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VTECOLEL
TWENTY-Iku.RD YEAR. 1
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1890.
Clearing Sale
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— —WE. ARE GIVING
Great Bargains
—IN ALL KINDS OF—
DRY GOODS,
MILLINERY, ETC.
Our stook in all lines will be
found very complete at the Cheap,
Cash Store of
HOFFMAN & 00.
NOTICE.—Agents for Butter-
ick's reliable patterns and rpublica-
Perth Items.
Oa account of ill -health Mr.
Cole of the firm of Cole & Thorn of
Mitch '
ell, has retired from the firm. Mr.
Cole will spend a yeer or so in Colorado.
—On Tuesday of last week Mr. Doug-
las, of the firm of _Thornton & Dmiglas,
Stratford, was meIrrieet in St. Catharines
to Miss Mitchell,`youngest daughter of
Mr. A. Mitchell, of St. Catharines.
—Mr. John Hogarth, who has been
manager e of the . Messrs. Livingston's
flax, milling business in Stratford for
several years, has been chosen by the
company to take charge of their business
interests in Manitoba.
—At ii meeting of the Masonic Grand
Lodge of Canada, held in Kingston last
week, Bro. J. E. Harding, of Stratford,
was elected Vice President of the board
of general purposes in place of the late
Judge McPhereon, 'of Owen Sound.
7 -Last week five hotel -keepers of St.
Marys appeared before his Worship the
Mayor and Squire Box, for infraction of
the License Act. Fciur of them pleaded
guilty and were each fined $20 end costs.
The fifth defended the suit.
—Mr. Geo. Baxter, of Mitchell, has
purchased from Mr. John A. Kerr the
brick res:dence in that town lately
vacated by Mr. Malcolm; We under
stand the price paid was $800, which is
considered very cheap. Mr. Baxter is
fitting the house up, putting in a lot of
new furniture.
—North half of lot 31, 14th conces-
sion of Logan, was offered for sale under
power of mortgage on Tuesday of last
week at Mitchell. Mr. J. E. Davis
who, held a second mortgage on the
property, gave the highest bid $1,510,
but it was held at a reserved bid of $1,-
805. The McLaughlin farm, 100 acres,
Hibbert, was also bought in at $3,200.
—The following from the Detroit
News refers to a clergymen iwell-known
at best but a arty ruler, and by the t
in Stratford, and who was born in
J.
D.
MONARCHY vs. REPUBLIC.
To the Editor of THE HURON EXPOSITOR :
DEAR SIR,—On the 20th of last month
Queen Victoria had held sway on - the
throne for fifty-three years. - In these
days when countries and nations
throughout the world are renouncing the
sovereignty of kings, queen, princes and
princesses, emperors and empresses, it
might not be unprofitable for us, as a
colony of a mat empire, to take a retro-
spective glance at how matters stand
with ourselves. Especially will this sub-
ject he opportune when we consider that
within the past 125/years, in every other
country on the western hemisphere with
the exception of our own and Greenland,
so strongly has the sentiment of anti -
royalty grown with the people that
through revolt and.otherwise, and lastly
by a peaceful secession, all have thrown
aside kingly courts, representatives of
royalty and their attendant splendors,
and abdicated to themselves the right of
choosing their own ruler. 'Even in our
own Dominion of Canada to -day there
can be no question but that a sentiment
in favor of Annexation with a neighbor-
ing republic is gradually increasing,
whatever be the cause.
In view of these plainly observable
facts let us take a look at Her Majesty
Queen Victoria and her rule, and let us
ascertain in how far in her case the cir-
cumstances will justify the Annexation
talk at present indulged in to such an
extent. When looked at in its right
light, the Annexation sentiment will
not admit of the slightest excuse. Our
O Queen has been, in a pre-eminent sense,
a constitutional ruler, interested and
yet impartial in her dealings with the
several. parties which have formed the
different governments at home, as well
as with her colonies and dependencies
abroad. The idea seems to be prevalent,
even among people who should be better
acquainted with the circumstances, that
the Queen is a more figure -head. Our
American friends, with their spread-
eagleism, are particularly, as a rule,
deeply agitated in this respect, and un-
fortunately far too many of our own
people have been educated to this idea.
Nothing could be more erroneous. The
duties of Her Majesty are very onerous
and very important. No lady in the
realm works harder than ,Queen Vic-
toria. We were let into the secret of
her daily routine of labor by the late
Earl Beaconsfield. Especially is she
busily engaged during the time of the
seseions of Pariiament. She is very
sl
scrupulous to rea or have read to her
i
every bill before he puts her signature
to it. Her more influence has been and
is good and potetit, not only in the high-
er classes of Great Britain but in the
higher classes of, other lands. She has
been a noble exaMple of modesty and
p economy, stainls'iss in character as a
1 princess, as a wife and as a widow,excel-
lent as a mother . and peerless as a
Queen. She stands to us meriting our
loyalty and fidelity as well as our appro-
from her estates administered by the
Britieh Government in 1877 amounted
to two millions and fifty -thousand dol
lars. Seventy-five thousand dollars was
cleared on the good Queen that year.
In 1878-79 the same. In 1880-81, ow-
ing to severe agricultural depression the
amount fell to one million, nine hundred
and fifty thousand, but even then
twenty-five thousand was taken over
her expenses, and Her Majesty out of
this sum total is only allowed to spend
three hundred and fifty thousand her-
self, all the rest Parliament spends for
her just as they think fit and where they
desire. It is but a small item that Her -
Majesty receivee, far les i than any other
ruler on the face df this earth propor-
tionately. When you come to look
plainly at that eight hundred and eighty
thousand of dowry to the children, even
that is partly recompensed by the con-
cession of the Prince of Wales, who was
heir to the Duchy of Cornwall and other
properties wbich, when he came of age
the English Government asked him to
sign over to them, and in lieu of that
they gave him two hundred thousand dol-
lars per year. Now, let us see what
they make out of his property. For the
year 1883, the Government made three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
so there was cleared out of the Prince
that year a hundred and thirty -thou-
sand, and now the average from Her
Majeaty's estate, from the first year of
her reign to 1890 has been over two mil-
lions, so that_ instead of her directly
costing anything to any man, she is actu-
ally giving money for the privilege of
being our Queen.
bation.
The President ,of the United States,
under a republio n form of government,
i
is
powers invested *n his office is in fact
for the time being an absolute autocrat;
irresponeible tol the country. He is
often the represeintative of a minority,
and it is common there for the minority
to rule. His cabinet are not elected by
the people, while. our cabinet have to be
elected by the people, and are responsi-
ble for their acts; to the people. Any
one intuit at once see that these are im-
portant safeguards enjoyed under a
monarchal form of government such as
we have.
Besides the erroneous impressions that
Queen Victoria is a monarch, sitting
upon the throne merely acting as a
figure -head, there is much error abroad
North Easthope. The National Um- in regard to the oost of maintaining her
versity of Chicago has conferred the de- in her royal position. From a thorough -
gree of doctor of divinity on Rev. Bred- ly reliable source the writer was much
din Hamilton, rector of St. George's . surprised at the information gained in
church, by examination. Rev. Mr. reepect to these matters. The following
Hamilton is already a graduate of three interesting particulars are cited as given
British universities and is now the by an authority competent to give thetn :
youngest A D. in the United States. "The civil list of Russia, ten millions
—Mr. John Elliott of St. Marys, has dollars; France, two millions one hun-
recently secured the contract for the dred and eighty thousand ; Germany,
erection of two large county bridges on three millions and seventy-five thou -
the town lines between Perth and sand; Austria, three millions eight hnn-
Waterloo. The one across the River dred and seventy-five thousand;•Italy,
Nith has a 60ft. span and iron super- three millions two hundred and fifty
structure, the other is on the Huron thousand ; Spain, two millions; United
road between Shakespeare and New States, President and Vice -President,
Hamburg and has a 30ft. span with. eighty-three thousand, Senatore two
iron superstructure. In both instances hundred and thirty thousand, represen-
the faced stone comes from St. Marys. tatives in Congress one million four
—The team of Fullerton and Russel- hundred and sixty-five thousand, travel -
dale combined played a quoit match ling expenses and stationery for both,
against Mitchell on the grounds at Rus- one hundred and nineteen thousand,
seldale on Friday of last week. This state governors one hundred and sixty -
was one of the most interesting games eight thousand, state and territorial
that has been played and was pretty governments one million two hundred
evenly contested, Mitchell winning by and fifty thousand—total, three million
9 points. The score so far for the sea- four hundred and fifteen thousand. The
son atands, Mitchell won 11 games and coat of a general election in the States
lost 7; Fullarton and Russeldale com- no man can definitely fix; it io Rut from
bined won 7 and lost 11, or Mitchell twenty millions to the lowest, five mil -
stands 22 points still in their favor. lions. There have been twelve such
which he says is a deep question and
cannot be fully solved by the average
farmer, nor yet by the scientific agricul-
turist or professor; and yet when he is
asked this question he has no hesitation
in answering it in the affirmative, thus.
showing that he considers himself bet-
ter qualified to answer this question
than the ,average farmer or even -the
agricultural professor. And I am very
much surprised that one who professes
to be such a great agricultural scholar
should be ashamed of his own signature.
As to my assertion that cattle cannot be
successfully wintered on straw and tur-
nips, my opponent says that they can-
not be brought out fat,but in fair condi-
tion. He also states that he. has fatten-
ed cattle for the Exeter market on tur-
nips and hay, admitting at the same
time that it took longer than if grain
had been fed along with the roots and
hay. In this latter statement he weak-
ens his argument and makes one grand
point in my favor: first, by his own ad-
mission it took longer to feed the cattle;
second, the fact that he sold them for
the Exeter market indicates that they
were not first class animals. If he had
produced a first class fat animal such as
usually shipped to the old country mar-
kets, then he would have had something
to boast about. And 1 here ask my op-
ponents one and all, Can they take a
calf at eight months old, winter it the
first two winters on straw and turtips
and fatten it the third winter or when
it is rising three years old, on hay and
turnips without the aid of grain in any
respect, and in this way produce a first;
class,beef animal, weighing -from 1,300 to
1,400 pounds, or such as will find a
ready sale in the markets of Great
Britain? I think that every intelligent
stock breeder and feeder will agree with
me when I say, No, it can't be done.
My opponent admits that my first ob-
jection in reference bo the amount of
manure required to grow turnips is
about correct. He also says that my
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th objection(' in ref"-
erence to the amount of labor in connec-
tion with the crop, are well put and tell
against the crop. Here again my oppo-
nent goes off on another political dream,
and while thus dreaming he shows an-
other weak point in his argument He
says we are going to have the Provincial
elections early in June, which we have
already had; and further he says, tur-
nips or no turnips, we will make it a
point to poll our vote to sustain the
Mowat Government. Now, if turnips
are such valuable food for stock, why
are we asked to Sacrifice the whole crop
for the sake of voting for the Mowat
Government, for let the Government be
Mowat or Meredith, Grit or Tory, it
will not affect the feeding value of the
turnip crop in the least. My Opponent
again returns to the scene of attack and
hurriedly passes over my 6th and 7th
objections, no doubt thirsting to get at
the 90 per cent. of water found _in my
8th statement. As it is on this point he
concentrates the whole force of his ar-
gument, or to use his own words, de-
votes special attention. And after
making use of a great deal of senseless
argument and nonsensical expressions,
he concludes his letter by giving his
reasons for growing turnips, which are
three in number: First, because they
furnish an abundance of green food for
stock during the winter. In some re-
spects this may be true, but did it never
occur to my opponent that atternpting
to supply our stock with green food
during the winter proves in too many
cases toebe rather an expensive job, and
green food in the shapeiof turnimunless
fed along with other bone and fat pro-
ducing foods, would be of little or no
benefit in maintaining stock through the
winter. In the second place, after
making all manner of sport of me for
saying that turnips contain 90 per cent.
of water, ha gives as his second reason
for growing this crop, that they furnish
water for stock during winter. In this
statement he completely flattens out the
groater part of his argument, and it
seems rather strange that he should thus
commit himself, but I suppose it was
running in his mind all along that my
statement was about correct, and after
putting on a pair of spectacles, such as
he accused me of wearing, he actually
saw this great amount of water. Hie
third and last reason is that they are
easy on land. In reply to this state-
ment,1 would say that he is the first per-
son that I ever heard make that statement,
and I would liketo know wherehe got his
authority for saying so, as, he does not
claim to have proved it 4 his own ex-
perience. My experience has proved the
very opposite to be the case, and if he
wants any further evidence, as no
doubt he will, I refer him to the May
issue of the Canadian Live Stock and
Farm Journal, which I consider good
authority on this subject, and that pa- .
per distinctly states that turnips are
hard on land. I could also refer him to
many leading farmers who have not
only given up growing turnips, but are
to -day condemning the practice alto-
gether ; but I think that this, together
with the experiments and examples
mentioned by my friend Mr. Morrison
will certainly be of greater weight in
the mind of an intelligent public than
the mere word of mouth statement
made by one who has not the courage
to back up what he has stated with
his own name. But I must not be too
hard on my opponent, as this is proba-
bly his first attempt at writing a letter
of this kind, and being of a bashful na-
ture and no doubt having serious doubts
in regard to the truthfulness of his
statements, he naturally would feel a
little backward at signing his name. But
by a little encouragement and judicious
training I think he would get bravely
over this, and would at last be capable
of prochicing something worthy of his
full signature, when we would be glad
to hear from him again. Now, as the
greater part of the argument made use
of by Mr. Fell is in many ways similar
to that of my other opponent already
referred to, it will not be neeessary for
me to take up much time in replying to
There is no doubt in our own country
many abuses in connection with the
maintenance of representatives of
royalty, but the people have only them-
selves to blame for permitting such to
be the case, and the fact of seeing such
abuses in the little bit of representation
more immediately under our own obser-
vation should not lead us to believe all
the extravagant talk about the cost of
royalty and the curses of living under a.
monarchal form of government.
There is undoubtedly much to be said
in favor of a better system of regulating
the trade relation(' between ourselves and
our neighbors, which can very easily be
effected without entering into Annexa-
tion with that country, and without in
any way relinquishing the many advant-
ages and safeguards we are now per-
mitted to enjoy.
A. R. J.
Seatorth, July lit, 1890.
—The sudden death of Mrs. Robert elections while Her Majesty has been
Duffin, of West Nissouri, took place on1 quietly ruling on the throne; we have
Saturday night, 12th inst. She was
serving her husband, who had returned
from taking part in Saturday's Orange
procession, with tea, and she was in the
act of bringing the second cup when she
complained of not feeling well, and sud-
denly dropped. Her husband picked
her up and carried her to the .bed.
The only words she spoke were, "1 am
80 glad, Robert, you are home, I ant
dying."
—Mrs. D. M. Fraser, of Stratford,
had a close call on Friday evening of
last week from what might have been a
very serious accident. She was out
driving in her carriage when, on arriv- •
ing at the corner of Ontario and Downie
streets in that city, the horse became
unmanageable, and dashed down the
latter street at a terrible rate of speed.
Happily, however, the infuriated animal
stopped at the door of his own stable,
and Mrs. Fraser alighted, -feeling more
frightened than hurt, by leer unpleasant
experience.
had no such cost or confusion. Now
the British civil list—one million nine
hundred and twenty-five thousand ;
grant to members of the royal family,
eight hundred and fifty-five thousand;
the salary of the V iceroy of Irelands one
hundred thousand : total—two millions
eight hundred and eighty thousand.
The very second Act passed in the first
year of Her Majesty's reign, was that
which settled the income, and it is call-
ed the "Act o the Civil List," which
appropriated 1hen, and is still the same,
one million ni e hundred and twenty-
five thousand,, but in return, that Her
Majesty might net be guilty of the ex-
travagance of her predecessors, they
asked her to sign away all the Crown
property and her interest therein for
her natural life, and in lieu of this con-
cession they gave her this amount. The
government has been renting and farm-
ing her lands, making a profit out of the
same, for that was the agreement. But
how has it turned out? The revenues
Mr. Michie's Reply to His Oppo-
nents on the Turnip Question.
him. -There are, however, one or two
points that I will touch on. In the
first place, Mr. Fell is an extensive tur-
nip grower, and he considers them the
most valuable crop on the farm. He
O further says that stock fed on ternips
come out in the spring mice and loose in
O the hide,and toward the latter part of his
letter he says that they can bring their
stock through the winter up to the
first of April on turnips and straw, af-
ter that time they get hay or grain.
Now I want to know why does he re-
sort to feeding grain after the first of
April. Is it not because by feeding on
turnips and straw his cattle have got •
down in condition, and to put them in
O good order for. turning out to grass he
resorts to feeding grain? It is evident
that Mr. Fell feeds both turnips and
grain, and then he wants to give the
turhips credit for putting the smooth,
loose hide on his cattle; when in reality
without the grain during the month of
April they would have been as poor as
poverty. This should convince my oppo- •
nent that turnips are not the mostvalua-
ble crop so far as feeding stock is con-
cerned. Now as I have referred to all the
principal points of argument raised by
my opponents I will conclude by cau-
tioning the fanners not to depend on
turnips and straw if they want to pro-
duce a first-class animal. Put your
manure on your land for coarse grains,
get better bred stock, and you are all
right without turnips. Again thank-
ing you, Mr. Editor, for so much of
your valuable space, I remain,
Yours reepectfully,
C. .MICIIIE.
Moms, July 14, 1890.
DEAR EXPOSITOR,—After my letter
on the turnip question, which appeared
in THE EXPOSITOR about two months
ago, there followed two other letters in
opposition to mine, written by two gen-
tlemen residing in the township of Hib-
bert. After reading the two letters
from my opponents I at once made up
my mind to reply. But in order that all
might have an opportunity to take
part in -the discussion I have withheld
my reply till the present time. And as
there seems to be - none others desirous
of writing on this subject, with your
permission I will now make a few brief
remarke on i the letters from my oppo-
nents. I eitish it; however, to be dis-
tinctly understood that I am not de-
sirous of entering into a prolonged dis-
cussion or newspaper controversy with
my opponents on this question, and had
it not been that I wish to show the
weakness of the arguments advanced by
my opponents I would have left the
matter as it now stands. As there are
two letters to reply to I think it will be
beet to take them separately. So I will
begin with letter number one, which by
the way shows the writer to be rather of
the contemptible stamp, and the fact
that he did not sign his name shows him
to be as unmanly and cowardly as he is
contemptible. We .must, however,make
a little allowance and just take his
jeering remarks of blue spectacles, etc.,
for what they are worth and pass them
by for the present, and deal with the
subject under discussion. In the first
place my opponent accuses. me of say-
ing that the farmers manage their af-
fairs in a slip-ehod, happy-go-lucky
manner. Now, I only charged the
farmers witb carrying on their business
by random and with uncertainty in re-
gard to costs and profits. And this
charge I still hold against them. My
opponent says, "Are there not a num-
ber of successful farmers in the County
of Huron and Province of Ontario?" I
admit that there are a number of men who
bear the name of successful farmers,
men who have bought, paid for and
cleared their farms ; men who have their
land in a high ;state of cultivation and
are engaged in stock raising and all the
various branches of farming, yet how
few there are of those so called success-
ful farmers, who can tell with any de-
• gree of accuracy, the cost and profit in
any of the branches of farming in
whioh they are engaged. As I have
said before, not one in fifty, for the
simple reason that they overlook the im-
portant matter of keeping farm ac-
counts. And, indeed, among this class
of farmers we too often find men, like
my opponent, who when asked to give
their experience in any particular
branch of farming, are ashamed to sign
their names. My opponent says,that be-
cause the merchant or mechanic does not
succeed in farming, proves the farmer to
be a man of skill and business ability.
Then,vice versa, because the farmer does
not succeed as a merchant proves the
merchant a. man of skill and ability.
The example in the one case is exactly
parallel with that of the other. At
this point my opponent leaves the sub-
ject under discussion and goes off on a
political dream, in which he viciously
attacks the Dominion Government. lie,
however, does not blame the Govern-
ment for the 90 per cent. of water found
in the turnip. He at length returns to
my main question, viz.: Does it pay (all
things considered) to grow turnips?
McLEAN BROS. IPubllbers.
$1.50 a Year, in Advance.
discovered late in the morning long after
the fire had been extinguished. Coroner
Belleau and Chief of Police Vohl then
ordered the arrest of Joseph Delamarre,
m
the party arched off for a marriage
license. All the ministers in that town
were down at the station, but of course
none of them were looking for the joh.
aged 22, hie wife, Georgina Meet, aged At any rate, the paw were married
23, and their barkeeper, Jean Gauthier, shortly after the arrival of the train,
and all three are now in jail, charged
with having caused the death of one
Maranda, his wife and five children.
Maranda was employed in Boston for
sometime, and had Just arrived home to
remove his family to Boston.
—The British Methodist Episcopal
Conference meets at Chatham next
year. The Conference recommended the
Christian Guardian to members of the
Conference and their households as the
best and ablest religious paper in
Canada.
—A lady in Kingston stepped on a
rusty nail, lockjaw ensued, and the
whole body became rigid. Nourish-
ment was administered by means of a
clay pipe, the end of which was inserted
through the opening made by a lost
tooth, and now the patient is recovering.
—Arrangements are being made to
send two score or more Manitoba and
Northwest farniers to Great Britain and
Europe this winter to work up immi-
gration. Men who have previously lived
in Europe and who understand Europ-
ean languages will be chosen for the
work.
—Another case of "didn't know it
was loaded" occurred at Quebec, Sat-
urday. A man named Row playfully
pointed a revolver at his niece, not
thinking it was loaded, when the revol-
ver went off and a bullet penetrated the
young girl's head. She died in a feve
minutes. •
—The Minister of Customs at Ottawa
received on the 16th inst., from Belle-
ville, 75 cents in postage etamps with
the following letter: "1 was induced
by one who was not a friend to me to
defraud the customs of this place of 75
cents, which amount I enclose. I am
bound to live an honest life in the sight
of my Creator.—Yours Truly,An Awak-
ened:Conscience."
—A monster turtle was caught in the
rear of an Oxford street house in Lon-
don the other day. The warm weather
had dried up the small creek running
through the property wherein the turtle
was wont to disport itself, and it was
evidently on a prospecting tour for more
congenial quarters when discovered. It
weighed 37 pounds, and measured 35
inches from head to tail.
—Last Saturday a young Englishman
named Edward Toner, an employe in
the Redpath Sugar Refinery, Montreal,
was caught in a revolving shaft by hie
apron and whirled around until his body
was a shapeless mass and life extinct.
The same day in Montreal a woman
'named Johnston, residing on St.George
street, fell down stairs and was in-
stantly killed.
—The names of the steamers now
building at Barrow-in-Furness for ' the
Canadian Pacific Railway, for their Pa-
cific service, will be the Empress of
'India," the "Empress of China," and
the "Empress of Japan." The first
named is expected to -be launched about
the end of November, and will probably
reach the Pacific coast and begin its
service- in February or March.
—An order for four hundred sets of
sleigh bobs has been received by the
Chatham Wagon Works from Massey &
Co., Winnipeg. These are to be • sup-
plied for the coming winter's trade in
the Northwest. The company will at
once set about executing the order. We
are told, besides, the same Chatham
company has already disposed of this
year no less than one thousand, five
hundred wagons of its celebrated make.
—Daniel Cobb wad a daughter of
Mr. Alexander Caml5be11, of Anderdon,
county of Essex, skipped out the other
day and were married. The girl's
mother had a warrant issued for Cobb's
arrest on the charge of abducting a girl
under 14 years of age, but before the
warrant could be served the couple had
reached New Canaan and were made
man and wife. Mrs. Campbell then de-
cided to proceed no further, and with-
dre-v the charge and paid the costa.
—On the subject of writer's cramp,
John Brown, a noted stenographer, says,
"When I sit down to do a long job of
short -hand, I lay before me a number of
pencils of different sizes. My reason for
it is that by picking up pencils of differ-
ent sizes and consequently weights, I
I am enabled to rest my hand while
continuing to work. Each different
pencil brings into active play different
muscle., and I never suffer from cramps,
as might be the case if I used but one
size pencil."
—Dolly Beeley, the trim little Eng-
lishwoman who has attained considerable
notoriety by her confidence operations
during the past year or two, was sen-
tenced by the police magistrate of Ham-
ilton Thursday morning of last week to
one year in the Mercer reformatory.
The charge was obtaining $5 by false
pretences from Mrs. Eliza Imbodem, of
Hamilton. The fair Dolly wept copious-
ly previous to being taken off in the
patrol wagon.
—There was quite a ripple of excite-
ment at Rat Portage, the other day,over
a romantic courtehip and marriage of a
Rainy River settler. The groom was
Robert Gill, the teacher of an Indian
school, and the bride was Miss Emily
Taylor, of Owen Sound. Neither of the
contracting parties had seen the other,
but had corresponded and exchanged
photographs. The groom arrived to
meet his future wife, and the citizens
who were aware of the approaching
meeting turned out in large numbers to
see the event. As the train drew in a
trim -looking young lady jumped off the
car, and her large dark eyes rapidly
sized up the crowd to see her loved one.
Mr. Alexander Rocking, of Elm River,
acted as master of ceremonies, and •at
once took the young bride in charge.
He introduced the pair, although he had
pever met the young lady, and the
groom seemed elated over the prize he trated by the crew to obtain liquor.
had drawn. The crowd mit up a laugh The French merchants are pressing for a
and could hardly resist a cheer when conviction.
Canada.
Several valuable horses were stolen
in the vicinity of Queenston lately.
—A magnificent catch of mackerel is
reported from the Lower Provinces.
—Wheat cut in the neighborhood of
St. Thomas will average 35 bushels per
acre.
—W. K. Smith, market gardener, of
Burford, marketed about 4,000 boxes of
strawberriea this year.
—Adam Brown, M. P., has been com-
missioned to represent Canada at the
Jamaica exhibition.
—The number of deaths from con-
tagious diseases in Montreal for the past
six months of the present year 18 428,
compared with 1,049 in 1889.
—The extensive dry -goods store of
W. Y. Brunton, in London, was dam-
aged by fire Saturday evening to the ex-
tent of $12,000.
—Hon. Oliver Mowat, in company
with his wife, daughter and son, left
last week on a trip to the White
Mountains.
_ —An excursion party of 100 Ameri-
cans is visiting Montreal en route to the
Pacific coast and Alaska. The entire
round will oceupy 50 days.
—The bridge over the Desjardins
Canal at Hamilton is almost completed,
and the Dundas boats can now safely
pass under.
—The body of Alexander Wippert, of
Buffalo, who jumped into the rapids and
went over Niagara Falls the other day,
has been recovered.
—Dr. J. W. McL tughlin, of Bowman-
ville, has been appointed registrar of
West Durham in place of the late Robt.
Armour.
—Mr. J. Ross Robertson, of Toronto,
has been elected grand master of Free-
masons for Canada,- and Hon. J. M.
Gibson, of Hamilton,. deputy grand
master.
—The passenger steamer Winslow ran
on a rock reef at Middle island, Lake
Superior, the other night, and had to
jettison $20,000 worth of cargo before
getting off.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Crozier, who
have been residents of Ayr for about 35
years, have gone to live in Bay City,
Michigan, where three of their children
reside.
_
—A parcel containing four thousand
dollars lately disappeared from the
funds of e Woodstock, New Brunswick,
bank. Suspicion points to -Robert G.
Saunders, teller, who is only 21 years of
age.
—Mr. Lewis Olmstead, of Belmont,
died Wednesday from the effects of
erysipelas and blood poisoning, in the
90th year of his age. The deceased was
born in Vermont, and has lived in Bel-
mont and vicinity for 35 years. -
—Douglas Feller, who obtained no-
toriety as an important witness in the
Birchall-Benwell case, intends to make a
short trip through the States, and will
then reside in Kingston while awaiting
the trial of Birchall.
—On Saturday night, says the Picton
Times, a wire running from an electric
light pole to a maple tree in Mr. Walter
Maakenzie's garden rubbed the insolation
off the electric light wires and set the
tree on fire.
—Thomas Byron and Francis John
O'Donnell, the two sailors who caused
the drowning of a companion, Wm.
O'Donnell, at Parry Sound, were found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced
to three months in jail.
—The petition of David T. Ferguson,
of Rat Portage, jeweler, against the re-
turn of James Conmee as M. P. P. for
West Algoma, making the usual
charges, was lodged with the Registrar
of the Court of Appeal on Saturday.
This makes the 22nd protest.
—Pierre Maranda, insurance broker,
his wife and five children, were found
burned to death Thursday morning of
last week in their beds, at their resi-
dence, St. Joseph street, Quebec, shortly
before daylight. Fire suspiciously de-
clared itself in the tavern on the first
floor of the house, kept by Joseph Dela-
marre, and was only extinguished after
the interior of the house had been gut-
ted. Delamarre and his wife and bar-
keeper, who lived over the bar and be-
low the Marandas, escaped fully dress-
ed, Delamarre having his policies of in-
surance in his pocket. They never no-
tified the police or firemen that any-
body lived above them, and the charred
remains of the five victims were
—At Waterloo on Wednesday last a
piece of wood was flung from a circular
saw in Kreatziger's mili and struck
Adam Weber in the eye, penetrating
three inches to the brain. The stick
was extricated by Drs. Webb and Armi-
tage, but it ie feared Weber cannot
live,
—The Misses Jessie and Alice Hamil-
ton, aged 15 and 11 years respectively,
distinguished themselves at Sturgeon
Point on Monday evening, by holding
up three fine maskalonge as thefruits of
a couple of hours' trolling. One beauty
weighed 14 pounds, the next 10i pounds,
and the smallest 7 pounds, 3 ounces.
Those experienced in the sport praise
highly the self-possession and nerve
shown by the young ladies in pulling in
the fish unaided, as the gyrations of a
14 pounder quickens the pulse and tries
the nerve of even the " old heads."
—A despatch from the Pinkerton de-
tective agency in New York to W. A.
Caldwell, curate of the insolvent estate
of Louis Meyer, of Montreal, who ab-
sconded, leaving liabilities to the
amount of $100,000, announces that
Meyer has been located in Jersey Citi;
and that he can be arrested at an hour's
notice if his Montreal creditors wish to
institute extradition proceedings against
him. These proceedings have been
taken and the Pinkertons will be advised
to make the arrest forthwith. Extradi-
tion will be asked on the ground of
fraud and secretion.
—On the farm of MT. WM. Mead,
near St. Thomas, in sinking a well for
water, Mr. Mead struck gas- at 60 fest,
and a pipe and reducer were put in. By
turning a tap a stream of gas escapes
O with a deafening roar, showing a pres-
sure estimated at 30 eto 60 lbs. to the
square inch. The gas is without odor,
and Mr. Mead has probably enough to
run powerful machinery for generations.
In the meantime he will put it into his
house and utilise it for cooking, heating
and lighting purposes. The Mead well
is only five miles and a half in a bee
line from Ridgetown. The Ingraham
well is only half that, and is probably
as powerful.
—Dr. J. Clarke, of ,Peterboree, writ-
ing to the Review of that town says:
In answer to enquiries as to the best
disinfectants for use during summer I
would again say that one of the safest,
cheeped and most effective is ordinary
bluestone (sulphate of copper) dissolved
in the proportion of two pounds to a
pailful of water. This should be freely
sprinkled every three or four weeks in
places requiring it. A liberal use of
this around yards and premises will keep
down many of those minor varieties of
disease which are distinctly due to
symotic influence as well as those more
severe forms which prostrate the sys-
tem and endanger life.
—Foreman McBride and a staff of
seven machinists from the safe works of
Goldie & McCulloch, of Galt, are put-
ting the finishing touches to an immense
iron safe in the Finance Department at
Ottawa. It will be the biggest vault in
Canada, being 22 feet long, 17 feet wide
and 13 feet high, with a wrought iron
gallery running around three sides
about half way up. It is built of three
layers of steel plate, each inch in
thickness, in all 142 tons of iron and
steel being used in the construction.
The massive structure is fastened with
18,000 steel screws. The foundation
rests upon the solid rock of Parliament
hill, upon which a thickness of 25 feet of
rock and cement is laid. The two doors
are fastened when locked by 22 heavy
steel bolts in each, the contrivance be-
ing worked by an ingenious combination
and time lock.
—Waiter Williams, son of John Wil-
liams, a farmer on the lake shore near
Winona, was drowned Wednesday of
last week. Frualk Morgan, son of IL
R. Morgan, and Will Barnes, son of
Thomas Barnes, of East Hamilton are
camping on the lake -shore between
Hamilton and Grimsby. Wednesday
afternoon the campers were visited by
two young men named Hagar and Wil-
liams. Hagar is a son of the Grimsby
farmer who has already lost two boys
this year—one by drowning and another
by accident on land—and Williams was
a young fellow about 22 years of age,
who recently leased the farm of George
Chambers, near Winona. They all got
in a boat and paddled out from shore
about 200 yards. The boat upset, and
Williams struck out for shore. Barnes
remained by Hagar. and helped Min on
the scow. When near shore, in about
six feet of water, Williams sank and
was drowned. The others reached land
in safety.
—The schooner Mary, 30 tone, owned
by a poor fisherman at Placentia Bay,
chartered by Chafe Rosblanche, of West
Newfoundland, to carry & cargo of dried
codfish to St. Johns, arrived at St
Pierre, Miquelon, the other day, loaded
with 600 quintals and ten barrels of cod
roes. On these latter are paid a bounty
for the French catch and cure of $4 per
barrel, and they are used in France as
bait for the sardine fishery. The foreign
articles are consequently prohibited,
The customs officer caught the crew of
the Mary in the act of landing three
barrels of roe of the value of $9. The
veesel was seized and a French guard
put on board. The crew were lodge&
ashore awaiting a trial before the Su-
preme Court, when a verdict will prob-
ably be rendered of forfeiture of the
cargo, which is valued at $35,000, and
the vessel at $1,000, with a fine on the
French purchaser. This is hard 011
Chafe, who is a struggling young mer-
chant, and is equally bard on the poor
owner. Neither of these bad any com-
plicity in the fraud, which was pefpe-