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The Huron Expositor, 1886-10-22, Page 11886. the Iron feements- Dttered to Goond ds, & rth. ,eFaul "?ial shades and Pa will give bja. speciat low , es are -very an, id are sore to nerything else • entt, bat strtke old secure some L real bargains._ ion rtex” We exteneive stock aperiority, that to- enter iuto nt is a pillar of nties„ tisters, ' Goods, Mantle [.sevlso Knitted loves, Corsets. kets, Conifort- ths, Gent's and Cs Furnishings, &ea; :altogether tit eollecticri of NAM, and Millinery rth, :BRATED. eat—Mr. J. P. agent for the .nsurance Como —Mr. liallock, dry goons in n now drives a said that the more than six as. Agnew and village, intend - Tuesday last, 's to get a robe. Wele-h's, the tarting off sad - its occupants with it the ar some man oa damage was -eeeived no in - they procured d went on their Harris ,g her daughter, Era. Fraser and rg, are visiting ces in Howick. ant Forest, paid. reek. .—A minsionaw he Presbyterian Tuesday even - R. Y. Thom- . Excellent ad - by the Rev. lesbore ; Pritch- n, of Blyth, and Clinton church. occasion was iy evening meet - was manifested of the church's y work. irTION MEETING. meeting of, the • of the SOuth .Id in theMetho- riday last, on s a. very fair at - lid of:prominent hroughout the ed a.nd interest best means ix rrying out ani ce work and th • particular, the e selection of a to be appointed e South Riding, t of officers and ieh was done, rsecl to meet 'resident. ✓ for this time of ually warm and s in consequence and is looking ,11., Rogerson is 1 the work on his Murdock and - ere on Wednes- ,ces at St. Clair - o has been here iting her sister, turned home to nruold, of Ails& old, of Forest, week.—Mr. acrett, f 1-1aY, ng up a horse, a auddenly sprang him with great breaking his leg Rev. IL Red- rkone, are this. and friends oiship.—We are W. R. Ilodgics e fast recovering - Mr. J.I. Carterr irtrieht Salt Coe Neck, looking as' r .—The Revs.gr- M r. Mclilibboor 10sged pulpits on Pleased to see Lon school teacher, to- the house for ✓ sister Miss Ag• e schoel, j so far to resume her a NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 984. .11,111r. SEAiORTH, FRIDAY, .00TOBER 22, 1886. ONE OF THE ,:GREAT (NOTIONS tinder consideration by heads of fami- lies at the present tinie, is the Boot and Shoe C4,-CTIS1TIC)1\T.. There is no other item of expenditure that is so constant and so expensive as Boots and Shoes. In large families there seems to be a constant need of a pair of Boats, Shoes or Slippers Of some kind. At the present time,,in many families, there is need of Boots and Shoes By the Dozen Pairs, And the natural enquiry. is, " Where shall we buy our - Boots & Shoes this season?" What store in Seaforth is most likely to have. the Most useful goods? the beet shapes, the greatest variety, and the lowest prices? George The Great Boot 45 Shoe Dealer, MAIN STREET, SEAFORT•Hi, Is now constantly receiving and opening up his mammoth stock of Fall and Win- ter Boots and Shoes. The leading fac- tories in the Dominion are represented in our stock this season, prominent amongst which is the EAGLE BRAND fy Of Boots and Shoes, every pair of which is warranted.. If they rip or give way in any particular, except by regular wear, WE WILL REPAIR EVERY PAIR FREE OF CHARGE. Remember the Eagle Brand of Boots and. Shoes, the best in Canada. Hats and Craps in the latest styles and lowest prices. Geo. Good. N W GOODS THE— Cheap Cash Store, All Departments are now complete with newest goods. SOW very special lines in Dress Goods, Mantle and Ulster Cloths, Flannels, COttons, etc. An in3pectionfrespectf7ll2J solicited at the Cheap Cash Store —0E--- ffman & Company, Cardno's Block, Seaforth, i McLEAN BROS. Publielae4. .J.50 a Year, in Advance. 1 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. 1 In a speech recently delivered 1 yhim to lus constituents Hon. Geo. W. Ross, Minister of Education made 1 engthy reference to various subjects of i terest. We commend the followingex Lr cts to the consideration of our readers : SEPARATE SO1100Ls. , Besides the public wheel sy tem pf Ontario, which is undenominatioi al, we have three othen, elesses of ielet enterer sohools—colored separate sa001 , Pro- testant separate \and Roman C ttholic separate schools, the latter bei g the most numerous. You are no doubt aware that under the British North American Act of 1867 the supporters of separate schools'were guaranteed entain privileges which the Local Leg lature may extend, but which they canuot abridge. ;You will also no do bt see, that as a part ofour school systei , DOW dealing with the education of nearly 30,000 children, it is clearly thy uty to promete the efficiency of the s parate schools as much -as it is to aid the public and the high schools. It will stir ly not be said, if any real grievance in th work- ing of the Separate Sehool Act e istede that the grievance should not, be -mon- ed, and let me enter my protest gainst the alleged grounds on which these amendments are made, that is, th t they are concessions to the Roman Ca holies, or that they are made to conciliate atho- lies for political purposes. If th ques- tion of legislation is to be conshl red in these ,narrow grounds, then, it lay be shown that all legislation has its object in some ulterior motive, and tha there is no such thing as political honor or no such thing as justice per se. W en the supporters of eeparate schools apply to the Government for such legislation as would aid them in carrying out - the iii tentions of the law—a1 law, minjl you, which we find upon the statute ook— what is our duty? Tell them tljiat: wei cannot do it because' they are Zeman Catholics? Is that what you wo id ex- pect of a Liberal -G-overnment, whose traditions for over half a eentur r ha.ve demonstrated its readinessto edress grievances of every character? Ce tainly not. :Our duty is to see w,het er the chaages proposed are wise, prude it and effectual ; and if so, to make t em or to ask- Parliament to makethe4i, and not to ask questions as to Whet er the petitioaers are Catholics or rrote tants. Thus in this spirit we have dealti,with the Separate . School Act, and- i : is on this account that we are blained lo :seine who have no appreciation Of: the duties which Parliament owes to eVcry e `ass of Her Majesty's subjects, irrespec ive of creed, race, or color. _ - TEXT BOOKS. , • One of the duties imposed loy• tante upon my department is the aut oriza- tion of text books for the schOls f the Province. The regulation �i this subject, which I had the honor to rame, and which are unanimously appreved by both sides of the House, requhje that all public school . text books sh 11 be published in Canada and the epart- ment shall hold the copyright, th4.t .any publisher may publish thein on p otect- ing the rights of- the oeiginal publ .ehers, subject to the approval of the L epart- wilt in regard to typography, bieding, etc., and. that the prices Ishell be a fair market price. In regard to books used in the public schools it is the pol cy of the Department to secure'Ounifo Mity, not only for the con\venieitee of the teacher in classification, but .for the sake of parents, who would otherwise be liable to incur the expense of per - chasing new books ,with ennry change of residence. I might say that this in effect has been the policy of the Educa- tion Department for--ower30 rears; I although not in everi y nstance fully carried out. When I assumed, bffice, as you are ne doubt aware, I wit, con - r fronted With the reader questi1 n, so called. My predecessofavore the authorization of more that'll one Bellies of text books in each subject, and had jnet prior to his illness all but corn leted his arrangements for placing thr0 series upon the market. Two had a ready been authorized, and the thir4 was under consideration. In re -es blish- ing.the system which I then e.nd now bertinve to be the true one, I ha.4 twe difficulties to overcothe—(11) t4 get. over the books authorized either in fact or conditionally, without. infl'cting a wrong upon the publishers 'Wh had invested several thousand dollars ip the undertaking on . the strength o the 1 authority of the Government to publish, and (2) to avoid inflicting a _loss upon 'those who had already! purchas.ell 'the new readers for the use of their hild- ren. . In dealing with the publish rs, I might have ascertained their loss by a commission and paid them a lunip sum, or, what I thought was fairer t4 the public, give a limited interest i4 the publication of a new series, which, with- out enhancing the cost of the r aders to the consumers, would enable them out of the ordinary profits of • pu lica- tion to indemnify themselves ito their loss. I know you will agree as t4 the justice of this coursito the pobli Lie' rs, and when you'ascerta.ineas -I peep se to show you, that the book S are no. e.aer- on that account, you will admit,-- am sure, that the settlement Was a peen- liary satisfactory one frOm a public standpoint. Again, in order to protect those who had already pdrchased those! readers from loss, I permitted Midi. use for eighteen months—that beingi the ordinary life of the school\ book. (The conditions under which thee lipoki; are published are certainly exacting eneugh. ,(L) The, publisher must comply. With our regirlations as to the quality of -the booksee.s a manufaetueed article. (2) An officer of the Department has a right to examine every look in ael its stages of manufacture, froth theHut-, jr ing press till it is ready for ship- ment. (3) No alterations are stillow- ed without the consent df the Depart- ment. , If it appears that the new readers .afford too great z prefit to the, publish- ers, the Department has ti e power at the end of five years, to reduce the sell- ing price to the consumer. ; In the event of the publisherviolat- ing the conditiolus of the con treat in any. substantial way, the Department may cancel the same and o er tae pub- lication to some ther .firm bin-, if, on the other hand, tho contract i in all material respects kept invi late, then it remains in full fo •ce and of ect for ten years. It is also a ccl th agree- ment that the boc be printed and p4hlished in Th earlier Irish readers wer d i Great readers in rs in Edin- ndition o ks should Canada. e publish Britain, the oldi Ontario ,Glasgow, the Bnyal read burgh, and Gael in the U For the first tire in the .Ontario, it may b said tha purely Canadian eries: CHANGES 4F TEXT BC OKs e bi we States. tory of have a It is said: Y u aro el ang lin our 0 school books ver often. Let me ex- plain. In the ase of r ade s there have been only t‘ o change in , 8 years. The Irish Nati nal serie. w s used -from 1846 to 18 '7 ; the o d I anadian series from 186 to 188. in some schools the Gage nd• Royal we e intro- duced in 1883, bu , the change was not general. It is qu te probable t e pres- ent series will las the rema nde of this century ; so therej is very 1 ttle ground for complaint iik regard to readers. Now, in the case of other tex books, the trustees have the mat er in their own hands. By section 27 of he Pub- lic School Act no change ca be madein the text books used in an subject without the cone rrence of he Inspector -and the Truste s. So 1 y u have changes you areJ yourselv s • blame. -If you observed tl e law, th n t ere need have been no cha ge- in th ,,a ithmetic since 1869, in ge graphy s nee 1877, in grammar since 1877, in 1 isto y since 7875, in algebra since 1865, in eometry since 1868, in chemistry sit ce 1875, in physics sin'ee 1875: This • i ce tainly a ' fair degree of permanen e. • In the books ' used in our B gh Schools changes necessarily occur in ma y of the texts, because the course is be. ed upon university work, and that I is on con- trolled by the Education Dep rtment. But I am, charged with h vim forced upon the schools of Ontari 23 changes in text books during the t ree years of my administration—certai ly serious charge, if true. First, let tie 1 otice in a general way the amount of' studied and disingenuous exaggerati n c ntained in this charge. \ The read rs, • ltelough but one series, a`re made to mil t as six text books ; the drawing co irse consist- ing of five numbers, c,ounts as ve text books ; and then to swell t e a gregate and alarm the public an exerci e book, in commercial forms, consis iing of three numbers, which has not bee a thorized and which does nlot reqnir a thoriza- tion, is thrown' in, so that vh t might be fairly called,two text bo ks is made to appear as foarteen. But th import- ant thing to kiiow is, what lay- I actu- ally done? Well, I have au ho ized the readers, and there is not a eac ier, cer- tainly not a pupil of the w o 500,000 in Ontario, capable of jud in:, but is .glad I have. And I have Ise author- ized the drawing b9oks,'b ca se these were authorized before, and t ought it necessary, as we 'were b in ling the study of this subject, thp, w should lay a proper foundation. h ve also authorized a new. history of :Ing and and esi .able to er mettned. he readers, sch ols was ly Depart- riz d. draw- th history cei before .nei oowf ,thase he recom- s hey are ens of 'the tea hers or Canada, because it was study history. after a bet Now, except in the case of no text book used in our , displaced by the`action of 1 ment. There was no auth ing book to displace, and could not legally be introd 1887 without the concurr Trustees and the ,Inspecto to the others, they are ei mended simply, which mea not text books in the true s term, or they it.re tused by teachers in trainin - SAVING IsFFEcTrED It might be w rthy of not ce that every change made in the te t books has resulted in a large sa in to the public—a material rgument to be sure, but a potent one. Let me be in with the new High Sch ol Read r, hich is sold for 60 cents. Tfhis book r presents the following outl y en disari ed text books.; 1. A text book on. th art of reading, whieh w s author zet at 75 cents. 2. The pre cribed Iijer. ture for third-class teache , 25 c nt ; .fifth !reader, 60 cent; f tal, $1.60. There is. a clear saving of $1 1to the 8,698 who use the newi readers in our 'pu lic schools, and to about 10,0 0,who u e *t in the high schools, or al out $17, 01 in one year to the people df .Ont ri.. Then take the drawing curse, as u mg that only one book or number s sed by each pupil during the year he dig-, carded: drawing book whi h as not authorized consisted of 25 pa es and was sold for 15 cents the new • rawmg book consists of 32 ages and is sold for 10 cents --a differe ce of 7 c nts to each pupil studying th s subje t. This, multiplied by the [limber in 1r wing in. our Public and High Schools 1 st year (250,000), represents a savinglof 17,500. Not a bad financial stroke, serel . Then take the history rimer. in 1:87 this book will displace the old text books which were isold separately for . 0 cents each—the new book, containing the two histories in one, being -sold for 3 cents.. This effects a savingt to each of he 104,- 000 pupils in our Public an. High Schools studying this subjec , of 25 cents, or $15,600 in all in one ye r. And lastly, but I Weary you, I will cation another book now used in our Normal and Model Schoels—Baldwin' Art of School Management. This bo+k was sold up to this year for $l.6'. I se- cured the preparation of a ne» edition and added, by way of appen ix, the scheme required flor Mode echools. The new work no* takes tle +lace, at 75 cents per copy,- of the old book, which cost alone $1.60, and with the school law purchased, as it needs must be, 50 cents more --thus I effecting a sav- •ing of $1.35 to each of the 2,000 teachers in training who would require to purchase the work annually—another nugget of $2,700. In these four eases, then, the parents of pupils and tea hers are saved an ex pen d i tu ee of over $52,000. You Will allow me- to say . vith becoming modesty that this is not a bad record on the difficult question of text book sup- ples. - • • Canada. It is proposed to establish a flax mill at Kincardine., — Fifty acres, belonging to the. estats of the late Alexander McDonald, lot 8, concesion 12, Kinloss, have been sold to Edward Neill for $2,500. • —During the -present season five thou- sand head of Montana cattle have passed oVer the . Canadian Pacific Railway to Winn ipee. -- Last Friday James Wilson's flour and oatmeal mills at Fergus were burn- ed down, together with about 8,000 bushels of oats. Loss heavy. Insurance small. • =It is understood that Big Bear, who has been confined in Stoney Mountain penitentiary since September, 1885, will shortly be granted his liberty., —The barn of Mr. Miller- Fleming, of Blenheim, near Druenbo, was destroyed by fire op Tuesdafr night last week. -Loss mostly covered by insurance. — Archdeacon Leach, Vice -President of McGill College, Montreal, one of the principal- founders of Queen's Univer- sity, Kingston, died on the 14th inst., aged 81. —Eighteen miles of the Hudson's Bay Railway have been graded, and the sod has been broken on the whole forty miles,1 which will be completed in about tee° Weeks if fine weather continues. —Cable advices .state that the ship Eudora sailed from Yokohaina for Port Moody, British Coluinbia, with 18,000 packages of tea for Canada and the United States. • —The schooner" George M. Chase," Chicago, for Buffalo, foundered three miles from Port Arthinr on Friday. Four of the crew were saved, but Cap- tain Daly, the cook,and one seaman were drowned. —Mr. and Mrs. John Brock, of East Nissouri, were thrown out of their car- riage the other day-, the horses being frightened by bicycle riders. , Mrs. Brock's arm and leg were broken, and Mr. Brock was badly shaken up. . —At St. Thomas, on Saturday, the jewelry shop of Geo. Carry was raided and a complete set of counterfeiting tools found. Carry was arrested, a quantity, of counterfeit money being found in his pocket. , —Saturday morning at Glencoe, a small house owned by Robert Donnelly, and occupied byWm. Donnelly, for- merly �f Biddulph; was burned together with the contents.. Insured in Royal, $100on house and $300 on contents, —The veterans of the Fenian raid of 1866 have. formed an association, and have requested Speaker Kirkpatrick to accompany the delegation to Ottawa to ask the Government to reward them for their services. .. —Mr. R. A:, Townsenci, returned to Petrolea.last week from India. -Ile has been. extensiyely engaged in oil opera- tions in India for five or six years and his experience in that country Was an agreeable one. —Mrs. Barney, of. Rhode Island, on Thursday evening delivered an eloquent1 address me the liquor traffic and its at- tendant evils to the delegates at the Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union Convention held at Owen Sound last week. - — The new bridge over the Grand River at Breslau, will be opened for traffic in a •few days. The piers and abutments are of .heaVy stone, *ith a superstructure of iron. It is described as being a massive structure, and geed ,for half a dozen generations. — Neil Paterson, son of the late John Paterson, of Tiverton,died at Pullnrian, near _Chicago, of consumption, aged thirty nine years. His body arrived in Kincardine by train on Tuesday night last week, and was conveyed to Tiver- ton for interment. . --Mr. James . Hay, of Delaware, showed a plate of ripe strawberries at Delaware fair on Wednesday last week. They were pulled that morning. The family had been having strawberries and cream for the last two weeks: Second crop this season. • , —P. C. Falconer, teller of the Bank of Toronto. in Montreal, while attempt- ing to board the Langueuil ferry, !which had moved off, _last Friday evening at 6 ' o'clock, was accidentally drowned. Deceased belonged to Aberdeen, Scot- land. —The schooner George M. Case, laden with grain and bound from Chicago to Buffalo, foundered in the gale of Thurs- day last week, when about three miles off Port Colborne, Four of the csrew were saved, but the captain, cook, and another man went doWn with the veesel. . —At Cherry Grove, near London, the other day, an aged lady named Mrs. Brown was in theact of lifting a pet of boiling water from the stove, when her foot slipped, and missing herhold of the pot it tipped, the contents falling ever her face, neck and arm. Her injnries were very severe. —A correspondent writing from Carnp- bellforcl says: During three nights of last week the three veteran frog catchers residing in this neighborhood, relieved the Trent river of 900 pounds of dreSsed frog. In skinning the amphibious .crea- tures these men exhibit wonderful dex- terity. Recently they " peeled " 3,000 of them in four and a half hours, —General Booth, of . the Salvation Army, met with a grand reception on his arrival at Ottawa, last Friday. . He was met at the railway station by a band, and a procession escorted him to theresidenee of Mr. J. M. Musgrove, .1 who will entertain the General during . his stay in. Ottawa. 'A holiness meet- -lug was held n the Opera House,in the afternoon, an General Booth addressed a mass meetin in the evening.. —It is related of old Joe, a, horse of the Toronto Eire Department, recently „killed while on duty, that one night he got out of his Stall and found a .pile of bags of oats.1. Catching a. bag in. his - teeth, he carried it to his tvi9 stable com- panions and then carried two bags to his own stall.; The feast that followed well nigh foundered the three horses. ; —Mr. Robert kVaddell, of Trenton, contractor :foi-1 superstructures over the Murray canal, recently found. on his property, in the township of Lake, county of Hastings, a . deposit of pure asbestos, which has been submitted to an analytical test and pronounced to be of a superior 4uality. ' —The Presbyteriau Home MiSsiO0 Committde, which met at Toronto last week, on tugmentation of ministers' stipends, ordered the payment of $1,416.50 to the Montreal Presbytery. In the augmentation:of salaries in the Northwest, $30,000 Will be needed, of which Montreal and Toronto will be asked to contribute $4;750 each. —The Bran e monunient at Brantford was unveiled ,with imposing ceremonies on Wednesday last week. Therwe great representative gathering f oin all parts of the Dominion and the in States, and a vast concourse of all 20,000 ° people present. One of events was a grand !procession of ix Nation Indians in full war costumei and a speech by one of the chiefs. •—Mr. John Wright, the oldest build- er and contractor .of London, died on Sunday. He was a metnber of the firm of Wright & Durand for 26 years, and had been ailing at times since June. He superintended' the construction of the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Lon- don and the new church in Guelph. In- flammation of the lungs was the cause of death. ' —Thestemner United Empire came in to - Sarnia onher latest trip down with 24,000 bushels of wheat, 3,500 bar- rels of flour from Minneapolis for export - via Montreal, 1,200 cases of salmon from British Columbia, and 35 pas- sengers. She left on the following Tues- day night on her regular trip . with a large consignment of freight and numer- ous passengers. —Three Grand Trunk Railway cars went down the embankment at Harris- burg the other day, owing to the break- ing of a couplieg pin. Two flatl and a box car took the leap, the latter being empty and the others loaded with tim- ber. A large amount of coal was -also upset.' • The three cars- were very badly smashed and two others severely dam- aged. Loss overt$600. —Messrs. Robprt Currie Winghain ; Chas. Moffatt, Durham ; and T. S. Mc- Leod, the Exectitive Committee of the Ontario Grange, tivere in session in Tor- onto last week, preparing work . and making arraneehients for the annual meeting, which %till commence in TeM- perance -hall, Toronto, on November 23rd. The Dominion Grange will meet immediately afte'rwards. ; —Matthew Eggert, of Walkerton, was charged by Constable Pratt with obstructing him in the discharge of his duties while assisting in making liquor. seizures in that town. The ease was heard before magistrate Joseph Barker. The information having been amended at the request of the complainant, Eg- gert pleaded guilty, and was fined. $1 and $17-.90 costs. —The • Ay„r Recorder says: The renowned Johnnie McNeil landed here on the big day of the show. He had- a young pig under his arm and tortured the poor brute shamefully. - Some folks say it was the bagpiPes. Maybe it was, but it had all the Sows within. hearing bunting for their 'young 'uus." Ah, brother there is an old Book that speaks -of the folly of " throwing pearls before swine." —John Watson, Esq., the veteran manager of the 'Ayr Agricultural Works, has enough of his yosithful vim left yet to enjoy a feat drilve with a rattling team. The Reeorder says: Mr. Wat- son drove to Galt op Monday with his new span ot ponies in 57 minutes and returned in 55. Th distance is a good ten miles, andthe ponies just took their own gaiti and were not pressed at all. --An' old resident f Middlesex county eays : The oldest b idge in the eounty is across a stream th t empties into the Thames on -the far of James Tait, Ekfrid. It has, t� .1 is knowledge, been in use for 52 years; has never had any repairs, nor' ever re , uired Any, and to all appearance is go • d for *twenty years to come, as it yet ppears to be quite sound. This. bridg consists of one black walnut tree. —Mr. Thomas 13 llantyne, of Strat- ford, recently ; ship ed the oheese, of West Magdalla aro Iona. factories, 26,000 pounds, also that of Wallace - town and Detton factories, 26,000 pounds, amounting I • value to $5,200. The prospects now re that September and October ',cheese ill sell at a high price", considering th price of other pro- ducts. —While Messrs. harles Abraham, Archie McGugan', A ex. Grey and Mr. Robinson were bori g for water on lot 17, 4th concession of Dawn, last Thurs- day morning, a startl ng and nearly fatal accident happened/ to the first three named. It appears that some 16 feet had been dug with spade and pick -axe before starting to bore with augur. Mr. Chas. Abraham was in the well when suddenly the augur was hurled out of the :4vel1 by som6 subterranean power, causing consternation among the :work- men. It was discovered that Mr. Abra- ham_was lying at the bottom of the well asphyxiated. Mr. Alex. Grey immedi- ately descended to rescue his comrade, but met with the sane fate. Mr. Mc- Gugan then quickly descended, with the aid of a rope held by those at the top of the well in case of an accident. In spite Of t le escaping gas Mr. McGugan sue - ceded in placing asope round the feet alud legs of the two prostrate men, who ✓ er4 drawn out mprelike dead than liv- ing lnn. Medical aid was innnediately _ spin 'toned, and the sufferers are now Pro ounced out of danger. li --Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Payne, English line, Dunn -tier, Peterboro county, cele- brated their golden wedding last Tues- day y giving a grand dinner to, theirnear ✓ ' ela ives who numbered about eighty. Mr land Mrs. Payne received some valu- a )lej presents, among which were a pair a old spectacles each. They -were e•Ii• much affected at parting with their frie ds, as they never expect to see them atttn iataoberled.dttogetheragain, as hey are s - 1 A7verY peculiar accident happened at t1ie -corner- of Dufferin avenue and Ric mond street, London, on Saturday 1 a te moon. Frederick Boake, an em - p oy, e of B. Skuse, was leading a sick h! rsle from the veterinary surgeon's li ck to the stables. Suddenly the horse f 11 dead; and 'in falling it knocked •alFe clown and broke his leg below the eq. Doctors were summoned and ndaged the limb, and then the in - red man was sent to his home. ! The •rae the property of Mr. Skase, died here it fell.' t 1 —One clay laslt week John Buchanan, o the 12th line of Plympton, with his s n Hugh and daughter Mary, was re- f rning from Forest, when his horses t ok, fright. The tongue dropped and .e ught in the ground. The occupants ere thrown out with such force as to ✓ n er them all unconscious. Mr. Bu- cl1iaxan had his arm broken and was in- -ern Ily injured; Hugh had his collar bion broken; Mary, 10 years of age, who was supposed at first to have been but ittle injured, died from the effects of her injuries. Mr. Buchanan himself is; in a very critical state. li—Forty piers ago Wm. Feeney, a brot er of Mrs. John McKay, of Hamil- tcn,1 left that that city and went to Cali ornia to push his fortunes. He Wro11e occasionally for eight years, and theni stopped, writing. For thirty-two 'years his family did not hear from him or cif him, until one day a couple of Weeks ago, when he surprised hie sister and brother-in-law by quietly walking in upon them and announcing himself. Mr. Feeney has been mining in Cali- forn a and 13ritish Columbia all these year, and amassed a considerable for- tune He will settle in Ontario and en- joy tihe fruits of his toil. . —Several young mem belonging to Beverly township, county of Went- worth, were the other day arraigned be- fore a magistrates' court on coniplaint by the leaders of the Westover Baptist chureh of wilfully interrupting and dis- turbing public worship in the church on Sabbath, 3rd inst. Six of them were found guilty and fined $6 and $8 accord- ing to merit, with costs. Two of the boys refused to pay, and said they would go to jail. Their commitment was made out and all was got handy to sterti for Hamilton, when they broke clown and paid up, or gave security for payMent of the fine and costs. , --+ terrible wind storm passed over Onto io on Thursday night and Friday morn ng last week. A number of casu- altie are reported from various points, but f rtunately no loss of life Occurred ence t in one instance, on the 3rd con- cessi n of Blandford, near Woodstock. TWo men were working in the bush when a tree, blown down by the wind, struclt both of them, killing Heysel in- stantly and terribly injuring-Deitrich.. Aii Iiish companion twelve yards away , was Oninjured, and the roar of the sterni was so great that he did not, hear the tree falling till it struck. • r. Thos. Davis, of the 5th conces- sion, 1 1issouri, went into his granary at , an ea .ly hour on the morning of the 13th inst. o get oats for his horses, when he sttim led and fell, and the coal oil lan- tern hich he carried broke and set fire teeth floor. Two barns, two stables, and a shed! 90 feet long, and eighteen hund ed bushels of grain were destroy- ed', b sides other property . Mr. Davis hiiusel f was badly burned about the face and rms. The buildings were owned by H. H. Scott, of London, who loses about $2,000. Mr. Davis' loss Will be about $1,000. -- very unusual scene took place in Christ church, Ga.nanoque, last Sunday morning, just before the eleven o'ciock service. In July last the incumbent placed eucharistic and vesper lights upon the communion table of that church. A -large majority of the congeega.tion at , once niemorialized their clergyman to removle the lights, but a ithout avail. Subsetjuently Archdeacon Lauder visit- ed the parish with a iew to settling the difficulty, and it was supposed the mat- ter was satisfactorily disposed of. Re- cently the pastor, with the assent of the Commissary of the Bishop, 'replaced the candlesticks, it being understood that they were not to be lighted for the pres- ent. The anti -Ritualists then sent a deput tion to wait on their clergyman, with he result that no satisfactory re- sult as arrived at. On Sunday some twent of the Low Church party Wait- ed on he reverend gentleman, evidently prepa ed to push the matter to the last extennity and take the candlesticks from the altar, by force if need' be. On his positive refusal to acquiesce in their re- quest, they as a body entered the chan- cel of the church and carriedithem off. lise -clergyman and the few choristers present resisted slightly, but met with no violence. --The prisoner Hand has been ac- quitted on the indictment charging him with having caused the dynamite ex- plosion at Mr. MeCrae's house at Sar- nia. Vial on the other indictments has been postponed. With regard to the verdict of acquittal, the Toronto News remarks: There are some things about the administration of justice—I beg pardon, I mean the administration of the, latv—that an ordinary citizen like mec.nnot understand. Take for in- stancd the case, as reported, of Charles A. Hand, tried as a dynamitard at oar- nia on Friday. John G. McCrae proved - that his house had been partially -de- stroyed with dynamite Dr some explo- sive. Deteetive Greer swore that Eland had confessed to him that he had fur- nished the cartridge and the men to do the job. W. W. Hall swore that he had rowed the men who fired the explosive across the river after the explosion, that he was hired to do so by Hand, and that • he had brought certain messages back. to. Hand's. He had, he swore, been paid $100 by Mrs. Hand not to give evidence and this ,was admitted. Wm. Ronald. and others gave corroborative evidence. The defence merely called witnesses as to previous character. Judge O'Con- nor, in summing up, said it seethed. strange to him that the prisoner should have made a confession of guilt te an outsider, that the evidence of theide- tective must be received with caution, that Hall, by keeping the thing quiet so' long, had to an extent destroyed !his 1 credibility, and that his taking then -4-4100 was an indictable offence, and infect the charge was strongly in favor of the prisoner, and the jury acquitted. West Huron Reformers. A well attended meeting of the ib- erals of West Huron was held in the Temperance Hall, Goderich, on the afternoon of the 16th inst., the President of the West Huron Association, Mr. Chas. Girvin, in the chair. Mr. Seeger gave a short account of the werkin- volved in looking after the Dominion Voters' Lists saying the object !for which the Act had been passed had signally failed in this Riding, as the Liberals had got justice at the hands of the Revising Barrister; a total of 480 Reformers had been added to the I sts . before their final revision and 140 Con- servatives struck off, making a tlital change of 621 votes. The work of re- - vising the lists had cost the Reform party over $800 for the West Riding alone. Mr. A. McMurchie, Reeve of Clinton, then nominated Mr. M., C. Camero* as the Liberal candidate for the West Riding; Mr. Jos. Griffin., ReeveI of Aelifield, seconded the nominat on, which was carried amidst treniend us applause. Mr. W. Young, ex -Reeve of Colborne, nominated Hon. A. M. Ross, as the Liberal candidate for the Local, .and. Mr. J. G. Murdoch, of Ashfield, second. - ed the nomination, which was also Car- ried amid applause, , A deputation theu waited upon the gentlemen nominated, who came to the meeting and accepted the same. BOth were most enthusiastically received. Speeches were made by the candidates, - and also by Dr. Sloan, of Myth; kr. A. H. Manning of Clinton, and Mr. D. Mc- Gillicuddy, Goderich. Resolutions of confidence in the leadership of Him.. Edward Blake and in the administrat on �f Hon. Mr. Mowat were passed befere the meeting wee brought to a cloSe. Toronto Topics. (From Our Own .Correspondent.) The Queen city is now enjoying eom- parative quiet after the noise and bus le of the Industrial. This is the brief s a - son intervening between the close of ne great show ad the preparation for the next. Only a few days and we will h ar that the directors have met and settl d the date and made arrangements fior many new attractions of the &ens parade type. Dr. Kane and Mr. Hill Smith, the anti -Home Rule delegates from Ireland, gave addresses to very large audiences in the city some days ago. They are fluent speakers, wity and sarcastic, but are accused by their opponents of min- gling in personalities. The contract for the mason work of the new Parliament buildings has been let to a city contractor. The old grey stone building on the east side of Queen's Park will' be pulled down to make way for the new structure. This ancient pile was formerly King's-College'and aft,er the erection of the new University buildings was converted into a lunatic asylum. What a transition Lately it has been unoccupied except by a few destitute families during the winter months. The hew buildings will I!)e much more couveniently situated thin the old. They will be completed in about five years. The American Public Health Assoc. - tion, consisting of many prominent medical men of the United States, held their an n ual convocation here last week. They were treated to a drive around t e city by the council, and visited all tie points of interest. The students of Toronto School of Medicine held their annual conversa- zione on Thursday evening. Several prominent voealists.took part in the con- cert in the principal lecture -room, while the dissecting room was cleared out and tastefully decorated for dancing, and many a slippered foottrippedlightly over the floor beneath which lay the subjects in their beds of alcohol. Shaftesbury Hall was filled to the doors on Friday evening to bear Di. Aubrey, Gladatonian candidate for an English constituency at the recent elec- tions, deliver an address on ," An Eng- lishman's view of Honie Rule." Do not know whether it was the Young Men's Liberal Club or the Toronto Branch of the National Land League had the most to do with the getting u of the lecture, but both parties were we 1 represented. The chair was occupied by Mr. Mulock, M. P., for West York. The appearance of lion. Edward Blake on the platferm was the signal for loud and prolonged applause. Dr. Aubrey iS a real Englishman in appearance if the newspaper outs of the typical John Bull are to be relied upon. The Doctor said that Mr. Gladstone and his followers i were not at all discouraged, and added that the dissentient Liberals were sure to desert the present Government on any question of foreign or domestic P. Q.