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The Brussels Post, 1891-7-24, Page 1Volume 19. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891. 1:101111111111.1.111101111OW11111010. - TRU' THROMBI lleellAND. To the Editor of Fore. Due Sua—I send you a few more jottings of my hip from Dublin and my two week's visit in the Old Country and if you think they are worth giving to your readers you are welcome to do so. Juno 4th, 20 minutes past 8 found me at King's Bridge Mation waiting for the horn to move out and convey me to Nenaglaa town of about 4,000 inhabitants aud about 120 miles south-west of Dub- lin, The oara I found to be oonatructed on a different pen to the American ones, without any improvement on them. instead of having a passage from one end of the oar to the other the lath oar is divided into several compartments, each having ample room for two nate, where the paesengers sit facing catch other. Before the train ettorte the door is shut and the passengers have no commurnoa- tion with any other person in the oar or train. The tiolcets are collected when the train etops at each station. I can. not see how one man can tele up all the tickets because everyone clan get oat when the train stops. My ticket was not taken and on another ocmcasion I gave the ticket to a train man on the station platform and after the trsin started three different parties asked me for it. It was on a different line. I think the system is a good one for dead -beats as they have a far better thence than on an American train. We speed on through the County Dublin, the land seems level and meetly under pasture. We oan see aattle feed- ing but not muoh cultivated land •, once in a while a thatched cottage and away in the distance among the trees a more pretentious farm house. I had an ideathet Ireland wae leaking timber but we pees clumps of timber on either aide n quiets sucoession. The furze or whine are out now in full bloom. They are in the pastures and on the iitches and their yellow brilliancy add °harm to the Bur- ounding scenery. Chmasionally we pose a small field of oats which does not seem to be very far advanced. The houses do not appear to be very close together in some places and once in a while we see what appears to have been a atone house, now in ruins. We now get into Kildare County. The land there is about the some and mostly under pasture, with trees everywhere end in several places large plantations. Oats is not sown very plentifully, we passed several amall fields where the beard looked fine but healthy. Potatoes were not very far ad. vanced but aro pretty extensively culti- vated. We pane through Kildare and into Queen's County, which has about the eame general appearance as the two loaner counties. From Queen's we go into Tipperary where we ohange cars for Nenagh. Several villagee are on the way and some nine fields and fine buildings. The day has brightened up for some- time and nature has put on her moat pleasing amile. A. stranger naturally wonders at the backwardness of the season but tbe farmers Bay it leas been the latest tipring they had for years, Winter lasting into the first month of Summer and only four days of fine weather, consequentlythe grass is short, the grain not covering the ground and the potatoes and other root crops just coming up. In all quarters one hearts the ferment looping that they may be favored with warm weather for some time to come, with an abeenoe of those cutting northerly and easterly winds which have already inflicted much cliunage to the young orop in many quarters. I have been informed that in some localities north of Dublin owing to the dreadfully inclement weather of the Spring and first month of Hummer farmers, fearful of getting their cattle starved, sold their stockers whenever and wherever they °Mold. Now we are com- ing near Nenagh and we see some fine cultivated fields of both wheat and oats which puts me in mind of Ontario. Just here I noticed the first fields of wheat for that cereal is not much cultivated in the country. They depend on American wheat to make up the deficiency. The station is now reached and a few passen• gent get off. About half a dozen oar men awaited tbe arrival of the train and if any six other rnen ever meant business they do, for each man in his eagerness to capture a paasenger or two passes over the limits of the 000 01000' boundary and on to the platform but were soon driven back by a policeman. I preferred 10 paddle my own canoe, but having got rid of the men about half a dozen boys, just as intent on malting six pence or a shilling, took me in hand. My valise ROA bought in .Brussele with the idea that it was a valise, yet these boys called it a bag. Eaoh boy in lois turn tried to get it and carry it to the hotel for me. They said they knew by my bag that I was a foreigner and they followed me to the nearest hotel which was scarcely five minutes walk from the etation. The hotel is a combination of both hotel and atore l.vhioh ill all the go in the oountry towns. A good dinner was aerved in an upper parlor and cost me two shillings and six pence. The hotel and store is ; ran by two respectable young ladies, I think one of them was a widow. After , dinner I went to have a look about the 1 etreets and to find the dietance to Castle. otway or Templedorry as some cell the place, whith I found to be eight mites. The town Woke very ancient, the houses mostly from two bo three ateraye high, all atone, but roughcast and white- washed. There ate no manufacturing industries in the plaoe of any importonee. 1 struck the town on a Pair day and the farmer') were in ftom the surrounding neighborhood. Some drove very small donkeys and very heavy carts while others had pretty good heroes Etna side oars, They appeared pleased at the itn. proved state of the weather since the beginning of the month, I tried to per - gentle thern that my looming just tlten was the cause bub they could not see it. I wag not long in town when 0 met an • other hotelkeeper who knew all my friends Where I was going. He took me to his hotel and treated me then took me athend town and We foetid thitt the best way to get to Ottatle0tWaY Wag to take the mail 000 that evening, (fere two etareing at 7 o'olook sharp, There are two hinds of side oars, one with a peat at each side with tho batiks olosed up all round and the hind end to open or shut as required, each wet to hold two or three in a pinch. The other kind is open on the outeide with the backs of swots turned to et1011 other and would carry about the same number as the former. There is it rest that turns down for the feet and when not in use is folded back on the seat. Seven o'olook found me at the postoffiee where the mail carrier was taking on the mail. He had one of the latter kind of ears with Iwo wheels and drawn by a good looking horse. The °artier put on a large orate filled with enamels bloat took up the seat all at one ado, then a. good-sized mail bag and a box or two, besides the driver's seat. I thought the oar waa pretty well loaded and then the thought occurred to me "where is there room for no two— that is my valise end me ?" I expressed my thoughts in words but the driver told me he would find room and take me to my journey's end in one hour. He did make room and off we started. We did not get far out of town when we overtook a big, fat woman with it large bundle on her bank. The driver acme. Good graoions I Is he going to take that big woman and her big bundle on? Yee, he made room and took both. Off we start again but did not go far when we overtook a man and the driver stopped and took him up too. Still we went at a lively rate. The road was splendid, mostly with a stone wall on each side, some pretty good houses and trees all along- The driver was ae good 0,8 his word for he made the eight mile journey in one hour. The hill I eaw from Nenagh, which appears only two or three miles away, turned out to be about eight miles distant. When I got out in the morn- ing to say I was surprieed would be putting it mildly, when I looked around and saov I wae in a glen of over 8,000 aorea with a village and a large :church, and in another part of the glen a castle and another church and all nearly sur- rounded with very high hills. The sides of the hills were dotted with farms and farm houses. I thought thee that for picturesqueness and beautiful scenery it would be hard to beat. I was then among my friends, 3,220 miles from Brussels and about five hours difference between that time and Bruesels. Per- haps I may give a few more particulars again. Yours respectfully, J. B. Washington Letter. (From oar Regular Correepondent.) Washington, July 13,91. The series of naval manceuvere pro- posed to be oerried out this anminer and fall under the direction of Commodore Walker, and by which it will be seen whether our military defences 'are ale- quate or what measures are necessary to make them so, mark an era in the re- public's history. Here begins what other enlightened nations have found to be of the utmost importanoe to them. The English mancenvers developed the fact that there were very many things to change, including their system of marine design, engine oonstruotion and coaling, end they were thereby enablerl to plaoe ,he service on a much higher plane of efficiency. It was the same thing with the French, the Italians and other marl - time peoples. It is understood that our navy has just been planed in rendition to make these manceuvers possible. With. out suitable vemele or equipment it would have been uselem to have attempted any- thing of the Bort. It is believed that the new veesels can be better tested in that way than otherwise in a time of peace, and the program ie to extend the work of the evolutionary aquadron into the great- er field provided by the manceuvere—the field of mimic warfare. The training to the officers and men alone will be invalu- able, but that its a small portion of the benefits to be impeded. The assumption of control Wednesday by the Department of Agrioulture over the newly organized weather bureau, and the separation of the weather from the eignal service of the army is an event of national importance. Both branohea doubtletta will Weller under the new ar. rangement. The signal service has a most honorable record. It will continue a part of the military arm of the govern- ment and the area of its operation re - striated will probably be more efficient than ever before in its history. It has a ocopable ohief and there exists no appar- ent reason why it should not eclipse tee similar service of any other goverement. The weather bureau attaohed to the Agrioultural Department and under a distinguished ootentiet can be widely ex- tended in its scope of usefulness to em. brace a number of objeote it was not pima Bible under the former order of things to inolude. The varied and intereeting olimatology of the republio oan now be officially and speedily reduced to some preoision and other matters relating to the work of the bureau be brought under system and pushed to definite oonclu. sions. Secretary Foster has brought out his new form of debt statement, which with- draws from the list of liabilities against the not cash in the treasury those items whieb it hi held by the department are pmetically only apparent liabilities. The etatement combiNea both the Secretary's statement of the mobilo debt and the TJ. 0. Treaeurer's monthly statement of as - Bete and liabilitieta heretofore issued eeparately. Comparison with the last monthly statement and the statement issued duly 1, 1890, shows an increase in the publio debt during the past month of about $5,000,000, and to net redaotloa during the pest Neal year of 1,22,000,000. The surplus in the tteaeury (net cash balanoce is planed at $53,893,808, or about e5,000,000 less than a, month ago, with no &amigo in the interest bearing debt of the government during the past month, The bonded debt is $610,520,120 made up in round numbere of $560,000,- 000 4s and e50,800,000 4e% bends, The Treasury Department tan decided that two jinrickeha men from Japan can, net push their 'rickshas in it Chicago perk because it will be a violation of the contract 'Aber law, and the mon must go home. As there are only two rnen in this olass of labor in Atneriom and they are these two, it would seem that the de- partment is almost making itself adieu. toes by its hair-splitting ninety. A. trade dollar which is not a dollar is readily recoined into more than a dollar. Is value value or is it legislation T11E LATE PETER ADDISON. County Clerk Peter Adamson is dead —gathered to a Court House not made with hands. He died at his residence in Goderich at 11;43 p. m., Thursday, July 10, after an illness of aeveral months, and was buried on Monday, the 20th. He was a native, we believe, of the Ork- ney Islands, Scotland, born there in 1825 and consequently Wita 06 years of ago at the time of his death. Early in life he made his way to the Southern States and Mexico, and in 1849 to the new discovered Eldorado — California. He afterward came to Canada and settled in the township of Stanley in this county. Ole served in the township and °aunty councils. Some twenty-five years ago, on the retirement of the late David Hood Ritchie from the poeition of County Clerk, he was appointed Air. Eitohie's successor and continued in the position nntil illness and death ro'ieved him of his duties. Upon the retirement of Col. Ross as Treasurer, Mr, Adamson was urged to become an applicant for the pee. Won, to these entreaties he partly ao- ended bat soon withdrew hie aspirations in that direction. There is no doubt that had he desired the Treasurship he could have had it. We do not think there was any position within the gift of the County Council that he could not have had, so thoroughly grounded was he in the esteem of all the members. Party animus vanished like an exorcised spirit when the Council and Mr. Adam. 000 had dealings. Twice during his in- cumbency did the Council raise his sal. ary withont any solioitstion on hie part and no man ever better deserved such recognition. Mr. Adamson was a prao• tioal man. His mind was developed by the exciting circumstances of eerly active life and afterward broadened by liberal and judioious reading. In raunioipal ac- tualities and law he was well versed. As the executive arm, so to speak, of the ex. eoutive head of the county council he was invaluable. Though eminently firm, prompt and decisive, the frankness and urbanity of his manner rendered him a favorite. He had been a shrewd observer all his life, and was pre-eminently per- oeptive. His experience in California as a miner, in Stanley as a farmer and as a counoillor aetnintbly fitted him for the poaition of county olerk. It was not in the mere clerical functions appertaining to his position that he wee veined. His sturdy oommon sense and excellent judg- ment were often relied upon by members of the council. In the matter of road, bridge and other improvements his opin- ions were often asked and they always carried great weight. The poll bearers were his two nephews, the Messrs. Man- son, Registrar Diokson, ex -Mayor Hoe. ton, ex•Warden Wm. Young and M. Hut- chison. A number of the present and past County Councils were present to show their sorrow at the loss of so true a personal friend, and to bear testimony to the effioiency and impartiality of their late °Rieman The funeral WU largely at- tended, and the pleasing feature of the large gathering, was that thomm oompris. ing it were present, not through curiosity but to show their esteem for the departed, and to tender their sorrowful sympathy to members of his household in their great bereavement. Among the ex-War- dena present were noticed Sheriff Gib. bons, Wm. Young, Colborne •, Thomas Hays, HoKillop ; P. Teeny, Blyth ; and J. T. Garrow, Goderioh ; and of the torment council, Warden Beck, Reeves Griffin Castle, Hamilton, Manning, Proudoot, Milne, Hem, Britton, Rate, Taylor, McKenzie, Saunders, Malloy, Halt, Beacom, Scott, Howe, Eilber and Sherritt. Ex•Reeves MoMurchie, Geo, MoEwan, D. J. Wilson, Wm. Clegg and 8. Sproat were also present. -judge Toms, Judge Doyle, Dr. Holmes, D. Mc- Donald, R. Radcliffe and other town offi- (dale, marched with the County Council at the head of the prooession.—News Record. Presbytery of Maitland. The Presbytery of Maitland met at Wingbeen on July 14th, the Rev. R. S. G. Anderson, 01.3.., /3. D., Moderator. The Rev. W. C. Armstrong, of Hawkes. villa and Rev. W. D. Ballantyne, M. A., of Kincardine, being present were invited to sit as oorresponding members. The resignation of Rev. D. Davidson, of Langside, was laid on the table till next meeting, and the commissioners rep. resenting the congregation were instruct- ' ad to furnish time Presbytery at next meeting with a oom.plete detailed (date. ment of the financial condition of the oongregation and a full eubscription list allowing the amount of stipend subserib• ed. Mr. Davidon w as grouted leave of absence, toed Mr, McNabb WWI appointed with tlae 60139i0I1 to arrange about eupply. The petition of John Morrison and Maloolm Thompson, nuking the Preeby- tory to suprese the use of an organ in the Sabbath (wheel of Knox church, Kin. cardine, wee eismiesed. • Standing oommiteeos for the yew: wero appointed, tbe convenors of whicrn are as follows m—State of religion, Rev, 01, lbio- Donahd; Sabbath Boohoo's, Rev, W. H. Geddes ; Temperance, Rev. A. Y. Hort. ley ; Home Mission, Rev. J. Roes, 13. A.; Finance, Rev. P. A. leteteenan ; Sabbath observance. Rev. R. Frnehaien, B. A.; Statistics, Rev, A. Stevenson. Rev. J00. .0. Edgar deenect the °all from Knox church, Bateau's. Permission was given to Rev. 09, For- est to moderate in a pelt in Knox rhumb, Bettesele. The next meeting will be hold at Wingham on the second Tuesday in September at 11;15 a. m. Cho netdiren. NOWN. Windsor hi to have it truant officer. The people of Windsor are agitating for free posts' delivery. The firemen's tournament opened at 13rockville Wednesday. The C. P. B. oar shope at Perth are turning out five box care per day. W. 0. Van lIorne, President of the 0. P. R., has gone to the Old °country. Joseph Rogers, of Winnipeg, has fallen heir to 521,000 by the death of a rely, ti ve. It is intended to have the new water works system at Amheratburg in oper- ation by Aug. 10. E. A.. MaaNaohten, clerk and treason 00 01 Northumberland and Durham, died Wednesday evening at Cobourg. The first sod in connection with the G. T. R. extension from Parkhead to Owen Sound was turned Monday. The supposed murder of Sophia Hand. cook, of Fairband village, is the oocaeion of much exeitement in that suburb. A petition signed by 1,500 Patrons of Industry in fever of various changes in the present Government's polioy was presented to the House of COTTIMODS by Mr. Lister,Wednesday. For tho year ended in June 30 the amount collected at the Port of Vancou- ver, 33. C., as duty on Chinamen enter- ing the Dominion was 515,958, as oom• pared with 53,604 for tbe year ended June 60, 1890. At William Ryekman's planing mill at Waterdown Monday James Vance, 14 years of age, a nephew of the proprietor, was fixing some belting in the mill above the table of a circular Haw when he slipped and fell in a kneeling position on the saw. The knee bones were horribly out and the flesh torn. Wm. Collina and Thomaa Burns, youngsters under 12 yeare of age, walk. ed all the way from Chatham to Windsor barefooted, and on Monday night went to eleep in an abandoned car on Sand. wioh street. They were locked up es truants, and will probably be sent book to Chatham as soon as their parents oen be heard from. The wheat harvest in Essex oounty is over, and the yield, both in quantity and quality, far surpasses all expectations. The barley harvest will commence this week, and it also gives promise of a mag- nificent crop. Corn is also looking better than for many years previous, and, from all indications, a prosperous season is in store for lessee county. Alice MoGready, 16 years old, and the only child of Wm MoGready, a wealthy farmer of North Ridge, Oni., eloped Thursday with James Noble, said to be well connected in Cleveland, whither the pair hied themselves with the purpose of being married Friday, MoGready is furious and has disowned his daughter. He followed the fugitives as far as De- troit, but gave up the chore. The discovery of immense auriferous quartz veins in the Township of Fair - bank near Sudbury, proves to he much more important than was at first imp. potted. Analysis of the ore by Prof. T. Heys, of Toronto, and R. H. Ahn, of the Reduotion Works, Rieke' City, shows that the ore oonteins large quantities of gold. It is 0 notable feature that the previous metal does not exist in a free state, but is only distributed through the whole body of the ore. Duncan McIntyre, the newly -appointed Canadian directors of the Grand Trunk Railway, held a long conference with Sir Henry Tyler, President of the Company, in London, Eng., on Saturday, and sails for Canada on Saturday of this week. He will be followed on Wednesday by Sir Henry Tyler, and when both reach Canada the work of re -organizing the Canadian staff of the Company will corn - mamma, Borne vital changes being con. templated. The new steam pump that haa been put in for flooding Walker & Co.'s cranberry marsh at Marshfield has a capaoity of 15,000 gallons per minute. The whole mush of 200 acres can be completely in- undated to the depth of six inches in forty-eight hours. The cranberry vines are now all planted for thio season, mak- ing 104 acres that are set out. The men and boys are now engaged in pulling weeds and hoeing, while a email gang is employed in dropping guano on the plants to aid them in their growth. Mr. Thompson, on the 5th oon, road, Maidstone, is the possemor of a collie dog whirl]] is crazy. It runs out at rigs pausing and while running at full speed will whirl round three or four times, It repeats the whirling process at intervals of about 100 y.ards, uutil it comes to a certain place on the fence, when it goes through, back on the farm. It repeats the perforreanee every time it COMBO out, always punning thoough the same hole in the ferns. Dr. Ingalls, of Detroit, seein.g it once, jooularly remarked that the ani- mal was suffering from some nervous disorder. The solution 01 110 antioa, no doubt, lies in the faot that he wee hit over the head several times when he was young and cross. 01 18 alleg.ed that Adam Allison, bank - 000114 gram buyer, of Belmont, has skipped ontleaving a nnmber of oreditors to mourn his departure. The following are reported to be the prinoipal euffer- et s ;—Widow Lake, between $2,000 and *3,000; Smith Bros, flax men, 51,000; Willsie pistons, $700 to 5800; Presbyter!. an Minteter Browu, $2,000 ; Wm. Groat, 51,800 ; Jas. McPhail, $700 te 5800, and muneroue others in smaller sums, 011o poor girl's saeings, $55 ; and $125 from the Home °irate Order, he beitog their treasurer. Mr. Allison wag it Sabbath school teaoher, end if all reports ate true, he hes drawn the wool over a great many of the oyes of the people of Bel. morn and vicinity. It ts supposed he took flight on the 14th inst. and itt pre- sent his whereabouts is unknown. 01 11 currently reported that Mee. Allison de. alma to leave the village but tho oreditore would not allow her. The people, (says the oorresponclentafter all the warnings, will continuo to let private bankers, who live in lexury end fine mansione, handle their funds, the higher rate of Merest being the temptation. It hi undeestood that Allion made an essignalehb to aome party in St. Thomas preeioue to his exit. The C. P. R. he. ordered 50 new loco- motives and 1,0000 box awe to tranaport this seesons harvest from the Northwest to the seaboard. Alexander Marceau, sheriff of Portage la Prairie, was instantly killed ot Mao. donald Station Wednesday morning while assietiug to get a traotion engine from a mud hole. He wee 40 yours of ege and leaves a wife and family, Lady Maodonald received a letter on Mondayfrom the Queen, written in her Majesty, own hand throughout, convey- ing the informetion that it peerage will be conferred upon her, and expressing sympathy with her in her bereavement. A. H. Clarke, of the firm of Clarke & Wismar, of Essex Centre, and who hae also been practicing law in Windsor for some months, has been appointed deputy clerk of the peace for Essex county. The appointment also includes that of deputy crown attorney. E. Fitzpatrick, of Luther, narrowly escaped a serious accident the other day. He wa.s taking home a mower when the horses became frightened and ran away. He was run over and bedly bruised, but he escaped without any bones being broken. The mower was wrecked before the horses oould be stopped. The Wiarbon Encore seys ;—A. bear met with rather rough handling on Mr. Dungie's farm a few days ago. While the cattle were grazing in a field Mr. Brain was notioed making for a oalf with the evident intention of having veal for supper. The (tattle on noticing him quiokly formed into line, and with heads down and tails mot, °barged him bear- sbip and tumbled him over a buff, He has not been heard of since. The steeple on the Essex Methodist churoh was struck by lightning duriug a recent big tlounderstorm. The bolt en- tered on the south side, shattering the steeple very badly. A section of the brickwork was knooked out and a hole made in the oeiling of the ohuroh. Some of the brickwork was loosened and will have to be taken out. Pieces of the roof were found 100 feet away. The splinters began to burn a little but the heavy rain put the Eames out. Rev. Edward Eaves, missionary at Norway House, arrived in Winnipeg Wednesday and related to a reporte r horrible story regarding a boy being wor- ried by dogs. The little 8 -year-old son of Mr. McLeod, the fader of a, Hudson Bay Co. post, about 60 miles north of Norway House, visited another post near -by about two weeks ago, and while there was attacked by hungry Indian doge, and was completely scalped, only a slight fringe of hair showing around the base of the skull. He is still alive and is expeoted to recover. While Wm. Murphy, jr. was engaged in cutting hay on his farm'Fritzroy townehip, an 8.year-old son of Wm. An. derson, of Antrim village, went into the hay field where he found a neat of young birds end on young Murphy corning round to the place where the nest was the little fellow made an earnest appeal to have the lives oi the birds spared. The boy ran in front of the machine to thew the exact location of the nest, and before Murphy could cheek the team, the matting knife came in contact with the boy's right foot cutting it off. At Emerson's mill, Collingwood, a young lad about 18, eldest son of Mr. Oarefoot, was standing near a belt that drives a grindstone. The large shaft on which the belt works runs very rapidly— about 350 revolutions per minute, but the grindstone rune very slowly. The boy's fingers seemed to have been first caught and were pulled out at the second joint, the hand was broken, tne wrist meshed up, then the arm broken clean off be. tween the elbow and the shoulder and thrown 20 feet from where the body fell. John Burns, a Queenston man, some- what the worse of liquor, undertook to walk a cable on the old snspensiott bridge across the Niagara river near Queenston. He had got out but a short distance when he fell plump into the river 100 feet below, striking on his bunk with the report of a gun. He floated around for a minute apparently lifeless and with his clothing torn to shreds. He then began to paddle around; a boat put out and he was rescued. He did not appear to be muoh the worse for the fall. After a courtship of five years. 00 en- gagement of two, and after fixing the wedding for Tuesday morning, Daniel F. Phelan, aged 54, a prominent figure in St. Ann's Ward, Montreal, has seen flt to break off at the eleventh hour the en- gagement he had made with Mies Julia Shea, aged 22, the daughter of a retired merchant, of the same ward, and with• out any reason apparent to the young lady. The result has been that he will now have to face an action for $10,000 demagog for breach of promise, which Miss Shea has ordered to be instituted againet him. Invitations to the wedding had been issued when the 'mach was broken off. Dr. John ;Dunfield, of Petrolia, and David Maxwell, °Voris, Ont., have re. oeived letters from a, bogus priest in Spain apprising them of their appoint. ment as guardian, to a $3000,000 heiress, but they are requested to send over $2,. 500 to the priest to pay the legal expenses and eeoure the estate for their ward. The lettere were written in Spanish and sent to W. H. Fraser, of Toronto Unieor. sity, to translate, He notified the real- piente of the apparent frarti, and they will not send the money. This soheme has been practised in the United Sterne with some stiocese, and now attempts ere made to swindle unsuspecting Canadiane in the same unscrupulous' way. As is the case with a large number of teeth fraude, the perpetrators; do not hesitate to theow the cloak of religion around their nefar, iouatiesigne. In OW case what purports to be the goal of the parish chutelt of St. Peter, itt Segovia, is affixed to the hoed of the letter, and the neenee signed to it aro names Of dignitaries of the Church ; ovhether 1111 Padre Felipe Gutierry Cul. lantee and Rod. P. Fray Antonio Gomez are merely flotitione charaotere, or whether their millets have been made use of to give greeter pleusibility to the design, is at prima unknoWn, The aWindle is, however, a very transparent one. Number 2, — - .1111111•011111•1•11611111•• Last Friday morning aboat 11 o'clock while Mrs. Sheldon, living one mile south of Wiarton, was in the garden smoke was nen miming from the house. Before the motber or the neighbors oould reach the house the 9.year•old baby sleeping upstairs WU beyond human aid. The building was reduced to ashes. The intrepid Dixon, of Toronto, sue - easefully Grossed Niagara gorge on his $ inoh wire oable in presence of 600000 7000 apeotators last Friday afternoon. He appeared on the wire at the Canadian end precisely at 4 o'clock, as announced. When he reached the centre of the wire, immediately over the whirlpool rapids, he stretched himself at full length upon his back. Arising to hie feet he proceed, ed upon hie perilous journey to the American side, arriving there in safety. Dixon occupied just 20 minatee in cross- ing. The oheere of the assembled thous. ands could be heard above the deafening roar of the rapids. After it rest of half an hour Dixon gave exhibitions on the wire 200 feet from oath shore. Sporting News. The Clinton Crieketers -were defeated in their match with the London Asylum team, 99 to 42. Willie Windle will make an effort to lower the one•mile safety reoord to 2.20 4 5 thia fall. He should easily ride the, mile inside of 2.20 The great double scull match between Hanlan and O'Oonnor and Gaueetur and McKay has been definitely settled for decision at FIamilton on August 8. A risieg young Australian smiler is T. °roam, of Newoaatle. He hag a splendid style, and good judges in that country believe that he can beat any man at his weight, 150 pounds. In Australia boat-pullere are not only handicapped on time, but also by weight, after the :style of running horses. In skiff races men have to oarry 25, 10, 15 or 7 pounds, or other weights, according to ability, the "limit" man oarrying nothing. George Babette., the English sonller, who spent a oouple of years in the Unit- ed States, but who is now in Australia, was defeated by Tom Sullivan in a match race for $1,000, on the Nepean River, Decoration Day. Bubetor oollapsed one hundred yards from the fitlish, Sullivan winning in record time, smashing the figures made by Beach and Hanlon in their championship race. This was the second race between these 'coulters. In the first, Bubear rowed Sullivan to a standstill and won. People _We_Know. Mrs. Wilton to very poorly. Robert MoNaughton is ill with fever. Russell Fletcher is visiting at Luck. nolv. Miss Mend Hall Sundayed in Gode. rickies Mary Oliver is home from To. ro nt°' Frank White and wife have removed to Listowel. Mrs. Jno. Shaw was visiting in Toronto last week. Rev. R, Paul preached at Bluevale last Sa.wbb.aHth 'Willis, of Mitohell, Sundayed in Brussels. Walter Burgess went to Seaforth last Monday morning. Philip Seel,. wife and ohildren spent several days m Elms. Willie MoLennan, of London, has been visiting his grandmother. Mrs. Mango Wallace has been laid up with erysipelas in her face. Bismarok Tin:mins, of Bluevale, was visiting Ward Farrow this week. I. V. Fear and wife, of Settforth, were in town last week for a brief visit. Mrs. Argles and Miss Smith, of To- ronto, are the mete of airs. R. L. Tay. lor. Miss Lily Moss, of Toronto, ia visiting among her many friends at Brussels and no. Anders, of Kincardine, was vviiE3°itnril.ntgYj' Miher daughier, Mre. T. Thompson of this place. Steven Drewe, of London, spent several cleys in town with the family of Robt. Armstrong. Mrs. G. L. Ball and children, of Toron- to, are visiting relatives and friends in this locality. A. Bauslough and wife, of Seaforth, and the Misses Buthanan were in town last Sunday. Thos. Hall has not been as tvell aa usual and is confined to the house the most of the time. Garfield Vanatone is away at Galt oa a visit. He will also go to the mineral springs at Preston. Samos Buyers and family, of Leaming- ton, formerly of Brussels, have become residents of Detroit. Mrs. T. W. Gibson, of Wroxeter, was visiting her sister, Mrs. T. Gibson, in Brussels, this week. John Lee, of -St. Marys, a former rani- deut of this place, was °tolling on old so- quaintemoes this week. Samuel Walsh has returned from Boston greatly improved inohealth by the treatment received there. Mrs. jno, Fear and children, of Water- loo, are enjoying a holiday visit with S. Fear and wife of this place. We understand that Miss Lily Veal, formerly of Brussele, Wlia married m- eantime Mr. Murdoolt is the groom. John Hall and wife, of Shelby, Miele., Were in Bressele thio week meeting the familiee of Bishop Ward and John Hill. Rev. G. le. Salton, wife and son have gone to Chautauqua, for a few weeke. Rev. J. H. Dyke, of Belgravia will w- eepy the Methodist pulpit here next Sab. bath. The Steatford Beacon says :—Dr. Meadoneld M, P. for Best Huron, a brother of the Messrs. Mandonald, of Rife city, and well known here, made a clover and forcible epeeoh in the budget dobate, in which he eontrasted the firma' polioy of Mr. Meekeneie's achninistra. tion with that of the N. P, and showed the injury and injuetioe being done to the great masa of consumers by tloe 'Miter policy.