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The Huron Expositor, 1899-09-15, Page 11899 11 e3z,, e d 24fuly NEW - ppenino' ing -wee ICTIT eora- y Depart- eady 4tIL Co. st Cask Store. t made a flying londay last, be- ved by all our no new events• who are in, s.—Mr. T. N. rating with hia ; his fine fifty :he way of seed- poses.—Mr. W. taste and likes to -date, la now improved by a isa Minty McL- nt Labor Day Acheson is now Seaforth. —Mr. student at the ming the hon. his hand in the :aim will have A-it:1g a good re- rgy and enter- fohn is sure to gh, of Clinton, l; of the Misses kers are now on he fruit. Two apples is mak- yet they cOrIP" '8 Effie Smith, he guest at the [ugh McGregor, for Cleveland, , months' visit - rite and will be mpanions,—Dr. iring the week a on the leg of still in a poor of the .vil- day last, taking r. Martin won red yard race, ace. Our foot - [in firing shots football. The and interest - won the first r Dublin scoring e a tie. The It Morrison ; ; f -backs, , Brownlee; k,I1, T. Brown- b;)ys speak treatment re- f ey8 of Dublin. eett the game, tid Mr. Haat- anpire-.. The time, livening mas Dinsdale 0.1 tine young Ir. Knott, of aunt of $1.20. ,00d horses.— g in the fail t•ing sown in risters, convey- ir. tL 11. Cornea M'Ajarthr, Oaler IMS-tf rtly received :aug the death iAtit, at. Seattle, sad news for path v of inaaY (I, one of the pat.hed over _deceased was ,.:1,tty respected lie CELMO here t was a forest, rv, cleared out trottable home - t he Lutheran r. Fred Kibler ing in the ex- ktorped off with reiatiVell Ottie Wellawl niliinery &pen - Miss Maggie st week.—Mr, or a few days [ehanan.----MiSs [Ma -Dash -wood ad giving lee - People s Al - ✓ has gone to ge 10 : the hard- 11 follow short - returned from e was visiting Katz, of Ne" lackbeil on ••••• ;tories in the poted of the the ruhrg dill"11111.111.11. TELETY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER. 1.657. fl 011 Co irse MAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAINAAA" Years of steadylprogress and the only warrant we have for c that has proved so clearly success sueessful ideas we have held fast are satisfied to call a Futurity S ity Sale is. not the giving or pro thing for nothing, but rather is lines of goods, which, while pe broken lots and sizes'so it beho and in so doing we make the pric the keenest buyer. SEAFORTI: , FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1899. I BOUNTIFUL MANITOBA. Mr. William Buckingham, a well known citizen of Stratford, who accompanied the Press Association on its recent excursion to the Pacific coast, left the party at Winni- peg and took a run through southern Mani- toba. We may here say that Mr. Buck- ingham is, himself, an old Press man and was for many years editor and proprietor of the Stratford Beacon. He had also the sound business methods is distinction of printing the first paper ever published in the Red River valley, some ritinuing along the course forty years ago, and et the point whet e the al i▪ n the past. Among the o is the holding of what we e, and the object of Futur- ising tc) give people some he clearing out of certain •fectly new and good, are ves us to clear the goods s such as may well tempt 1111 On Saturday, September Ard, Fall Futurity Sale. The prices which will hold Lot No. 1-19 Blue Serge 44. Price $3.99. Lot No. 2-17 Men's and Y brown and grey, sizes 34 to 44. Lot No. 3-13 Men's and double breasted, blue, grey and 42. Price $6.49. Lot No. 4-14 Men's Suits sizes. Price $6.79. Lot No. 5-23 Fine Blue an filai and style, sizes 34 to 42 but Lot No. 6-19 Black Worste with striped trousers. Price $7.9 Lot No. 7-33 Youth's Suit 28 to 33, Pric_es in this lot will r Lot No. 8 Boys' Three -pie 27 to 33. Price $2.99. Lot No. 9—Boys' Three-piec breasted, heavy tweeds and serg $3.99. 1896, we will hold Our ay are as fellows : Sack Coat Suits, sizes 36 to Pt uth's Suits, mixed colors—. Price, $4.99. Youth's Suits, single and lack nap cloth, sizes 34 to heavy a Lot No. 10—Two-piece Suit will range from 99c to $3.99, brown mixtures, all Grey Worsted Suits, finest t, Price $7.49. Suits skirt or sack coat, , a variety of colors, sizes nge from $3 to $5. e SU -it Pant Suits, sizes Suits, single and double s, sizes 27. to 33. Price sizes 22 to 29. Prices Lot No. 117-60 pairs Boys' ' School Pants, linen thread, and oar make. The price is 45c. Lot No. 12—Men's Heavy P $1.75 to $2, Futurity price $1.25. Lot No. 13-45 Odd Vests Goats at half priee. Lot No. 14-240 Fedora fawn. The Futurity price will be nts. sewn with Priced regularly at half price, also 30 Odd ts, in black, brown and 30. Lot No, 15-1,000 Four-in-hand, Knot, String, Bow, or Puff Ties. Futurity price'will be Oc. There is not a tie in the lot which sold less than 25c, and some as high as 50c. Lot No. 16-600 pairs Shirts wool and union -materials, all sizes price will be 48c for each garment, Lot No. 17-150 pairs Heav price will be 8c. Lot No. 18—A few dozen Brai 0–These prices are for one d 23rd of Septembei. and. Drawers in heavy in men's.. The Futurity hether shirt or drawers. Cotton Sox. Futurity es at 15c. y only—that date is the VseWtoossaAstastasSANYVYtt0VtANYVY &dual Clothiers and Furnishers On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG BLOCK, 11-1-1--1111111001•aslume SEAFORTH OTTAWA EXHIBITION Toronto to Ottawa Aleturn $7.8 Going Sept. lith to Sept. 22nd (included) 1 and. /1;a35 Goin Septi 18th. All tickets good to return until Septembe: 25th, 1899. Parties desiring advantage of the cheab rate ($5.35) on September 18th from Toronto, can purchase their tickets at TOIS OFFICE at any date previous $11.10, thus giving one month stop -off priileges at Toronto. Orders at thpisrooettiltreea Plea.se ,your tickets for points test and West, also your Money J. MACDONALD C. P, R. AGENT, Seaforth. -prosperous city of Winnipeg now stands, twis alltenor.Bckmg nlYuaRin o rnpialleyi! w Poet. b Mhet: s ' Bay w ri ttt, to the Beacon from Soissevaine, on Anest 30th, and gives the following interesting pen picture of that fertile district of the Prairie Province: I interrupted my home- ward journey at Winnipeg in order to come over the Canadian Pacific Railwayat the eaatern terminus, on my little visit to this Le which is situated in the Province of on western partof main Manitoba, is, no doubt, very heavy, so much so that on one farm we saw the self. binder being drawn by four heroes abreast, but the yield there, and particularly on - I ward in the territories, is not at all equal to what I have seen here, where the orop is thud early mostly cut and in the stook. Except at brief intervals, and on the east- ern approach to the Pembina Mountains, the heavy !sheaves of number one hard, • lace. The wheat saved without deterioration from the slight- est slemblance of frost, are spread over the country in solid masses many equare miles in extent, and the jolly farmere, who gaily waved their arms at us as they paused from their work at reaping to see the Im- perial Limited speed on over their main line, had .here left the fields. I witnessed vast changer] in Soutbern Manitoba since 1881, when with Judge Weeds 1 drove through this country in advance of the rail- way. The hate and little rough frame building(' and the hovels of sod which were "batched" in at that time, have given place to the comfortable farm buildings, which the then lonely single man has graced with the fairer portion of creation, with olive branches growing up heavily around the Thrifty towns, too, have sprung up here and there with good station building, wheat elevators, hotels and banks, the prairie grafts having been followed bY prairie wheat. Of course, settlement, se compared with us, is still_ sparse, and it eannot he otherwise when each individual holdingsis three or four times in excess of our hundred acre farms. Some blocks of land are eta' held back from settlement by speculative companies and persons, but the soil, under the temptation of advancing prices and the operation of the tax ached. ue, is being papidly brought under the plow, and before long these wheat area" will become one vast unbroken expanse o waving grain. It was my good fortune on the train to meet Mr. Greenway, Premier of Manitoba; on his way to his home at Crystal City, and we had an old time familiar chat together; and talked as well about the political and material interests of the country. He is, of course, confident, as I found everybody else to be, that the forth -coming election will give the Manitoba Liberals another ex- pansion of power. He is firmer in his faith than ever in the country, not taking back a single bullet of the fifty millions of wheat predicted of the harvest in the province and territories, but is disposed to increase rather than diminish the generous estimate, now that the magnificent crop is being gathered into the stooks for threshing. How to get the large crop out of the cowl - try is a puzzle to the Premier and to many other thoughtful men. It will require an immense amount -of rolling stock to cope with the problem, and the Governments in Winnipeg and Ottawa are wisely increas- ing every available avenue—and increase them as they may, the whole will be over- taxed—to provide for the output. The freight, rates, too, are naturally a matter of vital concern. Mr. Greenway said when he came to 'the country the grain rate was 24 cents per hundred pounds. Now it is 14 cents. Some one re- marked that it ought to be 10 cents. "Ye," said Mr. Greenway, "and ten cents it will be." The Premier shows a splendid example of the class of farming which should be adopted. His forte is thoroughbred stock, to which all 'else is made subsidiary. He has found dairying to succeed admirably, and is now about to apply himself to butter - making in winter, as for this claes of butter the Winnipeg price is 25 cents per pound for all that can be supplied. He has five half sections of land of 320 acres each, and the crop he is preparing to put in next year, mostly coarse grain for the stock—as the labor on roots does not pay, with men hired at $100 for the three months—will cover a thousand acres, besides 600 for hay. Be rounded off his five half sections last year by the acquirement from the owner, living at Ridgeway, of an adjacent quarter section at $10 an acre. The manager of the Pre- mier's farm joined us at a station on the way, and his report gave occasion for the remark that the one crop of this year, got off th quarter section spoken of, had more tha paid the entire outlay for the land. M Greenway went on to speak of yet morr striking instances of profitable farming on the part of his neighbors, but lest I should be thought to be a paid immigration agent in his service, I will not repeat the oonve - sation. Some of the farmere who were tardy i sowing have been cutting on the green side, afraid probably of being caught by the frost on this higher land. Still there is no sig of frost in any part of the province. Th air is delightfuHy cool, clear and invigora ing, with the sun shining brightly from cloudlees sky. I have already taken bicycle run over the elastic, smooth prairi roads winding about among the wheat, an intend presently to drive over them toward the Turtle Mountains. This is, perhap the smartest place on the line west of Mor- den. it is a pity it had not a more euphon. istic name. There are in sight the fin stone flouring mill and elevator, built b our energetic friend, Mr. Wm. Preston, be• sides six other capacious elevators, belong ing to different persons, who are competin for the bountiful products of these ric lands, and many handsome stone and othe building' used for stores, residences an ohurchee. When I wrote for the Toront Globe, "Southern Manitoba on n. Buck board," it gave a description of the country with nothing in the shape of a store all th way from Winnipeg to Clearwater,,then "merchant's" leg shanty; the same a Pilot Mound and at Whitewater; and the a blank right away up to the Brandon hills A wondrous change since the wheat king, few short years ago, came forth to wave sceptre over a smiling land. But he wi not always maintain his supremacy, for b and by the huge fields will be fenced, an there will be flocks of sheep and herds o cattle, and the grain will not be threshed o the ground, but in the barns. • —One night recently an attempt w made to hold up Mr. Andrew Falk, reeve McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1 a Year in Advance. tended vi, tim evaded his pursuer and got North E sthope, but, fortunately, the in- Weal -peivrs 441-14- " off with n ithing more than the rather un- ITT", -3 comtorta 'le sensation of being chased by a EntRow shfi es highway an. Mr. Falk had been at the - 1 clerk's Get°, at Amulree; on business,and fileaueel-dein poles wee going home at the hour of midnight. 'VIM tin The night was not very dark; at leastnot so dark b t that objects on the road could easily be • •n. Mr. Fal h was passing by Webtlaufe '.wood, on lot 20, concession 7, when a m n, whcise identity the reeve could not discs n, came out of the forest and abruptly • emended. a ride but Mr. Falk whipped p his horse and drove off, leaving the fellow on the road. • Terrible Disease. A very nteresting address was delivered in the Me bodist church, Seaforth, on Wed- nesday ev.ning of last week, under, the awe pices.of t e Seaforth Auxiliary of the Leper Mission. The speaker was Mrs Wesley Bailey, w o is general superintendent and secretary f "The Miseion to Lepers in In- dia and t e East." The headquarters of the missio are located in Glasgow and it has in its embershiP many prominent and philantbr 'pie men of both the old world and the n vv. Mr. Bailey is an mailmen halted an entertaining speaker, and he eave inue interesting information concern- ing the ob ects and work of the organize' ion he represe ts, and the deplorable condition of the Cat •rtunate and afflicted people in whose int -rest he hi engaged. His object is to create deeper interest in the work and to secure i creased liberality towards it on the part o ehristian and -charitable people. Mr. Bai ey said that for thirty years he had been lngaged in this work. Could he have brou ht a leper on the platforrn 'for them to se , there would be no need ot words. T e very eight, although it might empty the room, would convince. As the leper °out not be present he was here as his repres ntitive, to speak of facts within his own • ,reonal knowledge. This mission represente• ONE MILLION LEPERS, who were cattered abroad in the lands they were tryin to reach. These lepers were precisely t rze same as the lepers of the Bible; the disease was the same incurable one. Two years ago a great conference of medical m n had met in Berlin to discus" leproseean after careful investigation these eminent sc entists had decided that the die - ease was in arable; so that once a person was touch° by thie blighting disease hie doom was 'nevitable. It might be a our - prise to so e to know? that the disease war NOT INFECTIOUS. This was ontrary to the general belief but it was rue. The speakerhad ofte been in otos • contact with lepere, as ha other work s, but none of them had eve caught the ieease. If it were infectious all India, a 1 China, and very moo, th whole world would be leprous. It is com- municable, • ut just how it is impossible, to may. Under certain conditions of family life it was of necessity communicated, bue it was not oo veyed by germs floating in the sir. The di ease, in its worst stages, wars fully as bad a anything that had ever bee said or writt n about it. To be full of lep7 rosy is the m at awful condition in which a human being could be. THE REATMENT OF LEPERS varied in diff rent districts. Some people were fatalists they never bothered about, leprosy. Le sere came and went among them freely, f r if it was decreed that they were to have 1 epropy, they would have it. In a district of this kind he had seen e leper making "betel nut"—the great chew- ing commodit of India, and had reported itto the Go eminent as °something that ought not to e allbwed. In other districts the people ent to the other extreme. Lepers were igidly excluded from their midst, and a 1 rson found with the isetae was driven a ay to perish like the beasts. One of the :ure signs'of leprosy was the deadness of a 1 physical feeling. A sharp instrument co Id be driven into the leprous spot and it w. uid not be felt. ` THE 01 _Egg_ OF THE MISSION waa to provi e homes for the pntainted children of le erous parents and asylums for those afflicted with the disease. In these "shelters" th.y were cared for physically and morally. was often asked him SHO LD LEPERS MARRY? All he (soul say was that they do marry and the Gove nmept did no forbid it. In - this connectio it was well to note that the disease is not hereditary. .The Berlin con- ference, to w ich reference has already been made, found his to be true. The personal experience of the speaker proved that non, leprous child n were often borne of leprous parents, and if they were removed from the parents they would not become leprous. The mission, hose claims he was advoeat- ing, was fou ded 25 years ago. During that time it b d grown from one institution to twenty -on of their own'and eleven others that t e mission aided, besides 14 horries for chi dren. Under their care there were about 4, 00 lepere, about half of whom were Christie. s. This was the semi -jubilee year of the mission and the committee wanted to cel brate it by raising $12,500 to be spent on n w buildings that were abso- lutely necessa y. This was in addition ,to the annual in ome of $50,000 that was re- quired for e penses. Twenty-five dollars would mainta n a leper for one year at an asylum, and wenty dollars a child at a home, the cos for the children being pro- portionately greater. This estimate in - eluded every hing. The speake concluded by describing the effect of the ork on the heathen, the na- tive Ohristias and the missionary; by pointing out ts inter -denominational and its internatio al character; and by making an earnest ap eal for help. Public Sc s ool Teachers' Meeting. The teach() of local district No. 3, West Huron Teach ra' Association, met at Varna on the 9th ins . There was a good repre- sentation pres nt, and much interest taken in the progra me. • Mr. George Baird opened the discussions by a talk on agriculture in schools. Mr. Baird, had a opy of the authorized text book on this s bject, and briefly. outlined the course to e taken up, being contained in the first 73 • ages or the first 16 chapters. As it is option 1 with schools whether bot- any or agricul ure is taken, Mr. Baird was of the opinion that agriculture should be taken, as it e braces a great deal of the first principle of botany, and the course could be easil covered in 32 lessons in 16 weeke. Mr. aird then gave g ,privstical illustration of ow he would introduce the first lesson, w Joh proved very interesting. Mr. G. W. Holman gave an exhaustive paper OD COM sition, covering the whole course with ju ior and senior pupils, giving notes'outlinin fully the method of taking up the work. Mr. Holman had given much thought to th subject, Thoroughness and neatness ghoul be insieted on from the be- ginning, and every exercise should be a finished prod at. Mu h attention should be • ieture Frames Newest S est Goo Lowest 11 yles s ees ALEX. WIMP SEAFOiTE. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. No witnesses required. given in senior classes to paraphra4g poo try, letter writing, business forme, para ghaphing and historical reviews. 1 Mr. J. E. Harnwell discussed the 'subject of history with 3rd classes, and esIplained very thoroughly his method of teaching this subject. Mr. Harnwell said that he taught these lesions usually by conversation, and requiring the pupils to reproduee each lesson on slates: He preferred taking the subject in the order given in the book, apd would take the work topically. In Wadi ing the governmentit was better to roceed from the known, taking the school,t e true tees, and municipal councils as illus reelects at first, and the higher governing bo ies - In their order. I The next order of business was a discus- sion On phonics, introduced in an able man- ner by Mr. George Howard, who ilhistrated his method by the use of diagrams on the board. Mr. Howard said he wou d take the first six tablet lessons by the "1 k and say" method, and then introduce the phonic method. There were two methods, the an- alytic and the synthetic, but he p eferred and used a good deal of simultaneou °Ides reading, as be thought it beet in a school Of mixed nationalities. I ! Mr. William Baird then proce ided to show how he Would teach decima s 01 a class, and showed, by the manner in whit)] he did so, that he was master of th sub- ject. This subject, as well as all the thers, was fully discussed by the teachers resent and many good points brought o t. In fact the meeting was a good one, and muele benefit was derived therefrom. T e new 1: regulations, espeeially those relating o the public school leaving course, came in fer much adverse criticism, as it is thought this is the first step towards driving this course out of the schools. If such should bp the case, the Minister of Education wi I find that he has made the mistake of his Ile in thus cutting short the school course. i The following officers were elected f r the ensuing year, viz. : Mr. J. E. Her well, president ; Miss A. Conga, vice-presi ent ; Mr. G. W. Holman, secretary • exec tie° committee, Messrs. G. Baird, L. 'Mille aud Miss Maguire. , , The next meeting will be held on No em- ber 4th, at 1:30 p. m.; programme: era graphy, 3rd class, G. W. Harnwell; h me - work, L. Naftel ; literature, 2nd class, Mies A. Consitt ; analysis, 5th class, G. How rd ; cipline, J. S. Delgatty ; drawing, e her : reading, Part II, Miss Maguire; class dis- °tastes, W. Baird; drawing, junior cla4ses, Miss liennedy. 1 , A Political Forecast for Manitoba. A seemingly well informed correspon *nit of the Toronto Telegram writing from or- tage la Prairie, gives a semewhat interesting forecast of the political outlook in Mani- toba, and what the result of the forthbo, ni- ing provincial elections will be.' lter summing up the numerous social and oli- tioal virtues of Mr. Hugh John Macdon Icl, the new leader of the Provincial Cense ve- tive party, and sizing up the grievance of a few ambitious Grit kickers in and about Winnipeg, who want the earth and are dia- gruntled because they can not obtain it he continues as follows: - Out in the country the farmers aye grievances of their own. Thomas 'Gr en -- way, farmer and statesman, has commi ted .. the sin of becoming prosperous, and dee in their hearts hie brother farmers reeen it. .1 Did he come knocking at their door in need of food and abetter, they would ale him to their firesides and to their boscinate and cherish him and do him good. tut! he has accumulated shekels and lands nd herds. And of all his possessions t ese herds are the greateet grievance. They are animals of beauty and of recognized par nti- age, and for some years it has been Far er Greenway's-pleasure and privilege to cri,riTy them round to the fall fairs and carry a ay bis hat hill of ribbons and diplomas, to , the great displeasure of other exhibitors.. year he saw his mistake, and he exhib ted his herd, but did not compete for prizes; But the mischief was done. The steel ad entered into the farmers' souls, and the re- fused to be placated. "Look at this an and -his fancy cattle," they cry. " Wihen he was called to be Premier he had harallY enough money to take him to WinniPeg Did he save all this out of his salary ?:' I i Then there are others who are charging t[ up to the good old farmer the sins of the Ottawa Government. Before election, hey claim, they were promised huge reduct on on the duty of farm implements. T ese promises, never fulfilled, have left in t em a bitterness for all that bears the nam of Liberal. It is useless to point out' to t ese folks that they should be patriotic and ene courage home industries. They claim ha( patriotism in certain forms is too umeh of a luxury for everyday use—and this. is one of them. They apparently think thit e patriotism composed of Canadian Pa WS Railway freight rates and a tax in the s ape of a heavy duty on articles most neede in developing an agriculbural country req to be freely diluted with advantagea, t at all palatable. ire" be But with all th;rdrawbacks, there are strong probabilities that the next elec ion will find Premier Greenway still holdinglthe reins of government. Even if the Cense va4 (1 tives do claim that they will sweep the eastern part of the province and that nlY a tew seats in the west are doubtful; even if the story is true that he expressed a vtish that the Free Press office would bern down; even if he has become rich and is in- clined to act rudely towards his pogrer friends; even if he has turned in his later days to the seducing smiles of the big rile way • yes even 0 these and a lot nore things have happened, the chances are taat Farmer Greenway will yet be,Premier w ell the ballots are counted after the uext e ern tion. He has in his favor the greatest of all Government arguments—a good harvest. The voter with a fill stomach and pocket, book is not in the humor to find much flub with hie surroundings or with the Govern- ment. Then he will have the assistance of election machinery of the most perfect kind, and in sparsely settled communities this , works with more effect than elsewhere. And, after all, Mr. Greenway's ten years' record in offiee is not a bad one. He has attended etrietly to business, and if his ex- penditures and bonuses have been liberal, why, that is not only the name of his party, but the sYstem used by the greater men who hold session in the Washington of the north. - . As to when the elections will take place, wise men of the west are inclined to think some time between the end of harvest and • I Canada. —A lumber famine is reported in Mani- toba. —Assessment Connnissioner Hall thinks the population of Hamilton this year will be between 54,000 rind 55,000. —Rev. Armstrong Black, who comes to Canada to take charge of St. Andrew's church, Toronto, has arrived in that city. — Brantford Will build a new Itelation Hospital, and tiiike a large addition to the John 11. Stretford Hospital. —The grain elevator of R. W. Burrell, at Caledon East, destroyed by fire Thurs- day, it was the work of an incendiary. • —Herman Hoehne, of Hespeler, has been arrested on a Charge of sending obscene photod and pnblications through the mail8W — Willie Hon ton, a Chatham boy, has been committed for trial for manslaughter in connection ith the shooting of LyelI Stephens. —The Pouton se will come up at th Cobourg Assizes, which open on September 19. Some 25 itemises have been sum owned by the, pr seention. —Mr. George ; Tuokett, of Hamilton, offers $1,500 an ere for a little over seven acres of Vietori Park, in that city, to use for building 1 • ts for his employees. --Robert 8. D while driving a other day, was s by lightning. ed. , —Mr. Wm. F rater, near Peterboro', was struck by ughtn- g during a recent storm and instantly kil ed, while harrowing with a team of horses n his son's field. —A. p. Hodgi s has been arrested at Pe- trolea on a charg of -attempting to set fire to the store whi h he was occupying as a confectiOnery an bake shop. —John Halton a patient at St. Joseph's hospital, London died there Friday night, aged 35 years. eceseed stepped on a rusty nail some time a o, which caused laokjaw. —A geld . brie from the Mikado Mine, containing over a thousand ounces and valued at betw en $17,000 and $18,000 passed through Port Arthur, the other day. — A cyclone p eed over Oil City, a small village near St. homes, Thureday evening. Several buildings were unroofed and fences were blown down while a couple of people were injured by ying debris. — Mr. T. Eat° , head of the Eaton de- partmental store, Toronto, was thrown from his carriage on lIl turday, and received a severe injury to liIe thigh, besides several scratchers and br hum - Gohier,I the young daughter of Edouard Gohier,Jnanager of the Jacques Cartier Bank at tt. Cunegonde, was killed Thursday nightbr a desk in her father's office falling on h r. Freem and a sailor, Nelson Al- tur, of the Toren o bark Lisgar, wrecked in Lake Huron, wer picked up alive after be- ing afloat in a em 11 boat for 91 hours. The remainder of the rew perished. —An attempt as made to rob the Union Bank, at Smith's ells, the other night, but the would be urglare were frightened away by a couple 1 bank clerks who were sleeping bn the pr unties. 1—The 2 year•ol eon of George Turner, employed as a fee er at the Walker cattle barns'Walkervil e, was fatally scalded ThuredaY. Whil playing at a neighbor's house the child fel into a pan of boiling water. —A deputation 1 farmers from Minneeota passed through Wnnipeg, on Saturday, on 'their way home, a ter selecting a locality in Edmonton district to which they, together with aboot twent -five families, will move this fall. , —A little child f William Alexander's, toll -keeper on the ondon and Port Stanley road, just outside 1 S. Thomas, wandered away front home ThOrsday afternoon, fell into Kettle creek, nd was drowned before aseistrince could re eh her. --During the re ept on of Mr. Bertram, of the Canadian Bi ley team, at hie home in Dundee, George Bell was thrown from a rig by the seat bcconii unfagtened. He fell on, a pile of stones .on his head, and died from the effects of his rjuriee. -- Mr. E. B. Eddy, he big match man, has just returned from the wee. He proph- esies that in lees t an 25 years there will be mere people est- of Rat Portage than there is now in a 1 Canada, and that Winnipeg will be the rade centre. --Master Harrydeeon of Mr. N. P. Clark, C. ;E., of Omemee, age fourteen years, met with an unfortunate a cident on Saturday last. In 4escending fr m an apple tree he fell bead frst from a 1 dder and, alighting on his hands, broke bo h arms at the wrists. -le-Duda his absene receettly, the resi- dence of Lr. A. 3. B 1, a prominent law- yer of All ,ton, was en red and nearly $300 worth of j wellery, sibs rware, and clothing, comprising the wedding gifts he had received at his marriage a few mienthe ago was carried off. —Whid working in saw mill at Brae - bide, the other 'day, rank Reid, an ern-' ployee, lost his life.• large piece of board flew from a machine at which he was work- ing and struck himin he groin, cutting the main artery. He bled to death in a few minutes. —The Radial Elect "c Railway office was ,-robbed at Hamilton o Monday, $300 being stolen from the safe. samuel Scott, an em- ployee of the railway company, lockeeup the office, and he says he keys were stolen from his clothes after e had gone to sleep at home. --Miss Annie Rodm , of Brantford, fell suddenly in the mide of a crowd at the Union etation,• Toron vo, on Monday, and was immediately rem ved to the Emer- gency Hospital, where sbe died of rheum- atism of the heart twe ty minutes after her iktpaarrival.a r—.ser. —During nvr.ieaindgaea r Burtch, a farmer living about Palermo, hich o. hursday about nbon, hunderstorm w two miles from there, ad a valuable team of horses struele and ins ntly killed by light- ning. Hie son, a yonn man in charge of the team, received the hock, which stunned him and partly peril zed one side of his body. —The position of au rintendent of Far- mers' Institutes' rende ed vacant i,y the re- tirement of Mr. F. W. Hodson, has been filled by the appointm nt of Mr. George C. Creelman, of Toronto. Although Mr. Creel - man has been for a cou le of years in the insurance baseness, e has considerable He was raised on a inard, living near Platen, am of horses to water the ruck and instantly killed he horsewere also kill - equipment for his task. farm near Ccdlingwood. .He graduated from Guelph Agricultural College in 1886, and immediately accepted the chair of biology in the Mississipi State Agricultural and Mechanical Cent -Se,' where - he continued a number of years. He is' credentialled by the State authorities. Mr. Creelman is a son-in-law of Principal Mills, of Guelph Agricultural College. a collision with a barge, a large steel : frieghter, was sunk in the St. Marys river, on Wednesday of last week,, thus impeding, to a great extent, lake traffic for the larger !vessels. The boat sank so as to almost ' completely block the channel. It was die- ' lodged on Sunday by dynamite, and some 200 vessels, which were in waiting, were en- ,abled to proceed. , —The summer theatre at Pinafore.-prk, 'St. Thomas, belonging to the Street Rail - :way Company, was blown down by a terrific storm that peened over that city about eight; lo'clock Thursday night. The players were preparing for the performance, which was to start at 8 30, when the building col- lapsed. One of them was seriously injured but the others escaped. —Charles Broadbent, 30 years of age, a 'fireman on the Canadian Pacific Railway, was killed tin Sunday night at Myrtle. Broadbent was on his way from Toronto Junction with a train, and while it was passing through Myrtle he leaned oub of the caboose window. Instantly the unfortunate man's head mime with a terrific thud against the side of the water tank, crushing his skull and dislocating his neck. ' —Robert Crozier, of Burford, had an ex- perience a few evemings ago that he will not ieadily forget. His cattle strayed away, nd in hunting them be sunk in a soft 'spot ad found he was mired. Unable to extri- cate himself he shouted loudly for help, but without response. The dog hunted up the nettle and brought them to where Mr. Croz- ier was, and he, watching- his opportunity, ;eized hold of a cow's tail and succeeded in etting onto eolid ground. ' —A terrible thresshing nrachine accident happened on the farm of Edward Costello, a few miles east of Lindsay, by which Idichael Powers, a lad of 19 years, lost his life. The young man at the close of the day's work was cleaning tip the machinery, Vehen a part of the woodwork he was stand- ing on gave way. He fell into the machine. Mid went through it, passing out to his fellow -laborers on the top of the stack in a horribly mangled and torn condition. He lived but a few houre. —A carpenter named Christopher Kelly met with a serious accident at Seaman it Kent's new factory, just west of the King street subway, Toronto, on Saturday morn- itig. He was at work on a temporary plat. form, on the third story of the building, When he slipped and fell to the ground floor, aldistanee of about one hundred feet. Several projections broke the force of the fall, how- ever, and he was conscious when he was picked up. Although no bones were broken, hie was injured internally. —A remarkable occurrence is reported fecnn East Zorra. The fifteen -month old daughter of John MeGahan, 12th line, aaW ruInne little ,pigs running loose in the orchard apd started to ran after them. The pigs, of course, equealed in fright, and the old mother came racing to their rescue. She grabbed the little one by the clothes and pelted her down. Then the brute jumped on her with her fore -feet, and tried to bite her in the face. She was in the act of wiorrying the child, when Miss Bridgman, a visitor at W. A. Harwood'., heard the noise, and pulled the child away just in the nick of time. —A terribly sudden accident occurred in Tpronto the other night by which William Struthers Davidson, aged 14, was killed al- most instantly. Willie and about a half dbzen other boys were playing with a child's small tricycle. They had been tak• ing turns riding the machine and had for a tine ceased playing. Willie was standing in the Centre of th group, and had one foot on the pedal and the other on the curbing, stiddenly the wheel slipped from him and he loist hie balance. He fell on the ground and struck his head on the curbing. He was rendered unconscious and died soon after- wards. —The agricultural implement manufac- tirrers of Ontario fear they will be.ve to raise their prices on account of the increase in pOces of raw iron and sted. The other day a dozen manufacturers at, the Toronto Ex- hibition held an informal !electing, and talk- ed it over. The feeling in favor of a raise was uhanimous, and it is likely that an im- mediate advance of from 5 to 10 per cent. will be made to agents. This, the manufac- turers may, will not by any means compen- sate them for the large increase in the price of raw materials. Tee implements likely to be effected are binders, Mowers, reapers, rakers, plows, cultivators, and other ordin- ary implements. e—Little Etta May Ferguson, the eix-year old daughter of Mr. Wm. Ferguson, of Bers hu, narrowly escaped being burned to death the other morning. She was upstairs for a time, and the Bret warning of danger that was seen was when thee little girl ran shrieking into Mrs. Hetes apartments of the house, her clothing ablaze. The child wad very badly burned about the arms and upper part of the body. Her father, who mothered the flames, had his hands so badly burned that they had to be bandaged, and he is now in'the hoepital, unable to feed himself. Tiley vi ere both taken to the hospital. There is some hope ter the little girl. • --During the recent heavy thunderstorm, Mr. Thomas Kinsman's house, in Stratford, 147/S struck by lightning. The ridge pole was splintered and the fluid then ran down a water pipe into -the ground. - L-Tacsday night of last week, burglars entered F. G. Sanderson's drug store, in St. Merys, and extracted $10 from the till. The same night, Enright's book store was brnken -into, but only 40 cents was secured. The burglars were apparently after money only, as none of the stock in either store was touched. —Thomas Crawford, a respected resident of Carlingford, died very suddenly on Sun-. date 3rd inst. On Saturday he was appar- ently enjoying his lomat health till the evening, when two of his little children, who were in another room, commenced screaming loudly, when he hastened to their assistance, thinking probably they bad met with some mishap On investiga- tion nothing nnwinal was noticed, and the tether shortly afterwards retired for the night, complaining slightly of the fright he had received and expressing the opinion that he would be all right in a short time. Upon his not appearing at the usual hour in the morning, his brother went to his room, and, on tailing him, received no answer. Upon entering the room the brother found him breathing heavily, and in a short time the soul had left it,s earthly domain, called hence by its Maker. The departed was in the prime of life, being only 341 years of age, and leaves a widow and four children to mciurn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and father.