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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
I''fTDAY, APRIL 8, 1885.
(Jran2)rooic. '—^T
Joseph Backer has sold hie fancy
Clear Grit stallion to R. Laing, of
Ethel, fur a good figure. The horse
is a very neat animal and comes
from good stack. Mr. Laing will
take a route with him this spring.
A. R. Smith, the pushing Brussels
merchant, has openned out a splen•
did $8,000 stock of goods at Dames'
store. The goods were purchased at
a great reduction and Mr. Smith is
giving the people the benefit. He
will do a large trade 10 this locality
without a doubt.
slave -S -
David Perris, theological student
of Knox College, Toronto, is home on
a short visit.
Last week Mrs. Thos. Moore's
mother died at her home, south of
Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Moore at-
tended the funeral.
By a mistake the Historical sketch
of this township was put under Mor-
ris township heading in making up
the forms last week.
Robt. Habilirk, who was home for
the past few months, left for the
Northwest this weelc. Ho lute prop-
erty out there and will farm it during
the coming season. The west agrees
with Bob.
Next Beason James Ferguson in-
tends erecting a brisk reeidenoe on
his farm. Mr. Ferguson has a nice
piece of property and with a new
house will be about as comfortable as
any farmer in the township.
Sams. Hoggard, who has been
farming on Mrs. 3. W. Shiel's farm
for the past 6 years, intends giving
up tilling the soil and will remove
eolith of Brussels to Jas. Kelly's plot
of ground where lie will go in for gar.
Bening, poultry, &c.
Talk has been occasioned over the
work of the Dominion License Com-
misaionera and their appointments
under the Scott Act. I. J. Tuck, of
Oranbrook, has been appointed for
Grey and leaving out the idea that
other persons besides hotel -keepers
should have been appointed, your
correspondent thinks, Mr. Tuck will
try to do the square thing.
The auction sale of thoroughbred
stock on the farm of Robt. Brown,
last Tuesday, attracted a large num-
ber of buyers from Elma, Grey, Turn -
berry, Morris and McKillop. The
stook sold well. Young bulls averag-
ed, $75 and cows about $60. One
cow was sold at $813. A. heifer, ris•
ing a year old, was purchased by R.
McKee, of Moliillop, for $58. For a
calf, 2 months old the resf.rtrtable
figure of $48 was paid. All JJnth am
breed. Mr. Brown a hag provincial
reputation for keeping good eloek. A.
Delgatty was the auctioneer.
The members of the Farmers'
Club, S. 8, No. 1, held a meeting in
the schoolhouse on Friday night.
The subject, "Resolved that stall -
feeding cattle was more profitable
than gress•feoding" was a good one
and was well handled by both sides.
The affirmative, Captain W. Perrie,
was supported by J. Mitchell, A.
Petrie, and J, Botz. The negative,
Captain U. McFadden was assisted
by R, Bishop, W. Farquharson and
3. Perrie. The decision was given
in favor of the negative. Another
meeting will take place next Friday
night when Mr. McFadden will de -
livor an interesting lecture on "The
Horse."
Mlorx'IM,t.
The minntee of the townatup (lonn-
oil will be found on page 8 of this is-
sue.
A number of children in the town-
ship have been bothered a good deal
with sore eyes this winter,
S. 13. Fralick gold off his stook, &o.
this week and intends going to the
Northwest to look out land for him.
self and sons. We wish him success.
The Auditors' report for the past
year may bo found in this issue. It
will be seen by it thot as far as funds
in hand are concerned Morris stands
well to the front.
Alex. Forsyth leaves this week for
the Northwest to resume operations
on his farm. Next year will secure
him hie deed and right to do as he
pleases with it. He took a oar load
of stuff with him.
DIED,—Last Wednesday Thomas
Halliday, who has lived in the old
toll house about 2f miles north of
Brussels, died at the advanced age of
75 years and 8 months. He was
buried on Thursday afternoon.
Your correspondent think Brussels
correspondent to the Expositor is a
little soon about finding fault with
the grant of $100 towards gravelling
the boundary. Morris will do her
share and will not be behind Grey
township either. $200 spent annual.
ly in gravel is a great keel better than
not putting on any.
A. certain young gentleman, well-
known to a number of your Morris
readers, has a very dolieate complex-
ion, so delicate that this winter he
has been wearing a mask, in the
shape of a piece of cloth with holes
cut In it for his eyes, se that the sun
and wind could not bronze his beauty.
He should move to soma other coun-
try or seek in -door work.
MORE Hraroay.—Robert B. Laid-
law writes :—The 'Historical Sketch'
of Morrie, published recently, is a
good deal astray as to who were the
first settlers of the township. I was
in Morris the first winter there were
any white settlers in the township,
the winter of 1851 and 1852. When
I came to Morris first, the 24th of
September, 1851, there were two fam-
ilies settled in the township, where
part of the village of Blyth now is.
These were the families of Mr. Mc-
Oonnell and Mr. McBean, who Dame
into the township in the summer of
1851, and that fail John and Thomas
Laidlaw settled on lot 7, concession
9 ; the some fall Valentine Harrison
settled on the south half of lot 8,
concession 8, and in the beginning of
that winter John McMillan, John
McDonald and Malcolm Campbell
settled on the south halves of lote 4,
5 and 6, ooncessiou 9, and farther on
in the winter J. B. Taylor settled on
lot 10, concession 9, and John Thom-
pson settled on lot 12, eonoession 10,
and James McDonald settled on lot
16, concession 10. The McKellar
family settled on the north half of
lot 4, concession 9, the same winter.
So that is before there were any set-
tlers near Belgrave. Now, as to who
was the first white child born in Mor-
ris : Thomas, son of John Thompson,
was born on the 18th day of March,
1852, on lot 12, concession 10, so I
think that was six months before
Joseph England settled in Morris. It
was always believed in this neighbor.
hood that John Laidlaw and Agnes
' Waldie were the first couple that
were married in Morris. They were
made one on tho 15611 day of March,
1855.
Scott Act Licenses.
MEETING Or 1)01IINIO:3 OOMMIBSIONERS.
Tho Board of License Commission.
ors met in the Court House at 2 pm,
on Tuesday. Commissioners present
—His Honor Judge Doyle, chairman ;
P. Kelly, warden ; and Robt. Cornyn,
Inspector H. W. Ball acted as sures
tary.
"Resolved—That persons licensed
by this Board to sell liquors ander the
Soott Act shall carry on the busineas
apart from all others, and in a build-
ing entirely separate from a hotel,
The following persons will be grant.
ed licenses on complying with above
resolution :—J. E nigh, Blyth ; 11'.
McDonagh, Colborne ; S. Omer, W.
Wawanosh ; Tilos. Smylie, Ashfield ;
Jno. Farmer, Exeter ; J. A. Doyle,
Goderich ; Oraib & Saints, Godoriob ;
Mrs. J. Killoran, Seaforth ; J. W.
Carroll, Seaforth ; D. Grant, Stephen ;
G. & H. Jackson, Tucicersmith ; A.
Roe, Wingham ; R. Reynolds, Hay ;
J. Bell, Mullett; L J. Tuelc, Grey.
.A. number of applications were laid
over till next meeting of the board.
The board adjourned to meet at 11
a.m. on Thursday, April 0th 1885.
In Kincardine a billiard license
coats $40 for first table, $25 for sec -
end and $20 for third,
LO M. 17'3315.
Ws understand that 3, D , Ronald
lute offered to pay $1500 by way of
settlement of the dispato between
himself and the oorporatiuu, if the
corporation hLnd over the foundry
to him and all the casts of the
late suit and expenses in 0003200t1011
with pasange of a bylaw or anything
of this kind to wind up affairs.
BABE BALL,—Last Friday evening
a meeting of persona interested in the
formation of a base ball club for the
coining same wits hold at the Central
hotel. Tho following officers were
elected :—Presicteut, W. F. Vanstoue;
Vioe•Pres., 3. H. Young ; Sac. Jas,
Ross; Capt. W. H. McDonald. It is
the intention of the club to join the
league, we believe, and snake it inter-
esting for some of the crank teams.
Brussels has always held her own on
the diamond and it is expeoted that
the season of 1885 will be no exoep
tion to the rule, although a few of
the old Clippers are away. It 18 not
the intention of the football club to
organize, any more than to complete
the matches they have in hand from
last fall, as a good many of the boys
are in the baso ball team and cannot
attend to both.
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ; MANITOBA :—
The following extract is from a
paivate letter dated 21st March, re•
oeived from Wakopa:—''We have
beautiful weather here, our farmers
Bowed about '7 acres of wheat abo"t
2 weeks ago and if nothing happens
we will have a very early spring. We
have one grist mill running in full
blast, they have the roller process in
it this time, it gives us quite a lift,
We have hopes of the South Western
R. R. this summer. We have a
creamery starting this soasou, 1 think
they count on 150 cows, that is not
bad for a new country. When we
get the railroad we will bo just as
comfortable as you down there, all we
lack is the orchards but we have lots
of wild fruit such as raspberries, straw-
berries, black currants, gooseberries,
plums, cranberries and the bush is
full of wild hops."
VARIETIES.
Napoleon the Great is said to have
writted 20,000 lettere.
It is more comfortable to walk a-
round a rattlesnake than to attempt
to kick it out of your way.
Japan has now, in round numbers,
80,000 common schools, 8,000,000
pupils. and 84,700 teachers.
the folio icing sentence :—"I toward
my trowsers."
A miser is the golden mean.
Two States oftenest together—Wis.
Ky.
baby-carriage is pretty sure to be
struck by a squall.
.Blind people (sonnet be oarpentere,
because they never saw.
Don't say "he drank himeelf to
death." Simply observe that "he un-
corked his spirits with a oorkecrew."
"Posts are born," says a writer.
So aro other men, but when they get
old enough they generally reform.
One half of the world doesn't know
how the other half lives. It is just as
web. It eaves a great of gossip.
A poet says "Tie more bravo to
live than to die," That's the reason
poets send their effusions by mail to
the editors.
"Yes," said a henpecked husband,
"there truly is no place like home,
and that's why I keep away from it
so much."
ATurnberry street girl's answer to
the current conundrum : "Will the
coming man work ?" is : "He will if
I get him."
A doctor says that scarlet fever
microbes aro shaped like hairs. Show
this to the youth who is raising a
mustache and advise him to consult
a physician.
"Horatius," said the schoobmiets
ress to a Erne year-old boy with two
imposing freckles on the knees of his
pants, "Horatius, please form a sent.
once with the word 'toward' in it and
write the sentence on the board."
Horatius wont to the black board and
after much scratching of the head.
and friction of the brain, printed with
the crayon, in letters that looked like
a lot of half feathered Shanghai Ohio•
bens running after a pieces of dough,
Brant Orangemen will celebrate the
12th of July in St. Thomas.
The rano on Saturday between Ox-
ford and Cambridge TJnlveretties was
won by Oxford by thfee boat lengths,
The Lucknow Council have award-
ed a contract for the erection of a
new Town Hall to cost $4,408, and
to be completed by October 15th.
P. Navin, of Amherstburg, has re-
ceived from the department of Public
Works the contract signed for the
erection of en addition to the Cus-
toms House building in London,
The contract will amount to between
g86,000 or $40,000.
A YOUNG GIRL'S WOOING,
11012,
Antitor of., 8011 Sombre 101111s,"" From
Jest to Earnest,. 7Zc,, dL•c.
CHAPTER I.
A
0111(SCENT OF A aids,
When Madge Alden was seventeen
years, of age au oveut occurred which
promised to be the mistorteno of her
life. At first she was almost Over.
whohllod, and know not what to do.
Site was but a young and inexperienced
girl, and for a year or more had beau re.
genial as an invalid.
Madge Alden was an orphn.n. Four
3'051'H prior to the opening of our story
SW had lost her mother, her surviving
peanut, and since had resided with her
elder eider Marv, who was several years
her solder, and had married Henry
Muir, a merchant of New York City.
This gentleman had eordielly united
with his wife in offering Mange a home,
and his manner toward the young girl,
as far as his absorbed and busy life per.
mittwl, had been almost paternal. Ile
was a quiet, reticent man, who had ap-
parently concentrated every facnity of
soul and body on the problem of coml-
moreinl snccess. Trained to business
from boyhood, he had allowndbt to bo-
COme his life, and he took it very seri•
ously. It was to him an absorbing
game,—his vocation, and not a means
to some ulterior and. Ho had already'
0001111101aled enough to maintain his
family in a'Thlonco, but he thought no
more of retiring from trade tlian would
avotorauwhist-player wish to throw up a
handful of winning cards. The events of
the world, the fluctuations in prices,
over which he had no control, hronght
to his endeavor the elements of ohanre.
and it was his mission to pit (limiest
those uncertainties untiring industry
sod snub skill and foresight as be pos-
seoeeel,
Alis domostic life was favorable to his
ruling passion. Mary Alden, at the
time of her marriage, was a quiet girl,
whose early life had been shadowed by
sorrow. Sho had seen her father pass
away in his prime, and her mother be-
come in consequence a sad and failing
woman. The young girl rallied from
these early years of depression into
cheerfulness, and thoroughly enjoyed
what some might regard as a monotou•
nus life; but she never developed any
taste for the diversions of society. Thus
it u•ay be surmised that Mr. Itfuir ou-
w.,nutered no distractions after business
hours. Ile ever found a good dinner
awaiting him, and his wife Hold herself
in readiness to do what he wished dur-
ing the evening, so far as the claims of
Um children pern?tted. Therefore
there wore few more contented men in
the city than he, and the namo of
*Henry .hair had become a synonym°
among his acquaintances for methodical
business habits.
In character and antecedents his
yommger brother, Graydon Muir, who
was also an inmate of the family, pre-
sented many marked contrasts to the
elder man. 110 bad received a liberal
education, and had graduated at a city
college. Ho had developed into one of
the best products of metropolitan life,
and his defects were chiefly due to the
circumstances of his lot. During his
academic course he had been known as
au athletic rather than a bookish man,
and had left hie Alma Mater with an
Apollo•like physique. At the same
time 110 had developed fine literary
tastes, and was well informed, even if
110 pact not gong very deeply into the
classics and rho sciences that were re-
mote from tho business career which ho
had chosen. After a brief interval of
foreign travel ho had entered his
brother's office, ,and was schooling his
buoyant, pleasure -loving temperament
to the routine of trade. When business
hours wore Ovor,howev00', Graydon gave
himself up to the gratification of his
social tastes. IIis vitality and flow of
spirits ware so immense that wherever
ho went ho always caused a breezy rip-
ple of excitement. Even veteran soci-
ety girls found something exhilaratiug
in tho mirthful flash of his blue oyes,
and to bo whirled through a waltz on
his strong arms was a pleasure not de•
dined by reigning belles. Many looks
that to other men might have been the
arrows of Cupid were directed toward
him, but tlieyglaneed harmlessly from
his polished armor. Society was to Lim
what business waS to his 'brother,—au
arena in which ho easily manifested his
power, At the same time he was 'a
manly follow, and had no taste for
corner flirtations or the excitement of
drawing perilously near to a committal
with those who would have responded
to narked attentions, The atmosphere
be loved was that of general and social
gayety. The girls that ho singled out
for his especial regard were noted for
their vivacity and intelligence, as well
as their beauty, Meanwhile he had
won a reputation for his good.natured
attention to "wall•fiower8." Such kind.
ly efforts wore rarely made at tho
promptings of conscience. Tho truth
WAS, he enjoyed life so fully himself that
he disliked to see any one having a dis•
Anal time. It gave him genuine pleasure
to come to a plaiu•featured, neglected
damsel, and sot her blood tingling by a
brief whirl in a dance or breezy allot
that dill her good, body and soul, so de-
void of satire or patronage was the
attention. His superb health and tire.
loss strength, his perfect familiarity
with the usages of soofoty, and his grace.
fol decision of action made ovorything
he did appear 00 easy and natural as the
beat of a bird's wing upon the air, and
in his large circle ft was felt that no en.
tortainmont was complete without Ills
(T0sin 0010Th mans
1...j OUSE & LUT FORSALS, ON
queen Street. Thorn 10 also n chop on
the Lot Mut could 00 ;Mimed ter a e,tahlo.
Will be sold on reasonable term,. Apply 6o --
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01103 22, cost, 5, Marrlo, lying within
miles 01 Brussels, 337 Boras aro cleared and
mostly under gran, balance hardwood buoh,
Mood butldlugs, fouooe, orobard. ,80. Por Apar.
fibnial% apply t0 (IMO. 1'0atl3'r!(,
N,13,—Also a arab-oloss yoke of oxen for
aide,
8ntf G. S",
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"lA Young GirPo Wooing,"
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
Thos. Kelly, Treasurer, in. Account
with the Corporation of Brussels.
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand last audit, .. .. $ 880 80
Hall rent,.. .. .. .. 59 50
Hawkers and billiard licenses, .. 28 00
Hotel licenses, .. .. .. .. .. 564 89
Dog tags, .. 22 00
Boundary line grant, .. .. 44 34
Clergy reserve,.. . .. .. .. 11 10
Governmeut school grant, .. .. 175 00
Hay scales, . .. 104 00
J. Shaw, school debentures Bud
oonpons, .. -, .. .. 145 80
Nonresident nonaction,
County rite,
School rate, .. .. ..
Poll tax, .. .. ..
Local rote,.. .. .. ..
B. B. rate,-. .. ..
By-law No. 7, .. ..
u u 10, .. ..
Dog tax, . .. ..
Arrears of taxes,
Returned taxes collected,
66 47
400 96
1951 06
8 n0
1467 95
406 06
625 41
1886 97
163 00
.. 24 00
.. 120 86
.. 12 47
58182 76
EXPENDITURE.
Street improvements, .. ..
Salaries, .. .. .. ..
Charity,
Piro protection,,,
anal, .. .. .. .. ..
Bend,..
Postage and stationery, .
Haysoales,.. ,,
Taxes remitted,.. ..
Board of Health, , , , ,
Selecting jurors, .. .. .. ..
Livery hire &o., .. .. .
.,$.52468
595 9(i
., 118 91
801 45
48 23
125 00
81 64
4 00
821 54.
17 69
12 00
7 50
Election 01233011505.........41 70
Account of By-law voted on, moles.
iveof printing,.. ,, ,, ,. 99 25
Voters' list Court„ 16 00
Interest and commission, .. .. 14 23
School equivalent, .. ,. ., .. 175 00
School Board, ., 1757 45
School debentures and coupons, -. 145 80
Government school grant, , , . 175 (10
Births, marriages and deaths. 7 70
R. B. awarcl, Morris,..
11.11. award, Gray,
County rate account,
License refund„ , ..
Bylaw No. 7, ..
08
" "10 ,. „
Miscellaneous
Taxes uncollected, .,
Printing,
Balance, ,.
ASSETS,
Balanoo on hand, , , „, 427 81
Taxes uncollected, ,, ,, ,. ,, 88 80
Balanoo, ., .. ,.• .. 474 0$
$985 69
109 60
.. 159 47
110 81
20 00
860 00
1400 0(1
„ .. 164 00
.. 48 00
.. 84 17
.. 88 80
.. 148 77
•, 427 81
58199 76
LZABiI,ixzEs.
Balance of Co. rate for 1888-4, , , 0668 89
Collector and Treasurer's tamales... 80 00
By-law No. 10, (548,00 paid 10), , , 152 00
R. B. award, lliorrie,, . , , 186 00
Balanoo brongllt down 0174 pa
VVEthe undersigned Auditors of the
corporation of tho Village of Brussels,
in the County of Huron, certify that we have
duly examined the Treasurer's ao0ouute and
the Vouchers thereof for the year 1884 and
find the same eared,
Datod this 2nd day of March, 1885.
A, HTJNTISB,
GEC.IIA11TWICII Auditors,