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*HOLE NUMBER, 1,338.
_Change Your
Underwear,
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1893.
And be comfortable.
Change of
Temperature
Demands this for health.
Our stock of
Underwear
Bargain
Prices
Is assorted in weight
and grades to meet
the emergencies of
weather and hard
Prevail this and next
month for Summer
goods. If you are
wise, you will come
early and secure the
best.
JACKSON BROS.,
THE FAMOUS FURNISHERS,
SEAFORTH.
THE GREAT SHOW AT THE
WINDY CITY.
CmcAoo, July. 31st, 1893.
Coasting on a bobsled over 850 feet of
real ice in the dead of summer is somewhat
of a novelty. But that is what thousands of
people have been doing in -Midway Plaisance
the laat few weeks. It is almost incompre-
hensible that a smooth roadway of glisten-
ing ice, 850 feet long and four feet wide
should be found resisting the attacks of the
torrid sun, and remaining as solidly frozen
and couipact ea the crystallized waters near,
the North Poleebut such is the fact. The
ice railway is, one of the many marvels of
Midway. It is just south and back of the
great Ferris wheel, and is such a novel and
ingenious contrivance that it is destined to
divide with the', big wheel the interest of
those who like new and pleasurable sen-
eations.
It consists of enclosed frame buildings
which form an ellipse, and occupy a spaoe of
400 -by 60 feet- Running the full length of
this enclosed space is a track Which, as
stated, is 850 feet around and four feet wide.
On either side aee guards of heavy gird-
ers, several inches high. The surface of
tbie traok between the guards contains a
coat of ice an inch thick, and over this
smooth and glittening substance bob -sleighs,
each containing four leather-oushioned seats,
and accommodating eight persons glide
with the velocity of a toboggan and tlie ease
of a coaster to the merry jingle of silver
bells, The sleighs are started on a "light
declineeand gathering force in the run of
eeveral feet, mount, with the aid of a cable,
a gradual incline which is 25 feet high at its
summit. The sleighs attach themselves
automatically to this cable, and when it
performs its work in pulling them to the top
of the hill, the cables are autotnatically re -
leered and the bobs are ready to make the
descent down to the opposite side. And
right here the fun begins. Ladies grab the
backs of the seats in front of them spas-
modically and look terrified ,at the firet
down -hill hint, but when they find that the
sensation is full of novelty and pleasure and
that there is not the slightest cause for fear,
they become resigned and away the sleigh
goes, rounds the curve with a swish and
draws up before the starting point as sub-
servient to the driver's brake as a well-
trained horse to the deft, but mild,restraint
of its maater. It is great fun. No tobog-
gan ride or coasting trip its to be compared
with it, because toboggans and coasters
wobble from side to side while the sleighs
of the ice railway are even and regular. The
sleighs are driven tandem. Every precau-
tion has been taken to make the slightest
accident impossible.
ems PECULIARITIES OF THE VISITORS.
Can you tell me where I will find the
woman made of oats ?" asked a woman of a
guard who stood near the gates. She had
come from a far -away Western home. She'
had heard of the " oats lady" and meant
to see her if she sacrificed everything in the
Exposition to that object. The guard said
he believed there was a woman made of
oats, in fact, he bad heard about it, but he
was not able to locate her. She might try
the_Horticultural Building. She did so and
'became interested in the pyramid of plants,
the Oregon pears and - the growing cocoa-
nuts. But she maw no glassy eyes peering
forth from a countenance pale with oats,
and, of course, she wasn't satisfied.
She asked another guard, who directed
her to the California Building, where ehe
found, to her utter a.mazement,a horse made
of prunes, and a tombstone built of oranges;
but she searched in vain for the oats wo-
man. Same one sent her to Nebrseks. Here
she found a map of Platte County made by
gluing wheat on a board, The dark lines
were composed of a sprinkle of timothy
eeed and the county -seat was marked by a
Iirna bean. An acquaintance whom she
chanced to meet told her the object of her
search was in the Illinois Building. But
the only piece of granary art in the Sucker
State Building was a picture of a farm, a
patchwork of wheat, oats, millet, rye, and
blue grass. The catalogue she purchased
threw no light on the subject.
She had made up her mind to see that
woman, however, and it was one more case
of if a woman wills she will she will, and
you can depend on't." She hid tramped
two days,. Her feet were sore and she was
more weary than she had been after a two -
days' washing at house-cleaning time. Her
son had found the oati beauty and it had so
impressed him that he had talked of little
else on his return home. He had represent-
ed her as attired in a stylish dress woven in
oat straw with flounces of the ripe tops,
with well -executed head and false eyes.
Most of the guards told her they had never
heard of it.
On the third day she found it in the Agri,
cultural Building between two shelved of po
-Woes. And, of course, she was disappoint-
ed and couldn't imagine what her son had
seen to admire, and with a contemptuous
miff at the straw female she started on a
still hunt I or the big stove she had heard of red the proceedings, and the outdoor pro -
in the Manufactures Building. cession had to be abandoned in consequence.
This is a true story and demonstrates tho ; Owing to the large number of visiting clergy
feat that no two people look at the Exposi- all the altars were occupied from the early
tion from the ssme standpoint. What is I hour with priests saying low mune, over 50
food for one is poison for, another. Each
human being who deposits 50 cents at the
gates and starts in with the crowd has some
little weakness or vanity which must be
gratified. In tbe Mining Building the other
day a white -whiskered professor of chemis-
try had more fun than the drummers will
have in Midway Plaisanoe this week. He
mumbled over the glass oases, waded into
deep scientific discussions with the. attend-
ants and made notes in a little frayed mem-
oranduirt book. A young man who had
strayed into the building by mistake aud
who was getting out as rapidly as possible,
bumped into the professor and stopped to
shake hands. "This is a wonderful show,
professor." "Wonderful, indeed," replied
the learned mins. "Professor, of all you
have seen here, what do you like the best ?"
" Well, sir, it occurs to me that displays of
pyrites and hematites are about the moat in-
teresting. If you have time—" But the
young man was in a, hurry. He was look-
ing for the big red -wood tree which has the
winding stair inside it. To him the ores and
minerals were of no more interest than so
many "rocks" in a stone -yard. To the
professor, however, these cabinets were
more attractive than a ,roof garden with
music, and he remained among them all the
afternoon. He was oneof the wild cranks
visitors find every day. Sometimes they
poke fun at them, forgetting that it was
cranky enthusiaam over each little depart-
ment which brought the whole . Exposition
up to ite standard of superlative excellence.
MUSIC EVERYWHERE.
That music has charms to soothe the sav-
age breast is evidenced by the goodauttured
crowds at the Fair. Music—there is music
enough within the confines of Jackson Park
to suit all creation. If you turn a corner,
ten to one you bump into a trombone or base
drum, and you run up againstsbande every-
where. Musicians with their mysteriously
encased instruments swarm in all parts,
either going to the particular section of at-
mosphere assigned to them to fracture, or
coming from it for a muoh-needed rest. The
restaurant" all have their orchestras from a
full corps of uniformed musicians down to a
piano -violin combination. Grangers step
high and fall all over themselves trying to
walk in polka time. It is a soul -tearing
eight to see a pretty girl suddenly stop in
the midst of enjoying her meal and nearly
suffer lockjaw attempting to chew in waltz
tinae. A man nearly choked to death the
other day because he was drinking to the
time of a quick gallop, and there was a bar
of rests in the music so, of course, he stop-
ped swallowing, but forgot to remove his
glass from his 'mouth. The proprietor
charged him $100, stating that he consider.
ed that a modest estimate of the amount -of
business he lost ,while all the waiters in the
establishment were pounding the unfortu-
nate man on the back. And still the awful
work goes on.
A DIFFERENCE IN TASTE.
Over among the statuary an American
citizen propped himself up against a pedes.
tal to take in at his leisure the oolossal re-
presentation of George Washington. While
he was admiring it, up eanntered an impor-
tation from the land of dikes and tulip
bulbs, who also resolved himself into a pi.
lar of observation, but he wasn't sure of his
round, and finally approached idle Amer -
ican. Ogecuse me," he began, "bud
oould you tell me who dot shentleman vas,"
indicating in one careless sweep the augusa
be lifted or lowered according to the quan-
tity of hay. These roofs move on four up-
rights. Professor Robertson has been de-
voting considerable attention to instruct-
ing the Islanders .in oheesemaking, and
this industry promises to become an import-
ant one for the farmers here. Already over
twenty factories are in operation and the
people generally are hoping great things
from the industryf )
FISH THE EiRINCIP
Fish, fish, fish. From
ed at Gaspe, we have
trout, ealmon, halibut,
of which were offered up in the Brunlioia.
Cardinal Tasohereaue Archbishop 13egin,
Bishop Hennessy, of Texae, Bishop Blade, of
Rimouski, Mgr. Laflamme and others were
among the clergy present.
The Lower Provinces.
A CANADIAN EDITOR ON HIS TRAVELS,
H
WAT HE THINICS ABOUT PRINCE EDWARD
ISLAND, HER PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY DO,
(Continued From Our tut.)
Charlettetown, Prince Edward Island, is
termed the "Garden of the Gula"—the
pert of Canada whioh cannot lay claim to be
the garden of something is too modest for
such an enterprising DOMII3i011—and from
the reports of Its fertility which so often
reach Ontario I was prepared for a better
agricultural country. Compared with the
other Gulf provinces the lelSnd is doubtless
blessed with a fruitful soil, but in no respect
is it to be compared with Western Ontario.
This year is, of (mune, a particularly un-
favorable one for farming, on account of the
long -continued drouth, whioh has almost
destroyed the hay-eone of the principal
crops—and seriously retarded the growth of
the spring crops. It is easy to see, how-
ever, that the soil has not the strength
which characterizes that of Ontario, and the
trees are mostly spruce, balsam and pine,
the beautiful maples and elms of Ontario
being conspicuously absent from many
parts, The chief crop, as I have said, is
hay, for which the Islanders, in ordinary
years leek a market in the States. Wheat
is not grown, the crops being uniformly
failures ever since the weevil put in an ap-
pearance. All the provinces, In fact, de-
pend on Ontario millera for their flour.Oats and potatoes are largely grown on the
Island, the latter ranking high in impor-
tance to the farmer.
Neither the fields nor the houses of the
farmers indicate a very prosperoue condi-
tion. In fact, it osunot be said that the
Island, as a whole, conveys the idea that it
is 'progtessive. The census returns show
that the population has slightly decreased
during the, past ten years, and the appear-
ance of the towns and country do not belie
the story of the census. The people are
mostly of Scotch and English descent,
although their is still a considerable pro-
portion of French Canadians, who appear to
be neither inoreesing nor decreasing in
number. Among the peculiarities of the
country—or which strike an Onterie visitor
as such—is the practice of shingling in place
of clapboarding the sides of houses. This is
universal here, as well as in New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia. The reason is a two -fold
one—beceuse shingling ie warmer, and be-
cause it is cheaper, short timber that could
not be made into boards, being used for
shingles. The smallness of the timber also
causes the farmer to ,make hie fences after
a fashion of his own.' His rails consist of
long, thin spars or trunks, which he plants
in a straight line but all leaning in one
direction. Each rail is supported at one
point by two ordinary stake -rails. The
fence does not look as if it oould stand a
severe gale, but it is said ,to be much
stronger than it appears. In another re-
spect the farmers here differ from their
Ontario brethren. They calculate on
storing their hay outside the barns, and for
the purpose provide one or more strsay ten feet square, with roofs which canuotures,
father, etc. '‚That," said the American in
a shocked sort of awe, "19 George Wash-
ington !" "Um !" said the man from Hol•
laud, and viewed it critically. Doesn't
loog much like him. does it ?" he concluded.
"Never having seen the original." the
American responded, "1 am unable to say
whether it does or not." "Queer," said
the other, as he moved On. "You Amer-
icans run so to see great peoples,it is strange
you nefer seen him—efery one knows of
George Washiegten--we haf his picture !"
And he vanished, leaving a crushed, anni-
hilated man at the foot of the pile of
marble.
JOHN BULL AND UNCLE SAM.
To hear one of those English soldiers who
march stiffly around the Exposition grounds
jingling their spurs and smoking bull -dog
pipes talk you would suppose -Jackson Park
to be at least knee-deep in gore. They
LILY evidently made up their minds that
Li INDUSTRY.
he time we touch -
card of fish—cod,
smelt, haddock,
shad, herring, mackerel, to say nothing of
lobsters and oysters, Ail it is an easy
atter to understand ho .vastly important
;
m
to Canada are its fishing industries. These
waters of the Gulf fairly teem with fish of
the finest quality, the fish which in the 'Gulf
of Mexico is small and tasteless, becoming
large and toothsome by the time they have
this country has a decided sanguinary tint. travelled up the Atlantic coast, and found a
The buildings are "bloody big and
"bloody 'igh. ' The weather is "bloody
'ot " or "bloody cold." It may be also
" beastly," " bloomin' " or jolly." The
words seem to mean about the same in the
easy catalogue of these big, good-natured
troopers. There is a marked difference be-
tween the English officer and the American
officer. Each has earned his holiday at the,
Fair by hard service, the Englishman in the
Soudan and the Amerietan in the Bad Lands
of the Apache country. Both have been
sunbaked, half starved and shot at, but for
some reason these experienoes fatten the
Brtisher and train the American to lean
fighting weight. The average colonel or
captain of Her Majesty's service has a
round face and high color. • He is built out
in front, is deliberate in his actions and
drawling in his talk. The American is
more apt to be thin, even bony, with every
move telling of sharp, nervous lenergy. At
Jackson Park, where you see a good repre-
sentation of the two nation., this contrast
cannot fail to impress anyone who notices
things.
NEW MUSIC.
One more species of music has been add-
ed to the pot-pourri of harmony at the
Fair. It was introduced by three Indians,
who played for three hours yesterday under
the shade -trees in front ofthe Guatemala
Building. They were brdught here by the
Guatemalan Commiesioners to give con-
certs such as the residents of the little
South American republic hear at home. Of
all the musical instruments at the Fair,
frond the barbaric tom-tom to modern af-
fairs, the instrument from Guatemala is the
strangest. It is constructed of wood en-
tirely,and resembles an immense xylophone.
There are 38 notes played upon by three
men at one time.
HOW PEOPLE TALK.
" Where's your wife to -day, Tom ?"
"Played out and in bed with a headaohe.
She saw too much yesterday."
"Don't let her tie, ork so bard. Make her
sit down and resit in one of the State
Buildings an hour or two every after-
noon."
" I guess you don't know my wife, Hen-
ry, if you think she's going to sit down and
rest after she's paid money to go in."
•
—On Wednesday of last week the feast of
St. Anne, the Patronees of Canada, was ob-
nerved With great solemnity at the shrine at
Ste. Anne de Beaupre Quebec, which has
attained such a world -Wide fame from the
number of cures said to have been effected
there. There were said to be over 5,000
people in the village on Wednesday morn-
ing. The downpour of rain somewhat mar- I about fiehing which Beeille to destroy all in-
home in the oold water!' of Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Directly or indireotly a great part of the
population of these provinces depend for
there livelihood- on the fisheries, of which
the cod are most important. It is an
omnipresent fish. At Gaspe, at Peroe, at
Summerside, the fishermen all talked cod.
Over on the North Shore' of Prince Edward
Island I went fishing for cod yesterday,
with a couple of men to whom the sport wee
business. Around . Cape Breton, cod is
king. Over the water at Newfoundland,
and on its sunken " banks " the fisher for
cod had been at work from before the days
of Champlain. Down the coast of Nova
Scotia and in all the coves and inlets of New
Brunswick, are to be found the little two
masted schooners "out for cod." Then
there are the mackerel and herring fisheries
both of much commercial importance, and
the lobster fishery, which employs many
mon. The catch of one variety or another
will fail now and then, but the supply seems
inexhaustable. One thing the fishermen
needs above all others; a market. I have
questioned scoreu of fishermen, and found
but one opinion. The market in the States
is indispensable to our prosperity. There
are as many complaints against existing con-
ditions as there are varying conditions in
different localitiee, but there is practically a
concensus of opinion on this subject. At
best the fisherman's lot is not a happy ono.
Most of the fishing off these coasts is done
• in four or five ton ichooners, two masted,
carrying two men, In some eases the men
own their boats, in others they get the boats
from the large fishermen, and are paid so
much for what they catch. At Gaspe the
fishermen said a boat, if owned by the fish-
ermen, would net in a good season $200. If
rented, the fishermen might make $100 be-
tween them. One or two large firms control
all the fisheries along the Gaspe coast, pay-
ing what they choose for fish and compelling
the men to take pay in store goods, at high
prices. At least this is the complaint, and
where the truok system is obligatory it is
likely to be well founded. The same com-
plaint was heard at Parole and on this Is-
land the men alias feel thet they are under
the heel of monopoly. Free trade with the
States, they believe, would not merely in-
orease the price of fish, but would destroy
monopely by inducing competition. In faot
this latter reason is said to be the controlling
one in causing the large dealers to oppose
reciprocity. It will be seen that the fisher-
men cannot be prosperous under existing
conditions. Some men who have farms and
cultivate them, when not fishing, are doing
well but there is the facination of gaming
manteeteese
olinstion for other work. A large cateh
may be made any day, and it is so much
easier to go in search of this easily made
wealth than to toil at the plough, that it is
not often a man is both a good farmer and a
succeseful fisher. If he is a fisher only he
does not
him in o
that thes
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eke enough in the Beason to keep
mfort all the year. And so it is
toilers of the sea, hardy, venture-
, are pinched by poverty, their
sons and daughters are put to work at an
age when they should be in school, and the
whole fishing population is forced to occupy
a place in the intellectual scale much below
where we have been occestomed to thinking
that it stands.
WHO PAYS THE DUTY.
The fisherman of these waters has deter-
mined for himself, es thoroughly as the
farmers of Kent have determined for them-
selves in the matter of beano, that when he
seeks the United States market with hie
product he pays the duty. It matter" not
how the fisherman may vote at election
time, nor whether he calls himself Liberal or
Conservative, he says most emphatically
that he pays the United States duty before
he sells his fish. For instance, the duty on
smelts is three-quarters of a cent per pound,
and as the greater portion of the witch has
to be sold in the States this sum 1. lost on
every pound shipped to the American mar-
ket. An idea of the dimensions of this
business May be gleaned from the statement
of a large dealer in Chatham, N. B., who
says that from his county—Cumberland--
the shipmeets of a single day in the season
will often equal $1,000. This same gentle-
man says that in spite of the Canadian duty
of $4 a barrel on corned beef he hal to im-
port Armour's beef, as well as his mess
pork, the Ontario shippers not being able to
compete in price, so the poor fishermen's
candle is burning at both ends—he pays
duty on the beef, pork and corn he imports,
and on the fish he exports. The price Of
Ontario flour is satisfactory, as it is governed
by export prices. The fishermen are paid a
small bounty—some $2 per man each season,
I think. This is *imply protection in an
undiluted form—the taking of money from
the pockets of one class and putting it into
those of another. On the face of it, there
seems no reason why the fishermen should
be paid a bounty tint is not also given to the
farmer, although one Gaspe cod -fisher
thought he was enitled to it because the
Americans had, under the Treaty of Hali-
fax, paid the Canadians a good round sum
for the privilege of fishing in these waters.
PECULIAR TEMPERANCE IDEAS.
The temperance sentiment, if not actually
stronger in the Maritime Provinces than
than in Ontario, finds an expression in a
'consistent support of the Scott Act, whioh
is wanting with' us. The Act has been re-
tained' in force in many counties in these
Provinces in spite of repeatekefforts to re-
peal it, and to -day it is in operation in every
city of Prince Edward Island, except the
city of Charlottetown. The prevailing opin-
ion regarding its value as a temperance
measure seems to to be that which was en-
tertained in Ontario : that in the rural dis-
tricts, and in communities where the liquor
interest is not strong enough to persistently
discredit the law, the effecte are most salu-
tary. In Charlottetown, the repeal of the
Act has created a pecullar condition, "free
whiskey" being the rule—that is, anyone
msy sell liquor. Until last year there were
absolutely no reetrictione on the traffic, but
the Legislature has since enacted that no
other business but liquor selling may be
carried on in any premises, that bare shall
be closed at 6 o'clock on Saturday., and that
no blinds may be used on the windows.
These, with ri few other Minor regulations,
are all that now effect the 'liquor seller. The
consequence is, that there are between forty
and sixty grog shopsein the city, but, strange
to say, the temperance workers of Charlotte-
town prefer this state of things to license.
They objeot to the latter because it is a re-
cognition by the state of the traffio, .and
they think that the evil effects ere not worse
under the one system than the other. The
ionise of the community is opposed to liquor
drinking, and "free whiskey" does not
prove so great a temptation as migbt be ex-
pected.
AN FARATIC RAILROAD.
How it would exasperate one of our
Michigan Central Railway engineers, accus-
tomed to flying over the western division at
sixty miles an hour, to be forced to take an
engine over the Prince Edward Island Rail-
way! It is, without exception, the most
ridiculous piece of road I ever set eyes on.
It is a travesty, a burlesque, on railroads,
and how any Government could permit such
a line to be built, much less pay for it,
passes comprehension. Go into the Rockies,
and you will find serpentine roads which
are marvels of %engineering. Come to the
Island', and you will find serpentine roads
which are marvels of political rascality.
Standing on the rear platform of •the last
coach on a Prince Edward Isiand train, and
travelling over a level country, you cannot
see the rails for mere than 200 yards or
thereabouts, for at intervals of that distance
the line takee a curve off into the woods at
the right or left, and after a scramble of
several hundred yards'gets back again to
pretty near the spot it left. From one end
of the Island to the other the road appears
to shun the large places, but if there is a
hill in the neighborhood it will circle around
It, or it will strike off almost any distance
from a straight line to get a look at a lonely
pond. Express trains on this crazy road
are scheduled for twenty-four miles an hour,
but of course they cannot always maintain
such a burst of speed. The ordinary
passenger trains make it unnecessary to
walk, as they are scheduled for twelve miles
an hour. I don't think the trainmen are
paid by the mile, but I do know that it is
by the mile the passenger buys his -ticket,
and the distance between townseis uncom-
monly long.
hand as well as heart was objected
Mr, Bryant, as his daughter was a
tent and her proposed husbaed twee
man Catholic. .At iset alies Bryant
ed against not beingallowed to mar
man of her °heats, ind the two arran
an early wedding Ti eaday morning.
oordingly Mies Bryant left her home
Mountain, met her !lover, and the tw
timed to St. Pettiok's church, D
where they were mlarried by i Rev.
Lynch.
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Canada.
Thirty hulloesl failuree occur ed in
Canada last week. I
—A new eiger factory has leen stalrted in
Belleville.
—Six oars were derailed on the
Trunk etailway 'Jeer Ernestown, 0
last Friday.
—The total depOsits on June 30th
postoffioe and GOvernment _saving
was $54,103,575,
—James Heyselliproprietor of the
Granite Works, h d hie leg broken
fall of a monument last Friday.
—The Italian warship Etna are
Montreal on Suleday °twin . A r °option
was given to the
day.
—The total'am
orued during J
crease of over $1
lest year,
—A quantity of butter from Benet
ley's dairy at W lseley, Northwes
tory, received fie prizes at the rear)
nipeg exhibition
—Hon. George W. Ross, Minister
cation for Ontario will deliver an
at the World's Educational Congre
World's Fair. 1
—The Imperial Privy Council on
day confirmed the judgment Of the
Court of Canada against the old
Street Railway Company.
—A promineat Buffalo man has
sum of money to Brantfordsfor de
insure its safe keeping, owing to t
valence of failures in the States.
--It has been decided in Mont
when a firemaa dies while perfor
duty his heirs are entitled to $1,000
the amount in the Relief Fund.
—Colonel Tisdale will make an
tion next session of Parliament to
ship ()Lepel copstruoted from Lake
Lake St. Clair to a point in , Tilbur
or in that vicinity.
—While riding alOng King at
ronto, on a bicycle, last Friday af
15 -year-old Digby Greenshaw fell
pavement and broke his leg.' He w
home in the ambulance.
—A 4irge party of Cook'e exec:
registered at the Queen's hotel,
last week, which includes gentlem
Hamburg, Moscow, Berlin, Bud
Vienna and Rio de Janeiro.
—James Walker, residing nes
bridge, was struck by the Atlantic
Sunday morning on the Northern
track. He died of his injuries soon
was discovered.
—A home belonging to Wesley
of Parton, reared at the whistle of
tive near the railway crossing on t
road one day last week and drop
denly dead.
—The captains of vessels are co
of the tardiness of the Government
in a fog -horn at Nine -Mile Point
Ontario. The appertain was tak
laet winter.
—The new Bangor ladder, pure
tho London Fire Department at
$165, cannot be utilized until a ne
procured to oarry it. The old wag
light, too narrow, too short and to
dated.
—Mr. George T. Walker, of Lo
engineer connected with the Gran
Redlway, who already owns con
property in St. Thomas, has let
traot for a new brick store in t
place.
—At Goldstone on Thursday of 1
while Mr. Heffernan was driving
into his barn, on the 8th minces
horses broke through the bridge
son in helping them out, got his le
aboire the knee, the knee asp split,
severely injured internally.
—A new system fit to be estab
Ottawa in connection with the postal ser-
vice. The mails will be taken to a
the post office and the railway at
the electric street railway, and
spinen.
oial postal cars will be built for
v
—The bench on which Mrs. Jame
of Toronto, was sitting at Hanlan'
on Thurday night of last week, ga
and she was thrown to the ground
ing her leg in two places, Mrs. Pe
taken to Heber's hotel, whore she
medioal attendance,
—A 6 -year-old son of Mr.Onzieme
lette, of St. Esprit, Quebec, while
on a plank by the river sideslipped
in. His elder brother jumped in af
but could not succeed in reaching
the water was so deep. The parent
informed, who came and found. the
Grand
ntario,
a the
banks
elland
y the
ed at
t
Beers and crew
unt of inland rave
ne was $694,493
,000 over the same
The secret of this extraordinary bit of
railway engineering is that the contractor
was paid by the mile, and that he found
more miles on the island than anyone ever
supposed it possessed. However, he found
them, built a road over them, sent in his
bill, and was duly paid. The payment
plunged the Government heavily into debt,
and in order to unload the burden the Is-
land, in 1873, joined Confederation, and
threw its railway and its debt upon- the
broad shoulders of the Dominion. The road
is now part of the Interoolonial, and causes
a loss to the Dominion of forty to seventy
thousand dollars yearly. It is said by
many that Sir John Maodonald had a finger
in the pie, and was a party to the building
of the road in such an extravagant fashion
for the purpose of forcing the Island into
Confederation. This story, however, has
rather a fishy flavor. J. S. B.
-Quite a romantic marriage took place
during the early hours of Tuesday. For
some time James Rustics, son of John Eus-
tioe, of Wentworth Park hotel, and Miss
Ada Bryant, daughter of Mr. Harry Bryant,
secretary -treasurer of Barton town-
ship, Wentworth county, have loved
one another dearly, but the union of
Mon-
ue Se-
an In -
month
r Per-
Terri -
t Win -
of Edu-
addreme
at the
Sstur-
upreme
oronto
sent a
osit, to
O pre -
eel that
ing his
besides
pplica-
have a
'rie or
Essex
eet, To-
eenoon,
to,, the
s taken'
sionista
otonto,
frorn
-Peeth,
Brace -
express
railway
after he
Howell,
l000mo-
e Selby
ed sud-
plain ing
n Groa-
n Lake
ri there
aired for
cost of
truck is
n is too
dilapi-
don, an
Trunk
iderable
the con-
e latter
st week
binder
ion, the
and his
broken
and is
ished in
d from
tion by
several
he ser -
Perry,
Point,
e way
break-
ry was
eceived
Brouil-
laying
nd fell
er him,
him, as
were
ody.
o has
John
serious
break-
. The
but is
lathe -
J. H.
horse
is cab,
ipelas
chap's
whip
ed an
ss for
rticle
him.
Wit-
—Mr. Goldethith, of Peterboro w
been staying with his daughter, biro
Vansicklin, of Castleton, met with a
accident by a fall which resulted in
ing his hip. He is a great suffere
old gentleman is over 80 years of age
doing nicely. *
—At Ingersoll the other day, Mr.
son gave the 10 -year-old son of Mr.
Humphry, formerly of Guelph, a
whipping for he.oging on the rear Of
and some fears are expressed of ery
setting in in a wound on the little
leg several inches long, made by the
lash.
—Solicitor General Curran has ente
action against the Montreal With
$10,000 damages on account of an
which he claims contained a libel upo
The papers have been served upon t
nese, which has expressed its intent'on of
fighting the action, and an interestin ease
will probably be the result,
—About a month ago W. C. Reid, well-
to-do lumber dealer in Fergus, appear d be-
[
fore the Police Magistrate, charged w th of-
fering to buy counterfeit money fr m an
mate; Wm. Walsh, engineer; N. F. Har-
bottle, purser, and Fred Mossop, steward.
The vessel is now making regular trips be-
tween Toronto and Lewiston.
—A lamentable occurrence took place in
Caradoo the other morning, at the farm of
James Haggarty, first range south of the
Longwood' road. It seems that Mrs. Hag-
garty left the house, and was afterwards
sought for, but no trace of her could be
found until the searcheraentered the stable
and were horrified to behold her suspended
by a rope, stone dead.
While coupling cars at Chatham Tuesday
night of last week, John Stevens, a brake-
man on the Grand Trunk railway, fell into
a culvert and had a narrow escape from be-
ing run over by the train. As it Wai3, he
was em severely injured that after being
taken to Windsor he had to be conveyed to
his home on Windsor avenue on a stretcher.
He will recover.- a
—At the recent meeting of the public
school teachers attending class for special
study of agriculture in connection with the
Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, a
motion was passed expressing their entire
satisfaotion with the course, and stating
that, though a little doubtful when they be-
gan, they were now convinced that it was a
wise step to inaugurate this special course.
—The other day a curiosity in the shape
of a growth was removed from the neck of a
cow belonging to Mr. W. P. Tolton, Walde-
mar, It weighed about two pound.. In
the centre was a solid bone, and on the out-
side pieces of bone, similar to a hoof had
formed. How a bone could form on a oow's
neck is a conundrum, and is something
which was probably never heard of before.
—In the Methodist church, near Mount
Forest, Wellington county, on a recent Sun-
day afternoon, a funny thing happened.
While the congregation were waiting for
the Sunday School to close in the basement,
an old sheep walked into the church and up
the aisle, and seeing no one in the pulpit
' made Ito way thither. It stood there bleat-
ing for a few minutes before the people
had sufficiently got over their laughter to
put it out.
—While excavating at the south-east
oorner of Richmond and York streets, Lon-
don, the other day, workmen who are erect-
ing the poles of the Canada General Electric
Company came across an interesting relic of
bygone London. At a depth of four feet a
wooden obstruction was met with and it had
to be chopped through. It proved to be part
of an old corduroy roa,d, and was in a splen-
did state of repair,with planking on top and
the usual logs beneath.
—Rev. Isabella M. Stewart, Christian
Science Divine, of Toronto, performed
probably the firet marriage service by a
woman that is recorded in the city of Lon-
don. The oontraoting patios were David
S. Robb, Christian Science pastor of the
Church of Christ, in that city, and Edna S.
Munro. The wedding took place on Thurs-
day of last week, at the residence of the
bride's mother, in the presence of a few of
the near relatives and intimate friends of
the contracting parties.
—The 9year-old daughter of A. Clark,
Norwich, has recently passed through- a
novel and painful experience. The other
morning her mother, while bathing her, dis-
covered what she thought was the and of a
nail protruding from her daughter's side.
She was taken to a doctor who succeeded,
by the aid of surgery, in extracting from
her side a large sewing needle with thread
attached. Although the operation was a
painful one - the little sufferer endured it
without the aid of an antesthetic and is now
doing well.
—A marrow escape from a disastrous fire
occurred at Jamieson's drug store, Mount
Foreat, the other day. A one -pound jar of
what is commonly called "red fire," compos-
ed of sulphur, chlorate of potaela and shel-
lac, stood on a shelf in the back shop, when
epontaaeous combustion took place and the
jar exploded, scattering its blazing contents
about the shelves, which in several cases
also contained combustibles. Fortunately
Mr. Jamieson stood right by, and catching
up a basin of water dashed the contents on
the blaze, extinguishing it.
—Ex -Alderman O'Meara, of London, hal
an unusual experience while out fishing with
a party of friends at Byron the other day,
so the dory goes. He was standing on a
large stone in the centre of the river, when
a very large pike swallowed the hook. In
an endeavor to land the fish Mr. O'Meara
fell in. When he recovered his former posi-
tion on the stone his fishing rod became dis-
jointed and he had to swim in to recover the
portion of the rod with which he was to
haul out his big catch. The pike was a fine
one.
—A Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, de-
spatch says " OLle of the worst storms wit-
nessed on the North Western line of rail-
way for years took place the other night,
doing considerable damage to crops and
property. At Westbourne, Gladstone, Ar-
den and Shoal Lake almost all the window
glass was broken by hail. A windmill at
Westbourne was blown down. The Presby-
terian church at Gladstone was destroyed,
and the Presbyterian church at Golden
Stream was moved twelve feet from its foun-
dation,...
,
—A number of' Windsorites were hood-
winked by a jewelry vendor on the market
square the other night, who got the orowd
going by throwinghandfuls of monoy at
them and then proceeded to sell hie jewelry.
He told the crowd that the articles were no
good, but they fairly tumbled over one an-
other to get brass watches with the works
left at the manufactory, and, other such ar-
tioles. The vendor, after he had about $150
American. He was sent up for tri
bailed out. Judge Chadwick, last Th
afternoon gave judgment, fining Reid
and costs. Government Detective
worked up the case.
—The new steamer Chippewa, com
to the Chaiors and Cibols !running b
Toronto and Lewiston, in said to
finest boat ever built in Canada. A
idea of the verniers size can be got fro
number of passengers she is alio
carry, 2,000. The three decks give h
immense aggregate deck room, snd th
Hoene deck gives her an appearance o
much birger than she really is. The
pewa's steel hull was built to maximu
of the Government dry dock at Kin
and is 302 feet between perpendienla
311 feet over all, 90 feet longer the
Chicora. The officers in oharge are C
John McGiffin ; James Richardson
1, and
raday
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ween
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good
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IMoLEAN BROS., Publishers.
$1.50 a Year in Advance.
are good bathing facilities, while one of the
best fishing places on the river is near; be-
sides this the grounds are admirably adapt-
ed for pleasure purposes. One of the party
eaid that if such a place were available near
his native city, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
there would be a mint of money in it for its
owner. He thought Kingstonians did not
realize and appreciate the beautiful beenery
which surrounds their city."
—The cam of the London and Port Stau-
ley railway company against St Thomas
city, growing out of the construction of
sewer on the former's property, has been de-
cided in the Chancery Division of the High
Court. St. Thomas is to pay $350 to the
'company, as all loss, costs and damage that
may be sustained hereafter by reason of the
sewer; and if at any time the plaintiffs,
their lessees or easigne deem it necessary to
reconstruct, renew or repsir its bridge, and
require the removal of the sewer to some
more convenient point of crossing in the
Mill Creek ravine, the city of St. Thomas
must bear all the cost of removing it. If
the sewer is abandoned St. Thomas must fill
up the excavation. substantially.
—The village of Teeswater was startled
early last Friday morning by the announce-
ment af the sudden death of Mr. Samuel
Kirkland, a wealthy farmer who lived near
there. Mr. Kirklend was 65 years of age,
and was highly respeoted. The day before
his death he attended the funeral of Mat-
thew Bunton, the C. P. R. baggage man,
who was killed at Kenilworth on the previ-
ous Monday, and later on he presided at
meeting of the Cairo's fall show association
in Tesswater. He seemed in the very best
of health, and retired to rest perfectly vrelL
Towards morning he moved and moaned,
and not reepondiog when spoken to the
family were hastily aroused and a doctor
summoned, but all efforts were of no avaiL
Heart failure was the cause. '
—Mrs. Orr, the wife of Anthony Orr, a
farmer living about two miles from Galt,and
Harvey Mulholland, the hired man with
whom she eloped, were both arrested in St.
Oatharinee last Friday. It appears they
first went to Niagara Falls, from there to
Merritori, and then went to St. Catharines,
where they put up at the American hotel.
Chief Ahearn, of Galt, arrived in St. Catlett -
rifles in search of the runaway couple, anxi-
ous to get back the two children, and also
arrest the principle on the charge of lar-
ceny. The 'quartette were soon located and
arrested. Mrs. Orr °helms thst nothing was
taken but her own property, which, it ap-
pears was taken away during the night by
Mulholland, she having placed the goods in
the rear of the house before retiring for the
night. Mulholland spent from four to five
hours in the cello, and the whole party left
for Galt on the afternoon train.
PerthItems.
Mr, W. Alexander, Public School In-
spector, of Stratford, had two Jersey cows
killed by lightning during the severe storm
on Tuesday night, last week. Another cow
in the same field, belouging to Mr. James
Perry, was also killed. The animals were
lying in a straight line, the head of one rest-
ing against the hind quarters of the next. A
fence post near where they were Tying was
shattered to splinters, and on the animals
being turned over a straight line about an
inch wide was found burned along the belly
of each, indicating the course the lightning
had taken, The current had evidently en-
tered between the forelegs of the first and
jumped from the udder to the animal next.
Veterinary Burt says it was the strangest
case of death from lightning that he ever
examined.
—The Avonton congregation purpose
building a new church next year, and the •
committee who have the subscription lists
in hand report a very liberal and Christian
response from all members thus far exiled
upon, so that the question of adequate funds
need gite the management no alarm. The
old church is the first and only sacred edi-
fice ever erected in Avonton and has with-
-stood the strong hand of time nearly thirty
years, and though in the eyes of some it
may still be considered a fitting place of
worship, it is the almost universal opinion
of the congregation that Avouton iu the
matter of church accommodation is onside
ably behind the age. The cost of the pro-
posed new church will be between five and
six thousand dollars. It will be erected on
the site of he old church.
—Word has been received from Emsdaie,
Manitoba, of the death of Adam Mitchell,
only son of Mr. James Mitchell, .formerly of
St. Braun, and nephew of the Chief Con-
stable of that town, which took place on the
1.7th of July. He and his mother drove to
Rumpford, and when hitching up to leave
for home he thought there was something
wrong with the horse's foot. He stooped
down to feel the foot when the horse struck
at a fly and hit Adam near the temple. The
stroke did not seem serious, not even leav-
ing a mark, and they proceeded homeward,
but before arriving there he complained of
headache. He unhitched the horse and
afterwards laid down and had a long sleep,I.
but awoke, suffering the greatest pain. n
a short time he Wae unconscious. This was
about twelve o'clock on Sunday night, and
be died on Monday, at one o'clock.
—The corner stone of the new church of
the Evangelical Assoolation, at Milverton,
was laid on Sunday, 23rd ult., by Rev. J,
Umbaoh, of New Hamburg, presiding Older
of the district. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Dier-
lamm, acted in the capacity of chairman.
Addresses were delivered in English by
Rev. Mr. Tonga and Mr. Magwood, M. P.
P. The chairman read in English and Ger-
man a history of the congregation from it.
of the crowd's money, drove off. The police inseption in 1861 to the present. The
the vendor had not misrepresented h is cmheutirlcberlailt4siphadna now
numbers
sfulcareer. They were notified, but they could d9 nothing, h
RS
also have a flourishing Sabbath school of
_
wares. also
the ease of Dr, Patterson, of Luck eighty five pupils and an efficient class of
now, charged with practising dentistry teacberA and officers. Beneath the stone
without a license, the Mayor, after due con- was laid, for future generations to muse
sideration of the evidence adduced, has de-
over,i btibere, Mi lleadingvr-
c i d e d that the defendant is guilty of a nhurooeeof hGerman
nhppaipereatnde InaegaaainnBea,
breach of the dental law, and hes therefore ton Sun and other local and provincial.
fined him in the sum of $20 and costs, as
provided by the. Statutes. His Worship
considers that the defendant was praotiiing
dentistry; and did not draw any line -be-
tween the mechanical and profeesional fee -
Lure" which go to mike up the art of den-
tistry. Doctors had better look out.
—Mr. Patrick Blanchfield died at his
brother's reaidence, near Guelph, on the
23rd ult. The deceased was well known in
Guelph some 45 years ago, being Mee of the
most popular stage drivers on the iroad be-
tween Owen Sound and Niagara Falls, and
will be remembered by the older settlers
along that route. Some 35 years ago he left
Guelph and took up a farm in Mantua,Ohio,
where be has resided ever since. Suffering
from dropsy and liver complaint, he was ad
vised by his physicians to take a change of
air, and decided to pay a visit to his bro-
ther Thomas, and died a few days after
reaching the letter's residence.
—Says the Kingston News: "A party of
Americantfishing near the Brothers islands
recently, were very highly impressed with
the favorableness of the spot jamb beyond
Barker's Point for a summer resort. There
newspapers. The building, when complet-
ed, will cost about $5,000. About $160 was
raised at the ceremony.
—The following from the Cineinatti En-
quirer has reference to a son of Mr. An
-
gin Johnson, of Stratford. " N. R. John -
Son, President Ingalle' Private Secretary
returned yesterday from Canada, where he
spent a two weeks' vacation with his vener-
able parents. Mr. Johnston will become a
full.fiedged American in two weeks. Be
has been one of Unole Sam's boys by resi-
dence but not by adoption, for several
years, having made his home in the States
since his entrance into the railroad business,
After he receives his papers he will be given
a complimentary dinner by a number of his
friends, Billy Gibson, the Big Four Supea-
intendent being at the head of this graceful
and deserving compliment. Mr. Johnson is -
one of the brightest young men in his busi-
ness, as his service with President Ingslis
attest.. He is very populsr in this city,
New York and Washington, being an -ex-
cellent mixer and having those essential in-
herent traits to make a friend of every one
he meets."