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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-04-10, Page 3BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT, CURRESPON IiIENCE. We will at all times be pleased to receive items of news froth our sub - .scribers. We want a good corres- pondent in every locality, not already represented,.to send u8 RELIABLE news. 'SUBSCRIBERS. Patrons who do not receive their paper regularly from the carrier or •thriugh their local post offices will tonfer a favor by reporting at this office at once. Subscriptions may Commence at any time. ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that all "changes" of advertisements, to ensure insertion, should be handed in not later than MONDAY NOON of .each week. CIRCULATION. 'THE NEws-REGoao,,has a larger circulation than any other paper in this section, and as five advertising few equals in Ontario. medium has Our books are open to those who mean business. JOB PRINTING. The Job Department of this jour- nal is one of the best equipped. in Western Ontario, and a superior class of work is guaranteed at very lom prices. ' The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year—$1.25 In Advance. Wednesday. April 10th, 1S89 MAUD'S 11USCLE. A LIVELY SET•TO IN BRAN'rFORD 3IAUD STEPHENSON SWITCHES JANITOR BALLANTYNE,—AND LEADS HIM ACROSS THE STREET BY THE NOSE. There was a lively scrap in Brantford on Tuesday week, the de- tails of which are sensational some- what, and of a character rarely known in Brantford, fortunately. It appears that the friction between Miss Stephenson, a teacher in Kings Ward school, and janitor Ballon tyne became so unpleasant that it extended to the whole family and for tuore than a year it had been one continual "jangle." The public school board were called upon to oust Ballantyne for alleged neglect of his duty as .janitor, and lie was finally asked to resign. His resigns-- tion esign-tion was sent in at the last meeting of the board. GENTLEMEN,—I hereby give one month's notice that I will, on the first day of April next, 'vacate the office of janitor of the King's Ward School. 1 do not wish to serve any longer under the Stevenson family namely, Maud, Nell, Mary and Doug. lass. I also demand an investiga- tion, not from' a desire. to retain my present position, but that I may have an opportunity to refute the untruth- ful insinuations made by Miss Stevenson at the last meeting of the Board. It is curious that Miss ,Stevenson should deny me the right to enter the school after 4 p. m., when she will entertain (to the detri- ment of her scholars), for hours each week parties who do not pay taxes or even live in the city.. If Miss Stevenson had attended to her own business half as much as she did to mine, she might have passed more than nine per cent. of her pupils at the last promotion examinations, the lowest' percentage, I think, in the city. As Mr. Stevenson has been around to several, trying to get them to take my place, and, as for as I know, failing, I would respectfully nominate himself for the position, particularly as he is an expert in dusting and taking care of outhouses. Again asking leave to resign. I remain, yours etc. Wu. BALLANTYNE. The Stevensons were very much incensed and concluded to lay for Ballantyne and thrash hint. The father being rather advanced in years did not like to encounter the sturdy janitor, and so the el.lest, daughter, ,Vaud, constituted herself THE AVENGING ANGEL. And she proved to be worthy of the cause elle espoused. The time and occasion presented thetuselvee on Tuetelay morning, and it Heented as though Maud hail been going around loaded for a week. That morning she had tlonitetl a little tight -fitting jacket, and secreting a tough switch somewhere about her person, sallied out upon the war,patlt. There was blood in her nye. Sh" proceeded to Wright's grocery, Whero she sat down ostensibly to tv:t t for her father, who hal guns' into town. She was not th •re many .minutes before she espial 11r. 1i tlluttyne cro=sine the street, As h.t passed the floor she followed hint and lw4an to lay on the swift!) of a•r his face. ife turned u;roia her a•:d tried to push her rtwey free) Id m. But every time she rttreck hitt the (ire flow from her eyes rut 1 She seentml to got madder yet,. iuLlit.ynr, finally betaine enraged and seizing her bent her laud; o er a low fence anti struck her a blow oit the nose. The claret flew and ik b Wolfe who was standing by called "tittle." The girl's father had arrived by this time, and when Bob essayed to part the pugilists, the old wan etruck him, over the back of the neck with his walking Stick. "Let 'ern alone" he cotnwansiied and no one cared to interfere. When Maud heard her father's voice she choked down a cry that was on her lips and SAILED INTO THE JANITOR with more confidence. She had lost her false teeth. in the struggle, and her bangs were most beauti• fully uuhung, and her nose was still dripping claret, and yet she wouldn't let up on the janitor. She slashed at hint with the switch until the tide of his face was striped with red welts, she scratched and clawed like a gentle, purring house -cat that was very 11111011 annoyed and in an un• pleasant frame of wind. Filially she seized hire by the proboscis and led him thus, through the mud across the street nearly to the black• smith shop. Here B•dIautyne shout ed, "Will none of you men save me from being murdered?" Theu \Vm, Sigman made a move to separate them, but again the father's stick was uplifted and William desisted. The acre hadlasted several p now minutes and Mend was willing to quit. Each of thele looked as if a bosin of water and a yard or two of court plaster would tie appropriate prescriptions. The carnage ceased. Maud retired to Wright's grocery, where she bathed her bloody face and slicked up a little. Then she went home. There was not a very large audience, but it was a very appreciative one,•and betting was about even. Any odds that were given were on Maud. It seethe passing strange that any young woman should let her temper get the better of her good sense, and make s..ch an exhibition of herself. One man Said to the Expositor, "Heavens, what a wife that would be for any man • to get 1" The people are very ntuoh excited over the matter. The general opinion seems to.be that Miss Mary Stephen• son is an excellent. teacher, and there is one thing certain the chits dren are very fond of her. But other members of the family have pushed little unpleasantnesses with the janitor to the disgraceful exhibi. tion of Tuesday. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. A GUELPH MAN KILLS HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS. The people of Guelph were much surprised Tuesday of last week to hear of the arrest of W. H. Harvey, boost -keeper for J. H. Lyon, book publisher of that city. Rev. Dr. Lett went bail for him to appear at court next morning. The charge was embezzlement. In the mean- time Harvey bought a pistol, went, home• and murdered his wife and. •two daughters. Locking up the house he walked to Heapeler, about 12 miles; there hired a rig and drove to Galt ; here he got another rig and drove to St. George, caught the train there for Hamilton and proceeded to Toronto where he had a son, apparently with the intention of shooting him and possibly com- witing suicide. We are thus particular in giving an outline of his conduct after the murder, as there is a mawkish seutia ment given expression to that the man was insane. But if there ever was murder, murder devilish, fiend- ish and premeditated, the 'actions of Harvey prove that ho committed it. He was arrested 'in Toronto while loitering on the street where he had telegraphed his son to meet him, but the Message fell into the hands of the police. Harvey was a superintendent of St. George Church Sunday School, a total abstainer and to all appear- ance a highly christian man while all the while he was stealing from his employer.. He is upwards of tifty years of age ; six feet high and of very heavy frame. He wears a full, flowing dark beard with a few snowy threads. Hia long black lecke are also tinged with the snow of age and are heavy enough to be a little out of the common. TILE GHASTLY FIND. When Harvey did not put in an appearance at the police court, the chief of police and a posse of men left for his residence, where they gained an entrance. They passed through the hall into the rear of the honer), and on entering the bath room a ghastly and bloody scene met their eyes. Oti the floor, lying on her left side, was Mrs. FIarvey, with a BULLET THOLE IN TIER BEAD. The rota sly weapon had evidently been placed close to the buck of the icthrn'.1 heart, its powder was notici• blc on her hair. The bullet passed tlreug!, her brain, corning out below the left eye. I 1n ascending the stairs another si11 r we't, the eye. Geraldine, the little thirteen -year-old child was I . ing on her hack in the front bed room, wit!, a bullet hole in her left cheek. The third and last body viewed, Nae that of Miss Lillian Harvey, a lady ju-t budding into womanhood. She waw found in the room in the rear of the house, lying between the bol atel the tvall, directly behind the door. A bullet had entered at the back of the head and done its fatal work. Lying on the camp bed —for auch was the one in this room, was a quantity of colored tisane paper, which the lady had evident ly been moulding with her left augers into paper -towers. This ghastly find put the police after hint, and, as above stated, re- sulted iu his arrest in Toronto and return to Guelph where he is held awaiting the result of the inquest. CUI€REN7'S TOPICS Episcopalians in England have cause for encouragement in some statistics given in the recently pub- lished Church year book. It appears that in 1875 the number of persons confirmed way under 138,0011, while for 1888 the corresponding total was over 217,000 ; an increase in Chir• teen years of nearly 58 per cent, which is almost four times as great as the growth of the population. We learn from the report of the Interior Department that the Crown timber agent at Winnipeg reported prices of fuel as follown : Cordwood,. ou car at Winnipeg, $3.25 to $4.50; at Portage la Prairie, $2,50 to $3. American anthiacitecoal was offered at Winnipeg on the cars at $8.50, per ton, and native soft coal at $7.50. , A POINTER FOR "GOLDY." In his defense of the Jesuits 'in St. Patrick's church, Ottawa, Rev. Father Drummond, of Montreal, touched upon the charge of disloyalty preferred against his order. He mentioned Uoldwin Smith aspromi- nent among those who made the charge, and asked if such reflections upon their loyalty came with good grace from a man who was himself every day held up as a disloyal sub- ject for seeking to accomplish the annexation of this country to the United States. TIIE NAME SMELLS TO HEAVEN.— The Winnipeg Free Press objects to being called " a Manitoba Grit paper." This is not a matter of wonder. To be attacked as a simple Grit paper, and the associate and fellow of the Globe, or to be assail- ed as a plain Manitoba paper, is bad enough. But to combipe the two words and a would be respect able journal responsible for the Riel agitation, and the farmers' .union rumpus, Herman Cook and Green way, the C. U. fad and the frozen wheat stories, an Ontario fodder famine—all this is to much. But then what is the Free Press if not what it has been called T IRISH ORIGINS AND CHAR- ACTER. Putting minor divisions aside, and keeping in mind the two grand divisions among the old Irish, name- ly, the imaginative, persistent, stolid, revengeful, superstitious Ugrian, and the quick-tempered• but kind-hearted, generous, unsteady quick -tongued, pleasure -loving Kelt, we can understand perhaps better than before the reason for anomalies in the national character. We may perceive in the individual Irish. roan, it way be, the contest still go• ing on between Aryan and Ugrian, between Iran and Turan. Have we not here a clue to contradictions in Irish natures, their fiery threats and actual peaceableness, their tur- bulence and relative freedom from criute, their reputation for ferocity among those who do not know them, and the charm they exercise kindlis nese and hospitality when treated with regard ? It is not fanciful' to trace here the singular mixture of sharpness and stupidity in the peas. ant, nor will it be found on reflec tion hazardous to assert that the Irish owe to the sturdy, plodding Ugrian element their ability to support suf- fering, and their dogged love for the soil—traits hitherto given to the Kelt, although history is full of examples of the Keltic paesion for roving about the world. It is an element that gives the counterpoise to the hot-headedness natural to those in whom Keltic blood is strong; it explains the caution of many Scots and Irishmen ; for both are apt to talk with violence but to act with great circumspection. It may also supply On sad poetical side of the Iriali. It accounts bast of all Thr their essential law.ahiding character when humanely treated, their freedom from crimes other than agrarian, to which the latest trials in London bear testimony. it may offer an explanation for the petty though `vindictive nature of misdemeanors like moonlighting, troughing cattle, and destroying crops—traits which seem foreign to the Keltic genius. Moreover it affords a reason for the virulence of class hatred in ireland and for ano- malies like the siding of the Roman Catholic upper classes with the enemies of the nation, though the enemies are all that is most bigoted in contempt of their old faith. I3nt it mut also beobvioua co those who have followers ale through these two papers full of strange looping navies and, it is to he fortre 1, wearisome arguments, that the key to the Trial) nation fits more or less well the lock of many other peoples, The ancestors of every one of us have fought, conquered, and antlered in Ghat endless quarrel between Aryan and Turanian, which took place all over Europe and a large part of Asia, and which still goea'on in the breast of every American who is de- scended from that primeval mixture of racer+.—Chas. De Kay, in Febru• ary Century. DESTRUCTIVE PRAIRE • FIRES, A VILLAGE IN DAKOTA DESTROYED NARROW ESCAPE OF A FAMILY. Mitchell, Dak., April 3—The village of Mount Pleasant was al•- most entirely horned yesterday afternoon. Every business house and nearly all the residences are destroyed. The Chicago, Milwal- kee tin St Paul depot, with about 15 or 20 freight cars and four large elevators are gone. The loss will he nearly $300,000, with hut little in- surance, and a hundred families are left homeless and destitute. a The e fire was causes by a prairie fire. One hundred citizens from Mitchell went to fight the fire, but a raging wind prevailed and their efforts availed but little. A special train carrying provisions was despatched from here last night. Andovor, Dak., April 3.—The residence of A. B. Swan, one mile from town was burned yesterday by a prairie tire. Inmate's barely es- caped. Mrte A. B, Baynes and her two little ones were compelled to face the fierce gale about a mile with little covering. A special, dated Sioux Falle,Dak. 2nd says:—Today 'a terrific gale has prevailed throughout a wide area in this section. Rumors conte that the entire population of Beaver Creek, Minn., 30 miles east, are fighting the fires; also that extensive fires prevail in various parts of South western Minnesota. A despatch from Rapid City, Dak„ says :—A prairie fire started one utile northeast at noon yester• day, and was driven by .a sixty'.five mile gale. Three houses in its path were burned. Miss Madison, one of the imates, was seriously burned. Scotlaud, Dak., April 3.—An- other terrible prairie fire swept over the country south of 'Scotland yes' terday afternoon, and its path is marked by the smoldering embers of many houses. At three o,clock word wss brought to town that ti}e prairie was on tire west of the town, and immediately a hundred men started, towards the approaching fire, arriving at Alfred Brown's farm; two miles north. All his barna, •dairies and cattle sheds were one blazing mass. Brown's residence was saved, but his bousehole goods that had been .carried out by the family were burned One mice north of Brown's the fire burned Henry Hagelfry out of e- very earthly possession. He barely. escaped with his family. Across from Hagelfry lived D. K. Tomlin- son, a prosperoas farmer,(and every. thing about his place, except his house, was swept away. Five hous- es and several head of live stock were, among his losses. The town of Oliyet, the county seat of Hutchinson county, 8 miles north, is reported to be more than half burned up. The bridges on . the railroad west of town were burned. The losses for the last two days will be fully $50.000. JUST FOR FUN. —Miss Clara Totten has secured a verdict of $15,000 against C. II. Read, proprietor of the Hoffman house, New York, in a suit for $100,000 for breach of promise. —'True 1' cried a lady, when re- proached with the trcnnsistent marriage aIle had made, ' I have often Raid I never would marry a parson, or a Scotchman, or• a Preis. byterian ; but I never said I would not marry a Scotch Presbyterian parson. •—Wife: "I found an eg'e in the coal -bin this morning. That's a queer place for a hen to lay in." Husband: "Just the place, my dear —just the place.' W.: "Just the place?' H.: 'Why, certainly. if our hens begin to lay in coal for us we won't need to mind how the price goes.' —AN agreeable young man whom I often meet was calling with due ceremony on a nice Auburn girl the other evening when her brother Tont, just arrived home from college on the evening train, rushed into the room and embraced his Hinter. "Why.how plump you have grown, Edith!" he exclaimed. "Yon are really quite an armful!', "Isn't slier" exclaimed the,agreeable young man, then he felt a chill racing down his spinal column "That is„' be Htanintered, "I've no doubt of it -1 —” The brother looked carving knives at him, and the maiden blushed furiously. "I mean-- or," Hest! he, "T should judge sof' —According to tut old English authority the custom of making fools on the first of April originated flute the mistake of Noah in semi, ing the dove out, of the ark before the water lead abated, on the first day of the month among the Ile- brewe which answers to the first of April, and to perpetuate the memory of this deliverance., it was thought proper, whoever forgot so remark- able an occurrence, to punieh by sending hint upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the Patriarch. The custom appears to have been derived by the Romans from some of the Eastern nations. —Wee Jamie Stoddard regularly attended the Sabbath school con - fleeted with the church at which leis parents worshiped, though whether he benefits greatly by so doing may be doubted. Ilia teacher has tried to instil the mysteries of the Shorter •Catechism into -the laddie's mind, with but little success. Laat Sun- day he looked with a despairing glance at Jamie's sonsio, but far from serious, face, and then asked: 'Now, tell me, Jamie, what must precede baptiser?' Jamie scratched his head, looked up to the ceiling, as if to gain inspiration therefrom, but was silent. 'Surely yntcan reme• berl' 'What must conte before baptism?' 'Please sir, a baby!' ahouted Jamie, triumphantly. —A four-year old miss created a good deal of consternation, not un- mixed with amusement, in a small social circle -up -tow u. She had been on a visit to her grandfather, and while there was in the habit of playing !with him as° he lay, half on the sofa. One day as her chubby fignera glided caressingly over the old gentleman's scanty locks, he murmured drowsily, in reply to some infantile remark: "Yes, I'm your old bald headed grandfather," One evening uot long after, a young bachelor made a call on the family, towards a certain member of which only eighteen and decidedly pretty, be inclined with very tender feel- ings. Into the pleasant circle where the bachelor sat flashing . bright nothings of society talk entered the four-year-old. Unseen by the geutleman she sauntered round the room inspecting Trim, and gazed with special iutereet on his polished scalp which gleamed in the light of the chandelier.. Suddenly, with a burst of ingenuous resolubility, she said: •Whose poor ohs bald-headed grandfather are you?' ABOUT SUNDAYS • How often does it happen that there are five Sundays to the month of February? There can be five Sun- days iu February only in a leap - year, and siuce a leap -year occurs every four years, there will, ae a general rule (but not tt , universal one, as will be shown presently),'be five Sundays in February once in every twenty-eight years (7x4). But, as the rule determining the suceeesion of leap -years has an ex- ception, so has Lite periodic. occur- ences of five Sundays in February. The years ending iu "two naughts" (as 1900, 2000,etc) though occurring where one wonlp expect a leap -year, are not so counted unless their first two, figures aro divisible by four: thus though A. D. 2000 will be a 1 eap-yoar 1800 was not, tied 1900 will not be ono, From this irreg- ularity it comes to pass there afro 40 years instead of 28, between the last leap -year (with five Sundays in Feb. ruary).in ono century, and the first in the next, except when the century year is itself a leap -year. Thus there were five Sundays in February in 1880, but the same will not hap- pen again till 1920; and there were five Sundays in February in 1784, but not again till 1824. From 1824 to 1880 the five Sundays in Febru- ary came regularly every 28 years —1824, 1852, 1880. Thus the us-• ual occurrence of five Sundays in February is once in 28 years : but throe times in every four centuries there will be intervals of 40 years —in one of which we aro at pres- ent. —Henderson Todd made an attack on Sam Kipper at Poncha springs, a few miles from Salida, Cal. one night not long ago. Tho origin of the trouble is not known, but it is thought to bo an old "score." Af- ter Todd had beaten and bit Kipper . pretty badly James Bowring stepped up and pulled Todd oil'. After this those who saw the "scrap" thought it was all over, but were surprised at the appears ce of Todd mounted on his horse /ind with a a lasso in his hand. Ile had no sooner been observed than he gave his rope a sling and lodged the loop around Mr. Bowring and started down the street at a rapid gait, dragging the man several hundred yards, when some citizens caught lite rope and cut it, thus releasing the unfortunate man, who was bad- ly hurt. 'Todd was not satisfied with this work, and, when the citi- zens turned to go home with the in- jured man, '1'ocld slipped up and threw his lasso at Bowring again, catching the tail of the coat and tearing it ori, Ile then rode off to- ward the tnouutains. Mr. Bowring is a highly respecter- business man of Ponca w 1'er3ons wishing to improve their memories or strengthen their power of attention should send to Prof, LLoisetta, 237 Fifth Ave., N. Y., for his prospectus, post free, as advertis- ed in another column. 611.41 TO THE, FARMERS War your wen tetsrput sect go whist .you 00 ivt Reliable : ' Rama I manufacture none but We BEST OF STOCK. 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