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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-04-24, Page 1ti } �1 J o� 1 TERMS:—$1.50 per Asuntsn, 81.25 In Advance. • JN.PRPENDENr;V 4LL 71!1N08, NEUTRAL !N NOTHING VOL. X.—NO. 19. CLINTON, II.URON COUNTY, ONT., 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1889 WHITELY It TODD, Publialrese WHOLE NO. 545 FOSTER & RITER,orltl Q orrcopontlellrc WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS HURON STREET, CLINTON. Received This Week Piper Heidseick Champagne. Gutnesses XXX Porter, Extra Stout. Bass b Co's India Pale Ale. Sandeman very old Port Wine. Merin Dor Claret Wine. Gooderhaul & Worts 5 -,year-old Whiskies in wend and bottles. H. Walk 3r & Son's 1883 Club Whisky. Labbatt's Ale, } bbls., Jj bbls. TERMS 'CASA.—Goods delivered to all parts of Clinton free. FOSTER & RITER. in the Exchequer Court of' Canada. In the matter of "The Expropriation Act," and in the matter of those certain parcels or tracts of land hereinafter described. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that there has been lodged in the Office of the Regis- trar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, on the Nineteenth day of March, A.D , 1889, a notice to the Registrar by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries of Canada, stating his readiness to pay over to the persona entitled thereto, the aunt of five hundred dollars, which in his opl pion is sufficient compensation for thq land or property expropriated for the pupposer3 of obtaining addi tlonal land for the Lighthouse Station at Code - rich, in the Province of Ontario, and described' as follows, that in to say : All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in. the Town of 8oderieh, In the County of Huron, Ontario, containing by rdineasurontont one quarter of an acre, be the nam niers or less, as shown on the Plan or Survey prepared by Mr. Thomas Weatherald, P. L.8., which may be better known and demo ibe,l as follows : Beginning at the South east angle of Lot letter A : thence due North thirty-nine degrees and forty five minutes : Went along the limit netween Lots A and n, a distance of two chains : thence due South fifty degrees and fifteen Minutes: West, one chain and twenty-five links, to an angle : thence due South thirty-nine degrees and torty•flve minutes: East two chains to the west limit of Cobourg Street, thence due north fifty degrees find fifteen minutes: East along Cobourg Street, one chain and twonty•flve links to the place of beginning. That Her Majesty has acquired title to the land or property hereinbefore described underchaptor thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes of Canada, respecting the expropriation of Lands, 'as amend- ed by the Act 60.51 Victoaia, ch. 17, intituled "An Act to amend the Revised Statutes, chapter thirty-nine, reepeeting the Expropriation of Lands " in consequence, all persons entitled to the said hereinbefore described land or property or any part thereof, or repreeonting or being the husbands of any persons so entitled, or claiming to hold or represent incumbrances thereon or interests therein, are called upon to file, In the office of the Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, their clsinls or oppositions, on or before • _- the.thirtieth day of April, A. D., 1889, and are notified that ouch claims or Appositions will he received and adjudged upon Ly this Court, and that the proceedings herein will forever bar all claims to tbe cornpensatlon money, or any part thereof, ineluding any claim in respect of dower, or of dower not yet open, as well as in respect of all mortgages, hypothees or incumbrances upon the said land or property. ' Dited et Ottawa tills 190 day of March, A.D., 1889. L. A. AUDETTE, 543-3t Registrar. Tont (!ogre panctcucc Goderich. Mr. Hilton Holmes left on his return to Sarnia on Monday. AI.r: and Mrs. 9oo Black returned from a visit to Stmcoo on Saturday evening. - MVS. Geo. Lowo, nee Vauderlip, of Ridgtown who arrived in troiin, last week on a visit to `her relatives, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Black. 1\Irs. Clunes returued to .her home, Galt, on Thursday. Mrs. Saults accompanied her daughter to Galt where she will make a short stay. The schooner Goldhunter with a cargo of baled hay, and salt, sailed yesterday for the Georgian Bay. She will bring a cargo of lumber to this port. Tho foundation of the Post Office is now ready for the joists which will be laid this week. The sou• tractor expects to have the building ready for roofing by the first week in June. On Easter Sunday a large number 'of our people visited Maitland cemetery 'and placed floral tributes on the graves of those who have gone before. Easter day seams most appropriate for the bestowal of floral designs "In memoriam." Last week, before his Worship the Mayor, Dan Morrison was charged with intimidating the crew of the schooner' Carter, Norman -' 'Graham was also summoned for the same offences but left town hurried- ly before the trial. After hearing the evidence His Worship found the charge proved and passed sentence seven days in the county jail. Mrs. John Whitely, Godorich Tp. died last Thursday, and was interr- ed on Saturday in Maitland ceme- tery. There was a very. large at- tendance at the funeral, many old friends of the family being present, from town. The deceased lady, Who was a sister of town clerk Campbell, had been ill for a very long period, so that her decease was not entirely unexpected. Relatives from Detroit and other distant places were among the mourners in the. City of the Dead. Goderich. The now boat is now ready for caulking. Barrister Collins, of Exeter, was in the county town last Thursday. Captain Jas. Parsons left town Inst week to join his ship. The fishing boats off this port are making au average catch. Many uew suits were aired on Easter Sunday. Miss B. Wilkinson of Toronto spent the holiday term in town. At St. Peter's there was the usual Good Friday services. Our butchers had an excellent supply of Easter moats. Mr. Jno. Acheson was home from Toronto for the holidays. Mr. Walter Brough spent the holiday season in town. Mr. H. E. Johnston was in town on Good Friday. Mr. J. C. Detlor of Clinton was visiting in town on Good Friday. Tree planting is again a favorite pastime. There were a few roses worn yesterday in honor of "St. George." Mr. T. J. Mooi•ehouse, of Bay- field, was visiting old friends in the county town last Saturday.• Quite a number of Clintonitos took tea at Spooner's hotel, Salt. ford, on Good Friday. Communion at 9 a. m. and at the close of the regular morning service on Easter Sunday at St. Georges. St. George's church was nicely arranged with flowers on Easter day. Wont Sorrc.troudcnc. Goderich. Mr. F. J. Pridham was in Toronto -last week on a business trip. Mr. Harry Clucae was home for the hollidays. Miss Grace Robertson of Clinton was in town this week. Mr William Black was awayy, east on a business trip lest week. 7ft Mr: Stuart, West street, arrived in town from the States last week. Regular meeting of the High School Literary Society next Friday evening. The Knights of Temperance bold au open meeting in the temperance hall last evening. Mr. and Mrs, Pay were visiting in town holidays. . Mrs. Jas. Vivian derlip are visiting City. There was a maple sugar social in the North street Methodist church on Monday evening. One hundred car -loads --of our river stone were sold for shipment last week. Messrs. D. McCorvie and A. Me- Murehie, of Clinton, were in the county town on 'Monday. Mr. Edward Sharman has been appointed inspector of works for the new post office and.customs buildings. Mr. William Maynes was called to London township last week by the death of his mother. The de- ceased lady had arrived at the ripe old age of 86. Knox church Miseion Band held its regular meeting in the lecture room on Saturday afternoon. The Beatty line boat United Em- pire is expected in port 'this morn- ing. Mr. Jno. Craig has beou confin- ed to his room the past week through illness. On -Go rd—Friday,.;Mthere was the - usual morning service at 'St.; George's. Mr. Thos. Fortune. of Clinton was in the Circular town on Good Friday. . • rfl'. W. T. Whitely of the'NEws- RECORD was in the county town on Good Friday. The new fence on the harbor hill side of the park is a great improve- ment. The schooner Toclman, Captain A. Lawson, sailed north on Satur- day fora cargo of lumber for de- livery at this port. For the first time iu many years the grass ou tho Court House square was beautifully green on Good Fri- day. The schooner ilfarr/ S. Gordon after being thoroughly repaired .during the winter, was launched frons the harbor island on Saturday. Mr. J. 1-I. Williams has moved' his barber shop to Blake's block, one door west of Sallows Photo rooms. The Goderich Gun' Club visited Clinton on Good Friday and after a keen contest with the club of that burgh, were defeated by 0110 point. The schooner Evening Star , was launched from the harbor island on Good Friday. She has been thoronghly overhauled and re, paired. of Clinton during the and Mies Van - in the Q'ueeu Mr. J. W. Smith will furnish the proposed Grand Dinner to the delegates attending the Orange Grand Lodge to be held in this town next month. Mr. Jno. Robertson has moved into the store recently vacated by *Mr. Geo. Rhynas on the corner of Montreal street, where he will continue hisgrocery business, -On Friday --evening. Mesdames Young, G. - B. Cox, Forbes, A. Allan, Reynolds, Ira Lewis, G. Parsons, Burritt, R. G. Reynolds, Naftel and Miss Cattle will hold an At Home at 7 p. m. in St. George's school room. Refreshments will be _furnished and a choice musical programme will bo presented. There will be a fancy work table presided over by Mrs. Crawford, and -Miss Hamilton. Tho annual vestry meeting of St. George's . congregation was held in the. school room on Monday evening, the Rector in the chair and Mr. F. W. Johnston as vestry clerk. The Wardens' statement presented shew- ed the financial standing of the church to bo most satisfactory. Mr. Thos. Weatherald by the congrega tion, and Mr. Chas. Seager by tho Rector, were re-elected churchwar- dens, Messrs. R. Radcliffe, F. W. Johnston„ T. B. VanEvery, JamesSheppard, Geo. Porter and Dr.. Ross were elected sidesmen. Messrs. F. "W. Johnston and T. B. VanEvery were re-elected auditors: Mr. Jas. Sheppard, superintendent of the Sunday School, presented a favor- able report of the school attendance and financial standing fox the past year. The officers of the church were all re-engaged at salaries, the same as last year. . Quite a number of the Orange- men left by the afternoon train on Good Friday to attend a County Lodge at Clinton and to perfect arrangements • for the forthcoming 'meeting of the Sovereign Grand - Lodge. Rev, Austin Potter delivered a Lecture in the Victoria St. Metho- dist church on Good Friday at 8 p. m. During the evening Mrs. Thus. D. W. Detlor• gaye an excell- ent recitation, and a good musical feast was served. The Oddfellows attended Divine service at Knox church last Sunday morning to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Oddfellowship on the American continent. The brethren turned 'lout in goodly numbers, forming a procession that compared favorably with any that we have seen in the town of Goder- ich. The Rev. Mr. Anderson preached an eloquent and appropri- ate sermon on " Love the Brother- hood " which was attentively listen• ed to and favorable commented on by the Oddfellows present. The Musical portion of the service was most appropriate, the anthem, given as a solo by Master Cooke, being the leading feature. At the con- clusion of the service the members returned to their lodge room when the thanks of Huron lodge was un- ani'nlously tendered the Rev. Mr. Andersen, for preaching so able an annual sermon. Loral (!orrepondettce. IDlytb. The Public Schools wore reopen- ed again on Tuesday, after Easter recess. Our fire company was out for the regular weekly practice on Monday evening. C Hamilton auctioneer was wield- ing his hammer iu Seaforth on Sat u 1isy. Kelly 3t Son uuloaded a car load of Manitoba wheat at the Station on Friday. Good Friday was observed here as a holiday all business being eu tirely suspended. P. Kelly & Son shipped a couple of carloads of their superior flour to Montreal this week. The beautiful thunderrtornl on Friday evening acco.npained by a nice shower of rain was testy accept- able in this section. A number of the youg folks enjoyed a pleasant time on Frida'y evening at the residence of Mr. 4. M. Ross tripping the light fan- tastic. Our townsman Mr. T. Bawden and hie workmen have just complet- ed a very large steam vat for steam- ing and coiling hoops, for E, Liv- ingstone. '1'he regular sitting of the 12tH Division Court was held on • Mon- day in Industry Hall before his honor Judge Doyle, only two cases calve up for hearing. Our Spring Show was held here on Tuesday. The attendance was. not extra large in consequence of the farmers being busy. The horses and cattle shown ou the ground were excellent. Messrs 'fanner and Shane comic vocalists assisted at the entertain- ment given in. the School House Hullett S. S. No. 7 on Thursday evening, bringing down the house tie usual. Mr E. Livingstone .of East Wawa- nosh uuloaded one day this week at •the station five latest improved machines from A. R. Williams of Toronto for making patent sawn hoops, which ho intends carrying on in connection with his saw. mill. -Elatu'A a pusher. Tho all absorbing topic of con- versation amoug our citizens the past week was what hotel keepers in this burg would be granted license this year, five having meso applica- tion but only four being allowed. The coulnisioners at their sittings in Clinton on Friday afternoon decided it by granting • hotel license to Messrs Milne, Emigh, Mason and Scott, and shop licons to John A. Macdonald. Mullett Mr. Andrew Taylor has erected a now barn on the foundation of the one burned down a few months ago. Mr. Walt Hines has got up the frame of his uew barn, to replace the one destroyed by fire last fall. Walter is a hustler and we hope his success will be equal to his vigorous and honest efforts. Sorry you did not get a mention in last week or the entertainment that was to be held in S. S. No. 7 ou the 18th. Although we have no report of what was done, it will bo readily taken for granted that anything in which Messrs. Tanner and Shane took part must have boon a anecees. The Hullett factotum of the Era t/ae removed to Clinton. You are welcome to him. He is just the sort of flapdoodle busy body that that scavenger paper likes to got hold of; one that knows more, or pretends to know more, about other people's business than he seems to know about hie own. Good bye, George—Com. ..—__ — Tuckersnu th. Mrs, David Walker, wife of our ox•reeve, is dangerously ill with en- largement of the liver. —Three hundred and fifty Ont- ario colonists arrived at Winnipeg Friday last. Loral (no wait iiileacc Goderich Township. Mr. and Mrs. Calbick of Wing -1 ham were visiting at Mr. R. Ache-'! 8008 during Easter. Mr. T. R. Jowett who is now living on the Middleton farm at ayfield has rented the one recently ccupiad by him to Mr. Penning- ton for a terra of five years. 1' r •t•1""i ste vas the,death of Mrs. John White- ly, of the 7111 con. ou Thursday last, at the comparatively etatly age of 50 years. THE NEWS-ItEooRD along with numerous friends sym pathiaos with bereaved husband and family. The funeral to Mait- land cemetery last Saturday was very largely attended. Deceased wae.a sister of Mr. W. Campbell, town clerk, Goderich. . The annual Easter vestry meeting was held in Trinity church on Mon- day afternoon for the purpose of winding up the financial business of the past year which was found to be very satisfactory. Messrs T. W. Scott audr D. McGill were appoint- ed churchwardens for the ensuing year. Mr..Tohn Bell was appoint- ed lay delegate to Synod. Other business having been gone through the meeting adjourned to meet again on May the Gth. PEnsoN.tr.s.—Mrs. E. Watson was called away on Wednesday to attend her father's funeral in Clin- ton.—Miss Mary McQuarrie left this station on Thuraday for Chica- go.—Mrs. A. McNally's many friends will be pleased to herr that she is steadly improving from her scrim's attack of congestion of the lungs.—Mr. Joseph Combos return- ed home from his trip to the North- west on Thursday. -11[r. John Tan- ner of Listowel spent his Easter holidays with relatives here.—Mr. A. Emigh of London spent Satur- day and Sunday with his parents here.—Mrs. Sarah Foy and daughter of St. Agatha„Vatorloo Co,has been visiting her sister Mrs. C. Hamilton the past few days,—Mr. Edward Newcombe returned home this week from Michigan whore he has been for some time past.—Mrs. Whitt of Clinton was the guest of Rev. H. A Thomas this week.—Mr. and Mrs. R. Howard paid Wingham a visitthis week.—Mrs. A. C. Van Egmend of Egmondville was visiting her relatives here on Good Friday. DEATHS. ,.- Sulumcrhili..- 1'tie fall Wheat iu this vicinity (alien has a whole is looking well, that sown on low ground has to take a hack seat compared with the rust. Several parties f1•orn here went to the Maitland Falls sucker fishing during the past week, only the last party succeeded in bringing home a haul . Mr. Jas. S. Miller is now nicely settled in hia residence on Goder- ich township side of Base Line. A house warming would now be in order. The Literary Society is now in f ill blast again. There will be a debate next' Friday evening on "Resolved that the, pen is mightier than the sword•" Mr. Joshua Hill has again com- menced the manufacture of cheese. His last years manufacture has gained for him a high reputation and we predict this season's make will meet with ready sale. WHITELY —At the residence of her hus- band, Goderich township, on the 18th inst, the wife of Mr. John Whitely, aged 50 years. BavnEN.—In Ilultott, on the 160 inst., Adam Dryden, aged 48 years and 2 months. KEMi'TON.—In Ashfield, on the 16th inst., Thcmas Kempton, fortnerly of Goderich Township, aged 83 years. Fri,zslatoxs.—In Clinton, on the 13th of April, Samuel Eitzsinwns, sr.., aged 67 years and 7 months, AGN.:w.—In Clinton, on 'the 16th inst., Jiimos'Agnow, aged 68 years. Atitlttioiu t Xorato CLINTON ODDPELLOWS will attend divine service at the Ontario street Methodist church next Sunday morn lug. wPoison' —Look out for the deadly ild parsnip. Quite a number of peRemus have died lately from its isonous effects after eating it. NOT ALLOWED TO SING A SOLO.— ev. P. Owen -Jones, formerly of Goderich, now of St. George's, Ottawa, wanted to sing a solo in the church on Easter day. The meet- ing to discuss arrangements fur the day refused to allow the gentleman to sing, and 11e will bring the mat- ter up before the vestry meeting. Ma. JAMES AGNEW, whom we mentioned last week as being dangerously ill, died ou Wednes- day last. The remains were inter- red at Lucknow on Friday. It was only a few mouths ago that the dooeaseid roriloved to Clinton with Itis fatnily. He was a Presbyterian and leaves a wife and grown up family. Mn. SEARLE drummed up the cem- etery committee the other day in- cluding Messers Couch, Walker. aut Overbury and they Visited "God's Acre” for the purpose of determining what much needed im- provements to begin there. A num- ber of shade trees have been planted this spring ou the road leading to the cemetery. LITERARY. HARPER'S MAGAZINE. All that will ever be known and much that ca'ild only be known from "tire in- side" in regard to what has been called "the greatest feat in modern journalism" is contained in "A Chapter from my Memoirs," by Mr. de Blowitz, in HAR- PEIt'a MAGAZINE for May. The Paris cor- respondent of the London Times describes how he secured what Bismarck had refused him—an advance copy of the Berlin Treaty for pubilcation in the Times on the day that the document was signed and before it appeared in any other European journal. The same Number of the !MAGAZINE pre- sents the first paper on "Social Life in Russia" by one of the Forty Inunortals, the Vicomte Eugene Melchior de Vogue, whose vivid descriptions of the brilliant court of the Tsar plight almost be said to beggar reality. T. de Thulstrup, who visited Itussia last year for the express purpose, furnishes'numerous illustrations. Dr. Charles C. Abbott tells of the Egyp- tian lotus in "A Meadow Mud -bole." Three writers report outlooks in different directions—Franklin Satterthwaite in "The Western. Outlook for Sportsmen," Brander Matthew in "Phe Dramatic Out- look in America," and:Jaynes K. Reeve in "Agriculture as a Professisn," which shows what a nation of good farmers might accomplish in the United States with ap- plied science and exact methods. Amelie Rives, Dr. T. W. Parsons ,WilIiam;Wiflier, and the old English wit, Andrew Marvell, are the poets of the Number. The poem by the last natned is illustrated by Alfred Parsons. Richard Malcolm Johnston con- tributes a Georgia novelette, "Ogceehee Crossfirings," with drawings by A. B. Frost. Instalment of "Jupiter Lights," by Constance Fenimore Woolson, and "A Little Journey in the World," by Charles Dudley Warner, complete the fiction. Comments, however, upon fiction, are in- dulged in by George William Curtis and Wiliam Dean Howells in their respective departments. Charles Dudley Warner, In the Editor's Drawer, points with humor- ous warning to the time when fashionable culture may he in extremis. In And About The County. — The;Sons of England, of London city, will attend the grand demon- stration at Exeter, on May 24. —Acton's municipal asst'sstinent for 1889 is over $225,000, Thie is an increase of about $40,000 since last yeas. — In case the Scott Act is defeat: ed in Laulbton o11 the 9th, the Sar- nia council have fixed hotels licen- ses at $270. —Mrs. Spencer Sebring of Mitchell found a common mar- ble in a hen's egg which elle had broken for cooking purposes. --Strathroy contains some very old people. Mrs. Mathews is 105 yeara old, Micheal Regan 97, Robt. Hunter 94, and 117in. Tinkler 92. —Ill Lucknow the 'other day several of the village council, includ- ing Reeve Bryans, wore fined for firing guns and other firearms within the corporation. —Margaret McLeod, a middle• aged woman of Kincardine, was found dead on the floor of her house on Sunday morning. An inquest developed the fact that she had been under the influence of liquor, and fell in such a way as to become suffocated. ST. PAULS CHURCH. ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING. The annual vestry meeting was held on Easter Monday. There was a large attendance of the members. The meeting was opened with prayer, after which the Church War- deus presented their annual report showing the standing of the differ- entfunds, namely:—General $13,11,;• Diocesan, $158; Improvement, $383. The offering on Easter Day was over $106. The accounts were ordered to be audited by messers H. B. Combe and H. T. Rance. 'The rector appointed W. W. Ferran as clergyman's warden and on motion W. Jackson was appointed people's warden. Tho Rector then brought the state of the Sunday School before the meeting, urging its claims to the pecuniary support, as well as to tbe moral support, of the congregation. His remarks were well received and assistance promised. Messrs. John Ransford and S. G. Plummer were elected .delegates to the Diocesan Synod. Votes of thanks were pass- ed to the Churchwardens, choir and organist, and after a discussion of the finances of the 'church, the sub- ject was referred to a committee to report at the adjourned meeting, May 6. The meeting was closed by the blessing. In And About The County. —Parties who have been through Ifowick and adjoining townships re- port fall wheat as looking exception- ally good, —Holmes' Schoolhouse, in Turns berry, has been closed for a time on account of the illness of the teacher, Miss Addie Porter, —At the request of the clergy, the Bishop of Huron 11As appointed Rev. C. R. Mathew, M. A. to be Rural Dean, of Essex. —J. G. Sytumes, a Barrie paints ter, fell from a scaffold on Tuesday evening and died yesterday. He served in the North-west campaign of 18S5. —Keith McLean, employed in the G. T. R. Stratford 'hops, had his foot bruised by a shaft falling upon it un Thursday afternoon. A. collar of the shaft prevented his foot from being crushed. —Amongst the ,passengers ar- riving at Vancouver, 13. C., from • the east ou Tuesday, the ninth, were Archibald and Miss Martha McIntire, of Goderich, Ont. Mr, McIntyre spent last spring, summer and fall in Vancouver. —A llitle child belonging to Mr. Durr, north of Parkhill', was killed in a peculiar manner the other day. It fell and struck ite head against an old tin pan, then rose up, walked a few steps and dropped dead. A piece of tin had pierced ite brain. —Rev. G. H. Cobhledick, of Guelph an old Huron hoy got him- self into trouble recently. During his discourse on a Sunday evening he made reference to whisky being the cause of Harvey the Guelph murders er shooting his wife and two daugh- ters. As a consequence Mr. Cob- ledick was caller] upon to prove his statements, and failing to do so to the satisfaction of the court, he was severely rebuked.