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The Huron Expositor, 1899-12-01, Page 124, _18910 ift.„34.01 tailing' succeeds like that's what we are all businese means rade where they feel rperity, They knave are is 'letfled with trattention because volume of trade and ietory. the interests of our xterit that no expenee eirs a modern atore, says nee de the very rootrespecial arranges rio as to make it Melib int for the ria to cle e to keen pace. with erous and -there are- al to 'wines is the and stylish goods be.. allowing old stook cash price* 31E4 us intending bayers to specials' mentioned call to learn whet S , ituffs, Oolja Lets. winter -defying furs, 5 much need, The -ge and now is the re Ate cold weather get. the full benefit will not be lower. irfurs are higher to- ught. You get the 43 --**3 CAPES arge stock of beth, ie very newest cuts will not be such sit the needy te come rill do in the way of losing made eetey by _ d sizea. Tea: nedeenee_ DS int Dress Ends. weights and styles )(is ; a stock of select ive never had before laid, shywing leteet ich flannels showing ungement, NISHINCS as,. Floor Oils, Curtain Drape - pedal attention at ' s well Assorted for Wool: Blankets, - Casings, Linen I Towels - inland arid we are :a o a large trade macre heavy ironer - • Buying From 'SUNDRIES, JERWEAR, HOSIERY, LEFS AND ND UL is co. est Cask Store. The programme y Mr. Clark and hers. The ; music Ingham, choir, and • the large andir e evening amenn Howickdi most Pected young bacb- di and telten the heart led ;him t� son, East Wawa- ey, 15th inst., Mr. d ill marriage to ter Agnes-, in the five gue8ts-0024y as the wedding Mies Ercly, Mr. e groom to thee the appearance Of ,o be a oharmin loostuine a steel and cream satin ded by liereister, [retty white Swis$. itronouneed theta eigratulations die!. a to the dining wedding teai entertained to- * The remaindey in, dancing suet til morning 1' the best ; evidhe* lliday when set' f life in their home - Sion of Hodrink- Keefe, wits rus 4, on Weddendsie THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,668. HAT IS owlAAAAA•wywwwoo , What constitutes that whichl is commonly known by the name bargain, a very rnueh abused term by the way? 141 SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, ECEM13ER 1, 189 McLEAN BROS.. Publishers: $1 a Year in Advance. Is it good• bargaining to purchase an article because it is sup- posed to be cheap? We have heard of people buying goods, and then laying their purchase aside in a chest or store room, to be handy and ready for use when some junior member of the family grows up. The • habit is rather amusing in its way, if it had not in- evitably attached to it the sin of wastefulness. The error of bargain chasing is more particularly the short- coming of women than men, owing in a measure, no doubt, to the fact her cash on hand being limited gen- • erally, she naturally holds the purse strings somewhat tightly; conseqaently, the economical soul grasps wildly at anything which has the word -bargain glar- ingly spelled out upon it. To our mind, there is no such thing as a bargain, apart of any article which you may really need of, or have use for, which article suits your fancy, is in keeping with your requirements, and is also satisfactory. Or, to put the matter concisely, when you buy good. full value, in that—land that alone—is to be found the sen- sation that people desire when they chase after bar- gains. We desire to again dr w your atte are showing and selling as and Ladies Fur Jackets as Western Ontario. Of cour man in the business has ,a All that we ask you to do come and see for yourself. tion to the fact that we ne a line of Fur Coats and - there is to be found in e, that is just what every atural inclination to s4y. support of our.claim-is to The mention of la few special lines, with t e prices attachod, may be a interest to buyers of good values. Buckskin Pants hold, supreme sway as a pant; it wears well, looks well—alt an essential,—and then the price is The fleece -lined Underwear which we sell garment, either shirt or drawers, m priced as some lines in the marke holds its own with all others for vah rst class every4y lough bhat is not easy, viz., $1.0O.: t - 50c and 75c a y not be as low but- it certainly e. • When you are in need of a home knit mitt we have a quan- • tity at 350 and 50c a pair. • Have you found any difficulty in buying ti e right sizes of BoysUnderwear ? If so, it may b helpful to know that we have three lines of Boys' nderwear at 75c, $1, and $1,25 a suit, in all sizes. own make of Men's Suits at $8 and $ 0 prove satisfac- tory to every wearer; that is the bet we desire to say for these lines. Our There has been an awakening in the sale of Boys' Suits with us. This may be taken as an evidence of the full • value we are giving in a two-piece suit. at $2.50, and in a boys' three-piece suit at $3.50, A Brace which stands strong wock at 25c, may be a needful article with you some day; remember we have it. A. nice dress glove at 65c and 85c for men, is at present a selling line. Our list of prices might include collars, cuffs, handkerchiefs, night gowns, ties, shirts, hosiery, overcoats, mufflers, hats, caps, smocks, odd coats, pea jackets'rain coats, umbrellas, made to order suits and overcoats, etc, roig & Macdollal Clothiers and Furnishers On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG BLOCK, SEIFORTH Special round trip second class excursion tickets to Pacific coast points, and Seattle and Tacoma, W. T., and Portland, Oregon, at $77.90; and Kootenay, British Colum- bia points, at $72.90. Also at same rates to intermediate paints on direct routes, will be issued via C. P. R. from Sea - forth on November 21st and December 5th and 19th, 1899. Apply at the office for further particulars. Tickets issued to all points East and.West. Telegraph and money order business respectfu* solicited. R. J. MACDONAL C. P. R. AGENT, Seaforth. FROM THE QUEEN CITY. TORONTO' 1November 27th 1899. __ Politicians in Toronto are beginning to • suspeit that Premier Roes is sincere in his desire for a general house-cleaning. It is also intimated that the Ontario judiciary haiPbeen instructed to search the law thor- oughly, so that a decision may be rendered against "the machine" whenever possible. At any rate, old politioians say it is some- thing more than a soincidence,-thae as soon as Mr. Ross comes into power the judges discover a very effective handle against the machine which they never noticed before— namely, that membership in the local party association in any constituency and attend- ance as a delegate at nominating conven- tions makes such a person an agent of the PrIiamentary oand,idate. It was in this way that C. . Brower (Conservative) was unseated in 1ut Elgin the other day, and it is in these e way that the Hon. J. T. Garrow may be unseated in West Huron. This will have a strong tendency to make the rank and file of both parties more care- ful as to the character of those whom they admit to the inner councils." It is hard on a candidate to be unseated because some impetuous or wrong headed crank, who has edged his way into a convention as a dele- gate, and has been unwise enough to bet his money on the result of the election, starts ars injudiciously ile in the pool dates and all to be careful. diens out and spends a few d In the hope of inoreasin box: But it will teach others who are intere It is going to the real sea A FOOL FAD. The Cawthra-Adamson weddin took place here lest week and which way up" society, introduced a f which bids fair to be followed at fashionable nuptials. The bride's et dog in satin leading strings and with a sat oinch was led in by one of th la brides- maids, and was a decorous spectato of the ceremony. THE FATAL GUN. The prevalence of the gun habi among burglars in Toronto brings to light he fact that our policemen are very poorl equip- ped to apprehend such desperadoes. In the day time they carry no • revolvers, and at night only half the patrol are arm d with -anything more dangerous than night stick. Some policemen have been on the force three yeetre and over—a good s art of which has been spent on night du y—and they have never carried a revolver, except at target practice. s I purchase of some butter, was by consent re- ferred to Judge Doyle as special referee.. ' Bobier ve. Bissett, and Bobier vs. Crls ing, the corporation of Exeter being With Binett and Carling as co-defendants, was an action to recover a sum said to belong to a sinking fund of the said corporation. The evidence showed that the councili of 1897, (of which the plaintiff, Bobier, was reeve'had by motion of council agreed to put by one mill dn the anesement as a sink°. ing fund to capital account of the town hall, but that when the tax by-law to raise money was passed, no mention was made of the "one mill," but n mills was raised by the by-law to meet payments on railway and town hall indebtedness, and that one of the sum so raised the charges for railroad debentures and interest on town hall debt were also met. After paying these items a sum of $118 was left, which was dely carried to 1898 as a credit to these funtis. On the 5th day of January, 1898, the conn - oil of 1897 passed a motion in council to pay a sum of between four and five hundred dollars to the town hail sinking _fund ace count, and thus the matter stood when the council of 1898 assumed control. The plaintiff, Bobier, contending the motion ot January 5th was binding on the new nun- oileentered an action for its perfoimarice against the parties as above stated. The defendants held that as there was not a sufficient Burn on hand to meet •the requite- ments of the resolution of the 5th of Jan- uary, they could not carry it out, and they further contended that the motion being -the—der f a defunct counoil was ultrti vine, the sttjt� prohibiting all such expendi- tures. e plaintiff held that the resole- ]] to pay one mill to the sinking fund sho , i be cOnsidered as binding, but the defeni • ti held that the motion was to no purpose, as it was not given effect in the tax by-law that passed shortly after t1:1e the learned judge, who held that the said motion of one mill was carried. Whi e the case was in progress it was stopped 1)7 ommission of the one mill in the by-law was fatal to plaintiff's action, and after fur- ther argument on the minor points, judg- ment was given for the defendants with costs. .9 BASE BALL. • , Whatever may become of prof estonal base ball in Toronto next season, mateur base ball is going to flourish. T e City League and the Manufacturers' League will be the two leading aggregati •ns—six clubs in each. The attendance at the. oham- , 1 pionship games between the City an Man- ufacturers' leagues last eeason was s tittle - factory that the Manufacture* League will lease the old Upper Canada College grounds for the coniing season and will erect a grand stand there. AN INTERESTING CEREMONY. An intereating religious ceremony took place in the chapel of the monastry of the Precious Blood, St Joeeph street, when Miss Skimin, the youngest daughter of the late John Skirnin of Brantford, Ontario in reli- gion Sister Mary of the Holy Redeemer, professed her final . vows. Archbishop O'Connor officiated. ' The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood was founded about 1865 in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, by Mother St. Catharine, and the order has since gr wn quite rapidly, there being now seven h *uses in Canada, with two in the United Stet e. In the Toronto house, which is their sec nd establishment, there are 42 sisters. It 's the only cloistered re, ligious order in th city, their time being devoted to prayer and contemplation, and they support the selves by making the vestments used in he services of the church. The drees of the Sisters is peculiar and,! differs from that f other communities in that the habit wor is white, with a wide flowing scapular 0 red, reaching almost) to the feet. One of he rules obliges the Sis- ters to rise every •ight between 12 and 1 o'clock to pray. A OUT FISH: , A number of Toronto capitalists are inter- ested in the establishment of a caviare fac- tory somewhere iist Northern Ontario. Be- ginning at Georgian Bay, and taking the inland lakes as f r north as Lake of the Woods, the water teem wieh fish, and par- ticularly with at rgeon, many of them of the costly caviare variety. The sturgeon, unlike other fish, have no regular time for 'spawning, and so may be caught with ad- vantage all the ye r round. •At present the fishing is not carr ed o elystematically, but is in the hands of a 1 t Zit- pot, fishers, who work at it inter ittently, and send their sturgeon recto N w York for preparation. They get 75 cen a a pound for it, and a good sturgeon sorpetimes yields as much as 25 pounds of roe. The New York people furnish the fisher en with a special grade of salt with whic to drench the roes, and • they do the rest. The possibilities instur • geon fishing may e estimated from the fact that two Niagara fishermen, who go up to • Georgian Bay for three months every fall— and Georgian Bay is not the best sturgeon water in Canada -e -clear $500 each season. • They fish in the most persistent way, with a long line strung with baited hooks, but the sturgeon are so eager that all the fisher- men have to do is to take them off the hooks. -Of course, they are not all caviare sturgeo, but even then the meat is worth six cents a pound on the market, and yields a fair profit. The caviare factory is a possibility of the early spring, and the company' may go in not only for making the ,oaviare, but also for catching the stur- geon. • The High Court of' Justice. The fall term of the High Court of Justice for this county was held at Goder- ich last week, before Mr. 'Justice Street. There were seven cases on the list and they wer disposed of as follows: Reid vs. Reid, an action to recover a piano was postponed till next court. Patrick vs. Patrick, was an alimony suit, the wife having been sometime separated from her husbend through unpleasantness in the family. His Lordship gave judg- ment for the defendant, who had to pay plaintiff's costs, and the trend of the case will be understood by a sentence in the judgment, "A widow who marries a wid- ower with a grown up family must expect a certain amount of unpleasantness." Drake vs. Drake another alimony case, occupied the attention of the court all Tues- day afternoon, but on Wednesday morning it was announced that a settlement had been affected, the husband paying his wife $1,500, the wife to pay her own expenses. Murray vs. McIver, an action to recover a legacy, was decided in favor of plaintiff for $100 without costs. • Zinkann vs. Baler, an action on account through a business transaction about the •Th Crops Of Ontario. 1 THE FARMERS ARE DOING. ollowing is the fall report of the Onta io Bureau of Industries, based upon the ports ot numerous correspondents in all p rts of the Province. it will be' found inter sting and profitable reading - THE WEATHER. The most noteworthy feature of the chree monflis' period, August October was the ilea and drouth of August, the temperal tur being over three degrees- above the' av rage, and the rainfall only .81 inches. Th e was followed •by abundant rain in Se • tember and October, the weather of the for r month being cooler than usual, while °toiler was four degrees above mean temper ture. Til 011 ALL WHEAT. Owing no oubt to t unsatisfactory ex- perience of this season th acreage devoted to fall wheat has been, i anything, some- what reduced. Reports,, from many of the western counties ndicate a decrease which will be hardly cot inter -balanced by some in- crease in LaOn ario counties. The time of -seeding covers it wider range than usual owing to the dryness of the ground, which induced many farmers to postpone sowing until late in the season in the hope of rain. As usual, most of/the work appears to have been do in the earlier half of September, the ground ost localities being in good condition, apart from the lock of moisture: The young plants are generally looking well, having received the benefit of later rah's; and although somewhat backward in places seem promieiug and cover the ground well, having a heavy top. There are few complaints of insect pests, except that, Hessian fly, the joint worm and Wire worm have done some damage. There is little change in the varieties sown, Dawson's Golden Chaff and Red Clawson retaining their popularity, while the Manchester, Genessee Giant and Democrat come next on the list. BARLEY. I There has been an exceedingly good arop of barley in all parte of the Province. The yield is large and excellent in quality, the berry being usually plump and bright, , though in some instances discolored,. The crop has suffered but little from parasites, though a few cases of smut and rust are mentioned by correspondents. OATS. There has been a particularly finecrop in nearly all localities, the grain being gener- ally full and heavy and the product per acre in excess of the average. Grasshoppers and smut have wrought some injury in a few neighborhoods, but the principal and most widespread drawback has been rust. The late sown orops have been specially subject to its attacks, and have also been lighter than those planted early in the season. PEAS. The pea weevil or "bug," as it is popular- ly termed, has wrought much havoc with this crop, but for which the crop would have been above the average, as reports from localities which are free from the pest are mainly favorable. There has also been some damage from excessive rains. Peas appear to have done - considerably better in the eastern counties than elsewhere e • * CORN. This has been a bad year for corn. Much of it matured too early, the ears being small and light, and there were serious losses from frost and floods, so that there will be considerable shortage in the crop. There will be a fair yield for silage in the west and the Lake Ontrario counties, but further east and north the crop is decidedly poor. There is but little fnention of insect pests, the only noteworthy cause of loss under this head being , the destructive attacks of grasshoppers in one or two neighborhoods. TOBACCO. There has been a great falling off in the cultivation of tobacoo, and there are but few reports concerning this produce by our cor- respondents. It appears to have been gen- erally successful where grown. CLOVER SEED YIELD. A very large proportion of the clover crop was winterkilled, and consequently the yield of seed under any circumstances would have been much below the average. Cor- respondents are almost unanimous in stating that the 1 routh has so injured the second crop that very little seed has been secured. The midge has also proved destruotive in many neighborhoods. The few favorable reports reeeived are mostly from the eastern section of the Province. roverond. The potato orop is for the most part of excellent eduality, having been housed in sound condttion and free from disease, ex- cept in. a few localities where rot - has ap- peared, which in some cases attacked the -crop after it was taken up. The plant has 300• Cloth Covered Books BY POPULAR AUTHORS, " Regular Price 50e, now 25e. 200 Writing Tablts REGULAR PRICE 10o NOW 5c. 110.1•••••••0. Oblong or Square Envelopes to match, twenty-five for five cents. 1 ALEX. WINTER, SEAFOR been iemarkably free from injury fro seat pests. The effect of the drou numerous, neighborhoods has seri in- h in • usly diminished the yield. The comparati le ef- fect of early and late planting has been Very variable. In th planted seem gen ter than the each eastern counties weetern section the later rally to have yielded bet - Br varieties, while in the he reverse was the case in some instance's. 1The exceptionally fine fall weather vras spedially favorable to the se- curing of the crop. TURNIPS. The drouth has seriously injured the tur- nips in common with other crops, and the yield as a rule has been light in all sections. The best returns. have come from those sown early in the season. Insect ravages are reported from many quarters, some damage hiving been done by cabbage worms and grasshoppers. The crop has been near. ly all got in in good condition. MANGELS. The yield of rnsagele has been on the whole satisfactory, more eepecially in the Lake Erie counties, though, the effect of the dry weather in many localities is noticeable in light yields and small roots. The quality of the crop es a rule is &st- olen, and the great bulk of it has been safe- ly got under cover. oannoes. Reports as to the carrot crop indicate a fair production, probably somewhat below the average by means of the drouth, owing to which the development of all root crops has been unfavorably affected. In some of the western counties considerable damage by grasshoppers is noted. Iowa AN FRUIT TREES. The condition of,fruit trees and vines as a rule is excellent, the principal drawbacks being the effects of drouth in a few localities, injuries from winds and recent •snowstorms, and more especially the damage inflicted by tent and forest caterpillare, which has been severe where spraying has been neglected. These and other ineects—notably the cod- ling—have seriously affected the apple crop, much of the fruit being wormy and inferior. Another cause of shortage was the heavy rain while the trees were in blossom, which interferred with fertilization. • In most fruit -producing sections there was, how- ever, a considerable surplus, especially of apples, over local demands, and many heavy shipments are noted', though the crop on the whole was much below the average. The quality was very variable. But little mention is made of the San Jose scale, and curculio and blackknot are hardly as much in evidence as formerly. PASTURES ANP LIVE STOCK. Fall pasturage as a rule has not been good, the fields in most hicalities being dry and bare until a comparatively late period in the season, when they were revived to Immo ex- tent by the heavy rains. Live stock are re- ported in a very healthy condition, though thin for the meet part in consequence of short pasture, but there is no allesion to any form of animal disease by any of our correspondents. Very little has been done in any part towards fattening stock for mar- ket, and a great many cattle have been sold off as stockers at good prices, so that there is a decided scarcity of ealable cattle in many parts, more especially in eastern On- tario. The practice of stall feeding- appears to be falling off to porno extent. Sheep where kept have generally done well, and in some instances farmers find it profitable to fatten sheep and lambs on rape. Hoge are plentiful, and are continually being shipped to market, but present prices are low, and if continued will have a tendency to dis- courage hog -raising. There is plenty of fodder in all localitiee for the winter's sup- ply, especially of cora and course feed, but the hay crop has been light and it commands a high price in many places. Some corres- pondents also notice a shortage in roots. Corn has been very largely grown for fodder purposes, both as ensilage and dry feed. The use of the silo is steadily increasing, though the partial failure of the corn -crop in some neighborhoods has operated against the movement. The almost universe' allege material is corn, the leading varieties used being the Learning, Mammouth Seuthern, Compton's Early and Yellow Dent. 1 THE DAIRY OUTPUT. The diary industry, though injured to some extent by the dryness of the season, has on the whole been flourishing under the stimulus of good prices. In any parts, more particularly in the west, the ma,nnfac- ture of butter is gaining upon th t ofcheese, though the latter still generally maintains the lead as a factory product. The move- ment for the manufacture of butt r in cheese factories in the winter season as • become general. There is a noticeable i proveinent in the quality of the butter outp t, and the price is universally higher than 1 st season. There is little change in the bre ds of cattle kept for milk. The Durham g ade retains its old-time predominance as a eneral pur- pose cow, but in the eastern 3ou ties, where oheesemaking is a specialty and beef quali- ties less regarded, the Ayrshire and Hol- stein strains are much in favor. POULTRY. The returns regarding the poeltry indus- try are generally of a highly qncouraging character, indicating that fa ere in all parts ars devoting more care an41 attention to this department and engagin in poultry raising more extensively thai hitherto. The profits have been good wherever fowls have received proper treatment. The egg production has been above the average, and prices have been remunerative. A large number of turkeys are ready for the market in some parts though the season was not too favorable iter raising them succeisfully. Poultry generally are in fine condition, • and there has been but little disease of any kind. • THE AVIARY. Bees wintered badly, many hives having been lost. The season has been very an. favorable for honey production there being little nectar avaible and the supply of honey will be a good deal short of the aver- • age and the quality is frequently inferior. There have been but few swarms. .The bees as a rule are in a healthy condition, there being but little mention made of ;foul brood. Owing to the light yield of honey it will be necessary in many cases to supply coloniea with winter food. THRESHING AND MARKETING. Threshing has been finished, except in a few localities, the work being lighter than usual by reason - of the shortage in the wheat crop. A comparatively smallpor- tion of the product has as yet been market- ed as farmers are not disposed to let their wheat go at the prevailing prices where they can afford to hold it. Barley, eats and peas have been sold freely where a scar- ping was available. But an increasingly large percentage of the coarse grains is re- tained for stook raising, FALL PLOUGHING. The fine autumnal weather has enabled farmers to make good progress with their fall ploughing, as the ground for the most part, was in splendid condition, excepting in a few localities, where operations were de- layed somewhat by drouth. Late harveste is &nether retina assigned by some cores- pondents for backwardness. Generally, howeyer, conditions have heen highly, favor- able,14nd advantage has been taken of them to get the work done early. In some in- staines the ground has been ploughed over more than once to kill out weeds and to in - cretin fertility. FARM IMPROVEMENTS. There has been fair progress made in un- der -draining, the work being chiefly dime by hand, tile drain machines not having givee !satisfaction as a rule. • A great deal of fencing has been done, principally wire. Barbed wire has gone out of vogue, and plain iand woven wire fences, with iron posts appear to be most in favor, although some appear to prefer a combination of wood and wire. An unusual amount of im- provement has ,aliso been made in farm buildins, more especially in bank barns, etc. - del Exscaroll, ply of f exodus the de tin of he rm 1 of a from Ontario some are of o increase in fa the near futu of wages now of agriculture that improv farmers more side help. 1) are report d s ABOR AND WAGES. arvest tithe, when there was a p in many -quarters the sup - borers basbeen sufficient for Correspondents report the arge number of young men farms to the Northwest, and inion that this will mean an m wages in the Province • in e. Others claim that, the rate paid is as high as employers labile can afford to give, and machinery is rendering nd more independent of out - metal(' servants on the farm arce, as usual. —Mr. F an pointed p liee — The Owen received ali or 000 chairs. — Knox $6, to t ury‘nd. — epos ts in the Post Office Savings Banl4s in Qctober exceeded the withdrawals by $125,O0. — Thomas Hazzard was working in a sewer in Weodst ck, Thursday. It caved in on him. He 'as nearly killed. —The body of an unknown man was found on the Grand Trunk track near Corn- wall the othe day. i —Mr. C Brower was nominated for the Legislativ Assembly by the Conserva- tives of East !gin. —The Briti h exports to Canada in the three months since June 30th, have in- creased 16 per cent. ' — The Ont rio Agricultural College at Guelph has hipped ten cars of dressed poult y to Li rpool. —r. Abra am Montague, of East Nis- souri, is the C nservative nominee in Ncrrth Oxforl for th Legislative Assembly. — hree ca es of small -pox have been reported in the family of Matthew Henry, treasrer of the township of Maidstone. —Three hundred girls, employed at the EagleKnitting Mills, in Hamilton, are out on strike on account of a reduction in the sca—leTtfeywbaogdes.of a man named M anted°, of West, London, was found in the river at Sarnia on Saturday. McIntyre had been miesing for some weeks. — James A. Kennedy, wholesale druggist, of London• died on Saturday. He had been trisubied for some months with nervous trouble,. He was 48 years of age. —Mi. Deslauriers, of Hull, a liquor deal- er, wat nearly killed the other -day by being struck with a piece of glass from an explod- ed porter bottle. —By.• the resignation of Archbiahop Lewis, Bishop Bond, of Montreal, will be- come the senior prelate, in point of cense- erationlin the Dominion of Canada. —During the year 197 wrecks and casu- alties were reported as having occurred in British,Canadian, and foreign sea -going i vessels n Canadian waters, and to Canadian sea -going vessels in other waters. —W. L. Thomas, of Bradford, Ont., a medical student, met death mysteriously at Ironville, a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, early Thursday morning. His body was found under the derrick of an oil well at 9 o'clock. His clothing was wet and bedraggled, and there are contusions on hie head and face. —The illness of Mr. George H. Bertram, M. P. ' for Centre Toronto, has assumed a most serious aspect. 1 The disease which has fastened upon him iti of a geave character, and it is now learne with deep regret that Mr. Bertram will n t be able to take his seat in Parliament again. 4 ----The farmers te the neighborhood of Chntham are reaping quite a harvest with turkeys, geese and ducks, Over 3,500 tur- ketue geese and ducks were bought and kill- edby one Chatham firm for shipment to the old country. Seven cents per pound was pad for live turkeys, and from 25 to 50 ce ts each for ducks and geese. :e -John H. Linton, of East Toronto a G. T. R. brakeman, died at Belleville Hos- pital Saturday- morning, as a resule of in- juries received at Trenton early; that morn- . ing. He was shunting at that station and slipped under a oar, which cut off both legs and arms. • He lived three hours in terrible ageny. He leaves a wife and two children. 4 -Anthony Faubert, a Dover farmer, at- teitipted to beat his way on a G. T. R. ex- press from Chatham, Friday night. When abOut two miles out he was discovered, and one of the train hands pushed him off the train, which was running at a speed of thirty miles an hour, Faubert was nearly killed. Beeides a beetle, dislocated ;Moulder he is terribly bruised and cut. Ie is thoughtthat he will recover. —Jacob D. Shoemaker, who lives about two miles from Berlin, was 100 years old on Friday last, and the event l was celebrated by none of friends gathering at his home to congratulate him, He is the first man ID the county to have attained the century mark. He has five children, 43 grandohil. dren and 47 great-grandohildren nattered Canada. Love, Q. C., has been ap- magistrate of London. SoundOhair factory recently er from Australia for 130, - hu ,ch, Ottawa, will eontribdte e Presbyterian twentieth cent - throughout North America. He was never sick in his life, and bids fair to live for many years, as he is very strong for his age. He was born in Montgomery county, PtHU- slyvania, and came to Waterloo county in 1829, where he has lived ever since. —At the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Sunday morning, Ellen Murphy, an imbecile aged forty years, an inmate for fifteen years, in some unknown manner fell through the elevator passage, a distance of forty feet, and received injuries which caused her death in fifteen minutes. It is a rule of the institution that patients and servants are not allowed to use the elevator. —On Thursday night Alexander Ander- son, a well-known and highly respected resi- dent of Tyendinsiga MIA driving home from Belleville, when a"little east of Shannon- ville the horses ran away and struck a tele- graph pole. Mr. Anderson was thrown out and sustained injuries to his spine and in- ternally,Which resulted inhie death Saturday night. He was, 65 years of age, and leaves a widow and grown-up family. —A. E. Philip, of Brandon Manitoba, _has entered an action against 'Sir Charles Tupper, charging him with slander and defamation of 3htiracter. The slanderous statements were tnade by Sir Charles in a speech in Brandon. The statements ob- jected to were to the effect that Mr. Philip -had taken whisky into the Yukon in viola. tion of the existing regulations, and had peddled the authority from the Government to do this, offering it for $.3,000. —Charles Trebble, of Orillia, aged twelve years died Thursday as a result of a die- tresseng accident. The week before he was on his way to school, and for some reason or other he gotbeneath abridge near A therley. He popped up his head tiesee if the tram was near. The engine struck his head in- flicting an ugly wound. His hat was found later in the afternoon along the track, and a search resulted in finding the unfortunate. lad beneath the bridge. He never regained consciousness. —The report of the factory inspectors for Ontario for 1898 has been issued. Returns of the caeualtiee reported to the inspectora give the number occurring in the western district during the thirteen months em- braced by the report as 110, of which 11 entailed fatal results. 01 these 31 occurred in connection with wood -working, and '26 in metal -working trades. In the central district there were 81 accidents reported, 4 of the number being fatal. Eighteen of the list were due to circular saws. There were not many accidents specified in the returns from the eastern district. —A sad case of accidental shooting, which terminated fatally, took place onsSat- urday evening at Tottenham, Bernard, the fourteen -year-old son of Mrs. Bernard His - len, Adjala, was out shooting with a num- ber of companions, and #ter be had emend a small stream One of the party handed him his gun, muzzle foremost, to take over. He reached for it, and as the owner let the end fall to the ground it went off, the -charge penetrating the abdomen of young Miami. He was carried into a neighbor's house„ where medical attendance was procured, which, however, was of no availeate hegrad- ually sank and passed away at 10o' clock that night. • _Perth Items. —The stallion " Amandtus" which was the came of the great North Easthope syndicate suit, was sold on the market - at Stratford the other day to contribute to the expenses of the suit. The horse was sold to Mr. Frank, of Cassell, Oxford eounty, for $335.• The syndicate bought the horse in 1891 from A. B. Holbert, of Iowa and Israel Eby, of Shakespeare, for $3,000. —A pleasant event occurred at the resi- dence of Mr. Robert Perim, Sidney, Man., on Nov. 1, when his sister Florence was -united in marriage with Mr. Alfred Fulcher, of the same place, both formerly of St. Marys. The officiating clergyman was the Rev, J. 1. Thorne, pastor of the Methodist church. Only the near relatives and intimate friends of the bride were present at the interesting ceremony. —Alex. Sinclair, of St. Marys, returned last week after a visit in Rochester, N. where he was suddenly caded away to the death bed of his dater, Mrs. _Marion Kisling- bury, wife of John Kilsingbury, of Roches- ter. Her death took place on Wednesday, Nov. 8. • Mr. Sinclair had the pleasure of meeting a long lost brother there whom he had not seen or heard tell of for 27 years. Amidst the sorrow there was a happy meet- ing between the two brothers. —Mr. John Wilson died at his residence) in St. Marys on Thursday afternoon, 16th ult., of paralysis of the brain, aged 68 years, The deceased was born in the county of Fermannagh, Ireland, in 1831, and came to' Canada in 1858, and resided for about a year in Brantford. Thence be moved to Blenshard and settled on the Kitchell road, where he lived for some 25 years. He moved to St. Marys some: 15 years ago and has hied retired up to the time of his death. —An esteemed resident and a svell-known figure on the streets of Listowel since the early days, passed away on Thursday, 16th ula, after a short illnees, in the person of Henry Tallman, Main street, weet. Mr. Tallman has been unable to engage in any active employment for the past two or three years, but was enjoying very good health until he took a paralytic stroke that carried hien off after only four days' illness. The deceased was of New England stock and was born near Boston, Mate., on the 20th of April, 1824, being thut in the 76 year off his age, and had been a resident of Listowel for 36 years. —The Millington Messenger, of Milling- ton, Michigan, contains a lengthy notice of the death of Mr. • Ed- mond Sparrow, formerly a livery- man of St. Marys, It says: "For about 13 years Mr. Sparrow was one of our busi- ness men, but some six months ago sold out and left to fill an engagement with his. brother-in-law' ' Mr, Roberts in Illinois'also a former St. Marys man, Very hopefidly he started out for his new work, anticipat- ing a visit to his wife and friends about Christmas. He was taken ill with typhoid fever and died within three weeks. Mr. Sparrow was married in 1872 to Miss Re- becca McRoberts, sister of Mr. Jerry Mc- Roberts, formerly of St. Marys, who with two children survive him." —Last February J. E. Lang, eon of Moses Lang, of Mornington, answered an adver- tisement for young men to work in an office at $45 per month. The advertisement was from the Automobile Carrier Company of London. Lang had an interview with the company, and his father gave a bond for $300 as security for him, which was handed over to the company. Both son and father thought the young man was to get a situa- tion m the London office of the company, but instead, he was given rights to sell the machine in certain districts in the State of Indiana. The young man had given a note for $400 and handed over the father's bond as security. At the assizee at Stratford, last week, the father sued for delivery up of his bond. Judgment was givea for the plain- tiff.