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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1889-11-08, Page 1• 1869. 111.111111SIM g Goes - MITE UL LIT.A,BL-E er Stock WITHIN r Weeks. OODS, NELS, &c. or .Special ;ht, shoving- inier Goods )out it. The - Florida in a- wants the- .. and Biblical ibly explain- eicl downby case where in subjection - showed that d wife _ia to le Christian !hristian bus - the Believer . he • discourse, ived by the edthat a real aese subject& a subjectof iered on the, • November. Vard and her turned after for the„ past busy, drying eems to have ▪ this year. ia.-We re - ie the death which took la, on Sun - was taken nation ofthe- ing, And in - and skill on Sunday lad reached He Wag one , having Bet- tis ago. He stage Intel - ad a devoted. WAS one of .re,ace in the e during the. acted as is a staunch_ ive part in svout meni- ,and took he temper - under the late of Tem - afternoon, tended the es which the marunity. !lugs of re - le the death me -of the awnship of took places- , on the 6th a - bless. Mr. .3s,Scotiand, s ofel-At the his father me to Can- e townehip wildernessa., when he er andanev- igtou where . He then Ind 9th con - g his, wife ere, by ba- be hewed • forest a himself. e °Id home- - a, Robert, and Moved the fruits .eformer in er of the hly esteem - lie was al- tutil about Oat a severe y,and final - resulting in wife, three grown up, extend to- iat in their WHOLE NTYMBEIR1 1,143. - I TWENTY-BB:30ND ylif.A.R. Cheap Cash Store —OF— KOFFMAN & 00. Q:IRMAT Clearing Sale. od. 25, We Commence a Great Clearing Cheap Sale in Every Line of Goods. Everything must go. -Call and see our prices. • Sales for CASH . ONLY -AT THE- Oheap Cash Store - OF— HOFFMAN & CO., -CARDNO S BLOCK, SEA FO RT H. • SCIENCE Has Conquere And made -it possible to Restore Defec- tive Eye Sight to Normal Vision. - J. S. Roberts Ja happy to announce that he. has secured t Paters* Piortrio Xye,Bletre, • It him to fit all defects of vision, ASTIGMATISM, HYPERM ETROpIA, MYOPIA,. PRESBYOPIA, OR ,ANY`COA1POUND DEFECT. - • - Astigniatism is due to irregular shape of eye, and is usually congenital.. Many school children with this defect are called stupid, but with pro- perly fitted glasses they may become the bright- est of scholars. This IS quite a common and dangerous defect.—Hypermetropia is a malform- Mao which keeps the ciliary muscle in constant use, whereas in a normal eye it is at rest when looking ata distance. This defect if neglected may,result in nervous depression and paint and even prostration.—Myopia. is a diseased condition of the eye, which should be very carefully fitted to prevent an increase of the defect, and perhaps' ultimate blindnese—Presbyopla is a Toss of ac- oommodation in the eye, which may -cause catar- act unless corrected by artificial aid. Frequently nervous or sick headaches, and also s9rions, illness, are brought .on by one or more of the above defects. Remember, no Charge for testing your eyes. J.S:RO B ERTS, Druggist & Optician SEAFORTH, ONTARIO.. -There was a very largely attended. s wedding the other eveningat the resi- dence of Mr. Chamberlain, Elizabeth Street, London. When Miss Lizzie Chamberlain was married to Mr. Wm. Johnson. The ceremony was performed by Elder Howlett, of the Latter Day Saints. The Wedding was followed by a sumptuous' supper, after which the young couple started for a trip to east- ern points prior to settling in Windsor. -The annual oyster supper of the Listowel dairymen's Board of Trade, - held on Thursuay night, 24th ult., was highly successful. It was attended by salesmen from about fifty factories, by the buyers of the district and local men. Letters of regret were read from S. R. Hesson, M. P. George Hess, M. P. P., and H. H. O'Reilly. After a cap- - ital repast; the principal speakers were Thomas Ballantyne M. P. P., „ Strat- ford ; Professor J".. W., Robertson, 0. A. C., Guelph, and C. E. Chadwick, Ingersoll. Their speeches were of high practical value. The secretary, Win. Climbs, read some statisties of the Board showing over 100,000 boxes of cheese boarded at Listowel during the season, and the amount Of cheese' made in the Listowel district to be about one million dollars' worth. -Mr. J. W. -Walker, a well-known horse buyer of St. Mary's, got into trouble at Paris a few weeks ago. It appears fie had been drinking hard, and Imagining he Was one of Pinkerton's de- tectives, arrested one of the most pro- minent men ,of the town, and placing him under handcuffs, which he had bet -- rowed from a county constable, led him • off to the lockup like a sheep to the slaughter. They were met by Chief Constable Cook, who released the "prisoner" and took the would-be de- tective in charge, and placed him be- hind the bars. Walker had $2,200 in his possession, and having a relative in an adjoining village who holds a high position the latter was sent for, when matters were fully explained and Walk- er was honorably acquitted. The case caused some excitement, but,as ueual,too raueh alcohol was at the bottom of the whole affair. • WOMBN'S PARLIAMENT.' PROVINCIAL WOMEN'S. CHRISTIAN TEM- PERANCE' UNION. • ' • ... 1 - The annual meeting of the -Provincial Women's Christien Temperance- Union was held last week at Galt. The. at- tendance was large, nearly every county in the Province being represented by delegates. The proceedings were most interesting end enthusiastic. The or- derly and, bueiness-like manner in which. the proceedings were conducted was creditable to those,' who Composed this' Convention, while •the enthusiasm of the numbers Show that their hearts are in the work. The following summary re- port of the proceedings will show, the di- rections in which the ladies of the Province are aiming. • -- DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE. The Supplying of literature at railway stations was discussed informally. In some cases the station agents refused to allow the union to init up their brackets, when a note to Manager Hickson -/aro- cured-from him sn1 order to all Grand Trunk railway officials to aid the Unions in everyway. , - - , SABBATH OBSERVANCE. On Sabbath observance Mrs. Cowan told Of the efforts to obtain Sunday street care in Toronto, and urged that it be made an issue in the intinicipal elections., They should pledge -candidates alder- men and Councillors, to support laws to protect the sanctity of the Sabbath! ' Mrs. Cowan charge&much of the lax- ity in the observance of the Sabbath on the character of the books supplied in the Sunday School libraries. , Miss Sleight, of London'complained that Detroit Sunday papers Are sold openly . in London on Sunday.Mrs,, Rutherford 'remarked that welled al- readrlawa on the statute -book againit ... this abuse. ' - .. LEGISLATION. The report of the Legislation Franch- ise and Petitiona Department preiented by Mrs.- J. Rockwell, found in the growth of the new party a sign of the progress of the prohibition sentiment, reported the appointment of superin- tendents in 33 local unions and -three minty unions, urged keener work in municipal elections and the election of women to the school boards, contained many kind words filen Mr. Waters, M. P. P., and urged the importance of the world's petition. ' TEE 'NEW PARTY. • Mrs. McKee, of Barrie in presenting the report of the Resoludon Committee, secured the adoption of the resolution passed at the meeting of the Dominion ihnion in Toronto, to which was added a promise that they will do all. they can to assist the Dominion Union in circulating Dominion petitions fot pro- hibition, The first new resolution was an endorsation of 'Canada's new party, reading as follows: if' That in the -opinion of this Convens ti n the great evils arising from intemr ranee can only be effectually eradi- cited'bya law prohibiting the menu i ; facture, mportation and sale of all all coholic liquors as a beverage ;,and, where- as such a law can onlybe obtained and en- forced by a government or governments, in sympathy with the same, therefore be itiresolved that we, the members of the Provincial Union, do hereby urge the use of every lawful -and legitimate means to assist Canada's new party, it being the only party pledged to prohi- bition." - Miss Tilley asked if this resolution committed the convention to the new party. Mrs. McKee thought -it would, pledge the union to work with the new party for prohibition. Miss Scott, of Ottawa; urged that they keep politica out of the uision. (Hear, hear.) Mrs. Maddock, president of the Wel- lington nounty union, spoke as 1 the original framer of the resolution, and warned all politicians to stand trona un- der. Turning her guns first on the Conservative party, she asked :What they had clone in the last forty years for prohibition. She would not tell all they had done, but she would tell one thing -they had connived at the per- nicious - pernfit system of Lieutenant - Governor :Royal -that ie enslaving' the Northwest; . Mies Scott,- of -Ottawa, shot up at this onslaught on the Conservative party; and asked what about theotherside. - Mrs. Maddock replied that the Re- form party had, ,under pressure of peti- tions, given them the Scott Act, 'but charged that they had ,purposely made it so unwieldy that it could .not be . worked. 'Mrs. Ashcroft, of Wiarton, thought -- that Canada would be in a sad state if it had to wait for prohibition until the new party came into power. They had other reforms, such as an elective sen- ate and manhood suffrage, *hich At would take them years to secure. Mrs. y Macdonnell, of Toronto, feared that if they endorsed the new party, they could not expect any favors from existing parties, such as the franchise and temperance instruction in' 'the schools. She proposed that they send the question demi to the - unions, and come' back next year -ready to reflect ;their opinions. She moved that the resobition be referred back to the cern- mittee' with instructions that the last clause be struck out. Several con- tended that their votes represented their individual feelings, and did not - bind their local unions. On a vote be- ing taken, Mrs. Macdonnell's resolutien to refer back and strilse • out the last clause was carried by a large majority. --At a subsequent meeting of the union the resolutions committee presented. their amended report, in which the clause referring to the new party- was eliminated and the following substituted therefor: "Therefore be it resolved that we, the members of the Provin- cial Union, de hereby urge the necessity SEAFORTH, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 188 of aeing our influence to assist any pro- hibition candidates to any office." It Was carried in thie form without diesent. , CARE OF YOUNG MEN. The following resolution was adopted: "That, as Christian women, we have a duty to perform to the students in our cities, and the young men and women who are strangers in oar towns. With eveyer to God for wisdom and direc- stion, we pledge ourselves to do all in ' our power to remove temptation from their way f Let every White Ribbon woman in the Dominion, who has a son or. daughter from home, remember that she has a claim upon her sisters, and therefore is free to apply to them for any Service. that Christian mothers and sisters can render." . ' REFORMS WANTED, Resolutions Were carried advising the appointment oflecal committees to waiton the ministers in theirlocalities and offer to supply them with unferinented wine for the sacramental table; that the Franch- ise Department be divided, that they Continue to work' for the extension of the Franchise to women; that Sunday newspapers, Sunday funerals, Sunday travelling, shopping:and work be die-- coaraged and legislation .secured to pro- tect the Sabbath as a day of rest; .. that a urn officer, to leek after scientific tem arenas instruction; be appointed in each county. SOCIAL PURITY. emanated a• set of resolutions -as fol- lows to:m the Social Purity Department " That in -view of the importance and difficulty in dealing with the subject of social purity„resolved, that its pledge be, adopted, that the ministers of the Gospel be asked to preach an annualser- mon i on social purity, that the thanks of this convention be tendered to Mr. J hn Charlton, M. P.) for his efforts inJ�half of this subject as expressed in t e Charl- ton Act, that the attention of, the Gov- ernment be called to the obscene pictures given in connection with the sale of cigarettes frequently falling into the hands of the boys, and, also to the. im- moral literature which still finch -site -way -throUgh the postoifice to the young of bOth sexes." RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS. The convention then adopted the fol- lowing: Resolved, that the thanks of this convention, representing the Christian Temperance women of Ontario, are due to the honorable.the Minister of Educa- tion.; the inspectors and teachers, for the progress made in the Department of ' Scientific Temperance." • This example called forth a cordial -vote of thanks to the ladies' champion, Mr. John Waters, M. P. P.. for his ad- vocacy of woman suffrage., Manager Hickson of the Grand Trunk Railway, also tecCived'a, vote of thanks. MISCELLANEOUS. - Mrs. Jaeob_Spence secured the adop- tion of a resolution Condemning the style of ,theatrical - entertainment in vogue lamong Loyal Legions and Bands of .Hope. Miss Scott, of Ottawa, urged the im- portance of the young woreen't work in brief address, and.Miss Tilley explain- ed with interesting detail the work of the Domestic ,'Kindergarten Depart- ment. Kingston was decided on as the -next mettng place of the convention. Th report, of county presidents brought Very encouraging statements from Mrs. Richards, of county; Mrs. Rogers, of Grey county; Mrs. Coates, of Grenville county; Mts. Ben- net, of Halton and Peel counties, and Mrs. Forbes, of Lincoln county, • Suggestions in the president's address were adopted, providing for honorary members, th ' 10 cents of the 50 cents memberships ee be paid to the county I treasurer aaji °aunty fee and -that the 1 juvenile an • Sabbath School depart- ments be united. . A new department on parlor meetings. was created, and: Mrs. Day Smith, of Hamilton, was appointed superinten- dent. i ,, a , Miss Kelly, of .Peterboro', Mrs. Alex- . Ander of Galt, Mrs. Johnston, of Aur- ora, and Mrs. McKee, of Barrie, were elected delegates to the Ontario Alliance Convention which Will meet in Toronto on ;December 18. - The finances of the convention are in a veryficouraging condition.- Mrs. Fawcett, of Toronto was elect- ed p esident. ,Mrs. J. Rockwell, of Kingeto , vice-president: Mrs. wcett, . the president-elect, , presented the banner awarded annually to the county that boasts the largest union -membership in proportion to the population, to Mrs. Graham, wholrepre- sente&Waterloo, which held this covet- ed banner during the year. It has one white ribbon to every 21 of the 'popala- tion; Elgin standing next with one to every :38. . 'Travels in the Old World. (By a Huron Lady.) SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE. For some timepast I had been con- , templeting a visit to Londortbut an an- nouncement in " The -Freeman" of a large Missionary Convention to be held in the ITabernacle,- and whose evening Was td: be addressed by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon,Rev. John McNeil and others, helped me to deeide upon what clay my visit should be paid. We had secured tickets -and had been kindly furnished with a letter of introduction to the Secretary of the Convention. So, armed with these, we started for the Taber- nacle. The distance intervening was traversed partly by means of the rail- way, which ran for some part of 1 the -way underground, and partly by tram or bus. After leaving the cars we walk- ed across Westminister bridge, a long bridge which crosses the Thames. Here, by means of the lights dotted at regular intervalsalong the river, we could see its windings almost &S distinctly as by full 'daylight. Here too, We SSW the huge pile of the Parliament buildings with its large aquae tower rising fdr above us. The etreets were a strange sight with their towering; top-heavy lociking omnibuses and their bustling crowds. Soon we found ourselves as- cending the steps of the Tabernacle. We, were rather late and the immense building seemed to be full, but on pro- ducing the letter, which we had brought with us, we Were conducted from the end at which we. entered, up the long side of the first gallery to the opposite end, where we were given a seat almost behind; but quite close to the. speakers. There was a slender, youthful 'looking person speaking when, we entered, a Mr. McCenaghy from -Philadelphia, but his remarks were not very distinct so we amused ourselves by looking at the speaker's platform and picking out from those upon it Mr. Spurgeon and his brother Mr. James Spurgeon.-- I could not exactly -determine which among the many faces present, belonged to Mr. McNeil, but I fixed on one which seemed to answer pretty well the des- cription which I had heard of him. This was a sensible, capable looking face but not one that betokened great- ability I thought. His hair appeared to be light brown, his beard sandy in colour and worn long. When the Chairman An- nounced that the beloved pastor of the congregation would now address the meeting the appleuie was most ,enthusi- astic, and when Mr. Spurgeon rose to speak there was a fresh burst which had to subside before he could begin. He based his remarks on the words :-" Go ye therefore into the „world and preach the gospel itorevery creature..." It was a telling, instructive, beautiful mission- ary address, frequently interrupted by bursts of applause, which swelled up from And around the vast gathering when the great speaker Made some par- ticalarly good point or happy illustra- tion. Mr. Spurgeon's voice and utter- ance were' particularly beautiful and pleasing. There seemed to be no effort on his part, but almost every Word could be heard, and when he rose to flights of oratory his voice rang through the domeshaped.building,clear and bell - like. He earnestly impressed upon his hearers the fact that the command to go was not addressed simply 'to few isolated followers of Christ, but that, each one to the extent of his ability, was to be a missionary. ," Goye there- fore." Then- followed singing, real hearty Tabernacle singing led by no organ or choir but surging up from the seven or eight thoueand: human voices gathered there. When Mr. -McNeil was called :on to speak, the gentleman -whom I had flied upon as likely to be he,rose. His announcement and appear- ance were greeted with.applause almost equal to that given Mr. Spurgeon. His accent is noticeably Scotch, and his voice not so fine as Mr. Spurgeon's, but his . address was well heard, racy and' nter- eating to a ,great degree. He said that in urging the claims of the foreign mis- sion field . upon others, the - argument might be used :-" Why are you not awaryourself "But,"he added, in his inimitable manner :-"-IMy , dear friend do You not remember that I am a foreign missionary, labouring in the great mission field of London far from my northern home," or words to that effect. „His address; interspersed as it was with many a droll saying and comi- cal story, Wed very earnest and 'impres- sive. At the close of Mr. McNeil's speech the meeting was practically over. A short address and a hymn followed but the crowd was gradually slipping away. TRAVELLER. Canada. - A fire, causing a loss of $40,000, occurred in Quebec the other evening. -An.unknown woman was killed on the Grank Trunk railway track in Lon- don, on Wednesday -last. ' -Three car loads of potatoes have been received at Lemon from Muskoka and other points and retailed out at 75 cents a bag, - Rev. B. Canfield Jones has accep- ted the invtatiOn from. the First Pres- byterian Church of Port Hope to be- come its pastor. -About two tons of frogs legs have been shipped from the bay of Quinte district to New York during the past four months. - . -.Some hundreds of gallons of fish oil have been shipped from Lake Winnipeg this fall. The oil was taken from dead fish and refuse at the fisheries. - The Toronto Milk Dealers' Associa- tion have decided' to put the price of milk up to 7 cents a quart. This means blue milk where money is scarce. - Twenty' new elevators are now ap- proaching completion throughout Man- itoba, increasing the storage capacity of the province fully 600_1000 bushels. -The Brantford firnaTiof A. Watts & Co„ has shipped two carloads of soap - one to Yokohama, Japan, and the other to Shanghai; China. The shipments go via Vancouver. - -At the Berlin assizes a couple of weeks ago, the case of Griffin vs. Ayr public sehoel board was postponed and i trial set for January next n Toronto. -Alexis Ouelette, a veteran of 1812, died at St. Augustin, Quebec, the other' day at the age of lop years and 9 months. . -Mies Kate Vankoughnet, daughter of the late Hoe. P. Vankoughnet, com- mitted suicide at Corn.wall on Thursday nighthe Millers' -T. News, published in Toronto, says: Those millers of other nationalities in Canada who have been wont to regard the German millers of Waterloo county as just a trifle too sleepy and slow in their methods for a progressive age like this, have recently been compelled to admit that they were mistaken. 1During these many years that they have been buying heavy' and light, dirty and clean wheat at the one price, and losing instead of milling money in consequence, the so-called Teutonic "Slow coaches" have been buying exclusively by tester. The result is seen in their 4 condition as compared we and ruiaed fortunes aroe millers who prided the progressiveness have .b slow in adopting -thi business method. -Word has been ree ment of cattle from the North Wept Territory, -England SO sold for £ - The seven saw*nill of Milford and Kings John, NewBrunswicijr, out about 80,000,000 fe deals this season. - - -Mr. James Mite was ( destroyed by- fir some time ago, has debit' build, and: has gone to charge of the mill at th - Mr. Priest of Bath in hickorynut ,e e•a year is light. During only able to purchase John y prbsiserous the wrecked :them. • The es-- on their a little too mnion. sense a thetas ship - rime Ranch, Ved safely in , a head. i the, vicinity 1 011 the St. r, will turn 'lumber and whose mill .G.lenmorris d not to re - IT to take ii heavy dealer ' yield this year he *as .bushel i.uid a . Va. the Can - adieu Bank of •Commer in Ayr, also postmaster, has obtaine hree -months' leave of absdhee to ' :the Pacific Coast foit the benefit of -health. - John . McIntyre; . Metrickville School trustee, who w charged with -an aggravated assatili o s lex. -McDon- ald, teacher in the ,.? chool there, has been senteneecl to r ,elonthe in the Central Prised; - At its meeting- a f 'days . ago in Winnipeg the Anglica god declared strongly in favor . of non -Sectarian system of religiouslea g in the Pub- lic schools of Canada. . - There are now tviaa -an Masonic . lodges in Montreal awit otel member- ship of 1,506. They, p e -forming a Joint Stook Company, : a capital' of $100,000; to build a M to Temple. - Mrs.. Thomas Fra n, of London was severely burned la iday evening. Her husband put coal 0 the kitchen stove, and the - sud blaze -s-et his wife's clothes on fire. - Andrew Fuller, an pleyee of the Ontario - Rolling Mill amilton; re- ported to the police t he had been robbed of $275 in the Le -bolas Hotel Wedneedayinight. F had been on a sPreariletil' - Aer at Dr 0- is 'buying quantities - of turnipsl'shiritnent to New Fork, and th1. -t a profitable business. I He began b mg 15 cents per- bee el, and in A 11411 enured , . . six °kr- ds, or 4,000 elt:--. \-ReiFather _Ken , of London, has been appointed to Mount Car- mel niissiOn an the ton, p of McGil- livray, lately rendere cant by the . lamented ' death cif t Rey.- Father Kelly, the late incumb -It is Said the Cana 'Pacific Rail- way will have a line of Tel -steamships, to be the finest .craft on e lakes run- ning between ChicagdA 6: win "'Sound before the season of 18 loses. - , - Mr. John Warne, Easton's Cor- ners, iwho for years has -n working on ear couplers had ame nearly ready for trial, which !raises to be a strong rival to anr‘str pier yet . pet - Anted. _, - -A tramp spent a n in Bannock- burn . _ . school house re - and in the morning departed with net belonging to teacher Brennan. -tease written upon the blackboard, hat he need- ed the coat worse than t teacher. -Miss Byam, of Port rry, has just been re-engaged as teadh inSection25, Dickie Settlement, nea eh, at a salary of $430. This liberal it ty•speaks well for the generosity of th thstees as well 0. timelier, iggebee Prov- st the. Unit- a refund of a meeting at ount involir- punt Salem, ,,,gubnre.a.,tiithhee ietusilOntgp OlUtlalrII c. tirade-. n town- hicago the eat Spanish Iwinning ex- -Steele was ,-. ng. bo og- Ag u tp ri:i lie tour ni In: orse stables , in a few is • the only ii. s, a Jewish n issued -in Mitred in the language of s and is the ublished in r --son, from are visiting roveseird in - drove the in - less than r -old West- 'initoba where Ake a4 -good uhgeh:P-S. ortahgee other day. ity on North len; can gentle - herring for i Times says 6 history of at: there has this kind of ey- can get. mg at Ayr ration - the .urgess was he, let the d -up went bbed the ut by this How Bur - burned no as for the. proficiency o -The hay dealers ince, who have claims ed States Government duties, are about to h St. Johns; Quebec. T ed is about $800,000. - Chas. Wiseman, was accidentally shot otlaer day while loadi bullet lodged in the about the seventh vert alysis in the lower extr - Mr. Abel Steele, o ship secured first prize other day for the four onions. The weight of hibit was 13/, pounds. the only Canadian exh -The barns at the tural College, Guelph pleted, and the cattle their new quarters. T will be ready for emu days. The block pav part that remains unfin - Die Ziet, or the newspaper, has just Montreal city. It is Hebrew characters in the German and Polish first of the kind ev Canada. -Mrs. E. Shipley an East Saginaw, Michig relatives and friends the county' ofElgin. entire distance of 200 m three days; and used a ern prairie pony. \ -" The only place a man -without brains e living- at .:farming is plains." So said MT. North-west Farmer, t Mr.Waugh is the best au West farming in the Do - Last week three men were in Picton buy the New York market. this is the first time Prince Edward fisherie been a foreign market fish. These men want - Watson's foundry narrowly escaped co other evening. While getting a pail of gaso, lamp get too near theml the blaze like a she% E pail and pitched it ontsid time the barrel was on fi goes escaped without be , one can tell. The bell was at once rung and a big stream of water was soon playing MI the fire. Had it got into t begat- house no dottbtthe reservoir would have blown up and a large part of the foundry building would have been in- stantly a heap of ruins. -A novel dust collector has just been patented by a milling engineer in Lon- don, who desires to dispose of it for a small royality. . The dust is collected by electricity generated by vulcanite rods, and the machine is said to act -very well, especially OD purifiers. -A lady formerly. known as Miss Alice Gracie Wilson, who was at one time a resident of Montreal and OWDS property in its immediate vicinity worth half a million dollars, has had her hus- band, Albert B. Crenshaw, arrested for bigamy in Cleveland. --As a result of Hunter and Crossley's campaign at Kingston, hundreds were admitted to members,hip in churches last Sabbath. The evangelists leave the city on Tuesday for Hamilton, where they remain until Christmas, and then go to Montreal. —The lengthy trial of Harvey, the Guelph murderer, was brought to a close en Saturday. Alter an absence of an hour and a half the jury brought in is verdict -of wilful murder," upon which ' the unfortunate man was sentenced to be hanged on the 29thinst. --Potatoes promise to be a dear crop in Manitoba this winter. . They are now selling at 65 cents per. bushel, and are expected to be a 'dollar a bush -el. Ap- ples are mostly brought in from the United States, .owing to the failure of the Ontario crop, and sell' from $4 to $5 per barrel. - -The big mills of Messrs Cook :Bros., The dookc and 50,000,000 feet of cut lu two years ago diegubied as a bag of tow, got two years in the !time institution. • eaf r_Smf eriro Pm, ee young orRue :gen r mber were burnt. having been loaded on a- waggon with St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary some wills, was before the Montreal recorder feared, but merely rheumatism, and her other bags, and thus getting outside the the other day charged with theft. He the well-known temperance advocate, is reeovering`from. her recent severe illness. It has been discovered that her malady is not paralysis, at for a long time it was friends anticipate that she will soon again appear on -the Prohibition plat- -Mrs. Letitia -Youmans, of Eaton, -Alfred Martie, who escaped from '0Actigorera'thwehic12lit ih\ff are e- among the finest 011 the continent. Saxe & Co„ of Albany, offered $1,000,000 for the mills and limitt- this past summer. The Cooke valued them at $1,200,000. Thomas Murphy, who on Monday last week, ran away with a horse and vehicle belonging to his employer, being captured at Stratford, has been sentenced by Judge Lacourse to Kingston Penitentiary for a term not less than three and not exceeding five years. Murphy is 15 years of age and has no relatives that he knows cif. -Police magistrate Dr. Field, of Woodstock, the other day • remanded half a dozen little boys to jail over night for trespass, and now actions are Jbeing entered against him for false im- prisonment. -Where is a strong feeling in that town that whether the magia- trate -kept within* the limits of the law or not, he did net act with discretion. -Principal Grant seye that the Chi- nese idea of courteous treatment is carried into every walk and phase of life. He would rather trav.el in a third- class car in China, or Japan than in a second-class carhere, because there a traveller is never annoyed by tobacco chewers, smokers, And swearers, or by coarse and offensive habits of any kind. -George Ward, Picton, Who was drowned off the Quinte, leaves a wife and three small children in Picton in destitute circumstances. -Mrs. Word only had five -cents when the news reach- ed her of her. husband's sad end.: The Rathbun Company -sent her provisions and wood to relieve her immediate wants. • -Mr. Gunn, of Walkerton, and Captain McLeod, of Cape Breton, the two commissioners appointed by the Dominion Governineet, to inspect and Tatudy the herring fisheries of Holland, Scotland and England, and who re turned to CanacisAfter concluding their labors a few days aga, will prepare separate reports at their own homes and then forward them to Ottawa. - -The annual convention of the Wo- men's Christian Temperance Union met at Galt last week., There 'WAS a very large attendance of delegates from all ports of the Province and a very inter- esting.and profitable time spent. Mrs. Fawcett, of Toronto; WAS elected Presi- dent for the coming year. The session was a lengthy one lasting from Tuesday to Friday night. -Friday, 25th ult., about noon the dwelling of Mr. J. Allan, Erin town- ship, was discovered to be on fire. So rapidly did the fire spread that it was with difficulty that the old gentleman and lady were got out. Only a bed tick and a few chairs were saved. About $200 in bank bills was hid in a bed tick and unfortunately ,the *tong tick was erescud and the money was cremated. -In one way and another Canadians have figured rather prominently in the Cronin -murder case' being tried at Chicago. Dr. Cronin . spent his early days at St. Catharines; Alexander Sul- livan hails from Amherstburg ; Wood- ruff, the confessor, from Woodstock; John Graham, the alleged jury fixer, from Toronto, and A., S. Trude, who was Sullivan's attorney, is frem Eastern Ontario. . -The late Thomas MeLetie -Thomp- son, of Bloor -street, Toronto, who died on September 20, left an estate valued at $271,748.90; Among • his bequests are $1,000; to the poor of Paisley, Scot- land, -the native town of deceased; $3,000 to the Evangelical Society of the Grande Ligne for the benefit of decayed misfionaries of that institution; £500 MoLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. • to the English Baptist Missionary Society for their African and East Indian missions, and to charitable in- stitutions in Toronto : $500 each to the Boy's /tome, the,Hillcrest Convalescent Home, the Bloor street Baptist Church, the Home for Jneurables and the Hos- pital for sick children. - Mr. James Hunter, an old resident of Mount Forest, died on Friday last at the age of 61 years. Mr. Bunter set- tled in the township of Luther thirty- four years ago, and was appointed a justice of the peace in 1871, and held the polition of postmaster of Egerton post office for twenty-two years, both of which positions he occupied until the time of his death. Mr. Hunter was a - native of Berwickshire, Scotland. -A case of damages against the town_ of Port Hopeeis being tried at the Co: bourg assizes. A number of young men - some time ago drove to Port Hope from Cobourg, and on the return trip -their vehicle ran into a large stone which was placed on a eerier to protect the side- walk, The occupants of the carriage ' Were thrown out, and two Of them, 13utler and Kewin were hurt. Thby now seek redress" from the town. The action is beingdefended on the ground that the plaintiffs were drunk, were driving at a furious rate and that the stone as it was situated was off the travelled track. " , -A New York despatch Says: Sev- eral weeks ago Williain German, of Pietou, Canada, went_to Freeport, Log Island, to buy a place there, with the intention of making it his home. The. other morning, while he was crossing the Long Island railroad tracks on his way to the post office to get a letter from his wife, who is still in Canada, he was struck by an express and in- stantly killed. . He was 65 years old; -There was a large and happy gather- ing at the residence of Mr. Wm. Gibson, J. P., of Beamsville the other day, on the occasion of the marriage of David c; - - Stewar% of Peterhead, Scotland, and Miss Mary G. Davidson, of Hamilton, sister-in-law of Mr. Gibson. Rev. Dr. Laidlaw, of Hamilton, performed the ceremony, assisted by Rev. Dr. Mc- Intyre, of Beamsville. Over 100 guests mere present and a right royal wedding celebration given the numerous guests. -There is now living in the township of Bury, county of Compton, a °duple by name Benjamin and Jennie'Sylves- - ter, to whom,avas born on the 27th of June last a female child. This child at the age of three weeks weighed exactly fifteen ounces. She is now five months old, and weighs but five pounds'. fully -swathed in infant's flannels. Atthree weeks after birth a finger ring i inches , in diameter was easily slipped over her, hand and up to the elbow. She is in perfect health. -Miis Minnie O'Connor, of Toronto, has instituted proceedings against Dr. Frank Stowe, dentist, to recover dam- . ages for injuries sustained through car- bolic acid spilling over her while getting her teeth fixed. The liquid burned Miss O'Connor's cheek and neck, and _ will probably cause a permanent disfigure- ment. Dr. Stowe claims that the acci- dent was the fault of the patient, Who did not keep quiet while the liquid was being applied to the tooth. -The city engineer of St. Thomas has measured the water flowing ' down Ket- tle Creek,which it is proposed to utilize as a source of supply for domesticpur- poses for that place, and finds t1:a6t2,87 in245- hours 259,66Q cubic feet, or 16 gallons of water flow down the 'creek. ,,Itis thought that 1,000,000 gallons per -day will suffice for the use of the city for years to come, and it is proposed to le onstruct a dam which will store 10,, 000,000•gallens for use in an emergency. --Mrs. Fawcett, of Toronto, has been elected President of the Ontario Wo- man's Christian Temperance Union in- stead of Mrs. Brethour, who declined re-election.: The convention at Galt passed a resolution asserting the need of giving more attention to college students of both sexes away from‘home, and spec, jelly in large cities. ,%. Kingston was fix- ed upon as the place of meeting for next year. The finances of the Union are reported to be in a vezy healthy condi- tio-LAn exchange says :-One day, last week' as James McKenzie, near e St.. George, was threshing his grain, ' the roof of the barn was found to be on fire, having caught from a spark frmn the engine. A young man, agile of foot, climbed a lightning rod and succeeded in extinguishing the blaze before much harm was done. It is high time that threshers were more careful. It is said that many of them remove the grates from the fire box to increase the draft, as well as not having 1 proper supply of water.. R. Cumming, son of Mr. George -P Cumming, of Washington, near Drum - bo, .has started on a trip around • the earth.He has been in the employ of the wholesale drug firm of Davis, Law- rence & Co., Montreal, for some time, - and on their behalf he is going intro- duce their pods succeuively. i Ber- muda, Jamaica, Ceylon, Chinl, Japan, 97 n Brazil and Vancovver Island, re- turning ' home in - about six months. This is quite a desirable trip for a young man to take with a nice -- salary of a thousand a year and all ex- pe_neAest paasidaie o,n the premises of George Murray, 10th line, East Zorra, the other day, a team of horses was sold to James Kennedy, of Woodstock, for $140. Mr. Murray evidently thought the price- too low, for he refused to give up: Ken- nedy went to Wondstock and secured the services of Constable Tisdale, and they proceeded to obtain the team. The team disappeared from Miami's, but the eonstable traced then' to Embro, where he found they had been taken -by Malcolm McNeil. McNeil finally agreed to tell where the horses were, and the constable found them' tied up in a back yard and took them to Woodstock. • • • • c . 1