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The Huron Expositor, 1888-04-06, Page 1• 30. I8R8. Letter. PUBLIC& Eat HAVING Lon, - ()DRESS,. AND Air BEING DESIROUS WITII Enr IS r .THIS PURLIG INC/ KNOWN A 1.1arcli 27th, Ises„ prised to receive a this rather origin - so doing is to as - mid prosperity. Lf, while my grow- -rce of satisfaction. ut best of ail it is ;,tulate myself that ring community, be good people here Ma square dealing tronage they are upon the worthy. the plan I thought and if goods have ogle customer not done without my he best indication (ettrred, is the long - lade my establish, ace. I returned a t where 1 made a Mantle Materials, &c. The style and d is bound to be Yhu know, I have :tont intend to let n the least. I have etinng on the pro make must be on ot at all. We are s on the 23th and pe.lieve I shall cer- this vicinit, that rant is the LEADER :CERN- LJN 1 ex. LO time, but corns Ld ire will do Ot1r y Yours, AUL • aatmaalswitatmig -artist, deserves tient manner in herself in that ery ing of apecial tic power with, dger and I" and ts Trueman was aause* for her Belcher came a praise for t• rich he ren - mots Deep" and !. His selections a and accorded .. tag voice. flig, e audience great; broken up ow Of Mr. Hellas, speek,as a lead- cemment. The whole was of a p.fenclid success. ine to have Mr. litany of sing-ers welcome them at ;ak them a full sang lovely anci ry the audience. a great success order was kept a of a few small understanding ;d to interrupt he stamping of d neisea, unbe- nmon sense to nOsh. returned hothe te has been visit - fl is able to be rims attack of Mr. John Coates left for It. —Mr.Th omas aipeg, where he till the examin- ank McGowan to Mr. T. Mit- I•ie animal has regor McGowan . Watson which corm ds. Who- xcitement took ry Society last ides were cap - 0 Harry Hyde tee which side entertainments side, and on o be contested, for victory. hosen and the r. Hyde's pro- w pieces, con- u,trionth organ gs, recitations, as allowed one After this was .d in his pro - the same only ones and more r, owed one hour this was ended hear the chairte time it was had 28 marks gipping greeted a- meeting was that it the ati ever spent y other plate. -e beeu enterity hall, Strat- Woodharn has mare, sired by, ord Itartdol ph , sum of $200 ays old. ;II of the Wo- ociety gave a on the 13th itchell road, to d delight of all being that on ment weather e. ,e. 31 31 'TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,060. 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 Gauzes. In fact, everything in the millinery line just opened out and ready for inspec- tion. A call respectfully solicited at the Cheap Cash Store —OF HOFFMAN & CO., CARDNO'S BLOCK, SEAFORTH. NOTICE.—Apprentices wanted for the millinery work room. OUR MANITOBA LE (From Our Own Correspondent WINNIPEG, March 3 188S. The center of interest for th4 e con- cernedwith Manitoba matters s just now set at Winnipeg, but at 0 awe it is gratifying to find that the rained relations hitherto maintained • etween our people are. likely soon to b- eased a good deal, so far as the policy of dis- the enthusiasts who in. peanswant t allowance is concerned. But of victory over this cha ige of kolicy to understand that e dif- ficulty is not solved by a change of governmental policy. It s only moved on to new ground. The t._Paul road has always been on good usiness terms with the C. P. R., som& people allege too much so, •and the orthern Pacific, our only .other outlet, as itself no pr ofitable, available tonnes connectipn with the eastern seaboard. If we ere at liberty to sell pur produce inMi neape- lis, it would pat a very differen face oa the situation, for at the Prem. t time there is no other market ope to us likely to be of so permanently ofitable a character. When you inOnt io have a good crop of your own, there nay not be such a call for our produce f nt your millers as there is this season(, nd then the country that can ship to th east, its produce either as grain or ft 116x, will have the pull on every other ompeti- tion. Just now the "Soo" road has that advantage in a special de ee, mid though the raison detre of theIJ. P. R. was the development of the qanadian Northwest, it will soon be fo Od that the cute magnates of that grea concern will, when there are no more ubsidies to be had from the Federal Tr situ, go in all they can for the sort of ,basiness that will be most likely to secure good dividends. If the Grend Trunk Can se- cure a through road by the "Soo" bridge, we may count on bona fide com- SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1888. {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. ER. Perth Items. —There ia a great scarcity of vacant houses for renting purposes in Mitchell. —Rev. J. W. Taylor, of Wardsville, has been appointed rector of Trinity Church, Mitchell. —Rev. Wm. Burgess is about remov- ing from Listowel to take charge of a congregation in some part of Michigan. —The Stratford Beacon says the Sal- vation Army in that city had " a devil confounding time " on Good Friday. —One evening lately on the St. Marys rink, Master John Thompson skated five miles in twenty minutes, the fastest time ever made in St. Marys. —The new staff of directors for the Elora flax manufacturing company are Messrs. J. Bray, W. Forrest, W. Mc- Cormick, J. W. McBain and D. Morri- son. —Mr. Dougherty, of Mitchell, bought a four year old heifer from Mr. Rogers, of Hibbert, for Easter custom, that weighed 1,590 pounds. —Mr. F. Goebel has removed from Mitchell to New Hamburg., He was a good citizen, and the Mitchell people re- gret his departure. —At promotion examination in the Hampstead school last week fourteen pupils were prevented from writing by sickness. —Mr. Woods, deputy -postmaster, of Mitchell, is 88 years of age and has never had a day's illness during all these long years. But then he is a bachelor and is not worried with family cares. —The machinists in the Grand Trunk Railway shops at Hamilton have been notified that they must remove to Strat- ford on August lat. Those at Kingston are reported to have received a similar notification. —Mrs. Samuel Whaley, of Milverton, has sold her farm to Mr. S. Vf haley, on the 5th line, for $5,250. This place con- sist3 of about 90 acres, part of it being surveyed into town lots. —The Mitchell audience which as- sembled to listen to the lecture of Nor - mare McLeod, claiming to be the son of the illustrious clergyman of that name, were disappointed and disgusted at the tameness of the performance. —The two largest elm logs in Mr. Sckultz's saw -mill yard, at Topping, measure 16 feet in length, contain (log ineasare) 666 and 777 feet respectively and were delivered b Mr. D. Chalmers, Honey Grove, on St. Patrick's Day. —Rev. Mr. Ker has removed from Mitchell, and entered on his new charge at St. James' church, Stratford, last week. During his short pastorate of Trinity Church, Mitchell, he accomplish- ed much good in both spiritual and tem- poral matters relating to the church. —The sheriff sale of the- chattels of Wm. Linton, of Hibbert, took place on Tuesday, /eat week. They did not realize quite $900. The farm, a fine 100 acre lot, only brought $4,500, and was purchased by Mr. Alex. Linton, father of the insolvent. —The Mitchell Recorder of last week says :—Mr. S. Nethercott, principal of the public school, occupied the pulpit for Rev. Mr. Casson on Sunday night and did exceedingly well. Mr. Kemp - theme likewise did well in the morn- ing. —Messrs. Terry McDermott, James Carpenter and James and M. McColli- gan returned home to Dublin last week from the Michigan woods where they have been working all winter. The young ladies think the boys look as strong and hearty and handsome as ever. —The other day in Stratford a farmer tied his team to a striped pole,surmount- ed by a fine galvanized iron lamp, and in an absent-minded moment one of the horses tossed his head and snapped the pole off at the base. It cost the farmer :$25 to make good the loss. Stablinethe horses would have been cheaper. —Wm. Climie, of Listowei, was the other dayengaged in doctoring a sore foot of one of the horses, when it sud- denly kicked, throwing Mr. Climie against the harness peg, which struck him on the top of the shoulder, breaking his collar bone. It will be fully three weeks before he can leave his bed. petition by an independent t route. In any event, cheap tra the nearest water -carriage point, Port Arthur or Duluth, is sure t every othermode of parrying o grain, and old Alexander Mc en not such a stupid as some men ways tried to prove him, when oned on the road from Wi Port Arthur as the working Outlet of the Northwest. , In -Whatever way this question of a ready outlet for our produce my be solved, an important factor to its, sold - tion is daily becoming stronger. I have never seen so hopeful a tide of imtnigra- tion sec in from the east as is daily land- ing carloads of farmer's stock and effects here for distribution over our ,whole province, and a good way beyond it. They are inthe right proportion too,and mostly of the best sort. Your young men if ce.pable, as most of them are in a special degree, and reasonable as I hope most of them will prove, may get ready engagements with farmers all over our province, whom the last season s fine yield has inspired with greater hope and confidence than ever before. They are freely buying good young mares, as breeding prospects are good, and they will widen very much their grain area during the corning summer, Which the influx of good hired hands from Ontario will do very much to help. Reliable help at fair wages has not always been easily got here, and another season,near- ly equal -to the last would make wheat growing, oven at fifty cents, a paying business, if we can confidently reckon on efficient help to raise it. I saw a yoang man from Seaforth this week, who, i the very first clay, got an engagement Istr theyear at $20 a month. Had he been 4, "bloom- ing" Englishman of the sa ne size, "willing" to learn anything, bit actual- 1yknowing nothing of what very ode must know here to be of any real ad- vantage either to himself or tocithe coun- try, he would have been offer° his food, with a good deal of uncertaintsr whether he would be a bargain, even on such low t brought coming rough sit to either beat t our iewis ha e aJ- he reek- niPeg to more to sell than can be carried away, and there is no record of any place in the world where a working force of less than 25,000 producers, has ever befpre raised a surplus of 12,000,000 bushels of wheat in one seasoa. Every addition to apostleship of prayer, Thy kingdom that production means increased at- come," with this important addition— tractions for railroad speculators, and 100 days' indulgence each time (Pius in this way it will come about that when IX., 14 June, 1887.") On being quest - we have 25,000,000 to export we will get ioned, the mail carrier said he was asked it away easier and for less money than by a certain Roman Catholic priest to we can do to -day. distribute the cards, but afterwards I have just been taking stock of the apologized. The citizen wrote an in - results from "Bonanza, farming" away dignant letter to the Postmaster -General, up the Red River Valley. For a year and received a reply stating that the or two an expertfigurer can always show letter carrier in question would be re• a good margin of profit. The Bell primanded, and that all carriers attach - Farm, the biggest swindle of the sort on ed to the Montreal postoffice would be this side, was a miracle of success—on cautioned on the subject. paper. " Behold the end o't." After the credulous partners in- this huge win 1- The South Huron Farmers' bag scheme had been bled of every dollar Institute and the Bruce - they would spend on it, its outfit has field Church. gone into the hands of the sheriff, and DEAR ExrOsITOR,—I cordially thank that would have been the case long you for your favorable notices of and before, but for the fact that the big haul kindly comments on our meeting of it made in the rebellion campaign staved 1Farmers' Institute heid in Brucefield, off the ruin that all clear seeing men March 9th and 10th. In your—account, foretold from the first. however, of the evening's meeting you, On the Minnesota side one man with unwittingly no doubt, fell into serious $100,000 laid out on good land, told me error, and as the incidents of that even - plainly that he had not been able to ing have given rise to some feeling you take a dollar out of it for tear and wear will, I am sure, allow me space in your or interest for the last three years. He valuable paper to set up the facts. Ybur is a capable man if not a successful one. offence, on which I hang this narrative Another, on a farm of 15 sections, where for the benefit of parties interested I $300,000 has been laid out, made last do not wish you to suppose I regard as year for the first time $25,000 over his a serious one, but simply an error which working expenses and taxes. Much of any one looking on might readily fall this money was wasted on costly and in into. It consists in stating that through some cases uncalled for machinery, and some misunderstanding we had not by bad, and extravagent administration. secured permission to use the -church and. But if a first-rate man such as my friend that the trustees appearing • on the scene is cannot on t eir methods raise a bushel we were obliged to leave the building. of wheat in a ood year for less than 40 The facts are there was no misunder- cents a bushel, I think his experience standing at all. We had proper author - does not say thuch for " Bonanza farm- ity for entering the church and left it ing." Another friend with 12 well only because we found our presence dis- managed sectionsreportsalso for the first tasteful to some of the members of the time a profit of 00,000 to $%,000. Both church. of these men are leaning over very much The purposes for which a church to stock breeding, cattle and horses edifice may be used is in the determine - mainly, and sae not sanguine even with tion of the session. The Brucefield such help of doing much better. I can church has no session because no mod - n me others, great lights in the Ryan erator. There are but two elders. We ouse smokiog room, who take $1 a had permission to use the church for boshel to raise wheat. I have by me this purpose from the oldest elder, Mr. estimates from big farm men round George Walker. He not only gave us "Ctsseltoni who can thresh off the stock, permission to use the church, but offered 3j000 bushels of wheat, with one ma.- it unsolicited so far as the Institute is chine in -one 4 ay, but such wonder work- concerned. 1 had not thought or dreamt ,ets are no rule and I leave them out of of seeking the use of the church till in rhy reckoning. passing along the sidewalk, at Dixon's 1Taking the whole case I am sure that Hotel, after the afternoon . meeting, I -the plan of subdividing these huge con- was hailed by Professor Robertson who corns to working farmers on rent and said, " Mr. Walker offers us the use of sita.re, as is now being done to the south, the church for our meeting. Why not is thetbest plan both for the farmers and accept it ? You won't get half the peo- . the country. I can name men on both ple into that hall." Mr. Walker, who sides the line who in this exceptionally was standing with Mr. Robertson, turn- fa,vorable season have raised a bushel of ed to me and said, " You are heartily wheat at 20 cents, and can always do it welcome to the use of the church ; there cheaper thanthe best managed big farm- is no earthly reason why you should not es,with even the;inanifest advantage that have the church." I thanked Mr. oo some points they do have over small- Walker for his kindness, when he said, et men. This is apoor inan's land,where "lam the first man to come forward with a .quarter section to start from a when the public requires it.". I said, steady man • may hope gradually to " I am afraid it would disarrange the stretch out over a whole section, ai1 singers," adding that some of them were this is why I value men from such cour comic singers. Mr. Walker spoke up ties as your own, who have alread and said, " we will not allow any comic rappled with drawbacks much grdat4 songs in the church." I replied that we did not expect to be allowed to sing comic songs, nor did we wish to sing comic or - other secular songs in the church. This was the only reservation made by Mr. Walker in my presence. . In the centre was a human heart sur- rounded by a crown of thorns and bleed- ing ; over this was a cross surrounded by flames. The inscription read, " League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, terms. It is pitiful to see those softy up Old Country non -efficient here, sometimes with "good tions" and carefully shunned people who would be glad to just because experience has s only a minority of them can broken down and'satisfactori structed into farm hands cape ing real work here. They ar alike but this is really not a equally good. And now, Mr. Editor, I am done. To the members of the con- gregation, many of whom I know and respect, I would say I regret very much that we were led into the mistake of go- ing to the church. Had_ we been more fully aware of the peculiarities of the views held by the people with respect to the uses for which a church edifice may be used, we would not have fallen into the error we did fall into. Believe me no offence was meant to the people, nor any irreverence intended to the House of God. Yours very truly, SAMUEL SMILLIE. APRIL 3, 1888. many slaters and roofers who would go up the inside of a steeple firmly purpos- ing to go out and work, but when they got up they didn't dare to come outside. The least dizziness means instant death. On account of the very dangers ef the work I think there are fewer accidents than on ordinary buildings. Onl . those I who are accustomed will underta e such a job, and then they are very c reful. There are few daredevils among spire climbers. r worked several day d once on the steeple of the Lutheran Church in Berlin. The spire is about two hun- dred feet high, but the church is on a hill, and you think the steeple is, about four hundred feet high. I sai on a board three feet long, three inches wide and an inch and a half thick, suspended by a single swinging rope fastened to the ball of the spire. People prophesied that I would be killed but I felt perfect- ly safe. —The death of Mr. Daniel Collins took place at his residence in London West,Friday morning from congestion of the lungs. For the last fifteen years he has been in the ice business in London, St. Thomas and Stratford, besides filling contracts of various kinds. He was a native of Bandon, County Caven, Ire- from cholera in that town nearly forty land, was 57 years of age, and leaves a years ago. Mr. Roat was only 54 years - of age at the time of his death. The widow and seven children. —Brantford has been trying the deceased was engaged in the hotel busi- electric light but the experience has not nese in Guelph, Waterloo and Berlin been quite satisfactory. About 40 during the greater part of his life, and private persons use it at 25 cents to 11 being ef a genial nature, was very popu- p. m., but among these is but one dry lar with the travelling public. He has goods store, as it is believed to injure the alwaye taken an active part in all the goods. The experience of Brantford is politi4.1 contests in the Waterloos for that the electric light is good for street the past thirty years. He leaves a lighting and for some • business places, widow and several children. but that it is yet too expensive. —An auction sale of the lands in c.on- --allotwithstanding the exposure of nection with the manse of the United the pump and other swindles, another Presbyterian Church, in Galt, was held farmer has fallen victim to the.sharp- in Galt a few days ago and the bidding ers. Mr. Rowell, near Brigirt, has was brisk. The manse and all the land been let in for $155 by signing what he was put up first, the bidding running supposed to be an order for one pump, up to $11,840. This not being up to the nut which turned out to be an order reserve, the property was withdrawn, for one dozen. It is only by persistent and twenty acres of the land put up exposure that these swindling scoun- without manse and two acres attached. drels who infest the country can be drum- The bidding for this was equally brisk ' med out of their rascally calling. and it was finally knocked down to Dr. —About five weeks ago R. Suther- Lowry, of Brantford, for $8,420, an land, a farmer of St. Benoit, near Mont- average price per acre of $421. The real, took in, for charity,a tramp named manse end two acres were put up and Lefebvre. One day last week, the farmer bids to the amount of $3,L00 made, but the had occasion to leave home, and after he Trustees withdrew the property at that had gone the tramp cut open a valise figure, there being. no anxiety on their and took therefrom $360 which he ap- part, particularly, to dispose of it. propriated along with a new pair of ere Desermiers, alias Cusson, boots and a revolver. He bought a —D. all' who is at present serving a term in the horse near by and had since been driving Montreal jail, received ten lashes the around the, country until Saturday,when other morning. The crime for which Cus- he was captured by a detective. son suffered this penalty was rape on a —As Miss Maxwell, of Preston, was 1.4 -year-old girl at the parish ofSt. Mar - walking on the railway track from Galt tin. Cusson went about country parishes one evening lately, she had a very nar- row escape from instant death. Hear- .last.summer in the guise of a priest, col- lecting for a pretended convent.in Dakota ing a train coming behind her, she step - or Manitoba, and coming to the farm - ped to the outside of the rail and walk - The following is the letter of Profes- sor Robertson above referred to : " I regret very much that any harsh feeling should have grown out of any occurrence in connection with the Insti- tute meeting at Brucefield. In my inno- cent ignorance of the history of the church and of the characteristics of its people, and having heard that a political meeting had been held in it, without hesitation asked Mr. Walker whether the evening session could not be held in the church building. My sole interest and purpose in that action was simply to secure accommodation for the people who might attend should the hall prove too small. As I remember what passed, I believe Mr. Walker said he had no ob- jection, but adding that he would not think f permitting the singing of comic songs in the church. We were all agreed that no comic or secular songs should be sung in the church, and so the matter was left. The sequel I regret. My in- discretion in the matter is, perhaps, the whole and only blameworthy feature of the whole incident, and I accept the burden of blame for suggesting a change of meeting place. That being so, let me counsel the good citizens of Brucefield and neighborhood, many of whose hairs are white with age and wisdom, not to permit any bitter feelings to exist or con- tinue by reason of any misunderstand- ing. No one had bad intentions, to con- sciously hurt the other's feelings that night. I am, yours truly, JAS. W. ROBERTSON. titan any they may have to contend with here. There is not in the world to -day any place where land' can be got so cheap, and so readily available for its purpose as now and here. Forty acres can be broke and backset in a season, and made thoroughly ready for a choice wheat crop by one man in a work- ing season, with a team of oxen, and men who have spent the best years of their life hewing and stumping and stoning 40 acres of worse land than ours will under- stand whatthis means. I know good Can- adians south who are doing well,but it is always a drawback to be among Bohem- ians and Scandinavians, such as swarm in the American Northwest, and I think if you keep within old Manitoba, such of your readers as think of trying here, you will be as well satisfied as if you went further west or south. Anybody that can give sounder advice had better set me right. - rl ihtroduc- I see that, prompted by my example, even by some of your old neighbors are seeking elp them, space in your columns for their opinions. own that I like this very much, even though they ever be were constrained to differ from myself in y recon- their estimate of men and things. I try le of do- to be fair all round, a difficult matter not all here where everybody's views are tinged with party bias. Anyway, I am open to good-natured correction. This is atbiggish country, and though I see a good deal of it in a way, I am likely to grow grey before I overtake all of it. I may say in a parting sentence that much as I value Ontarioans as settlers here, they do not monopolize all the pos- sible excellencies of a Northwest farmer. I could even name an Englishman, that on level ground would give the best of them a shaking up, and there are some Scotch plowmen, who for results have never been beaten here. They are poor hands in a push, and slow the first year or two, but after that they are unflinch- ing in their industry and will brighten up as they go on, till your best men will haveto hustle if they mean to beat them. I notice that the man who eases down from every day application and tries to live by his wits rather than stick too closely to work, needs a lot of both luck and brains to keep afloat. More often he will "get left." I back the man who puts both work and brains into the farm if not always for a first place, certainly for a good place. Work on the farm is not drudgery, if enlivened by lively thinking, and it is a mistake to think that culls are good enough for farmers. Send us up all the men with heads on them that you have to spare, and if they " go slow " till they know their footing on the farm, we may want them in Par- liament in due time. puntry for learners of any sort. Individaality, and that of a very pronounced sort, is what we need on prairie farms. A pan must be a judge of land to begin with, he must be hardy, self-reliant full of varied resources, skilled in machinery, a judge of stock, capable not only ducing but of selling his produc vantage, thrifty and far-seeing, to wait for the fruition of his we ed investment of time and mon y and labor, and not given to dreaming of thet wonderfully bright attractions to be found at the far end of the raiab The man who has "learned t and to wait" will not be di ap here, but those who come to et land as a speculation on the chance of selling at a big profit in a few yers, and going back east to spend it, have been badly disappointed already a,nd wilt be again very often. Even those who had less of this folly in their schems, have -t been disappointed, for the tu sble in wheat prices has been great. s1any of them too settled far from markets and want of real acquaintance with the coun- try, as well as early frosts which old settlers aver they had never eenthe like of before, have all helped o damp down the spirits of the " boom rs " and flatten out considerably men whose enterprise often deserved better thiegs. But now every new mai, of the right sort will add to the productive power of the country, always a motive to the con- struction of competing railways, ,and cheaper transport means bettee p ices for the producer of every think rally worth the cost of exporting. Our biggest trouble now is that we have of pro - to ad - 1 -j udg- labor ointed hold of • —A curious incident has just been brought to light in connection with the Montreal mail service. A well-known Protestant citizen recently received among his mail a gaudily colored card. I said selves ble to Robertson then suggested that the fire could be kindled in the church and the lamps lit and if the Hall was found in- sufficent we could then go to the church. Mr. Walker accepted the suggestion and said, " If you gentlemen say so I shall have the fires lit and the place warmed up." I said I was only one,that it would be necessary to consult the directors. This is word for word what took place, with this addition, that Mr. Walker said more than once that we were heartily welcome to the use of the church. None of the directors favored the suggestion of going to the church, until the hall was crowded to suffocation, and the stair and street were full of people clamoring for admittance. Then it was determined to use the church which had been so gene- rously placed at our disposal. The sequel you know. We left the church as soon as it was made clear our presence was dis- tasteful to some of its members. It was publicly announced from the plat- form more than half an hour before that the directors had determined to avail themselves of Mr. Walker's offer. How much more creditable it would have been for those who opposed our meet- ing in the church to have brought such opposition to our knowledge before, rather than after, we had gone to the church. If we had known of the slight - test dissatisfaction on the part of any member, we would not have gone to the church. Now, Mr. Editor, the incidents of the evening, though annoying, had brought no damage of an irreparable nature. Not until next day was any irreparable damage done, when Mr. Walker came before the full meeting of the institute, and with well assumed indignation,weak- ly and wickedly denied ever having given us permission to use the church. Said he refused Mr. Robertson's request to have the use of the church,and gave no countenance to his proposition much less permission, and stated that we had gone to the house of the caretaker, knowing him to be from home, and got the key from a boy—every word of which was at variance with the truth. I enclose Professor Robertson's letter, which I ask you to publish in full, not only because it corroborates hat I have said, but be- cause it breathes the true spirit that an- imated the directors of the institute in going to the church. The general public will not require any further testimonythan that of Pro- fessor Robertson and myself. Should the members of the congregation require more, the main facts stated above can be attested by others whose credence is tallest spire, but I have known a great into two grand and interesting avenues, thought we would enjoy our- etter in the Hall if it was possi- et the people into it. Professor Canada. —Rev. Dr. Srnellie has resigned the pastoral charge of Melville church, Fergus. —Penetanguishene has carried a by- lw authorizing the expenditure of $10,- 000 on harbor works. —Native petroleum has been found near Lake Dauphin, Manitoba. Steps are being taken to operate it at once. —W. K. Snider and Miss Dimsdale are expected in Guelph to conduct services shortly. —The resident railroad men of Palm- erston have contributed $500 to assist the strikers on the Burlington line in the United States. —A $20,000 - Methodist church was dedicated in Brantford last Sunday. The White Brothers assisted at the musical ser vices. —Mr. E. B. Eddy, of Hull, has re- turned from his tour among the shanties on the upper Ottawa. .He reports the winter's cut as very large. The traffic on the new branch of the Canadian Pacific railway from Sault Ste. Marie eastward, exceeds all expect- ation. —Farmers in Hastings county are likely to lose from $20,000 to $30,000 by the hull -less oat dodge. The makers of the notes are seeking to have them de- clared worthless on the ground of fraud. —Pierre St. Armand died at Pem- broke last week at 97 years of age. His fatherlived to be101,his mother nearly99, a sister to within a few days of 100, and an aunt of his father's to be 117 years. —Mr. Dartnell, agent of the steam- ship line between Vancouver, British Columbia; and Japan and China, passed through Winnipeg the other day en route to China, from London, England. —There died recently at Rockwood, near Guelph, an aged lady named Mrs. Robt. Passmore. She wart born in England of Scotch descent and was a grand -daughter of Mickle, the Scottish poet. —Two professional nurses from the London hospital, assisted by two ladies from Petrolea and a lady interpreter are attending the ten wounded Danish im- migrants who were injured in the recent collision near the Petrolea station. —The Durham Review quotes Mr. Robert Cunningham, of Nichol, as say- ing that he has found a powdered cigar a sure cure for blind staggers in sheep. Ile breaks the cigar up as fine as possi- ble and makes the animal snuff it up its nose. —During the past ten years the Tavi- stock public school has had four differ- ent principals and every one of them quit the profession when he resigned his position in the school. Tavistock seems to be a sort of stepping off place. -Frank Webber, of Berlin, claims to have been robbed of $50 in a low " dive" at Stratford the other night. Frequenters af low dives "deserve no sympathy and Frank was served just right. Experience is a dear school but fools will learn in no other. —Some inmates of a farmhouse, about two miles west of Ancaster village, be- came nearly suffocated by inhaling gas from a coal stove. They left the stove door open when retiring. Fortunately the family were aroused in time to save life. —Enough money has been collected in Galt and neighborhood for the wife end children of the late John Currie, mur- derer of Main, to buy a nice farm, which will be given to the widow in such a way that it cannot be disposed of during her life or that of her children. —A Writer in the Toronto Telegram publishes the following with reference to people .who climb high spires :—The two oldest slate roofers in the city are Robert Rennie and George Duthie. Mr.- Duthie's son, who has done a good deal of tall climbing, said :—"I have never had the least fear, even on the one of which is to be called after the Cardinal. Statues of Mgr. Laval and Champlain are also to be erected there, His Eminence is said to have coincided with these arrangements on condition that the lots facing on both avenues are to be 'sold, and the price obtained to be paid over to the objet designated by the Pope. This is a virtual recognition of the claims of the ecclesiastical authori- ties set forth in the protests of the arch- bishop and bishops of the province when the Mackenzie Government transferred the property in the city of Montreal to the Local Government. —Twelve hundred immigrants arrived in Winnipeg during last week, and a large party from England is expected to arrive in a few days. This party is coming out to Manitoba under the charge of Rev. J. Bridges, organizing Secretary of the Church of England Immigration Socity. Two special trains arrived Sat- urday with 300 Ontario farmers on board. —Mr. John Roat, a man widely known throughout the county of Water- loo, died at his residence in Berlin, on Friday, 23rd ult. Mr. Roat was a na- tive of Berlin, his father having died. house of one Jolie, he found only his lit - d along 011 the edge of the ties thinking tle daughter in. Being invited into the the train would pass without touching parlor, he accomplished his purpose and her. The engbae struck her on the arm, just pushing her off the ties and down was caught by the little girl's parents, -whom the cries of the child had attract - the embankment without injuring her in ed to the house. He was convicted of the least. the crime in September and sentenced to —J. K. Herres, the forder, who made . 23 months in jail at hard labor and 20 large hauls out of Guelph, Berlin and lashes in two instalments, one of which Galt people, was sentenced by Justice was administered on the 9th of October.. Galt at the Berlin assizes last week. Mr. King, on behalf of the prisoner, present- —The other night a fire occurred. at ed a petition signed very numerously, 1Varrninster, a village seventmiles from and by some of the best men in the Orillia, whereby - three children lost county. The judge- took no notice of the their lives. It appears that Mr. and petition, and said the law must take its Mrs. Joseph Ball, storekeeper and post - course. He sentenced the prisoner to master, retired, leaving a la,mp burning four years in the penitentiary. Herres on the kitchen table. About half -past pleaded hard for mercy. 11 one of the younger members of the —Messrs. D. Urquhart and J. Thomp- family was aroused by the sound of son cut down an elm tree for Mr. C. flames, and going down stairs found that Wren last Thursday at his farm on the the lamp had exploded and that the 6th concession of Scott Township, near furniture of the room was on fire. He Uxbridge, which measured 22 feet 4 immediately aroused the other members inches in circumference at its base, and of the family, all of whom, with the ex - 50 feet higher up,it was 18 feet 3 inches ception of an infant boy of one yeart an in circumference. Its first limb was 60 other boy aged about five and a daughter feet long. The tree is supposed to be aged three, managed to escape, though the largest in Scott, and is 400 years old. not without great difficulty. Strenuous It was beginning to die, and Mr. Wren efforts were made to save the children, had it cut down for wood, but it will be but were ot no avail. quite a job to saw it on account of its —The egg packers met in session in great size. Torento a few days ago, to discuss mat- -One of the largest consignments of ters connected with the immense tratle immigrants that the Canadian Pacific now carried on by them. The following Railway has handled for some time came prominent dealers were present :—D. D. up to Montreal by two special trains on Wilson, Seaforth ; J. D. Moore, Wm. Wednesday last week. The party Dunseith, St. Marys ; Win. Bradenber- numbered about 500 English people, ger, Stratford; George W. Hawk, and were landed at Halifax on Saturday Flesherton ; Wan. Richardson, Walker - by the Parisian. All of them were from ton; George Powell, R. Sparling,Wing England, the great majority being young ham; W. Beckhouse, Port Burwell ; F. men. Twenty-five left for Western A. Brown Simcoe • J. N. Dundas, Ontario and 255 for the Northwest. Lindsay ;J. N. Flavelle, Toronto - Geo. Less than 40 go to the Western States F. Hawkins, Orangeville ; Wm. Hogg, and about the same number remain in Waterloo; F. Hogg, Galt; John Nichol, Montreal. Waterloo ; Robert Scott, Allistort. The —A few days ago a twelve year old main subject of discussion was the wide boy named David Gorden, residing on. difference in prices paid by dealers in Yonge street, Toronto, was patting a different sections of the country and the Newfoundland dog on the back when it wisdom of smiting to pay regular prices sprang at him and savagely bit him on everywhere. It is understood that a the face. The boy was knocked down decision was come to which will regu- and rendered unconscious. A man of late this matter in the future. the name of Wilson picked him up and , growing tenclentty to use flowers more —A Toronto maper says there is a carried him to Mr. Love's drug store freely every year for church, house and where his wounds were cauterized. The personal decorations on Easter, a day boy's face was badly cut and torn, both eyes were bla.ckened, his nose was festival of flowers. -White flowers are al - which has been frequently termed: the scratched, and a piece of flesh was bitten out of his right cheek. ways the first choice,and calla, Bermuda, —A young girl named Annie Agnew and Easter lilies are the favorites for ran away from her home in Alliston on the church and home. Lilies of the Wednesday last week, andcameto To- valley are always in demand and this ronto. A telegram having preceded her, year they will cost a dollar for a small and placed in the hands of Union(Station bunch. The white roses, nephetis and Constable Stewart, she was easily dis- the bride are very fashionable and are covered, being the possessor of red hair. worth a dollar and a half a dozen. Pine She was bending her way in the direc- red roses are worth about the same, but tion of the Walker house, when:she was inferior blossoms may be had as low as taken in charge and conveyed to a Police seventy-five cents a dozen. The latest station. She finally coneented to go in roses is the Puritan. It is•pure white, home. She had some difficulty with her very double and very large, and in New mother and so took her destiny into her York is selling at a dollar a bud. But own hands. few, if any, are to be had in Toronto. —The members of the Quebec Local White and red carnations, spina, nar- Government have had an interview with cissus, geraniums, tulips and hyacinths the Cardinal anent the Jesuit estates are among the cheaper flowers which property in Montreal. It seems that are much used. A leading florist said Premier! Mercier during his recent visit that on account of the demand flowers to Rome, obtained authority from the are a little higher in price than a week Pope to sell this property. The ,site of ago and that the indications were that the old Jesuit barracks is to be turned church decorations would be more elab- orate than ever this year.