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The Huron Expositor, 1888-03-16, Page 11 8s.8. Ovals Trade 'cGITAMS, TINGS, )ENIMS, MROYS,. E S, eice and not a mere 0 twice married_ [two daughters, aren married in H. L. Mahood funeral took n00137 deceased Presbyterian ster. Service muse by Rev. ISY Rev. A. E. )cesaion was a ()ming from all -lips and from sent. The pall ..rsori and John fames Perkins, ler, of Morris, tt, and James as has been a The Presbyter- ful social and of Friday, 2nd The gathering he programme as cast over the iaht that Mr. Inember of the in what proved la Gibson was s of the meet- ingham, gave idiugs, and the estra provided, ung and Ward, so instrumental the Methodists 1 old-fashioned wall attended. by Rev. Messrs. t, of Lueknow ; d Tetten and Alcock, as - f school. section was presented of discs on - Though taken suitable reply. sl harrier inter - hies occepied a 'egret that the to Manitoba We hope the Mt- Adcock, ace and pros - goes to Wash - States, in the overed with a pedestrianism getting round of farmers are this spring as !me in like a 1. Mr. Ortwein series of very A in the Evan- illage. These on for about Mount of good y having pro- , a change of -d to live better M; these meet - dud and deep If a great many tve set people sire condition. rtwine on hiu our sincerest been moving ; the last few 'ence our mill rcry rapidly - ople intend to ?ring. Among Messrs. WM. sa McDonald, anald McIsa,ac. re Bronson Line migrate' to Da - the present old resident of very much re - a seat at the scars. But we ek wealth that distant 'are there, and near to them. ef ;South East- . Corners, was 'eey last Friday 7tiay morning. ):1 tile approach , Mrs. Hislop it health up to d' says: "Our .on Wednesday diou band con - aid time, and ".he manner in hy the Seaforth ating visitors ,f the Seaforth • • ; z i T WENT Y -FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER; 1,057. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1888. { McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. ....-. SPRING, 1888. Spring and Summer MILLINERY Opened and Ready ' FOR SALE. New Hats, New Bonnets, New Shapes, New Flowers, New Feathers, New Mounts, New Pompons, New Orna- ments, New Ribbons, New Laces, New Silks, New Satins, New Gsuzes. In fact, everything in the millinery line just opened out and ready for inspec- tion. A call respectfully solicited at the Cheap Cash Store —0E--- HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAF 0 RTH. Mutual Insurance Companies. MR. itisnor's SPEECH. As we mentioned last week Mr. Bis- hop, M. P. P., for South Huron, has in- troduced into the Legislature a Bill to amend the Act governing Mutual Fire' 'Insurance Companies. This Bill pro- poses, first, to permit the establishment of companies on the mutual plan for the insurance of live stock and secondly to extend the time for which mutual com- panies are allowed to take -risks to five years, the time having been limited by legislation last year, to three years. The following is a , report of Mni Bishop's remarks in intrOducing his Bill : Mr. Bishop on .moving the second reading of the Bill to amend the Act re- specting Insurance Companies,explained that all the Bill asked for was that Live Stock Insurance Companies may be es- tablished in the same si ple and 'easy way that Mutual Fire I surance Com- panies can be established, under the In- surance Act. He said that he had pre- sented to the House petitions in favor of this Bill from some of the leading importers aid breeders of Middlesex, Huron, Perth and Bruce. In fact a public meeting had been held by those interested parties, and they had actual- ly arranged the rules and rlgulations to start such an insurance company, but looking into the Insurande Act they found that before they could establish a Live Stock Insurance Company they would have to deposit with the Provin- cial Treasurer the sum of $10,000, in fact become a joint stock company. He said that he had been informed by an importer that he would as soon lose id horse every three years as insure in anY4', of these companies ae at present estab- lished. When the subject was firstfe mentionedto him, in his simplicity hot thought it was so reasonable that not objectionwould be made, but he nowl found that this Bill was opposed and the r reason given was that it had been tried ed both in the Dominion and in tha States ahd had always resulted clisit astrously. Well, admitting that Stoc-14 • Companies had failed, did that prover that Mutual Live Stock Insuranc4 would be a failure ?, 'Every one of those 1 Mentioned, as failures, had been either. 1 joint stock companies or live stock cona paniei tacked on to a fire insurance company. He did not know whether the Government intended to oppose thie bill or not, but certainly the Govern' meet had get a lesson from the join stock companies with regard to the fir. at the London asylum. If the Governl- ment had insured the asylum in twenty-- five mutual fire insurance companies in place of in twenty-five joint stock corn - palsies, they -would have had the*. money Icing ago and that without a la' suit either, and as it appeared all the wisdom of the Government, combined with the Inspector of Insurance Coin- panies, was not able to insure the pulih lie buildings with joint stock companies so that they could get their insurance money when a fire did take place with- out having a law suit about it, hoisv could the farmers in the Province be expected to have any confidence in these companies? This House must not think that all the brains and wisdom in the Province is concentrated in it. He had had the honor of sitting' in this Houee for fifteen years and there are very few in it now that were in it when he came to it and no doubt in other fifteen years very few would be in the House that aid in it now and if this House says, that ? this Bill will not become law it takes upon itself to say that the parties asking for this Bill do not know what they axe asking for, and this House forsooth knows better what is good for them than they do themselves. There is just ope other point with regard to this Bill, and that is whether mutual fire insurance companies should have the privilege Id making contracts not to exceed five years or only three years. It may be said that there is no petition before the House asking for this amendment. My answer is that neither was there me single petition preiented last session asking for the three years limit. Some parties say that the Bill last session Was smuggled through the House. He said he had looked through the reports :: of both the Globe and Mail of the debates which took place in this House with ye- gard to the Insurance Act and he did not find that there was one word of thein reported in either of these papers. Pid that not show that it had quickly became .law. He said he might as well frankly admit when asked by, parties the Oa - son why the three years' limit was pass- ed, that he had never been able to give a satisfactory answer, but he thought he could give good reasons why the three years' limit should never have ben made. In the first place:.', a deputation from the Dominion Grange waited on the Government, asking ---,for the amendment which he now propOes ; then again the Sydenham Mutual Int.ur- apce Company at its annual meeting passed a resolution to the same effect. Re then read a resolution from ;the Howick Insuralice Company, strongly urging the amqnclinent proposed ;and condemning the legislation which took place laSt sessi matter and he, letters receive asking him to Cr possible. He s NOTICE.—Apprentices wanted for the millinery work room. terests of the minority and not in the buyers only about a dozen animals interests of the majority. In short, all changed hands. The mistake was made that this Bill asks is that each mutual by the farmers themselves in not plate fire insurance company may have the ing a better class of horses on the mar- privile e of insuring for a term of from ket. Those who brought horses in left one to ive years just as it may Butt their own convenience and to allow any parties interested to establish a mutual live stock insurance company whenever they consider their interests demand it. They are asking nothing only the liberty of forming themselves into a lawful Live Stock Insurance Company without hav- ing to pay into the Government any - bum of money. These privileges they are justly entitled to and if denied by this House a gross injustice will be done the people, in the interests, he feared of the large stock companies. Perth Items. —Messrs. Hay, Kidd & Climie shipped fifteen fine horses to Montreal from Lis- towel, last week. —Mrs. Scott Siddons is expected to give one of her dramatic recitals in Stratford on the 6th April. —Mr, James Hood, of Milverton, has sold the Queen's hotel to Mr. Jacob Smith of Zurich for $4,500. —Mr. Andrew Dyer left Dublin, last week, for Dakota accompanied by his brother and Mr. Jerry Conners. —Mr. Duncan McKellar, of Cromarty, last week disposed of another team of horses to Mr. McGregor, of Hensall, for $100. —The farm of Mr. Henry Watson, in Logan, was sold on the day of the as- signee's sale to Mr. Val Rohfreiteh for 8E000. —Mr. Robert Campbell, lumber mer- chant of Essex Centre, is spending a couple of weeks with old friends in and around Mitchell. —The total number of pupils on the roll of Listowel Public School for the month of February was 540; average attendance 375, or 70 per cent. —Mr. Harry Leonhardt, why) has been attending a medical institution in Buffalo for some months, has come to Mitchell to study with Dr. &fifth. —The eldest son of Mr. Thomas Con- nell, of near Milverton, died in Mani- toba two weeks ago of diphtheria. He leaves a wife and. young family. —Mr. E. Dawson, a district lecturer for the Independent Order of Good Templets+, has been on a tour through the county of Perth and has succeeded in establishing six new lodges. —Mr. James Colquhoun has decided to remain at the Collison House, 1\litchell, and Mr. Nesbit Potter, of Ful- larton, and Mr. George Finley are ne- gotiating for the Royal hotel. —The remains of the late E. W. Gill, wise died in California, arrived at St. Marys on Saturday, the Srd inst., and were conveyed to the cemetery for burial followed by a very large concourse _.of friends. —Mr. Thomas Green of Logan, near Dublin, had the Misfortune to lose his little daughter ,Maud_ a few days ago. She had been suffering for some time with rheumatic fever, and at last inflam- mation set in and she auccumbed to it. —Mr. Robert Grey, who lives near Trowbridge, had 14 or 16 bags of pota- toes stolen a couple of weeks ago. Hit - thinks the:thief wants them to sell for seed potatoes, in which case he may be able to purchaseilome of them. -1--Mr. John F. Otwell, proprietor of the western Pickle and Sauce Works at St. Marys, has made a large shipment to ene firm in Toronto of 260 gallons of pickles. The superior qaality of the Otwell pickles is becoming widely known. —A deputation from St. Marys con- sisting of the mayor and Mr. Win. Weir waited on Mr. Maxwell, of Paris, the ()tiler day for the purpose of ascertain- ing the amount of bonus he will require to move his agricultural works from their present location to St.. Marys. —A party from Logan started for the Western State a last week. Among the party were Mr. Charlee Strickert and family, Mr. J. and W. Wilkins and taanilies, Mr. H. Bennewies, and other good German citizens that a country can ill afford to lose. At the close of the meeting in the Main street church, Mitchell, on Thurs- day -night, 1st inst., the officials -of the two Methodist congregations presented Miss Dimsdale with the sum of $50. It was an -agreeable surprise to Miss Dims - dale, and she thought it was a very gen- erous and liberal donation for her two weeks service. —Listowel has been visited very fre- quently by the fire fiend of late. The burning of the old school buildiug last week is the latest. It belonged to the town, and the insurance having run out, it entails a loss of over $500. Mr. Dipple, who used a part of the building as a carpenter shop, is also a loser to nhotit the same amount. Canada. Two guards in the London asylum have been arrested for assaulting pati- ents. A witness in a law court at Montreal - Friday was a hundred years old. —An old man named Gillies, 91 years of age, was found dead near Lucan Fri- day morning. 1 -Thomas Faulds, of the Muncey road, Caradoc, has purchased a farm of 100 acres Glencoe for $4,800. —The election for the repeal of the Scott Act in the County of Sirncoe has 'been fixed for April 19th. —At the Picton market on Saturday, butter sold at 30. cents per pound, and was scarce enough at that. —It is believed that the, Roman Catholic church will strongly oppose the introduction of the cremation system at Montreal. —A great. revival is now going on under Bishop Lennox in. the Colored Evangelical Church, Windsor. —Mr. Johnston, of Princeton, shipped sixteen horses to Manitoba the other day from the Ayr station of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway. —Sixty-three cars of white fish have been shipped from Lake Winnipeg for Ontario and the States during -the past four months. —Hon. J. Burr Plumb, Speaker of the Senate, died at Niagara suddenly Monday morning. lie was 72 years of age. —Three of the Bell Telephone Com- pany's employes at Toronto were fined $10 each on Thursday for cutting branches from shade trees. . —Toronto, with a population of 150,- 060, has 225 licensed places for the sale of liquor ; Montreal, with. a population of 200,000, has 1,200. —The celebrated French writer, Max O'Rell, passed through Toronto last Fri- day on his way to Montreal where he has this week delivered several lectures. —Justice Reedier, of: Milton, has two blue Danish dons, three feet high, the only ones of the kind ,in Canada, it is said. They costover $200. —A Seymour township farmer drives a team composed of a horse and an ox harnessed together. He is drawing cedar and says that the ox does the same work as the horse on half the feed. Representatives of American manufac- turing industries are taking steps to locate factories at Port Colborne as a re suit of the recent discovery of natural thp better ones at home. Buyers were prepared to pay. high prices for first quality. The farmers will no doubt profit by this experience and bring out the best they have at the next market which will be held on the ard of next month. —The United States Government having refused> to grant to Canada joint- ly the use of the Sault Ste. Marie canal in perpetuity, tenders for the construc- tion of the Canadian canal will be called for at once. —By building a lock at Washburn on the Rideau canal and lowering . the water in the reach near Kingston . mills nearly 5,000 acres of drowned lands would be restored to agriculture. The Government will be asked to make the change. —Attorney -General Martin, now in Ottawa, says that on his way down from Winnipeg he passed 600 cars of grain standing at Port Arthur, waiting trans- portation. Each car would probably contain 600 bushels, so that at thatpoint 360,000 bushels were lying. —A night or two ago as Mr. Seldom of the new Seldon house, Owen Sound, was lighting the .gas in the hall, she slipped and fell, striking across the chair, and was picked up 1111COLIBeicHIS. It was feared for some time that she 'could not recover, but she is now doing fairly Well. —Lord Stanley of Preston's eldest son has sailed from Liverpool for Canada. Ele will go to Ottawa and remain at Rideau Hall as the, guest of Lord Lans- downe until the arrival of his father to succeed. the hitter as Governor-General. —Mr. P. Lane, of Portage la Prairie, has purchased the imported •Clydesdale stallion, Cawnbrogie of the Dean-, three years old, out of Maggie of Milton, from Principal Smith, of the Ontario Veter- inary College. This is a magnificently bred and handsome Clydesdale. —On Sunday 4th • inst., Rev. It. R. Maitland asked his congregation, of King Street Methodist church, Inger- soll, for $6,000 to pay off the indebted- ness for improvements on, the church just compileted, and in a few' minutes ,he got $6,534 subscribed. --S-Mr. Adam Isbister, oil merchant, of Petrolea, has received a cable message from Australia, ordering a full Set of drillers' tools and a large quantity of casing and other oil well requirements, also for three experienced men. The order will amount to about $9,000. —An old man 91 years of age, named Gillis, who has been living for sonic time past with his son-in-law, Mr. Donald McKinnon, of Lucan, on Wed- nesday night last week escaped through his bedroom window in a nude state, and was found dead Thursday morning some distance from the house. —Lord Lonsdale arrived in Ottawa last week on a few days' visit, after which he will start op an extended hunting expedition in the Mackenzie River region, for the purpose of obtain- ing specimens of rare sub -polar animals for the Scottish Society of Naturalists. —A week or two ago Mr. Thomas ders for like amounts and then disap- peared. The -orders were handed in to the company's agent in Toronto'and were accepted and forwarded to head- quarters in New York, where the forge ry was discovered. A private detective traced Gibson to Lockport, New York, and followed him from there to Toron- to, wiring ahead, and Gibson was met at the Union station by Detective Davis. and taken into custody. —The Canadian Pacific Railway Company are slowly but surely side- tracking Ottawa. Since the opening of the short line from Smith's Falls to Montreal, nearly all through freights from the West have gone over that line. The immense shipments of Mani- toba wheat, Minneapolis flour and large shipments of tea, silk and other com- modities are going via Smith's Falls and the Short Line. - - —A grain train fellthrough a high trestle east of Heron Bay, 191 miles east .of Port Arthur, on Thursday night last week, smashing a number of cars. No east train arrived through for two days in consequence. It is not known whether many were killed in the ac- cident or not, as the Canadian Pacific Railway officials refuse to give any par- ticulars. One report says three of the train men were killed. —Mr. James J. Vance, L. L. D., who died at Austin Texas, the other day, was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1830, and came to Toronto with his parents when six months old. He was educated in Toronto and joined the Bar. Mr. Vance was also city alderman for a number of years, and was for some time Clerk of Private Bills at the Provincial Assembly. His family at one time re- sided at Ayr, Waterloo county. —Halifax papers tell of the narrow escape a passenger train had Satur- the widow. He' then took her to Alli- son's hotel, and registered as man and wife. Next morning the amateur agriculturist disappeared, and the peer woman without means, did riot know gas at that place. Boyd, of Longford, County Stmcoe, —John G. Stevenson, late, judge of broke a tooth, rupturing a small blood the County Court of Haldimand, died vessel in the gum while doing so. The at Cayuga on Monday 5th inst., after a tooth w'as extracted, but the bleeding prolonged illness, in the 70th year of his continued for ten days, reducing Mr. age. . Boyd to a very weak state until the flow —The other day in Toronto Hugh was stopped by the application of a Carleton, 77 years of age, was amusing saiger web. two of his grandchildren in the yard —Some days ago, at a saw mill in adjoining the residence of his son when Battersea, Fronteuac County, the tail - he suddenly fell to the ground dead. sawyer slipped, allowing the saw to —A four-year-old, girl belonging to catch the last plank on the/ carriage. Owen Sound, while trying to climb on a The plank was thrown through the loaded sleigh. the other day, was run roof of the building, striking a farmer over and so badly hurt that both legs named Holder and knocking him in - had to be amputated, sensible, arid leaving little hope of re- -Dr. Sangster, of Port Perry, whose covery. . flowers are celebrated through all that —It is reported that Gabriel Dumont part of the country, lost 1,600 valuable is again endeavouring to make mischief plants by frost some night's ago, fire among the half-breeds of Batoche, many having damaged his hothouse. of whom are on the verge of starvation. —The 130 -acre farm in North Dum- A detachment of Mounted Police has fries belonging to the estate of the late been sent to Batoche from Prince Albert. Alex. Cranston was put up at auction Northwest members in Ottawa express and was knocked down to James Lake, the belief that poverty is the only cause River road, for $6,540. of trouble among the half-breeds at pre - Mr. A. G. Cole, of Ottawa, who was severely injured by the fall of a stair- sent. —The Government analysis of the way at the Toronto Zoo during the last contents of the intestines of Wm. Industrial Fair in Toronto, will sue the Perrin, who died suddenly at Ayr, on Exhibition Association for $5,0d0. the 14th of February, shows that —Two car loads of silk from China, strychnine was found in the solid vis - valued at $25,000, for New York, via cera in sufficient quantity to be easily C. P. R., passed through Ottawa on identified by the usual re -action. Mrs. Wednesday of last week. Several other Perrin and a young man named W. T. similar shipments are en route. Scott have been committed for trial on —On Wednesday last week Herbert suspicion. Cook, of Galt, a_young man in the em- —Mr. Victor Beaudry, a millionaire ploy of the Watson bicanufacturing Com- brother of the late Mayor Beaudry, of pany, of Ayr, was accidentally caught Montreal, died at his residence in Mont - in the running belt and had his arm torn real, a few days ago. Deceased resided completely off above the elbow. for many years at Los Angelos, Califor- -Messrs. James Hay & Co., of Wood- nia, where he made an immense fortune. stock, last week, shipped a large con- He returned about two years ago to signment of chairs to Singapore, India. spend his last days in his native city. This is their first shipment to that He was 59 years of age, and leaves a point, and it is expected that a large widow and five children. trade will resrilt therefrom. —Last Saturday the officers and ex- -J. H. McTavish, late land commis- officers of the 1st Battalion, Prince of sioner of _the Canadian Pacific at Win- Wales' Rifles, Montreal, sent a despatch nipeg, died a few days ago after a short to the Prince of Wales congratulating illness, aged 50. He was one of the his Royal Highness and the Princess of oldest and most iv3peeted citizens of Wales on the '25th anniversary of their Winnipeg. marriage. They received an answer —A correspondent says: For a small from His Royal Highness,- thanking the town there is about 200 per cent. more gambling done in Brockville than should be. The craze to hazard at the cards is affecting many who have neither the income nor the keen perception neccessary to make a successful gambler. —The horse market held on Tuesday last week at New Hamburg is reported a decided success. There were about two hundred horses brought in and -offered for sale. Many buyers were present among whom were Messrs. Forbes, McTavish, Esson and Kyle of Stratford, Groff of Waterloo, Alexander of Guelph and Smith and. Lowry of Listowel. Strange to say that Ititwith- standing the large number of horses and at it, notwithstanding the. requent dis- appointments, and at aboutten- o'clock on Wednesday night last, success re- warded their efforts, and the well was C.leared. The workmen felt so much what to do. She was still at the hotel, pleased over it, that they decided to 1 and Mr. Smith, the immigrant agent, celebrate the aoccasion by a social sup - is expecting to secure a situation for per, which vshs arranged to take place her with a respectable "farmer." If last Thursday night. the facts of the above case were known in all probability one of the Hamilton toughs would turn out to be the pre- tended Kincardine farmer. —The Ontario Educational Depart- ment has issued the following notice re- garding examination for teacher's certi- ficates :—Third class examinations will be held from the 3rd to the 8th of July; second class, from the 3rd to the 10th, and first class grade " 0" from the 10th to the 18th of the same month. The examinations for the 3rd and 2nd class certificates will be held in the high schools and collegiate institutes through- out the Province. Candidates for grade " A " or "B" will be examined at To- ronto University, and candidates for grade " C " at Guelph, Hamilton, King- ston, London, Ottawa and Toronto. Candidates must notify authorities of their intention of writing not later than the 24th of May. —Burglars Visited the village of St. George Friday night and got off with about a hundred dollars' worth of goods. 'They effected an entrance into the general store of C. Haas & Son, by re- moving a pane of glass in a cellar win- dow. They ransacked the drawers for silk handkerchiefs, collars, shirts, tobacco, etc., taking goods to the value of $75. The jewelry shop of J. H. Hastings was next visited, the back window broken and an inside door forc- ed in. A gold chain, a revolver and sonic watch movements were secured, day night on the Cobequid Mount- probably $30 worth. An attempt was ains. It was thrown from the track, then made on the Mammoth clothing and as the passengers very soon die- store of Chas. Coulter, the back win - covered, within six feet of a precipice 200 feet high. The whole train, with the exception of the rear truck of the tender, had left the rails, and it was only this circumstance which prevented the cars from leaping into the chasm. —Two barns belonging to Mr. Alex. St. Louis, of Windsor, were burned Saturday. They were on the large farm of that gentleman, four miles up the river from Windsor. Fifteen head of cattle, 30 sheep, six horses, waggons, farm implements, etc., were destroyed. The insurance carried is $2,000, which will barely cover the value of -the barns, and it is estimated that Mr. St. Louis' loss will amount to $3,000. The fire was undoubtedly incendiary. —Some time last Friday afternoon Mr, and Mrs. John Forister, living about two miles from the village of 13olton, were brutally assaulted by their hired man, whose name is Preston. He first assaulted Forister while in the bush, hacking and fracturing his skull with an axe in a frightful manner. lie then re- turned to the house and attacked Mrs. Forister with a fire poker. Both were found about three hours afterwardsinan unconscious state. It is likely Forister - will die. Mrs. Forister may live. Pres- ton was arrested and is now committed for trial. —Frank Andereon, son of Mr. H. Anderson, of Bartonville, met with a severe accident on Saturday afternoon. He and his brother v.ass returning from a visit on the mountain top, and under- took to come down the mountain side by a short-cut. The path they took was a dangerous one, and they had not gone far before F'rank fell and slipped to the bottom of the hill, a distance of about 80 feet, striking very heavily. The young man's left leg was broken and his head badly bruised. His escape from death was almost miraculous. —The Globe Printing Company, To- ronto, held its annual meeting a few days ago and it reports the business upon the whole as prosperous during the five years it has been under the present management. Although the annual sub- scription to the paper has been reduced from $7 to $5, yet the earnings are stat- ed to be sufficient to pay three per cent. on a half million capital and add a sub- stantial amount to the reserve fund. The retiring directors were unanimous- ly re-elected, with Mr. James Maclen- nan, Q. C., as president. —Considerable feeling has been stirred up in church circles in Hamilton over h investi ation into the charges n with regard to this likewise read partii of from different patties rry the amendmerit if id let us •look intoi the abstract report of the Inspector of in- surance and we find that there are afty- eight purely mutual companies, ant we find that twenty-two Of these compttnies insure for five years, ten of these tiom- panics insure from-' one to five yearsi one of these companies insure for four :,,ears and eighteen insure for three yearl,,and seven insure for from one to three years, making a total of twenty -live companies insuring for three 'years; thirty-two companies insuring for five years and one COMpany insuring for four years. Now what does this. prove? Does it not prove that the majority of the com- panies voluntarily insure for the term of five years and the amendment that was made list session was made in the in- dows being smashed, but the burglars failed to effect an entrance. —The Gaelic Society of Toronto held an open meeting last Monday evening in Richmond Hall; when their hospi- tality was taken advantage of by a large and appreciative audience. The President, Mr. John McPherson pre- sided. Rev. W. Wye Smith, of 'New- market, read an excellent paper on "Burns' Highland Mary," which con - twined a great deal of original informa- tion regarding the subject of the sketch, and referred to her early life and the relations between her family and Burns, who seemed to have been no favorite with her sire—a stern, Highland, Pres- byterian sailor. On motion of Dr. Daniel Clark, a vote of thanks was cordially passed to the lecturer. A choice musical entertainment followed the lecture, during which piper Charles Munro played several enjoyable select- ions on the bagpipes. —Mr. Samuel Hannah, ef Griswold, Manitoba, and his brother' D. Hannah, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who were home visiting friends in th4 county, left for Manitoba on Tuesday. The former, who was reeve of McKillop for some years, left for Pennsylvania eighteen the oil and ars ago he ides holding now farms years ago, and engaged in coal business. Seven y went to Manitoba and be lands on speculation he 1,250 acres of land near Griswold, hav- ing 500 acres under cultivation, employ- ing 60 teams and summer fallowing 150 acres yearly. Off 250 acres last year he li had 10,300 bushels of whe t and 13,800 bushels of grain in all. e says sheep do well and are now being raised in that locality, the Messrs. Govefilock, former- ly of Seaforth, being in that line. Mr. Hannah took with him car load of brood Mares as he inten s going ,into • horse raising on his exten ive farm. He is a shrewd, active, intelligent business . man and one who evideotly makes a BLICCeB3 of what he attempts. His brother David, who accompanies him is engaged in the oil business in Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania. l'heir mother lives in Bayfield, being 83 years of age. —One' morning last week as the early train from Teeswater on the Cana- dian Pacific railway was plowing its way throngh the snow drifts, a most peculiar, and what might have been fatal accident occurred to Engineer Johnston. It appears that at the foot of the hill where the railway track crosses the Ilowicle read, two miles west of Harriston, a large drift of snow had accumulated, and the engineer put on all steam to shove through. Just at the road crossing an immense cake of frozen snow came up the pilot with tre- mendous force, breaking in the cab win- dow and striking Mr. Johnston on the forehead with such force as to lay the skull bare, and knocking him into the coal bunker of the tender. The fireman escaped injury, and as soon as he realiz- ed what had happened he stopped, the engine and secured the assistance of Conductor Troyer and other train hands, who found the injured man lying be- tween the engine and tender covered with blood and snow. He was taken up, and with a liberal supply of water and snow the flow of blood was stopped. Upon arriving at the Harriston station medical assistance was procured, and the injured man was able to resume his duties next day. —Another of Huron's honored pion- eers, in the person of Mr. Thomas Wig- ginton of Goderich Township, near Clinton, has passed to his long home. He died on the 3rd inst. at the age of 86 years. The deceased was a native of Yorkshire, England. He received a good education, an I occupied a high position as teacher in his native town. At the age of thirty he emigrated to Canada, spending two years in Mon- treal, and afterwards settled in Chin- guacousy, county of Peel, at that time a wilderness, dotted here and there with small and rudely cultivated farms. In 1856 he came to Clinton, which was then a country district, and purchased the farm on which he spent the remain- der of his days, on the Bayfield road. A man of excellent reputation and good abilities, he enjoyed the respect and confidence of a large circle of acquain- tances ; and although his religious be- lief was peculiar, no one who knew him doubted his sincerity. He was the son of a local preacher, and was educated strictly a Methodist, but he was an in- dependent thinker, and loved to investi- gate different religions, but without satisfaction, until he read the writings , of Emanuel Swedenborg, This was some years before his departure from his native country; and he has ever since been a devout student and earnest advocate of the teachings of the great seer. His death was hastened by a stroke of paralysis, which he received two years ago, and from which he never recovered. —A sad accident occurred on Tuesday of last week on the farm of Mr. George Sturdy, 7th concession Goderich Town- ship, by which Wm. Mugford lost his life. The deceased, along with George McDonald and Angus McLeod, were digging a well for Mr. Sturdy, and had put it down about sixty feet, the last eighteen feet being dry sand. They had puttwo t cribs in the lower one sticking , some distance from the bottom. Mug- ford and McDonald descended to force down the cribs, and when their weight came upon the lower one it went down suddenly, the loose sand, thus relieved between the two men, threw them to the bottom. The sand caught both, but McDonald, struggling succeeded in eex- tricating his feet, an springing on to the rim of the crib, so n fastened a rope around Mugford's bo4ly. The men on the surface drew on the rope, but could not rescue the unforttinate man, who in a few minutes was cot[ered in a depth of about eight feet. McDonald succeeded in climbing up the rope to the surface. Every effort that hu an aid could give was made to get at nor Mugford, but officers and ex -officers of the regiment week ago a respectable. Toronto widow about three hours >lapsed before his warmly for their congratulations. with a child of four years advertised in acute as the average man of only half his body was taken out, -when life was ex- --A despatch from Toronto last Fri- a Toronto paper for a situation as a age. He was a member of the Chursh tinct. Mr. Mugford was a young man, day says: --James W. C. Gibson, alias housekeeper. The advertisement was of England and Conservative in polities. well known and hied. lie lived at C. Crew, a clergyman, seas arrested by answered, ostensibly from Kincardine, He had been failing gradually for the Holmesville, and leeves a wife and one charged with forgery. Gibson's relatives said that if she suited she would have past few months, The Clinton New Era of last weed: or two children who have the sympathy live near Dovercourt village, and Gib- a good home with him, and also re- says : About six months ago Stapleton of the entire neighborhood. Word of Detective Davis yesterday afternoon, by a man about 27 years of age, who son was home on a visit about a month questing her to come on to Hamilton, time being, owing to tubing and other Salt Well was rendered useless for the the sad affair was sentto Mrs. Mugforcl's ' father, who lives at )1a.nilla in the coon - ago. On February 11th it is alleged that the risoner forged an order on the 7 America Express Company for $49.50, signing he name of Mr. A. Tryon, the company's agent,at St. Marys, Dakota, to it. The order was cashed at the branch of the Dominion Bank. On the following day he cashed ten similar or- t e recent of falsehood brought against Rev. C. 0. Johnson by Rev. Solomon Cleaver, of Burlington, and others. The inquisition was secret, and no one officially connect- ed therewith would give any informa- tion ; but it is known that the charges became very attenuated when investi- gated, and Mr. Johnson's congregation intend standing by him in whatever course he may adopt. —The Hamilton' and Dundas train, running to, Dundas late on Saturday night, struck some object on Concession street, which upon being examined proved to be a buggy that had been left standing there. The owner, an Ancas- ter farmer, confused by drink, had un- harnessed 'his horse, tied him to the buggy wheels, and then wrapping him- self in the buffalo robes, contentedly laid him to rest on the street, and was enjoying sweet sleep until rudely awak- ened by a portion of the buggy striking him on the head. He was not hurt. —A Hamilton paper says: About a a a .1.11 For The Northwest. The third and largest colonization ex- dition to Manitoba and the Northwest, nder the auspices of the Canadian acific railway, was started, after much nnoying delay through the storm -block-. ded roads, from the Brock street depot, oronto, on Tuesday night. It was riginally intended that three full trains, omprising 67 cars of stock and carrying oine 225 passengers, should leave, but hesev ere blizzard of the previous 24 hours endued travelling so difficult and un- ertain that the Toronto managers of he expedition had been telegraphing in very direction endeavoring to prevent he launching of as many of the tribu- ary cars and companies as possible. his action succeeded in delaying at heir homes some twenty cars and sixty - no passengers, who followed the main ody in a special train on Wednesday. he two trains that got away in spite of he blinding storm Tuesday night con- isted of 47 cars of stock and 159 passen- ers, made up as follows:— Cars of Passen- Stock. gers. 1 2 6 6 1 6 1 Galt St. Thomas Hagersville Hamilton Stratford Wingham Division, G.T.R. .. 5 1 '2 1 9 - 6 26 29 3 4 1 1 3 3 20 3 5 15 2 0 1 7 2 4 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 5 Drumbo Meat ord Chatham . Napanee Brantford Centralia Exeter . Tara Wingbain Uxbridge Goderich Kleinburg Shelburne Blenheim Brampton St•Catharines Fergus 1 1 2 Huron Notes. • —Mr. Thos. McLean, of Goderich, bought from Mr. Noble T. Adams, of Hullet, a few days ago, a fat heifer which weighed 2,120 lbs. The beast will be slaughtered and sold in Clinton at Easter. —Mr. Wm. Martin, for a great many years following the peddling business in, this county, died at his residence in Clinton last week,at the good old age of 75 years. Mr. Martin was a gentleman of more than average intelligence, of re- markably active temperament and until last summer preserved his vitality to a wonderful degree. Up to that time his step was as elastic and his intellect as where he would meet her and take her to his home. The poor woman did as directed, coming to Hamilton, where she was met by the.supposed Kincar- dine farmer, who used a good deal of suavity to lead her to_ believe that she was just the person needed, and hold- ing out matrimonial inducements to - ty of Victoria, and -ho had only a few articles lodging in the bottom. iimi prevented pumping operations being carried on, and night and day ever since practical men have been fishing for the lost tubing. Often it would be lifted to within a few feet of the sur- face, only to shp and drop back. u days ago returned f oin this neighbor- hood, after attending the funeral of a daughter. ci A Good Templara Society has been organized at Shakespeare with 35 mem- it had to be got out, so the men kept bers. 4*: "•:•. • - 47,1) 7 S- -14 t` 4 It =r t 4,3 •