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The Huron Expositor, 1894-11-30, Page 1A - 4-94, rd:94 h several aici value, Ming new k at pres_ }rices wjll lie season t bonnet.; kres, we T of Siik materials, LflCy ittisbed eorted, a ill nicely and price. slaie madc- ap. elegant • 5 ,r 4. ant les 7th con- ser - ,7. at ,a leet from.. ur Capes, rs, Muffs, ialerwear, wo • QuiJ- iit'ii are ver be- te price nd as fail .-nd Gloves, - Children's ;ting yarns,. -rattle — 'es and will dial range ack Cash - Fancy De- : afieviots sf re€1 i. heavy he thing - wear. Itt-! best Men' a over - .i and Bovs r, &c., ae, at, :Fau -1 mastassmossams .t iti public - served both . v dispost- for Scotch Ech he could low received her Christo- 'lYeceased re- ` -a number of na, where he ye and three • Tom,-Pub- icial visit to -t. He ex - leased with under their _.;sr Hawkins - ave been ill -et.:sful tea- Vresby- t inst. Re- . Crawford's- od a large (r from Dun - umber front client pro- -It arch. Ad - tor, Rev. R. 1, Rev. D. om Dungan - v Misses F.. Prank Hay - a social was- ome things. supplied by t. The net be added to. 0 held nightly rganized ii --ship of aer last - week in Kirk tan, ir..gent at At - ;or t he bene - rt the other for strik- '7.efl Mr. If, itrepared t . Et saw logs. :t• mot-frail- i%411t's p°iity • NI it (-hell; :1 t: cu time to attend to be ntral Meth- rpte.-ti au in- .: m. • has been Douglas, ot home. 1 Ow :enwved tu -tart a latF- yekr.-: pas- Eastt- ::ural tie will Mr. 1g/1g/hitt-ft Hill for the , - TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,407. 1 SEAFOR,TH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1894. asy to Sell, ants nothing but an, introduction, ea care of itself, takelk,care of you. re is a warm vitality eibout it that tvins its way with the peoe. It has ;character expression individuality, -TIp�netism. There's suceess in it. ese are the points found in our line tenanting orealture. it is his delight to tell startling allories of the number of kill- ings that maylae accomplished in a day by "our Mime" eittl to hold up all other kill- ers and packe -it to well deserved scorn. He also feels it ncuinbent upon him to see that the vlsitilr witnesses everything go- ing: lel:Tow of a Guide: I fancy thatall the guide told me today is true, but E4 shall not repeat his state- ments here. The reader rnight believe ev- ery one of th4 from the lips of that guide, but he would ot probably owalldw them • whole if I Ivor to write them down. It is Frieze or Beathe most ver Overcoat interOsting feature of a - packing the guide's oAnion that pig butchery is We have never shown a Coat so well hou e and lue'Said I ought to see it if t I is done gind haw it is viewed by the *lade and trimmed, with such good qualities, as these two lines. Don't fail to see these Coats before you buy. 1)o• You Need a Suit? We ;lesire to dose out the balance • et our 'Winter goods, before the new year, and in consequence 'we'willoffer tie finest goods in our store at prices „that you will readily see are decided rgains. We are determined to closeds -eut all odds and enthat are left. This applies to Suitings, Pantings, Overcoatings, Fancy Vestings, &clien's Fur Goods. We have the finest selection of Men's Caps ever shown in Seaforth in - Beaver Persian Lamb, Nutria, Aitra, Beaver, Fur Coats, Mitts, Gloves, etc., in any kind_ of fur desired. The Ekes are like the goods—correct. $At this price we are closing out a line of Shirts in all classes of goods, ranging in price from $1.25 to $2.50 eaeh. At this price they are the • cheapest goods in the trade. You'll • be astonished at thexalues in this line. oyes and Mitts. As usual no house approaches us for fine Gloves. We handle- the cele- brated "Perrin" make, the hest goods made. We have all grades of driving, walking or dress gloves. saw' hove ft, ,visitor: First as ate ithe visitor. He is guided across a vastOnd bloody floor crowded with men whce re operating on dead pigs in various way e and past a vat of hot and °thing else. I saw it, and this is See Our Underwear • At 50c per suit—a genuine snap. • Fetter lines at 75c, $1, $1.50, $2:, $3, ete. Our Christmas display will, eclipse former seasons, and no house will 'show as many new things as will be found here. We are Leaders A in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, - THE LEADING CLOTHIERS, SEAFORTIL UNION STOCKYARDS. - tA :1 ENTRANcE TO THE STOCKYARDS. etearaing water, i*here the carcasses are scalded before the` hair is taken off. •Then a narrow flight '15r stairs, half hidden by the steam of Os scalding, is climbed. Then the visitort binds his nose with his handkerchief, evea if he is somewhat de- fecate in the sumo of smell. Then two or three mysterloue doors and corridors are passed, a perpen4icu1ar and very dirty lad- der is climbed, ad—there you are, stand- ing in a littlo gallery over a -pen of pigs, every one of whieb is squealing at the top of its pachydernifttous voice. The infer- ence of the visite* is that the pigs know that they are ahout to die, and it, 18 a pleasure to record that once they have been got into that gtewsome place they die quickly. - _ How the ;Figs Are Killed. A brawny ehap etands ready as the pig are brought in. With the strength en skill thieve:onto on1y after long practice h loops a chain abo'pO one of the bind le of a pig. On a Ort of shelf teethe six or eight feet above eitiother man stands, and he pulls a lever that leads to the suspen- sion of the pig, head downward, from an "overhead railwe'ecu Then a man with a long and keen keilfe buries it to the han- dle in the animare throat. There is a sud- den stoppage _of that particular pig's - squeal, a great ghth of bright pig blood, and what was ere=tWhile bog is now meat. The carcase is eltoved along to the scald- ing vat, thence through an elaborate sys- tem of rapidly meting "scrapers" that re- move the bristles,, thence to yarious out - Ong tables, where it is separated into in the world. et is curiae; on in a pavilion that was, built at a cost of $100,000. The yards now handle $260,000,000 worth of stook a year, and it takes 812,- 000 cars annually to bring the animals here and 97,000 to take them away, dead and alive. en.4nrats ArrnEBEE. "highly commended" at New York. Mr. McLaren was particularly impressed with the low prices paid for good Stock. _ Ani- mals were sold for sums varying from. $65 up to $200 or $300 that woula have °brought four times the money two years ago, and would-be worth double the -amount to -day • • in -Ontario. The reason be assigned for Canada: these low prices was the prevailing hard. The season of navigation on the St. Law- times and. the great increase in the breeding , rence closed on'Thanksgiving. of trotting stock. —The total amount of lumber sawed in A Canadian Pacific Railway paSsenger the various mills in the Ottawa Valley this train that passed through Teeswater on season is 538,000,000 feet. Friday was fired at by two young men with —Twenty-one nurses received their grad. a shotgun. The engineer sawone of them uation diplomas at Toronto General Hos- pointin$at him but took no notice at the pital last week. [Special Correspondence.] CHICAGO, Nov. 26,—My„opbaion of the Chicago stockyards as they were seen yes- terday is of a broad expanse of territory divided into sections and traversed _ by busy streets, of squealing pigs and bleat- ing sheep, of frightened but silent cattle, of stre,ams and pools of blood, of bare armed and ensanguined butchers, of clouds of steam, of acres and acres of mud, of smells of many shades, but all of the same general sort and all equally indescribable, of much running to and -fro and shouting and blaspheming,. of almost interminable vistas between hanging rows of dressed pork and beef and mutton. • But above all these impressions is the dominant one that here is system of a latest comprehensive order. Here human Ingenuity has been taxed to the utmost • for the working out of that most impor- tant problem in the world of affairs of to- day, HoW shall tinie be economized? Here the principle of co-operafion is vindicated in a remarkable degree. Strolling Through the Yards. The yards are perhaps quite as interest - tag as the packing houses, 'but after you Lave , seen one or two blocks you have practically seen them all. The blocks aro divided by board fences into pens, and -from certain of these pens men on horse - bat& and on foot are continually driving the stock through the streets into other vans. There is a deal of whip cracking and yelling expepded in the operation of • this transferring the animals, but they go quickly enough in the main, although so* and then a Texas steer makes things lively for a &sir rainutes, and the confusion is made worse by the num whe drive about In buggies through the stock crowded streets, and in the morning by the many buses that fore their way among the cat- tle and sheep and hogs. These buses are mot exactly like any other vehicle with • 'which I am familiar. They are furnished by the proprietors of the packing houses for the conveying of their office employees, of which there must be some thousands of both sexes, to and from their work. The confusion on the streets would be even worse than it is were it not for the _time. he shot' lodged in the oar near two —Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the English novel- ladies. ist is giving readings from his own wOrks in —Dr. Edgar, of the Hamilton City Hes- Toronto this week. 1 pital, has inoculatecl diphtheria, patients —On Tuesday last week Mr. William with anti-toxine,and the results have proved Henderson of Moosoinie lost $690 on the very satisfactory. The disease has spread train between Winnipeg and Moosomin. greatly among school children in that city —Frederick Powell, a farmer of Saltcoats, and the authorities are taking measures to Manitoba, tvaskilled the other day by a run- stamp it out. away team. He leavesa wife and 11 children. —At the Hamilton Police Court the other —James Anderson, a farmer near Wick- day, James McKelvey was charged with low dug 500 bushels of potatoes from two Maliciously injuring a valuable St. Bernard acres of land. , dog belonging to Andrew Baxter. Defend- -Rev. George Anderson, an aged Baptist ant kicked the dog and put acid on its back. minister, of Hamilton, has been stricken The police magistrate found McKelvey guilty With paralysis. • - and fined him $50 or two months in jail. —C. Schneider, New Hamburg,for threat- —Mrs. Meody, a daughter of the late ening his wife's life, has been sentenced to George Wilkie, of Fergus, who for a few 30 days in jail by Mr. Merner, J.P. . years past has, along with her husband,been —The Baroness Maildonald, widow of Sir engaged in missionary' work among the ne- John Macdonald, will pass the winter in groes on the Congo in Central Africa, has San Remo. arrived home and expects to Female until —News has been received of the death in midsummer. India. of Rev. G. H. Barrow, a Toronto —The Poultry Association of Ontario will Baptist missionary. bold its 21st exhibition from January 1st to —Wheat shipments in the Northwest 5th at New Hamburg. The $1,500 premium still continue heavy. Between 175 and 209 list and rules and regulations are now Bl- ears pass through Winnipeg daily in transit most ready for distribution. They um be to Fort William. had from the secretary, Thomas A. Browne, —Graham's apple evaporator at Norwich Western Fair office, London, was burned Saturday at midnight. Loss, —At the meeting of the Hamilton Pres" $8,000. Insurance on building, $1,000, on bytery last week, the matter of St. John's stock $1,000. • Church call to Rev. W. J. Clark,of London, _while on a hunt the other day H. Me. was brought up by a letter from Mr. Clark, Kerity, of Stella, near Kingston, shot eigh- in which he asked the Presbytery to agree teen fine black diuelis with one shot, and to a setting aside of the call. The -request wounded four others. • was granted. —A farmer at Emerald, Amherst Island, —Islas Annie Healy, while dancing at the has a carrot 21 inches around, 12 inches long, Forester's ball in Hamilton, last Friday and weighing 71 pounds. He has several night, sustained a compound fracture of the more of a similar size. -large bone in the leg. She was taken to _Rev_ G. L. McKay, D. D., Moderaor the hospital, when it was found she had of General Assembly and the great mission. been seriously injured. The bone was set, ary to Formosa, China, is expected in Luck- but it will be some time before she will be now on December 4th. able to be about. —The weekly statement of the Canadian —Mr. Jacob B. Shoemaker, who lives Pecific Railway earnings for last week show- two miles from Berlin, was 95 years old on ed a decrease of thirty-nine thousand dol- Saturday, and has attended the Saturday lars, as compared with the same week last market as long as can be remembered. He year. has three er four brothers alive who are all —Mr. C. H: Wood, of Maxville, went to over W, and look to be good for the 100 Morrisburg Friday, and drew $6,000 to pay years. . patrons of his cheese factories. On the —Clara Ford, a. young mulatto woman in way home two men robbed him of the whole Toron o has been arrested on suspicion of amount. • being connected with the murder of Frank - —Messrs. Daniel Donaldson Walter Lo- Westwood, at Lakeside hall, on the night gan, T. F. Kinesmill,"jr., and Fred Boyd, of October 6 last. A suit of male aetire and well-known residents of London, were ar- a 38 calibre revolver, with two chambers rested on Saturday for_kidnapping John discharged, have been found at her house. Morkin on election day. --Maritime province lumbermeza met at —The steamer State, of Georgia, irom Monckton, New Brunswick, recently and Montreal for London, arrived at North Sid. talked over the restrictions imposed upon ney, Cape Breton, in a damaged condition. them in the matter of sawdust being dump- . Over 1,000 of het cattle and sheep were ed into the rivers. A resolution was passed killed or swept overboard. to petition the Dominion Government for —The tribe of Indians known as the Mis- exemption from the operation of the law sassaguas are pressing the Dominion Gov- under certain conditions. ernment for payment of the lands which --A daring burglary was committed early they surrendered many years ago, and on the other morning on the premisies of Mr. which Oakville now stands. Charles H. Cawthorp, at Thamesford, When —Mrs. Broken, a resident of Ayr for the family rose in the morning the house nearly 50 years, living on Mount Malone, presented a topsy-turvey appearance. The died on Friday 16th inst. and was buried on thieves had taken from Mr. Cawthorp's Monday afternooe last week in the Ayr ceme- pocket hanging near the bed. $176 in bills, tery. Her husband died about eleven years ago. leaving some silver and a ring. —Thomas Sweeney, of Hamilton, aged 59, --Messrs. D. C. Ross, B. A., LL. B., and unmarried, fell down and expitel just after S. J. McLean, B. A., have been awarded the eating his dinner Thursday. Death wee due "Alexander Mackenzie" fellowships in to the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain.litical science by the Council of Toronto —The Halton ploughing match was held rniversity. These are the first appoint- ou Saturday on the farm of Mrs. John ments to the new fellowships. They are Sproat, near Milton. The attendance was tenable for one year, and are worth $375 good, and the land was in fine condition. each. The ploughing was good in all the classes. —Mrs. Campbell and two children, of —Miss Awde, the trained nurse engaged Brantford, had a narrow escape from death by Dr. Henderson, of Strathroy, to attend by asphyxiation early Thursday morning, smallpox cases in that town, arrived from last week. Mrs. Campbellawoke and found Toronto on Friday. She will be with her the room full of coal gas. She was only able patients 56 days. and conscious enough to rise and stumble to —Miss Clara Brett Martin, the handsome the window, giving a shriek and she fell lady law student, is in the school trustee there. The scream brought help. The two field in No. 2 ward, Totonto. The Women's childretCwere unconscious. Christian Temperance Union has endorsed —A letter received lly_friends in Luck - her and other women organizations will sup- now states that Mr. William Mellis, for port her. • _ many years express agent at Lueknow, is —A Presbyterian church, the first in the lying dangerously ill in the city of Mexico. history of the village, is to be erected at He had a severe attack , of typhoid fever, Baden. Subscriptions are now being solicit- and was improving but as taken a relapse, ed toward the building fund, and in all and is tit present very 1 w, and little hopes probability next spring will see the founda_ are entertained of his *every. tion laid for the new edifice. —A short time ago Miss Griffin died at —T1* York county council at its last sit. Seeley's Bay, near Kingston, and left $2,000 ting discussed the abolition of their toll- to her brother, Patrick. His whereabouts gates; but after a long discussion it was de- was not known, and he was advertised eided to let tbe matter remain as it is for for. Its was learned he died in 1888. the present. It costs about $15,000 annu- Thursday of last week a letter from a Lon - ally to keep up all the York roadie don lawyer, received by the executors, —Mr. Archibald 'Scott, of Plattsville, states that Patrick Griffin is in that city, brother of Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, and and wants particulars about his estate. of the late Dr. Scott, of Berlin, died on —On Friday, while threshing at William Friday, 16t11 inst.,c4 heart failure. He was Mowbray's, Betsey, Elgin county, a son in tis 78th year. The members of this of Hiram Gage, of Howard, got his hand noted family will soon be all gone. caught in the belt and was pulled into the ---The youth Delonde, who robbed &email machinery. His right arm rwas torn in a bag of registered letters at Union Point and horrible manner. Ile lost ja great amount went to Sault Ste. Marie, where he was of blood before medical asSistance could be caught, pleaded guilty in court at Winni- procured and then it was !found necessary peg and was sentenced to three years im- to amputate the arm below the elbow. prisonment. • —Policeman Charles Luke, of Hamilton, In the Toronto Police Court a few days _atttempted to dislodge two tramps from a ago, the two men; Kuntz and Cellier, were Grand Trunk locomotive early . Sunday convicted of breakMg into a number of local morning, and was badly beeten. Assistance arrived, and the tramps-aCharles Bennett and Timothy Donohue by ame—were over- powered: They were given two and three months respectively by t le Police Magis- trate. Both live in London. —Eighteen or nineteen Danish families are being imported to Collingwood to work in the new meat curing factory. This im- portation win consist of about fifty. people, all told, who bring with them the Swedish method of curing bacon and hams. It is said that meat cured by this method is bet- ter and more valuable then if cured by any other method. _• —John Johnston, a farm laborer from Guelph township, met his death in a bar- room fight in Guelph, on Saturday even- ing. John Cass, his assailant, surrendered to the police, and later iri the evening Alex. Keating was arrested as en accessory. The row took place in the bar -room of Borsch's Imperial hotel, on Cork street, and all the parties were more or less under the influence of liquor. —A London young mai who went to call on his best girl on Thanksgiving night had a tough experience. The best girl in ques- tion is a domestic in a YOrk street family, and the youth makes his calls in the kitchen. The head of the family was in the kitchen on this night, When a rather per- emptory knock came to ' the door. "Who is there ?" asked the H. of F. "Let me in," answered the young man. "But who d the young mart, vironment have brought about annongst the ard bearer, F. McRae ; inside guar , . . ifsthere ?" repeated the H. of F. "Now, sides, hams, saeulders, spareribs and • Other outs. A Mindred men maybe have a hand in the killing and dismemberment of every pig. 'pie fellow who severs the hams and shouldats from the sides is one of the most poweetul men I have ever seen, and he 'does j, work impassively and with the steadine0 of a clock. About once In 30 seconds he anises a mighty cleaver, and when he 1ets4he edged steel - fall the cut Is made invarinbly and completely. "Say," said tlyp, guide, who saw me watching this braWny chap, "he's as good as the feller in iParis with his gelatin, ain't he?" A !, • IThe Be0 lling Bed. While the pig ,bose brief death agonies and subsequent *irvana • have been de- scribed was progreSsing from cutting ta- ble to cutting table, other pigs, in one con- tinuous stream, bye been following along the sense grewsoi4e road at the rate of sev- eral every rninutO and at the same time numbers of she ,and steers have been deftly though not .eb rapidly sent along similar roads in 00er houses. Sheep are killed in much We same manner as pigs, though their neek4 are broken after theit throats are cut, 04(1' they are skinned and not scraped. Cattle are &lien into pens that will each hold one steer and tapped on the head - with sledge haminers wielded by brawny mon who do nal -Ong else. They are after - I) McLEAN BROS., Publishers,. $1.50 a Year in Advance. as he thought he was speaking to his girl. "Open the door, I say 1" and he shook it vigorously. The H. of F. became elan -ilea at this, and thinking he had a tramp to deal with, he crossed to a hotel and called the patrol. Returning he met the young man coming out of the lane. and saw at once he had made a mistake. He then telephoned to the police station to tell the sergeant not to bother sending the wagon, but when. he came back the police had the beau in charge. It required some tall explanations to induce them to release their man. He knocks gently now and in tune. —The customs officials imposed a duty of $6 on -four bottles of anti-toxine, the new diphtheria cure, and a small syringe that came addressed to Dr. Bryce, Seetetary of the Provincial Board of Health. The doc- tor values the anti-toxine at $10. He re- fused to pay the $6 duty, and wired to the Customs Department at Ottawa. —Mr. A. G. Alexander, a pianist of con- siderable note, has returned to Hamilton, after a three years' term of study in the best schools and under the best masters of the Old Land, and those who remember his good work on the piano before his departure are delighted to notice a great improvement in breadth of tone, delicacy of touch and the soulfuleess of a finished artist. —On November 20th, 1844, Mr. John Marlatt and Miss Patience Courser were -married at Yarmouth Centre by Rev. Mark Burnha.m,then pastor of St.Thornas' church, in St. Thomas. They have resided ever since on lot 18, concession 7, Yarmouth, Mr. Marlatt being a prosperous and success- ful farmer. On Teesdale 20th inst., they celebrated their golden wedding amid great rejoicing. —The seven-year-old daughter of Mr. Leir Fisher, of Brantford, was choked to death last Friday morning. The little one was playing with her brother, and had a button in her mouth at the time. The lit- tle boy threw some cold water in his sis- ter's face, and she swallowed the button. It is supposed the button lodged in one of her lungs, and despite the efforts of two doctors, the little 'one gasped to death, —The pupils of the Colborne Street school, London, this year repeated their meritorious act, whereby many of the poor of London were able to sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner last week. Early in the week the pupils began to bring to school vegetables,bread, cakes,pies, meanchickens, preserves, fruit, and in fact anything in the line of eatables. Thursday several loads of provisions gathered by. this means were dis- tributed among deserving people. —A young Englishman; named George Walpley, who arrived in Windsor last week, died of pneumonia a few days later. He was a composer of music, and had. con- tracted with the Whitney -Marvin Com- pany, of Detroit, to handle some of his eom- positions. Shortly before he died be gave the name of a titled family in England, and said he was an only son. He had been the black sheep, and had been in every q earter of the globe. The St. George's Society took charge of the remains. —Mr. Samuel M. Staebler, of London, is confined to his home as the result of a scheme practised upon him by two unknown men. Mr. Staebler met a stranger in Lon- don, who stated that he knew where two sales of pianos could be made in London township. He drove the agent out, and the two were joined by another unknown. Mr. Staebler said his mind suddenly became a blank, and he awoke to find himself in a hotel in Masonville. His valuables and money were missing, and he says he was undoubtedly drugged. —Messrs. D. Ritchie, J. Fisher and W. McDonald, recently set the machine and • threshed for Mr. M. McQueen, in the vicini- ty of Lueknow, 1,020 bushels of grain in efive hours. The machine was the moved three miles to another farm, re -set, and threshed 420 bushels of wheat, peas and oats, inside of, four hours, or the whole work of the two theshinge was done in less than nine hours, This is pretty quick mov- ing and the boys say they have $50 to put up that the seine work cannot be done by any other machine in the section, in the same time. —Word has been received from Colorado Springs announcing the death of Rev. John Mackay, who for a number of years was pastor of Knox church, Scarboro'. His energy and ability soon gave him promin- ence, but owing to failing health he Was compelled to resign. His parents reside in West Zorra. His death is a terrible blow to the much afflicted family. On the llth of February last, their son Donald McKay, B. A., Ph. D., died in his 35th year. About five years ago Burns, a younger son, aged 25 years, died at Strathclair, Manitoba, while on a trip for Ms health. Ufilti iiite,tur 't KNOCKI).ZG 001r.ST THE STEERS. ward "stuck," eaiscerated, skinned and cut up with the titmost neatness and dis- patch, and 'every Oght there are hundreds of carcasses coolling in pieces that in the mornin were great, handsome steers, each 0/1 members of the English speaking Anglo- Saxon race, and. to form for myself some forecast of the future of British 'peoples domiciled on strange soil." —Mr. Shannon, of near Drew, Welling- ton county, who is a most enterprising far- mer, has just completed a first-class wind- mill, with which he will supply his house and, barn with water from a well. One night last week the windmill got going full speed and he could not stop it. It pumped 'Sway in great shape, flooding the cellar un- til a wall river was running away from it, but it kept on until the well was dry. Mr. Shannon has since studied out the complica- • tions of the machinery and can now handle it to perfection. —Rev. Father Molphy, well • known in Western Ontario and. for twelve years parish priest in Ingersoll, died in that town a, few days ago. He was attended in his last illness by Rev. Father O'Brien, and by Rev. Father Tiernan, of the Cathedral, London, who has been a bosom friend of deceased for the past quarter of a century. Father Molphy was well liked by all classes • of people. He was faithful to the interests of his parishioners and a bard worker in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his church and people. Ile was generous and kind, and will be greatly missed by the poor, whose wants were well looked. after by him. —A very interesting and romantic wed- ding was celebrated in Berlin the other evening, in the marriage of Mr. Edward Hausknech, of Pueblo, Colorado, to Miss Alvin Krauer. Both were born in Switzer- land. The young man came to America several years ago, and by the exercise of in- dustry and perseverance is now on a fair road to wealth. It was during -a trip home that he met Miss Krauer. .Arrangements were made, through relatives, to ha.ve her come to Berlin, Ontario, to be married. to the object of her choice, which event passed' off very happily. The young couple left for their future home in Pueblo, Colorado, Friday. Grant; Outside Guard, James McDonald. This camp, the infant of the 'order, etarts under meet favorable auspices. We may soon expect Highland Lassie (the name se- lected) to take a foremost place among the camps of the order. —A fan used for carrying dust from a " sander" at the Standard furnilure factory in Wingham, became over heated on Mon- day morning of last week. It was qnickly noticed and a few pails of water, sufficed -to quench the threatened conflageation. The fan was torn down and will be re -construct- ed on a more scientific plan. No other dam - .age was done. —One day recently a young lad was driv- ing at a rather lively rate along the Huron road, near Clinton, with a, spirited team, when one of the horses stumbled and fell opposite Mr. Huller's gate, and as they were going down grade, the martingale broke, lettine the 'wagon upon the horse. Help was soon obtained, and the horse was extricated and started off, apparently none the worse for its tumble. • Huron Notes. A. Lamont and John Bishop, of Grey township, each brought a couple of fine deer back with them _from Muskoka. • —Mr. W. H. Scott, of Stanley, has been engaged to teach in School Section No. 8, East Wawanosh, for the year 1895, at a salary of $300. —The Clinton New Era. press was. dis- abled last week by.a broken cog wheel, and , part of the issue had to be worked off on the News -Record -press. —The farm belonging to Mr. Henry and Miss Priscilla Dyke, of Goderich township, offered by auction the other day, was not • sold. It was bid in at $3,000. • —The other day, Mr. James Reynolds, jr., of the 5th coneession of Hullett, hart the misfortune to turn a harrow pin into his ankle, making a flesh wound that necessi- tates the use of a pair oi crutches. —The young man, Fenton, of Lonclesboro, who gained an unenviable notoriety throligh his connection with the death of Miss Mutch, of East Wawanosh, has left for parts upknown. —The other day, a three year old daugh- ter of Mr. Thomas Werry, of Usborne ate a piece of,poisoned bread 'which had been set for the mice. Medical aid was procured in time to save the child's life. ' a recent Saturday Mail is a picture of the Prospect Park Bowling Club. Con- spicuous in the illustration is 0. R. Cooper, a former well known resident of Brussels, now a citizen of Toronto. —The other day while that veteran huntsman, Mr. W. Foster, of Clinton, was out in the woods he captured a couple of racoons, one of which weighed close on to 30 'pounds. A20 pound coon is ccnsidered un- usually heavy. —Master Bert Chapman, of Wingham, was out for a cutter ride the other day, =el when near his father's tannery? on Victoria street, the horse took it into his head to run away, and ran down past the salt block, where he ran through the river and got tangled up in a wire fence. 4 number of those working at the salt block went to the rescue of the horse. Bert was thrown out but not injured. —Mr, M. H. MeIncloo, of Wingliane had a buggy somewhat smashed an Sunday of ' last week. He was getting into the buggy in front of his store, when the colt jumped, throwing him nearly out the Opposite side, and sterted off on a. run. Before he could. regain his equilibrium and get control of the colt, it had run into a post a slant distance further down the street. No damage was done except to the buggy. strong e'Pough to put to flight a drug stores and stealin several thou san, s hundred unarmod'inen if only its animal of dollars' worth of stekand were sentenced might were hacked by intelligence. The to the Central for tsie years. . Place where cattli! are slaughtered is called —Louts Delonde, eirloyed"in the post -of - a killing bed. killing beds fice in a suburb of innipeg, three weeks Quito as intereisting as the robbed te registerd mail. He started .......- fact that some of the yards are connected the ricking departments, and thefr Montreal, was arrested on the train, and has been sentenced to three years in peni- tentiary. Ly overhead runways, crossing tho streets -at an elevation of 10 or 15 feet, and which pot only relieve the traffic of the yard, but furnish a unique feature to the landscape, 11 that _term be applicable to a stockyard • view. The Packing ifouses. It is quite a walk across the yards to the packing houses, and during the stroll the visitor passes the exchange, a low brick and stone building in which many firms of dealers and brokers in meats, both on foot and dressed, are located. The 'packing houses themselves are enormous Institutions. A dozen separate concerns operate them, tho two most important of avhich are Swift & Co. and Armour & Co. This information is probably gratuitous, for their brands are to be read in all parts clf the known 'world, but a writing upon the packing houses that did not mention them would miss a most important allu- sion. I haven't any idea which of the two Is the larger but I am told that the Ar- mour people kill morel pigs, while the Swift folks butcher more cattle. I ran across -Swift's first and was guided by an employee detailed for that purpose through loading departmeas, and all the other de- partnients, but tbey cannot all be de- scribed, and so will stop right here, merely adding a few figures for the benefit of those who like 'otatistics. Some Stoiaseards Figures. G. W. Dale vsa0 the first Chicago meat packer. He beg fip more then half a cen- tury ago with 204,, bead Of cattle and 350 hogs. The BulpS Head stockyards were established in 14$ at the corner of Mad- ison street and Qgden avenue. The pres- ent Union stockyards were opened in the Town of Lake, Thaw part of Chicago, on Christmas day, 105. There were seven miles of streets a,yd pens for 118,000 ani- mals, costing $1,465,000. Now there are 20 miles of streets,i as many miles of water troughs, 2% tinie$ as many miles of feed- ing troughs 33/4 ':times as many miles of water and drainage vipes and 87 miles of railway tracks, Witile the first cost of the' yards has now agOregated $4,000,000. The packing houses cost a good deal more, and In yards and packIng housea together fully 20,000 persons Ito employrnent in the busiest times. Hp;rses aro handled here as as butobere animals, the Chicago Paq_king housogaide ig a nsesie on. etoelsaaril hors° *ir.E.Qt being the largest tbe packing houses of that concern. !a, --Professor Robertson, -Dominion Dairy Commissioner, has returned from a trip to the Maritime Provinces. He says the out- put of cheese in the Government dairy stations on Prince Edward Islaed was 12,022 boxes. The total quantity of Milk received was 4,259 tons. -,L7pA tfiPti --James Kerwin, the water Wheel tender in the Canadian colored cotton mill Canada branch, Montreal, wee found dead Friday in the basement of thp weas4 shed. He had been caught by. the driving belt and. carried over the shaft. —Mr. Alexander IsIcLaree, of Bucking- ham, who has been attending the great horse show at New Yorkesays that the show this year far eclipsed the, previobe ex- hibitions in number and quality. Canadian exhibitors this year, contrary to the usual custom, met with very indifferent success. Their comparative failure was credited by Mr. -McLaren to the great and rapid, im- provement made by American breeders.' He cited the case of Beath, the Western On- tario breeder of hackneys, as a case in point. Mr. Beath's hackney stallion which took —The following list of patents recently granted to inventors residing in the Domin- ion of Canada is announced. Canadian patents --George A. Lewis, _Tetrolea,, pho- netic method for the cure of stammering (trade mark) ; J. D. Pennington, Dundas, folding chair; William Daniels, Orange- ville, hay and stock rack; A. E. Dion, Ot- .tawa, "Trolley Car Waltz," (copyright.) United States patents—Charles Boeckh, jr., Toronto. bridle for paint brushes; Edward Death, Toronto, automatic railway gate and signal; Doster, Montreal, hose coup- ling. —Mrs. John Piekerell had a miraculous escape film instant death in Toronto ont Thursday, last week. She had boarded a Yonge street car going north. The trolley was crowded and Mrs. Pickerel' was near the front end. The motorman applied- the brake to stop the car, when the sudden jolt threw her from the step. She fell almost directly under the side guard rail, her head being only a few inches from the car wheels. She was picked up, by those who had wit- nessed the accident, and it was found that the "wheels had passed over her hat, she hav- ing escaped instant death by about three inches. --Orillia Packet : "Kit, of the Mail, thinks the Scott Act a failure in Prince Edward Island because she saw a number of drunken men on market day, and the day after no less than. four. Bless her little heart, ie. any place where there is license she svould pass many intoxicated men and never observe them, and we doubt if any hamlet that boasts a tavern would deem four intoxicated men a sight worthy of men- tion. The fact is that prohibition has ren- dered drunkemiess so uncommon in Prince Edward Island that every case is noted, and set down by scoffers to the Scott Act, just as the preaching of the Apostles on the day of Pentecost was derisively attributed to new wine. " —Mr. David Christie Murray, an English journalist, is in Kingston, under the au- spices of Queen's University. He told a re- porter that he had a desire to see the • English people of the world, wherever they inhabit. "1 began to put this project into effect nearly six years ago," he said, "when I visited Australia, New Zealand, and Tas- mania, and spent two years in the investi- gation of Antipodean character and methods of government. My effort -has been so far t note the differences which general en- —The dredge which has been working in Hullett, has now reached the end of John Inwood's farm, on Quigley's concession. It has certainly done good work, and the land in the vicinity already shows the benefit, for it is practically reclaimed. Chalmers & Hall are trying to finish up the work .with the dredge this season, though tome other work will likely remain to• be done next season.t —0......e,IVivil4Turrei.sk-qHti.uly.i -eo::tN,nVl'y sustained. it slight injury to C. Meyer, Q. C., of Cal- gary, North West Territory, has recently been elected nigh Chief Ranger of the..Ine dependent Order of Foresters of the Nerth- west Territories. The November issue of this -- Independent Forester contains a very good picture and a short biographical sketch of Mr. Meyer. His 'many friends in this. vicinity will be pleased to learn that the -people of the far west are recognizing gene- _ ine worth. , —On Sunday evening of last week, about 8:30 p. m., Miss May Webb, of Saatford, met with an accident which may . yet prove ver serious. While walking around the Square, in Goderich, with a lady friend, in. s front of Priclham's store, a, large sign board fell, and the young lady reeeisved. a crashing blow on the head, A very i high wind. wait blowing at the time, and the sign being -wrenched from its fastenings, was hurled upon the unfortunate young lady. She Wag-, quickly carried to Wilson's drug store and the injury, which proved to be a very severe one, was attended to. Her arm was also slightly injured. Miss Dean, her conapan- unassuming wedding 'took place on Thursday, 15th mat, at. the resi- dence of Mr. A. B. Jackson, of Morris, when Charles W. Leech, of Detroit, and Annie E. Jackson, were united M the holy bonds of matrimony, by Rev. L B. Walwin, of Stratford. The ceremony took enlace at 10 o'clock a. in. and at 11 o'clock they boarded theease-bound train on asetrip to New York, previous to taking up, their residence in Detroit. The groom is welt known in this section and, deservedly popu- lar, and the many presents received by the bride were a manifest of the bigh esteem ia which she is held. The young couple have the best wishes of their legion of friends for their future happiness and prosperity in the City of the Straits. . --. , —Mr. Joseph Crich, of Clinton, who has - been an invalid for some time, passed away on .Tuesday of last week, at the age of 77 years and 8 months. Deceased was a native of Nottinghamshire, England, enaerame to this country 57 years ago, with his parents, six brothers and two sisters, only three of whom remain. He was of a very quiet, re- tiring disposition, but, nevertheless, a max of good, honest qualities. He was a tailor by trade and found ,ernployment with the late Richard Thwaitee, who at that time re- sided on the Huron road. After he had saved a little money he took up land on the 2nd c,oncession of Tuckersmith, where he continued to reside until about eleven years ago, when he moved into Clinton and took up his residence -with his sister, Mrs. Thomas. He leaves one son, George, who resides on the old homestead. Mr. Crick has been a sufferer from diabetes for some time. He was for many years a member of Turner's chureb, Tuckersmith, but. latterly made Rattenbury Street church his spiritual home. He never took any part in publics affairs further than to cast in his 'support with the Liberal party. —One day lately as Mr. W. Dignan, 60; concession of Hay, was going through k swamp he found the bones of what muit have been a very larg.e deer, as each of the horns was three feet six inches in length. —Messrs. Hodgins and. Petty, of Hensall, visited London Tuesday of last week, to participate in the general rejoicing at the election of Essery, but their joy was turned to sadness when they leerned that Hobbs was the people's choice. --While getting out firewood on Monday morning of last week, David Welsh, of the town plot, Wingham, slipped, and the axe he was using came down upon his right wrist, making an ugly *ash. Two stitches were necessary. Luckily no cords or -ar- teries were cut. —A team driven by Joseph Hagan be- came frightened at a passing train, in Hen - sail, one afternoon lately, and in their en- deavor to get away'upturned the wagon to which they were hitched, and pitched the occupants thereof out. Fortunately they did. net get away, and there was no damage done. —Messrs. W. J. Chapeian, of Wingham, and II. P. Chapman of Ripley, left the other day for Denver, Colorado where they have considerable property in "the shape of real estate, left them by the late Mr. Thorn- ton, of Winghare. • They expect to be ab- sent about a month. —E. Cs Clarke, of Wingham, has received the appointment of general organizer for the Canadian Order of Foresters, in the Mari- time Provinces, with headquarters in St. John, New Brunswick. He expects to leave, with his family, in the course of a few weeks. —On Sunday evening of last week, about six o'clock, the girls Sproule and Durnin, who were committed by the Goderich Police Magistrate for at term for street -walking, escaped from jail. In some way they ob- tained possession of the keys and used. them to advantage. However, at about 9 o'clock, Chief McLeod got word of their Where- abouts and soon had them in custody. —A good driver belonging to Mr. e/oseph Davis, of Exeter, was found lying stiff in death in the stable the other morning. She was apparently all right the previous even- ing. Cause =known. The same night the little pony belonging to Mr. D. Davis died from congestion of the lungs. She was con- ceded to be one of the beat drivers in Exeter and was a noble little beast. —Miss Robinson, of Smith's Hill, was driving to the Blyth station Wednesday - afternoon, to meet her brother, and when in front of Dr. Milne's residence, on Dinsley street, the kingbolt broke, causing the horse to run away. It was caught up on Morris street. While Miss Robinson was away getting her horse some one stole her whip. —On Friday evening, 16th inst., a new. camp of Sons of Scotland, was opened at Lochalsh, Ashfield township. The camp was instituted by Mr.J. Murchison, D.G.C., of the district, accompa-nied and assisted by a number of visitors. A very enthufsiastie meetine ws.s held and the following officers elected': Chief, Alexander McDonald; Chieftain, D. McDonald; Past Chief,' Allan McKenzie; Recording Secretary, A. Finlay- son; Financial Secretary, F. D. McLennan ; Treasurer, Solomon McIntyre; Chaplain, D. McLennan ; marshal., A. Campbell; stand- . . first place at the World's Fair, was only no monkeying," answe - • • ---• —The Bowling Club supper, given by the Mitchell Bowlers on Tuesday evening, last week, was a Very pleasaut affair. -One of the events of the evening Was a presenta- tion on behalf of the club, to Dr. Wood and. Mr. Strong, of beautiful medals or trophies, for being two of the best players of the club for the past season. —At midnight on Wednesday, 21st inst., fire broke out, in St. Marys, in the frame block occupied by Smith & Burns, grocers, and Allan & Clyde, buteherfs, and despite the efforts of the firerinen spread into Dr. Matheson's stone black to the west The frame block is a total loss and the stone is badly damaged. —The fine new Presbyterian church at Avonton, which has been erected during the past summer, will be opened on SIM - day; December 9th. Rev. W. Caven, principal of Knox College, Toronto, and Rev. M. L. Leitch, of Stratford, -will con- duct the services. There will be a tea meeting in the basement of the church Olt Monday evening, at which Rev, Dr. Me - Donald, of Seaforthe and Rev, A. Stewart, of Clintoo, besides a number of other clergy- men, will address the audience. —Mr. Robert Creery, sr, of Usiberne, was in St. Marys on Tuesday, last week, in search of his former hired man, who had taken what did not belong to him and de -- camped. The man had worked for Mr. Creery during the barvest, and had left when his time expired. He arrived Sunday °plausibly on a visit at his former employ- er's residence in Usborne, and staid over night, but cleared out early Monday morn- ing. After his departure a quantity of clothing was missed and $6 in cash from the trouser pocket of George Righton, the hired boy. Mr. Creery has given ieformation that may lead to his recovery. at, .;