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TUB CLINTON NEWS-R:ECORD
t. Historical Sketch of
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Huron County
TOWNSHIP OF HOWICH.
and 1858 George Strong, 1859 Robert
McLaughlin, 186o Thomas Gibson, 18- -
Itowielt is the meat vortheaSterly of 61 Roaert. Gibson 1862 W. G. Walker, -
the sixteen townshipomprising the Wm. Strong*, ,1863-1865 Thomas Gib-
eounty of Huron. It is 'bounded on son, William Strong, 1866 Wm. Gib-
', the north Ly the Township of Carrick, son, James Perkins, 1867 Thomas
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in the Lounty of lir= on the cast Gibson, James Perkins, 1868 Chas, W.
by the Township of Minto, in. the •I'leliford, James 1 erkins, 1869 and
t. aunty of Wellinston ;on the south 180 Jetnes I erkins, Wm. Wade, 1871
by the Towneltip of Wallace, in the Janus Perkine„ Alex. 14. Gibson,
lotintv of Perth ; and on the west •hY in Maguire, 1873 'and 1874 -Tattles Per -
the Timuship of Turnberry. It also it.ins, A. L. Oilison,• David. Weir, 7875
has t. southwestern boundary along J. J. Sweetmeat, Charles Wilson,Genj.
the • Toenship of Grey, and at the - S. Cook, 186 John Keine,. Charles._
nostheast extremity corners the Tow e- (tile withdrawal of Wroxeter
ship of Normandy, in the County of depriving the township of a second
Grey It contens by superficial meas -.deputy ler ths ) 1877
aJoba
element67,193 acres.
Nam, Thomas WiTear,
son, David Weir,
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lhe s cal topography of this 18)8 and 189 joke. Keine, B. S. Cook
townstap varies trout gently rolliDavid Weir. wiTNiss ToillE.DliEll
to decidedly rough, the northern part, •: Resides the incorporated village of
border.ng the coenty of Bruce, coming, Wroxeter, heretofore describeeLl-lowick
niore especially vvititie.- the scope of contairs in its limits -several post
the lattt r description. 11i variety villages. of more or less importance.
. and quality of the timber are much 1.1tit chief of these is
the same as in other townships furtle Gorrie, two and a half miles east of
er south, v.ith a possibly slightly in- Wroseter, on the line of the Toronto,
cr ing din r..i.ce in the pine and :Grey and Bruce'Railway. • Although
hemlock, and such varieties of wood not incorporeted Gorrie is in many
which usually indicate a lighter soil— resects at .least the equal of 1,Vroxet-
much of the area, possibly a larger er. The land where •it 'stands was
1 onion than any other township • 9f lirst oecupied by the Geer .brothers,
the county, being cf that description although•tts early history is -so close-
t. f land vehich in the south 'would be ly identified with- the Leech brothers
Liaised as decidedly light, yet much that the actual •first settlement is
i•uperior to many localities in the'old- quita overlooked by, those fainiiiar
tr, and even some of the newer, .see- with its subsequent history,
tions of the country which are plexeci The settlement .cif .the Greets was.
high in the scale of Lgrictilturel ex. meek -in the earlypart of affsa. In
cellence. the summer of 1855 James Leech. and
John Carter, who settled, on Let 11, his brother Nathaniel, sons of Richard
Con. 8, in August, 1851, was the pion- Leech, ole of the oldest. settletk of
ter of what 'is now theprospeious theTown of Perth ..in Lanark County,
cannnetnity, Comprising numerous started ou. a 'prospecting tour. 'the
thriving vellages and Scenes of 'meal roilte of their explorations . lay
prospertty, happiness and plenty,whith through the country bordering • on
result from properly directed efforts. in Georgien .rday end, Lake FIttrou and
subjugating primitive nature mid t4y were so well pleased with the
inoulclii g tar to the wishes of her ixospcets that upontheir return to
owntr—man. Mr. Carter came.in via the. old home home theyinduced eight 'of
the present village of Moteswerth, the tca brothers (including themselves)
stopping at the house . of Andrew to forma coepartnership-for the pur-".
Mitchell on the Wallace and Grey chase Olartill'property in .Hewick,the
town -line. 'I his . was the end of. all building of ohne and the carrying on
semblanceto the road and Mr. Carter a general business in the new.-coentry
was obliged to "brush" a road Mt° • which their foresight -•,suggeste.d -es
his h cathaa, a distance of about ten tiertainao settle. up a,ncl deveiop .rapiete
miles. For over two yenrs. Mitchell's ly at no distant day.:After making
was the nearest human habitation.- the.. necessary -.preliminary - arrange -
About the end of this thne, • Or in ' meas.
September 1853, Jacob Cook came in turned in the forepart of the winter of
HOW DOES IT SEEM TO YOU
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It was in ma I'd Ilke to go
Whore belts don't tine ;tor whistle* blow
tier clock, don't strike nor goose don't 091111S
And I'd hoe *Mules all Around,
Sot really Wilma., but just the *real'
Low whimpering* or the hum of bee*
Or Woke' feint bal.bling over stones
In strangely, *only tangled tones.
Or maybe a cricket or katydid
Or the emigre! bird; in the hedges hid
Or Met some such sweet sound; as then/
To all a tired bout with eve.
11 nwere-1 for sight and mood *nil Me% '
I'd like city pretty well, .
But when it comer to getting rest
I like the country lots the beet,
Sometimes it seems to me I must
Just quit the city's din and dust
And get out where the sky is blue
And say, Now, how does it seem to you?
—Sufteno ride.
...lames and • Edward Leech re -
and stattea on Lot 15, Con. 3, being .1855-6 to the place where. Gerrie now
the vecond settler in the township. • stands, They came in via Molesworth
Ile did not move his family in, how- note which place they chopped out a
ever, till February, 1854, and in' the road to their location—a• distance of
• • absence of a passible road beyond over fifteen Miles by,the• route travell-
Mitchell's at Molesworth, and -in view 'etl..• On. their. way in -they' met. -Hugh
al the difficulty of ma. ing one, Mr. :Itollingsheed; who had come in- the
Look and his family were obliged to revious night to settle on • Lot 3,
" portage" all their effects in from Yon. 3. Inunediately ote their arrival
Molesworth on their •backs. Mr. Cooe at the present site of Gerrie they pur-•
was • during his lifetime one the •cha4ied .mill sites, ••both there and at
most respected men of the townshipthe present.site of the village of Blue: -
of which he was one of th.c. pioneers. vale and aeetit to Work with..such ener-
Ile died at Fordwich,' universally re- gy at their new enterprise that the'
gretted, fl 1876. mills •in, both place's were incomplete
The spring and summer succeedingrunning order by •the next harvest and
Mr. Cook's advent was marked by the •the great benefit accruing to the coin -
arrival of numerous additions td the. .minety therefroni .may, .be judged of
inhabitants. Among the first to fol- .roln.. the feet...that during' the next
low were Henry Smith, who settled. winter (1856e-7,) although the coun-
on Lot 6, Con. 4 ;John Donley, Lot . try was literally 'fit its;lafancy, • as
4, Con. 5 ; Allen Ireland, Lot 38,'Con. 'many. as sixty Oxqearns were counted
B ; the Greer brothers on the lots at one time at the Gorrie It -Till whose •
now covered by the village of Gorrie; drivers Were • waiting their turns to, •
and early in 1854 the Sotherns, • deliver their grists. ' .
Joel Rogers, W. G. Walker and Arther
Mitchell at or near the location of the
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town plot" of Howick, now known iF YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OF
ING STRENGTH AND ENERGY-
' ' 'THIS MONTH. MANE' USE OF
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us ForOwich. Motet the same time, a
these latter, 'dr probably a. short t.n1
previously; Hugh Hollingshead settle'
on Lot 3, Con. 3, and •built. a saw-in.i.
there soon after—the hrst in the town
sh,p. .
The first frame house .in the town
ship is, said to have been erected by
Air. Rogers, al.ove mentioned, at 11:
town .p.ot. Mr. Mitchell kept rHEt the firs
st
• :smith) mat had a •postollic° estai•
lished at- Fordwich in• • 1855, of whiel
he was the first postmaster. 1 here
was then a mail but once a. week ain
Air. Mitchell Was oleiged to go ..eigh.
teen miles to meet a mail coerier,
Viallace Village, then so-called, • awl in
many cases he was •obliged t�wade
through swemps and licayer:theadowS
Such were the b.auties of .the Allan
facilities. in those days.
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'the inconveniences of the first sett-
lers though probably not comparabIS
with those - of the:older section 01
country,. were still of such ina.gnitudt.
that we of the present .can form but
an approximate idea of .their retitle
ties. For instance those of Howie,
were obliged to team all their set-
t lies front Paris and other points at
torresponding distances. There . was
(mite a settlement made at Walkerttn,
tounty of . Bruce, at an: early date
previous to the settleMent: of. Howick
and for two or three 'years subsequent
to Mr. Carter s settlement he •WiS
obliged to travel on foot through•for.
est, swamp and stream aand'rettan
like manner, carrying the necessary
supplies for himself aral family imoi
his back.. .
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During the season of 1854 •grcat
many hocked into Howick from thirt
older townships aed - front •the Old
Country. Among those who 'came in
in the early part of that year were
George Dane and the, Strong brother/.
in the neighborhood of Gorrie. • and
illiam Spence after. -whom Spence
town was named, neat • New , ilridge
the latter being the first in the south-
eastern part of,the township.
The settletnent, when it really • did
commence, was so simultaneoua. in al
parts that facts which • might other.:
wise be of interest hi .regatd- to the
first schoole, churches, etc,, are dint
cult to obtain. It appears certain
however, that the first religious ser
vices ever held in the township were
• Paine's Celery
- Compound.
e
S ritzy G'11-1 GIVER.
, A HEALTH AND
ore (with the exception of Hem;
NO ' OTHER. MEDICINE CAN AE-
I • roan OR GUAR.ANTEE SUCH
. . HAPPY RESULTS.
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Men and Women; young' and- old, • of -
every rank in life, freely adialt tliat
. . . .
ehey• are 'more conscious of cy..cirtaxed •
BY M. QUAD.
COrralglir• IMO, or o, n. sew's.
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My mistress In Gainsborough road
had lost a Eh note In the house, and the
thief was the parlor ,maid, I .knew it
from her actions, and three menthe
after I left the hot1130 she was caught
In a similaroffense and owned up to
the first theft. However, the crime
was laid off on me, and .becanse I
made Indignant and perhaps impu-
dent protest I was flung out of the
i house at half an 'iniur's notice and re.
fused a character, I was idle for the
next three months. The first thing de-
manded, when -applied for a place.
was a character, As soon as It was
learned that I had none It was .useless
to talk further. • It was for this reason
that I finally paid a fee to an [mein,
gence office in Margate- street and Wits
at length sent for to take a place at
general housework. It was an old
man named Dyson who . wanted we.
He was willing to take me without a
character because he would have to
• Pay le,sa wages and because, as he
grimly asserted there was nothing
: lyiag Around loose in his house for one
,to steal, As we sat fade to face I
sized him up as mean and penurious,.
but I did not see any evil in hioa. He
had an aged and Infirni wife, he told
me,• and I would be the only servant'
It was not for we. to plek and choose,
mus ave a place and hold it long
enough to get a clutracter • again.. I
Went With him miles and tulles out .011
the Helborne road, and we at last ar-
rived at the -cheaply built and cheap
looking cottage he Occupied, It was a
place devold.of almost all coateniences
and had been selected for its cheap
root. I Viand. the old wife deaf, almost
blind and palsied. anctit Was•apparent
that.she had-po eare ,whatever. SIM had'
• beeotne:ehildish mid petulant, and be-
fore I had been .in .the house half an:
hour Mr. Dyson whipped her wltha
strap for saying. that she was hungry.
As he whipped her I saw him look at
her in a Wa.y, to give me a. chill. • In, the.
course of three or tow d'art I made pp
-my mind that be regarded her with de-
testatlob and abhorrence and Was hour-
ly hoping- tor her death. I wondered
'thitthe had notpteihed her down stairs
or found other mesins.to•bringabont an.
• "accidental" death,. but• -the Old .man
• was. full of craft and cowardice. I
soon bad evidence that he .was In love-
- With -widow- in the aeighborhood,.. or
at least he desiredtobe free so that be
, could matry her. The man had no oC,
cupation and, seldom left. the • house.
• Dering.my first two weeks In the..plabe
h ahlowed. • see e wite
except in his presence and found fault
If .1 cooked: anything extra for..her 'or
. .
expressed ,my sympathy. .-He. had a •
way of whispering. to himself, and a
dozen times -over Ilheard him say:.
'I've waited for years, but
- won't wait intich longer. I'll get. rld of
1 they Mild he heard, and there iiiis
also Many eraelte and crevicee to peer
through. At 1.9 o'clock ole night I lay
Wondering if he really meant to take
her life and how be would finally ac-
complish it when 1 beard a half sup-
• pressed scream from his room. I got
softly out of bed and went to the tar-
ther. door, and, looking through a crack,
I sew that the window was up and that
be stood before it With his wife in hie
arms. She Was imaging on to hial
with fingere of steel and making a
• great straggle. I heard him breathing
heavily and snarling and growling as
he tore her fingers loose, but I did not
know what he planned to do till of a
sudden he staggered to the open win.
dow and flung her out. She screamed
as she went to her death, and in my
fright I echoed the scream. I re-
member the man rushing across the
room at me, of his dashing open the
door, of his striking me down, and then.
came darkness which 'aided for weeks.
He struck pae with a piece of iron and
fractured mk skull. He then carried
my bedy down stairs and bore it a
quarter of a mile away and flung it
• into another (excavation. Before tak-
ing me from the house he put on my
hat end cloak, and thus it aPpeared to
• 'those who found my unconscious body
next morning that I had been coming
• hotne the night before and fallen into
• the pit. As to his wife, he gave the
alarm and brought the pollee and made
out that it was a case •of suicide.
While he was fast asleep, as he claim-
• ed, she had stolen to the winclowcitrid
leaped to her death.
• His story went, and it was Eleven
month* before there was any contra-
diction, I had a fractured skull, brain
fever and pneumonia and for weeks
• and weeks lay as one dead. When I
mended, my memory was confused,
and it was seven months before I told
• my story and put the police on the
track. Long before that Dyson had
Married the widow and sailed for
America, and, thceigh efforts were
• made to find him, nothing came of
tlaem. Never did a man deserve the
hangman's tame more, and yet, if liv-
ing today, he is free and has no fear
et the law. '
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HAS. PATE DENIED VOLT •PLEAS-
VItE THAT THOUSANDS NOW
• • .• ENJOY? . •
you ARE NOT USING
Mall Breakfast fpoU
YOU ARE MISSING iVIANY 'ADV.AN-
• 'SAGES ANI) • TRUE ENJovions,
• :PROCURE A PACKAGE . FROM
• :OUR GROCER.. AN D • TEST . '
.' •Hotxg, • • •
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71, npto the 'present, • fate has. de-
nicd you' the opportunity of • tasting
. pure, delicious and' healtlegieing Malt
• .Breakfast Food go today.. to your
. .gtccer..aed procure a package of. this
roatilex •In-eal•fast cereal food, •Tts
' palate tickling, appetizing and ener-
gizing •properties will make it a dish
that yow:caenot afford to miss at the
morning lnettl.... Its limey gotta quelit-•
s, at e " thoroughly appi•cei a ted by
young. • ansI okJ 'whh huve
-their • choice. • AS economical 'as com-
mon oatmeal and Vastly more -
Jier and be happy."
..terVie.s• " Strength in the *twit ivecithei •
hunat any other Season. • •
When-sitch a condition is experiefiCed •
• nine s Celery Compound •affords ad.
antages • anti result*: that no other
enrisly Can offer with honesty. It
• ; igorously cleanse.e the • .bleocl-• .and,
•••egelates the tardy cirettlation.it
arengthena 'and . -eecotireges the kid-
-..mys and enablee them to filter. from
lie ',Lod all waste and morbid mat-
' Ars ; asecures streng., firm nerves, •
gie ea sweet and natural. sleep to
'Ate nerve -tired and brain -weary. In
a word.Paine's 'Celery • Compotiud is a
- rue semmer life -giver and healthe
Mr.'. J. Ralston of -Nixon,
:Ont., says • .
. " It is now • e .year past 1.ince I had. •
, *severe attack' of nervous prostra-,,
• ..ion .caused by *chronic dyspepsia' am,
t cotild not sleep at night. 'thn
is co
&thin of sleepietiseess .broughts on• die
• irititn.. was attended by !bur. of tit.
',est doctors and took great quake
eity of nu dicine, 1,11t all failed' to .clo
. ate any good. I thought 1 wouhttry
2ctine s Celery Coinpountl. Alter ,1
:ad used four bottles the nervousucas
end dyspersia left me, and 1•• have
lone more work since than for ;year;
• est. I now eisjoy excellent !main
. •
•cmisi Or myself completely cur
I 4,41
THE BISUOP N'OT ADMIRER.,.
•
AN - address before theSynod the Mellen
conducted by a Wesleyan Methodist
minister named Clark, in the house oi
old Mrs. Greer. The first "quarterly
meeting." was presided over by Rev.
Mr. Artnetrong it the hoUse of Henry
Smith, afterwards the first reeve ce
the township. 'the first Sunday school
ever organized was by James Leech
and in the Leeelt brothers' shanty,
where Gorrie now is, :lattice. Leteh
was leader of the first Itletitodiat class
for many years and for a 19tig time
this class consisted of only .1iiinself
w:ton
and Mr. et Mrs. Desalt.- How the
gospel has spread slue, that tithe.
His Lordship Biehop I/mold It of Ni.
Agora is evidently not an adinirer
- the avtrage church choir ecreccher,
better known as the eoloist, 1» bIt
A reference to the township recOrds
shows that for one year previous to
1856 Howiek was united to the town -
%hip of Grey and previous to that
again both these toweshipa had been
united to IlfeEillop, In the first above
named year, however, a seperate end
independent organization was affected
and, Henry' Smith, became . the (hit
reeVa and Messrs. Mitchell, Gough,
Bolton and Hollingshead the first
cottucillors. George Dane was ap-
pointal clerk and treasurer, John
Wood assessor and Wm. Wade toilet -
tor.
• The repreSentativeS in the Millen
since 18$6 have been as follOWs ; 1857
said : " church in Iter whetter.
.It s prescribed that the priest shall
'Legit' the offertory by saying one in
neve of certain sentences, Itunit al:.
, ropriate in their appeals to 'the- cot
sciences of the woeshippers. The dere
y is content to say one ttxt,: Let -
- our light so shine before men, ole
iind gi e the remaining time mid op
portunity to some soloist, who stand
•,oith ansI
. g 4, • et .
•
selection not found in Bible or prayor •
, b00% or hymn look—some .dreamy
'song, most htappropriate to the occas-
ion, mayhap, arid of such length as to
eep • bishop, • clergy, siclesmen and
congregation all waiting till it pleases
• the singer to desist. I have enduree
these rerformances at times without
feng able to distinguish more than a
Word here and there of an 5(0 hem or
song arid I have felt sorry intleixl thoa
such a stibstitution should be scli gen-
crony tirade for the church's elevated
inStreetion and useful. order."
Alfred 'Iiraeltilutwe a six-year-old
child, Was fatally herited at the Tor;
- onto general hoSpital while playing
• with matchee.
• The parliatneet of Cape Colony met
on Wedttesday for the fest time since
Oetoter 13, 19coo.
• Sty natural Impulse on finding out
how he. Mt toward his Wife wee to fly.
the house, bgt 1 here explained how I
. was -situated., And, toe, I Soon gokthe
feeling that I ought:to stay to protect
um poor old wonian. I figured it out
that, while he might thirst for her
death, he would, not 'proceed to ex-
tremities while I was in the house. It
seemed, as If he 'would have lived on.
elone, as he had done for the last two
nouths, It be meditated anything of
that sort. I didn't know the depth of
his craft, however. ' He had brought
methere to work her death through
we. The first thing I stuipicioned this
way was one. morning when he naked
me to help her down stairs.' The stairs
were steep and .shaky. and be .had pried
one of the steps loose, 'that It 'might
slide from under our feet. Asa mat..
ter of ,faeL It did give .way; but
ettught myself and saved the women.
When old Dyson saw the failure of his
plot, he looked chagrined and- Savage
and presently found excuse for culling
the poor wite's ears. . •
, In the course Of it couple of .weeks
he declared' that the cellar was full of
rats and gave me money and corn -
mended me to buy /weenie. He reeenn- •
mended me to go to a store Mien away
and to say that I wanted It for my
coMplexien and to give my own name.
I went to a drug store only two blocks
away and gave his name, and when
be dIscoVered this be woe highly :In-
dignant for a day, and I rather expect-
ed to be thrown out. frowever, in the •
eouree of three or four days be devel-
()red another plan. After conching the
old •wife he left me 11101110 With her for
the nod time, prol she begged nal to
get her Home Isisdanum for toothache
and not mention the matter to him. It
watt easy to tell that she had been
Notched what to sass and I refused to
buy the dtug. A few do% inter; ai I
was preparing her a soup, I- bad to
leave the kitehen for a minute. When
I returned. the otip was &On; oUt
streifge Odor, and, being eetisiled that
the intsbaud had polecated it, I of -
courtly thtew It 11111.t 718 stabled
about my waste, but when 1 looked*
hltu square hi the eyes he dropped ble
and bad no more to Say.
I. lad been with the Dysons nye
weeks when the elintax came. The old
woman was holding her own, if not
getting better, and the husband's Ma-
pittlence bad a savage edge to it. Their
bedroona was on the north side of the
lame. All along on that side Was a
deep excavation for a factory, end the
cellar Watt full of stonee and water.
Prom the bedroom window the dits-
tame to -the Cellar bottom wait all of 80
feet. I slept on the west lde, with two
roorMs Mid two doors between us, but
SO poorly built was tho how* that 11
110100$ Wet* rti,404,419 4 Vbinte
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Mellifluous 4.1Inhoo" English.
The late G. W. Steevens gives an ex-
ample of "Balm" English.in his book,
• " India," is an effort to express
•.
admiration for the speech of Pundit •
Madan Mohan Malevayya at a native
congress: • •
• ."His speech is as mellifluous as his.
name. He has a sweet voice and is
one of the most enthuslastleally.
wel-
- comed of men on the congress plat- ,
'form. ' Neither tall nor short nor Brant, -
hut. thin; not dark, dressed in .Pure
• white,with a white robe Which gem;
round his shoulders and ends down be-
low the. knees, Mr. • Madan Mohan •
-stands like Eiffel's towerwhen he id-
• dresses:his fellow congressmen.: •
•••"/Ie Annuli slanting forward, admire-,
bly preserving his center of gravity. •
His speeches are 'full •of pellucid:and
•
sparkling statements, andhis :rolling
and. interminable kentencerilravel out
of his mouth in quick- succession, pro- •
ducing a 'thrilling Impression On the au-
dience. There ismusk in his voice,.
there is magic in his eye, 'and he Is one
pf the sweet Charmers. of .the congress
company." • • .
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.11111118 Oritrilfx.1.1.9.
Dr. Dalton McCarthy. son of Judge
McCarthy, Orengeville, has been cont-
tainted- to etand his trial at the
fiencoo Aesizes at Orangeville in No-
vemberson a, charge of sssaulting
Alitugoveut, wife of the editor of
,
The ()remota ill° Pot t.
Magloire Vaillancoltrt, who spent
six months in jail at Sault Ste.
Marie. oit n. chai go of mut•clar, died
'at the General hospital, whore he
was taken on Saturday night On the
word of bale in 8500 being accepted
being received. He was said to have
killed en Italian laborer.
ONTARIO POLITICS.
A protest has been tiled against tho
election of T. 0. Carscallen Len.
no, Conservative, and. a crofts -peti-
tion has been entered asking for the
disqualification or Captain. Robson,
East. Middlesex. Lennox Conserve,-
tives say that 41. cross -petition will
be made against the Liberal candi-
date, ti. S. Anatol°.
AORICULTritAL WORLD.
The totttl number of bearing apple
trees in the United States is 21.0,-
000,000.
orer forty bushels to the acre, Ar.
- cactian wheat, were threshed 'at 'Wil -
Ilene Awe', Ayr .road to Paris, Ont.,
by Mr. Seroggie on.Frititty. This is
an old. time crop.
it:lc/pus.
Bre en -hearted because he was put
out of his a: tt Intents. on Thursday,
WI liun Vevers, • 41. Toronto taboret.,
et; pet s of ag•e, cudad his life by
swallowing -an ounce of carbolic acid
itt the silting room of the City Aries
• 'Hotel. •
LA, 110 Et WOULD.
At Saginaw, Mich., the strike of '
the•United Mine Workers of Michigan
was declared off -Saturday.
• At New Haven, Conn., the trolley
strike was declared off just before 6
o'clock Saturday night. 'The • men
won."
RELIGIOUs WORLD. •
Itt 'Bev. W (L Pln. Vault D.D.,
•Bishoe _of Slaskatchewen and Cal.•
gory, is .serentely ill in Loieden.
i The action of the Philippine Friar; •
• in Felling their lends to syndicates of
• layinee is • disapproved at. the Vatie,
• can.
• :. THE rittle naertittn.
••.. At .0ohdete Ont., iire in Hudson's
• tiotel•post.,82,000 before it Was Put
'out,
• FOR .A CERTAINTY I AM CI.T013,.
• Mr...James Trendmitn, butcher,. 536
Adelai"e street, London, Ont., writes
• that for two years he was laid up
with kidney disease and urinary trou-
ades. He became dropsical and his
legs would • swell so that he could
scatee'y go • around'. He .never tt sed
any medicine' that did him so much
-good as Dr. Chase's Nidney-Liver Pills
and knows for a Certainty that this
treatment cured.hain. -Otto p111 a dose,'
25c abox. • .
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Stood on BIN Dignity. ,
A few years age John Best,. the emi-
nent organist, a very _dignified. maw
was present at a great public dinner.at
.Liverpbol, am'. it was understood that
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• .he would contributea short organ re-
cital to the harmony of the evening.
"The organ will now. play," 'was the
curt style in which the mayor, who
wasin thec a r, e ose to announce' a.
performance, and Mr. Best sat still in ,
his place, taking no notice whatever at
• the observation, The mayor repeated
the words pa a louder tone of voice,
and. still the great musielan made .no
eiga. •
• A walter-eame aud whispered to Mr.
Best: "Didn't you hear his worship,
• sir? The organ will new play." Mr.
Best merely lookedup with.a surprised •
and injured air. • "Confound the or -
gave he said. "Let it play!"
The message was dilly conVeyed to
•the mayor, and then the mayer rose
again. ."Our distinguished fellow
townsman, 'Mr. Best," be said, "will
now very kindly oblige us with a /selec-
tion of music ou the organ." Then and
not before Mr, Best arose and enter-
• tained the company. • • • .
.1tesneeted late' iliesnory. P
She entered the office or the totnb-
stone company, and the clerks immedi.
ately became sad of 'countenance. •
"Is there anything lean do for you?".
asked the chief mourner. •• •
"'Yes; my husband, John T. Aber.'
nathy, has died, and I would like to
secure some suitably engraved .head-
stone—something With an appropriate
• inscription, if you please." ,
"Certainly, madam. Right this way.
Now, here is a• very pretty thing in the
stone line. Right. over this cross we
would carve, 'Here Ilex John T. Aber-
nathy, and"—• •
"Ala, sir," interrupted the widow,
"you must think me cruel! I would not
say. 'Here lies: • That watt one of tile
fnuits In Ire. and I Will not folloW bit
• With the accusation now that be has
gone,"—Denver Timm
pay. Price 25 cents. •• •
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YO'Uk OPPORTUNITY TO -
: • GET WELT,.
You' .e.re offered Dr. Chase's Nerve
Food is the most perfect restorative
blood creator and system builder that
was ever prepared. '.Che name of the
discoverer, Dr. A. W. Chase, is enough
• to guarantee this •and besides you
have the testimony of scores and hun-
dreds of tiered ones in every part of.
Canada and in the United fStates.
Von can use it knowing that it is
bound tq do you good.
,• DISTRICT FALL PAIItS.
VvIngliain, Sept, 25-26. •
Teeswater, Sept. 24-25.
Dungannon., Oct. 9-70a
Blyth, Oct. 7-8.
•• Brussels, Oct: 2-3.
Walkerton Sept. 17-18.
• Stratford,' Sept; 3o-0et, t.
Listowel, ; Sept. 30 -Oct. 7.
Goderich, Sept. 3o -Oct. x.
• Seatorth, Sept. 25-26. .•
Londoe, Sept. 12-29..
• Toronto, Sept. 143.
August 21st, 1902
Itotib)a. InSownlog.
81. JOhn'S, N.B., Aug. dote,
hie drowning marred the coronation
celenralion here. on SattirdaY. Ches-
ter MeCluateY and Walter P3m.,:s,
two bright youNir nten, lost tht•ir
lives in Loth Lomond, ten miles h Ont
the city. 'J hey were in a swell boat
competing in it race wit 41 ft SqUoll
Struck their boat and upset. it. Tho
wincl was bintrin 8810 at, the
time, end they were drowned before
, rescuing- party could reach them.
nr•ivenOti i nnitarr
Delta. Aug. 8.—The six-yeareold Fan
Eofplisicenvim? . 111lttfnister, was (etrtoltIlis,dt
Wednesday even ne• about six o'clock.
ram family were spenaing the day
with Mr. and Mrs. Stew itervotn, at
their seamier resort on the lids nr.l.
They were just elatut ready 19 leave
for ho ne„ when they inist:ed theOlt,
tlo f Uta ol do yw was
tfeert, uad t bh; r sicsa rtcv:
Seamen.
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FOR, OVER SIXTY YEARS.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup hes
been used by autiliona of mothers for
their eteldren vthile teethitig. If dis-
turbed of night and brokee ofyoor
rest by a siek child stialfering • and
crying with pain ef cutting teeth send
at once and get a bettle of "Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrap" for child-
ren teething. It will reliev.e the poor
little • sufferer ittnnedietely, Depend
upon it, mothers, there is no mistake.
, about it. It cures • Diarrhoea, regu-
lates the Stomach and Bowels, cures
Wind Colic, softens .the Gums, reduces
Inflammation and .gives tone and...go-
rge teething is pleasant to the taste
and is the prescription of. one of the
oldest and beat female physiCians and
nurses in the tTnited States, Price
25 cents a battle. Sold- by all drug-
• gists throe leant the _world. Be sure
ergy to the whole system. Mrs.
Winsldw's Soothing Syrup" for child -
and ask for"" Mrs, Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup."
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•• • VOTERS' LIST, 1902.
: FOR TOE •
MUNICIPALITY or TUB VILLAGE
11A.Ir11'IE7D:,' COUNTY OF
RICH BLOOD
Strong
When the blood got* Wm and
Si it usually does at this time of year, the
eery.* are first to suffer; they aro starve ,
and exhausted. Headache, dizzy spell',
iadigestion, week steam of the heart,
languid, depressing feeling., weltkne'l
and functional deraogements of the bodily
organs are the roma.•
You can feel Dr. Chase'. Nerie Itood4,
doing you good day by day, asitstrikee at v.
the toot of trouble and creates new. IN,124_
blood. You can prove that it betide -77
new tissues and adds &ski if you weigh
/ourself each week while whiff
Mr. J. hicFaul. carpenter, 315 manniari
Ammo, Toronto, statest—'4I have used
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food for acute indiges.
tion, nervousness an inability to sleep,
and now, after a thorough test, 1 am
pleased to say that my nerVOliti system
has been built up, end I rest and sleep
well. I can speak eery highly of this
preparation, knowing it to posSess curative
properties which 7 have failed to find in
other remedies." so cents a box, at all
dealers, or Edmanson, Bates lYs Co.,
Toronto.
Dr. Chose's
Nerve Food
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GODERICPE.
. Miss Beth Smith returned last week
ifotn a very pleasant outing at Clin-
• ten where she was the guest. of Mr.. .
and Mrs. Enneerton, Sr.
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none• arm% 'Wood's P'hospliodine,
The Great English Itemedy.
Sold and recommended by all
druggists in Canada. Only reli-
able medicine discovered. Mx
packages guaranteed to cure all
forms a sexual weakness, all effects of abuse,
or excess, mental worry, Excessive use ot '
Mew, Opium or Stimulants. maned on reeelpe
of price, one package an six, $5. One wig Muer '
Itz atm -Pamphlets • tree to any a4dress:
The Wood Company, Windsor, Ont.
Wood's Phosphodine is sold in Clin-
ton by H. B. Conan, R. P. Reekie,
E. Hovey and Watts & C�—druggists
Notice is hereby given that I have. ese-
iter:nrinstteinitloende
dani141 Toejn:dsttt6h
so tra,nsteitteci and delivered,. the list • ,
40 npart- MARBLEADORAiiirE
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pality te be entitltd to vote in the ' ON. BENTS•11P)
Ontario Voters' List Act, 1889, the
copies remOred 137. said sections to be •
made pm -silent to the said Act of all ,
persons appearing by the last reVisett
AssesSment Roll of the said ‘Menici-
said Municipality at Elections for the
Legislative Assembly 'and at Municipal
Elections, and that said list was first
TOsted up at my office at Bayfield on
the 3oth day of July, 1902, sand re-'
mains there for inspection. Electors
are crib& upon to exam Inc the said
list and if any :omissions ot'any other
errors are found therein to tale .
mediate proceedings to have the said
errors corrected, according to law.
H. W. ERWIN, •
: Clerk of Bavfield.
Dated at Bayfield, July 3;st, 1962.
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What are Piles WESTERN FRin
Piles, or hemorrhoids, as they are soMe- ' LONDON •
times called, are small tumors, which form
Id and about the orifice of the rectum.
They are caused by an Wared and
. inflamed condition of the veins, which are
very numerousin this part of the body.
As a rule every form of piles becomes at
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inereases• at night,misery whi6h
many people endure Is beyond description.
There is no guesswork Octet Dr. Chase's
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been tried in the crucible of time, and
.gradually Wen he way into favor with the
medical profession, as well As with the
public in general It has a wonderful
soothing and healing effect, and wherever
Implied' to burning, itching, inflamed skin
It affords almost instant relief, cooling the
fires of disease and healing the raw uleer,
ons skin.
Ask your Mende and neighbors about
Dr. Chase's Ointment. It is recognized
byit surprisingly large nuinher of people
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tuoso. Magnificent Pyrotechnics and
many other features. Special train
service over all
Exhibits further ahead titan the
firms. Grounds insidiously beautiful.
Buildings irresistibly inviting.
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and think Of. TQ impress them
permanendy with any one article
takes persistent and continued
hammering.
" It is a mistake to suppose a
. thing has become Sufficiently well .
known to need no more advertis.
ing. The pnblie has a strangely
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short memory. A firm which 1ia4
for twenty 5 ears spent $50,000 a•
year in making a particular article
public, tried the experiment of re-
. clueing their outlay to $25,000 per
annum. But the next year it took
$10,000 to restore them to their
• position. Enormous fortunes are
amassed by those who advertise •
largely, judiciously and incessant-
ly ;:but all who have had exper-
ience in the matter will confirm the
statement that the latter is the one
great point It does not do to relax
in ex ertion."—Exchange.
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