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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1901-07-18, Page 2THE CLINTON NEWS.REC3R0 • ispublishea every Thursday at The News -Record Power Printing Hose ALBBUT STREET, 014INTON. • 41.M.V., Teene o Sens0attremete-$1.00 per year in adaenec ; $1.510 may be charged it not se Paid No paper discontimma until all •arrearages are paia, unless at the option of tbepublisher. The ditto to which every eubsorlptieu IS Pahl is denoted on the label. Mani:Time Ilans.-Transient advertise. meas. 10 cents per noupariel line tor first illsertiou and 3 cents per line for each salsa: quentinsertion. Small advertisemelite not to exceed ono inch,suolt as "Lost," "Strayed' "Stolen," etc., inserted once for 50 cents and each Subsequout insertion 10 cents. Advertisements without specie° directions will ieserted wtU torbld and charged accord ingty, Copy for change of advertisements' on pages 4 and. 5 must be intim office on Saturday and for Pageal an48 on Monday to ensure change for following issue, CONTRAcT BATEs,-The following table shows our rates for opecifted perfeds and apace; Amami:ism uaass. 1 Yr, e Mo. 3Mo: 1 Sao lOceumn 57000 Woe 52300 0 50 I Column.... 4.0.00 25 00 1350 600 }Co1umn 25 00 1500 8 00 2 00 I Column 18 00 10 00 5 60 200 lInch 600 ooQ 200 12o ierSpecial position from 25 to per cent extra. W.11. MI HELL, 1dtor and Proprietor Nememenruomaraanias crazowesivammo....•••••••rass BANKS TOE NIOLSONS SANK Ineorpo ated by " Act of earn( 'Ilona 1855. Rev • 4,2,500,000 $2,050,000 CABITAL . HEAD OFFICIO' - MONTREAL. INSURANOS THE MeKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Farm and Isolated Town Property Only Insured, OFFICERS J..11, McLean, President. Kamen p.0.; Thes Frazer, VicePresident, Ilruceneld P. 0, T. Je. Hay, SeoyaTreae., Seatorth P. 0.: W. G. Liroadfoot. Ilispector of Lows, Seater* P.O. DIRECTORS: W. 0. Broadfoot. Seatorth ; John Grieve, Winthrop ; Georgia Dale, Seaforth; John Watt. Harloca ; John lionnewies, Braelhagan ; Jew% Evans. Beechwood ; James Counleiy, Clinton John MoLean, Kamen AGENTS : Robt Smith, Ifarloek; Rober McMillan, So fortha. Jeanee Cummings, Egmondville ;J. W yeo, Holinesville P. O. Parties desirous, to effect Insurance or trans sect other business will bo promptly attended to on application to any at the above officers aedressed to their respective poste -faces, alothas Macenintsox, President Jaime Emma General Manager Notes discounted. Collection made. Drafts issued. Sterling and American Exchanges bought and sold. Interest allowea on deposits, • SAYINGS BANia. Interest allowed on sums of et and up. • FARMERS, Money advanced tp farmers on their •own notes with one or mon o endorsers. No mart. gage required as secuaity, • Ea BREWER. Manager, °Beton • 11. O. MeTAGGART BANKER. & General IBanking Business Transacted. Notes Discounted.. Drafts' Issued. • Interest Allowed on Deposits, ALBEar STREET JOHN T. EMMERTON THE LEADING BARBER Also Agent for STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office for Canada, Montreal. fusurance in force, - • • $116,000,000 levestments in Canada, - • • 13,500,000 Estab bed 1820, The old reliable and female °mos SmIthq beak, opposite Post Offlec maw! tzsinceirsitzliummaram CLINTON. LEGAL j S0OTT. BARRI$TER, SOLIOITOR. Eta Money to Loan. OFFICE-Xlliett.Bleek - CLINToN MADKETS OF THE WORLD TIME TAELE. Trains will arrive tit nnd depart froin Chilton Station as follows :-• - BurFAI0 AND °ODER= DIVIS/ON, GoiagEsst Expsess 7:38 a. p. in. " " Mixed 4:15 p, m. Going West Mixed • 10:16 a. in. Express 12:55p, ire 46 4* 46 7:06 a. ie. • 10:27 p. m. td-oraala LIORONF.AND BRIMS DIVIsION. Geller South Express • 737 a. m. Mixed 4:16 p, Goisg North Express 10:15 a. m. • Mixed 5:55 p. nx. A. 0. PATTIeoN, E. ft, HODGENS, Agent. • Town Ticket Agent, • m. 0, DIOKSON, • District Passenger Agent. Toronto. BRYDONE •' 'BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. • Notary Public, &c., O1rnica-13eaver Block, •CLINTON •OONVE.YANC1NG . onvonwars, W. JACKSON JOHN BIDOU' CONVEYANCER, .coMMISSIONER, ETC. •'Fire Insurance, Real Estate, . • Money to I.,end. OFFICIE-litmorl STREET, • CLINTON MEDICAL. Yon. W. GUNN R, 0.8', and L. R. 0. S., Edinburgh. Night calls at front Foca of residencemi Rattan bury street, °posit° Presbyterian clunth., OrEICE-ONTAino STREET, CLINTON. Dn. SHAW AGENT C. P. R. CLINTON POO* of Cattle,Ohosa, Qtl43 intbo Leading garkots. Toronto, July 10. --Wheat -- The wheat, market was iirmer to -day, with offeringe restricted. No. Whit e and red winter would heve been taloa at Ole, north and west, and at 62e, middle freight, but OioW- el's askee more. No. 1 spriug is quoted ut 64 to 65e, on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 59 to 00e, mid-, ale freight. Manitoba wheat -Quiet, with No. 1 hard quoted at '790, grinding in transit; No. 2 at 17e, and No. 3 at 72e. Jeer Torob,0 tend West 2e lower. Millfeed. - The market is steady. Broil etnateci , $11.50, middle freight, and shorts at $13, middle freight. OarA.-The market is quiet, with offerings small, No. 2 Canedian yellow quoted at • 40ec west, and mixed 40c west. 'On track here the • quotation is 46e. . Rye. -Tee market is dull, with prices nominal at 46e, middle freight Buckwbeat.-lifareet duli, With prices purely nominal, Peas. -Nothing doing. Barley. -Market is steady; No. 2 quoted at 41e, middle freight, and at 40c, high freight. • • Oats. -The demand is fair, with sales to -day of several cars of No. 2 white at 30e, high freight, and of 10,000 bush. at 301e, middle freight. Plour.--Trade continues quiet, with exporters not • offering more than 42.50 west for 90 per cent. patents 111 b'uyers' sacks. Straight rollers In barrels for Lower Provinces, $3, and Manitoba patents, $4, and strong bakers', $3,70. Oetraeal.e-Merket quiet and steedy. Car lots at 53.65 in bags, and $3,75 in wood; small lots 20c extra. Travellers to any part of the world should eonsult the • above.in reference to tickets, fares, etc. , W. JACKSON AGENT C. P. R. • EXPENSIVE FIRELIGHTS. .Cases Where Fortunes Have Been Consumed. • • • .• A famous • inothamatieirtn, whose study was his shrine and who neer permitted any papers to be touched and who, when his wife insisted on removing some of the accumulated dust of weeks, always stood in the • room like a . bull -dog guarding a bone, overslept himself one morning. • When he came down to his study his first search was for a bundle of papers that he had left on his chair the night before. These were not forthcoming. • The mathematician called the servant. "Where are the PaPers that were there?" he asked sternly. • • Meovhs, •sir!". said the , girl, "did you want' them. I lit the dining - room fire with them!" At first the mathematician . could hardly believe his own ears. • Then the terrible truth &Loaned upon him. .The servant had used as firelight the manuscript of a treatise it had taken him fifteen years to compile, practically the only -tangible record of fifteen years' •unremitting labor, • that represented a $um of money not less than, 525,000. By the destruction of Some • large printing , works 'by • fire a few years ago a great deal of valuable manu- script was host, in more than one case the result of many a lotg year of labor and research. In 1752 afire originated among some papers in Lincoln's lnn, Lon- don. As a restilt of this a large col- lection of very valuable manuscripts Livid documents perished,all record of which is of course gone. • A few years later a fire that originated in Lord ' Mansfield's library burnt nianuScripts valued at many thou- sands ol pounds. • When the Germans were bombard- ing Paris in the war of 1870-71, a shell fell into one of the chief li- • ricoliry 101 ! of the!. 1 There was a slow e1.1 MS a unchanged. but some! stockers; not many here, and prices nominally Unchanged% (eood feeders are some, steady and wanted. The small eta Was in ample sup- Plr, but everything' sold at steade, unchanged prices. There was an up- ward tendency in choice ewes. Export, ewes fetch from $3.25 to $3.40 per cwt. Bucks sell at 2* to 2e0 per pound. Butcher sheep (mills) are worth from $2.50 to $3 each. Spring lambs are worth e2.50 to 54 each. • Hogs are steady and unchanged. The best price for "singers" is 7ee Per pound; thick fat and light hogs are worth Ole per pound. Hogs to. fetch the, top price must be of prime quality, and scale not below 160 nor ebove e'00 pounds. tiFonosliering thQ rang° ni quota - Poorer stuff was slow of sale,. O1TARI0 STREET, opposite English church, CrawroN., DR. b. W. THOefPSON PHYSIC/AN AND SURGEON. Ailiagggatti, diseases of the Eye, OFFMN AND RESIDENcE-• - • Alpert 'Street East north elf RA.TTENntritY STREET, CLINTON. DENTISTRY DR, AGNEW • • DENTIST, CtlewN AND BRIDGE .WORIt. • Oireicz-Adjoining Foster's Photo Gallery. .to4Nates, ONT. DR.G. EARNEST IIOLIVIES Successor t� Dr. Bruce, Clinton. Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work, D.D. 8,-Grruluate of Royal College of Dontai Surgeons of (intario. $.-First- class honor graduate of Dolma Dom mica at Toronto University. Special attcation paid to preservation of cliildran'a Wel h. • •Will be atilt() River Hotel, Oayfield, evory • Monday from10 a. in- to 0 o, ne • - -- • DR. J. FREEMAN Successor to Dr. Fowler, VETERINAny SURGEON, • A reembet of tho Veterinary Medical Avoca. • tions of London and Edinburgh and Geminate of the °aerie Veterinary College. Otilee opposite the Commercial Hotel, Olintee ••••••••••••1•• VafitigNARY Cattle. Shippers, Per evrte.e.,..$4.75 Do., light 4.25 Buteher, choice, do 4.00 73:etcher, ord. to good 3.25 Butcher, inferior_ 2.75 Sheep and Lambs. Choiee ewes, per cwt.,. 8.25 Yearlings, grainfed,cwt 4.00 Culled sheep, each,2.50 Lambs, spring, each.,2.50 Bucks, per cwt... - 2.50 Milkers and Calves Cows, each . Calv?s, each ...,..... a,00 • Hogs. Choiee hogs, per cwt.:. 6.75 Light hogs, per cwt..", 6.50 Heavy hogs, per cwt... 6.50 Stags, per cwt.., . 0.00 SOUTH AFRICAN MED DAIRY MARKETS. Butter.-Choiee qualities' in goad demend and firm, but off grades hard to sell. Pound rolls job at 16 to 160; large rolls, 1.4 to 1,5ec; select- ed deiry, tubs, 16 to 16ec; dairy, tins, crocks, and pails, 14 to 16e ; medium grades, 13 to 14c. Cream- ery prints, 200; do. solids, 19 to 19*0. • ••Eggs. -The market is steady, With line, -fresh stock selling at 11a to 12c per dozen in case lots. Seconds, 10c. • Cheese, -Market quiet and prices steady, Full cream, September, 9*c; do new, 9* to 9*c. * DRESSED HOGS AND rnow-,.. Dressed Hogs are unchanged here at $9.25 to $9.75. Hog products firm, as follows: -Bacon, long clear, ton and case lots, 11c. • Pork -Mess, $19.50; db, short out, $21. • Stuolted Meats. -Hams, 13* to 14c; breakfast 'bacon, 14 to 15c; rolls, 11* to 12, • backs, 14*c, and should- ers, 11c. - • , Lard. -Palls, 114 to 11* -c; tubs, 11*c; tierces, 11c. BleADK&LI., IIALL VETERINARY SURGEONS. GOY, ERIsTMEN't VETERINARY INSPECTORS Ovirtco, Luote fireana ; Ite.smeNce, Athena &roma •Ctirerox. AUCTIONEER THOS. BROWN • .LTOENSED AUCTIONEER.'" Pales col:doted i alt parts of the Counties of Huron and Perth. Ordere left at Tun Neses Remo office, Clinton, or addressed to sea forth P. 0. win receive prompt attention, Sae stadia; guaranteed or no charges. Your pat- onage solicited. mrscaLLANgous CEO. TROWHILL 11011SESHOER AND GENERAL BLACKSMITH, Wooawork ironea and first-class material and workguaranteed. Farm implements:and ma allies rebuilt and repaired. JOBBING A SPE,01A.LIV. Amite STREET, Noreen, CattsToN 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE • SH W0F1.eifell• ME VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. • a Interestin Items About our Own Country, erect Britain, the United States, Anti AD Parts of the Glehe, Condensed end Assorted tor Rao Res41eig. CANADA. Xentreal Board of Trade may soon erect a new building, Mayor Morris, of Ottewa, propos- es a combination of municipalities to secure cheaper coal. The Government will probiebly ed- vertise for tenders for a 23-1not At- lantic service. TI allPx ooutbreak cost Lon- sne 55,123, don $1,800. They had expected it 4,62* would reitcli $5,000. 4.50 Mr. V. T, Emerson, of Ottawa, has 8.75 invented o torpedo boat which be 3.00 claims for its size will be the fastest • boat in the world. 8,19• At WinniPeg the fiftieth anniver- e:e•ou sary 01 the pastorate of the late Dr. 00,2 Black ie. the Kildonan church will be • ee'We celebrated on September 28 with • ,e-70 great ceremony by city Presbyter-, inns. • 45.00 Manager Russell, of the Intercolon- •1°'ial, thinks the new ferry boat fer transporting trains across the 7,25 6 75 Straits of Canso is the finest in Am- . 6.75 erica. It can Carry 21, cars or a 2,00 • dozen passenger coaches. A French-Canadian named Gode- froid Malette has been appointed chief mechanic of tbe Canadian Pa- ALSchic RailWay. He is only 29 years • of age, and when he arrived in Mont- real fourteen • years ago was quite 30 German eMigration returns readi- ed, 05,742, as %Unwed with 55,821 fer16 corrOPOUding period of Met year. fighte on the Island Of Quelpart, Corea, between the Hainan 'Catholic missionaries and their pupils and, the populace of the island, Ma persons were Jules Devoyod, the famous hare - tone, in accordeno with e, dream, in which he had a premonition shadow- ing his death, fell dead on. the stage at Moscow while bowing to applause. Death was due to rupture of a blood - vessel near the heart. Turkish garrisons at Kilekh. and Vodena, not having been paid tor a long time, succeeded in effecting en- trance to the Government treasuries in the places where they were sta- tioned, and divided among the,nisel- yes the money in the treasury build - ingot • • uneducated. Hi salary will. be 55,- • They Are With the Duke on Board 000a year., the Ophir. • The medals which axe to be present- London clisREslAlorrrt BoRf 'Li:A.M. . A despatch from Ottawa says :-- ed to Canadian South African sol- Carnegie still has £56,000,000 to diers by • His ,Royal Higliness the give away. bDouarkedH. of Calornwsa. 101 Ophir, Ywohrilcch arse eil!), n. July 30th. King Edward, will visit Homburg in eherge of Lieutenant the Duke of The foandations of St. Paul's ca - •116 the Royal parte, They are Roxburghe, who, upon the arrival of tuliiiesdad l, at London, are considere of the Ophir in Quebec, will hand ' them over to the general officer coin- The latest contract for 30 locomo- tives for the Burmah railways has mending, and the next day they will been. secured by British builders. be presented by His Royal Highnees. This arrangements ineens that the Sir Edwin Arhold, who has lost medals will not be engraved, so that the use of his legs through paralysis as in the case of some of the medals and become totally blind, fears he of 1885, the engraving will have to will never again be able to see. be &Dee at the expense of the indi- It is unlikely that a bill will be in- vidual recipient or of his regiment. troduced • this session to alter the It appears that all the medals for King's title, although an agreement the Australian and Canadian coe- has been arrived at by the. Govern- • tingents were • sent out together in merit, the Ophir. The Duke of Roxburghe, Last mouth 8,665 Irish emigiants in whose charge they are, is a lieu- left their country, and a Parliament - tenant in the 4t1 Battalion, Argyll •ary' enquiry as to the cause of the and Sutherland Highlanders, •• . constantly increasing emigration is TO HARVEST THE CROP. OVER THE WIDE WOULD. OUR, RONA! 001IPANIES. 14.48,441414 Intereeting Facto Gathered From the Cornere of the Earth, t NUMBER Or Ebromms, 0040H' Dees suck over 0,000,000 floestere Es AND wois zN• to ga.ther 111). of honey. There axe 10,000 Miles of overhead telegraph wires it Lonclen. London people spend on an aver- age 51.75 a year in theatre tickets. Eight out of every 10,000 Englieli people eralgrate every year. Six thousand people sleep in the open air in London every night. About 1,000 fishiug-boats engaged around the British coast are natithe efary. ' Liverpool, with ninety-nine people to the acre, is the most crowded city in England. Ireland had 251 people to the square mile in 1841. This number has now fallen to 144. The average duration of the reign of English monarchs for the last 600 years has been twenty-one years. At a low estimate, the manufac- ture and sale of dolls in Europe, of all sizes, exceeds 26,000,000 per an- num. A smart brickrnaker can make 4,- 000 bricks a day. A. 16 -horse -power Machine IllakeS 39,000 in the same time, If a cyclist were to ride round the oast of England and Wales he would cover a distance of nearly 2,- 500 miles, North.'West Said to Require Twelve Thousand Men. A despatch from Toronto says: - Twelve thousand farm. laborers will be required from Eastern Canada to harvese the enormous wheat crOP which it is expected Manitoba and the Northwest will yield this year. This number is' approximately what • it is thought will have to be sup- plied from outside sources if the great erop is to be safely harvested, and, while official figures heve not yet come forward from the Manitoba Government it is likely that the fig - urea given will be found practically correct. It must be a record crop to require thi§ number of outside harvesters. The largest number ever sent out be- fore was ten thousand, two years ago. Last year, owing to the failure of the crops in Manitoba farm hands from Ontario were not needed, and the railwaye did not run their usual farm laborers' excursions. Mr, W. Scott, a representative of the Mani- toba Government, has • been in To- ronto iliquiring into the prospects for securing men from this Province, and stating that 12,000 bands would be needed. Ontario is relied upon to supply the majority of the farin leborers required, but Quelme and the Maritime Provinces will also be drawn up.on to as large an Extent as possible, It seems to be a ques- tion, indeed, as to • whether enough men can be secured. ' • 'The Canadian Pacific • Railway is fully alive to the necessity of ob- taining enough men to harvest the crop, and this year will run the farm, lo.borers' excursions a little earlier in the season than usual. While the .arrangernents are not yet completed, it is expecteci that three excursions will be run' from' Ontaeio between Ang,ust 5th and 7th. The 'rate go- ing will be $10 from all 'neap in Ontario, with $18 the single return MONTREAL MARKETS. • • • Montreal, July 16. --The markets show little change, The grain mar- ket continues ,• quiet. Ontario flour is becoming very searce. Buyers have so cleaned up the market, ow- ing to lo* freight rates, that marlY millers in Ontario have closed down, while others are on the point of do- ing so. They are consequently writ- ing their agents in this city to take. na further orders in thee brands. Grain -No. 1 Ontario spring wheat, afloat, May 73c; peas, 77c, afloat. No. 1 oats, 35*0; NO. 2 oats, 34* to: 85c; buckwheat, 58e; rye, 55c, and No. 2 barley, 50c. Flour, • Manitoba patents, $4,20; strong bakers', 53.90, to $4; straight rollers, 58.30 to $3.45, in bags 51,60 to $1.65; On- tario patents,. $3.75 to $4. Feed - Manitoba bran at 513.50 to 514; shorts, $16; Ontario britn in bulk, $15 to $16; shorts, in bulk, $15.50 to $16; middlings, in bulk, $17 to $17.50. Rolled oats --Millers' prices to jobbers $3.70 to 83,80 per bbl., and $1.77* in . bags. Provisioris '- Heavy Canadian short-cut mess pork, boneless, $20.50 te '5.111;' Wax- ily short-cut back pork, $19.50 to 820; heavy short-cut clear pork, $1,9 to $19.50; pure Canadian lard, in 275-1b. tierces, llac; parchment -lin- ed, 500-1b. boxes, llec; parchment - lined pails, 200 lbs„ .12c: tin pails, 110; this, 3, 5, 10 Ibs., 12 to 12*c; compound refined lard in 375-/b. tierces, 11*0; parchment -lined wood pails, 20 lbs., Sc; tin pails, 20 lbs., 7e•c; hams, 12-* to 14e; and bacon 14 to 150 per Ib; fresh -killed hOgs, $0.50 to $10 per 100 lbs. Butter, choice creamery, 19a to 20c; seconds 18 to 18i0; dairy, 16 to 16a -c. Eggs --Good-sized loth of No. 1, 11 to 11ac; No. 2, 8* to 0* c. • Cheese - Ontario, 91e; • Quebec, 810; Maple products -NOW syrup at eic per lb. in wood, 70 to '75c per tin, sugar, 9 to 10c per lb. Potatoes -Jobbers' prices, 50 to 60e; ' Mr. Woggs, I understand your wife has made a record of 900 pies baked last year? Made a record! Well, Where do I conte in? I ate 'ein. A. veritable "quick luncheon," it Is said, is to be had at a restanrant in Paris, where a • dinner of several cow ses, e.omposed of concentrated food in the form of tablets, pan be consumed in a feW minutes. The entire meal can be carried about in the vest poeket. oat toraas TRADt MARKS 0 tilliditift COPYPIMIATS &C. kri-Von0 tending a setieb end deactiotteanuie Sweatt ascertain our opinion free voietner an Invention 19 promeernatentahur. C060In311.110a+ Elena Wien, confidential. liatolbook on ratente Sent tree. Olden oleencr tor oecuting patents. . MOM teem through lattrin as *peen sake, without cent e, in tto.reeetss he yi Sittt/tint Mtritati, modimomer imutnam *reedy, retetet eir. 0*t1°101' 01 AnromearpoinntaZIPTP" Etit,ttiftir !eoliths.* . y ,,. Kee erf, iigalfh19.16,::::41:Stiv.J.WK 41" - ' Does this illus- trate yoUr experi- ence? And are you W 0 IR rf ei ae rd yf oo ur are soon to be bald? Then cease worry- ing, for help is at hand. Yon need something that will put new life into the hair bulbs. You need a hair food, such a s • It brings health to the hair, and the fall- ing ceases. It always restore color to gray hair. You need not look at thirty as ifyott were fifty, for your gray hair may have again all the dark, rich color of youth. sL00 bottle, Alt druggists. at sin a barber by trade and Imo had a_ 2ttat dad ta *rite year 1 38 t,„litdT reillidk,',71,hTtgutgga 18; 11 bee _given me OA mat domplete sittsnaction in iny busis tient." Itaitair J. Gamow* Mit& 22,1890. Kansas City, lie, Wilco dui baohor• tf yet. ee 1504 0344333111 it. tenant ee expected trent ass tee at the 1866" ig;rerorErr move eeat. suggested,' • • , • MONTREAL'S POPULATION • 17Pr pi g a, hospital corps for service in South 'Africa J. J. .Alen, an American, is to 'receive a Direetory Increases it 6,000 Over decoration at the hand of King Ed - Last Year. •• ward VII. : A despatch from Montreal says :-.. It is rumored that the King, who The Montreal Directory, . which was Was inclined to a conciliatory policy issued on Wednesday, estimates the with regard to the Boers, is •bitterly incensed at attonks on the 'A`rinY, .population of Montreal and out- skirts at 346,000; 'Last year's es, and suggests that the sternest reea- thriate was 840,000. In the city Africa • - sures be pursued to subdue Sonth proper the compilers of the directory ' estimate that there are 297,000, One • of the highest Of high prices which leaves a population of 40,000 paid for jewels and work i of art in on the outskirts. The directory Londou recently was •Z.20,000 paid • . a jeweler for a necklace of 424 Contains 83,559 naines and enumer- by ates the residents of the eight hund _ graduated Pearls, with a clasp set red streets of • Montreal.. The direct- with emeralds, . brilliants, and rose ory snows that, the city is in a goin._ diamOnde, • belonging to a "French dy of rank," iShing condition, for the :collectors la - of names were able to discover only 'UNITED STATES. 2,133 unoccupied stores and rest- •The machinists' strike at Newport apnces. ThiS is just a thousand less News, Va., is declared off. - than ' they 'found without occupants A Baltimore brewery has been sold last year.• • .• at auction for $8,500,000. 'UNITED STATES MARKETS, Milwaukee, July 16. -Wheat, stea- dier' dose, No. 1 Isforthern, '66; to 660; No: 2, do., 63 to 64-1c; Sept., 640C. Sept. corn, 49* to 5011c. Eye -Steady; No. 1, 48*c. Barley - Steady; No, 2, 54c; sample, 35 to 85e. - ' Tolede, July 16. -Cash and July, One; Sept., 651,c; Dec., 08c. 'Corn -- Cash and July, 48c; Sept., 49ie ; Dec 46e Oats -Cash July and The reason 'United States • Consul THE NEW rOBSERTATORY: .• Stowe of Cape Colony is returning home is the inadequacy of his. salary, • Mr. • Radford, an ice man of East Expected to be Equipped and Beady a hospital, and Nets York, is ill in tho -ice just as usual. • , . , • Mrs.' Radford, his wife, is delivering for Use in the 'Year. • • • • A. despatch. from Ottawa says :-- At: Denver, Col., • Esther Oliver, Work on the new Government 0 bser- four years old, bit into a stick of ve.tory at the Central Experimental dynamite thinking it was candy. Faxon will be begun within a month, The child's head. was • blown nearly and the institutiob. is expeeted to be off, ,•• . equipped and rea.dy for use in tne •A striking' raouldet at York, ' Pa., course of the year. It will be sit- for •violating the Court's injunction tutted at the north side of the farm, against picketing, was fined $250 which . is the most accessible point and costs and 30 days' imprison - from the electric railway line. ' The ment, •• • • Standard time, which is now obtain- . . . ., Drought 1s causing great damage ed for Ottawa daily from McGill by the to the crops in KansaS, in the Red University, will be furnished River valley, and in the Northwest. new observatory, the 152 -inch egos. - Millions of dollars may be, lost to torial telescope for which is now. the Renters; being constructed in Cleveland. The United ICillgdom produCeS ony 40,000 tons of cheese out of the 120,000 eaten every year by people of that country. hundred thousand The Manitoba Government isat present receivitig reports ' from ell points in the *heat' growing terri- • tory as to the exact number of Amen thatwill be needed, and that infor- mation will be issued shortly. Mr. James Hartney, Emigration' Agent for the Manitoba. Government in To- ronto, is out in, the Province arrang- ing for. excursiops. He is at present °punting around Arnprior, Packen- ham and Calibogie, on the Canada Atlantic 'line. Thee, are limbering districts, but if work is scarce' there men might be Secured for Manitoba who otherwise would not • think of going out. Western Ontario always sends it lerge.number ..of farm hands. to the west when they are required there, and with the high wages that are pretty certain to be offered the excursion ' from that diStriet is re- garded as likely to be a very large- • one. • • . • Fifteen thousand acres of wheat went up in flaanes at Grand Bend. The fire was started by an unknoWn -. • Man throwing kt lighted cigar into at field of wheat etubble. • South African Constabulary Like Wm. Burns, a prmener who was • Their Work. • Penitentiary' to Elmire Reforniatory, being transferred from the Eastern • .N.' despatch from Ottawa, says :-- jumped from a railway train going In a, private letter written from 30 Miles an hour and escaped. Ieregersdorp, Capt. Lawless, of the Official crop reports for this year South African Constabulary, says show that wheat averages slightly Itis conun.and has just fiMshed con- better than last year; oats showed a structing a fort which they have decrea.se; barley an increase, and rye called Fort Canada, • At Krugers- is above the average, while corn is dorp they built three block -houses, . maimed. • seven feet high, and with a fivatoot y.), us ,,I, re noW under way for the radius. Through these block -houses ' . organization of a large brick con - are loopholes. The nien are con - "FORT CANADA." Since Confederation Canada ?Jae Spent e232,002,895.59 on Railways. The Dominion Government expendi- ture on railways prior to and since the date of confederation, July 1, 1867, amounts to $151,1.01,423.48, ineluding 425,000,000 granted to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. In addition thee° has been an expendie ture since confederation for working expenses of $81,391,472.11, covering the maintenance pince operation ef the Government roads, or a grand total Of e232,552,895.59, all of which, with the exception of 313,- 881,460.65, paid out before confeder- ation, has been expended on rail- ways during the past thirty-three years. The revenue derived trout. the Government roads during the same period amounts to $73,225,332.1-6. ROLLING STOCK. The rolling' stock of the various ro,ilaray companies in Canada is vale ued far into tile millions. The num- ber of engines ana care of all kinds, according to the lest report, was 72,017. The details of this proper- ty list are as follows Owned. Hired, Engines .„... • 2179 103 Sleeping cars ...... ..... 131 3 Palace cars 104 0 First-class Coaches ... 1213 74 Second-class Coaches 640 1 One million two Baggage, nail Sc express 682 30 pounds a year is spent on EngliSh fax and cattle cars3911. .426 every bed occupied. a ce. s 14947 • • 679 Coal and dumps 5730 133 Two of the greatest literary pro- Conductors' vans ,1055 1 ductions al the Chinese are a dic- Sn.ow ploughs 872 0 tionary of 5,020 volumes and an en - hospitals, averaging 55. a day for B,errigerators „ 6 007 cyclopaeclia, in 22,937 volumes. Out of 'art average annual loss to PRINCIPAL COMPANIES - the world's shipping of 2,172 ves- The railway companies having tho never heard of again, mileage own the following . Qacen Victoria's ' collection elf lace tcganriatitnta:asspt'ocAr, a fraol cwoaheichiels.theSinficgeiatrite: was worth $375,000. The Astor fondly have 3300,000 worth of lece; and the Vanclerbilte $500,000 worth. toes aro more nutritious than those cooked in any other way, and that fried ones are the most difficult to di:el:dans assert that baked Pete.- . Few ladies consider that they car- Sing: tgagn royn some forty or o&efifitayirlahialeirsedot h • maairy. 130.2.1,N,Eultstateirn even have to dress se-venty-miles of Onnd Trunk Totals ... .„... ..; .... 67,860 4657 i4els, 94 are completely missing mid ere taken, the amount of rolling stock has increased, particularly' on those branches in New Ontario and Western Canada: • '11 • The largest Mont de Piete, Or, Lake Erie and petrott threads of gold every moaning, T)om. Atlantic• 21 14 we designate it, pawnshop, in the QiirebeerCentral as liqloq:Varciti° g 19 • 11 15 4 ,is-said;recetves in pledge over 1,000 NhheichB.,oUt;t: Que. fine st. John worldisims ...oPri'rtcrabrtlyre,th;atriosi watches every, day. •• Ss 127 14 228 746 710 18 5 30 73 157 g56 6 solidation to take over various brick stantly sniping a the Boers. Just companies in New England and New a couple of days before the letter York, including the New England tints Sent one of the men was shot Brick Company. Sept., 801c. Rye -51c. Cloverseed front ambush by a Boer. In fact -Cash, "dine, $6.50. Oil-Unchang- the enemy pretty well surround the ed. station. The work is hard, but we • Minneapolis, July 16. -Close-- are in perfect health and like the Wheat -Cash, 625c; Pnly, 614 to life," he says. With Lawless are Copts. Bristol and Bennett., 010; Sept. 611c; on track, NO. 1, hard, 64t0; No. 1 Northern, 62.gc; No. 2 do" 61.gc. Duluth, july 16.- Close - Wheat - Oath, No. 1 hard, 68g0;No. 1 North- ern, 65;:c; N. 2 do" 601c; July, No. 1 Northern, 65De; Oats and corn - None. Duira.lo, July 16.-Plour-Qu1et and easy. Spring wheat -Strong but dull; No, 1 Northern, old, 74/0; do., new, 701.e, carloads; No. 1, North- ern, Old, c.i.f., 7N c. Winter wheat --Easy; No. 2 red, 730 asked; No. 1 White would bring 14c. et'; No. 2 yellow, 511c; No. 8 do., 5110; No. 2 cern, 510; No, 8 do., 5040 through billed. Oats -quiet; No. 2 White'35ge; No. 2 mixed, 340. Darley-Spot offered 50 to 54e. Rye -Dull; No. 1, 56e asked on track and in store. Detroit, July IA. -Wheat closed - No. 1. white, cash, 6710; No. a red, cash, 66i0; July, 66*0; September, tate. St. Louis, •July 16, -.Wheat closed -Cash, 6010; July, 60i0; September, WILL STAND ALONE. NeW Zealand DeolinOs to Join the Common,wealth. A despatch from Sydney says: -The New Zealand CommiSsion, which has been engaged for four months in taking evidence with regard to the advisability of that colony joining the Australian Commonwealth, has reported adversely to the proposal. The testimony of the enormous nuMber of witnesses extuoined was against federation in the proportion of nearly fiVe to one. Prernier Seddon's sentitnent, -New Zealand a nation," has thus carried all before it, despite the fact that the colony would effect a sivt.ing of sonie £5,000,000 in interest, payments on Ito loans if they had a Common- wealth backing. L.IVZ STOOZ mArgvi,. Toronto, July 16. -The receipts at the Western cattle market today were 80 car loads of live stock, in - eluding 1,255 eattle, 1,284 sheep and lambs, 1,000 hogs, 50 calves, and 20 milch corm. The enquiry all round was good, prices were well maintained and an early clearance was effeeted. The export cattle was of a, good quality, and trade Was brisk. Good to choice shippers ranged from 4* to 5e per pound, and light shippers are worth from 4* to 4te per pound. About everything sold. The butcher oath) here today,WaS as a rule a little better oft in quality but for good stuff quotations are steady, at from 4 to 4*4 per pound, and for pleked lots 10 to 1.5o over Wee 'Paid; Medluin to COMinon Stock 4.44444`....04444444.4444.**er POLICE GlIAIP, special PrOteation for the Heir - Apparent in Canada. A despatch front Ottawa. Says: - Special faucet is being taken in the arrangements for the protection of the Royal party while they are in Canada, and that the arrangements for this protection will be very eont- pIete. It is stated that the secret police will be considerable auginented for the time the Duke fa in Canada, and that only picked men will be engaged. All trains arriving in eities where the Royal visiter5 are staying Will he closely watched for suspicious eltaraeters, Otal if any are found, it • Is said they will be arrested and de- tained until it is deemed safe t� set them free again. LARGEST OUTBREAK. . • There Were 98. Cases of Smallpox • in Brant County. A despatch from Toronto says :- Dr. C. A. • Hodgetts has returned from investigating the smallpox out- break at Scotland, in Brant Coun- ty. The disease existed in the towft- ships of .Burford, Oakland and Mid - ham. , Dr. Irodgetts visited 34 houses, and 'found there had been al- together since April no less than 98 cases of smallpox or varioloid (which is smallpox modified by vac- dnation). Ctf the remaining 56 per- sions who were in the infested houses, 45 had been `suecessfully vaccinated, thus forming a striking contrast, the inspector remarks, to the 81 unvac- cinated persons who had Suffered from the disease. • Dr. Ilodgetts comments on the difficulty of proper- ly" diagnosing • smallpox, which. in this case, as in many others, was supposed to be chickenpox. Ie. the neighborhoOd affected, two-thirds • of the people were unprotected, by vac- cination, the result of which, • the doctor says, is an object lesson to other municipalities, Director -General Buchanan, of the Pan-American Exposition,has in- vited the mayors of • some 3000 cities and towns 61 Canada and the United States to visit the exhibition On Munieipal Day, August 26. The report of to United States Treasury Departmein shows that the total value of preeious stones im- ported into the country last year was $21,019,053, a, sign of prosper- ity, and much above the total of any other year. As a starter Henry E. Weaver has handed $1,500 to the Mayor of Chi- cago to establish baths for the poor of that city. Mr. Weaver expresses a hope that other rich men Vs ill help to give the people their right to the use of the lake. The last census shows that 28,- 411,698 people in the 'United States live in cities and. towns of oVer 4,000 population, This is 87.8 per cent, of the entire population, gaiti of alincat 5 per stent. since the census of 1890. GENEBAL. The Italian railway engineers and firemen threaten a strike. It is supposed that Vesuvius is get- ting ready for another big eruption, For being cowards many German soldiers ttre returning from China to be imprisoned. • Dr. Hodgetts is of opinion, that unless prompt and efficient measures are taken oy municipalities in re- porting suspicious cases and securing general vaccination the approach of the autumn will see an outbreak more alarming and more disaatrous then any seen for some yettrs. The following table showing the ages of the various patients in the Scotland outbreak is of interest :- Under,one year, 2 cases: 1 to 10, 40 cases; 10 to 20, 18 cases ; 20 to 30,18 cases ; 30 to 40, 10 cases; 40 to 50, 7 cases ; 50 to 60, 5 cases; 60 to 70, 3 casee. • TO RESIST, BOERS. The head of the postal department at Gibraltar is a Woman,. who has oecupied the Position for. ten years': She receives salary of Z550 per annum • being' the highest paid wo- men in the post office service. England: imports vegetables from 'all parts ef the world to. the tiine of $16 220,000 per annum, the foreign 38 2318 ' 67 23'6 7 605 246 21790 . 621 23143 ' 575 7253 35 251 28 384 30 763 291 • 17 511 15 1.62 END OFA GODDESS. • • A despatch from Bombay says;-' , IladTeciled Hundreds Of People fox • Two Years or More. . The career of the Bombay , fasting logy, Bai Premabai, who was alleged to have taken no food for two years supply of potatoes representing'. all- and a quarter, and was in conse- nually•soraething over $7,500,000 and onions being responsible for $3,- 900,000. Violent hail StOrina have ruined the crops in the ProVinco of Sala - menace, Spain. Fifteen cases of the plague' lime° been inipOrted, into Marseillee from Hong 1Cong. Dainty, the new Russian harbor near Port Arthur, is said to be the finest in the Orient. klativeS Will Defend Their Bora to tho Death. • A despateh from Cape Town Says: -The Cape Thnes on Friday, refer- ring to the Boer raid into the Trans- kei, declares that defence meastires have been adopted by the natives to protect their stock, property and lives, Which are menaced equally with Europeans. Therefore the eixi- ployment of Katfirs, armed after their own fashion, is fully justified. The paper adds that while the na- tives were employed as border guards during the previous Boer invasion of the Herschel district they conducted' themselves in a manner worthy of all praise. Commandant Foliate muet therefore take the consequences. Details of the raid into the Trona- kei shoW that Fondle, after sacking the small town of Rhodes, attacked Maclear, the seat of a. megistracy, fifty mileS octet of Darkly East. The town lies in a basin surrounded by high ground, which the small gar- rison occupied. Pighting went on for three dzys, and the enemy had several casualties. The defenders consiSted of the towIt arid district guards. Colonel Dalgety, Lc. command of the Cape Mounted Ilifiee, has note entered Maelear. The Doers have Ieft the district, mid are now wan- dering in the neighborhood. It is said that over $5,000,000 is spent by Londoners for flowers year- ly. HOW KNIGHTS ARE MADE. Quaint Ceremony of Investitiive by. the King. The ceremony Of investiture is axi exceedingly • quaint 'one. In • most cases the order followecl was identa cal; therefore that of a knight com- mander of the Order • of • the Bath may he taken as typical. On being admitted into the Royal presence, the knight commander to be invested Made reverence to the king by bow- ing three times -once on:entering the throne room, another in the middle, and -again on approaching his Ma- jesty.. He then knelt on his right knee. In conferring the • honor of knighthood the king placed a sword oil both the candidate's shoulders, The knight, ter by. that; time ho had become such, raised his right arin• horizoritally and his majesty placed his hand oil the Itnight's wrist, who then raised it to his lips. •lVhile, the knight still remained kneeling the king prpceeded to his investiture by noncluded, the knight would rise, presented . his hand to the. knight; whe kissed , it. The ceremony being Order rottild his neck, and. afterwards pl,acieg the riband and badge of the and, retiring; make similar reverence as that with which he was admitted,,.. ers quence elevated by the Hindoos to tbe, atatus of:a goddess, has come to a sudden close. The committee of doctors and lay.- - men, men, headed . by Sir I'alehandra. Krishna, M., D., which was formed, with the lady's consent, to investi. gate the matter, • placed her in the charge of a European • lady doctor and four Eunopean nurses, by wheat she was to be watched night and day. • After ' three days the goddesa was found to be very weak and exhaust- ed, but she* said it was only' a tem- porary indisposition and would goon pass away. On the fourth day she aslted that her feet might be sham- pooed. • • •- 'While the operation was being peree, formed, Bai Premabat seems to have endeavored to make a surreptitious meal of cooked vegetables and nuts, The food, however, was in an ad- vanced Stage of decoinposition, and in a few' moments the whole secret was out. The goddess had food cOn- coaled in her dress, • ' So the fraud, which has been ex- tremely profitable to, Bei Prernabal •and her friends, has come to .an ig- nominious end, and the lady is now under police protection so that her "friends" shall do no injury to hert PROGRESS OP CREMATION. Believers in cremation will derive encouragement from the report just issued by the Council of the Creme. - tion Society of England, whith showscontinued progress of the movement in tihat -country. During the year under review 301 crema- tions have been carried out by the society at Woking, as against 240 during 1899, being an increase of 25 per cent. This brings the total num- ber of cremations performed at Wo- king up to 1,824. Duriog 1900 eight -eight bodies were cremated at Manchester, sixteen at Glasgow, and forty at Liverpool. This brings the total at these places to 415, and 102 respectively. • The recently -formed London Cremation Company has beeh fortunate in securing an exten- sive site which will enable them to • make provision for the disposal of the ashes of an immense population for a number of years, and at the same thne to create a beautiful place which will remain an open space. • China haS granted a eoneesSion San Mun Day, with the, right to build railways, to a grouli of Ital- iano. The Ozar's affectionate treatment of tho crippled soldiers returned from 011111a has produced a meat wave of popular emotion. During the six Months ending June Porget the I Wrote a young man to his girl. Forget thee! When the earth forgets to revolve, When the stars forget to shine, when the rain forgets to WI, When the Dowers for- get to blootn-theit will 1 forget thee. Three Months later he 'Was go- ing to see °mother girl with Sandy hair • and freckles, and some thou. sands in the bank. THE COMMERCIAL SCoREP, Disagreeable Passenger (to Om- raercial traveller sitting by open winclow)-EacuSe me, . sir, but that Open window is very annoying. C. T. (ple16sently)-1'm sorry, but I'm afraid you'll haste to grin and bear it. wish you would close it., sir. 0. Ta -Would like to accommodate you, but 1 can't. D.P.-Do you refuse to close that window, sir? • 0.T. -I certainly do. D.P.-If you don't close it I Will, bet, you won't. I go over there I Will. C.T.-I'll give you odds you Won't,. D.P.-1'11 ask you Once More, sir, will you close that Window/ (3,T. -No, sir; 1 will not. D.P. (getting on hia feet). -.Then Will, sir. 0.T. -I would like to see you do It. D.P., (placing his hands on the ats` jeetionable windoW)-1'11 show you whether I Will or not, sir. C.T. (as disagreeable passenger tuga at; window) -Why don't you close it? 'D.P. (getting red in the faee)-It- appeat'S-to be atm*. 0.T. -Of course it is. 1 tried *8 close it before yoU dame ht. And then the disagreeable passen- ger felt fooliele and the other pas- sengers eltuckled audibly. /Winos is business, unless he customer happens to be a, lady, in which ease it becomes strategy. • RAILWAY TELEPHONES. Telegraphic Communication Be. • tween Stations to be Given Up. A despatch from Scranton, Pa" says: 'Telegraphic communicatio0 between stationsof the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad will within a, few months be a thing of the past, so far as its connection with the railroad IS concerned. Tele- phones, equipped with plionographs43 so that • an, exact record of every word spoken can be obtained, are be- ing rapidly instituted for the tele- graph keys, This experiment has been tried on the Morris atad Essex division of the railroad, and is said by General Manager • Thomas E., Clark to have proven more satisfaca • tory then even its most sanguine supporters anticipated. • All the branches • of the Delaware, Lacks., Wanna. & Western system are being eqUipped with the phonographic tele- phones, and within a few months, according to Mr. Clarke's estimate, the Itrain line from New York to Duf- fel° will be operated by the new SIGNALLERS CAUGHT. Mrs. Dandbox-You said the train 1 should take leaves at 10.80, didn't you? Clorlo--Yes, madam; and think I've told you that tett times already. Yes, I know you have, but My little boy says he likes to hear you talk. -4 • British Caiture Two of the Enemy's • Heliographs, A despatch • from Bloemfontein says; -During tho operations; roUnd Petrusburg Rimington's Scouts cap- tured a Boer captain, & sergeant, and nine Men whom they deteeted signalling from a hill With a helio- graph. Rimington's Scouts quietly sur- rounded and stormed. the position, whevetip on the Doers surrendered without firing a shot. Two helio- graphs were also captured. NAVAL MANOEUVRES. 169 VesselS of the Navy to he En- • gaged. • A. despateh from London says: - The Admiralty issued iestruetiOne on Wednesday night for 189 vessels of the navy to engage le nutnoeuVree beginning Jtily 29. Miring these inanOeuvres the tWo main fteetS of the ,participatipg vessels will oon. tend for tho cotilmand of the English Channel, A EMEND OF SLUM CHILD/MN, At the ago of eighty-seven Mrs. Smylet, a well-known philanthropist; has just died lit Dublin. More than 1,000 children ate inaentained in hoes established through her ex- ertions. While still a, very youieg Womsm she founded a little, school for poor children in a hay -loft le a Dublin shine She collected not Mae than $00,000 pet ttilltant' 111 the ea USo of the deStituto children Of Dublin, As the resalt cif her labors tewele hellion and four free dayesehoole have been entabliShed in the eity, arid in co-operation with the tird's Nest at ItingStoWn, have turned many thee. etoids of hopeless slum children into good and useful citizens of the him- pire.