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The Huron Expositor, 1889-03-01, Page 1iva ADFA ke; L*. ever shOstiit; a .. )Q,p8.7 tOtHS, IU dm in kiwiiimiuminsienterw eontraeting . la their Joey - elI,' hspisinese /tenderises, a ("hunk eke !eters in- th4 4ility *Veil Thei Bible lit - es wee a very eviledce 'of stricly and Lit with great altpresent — the iink On - tponed. owing r the. weather PASTOR.—On rary 14, a sur - large number * desboro Metlx- pare:image 1U- ending a most nusic, refresh - V. A. IX - in address,- in ace was made es, 4:Tatty to [le church and - work, also to arioas depute " and re-assur- 'mice and es - id, with _the -. lifethey may incethat the them and the, Aafeel- macle 1*, mr. _ :tia a a suit- . [I I:netting of Killop commit Monday •knit; - rrs were pees - School See. tn. &Brown's . retaken front nd addedto No further . to asked for is thecouncf aeral schemer 11 the school The Treasur-- nd approved was read and Irdered to be le Treasurer n account of interest and 6r Municipal - receive. pay - t the end of iuthorized to lost Joseph.' f his duty ea him before , Diving to the . manner ia rt the. town- ' inconvenient - Poi buildings,. xraplation a- ditruction-of Ned to- place al distancee aion road in ky no rate, a and a half _and, all the pen,traveled r are three and severe! kis that are inter. it es sgs n union , but many - have to be a view to ethe Clerk mto for the ▪ empower - f6 levy' te over the . he removal buildings. auncil with - be "weed passing de: $25167 -for Treasurer, graritS ourned to • the third nalf-breede styment of • • - TWEN WIEOL dust Cheap -13ECONt/ YEAR. NUMBER 1,107. Opened 4 --AT TfIE— Cash Store KOPFM-A.N 84. OP; Iti,T DEAR MoTrza,—You will see by the heading of . this - that I ail on the move again. L am on my way to -frichinoply, ‘, where I will be for some time, assisting in a corps and studying tho v Tamil laneusge, _which is. almost the only one used in this . part of the coun-, try: Captain Lloyd (re lass) . and Lieu-• tenant Stolicker (a lad) are with me. They both belong to our party of Cana- dians. Captain Lloyd will be- in the same corps with me. We left _Bombay Thursday 41.45 and got here thismorn- ing at 6.30, so you will see we had about , 40 hours' travelling. .1-- do not -know how far we have come, ' but I hear that it is about 1,000 miles from Bombay to Trichinoply. You will see by the geography that it is right across the country. -.I MU :80 used to travelling that a thousand miles does not seem so _ very far and it semis. quite natural to feel myself jerking along either QII the 'boat or train, but after all I will be. real glad to settle, down and got° work. The need is: so great, if Ihad a thousand lives they should all be spent here. We are going to stay here ,over Sunday and then vvillsproceed onward. . - : • I spent a pleasant Christmas and was praying much that you:. all might eniey yours. Christmas eve I Was in the house all evening busy making a net to put around my umbrella and then stand it over my head nighti • to keep the mosquitoes out, TheY, are terribly bad in the pert of the My whoro we lived, They do not bite pooplo rnuOh who havo boon for * longth of Om In tho eonntry, but any new smilers eieteh it: 1 euppose L t is hetaus. our blood is different from other, Christine* timing wo all--isidk- ed to headquarters for * holinees meet, ink The day we@ 'very swill' at noon- -we eolild-eoareely War to walk on the grand in our barefoot it wast, want, -We came home on the train; At night at six o'clock we had a dinner in real India style, I will try and describe it. We used the Isairaoki- floor for a table. SEA.FORTH 'MAY, MARCH 1 1889. •-•.< MeLEAN BROS, P.-- ubliebere. .1.50 a Year, in A dvanee.: MOR ABOUT INDIA. BY CAPTAXN. C6P.P. : &writ Lona, satires, 'neoseisertatii, Viso: New SpringDress Goods, Prints, Cottons,' 81tirtilags, Denims,- Titke4 ings, Corsets, Gloves, Prilhing Collars, Outs, ete,, which will be sold very, eheap at the Cheap Cash st6re. We are o offering:all kinds of Winter ' Goods at greally- reduced. prices at ill& Oheap Oash Store oF-L- HOFFIVIAN az, CO., CARDNO'S -BLOCK, BEA -FO -RT. H • SMIOSISIESIIIII.111MMENNIMINNWINOW POrth nem& Stratford' eleinto to havelhe leifeet death -rate of the, eleven cities of this Province. .--The market at '*Fullirtors village is glutted with' epples and they are itelling -Mats were spread across the floor in -ict fifty cents a barrel. different directions /or us to sit on, —Mr. 3. A. Aiken, of Cape Town,et(which looked very much 'like paths Sonth Africa; visited friends in Marys last week. through a flour- garden) ; all along one —MrGeorge Foreman, real estate side of the - mats were spread pieces of -. dealer in Stratford, diei-banana, leaves about a foot. and a half --- on Friday leng end about a foot . wide, On these afternoon, 15th inst., after a long illness. . -ver $35)000 were distributed on tables well seasoned with Curry, on one I Was a quantity of rice with‘a:little vege- Tuesday, hist 7ek,,-pay day, to Grand Trunk Railwa, hands at Stratford.. i side of the rice was a couple of kinds of. pickles or seucaond on the other was a — Old .Mrs. Ettue, of -Mitchell, fell down cellar the other day and broke her ubSY Peeled '4anana,or plantain as they leg near tbe.ankle. ' , . ,1 were plantains; oranges are called ,here. All over the ' table —Mr. ' W. 1 Corrie of Stratford, is Corrie, guavas, two kind of pomegranates asIndian 'sweetmeats; . - and some beautiful boquets of flowers. It did look beentiful and I enjoyed it well. I do not want you to think that we live in extravagance, I think that a shipping 0100 , carloads of congealed water to sPoint Edward, for which he wiltget $700; - —While killing pigs on.'Wednesday, last week, Mr. John Kidd, of Fullerton, great deal of the dinner wee giien by cut his left had badly on the ball of the thumb by letting the knife slip. friends' - ' —Mr. Rebert Dowkes, of Fullarton, I was outlast Saturday with one ''-of slipped and fell on some ice a few slays the girls, distributing bills. We were ago :and sustained a painful fracture of the hip feint.1 —Friday night, on the Stratford rink, Wrace took place between Walker, of London, and ttoDonald,of Hamilton,the lattertwinning easily. , _ —A resident of St. Marys, named Wm. Haines, Was crushed t� death by a sand pit caving in on him a few days ago; He leaves a wife nd four small arevery tame, they -will sit out on the e children. . window sill and come .to the door for —A number of Stratford citizens crumberjust theearne as the little grey birds db with you. I wile asking how it havepresented Dr. Hanavan with,a gold watch and Chair as an expression of was that there were so many in the city, and they. said the natives think it a their esteem. The doctor is now stir- geon of the London Military School. - terrible crime to kill any kind of bird or —The young lad, Salisbury of Mit- meet. • calling with them on a rot of the big houses Where , European and Parsee: gentlemen live. I never sew se' many nice flower gardens before,- there * are so many beautiful floweringtrees here, some bear flowers nearly all . the year round, everything looks aiiresh- as it doesin Canadair June. - There are lots of crows and they We eau get plenty of milk here. bhell, who suetained. such severer injury !Three kmds are used, buffalo, cows and last week, *from his gun exploding, IS goat's: They drive the co* from door progressing favorably and now likely to • recover. 1 - to door; milking just- the amount the --Two St, Marys hoteI-keepers were last week fined $20 and costs) each, i3r. 'Selling liquor on Sunday, another hotel - keeper has been indicted for the same, purchaser wants ata time. I think the Europeans brought that rule in force so that they would always get the. milk new and without any water. • There:are not a large number of horses 'used here, offence and his -case is under trial. , —Mrs. Chas. Lee of Stratford re. Just for street cars and gentry. Bullocks - calved* cheque for $1,000 froth the Odd, I dce_all the work, they are not as large as megaton, oxen, and have a big hump on the fellows Relief Association, of back of their neck, they are a bright. Ontario, for the life policy upon her late husband. . - • looking animal and trot _thtough the —Mr. Peter Stock, one of the pioneer streets quite speedily. There are a great many Parsees in and most*-proaperous settlers, in -Ellice, died on Wednesday, the 20th inst. „ail Bombay. They are statists of :Persia, are quite as dark as the natives of ahident befel him -a little over a year and India. They are mostly wealthy men agoi from theeffectsof which believer fuily recovered. - and worship the earth, sun, moon and —Thomas head miller in Mr. stars. They come to our meeting& great Meorera,oatmeal Mill, St. Marys deal and seem quite interested. I always got his hand crushed between two mill know them when I see them by a kind stones, on Friday. He will be off work of hat they wear that no one else wears. fol. some time, —Mr. W. C. Mild, of Listowel, cleverly stipPed a runaway horse, on Saturday, by. slipping off his coat and throwing it over the horse's, head. The blinded animal stopped itself against a telegraph pole. —Mr. Robert Dalrymple, who has been employed with his brother Wil- liam, on the 42th concession of Hibbert for some time past, has decided to -start for Montana, about the first. of March, to seek his fortune. —TheiiaX min at Atwood is again • erected. It is a splendid frame, heavy . timbere stone foundation 38x5$ feet. The women wear a kind of white head- dress unlike any other. A 'great many of thepeople here"dress very richly and showily. Some of the Parsee women have beautiful. satin chuddahs of all colors, bright purple, green and scarlet. But some of the men hear beat the, women for show, -I ' have seen them sometimes have on a long_ scarlet coat with bright green pants and vest; others w$th a bright green silk coat and scarlet pants and vest. That beats the Salva- tion Army. The military soldiers and a great many others wear Elie white linen- suits. Our Canadian UU party has been •greatly _They were a gritty lot of men and al- ° broken up. Three are going to the though some. of them were slightly frozen they stuck to it until the plates were on. —W. S',nith, an Ellicefarmef, was ar, reated the other night in Stratford for Annoying the Salvation Army by at- tempting to drive his horse and cutter through their procession. He pleaded - that he could not stop his hone. The case was adjourned until next- week. —The following are the License Com inissioners for this county for 1889-90-: For North Terth, Mr. G. G. McPher- son, Mr. M. F. Goodwin, Stratford; Mr. Jacob Kelhlman, Millbank. South Perth„ Mr, T. H. Race, Mitehell; Mr. Janie* Prindiville, Logan; Mr, W. W. Ford, St. Mays. , Punjaub, two to Ceylon two to Cal- cutta and some are staying to work among the Maraties, while two are going to Gudgerat. We had been together • so long that it almost seemed like breaking up a family for ustopart. I got my new name to -day. It is Deva Erakkam. The first part means God, the second mercy. You had better ad- dress my letters in my native name, as I will always be known by that here. It ia sd nice to have a new name without having to -get married to get it. - The part of the 'country that I have travelled through- the last day or two was nice. That which we passed through the first day was verytnoup-_, tainous, but what we passe through • yesterday was : more„, level. - Many places we could see as far as the eye could reach, here and there wer-abills, I did, not see any woods like there is in Canada. : 1. wish you could just be here for a little while and see the need° of the pee- : ,pie. One cannot teach that their way is all wrong. The , one thing they always want to know is what our God; does- for us more thed theirs does for: :them, and the only way We can prove it, to them , is to live such a life as will show them that there is a power • that will and does keep us from doing wrong. Nothing less will do. • • - Belgrave. . A &mon- Couceni, — Hurrah. ! Hurrah ! for Belgrave, Duncan man, saw ye wirer- sic a place, heard Ye e'er o sic anither, as this. toon-o'Belgrave 18' turned tae? What for,-Donnel ?, Whit for Duncan ? Why man, are "ye that gr:te a 'stranger as no t' a -heard o the .affa meetings we hae been hie'en here . for the last 'three months. an Mair. Leeterary debeets, Mayor, Reeve :and Council elections, Mock Paillaments, teameetings an' socials, yin nicht . after another, it fairly dings, a'. Dunca,n,-ou, aye, Donnel, a heard aboot a'that. wark, an' mair than that, tho ye mabie thdna- ken, a Was present at the -grate Leethr- ary fecht the tether nicht for "a hae a kiada morbictinclination..like the rest 6 she died. • cin -try folk t' see a, fecht; e'en between twa skyterriers„ or twa banty Teeentlx $20,0011 worth of smelts wer —At Buctouche, 'New Brunswick c_erned the coin is about the'.--anost di- lapidated looking pgce one toul&-gell-- imagine, being completely flattenedout Mr„Sturgeon would not, however, take a five &liar gold piece for it. * Canada. Mr. D. J. McDonald, .of East Cornj *wall, has been a subscriber t� the Corn7 wall Freeholder for 37, years.. •—•181r. George Sleeman, of Guelph, hi about finishieg alactory for the manu: facture of artificial ice. , , —Sermons denunciatory of the Jesuit aggressions ,in Quebec drew loud ap- plause in several of the Toronto church- es last Sabbath. .--ProfessOr -Bell, of the Dominion Geological Survey, was entertained at a dinner party in _New. York by Erastui Wiman roterday night. • . —An intense degree of cold prevailed generally throughout the province on ,Saturday night last, the thermometer in some places going' down, 300 below zero, ' " - —The value of goods entered for con sumption in the Dominion was in Jauu au $7,597,874 ; of this total dutiabl value was. $56,789.80 and the duty Collected' was $17,251.89. --The little daughter of Mr. W..13 Burgoyne, proprietor of the St. Cathar ines Daly Star, ate a quantity of pot ash, lozenges, from the, effects of wine cocas, It dlona mak mucimie odds t' paught m A week, The streets war me-whilk, provided they do't wi a their lined with sleigh loads of the little as Donnob Wool wilnt th0eht P being 'milled the packing hohees, yon exhibition o' our .Boi.grieVo wairiors, now: Whir° &WW1!! 11,1113g01, " irerrit 00; 4ittt Central sehOolle wholesale taffy Pa 119"1, " wortn 9r- Tho pupils:ire told MI wha dey the at loiat Mideil thy hal 01; The fiddling -may beVeT the: festivity.; and the young WM "WM! Mi Yon Ofing - fitoro limb& the sugar -anttsnalte,-14 Gowan NO geed Oren sidille`the,§11/ ohhios thtf@th@fg *as py on *Ind dune, fihe's --Megepresello NI& Vishil BygOB oldollau did his part goy WeS1 •taily &Ay Friday thormgg, lige ,hneljsai °MY fie didnii 'Sao Seoton- MA heard her breathing- heavily, sint get li tivang, Site he'd Over Irish for that, to igodure 0, light, -typed letifeectig Then there was the other sang, (Will the. bedew iiefeutid &kid; . he no "tne aOhlt) 0146 she gang, --:--Mhe-PripeeVward County Cannel •it -was worth hearin • But yon trash of Friday passed a resolution declatin things some o' them tryed t' sing an' that the time: had arrived. when th play on th! °row, wa,sna. O'.ony. fib- Parliament of Canada should give to th count ava. An' then, yon readings; an' people' of . the. Dominion .a prohibitor recitations were th' silliest .trash ever liquor law„ : heard, naithing, but a slily : burlesk-on George Paxton Young, M.4. common sense. ' Donnell, ee- Weal) 41). D., Trofeseor of . Metaphysics an Dunk, yere .; no fir ,wrang, but .Ethics.ie Toronto University, died of than, what can ye expect _free a paralysis--- on Tuesday last. He : Via wheen illeeterate ,CanuCks, : th' meist noted as a scholar, teacher and _ methe o' them were ; ye ken brawly ther's nee matioien. He was 71 years of age. . sangi mede in a flat. kintry like this -V —Mr. Robert McQueen,. of Kirkwall compare wi' the Sap/45.e Wild Scotland; , and his Bible Class, 46 in all, drove t stern and ; meet nurse of a : poetics.; -Galt one day; lately :for the purpose .° Child.' The like o' ''Gloorny:Winter'a getting's photo of the class taken. I noo awa,' or Kelvin Grove,' I Whis- was the largest : grOup. the artist ever tle an' I'll come t' ye, iny lad,' or 'The tried totalle.- • , • Cameron Men," The 4e -conies barna,' funeral ofilie late DavidtCurt an' Burnie Hielant 'Mary,'—the likes 0) took piece the ether day at Brantford- • thee are -rare-, fu 0' fine eentinient an' - ink(' was: very attended, abou natural; feeling. ;Deed* Whiles think' 250 Masons being present. Represents that some o' thee i'll be !mug in Reeven,'- Dinuian Na, na. Dolma ; they'll hoe- towns and cities were present, tiveiefroin the - lodges . of neighborin far better 713ailgti • than thae-theeri lad ;'• —Bishop Lewis, of Ottawa, Was mar juist as Muckle aheed o' thee ye hae 7 ried Wednesday .the Ere named as thee are aheed o' the Canadian bassY in-Teris to MissAda Leigh, a lad and Yankee sings. But what a won ••! who been prominent.. in. connectio der at maistava is th' enormous gath-:- with- benevolent: enterpfises. th ering7o' young en'. aeld folk V hear 816 .French -capital. blethers an' havers as- are generally:ex, , Lister has, a rock el hibited. But the weret o't a' t' me, is tree on his - ferin gtobicoke, : Count this. dimming myth' organ th' time ,they Teel; which Measures lit feet in circum are singing, so that yin canna ken .ference_ at the bottOM,Iland 28 feet fro. word they says it appeers. V me that if the grOund Measures -174.- feet, This probably thellargest tree m Canada. ti §{figff hiabwati aie farther, Guelph•township, onPlrod mid they hadna th orgen draming slang wit them, they wad get :marl for their —A number of settlers on eighty-acr sections in Killarney district, Manitoba- are,holding meetings with the • view o -inducing the Dominion Government t double the size of their present hold - _The °aerie Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United .Workmen ain voices, an' fairly: swarf awa." Don -el :—" Di've • ye no like the organ, Duncan ?" Duncan :-•:-.4" Na,.na, DOnel ;- a wad far raither beer th' bagpipes ony day or nicht, even in T th' hoose,.raither than thae greening organs; their noise is intolerable." Donel :—" VVeel weel,' you an' me's a yin on that score, am ! closedits annual Session Thursday last glad t' heet; de ye ken hoo a ran th' 1, week in Toronto. The reports on the rig, on yin 0' tae Own peddlers, ane state of the order and on general buisi - day a year or twa syne. Weel, it was DOS were considered,satisfactory. thus: :Yin day when the sleighin' warms vents guid, up comes a cruse lookin' —Eleven car load of horses arrived chip, wi' a shamillin' auld horse in a in Toronto last Saturday. They are stabled - at Grand's Repository, where, sleigh, an twa organs on t. In he come?, they will be sold this week. 'This is, sentit like a foomert, wit ill -flavored 01- b bl th 1 t wither of horse& pro a y e ar es n guts, and wad hae me t' leave yin 0' his e -k t • th •t s machines in th- hoose, as- he had ower heevy:a, load for his hoise's strength, he said, an' We could play on't t' our -heart's content, he said, an' after twa or three menthe he wad cis' for't, an' if we didna like V keep it there wad be like harm' dune he wad tak it awa or briug us a better. VVeel, sir, a began to. stnell a rat, sae tell't him we had nee room, in the hoose for sic an apparatus, but if his horse was as hard set to draw it as ' he said,. he could- carriet it into the grainery cm' leave it there as lang as he liket. Man, if ye had seen hod he glowred an' ildge't about on the chair. 4 elaursay. he thoct a was dementit, but soon tuik himself off, organs an' a'." Duncan:— " Weel, Dozier, ye shut served him aboot richt. But aboot thirineetings,noo dae ye think th' folk wad come oot as weel yin nicht o' th' week if you an' mo was t' start a religious meeting for pray- er or the like o' that; in order V obtain mutual benefit." Dotiel':—" Na, na, Duncan, am fear't no. - They michtat- tend at first for twa or three nichtie.V hear what kind o' a fist we wad ma,k o't, but it wadna be for lang."—Patsk PEN. —Thirty-two years ago Mr. George Sturgeon commenced business in Kin- cardine, and the first piece of money he received happened to be an old time York shilling, which was given him by ,Mr. David Mackendrick, M exchange. for goods. The coin was iaid away and after a time forgotten, but again turned up last week as a reminder of days gone by. Mr._ Oturgeon and Mr. Mackend- rick having,thoroughly inspected the relic, it Wat again returned to its rest- ing place in the safe, after which the gentlemen above named settled them- selves alongside one of Mr: Sturgeon's new-fangled coal -stoves and discussed the past, present and future in a lively mann7. So far as appearance is con - ver nown cs arrive e y n on day for sale. . —A Couple of young "would:Jae gen- tlem•an." of Paris, drove into Brantford' the other evening and after getting well " loaded " visited a certain hotel. Going to the kitchen they.° took two cats, Fit them in a bag and took them away with then], Paris must be short of,cats: .,...-"One of the lady 'teachers in the Deaf and Dumb Institute in -Belleville is re- ported as refusing on offer of marriage from one of the- . wealthiest men it the :city.' She said she had given herself to her work and would not desert what she has undertaken. - • '• • —On the arrival Of the Scandinavian - at Halifax last:Week; she was seardhed withistit-suecess,-fdr -William and Patrick • Cole, the supposed murderers of Police Inspector Martin, it Derrybeg; Ireland, , believed by the authorities at Dublin • Castle to be on board.- . —About -five o'clock lot Sabbath , . • . • evening Rev. - S. Gs - Bland -fell in the Methodist church, Kingston, and dis- located his legoilsio breaking several ribs. He had lust recovered from -amputation of a -leg M New York. -There is intense sympathy for him. in the city. —The Brampton; Presbyterianehurch have unanimously called . Rev. ' Alfred Gaudier, M. A., to the pastorate of their congregation.. Mi. Gaudier is a young Minister of - promise, . having passed is highly 'creditable course at -Knox Col- lege.; . ' house • Mr, Bo , on the Cainsville; • —4 tough -looking tramp entered the, road; near 13rantf d, the other day and. staked. for something: to eat. Mrs. Boyd . had been making pies and had a number of them setting on the table. Mr. Tramp WAS offered some bread and meat., which hp refused to take, saying that he wiuited a Pie,and would not go Without it.. Now, everybody who has :peeled Mr.-Boyd'i house kn ws that holies a I dog, and a good one, ._ and when intro. --duced the tramp did not want pie, but was.: glad to get .away hungry.' Me, Boyd says that the tramp was very leana when he Came in, but when he went out he jumped the fence like an athlete an left a piece of his clothing behind which he did not want. ' —Rev. Dr. Potts, Methodist secretary Of education, states that -subscription's for collegefederation now stand at $240, ' 000, and that he will succeed in raising $100,000 by May ist necessary to coin mence buildings in Queen's Park, To route. —in spite of_, the storm and heavy drifron Wednesday afternoon 20th ult., between 80 and 100 gaits assembled at the residence of Malcolm Keith, Esq. on the 5th concession Culross, to witness the marriage of hifirdaughter Katie to Mr. J. Berton and a jolly happy gather legit proved to be. • —J. R. Russel, at one time a school teacher, who has been living in Brant!, lord, committed suicide on Saturday morning, • without_ any apparent cause; by shooting himself in the head. He lett a letter for his wife and children, 'taring them -to Meet him in the world, where trouble is never known.” • 1 B. Connell WAS instantly killed the other day in the township of Male' . hide, near St. Thomas. The unfortun- ate man was engaged sawing logs in hilr own mill when a large splinter flew from ` the saw and . _Vining through his eye. penetrated his brain, 'Causing, death shortly afterwards, Mr: Connell- was one of the leading men Of that locality. The 4th of April has:bcen 'appoint, Ogi ao the day for taking a' vote upon On potItion for repeal of the Seat Ant in the county of Wellington, Cfnelph hotel keepers are mak _ wombed tom a legal opinion just publish- od, tho offoot that gm), will have .to pay $400 ifor llama instead of 0000,as taPN hi thA @VOlt of the Seott t being repoitled, their sons, andlretiriad to Langside to spend the evening of life, Mr. Crowston passedawayon January -26th and ,,Iiis aged partner I Only survived until Feb- ruary 13th, heir remains were con- veyed to ide bernetery by their six paddsons. -• . --Three fishermen of Bronte arrived at the lismiltan* beach last Saturday night 'in - -a terrible plight. They had been setcing their netts about eleven - Miles below Bronte, and when they .de- sired to, turnl homewards they found their' -Onmanageable, - having be- come caked with ice. Nothing was left for them but to' ran -before the wind in a blinding snowstorm. This they did •till they reedited the beach, a distance of 27 _ The Men were eovered with :lee and in.st frozen condition. - . • . Huron.Notes. otes, , . '.- The East 6 . Wawenosh Spring Show will be held in Belgrave, onWednesday, April 17th. ' 1 . " --7-The :Lmidesboro Roller mills, run y steam or Water,- and owned by Mr. H. S. Huber, nie- offered for sale. --,-Mr: Aohn',Martin, hotel-heeper of Dunge.nnon, -intends removing to Wing - 'ham, where he will engage in the same business. John McLaughlin, of the 12th concession of Grey, is getting material laiddown for the 'erection ot a hand- some new brick residence next summer. —Mr, J. Wereel,' of Clinton, has two. primrose plants, one having 186 flowers and bndei and the Other 117 flowers and Ibade; of the eiqgle white variety. - -,;--,/istron connty; .the -last seventeen years ' has sent twelve _pupils to the BlindInstitution at Biantford and has eleven there at protont, : . ., —Mr, -John MeMillan-, green , - of Myths listen& .lareeting a handsomobriek reshienee on bis -farm MIST that vfnago, not 011101 00?, 1 - —TM Godorleh eonnell hamlet the eentraet for 04 oration of s pavillidn la the park foil the -seeemmedation of $460, - • - summer, exeurroniste, which will cost —The farm f -Mr, Safi Marshall, -on the Bayfield concession, Goderich town- ship, -containing 100. acres, .will be -offer- ed for sale by auction at Clinton,- on • Saturday, the 9th inst. - -T—Mr. j.. B. Crosson of Clinton, who recently got .i, his hand 'badly •bitten by. a hem, recewed $20 froin an accident in- surance company . in which he had a risk. - These things eome: in good some 'ti.112-fTsle. remains !•:::d ':A. W. Nation, a .. former resident of Blyth, who died •i/I Manitoba some time ago; have been re- moved to London- . for - re -interment by his . friends. 7; -: *, —The Presbyterians of Londesboro have relied by. subscription among the members of • their congregation more than the necesilary funds to purchase a first class organ, to be used in the service of praise hi their churn. , .. -Mr. Gem* Flintoff has Sold his farm, On the 3rd concession of Hullett, to Mr. NaithiaS &Jew, of .Stapleton, for the -sum, of $2,450. . The farm contains 50 acres, and has on it a neat frame house and small bank barn., --At the annuarcangregational Meet- ing Of Willie Iiresbyterian church,. Clin- ton) it was resolved that the Session be requested t� take the necessary steps to submit to a vote of . the -.congregation the request of Ithe introduction and use of a musical instrunient, in the service of praise; -Th 4 question of the best pos- ture to assumelduring praise was discus- sed; and although no formal finding was recorded; the general feeling appeared to favor the stendingof the congregation during thatpart of the service, ' - There was aleo.a duicipsion about the envelope system, but noidefinite action was taken in the matter; ! ' ; . -7-Mr. W. T.r.:Tarquher, of Hullett, recently sold &fine yomig horse to Mr. JohiNellannk :of Seaforth, - for $155, and -Mr. B. ChOrchill, Of the same town- , ship, sold one for $180. Prices for good horses keep.up well. - -,-At , the last meeting of - the Brace Presbytery, Rey. J. C. Tolmie, B. .A., who has been celled to Whitechurch, re- ceived a call from Pinkerton and West Brant. The stipend was $825. -- Over three car ' loada of 'furniture 'were shipped:i from the Grand Trunk -Railway station. at Wingham last week, about half being for Manitoba, the rest goiog to .vatibue points in the east. —On the 15th of; February, a ewe be- longing to Mr. ugh Stewart, of the 15th S ;concessiow-of ' ray, brought a pair of twin,lambs.:in this cold world. , The youtigeters are fiourishinv-- -41r. -. Malcselm McGillivray, . who went froth- . Goderich to the Northwest some months ago to take part in mis- mien work,- has been. forced to return home owing tis ill health: • H9 is _ink, proving Under Cerefui treatment. - ---1)1i. Robert Watson, who lives on the Hullett and Morris totvnline, near. Blyth, has Jet the contract for a largo brick dwelling bailie. David Cowan is to do the carpe4ter work and Geo. Tar- menter the brick and plastering work. -.:-.1Stri .John gingsley, of lot 4, con- cession 4, jilowick,:T has exchanged his farm With :Mil; -George McKenzie, of Whighem, for lend in the, Northwest, where- he -vvilli, _remove early in the 43,---4nMg.r.' Anthony 13.3,- darito.z.; • the well nown horse Man of East Carlton, who was.. arrested in Blyth last week, was taken before- !tWo magistrates in that place and there being's° .eVidence of wrong doing, he was honorably slis- charged. 1. . -; . —Rev. Mr. Stewart, father of Mrs, Dr.. Stanberry,. of: Bayfield, died in To- ronto last Week at the age of ' 83 years. Mr. Stewart was. - the oldest Presbyter- ian minister in Caliada. He was a na- tive of .Countyc: Cavan, Ireland, and cavort° Canada m 1847. He WAS first settled in ,Frampton, Quebec ;- then in -Montreal; and afterwards in Markham, from which *place he was called to Goderich -church and the Wawanosh congregation, where he labored for —At tho' meeting of -Orange Oran 1 Ledge in Winnipeg lait week, a reso 'Wen WaS passed protatingIn th, strongest 'manner, against the aotion upon the Grand Lodge of Canada an the Quebec Governnient, and call the Provincial Grand Lodges to take such steps as will assure -the disallow- ance of the Jesuits Estates' Bill. —The Belleville City Mission,a work started eight years a,go, by the ate A - solen Schaster, celebrated its annive sexy on Thursday evening of', last we.e The work is carried on by faith, no: Charity Or subscriptions being asked -from any source. The receipts last year were $440. A day school, sewing s 'clay, and Sunday services are Carrie on with this sum. • • - ' —A deputation froin the council of th University. of Manitoba waited on -th -local Government the other day, their object being to recommend a grant to ai the university in surveying and selee ing 150,000 acres granted to that bed by the Dominion Governinent, and els to urge upon the Government the ne essity increasing the annual grant, thirteen year ()Id girl in-Bellevill has been detected in carrying oti a sys ter:lege plan for obtaining goods withou .cash.-: She would either appeal to th -sympathies: -of the benevolent or repro Sent herself to some shop -keeper as i the employ of some well-knowncitizen to , whom the goods would be charged " As she was set to the work by unscrupu lona parents she Will not be prosecuted; —'rhe Galt Reformer says: A numbe of magnificent pines are being bailie from Mr. Wm. Graham's Well on th 11.th concession of -North Dunefries, t Hespeler's saw mill. Although the, -to Was broken off the largest one it wa made into five cuts of 18 .and 12fee long.* The butt Measured 5 feet 7 inehe in diameter and the top out 4 feet i diameter, showing O taper of only 1 inches in about 70 feet. . • —A rather strange affliction happene' to a Berlin couple who were sleigh-ridin one evening lately. The young than right eer and the lady's left ear wer frosted, while the other two were no cold at all. WhY, all four earawere.no frosted is a problem which has . bee submitted to the high school class i physiology ; but it must be remembere that frostoftendoes strike hi streaks. —Having -disposed of his entire atm of boots and shoes st 65 cents - on th .dollar; Fred, Bleecker; of Belleville, lef that place, all his fall purchases unpaid for, and is now, according to the, Intelli fgencer„ on the other side ofthe lines. 1 is thought thathis destination. i Florida and thathe took about $6;00' with him. Montreal houses are the principal'sufferers. • . —A. number of - farmers in the Dicki settlement, near Galt, have just sol their bailey—about 14,000 bushels i all—to a Toronto dealer for 59 mut per bushel.' The bulk of the -grain wil be delivered at Dumfries- station, an the balance et Doon. Had they sol out some time ago they would have go about 20 cents more per bushel, as ante as 78c or 793 having been -refiised i several instances. • —A leading citizen of Winnipeg; now in -Toronto, has got into tronblethrough something that looks like bigamy. He left his first wifein England because she was a dissolute character'and married another wife out here. He has a1waij lived a most careful life, but now effo are being made to extort money fro him on the plea that his first wife is stil living. Sympathy is generally wit the huisband, as it is -believed to a case of blackmail. • . • • • . —Two of the early pioneers of glnles Township, County of Bruce, passe away recently-. They Were Mr.'Willia Crowstimand his wife. Both wer natives of 'Llecolnshire,'England, -whet on the 1st of May, 1719, was born thsi- husband, andon the lst of -November 1800, the wife; Emigrating to Canada in 1856 whither two of their sons had some time preceded them, they bought 200 acres of land on the 2nd non.: Of Kinloss . In 1875, feeling the infirmities of age, the parents transferred the oldhomesfead tO severalyeitre. A unanimous call to the charge of the Old Kirk at Wood -stock 2. took deceased away from Goderich, and " after a long period of service in the last locality deceased retired and set- tled in Brantford, where he rived for - five years and then removed to Toronto. " —An ineffectual attempt was made last week to re -organize the Bluevaie Good Templars' Lodge, A represen- tation of the Grand Lodge delivered an address, and spent two'days canvassing in the village and vicinity, but failed to get members enough. What is the mat ter with the people of Bluevale ? —Messrs. W. and E. Mitchell, of Colborne, have purchased from W. J. Biggins, Elmhurst Farm, Stanley, . the young MateMess Bull, Royal Pilot —10536—a first prize winner .at the North Western Exhibition last fall. He is a very promising calf and $1,000 was recently refused for his sire and dam. —One of the horses recently imported by Mews. Carlton Iv Anderson, of East Wawanosh, died at the stable of the - Grand Central Rotel in Blyth la,st week. The stallion was a very valuable one, costing $1,500, and the Above gentlemen will feel the loss to a considerable ex- tent This horse importing is a mighty risky business. —Colin Campbell, of Goderich, met with a very Painful accident last week. While helping Robert Clarke fix up his icehouse, the ladderupon, 'which he was standing slipped, and Mr. Campbell, jumped backwards, the end of his spinal column coming in contact With a crowbar) which wasstuch in the ground, claming tomporaryparalysts of the er extremities, Weave glad i0 heek he Is on tho mond, •,—Mr, It Young, of (orris, who limb lo the ilefshhorheed of $2,000 In the buHdfn ofth.Nil Rook at Wroxotor shout thirteen yam ago) through the fatty° of the firm, Beil Shaw, ros caved -word from hit lawyor in Toronto last Tuesday, that he had meowed for, WM his money, together with coots find - interest on the same, amounting in all to shout Oa& The legal milt grinds aloof, and sometimes fine, but in this case justice comes better late than never. 0—The Winghant people don't like the . idea of having a wooden bridge erected in that town as was decided upon at the last meeting of the county council, and consequently a special council meeting was held one evening last week and e committee composed of the mayor, reeve, Messrs. Cline, Clegg, Meyer and Wilson, were appointed to look after the matter, -being instructed to memori- alize the warden's committee to take no • action in the matter till after the elune seission of the county council. . —Mr. Hugh C. Gilmour and Mrs. Gilmour; of Moolejaw, North West Ter- ritory, who have -been sojourning with old friends in Stanley for some weeks left for their home last week, ' Mr. Gilmour is- greatly in love -with the " Moosejaw district and thinks it just about the best part of the Dominion, He has been fortunate and has done well. Mr. John Giltnour, son of Mr. John Gilmour, of Stanley, also swam- s exiled his uncle to Manitoba; he is build for Neepawa and Minticdoete, I where he has le brother and two sisters residing. • —One night last week when • the are - taker of Rattenberry Street Methodiet church, Clinton, was getting the church -- in order for a meeting, a largo four. branch chandelier, that had only recent- ly been bung up, fell down. All the lamps in it were lit, but three of them were extinguished by the crash, and the - fourth was quickly put out before any further damage was done. The care- taker intended going to his tea, IMF soon _ as he had finished lighting the lamps, and had it fallen five minutes later, there would have been no question about the necessity of is new church. What, One Woman Did. ' Several -year's ago,, Miss Beilby, a young Englishwoman who had studied medicine to fit herself for usefulness as a missionary at Lucknow,India, was sent for by the wife of the Prinoe of • Purina, who was ill. Panne was a, long distance from Laknow, and the journey was a dangerous one; if Mlss Beilby went, she would be separated more than 100 miles from any white man. Her friends urged her to refuse. The Englishwoman was young and timid, but she knew her duty; she want, re- mained two months and bared the pa - that. When she was about to return, the Ranee sent for her and begged her to go in person to Queen Victoria with the message that Indian women, not being allowed the attendance of men . physicians, 'died in great numbers every year for ,want of care, The Ranee _got paper, pen and ink, and, with team, be- sought Miss Beilby to write herpetition to the Queen to send them women 'doc- tors. "Write it shall, Sahebs,' she beg-- ged; for I small put it a locket and hang it about your neck, and pie -must wear it until you put it fn the hands of . the great Ranee herself, Miss Beilby returned to England the next year, ob. tained an interview with Queen Victoria, , and placed the locket in her hands with the message. The Queen was deeply touched, and empowered ,Lady Dufferin, the wife of the Viceroy of India, to form an association for sending, out female medical -aid to the women of India. Many woman doctors have been sent out by the association, and Indian women - are now- being educated as physicians and nurses. An estate of 50 acres, with large buildings, has been given by e native prince as_a hospital for Iiindn female patients, Had the timid mission- ary refused to -undertake theperilous duty to one woman,these great blessings which are but the beginning of health and hope for all the WOMell of India— • probably never would have come to them Sow thy seed, and however:small it may be, of good deeds. Only God knows what the fruit may be. _ f1 Z. -