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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-10-14, Page 7E�hiiaipu OR OodLiver OH AND TNR Rypophosphites of Time and Soda. NQ other Emulsion is so easy to take. It does not separate nor spoil. It is always sweet as cream. The most sensitive Stomach can retain It. CURES Scrofulous and Wasting Diseases. Chronic Cough. Loss of Appetite. Mental and Nervous Prostration. General Debility, 8 -cc. Beware of all imitations. Ask for "t! -..e. n. Ft I.." T:7:11:'-'7°1, &nd refuse eil of.:lens. PRICE 60C. AND $1 PER EloTTLE. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year -$1.25 In Advance -_ We(111CS!lily, Oar. 1 -illi, 1891 GENERAL NEWS —A. peculiar actiou has been 'brought in Toronto by Miss Char- lotte M. J. Lyons, of Cayuga, to have her marriage with Augustus Matthews, of Matthews Bros., set aside. The couple were married 'ten January 31, 1877, by Rev. John Wilson, of Dunville, but they have never lived together, the young bride being persuaded by her rela- tives not to go with her husband. The marriage was never conaum- 'mated. The girl is au orphan, and s entitled to some property left by ter father. Matthews eays that her .relatives turned her against him. Et is not known upon what grounds the p laintiff seeks to have the mar Tinge declared void. Norman v. O'Connor was an ac- -j4 -on tried at the assizes at Owen -Sound under the Ontario statute giving a woo in a right of action against and entitling her to recover -nominal damages from any person imputing a bad. character to her. 'The plaintiff is a young woman un- der 21 years of age, of rather more than average comeliness and stylish- ly attired, the adopted daughter of a manufacturer of underwear and hosiery in the village of Williams ford. The defendant keeps a hotel in the same village. No more vile- ly lewd language than that in which it was alleged the imputation was made was ever beard in a court room. The defendant and his wit- ness directly denied that any such language had been made use of. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of 1$20 damages. —Particulars of the murder near Judique, Cape Bretou, are to the effect that a few years ago adman named Fortnne, who was a married roan, left his home fur the United States, leaving his wife behind. During Fortune's absence McMas- ter became very intimate with For- tune's wife, so much so that when Fortune returned home the other day he found his wife ancients. After promising to forgive her, the woman r'etur'ned to her home and ,met her husband, who sh(iweld ox• dreme kindness to his wife, and learned from the woman's own lips the name of the man who became :so criminally intimate with her. Fortune at once determined on re- venge, and meeting McMaster in- formed him that he had to battle for his life. A terrible struggle followed, resulting in McMaster re- ceiving a blow frotn Fortune's fist, from the effects of which he died the following day. —The trial of Charles Cottenden, charged with criminally assaulting his own daughter, occupied the Tor uto assizes. The prisoner had the misfortune to lose his arm in a saw- mill near Kingston about three years ago. '`Troubles never come :alone," and with the legs of his arm came the loss of hie wife's affections. Their e'e.en-year-old daughter, Sarah, who lays the charge, is not such a prattling inocent as one 1anight think from her quiet coun tenance. In his address to the jury hie lordship said : "During all my experiences as a circuit court judge I have never heard evidence that caused me more pain than that given by this young girl." The lase admitted having formerly charged seven others with taking improper liberties with her, yet alone of them were prosecuted by the mother. A boarder, the first charged, would have been ordered from the house by Cottenden ex- cept for the interference of the girl's mother. The girl admitted that she ltd-.hgt,.com onio wlad,,,baan:naso,,_. elating with a certain "old man" in Bellwood avenue -and that he had furnished them money, R, AND,. MPS, BOWSER IT MAKES QUITE A PIFf=ERENCIi WHICH QNE IS SiCK. Reirardiess of the )Foot That Comparison. • are Odioue He makes Comparisons to Dlrs. B's Detriment; But a Chanro Comes O'er the Spirit or Ws Dream. When Mr. Bowser comes home and finds his wife lying down with lier head tied up he is real sorry for her, of course—just as sorry as any husband could be. And, like any other husband, he stands and surveys her for a moment and then bluntly says: "I expected it! Finally got flat down, eh?" "It's nothing," eh* faintly replies. "Oh! it isn't! Nothing fora wife to flop down and upset the whole house, I suppose! Well, I've been looking for it the last three months, and so I'm not much surprised. Mrs. Bowser, it's a wonder to me that you or tory other woman in New York is out of y:>ur collie!" "It's only --only a he.tdaehe, dear." "Yes, only a headache; but what do head- aches lead to? It you are not a (lead woman before Saturday night you may . consider youreelf lucky. Didn't 1 warn you not to sit in a draught—not to wear thin shoes—not to eat too much in warns weather? Little 40,1(1 it dues to talk to a woman!" 1.000 AT (1 0, M 0-'. DOWSER! "Yon can't help ailing- 0ccasionaliv," she replied, as she got up to wet the bandage around her heal. "Mrs. Bowser, look at rue!" he said, as lie struck an attitude .aid 1,<:a one hand aloft. "When am I ever niliu_'" When do you hear me complain? Never' And why is it? Because, 31rs. 1owset' - la:cat/NU I don't cram my stomauli with Lvaterl0elun, buttermilk, gum -drops, custard pie, 15 \\ act -calve, ginger - ale, and all that! Because I don't go around with my feet supping wet! Because I know enough to come in when it silts! Because 1 exercise a little eonunon souse in taking care of myself!" "Your dinner is ready." "And I'nl really for dinner. A healthv, happy person is always ready for his meals. You won't try.to get up, 1 suppose?" "Not now. "Nell, you have only yourself to blame. You may learn in time, but I doubt it. I'd like to find one woman with about two ounces of horse sense in her head before I die, but 1 don't cxptet to do it. Well, it can't be helped, 1 suppose. The Lord made you that way, and its 110 use to argue." Mr. Bowser eats his dinner, smokes his cigar and sings and whistles as if the slight- est noise didn't go through her aching head like'a bullet. It never occurs to hila to fan her, wet the bandage or ask if she can't sip a cup of tea. It does occur to hint, however, to say about bedtime: "1'm sorry, of 0olu'se, but then you must have more sense. 1'll go up to bed, and you can come when you get ready. If you are going to kick around much, you'd bet- ter sleep in the spare room." Now and then the tables ttre turned. Mr. BOW:40r cones home to lunch, dragi:ing his legs after, him and looking pale and seared. "What's the smatter'!" asks Mrs. Bowser as soon as he steps into the house. "Got a sore threat and I feel feverish. 1 —I think I'm going to be sick!" She doesn't call out that it's just as she expected, and declare that no husband in Now York has sense enough to look out for his health. She knows he was out in a draught in his shirt sleeves, but she doesn't even mention it. On the contrary, she re- marks: rlAD:r'T WE BETTER HAVE TWO DOCTORS, MRS. BOwsER? "Try and eat a little so0el him; 001 then lie down. Ycu'd better gargle your throat and then tie it up." "Do you—you think its anything ser- ious?" he whispers as he grows paler. "I hope not, bat it's best to be on the hest side. Yen •u'e subject to quinsy, you know, and spinal meningitis begins just this way." "I believe I'm going to die," gasps Mr. Bowser, and he grows so weak that she has to takeoff his coat and vest and get him on the lounge. Everything about the house is ordered to go ou tip -tap and even the cat is pet out and the clock stopped, After his t hroat has been tied up, his shoos taken off and a (guilt thrown over him 3Ir. Bowser plaintively inquiries: ilun't you think you'd better send for a "Not just yet, dear. 1 don't think it's very sennas," "31rs. Bowser, I believe I'm already struck with death!" "Nonsense! You've just got a little in- flammation of the tonsils." "I've felt for some days as if a great ca- lamity hung over this household. Hadn't we better have two doctors?" "Just try and get to sleep, blr. Bowser, and DIt warrant you'll feel better by night." "Ahl how I suffer," he groans. "You may be a widow before the next week is out. I hope you will always he kind to our child. I have tried to bo a good husband, and—and"-- Mrs. Bowser lays her hand on his fore- head and the teal's como to his eyes and he st,/doiily'Ilecntncs,Y rb1f ling Clifnbq 'SU" has to hold his hand tc get him to sleep and when he wakes up he wants tea and feast and jelly, and he ie as petulant ea e sink b4.by Until finally put to led. Ue is a view Inar> when he 'maims in the morning, and when she asks after his throat he re- viles; Throat—humph ! Mrs. Bowser, for about five hours yesterday 1 was hovering between life and death. Had it been you you would have died ten times over, but grit pulled the through." "Grit'!" "Yes, (frit—nand—pluck—,Spartan cour- age and fortitude. I let none of you know how bad I actually waa, but just shut my teeth and determined to live, and here is the result, of it, Ah! Mrs. Bowser, if you only had a hundredth part of my courage and will -power you'd be a fay different woman from what you are now—a far dif- ferent woman !"—M. Quad, in New York World. BURDETTE'S JOKE, It Was Intensely Practical, but Not Less runty than 1.'ractical, Rev. Dr. Delanuo, a well-known clergy - Man, tells a funny story of one of Bob Burdette's practical jokes, of which he happened to be the victim. He and Burdette were lecturing in Bristol, and while there, Mr. Delanno, had received from his brother two silver spoons, heirlooms of the family. These he placed loosely in the pocket of his overcoat and thought no more about thein. Shortly afterward, going to (title in a restaurant, he met his eseleeturot•, 31r. Burdette. %While here he exhibited the spoons, and the joker's eves began to twinkle. The two lett the 1estaurant together, the clergymen throwing his oyereoat loosely over iris arm. 00 reaching the sidewalk, Mr. Burdette gave the coat a sudden fling, and the spoons fell to the pavement. Great was the divine's astonishment as he attained to pick thein up, thinking it all an accient, to hear 31r. Burdette call loudly for the police. A large crowd quickly gathered and a uniformed preserver of the peace quickly ap- peared on the scene. "What is the matter?" he asked. "Matter!" responded the joker, with a serious face, "this roan just came out of that restaurant and two silver spoons drop- ped from his pocket. He is evidently a thief disguised as a clergyman. Seo what a guil- ty look he has!" The minister certainly did look guilty after hearing these words from his friend, and if it had not been for the arrival of sev- eral acquaintances the policeman would no doubt have taken him into custody. Then they hunted for -lir. 11(31 Idtte, hat he had disappeared, leaving a card in the hands of a bystander to be delivered to the minister. 011 it w•as written the words: -- "Keep the spoous, as you may he able to bail yourself out with them." Got Off Cheap. ''t''1, 4014 ;CC'r. She—So you have shaved off yoltr mous- tache. It must have cost you 0 great deal to make that sacrifice. He—No, not very much. It was a five - cent shave. Wanted to be Polite. The street -car was well filled when they got on. There was just one seat left, and it required some crowding to show that that was there. But the two young men needed a seat; they had been imbibing and were a bit uncertain a8 to whether they, could hang or to a strap. Consequently one of them crowded into the vacant seat at1(1 the other sat in his lap. Then both went to sleep. They rocked to and fro as the car stopped and started, as it slacked up and then increased its speed, but the top one seemed never to lose his balance enough to awaken trim. Then a corpulent woman entered, She glanced around the car, but every man was busy with a paper with the exceptions of the two who were asleep. She happened to catch a strap directly in front of them as the car started and looked around again, but no one seemed to see her. "It's funny," she said pointedly as a sudden jerk of the car nearly made her drop a bundle she carried, "that there's no gen- tlemans in this'erc car." That awoke the man sitting on his friend's knees. He ribbed his eyes, made a quick survey of the c111, .Pimped up and said: "Madan!, take my seat!" Then every (Inc laughed rxrept the woman to whom the courtesy had been extended and the man who was as'.•ep. The one who had extended time courtesy laughed himself as soon as he realized the situation. Good Ground for Unbelief. Father—Come, Johnny, do as I bade you! Take off your coat this instant. Johnny --You ain't goin' to lick me, are yon? "Certainly I am. Didn't I tell you this morning I would pay you off for yetur be- havior?' • "Yes, but I didn't think you'd do it. You told the grocer and the butcher you'd pay 'em off last week and 1 know you let up on therm." What Ile Wanted to Know. North—Is it true that you eloped with old Scrogg's daughter? Eastman—That is just what I should like to know. North --What do you mean? Eastman—When I went to bury the rail- road tickets the agent wouldn't take a cent, and handed the Scrogg's mileage book. Too Large Hearted. "And you rejected him?" "I did." "He has the reputation of being a large hearted man." "That's the trouble with him; he is too largo hearted. He can love half a dozen of women at the lame time." Cutting the Gordian Knot. Mrs. Young—John, did you succeed in matching that piece of dress -goods I gave you this morning? Mr. Young—No; my time was too preci- ous; but (triumphantly) I've bought enough of something else to make you a whole gown 1 No Damaged Goods Wanted, Druggist --How is it that the farmers • OM •ri •steiN 'iott in; tte-go liTr - - ° - - Clerk—They claim that our acid phos- phate has stood so long that it is sour. A 'SS OPPOTT4. QHN HENRY 13RIGGS had been born and brought up in the country; and though he had spent some years in the city he claimed 110 had never been entirely weaned from the cqun- try. Though he had not seen a hill of beans planted in fourteen yeare yet vie did not cease to tell his friends about hie knowledge of farming, and how when he was on the farm, his father used to raise crops the envy of that eouutry side for miles around. Once in a while Mi-. Briggs would get the notion into his head 11iat he wanted eoneof the old -tune country fare and then his little wife was put to herwitseuds to prepare haat and string beans or bacon and hominy in such a manner as to remind Mr. Briggs of Ids long -past country boyhood. Her efforts met with indifferent success, for though Mrs. Briggs eau cook after the same formula that Mr. Briggs' mother used, she cannot give him thdappetite of a hired man, or eoniut'e up the conditions under which 31r. Briggs used to relish country fare. Otte dal' this spring Mr. Briggs suddenly remembered how he used to relish boiled greens, and from that moment his ono aim in life was to devour some once more. Mr. Briggs' aunt was stopping at his house for a few days when the fever struck I11o1 and she was consulted as to the proper ingredients and kilo!; of herbs. Spinach, pulse and curly duck with beet topsail(' mustard leaves. As curly dock and Mustard leaves were not to be procured in open inarket, a small boy was commissioned to invade the coun- try and procure a sufficient quantity of throe herbs. The buy succeeded ill Itis foreigu mission, and it seelned_as though Briggs was going to enjoy a meal of (11-tinte boiled greens once more. He in\ited an obi bachelor chum to take dinner with him, and the said 01311111 readily accepted the invitation, not so much on aecuunt of the dinner of herbs, as because of a gentle and bashful passion that he entertained for Briggs' maid,:11 aunt. Tile maiden aunt was aware of tae tender 8e11i- uoents of her nephew's friend. and k11nw!ng that 0111 saying: "the easiest way to rea._li a man's heart, is through his stooliteh," has considerable truth in it, she deteriuiin- l that the boiled greens should be a 8 10res1. 3Jrs. Briggs usually superiute,(14,1 the cul- inary inary department, but to snake 5 WO 111 at the cookery was going 0n in prayer :111 81(0 the aunt itVculed 111' kitchen. "Now Mfrs. 1'I: id ,Vi, VN is '411(104 0f salt and terribly aftaid iit:h.:Ter," (nosed tbuauut. "1 think I'1l put 0 little /emir! of bulli in to 1st sure tont (hen , omit, .!%- And I'm afraid she did not put In 0.10 ,, b duck. 'There's nothing like plenty of (,>t l; al boiled greens, •' 511 in went mu<n'0 silt and pepper, luol another handful of dock, 'I'lie ;Lunt bad barely retired from the kitchen when the mistress of the hoose entered and looked into the seething pot,. "I L:011.1 for tine life of me remember whet• her I put in salt and te•i>per or not. .1 elm always SaVS that 1 m.vcr season t;1ii1 4 enough; so to be sure of it 1'11 put iu some anyway, and I guess a little more dot 1r would not do any harm." Another dose of salt and pepper 1(11,1 another handful of dock went into the caldron. Mary Aun, who was the actual bone soil muscle of that kitchen, looked over 1.10 field a little. later and decided that as her ill is tressoften forgot to season what she was cooking, that it would lie 0 good pliin to put a little extra seasoning into the greens, She did so. And as she knew dock w,ts g,(1,1 she put in an extra bunch. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, with aunty and the invited guest, gathered around the festive board, sparkling with -cut glass and glitter- ing with silver. "Ah, it snakes me young again," said Briggs, when the pottage was brought in, "to smell the savory odor of boiledreens once more. I hope you prepared plenty, my dear." Mrs. Briggs replied that she had prepared a sufficient quantity, or, to be more truthful, Auty had prepared then. As Aunty had pr tared them, the guest hastened to partake lnf them. V There et was :t smile and look of pleasant anticipation on his face as his lips closed over a generous portion, but the smile vanished iustautcr and a look of astonishment not unmixed with terror, took its place. When he real- ized the flavor of his mouthful his first im- pulse was to spit, but he checked it, and chewed manfully, with weaving jaw,, like a cow with a thorn in her cud. In the mean- time Mr. Briggs' aunt had taken a 10011111101 of the greens. When the taste of the tress became apparent, she barely suppressed a scream, and in her haste to get the dainty out of her mouth, the greens became tangled up in her custom-made teeth, an(l all went out together. Briggs waa 50 enraged with his own anticipations that he did not notice anything amiss at the other side of the table. "I tell you," he retnarkcd, "the old-time country provender is best, after all. Now this—" and he put same in his mouth. "Bah! oh! oh! Moses! What is this? It's poison?" and his eyes started and he grew red in t ie face, and spit and sputtered. "Why, what's the matter, my dear?" asked Mrs. Briggs, in alarm. "Trouble! trouble!" he roared, continuing to spit. "What is this hellish stuff that, you have made?" The guest, uo longer able to contain himself, gagged, and his portion departed from him, while his countenance assumed a deathlike whiteness. "Why yes," replied Mrs. Briggs, "we used plenty of that. That's dock, ' "Yes, it's dock," said ltriggs, "but it's burdock, and not curly dock and burdock is the bitterest weed that grows on the face of time earth. If you two women, born and raised in the country, have 80 far forgotten your bringing up that you can't tell curly dock front burdock, it isn't safe to trust you to cook greens." And 31r. Briggs' chum, with 1a tender passion for the aunt, thought so, too, and the aunt will never again try to reach a man's heitrt through his stomach. --Edwin Ralph Collins, in Texas Siftings. From Choice., Tom—Look at Miss Maggie. Strange that a woman will dress 111111 way when she's not compelled to. 4err\*esslN)vt-compelietl= -tra} eeWlhyy s , • Tom—Because no woman is compelled to bare arms.—Texas Siftings. '' i/n TJsu ."' It is a iluattei^'af' pride with railroad com- panies to ran their trains on time; or as near to punctuality as possible. This well- known fact no doubt explains an incident which all English traveler relates in. cou- lreetlern with a journey which he took across the American contirent. It was on one of the great transurrrtinental lines which hart made apeeial premises as to punctu- ality. On the jouruey, the English traveler Seemed to notice a marked disregard for the time -table, but he was interested in the curuitry, and made no colnplaitrt. At hie,; the Pacific terminus. was reached. There he met a beaming official of the com- pany, who, pulling his own watch out said: "Just look end see what you've got, will you, please?" It wants tell minutes to 0118," said the Englishman, a little puzzled. "Yes, sir; twelve -fifty exactly! And that's the title she's scheduled to arrive! How's that for promptness? ()rushing the continent, ahnost three thousand utiles, and getting here at twelve -fifty o'clock, precise- ly as advertised." "I can't deny that, you know," said the En lishinan. "It's very fine, no doubt: but look here—how many days were you late?" "011, a (natter of two or three, perhaps; but we struck t110 Joust at twelve-fifty!"— Youth's Companion. He Kn sw the slipper. • el 1 ;It The ex-King—Ma, where (lid the baby come from? Jla1>uua--r""ront heaven, darling. The ex -]Ging --The little beggar didn't b know when he was well oil', did he? Circumstances Alter ('uses. A farmer hired a man to help work the farm. One summer 410y, when lalnr was very seatce, the two were mowing in the held, and several 141(1(8 dew up, "Look at those big crluns," said the hired (114111. "'1'hu8e are not cranes; they are only larks," replied the farmer, somewhat sur- prised. "I say they are cranes, and if you don't say su ton 1 11 quit work'" As the farmer could not get anyone at that time to take tl.e hired man's place, he was obliged to yield to the whine of the menial. "Yes," said the farmer "I see now that they are cranes, but they are not big i tines." The hired man was satisfied with this con- cession. Some months afterwards, the hired man still being in the employment of the far- Iner, the latter said at (limner one day, as he poured out a glass of water: "Here is some fine beer." "That's not beer; that's only water," re- plied the hired man. "If you don't say this is beer you can tender your resignation, for 1 don't want tiny offensive partisans about the place." The hired man knew very well that he couldn't get another situation at that time of the year so he tasted time water, and cheer- fully endorsed the administration, saying: "Of course it's beer, but it hasn't got much body to it." Having thus convinced the President that he was 8mm(' on the goose question the 'hired man was allowed to retain his posi- tion. Answering Fla 1,1110Cellt Question. The little man was lovely and wanted to make friends and the big mutt with his left arta in a sling seemed to be the only one in the smoking -room of the car who seemed to have no one to talk to. So the little man picked 111m out. "Arm hurt?" he asked pleasantly. ^ 'rhe big man took his cigar out of • his mouth, looked at the little nlan severely, and said: "See that sling?" "Why, yes, of course," ' Think it's pretty?" "Well, no. I—" "Doesn't look like a decoration, does it?" "Of course not. You see—" "Personally you wouldn't wear it for an ornatnent, would you?" "No; certainly not. I--" ."Well, do you suppose I am wearing it to improve my personal appearance?" "Not at all. I meant to ask what the matter with your arm was." "Well, why didn't you say what you meant? It's hurt." Then the big man settled back in his esat and put his cigar in his mouth again; and the next time the little man tries to strike up an acquaintance he'll be more careful of the language he uses, and will also study the man. The Laziest .Mian Ever morn, "Remember Bilkins?" he asked after they had exchanged greetings and gotten dowu to rerninisonce of the days when they were boys. "Lazy Bilkins?" asked the other. "The eanme." "Bilkins, the boy that was too lazy to cry when his father licked him?" "That's time one." "Afterwards became labor agitator or something of that sort?" „s ,'Yes." b,• "0, yes, I remember him. He was al- ways kicking." "Always. But he's happy now." "Yon don't mean its What's happened to him?" "He's dead." The other figured on the matter for a minute and then said: "Um, well, I don't know about his being happy. Seems to me you're taking a good deal for granter!. You don't know where he's gone." "That makes no difference," was the re- ply. "He doesn't have to work for his liv- ing in either place, and he'll stand the dis- comforts all right." Got His Vacation. Mr. Bullion—By the way, Mr. Bookkeep, you asked for a va— Mr. Bookkeep—Oh, Mr. Bullion, I did not think really you would allow me a va- cation chtring this busy season. "—cation. Well you may take .+ff ton •• 'IM'Mt trtr, M13-1' Btrl}fr:tr.,'11 rx ., " Weeks, and them stay away alto. gether." ---Juriwt Jet e, Davidson ap$ I3aby have uceept3ti the RumitiesionYi lot n ' U the 1nYdatlbNt/Uti iota the hood- ling busi)ieed of Premier Mercier and his Grit colleagues' and aseoci. - attte. They Conrntencerj trQet.( at. once. -There is atilt much excitement's as to what the dual deeiaiun will 11.0 in a ease where a $600 piano wes awarded at the Sangamon, 111., fall. fair fur the beat jelly. The pram'• Itlt)E was giv"n to Mrs. S. J. Willett, whose eake was made of jolly and. angel food. There were over 500 caked cuinpetiug and only a half dozen were wade of angel fund. A proleat has been filed with the board of dileetole by a )lumber of ladies whose cakes were made in the old fashioued way. —©u Monday afternoon an Eng - 11811 lad, aged 17, named Walter Stokes, while mowing in a clover field to' James Dickson, of McGil-. livray township, accldeutally felt trots the machine. While in .the act of whipping the horses, the ani- mals sprang forward, dislodging the youth, who fell before the machine acid had his right hand out off en- tirely a short distauce above the wrist. Ile walked from the field to the house, leaviug the hand in the field. Medical aid was secured and the 1ad'e injuries attended to. —'The Pev. Dean McKenzie, of Brantford, in his sermon Sunday night iu All Saints' Church, Wind- sor, said that the french and Que- bec would never rest until they once egaiu hail that Province under the power ut France, end that it waa a fatal mistake of England to allow them the French tougue in Schools and in courts when it was captured from Frauco. He Raw Only two ways nut of the difficulty, Quebec must use the lahlish language en- tirely, or else it most be cast adrift from the test of the Dominion. —Mis. Celina Ledoceur, who. escaped front the Hamilton asylum on September 15, was discovered at Trenton, Out. She was in au ex- hausted condition and her limbs and feet were badly swollen. She slept in the woods. Two nights before she was found the was awakened by something licking her hand. She says it was a bear and:, she thought her Lest heel' lead come,. hut t' e hear quietly walked away without molesting her. She sub slated al moat eutircly on apples - found along the road, and her ap- pearance gave evidence of severe - exposure and privation. —Mayor• elflike, says a wall - known Toronto politician, line the refusal of the superintendency of the government printing bureau. at Ottawa, and as far ,ae 1 can gee he will take it. Ouly he will haslet 00 the salary being at lutist 0'2,500 a year. If his worship goes to Ot- tawa the way will be cleared, for a host of mayoralty aspirants.. If Mayor Clarke goes to Ottawa he will have to resign the local legis- lature, and already the gossips have made G. T. Blackstock not:.o.nly his s'lecessor fur the representation of Toronto, hat also of 31r. Meredith. should the lender of the opposition also join in the hegira, to the Do• minion caiutal and anter Mr. Abbott's cabinet. 111 And About'1'he; County. —Last week several graves in Lurgan, Brune ccunly, were rifled rind b ,dies re- moved to, gle ule. One 0f tho.,e remov- ed wilt that of thu late Mr. Joel' Hunter. Mr. Hue ier wasfather of James Bunter of Huron tp, and '1t John Bunter of huahfield. Huron county, and a very prominent 111110 in his day. Born in Fer- managh, Ireland, he emigrated to Can- ada and settled iai Brantford where he engaged iu contracting and farming. He wild out and carne to Huron Town- ship 1851. Fla was a reeve, Justice of the peace, aseeseor and collector for aotne years and could have been elected to any municipal pesitlon did hie Inclinations lead that way. Old reei(ieuts still tell of his many deeds of charity, for he was generous to a fault. Ills hand was ever ready to extend a8siatanoe the poor and nufortunate. In 1859 he and a friend, John McGraw, were drowned while coming to Kincardine in a row boat. The body was reoevcred and bur- ied in the Lessen cemetery where it lay undisturbed until a few days ago. We understand that his son, Mr. James Hunter, is making an effort to find out and punish the ghouls. SALE BILLS.—Tpo News -Record has un- surpassed faili tine for turning out flrst•clnss work at low rates. A free advertisement in. The News•Recorri with every set of sale bills. FARMS FOR SALE. Three farms containing c!gh v acres each, ors 3rd and 4113 concessions of (1oderich Township, three miles from Goderich Apply to MRS. ANN IIINCi(S On the premises. TILE CELEBRATED Ideal Wasfterw3, and Wringer. TIIE BEST IN TUE MARHET,j Machines Allowed ou Trial am also agent for all •mill Agricultural Implements Wareroom opposite Fair's Mill. J. B. WEIR, CLINTON