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The Huron Expositor, 1894-12-14, Page 1rith several endid value, r. . adding new ock at pres- r prices win • ' the season ,od bonnets- gures. We nY of Sjfl materials,. Raney Rib_ finished imported, I still nicely - and price. plain mark- s, all elegant .Mantles Vorth con - Also sev- >ths at a 'select from... ' Fur Capea,, Muffs,_ Underwear,.. two par- tra Qual- - which are ever be- rate price A, and as fill". and Glovea, Children's, itting yarns e value - [eves and day" will autiful range - Mack Cash -- lc Fancy De- e.lk Cheviots. of Wore,. tra heavy t the thing lay wear. n the best n Men's over and BOW; • rear, &c., at nsure its sue- inished in the John Dick, of - of the town., ent on a visit_ Johnston are their sister, :;hristutas Tree with Canna )e held in the a excellent pro - 'the oecasien.- AiLnt spending a few a.earthur, Wingham re - Mr. John R. Jennie Mur - visiting rola- ]. and Ethel. INIel )(maid was Ud Mrs. Archi- to a large num- ht.-Mr. John post office at nt Monday in rsoit returned • ast Saturday. . of Guelph, are ohu Farrow._ sold his house on.- Mr.Hugh o Mr. George . NVOodstik, is .) A. Y. Hart - he grass on the- Ftile en a recent m. Grey has - house. -Mr. Mr. and Mrs_ ale, was mar- tber -28th, to- nd, Manitobali I make Hollarur ..:tta. Saults, ot tdmot her, Mrs. Mann, a boy of n of Mr. and - place, killed a tt Long Lake, t v was riding it. He jump - es and threw the lake and large stones - what it was, •-14s. It now- . The boy grab, he head of the his pony, and e bear was a viten, of _The. 1 pounds. t trat ford on ite rttidence of ),f ex -Alderman nble -asse of 97 Haessi- retained line to the last [tee She was inud aesieted in rr the Hudson r H..!:L]trd ult., the .bridge and vi kJ) the parsons Theto ri the work, and t the parson - ung Was spent. si.tig the young m the church, ewar1s getting les. The pro- ng;, epee eh es, YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,409.- TWENTY-SEVENTH rices and alues. ST. LOUIS VP TO DATE -A-WIDE AWAKE CITY AND ITS GREAT INDUSTRIES. We ask the many readers of this column to make note of the priers we note below, but at the same tirae we desire to have it known that, low as •-these prices may be, we refrain from entering any low -price competition, but on the other hand we do, with a confident air, enter the gladiatorial -arena in values. Intelligent people and shrewd buyers are looking -for • goed valuee, not low prices. Pur- chasera of low-priced goods are led away by the appearance - of surface material:a, and invariably fall victims • to the vilest deceptkns, while buyers of good values, armed with the weapona of foresight and forethoueht, never fall. We do not claim these • Faces aro the lowest, quoted, but we do positively claim they are the lowest when values are considered. We don't ask you to believe it until you • fume seen the goods for yourself. in Claims 'the Largest Shoe Faetory,,To- taco° Factory and Beer Brewery In the World -It Also Has a 94,000,000 Rail- way Station and a *2,000,000 Hotel. Sr. Louis, Dec. 10. -If you have a no- tion, from what you may have heard about St. Louis, that it is a retrogressive town, that its citizens have made up their minds because Chicago has a little' the start just now in the way of population, SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894./s. letting the proper train for himself, but 'so perfect are the arrangements for pre- venting travelers' mistakePand so atten- tive are the employees whose duty it is to -carry out those arrangements that be naust be stupid and self willed to boot who _•!...t..' ;• . 41, Idlgilz 1, --1 • - 1- 4•Sil -..--„,:i4:v --,_ ....-nennineressent esa----nn'Ten, ._ (1. •-,a.k, , ., I • 4..........--....- - 2.: '''. Men's Overcoats. For Et -good heavy frieze, our for- mer cheap price $8. For 8 -7 -better quality frieze, for- mer price $10. - For $8 -- extra heavy frieze, all colors, wool lined, our own make'will ,equal any ordered coat at $15,. Only a limited. number of this line. For $8-a dressy blue Beaver, vel- vet .color, fly front, For $12-a very fine double-breast- ed Melton, velvet collar, fine wool lin- ing, and cheap at $18. Fur Coats. For $19 ---Australian Coons, zverywhere at 41d $25. For $34 -No. 1 _ Coon Coats, the finest ever shown, former price $45. Boys' Overcoats For $2 75 -Double breasted Coat, -with deep collar, sizes 22 former prices $3.50. ° For$4.50-ad , heavy double breasted. Coat, regular $6 line. For $4.90 --Heavy Frieze Coat, wool ined, deep collar, cheap at $7. Tweed to 28, Boys' Suits. • THE UN ON RAILWAY STATION. d thing to settle back and e, you'd better ask the first you meet 'about it. He will ndeeeive you. been here an hour before I ay preconceived opinions of e unfounded in fact. The ing over with public spirit, ns propose to put in their rn this time on. They predict from now they will be away e front. ' said a loyal- and en thusias- n with whom I took dinner that it's a g� let things sli St. Louis Ma very quickly I had not learned that St. Louis we place is brine and its citiz best licks fro that ten yea up toward th "Already, tic St. Loui today, "thisicityaras gone a long way to- ward transferral -rig itself from an easy go- ing town of; the Old. fashioned southern type into a hustling settlement of the most progressive modern sort. And we are proud to say that the hustling has been • done mostly, by natives and rising young men from our own state too. Yes, the city is smoky, 'ery smoky, worse than any could get upon the wrong train. The number of freight trains arriving and de- parting here is still larger and more diffi- cult to arrive at, toe, but it is estimated that it is betsiben 860 and 380 a day on an average. There are two general freight terminal systems -one in.the Mill creek Talley, and ono in the neigborhood of the new Merchants' bridge. The latter was es- tablished at a comparatively recent date, and millions of dollars wore expended in e, the land and improvements required. But the big Union depot and the build, Ingle! the freight terminals are not- the only structures worth mentioning in this letter. The most interesting one to me is the courthouse, though St. Louisans, do not talk about it as they do about some of the other buildings. It is an old fashioned pile,built years and years ago, of massive blooks of stone, in that so called classic style of . which many great pillars are a proMinent external feature. It is only two stories high, but its celling,s are lofty, and -it is topped by a douse frame which, but lorthe dense black smoke that hangs over the town, every street and alley Of St. Louis and the country for miles about could be clearly seen. Originally the -courthouse was of the color of gray free- • stone, which is probably the material that was used in building it, but the outside walls have been lately painted a glaring white, and this makes it, independent of its old fashioned peculiarities, by all- odds the most conspicuous structure in town, • for all other St. Louis buildings ere dingy • and brown, running to black, from the all • pervading smoke. The painter who was lucky enough to get the job has made great use of it as an 'advertisement,- hav- ing been allowed by the authorities to place on each of the columned porticoes a sign, painted gaudily in red and green and yellow, Whereon is inscribed a legend set- ting forth his merits as a contracting painter, together with the location of his place.of business. . It is evident from the fresh paint on this fine old courthouse that the transfor- mation process in St. Louis is not likely soon to extend to the temple of justice, and that fact is not one to be regretted by any save those who desire to see nothing but newness everywhere. The new city ball, however, now nearly completed, will be one of the most splendid domiciles of municipal government in the United States. The old city hall, in which as many of the municipal departments as can find room are still housed, is quite as in, teresting in its way as the courthouse, but not so conspicuous, beceuse it has never been painted white. It is a brick building and mint have been considered a very large - one when erected. In architectural style It resembles a great tobacco curing ware- house, and it is absolutely without outside adornment. The buildings vehicle aro pointed out to strangers here 'aro, first, the 'Union sta- tion, of course, which cost more than $4,- 000;000; a gorgeous now hotel of many Stories, just finished at a cost of nearly $2;- 900,000;- the 14 story, basement and ob- servatory building of the Union Trust company; the 10 story $1,000,000 he board of education building, etc. Some ,$10,000,000 was laid out in high buildings last year, my St. Louis acquaintance as- sures me'and other lofty structures to cost $19,000,000 more are now a -building or projected to go forward as soonas times are definitely decided to have picked up. It is these new buildings perhaps as ; much as anything else that bave contrib- uted to the apparent transformation of the town, and next to them the banishment of horses and mules as tractionpower for the street cars, the cable and the tiolley having taken their place on all but two lines. St. Louis is peculiar among cities- of sinitlar magnitude -its population is now estimated at not far from 600,000 -in hav- ing few residence suburbs. When you leave tke city limits, you step right out into the country, and no mistake. This is, explained by St. Louisani to be due to the ;act that the soil in the immediate vi - other town • bad, In fact, know of, perhaps -almost as as was Pittaburg at its worst. But where there is smoke there is also fire, and the smbke here means that we are burning the fires of business in many great anan+cturing establishments now- adays, whereas in the old- times we not only furnished a very small quota of man- ufactured articles to the world, but we bought most of our own too. Let me tell you a few tlings. • "During the ten years between 1880 • and 1890 the number of persons employed in the industries here increased from 41,- • 000 to 91,000, or 117 per cent. The amount of wages paid out annually increased 200 per cent in the same time, the figures for 1899 being $52,000,000. The amount of capital invested in manufactering estab- lishments in'the decade grew from $50,- 000,000 to $130,000,000, and the annual value of to product at net wholeiale fac- tory prices doubled, the figures for 18,90 being $295,000,000. Now, since 1890, when the last census was taken; and from which I get my detailed information, there has been it moderato net increase notwithstanding the depression that began In 1893, though just how much in any line I can't undertake to say. • Big Things In SL Louis. "Now, let me tell you some more things; Boston is the center of the greatest boot and shoo manufacturing industry in the country and the greatest distributing point, but not all the shoes are made in Boston. Lynn and Brockton and half a dozen other smaller nearby cities help to make the enormous output of footwear that is dietributed from the Hub, and to- day St. Louis retakes more boots and shoes than any other single American city, is the -next largest distributing point after Boston of footweavand has the largest aloe manufactory under one roof in the world. St. Louis Is the greatest tobacco market in the world and possesses the big- gest tobacco factory. This factory contrib- utes more to Uncle Sam's strongbox than any other in the 'United States, and it has for companions the biggest brewery in the country and the most extensive drug house. Its hardware and woodenware es- tablishments aro so much larger than any others ora this earth that I doubt if you'd. believe me wero I to give their output. "I am not yet done either. St. Louis makers of stoves and cooking ranges man- ufacture more of those necessary things than are made in any other city in the world, more saddlery and harness are made here than anywhere else in America, the town has the biggest blank book manufac- tory anywhere to be found,lt is the great- est horse and mule market in the world, more pressed bricks are made here than in any other American city, and its dealers in hard wood lumber buy and sell more ex- tensively than the dealers of any other city in the- United States. All this is to be ex- pected when you comet° think of the fact that our town, which sorne people consider a little slow going, is -the largest city on the longest river in thworld and' is there- fore the chief port on the greatest systoin of inland navigation anywhere, though unfortunately our great river is not the grand highway for freight and passenger businees that it once was. • "The railroad system centering here is not to be sneezed at either. It may be inferior to Chimp's, but the mileage of lines of steel centering in St. Louis is fully 10,000 miles greater than the entire sys- tem of either lingland or France. St. Louis is, in fact, the grand jumping off point, the transfer station, so to speak, between the regions oast and west of the Mississippi, and since the completion of the great Union depot -the finest and big- gest in America, by the way -the intricate work of transferring passengers arriving from and bound to the most remote parts of the country has been unequaled any- where." St. 1..ouis Now Erecting Fine Buildings. It has not been possible for me to prove or disprove all that any enthusiastic St. Louii,acquaintance had to say, but he is certainly right in his praise of the big de- pot. The passenger trains of 26 distinot railroads arrive in and depart from its broad train shed. Three hundred and twenty -fora passenger trains arrive and depart every 21 hours'or one every 4min- utes and 24 seconds. As the major part of them arrive a.nd depart in the daylight hours, there are trains goieg and coming anuch oftener than that between 6 in tha ;morning and 6 in the evening. It is truly bewildering to the stranger about to leave St. Louis who looks out in the train shed and sees the many trains, all ready to steam ont. He is pretty certain to wonder if he may not raake some blunder in se - This department con -tains only re- liable goods, and at the prices now quoted are within the reach of all. For $1.50-T3wenty-five two-piece Suits, former prices $2 and $2.50. For $2.50 -Fifty two-piece Suits, all styles, former pi ices/83.50. - For $3.25- Thirty-five two-piece Suits, our best qualities, former prices $5 to $7. For 83.15 -Sixty-five three piece Suits, sizes 27 to 32rformerly $5,50. For $5 -Fifty three-piece Suits, former prices $6.50 and 87. r - Men's Shirts. We offer all our Shirts in two lots, and no finer goods are shown. LOT NO. 1-50 cents. LOT NO. 2-41.00. You iill positively find bargains in this department. Underwear. Fifty cents buys a suit of Under: wcar that we formerly sold. for $1. One dollar a suit reduced from $1.50 • One -fifty for a few all -wool line that was $2.00. Two dollars for Scotch lamb's wool, regular $3 line. All lines in this department cleared out this naonth. Men's caps. leers were present except Messrs. Oliver and B aw den . A BOITNDARY BRIDGE. On motion of Mr. McPherson and second- ed by Mr. Cruickshank, that the bridge known as McLean's bridge on the boundary line between Turnberry arid Culross, be as- sessed by tigis council, and that a. by-law be passed to gite effect to the same. Referred to the Road and Bridge Committee. SEAFORTH COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. Messrs. W. D. Bright and Dr. Scott were appointed to fill the nacancies in the Sea - forth Collegiete Institute Board caused by the removal of Messrs. George Good and Dr. Smith. MR, CARRIERE'S DAMAGES. A motion of Messrs. Eilber and Turnbull to pay Rev. Mr. Carriere, of Grand Bend, the sum of $10 for damages sustained by him in the absence of a bridge across the river at Grand Bend, was referred to the Finance Committee. It was also resolved that the county Treasurer obtain the opin- ion of the county Solicitor as to the liability of the county, as to claims of the Collegiate Institute Boards of Seaforth -and Clinton, for arrears claimed, such opinion to be -sub- mitted at the January meeting. - COUNTY ENGINEER'S REPORT. will be For 75 cents, take your choice of Sealette Caps, all shapes, ranging in price from $1 to $2. For 25 cents -Men's Heavy Cloth Caps, double bands and peaks. ^ On Ordered Clothing we give a Discount of 20 per cent. Fur Caps. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. , $1.50 a Year in Advance. - .016monme come within the by-law, that it be assumed by the county. This reports was amended on motion of Mr. Ratz, seconded by Mr. Eilber, so as to recommend that the matter of the Gulley bridge, hi the township of Stephen, be left over until the January session, and the re- port as amended was adopted. THE FINANCES. The Finance Committee recommended the payment pf a, large grief, of accounts, in- - eluding the following, being expenses for holding Entrance Examinations at the sev- eral points in the County, viz.: Wingham, $56,15; Wroxeter, $28.63; Seaforth,$43.64; Dungannon,$31.75 ; Exeten$42.01 ; Zurich, $21.54. In reference to the claims of the township of Morris for moneys expended on bridges before the repeal by the Legisla- ture of the .Aet iii respect thereto, the com- mittee recommended that the Clerk refer the matter to the -solicitor, requesting him to give this council a written opinion at the next January session as to the County's liability to pay the same. It is also recom- mended, in accordance with the motion of Messrs. Eilber and Turnbull, that the sum of $10 be granted to Rev. Mr. Carriere,pro- viding he relieves the county from all furtner claims. The report was adopted. MOTIONS OF CONDOLENCE. Moved by Mr. Girvin, and seconded by Mr. Chambers, that the sympathy of this council be extended to ex -Warden Joseph Griffin,Reeve of Ashfield,in the sad affliction he has so recently sustained in the loss of his wife, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to him by the Clerk. Moved by Mr. Cook, and. seconded by Jr. Ratz, that this council desire to express their regret at the long and serious illness of Walter Oliver, Esq., Deputy Reeve of Grey, who has been a member of this council for about •fourteen years,* and to tender the sympathy of this Council to himself and family in their affliction, aid that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. Oliver by our clerk. .Moved by Mi.. Holt, and seconded by Mr. EVallS, that Mr. Joseph Griffin, Reeve of Ashfield, be excused from further attend- ance at this session of the Council, and that his name be placed on the pay list. • SPECIAL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. The Special Committee reported as fol- lows : That the motion of Messrs. Cox anti Gibson respecting the appointment of valu- ators be deferred to the January meeting. That the by-law respecting the compensa- tion for parties securing the conviction of persons guilty of stealing horses be amend- ep by making the amount $25, instead of $100 as formerly. That one copy of Mr. Totton's new Tariff manual be purchased for the use of the board of audit. That His Honor Judge Toms be empowered to employ a stenographer in such civil and criminal cases not already provided for by the Council, as he may deem necessary. The report was adopted. EXECUTIVE COMMIT The Executive Corm commending as folio -we: In reference to . the rep mittee on the House of Refuge, after giv- ing the same our careful consideration, we recommend that said report be carried out iu full. In reference to the motion of Messrs. Griffin and Kennedy as to the Engineer's travelling expenses, it is recommended that no action be taken at present. It is recom- mended that clause 10 of the Executive Committee's report of last January be re- stored and that the same be amended by fixing the amount payple to Goderich Col- legiate Institute at $2,373.72; Clinton, $2,330.88; Seaforth, $2,710.19, and that clause 11 of the Executive Committee's re- port of last June be rescinded. This to be accepted by the said boards in full of all claims for alleged arrearages. We bave examined the tenders put in for supplying coal for the court house and reg- istry office, and find that the contract has been awarded to William Lee at $5.85 per ton; also that the tender for supplying cordwood for the jail of Mr. Joseph Gold- thorpe at $2.53 has been accepted. It is recommended that no action be taken on the motion to obtain the opinion of the Solicitor as to claims of Collegiate Institute boards. It is also recommended that the salary of the Secretary of the County Board of Examiners be the sum of $20. Moved by Mr. Gray, seconded by Mr. Neelin, that the clause of the report refer- ring to the Collegiate Institutes be amended by striking out these words: "This to be accepted by the said Boards in full of all claims for alleged arrearages." This amendment was lost and the report was adopted. After passing a number of by-laws the Council adjourned. A Noble Life Ended. The county Engineer reported to the fol- lowing effect, viz.: The improvements un- der contract at the time of the June meet- ing and also the works arranged for at the meeting, have been done and completed sat- isfactorily. It has been found necessary to erect some sinall bridges that were not men- tioned at the last meeting. According to instructions he examined the Gulley bridge, situated, as is supposed, in the township of Stephen, and found it in very good repair. It does not appear to be on or across the boundary line of Stephen and. Bosanquet, nor on the Lake Shore Road, but is situated on a road that runs parallel with the river, and in Stephen. The following are some of the bridges that should be re -built early in 1895: The Holmesville bridge: the bridge on the 9th concession of Howick, and the Bluevale bridge. The two latter- bridges will only require the superstructures, as the abutments are good enough to • support an- other bridge. Also, the Blyth bridge will require no be rebuilt at an early date. This bridge should be of iron or steel, as the stone abutments are already there. It ,is a albeit bridge, so the cost will not be very great. It would be well to have the ten- ders for these bridges ready to be opened at the January meeting. There will most likely be several other bridges to rebnild during 1895. This report was referred to the Road and Bridge Committee. The following report of the House of Refuge Committee was- referred to the , Executive Committee: In this department we have some -choice goods to offer, and will close out what we have left at greatly Te- l:laced prices, If you want a reliable Cap for little money, come to us. Gloves and mils, neckware, hosiery mufflers, handkerchiefs, &c., will also be closed out at the lowest prices pos- sible. If you have Xmas gifts to give you will find our store this month the • place to buy -we can save you money on all lines of goods -These prices will last the remainder of the month, but we advise you to come early as: the best goods -will certainly go first. We are Leaders in Our Line. Jackson & Creig, THE LEADING CLOTHIERS, SEAFORVIL special study during the latter part 01 1118 course. In thin branch he graduated- as silver medallist. Although taking the the- ological course concurrently with the third and fourth years at the 'University, he stood at the head of his class in theology in every department. The following year (1881) he graduated from Knox College, and then went to Edinburgh, where he read the work for the B. D. degree,whishtool at the end of theterm. From there he went to Germany to further prosecute his studies. Returning to Canada, he settled at Hensall, Presbytery of Huron. After a short pas- torate he WAS appointed lecturer atKnox College,and also took part in the profession- al work at Manitoba College during one of the summer sessions recently inaugurated. Four years ago he was appointed professor of apologetics and Old. Testament literature in Knox College, where his work has been marked with great success. The late professor was an extensive writer of articles, mainly on apologetics, whieh was his strongest theme. While fully abreast of the time, he was conservative in , reference to the great tenths. He was a thorough and keen thinker, and confined his attention more particularly to Old Tes- tament reseerch. He has been of great as- sistance to the Knox College Monthly, and was President of the Alumni Association at the time of his death, baying been elected last sentilig. Since he began his student's course in Toronto he bad been a member of St. James' Square Presbyterian church, and there, as well as in almost all thPresbyterian churches in the city, touching allusion was made to the loss the College and Church at large had sustained in Professor Thomson's death. The remains -were taken to Hallett for interment on Tuesday last. • Canada. Brantford School Board wants $35,000 for two new schools. -Dr. Chiniquy, who has been seriously ill in Montreal, is slowly recovering. ' -Mr. R. R. Waddell, a well known bar- rister of Hamilton, died of diabetes at his home Friday, aged 60 years. -The Windsor Patent Brush Company talk of moving their entire broom business to Berlin. -Farmers around Stony Point, Essex county, .are busy ploughing and hauling 'ter, as the wells are nearly all empty. -Ida, daughter of Premier Greenway, of Manitoba, was married on the 6th inst. to David Wright, of Deloraine. -Antiquity Lodge, Ancient Order United Wortmen, St. Thomas, has 390 members. It expects to reach the 400 mark soon. -A Windsor' dispatch says Truskey, the murderer, has been converted, and is now ready to meet his fate like a Christian. --The steamer Sicili, at Antwerp, from Montreal, lest 213 bead of cattle, and her cattle pens were smashed during the heavy weather she experienced. , l'n-John Kidd, aged 98, of Minto Mills, wants a divorce from his wife,aged 16 years. He is very wealthy, and they were married last August. -The lawyers of Waterloo !county, of whom -there are 22, are taking steps to se- cure a county law library for their mutual benefit. -Nine races -es of a family named Palen- aude, in Ottawa East, were almost fatally poisoned the other day by eating canned salmon. -Owing to the expected large demand for ice for the ice castle and forts in Montreal, and the open season, the price of ice for domeetic purposes is advancing. -Mr. Win. Masson, barrister, bas re- ceived the appointment of post master ter Owen Sound in the place of Mrs. Crawford, whose husband died in 1892. -John Dickson treasurer of Sifton muni- cipality, Menitob.1, has been found $5,000 short in his accounts. The municipality has agreed to take his note for half the amount and not prosecute. -The biggest snow storm of the season fell at Ottawa last sSaturday night, and sweepers and snowplows were at work all day Sunday clearing the electric railwa.y tracks. -Mrs. J. H. Be Wilson, who endowed the mental and moral philosophy chair of McGill College'Montreal, in 1877, has added another $20,000 to her original dona- tion. -A farm in Wellesley, Waterloo county, containing 100 acres, was sold Monday, un- der a mortgage, for $3,000. It was pur- chased by the Thorpe brothers, whose father had been the owner. -The Sarnia township council has award- ed the contract of draining the Wawanosh marsh to A. McKay, of Chatham. The es- timated. cost of the work is in the neighbor- hood of $20,000. -High Constable Klippert arrested Victoria Webber, a young woman, 17 years of age, at :St. Clemens on Saturday, on a charge of concealment of her child. She was taken to jail. -A reverend gentleman in Kingsville -preached against the sin of dancing, and the next morning found a placard attached to his door with the following in huge letters, "Dancing lessons given here." -A Kingston lady whose husband died last week requested that the remains should be buried beneath the window of her home, as she was fearful of the body -snatching proctises in vogue in the Limestone City. -Water has become so scarce with many farmers in Sombra township, near Sarnia, that their cattle have to be driven daily to the rivers"while hauling for household. use has again become quite common. -Clark, of Trenton'who was charged with inciting a man to break into the office of the Brush Electric Company, and steal a cipher, in connection with the Toronto boodle enquiry, has been committed for trial. --Dundas Street Methodist churcle Woodstock, held a financial convention on Sunday and Monday, 2nd and 3rd hosts., at which the sum of $719 was raised, Rev. J. E. Starr, of Toronto, was the principal speaker. -A party of Galt gentlemen, Messrs. Mc- Gregor, Scott, Dietrich and A. B. Petrie, of Guelph, are arranging for a trip around the world, via Australia, taking the C. P. R. steamer at Vancouver. A number of ladies will accompany them. -Mr. John Waudby, for over twenty years a resident of Glencoe, left a few days ago to visit his son in England, where he will probably spend the remainder of his life. His depatture is regretted by a large circle of friends. -Miss Eva H. Brodlique, whose literary style is crisp and exquisite, and whose taste is never at fault, had a fantastic -love story in last month's popular monthly Jef Leslie's, and now a charming yet equally capricious story of the Cornish coast, of her writing, comes out in the Cosmopolitan. It /serene to find a writer in the United. States who deals with Cornisb life and this story is of a strong local flavor and full of original and poetical -description. Mies Brodiklue is on the staff of the Chicago Post, and is a Cana- dian girl, having commenced her literary REPORT OF HOUSE OF REFUGE COMMITTEE. Your Committee, as ' instructed at the last meeting of Council, had the purchase of the land on which. to erect a House of Refuge completed. The title was passedby the county solicitor, and the deed and title papers are now in the hands of the county clerk. After the committee met in Clinton on August last, andhad Mr. J. A. Fowler, of Messrs. Fowler & Fowler, the architects whose plan was accepted, in attendance. It was agreed to retain Messrs. Fowler & Fow- ler to supervise the building of the House of Refuge at two and one half per cent. on cost ; for this one of the firm is to be con- stantly on the ground during the whole course of the building. At this meeting it was thought advisable to sink a well and have souse of the land ploughed. It was also agreed - to advertise for tenders, for building the House of Refuge. This was done, and in reply to these advertisements, tenders were received from 58 parties. The Committee opened these tendersnd as will f. be seen by a reference thereto, he lowest bulk tender was received from S S. Cooper, of Clinton, and amounts to K874. We recommend the acceptance of this tender, and that a contract be at once drawn up and signed by the contractor, his sureties and the county in compliance with the plans and specifications, said contract to contain a clause for payment of 75 per cent. of price contract or on , progress certificate to be issued by our architects. No certificate, however, to issueuntil at least $1,500 worth of material is on the ground. The Commit- tee also recommend the passing of a by:dew to raise $12,000 to cover the cost of building, &c. The Committee also recommend that a contract,with the architect be prepared, and amongst other clauses that it contain a con- dition that said architects are to make no changes in plans and specifications which will involve an expenditure of more than $30 without the consent of the building committee. THE BLUEVALE BRIDGE. The county Engineer reported that at the time of the burning of Duff & Stewart's saw mill in the village of Bluevale, a short time ago, the Bluevale bridge the prop- erty of the county, which is within thirty feet of the saw mill, was in great danger of being destroyed, and, in fact, was on fire, and would, no doubt, have been burned had it not been for the very great exertionsof a few men, who, at great risk to their per- sons, extinguished the fire and saved the bridge, which, had it been destroyed, would have entailed a loss of over $300 on the county. These parties think they should have some recompense for _ the work they did, and the damages their clothes and persons sustained. The matter was referred to the Road and Bridge Committee, who recommended that the sum of $40 be paid. to the Reeve of: Turnberry to be distrinuted among these parties, and the council adopt- ed the retort. COUNTY PROPERTY. pLayrna's norm oinity is thin and clayey,io poor, .in fact, that gardens and lawns o not flourish. The peculiar nature of the soil, too, and the broken character of the territory, they say, make the building of good roads a difficult and expensive matter. The result is that in its growth St. Louis has been more solidly built up than any Other great Amerlean city. - St. Louis is also the solidest city finan- cially in all the land, for during all the de- pression there has not been one bank fail- ure, and the business failures have been few and comparatively insignificant. I. D. MARSH4LL. • BE'S REPORT. 'ttee reported re - rt of the Corn - career in the gellcry at Ottaera., for the Lon- _ don Advertiser. She is fast making a name for herself in the -world of letters, and - will, no doubt, soon give to the public some- thing more permanent than short stories in the magazines. An excellent portrait of Miss Brodlique appeared in the Saturday Glebe of the 1st inst. -Here is a pointer wbich ehows where farmers may find. a new source of income. A man near Lucknow, who has s small swamp on his place, shipped 500 evergreens to Buffalo, to be used in Christmas -decor- ations, and realized. more than half as much as his whole season's crop came to. -The funeral of the five vietime in the „. Hull dynamite explosionnook place Friday. It was one of the most impressive and solerrin events in the history of that city. The wounded are in various stages of con- valescence and it is hoped that all will re- cover. -Robert Walresley, of Palmerston was shooting on the sixth line of Egretnceit the other day, accompanied by George Scott, and the two were looking for a partridge - when Scott's gun accidentally discharged, and over 50 grains of shot entered Walms- ley's legs below the knees. • -About 95 members of the Hamilton School Teachers' Association greeted Bev. Dr. Smith_ and Rev. Mr. Goforth, two old and valued members of the association, lif ter an absence of seven years in Ronan, China, as missionaries of the Preshyteria# church. -The Board. of Trustees of the Owen, Sound hospital sued Mr. Wm. Kough for' his subscription of $100 towardsthe erection of that inetitution, and the ease came before His Honor Judge Morrison, on Wednesdaye last week. Judgment was given ha favor of the plaintiffs for the whole amount and costs. COUNTY COUNCIL. The December meeting of the County Council opened at Goderich on Thersday. After routine proceedings a number of com- munications and accounts were read. The first was a letter from the Inspector of Prisons complaining of the unsanitary con- dition Of the jail and urging improvements. It was referred to the •qminty Property Committee. A request from the county Registrar for additional accommodation for books, was referred to the same committee. A letter from the county Solicitor, in reference to the- Morrie and Huron law suit, was read antl referred to the Executive Committee. The Solicitor said that 'the anvard of the arbitrators was sustained by the Court of Appeal, and that the costs will have to be paid by the county. After reading a number of accounts and other communications, which will be noticed in the reports, the following resolution was adopted, viz.: Moved by Mr. Holt and seconded by Mr. Kays that the council hav- ing learned with the deepest regret of the death this morning, of Mrs. Griffin, wife of the Reeve of Ashfield and ex -Warden re- commend that out of respect this council do now adjourn until' to -morrow • morning at 9 o'elock. FRIVAY, DECEMBER 7Til. At the opening of the council &lithe mem., -At Gananoque withini a week, two men have died of "grinders consumption," and another is at the point of death with the same disease. They Were engaged in grind- ing carriage springs, and the particles of grindstone and steel, being inhaled, caused irritation of the lunpand death. -On Monday, last week, a daughter or Mr. James Smith, living on concession I, Culross, near Teeswater, ran a thistle into her thumb. After pulling it out the wound. bled severely, but she did not think any more of it The -next clay swelling Set in and blood -poisoning. She died - Friday night, after suffering terriblyn -Rev. A. Cleghorn, 1) D, 'Baptist pas- tor in Paris 50 years agd,- and ' well knoWit to many of the older Baptists in Western Canada, is still living ancl enjoying good heanth,although he has reached the advanced age of 82 years. Mrs. Cleghorn is also still living and enjoying the well pleasures of a green old age. • W. T. McMullen barrister, of - Woodstock, was married on \Vednesday of last week, to Miss Gascoigne, daughter of the late Dr. Gascoigne, of Montreal The ceremony was performed in the church of • St. James the Apostle by Rev. Canon Elle - good. The happy couple left for Boston and other American cities. . , -After a warm debate a few evenings tip, the Toronto Public School Trustee* de- cided to re-engage the married women now teaching in the city schools. Several of the trusted adnocate discharging married toads- ers who have husbands to support tbern,and eogaging womenwho have to tarn their own living. -The Coroner's jury find as to the cause of recent fires in Belleville, that those in Wilson's and in the Ontario Business Col- lege were incendiary, that hi. Haines' and. Lockett's was caused by lightning; that in Cobb's by accident, and that in St. Andrew's church doubtful whether by accident or de. sign. -Miss Maudel Fairbank, formerly n teacher in the Guelph Public schools, bass been united in nmarriage to Mr. W. P. Knight at Shanghai, China. Miss Fairbank has been a devoted worker in the China. aries. Her husband is also one of the mission- • inland mission (Rev. J. Hudson Taylor's.) -John Dunn, sanitary inspector for Cais- tor township, says that the farmers in that part of Lincoln county buy up dean horses, boil the flesh, and feed it to hogs and poultry to fatten them for the Hamilton market. This hes been going on for Borne time, and he proposes to write to Dr. Bryce, of Tononto, to find out if such people can- not be punished under the provisions otthe Haeta. -bbath was a red letter day ia Health S Methodism at Dunnville. They had been holding evangelistic services for five weeks, and last $abbath received over sixty - into membership; 25 adults were baptised. Rev. T. A. Moore, the pastor, asked the congregation to. place $150 on the plates, and they responded with an offering of $165. -A young man named Gottfried Deli% of Freeport, Waterloo county, aged about 21, - was employed on the farm of Mr. John Devitt, Neches, and engaged in chopping feed. He was about to oil some of the ma- chinery, Tuesday, when his mitt caught in tile pulley, dragging his hand- and arm through it and smashing it to a pulp. Ito 97-Onofh wase aintpuethieves who have been doing so much stealing .around Blenheim was caught while attempting to go through Mr. S. bandison's place. Several watches, both silver and gold, besides numerous other ar- ticles, were found on him, keys of all SiZeS, and shapes being his main stock in trade. He was senteneed to two year and *ix • months in the penitentiary. -The many friends of Rev. Robert Ham- ilton, D. D., of Motherwell, will regret to learn of the death of his wife which oc- curred on the 27th of November, at the manse, Motherwell. Mrs. Hamilton, be- sides her husband, leaves three sons in the church, to mourn her demise, Rev. James Hamilton, B. A. Bothwell mil ; Rev. Hamilton, B. A., ilanitoba, and Rev. Psobt. Gmaeire;sing, last week, Mrs. Hamilton, 13. uBres. Ada.y, William Spencer, the young wife of agate - man on the Canadian Pacific Rail:Way, living in Toronto, was terribly burnt through her dress catching fire from a gas stove, which - she was using to heat her flat -irons. She was sent to the General Hospital at the • time, and hopes were entertained for her re- covery, but her system was unable to sus- tain the shock and general injuries, to which she succumbed early Sunday morning. She had only been married six months. -Contractor Bracey, of the T. H. & 33. railway, -while in Brantford the other days missed his diamond stud. It was a very valuable stone it present from his wife, and valued at $250". As soon as he missed it, he gave it up as lost for good, thinking_ it had worked_ out while pacing over the T. H. & 13. work, and that it would never len dis- covered. Imagine his surprise when, re- turning to the Kerby house, irt Brantford, a. little boy came up to him and said, "Mis- ter, did you lose tbis glass shirt button?' Mr. Bracey saw at once it was his lost stud. He handed the lad$10, and laid the dial:n°=1 safely away in his inside pocket. lhe County Property Committee reported as follows: • The County Property Committee reported having visited the jail and found everything clean and, in good order; that the request of the Registrar for increased accommoda- tion for books be left over until the January meeting ; in reference to the communication of the Inepector of Prisons it is recommend- ed that the county Engineer examine the premises and report at the January session of council the probable cost of building suit- able closets in the wings of the jail, and necessary drainage therefrom; also the cost of building new closets on the present plan and the necessary drainage. ROADS AND BRIDGES. • The Road and Bridge Committoe reported that the Gulley bridge, in the township of Stephen, be not essessed by the council, as according to the information laid before the committee, the said bridge is not a boundary bridge; that the Holmesville bridge be re- built of cedar'that the bridge on the 9th coacession of Howick be built of cedar; that the Bluevale bridge be built of cedar. As to the Blyth , bridge, it being a short span and 'stone abutments being already there, the committee recommenclet'd that a steel or iron superetructure be erected, and that there be a side walk attached; that Mr. Ainsley be requested to inspect Me- Lean's bridge on -the boundary between Turnberry and Culross, and if found to DEATH OF' PROFESSOR THOMSON. Many of our readers will learn with feel- ings of the deepest regret of the death of Professor R. Y. Thomson. A couple of weeks ago we referred to hie serious illness, but we then little expecl that the end was so near. His death oc urred at twelve o'clock noon on Sunday, at his residence in Toronto. He was a sufferer for six years from asthma"and succumbed to this disease and lung trouble. " His wife died two years ago last June, and he leaves no family. Mrs. • Thomson was a daughter of Mr. Robert Scott, the respected reeve of the township of Hullett, and Mr. Thomson's mother is still a resident of that township, and he was a Huron boy. In character, most nnaseuming blest conceptions. •terested, humble, and retiring, and of a ve y lovable dispoin- tion. Kind and generoun be gave liberally of his means to every [worthy cause, and was held in the highest :esteem by ,n11 who knew him. In the chur li he was a quiet but growing power, an made himself felt on special occasions by ihe singular merit of the performance of any 1uty he was called upon to discharge. 4n instance may be given which occurred a the jubilee celebra- tion two months ago, w hen the unveiling of the portrait of Prof sor Young was en- trusted to him. His ulogy on Professor, Young, one of his old teacher�, of whom he was a favorite student was considered per- • haps the gem of the in ny brilliant deliver- ances of that auspiei us occasion. As an evidence of his modes estimate of his own attainments, he decli d the honor of D. D. offered to him last all by the Senate of Knox College on the ecasion of the jubilee ceremonies. Professor Thomson Was born in Scotland in April 1857, and ca e with his parents to this country when ve y young. In his ear - tended. Clinton High Professor Thomson was a man, of the highest and He was singularly disi ly student life he school. From there he went to the Univer- sity of Toronto, whence he graduated after an exceedingly brilliant course,in 1880. He took honors in all the departments at ma- triculation, and during his college course took honors in mathematics, classics, and modern languages, -making metaphysics his