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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1895-03-22, Page 1•••,0`.„,"kr`''' 0a, imennor lay of is and e upon LIN( hence- ith -thess oprie- ie_nels that new e. re s to -west fling :upon . It all be Oplehe In hkK1I halide Fe ex - to vhich ,ettion eten- ereell Mr. lend. nge- both trch, r of of tral, tare ie. the ens- Ithie here td . the tr On ete, .lbe- nra iers etat the de- rflg eon Yth !. as ior- hn the 'eur In ars ets- eat tea 42g kV : (11°. 4ft getIy rehd a to, he i tie ,• ter t, .44 • • • • -h positor,. T• WENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. WHOLE• NUMBER, 1,423. j SEAFORTH, FRIDAY,, MARCH 22, 1895. WHAT ABOUT 'BEFORE THE -PUBLIc. LATEST BID FOR NOTORIETY BY TWO QUEER ENGLISHMEN. YOUR ifSpring SOlt Mari thinks of his clothes at all times except when bathing or asleep,for they are always necessary to his comfort, convenience and presentability. In the morning they demand his careful attention; if they are too warm or not warm enough at any time, he cannot forget them; if they are comfortable, he think ii of them with pleasure, but if they are not he execrates them ; if they improve his appearance he ad- mires them, but if they are unbecom- ing he detests them; and if they are correct,elegant and artistic,he is proud, but if not he is ashamed of them. They concern him always. The kind of clothing -wee make is noted for perfection in fit, correctness in style, dura- bility in wear, and lowness of price. When -we say we have the finest selection to choose teem, we are prepared to back it up. Our range has never been so complete as this sea- son. We show the latest in Scotch Tweed Suitings, English Worsted suitings,Canadian tweed suitings, English serges, Canadian serges, English worsted trouser- ings, English overcoatings, fancy Vestings, etc. etc. ' Our spring stock is now ready for your in- spection and we will be pleased fo have you drop in and see what is the correct thing to wear. Who's Your Hatter? Our new stock ranks Brat in importance, because of best quality„ splen- did assortment, latest styles, low prices. A strand combination of circumstances t� save your money. A fair examination turns the tile of trade to our counters and the savings into your purse. Men's Stiff Hats, 25c to $3.00 " Soft " 25c to $3.50 Boy's " !‘ 25c to $1.50 Fancy Caps,_ - 15c to $1.00 8 eieetions from our spring styles make your appearance faultless. We are Leaders in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, SEAFORTH, - - - ONT. SCINCE Has Conquered, And made it possible to restore defec- tive eyesight to normal vision. J. S. ROBERTS Having taken a course of Studies at the Detroit Optical Institute, is pre- pared to fit all defects of vision. Astigmatism, Hypermetropia, Myopia, Presbyopia, Or a.ny Compound Defect. Astigmatism is due to irregular shape of the eye, and is usually congenital, but is often caused by im- properly fitted glasses. Many Retool ohildren with this defect are called stupid, but with properly ° fitted glasses they may become the brightest of scholars. This is quite a oommon and dangerous defect. Hyper- reetropia is a malformation which keeps the cihary muscle in constant use, whereas in the normal eye it is at rest when looking at a distan. This defect, if neglected, fray result in nervous depreesion and pain, and even prostration. Myopia is a diseased condition of the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to prevent an increase of the defect, and per- haps ultimate blindness. Presbyopia is a loss of ac- commodation in the eye, which may cause cataract, unless corrected by artificial aid. Frequently nervous or sick headaches, and also serious illness, are brought on by one or more of the above defects. Re- member no charge for testing your eyes. J. S. Roberts, cHmitTaMsT, Cardnes Block, Seaforth. SPECIAL SALE —OF— WALL PAPERS APRIL Cs Wit Papst's BOOKSTORE, SEAFORTIL Having about 5,000 Rolls in small lots at from 5 to 20 rolls each, have decided to sell the entire lot at clearing out prices, about one half regular price. to; melte room for new steel: now arriving. We have made arrangements to have all papers hung during this Special Sale, when desired, at 5 cents per roll, for either wall or ceiling. • C. W. Paint, $1.00 a Year in Advance. mite Marquis of Queensberry and Oscar Wilde—A Pugilistic Patrwet &Ind an Apos- tle of ZEthetleisizi at Loggerheads—Their Peculiar Public Careers. [Special Correspondence.] LONDON, March 11.—It would lid bard to find two more notorious men than) Oscar Wilde surd tlin Marquis of Queensberry, whose differences, as you have no doubt been informed by cable, have just culmi- nated in a suit for libel brought by Wilde. The present complication will no doubt add to their notoriety, if such a thing be possible. Althongh the marquis Is best known to the world at largo because of the famous pugilistic rules that boar his name, he is identified in the minds of Londoners with all sorts of queer things. About two years ago he became 'so enraged at Lord Rose- bery, the present premier, but then a mem- ber of Mr. Gladstone's cabinet, as to threaten violent retaliation upon the noble secretary's person. The cause of Queens - berry's anger was the action of Rosebery in creating'Queensberry's son, till San only Viscount Drumlanrig—the holder of a l'oourtesy" title nielely—an earl, thus making him outrank his father and enti- tling hint to a scat in the house ofl lords. • Until 1880 the marquis himself h ad, a place in the upper house as a thpresentattte Spot- tish peer, but he then announced himself a free thinker, -and that shut- him out When Rosebery was ni4e a' member of Gladstone's cabinet, one of his first actions was to choose for his private secretary the son of the sporting marquis. The secre- made the Earl of Drum anrig. Queens- berry.suited so well thal be was shortly berry began at once to weite letters to Rosebery, the queen, Gladstone and every one else he could think of as possibly hav- ing something to say in the premises. His failure to receive replies to any of Ms let- ters caused him to declare that he know a lot of awful facts in the biography of Rosebery, which be proposed to show up, adding that if an -assault Were necessary in order to draw attention to the "show- ing up" he was quite "prepared to com- mit that assault." - Lord Rosebery failed to pay any atten- tion to Queensberry's throats, so far as the ?public knows, and in duo time the matter died out.; There are plenty of persons who think a similarly silent course on the part of Oscar Wilde when an offensive card was sent to him by the matquis of the prize ring would havo inspired greater respect from the public than has the arrest of the card writer. But Wilde is a man who never lets slip a good opportunity to get an advertisement, and although the adver- tisement he is now receiving is not to be obtained without expense and would not be pleasing to most of us it will prove a good one if extensive dissemthation be the proper standar% Wilde is essentially a product of the sec- ond half of the nineteenth century, though, to the credit of the race and the age, he is MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY. not a typical one. Cultivated he certainly is, but he must not be considered prima- rily as a cultivated person. His chief char- acteristics are clever impudence and a willingness to do almost anything for money. Who but a rnan of these traits could have displayed the nerve he showed during his memorable tour through the United States, when be attired himself In knee breeches and appropriate accompany- ing garments and lectured in stained glass attitudes with a sunflower In his hand? There were those who thought hien a bit daft at that time, but it was seen long be- fore the 00nOlUSIOn of his tour that he knew a 16t. Yet notwithstanding Wildo's keenness he was easily bunkoed during that visit to the States 12 years ago, by "Hungry Joe" and has more than once said since then that the notorious confidence man had much greater ability in several directions than any one else he had ever met Many paaple have forgotten that it was Du Maurice( the author of the r.nuch dis- cussed "Trilby," Who first exploited Wilde, yet so it was. Du Maurier, though himself a very clever person,' seems to have been taken in by Wilde quite as "nab as Wilde was deceived by "Hungry Joe," for the artist evidently accepted the posings and other nonsense of the "apostle of testheticism" as sincere, else he Would not have caricatured him, thus furnishing the dosired advertisernenL Gilbert and Sullivan took Wilde in similar fashion, and in their opera of "Patience" did him a similar favor. Now Wilde can laugh at -them all, for his plays and books, albeit some of them, as George Parsons Lathrop has said, are "disgustingly filthy and a -reek with unnatural debasement," are .exceedingly successful, and he has money a -plenty. But, after all, it would seem that ho has paid a high price for it. At tho hearing in the police court the other day, at which Queensberry was held in $7,500 bail foatrial for libeling Wilde, the court was crowded with well known people. Mr. Wilde, wearing a long, dark blue overcoat with velvet cuffs, drove to the police court in a carriage and pair, and with a footman as well as a coachman. Mr. Wilde began his testimony with an air of languid loftiness. When asked if he was Oscar Wilde, the author and dramat- ist, he replied: "I think I am well known." ".Answer the question, please," sharply f interposed Maeistrate Newton. "Yes,' answered Mr. Wilde, assuming a less important air after the reproof. - , English newspapers are not allowed to comment on a case of this kind When'it is In court, but the impression is that Wilde will win the suit. C. W. OLDBORN. FEM!NNEr FADS AND FRI.PPERIES. What Women Do and Wear In the Gay So- • cial Wor [Special Correspondence.] NEW ' YORK, Marn v.—Mrs. William Astor is tho most inteiviewed woman in America on social matters. Slits le gracious and,kind, and while declining to see re- 'parte* herself is ready to give abundant .information regarding her dinners, balls and ,receptions. This news in conveyed through her maid, who conducts the scriba about the drawing rooms and dining rooms, allowing ample time to take notes. When the reporter is a woman, Mrs. As- tor's dress is spread out for inspection. She even replies to notes, provided the subject refers to social matters. The reporter, however, does not find himself in posses- sion of her autograph in such cases, as the notes are written in the third person. Pointed toed shoos are going out of fash- ion and square toed ones coming in. This has nothing to do with the common sense idea. The new shoe is quite as narrow as tlie razor point, but jiist at the tind it has the appearance of having been neatly chop- ped off. Another radical change in foot- wear is in the heels. Never since the days of Louis X V of France have women worn such heels as they are wearing no*. Near- ly all the fine shoes have heels irons 1}4 to 2 limbos high. In many instances they are the real Louis Quinze affair, running almost to the middle of the foot. Laced boots are -quite the propor tbing made in the finest materials this season. .A coin- blnation-of patent leather and black or tan. colored cloth makes a very handsome dress boot. The flower boa Is the novelty of the • hour. It is the nebstl becoming neck adornment yet devised. Made of daisies, violets or roses, nothing could be prettier. A plaited frill of lace, either bleak or yel- low, forms the foundation, the rflowers be- ing caught in each plait? itis tied in front with wide ribbons to Match the flowers. Speaking of neck adornment, the big rosettes worn at the throat are most un- becoming to women with full faces and chubby thcoats. Only a synsmetrical throat suppritting a delicate oval face looks well with odtstanding bows and rosettes. The fashionable masseur is busy every day from early morning until late in the afternoon. Her Work is romoying the adipose tissue which seems to bp the in- evitable accompaniment of prosphrity and the bane of society women. And hers is a lucrative profession as well. She often receives as much as $3 an hour. Massage is regarded as the most efficacious and least injurious of ways to reduce flesh. Copes are to be the spring wraps. The • double and treble capes, it is said, aro go- ing out altogether, and in their stead a single cape will be worn. It will reach a trifle below the waist, with the godet folds brought out in !some ingenious manner near the edge. A high collar will give style to, the garment. Perforated cloth, black over colored, or black satin is a pretty ma- terial for this style of cape. If rumor is reliable, the fin de siecle young woman has added boxing to ber al- ready long list of masculine accomplish- ments. Report is thet in many New York homes a bevy of girls meet together twice a week with a professor of boxing to in- struct them in the art. A gracious custoni among fashionable debutantes is sending all the flowers they receive at heir coming out balls to the sick in the various hospitals. After the coming out ball of Miss Gertrude Vander- bilt last winter 160 bouquets were distrib- uted among tbe sick in the hospital found- ed by the Vanderbilts. Muffs the past winter have been as huge as those carried by our grandmothers. .For everyday wear the fur muff is all very well, but the really smart affair is made of silk or velvet and chiffon. Violets aro a favorite decoration. When fur is used, nothing is more elegant than the sable head and tails. The Muff chains are of gold, studded with precious stones. A fiat band of ribbon fastened with tiny gold or silver buckles is an inexpensive way of securing a muff. LAURA OLIVIA BOOTHE. - TRUE ROMANIES. The Strange -Race That Opposes the Refine- ments of Civilization. • [Special Correspondence.1 BOSTON, Maroh 19.—There has always been somewhat of a question as to whether • the so called gypsies of A merica are true Romanies or not, and the recent death at • Providence of "Prince Williams" will no doubt start the discusinon afresh, for it is averred on very good authority that he was just a plain Englishman and no Rom- any at all. It was In the times of the Tudors that the gypsies (is the word a corruption of Egyptians?) crossed over trona the conti- nent to the British isles, because of rigid decrees of expulsion promulgated in Spain, Germany and France. They met a rather cold welcome, but were neverthe- less allowed to stay on the earth and prac- tice phoir peculiar methods of winning a livelihood, to the great disgust of the Eng- lish people, as is clearly shown from the epithets applied to the nomads by the writers of those early days. One old rec- ord says of them that they "wandered uppe and downe and met once a year at a place appointed, sometimes at the Peak's hole, at Derbyshire, and at other whiles by Ret - brook, at Blaokheath." Another English writer spoke of them as "vagabonds, mas- terless men, ydle, vagraun to, loiterynge, yll dispased persons, going abonte usynge subtiltio and unlawful genies or plaie," but in Scotland they wore after a time re- ceived as decent and law abiding colonists and for awhile were treated with consid- eration. In a few years, however, when their true character became known, an act was passed for the suppression of "Egiptians, bards, minstrels and vaga- bond schollars." Finally Johnnie Faw, the "Earl of Little Egipt, " an away with the daughter of a countess, and hundreds of gypsies Were wiped out in the fight that followed, and. the woman was imprisoned for life at Mayt bole, Ayrshire, in a tower built for that purpose. Yet notwithstending this and other slaughters of gypsies there are plenty of them in the United Kingdom yet. Iustances of the kidnaping of women by gypsies in America are not wanting, and one such was reported in Missouri last . year. Early in tho eighties, when the drama of hThe Romany Rye" *as haying its successful run in New York, a special attraction lay in the feat that the part of the as DS Y Pr in cess was played by Marie tnivell, the daughter or the chief of a band that used to rove over New Jersey. Two years ago, when this girl, who was really quite pretty, was well grown, she eloped , or was abducted from the gypsy's camp, and Chief Lovell raised a great to do about it. Whether she was ever found by the sorrowing Romanies that made up the camp I never heard, but for months after her disappearance old man Lovell prowled about the country with a gun looking for her and the men she went away with. J. 'B. PAERE. • Ba3rile1d Net Seizure. DEAE ExPosiTon :—Allow me space i your valuable paper to answer a letter pub fished in the Clinton News Record by on who calls himself "Simple Justice." Now, i the outset, I would say this corresponden would not recognize "Simple Justice" if h niet him, as they are strangers to one an other: I • cannot answer in .detail the firs part of his letter as it is put in such a mixed and ungrammatical way that no sense can be made out of it. He speaks of remarks he saw in a Seaforth paper from two Bayfield gentlemen and signed "a fisherman." The plural number has changed so suddenly in- to the singular that I do not understand him, and if the letter he burned was not better than the one he published, I would recoms mend a kindergarten course for him. He says Ross was caught in an illegal act,with illegal nets and that this whole affair of his was illegal. In regard to what he calls an ille- gal act it is altogether untrue, as I paid my li- cense to a Government official, who took my money for the sa,me and told me the nets would be all right to go up the lake with,as I did not want them in -Bayfield. No iv, if _this officer made a mistake in issuing my license, surely the Government is not so degraded but what it willise responsible for its officials. As to the nett: being illegal, the Government has never called them such. This explains how came to be fishing out of the division for which My license was issued,consegirently it was not such a knavish trick as this person would like the public to believ e it was. I think Mr. "Simple Justice" is trying to ride the same hobby hor e as the editor of the News Record, thet of stroking the Govern- ment on the back. One would think by the way he speakapf the Government returning my boat to me, that it had turned into a benevolent society, in place of releasing a boat which it had no business to seize and which might have cost it the.price of a good many boats had it not done so. He says I ought to join some temperance organization. I am a Royal Templar and am not ashamed of the title and think -it sounds just as well as that of a broken down hotel keeper. He also says I was once hauled up before and was let off. He refers to a 'few words I had with the Health inspector some time ago about some perch that had been thrown into the river, an act of which I was not guilty. He reached far for sca,ndal and grasped little. But, I can say that I have never been haul- ed up so high that a judgment summons was left hanging over my head, nor yet did I make an: assignment, but have always paid one hundred cents on the dollar. Worst of all, he has mutilated his book of common prayerto the extent of "deliver us, oh Lord, from plague, from famine and from sudden death." Now, this also shows that his prin- ciple is So small one would require a micros- cope to find it, when he would serve one master and then call upon another to deliver him. He arlded,oh yes, "and from those who are economical of the truth." Now, who could economize the truth more than he has done, as he has not exhausted one word of it in his libelous letter. Thanking you Mr. Editor for so much space taken in your valuable paper, I remain,. Youirs Truly, • M. Ross-, BAITIELD, March 11, 1605. • The Huron Assizes. The Spring Assizesfor the county of Hu- ron opened at Goderich on Tuesday.of last week, before Mr. Justice Ferguson. The following composed the Grand jury: James Down, foreman, Exeter; Fred. Baker, Stephen; Samuel Elder, Crediton; Joseph Griffin, Ashfield; Solomon Hardy and Fred. Kibler, Zurich: James Potter, East Wewanosh ; John H. Edward, Gods erich ; Horace Foster, Clinton; Samuel Gid - ley, Exeter • Jaines Halls, Usborne; Daniel Manly, Mcillop ; Joseph Wilson, God- eritere were only two criminal cases, as ,follows : The Queen vs. Thomas ..-•••Aitkinson, of the township of Biddulph, a charge of rape and criminal assault on one 1Mrs. Rundle. On -motion of the Crown 04 case was post- poned to next assizes, onh-account of illness of the prosecutrix, bail being renewed in $400 by the accused, and two sureties of $'2O0 each. In the Qneen vs. Pritchard Milligan, the jury returned no bill for - common assault, and a true bill for assault occasioning bodily pai% THE CIVIL LIST comprised eight cases, the first being Clark et al. vs. Town of Mitchell. This was an action for damages by reason of a buggy up- set on St. Andrew's street, in the town of Mitchell. The cause of the upset was claim- ed to be a pile of sand left on the street by a firm of builders, and Clark had a leg broken, from the effects of which he died. Some forty witnesses were summoned, and the array of legal talent was ominously large for the loser of the suit. Case was postponed until the fall assizes. Stevens vs. McGill, an action for the price of building a house in Clinton. Owing to the number of small items involved in this case, his Lordship withdrew it from the jury and refereed it to the County Judge to take evidence. Beacom et al. vs. Dygert et al., an action for the warranty of a stEillion, -was on mo- tion of defendant's counsel postponed till the fall assizes. Straughan vs. Youne, action for breach of promise of marriage. e'The parties are well known and respected residents of the town- ship Of Colborne, and great interest was felt in the case should it be gone into fully. By consent, however, a verdict for $400 dam- ages was rendered in favor of plaintiff, with costs of the action. Wilson vs. Reid et al., was an action for alleged trespass by David Reid, John His- lop, Charles Bates, Joseph Jardine and Jo- seph Kidd, in hauling stone from the bed of the river Maitland last summer, across a lot owned by plaintiff. By consent • a verdict and judgment was giten for plaintiff against. all the defendants, for one shilling damages, without costs as to the defendants, other than David Reid, but against him only to the 4th of October last, the injunction to be made perpetual. The grand jury made their presentment, reporting 19 prisoners in the jail, 2 of whom are females and utterly incapable, by reason of age and infirmity; 3 of the males are also too feeble to work, and 12 of the whole lot are able-bodied and healthy men. The jury highly commended the cleanliness of the jail and the condition of the court house. They complimented the county council on the progress made toward the erection of a • • . • •••• Ihouse of refuge. His Lordship, in receiving their report, expressed his opinion that some punishment should be provided for those able to work but who seemed. to prefer to be sent to jail as vagrants. The last ease on the list was Ert vs. Ert, in which the plaintiff, a resident of Detroit, sued her mother who lives in Grey township, for a'promissory note of $450. The defence was that the note produced was not the one signed by defendant, but probably a copy signed in pencil originally by the daughter, but with the name of defendant' afterwards written over it in ink. Defendant was will- ing to pay the amount at once when the note she claimed as the original was produced. His Lordship charged strongly in favor- of plaintiff, and the jury gave her a verdict for the amount of the note with interest, some $538. In the Queen vs. Pritchard Milligan, 8 witnesses were heard for the prosecution and 6 for the defence, but after half an hour's deliberation the jury returned a ver- dict -of not guilty. 'Canada. —Mr. T. S. Shenston, registrar of Brant, died Friday evening at Brantford. —The St. Thomas city council is consider- ing the cost of an electric fire alarm system. —There were only 97 liquor licenses grant- ed in Bruce county last year, as against 180 in 1874. —M. Wright, of Crampton, has purchased the Claris estate of 100 acres in Oxford county • for $4,200. —There are at present 98 persons being cared for in the county house of refuge at Berlin. —Imports from Ontario and"Quebec at the Buffalo custom house last year were $2,672,- • 351 in value. —The appointment of J.A. Valhi, Ottawa, as judge of ipissing county, was gazetted Saturday. --A seal weighing 258 pounds was killed on Thursday at Chateau Richer, fifteen miles below Quebec. —A syndicate is forming in Belguim to import Canadian horses. Its agents will go to Canada to open the trade. —Patrick Savage, of Paris, was sentenced to jail for 20 days in default of a fine of $2 for drunkenness, at the Police Court. —John W. Patterson, acting teller of the Traders' Bank at Strathroy, has disappeared with $4,000 of the bank's money. . —The Cassidy farnacomprising 100 acres, was sold by auction the other day near Wyoming for $2,800. It is very cheap at $28 an acre. —Thomas Wilson, an expert diamond cutter from Toronto, committed suicide Fri- day night in a low drinking place in Chicago, by taking carbolic acid. —Last Sabbath morning Cornelius White, a preacher in the Society of Friends, fell dead while preaching in the Friends' meeting house, Bloomfield, Prince Edward cminty. —The other night thieves went into a barn belonging to, Washington Atwood,. on the second concession of Dereham, and stole be- tween 150 and 200 bushels of grain, Compris- ing oats, wheat and peas. —Business failures throughout the Canad- ian Dotninion as eported to Bradstreet's number 39 this week, against 53 last week, 45 one year ago, 38 two years ago, and 37 three years ago. —George Donald. town line, Watford, has struck an oil well froni which he. pumps every three hours one barrehor eight barrels a day. He has been offered $10,000 for the 100 acres with the well on, but declined. —Mr.Thomas Lee, baker,. of St. Cathar- ines, has been lying unconscious at his home since 8:30 p. ms, Thursday evening; as a re- sult of a runaway. His doctors give no hope of his recovery. —At the Brantford police court Friday morning,three boys, F.Meader, W. Harrison and James Bradshaw, for burglary, were sentenced for an indefinite period to the Penetangaishene Reforreatory. —The Rev. Sister Bernard, the oldest nun in the Hotel Dieu, Montreal, died the other day at the age of 85 years. Sister Bernard had been in the convent for sixty-five years, and celebrated both her golden and diamond wedding as a nun. —t. Patrick's Day was celebrated in Tor- onto on Sunday, 17th inst., by a large pro- cession of Irish Catholic societies to St. Pat- rick's Church. Irish Protestants listened to their annual sermon at the Church of the Redeemer. • ---.The Hendershott murder was committed on Friday; Mr. Osier opened the case by stating the case for the crown on Friday,and the two prisoners--Hendershott and W elter —were sentenced to death on Friday. Fri- day was rather unlucky in their case. —A series of robberies in connection with the postoffice department at Ottawa were discovered the other day. Several street letter boxes were found. forcibly broken open and the contents scattered over the street, while a number of letters and other articles • of mail had been carried off. —Philip Fraser, of concession 7, Plymp- ton, near Sarnia, has succumbed to injuries sustained by falling from a hay fork, which caught him and elevated him ten feet, caus- ing him to fall on his head. He amassed considerable wealth in the California gold diggings, and settled in Plympton in 1862. —Sergeant Raymond, of thAQuebec city police force, who was nearly killed recently making illicit whisky, has been condemned in the Police Court, on two different charges, to $100 fine and one month imprisonment, or failing to pay the fine, six months' imprison- ment in each case. —The Presbyterian church,. Windsor, was entirely destroyed by fire last Saturday afternoon. The fire is supposed to have orig- inated from the furnace. Loss $20,000. In- surance about $12,000. Rev. Mr. Tolmie, formerly of Brantford, is pastor of the con- gregation. —There is no change in the condition of trade in Halifax. Wholesale dealers report the volume ol sales light and the condition of .the country very bad. Logging has ceased in New Brunswick, the cut this year being less than usual, owing to the heavy snow- fall. —Friends to the number of about fifty, from Carrick, Culrosseand Huron, gathered at 4 p. m. on Monday the 25th of February at the home of Mrs. A. Braden, Culross, to witness the marriage of her daughter Sarah to Mr. William R. Stott, of Crystal, Dakota. —Mr. L. H. Patton, a Hamilton barrister, has received for probate a peculiar -will. It is that of Margaret Jane Stenabaughat spin- ster, late of Ancaster township, and be- queaths property valued. at $1,625. The peculiarity of the will is that it was made by Aliss Stena.baugh and was written on both sides of a slate. —Some one perpetrated a practical joke last week on a number of the most respect- able citizens of Montreal which caused a large amount of anger among its victims. About forty ladies and gentlemen received invitations to a wedding and a feast which was to follow the ceremony. A prominent minister was to have performed the ceremony. The guests arrived in large and small parties, and the occupant of the house was very much surprised to see them. He was not aware of any wedding being celebrated in his house; did no napparently, know the bride or groom, and not knowing the guests, was inclined to be indignant at their attempted invasion of his premises. The minister named in the in- vitations was communicated with; and said he was utterly ignorant of amysuch wedding. The much disgusted guests informed the police. The stern officers of the law were sympathetic, very, but when the would-be merry -makers, in all their finery, had de- parted, the officers indulged in merry laugh- ter. —Owing to ill health Dr. William Cor - mac of Guelph, decided to leave Canada im- mediately and go to Johannesberg, South Africa, where he intends to practise his pro- fession. He has disposed of hist practice and residence to Dr. Gerald O'Reilly,formerly of Fergus. Dr. Cormick started en his long journey some days ago. • —The death of one of the oldest residents of Cape Breton, Mr. _Angus Gillis, occurred ag Skye Glen, Inverness county, a few days ago. Mr. Gillis was 108 years old. Deceas- ed was born in the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Inver- ness county. He lea -es many descendants to the third and fourth generations. —Two young men named Smith, who • have been trapping 25 miles down the Sas- katchewan River from Edmonton, were the other day,found dead in their shanty. It is supposed to be a case of accidental poison- ing. While going to investigate it, Dr. Watson was thrown front his rig and badly injured. --The principal of one of the Toronto Public Schools recently forbade the boys spinning tops. A few days later he issued an order that the girls 'should cease skipping. A couple of days after the last order a consider- able number of tbe boys appeared in the • school yard with skipping roes, while the girls were spinning their brothers' peg tops. • —Edward Gorman, a Canadian. was fat- ally shot by Police° Officer Mainsfort at Chicago Saturday, last week, at 59th and Halsted streets. The officer was so brutally beaten that his condition is critical. He in- terfered in a quarrel between four men, who kicked him into insensibility. Before losing consciousness Mainsfort fired two shots one of which entered Gorman's body. —William D. Welter and John Hender- shott were found guilth at St. Thomas on Friday last, of the murder of William H. Hendershothand sentenced to be hanged on June 18th. It is said anew trial will be ap- plied for. In connection with the case Wel- ter is reported to have made a confession, telling the story of the murder which was committed by himself and John Hendershott in a most cruel manner. —Mrs. W. Schopp, of St. Clements, who in June last figured in an elopement case with an artist, going to Buffalo, and coming back repentant under the wing of a detec- tive, some weeks ago ran away again, taking so it is claimed, $900 belonging to her hus- band. She located in Caledonia, Michigan, and led a rapid, downward life, finally being found in a disorderly house in Grand Rapids. —The King's Daughters at Cornwall have just opened a fine new suite of rooms in the Glengarry block. The walls are made bright with numerous pictures, the windows nicely curtained, and there are tables filled with magazines and illustrated papers kindlysent in by friends. It is intended to have the reading room open afternoons and evenings at stated hours, and to invite all girls who wishtodo so to use the rooms free of charge. —The culture of flowers is being very prac- tically taught to the young people of Calvary church, Montreal, by 8: 8. Bain, the well- • known florist. Mr.Bain gives three lectures, the first showing the children how to plant • seeds, telling them all about their growth, eta, and. calling up boys and girls to put the instruction into practice. Another lecture is to be given in April and one in May. Prizes of seeds and potted plants are given to the children giving the best answers. —From the reports published in the Homestead,Pennsylvania News,it is evident that Evangelist Schiverea, well known throughout Ontario, is meeting with remark- able success in the revival services being held there. Homestead was the centre of the great strike in the Carnegie iron mills some years ago, and wonderful impressions are being made upon the people of the place. Mr. Sehiverea has a valuable assistant in 11. A. Wolfsohn as vocalist. Mr. Wolfsohn sang in Stratford not many weeks ago, and has many admirers in that city. —Rev. Donald George Sutherland, M.A., L: L. B., D. D., pastor of Central Metho- dist Church, Moor street, Torontoalied Tues- day evening last Week. Dr. Sutherland commenced the pastorate of Central Metho- dist Church in July, 1893. In September of the same year he was stricken with typhoid fever, which confined him to his home until spring,and from the effects of which he never recovered. The deceased was a son of the late Captain Sutherland, who perished in the Dersjardins Canal accident in 1857. He was born in Toronto in 1839. —Dr. Evans, of Elmwood, Bruce county, through his solicitor, Mr. H. P. O'Connor, has issued a writ against one P.A. Black for damages for slander. The amount of dam- ages asked is $5,000. The difficulty arose out of the death of an uncle of Evans, who was living with his nephew, and who carried a heavy insurance on his life. Black is the agent for the company, and it is claimed he made statements which could be interpreted to mean that Evans had been instrumental in the death of the uncle aforesaid. The body of the deceased is to be exhismed and a. coroner's inquest held. Interesting develop> ments may no doubt be expected. —A dispatch from Abilene, Kansas, says the colony of Northern Central Kansas which went to' Edmonton and Alberta in the Can- adian Northwesha year ago,is to be followed in a few days by another large party from Concordia, Clyde, Green and other towns. The train which is to take them is already being loaded, and will consist of about twenty cars of household goods, stock,imple- ments, etc., and three -passenger coaches of the emigrants and their families. The party is made up of French Canadians who settled in central Kansas fifteen years ago. Many Of the emigrants arel well fixed finan- cially. ' —Dia and Mrs. Kennedy, of Guelph, have just returned from Florida, where they have been spending a few weeks. The doctor says the reports in reference to the recent hold snap in the south convey but a poor idea of the extent of the damage. The fruit in- dustry is completely paralyzed. Even at the time of their leaving the weather was anything but salubrious, and as the hotels are not constructed to withstand chilling blassts,it was anything but pleasant summer- ing_ilnh`e`tnhuemlabnedr ooff tavern licenses issueia in the county of North Waterloo during the license year 1893-4 was 46, being the same number as the previous year, shop licenses 5. Seven were issued in Waterloo Township, 6 in Woolwich, 14 in Wellesley, 8 in Berlin, 7 in Waterloo town and 4 in Elmira. The number issued in South Waterloo was 44 and 5 shop, same number as in 1892-3. Nine were issued in Galt, 6 in Preston, 14 in Wilmon5 in Waterloo Township, 2 in Hes- • peler, 2 in North Dumfries, 4 in New Ham- burg, and 2 in Ayr. —Mr. Jacob Y. Shantz, of Berlin, is ar- ranging a migration party which will leave on or about April 9th for the Canadian North- • west. A number of persons in Waterloo in- tend going out and taking up homes there. • Perth 'terns. There was a very large attendance at Mr. Robert Henderami's sale, in Mina., near Listowel, on Thursday, 7th inst., and good prices were 4realized throughout. Two • farms were sold, one being a lnualred acre one, comprising the south halves of lots 49 and 50, on the 1st concession, were sold. to Mr. Robert Hardy, for $4,700, and the other a 50 acre one, on the 2nd concession, • was sold to Mr. Thomas -Johnson, for t,2,- 525. The goods and chattels, all told, brought $1,700. There was •a fine class of stock offered, and the Prites realized were considered. satisfactory, —Near St. Marys, on Saturday night, 9th inst., about 1030 o'clock, the residence of Mr. James Donald, the Patron candidate, caught fire, but after a brave and hard fight it was saved, with a loss of probably only 550. The fire is supposed to have started - from sparks dropping from a chimney down an unused fire -place and igniting the joist under the floor. The fire spread along the joist, up the walls and between the ceiling and upstair floor, and at one time it seemed. a hopeless task to save the building. All the household effects were removed. The building was insured in the Blanshard • Mutual. —The Women's Missionary Society branch at McIntyre's, near St. Marys, gave a social on Monday evening of lust week. Quite a large number were present. Two big loads, containing 38 persons, and some single rigs tame from Granton. The pro- gramme was it very interesting one, most of the numbers bearing OD the work of the So- ciety. The following took part in the pro- gramme: Dr. and Mrs. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Murray, Mrs. (Dni Laing, Miss Mabel Cook, Miss McIntyre, Mr. B. Mossip, Miss E. Bernard and Miss Dale were assisted by others in giving some missionary nuggets. The proceeds amounted to 510.60. —On Tuesday of last week, while Miss May Draper, of Prospect Hill, with her lit- tle sister, were driving home from Granton, in a cutter, they were met by a young man with a sleigh. It appears the young man did not give half the road. His whiffle - trees caught the shaft of the cutter, break- ing it, and eausina the horse to run away. Miss Draper, with great bravery, kept her hold on the runaway animal, the cutter dragging by one shaft for about a mile, when, Miss R. Ratcliffe, seeing the danger, ran out, and al the risk of her own life, succeeded in turning the horse into the snow and thus stopping him. —A meeting of the Perth Veterinary As- sociation was held on Friday, 8th inst., in St. ?Marys. Among the prominent veterin- ary surgeons who attended and took part in the proceedings were Drs. Burger, of 1i - towel; Landreth, of Bright; Banker, of Woodstock; McClure„ of Woodstock; Man- ses, of Linwood; Herold, of Tavistock, and Kerr, of Kirkton. Various subjects of in- terest to the profession were discussed. Itt the afternoon the election of officers took place, and resulted in the election of Dr, Gibb, of St. Marys, President; Dr. Steele, of Stratford, Vice -President, and Dr. Mc- Master, of Stratford, Secretary -Treasurer, Dr. Gib)) then read a thoughtful paper on the action and uses of medicine, and a dis- cussion followed. —Last. fall, Robert Peebles, son of Mr. Andrew Peebles, 8th concession, Elma, and two other young men, were driving home fsom Trowbridge, 'following them was James W. Dickson, son of William Dick- son, of the 8th -concession, and Mr. Dickson passed Peebles on the road. Shortly after- wards Peebles endeavored to pass Dickson, but was ditched in the attempt, causing his (Peebles) horse to run away and smash the buggy. The father entered an action against Dickson, and the ease was tried be- fore Judge Woods, at the Division Court, itt Listowel, the other day. The defence argued that it was both unnecessary and foolhardy for Peebles to try to pass Diek- son, and that the attempt was made to --sass annoy defendant. His Honor concurred with the defence, and dismissed the case with costs. —While Mr. John Hambly, of Staffs:, was returning home from Mitchell, on Wednes- day evening of last week, his horse became unmanageable and ran away, and in passing a cutter on the road, struck, upsetting MT, Hambly in the snow. The animal then rushed on its mad career, and, overtaking the Rev. Mr- Kenner and daughter, who were returning fsom a lecture at Zion, tried to pass them, but this time not so safely, as the cutters struck and caught, thereby frightening Mr. Kennet's horse, which, for- tunately, be was able to e,ontrol. Miss Kenner had -presence of mind enough to jump and catch the runaway- horse bythe head, and hold it while her father quieted his own and freed the other from the cut- ter. Fortunately none of the occupants of either cutters were injured. —Mr. A. F. J. Lustig, a former resident of Listowel, died at his home in Chesley, where he has lived for the past four years, on Sunday morning, 10th inst. He had been affected with a tumor in his throat for some time, and had been confiped to his room for A couple of weeks. He was a native of -Pornmerain, Germany, and was born in Octeber, 1842, being thus a Compar- atively young man 53 of years age at the time of his death. He was married to. Miss Elizabeth Merner, of Shakespeare, who sur- vives him, with a family of five sons and four daughters. Mr. .Lustig served seven years in the regular German army, and was through the campaign of 1864 in the S'ehels- wig-Irolstein war, and in the Austrian war in 1866. He was the possessor of medals granted to him in -acknowledgment of his services on the battle ficId itt both of these campaigns. —A very pleasant affair took place at the residence of Mr. Charles Cosens, on the 3rd cbncession, Wallace, on the 6th inst., at which time Miss Lucinda Watson, grand- daughter of Mr. Crams, was married to Mr. John Faust, of Parkhill. Mr. John Watson, brother of the bride, acted as best map, and Miss Faust, of Detroit, as brides- maid. The ceremony was perfermed by the Rev. 8. Edmunds, of Fordwich. There was a large company of relatives and friends present, among whom were -Mr. David Stewart and wife, of Molesworth; Menno Halman and wife, of Wallace; Mr. Henry Fisher and family, of Wallace ; Mr; Fletch- er Cosens and Mr. Charles Cosens, J. P., of Trowbridge, and their wives, amd Albert Cosens and wife. Mr. Comas, sr., grand- - father of the bride,although in his 83rd year, seemed to be about as lively, and to enjoy the wedding as well as any one present, and was the only man that was smart enough to kiss the bridesmaid. I I I I I ij 11 4 h 4 4