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The Brussels Post, 1894-4-27, Page 11 t Vol, 21, No., 41.. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1894 FREE TRADE V$. N. P. To the 17ditor of TILES Pos'r, DEng $nt,—I 1300 your Subscriber has replied to my letter on this subjoob. This time he assumes another role and is now en out acid out Tory, why he oven tulles as if ho would defend the Sonetto, which he weuld formerly trade off for tho head of Oliver Mowat, first having to receive the bead. 1 told you I was afraid he would go back on hie half after getting the head of Mowat. He mentions Mackenzie and the Senate, It matters not what Mac- kenzie did with the Senate, the platform of the Liberal party now is bo do away with Senates, and epee they will as soon as they got in power. As proof of this I would quote the Lower Provinces as they have done there so will We in the Domini- on, He has quit the convereabions with Free Traders. I told you they were mythical, and so is a lot of the sayings he pubs in the mouths of Reformers in his lost. He puts false statements in their mouths and then replies to them. For instance, that everything we had to sell would come down to half pries, and as to the price we would have to pay, deg. IIe says I "condemn the Tories to the lowest depths and laud the Grits to thehighost." T olid nothing of the kind. I pointed out some of the bed doings of the Tories and the evil effects of the N. P., and of -acme of the good doings of the Reform party aad every reader of Canadian history knows I was right. I said, and so have the Reform party, 1st, The N. P. was on the principle that one subject should have the right to tax another for his benefit, which was not just. 2nd, That it is au unequal tax on the agricultural and labor• ing oltesses. 3rd, Thitb we paid a tax on the article manufactured in the country as well as the imported, in the one case into the pocket of the manufacturer, the other into the coffers of the Government. 4th, That the N. P. is a hot•bocl for the growth of corruption and boodling. 5th, That it made millionaires and paupers. 6th, That it took the government of our country out of the hands of our represent- atives and put it into the hands of the manufacturers. 7th, Reduce the duty and you reduce the price. shit, That it tuts hurt the country and burdened the agriculturalist and artizau and driven them from our shores. Dth, That it pro- duced no home market. 10th, That the promises of the authors of the N. P. were false. 11th, That the predictions of the then Opposition have been realized. 121h, That it is the duty of every true Canadi- an at the next election to get rid of the incubus that is eating the vitals oat of our oonutry and our Government -1 mean the manufacturers association with the monopolise and combines—and the way to dolt is by putting in a Govern- men£thab is not held by the throat by them, as is the present. Now I have summed. up the evils of the N. P. under the above heads and have given the remedy and could give you proof of them all, but I think I would only bo wasting your space, for since the controversmry started the debate on the budget has been delivered, and by abler men than your subscribers, and I would ask your readers to read the speeches of Foster and Cart- wright, Wallace and Davies, Curran and Laurier, Montague and McCarthy,nd Others. Read them, but not as published in a partizan press. Read the speeches of the Tories as reported in the Empire and of the Reformers as reported in the Globe and I am satisfied every one who does not judge from a selfish motive will admit thab every one of my statements have been proven. Yes I out of the month of even Foster himself. He says reducing the duty reduces the price, that when ho reduced the duty on sugar he removed a tax of $8,000,000. McCarthy, a Tory of Torios, the who was at the birth of the N. P., proves every state. meat I made and that the adoption of the N. P. by the Tories was only to matter of choice, not of principle. He talks of bye - elections. Yes they prove that when e Governmsub, especially one as corrupt es this one has been proved in bhe scandal parliament of 1891, when they aoneen- trate their army of paid organizers, hood - lees and personabors on our concession lines in any one Riding the honest voice of the electorate must step aside. There are exceptions to this rale, notably Win- nipeg. The Reform parby say and have seed the N. P. must go, and go it will. The people are beginning to realize that the next election will bo a fight between the masses and the classes to get rid of that monster, the N.P., and to fight it out to a duleb. Your correspondent says this has been the cry and we did not suc- ceed and won't this time. Leb me tall him we would have succeeded long ago only we have been fighting against a party that was fighting with loaded dice, loaded up with the gerrymander and Franchise Acts and backed rip with the wealth of the manufacturer and contract- or ,and Senate hunter, and still in the last dglib wo nearly won. We had the popular vote and we forced the Govern- ment to drop the N. P. and pretend to go to the country asking for their voreict to get reoiprociby with the U. S., which is so fully proven to have been a false cry that they will have to answer for it at the next election, He quotes prices to show that things are tiheapsr now :than years ago. • Everyone admits that, but take the duty off and the same things will be still °beepger. In proof of this read. Foster's s�peoob on the tariff. Ho says I sneer at the expression "Home market" and eo does every one else who has anything to sell: Why they know we have none for the products of our farms, our mines, our forests and our fisheries, nor have wo as good a one to buy in its we would have under Free Trade. Yes I give us the privilege of buying in the aheaposb and gelling an the deareole thea is what wo want. and that is bio kind of Free Trade that both the Liberal party and I have been advocating. He talks of the high interest paid in Maoksuzio's time. I say our Government has nothing., to do with reducing or increasing the prree of Money, also that our money was all going bo foreign oountrisb then. Is it not doing Se EON!? SVhotm dome olir Govan -moot and all our Banks and Loan Companies borrow the bulk of the money and then loan it out to the people 7 Is it nob from foreign countries, and T speak advisedly when I say that Canada to -Amy owes more than double wlutt she did in 1878. Mr. Maeleenzie's Government must have been a success for they governed this country for 928,000,000 annually, the present cost about 988,000,000. Be tante about having to pay taxes in DSaokenzie's time on toe, sugar and papers, Ib makes very little difference what we pay it on if it is an equitable one on all ()ideals, That is what we claim the N. P. is nob, and we know that Mackenzie -only taxed us about 828,000,000 apd that we ars now boxed $88,000,000. Everyone knows that the Tory party in 1878 said that Muskenzle was spending too moth and if they got in they would reduce the expenditure, but 1 beve shown that theybavenearly doubled ib. If your Subscriber will add all that they have taxed the country sines 1878 over what Mackenzie's average was and what they said was too high they will find that it will aiiouub to about 200 million dollars, or over 981 per head for every man, woman and child in Canada. For the East Riding of Huron it would amount to 9770,000, a sum if now in the hands of Canadians would make diem forgeb hard times. Mr. Mackenzie's Gov- ernment was therefore cheaper, it was without any boodling scandals, and his- tory has written over his tomb that he was honest. It malts one smile to read that the N. P. was a reform measure and that Tories are real reformers. That is contrary to history ; or that W. R. Mere- dith is ready with a - reform platform. Does be call going back and stirring up the dying religious bigotry of the 16th century or the boodling hand of conspir- ators who batched their schemes in the Mail Building or his latest attempt to go bask to thefamily compact style of Govern- ment by orders in council whish bi-en- niel sessions are only a stop, if thea is what ho calls reform I thunk Ontario will say in 1894 as before, Mowat won't go. Yours, Auornsa SOBSOBmE0. April 24, '94. CROPS IN ONTARIO. Following is a bulletin sent out by the Ontario Department of Agriculture from information sent in by correspondents under date of April 16th :— Fall wheat has been seriously set back by Spring frosts and abeam of warm rains. Should another week or two of unpropitious weather prevail, inuoh of the orop will have to be ploughed up or resown. But, as the roots are vigorous, timely showers and genial weather may towards rd carry the fields forward ds a u aver- age ago yield. pore the fields enlaced the Winter with a good top they are still vigorous and verdant, and diose who practice woderdraining rejoice fn au en. couraging outlook. The great Fall wheat counties along Lake Erie send liscour- aging reports, and in the Eastern portion of the Province, where the acreage is small, the prospects are equally poor for e good orop. In the Lake Huron group, the County of Huron gives a cheerful re- port, while Lambbon and Braes are rather the reverse. The Georgian Bay comities reports are equal in tote, and on the whole the chances are hardly as good as usual. In the Slyest Midland group favor- able reports prevail over those of a loss encouraging character, and the same may be said of the Lake Ontario counties. So far there has been an almost complete ex- emption from injury by worms or insects. Rye—What little of this orop is grown came through the Winter in fair condition. Clover—The reports concerning this crop are not Favorable. Live stook—Taken altogether, the re- ports concerning the condition of live stock may bo considered , satisfactory. Horned cattle, as a rule, aro healthy, though lean. Reports of diseases we're very scattering. Tuberculosis was ram - red to by some correspondents, but the oases alluded bo were not regarded as seri- ous. Sheep are iu particularly good trim, and lambing is proceeding most satisfac- torily. Swine are also in generally good condition. Some form of distemper is here and there reported, while in the neighborhood of Dereham township hog cholera broke out recently and carried off 200 hogs, but notwithstanding these local and occasional occurrences the swine in- dustry has seldom presented m more favorable bill of health. Farm supplies—There is not much unanimity of opinion regarding the quan- tity of hay, gram or fab end store cattle on hand. In the three western districts of the Province the bulk of correspondeuts report a snrphls of hay and wheat, anti in some counties there are more oats than are needed for feeding and seeding. Iu the Lake Ontario counties there is but little hay to spare, and in the eastern and northern hey, wheat and oats are in store in only moderate quantities..A great deal Of hay was pressed and exported during the Fall and Winter, and large gnantitios of wheat were fed to live atoolr, 01010 es• peaially to swine. Fat cattle are hardly' as plentiful as usual, and buyers appear to linea shy in most quarters, as several cor- respondents abate that fewer beeves than usual have beou sold for May shipment, Store cattle are plentiful with some, aucl therm with their neighbors ; in fact the oattie industry appeals to be in a most unsettled condition, except in the baso of fresh oows, which are in bettor demand than ever for the dairy, In China the law is that no man can be executed until he leas confessed his guilt. Therefore'prisoners charged with oapital offences ore put to tortnre to make them confess. An old and a young man once pleaded not guilty. What followed was this :—The old man woe held up— not held down—while two solid Chinese flogged him with long, pliant canes above the knees. The youth wets divested of his (Mains, which were then piled up be- fore him. Upon these be was compelled to kneel, while hie feet, hands anti pigtail' wore all attached to a cord bo poet be- hind him and tightly secured, Saye a writer in the Loudon Spectator. The ories of the victims and the complete composure of ebbe Ispeotatorg:,'were'alike disgueting, U11U11t11I (MIMES. Rev. J, Ross, B, A., and Rev, G. H. Cobblediclt, B. 1)., exchanged pulpits last Sabbath evening. The choir of the Methodist church were very hospitably entertained et the Parsonage on Tuesday evening. A. very enjoyable time was spent at H. Dennie' residsnoe Tbureday evening of last week by the Young People's Associa- tion of St, John's aenroh, Rev. Dir. Cobblediok will give the third of his series of sermons on "Ohrisblikea noes--IMow attained," next Sunday morn• ing, dealing with "Contemplation." Evening subjeot "The duty of praising men," Capt. Melyon is away attending to work et other points and the Lieut. is in command of the home troops. Speoial Jennie Batten, of Wingham, is expected bo lead the Army services in Brussels next Sabbath. At the League meeting in the Meths. dist ohuroh last 1liouday evening an ad. dress on "Sysbemabio Beneficence" by Eli Smith was preceded by the following musical program :—Salo, H. L, Jackson ; duetb, the Mieses.ibtoore; deed, N. Large and 11. L. Jackson. The Junior League have an entertainment on Tuesday, May 8th. After refreshments a musioat and literary program will be given. The union Christian Endeavor meet- ing last Sabbath evening attracted a large audienoe. Mrs. D. McKenzie filled the position of leader very efficiently. Near. ly an hoar was profitably occupied in praise, prayer, the quotation of Scriptoe. al passages, and brief remarks by repre- sentatives of the Endeavor Sooiebies in Brussels. The topic was "What and how to provide for the future." At the Executive Committee's meeting last Monday in Melville ohuroh school room, in conneotioo with the local Sab- bath School Convention, to be held in Brussels, on Tuesday, May 29th, it was decided to hold the three sessions in the Methodist ohuroh. Provincial Secretary Day, who ie a most enthusiastic Sabbath school worker, has been invited. A good program was drafted dealing with sub - jade of a very practical character. G. F. Blair, G. A. Deadman, A. Stewart and Nelson Gerry were appointed on the Billetting Committee and Rev. Ino. Rose, B. A., and the Secretary on the Printing and Program Committee. A. union choir is expected to lend in the service of praise. Rev. G. F. Salton was eleobed President lasb year but in his absence, owing to his removal, the lab Vice -President, Rev. D. Millar, is acting. C aria -ell -s. as a.n New. Forest lute subscribed 92,500 for a can- ning factory. Alex. Bruoe, a well-known citizen of &neigh, died Friday. A. boy named Sinbzel was killed at Robertson's Saw Works, Toronto Friday. T. D. Miller, of Ingersoll, sent a con• signment of °Neese last week to Yokoha• ma. Japan. The Sondwich fish hatchery has al- ready this year put out fifty-two million of young whitefish. A detachment of 20 men of the Royal Engineers at Halifax have been ordered to British Columbia. The Western Electrical Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, are desirous of lo- cating a breach business at Toronto. Abel E. Ripley, who was elected Reeve of Thorold on the P, P. A. ticket in Jan- uary, was killed by lightning Friday, At Milford, Thursday nighb,Mrs. Dlar• genet Dodge, aged 74, a highly respected resident died suddenly in an apoplectic fit. The grooerymen of Gneipb will close their planes of business duringMay, June July and August et 6:15 o'olook each evening. Chatham Planet :—"Peach trees are in blossom. One of our pioneer farmers tells ns it is 58 years since they blossom- ed so early." The three year•old son of Abuse P. Ferris, a farmer of Colchester South, near Harrow, felt into a potof boiling water on Wednesday of last week and died the next day. James. P. Gillard, of London, Ont., is dead, aged 70. He was formerly inter- preter for the Prinoe of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh in their travels, and Would speak seven languages. Following are the results of the spring examinations at the Womsn'e Medical College, Toronto : Passed the final ex• amination and obtained the diploma of the college—Miss G. W. Hulas, Norwich; Miss J. S. Shirra, Caledonia, The following students passed the final examination of Trinity University and obtained the degree M. D. 0. M.: Misses E. A. Burt, Cardwell • G. W. Hulet, Norwich ; N.Rodger, Bellwood ; J. S. Shirra, Caledonia. A long standing snit against the G. T. R„ arising out of the St. George diameter, was oonverted into a judgment on Wed. nudity in favor of R. C. Jennings, man• ager of the Bank of Commerce, at To. ronto Junction, for 91,600 for injuries re- ceived by his daughter, Esther May Jennings. It is claimed that 300 horses in Win. nipeg are rendered incapable of work owing to a disease paused by orpoeure to the wet, cold weather, and drying in of the mud all over the lege and chest. The disease is known as mud fever, and it is so prevalent that many grocers and bakers are delivering goods by head, The following corps of active militia have been notified to hold themselvee fn readiness to assemble for training in No. 1 camp of instruction, Wolseley Bar. racks, London •—First Hussars, First Brigade Field Artillery, London Field Battery, Twenty-first, Twenty-etoond, Twenty-seventh, Twentyniuetk and Thiety.second battalions. A, test was made at Huntsville, Opt., Weenosday of the tramway and sluice. way for oarrying the Gilmour loge from Lake of Bays to the Elver Trent. A hrunaber of people were present, among them being Allan Gilmour and D. Clark, engineer, As a result of the test the Clilmour scbomeiwas pronounced a attend snood, Hon, J. S. Bap, Provincial Treasurer el Quebec, has a severe attook of omeletfever. Lord and Lady Aberdeen visited Bing. don Tumidity, and were given it royal rsoeption, It is reported that John Manton, o Hamilton, has been appoieted sheriff 0 Hamilton. The Sons of England. throughout West. ern Ornate) will hold a grand demonstra• tion at Woodstook on Joly 2nd. Crossley end Hunter, the evengeliets, arrived ab Belleville Saturday evening, and oommenoed a four -weeks' campaign, W. R. Olimie, obtlie Bowmaoville Sun, ie very dolt, none of the membere.of his own family being permitted to see him. Mrs. Green, of Summerville, is 83 years old. She does all her own housework, end reoantly made a quilt of 2,500 pieces. The Counoil of A.mberstburg has grant - ad a floe years franchise to W. H. Mo. Evoy to pub an incandescent citadeio light plant in the town. One bad result of the bank failure at Watford made itself felt in that village, U. 0. Lundy se Co. have been forged to assign for the benefit of creditors. The ratepayers of Preston have voted Mr. Ballantyne, of Galt, an stereo/ ground and other induoemetts to build a foundry and machine shop there—the vote being 2011. Wtohile riding a bioyols on Monday W. A. McCune, 0x•1.14. P., of Brampton, ran into as cart, was thrown down and knock- ed senseless by the cart wheel striking his head. Mrs. Gleiser, on old resident of Water. loo, Ont., while sitting in her pew in the Lutheran ohuroh during a funeral ser- vice, on Saturday, was stricken with apo- plexy and died ; aged 79,. The electric lights in the main body of Grape church, Brantford, went out Sun• day night, and, curiously enough, the next hymn was "Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the Encircling Gloom." J. T. Middleton, who ran against F. M. Carpenter, AL P., in South Went- worth at the last Dominion election, has been nominated by the Liberals to con- test East Hamilton for the Ontario House. August Demers, of Montreal, has just entered upon his sixth term in peniten. tiary. He broke a store window and stole some whiskey with the avowed pur• pose of being sent to the prison from which he had just been liberated. Prof. Hodgson, while in Galt the other day, hypnotized a Wooletook young man by telephone. Three Woodetook doctors were with the subject and bore testimony afterwards to the fact tbat he was com- pletely wider the mesmeric influence. The J. L. Grant st Co.ork P packing com eny, of Ingersoll, shipped sixteen oars of meat on Friday night from the G. T. R. station there. The shipment was all booked for Liverpool, England, and was healed away by a special engine. The Northwest Executive Council has appointed James Alexander Calder, prin- cipal of the Moosejew Union School, to the position of Sobool Inspector, render- ed vacant by the resignation of Rev. Father Gillies through ill -health. • The salary is 91,400 and travelling expenses. G. B. VaoBlarioom, who has been city editor of the Peterboro' Examiner, hes aseemned, editorial charge of the Wood• stook Sentinel.Revisw. Previous to leav- ing he wee presented by his fellow em- ployees of the Examiner with a flattering address, accompanied by a gold -headed cane and an Oddfellow's pin. Lyman Schofield, of Ingersoll, and F. B. Schofield, of Woodstock, have estab- lished their claim to 160 aures in Oat. houn County, Illinois. It was given to their grandfather, Sergt. Lyman Soho - field, of the Forty-sixth Infantry of Wil. son's Regiment which took part in the war of 1812, when James Munroe was President. The property is very valu. able. A fire in a rubbish hemp in the rear of H. S. May's hardware store, Huntsville, YVeduesday noon, extended to some goal. oil barrels and thence to the store and other buildings until the eastern half of the village wag destroyed, including one hotel, grist mill and thirty-two business places, also the Episcopal OMarnh, tele- graph, telephone and posboftise and the steamer Excelsior. The total loss is 8120,000, insurance, $40,000. Daviel Pollard, of Gainsboro', who was in December last fined $25 end costs, was last week taken to Caynga gaol by a sher- iff's depuby. The prisoner aoted as deputy returning officer at the bye•eleo• tion in Month in 1892, and refused to give one Piper a ballot. The prisoner, ignorant of the duties he was undertak- ing, noted under the advice of a mon sent up from St. Catharines, and will now have a year in which to regret that he did so. This is, it is said, the first im. prisonment under the election act in On- tario. Port Hope Guide :—"Wednesday after. noon, 18th inst., Mrs. Minerva Hawkins, who lives with her daughter, Mrs, N. Peters, walked down to see Mrs, Baskill, and spent a couple of hours in pleasant social intercourse. Mrs. Hawkins is 98 years of age, and Airs. Raslcill is 102 years old. Can any other town in Ontario tell of two old ladies of suoh physical and mental vigor as this worthy couple 7 Mrs, anthill, who senb some knitting to the World's Fair and who at her advanc- ed age still earns money knitting, and Mrs. Hawkins with faculties still keen and vigorous, enjoy moaning old com- paniouehipe and (surly associations." Chas. Schoeofeldt, of Galt, died sud- denly Friday morning in great agony from the effects of eating rather freely of teethed tomatoes, which, it is thought, had corroded after being opened. The agony of death, soye the Reformer, caused by this species of lead -poisoning, otherwise inflammation of the bowels, is of the most distressing character. De. ceased leaves behind him three boys and one girl, the oldest boy being 18 years of age. Hs was born in Heepeler in 1862, but bas lived ie Galt over 18 years, where he has worked ns a polisher in Waruook's factory. He has four brother's and two sisters living in Hespolor, and two broth. els in Galt. He was a hart!•working me• throne and bore an exoelide:1 liyXg od ohareeter.l3 Mrs, Sarah Warburton, • a Guelph widow, will sue her baker for damages caused by eating bread with a pin In it. George Danford, said to be a Canadian, has been maltreated and run oat of the town at Palatka, Flo,, for making offen. 1 sive remarks against Roman Catholics. t Ib is reported that sines the burning of the railway station end divisional aloes of the G, T, ll, at Allendale, the railway has decided to move the oiiioes and work. shops from Allendale to Gravenburst. John Orr, William street, London, bee a cariosity in the shape of a chicken with four legs, The surplus legs do not ap- pear to bother the fowl, which is able to walk around like any other chicken. When the wind is blowing from the North the supply of gas Millie Ridgetowe wells is wholly cot off, but when from the South the flow is full and strong, It is e phenomenon hitherto unheard of in the gas regions. Advices from Rat Portage are to the effect that the Canadian Pacific Railway has made a very low rate from Duluth to Rainy Lake gold fields, via fiat Portage and Port Arthur, Rat Portage people ex- peob 10,000 prospeebors into that country. A young lady residing with Mrs. Henry Pelle, Chatham, claims to be the poesees- or of largest collodion of odd buttons ever gathered by oue person in that town. The string measures tbirty-seven feet in length, and consists of 2,250 buttons, no two alike, all given by friends, some com- ing es far distant as England and Ireland. A very painful accident, and one which might have resulted in eudden death, happened recently to Jonas Gosnell, Reeve of Oxford. Ib appears that while engaged in orating wood with a bnzz-saw he was reaching over the balance wheel to trove a stick, when his overshirt caught on the shaft and he was thrown around with thole foroe that his left arm was broken in several places and the soles nearly torn from his boots. His feet struck a man who was standing close by with saoh force that he was knocked to the ground ssnselesa. It will be a long time before be is all right again. One of the most amazing eases of fool- hardiness ever heard of is reported from Berlin. Two children belonging to Jos. Oroski, one a boy of eight and the other a girl 01 six, were playing in the wood- shed at their home near the Ward school, when the boy put his right hand on the wood chopping block and told the girl to ohop off hie fingers to see what they would look like. The girl got the axe and readily complied and the first and the second lingers were severed from the hand. When the wounded hand was dressed the little fellow did not even wince, and appeared not to mind the pain. What induced the boyto have kis fin ho I goys o pped off merely for curiosity is a conundrum. Goverument Detective Greer lift for Edmonton, N. W. T., Saturday morning to bring baok James Short, arrested on a charge of arson. On March 30 the boot and shoe store conducted by Short at Parkhill was destroyed by fire. The in- surance companies paid the loss without comment, but the proprietor of the build- ing occupied by Short, Mr. McTavish, suspected that his tenant bad burned the premises. Short a few days after in- surance had been paid and McTavish swore out a warrant for his meet and oommuuioated with the AttorneyGener. al's Department. Detective Greer learn- ed that Short had purchased a ticket in Toronto for Edmonton and wired the authorities there to be on the lookout for him. Friday a despatch was received notifying him of Short's arrest. General foie weal. The Czarewitah will wed Princess Alia Victoria of Hesse. The tablet in Westminster abbey in memory of Jenny Lind has been unveil- ed. Mrs. Nancy Gardiner, who suioided in Buffet° on Thursday, had 910,000 to her credit in looal banks. A motion in the British House of Com- mons Friday night to withdraw the Duke of Edinburg's annuity of 210,000 was de• feated by 298 to 67. United States Senator Morgan is report- ed to have said in an interview that no damages would ever be paid to Canadian sealers for seizures made of their ships. While telephone linemen were repair- ing a wire at Philadelphia Friday it be- came enatugled with a live electric wire. Two workmen ware ]tilled and two others seriously injured. Careful experiments in Germany have led experts in that country to deoide that the best and cheapest motor for the pro- pulsion of street oars is not electricity, but oompreesed gas. The Nerds' Hone of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has roan* re. calved a photograph and statuette of. Florence Nightingale. The statuette is of Parian marble and was modeled when Miss Nightingale's early fame was still fresh, The photograph was taken in 18. 92 at the wish of Miss Nightingale's brother.in•law, Sir Barry Verney, and by him presented to the Nurses' Home. Seven of the fainane'•travelling atones" of Nevada, were recently displayed in a Denver hotel. When placed on a table within two or three feet of saoh other, they commence approaching until they all meet at a common center. A single stone having been removed fonr fees from the other six which were left in a cluster, returned to the bunch. Tahoe to o tanos of five feet it remained motionless. A terrible accident occurred in Bes- semer, Mich., Sunday while John Geet was showing his wife a pistol. Mrs. Gest was curious to know how it worked, so he banded it over to her and she com- menced to pull the trigger. She struck a chamber that was loaded jest as her husband wee telling her to be oareful. The ball streak Gest in the head, 111111119 him instautty, Mrs. Gest was shinned, and'when eba cams to went violently in. sant and was a raving manioo in ton minutes. She tore out her hair in hand - /tins, and it took four or five strong melt to hold her. She died in awful meaty Suede)/ night. Both were young Opeople and highly respected. They were buried in the same grave Moeday;6 W. H. KERR, Prop. Wm. Bellingee, a well-known farmer of Wayne Comity, W. Va., says that while on his way home recently, Ella and Tina Goro, young girls, stopped hide on the public highway near Tom Creek, and,, after taking his money and valuables, ran bis horse off and made him go in an opposite direction at the points of rsvoly. ere. The girls live with their parents' near by. The Brazilian revolution seems to have ended at last. How soon it will break out again no one 'mows as those South Americans bake unaccountable fits of re. belling and it only requires a plausible leader to rouse the people into revolt. Final bankruptcy seems to be the only thing which will produce something like• permanent peace under Republicanism. The great Ferris Wheel is hereafter bo have its home in the East. Now York City has been ohosen as the moat profit- able plaoe for the permanent ereotion of the wheel. It will take about four months to take the wheel down, ship it and plane it in position in New York City. Six months were occupied in building the wheel, and it cost 9400,000. The axle of this marvellocs wheat weighs seventy tons, is fortyfive and oue•half feet long, and is the largest piece of forged steel in existence. The axle alone cost $85,000. When the wheal is filled with passengers 2,160 persons are on board. Sarah Plass, of New York, aged 16, and Ella Duane and Belle Shields, bf Ridge. field Park, 16 and 14 respectively, were standing in the parlor ofAgustus Duane's residence in Ridgefield Park oue day last week, singing the hymn, "bee- ,Lover of My Soui." Peter Duane, aged 12, was also present. He stepped into the hall, where a breaoh•loading grin stood, and taking up the weapon, pointed it around the room at different objects, As the muzzle same in range of the girls the gun was discharged, and 13elle Shields fell to the floor. She lead just uttered the words, "Let me to thy bosom fly." The lad was not more than twelve feet from the girls, and the charge of bird shot tore away o portion of the top of her head, killing her instantly. Both her companions fainted. The eider Duane was away from home and the lad, horrifi- ed at the remit of his carelessness, ran more then e, mile to the house of his eld- est brother, John, who took him to the Haeknesaok and delivered him into the ous tody of the sheriff. The occurrence was purely accidental. John Dunne said bis brother had a habit of pointing the gun around whenever he could get hold of it. People We Snow. Miss Annie Smith is on the sick list. Mrs. W. H. Derr is visiting at Shutt - ford. Mrs. Alfred Lowry is ou the siok list this week. Brien and Stewart Scott are holidaying at Seaforth. Mrs. West, of Stratford, is visiting Mrs. J. Putlsnd. J. 0. Halliday, of London, is in town for a few days. Robert Denbow is ill with inflamma- tion of the longs. W. Roddick is bothered with an attaek of rheumatic gout. J. T. Pepper made a business trip to Hamilton last week. Mrs. Boyd, of Seaforth, is visiting her sister, Dire. MaLeunan, Brussels. Thos. Edgar, of Tara, was renewing old acquaintances in Brussels this week, Freddie Gilpin is "rusticating" at Blyth. He went on his wheel Thursday morning. Renee Pelton has returned from Wood- stock to resume work with R. G. Wi,lsen centimeter. Mr. Laidlaw, Inspector of the Lanca- shire Fire Insurance Company, was in town on Thursday. Miss Lily Vansbons is visiting at Gods - rich. She may go to Southhampton before returning to Brussels. Jno. McIunes injured his right foot the other day by the sharp handle of a file penetrating it through his boot. Alex. Matey, stone mason, is on the sick list with lung trouble bat we hope to soon see bins about again all right, Dr. Kertlancl and daughter were in town on Monday. The Dr. is Inspector of the Imperial Loan and Investment Oo., Toronto. Mrs. Thos. Pentland and daughter, of Dungannon, are visiting J. E. Brydges and family, Elizabeth street, this week. Mrs. Pentland is Mrs. Brydges mother. Miss Grace Elder, of Seaforth, was visiting Mrs. A. Strachan while attend- ing the Teachers' Institute. Miss Melin- da Milne was doing likewise at Rev. R. Paul's. Juo. Rivers, of Sheffield, Ont„ is visit- ing his parents this week. Mr. Rivers' health bas been of a very indifferent character but we hope the change of air and some will prove helpful. A murder trial was in progress in Ohl. oago last week, and the report thereof al- ludes to a former well known resident of this locality as follows :—"A. 11L. Tay- lor, one of Frank Wheeler's attorney's, conducted the orose examination. Tay- lor is from Toronto, nod has not practised at the Chicago bar many years. He oou- duoted the examination un a masterly manner, and made the internees woman bell the court how she had been very mnoh married, and how she had prao• bisod olairvoyanoy and spiritualism for years." Mr. Taylor's many old friends in this plea° will be pleased to hoer of his amens in the profession of his ohoise. ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. Lase Tuesday Watson Ainley was building a chimney on Mrs. W. 11. Wit - sones residence, Mill street. While on the root he attempted to ease some money to his daughter whoa the wind whirled a 92.00 hill over the house and it hoe not been found by the owner yet, Gnonnu Roe, of Winglham, brought ewe of ttio pacers to Bruesete tact Tuesday to train on the a mile track here. "Lady Garfield" is in prime ooedibiou and a fall slater, 2 years old, bids fair to develop in- to somobhing speedy. Mr. Roe 5xpco;s the,Swertz horse next week,