The Brussels Post, 1888-10-5, Page 1Volume 13.
Washington Letter,.
(From our Regular Corraspondent.)
WA°IIINOTON, Sat1t. 20, 3820.
The Dem ocraLs in the House profess
to be very well satisfied at the determine..
tion on the pert o£ tho Senate leopubie-.
cans to bring in a tariff bill. Mr. Me.
Millin geld he did not think they had
bettered tbeir situation any, and Mr.
Wilson, another member of he Ways
and Means Committee, said that the
action of the Senate Finance Committee
has been discounted, and that the char
actor of the bill, as endioaied in the press
showed their inability to deal with the
question. Tho general idea is that the
notion delays or does away with adjourn•
mutt altogether. Tho members of the
House will aot upon the assumption that
!here is to be no edjoul'nment. Many
who have heretofore remained aloso in
their places have left for their homes or
for tho political field, and it in thought
that by the end of this week the work of
the House will be ilnisbed, and but few
members of either party will be in
Washington.
As to the Senate tariff bill, it is not
thought by members of the House that
the Senate will vote on it thus session,
and the Democrats say that instead of
attacking the Mille bill they will have to
defend their own. This they think
rather increases the Democratic advent.
ego. Meanwhile they must confeee that
they do not know just what the provisions
of the bill are, and a few Democrats say
privately that, as they understand it, the
bill may have some merits. Mr. Oates
thinks a mistake was made when the
Democratic oancue did not favor an ad-
journment. He thinks it would have
been better for the Democrats if no Set.
ate bill had been reported.
The presence of the State Department
in the great granite office building west
of tbo White House seems to have spread
a diplomatic influence throughout the
structure, principally affecting the mes-
sengers who guard the doors of the
triumvirate Secretaries. In the State
Department itself this innusnee is parti.
cularly noticeable, At the door of the
Secretary there is en air of myetery and
doubt, and, although Mr. Bayard is al-
most always at his desk, it is sometimes
difficult to discover that foot. On the
other hand, Assistant Secretary Rives,
whose office is next door, can easily be
seen, and is almost always willing and
ready to receive callers. The oddest
effoot of this influence, however, has de-
veloped recently ab Secretary Whitney's
door. The Secretary bas established a
code of rules for the transaction of public
business, and at certain hours bis door
is always open, whenever he is there, for
anybody to enter. Bub at other times
an uniuitiatod stranger is apt to bo con.
fused by the replies that he receives to
his questions. Should he ask if the Sec-
retary is in he will bo told by the outside
gnardian that tbe "door is looked." This
was a favorite expression of the late
Lindsay Muse, the octogenarian who
served over sixty years under the Gov-
ernment. Should the caller, not eerier -
standing the meaning of this phrase, ask
if he could see the Seorotary, the reply is
still the same, The door is looked." In
fact, it seems to be the policy of the door-
keeper to avoid answering a cliroot
question.
The 111eesengere in front of Secretary
Endicott's door have adopted an in-
genious, if not novel, plan of lightening
their vocal labors. Mr. Endicott is
somewhat.uneertain in his movements to
the ',aside would, at least, and 02 is fro.
(meetly a problem, as in the Navy De.
parimont, to dieeover whether or not ho
is at hie desk, Ho still °coupes the
rooms on the north front, while all of the
burean officers are in the west wing. Ono
of the first duties of the morning, nowa.
days, is for tho bureau chiefsto send
mosseugers to the Secretary's office to
learn if he is present, and when the mes-
sengers bear their approaoh they hold
out to heir view a large card labelled
"Yes" on one side and "No" on the
other, turning it as the oaso requires.
There is a letter in the o9loe of the
chief clerk Of the State Department
awaiting the arrival of the tardy Persian
minister, whose name as translated into
English is Radii Hossein leoe1i Khau
Motamed el Versed. The address on the
letter is in Persian ' hereators and ex-
tends three times across he face of the
envelope, wbiob is about six inobee long.
The Department is patiently waiting for
the minister, who started from Persia
several wooke ago and intended to atop
at Constantinople and Paris and various
other places on the way. At first there
was some anxiety felt for his safety, it
being thought, owing to ate error in the
cablegram annouuoing his doparbure from
Persia, that he had been on the way
about a month longer than he aobually
has boon., It 10 now thought that he is
loitering amid the gayeties of Paris, and
will undoubtedly roach here with the
first snow.
Brussels Council Tileeting.
no regular monthly meeting of the
Council was hold lasb Monday evening.
.4.11 tho members present.
Minutes of last meeting wcro road and
passed.
The following accounts were rend:
J, Meadows, atrcot improvements $ 4 118
T.B..McComb, " 20 00
Arnett Bros. et. imps„ Fire Dept,
and wood 24 10
Mrs. Blasbill, charity 0 00
Mrs, Hart, charity ..... ..... 3 00
Moved by R. Graham,' seconded by
J. 1413. McIntosh that tho foregoing no-
connte bo paused and orisra tissued on
Treasurer for same.—Cat'ried.
Moved by J". Amonb, seconded by J. Ie1,
MsIntoeh that the Clerk notify Svire,
Hall to havo her fence 1:41noved off 111,0
streot at once so that the Council can
finish sidowttllc,—Carried.
Moved by gee. Antoni, seconded by
M. McIntosh that 100 copiesof the
Fire Limit By-law be printed and that
the Clerk send a copy to each pereon on
Voters' List in fire lelnit.wCartlod,
Council then ad,jolrned,
BR.USSBLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY,
Mete (tell t'trempionehlp tit earths.
INTNUNATIONAL.
Won. Lust. Per rent
Syracuse 01 31 .728
Toronto 711 36 •685
Ilamilton 338 45 .502
Rochester 04 43 .098
London 53 53 .500
Buffalo 47 00 .4,",9
Troy 28 80 259
Albany 10 87 .179
RATIONAL.
Won, Last.
Now York 80 44
Chicago . 74 54
Boston 00 00
Detroit 06 50
Philadelphia 04 00
Pittsburg 03 63
Indianapolis 40 82
Washington 46 01
ASIT58208( Aesa000TION,
Won. Lost.
St. Louis 87 38
Athletics 79 61
Brooklyn 75 49
Cincinnati 73 63
Baltimore 56 78
Cleveland
Louisville 44 82
Kansas City 41 83
Potatoes Raised on a Bet.,
E. S. Carman, editor of the Rural New
Yorker, conducts an experimental farm
in the interest of his paper et River
Edge, N. J. Here he has grown sod
tested ail manner of farm grope and
garden plants, and conducted many ex-
periments in the way of different methods
of °titivation. Of recent years he bas
obtained unusually large yields of pota-
toes by a method of culture now know as
the French system, and all of these large
props have been grown on a special plot
of land which has been oropped with
potatoes every year for he past twelve
years. Last winter Mr. Carman wagered
$100 that he would raise potatoes thie
season, on a part of this special plot of
ground, at the rate of more than 700
bushels to the acre, let he season be fay.
arable or unfavorable. This was done to
,'bow the possibilities of profitable potato
culture by the French system, and its
superiority over the ordinary method now
practioed by fermata.
Wilmer Atkinson, editor of the Farm
Journal, of Philadelphia, accepted the
wager for $60, the loser to pay the money
to some charity to be named by the
judges. Tho contest plot of lanais Level
end the soil loamy, inclined to clayey,
very good, apparently, and well drained.
During the past twelve years it has re.
calved occasional dressings of barnyard
manure, averaging about four tons an
acre a year ; also liberal supplies of
"potato fertilizer," say at the rate of
1,200 pounds per acre a year. Now and
again lime, kainit, raw.bone flour and
wood ashes in limited quantity have also
been applied.
In the French system the drills are
opened in the form of trenches 16 inches
!vide, and not in the way of simple fur-
rows, as we usually prepare ground for
potato planting. In this Dasa the trench.
es are opened 15 inches wide and 6 inches
deep, and are 3 feet apart, measuring
from middle to middle. Potato fertilizer,
at the rate of 880 lbs. to the acre, was
then strewn in the bottom of he tronob.
es, about two inches deep of loose soil
drawn in over this, and all mixed to-
gether by drawing a Hexamer hoe along
In the french, The potato sets wore then
planted a foot apart. Two inches deep
of soil was drawn in over the sets, and
potato fertilizer, at the rata of 880 lbs. to
the caro, strewn over this and mixed es
before. Also powdered sulphur, at the
rate of 440 lbs. to the sere, was sown in
the trenohee, which were then filled up
level. The sulphur was used as a pre-
vention against wire worm, which, Mr.
German asserts, is the cause of scab on
the potatoes in his soil. The sets were
mostly medium-sized potatoes out in
halves, each half having two or thee°
good eyes. Summer oars consisbed in
keeping the ground clean. The drills
were nob billed up, but kept level. Shal-
low cultivation was practised. Paris
green and plaster were used against the
potato beetle.
Mil. Carman's theory about these
trenohes is that they conserve moisture
and supply a ylelding medium in
which the tubers form, and grow with
little ;osistonee, while the route may
penetrate at will the more sompaot soil
between the trenches. Again, the rain
penetrates the trenches readily, and is
not shed to either side as in the old sys-
tem of hulling up, The water goes at
once to where it is most needed.
The contest plot was planted on April
20th. Three kinds of seedling raised by
Mr. Carman himself, and numbered re-
epeobively 2, 8 and 4, were grown. These
were set out in rows 33 feet long, Of
No. 2 only one row was planted, and of
.Nos. 8 and 4 two rows of each were
planted, the five rows in 11 making one
eighty-eighth part of an aoro, or ono row
the four-hundrod.and.fortieth port of an
acre, and eo the orop was computed. Tho
potatoes were dug the other day in the
peesenee of a committee of responsible
gentlemen and export judges, Who mea -
sexed tljr land and weighed the tubers
00 they were dug, allowing sixty pounds
to the bushel. The row of No. 2 yielded
at the enormous rate of 1,070 bushels per
mare, ono row of No. 8 at the rate of 208,
and the other row ab the rote of 268
bushels per acre, and 0010 row of No. 4
produced at the rate of 688, and the other
at the veto of 005 bushels pet' more, or all
levo tows combined at the rate of 0183
bushels of potatoes per naro. So Me.
Cannan lost his wager, •
Mrs. Hill has ltnudly offered $500 to.
Wards the purchase of en English Church
parsonage et St. Marys, providing the
wardens will push the matter Immo.
diatoly.
Tho next Civil Service examinations
will cone/MOO on Tuoeday, Nov, 13411,
at dins o'clock a. 01., and will be held at
Ottawe, liingslon, Toronto, Ilareiltoil,
London, W1nnjpog, Begins anti other
places,
p�
Morris Council Meeting,
The Council met pursuant to adjourn -
meet in the Council room on Sept. 21t1s.
Members ell present, the Reeve in the
chair, Minutes of last meeting read and
adopted. Moved by S. Calbiak, amended
by Geo. (Kirkby, that Jae. Prootor bo
struoted to have oulvorb opposite lob 2,
4th line, put In a proper state of repair.
Carried. Moved by C. A. Howe, second-
ed by S. Calbisk, that tura Reeve be in.
etruobod to bays the read opposite lob 18,
eon, 6, put fu it proper. stats of repair,
Carried, Moved by Geo. Kirkby, see -
ended by S. Calbiok that Jas. Prootor be
instructed to have Farrow',' bridge coy.
Dred anew with cedar or elm plank. Car-
ried. Jas. Nesbitt appeared In relerenao
to a proposed drain through several lots
in the 8th concession, and eteted that 588
there aro more than five owners interest-
ed in the scheme and having failed to
agree he required a resolution of the
Connell authorizing him to .have the en-
gineer brought on. Moved by Jas. Pros
tor, seconded by Geo, Kirkby, that this
Council approve of the scheme and that
the request of Mr, Nesbitt be granted.
Carried. Moved by J. Proctor, seoouded
by 5. Caldbioic, that Jno. Mooney be re-
appointed Collector at a salary et $86 and
to extras. Carried. Moved by S. Cold.
bink, seconded by C. A. Howe, that the
Peeve be instructed to have side road
between lots 25 and 26, eon. 7, chopped
out. Carried, Accounts were paid as
follows : I. Rogerson, lumber, $10 70 ;
Win. Geddes, digging each. 92 ; J. Gol•
ley, digging ditch, 916 ; Wm. Garnese,
repairing bridge, 91.50 ; A. Vanalstine,
repairing bridge, $2 ; Jno. Sample, snow
fence on east gravel road, $15.75 ; S.
Walker, gravel, 93.25 ; 0. Ritchie, gray.
el, 98.80 ; Wrn. Taylor, gravel, 918.79 ;
R Mflis, culvert, 91,60 ; A. McAllister,
culvert, $2.50 ; Wm. Brown, ihspeoting
work on west gravel road, 94.88 ; James
Jackson, work on south boundary, 928.-
86 ; T. Straaban, gravel, 93.60 ; W.
Scott, damage to crop through hauling
gravel, $2 ; A. Cole, repairing culvert,
95 ; M. Cunningham, lumber, 911.81.
The Council then adjourned to meet
again on Nov. 122b. W. Creme Clerk.
Perth County Notes.
Miss Munro, of Stratford, is one of the
fourteen mi5sionteriee who left for China
recently.
W, R. Marshall & Son, of Stratford,
shipped 7,000 bushels of apples in bulk
Saturday.
The now Salvation Army barracks at
Stratford was opened on Sunday with
greet noise.
F. L. Mewing ce Son, formerly of Seb.
ringville, have started a fruit evaporating
eetablishnaent in St. Marys.
The now Methodist church at Iiirkton
i5 about completed and will be opened on
the last Sunday in October.
Miss Agnes Knox, of Se Marys, the
eminent young elocutionist, in winning
laurels for herself in Scotland.
Selvin Brown, of Mitoltell, is the proud
possessor of several handsome blank leg -
born pullets, that are only tour months
old, which have already commeueed
to lay.
"One of our young ladies—that is one
of the young ladies of the town—sports
a jersey glittering with 72,600 beads
sewed on by her own dainty fingers."—
St. Marys Argus.
The following mail matter passed
through the St. Marys postoff a during
the week ending dept. 16th;—Lettere,
4,108 ; poet oards,1,044 ; books, circulars,
samples, patterns, &o., 992 ; parcels, 10.
Mrs. Towers, of Hibbert, who was
wound round a maohinery shaft iu the
Weetern Fair buildinge at London and
who had all her clothes but her shoos
torn off, is all right with the exception of
some bruises and has returned home.
S. E. Smith threshed 1,700 bushel of
grain for Wm. Martin, 18th con., Morn-
ington, in ten hours. with his horss•pow-
sr machine. Geo, Keith threshed 700
bushels oats, 100 bushels wheat, end 100
bushels peas for Adam Burnett, of Elma,
in five hours with his steam thresher.
George Green, of Fairview, township
of Downie, besidoe carryingg all before
him at Kingston for Berkshire pigs,
where ho won 21 prizes, including silver
medals and diplomas, has also met with
the same brilliant success at the Toronto
Industrial and the Western Fair at
London.
A 82. Marys furniture dealer offers a
sideboard free to any ample who may
decide to be married i
n the Agricultural
Hall on the afternoon of the second day
of the Fair in that town. In addition to
tho above another citizen will issue tbo
marriage Homos for nothing, and the
Rey. Mr. Charlton will tie the knot free
of °barge.
The fall meeting of the Perth Assooi•
abion will be held in the City hall, Strat-
ford,on Thursday and Friday, October
11 and 12. The program is thoroughly
praatioal, oonsieting of a number of in-
teroeting subjoots, to be dealt with alter-
nately by Wm, 101152on, M.A., Provin-
cial Librarian, and Henry A. Ford, di -
motor of Teachers' I/Istitutoo for. the
State of Michigan.
Two oompanios of what is known eo
the Collegiate Digitate Rifles have been
faience in Stratford. The sompaniae
will be known as "A" aunt "B" compan-
ies. The following oalcors have boo.,
Tuazetted" : A company—let ser ent, T.
rnbull ; 2nd. sergeaut, S. Jonson •
corporal, G. Scott. 13 company --.-1st
so-geant, E, Croly; 2nd sergeant, H.
Shaver ; 00rporal, le. Tiffin,
On Saturday ovening when Wm, Mar-
tin, aged 54, a woll•to•do farmer residing
near Carthago in the township of Morn.
ington, was returning home from Lista.
wel he met some other -rigs for which 11e
turned out, and itis waggon wheel .went
clown in a ditch about two toot deep and
Mr. Martin Was thrown out. IIis team
was observed standing in the 3112°h and
on further investigation the demented wee
found lying where ho had fallen. A.
lehysioian WAS called slid niter examine
M g, the body pronounced the cahte of
Sleigh to be dislooatiote of the nook,
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OCT, 8,
$3a'xx84Mellre Nen oral flatted.
A epecial meeting of the School Board
wee bald on Friday evening of last week.
Members all presort,
Moved by J. Hargreaves, seaanded by
F. S, Scott that the following accounts
be paid :
F. Kelly, repairs $16 03
J. L. Kerr, account 1 65
Education Department , , 2 (1g
Moved by A. hunter, seconded by T.
Fletcher that the Secretary be instructed
to discount nota for 9725 at Bank of
Hamilton, Wingham, and retire note due
on let of October for $350, proceeds of
balance for salaries.—Carried.
Moved by J. Hargreaves, seconded by
T: Fletcher that Monet, Ross, Hunter
and Scott be re committee to visit, or
otherwieo notify the parents of children
who are not attending school according
to regulation that unless they cause the
attendance of their children at school
this Board will proceed the strictest
measures the law allows against them,
and also to deal with cases of traanOy in
the strongest manner,—Carried.
Board hen adjourned to meet the !fret
Friday in November.
3E:lertes.
Fall Show hero on Wednesday and
Thursday of next week.
Oar old townsman, Wm, Clegg, is
arranging to buy grain here this Fall and
Winter.
Nearly 975 were realized from the
union concert of the United Workmen
and Foresters.
Harry Jossop has tumbled into a for-
tune, it is said. He wilt know what to
do with it too.
E. Haggit, who was arrested for theft
was allowed his freedom by Judge Doyle
with a cautioe as to his future good be-
haviour.
It is said we are to be favored with
another M. D. in the person of Dr. Fow-
ler. It oscura to your correspondent
that we have a suf0oiency now.
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i.ranaa(iaan Nowie.
Snow fell at Mattawa Saturday to th
e
depth of hall an lamb.
Silver ore i5 reported to have been
found on a farm near St. Thomas.
The total gate receipts at the St.
Thomas Fair amounted to 91,258.50.
Work on Victoria College, in Blear
street, Toronto, will be commenced next
spring.
The Teeswater Works' by-law for rais-
ing 99,000 wan carried on Saturday by s
majority of 55.
Bread has been raised to 14 cents a
large loaf. Coal remelts at the same
figure yet at Guelph.
For the month of September 1,091 im.
migrants passed through Port Arthur for
the Northwest on Monday.
There is an apple tree near Kentville,
N. S.; which last year produced 25 bar-
rels of lusoioue gravensteins.
It is said that Mr. Evans, the ex -Tory
cendedato in Cardwell, is to ba appointed
quarantine inspector at Fort McLeod,
J. H. Cole, of Alborongb, threshed last
weak six hundred and atventy-fivs bushels
f oats from nine acres, leaving sown but
eventeen bushels.
The French Salvation Army say atone-
throwina, window•smashing and rotten
gg pelting have become a nightly ewer.
ranee at Montreal.
A dynamite cartridge was found on a
trent oar track at Montreal o° Monday
ight, but was fortunately removed be,
ore any damage was done.
The Grand Trunk people say they
arried between 40,000 and 46,000 /m-
angers to and from the Western Fair
ithout the slightest sosideut.
It is represeutsd that the Indians of
ho Vermillion River district, Athabasca,
re starving, and that prompt measures
ught to be taken for their relief.
The Dominion Government has thus
ea appointed ne successor to the late Sir
ohn Rose in England, who acted as true -
se for the Dominion sinking fund.
Israel Lynn, a baker, while on his way
o his home in Portemouth Saturday
vening, fell off a street oar and was
flied, the wheels nassmg over his head.
The Hudson Bay Railway Company
ow want to take the Northern Paoific
argain off Manitoba's handy in return
oondras,
guarantee on 94,5(10,000 of their
b
Daring August 19,804 immigrants ar-
ved in Canada; total arrivals from San.
st, 110,027, an 100rease of nearly 14,000
e compared with the same period last
ear,
Essex Confer people are grumbling at
heir high taxes and at the large Oise of
e village debt ; also at the way in whloh
e municipal books ala kept and the
editing is Sono.
Rev. W. T. Hill, B. A. of Kinoardine,
as been appointed by the Bishop's Cotn-
ission to be Rooter of St. John the
vangelest Chnroh (Chapter House,) at
o request of the Vestry.
The Owen Sound Methodist co0grega•
on, finding their present olturoh too
1511 for the oongeogation, propose the
wilding of a bendsome adifine west of
e river iu Bay ward.
It is understood that the Imperial
avernment have again conlmunjoatocl
h the Dominion Gcvetnmant, wishing
know what grant Canada will make
wards fortifications and armaments' on
e Pacific coast.
A Perth (N. B.) despatch says the big
*nein which wore 12,000,009 feet of
s, whfclt has been blookod up for about
nonth, broke away Saturday morning,
o timbers being captured at Frederick.
n. Ono operator alone is inbereetod to
o extent of 9100,000.
!Cho Menem' Council has Onbersd an
tion against the sureties of the late
name of the town to recover. 92,500,
e amount the corporation is out by the
soonding of the gentleman, The suit
omisos be be an interesting one,
Tho Parolee Couueil has gone actively"
work to soetwe a water sup1ily for
eking and fire put -pews. Four (Meths
erred there eeeontly within a couple
days and the oomotoly caretaker nave
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Number 12.
A terribio orin aged ori the upper
lakes on 33200et31583'. rA good many vessels
were wreckol, i0ulueing the Kingeten
barge Brandon, loaded with efa»ltoba
railway iron. Four men and a woman
from the barge St. Glair were drowned off
Port Snnilao, Micil,
A oherivari party at Orcltardviile, in
Grey county, on getting neither money
nor a datum un reply to their domande,
set fire to the young man's father's home,
and it was burned to the ground, with
all he euntorita. The family had to
sleep on the edge of the woods that night.
The oomutaudfng officer of the i:iih
Battalion has sett to England for 1101n0
Morris tubes, withal wilt be inserted in
Snider and Martini rifle barrel,' of the
battalion, 00 that recruits and junior
members can practice target shooting in
the new drill hall, llnmilton, during the
winter months.
IIamilton's recent seseesment shows an
inorcase in the population of 1,227, The
population of 44.
The total value ofr t
ealpropertyis vamounts
to 910,843,720 ; personal property, $3,-
884,3330 ; income, 5785,630, The total
value of roal and personal property and
inoomo is 921,863,708,
The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge
donationof Freemasons of Canada
f am theGrand (Lodge of ordered he
sum of $200, to be forwarded to the
Grand Lode of Florida, for the Masonic
Relief Fund gotten up to assist those of
the brethren suffering from the yellow
fever scourge iu that State.
The Horning's Mills correspondent of
the Shelburne Free Pres says a young
sportsman of that place had a smoking
pipe in hie pooket where he had careless-
ly left some loose powder. The result
and 19 feet 4
nahes, was a byes tualnd pmeasurement, was the
jump he hunter is said to bays made.
The new hospital at Vancouver, B. C.,
which was opened the other day, as The
Nees Advertiser remarks, "witbout fuss
or feathers of any kind," has a total of
85 beds. The building is lighted with
electric' lamps, width cell be reduced in
power when desired, and in the operat-
ing -room these lamps are portable.
At Port Arthur Wednesday evening
three youths, Fred Adams and Peter and
Vincent Rowell, attempted to convert
blastiogpowder into gunpowder by pound-
ing it. Peter BoweIl was doing the work
and the other two gazing on. The powder
exploded, injuring all three. Bowell's
clothing took fire. They aro now pro-
greesingfavorably.
Tho Toronto Pslioo It1agistrato, alter
argument in the Cox 0080 last Friday,
dismissed the ()barge of fraud in con-
nection with the 98,000 transaction on
the ground of want of evidence. As the
Crown Counsel seed they had further
evldenee to offer on the 910,000 charge
Cox was remanded for a week. It is be-
lieved that the failure of ex -Cashier
Allan to make hie appearance has upset
the Crown's case and that Cox will get
°leer of the 910,030 charge also. His bail
was reduced to 94,00u,
Highwaymen are reporte,l as infesting
the lonesome roads lying north of Kings-
ville. 'Cho other night two young mon,
returning to the village from Walkerville,
in a buggy, having considerable money
with them, were /tweeted at a lonesome
part of the road, about five miles north
of the village, by three rough.looking
men, one of whom attempted to stop the
horse, while the remaining two attacked
the omit/pants of the vehicle. A crack of
the wbip made the horse jump from the
grasp of the robber, and the frightened
young men were soon convoyed beyond
danger.
H. Hull, Wierbon's village constable,
WAS brought before Jno. Wood, J.P., of
Calpoy's Bay, on Tuesday, oharged with
assaulting Wm. Coldwull, a fete days
ago, Ib[r. Caldwell was in Wiarton of
the above date, the clay the waterworks
were opened, and with a number of oMta-
zens got doussd with water from the hose.
Mr. Ooldwell, however, did not appreciate
the joke and picked up a stone to bays
satisfaction from the .holder of the hose,
who happened to be the constable, who,
sexing himself in danger, turned the hose
on Mr. Coldwsll, hence the charge. The
case was adtourned.
The ,Engineering News remarks that
the very choicest belt of the Manitoba
lands extends for about 200 utiles along
the lino of the Oanadian Pacific, being
muesli wider than the aorrespondeug belt
in Dakota, but for at Ieast 850 or 400
utiles from Winnipeg the region is one of
the greatest promise, and is already
pretty well settled up at many points.
The disadvantage of the more westerly
ration is (1) that the soil is thinner, and
) a much more important difference,
the surface is about 1,000 feet higher
than Winnipeg, wbiob is at the very low
albite& of 700 feet. This makes a ma.
tenial difference in tho climate ; but, on
the other hand, the climate grows mfidor
AA the Bookie Mountains are approached,
As whole, all this great belt of 400 miles
is a region of great promise.
A Montreal dospetah to the New York
Times says "—"An amusing incident took
plane in the court of the Queen's Bench
this afternoon in the trial of McCloskey,
who had been fleeced by a gambler ami
arrested for snatching his tnsuoy off the
table. Another galreblor tvho Was called
to give evidence and to show the court
how the thing was done brought in hie
Sable and invited the jury to play faro
With him. Chief Justice Sir A. A.Dorion
looked clown from the bonoh fn a wistful
kind of way, es if he would like to take a
hand in himself, but the dignity of hie
position prevented. Ono of the jurors;
however, waeinduoedio petap his money,
and lawyers and court officers crowded
around to watch the game, In lose than
two minutoa the innocent jiver had lost
910, all he possessed, and the gambler
was loopingg around for morn jurors to
oonquer, when the Chief Jnstic° pee a
etoptothe game and Ordered the gambler
to return the money, which he did. NO
sooner had he left the court then the
High Cotlsbable awolre to the feat that , it
wee a direct violation of the petwinoial
taw to be fix peseossien`ofgamblang fntple•
meets and that ft was hie duty to 851sc
them. He euellod rent, but the genitalia'
Was gone," .
Tlrentfore's a='essment returns show
an inoreese of 820 in popsh,4ion and 912.
6,1.80 in wealth,
Mr. Caldwell live agreed to withdraw
hat resignation and remain the Reform
candidate in North Lanark.
The Quebec Province A10dieel Board
has decided that Indies 117585 be licensed
to practice medicine to that Province.
The Eluperer of Auetrie us very fond
of chamois shooting, and in that sport
meet au .lil•fawhioued rrinzele.loading
gen.
The annual convention of like W. C, T.
fo Ontario, will be held in Sarnia,
cnnmonning (1.^.t. -N, Ahoat 350 or 300
delogetes 80111 b • present.
At Montrone Wedoeaciay thh.1 jury re-
turned a verdiet of we altilty iso the owes
to Oazo, aaeusod of murder at Coteau
Landing. Jae0b,1, the tetegh:Iawaga
wife -killer, was ne ltenee 1 to iutprieon-
ment for life.
The question of the anner.;vti es of the
town of Parkdale to Termite has been
agitating the rosikeets of the form 'r for
some time poet, It Iles now been deuidod
to take a vote of the property ow tseu °u
file question on Saturday, 2711x.
The next subject of internntioual cor-
respondenee between Canada and the
United States will be the Alaska bound.
ary question. Mr, Ogilvie, of the Goo•
logical Survey, has been gathering infor-
mation on the subject all summer.
teeeeneeese.1 Newel.
Cholerahas broken out in I1hartoam.
Affairs on the Zanzibar coast are grow-
ing worse,
President Cleveland has signed the
Chinese Bill.
A British protectorate over the Cook
Islands is to be proclaimed.
Peaches have been selling fur ten cents
a bushel in Barry Go., Kansas.
During the year 1887 22,134 persons
died from snake bites in India,
M. Chevreel, the French savant, who
has reached his 103rd year says : "What
would 1 not give to be 80 again 7"
Chicago Anarchists propose to observe
the llth day of November, the anniver.
sary of the execution of Spies sod his
four companions.
A carrier pigeon loft has bsen estab-
lished at the United States training
station, Newport. The birds are to be
used in the naval service.
"Yon Bet," the Kansas City pacer,
made a quarter of a mile in 20 monde
on Tuesday afternoon at the fair gronnds
there. This breaks the record hell by
Johnston of 29, seconds.
Richard K. Fox says he will put up
95,000 on the soldiers' championship
contest between Teomer and Kemp. He
will allow the latter 91,000 for expenses
of his trip from Australia.
The Pope on Thursday received several
thousand pilgrims, including two thous.
and priests. In addressing them he
dwelt upon the necessity of the tester-
atiou of his temporal rights.
Twcyoung Germans in Bertin fough3
a duel with tricycles. Starting at three
hundred yards apart, they charged full
tilt against each other, with slight injuries
to themselves and serious harts to their
machines. Their honor was satisfied.
Violin, worth 95,000, owned b Charles
Dicirerman, of New York, and Misty
Way, $4,000, owned by Cyrus IvIetter, of
Marion, Ind., were burned to death in
the burning of Shockner's stahla at the
fair grounds, Louisville, Ky., on Mon.
day last.
Between Jamestown and Lamours,
Dak., a strip of country fifty miles wide
has been burned over by prairie fires.
Hundreds of small farmer,' enstained
losses. Nearly all the hay and wheat in
the southern part of Barnes Countr was
destroyed.
The Russian Government has granted
a subsidy of 965,000 annually to a private
firm to run a line of steamers between
Russian Pacific ports and Corea, Japan
Chita, In the event of war the steamers
ore to be placed at the disposal of .the
Government.
The latest German invention is a pro-
hibition to exhibit in the windows or
shops or to sell any engravings with a
legend or title in French. Whenever a
German title cannot be engraved with-
out injuring the plate ibnelf a piece of
pasted paper hides the obnoxious French
words and substitutes a German trans.
lotion.
Sam Wall, a Chinaman, and his Wife,
at white woman, aro looked up at the
Armory Polies Station, Chicago, charged
with bringing white women from Mil.
Waukee and furnishing them for wives to
Chinamen at 925 eaob. Through their
matrimonial agsnoy,it is charged, four
or five local Clticamon have been furnish-
ed with wives.
Lord Duiierin is aboub to make a fere.
well tour thruugh the west of India,
Eprior to his leaving that portion of the
mpire for Rome, where he has beau
appointed British Minister. Els Excell-
ency ie likely to make over the ohalge
of bis office to Lord Lansdowne an Mon-
day, the 11th of December, and leave
Calcutta the same clay for Bombay,
wheuoo he will sail for Europe.
At Imuris in Arizona on ,'250002 Sun-
day was witnessed a procession of more
than 200 people invokiug their Maker to
send rain. The procession formed in
the old village of Imuris, headed by a
priest and several mol carrying a large
canopy, marehod to the grevoyard, half a
mile web of the town, then bask to the
church, whore services were held for
S01110 One, That night the rain came
down in tereonts, almost ftoodiug the
cousitryate.
hmrdam claims to have become the
chief European tobacco media, 00 00.
count of the fine duality of the Sumatra
tobacco whittle is brought there. Amore -
can cigar menufecbnrsrs aro said to be
spe01ally eager to gob thin tabaaoo.
Sumatra sent to Holland in 1887 188,000
bales, worth about 918,000,000, of which
95,800,000 worth was purchased byrt;tner. °
lean home. The ,Dutch tobacco coni.
pieties Make eeormou5 profits, the div(.
ende of the Deli ay
Com n havingbeen
100 per cent„ and those ofthe Armlet.
burg Company 169 per cent. in a mane
veal.,