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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-06-20, Page 4ti 4 r:,,w-sr. . - It u Aare tigirment . B al VtLjao.—T. Vetlor. X111 a are Eu11.--Jackson Bros. MR, Bargain,—Beesley ct Co. $W4i Reward.—M. C. Caraeron. Baby Carriage.—Cooper es Co. Warmers' Excursion.—Cooper & Co. Watches.—J. B. Rumball ee Co, Boots aid Shoes.—C. Cruickshank. —Walton Yon & Morrison. Canniti.tl Number.— Cooper & Co. ttxnxaiseivexa FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1890. Some of the Conservative papers haven't sense enough to know when they are whipped, or honesty enough to admit it. Speaking of the election in South Perth, the St. Mary's Journal says "the Government was virthally condemned:' notwithstanding the fact that the Reform candidate was elected by a majority of 631 (if its own figures are correct). Condemnation of that Bina is not likely to hurt any govern- ment. The Conservative papers occasionally allude to some of the vacancies in pub- lic positions under the patronage of the Ontario Government, "which are kept dangling before the eyes of expectant office holders." Well, this may be true, but none of the vacanoies are kept dangling as long as the position of Collector of Customs at Toronto, in the gift of the Dominion Government, which bas only been vacant for three years. The Ontario Government gains an- other supporter, oil a re-count. The Conservative was declare.i elected in Prince Edward by one of a majority. The re-count took plata before Ju lge Merrill, ori Tuesday. Fourteen votes counted for Johnson wore struck off and five votes counted for Sprague were struck off, making a gain of nine for Sprague, the Liberal candidate, and giving him the seat by eight majority. Methodist Conferences are agitated because bishops, members of Parlia- ment, judges, etc., have precedence on state ;Oopasions at Ottawa, and resolu- tionelawee passed asking that all be plastel on a footing of equality. There is.•aIjtpether too much red tape in this country for the country's good, and re- ligious -assemblies are by no means ree from it, but this matter of prece- ce is not one worth worrying over, nisters of the Methodist church ,might find subjects of far ortance to ponder over. are of mankind is Ore consideration at any more vital' The spiritual worth a great than it gets. deal The announcement is made 11 141x' J. S. Willison, ("Observer") for some time sun -editor of the Globe, has been advanced to the position of editor-in- chief, and also that Mr Edward Farrar, the ableeditor of the Mail, becomes sab-editor of the Globe after the 1st of July. With such a strong team of editors as this at its he ad, the Globe will be a better exponent than ever (which is saying a great deal) of Liberal principles, and Will continue to rank as the leading newspaper of the Dominion. We congratulate Mr Willison, as an old $uronite, on his advancement to this responsible position, and feel perfectly satisfied that the shareholders will have no reason to regret his promotion. He bas earned it by steady hard work. The rumor is revived that Mr T. W. Anglin is to be appointed to some office in Toronto, under the patronage of the Ontario Government. The New EaA believes in a government rewarding its friends, but we fail to see under what obl'gations the Ontario Liberals rest towards Mr Anglin. He may, perhaps, have rendered some services to the party, unknown to us, but there are plenty -of workers in Toronto who have, we think, rendered infinitely more. -He bas only been in Ontario for a short time, and has already drawn considerable from the funds of the Province, while men who have given their life's best efforts to the party have got little or nothing for it. For some time past the British Gov- ernment has been using its influence • among the Christian nations to bring about an agreement for the suppression of the African liquor trade. Although no compact has yet been made, there is a general admission that the traffic needs strict regulating if the more drastic proposal be not adopted. All travellers and correspondents agree that the liquor trade of Africa is a rival for the slave in causing atrocities of all sorts. Eyery nation in the • world is pouring its vilest liquor pro- ductions into.the dark continent at an enormous rate, and this fact is not only a disgrace to professedly Christian na- tions, but also a powerful influence against the spread of Christianity atiiong lila negroes. Yet it appears difficult to see how it can be otherwise tiniest; the British suggestion be adopt. ed. The United States has set a good Cxample. A bill has been proposed at `Washington to prohibit the exportation "'f1f any sort of intoxicating liquor to Africa. If each nation would act thus ,;• los' itself, they could individually re- `;'iieVe themselves of the stigma now at- taching to them. But even if the fore- ign trade should be suppressed, some enterprising money-maker would start the manufacture of liquor in Africa. *hen this was done in our Western territories, although there was a pro- 11111tition clause in their .con stitation, lid* Can Africa hope to escape? Mercier wilts. The result of the general eleotions in the Province of Quebec le en over- whelming victory for the Mercier Gov- ernment. The returns indicate a Ci ov- ernmeut majority of between 25 and 30. The leader of the Opposition was defeated in Jacques Cartier. The Gov- ernment captured, 9 seats and the Op- position three. Latest returns from Quebec show 47 Ministerialists and 23 Opposition mem- bers elected. There are now 12,000 native Cana- dians in New York City alone, and a great many more in Chicago, which goes to show that Canada is doing her share in supplying the States with men aux brains. The Toronto News, which is a Knights of Labor paper, says:— "lf it be true that A. T. Freed, of the Hamilton Spectator, is to be made chief of the Dominion Labor Bureau, there will go up.a very general howl of disapproval from the workingmen of the country. As a member of the Roy• al Labor Commission Mr Freed evinced so decided an opposition to what his colleagues, who were workingmen, de- sired, that he came to be looked upon • as an enemy, and to his appointment they will offer etrongest opposition." Solid Truth. Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New York, seems to be quite a level-headed sort of man. Speaking on the public press in that city the other day, he gave the devil, or rather the editor, his due. He said: The editor of to -day is in the place of the prophets of old. Rightly Thomas Carlyle said: "The true clergy is not in the pulpit, but in the newspaper of. flees." First, as watchmen. "On thy walls, 0 Jerusalem, they shall not hold tbeir peace day or night." Who fulfills that office to -day? The men in the top 0 great buildings down' town. of theb a Some years ago the Tweed ring was ground into powder. Who did it? The preacher? No; the newspaper. Ez- ekiel saw in a vision—wheels within wheels, wheels alive, wheels full of oyes. He foresaw the modern newspaper. Where are the eyes that never sleep? In the reporters that ply these streets, searching all the phases of human life. In the degeneracy of the modern pul- pit, the daily press.is doing the work of God as the pulpit is not doing it. Where is the power that guides? In the newspaper. Religion, politics, so- ciety, economy, come within the range of its power as of no other. It is the editor who guides. Where are the preachers? It wearies over soul to think where they are. Alas, many of us are trying to please everybody—tell- ing you you're all right, we're all right, the world's all right, the devil's all right. I had rather have my boy go back to the old farm in Carglina and' take to grubbing stumps than get into moat of our pulpits. The great preach- ers of the past did not seek to please everybody. Jeans Christ was not such a preacher. Pani was not such a preacher. When Paul went into a town he had a row. The authorities complained "this fellow is turnip,' :Ile world upside down." Jesus cr et '`Woo unto you scribes, Phariseer/hypocrites" How coarse! How uU ristian! How senaational! i 1•t r Ta i1as .not far out. t. (TORONTO NEWS.) ethgdist divines at Conference took umbrage at Mr Tait's use of the word "priestcraft" in a speech he made to the laymen in which he expressed surprise at finding so much priestcraft in the Methodist church, yet that does not lessen the charge that there is priestcraft in the Methodist church, as well as in all other churches. Al- though there may be exceptions, the great bulk of the clergy are seeking aggrandizement of themselves and the orders to which they belong. In the Roman Cotholic and Anglican churches the ministers put themselves above the people, though many of them may ap- pear not to do so, and in the other churches there are some brilliant ex- amples of ministers who seem to think that the church was made for them, who have. a constant eye to worldly riches and are up to their elbows in real estate speculation as a means to that end. But the worst of it is that many 'of them act as if their position put their acts above question. To use the position to advance the individual or collective interests of the clergy, to set them above the people in riches and power, to subordinate intellects and actions to them, to make them the custodians of consciences or directors in worldly affairs is to encourage priestcraft, though Mr. Tait, took a more restricted view than this, and aimed only at supposed coercion in church government. But still priestcraft exists • and is growing common. We know of Cone minister in the west who undertakes to advise his flock in worldly affairs, and his advice usually is that all they need is enough to support them and that all over should go the Lord,yet he lived in a mansion which cost many thousand dollars,is quite the aristocratin hist ivingl'and grows greater every day. But the eyes of his flock are not blind to his craft in practice. He is very un- like another not far distant from him who is without craft and who un- complainingly subsisted for a year on $60 and promises and patiently served all the needs of his struggling congregation. An humble, self-sacrificing, unselfish man should the minister be, without any regard for his own aggrandize- ment or that of his order, for he teaches that the reward for goodness is not here, but hereafter. The church that can present the most such, is the church that is doing the most good. County Court. Before His Honor Judge Tonis. CIVIL LOCKET. • Tuesday, loth June. be well attended to.. We 1 eg to stag ' :that we And 11 persons maned in the jail, and would consider eome of them oetter fitted fora poorhouse than to be Living 10 a jail, and we would recom- mend that some effort be 'taken to se- cure a poorhouse in this county. We feel gratified that the criminal calendar in this ooanty is so light, as it is, and would hope that the temperance and good morals of this county may con- tinue to increase. We would oleo ex- press oar gratitude to the County Crown Attroney, Mr Lewis, for his as- sistanoe in our labours. All of which is respectfully submit- ted. JOHN ROBERTSON. Foreman. Grand Jury Room, June llth, o CRIMINAL LOCKET. On Tuesday in the County Judge's Criminal Court,Jamee Wilson,previoue• ly found guilty of horse.stealing, was sentenced by Judge Toms to one year iu the Central Prison. George Patterson, an Egmondville butcher, charged with stealing a cow from oue John Aikens, of the township of Logan,Perth county con the 4th inst., was arraigned Thursday morning. It is alleged that Pattersein brought the ani- mal to Egmondville, where he killed it; he was followed by Aikens to Egn}ond- ville and arrested and brought before John Beatty, J.P., Seaforth, who com- mitted him to Goderich gaol to await his trial. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. William Haywoods, of Hensall,a boy, charged with the theft of money and other property from Robert Moore, of Zurich, was arraigned on the 9th inst- He pleaded guilty, and was remanded till tile 12th, when he was further re- manded till the 17th for sentence. WALI.ACE V. DANCEY.—Mr J. M. Hest, counsel for plaintiff, asked for a post- ponement of trial on aceount of the ill- ness of plaintiff. Mr R. S. Hays con- tra. Trial adjourned till the December sittings of -this court. Costs of day re- served until after the trial. CUTTRN v. BAT^'11AN.—Action for goods sold and delivered by plaintiff to de- fendant. Jury returned a verdict for plaintiff—damages, $157.60, Mr Col- lins moved for judgment on the veridct of the jury. His Honor directed judg- ment to be entered for the plaintiff for $157.60 with costs of suit. Yemen v. Dr:IN —action for wages ; non -jury cause. Mr Collins, for plain. tiff, moved to postpone trial. Mr Gar - row, Q. IC., codtra. Trial adjourned until the October sittings of this court. Costs of day to be !paid by plaintiff in three weeks after the tatation thereof. The business having been concluded, the court adjourned at 12.30 p. m. PRESENTMENT'. The Jurors for oar Lady the Queen beg leave to present that they have ex• amined the jail and find that the jail is kept cleanly and in gond condition, but would recommend that the ventilation News Notes Around The County The Choicest Stealings from Our County Exchanges. John Howard, late of Corrie, was lately drowned at Keewatin. On the 13th of July the Orangemen of North r t Huron and adjoining section t a, a of country will hold their annual cele- bration in Brussels. Mr Thos. Acheson, of the Central Hotel, Exeter, met with a painful ac- cident on Friday evening last. He was playing with his dog when he slipped and fell, breaking a small bone of his left leg. Messrs Noble and Samuel Claff have disposed of their farm consisting of 100 acres, situated just outside of the corporation of Seaforth, to Coleman Bros., realizing therefrom the hand• some sum of $8000. Mr John Walters, of Saltford, lost a very valuable mare last Saturday. On Thursday, Mr Joseph Morris offered him $215 for her, and she took sick Friday and died on Saturday. T the second loss of this kind Walters inside of a year. The Kyle farm in Tu •rsmith was offered for sale by auct .n at the Com- mericial Hotel, in S forth, on Satur- day, but wast drawn, the highest offer being ,,00. This, however, was not enc eh to cover the mortgage and expe as. fter a long and worrying illness Mrs John Jackson, of the 8th con. of Morris, was called home on Friday of last week. She had been in poor health for a number of years and for the larg- er portion of the past year was con- fined to the house. Her trouble was heart disease and dropsy. On the night of June 6th'71tobert Scott, 15th con., Morris, had a sheep killed by dogs in his barnyard, and on the night of June 9th Alexander Stew- art, 16th con., had six lambs killed out- right and six others badly injured not twenty rods from his dwelling. The Goderich Signal says.—A cer- tain gentleman in town answered a puzzle advertisement in a Montreal newspaper recently. The prize for a correct answer was to be a silk hat. His answer appeared to be correot, for in due time a hat arrived—a silk hat too—but it was an old timer and look- ed as if it had been worn in an Orange procession in his grandfather's time. The recipient is in a quandary, end will neither wear nor sell the hat. Mr John Kyle, of the 8th concession, of Tuckersmith, died very suddenly on Saturday last. He had been at Kippen in the forenoon, and returned home, his brother accompanying him. When they got home the deceased went to the barn to get a hammer and nails to nail some boards on the fence. When returning from the barn he was noticed to suddenly stop, and his knees double under him, he fell to the ground. It is supposed that heart disease was the cause of his death. John Patterson, who until a short time ago was a resident of Dublin, where he did business as a butcher, but lately of Egmondville, was tried in Seaforth on the fith inst., on the charge of stealing a fat cow from Mr John Aiken, of Logan. Mr Aiken missed the animal, and his suspicions being arous- ed, he at once drove straight to Patter - son's, where he found the cow dressed, and the Mlle in the corner of the slaughter house. The evidence was so strong that prisoner was committed for trial. He is a married man, with a small family, and until now was con- sidered thoroughly honest. It is with feelings of deep regret that we are called upon, to announce the death of one of the most estimable young ladies in the township of Stephen, which sad and melancholy event occur- red on Thursday evening last, at the early age of 23 years. The person re- ferred to is Miss Emma, daughter, of Mr and Mrs Samuel 'Sanders, of 2nd con., Stephen. About two years ago she contracted a very severe cold which shortly developed into consumption. She was a very pleasant young lady and will be greatly missed by the many young ladies who were most intimately acquainted with her. NEWS NOTE. 'Y The merchants of Sydney, Cape,Bre- ton, have combined to do business on a cash basis. A census enumerator in Richmond, Va., has found a colored woman named Martha Gray, who has had 37 children since 1868. Christian C ozarants, employed by Mr Rounds, near Stoney Point, was in- stant killed by lightning during Tues- day's storm, while seeking shelter be• neath a tree. Ile was the sole support of his widowed mother who has a large fatuity. He was about 18 years of age. NEWS NOTES Henry Smith's execution took place iteLoadon on Saturday. A. Russell, a retired farmer living at Middlemiss, shot himself dead on Mon- day morning. Henry M. Stanley is said to have ao- canted the igovernor-generalship of the the streets of WlOKham together, Congo Free State. !lieu Dluagrove said to his cumpaa- Mr C. J. Hope, a well-known whelp- inn, "Gibsou, what majority are you sale merchant of Hamilton, died on willing to give me, to -morrow ?" Monday. Fie was born in Scotland in The mail who bas been successful in 1810. so many dbntests iu that riding and The Alaska exploring party are said tliought he knew the ground well, to have discovered a large take in Brit- tltrned, with the remark, "Musgrove, ish territory in the far north, hitherto 1'll be elected in East. Huron by at Atter the Battle, POt1ftOOL EQIr1B3 OATHEitED HERE AND lugais, The night before the election, Mr Dlusgrove and Mr Gib4on, both can- didates is East Huron, were walking unknown. Mr Pete:. Stewart, of East Williams, sold a pure bred Holstein bull the other day, which tipped the beam at 2,500 pounds when delivered. Mr and Mrs W. D. Eberts, of Chat- ham, celebrated their golden wedding on Saturday. Among the large cow pany present were four of those who at- tended the first wedging in 1.340. A fire which started in a house five miles south of Merced, Cal., Tuesday afternoon, spread to the grain stooks and fields until a strip thirteen miles long had been laid in ashes. Loss, 920- 000. It is stated that Henry M. Stanley is to deliver fifty lectures in the United States during next fall and winter, and that 1,e is to reoeive £5,000 for lectur• ing in t',aw York and £3,000 for those in other cities. Solon J. Arnold was killed at Lewis- ville, near Chatham, on Saturday. While unloading logs one slipped from the kids and pinned him down, while another fell from the waggon and struck him full on the back. Some alarm is expressed in London at the proposal to build an additional underground railway which will run beneath St. Paul's cathedral. Fears are entertained that the foundation of the cathedral may be undermined. Mr T. H. Race,of Mitchell,has caused writs to be issued against Messrs W. R. and Fred Davis for slander. The plaintiff claims that the defendants accused him of bigamy while on the political stump in the recent elections. The Chicago Canadian American, (published by a former Conservative, editor from Brantford) says that ,the recent campaign has shown that' Mr Mowat, "the shrewd litt!g' Scotch. Canadian, holds a S 9'ig place in the affections of the peole of this Province.' Reports frond,' all sections of the country aro tied St. Thomas state that the apple,*op especially, and the fruit crop gea(erally,will be a complete failure thi year. The trees came out in full ossom, but owing to blight, cauaed it is supposed either by frost or lightning, the blossoms nearly all Withered and dropped off. Rev Dr. Laing, the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, has been 36 years in the ministry, his first charge being Scarboro', where he remained over five years; then Cobourg, where he remained twelve years, then Ottawa Ladies College, where he re- mained a year, and then for sixteen years in Dundee, where he has been most successful as a preacher. Pastor Thompson, of the First Un- itarian Church, Somerville, has resign- ed. Someone had given the church a $30,000 homestead, and the parish wanted the pastor to live in it. The pastor's salary was $3,000. He said he couldn't afford to live in such a big house, not even though the parish would use half of it for sewing circles and meetings, and sooner than do it he resigned. A young man named Alexander Dundas, who was the principal support of a widowed mother, at Ingersoll, went out after dinner on Monday for a walk. While crossing Thames street he threw up his hands and fell on the pavement. He was at once carried into an adjacent store and medical aid procured, but before the arrival of the doctor he had expired. Homer E. Newton, a farmer, died Saturday night at his. home in West Richfield. Three weeks ago on a wa- ger with a friend, be ate 26 hard boiled eggs at a meal. Medical aid was un- availing. He lingered in terrible pain for three weeks without food. He was known throughout Erie county as a breeder and importer of cattle, and leaves a large estate. Archibald H. McPherson, principal of the Victoria ward school at Galt, died Saturday morning within half an hour after being attacked with a con- vulsive fit, which came upon him with- out the slightest warning. Mr McPher- son was 51 years of age, and had been a public school teacher for a great many years. He was an elder and superintendent of the Baptist Church Sabbath school. A correspondent of the Associated Press in Tokio,Japan,writes on June 1, as follows: The distress among thous- ands of the starving people of Tokio and other large cities is being ameli• orated to a great extent by the foreign- ers as well as by the Japanese noble- men.' One nobleman is feeding one thousand people a day, and out of his own funds. The price of rice is higher than ever before both in Japan and Corea, and this is probably only a fore- taste of the suffering to follow. The outlook for the growing crops of rice is not gond, owing to heavy and continu- ed rains. Detroit Free Press: --It now seems a foregone conclusion that at the expir- ation of his present term in Parliament J. C. Patterson, M. P., will accept the position of Collector of Customs at Windsor. It is generally conceded that the salary of the office at present, which is about $2,800, would not suit Mr Patterson, but the office is such a prominent one and the business at the port of Windsor so large, that in all probability the Government will raise the salary so that with the perquisites attached it would bring an income of about $4,000. Hon. Oliver Mowat, Premier of On- tario, was in Rochester on Thursday to take his wife, who is an invalid, to Clifton Springs. He was asked for his views of annexation. He said:— "There is no sentiment for it in Cana- da. The election of Sol White should not be taken as an indication of a de• sire for annexation. White himself says he is for independence and not for annexation. There is at present no great desire for a change in the politi- cal system of Canada, but if a change ever dons come it will be independence from Great Britain's control, not an- nexation with the United States. The gopher pest in the North-west has been dealt with in:several ways, by giving a bounty for their tails and otherwise, but not much progress has been made in the work of extermin- ation. It is now proposed by the Gov- ernment to furnish every settler on the Dominion lands with traps for this purpose. Eight thousand of these aro being shipped into the Territories, to be distributed by the agricultural so- cieties. The society will be asked to keep an accurate list of the persons to whom the traps are de . ered, and to see that at the end of the leaeon they are returned and kept in store for an- other year. lent 300 of a majority. ' Musgrove, nothing daunted, and being perfect- fectly sincere in his answer, replied : "Mr Gibson, you're going to be bad- ly deceived ; I am assured that I' shall be elected by about 70 of a ma- jority." The next night, as the re- turns came in, Musgrove, in the Con- servative rooms, was being cohgratu- leted by his friends, the majority of 177 in Howick for him, having ele- vated their spirits, but when Mcliil lop, with its adverse majority of 250 was heard from, and other places, that floored them, although at first Mus- grove refused to believe it and would not until it was confirmed. This story is told at the expense of a clever youug medico of Conservative leanings, who does not reside a thou- sand miles from Belgrave. He ap- peared at a meeting in behalf of the Conservative candidate, while the speaker on the other side was an- nounced simply as "John McMillan." The young man did not personally know the popular member for South Huron, and evidently took for grant- ed that as he did not look like a speaker, there would be no harm in making some rash statements, as he would not be called to book for them. In a patronizing way the medico started off after this fashion :—"I eels that m yopponentthis event p _, an old man, and no doubt phi being well versed in politic$[ matters, he will not be able to •inswer for you some of the, merges that I shall make ag.an"st the Mowat government. Therefore, as I make the charges I shall answer them myself," and so on. After a windy declamation, in which he thought he bad finished the exist- ence of the government. he gave way to "John McMillan." Now, -1f there is anything which this gentleman prides himself upod, it is his famili- arity with Canadian politics, and everybody knows the ease with which he can thrash an opponent on the platform, but the way in which he pounded the arguments of the medico was really awful. Figuratively speak- ing he mopped the floor with him, back and forth, turned him over and rubbed it in, cuffed him right and left, and so completely used him up that even the friends of the young doctor felt sorry that he had laid him- self open to receive one of the worst trouncings that a man ever'got on a hustings. Mr Meredith met a certain gentle- man from Huron in Toronto since the election "What's the matter with East Huron," said the opposition leader, "all 'the reports, we got from that section were to the effect that Musgrove was sure to be elected ?" "Sure, nothing," replied the other. "if you knew East Huron as well as I do you would never count on obtain- taiuing a Conservative majority there." "Well. I guess I won't atter this," quiutly observed Mr Meredith NEWS NOTES. On a re-count the majority of Mr George, Conservative, in North Brace, was reduced, by two votes. Every railroad in Cleveland, 0.. is "tied up" an account of the switch- men's strike, and the wheels of passen- ger and mail trains were the only ones turning on Wednesday. Six hundred men are out of employment. An Effingham (Lincoln) man named Lawson has confessed to the crime of incest, the victims being his three daughters aged 18, 16 and 13 years re- spectively. He is 40 years old, and at last accounts was staying at the house of Wm. Norris, Effingham. It is reported that Kunze, the Ger- man convicted at the Cronin trial in Chicago, is assisting the authorities to unravel the mystery, and that another sensation is in store. It is further said that Iceman O'Sullivan has told all he knows and is to be pardoned. It transpires that Mr E. Farrar, of the Mail, is to get $5,000 a year to write on the Globe. The agreement was made with Sir Richard Cartwright and was signed before the Mail people knew anything of it. The plan of campaign laid out for Mr Ferrer is to fight the Dominion Government on the 'trade question. Thos Woods, aged 70, a native of Suffolk, England, and a resident of Guelph for 58 years, was found dead Monday evening in Bell's lumber yard. He was in his dotage, He left home about 7 o'clock, and as soon as he was missed a search was made for him by the family. Heart disease was the cause of death. The Toronto Street Railway:Com- pany's franchise has expired, and on Saturday the 'citizens will decide by vote whether to renew it or take the control of the system into their own hands. The privilege is a valuablelone. Jt is said the acquisition by the city of railway would put 8100.000 a year into the city treasury. An old man named Frank Tons was found lying face down wards in a pool of water in a hole at King street subway Toronto, Monday, quite dead. He had been brought in from a farm a few miles in the country to put in the in• sane asylum on account of unsound mind, but in spite of his insanity' ho learned his destination, and preferring death to incarceration in an asylum, put an end to himself. A horrible accident occurred atWind- sor, on Tuesday, to Sam Anthony, of the steam barge Owen, of Chatham. It was his duty on arriving at Windsor dock to throw a hawser over a pile, and make it fast. He was either careless or awkward, for the hawser entwined his ankles, drew him toward the chalk hole, cut both of Anthony's legs off at the ankles, and drew one foot, with the shoe in which it was engaged through the chalk hole, leaving the other on the deok. Anthony was un• married, 26 years old, and bis home in Chatham. It was deoided that his legs must be amputatedi but he died fro n the remit of his terrible injuries And ARiAGJ$ 'W'AGC011TS. Bats and Balls Walking Canes Hammocks Croquet Fans VARIETY LARGE—PRICES LOW W. COOPER & Co. CLINTON MARRIED TORNE:t — TOWVNSEND. — In Tucker - smith, on the 16th inst., by the Rev J. Edge. Mr Albert Turner, to Rebecca,se- cond daughter of Mr Joseph Townsend. CAIRNS—DORRANCE.—In Chicago, at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs Harry Martin, on the 19th ult., by Re Mr Jackman, Mr David Cairns, o Chicago, to Miss. Addie E. Dorrance, of Seaforth. CARR—SUTHERLAND.—At the home of the bride, on the 19th inst, by Rev Mr McDonald, Mr A. H. Carr, Wingham, to Miss Annetta Sutherland, Ashfield HARVEY—Mmt.sa.—On the 4th inst:, at the residence (of the bride's father, Mr John Harvey to Mary Anne, second daughter of Mr Robert Miller, all of Hallett. STORDY—STALKER.—At the residence of the bride's father, on Wednesday 11th inst., by the Rev Geo. W. Racey, William John, second son of Mr John Sturdy, 1st con., East Wawanosh, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr Fran- cis Stalker, 8th con., Morris. HIED SiivppARD.—In Hallett, on the 16th inst., James Sheppard, aged 75 years,/0 months, and '22 days. Er.rtorT,—In Goderich township, on the Llth inst., James Livingstone, youngest son of James Elliott, aged 5 months and 8 days. JAcitsoN.—In Morrison the 6th, inst.,. Hannah Jackson, relict of the late John Jackson, aged 65 years, 10 months and 28 days. KYLE.—In Tuckersmith, on the 7th inst., John Kyle, aged 41 years, 11 mouths and 4 days. The Minnesota Farmers' Alliance has issued an address to the people making a savage attack on the 'tufted States Supreme Court, denouncing she McKin- ley Bill and urging every alliance in the States to' send delegates to the State Convention, July 16. On Monday night James Westlake, blacksmith, of Union, was driving in a buggy with two young ladies from Middlemarch to Union. When a little west of White's Station the bolt fasten- ing the shafts to the axle came out, and the horse ran away, throwing Mr Westlake out. The young ladies clung to the buggy for about a mile, and when coming to a dangerous place they jump- ed out, and one of them Miss Nobel McIntyre, dislocated her shoulder. The other lady was not hurt. Advices received fronr China give the story of the slaughter of 800 sold- iers in Tamsui. The news of the mass- acre reached Shanghai on May 5 by the war ship Feicheu,which brought about 1,200 sick and wounded braves from Gen. Lin's army, operating against the savages in the south-east part of island. The General's forces have not so far been very successful, and their despised enemy, the savages, seem to have come out uppermost in all recent encounters, despite the great preparations which the Government had been making for months before he set out Ito exterminate hie wary enem- ies. In one of the last engagements between the imperial troops and the aborigines the casualties on the Chin- ese side were greatly under -estimated. Over 800 soldiers were slaughtered in an ambueoade by the savages. The General and his second in commagd, whose deaths have already been reo.td- ed, were beheaded and their muti ted bodies brought back to Feiohen. Dr. Calvin E. Gardner and a son of M. Tulk, one of the Spokane Falls' . wealthiest citizens, attempted to cross sir the river on . ay on a cable windlass ferry, co rutted by the doctor, and both we e drowned. ALL MEN. old, or middle-aged, who find elves nervous,wealt and exhausted who are broken down from excess or overwork, resulting in many of the fol- lowing symptoms ; Mental depression, premature old age, loss of vitality, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, emis- sions, lack of energy, pain in the kid- neys, headache, pimples on the face or body,itching or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wasting of the organs, diz- ziness, specks before the eyes, twitching of the muscles, eye lids and elsewhere, bashfulness, deposits in the urine, loss of will power, tenderness of the scalp and spine; weak and flabby muscies,de- sire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, conetipation, dullness of hearing, loss of voice, desire for solitude, excit- ability of temper,sunken eyes surround- ed with Leaden Circle,oily looking skin, etc., are all symptoms of nervous de• bility that lead to insanity and death unless cured. The spring or vital toren • having lost its tention every function wanes in consequence. Those who through abuse committed in ignorance may be permanently cured. Send your address for book on all diseases peculiar to man. Address M. V. LUBON, 50Front St. E., Toronto,Ont. Books sent free sealed. Heart disease, the symptoms of which are faint spells, purple'lipe, numbness, palpitation, skip beats, hot flnshes, rush of blood to the head, dull pain in the heart with beats strong, rapid and irregular, the second heart beat quicker than the first, pain about the breast bone, etc., can positive- ly be cured. No cure no pay. Send for book. Address M. V. LUBON, 50 Front Street East, Toronto, Ont, June 20, 1800. A school boy in Edinburgh scalded his left leg and foot from knee to toes so badly that the skin peeled off and the flesh ulcerated. There being no signs of healing the surgeon obtained a grey- hound puppy, seven days old, chloro- formed it to death, shaved its body closely, skinned it, and with the skin grafted the skin of tho boy so as to cover all the ulcerated spots. The result was surprising. The leg rapidly healed, and when the patient was discharged "the color of the grafted skin was uniform and very similar to that of the normal skin." On Friday evening a young son of Chas. Garlick, who lives about three miles north of West Lorne, left his father's house for the purpose of driv- ing horlte the cows. Nothing has been seen of him since, and whether he has wandered to other parts or has met with some mishap can only be conject• ured. He is 16 years old and has been suffering from the grippe, which is supposed to have paused him to become insane. The parents are almost dis• tracted at his continued absenoe. Large parties lire searching the woods for him.—[Dutton Advance. youne New duertiottnent . ``IERVAN'I' WANTED.—GOOD GENERAL IJsorvant wanted to go to Toronto. Liberal wages. Apply to W. JACKSON. I`IERVANT WANTED. --0000 GENERAL, I7servant. Apply to AIRS JNO, WISEMAN. A Reward Of s20 will bo paid b the undersigned, for such evidence as will lead to the conviction of any person poaching in Sharpe's Creek, Colborne. M. C. CAMERON, J. N. SHANNON, M. D., Goderich Farmer's : Excursion TO MAN ITOBA8 Fare *28, $30 and $35 C.P.R. AGENCY AT COOPER & CO'S BOOK STORE CLINTON Excursion to Manitoba. Juttts,7a 24, and July 8. Fare, $28, including berths in Colonist Sleeping Cars, Raggago checked through and Coupon tickets issued. Apply early for berths. W. JACKSON, TOWN AGENT G. T. R.