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The Huron Expositor, 1900-08-03, Page 1R00 PERS nathe Dry A are beirfg a 'a tognIar c and the ,by wide ventage of ir trading hangeci ei.r tables r nat teriaIs tem. list of the kiorder to , 'ell as your aa the value re- taken it a place ).ry Goods ,?r,f, both of k at which i‘te e can't .0 he store rightstri and ,plenty of Mg is cheap . be better Ting than a hese mate - see the g! in fancy raid colors. july bar- . ,Jrtreent of "day who eel, marked: 'and to sell Etiietty hard thia store -fristrate te :Lee toin -par- . Cask an. at rest tile long ail for aka effared, Te %p.a. 41114 t tf_ V-ulk ftrtd plenieeti a.. an n sea• ready y nuaritt. sur- ; in I a .17n2-1 , near t out ea., at Ode (1 some • aatnple Will be i Hide- itt ! till: a1 atter a int a rio. natw. «f. %vilest, • Ina den tept that ott ▪ new be• hilt i nn eapol- nnect ion tsiiL of a. flala :FU hc • 1:LI te 1)f den. 1.aactions." 01, .1 - THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. , WHOLE NUMBER, 1,703. SEAFORT 0 / CharaOten4ie of. th.e._IN ation. - a . Generally speaking, the British people are the 'best fed an best dressed people in, the world1 his:fact, for it such, accounts to a great -,extent fo the spirit of inde- pendence.which is. a characteristic of tie Briton al th& world over., Good food and cl thing for genera tions has an effect upon the ginger—which is other- wise called stamina—either in the nail ,or the beast. You cannot raise aIthoroughbred, either four legged .or two legged, and °neglect the food or the fabric_ which is used for the bodily comfort of the creature, This may seena homely reaSoning, perhaps even evoke a Smile, still it -is talk we all can un erstand, and ther is too much, stuff talked nowad ys which no on understands. Our business is t e clothing of a. many people as we can, for which ve are 'looking t be rewarded in the shape of afair profit. That is al we ask from the folloWing lines : ArAr harvest hat in the hou. e at 7c. Sa 25c, either for shirts or drawers. Fedora hats at 50c. Any of the foliowingarticlef3 will be sold the /lathed prices : 'br6e linen_ collars - at 25e;.three-pairs b white laundried shirt no man need 50o; Buckskin cloth; for every. da 20e, and we cut th cloth hpr yo three wash ties fbr'29c any Man' house for 79e, and the cheaper line ing black §ateen shirti, at 50c, will b mer underwear a very- good line o hile they last a ack ,sox.at 25c; e ashamed of for pants, for 159 am free of eharge ; straw hat in the at -25c., a wear - found good value. The clothing trade has pot roduced anyt ling more (Iturabi than the 50c, 65e a.4,1 75c lines of boys' knee Ipants which are lined Eind'zall stitched wi h linen. When we are through talk,ng about the rits qf our .ow make of men's suitske will be id.xtio witi business These suits sell for $8, $1.0 and $12, aijid the fit, material and workmanship ,is enti:ely ahead of the ordinary make of re dymades. Greig ao Clothiers nd Fur On the Wrong Side of the Street, S STRONG BLOCK, on 1 ishers AFORTII THE CANA IAN Commencing MONDAY, JLiNE -11tb, the Ca gyer, the Imperial Limited," wil4 run DAT\LY be ,couver, making the run in 96 hours. Leaves oronto '0. P. R. boats will leave Own Sound 1 nesdayS, 'days, ciminteneing -May lst, for the Soo and Fort Wi issued at this office for all woints West, eith ,r all rai boats. Also ocean 'tickets via Montreal and El( Telegraph and money order business respectful' ACI F10. adian Pacifc overland ween Toronto and Van– .t 1 p. m. • - Thursdays And Satur- Warn. Through tickets or via our magnificent er Depster Stean.ship lines. solicited. R J. MA DO C. P. R. AGEN 1,. Se 0, 13FiTHUNE, Agent for Merch nts a Fire Insurance Co pani A TJ forth d Berlin Mutual 8. A HURON GIRL'S OBSERVA- tION IN OLD LONDON. LETTER W. S. PAUL, S. I had the. •rivilege of hearing Di. Tom Robineon, on • of London's good practition- ers, give a le tare er talk, as he said, on " pauses," a a nursehi club, ene evening not icing ago. As the lecture was not till eight in the evening, we thought we mighe as well go up town in the afternoon and see something be ore that time. We decided to go first to 8 Paul's Cathedral, and get there just as he afternoon service wee over, but, as that en be attended any afternoon, we had only time for the extras. There seems to be a much more room, in the Cath- edral than at the Abbey ;' possibly, because • the place is n t so full of monuments and statues. Th decoration e are very beauti- „ful, and are b ing renewed at present. It is ; lovely all the Way up the dome, and ehe colorings ar most exquisite. I should think one wo Id never tire ef going in there and looking bout, and yet I heard a gen- tleman say, t e other day, he had lived for years in Lod.n and had never been in St. Paul's Cethedrah It eeerns it is quite the for ladies to go in and rest, oon's shopping, and. remaia .thing, though after an after for the servic It The special places are the whispering gal- lery, crypt and dome. We did the first, two, and lie er we had had time would net have cared to go to the dome. We started for the whiept ring gallery first, and went up steps to no en.. When we got about half way up we ca e to a landing where , a little, round -should :red old man was standing. We were som what out of breath hy that time, but the. ittle man kindly told us it was not very nuch father, and that we had better take a ook at the library by way of a rest. He insi ted on keeping our umbrellaa for us, and w went along a long passage to find the lib ary. In this passage there wore such str nge looking -old ' paintings on the walls,and ome huge leaden water tanks. The latter hal e been there for yeeen, and are the result of a fertile brain, that it is expected they would melt shotild the build- ing catch fire, and the water Would put out the flames. Ie is a good thing there was no fire, if those t nks were the only means of fire protection We looked about the library, which is nota large room, and has shelf above shelf of very old books, as well as those of even Larlier date on the tables. We did feel a littl rested then, and again tried the stairs. e couldn't help laughing when we came to th whispering gallery, for there were only two ladies away around from ehe door, and the were sitting with their heads right close to the wall, and a man just near the door, with his mouth also close to the wall, was talk ng in a low tone of voice. All this was explained, though, when we got in the door. T e gallery is about ten feet wide, and runs around the dome. Has a high iron raili to feel it is th- floor beneath, it seems so ve in charge of t half way roun It is certainly so distinctly b otherwise hea I wondered w would say, an in a very !nee was built man we were goin much inelined a minute or t many people t He wanted to were in the ni we supposed i position at Pa an American, Boomed more "Aren't they queetions,”- h go every place said, 'My, bu have some fi g all about it, and one likes re. On loaking down to the everyone looks so small, and y, very far down. The man e gallery asked us to go about • and put our'ears to the wall. wonderful that one can hear so doing, as you could not sounds across the open space. atever in the world the man laughed out when I heard ured-tone, "Phis Cathedral years ago, etc., eto." As out the whisperersseemed to talk, so we had to waitTer o. He said he had had so at day, and indeed all week. • now why so many Americans y. We could only tell him was on account of the Ex - is, and, after asking—if I were nd being told I when% he anxious than ever to talk. the greatest people to ask said, " and so determined to . I had one Man here who , this is a great old place. We e buildings in Washington, nothing old lil e this, but then we will have some day.." he whisperer was still talk- ing.as we left im to climb more stairs, and we thought he oidd be a good match for any American. • The oldtnan at -the library told as to be aure and go on up the stairs from the gallery Lill we came o.a door out on to a balcony, where we woull have a splendistview of the city. When e got there we did feel re- paid for our ef orts and, as it was a fine, clear day, eon d see for a great distance. .The wind hie such a gale it took both hands to. kee a hat on one's head, but it .was a sight o .see roof after roof, and realize. how Ve y close together they are. There .seemed to be no streets, just one building after nother, some a little taller ti an others, s me a little older and,some of very peculiar i terest. Amongst the latter was the old ewgate prison, Beau 'church, whose bells toll such a wonderful story to .Dick Whitti gton, thie Tower. bridge, Crystal palace Parlianient buildings and the Thames, w th its myriadsof boa,ta and thronged brid es. This balcon I speak of runs all around the dome of th cathedral, so we had a view from alt sides and as I maid we did, not care to go any igher, we thought we had better ge down to the crypt if we were to fiee it before six o'c. ock. It. wae much easier go- ing dpiwn stair and -we had the pleasure of encouraging th panting ones whom.we met going up, by te ling them of the fine view they should h ve. It was very weird -like down in.the or pt, ther were so many dark ; :corners that the gas li ht -could not pen- etrate and wh n a comfortable looking old cat jumped Mit from wed of these .corners, some others, j mped too. Thu first thing that attracted my attention in the crypt. was a marble. bust of the late Sir John A. McDonald, put there, I tuppose, by some of his admirers. We wandered about reading the tablets until we came to Nelson's tomb, a great block o stone with only a name on it. Wellingto 's tomb is also, down there and the funeral car on which his'. body was placed. The c r is an immense affair and we couldn't un erstand atfirst what its was, thought it .mu:t be a Juggernaut ..car or something of that kind. .Atter we had seen o be seen we went up again •art of the cathedral and little, but hadn'ttime for ra are closed for a time at it was very near that hour. standing galzing about, the ed and I made up my mind hearing them again. Wo ng the embankment a little, never failing -clip of tea to e walk. . is rather a muddy looking s the many colored night i.way a sort of a, cruel look it I never felt the same about e, but I' feel half afraid of on't know why, but perhape played Such a part in so tragedies of r‘Old London. y pretty epota eilong the etn- gh ; gar ens, which, while all there was to the main walked about much as the do six o'clock an( While we were orgaus W8re pla not to be long i wanted to go al so first had the fortify 118 for t The Thames -water and nee lights to take seems to have. any water loder that river. 1 d because it has many of the There are mar bankment thot not very large, are a gr people. There is often some choice flowers, pl generally a band et through two of these g along the thoroughfare, them full of people. crowd on a pavement, have their faces aphis having a burning desire are looking at. Such a to cross the street an minutes watching a corn drill in the Temple gard went past Cleopatra's ne at the water's edge, a building of more or less looked to me to be a littl way, standing as it d modern surrnundings. we went into a -garden t cert. The bend was on the county council bands of quite recent organizat on and was es ties et housing suit of their la ors ve bean destr yed 44i a built there 1hat They 4 have leo 1 speak of op ned if not every day, ere. We enjtd much. They lay pennies you loan gramme. It Was the people abut. looked as thongle •1 y ones of the ,world reciation for, BOMES white haired man oung man' leaning d see at a glance n. The son bad k at his - eyes told cooking after . a, and I wis pitiful to see self an the o at comfort to a fountain, al nty of seats nd. We wa rdene lather and found ea ne never !I articularly if a fence, wit to know what roved induce stand for a any of volenteers " we just fter dle posito AY, AUGUST 3, 1900. the ay!! and ked han h of a hey out bey 518 few no. Then on dle, which is d building ate. The ne out Of place some- oes such very ust near the needle hear a band eon - of what is called This council is ab - the lished to shlve the diffiou Working clams. As a r many acres of slums h and good tenement hous cannot be overcrowded. had many of the gardens and, several times al week a band *concert is held t the one we heard eier an good music and for two have a chair and a pr interesting too to watch They alt, or nearly all, they belonged to the bu but had time and the ap good music. An old passed us with quite a on his arm, and we cou they were father and s such a fine faoe, but a lo why the father was im. They sat down opposite ed they hadn't, for it was a the one trying to do for hi her telling him as beit he c uld o the peeple and reading the progra tne to him. We listened to the music ti I about half after seven and then went to t e lecture of which I spoke in the beginning of my letter. I wish I could, tell • ou all that very practical and fun' loving doctor told in his talk. He began by sho ing there was no such thing as perpetual otion in nature or in seience and consul ently the hunian mechanism could -not ke p on for any great length of time without a pause. The latter did not mean idleness but change. He has the man of kne one getting into very one a good larly if the life ts a aeetna I have told all, and it reads ou didn't hea it it by telling ny when I am a me street station, for le on a Jus, and in is a • pleasure to eets and see the er tire of it. S. Alert 1900. very little patience wit idea, takes no excuse f� ruts and prescribes for. laugh very often, partict busy and trying one. It you a bit of the talk afte very ordinarily too, bat as I did and I won't apoi more. I am always glad distance from Liverpool then I have the longer ri the cool of the evening it ride along the light . at people. Think I will ne ILFORD, England, Ju13 • Tragedy in Midd esex Countyl. A couple of weeks ag Joseph Sifton, a respectable and well -to. o farmer of near Arva, in Middlesex cou ty, was found on the morning of his inten ed marriage near his barn, in a dying con ition. It was sup. posed that he had fallen from the gablej of his barn while doing so e repairing. Ipia. quieting rumors began o be eirculated to the effect that the deo ased had met his death by foul means, a d a detective Was placed on the case, wit the result that his son and hired man wer suspected of hav- ing been the means of t e old man's death. Sifton was the owner of 700 acres of land, and had given oonsidera le property to his son, who had apparentl pretty well gone through with it, and it s thought he feared this new matrimonial venture of his father's —the third, would deprive hint' of sharing fully in the balance of is father's estate. Developments in the ase materialize(i' so quickly that the son, Gerald. Sifton land Walter Herbert, the hi ed man, have ben placed under arrest anc taken to London. The statement made by young Her ert was first.given to his o n uncle and I ter to two other friends. ta stated then that the prisoner, Gerald S fton, promised "him that he would be made omfortable so far as financial matters were concerned for the remainder of his life if ho would kill the elder Sifton. Upon he morning' of liln. Sifton's expected merri ge he went to ,he old homeetead with Ge ald Sifton. The tad man was called out of t e house and ind ac- ed to follow the two m n into the loft of he barn. As he climbed the ladder into the ,loft, Herbert, who was standing on one eide of the opening struck him on the head with'an axe. Herbert states that his heart failed him at the last moment, and that he struck the old man with the side of the axe only, and that he then aeized him by t'he shoulders and dragged, his body through he opening into the loft. The eon then sei ,o1 the axe and dealt his father several blows and then the two men kiragged the body to the opening in the aid of the mow and threw it to the ground Gerald ran to the spot where the body fel with the axe, and placing the axe under he head,. told Hei'b- ert to go for a doctor, and said that he would raise an alarm a ong the neightaers. His story is aupp emented by several others, and each of, th se throws a darker light on the case. It i stated that on he 1 Friday night precedi g the tragedy, he night on which Gerald first learned of the contemplated Marriage the son made sev r - al offers to friends to a d him in doing a ay. with the old man. To one of these he o. duced a white powder, which he said as strychnine, but this offer was net accept d. If one is to judge by the evidence p o• duced at the preliminary trial at Lond n, thinga look rather had for the young m n. Several wittetses swore that young Sifton had.either tried to °DI at their aid in dis- posing of his father, or else had made v ry damaging statement's in their presence. The defence will att ertiot to establish a claim that the accused ' 9 being made a aub- jeot of blackmail. Th ough it all he has strenuouely proolairne his innocence. —A Norwich, Ont Mr. Miller went to B ford, to attend the ma the daughter of Mrs. took place a week •ag had neer met Mrs. day before the rnarria that on Tuesday the ding. The same minis Miller's Son William daughter made Mrs. C sr., man and wife. spending their honey Cronies. —There was a sen Tuesday niglSt of latit; N of that town, one W treated to a dose of t seems Mulheron was i aosaa_ ria, despatchera 8 : itton, north of Str t• riage of hia son to tephen ()rot:dr, wh eh last Tuesday. Jc Crank until the 1ri. e. The result ss1as had a double w d- er that married br r. and Mrs. Cron 'a onk and Mr. Mill r, he happy couples are oon at Mr. John ation in Mitchell on eek, when a real(' nt lliam Mulheron, vas ar and feathers. It the habit of abusing 00 Writing Tablets Ruled er Plain Paper, Regular price 15c. From Saturday Aug. 4th, to Saturday, Aug. llth, one package of 25 envelopes to match will be given FREE with each tablet. WISTER, T11. his wife, who has had, for a nutnber of years, to support herself and family. About a month ago he went off with another woman from Mitchell, but their money played out and they returned. Mul- heron, on his return, went to his home, and, as usual, commenced pounding his wife. This was more than the Mitchellitse could stand and they took the law in their own hands., The victim was taken to the market square, stripped naked, and a dose of tar administered with a top dressing of feathers, and he was then tied to a post and the fire alarm sounded to call out the citizens to witness the results. Although we do not favor such measures, Mulheron seems to have deserved all he got, and it is to be hoped it will be a lesson to him. Canada. Ottawa's population is fixed at 68,550. — 30,003 people attended the Winnipeg Industrial Fair on Thursday last. —The Canadian National Patriotic Fund now amounts to $316,596.50. —Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be invited to open the district fair at Kingston on Sep- tember 10th. —Over 1,000 men are engaged OD the re- building and repairing of the E. B. Eddy Company's premises at Hull. —One of the pollee guarding the Welland canal was fired at by two men on Friday night. He returned the fire, but the men escaped. — Harry Oaten, ex -treasurer of Graven- hurst, undergoing a term of three years in Kingston Penitentiary, has been paroled after serving one year. —The total amount of inland revenue col- lected in the Dominion for the year 1899- 1900 amounted to $i0,030,190'12; of this $9,922,112.14 was in exoise duties. —Dr. Edgar Grafton, a well-known medical man of Montreal, was drowned while bathing, on SundayeMorning last, at Berthier, a summer resorVon the St. Law- rence river, below Montreal. —Mr. L. H. Scott, of Hamilton, who saved the life of a Miss Verscoyle, of Los Angeles, a year or so ago, has been notified that that lady left him $7,000 at her death, which occurred recently.. —The Hone George W. Ross, Premier of Ontario, has consented to "press the butb ton" at the npening of the Industrial Ex- hibition at Toronto, on Tuesday, August 28th. —Major-General O'Grady-Haly, the new general offieer commanding for the Canadian militia, arrived at Montreal on Saturday. He was welcomed by the Hon. M. Aylmer, Adjutant -General. --Dr. R. F. Carmichael, a house surgeon at the Kingston General Hospital, a son of Rev. James Carmichael, of King, Ontario, was drowned in Kingston harbor on Friday night, while canoeing. — Albert Constantineau, formerly of Con- atantineau & Laidlaw, Ottawa, but now of L'Original, has been appointe3 junior judge of the united counties of Prescott and Russell. —A serious railway colliaion occurred on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Medlin Junction, on Thuraday afternoon of last week, when two passenger trains came to- gether. Two of the trainmen were killed and several persons injured. —The term of Lieutenant -Governor Daly, of Nova Scotia, will expire en August 6th. It is underetood, that Hon. A. G. Jones,wbo was Minister of Militia in the Mackenzie Government, will succeed Mr. Daly, who has held two terme of governorship. —Mr. John C. Coughlin, one of the best known men in the vicinity of London, died on Wednesday night of last week, at the family residence, Glanworth. For many years Mr. Coughlin had been one of the leading cattle men of Ontario. —Between 7,000 and 8,000 people is Mr. James Conmeo's estimate of the number of new settlers who will come into Algoma this year, chiefly from the United States. The settlers are mostly people possessed of means. Nippissing also is attracting a good many immigrants. —Friday night Mr. George Fair, ono of the most prosperous farmers, living about five miles from Millbrook, accidently lost his life. While taking the hide off a calf the knife slipped and cut an artery in his leg, which caused death in ten minutes. —Experiments are being made ander the Quebec Government, with the approval of the Inland Revenue Department, at Ottawa, in the extraction of a spirit from maple syrup, similar to the way rum is extracted from sugaracane, and it is claimed that a better•fla,vored spirit will result. — The recent electric storms did consider- able datnage to buildingin the vicinity. of Westport, Leeds county. The lightning struck Mr. David Laidlaw's barn, badly wreeking it and killing a fine horse. Mr. Mr. Abraham Thompson's barn also was struck and a horse disabled. Mr. Patrick O'Connor's barn was struck and burned. —'l'he kissing bug has made its appear- ance in Kingston aad vicinity. A young lady on a visit to that city was bitten on the upper lip on Wednesday night and her nose, cheeks and forehead swelled to such an extent that two physicians were called in to attend to the sufferer. It is the first case se far reported in Ehat district this 8ea-8°nAis. Ottawa correspondent says : "A horse famine ia expected in this part of Canada, because of the large number of ani-. mals purchased for war purposes. Well known dealers say there will be a difficulty to supply the market for some years, and that the prices of the animals will greatly increase. lIewever, the automobile may prevent the price rising to too high a point.' —A mild sensation was caused at Sarnia on Saturday, a report being circulated that a woman in male clothing was a passenger on the steamer Monarch, from Windsor. It seems that the young woman, probably 30 years of age, had left New York some days ago to join her husband in Duluth. In order to elude the vigilance of her parents, who were opposed to her leaving them, she had put on the male attire and reached Windsor before her identity was revealed. She had purchased her tieket for Duluth at Windsor, and on arriving at Sarnia it was intimated that her masquer- ade was illegal, and she therefore donned her own clothing. She stated that she was recovering from an attack of typhoid -fever, and would give no information with refer- ence to her reason for assuming the costume she did, who she was, where she came from, or where she intended going. She was travel- ling second class, and the officers of the Monarch made her as comfortable as nos- eible in the steerage of the vessel in the trip to Duluth, which she undertook the same afternoon. She gave the name of Mr. Card, and though she appeared to be a little nerv- ous and constrained, -when questioned, there was nothing to indicate that anything 'seri- ous was the matter. Provincial Detective Warrel interviewed her, thinking perhaps she might be an escaped lunatic or fugitive from justice, but did not consider. it /laces - eery to detain her. —Principal T. C. Smith, of the Central 8111001, Chatham, has pleaded guilty to tampering with examination papers entrust - ,ed to hie care, by coaching his own pupils thereon, and has had his certificata suspend- ed until December 31, 1900. —A lot of school lands in Manitoba were recently sold by public auction by the Do* minion Government. The lands, which are unimproved, sold at prices varying from $5 to $42 per acre, the highest price obtained being near Plum Coulee, in Southern Mani- toba. —Nine hundred employes of the Domin- ion Cotton Company, at Magog, Quebec, quit work oh Friday last. They object to their pay day being changed from Friday to Monday, and ask for an increase of ten per cent. in their wages. —Last Friday evening, on the farm of Martin Nichol, Calf Mountain, Manitoba, Andrew Rollo and James Dew went down in a well to clean it out and were overpother- ed with gas. Rollo was taken out an hour later dead. Dew was taken to the ' Morden hospital with but little hopes of hie re- covery. Both men were about 25 yeaes of age and highly respected. — Mr. Wm. Johnston, M. P. for Belfast, Ireland, who is now attending the Triennial Council of Qrangemen at New York, has agreed to deliver a lecture in Toronto in a few days. The date is not yet fixed, but. it is expected that the lecture will' be held in Massey Hall. Tbere will also be a reception tendered by the Orangemen to Mr. John- ston. —Rev. S. Sellery, patter of the Central Methodist church, Woodstock, narrowly escaped death the other day. He was wheel- ing to the post office, when a horse attached to a butcher wagon took fright at the road roller and ran into Mr. Sellery, who got caught in between the chest of the horse and one of the shafts, and was dragged several yards. He fell clear and managed to roll out of the way without sustaining any very serious injury. —On Saturday morning a sad accident happenedat the Grand Trunk station at Belleville. Mrs. E. Sauve and her daughter Irene, seven years of age, were going berry picking, and were offered a ride on a lorry going up to Manitoba, siding. Just as they had got on, the pilot engine came up behind and struck the lorry with full forte, throw- ing all its occupants off. The Salmi girl had both lege taken off, but the mother ea - caped without a scratch. —H. Stephens, of London, has returned home from the gold fields at Cape Nome. He said that the stories told about so much gold being found it the cape are untrue, as there are thousands of men there at present who are starving and oannot find gold Or work. Everything was polluted with dis- ease and smallpox and typhoid fever were rampant. He remained at Cape Nome three weeks and decided to come home while he had money enough to pay his way. —The Toronto Globe says: "During the present season large quantities of binder twine have been sold by the Ontario Gov- ernment, to farmers throughout the Province. The latter shave in many cases been unable to pay cash as required by the Government, and the trade has on that account been un- satiefactory. It is probable that a change will be made in future years in the methods of disposing of the twine. It will be sold to dealers, and a maximum retail prite will be fixed by the Government." —Mr. J. G. Jardine, Ontario 'Commis- sioner to the Paris Exposition, writes froin Paris -dust Canada will receive twice as many prizes as' it has ever received in a world's exposition before. He says that the Massey -Harris Company, of Toronto, has received the " grand° prize" for manufac- turers. Canada has obtained the :highest award that can be obtained for !canoes. The exhibit of fruit has received i several firsts. Agriculture has also received sever- al firsts.Education will receiver several awarde. Fish and game will likowiee be honored ; as will also the stove and heating exhibit. .—Capt, Campbell, an old Ontario boy, who has been -ngaged in mining in the Yukon for three yeare, WaS recently in To- ronto. He, is loud in hie praise of the re- sources of the region, which he says are quite beyond conception. He estimates the output for this year at $18,000,000 to $20,- 000,000, the bulk of which, he says, will be taken awily by Americans. Thi, he thinks, is not as it should be, and urges all Can- adians who want to get in on the ground floor of a good thing to get their bread hooke into the game while it is young. Un- told wealth awaits the man who is steady and industrious, and he cites the cases of several Canadians who have done the trick. —A Qaebec grocer was badly victimized the other day by two young sharpers, who walked into his store and boughtg a gallon of molasses for the purpoee, they said, of deciding a wager whether the soft felt hat of one of them would hold that quantity. The storekeeper agreed to act as judge, and the molasses was poured into the hat, but it did not hold even half a gallon. Thereupon the loser eighed " I guess I lose," and im- mediately lifted the hat and clapped it on the head of the grocer, and while he was - rubbing the molasses out of his eyes the sharpers rifled his till, and got away with over $40. —An adjourned meeting from one held in June at Summerhill for the reconstruction of two union school sections was hleldin the town hall, Clinton, on Saturday,,21st ult., Judge Masson preisiding, with Inspectors D. Robb and J. Torn, W. Coates for Goderich township, and John Britten for 1u1lott, in attendance. The changes werel: To be known as No. 4, Goderich town hip and Hallett, eonsists of 5,557 actese with as,. sessed value ,of $143,983; No, 2 Hnllett and Goderich tovvnehip consists of 4,091 acres, 'with assessed value of 81.57,650; the other section affected is No. 5 Hullett, which now consists of 3,903 acres, with aviessed value of $151,300. Parts of Nos. 2 and 5, Hallett, were added to No. 4 Goderich township and Hullett, and the southern part of No. 4 was added to No. 2 Hullett. This relonstruc- tion of the sections will be found to be of great benefit to many of those whose chil- dren had to attend a school four mils away whereby now they only have a short dist- • {McLEAN EROS., Pu1l1shers;$1 a Year in Advance. ance. The former plan was an inconvenience to the scholars who live near the cemetery on the Goderich side of the gravel road. It will take effect in these sections on Decem- ber 25th. Huron Notes. —Labor Day will be celebrated in Clin- ton. —August 9th will ija Clinton'a civic holi- day. —Lucknow will have laid this season 34,- 457 square feet of geanolithic walks, at a cost of $4,000. —George Hamilton, a Colborne township boy, arrived home item the Klondike on Tuesday of last week, —Mr. Daniel Coughlin, sr, of Stephen, fell from a hay mow on Monday of last week, and broke his collar bone. —J. D. Graham, of Toronto, shipped a car load of horses from Exeter on Wednes- day of lint week, for South Africa. —Miss Carl Newcombe, of Clinton, has passed the midsummer examination in the piano department at the London Conserve - tory of Music. --Mr. A. MoD. Allan, of Goderich, who has been appointed to look after the Can- adian fruit exhibit at the Paris Exposition, left for France this week. —Philip Arnent, of Brussels, disposed of one of hie drivers to a Blythite, last week, for $150. There is considerable undeveloped speed in the animal. 1—Bertram, the youngest son of Mr. john Middleton, of the 9th concession, Goderich toiallilp, died on the 20th ult., aged eleven years. This is the first break in the family. —Mr. C. Dale, of Hullett, recently sold to Mr. E. Watson 80 head of export cattle, for which he received the handsome 1311/11 of $5,330. Mr. Dale's cattle are always money fetchers. —One of the chocolate boxes sent to her soldiers in South Africa as a Christmas present by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria , has reached Clinton, having been sent to Mies Lily Payson by a friend who was a re- cipient of flee of the boxes. —Fair B ethers, of Clinton, have import- ed a ear lo. I of Kansas fall wheat, known as Turkey Red, and which is said to be super- ior to the wheat grown here as a milling wheat, and will dispose of it to farmers for seed, —Joseph Mitchell, youngest son of Mr. John Mitchell, of Goderieb, died at Mari- nette, Wisconsin, 'recently. Deceased was 30 years of age. The remains were brought to Goderich for interment. —Gavin Davidson, at the Winghem Junc- tion, has a am pf which he may well feel proud. A few weeks ago she gave on an average of 44 pounds of milk for a week. This would make over 300 pounds of milk for the week. It is part Holstein, —A very serious and painful accident) happened to Mr. 0. Bissnette, of St. Joseph, one evening recently. As he was riding his horse from the pasture field the beset be- came unmanageable and threw Mr. Bissnette to the ground, breaking both his arms at the wrist. —Master Charles Mair, of Londesboro, met with a severe accident at W. Brigham's the other day. He was holding the twine while the binder was going and the needle was driven through his right hand. He has lost thereby a part of the bone opposite the little finger. —Mark Dowding, father of W. J. Dowd- ing, of Brussels, departed this life on July 1st, at the royal old age of 80 years. His home was in Westbury, Wiltshire, Eng- land. He had been in failing health for some time. Min. Dowding and one son, W. J., survive.- Mr. Dowding was never ou this aide of the Atlantic. —The voters' list for Colborne township' contains the names of 536 persons who are entitled to vote at both municipal eleetions and elections to the Legislative Assembly 59 who can only vote at municipal elections, and 57 who ean vote only at elections to the Legislature. Twenty-five widows are on list, and 475 rated as jurors,. —On Sunday morning, 22adalt., Oath- aripe, wife of James Price, of Goderich, passed away, after a long illness of consump- tion, which she bore with patient, uncom- plaining resignation. Besides her husband, she leaves two young daughters, Nellie and Nettie, to mourn their OM —Tee many -hien& of W. Brownlee, formerly of Clinton, will' regret to hear of the sad affliction that, liae befallen his fam- ily at. Webster, Texas. His third son, aged about 15 yeare, with atiother boy, got pois- oned by eating canned *Onion (evidently by some foreign substance therein). The ac- cident was fatal in the ease of young Brown- lee. —The voters' list for Goderich township, for the -current year, contains a total of 691 persons entitled to vote at both muni- cipsi and Legislative el otions ; 118 who are entitled to vote at muu eipal elections only, and 50 who are entitled to vote only at elec- tions in the Legislature Assembly. The nurnber who may be celled upon to serve their country as jarors is 433, and 30 are re- corded as widows. —A well known and respected resident of Goderich, James Wallace Rusks paesed away on Wednesday, the 18th ult,, after an illness of six menthe' duration. The de- ceased was in his 67th year, and had resided in Goderich for a long time. He leaves a, widow and a family of two sons and three daughters, who have th n sincere Bytnpntly of a largo circle of friend's in their bereave- ment. —Vital statistics for the village of Exeter for the half year ending June 30th There were registered with the village schnk for the half year ending June 30, births 12, deaths 11, marriages 12. Of the births there were four males and 12 femalee. The average age of the deceased was 56 year, the youngeat being three year's, the oldest 88 years, The average age of the grooms was 28 yeare, of the brides 25 years. —Tuesday night of last week tho spirit ef Christopher Grimoldby, of Owen Sound, took its flight. He had been ailing for the past year. ' About ten years- ago Mr. Grim- oldby and family removed from Brussels to Owen Sound. He was an indastriotia, honest going man a faithful metnber of the Methodist church: and was 53 years ot age. Mrs. Grirnoldby and five children survive. —The voters Het for Hullett, for Oil year has been issued, and contains a total of 808 names of persons entitled to vote at both municipal elections and elections to the Legielative Assembly; 144 who can only vote at municipal election, and 81 who can only vote, at elections for the Legislative—a total of 1;033 names. The number of per- sons qualified to serve as jurors is 625. There are 48 widows on the list. —The crop proepects are apparently not very encouraging in -certain portions of the west thie year. Mr. Henry Murphy, of the 16th conceeeion, Goderieh township, got a. letter from his "son in -hew, George Laith- waite, who is living at' Edinburg, Dakota, who stated that from 430 acres of - crop, he would not harvest 75 bushels, And Cyrus, Turner, of Wellwood, Manitoba, writing his brother, said that he turned hie cattle on a 40 acre field of wheat.