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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1893-11-08, Page 1• TER14$-014011e1r Amam*, 1.25 1N Advance. INATPRNQENT IN 44L Ti41NGS-NNUVP4,. IN NQTILINa A. M. TODDai salter end Owner VOL. XV form CoaI OF A Prieze Clot Made equal to custom work, well lined, perfect fitting,sell • ing at 1 made by ourselves and for that reason superior to ordinary ready mades. Ex- amine it and it compares surpassingly with any gar- ment of its style and price in the market. Any size, colors Black, Brown and Fawn. 4C SON h-. BROS., MEN'S and BOY'S OUTFITTERS Town Topics. WrNGHAM WAY. -Mr. Arthur"Kno of Wingham, was in Clinton last Fri- day. Gko. HOARE, of Clinton, was visiting his mother and sisters in Brussels for a .r;few days last week. TEMPER.ANCE.-Mr. a temperance Lough will ad - „dress g mass meeting at `Eoidesboro on Saturday. • EXCHANGE: -Rev. Mr. Stews Willis 'church) and Rev. ' Mr. Holmes Stewart( street Methodist) exchanged pul- pits lastSunday evening. g ` BELLEvILLE VISITOR. -Mr. E. E. Bar- row,, formerly of the .Molsons Bank ``here, was in town from Belleville” last week. • QUITE ILL. -We regret to learn that Mr. T. E. McDonough is quite ill. His many friends hoe to learn of his res- toration to health ere long. A CALL TO EXETER. -The Exeter Times says: -Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Manning, of Clinton, were called to town last week, owing to the serious ',illness of Mr. Mannings father. A Faroswr,LLPARTY.-The old neigh- bors of Mrs. Hunt, sr., tendered her a farewell saarty previous to her depar- tore for Kippen on Friday, where she • intends to spend the winter with her son Robert. A very enjoyable and 'profitable time was spent. anFELL ILL. -Teamster McQuaig had awkward experience the other day. While'driving along Albert Street one • of his horses lay down and had to be Unhitched and taken away for treat/ - Merit. There was no damage other- wise. 'SEEMS TO BE VERY PROGRESSIVE.-- .Tlsie Toronto Printer and Publisher for November say :-"THE CLINTON (Ont.) "NEWS -RECORD will appear this week . in`a new dress from Miller & Richard's foundry. Mr. Todd seems to be very progressive." `f WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?—The New Era last week says :-"The father of Drs 14><eEachren, (who will be remembered "by our townspedple) was in town last week, and may make it somewhat live - Iv for our local cotem over the sensa- fIoiial story lately published in its eolummins." KTNiy WORDS. -Dear Sir, -I have lbe.n: deeply interested in your journal ng the past year. Week after week f ve read every line it contained and must Confess that I am more than de- lighted with THE NEWS -RECORD, To nig it IS a welcome visitor. Your town Roil columns are brimful and the 6oull y'f OWsabundant. A more worthy or enterprising local paper 1 do not know:; , ,he business mon of Clinton ii aretitly appreciate your efforts. T1*E° ws-REcennn is a favorite local paper and you have my sincere wish for fie tailed prosperity and even great - e attheoss thin ever. -Faithfully yours, TOW St7E CRXenIi.. CLINTON. NITRON COUNTY, ONT., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1893 Town Topics. To TORONTO. -Mr. W. Jackson was a Toronto visitor yesterday. THE PREMIER PLEASED. -Sir John Thompson, the Premier; has written Mayor McTaggart thanking him and the town for courtesies during the recent grand demonstration here. The Premier and his colleagues are well pleased with their cordial reception in Clinton. • A POINTER. -A Thamesford sub- scriber to the London Free Pree asks that paper to name the High Schools and Collegiate Institutes in the count- ies of Huron and Bruce. The Free Press answers: that there are High schools] in Goderich, Kincardine, Lis- towel, Walkerton, Wiarton and Port Elgin, and Collegiate institutes in Clin- ton and Seaforth in these counties. IN TROUBLE. -"Doc." Andrews, a Toronto abortionist, is in trouble and has skipped the country. It is alleged that he last week caused the death of Lucy Denning. Letters in his house were found from London,Tara,Oshawa, Owen Sound and Soaforth implicating women from all these places. The "doctor" himself, his wife, and his nephew and wife are under arrest. Pe has been escorted to Toronte for trial. DULL TIMES. -An esteemed patron, Mr. W. J. Foster, of Masaba, St. Louis county, Minn., in renewing his subs- cription to THE NEWS -RECORD, says : "Tunes are very dull in these parts and money is hard to get. Very few of the mines are doing anything. Everything seems to be at astand-still. I don't think there will be so much logging this winter as there has been other winters in this part of the State unless times change very soon." TO CORRESPONDENTS: • - When you've a thing to say, Say it i Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it, Crowd the whole thing in a minute ! Life is short -a fleeting vapor - Don't fill the whole newspaper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch ! Boil it down untl it simmers; Polish it until it glimmers, When you've a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. GONE FOR MCCARTHY STRAIGHT. - THE HURON NEWS -RECORD says "St. Mary's is blessed with two Grits jour- nals. Surely the faithful of the stone town will have their wants well looked after, a least as far as the Opposition is concerned." After reading which the Galt Reformer asks :-"'1Vhatis the matter with the Journal, has it been read out of the Tory arty, or has friend Robbins gone b aach on them be- cause his application for the position of collector of Customs was ignored?" Mitchell Advocate. TIM NEws-RE- CORD does not profess to know the cause, except that we know the Jour- nal has not been read out of any party. " POSITIVELY LI -BELT oUs. "- The NeAw Era prefaces a lying mention from the Goderich Signal as above. • Our cotem., we should fancy, would rather be on the side'of truth than cast his lot with the devil and his imps. It • has been the habit of our cotem. to quote what other papers say rather than say anything itself. And it only gives the one side that strikes a political oppo- nent. This is not manly or in keeping with the profession: • But if this is the position the New Era will persist in maintaining, all we will say, to use a common expression, is "Let her go, Gallagher 1" In warfare swords have two edges and THE NEWS -RECORD will not . hesitate to draw • the weapon sharply. "How ABOUT CLINTON ?"-The New Era • often reads between the Iines. Sonretiines it discovers a mare's nest and asks to he enlightened. This time our cotem. has discovered something "by inference". THE NEWS RECORD did not suggest as our enquiringfriend asserts. We inerely asked a estion. And the New Era is ready and willing to answer by putting another question. It has been said. that our good friend is closely allied withtheP. P, A's, but for the truth of the report we cannot vouch. The New Era is probably in a position to speak when it says :-"THE NEws RECORD suggests by inference that P. P. A. candidates be put in the field for the coming Council ; perhaps the advice is good, but what connection is there between the principles of the P. P. A's, and municipal affairs." EXTENSIVE IMPR0 V EMENTs.-Messrs Win. Doherty & Co. have about com- pleted their organ factory improve- ments, consisting in part of a new 60 H. P. Wheelock engine, a new kiln fur- nished with cars and tracks, and an im- proved system of heatingthe shops. The prominent feature ofthenew kiln is the continuous circulation of the same heated air. The air being forced by means of a blast through six cars of weather -seasoned lumber and brought back over the ceiling by means of suc- tion and passing through a condenser which extracts the moisture, again passes through the blast dry and hot as before. The factory is heated by the same perfected hot air process, the air having a continuous circulation. The same system of circulation is also ad- opted in the water works. The water taken from the boilers in the form of steam, passes through the engine, ex- hausting into the blast and from the blast out to the heater, from the heat- er through the pipes in a heating room to a condenser and tank whore the steam is exhausted, then to the heat- er and forced back into the boiler. Messrs. Doherty have also put in a larg- er force pump capable of forcing water to a height of 75 feet, and have placed stand pipes through the factory for the purpose of Bre protectloh. The un- equalled Doherty organ is now made in the unequalled) Dohertyorganfactories. -COM. Town Topics. QUITE ILL. -Miss Hattie Read, w regart to learn, is quite ill. IMPROVING. - Jennie, daughter Auctioneer Carling, is recovering fr a severe illness. RETURNED. -Mr. Harry Read has rearmed from the Northwest and will permanently reside here. RECOVERING. -Mr. John Ransford, who has been, confined to the house for several days, is recovering. PIGEON SHOOT. - The Gun Club opened their new grounds yesterday afternoon by having a big shoot. Near- ly four hundred live pigeons were on hand to test the eagle eye of skilled marksmen. PREPARING. -The local Sons of Scot- land are preparing for St. Andrew's Day. Their a nual dinner has thus far proved a eat success and 1893 will surely not a an exception to the rule. The Sons of old Scotia certainly deserve success. • A PROMINENT MAN ILL. -His many friends in this section will regret to learn that ex -Mayor Clarke, of Toronto. is still confined to his house, and his condition does not improve. He has been unable to take solid food for twelve or fourteen days. DEATH. ---Death always comes sooner or later. THE NEws-RECORD exceed- ingly regrets to learn of the death of Mrs Fremlin yesterday. We�have not learned the particulars. Mrs. Fremlin was a faithful mother and elhristian wife and her demise will be deeply mourned by many. ' . Town Topics. e • MRs. (REv.) SMYTH has returned from Harriston. of SERENADING. -The band was out fro ORANGE GATHERING. -The members. of L. O. L. 710 and friends to the num- ber of about forty, gathered at the - residence of Bro. Wm. Murphy last Monday evening and partook of the hospitality • of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy. Oysters were served in abundance and a very enjoyable time was spent by one and all. All were united in thank- ing Bro. and Mrs. Murphy for their ex- treme kindness, and hospitality. CROWNING CABBAGE. -We mean big and heavy cabbage that beats all corners. . Mr. Joseph Allanson is cer- tainly one of the crowned kings in the gardening line. Yesterday he showed THE NEWS -RECORD two cabbage, one that weighed 20 pounds and the other 25 pounds. ,Seeing is believing. We have bean and' of course" our readers" should believe. They were the best specimens we have ever seen. TAILING TIME BY THE FORELOCK. - Apple King• David Cantelon has pro- mised the Orangeman a grand time at his handsome new residence next 5tli of November -1874. If THE NEWS - 'RECORD scribe is living and well he will be on hand. We would like to have the Apple King secure a promise from the"Fenian" of tile, Goderich "rebel organ" to be apfe.ient. We would delight to place one renegade on the Orange bumping goat -or any other goat, for that matter. GONE AND DONE IT. -"He still lives." That is, Mr. B. Shepard, formerly of Goderich township, is still among the living He has taken the advice of THE NEWS -RECORD and gone and done it. He was married at the Soo a month or so ago. His bride is said to be an es- tiniable young! ady, but full particulars we know not. We know Mr. Shep-. pard as an upright young man and ex- cellent citizen, and all we can do in the meantime is wish himself and wife. the • blessings and future prosperity that• they are eminently entitled to. How MUCH HAY ?-Mr. Editor, -I see the Era says Wrn. Cucincore shipped nearly one thousand tons of hay this season and not 150 tons as THE NEWS - RECORD says. The "dropping" a figure snakes a great difference. The exact weight should have been 950 toffs, but since then Mr. Cuufmore has shipped 100 tons more. Since the beginning of Se ptemnber'Mr. Cucbmme has shipped I,OuO tons of hay. From Sept. 4th to Nov. 6th, inclusive, there has been shipped from Clinton station eight� hundred tons of hay. -ONE `YHo KNOWS. WHOSE BABY? - "The heartless wretch that 'deserted the poor little thing on the door step, out in the cold, should be apprehended and severely punished 1" Such was the expression of those who learned of the poor baby left on the doorstep of Mr. P. Cante- lon, Sr. Neighbors and townspeople censured the unknown and inhuman mother. But THE NEws-RECORD has let the secret nut. The "baby" was false. It was an imitation, pure and simple, made up from manufactured material. Mr. and Mrs. Cantelon would certainly have cared for the waif if it had been genuine, but of course have no desire to care for "baby imitations." These halloween pranks should be genuine. DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS. - The Arthur Enterprise has issued the fol- lowing notice : Those long suffering persons, the delinquent subscribers, have not been worried much of late. The campaign is now reopening. It has been established bytwo recent cases in court that it is lgal to adver- tise and sell a book account or debt by public auction. We have the necessary material to do the advertising " and auctioneer Heffernan has placed his services at our disposal, so we intend to publish a list of all the delinquents with the amount of their arrears, and sell them by auction from the band stand on Heffernan's corner. This is right. We cannot wait any longer, as our creditors will not allow it. Lots of people like to see their names in print, but we do not think they will enjoy seeing their name in this fashion. Those who do not pay inside of thirty clays will see it whether they like it or not. serenading Monday evening and gave several open-air concerts. STILL QUITE ILL. -Mr. Chps.Spooner is still quite 111, but is likely to get around again. THE Sicx.-We exceedingly regret to learn that Mr.. J. H. McCool, Albert 'street, Is confined to the house. To DURHAM. -Mr. D. Cantelon leaves for Durham on a business visit to- morrow. INKSTER, son of traveller Harry Cantelon, is expected to arrive in Clin- ton from Holland, Man., to -morrow. BEAR IN MIND. -THE NEWS -RECORD goes to press every Tuesday afternoon. All correspondence should be received Saturday, Monday and Tuesday morn- ing. Tho earlier the better. UP NORTH. -Mrs. D. Cook received word of the illness of her brother, Mr. Jacob Ryan, of the Nile, and she and Mr. Cook drove up and spent a couple of days. The sick man_ is recovering. FIRE. -The barn and contents owned by John Churchill, 14th con., Goderich township, were destroyed by fire last Monday night. A lantern, we are in- formed, caused the fire. The loss will be heavy. • TEMPERANCE WORK. -Last Sunday Rev. Mr. Smyth addressed a crowded house in the town hall in the afternoon, Mr. Hoover occupied the chair, The town church choirs assisted and Miss Hattie Rurnball gave a splen- did and very acceptable solo. TOWN PARLIAMENT. The regular monthly meeting of the Council was held in the Council cham- ber on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, the following being present: Mayyor McTaggart, to the chair, Reeve Mc - Murchie, Deputy -Reeve Kennedy and Councillors Searle, Jones, Overberry, McMurray and Armstrong. A communication was received from the County Clerk urging the Council to take a test vote on the 'House of Re- fuge" question at the same time as the prohibition plebescite. This the Coun- cil ordered to be done. A letter wits received from Mr. D. Gentian of the late Clinton Organ Co., asking that the taxes levied on that property be rebated as the company had. through .the firo and other causes incurred much loss. Filed. The offer. of Mr. James Fair re con- necting the tank in the market square, by means of mum underground pipe, with his pond and taking advantage of a new force pump. he has jnst put in his mill, was referred to the fire and water (Jourucittee, the chief and captian of fire department to act on same com- mittee. • During the discussion of street com- mittee's report, Reeve McMurchie sug- gested that the streets be scraped this tall as well as in the spring. Ho thought that part of the surplus of $50 that this committee had on hand would be well spent in this way. -Referred. Chairman McMurray of the charity committee reported expenditure of $6 for the month of October. Chairman Armstrong of the Finance in his report re exeomurended the pay- ment of the following surras : Chief Wheatley, $108.75 ; • Welsh, $60.75 ; Rider, $9 ; Coats, $56.25 ; Pratt, $18.75 ; insurance, $4(i.00 ; Evans, $2'2; Becker, $18.80 ; Thos. A: Wal- ker, $2.4.40 ; Sundries, $24.40. Re- ceipts from the weigh -scales amounted to $22.75, and from rent -of hall, $10. • A bylaw relating to the engaging of at superindendent for the cemetery was read the first time and on 'motion was passed. Awing to some members being absent and 111 order to read up the by- law the second reading was deferred uutil next meeting.. Just before the motion to adjourn wits put Councillor Searle moved that the hotel licenses in this town be reduced from 7 to Sand that a sufficient amount he added to these five to make up for any loss the town would incur through the reduction. As Mr. Searle could get no seconder the matter was dropped without discussion. A wordy war passed between Mr. Searle and the other councillors regard- ing allowing the Electric Light Co. to put wires through the trees on the streets, lint no 'definite action was taken in the matter. County Currency. -Rev. Mr. McDonagh, of Exeter, preached a sermon to the Oranngemen of that section last Sunday, in the Main street church at 11 o'clock a. nm. -Brother Race, of the Recorder, Mitchell, is in receipt of a letter from a clergyman in Berlin expressing the hope "that his injuries from being lick- ed by a hog are not serjous." -R. S. Pelton, of Atwood, received word last week that his brother Charles, who was kicked in the head by a horse some time ago, was dying. He left for his brothers bedside at once. -There is some talk of organizing a joint stock company to erect a skating rink in Mildmay this "season. The younger portion of the community ap- pear very anxious that the scheme should he carried out. -"Can you tell me what sort of weather we may expect next month f". wrote a farmer to the editor of his`' county paper, and the editor replied as follows : 'It is my belief that the weather next month will be very like your subscription hill." The farmer wondered for an hour what the editor was driving at, when he happened to think of the word "unsettled." He sent a post -office order. WHOLE NO. 782 County Currency. -The farm of Mr. Alexander Sproat on the Kippen Road has been rented to Mr. Sellery, of Hibbert, for five years. -Jas. Hogg, who has taught the Mc- Killop school tar several years intends to quit teaching and study nedici after Christmas. - The death is announced of Mis Quenia Hodgins, of Crediton, at the age of 20. years. She suffered from heart disease.. • - The annual meeting of the cream- ery association will be held in Bell'shall, Londesboro, on Wednesday, Nov. 15th. . A very handsome set of offertory plates has been donated to St. Paul s church, Hensall, by a resident gentle- man, - Geo. Mitchell, of Chiselhurst, has rented his farm on the4thcon., Usborne, to John Horton for a term of five years, at an annual rental of $250.m -The WinhaTimes says :-Mr. M E. R. Swarts'removed his household effects to Bayfield, on Tuesday. He will take possession of the River Hotel, in that village. -Samuel McGeorge will look after the tax collecting in the Northern half of Grey .this year, instead of D. Mc- Donald, who has done the work very successfully for several years past. -The organist of St. Paul's church, Hensall, was recently presented with a handsome dressing case and a teachers' Bible by the congregation, as a !nark of apprecation of her services as or- genist. News Notes. -New churches built in Ama er last year nm ubered nearly 10,O0Q, - Bracebridge ratepayers on Monday week adopted a by -lava raising $25,000 for waterworks and electric light put, tte ; poses. -Burglars got away with about $200 s worth of cutlery from the.. store of Thomas Lawrence in Lucknow, Ont„ on Thursday night. - The Empress of China never travels without taking her 8,000 dresses, which are contained in 600 boxes, each taking two or more coolies to carry. - -The members of the Capital la.. arosse team of Ottawa are to he pre- sented with gold watches valued at $57 each. Tho spare men and the mascot will bo among the lucky recipients. - The death list frour the Grand Trunk wreck at Battle Creek has reached 28. Mrs... Richard Vance, of •Simcoe, Ont., who had both legs broken by falling timbers, died at the Nichols Home last Wednesday. She leaves a husband and three smell children. - It is stated definitely' in Winnipeg that Colin H. Campbell, barrister, is the choice of Winnipeg Conservatives as successor to Hugh John Macdonald. He is endorsed by the senior, junior and workingmen's Conservative Asso- ciations, and there is little doubt that he will accept. -A grave -yard is not a very cheerful , place for courtship; yet there seems to be a good deal of billing and cooing going on in the Northwood Cemetery at Germantown, Pa. The directors have found it necessary to erect at the entrance a sign bearing these words: "Flirting is prohibited." The Berlin News says the hest col- lection of rare stamps in this country is . owned by Raul Pequegnat. He as • over 4,006 different stamps, all of which he has in a splendid album. He has also a stamp room at his residence, which contains 68,000 stamps, pasted ' on the walls for paper. -The cattle shipments from Mont- real are gradually falling off as the close of navigation approaches. The ship- ments during the past week have been - as follows : The Toronto,for Liverpool, 339 head and 265.) sheep ; the Canopus, for Liverpool, 210 head ; the Lake Win- nipeg, for Liverpool, 302 head ; the Hib- ernian, for Glasgow, 155- head; the . Mongolian, for Liverpool, 298 head and 10 horses, -John Goodfellow, of Richmond, Que., who on Wednesday assaulted young Henry Johnston at his home, near Lisgar, with an axe, crushing his skull, and afterwards took to the woods, was arrested Saturday morning in his place of hiding about three iAiles from Lisgar. Goodfellow will be conveyed' to the Ar•thabaska jail, where he wiI1 be • locked up awaiting the result of his dastardly act. -John R. Hooper was on Saturday afternoon indicted at Joliette to stand his trial before the .Court of Queen's Bench for poisoning his wife on the 18th of September last. The 1ptst witness heard was Miss Alice Stapelsy, who was c:,urted by Hooper. She repeated , the story she had already told at Port Hope. Hooper was calm and smiling to the last. He will be detained there until his trial comes on. The term of the court opens on the 15th of Dec- ember, and an 'effort will be made to have the trial before Christmas.. • -The-perjury cases arising out of the prosecution of Blyth hotel -keepers for alleged infractions of the liquor license • act were continued in that village on Tuesday of last week, the court con- sisting of Messrs. John M. Roberts, of Dungannon ; S. Caldwell, crf Manches- ter and Campbell, of Blyth. The magis- trates held that there was not suffici- ent evidence to send the GMSC for trial, and dismissed the charges, but the pro- secutor placed himself under bonds to prefer an indictment for the offence at the December sessions of the peace. -The Bobcaygeon Independent says: The ladies of the Dominion who sub- scribed for the Princess May sleigh, are in a flutter of pleasurable excitement. The sleigh is finished, and about to he ' shipped. After all though, pretty ones, don't you think you might have given something more useful. A rocking .. chair, a cradle, or a dog -churn, for in- stance, would come in handy for a young couple setting up ,house. But a sleigh to a country that never 'has sleighing, why you might as well send a pair of skates to his Satanic Ma- jesty. -George Crooks, of Brussels, has sold his farm, being lot 4, concession 8, Grey, containing 155 acres, to J. Cun- ningham, of Colborne, for $7,500. Mr. Cunningham has secured a fine farm, one of thezer hest in Grey. He takes pos- session at once. -Miss Nora Clence, of St. Marys, wears while on the stage, a jewel pre- sented to her by Queen Victoria when the young artist played before her ma- jesty at Osborne. It is a golden bee on a musical bar, and is studded with rubbles, emeralds and diamonds. -Recently Fred. Switzer, of Atwood, met with a rather serious accident. IIe was drawing flax from the barn to the flax mill, when his team became unmanageable and rail away, pitch- ing Mr. Switzer off and upsetting the load of flax partly on hila, resulting in dislocating his left shoulder. -Mr. John Doig, of the township, of Tuckersmith, has puchased •frour Mr. Samuel Horton a new portable saw mill, manufactured by Messrs. Stevens and Burns, of London. As this will prove a great convenience, and Mr. Doig is the right man to handle it, he. will no 'doubt recieve a liberal patron- . age. -Mr. F. W.Farncomb, of London, is engaged in an extensive survey in the township of Hullett, for the drainage of some 3,000 acres of land, which will necessiate the deepning of the south branch of the Maitland river some six miles, thus reclaiming the above un- cultivated property belonging to farm- ers of the township. -The Conservative convention for the North Riding of Bruce at Allenford on Tuesday nominated John. George to be their candidate for the Ontario Legislature. Three candidates are. now in the field -Mr. George for the Con- servatives, Mr. Pearson for the Reform- ers and Mr. McNaughton for the Patrons of Industry. -The Wiarton Echo says :-No more deaths have occurred since our last issue in the Johnston fancily near the Sauble, who was poisoned by using the milk from cows that had eaten poisoned weeds. Two 'deaths Only have occurred. The,others who were so near death's doowill, the doctors think, pull through. -The trial of Louis F. Arno for the betrayal of Pearl Butler, of A ilsa Craig, was begun and ended Thursdav morn- ing in the Recorder's Court, thitroit. It only took three hours and was attend- ed by a largo crowd of spectators, among them being fifteen or twenty wooden. Arno was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life. -For a long time it has puzzled the Canadian Pacific Railway people to de- vise a plan whereby they could keep soap from being stolen from the lava- tories in the cars, and a, machine has now been adopted that evidently will fill the bill. It is placed over the basin and contains soap powder. By pressing a knob enough of the powder comes out for a hand wash. -Mr. Daniel Clark, a well-known and much respected young man of Seafbrth, a member of the band, and an employe of Messrs. Jackson Brothers. died, on Tuesday of last week, of inflammation of the bowels. He had been ill only a few days. The trouble is said to have been brought on by swallowing grape seeds, while eating that fruit. His sudden death is a terrible shock to his relatives and many friends. -A very pleasant event took place at the residence of John Allison, Esq., Thames Road, Usborne, on Wednesday evening last. The oecassion was the marriage of Mr. Allison's daughter Maggie, to Mr. Robert Kydd, eldest son of Mr. Wm. Kycld, Deputy Reeve. The important ceremony was perform- ed by Rev. C. Fletcher, in the presence of a goodly nnmber of the relatives and friends of the contracting parties. -The Blyth Standard says: Mr. Dan Marsh had a'valuable 4 -year-old driver killed by the train here, on Monday night. He left the animal tied by the lines standing in front of his property on the boundary and at the approach of the 7.28 train the animal took fright, broke loose and being headed towards the track dashed into the engine as it crossed the street. The horse and buggy were carried along about four rods and then left in a heap on the side of the track. , Much sympathy is ex- pressed for Mr. Marsh in his loss. -Mr. Dorlhnd of Tilsonburg, Ont., a victii n of the Battle Creek( M jell.) wreck, had a premonition that an accident might happen, as he was careful before leaving to see that his insurance was right, and also left some instruction in regard to his burial if anything should occur. He also told his son that if anything befell him he wished Otter . Lodge to bury him and take charge of the remains. At the meeting of that lodge on Monday night last a com- mittee was appointed to act with the • family and render all assistance in their power, and make arrangements for the internment should the remains be identi- fied -A. H. McRae, son of a wealthy, wholesale grocer of that name, in Kingston, was the hero of quite a romance at Woodstock the other night, which created quite a ripple of excite- ment. He left home on Saturday morning to attend the football match at Toronto, but came on to Woodstock, met Miss Eva Hayden, a 'daughter of the G. T. R. Station Agent, and the two were married by the Rev. R. J. Elliott, Sunday night. The bride is a pretty brunette, aged 19, and is popular in musical and local theatrical circles. When her parents heard of the wedding they were at first annoyed, but a recon- ciliation was effected, and when the couple left for the east they carried with thein the_benediction of the father and mother. Mr. McRae was formerly a student at the Baptist College at Woodstock. 5'