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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1889-07-12, Page 1- iaoasaaaM,7-ts..‘,",. s▪ o, • •••,' • alent VARES,.. barn a first- - we- 'goo& D. Kelly,. itly- pur-- VI three Ang wen. once.= t.. intend L,to oeie- th pfcne . upon by ring, was. tSattridey er. of.peo- untry for confidence ide some- partkry aerefresh. it -served% If the pro -- thorough- - atom, of chairman. 'gently in "- ring, and ,ha leafy fy the 'blood the lively Dot pleas-; an& one ureto an " of tato of cood who Iajitoe. md_ear at -what was- ose who-, o. repar- fee amply Out given of lila the 4th., locksmith George rPror x avr land, to . John nil w . Mr. °petty in. r had the 31e- mare. tout $150, E y of .,last dies Sillib% had the if started. ls and re - of Port, L. couple ii tonialsek present in Lett years - his eyes le -trouble rig behind held on river op r at the: - neighbor- ' dinner, as antici- - reparation - - inner man, who had Fery soon number - on lave. d gettink .. nvitatione along as , the ap- e down in Val to be- far- from, he advan- , cad their', Om- . ••if TWENTT-SECi014D TEAR. - WHOLE 'NUMBER i 1,126. SEAF9RTH FRIDAY, JULY i2,.1.•88•9; New Millinery PROM TEE SUNNY SOUTH. - AMU/MLLE; LOIlitgana, July 3rd, 1889. I • f—OPENED GUT— ,DEAR EXPostiroz.—I have :promised to write to so many of my friends and 'acquaintances in Wroxeter and vicini"ty 'jjliEE I NCT that I doiVt know. When- I. Will betaZ to get around'them„ And 1 thought by • —AT THE.,-- inserting this letter in your widely cir . culated paper, I might get through with th in a kind of wholesale way, in the CheapCash Store. meantime. After a little 3 .ina,y have - ' , more time for letter writing, I *left .. . -Wroxeter onthe13th day of June, by the Canadian Pacific: Railway, . and I must*csonfess not without a sort of " I - wish Thad not left" feeling, at leaving the dear old home where I had spent many happy .days, and the many -tried and trusty, friends. ..About half an - hour's ride brought Me .to -Wingham, from there I took the , Grand ',Trunk Railway to London. At Clinton I unet with a crowd 'of acquaintance804-ho led been up to Goderich attending the cere- brated Hopper case; some as witnesses, . othereas jtirOrs,land I don't- knew what ;, elie,. . Some of thein.Seemed to be quite liatiiified that no evidence was required, others would Aothave objected, ifthe case had lasted -all sinnmer-,• so - long as the pay went on.. I arrived in London about 7.,p, -m., where I met with my brother, John R. Miller, Thomas Gib; son,- of FOrdwich, and Archibald Mc- Intosh, of Listowel, who were in :the City attending the Foresters' Conven- tion. I had my trunk examined here, and as I had nothing in it -Worth taking, a piece of white Chalk was brought into requisition and :some • hieroglyphics .scratched on it which I did not under- stand. I don't know whether any per!, son else did: or not, but which- I sup:. posed moat PASS: (acoording to Hoyle) and I was left struggling with a rope, almost wishing that those Who Would not go for .Free Trade had - it . around their necks; All aboard is sounded and - We are off. . The cats go thundering along, I sit a stranger in the,. midst. , of strangers: . ,I had just left rilk home on., , a long journey, exchanged the parting tokens Of affection With my family, and the friends that I loved, who- not only had a strong hold on my affections, but who in the tokens of -regard and kind - nese shown to me -in view of my, -depar- ture had added indissoluble ties to the bond that united Me to them.. ' Detroit' irreached about 10 p., m. .13d8 X have toenub for the night. I had no chance to sae the city as I left at 7.20 in. the morning. TO see the river just here at night, with the many different colored lights, is A fine :sight The hotel - I struck was. pretty Well filled up, but I was told that there was a double roorii- occupied hyra champion wrestler, a big -fellow buftery quiet, I risked it and. came out all right. Seven thirty a. m. has vitae around and. we are off- again. Aftersettling down and examining -iriy, wallet I find that I have a ten .dollar Canadian bill which won't be' much use to me . on "Louisiana shore," :'• as the poet expresses it I asked the conduc- tor if he would give - me Yankee money - for it ? but he said no that they got fooled sometimes in this Way. . I iguesi he thought I was tether suspicions looking. We piss througha fine tract oteountry between here and Toledo. I take-nOtice that the cropii are a groat dealfarther forward than • in; Huron. Fall wheat is all headed out, and a fair- ly good crop. Arrive at Toledo about 10'a. m., and it seems to be quite a live- ly place. • From here I took the Cincin- nati, Hamilton, & Dayton Railway to Cincinnati. For quite a distance , the country seems to be very level., in a ruzi3Of 109 miles I don't think we passed i through a cut of - ten feet. It is 10 quite an. oil region,. and near ktPlaoe, called Lima, the country; is. Teirlidotted . over with, oil tanki•:.: There must be 4hundra4s of • theizi,-, and none of them :closer to each other . than I weitild suppose, 150 feet, and *here peeed-t olnow.all. 'about - sugar.: making ;that close embankment of earth 860..,but if all goes tight I =tibia able to Ore ' feet in -height :is thrown up all tll you sOmething about it eix months f oni this, as by that dine if Ilive I ex. ilinii h tank which, I imagine, will which was Constantly left open. In the.- . be in case of fire to ,prevent its spread- . rot to see the While pities* . As far at ----- , Meantime the old birds had grown se. leg to 'other tanks. ,Thole tanks . are •Pori learn, the proepects fors good crop . of • cane are good. The corn crop is Also. ' 'wilier with the fanillylit to pay no round in shape,50.or-60 feet in diameter; good.' It is a finesightto, _ see- 200. or - heed to them, • no matter who might be and about 15 feet high. - Cincinnati is in the room. * - reached about dark, consequently I 0 bad .300 Acres of it under cultivation,, and . . . . ._, ,still a better sight, to see thatinneh cane, —At Knox Church, :Woodstock, on., net much chance to lee anything of it. on .:and More money in it. The cotton crop Sunday evening, Dr. McMtillen preach- • It seems to besurrMinded by hills. ed a sermon on the doetrine-of holiness, our leaving. it by he Queen** Oteiceat lgoing=to he late; owing to the very dry 04 4,43ather in May and • the first part of which has been brought.prominently be. RailWay we inak a circuit partly reund June. 'I have. travelled over quite a bit ,. ' fore the attention of Presbyterians by it and crone the *o river. The scene of the property, -hut not nearly all, - what is known as the Gait heresy case. is ohanged,' We now 'pass throug_h one 4900 acres Is not easily.got over,) and Mr: McMullen dealt with the doctrine of the roughest trade- of country. r ever ani well satisfied with it. , ,from a historical and theological stand- travelled over. Although it is night the , . • Point. 4iie showed by ample quotations sky is clear and .the moon ,nearly full, ._ ,INc. doubt some will be anxious to' and -argument that the belief that men which enables me to get a very fair view :bear something about the heat, sing - 'can live ina state 'of sinless' Perfection; of what we are passing' through. Our tors end niggers. With regard ftd.- the -is unsound according to both.1 he stand-. train is not a very long One; seven ' or :firet, I hove not found it oppressive! - ards of the Presbyterian Church and the 'eight passenger coaches, but the grades since I came here. The highest temper., - Bible itself,. on which they are based. arelvery steep"; gometimes.Our rate of •atureeince I came itas 82 degrees;that Incidentally, he- [showed. what large speed is not much faster than .a. walk; • was fon:the 24th end 25th of June an rights and. privilege the constitution of at one place we stuck fast and had to .92 degrees is the highest it has regieter., the -Presbyterian Churoh gives to indi- run back about a mile and. take a race at .434- so far this season. It hag rained ai victual- by explaining how this' case it. , ,The next minute we. were. rattling, -gOod deal for a week back andhas been - had been dealt with, first bythe Session, down grade, curving. °ter.- some rickety then by the Presbytery and Synod, and looking bridge, or darting into a tumiel, lastly 13y the General Aseembiy of the to emerge from it and have the dose re - Church'. • He referred in a kindly way .peated. At one spot we had three en - to those Who had gone astray on .thie gines on, and then it ohnoit seenied as doctrine,atal pointed -out thst they had if we wet° going to.stay there for 'a not been suspended from .the chUrclf on while. This is a great Coal. region, but account of their belief., . buts because not.worked to any great extent: We they refused to refrain from propagating reached Chattanooga about 10 a; m._ .It it !um:1g others„ The sermon was a Is not. a Very large place lipd rather: clear exposition of a ease that has excited .dilapidated lookini, but meraerablefor Nvide interest. • o'FFmArst $4, In Hats„ Flowers,- 'Feathers, Laces, Ribbons, and Ornaments. Also full stocks of Desi Goods, - • Prffital• Muslins, Shirtings, Oot- tons Lace Curtains, :Cretonnes, P• arasols, Frillings, Corsets, GloVeak - Lace Mitts, Pan.iers, 1arsOuffS Hosiery, etc. All oc which will be Old at ,very low prie.es. Call and have a look through. Cheap Cash 'Store HOFFMAN:&:C.O. -04R,MTCYR -B1.400111 SEA F.9 RT H —George S. Clissold, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at the General Sessions in St. Thomas, for a series of burglaries,. eonfessed to the officers in charge since he wassentenced that his "pal" in the ,britglaries was Kelly, a well-known thief. On the con- stables at St. Thomas taking. him to Kingston he was at once recognized by Warden Creighton as Peter Kelly him- self, who had served a three years' -term for burglary, and was only re- leased on Nevember 21st last. The judge in sentencing Clissold, alias Kelly, • believed him to be a young men of re- specUble _parentage,"led by want into trouble, and gave him a light sentence accordingly. —On a quiet street in Montreal re- cently, a man was at work plastering up a crack in the outside wall of a house. The lady of the house at the -time noticed the "cheep, cheep"" of some young sparrows and requested the plasterer to leave room for the old birds to come and go to and from the nestlings. The man refused. A little later, the lady could not bear to hear the poor little things crying for. food, and rather than let them starve in their dark prison she took a chiseVand,work.,.. big on the inside wall, from an upp room, finally reached the nest through the interior walls. In the meantime the old birds had congregated. As tool as the nearest window to the neat WU opened, the lady retired- to a distance and watched proceedings. The old birds at once entered the room and be- gan to feed- their young. This contin- ued for some days, when old birds and young departed by way ef the window', ' Called_ Tuscanola, brings me in mind of the landaround Exeter and Brudefield. I reached New Orleans on the. Sunday Morning about seven -o'clock, tired and 'weary. I could not understand • how it Mate a good living. But I would Say to any one who may think of moving, come arid see for yourself. I have not been in the couutry very long and cannot say as much `about it as those who have been was that such crowds of people, male here longer ; I have °imply stated what and female, young and old, were around theSouthern Pacific Railway Transfer Depot, but I soon found out that there was a big excursion _down the flier to the Gulf. . When I left Canada I Was • weiaring heavy clothing and had not thrown ably under clothing. On this day, however, Ifelt as if I would like to .get rid of them as I struck. this glade on one of the botest days of , the season -so far, and being in a Spot where there is net much breeze it did feel :hot. The business places in, the City were closed,-, thatis in the English speaking part of the city, but the French don't seem to be .,,tery particular in this respect. • Saloons, bylaw, Are not allowed to be open' bn-,SundaY;:bnt:herer etsewliers, 004311re back &ore -which open easily if .iyon have a nickel. staid' he•re .nntil the following Tiiesday, at 11.30 "a•- uV'and* left for Jeanerette,"113: west, There is considerable swampy land near the city, but as.we get ward it gradually improves until We reach the Tiche Country: • There' is one thing which takes the traveller's attention, who for the first time ' has visited this country. It the:Moss' which' covers the. bought of the- trees and hangs toward the ground -like a fine. drapery, large quantities of it is pulled, dried and sent north, where it is used for mattresses, 8d. ' I am now in. the Tiche Country, _ the Garden ,of Louisiana. After a 'stay Of 24 hours in this place, I again movi3 •on: towards .my destination. Eleven milesfrom here is the town of New. Iberia, with a popu- lation of 4,000. This is one of the finest towns in the south, /The inhabitants are principally Northern people, which has a great deal to do With the pros- perity of the place and shows plainly what is wanted to develop this country. The next town I strike is St. Martins- • ville, which before the war was called the Paris of Louisiana, or as Longfellow in -his Evangeline cane it "The Bolen' of Louisiana." But its glory hal departed; yet there is to be seen traces of its former geed:less and of the wealth that was lavishly. expended and the . life' of ease and indolencein which many of. its inhabitants lived. There is no doubt but that in alivery days. this has been a very wealthy part Of the country, and may again 13e if the people can - be aroused from 'their lethargy, or give plebe to those who by their energy and industry will bring to light the hidden reiourCes,of this Wonderful land. This is ithe home of thexiled Acadians, arid their descendants occupy the land, at • least to a certain extent. They are .an indolent race, and are not much thought ok by the creoles' or natives of the country. • .7rora here I have to hire a livery rig and am driven up to the Huron Plantation. 'Ufa a fine drive the road runs along the bank of the Bayou Tedhe nearly all the way. Here for the first time I saw the Magnolia tree full bloom, and r can &genre you it is a fine sight. The Owen are nearly as large as a dinner 'Plate and pure white:. and to the touch feel like velvet. The live oak is another viand tree. They don't grow very high but have spreading tops.' I measured one -that was•nearly'100 feet. ' I arrived.. at Plantation just at noon,,end right glad I -was to meet with old friends from Hilton, the first ken'd faces since I left London. They all look hale and hearty and as far as I can learn are Well sada-. .fied With; the country.; Of course it has• . its..drawbaolts, such al the want of schools ,..ehurgheii but: this wilt evidently tha :Overcome. can remember ‘the time when " they • were not 'overly I know to be facts. When people see for then -pelves they can believe: A great many pamphlets- have been circulated through the describing this country and as far as I have seen a good deal, of what id said is true, but some of it re - Tikes to be taken with a .grain Of salt. We have here as well .as elsewhere un- scrupulous land agents, Who are ever on the watch to take advantage of the un- wary.. Against all such would say,13e-. :ware. As far as I have seen the Creoles, that is thosOborn in the state,whether of French or English decent, are very . friendly, and like to see northern coining in, Hoping I have not taken up . tee much of your valuable space I will now draw di% rambling epistle to a dose. I will be willing at any time to give any information I can to any one Who, may wish to learn about this -.664ntry. • - . . T. F. isfif.t.en. !•1 said that he was Badge Haverland Was four times the Creseenkand just as earl Warfield was a v-ery, valuabl would yield morerand larger the Crescent. The aim bf t tion is to advance the. fruit. terests of Ontario, and the wealth etthe country, oomplish this end the bette determined by the Governnr the most skillcd specialists ' ture whether directors or the 'Association, to address of the Farmers' Institutes methods of conducting wit industry. , • Vanada. An effort is being.ms,de world's fair in Toronto in 1 • —Interest on degosits in , S avings Banks will be reduce' per cent. • _ • —Nine young 'ladies hav from the convent of Notre, ston; Mr. A. P. 'Cockburn li Waited by the Muskoka, Li Legislature. : - —Rev. Principateaven address on the anti Jesuit Montreal last Friday. night •A prominent young so Kingston recently - wedde mother's eldest sister. —The sum of $87,000 -.ha scribed towards the new P sane Asylum in Montreal.' —The Grace • Method • Winnipeg, has extended a Janies Henderson of Mont Montreal boarding whe seized the uniform of for unpaid board, was fine —Donald Morrison, the . so far recovered sato be around. • IstoLEAN BROS. Publisher& *1.50 a Year, in Advance, the He testified that the damage done to the e as wheel amounted to 9,80, but said that t the an entire new wheel could be had for $5. rry and The Megistratoreserved his decision. rfiiiithan —Canon Bill, of Trinity church, St. soc.•1 • Deaf Mute Race. • tstef and numb Institute, Belleville, July 8, _ • r DEAR- Eiroarron : You have doubt- less noticed e in various newspapers ,articles.,statire; that a deaf-mute variety •of -the-human race . is likely to be the ;orsult, in thenear future, from the mar- riage -of deaf mutes. From the informa- tion r have been able to gather up :to this time, I have only learned of oNz deaf child zin Ontario (a little boy now About four years of age), whose parents are deaf and dumb. Of the hundreds of children who are novr-attending or have 'attended, this institution, there is not. one congenitally deaf child who has deaf inute parents. I would like to ob-: tain full and itcourete information in re- gard to thikmatter, and if you or any of your readets know of any deaf mute married perscins, with or without chil- dren, -if you or they will kindly send me theiraddresses, I shall feel obliged, - There are deaf children of school age • in theProvince that I have not heard Of, and I am making an effort to get, them 'into_ this Institution, where they may receive an education that will :fit them for the duties of life. The condi- tion Of an uneducated deaf mute is more deploral3lectban that of any other human Will you be good enough to help me to bring these children* to 060°1? You can do more than any ther :person I might addrees..• The. arents. of some are not aware that an netitution exists where. their Deaf phildren can be taught :to read and Write. There are others who have heard ,of,theinstitution but are probably not acquainted with its real character, or from. oth Children by a causes, tail to send their o us; these might be induced ttle effort to send them. Deaf child en between the ages of seven and twenty are •admitted, educated and hoarded at the expense of the Province. IR is only. required that the child shall ;be of sound mind and that the parents, 'or the municipality if the parents are unable, pay the railroad fare and pip- '11,ide necessary clothing. Application papers may be had by writing to me at 1Be11evi11e and any information required will be cheerfully supplied. - Yours faithfully, R. MATHIsoN, Superintendent. !The Whit Growers' Associa- 'don. • At the Summer meeting of the Fruit :Growers'. Association held in -Seaforth ',last week among others the following igentlemen were present:—Mr. A. Mel). tAllan, Goderich ; P.. E. Bucke, Ottawa; IA. Morton, Wingham ; P. C. Dempsey, rTrenton • . H. Race, Mitchell ; /d. plentiful hi:Huron-,Ontario.. Now thoughl tPettit, NV' ona IL Pettit and L. Itive arrived at ourplantation and. be- Woolierton,Grimsby Thom Beall,Lind. clime a southern planter, I ani not suP. and"; -John. Little, Granton. The. the. amount of ghting done in and around it during the civil war. -We now —The Exeter Times of last Week says run for a long distance between two - The matrimonial fever has been raging. ranges of Mountains. The valley is in Exeter this week among the widow- perhaps two or three miles- in width. ers, twp of whom have taken unto them- All along the scenery. is grand and pie - selves blushing brides, tosharethe toils ,turesque. We are now coming into the and pleasures of their later, days. On great iron State of Alabama, and which Tuesday -Mr. James Miner, a • highly re- is being developed by English capitalists.. Spected resident, was wedded to Miss nig, is going to be a grand thing for the Jennie Oke, of 148 Angelos, California, South, and will open the eyes of north- . white on Wednesday, Mr. James How- ern people to its vast resourcei. As far - ark -another well-known resident, and as I have seen it is not much of a farm - Min Mary Ellen, daughter of Mr. Wm. ing -country. From this across the Brimaborabe, of Exeter, were made State of Mississippi there is e good deal husband and wife by the strong bonds of swam y land with occasional ,good of Hymen. .0* nice and cool. Our gulf. ° breezes! are • very refreshing, and kperson whe has (2) Productiveness; (2) Hardiness ; (4) ,meeting waetheld in Cardno's Hall, and an addresslwas delivered by Mr. D. D. ;Wilson, of Seaforth. . Among the eub- i.jects d,ilicusseci'. Were: the following :— "Grapes ,forMarket,'"" V.'Cuftivation of I the Currant fOr Horne use and for Mar- ket," "Strawberry Culture,"* and the . { "Culture and Propagation eof Goose- berries." Onevery important subject was that concerning the "Judging of Fruit s at Fairs," intioduced, by Mr. Thos Beall; of Lindsay, director of the Association for Agricultural Division No. 5. He claimedthat, in order to se- cure uniformity: and fairnees in the. • ,Awarding of prizes, was absolutely necessary that a scale of points should be carefully prepared, and that instead. of three judges, as at present employed, the one judge system should be intro - duped: In this way the best talent could be employed and suitably remun. erated._ It was also recommended that a card, with the scale of points marked plainly on it, should he 'filled out by the judge and ettachad to the ptize fruit. The following list of_points was • Suggested, viz i—(1) Commercial Value; nht felt -them has no idea how cool they .ate. With regard to alligators, I have Oen none yet nor has any of our crowd, and I don't expect to see one should I iifre here for 50 years.' I cannot•say the same about niggers, but they are just as harmless, (and more so.) I have seen one _snake since I came here, and that a dead one, and not very large, ; The: mosquitoes are not so numerous as they, are in Ontario. In the day time we see Quality; (5) Perfect 'Growth, each of these to count Eve points, except the last, which- was to count ten. The whole question of arranging a scale kof points, however, was passed over to a committee which will report at the next meeting,;.which will be held in the Vity of Windsor, in December. A pry practical -address was also given by the President, Mr..,A. McD. .Allan; of Gode- rich, upon the best methods of • milling, very few, at night a few ef them seren- packing and grading apples for market. 1 ade us, and if they do bite we are apt to, llesaid that buyers should , arrange a knowit, - •' iscale of Flees for perfect fruit in pro. i Arnaudvilleds our nearest village, portion to its cOmmercial value in the about ai miles off, It is not - a*. very British markets, and thus encOurage the large place but still there is , quite an' growingof only the most profitable varie• &Mount of business done. • It has45-,or 6 tie. He recommended some such scale general stores, and all of them -deem to -of prices as the - following, When the do a good trade: Land can be bought Baldwin is worth $1the other . varieties here at from $1,0 to $30 per. auprent should range in somewhat this way, iris: (French acre) one sixth less than one Ribston Pippin and Blenheim ,Pippin, acre:- There is also any amount of it .to $1.50; King,$1.50 ;. Spy, $1.30; Ameri- rent or on shares. The usual rental given can Golden Russet, $1.25, and Green 18 One third of the 'Cr° raised. There ing $1. In speaking of •Strawberries "—Three ballot boxes bei the official count of the Soo in Elgin county had to be ' ;--01 the 753- settle an carried by the,Carthagenia Liverpool it is expected. th lost. • • —At the Ayr Plow wor three blacksmiths in one. combined length is eighte inches _I ' - —At Ottawa' last Fri yonng man who hid liner marriage notice inita ne smindly thrashed by his vi , r It —A number of -Bellivil Veen summoned before th -to *newer the charge of • r mite and destroying the li ' —Three C. P. R. cats. buffalo bones from the, p Northwest went - east- fro Fridey to be manufacture • —The.Gmlic Society, Of its annual excursion to Ni day last. Pipers Minro an livened the voyage heroes their music,. . 7 -.Alf. Scott, of Winni Lientenent Colonel Scott, deed last Saturday night i is supposed he over-exerte lacrosse match. . —LOA Sunday morning worth, a bey about 16 years Russell, had his brainoblo explosion of a gun while h 'crows. —Efforts will be made Royal Humane Society Willie Whiter, of Toronto has saved five person's 1r within a year. — J. J. Sloan, of Lea _poisoned on Saturday; and evilly. He wept to a dr the druggist gave him salt of salts. —A sixteen months old Mr.. F. J. _Reed, e- builde was run over by. a lumber en by's drunken Man the oil child was considerably inj „ —It has been decided in Southern Manitoba tbi -Mounted Pelice patrol,. w son did valuable service i horse stealing And similar —Mr. Henry S. Krug,. while riding alibis bicycle line towards the Dover sta ' foot caught in the 'pale whirled -from his steed, and ed his arm. ' Ho- will be obi day" for awhile. ' —Rev. R. J. Laidlaw, minister, of Hamilton, ask junction to step the buiine peranee -Colonization - Co which he claims rernittin paid in by him in stock. —The other day, Geor Toronto newsboy, courage° into Vie Water at the Hum cited a 6 -year-old boy fro He was presented with a p by the party of pidli*ker child was a member, ' —A large tarantula was bunch of bananas in Won: shop the other evening.; keeper struck at it with a venomous spider fell into a dies. _,The candies and the , hustled , into the dotes, tei and every one breathed Me —Wm. Anderson, aged, resident of London, Ontar` lug to cross the railroad- foet of Hastings street; D o'clock on the night of-. was struckbya freight tr ed under the wheels. B run over; He was taken al, where he died shortly —Richard Shuter,- a, 'farmer, was defendant at Police Court Friday in damage suit brought.age Vernon.. .According --to testimony the - defendin collided with the °Maple and destroyed a wheel,' fendant said that the doc have backed intehis. A the mile was the *widen tracts. Zne of these tracts, near a town are homes for thousandshete and I be- John Little, Canada's Strawberry King, witnesses, who. is ' a c g in - creme o ao- been lend u cul- ts of etinge best this • ‘. • _ wherever it goes. Freni the county of Essex, (tomes a report that I the grain aphis or louse is creating great damage -to the wheat crop there. Some of thenr have wings and some have not; the Thomas, was the other evening present- later being the most prolific, it being ed by a few friends of his congregation with a handsome bouquet. After their departure he found in it a letter con- taining $80 as a gift. ' —The other night Mr. James Goldie, en behalf 'of.a number of friends waited on the Rev. D. McGregor, M. Z., ot the Congregational church, Guelph, and presented him with a handsome purse containing $136at a slight token of their esteem and affection. --Of two scholarships Competed for the other day the Toronto Conserva- tory of 'Mimic:J.:nue entitling th i3 winner 'to a year's free instruction in piano, was won by Miss Flora Boycl,daughter of the late Rev. James Boyd, of Crosshin. —The Misses Dimsdele, the revival- ists, the elderi-of -whom has been ill for so,long, left Welland the other. day for their home, Lefrpy. Miss _Ditnsdale, although considerably -better,, is still weak, butit is hoped the -change_ of air • will do her muoh,good. • " • —Mears Atwater -and Meals have 'entered an action or 11,000_in . the Montreal Superior- Court ' against the trustees of the Temple building, on b half of , the Widow- of the late J. H. •-Webster, who lost his life by falling down the elevator shaft ef that building: on June 21. , • —Cot, John Thomas - North, 6"the nitrate king," of London, Rigland,Pass- ed through Toronto. the -other evening on his way from Niagara Falls to Mon- treal. Col. North was accompanied by a -party of gentlemen, who, like himself; were all millionairei., The party repre- sents over $100,000,900 in wealth. . —Alexander Stinson died at the jail, London, last Saturday Moping; He - was under Arrest for . shootinjg at his mother-in-law, Mrs Wm- unt of. London South; with intent. Mr. Hunt hit -him on the head with a hoe during . • , . the scrimmage; causing a large scalp wound. Stinson had been drinking pretty heavily. • ' —Harvesting commenced last week in Ontario county. In EEO Whitby the rye =pis a heavy one, the straw being 8 feet long. .Farmers are haybig and never in madly Vets has the yiefil, been sci heavy, some meadows taming out three tons to the acre.. Both East and West Whitby can highly boast of all crops except fruit, which will not be large owing to the frost of May 28. —Monday night When Mr. P. Jones, of Woodetoek, Was closing up his cigar store he noticed that one of his feet and the floor of the shop for a donsiderable dietance were covered with blood. In- veitigation proved that a blood vessel inhis leg had burst. The blood flowed -very freely and Mr. Jones was soon re. duced to a state of weakness from which he will not recover for some days yet. -estimated that they produce four young each day. No remedy has been found to prevent the destruction by these pests. They are provided with sha0p- pointed bills, with which they pierce - the leaves and stalks and suck the juice of the grain. The pests have a natural enemy in several species of parasites and: the "long beontgbug. _AHamilton Police Court, the - • other day, Louisa Park, the keeper of soi' baby farm, was charged withshamefully neglecting and ill-treating an infant which had been left in her charge The evidence showed that thehaby, which ie scarcely a year old, had been 'half-starv- ed and half -clothed, whipped, scrubbed with a broom, soused in a tub of water and otherwise cruelly treated by the prisoner, who tears a hard name. The child may die, in which Case the charge would be murder, and the woman wee re mended for a week. - —Constable Whitehead, of Wood- stock, the other day ran in a man who geve-.-his name as Wm. Ayres and car- ried what the boys call a beautiful "jag." "This," said the Magistrate, is -a sam- ple of the good effects that are follow- ing the repeal of the Scott Act." " Yesh," said William, "1 `thee--hic— throngh--hie—it now, Couldn't un'er- stand'--hic=how 'spectable man like •me—hic—got so drunk. But I shee it now." .He was remanded to jail to sober up. —Health Officer Leberge,of Montreal, is having a special report prepared on the gauges of prevalent infant mortality. Inquiry reveals some startling facts. It will probably show that infantrnortality is far greater amongst bottle-fed infants, and that the largest number of such deaths are amongst children of mothers - who are natives of Montreal, and who. beforemarriage spent their lives in factories and workshops. Next on. the fatal list are said to come infants of women who have hereditary tendency to consumption. —On Monday forenoon, 1st inst., as Mr. Wm. Hall, of Jedburgb, -near Ayr, was fishing in Cedar Creek, his 100 slipped from the log on which he Mood and he fell -into the water, which was about two feet deep. The old gentle- man was unable, to help himself and would probably hate drowned- but for two little boys who BMW the mishap. Charles Meggs, aged 10 years and George Willison, aged 8 years, sons of Mr. E. Meggs and lir. W. Willison, are the brave little lads. The former jumped into the water and held Mr. Hall's head up while the latter ran and brought the old gentleman's son, Thomas, who lifted his father from the water. These brave little fellows deserve credit. . - —On the morning of the 4th seven lads ranging from 8 to 13 years of age faced the Hamilton Police Magis- trate, on charge of larceny. They all pleaded guilty, some of them having stolen firewood, others fruits, mita, etc. Five of the boys were very reuweetable looking. The Chief of police said that most of them had been convicted before of larceny and allowed to go under de- ferred sentence. He Also pointed out that during this year between 50 and 75 boys had been- convicted of burglary, shop -breaking and larceny and had been allowed to go under deferred sentence. The magistrate lectured the boys and let them go. =In December, 1888, the publishers of the Montreal 'Witness, In order to set the boys and girls of Canada at work studying the history of their country and gathering up interesting incidents not recorded in history, offer- ed prizes to the writers of the best stories. • In response to this offer'1,193 stories Were received from different parts of the D.Jminion,.703 of them be- ing from Ontarin. It is now publicly announced by the Witness_ that " Miss Lizzie A. McKay, of Woodstock, daughter of Rey. W. A. McKay, is en- titled to the prize for the county of Ox- ford, which consists of Macaulay's his- tory of England in five volumes, worth $5, Miu McKay's story was foimded on the St. George disaster,•and will be published in the Northern Messenger. was . reit and Stead in of• Odon, dr -it - 'The fh lbe:g 11 e: Was fain- rian in- ern- rom oney sp nged res- oney oh the 64 in a fruit -t store, nd th-e r: in0:vu were lry; !delay, ars, a aaits.eht, nook - 8 were ospit- orville iiiiiton ,in a ildo a °Dr. he de • must ipait of 'of the maker. :—A daring robbery was committed on the London Loan Bank on Monday last, about 1 o'clock. A stranger came to the front door and called out the teller, and while he was absent another one summoned the ledger -keeper to the rear. While they were absent a con- federate entered the building and seized all the moniy/- within reach, said to aishm_7roeueHneotencla.topee..dEa.b.o; ;it $1,30• 0. The whole oster,•M'';;inister L -of 'Fin- ance and Mrs. Addle C. -,Chisholm, the well:known temperance worker, were quietly married in Chicago on Monday lit inst., by Rev. S. P. Henson, D. D., of the First Baptist Church. The min- ister and eirs.Foster arrived at the Capital the following Wednesday evening. Mrs. i Chisholm's first husband s living some- where in the Stites, but .a devolve re-': cently procured left the lady free to Marry again. • , —The large barns and granary on the. 'farm of Mr. Sidney Jackson, on the town line, North Dorchester, near Der - Went were destroyed by fire about mid - 'night on the 4th inst. A couple of waggons, a quantity of hay and straw,50 bushels of oats'&large quantity of sugar. making utensils, several valuable hogs, and a shorthorn bull, were also burned. 'the driving barn and house escaped. There was $500 insurance on the Fern and $100,on the granary, but Mr, Jack- son's be heavy notwithstand- ing. . . 1 —They had guite an exciting time at igho a few weeks ago gave a series of =Miss Case*, the Nun of Kenniare, Geary Brothers stock farm, near Both- clever lectures in oronto tolarge and, well, on Friday night. A thoroughbred intelligent audiences, is staying at Grime - Polled Angus cow walked on to the plat- by Park for the season. She is busily form of 1 well, which gave way, precipi- tating her to the bottom,where she stood on her hind legs,pawing with her fore feet ageing the curbing, her nose just above the Water. After unsuccessful attempts to pull her up, the crowd dug away the earth at the side of the, Curb, which was partly 'broken away, and the animal walked up the slope, . —Mr: Wm. Chadwick Jones, editor and proprietor of the Paris Star-Tran- scipt,died very suddenly soon after com- ing to his office last Saturday morning. Deceased was born in-Jerseyyillein 1837. During his residence in Paris, he filled municipal Offices„acted as secretary 'of the North Brant': Reform Association, and also filled the position of church- warden of St. .4amea- Churche He WAS e man of .sterling integrity, . sociable characteristics and general good citizen- ship. Awife and four children, the eld- est a girl of 14 years, are left -to - lament his loss. ' —A -new grub is attacking crops,; 'various parts of - Ontario, The Sarnia, •Danadien says The worm that has been doing so muchdamage in the spring wheat and oat fields in this local- • ity is more like a cat worm than a wire worm. It is a grub -about a' half or three fourths of an inch loqz, as large' round as a slate, pencil and brown in color. It works in fields where lied or .stubble was turned over lost • fall. The latest advices indicatethat it has caw menced to Work in winter wheat Its mode of procedure -is to cutoff the blade close up the root and make e clean sweep . employed writing a new book, which, it is promited, will cause a sensation when it appears. The title of the work has not yet been selected, but the sub- ject matter will be the inside history of the Roman Catholic Church, especially in regard to the lives of priests and those within convents. The book ,will be published simultaneously in London, New York and Toronto- The history, will cover England, France, Ireland and America. Miss Cusack states that it was her intention to remain in Canada, although much pressed to return to Eng- land. —The annual camp of the London District Salvation Army at Woodland Park, near London, broke up on Mon- day last Upwards of 3,000 pertains visited the camp last Sabbath, and at- tended the meetings. • Services were conducted morning, afternoon and even- ing, the principal attraction being ad-• dresses by Staff -Captain Baugh, of Woodstock; Staff -Captain Sweetman, of St. Thomas, and the latter's wife.' •The services were enlivened by the singing of army tunes and the playing of the London army band. Although the crowd -was so large the best of order was Maintained, in fact the crowd was composed of people of very respectable appearance, who conducted themselves as if going to and returning from church.. Six special constables looked in vain for disorderly tharactere, while Comity Constables Allen and Graluuti also visit- ed the camp and returned empty -hand- _ ed ••• • 444.'3 .a' .