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The Huron Expositor, 1892-11-10, Page 1_ _ • ty .to to ly ag ;al 74.7 or th : TWENTY-SIXTH YEA. IVELOLE NUMBER,1,30b, SEAFORTH 'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1892. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. tkVaterproof Clothing "Where to get the best Waierproof Clothing, and for the least possible price." If it •carne to a vote, we would carry it by a large majority. It is the persistent policy of this business to anticipate your wants, intead of following after thera. It is enough to know that we have what you want. Men's Black Werproofs, 411 sizes, double breasted, exira lona, Men's Black Waterproofs, tuoleskin lining, extra strong, $8. 1, Men's Brown Ind Gray :24 -inch Cape, $8. Men's Brown Parametta -24-inch Capes, $10. Men's Perth Coats, 26 -inch ,cape, assorted colors, $12. We are also Agents for the cele- brated Rigby Cloth Garments They` are ma fectly waterproof they , are porous, aid permit free respiration. They are sanitly in the highest de- gree; they are anti -rheumatic ,to a re- markable extent; they are economical, serving as an Overcoat, and water- proof. We have thoroughly tested ° these aoods, and can -highly recom- mend them. • Shown in two styles, "single-breasted -with 28 inch cape, and double-breasted with large velvet col- lars, pearl buttons, box back, half belt. *Umbrellas, 50e to $5, in all classes of goods. , We are the proper ho proof Clothing. se for of this lerge sum would be saved to the lo- cal municipalities by the erection of a House of Refuge ?. ,From information in theiha,nds of your ComMittee it is quite evident that only a very email proportion of the elrarity grant to indigents Would necessarily remain.It is not pretended that there wotild be no amount to be spent by the local municipalities for charitable purposes, but, it is established beyond all question in the counties where Houses of Retuge have been erected,that adding the items for charity and increased County Grant for House of Refuge, together,the result ie •a less sum by a coasid- erable amount than the sum previously spent for like purposes. The Special Committee appointed by the County Council of Ontario County to report on this subject et its June session,and of whose report we have been fa- vored with a copy, on this point report: "The erection of Houses of Refuge appears "to have obviated, except, in -the smallest "degree, grants to indigents by the minor " municipalities." The various Houses of Refuge Province are as follows : County of Elgin—Township of weld, 3 milesest of St. Thomas. . County of V aterloo—Berlin. County of York—Near Newmarket. County of Lincoln—Township of Grant- ham, a little over • half a mile from St. Catharines. • County of Middlesex—Township of „Ade- laide, near Strathroy. County of Norfolk—Gore of Woodhouse. County_ of Wellington — Township of Nichol, midway between the Villages of Fergus and Elora. • County of Welland—Township of There'd. County of Brant—Itownehip of Brantford. The average cost of these institutions is the sum of $16,660.66,including hind, build- ings and furnishings complete, but the pres- ent feeling of all concerned is that large farms are a mistake. The weight of evi- dence goes to show that 40 or 50 acres are better than 100 or over. In many cases the buildings are much more expensive than need be, and the officials recommend cheaper and plainkr ones. The smaller institutions, such as Would be ample for the County of Huron'do not average in cost over $12,000. e The Committee next call attention to the number of inmates, committed tcmpor arily and permanently during 1888, and the cost per head, of these institutions: Inmates. Cost ; Elgin 109 Waterloo 118 York . . .... 157 incoln ... JA . 52 FOR - 127 Norfolk . . 75 Whiaelgton 114 Welland 59 Brant. The average cost as above of each inmate in the Houses of Refuge was the sum of about $58. This does not include interest this, county on the subject of the establish- on capital account. We have also ascer- ment of a County House of Refugei we pub- tabled that the average cost of maintenance, fish the following report submitted to the including salaries, food and clothing, of Council in 1890, by a special comMittee ap- each inmate in five of these institutions pointed to enquire into the matter. The. during 1888, per week was as follows: revert speaks for itself and will well repay a Elgin $1 07 perusal. Itproceeclt : Middlesex 1 05 In accordance With the instructions con- i Waterloo 95 teined in the reeolution of this Cohncil at Wellington 1 23 its January session, your speciel- cemmittee York . 1 11-i have endeavored to obtain all the. informa- Average 1 10 tion possible relating to the cost bf lands, Not teking into account iuterest on capital, aterH JACKSON BRO. S 5'. THE FAMOUS CLOT HIERS, • SEAFORTH. A HOUSE OF REFUGE HURON. VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR THE l'EOPLE. in the South - Vaughan . . . • Searboro York •• 149 10 nil 468 70 nil nil Sutton ........ • Holland Landing Newmarket Stouffville Aurora Meek ham Weston Richmond REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL. In view of the vote shortly to be itaken in • per head. $55 64 49 66 57 98 83 63 54 60 40 33 • 63 97 Grimsby Gainsboro Clinton Louth Niagara Caistor Grimsby Niagara Hill LINCOLN. 11 40 19 37 27 50 nil 451 89 72 • 29 00 16 25 18 00 8 95 Port Dalholude IVIerriton buildiugs and m-aintenance of the various inetitutions called Houses of Refuge; for the care of the poor, in the Province, and. other MIDDLESEX. McGillivray ..... Biddulph W. Williams E. Willia.me Adelaide Metcalfe Mesa Ekfrid Caradoc These institutions, however, yielded cer- tain revenues which materially decreane the expenditure. These revenues are derived information ef a kindred natureYour from the products of the farm and the labor committee have aimed at giving to the of the inmates, and are given as taken from Council the very fullest information con - a return to thetLegielitture Revenue, cerning this important matter, and i the n - formation has been obtained witheet refer- ence to the leanings of the member e of your committee. The sub -committee thought its firen duty was to obtain a correct aecount of the amount spent by the Various miinicipali- ties- 'of the County under the head iif -"Char- ityd,' This allows a comparison—though an imperfect one—to be made between the cost of k,eepingthe poor in our own County and the coat in ,e County_ having a Hotise of Re- fuge. Thedreturns under this head embrace the years 1887 and 1888, and are as follows: Amount spent by the various Municipali- ties of the County of Hitron upon hilarity in 1887 and 1888 : Alihfieid ...... Byfield Blyth. . ....... . .. . Clinton Colborne Exeter Goderich Town Goderiote Township... Grey 1887. 1888. ... $138 59 $216--0O 388• 54 83 4880 547 147 73 191 58 218 71 322 90 200 50 277 15 195 69 226 72 536 05 851 09 282 75 848 36 202 00 193 00 42 88 66 50 264 11 118 35 80 00 30 00 136 50 175, 25 No Return. , 181 57 '201 22 102 00 147 18 65 50 129 65 278 98 470 00 171 89 234 84 • Hay Ho -wick Hullett ..... - MoKillop ..... Morris • Seadorth Stanley Stephen Tuckersmith_ . Turnberry Usborne ..• ... ..... ...... . 383 25 296 08 East WaWenosh...... — .. 172 11 70 00 West Wawanosh 156 .52 173 00 Wingba.m 207 26 100 68 Wroxeter.. No Return. • Delaware. Westminster. N. Dorchester W. Nissouri Lobo Strathroy Glencoe Ails* Craig Perkhill It will be • • • • • • 7 65 4 05 15 39 12 75 15 00 12 30 54 07 13 24 25 31 229 02 53 01 *9 24 '219.32 27 -80 800 32 105 00 nit 322 60 nil 39 50 nil • 55 30 28 2 25 nil nil 600 900 11 22 12 78 16 10 11 50 nil 45 96 37 65 44 00 744 144 03 64 18 41 08 175 09 6 95 365 26 10 seen that in the matter of municipal grants alone the amount expend- ed would be less under a Poor House system in all probability, than that now spent. If to these grants be added a proportion of the amounts spent privately, as undoubtedly should be done, then a very much larger •saving can be shown. It must also be borne in mind that the present system is very unsatiefactory and insufficient. Under it one municipality frequently must care for the poor of another, but with a House of Refuge the burden would be equitably borne. At present many deserving poor really suffer rather than go to gaol, which Might be their fate if they applied for aid. Your attention is aho directed to the con- stantly increasing number of those destitute and partially insanepersons who by law are made wards of the county. This present session four new applications are being Made, and the Treasurer's estimate for this kind of relief is largely increased. These persons .could be cared for in the great majority of cases much better and more cheaply in the House of.Refuge. In all the counties where such Houses exiet these persons are comnaittcd to them. This item of expenditure in the near future will, we are afraid, assume very large proportions. It adds a very considerable amount to the sums given above as the sums spent in charity by this 'county. strawberries and other fruits are raised and sold in the town of Berlin. COUNTY OF WELLINGTON. The House of Refuge of the County of Wellingtoo is situated near Fergus, and was established in 1878. The farm is about 58' acres in'extent. The building was origin- ally intended to accommodate 65 persons, but additions have recently been made in- creasing -its capacity during the year. The total coat of buildings and land to date, in- cluding improvements, is $29,390. The officials are: Inspector, $100 per year; physician, $150 ; keeper, $300 ; matron, $200; other assistants, $188.50; making a total cost of $1,238.50. The average coat of inaintenance for ea,oh inmate was $1.23 per • week. COUNTY OF YORK. The one at Newmarket is abont 105 feet long by 40 feet broad, and originally cost about $17,200, and there has been aided by way of outbuildings and otherwise $8,862, making a total of $26,062. It was built with the intention of accommodating 100 inmatee, but they have had there at one- time as many as 129. Those in charge of , the institution strongly recommend a small farm, of say about 50 acres, as being much better than a large one, and much more profitable in the management. They also think that cheaper and plainer buildings no fewer than fifteen well-preserved skele- might be used, and thus save a large and tons all of which are no doubt the remains Elgin $ 915 00 Waterloo 2,540 00 York .... .. ' 1,362 00 Lincoln ' 1,610 00 Middlesex 1,246 00 Norfolk' • ,• 1,258 00 • Wellington Welland Brant 600 00 The following 'shows the actual cost of maintenance of each institution, after al- lowing for revenue; ,Elgin Waterloo York Lincoln. Middlesex Norfolk $4,199716 1,764 88 7,7,10 86 1,940 76 4,388 20 1,131 75 Wellington . 7,292 98 The following 4gures Eire taken from a re- turn to au order of the Legislative Aesem- bly paseed on the 4th ,ria,y of February, 1889, and shows the amount be the various municipalities comprising the Counties named (in which Houses of Refuge are erected) spent for relief of indigent persons by direct payments and remission of taxes in the years 1887 and 1888. These are added by resolution of the County Council. In tiring left blank no return was made. In those marked nil nothing was spent for these purpoees : ELGIN. 1887. 1888. Aldborough $147 06 $272 12 Dunwich Souit tweld Yarmouth.... Malahide S. Dorcheeter Bayham Aylmer Vienna. . Spriogfield Port Stanley „ WATERLOO. Weileley Woolwich Wilmot Waterloo N. Dumfries Berlin Waterloo Preston New Iliunburg .... 39 51 Galt60 60 *Paid for medical attendance_ WELLINGTON. • Minto ..... ..... Arthur Luther Guelph PuslinGh Eramosa Erin Peel. . , Maryboro..,.. Pilkington VV. Garafraxa Nichol Elora Arthur Fergus fiarriston Clifford . Drayton Palmerston Erin Hespeler YORK Georgina , ...... Gwillimbury N Gwillimbury E King .. ..... Whitchurch . Markham , Totals $4,251 57 $4,139 91 It will thus be seen that directly out of the locel municipal exchequers • has been paid. the sum, allowing for municipelities not reporting one half the average, ot $9,449 in two years, To these sums must be added the aums of $281 and $483, respectively, which are the amounts estimated by the County Treasurer as spent by the Otounty. for the same purposes as the local grants in the same years, and these two make a grand totalof no less than $10,216, or $5,108 per annum. • Every member of the County Council i3 also aware that these sums do not in any way represent the full amount of the charity bestowed by 'this county. Private charity by individuals, churches and societies, is e largely given to the very seme parties, that received municipal aid. Anether ledge item of expense to the - County is in connection with the running of the jail. The manner in which this expense is paid is as follows: The Government pays for all prisoners who are charged with in- dictable offences, and the County pays for all other -a. The last quarter the Govern- ment wes charged with 119 days and the County with 1513 days. Of this 1513 days, 143.i dayils chargeable to the 'maintenance of indigents. In consequence of this the County had to pay $643, againet $46.37 paid by the Government, or about 14-15ths of the whole expense. If there had been no indigents confined the Goveenment would have had to pay nearly two-thirds, and the County something over one-third. In this -way the cost to the County Was for indi- gents alone over $400 for the quarter. This quarter is not above the average, so that the County pays annually about $1,600 for - maintenance of indigents in the jail, nee,. nee-eiro, eaeteedie axiom—how much • nil •3450 44 00 95 73 87 84 18 82 2 05 111 25 nil *235 40 - 33,48 .... • nii 41 15 76 50 13 60 1 84 30 32 .. 15 68 26 11 3 50 nil 5 51 14 50 32 60 '21 38 3 55 5- 70 28 80 1 00 8 50 106 25 53 25 Before closing, we take the liberty of call- ing your attention to the following extracts from the report already referred to, of the special committee of Ontario county. The Warden personally visited the houses re- ferred to, and he states that though he has always oppoted the building of a. House of Refuge, this trip has made a thorough con- vert of him. In describing the different places visited they say : COUNTY OF ELGIN. The House of Refuge of the county of Elgin is situated about 3 miles from St. Thomas,. The farm, contains 50 acres of land, nearly all under. cultivation. The products of the farm are hay, corn, oats, potatoes and other vegetables for the stock and inmates, little or nothing being eold, alt being consumed on the grandees. The building is a fine two-storey structure and basement of white brick,with aecommodation for about 60 persons. This being insufficient, smell frame cottages have been erected, and others are to be built this year. About- 109 persons were lodged for a longer or shorter time during the year 1888, a portion of this number being under 90, days. The coat of the property was:— Farm $3000 00 Main building 7145 94 Cottages 1250 08 Out buildings .. . . 1350 84 Drainage, fencing and orchard. 1036 34 the late Alanson Church, of Brantford, lum- berman and retired farmer, for $5,000 dam- ages,alleging that she alienated from her the affections ot a hitherto devoted husband. Quick did not appear at the trial, his evi- dence having been taken by commission. —At the residence of Robert Wilkie, 650 Spadina avenue, Toronto, on Thursday evening last week, Frank Yeigh, private secretary to Hon. A. S. Hardy, was mar- ried to Mies Kate Eva Westlake, the well known authoress. —The Allan Line Steamship Sarmatian, which left Montreal on Thursday, 27th inst., went ashore at Varennes, '20 miles down the river, during a snow storm. The Sarmatian wasbound for Glasgow with a general cargo. —Mr. Robert Cooper, county clerk, Wel- land, had his right eye so badly injured at the Cutler fire by a streem of water being turned, on him that the doctors feared he would lose his sight, but they now state his sight will be saved. —The Mayor of Galt was on Thursday of last week fined $1 and costs for driving over a bridge faster than the regulation walk. ?About the same time a farmer was fined $1 and costs for selling a short weight bag of potatoes on the Galt market. —While digging behind the Berlin High School the other day, the workmen camee on unnecessary expense. They hese 51/ acres, which cost $4,500. The inmates do all the labor on the, farm, and attend to all the work. They raise principally garden stuff, such as celery, cabbage, tomatoes, strawberries; potatoea, and other vegetables, for sale. They have three horaes and five milch cows, and use all the milk on the place, and no butter mad. They also raise and dispose of each year a number of fat hoge. •The officers consist of a keeper, salary $300; inspector, $100; physician, $175; matron, $200; two domestics at $108 and $96 a. year. The average expense per week last year for each inmate, exclusive of interest on cepital account, including salaried, was $1.174e. Total expense in- cluding 5 per cent interest on capital ac- count, per week for each inmate, $1.33. • GENBRAL. Houses have been established in the counties of Elgin, Waterloo, York, Lincoln, Middlesex, Norfolk, Wellington and Wel- land. According to the returns sent to the Ontario Government, these Houses contain 779 inmates. Of this number 420 were over 60 years of age, and 122 ,children under 15 years of age. The number is j made up of persons helpless through disease; accident or mental infirmity. It will thus be seen that the very large portion of the inmates are through age unfit to care for themselves. and bereft es they nearly always are of persons able to care for them, 'without the presence of a home must suffer severely even when granted the municipal and charitable ,ansistance commonly given. ' 108 14 2 63 1355 9 113 00 nil *30 57 105 83 8 80 80 75 14 00 31 00 83 75 36 99 2 00 15 31 83 29 13 30 4 00 10 71 -20 21 08 30 81 18 95 16 50 700 $13,783 20 The officials in connection with it are an inspector, salary $80 per annum; a physic- ian, $206 ; keeper, $350; matron, $200; assistant matron, $120. The last three live in the institution. Nearly all the work on the farm and in the house with this excep• tiOn is done by the inmates. No less than 21 of the inmates were imbecile, idiotic or insane, and 7 blind. The average coot of maintenance, including ,salaries, food and clothing of each inmate during 1888 was $1.07 per week, which is a little higher than the average during the previous years. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. 278 05 58 21 42 21 19 32 50 00 The House of Refuge for the county of Middlesex is eitua.ted nearly two miles °west of the town of Strathroy. It MO erected In 1879. It is intended for the accommodation of 154 inmates, although at the time of the visit about 100 were in it. The city of London formerly sent a number of inmates to it, but they have now been withdrawn, the city having accommodation at home. The farm contains about 45 acres of land, the produce of which is consumed by the in- mates; The coat of the land was $3,300, and the total cost of land, buildingt, &c., to the preeent time is $28,320. he total number of persons sheltered last year for a more or lesa time was 127. The house, is heated- by 'steam, and in addition to the usual officials an engineer is kept to manage the heating and pumping apparatus, at a salary of $400 per annum. The total 'selaries paid are $1,300 per annum, as little other labor is paid for, and no assistant to the matron is employed,' the whole work - being done by the inmates. The annual cost -of maintenance in this institution, in- cluding the salaries, is $1.05 per week for each inmate. o'f Indians. The depth at which they were bhried is no more than a foot and a half. —The Hamilton Natural Gas and Mining Company has been notified by the Local Government that their application for a. charter has been granted and several wells will be suuk in the vicinity of Hamilton. The company will expand $6,000 in experi- ments. —The wife of Elgin B. Palmer, a promin- ent farmer of Norwich, committed suicide by hanging in the cow stable, a few days ago, during a fit of insanity. She leaves four young children and it has cast a deep feeling of regret over the community. The family is highly respected. —Eight tons of Russian sunflowers were -taken from one acre of ground at the Ex- perimental Farm Guelph, this fall' and cut up with corn and beans for winter food for cattle. An experiment has been commenced this week to show that °tittle thrive on this food, which keeps well and seems to be en- . joyed by them. —Mrs. Ezekiel Smith, of Ridgetown, died. last Friday night from the effects of at- tempted suicide by drinking the contents of a large box of rough on rats in some tea. Deceased had formerly intimated to a friend that she was tired of her husband's abuse and bad temper. —An exceedingly handsome woman named Obersty committed suicide the other night at Montreal, by taking paris green. She had been separated from her husband on ac- count of her intemperate habits, and be- cause he would not go back to her she killed herself. —There have been laid before the Domin- ion Government at Ottawa, the claims of Nova Scotia for the refunding from the Do- minion of upwards of $2,000,000, which the Province has expended in subsidermoney for railways now merged into the Dominion Government railway sysiem. —Sir Richard Cartwright has offered the Wormwith Piano Company, of Kingston, a large building and machinery in Napanee, rent free for two years and tit supply the motley to -run a large piano factory. He thinks the town will give exemption from taxes. —A boy about thirteen years of age, named Hyenhof, while attempting to board a moving ballast train on the electric road at Chippewa, the other night, fell beneath the train and was inetantly killed by two Loaded ballast cars passing over him. No blame is attached to those in charge of the train. —Messrs. Gilmour & Hughaon, of Ot- tawa, are at great expense in erecting their new mill at Hull point by having to remove a large quantity of sawdust in order to get at their wharf. The Government dredge is engaged taking out great banks of sawdust from the bed of the river, which have come down from the mills at the Chaudiere. - I exports. A large portion of the Canadian Ha.etioge street. St. Andrews' Church, in cattle to England are stockers that are fed the same town, of which Rev. E. B. Mc - on British pastures and realize large values. Laren, formerly of Brampten, Cerario, is Nearly 4,000 head of these cattle are now on pastor,. seemei to be in flourishing con - their way front this conntry to England,and dition. if the Government decision is put into force —The new ,Homeofor aged women on Bel - they will be almost a total loss, as the only mont street; Toronto, wee opened lett thing of any value about them will be tithir week, under autpicious circumstances. hides. —Rev. Mr. Wile, pastor nf the Celgery • ......James Donohoe, of the Eramosa town Baptist Church; was married, at Winnipeg, line, near Guelph, -was awakened at an early a few days ago,!tke Mist Clara J. Gdasgoveof hour the other morning by a burglar, who Fingal, Ontario.: was ransacking a bureau in the room. Don- —The henhonee of Mr. Angus McBean, ohoe jumped from bed and the borglar dash- who -resides near Galt, was visited nn Smil- ed down stairs and out of a door which had day night and all his pure brel. Houdan been left open. Donohoe pursued and cap- roosters, and many of his best hent mere tured the man, who gave his name as Daniel stolen. Bruee. On being eeerched $36.25 was found —Mr. F, S. O'Connor, of Weikel ton, and on him, having been taken from Donohoe's 'brother of Mr. H. P. O'Connor; M. P. P., house. He was jailed. for South Bruce, has been appointed Sheriff —A reddish brown stone, which is said to of the county, made vacent by the removal be free from rust and clay holes, is obtained from office of Mr. Wm. Sutton. . at the Freestone Quarry, Northport, Nova —On Saturday evening a large' straw Scotia, which was opened in 1890 by Austin stack on the farm of Mr. James Carlton, Roberts, and has since been carried on by south of the Durham road, Kinloss, fell the Northport Freestone Quarry 'Company, over and buried five cows beneath its mainly competed of New York - capitaliats. weight: Two of the animals were dead Three hundred feet of wharf has been built when found, and a third one was badly in - this year, and laid with double rails to jured. • facilitate loading on vessels. The quarry —It is found by actual measurement that has a mile of shore front, and will employ 50 the water in Lake Nipissing has lowered to 70 men. The stone goes mostly to New about eight feet in two years, or at a rate York city. of four feet per year. The water is about —A shooting accident is reported from 50 feet deep at the lowest point in the bed Sunderland. Fred Tucker and a young man of the lake, and at the present rate of lower - named Robson had been out hunting. On ing it would take about fifty years to evap- the return home they had reached a clear- °rater drain the lake. • ance, when Tucker stopped to fill his pipe, —Mr. Hugh Wallace, of Blair, has isold holding his gun under one arm. In rubbing his fine prize winning carriage team to Pro - the tobacco between his hands he moved his fessor Grenside, of Guelph, for $600. They arm in such a way as to discharge the gun. are about as fine as can be found, and the Robson was a little distance ahead and re- purchaser need not take a back seat with ceived the charge inthe back. He is like-' them .in any company. Lest April Mr. ly to recover, however, as being rather fat, Wallace bought the pair for $100. They the shot did not penetrate to any vital have won $40 in prizes this fall-; so that he parts. has cleared $450 on the transaction. —A Gatineeu Valley railway survey —Constable Spencer, of Prince Edward party have left Ottawa to locate the route County, has put in a bill against that of the road from five miles above Kazabazua County Council for $100 for damages -lot- to the Desert, the terminus, a distance of cebied. in the arrest of the desperado Ged- about 40 miles. • The road is now built to den Dainard. It will be remembered that Kazebazua and ballasted tcrwithin seven when the Constable came upon. Dainard,who miles of that place.- The •country through had fled from justice and secreted himself in which the rest of the road will run is wood- the country, he opened fire on the officer. ed and broken, but the company hope to be Several shots were exchanged. The officer able to secure a, good route through.the `vat- was badly wounded, and just as the deeper- leys. It is expected that the road will be ado pointed his revolver at the Constablea open for traffic to the Kaza,bazua this win- heart the latter, with rare presence of mind ter, perhaps by January. • and deliberation, took aim at the outlaw's —John Given, a retired farmer residing right hand and fired. The revolver dropped in Blenheim, and his wife had a narrow • from the latter's hand, and before be could, escape the other night. They had tried to pick it up with his left hand the officer was start the coal stove during the day, but as upon him. Daivard got a long term in the it did not seem to work well gave •up the penitentiary. attempt. But during the night the fire, —Mr. John Wallace, one of Lucknow's which had been drawling; began to burn. most esteemed businees men, passed away The result was that the house became fill- .on Thursday, 27th ult. Deceased, who was ed with gas, and when Mr. Given woke up in his 38th year, went to Lucknow from in the morning he had barely strength to Gederich some thirteen years age, and np to raise the window. But neither he nor his his demise oarriedjon a successful jewelry wife are any the worse of the unpleasant businees. Ile had been in delicate health experience. with lung trouble for several years past, and —Professor Robettson,Dairy Commission- although everything that needicel ekill er, is shipping to England about 150,000 -could suggest was applied they could not pounds of cheese and 15,000 pounds of shake off the fatal diseasp. He was a mem- • butter from the Dominion dairy stations at ber of the Independent Order of Foresters, Perth, Ontario, Kingslear, New Brunswick, and the brethren of that body conducted and New Perth, Prince -Edward lelsnd, the funeral and walked in procession to the' These goods will be in sample lots in Liver- cemetery. At the grave the services were pool, Manchester and London, and will conducted by Rev. Mr. McKay and by Mr. prove a good advertisement of the excellent Fred Grundy on behalf of the Foresters. quality of the Canadian dairy product. He leaves aavife and a little son to mourn ProfseiensornRexotmonth dn Robertson lweaiveadfdorresGs therA Great his_losne. Bru alleged wboards of trade in the leading cities. Sayman received severe punishment in hi asky detective named —Mr. and Mrs. John Broder celebrated Norwich, the • other night. It had been their golden wedding at their residence in rumored about Una town during the day Paris on Monday, 24th ult. • Four genera- that he was on hill way tor- Norwich, and a tions were represented. The following re - small mob was organized to _receive -him. tatives among others were present : Mr. and He was found near the station,. A fight e. Mrs, Andrew Broder and family, of Oshawa; was at once commenced. gaynean managed Canada. A horse was instantly killed by stepping on a broken trolley wire in Montreal. —Manitoba farmers have delivered 68,- 000,000 bushels of wheat so far this season. —Andrew Dart was killed in the railway yard at Winnipeg on Thursday last week. —R. Hynes, farmer, living near Belleville lost his crops and barns by fire. —Mrs. H. Douglass, Winnipeg, died from blood poisoning, induced by etepping in a rusty nail. —The late Ashton Fletcher, Q.C., of Woodstock, had an insurance oe his life of $27,000. —A little daughter of Mr. Charles Mason, Dundas, died the other day from over in- dulgence in cheetnuts. —Mr. Thor. Rouser, of Tilsonburg, is one of four men who, in 1837, acted as a guard at the hanging of four rebels in London. —Fifteen carloads of cattle from the ranch of Right Hon. Sir Stavely Hill, Q. C., M. P., arrived in Toronto Friday. —Over 100,000 acres of Canada Pacific Railway lands were sold in • the Northwest during October. —It has been definitely decided to move St. Andrew's Church, Toronto, from its pres- ent site, at the corner of Wilcox street and Spadina avenue. —A Hamilton man has offered to reclaim Ashbridge's bay Toronto, for $31,400. Engineer Keating says it will cost more than three times as much. —A violent snowetorm over the St. Law- rence river detained the Montreal passenger boat, en route to Quebec, at Sorel during Friday night and Saturday morning. —The Grand Trurik Railway station at Harriston was burglarized a few 'nights ago. The door of the safe was blown off. Only about $20 in cash was taken. —The Presbyterians of Paris have suc- ceeded in purchasing a beautiful , site in the lower town for the new churth they are about to erect, and will amalgamate their two congregations. —Rev. James Hannon, D.D. of Guelph, has accepted the invitation to tlte pastorate of the First Methodist church, St. Thomas, at the close of the conference year, subject to the decision of the stationing ,committee. —James Mann, of Hamilton, a moulder who had been drinking for some idays, took a big dose of rough on rats, on Friday and died in a few hours. He had made previous attempts to end his life. COUNTY OF WATERLOO. The House of Refuge of the county of Waterloo is situated near Berlin, and is the oldest institution in the province, having' been opened in 1869. The farm originally consisted of 141 acres, of which 16 have recently been sold for town lots. The building is a large brick structure, capable of containing 125 persons,the average number of inmates being 8. The cost of the land originally was $9,024, the building, stables, and out -houses $15,088 up to the present day; making a total cost of lees than $25,000. The officials employ- ed are :—Inspector, salary, $100; physician, $200 ; keeper, $560; matron, $140; team- ster, $180; assistant keeper'$180; two female servants, $100 each ; total $1,550. The cost of maintenance of each person is a live gook exporters, who declare that It fraction over 95c per week. In addition to Quick, formerly foreman in Karla organ I be a bad blow to the trade, which was one byterian congregation at Vancouver city the produce consumed on the premises, factory, sued Mre. Aguis Church, widow of of the molt Iirofitahlo ht the gdAllatliao Het of was erecting a new and largenyhurch on from the lung where It Is now. —Thousands of bushels of Canadian apples are being shipped into the United States at Port Huron. The buyer stipulates that the duty paid must come out of the Canadian farmer. —The Messrs. Rathbun, of , Deseronto, have proposed to erect iron smelting works in Ontario provided the Ontario Government will give satisfactory aid. Mr. Mowat has promieed hie consideration. • —Mr. W. H. Howland has resigned the presidency of the Ontario branch of the Dominion Alliance, because of a disagree- ment on the wisdom of taking a plebiscite on the question of prohibition. —Conductor Snider has resumed his run Inspector, to visit several herds in - Oxfor on the Main Line of the Grand Trunk Rail- which he did and ascertained beyond doubt way, after his month's holidays, which he that pleuro -pneumonia did not exist among spent in holding evangelistic meetings in the cattle. The herds visited were those Woodstock and Belleville. • of Mr. Kennedy, James Munro and Conn- -Mr. John Ralston's house, with its con- tents, was destroyed by fire in Ameliasburg township, near Belleville, the other night. The fire was incendiary in its origin. There was no insurance. The loss will be about $1,000 • —While Mr. John Minaker was driving -a team ef horses down a steep hill near Belleville one of the horses slipped and ran away. fir. Minaker fell in front of the wheels, which passed over and badly in- jured him. His collar bone was broken. the pursuer decided to abandon the idea, o —The jury in the caae of Quick vs. having the man arrested for abduction. Church, tried last week at Brantford, re- —On account of the existence of pleuro - turned a verdict of $2,500 for the alienation pneumonia among imported cattle in Great of the husband's affection and ' $2,000 for Britain, the Board of Agriculture have pro - failure to sapport-44,500 in all. The case hibited the importation of live cattle from was of a novel charabteeand the only one America. All cattle arriving from Canada of the kind ever tried in.Canaaa or indeed must be killed at the docks. This move has in, England. Mrs, Sara Jane Quick, a resi- caused great excitement among Canadian dent of Woodstock and wife of Joseph . ll —Hespeler has a petrified snake. It was beautifully coiled in the centre of a large stone. When the stone was broken by a party of masons the snake rolled out. It resembled white marble and must have been four or•five feet long. How many hundred years this snake has been in the stone is a matter for speculation. —Pink Pills are being so largely counter- feited that the Dr. Williams Medicine Com- pany, with a view to protecting their inter- ests and those of the public and honest deal- ers, contemplate securing the services of a' clever detective,whose business it will be to ferret out the frauds of this kind and briug the perpetrators to justice. —Charles Biggar, aged 61; of Mount Pleasant, one of the wealthiest and best known farmers of Brant county, committed suicide by drowning himself in the milt pond near his residence on Friday last. .The fact of the suicide was filet discovered when the Mill -owner shut the water off and discovered the body. —As showing the activity of rail traffic, take the following from the Platen Times : Last week more trains were handled on the Grand Trunk railway in this division than was ever known before in the history of the road. In all there were 259 trains, being 149 specials. 12 way freights, 38 passenger trains, 24 mixed trains, and 36 regular trains. —According to accounts the people of West Zorra need not have any anxiety about fuel, for when the forest is exhausted there are eix or seven hundred acres of peat deposit in the big swamp, south-east of Embro. In some places the mass is five or six feet thick, and old country. men who were accustomed to healing peat in Britian judge it to be of excellent quality. --W. P. McClure, V. S., received ioatruc- Mons from Professor McEachren, Dominion Mr: and Mrs. John Broder, of Manitoba; to escape and was driven off, but. was soon Mr. and Mrs. James Broder and four' chid- overtaken by another rig. He was forced . dren, of Buffalo, Mrs. Joseph Williams and out of the buggy, whereupon he drew a re- childreen, of Buffalo. Mr. Broder has re- volver and threatened to shoot his pursuers. sided in Paris for over 38 years. ' They were The weapon was snatched from his hand, the recipients of many handsome presents. and he was severely dealt with. The mob On Tuesday the aged couple, their children, left him in a blacksmith shop near by, in grand -children and great -grand -children wha.t they supposed a dying condition. A visited Bauslaugh's studio, where a picture second party was organized to administer e., z. of the group was taken. a dose of tar and feathers, but their plans —Mr. N. G. Bigelow, Q. C., M. P. Po, were frustrated by the timely arrival of a died Friday morning in Toronto. A few rescuing party under the leadership of Rev. weeks ago Mr. Bigelow took an active part W. Kettlewell. The occurrence is account - in the opening ceremonies of Victoria Col- ed for by the fact that a large number of - lege, of which he was a graduate and a convictiona have recently been made in the member of the Board of Regents. Three neighborhood. weeks since he presided at a reunion of the —Mr. G. H. Rochester, of Ottawa, re- members Of St. • Andrews lodge No. 16, cenly passed a night in the wilds of Muskoka Freemasons, of which he was an old Past that he will not soon forget. He and a Master. He accompanied the Toronto party companion were surveying timber and had to the dedicatory serviees of the World's been out for three days. When it began to Fair, and it was during that trip that he grow dark they left for a good camping contracted a cold, the immediate cause of spot for the night, for they were thirty his death. Mr. Bigelow leaves a widow miles from any habitation. and were travel - and two children, a son and a daughter, jog- on the edge of a swamp r They found .... the former being a, student at Upper Canada sandy knoll and made preparations for College. spending the night there by building a large —Admirers of Paul Peel the celebrated bonfire. They ate their evening meal and artist who was born in London, Ontario and lay down. About 9 o'clock, however, they . who died a few weeks ago in Paris, France, were awakened by the howling of what they will be glad to learn that a collection of his knew to be; as the Indians cell it, a " king works may be seen in the art -room of the wolf," about a mile down the swamp. This J. E. Ellis Company Toronto. The pictures animal calls the others when there is prey are owned in the city and loaned by their in the vicinity. „ In a few minutes the ownera for the free exhibition. Most of woods resounded with the' answering howls them were bought at a sale held a little of scores of others, and the campers had over a year ago, and some of them are hardly time to gather all the firewood in ainong the artist's best works. It is regret- the vicinityand stir up the blaze of their table that the best of the distinguished Cant' fire when they were surrounded by nearly adian'a canvases are not in his native land; two hundred, famished, yelping brutes, who and that while living he did not receive the were only deterred from pouncing upon full measure of recognition from his country- their prey by their dread of fire. And thus men to which, judged by the highest art the Campers passed the hours till dawn. standards, he was entitled. cillor Munro, all of whom sold cattle re- cently to Mr. McCulloch, the well known shipper. —Mr. William Pearson, of Michigan, ar- rived in Toronto the other day in search of his sixteen -year old niece, whp bad eloped with her sixty -year old uncle, Herbert Hoskin. The couple were found at the St. James' Hotel, but the old gentleman produc- ed a marriage certificate showing they had been married in London on Thursday, and , —Mrs. Donald McRae, a well known reel.- =Letters of administration have been dent of Eastwood, near Woodstock, and tiiken out in connectime with the estate of esteemed by all in the neighborhood in the late James Trow, M. P. The value of which she lived, died suddenly about 9 the estate is given at less than , $200,000, o'clock on Wednesday morning of laet week. made up of $150,000 personal property and She was about the house during the morn- $46,000 of real estate. Ti Ontario Gov- ing and in the enjoyment of her usual health. eminent's share of the whole. will be $4,875. Mrs, McR,ae was taken ill while ekimming a —Mr. peorge R-oger, of Motherwell, who pan of milk and went to lie down for a few has been/very sick for a long time, died on minutes. When she arose she was seized Sunday night, 30th ult. Three and one with vomiting and in a ehort time _fell on half years ago, while engaged in loading „ the floor dead. Her husband, who: was in saw logs on a wagon Mr.. Roger sustained an adjoining room, heard his wife fail and some injuries in the spine, from which, after hurried to her side. Dr. McLay was sum- enduring untold sufferings, he paesed away, moned by telegraph, but of course was un- Deceased was a man of many sterling quali- able to do anything. Heart trouble was the ties, respectedand loved by a large circle of cause. The only daughter of deleasedr a friends and relatives. Mrs. Scott, died suddenly about a year ago —Oa Tuesday, last week, four bodies in Manitoba. The late Mrs. McRae Wa8 62 were brought from the Lebanon cemetery years of age, and was a sister of Johu and and interred in the new cemetery at Listo- James Overholt, of Eastwood. wel. They were the two sons of the late —Rev. William Burns, of the Presbyter- John Riddolle, of Maryboro, who -died last ian church offices,Toronto.has just returned August and was buried in Listowel, and the from a flying trip.to the Pacific coast. On wife and child of one of the eons. One of the way out he stopped over at Winnipeg to the sons died 27 years ago,the other son and address a gathering in behalf oE the Aged his wife and child.about 14 years ago. Mrr. and Infirm Ministers' fund. He brought Bitten, • the caretaker, seers the coffins, - the matter before a number of congregations home made ones, were perfectly sound. in Victoria, Vancouver city and other towns • —The other day, at Kirkton, as a three - of British Columbia. While in Victoria he year old child of Mr. John Urquhsrt's was visited the Presbyterian and Methodist playing with some beans,she accidentally got missions to the Chinese in that city, and one in her windpipe. Drs. Groves, Irving found the good work prospering. Special and Thompson performed an operation, but attention was being devoted to teaching the were unable to get the bean out, and the young Chinese to read and write the Eng- little one is in a very distressed conditiou. lish- language. The Presbyterian Church, Dr. Groves, however, holds out bade hope was making great stridee. The First Pres- for her recovery, expecting that the intim- • mation may cook the bean and dislodge it POOR COPY --=Z7:1•".