The Brussels Post, 1887-2-25, Page 1Volume 14.
U'NOLIE JOE.
To the (editor of Tun Pow.
Tho press is a greab power in the kind
but I am afraid tho pulpit will supersede
it if some of the pastors don't let up on
the free advortising business from the
pulpit. It was }supposed that the eitiee
had the patent right on thio )rind of busi-
ness but I know other places, whore the
'ovulation is not counted by thousands,
that will soon rival them. A person, who
is gifted with a mathematical bump in
Itis cranium, informed tee that he at-
tended two of our Brussois ohurohes owe
Sunday lately and there woro 12 an-
nouncements made from one pulpit and
8 front the other, Following up this idea
I road in some piper that tt 111011 living
near Mount Ferost best his 1horo blanket
and the foot was trade known from the
pulpit and the reward specified. A. more
conyeeient form would bo to have a
bin'k beard and havo all the atnrounce-
tnonts numbered and tabulated. Watch
out the next time you go to church and
yon will see whether it is so or not. 70
stay be all right bit it does not suit
everybody.
Political affairs hive been rife for a
gond while but they will quiet down now
t suppose end everything run in its nat-
ural groove. During a political Dam.
heartgroat
of the conflict tthat hins are said in t
would be better
tmse.ld and owing to the continuatiou of
olectione, the Provincial, Municipal and
Dominion the electors hardly had time to
cool off. Good work and energetic efforts
were Out forth by both political parties
and the battle was neither won nor lost
by inactivity or earolesseess.
This hos been n splendid winter for
out -door work and the amount of t am-
ino done has bean very large. This kind
of a winter is a groat advantage to this
see, ion of the country and will largely
help in the work of the year. The amount
of timber got out is gradually lesening
every ywr and very conn the cordwood
and stovowood business wi'1 bo a thing of
the post. Time makes many changes.
U\CLE JOE.
A NEW SWINDLE,
ny W1•blela Verniers are Gulled en the
stet; us steer taint.
It will be interesting to some of our
farmer: fiends to know just how the roof
paint swindle is worked. Tho operation
is as follows :—A stranger appears to a
farmer, states that he is travelling for a
"roofing company, and in order to intro-
duce their compound would like to send
the farmer ten gallons free. "In order to
snow to alto company that he is doing
straight business. ho is obliged to ask the
farmer for a written order for the paint,
:ted ho will give the farmer in return a
receipt, sohe can get the paint, which will
bo shipped to hie," Tho reosipt reads :-
"This is to certify that Ur. Blank is to
havo ten gallons paint specified on tate
card signed, free of charge and for noth-
ng. Joss Soxrrsu"
Tho paper which the farmer gives the
•'agent" is
"Fingal, Fob. 21, '87.
'New York Roofing Co.
"Gosrr . Please ship me by Michigan
Central Railroad to Shedden Station two
casks of your roofing ocmpouud according
to tint following agreement, viz. t—
"I am to have ten gallons of your roof-
ing compound free of uhargo ; for all fu-
ture orders I am to pay two-thirds of the
retail price. Any verbal agreement dif-
ferent from the above will pot be 0000g-
nizod. hooa Barons"
"Retail prism, $2.24 per gallon."
"
this All its while the "agent" and the far..
have talking min a loon wn
mot to been ug oo y
about "ten gallons" and "two casks," and
an idea has crept into the farmer's head
that each cask is to contain only five gal-
lons ; bot, bless you, you were never more
mistaken. By and bye, a week or two
after, two oaeks of the roofing palm,
valued at $218, aro delivered. Tho
•farmer is rather paralyzed, begins to feel
that ho has boon duped, but manages to
say he "thinks not. He never gave an
order for such, au amount, and what he
did order was to be without charge,"
"Certainly. certainly," says the attorney,
"you have ten gallons free, but" and he:
prodncos the farmer's order --for "two
casks." The farmer attempts to explain,
but the deliverer sayfl' he don't know any-
thing about that. 'There is the farmer's
o'do: for "two casks" and his signature,
wlhioh hs has acknowledged. Thorn is
the bill and the bill of lading showing
that the goods have boon shipped. The
goods have been shipped in good faith.
Ile wants to know if tho farmer is in • the
habit of doiugbusiness kn this way; if he
malas a practice of going bank ou his
word. As the knaves invariably select
well-off farmers, this is liable to be a
catehor. Tho deliverer fsn't particular
about having cath down, but ha wants
the matter settled tome ways 11 the
farmer oan't pay cash he'll take his note ;
if oho farmer gives his noto, that settles
it -ho is bitten, and if ho remains obdurate
the swindler retires.
Thais the way they talk, and 0110 catch
all lies in the lank of'aneoifloatiouo as to
how much "two casks' ,shall contain. It
is a very neat trick, bub sometimes it
don't work,
Ififta ors. Oou7.ant'tr N 0 tock.
A brood mare belonging to Franoi5
Morrison, Malfillop, gave birth to three
torso colts one dtty last Week. The mare
watt in foal for Peter Mollwen'e Rankin
Boy'.
• Chaplain McOabo will deliver his Dole.
hrated leeturo, "Bright lido of life 1017401•
by prison," in the North Stteotlt0ethodist
&leech, Goderioh, ou rho ovonfng of Wed;
fleshy, Dfaroh 2nd,
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 1887.
A meealug in connection with the es.
tablislment of a creamery on the 4th
Dolt., Godo:ich tnvnship, will be hold in
the ()rouge Iia11, on Tuesday, March 1st,
eM 8 o'clock pm. The meeting will be
addressed by Prof. Jas, N, Robertson, of
the Guelph _Agricultural College (Dairy
Dept) and others.
M. C. Cameron having taken steps for
a criminal Iibel againes the publishers of
the Nsws•R000rd, of Clinton, for the pub-
lication of a slander that he was taken
home intoxioated en the night of the Lore
al election, that paper publishes Mr.
Lawrence's denial of the affair, and apol-
ogises ' o Mr. Cameron.
At the regular board mooting of the
Victoria Strout Chuach, Goderioh, hold
on Monday afternoon of last week, areso-
lutiou was passed unanimously thanking
the Rev. G. F. Salton for his untiring
energy and effors on behalf of the church
interests, and praying him to return to
thh, field of labor for another year.
The renowned horse breeder, Charles
Mason, sold his eelsbratod imported
stallion. McCartney to two buyers from
Waterloo for the sum of $2,000. Ile also
sold his imported Clydesdale stallion two
year old, ' Gen. Gourlay," for the sum
of $1,000 to W. Hawkshaw, of 8oaforth,
and Simon I•ranter, of Tuokersmith. Mr.
Mason sold a five months old foal from
his imported mare "Jess" for $250, and a
throe year old filly, Canadian bred for
$276.
One night the °look in a oartttie ]louse
on Rattenbory street, Clinton, deliberate-
ly stopped, while its owners ware calmly
slumbering. Soon after ono of the mem-
bars awoke, and seeing a light iu an ad-
jaa•ut house, concluded that it wee time
to got up • they did so, got breakfast
ready, and the remaining members of the
household got up and partook of the
same, Thu light in the adjacent house
having in the meantime disappeared,
some one, wishing to know the time, be-
thought themselves of a watch in one
of the rooms, and it was found to be only
8 o'clock am. Tableau,
At about 5:20 a.in. Suniay a fire broke
out iu a large b ending iu Tseswatar own-
ed by Jas, McGowan, of Luoknow. The
lower story was oocupied by Sas. Mullen,
grocer. The fire spread rapidly and was
not controlled until two buildings and a
part of another woro destroyed. Two
were owned by Wm. McKenzie and the
othe by Isaao Silliok, grocer. 11Ir. Mo -
Kenzie puts Isis loss at $1,500, insured in
the Mercantile f ,r $400 and the Mutual
for $000. I. Sillick's loss on building,
$500, insured for 9200 ; company not
known. His stools is saved Jas. Mo-
Gowan's loss not known, but insured for
a largo amount in a good company. Mrs.
Fleming, milliner, and Wm. Barton,
billiard -room -keeper, tenants of Mr. Me-
Me.zio, will lose slightly.. Mrs. Flem-
ing's stook is slightly damaged ; insured
for $400.
As the pupilsofSchool Section No. 1,
Tornberre, were returning home from
?
aelibol on •onday, tiro 7th feat„ one of
the boys, a lad about 17 years of age, took
a basket, belonging to Frank Wright, aged
9 years, son of Wm. Wright, for a foot-
ball. The child, in hie endeavors to get
his basket, did not observe a team coming
alpng with a load of salt of 80 cwt. Ere
the man could stop his horses, they were
on tho boy, and knocked loins clown. One
of the corks of the horse's foot went above
theeye and another through hie ohin and
the whole load of salt wont over him.
The teacher and.her brother were close
behold and took the wounded child in
their cutter, but never tied up his wounds.
It was a very cold, stormy night, the
wind was in his Mee, and notwithetaud-
ing the ohild was covered with blood,
they (aft him at the. a
o a distance
o
f
over 40rods frahs home, to the mercy
of three small boys to carry him home.
His head was greatly swollen with the
oold, A physician was immediately sent
for, and pronounced the boy to be in a
very dangerous condition. Hie arm, leg,
breast, oye and beck were badly hurt.
One of his tenth was knocked out and a
great number more were loosened. The
doctor stitched up bis wounds, but he
has novor been able to move slum. and
there is groat doubt about his r000very.
Peort a Goalie .17 Note+at.
The Stratford Herald will embark in
publishing a daily paper in that city
5000.
Judge Lizars' retiring pension is $1,-
800 a year, while his position of Master
in Chancery will net him $700 more,
Mr. Crayshaw has billed St. Mary/ for
$100 fortis mustang, which was clrowuod
on the Stratford road a couple of weeks
ago,
Sheriff Hos • is sold the Boot & Shoe
stook of 17. B. Cunningham, Mitchell, on
Saturday. The stook brought 71;} (,ante
on the dollar.
Tho Blaushard .A rioulturul Society
came within a few votes of electing two
ladies on their Board of Directors at their
lata annual meeting.
All the Listowel hotel -keepers wore
"caught" on Saturday night. They ad-
rnitted tho charge to the Stratford Pollee
Magistrate, and paid the find.
Tho new Court House in Stratford is
to be opened With groat pomp on the 22nd
of June, The County Council made a
grant of 9500; at its recent seselon, to de-
fray the expenses of tho opening.
The Hon.. Loth J. Beauchamp, the
Ohio Gotigh, interested the .eitizonis of
Mitaholl, Listowel land .other towns in
the County with somo of his celebrated
temperance addresses. Ho is a great
Nord painter,
• A. little boy in Mitohell, named Willie
Edwards, when returningfrom 0chool
the other day plaeod This tongue against a
bar' in the Men bridge near the 00llieo0
Haus°, and before he could b0 relratott
hot water bad to bo applied.
The Perth Spring Assizes will be hold
in Stratford on Monday, May 9,
Thomas II. llobinson. a native of St.
Marys, but now a resident of Toronto, is
the champion skater of the Dominion,
Ab a recent tournament in Now York wo
see that he eeoured s000nd prize in a
matalh against all comers, but he has re-
fused to accept it. Tho spectators said
the was entitled to first, but the judges
awarded it to hie oompetitor,
The St. Murys journal says :.—The
news of a curious accident comes from
West Oxford. Whilst a lady named
Yarn was gating her diunor on Saturday
she accidentally swallowed a portion of
a plate of false teeth with two or three
tooth attached. The plate and tenth are
imbedded in the stomach, and although
causing considerable pain, no serious re-
sults aro apprehended.
A. B. McCallum, M. A., the energetic
head master of the Listowel High School,
presidedat the political meeting address-
ed some time ago by Mr. Blake in that
town. Tho High Solhool board, whish is
chiefly Conservative, at the first °epee.
tunity reduced the salaries of Mr. McCal-
lum and his assistant, who also is a Re-
former. The teachers at once resigned,
and as Ibir. McCallum is really one of the
best teachers in the provinoo the people
of Listowel aro annoyed at the aotion of
the Board.
The adjourned inquest on the two Rig-
ney children was held iu Granton, on the
9th inst., before Coroner Hossaok, Dr.
Ellis, the analyst, from Toronto, was in
attendance, and in his evidence stated
that ho had analyzed the stomachs of
both children and found sufficient strych-
nine in each to cause death. Tia jury
found a verdico that Thomas George and
Sarah Jane Ripley mama to their deaths
by poisoningby strychnine, where it 01G1110
frnmorhow administered the jury has no
evidence to determine.
4-leier&S1 Lelewet.
The Russians are assembling a large
squadron in Japanese waters.
A resident of Chester, Ill., has a pet
mow that talks quite as well as any par.
sot. -
Buffalo Bill is to take some society
youths on a hunting expedition in tho
west.
California bas 4,000 wine growers, and
at least 160,000 acres aro planted in
vines. This rapresents au investment of
960,000,000 and gives employment or
support to 150,000 pets0ns.
Matthew Bernals, a flour broker, of
Pittsburg, Pa„ borrowed $10,000 from
his friends on Tuesday and started fur
Harrisburg. He has not returned, and it
is believed he has gone to Canada.
The Queen has asked Lord Dufferin,
Viceroy, to oonvey to the people her
warmest thanks and deep appreciation of
their loyalty to herself, as manifested by
their celebration in commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of ha seoess1on to
the throne.
"Happy Bob" Van Brunt, a member of
the Elmira, N.Y., Salvation Army, who
has been on trial fur several days for the
murder of Will Roy, ]salt -brother of Van
Brunt's sweetheart, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged on April 15th. The defence
was insanity. ,
The bodies of five persons --a man,
woman and three children—were taken
from m cave in the Bad Lands of Dakota
by a miner, and were forwarded to St.
Paul, Minn. Tho bodies aro simply dried
up, and -nob petrified, and are in 0 re-
markable state of preservation. Soien.
tit° man say they belong to a race which
existed 2,000 years ago. Tho withered
family will bo sent to rho Smithsonian
Institute.
Mac Baker, the fastinggirl of Monon
White Oaunty, Ind., has ased the 116th
day of the fast. It was found that she
could retain water on her stomach, and
since then she has taken food in moder-
eSo quantities, and is improving rapidly..
Her tart is retarded by medical men es
the most wonderful on record, as she is
said to have neither eaten nor drank
during the long period named. The
change in her condition took plane when
death was expected,
There is near Central Park a gymuas-
.ium for girls. Tho young women wear
bbeuses, short skirts and trousers, and go
through all the performances that men
do. Their proficiency becomes very
great. Ono ease will illustrate what a
young woman can learn to do, A girl was
promheed a sealskin moque by an admirer
if she would learn to turn a book soma -
smelt. She set dilicvenbly at it, and prao-
&cod until she was able to perform the
feat. Tho gymnasium is liberally pat-
ronized and 10 in every way a succuss. A
look inside of it is enough to aonvinoe
anybody that there is "room" for the
gymnasium. The hall isfilled during the
sessions. Some girls are swinging on the
trapeze, others are climbing ropes, others
are vaulting, turning oartwheols and the
like, and others aro pounding sandbags to
work up their muscles. Tho exorcise oft-
en converts delicate girls into strong and
henithy ones, it is claimed. Boxing has
become almosta craze among the fash-
ionable girls. Ono thing said in com-
mendation of it is that it im harts self-
possession and confidence, Tho idea is
rather novel, but, after all, it is not un-
reasonable. Fencing has long been pm...
Seed by society girls, and might to ac-
complish as much as boxing in improving
their beating. Nearly all, or at any rate
a good sharp, of •the belles play billiards,
which aro declared to be healthful, and
also to improve the judgment, The
claims for rho different things may seem
rather absurod, but they neverthelese.
have many believere. There aro dozens
Of riding' 50110016, but they aro not now
like some of the outer thing. They were
very popular ehouglt,---(Now York Notes
in Brooklyn Union.
There aro 1,000 Y. M. C. Ate. in the
United Statue:
Senator Riddloberger recently alluded
to Mr. Edmunds as "the eminent po11-
parrot from 'Vermont."
The Legislative Aseembly of Alabama
has passed a bill making gambling a ±11-
ony-the first offence to be punished by
not loss than six months' imprisonment
in the penitentiary, and the emend of.
fence six years,
There is a hniwister of the gospel in
South Bend, Ind., whose total rash in-
come for the past year was $203. With
this 11e supported a family of six and paid
car faro between South Bond and Loper -
to every two weeks.
The bill now pending before the Peen.
sylvania Legislature making two-thirds
of a jury sullieient to acquit• or convict
has received a favorable repot by the
Judiciary Committee, and seems iu a
fair way to become law.
The Rev. Stopforcl Wentworth 'Brooke,
who has just boon settled over the First
Ohnrah of Boson, has six. sinters a'. home
in England. As ho is a bachelor, he is
going to g,•t them to ammo over two at a
time and keep house for him.
A•ocarding to the Roman Catholio di.
rectory recently published there are 418
priests in the dioeeee of New York, 812
in Boston, 287 in Baltimore, 282 fn Chi.
oago, 270 in Philadelphia, 254 in St,
Louis, 227 in Milwaukee, and 219 in Cin-
cinnati.
Almost without a dissenting v,dce, the
House Committee on Shipping at Wash-
ington, on the 11th inst., resolved to
make a favorable report on Mr. Dingloy's
bill to protect thefieheries of the United
States. The bill makes liable to seizure
and forfeiture any foreign vessels found
taking fish of any kind within three mar-
ine milds off the shores of the United
States.
Alter nightfall wild duoks infest the
grain fields in the vicinity of Petah
(]reek, Cal., 'in great numbers. They
have neo ly clevasted 4(.0 acres on the
Carry farm. Henry Goodman, the fore.
than. after experimenting with numerous
devices to frighten them awaf, at(;last hit
'upon the project of burning candles dur-
ing the night. These aro protected from
the wind with sacks, and the fields are
kept comparatively clear of ducks.
O'Brien's oirons was sold at auction in
Philadelphia the other day. Empres-, a
vicious elephant, who killed her keeper
last year and has mangled two or three
other keepers, was knocked down for
$1,500 Queen, anot ler eloplhnub not
quit • so vioioa., brought $1,••00 Chief,
m vicious elephant, brought $1,80. A
Bengal tiger was -old for $050, s leopard
for 9180, an African spotted hynon for
$43, a sable antelope for 9400 and a big
lioness for 9210.
There is a young man of Chadds Ford,
Will Moore, who, a few evenings ago,
played a trick on himself very innocent y,
lie went to a lodge meeting at Centre.
rills, and while preparing to go (tome caw
a nice black dog standing on the hotel
porch. "Jove!'' said ho to a friend,
"that will make a nice matefor my Rover
at hone." Ile went to the dog and pick.
ed it up and carried it to his wagon,
where he tucked it iu under tho buffalo
robes. He finally reached home and took
the dog to his room, where he made a
Mos bed for it on the floor. When he
awakened Sunday morning ho found the
dog standing at the side of his bed wag-
ging his tail. It was his own Rover that
had followed him to Centreville and was
stolen by its own master.
A Lnndou cable letter says that there
the belief that a war is coming with the
spring still holds. Tho only word whioh
is heard comforting to the psaoe-makers
comes from a prominent G •rmnn offioial
now in London, to whom Lord Granville,
whois a fair( good ant 'it on foreign
(tot fo e
fairlyY 6
affai •9 as expressed his bead that'
n h war
A
would be averted. The situation was
oritioal, but he fait certain the cloud
would blow over, as neither aohmtry
wants to fight just now. The same Ger-
man friend believes that Bismark will
not be so happy as the could wish with
his now Reichstag. Ile may, and prob-
ably will, have his Sopbenuabe, but ho
will have no subserviont tnajority to give
hint the bobaono and spirits monopolies
on which he depends for financial
strength. Madame Novikoff, the Russ-
ian woman of brains, also believes that
war is not as probable as it was. Russia
and Austria, she thinks, understand each
other, and Bulgaria will come to nee
senses and stop playing the spoiled child,
very soon.
Tho largest and fastest passenger ou-
girte over built has boon just turned over
to the Now York, Providence & Roston
Railroad Company. Tho main driving
wheels are 6 fent in diameter and set but
7 feel; 6 inches apart. This arrengemeut
will make her rim easily 011 the ourvos.
The cylinders aro 18 inches in diameter,
with 24 inch stroke, The boiler is 54 in.
tiles in diameter at the smoke stack, with
a wagon cop. It extends to the very end
of the Dab, and necessitates the elevation
of the engineer's seat to a height far
above the fire door, The fico will call for
three tons of coal before the engine is
pulled out of the round house to make
her trips, and four tone will be carried on
the tendon: The tank of the latter will
hold 4,000 gallons of water, and the total
weight of the tinging proper is 98,000 to
05,000 pounds. The weight on the driv-
ing whaois will be 55,000 Needs,or 4,800
snore than the Conneotioub. She looks
to he enormously high, as the sots up
well in the -air, and her short smolt°
stack adde to horapparosbllai lilt. Every-
thing about hoe is of stool. There is not
a partial° of braise or height work about
her. She le expected to mance the run
from Providence to Groton, Conn.{ a dim
Mums of 625 miles, including a dead stole
at Mystic r rawbridge, in just 025 min-
utes, pulling at the same time Dight oars,
four of .which will be Pullmans.
Number 88•
Live stooks are reported in good oon A moose almost broke up it prayer
clition in Comrade, meeting at Newmarket.
Abi11 has been introduced into the The journeymen tailors, of IIamiltm
Ohio Legislature to protect the song hays aslhed for an advance of about 10 or
Write of tho State, 15 per cent, all around on their present
It is oonoidorod certain that 110 bill for rate of prices. The masters have not
the fortification of United States ports yet met to consider the advance, but is M
will be pieced clueing the present session
of Congress,
Itis rumored in Washington that there
rs 0 probability of an extra session of
Cu"g.asu to consider the extradition tees.
by with Great Britain,
An explosion of natural gas at the
Black Diamond Stool Works, Pittsburg,
lato Monday afternoon, probably fat.
ally bo=oed a workman named Jamas
Moly that the request will be granted,
which will moan an advance of 91 to $2
on a suit of 010t110e.
Tho Arthur Meehanios' Institute M
now in a very tourisliiog condition, hav-
ing recently added nearly $200 worth of
books to their librery, which/low contains
nearly 1,200 volumes, There is alsoa.
MUM school in oonttantion with the Ins-
titute of about 110 pupils, taught by the
Kerr and sortously injured five others. principal of the common sohool.
From present calculations Bismark The Galt Reporter sestet—Berlin is
will barely obtain a majority for his hop• 1 determined to retake n big fight for soeur-
tonuato Bill. tie regeirod 40 votes. H; ing conneotioh with the C.P.R. When
ham already won twenty, and the remain- Guelph granted $175,000 to secure con-
dor aro almost certain to bo scoured from motion it kind of knocked our eouut
the wavering Center. 30 is certain the Y
Government swill not obtain a majority
suf oieut to adopt nnnohtoply bills. Herr
Wlndthorst has bean re-elected. The tot.
al Socialist vote shows an increase of
500,000. Tho National Liberals have
gained nearly as many seats as they have
loot.
tlausjdian Newst.
The awe sons of the Governor Goneral
have left Montreal for New York, en route
to England,
The Indians at Vancouver, BA., have
a band of seventeen pieces and they
make music that is not to be sneezed at.
A now system of weather signals for
farmer's, by means of flags, will be in-
augurated by the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way in the spring.
James W. Curran, of the Arthur En.
torpris', has severed his connection with
Ma, journal, and is to take a position
on the Oriilia News Letter.
Wallace Ross says he will not go to
England to row Bubear for the cham-
pionship of Great Bri'ain. Bubear may
probably come to America.
The several members of the Seaforth
Curling Club have finished their comps-
tition for the point medal. A. Young is
the winner of the medal for this season.
Tho 21st Essex Battalion have sent
forward the order for busbies for the
whole regiment. They will issue one
thousand invitations for the ball and
supper, to be issued under their aus-
pices on the Queen's Birthday.
Rove. Crossley and Hunter are holding
special servioes in Windsor. The chur-
ches have proved too small for the crowds,
and they are likely to go to the Opora-
house. Those are the most seacoasfnl
meetings yet held by these evangelists.
Cardinal Howard will lay the corner
stone of the 'new Canadian College on the
Via Quattro Frontline; Route, on Thurs-
day next. Cardinals Gobbons and
Titeohereau will attend the ceremonies.
The founder of the college, Father Clem,
is very ill and will he unable to be pees -
Cardinal Manning has issued a pastor-
al on the'relief of of the poor of London,
in which he states that ho has been bo-
strumental during the past few years to
sending 590 children to Canada, all of
whom were received in comfortable
home. Good reports havo been received
of these children and in every oase their
prospects are bright. ,
In tholibel case brought by Miss Ver-
milyea, a lady book agent, against the
editor of the Str,lfo,d Beacon, tried be-
fore Judge Rose at rho Toronto summer
assizes, judgment was given formally for
the plaintiff for $1 damages and such
costs as the plaintiff will be entitled to
without ce tificabo. Judgment given
at time of trial except as too was
costs. The
case caused great excitement at the time.
A Saskatoon oarrespondonb writes:—
There is a great rival y bot•voen Regina
and Moosejaw. Tho former tried to Dap.
tore the Saskatoon trade by laying out
a new and direct trail. Moosejaw now
proposes to outbid her by erecting shan-
ties for stopping places at different stages
along the Moosejaw and Saskatoon trail.
A railway would settle the matter and is
likely to do 00 before long.
Tho other day when the fi.P.R. exhi-
bition car was at Galt station some little
boys were playing around the platform
of the oar, and while doing so incurred
rho displeasure of obs porter in charge,
Out of revenge for some boyish freak the
porter struck one of the lads a heavy
blow with a cane, cutting one of his oars
open. Tho matter was reported to Mr.
Callaway, District Ptuessnger Agent, at
Toronto, who i nmediabe,y telegraphed
the dimissal of the porter.
At tho Cares Randle, on the eget bank
of the Saskatchewan, about 20 miles
south of Saskatoon, bhc cattle have been
watered at the river during the winter.
Thorn are sandbars near the wateing
place, and since ing snow these ess look
1n many places the same as the ice -
covered river, but the Durrant had washed
away some of them, leaving the anow, so
that when the cattle stopped on to it they
want down and two ware swept away.
The mon with ropes and horses extricated
the Others.
In tho suit of Holmes vs. Murray, be-
fore the High Cort of Justice at Toronto
J. Maclonnan, Q.C., for the defendants,
appealed from the jedgmont of Fergu-
eon, J., at the trial upon the question
Whether a devise in favor of a Presbyter,
Ian0htuoh was void under the statutes
of mortmain. The devise was in a will
made more than six months before the
death of the testator, but it codicil was
subeegaonbly atkladwithin the six menthe
before the death, and the learned judgo
hold that as this devise was not thereby
altercel ib must be talcon t0 bo republish-
ed nod the devise therefore void. Moa
ktty (Wooclstook) :for the plaintiff, contest
Reserved.
town friends out; but that theyaroraipna.
ly recovering is evidenced by tho feet
that at the last council meeting a grant
of 825 was male to the Board of Trade
in order that the preliminary notices for
a charter might be given. This only
leaves $174,975 to be granted at Homo
future time to bring them up oven with
Guelph.
The "Original New Orleans University
Singers" gave an entertainment at Stay-
ner on the evening of the 17th ins(, Just
before the arrival of the comp tnyby the
noon train it was ascertained that the
hotel -keepers had resoleed not to admit
them. On arrival they proceeded to the
Cameron House, as their agent had pre-
viously made a contract with the propri-
etor for th it board and lodging. Tho
proprietor, however, denied them the
hospitality of the house, not even per-
mitting them to sit at the table, which
was served for dinner. Arrangements
had meanwhile been made for their ac-
commodation, and the singers were con-
veyed to private houses,
At Piato't, N.S., recently two boys,
sons of Gordon Matheson, kee0er of the
Marine hospital, wore skating on a non
of ice which had grounded in a Dove
about a mile out -lone the lighthouse. Tho
rising tide and a change of wind released
the stranded ice, which begat( drifting off
shore. Noticing this the elder boy, aged
eleven, got on a small Dake of ice and
was pushed towards the shore by his
brother with sufficient fora; to carry it
into shoal r water, plunging into which
the boy was able to wade t0 tete laud.
Meantime the largo pan of loo continued
to widen the distance between it and the
land and the younger boy fearing he
would bo curried out to se • jum95l into
the water and attempted to swim. Chil-
led by tbo icy stater and burdened w•th
his skates and clothing he sank after
making a few strokes and was drowned.
Alexander McArthur, ofWinuipeg, a
gentleman who has made a special study
of Arctic explorations, accompanied by a
drug clerk named Young, has started for
Selkirk with a 1'ad of provisions of aboat
1,400 pounds, his destination being the
North Pole. For a Iong time bit'. lfoAr
thur bas been in communication with
the Smithsonian Institution at 'Washing-
ton and otho soientifio institutes in the
United States with a view of making ex-
plorations in the Northern s• as, and if
possible pushing northward in the ulti-
mate hope of discovering the North Pole.
Before he left ho stater( that he would
not probably returned for two or three
years, and spoke of going to Baffin's Bay
to look for musk ox. Ilia plea was to
take dog brains from Selkirk, but as they
could not be procured, he has deotded to
take ponies and start across the lakes.
The object fn starting early was to permit
of the horses being returned before; 51
ice on she lakgs bre ks up. kis took
with him rt lever Of credit fo $1,5000 on
the Hudson Bay Company, York Ifectory,
also a large supply of tr,mtots such as
might please the native eye. From York
Factory he expects to travel by a dog
train. He also tools: a supply of scienti-
fic instrnsuents, Mr. McArthur is 0;m-
vinood that is plan is the only feasible
ono to aoeomplish the enol.
Edward rfanlan was in Boston Friday
giving orders for two new boats, ttnd put
up at George Hosmer's "Golden Oar,"
Asked about hie taco with txau'laur
Hanlon said ; "Oh, that is coming off all-
ri ht. Monday I shall go to New York
where 'I am to meet Mr. St. John, the
backer of Gaihdaur, and arrange for a
matoh for $5,000 a side and the chem.
pionship of America. I am not deoided
as yet where the race will borowed and,
of course, cannot tell to a certainty until
I have soon Mr. St. John. I think how-
ever, that it will take plass ie the vicini-
ty of Boston, and probably at Want talon;
Beach. The race will not take place un-
til after ,inn° and possibly not before July.
0f the other matches that are in my
mind I cannot say muolt just at present,
as thoy aro all nudeoidod, with the excep-
tion of the Beach race, whish I oonsider
as a settled foot, although i have not as
gob aeon the letter whiolh he sent to me.
I will propably leave for the Antipodes
about the lst of August, and of course
fuel as though I ought to win the race,
and will do my beet, ltfr, O'Connor and
myself have challenged Ross' and Lee to
a double scull race. This ollallenge has
not boehh accepted as yet, but I think I
will hear from them soon. There are also.
tavern,' other good double sooll crows in
the United States, notably Mellay and
Hosiner, and Vantin and Toomsr, so that
if oho match ie no0 made another 18 sure
to be. Iranian said ho had not trained all
winter, "As I am 01050 I weigh about
one hundred and'seventy pounds stripped,
and l: wont to take about twelve pounds
of that offs which will not be a very hard
task. I never .felt better in my life and
expect a, very busy mummer. I think
that aoquaties will boom the .o0ming
season, judging from present indica.
tions."