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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1887-08-05, Page 4i1fly 1ttuel'tliotmenlo Eggs• -Jas Pwltcbolt. Exeurelol s w Jucksou. F ,ruact•s-Uurlaud tiros. H Ise fug• Salo -Myles Young idoaey los,-NEW SAA Office ('oat rouser -Arthur autelort. Turn for sale-uqo westaoott. - .Arnie Spectacles -J H Combo. Hat Depurtmeut-Jackean pros. B by Car, i tgeo-Jas Twitchell, I o loo to Uredltore-John O Martin Suuoud visit of Prof K • Bob W Coats. _ "3, C;x. fliM FRIDAY, AUG. 5, 1887. gWOnce again our local news crowds out editorial matter. - 13 columns of closely printed local news - the &meant in this is. sue -is 'rarely given in any country paper. - A couple of short communications are also hold over. Additional Local Mews. . FISHING FOR IRON. DOWN A HOLE OVER ELEVEN HUNDRED 1�EE'P DEET' A short time ago it became necessary to drill out the holeat,Stapleton Salt Works. on account of what is known as"a cave in" at the bottom] of the well, and experienced borers from Vetrolih were engaged° for that purpose. The hole, at its surface, is only five inches in diameter, and being over eleven hundred feet into the bowels of the ..earth, some. .idea may be ,formed of the -.difficulty experience, in removing ob- titruetioi s. Ar boring, a large iron" bit" with sinker attached, is used, weighing over half a too, and this is lowered by the user, of. a number of poles 37 feet long, screwed together. White using this "bi.t" about three weeks ago it got fast, and in attempting to draw it up the. poles ,above it parted, and it was, of course, left at the bottom of the well. 'Then the work of trying to got it out began At such a depth it .-ryas utterly impossible to use pincherp, and the only way to get hold of it was with the various tools used for such a purpose, known as a hook, socket, etc For three weeks the men worked patiently at it, trying to got some hold on the iron. It had, to be removed, even if it took a pear; and day in and day out they raised and iowered'the poles, with the hook at. tached. Sometimes they would get it part -of the way up. but its weight would ., pul,l,it back, and the work had all to be done over. On Friday evening last, how ever, their hearts were gladdened by see- ing it' come to the surface. When one looks at it -a solid piece of iron nearly forty feet long -it seems astonishing that it w•is ever t rought up. In the course of tie grappling process a socket was brol. en, and this, with some stones that have ,fallen in, still engage the attention of the drillers, who expect. to have the well en- tirely free from all obstructions ere long The driller in charge is a Air Willv,from Petrolia, The old adage holds true in this case, "Where there is a will there, is . aiso a way." The Hairfrulatf n Exec lination of Toronto University. t The report of the examiners of this ex- a•nination, was announced on Tuesday, much to the mental relief of candidates. We have pleasure in placing it before our' readers, exhibiting once more, as i.. does, the superior training given in the Clinton High School. (I LI NTON. Passed' the Full Matriculation. -A. A Williams, G. McKenzie, J. Armstrong, J, M. Godfrev, J. Landsborough, W. M. Nugent, J.W. Treleaven. Total 7. SEAir'ORTli. G,)DERICH• R. S., Robertson, S. Fowler. Total 2. It will be that the Clinton n School passed morn than the other two, taken to- crether. . . Honors -were takenasfollows-:--U CLINTON.-Io Mathemati,ps-J. AV, Uodu•ey, J. IV, 'Treleaven, J. C. Hough. In German, J. Arms, rong In English, J. IV. Treleaven. In Geography, J. IV. Treleaven,,J. Ai. Godfrey. In Classics, W. Al. Nugent, J. Armstrong Total 9. The examination was taken in part by the following :-In Mathematics, S. C. Hough, R. J. Gibson, W. L. McQuarrie A. F. R'eynar. In English, 1V. L, Lyle Quarrie. In Classics, J..C.,llough, It. J. (Tibson, AV. L. McQuarrie. SEA1101 )'lf-Takeo in part by the fol- lowing. Latin, J.L. Killoran. German, J. L. Xilloran, A. S A9cLeau. Parents and guardians intending t give their children a cour8e of -training a 'school, will servo their interests well,Pr sending thea► to the Clinton High school t3 be transformed into it Cpllegiate In- . with greatorteachingI fabiliticq, a the opening of the fall term. . 'rowIk Conuell, ACCIDENT. -On Tdesday evening Mrs eat ks, Brubefield, was driving along the layfield road just as the evenipg train vas coming north,and had got immediate• y beneath the bridge when, the train was )a it. This frigh: eued her horse, which ,an away, throwing her and a chiid that sae with her out of the rig, and smashing ,he buggy. Mr Coats caught the home sad found that Mrs Marks was pretty severely shaken up -the child not being curt. She was atterwards taken home. STILL 0i'v.-Iu reference to the letter which appeared in -the London Free Press Inst week,libelling several in this vicinity, it makes the following "explanation," which is as fair astray as ever:- From enquiries made it is found that a corres- pondent writing from Huron to this jour- nal was in error in saying teat tht aniount Df fines collected by the Inspector, Mr Paisley, under the Scott Act were still in his own possession. It appears that they have been paid over to the keeping of a prosecuting society known as the Scott Act Association." POSTAL NOTICE. -The, Postofiice De- partment has issued the following notice : -All local or "drop" letters must be pre- paid one cent each by Canadian restage stamp, otherwise, in order to enforce the law, they are sent to th ad letter office, to be there opened; ,not bearing is apecific address, and returned to their writers. A letter bearing a specific ad. dress is not opened, but; forwarded to its original addresw, with the, ordinary dead lettt;r charge of two cents per oz. rated thereon. IS THIS YOUR CASE? -If there is any- thing people should not be negligent of, it is registering the births of their child.. ren. But whether it is bashfulness on the part of the happy father or care- lessneas, the clerk Ceyertheless mourns the fact that people are very slow about making the very Important registration. All those to whom this applies shouid take warning as there is a heavy fine for such an offence. Of this fine a large portion goes to the informer and some of those days some smart fellow with more cuteness than conscieuc , will make a little pile out of other people's negligence. 'THE WOOLLEN Al ILL. -Ill a few days the Woollen Mill here will close, tefn- porarily at any rate. and Air Graham, the proprietor, will direct his sole attention to the mills at Inglewood. When the mill is running in full blast, between 35 and 40 hands are employed, and these will,conaequently,seek other employment. Mr Graham States that although the mill here has paid him very well, he canna satisfactorily manage both properties, An his interest being greater at Inglewood than here, he will look solely after t{t-,r It is a pity to see the mill standing idle Why cannot a joint stock company u formed here to run it? APPOINTMENT.- Air Thos McGilli- cuddy; the junior editor of !be Goderich Signal,and who for a short time lies been assisting Mr Blue, the A'ssl4tant Commis siorerof Agriculture, Toronto,in the pro paration of his statistics, is permanent) appointed private secretary to this gentle man This, will necessitate his withdawa from the Signal, which will hereafter b conducted solely by Air D JlcGillir.uddy "Tom" is thoroughly competent for th duties of his new office, being an expert shorthander, and he is to be congratulate on getting into a position where he wil be relieved of the constant anxiety an hard work incident to newspaper life. DivisioN CouR'r Bu..-I\Ess -The re port of the Inspector of Division Court for 1886 is just issued. Frt In it we gathe the following acts concerning ivisln Court transactions in the county of'Huron -There are 12 Courts in the Couaty, an J" t red exclu .rye o • isene fsut th number o , e Transcripts of --Judgment and Judgmen Summouses was 779. The total amuun of elain a eotcrbd d"a-4,S30•,860° The tot. amount of suitor's money paid into Cour was $16 ' 106. Seventy suits were enters whereintile, amountelaimed was over $10 Seaforth'Division Court had the large number of cases entered, 333, while th total amount claimed was larger. in Clf ton Court tbW 1 any other,, being ove $10,000, Rutile AIt;Uii AV,k,ri,,r.-If on urditiar person teas (i-Liid the question, •'I -Io much Crater, in weight, will the tank hol used -for watering the street?" he woul most likely give a haphazard guess, th would be far away from tho truth, for th o simple reason that few people have an t idea of the weit_ybt of water. To satisf y curio--ity, the tank was weighed the oth day, and found to hold considerably ov : one tou-more certainly than most peop t -Would think it held. A little figuri soon showed that between thirty-five a for y tons of water aro placed on thdlj+tree every day. When it is remembered tb one horse draws this, one well Supplies i IjON'T.-People should not a11tYw their cows to 'leave home without giving them fal plenty of fresh water these warm days, as m the* can be seen drinking impure sewer co water daily, and this certainly cannot be b' healthy. THE STREETS. -Persona who do con- siderable driving tell us that the gravel m. being put on the street thia year is the a beat that has ever been used, and the work S is a credit to the btreet committee. They i think, however, that in some places the u stones should be broken a littlebmaller. A BAD FALL. -On Saturday afternoon i Mrs Morley, proprietress of the Grand c Union, was engaged on the top of a step- ladder when it slipped from under ber,and e she fell to the fluor. It was at first thought w that her leg was broken, but Such, we are fi Pleased to say, was not the case. Her c mest serious injury was a very Revere sprain of the ankle, which has since con - 'i fined her to her room. b A PLUCKY WOMAN -On Saturday p morning last Mrs Edward Johns, of b Tuckeramith, sat in a rig in trout of a b store, while her Eton was momentarily fa- a side the store. As -it threatened rain, she tf put up an umbrella,which frightened the horse, and wheeling short around, it at, tempted to run away. She grab fed the i lines, and although the rig was swaying e from side to Side,, and part of the time running on two wheele, she succeeded in t bringing the horse' to a stand inside of e flay yards, although it looked to the by- t standers as if she would be thrown from i the waggon every moment. Tige breakini, i of a tete eggs was all the damage Sustained. a FARMS RENTED. -Messrs Plumateel, of town, have rented both their Tuckeramith a and Stanley farms, possession to be given this fall. The Tuckeramith one is on the o mill road,. known as the old Nichol farm, containing 100 acres, and is taken by a a Mr Maki na,nf Stauley, for five years,at an j annual rental of $6300. -The other, on the I London road, near this town, 95 acres,has been rented by Mr Ralph Tiplady, for three years, at the same rental. Air Tip lady,(ntie of the most industrious of young mer) is unmarried, but we are divulging I no secret when we .state that he has the consent of a most highly esteemed young. lady, of town, to help him in the manage i ment of the farm. It is possible that Air H Plumateel may again commence mer- cantile business in town. THAT PRINTING -For the benefit of our local contemporary we will inform it that the Conservative villages of Brussels. Blyth and Exeter, 'tile town of Seafortb, the townsaip of Tuckersmith, and we think several other places in the county (i got their voters' lists printed this year without asking for tenders for the same, and we presume were perfectly satisfied with the work. The Conservative town U; of Goderich did not ask for tenders last year, and gave the job to the Star. Further, the mun'c pal lists for Clinton only costthe town about one quarter what the Dominion Government paid the ° Record for printing the Dominion list• for the same place, and if anything there is more work on the former than on the Y latter. Let the Record be fair'and honest if it can, and turn its guns on the Domin- ion Government, because, to use its own ° words: "Some officials are carried away with the erroneous idea that they have e the same right to give public work to their friends as they have to give their d private work." Ju Ige Toms is au•hority I for the statement that a municipal d clerk, being responsible for the proper publication of the lists, may get them . printed where he likes and the council a have no control over it. r TnAT MITCHELL I3AsL B: LL MATCH. - All -n flio�ifeliell-papers pRc le In_FO the Ni is • Ens last week, on account of the report we d had given of the last match played there be- and Alitchell Clubs alleging f tweeze Clinton g g & - •that we had imposed upon, SB t p p , t Well, our .information was from the very al best sonsae,-and.tittbstantially�co.rrect, _The t Clinton club never denied being beaten, but gave their reasons for it, viz: loose playing d+ in first three innings, and the umpiro's decis- 0• ions, and there is. not a man in Clintol.club larges who thinks they got anything like justice.- O The boys went to Mitchell with their min(ls n. mado up not to do any kicking against- the I r decisions of the umpire, uo matter what they • were. Consequently, as they diel not do any, merit-,t,oll ecidantly thouglit they wer4 satis- Y fied. -A member of the Cliuton club asserts W that not one of the club admitted oil Mitchell d grounds, or anywhere else, that Boyle was d impartial, and1mpcaches the veracity of the At man who says to tho contrary. Onr inform- s ant also asserts emphatically that a rtain y Mitchell gentlemen dill. say "Clinton needn't Y expert to win a game so long as Boyle had er the umpiring of it,' and also expressed them- er selves as disgusted with his partiality. It to was a fypograpilical orror giving Mitchell a noose egg in the ninth innings. Clinton ng boys have always been acknowledged as gen. tlemel wherever they welt, and believe they to have'as much regard for their honor arid at fairness as any Mitchellite. ' The boys are t, daaiting patiently for a return nlateli, which i.n seems to be a hard thing to get, for the hlEW WHEAT. -Several loads of new at the farm of Josepb Fanikutr. !n Grey, wto Stanley to relieve the anxiety of hundreds at ' I wheat have been delivered at Fair's bas bran laid tip with theuu.at-vm for about the Fort, and take them to their dcafivatioue, ill, the price therefor being about 75 three weeks, out his fall n I eat there being . this sad end ora ioung life would pat have nts, Mr Murray iuforma us that it is a about six acres, and three acres of barley, occurred. Another point to which we would od sample, weighing full 60 lbs. to the Tacto were abuui twenty Lindera and four call attention is the practice of the offloials of ubhel. reapers, or Five or six men ,for each reiper. tLe company in not producing sufficient seat. HdRVESTING - offs a number of far- The work was done in abot t 1,1 hours, the ing a.commodatiou for the people, on exotic. Q barley bulug left nut ad in this locality. sio1.u-tralue, The evidence of one of the eis are entirely through with harvesting, Air Faulkner was agrreably auprised at the • brakeemen went to show that there were eq • 1 an in a few days the rest will be fiuia'lled. act of kmdnees on the part of the people, many. children on the platform of the oars V uch a thing as harvesting operations be- as he is a new comer, making a noier.that he could not tell whether, in over the first week in August, was According to the publiahed Voters' Lists of the whistle blew or not, and on being a -ked if ever known before in this section. the township of 8tauley,thereare 611 persons there was not room for them inst9e he aa- ,S- CUTT ACT NOTES. -In the West Rid- who are entitled to vote at buth mun'apal ewered in the negative; and farther that the in of Huron their have been about forty elections and elections to the Legislative as- amid officials of the company allow their trains slobs 21 who aro entitled to vote at Muni- to run too fast in the city for the safety of the aces for viglatioo of the Scott Act, since y. public. Signed, Wm C Vanbaskirk, coroner Mr Paisley entered on his duties. In all Pal ulectiona only, and 30 who are entitled to P g + vote at elections to the Legislative Assembly for the County of Elgin, and twelve jurors, IIM f these, except ne or two, a conviction only. Thorn are 250 who are eligible to serve ♦ - as Secured; sari in all ext pt a few the as jurors, end there aro 1a ladies who are AN UNHEARD OF HORROR, nes have been paid; these few are appeal entitled to vote atManicipalelectioue. These uses which are yet to be heard. are 107 land -holders gone', and 31 wage -earn• A last (Friday) night's Chicago despatch BaslNEse t'i11At?C> r -Mr Robt Ficzs m- ere. There are also 48 tenants, and 30 saye r -The story of the -attempted Igoose of Mra Truro and her babe, as described in later in has bought out the flour and feed' oobupaut voters. accounts, is one of peculiar horror and pathos, usiness of Mr Jas Steep, and will take A young man named Hautcr, whose home The police and fireman had rescued her hue. +isaeasiou on Monday. Parties have is in Rin°ardine, but who it appears has band and four obildreu, but she was in some een negotiating for Mr Fitzaimins'" been working in a bank in Ripley, come manner -readily ascribed to the confusion of urcher business, but have not yet closed to Waogham on Friday last, audtia the even the moment -neglected, left wish Icor 2 -year. "3- rrangemente; if not sold he will discos• fog wag engaged in playing a game of pool at ,old baby, Mary. The poor woman resorted- nue it, Mr Steep bas not yet decided the billiard hall along with gams of th look - to the wi idow. A fireman. saw Iter, and what he will engage in, ham boys. About half past eight o'Olock a plunging back through the smoke he returned man walked into the hall and claimed Hunter to her chamber. All escape from the rest QUICK WORK: On Wednesd«r -.: : r ' d`hie-prigGRer ou. u °hsrgo of forgery.- Of with such a burden as a woman and child war: it --- - Ti',e7g[,Tfit uiecttng ti•As lielid ou ,Alun uy -anti--ho-st-ree4-sztiro-better�,vateredA-b u night, The Fina -ice Com, recommended "any previovs year, an idea of the work in - the payment of the following accounts:- ,volved therein can easily be for ed, C,Ront+ren and men work on ptroets $(200; It. Al. ltacoy sunr!riet,, 48 14 ; Harland Pit I: RNTA'IION-Immediately After 6 p. Bros, eundricq, $135.04 ; W. Gxuley $2 55; Rentgeu nr. on Friday last, 9th ult.;- Mr John - DIulln was presented with a very hand- G. and men, work on ditches . *49 42; G. 'Tedford, $12.45; Ii. Holmes, some edge And address by Pis brother printinn and advertising $42 50; W. Coats, stationary, $3; L, Irouse, in ith's workmen in the action. departrAts'nt of the Organ Factory. The following is the ad- 3lrlary, ;r1G.66 ; W Coats, salary wG0 ; S. dress, to which Mr Alul.oy replied in a Pratt, salary, $.18 75 ; Gen E. Pay, for fire• men. X31 B Webb, cemetery dors., $3.r"5; few appropriate remarks : AND Jo`>o ttthit�uthe W. Copp, chArlly, 84; 11. Tewsley, meat second anniversaryofyoureutrauca here, we, your associates and co-labure•s, conjointly for Wilson, X1.54; SVeet wateritiaccount g present you with this badgo as a veru and extremely minimum token of the fratornal affection and estoom 525 ; J.- H. Combc,_Jfo+z hoard of health, with which we regard you Your evory clay Walk and $5 13 ; Receipts per G. 'Fudford for con- stable fees statute labor etc.'$20 50 from conversation is highly worthy of the omulatinn of all awing m,m, stYaico to say that we, apppreciate the be- for the e • i 1. V 12 "I �a. $18:.510. 'Tile committee re- 1 ) trtiltn ndek th th0 rAtO fOC th0 CUrTe1Yt V 1 'i26 i,eaeient influence of your association +etch us past two years, and hope you may reign to grace our. ror,uwithyourpres@neefor alongperiodoftirnc, Wo r might ;nntinuo further, and not exaggerate or pre - i° t e ti oII'the t11C same a9 last y 5nD ( a f i yelil).; '1'L)o reptirt'was a pled And a by-, • 1.1. further ry stover but we think anything f rt a varlcate any whatever, 3 g `ftld be supererogatory with best suis lies the ,res ,brit of self and family. lye aro 3 , law fixing the rntQ a9 abs c, was passed. I i Y Tuner. 1N ACTION P,00t _ This wfll give the co'nroittee a slight mir- plus over estimated expenditures, and ANUTHER Y OL PUTTING IT. -The will provide for unforseen contingencies, Goderich Signa, Dail' tbc,mtentiun of its without the necessity of borrowing. delinquent subscribers- to the fact by in• Messrs McKenzie and Scotts eared on verting rules over a i4ragraph stating behalf of the Mechanics' Institute and plainly their indebtedness:-- That's a said they were.ready to go into they room little different to our method, for we have in the town building on the let of Oct. simply asked them to look at the lai3el on provided the council would let them have their paper, and since last week, about it. Alt Perrin objected to losing leis ten. three of our subscribers have looked at ant, and a dressed the council at length, their labels. -at least only that number ' when the propperty committee wereauthor_ have responded to our appeal. Now we unpaid ized to see if Air Armstrong was willing to cannot afford to carry a uumber of use the Clerk's office, and, if so, they will account-, and we plainly ask those who proceed with the repairs of the room to be are indebted to In% to pay up at once - used by the Mechanics' Institute. We have sent out a number of accounts, A man from f3tThomas wanted to num. and there are mare to follow as soon as we ber the streets and houses of the town. can make there out. We want that lip offered to name the streets for 25 cents nioney, anti you have uo builness to w•ith- eaeb, and the houses at 20 ceuts each, � bolts it. This item is written for delin- metal letters. The matter was r(,ferred to 1 rluenls, and is of no importaneo to any of the �ti•c(;t 0ornmiticv. , sur -ul)•C.ri.l)el'; out in arrears. with roent diction, v.ictions, a;ainct their ton, addition at 6:10 a young lady of Westfield Air Reefer's dental rooms, and coursy the prisoner declared himself innocent but to no avail, as the officer took him up to imp ,seible. He thought of the bed cord, -and . tearing it out bound the woman and her baby atered the remark that she wanted to catch to have some teeth Kincardine on the late train. He has with it and pushed them through the window, always been a highly respected and trust. He played out the rope until from the heat I he 6:25 train, asked xtraeted. She sat in the chair until a number of re- worthy man h shin Young , balding and smoke he was ieeady fall to the Beer, ap°nntble positions, and it is to be sincerely 1 when he fastened the to bed• went one had been drawn, hardly wine- y- r the upper end hyped that he will be able to clear himself if ; post and fled. Far from accomplishing his ng during the operation, and Succeeded Innocent. u catching the train. She had good Air Peter MoGratilem to ed with Mr ltobt' with gallant purpose o had but a oughtru to Save. the destruction of those he sought to save, erves and luck. p Deveraux, Iriehtown, met an accident one day last week, which might have been the His repo was Wo chart, and instead of dropp• ing ENLARGED PowEns.-Recently in an Scott Act case.Judge O'Connor, cause, of his death. Ha was engaged unload- be the woman and child to the gronbd or within reach of those below,he had suspended ppealeld who, by -the -by, seems to throw every ing a load of hay when the team started fore he had the fork loaded and Mr McG.held them in front of the first floor window, from batsale he can in the way of the Act sok the that Police Magistrates' oa to the fork with the idea that he could hold impossibility to which fire o g paced. She, swan there tart or twelve feet from the ground, writhing, shriek• ground Pp ointad in different counties, had no the team which was an act of p do, He was drawn up to the reef m distance ing and struggling chs d the oilffr-e swept off her garments and chokers and boiled her alive,the urisdiction in incorporated towns within be said counties. The Ontario Govern of about 30 feet and run serous to the other Pnd of the barn. He yelled for help, and AIr baby in her aims. By the most singular fa tality the flames which were destroying her held that thA magistrates had jurie- peter Sullivan was going to Seafnrth heard left the rope intact. It became_ a necessity if and they went on making Con- as usual. However, to guard theyells in the barn, jumped out of the buggy tnd on looking up Saw Peter susponded.from not to save the woman to at least remove the revolting sight. This duty was as.umed by posrible coml l cations the Govern- have made all recently appointed the track. It was with great difficulty he res- cued bfm from the dangerous position he was Capt Wm. A.Cowao, who might have ordered another man to the task, but who chose to nent magistrates, officers for the Gowns within In. No doubt had he let loose his hold he have been killed. chance to fate, which be was told by the respective districts,and Lir Williams thereti,re, Police Magistrate for Clin- would A Tuckersmith correspondent of the Ex last r,pectatore awaiturl hie efforts. Seizing the ladder ho threw it up at the blazing window, a, Goderich, Seaforth and Wingham, in positor thus writeii -On Sunday morning ^a breeding mare belonging to Air Goo."'alker and wi h an axe mounted and stood on its blazing rung, He deliberately entered the to lite County generally, of the Mill road, got upon the bridge leading games, and as they encircled him from hal• - - BASEBALL. to the barn dnor and in some way missed her footing and f+ 11 over the edge to the ground,a met to boots, ha struck, at the cord. He could not see the rope, and he struck with in, A game of base ball, which proved to be distance of about eight fast, She was so seriously fnjnred as to render recovery impos accurate aim once, twice, as the el.,thing fell from biro, but be struck in vain. At the very interesting, wag played on the grounds on Friday last between the professionals Bible, and had to be killed the following day. --Air Henry Mason, of the 4th concespion, I, third stroke, the blade out the rope. Simul- taneously the burning ladder broke and the and non-professionals, which resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 10 to 14 R. S., also met with a'heavy loss on Sunday 1 r+t One of a span of working horses broke three blazing beings fell to the ground. The baby was already dead, and the mother died and an innings to spare. pa0FESSIONAL3 NON•PROFESatONALH. out of the field into that of a neighbor, Mr Gordbn, where were some other horses. One a few hours later, and the ,captain lies it). his home in death agonies, . Johnston •c......1 3 Tudor 3rd b ...... 2 3 Turnbull p......3 2 Sunbury c ....0 4 of these horses kicked him on the leg,shatter• ing the bone etc badly as to render the' animal _ - ' Smith 1st b......2 31 McGarva s s....2 2 useless, and it had to be killed, -Some time GLADSTONE ON HOy1E RULE. Spalding p ......4 1 Harland s 3 11 Walker 1 f ...... 2 2 J Armourc f....1 4 ,ago a horse belonging to Air, Alex. Grey, of the Mill road.had a stick of some kind run in. -•=-• Mr Glidstono addresses t'io Liberal Ridi• s ......2 I Atkinson c f ...... 1 1 R%rge 3rd b .... I 3 Corbett f ........0 4 j G Irmo rand b..0 3 to its hears, making a hole several inches in length, Air Grey did not notice the wound cal Union on Friday evening last. Ile said that at the last election the Unionists had a Robinsons f......0 4 Anderson r f....0 4 Andrews 2 b 2 2 I Holloway 1st ..1 3 for some time,until the animal beeame•so bad that it was considered that the easiest way to majority of only 76,600 in the whole country, and that if the Ltoerals reclaimed' 150,000 ...... - .ffect a care was to kill it. It was an old votes their strength in Palllament, now in Total 14 24 10 27 beapt he bought to assistlwi'It the spring work the minority, would become a 'majority of a ' Our boys ha(I_ somewhat of It walkover in so the lose is not a very heavy one. hundred. Continuing, be said that 150,000 votes represented 11 per cent. of the Tlllfele their game with Exeter W.dnesday,as it re- molted fn a bad defeat for the visitors. AVO .a.� ----- THE UliUf electorate, and that the recent el,,ctious had bicho the Liberals six or seven seats, expected to see the Exeter team make a ex P better showing of itself,as it always has been --- • The crop reports are by no means so favor- gain.alrea8y gain gs which indicated that the Liberals would triumph if parliament were dissolvpd to -mor - considered a good club. Their play was very faulty, 'both in the field and at the bat, able as they were in the early part of the season. The long-ooutinued drought has row. In regard to the Unionist membera he was sure that the electors who supported PP and their costly errors told badly .against them, while on the other hand our boys done great deal of damage, and the yield, of cereals in the province will be below the refrained from opposing them the teat played a capital game, and were very strong average. Barley has done well. The fall e l election mistook the position, They believed y Irish autonomy to be of questionitble policy, at the bat, two and three base bits being the of the day, with an occasional home wheat suffered from winter killing in many districts, and the drought has affected both or c'von mischievous, but anyhow they expect - order order run mixed in. Goo McTaggart acted as d that thLrnfonits would co-operate with seriously that the s fall and spring wheat so seriouseae the remainder of the party in regard to Liber• umpire, giving good satisfaction to both. ___-_ croon the whole will be a light one. The �_h-, k _,,,_-_„-, s-aL principles _..esaecialL� ¢aivat_..°ser°ions play our boys will downythen. TrarL Es -Some of the erossin u ;s in low are in such sliape that if not soon repair- ed, they will be the cause of accidents Beech and butternuts will be plentiful this year; tbo trees are heavily laden. If it pays an egg waggon from Orargeville to gather hen frust in this caunty,it should pay the Wingbam and Seaforth wiuvgons better. Sunday bathingis quite a com- mon occurrence with the boys and youths; are they not aware ihat by doing such, they are violating tho divine law. One would imagine whiledriving through the couutry and secing. the number of self binders at work, that every farmer owned one; the agents, however, say that it will take many years to fill the country ; the old fasbioned binders and reapers are now a thing of the past. Hand us in the local news items ; you do us a favor when you help us that way. The flux crop is a very large one in this section this year. Tho days are growing perceptibly shorter. We are indebted to the weather for many things : 'Tan, sunburn,suustroke, freckles, et sweaters, et sweatera. The street lamps should be repaired where necessary, and got in working order, for they will be wanted before long. A number of trees are ding for wast of water ; give them a pail and 'thus relieve them. Titers is very little insjhiratiou in town life just now; it's all perspiration. Since flax pullin; commenced you can hardly find a boy, from a 5 year -olid up, in .town during the day. Ah I how the editor of a newspaper would like to be it beloved pastor or a faithful school teacher during t1tiss torrid summer. To -day is the Civic Ifollday, and about everybody who can got money 11 is ilway enjoying theulsclvts,as the remain at home the inr,j', ,t•,• i, I+luiu. R. O.. R. 0. McGarva i f R: 3 b..5 1 1 Weekes I b.. 1 3 Turnbull 1 f cS p....5 3 Anderson 3 b..l 2 Smith 1 b..........5 '1 Tait s a ,......0 2 r Wald 1..0 3 ' al in 3btPc >... . � t McDonald I P d g 1 S'Vhito c f .0 a r .. , 33 Tido .,. . � c, f.-... c f.......4 3 Hoskin c......0 3 Scruton 2 b..... , ..3 3 Foland If ....0 2 Harland s s ...... , . 4 2 Blister r f ....0 2 Stanbury c ........3 4' Bissits 2 b....1 1 37 21 3 21 Soar.: by innings :- Clinton -3 0 0 8 5 11 10-417 94oter--1. 0 2 o n n 'N, n -- - -Around thfj Geiililty. Wm S'urtly has purcbascd tiro farDl of T H Thompson noar Auburn for the rum of $•t, 000. '1'601.0 were "only" 5i; applicants for the yac,ancy on the teaching staff of the lirussels public School. . Oue day last week Thos. loss of Fact Wawanoslf baJ the wirfortune to find one of Lis best cows lyinir dead in the field. Robb Bros. Monis, disposed of 20 head of young eattlo to Joseph Cl -911 this week, for tvhich they received about $11,000. •blr F G'odbottI tnerel,ant. Wihclieste•, baa disposed of his stock and rented his premises to AIr Jas Jones, teacher S. S. No 4,Uaborco. George Armstrong has disposed of the old for the sunt of .5,800, to one Wro, Armstrong. of llailett.I. •., Air 11. Sv (;ook,tirst I)eputy-ae:age of How - ick, in company with NJ John Seatil', left on Saturdiiy last for 1-anenver Island, where they intents t.r spend ,it month or so. As Jatucs Clark near Auburn was driving on Sunday Ilia horse took fright at a 'passing buggy, and throw hen out of the vehicle. His leg wwlcaoght in the spokes of the hiurl!n•hecl, and brokeu. Gabriel Sprung of ilallott had Lha balPluek to los) one of his carriage ho -Nes on Friday, which was Valued at 1300. its death was caused by tho bursting of a blond vessel while drawing on a hayfork. ' The trustees of School. 5eotion No. Ll, Stanley, have re-engaged All, D. C'ompbell as teacher, For 1888. - He is to receive au advance of g20 for next year's services, which speaks well for Mr Campbell as a teacher. OuAIonday night atGorric,Wilee ti Sander - son's sawmill had a narrow escape from being destroyed by fire. About half past eleven o'clock the saw dust at the south side of the mill was discovered to be on frro and was im. mediately put out. Brussels should be a hotter place with the number of ministers residing in it. At tbo present time rev S Jones, Rev J. Ross, B.A., Rev W. T. Clutl, Rev AI. Swann, Rev Bather Shea, Rev J. L. herr and Rev R, Paul are on the list, with the expectation of another Pres- byteriau diving being added in the near fu. ture. .. A very painful accident happened on Tues• day evening to a young son of the editor of the Exeter Advoeato. Ithile a Gordon band press was in operation,tholittle follow,playiug around, nod unnoticed, put his hand- I'd the cogs,ond before Lha motion of the press could be reversed,the index finger of his right band wns,complot nl•y smashed. ' A larAc niouber of the nvil­hU,rs as=etnl)V,l Lake Huron have had the benefit of a greater rainfall than the rest. of the province, and crops of all kinds are therefore in a better condition there. The same may be Said of Victoria and Poterboro. The drought has been most severe in the, Latke Erie counties and in the Eastern part of^tke,provinee. Hay was a good crop and was well saved ; peas have failed, and the root crops will be moa$re, On the whole the farmers to this province are likely to have alean year. With the low prices current, they will do well if they esSape loss on the seasin'a operations; very few of them indeed % l ina •c money.. In Lower no„arla the hay crop in the Eastern Town. ..... ships was a poor one owing to the .drought. Peas aro ripening pernlatnrely and.the yield will be @mall, while as in Ontario the rout' crops are in danger fromthe drought and the poets which exceeding dryness breeds. Oats Have turned out well, especially in the lower counties in Q,iebee. In the Maritime Pro- viuces there was a good crop of hay, bat the other crops aro below the average. A cor respondent in the Annapolis valley says the drought has,driod up creeks and ponds which never failed before in the memory of mail. In Manitoba and the Northwest there will be a .good yield of wheat, although the returns from .the thresher will fall far short of the es. timates made two months. In the early part .of the seas,on rain fell copiously and cereals had a good start, but of latn the drought has done much damage, especially in the and to have been reported, and there has beau little loss by hail. So far as Wo can learn there is no Sign of the llessiau fly in any .part of the Domiuiun,but in this province rust has ap- peared in several ceunti(s where 116Vy 010w• - on fell lately,-MAil, _--______--Q.4_40-_____ --' 'I ire til. 'iisonuty Tragedy. The following verdict was icudered by the coroner's jury at St Thomas on Tuesday morning, after been out about six h+ urs: - That the said Siimllol (.. Z�,alaud and child, Mrs Smithers andchild,Alrs Fraino and child, Airs Baynes and throe c)iildren, came to their death through din criminal negligence of Henry Dounely, engineer, and Richard Spet tigne,conduotor of the ill fated train. We the jnrymen empannelled to investigate the eauseS of the late terrible accident on July 15th, by which many lives were lost and others severe- ly injured and much valuable protle,ty des. troyed,after hearing the evidence and carefully examining the game nave some to the ccn- olusion that the,eaid accident in due to the carelessness of the officials and the employees of the Grand Trunk Railway Company -in the following several weya:-First, it is gaite I plain from evidence adduced tbattho engineer was, on that day at all events, quite unfit for his duty; as for instance the speed at which lie ran the train into the Corporation of the City of St. Thomas without slacking at the proper placo. Then the negligence of the con dnetor to not examining the air brakos btf)ro- leaving the fort, which, bad it been done, might have prevented the disasterywbich-bas- brought such desolation into so many home-, and fuithor, had there boon an inspector, as i there ought to have boon, at tho Port, Fuel, serions consequences might llavo been, avorted. The drowning of a young lildy of London at Port Stanley is anothor direct result of this dianster, if Air Larmonr had accepted the offer of tite Afichigni Central tailv'ay t•flioials to >Lnd :in r:,; np to fort Tho result, however, was that the Unionistif behaved as life long foes. He coutioned:- "Far from dismembering the empire, we in- tend to solidify .it. The electors are rapidly Y and almost unanimously arriving at the right judgment. The question of retaining ilio Irish m6mbe•re iii Westmiuster is stillari:open " I. - one, but it will never be allowed to interfere with the attainwent of our object. When autonomy is gained, if' Ulster desires sever• anee from the rest of Ireland, the Liberal party will"not stand in the way. This onght to be a conclusive answer to those, who allege that the Lihera!s are indisposed to try the ef- foot of a rouuion. The Land Wl,as amended confers vital and important benefits upon Ire- land. Mr Gladstoue's rewarks were largely devoted to the influence of the pending cloo- tions in the direction of undermining the post, tion of the dissidentz-and persuading Liberals who abstained from voting in tho lsA g-noc- al election. He reminded his audience that rennion of the Liberal party must be looked upan as far distant,althongh he acknowledged the sincerity of Lord Hartington's desire to reunite the party if poaAble, "But," he con, tinned, "tib must look the situation plainly in the face.' _P_ Hon Afr Mackenzie is daily improving, leis reported thecrop prospects are maguid... cent in .the Northwest, Hat vosting is in full blast. . The cousetvative candidate was elected iu Tucsday,by a good majority,This is a deeided gain for that (party. It is announced that the Euglieh' Govern mont decided to grant a subsidy to the Cana., diau Pacilic Railroad. It is }toped to slake the present route It great som'co of advantage to English investors. Richard Popuer, tcamatov. nas arr'estedat Turonto, ou Sunday night, charged with cri• minally assaal,ing a littlo girl 9 years of age, named A'lartha Botisiuguor, • W HnQerman street, The child is seriously ill, and doubts are expressed as to her rae„very. Flogging in toor;ood for brutes of this kind, 11 Vev, Alessra. Hunter and Crossloy, the widely known evangelists, with Rev. 13ed- soil, formerly of Loudon, aro summering on rho Now England cost. Tile evangelist;, -- however, are uot•idlo, as they havo charge for a weak of the camp meeting sot v ces at Mar.. tha's Vineyard, which began on Sunday. In the by-election in Laprairic county, (Zee., on Saturday, AIr Govette, the Liberal eandi- date for the Legislature, defeated Dr Brisson (Conservative) by a majority of 89. The seat has hitborto been held by a Tory, and the ro snit isaignificant of tue strength which Premief Mercier has developed since he defeated the Ross Senecal clique last fall. A melancholy accident ocourred on Satur•' day on the farm of John Grant of tho. t`ird concession of London, township. Mr. Grant, -vas driving a binder in the oat field, and had estopped the horses and taken off their bridles for the purpose of feeding, Somethiugfright .ened thoanimals and they started to run away Mr. James Log.", who was Shocking the Cato in another part of the field, ran to catch the team, but was knocked down and run over by rhe th re° horses and the binder. ITO was ter. riblehruised and cut on the face and hoad .Syt�d in difforent parts of the body. His most Ori. intlg in isin the sp"nal onlumn, which itis feared is fatal, and a broken leg. Tho younlj roan is 26 icor^ of ngp.