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The Huron Expositor, 1899-09-01, Page 199 r )004 op Jor Dry to have complete week jn st Store. IIMMI1101111111111.1.11=1111111111 aeker, to Gret-I in ; George Pipe eepavva - Hugh!. A. Meilair and: testo w ; Robert!' id Miss Maggie :1 Kellingten, to. 7th, to Brandon ;!. ei)-s1 ; Alexander' , C. Cuthill, tol 1 a Notary Publicl [ranee agent. Anyl 'eent.,_ort first-01Am ,,rf And money ad. borrower. Also a,, Ids at 6 per certi„., rednoaday of each I sale. 167 1 E. Chryaler left irmal College in ; a course in the: • ,sa Aggie Beattie t her sister, Mrs. Mrs, Long and i esent the guests sa.-Miss ()rent ' ,tresday MO ing , Aikenhea re - Ly --Miss 1 ertie ! ariends in Sea. i , barrister, ac- , and family, re- aming to their ' ,00l weather is ixtreme heat of z are nearly all . ean now enjoy ' faueral of Mr. irough our town a Baires ceme- 1 kinds of Plow 1414- bardware, 1.654-2 ' ere, convey-. rt. It. ff. Coffins Mlelarthy, Osier 108.tf • and her Irv,- been here v. John Stabler mday forenoon on the 1401 ,-Our public day. The full Arthur irvalier, North hie gone to. Barker, left - Miss Mary • North Dakota some tiMe.- licago, is here , Hauch. He -e, -Miso Laura ng friede and rton, and Lis - Mine Minnie ; at MiIverton, Wme.-Messro. , Faust, were week. %ley k- Everybody lg shosver of rein, vn. of Craditon, --Mr. WitWer le and relatives eirra (;eorge visit to : Da. E visiting their nd f ri end& a is year, thera. s,th orchard.-- .. and acedirig Ly -Mr. Will - lace, was ;last Oise Mary Par; ample boarded ✓ tor Dakota. was ViSiting- sta-Mr. Leuic town StuAal• is been on the proving,-fdrs, friends in this -oprietor of tho le horse 9. feW -- ✓ an old and aner, occurred d the ripe age died long Ora old homestead ries, on Wed - wed by a lager ds, took place • eemeterY+ TEIRTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,655. j SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 18 96 osito MoLEAN BRO., Publishers. $1 a 'Year in dvance, Tho Growing Ti "tiAAA'AiWW40101 Sometimes, we think, the well written articles we read in Kale papers, in reference to the growing:" time of oar coun- try.would apply with good grace to the rowing time of our business. In every Department of our large stre we find the spirit of progress and, large increase of trade -develop- ment on all sides. Our hold upon the Clothing and Fur trade of this most properous district is growing -4h p result of satisfied customers. Our stoek for the approaching seasr is tery mueh larger than ever before, and we are sure will meet he requirements of who desire goods in our line. I Very prominent in our Departments ust now is the Ordered Clothing, where we find a growing demand for the very best goods we can buy. To give you t e words of most of our customers: "We want the best go ds you have, for as little money as you can afford to sell hem." The old truth that the best is the cheapest poSsesses every healthy mind, because it, increases the savings bank account. We can give you a Sterling TweeI or made as you want it -for $15. • Our Readynaade Clothing stoe1 ill quiring man or by some finer mat ri is t found in such a D partment. "Oar o vn $10 Men's Suits is a trade_ -winner. whether you intend to buy now or not. One dollar and $1.25 Cottonade Pa all sewn:with the best linen threacl„ a garahr shape, are lines that sell fastei them with our pre ent staff. 1 -Boys' Schoo Pants, 50c to 750 well lined and sewn With linen, with pie want them. Fall Hats -hard and soft -all shapes and prices. Worsted Suit- •eveal to the en - an are usually ake " of 8'and sk to see them, ts, our own make," d01it with some -re- thab we can make . es f r mending if you ur own make," Tweed. Caps for Fall wear -every shape. W40•AeelAWAW.A0,0410AWAAto - Elreig & Macdollal Clothiers and Furnishers On the Wrong Side of the Street, - STRONG BLOCK, SEAFORTII .feeee.semeremeesmie C. P. R. Halve Excursion's isheig TO Winnipeg, Deloraine, Reston, Estevan, scarth, Moosomin, Cowan and Retu n Regina, Moosejavv, Yorkton and Re urn Prince Albert, Calgary and Return 29th and 12th, 1899 Red Deer, Edmonton and Return Tickets going August 29th, good returning until OctOber 2 tentember 12th, good returning until -November llth, 1899 8t. yden, Ontario, and at Winnipeg, .or any point West ROUTES :-AlI Rail via North Bay, or Lake and Rail via Owen .a The public have good reasons why they should patronize th iteilway Routes -both East and West -instead of other lines. gage checked through, direct from Seaforth to points in the Nort DOMINION EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS, Etc., cats als hM Continent and Europe at a trifling cost. Your patronage re J. MACDO 0. P. R. AGENT, Sea IMO FOR Bin- $28 $30 ▪ $35 $40 'th, 1899, Tickets going p -over will be allowed at thereof. CHOICE OF Sound. great Canadian Pacific rickets issued and bag - wet. be issued to all parts of nectfully solicited. ALD TO GREA ER NEW YORK. (Wette tar The Expositor.] The people s em to so delight in their hived -up state t at they cannot even for a day tear them5el VOB away from the 'noise and bustle to en oy themselves, and to treat their children ti an outing in the parks, which oan be re hed 0 by the majority at comparatively little cost. We walked through Central Park one afternoon, and it WII5 an infinite lief to get away from the crowded streets to the shady walks of this pleasant spot, a d it seemed to me that were I a resid it of New York, L should want to spend a 1 my leisure time in such a place. There -iz t e play ground for the children, and how they did seem to enjoy a romp on the gra s; which, CO them, is such a novelty; then there are the ponde, where they sail thei . miniature Ifleets with the skill of a Dewey It does , one a world of good to get evid nce that they really know how to play, an the majority of them do. The menagerie Ives them more serviceable knowledge, be use it is here many o them I learn all they k ow about animals. I was vastly amused a one of these, menagerie's one day. A chi d came along to the mon- key cage and, t its delight, there,' was a small pig enclos d with the monkeys.; That pig was more fu for that youngster' than a whole basket of monkeys. It is surprising how little the a erage boy or girl knows about the ord nary domestic animals. A young boy, who we met often, had a great curiosity to kno about the country. He could, probably give us lessons on city life, but it seemed at ange that he had never 'seen a calf or a olt ; he had, in one of the parks, got eight f a lamb. One can hardly imagine one of e children of a town being deprived of suci ordinary, and yet much more wholesom sights. Bat I am stray- ing away from e park. Of course, with the children, t h menagerie and the play ground and pon i. aro the moat interesting, and, perhaps, i is well so; but, to older ones, the muse is the place of all in Cen- tral Park whic no . visitor should miss. One could ape d a whole day wandering along the corri ors and through the differ- ent rooms; fears ing the eyes on sculptuory, on elegant ta1 estry and gold and silver relics, on bea.uti ul and wonderful paintings, and on hosts of ather things historical and modern. ProspectaPar , although not within such each reach of ce tral New York, is, to my mind, a much fi er place, A friend, and it is a great thing to have 'friends, placed his horse and trap t our eervice, and we had the pleasure of riving through this beauti- ful play ground Here there is much more natural beauty ban in Central Park, and perhaps the dri e enhanced ouespleasure. .However, one buld hardly ever tire of the shady nooks, th quiet lakes and the beauti- ful flower plots. .0ne homely plot seemed to me particula, ly fine. It was not as beau- tiful as many o here, but it contained noth- ing but the old jamiliar flowers, the sweet• williarn, etc., e en to the every day sun flower. It was beautiful in ite simplicity, and I could not but think that many a per- son had looked t the plot and seen the homes of their outh, and felt all the ten- ter recollections clinging to the old home. On leaving t e park we drive out the great Coney Id nd drive way, the resort of the horseman a d pleasure drivers. For a distance of six o seven miles, this road rune delightfully lev 1, right out to the ocean, while on either side is an e cellent bicycle path, which, lik the driveway, is continual- ly thronged wit pleasure seekers. All along the way are " i ns," and as we drove up to one, we flung our linea to a groom and like millionaires too seats on a fine wide piazza and listened to n excellent orchestra while a voritable pan rama of bicycliats and driv- ers speeded past. Apart from he parke, New York has many otheeeeso ts, which draw very much larger crosids. There is Coney Island, Brighton Beach Manhattan Beach, Rocka- way, Glen Islan , .nd so trimly others that one hardly gets ime for even a fleeting glance at them all, or ven some of them. Coney Island is probab v the best known and moat largely patroniz d of them, and on a Sun- day it is aonsid red a small crowd when it does not reach i s hundred thousand. Coney Island is certai ly a queer place. There is every kind of fa e and show that one would imagine. We ere out to see the sights and of course we did. You no soo ler strike the "Bowery" that, a crier wants to hustle you into his show, a d you go. It doesn't cost you anything to get in, but you are no sooner seated, than the e is the waier. You must buy a drink of s ine kind or th4iy will migh- ty soon let yo know that ou are not wa,nted. On th stage is a continuous vau- deville perform nee, and you can stay as long as you like at least as long as you are willing to spend your money. But one does not generally st y as there are hosts of these and lots else to ee. It is a peculiar place and a mighty peculiar people. The other resorts are co ducted on much the same plan, but as a ule they are patronized by a better class of people than Coney. Of course Sunday is the big day with these places. People don't Poem to go to church, particularly in he Bummer time, and it is not an unoomrron thing to see a sign on a church saying t a,t it will be closed during the hot weather We belonged to one of these hot weath r churches, so we spent our Sunday at Rocaway. Here everything is in full blast, a r:egular fair day, with dance halls and saloons and playhouses all crowded, while the surf was black with bathers, of all ages and in alt kinds of costumes.' I can see yet a couple of! ladies, not so young and slight, as they perhaps once were; there bathing a its w re sights for sore eyes, and until I sav ther there, I thought they were to be fo nd o place outside the covers of the comic papers. The Glen Island tril) is ope of the best. A 'pleasant sail of a out two hours up Long Island sound brings yen nearly to the mouth of, it and to a breathi g reeort where a quiet and pleasant day ea, be spent, On the way wa passed many pr' tty nooks where were built pretty summer houses, as Well as Blackwell Island, on'whicI is the penitentiary, asylum and other such ublio buildings. The place is so nicely-kep , and so inviting looking that you wouldl hardly expect it was the abode of crimils. Glen Island itself is a place of great b auty. There are, as in the city parks, man Y beautiful walks, a rniureurn and a menagerie, but here Alone will you find a real Filipino illage, inhabited by real natives. These houses are all built of reeds and stuck up on takes so that it takes sever- al steps to get up into them. You can see the crude interi r of the houses, the little black children, he men at play and the women busy with their household and other duties. In appe ranee, the Filipino is some- what similar to our Indians, al- though darker and smaller in !stature. By the time We had gone the ! rounds, it was time for eating and we hied our- selves to the swell place, and up on the balcony, and while we ate our thirty cent lunch, we enjoyed the sea breeze, the beautiful scenerr, and the musio of the band quite as much : as those around us who seemed to have Ordered everything on the bill of fare. Americans, or New Yorkers at least, are great eaters and they always like to eat to music. DAWN. • Eluron Fat Cattle. The Clinton News -Record of last week gives the following list of fat cattle purchas- ed in this county by three dealers. There are many other dealers in the county, any one of whom has, no doubt, purohased and shipped as many as those named. But from this list, our readers can form some idea of the immense out put of cattle annually from this county: Bought by S. H. Smith; A. McLeod, Goderich Township., 2 head 1,990 lbs.; W. HilVflullett, 13 head, 15,650 lbs.; Thos. Jenkine, Goderich township, 6 head, 7,790 lbs.; J. and N. McL. Fair, 15 head, 20,390 lbs; S. H. Smith, 14 head, 18,490 lbs; Bought by E. Watson : J. Graham, Stanley, 20 head, 26,540 lbs ; Rose, Stanley, 10 head 12,400 lbs.; Stanbury Bros., Stanley, 23 head, 29,180 lbs.; R. Peacock, Tuckersrnith, 4 head, 5,130 lbs.; T. Waldron, Stanley, 4 head, 5,350 lbs.; Stanbury Bros., Stanley, 7 head, 9,010 lbs.; G. A. Turner, Tucker - smith, 28 head, 35,465 lbs,; W. Broadfoot, Tuckersmith, 20 head, 25,870 lbe.; C. Dale, Hullett, 5 head, 6,075 lbs; W. Dale, Tucker- arnith, 21 head, 34,545 lbs.; Stanbury Bros., 5 head, 5,620 lbs.; W. W. Ferran, 33 head, 40,380 lbs. Bought by 0. Wallis, with the average weights: Arm- strong, Tuckeremith, 10 head, 1,670 lbs.; L. Trick, Goderich township, 1 head, 280 lbs.; Wilson, Hullett, 7 head, 1,250 lba.; Hamilton, Hallett, 8 head, 1,260 lbs.; Brown„, IJlullett, 10 head, 1,990 Ibis.; Levis, Goderich t wnship, 2 head, .350 lb& ; Swan, Stenley, 1 head 1,730 lbs.; Lansing, Hallett, 7 head, 1 410 lbs.; Dodds, Hullett, 9 head, 1,480 lbs. McMichael, McKillop, 12 head, 1,810 lbs McClure, McKillop, 5 head, 810 lbs.; Me - Naughton, Stanley, 5 head 740 lbs.; Dale Hullett, 7 head, 1,180 lbs.; Fleming, Clin ton, 1 head, 145 lbs.; Cornish, Hullett, head, 320 lbs.; Forden, Goderich township 3 head, 480 llas.; Aberhart, Tuckeremith, 1 head, 1,790 lbs.; Betties, Goderich towlishipl 5 head, 880 lbs.; Woon, Goderich towhip 3 head. 480 lba.; Rodaway, Hullett, 7 head, 1,160 lbs.; Wilson, Hallett, 7 head, 1,200 lbs.; Brosen, Hullett, 3 head, 505 lbs. • El ford, Goderich township, 4 head, 670 bs. Carbett, Hullett, 3 head, 430 lbs.; Reid Hullett, 14 head, 2,645 lbs., Laithwaite Goderich township, 15 head, 2,505 lbs. Johns, Clinton, 10 head, 1,780 lbs.; Elford Ceoderich township, 5 head, 935 lbs.; Certer Clinton, 4 head, 630 lbs. Bought by R Fitzimmons ; Cantelen, Goderich township, 5 head, 890 lbs.; Densmore, 8 head, 1,300 oh township, 4 head, Hullett, 7 head, 1,460 nley, 7 head, 1,370 lb% 5 head, 930 lbs.; Noble, lbs.; McBride, Stanley, ods, Hullett, 14 head, lbs.; Baker, Goder 660 lbs,; MeVettie, lbs.; Stephenson, St Stephenson, Stanley Hullett, 4 bead,e740 3 head. 550 lbs, 2,550 lbs.; Plumsteel, Clinton, 6 head, 1,140 lbs.; Brown, Hullett, 7 head, 1,210 lbs.; Andrews, Clinton, 10 head, 1,870 lbs.; Murch, Goderich township, 12 head, 2,470 lbs.; Carter, Hullett, 3 head, 480 lbs.; Warner, Hullett, 9 head, 1,685 lbs.; Hill, Hullett, 7 head, 1,085 lbs.; Sherbrooke, Hullett, 8 head, 1,540 lbs.; Elford Goderich .township, 6 head, 1,175 lbs.; Jarvis, Goder- ich township, 6 head, 1,090 lbs.; Couch Clinton, 8 head, 1,760 lbs.; Kitchen, Stan- ley, 7 head, 1,130 lbs.; Medd, Hullett, bead, 515 lbs.; Marshall, Goderich township, 3 head, 650 lbs.; Essler, Stanley, 6 head, 1,p00 lbs.; McPhail, (4oierich township, 4 head, 680 lbs.; J. Middleton, Goderieh township, 6 head, 1,300 lbs. * Sir Richard in Tor onto. Sir Richard Cartwright delivered hie promised address in Massey Hall, Toronto, on Thursday evening of last week. This is what the leading Toronto papers say about (FROM THE JAIJ. ANI) EMPIRE) Sir Richard Cartwright had reason to be satisfied with the audience which assembled to hear him last night in Massey Hall. lit, was large, if not overcrowding; it was at- tentive, if not enthusiastic. It was doubt- ful, however, if the audience was entirely satisfied with him. In his oratory, indeed, there was nothing of his old manner want- ing, but there was a strange absence of his old matter. Despite the heat of the night an audience of 3,500 persons assembled to hear him, and it was about evenly divided Sir Richard spoke in his usual incisive an well -glossed manner, and got, a_very friendly hearing, although some persens ivollprimed with questions were present, and asked them at awkward moments. Those for which Sir Richard had animers ready h answered, and those for which he was un prepared, he ignored. (PROM THE TORONTO WORLD.) • Ab 7 o'clock the doors of Massey Hall were opened and a huge erewd pushed their way in. Soon the hall, with the exception, of the top gallery, was filled. It was au audience big enough to inspire any speaker.. A relief to the eye was afforded by the second gallery, where hundreds of women and their escorts were seated. A noticeable feature of the gathering waa the presence of men whose hair had grown grey, and who doubtless knew Sir Richard when he was -one of •Her Majesty's loyal Opposition. ; Many strange faces were among the audi- tors, The outlying towns had sent in their quota, and the orator was speaking not only to Torontonians, but also to thousands of taxpayers from a radius of miles. Many Conservatives were in the gathering, for the whole country was curious to know how Sir Richard would equare himself with his utterances of a decade ago. The same feel- ing had drawn many Liberals to the meet- ing; hence the gathering was essentially 'a curionserowd. (FRom TII E (!LOBE.) It was a Massey Hall audience, which means that five or six thousand persona heard the Minister of Trade and Commerce:. The night was hot, and the atmosphere within the hall was oppressive. Up in the galleries it must have been smothering, and many of the people there descended the stairs and stood at thebaek-of the hall, overcome by the heat, yet unwilling to rnis,3 the speech. Hundreds of ladies were pres- ent. Severalavere on the platform, and a number were in the body of the hall, and the galleries were gay with their dresses and hats. The audience was remarkably representative; it was drawn from the country from Manitoba to the Bay of Fundy. The size of the out-of-town dele- gation was remarkable, Aurora and New- market sending especially large contingents. The big hall was filled to the doors, and the cheering was hearty and inspiring. The band of the Woodmen of the World was present, and by its playing before the meet- ing opened contributed meterially to -the enjoyment of the evening. " The Growing Time of Canada." That was the motto which faced .the great audi- ence, and which overhung Sir Richard Cart- wright's head as he reviewed the record of the Liberal Government of Canada. Thor- oughly appropriate it was, for the veteran NEW AUTHORIZED . SCHOOL BOOKS -FOR- PTTIE31.ii0 A.1•71D TaIGI-3E1 Scribbling and Exe cise Books, Pencile and Iens IN ENDLESS VARIETY. ALEX, WIN SEAF MARRIAGE LIOENES ISSUED. No witnesses required. LV 119711. soldier of-Thbe-ealism brought a cheering message to his healer's. "There are occasions -and this is, one of them -in which the progress of a aountry in three years is as at as for the preceding thirty years." This sentence of Sir Richard truck the dominant note of his great awe int of the stewardship of the Government his% Ifor three years has ad inistered Can da. 1is was a tale of adi»iniatrative effi iency of wise expenditure, f wise econom , and, he great outstanding condition un er w1ich ;sr expenditure was - curred and eco omy as effected, was the nighty leap forw rd which the trade and tbe ndustriee of t. e country have taken, the -11 wing tide of rospeeity which is carrying Canada onward. Extravagance *as the charge hich Sir Richard met; eeonomy was t e tee rd which he proved.,1 The audienc:, its are dimmed by the oh utiags of the flppositiion about expendituve thrilled with t e acutest moment of the eVening when S r Rieherd made the telling statement: i "Sir; I will tell you what the otal addi• tion made by this most extravaga a t Govern- ment to the fixed charges of C nada has been between th S year 1897 nd 1900. Ladies and gentlemen, it amou ts to juet 865,000." It will be seen that finance f rmed the main subject of Si' Richard's sp ech. Ad- mirable was his treatmetit of a subject usually unattractiVe ;" lucid, yet iondenaed, his analysis of the expenditure of the coun- try was a triumph of exposition. He had an audience which was responsive to refer- ences to such a ;tractive topics as he prefer- ential tariff, Canada's growth in i a portance, the fight for praiser treatment at Washing- ton and the ab unding developm nt of the west. It thunclerously Cheered im when he touched li htly yet firmly upon them. But he held, w th a self-control yond the strength of t4ie mere platfori speaker anxious for poi to, to finance, and presented to his hearers a masterly away is of the present Government's handling of the mon- eys of the country, A soldier of Liberalism! The word fits well the champion who so ruined he Oppo- sition's luckless came, .What a ghter Sir Richard is! Cool, argumentative polished, with perfectly turned sentences, with fin- ished courtesy, with absolute ela ity of ex- pression, hie logic, his expositio and hie analysis cleft asunder wild sta ment and plausible sophism with relentless precision.' It was an intellectual speech, ma ked by a rigorous abstention from appeals to eenti- ment and passion, and it cut to t esheart of the matter. It was not a cold speech. The ay of the ineeetable interrupter was not at ewn with roses. There was a scattering emonstra- tiers against Sir Richard when he as about to commence his speeeh ; but whe once his tapes were heard the forcefulness f hie per- sonality, the equipoise of his utte nuts im- posed silence and attention. One interpol- ater is probably sorry that be s oke. Sir Richard pointed out the large in estments which the Government has mad in the future of the New Ontario. "How much did Quebec get ?" ame from the body of the hall. "Quebec," said Sir Richard, "is get- ting one-third as much as Onta io is get- ting." And the audience failed to a with the interrupter. Similiarly lenge as to the alien labor law statement of the came so condense orate, so firm, that the audience to the echo. A eweepieg, convinc to reckless and unfounded char was Sir Richard Cartwright's ape For the rest, the note of triump inated. Mr. Archibald Campbel , M. P., the Gov. ' ork done progress eel long - to corn - g words, erals feel 'ell. The t section k of the e speech the vote ph. mptsthize a chal- evoked a heseoremdodi; ng 'reply es -Bich ch. pred m. told of the three years' record of ernment, with its story of good for Canada, of breaches healed an made, of new lands opened up standing public works hastened pletion. Hon, Mr. Ross, in glowi voiced the satisfaction which Lil in the chieftains who have led so approval with which an imports, of the community regard the wo Government was expressedin t with which Mr. Cassidey mqved of thanks. It was a night of :trill • Canada. -George Andrus, a London drowned at Southampton while the lake. -Judge Richards has fixed the case of Anderson, charged with th of the Molsons Bank at Winnipe 000. -The thirty second annual n boy, I was athing in ail in the robbery , at $20, eeting of the Canadian Medical Association, was held in Torotato, on Wednesday, Thu sday and Friday, -Alexander Coppin, a carpen ing on the King building, Tor struck on the head by a falling b the effects of which he died. -Richard Watts, a machinist, at Gurney's foundry, Toronto, die jaw on Friday night, the result his fingers crushed while at work, --A bush fire in West Flambo ship is said to have done damage to the ex - g timber f Hamil- London, Andre* owanlock Harding of man there is little hope of recovery. The girl is badly bruieed about the head and body, but is expected to recover. The young man was draivn,overthe dashboard by the lines, sustaining anumber of bruises. -Senator Temple died last week at Fal- menth, Nova Scotia.' Deceased was born in -England and had been a director of the Peoples' Bank, of Fredericton, for 30 years. He represented the Conservative interest in the Commons, for 12 years. -Me. Thomas Whippet an old and re- I speeted resident of Orillia while suffering I from Melancholia, attempted suicide. He cut his throat with found moon after doctors; have some -Robert Cunni a jack-knife but being be act was done, the ope of saving his life. gham, eight years old, fell into the Rideau canal at Ottawa, one afternoon lately, and was drowned. The scene of the accident was in fall view of many. yet the boy'sbody was not taken out for eighteen minutes after the accident. s -Chas. R. Graves, aged fourteen years, nevesboy on the steamer Islander, was drowned at Clayton Saturday. He had been'inissed in the afternoon, and some boys, while fis the body u son of. W. ton. So-unjohn d,wa road near town, and been thr recently received -By hair wo on Mon gale, w gale wa ing at the dock, pulled with a hook. Deceased was a . Graves, customs officer, Kings- . eMillan, a farmer near Parry found dead last evening on the Lis own ho e. He had been to returning wn from his sold a coppe a payment o the burstin home had apparently buggy. McMillan had mine and was to have it of $1,000. of a machine in the ke of P. & P. Griffin, in Toronto, ay, a workman; named Nightin- almost, instantly killed. Nightin- working at the machine at the ttimeaad.none of the pieces struck him on hehe O -Anthrax has broken out at 'G- ladstone, near St. Thomas. The herd of Mr. John Farquhar was attacked and five &yes and two yearlings -died. The health inspector was summoned and determined the disease, quarantined the cattle and changed the water and food of tbe animals. -Colonel Brooks Wright Goesage, of St. Thomas, died last week at the age of 67. He was at one time in the brewery business in Toronto, and afterwards was engaged as civil engineer on the Canadian Southern Railway. About 20 years ago he came to St. Thomas and has since resided there. -A startling domestic tragedy occurred on Sunday at Gilbert plains, near Dauphin, Manitoba. -A farmer named Frederick Johnston, shot and killed his wife and three children, and the u shot himself. He was not known to have domestic troubles, and was of sound mind. No satisfactory rea- son can as yet be arisigned for the deed. --Mrs. CatharineParr-Traill, the authoress, died Tuesday, in her 98th year, at her home Westove, Lakefield. Born in England in 1802, the daughtei of Thomas Strickland,' she wrote h* first work in 1817 at the age , of fifteen. She cane to Canada in 1832 and ' I wrote her last boo in 1895 at the age of 93. So this remarks le lady has maintained literary activity fOr nearly 80 years.. -On 1Wednesday of last week, John. Polly, a laborer, of Harrow, aged (shout 60 years, received injOriee in a runaway which resulted in his death Saturday night. He was driving a team of horses,. which took fright tied ran away. He was thrown un- der the wheele ant dragged a considerable distance, getting several ribe broken and other intern 1 injuries. -Win. H. Tighe, a prominent grain and commission i4erohant, of Chatham, has been missing sinci Thursday last. Mr, Tighe has been in ill -health for some time, and his brain had bticome affected. He was last seen on the Lt. E. & D. R. R. bridge cross- ing the river , Thames. A note -book, the property of the missing man, was found on the bridge. The river has been dragged, but no trate has yet been found of the miss- ing man. i -One of the recently appointel house urgeons of 8t. Michael's hospital, Toronto, r. Williaini Wells, died last week at airn, of typhoid fever. Dr. Wells had for some weeks been in ill health and went to Nairn to recuperate. While there he , was attacked with the fever. He was a son of Rev. M. Wells, a Methodist minister, of ' Winnipeg, and as a student was particu- larly clever. ,: i -James Einory, 70 yeafs of ago, an old i pioneer of Eseex county, fell dead while ' driving cows from pasture Sunday evening. , All night long scores of people hunted i through the large blleh and pasture ' fiel with lanterns, " but the body ili wa !not found until nine o'clock next morn- ing by the side of a fence. Deceased had been afflicted with heart trouble for a long time, which no doubt icaused his death. -Henry F. TorranCe, father of Mr. Tal- bot Torrance, the Barrie newspaperman, but ' formerly editor of the Paris Review, and grandfather of Professor Cody, of Wycliffe college, Toronto, died in Galt, Sunday, aged 83 years. He was horn in Dublin, and had lived in Galt for about 310 years. He was a ' prominent Freemakin, aind an Orangeman for over 60 years. widow, two sons and a daughter survive. -While going tlhrongh the bush, near Brock11ville, W. . Post came upon the body of an old man nan-ed John Portess. He had lived alone for some time, depending largely upon the charity of his neighbors, and at times was rather eccentric in his' ways, When found, the body was decom- posed and quite naked.' It is supposed he left his house in a deniented condition and - ran through the bush 1 until he was ex- hausted. ! 4 -The residence of *. D. T. Webster, of Btantford, was completely destroyed by fire Monday afternoon Mrs. Webster had been doing some ironing, and had a big fire in the kitahen stove, The lady stepped out into! 1a. the g rden for a few Moments, returning to find 1he whole house iza flames, Of all the contents only one chair was saved, so quick. ly di I the place bOrn. The house Was just. (natal le the city limit., but the -firemen; rendrred what aesistance they could. The! i los i *ill be considerable. -An old woma named Franklin was t : gored to death a few days ago by a bull, on the farm of her‘da ghter, Mrs. Louis Oakes,: near Erie View, 1Norfolk county. Mrs. Franklin undertook to drive the bull out of i the lanel when the animal caught her on his: head and tossed her in the air. She was so badly injured before help came that she, only lived a few minutes. She was 75 years old and was much respected in the commun- ity.. ' ' i ; -An 'accident, which it is earnestly' hoped will not prove fatal, happened -at a; threshing on the farm of Finlay McLennan, ,near Kincardine, i recently. Kennie Mc -1 'Kenzie was feeding the machine and Wil- liam McLeod was standing by him cuttingi bands. The two began to quarrel, and Mel Kenzie hit McLeod. The latter picked up' a stone and threw it at his assailant with such force -that if it had hit him it would have surely ' prevented the accident that followed. 'McKenzie, who is the smaller of the two, -grabbed McLeod, and a tussle ensued. !Both men fell, and McKenzie? er, vv(E'rk- 1 nto, was ick; from employed of lock - having o' town - tent of about 83,000 to standi owned by Mr, William Laking, ton. -During a trifling altercation a on Monday, George Harding struc Gowanlock a blow on the chin, dropped and died in five minutes. was locked up on the charged slaughter. -Patrick Breen, a well-knownl Toronto cattleman, was ki11ec3near W iitby on Monday night, by fa ling from a train. Breen was enroute for the old con try with a load of horses. He had crossed e Atlan- tic one hundred and fifty times. -Mr. John Miller's son Willie , of the 10th concession of M.arkinsm, and wo child- ren of the late Wm. Beattie, of 8 uffville, ia boy and girl, aged respectivel ten and twelve years, while crosaing th railway track in a buggy, were strinsk by t e Sutton flyer, taking off the hind wheels nd hurl- ing the two children into the ix some itwenty feet. The boy sustaine a bad sealp wound and internal injuries so that 1, getting an top, kicked h a opponent in the abdomen. Since then M.Lead has been un- der -medical atteneance and grave fears were entertained for his r-covery, but. later reports indicate improve -nt. McLeod is described as being of a • uarrelsotne dispo- sition, and those who we e at the threshing bee when the fracas clew ed say that he gave McKenzie much pro °cation. -Mrs. Christopher Li• dell, the wife of a well known Leamington citizen, was found dead in a pond in the res of her house, Sat- urday morning, and it is bought the coni- mitted suicide while te e porarily irusane. Mrs. Liddell, who was 60 years of age, had been 'suffering from molecholl& for some time, but no suicidal ten env was mani- fested until yesterday. Eeoeased had lived happily with her husband and children, and the family are in coriifortable eircuin- stances. -Rev. Charles Campbell, one of the old- est Presbyterian ministersin Canada, pass- ed away Sunday at his s n's residence in Toronto. He was 83 year of age. He was born in Glasgow, Scotian , and had been pastor of St. Andrew's ch roll, Niagara -on - the -Lake, from 1858 to 188. For the past twelve years he had residd in Toronto, and acted as assistant at the S uth Side Presby- terian church. His death -was the outcome of a sunstroke he reeeive4 two and a half years ago. -Saturday night, Mrs. W. R. Farr, a widow ninety two years )ef age, mother of Mr, Frank Carter, of P isles!, was found dead in her home, having been smothered by the explosion of a lamj in her bedroom. Mrs. Farr, who hoisted o living alone, had been to her sons home tbe evening of her death. About twelve 'clock the night watchman smelt smoke is he passed her house. When found the 1 dy was somewhat burned, and it is auppoaedj in trying to put out the flames by the bed clothes was over- come by the smoke. -Hugh Owens, a ful private of the Royal Canadian Dragoons was found dead in the water just off the pier at Stanley barracks, Toronto, by some of his comrades - in -arms early on Saturday morning. Owens was an Englishman and hacI been about three years in this country, wa in the habit of sitting on the pier, amok ng, and it is sup- posed by the doctors that he had a stroke of some kind and fell into t e water. He was no swimmer and no mark of violence could be found on his body. -A largely attended m eting of the shoe manufacturers from T route, Montreal, Quebec and St Hyacinth was held in Que- j bee on Monday, at which practically every concern in Canada was repreeented. It was the largest meetin f the kind ever held in this country. It was unanhnously decided that an advance s ould take plaee in the price of shoes of at east 10 per mat, and the jobbing and retaril trade are being notified to this effect. Aij organization was formed, called the Coined an Shoe Manu- facturers' Association. , -With the objectof enlarging the mar- ket in England for Canadian hams and bacon, a well-known Loud n importer, Mr. Courtenay, of J. and M. Courtenay, is at present on a visit to this ountry. During the past few years Canadi n hog products, particularly bacon, have been growing in favour, and Mr. Courtena thinks that their popularity will be enhanc d by the estab- lishment of a pork-paekin house in Canada to produce mainly for the British market. He will likely start such a porkpackinges- tablishment in Ontario. -While raising one of he trusses for the new Methodist eburch building at Fergus, on Monday, Mr. John Moiffatt, joint con- tractor for the wood wor , was almost in- stantly killed. The truss, avhieh is a heavy one, was being hoisted with block and tackle, and was almost at the required height when one of the g y ropes broke. MrMoffatt saw what bafi happened, and was running to avoid thi falling timber when he was struck betwe n the shoulders and expired almost zmme4hately. Medical aid was summoned, but n'athing could be done. -James Clark, of Woodstock, a returned Klondiker, tella dreadful hard. luck story He left Tilson- nd his party got ached the Gravel Mackenzie. At y was organized the ninety who reached Dawson , three were ,urvy, and many andturned back. ng in DaWS0111 to be at home about the Edmonton route burg in February, 1898, along all right until they r river, a tributary of the that point a party of nine to ascend the Gravel. Of started out only thirty-six City. Two were froze drowned, and five died of others gave up the journey Mr. Clark did not stay 1 terid-he is more than glad s; --Dr. Cook, a well k-nown dentiet of To- ronto, was drowned in L ke Ontario, near Mimic°, Saturday after mi. Deceased, with his family, bad been =ping on the lake shore since June. Dij1 Cook had gone into the city on business, i4tid on his return found members of the cafpp bathing. He hurriedly undressed and j fried the bathers, but had only taken a few strokes when he gave a loud cry for help. those of his com- panions who were swimnea hurried to the spot but could not reach him, the under current at that place beim too strong, In a short time though the b dy was washed on shore, but all efforts at restoration were unavailing. It is auppose1 the doctor was seized with cramps. D ceased leaves a widow and two small chit ren. He was 35 years of age and a prominent member of Bloor street Presbyterian hureh. • -A nephew of Mr. Jan Marys, named Coleman, .gersolllast week. The la years olcl and was bathing when ho got into a hole a help himself. His pare lived in St. Marys and that vicinity. -Stratford has been highway robberies. 0 Mr. John Dierlarnin was street about 10 o'clock wh by a gang of live men. T pocket book or else suffer Mr. Dierlanim proved et expected and freed him but they got away before any one of them. Several been treated in the same has been found of the w would be robbers.. -On Tuesday night of I accident befel John Wier, who lives on con - mile and a half as driving near awn by a pony, sprang forward Mr. Frier became as dragged a dis- August Beitz, a g, could get the pony stopped. When the unfortunate man es Crozier, of as drowned in In - was only nine in the mill pond d was unable to itis at one time re well knOwn in tr.ubled lately with e night not long ago walking on the n he was held up ey demanded his the consequences. onger than they lf from the men, e could identify ther citizens have way but no clue ereabouts of the t week, a terrible cession 2, Ellice, about a from Sebringville. He Gadshill in a light cart, when the animal iudden1 and threw Mr. Frier out, tabgled in the lines, and w tance of ten rods before neighbor, who was drivin was picked up it was foun were of a terrible natur ribs were loosened, his spi and he had received a bad one of his legs. He to be paralyzed from t wards. that his injuries Several of his e was badly hurt, ut in the calf of as also found e waist down-