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LL BE
Month
f Summer Goode.
itiee of Fall Goods.
sd shelving.
-
tr shape se•as to be -
tc wait upon you as
eou like to core..
when we are ready.
a .r hings here yet .
ether, and for the -
have whatever is
s 'than their real--
ha.ve placed.
PC)UNTER:
i'ight to clear
iluickly.
1oods
I
nPanYt
Et Dry Goods Stores
t
trent
of the rectoryugat 11 th, The -
band of Seaforth,
kill provide most ex-
its Will be spared to
6, success, Sapper
n undesirable
a a erry-go-rouncl,.
iv bank. Tue-
dvef, the tent and:
signal pole at the •
atrway was placed ,
itke by the mato..
for eummer touriste,
irr e a, the lake.
!tar.
meter registered 104
n ou Wednesde.yi—
ea of _Toronto, are
George' Stew -
Ir. Wm. Cuchnore
ntvn. ,00 Wednesday
many friends -
tebuyer, of Rodger -
ed to hear that he
ie recent severe ill -
the 'youth of this -
and , Bend park on .
,4eorge Easterbrook
iington on Saturday
Sior•kiog at his trade -
at few months.—
Open, attended the
a Eliza. Ann Johne,,
Very heavy thunder-
oTuesday night
, George Cucl-
atteaded .the fun-
,. of Elimville, on
t. and Mrs.
Tuesday and Wed -
Emma Faulk, of
hereousin"Miss
i.sa • Week.—itlaater
tisiting rela- -
'earl and family,
are isitin reia-
aU
way.—Mrs.
'peen visiting reles
ronto has returns
mire vs and fain-
ntle have been
Johi Goad, for
ou Thursday of
s
nearly all finish-
ilia.4y for having
vie' holiday- pass- -
Ly last. A large
rard Beetd park.
spent civic holi-
rai cars of cattle
.tion during the
tMr. J. Willis-
'
o:ent reports from
say that the-
. e in that district
di storm the past
eorri this district.
lens,
iif A. HLofft &
it I 4 leaying for
int traieing in
efes f ionaIl num.
af Mitchell, re -
Sip to Manitoba -
:lints of Mitchell
i ar4 doing well,
ru gling for an
meson hes an im-
g, end . employs -
early crops are
swing tO the wet
I oweven are .. 80-
1 be iuiaed.
et week, a foot
eird to St. Marys,
en up; by the
. The runners
I Ifa,wkins, and
The object of'
evenino's sport,
d and *to win a-
gainst time,and
ur, 26 minutes.
et were competie
I hoar, 41it min-
es respectively
-
1 making bat"'
Utes are rustle
ng others, Mr.
three children ;-
Miss Beatrice
and Mrs, A.
Mr. W. A. and
Aggie Doherty e
a two children es
!lie and Master
store Harris and
riles ; Mr. and
y, and Ma,stera
re Jap Walkoite-
ieasently with
ceding, visiting,
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER, 1,496.
,
ositor+
RADE
I8 IS
DULL.
Yes ! trade is dull just now. It
is ad' in most businesses but there
is a reason for this and a good one.
The fernier, who is the originator
so to speak, of trade, for all trade
is built upon his labor, is just now
the busiest of all men. All that he
requires these hot days is a straw
hat, a shirt, a pair of pants, a pair
of sox and a handkerchief. Bought
from us these articles will cost as
follows :—
The Pants Si 06
” Shirt •
“ Hat"
Sox
Handkerchief 7
25
15
8 -
Total 81 55
A rather cheap costume for getting
your harvest in with, but you will
find that all of the articles men-
tioned will be satisfactory in *ear-
ing qualities. The straw hats are
fast departing. The prices are
doing the work.
Bathing Suits, Sweaters, etc., for
camping and holidaying kept in
largevariety.
WE HAVE ONE PRICE TO A
GREIG MACDONAL
CLOTHIERS,
0. T. W. S. 0. T. S.
I. T. S. B.
SEAFORTEE, - - ONT.
Up -town store— I Down -town store
Carmichael's Block Cady '8 Block;
GETTING
INTO
SHAPE
For a big fall trade. Last
week we were somewhat upside
downom account of enlarging
the premises, but the carpen-
ters are now through their
work and in a few days We
will preseat to the public •one
of the most convenient, hst
lighted and best equipped
stores west of Toronto.
In the meantime we are busy dieposing .of
the balance of our Sumner
Shoes at a sacrifice, in order to
have everything in good shape
for the arrival of fall goods.
We are now in a position to serve twice as
many customers as former y,
and we expect by dint of good
values that this season's trade
n ill be the largest in the his-
t ry of the store.
r"s.w6sIss
SEAFORTH
Opposite f TWO -1 Opposite
Expositor Offi eISTORES lTown Building
Red ction
Sale • •
During Next 2 Months
Or until the stock is cleared out.
We are offering the following lines
at a greatly reduced rate
For Gash Onllb
These goods are all new, stylish
and. of the best, quality.
Straw Hats
.,
were ' $1.25 now 50c
1.00 “ 500 '
‘, ti. 75 “ 50o ,
Negligee Shirts were 1,50 " 75o '
. 1 4 4, 1.25 “ 75a
1.00 " 75e
Bon, Brown, Tan and Drab Fedora,
tt, Summer Underwear, Neck
wear, and in fact all hot weather
goods at a greatly reduced rate.
.As there is only a limited stock of
these goods you can save money
by calling early at
DILL & SPEARE'S, Seaforth,
TAILORS AND FURNISHERS,
One Door South of Expositor Office
ON THE S'ANISH MAIN.
d of Wiclied
'
The Ancient Cruisinz Gron
134,kcganeer8.
[Special noireseond nee.] ,
PUERTO CABELLOI Coast f Venezuela;
Aug. e.—yenezueli ' and it , present rela-
tons with thin pow1 rs have f cones° been
nearly "done to d$th," ties' bu there is Mee
long episode in the bistory o this country
which has been overiooked. I refer to the
buccaneering times, when riehly laden
Spanishgalleone swept the c as seed eager
French and Englishmen pursu d them as
lawful prey. This hole st •eto of coast
from the island of T lidded o t e isthmus
of Panama was thea know a the Span-
ish math, the home of the Spa 'ards who
had made their settlements el along the
south shores of the Caribbean s
Only *yesterday I Was lookin at an old
house, said to date rom the ti es of the
1‘ great English 'ideate, Drak ," as the
Spaniards called bim. It stands on one of
tile principal streets of Puerto Cabello, is
well preseryed and even in fine condition.
• And off this excellent harbor (which is
called the Part of - the Hair—cabello—be-
cause a Ship woulti not go adrift if moored
by a hair) there is an old stone fort also
dating frtn those troublous times of pi-
rates and buccaneers. Both house and fort
have an 'nteresting history, and particu-
larly the
SEAFORTEt, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14,
1896.
{ •McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
$1 a Year in Advance.
fort, for it is directly off this
stone fortress, right out to sea, that, tra-
dition states, lie theremains of Sir Francis
Drake, the original buccaneer by royal fa-
vor. •At least there he was Swung over the
s4le of his ship in tho year 1586—all there
'as of bini—in a leaden coffin and sunk to
the bottom of the sea. "Down went Sir
Francis to the bottom of the sea," and it
was on that same disastreus voyage,, off
the island of Puerto Rico, that his knight-
ed compatriot, Sir John IHawisins, had
been (lie -Posed of in like manner.
This was the last of them, but not of
their class, for the buccaneers continued to
wage war upon Spanish shipping a hun-
dred years after that It was in 1563, or a
year before Shakespeare ras born, that
Hawkins made a most peofitable voyage
to and from tho coast of Africa, bringing
to the West Indies -a cargo pf slaves. 1Ho
was the great original slaver, as his friend
Drake was the royal freebooter. When
Hawkins couldn't sell his slaves and make
a good round profit, he hombarded the
cities of the Spaniards and sacked them
aftenvvard, and Drake did the same. At
-first the enemies of Spain were fitted out
as privateers or letters of marque, with
permission from their respective govern-
tn,ents to prey upon the commerce of their
cornmon enemy. But finally, as Spain's
cominereial star sank toward the horizert,
the privateers and their successors found
ninon profitable to engage in indiscrim-
inate plqndering, and then they lwere
garded a pirates and hanged accordingly
whenever caught.. The only difference be-
tween a privateer and a common pirate
was that the former had the sanction, of
his government and the latter went with-
out, and so became common prey. The
buccaneers held a position sort of half
way between the two, being not so bleed -
thirsty in general as the pirates and yet
working without Sanction of any -recog-
nized government. The last of the bucca-
neers who scourgetithis coast was Sir
Henry Morgan, another Englishman, but
iwho was mit knighted until after he had
; won his spiirs by destroying a few Spanish
'cities and murdering a few thousand of
their iphabitants. He started out in life
as a cornnion sailor, joined the buccaneers
A FREEBOI OTER AND EIS EMBLEMS.
of Jarnaice toad began his career by at-
tacking and Sacking a city of the Spanish
main. It was -the city of Puerto Bello. As
it was strong y fortified it made desperate
resistance, I ut finally capitulated and
was given up to fire -and sword.
The Spanieh governor shut himself p
In his castle and repulsed every attempt rof
1
the pirates to gain possession until- at last
ns
to
he
Dy
ID
to
r
or
of
at
the
the wretches dragged the friars and nu
from the convents and compelled theni
lead the way to the assault by placing t
scaling:ladders against the Walls. Ma
of these innocent people were killed
this attempt. But that mattered little
Morgan end his dastardly crew, who, uf,
the castle was taken and thego'vern
killed, gave themselves up to every soit
blasphemous debauchery.. Then they
tacked the city of Meracaibee on the gr
hike to the westward of this port, and not
finding so flitch treasure as they expected
put many of the citizens to the torture.
Over across the sea channel from hera
lies thn little Dutch island .of Curacao,
which has one sif the finest harbors' in the
world, with a narrow entrarace and with a
big, sheltered lagoon behind high
wellOut of sight. All the navies of the
globe might find shelter here, and in this
lagaw the pirates used to lie in wait for
the Spanish galleons, coming up from the
coast of Venezuela, bound for Spain with
their rich cargoes of silver and gold. _. Iii
fast,the entire stretch Of coasillenown as
the Spanish main hat at some time been
the Erbendl of conflict between the Spaniards
and the pirates. Off the port of La Guayra,
• wre thervisitor of today takes the zigzeg
raflroad for Caracas, the capitalof Vene-
zuela oecurred that desperate sea -fight de-
scribed se vividly in Kingsley's "West-
ward *Hot" and half 'way up the hill, .
above the port, lies the old castle of the
governor, the scene of the midiaight attack
when the brother of Sir Aymas Leigh last
his liberty and life.
There are no wars here now, nor rumPrs
of war, for the president is ruling wisely,
yet 'with an iron. hand, and as the country
is getting accessible by. means of the rail-
roads .projected and built by German and
Engliah capital 'there is ccinstantly less
danger of a revolution. A fine road' leads
from this port into the conntry and
around toward Caracas, the firat portion of
which up the slopes of the hills is by the
cern anti cog system, Mee that used on the
railroad up Mount Washington. The vieWs
altog the route are glorious and the air
uywi eoelor as the &emit is ;nadb. But it
it by np means 6°61 atong the coast, end
tomorrow I shall board a steamer for the
States and take the straightaway sail of
six days' voyaging across the Catiistean
sea, the gulf stream and tilt intervening
ocean to New York.. 0. 4. FURBER
. •
•
A Good Man,
Rev. Dr. Sutherland, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, Barlington, Iowa, who
is a native of East Zorra, county of Oxford,
and who preached in Woodstock last Sab-
bath, is a personal friend of Mr. Bryan, the
Democratic candidate for the United States
presidency, and the free silv r advocate.
Mr. Sutherland has given a r presentative
•of the Sentinel -Review the f llowing par-
ticulars concerning the prosp ctive presi-
dent. He say:
• "When I went to Jacksonville, Bryan
was a student at the Illinois °liege. He
married a beautifel girl, a grai uate of the
Jacksonville F male Academy, who attend-
ed my wife's Bible class. He raduated at
the law colle e, and settled down as a
young lawyer. He was one of t e most con-
sistent, earnest, conscientious Chriitian
young men that I ever knew. e was the
valedictorian in his class, and then gave
;
promise of being aif orator of no mean abil-
ity. His wife was also the valedictorian in
er class.
li { . i
"Bryan was an Usher in my hurch, and
was allays active in church ind Sunday
School work. Everybody had confidence in
him. He was not particularly what yen
would call a society man, and w s not dis-
poised to pay much attention to athletics—
he worked too hard. I left Jack onville for
Pittsburg in 1884.
"I regarded him as a fine typ of young
man—a man of promise and one hat would
make his mark in the world. I am not at
all surprised at the position w ich he has
attained.
"'Yes, I think he will be lected I
don't agree with him in everyth ng, but I
don't think the calamity will r sult from
the free coinage of silver that t e eastern
men predict. I think the dem netization
of silver in 1873 was a mistake, nd I think
fee coinage will stimulate li siness. I
don't believe that the gold wi I be with-
drawn from the country. All contracts
calling for gold will be paid in go d, and the
United States is too big a natio commer-
cially, and there are too many g od invest-
Ments in the United States fo people to
withdraw their money,—foreign ca italists
I mean—and if they do witild awi it, let
them. There are certain produ ts of the
'United States foreign nations ust have,
and if they won't take our silver w won't
take their products. I think t e LJnited
States could force the other na ions to a
leimetallte standard.
" The recent action of the balnkl shows
that they have been cornering_ the gold.
Now they are going to the support of the
treasury, whereas a few- month ago they
compelled the president to issue old bonds.
They see that that has aroused ublic feel -
beg, and they are all emptying their gold
into the United States treasury t maintain
the gold reserve. If they had done that
some time ago the free silver movement
*mild not have the advantage it as to -day.
"1 think Bryan will carry very state
West of the Mississippi, and I elieve he
ill take Indiana. I have n question
• a ut Illinois,' and I have little d ubt about
• ichigan, because Michigan 1as always
b en a silver free state. The figlit is one of
t e masses against the classes— he monied
all street brokers.
"They are offering 10 cents a bushel for
o ts in Iowa to -day, and the far ers argue
t at things could not be worse i they had
f ee silver. I hold that the free coinage of
s Iver will do no harm, and it may do
g d."
- •
• From the Queen Ci y.
(By our own correapondent )
TORONTO, Augu t 7th, 1806.
The opening of the Industrial 'xposition,
August 31st, is a little earlier . han usual,
and the certainty that Lord and Lady Ab-
erdeen are to be present is alrea y melting a
little flutter in certain circles.
' Toronto is gradually, regainin its place
nil fame as the Queen city. The real
estate craze of a few years ago did incalcul-
eble harm. Compere Toronto nd Buffalo
simply in the line of store bu 'dings, and
you will see why Toronto has ha t suffer
so severely. Buffalo, with a p pul tion of
about 360,000, has only twenty- ve iniles of
stores, while Toronto, with only; about
200,000 inhabitants, has thirty- ix Miles of
etores, and it is almost as bad i. regard to
private residences ; hence, no onder that
real estate speculators had to suffer, and
real estate owners ,will contint e to suffer
ntil the population of the cit' largely in-
reases.
Whether it is the Liberal vic ory at the
olls, ()tithe first golden rays h raiding the
awning of better days, the peo le here, ex-
4ept the real estate owners and peculators,
have almost stopped complainins about hard
times. The population of thecit, is increas-
ing,,and last year there were ne •buildings
erected to the value of $1,346,81 , and busi-
ness is in ahealthy condition.
• The summer exodus of the clos ly confined
rosiness and professional men, as well as
ciety people, has fully set in Muskoka
nd the numerous other more convenient
esorts are thronged with To ontians of
lethoric purses, as well as th i se of more
lender meanie for the wide wor d contains
' iothing more beautiful or healthful than
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our own rich Dominion. Hundreds of cot.
ages and tents also line the groves and'
arks along the margin of t e lake for
miles, both east and west. He e, in luxur-
ious ease the wives, mothers and sisters
spend the day, fishing, rowin bathing,
while the men, as soon as tb great city
clock strikes the hour of release hie them-
selves away on " trolley" or ' safety" to
join their fair ones in drinking health from
the cooling breeze and rippl g *eters.
Such is city life to -day. It be ongs to the
conditions of that new, gl age that
s just opening to our visio e Some, of
course, decry the summer outi g and talk
about extravagance, but no m •tter, people
will never go back to the old ways. The
days of hoarding. money are g ne forever.
We have entered upon a larger more lux -
u' rious life a life that glorifies the present
without Inkrig "-anxious for the morrow."
The visit in Toronto on Frid: . last of a
representative of the Spanish overnment,
to purchase some of our sw- t lake and
river St. Lawrence steamers for service
in Cuban waters, is somewhat attering to
Canada. A few- thousand Cana ian volun-
teers would also be a desirable acquisition
o the Spanish forces in that qu rter.
The Marriage Act passed by he Ontario
egislatnre at its last session, c me in force
last week, August lat. It is a very good
measure, but possibly unnecessa y restrie-
tiona in some respects. The rice of the
license remedial $2, but the " gir "now has
to help get the lieense. She ow has to
make an affidavit as well as her " hubby "
that she wants to get married, hat she is
old enottgh, and that she is not t e fellow's
aunt or any other near relation, ete., etc.
-
It will be a wonder if the ordinary young
man of the period will not want her to pay
half the moiley also.The clergymen have
at last got a " cornei; " in the matrimonial
market, for nobody else now can perform
the ceremony but themselves.
The enemies of the bicycle have a hard
time trying to make out a case against that
noiseless intruder of the busy street. Am-
ateur moralists have lectured the female
patrons of the wheel and tried to regulate
the cut of their garments, but as the ladies
• sped away ix quest of innocent pleasure and
vigorous health, they sent back a rippling
• laugh as the r only answer. As might be
expected, th false accusers of -their sisters
began to see cobwebs is they slipped away
softly, wond ring if anybody saw or knew
them. The latest in Toronto was the
ficticious anulouncement that the hospitals
were being filled with bicycle patients, but
a tour of investigation revealed the fact
that there Were no bicycle victims there,'
and the keepers did not expect any. No,
the bicycle is not an enemy, but a friend of
the home, and has come as an ingel of bless-
ing to mankind. The husbands and child-
ren of the next generation, ae well as the
wives and daughtersof this, will bless the
inventor of the wheel.
The recent discoveries of the enormous
gold deposit of British Columbia, and the
fabulous mi eral wealth of other portions of
the Domini° , will doubtless stir the busi-
ness life of Canada as it has never been
stirred in th� past. Saturday's Globe con-
tained the prospectus of a gold mining
company, Which placed a portion of its
stock at very low figures and doubtless
offers a good safe investment for those with
ready cash. Hundreds of such companies
will no doubt flood the money market during
the next few months and it behooves invest-
ors to be very careful. Some will, make
fortunes while others will lose their al.
• TORONTO.
•
Perth Divided.
Judges Bell and Doyle, the commission
charged with the division of the county of
Perth into county council districts, under
the new county council act, have completed
their work. The divisions have been fixed
as follows :
First division: Township of Wallace and
town of Listowel.
Second division e Townships pf Elma
and Logan.
Third division : Townships of Hibbert
and Fullerton, and town of Mitchell.
Fourth division: Townships of Blau -
shard and Downie.
Fifth division: Tpwns'hips of North and
South Easthope.
Sixth Division: Townships of Ellice
and Mornington and village of Milverton.
Perth will thus have twelve county coun-
cillors. Respecting the divisions, the
Stratford Herald says : "The division is
on the whole as equitable and satisfactory
as it eould well be, and proves the judges
to have discharged their duties witheut the
slightest bias of any kind. The only criti-
cism that might be made is that Elma. join-
ed with Mornington and Ellice with Logan
would have made more compact divisions
and of better shape geographically, but the
commissioners no do bt fonnd that their di-
vision, while not so eompact geographically,
was still a preeentab e one geographically,
and afforded a more nearly equal arrange-
ment in point of pop lation end assessment."
•
Canada:
New hays sells at $9 a ton in Acton.
—he Bisley teem hare returned from the
old cduntry.
_ he promoters of the Hamilton band
tournament have a deficit of $200.
i he next Peninsular Saengerfest will.be
held t Berlin in 1898.
— he Bothwell oil boom is at its highest
and the town is full of would-be investors.
—On account of the heary rains the
grape's on Pelee Island are beginning to rot.
—The cinder bicycle path between Pres-
ton and Galt is being rapidly completed.
i—R. H. Wingfield, of Hamilton, a poet
of some note, died on Saturday night.
—The Western Fair buildings at London
have been valued at $66,000.
=William Ritchie, an Indian on the
Saugeen reserve, is over one hundred years
of age.
—The other night $100 worth of clothing
was stolen from the Oak Hall store, St.
Thomas. .
—Mrs. Margaret Mahler, one of the pion-
eer residents of Preston, died last week,
aged 76 years.
—Thursday of last week was the 80th an-
niversary of the birth of the first white
child in Waterloo county.
—The Hampton post office store was
robbed of cash and postage stamps amount-
ing to $100, on Saturday -night.
—The Greenock township council has
passed a by-law permitting the electric rail-
way to pass through that township.
—The Galt and Preston Electric Railway
returns for July show 95q tons of freight
carried, and a total of 35,000 passengers.
—The Canadian Artillerymen won the
Queen's Prize and the Londonderry Chat-
lenge.Cup at the Shoeburyness competition.
—Counterfeiters have been circulating
spurious American twenty-five and fifty
cent pieces in Montreal.
—Ross Brothers' mills, at Buckingham,
aebec, were destroyed by fire last Friday.
oss between $50,000 nod $75,000.
i —Lizzie Burton and Louis Boldt were
last week sentenced to 13 and 18 months'
1 espectively, at Berlin, for pocket picking.
—Albert Heraux a German, is under ar-
rest in Baltimore, Charged with stealing the
slum of $610 from B. rnd M. Fugenhaft, of
Toronto.
—Mx. David McBeath, one of the oldest
residents of Oxford county, died at Inner -
kip on Wednesday of last week, aged 80
• years. i
—The 'Sum of $250j000 in gold was taken
from the United , tates sub -treasury on
Thursday of last eek, for shipment to
Canada.
—Sir Charles Tup er has received service
of the papers protesting his election in Cape
Breton. They might have left the old man
alone. .
—The Standard Bank ha e notified the
public that after August 15th American one
(teller bills will only_be received at a valua-
tion of 90 cents.
1—John Catton, an employee of the John
Beton Company, Toronto, was drowned
in the harbour, at Whitby, on Saturday
night.
• —A young man immed Charles Brewster,
aged eighteen, while bathing at Sunnybrae,
a summer resort law Meetings, was drovrned
Sunday afternoon.
—Since Merch 17th, Collector Monk, of
Hamilton, has celleoted $41,074.95 of out-
standing taxes. This loaves about iOO,O�O
to be gathered.. •
—The other morning a mad bull got loose
in the central part of Toronto and attacked
a young man on a Meyele, destroying his
machine. Subsequently it eanght a little
girl by its horns and tossed her ever a fence.
The ehild was taken to the Children's Hos-
pital, where it was found she had sustained
Enteral bed bruises and a fracture of the
collar bona. The ball was driven into a
stable, but after being there a short time it
got loose again, and galloped off along the
street. Finally it Was shot by a policeman
• —lansi g Alexander was the other da
fined $100 at Chatham, for beating a hors
and canal g a runaway, in which three littl
boys -were in jured. I
—Mr. .1! ilton Haight, mathematical ma
ter of t e Strathroy Collegiate Institut ,
died ver suddenly and unexpectedly o
typhoid fe er, on Tuesday of last week.
—Mama ear Hill, of the Toronto Exhibi-
tion, has i vited the Chinese ambassador a
Washingt n and Li Hung -Chang, who i
expeceed i America, to visit the Toront
-Fair.
—The rits for the elections in Noe,'
Grey and ueen's and Sunbury have been
issued. N mination take place on August
18th, and 1 the poll ng, if any, one week
later.
—Lord ountste hen and Sir Donald
Smith have given $8 0,000 more to the en-
dowment fus d of Rdyal Victoria Hospital,
Montreal, eking ix all $1,800,000 which
they have g ven this 4harity. ;
—On Th irsday e ening of 1 last week,
while supeintending the working of a
dredge, at : anlan's 1Toint, Toronto, Frank
H. Doty wa struck dn the head by a heavy
iron bar and instantly killed. 1
h
—George Messer, a well-known ews-
dealer'of T onto, co mitted suicide Sun-1
afterno n by h nging himself in the
cellar. He was 75 years of age, arid no'
reason can b assigned for the rash act.
4—Kathlee , the ten -year-old daughter of
D '. Burt, of Paris, on Wednesday of last
the lamp off the table into here
laying. She was so badly
be died early the next morneaudoin, postmaster at Comet,
hip, aged 66 years, fell dead
evening of last week, in his
e was one of the oldest resi-
sex county, and was born in
w bk, pulled
lap,. while
burned that
ing.
—Joseph
Malden town
on Thursday
barnyard.
dents of E
Maiden.
—Consider
in Montreal
that informa
rants have be
complicity in
and phenacet
—One of
years visite
night last. The rain came down in torrents.
Lightning di1 considerable d niage, while
1
mpamed the
gs. .
ir Columbia,
-,000. This
her by this
he next divi-
which will
en brought
tors for the
ble sensation has been armed
y the authentic announ emen
ion has been given and war -
en issued against 15 pe ple for
inc.
the smuggling of Ch name
he severest storms in many
Kent county on 'Satiirday
hail and a hu
storm, played
—The Le
has declared
makes $200,
mine in little
ricane,which acc
havoc with buildi
oi mine, in Briti
a dividend of $.
0 paid altoge
over one year.
dend it is said, will be $50,00
be declared i
—An actio
against Pigot
T., H. and B.
of Hamilton,
juries receive
plaintiff alleg
the contract°
—The dea
of Mr. Jac
For many ye
efficient secre
September.
for $10,000 has
& Inglis contra
spur, by Mrs. P ter Finagin,
hose husband ied from in -
by the falrof a errick. The
s negligences on the part of
a.
is announced a Walkerton
b Seegmiller, ag d 62 yearsa
rs deceased had cted as the
ary of the Nor hern Exhibi-
tion and the Walkerton Her icultural So-
cieties. He leaves a widow and eight
children.
—On Thur
ring struck
buildings bel
residing on t
of Brighton,
ments and s
the Perth hi
day night of last week light.
nd burned the barns and out-
nging to the, Misses Bidwell,
e lake shore; four miles west
together with all their imple-
me years' grain. Insured in
tual.
—The fine bank barn of Mr. William Mc-
Arthur, of let 8, concession 3, Erin, was
struck by lightning and totally destroyed
during the storm, on Wednesday of last
week. His liay and fall wheat ansi a num-
ber • of impl ments were destroyed. The
building was insured.
—Mrs. Awrey; wife of N. ,Awrey, Regis-
trar of Wentworth, and ex -member for
South Wentworth, in the Local Legislature,
died at Lakeview House, Grimsby Park,
early Monday morning. Mr. Awrey is at
present in Europe, a-nd the deceased was
spendingthe summer atthepark with her
daughter and sons. •1
—At a convention of over 150 Cons rva-
(
tive delegates of North Grey, held at wen
Sound Friday afternoon, to nominate at can-
didate, Mrd James McLaughlin, inanafac-
turer, of ()Wen Sound, was the enani ous
choice of the convention'to oppose on.
William Patterson, Minister of Customs.
—Andy Anderson, an old Ayr boy, , who
has staked out a claim on the north fotk of
Salmon river, British Columbia, has struck
it rich. A sample of free milling rock from
one of theseclaims was examined by an ex-
pert, who etated that it was very riCh in
gold. I . ;
—Mr. James McKay, son of the Ottawa
millionaire lumberman, jumped from • a
second storey window in the Butler hotel,
in that city, on Friday evening last. i He
fell a distance of 25 feet on the granolithie
pavement, receiving such injuries that he
died a few h urs afterwarda.
—The wi 1 of the late Mrs. Letitia C.
Youmans ha been probated in favor of her
niece. The state consisted of the dwelling
house in whi h she resided since her health
broke dowe everal years ago' and the con-
tents, wh c are valued atnine hundred
dollars. A ortion of the effects- are willed
to the Tor nto Women's Christian Temper-
ance Union.
—Mrs. G orge Mitchell, of Woodstock,
24 years o age, poured kerosene on her
slowiburnin breakfast fire Friday morning.
Before she k ew how it happened the can
exploded, a d she was horribly burned, her
body being almost cooked. Her husband
was badly urned in trying to save her.
Mrs. Mitchell had been married a year.
—The Tupper Government appointed 120
veterinary inspectors during the last peliti-
cal campaign. They were appointed haetily
when Dr. McEachran, the chief veterinary
inspector, Was on a trip to British Colum-
bia,. The new minister, Mr. Fisher,' has
talked the matter over with Dr. Mcl3ac ran,
the result being that the appointments aye
all been cancelled.
. —Writs are to be issued against iour
members of the London West council, viith-
in a few days, to recover $1,060, which they
are alleged to have illegally taken frotni the
sinking fund, and applied to liquidate tour -
rent expe4es. The members to be *Oro-
ceeded against are Reeve Saunby,
lora Hamilton, Collins and Duff. Ex-Rfeve
Macdonald is instituting the proceedings.
—On Thursday of last week, L. Bently,
one of Minto's most respected 'citizens and a
member of t e township council, met With
an accident hat will in all probability ptove
fatal. It appears that he, assisted by Ti. J.
Snell, John . McLeod and Charles Maetin,
was engaged in removing a small building
from over tho well pump for the purpose of
taking out the pump and deepeninithe
well. They had sawed off the posts land
were in the aot of removing the building
when it went over unexpectedly, *ate ing
Mr. Bently in its fall and crashing ma
double upon the ground. Those preterit
soon raised the building off of him and
carried him out, but it is feared that he
had s stamed a fracture of the spina cord
as th4 lower part of his body became para-
lysed lat once. ' Medical aid was at once pro-
cured but up to the present writing he has
rental ed in about the same condition. On
Monday a number of doctors from the
neighboring towns were called in for consul-
tation and a thorough examination made
with the result that little or no hopes are
held out for his recovery.
---Dr. McEachran, chief veterinary in-
spector of the Dominion, was in : Toronto
the other day on business. The doctor has
• just returned from a trip to the Northwest.
He says live stock in the territories was
never in better condition, and returns this
year will be quite up totheaverage. Ship-
ments of cattle from the Northwest are be-
ing made to England this year with lucra-
tive returns to the ranchmen.
—Minnie Beasley, aged 20, of Port Stan-
ley, attentpted suicide by jumping over the
railroad bridge into Kettle Creek, a distance
of 25 feet. She landed in a bed of muck,
and escaped with a sprained ankle and gen-
eral bruises. The girl and her mother, as
they were walking together, had a dispute
as to what kind of boots should be bought
for her. She suddenly jumped over the
railing of the bridge into the creek.
— The recent high water in British Col-
umbia has covered the Dewdney ranches
• with a most peculiar substance, apparently
unknown to science. The water has reced-
ed, aiid literally blanketed the low-lying
farms. This substance will absorb water
like blotting paper, but will not dissolve in-
to the water It resembles Chinese paper,
• _but entirely shuts out the light, and all
vegetation thee' accordingly.
—At Kincardine, on Saturday afternoon,-
abo t two o'clock, while in bathing with
• two boys about his own size, Aleck Roe, ten
yeaifs of age, fifth son of Lat. Roe, of Kin -
car ine, was drowned. He was trying to
swi1 from he shore to a breakwatertabout
half way o t on the south pier, but became
tire1 out, nd before i assistance could be
ren ered hulrn, was drowned. He had been
und r wat r about fifteen minutes before
his body w recovered, and all efforts to
rest re him to life were fruitless.
Mr. B.1A. Mitchell, druggist, of Lon-
don celebr ted the 50th anniversary of his
conimencin business in that city, on Friday
last He c me to London at the age of 22
years, and ias lived and done business there
for 50 year. He established his business
in 1846. Ile left, Efamilton on August 7th,
1846, and arrived in London the next night,
with only l few dollars in his pocket. He
still carries on the same business, andin the
tame stand When he started in London
he paid £40.a year -rent, which was not a
large sum, and $4 taxes. Board and lodg-
ing of the best could be had for $2 per
,
week.
1—rest March, William Armstrong, of
Hnntley township, near Ottawa, rented out
his fine farm there and left with his family
for North Dakota, where he expected to do
better. After putting in a hard summer be
has returned, and is now hugging himself
for joy for not having sold out his old home-
stead., He says the wheat crop in the Gies-
ston district of North Dakota will scarcely
average five bushels to the acre. The day
he left there a farmer was drawing oats five
miles to an elevator, where he sold them for
seven cents a bushel. Barley was bringing
only 11 cents, and wheat 42 cents. Arm-
strong tells a touching story of the hard-
ships Of the North Dakota farmers.
—Postmaster Ingram, of St. Thomas, has
found what is probably one of the oldest
post Tofllce documents in existence in this
part of Ontario. It is a time bill from Am-
herstburg to Brantford via the Talbot road
and the trip over this route made a total.
distance of 192 miles. The bill is for one
• sealed C bag from Amherstburg to St.
Thomas and the date of the bill is April
18th, 1.841. • The time oceupied on the trip
to deliver this Mail bag was from 5 a.m. on
April 18th = to 8.30 p. m. on April 19th.
The bag passed through twelve post offices
and b ing carried, over • the route by four
courie s. At each post office was registered
the ti e of arrival, time of departure, name
of the, courier and signature of the post-
master.
—A gentleman from Lochiel township,
Glengarry county, claims that there is in
the 4th concession of that township a field
on which hay has been grown continuously
since it was first cleared, in the latter part
of the past century, some 96 or 98 years
ego. There is no one living to -day, even
among the long,litied Highlanders of that
county, who can remember seeing it under
any other crop than hay. This field, furth-
ermore, never had any top dressing, anti
part of it, from want of attention,ha.s grown
uptunder brushvtood. Despite the oirouth
and general shortage of the hay crop this
year, a yield of fully two tons to the acre
was obtained. The quality of the hay is a
mixture of timothy and clover.
—A veryj' pleasant event occurred at the
home of M z. Fagan, Middlemiss, recently,
it being th
celebration of the golden wed-
ding of Mr and Mrs. John Fagan. They
were marri d on the 12th July, 1846, by the
Rev. Wm. Thompson, Ayr, .Ayrshire, in
the town German. Mr. Fagan was born in
Wigtownshire; Scotland, and Mrs. Fagan
was horn in the county Down, Ireland,
and -is of Scotch descent. They came to
Canada in 1870, and bought a small farm in
the county of Elgin. The Old couple have
five sons and four daughters, and nineteen
grandchildren. Mr. Fagan is 81 years of
age, and Ws. Fagan 71 years, both being
- well and hearty. Mr. Fagan claims to be
the oldest railroad man in Canada. He
worked on the Glasgow &Ayr Railway, and
has followed railroading ever since.
—Miss Bessie Essex, a domestic at the
residence of Mr. G. N. Weekes barrister,
London, was teeribly burned on Wednesday
of last week, by the explosion of a gasoline
stove. She neglected to open the air valve
when applying a mateh, and the gas ignited.
• The flame shot up suddenly, and almost en-
veloped the upper portion of her body.
Despite the excruciating pain, she behaved
lwith great presence of mind. Realizing
that a general conflagration might result if
the flames reached the oline tank above,
she seized the stove, car rit d it to the door
land threw it out. One side of the brave
girl's face was frightfully burned, and the
hair on one side of her head was singed off.
Her little finger wigs almost burned to a
Hee and her arm painfully blistered. Had
he nesoline bank exploded the consequences
would have been very serious.
— One of the Kincardine teachers, who
was recently disrnissedby the school board
-of that place. received only one vote. Next
day she met four different members of the
lacier& each of whom told her he had voted
fer her, and expreesed regret that she was
leaving. That teacher has very naturally
eorne to the.conclusion that there are at
least three stalwart liars in -Kincardine.
This is on a par with the election story
which comes from Sutmidale Corners, North
Siincoe n In that polling sub -division the
cause of Mr. Haughton Lennox, Mr. Mc-
Carthy' i Conservative oppenent, was, it is
said, upheld by an active committee com-
posed of 14 electors, good and true. They
worked hard for their candidate and when
the ballot box was opened Mr. Lennox was
foundto have three votes only in his favor.
There has been much dispute among the
fourteen members as to who were the faith-
ful three.
•
Perth Notes.
At the recent examination for expe-
rienced teachers in Chicago, we notice
among the successful candidates, Misses
Margaret aad. Ana Doherty, formerly of
Logan. Considering that only 67 out of
500 candidates succeeded, it is gratifyirg to
learn of their success.
—Miss Edna Routledge who is leaving
St Marys, and going to ltiontreal, was the
other evening made the object of a present-
ation by the congregation and mission band
of the Baptist church, St. Marys. Miss
Routledge bad been a membeleof the -choir
and has actesi as organist.
• —During a thunderstorm on Wednesday
afternoon of beet week, the lightning passed
down a chimney on D. McLaren & Son's
tailot shop, St. Marys, filling the room
with sulphurous smoke, and a pair of shears
were wrested from the hand of Mr. J. Me-
Laren,who was busy cutting.
• —J. W. Forbes, B. A., of North East -
hope, has been appointed to a position on
the staff of the Streetsville high school.
Mr. Forbes was one of the successful cau-
didates at the recent school of Pedagogy
examinations. His university coin -se was a
most successful one, and he is a specialist in
mathematics.
—Wednesday afternoen of last week, a
horse driven by a daughter of Mr. John
Porteus, Fullerton, got frightened at a
bicycle in Mitchell, and ran along the front
street, and thence to the Royale hotel sta-
bles. The buggy was upset, and the girl
thrown out, but she fortunately escaped
injury.
—What might have proved a very serious
accident occurred to James McKenzie, of
the 16th concession of Elma, one day last
week. While engaged breaking in a colt,
he happened to strike it with the whip,
when it became unmanageable and ran
away, throwing him down, and thus frac-
turing one of his arms.
—On Sunday afternoon, 2nd inst.'about
four o'clock, Wesley, son of Mrs. Robert
Stubbn of Listowel, went with some other
small boys, to Fairview cemetery, and in
leaning over one of the entailer tomb-
stones, which, it appears' was not cemented
to the base, dislodgedit and in falling
struck the boy on the head. It made a
nasty gash, about four inches in length.
—.Messrs.. Weir and Weir, flax millers, a
St. Marys, expect this season to haavest the
largest crop of flax ever harvested by any
one mill in Canada. They will handle be-
tween 150 and 200. tons. The amount of
labor required to do this will be better un-
derstood when we state that it is necessary
to have this handled tiseventy-one times be-
fore ready for the market.
—A number of St. Marys boys were
swimming in Trout Creek the other even-
ing when one of them, George Williamson
son of Mr. Williamson, implement agent,
had a narrow escape from drowning. The
water was over six feet in depth, and he
went down three times before he was res-
cued by Mr. John Lindsay, who was in
bathing at the time. .
—A fatal accident occurred on Saturday,
1st inst., near Atwood. While John Kos
liski was -walking along the railway track
towards Henfryu, a short distance west of
the station he was run down by a special
train on board of which were General Man-
ager Hays and other officials. As Mrs Ko.
liski was =deaf he did not hear the train ap-
proaching. Death was instantaneous. The
coroner viewed the body, but under the cir-
cumstances an inquest was not considered
necessary.
—An interesting event took Place at the
residence of Mrs. Joseph Nichol, Fullerton,
on Wednesday night of last week. The OC-
cmion was the marriage of Miss Margaret
H. only daughter of the late Joseph N ich-
ol;to Mr. William, third son of MT. Thomas
French, of Logan There were present on
the occasion about fifty friends and rela-
tives of the contracting parties, from Strat-
ford, Mitchell -and other places. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mr. Bradley,
of Knox church, Mitchell. The bride was
the recipient of many very handsome
presents.
—Mr. and Mrs, Theobald Litt, of Seb-
ringville had their family all at home Mon-
day of fast week, for the first time in
sixteen years. Theyiall came home because
MnEdward T. is thero at present from Pres=
cott, Arizona. In the afternoon they
visited the city and had a family photo-
graph taken. Besides the parents the
following are the members of the family. e
Rev. J. .Gi, pastor of the Evangelical
church, Camden, Ontario; Jacob, • Sebring-
ville ; D. G., Tavistock; E. T., Prescott,
Arizona • Mrs. (Rev.) Sta.ebler, Buffalo;
Mrs. G. errier, Sebringville ; Vise Lizzie,
Se_bringvloll
iei
Thefowing,
from the Cork Consti-
tution, will be read with interest by •the
many friends of Dr. Hornibrook, who, for
many years, was a prominent figure in
Mitchell There is at present staying at
the betel a distinguished Irish-Ainerican,
scientist, in the person of Dr. Edward
Hornibrook, chief manager of the Iowa.
Insane Asylum, Dean of the Sioux colleges
of medicine, and vice-president of the State
Medical Society. Dr. Hornibrook is just
now touring the British Isles, but ties far
stronger than the attractions whieh or-
dinarily draw the American to the south
of Ireland have directed his steps towarda
the city of Cork.. For many years ago, his
ancestors were people of name and in-
fluence in the sturdy old town of Bandon.
—A few milnorth •of Stratford, the
residence of T. 0. Dempsey, lot 1, conces-
sion 3, Ellice, was struck by lightning on.
Wednesday morining of lent week. Mr.
and Mrs. Dempsey and four young people
were in the house, the former sleeping down
stairs. When the storm came up about 2
o'clock, the occupants of the upstairs rooms
got up and shut down their windows. Miss
Dempsey heti only juet laid down again
a few minutes, when lightning struck the
house, smashing her window in aria punch-
ing a hole in a box standing under the bed,
as well as cutting a sleeve off a dress which
she had been wearing, and which laid on
top of the box. Miss Dempsey was, of
course, severely shocked, as well as all the
members of the household. In the room,
below the lightning also entered by the
window. A mat in one of the rooms was
perforated with' hundreds of holes. Mr.
Dempsey, jr., says that when he awoke, the
house appeared to be full of the electric
fluid. It was scattered about the floor in a
promiscuous manner, looking much as if a
shovelful of red hot coals had been heaved
in and allowed to roll about, filling the
house with smoke and a sulphurous Innen.
The fluid finally found its way into the cel-
lar and disap,peared. Fortunately the
building did not iguite. There is a light-
ning rod on the house.
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