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Perth Items.
ilr. E. Fs .Davis,jeweller, of Mit-
chell,Jr-
• ppenin • a branch store at Seb--
. ringvil e., ..
—Mrs: W
- slipped en soul
_
, Firth, of Mitchell,
ice a few days ago and
broke her leg n ar the hip joint..
—SOinttel Jameson, son of Mr. Alex.
James'en, of Blanshard, has been ap-
collectclrot customs for the town:`
`nes North West territory.
r. R. HI Barr, of Hibbert, has
to Mitehell and established an
:fpr the' _Watson Implement
ny, of Ayr.
ratford has five ward schools, and
in -these #ve buildings there .are twenty -
'three departmtnta and the same num-
ber of teachers .
pom
of Re
move
agene
-Com
- —Blev.,Met'lailly of Mitchell is slowly
recovering from his long illness, -and
although net yet permitted to take up.,
hiswork expects to be able to do' so- in
the cOurseof ajfew weeks. ,
—Mr. Otwell, picklemaker, of St.
-Marys, while in London a few days
ago; fell in a f nt on Dundas -street and
. sustaitnedlniur es which necessitated his
removal to the hospital. ° •
—Mr. James- Smith, of. the llth con-
. -cession of Pullarton, has ' just placed on
his farm a n'tost powerful windmill,
which forces g water over forty rods
throligh-piper, t.
— he Georg T. Smith Company of
ii
Stratford, s arranged to manufacture
• the I Cyclone • nat. Gollector,_ formerly
: manufa.cttired and sold in Canada by
the XhickerboCker Manufacturing Com-
panyt oVslacksoal- Michigan. s -.
-set. young Man named William Arm:
strong, who formerly resided near Stk
- Maris, was accidentally killed While
working in ..a.4 mil' in the State of Ne-
braska. -The • remains were brought
hometo his iticither's residenOt at Kin-
- .
tore. t . ,1 .4
—Miss Nellie,Uawston of Stratford
. $ .,
who has taught school for three years
- in Se ringville; Miss Sinclair, Of Born-
holm,and Misses . Johnston and Ilep-
burn of Strafford, left Stratford on i special school -for pupil teachers half the
Mon ay for Toronto where they. enter 1: day—teaching small classes in the school
. ,,. in which she is apprenticed, 'under ' the
thLTohremneelwSeciehenonik ,-)t Mitchell
is told eye • Of the head teacher, during the
other half. She begins to earn money,
her salary starting at 3 shillings, or 75
off 4 follows ri Politically seven -mem-
hers of the new council are Chnserva- __
tives and - five ;Reformers; fivemeni. cents per Week', - At the beginning of
berm iothe church of England five
her second year she is known as a Junior
f '
Presyteriani,t add two Methodists; pailla.11. teacher, btuhte; gi ae tact nwoo yienacrrie aosfeheorf
Scotehe four;; Irish, four ; Engliih, p
service she ranks- as senior pupil teacher ,
three; Pennsylvania Dutch, one.
—Mrs. Green an indigent woman in - and win! 8 anti 10 ',shillings weekly..
Mite ell; who has hien receiving' help She is bound to attend the pupil teach.
• . from i the council,- was discovered last ers' school only two mornings in the:
week to have in her possessicin about week, and is 'put in responsible charge of .
$200avorth of saleable goods which she 40 scholars in the 'school in which she
might readily have converted into it/ 'aPPrepti0e4. This . is a long' road to
rnomiy.. Coulicil supplies have been travel, !tut it -cannot beihortenid except
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!stopped. f - • by passing an examinatiOn equal to the
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-;—.4%. bace bap league has been blankxfordOr Cambridge:junior local ex-
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ed int this county, which will be called amination Which, when taken between
the t'Perth go. iinty Amateur Baseball
ttehaechageress'afp‘lp5r e andut iell i pi I- 1 at kh er es eIIleyears.Pu Piin-
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LONLiON, England, January slid; its?.
"If I were Wise I had gone- up to
London ten years ago," said a Birming-
ham schoolteacher to me somedays
since, " btit nevessI am 40, and they ap-
point no wemen who have passed that
mile post. - - .
A place 'under the- London_ School
Board is cOveted by women_ from Land's
End to stie Shetland Isles. London
teachers skim the cream of -the business
in Great *tains Their salaries are the
highest. paid in. 'Englieh elementary'
wheels. f s••
No such, army Of schoolma'ams as.is
gathered in London ts to befoand else-
where in the world, The Board schools
alone emptOy 4,360. The Church schools
—belonging to the old parochial system
--endowed schools and private schools
have upon t their registry 4,000 -more.
The number of governesses does net fall
far short ' of that of all other yeomen
teachers Combined. Sixteen thousand
is a low;eltimate of the sstrength of the
corps will& trains the young idea. .
yet teaching is not in *London a
women's business • to the extent that it
is in many of the Canadian and Anteri-
can cities.! Wheres nine but of every
ten teachers in the New York and
Brooklyn Schools are of the sex feminine,
the proportion here is only two out of
three, The Board schools of London
employ 2,207 male teachers, rather more
than one-half the number of women in
their service.
This means that in • England women
for the most part teach only babies and
girls, I !say babies advisedly. This
morning in the baby room ", of the
Graystoke place school I patted the
round cheek of an 18 -months boy, who
gathered pp the red crewel of his knitting?
work, rebuked - me gravely with a
" Whist mow," and went soberly about
"
teaching; Her maximum wage; hardly
to be -reached under- 10 years,. and not
often reached at all, is £100 per annum.
This is the rough road to teaching in
London. :The smoother path,: the only
path which; leads to the better paid
places, is that taken by the pupil teacher
who at the conclusion of her epprens
ticeslip, enters a training college and
takes a twoyearif course corresponding
to that followed hi the normal schools:of .
your country. On graduation the;
teach-
er, who is now 21 or 22 years old; ranks
as atrainalAmioher, and, if fortunate;
May receive an appointment on the Out;
set worth That is to say, a course.
of discipline which never coves less
than five years and a half and may be
protracted more than • six, may advan-
tage the London teacher £5 a year over
the stun received ueue,llys by Can-
adian .; second-class teachers, viz st•
about .$409 a year. Thelondonteachet .
is queen of the profession. In.13irinitg-
ham, on graduation from tbe training
college, she could not hope -to get a
Got worth more than at). ..
Queen of her profession, _ but _queen
still of a poverty-stricken kingdom.
said there were 4,360 -Women teachers in
the -Board Schools of London. This
means full teachers. Pupil teachers are
not counted. Of these . 4,360,729, rank
as head mistresses, 3,500 is ,a,esistsist
teaehere. The highest • salary paid to
any one of s the assistant teachers is in
Canadian monetT $625 yearly;* Few ap-
proach that sum. The average salary
paid the great mass of the teachers is
Just about the amount which: atrained
teacher is eligible to receive On leaving
the training college, a little over $400.
The 729 mistresses are 'divided •vgery
-evenly between infants' whim's iod-girls'
schools. They lhave the treiningpf the
pupil teachers as well as. plass work in
their hands. : They are paid according
to the. size of their sohools from .E120 to
£260 per annulus- prince& incoines)
which may be increased fok !excellence.
in teaching £4 :per year • IMO' a ° fixed
his business. The b'aby 'room is an ads maximum is reached_ of L2 for the
inuct to every English elementary schOol. . largest infante' school in London, R,30.0
It admits I little folks under 3. 'The 4 for the largest gitlerse ools„! Fifteen
year old ands5 year old classes are doing hundred dollars is the largest 'salary
systematio. work. Above -7 years' old drawn by any woman undeittbeLonden
the sexessre divided, the *boys' 'school
being officered - until ',School Board :and the. largest 'which
'within a- Year sthere is any hope of 'drawing, The
altogether by men. A few women are average salary receiveds by head mie
new teaching boys of 8 -by way of "ex- . f, tresses is about $940, a sum y, at 'which
periment, and the chances are that hi the mistresses of girls' grommet schools
five or six years the London schools will Nev York, with _titlarks limning
he as completely womaried . as are those
of ArneriOaand Canada. . to scoff. That men teachers are :_paid
from $1,900 to $2,700, irould'he inclined
.The process of getting an appoiatmeut better than WOMell isa Matter of course,
under the -London ° Scliotl Board is a though the difference is no greater than
complicated one. : Suppose . that the • in Canada.1.ere, however, it is aecep-
parents of a bright girl decide when she ted. on all hinds tut a matter.: -of course,
is 12 years old that they would like to and I have net met a London steaehet
make a 'teacher of her: Application. is ivIi0 dreamed of making e protest. The
made for her nomination as monitor, in discrimination begins in the, pupil teach -
which capacity she performs some minor ership, Where a boy :of 14 is paid 5 shil-
duties. while going on with her studies. 'Inge a week to a girt 3: • It isscarried
In a year'or thereabout, having reached out in every grade of school, notwith-
theage of 13, she is ready for the second standing the fact that boys' schools and
step on her pedagogue course, -which is -girls' schools are entirely Separate; the
taken when papers have been'.filectie- masters having no supervision over the
questing. her Appointment as " candi- girls' schools. 1When . woman's - max -
date." Here important prelimin- imum as 'assistant is SR.I25,Ithe . man's is
aries come in. The head. teachers. and Elm. Where- a woman's 'maximum as
the managers of the school visit theigirl's mistress if £300 the man's as, master is
home, inspect her surroundings, ask her £400. It is an instructive -comparison
parents for some 'record of her health, of English weges. and American to note
and investigate verycloselythe influen-
ces to which she has been subjected and
which, akf,eacher, she wink' .be likely
in'the future to exert. This ordeal
passed, the candidate assists regular
teachers in minding the baby room and
is assigned .some class work to test her
aptitude -for instruction. • Many girls
drop out of the ranks at this point.
Those -who go further are indentured at
14 as regular apprentices to the School
Board. _The apprenticeship lasts four
years, - During the first year the gitl is
known as a probationer, and attends -a
,
from the worst "cram" features of our
system, but in abet respects is stiff and
unwieldyt givinglar' less of a general
education; especially to girls. The pu-
.pil teachers and candidates—there .are.
Leighe cOMpOsed of clubs in Stratford,
•
St.
ville
• she
com
s Mitchell, Listowel, Sebrin- -stead of our. i ' .
vice- the ex -pupil teacher is 8 or 19
Years old; She - is supposed to have
learned a hool management, theoretical
I
and prac ical and to have had experi-
ence of 11 Schoolroom exigencies. Is
she now ready. beach? Yes, if she is
satisfied to taken place salaried at 1'30,
or $150 yearly, with only a remote pros-
pect of tieing greatly above that dizzy
height oflopulence. The best terms with
regard to immediate employment which
• she can Make for 'herself are these. If
she has shown herself a gocidteacher the
Sunday Sbliool Bpard will ,re-engage her
for one year on condition that she attends
evening tle,sses for six months to pre-
pare for the Gevernment seholarship ex-
amination, which she is required to pass
with credit. Failing this. she loses her
place and has had her apprenticeship for
her pains'? This Rubicon crossed, there
are two' more examinations, the first
and second year's Government certificate.
examination, at which the candidate
must sit inside of four years before she
is granted the parchment. which is the
London teacher's diploma, and which
alone can make anything more than the
barest livelihood possible, . thine a certi-
ficate' teacher, a position which•she may
reach with diligence at 22, her ivaps-
will run from £50 to £85 yearly, with
J..
and Motherwell. A trophy in the
of a silver cup will'be offered for
title's; ,i-. .
icheel O'Dea, of North Basthope,
one- f the phitteer settlers of the town-
shipt asbachelers passed away on Tues-
day 9th, instf', and was -lniried on Fri-
day in the atholic burying ground,
f
Ellice. Mich el in his homely way and..
peculiar vievt of life, was quite'an in-
tereeting subject. He leaves more be-
hindt him then he took with him, but
. the amountsittnot known. .
--Logan lett one of its most respected
g me ' Monday of last week, in
eath of (Mr. Wm. F. Tubb, who
n his twenty-eighth year. On Sun -
he took geriouslyi ill with inflamma-
of the bowels, arid next day he was
rpee. Deceased was a healthy,
f oung inan,„and his.almost sadden
has cast a gloom over the neigh-
" lieic he was so well known.
you
the
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day
tion
a c
' atoll
dea
• 'tor .
--;The antnial meeting of -the Mitchell
Agricultural Old Horticultural .Society
was hea in that tovin on Thursday
atte eon -of lest week. The trettsurer's
re rt showed a balance on hand of
$140;67 as the result of the society's
operations for the year past. Mr: W.
, R. siDavis was unanimously elected
Pr ident for ,the ensiling year, and Mr.
itheson Vice -President, and
At the expiration of her ter of set:
fl R. §ecretary-Treasurer. increase of iSper year for excellence in
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was. found by hies brother, who, on his
not coming .hom at the 'Usual hour,
went out in, search The de-
ceased was a leading member of the
'Salvation Army, and vviii known as Sal -
just now 4,620 of them—take mueli of cation John.' --
st-•Rev. Ss G. 1311and, of.
condemned Saturday shop
an address on Thursday •nig
keeps dry goods and other
the teaeger's. time to , the • excliunon of
classes, •
- "Do you teachers'inarry ?" asked
the Inepector.• •
"They are rather more apt to de so
than wo en. in general. We have no
against married .women's each-.
vers and it often happen that
d *amen teacher 'marryl and
t on With their work. Abdul_
Df the wbmen teachers are mar.:
ividg with.their husbands."
•• K. -P. H.
°
provisio
ing, how
a man a
keep rig
one-fifth'
•ried and
Canada. -
Sir John Macdonald was 74 years of
age on Friday Inst.
- p ece of real estate in Winnipeg
was sold recently at $500 a foot.
—The saletiof fuel in Winnipeg are
one-eighth less this winter than last.
— The next meeting of the 0 ario
Beekeep Association will be sheld at
Bellevill
ity has
Manitoba.
— Eight petitions for Scott Act repeal
votes hare been laid before the State
'Depart eat at Ottawa. -
—Coa at the rate,Of a hundred . tons
a day is et. present being taken out Of.
the Anthracite !nine, at Banff. . I • -
- —A. D. Kean, the Orillia lawyer,
,
wheie death occurred recently, carried
policies' Aggregating $43,000 on his life,
—At Waterloo; Quebec, there . is a
Justiceofthe Peace who can either
read nog write, :'
0-h-t—tieTuh 'Brent- County Scott Act Asso-
agonst a -preparing for a strongfight
he repeal movement.
—Mis Rose Limey, of Amhers burg,
hal; be n - appointed district aster
workmi of the Knights of Labor,
—4iTi nipeg hOrsemen will give $1,200
for two days' . trotting and pacing on
the Red River about February 20t .
by burg vaded
about $
—TIT
Montie
-$20;000
•-•Tit
Car-wh
-frem $
• --Revs.' • R.- U. McCosh, formerly of
Wingh lin, will (return- to 041 from
ia about . March 41st; t take
f the Petrolea perish. I
artridge and John McMillan,' of
rne, hate. been fined . $1.0 and
Mot. second violations f the
ct. ' ' .. .: . -
erboro's fire brigade was celled.
.
Imes last year. . The total lois.
, .
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rge •vein of coal-- of good. knelleen discovered near Delo aiiie,
Whitby post office was i
ars early, Friday mornin
po in money and stamps
• Howard Pulpwate Co
1, has I en incorporate
and
tolen.
pany,
with
caPitallitock.S...
dist 1
capital tock of the M rem
el Ccitriketritt.;.has. been increased
,00 tc4.7 , . •
Califor
charge
-713.
West L
costs ea
Scott
out -29
by firei amounted to about $8,000, or
$9,000.g • .
—Elder Brown, the well-known color.
ed than who _lias lectured throughout
Canadeton slavery, dropped dead in St..
Catharines, Friday.
--The trial of the petition against the
return of Mr. R. White in Cardwell i9.
to be held at Orengeville, on the 29th
ins . . s‘. •
tbat $2,000 is the highest salary paid to
any man bY the London School Board: —The flour :mill Of May Brothers, at
St. Themes was burned on Saturday.
There is no difficulty in getting. teach.' •
ers at these prices. I should judge that
the marketqs less overcrowded- than
with us'but this is not because of the
lownessof the salaries: On the _con-
trary, to few are. the openings before
women in England- that to teach Under
the SchoollBoard is by lung midi the
most favorable lot possible to the avers
age woman wage worker and, if she does
not besiege the School. Board buildings
on the beautiful Victoria -Enbankment
in swarms, it is because of the long tsp.
prenticeshiP required, preference being
almost invariably given to girls who.
have served it, the apprentineship in-
volving a choice of a professtin at an
age when many English girls hardly
look forward, or their parents for them,
to working for wages for self Support.
The London teacher works fortyesik
weeks out of the Year, our. long summer
holidays being unknown. She is so far
from repining at her lot. that when not
an ex -pupil teaeher she is more likely
than not to be a Newnnam or Girton or
St. Margaret's Hall girl, the - propor-
tion of university -bred men and women,
especially women, being greater in the
London schools than in ours. If Wholl,
depen
that t
ssoc
Ileac
Committee, or one of two -dozen other
societies for the benefit of the craft.
Three women are members of the pres-
ent Sunday -school Board. , At different
tinsel in the past as many as -.six. have
Served together. . The ladies *.niifv• in
office are Miss Davenporthill for thecity
of Loricien, Mrs. Webster for Chelsea,
,and Mrs: Westlake for Marlebone. I
have talked with hafl. a doien of their
fellow meinbers, who tell me that the
work of the women is felt in precisely
the same directions as in Canada. They,
are indefatigable visitors of schools, land
. keep their eyes open for defective -yen--
tilation and sanitary arrangements.
They are especially.- interested in the
industrial ,classes, • in cooking and sews
ing for girls. Some of the women mem-
here havelvorked for freeschools. Keep,
ing track of the children's fees is one of
the duties of aa.Enghish teacher from
which a Canadiaa is free. .
2, 14 What is the largest number of pu-
pils you everlave at one tiMeasked
a bright young teacher. in My visit to'a
large girls' 'school.• ' '
"Sixty," was the reply. I have heard
of teachers having 70, but never more."
None of these English girls .ivifl . be-
lieve that Canadian or American girls
h do not serve teaching apprentice:.
les, axe factory at Galt Waspar-
estroyed earl, Sunday inotning.
aptive bear in, the west end, To -
rola) his chain the other ,day,
aeioned considerable Stir; before
oe,ptured. ' •
Utenant-Governor. McLelan, of
Od'
a will spend the rest" of the
in the.Sofath, for_the benefit of
th: . • ' -
meeting of •fernitnre' manufac-
ent on herself the •chances are.
e teacher belongs t� the -London
ation of Schoolmistresses, or the
ers' Guild or the Teethe's' . Loan.
w o
ships can know how to, teach, The
English system, as I .have 'seen it in
tours from school to school, under the
uidance of a district inepector is free
;
Warno
tially,
,
ronto,
and _cc
being
-Nov%
winter
his he
—A
turers was held in Guelph on riday,
when stepsweretaken to form an 0480 -
elation for the Province: •
— Revs Mr.* Leitch, of Valleyfield,
Quebec, has accepted the call to Knox
church; Elora. He is expected about
U%1 q)f 31arch.
--Mi-Jamee Doliald, -Of •Dalhousie
ingston, in
t, strongly
ing, which
erks so late.
at work that they are unfit for Sunday
-
service.
• —Miss Einily s
infantclass in. St
Sabbath school, London, was, last
Sabbath, presented with an addiess and
a beautiful polyg ot Bible, withlindexes
cEwen, teacher. of the
Jatnes ,Presbyterian
and references, b
—The other
irl was carryi
her class.
•
ight, in.. Hamilton, a
g home some clothes
rom the laundry, when she was knock,
ed down at the corner of Cannon and
Wellington streets and the clothes taken
from her.
, —Two -young Japanese accompanied
Principal Grant on his. journey home.
One of them has become a student at
Victoria cellegei The Other, Tosh
Iskaho, who speaks good English, is at
the Collegiate Institute, preparing for
entrance to Queeit's College
—S. F. Tolsma,' a Michigan fisherman,
has petitioned Congress to demand from
• Canada, on his 'behalf, $20,000 damages
for seizure of his nets near Drummond
Island. The•cese involves the location
of the boundary line in the district
where he was fis ung. :
principal characters in
Piggott murder case,
ch a sensation a few
7.1aVilUt Piggott, of
r,, has become insane
e Placed in the London
New. Brunswick, has handled. 20,806
lambs for the American market '. during
the put season. . •• ,,,
' --tMontreal society is excited at pre-
sent :over the elopementofa married:
lady, the mother of . two children, with
a comniercial traveler. , .
—James Mackenzie, an employee of
Lewis Mill, Eseox Center, while moving
timber the other day had the ea of his
t
'knee and his right arm broken. '
— Wm, Forbes, a .former Blandford
boy weslcilleci. at Detroiton Friday by
a shook received . at the elect* light
works there His remains ..arrived at
Brighton Saturday.
—J.,' R. ,Neff, of . Springfield,was
poison a some Years ago by a root which
he pie ed up in the woods and.
is now - thought that one of his 1
,have -to be amputated in •-ordee
his life. s
te. It
gs will
o save
Paris—Mr. i approaching W4ewcwomi•upeleiti ofna ? tiFTY haet
third storey has been built, the roof is
nearly I compl+4, nnd. the carpenters
and machinist s are, getting at Work
in-
side. • I
.-.A' desperate encounter be
shop-keepettnained Dugdale,and
occurred. on Jarvis street, Ter
Saturday 'night. / Assistance art
_ „
een a
Obbers
to, on
ved in
time to prevent Mr. Dugdale from being
seriously htirt by the thugs.
- Level', of Kingston, who has
just returned from inspecting the Hunt-
ingdon, Pennsylvania, reformatory, is
. strongly in favor of the indeterminate
Sentence system and hopes to see it in.
troduced.into Canada before long
—John Robinson, formerly of Wate
fent, was instantly killed in the Brook
swamp Friday afternoon by the,
of a tree. He Was working alone
time and had cut down a ema
which lodged in a larger one,
failing
at the
11.tree,
e then'
commenced to cut another tree, -when
the wind.blew the lodged tree free, and
a limbattrikinglira on the top of the
head k lied Min instantly. go body
—One of the
the celebrated
which caused su
years ego, Mr
North Dorchest
and will shortly
Asylum,
—The young an Corrier who laugh-
ed at the tumblethe Salvation Army
got on Water street, Cornwall, Sunday
afternoon, took header hhnself into
the dirt while the laugh was still on his
face. "He la gin, best who laughs
last," young ma
—The public
Orillik have en
Thamesville, an
hand, to ascertain the genuineness of the
cheque, which wasofcourse worthless,
McCuaig 'scanted with the coat and
cap. He was arrested as he was escap-
ing from town. He has a, bad record as
a bigamist and .beat in Kingston and'
elsewhere. • -
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—In a list Of exports from Vancoffter;
to tre United States for the last quarter:,
of 1888 there sill no _coal, :bemuse of the
mines in the mountains being stutedown,
since last June. The silver ore ship-,
ments to San Francisco have also stop-
ped since the establishment Of the sine's
ter at Vancouver i Among the exports
are hides, skins,- lumber, pianos, crude
platinum, horses, cranberries, furs, but.
school trustreess of
aged Mr. 'John %Velsh,
Miss L. Lennox, of -
St. Marys, to fill the vacancies on the
teaching -Staff. %They had upwards of
ninety applications for the two posi-
tions. . -;
— Mr. C; A. Pyne, late manager of
the Woodstock Amateur Athletic Asso-
ciation, Who is leaving that town, was
the other night presented .by the mem-
bers with a•-• farewell address, a purse
containing $100 in gold and a handsome
diamond ring.
—A railroad nian left his wallet con;
taining$900 under his pillow - in a St.-
Thomas hotel and went off on the train.
The chamber -maid found it and prompt-
ly placed the money in the proprietor a -
hands. The owner soon discovered his
loss and telegraphed for the wallet.
— Evangelist , Schtverea has been
holding services for a couple of weeks
past, in the Norfolk street Methodist
church, Guelph, . which have well
attended, lie -will re main for about twd
-weeks more, when he will go to To-
ronto. • •
• --Two fishermen,. father and son,
. named Blakely, sdrifted about in the
bay opposite Trenton on an ice floe
during Wednesday 'night's storm last
week. The fathertvas frozen. to death
before assistance eould be rendered but
the boy was rescued. •
—Mr.- Ws Drummond, civil engineer,
of Montreal, one of the engineers sent
out by the Montreal -New . York 'syndi- -
Cate to survey a line of railway in
rued. He penetrated
ter, and silver ore., . •
—Last Friday night Principal Grant
was given a reception at Queen's Uni-
versity. Addresses by the trustees and
students were read, aril the Principal
made a long reply, in .which he referred
to hisreceint trip .around the World, his
feelings of devoticin to the University,
and his pride in Canada. He earnestly
advocated the clainissof higher educa-
tion. ••• •
—William Blair' "Bruce, the well-
known artist, son of Wm: Btuce,Ilamil-
ilton, was. married on December 4th, at
the British embasey,Stoekholm, Sweden,
to Mise Caroline M. Benedicks, sister of
Gustave Beisedicki, the iron king. The
marriage was celebrated with great fee-
tivity at the family mansion. It is ex-
pected that Mr, and 31ra, Bruce will
visit Canada before the close -of the
year. • . ,
December 18th last, a stranger
mulled Silas Braithwaite stole an Over-
coat from the Grand Central hotel in
-St. Marys, belonging to the bartender
:and decamped to Isondon, where he
!stole other clothing. 1 fle then visited
Hamilton, stole a watch and other
preperty from Miss Catharine Walsh, of
that city. and was subsemiently attested
by a detective. • He pleaded guilty .to every duty he undertook was.diseharged
tha charge at the Hamilton assizes and with honor . and uprightness; Out of a
was senteneed to three years in the pen- large'family only one son and one datigh-
itentiary. - • ter survive to mourn the loss- -of such a
—Ainong other awards made at the father, Mr. Marshall was in hie 71st
-Detroit Poultry shows last week we find year when he died,
the- following; . E. E. Mugg, Dundee, —The Cornwall Freeholder gives the
Ontario, third on cock t tied on third following amusingsecount of the backs
for hen; second. on cockerel.A. W. sliding Salvationists in that town ;-- -
Graham, St.. • Themes,. Ontarici, tie for The Salvation Armywas " downed '?
3rd'on cockerel, F.H.Scott, Stahomas, while waging war against the Governor
Ontario, one ,I:st and 2nd on cock; lst of the Lower House on 'Sunday after- -
andand on hen; tied for 3rd on cock- noon, but the man ' carrying the Army
erel 3rd on pullet. F. Wixson, Inger- colors escaped uninjured. The place •
soli, Ontario., Iston cock; 1st on cock- where it met with the upset was on
era; tied for 3rd hen; 1st on hen': 2nd 'Water street. The Army had marched s
on
cockerel; laton hen; tied for iSt 012 Up town carrying everything bes
- fore it, and WAS OD its. return to the
s—Mr. Wililam HObsonseivil engineer, barracks when disaster overtook . it
who is superintending the Construction There is a dangerous piede of sidewalk
of the Grand Trunk tunnel at Sarnia, at this point sloping towards thcf.ditch.
• says that it will be pushed' forward with The soldiers eamealtng on the march—
energy, and at present 135 men are en- two deep — singing "The Salvation. -*
gaged in .extavating-- on the Canadian Army is Marching Along." Well, to
side, and since the beginning of the tell the solid truth the soldiers, didn't
year 125 men have been engaged on the march along.for a few minutes after they
Michigan side. On the surface the ex- , struck this bit of icy walk. Most of
cavation is 220 feet and the sides will them 'sat down tether heavily, others
have a slope of one foot to three. The fell down, not upon their knees but upon
" hopper" will -be 65 feet deep. When their back. Their -feet had shot out
cempletedthe tunnel will be 2,300 feet from under therm and there they lay.
on the American side, 2;200 feet under Only five were able to stand upon -their
the rivet, 4,000 feet on the Canadian pins and that with the greatest difficui- -
side..
and health, saying to his parents, "I
sprayed to Jesus and he took it all away, -
my head is all right. You -can burn the
• cane now, ru need it no more." From
that hotteto the present he has had
neither pain nor weakness. of any kind,
and can now read the -smallest print,
All his faculties have been restored and
he is apparently in perfect health. His
case is the strangest on. record in this
section, and is so declared by Dr. Low-
ry, who has been in attendance from
the first.
s
—The other evening at Gilles &
Martin's foundry, in Teeswater, while
all hands were assisting at the casting of
the ffame for a new steam punch to be s
used in the foundry. A 'Jett of iron of
about 2,300 lbs„ had been run off and
swung around on a derrick,arranged for
the purpose ready for pouring, when the
derrick chain slipped causitig the pot to
topple over, the red hot iron flying in all
directions. The men in the_ shop, some
25 or 30 in number, it is needless to say,
got out in a hurry,some jumping through
the windows without waiting toopen
them, and others through -the doors. It
is miraculous how they all sot off with-
out someone being badly - burned, but ,
beyond a few slight burns received by
some of them and the -loss entailed.by
• the spill no further damage was done.
—31r. Thomas Marshall, a much re-
speateds and well known resident of
North Dumfries, near Ayr, died after a
lengthened illness, on Saturday •5th inst.
• Mr. Marshall had occupied many psi -
tions of trust as a public matt, having
been elected first councillor, then 'Reeve
And Warden and finally he was appointed
Clerk and treasurer of North Dumfries,
which office he held at the dine of his
death. From -the establishment of the
North Dumfries and ' South Waterloo '
Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, until about three years ago, he
was its Secretary and Treasurer, and
Brazil, has ret
1,600 miles into the interior, and had
found it quite practicable to build such
a line as was desired. , •
' !—The Department of Inland Revenue
is asked to adoplt a milk standard which
will apply to dairymen and cow -keepers
stipulating what percentage of fat milk
hi to contain. gok containing less than
theStated percentage will be considered
adulterated, and the offender* made
liable to a heavy penalty.
—Mrs. Mary Chittick, Of Dorchester,
has joined the majority at the ripe old
age of 83. , 'She. WAS born in the city of
Hull, Yorkshire, England; and with her
husband came te Canada in 1832. She
leaves five children, 31 grandchildren,'
44 great-grandahildren gild two great.
great.grandchildren to °mourn her loss.
—Speoiat holiness meetings in con-
nection with the Salvation Army corps
were held in London irOMI Tuesday, 8th
inst. to the 14th. They. were conducted
by dolonel and!. Mrs. Dowdle and have
proved highly' sUcceesful. The- active
membership. of the loaal corps .now
number aboift 130.
—About SO members of the Toronto
Globastaff sat down to the annual
dinner in the Reforin .Club on Saturday
night. The General Manager was there,
and the!" devil." was there. Between
these wide extremes were the editors,
the reporters,, the compositors, the
pressmen, the stereotypers, and the
entire business department.
—Last Sunday an inquest was held on
the body of 'it French-Canadian named
Bourgard, who shot himself on Friday
night in Ottawa. Asletter was found
upon him stating that he had married a
disreputable woman in Montreal, not
knowing what her tree character was,
and remorse at this, it is supposed, led
him to commit the rash act. • ,
—Fine samples of native gold, silver,-
and copper have been brought to Luck:.
now by .Mr. McChariest of `Sault
Ste Marie. They were all' found' in
Algoma between Sudbury and Batche-
wane bay on thenorth shore. American
capitalists are purchasing a great many
mining claims there, which they intend.
to develop the coning season.
, —James McCualg, of- Kingston, has
been sentenced t� a year Central
Prison, having • been convicted of. a
'fraud on Fairweather & Company,
ty. In solemn truth it resembled an
—Thursday morning -Morning. last week Mr. army of baek-sliders more than a salva-
e farmer residing two tion corps, and when the commander
&flee wit of Piton, found his barn had gotthem upon theirfeet again and
doors open. The gale was so strong be in line the dimmers, the eynsbal play -
could not shut them. - He got the as- er and the tambos struck up playing
sistance of a neighbor and the -two sue The Backslider May Come" etc., and
ceeded sin getting the door Out, and played it until the barracks was reached
while the neighbor was holding it shut a few minutes later. .
till .Mr. Williams got a stoneto put —The upper Suspension bridge over
against it the 'door was again forced the Niagara river at Clifton waft blown
open by the.seind and streak Mi. down during the terrific gale on the
liams on the head with such force as to night of Jannary 10th. Dr. 4._ M.
fracture his skull, resulting in death in Hodge, of Niagara Falls, was the last
abaut half an hour. • man to cross the, bridge before it fell,
-Archibald McKellar, one of the He crossed from the American side to
moitprominent farmers and dairymen see a patient about ten o'clock and re-
in the county of Carleton, near Ottawa, turned about midnight. His story of
died on Saturday, after a long and pain- his return is gingularly thrilling. He
ful illness, Deceaead, who was 74 year's says :—The lights were out and the
old at the: time of his death, wee an a worst gale I.ivet experienced was howl -
staunch. -Reformer, and took an active ing through the chasm. I had not ad -
part in alt matters appertaining to agri- vanced far beyond the Canadian tower
cultime. He was born in Argyleshire;- before Irealized from the nature of the
Scotland, and came to Canada in '1841. swaying that something was wrong ; but
Ile will be rallied by the leading Lib- I was exceedingly anxious to reach -
eral members of Parliament, who were home and so kept on. As I neared the -
frequent visitors at his residence during centre the swinging of the bridge from
the session. While careful and: amp side to side became something terrific,
mfilative, his - hand was a liberal one, :and to add to the horror of the sitiuttion
when the object sought was a good one. there was likewise a heavy motion like
—The terrible wind storm of Wednes- the rising and falling of a ship in the
day nightend Thursday, last week, play- waves, as though the cables abovewere
ed- havoc with telegraph poles and elastic. Sometimes- the bridge would'
wires, chimneys, smoke stack, &c., seem to tip up, as though one side WAS
throughout the entire length of the pro- raised by the wind while the other side
vines: At Cobearg chimneys were blown hung from the suspenders,and whenever -
downs windows smashed, fences leveled', this occurred I. dropped on my bands
trees uprooted and buildings . unroofed. and knees for fear that I ehould be
-GteAt damage was done to the customs thrown over. The rest of the time I
house, the rapt of which was torn off clung to the railing as though it were
and carried away a distance of twenty the only straw between me and certain
yards, The spire of St. Peter's Church death, and worked my way along a few
was Uneettlee,jand is in danger of yield- steps at a time whenever there would
ing to every fresh gust that strikes it. come a slight full in the gale. In sever -
In the harbor the southern extremity al places this railing was bent inward,
qf the west pier is washed away. A and I was in constant fear dreading „
similar effect was produced -at Kingston, some break. To add to the _discomfort
Trenton, Montreal and other places. and difficulties of the trip, great volumes
very remarkable ease of recovery of spray from the Falls, mingled with s
from °severe illness is reported to snow and sleet, were dashed at inter -
have occurred at Limehouse; near vale into my face, blinding me and
Guelph, on Sunday morning, December drenching my clothing. At one -point a
s3Oth. The subject of this miraculous gust of wind more powerful than the
-cure is Bettie _Moore, aged 11 years, son rest seemed to come swelling up from
of Mr. John Moore, manager of the To- 1 the water'and getting under my over,
Tonto Lime Company's business. For coat literally tore it open, Had I not
two years past the boy had stifferedfroin been holding on to the railing with both
some, 'complicated nervus trouble hands 1 believe that garment wOhl4
which had baffled the skill of the Moat have been carried away. Mingled with _
eminent physicians in Ontario. During the whistling of the wind through the,
the pest summer he has been better than wires when near the centre of the bridge ,
for some time previously, but last fall I hearda sound like the flapping of a
the trouble reasserted -itself with re- broken cable against the railing, and
newed vigor and he grew worse until the believe that it was here that the bridge
21st of November, when he was utterly first began to give way, When I finally
prostrated. and became totally blind. reached the American' tower, being half
From that time his • sufferings became an hour after 7 began the trip stress, I
moreand more intense until Sunday Was wet to the skin, almost blinded and
morning, 30t1. December, about seven breathless.° Nothing would tempt me
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of Peterboro. He tried an- $ fur coat to'clbck, he h a more than usually ie-- to go through the ordeal again.
and cap, worth $28, presenting a cheque vere spasm and back exhausted and • -- - - .-5.
on the Ontario Bank in piyment. While apparently .1ifeless. In about,20 min- Stratford now boasts of * -Jame
the salesman went to the bank, near at utes - he recovered consciousness, sight boot -black boy. - 7
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