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TWENTY-FIRST YEAR.
Vtir EEO LE NUttLB1R 1,Q47.
EAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY. 6, 1888.
{McLEAN BROS. Publishers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
A Merry christmas
AND A
HappyNwYear
TO ALL.
We take great pleasure in tendering our hearty,
thanks to all our numerous customers for their
liberal patronage' extended to us through the
a ear 18-17 and in this connection beg leaveto ask
the same support for the year 1888, and we
pledge our word for it, that we will use Our best
ability to put on our shelves and counters only
such goods that a ill steed the closest inspection
and at prices that will tempt all., who are in need
of any goods, to buy. 4,nd now last, but not
least, we wish" to impress upon you that our
stock is too large to carry over, and taking into
consideration that we have had a good season's
business, we have decided to give our customers
and the public generally great value for their
none j for the balance of this season, in all lines
of goods. A call is respectfully aolicited at the
Cheap Cash Store
Hoffman ,& Co.,
SE AFORT H.
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NOTIGE.—Agrintslor ,Buttericks Reliable Pat-
terns, Fashion Books, Sheets, etc.
—On Friday morning, in Guelph, Mrs.
Angell, of the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege, placed a foot warmer filled with
water on the stove in, Peter Anderson's
store, so that it would be hot for her
when going home. The can resembled a
large honey tin with a small screw stop-
per on the top. When the vessel was
placed ea the stove this stopper was
, screwed on. An hour later there was a
terrific explosion. Water flew in all
directions through the store, drenching
the clerks and :damaging goods. The
I can flew against the safe, then bounded
to the ceiling and fell on a heap of valu-:
able crockery, breaking some of it. The!
driver of the delivery sleigh, a German
ALBURY, AUSTRAL A.
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BY. J. SMILLIE.
This is the principal border t
New South Wales'386 miles son -
of Sydney, ori the banks of the hi
Murray—the Mississippi of Au
Its early history is associated sidth the
names of the explorers, Hu
Hovell—the first white men wh
upon its turbid -waters. The
carved his name on a gum tree,
yet: quite distinct, and now k
the," Hume Tree." Here the ri
crossed for many years in a punt
tab erection of the union bridge,
stantial wooden structure, spann
river a few hundred yards from USince then a grateful public have'
a handsome granite monument;
a suitable inscription to the me,
that dauntless pioneer, whaled t
through the unknown jungles a
the- arid plains of this peculiar
otonous land. About 1840 the
only seven bark huts here, now
town fully equal to Seaforth, wit many
far better buildings. The rails ay sta-
tion stands pre-eminently. It is eon-
structed of red and white brick, ressed
with cement, roofed with slate, nd sur-
mounted by a clock tower 80 fe't high.
The platform and archway is 00 feet
long, and it is the finest structure of the
kind in the colony. The postoffi e, tele-
graph office, gaol, hospital, me
institute and the four banks
very fine buildings. The differen
of worship are fairly good, and t
bisildaigs, doing duty as hot
" Ohs° are of great variety.
tinction between the two is ver
the aim of the former being to
travelers with the comforts of a
ary hotne, that of the latter to.
them up and get their money.
It is now just the end of the
season, and the shearers are bat
from a radius -of 50 miles. Th
a large contingent of the "sw
of this -country, 'who carry
goods and chattels with the
stock rarely exceeds a pantheon
or in can, knife and fork, tin
plate, some tea, 'sugar, tobacco
wn of
h - west,
torical
tralia.
e and
gazed'
former
hich is
own as
-er was
before
a sub-
lig the
e spot.
erected
earing
ory of
ie way
d over
mon-
e were
it issa
ordained by the Bishop of Calcutta, and
was appointed Port -chaplain of- that
cit* which position he held mp- to the
.time of - coming to Australia in 1872.
Such chequered eaperiences, lift men
above the little localisms, and the host
ther 'isms and make them more
being and forbearing—more cesma-
pol tan preachers, who can I take their
pla•e atnong men in the various walks
of
and
tho
,not
have been frequent of late, so that the
pastures are good, and water sufficient.
Cattle and sheep are in good condition,
the wool elip has been -good, prices are
fair, and everything has the &ppearance
of prosperity. The latest exafternent
wae the boat race on Saturday, and
the! Australian natives, not the abori-
gines, are loud in the, praises . of their
cop n tryman.
Plowers of all kinds are in the acme
of their glory, for this is the Australian
spring. Roses are not confined to
gardens, like in Canada, but may be
seea here in hedges. One I saw a few
days ago would be about 20 -rods long,
6 or 7 feet high and in full bloom. You
capnot overdraw it. in your imagination.
The town is also profusely planted with
trees, among which are English elms
and acacias in full bloom. These afford
a delightful shelter in the hot weather,
and their green branches, fluttering in
the -breeze, between and above the
buildings variegate the monotony of
bate walls' corrugated iron roofs and
dusty . earthcolored streets. But amid
all, these delightful scenes, the descrip-
tiva words of Bishop Barry, uttered a
few months ago in England to a select
assembly of ladies, find their way back
to Australia sooner than himself. W hen
he found that the people, who had
been supporting him so long, were on
their "hind legs a — an expression
borrowed from the action Of the
Kangaroo when enraged, all he had to
say in defence was, " that he, did net
know there was a reporter in the room,
and never thought any part of the ad-
dress would be put into print." 'The
sore part was in comparing Australia
with England, when he said, ''There
flawers without scent, birds. without
song, women without virtue, and men
without honor." Descriptive and flow-
ery Words, carrying to a nation's core
the stinging characteristics of truth.,
Bet why from some cowardly fear, tell
a private assembly of ladies in England,
what he would not hare. been man
enongle to say to the people here. Or
why from some fancied superior pedestal
of strength, draw harsh 'comparisons or
utter such bitter words. _ The very
dissipations complained of here, have
English scapegraces for ringleaders.
Aad it, is, the constant influx of such,
that, keeps the moral tone of Australia
ataischa low ebb, that when compared
with older lands, it may often be found
wanting. There are very few distinct-
iVely Australian social characteristics
here yet, but they will come " with the
wisdom of age." Faultfinding and un-
charitable comparisons, from meal men,
destroy kindly feeling, and only tend to'
drive the faulty to a greater extreme or
separate them further .from the fault
finder; :It is not business policy -ever to
say anything that will make' an enemy.
, And in private assemblies of ladies, it
would probably be just as Well never to
say anything of a social character, that
we would be afraid to meet in an un-
expected place, or say over again. What
others are we " might have been," but
for circumstances and the influences of
training. So rather than coldly stand
aloof, bolstered up with 'isms and self,
vaunlaaiag, our singular virtues, let us re-
mem6n how, much we have in common
with frail nature, and when face to face
with its weaknesses, hang down our
heads and blush:
Criterion Hotel, Wa,gga. Wagga,
28th November. 1887.
The Tuckersmith School
Controversy.
hanics'
re also
places
e fifty
as and
he dis-
great,
furnish
empor-
booze "
hearing
ering in
.y form
y -men "
11 their
. The
"billy "
up and
needle
of
for
and thread, and a couple of b ankets,
all but the "billy," which they carry in'
the -hand, rolled up in the blankats, and
slung over one shoulder with a leather
strap, makes "the sway "—a very fami-
liar term here. These shearers seem to
have no other a,mbition, as a rule, than
tomake enough money to " booze " and
have a good time, entering heartily into
the attendant diesipations and snares set
by low claesed feminine:wiles, td extract
their money. Some ilof them have from
£40 to £6Q, and when this is thine their
glorious holiday is at an end. Again
by birth, was standing near the door.
they must ave the -happy' camping
He put his hands to his ears and yelled,. ,6round, sped r the spreading eucalyptus
" Dunder end blitzen. I guess I'll
moot " nem
--Notwithstanding the pouring rade;
and ice -sheeted sidewalks a good congre-
gation
assembled on New Year's morn-
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mg Dundas Street Centre Methodist
church, London, to, listen to the special
sermon of the Rev. J. 1-1. Robinson, a
veteran Methodist minister, an Sixty
Years of Service in the Ministry."
Taking for his text provetbs,_ -xvi., 16:
a The hoary head is a crown of glory if
it be found in the way of righteousness,"
The reverend gentleman took this sub-
ject at the, request of the pastor of the
church, who thought that on the first
day of the New Year an allusion to the
experience of a lifetime would be accept -
1e to a thaughtful,congregation. The
preacher had celebrated his 80th birth-
day during the past week, and 64 years
of his long life had been spent in God's
- service.
—A pleasant social event took place
Wednesday of lazt week in Chalmer's
church, Woodstock. The church Was
completely filled. The parties most di-
rectly interested in the event were' Mr.
\V. G. Murray of Woodstock, and Miss
Jessie, eldest daughter of the Rev. W.
A. McKay, pastor of Chahner's church.
The ceremony was performed by the
grove, on the bank of the:Murray, and
wander forth in quest of ‘i' tucker" and
work, hope leading on io the elysian
utopia of another year. This is one
phase of life p.t the antipodes from the
pen of an eye-4-itness, and is neither'
overdrawn nor highly colored.
It is at these periodical seasons, times
are said to be good in Albury. Beauti-
ful Albury ! lnestling in a peninsular
basin, in the bend of the river,' and
*surrounded by many hills, those in the
vicinityeiag wine clad, while others
p
stretchin further back are covered with
the Australian dusky green trees. ' Away
to the east, the Australian Alps, with
tlieir snowny White caps, bound the
horizon "and are scarcely discernible
from the fleecy4white clouds that hover
around their peaks. The principal in-
dustrY land support of the town le that
of the vitie, but since the imposition of
Edmost prohibitive duties on the grape
and it§ produce by Victoria, the grape
growers have been heavily handicapped,
and many of the smaller ones have con-
verted their vineyards into areas for the
cultivation of cereals and garden, pro-
duce. * The principal vineyaial is called
, the "Murray Valley Vineyard" former-
ly owned by- Fallen Bros., but' now
by P. E. Fallan, as the 'other brother,
J. T. Fallen died some years ago. The
fe, do not give us eo much dogmatic
bigoted rubbish from the pulpit as
e who are only, clergymen and
ing more. m
efore closing, I ay mention, rains
Rev. W. A. McKay, asaisted by Revs lestate consists of 640 acres, of which
W. T. McMullen, W. S. McTavish and about 170 aeres are planted with vines,
P. R. Ross. After the ceremony the and to give som idea of the extent of
this industry, 30,00O gallons of wine,
ranging from ode to twelve years old,
are in stock at present. Some of the
casks are the largest I have seen, hold-
ing as much as 2,500 gallons. Mr.
Fallen took me through the cellars, in
company with a Dr. Cox and his wife,
newly out from London. The doctori
sad he. could not have believed there
was such an industry in the Southern
Hemisphere, he had not seen it."
Mr. Fallen is a. native of Athlone, Ire
land, born in the year 1828, and came
to,Australia in 1854.
In traveling, we trace up some in-
teresting associations, that vividly re-
mind us of incidents of the past, and
carry us back, in imagination, over life's
beaten path. J. H. Mathews, chemist,
here, was in Toronto for a year, and
slept in the same room with Dr. Aikin,
while the latter was a student there.
Captain Bettye, superintendent of the
Murray Police District, was 10 years in
Canada. He served under different
district staff colonels, with the rank of
captain, also served in the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, during the rebellion of 1837:8.
He has now been in the service of the
crown over half a century. Rev. Canon
Acocks, incumbent of the English
Church here, served in the trenches be-
fore Sebastopol for 15 Months, and was
frequently engaged in repelling the
Russians. He was also present at the
unsuecessful attempt on the Mamelon on
the 18th of June, 1854, and afterwards
at the attack and capture of Sebastopol
on the 8th of September following, and
finally engaged avith General Gordon
(of Soudan fame), then an officer of the
Royal Engineers, in blowing up and de-
stroying the dock -yard and harbor of
Sebastopol. He area afterwards order-
ed to India during the mutiny of 1857,
and served through the struggles and
hardships there, then left the army in
1864, and studied for the ministry, was
guests, who numbered about fifty, sat
down to a sumptuous dinner which -'had
been spread in the large lecture room of
the church. The presents formed a
magnificent display, and included a sil-
ver tea service from the congregation.
The young couple left on the 4.45 ex-
press for Detroit and other western
points, followed by the best wishes, rice
and old shoes, of their many friends.
--The St. Catharines News says :—
A community of the- Mennonite per-,
suasion holds meetings periodieallya-dur-
this season, in Louth Township. A
spectator describes the meeting as being
more boisterous than the Salvationm
Ary. When the Spirit touches one of
tae Mennonites she " dies "—(It does
not often touels the men)—dies to all in-
tents and purposes, but she is not bur-
ied, because after the meeting adjourns
she comes to, and it would be exceed-
ingly unpleasant for one to awaken to
her senses to discover that she had been
placed six feet beneath the sod.- When
she a dies, '' make most people, her
eyes close, her hands become cold and
her pulse cease a to beat. She falls
prostrate upon the floor, a shawl is
thrown over her and no effort -is made
to restore her to consciousness. A
young"womanwho had been "touched"
by the Spirit, said it would have been
pleasant to have died in that state.
—Dr. P. D. Rothwell, of Denver, Col-
orado, is at present on a visit to his
brother, Mr. B. Rothwell, teacher,
Lietowel. Dr. Rothwell is an old resi-
dent of that vicinity, but for the last
eighteen or twenty years he has been a
resident of the West, the latter part of
whit]) he has spent in Denver. Dr.
Rothwell is one of the principal direc
tors of the Denver Medical University,-
ono of the largest institutions of the kind
in the West, and is also editor of the
Denver Medical Times.
A. Scott, R. Hicks and Miss McTavish, that we
never signed or received an agreeinent which
does not make the $10 additional, and further-
more I have never signed, nor have I been asked
to sign, an agreement since the present chairman
and secretary,.Messrs. Wallace and McKay, came
into office except the one presented to me on
December last, and over which this dispute
arose. He says, "he jumped the rope, followed
closely by Messrs. Broadfoot and Dalrymple"—a
most laughable and rare scene indeed to see them
skipping the hemp while Samuel,. acting as ring
master and with indomitable energy, cracked
around their ears the whip of compulsion. He
also tiles to say something about the double tas-
seled vote, but in this he makes Such an obvious
display of his ignorance that comment on that
matter is unnecessary. He says "any simple-
ton who has acquaintance with the Mode of pro-
cedure of -a public meeting might know that a
motion does not become law until it is read a
second time." They certainly must have formed
a code of their own, as I repeat ' upon legal
authority that it was the duty oX the secretary
and chairman to have carried out the resolution
granting me the $10 without waiting for its adop-
tion at the next meeting, and the other trustees
-could have compelled them to do so i at any time
prior to the last resolution being passed. He
makes an awkward attempt at a witticism by
trying to make it appear that I am divided in
my political opinions and saYs, " he'and the sec-
retary might make a compromise by each taking
a leg oil either side of the fence." Weill have no
doubt that a leg would be regarded as quite a
luxury to either of them, as when they condo-
inend to the dictates of reason they find that
they have not a leg of their owh. left to stand
upon. Ile claims not to understand what I
mean by "authorizing Mason." Well, it is a
great wonder his confederate, the Secretary, did
not enlighten him, as it is said he can without
difficulty see through a stone wall, and more
especially one of his own building; but his com-
prehension deserting him, he next resorts to his
supposition and says he supposes it to be a- work
on the "mysteries of trading" which should be
introduced into No. 9. If it were filet for some
of Mr. McKay's friends in No. 9 foriwhom I have
great respect, I would give him a reminder of a
. work he introduced into No. 9 about eight or
nine years ago, which would make him firmly
believe that he should be slow to speak. He
claims also to be ignorant of the dollar and a half
deputation of which he Was a Member, but that
inatterais ' too well known to be made a subject
of "ektended remark, but even those very acts
were made to serve the Secretary's designing
purpose, and Charley made expiation for his
sins by becoming Samuel's first able coadjutor
in the $10 question. This meddlesome mortal
says I moved the third-class into iny,room since
vacation to help to swell the average there, and
giVe the new register a resnectable appearance.
Although there are 96 names enrolled this year,.
we, with the Inspector's permiSsion, use but one
register, as we find it more coneement in making
ont the annual report, therefore I Would like to
know what difference it can make -to the register
how often we move our classee froth one room to
the other. I simply moved the 'class into my
room to relieve the assistant, as any teacher in a
rural section well knows thataa that season of
. the year the greater attendance is in the juniot
department. However, as they are determined
to find fault with me under any circumstances,
I suppose had I. allowed the class to remain in
the junier room they would have . said I was mi
pesing upon the assistant. At any rate it is
none of Mr. McKay's business how we classify.
our pupils. If we need any advice we will con-
sult the Inspector, who is thoreughly competent
to regulate all such matters Mr. McKay makes
'quite a hobby of this kind of thing; as the read-
ers of this paper will, no doubt, remember how
he gave himstlf away in his reply to Mr. Dale
some time ago by saying that the !attendance of
Harpurhey school was only 14, when, at the
same time it was not less than 22. The Secre-
tary was heard to ask Mr. McKay; in Mr. Hawk-
shaw's parlor, the day they were colliiparine- their
productions, if he thought I would reply. l'When
he said that he thought I Would be afraid. I
wonder what he 'thought I. would be afraid of.
It must have been at the quantity of trash ho
had written, as it certainly could' not have been -
at the quality. I will let hire know e'er this
controversy is ended that I.fertrano writer as long
as I am backed up by the right side of the ques-
tion. Hoping this will terminate what has been
to me a very unpleasant Controversy, but which
was forced' upon me in order to vindicate my
own character.
Yours, &n.,
HENRY HORTON,
Teacher in Section 9.
DEAR EXPOSITOR.—That gross misrepresenta
tion which appeared in the last issue of this
paper written by Mr.. McKay, chairman of a con-
stellation -of great men, in which he makes bare
his arm to defend that corporate body in com-
mitting an act of injustice which no one in
-dividual. composing it would dare to approach,
occupies space as long as his arm, but which
-when boiled down shrinks into a polluted speck
of instgnificance. He puts forth his multifarious
energies to capture the public mind by advanc-
ing what oven to the superficial reader are
quite obvious -as being a series of well concerted
devices coined for the purpose of screening him-
self. But as this bapeless delinquent has proven
himself to have as many faces as a town clock,
the public heed his invectives as the moon
does the barking of the petty cur. Mr. McKay
says that he was led fora time to believe. I had
a claim to their indulgence and expressed him-
self to that effect both to myself and Others.
now, leaned on this gentleman the day after
the engagement list appeared in the paper,
when he said in presence of Mr. Atkinson that
the figures he gave the secretary were $500 and
that he forgot the additional $10 for caretaking,
but that it would be made right at the next
meeting, and yet he says that at meeting No. *2
he found that on examining the figures in the
hiring list, there was no mistake, $500 was
placed opposite my name. Now take notice, if
he thoroughly understood their mode of en-
gaging as he claims he dots why did he hesi-
tate for a moment as to whether the a500 in-
cluded the $10 for, caretaking or not, and im-
mediately after the close of the meeting No. 2
that he draws your attention to, why did he fol.
low Mr. Atkinson and me over to Mr. Colbert's
and. in presence of those two gentlemen con-
demn the secretary, and make out that it was
the old spite that had got the better of him 1
In fact he almost talked the $10 into my pocket.
Of course the secretary was not present to. hold
him in restraint. He finds •ault 'with me for not
attending their meetings, but if I had entered
their council chamber the secretary, that bul-
wark of educational lawawould no doubt have
left the room, aS he did at my entrance on
engagement day, and, of course, no business
Could be legally transacted without his honor
being present. He also says in order to make
the public believe that I am possessed of a
revolving mind like his own, that I said I made
a mistake. This is another of his devices
and I defy him to substantiate the statement
In order to let the public see the folly of his
main argument to its full extent I will just quote
the writer's own words. He says: "It was ex-
plained to all the teachers at the time of hiring
when the motion was passed, he among the rest,
that there was no change made in the mode of
hiring this year." Here he gives their whole
game away, as I am prepared to prove not only
by my own agreement, but by those of Messrs.
near Blink, and at the time of his death
was about seventy years of age. He has
a very large circle of relations in the vi-
cinity of Woodstock, and many friends
who will hear of his uetimely decease
profound regret. He was a man of
character, and widely esteemed.
any years he wasan elder in Knox
h, Woodstock.
Che amount of Scott Act fines paid
he Woodstock Police Court since
h 1, was $2,250. :There was also
over to the Town Treasurer about
0 for the year.
horse died at Kineardine recently
when the carcase was opened a
three feet long was found in the
t, while the body contained still
er reptile.
o further action regarding the
daty Railway will be taken by the
with
high
For
chur
into
Mar
paid
$1,8
and
snak
thro
anot
Bou
Maintoba, Government until the decision
of the Dominion Government I's an-
nounced.
—An altercation between a Canadian
Pacific Railway engine driver and a con-
ductor Almonte on Saturday caused a
collision in shunting, by which consider-
able damage was done.
—Brakeman Heath, of the Canadian
Pacific railway, got his foot caught in a
frog at Galkon Saturday last, and had
one leg cut off. He was taken to To-
ronto, where his friends reside.
—A terrific gale at Halifax on the
al
morping of the 29th ult. caused eaten-
siveamage to shipping in the harbor.
Abont the city,fences were blown down,
treels uprooted, and chianneys and sky-
lights torn away.
-4..A recent murder and other results
of drinking have precipitated a new
temperance .crusade in Truro, Nova
Scotia, where leading citizens have
established a moral 81138i011 temperance
society. and as a mark of esteem from the clergy
-e-The residence of Wm. Hall, of whom the Archbishop has ordained.
Amaranth, near Orangeville, was de- —Two hundred and 'four lives, sixteen
strOyed by fire last Friday night. The steamers; forty-three schooners, six tow
inmates just escaped in their night barges and eight tug boats were lost in
clothing. Mr. Hall's , feet are badly the lakes this season, representing a loss
of $792,000 on hulls and $408,400 on
cargoes. The return gives old age and
the undermanning of the vessels as the
cauties of disaster in many cases.
—The London Advertiser says: Jemes
Mountain is in jail on a charge of
insanity, and is in a bad way. His feet
are in a horrible condition from running
around barefooted in the snow, and he
is out of his mind. Two prisoners were
left to watch him on Friday night, and
he attacked them so savagely that they
were forced to call the guard to aid
them.
—A- sample of gold -bearing quartz,
taken from the Rainer mine, near Sud-
bury, has been received at the Geologi-
cal museum at Ottawa. It is a lump of
hard grey rock about twice the Size of
a brick, with little splashes of yellow
metal imbedded here and there in the
side of a fresh fracture. The Ranger
mine is about twenty miles from Sud -
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it is that Robbie Burns often took: a
pinch of snuff out of it in his day. It
was afterwards used in the Queen's
Rooms in Glasgow, where the represent-
atives of the -Highland clans held their
annual meetings, attended by all the
chiefs in kilts. The other box belonged
to Sir Walter Scott at one time. Mr.
McCharles invited all the Scotchmen in
the Soo, on both sides of the river, to
call at his office and have a pinch of snuff
out of these rare boxes on Christmas eve.
—Rev. John McLean, M. A., of the
Blood Reserve Methodist mission, has
been appointed by the Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor a commissioner of the Public
schools in and for the Northwest Ter-
ritories. The office is a new one, being
only created during the last session of
the Northwest Council.
—It is reported on good authority
that the Nova Scotia Sugar Refining
Company has made an enormous profit,
between $300,000 and. $400,000, on the
peat year's operations. Their sales
amounted to about $2,000,000. A half-
yearler dividend of 10 per cent. is about
to be' declared, making 13 per cent. for
the year.
a -The shipping tonnage of the Mari-
tirae Provinces decreased during the
past year 40,795 tons. On December 31,
1886, the total tonnage was 828,518 ;
now the total is 787,723 tons. Nova
Scotia shipping shows the greatest de-
crease being 26,316 tons. New Bruns_
wiek decreased 15,908 tons, and Prince
Edward Island 3,056 tons.
—The Roman Catholic clergy of Mon-
treal intend to make.a presentation to
Archbishop Fabre in the shape of a
magnificent arm chair made of the finest
roaewood and ornamented with ivory,
valued at about $500. The chair will
be presented both as a New Year's gift
Canada: •
It was 400 below zeilo at Winnipeg.
llast Friday.
—Hon. Edward Blake is now visiting
in Rome. His health is improaed.
- --eA fire in Brantford on the morning
of the 29th ult. consumed $15,000 worth
of pro-perty.
frozen. EverytOing w
-4-The Seminaty cha
Quebec, which was bu
totally destroyed by
o'clock Sunday mornin
a number of original 6i
at half a million dollar.
--i-The dispute between the Canadian
Paeific and Grand Trunk railways over
ranee to Toronto
e Railway Coin-
ncil in favor of
s lost.
•el in the city of
It in 1735, was
re about three
Y, together with
paintings valued
the former's eastern en
ha a been decided by ti
rnittee of the Privy Co
the Canadian Pacific.
-4-The Ontario Govelfnment has final-
ly decided to purchaSe the portion of
thel Baldwin estate ne
liament buildings, as a
Upper Canada Colleg
coatracts have been si
—Great preparations are being made
at Lindsay for the e ectian of the new
$30,000 Collegiate Ins
Already cut stone an
placed, and work will
the winter.
--The first train fro
the American Sault c
national bridge on Sa
amid great demonatra
asm. Regular thro
mimed running on. T
r the new Par -
site for the new
buildings. The
ned.
itute next spring.
brick are being
e kept up duriugcL
the Canaan to
ossed the Inter-
turday afternoon
tions of enthusi-
gh trains com-
esday.
—The other day a little girl, daughter
of Mr. Alexander Mitehell, of Alliston,
was out sleigh -riding l with her brother
when suddenly she fell forward, and
when the children raised th? little one
to her feet life was gone.
—The other day in Dundas the little
4 year old daughter of Mr. J. A. Kap-
}lain was found headlong in a barrel of
water quite dead. She had been filling
—The Rev. D. C. Johnson, of Oft a bottle at the barrel and had fallen in
Sprigs, has accepted call to Knox head first and drowned. -
Church, Beaverton. —Mr. Begg, who has been visiting
the Scottish crofters in connection with
the proposed colony in British Columbia,
sailed for Canada Friday. It is expect-
ed that no difficulty will be experienced
in inducing some 6'000 persons to settle
the Pacific Province.
—The Minister of the Interior has
withdrawn from sale and settlement,
and has reserved for school purposes a
number of sections in Manitoba and the
Territories in lieu of the school lands
found settled upon previous to the
survey.
—A Burford Township wedding party
recently marched to Mount Pleasant
station,on the Brantford and Tilsonburg
line, to catch the west -bound evening
express'beaded by a fife and drum
band. This is a new idea in wedding
blowouts.
—At the Brantford Township Coun-
cil nominations on Monday a hearty
vote of thanks was tendered to Messrs.
J. Cockshutt and H. Davies for their
generous gift of $10,000 towards the
erection of a city and township poor
house. The building will be commenced
early in the spring.
—At the Reach, Queen's County, New
Brunswick, resides a family with six
members who all have six toes on each
foot. Their boots are made to order at
St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, and measure
fifteen inches in length, six inches wide
at the ball of the foot, and around the
instep 13a inches.
—The amount collected in fines at the
police court in Peterboro during 1887 is
over $9,000. Over $8,000 of this sum
was for violations of the Scott Act, the
fines paid in by the hotel keepers averag-
ing about $500 each. One saloon keep-
er complains that he has paid $1,100.
—Mr. E. H. Yelland, assistant fore-
man of the London Free Press, died
Saturday morning. He had been near-
ly a quarter of a century in the Free
Press service, was a first-class workman,
and a man of more than ordinary intel-
ligence. He leaves a wife and six
children.
—Mr. A. McCharles, the real estate
and mining broker at Sault Ste. Marie,
has two historical snuff boxes well worth
going to see. The one is a large silver
bowl connecting a pair of ram's horns,
twenty inches long and eight wide, with
a complete spiral curl. It belonged or-
iginally to a Jacobite family in Ayr,
Scotland, and the interesting fact about
, —In Quebec Province the mercury
Friday and Saturday morning last
ranged from 200 to 34below zero.
—In St. Thomas only $25,000 of the
$75,000 of the city taxes have as yet
been paid into the collectors hands.
—December 30th was the coldest day
cif the season at Montreal. The ther-
mometer shewing 15 below zero,
—Mr. D. A. Whyte, of the Whyte
Brothers, singing evangelists, is at home
in Paris spending the holidays with hia'
family.
—Captain Middleton, tax -collector of
Kingston, died Monday. Deceased had
sailed on the lakes for forty years, and
was widely known and respected.
—Goat Island and the Three Sister
islands at Niagara Falls are being wash-
ed away and it is proposed to protect
them by crib work.
—W. F. Chapman principal of the
Waterloo Central School, has been
unanimously appointed commercial mas-
ter in the Berlin High School.
—Dr. Bryce, of the Ottawa Sanitary
Commission, states that the recent fever
epidemic in the capital Was undoubtedly
&used bythe water.,
—The Saskatchewan hotel at Minne-
dose, Manitoba, was burned Friday
morning with the stables and bowling
alley and two horses and a cow.
—Miss M. C. Harrison, of Thorndale,
passed a very successful examination at
the Stratford Model School, heading the
list in a class of 43 students.
—The house of Mr. W. H. Teeter,
Teeterville, with most of its, contents,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss about $3,000; no insurance.
—The by-law for granting a bonus of
$30,000 to aid the Teeswater and Kin-
cardine railway was carried in Kincar-
dine Monday, almost unanimously.
The vote standing 222 to 4.
--A telegram received by E. W.
Chambers, East Oxford, on - Monday,
25th ult. announced the death of his
father, Cepaain Wm. Chambers, at Bir -
tie, thanitoba, on the previous day.
Some weeks ago deceased had fallen
from a load of hay, sustaining fractures
of the collar bone, sevetal ribs and se-
vere internal injuries. He lay for a
long time before he was discovered.
Captain Chambers lived for many years
in East Oxford, on the farm where his
son, E. W. Chambers, now resides. He
went to the Northwest in 1882, settling
tb ose who fell on the battle field and those
who pioneered, the township, were inter-
esting and instructive. The happy com-
pany separated in the evening, some for
Dakota and the Northwest and some,
for other places, perhaps, never to meet
again.
—A rather strange lot of passengers
arrived in Montreal at the Grand Trunk
station on Thursday, the 29th ult., in
the persons of nine Arabs. The party,
which consisted of five men, three
women and a boy, bare come all the
way. from Jerusa em, traveling by one
of the Mediterranean lines to Marseilles
and thence to Canada. They are with-
out any visible means of support except
by the way of selling trinkets, crosses,
strings of bead:s and other mementoes
which they have brought with them
from the Holy Land.
—Mr. G. T. Zimmerman, of Cobourg,
arrived in Toronto late on Wednesday
night last week. On leaving the Union
station he lost his way,and between York
and Bay streets he was attacked by two ,
ruffians and a desperate fight ensued.
The robbers snatched at his watch, but
the -chain broke, and hearing some
people approaching the rascals fied,
leaving Mr. Zimmerman with a had cut '
in the side of his head, where he had
been struck with a club. Mr. Zimmer- ;
man had .seaeral valuable diamonds en :
his person when attacked, and he
thinks he must have been shad -owed.
—Saturday afternoon a young girl
named Elizabeth Cook *as 'struck by ,
an express train near Mount Brydges
and instantly killed. The engineer saw .
her crossing the track in the storm and.
drift with a cloak over her head. He
instantly whietled danger, reversed his
engine and put on the brakes. It was
too late. The girl was struck and hurl-
ed from the track, and didn't move
again. She was killed by -.the shock
instantly. The train was brought to a
standstill so quickly that many of the
passengers rushed out panic stricken, I
thinking there was going to be a .col-
lisiou.
—A good deal of interest bus been
aroused in Halifax by the prosecution of
two Seventh Pay Adventists, for per-
forming servile labor on the Lord's day,
in violation of the statute. They were
proved to have worked at their trade on
Sunday. Their counsel's defence was
that the Seventh Day Adventists are a
people who religiously and conscien-
tiously keep the seventh day as the ,
Sabbatt aCcotdanee with the fourth
commandment. They find no authority
in Scripture for keeping the first da.y,
Sunday, and no one else can. The first
day is of human origin and, is not ,
created by Divine injunction. Judge
Motton reserved judgment.
—When Mr. Chamberlain, of the
Fisheries Commission was at Ottawa,
last week, two detectives accompanied !
him in his walks. One day on Sparks ,
street a gentleman who was -eager to see .
bury, on the Algoma branch of the Can- the British commissioner face to face
ashen' Paeific Railway. *casually encountered him. In his eager- I
4—Mr. Benjamin Freer, B. A., for- ness to come up close he stumbled I
19 years Principal of the High School.
against MrChamberlain, when one of
at Kincardine and who is about to take .
the detectives, who were walking a few
charge of a boys' school at Toronto, . feet in rear, suepiciously moved his
prior to his removal from his old home was presented with a gold watch by Ins hand to the hip pocket of his pants, and,
it is alleged, threw himself into an at -
-
pupils, a past master's jewel by North-
ern Light Lodge of Masops a past first
principal's jewel by the itoyal Arch
Chapter and a Past Regent's jewel by
Penetangore Council, Royal Arcanum.
—The other day the friends of Mr.
Thomas Johnston, late baggage master
of the Grand Trunk, Sarnia, presented
him with a most beautiful gold watch
and chain on his removal to Hamilton.
He has been eleven years in Sarnia and
22 years in Hamilton in the service of
the Great Western and Grand,
Trunk Railway Companies, and during
the whole of the time had ne .er lost one.
day's time or one day's pay.
—The Bruce Herald says: 'When Mr.
Tschirhatelt was fined for selling liquor
the other day he went home to Dunkeld
and put'a fence around his house. "By
gosh," says the old! man, " dese demper-
ance beeple use mine bump. drink mine
vater, and bays notings. Den dey fine
me hundred dollars, by gosh I fence
dens out:" But during the night the
temperance people knocked chliwn the
old man's fence and went on using his
pump jutit as usual.
—A born Canadian has been chosen to
replace the late Hon. J. B. Finch as
chairman of the Prohibition National
Committee. At a meeting of Prohi-
bitionists in Chicago Mr. Samuel Dickie,
of Michigan, was appointed chairman.
He first saw the light in Oxford County.
Ontario, June 6, 1851, and removed with
his pareats to Michigan when 7 years
old. He leaves a professorship in Albion
College to enter upon prohibition work.
—A farmer and his wife residing
not far from Chatsworth, County
of Grey, who lost a baby, were
were in the village last fair day. They
came across another woman carrying a
baby in her arms and offered to buy 'it.'
After a little dickering a sale w.as-effect-
ed in consideration of one dollanand the
new owner of the babe walked into one
of the dry goods stores, bought a shawl,
wrapped the infant in it and started for
home in the best of humor.
— During the past year a quarter of a
million quintals of dry fish and 31,000
barrels of pickled fish were exported at
Halifax for the West Indies, Demerara,
and Brazil. During the same period
13,000 hogsheads, 500 tierces, 3,400 bar-
rels and 177,000 bags of sugar were im-
ported, and 11,000 puncheons, 600
tierces and 1,400 barrels of molasses.
The estimated market value of the Yar-
mouth fish catch for 1887 was $895,000,
an increase of $8,000 over last year.
The outlook for the fisheries is better
than it has been for many years.
— The Christmas family gathering at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Murray, 11th line, Zorra, on Monday,
26th ult., was unusually interesting.
Four generations were present, from the
octogenarian to the infant, to the num-
ber of forty. The stories in Gaelic of the
family names in the pulpit and in science,
titude of shooting with intent. The
gentleman, one of the most loyal of all
our citizens, opeued his eyes wide at the
detective's movement and passed on in a
hurry.
—Mr. H. G. Middleton, chief en-
gineer of the Canadian Pacific, returned
to Toronto last week -after five weeks'.'
absence in New York, whither he had
gone, for medical advice. It was found'
that he was suffering from a tumor of,
such a character that his death was a
mere matter of months unless it was re-!
moved, and the removal involved a deli-
cate and dangerous surgical operation
such as has but seldom been performed
on this continent. Mr. Middleton under-
went the operation, and thanks_ to the
skill of the surgeons and to his own re-
markably robust conatitution, he has
almost completely repaired his health.
—The charge against five young men
of Lu -can for being concerned in the
recent charivari at Captain Stanley's
place in that village, was investigated
before Squire Peters last Friday. Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley both gave evidence
that the crowd et first were friendly,
but the prosecution endeavored to prove
that their remarks- after the affair did
not bear out the statement. Mrs.
Stanley said her husband on bearing the
racket went out for a revolver, which
was taken from him by the crowd, who
fired two shots and she fled in a fright.
When she returned she found two of the
accused in the house talking in a friend-
ly manner with her husband. John
Jackson was- fined one dollar and foes:
dollars damages, Robert and Jonathan
Hodgins each one dollar fine and two
dollars damages, William Jackson and
Robert Collins were acquitted.
—Dundalk Herald :—As Mr. Jolla
Norval, of this village, was leisurely
rocking himself in an easy chair reading
The Globe, the door leading into the
woodshed at the time being open, he
was surprised to see the head of Mr.
Glazier's cow inquisitively peep in,
Rising from _ his seat and laying the
paper down on the rocking chair, he
searched for a stick, and finding one,
went out at the front door, coming
round. to the entrance of the woodshed
where the cow had stepped in. "Ha f
ha !" says heto himself, " I've got you,"
and he shut the door of the woodshed,
forgetting he had left the sitting -room
door open. The cow seeing no mode of
escape made for the sitting -room and
there catching sight of The Globe, made
for the rocking chair, hoisting both
above its head. The Globe baffled the
cow, as it was unable to see where it
was going. The consequence was it
struggled for liberty, upsetting the
table, lamp and several other things in
the room. Mr. Norval finding himself
euchred, opened the woodshed door,
being thankful to let his visitor return
in pace.
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