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The Huron Expositor, 1888-08-17, Page 1F ate • "..!!..01••••••„. • TWB NITECO TY -FIRST TEAR. E N1ThiBER 1,079. SZAFORTI-1, FRID Y, AUGUS rORTH. orrfal lost hie peek. pearly $48, on bit noels. It was fM o retirned it to ngbain, of the 7 tis, lee ,refused tbt hiz threelear-ald Blesall, ottk has s pag whieh foot is smaller then r`on account of the many farmers lam. this -season' ther or the 'short oats.— e lost cattle sheep, )e.ew so unartanate re, of the5thfia.ci. age Mr. Irvine ks* ad this year he has Whether the cattle -or been stolen * Roberts* of guest of the UAW week.—MiseMissie iornei- is the guest er Isesiturd tied Irked* of S guest of his -da tt.—A ipfceyy h paid a flylng pendlast.— ent Orderot rouoiing offiesr Munro& 'W. S., Sister B. Stnrdy;W. ., I. B. Cawb1in- ; Sentinel* b - U17. t storm of thrmder, 'sited thenorth part ay, night last. The d.—One day a Young Ms On fire fo-a. stump fna. to woods. Xu a few Led over- four acres, stampsin its waif,* ;fforts of Mr., Irvine Dme of the rued without pickers' have been &several thousand As fruit lave been 'atm 12150 intbk' at week ortwe-- te.nien Are. getting iel-Jaraters in shape! tees work.—Same have been *foaling ries of some of °m- ete are some ores- Szy to 'work during are ready for any �urtolnfght. Eta. son Cooke, �W Charles Reid --sed of the Gosheie in the **esallk0 F; We ;- next Mrs Tor.u$o.ro tibert Mrs /Poi* nsereltasti,--. As with* se: were vat, ise from Vara* b� and ears in bug. itinues,_Thavy nether fig en oncrs. A • P• r. --- Mr. James �f Seeforth on Tneed.1.! las& beWeetBis dw - laf.Prairk, James na this :to with McArthur, of the t week for Soot - pleasant trlp and taken* of Vlrd been spenclingi!' olds In Ohl ho ley last for exP ono of the Tsai* -r Ian* up; got IOW* four Ise Be'. Couitelir Batted* entset,ofee,,,,.7 •destio ea Pi to • 1 kir Cash Store —OF— FMAN & 00.; .-.. t Having Some repairing to do to ourff - i 'store very shortly,' an&.. not wanting to, other, re l ving the .goods; -we have de- - Ml Med to n off the *hole stock, andt i order tot do so' we will offer great in , t ducements, _ - SaIenost going on. Call and see thez - prices, Sales for CASH ONLY. Ohear, Oash Store! • .t OF OFFIVIAD,T C OA NO'8 BLOCK, IJi 'SEA F 0 RT —FolloWipg are the returns compiled by the -Immigration, office for the ` .six , months ending June 30, of this year, ofi • immigrants arriving in or passing i through Ontario: Arrived via St. Law- rence, 15,036; via United States,39,243. f Total arr:vals, 54,319; Went to the: ,Provinee of Quebec, 87; to the Province ' of Manitoba, 1,031; . remained in On- k tario, 12,746. For the same- period P there arrived at 'Toronto -via the St. Lavirence and the United States 10,794, i ' of whom 4,537 passed into the United; States, 159 went to -Manitoba, and 6,098; remained 1si Ontario;- 1,433 free 'meals i were given, and 131 free passes. were granted. ' .• - -;-Mr. S. M. Fenwick, M. A., Prin.- , eipai of the Parmersville High School, ; has been ppointed head master of thel! BowmanvIlle High School, at a salary of $1,300 -and Mr:-.D.H. Coates,--B.A.-, l of the Bradford High School, to the p071 sition of rriathematical master • in the 1 . same institution,at a salary of V,000. i There were, thirty-three -applicants' for the two vacancies m BowmanvilIe 'High i , School, ereated by the ' resigna:-; lions of M, ears. Tomblin and -Miller,,:, . who have been appointed to similar p0-1 itio_32:4 at "Oitby and Parkdale.. , —Two young men named Sniith land 4 Acton, frorn.Philadelphia, have adopted .1 a novel w4, of spending their holidays. i • They started on toot from Philadelphia , about the 20th June, and with the exd - ception of & few miles have footed it i all the way to Waterloo, Ontario, the i • average tramp per day being 25 miles. ! One of the6-has 'kept a detailed Esc- i count of tlieir trip, and intends giviligl lectures on their return. They are very.; favorably impressed with Canada. Af-,1 • . te' i visiting Detroit and Cincinnati, theyi will return to Philadelphia: in time for the 're -opening Of the College. I —On the 7th line of West Zorta• May be seen a little -Spot just on the brae of• Kirkhill, iocahly known as the log . church. kourialfgrouncl. There is a year -1 - ly ceremony performed here—on a cer- tain day.al interested are palled uponi .to do their,part. They de it annually, fo They prun, trim and dress and make-- t • ' q the home 0 their_fathers-and friends:in- viting to t - passer by. But probably. - iti# most striking thought to a ''stranger,' ' wandering along the walks of this some what histork and honored spot:. Is the, - - numbtrof [those "gone before" whose .beadstonesj readied 10, 46., '80#A, 001 slalom wo yams, ' It- nisy he qui& doped if any vemetery in Ontario am . figure -a. higher average of deaths than . can the little log church hillside chosen, by the pioneers of Zorn 1111832, over whom the late Rev, Mr, McKenzie, the father of Presbytetianism west -.- of Tor- - - onto, presided. .' —The funeral of the late -Rev. Chris- tian F. Spring ' at New Hamburg; OR . : Saturday, 4th inst., will hong be mark-, ed in the Minds of the people of that' village. An air of solemnity pervaded, . the whole place and it is 'estimated that! between two and three thousandPeople' - :met at the phurch to ply their' last sad respects. The church Was filled by the? relatives arid friends Of the deceased; while the' church grounds and streets in the vicinit 'were idled by . those unable -to gain ad ittanee, but who remained standing Until the - service was over, to follow the : remains to the cemetery. Twenty-one clergymen of the Lutherani ? church/ who came froniall. parts ,of the province, joined in the procession. The . funeral sermon was preached by. the Rev. .Et Geniner, of Toronto, and a number of other 'clergymen Wok part*. in the services. The great concourse of peo- , „pie wasan evidence of the respect in which, -11r. Spring was held -sand thedeep sym.pathy felt for his bereaved family. A widow, five sons and seven daughters, are left to mourn the, 4sudden bereave- • ment of their best friend; . Mr; ;Spring .. was:63- years of -age. •. , • • • •o- FRON(NORTII* ER D KOTA „ • LAITODON, Acta, t 'August Is ls 1888. j DEAR EX.rOSITOR)—Seeing a counts of so many different parts of t e world thrOugla, your columns,' though I would devote ishort period of time saying a few words about this part of « e coin; try. -Molest time I wrote • e were just after seeding. and everyt mg was bleak and barren looking, and the prairie, with its burnt and lackened surface, looked more like" a ert than anything else. But the Scene s chang- ed, summer has come with i s warm, refreshing thoWeri, and its bri t sunny days, making the prairie lookl ke a vast. flower garden dotted over w th large fields of tall waving grain whi h would delight the eye of the mos tasteful artist. -. I - In the early part of the ton* the weather was rather cold and ackwar4, but about the beginning of Juie we had some fine, warm rains, followed by very 'warm weather, which has brought the crops on very quickly, and at the-pres-- ent time I think I can safely say that we never had better looking crops, and if the frost keeps off in the fall till they oubt but han last od deal. are late) ey have ars and risk of ar. The year and td the cometomaturity there is no we will have a larger yield • year and that is saying a g But, As & general rule, the cro fully two weeks later than t been for the two preceding - the farmer': is running a grea having his -grain frozen this y 'gophers are very numerous thi are doing considerable darnag grain, especially ttbbaiiey. Jhey seem to have a preference for barley and there are Some fields that are nffarly half eaten by them, but these belong to per- sons who do not try to keep t m down. think that if every person wo ld spend &Tittle time anda few -dollars* Or poison there Would* be no trouble{with - the gophers, as those who have b en trying to get rid of them have had v ry little :damage -done by them: They aro tole found mostly on the high Ianand are scarcely ever seen down in th valley. The 1110St of the-fartherS are buy haying now; and although rather lat , ther is 'a heavy crorof it At one tirjie it ws expected to be very scarce th season, .but the the heavy talus we had in Jinn helped it greatly and there will be plenty for everyone: Potatoes e and egetablesl . Of every kind are geed and e will be an immense yield of thein, th . weather having been most: favorable or roots and vegetables. The crops as a whole could not be better and the f. melt are - all in good -spirits - and if the f ,oat keeps' away and prices are as .good a last year „ we will be apt to: have 'anot • er boom' this next year. - There was a grand-celebrati n held ini Langdon on theFourth ofJuly hieh was in every respect a grand suebe s. •-• The weather was the very best, t e: crowd large, and the programme uch that every one was pleased.. The- Qt911" was gaily bedeeked- with stree ers and bunting, numerous flags war d grace fully in the - wind an shady evergreens .lined . the - idewalks and gave there a cool and in iting- ap- pearance. ' The first thing on the pro- gramme was.a. baseball *match between two amateur clubs and wasv ry . inter- eting. After that the vs al sports were indulged in; horse tee g, foot racing, jumping, throwing the •ne, etc. During the afternoon and yening a dance was held in a bower and Was well attended by the youth of both xes, who trippedth'e light fantastic e sWeet. strains Of music which was fur . 'Shed by the string band of the town. A grand „Alisplay of fireworks wound up he -day's -proceedings and every - one lreturned ,home well -satisfied -with theclay's -en- joyment. Altogether the celebratioh was a grand.success'and the infant town. feels quite proud over its: first celebra- tion. • . , One of our -esteemed bachelo his de- parted from bachelorhood and Ilaken un-. to.himself•one of Huron's fair daughters • for a partner* life, and by th • happy, contented smile he how. wears,w fancy he is quite satisfied with „his new I fe. Now - that the ice is broken , it ,;is ho • that Some more of the- boys will fell w his ex/ ample and xnaka their min ble life hapriy,.. for as the old saying 1fr It's not good for mew to be alone" and think it cisn be well applied to a great n Miler of the remaining.bachelors .Tho news that there Wss change of governnient hii Mentte was hailed with delight by the 014 formers • who are settled \hors and. sh ws that .they have notlestAll.interest 1. Canid- WI polities yet, and W. hope hat the new Government will, ''suoceed nd that the oonntry will prosper under the new rule. I see by some of the rinitobe pipers that there are soine peo e over there who haye d. good - deal to. say. against this little Dakota of urs and call it the cyclone and blizzard= country. Now, as Was -cyclones and liSzarda are concerned, I think we are as free from them here as they are in Manito- ba, and if our friends, who hay so much _to sayagainst usovould. came • ver liere and see the number Of, settlers, ho have. left Manitoba -and -settled here .(1 could ,show a score of them) and see_ the fine crops and the goad . country we have here, I haven't the least doubt iit that they would have a different stor • to tell. There are some -people -who seen to have a Spite at Dakota and are co tinually 4unningit down and holding up Manito- ba as far ahead Of it, but for Tpart I cannot lee where it is, as the cliinate hi° much the sarne, the land alio, the land laws are, "believe fully'letter on this side, our railway jacilities• are decidedly better, and Iast winter • We go1 on ten' average- 8 cents per bushel mor for our wheat than they did; and. now .1 will leave you to judge which Of, the two is the better country. - •.Langdon has grown quite a'ibit this summer. . There are now .no less than five machine honsesland -ell seem to be cluing a large business. There -.have - been two newstores, a blacksmith shop, two eloisters, (which makes Ave , no*); twoliVery stables, ' and a large number • of dwelling houses put up since I wrote. last and we Will • BOOR have the . largest town on the !Wei I am glad to see that they Are trying to keep the Sabbath bet -- ter than they used to do'although there,. is room tOimprove a .good deal yet,. and: it is hoped that they will try and keep Sunday as becomes a Christian people. The Presbyterians are going to erect a church -this fillandhave Over $800 sub- scribed tOivards it now and that, with whatthe Presbytery gives, will put up. a comfortable church. :There - are other denominations 2that .1(113 intending to.: build churches as soon as the , necessary funds can be raised. Trusting I . have not trespassed too mud', on, your valu- able space, I remain, • Yours Truly, • HURON BOY• 'P. S.—The wages . aregoing to, be high this year, high as $50 per month _ has been Offered for the harvest and:. it is expected that More Will be paid yet. :,•. .1 . , : , . ' ., :. . . The Premier of England. AN ENGLITIMATIAT HOME.=-11IST0R7 07 - -MIK SALISBURY FAMILY.—THE PRE . MIER2g- DOMESTIC LIFE.—BIS 'im-sup ACTS:., : • ' . ' - Lewin, Eng., July 3eth,_1888. - . .. For a p ime minister, Jess is general- ly known of Lord Salisbury, than, pro;. • ably,- of surd his -predecessors during the half c ntury of the reign; : NOW i 11,121Pot co eerned-,Nvith LordSilisbnry,the politician.!. He Must speak for himself to those who .are curious- in politica' por- traiture EMy. purpose is to portray - Lord_ Salisbury, the Englishman, typiaal as he is of . much more than the Mere 'party politiotan, as we shall see. ' - • . Just a hundred years ago the earls Of Salisbury kot a lift in the world. They beaamemirquisea for evermore, unless the queen elevated them into dukes, ife7 yond:whitil.minnipotenoe itself couldliot hitch then!' Ihigher up the aristocratic .tree. It i;. understood.that. Lord SalisL ' burylas- twice declined the :dukedom tendered t� him by the queen of late.' !':* ' Fifty-ei ht years ago, 1830, was, born Robert Arthur:. Talbot - ,Gascoine Peen, the present Marquis of -Salisbury. He zwas a younger soli and had no prospect • of being al peer, his -title as "Lord ''. Rabert Cobil being -.merely . a courtesy title. Reproved to be one of. the hard' I rest heade fellows in his eollege and nniVersity, a first-rate all round scholar and a liar - reader and thinker. He toek to journalism quite. naturally, and at once hitt pen won a -front place by its ,ititing . sharpness and free,. slashing 'style, Then he„entered :the .House of Cominons4 Of course he:. was : a bigoted tory in politics; he curled his - hp: in. grand soca at the idea of, majority rule and fired liis biggest guns against- the - 'risingdemocratic rank and file. But he was always respected by his foes, not ' only for the brilliance and. power Of his 'pen; but b MIN, he/With Lord Carnar- von, has a ways. been striotly• consistent , all'along in politics., . I- : •. . When hp joined ,A Lord Derby's and Disrmli's gOvernmentof 1867, and they gave theipptople the -reform bill Which they had resisted' when Lord . 'Russell - and Gladstone had vainly tried t� pass, Lord. Robert Cecil :7•.not - only left his _Mende in disgust, but put it on record , in some of the most,, famous :sarcastic speeches a d review - Articles ever - pro- duced in our time. 'Next . year, while only 38,he; becameMarquis of Salisbury; -, his eldest brother having died without issue. -aNciw. came his opportunity, aid ` - this is hoi,. he Used it.... He xiiit t have settled ..down.- to the life of a country - squire .,-with ' literary tastes.-. His home, Hatfield house, ii a• ' gloriouspl ce -; every brick of it has its historical tttraction. • Itis only twenty miles out, f, London: Therailway de- pot opens tight on to the beautiful gates of the park. The house 18 a noble -Eliz- abethan mansion, its red bricks -mellow- ed by the wen -WA -left into an exquisite contrast 14rinony with - the - grass and foliage and thelake and the gravel paths. Just - thred hundred years ago' .Queen Elizabeth i:iaid a visit of • 'compliment to ' her prime minister, ..1.4ord -Robert Ceeik; in this hoi.se at Hatfield, and last sum-' mer Queer. : Victoria paid a special visit to her pr Me minister, 011obert Xecit, Marquis 0: SalisburP, in the Self same old cianal0n, - And :the event WIWI To-, Markable on IN own account,' Apart from ' Mel Meted, ' recollection,. be- cause.. thE 4neen: never visiti her Ideas, tiieept, for 4onvenience Wheii-in theitacighborhoodmi public busimm. To,risits feif would 0411N0 icelousy, and to -visit all ls imposiible, -I ! . When he iettleedeivn: he - this 111/W nificent home Lord' Sallibuyy was able to afford the gratifleatieni of iseveral hob,i -bies.' Fir4t.of these. was his 1000 • Of Ohet1110ai spience. He fitted- Asp in that • old Elizabethans mansion one of the most extensive and expensive labratories, and there the premier patiently ! plods, over his experiments and investigations for the sheer leve of the thing.. i: If he were to blow the house•up the..less. would -be national in importance, ',but he is too old *hand at his work. - . , 'More striking still in the way of con- trast between .the- newest .modern dis- coveries and the ancient home Was Lord SalisburrOntroduation of the electric light into Hatfield hew. ' This,strange to say, was the first private .. English Mansion hit with electricity, . and yet .Lord. Sails uri has been represented as a stupid 014 . aristocrat, imperviOns. to modern ideas and averseto all progress: . He superintended the installation him- self, anc011ade• a good . • many imProve- ments andimodifications;' I remember one of his engineers being killed by touching the wires running ,along the . garden. wall,. Lord •Salisbnry at once ' altered the; arrangement and provided for the man's family. ..:' If good --,'9ueen Bess were to revisit her roe:n-10)73681d house to -day, She would fanay it to he -bathed in the glimpses of the. moon every - 1 giVe ' her :. ghost '• .an . object ..lesseni 14 .htlite ss hooking ,e..ffectse.f. the. Edison ...: The Profound Scholarship Of Lord Sal-. isbury, as -separate from hit, mere jotir-. • nails*: capacity, is:sufficiently 'attested. by the fact that he has .been the &an; oellor of. Oxford university' since . 1869,. and is . a D. C. L"besides. bearing various, , other substantial degrees. t The greatest seat of learning in the kingdom does not lightlyentrust its highest interests to, -nor confer its highesthonor upon, a man. fanious:rnerely for rank or .ordinary ac- complishments.. The.._mere politician would not have won' that signal distine- ' tion.. Theheadof that great university must be great in intellectual. capacity. and achievements, andnoone has ever challenged the fitness of Lord Salisbury for this post of honor; -4-- .• . OnipriMe factorin his election ` has. been,„ his high ohur manship. ere we: .v.,him in another Of his various- dis-. . tinctlaspects. 'Ox oril. is nursery of . the ohbroli, andwhen it peseessed Mr.: Gladstone as 18s representative in the Houseof Commons it was 'proud Of his immense intellectual power, of his fervid. high churchnninshi and of: his loyalty • to the church. When Gladstone placed himself at the head of the Radicals, and -talked of disestablishing the Irishchurch Oxford Withdrew its .confidence, and I can never forget the scene' when he of fere& himself 118 Radical candidate for Manchester, theifirst Words :of MB first speech being ' these, . "Here j• &IR unmuzzled I" The frantic cheers of 101.: .cotne Mint have lasted ten minutes at least.' • -• And new let us •see the Premier' at .home. ,Said to be gloomy, austere, con- temptuous bkotitsiders and too; proud to -behave in private.' fe ? Mere / simply assoMate with his ellows, how ' &es he 'speak What I knoiith drivelingsmall .. • its ' demeanor ii- - - .' that: of a proud.* man,* it is that of one who dreads, lest,thciSe near. him should bore him . In appearance he is the i4eal aristo-' orat; tall, strongly made,- witlt a distin- guished and .thoeglitinl face thattellS'Of deep study.' ° Though\well•dresSed, you do not see 'anything 'lilt .Ithe. striking personality- before , iou. . The . careworn look rather enhances his dignitY of bear- ing. I have Spoken of his reputedpride, but-it is not hard to discern :that it, is not of the petty sort; but the . pride of conscious distaste for petty- people': and petty things, nd I 'believe - 'of petty pride also: : r_ in his. own! county, I , Where he : at tong been the chief magistrate and the: respected ::head 4 of every social movement, I have . seen him take his hat', right off in re- spectfulrecognition of a laborer's salute. : Your snob has not soul enough to return more than a' Confrquentialmechanical jerk. : - , _ usloka distriet have been spoiled, as he fires followed very closelythe ridges frock, Which they have stripped of Verything: green, leaving. nothing . for heeye to dwell upon but blackened: redo of trees, the ashes of vegetation, mtsmoke-begrimed boulders and tones. Droughts and bush fires during he pest couple of years haye not tended o'pnt the Muskoka settler in a comfor- able,fiame of mind. - •;'—On -Wednesday evening last' week, Essex Centre, in a drunken :quarrel, eines Drummond 'struck Daniel Brault on the load with -a- wrench and and killed ' I . .761e0, F. Lawson, B. A., fornierlY a' eaeher on the London Collegiate Witt; ute staff; died at Westminster, after a - short illness from ?anattack of typhoid ever. - • --r-There were ,760 births, deaths, and amigo recorded uithe city of Wm- ipeg during the first 'half of the pres- nt year, against :674for the Seine period ast year. • . .-.?Christian Straw, Of Seal Easthop!, ho has been teaming for Mr. 5, Jutzi, • f New Hamburg, thelother day had his eg and several ribs broken by _his :team unsling away. • • • 7 man named : Wallace Shipman was recentlz•eaught pinggling potatoes from Ontario to Alexandria Bay, -Hip beat and potatoes, valued at $35, were confiscated. :01 - • —The reeve- eVElorft. says. the fall Wheat on his farm this season is i.the best crop in the past 'twenty-five years and gives a yield of forty forty hushels to the acre: - . Walkeryille Sugar Refinery' received Saturday the .23;800, bushels of corn recovered from the propeller Cali- fornia,. sunk :last fall in. Lake Huron, It, wili be made into starch; • —George J. Keating,. *a native- of Halifax, who died in San fornia, a few weekaago, left $200,000 to that eity—$100,000 to St. Paul's Church - and $100;000 to found a hospital. • —Wm. V. Wright,. B. A., and - wife, of Pickering; are ff for Tokio, Japan, to engage in mission' work.- Min Jessie Munro, of Peterborough, is also going to Japan as 4 mission teacher. =Mr. Jacob Lashinger, .of the Heini burg Carriage Werke, hat received an order from Manitoba for a car load of cutters and sleighs A car Of waggons and buggies was shipped from the same. works not long since. - - - ••• —Some evil -disposed perkon destroyed a .fine field- of celery on the -Waterloo road, near Guelph, belonging to . Mr. M. O'Connel, the other i night. The. first trespasser found on these premises will receive a warm reeeptien. --77A fire itook place- the other night in -.Grafton, near ',Colborne, by Which . two . smell children; . aged - re- spectively - four and six years; were burnt to death and ..a third severely burned; ••. r • James Baird and J. S. aird, surveyorsof Es -sex county, left • n Monday, with a company of ten or weirs men, for Ilipissing district. to. uhVey township; for the .,Ontario Gov- ernment. . Knight Riddell, ofl'arkdele, asbeen appOinted: • by the Grand hulk Railway .Coinpany; • surgeon of he Western divibion.as far as Hamilton; 'lauding Georgetown; 13ranipton,West,. in and Wed Toronto Junction, 7 -Marks' new,Tron• ocean Steamship,' he Algonquin, left Port Arthur- on the 3rd' ult.; with upwards of , 68,000 ushela Of wheat aboard—the -largest • ergo . that ever: passed through :the • anal without lightering. , • horse fork rope gave- way in an. lma -township barn the • ether day,7 nd. the iron pulley - struck. -Robert niith, •formerlY of. Trowbridge, in :the ead.- His scalp was - torn open, and a all of -fourteen feet tothe: plank floor • earlykilled him: '• —Thursday evening • kit . week, the adva.tion Army barracks in the French at Montreel,were attacked by -a ang of roughs' - who stoned the build; pg. They Were driven off, however, by poise of -pollee, but not ',Mare Con -- table Reid was seriously injured. 0. . Doran, a Canadian. giant • eighing over four hundred pounds, has • eel) engaged. by Messrs. ',Winters 4t_ Avis, Who will make an exhibition ur with him around the fall fairs, in- luding - Kingston, Teronto,gamliton; ndon, ete, , --About - 170 Italians.- aro - said to be worklng at construction work on the etroitni Versed Lake . 'Shore railway, @Wien Waikervill. and Barrow, nty of Bigot, They were hired to @place workmen who struck for higher. - ages, consideration of -a, bonus: of. 5,000; Mr, P Wylis, of Brantford,- tic:poses' to establish_ in Galt a factory - or the manufacture of - wineeys, union annels,-etc: He speaks of his ability - o-cla•ai business Of $60,000-4, year, and•. isburse _something, like '1810,000 per 'intim in wages. - —Peter Gilchrist, an old 'resident of oodsteck, is- Seriously in the countv• • Jail, It looks a little hard to see in a • othity like Oxford, an Old and -useful ember of the community winding , up . life in-. the common jail for no • tiler crime than old age and poverty. - --Shackleton Hay, postmaster • at ilea -Craig; and who also carried on a milking business under the name of ay & Co., has made an assignment; he amount due depositors is 829,000. he Bank of Montreal is interested to - heextent of -$).46,000, but isteenred. - ba - Business failures last week in.Canada; 461 .against 24 the week previous. • • ; • —A -number of Swedes going -to Da- kota have ,been i induced 'settle n Manitoba: . : —In the burning of a , carter's stable it Brantford, a few days ego, seven horses and a mule Were cremated. —St. Thomas assessment roll for 1888 is $3,854,871 and the rate is placed at 14 cents on the dollar; —A number -o GananeqUe hotel keepers have -chtai.yeibf.sn fined st —Toronto taxes paid into thetreasury on Tuesday amounted to $60,000 .and: .Wedneliday to $63,000: - . : 4 -John Drury; of Windsor, paid a fine of 19 for going .abont armed, and left. his pistol with Chief Bains. ,Fenwiek, nee Maggie Barr, the Hamilton 'vocalist, is rustida- ting in Belleville. , —The lush fires. in Frontenac have been quenched by heavy- rains, . after • causinge, large amountof damage. Mattein of Rocheater, rowed, aerosaLeke Ontario to CObourg in on 'ordinary row boat the other day. • --Rev. - Dr. McTavish late. of Lind- • say, has been inthictedinto the.pastor- ate- of the Central Presbyterian Church,, Toronto. • - —R. T. -Smith% of Kingston, has ar- ranged a diver'S te ephone, by means of Which'comMunicat On 'can, be held with - divers, while undei water, ° * t uric, gaiter :of the Battleferd Herald, has fallen: heir to $3,00 by the death of a relative In -Seotiand, --Mrs; Norge Paterson has Sold be Arm of 10-scres, -situated jigt outside thetownof liewminville, to Mr, John Somers, -at $116 per Sore:: ' , —Willie Winnings, of Windsor, nine. years old, threw a -steno through a win. dew,' and hie. mother paid- a fine.. of $4 for him in the police court. • W. :Potts alias .Beard, the Markdale horse thief, has been sentenced by Judge Lane; ,pf Owen Sound,' to -two years ni Kingston penitintiary. - Algoma will large and retied exhibit' of the products of oulin and will be brought to .the.ProVincial.fair to be held it Kingston next week: • —Rev. ,Y 'Hirairra, who has been on on a visit to Canada td•report on Methodist Missionary Work in Japan, left iTorontd last- week for his n tivecoUntry; —The Mortality among the beavers on: the Athabasca riv r has been terrific lately, and thousands died froni!disease; ahnort exterminating the animals; ;--Last-Prida,y,g, r. John Sheridan, Of Toronto; shipped 60 head of cattle, from Ailsa :Craig stationJ They are intended: as stockers for the. berdeen market. . • -The heavy rains of -last week saved large' 'part .of Muskoka and -North. Orillia from being 4enuded of timber by 'the bush fires-. .whi h had been :raging .aver an immense tract of country: The downpour of rain • however, ;was -80 drenching that the fires ViereiefectuallP put out. The :des ruction of pine and other timber by th fires oflast year and, this Sumner has be4n .very great, The urist of Mgcb: of the night, unless her premier's • namesake1 attractions to.the gusts, and and that their two infants were .olnistened -upon- the conclusion of the marriage ceremony. The bride -.is &gen- eral favorite with her friends; and re- ceived Many. handsome -'and--ialuable presents, . • . • - -!-TA party of well -.known Waterloo 'farmers and their :wives, numbering eleven,:includinglar. Samuel Y. Shantz, Mr. Henry Cressinan, Mi.: Samuel 8; Bowman and-others,leftBerlin the other day for a visit to Philadelphia andother parts ofTennsylvania. - —There.has just been, launched on the Clyde :& new ship- of 1,200 tons, ordered by the Canadian ,Paoifie Com- pany for the service between Vancouver, Victoria, and way ports as a feeder to the railway:. The . newsteamer will likely be called- the Vim Horne, in honor of the new president, • • - - --:•The Reeve of Tilbury East town- ship, county of Esiex.; has issued a proclamation offering a reward' of $500 'for the apprehension and conviction of the person or, persons 'Who recently robbed and murdered old farmer Wilson Holton at; his residence near Tilbury Centre; :7- • • •-• - *rat, of Merrickville, gold medalist; at Queen's College, Kingston, last :year, a prominent athlete, and at one time :catcher for _the Brockville Mutual Baaebill Club , f has died of con- sumption. .0The gold medal cost him his life, as it was 'Mont doubt- over -study that broke down his conatitutiOn, hotel men and their friends in Leeds .and, Grenville are now endeavor - boa getthe necessarysignituresto de- mand a vote for the repeal of the Seott Act in the two United ,counties between now and April next, when it will have • been three years in force.. The Act was carried by Some 200 .majority. woman 32 ..years of age, escaped . recently from the Toronto Insane asylum. She is about five -feet two inches in height, ?weighing' 120 pounds. Her hair Might brown* in color, mixed - with grey, and her are ',blue. On her upper lip is & small scar. -She Was dressed in second 'mourning with print dress and„black.het. • . F. M. Baldwin.; Of Thames - iota, announcea that hereafter he will not preach funeral sermons •nor will he bury the bodies of those who in life had been habitual non -church -goers. He ar- gues that he, Cannot.preach, to the dead, - and he cannotconscientiously repeat the solemn burial service over the body of a non -church goer. . 1_. —Charles- -Montrelul, proprietor of the svine house at 'Walkerville, near Windsor, _Windior, recentiy purchased the tent used last summer at Manhattan Beach :And set it up at his ,plage with the in- tention of giving ten. cent _amusements, 'The late storm tore the tent to tatters_ and Mr. Montreiul Will erect a$1,500 frame hill with the sane object in view. —David Stellow,la lad employed by Mr; J. Wilkinson, a Glandford farmer, was admitted to the Hamilton City Hos- pital Friday morning to have 'a bullet . taken - out - from under ' his shoulder blade. He was accidentally shot* by a Chum nanied Anthony -Barrett, while Barrett was fooling with & revolver. —During the thunder storm of Fri- day, 3rd Inst., a nutriber, of accidents from lightning- occurred in - Waterloo county. Neat Ayr, Me. Robert Morton had a horse kiped, and Mi.' David Brown also had one killed. 'Neer ,Glen. Morris, Mr. . Wm. Colvin hadoit' fine young colt killed: ...There Were also Bei! eral lesser casualties., " - -- -On Friday, shortly after neap, the -barn 611 Mr; Adam Clarke's farm, heir Melbourne, dounty of Middlesex, was totally destroyed by Ere. Mr. Clarke • had nearly all his wheat and all his bay in the .barn, • Loss partially covered by insurance in the London Mutual. The fire is supposed to have originated from smoking by some- parties- who were. in -the barn shortly before. • s,L-The Grand River Plaster Company, -Paris, Brant County, will establish calcine6.rorbs in 'connection with their business at Gypsum Mines and a large kettle is .being constructed. at Toronto capable of turning out from seventy-five to One hundred barrels of calcined .plas- ter ; per day. Work is 'being. pushed _rapidly forward on necessary buildings, —Mr, Richard Clark, M. 1', P., for East Northumberland, died a few slays ago froman affection Of the throat, Mr, Clark . was'. elected. WSW Local Legislature in February list, his oppon- out befog Dr, Willoughby, who: had ;been .unseated, Prier to his deletion be had been police magistrate for the2 riding, --i-John-Leader, fishing on tie Meow caught a four pound bass, and ob. serving something yellow in its Mouth, pulled it, and drew-- out a duok. The fish had grabbed the biped while it was sWinuning over the surface of the water, ,Mr, Hunter, who owned the yeung !ducks, Says tze 1148 missed a numberland 'he presumes they bave been devoured• by fish. —Benny,44cPherson &-C�., of Mon- treal, have just discOyered that for the past six er,ieven years they had been systematicallyrobbed :by a clerk who had been raised to the position . of cashier:The cashier died and .the • amount Of property he left excited .sus- picion. . A scrutiny revealed the facts stated, and deceased'sfriends, settled with the fiinv : St. °. Jacob's correspondent of the Berlin. Telegraph gi.kes.- the follow- ing notice concerning the Movements Of an old tinie resident.: Dr. N. B. Wolfe, of Cincinnati, Ohio, paid a short visit to our village on Monday the :6th; he " baying practised ,medicine here 32 years :ago:. The Dr. with J. L. Wideman, an old intimate friend -of hisetook a -trip to Elmira, Glenallan; thence back via Lin- wood and Ilawksville,' calling on old ac- quaintances on the way; this route' being his field of practice in olden limes,' The Dr. says this part of. thecounty has improved wonderfully and was more than pleased with -.the . The Dr. has had II; Very large office :practice in Cinsintiati, throat- and lung dinettes Meal= BROS. -Pnbliehere. . f1.50a Yearvin Advance. —A marriage and christening of 'more ban ordinary interest came off at Chin- n; Huron county on Tuesday of last. eek. The Wedding was that of Mr. esley Fletcher, of, the Galt Reformer ffice, to Miss Clara Croll, also: for the • est year or so attached to the tame aff. The event was 9iade still more i teristing _ from ,thd fact that r. and Writ. ThomasX achie, Of Galt, nd Mr. and lgre, !Tames W. Green, of e Parkhill Gazette, were among the , • being his specialty, but has now retired from the medical profession, and trans- ferred his radio to his daughter (she being a licensed physician). He is 1Iso - the owner of a 3,000 acre reside in Kansas, on which- he hu 700 acres of corn this year, and he owns a large hotel - in the south, covering a whole square, containing 300 rooms, which he has kali- ed for 30 years at a good rental. The Dr, is still very hearty, and intends to take a trip around the world starting this fall, the trip to extend over a period of two years. - —John Ivey, Gananeque, nearly lost $450 when a circus was there on Mon- day last. He won that amount in a lottery, but the money was not handed over, the keeper declaring that a simi- lar amount must be put up to show the Winners were men of means. Ivey made for the bank but friends dissuaded him from his intended action. - , —The Galt Reporter of last week safe = The prospects for kgranderep of potatoes were never better than they • are at present. The earlier varieties which have been for weeks on the mar- ket are yielding largely and are of good size and excellent quality. The later varieties promise fully as well, and all , .prospects point to cheap and good pots - toes for the coming winter. • —Mr, A. G. Elliott, of, the firm of Messrs. - John Elliott lz Co,, Mon- treal, who -assigned lately, ha been missing for some time, but the other - eveninglis body; was found near. one of 'the lock .gates in the canal. He had some busmess across the cabal and it is supposed that in returning across the. lock gates, as he was of a nervous tem- perament, he fell in and was drowned. —Fall wheat has been an utter failure in some parts of Wentworth county. An eight'acre field near RoPkvie*-pro- duced but one load, while a ten acre field in the same neighborhood was too , poor to pay the labor of tutting. Better news comes from Sheffield where a ten acre field is reported at an average of 25 bushels to the acre. Barley and oats are a splendid crop, yielding 50 bushels to the acre. - —The other day in Montreal a horse dealer from Ontario was done by a Yan- kee confrere out of 8100. A bargain had been struck for $450, half of which was to be -paid down. In paying the $225 the Yankee counted a $100 bill twice and immediately introduced his friend to a bystanding gentleman and• • left before the Ontario Man had time to look at what money he held in his hand. - —Two little girls, daughters of Mr. = James Hodgins, of Shelburne, County of Grey, left_ home one afternoon re- cently unknown totheirparents. The children told some of their playmates that they intended to go to Toronto. The first night they stopped at Mr. John McBride's, in Amaranth, and next morning started on their long walk., They were overtaken pear Orangeville. and taken back home. • —In examining some old clothing which belonged to the late Archibald Hall, Sprague's Road, lien Galt, in one of the pockets were found two fifty shil- ling notes of the bank of British North America, of a very ancient style and date. They had evidently been m pos- session of the old gentleman for .110Mill years previous to tus, death,' put away and forgotten, only to come to light when the -clothes were being ripped up for some household purpose. . —A writ has been issued .at St. * 5 Thomas, against the Michigan Central Railway at the instance of one of the heirs of the late John Doan,for damages for his death from injuries ,received while crossing the Canada Southern railway track near Kingsmill. De- ceased, while driving home from Aylmer on the evening of the 8th of February last, was struck by a west -bound freight and killed. The case wiIl4 be tried at the Elgin.Fall'Assizes. —A recent departure from Liverpool for Quebec was the steamship Oxen- holme. She had,oh board what is des- cribed by the 'Canadian Gazette as being the largest number of sheep' ever conveyed to Canada by one vomit, The consignment consisted Of 850 head Jot Shropshire and Southdown sheep. Large purchases of the fernier are being made in BOSiallii4 for Ontario and the Northwest. - —Prof, Saunders, of the Central Ex- perimentel farm, is also preparing a cols lotion of about 200 varieties of cam% grown on the farm this season, for exhi- bition, As these wore sil grown as mingle plants, under similar and uniform conditns, it ought to prove a very In- structive exhibit, There will bs besides front 100 to 160 varieties of potatoes, and a few other miscellaneous products, not entered for competition, but for ex. hibition only, . —Somebody hasiteen tramping On the toes of the Elora Express man, Hear - him:"The late captain of the Elora Salvation Army ought to be clubbed '.11 with a 2x4 scantling, He recently wrote to the War Cry that the devil had Elora fast, and the item has been copied into every paper in the country,- Did the cap tan aforesaid ever read the verse _con- tained in a book called the Bible which - says," judge not that ye be not judged?" If we had no respect fir it we Aorta say that perhaps the devil as got the captain fast. Elora has as good a lot of church going people as any place in Canada. —On the afternoon of Friday, August Brd:.a terrific rain, bail and electric storm passed over the northern portion of Bosanquet Township, the fury of the elements surpassing anything seen there ;heretofore, Lightning struck all over, bombarding the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company's wires along the route. It set fire to and totally de- stroyed the barns of Arch. McIntyre (insured( and John Gillafd (not insured.) The contents in botir consisted of part of this season's crop. Mr. Sid. Sickner's barn was struck, but the flames were subdued before much damage had been done.