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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-03-14, Page 1Lei ee CAP fEW %Mit -1i1A l4 per Annum, 1016 1t► Adlr-aneu. INDEPENDENT IN ALL 2WINQS-N$UTRAL IN NOTHING 1' o 14. X, Vines, Liquors, Ales, Porters. The Best Qualities on the mtu k jt at the lowest living prices: WALKER'S IMPERIAL, 75c. a Bottle. THE FAMOUS CLINTON LIQUOR STORE. WALKER'S CLUB, 95c. a Bottle. J. W. RITER, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, CLINTON. Specialties in Household and Medicinal .Goods. Town. Topics. MR. D. R. MENZIES, of Goderich, was in Clinton last week. MR. AND MRS. W. S. HARLAND were in Wingham last week. MRS. IRWIN, mother of Mr. Richard Irwin, is seriously ill. ' MR, CHAS. SPOONER, SR., is not im- proving. CAPT. RANCE will take part in the drama,"Troublesome times in Ireland," to be given in Goderich by Prof. Hart. MR. E. FLOODY, of Toronto, was visiting friends and relatives in Clinton and Goderich Township over Sunday. MR. WLLLESLY WHITELY, son of Collector of Customs Whitely, is home m Chicago. He has been absent rv'eral years and is now in manhood. MR. JOHN IRWIN, a former resident of Clinton, is on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Irwin. He is a con- ductor on the Wabash railway. Mrs. Irwin and two sons accompany him. MR; ARTHUR KNO%, we are inform- ed, has sold his house and lot on Will- iam Street to Mr. Westacott, who recently removed from Hullett to Clin- ton. MR. D. CANTELON continues heavy shipments of live hogs. He had pur- chased several car lots from local buyers who were enabled to do better with Mr. Cantelon than even with wholesale men. MR. JAMES LANDBBOROUGH, of Tuckersmith, intends giving tip farm- ing and therefore will have a sale on Thursday, March 22nd.' Particulars will be seen in another column. THE person who, in a fit of klepto- mania, took a child's red table chair that was left out the other night by mistake will please say when asked. the price of it "that I dont know, the man wasn't in when I took it." NEW DRUG STORE. -Messrs. Allen & Wilson, of Goderich, intend starting a Prescription Drug Store in Searle's Block, Albert St., Clinton, in about a week or ten days. Both gentlemen are well known to Many of our citizens and are well qualified for the business. SNOW IN DIE SUNNY SOUTH. -A private letter from Mr. Hardy Evans last week states that in Chattanooga, Tenn., there was last week a foot of snow, something never before known. In this part of "Cold Canada" we had genuine spring weather, farmers ploughing and other work being push- ed ahead. Canada, this spring, has been even more favored than the Sunny South. WASH DAY MADE EASY. -Mr. Ben Cole, Isaac street, has secured the right to manufacture the famous Magic Washing Machine, Already he has manufactured and sold a numberof them and the purchasers, 1BIr. Cole in- forms THENEWS-RECORD, are de- lighted. Wash -day is made easy and carpets can be kept perfectly clean ; no splashing or wast water whatever. The price has been set at a very low figure. The machines may be seen at Wiz. Cole's residence, Isaac street. 1D DEATH. -We are again called :.„tion to chronicle the death of one of our respected citizens in the person of the late Sarah Jane McKay, the belov- ed wife of Wm. McKay, who has been lioreat(ith her husband living in Clinton for some few months. The deceased's family lives in Dungannon, and her association centre there. She was afflicted with heart disease and gradually grew worse, when dropsy . set in and closed the scene here. Her remains were enterred in the cemetery at Dungannon on Sunday, 11th inst., her demise being on the 9th, at the age of 28 years and two months. She leaves a sorrowful and loving husband and two little children to mourn her loss. She gave full assurance that she was going to a better home to dwell in the blest abode of God's people. Mr. McKay has the sympathy of the friends in Clinton who realize the loss he has sustained. CLINTON. HURON COUNTY, ONT. WEDNESDAY. .MARCH 14,1894 Town Topics.' CONFIRMATION SERVICES. -The Bis' shop of 1-Iw'on will tholti confirmation services in St. Paul's Church on Mon- day evening, 19th inst. Service at,7.30. Dowel Wl'1H FEvER.-Last Satur- day Dr. Shaw received word that Mr. Ben. Anderson, who has been studying in Hargreaves drug store, Toronto, was down with typhoid fever. Zhe Dr. informed his parents in Goderich townshipand Ben's brother Louis left for the ueen City on Saturday after- noon to look after him. LAWN BOWLING. -A meeting was held on Monday evening to organize a Bowling Club. Good lawn has been laid and a large membership will make the club one of the best in the County. It is officered by J.,P. Tisdale, Presi- dent ; W. McLean, Secretary ; D. L. McPherson, Treasurer ; and Finance ground and membership committees. NUrTIAL5.-Ensign David Creighton Moore, an old Clinton boy, but now of Windsor, and Lieut. Annie May Cornell, of Lindsay, were married at Windsor on Monday, 19th ult. The ceremony took place in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, Commandant Booth officiating. The happy couple have the best wishes of their many friends here. DEATH OF A CLINTON PIONEER. - This week we chronicle the sad death of one of Clinton's best known citizens in the name of Mr. Joseph Whitehead. Mr. Whitehead was the pioneer rail- road man in -Canada, and made his home in Clinton for forty years, He has been confined to his room since November last, suffering from dropsy and although the best attendance was procured his age was the chief draw- back and he died on Monday. Next week we will endeavor to give our readers a full history of his public life. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF S. S. ASSOCIATION. -The executive com- mittee of the County of Huron S. School Association met in Horace Foster's studio yesterday to arrange for the better carrying out of the statistics of Sunday Schools in the County and raise money for the Pro- vincial Association. Mr. Jas. Scott presiding. Mr. Elder, of Hensall and the Corresponding Secretary, of Hen - sail, J. C. Stoneham; W. M. Gray, Seaforth ; Jno.McKinnon, Blyth; Revs. Holmes and Smyth, R. Holmes, H. Foster, J. Taylor and J. C. Stevenson, of Clinton, were present. A circular is to be sent to each school and • re- sponsible men in each municipality to carry out this work. A POPULAR RAILWAY MAN. --Mr. Allan F. Read, chief clerk in the G. T. frieght agents office of Toronto, and a former well known Clintonian, has been appointed foreign steamship agent for the company at Montreal. Me. Read was presented with an address and a purse of $600 on Satur- day by the Members of the Board of Trade and railway staff. Mr. Hugh Blain, the President of the board, made the presentation in a few well-chosen, happy expressions, in which he voiced the general feeling of the members as to the amity that had always existed between Mr. Read and the business men of the board, with whom he had been constantly brought in contact, and the manner in which he had always clone his utmost to promote their interests, so far as they related to the important department with which he was connected. •Mr. Blain express- ed the hope that Mr. Reid would achieve further success in the import- ant position he was about to assume, and told him the best wishes of the members of the board for his welfare would follow him. • County Currency. Mr. Livingston, of Zurich flax mill, shipped several car loads of flax last week. Mr. Sharp's little boy, of Kippen, aged about seven years met with a bad accident recently. While playing about the house he fell and broke his leg above the knee. The Congregational Church of Wing - ham, have extended an inivitatinn to the Rev. 0: Trotter Carr, late of Lon- don, to supply their pulpit for a time. He is at present laboring in the United States. Mr. Arthur Mann, of Gon'ie, who has been in the Toronto hospital for over two months under treatment for an affection of the eyes, returned home on Monday week. We are pleas- ed that his sight is greatly improved. Mr. James Scarlett, a farmer well- known resident of McKillop, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to one of Manitoba's fair daughters in the person of Miss Estella Wildman, at Innisfail, N. W. T., where they have made their home. An Ashfield young man advertised for a wife and the first answer he got came from his sister. The father of the house, who is something of a dip- lomat, says he knew lie had one fool in the family, but wasn't aware that he had two. Mrs. 'Mcllveen's farm on the gravel road, one mile north of Blyth, was sold by auction Wednesdayto Mr. Robt, Howard of Blyth, fr $1000. The farm contains 50 acres and has been purchased at a bargain. Mr. Howard intends erecting a good resi- dence on it this summer. A cow belonging to Mr. S. Alton, near Belfast, gave birth to a, calf on Saturday last, which had two perfectly formed heads. The calf was alive when born, but was killed shortly afterwards by the owner. It was a dark red in color and was apparently all right in other respects, save having the two heads. Dr. Tennant of Luck - now has secured the skin of the animal and intends having it stuffed. County Currency. David Robertson, near Osprings, has the first successful batch of chickens that has been heard of in that locality. Last week, out of it setting of thirteen Brahma eggs, ten chickens were hatched(,. Samuel McMullen, of Whitechurch, the oldest Orangeman in Canada, hay- ing been a member of the order for over 82 years, is dead at the age of 100 years. He leaves four sons and three daughters, 29 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Benjamin Edwards, who died re- cently at Brussels, Ont., purchased 51 years ago the present @s�ite of the G. T. R, station, London, for$5. He was born in England in 1812, joined the army and came to Canada in 1836. He and his wife settled in McGillivray town- ship, then in Grey and Wallace town- ship, Huron county, and latterly in Brussels, The London freight train has been cut down to thrice a week. The train will leave Wingham every Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday, returning from Lon- don every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Lack of work is given as the reason for the reduction, but the reason is about as ridiculous as can be. The Grand Trunk have taken the peo- ple's bonus money and now they may whistle for reasonable accommodation in frieght trains. Mr. Wm, Westcott, an employe of the Exeter Times office, some months ago had his foot injured by a stick of wood falling upon it. The injury at time was considered trifling, and noth- ing more was thought of it until re- cently the second toe of the right foot became so sore, and gave him such trouble as to necessitate its being am- putated, which was done the other day. It's not so bad as though he had lost a finger. A .Canadian weather prophet makes the following forecast: -March will be good full winter weather. April will be marked by sudden changes, high winds and frequent rains. May will be variably made up of short warm spells succeeded by cold bleak weather and night frosts. Not till after May 20th will genial spring weather set in, and the month will end with warm weather and thunder. storms. The month of June will be generally pretty warm. July, August and September will be average weather. October will be cloudy, wet and cold. Winter will set in early in November and will steadily increase to the end of the year. Irr a word, the weather will be average hut variable for 1894. On Tuesday week, Win. Humber and Miss Birdie Husband, of Oil Springs, were joined in wedlock at Wyoming by the Rev. J. M. Gunne. The name of the parties inspired the Forest Free Press poet to get off the following :- Usually in gay marriage is A husband taken by the bride And usually the marriage is An event in which she has great pride. But here the husband takes a Husband, And Husband takes a husband too, And as Humble is the husband The new -made bride is Humble too. She was Husband when they came, He was husband when they left, One was Humble when they came, Both were Humble when they left. To make the change it took a Gunne' At -which they should not grumble' It often takes more than a gun To make a husband humble. It is with regret that we chronicle the death of Mrs. Geo. Rutledge, of Ebenezer, who died on Feb. 28th, from heart trouble. She was in her forty- fourth year, and leaves four sons and three daughters. She was a very lov- ing mother and friendly neighbor. Her remains were interred in the Gode- rich cemetery. The funeral was very largely attended Mr. Rutledge and family have the sympathy of the coni- munity in their sad bereavement. Post Office Inspector Barker and his assistant, Mr. Fisher, of London, were in Exeter last, week and had Mrs. Ellen Holt, assistant postmaster at Khiva, before Squire Snell on two charges of prepaying postage with stamps previously used. How long this scheme -had been carried on cannot be determined. Mr. Fisher, on the 16th of February, went, to inspect the Khiva post office and finding no stamps in the office, laid a plan of de- tecting the fraud. Soon a bundle of letters from this office, bearing old stamps, were received and withheld at the forwarding office, Parkhill, two or three of which being written by the de- fendant, and upon which the charges were based. At, once the office was closed. Mrs. Holt was arraigned as above stated and fined $20, the lowest possible fine of $10 for each charge. The other confiscated letters from the same office, which had not been opened by the inspector, have been forwarded to the dead -letter office, whence they will be sent to their proper destinations -somewhat behind time, no doubt. The Khiva mail matter now goes to Mt. Cannel. Ashfield. Mr. Smith, 12th con., West Wawa• nosh, went to Bay City, Michigan, last Friday to visit friends there. The weather is remarkably fine fcr this time of the year. The roads are drying up nicely. The fall wheat looks quite green acrd presents a beautiful appearance for tie .time of the year. At Inglewood Thursday Bra+deman Leith, through carelessness in the handling of a fog sign al, was in .fired. A piece of the shell struck him in the forehead just over the eye, end he lost a large quantity of blot,: from the wound Goderich. There was a little slush ice in the harbor on Sunday, but the lake was clear as far as the eye could see. Mr. Jno. Morgan, of Bayfield, was in the county town on Saturday. Mr. R. A. Downs, of Clinton, was in Goderich last week. Mr. W. Bates, of Bayfield, was in the circular town the past Wednesday. Inspector of Inland Revenue A. Cavan, of Stratford, was in town on Thursday. Miss M. Christie, of Clinton, was in Goderich last week. Mr. J. McNaughton, of Bayfield was in town on Thursday. There will be a Scotch social in the lecture room of Knox church to -morrow evening. The entertainment is gotten up by the Mission Band and the pro- gramme will consist of Scotch readings, Scotch songs and Scotch refreshments. Mr. J. H. Colborue visited the Queen city this week. Mr. Jas, Clark returned on Friday from a visit to Owen Sound, Meaford, Southampton and other places. Regular meeting of Huron Chapter, No, 30, R. A.M., next Tuesday evening. Mr. Marlton has one of the scows he is building for contractor McNaughton nearly ready for launching. The freshet has washed away so large a quantity of the land that the boat houses used to stand err there will be difficulty in finding locations this season. Regular meeting of Goderich Council, No. 157. C. O. C. F. next Friday even- ing. P. C. H. W. Ball is attending the Grand Council of the 0, O. C. F. now sitting in Toronto, as representative of Goderich No. 157. Mr. Allan Seager is spending a holi- day term at the family residence, Waterloo street. Mr. Geo. Morris, of Guelph, spent Sunday in the circular town. Mr. Geo. Price returned from Sault .St. Marie on Saturday. Mr. R. P. Wilkinson left last week for Minneapolis, which place it is un- derstood he will make his future home. Troublesome Times in Ireland. at the Grand on St. Patrick's eve. Miss Elwood returned from Trinity University on Saturday. One cf the cribs being built by the contractor for the harbor improvements was blown from the dock on Sunday mornin¢ and stranded on the point of' harbor island. The oldest inhabitant is at a loss to account for the weather the past week. Miss Susan Payne, who died on Tues- day of last week, was interred in Maitland cemetery on Thursday, the funeral taking place from the residence of her sister, Mrs. W. Black, Elgin avenue. The rector of St. George's conducted service at house and ceme- tery, and Messrs. D. Cantelon, M. Swanson, Vaii Atter, Alex. Johnston, Jas. Gallagher and Neil Campbell were the pall bearers. The deceased lady who had been ill for some time had a large circle of friends in Goderich and neighborhood. The spring court of assizes opened on Monday. His Lordship Chief Justice Armour presiding. The civil list is as follows : Irwin vs. Broadfoot. An action for seduction, f corn Seaforth. L. E. Dancy, for plff.; R. 5. Hays for deft. Andrews vs. 13aechler. Action aris- ing out of a dispute as to ownership of cattle being fed between the parties.. Garrow & Pr'ondfoot forplff.; Campion & Johnston for deft. Senior vs. McGillicuddy. Action for libel by publishing certain charges against plff. in the Goderich Signal. (laurpion & Johnston for plff.; Garrow & Proudfoot for deft. McDougall vs. Allen. Action for assault, in township of Colborne. Gar - row ,Rt Proudfoot for pill.; Campion & Johnston for deft. .Charlesworth vs. Brown. Action on an alleged warranty. R. S. Hays for glen; Creaser & Smith of Owep Sound for deft. Baechler vs. Andrews et al., another action arising out of the cattle deal, being for malicious prosecution Cam- pion & Johnston for pill.; Garrow & Proudfoot for deft. Graigie vs. Clark. A dispute over fishing interests between the parties. L. E. Dancy for pill., Garrow & Proud - foot for deft. Jackson vs. Brady, a revival of a former action for brbech of contract in an alleged warranty of the stallion Brown Rooker. L. E. Darcy for pit. Torrance vs. Welch. Action over the title to temperance hall in Varna. Garrow & Proudfoot for Oft; Leakes Pringle & Harkness, Cornwall, for cleft. McKenzie vs. Smith. Action to re- cover price of hay. Garrow & Proud - foot for plff.; J. D. O'Reilly for deft. Dunlop vs. Township of Usborne Fire Ins, Co. Action for payment of insurance. Garrow & Proudfoot for Off.; W. C. Mosgrove, St. Marys, for deft. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. We do not hold ourselves responsible for utterances of correspondents or opinions expressed under this head. --Ed. NEWS -RECORD. To the Editor of The News -Record. Sir, -In last week's issue of your valuable paper, D. Robb, I. P. S. for East Huron, informed the readers of THE NEws-REcoun that there is not one school in his inspectorate with two rooms having an average of 50 and un- der 100 but has two teachers. Will Mr. Rob kindly inform the readers of THE NIS S -RECORD how many schools there in his insc < brat p e tt p c havi ng n average o 60 and under 1(10 without two trach - e . ROBERT BEACOM, Trustee No: 5, Goderich Township. Porter's hill, March 5th, 1804. A. 101. TODD, Wdlter sod Ownc.. WHOLE NO. 800 Porter's Ilifl School. Editor News -Record. DEAR Siu,-A letter appeared a coup( of weeks ago in THE NEWS RECORD signe by Robert Beacom, Trustee of S. S No. 5, Goderich township, accusing th :;ouuty Cpuucil, and especially the Educe tion Committee of that honorable body with denying him "British fair play," ant also stating that I made a certain state meat which I denied. No. 5, Goderich township, herein charge John E. Tom, P.S.I., of West' Huron, with giving in a false retort to theCounty Couu• e ca of auron, in failing to take up the junior d 13rd class in School No. 5, Goderioh town- ship, at last visit of inspection of nt had. e [Signed] ROBERT BEAcon, '1't nates." As a brazen attempt to miteead this certainly bangs Bannager, and it is well I known that Bannager bangs the "Father - of lies." FALsxtnooe No. 3, In reply, allow me to give the followin succinct account of my share in the episode Sometime in the fall of 1893, the Inspect or c.f Schools for West Huron notified th trustees of S. S. No. 5, Goderich township that they must engage a second teacher fo 1894, because the average attendance of th school was over 50, the law requiring tha when the attendance is over 50 and lea than 100, two teachers must be employed Before a second teacher can bii•.,xoloyed it second school room must be priivided This second school room S. S. No. 5, Qode rich township, has. After receiving this notice, Mr Rober Beacom met me in Clinton, and inquired about the attendance of the schools in Ea Huron. The statement I made to him wa essentially as follows: "I have a few schools with an average attendance of 53 and ono with an average attendance of 55 hat that I could not see my way to insist on a second teacher, because each of these schools ,has but a single school room,' and before a second teacher could be employed an additional room would have to be built and that while the room was being built the average attendance might fall below the required average, thus wasting the money spent on the additional room." Three of the schools here referred to, which had an average attendance of over 50 in 1892, have fallen below 50 in 1893. This shows that my line of action is correct, In the petition laid before the County Council, my statement is distorted into the following: "In the inspectorate of East Huron the Inspector informs us that ho has similar cases, and that he is not withhold- ing their grants." When this was read by the chairman of the Education Committee, I at once chat. lenged the statement, using the following words: "That statement is not true. f have schools with an average attendance of se 53 and 55, but 1 do not insist on the employ- ment of a and teacher because they have riot a second J-iihool roans." It is thus seen that the essential differ- ence, and a very essential one between the schools in East Huron, with an average at- tendance of over 50, and S. S. No. 5, Code - rich Township, is in the possession oJ'a second school room. There is not a school in East Huron with an average attendance of over 50, and hav- ing two school rooms, that has not two teachers. School -Section No. 5, Goderioh township, is not in my division. I have not the least interest whether they are compelled to en- gage two teachers, two constables, or two missionaries, or whether they are required to provide furniture for a second school room, or build an asylum. Now it is unnecessary to ask any unpre- judiced person who was the more liable to make a mistake, or to tell an untruth, one who knew the facts as well as he does the alphabet, and had no object in view in stat- ing them incorrectly, or a man whose sole object was to distort them,even if he were capable of taking in the statement I made in its entirety, and whose case rested wholly on his mis-statements of the facts furnish- ed him. In the foregoing I have reasoned as if Mr Beacom were the type of an ordinary school trustee -a man of common sense, common prudence, and whose words are always the words of truth and wisdom. Unfortunate- ly in his character these qualities are con- spicuous by their absence. As to his common sense, the following statement, made in all seriousness, to others as well as to myself, is a fair sample: "If Porter's Hill school is compelled to employ a second teacher, we (the people of No. 5) will all vote for Mr Laurier, and turn out the Government," Fifty votes more or less defeat Dominion Government i 1 , Where aro the three Tooley street tailors who began a petition with "We, the people Of England ?" As to his truthfulness, allow me to cite the following, not, by any means, an ex • hattstive list: FALSEHOOD No. 1. Mr Beacom stated to at least one member of the Education Committee, to a number of people ;n Clinton, also to myself, that the average at. tendance, 56, of S. S. No. 5, Goderich township, included nine pupils who were under school age; that is, under five years of age. (See Public Sc/tools Act of 1891, Sec. 9.) Now 1f r Beacom, his two fellow trustees and teacher, signed the annual report to their school inspector. The following is an extract from that report : "28. How many pupils under 5 years of age entered on the register 'during; the year ?-0. 29. How many pupils between the ages of 6 and 21 (inclusive) entered on the register during the year ?-88. The undersitlned Trustees and Teacher hereby declare that this report contains a full and correct account of all matters stated therein to the hest of our knowledge and belief. Dated this 23rd day of December, 1893. [Signed] STEWART MCDODOALL, Trustees S.S. ROBT. BEACOM, No. 5, Gode- [L.S.] ALEXANDER COX, nob township Wm. MoCtusxy, Teacher. Now, no matter which statement is cor- rect, Mr Beacom is guilty of falsehood. If his oral statement be correct, then each of these men ire liable to a fine of $20, (See Public Schools Act, of 1891, Sec. 208.) FALSEHOOD No. 2. From his letter (his as far as signing his name to a letter written by another can confer authorship) published in your paper, the following extract is taken : t "I will now leave the ratepayers of the sec- tion andllecounty at large, to judge wheth- er there is a charge in the petition or not." Now compare this statement with the fol- lowing from Mr Wm. Lane, County Clerkjl "Attached to the petition is a letter as fol- lows:- Jan. 24, 1894. I, Robert Beacom, school trustee, Section g One of the charges in the foregoing letter is that Mr Tom did not examine ( •in fail- ing to take up," Mr Beacons puts it) "the e junior 3rd clues." I (lave before m"e a certified copy of the Claes list of No 5, Gederic'h towttsnip, from e which it appears that the writing and draw:t inq of this class, as well as their work in arithmetic, (the number of problems done by each pupil present being marked opposite his name,) were examined. In examining this work it was not necee- eery to bring the pupils to the front, and tahitig advantage of this fact he does not t dare• to charge that the clasv was not examin- ed. but 'merely that it was "not taken up." st Here tin bject is to deceive the County s Cc unci( who�he thought would consider "i i f'ai/ing taf "i'j ' as meaning "tad not rxartre'ne" and coneeq ^sly infer that illi Loin did notto examine th class; and, at the same time leave Mr Beaco'1 a loop hole to crawl through if the exact f "oe of the wores were perceived. Such sub fuge is contemptible. FALSEHOOD No. 4. On Jan. 25th,afterthe adjournment of the Co. Council for that morning, Mr Beacom assured Mr Tom, in my presence, that he had not lodged any charge against him with the county council, and, in tact, I knew nothing of the charge until .lir Bea- com assured me, a couple of weeks after- wards, that no charge was laid.before the county council. Of course I knew what that meant, and inquired, and found that it was "another of Mr Beacom's state- ments." Mr Lane says "The petition was read on Jannaay 25th, first session." The charge attached was, of course, read at the sante time. In fact they had been read before 11 a.m. on that day. Mr Tom writes rue as follows : "I under- stood from Mr Beacom that the charges against me lied never been before the coatis ty council, and, in fact, did not have the faintest idea that I was being charged with. making a "false report" to the county council, or I would not have agreed to his. proposal." Now, Mr Editor, I am sorry to take up so much of your valuable space, but I have been accused of mis-stating facts, by a man whose statements as a school trustee, about any matter relating to this unfortunate school dispute, I have shown signifies ae little as the bark of a yellow dog, and, 1; have been compelled in self-defence to show bow unreliable and senseless many of his statements are. This must close the correspondence as far as he and I are concerned, but I may have a few additional words to say, when he produces the proof promised in his letter which in fairness he should do at once, I am, sir, yours truly, D. Rolm, I, P. S. r. Seaforth. Business of every kind is beginning to pick up a little just now in spite 'of the mud that is so very deep at the present time. • The sunny weather at present is so favorable and cheery that we would think it 'would( make the sick and dreary feel a great deal better, and there is a great deal of sickness around just now. The carpenters have finished the wood work of the town building, leav- ing it ready- for the painter's. This building is an extra 'fine structure, reaching sonic two hundred feet from the ground to the top of the tower, and makes a fine appearance to the town. We are sorry to state that Mr. Levi Smith has been laid up for sonic days with a sore back, received by an over lift. We sincerely hope to see Mr. Smith able to resume his work again before long. Mr. Coltous and Mr. Galbraith, two young men of this town, ;have the masons at work building a bake oven and intend starting a bakery. They are also fitting tap an old frame store for the purpose of carrying on a con= fectionery in connection with the bakery. This will perhaps pull the price of bread clown, as it has been held at the old price. Clinton has been selling bread at a much lower price and we cannot see why Sea forth can't sell as low. These young men are both noble hearted fellows and we hope to see there do a cracking business. Messrs. Chill' and lien nett -are getting ready to start their' planing mill in the near future, which will run full blast as they have a number of large contracts on hand. • There is great preparations being made for the erection of a number of new houses in town this spring, also a couple of new stores; the more the merrier. Seaforth is able to stand it,. Mr. Samuel Bennett and wife are at, present visitingfr•iendsaround Walton, Brussels and neighborhood. Miss Vesta Slaughter, of St. Marys, is home on a visit to her mother, Mr. John Bell has placed a new machine in his laundry which will enable him to do his work a great deal easier and better. Seaforth is about to sell the electric light..plant. Tenders will remain open until:Monday next. The town is now well supplied with gents furnishing stores, there are two new ones just opened up by Stark Brothers and Dill & Spears, making a total of five in town. Your r correspordant has been away from horse for some time and therefore wishes to be excused for the weeks budgets that have been missed. Rev. Dr. Talmage has decided to re- main pastor of Clue Brooklyn taber- nacle.