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The Huron Expositor, 1895-04-05, Page 1h. aerere aritT beer Will +(XI. Tart ie in Tanen the hoard -place vil arena 1,1 Le:. ought vera iv en 0*(krIT -I* 'Oaf! : Mar. -M t hi, atie es. artlitu ante/ e n, the n v. le iet n of 0 -4ri t. le in londay W ter thee, eeeve. ire! • ha; , what hee teen e- eleastel I-' inentl n en at hi- nakinn to ee Air. F. k St 11-1 t - 6r6. T. endue of fine -hanna-, e as a ba, hone., younn goot OA he -recital elt on of an En and iuter- •Andera. The rewer,' tine Lon - organ mdon, to the ac•e orr Villiant ef thin The Mr. aie and ;nei at. of M1 enine t 1.•• err /I! 6 4. xpositor TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,425:4/\ SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895. { McLEAN' BROS., Publishers. $1.00 a Year in Advance. Take Down Your Dictionary And see what Webster calls a "bar- gain." He says its "a gainful and satisfactory transaection." According to that, then, our * ole business must be made up of We ter bargains. We gain a little profit, and the buyer is satisfied that he gets his money's worth. We don'tlake much stork in bargains, though, unless they are of the dictionary kind. 3 Do you? The firbt princip‘ controlling our business methods 41, highest qualities at lowest prices. Our range of goods in every line is as large as will be found in any house in the Dominion. Snits to order from Spring Overcoats Pants Pants readymade Boys' Suits ready to wear Youths' ditto Ditto Pants Boys' Kialckerbockers Hats all kinds $10 00 to $35 00 1-04004,to 30 00 25 to 10 00 1 50 to 300 1 25 to 800 5 00 to 12 00 1. 00 to 300 75 to 100 25 to 350 Big range of Boys' School Caps at 25c.. Our range of Shirts, Spring weights in Underclothing, Ties, Collars, and everything in the furnishing line, is very 'complete, .and 'the finest in the lard. We are Leaders in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters, SEAFORTH, - - - ONT. Up -town store- I Down -town store I Carniiphael's Block j Cady's Bloch. New Shoes. You may wear the old Shoes -while the overshoe season lasts, but when Spring comes, -with the relief of dry sidewalks and peasant days, NEW SHOES Are a positive necessity. Our Spring selections are very nice, and are arriving almost daily. Dress Shoes a specialty, but youcan find just what you need, as we handle everything ia the shoe line. One fact is clear - PRICES were never before what they are now. Come and see. SEAFORTH, FOUND at LAST THE WAY TO SECURE A Beautiful Oil Paintin For your home These lovely oil paintings, size 20x24 inches, are GEMS of ART. Call and see them. A few years ago they sold at $10, $15 and $20 each. How can I get one free? When your cash purchases, at this store, amount to $5, we will present you with one free of charge, providing, you pay us $1 for the beautiful gilt frame in which it is placed. We make this condition only because au oil painting appears best when in a - suitabte frame. This is the chance of a lifetime. -Don't miss it. No two alike. First crane has first choice. To be had only from 1. V. FEAR, The Leading Druggist, - - Seaforth. P. S. Ask for a ticket upon which your purchase will be punched. e PEARCE AND PLENTY WHERE THE TOILERS AND THE' MOIL ERS EAT IN LONDON. Bart Kennedy Describes a Bestaurani Where a Meal Can Be Had For 6 Cents The British Workingman at Close Range A Place Where All Are Suspected. [Special Correspondence.] LONDON, March 25. -Pea rce 's rests us rant stands on the corner of Waterloc road and New Cut, in tho parish of Lam. beth. It is patronized solely by the very poor, for this is the southeast part of thii! mighty London and is lived in by scarce- ly any one save mechanics, laborers and others whose lot it is to work the life out to keep the life in. To the right as you go into the restau- rant is a great counter, behind which the cooking is done and the . orders attended to. Girls do the cookinu, and two frowsy looking boys act as waiters. - The tables at which the people pit and eat have mar- - ble tops, the reason of which, I suppose, is' because they areleask to clean. They are set in rows though high wooden stalls. All For & Penny. , Here you can get things very cheap. For ssi penny you can get a thick slice of bread and butter and a cup of coffee or tea or cocoa. For threepence you can get a rasher of bacon and an egg. For a penny you will get a grilled herring, for 3 halfpence a grilled haddock. A piece of currant cake is a halfpenny. Yorkshire pudding is a penny.. A plate of -roast beet and potatoes is fourpence. And so it goes. Sixpence will get you all you wish .to eat. Tho quality is not the best in the world, but to the people that come hero quantity is the thing. Hanging above tho main door is the sign, "Pearce and Plenty." It is a bad pun, to be sure, but to the heart of the English from high to low tho pun is very dear. The point is on the face of it, so to speak, and necessarily doesn't take long to find out. Little school lads come heraat noon and get a -halfpenny cup of tea or coffee or cocoa, _as the case may be, to drink along with their lunch. Now and then two of them will share a single cub together, each drinking from the saucer in turn. They range from 5 to 10 years old, and some of their heads hardly reach to the top of the counter when they ain giving their orders. Their lunch, which usually consists -of a couple of slices of bread and butter, is given them by their mothers in the morning before they leave fen school. This is wrapped up in paper and stowed away in the hingest jacket pocket- along with marbles, sting, a peg top and other treasures. They aro interesting little fel- lows, and Itis a pleasure to study them. You should have seen the eyes of one of them opt with delight yesterday when I bought h rn a big piece of currant cake. Ile told Inv all about himself in three min- utes betwebn bites. he men and big boys th, comeThere at noon are nearly all covered with the grime and blackness of the neighboring work - SHARING TIM CDT. shops. Like the school lads, sornq of them bring along their own lunches. Ail corn- ers have the privilege of doing th s if they give an order at the counter, however small. A Deadly Monotony. They are a strange, haggard looking people, these London toilers. The wear and tear of life, in this city of cities show in their faces. They have that peculiar eager look which belongs to certain habit - nal dwellers in all great cities -that look which presages the horror of revolutian. In the restaurant they talk over the af- fairs of the workshdp and its relation to themselves -what they are doing, how they are doing it, how nauch'a week they get and so on. If you say a word to them of America, however, they listen eagerly. They look upon it as a desirable land for the workingman, and they long to go to it. I find that the fact of their hearing bad reports about it now and then,, doesn't bother them at all. I guess the' real cause of the wish to leave their own country is the deadly monotony of their lives and the nomadio instinct which is more or less in'every man. They are ndt so big or so strong looking as the average Ainerican workingman, nor are they as intelligent. There is a statue of Queen Victoria in this restaurant. It Is life size and stands in a niche in the wall off over to the left. Near it is a picture of a fisher naaiden looking out wistfully over the sea, pre- sumably for the return of her lover. On the walls are temperance and gbdly in- scriptions such as, "Use not intoxicating drinks," "Wine is a mocker," "Trust in E7ie Lord" and so forth. High up iaver the counter and nearly opposite to the "Trust in the Lord" inscription is a busiess in- scription which reads, "We give n trust." No Chances- Taken. It would be impossible fora des hungry man to eat a meal in thi rant without paying for it. You your food the instant you get it - the nail. No chances are taken. like it is in America, where you g fill first and pay the cashier afterwa indeed. The London business pr at east this phase of it, appears to a iun is a thief till you have fo that 'be is not, and even then that well to treat him as one, go as to bi safe side. And here I may say in passing that suspicion and general distrust of ev- ery one appear to be the keynote I of the character of London's lowest class. A stranger is looked upon as a wolf seeking these that he may devour. If he goes to look for lodgings, the landlady surveys him from head to foot in that timid, s udder- ing way which belongs te those th t have erately restau- pay for ight on It isn't t your d. No, nciple, be that nd out it is as on the Dyed their lives in the midst of meanness, squalor and grinding down of soul and spirit. A woman stranger gots no earthly show -at all. Half past 5 in the morning is a busy time for this restaurant. Then it is thronged with workingmen, young and old, who have to be at, tneir la Uri: by 6 o'clock, and who dr6p in on their way 40 got a hot cup of coffee and to take a bite of bread. The business done at this time is the, least paying of the whole day, for then all the mon bring their own bread plong, just as the school lads do at noon. All that they need -is a halfpenny cup of coffee, for this is not their regular break- fast. It is only a sort of temperance cock- tail -a physical bracer of the moral order. Breakfast time for them is from, 8 to half past 8 o'clock, when they fill up the place again, ,with moro paying results for the Proprietor. Quality of the Food. The order most in vogue at this time is for a rasher of bacon, a fried egg, two slices if broad and butter and a large cup of cof- fee. This comes to fiveponce. I must,say that the rasher an(' egg aro delicious, for I have tried them. Theare just as good as what you can get on tho Strand for five times the price. But the coffee is villain- ous. Ye gods! I defy the most exporb chemist alive to give me the small change of it. It seems to me to he a sort of blend between tea that has been overboiled, ink and a suspicion of stale coffee grounds. The bread„ however, was good, but the butter, whiciahad been spread thinly over It beforehand with a. knife, was on. the same plane of etcellence with the ooffee. The only good thing concerning it was the fact that the restaurant people -had been careful not to spread too much of it on. At 8 o'clock in the evening it closes up. Pearoe withholds his "plenty" till the coming of ahother day. BART KENNEDY. POSTMASTV1 GENERAL BISSELL. He Is Popular In Buffalo and Was Well Liked by Yale College Students. [Special Correspondence.] BunFato, April' 2. -The resignation of W. S. Bissell, which, when it takes ef- fect, will add the prefix "ex" to the title of postmaster general, has set a lot of his Buffalo acquaintances to telling stories of his yotmger days. Although he was born in Oneida county, his parents moved hero when he was 5 or 6 years old,Nand much of his boyhood was therefore passed in this city. His middle name being Shannon, ho was always milled Shan by his schoolmates, with whom he was very popular, and he is remembered by many middle aged men here who knew him then as being tall and. stout for his age, with a face in which the rod glow of health was always prominent. His best friend was Ben Lander. Lander sat next him at school, and the homes of the two boys were adjoining. With a third, Horace Parmelee, they built a flats bottomed boat, from which they used to fish for hours in tho waters of Niagara river. In their fondness for fishing these boys were like most others, but Shan and Ben had ono other amusement, not unique, it is true, but still not adopted by many. It was keeping a menagerie. This menagerie was located back of the Lander home. Ib consisted of snakes and turtles, a wood- chuck, a flying squirrel and quite an ex- tensive collection of white and field mice. These mammals and reptiles were kept in a lot of old barrels and boxes and their care occupied a good deal of time on the part of both boys. Sometimes Shan used to take baby snakes with him to school in his pockets, but whether he was ever thrashed for doing this is not of record. In the summer time the boys were wont to make long expeditions to the woods near Buf- falo for the purpose of hunting up speci- mens to add to their collection. After leaving the ward school at the age -of 12 young Bissell was prepared for college at the _Hopkins Grammar school in New Haven. He entered Yale at the age of 15. He was then 5 feet 10 inches tall, and in a letter to Horace Parmelee which is still preserved he mentioned the fact drat every one -told him he was'grow- ing and announced his _height in an un- derscored paragraph. In college he was very popular, being made a member of the 'spoons-' committee of -his class amtof the Skull and Bones secret- society, The importance of this latter, from the stu- dents' standpoint, will be understood by the non -Yale man when I explain that - but three members of each class are al- lowed to join the society. In spite of the fact that most people as- sociate cigarette Brooking with slender waisted men of the dude type,,Mr. Bissell smokes the paper rolls, or did so recent - 14 with much enjoyment. He began their uge in 1882 during Grover Cleveland's campaign for governor. Bissell was then Mr. Cleveland's partner, and when the to be president first saw a cigarette between the lips of his legal coworker and political supporter there were words of expostula- tion. "tilssell," said Mr. Cleveland, "I wish you would stop smolang thoge paper things. , I would rather buy your cigars myself than to see cigarettes in your mouth." Bissell said never a word, but Mr. Cleveland bought him a lot of cigars all the same and shortly afterward announc- ed that if elected governor that fall he would be delighted to sign a bill for tho suppression of cigarette smoking. Such a bill was passed during Cleveland's guber- natorial term and signed by him, but it prohibited the sale of cigarettes' to boys only and is quite as much a dead letter in this state as it would be in any other. During Mr. Cleveland's first term -as president the New York reporters used to seize upon every_possible occasion to in- terview Mr. Bissell regarding national politics, and this finally became so dis- tasteful to him that nine times in ten when he went to the metropolis he made it a point to get into his hotel as late as possible, get to his room without register- ' ing and leave in the morning without even waiting to pay his bill, which al- ways followed him to Buffalo. Mr. Bis- sell's signature is very much like Mr. Cleveland's, being very small," though the strokes of the letters are formed more boldly, and the lines are heavier than those in the president's signatuie. • JEROME WARD. • -A very interesting operation was per- formed at the City Hospital, London, re- cently, by which Mr. Charles McCarthy of Lucan will probably recover the use of a diseased arm, which has hitherto been stiff and entirely useless. A disease of the bone made it impossible for McCarthy to bend his arm at the elhow,and to remedy this Dr. Wishart, in the :presence of several other city medical men, made an excision of the elbow and removed a portion of the bone leading from the:: wrist to the shoulder at the stiffened joint. This gave the bones room to work, and allowed the arm to bend. As the wound heals the arm is bent daily, and McCarthy promises soon to be enjoying a brand new elbow, manufactured at the London City Hospital. The Seaforth Collegiate Institute. (WRITTEN FOR THE EXPOSITOR.) The report of the Minister of ltIducation has just come to hand- with the facts and figures of 1893, a -year behind, but still full of interest. -In turning over the pages one .naturally looks to see what story they tell 'altout our own county and town ; and a few hours' reading does not fail to supply food -for reflection, nor to give rational and satis- factory grounds for congratulating ourselves on our flourishing Collegiate Institute. In attempting to make a perfecty fair com- parison, it seems reasonable and natural to select all the schools that have the same number of teachers. We find ten schools besides the Seaforth Collegiane Institute that employ five teachers. The list is as follows with the population of each town :- Aylmer 2,167, Clinton :3,000, Cobourg 4,829, Collingwood 4,980, Ingersoll 4,191, Perth 3,300,Ridgetown 2,254,Sarnia 7,500,Seaforth 2,641, St. Marys 3,700, Whitby 2,786. Per- haps Goderich may be included since it lies within the county, but it 'does not come in- to the comparison since it has six teachers. Now, although the loeal circumstances of each school differ a good' deal owing to locat- ion, state of the surrounding public schools, ralway facilitiesietc., yet all the schools em- ploying five teachers are practically, as nearly on a level as we can get them. There are two very impartial tests that we can easily apply to get a tolerably fair idea of the comparative standing of each school, be- sides several minor .and less reliable tests. One is the amount of the legislative grant. Only. about 50 cents a head is allowed for mere attendance, and the Inspectors distri- bute the money chiefly in proportion to the general equipment of the school and to the efficency of the teaching, so that a good school with a smaller attendance will receive a higher grant than a poor school with a larger attendance.. In the following list the first figures in brackets give the number of pupils on the roll, the second figures the amount of the grant based on outfit and e-fficency I -Aylmer (221), $1,063; Clinton -(168),$1,O10; Cobourg (144),$1,015 ; Coiling - wood (252), 51,130; Ingersoll (169), 51,009; Perth (198),$1,121 ; Ridgetown (292),,V,062 ;- Sarnia (260), $i,175; Seaforth (205), $1,143 ; St. Marra (261),$1 ,063 ; Whitby (180,51,067; Goderich (see remark above) (262), 51,150. We find therefore that under this test Sea - forth with the smallest population, except Aylmer and Ridgetown,comes second on the list, being excelled by Sarnia alone with nearly thrice the population, and over thirty per cent. more students,so that in the pract- ical matter of dollars and cents our schools is only $32 dollars behind the highest mark in its class, and is not only second but al- most a tie with the first. So mach for our first comparison, which may flatter our self- love considably since it affects the sensitive pocket nerves. But probably the 'most practical, satis- factory and wholly impartial basis of com- parison is the total number of pupils of all kinds that- succeeded in, passing the various Official Examinations of the year. Of course some account should be taken of the total number of pupils attending each school. Seaforth again comes out second in the list, Collingwood alone leading with nearly double the population and 25 per centnnore students on the roll. In the following list the bracket- ed figures give the number of pupils attending the school for the year, and the . second figures the total number who passed at the Commercial, Primary,Junior Leaving, Senior Leaviag and University Matriculation, com- bined :-Aylmer (221), 50; Clinton (168), 51; Cobourg (144), 38,; Collingwood (252), 101 ; Ingersoll (169), 34 ; Perth (198), 48 ; Ridgetown . (242), 95; Sarnia (266), 51; Seaforth (205), 96; St. Marys (261), 88; Whitby (181), 40 ; Goderich (2(12), 85. It is manifest that about forty-seven per cent. of all the Seaforth students obtained certifi- cates, while the leading school got only forty per cent.of its attendance through any and all the severe ordeals; and it is only fair to consider this proportion in any com- parison that may be instituted. The result comes out as before ; Seaforth stands second, and the :linter Institute barely wins the first place, if it is not a tie. This is under present conditions the crucial test of every school, totally independent of local partiality. each examination paper being printed in Toronto, and each set of answers being valued in Toronto by an examiner who has not the least hint of the identity of the candidate or of the school from which he comes. No in- telligent person looking over the examin- ation questions will be inclined to think that the examiners erred on the side of leniency; indeed it is well-known that they err deeply on the opposite side, and give just grounds for censuring their severity towards the can- didates. The results exhibited by the Min- ister's report must be eminently satisfactory to the patrons and the trustees of our Institute. And they are not less satisfactory if we are so ambitious as to compare them with those of larger schools specially favored by railway privileges and large local popul- ations. We select a few places for compar- ison :-Stratford, population 9,500, 334 on the roll, 7 teachers, passed 79; Jarvis St. Institute, Toronto, population 181,220, 444 on the roll, 11 teachers, passed 63; Park - dale Institute, Toronto 371 on the roll, 10 teachers, pinged 44; Harbord Street Tor- onto, 576 on roll, 12 teachers, passed 97 -- just one more than Seaforth ; St. Catherines, population 9,170, on the roll 321, 7 teachers, passed 56; Brantford, population 17,000, on the roll 293, 6 teachers,passed 36; Chatham, popnlation 9,052, on the roll 350, 7 teachers, pa.ssled 89; Galt, population 7,200, on the roll /272, 6 teachers, passed 102 ; St. Thomas, popplation 10,370,on the roll 333, 7 teachers, pa4ed 88; Kingston, population 19,264, on thexoll 375, 9 teachers,passed 24; Windsor, population 10,322,on the roll 197, 6 teachers, passed 28; Ottewa, population over 30,000, on the roll 448, 12 teachers, passed 52; Hamilton, population 50,000, on the roll 728 the largest school in the province, more than three and a half times as large as Seaforth, 15 teachers, passed 160, Seaforth 96. So that although only second in her own class, our Institute has fairly and completely ex- celled the schools in many larger places in all parts of the province; and there is no other school in Ontario placed in a town of the same size that has done equally well, though we must allow Ridgetown the honor of being a very close competitor (95), while the larger schools, with all their supposed advantages, are simply incapable of bearing any fair comparison in the results they are able to show. The fact is that when a school goes over 250 or 300 pupils it becomes unruly and the Principal is not able to exercise his pro- per influence on each pupil and each teacher, and the central unity of the school falls to pieces. There is a limit to human capacity, and the figures in the report demonstrate the weakness of the largest schools -and vice versa. In several other ways very interesting h 'comparisons may be made, but with less pre- cision than those already givon. We have given the populations of the Owns wbere the Collegiate Institutes are located. On re- ferring to any map of Ontario it will be seen at once that they differ very seriously in two impottant particulary :-(1) With regard to railway facilities, the schools at railway junctions having decided advantages.- (2) With regard to their nearness to other good schools, those placed 20 or 30 miles from any other school having deoided advantages. These two elements must plainly be consid- ered in estimating the popularity and at- tractive power of any school on the list. Now, Seaforth derives no advantage from railway connections ; quite the reverse, for example, Dublin is only a little farther from Seaforth than it is from Mitchell, and yet the difference in fare sends nearly all the Dublin pupils to Mitchell. Besides this, the morning and evening trains favor Listowel, Stratford, Mitchell -and Clinton, and they do not assist Godeich and Sea - forth. Pupils in Wingham, Brucefield, Hensall, Centralia, Brussels, Wroxeter, etc., find little encouragement to attend our school when they consult the railway time -tables. Again, we have one school 8 miles west, another 11,1s miles east, one 20 miles south and another 22 miles north-east; so that the Seaforth Institute derives very little advantage from its railway connection or its geographical position. It is satis- factory, therefore, to find that, notwith- standing the disadvantages of its location, our Institute comes out fourth on the list., in respect to the number of outside pupils who travel various distances to attend. The number of outside pupils at the schools of our class is as follows :-Aylmer 59, Clinton 102, Cobourg 50, Collingwood. 169, Ingersoll 61, Perth 90, Ridgetown 178, Sarnia 70, Seaforth 123, St. -Marys 138, Whitby 87. Goderich had 119. In this connection it is interesting to note the num- bers of such students at several large junc- tion cities and towns :-Brantford 90, Brockville 83, Chatham 122, Galt 117, Guelph 70, Hamilton 116 ; London, with all its advertising, 138, only as many as St. Marys ; Peterboro 60, Stratford 96, St. Catharines 110, St. Thomas 113; Toronto -3 schools and 33 teachers -73. On this ground also it is perfectly plain that we have reason to be satisfied and even rather vain of the at- tractiveness of our school when compared with larger -schools that have natural advan- tages, and sonic of which advertise exten- sively by sending out circulars every half year. The Berlin school, for example, has a local population of 11,000, two railways, and a splendid territory on all sides, yet it does not rank as an Institute, only as a high school, had only 164 students, drew only 102 from outside, and passed only 37 candi- dates. On a careful study of these figures it is easily seen that the average student may be safely " trusted to select the school that will most cheaply and 'certainly assist him in his proposed studies. There are numerous other points of inter- est, in the report which every ratepayer should study for himself. For example, our Institute cost altogether 56,207.76, of which the town paid 52,300, so that about $3,900 of grants was received, and the five teachers cost an average of $460 each, from which should be deducted the taxes paid on their salaries and property. The public schools received grants amounting to 5585.66, and cost the town about $3,900. On the whole, it will satisfy most readers to compare the educational results of Seaforth, both Colleg- iate and public school, with those of any other town of equal size, and it will show all concerned how to appreciate the advan- tages of this town, as a desirable place of residence in which to establish a home, and rear and educate a family. • Canada. Caledonia bas a new Mechanics' Insti- tute, with 1,200 volumes. -The Catholics of Collingwood are about to build a separate school. -Johnson Soper has sold 120 acres near Rondeau, for $7,500. - Orillia temperance people are trying to revive the Sons of Temperance in that town. -The late James McWhirter, of Wood- stock, carried an insurance on his life of over $13,000. -Hugh McGurdy, of London, has just been sent to jail the 50t1eatime, for drunken- ness. TNi -Mr. Jonathan PettiValn old and well- known resident of Grimsby, died at his home there a few days ago, aged 70. -Mr. R. H. Bethune, for many years cashier of the Dominion bank, died Friday, at his residence in Toronto. -The First Methodist church, at St. Thomas, will be rebuilt at once on the old site. -Detective Flynn, of Montreal, on Sat- urday morning was condemned to 12 months in the common jail for perjury. - The Orange Grand Lodge of Manitoba have summoned a convention of all persons who favor a system of national schools. -A young farmer near Windsor thinks he has discovered perpetual motion, and has sent a machine to the Ottawa patent office. -Michigan Central railway employees in the St. Thomas shops,have been put on eight hours a day. They have been working only seven hours a day since August. -Three or four men'and a. dozen girls were compelled to jump out of a second - storey window in a tailor shop at Orilla, the other day, to escape suffocation. -The village of Wolverton, on Smith's Creek, has been badly flooded this spring on account of the river being blocked with ice. The mills have had to close down. -Adam Marshall, concession 11, East Zorra, has resided for 62 years in that local- ity, and for 61 years has not been more than four miles from his home. -Mrs. Elizabeth Green, the white wife of Isaac Green, an Indian, of Shannonville, Hastings county, has been found guilty of atteniptingto burn her husband in his bed. -The traders of Bristol, England, have asked the Canadian Government to have the date and make of Canadian cheese in- delibly marked before it leaves the factory. -Miss Agnes Maule Machar (Fidelis), the famous Canadian novelist and poetess, has just had published io London, a book entitled, "The Heir of Fairmont Grange." -The death took plaee in Montreal on Sunday, of the Comtesse De Beajeu, the oldest living representative of the promin- ent French-Canadian family of De Bettjeu, in her 85th year. -James Bond, a prominent citizen of Halifax, and worth several thousand dol- lars, attempted to take his life on Saturday morning, by cutting his throat with a pair of scissors. Poor health is the cause given. -The latest arrival at the Brantford In- stitution for the Blind, is a youngster from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, David Little by name, about 11 years old,- but al- though strong and healthy, smallfor his age. He is an intelligent child, and gives an -accoaut of himself with great exactness. He is sent to Brantford under the auspices and at the expense of the British Columbia Government, there being no educational in- stitution for the blind in that Provinee. He was placed in charge of a friendly brake- man on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Vancouver city, on Sunday 1711i March, reached Toronto without change late Friday evening, tlie 22nd, and was, after being well lodged for the night, thence forwarded on Saturday to Brantford. -Thos. Forsythe, a young farmer of Dela- ware, Who sued a London policeman for false arrest, secured a verdict of 540. -A Woman's Art Association has been organized in St. Thomas. It will be affili- ated with the Women's Art Association of Toronto,and the National Coimcil of Women of Canada. head with a hammer. Believing that he had killed the woman, he attempted to corn - mit suicide by cutting the veins at his 'Wrists and stabbing himself in the breast. Mrs. Zimmerman will proba.bly recover, but Zimmerman lies. iis a very :Precarions condi- tion at .the General hospital -At the instance of Mr. J. J. Kelso, superintendent of neglected children, Ottawa, inquiries are being set on foot to ascertain to what extent the insurance of -children's lives is carried on in that city. It is thought that very little, if any, of that sort of busi- ness is clone in Ottawa. -Dr. Francis Asbury Campbell, president of the Normal School for the .Blind, at Nor= -Last fall, from less than one-half an acre Wood, London, England, gives an indignant of ground, George VanSchaick; of Cape Vin- ;denial of Immigration inspector DeBarry s cent, Prince Ed -ward county, sold over 25 statement that the waifs Dr. Barnardo brings b bushels of cucumbers at one dollar per ,to Canada are the illigitimate offsprin ushel.g of British aristocraey. - The members of St. John's Lodge, No. :ear inspector discovered it boy on the tri -At Niaara Falls, the other morning a a joint stock company for the purpose of 35, A. F. and A. M., Cayuga, have formed g of a passenger coach as it whirled in from erecting a three-story Masonic block in NeW York. He ordered him off, but the Cayuga. -On Friday night, Mrs. J. A. 'rove% at He was robbed of his W or aka.ndasound for Toronto -A pitch -in took place early last Sunday bnd numb With old that he had to be lifted oy was tied on the truck and was so stiff Toronto fell down the cellar stairs with .R. Y. wb. , off. lamp in 'her hand. . The lamp broke, MrsHe had ridden that way from New *. y, C TOvell's clothing caught fire, and her .condi- y -Charles Han-buranadian Pacific N tion, as a result of her injuries, is -critical. il. -The C. P. R Lands Department offices, inga, Manitoba, rawasection man near a , at Winnipeg, are crowded with intending while returning, from work the other night d sck settlers, many of whom are frwas overtaken by two mendriving a team antruon the head with an axe and om the States. neaely killed. 4geS, So great is the pressure that the company is opening a branch officeat Calgary. forty dollars, which he was taking homey; morning at the Y near Hamilton. Two .ltems. : freight trains were wrecked, and three men Perth injured, though not fatally. Both trains iThe fifty acre farm, of Mr. Robert Bran - were thrown off the trackand nine of he on, one mile from Prospect Hill, was sold cars were demolished by fire ; t.i at auction under mortgage at the Windeor . House, St. Marys, a few days ego to Mr. -The annual closing exercises of the On tario Veterinary college, Toronto, were Joseph Mossey, sr.. for 81,850. - held Friday,. and. 150 students, representing An At Home was given in the Kirkton different parts of the United States, CanadMethodist church one evening lately.a Over 200 people were present, and the and Great Britain, were graduated. --Dr. Cornish, professor of classical liter- ceeds, which amounted to 527.40, went to ature, and Professor Darcy, professor of pay for a stove for the church. modern languages at McGill University, the -A ivery pleasant event took place at two oldest professors of the college, have the resdence of Mr. A. Thom, St. Pauls, on sent in their resignations. the 20th ult., beiag the marriage of his daughter, Mary M., to Mr. 'Thomas Ander- resident of Paris, who had been missing son, of Avonton. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. A. H. Drumm, hi the pres- since Friday night, was found on Sunday ence of about sixty guests, assembled from afternoon, in the mill race, in the eastern Blackwell, Lyman, Hampstead, -Carlingford part of that town. He leaves a widow and seand Stratford. seen small children. . -Mr. J. I-.1 0 Brien has sold his farm at -A. man named John Hamilton, whose relatives reside in Toronto was run over by Rostock,' tc0 Mr. Christopher Alles, for a train, near the village of Fletcher, west of $4,600, which is considered a good prim, and Mr. WM. Bunck, of the same neighbor - St. Thomas, last Friday night. Both his hood, has sold his farm of seventy-five acres legs were cut off above the knee. He died shortly after being found. to his brother John, for the sum of $3,70u, -Mr. Walter Edwards, an employe of the and has bought the Fannies estate at Wart - ill shortly move. Goldie & McCulloch works, Galt, felt such a brirg to which he w pain in one of his fingers the other day that -Mr. Thomas Collins, of Alpena, Afield- gan, was in Stratford last week, calling on he consulted a doctor, who cut in and found a piece of glass,embedded in the flesh,nearly friends en route to Buffalo and New Xork half an inch long,which had been in the hand on a business trip. Mr. Collins is a North for 9 years. Easthope be who went to Michigan thirty years ago to engage in lumbering, and who -Samuel Neilly, who has resided at Port Stanley for the past 62 years, says that dur- has met with, success. He has been a con- stant readerld the Stratford Beacon during ing all that time the harbor has never been blocked with ice so late in any season as it all these 30 years. n - is in this one. At present the liarbor is full -Mr. James Jones, of Logan, was driv f ing with Mr. J. E. Murphy, of HepWorth,on oice. -The 'Women's Christian the Logan road,the other Sunday,when they which works in harmony viiatilsoct h Athseuianln Union got wrecked itt a pitch -pole. The horses - Mission, St. Andrew's street, Galt, have de - sprang out with Mr. Jones hanging on to - cided to send all the money and clothing thethe,lines, leaving the cutten and Mr. Mur - a can gather to the Stundists in Assiniboia, phy in the underground hole.. However, after a time, they got things straightened North West Territory, from whom comes an for a new start, and reached home safely. earnest appeal for help, -The horrre of Mrs, Richard Pattereon, - George Howard, a 0. T. R. brakeman, Mina, was the scene was Working on Tuesday interning of last of the 411 concession of of a pretty wedding on the evening of March Week, on top of a train of cars, at Toronto, 20th. Many friends were assembled to wit - when a jolt caused him to lose his footing, ness the marriage of her daughter, Sarah and he fell to the ground head foremost, M., to Mr. Edward Denyer, of Mornington. breaking his neck and dying instantly. He The ceremony was performed by Rev. .1. 8. leaves a widow and two children. Fisher. Mr. and Mre. Denyer will take up -The barn of the "Walter Idington Farm" near Hespeler, was burned down the their residence in Atwood. -The death of Mr. Thomas Langford, of other evening about 10 o'clock. Mr. McGregor, who rents the farm, was attend- Muskoka, is published. The deceased was ing to the stock when his lantern exploded familiarly known as " Lame was setting the place on fire. The stock was lth comes - formerly a. resident of the lTom," and. - saved but all the grain and implements were sion of Biddulph. He was a man of a kind saved. ly dispositon, who had man Sc friends and few enemies. He had passed his 70-th year. sonburg, celebrated his 70th birthday last -Mr. E. D. Tillson, the founder of Til - Alexander and Isaac Langford, of the Lon- don and Biddulph townline, and George, of Lon - week. He was born in Normandale, Nor- - folk county, on March 26th, 1825, and has Mornington, are brothers of the deceased. been a resident of Tilsonburg for about 69 -On Sunday, 24th ult. the German years. He has seen the p - la • grow from a Evangelicals in Listowel celebrated the re - so. howling wilderness to a t firifty and enter- opening of their church after it had under- prisintown. . gone a decided improvement in the interior. -The other day, near Midland, Simcoe On - the following Monday evening the county, the second son of Mr. Charles Tay- church was well filled, when Rey. Mr. lor, of the township of Tay, aged 20 years, Wagner, of Stratford, delivered a very in - while engaged in felling a tree, met with a teresting and highly instructive lecture, the terrible accident, which resulted in his subject of which was "A Trip up the death. In falling, the tree bounded back, Rhine." the butt pinning him against a fallen log. -The other morning, as Mr. George The young man only lived two diours after Shipley, of Whyte's pork factory, in Alit - the accident. chell, was attending to his work in a stoop- - Miss Abbie M. Lyon, graduate of ed position, a piece of scantling a few feet Wooster University, Ohio, and now acting long fell a distance of about 18 feet, the as travelling secretary for the student vol- end of it striking him on the back of his unteer movement for foreign missions, is in head, the wound was at once attended to, Toronto this week addressing thevarious and he is now at work again. A well pad - mission societies of that city. Miss Lyon ded crown in the cap he wore saved him intends to engage in foreign mission work from a worse fate. shortly. Her father is a missionary in -What might have resulted in a serious China. accident happened to Mr. John McCauley,. -The other evening, Fred Bond, of sr., of Britton, at Listowel, on Saturday Cobourg, had his left eyeball torn out by a evening, 23rd ult. He was waiting for the chair thrown by a boy named Patrick Fitz- mixed train for Stratford, when a special gerald. Bond was teasing the boy, who be from Palmerston pulled into the yard, and caabmoveearnesgruylLanTdhitshirsewa wthaerncihnagirto, tesh.eithmatnhye The conductor informed him of his nuidake, t1inking it was the regular train he got on. thoughtless persons who engage in the cruel and the old gentleman in his effort to jump practice of teasing children. off fell between the platform and rail, and --At the close of the recent exhibition of was struck by thelmoving train. He was the London branch of the Woman's Art A8- picked up unconscious and .carried into the sociation a large number of pictures were station, where medical aid was procured sold, among which were two by Mrs. and the wounds dressed. Fortunately no Schrieber, of Springfield -on -the -Credit, and bones were broken, and he is improving one by Miss M. McConnell, of Toronto, nicely. It was a narrow escape. Vice -President of the Woman's Art Associ- -The Mitchell Recorder of last week ation of Canada. says " Alexander F. MacLaren, the Con- -The present year is the 75th anniver- servative candidate for North Perth, has sary of the first Presbyterian organization been for the last week or twe waiting at the in Toronto, the 50th anniversary of the sick bed of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and .Mrs. union of that church and. Knox congrega.- Alexander Ferguson, old and. highly esteem - tion and the 15th of the present pastorate ed residents of Hibbert, who are lying of inrc church. Memorial services will be critically ill, and Wednesday morning he held on the Lord's days, April 7th and 14th, received worci of the death the night before the Sabbath School anniversary will be held of Harold, son of his brother, Mr. J. B. on Sabbath afternoon,April 14th. MacLaren, cheese buyer, of Ingersoll, also -Mrs. Hartley, ofNorwich, Brant coun- well known in Perth county. These bereave- ty, who was on trial for the murder of her ments have unavoidably interfered with husband, Caleb Hartley, last summer, was Mr. Ma.cLaren's movements,and rendered it in Woodstock recently interviewing the impossible for him to keep some of his p0 - Ancient Order of United Workmen officers, litigal engagements." in regard to the itumrance.policy for $2,000 -The many friends of Mr. F. Krug, of that the late Mr. Hartley carried in that Tavistock, will regret to learn of the death order. A settlement was refused, and both- of his third son, Fleming Rankin, a bright parties say they will push the matter in the young lad in his 16th year, which took courts. place on Tuesday, last week. The deceased -Mr. John O'Shea, of Kingston, who was a pupil of the Stratford Collegiate In - saved many lives from drowning, and was stitute up to some months ago, when ap- the wearer of a Royal Humane medal and a pendicitis developed, which compelled his gold watch, the gift of that city, is dead. retirement. Two operations were perform - These were given for his rescue of a drown- ed on him by Dr. Teskey, of Toronto'us- ing girl. His swimming and diving feats sisted by Dr. Steele, of Tavistock, andDr. were remarkable. He was an old sailor and Livingston, of Shakespeare, one some tune junk dealer, and died worth $15,000. He ago and the second on Saturday previous to began life on the tow -path on the Erie oanah his death. After the first opetation he He was a staunch Roman Catholic. seemed to recover, but he only survived -The other morning, Arthifr C. Zimmer- the second two days. He was a most man, of Toronto, made a murderous attack amiable boy, and was much esteemed by upon his wife, with whom he had been guar- the teachers and pupils of the Collegiate In - telling, striking her twice on the top of the Istituto.