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To. creditors -Manning & Scott
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Loat-J. F. Brown
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FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 9, 1892
• 11 people will keep themselves and
their preaases clean and free from nui-
sances, they need have little fear of t he
cholera.
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The Conservatives of East Lam bton
had a monster picnic at Petrone. on
Tuesday. Five of the Cabinet Minis-
tersivere present and gave addresses.
It was a, big success end a big hurrah,
and no mista,ke, but we would not like
to be forced to swallow e 11 1 hat was
said.
li may please some of lie people of
this country to know that at the Min-
neapolis Exposition, now in full sway,
the Union Jack floats from a flag staff
on the building, side by side with the
stars. and stripes, andnobody was fool-
ish enough to raise the slightest ob-
jection.
_ • _ _
The most brutal form of "sport" that
, can be conceived of has been going on
at New Orleans this week, in the shape
of several prize fights between pro-
' tninent pugilists. The State that
will allow men to stand up- and pain -
mei each other until one or the other
is exhausted and nearly dead, is a dis-
grace to the civilization of this cen-
tury, and the column after column of
details of the disgusting affairs pub-
la4ed by the American papers, is a
sad reflex on the alleged moral ad-
vancement of the people.
The barley industry of Canada has
certainly been affected by the McKinley
bill, arid the effort to grow barley for
the English market does not seem to
Itaveresultedsuccessfully. The Bureau
of Industries estimates the acreage and
production of barley during the present
year at 499,225 acres and 13,3'76,586
bushels. This is the smallest ccep
raised in the Province in many yeaie.
Last year the acreage was 653,166 acres
and the production 16,141,004 bushels.
The average yearly acreage and pro-
duction during the past ten years have
been743,245 acres and 19,349,351 bushels.
The British market has not yet taken
the place of the American market, and
it never will, windy assertions of poli-
ticians to the contrary. notwithstand-
• ing.
The Americans get the name of be-
ing a bad lot of people politically, and
we are sometimes told that Canadians
"can't hold a candle to them" in this
respect, but there are some things
political that they do better than we
do, anyhow, aadhere is an illustration.
Twenty-one ballot box stuffers,the last
z
of the sixty-three election officers of
Hudson county, New Jersey, who he4
been tried and convicted for, or hat*
pleaded guilty to, fraud in connection
with the election of 1890, were last week
sentenced in the County Court,
Jersey City, to terms of from six to
• fifteen months in State Prison or Peni-
tentiary. Thirty-eight others have
been doing the State service in convict
garb fbr some time back. If a few
Canadians guilty of similar frauds,
Were treated likewise, this ceuttry
aSetaid be able t� hom. td head VP
An Editorial Outing.
Pine Western Cities — Prairie
Partns—Anpearance or crops.
All Preconceived Notions
Knoclied %Endways -
A Magnificent
Country.
(By the Bator.)
WaiNleite, Aue.
Minneapolie and at Paul are spoken of
as "The twin cities" of the west, and the
easterner who has never been west is Mid
that the two cities are preotioally one, and
in bis sublime innooenoe and simplicity he
usually .believes it. But onoe the travel.
ler roaches either at these pieties, be finds
tbat they are not by any means one place -
either in fact or thought. The two places
are really- ten miles apart, though resi-
dences bave been extended from each city
until are •'outskirts" are but two miles
away. Ail electric street car (+mined*
both cities, and the ride, a very pleasant
ono, and occupying, with stoppages, 50
minutes, can be had for 10 cents.
You hoar a great deal in the east about
the jealousy existing between the two
places, and one does not require to dig be-
neath the surface to find it, but let the
traveller begin to praise any other place as
over and above these two, and they at once
unite as one and indignantly repudiate
any 80011 claims. Both are active, stirring
places, with a great many thinge in cont.
mon, bat my preference leans towards
Minneapolis. Its streets are broad, with
abundance of shade, and there is an air of
cleanliness about it that at once captivates
the stranger. It is built on rising ground,
and there seems to be an indefinable some-
thing about the whole city that catches
one's fancy. I may not have seen enough
of other plitoes whereby to form correct
judgineut, but certainly if I went out look-
ing for a place "wherein to pitch my tent"
I would not want to stake it in any better
place than Minneapolis.
From Minneapolis to Winnipeg is a run
of nearly five hundred miles, and it takes
&bout twenty hours to cover tbe distance.
1 had formed the idea that the prairie
• land was entirely free from trees, that as
far as the eyes could reach nothing would
be seen but a settler's shanty and his out-
buildings. I had gathered the thought
that the settlers, whose crops Lad been so
repeatedly destroyed by drouth, frost or
cycloue, were a mighty bard -up lot and
only 'awaited a chance to flee from sur-
roandinge so uninviting. I got these pre-
conceived ideas completely shattered and
knocked out of me before we had travelled
very far. Judged by what I saw from the
car window -and we passed through North
Dakota -it was a magnificent section of
conntrt , producing fairly good crops, with
a much greater area of wooded land than I
had the slighteat idea of. The wheat was
all cut and stuoked, and looked to be about
as heavy a crop as I had seen in the comity
of Huron; oats were stilt standing and were
apparently a good crop The buildings
gave evidence of prosperity, and in almost
every instance the brace were painted.
True, once in a while, we would .pass a
place that was very far from being a pa-
lace, but the great majority of farm houses
passed looked to be fully as comfortable
and their owners just as prosperous as the
same number in Huron. There were, of
course. no orchards. A.s we passed mile
after rnile, and mile upon mile of wheat,
my wife innocently remarked "you would
think the' had so much wheat that they
wouldn't know what to do with it." There
was lots of dead -level, unbroken land to be
seen, and we travelled e. good many miles
at times without seeing much timber, but
you would sdndenly come upon a clump of
quite heavy timber that via along for some
distance and then terminated juet as
abruptly as if a mower had trimmed off
one course along the side. We rutty have
passed through the best part of northern
Dakota, for all I know, but what I saw
convinced me that it was a country where-
in a man could make a fairly good living
at farming, even with the drawbacks cou-
sidered.
In the immediate neighborhood of Win-
nipeg there is no farming worth speaking
of, except by the half-breeds. Due west
about 60 miles lies Portage Is Prairie, a
fine thriving town, and by common con-
sent tlaepeople seem to regard "the Portage
plains" -aa the -most- productive portion of
Manitoba. It is certainly a good section,
and grows fine crop& I pulled from a
standing field as fine a sample of wheat as
one , could find anywhere. West of the
Portage there is considerable rough land
that does not look as if it will ever be tit
for anything, being known as "the sand
hills." -Carberry-is in a good section, and
is enjoying prosperity. Brandon, being. in
d
a :caagricultural district, is a growing
town. The wheat and oats all through
here looked well, but in many. instances
stacks of last year's frozen wheat stood on
on the prairie lintouched, and it looked to
us as if oats. which wore yet quite green,
would hardly escape a visitation this year.
The developinent in the Souris district
this year is something remarkable, and
people conversed with had nothing but good
words to say concerning the prospects.
Slight frost was experienced two nights
while we were in the west, but it was said
to be insufficient to do any injury.
The boundless, unlimited expanse of
country to be seen surpasses the conception
of those who have never experienced it, and
the irresistible conviction forces itself upon
the mind that all this great western ben -
tory needs is people to make it one a the
grandest countries under the sun.
We went west prejudiced in several ways,
but tse return east with many of these pre-
judices removed. Personally, we have not
the slightest desire or iinclination "to go
farming," nor would we care torah° isola-
tion or solitude of life on the prairie, but at
the same time we feel setisfied that any
young man who is willing to forego many
of the comforts of life here, take his
chances with the disadvantages and draw-
backs of the west, and put up with the in-
conveniences that must be endured there,
could very soon place himself in an inde-
pendent position. True, there are numbers
who have been there for years and have
not succeeded, who have apparently had
nothing but disconragements ever since
they set foot in the country, but there bre
also hundreds who went without a dollar,
that are to -day well-to-do. People who are
comfortable in Ontario should stay there,
but those who have no prospects ahead of
'them migbt, in our opinion, do worse than
ias west and take up land.
• It is cold in the west in winter, and the
Manitobians admit it, but they meet you
with the oft' quoted remark "but you dont
•feel it." they told me it haa gone as low as
500 below zero right in Winnipeg. The
atmosphere may make thetemperattwe leas
perceptible than the same degreeli -of cold
would be in Ontario, but they admit that
one great dsaw back hi the excessive cold.
Next week we vial have something to eay
concerning Winniatg. THE EDITOR.
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Additional Looal thin
MANITODA.-Jaelteovi's Ticket
Agency booked the following passen-
gers for Manitoba on Tuesday last,
this being the date of the lastexcurstm
to the North West: T. LiadsaY, W-
Landesboro, A. Swan and wife, J.
BoYee, W. Boas, Mrs Patterson, Mies
Laing, E. Butt, J. Howe, 3, R. Holmes,
J. Laithwaite, A. Montgontery, W.
Brigham, D. McNaughton.
Cnottnr. Purnox.-We have evolved
for perusal from the publishers, Mervirs
John Lovell du Son, two books, being
from the pen of two very popular
authors, one of whit*, is entitled "lii
the Roar of the Sea, ' by S. Baring
Gould, whose reputation is enough to
warrant the story beiug interesting.
The other is the story of "A Penitent
Soul," by Adeline Sergeant, this isle is
exceedingly interesting, and yriii
tainly command a large sale.
SMOTHERED BY THE SMOKE.- SOnle
benzine becoming ignited in the cellar
of the vinegar and paint manufactur-
ing establielanent of William Wilson,
113 Bay street, Toronto, set fire to the
building at 5.15 p. m. Monday, and be-
fore he could escape James Brickenden,
(brother of Messrs E. Brickenden, of
alullett, add J. Brickenden, of town.)
the 'foreman, aged 58, was suffocated'
by the smoke. Brickenden, together
with William Smith, an employe, was
engaged in rnixing paint in the back
of the cellar, using for the purpose a
quantity of benzine. There was a gas
jet burning close by, and the stuff
caught fire. In an instant the entire
cellar was ablaze and filled with blinding
emoke. Smith shouted to Brickenden
to follow him, and both star ted for the
stairway. Before they reached it, the
apron Brickenden wore caught fire and
he stopped to put the blaze out. The
delay proved fatal to him. When the
fire had been extinguished, Martin IL
Derrick, went into thecellar and found
Brickenden's body coiled up in a corner.
He was carried upstairs and restorati-
ves applied, but without avail. The
lower portion of deceased's body, as
well as his hands,was horribly burned.
Death was evidently due to suffocation.
Brickenden had been in the employ of
the firm for 23 years; he was a married
man, and has left it family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters,
the youngest being 12 years of age and
the eldest, a son, 34 years. Mr Wilson
his employer, said that deceased was
one man in a thousand. He never
drank, was intelligent beyond his
station, and was always a steady and
reliable man.
Church' Notes.
Rev A. Stewart and Rev Mr Hender-
son, of Hayfield. exchanged pulpits on
Sunday last.
Thanksgiving services will be con-
ducted by Rev G. F. Newton, on the
25th inst., in the following churches: -
St. John's, Hohnesville; St. James, Mid-
dleton, and St. Peters, Summerhill.
Rev J. H. McBai n, of Victovia Univei -
sity, will preach at both services in the
Ontario St. Methodist church next,
Sabbath. Rev Mr Smyth will. preach
in Londeshoro.in connection vi 113 their
harvest home 'evices.
S. S. CoNvenTioss In ciemection
with the Goderich Dietrict Meeting, to
be held on the 12t13 hist,. at Holmes-
ville, 'a, Sabbath School Convention
will also Le held. commencing at 2.30,
for which an interesting program has
been prepared.
The Mission Circle of Rattenbury St.
church,,held their annual meeting 011 -
Tuesday evening, and elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: -
Pres., Miss J. E. Robinson; Vice -Pres.,
Miss Tebbutt; Secy., Miss A. frwin:
Tree., Miss A. Taylor: Organist. Miss
M. Doherty: Auditor, Miss A. Holmes.
The members of the Ontario St.
Methodist Church have taken a for-
ward step by the introduction of the
"envelope system." It is a decided in).-
provement over former methods of
managing church finances, and the
sooner all churches adopt it the better
for themselves. Church funds should
aie--raised as systern-aticallrand inetbo-
dically as those of any business concern,
but as church officials know too well.
they unfortunately are not,.
At the Annual Meeting of the Wo-
man's Missionary Society, Rattenbury
St. Church. the following officers were
elected for the ensuing yeaa-Pree,„
Mrs Shilton; I Vice -Pres., 1Vits-Biddle-
combe; 2 Vice -Pres., Mrs A. .0. Pat-
tison; Rec-Sec. . Miss Bessie Porter;
Cor., Miss L. White; Trea., Mrs Hod -
genie Committee, Mrs Blatchford, Mrs
W. S. Harland and Mrs Geo. Doherty.
Delegates to the Annual Meeting of the
Western Branch, Mrs Shilton and Mrs
A. Taylor.
Financial District Meeting.
The Wingham Financial District
meeting was held at Brussels, oa Tues-
day afternoon, Sept. 6. After devo-
tional exercises, and reading of min-
utes of last meeting, there was some
discussion re the sufferers of St. Johns,
when, on motion, it was resolved that
each circuit and station contribute
something for their relief, not later
than October. The regular business
was then taken up, the educational
anniversaries being provided for as fol-
lows :-
Wingham, loeal arrangements; Tees -
water, Rev Geo. F. Salton, Sept. 25;
Wroxeter, local arrangements; Brus-
sels, Rev J. .& McLachlan, Sept 25;
Walton, Blyth and Belgrave make
local arrangements; Londesboro, Rev
F. Swann, March 5th, 1893; Auburn,
Rev S. Sellery, Feb. 12; Bluevale, Rev
J. W. Dyke.
Missionary anuiversaries were pro-
vided for as follows :-Wingham, Tees -
water, Brussels, Walton, Blyth and
Belgrave make local arrangements;
Wroxeter, Rev S. Sellery, M.A.; Au-
burn, J. McLachlan, Nov. 13; Londes-
boro, Rev J. W. Pring, Jan. 8; Blue -
vale, W. W. Leech.
The amount of superannuation to be
raised by each circuit was about the
same as last year. There was some
discussion as to holding a district re-
vival meeting for a week, at which the
ministers of the district should be pre-
sent. It was felt that Belgrave had
the best right to such a service, but
after some earnest pleading, it was de-
cided to hold it inLondesboro some time
soon. A prayer meeting convention
was held in the evening, presided over
by Rev S. Sellery, M.A., chairman of
the district. An address was giv b
the financial secretary, Rev W
Campbell, M.A., Ph.B., on "How best
tatonauct a. prayer meeting," folk wed
Itet J. A. McLachlan'of Teesw; ter.
May Disttidt. meetingWill he he in
Winghern. •
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Collegiate institute.
• Our Collegiate institute is an institu-
tion in which every inhabitant of the
town is more or less interested. Many
look back with pleasure to the time
when they were among the busy, and
sometimes noisy, throng within its
walls, many are interested in those at
present climbing the heights of Par-
nassus there, and many more look for-
ward to the time when they will be
gatheriug their intellectual life from it
as their benign mother. Even those
who neither have attended nol will at-
tend its classes wish for its welfare, as
one of the institutions that go, -far to
aid the prosperity of our town. No
apology is, therefore, needed for giving
the Institute a little spate in the NEW
ERA, especially as changes, improve-
ments, and repairs have recently been
made by the Board, with it view to in-
crease Use efficiency of the school. In
the first place, the gymnasium bas
been sheeted and floored; and in* it a
atove will be placed, so as to make it of
use for physical exercise in the coldest
weather. Then the interior of the In-
stitute has been wonderfully bright-
ened up by paint, kalsomine and var-
nish; the platforms have been lowered
and extended, and the blackboards
have been improved. "Never saw it
look so well before," is the verdict of
several visitors. Lastly, the Board
some time ago voted a censiderable
sum of money to purchase additional
books for the library; some of these
have already been placed oh the shelves,
and others will be added shortly. Mr
Houston informs us that he intends
also to have on the table of the library
several papers and magazines for the
use of the students.
The past year has been to some ex-
tent, one of calamities to the Institute,
The late principal's sickness left the
staff weak during a large part of the
fall term, and many changes have been
made in the staff, no fewer than three
different alien having had chaege of the
scinece department, and two that of
Model n languages. The present year
begins with new tnen in classics, sci-
ences and mathematics. The staff, as
now constituted, consists of Mr J.
Houston, M.A.. Principal and specialist
in English and moderns, formerly of
Brighton and London; Mr A. P. Gun-
dry, specialist in sciences, formerly of
Colborne and Port Elgin; Mr G. A.
McKee, specialist in classics, late of
Listowel and Caledonia; Mr W. Mc-
Queen, honor graduate of Toronto Uni-
versity in mathematics, and Miss N.
Hume, honor iindergraduate of Toron-
to. in moderns. All the teachers have
commenced the year's work with the
determination to make it a year of suc-
cess for theniselves, for the school, and
for the individual students. Let the
students remeinber, however. that suc-
cess will not attend without their de-
termination also. In eonclusioi I, vse
hop.e.for-theschool a bright and'prosper-
ous year. and that the students may,
by their respect for the public property
which is given them to use, by their)
punctuality. regularity atid zeal, ehow '
that they are not unworthy the care
bestowed upon theni by the Board. and
the interest shown by the public.
The 'Premiership
A correspondent of t he Montreal
Herald says: -
The one opinion which exists here in
political circles point to the very early
retirement of Premier Abbott. Some
of those who follow politics and are
well acquainted in official quarters go
so far as stating that before the pres-
ent week closes there will be a recon-
struction of the cabinet. The changes
will not be many, although important.
The appointment of a premier is al-
ways Au'importatit event, but it is not
likely that there will be any changes,
beyond the selection of a fhat minister
to succeed Sir John Abbott for some
time. It is now generally recognized
that the coming premier will be Sir
John Thompson. He and his friends
feel that notwithstanding his prefer-
ence to it judicial appointment, such,
for instance, as the Chief Justiceship
of the Superior Court, it is his bounden
duty to dispose of the Manitoba school
question, more especially considering
his published reports on the matter,
before quitting active politics. Every
day brings proof that there would be
no great opposition to him in the pre-
sent Conservative Parliament part y
and that nearly all agree to his views
on the school difficulty. There are
two men and two only wbo would be
likely to rebel with any practical ef-
fect. They are Dalton McCarthy and
Col. O'Brien, especially the latter, but
what could both do 1.n injure it party
with over seventy of it majority? It
is all nonsense to talk of the Orange-
men rebelling.Sir John Thompson
has no truer friends in the House than
Major Sam. Hughes and Clarke Wal-
lace, both of whom sat severely on Mr
McCarthy last session. If any opposi-
tion was expected in that quarter, the
placing of Clarke Wallace in the Sen-
ate, or even to the more important
position of president of the Council in
the Cabinet, would settle the whole
matter. Outside of Sir John Thomp-
son, the only other one who is serious-
ly talked of Sir Charles Tupper. Some
are booming Hon. John Haggett, but
he is well satisfied as he is and wields
an influence in the Government second
only to the premier in natne, but more
potent as a matter of fact. Mr Foster
is wholly out of the question, altbotigh
he holds the important position of
Finance Minister.
About fourteen months ago a young man
named Atthur York, who lived somewhat
near Uxbridge, cisme to town and married
a Mise Torbett. The fruit of the union
was a son. Monday morning the infant
died uuder suspicions circumstances The
father some time ago attempt d to take
his own life. An inquest was hel Tuesday,
with the result that a verdiot or man-
slaughter vitts returned by the juts againet
Yotk, who will be takeii to To
Ceilittable Millard. Dr. Stuart
Newmarket, conducted the iniltiest
Will Wine tilv for trial at the
Km Notes bond the, Count!
Rev. Mr Simpson, pastor of the Union
Church, Brucefield, was away last week,
attending the funeral of his mother. She
died at Oakville,having attained the unusual
ego of 85 yestre and 8 months.
Mr Edward (3hristie has purohased Mr
A. 3. Rolline' farm, 1st eon. Usborne, la
miles south of Exeter. The farm contains
100 sores, with first-class buildings, and
Mr C. gave 00,590, inoluding shis briok
residence on Haron-st, for the premieee.
Mr Christie will continue at the livery
business, and put a man on the farm to
work it. Mr Rolline will move into Exeter
and reside.
On Sunday, as Rev. S. &helm, emotes
palsied by his wife aed little daughter, was
driving on the London Road, about ct mile
south of Kippen, his horse shied at a bioyo-
liet, reclining on the roadside, enjoying the
shade of a tree, and turning sharply, upset
the buggy and occupants into the ditch and
freeing himself from the buggy made good
time back to Rippen. Mr Acheson and
daughter escaped injury. Mre Acheson
received a severe shoat, and was badly
bruised about the face. The buggy was
almost a total wreak.
On Sunday forenoon (met, as Mn George
Habkirk, jr., of Tuokersruith, was driving
along Hannah's sideroad with a horse and
buggy, and accompanied by his wife and a
couple of children, he met with a some-
what unpleasant accident. When near the
railroad crossing at Harpnrhey his hone
frightened at a calf on the road jumping up
suddenly. The horse bolted into the ditoh,
upsetting the buggy and throwing the
occupants out, and made off with the
vehicle. It ran, trailing the buggy after it.
until it got nearly to the residence of Mr
John Beattie, adjoining Ses.forth on the
Huron road, where it was stopped. The
buggy was a (templet wreck; the harness
was considerably broken, and the horse
alightly scratched, but, fortutiately, none of
the occupy ats of the vehicle were much in-
jured.
NEWS NOT lati .
Crop reports compiled by the C. P. R.
shows that 95 per cent. of the wheat crop
in Manitoba and the Territories has already
been cut.
A little eirl named Connell.) , of Glencoe,
Ont., got hold of a box of morphine pine on
Sunday, and swallowed so many of them
that she died in two hours,
Constables near Manterey, Cal., cap-
tured nineteen Chinese who were landed
by the schooaer Haden, which was laet
seen at Victoria, B. C. several weeks ago.
In a raid on Tuesday, at Garfield Park,
Chicago, where racing is carried on in
violation of the law, J. M. Brown, a wealthy
horseman, shot and killed two policemen
and was killed himself.
A West Shore train, which left New
York at 4.15 p. m. Monday, jumped the
track about one mile below Cranston, N.Y.
The engine, tender and two baggage cars
went into thellndson River. The engineer,
fireman and baggagemaster were drowned.
Almost every day for the past three
months Guadalajara. Mexico, has been
shaken by earthquakes. The walls of the
most (substantial buildings are badly crack-
ed. The eruptions of mouut Colima are
believed to have something to do with the
trembling.
A novel lathing conteet has just been
concluded at Winnipeg, between_ rtu. Ice,
lender Stained Gdiklffiali[ind a Toronto
man named Taylor. It lasted a day and
nine hours. The Icelander won, covering
:;40 yards, which ordinarily is three men's
work in a day. The Icelander drove 22,780
nails,
Mrs Margarita Rivera, of Monterey,Mex.
aerandmotber of Gov. Galan, of Coahuila,
died on Friday at the age of 132 years.
She was born in Spain and came to
Mexico over a century ago. She recently
received from the archbishop at Madrid a
copy of the cathedral record of her birth.
Her health for the past several years had
been very feeble, and she was confined to
her room. -
Nicholas Geraty, an old farmer, quarrel-
led with his wife Saturday, and she went
to the house of her married daughter, Mrs
Kerstang, who lived on an adjoining farm.
Between 5 and 6 o'clock Geraty went over
to the Iterating place and aaked his wife to
return. She refused, and he .tried to force
her to accompany him. Mrs Kerstang
knocked him down with an axe. Then
while the wife held him down the daughter
out him to pieees with a butcher knife,
Over 80 stab wounds were infiioted, and
his face and neck were horribly slashed.
The women washed themselves bud tried
to hide the body. They were discovered
and arrested, and now it is feared they
will be lynched.
A few weeks ago the rumor became our -
rent at City of Mexico that a sister in
Conception convent had discovered in the
archives of that institution an old docu-
ment which stated that $3,000,000 in gold
was buried at the time of the war with the
French by the lady superior of the con-
vent. Tbe location of the treasure was
given as a house which was formerly a
part of the convent. The work of excava-
tion for the money was begun under the
direction of the priests of the convent
The news of the affair reached President
Diaz, and he immediately ordered the
priests to suspend operations, and the
work was placed under the charge of the
Government. The treasure was unearthed
Friday, and will be turned into the general
treasury.
Es,rly Saturday morning the fast ex-
press, passing St. Catharies at 1.59 a. m.,
collided with it freight train at Jordan
station, seven miles west of there. As there
is s. bridge over the Twenty Mile Creek at
this point, both trains were going slow,
otherwise the accident might have been of
a far more serious' character than it was.
The fireman of the express train, named
Thomas Reddens, of London, jumped, but
landing on the platform of the siding, he
slipped and fell between the siding and the
train, under the wheels, and his head and
one leg were completely severed• from his
body. The other two engineers and fire.
man jumpedetnd escaped without injury.
The fronts of the two engines and the cabs
were pretty badly wrecked, also the front of
the smoking car which waspretty well filled
with passengers, but no one was injured.
The engineer of the express train, J. S.
McLeod, is a resident of London. Those
who saw the accident speak in high terms
of praise of Engineer MoLeod's strenuous
endeavors to check the speed of his train
when it was found that a collision was
inevitable.
onto ba2 , Cents in advance will, pay for
ot,t,.0,... . the CILMIVE NEW EitA for
tt'F's' ' ' the balittied•Of this year
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ALL
PER
There is hardly, t day
that we are not selling
WALL PAPER in small
or large quantities. We
don't hardly expect to
sell much at this season,
but there are always some
people moving or chang-
ing their houses by put-
ting in arches, iSto •so
that they need some nice
Wall Decorations.
Our time for papers has cer-
tainly gone broadcast o'er
the land, and we are:now
giving our customers !aa
good value as ever, in
fact some of our odd lines
are rare values.
-Window
Shades:
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As with wall paper, so
withWindowSnades, they
are always selling, and
our new line of Lexington
Shades are proving to be
values and sellers ahead
of anything we have ever
shown.
Nuff sed.
Coom's Book Stull, Clio
Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods, •
CLINTON, ONT.
A, tor Advertionneuto.
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Teacher Wanted.
Teacher wanted for School Sec. NO.S.Goderich
Tewasiiirs,stpVy wunarnaectsiiod,triamesvitie
P
"ost Office; ,p ease state salary and certificate
applications received up ta September 20th 1895,,
LOST.
A uoto of hand drawn in hoer of C. M. Brown
or bearer, and made by Dank( Stong, for $18.
The public are cautioned against negotiating the
same, as payment has hoeu stopped, JAS. F.
BROWN, Buffett.
Teacher Wanted.
Male or Female holdiug Second Class Certifi-
cate, for S.S. No. 5, Hullett. to teaoh for the year
1893. State salary, and furnish references, Ap-
ply to Wm MoCool, Secy., Londeeboro.
Farm for Sale or to Rent.
The undersigned offers either for sale or to
rent, lot 19, 6th con. -of Hallett- containing 100"
acres; all but 8 cleared and in good state of cult&
vation; well watered; small house, good barn snd
outbuildings. 13earingorchard. Five milesfrom
Clinton. Will either be rented for a term of years
or sold on very moderate terms. Particulars o11
the premises, or to THOMAS QUIGLEY, Clinton.
*4.1 if
Farm to Rent or Sell.
To tent or for sale the well -situated ferM of 50
acres, In the township of Stanley, on the Bayfield
road, near Bayfield,belonging,to the undersigned.
Small house, good barn and ontbnildinge, bear.
ing orcherdoplenty of water. Possession given
lat of November, but work oan be done any time.
before. Will be rented or /sold on moderate
term. Apply to MRS MOFFATT, Victoria Si.
Clinton.
The PEOPLE'S AUCTIONEER
The undersigned desires to intimate that' be is
still it liceose Auctioneer tor the Conety of
Huron, and will conduct sales on reasonable
terms ; his experience in handling farm stook
warrauts him in guaranteeing entire satiataction.
Persons requiring hie services can rely implicit-
ly on the work being properly performed. He is
also in the Clothes Cleaning and repairing line
neat to Scraton'sbutcher ehop. and will execute
promptly all orders in this line. J. HOWSON
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
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IN 'P1115 SURROGATE COURT OF 'THE COUN-
TY OF HURON.
IN THE MATTER OF TEE ESTATE OF WILLIAM
HENRY COOPER TEE ELDER, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the pro
visione of the Revised etatutes of Ontario, Mr
Chapter 110, Section 36 that all persons hay
Ing any claim against the estate of William
Henry Cooper, the elder, late of the Town-
ship of Stanley, yeoman, deceased, wbo died
on or about the 2nd day of Mareh,1812, are requir-
ed on or before the 5th day of Occober,1892,to send
or deiiver to Manning Le Scott, Solicitors for 3.P.
Tisdallthe administrator of the property of the
said William Henry Cooper, the eller, deceiteed,
full particulars of their claims and the aeourities
(if any) held by them, duly verified by affidavit.
And after t110 Said 5Ma day of Oct., 1892, the said
adminietrator Will proceed to distribute the &s -
sen) of the said Estate among tbe parties entitled
thereto, having reference only to :the °lathes of
which he obeli have received notice, and after
such distribution the said administrator will not
be responsible for the e.seets of said estate to any
person of whose claim notice shall not have been
received at the time of suoh distribution. Dated
at Clinton, this 5th day of September, 1892.
MANNING de SCOTT,
Solicitors for the Administrator.
TORONTO Wahl Exhibition
Single Pare $3,70 Sept. 6th to 16th, in-
clutwve. Excursion day's Sept. 12th
and 14th $2.65. All tickets good to end
Exhibition.
W. JACKSON,
TOWN AGENT G. T, it,