so clear and intelligent on all other subjects, however, that this theory is difficult of acceptance, and if earnestness pea for anything the disinterested listener would be almost certainly convinced that there is really something in what he is driv- ing at. As usual, to -day he went over the whole story, which it mem be presumed he now.has " off by heart," He said that in the session of 1893-1 think it was—the Gov- ernment of the day, wishing to avoid action upon the Liquor Question which was at that time proving troublesome, conceived the idea of appointing a Royal Commission to take evidence as to the l'aeneral effects of the. liquor traffic upon the country, said CoMmission to report to Parliament at the next session thereof. The Commission was accerdingly appointed, but at the session of L894 the promised Report was not forth- coming. A statement was made by the Government, however, that the cost of the Commission up to that time had amounted to $120,000. Mr. Paterson went on to say that session after session had passed since that day, and yet there was no report.. He began to fear that even if now produced— which he was pot sanguine enough,however, to expect—he greatly feared that the docu- ment would be so yellow with age, so mil- dewed and motheaten that it would be practically illegible. He felt it his duty to his constituents, nevertheless, to enquire about it, and to demand that the promise made by the Government of 1894 be now re- deemed. Sir John Thompson, the aged Premier, re- plied. His form is now so bent and his voice so low and quavering, that he is heard with great difficulty by the House. His reply to Mr.Patterson—as one of the regular session- al events—is always eagerly anticipated,a,ad a profound stillness reigned in the House. af- ter the applause which greeted his rising had subsided. Sir John is several years older than Mr. Patterson, but his faculties have been preserved in a remarkable manner, and there is in fact no member of the House whose memory is radre reliable than that of the Premier. He began by a touching al, lusion to the weakness of his old and honor- able friend's mind, and to the persistency of the delusion which possessed it upon the subject of this alleged Romtl Com -mission. He recalled quite clearly the session of 1894, which had been remarkable for several im- portant political events. It was in that session that the Hon. Wilfrid Laurier—now president of the French Republic—had de- clared himself plainly in favor of Separate Schools • it was also in that session that the Trent VaIley Canal had been completed and opened for traffic, and in that session also the crooked transactions in connection with the building of the Curraff bridge had been discovered and adequately published. Had there been any such thing as a Royal Com- mission then in existence he (Sir John) would surely have remembered- it; and if there really existed a Report of such a Com- mission at the present day he would certain- ly know of it. This subject, however, con- nected as it now was with the mental in- firmity of one of the most respected mem- bers of the House, was a painful one, and he would not dwell upon . it further than to formally reply to the question of the hon.. member in the usual form of words—the Report is not yet ready. The House then proceeded to the order of the day. • Canada. A Home for Incurables has been opened in London. :-Customs collections at Brantford for the month of July were $2,322 72. —Mr. Edward Blake, M. P., the Canadian Liberal and Irish Nationalist, saiLe for Can - de on August llth. —Thomas Potts, of Brantford, fell 30 feet from a scaffold on Taesday, last week, and suffered, concussion of the spine. —R. G. Dun & Co. report 44 failures in Canada the past week, against 34 in the cor- responding week last year. —The Canadian canal at Sault Ste. Marie will, it is expected, be opened for traffic about the end of this month. —Over 150,000 bushels of wheat have been purchased from the farmers of the section by Mr. E. D. Tilson, of Tilsonburg, during the past year. —Mrs. R. J. McKelvey, a graduate of Qtieen's College, Kingston, died suddenly after being married a year. She was very popular. —The barge Major Bailey, minted by Cap- tain Wylie,of Buffalo, bound for Neev York, sank in the Grand River about a mile from Cayugra, last Friday. —While riding on a handcar at Tweed on Friday, Cornelius Woodcock had his neck broken by being struck jy a handle. He leaves a widow and lar —The horn fly has the vicinity of Monck mily. ade its appearance in n New Brunswick, and is spreading among cattle with great rapidity. —James Dow, of St. Thomas, burst a blood vessel while coughing Friday, and died sitting in his chair. He was a native of Scotland, a miller, aged 51, and formerly a resident of Ingersoll. —The induction of Rev. R. M. Hamilton, late of Toronto, to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Brantford, toqn place at the meeting of the Presbytery & Tuesday, 31st ult. t —Miss E. Pauline Johnson, the Indian poetess, and Owen A. Smily, left the other day for San Francisco. They go via the Northwest and will recite at most of the towns en route. * —The Winnipeg School Board has declin- ed to give Roman Catholic schools the .$13,- 000 asked for to assist them in maintaining Separate Schools in Winnipeg. —The Dominion steamship Labrador ar- rived at Quebec on Friday from Liverpool, beating her own record by 2 hours and 3 minutes. • The mails were onboard only 6 days and 8 hours. —The Women's Christian Temperance Union of Chatham has presented to the cor- poration an elegant public drinking foun- tain. .The fountain will be enveiled with appropriate ceremonies. —The death was announced by cable on Monday of Mrs. Wallace, wife of Rev. W. G. Wallace, B. D., of Toronto. She was with her husband on a tour through Scot- land, and died suddenly at. Crief. —The Rev. John Mackie, of St. Andrew's church, Kingston, has told his congregation that as he preaches for eternity and not for time, he declines to be dictated to as to the length of hirdsermons. --The marble statue presented by Arch- bishop Cleary, to the Kingston city hos- pital, to mark the burial place of 1,400 Irish emigrants, who, half a century ago, died of fever, was unveiled on Monday. --.A. despatch from Vancouver, British Columbine says that tuberculosis is preval- ent in the neighborhood of that city. Thirty cattle in one herd were shot on Thursday of last week, --Wm. A. Brown died at Iona on Tues- day, 31st ult., aged 90 years and 5 months. Ile was born in New Brunswick in 1804,ancl settled at Iona, where he lived continuously up to the time of his death. —The first sample of wheat of this year's crop was shown on the Winnipeg grain ex- change on Thursday, 2nd inst. It graded No. 1 hard, and is excellent in every way. Harvesting is rapidly progressing in several districts. -James Kelly, sr., was driving home from Watfordwhenhis seat slipped through the rack, throwing the old gentleman out on the road on his bead. He is now suffering from concussion of the spine, the lower part of his body being completely paralyzed. —Mr. Sherwood, of Summerville, county of Peel, killed a large adder the other day, . fractured. There was no serious internal while another big one was found in D. Cal- e injury and recovery is hoped for. brook, Bomiefield, Confectioner, Athletic I Thomas were given three cheers by the . . i and. Vicar of Wakefield. With this mag- crowded car in which the performance took nificent string the laurels for '95 are almost place. certain to fall to Mr. Seagram for the fifth 1 —At Brandon on Friday night, James time in succession. Marauder is a picture Beattie went to the house of W. H. Greer and is the finest looking horse in the studs and, finding his wife there deliberately -shot —Miss cliara Lundy, of Newmarket, won her with a revolver, the bullet lodging in the the first prize in the school competition, a groin. Beattie and his wife have not been. silver wateli, from the Ladies' Home Journal, living together for some timena,nd have had of Philadelphia, for the best essay on a sub- frequent wrangles. The prisoner clatters he jeet chosen by 'the teachers. The subject was driven to distraction by his wife's con - was "The Province of Ontario." duct. Beattie is a man about 60 years old, —Mn Samna. _Madden, of Greenock, near and Went from Montreal about five years Walkerton, has raised a very fine sample of ago. It is not thought the ehooting will oats. The stalk measured nearly five feet, prove fatal. while the head contained no less thart 230 —The grasshoppers in the vicinity of well filled kernels. It is a new variety ob- Westminster, Middlesex county, have done much damage. Some of the oat fields are tained at the Model farm, Guelph. —A middle aged Englishman named John nearly stripped, and in others more than Ormsby, shot himself the other day in Ham- half the oats are off the straw. The turnips Mon, He had been out of work and de- are being stripped by them, and in some spondent. Ile was about 45 years of age, parts they are eating the c orn. The imilk and had been in a good. position in the old to the cheese factories has gone down fully country. He married about three months one-third. Some think it t' is owing to the grasshoppers eating the pasture, while ago. —The Ridgetown Standard has changed others think it is caused by the horn fly e hands again, this time being purchased by mostly. —A disastrous fire occurred at Alton, W. H. Ankl, of Strathroy, a former pro- prietor of the Forest Free Press, and C. S.- Cardwell county, early last Sunday morn- • Allen, of the Windsor Record. They Will inge It originated. in the blacksmith ehop conduct it as a Conservative journal. of Boggs & Rawcliffe's carriage e works, ana —The eleventh annual camp meeting of spread rapidly to adja,cent buildings—the the Canada Holiness Association -will be carriage works of Barber & Brother, the held at Clifton, commencing on the 10th residence of Mr. Samuel Barber, close by, inst., and continuing till the end of Aug- and Dr. Algie's building. The Algie block ust. The Park House has been leased by stood between a whole street of wooden the management for the accommodation of buildings, and here the fire was checked visitors .% after two hours' hard fighting. The total —An .il.ncendiary fife in a farm house, loss will reach about $8,000, only partially about helf a mile from Chatham, took place! covered by insurance -n- early MOnday morning, by which two chile _A Rodney eorrespondent sends the fol- dren wee burned. to death. The village of lowing item to the St. Thomas Journal .1 Harrow was also visited by fire on Satur- Born, Wednesday, August 1, 1894, the wife pdaoyrzioanndfiteshterogyreeadt.er part of the busineas of A. A. Lusty, M. C. R. operator, of a - daughter." This birth makes the fifth gen- -Mr, and Mrs. George Montgomery, of eration on the mother's side, all living and Woodstock, celebrated their golden wedclinl enjoying good health, as follows :: 13aby Mondayn July 30th, The husband 18 77 an Lusty; mother, Mrs. A. A. lusty, aged 20, his wife i2. They came from Ireland when Rodney - grandmother, Mrs. P. C. Cole, young, and Mr. Montgomery was in the aged 44, Ridgetown ; great-grandmother, hotel and shoe business for years. He went n N. Gray, aged 58, Rodney, greet - farming! but afterwards retired to Wood- great-grandmother, Mrs. McArthur, aged. stock. (There are 27 grandchildren. 93, Rodney. All are in Rodney at the pres- ---Meeford claims the oldest Orangeman ent thne. in Ontario, Mr. Archibald Carnalaan, who —The funeral of the late Louis Lapierre was boili in Cavan, Ireland, in 1805; was took place on Wednesday, lst inst., froin in the Lisbole Orange lodge, No. 577 in his late residence, South Dumfrieti tie the 1823, and is now a regular member of Mea- Maus • Cemetery, Paris Plains The Bev-. ford, L. 0, L. No. 984, having maintained Mr: Parr, of Ayr, conducted the funeral ser- • an unbroken connection with the order dur- vice. The following friends of the deceased ing that period. acted as pall -bearers: Messrs. John Ander- -George Dorland, a farmer living north son, S. Kitchen, C. Baker, J. H. Fisher', of Ingersoll, has been robbed of between George Aitken and John Watson of Ayr,. $25:and $30. It was taken from his . -house Mr. Lapierre was a well known and respect - while he was milking. His clothes were ed resident, being one of the most prom" - hanging in the hall at that time, as he nent farmers of the district. He was 62 suppoeed, with the money in the poekets, years of age. His illness was of very short buteheeliscovered them empty on investiga- duration. tion. —For some titrie past Walter Welsh, -a —Freday, while Mrs. Ellis Fick, of Delhi, wealthy Essex county grain dealer and mill - was irening, she put her little babe nen the owner, has been. known to be under a finan- cradleneside her. She turned to arrange cial cloud, but it -was generally believed the article she was ironing and knocked the that he would eventually come out all right. iron off the table. It fell squarely on the The low price and constant decrease iin. little thing's mouth. The child's fiece. Eastern values has prevented any escape, was named terribly around its nose and and the other morning it was announced. mouth% that Mr. Welsh had assigned to Sheriff Her. —Miss Grace Tinning, eldest daughter of He was estimated to beworthabout $50,000 J. Re Tinning, was drowned in Regina in real estate and personal property, and. his reserveir while boating with her brother dealings often amounted to many thousands. George, who had ju-st returned from college The failure of Mr Welsh will affect several at Toitento. The brother left her ' in the Essex county.feeineis, boatnto shoot some birds, and when he re- —Two canoes, carrying five persons, turned he found she had fallen into the started for a trip on the --Grand river at waten Brantford, the other day. Shortly after, ...e. ---ndcholas Black, of Glencoe, went to one of the canoes, containing two ladies Detnent on Thursday, last week, and during and a gentleman, struck a root, and threw the evening struck up an acquaintance with the three persons into the water. The a, young man. When near the corner of water was over their heads. thre of the Brush and Franklin streets in that eity the ladies caught the side of the canoe and held stranger suddenly hit Black over the head herself upemtil rescued, but the ether lady with billy, knocking him senseless. He disappeared in the water, and was rescued then.robbed him, of $167 in money. +The only after considerable exertion on the part Detepit police are woiking on the case of the two young men, who were fortunate- ly expert swimmers. -damn Clew, a plunaber, narrowly escaped —Dr. McMichael, Q. C., one of the most death at Sandwich,Wednesday of last week. Ile was in an excavation four feet deep, eminent Toronto lawyers of the last 40 . years, died. the other day at his residence in. woriting on a pipe for the public fountain A liimp of earth weighing a.boun300 pounds Toronto. He was 77 years old, and had been in failing health for a year past, but ancrseveral large stones fell upon him, pin- ioningiairnto the earth. Some thne elapsed did not give up work. Dr. MeMiclaael was befOre he could be dug out, and he was then a son of the late Albert McMichael, of Cala- unconscious. . raqui, and was born there in 1816. He had a brilliant career at King's College, (now the m -After a lingering illness of over a year, Min. Mutrie, wife of John Mutrie, M. 1": University of Toronto), where he won gold and silver -medals, graduating in 1848 and P., Idled in Eramosa on Thursday, of last wenk. Deceased was a daughter of William then entering the practice of law. Among his law partners in old times were Hon. Dov, of Fergus, and was married to Mr. William Cayley and Sir Matthew Crooks Metric some 21 years ago. She was held in Cameron. high respect in the neighborhood for her sterling qualities, and her husband. and —At Sarnia, Charles Gilman, of Moore - town, the river 'trader, who we robbed and. family of four children will miss her care and. counsel. nearly murdered by the crew of the contra- band craft, Emma of Port Huron, is said to —The death of Mrs. ,George Cowan, a be beyond hope of, recoverm Mr. Gilman, former resident of Galt, took place at the family residence, South Dumfries on Wed- besides receiving many other wounds, was nesday, 1st inst. Mrs. Cowan bad. 4suffered stabbed in the knee with ti, rusty pike pole, and now his physicians are fighting blood. for nearly two years from an affection of g oisoning. He has but a fighting chance of her throat, of the nature of consumption P apd gradually faded away. She was aged 54 recovery. The Emma, which gained 'rotor - years. Mrs. Cowan was a sister of Mr. iety some few yams- ago as an opium George R. Black, of Beautiful Plains, Mani- smuggler and was seized. and sold by the United States authorities, will in all probe.toba, and Mr. John Black, of Galt. bility again go under the hammer, owing to —A farmer living on the South Line of the late episode. Brant brought a load of hay into Hanover —In the 73rd year of her age, on the isome days ago and had it weighed. On his morning of July 2 th, Mrs. Syl an - ' 7v us Rob return to have his wagon re -weighed he dy- ertden; long an old and respected resident ly removed one of the tires, which happen- ed to be loose from a wheel, before running of Eramosa, died at her home, Culdaff ann, Guelph townehip. The deceased the wagon 011 the scales. The action was - was born in Dumfries -shire, Scotland, and noticed by a little boy and reported and came to New Brunswick with her father, Mister Farmer had to make good the short- Mr. James Johnston, when a child of eleven. age years of age She was married in 1839 to —Tuesday, 31st July, was the 63rd anni- r ber husband, who now survives her, They versary of Mr. James Mays' lancling in left New Brunswick and settled in Eramosa Guelph, and that gentleman received many over a quarter of a century ago Mrs. congratulations on the occasion. He left Robertson was the mother of ten children, Ireland in 1831, and was three months on all of whom survive her, The pallbearers the voyage before reaching Canada. Mr. were her five sons, John and Williaan, _Mays is one of the oldest residents Guelph, and is held M the highest este Guelph, George, Eramoea ; Charles and Rufus,'Guelph *township, and her son -in - by everyone, both in town and countryn ho law, Mr. George Hood, Guelph. has the pleasure of his acquaintance. —One day last week Mr. Hugh lqe- Dougall, deputy -reeve of Elclerslie fell —On Tuesday, J uly 31st, Mr, and Mrs. ehhrough the hay loft m the barn, :to the Swift, of North Easthope celebraeed their floor, a distance of ten feet. He was picked golden wedding. Upwards of 60 friends up in a semi -unconscious state, being un- and neighbors attended. During the fifty able to speak or to move. Dr. Kalbfleisch years of their married life they have . been was sent for, and on examination found the parents of ten children—seven boys and three ribs broken, one shoulder very badly three girls—the eldest of whom, Mr. Mae - bruised, and the collar bone seemed to be thew Swift, is now nearly fifty and the youngest is thirty years of age 1 During that long period of fifty years not a death has occurred in all that large fan all being still alive and in excellent heal The old gentleman is 77 and Mr. Swift 12 years of age. —On Wednesday, the 25th ult., at four o'clock p. in., a most pleaeant event trans: pired at the residence of Mrs. John Zoeger, of Newton,beingthe marriage of her danghe ter, Miss Caroline, to Mr. F. L. Ritter, both of Newton. The bride was tastefully attired in cream cashmere, wearing veil with a wreath of orange blossoms and care rying a boquet of natural flowers. The guests were chiefly relatives of the bride and groom. The ceremony was perforenetteby Rev. J. Blunk, after whiclithehappy couple and guests were photographed on the lawn. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter left the following, nay for Toronto and Montreal. ver's cellar. It was discovered by Mrs. Calyces mother, who had gone into the cel- lar for butter. She killed it. The stench was unbearable. —A young woman named Beatrice Besent, while working a loom in T. H. Taylor & Company's mill at Chatham Friday, was caught in the machinery and had her right arm badly mangled. Doctors hope that amputation will not be necessary. ;• —The Waterloo Chronicle says : Frank Burton, of the Seagram stable, 'es a genial Englishman, who finds no trouble in she tying visitors the great horses that are reared on the Seagram farm. They have at present the finest lot of yearlings under, training that were ever bred on the fawn, and the brood mares with their colts are it great study to the horse fancier. The Queen's Platers for next year will be Min - —The St. Andrews Society of London had an excursion to Port Stanley the other day. They were accompanied by Severalpipers, and on the return trip, finding, time hanging heavy On their hands at Port Stanley sta- tion, and subsequently at St. Thomas, the pipers were pressed into service, and Pipe Sergeant Sutherland- supplied the best of music to two representative lady dancers from St. Thomas. .Mrs. Mathewson, who was introduced to the company as the mother of eleven children, was of as nimble feet as the youngest of them. She danced in a manner that did her the greatest credit, a numbern'of Irish national dances. Her stepping was excellent She also danced a reel with Mrs. Wilson, the mother of the famous St. Thomas piper..- They were wild- ly applauded and on leaving the ears at St.