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The Huron Expositor, 1906-11-02, Page 1f.4 1.90 ftwiNar.s. tes o Us. (edepo°there fo 0 how few andfsr consideraticoa, sort , every dop-artneent t ths eXpense of ey admittedly aM 3S. Every depart. have it. • ▪ fin•••••••orfm,........ Ve bank ul eat could eatab- f sieeellence to and winter h- . best qualities of Iesa than 85e. 50e $1.00 75e 750 38e - cams r Skirls $4 ONL ally observed as inson has return - est and was much i1).—A very appro- service was held Sunday morning ev. Mr. Hinde, 'lent sermon. — are being made ad to the rectorar- of St. Andrew's slg a social in tbe 'feeling of Nov. 2ncl. ng ladiea had a ce,ntiy. We have harnpion.. Dor° dinner served bee Methodist church evening, was a. he church -was ,ce:13- amounted to er attended the In the Consta,nce evening last, and good time..—Mr. rich. is engaged' miller, for ft -ha rian church Ss' e.ppearance bY a -Mr. T. Moorhead, be guest of avlissf •-•-•The aliases -Har- risited Miss Brig - see ving.—afiss ea- ord, spent a WV' ere.—Mr. NV a t or* here on Wednes-- r ff op reet at the Come dorth, on October members preseflt. rnount or $2,681.10 rdered to be pada* ,Lies Dodds, collece -= accepted. F. W- I', has taken the r the contractor's a -eon, contractor, 11.50. The Barron -n completed and gineer. A lever of on those :entitlei for completing rron drain and 40. of the treasur paid on the $506 e• a refund. Conn.( to meet at the a'orth oriTUeee • at 10 s'cloelit .s OLE NUMBIlitt 2,029, WY -EIGHTH TEAL, SEA.FORTH, FRIDAY. , . NOVEMBER 2, 1906 e GREIG1 Fu's I AND LOT HIC1 N ..T. FURNISH f°1 IN GS stroirtn. easeasseeriesses tomterrED ing are all for you to advise you Speaking About Overcoats Did you. ever realize the fact that good clothes and stylish clothes are not so much a question of price as of ' Choosing the Right Make. Of cour3e, you oan't get a real good,Overcoat for $5 or $7—we all know that. But it is a fact, nevertheless, that you can pay $20 or $25, aud get a real bad Overcoat— honestly made, perhaps, by a custom tailor, whose BY Tit i91414005C.0.1906 clothes,. style and tailor - out of date. The safest and most sensible thing do is to ohoose the right make. Westrongly to e.hoose 20th CENTURY BRAND The extraordinary success of this brand of fine tailored gar ments for men has been due, in a great measure, to the' fact that they are unquestionably superior in style and fit to any other make. We are in the clothing business, and we see the best and the worst. We chose 20th_ Century Brand garments for the same reasons that; you should—because they are the best, and because the price is always a just price for quality, and no more. We want you to see and tiy on these coats, whether you want to buy or not. GRADE Superior Fitting Fur Jackets. If you appreciate the difference between a beautiful fitting and elegantly styled Ooat, compared with coats that it here and do not fit there, and very_little style to them, we want to say that you should not miss seeing our Fur_ Jackets and Furalined Coats. We think these garments the hand- somest ever offered in this town. We want you to pass judgment upon them. You don't have to buy because you look. Stock is very complete—lamb skin, seal skin, astrachan, coon skin. Fur -lined Jackets in all colors'. and trimmed with mink, sable' otter, fox or dyed coon. Hats Caps, Gloves. Large arsortment of styles and ,sizes. No trouble to suit all comers. ae1/494.41/40*WaNW‘AAAAAAAAWAO Altogether the best stock in Seaforth to choose from, because everything is afrsolutely new and fresh, and bought at low prices, and selling at low prices. 47 -Highest price for Butter and. Eggs, .1-1-1-1-1-144s1-4.4e4eistelsielsieleisisle14-14 The GREIG CLOTHING CO., East Side Main Street, one door South of the Dominion Bank, The Canadian iDoulshobors and. - ' Their -Leader. Peter Verigin, head of the pame.dian Doukhobor colonies of Weatern Can- ada, le enroute to London and Russia, on an impotent mission fer his peo- ple. • He is accoNepanied b,y Arastag Verigin, his son; Simeon Reibln, his interpreter, and John Macnortoff,aage of the Doukhobors, 98 _years of age, They sailed from, Montreal on • Sat- ueday, October", 20th. This is the, first vist of Verigin to, his native land sinte coming ..to Canada, seven years ago. He returns a British sub- ject, a rich man, and the managing director of the most curious little communistic aggregation in the world. He occupies the position of chieftain of •tb.e. Doukhobors, by reason of el- ection, as popular government ob- taiiis wholly among the people. There are 9,000 of them and the managing director handles all their •tarsiness, buya whole cafgoesof goods on the London market, the output of a single plow factory for a on, and threshing outfits costing $7,000 by the -dozens. In thief item alone he handled _$300,000 this year. There- fore he needs a secretary, an triter- preter, and the wise man of 98, his legal adviaer and. friend. poukhabbn3 Doing Well. And Peter Verigin has made good In the Canadian Northwest. His nine thousand 'countrymen have made good, and their 48 villages between Yorkton and Rosthern, central Sieskat- , chewan are the centre of pros- perity and plenty seldom witnessed . among a people transplanted to a. new country under new conditions, within seven years. In a small room at a local hotel in -Winnipeg Peter Verigin talked to he writer, talked enthualastleally of nis people—always his people—and what they hoped to do. His face, would light up with a smile, and . then 'darken with a scowl,. when al- - hiding' to the evil advertising the.: wandering band of fanatics had cast; upon his -colonists. Then he told of the farms and the schools, and their demand for priests who could and would speak English, all with a, plicity that well became his earnest- ness. Verttgiri is fifty years old and has the charm of rnodesty, He will not speak English, at, least not with. a stranger, because he does not speak . If grammatically. He speaks Greek flu- ently, and while he is not an educated marrin the sense of college learning, he has been welle rounded in the : School Of the world. He carries with him an interpreter, but that he un- derstands English and eatches the import is clear in conversation, be- cause he replies frequently to ques- tions- unconsciously before the in- terpreter opens his mouth. He is big and bearded, with piercing black eyes, and with huge hands and feet, such as come with hard work with the Mercury forty below, and driv- ing a Red River cart for days and days with nothing to 'relieve the monotony of prairie stretch—and Peter Verigin haa done these things and he is proud of it. .And, While praising his people's thrift and wealth, lie denies hia own prosperity and shows his. big, hard hands, with cracks in them, and his big heavy shoes, as evidence of the necessity he has for work. . Commune Works ,Well. Shortly after coming to Canada, the first year, the communistic idea was put into effect. Each village elected one representative. There were 23 then, and how there are 48. Thee elected a a eader—Verigin—and they constitute the central council, which Is re-elected annually, and is not self- perpetuating. It is the' purest demo- cracy in the worldn and works charm- ingly among a.people commonly known as illiterate and stupid. This central body approves the act of the chief,and to them he submits a statement of his expenditures and the bank account. Then the' head man of each village submIts the demands of his people, and money is drawn for them. This year 'fifteen threshing outfits were purchased foe the Swan River colony. They. send /..j.n their estimates for clothes, andfurniture, '. rurniture and hardware, and purchases are made. Each family has an account at the village com- munistic store, and each is credited with the wheat that is threshed on his premises, and charged with the things he buys. Even the land is owned in common. This is the work that Verigin must supervise. The Canadian Northern has na ed one of nil the towns Verigin, in hot r of this Doukhobor chieftain, and e iti as proud of it as a child is over a new toy. A cement three-storey flour mill to cost $35,000 is being erected there. One storey is completed, and the eel- ony is also .putting up a grain ele- vator, to cost $100,000. "Yes,otir crops were fine this year," remarked Peter Verigin.:" Each colony had a yield of from fifteen to twenty- five thousand bushels of wheat, and almost as many oats. We have for sale a million bushels of grain pro- duced on Doukhobor farms. Fifteen threshing machines we bought and paid for this year, and we can g -et all these things on an economical basis„ for. we purchase from the factory. , .Make All They Consume. "But we want tie make everythfrig we use—yes that is it—make- what we eat, and wear, and ,consume. This thing of sending all Oin: money away for things — ouh !" and the great shoulders of Peter Verigin shrugged in contempt and his hands went up and beat the air with powerful en- ergy.h, "We make at Yorkton the cement blocks for our homes, our school houses, and every village must build a school house this year; but we do not yet make our cement, that will. come next. It must come. :We raise flax, and our women make cloth. It Is good cloth, here, see 1" and he ex- hibited a coat from, homespun goods, fine and smooth. . "What would the railroad men do without our help I More than one thousand Doukhobors are employed on 'construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific. They earn two, three and sometimes five dollars a day, when they have horses, and our wo- men are at home and the children! at school'. They say we do not live 10 Pages in fine houses, but we 'have two brick yards and we will have more. At Swan River and at Verigin we have brick yards, and we nake brick and sell them for $27 per thousand. They are good brick too, aid we will live In fine houses some ay. We Douk- hobors build fine tarns for our for ceer grain socx ani s first—see, that is it. But we build schoolhouses too, where (books are free to our .people. There are *no poor peorile in our colonies. They are all rich bedaase they have good farms and good crop. If one Oleg Oh, then we divide the family work and it goes right on. And the. chil- dren, they stay in school. We have English teachers—see, English teach- ers, and they teach in concrete houses cool in summer and warm in winter. We are just completing our own telephone system, 85 miles from Swan. River to Verigin. We use tel- ephones, yes. "We are considering a proposition to light our villages by electric light. We had thought of gasoline, but the Council thought it better to go without light for" a few years, and then have something we could rriake ourselves, for we have coal in Saskatchewan, and can make min- ers of our people; so we will not; spend this money' out of the country. " This season we have avetaged a- bout 22 bushels to the acre. Pretty good for people who were charged with running around looking for Christ under stones only last year and the year before that, eh 1" It was this reference that made the Doukhobor leader mad. In his rage he swept his great fists through the air and spit upon the floor, and his indignation was very apparent. Religious, Not Fools. "Huh," he snorted. "We are religs Joys people, and we are proud of it; but we are not fbels. Bad things have been said of us, but our neighbors know better. They like us because we work. Yes, some of our people are parlous, but give thena a little more time. Our children may be more cred- itable to Canada,but we too are gOod Canadians. I don't know that I will bring any more of my people' over, but if they want to como we will help them, and not ask the Government to pay anything. They can homestead 'like other people, and they are good farmers, for they make a living in Russia; they and their fathers before them for hundreds of years,- out of the ground e and think what men may -do in Saskatchewa;n, on the farms where the Boll is black down, say ten twenty, a hundred feet, if they can make a living in Russia 1' Then I say yes, if they want to eoroe to Canada why not 1 We waht in this country men who work, men 'who do things; and I say ,my people do things. They may be queer in some things but they,work, and they are clean. .See— yes—they are clean. That' makes me mad—what they say about Douldiabors being dirty. Some of our people have ragged clothes on, but they are clean; and every home. even though it is small and looks like a hovel, it has a: little room—a wee room where the bath is taken—made of -stone.-1 Then you build a fire in it. When Very hot drag out the ashes. Walk in naked and throw ,about you a can of water. The steam rises, threeh your- self with switches, see,like this, and then the sweat it potirs from you, and it is good. That Is the real Russ'an bath. We have known it for Many years. It is good, and what more will you have—clean people, hard-working people,and we send our children to school ?" • Mr Duthie's Great Sale The annual autumn sales of pure bred Shorthorn bulls, by lelessis.f. Duthie and Marr are always a source of interest to Canadian stock men. The sale for this year was held on Tuesday, October 9t11, on the farm of Mr.William Duthie, Uppermill,Tarvis. Scotland, and was a record breaker. This is what the Aberdeen Free Press of the following day says about it " Yesterday's sale was one of the most sensational of modern times,and seldom has a more widel-ydrepresenta- tive gathering of breeders and ex- porters been seen at a sale of the kind in this country. A. total of less than thirty . headwas advertised for sale, and it brou_ght to Uppermill men from all parts of the Kingdom, as well a -s from South America and Can- ada. Despite the fact that trade for Shorthorn g in South America has been only moderately good of late, there wag a buoyancy In the bidding Which has seldom been equalled, a notable feature of the sale being the determin- ation of home breeders to secure some of the best offerini>:, This at once disclosed the present Position of matter a in the Shorthorn world so far as this country is concerned. There is a notorious lack --of good bulls in thisecauntry—so great has been the demand from abroad—and our home breeders, as represented at Uppermill yesterday, were evidently determined to retain for breeding purposes some of the top a of both drafts, and thes- did not stick • at a price to attain their ends. The breeding was, of c se, of the very: best, and although a considerable number of the calves were late one and lacking the great size and substance which has fre- quently been f seen at these auctions, home buyers were' prepared to sac- rifice a great deal in order to se- cure the prober aristocratic' blood. The prices realized were beyond all expectations. An average of £304 15s 10d for eighteen bull calves be- longing to Mr. Duthie constituted a phenomenal record, which may never be beaten if at all approached. and an average of £12215s. for the Upper - mill draft put into the sale ring by quite a young breeder was not only suggestive of the high value which must be placed upon properly bred Shorthorns, but exceedingly credit- I able to one who has hitherto been more famous as a breeder of high class " Clydesdale horses than Short- horns. Individual prices readied a point not hitherto reached for ani- mals of the same age. Two years ago Mr. Duthie got 620 guineas for one of his bull calves, and That year, he goii the great figure of 470 guineas for one of his draft at the autumn' sale. These prices were altogether set on one side yesterda,y when no fewer than three of the Collynie draft ......menammamelszeemesesas MCLEAN. BROS., Publishers $1 Year In AdVaensaas 1 906-1907. NEW BOOKS PubIic and Separate Schcol8 —AND— COLLEGMTE INSTITUTES. ALEX. .--\;;BTPITIlit SJAFQ mu. Picture framing e Speesair .1117476VITOWNIFSA, . _ made oiler 800 guineas apiece, the top price being 850 guifteas; and the 11:0St gratifying feature of the situ- uation was that these three phenorn- enal prices were paid by lions° breed- ers, whose pluck and determination In the face of keen competition were most refreohing." The 18 -calves sold from Mr. Duthie's herd realized an average of $1,480.68 each or a total of $27;606.- 40. The highest priced animal was Gold Mint, a Golden Drop calf, by the 620 guineas bull Collynie Mint. He was purchased by Mr. Stephen Mitchell, Boouhan, Sterling, at 850 guineas. This gentleman purchased one of the highest priced bulls at last year's sale, paying 420 guinea& The Iseconel highest, the first one offered at the sale, was Prince of the Blood, a Princess Royal calf by Pride of Avon, purchaeed by Dean Willis, Babton Manor, for 880 guineas. The third highest was Col- lynie Monarch, purcha.sed by Leo- pold Rothschild for 800 guineas. Only two of the lot were purchased by Canadians. Mr. Cargill got Blood Royal, a white calf, the only white one offered-, for 200 guineas and Hon. John Dryden ,got • Scottish Mint for 65 guineas. Wilson vs. Brenner, The above is the title of a some- what interesting case, tried at the fall assizes in Sarnia. The parties of the suit belong to the county of Hu - 'rope Tiaipiairartt is a Mr. Wilson, who, for many years, resided on a farm on the Lake hare Road, a few miles north af Grand Bend. The de- fendant, Mr. Joseph Brenner, is the well-known hotel -keeper of Grand Bend. The plain ff was, for a good Many years also, a fa,millar figure around the hotel at Grand Bend. In 1894 the plaintiff went to , live with the defenaa„at at his hotel, under a verbal agreement that the latter was to keep him for the rest of bis days, and on the plaintiff's death was to have his property, in- cluding the farm. The arrangement continued until May, 1905, when the defendant leased his hotel. The plaintiff had in 1895 made a will in the defendant's favor. In 1898 the plaintiff had given the defendant $500 as a loan he said, but the defendant contended that it was in pursuance of the agreement. Then the defend- ant pat in a claim for board,clothes, and other things supplied during the eleven years. The plaintiff claimed against this or his work of garden- ing, attending bar and other ser- vices; and admitted that he had re- teived $140' to go to the old country, $100 paid to one of his sons, and $200 Raid last fall. But he also claimed for his tools, some hives of bees and other things which the defendant had refused to give up. Judgment was in favor of the plaintiff for $240, the bal- ance of the $500 not repaid and for the return of the tools, etc. The chancellor 'thought that the services and the board, etc., would about balance. • Perth Items. —Mr. Will Jones, of Mitchell, who has been in poor health, will spend the winter in California. —Mr. Wm. Campbell, of Credon,Or- egon, who left Mitchell some 25 years ago, has been visiting friends in that town. -,-Captain W. J. Thompson, of Mit- chell, and Mr. Wm. Forrester, also of that town, have gone on a two weeks' bunting expedition in north -- ern Ontario. —Mr. George Coppin, of Logan,who ' has been in the employ of the Mooney Biscuit and Candy Company, Stratford, has been home with blood poisoning in one of his hands. —The stables of Mr. W. C. Kidd, Listowel, were burned last week. The fire spread so rapidly that three stallions were burned. The origin of the fire is unknown. —Rev. Dr. J. Paulsen, professor of Theology, Kropp, Germany, preached on a recent Sunday in the Lhtheran church, Stratford. Dr. Paulsen is making his first visit to Canada. —A horse belonging to W. H. Merry, of the Children's Home, at Stratford, ran. away the other day and fell on the pavement, breaking ite hip 'bone. —Last week at Mr. John Watson's sale, in Hibbert, auctioneer Jones sold $3,640 worth of chattels in three hours. The sale was one of the best ever held in the towsnhip, geldings running as high as $260. —The death occurred in Stratford, on Sunday, of ex -Mayor -P. R. Jarvis, at the age fie 82 years. He was born In Oakville, Ont., but has resided in Stratford for 57 years. He was Mayor from 186_2 to 1867. I' —One morning not long ago the house of' mr. Daniel Herbert, of the sixth concession of Logan, was burn- ed to the ground with its contents. The fire is supposed to have start- ed from the chimney. —Mr. W. H. Colwell, one of Wal- laceburg's popular merchants, and youngest son of Mr. William Col- well, a former well known resident of. Mitchell, was married recently to Miss Meade Stewart, of Wallaceis burg. —Mr. A. J. Beide the first editor arid publisher of the St. Marys Argus died last week. Mr. Belch has been a resident of Winnipeg for many years in which city he held a posi- tion at the court house as clerk. He had been in poor health for Berne time and was in Califoreila when his death occu.rred, —The Atwood Methodist dhurch held their anniversary services on Sun- day, October 21st. The pastor, Rev. S. Bond, preached both morning' and evening and delighted the congrega- Con with his excellent sermons. Mr. Bond has seen 50 years of active refinistry, but still preaches with force and clearness. On Monday evening addresses were given by the neighboring clergy and music by the church choir. The collections a- mounted to $148. —Mr. H. B. Andrews, who has re- presented the Imperial Life in tne city of Stratford for the last two years, going there from Toronto, intends leaving for It-gina, Sask., to become the chief representative of the same compaay in the new prov- ince of Saskatchewan. —Mr. George L. Smith, who attend- ed high school in Mitchell a numbeal of years ago, and who is+ now a prosperous dentist in Hammondelear Chicago, has been visiting his broth- er, Dr. Smith, in town. He was on his wedding trip. —Messrs. Dalton Robinson and Harry Drummond, of Fullerton, shot a large lynx on Thanksgiving Day in Geo. Kramer's woods. The animal weighed sixteen pounds and had an exeeptional fin,e coat of fur. It , was left with 'Mr. William Babb, of Mitchell, to mount. —Mra. Alex. Young, for many years a resident of Fullerton township, died at her home in St. Marys on Fri- day, October 19. Mrs. Young had been in failing health for some months and her death was not unex-. 1 pected. Besides her husband she leaves a family of two sons. —The final game between the aides chosen by the president and vice- president of the Mitchell Bowling Club, was played :on Saturday after- noon, October. 20th, and was watch- ed by an intereated lot of spectat- ors. The vice-president won by one shot. —The fifteen mile team bicydle race run in Toronto on Thanksgiving day between the Stratford and Toronto clubs, was won by the former in easy • style, their men coming in one, two and four. Ten ridera started even, -five aside, and the first three in either team were to take the troPhY. McCarthy came first, and Davie Eiz- erman second, with Young, the Tor- onto man, who won the race a few days previous in the :rear. —Mr. and Mrs. -Wm. Moore, who have practically lived their lifetime on their farm on the 8th soneession. of Ellice, have gone to Sebringville to spend the rest of their -days. Pre- vious to their leaving the farm their neighborand friends presented them with- two handsome easy chairs. A very complimentary addrees was read to the worthy couple, and the rest of the evening was spent most enjoyably by the large gathering. —Mr. Henry Tauber, who has been away from Perth county for 25 years,' has returned on a short visit. Se- ems at one time a constable at Mil- verton. He Lives now at Birming- ham, Alabama. He finds the old county much changed for the better. —A young man' named Matthiew Granger, was sentenced by Magis- trate O'Loane, Stratfor4, the other day, to four years in the Kingston penitentiary. The prisoner is only 17, but has proved himself to be a perfect incorrigible. Lenient meas- ures had been tried with him, but all to no purpose. —Edgar -Watson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Watson, St. Marys, died at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday, Oc- tober 20, after a short illness of typhoid fever. The rerna.ins were brought to St. Marys for interneeVat. Edgar WatSina, who was only 17 years of age, went out west last spring and wao learning the tinimith- ing trade at Winnipeg, where!' three of his brothers live. —The St. Marys Argus of last week says:- The elders and managers of Knox church met in the Sunday school room Tuesday evening, and decided to offer Rev. Mr. Grant, pastor- of the congregation, a holiday till January lst, 1907. This will be only the sec- ond holiday Mr. Grant has taken, if he accepts this offer, in 42 years, his first holiday being two years ago, and would be a deserved rest for this faithful, much esteemed and respected pastor, — Mrs. Henry Balfour died at her home in Mitchell, on Saturday, Oc- tober 20th, at the age of 52 years. Deceased had been in poor health for Some time, but had been able W be about the house up to a few days, previous to her death. She had been a resident of Mitchell since the demise of her first husband, Mr. Henry Pullman, sixteen years ago. Over :six years ago she was mar- ried to Henry Balfour who paned : away about tour months ago. De- ceased leaves a family of ten child- rbn by her first. husband. —One of the vererable pioneers of the county, Mr. John Dempsey died at hia home in Stratford on October, 20th. Deceased was bcorn In Ireland and came to Downie when Stratford was a scattered harnlet of,seventeen families. Mr. Dempsey was married In 1846 to the eldest daughter of the late Hugh Nelson, of Downie. About 50 years ago he and his wife moved to Ellice, where they resided till the spring of 1905 when they moved to. Stratford. The deceased helped get out the timber of the firat Episcopal -church in Stratford. He leaves be- i sides his widow, a large family ,of I sorts and daughters. Canada 1 — —The jubilee of Huron Diocese, Episcopal church, was celebrated in all the Anglican churches last :Sun- day, by appropriate sermons. — Joseph Phillips, former president of the defunct York Loan Company, comes up for trial before the general sessions at Toronto next week. —The Gooderham estate of Toron- to has just paid into the Ontario treasury, the unusually large sum of $519,676 in succession duties. The estate was valued at $10,400,000. —The Ontario Department of Ag- rlculture has arranged a conference of Farmera' Institute lecturers and of- ficers, to be held at the Ontario Ag- ricultural College from November 20 to 23, inclusive. —James Cowan who has several *large contracts on the Canadian Northern Railway constrLrctlon in Manitoba and the Northwest, has just olosed the largest tie and tim- ber 'contract with the company that was ever awarded to one man in this country. The contract calls for the delivery of 1,000,000 tee, 6,000,000 feet of logs and 300,000 feet of piling, to be delivered on the C. N. R. before spring. —London experienced a terrific storm of wind and rain ail Satur- day. Trees, telegraph poles and , wires were blown down and the elee- tric lights put out. It was the worst Storm in years. —Charles R. Gray, V. 5. formerly s. of Orin', committed suicide in Buf- falo this week by drinking a bottle of laudanum. He wrote for several veterinary journals. He leaves a • widow and four small children. He 1 was 48 years of age. —It is said that a mine has been discovered at Silver 3/fountain, near , Port Arthur, from which nuggets of almost pure silver have been taker. One of these weighs over 100 pounds. This is ahead of Cobalt's best. —At an auction sale last week, on the farm of Mr. McKenzie Duncan, Westminster, Middlesex tounty, 27 , dairy cows were sold at an average price of $4.4.60 each, Some two year , old steers brought $34 each, and two year old heifers $30 each. —The Grand Trunk Railway are ar. ranging for the completion of a new branch from Kingston 4irect to Ot- tawa, via Smith's Falls. The routs from all west of Kinston to Ot- tawa is now somewhat cirtuitous, but this new line will be as short as the C. P. R. 1 —The oldest resident in. Northum- berland county has passed to his re- ward, in the person of Robert J. Biddy, of Haldimand township, who died recently at the 'age of 102 years,. two months and twenty days, I --Ps ' last -sickness was only of a few days' duration. —Two erops of peas in one season Is the unusual thing for Canadian climate. What is more remarkable gis that the second -crop was grown from the seed of the first crop. John , Moulton of Gananoque eounty,shows a handful of the second crop, the peas fully matured and the pods of good Size. —The nongregation. of St. An- drew's church, Carlton street, To- rontb, celebrated the thirtieth anni- versary of Bev Dr Milligan's induc- tion as pastor of the congregation, last Sunday and on the following . Monday evening marked the occas- sion by wiping out the mortgage debt of $15,000 on the church property. ; —The 200 guests at the ROSSirr House, Toronto, were called hurried- ly from their rooms just before one o'elock Tuesday morning ley a fire which broke out: in the large boiler room at the southeast tomer of the main building. There was no panic and the fire was e-Xtinguished bes • fore much damage waS done. 1 —Richard Laidrnan, a Bisibrooke who was one of the guests at the Faster wedding anniversary in Oneida township,, -Wentworth county, died on Tuesday. This makes the fourth victim among those who attended the silver'wedding and partook of thicken boiled in braes kettles. Some four, others of the party are still danger- - ously ill. —Henry -Wilson, Flesherton, went hunting the other day and had a very unusual experience. In an op- en place in the woods he fOLMA fox killing a big gobbler, weighing 25 pounds, which he had - stolen from a neighboring flock. The bird was living and Mr. Wilson rescued it and returned it to the owner. - —Five eents on the dollar is the full amount coming to the creditor's of the J. B. ---Hill eatate, St. Thomas,. from the defunct dry -goods firm., which closed its doors on January ist of last year. The amount, which wili be paid next week, velll total between $13,000 to $14,000, the liabilities hav- ing been about $132,000e —The home fol. the -Aged at Bows ma.nville, a three storey frame building, was destroyed by fire on Monday *morning, and tyro of the 1 - mates burned, The unfortunates, aged ladies, were Mrs. Mary Beat Courtice, of Orono, who was blind, and -Mrs. James Wilson. The latter got out safely, but returned for her clothes and was overcome by smoke and perished. —On receiving tenders for the three new Normal schools to be erected in, this province the Government found that the actual cost of the buildings would greatly exceed the estimates. Since then they have been curtailing the plans so as to ming the cost of, - each building within $50,000, the a- mount appropriated for the purpose. The towers will be reduced if not altogether removed, and the domes may be taken off. The proposed stone work for the first storey will be re- placed by brick, and the fOuradations may be of cement concrete. New, tenders be asked for, —Mr, Alexander Warden has tend-, ered 'his resignation of the treasur- ership of 'the Eresbyterian Church In. Citeada, Western Section, to whieh he was elected by the General Assena4 bly In June litfirt. Mr. Warden was appointed in succession to his fath.ere the late ltev, Dr. Warden- The of- fice held by Dr. Warden was subdi- vided and part of Its duties given to Rev. Dr. John Somerville, who was also made clerk of the General. Assembly. Mr. Alexander ' Warden was rriade treasurer, at a salary a $2,500. .No reason was assigned for the reSignation.. But it is supposed the subdivision of the office and the more stringent oversight of the finance S and investments by the Board of Trustees, was not pleasing to Mr. Warden; • • Usborne. Section No. 3,—The following Is the pel.centage obtained by the - pupils in S. 8. No. 3, Usborne for Oc- tober: St. IV Claps—C. bopeland -78, M. McCurdy 76, L. Clark 69, A. Doupe 69, R. Francis 60, M. Stinson 58, A: Mcturdy 54, B. Doupe 64. Jr. IV— E. Shier 68, 3. McCurdy 46, V. Mc- Curdy 45. Sr. III—H. McCurdy 81, J. Francis 80, Rita Shier .65, A. Cope- land 68, I. Turnbull 55, _0. McCurdy 55. Sr. II—L. Harris 81, E. Doape 1 65. Jr. II—J. McC011agh. 81, I. Ir - ' vine' 80, R. Doupe '16. 0. Copeland 54, ,Sr. Pt. IL—F. Francis 74, G. Dancan 74. Sr. Pt. 1—R. Fletcher 100, T Mo- i Curdy 87, L, McCurdy 65. Jr. Pt. 1 1 —G. Copeland 55, G. Harrow 53; J. Kay 50. Isabella. M. Gardiner, Teach- er. _