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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-09-28, Page 618 not only st: itiiltrocc cg ccoapla'otirat # itself► hut,, b7*►let the 'bloods to !nicety. depraved` and; the .yatent sir ifeebled, :is the Oren r'of i rfra erabo mala4 ea. That Aye baa .pals to the boat curt for Indigestion, even when complicated with Live; complaint, 11 proved by the tollowing teetleiony from Me. Joseph Lake, o! Brockway Centre, Mich•; -- ,'laver . complaint and indigestion wade my life a burden and came near ending my existence. For more than tour years'l suffered untold agonyy» was reduced almost to a skeleton, and hardl had strength to drag myself about. • A.11 kinda of Mood Ot stressed me and only the most delicate could be digested at all. Within the time mentioned several physicians treated me without giving re- lief. Notliing`'that I took seemed to do any permanent good until I commenced the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which has produced wonderful results. Soon atter commencing to take the Sarsapa- rilla I could see au improvement in my condition. My appetite began to return and with it came the ability to digest all the food taken, my strength im- proved each day and after a few months of faithful attention to your directions, I found myself a well woman, able to attend to all household duties. The medicine has given me a new lease of life." Ayer's $arsapari11ao PREPARED BT Dr. 4. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Prion $1; -etx bottles, $6. Worth $5 a bottle. The Huron News-Recora .60 a Year -$1.25 In Advance Wednesday, Sept. 28th, 1892 EDITORIAL NOTES. Irish Secretary, Mr. John Morley, has given orders for the release of Irish convicts imprisoned under the "coercion act," And W. H. Red- mond, Parnellite M. P. for Clare, remonstrates against the uctiou of Mr. Morley "in the sending of armed police" to seize the cattle of poor people who are unable to meet tete full demands of their landlords and driving the people wild and will force them to commit the very offences he has pardoned former perpetrators of." The stopping of immigration into the United States, by reason of the prevalence of cholera in Europe, and the consequent fear of the next census not showing a creditable in- crease in population, has put some of the citizens of that country on their mottle. Thus we find it chronicled that the wife of Chas. Billings, of Ashe county, North Carolina, gave birth last week to six children, all boys and all doing well. They weigh from four and a half to nine pounds each. Arnoldi, the Government employe charged with malfeasance in office for hiring a tug to the Government through another party and in other ways making contracts with the Department with which he was connected, and which by the rules of the Civil Service he was incapable of legally doing, has been found guilty of "misbehaviour" and the Judge has reserved his decision as he is not certain this a punishable offence, it being shown that the Government got value for the money paid Arnold, though he was in- eligible as a contracting party. The name latest mentioned in the public press in connection with a possible successor to Premier Abbott, is the Hon. J. C. Patterson, Secy. of State, and M. P. for \Vest Huron. And the suggestion is thrown out by 'Major Sam Hughes, M. P., editor of the Lindsay Warder. Wo do not know that ,Mr. Patterson aspires to it, but we do know that he is in every way fitted for it. He -- is gentleman of long parliamentary experience, of equable temperate, of moderato views, conciliatory in dis position, popular with his party, of cornma;:ai"g tact aa a manager of men, the very soul of honor and of such assured patriotism as would becomingly and gracefully befit the highest popular representative of the Crown in Canada.- And without introducing sectionalism it may bo said he is a Western man, an Ontario man. It might be a beneficial change to have as Premier a gentle- man from the Western section of the premier Province of the Domin- ion. It would be highly &ratifying to the people of West Huron to have this honor thrust upon our popular representative. b P Said in out and out Reformer to the writer the other day, "I cannot agree with those of our party who denounce protection as a fraud and that it has ruined Canada, however much ;I may be inclined to think the tariff could be reformed in some directions. I look around me and I find prosperity on every hand. But mind you I do not say that pro taction has caused it. I travelled through a large portion,of theStates, where protection has run mad, the past summer, and I failed to find my class, the farmers, as well off as in Canada,. •'rho grins ` •of 'tsrt�uerii' 'tuff 'rlein Gapada, Abe prise- of tongie" et . fikolera''• 'tnwrketo 11 coueiderfaq, tele ou the elfin!, 1409, hen here, end, in the "molar, Sty • a owe they have to pay more for whet they buy, avid their taXes are 'hunt' higher,' ,4s to city prices andcity prgsperity I am foot" in a poeitioq: to say, but believes that it Is all that could be desired but at the expense of the farmers. In talking with haneriORS1 Domoorat farmers and explaining the Canadian tariff to them they said they would baldly call it a protective one and was much the eameeetbe laemoorate were contending for, end in com- parison with the Ameriban system the Canadians might be eaici to have free trade. In any event it appear ed to them to be a revenue tariff only." Tho notorious Connolly case, in which the Connolly Broe., were charged with defrauding the Govern- mentout of large sums of money, came up for trial Iast week, but was put off until another court on ac- oonnt of important books being missing, Mr. S. Blake, Connoliy'er counsel promised to have the books in court but appears to have been unable to do so, and Mr. Oster on behalf of the Crown would not risk a trial without them as the Govern- ment was determined to use every legitimate nreane to protect the pub- lic interests and secure a verdict against the Connoliys if they can secure evidence to do so, which Mr. Osler believes would be obtainable if the missing books can be had. It is reported that the Cabinet Ministers have been successful in urging Hon. Mr. Abbott to retain the - Premiership until he finds whether hie trip to England well restore hie health. In case it does not they will unanimously support Sir John Thompson as his successor with Mr. §W. R. Meredith as Minister of Justice. It is surmised that Mr. White will retire fro.. Cardwell and Mr. Meredith contest it, his election being certain. Mr. J. D. Edgar, Mr. P., who has harangued so fiercely over alleged charges of corruption against Hon. 111r. Caron, in the last Parliament. and demanded a commission of in- quiry, which was granted, has written declining to appear before them or to submit any evidence. This is the old, old story of valiant when protected by the immunity allowed member for utterances used in the House, but cowardly, when a properly constituted tribun. al is ready to take official cogniz ante of alleged corruption. Mr. Edgar will no doubt shield himself from the odium of hie cowardly conduct by alleging that he did not have the choosing of the members of the Commission or their mode of procedure. But tho commission was formed, in the usual way, of eminent judges who are not in poli tical life and they are sworn to act as judges not as prosecutors or defent.ers. But Mr. Edgar appears to want to be judge, jury, prosecutes, prosecuting counsel and witness. This is the Grit idea of justice and fair play. CURRENT TOPICS The pious soul of the Hamilton Spectator is grieved to remark : Among the ships stopped at New York's quarantine station on sus picion of cholera was the Dubble• dam. Her passengers repeated her name a great many times during the time she was delayed. Montreal Star : An amusing fear Vure of the Premiership succession suuddle is that those who think that Mr." -Dalton McCarthy is an utter impossibility because of his relig- ious viowe are indignant at the idea that Sir. John Thompson's religion should be allowed to come into the question of his fitness at all ; and vice versa. -0•es O 40000 ---- SIX SIX AT A BIRTH. WHOLESALE ADDITION T() A POOR MAN'S FAMILY. -- T tie wife of Charles Billings, a poor m)untaineer living in Ashe County, N. C., on Tuesday gave birth to six children, all boys. They weigh from 41- to 9 pounds each and are all alive. Mrs. Bill- ings has four other children, but they were all born singly. UP TO DATE. Facts, statistics, information, things useful to know,the biggest and beet bud- get of knowledge, reliable and up tb date will be fonnd in e. new publication, "Facts and Figures," just issued by Messrs. T. Milburn & Co., of Toronto, Oat. Our readers can obtain it by addressing the above firm and enclosing a three cent stamp. —The negroes in Calhoun county. Arkansas, are up in arms against the election law, and threaten to exterminate the whites. adveral lives have already been taken and more trouble is foaled. stair. >uo.lgtetprt ttfartleutterht 'rhea. Ise Urltrta an stint fetaateit ,ChereeterietteM Mt', 14, !Grindon flu tate ohsrtning little oork tmoutt end Fruit,Treey,'.' rn ire+I a -age a ,unt of idsterneel data with tnuoh. practical infbrmition, In the fallowing `.,ketches touching upon the introduction: and,developutent. of targe !rube in America, f have drawn freely from the above source. Foremost elwaye among fruits interesting' to an Engtiahman is the apply. The apple is of more nae and henoftt to the people of the colder portions of the globs than all the ?titer fruits put together. It remains long- est in season and can bo used in the greatest variety of ways. The forst of the tree, leaf and bosom is familiar to all, The flowers come at the seine time as the sonnets of the spring poet, in little umbels of°"tlu•ee to six, having the ordinary rosaceous characteris- tica—the five petals quite free, white and delicately shaded outside withale ermino. The uppermost portion of the tower stalk is deeply concave, the sepals of the calyx apriu ging from the margin, as do the petals and the numerous stamens, while in the center are five slender pistils. The curious should note this carefully, since the apple as regards structure is one of the most re- markable productions of nature. The rule in planta is for the ripe fruit to consist only of the matured ovary, In the apple the Matured overy is the; smallest portion of the fruit. Soon after the petals drop, the vaso -like top of the peduncle becomes gradually distended with Juicy tissue. By degrees it adjoins itself to the. pistils within. These at last become completely embedded, and constitute the "bore"—French cwtu-, the heart. A hori- zontal section of a ripe apple shows plainly where the adhesion took place, this being indicated by the green fibres. A ripe apple is thus in reality a fruit within a fruit. The five cells of the core contain as a rule two seeds or "pip(" apiece, so that every apple is designed originally by nature to be the parent of ten more apple trees. "Pippins" aro properly apples that have been raised from these "pips" as distinguished from grafts, though the name is now restricted to particular sorts. Grafts are simply mul- tiplications of itn already existing kind. The early fruit growers thought that a tree was improved by rografting, i- e. grafting upon itself: Hence the term rennet or rein- otte—a corruption of re-natus. Tho native countries of the apple cannot he said to be certainly known. According to De Candolle it appears to be tnost truly in- digenous in the district lying in northern Persia. He believes it to be a native also of the mountains of Northwest India, and of Europe in general, excepting the extreme north Britain included. That - it existed in Europe in pre -historic times is proof by the remains of apples found in the Sevira Lake dwellings. All onr present cul- tivated apples are attributable to the one original from Pyrus Malas, though it is im- possible to say at what period this austere crab for such it is began to disclose its wonderful capacity for change to a better condition, and by what circumstances the tendency, to improve was first aroused. Probably the change was contemporaneous with the development of the social and con- structive instincts of man, pertaining to no particular spot, and to no particular period. That the crab grew into a sweet and plea- sant thing at a very early period is shown by the ramifications of the name—which is generally admitted to be of aryn extraction —showing frequently in the languages of the old celtic and northern nations in whose legends and tnythology the fruit also appears very generally. Through Greek and Roman literature references to apples are frequent. We owe much to the Romans for the introduction into Europe of many fruits, the descendants of which were carried to England and later to America. It appears, however, that England is in- debted to the Normans for her finest varie- ties, and it was. during their tirne that apple ealiire-began to make rapid and de- cided advancement. I might add that the Normans also introduced cider apples and the art of cider making. The County of Kent attained early fame in this connection which, if I am rightly informed, has never departed. The the names of various old towns and villages in England which cons- meinorate early apple culture, as Apple- thwaite, Applegarth, Appleby, date, accord. ing to Isaac Taylor, from times anterior to the Conquest. Appleton, the family sur- name, is said to have begun just after it. The precise date of the introduction bf the early varieties is in most cases undeter- minable. It can be conjectured, but no more.—John Craig, Dominion Horticultu- rist. Improvement of Country Roads. At a convention recently held in Iowa the lose to the creameries and their supplying farmers through bad roads was stated to be 20 per cent. The convention recommended a general road plan for the State, with six roads running east and west and north and south, the average cost being estimated at $1,500 per mile. It was urged that the work should begin when it can be shown that 15,000 miles of good roads can be built in five or ten years, so that when completed nu person in Iowa will be found living Inure than four miles from a perfect macadamised road. Here and in a Missouri convention papers were read and speeches made by promineut men pointing out the beneficent effect of good wheeling upon the fanners. Good wagon roads, it was argued with much force, would facilitate attendance at church and at political and other gatherings, make social intercourse easier, and generally help to broaden and brighten country life and check the rush to the cities. The road system is one of the things that they manage better in France. The French system was described iu a paper read by I'rof. F. H. Neff, before the Civil Engineer's Club of Cleveland, a sum - unary of which appears in the New York Post. In France the roads are divide` into three main classes, national, depart mental and county. The national highways are mostly for military purposes, and comprise about 24,000 miles, whose con- struction and maintenance aro borne en- tirely by the General Government De- partmental roads also comprise about 94,000 miles, are laid out to serve the de- partment as a whole, connecting the principal cities; and are paid for by the department. The county or vicinage roads have become the most important ; their aggregate length is over 300,000 miles, exclusively of roads within village limits. These roads are built and maintained by the communes or townships, whose avar- age-size is about six square miles. There is a system of engineers in charge of all these roads, with assistants, who look after 25 or 50 miles each. Laborers or sec- tion hands are employed in numbers aver- aging from 1f to 21 miles of -road per man. The macadam road without a foundation is the forts followed. The cost of construction and maintenance has averaged as follows : Annual First cost maintenance per toile. per tnile. National roads £10,000 52.30 Departmental roads... 5,000 151) County roads 2,700 so The subject of the improvement of county roads is now receiv io:4 1181ell attention from the American preer, metropolitan as well as agricultural. ggAK.ABP: DQINOO** X0111140 010111540 "frig ?tliNNQt Ik ' 0414P 141iRti1Nf IN' BEilhfN, ., me great cents f sttreotion wad interest in Berlin,; Qat., the past wad presoak wooly Is the Mennonite camp.meeting, which is visited by thousands of, people every day. The camp is located in the bush adjoining the town, park. Twenty. two large canvas tents iu a chola compose the camp, iu the middle of which is a large tent tined or the tubornanle. Service begins at six o'clock in the morning and is kept up off and on until about ten o'clock at night. While a reporter was present a man at the back end of the temple euddenly jumped up paused a moment and then ruehed up to the altar, whore he flung him- aelf to the ground, face downward, groaning and groveling in the duet. This is but one instance of many. During the prayer meetiogaalmoat a bedlam reigns; women eoream, men cry aloud, some slug, others sit motionleee as if in a stupor, while still others clap their hands, and altogether the scene is very weird and awesome. The campers hare a boy thirteen years of age with them, who at cer- tain periods is seized with a sort of trance. He is then picked up and placed on the platform and will im- mediately addreas./the concourse, giving au excellent sermon. The child is a wonder, and same are of the opinion that his sot mous are bet ter than those of any minister on the ground. The New Mennonites are extremely adverse to educated ministers, and the ministers of other churches ere frequently de- nounced from the camp pulpit in the severest terms.' One of the Mennonite ministers, while in the pulpit, after confessing that he was uneducated said : "What does D. D. after a minister's name mean I I tell you brethren, it ought to bo dumb dog." at' which there was a chorus of "amens," "yes, yes," and sundry other ejaculations from the audience. A service of feet washing was held yesterday afternoon. This part of the sect's doctrine is very interesting. A number of tubs of water are placed before the taber- nacle altar, a man takes of hie foot- wear and puts hiafeet into it. An- other brother steps up and washes the first man's feet, after which it is vice versa, the women doing the same to each other. After the washing of the feet, women and men all kiss each other and the ceremony is concluded. Tho attendance at the meetings yesterday was something tremend• oua and the services were in full blast all day, little time lost for meals. The churches of the town as a result were slimly attended, especially in the evening. The Salvation army also discarded after - neon serilae in the barracks and at- tended the camp meeting. The eamp will be held until Wednesday evening. Consumption Cured. An old phyetelan, retired from p-actioe, having had latticed in his hr.ads by an Etat India mise`^n- ary the formula of a simple vegetab'e remedy t the speedy and permanent cure of Consumptin..tt,� Bronchitis, Cetarrb, Asthma and all threat anil Lung A.fTeetior s, oho a posits -o and radical ca for Nervous Deb'li,y and all Nervone Complair;e, after having testel i •a wo.oderfal curative powers iu thousands of oases, his felt !t his duty to make it known to his suffei' ng:eliows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relay() human suffering, I will send free of eharne, to all who desire it, this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with etamn, naming this paper. W.A. NoxaS, 820 Powers' Block, 1ochester, N.Y. 059—y ELOPED WITH A FORMER LOVER. A MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE DESERTS HIM FOR A MAN WITHOUT MONEY, The town of Ashville, New York state, is stirred up over a sensational elopement. A week ago the wife of millionaire Fayette Feek told her husband she was going to Brock- ton to visit relatives. Instead of doing so, it is alleged she went to Mayville, where oho met Charles Bly, a former lover, and the two took train for Buffalo. They remained here only half a day They purchased tickets for the west and left the same night. After his wife had been gone two days Mr. Feek made the discovery that she had drawn $3,000 of his money from the bank -and had also robbed his safe of a eum not far from this amount. Yesterday he received a telegram from Chicago, written by the runaway wife in which she informed him that she was on her way to California accom- panied by an old friend. Site con• fessed taking the money and stated that she had also disposed of a $1,500 mortgage. Bly is about 35 years old. He is unmarried and has no property. Mrs. Feek is 28 years old. She is pretty, and was the society leader in Ashville, besides being prominent- ly connected with church work and charities. Mr. Feek says he will begin an action for divorce immedi- ately. He is one ofAshville's most respected citizens. TIMELY WISDOM. Great and timely wisdom ie show t by keeping Dr. Fowler's Extract of 'Vila Strawberry on hand. It has no cholera morbus, diarrhea, dysentery, , colic, ora-•ps and all summer complaints or Looseness of thebowels. IZEV1,14LB JtiT,: T,LIT 1, • ,l'A.IITI'QUpAIiti OF T1111 OUTROS) oN TUE HA/MAW P 4t AND , DU}XU Qi.Ato ° One of the most atrocious MUM every perpetrated. its Canada "wee comu}itted at. Belleville, Out.; on Thursday wonting last. A deaf route girl named Lentz, aged about eeventeen years, and her brother, who is some years younger, arrived there by:the G. T. R. from their home near Hamilton at about I a. In. on that day. They were bound for the institution for the deaf and dumb, but having missed the train by which the' other pupile from the west traveled they were unaccompanied. Enteriug the sta- tion booed they fell asleep in the waiting•roow. Bt about 3 a. m. the girl was awakened by a yonug man, who induced her to believe that he would convey her to the institute. She accompanied him. outside, when he and a companion took the poor girl to a lonely place across the track, where both assaulted her. Her absence was noticed and in a short time she was found, her assailants running away as a rescuer approached. Thomas Dunn, a young mon aged nineteen years,• was yesterday arrested, and was identi- fied by Miss Lentz as one of her assailants. This morning he was brought before the acting police magi,t ate and remanded for a week. His accomplice, who is sup- posed to be George Thompson, a youth of about twenty years, has so far escaped the polioe. REVOLUTING CRIME IN JAPAN.. A SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF CAUSES A • YOUNG MAN TO MURDER HIS WIFE, One of the Chinese charges which led to the recent savage at tacks on foreign missionaries was that the Christians killed children to secure their eyes and hearts, which aro said to be sure remedies for eertain diseases. Tl' ire is no question that many little children are butchered every year in China by "witches," who .sell their eyes and hearts, but in Japan it was sup- posed education had destroyed this cruel superstition. However, the Yokohama papers which arrived by steamer to -day give full details of the revolting crime of a young man in Bungo province who slew hie wife in order to secure her liver with which to euro his mother's failing eyes-ght. Some quack told him to try chicken liver for his mother's blindness, and when this failed suggeested he get a human. liver and declared the mother must eat it raw. The son is represented as very ignorant; though well off. He had an only child two years old, so he determined to kill it and used its liver, , tsar 1r„91 A_Ain, •,took , the. baby out into the fields its innocent smile disarmed him. Finally he told his wife the child must be killed. She refused to permit the sacrifice but offered herself instead. The husband objected, but she finally convinced him and helped him to strangle herself. Then the husband cut out her liver, but be• fore he could use it his crime was discovered and he was surrendered to the police. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. -Are you disturbed night and broken of your root by a sick chi suffering and Drying with pain of Cutting Teofh If so send at once and ge a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" 'for Children Teeth ing. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers; there is no mistake about it. It on:.:o Dysentery and Diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, euros Wind Colic, softens the gums, rorlucee inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething lo pleasant o the taste and is the prescription cf one of the Idost and best female pliysioiano, and nurses in he United States, and is for sale by all druggist's throughout the world. Price 25 cents a bottle. Be erre and ask for "Mits. WIxoLow'a SOOTinNO SvntP,"and take no other kind. • 656y —A terrible boiler explosion took place in Force & Dickenson's stave mill stave mill at Staples, -a small village on the Leamington -ad St. Clair railway, four miles from Com• ber, by which seven men were killed outright, owe fatally injured and about twenty more o1'`Te% ' ntded EDUCATIONAL WORK. THE work of educating the public to a through knowledge of the virtues of Burdock Blood Bitters as a euro for all diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, and blood.bae heen oompletely eu000esful. The remedy is now known and ueed in thousands of homes where it alwuys gives gesat satisfaction. —A deaf mute girl at Belleville named Lentz, aged nineteen, was on Thursday morning outraged by two young men, supposed to be Thomas Dann and George Thomp- son. Dunn was yesterday arrested and identified by the girl as one of her assailants, and was today re• mended for a week. Thompson has as yet evaded arrest. PREFERENTIAL TRADE. PREFERENTIAL trade properly eonsiits in giving the preference to Burdock Blood Bitters when eoeking for a euro for consti- pation, dyapepeia, headache, biliousness, jaundioe, scrofula, poisonous hnmors.bad blood, rheumatism or complaints. It is the sure cure, and has cured oases which had resisted all other treatment. orra'l?iI"I rr 1Ea13o.' .A't f, ,>anA>t; sziAN. 4 44y, biles` ti tat 4 with.Ohroulo Rheumatism for several; yeast' sad hive used seem', patent , medicines l h.. t scilfflr flat y au`n`t eLi 400101 et Burdock ,Mood Bit+ tall I was entirely. .cured. AriAi} 141400UAL,, King 13t., Kingston, Qat. 1goarx,—I sat scquelete4 with above named tidy and ,emu *Artily to the cot- recteeee of thioatatmeat. HENRI( WAnrl;, Dreggiet, K,lagrtonf Ont. —The Board of health, of Ilton, has taken a step agninet luso, ious watermelon,, It has decreed that on and after Thursday next. no '• watermelons ehall be oTered for sale in that city. This step was deemed neoeseary on acccount of thl threatened cholera epidemic. FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED. Many of the worst attacks of cholera • morbus, cramps, dysentery, polio, eti., come suddenly in the night and speedy and prompt means must be used against them. Dr. Fowler's Eatraot of Wild Strawberry is the remedy. Keep it at hand for emergencies. It never/aile to cure or relieve. —An American firm has made arrangements with the Kingston foundry company to manufacture its patent for Canada. N. P. agora. Just hobo au alterative medicine; clean- ses thfi system is au open question ; but that Ayer's Sarsaparilla does produce a radical change in the blood is well at- tested on all sides. It is everywhere eoneidered the beet remedy for blood disorders. —A dispatch received from Allex, France, says that one person was killed and thirty injured in a rail- road accident at that place. Rheumatism is caused by a poisonous acid in the blood and yields to Ayer's Pills Many oases which seem chronic and hopeless, have been completaty cur- ed by this medicine. It will cost but little to try what effect the Pills ,may have ia'your case. We predict success. — Prof. Knock gives it as his opinion that cholere cannot be transmitted through the post by means of letters o1• printed matter. Teem is not and there cannot be any smoking tobacco superior'to the "Myrtle Navy brand." A wrapper of brighter ap- pearance and higher price it is possible to get, but all wrappers are very poor smoking tobacco and but a Bingle leaf is wrapped round a plug. The stock used in the "Myrtle Navy' plug is the very best which money eau purchase. The powers of the Virginia soil can pro- duce nothing better, and no other soil in the world eau produce as fine tobacco as that of Vireinia. —A case of Asiatic cholera is re- ported at a Polish boarding house in Salem, Mass,, and the local authorities are investigating. THE HOUSEHOLD PRIZE. 135 Adolatde St., W. Toronto Ont.: "Your reliable preparation, St. Jacobs Oil, has proved a benefit to me in more ways than one. I have used it for quir v (outward application) with very beneficial results, and for e. case of rheu- matiem, where -its action was swift and sure, and a perfect cure was performed. I ooneider it a remedy to be prized in every household." THOS. PIsRDON, with Johnsen & Brown. —Some weeks ago, John Taylor, - a prominent Oddfellow, who had taken passage on a steamer at Mon• treal bound to England, was report- ed to have jumped overboard, and on trying to reach land near Point Levis, was drowned. The body was found and brought to Montreal and although Mrs. Taylor was not allowed to see her husband's re- mains, he was buried in great pomp by the sorrowing brethren. Last evening, at a late hour, John Taylor walked into his own house, denied that he had ever been dead and buried, and today the Oddfel- lows tvho subscribed to give poor John adecent burial are kicking them selves and swearing vengeance upon the man who made the mistake. Mrs. Taylor takes things quite coolly and states that she never believed her husband dead. — About two months ago Robert A. Holland, a student in De Pauw Theological school, Indiana, and Mrs. C. R. Creek,wife of a wealthy county farmer, who was taking art lessons, ran away together. Mrs. Creel frevu nft'u-later and was visited by young Holland disguised as an old gentleman. The scandal resulted in a divorce this week. Holland and Mrs. Creek were married the other evening. Holland is twenty- four years old, and his bride over forty, and has a son twenty years old. — The ehboting suicide of Robert Stewert, aged 32, Who lived with his mother on the sixth line, Trafal- township, is the old• old story of a girl in the case, the deceased having been jilted. Hie body was found lying across his bed, and a' 32 cali- bre revolver by the bedside, on Saturday last. — George Mahler, a well -to do farmer on the first concession of Delaware township, committed suscide early Saturday morning by hanging -himself in his barn. Isis barn was burned a few weeks since, and the failure of the in- surance company to payas promptly as he thought they should worried him considerably. w