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The Brussels Post, 1892-8-12, Page 1.gpasot•••gxoczi;i...n.s...sam...naram.gracputz.e...ousgromatirwromornesae...12.4,..12).M. NA41./...141C.(41,60.17.WM41/...,...114,64.4.11...1111.403MA6141.....7.61.44.1141tikill.11111,1.1001211.2111.,71.11RIMOTINIMPIMPVIIrda...11M1 4.44141 Vol. 20. No. 8, BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892 te,.e.e,,se,eeeieeoeeesee,e,e,..seeeessse,eeeesee,..seoseee,,,e.easeeeeoee,see,eeee,ass,oeeeseeeeeeseeea.eeaeeemeF,,me,s.,,,,,,,,ee„„eeeeee„„eee„e„„„e„,e„eeseeeeee,,eeeis,,sreeesees,s,,,e:es,...,,eeaese,eee,e,eeae Major•General Herbert and the Millie ter of Militia hove completed their in• epootion of the Kingston fortilicatione, W. J. L. itleleity, of Ontriggville, hoe boon appointed comity Crown Attorney for Duiterin, In place of Elgin Myers. John Chapman, of Thornhill, ia believ- ed to have been murdered in a drunken quarrel on elonduy night of lad week, three•yearmItt daughter of William Kane, of Ottawa, swallowed a toy "jacie" on Saturday and wet ohoalted to detail. A. Kingeton hotel keeper hos dtivell an electrieel e.pparatth to warn people of the presence of the licenee inspector on S an daye. A. yraing an of Gilbert Gagne, of Hull, died on Friday of le.at week of blood. poisoning, the result of an injury to his foot the previous day. The Toronto police have decided to form a mutuel benefit association, the leading feature ot which will be a $1,000 gront in case of death. F. Stewart Dickey, on of Bangor Dickey, and brother of A., R. Dickey, le, P. for Cumberland, glob and killed him- self at Halifax on Saturday night. Alberti Parker, aged 20, of Graven - burst, was arrested itt Toronto for ab• ducting Mary Lemay, aged 14, the daughter.of a farmer in the township of Wood. The mastiff Lion, whith was confined in an empty store at Toronto for 40 days without food or water, but Which was thought to be recovering from the effects, hag enocumbed. The °raiser Constance arrived at Que. boo last week with 102 cases of brandy and six barrels of whiskey, which was oaptured at Isle aux Condres, the smug- glers' stronghold. John Teovlin, of St. Marys, is lying seriously ill in the hoepital at Brantford. He received a sunstroke while on a visit to St. Marys about three weeks ago and brain fever resulted. The firm of Pattullo & Coe proprietors of the Sentinel•Review, Woodstock, has been disaolved. A. Laidlaw has with. drown, and the business in future will be conducted by A. Pattullo. Samuel Armstrong, of St. Thome, has brought an action for $1,000 for slan- der against hie next door neighbor, E. Bennett, undertaker, who, it i alleged, (Merged Armstrong with stealing his wood, ' The Street Railway servith 1,0 the new station has been opened and in e-onnection therewith the Street Railway Compan.y will inaugurate a new de- parture ni the shape of a baggage celiac - tion and delivery service. Chas. Creighton, of the Leamington Post, wheeled to Woodstook the other day. He left Leamington at 0 o'clock in the morning, and reached there between 8 and 9 at night. The distance is 145 miles. This is remarkably fast riding. T. W, Crothers, barrieter of St. Thomas, haa Mitered an notion against the village of Port Stanley, °teeming $900 damages for injuries sustained by Mrs. Mary Mahoney, through a defective sidewalk on Oolbourne street in that village. Isom Stenebaugh drove into a abed in Scotland, Ont., on Thursday night oi last week, and in jumping from his rig °aright his ohin on a meat hook fastened to the side of the shed. IIe woe able to lift himself off, but is in a precarious oondibion, Ile has since died. At a meeting in Toronto log week of druggists from all parts of Ontario a provincial plearmthenbitial oast:elation woe formed. It was decided to vecom- mend some changes in the Ontario Pharmacy Ad, relating chiefly to the sale medioinee by uolicensed d The editor of the Port Dover Maple Leaf has a cordwood stick in his offioe thot has grown several brauchee 00 00 this stunner, one of which is 2 ft. 3 in. long, and still growing vigorously. Be feels glad about it for if things go on this way be wont need. to buy so mutat wood mixt winter, Money wouldn't buy that cordwood stick. There will be a piomic of Walpole Island Indians on Belle Isle, on August 113011, when the whole tribe will have a holiday in the park, bringing with them 200 canoes, two native bands of sixteen pieoes to make things merry, and various other acciessories. There will be sports of all kinds, such as cameo times, a game of laorosse, foot races, bow and arrow coutests mud a war donee on tho seine evening. The other evening Maud Doan and Nellie Sullivan were walking along the bank of a °anal at the adenine: Windsoc, ,when a snake darted across thole path, frightening bobh so badly that they pimp. ed to one side, and, missing their footing, fell into the camel. Miss Sullivan roue to the surfitoo and was rescued, but little Maud Dean, whose age was 14 yeere, never appeared until some time otter, wheu her body was recovered, Samuel Corbett, living near Oro Ste, tion, went to Barrie to attend the funeral of his little granclebild. He took dinner in the home of his daughter whose °hied had died, mid after, on big oomplaining of a pain in the head, was taken by a son to tho office of Dr. W. A., Ross, intending to join the procession on the way west. ward bo the cemetery. 13nt the funetol cortege had tharooly novered a quarter of O mile when 0 messenger hem the physi- cian threw the already saddened group into intense grief by the announcement blita the aged grandfather had died in the dodoes offith, The deceased was between 00 and 70 years of age. On Saturday about noon Sir rtiohned Cartwright, the bost.knowe Liberal polio tioian in Canada, loft Kingston in a skiff to now to his thrtntry home on the honks of the St Itevrenee a few miles down. Whon thunding Poin6 levecloriek he was caught in a terrific 5000111 which was on. thimparded by hail and torrents of rain, His boat was Ottptlizscl and Sir Riehard thrown one The thoident was witnethed by men of .iA" battery, and Melee Drury and Captain Gouda hueeled to the rescue, Sir Maimed clung to the Meth. turned bont tenaciously and was in the water ME an hottr, the storm beating fiercely &bent him. Although a very strong man, when resoited ho was corm piggy exhausted. THE CROOK'S ACV. To tho Editor at Tau Powr, Diem wish to call the attentiou of the Vomits Inspector to the feat that the Crook's Aot is nob observed in Bruin seis in the followilig partioalars t -.-.Tho hotel bars ars not 01000d at 11 0'01OOlt p, m. Night] after night liquor is sold up to midnight, it not litter. The law re - spotting sals to minore Is not adhered to and I'm sorey to say immelimes mere boys get intoxicated, Liquor is sold on Sunday both by tho bottle and glass. Gambling devises are run et certain places and disorderly conduct and swear- ing permitted. If the Inspeotor wants bo prove the correctness of these abatements let him drop into town some night or on rt Sunday and see for himself. The Crook's Act and the regulations of the License Board are explioit aud those who violate them should suffer the conse- quences. The little soene enacted on the greet the Friday after the oonoert was a disgrnce to any town. Yours respootfully, Weise Up. FALL EXHIBITION. ire the Editor otTne Vose. A recent notice in TIM Pose ee the Fall Exhibition of the East Huron & Grey Branch Agricultural Society caused me to idly glance over the Prize List of last year in order to ascertain whether there was any likelihood of replenishing my holiday drained purse with a few of the munifioent cash prizes likely to be offered. Will you, Mr, Editor, allow me to make a few suegostions to the Moue and Directors re the Fine Art Depart- ment for 1802. rine—Lot it bo under- stood that the work exhibited must be the work of the exhibitor. Suppose I have a portrait, the work of roister, or a lendscape from the brush of 13Ialte, or O figure painted by Miller, have 1 a right to place these in competition with work of our Brussels' artists ? If I do will it enetheage art in the village and neighbor- hood 7 Yet 3. noticed last yeer a plume, the exhibitor or which I do not know, but the exhibitor was certainly not the painter for I Ain personally acquainted with the artist who was probably never In Bressels or the vicinity. Second,— Encoureige work from nature and life. I do not notice a eingla prize for a sketch from life or a sketch from nature. Xt would be better to discoarage mere "copying" than to overlook so important O branch as this. What "orb" is there after all in slavishly following line after line and daub upon daub the work of another ? Let our village areiate "pose" for ono nother, or go with palette and brush a mile or two down our lovely river or at least array a fetv fruits and copy them it would do them a thousand fold more good than "murdering" some real pieae of art by "copying" it. Then let our dilatant Directors encourrtgo the same by offering some token of appreola- don foe it. Third,—Ethourage meohan. Mal and industrial drawing. Why not have some smell prizes for "objecb" draw- ing, machine drawing, neat and accurate geometrioal work? There seems nothing to encourage arb in boys except it be the one item of "pencil drawing" but what that includes goodness alone knows. If a boy developes a love for his penoil and compasses there is hope that some day he will be something more than what the majority of our boys seem to be—street loungers and idlers. This I believe is one of the most important branches of work of the Direotors, cultivate at along this line, and there will be something to show for it in years to corno. Jug item agine, overlooking an important branch like this, and wilfully encouraging aid. ing and abetting such barbarous trash as splu tter, sphetter, sputter or is it "spat- ter,' work ? Any man or committee of men who seeks to perpetuate such orude and childish work oughb to be "jugged" for treason against good taste and civili- zation. "Bleeletonised Leaves"—"hand work" is not one whit better. Away with Buell tresh and give a little encour- agement for our bops and girls to pram. tioe that whith is useful as well as artistio. rourth,—Cating the Diregors be a little more explicit as to what is r0. quirect oder the various terms, e g I bave heard that oven the judges last year were puzzled as to where to draw the line between "painting on pottery" and "painting on plaquee" whilst there was no place whatever for an oil painting unless it was either a portrait or a land- scape, leonie scenes, figures &o. &o., in the teeth ehut out of competition entire- ly. I tvotild here suggeet that in future every exhibitor be requested to ab - tub a label to hie or her work indicating tinder what head or cloth it be examined. X had mnah more to add but 3. am afraid, Mr. Editor, that my "few suggestione" are already too lengthy for your vain. able space." 0111701. — Mrs, Isabella Sharp, of Chinguaeoesy townthp, County of Peel, has been awarded the Queen's bounty of $15,Whith it is customary to bestow upon the mother of triplets. Mee. Sheep gave bath to three boys an Fob. 190111o.st. Fire brolee out about 0 o'clock on Mon- day morning in the house of Roberti Young, lot 35, con. 5, Greenook, near Kinloas P. 0., which in a Short time eon - seined the building. Ib is supposed to have caught near tho voof !tom the stove pipe. Thebuthling being home bathed lively. Unfortunately two of Mr. Young'e sone, aged 14 and 10, who were sleeping upstairs, were overpoweeed by tho denim end perished before assistathe (mulct reath them. The Sutton Herold volittee the follow- ing 1—One day leg week a lambee pile rnystericerely ()might are on the preemie% of John L. elotvard,andit was extingnieh- ed by 0 few paths of water.. Shortly atter, the flee began in the same place, when it was °heaved to hove its ovigin from the reflection of the sun's eity's Dem the eonveit bottom Of a steamer whioh was lying in skinning position ageing the liaise, The bottom of the oteether being very bright. the rays were strong onottgh th cense fire. A Trip Through England. The morning after arriving in London I took tho Great Northern and wont to Cambridge about Hix miles distant, Both ford being only 25 miles from which plata I would hove gone if the train had lel/owed me. The 60 miles is through a beautiful °pantry, the thenery being what may be called pnroly English and OS ono Approaches Cambridge it ie some- what flat. In oldsn times it wins whet was °ailed the fen coentrY but it le now in 0, high state of cultivation and fully up to the standard of the Lothians or the Merge. At almost every station there seemed to be train loads of manure being unloaded into wagons whioli no doubt bed come by early trains from London. Cambridge is situated on tho Ceam whioh runs so slowly that the short time I was there it was not possible to be Sure whioh way it went but it acids greatly to the therm of the place. The principal mil - loges ore built at a slight diatnnoe from Da baths. The vieta of bridges (whioh seemingly each college has) one after the other spanning the groom with their maseive stone arohes, one of there called "The Bridge of Sighs" from its supposed likeness to that of Venice, have alios of. foot. The college buildings seem like palaoes, every one different from another, with their smooth lawns sloping gently down to their bridges and making the landscape one may say perfect. On the opposite side the grounds are laid out in small peke or gardeus, their stone walls in many oases green with ivy and here and there trees with most luxuriant foliage add fresh beauty to the eye, There were many boat; moored along the banks of the quiet river tvhith is the training ground for those who take part in the annual contest on the Thames be- tween the picked crows of the two uni- versities. Mr, Maogregor, of Rob Roy canoe fame, got his expertnethe with the paddle on the river. Triuiby College is perhaps the most famous of them all and has tho most students—generolly bout 700. Its buildings are on both sides of Trinity street but the main part of it in quadrangular form is on the North side and the entrance near the West side by what is called the King's Gateway. The court or square is 330x270 feet and the Cambridge folks boast that it is 1000 square feet larger than "Tom Quad," Wolsey's great court at Oxford. The buildings are not to say high and are somewhat plain but solid and substantial. Looking diagonally throes the square to your left on the Eecoad story you are shown the two windows of the rooms oc- cupied by Byron when a student ; be- tween you and these windows there hi in the metre of the square an elaborate fountain oalled Neville's fountain which was built by a greet master of the col- lege of that name. 13y a somewhat re- markable coincidence it is said that up one flight of stairs leading out of this court there lived hi succession Newton, Lythurst, Maoaulay, Thaokeray Ten' 09 son and a great many more of Eng- land's great men whom the oollege claim a.s its students. The chapel and library are open to the public, tbe latter taking up one of the lesser sides of the court Beneath is a plena or colonnade open into the court, the wall above and door is supported by several rows of strong clone columns and between the rows the stone flags are worn hollow by the feet of students. The entrance to the /ibrary is by a stairway, the steps of which are blaok marble liued with cedar. The hall is 190 feet long and 40 wide, the door is of black and white marble and °aunties covered with glass run along each side in \Olga are a vast variety of rare curiosities. The room is divided in- to 30 compartments each well lighted, one side looking to the river and the ' other to the court. Several of the book- cases are adorned by carving done, we were told, by the odebrated °wryer Gib: bons and the designs by Wren. The librarian, or his assistant it might be, has his desk close to the entranoe and he was ready to answer and explain very ogreeably. By the stair is exhibited Ramon altars and inscriptions found in England. Strangers hove no aocess to tho books, the counters cutting off all communication with the bookcases. The librarian said that there are no printed ontalogues but he pointed to sev- eral ponderous volumes, perhaps 22 or 24 iuches long, 15 wide and_ 4 think and very heavily bound whore the lid of books were recorded. The ourigibies in the glass ooses had ineoriptions stating what they were. Among them were several hooka in manuscript, beautifully tvriblien and bound, and an early edition of Mil- ton's Paradise Loot, price three halt pence when pigged but valued now at 21;000 ; near by Hee his autograph list of dramatis pergonal for his first idea, of that poem. Thought not a Trinity oollege man the poot studied at one of the other colleges not for from it. 1 was surprised to find whet is fetid to be one of the three originals of bhe Scottish oovenant, There are averal Caxtons and a good Shakespeare series and nearly at the far end from where we enter is Newton's mathematical iustruments overlooked by an exquisite statue of Byrn by Thor. walthen. The poet's admirers wished it planed in Westminster Abbey but liko that of Thackeroy 131 more recent days was denied odmittance boonmee of their too setirib utteeances of royal peewit - meth. The statue repreeents the poet's foot resting on a broken column, his left hand holding Child° Harold and his right holding a penoll to hie chin in an at- titude oE Chirp meditation. Not far from the Statue Byron's first loath to his mother is soon, written ha ovary round, school boy hnmd anci the oomposition and penman- ship quite commonplace looking. Close at band ia D. Papal Indulgonoe and all along the MUMS are a greet variety of thine, enoient and modern. The total number of hooka ie given as 100,000 of whioh 2 per cent aro in manuscript. 3. next visited Kings and thou& not as large or os wealthy ma Trinity yet it has a hum 00 it's own which is increased be. enthe of its chapel, The College wee founded by Henry VL, being ethoolitted with Eton which he also founded, The chapel is toed by its edmithee to he the last great triumph of Englieh gothic art. The drat stuae wag laid he tho King In 1410 %bent the beginning of the War of the Roses and, no doubt owing to that sanguinary contlict, the stone work was not completed tintil 1515. The building sostni narrow for its length being 40 feet wide and NO feeb long. Ingide It is divided by In partition about the middle where the orgon bo placed but I dont rectoffect whether the division is parried up to the roof or not. The roof la vault,- oti Without any support inside by colemnd or buttreathe but corded up all in stone in aeveral compartments each keyed at ft central point with a pendent keystone said to be a ton 10 weight. The Stone roof is coveted by a timber one firmly consbructed and so far are they apart that there 18 room for a man to walk up- right between them. The walls are sup- ported by towers at each corner and eleven massive buttresses between them on each side, We are apb to boast of the aohievements of the nineteenth century hut after exnmining such a stone strum tura as this we must oonfese that men once knew bettor how to build than now. The painted windows are magnificent, the upper lights showing Old Testament subjecas and the lower ones marked off from the upper by stone sills Now Testamenb ones on the prinoiple of type and anti -type. As we walked through the chapel we were informed that there would be a service at 5 o'clock and tvhich takes plaoe every day at that hour. It is said that Milton's noble passage was Inspired from his attending service ab this chapel though he studied at a different college. "Bub let my feet never fail To walk the etudious cloister's pole, And love the high embowed roof, With runtique pillars messy proof, And dotted windows richly dight Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing orgen blow To the full voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes." As it wanted Bolus time to the hour we betook ourselves elsewhere and on re- turning rather late found the screen in the centre of the chapel closed by heavy curtains of a orimson color so olose that the light of the candles could not be seen. We sat in the outer part along with some five or six persons more in the dim twilight and listened to tbe ser- vice, nearly all musical, as it rang through the building, at times so loud and over -powering that you felt a trembling sensation and then dying away so that it could soaroely be heard. Newnhani College for women is a abort distatme from King's on the other side of the river. It is a new, garish looking building of red Meek, more like s cotton factory, with its windows monotonously regular, when compared with the magni- ficent piles in which their brothers for generations have resided and studied. Newnham college ia not so famous as its prerleoessor, Girton but it has the ad- vantage of being at least a mile nearer the town and oontsequently more con- venient Inc athending leatures and exam- inations to which the etudents of both institutions are now admitted. The University of Osznbridge may be des- cribed as oompeising seventeen inde- pendent corporations—the oollegee, the oldest Peterhouse, founded in 1257, the youngest Downing chartered hi 1800, and. other three inebitutions called hostels but virtually colleges there being in attend' anee in 3890 a little over these thousand students. The gross inoorne of the seven- teen is 4805,000 sterling, Trinity having of that over 280,000, St. John 243,000 and King's 285,000 ond the balance unequal. by divided among the other fourteen. Religious tests for professors and students were abolished some time ago. The stadenbs, of whom I saw very few it be- ing vaoation, wear gowns and ihe ignore morear board cap, the latter being Beet worn in the reign of George I. taking the place of a round, silk -lined one. Tiros. Gemmel, Wroxger, Aug. 1, '92. Cala a ex Pere wee. Firebugs are at work in Edmonton. . Alliston had a $1,000 fire OU Saturday night. Fetiches promitse it poor orop in the Nittgara district. Mrs. William McCormack has jest died at Brookville, aged 94. The attempt to sink on artesian well OeIoraine, Mom, has failed, A petition has been filed against the rattan of John Bryson, el. 1, for Pontiac. holm Williams wag thrown at tho Regina recce last week ancl badly bruised. The nailmakevie strike at Montreal is ended, and the men have returned to work. Breoltiug wheel aro 00.1.1Siug thouble iu the 00318108 01 the trolley oath in Handl. Mr. Brake has been Gloated on the elan. acing Oommittee of the Nationalist party. Petro'ea mammies prohibiting the Sal. vation Avnly from holding meetinga on .its streets, Hon. MrePendergast has been bloated it St. Boniface on the caging vote of tho returning officer. The body of Mita Meggie Stevens, who woe drowned ob Wineiton on the 27141 bee been r000vorod. Ro.00nnte in Eiekwond and Dauphin have resulted in tho seating of the Gov - eminent condidatee, Already E. E. Sheppard is spoken of 0.0 the Conservative notnithe lov Mayor of London next January. Croesloy and Mutat axe mooted to towing revived sovvices in Springfield about the middle of Augast. Sedges Tait and Rouellier have boon gazetted to investigate the °barges agaiust Sir Adolphe Calton, Former Unica Cooney, of °roma° township, has had three valuable cows poitionect in the paetuto field. Rye °Imp sontaining Doyle goon was foned in tho Aoki. No oleo. tmar.J.uoaktdmkrzk..... sauguloa W, H. KER IR, Prop. ....1........,Itt.....mageolowomnsgayampearftmes:cauummarmarausataxascr.,.4.1.4.T4 Huron Oouzuty, Poem help le seethe around Dungan. nth. A oar load ef nuteldnery for the new flax mill lit Hensall has arrived. The Exeter Advocate and the Gerrie Gazette ere holidaying this week, T. (). Bruce, of Clinton, Inte in hie gar. den a atolls of corn 9 ft. '2111, high. The dates for holding the Huron Cen. teal Fair at Clinton are Oct. Gth and 7th. Joe, Hudson, of Ilillsgeeen, extracted between 400 and 500 pounda of honey in one day. Mr. )Soyce, of Crediton, bas sold Ins hotel property to Mr. Hill, the former proprietor. Sotheran, Fordwieb, lost a vela - able mare, the anitnal having been struok by lighbning. Henry Holdfold, of Howlak, thinned 80 rows of turnip for Jas. A. Edgar In less than four days. The oounty rote regnired from Clinton this yeer is $894.02, somewhat more than last year. Armitage & Short boxed 175 calm of oheese in twO boom and ten minutee for the Centralitt factory. Clinton council has wisely decided to take a test vote on the House of Refuge question matt January. judgingby the large number of baby i carriages n use at Goderith the popul- ation is on the increase. A by-law was passed prohibiting tbe "running of blot/dos or other vehicles" on the Bidwell( et Clinton. A now street has been opened front the oatmeal milIs to the London road, Hen - sale The right of way was given free gratis. The hotel building, sheds and stables at Holmesville, owned by Arthur Knox and occupied by Nude & 800, were des- broyed by fire this week. Spooled oolleotions were taken up at both morning and evening services in the Trivitt Memorial °Muth, Exeter, on Sun- day in aid of the sufferers in St. John, Newfoundland. Alex. Johnston, of Howick, brought to 1e. Mahood, Fordwith, some monster hen's eggs. roue of them measured Six and Weighed an average of 4 on. eaoh, or four to the lb. A sad &cadent befell Mrs. Rooney, of Millbank, who while overlooking her baking fell on the red hot stove during a fainting spell. She wag badly burned about the neck and face. The many friends of D. McNanght, formerly of Seaforth, will be pleased to learn that he was eleoted member for the load legislature representing, Saskatthe. wan district, Manitoba. Thos, Gibson, Fordwich, happened wibb a bad misfortune. He wee about to unload a load of hay when by some means he missed his footing end fell to the barn -floor. Two ribs were broken. eaa the regular meeting of the MolKil. lop Insuranee Go. 117 new policies were passed. It was decided that the next meeting of the directors should be held in the Grand Union Hotel, Clinton, on Friday, Aug, 26011. The 'Unions of Gerrie and Wroxeter have received an invitation to play an exhibition ganae of base ball at Galt, in tile near future, ageing the creek Chg. ham team, whittle is shortly to start out on a Provincial tour. Harry Beattie, son of jomes Beattie, of Seoforth, who has been teaching in the Brantford Collogiote Institute, has given up the teaohiug profession and has enter- ed upon a law course with J. M. Best, Barrister, Seaforth. Robt Norris, an employee at the Bee - ter Times office, Was brought before the J. P. on Wednesday of last week and mulcted in a fine of $2,00 for aetempting to leave his employer to attend his sis- ter's tveciding at Hensel!, without leave of absence. The Exeter Milling Co.'s mill store house and °outage were totally degree,. ed by fire Tuesatey morning about one o'olook. Loss about $20,000 ; insured for aboue$15,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. The inill was just shut down at nine o'olock Clondey night for re. pairs. Quite te aerious accident happened to T. Hemphill, Wroxeter. He was load- ing some cars at his storehouse, end find- ing the place over•run with rats he pro- oured a revolver to frighten them. By some acnitient he put a bullet into his thigh which travelled downward about a foot. The ball was extracted. It is reported thee notice of a writ on the email for $2,000 hoe been served on the Deputy Reeve of Goderich township by an occupier of a farm on the Bayfield concession, on noctount of a living tream of water whith crossed the corner of snid farm, being turned and oarried an- other direction. James Young, of Auburn, while work- ing around the machinery ill his mill was caught by a belt and whirled around te ehaft several times before the machine ery could be stopped. Lfe tvas very am:thusly injured, having a bone in one 01 1110 legs fraetured, one arm broken and hie gladder dislocated. The preliminary examingion of the, oriminal libel suit inetibuted by M. C. Corrigan ageing Maclean, Itl. r., of the Toronto World, mine off at Gods. Koh Tuesday before Horace Horton, J. P., Joe, Williame, J. P,, Moyer Butler and J, W. Williams, j. P. J. T. Garrow, Q. C., appeaxed for the proseaution and Nicholas Murphy, Q. C., for the defence. There was a somes of 'managed passages dements between tile opposing eounsei, but the examination of W. W. Pox, the reporter who wrote nri the objeotionable article, was begun. Mr. Murphy waived further examination and on the part of defenee admitted the peblieation, J. A. E wan, editor of the Toronto Globe, had boon smnmoned by the proseoution to prove publication by Me, Mitolean, in the World newspaper, and was prepared to tlo so but his testimonywoe not called for ad owing to the mission of pnbliaittion hei Me. Machine. Tho magistrates were unanimous in the tithiaion to commit Mr, Maclean to gand Uhl triel at the lint omnipotent bomb of jutisdiotion, which tithe place in the coma Teethe, Goderiell, on Sept. 19111. Bali Was, of thrum, famished. Perth County. Sb. Mont Bend cleared 573.05 from a gerden party, Tile 103.11abnii II,3sor1or 10 again ver. tead far sale. Tho thigle mem Elmo townehip is altogether too luxuriant, The Blanthard Agr. Society boa a meinbership ot 230 this year. The Fullerton hotel will be sold by auction on the twelfth of Angina. Thie season more binder twine has been sold lu St. Marys them in any pre - vim year. Several residents of St. Marys are ar- ranging for on excursion to the Paoitio °oast next tumble A three-year-old child of R. T. Couoh, of Mitchell, was drowned in the Thames river on Monday evening at 5 o'clook. Rev. W. J. McKee', of Toronto Junc- tion, has been invited to accept the pas- torate of the Baptist Church at Stmt. ford. Tbe Mornington agricultural athiety intend moving their ball to the front of the grounds, besides making other ex- teneive improvements. The Stratford lathosse olub have ar- ranged to run an excareion to the Falls on the 17th, the thcasion of their next match with the Niagaras. There is n glance yet of the projected twine factory being built In Stratford, as planned by the Perth PMX CO., as the company has now obtained possession of the mathinery in Boston which the Yankee combine tried to prevent them getting. The foolery may yet be erected this fall. One day leg week Wm. Barker, of Fullerton, was assisting his employer to takethe binder to the field when the hones ran away and the binder possed over Mr. Barker, breaking hie leg and otherwise seviously bruising him. It is feared that he will be oompelled to have the leg taken off. The next Anglican S. S. Convention will be held in Trinity church, The following were sleeted officers for the ensuing year :—President, Rev. A. Dowdney, Mitchel ,1 • Vice -President, Mrs. Robinson, St. Marys • Registrar, Rev, A, D. DewrIney, Mituhebl; Record- ing Seeretary, Miss Keen, St. Marys ; Corresponding Sem, 101155 Cheeseman, While using the bay fork unloading grain on Saturday afternoon, David, son of Wm. Hodgson, lot 5, con. 12, Blom - shard, received a heavy blow on the fore- head from part of the thekting which gave way. Efe was rendered unconsoloue and remained in that condition for over a day. The blow broke in the skull and made an ugly gash in his forehead. The doctor took out several pieces of bone and put five stitches in the wound. There still seems to be considerable untiertainty regarding the disease which has broken out among 0. 4. White's hogs at the Avonbank faotory. Three govern- ment inspectors and a host of local vets, have investigated and declared that it is not hog cholera. A diseased hog was slaughtered and portions of the remains were sent to Ottawa to be examined by experts. The dises.se has abated in a marked degree during the last week and comparatively few pigs are dying now. During the thunder storm of the night of the 23rd ult. one end ot the house of Geo. Gale of [fibbed was struck by light- ning and oompletely demcdished. All the windows in the house were broken by the shook, and every member of the household for a time were stunned and prostrated. 17hen Mr. Gale recover- ed conscioneness he was lying ou the door and thinks he had been knooked out of bed by the. shook. It is strange there was no fatality or damage by fire os a result of the stroke. A milieu is in oustody at Great Sten - more, Englinici, on the (Marge of mur- dering her 10 months -old daughter by foroing a cork down the child's theme W. H. Ruby, of the firm of Ruby & Efilkev, general merchants, who have been in business at Port Engin for 37 years, was drowned there Monday night. Not having returned home by midnighb O party started out, and his body wall fonnd about five a. m, washed up on the shore to the west side of the breakwater. It is supposed he went to the breoltwster and tripped on the atones in the gib work and fell into the water. Mr. Ruby was born in 1830, and came to Port El- gin from Waterloo oounty 37 years ago. For yams he had been prominent in educational affairs, and was a prominent Mason. John Lucas, te negro who is exhibiting with 13urke's ohms as a, forme king of the Cannibal Istemds, ran amuok in New Bratistvielt, Monday during the . throne parade. During the parade down ()berth sbreet is is alleged that thine of the boys threw apples at the ettanibal. This so enraged the negro that he sprong from the °thous van on whioh he wite riding and charged upon the boys. He °aught John Hithey, and true to his natare, he bit a piece out of the boys arm. Be then grasped Jatnea Johnston, another boy, owl bit him in the nook. The third and last vietim he bit in the image The affair created great excitement. Looms was arrested and committed to jail charg. ed with mayhem. Mokey, the boywho was drat bitten, is quite badly injured. His arm has swollen to twice its natural size, and blood polsoehig is feared. ADDITIONAt. GOCAL NEWS, --- BEN. 10. P.m. preaches in the Metho- dist church next Sunday. Tut exthesion train to Goderith on Friday leasee Braseels ab 8t10 a. m, Fares 80 and 40 cede. S. Dews and wife, of London,and Mrs. David Armstrong of Buffalo, are vlsitiog relittives in Brusselt. kir. Deewe'e health has not been good of late and he hopes to eeoruit here. A anemias matoh for a silver Mittel, cooler and a silver salb dish and spoon WRS held on Wednesday thenitig. D. C. Boss won lat place. S. T, Baso, Dr, Mo. Naughton and J. Irwin tied foe %xi plane, Me, lege winning in a them bird tag th beak the tie, .t?