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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1894-09-07, Page 1494 immeesieme If 1894., 9 • . VINC4 Faul, 11111===111:1•1111M1If :Mrs. Sam - Boys' ewart, 2nd over 16 rah Sweet, a's- Race,— r. Posing, era Hawk - live West- entries,— Race, 10. prizes Ml- le presents much. The - by singing a, who has umbia, and past six awned home benefitted 's house indidate for last in the aund in the n and r even very night. the country e show and • is and hay at 1, comes - by fire, with rernoon last, lage with, a vimwjtI - red,t'but the hand of from us an 'Isaac Reid, Mr. Reid yas a mem- The funeral ery on Sun- ;packmaniof F in the vil- ne Agricul- -annual fali 1a3r, Septern- he special t,ir promises -here. —Exe- e dollar this - raging in has burnt ni the 16th ghaw left on Frenchman 0 -village on Council Na. rance, have a -in social by Ai will take tember 6th. are visiting E;reenwoo is visiting hu T.West- Kippen, L9 reshing, and up fires are oad deal of HOn Monda.v .. out in Mr. rid went to 'in its path. I. the fire to - acre lot, the time, .es at all. A 01, belong - v escape, as ut so far, it were taken Armstrong, year on the - considering tend to his those of the saw mill on One hun- Kas burned. 3ortable mill iaining logs. zi(1 a narrow- L8-unday last ' concessions reshinir ina- the 4t1;, 5th smoke for . ois the sun. dark day .one can get Yipe. Some will put an , ink not, as i the ashes etruing the sorry to ..; men in of get - things un - as doing a th inst., the Temperance Mr. Buell, meet - mush; and 6.-er was Mr - y of the or- Avonbank Is76, and at 1:2. There O.tion, He cent. were 4. wherever woild they eran ee. He. :Cs were do - anon of the r Rev. Mr. w remarks, ainer for 52 • meant a days than it !fome of his liowing the e submitted referred to condemned TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. V7110LE NUMBER, 1,395. j Word SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1894. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. aueenapeatieee nine on his voyage were only the agents of science. How the in- terests of thiS world are linked with the behavior of ether worlds, and_how the To JudiBfact mentioned suggests that most of the cious uyers valuable things known in this world have been faund out while looking for something elSeo and what sublimity all Whatever else the Fall and Winter this gives to: the Work of the explorer, the transit a Venus an island of light, resulting in tise transit of many islands from the III*110W11 into the well known, But the prowess of such men can never be fully apr4recia.ted. The sea captain who puts out in this day of charts and . of 1894 may have in store for you, it certainly offers the golden opportunity t3 buy the very best goods cheap. We enter the season with a line of e.ttrac- dons that will command the respectnavigating apparatus with a ship of 10, - and admiration of all on account of 000 tons for !another hemisphere, daring t their elegance, style and quality, and typhoons and oyclones, strange currents and bidden tocks, raust be a brave man, offer them at prices lower than you but who can measure the courage of have ever enjoyed for goods of equal Cabot or Marco Polo or Captain Cook eractiveness, anti hle' home I'S an* en- chantment, adoined with many curios which he brought from India when he served as chaplain during that war Which interests and appalls the world with its tales of mutiny. While chap- lain be rode with Sir Colin Campbell aod his historical host for the capture of Luoknow, that oity whose nanee will stand in the literature of all ages as the synonym for sepoy atrocities and wom- anly fortitude and Christian heroics. He told us most graphically how the wom- en waiting for death at Lucknow tore up their underclothes to make bandages for the wounds of the soldiers, and that when at last these women were" rescued they appeared in the brilliant dress of the baalroom. these dreams faimerly worn by the convivia/ having been sud- denly come up and worth. Regarding the - sailing out into unknown seas, across and daughters of on, and when the wives missionaries and • merit .opwildernesses of water that have never Christian merchants had nothing else to t portunities for selection, we do no them and net on shore by savages ready walls ,picturea of some of the most stir - better assorted stock. It is intensely practical, consisting wholly of popular styles, and standard, reliable goods, and free from those oddities which you would merely view with curiosity without the possibility of ever apply-. ing them to your own needs. While our stock contains many nov_elties, much abo the superstitions and out- rageous cruelty of this land in other tiraes that we are startled on arriving heett to find more churches in Nevi' Zea- land than in America in proportion to the number of the population. In one village th bat I visited since coming here I find e manufacture of Waterproof Cloth - eight churehes to's population of 3,000 ing. We make to order the genuine people. There are too raany churches in rubber clothing, or, if you so desird, many places in New Zealand, and they th jastle each other end contend for right e " Rigby " Or " Melissa," but these of posseSsion, hindering each other and we do not guarantee. We make all half starving many of their ministers, styles and qualities of coats. as is sure to be. the case when there are too many churches, and consequently Our Ordered Clothine Department 0 , not enough support for every one of is filled with the choicest foreign pro- them. ducts in Scotch Suiting, English .Another surprise to me is that female suffrage is in full blast. I found elegant Worsted, Serges and Overcoatings. ladies telling of their experience at the Oen prices are uniformly the lowest ballot bon and I hereby report to the American ladies now moving for the for firstelass goods all through this right a female suffrage that New Zea - stock. land is clear ahead of them, and that the experiinent has been made here suc- cessfully. Instead of the ballot. bea de- Tennyson makes reference in his 'Charge of the Light Brigade,' and in that line grading woman, woman is here eievat- where he says, 'Some one had blun- dered?' Do you know and will you tell me exactly what that blunder was?" He said, "I can and will." Then the bishop illustrated with knives a.nd forks and napkin rings on the dining table the position of the English guns, the been elected to office and see how poorly the THE LEADING CLOTHIERS, Russian guns and the troops. He dem- masc;lines have exercised the right onstrated to me plainly what the mill- SEAFORTH. oft. snffra e. Look at the governments tary blunder was that caused the dash they are the kind of ideas that you want to buy, instead of merely looking at as freaks. A new department this season is In conclusion, all departments are complete and ready for inspection. We are leaders. in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, FAIR NEW ZEALAND. VISITED BY DR. TALMAGE IN HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD; Some of the Many Pleasing Surprisea—Soc- cess of Woman Suffrage—A Bishop's Ex- planation of a Famous "Blnudee—Grand Reception to the Brooklyn Divine. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.] DUNEDIN, New Zealand, July 20. -- The angels of night were descending from the evening skies and ascending from the waves of the Pacific and rid- ing down in black chariot of shadow from the mountain' s of New Zealand as charge I that she is responsible for the We approached the harbor of Auckland, and the lighthouse on the rocks, held up its great torci to keep us off the reefs and to show us the way to safe wharf- age, seeming to say: "Yonder is a path of waves! Ride into peace! Accept the Welcoroe of this island!" It was half .past 7 o'clock when the great screw of our steamer ceasea to swirl the_ waters, and the gangplank was lowered, and we descended to the Arm land, our name called as we heard it spoken by a multitude who were there to greet us. Strange sensation was it 10,000 miles from home to hear Our name pronounced by those whose faces we had never seen before, and whose faces could be only dimly seen now by the lanterns on the docks and the lights 'Minn What made the night more how warmly loyal ey are to old Eng - memorable was that I was suddenly in- formed at 8 o'clock I was to lecture in their hall, and 30 raintites was short time to allow a poor sailor like myself to get physical and mental equipoise aft- er 21 days' pitching. But at 8 o'clock I was ready and confronted a throng of people c,ordial and genial as any -one ever saluted from platform or pulpit. tax to the British crown, and theyar oe - I told how for many days I had been in good humor with the British flag. looking off on a great ocean of ipecac; 1 I addressed an audience last night, on but that I had not wanted, as raa,ny say my right hand the United States flag, OIL under such circumstances, to be thrown ray left the English flag, and you ought overboard, and that I did not think any to have heard them shout when at the one ever did want to be thrown over- - beginning- of my address I said, "When board, and reraindtd them of the seasick in My church at home I pray for the 'voyager who said he wished to be president ; of the U ited States, Lain thrown into the sea, and the captain had very apt to add God eve the queen." a sailor dash on him a pailful of cold Melly of the streets of New Zealand ocean water, and when the soaked and . °Ake are called after the generals and. shivering man protested and asked the prime ministers of Great Britain, and captain what ha meant by such an in- Wellington and Palmerston and Glad - suit the captain' replied, "You wanted stone are the names �f great thorough - to be thrown overboard, and I thought fare. New Zealand feels the financial I would let you try how you liked a depression very intich as the whole bucket of the water before you -took the world at this time seems suffering an whole ocean." . epidemic. Indeed the world' in now a Never so glad were we to stand on t compressed and interlocked affair. Out Arra land as the night of our arrival at of tne hold of our ship arriving in New Auckland. Wondrous New Zealand! Zealand were liftedi rakes, fowls and Few people realize how it was discover- various agricultural implements of ed. They tell us of Captain Cook and of American manufacture. Today all New been mapped, in ships 'of 200 tons, dis- think you Lave ever looked over a coveriwear. Lord Bishop Cowie also had on his ng reeks' only by running upon to soalp or roast them! Ault scenes of the Russian war with Which the military friends of the bishop had been cognizant. Here is a pictured scene where they() was no retreat for the English, and yet their standing firm seemed certain destruction, and their general cried out: "Men, there is no re- treat from this place. You will die here!" and the men replied, "Aye, aye, we are ready to do that!" And yonder another pictured scene of Balaklava after the famons charge of the 600, and the commander said to the few men who had 'got back from the awful charge, "Men, it was a mad brained trick," and they replied, "Noir mind, general; we 'would do it again." The bishop's walls In other- places were made interesting by swords, belts and torn insignia, of battle from the fields of India, all the bore interesting because we expect in our journey around the world to visit Luc/know and Oawnpur and Delhi and many of the chief places made immortal by the struggle between British valor and sepoy infamy. And here from the bishop's own words I got a satisfactory 'sumer to a question I have asked many times, but for which I never received a satisfactory answer. I said: "Your lordship knew the chief men of Balaklava, and will you please explain to me what I have never been able to find out, and to which These challengers'of tempest and can- ` nibalism aid oceanic horror must have: had nerve and valor beyond,that of anyl other heroes. Such men set New Zea- land as a !gem into the crown of the world's geegraphy. To me and to most people who come here New Zealand is a splendid rprise. We have all read Se Ing the ballot bat, and why in New Zea- land or America or anywhere else should man be so afraid to let woman have a vote, as though man himself had made such a grand use of it? Look at the il- literates and the incompetents who have of nine -tenths of the American cities prayers of thankfulness as the engineer sent the train at a speed away. from r party had rushed' for the limited on the St. Paul and Duluth; but as the fire cut off their way in that di to a shallow nd near b the burning town an back to safety in Suxriothe erior. ection they ran There they perished. ne hundred nd five bodies were removed from the pond by the relief committee. East of the village there was a stagnant pool of rain water. Over 100 people sought refuge here, and of these oily one man is known • to have perished.; The immense plant of the Brennan LuMber Company, with saw. mills, planing mills, stables, .and • 28,000,000 feet of pine luniber, was wiped out in almost less time tha-n it takes to write it. With the stables! were consumed ninety head of horses. The finencial loss to this company alone will reech $500,000, on which there is an insurance of about one- half. - AN AWFUL RIDE. A United Press reporter boarded the train out of Pine City for Hinckley Monday evening. Alongside the tracks were scores of boxes filled with bloated and disfigured remains of victims of the fire. The reporter picked his way through the deserted aven- ues of the village to the cemetery. Rain was pouring down in sheets. At the ceme- tery, a mile and a half from town, a half dozen men were digging a trench. A heap. of bodies lay on a knoll in the middle of the cemetery. There were 96 naked bodies of men, women and children scorched, black- ened; distorted, bowels and brains protrud- ing, hands clutched in their final agonies, hair singed from the heads, °old, young and middle-aged, all in a promiscuous heap. In -another corner of the cemetery were 45 more bodies covered with quilts. A large majority of those lost Were Scandinavians. Report e continue to come 'in from the vicinity of Skunk _Creek of ad- ditional discoveries of burned victims. ,The total in this vicinity will reach fully _400 dead when the returns are all in. and havoc of that cavalry regiment, and see what work the ballot box has done in thpossession of man. Man at whose click of spurs and clatter of hoofs e and jingle of bits and spurts of blood; the ballot box is a failure. Give - woman eon hear in the poet laureate's battle' a chance, I am not clear that govern - hymn. Here was the line of the English, mental 4ITairs will be made any better guns not very well defended, and yon - by the change, but they cannot be any - - der was the line of Russian guns backed, worse. ;New Zealand has tried it. Let by the whole Russian army. The order! England and America try it. was given to the cavalry regiment to It is often said in America that if take care of those English guns and keep i women had the right to vote they would them from being taken by the Russians, not exercise it. For the refutation of and the command was, "Take care of that th.eoty I put the fact that in the those English guns!" But the words last election in New Zealand, of 109,000 were misunderstood, and it was supposed women who registered 90,000 have trot- that the order was to capture the Rus - ed, whle of the 193,000 men who reg- sian Instead of the comniand, istered ooly 129,000 have voted. This "Take care of those English guns!" it ratio shows that women are more ant- was thought the comraand was, "Take ions to vote than men. Perhaps women those Russian guns!" For that ghastly will yet save politics. I know the and horrible assault of the impossible the riders plunged their spurs and head- ed their horses into certain death. At last I had positive information as to what the blunder at Balaklava was. At Edinburgh years ago rasked one of the soldiers who rode he that charge the same question, but even he, a partici- pant in the scenes of that fiery day, could not tell me jeit what the blunder Was. Now I have at last not only told in stirring words of a natural orator and magnetic talker, but on the dining table of the lord bishop of. Auckland I had it set out before the eye, dramatized and demonstrated by the cutlery. on the white table cloth, but instead of the steel bayonets the silver forks of a beautiful repast, and instead of the sharp swords of death knives for bread cutting, and instead of the belching guns of destruction the napkin rings,of a hospitality the memory of which shall be bright and fresh as long as I remem- ber _this visit to New Zealand. T. DE WITT TIL ruin of her race, since she first ate the forbidden fruit in paradise, but I think there is a chapter in that matter of Edenio fruit not writteu. I think that Adam when be saw Eve eating that ap- ple asked for a bite, and getting it into his possession ate the most of it, and he irctmediately shook the tree for mores's:. pies aod has been eating ever since. If woman did first transgress, I cannot forget ' that she introduced into the world the only being who has ev,er done much toward saving it. Woman has started for suffrage, and she is a deter- mined and persevering creature, and she will keep on until she gets it. She may yet decide the elections in England and elect presidents for the 'United States, as already she is busy in the,po- litical affairs of New Zealand. _ I was of our ship, just halted after a. long surprised also in these regions to land.1 had heard that they had beoome someWhat impatient of their govern- . mental mother. But this is not so. They Practically have things their own way, electing their own parliament, and all governors sent out from the old country are such men as are agreeable, and tie -people are equired to pay no Dutch navigators, but all the islands of s, the South sea as well as this immense New Zealand were discovered as a result of the effort to watch the transit of Venus over the sun's disk from the - South Sea& The Royal society sent out ships for this purpose, and Captain Cook and. the astronomers and botanists who Bis Zealand is rejoioing that the congress has put wool on the free list, and the value of the sheep on all these ' hillsides is augments;1_ Among our most interesting hours in NevZealand we those spent at the bis1op'S _house in . uokland. Lord ep Conde is a M of marnelone at- Reform Con.vention. A Convention of the Reformers of South Huron, as .constituted for Dominion pur- poses was held in Dixon's Hall, Brucefield, on Wednesday last. The object of the Con- vention was to select a candidate to contest the constituency at the forthcoming elec- tion. There was a fair attendance. Every municipality, except Bay -field, was repre- sented, although some did not have their full quota of delegates. The president, Mr. John Hannah, presided, and Mr. Thomas Fraser was at his post as secretary. The following duly accredited -delegates took their places in the Conveution : SEAFORTH. —Thomas Richardson, R. Win- ters, F. W. ' Twaddle George Patterson, John Lyon, Thomas Govenlock, Win. Copp, G. Dick, _ John Weir, John Stewart, A. Forbes, A. Scott, S. Batton, R. Willis, D. D. Wilson. TUCKERSMITH. —H. McCartney, S. S. fusively greeted. Wilfrid Laurier, who is simply the leader of the Opposition who has neither favors nor patronage to 'distri- bute; who to the Bleu newspapers of Que- bec and the Orange and Tory newspapers of Ontario is nothing but an incapatle politi- cian and a demagogue, who has no band of hired applauders paid out of the public treasury—Wilfrid Laurier, by the prestige of his name, by his exaltedcharacter, by his reputation for political honesty, by his well-known eloquence, by his exposition of the principles of the Liberal party, draws crowds, is acclaimed by the rich,thepoonthe farmers, the laborers, the mechanics, Cath- olic and Protestant, English, French, etc., who gather before him to see him, to admire him'and to cheer him. "You will say perhaps that I am an en- thusiast. I am really enthused by what I have seen since our departure. But enthu- siast though I am, I aur telling the truth. Take the Mail, the Empire and other Blue journals; and you will see that at each of his meetings there have been from five to ten thousand people, that triumphal arches have been erected in his path, houses illu- minated, torchlight processions organized; that municipal councils whether Blue and. Red, Catholic or Protestant, nay, even P. P. A., as at Brampton, have presented him with addresses of welcome and placed holi- day carriages at the disposal of himself and his friends; that wherever he went there was a public holiday. You will see that bouquets have been showered upon him, and flowers thrown at his feet from the height of the galleries, as was the ease at Brant- ford, You will see all this in the Blue jour- nals, and I congratulate them for telling the truth on this subject. They attack him vio- lently in their editorials; but they are com- pelled to tell the truth as to what passes at public meetings, for they know that those of their readers who attend such meetings can- not be hoodwinked in this connection. "1 should like to see our Quebec Blues, and even good Liberals who are doubtful of the fidelity of the Ontario Grits in regard to Laurier, present, as I have been, at these triumphs, They would then know that, if ever a leader has been admired, acclaimed, received with devotion and sincerity, it is Laurier; and I have not the slightest doubt, any more than our friends in Ontario, that at the next general elections, which, we hope, will take place soon, Ontario will elect two Liberals for every one Conservative. Quebec should do thesame thing. Other places will do so." Black,' Wm. Landaborongle J. Martin, J. B. Henderson, P. McKay, John Sinclair, 47 m John Walker'George alker, Jaes Cum- mings, J. B. Weber, E. P. Kennedy,' J. MeNevin, J. Cooper, J. Shepherd, R. Char- ters J. Swann, D. McIntosh. Hav.—F. Kibler, R. Bonthron, D. Burns, Wm. Stoneman, Justus Mellick, J. Kaer- cher, D. Surarus, E. Bessenberry, John Mc- Allister, Wm. Buchanan, A. McLaren, A. McTaggart, D. McColl, A. McDougall, Wm. McDougall. HULLETT. -Ljohn MeGTegor, George Watt, W. Cunningham, Robert Lindren, George Stephenson, George Pale, Wm. Waite, James Cartwright, John Watt, Allan Farnham, Richard Anderson, J. Fisher, J. Walker, R. Scott, W. Snell. , McKieuer.—JOhn Hinchley, II. Cook, John McDowell. James Davidson Scott, James Hastie,1 M. Murdie, GeD. George MOkdie, James Simissop. Sneeinner.—John Murdoch, John Gil- mour'P. McGregor, R. Delgaty, James Campbell, John Carnie, J. Kennedy, Wm. Lamont, John Ketchen, George Anderson, John Hagan John Wenless Wm. Murdoch, James Wanless, Alexander Itlustard, F. Mc- Ewen. In accordance with the constitution the nominations were made by ballot and re- sulted. as follows : Mr. John McMillan, M. P. 48; Mr. M. C. Cameron, 26; Mr. Thomas Fraser, 11 ;I and two others for different parties, makingin all 87 ballots. Mr. McMillan having received a clear majority of all the votes cast, was de- clared the nominee of the convention. Mr. McMillan waS called to the front, and was very enthusieetically received. He thanked the Conven.ion for once more se- lecting him as their standard bearer, and assured them that he would do all in his power to tarry their cause triumphantly to victory at the next i forthcoming election. He then delivered an exhaustive and elo- quent address, in which he showed up in fine style the extravagances of the Govern- ment and the manner in which the people, and especially the farmers, of Ontario, are being robbed by the tariff for the benefit of a few pampered mon;polists. He was list- ened to most attenti ely for over en hour by the intelligenti audience present. Votes of confident in the leaders, Hon. Wilfred Laurier a a Sir °liner Mowat, were carried unanimously after having been -supported in short, ut neat speeches by the movers and seeonde s, Messrs. D. D. Wil- son, of Seaforth, and. John Ketchen, of Stanley, for the former, and Messrs. .Alex- ander Mustard, of Brucefield, and George Murdie, of McKillop, for the latter. Mr. Wm. Buchanan, of Hay, seconded by Mr. Peter McKay, of TuCkersmith, moved a resolution regretting the demise of the Hon. C. F. Fraser. With cheers for the party leaders; Mr. McMillan the eandidate • Mr. McLean the representaitive of the Riding in the Local Legislature, and the Queen, the meeting was brought to a chose. 1 40 -What a Quebecker Thinks. Mr.P.A.Choquette, M.P., a clever French Canadian politician, who accompanies. Mr. Laurier's party on i their Northwest tour, gives his opinion in a French paper as to the heartiness of the reception accorded by Ontario people to the gifted Liberal leader. "The meeting.ai St. Lin was a great Hesays : suc- cess, but those et Brantford, Brampton, North Bay and Mattawa surpassed it. Only those who were present can realize the ex- tent of Laurier's popularity in Ontario, and how strong and enthusiastic the Liberal party there is. The published reports give but a faint idea of the success which has attended these demonstrations. Tory jour- nals like the Mail, Empire, etc., have beep obliged to admit that the Province of Onta- rio has never witnessed spectacles like those which we see to -day. Never was Sir John A. Macdonald, in the height of his power, received in so right royal a manner. Never o psoin accompanied by was Sir John all his ministers, veil the most ornamental of them, Angere and Clarke Wallace, so ef- orous as most men of -fifty. e en Mr. A horses at —The College tober 3rd. —Dr. Gilles, of Winnipeg, ha3 been ap- pointed superintendent of Brandon Insane Asylum. —The Manitoba Presbyterian College has just closed a successful summer session. —The new corporation lifeboat has been launched at Brantford. The trial was most satisfactory. Canada. m Beck, of London,will show 40 he Toronto Fair. emi-centenary celebration of Knox to be held on Wednesday, Oc- —D. R. Ross, of Embro has threshed a crop of 2,000 bushels of oat's, an average of 50 bushels to the acre. --Sixty-six ear loads of cattle arrived in 'Winnipeg laseweek, from different points on the railways, for shipment East. —Among those on the platform at the Liberal picnic at Port Stanley, was Daniel Gorman, of Port Stanley, who has reached the patriarchal age of 96 years. —Dr. McKay, the returned missionary from Formosa, left last week for a. trip to Scotland. He will return again to Canada, before leaving for the missionary field. A Winnipeg priest surprised a grocer in that city the other day by handing him $75, the amount pilfered by a clerk who had made confession of the crime. —General Booth will bid good-bye to the London Salvation Army on September 10th, and will sail for New York to make a tour of Canada and the United States. —The water power on the Winnipe river is to be utilized to the extent 01 40,000 horse power, and transmitted 110 miles to the city for manufacturing purposes. —W. C. Howells, at one time United States consul at Quebec and also at Tor- onto, and father of W. D. Howells, the novelist, died at Jefferson, Ohio, of paraly- sis, on Tuesday, 28th ult. —Hop -picking has begun in the hop - yards of Hiram Walker & Sons, at Walker- ville, near Windsor. This year's crop is a fair one, and the yield is about a thousand service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856, and is the second oldest conductor in the company's employ. His) senior is John Thorp, of Windsor, who is now 77 years old, and has been a conductor on the Grand Trunk Railway nearly all the time since he began work for the company in 1852. —Two men named Ryan and Weaver, are under arrest at Windsor for making and cir- culating—Captain Richard Impett, one of the counterfeit coin. oldest residenteof Oxford county, diecl Fri- day. The deceased was 81 years of age,and was an Englishman by birth, a member of the good Old Country stock who came to Canada and settled upon farms in Oxford county years ago. —Mr. H. Parker, who lives near !Aylmer, killed a lege blown% adder on his farm a few days ago. It measured over three feet in length, and was about six inches in cir- cumference. Mr. Parker's dog, which dis- covered the snake, suffered painfully from its poisonous 'breath. —Francis Nichol, a Westminster farmer, delivered at the London market on Wednes- day last Week, eleven hogs, all one litter, for which e received $92.75. The hogs were it a cross be ween the Tamworth and York- shire breed , and ,were just 5- months old, the amount of chopped grain consumed by them being12,800 pounds. —Phe Fieurth Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the Methodist _church, commeeced its sitting in London yesterday. e The Conference will be attend- ed by representatives from Britain, the United St4es, China, Japan, Australia, and other countileas. —Mrs H1and, residing near Dutton, at- tended the ' aledonian games in that village, and during ethe day her little girl lost her gold brooch. Diligent search was made for the lost article, but it could not be found. On Thursday night the mother dreamed that the brooch Was in a certain place on the grounds, and so persuaded was she in this that on the following morning she drove to the grounds and almost immediately found the lost article. '--Sarnia Mourns the death of a valued citi- zen, Mr. John Dyble, the well-known_ ship- builder. He had been. ill but a short time. Mr. Dyble went to Sarnia with his family 25 years ago, and has been since that time for the most part engaged in shipbuilding:, In conjunction With Henry Parry he built the United. Empire for the Northwest Trans- . portation COMpany in 1882. He laid. the ikneell8o9of .the .14, ona.rch for the same c mpany —A commimication was received at the Dominion Fisheries Department recently, from a gentlee:man living at Dunnville, stat- ing that all along the shores of Lake Erie, east and west of Grand River, a tremendous quantity of fish,chiefly perch and small black bass, 'was ieing washed ashore deed, and asking for the cause. The matter will be investigated. —Mr. J. Rebertson, of the Massey -Harris Company, walked from Brantford to Col- lingwood and back recently. He followed the course of the Grand River as far as possible. He. reports extensive bush am in the townships, of 1VIelanethon and Amaranth, extending over "rime 40 miles of territory, and that ten !farm houses have been de- stroyed in that section. —A milkolrawer at the Murray Cheese factory, NissoPri, met with a might -have - been -worse mieha.p the other - day. While passing Mr. 5: Cole's with the whey, on the home stretch; the culvert broke through, and whey, can, driver, wagon, &c. took a precipitate and somewhat disorderly drop sideways into the stream. The trout wonlu have a feast for a few days. As for the councillor whonegleeted to repair the culvert, he may find living at all an extremely diffi- cult matter. —Referring to the decrease, amounting to nearly $1,000,000, in the net profits of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for the past six month", Mr. Shaughnessy, vice- president of the Company, said that it was undoubtedly due to the commercial depres- sion in the United States, which also affected Canada. He hoped, now that the tariff question was settled, to see a revival of trade, and a consequent increase in railway receipts. —Two Quebec men, Messrs. Low and Eaton, have just returned from an exploring tour in Labrador. Sixty thousand lig:Imre miles of an iron -bearing formation, a new lake larger than Grande Lac Mistassini and the proof of the fact that -the big falls of the Hamilton river are the largest in Ameriea, if not in the world, are amongst some of ,,the Anany discoveries of value they have made. Mr. Low brought back beautiful specimens of Labradorite of the most valuable kind of the gem. It exists in large quantities. —The great painting, " The Morning of the Crucifiction, ' by - Mr. Astley D. M. Cooper, the celebrated American artist, will be on exhibition in the Art Gallery at the Exhibition buildings Toronto. It will be shown in a darkened comer by electric lights. The painting has boen exhibited in all the principal cities of the United States, and has attracted a wonderful amount of at- tention. It is one of the best works of the century, and everyone .attending the Fair should have a look at it. , —The other night in Brantford, as a young man was returning home along Park avenue, about 11 o'clock, he was held lin by two men, and while one man held a pistol. to his head, he was relieved by the other of $L80 in change, a pin, and the necktie which he had on. After he WM released, a shot was fired, but he does not know whether it was at him or just for the pur- pose of frightening him. The police are en- deavoring -to trace the thieves. _ . A Terrible and Fatal Vire. On Saturday last a most frightful fire swept over that part of Minnesota about half way between St. Paul and Duluth. It is a lumbering district, and the fire_ swept through the woods for miles wiping out the town of Hinckley, which! In'id a population of about 1,200, and eight or nine sinall villages. The loss is inestimable, but the saddest part of it is the terrible logs of life, upwards of 500 persons having fallen victims to the raging flaines. The following are the partieulars The first good description of the great fire that swept ° away the thriving village of Hinckley was secured on Monday last. Sat- urday afternoon the fire approached, fanned by' a strong wind. The Smoke grew denser as the day advanced, and it soon became as dark as night. About four o'clock the wind changed, and the residents Of the doomed town saw that the flames were bearing down upon them. The fire shot across the town, and the people fled in all directions. They ran wherever they thought they could find. refuge. A large number ran to a -pond some three or four acres in extent and three or four feet deep. The largest crowd of peo- ple rushed to Grindstone River, a shallow stream, which it was thouglit would afford protection from the flames: But the water was too low, and all miserably perished. There the relief parties found the bodies lying in the water and rudely . TRA.MFLED BY THE FLYING CATTLE. Just as the flames were raging fiercest a train arrived over the Eastern Minnesota and 500 people clambered aboard. It was a godsend to the people, who offered up pounds to the acre. —About one o'clock Friday, in the town- ship of Pilkington, Mr. Larter's barn and 200 acres of crop were completely destroyed by fire. The blaze was caused by a man. shooting at sparrows on a stack outside the barn. —Miss F. Marie Imandt and Miss Bessie Maxwell, representing the Dundee (Scot- land) Conner, on a trip arOund the world, investigating questions relating to labor, have reached Toronto. —The Sons of Scotland of Mount Forest held their first demonstration on the exhibi- tion grounds of that place on Thursday of last week. Over 5,000 people were present. The affair was a complete success. —It has been decided to deepen the La- chine Canal to a uniform depth of fifteen feet. Tenders have been called for. The estimated cost is $250,000, and the work is expected to be finished in the autumn of 1896. —The Massey -Harris company. have pur- chased 45 tops of binder twine from the Cen- tral Prison to be shipped to consumers in Australia. When this order is filled not a ball of twine will remain in stock at the prison. —A Body of Christians called the "Re- formed Mennonites", who have been holding meetings in a tent at New Hamburg, report numerous conversions through their teach- ings. Several were immersed in the river Nith on Stmday. —Mr. Duncan MeVicar, of concession 6, Mose, had a well bored. last week and at a depth of 40 feet struck good water, which has been flowing continuously ever since. The water flowed in a stream as large as an ordinary hand pump would bring. —The Belmont Flax mill will only be run to half its capacity this year, as the acreage sown was small, only about 150 acres. Only one set of brakes will run and half the usual staff throughout. Even with this number the season will be.a shortone. —In London, England, Prof. H. J. Cody, formerly of Embro was married by the Rev. T. C. Des Barnes, 'M. A., to Miss Florence E. Clark, youngest (laughter of the late II. E. Clark, M. P. P., for Toronto. Prof. Cody has been taking an European tour and got married in London when on his homeward journey. His bride haellust finished her course of studies in London. —Mr. Richard. Furness, for nearly forty years a passenger conductor on the Grand Trunk, running between Detroit awl Niagara Fails, is dangerously ill at his home in gam. He is over seventy years of age, and, until a year or DO ago was as active and vig- into by ft young . blood, who sports a fast horse. Mr. Simpson had one wheel and the shaft of his buggy broken. The ymmg man was thrown from his cart and received. Rome slight bruises and an abrasion of the natal organ. --The late Mrs. Sloan of Mitchell, left by will $200 to the Methodist church in that town. • —Messrs. McCollough & McFadzen, of - the Fullerton mills, have shut down for re- pairs. —Mr. Alex. McLeod., of Motherwell, left the other day to take charge of a school at Parr Y Sound. —George I41511R, of Wallace, WhO waa thrown from a horse some three weeks age, is still confined to the house. —Mr. Joseph Coppin, of Mitchell, has sold hiz1/2 black pony (Tailor-hokeia) to a geatlemen in Ethel, for the of $50. —Mr. and Mrs. Waite:- Thompson, of Mitchell, left last week for a ten days' pleasure trip down the St. Lawrence, as far as Quebec. —Mr. E. Hanham, of St. Maros has sus,. tained a heavy loss in the Marys, last week, of his valuable stallion, Governor Powell. - —From sixteen acres, Mr. JameFi Irvine of -Fullerton had nine hundred bushel; of oats, and irom eight acres of wheat, 150 bushels. —Mr. Walter Thompson has purchased the old Knox church property in Mitchell, for $500, and will at once erect a number of tenement houses on the lot. —Miss Ford, for many years a teacher in Mitchell Public school, has been appointed to take charge of the principal's department during the Model term, —Mr. Charles Pollakowsky, of Mitchell, had his running horse at the Milverton nwes last week, and succeeded in coming out third Vest. —Mr. Homer Watson, of Doon, the well- known artist, accompanied by his wife, was Ia.st week a guest at the residence of Dr. Hawke, Church street, Stratford. —Dr. Smith, of Mitchell, who has been in New York for some time taking treat- ment for a severe neuralgic trouble in his face, is recovering, and hopes to resume his practice_soon. Cashin, after visiting around Broek-sden, has returned to Spanish River, taking with him about two dozen labor- ers and a car load of horses ;for the lumber woods, —The --Blanshard and Nissouri Cheese Company made, during June and July, cheese to the amount of $10,083.90, and. the amount ha,s been distributed amongpatrons, milk drawers, &c. —Mr, S. Rea, who has occupied the Hollingshead /arm, at Prospect Hill, during the last five years, has rented a farm itt the vicinity of Motherwell, to which he will move shortly. ee> —In St. Marys the other evening' z"--, a bey named William Bridgeman, had his foot caught by a pulley whilst jumping on the merry-go-round, and had some flesh torn from the lower part of his leg. —Mr. Isaac Smith, of Thames concession, Blanshard, sustained a paralytic stroke Saturday morning, 25th ult.'and was ren- dered speechless. At last reports bia, condition was calming anxiety to his many friends: —Mr. Charles Smith and family, from Bay City, Michigan, have taken un their residence in St. Marys. Mr. Smith left St. Marys 20 years ago for Michigan, and now'' he returns to his former Canadian home. —The other day as the little daughter of Mr. Duncan McIntyre, 13th concession, Downie, about six yeara old, was driving horses up to the barn, one of them kicked her on the fanb, inflicting a severe and pains ful cut above the left eye. „,- --Miss Flora Knight, of Prospect Hill, in making active preparation for her departure to England, where she expects to live in luxury and ease, and enjoy- fortune to - which she has lately fallen heir. In the different stages of her life, strong contrasts appear. —While Mr. J. C. Mitchell, of near St. Marys, was taking a young horse from the stable, it stumbled, and fell on him, break -7 ing his arm in two places between the shoulder and elbow, and otherwise bruising him. The injured limb was set and Mr. Mitchell is getting on all right. —Tuesday evening, last week, the frame barn on the old Trainer farm, which is rented to Mr. Noah Conceni, was destroyed by fire, together with all its contents, -which consisted of the season's crop, on ;Which Mr. Coneeni had an insurance of $1,000, which will not cover the loss. —About three weeks ago a youig Man in Mitchell,. named Clarke, got his leg very badly fractured. The limb was set, but he suffered most excruciating pain in it, and a consultation of physicians decided to ant- putate the leg, which was done on Satur- day, 25th ult. The leg was removed front a little below the knee Mr. Clarke bas done a little better since the operation, but is still in a precarious state. —Miss Clara Boyd, daughter of me James Boyd, of Elma, has been re-engaged. as teacher of the Carthage Public school. Mies Boyd passed her Normal- :school* examinations successfully at Ottawa. Shies the close of the term Miss Boyd has filled the position'temporarily, of matron in, the "Home for the Friendless," at Ottawa, and has also spent some time at Eastman's Min - era -1 8pici. ngems. MrJes Mitchell, of near St. Marys, met with a bad accident Thursday, ult. He was taking two steers to St. Marys, when they took a determined notion to go in the oppoaite direction. Mr. Mitchell, in trying to head them off, was throsin down by one and knocked about in a very disagreeable manner. The beset tore his elethes andseverely bruised him, but fortunately lost sight of him itt the dust, and bolted into a mound of earth !ran Mr. Mitchell was taken home ill & carriage. —The Milverton Sun tells the following story ; "On Tuesday evening of Teat week, a young couple from Elmo, hastily made ar- rangements for a wedding. The groom was a strong, nuscular'athletic looking main the bride a fair lovely type of Canadian beauty. He laid popped the question nntbe afternoon and, had been accepted, and intbe exuberance of his joy, he concluded not to prolong the agony. He forthwith drove to MTut hi 1°11eP-nvi re5•eir twa:ark. nnyr but and prosper." and in short order tied the on arriving, found that the place was void of clergymen. Ilowev after waiting for some thne the Rev. rejoicing.ot,andsentLothileghamppayy cotilneypleircone _ vs --Jane Lvon Brown, widow of the late George Mcitenzie, of New York, and eldest sister of the late Hon, George Brown, died in Toronto, at the residence of her brother- in-law, Rev. W. S. Ball, on Monday, 27th ult., in her 81st year. Mrs. McKenzie had been a resident of New York for over fifty years. UpOn the death of her daughter, Rhind, over five years ago, shewent to reside with her sister, Mrs, Ball. She leaves three sons, George, residing in Ray- mond, California, and Frank and Henry, in New York. —The latest crop reports from points in Southern Manitoba are the most encourag- ing yet received. As the threshing pro- gresses it is found that the yield is greater than was formerly estimated. Cutting is practically completed, and stacking is well forward. The weather has been everything desired. North of the Canadian Pacific Railway main line there is considerable cut- ting to do yet, and operations at one or two points hare been interrupted by a famine in binder twine, which was relieved, however, on the arrival of four ear loads from the Government factory at Kingston. Har- vesting at the Penitentiary farm at Stoney Mountain 'is ciimpleted, and it is estimated that the yield of grain of all kinds will be 4,000 bushels. Perth News. Mr. Simpson*, of Logan, met with a serious accident to his buggy in Fullarion village on a rent Sunday night, being run _ —Mr. Edward Blike, M. P„ is at present in Toronto. Mn Blake will remam in- - Canada until October 24t1, and will be baok in London in time for the meeting of the Royal Commission on the financial relatioes between Great Britain and Ireland, on November 9th, Mr. Blake says the.Hotae- rule party in the House of Conunons is as solid and confident as ever._