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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1899-06-23, Page 1{ en weather has deriian for the rials. rgandies rns, India Mi n demand. T any of them mbling linen, he that the breeze#, it possible fail cep coin and coed r rneterisee can 30c r yard rHat ill be as er. Shirt Wale up to .00 eachh , d from 'Sc up to' l rta are going frt tu from St up to WEAR 1 ow give place to with long tenni es, and some, wink cool as you canr assortment cove different qualities ural Paton Wotton .d and trimmed, each up to the at 75o each. n White Wear ere, Skirts, Cite certainly be tee ough the context -40h .ow White—as if laundty. The very moderate p ETS. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, WHOLENUMBER, 1,645. 4 meornfprtable i ing C,rset. If throw it aside aid ..tong Corsets. We tested shapes cid a eh make. The it ever body. ort vaaiet, the study ; of the partlftllar 111 Se satisfactory an. Er.. Our best 65; 75o, 90; h. We have s made especial ey are Light in* , pride 50e a re to comfort the Spooiali'is Misserd and CI d nevee been ist selling hosiery ma Standees B Eery is the kind Laces, but re soft y as 'well as the foot We sell as goo es la seta anywhere for purehais who (e for little e lities, of 25c per pair. exicao Cotton ,utifully Shaped int Lying Common T,J*.- cam get good stook. This is so very much a country of specialists that it s liext to impossible 'for the general all round man to make a living, let alone succeed pa business.1 When you hear of a failure it is usually the cas0 to hear pebple e?cplain. away t e particular failure, with the' comment t at he had too manly Vous in the fire," meaning in other w rds, that the man w s attempting to run several distinct branOhes of Nisi ess,',wit otit first having acquired a special owled e of the sever branches he was attempting to carry n. There can not be the slighest, do bt bu successful in this country must hay 4 thor of the business he is about to undert e, - !Business men are successful, or the co proportion to the thoroughness of t e foun beeia laid in the outset. 1 tha ugh a man 0 tra atio If 1 We lay claim to being specialists in the ilreceiving the benefit of that !special nowled mers are not asked to sustain the losse s entai - ing, poor selection, or the perniciou habit For when a man gives long credit he must m out of some one. . val Our special knowledge ena,bles ills to o es, and at the same time net u t. eunterel and in the 3entaining nice new a Lisle 'thread, inine all silk made t atudied the shape ice, and whoare to. St glove nutkers .fit full range of these • Blacks', Tans atul ad 50c per pair. If iolude Kid -Gloves, gent aissortment of tintings at $1.00e p,very pair ghat - of :aces, Ilieltte niteklesi Hat a,1 Handkerchief', ale will bp fou TA 11 just 11 Clo h ng bus of lonk credit. er these speci 1 Try us' for anything in Men's or Boys' speciolly, A man's store. For every day work Buckskin PE:31a The Tammy Shirt is also a wor hy of its narne at 50c, It may be that tiaere is better va Sal or that we sell at 250, but we have We have 50 colored shirts, odd pri e for is 75c. We have every faith in the we ring q a make" of men's suits at $8 an $10, a jus ified by the satisfaction that the w arers h The Neckwear this season is nothing hav all the varieties : Four-in-hancl, Bows s, and Tom Thumb, etc. There are many and various k tro ser supporting qualities we have a record. ' Are you intL.ested in a Fedora 114 at 95 s are nequ orking gari not seen it. hildren e clearin 11 ve in he, suit not varied, String, Puffs, Ends, Kipling ds of line at Braces, but for 25c that has a is Go. fest Cash na ori 'a nicnith'e • James Dick, at home, —Mr. Jona his gray driving- itIcLea0 kens Couch it, tie )7ieirtity, io the - great sewing tiers are making eon and laerellieh athletic sportee 'races. The pine take up a gam fel aod. Cloth ers and Furnis hers On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG'S BLOCK, SEIFORT Are you going for a trip up, the 1.4kes or to Manitoba ? lace' at the Taet. 'eve he family` w .Sriteittee den yeara of unknowni falleo dn. time, and 0 body ttne a evidently fait for.t. fflieted ffieci .-Ivatt, beg o Northwest is on the 27th -OF !JUN Rates to Winnipeg and return, $ Reston and return, $28 ; Binscart and return, $28 ; Cowan' and Ot Prince Alber and. return,. $35 ; For all information in c onnection with first Cheat.) gxcursion to the ; Deloraine and return, $28 n; and return, $28 ; Moosomin rn, $28 ; Regina and return, Yorktown and • return, $30 Calgary and. reiurn, $35 ; Red nd return, $40. th same apply to J. NAL Seaforth. BRITISli COLUMBIA. [Written fo (Continued from LIFE IN Xresnoia by R. iiparling.] esue of June the 9th.) CHINA TOWN. Occasionally are to be seen lepers in the first stages of the read disease, dependent upon alms flung by a hand that avoids the loathsome person, est contamination might follow. Here too re female ehattlels still fair and innocent o face in spite of th'e un- utterable Wrongs, and still not one whit above the level of their deep damnation. Such then is Ch natown, a very orderly community, for th Mongolian is not corn - the kind that inflame the passions to com- vidual, and his dee s ud vices are not of mit acts of violence; He knows no more oonvival bowl than a oup of tea without the unual condiments of the Anglo-Saxon. Should he leitve the gaming table without a ain le coin, yet he does so with a patient dens of the deepest nd most loathsome horror are as silent as enchanted halls. Everytnivg except his innermost domestic life oan he easily *pee ed by the curious Houses. ' These are hung with ponderous obaervel. The tereples are known as "Joie ilded emerge, with the most costly worship The de ties are fearful concep- tions, fe ocious in untenance, their heads bristling with roug bair, and the bodies deoked with tinsel robes. In one Corner a tiny vestal flame she& its dim and, weird light, and near it stands a huge gong. Au attendant strikes this gong to arouse the god and then, prostrating himself before the altar, makes three salaams. The salaam is a mode of ceremonious salutation or obeis- ance conuron to Oeientals, and consists in the bending of the head with the body downwards, in extreme oeses, almost to the ground, and placing the alm of the right hand on the foreheed. • couple of email billets or ieces of wood of a half circular shape are tossed into the t air to bode good or ill luc to you, according as they fall on the right or left h nd side. After persis- quiverful of joses joke is next takete in hand and shaken ith dexterity until three have fallen to the ,floor. These sticks are numbere , and the numbers correspond to other numbere in tbe oraoulum or fate book, and after mueli comparing and incantations of various kinds, . the visitor may be ine formed that he ort sne may live for forty or more ' years, and Will marry withiu two years; and if your Sex and air seem to coun- tenance such a venture, you are told that you will win enerrnous fortunes at poker. • Whatever of gentile() solemnity may cloak the heathen Chinee in his own relation to his bewhiskered neities, he undoubtedly tips the wink to them when the temple is invaded by the sight seer. It is said that in San Francisco the smooth spectacled in- te reter of destinies pays $5,000 a year for th privilege of pueveying such mummeries, an hardly can the Chinaman himself ra- pe es a twinkle of umor at the termination of sone in which he so very easily comes off beet, having at he same time outdone his Ceucasian critic in cynicism and for a pri e. n the theatre you will, contrary to gen- eral expectation, take a serious view of art. Yoh are conducted .by a tortuous under- greund passage of successive step -ladders and narrow ways, past innumerable bunk - rooms of opium smokers, to the stage itself, where you entran e creates no disturbance. The Chine e stage is peculiar in that while the aceors re out umbered ten to one by supernurn retries, usicians and white vis- itors, they onopo ize the intellect al recog- il nition of the aud ence. The men hat on head, pacn the p a and the wo en who throng the two galleries, divided into re- spectable and unrespectable by a rigid line of demarcation, have been educated to a view of the drame which is hardly to be ridiculed by natio s that admit the concert and the oratorio The actors are richly dressed, and wom n are not permitted on the !stage, the femele roles being taken by youths. The proience of the orchestra, is to simply accentuate lemotion, land from the inst u.Ments they use, any person who once hea d them, would certainly declare that the hinese musicians succeeded admirably. The plays for the most part are historical, ba,sed on legions, of which the nation pos- sesses a goodly number. Among the Chieese is a secret society known as the "nlighbinders," which was establiehed by so e devote Chinese patri- ots more than tw eenturiee ago. Long be- fore it was broug t to the 1Panfic coast, it had degenerated into an ' rganization ern- ployed to further the ends of avarice and revenge. It gre greatly m numbera, and acquited great pewee. The greater portion of the peeple have always been honestly in- dustrious, but the society has always re- warded hostility by persecution, ruin, and often deeth. Merchants are laid under tribute, aud every industry in the neighbor- hood net iinder the direct protection of the society, was comtelled to furnish its quota of revenue. Vic, was fostered, and courte of law wee even Ise corrupted by intimida- tion or bribery of witnesses that it was next criminal effenee. t In San Francisco, where the society has Up headquarters, by means of its autdoratic power, it has worked in a measure its dowedall. Should any unfor- tunate in lir the hatred of this society, its emisserie will follow the individual with a relentless hatrede and assaesinittion will in- variably he the victim's doom. A Chinese funeeal is 4 sight which is not equalled ny any iimilae ceremony, When some Highbineler , or ' mon of note dies, pi series of weird n see is ept up, in order to drive away the s irits oft evil. When the time for the funeral arrinea, elaborate prep- arations having been mede, the members of the societn, dressed in gorgeous costumes, gather, and, in a Mannee which is • charac- terized by remarkable precision, they go through a series oi movements, the meaning of which is a mystery te those who are not members of their society. Roast pig in abundance is provided, and all who wish may psrtake of it. i In the procession are tinual beating on tom tonic When th procession is ready to st rt a standard bear- er advances to the front nd carries a flag or al sign board, on t whio are written hieree glyphice said to extol th virtues of the d - ceased, As the precessi n wends its way t the cemetery smell epi ces of paper are thrown out towarde the rowd ; the idea, it 's said, is to attract th attention of the , evil and thus divert his attention from the pirit of the dead ,Higlibinder. After the orpse is interred t remains of the roast ig and chicken are placed on the top of he grave for the spirit lof deceased as it eaves the grave and pampas to some other nabitation. The Si ash or 'British Colum- iau Indian, who is a ways an attentive ernes forth to fease on t e food left at the , The swearing of ' Chinaman in a If, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1899. court .of justice is a peculiar and unique performance. There are several ways in which this is done. Some Chinamen will take the oath in the usual form, as they term it, " to -smell a book," but genera ly two other eepedients are resorted to in order to, if possible, impress on the mind of the witness the value of an oath. A piece of paper is taken and burned while the words of the oath are being interpreted to him. The Ohinaman watches the burning paper with eager intent. To him the mean- ing is that, should he give false testimony, hie spirit will suffer the pain and destruc- tion similar to the piece of paper. If the case is a serious one, such as murder, then another maims is resorted to. A cock or chicken is prooured, and while the oath is being read to the witness, the,head is sev- ered from the body. The maning of this, to the Chinaman, is suggestive : Should he bear false testimony his fate will be the same as that of the innocent 4nd unoffend- ing cook. At a session of the assize court, held in New Westminster, a Chinaman was being sworn, and the latter plan was adopt- ed. Two constables left the court room and shortly appeared with a cook, . a pail and a hatchet. , These were brought into the court rdom, and, in front ` of the judge, the ceremony of swearing the Chinaman was proceeded vrith. One constable performed the part of executioner well, but the other, who was bolding the body of the cock, be- came nervous, and let go the bird, which performed a number . of somersaults and other strange gyrations, and from the sev- ered neck the blood spouted in every direc- tion and came rather close to the judge and the lawyers, who did not desire to have their wigs or robes, sprinkled, and so beat a hasty retreat. Now the' ceremony is per- formed in the open air. As has already been said, the Chi tele question is a burning one, and partake of both a social and a political aspect. , In 1885 a head tax of $50 was levied onl all Chinamen brought into Canada. Whethe this has lessened the number; of arrival an open question, The agiteition now i to increase it to $500. It mnst be remem- bered, however that a great many of the Celestials lande'd here are afterwards seoret- ly smuggled into the United States. The presence of the Chinaman in this province is opposed to the best interests of the laboring classes, since he will work for lower wages, as hie food costs him but a few cents a day. What money he earns is not expended in the country, but is returned to China ; even after death the Chinaman's bones are taken and buried in the Flowery Kingdom. This is imperative owing to a long standing de- cree of the Emperor. - Hie mission on this continent is to make what he ean and then return to his native China. ;He will not adopt our language or custome and habits of life, but maintains his stan ard, and is very slow to assimilate wit our people. Their huts and places of abode re the low- est ens of squalor and vice. eing gregar- ious tri instinct, they huddle ,together in crowde, and live in places into which the light of de; seldom enters. The Chinaman Wears the arbarous queue, which was at first worn es a sign of allegiance, under the compialsion of a death penalty, but now as a distinctive sign of nation- ality. Owing to their 1 willingness to work for less wages than either races ask, the Chinarnan has in many callings driven the Caucasian from the field. Tbe greater number of them are brought to this country under contract, ann as sucn are bound to their masters and compelled to labor years dered, and in many cases to free a wife who to discharge an oblirtion for services ren - had been given to some master or High - binder as aecurity for the performance of some contract. As they are maintained in their labor even by imports from China, they serve no Canadian interest, but at the same time drain our resources for the sup- port of Chinese and effete institutions. Of late years considerable trade with Chins, in salted salmon hats sprung up, but now this trade is distinctively Chinese In character. In San Francisco they have captured the broom industry, and thus have' driven their white competitoes to the wall. They con- trol'the manofacture of opiuM and the mill. ing of rice. In Manufacturing charcoal for the canneries arid firewood for large con- cerns, in clearing wild lands, in construct- ing ditches for municipal councils, in laun- dry work and gardening they have long held the field, and now ire the coast cities they - are rapidly gaining control of he tailoring industry. Over 5,000 China en are employed every year in the salmon c n- neriee. ' The Chinese are the railway n iv - vies of British Columbia, and were larg ly employed on all public work until tate y, when legislation now prohibits it. In the political relation they are unfit Ito share in shaping the destinies of our dountry, but they take the plane of those who could help to form the populer will, and besiden they, in a great measure, clog the machinery of the Government, Our judges are unani- mous in their tes imony that they paralyze the hand of jus ice. It is neet to impos- sible to fasten c ime on a Chinaman by Chinese evidence As they have long been accostomed to ppression at home, thfr come to ourshores and into our courts p e- judiced against our laws and officers of the law. Their' regard for an oath is alight, especially a ter t ey have been some time in the country. Th marked resemblance that' exists among the ,works confusion. Their coaree black hair, their yellow complexions, their oblique al ond-ehaped eyee, their bridgelees noses nd their round jowls, all uniformly peeri g in the meanest habit, conspire to defeat the ends of justice. Licenses and taxes are evaded by the pre. senting of receipts from one to the other. Th writer, rionie years ago, had been ap- pin ted collector for a municipality, and ear y in the month of July set out to collect the road tax whiah is levied in some muni - cm lities in place of working at statute ovei two doz n Chinamen all busily engaged in their com on gambling games. Having demanded the tax from the first individual I met, he referred me to the "Boss Man," but no person seemed to be the Bose Man, or esired tolbe recogni ed as that person. age just at that time. his problem also pre ents a religious am - pec . There dee man who think, and rig tly so, that the interests of Christianity an of humanity are pa amount to Canadian int rests, and that we ehould, in dealing wit this question, be uided by what is our express dutY to hu anity, as enunciat- ed by the Satdour himself. Then, if so gui ed, iteshould be our bounden duty to give the preference, in the empl ying of labor, to that class of labor which upports those institutions which lead to hi her civ- ilization and Christianity. At t e same time we should see that the lose to Christi- anity is not greater than .the ga n. The Chinamen, as they arrive here, , are full grown, and have brought all their ekes and habits with them. 1 Hie sole object is to make money, and, in nursuit of Ihis, he will make use of the nery forces and means that tend to deohris- tianize. To teach this people then hve must go to China, where avarice is not Itimulat- McLEAN ,BROS., Publishers. $1 a Year in Advance. OOHS cl 1110f1 And all 'others It oe s by Chas. El. Sheldon, fin. pap - 10 CENTS EAsd 99 AUX. WINTE ed by new prospects of gain, and here th youth can be reached. With r gard to those who are still here, they a mild be treated with rather more human tn than they are. They are in many place , especi- ally in the larger cities, subjected o %idlest all kinds of indignities, and even *Oregon. Our treatment of them should be more in keeping with our professions, not only for the purpose of lessening the evils theie in- dustrial methods are working to oar civili- zation, but also to do good, even unto all men, as the opportunity present' iteelf to 118. With regard to the remedy something must be done. The laboring and mall in- dustrial interests feel sorely the ht re - suiting, from the eeming in contact ith the Chinese, to such an extent th t inereesed protection must be given. The heed tain first levied for the purpose of revente, was the educator by which further! legislative actiop has been taken. To gee the relief that is necessary we must establish a new principle. We must either increase the wages of home labor, er increase the pur. chasing power of wages, or, If possible, to do both. To raise wages it ma render supply 0 make its, as corme ns s ng the t cies of duty labor more efficient, or diminish th of Chinese labor ; to increase the ing power, the commodities tha wages buys should be cheapened. labor more efficient, our Legisletur at once make better provision for t ing of the youth in mechanical pu well as in domestic methods. To the purchasing power of wages, the ion Parliament, instead of it:ere duty on cottons and ether staple a white cpnsurnption and lowering t on rice and articles chnsumed by t men, should reverse the process. ese labor shoold be a lowed on an works. The head ta should eithe be in- creased, or s me legielation to meet the case of undesirable immigrants such as is in force in Natal, South 'Africa, s ould be adopted. To be eontinued.) East Huron Farmers' Ins itu e. The annua meeting of East Hu on ar- mere' Institute was held in the co neil chamber, Br seels, on Tuesday afternoon of last week, President Strachan in the chair, Minntes of la t meeting read and passed. After. an app opriate addresa by the presi- dent, remar s were made by Thomes Mc- Millan, W. . Freese, tA. Gardiner arid W. H. Kerr. Report of executive was presented, Allow- ing that six meetings were held in tbe eid- ing during the past year. The atiditoes' re- port was also read, showing the to al re- ceipte of be $180 and disbursemen e $1 9.23, leaving a balance of $40,77. ' John McIntosh end James Bowman, auditors, ceetifird to the correctness of the accounts. oth were the -places for hold- ' ing regular meetings be Brussels a d Gerrie. Supplementary meetings at Murd 's school- house, Ethel, Fordwich and Cons nee. Following ere—elected direct rs : How.: ick, Robert Edgar and Thom Gibson ; Wroxeter, J. Beethour and T. . Gibson ; Elliott ; More s, Joseph Smillie a W. H. Blair ; Grey, homes Strachan a d R. Dil- worth ; McKi lop, 0. Murdie an A. Gar- JammeoeveBdowamuda s'econded that the books !be- longing to the Institute now at Wroxeter and Walton to Constance, and th t Meek's. Edgar, Dilwoeth and McMillan a range the necessary work. Mr . Strachan was re-elected resident ; Mr, Fraser, vice-president ; and Ir. Hood, Huron Notes. ' ---Wingharn race meet will be held on John Miller an , Ronert Ridley, all of Grey, have gone 0 Meini- -,-The May make of cheese at t e Etbel factory has been sold to the Messrs, Ban larityne, at 7n cente. --The young ladies of Exeter have taken to Iplayirig basketball, and the ether day bad an exciting game. —T. nh Boles, of Clinton, has Pained nis final exa ination in dentistry at he Deteoit College ef Medicine. t —A valuable cow belonging t Thomas Mason, Tease line, Hullett, was steuck by lightning during the storm of We nesday of —W. E. Browning, son of Dr1 Browning, of Exeter, has passed his final eeaminat!on me al a d stood first in firet-claes boners] in —t -The 100 -acre farm of the late trees Heiwoo , in the 7th concession of Us orne, wan, sold by &notion, on Fri ay last, to the sons, Me ere, James and ohn Heywood, —41r. Conrad Walper, of near tiashWoed, deli ere one of the heavie t loadd of Wheat an Mr. W. G. Biesett's iitor house, in Ex- eter, het week,?that ,.wes ver brought to that town, it c*niining tf5 bushels. ' of Brussels has peened his nal examination at Toronto Medical School, and leaves shortly for Missouri, to join his brother, who is also a doctor. —While assisting in lowering tbe frame of a harn onto a atone wall on Tuesday of last eek, George Harness, of Exeter, had the t umb of his left hand badly crushed between the beam and wall. richawas destroye by fire on Wednesday of leen week, together with all the content*. Two lambs, a calf and a numbe were also burned. There waa nal —On Wednesday evening of 1 while Mr. Fred Sotheran, of Ford of hides et week Leh, ac- companied by his sister and h cousin, Miss Esther Sotheran, was comit home fro Wroxeter during the big thnn return he ud his cousin received a shook from th; Iightnn that render =d them unconscious for a tim , but his sinter was uninjured. After re ove •ing front the Seat effects of the shock Miss Sotheran wis alright, but Fred was confined to his bed for a few days, feel- ing quite sore and unsteady. Mr. Jeff Emery, a native of Centralia, but who has been engaged in railroading in the west for some time, was accidentally i killed at Fort McLeod on Saturday, 3rd inst. The remains were brought home and interrd in the Exeter cemetery —0 Wednesday of last week,Miss Sarah Garber . daughter of Mr. Thomas Carbert, gravel road, Hullett, and Mr. L. McGinnis, of Logan township, were united in marriage en 8t. Jeseph's ohurch, Clinton. The cere- mony was performed 'by Rev. Father West. ile Thomas May, of Exeter, was • drivi g A. Hooper's piny on Thursday of 'last eek, one of the *hefts of the buggy !brok . The buggy became cramped and Mr. ay was thrown out on the hard road. Hes rained his wrists, and bruised his face 'buil ;' — ' H. cCallu:m, of Exeter, lost $50 ! the other d y. He drew $75 from the bank and placed t in ;his pocket. He called at several bueierns places, hut did not discover his lose un 'il he :reaehed his office. He supposes it • as drawn from his pocket by sticking to t is hand. -The thr-c-yeareold daughter of Mr. P. Tansley, of ' inghem, was playing on the platform in rent of her home the other morning wh . n she had the misfortune to fall off and •reek her arm. The little girl had the cam= arm broken when she was one- year -old. —The ma riage of Mise M. King, who has resided ith J. J. McCaughey, of the Commercial Hotel, Clinton, for the past ten years, to s o' n Kelly, of . Morris, ' was sol- emnized a;, t. Joseph's church, Clinton, by Father Wes , on Monday, June 12th. The young coupl . will tees de, in Morris. —A quiet weddn took place at the home of Mr.. Murray,of St. Helens, on Wednesday, June 7t When her youngest daughter, r !artha, Was united in marriage to ;Abraham Durnid, one: of West Wawan- osh's prosperous', !young farmers. The nuptial knit was t tied: by Rev. S. M. Whaley. ' — A pretty home wedding took place in Dundalk, Grey county, atthe residence of the bride'sarents, when the beautiful mat- rimonial ceremony joining; the hearts and hands of Mies E. Rath and' William Kemp, tboth of Clinton, was•perfoemed on Wednes- iday of last week. —Samuel e'Clark, of •. urday, 10th inst., at He leaves a wife and large family to mourn his lose. His rem* were taken to St. Mark's church, Who Rev. Mr. Mille :preached a very approprite sermon, and then to Ball's cemetery, —On Monday niorni g of last week Gus. Porterfield, ' f Ethel, had a close call from serious injur by being caught by a saw leg that had slip ed off a fiat car on which it w !being to ded at the station yard. For- tunately it as a small log, and when it struck him nd `knocke3 him down, no serious dams a was done. —On Wed esday Of last week Rev. D. B. McRae tied Che matrimonial bow between Nelson H. Cardiff, a',well-to-do young far- mer of the 7tbooncedeion, Grey, and Miss Aggie, the estimable daughter of John Mc- Cartney of the 3rd. They have taken up housekeepingen Mr. Cardiff's 100 acre farm, an'commnon married life under auspicious sir umstance A very uiet but Pretty- wedding took place in `Got 'e, on Wednesday, June 7th, the, contracts g parties being Dr. J. J. Wil- lians, of Lis a and Miss Annie, only daugh- ter Of the la James Perkins, of Gerrie, The' ceremon , took place at the family resi- dence, and w s performed by the Rev. A.B. Forney, aesie d by the Rev. Wm. Lowe, of Wingham. —On Sund y, 11h inlet., an old resident of Usborne,in the pierson of Isaac Whitlock, passed away. ° Deceased was a native of Devonshire, England, and came to Canada in his boyho d days. He ' was highly re - spec ted by a large circle of friends. He wase 78 years of age and had been 11 for some time w th an incurable disease of the kid 'eye. - he th r¢day as Mrs. E. Routledge, of lin n, was ''training a grape vine over the u p anal was standing on the platform of t e well it gave way, precipita- ting' her iowii th ell.. There was no one but a little g and o at hand, and she told him to get a ripe which he did, while she hung on to t ' ri ;s, and by self possession managed to et o t, not much the worse for bot experIen —Mrs. Robert eMath passed peacefully away at her ate esidence, in Wingham, on Sunday, llth ins ., after a long illness. Mrs.'MeeMa h w r in her 47th year, and had resided i Wingham for a number of years, and was eloved by all who had formed her acqua ntance. She had been a sufferer from tun trouble for many months. She le +ea behind tci morn her loss a hus- band a d one daughter. —0 Thur day' morning, 8th inst., the hand o deat ago n visited Gorrie, and the spirit of Tho as ash,sr., passed peacefully to the baster word t beyond, after an ill- ness of about six mon hs' duration. De- ceased was rn i the yen of Winchcob, Gloucestershi e, Oen , in the year 1828. In 1853 he w s,m rried Mies May Phil- lips. In the all of 1860 he removed with his family to his 'Mint : , and for about a year and a half li ed in the township of Albion, From Albion he removed to How - ick township, and purchased the south half of lot No. 5, on the 6th concession, from the late Hiigh Hollingshead, where he resided until about a year ago, when he removed to Gorri e. uldurn, died on Sat - the age of 73 years. —Manitoba. LegCiallnatadaure_is. sum moned for fere d npon Rudy (1 Kipling by McGill Uni ereity, Monte al. on. Mr. Tar e, Minister of Public Wo ks, who is aga in very poor health, left n Wednesday or Europe._ hp buildings pd giounds of the Hell - mut Ladies' Colle , at London, have been sold to 'the Slaters f St. J seph, huraday, nigh Iburgl s broke into the Che ley postoffice d ble open the vault. The only got a fe coppers for their labor. &rah Holt, ning-room girl at the Co ercial hotel Wheatley, committed suicide Friday mo ning by taking an over- - T e General embly of the Presby- terian church has ii) tied a resolution heart- ily endorsing the ra rug of a century fund of, one Imillion della se —Daring a fit of temporary insanity on Friday', Mrs. Henry Hull, of London, com- mitted suicide by o tting her throat. De- e,easediwite 63 years of age. —A'probably fatal &widest occurred to Mr. E gm Southw ck on the farm of Mr. Henry Bonney, three mi es north of Bur- ford, hursday forenoon of last week. Mr. Bonne was buildneg a new barn on his farm, reh of the tillage of Burford, and asked the aid of his friends and neighbors in its construction. The unfortunate man, Mr. Elgin Southwick, was enigaged on the roof of the new barn, when lin slipped and fell to the ground, hitting isoniethitig in Ids fall, with the result that he fractured his —The fast train service on the Canadian Pacific Railway started Sunday, trains be- ing sent out from Montreal and Vancouver to cross the e,ontinent in four days. —A cave-in took place in the Soulanges eanal Fridaereifternoon, and two men wens buried bemeath the debrie. The men were dead vrhenteken out. --The tetra number of bicycles sold ix Canada dtZring the year is estiinated at 50,- 000, of which 27,262 were imported from the United States and 46 froM Great Bei - tai ne ay evening of last week, the barn of Martin Myer, fine miles north egged of Tea- mster', was struck by lightnin and entirely consumed, with the contents. , . —The Gordon Memorial pollege fund from Canada is now closed, and the satin - factory total sum of $5,064 has been remit- ted by the Bank of Montreal to the son George, secretary of the fund, London. 1 urday evening, while bathing in the river. He could not swim, and, getting into dee i water was drowned before assistance conl I reach 'him. 1 —George Shaver, a member of the firm of i Grant and Shaver, wood dealers, Corniivalio I died Friday night while riding a bicycle on ithe street. Several ladies noticed hie wheel t wobbling, and then he fell over on hie side. 1,Heart failure was the eause. —It is understood that Rev.: John Quin - liven, parish priest a St. Patrieldi, Mon- treal, has been offered the position of Bishop of London, Ontario, left vacant by the pro- motion of Bishop O'Connor to the Archie- piscopal See of Toronto. —Bert Scott, of Toronto, died in a hospi- tal in that city, on Sunday, frone the effects of blood poisoning. The young Man was a member of the Sons of England t band, and while playing a brass instrum nt contracted blood -poison through a sore * his lip. died Thursday morning, aged 66. Re was born at Greenwich, England and was a deacendant of William the C nqueror. At the age of 18 he WW1 appointe to the Hud- son Bay service, retiring in 1802 min taking up his residence in Kingston. scholar attending the Aberdeen public school, London, fell from the b,auister of the !stairway Friday afternoon, and was picked, lup in an unconscious condition. It was !found that her jaw was broken and her Ian kle sprained. , : ,---Fitz Thurman, a German, was seriously injured Friday morning by falling off a mov- ing freight train on the Grand Trunk near Thamesville, on which he was etealing a ride. 'His right leg was fractured and kis nuiscles lare in a state of rigidity from the concus- sion. His skull is cracked and his scalp 1 —Roger Richardson, of Napanee, leas been notified that the remains of his son, 3. ,C. Richardson aged 24 years, were en route from Manila to' be interred at Washington. hginia Infantry. He was a splehdid specimen 'of manhood, weighing 200 pounds. He was tattaoked by fever in the Philippines and 1 —Mrs Sarah Bennett, of St. Thomas, has treceived word announcing that her son, !Alfred Bennett, railway engineer, had been lkilled at San Luis Potosi, Old MeXi00, on June 6th. The fatality ocaur-ed in a wash- 1out, deceased being buried beneath his en - !gine. He was formerly empleyed on the G. !Hudson Garner, of Thorold, en Tuesday of .,, jest week. He had been ehooting fieh, and neloaded his gun, forgetting to let down the ihammen He then started to climb a fence, ',when the weapon was discharged, sending several leaden pellets into nit Aide, some 'piercing the shoulder'. It is held that the , accident may prove fatal. lOwen Sound, was burned the ground IDunn and four small- childre , who were in ithe house, were awakened b a loud crash, iand on going downstairs to i vestigate were i driven back by dense clouds ,of smoke. Re- turning upstaira, Mrs. Dthin threw the i children from the window and jumped her - sell' Lottie Fr/tem-Abe ten -year-old daughter 'of R. I. Fraser, of Barrie, died as the result !of an acident on Monday evening of last iweek. She was burning some paper in front Id the stove, when her clothes caught fire. "She rushed out of the house into, the street la nuns of flames. C. Grubbs, 'assisted by :the mother, tore off her burning clothes, Ibut not before she had been terribly burned. :She lingered in great pain until , Wednesday 1.11 ofnAlinrgs: Olive A. Sternamain, the Buffalo ;woman who was twice tried at Cayuga, Pntario, on the charge of 1 murdering her thusband, and at the first trial Was sentenced ,no death, has at last got! the insurance !money that the International Brotherhood Of Carpenters' and Joiners' slt first refused to give her, _because of the alleged ' uneer- nainty of the manner of Sternarnan's death. Mrs, Sternaman receives the amount of in- hurance, $200 and interest, airing a total —Mr. Clifford Sif ton, Min ster of the In- terior, has made arreingerne te to secure a respectable class of young women who will !make good servant girls in the Northwest, hnd with that object in viewi has appointed ga number of lady vents in Great Biitain hnd other European countries to make per- eonal selections. One of the English agents tpassed through Montreali Friday, with the rirst party, numbering eighteen for whom isituations have already been obtlined in the orthwest. Other parties will follow. —The Earl of Aberdeen formerly Gov- ernor-General of Canada, in an address ber - fore the Eighty Cub, in London, England, Me other evening, said that Canada wax ritish crown. " Anything like serious hontemplation of annexation to the United 'States," said his Lordehip, " it absolutely a Oleg of the past, and the Frexich-Canadians are awning the firmestsupporters of *direct British connection." Lord Aberdeen said he rntieipated a satisfactory aid, pacific so- lut on of the Alaska hour! dary dispute. , et—A, few days ago a little fouteyear-old girl, the youngest child of Mr. Ephraim Dunetnore, farmer, Embro road, Downie, Made a terrible mistake and drank quite a. large portion of the contents of a bottle of 'parboil° acid, bunting her mouth, throat and 1 —George Buckle of St. Ylarys, has been left $3,700 by a bro'ther who died recently ln England. The deceased Buekle had been a zoachman in the service of one hentleman Over thirty years, and died leaving three tequal shares to his two brothers and sister.