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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1890-06-13, Page 16, 189G, 'RIVALS DAY AT KUL'S Lan tie Rouse. TOCK attractive LU; PARASOLS, HOSIERY, .RIBBONS, a large raege of inghems, eea and [ed with ABLE LINENS, assortment of Clothing, t`OLD CHEAP, st the lowest pos- - Produce. AUL- TH. d home on Mon proving his faena 'fence along the, large herds of roaming up and vicinity, and in le usual amount cattle will be Ir. Joseph Clegg, large number of - to the Old Corm- s are now :busily e land for root much rain lately order for work - round the school CtiOrt. No. 5 is a considerable I one. g read in THE in the Brussels n article in refer- , a resident of 3/1 old fax and ng ones, I beg e is. no such a, . ad to the best of et been no such by any resident icle referred te- Sine is between eelsea. Thie is dham is in the suety of Perth, Seuth Riding of while Sunshine i3 be same County. ad editors have af a huge joke by aponclent we are far as Sunshine published has e or any of ite ineein the townIy place of that f Canada there where. = T. Berrysthe ✓ of this place, Mr. McMillan, • r -year-old geld- " weighing 1,500 id the round sutra We have jaiss–rie, avell, of CrOh- is thoroughbred "Edinburgh," Berry, of this - y her side from tent judges say ts of the thor- eat colt of the his epeeks well horse men from ir mares sues_ a g to see this Buchan an's,2nd a mile west of y large quantity s section during .—The crepe still verage yield and heavy. --Politics ng topic during feeling on the ban in the pre- . Kernighan, of me is visiting The Rev. J. S. 1 Presbyterian ear terly sermon abbath Eret, the Fear 'And J 8• ce, left" Ws d to attend held there.Hawkshaw, k the guests Of \Eases Patterson e been in Wring' ned home this ; John Mrel ham. The best friends fonew (ass, our entertly had his wagon tasteful' tic confectioners ont with a No. 1 , -which the aim times. is, our por115r. orn London this driving and efif" Beaton market. ation and sela a _ • • owe- uill111111111MMIIIIISIW e -St / WENT -SECOND YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,174. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1890. MoLEAN:!BROg. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. NEW GOODS ARRIVING WEEKLY AT— HOFFMAN & CO.'S. MILLINERY, DRESS GOODS, PRINTS, RIBBONS, LACES, CORSETS, - GLOVES, FRILLINGS _ COLLARS, &c., —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— ' HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEA F 0 RT H. NOTICE.—Agents for Butter - cies reliable patterns and publica- tions. —Mr. Will Maclean, of Geary's Drug store,Sarnia,left on Tuesday for St. Louis as a delegate to the International Conven- tion of Christian Endeavor, to be held in that city on the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of this month. —A unique monument has been erect- ed at Wyoming village cemetery in memory of the late Thomas Buckley who was killed by falling off a train near Toronto recently. It is about ten feet in height and represents a broken tree trunk. A tablet in the form of a scroll on the side contains the name, age and date of death of deceased. —A letter went from the Drumbo post office to Galt the other day ad- dressed as follows : "This letter must travel to Galt,—And ne'er on the road- side nmst halt,—When there it will find R. Ferrah,—The gent who now leads the 'hurrah'—For the jolly old Galt Jubilee,—Which hundreds from Blen- heim will see.—R. Ferrah, in Galt, Waterloo,—Tom Cowan will please give this to." The inscription was intended to serve as a travelling advertisement of the Great Galt Summer Carnival,— June 12th and 13th. —The Listowel Banner of last week contains the following notice: 'same Alexander, of unsound mind, who has been cared for two years by Ms sister in Listowel, eacaped froneher care on Sun- day night and careful search has failed to find him so far. He is about forty years Of age, reddish hair, freckled face, wearing a dark tweed suit and felt hat, has a halt in his walk, and it is feared that he has wandered into a bush swamp and is suffering from hunger as he is backward in 'eking for food. Any one who can give any information of him will please communicate with Constable Woods, Listowel. —Rev. Wm. Cuthbertson and Miss Cuthbertaon left Woodstock last week en route to England, where they will reside in future. He preached his hist sermon as pastor of the Congregational church the previous Sunday night to a very large congregation. The 'reverend gentleman was presented before his de- parture with a purse of $125 on behalf of the citizens of Woodstock. He was also presented with a practical testi- monial on behalf of the congregation, and Miss Cuthbertson, as organist,- was presented with an address, accompanied by a purse and a splendid group photo- graph of the members of the choir. —Another of the old settlers has passe& away in the person of William Glover, near Port, Stanley, Southwold township, at the ripe age of 91 years, 4 months and 20 days. Mr. Glover was born in the Parish of Allsworthy, Devon- shire, England, in 1799, and emigrated to this country in 1842. He settled in tho township of Southwold and was a coutractor in building- the London and POrt Stanley gravel road. Mr. Glover was a man of genial disposition and a consistent member of the Methodist body, to whieh he has liberally contri- buted, one of his gifts being the new organ cf the chnrch at Port Stanley. —Rev. Kenneth F. Junor, M. D. of the Dutch Reformed Church, New Yerk, conducted the service in Knox Church, Guelph, on the evening of Sabbath, June 1st, and delivered an excellent dis- course ba.secl on 1st Corinthians, 8 ch. 13 verse (Revised Version) : "If meat rnaketh nay brother to stumble I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble." The preacher dealt with the nature and effects of alcohol from a scientifio point of view. H.e contended that it was a narcotic and excitant, but had no right to be called a stimulant, as a proper stimulant always worked for good ends leaving no injurious effects. He' made use of the results of several scientific experiments with some of the tissues of the human body, and elan of the senses, to show that the effects of alcohol were always evil. In concluding, the preach- er made a atrong appeal to the church and all lovers of humanity and their country to cut loose from the drink usages of the age. FROM OLD LONDON. Lonnon, England, June 2nd, 1890. The committee of the House of Com- mons have passed the bill for a new rail- way, to be called the Central London Railway, and there is every. hope that we shall soon have a new means of travelling from the city to the West. This new railway will be under ground, very much so indeed, for it is going to be dug at a depth of over 50 feet from the surface, and will thus avoid the dis- turbance of drains and pipes, which, in previous cases of the kind, has added so much to the expense of making the lines. The usual arguments about dis- turbing foundations were of course brought against the plan, but at this depth there is really no fear of mischief of die. description, and the engineers maintain that the ventilation will be all the better for the great depth, as the shafts willbe so much the longer, and so act with more power. Electricity is to be the'metive power, so that the state of semi -suffocation which the passengers, by the existing underground railways, occasionally find themselves in, will, it is hoped, be entirely avoided. A fine fight has taken place between the pro- moters of the railway and the owners of the property, under which, or shall I say through which, the line is to pass. The owners maintain the old idea that the property of a freeholder goes down to the centre of the earth and up to the sky, while the railway promoters Reg - gest that as the freeholders had no real interest in the ground at the depth the railway was to run. they ought not to want compensation. Nevertheless they did want and will get it. A DREADFUL sCHEME wish the above scheme all success, but I have now to draw attention to one so awful that my very ink seems to turn pale as I write. A bold bed man from your side,—not, however, from your noble Dominion,but from lands far below You, in fact, a Yankee,—has dared to suggest the cov- ering over of the river Thames ! He wants tc build over it a sort of continu- ous bridge, and points out with malig- nant glee the large amount of extra building land of the most valuable kind that would be thus obtained. Valuable it certainly would be, at all events from the builder's point ofview, but at what a price it would be obtained I admit with sorrow that London River is not as clear as it might be, but it has been won- derfully improved in the last few years, and those who have seen it as I have seen it, at -daybreak on a summer's morning, and by moonlight on a, winter's night, will admit that it is a most beau- tiful river, by far the most beautiful thing we Londoners possess. And now our Yankee friend (your printer may leave out the letter r if he likes) sug- gests that we should turn our river into an underground ditch. Our boats are to float ha a kind of sewer, our outings on the water are to de outings no longer, and our great source of air and freshness it to become an eligible building site. Anathema Maranatha. But alas, I can- not do justice to it. Denham's famous line on the Thames: "Strong without' rage, without o'erflowing full, does not describe the feelings of ymar correspon- dent just now. RAT SUFFERERS AND SUFFERING 'LATS. We are suffering fromfa plague of rats, and perhaps the condemnable suggestion of the condemnable Yankee was made with a view to their interests. Our government has forced us to put muzzles on our dogs, but in a sort of intermit- tent way, so that good dogs are led to believe that when the muzzles are off them they ought to bite people, whilst bad dogs are made more `bitey" than ever. The one oVvious result is a •great increase in rats, The other day there was a fine fire at the oil iniils of Sir W. A. Rose & Co., at Bankside. I can't do better than quote the account given by a leading journal : "Whilst the fire was raging, thousands of rats driven from their refuge by the burning oil swam acrons the river to the shore near St. Paul's. At a meeting held at South- wark last evening, a committee was ap- pointed to relieve the sufferers by the fire." I think this is carrying kindness towards beasts a little too far. A DUBIOUS KIND OF PROTESTION. There has been a good cleitl of fun in some of the continental theatres lately through the freaks of the elestric light. It has a lively way of fusing its wires at times, and tbe molten metal has a dis- turbing effect upon the audience. We are using the electric light very much for bell room illumination, and a Paris- ian genius has invented a dress material for the ladies, which will certainly pos- sesethe great quality of preserving them from electric shocks. He proposes to dress them in spun glass. Now this seeina all very well. Glass is an almoet perfect non-conductor of electricity, and is certainly quite uninflammable ; but then, glass is transparent. We have at least legendary authority that glass slip• pers can be worn; whether of spun glass or not is not specified ; but when it eomes to wearing glass, ahem, other things, might it not be rather,—but per- haps the subject had better not be pur- sued. SLOW MAILS. People are grumbling here that the New York mails are being carried in slow ships. However, my letters reach you quite soon enough, and your entries of them are admirably regular'but some people are never satisfied. Now, we(are going back to the old mail coach systeSJT A three -horse mail coach is running between Liverpool and Man- ehester with a smartly uniformed guard and driver, and no doubt a musical horn. I believe the orthodox blunder- buss is discarded in favor of a modern revolver, but of course something must be Anceded to the spirit of the age. If the coach is found a success, several more will be Started, and doubtless the legitimate highwayman will soon be re- vived also. Ihen the life companies may have occasion to make a special • rate. With regard to letters, we are trying to get our postal authorities to mark on them the hour of Collection as well as the date. I believe that on your side you are ahead of us in this matter of the sheet containing all manner of beasts and creeping things let down from Heaven, from which he learned that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was in- tended foe- the Gentile as well as for the as in some others. Jew. Thus Joppa was the birth -place I cannot close my letter without ex- of the Gentile Christian church. pressing the sympathy we all feel for our From the steamer, Joppa presents a Canadian friends in the dreadful calam- ity you have sustained at your asylum at Longue Pointe. I have read of many fires, but never of one, I think, more terrible than this. T. • Fattening Lambs on Rape, and Also During the Winter. EDITOR EXPOSITOR,—As the time is at ha6d again for sowing rape, a letter to the farmers of this province regard- ing our experience with its cultivation and fattening lambs upon it may not be inopportune; A bulletin on the subject is now in the hands of the printer which will give more, complete details. We grew several acres of rape upon this farm last season, and fattened lambs upon it for about two months by pasturing them. From the experiment we feel aafe in coneluding that an acre of good rape will feed ten or twelve lambs for two months, and that with a small supplement of oats they may eas- ily be made to gain nine pounds a month. e . The lambs were purchased and put upon the rape October 10, and remained upon it until December 3. They were then fed in sheds until near the end of March, when they were sold for slaughter and subsequent shipment to Halifax. When purchased they weighed on an average 96 lbs. and when sold 137 lbs. They cost $3.84 4 5 per head, and were sold for $7.71 4-5, or more than, twice the amonnt ,paid for them. The average Ontario lamb is sold for abowt $3,50 per head. Why should it not be the aim of the farmer he produce them in such a way that he will realize twice that amount before they leave him?. As one acre of rape will fatten about ten lambs, two acres would suffice for the average farmer, or indeed a much lees amount. If properly raised and sold at Christmas time, soon after tak- ing them off the rape, they would bring 5 centif per pound live weight on an average, which would mean to the farmer about $5.50 to $6 per lamb. The change in the American tariff, if ratifiedby the Senate, will probably somewha affect these prices. Instead of 20 per ent. duty as now the exparter will then have to pay $1.50 per head, which will be on an average about 70 cents more per head than is paid at present. Farmers who raise lambs of the first order can, however, realize more for them than the price already named. Lambs that come early and that are lib- erally dealt with may be easily made to average 130 to 140 lbs. by Christmas. So that in the face of this increased tariff the Ontario farmer can get as much per head for his lambs as now. There is, however, another grand opening for our lambs. Why do we fail to take advantage of it? I refer to the British market. This is a field, as yet almost unoccupied by us in the sense of which I am more particularly speaking. We do send over a considerable number of sheep to Britain every year, but a large proportion of them are not lambs. This arises, I suppose, from the fact that lambs are -seldom found sufficiently heavy for shipment when about 1 year old. But this need not be so of neces- sity. Lambs can easily enough be raised that will weigh from 150 to 170 lbs. whe4 1 year old, for which in all pro- bability from 5c to 6c per pound might be obtained. These would be paying prices for shearlings. Why should not Ontario- export 100,000 head of this class of lambs every year? The average paid now for two -shear sheep is perhaps not more than the sum named as obtainable for those 1 year old, and for the reason that they are much below the standard in weight and quality of what is easily possible. -If a two -shear sheep brings no more than one but 1 year old, the profit on the two - shear, if there be any, is less than that on the shearling by the coat of the maintenance of the former for a whole year. Rape will grow on any soil suitable for the cultivation of roots. It mill also flourish on soils abounding in humus. It should be sown and cultivated much after the manner of turnips, but does not of necessity require thinning. The best time to sow is the last week in June. Yours etc., THOMAS SHAW. Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, June 5. Synopsis of J. B. Elowie's Lec- ture on The Holy Land. (By Ada s. Bean.) _ In making a journey to the Holy Land, one's best route is to set sail from New York and go to Liverpool, from Liverpool, by rail through South - Western England, cross the English channel, then again by rail through France and Italy, and from an Italian port take steamer to Egypt, there change steamers and sail directly to Joppa.. The entire journey, to one ac- quainted. with the route would occupy some six weeks and could be managed at a total coat of about $150. Joppa, or Jaffa, the beautiful, is the harbor or threshold to the Holy Land and is equal in interest to Jerusalem. Al- though Jerusalem was the scene of many important events in connection with our Savour's life on earth, Joppa, from very early times, was famous in Bible History. The cedars of Lebanon which were floated from the mountain down the Mediternanean Sea, for the building of Solomon's temple were landed there. To Joppa Jonah fled when commanded by God to warn Nineveh of her impend- ing fate on account of her wickedness. In Joppa, Peter raised Dorcas from the dead and on the top of the house of Simon the tanner he beheld the vision beautiful -appearance. It contains -only one street which is sometimes very nar- row, the houses being built one higher than the other, appearing like the seats of a theatre. On the roofe of the houses are beautiful plants whose foliage grows downward. Surrounding Joppa is an extensive, fertile plain in which all man- ner of fruit and vegetables grow in abundance. Owing to the great diver- sity of climate,at a distanee of ten miles, fruit can not be produced. About forty miles south-east of Joppa, half of which is the Sharon valley, tho rest mountains, lies Jerusalem, whose population is reckoned at 70,000, but as the means of procuring the number is inadequate, only an approximate can be obtained. There are many Jews in Jerusalem having come or remained there apparently for the privilege of dying there, certainly not for the pur- pose of working, as the city contains no factories or public works of any kind. The Jews believe in Christ, but in a Saviour who is yet to come and deliver them, not from their sins, but from their worldly enemies particularly the Turks, which control the Holy Land. In Christ they expect a temporal king who will reign supreme -sever the whole world having Jerusalem for his centre. Our Christ was to them but a disappoint- ment, for he said " My kingdom is not of this world," John xvm, 36. Jeru- sahim is surrounded by a• wall three mils in circumference and one enters the city by way of the gates in the wall. Going southward from Jerusalem the valley of Hinnom is passed, in which people sacrificed their children to the God Molech. This God was several times the size of an ordinary man an:1 was built of brass. Fires were kindled inside this hollow brazen image and when he became red hot the little child- ren were placed in-- his arms. Drums were beaten to drown the agonizing cries., The poor, ignorant; superstitions people were oppressed by the burden of their sins and atoned for them to the beat of their knowledge. Shortly after leaving Jerusalem on the road to Bethlehem one passes the " Well of thel Wise Men." Tradition says that when the wise men came from Jerusalem in search of the young child Jesus, for a time the guiding star disap- peared and in this well they again saw its reflection and were enabled to continue their journey. Another place of inter- est one passes is the convent of the pro- phet Elijah, so called because it is said that Elijah rested there when fleeing from hie enemy Jezebel. Rachel's tomb is also passed on the journey. Having now traveled six miles _from Jerusalem one -reaches Bethlehem, 2,600 feet above sea level. Here are several noted welle, one of which David mentions, I Chron. xi, 17. The houses of Bethlehem are built of limestone, contain two apart- ments and are about ten feet high. The roofs are flat and are reached by stone steps built at the back of the house. The roof ia first laid with beams placed about two feet Apart. On these beams are placed huge slabs of stone or boards, on which is placed a layer ,of small stones and the whole is covered by clay which is rolled until perfectly smooth and water proof. The roofs are used for sleeping, eating, washing and all man- ner of work. One can easily see that the four men who cerried the sick of the palsy to Jesus, (had little trouble in letting him down through the roof. The houses contain no furniture, earthen floors beaten solid and laid with rugs, on which people sit while, visiting and eating. Bread making itithe East is interesting, sometimes as much as forty pounds of flour is used at once. Leaven and water are mixed with the flour and allowed to stand untii the • leaven per- meates the whole. The dough is then made into balls about the size of an orange, then flattened with the hands 'Aintil.very thin, when it is dropped into the oven, which was already heated and in a short time is baked. Three of these flat pieces Which are called loaves are considered enough for a meal. In eating soup, which is a familiar and fa- vorite dish, bits of bread are broken, dipped into the soup as spoons and this conveyed to the mouth. In this way one eats one's spoon at every mouthful and thus is spared the trouble of washing it. The chief building in Bethlehem is the Church of the Nativity on the site of the inn where Joseph and Mary stop- ped, and of the stable in which Christ was born. The church contains numer- ous pillars. One room,several steps below the main building, contains many inter- esting features in connection with the birth of our Saviour. Among other things one can see the manger and the star which guided the wise men, while on the floor are the Latin words, "Here Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary."' Though nearly 1,900 years have passed since the shepherds who were abiding in the field heard the glad tidings of the Saviour's birth proclaimed by the Heavenly host, and the wise men came from Jerusalem searching the Christ, the source of all blessing, still many stran- gers are found in the Holy Land, at- tracted there by the fact that out of there "the Lord from Heaven came to bring salvation to a people who were dead in trespasses and sins and to bring to his people peace and joy forever and ever more." where board might be found. Vallance told the host that he was a relative of the condattor, and was given a room. Every effort was made to secure work for him as a clerk, but clerks seemed as plentiful in Montreal as elsewhere. A job was, however, secured, but his clothes were too shabby; so hie host advanced him money to buy him a new suit. He went out to buy them and was seen no more. But it turned out that he had borrowed enough froxn other boarders to buy three or four suits of clothing. From pepera which he left in his room it seemed that Valiance had been in Chicago, and had worked his way to Montreal from Boston, although according to his story he had justlanded from Scotland. —Robert- Valiance, about 25 years 'old, and a native, so he said, of BroUghty Ferry, arrived at Montreal about three weeks ago. He was penni- less and in search of work, and had a plausible, earnest manner, that quickly and favorably impressed strangers. He told his story to some conductor on the Michigan Central Railroad,and he direct- ed him to a house kept by a Scotchman On the Much Abused Turnip. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—Under the above heading, in last week's issue of the EXPOSITOR, a writer from Hibbert over the signature of D. appears. His first argument in favor of the turnip is "that Mr. Michie is very human and wears blue spectacles.;" his second is •" the Dominion Government is the most reck- less, the most corrupt, the most extra- vagant, that ever governed a great and free people ;" his third : " the , On- tario Government is the wisest, the Most economical, the most religious, the most temperate, and the only good government that ever governed a free people the fourth: "that he fattened stock on hay and turnips for the Exeter market ;" and his fifth that "the tur- nip furnishes water for stock in winter." These to all intelligent people; are very cogent reasons for growing turnips. What politics have to do with the grow- ing of turnips I leave your readers to judge for themselves. I am not ac- quainted, as far as I know, with either Mr. Michie or Mr. D., but I agree with Mr. Michie's ideas and motive in writing and so do a number of farmers whom I have heard express themselves there- on.. Mr. John McMillan, M. P., says he would not feed as many turnips now as he used to do if he had his barns full. Professor Brown stated in Seaforth once, that at Guelph one field of ten acres was summer fallowed and next year sown to turnips and yielded only half a crop, and he said it was equal to two years summerfallow. The next field had two crops of clover and the third year the clover field beat the tur- nip ground in the same crop. One year I fed cattle cut straw and one galleon of oat chop a day until March, then cut straw and two pails a day of sliced turnips. I am aure what ground was under turnips would have grown more oats than would have fed a gallon a day while the tur- nips lasted and the cattle did better on the straw and oats and I would have had the straw besides. The next year I sowed spring wheet on the turnip and potato ground and the crop on the pota- to ground although along side the other was decidedly the best and my observa- tions through the county are that wheat is better on potato ground than on tur- nip ground. Mr. -fohn Kerr, a neigh- bor of inine,always fed pea and oat chop to his cattle and raised no turnips and his neighbors grew turnips. He had as good, if not better cattle; as clean and as rich a farm, and while he farmed he sent his milk to a cheese factory and it was the richest sent to the factory. Chemists tell us turnips contain 90 per cent of water and if cattle get salt reg- ularly they will drink enough water without turnips. It is quite plain that it is the quantity of water the turnips contain that makes the cattle eat more feed. I remember the last yoke of oxen my father owned was fed on oat straw, and threshed with a hand flail at that, and after plowing with them two days in the spring, he sold them fOr Easter beef in Brockville. So you see oat straw is aer good as hay and turnips and cheaper. .• Professor Shaw, of Guelph, writes to last Friday's dail that thley bought five two year old steers, and five three year old steers last October at $50 each and sold them at 5i cents per pound, making $39 profit and those fed on ensilage did the best. The cheapest chop was fed with the ensilage. He says the' right atamp of cattle, if finished, would bring as much, as it is the finished cattle that bring the high prices, and it will take peas, oats and barley chop to do it—turnips will hot do it alone—but chop will. In the winter season water is plentiful and can be got cheaper than growing turnips to get it. JOHN C. MORRISON. - _ McKruor, June 4, 3890. • no good, and it was not until the toll - keeper found that they were strapped that the trio were allowed to go through. • —A Warwick farmer's wife, Mrs. Mc- 4 not only as an agriculturist but as a pri- Gillicuddy, sold last week to Watford 'vete individual,' / egg dealers 101 dozen eggs, the product of her own poultry. —A steam elevator with a capacity of 35,000 bushels will be built at Bigh Bluff, Manitoba, this summer by Mr. John Dilworth. —A fire on Saturday last week, sup- posed to be incendiary, at Moosomin, in the North West, destroyed property to the value of $190,000; insured for about $48,000. —The farm owned by John Campbell, jr., concession 7, Maryboro, County of Wsold to Geo. Boyle, of Peel, last week, forel$1n li.9g7t5o.n, containing 100 acres, was —A boom has taken place in the -mining of iron ore in the Kingston district, and in a few weeks over 15,000 tons will be shipped to the United States. —Archbiahop Fabre has issued a pastoral letter calling upon members of the Church in the archdiocese of Mont- real to discontinue attending places of amusement and excursions on Sunday. —The sheriff of ilastings county has received several applications from pro- fessional hangmen in the United States, to execute Peter Davis, the murderer, who is shortly to pay the penalty of the law. —Mr. Amos Norrish, Naasagaweya, is a breeder of high standard Leicester sheep. At his farm a lamb dropped in March was weighed on Friday, May 30, and tipped the scales. at 105 lbs. It gained 15 lbs. in 9 days. —Mr. Frank McLeay, Woodstock's elocutionist, who has just returned from Boston, begins next week a tour through Ontario, when he will read at some of the principal centres prior to going to Great Britain. —The waiters at the Crossman and Edgewood Park Hotels, Kingston'this summer are nearly all college men from Cornell and Yale. Normal School girls will act in the same capacity at tile Thousand Island Park Hotel. —A grand Orange celebration will be held in Harriston on the 12th July. The brethren' of Mount Forest District are to unite with those of Harriston District, and a crowd of several thou- sands is expected to color Harriston, —A farmer named Edward Dixon, of Minesing, near Barrie, was instantly killed by lightning during a storm on Friday la,st. He leaves a widow, but no children. Considerable damage is re- ported from the sections around Barrie, I caused by last week'setorms. —On Tuesday evening of last week the, barn of Mr. John Waldie, conces- sion 6, Blenheim township, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, with two calves and farm implements. Theilnee bsairono.was built last year. Insur- -'Mr. Wm. Fritz made a remarkable throw with a heavy weight at Eden Mills on the 24th ult. He now chal- lenges any one in the county of Wel- lington for the sum of $50 to put the following weights the best three out of 5, viz.: 14 lbs., 16 lbs., 18 lbs., 20 lbs., 21 lbs. —Miss Sara Denc,an, of Brantford, who is well-known as "Garth Grafton," a popular writer, is now in England, but will be in Canada -in July, on a brief visit to her old home in Brantford, before going to India, where she expects to remain. —A young boy aged about 5 years, son of Henry Ching, of Toronto, was drowned in G-uelph the other morning. He was playing about Goldie's dam, and is supposed to hgve stumbled, and fall-. iog in was Carried over the dam a fall of about 25 feet. —There is considerable excitement in North Dorchester owing to a number of animals being bitten by dogs supposed to be mad. Mr. Barnard has killed one cow that showed symptoms of hydro- phobia. The council has issued orders to destroy all dogs going at large without being muzzled. —The traffic on the Canadian Pacific Rail way steamers from Port Arthur to Owen Sound is assuming very large pro- portions, end they carry cargees as full as the capaoity of the Soo Canal will al- low. The Alberta brought down about 1,315 tons, consisting of 22,000 hushels of Manitoba wheat and 35 carloads of flour. —Richard Kelly who lived on the Stone road west of Aneaster village, County of Wentworth, died on Friday night, May 30. He was 53 years of age, and was born and lived his whole life where he died. This is rather an unusual circumstance among the restless dwellers of this new country. —The Brantford police have received word from Sheffield, England, that Dolly Beeley, the woman arrested for swind- ling Rev. Dr. Cochrane and others, has I been twice convicted in the Old Coun- try for similar tactics, receiving sen- tences of three and six months at hard lab—ormrre.spiehmcotivealsCowan,y. blacksmith, of Tyendinaga, was found about noon on ' 'Friday of last week, bleeding to death in his barn from a deep gash in his throat, which had 'evidently been in- flicted by a razor that lay near him. No cause can be assigned for the- rash act. The unfortunate man died within a few I' rili—nuMterja.‘ T. Oliver Jones. a retired gen- tleman from Australia, was in Guelph for a few days last week inspectieg the Ontario Agricultural College, Mr, Jones has visited Guelph two or, three times before. He seems to take a spec- ial interest in travelling, and has been almost around the world, although not following the record of Nellie Blyfor speed, rather preferring to take things -easy and enjoy himself; He says that he met Mr. Brown, late Profeesor • of Agriculture at the Ontario Agricultural College, but now a resident of Australia, and says that the Professor and his fam- ily, when he saw them, were in good ,health, and also that Mr. Brown was much thought of and highly esteemed, Canada. First year clover fields in Prince Edward county promise a heavy crop. —Rev. Mr. Wyllie was presented with a purse containing $100 in gold be- fore leaving Paris foi Chicago. —A number of Franciscan monks from France are expected to arrive next week in Montreal, where they will start a novitiate. —The total quantity of wheat in store at Port Arthur is about 400,000 bushels, and nearly all this is held on account of millers. "—Probably the oldestcouple in On- tario is Austin Rogers and wife of Cape Vincent. Mr. Rogers is in his 91st, and Mrs. Rogers in her 92nd year. —Arthur Langevin is in gaol in Canton, New York State, and has con- fessed to innumerable burglaries in places b,etween Kingston and Montreal. —One Sunday morning lately one of West Zorra's champions was coming to church at Embro driving a mule. All went well till he reached the toll gate north of the village. Some time, how- ever, before this he picked up a com- panion. The mule, the West Zorra man, and his friend, must have present- ed a pretty seedy appearance, for the toll keeper could not get it into her cranium that the trio could possibly be going to church, and insisted on them paying toll. They protested saying they were going to church, but it was —Dr. John Klein, a professor of agri- culture from Roumania, Turkey, is in Manitoba inspecting the land, and if he is pleased with them a large number of his countrymen, 5,000 or more, will cense there and settle. He had been to Brazil, South America, but did not seem pleased, with that country. —A clergyman going to Hamilton waited the other day at Kingeton for several hours for the arrival of the eteamer. He fondled a cat in his arms all the time. When the vessel arrived he attempted to go aboard with the cat, and was informed that he could not take it with him. He had to go west on the train. • —Thursday morning last week a grain elevator at Mount Forest, containing 15,000 bushels of grain, was burned down. It was owned by Mr. McMul- len, M. P. Two Grand Trunk cars loaded with grain alongside the elevator were also burned. The cause of the fire is unknown, but supposed to be lightning. —Since the amendment to the liquor law, under which the offender is not en- titled to any "time"in which to pay hie penalty, Staff -Inspector Archibald, of Toronto, has secured just twenty eonvictions. Six fines of $50 and costs have been imposed; one of $40 and costs, one of $30 and costs, nine of $20 and coats, and three of $10 and costs. Only one fine was inflicted on a licensed diapenser of liquids. —A Belmont correspondent writes: 'e,A. -peculiar mishap took place last Saturday on the farm of 3, G. Camp- bell, Yarmouth, .whereby a valuable horse was killed. It appears that the animal when turned. out to pasture went to the woods, and began rubbing itself against a tree that was decayed - at the top, when a portion of it fell on the hors; breaking its neck. The horse was valued at $150. —It will require an expenditure of at least $12,000 to repair the injury done by last week's rain storms to roads and bridges in the town of Bowmanville alone, while in the district around thousands of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed. The oldest in- habitant- does not remember such a devastating flood in that section of Canada. —Two cattle sheds at the Grand Trunk stock yards, Point St. Charles, Montreal, were _ destroyed, by fire last Sunday afternoon. - There were -six hundred cattle in the two sheds when the fire broke out. All but thirty -two - were got out. These latter, valued at $45 each, were cremated. A good deal of hay and straw was burned. The damage is estimated at $10,000 ; fully insured. —A gentleman who has been through the principal part of the South Riding of Waterloo states that the fall wheat presents a splendid appearance, especi- ally in North Dumfries and Wilmot. The spring crops are also very promis- ing. Hay, especially clover, will be a heavy.crop. The prospect is that the fruit yield, unless injured by future frost, which is now hardly probable, will be large, as the orchards in every direction present a glow of bloom. —Mr. James Laidlaw, one of the leading salmon packers of New West- minster'British Columbia, spent a few days at Niagara Falls last week visiting his brother-in-law,Mr. Frank Anderson. He was 011 his way to England on a business trip. Mr. Laidlaw is an uncle of Mr. Andrew Laidlaw of the Sentinel - Review, Woodstock, and one of the early residents of Drumbo, County of Brant. —A train of about twenty car loads of Massey's Teronto agricultural imple- ments left the-, city on Tuesday of last week bound for Australia via the Grand Trunk Railway and Lehigh Valley roads. The route 'taken from Toronto was via Stratford, Paris, Suspension Bridge and New York. The train was decorated with Massey advertising literature, and the cars are all good air - brake cars. —A sad accident occurred on the bay at Toronto on Sunday afternoon, let inst. Mrs. Dussette and her daughter, Miss Mary Dussette, aged 18, from Sat - ton, county of York, came to the city to visit some friends. Sunday afternoon Miss Mary Dussette, accompanied by a gentleman companion, went for a row to the island. They capsized the boat and both were thrown into the water. They were rescued by the occupants of an- other boat and taken ashore, wet through, but apparently not any the worse for the ducking. Miss' Dussette laughed at the accidept. She got up on Monday morning in her usual spirits and feeling none the worse for the acci- dent, but on Tuesday became seriously ill and died Wednesday morning, pre- sumably from the effects of the acci- dent. —A late issue of the Gospel Banner says: The Old Mennonite Brethren held their annual conference in Berlin on Friday the 30th of May. The at- tendance was quite large. Several ministers from the United States were present. A discussion of the 7th chap- ter of Romans took place. The point of discussion, if we understood rightly, was whether the experience Viet Paul gives in the chapterewaa the experience of a Christian, or that of an enlightened sinner. No point of decision was arrive,d at. Some thought the one, and some the ether. ,The doctrine of sanctifica- tion, as taught by some churches was, we think, somewhat misrepresent:ed. It was said that those who teach entire sanctification, teach that a Christian can get so far that he cannot sin any more, and where he hits no temptations. We do not know of any church that teaches such a doctrine in connection with entire sanctification.