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The Huron Expositor, 1894-09-14, Page 1^ so n g month of iin with. 'ita and Winter well aseort- ancl desire r. enter into ✓ pozt record )e sufficient, found in oo, 3. S• Nice business :this, we pro.. i4lYs upon everything determined [00ret for eotu prices. cfaul, enameirmanneeier pieces of horse for nearly la- ewner's faithitd eh grieved over - have lost ten than. to have LIS way. -The President t Reform Assq- lton and John have called a Ilibbert, to be fa, on Monday five o'clock ra after the rue in the approach, lists aud other apathy with the to. attend. We iefort, of Jack - k of Mrs. John net lipshall •is sent. —The For- d concert in the LS. Dalton have dwelling house. veil observed in Sports went to rcle raees.—Miss relatives in the . — Miss Susie ,er, Mrs. T. CS - tr genial store - Ron, took unto v, in the person ter of Mr. James Lon. of Hibbert. ely tied by young couple -a 4r. James Pur- amiltorde store, ds honeymoon.— qr. John Heron, I at present. - 1 her brother, y visiting rela- t Roche is visit - t present. —Dry en to affect our '.)ae wde married - s on the list for aorge Patterson, y Grand Master lite(' Workmen, , c and organized len There were ul fur more ap- d the next meet - were appointed, ; John Williams, nnan ; S. Hardy, L Recorder; e- ither, Receiver; . Magni, Inside Outside Watch- n ed for mutual I. furnishes sick tee, &c. It is a td that the pros - an are eucourag- • achanan has left t Collegiate In - and her sister„ for South Bend, Ifrom Sebewaing„ t hie unde, De , from Berlin, ite d fiends—M1sti mdon to attend will take charge e in her father's chert and Mime to the millinery en one of the wnship of Hay, tnestead a short , died on Mon - ate years of age. e and a good °We ted.—Mr. Henry spected resident r. He was about ' J._ Latta and London, where homn—Mr. P., n S. J. Latta's his stocke—Mr. story on his bar- e great improve - -Mr. C. Greb i$ tel. A firm front h Hartleib and. ie work. Mr. rsix stoves, be a, great dy good hotel. -- las done a lot of of rain we had 1 the fire consid- wan- across the before. Mr. B. ,y it, as he had a erve for a future d his sister, Mrs-. tiean- Michigan, .. • , wed one day last end Mr. G. Hone - [angelical Sunday I. Sunday School a Crediton next- eisen, from the , h his family into , iob in the grist - rel;s dwelling. kreatheir. nic-lialf ounce of of ammonia in bottle with hot enty-four hods ; the with a snelig lie mixture, We . A surpris from the cleanee eanses, and the impart a exagge a ostler. TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. 1 WHOLE NUMBER, 1,396. you See it in ,Black and White, You'll Believe It. eirand Stook Generous Bargains For Fall and Winter -"wear in Order- ed Clothing, it has been our endeavor to provide just what you want. We offer you quality and 'quan tity, such as are associated with the "good old days!' Have faith in facts, and put is to the test. At $15 we offer a grand assortment Of Tweed Suitings, that other places sell for $18. We give good trimmings and a perfect fit: At $18 we show a range of Suitings equal it") the best $20 lines shown by others; entirely new patterns :and olors. At 820 and $22, you have the choice of the finest Scotch Suitings in this section, you'll find, OR inspection, that what we say is true. It Overcoats, we show Beavers, Keltons, Friezes, Serges, &c., from $13 to $30. Our Beaver Overcoat to order at $15, is a thing that you cannot ap- proach for value anywhere. It's a cer- tainty that you have never seen any- thing that will compare with it. _ 'Our store is undoubtedly the right place for Ordered Clothing. Don't for one moment think that you can do better soraewhere else. You cannot. AFORTH, FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 14, 1894. eed { McLEAN BROS., $1.50 a Year in Advance. Publishers. We are Leaders in Ordered - Clothing. Jackson & Creig, The. FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS, SEAFORTH. FAIR NEW ZEALAND. A LAND WHERE MURDER ONCE WAS RIFE A PARADISE TODAY. erns. It 0 bunter ever enjoyed 611004hg reedhirds or fetching down a roiSbuck, no iislierrean better liked throiring a fly and watching a spotted trout rise -and snap it, than did these Maoris the slaughter of a man. Give beef or mut-. ton to 'others, but the appetite of the Maori wanted something human in the bill of fare. Many of the Maoris may be good and kind and noble, but their ancestors were 'without nobility of nature tudess laziness andheartlessness and revenge and.naalevolence be noble. What an ap- petite they must have had for soup of human bones, for white man on toast and for spare rib of missionary! We search New Zealaaid in vain from top of North island to foot of South island to find among the Maoris anything more noble than seen in the American Indian seated by a bridle path of the Rocky mountains, wrapped in filthy blanket, .hair combed once in 40 years, waiting ,for a cowboy to toss him a rusty cent. I say to the men who These Maoris were the impersonation of ture, come to New Zeal cruelty and diabolism. It was to them, ministers ever lecthre? rare sport when they could take an en- always preape? My aos emy and scalp the akin fro* the bottom intelligent lecture hall of the feet—if you can apply to the the church, and I notice lower extremities the word usually ap- have been hating the chi] plied to theupper extremities—and make the victim walk on a rough place, and the shriek of pain would make those noble savages laugh till you could hear them half a mile away. Sometimes they would, in order to have fresh meat, cut the flesh from their victim just as they needed it by nice tidbits and day after day. Book of Gisborne, New Zealand, to make a fine peroration of their ac- complishments, they killed all the men, women and children so that the authors - might not be charged with lack of thor- oughness. They tell the most enormous 'stories of the bravery of their ancestors. These ancestors, they say, killed the two great warriors at Waterloo—Wellington and Napoleon—and the tribe believe it too. Within a few days one of their chiefs was buried amid wild sc,enes of lamen- tation, and after the body was put in the ground the chief's hat and blanket and umbre/la were thrown in after him, and then many of the tribe leaped upon the grave with ho*ls and dancing. Not satisfied with, deeds of cruelty While living, these noble Maoris in olden time expected their wives to strangle them- selves, and while twisting the flax for the rope the sister of the dead chief is reported by a recent writer as looking up at the moon and saying: It is weif with thee, 0 moon! You return from Spres.d4eirig Your light on the little waves. Men sar, '11:elko1d, the moon reappears!" But the dead of this world return no more. Grief and pain spring up in my heart as from a fdantain. I liksten to death for relief. Oh, that ali Might eat those numerous sooth- sayers Who could. not foretell his death! Oh, that I might eat the governor, For Ms was the war! • One of the most terrible things in all the country of the Maoris is their law of Tapu. If any ono breaks that, he must die. When a thing is said to be Tapu, ito one 31111St use or employ it. For in - 'stance, rie man gave a slave a knife. Forthwith that knife became Tapu, yet some one dared with that knife to cut the bread for the chier,s mother, and the rdaai who used the knife for that Purpose was butchered. That whimsical- ity of Tapu has left its victims all up aid down New Zealand. the fact is that barbarisms are so repulsive in ev- ery form that there is nothing admira- ble about them, and the only thing to do is by the influenoe of Christian civi- lization to extirpate them, and they are gong, and for the most part have al- ready gene. Cannibalism in New Zea- land is dead. The funeral pyres in In- . dia have been extinguished. The Jug- gernaut has been put aside as a curios- ity for travelers to look at. Instead of the cruelties that once cursed these lands I find, our glorious Christiapity dorainant—all over New Zealand the highest culture, the grandest churches, the best schools and a citizenship than which the world holds nothing nobler. I hereby T'eport to the American lec- turers that New Zealand is a grand place f•er their useful work. Only two or three English and one American leo- turer have ever trod these platforms. But the opportunity here is illimitable. Not in all the round earth are there more alert, responsive or electric au- diences. They are quioker than Ameri- can or European assemblages to take everything ,maid on platform or in pul- pit. They call out all there is in a . speaker of instruction or entertainment. And the church and the world have yet to find out that audiences for the most part decide whether sermons or lectures shall be good or poor. Stolid and unre- sponsive audieuees make stolid and stupid speakers._ Wendell Phillips, one of the monarchs of the platform, told me something very remarkable concern- ing himself while we were standiaag in a Boston book store and he was chiding me for not appearing at Ann Arbor, Mich., from which place he had just re- turned, and where I had tried to get a few days before, but Was hindered by snoivbanks, a,nd my offer of $250 for the use Of a locomotive had been declined. Mr. Phillips said that the audience in one of the eastern states nearly killed him. He said: "I stood for nearly an hour without seeing or hearing anything by which I could judge of the effect of what I had said. If they had only hiiise4 or applauded, I do not care which, I could have gone on with some comfort." Mr. Phillips surprised me by this state- ment as to the effect wrought upon him by a phleginatio assemblage. The audiences decidethe fate of ser- raons or lectures. A half dozen men inight, if they wished to engage in so inean a business, take a contract to break down any speaker, if they would sit right before laine gape, take out their watches and cough with mouth wide open and then suddenly go sound asleep. An eloquent American preacher, !titled- nvered the nrst o great power, and his ords had wings, and his countenance Was aflame with holy enthusiasm, when suddenly his wings of thought an ped, and he stammere got entangled in meta thread of discourse a that which he said at t prove and then sat d congregation were sin looking gentleman right pulpit? The sight of his lack of interest cOmple "Oh," I said, "that i So-and-so, one of the a nation, and he was dee all you said. He is n lilo sermon 'With utterance drop - on his waY and hor and lost his failed to prove LO start he would wn. While the g the last hymn he said: "Who is th t distinguished in front of the somnolency and ely upset me." the Hon. Mr. lest men of the ly interested in t asleep, but is suffering from weak °Yes and is com-- pelled to keep them sh t while listen- ing." The uninteren appearance of the andirisr had overthr wn a "master of aasembliets. " 'each and hie- d. But shonld ught they not er is that the half way to that men who ch and all sa- cred thing, if they come and hear one lecture, are sure to comefand hear him preach. Besides that ther01ere important things to be said, and things that must be said, which are more, 4ppropriate to lecture hall than to pulpa mightiest agencies for m better are the pulpit„ print platform. Side by side ma stand in the battle for r BS for them the Indian would yet be sounding in on the Atlantic coast, the of humaai flesh would still be going on get; would ticide. Let heir notioes is at Dune - 0, pictur- bounded in dinburgh, attar which, I understand, it is named, Dun-Edin being the Gaelic for the northern capital of intelligence. The Scotch founded.% an what the Scotch do they do well. The believe in something, and it is almost always some- thing good that they believe in. • High toned morality characterizes everything that they do or touch; solidity, breadth, massiveness and religiosity are the types of the men and cities and nations they build. No country Is well Staxted that has not felt the influence of the Scotch, with their brawny arm and high cheek bones. , The seaport of this place is called Chalmers Port, named after, I have no deubt, Thomas Chalmers,. the greatest of Sootchmen unless it was Jr Knox, and the largest church in is place, where I preached. last night, is Knox chinch, oalled, I have no dorbt, after the manovho at Holywrood made a queen tremble. Here I am in the Midwinter of this colony, for July here correspond.; with our American January, pu t there are no such severities' of froet or snow Dr. Talixtage Efolds "Up to View the Two Pictures—Maoris Indulged In itinrder as a Pastime—Their Battle Grounds Now Ileautiful Gardens and Magnificent Cities. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 18%.1 DUNEDIN, New Zealand, July 28.— What the Indium are to Axaerio the Maoris are to Nese' Zealand. These aborigines are dying out very rapidly, but you see there in all the -apper por- tfons of New Zealand. All this country Was sande theirs, and they would have kept it, but from -whaling ships the foreigners alighted to furnish enough rum and vices of all sorts to kill the Maoris. They are said to be a superior race of savages., but the nobility of them I fail to see. Their faces are plowed up, not with age, but by a tatteoing which they suppose pictorializes and beautifies. Sharp shells scooped out these furrows of the countenance. Their greatest- fun was raassacre. When some of them adopted Christianity, they received the Old Testament, but rejected the New Testanxent They liked the war scenes of the Old, but not the peace of the New. On occasione they made cartridges of the New Testeanent. When they could not eat all their enemies, they preserved them in tin cans and sent them as delicate presents to their friends. The ship Boyd, bound for Eng- land, put in at one of the'New Zealand iiarbors, and all on board were slain and eaten except a woman and three ohildren, who hid away, the only sur- vivors to tell the story. Of course all ships knew that If they were wrecked on these shoree they would.become a part of the diet of the people. Two of thetr chiefs taken to London in 1820 aroused „much interest, and they were loaded with presents 'of ell sorts, but before starting for home twos repioients exchanged the presents for muskets, with which they drove back and destroyed the neighboring iiribes who could not afford muskets. Seme of these saragos went so far as to lend clubs and powder and knives to their enemies that lively fighting Might be kept up. On oue occasion they re- fused to capture the trains carrying food and ammunition to the opposing forces, and when the chief of the Maoris was asked the cause of this he replied, "Why, you fool, if we had captured their ammunition and food, how oould e they have fought?" Oneof the mission- aries says that he held a religious service at a place between two fighting tribes, and from both tribes the audience was ruade up on Sunday, but on Monday they resumed their old fight. If they had had plainly put to them the first question of the catechism, "What is the chief end of maid?" their reply, if frankly made, would have been, "The chief end of man is to naalre an end of him. . De Quineey wrote an essay on "Mur- der as a Fine Art," but to the Maoris murder was a pastime. Assassination was for ages their gladdest recreation. _ Massacre waS their sport. It Was to them what the tennis court and croquet geound_atati Webail Are tO.tianY gad: ng befeen date ittet, ifiX.Per Pulrat de - The three ng the world g press and they always ghteousness. s warwhoop erica and orning meal in New Zealand, and the G still be horrible with infai all the nations reconstruct of New Zealand. I write t din, imposing in its architeo esque in its surroundings, its hospitality and another as we are familiar with In New York latitudes. The grass is at thisimoment a bright emerald; the gardens are in glorious flower. From he to of the North island of New Zealand to the foot of the South island the colony is a be- w itohtnent of interest. For 120 mile&. ever and anon geysers send up their steam curling on the air. The glaciers, the romantic lakes,. the driees, the wooded summits, the mountain peaks, the escarpment of the -hills', the fertile fielder, the falling waters, the hot springs, the flora with its infinitude of camellias and its small heaven of ferns, the sunrise and sunsets, and, above all,! the people, with cordiality and l heard.: ness, independent of all weather and cir- cumstances, make New Zealand 600 miles of invitation to the inhabitant of ether zones to come here, whether for health or -pleasure or livelihood Ur wor- ship. ' What uplifted altars of basaltll What blue domes of sky! . What bright layers a river! What baptism of gentle Shower! What incense of morning mist 11 What doxology of sea on both beaches1 What a temple of beauty and glory and joy and divine aspiration is New Zealand! T. DE Wrier TALII.aGir.. Canada. At Petrolea, last week, water I was so scarce that it was sold at two cents per pail. —The stables on the Brander Fair Grounds were destroyed by an in endiary fire Monday. —In Kingston, Friday, two men were fined $50 and $100 respectively for selling liquor without a license. —Rev. John Burton,of Toronto, has de- cided to accept the pastorate of thePresby- terian church at Gravenhurst. —James A. McGlynn, a Montreal ;printer, wss killed by a New York Central .train at Hastings, New York, on August 25. —Wm. James, 65 years of age, c retaker 'of the Paris cemetery, died, on Frid y last, from the result of a'fall from a shade tree., —The liquor dealers of Montreal ' are to have a meeting at an early date to organize an association to fight the Dominion Al- liance. —Miss Orange, of Glencoe, has been paid her $5,500 by the township of Euphemia, against which she secured damages ' for in- juries received on the road. —Sir Donald Smith, of Montreal, has given $5,000 to the Minnesota fire Offerers, and J. J. Hill, the railway man, another Canadian, has duplicated that sum. —John Kelly, of Fall River, Massachus- etts, was rim over and fatally injured by a Grand Trunk Railway train at Thorold on Monday afternoon. —Mr. Justice Rose was presented ,with pair of white gloves at the opening Of the assizes at Owen Sound on Monday, there being no prisoners in gaol awaiting trial, —Late Monday evening, Senathr Sir Frank Smith and Colonel Mason, of the Tenth Royal Grenadiers, were driving on Queen street, Toronto, when their horses became frightened at a trolley car, bolted, and dashed into the car. Both gentlemen were thrown violently to the ground. Sir Frank Smith's escape from death was al- most marvelous. His bu was over- turned by a motor, and w e entangled in the wreck Of the buggy, he was pushed for seve could be stopped. As it is he has three ribs broken, and may have suffered internal injuries. _ Colonel Mason escaped with a shaking up. The home were badly cut, and the carriage smashed to splinters. -e-The barns and outbuildings of Mr. Kenneth McKenzie, concession 12, -Bruce, near Paisley, were on Monday destroyed by •fire, caused by sparks from a steam thresher. Insurance unknown loss $1,500. —A boiler exploded in a saw mill at Three Riders; Quebec, one day last week, and kill- ed Sem Bea.nmier, the foreman, while eight others were badly hurt. —Mr. R. Errington, of Glenworth, ttie well known quoit player, won the champion- ship gold medal and $7 at the recent Cale- donian games celebration in Lucknow. —John Cunningham, who was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary from Sudbury, and who escaped from gaol, is him- self u.inpthe penitentiary, having given, Kdd'dd--9t —Bush fires are causing great destruction at Rainy River. A number of lives have been lost. The Ontario Government has donated $1,500 to the sufferers. —The bodies of the three unfortunate Chatham canoeists, who lost their lives in Lake Nipissing a few weeks ago, have all been. found. They were forwarded to friends in Chatham. —Mr. T. G. Davey, of London known as one of the leading dog fanciers of America, has received word that his English setter, Brighten Tot* had won first money in the Manitoba field trials. -- -MacWherrell, the murderer, who has been sick for more than a week at Bramp- ton jail; is recovering and able to walk about his cell again. He still hopes that his sentence will be commuted. . - —At Louden South Methodist Sunday school Sunday afternoon, a visitor asked "Who is the member of Parliament for Lon- don?" Promptly came the response from a Bcholari "Charley- Hyman." - —Mr. John Reuter, a Spanish lumber merchant, of. Venezuela, is in Ottawa for the purpose of establishing a trade jai Can- adian pine logs between this country and Venezuela. —John Jacobs and John Green, of Tor- onto, were arrested at St. Clair, Michigan, the other morning, just after landing from a rowboat, in which were 600 pounds of opium, which was seized, —$t. Andrew's chureh, Belleville, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Total loss, $30,000 to $35,000. Insurances on building, $15,000; on organ, $1,500; stained glass,$1,000 ; furniture in basement, $600. • —Provincial Detective Duncan McRae, shot and killed Wm. Pereault, a Penetan- guishene Frenchman, Whom he was trying to arrest, at French River, on Friday last, in a bar room. The shooting is alleged to have been accidental. —Mr. Angus Kerr, of Lucknow, who has been on a trip through England, Ireland and Scotland, has arrived home. Mr. Kerr spent a pleasa„nt summer among the scenes of his youth amid the heath clad hills of old Scotia. ral yards ahead of the trolley before it could not use the binder at all, as it broke —Inspector Dearness, ofeeLond.on, recently found specimens.of theRussian thistle on the Grand Trunk Railway in Tilbury township. The plants were about a foot in- height and from 18 to 24 inches in diameter. —Philip Brady, an Ottawa undertaker, was attacked Monday night by Dan Morin, a drunken tough,and so brutally beaten that he may not recover. The injured man is over 60 years of age and partially paya- lyzed. —At the Reform Convention held at Bow- manville, Ontario, on Saturday, Mr. Robert Beith, the present member in the House of Commons for -West Durham, was unanimous- ly nominated. Mr. Beith is the famous im- porter and breeder of Hackney horses, whose animals carry everything before them at all the big shows. —Murdock McInnes, an old man from Paisley, tell into the St. Lawrence at Montreal, last week, and got under the piers of the wharf. He was six whole days finding his way out, bit was finally rescued. more dead than alive, and sent on his way to the Old Country, he having a ticket by the Dominion Line of Steamers. He will not soon forget his experience, —A steamer from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, brings news that on August 14th, the schooner Favorite, flying the English flag, was captured by the Dnited States ship Mohican, for violating the sealing laws, and turned over to Her Majesty's ship Pheas- ant, which sent her to Victoria. She had aboard between 1,400 and 1,500 skins when captured. —The peach trade of Western Ontario has taken a big jump this summer and left the Niagara district away behind, so far as the market of this district is concerned. An average shipinent of 2,000 baskets, or two cars, arrives every morning in London from Leamington, Ruthveu, Harrow, Kingsville, and the fruit growing places of Kent and Essex. • —A message has been received in King- ston from Liverpool, England, stating that a syndicate, with a capitol of $450,000, has been organized there to work Canadian min- ing property. It includes iron ore and mica properties in the county of Frontenac and adjoining counties, and the gold belt recent- ly discovered in the township of Clarendon, a short distance from Kingston, on the line of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway. the knife all to pieces. He has been around the country considerably lately and hasdis- covered a lot of the weed inDover, Chatham township, Raleigh and Tilbury East. The Ontario Agricultural College authorities have been. asked to examine and report on the weed. —Dr. Montague, M. 13., for Haldimand, , the well known Conservative politician, is suffering from a low continued fever. He has been for two weeks confined to bed. and is still love*. —The executive committee of the Western Fair board has refused the London Royal Humane Society the privilege of posting pla- cards throughout the fair grounds announc- ing that cruelty to animals will be pro - melded by the society. —The youngest son of Mr. L. H. Ingram, of London, got hold of some fly poison the other day, which he drank. Medical assist- ance was quickly at hand and with the aid of a stomach pump the little fellow was re- lieved. —It is estimated that at least 4,000 people visited- the Parliament buildings in Toronto Tuesday. All day the corridors were throng- ed with curious strangers from the country. In the Legislative chamber the crowd was mobilized, each individual striving, with un- feigned. eagerness, to sit in the place of honor, the Speaker's than., which they fondly im- agined was Sir Oliver's. —Woodstock's well known millionaire, William C. McLeod, senior, died Tuesday afternoon at 5 &stock. Deceased came to this country from Scotland when a young man, and by hard work and good judgement acquired wealth tothe amount of from $1,- 000,000 to $2,000,000. He died at the ad- vanced age of 8$, and has been very feeble for nearly a year. He leaves a widow and eight children. —Charles Lincoln, of Sparta, died a few days ago from lockjaw, He was engineer in a threshing outfit, and -when splitting a piece of wood. a sliver dew up and struck him just below the eye, inflicting a* small eut, which did not trouble him at the time. He con- tinued his work for several days but was com- pelled to take his bed later. The blow which he received affected the nerves, drawing his face to one side and lockja.w set in. From that time he suffered terribly. —During the thunder storm early last Saturday in * *lig, the barns of Mr: Joseph Wetheral, near Blenheim, Kent county, were struck by 'lightning and en- tirely consumed, together with the whole season's crop. Four hordte were struck by the electric fluid ancl killed instantly, and a son of Mr. Wdtheral's and two other men were in the barn at the time, but all escaped with a slight shock. There was a full in- surance on the barns, but the contents were not insured. —The Kincardine Review says: Mrs. S. H. Laird was visiting her sister, Mrs. George W. Lodge, of St. Thomas, a few weeks ago. Mrs. Lodge was in ill health and Mrs. Laird persuaded heieto come up to Kincardine, be- lieving that the cool air of the lake would benefit her. Two days after she arrived she became very ill, told although everything human sympathy and medical skill could devise was done she never recovered. She was 28 years of age. —The first annual convention of the In- ternational Anglers' Association was held at Niagara on Friday and Saturday last. There happened a run of silver bass at the mouth of the Niagara river, and the Anglers had fine sport the first day. Charles Hunter, secretary of the association, and Ben West- wood, of Toronto, caught 36 bass in 28 min- utes. S. Y. Aldrich, of Buffalo, and J. Pringle had great luck. John Foy and H. Winnett broke the record, catching 51 in 31 minutes. " —Walter trfacWherrell, who was found guilty, at Brampton Assizes, of brutally dubbing to death James Williams and his wife -Eliza, on the Middle road, Toronto township, on December 14th, 1893e will he hanged by the neck until he is dead, in the courtyard of Brampton jail, on Monday, October 1st. Sir John Thompson is alleged to have gone over the evidence carefully, and to see no reason why the murderer should be given another trial. Walker's trial, for the same offence, it is said, will go on this month. --Professor Coleman, of the Toronto School of Science, who is engaged in the zoological survey of part of Western Algoma, arrived in Port Arthur on Monday', after a two weeks' exploration of the Atikoken iron region. The professor describes the country as a sea of flames and smoke so dense that it was almost impossible to see to cut tent pegs, even at noon, and that while canoe- ing in the small lakes that compose tke Atikoken chain, a compass was necessary, for objects a rod away could not be distin- guished. —Mr. A. H. Clinger, son-in-law of De- tective James Crawford, of London, had a narrow escape from death in the recent forest fires near Hinckley, Minnesota. Mr. Clinger is a traveller, and while en route to St. Paul the train was forced to return on account of fires ahead. It was soon over- taken by the flames, and the passengers were compelled to seek shelter in a swamp about six miles from Hinckley. There they remain- ed for twelve hours. Mr. Clinger's eyes were injured by heat and smoke. —Mr. and Mrs. John Windle, pioneers of-Ba;got township, near Kingston, died on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Windle died on Saturday, and preparations were being made for the funeral, but the old gentleman told them to wait a day and they could bury him also. His prophecy was fulfilled. He died on Sunday, and both were buried to- gether on Tuesday. Mr. Windle was 84 and his wife 63 years of age. —President_ E. B. Harper, of the New York Mutual Reserve Fund Life Associ- ation, was in Toronto last week, and was feted and feasted by the local Life insurance men. Mr. Harper is one of the world's greatest and beet known insurance men, and his name has been spoken of in connection with the Governorship of the State of New York in the coming election. —On Thursday afternoordlest week, John Green, a iwell-known farmer of Sarnia town- ship, while returning home on the London Road with his team was killed by a freight train at the London Road crossing of the Grand Trunk Railway, about two miles froth London. His horses were going at a rapid pace, and Mr. Green evidently was not on the lookout. The track is visible on both sides for some distance. Both horses were killed. —A. 8. Williams, concession 9, Dover, Kent county, claims tc) have discovered a new weed. It grows, he sere from three to six feet tall, has a very large stalk and is fairly loaded with little brown seeds, each of which is attached to a "blow" a little smaller than that on the Canadian thistle. The stalk and leaves are full of milk, but cattle will not touch it, while they eagerly devour the ordinary milkweed. Mr. Williams says place Was en completely covered that be of half an inch were dark yellow stripes. a telegraph pole in front of the Huron and that one corner of a field of wheat on his f r. John M. Denton looked. up his natural Bruce Loan Company's office, and then history, and found that the anitnalwas bless- struck off around the Square to Hamilton ed with four names—Tweeg, of the Indians,- I street During this time the doomed. cart Helbender Mud. Devil, Ground Puppy, and was going through a series of gymnastic Young Alligator, of the Anglo-Americans. performances peculiar to those conveyances It is the only known representaive of the which happen to be behind a runaway colt. geaus, and is a native of * the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers. The head, is flat and bread, and in the upper jaw are two concen- trid rows of teeth, the inner row being pala- tine. The limbs are short and thick. The for feet are possessed of four toes each, with five on the hind feet. The animal is pro- nouncedvery fierce and ferocious in its habits, sparing nothing it can ever get and devour. It * believed by some to be poisonous. Mr. Deaton thinks it must have been brought this far in a storm. —A Wedding of an unusual character was celebrated recently at the residence of Mr. andMrs.Johnston, 723 Queen's avenue Lon- don.' Mr. Archie Dark and Miss Minnie, Fleming, both respected residents of the city, were the contracting -parties, and the pecul- iarity lay in the. fact'ithat both were deaf mute's. The ceremony was performed 'by •Rev. T. L. Fowler, and had to be done in writing first for the couple, and then orally for the guests. There was no bridesmaid or groodisman, the certificate being signed by Miss 'allude L. Smith, and Mr. J. 33. John- ston. The guests—a number of whom were mutes—partook of a wedding feast and spent a pleasant evening. Huron Notes. • -.-Ronald Sinclair, of Brussels, had a cut infficted on his head on Wednesday , of last week7by coming in contact with a spade. —My. Samuel Sheppard, of the township of CeIborne, near Nile, had his barns and contents destroyedby lightning on Saturday morning. —Me. John McMillan, of ,Hullett, this year raised 32 bushels of wheat to the acre, and 54 bushels of oats. This is a pretty good yield. —The Exeter creamery, which was closed down a few weeks ago, was put up for sale by auction on the premises on Wednesday of last week, and was sold to A. Q. Bobier for the mini' of $1,300. —The steamer Badger State; on which William and Fred. Deeming? of Brussels, hold poeitione, ran on a reef in Lake Erie the other day, where it was delayed sev- eral days. The boat runs from Buffalo to Duluth. —D. 4. Lowry, of Brussels, showed the Post the other day, a stnall limb cut from a, plum tree in his garden, on which were scores oi plums. They were of the Lom- bard vatiety. It was a wonderfully pro- lific Veld. -t-The customs officials in Montreal have made one of the biggest seizures in the his- tory of the port. The firms implicated are the Canada Jute Company, Consumers' Cordage Company, and Dominion Bag Com- pany. The charge preferred against the firms is that for three or four years they have been importing, free of duty, jute, known as "Cream Hessian," from Dundee, Scotland, and which had been partly manu- factured, and upon which there is a duty of 20 per cent. It is claimed that the duty ac- cruing to the Government in three years amounts th $50,000, besides penalties eehicb are roughly put down at $50,000. —A New York despatch says that James H. Beatty, president of the German North- west Insurance Compa,ny of Ontario, and of the Federal Life Assurance Company of Hamilton, Ontario, swears that he has lost $37,500 by John C. Beatty, now in Texas, through a colossal fraud, in manipulating a stock concern, capitalized at $7,500,000, for irrigating lands in California, Arizona and Mexico. James H. Beatty is said th have subscribed for stock and John C. Beatty is believed th have pocketed the money, the whole affair being a scheme to enrich the said John C. Beatty, who had no title to lands in M-exico, as pretended. Several others are said to have been victimized also. The case will be ventilated in Court at New York. —A son of Mr. John Connors, 389 Grey street, London, ran into the house Sunday night, saying that he had killed nothing less than a small alligator in the yard. Mr. Connor was very doubtful at first, believing that such an animal would never infest this part of the globe. He found, however, what was apparently a member of the alligator family. It was about a foot in length. The body was shaped similar to that of a crocodile, while the tail was flat and gradually -tapered to the point. Across the baek at interv. als —he barn of Mr. Swinbank, of the Lon- don ros4, Stanley, was struck by lightning on Friday night last. Two cows standing in the stable were killed at the same time. The baria was not damaged to a very great extent. —Mr. J. T. McNamara, son of Mr. Ed- ward McNamara, formerly of Leadbury, in the township of McKillop, is another of old Huron's Sons who is distinguishing himself abroad. He has recently been elected Deputy -Sheriff of Houghton county, Mich- igan. —The week before last W. Bright fm- ished the threehing of this season's crop of flax at Btussels mill, in advance of nearly all the d'ther Livingston mills. The next operation, will be lifting, stacking and ecutching. Mr. Bright is a rustler. —Meseta. Frank Hogg and Halsey Park, of Wingham, have composed a song called "Kitty Ray," which is being published in sheet =Sic form in Toronto. It is said to be a very pretty song, with h catchy_ air and accompaniment. —Qn Monday of last week, several young men were standing on the street, in Clinton, when ond gave another a vigorous shove, sending him across the sidewalk. The young fellow till* shoved struck against Mr. C. A. Herta knocking him down and bruising him severely. —About 20 tickets were sold at Clinton foaLucknew Caledonian games, on Wednes- day of kik week, and. the special train that was run beck to Clinton the same night, brought eix passengers. There was not much money to the Grad Trunk Railway in that trip. —Mr. DI. Calder, of the Winghaal La- crosse Clob, Owing to being incapatcitated- from duty, through being struck on the shoulder by a Mitchell lacrosse pdayer, in the recent match, went home to Beaverton the other qay. His injury will lay him up for a week. —Two fire engines, a chemical fire ex- tinguisher ' hook and ladder wagon and hose reel from the Ronald Engine Works, have been shipped to Toronto, where they are now op exhibition at the great fair. E, W. Melsom engineer of Brussels, has charge of the exhibit. —A gambling outfit was opened up on Monday forenoon of last week, on a street in Brusseb, and a trap set for greenies, but the managers of the table were promptly in- formed that fakirs were not allowed to work their games there,and the performance was brought tei a close. —A fee' weeks ago Mr. Isaac Metcalf purchased the old Primitive Methodist church property, which was a corner of his farm near Glenannan paying therefoe the sum of $15d Last week he sold the building to Mr. John Rogers for $32.50, who mends removing 13 13 Wingham and turning it in- to a private residence. —A. G. Dickson recently of the Bank of Commerce, Toronto!), has assumed a lucrative position with a large Electric Light Com- pany in Schenectady? New York. The Bank presefited Mr. Dickson with a cheque for a handsome amount on the eve of his de- parture froni Toronto. Mr. Dickson is well known in this county. —Another relic of bygone days has passed away in the county jail. Wednesday of last week, John Gillespie, aged 80 years, who has been confined as aeragrant for the 'past two years, went the way of the poor and helpless, and ended his days in the abode of the county criminate. The usual inquest was held by Dr. Taylor. —We understand that all arrangements were compldted, on Wednesday of last week, and the *Union Furniture Factory, of Wingham, was transferred to the new com- pany, who will put the factory in operation as soon as some needed repairs are made. The men will receive their pay in a day or two. —A number of business men in Brussels have complained of damage done to their premises by boys and young men congregat- ing on Sabbath, or in the evenings, along the store frodts, and while, there, defacing wood or brick -work by knives or other instruments. Awnings have alsobeen inter- fered with. An example will be made of a few if this unmanly practice is con- tinued. —On Pride afternoon, 31st ult., a horse tied in front of the registry office in Gode- rich, belonging to john Yeo, from near Holmesville, became frightened at a passing bicycle and dashed off. As it had only a light road e,a,rt behind it, for a time it made the dust fly. It first came in contact with When going down Hamilton street it collid- ed With a buggy ocenpied by W. S. Knights, overturning the buggy and. the horse. Me Knights had not time to jump out,* bat escaped uninjured. The runaway- was eventually got under control and secured. The cart and harness were badly broken. —Monday night of last week, about 10 o'clock, the barn on the Cottle farm, Base line, Hullett, was discoved to be on fire. The farm is rented by Mr. W. J. McBrien, and the barn contained this year's crop, all of which was destroyed. Mr. Rutledge lives on the farm, and lost le buggy which was in the barn. Mr. Mel:. ;en had no in- surance, but the building was insured for $400 in the McKillop Com -mine —Mr. Alex. Ross, of the London road, below Brucefield, has hdo..(1 his fence burned this season no less than three times and had a thrilling experience only week times, last, when everything was so dry. While „ some members of the family were watching a train pass, a spark therefrom set fire ,to a fence, and before they could check it about 50 rods were burned. It is said that there was a fire somewhere along the line every day for two weeks, —There is likely to be trouble over the big ditch scheme in Gey owing to the action of Elma township council, and some of the ratepayers of that township, and the probability is a law suit will be the result. By the course taken, Grey township couneil is handicapped in procuring the necessary money to carry on the work. Unless- some amicable arrangement can be arrived at, it looks like a blockade of this very important *and necessary public work. —Messrs. A. T. McDonald, Hullett ; W. Bawden Exeter; B. S. Cook, Ilowick ; W. Milne,G'rey ; fl.Eiiber, Stephen; W. Prow:1- foot, Goderich, and A. McMurchie, Clinton, who constitute the House of Refuge Com- mittee, met in Mr. MeMurchie's office, on Friday, 31st ult., to arrange details con- nected with the erection of the builcliag. it was decided to sink a well on the place, and. erect a windmill at once, and advertise for tenders for the erection of the building, the above committee to meet and 'open tenders just before the December meeting of the a County council. —A pleasant social event took place in Blyth, at "Rosehill," the residence of Mr. JamesDodds, on Wednesday of last week, at noon. Rev. Mr. McLean, in the pres- ence of a large number of guests united in marriage, Mary, third daughter AA the household, to 1‘..U.. William Robinson, both - popular young people of Blyth. They left on the four train south, amid. the good wishes (and rice) of many friends, for a trip to Tor- onto and the Falb, after - which they will take up their residence in Blyth. Thebride was the recipient of many tokens of esteem, among others two handsome chairs, the gift of St. Andrew's choir, of which organi- zation she and Mr. Robinson were members for years. night :of last weok, the residence of George Cardiff, John street, Brussels, was burglarized, and two gold brooches and 50 cents taken from a bed- room bureau drawer, and a- silver watch - with gold chain and. locket, belonging to Miss Addie Best, appropriated from a watph wall case. Entrance was effected by tie removal of a mosquito net from one of parlor windows, the tacks being carefuily placed to one side. Whoever the intruder was, he was minus a light, excepting what some matches afforded, the burnt remshw being found on the floor. The burglary WSA not discovered -until Thursday morning. It was a brazen piece of business. —The establishment in Goderich, of an incandescent lighting and electric power system, which has been mooted for some months, bide fair to be carried out shortly. Measurements were taken of the water power likely to be available, even with the water in the river as low as 13 13 at present, and the result was most satisfactory. It is only during an imusualleddry spell such as we now have, that this power would be at all limited, and then not -to such an extent as to militate against the success of the scheme. It is almost certain that two Well known local 'capitalists will now take hold of the matter and commence operations sho_rtly. T Wingham Advance says; A bOy living in town, who is commonly called "Port Huron," is said to have set Ere to the bush on Thomas Hick's farm, just out of town, on Sunday afternoon. The lad, it appears, was after a squirrel, which went up a hollow tree, and in order to get it out he made a fire at the foot of the tree. From this the parched grass caught fire, and sev- eral men had a hard time in keeping it from spreading. Ilad the fire not been discover- ed so quickly, a big conflagration -would. have resulted, and mach fine timber would have been destreyed, not to speak of the danger the town was in from tile close proximity of the bush, —Some person or persons tered the • residence of Mr. John Nicoll, G. T. B. statien agent at Wingham, on Monday night -of last week, and ransacked the place, but nothing is missing. The object must have been money, but they got none of that, as Mr. Nicholl does not leave money lying around the house. Burnt matcheS were -found in some of the rooms next MOM, The entraime was effected through the cellar window. No clue. The residence of Dr. Tamlyn was also entered the same night, probably by the same party. Dr. Tamlyn, jr., who was in bed upstairs, heard somebody moving about the house, and called, " Who's there ?" Upon receiving no answer he jumped out of bed, grabbed a double-barrelled shot gun, put in a couple of shells'and ran down stairs, but when he reached the street the man was round the corner and soon out of sight, thus escaping -the contents of the gun. Matches were strewn around as in the former ease, but nothing appears th have been taken. --The other day Mr. H. Datrow was un- loading apples at the cider mill in Bayfield, when something frightened his team, caus- ing them to run away. He was standing at the back of the Wagon and had thrown off - the last bag when they started. The sad- den jump threw him to the ground, and when he arose, though uninjured, the horses were out of reach. They passed aroimd by the saw -mill and across the square, playing havoc with some tree -guards and sending pieces of the wagon -box high into the air. When they rea.ohed Main street they had got free of the wagon and were bounding down Broadway at a teriffic speed, till they collided with Mr. H. Erwin's carriage shop. Their wild career was stopped and one of them lay stunned on the ground, but the be. terior arrangement of the shop was inter- fered with considerably. A pile of hunter was overturned and tools chased each other in wild confusion. Fortunately Mr. Erwin was not in the shop at the time, and the on- ly damage th be reported was the breekiug of the harnese and wagon.