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The Huron Expositor, 1888-11-23, Page 1-r ""•-- %Meta.. fl 14ilitte 4fShe-S. Dress ; • bress doe, • ilikr.Now, =Ufa your and tryto itandar ba ca 6, h ata on Tit* Subject ot he "world it 3etteri.". The 'Arnim Bovr- aomas Bone; Mes The chairs -witty d in favorof - ty win hold the winter; • It is with r called upon e the death pioneer see Sera whte died on dvanced age a funeral.- of M.ondayouid bealtkinit k sick with 'net although heel in noth- n, and death 011 Mouday ow, who has :de of frfeadts r*injten4s random, "Mr. 8. P.., Clerk 'nit, at Dela- taking cor- aka for the the cure of a, on Sunday tive against ended, were • well-knorat - ton, - by . tiip' SCOthuni-, has the value of, - on of _lir, m; ki114 'rugs -tilt gave f perm Ficialdar reporb. been the 0o1d- Brt112.01• 0kt einneron, Of iloyeet by the e Torment/net- acdent of the sted near Port ek to unfasten hen it tip ground, dhfr :died in & feir cd. He 'Saves cknow and the for interface, to compete in peed to ICS re - x, to say 3ioth 'ated in Agures erd. She_ sa,Fir the nanaging win* atereits, 12,294, i36 architects, jotirnalisfs, 13,180 pre- theKO•nre Wk. inderthe GeV - lie offices 2,43 us, 75 lawyers, rairsers; 59,S09. ahem "gr. James Inc - ate', Be11es'in4 - retch alio Chan 'Lae of his tote airtstances. 6a the PIA:Pert, te young fad. - a has ho011 0011- inore of WI tap' e scaped`'istitil 11 had the Watch - and went deilY„ ht and - to voilm 4edtheofbeeg L. lit hit arrests when reeoyeradt Tw.ENTY-rmisT- • ylnisa: vigoDE NUlal.R 1,093. SEAFORTI-l; FRIDAY NOVEIVIBER 2 8 .311eLEAN BROS.I Publisher& 1$1.50l a Year, In Advance. NOW IN AT THE Cheap CA Store tiOFFM'A. ;- Grey Flannels., randy Flannels? Dress Goods, *Fa • ' NE1V YORK OOSSIP. 1 , A PRQSPECTIVE BELLE.—THE C.HANGES• OF FORTUNE—THE LADY :WHO 'REFUSED • - PRESEiTTATWN. TO THE PRINCE OF W,At S -"THE EX-PRESIDENTIS FUTURE 1 _ .2410V MEI4S. . NEw Yottic, November uth, 188.3. - Ten ye cityr All thee Vanderb formal d re hence a• farrions belle in this e Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. nditions are favorable. Miss it will then be justmakingher but in society. The wealth of Red Flannels, her fath Wm. K. Vanderbilt, may •• . have easilygrown to $150,000,000. Her Jain and Fancy 111004er Wilt Passed over' from the 1 ranas o gay, - young wifehood into White matronli est, and therefore be willing to tory;and put her aughter forward -into her own toaster p ace as a belle. Already the Cottons BlanketS and Comforters . ° ' 7-yearol Miss Consuelo has begun her • Under6elothing slide and Jack_ .eareer ogenteel, yet showy, pdblicity. •There has a_-- horse show in the et Cloths. Also ew° HaasIshapes _ MadisoniSquare garden this week, and - has beim so extremely fashionable as and ali kinds• o Ma., to.cruite , hold, its own against such a • terials just to hand at the beaux o tandem , popular,plebian counter -attraction as a presiden election. The wealthy wend= proudly* drove their anis around. the ring competi- nee exhibited their saddle retentious families sent their aulers, and it is difficult to imagine what would have happened.to _ OheaP sh Store tivelY, home, -coach 7 FIVIA OARD.Np SEA:F B.L--Agen ' a comm '* ' to - 8,L, CO - e a ' . all thee ' '5 ' and lior . . BLOCKwas "A3 . Vander ling. 4 RT - wer. Sh was beautifully dressed and it , for BlitterideS .as d ar that she was a.family pet; The po y Wail a fat, handsome little lawn, tennis with young Blaine, fell in 10Ve with him, and gave up her stage aspirations to become his wife.it is - now altogether likely, unless she and her husband become reconciled, that she will go to *acting. The understanding is that the young couple are not now disposed to reunite. They seem to have madelip_their •minds that their' union, .was incompatible. Several -Managers alert to the commercially valuable in- troduction which Mrs. Blaine bas had to this -public, and mindful of the fact that so critical a judge as Modjesko, was n truck horse if he had ventur- ugh equine company. But in tra fine assemblage of owners s, the greatest conspicuousness ingd by little Miss . Consul° ilt and her tiny pony, Dump - he child,.a pretty creature, Wall ut of the box hired by her fath- PatternS,Fashion•Booka and S eets. beast, t eided. He was gorgeously which thefirst prize in its class was a Perth' Items. ea • pans • have all been re -en aged for4next year. more o The Mitchell rgh School teachers prize d • —Mr; Wm. M ray, of the Boys' The ad -Ham, Stratford, 1 * week., . —Dr. N.D. `Gnu been appointed Can of the American Scieiice Lam • Boyce:, Jr., of Avo 9th inst.; after a. f typhoid fever. ned, and the addition of the coration counted only, as a bit glory- for a mighty lucky brute. ent of Consuelo Vanderbilt into ft. for England last social hiveliness of a semi-public nature - ' thus begins, beyond doubt le career• a , of St. Marys has unprecedented brilliancy. What a prize dian correspondent for matrimony! , • „ ournal of Medical They was a wedding this week at the — residence of Cornelius, the other Van - wife of Robert derbilt, whose wife was a sister of the n; died on Friday, bride. Therein we had troof of the days' illness- from retiring disposition of some of the Van- • derbilt • Edgar Shepherd is• a quiet, ----A cash marke for butter is to be good -lo king gentleman of nigh 40. . . established in -kitchen, With . graded Among his relatives are the Verplancks, prices according • the quality of the Vandy •- ' Dutch article. -. —A new Iawy Mr. Ormiston, of enough - Bowmanvine has opened. an office in _as a b Mitchel. de is nephew of Rev. Dr. up a g Ormiston„, Cf NewYork, and formerly idler. . of Hamilton. active —The new Mans for Rev. -Mr- Cam- vicious eron, of North ornington church is spent •PeNS ready to b occupied, and is a. not do • &some as we as a cominodious heiress -dwelling. A stableis also being added. as no • —Mr. Robert Hodge, late of the law such -- Orin of Dent & Ho Wednesday hist - es, and other Vans otapproved extraction. He inherited just property to yield a polite livipg- helor without work. He grew od example of the well behaved While he scorned to go into any, sidustry,- he •also kept out :of time -killing. Two years ago be Summer at Newport. It will o say that he went there to hunt s, because nothing in his conduct recalled by the writer, indicated purpose. Nevertheless, it does ge, Mitchell, left on seem 7 though one 'road' to . wealth not time ago to . quit Washington, anyhow, at the end of Mr. Cleveland's present term. They had &dished their desire . • for social novelty,. and were ready to return to New York activity. Their house here is notably One in itself and in its furniture, and some of the most resplendent, entertainments known to the metropdlis have. been. givee. there. Mrs. Whitney announced in positive terms, when her husband went into the cabinet, that she would have distinguish- ed New Yorkers as. frequent guests in Washington. In respect to that she has Ting to entrust roles of impdrtance to been disappointed. The moguls of 5th her, have already offered fair induce- • ufents, and the °nth:* is that soon after the holidays she will be put forward theatrically. • ' - - It is suspected' that Mrs. George Gould is almost envious of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., in view of the latter's probahli return to the stage. Although her wedlock is happy, for George Gould is a good-natured, indulgent, and loving - husband, The. Edith Kingdon of. the theaters was not tired of the tinsel of the stage before she retired into the real gold. of millionairism. She probably, wouldn't return t professional life if B she could, and •She couldn't go l into amateur theatricals if she would, , for that question hes just - been settled for the ensuing winterat least.-_TheGoulds are attending at Dr. Paxton's presby- terian church, in -West 42d street, and while Jay shows no signs of becoming an active Christian, the ladies have taken- some share in the congregation's charities. An amateur dramatic enter- tainment is in r'paration by some of the Paxton people . • Gould, proposing actress ,of the oc upon' turnin he eek for Toronto. A yet ov rcrowded runs through a fashion- &tering- lace pretty directly to wedlock, and any good-looking, • and reasonably polished fellow out pn the journey with ,fair d of success. At Newport, Shep- nade the acquaintance of Miss Moore Gwynne, youngest sister Cornelius Vanderbilt. At the ime and place William Fearing came_ acquainted With another mewhat eccentric 'sister.- Both en became wooers. Now, mark he quiet methods of Shepherd on where the turbulent promises have failed. The surreptitious ge of Gill and one of the Misses complimentary an farewell supper to able - • Mr. Hodge was held at the Royal hotel .afIlue ors the previous Tuesday evening. affabi • —The aged and worthy Rev. Dean can a • Davis, father of the Messrs. Davis, of :chanc the Mitchell Advdtate, is at present on hard, a visit to his sons and their families in Getti -Mitchell. - - - of Mr —A farmer was he other day driving same - through St. Maryslwitlfa load of wheat, Gill b when. one of his horses dropped awn and s For awhile his life gentle how have of Gil dead on the street. was despaired of; brought hira aro —fr. James 01 `about to make an ut veterinary ,Gibb i aga n. yde, of St. Marys, is tended tour through the United States; and intends to visit the thirteen battlefields upon which he fought with the R publican army in 1de- fence of the Union —The other day in Listowel a spirited - The result was a 1 rge bill for damages. team, left standing untied, ran away. The wagon tongue .was ,broken off, tugs parted, a lamp post broken, hydrant broken from the pipes( and several other casualties. - The Mitchell Recorder says': Mrs. Thos. Babb arrive • • days ago, 'widths" . say that she leek than before, she • .• fronaManitoba a few who know her befit better and \ younger went to the bracing climate of.the prairie province. Mrs. Babb is now with her daughter, Mrs.11. McIntyre, in Fullitaton. —A number of young - fellows op in ' the ,town Mitchell .got • too much svhisky on Saturday night and created a distuibauce about town near rnidnight. Their lihouting and swearing brought out the c -. one of them. of reaped.. far' hi listable, who arrested was fined $5, butout _mother his name is not published. r —David Little, merchant tailor, a highly respectablie citizen of Mitchell dropped dead on, the street Saturday evening. while on his way home to supper. He was aged fifty-six years. HearV disease isithe supposed cause of death.- He leave in. good Burns vi hie rented the fa buried, by W. a. wife and grown-up miIy ircumstances. . inity George Turnbull m of 100 acres formerly effers and the Property ° Thomas Gray for a term of five years at an annual sumt of $200. In the same •' neighborhadd quite a number -bf farms have had sheep killed by dogs lately', among , the mot recent sufferers ' is Archie Riddell, who had two-thirds of his entire numbertorn one evening last week. ' -. ,---Mrs. M. A. iMaitland, of Stratford, is highly cOmme*ded. by both Scottish and American papers- as a clever and talented writer o both poetry and prose. . She has_ contributed much to the Sunday • Schad Times, ew. York Observer, Christian at Work, Godey's Gems ,cif Poetry, Woman's Magazine, and other 'standard Ameri n Periodicals. Poetry Si is her specialty d readers of the Strat- ford Beacon ve frequently perused with, great pleasUre her verses. Ma Gwynne made a mildscandal last spring. lared that a private ceremony, t priest or other formal presence, ited them. She, rather thought ci,,but was not quite certain, and enuous relatives, taking advent- the,doubt, _decided for , her that as still single. ,She: at • length • ced in that view of the matter, as remained separate from Gil1,. as been brought to a consent to, on his pratentions as a husband. erd.and the other -Miss Gwynne ppointed a wedding day, and it l have fallen only a few weeks after the disclosure of the Gill matter. Anxi us to avoid unpleasant connection in pa lic comment, they postponed pheir Man age Until this fall. • They sailed to -da for Europe, and will spend a hone moon winter in Italy. The couple will receive it is understood, the in- come He d witho had sor to her si age e she Segni and who Ebben Shep had woul • • They went to Mrs, o make her the star asion, and counting attractiveness into many benevo ent oilers. She respond- ed *an an impulsive acceptance, quali- fied by the proviso that her husband's consent must he Obtained. She took a week in whichto make himsayyes,- but at the end of that. time Was compelled to report his positive no, - Two STORIES ABOUT MARY ANDERSON. The actress who was.first among Ameri- can beauties to decline an introduction to the prince of . Wales is back with us again. Mary Anderson is intown. o - be an actress onee is toremain an actress until death—in self-censmousnes_s, if not in actual employment. Endeavor for crative office of sheriff in Buffalo, had dramatic effect becomes' instinctive., lived well within his inOOMO While goy- -Yon may see an illustration whenever ernor, and had iiivested his savings cu - you chance to observe an actress enter a mulatively. During his four years at room full of people. She will invariably •Washington these investments will have haltaninstant outside the doorway, increased to about.$150,000.. He retains. pull .herself together, so to speak, and about half his presidential salary of then enter dashingly, shyly, or in any $50,000 a year, and so will have a, good other fashion tha she may have made up quarter of a million on the fourth day her 'mind to, but never _without some of March: One who professes to know sort Of impressiveness. The party who it all, predicts that Cleveland &Lamoat met Miss Andersen on the wharf, and will be • A law firm ' in this city, but. . saw her disembark from the steamer, others, who know . the president very witnessed as carefully artistic a perfor- well indeed, believe that he will net re - mance as any which the actress achieves turn to the practice of law, nor to any on the stage. She was -picturesquely ether active pursuit's, 'His. only busi- -costumed, her hair and face were rather nem, theythink, will'. be •to derive by brightly. colored, and her manner • dr- Careful investments, a Jiving *come cated-joyous vivacity. She 'got- ihea . frem his Capital.of everybody else on the gang plank, ran i CANNE. nimbly down, and embraced her mother and sisters. A. lot of reporters were present. avenue -have not been excursionists to _the capital .any more than forinerly. Their pretensions are too 'great to permit them to mix ill the helter-skelter Wash- ington assemblages, even in the parlor of their favorite Mrs:Whitney., Thus, while she has done her duty as a eabinet hostess handseinely, she has unquestion- ably missed her New York friends, and will be glad to get back among them, , To an acquaintance, and in confidence, _Which it would have been treason to ,violate before the election, Mrs. Whit- ney said that the Clevelands -would un- doubtedly remove to New York in cage the president should not be re-elected. - She •iedlared that both were very fond . • of New York -life. Her remarks were drawn out by somebodye's impolite ques- tion whether there was anything in the story -*matrimonial disagreement. .".. • .” eta shadow of truth," Mrs:White ney mphatically replied. "Mr. Cleve- land remainS a bachelor in many of his manners, diversions and characteristics —just as any Mall would who• had lived as long as he did before marriage. - But he is completely devoted to his .wife, quite domestic in his tastes, and a model husband. Just as he is a bachelor yet, so Mrs. Cleveland is a girl, with a girl's method of - amusement, - acquaintance - ships and employments., What I mean is that they are somewhat. independent individuals, without being in the re- motest degree ill-assorted or inharmon- ious. They. are as congenial and happy a couple as I know," - _ Grover - Cleveland is worth about 200,000: That is the• estimate Of a well- advided persanal friend. He had some- thing- like $100,000 when he became president. He had practiced law prof- itably for many years, had held the bi-: I smothered the Hindii, whose only ejac- ulation was, Hallelujah "Mother Flprence, said one of the officers, "proved a treasure.'.f —Edward Crafton Holt, an Irishman worth $1 0 000 died suddenly at Leland house, 0 picious taken up k Lake,. Manitoba, ander sue- ircumstanees. - He had just land in themeighborhood, - —The pngregational church at Bow- manville that was destroyed last July has been rebuilt, and now presents a, more handsome exterior than before., It will be Opened durpigthe holidays. =---A le picking is still in,progress,-- aronn - no fwasrost will 'nootg be (Where —The Hudson Ba Company expects• atively small supply Of fere as of the season's trading,' .. The s have been larger than last ovvmanville,„' there. having been et to injurelthe fruit. The crop eat that hundreds of bushels compa the resul land sal year's. - —F. gun and see if it he founcl and face —Nei citizen apoplex deuce o • position the city —Mr Piotou 'apple t•inches feet an two ba 66 Oh, I am so impatient," she. cried,: "to pike my foot once more (In the: dear soil of America, 'I can hardly re- strain myself." - Such beautiful patriotism! Such abounding love of her native land! It was all humbug, of course, but it was so well done as to be iv:linkable. It seemed more interesting, however, to get from Miss Anderson an account of her experience with the Prince of Wales, in view. of the recent enlivenment of the subject of princely acquaintanceship with American beauties. It was not. until yesterday that she could be quietly asked about it. Then she said "Oh, that Was a good while ago—when I first appeared in London. There was hardly *anything of it, anyhow, and I am only willing to give the particulars in order that they may take the place of possible exaggerations. L The prince was at the theatre where I played, one evening,and it was intimated to me that IMight )3e presented to him in the royal box. There wouldn't have been any impropri- ety; in it Mall if I had gone to him:* It ihad been the custom of actors and actresses of the best reputation to thus accept royal favor, and be glad enough to get it. Nor Was there the slightest suspiciOn that the prince thought of anything else than polite commendation. But I was &Yankee girl; and, without having previously decided upon any 'coin e to pursue, I at once replied that I of $1,000,000 set aside for that was too. busy to accept t honor. Se by Cornelius _Vanderbilt. The / Nothing more was said or done about it. Whether he was displeased or not I have never known. Sincethen I have met him and the princess of 'Wales at - several receptions. Not at the royal palace, mind you, for the Queen does • not admit actresses; rdofi't want the. impression to et abroad that lam a silly prude, but don't mind if Amm- an unpleasant contrast between cans kno* that I wouldn't 'pay a box pur prin •the inter from but man to - t affor rich MRS. 4 I 01 pal will not be given to,them, and oduct of it will be limited to the st and dividends which it earns conservatively secured investment; ey will manage to get along in a er which, although not comparable • at of the Vanderbilts, will not 17 The in again --made --Theoperations a "millsaround the - Chau' next week, • . —04e of • Guelph's oldest a . known merchants, Mr, John Hogg, hot week, atithe age of 433.. - - —There were 391 deaths in Montreal hist month, of which 1.5 were from ty- phoid fever ahd 31 from diphtheria. —The Cornwall Coal is once more open and vessels are passing up and clout as heretofore. • - -,-Professor Macoun and his party . have arrived 111 Ottawa j from the Mae- - has r .kenzie River District. • . lenge • -7-The Montreal Nationalist papers One reminded their readers tVat Friday- hist_ Gibb was. the third anniversary of the exeou- runn tion of Riel. • at De Malcohn R. Gordon, B. A.,• -- formerly Of Acton, has been elected to the. presidency of Groton College, Da- kota. . • -• —A corpulent, full-faced, heavily mus- tached tramp- reigistered at the Peter- boro' police station Thursday'. as Grover Cleveland, Buffalo. Occupation; tramp. is reported that Hon; John Car- ling has disposed of Cedar Grove, his residence in London, to the Canadian 'Pacific Railway ' Company for $32,.000. --Brant county farmers are organizing a company to produce ° binder twine. The capital stock' *is to be $57,000 in shares of $20 each; and it is proposed to erect a factory M Brantford. ' —The other morning. Mrs. Thomas F. Mitchell, of . New Hamburg, was taken .ill while at breakfast and a . Physician wat_called at once, 'bid before his arrival shewas dead. . • —The other day in.Brantferdtwo bap; were fooling with a revolver when it went off, the bullet penetratingthenthigh of one of them, 'causing an intensely _painful 'wound, : I - —An autepsy of the two. cattle which -died in Yarmouth, near St. -Themes, - Saturday, showed that they died front 1 • Canada. . dreaded hog cholera has appearance in Smith e great lumber ie will close best orris, of Ingersoll, cleaned his put a charge of powder in it to ould all right. It went, its to his sorrow, and his bends were badly burned. • C. Love, an old and honored f Toronto, died suddenly from • last Friday. During a resi- 46 years he had filled many of trust in the public affairs of Wm. McKenzie, of Bay View, County, Noire Scotia, has an ee one hundred years old, 86 • girth, spread of branches 27 having an average fruitage of els in all, —Mr Rube Fax, late of Woodstock, has gr dusted with honors at the Madi- son Sq are School of Acting, New York. He is • ow playing in the city with the Booth- arrett combination. - • —A Toronto syndicate; composed princip of :wholesale hoot and shoe , men, ,• ith a capital of $100,000, have secure the Ontario :Rubber Works at Port j alhousie, and the business will be pushed with great vigor, • —A big seizure of furniture IS .report- ed fro St.. John, N. B. Sixty-six artie, • cles of urniture were brought as sec.,' d settlers' effects, which upon ation turned Out to be new fur - it by a man then living Digby. An accident had befallen Lyons, and he • made the confession while dying, but he -did not divulge the name of the. man who encouraged him to committhe act: • —The -mortuary statistics for October show the total deaths in the large cities . to be as follows:. Montreal to 177, Quebec 122, Hamilton Wa 61, Landon 31; Kingsto 48; .Belleville 13, St. T Guelph 9 each, Galt 16, Brantford '21; Peterboro 5. • .•.t • Wilkinson, of Mcioretown - was -applied to at his office, the other (1st, by two little -girls for vaccination.' One of them undertook to speak for the other and explained:!Doctor,. this my Sis- ter. She too Young to know --her left sarm from her right, so mamma Washed. BOTH of them. - • • . —An arrangement has just been coin- pleted by the Pastmasti3r•General with the Postmaster -GeneralOfNewfoundland , for -the interchange: by gest Of parcels between the two coilotries. The -same rate and regulatirm will apply as now. pertain. to the: -parcel. post. between Canada and England. -7-Albert Warren, the colored man of Brantford who attemped to beat out his t, endea- -` tible and -respectable Ontario. About the 6th inst. some fiend in human form sprinkled Paris green on Mr. Blair's pasture, the result being the death °-of - Live cowsand one horse. Mr. Blair of- fers a rew rd of $100 for the conviction r, ty party. Voelker, of Hamilton; while stove Friday morning, used in the black -lead, ' The tur- -. ught fire from the heat of the the 'flames caught Mrs. Feel - 9,- Toren- Otta-, Hull its' and 9nd-ha investi niture. —R Day A _ville, *fused days ir a day pel hi --L Company's sawmill, at Teeswater, was compl tely destroyed by fire, 'which 1 starte at 11,50 o'clock, p. in. Insur- ance n mill, 41,006 in the Gore Mu- tual; --A E. Lit lowed last w kick the st —T Bellev C. D,o ovan were burned. Two horses and three cows peridlised in' the flames, also s veral Tagons and sleighs and eight tons o hay were, conautheda- r. J. E. Seagram, of Waterloo, . y imported OM England four reeii—two brood mares .e.. two- allion ("Objection") and a filly same age. "Objection' won two. England the 'past aeason. r. anies McDonald, of Huron town - the -celebrated breeder and feeder has traded With ' Mr. John L. hun red and sixty acres of eld township, Michigan, the lst concession of .• • • • bert -MoCornuck, the Seventh vantist, who Was fined at :Belle - r working on Sunday, has re- pay the suMand will serve two -gaol. lie observes Saturday as f rest and defies the law to OM - to do otherwise. ' st Friday. ThOmpson; Peasant & oss on the mulelone, $6,000. little child, daughter of Mr. R. le, township clerk of Culross, , her 'fatherto the stable one day eek, and had lierleg broken by a rom one of the horses standing in.; e Other :night in Thurlow, near lle, abarn and stable owned by wife's brains, with an iron p vored to commit suicidein jaillastFriday He took off his braces, makitig ayooie by tearing a piece off his shirt, and was just about to suspend himself to the cell door when a "fellow -prisoner gave the alarm, -• —The total arrivals in Canada from January 1 to October 31, 1888, wire 146,807, as compered with 128,260 dur- ing the same period last- year The to- tal settlers in Canada during the ten months were 78,212, or 'all increase of 11,000, While the Settlers in Domin- ion numbered 8,558 as against 5,515. --Last Sunday evening a part of the grain warehouse of Mr. John Simmons in Brantford collapsed, allowing some four or five thousand bushelsl of barley to run down the hillside. A portion of the grain will be secured in good order, blit a large quantity is injurid by mix- ture with other gram and **the rain. The loss is estimated at neatly $2,500. - .--,.. —Some months "• ago the _wife of • a Well-to-do farmer in Olden, near Kings- ton, deserted her husband and seven children and eloped with the - hired man. Saturday she was found in the • city. She had got over her infatuation, was forgiven taken to the inisoin, of her husband and returned home. j • —Miss 'Macdonald, only: sister- of Sir John Macdonald, died at Kingston on Sunday at the - age of 70, years. The warmest attachment existed between the Premier and his sister. In. early life shell Wee his earnest -helper. She made her home with him until he removed .to Ottawa, since which time she has- osid- - ed with her brother-in-law, Rev. Dr. Williamson, of Queen's University?. •. —At Woodslee, county of Essex, last- Friday, a' number of youngmen were standing at the railway crossing, but stepped off as a train appro ched. One of them, Ernest Mills started to wrestling with a companion and in endeavoring to break loose ran against the engine, which struck him, knocking him into the ditch and killing me in- -stantly. —Twenty hotel-keepere of London, who provide + 'stabling accommodation for the general public, have decided to ad- here to the following increased tariff, considering the high price of fodder ;— Single horse to hay,- 15 cents; to hey and oats 25 cents. • Team to hay, 25o.; to hay and oats 50. Stableroom with- out feed, 10 cents. -,- _Rev. James Tolmie, a graduate, last,/ table business, and started to prospect. sprit*, of Knox college, Toronto, has accepted a call to Fergus, , It is not often -that a young man just starting out in the work Of the ministry receives such a, charge as the Old alld strong cen ega- of the gui —Mrs. cleaning turpentin pentine c stove, an ker's hair, burning most of it off, , and also burning her face badly. She was almost blinded. and suffered much pain, when she fell dow bone an Her injuries, though serious, will not likely prove fatal. —Mr. John Rankin and his wife went driving along the road near Brighton village, when their horses, which are young, took fright and ran off at a ter- rific speed. One of the wheels struck ' against a Istump, and after the vehicle had beentl dragged a little further the - horseS st mbled and fill. The carriage Was • upset and both the occupants thrown out. Mr. Rankin's face was terribly bruised, and his wife's shoulder disloeatei; Each of the hones had a leg broke by the accident, —At the annual meeting of the Werth Oxford Farmers' Institute, held last Fri- day in Minister ertson, of dresses, titggered from the room and stairs, breaking her collar receiving other 'bad bruises. recent race -h year s Of th rades of sto Carr, o land li Broo • for '.fi ty. acres Huro . • eorge M. Gibbs, Ln a mile in 4.274, is o to run any amateur in ile for a- $1,000. - trophy. is the =steer champion one mi r of America, having won that title roit, September 10th, 1888. : ugust Hartmann has been in the meat trade, at New Hamburg, for forty years A friend says Always on hand, alwa s good natured '• in a geed stand. It is ;o enatter of wonder that August does flourishing liminess. He could elp it. ., ,. . ears are bo namerousaround Span - bier that they are seen every day. are getting very' bold owing to the ty of feed and cold weather. Cap- osgien caught eine in a deadfall ne came to the 'store of Dobie & eoostrli. : other daywas-and,shot at the d • journeyman baker, in Ottawa dis- red the .other night taking with small sum of money and the cloth - his room mate, whom heohloroform- In his haste he left behind him let - from his wife now, in Australia: as engaged to marry the daughter boarding -house -keeper. , in his Thanksgiving sermon, Rev, erridge, of St. Andrew's, Ottawa, ring to the agitation in favor of g church property, contended that hurch,was fully entitled to the ex - ion by, reason of her work in en - ng and purifying the whole. nation3. - olks and their poor relations. BLAINE, JR., AND mas. 0. °• Gomm. I.suppose it is safe, now that the election is over, to mention the wife of s G. Blaine, Jr., without meaning hing politically. She is this week her, and the new thing to tell in- ingly about her is that young Mrs. e Gould, with - a recent seceud Jam anyt a in tere Georg infant _in her own family, . has been symiatbetically calling on her. -Both thee yoting ladies were actresses before theylmarried distinguished men's sons, and neither had reached satiety in dranatic honors. It seems that they made a casual acquaintance- in the days. when -Mrs. Gould was an actress of small put in the Daly company and Mrs. e was a pupil at the Lyceum theatre. The latter had -been taken up by Modjeska, and was under eugage- nient for a traveling season with: that vete an and exciting actress, wben a ,sun3iner at Long Branch settled the quetion Of her Intuit,: She played t •1• • - 'visit to a prince any quicker than to any other gentleman.' _ . MRS. CLEVELAND MAY GO TO 1STENy YORK 4 •• 0 LIVR. ' - Mrs. Gr over Ctveland will come to New _ York to live aft r next March. ,- That is .the talk in the social circle in which Mrs. William°Ct Whitney fashionably moves. Already the wife of the President has been to some extent introduced into that " ekolusive !' set, for she has ,visited at the town residence of the Secretary of the navy many more times than have been noted in print. • It haabeen -the custom of Mrs.Whitney and Mrs. Cleve- land ever since the present administra- tion began in Washington to slip- over to New York, spend a , few drays at the Whitney Mansion, do their Shopping, , and make and receive calls informally. In that way,' Km. Clevelandhas come into acquaintance with the Asters, the Vanderbilts and other 5th &venue fam- ilies; with Whom the wealthy andmodish , Mr*. Whitney is inthnate.. The Whitneys decided some little I day, the ship lurched and the soup '.the i smut taken into the stomach by eating ,corn stalks infested with it. • —At the annual convention of Chris- tian Workers held in DetroitonThurs daylast week, ex-lilayor Howland, of Toronto, spoke at considerable length on • Toronto mission work.. —The officers on the-stearner'Cireassian report that all on board were charmed by the behavior of the Hindu contingent of the Saivation Army on the voyage to Liv- erpool. Musa Bhai's company was sought i _ by all, the cabin passengers inviting him to thesaloon, his brilliant conversational - powers being greatly admired. 'His command of several languages surprised everyone. Horatula proved a veritable Mark , Tapley. Although a victim of Mal -de mer—the voyage being a stormy one—his spirits were alai:avant. Rush- ingon deck with a plate of hot soap one Guelph, who in world r. not ish -The scare tain • and Co. store hirnJ appe . o ed. ters' He of hi Mr.- refe • taxi the • einp nobl al lif oodstock, Hon. Chas, Drury, "I Agriculture, and Prof. Rob - Guelph College, delivered ad - Prof. Robertson's subject was; "The dairy and the hest means of ob- taining the best results," Mr. Drury's 'eubject was "The farmer and why he fails, when be does fail.!' Mr. Drury is still an enthusiastic farmer, and he has greatihopes for the agricultural com- munity of the Province. He was pre- sented. with an address of welcome and tion by the Institute. - t eleven' o'clock on Wednes- last week, as Mr, W. Mitch- - ghly respected resident of as returning home, be was set, . couple of toughs,. presumably for the purpose of robbery, who pum- melled and horribly cut him around the head with a club. Fortunately or Mr. Mitchell a young man came along in. time, causing the scoundrels to take alarm. Mr. Mitchell was carried into his house, where he now lies in preca • mut condition._ - ,--Of the Brant county Gypsum beds the miniag commission report as fol- • lows : The Gypsum from the Paris mine - is of a greyish color and is solely used in the manufacture of land piaster. -The Gypsum from the neighborhood of Casr- lige is very shite, and is used . for the manufacture oi alabastine ; a consider- able quantity Is calcined and shipped to • different points in Western Ontario, Some is shipped in the manufactured state to several American ports. The principal Works are those of the Grand River Gypsum Company, which are SOMe three miles from Cayuga. Guelph lad named Peter Collins was at a shooting match with an old Enfieldrifle, which had been converted into a breech loader, and. while firing At a pigeon the breech blew out and the cartridge coming back, struck him In the eye, mutilating it -badly and forcing some shot into the ball. His left eye an face also 'were blackened and burnt. The boy Was immediately driven to a doctor who had to remove the eye, as it was so badly injured. The other eye will be saved. 7, " —Last spring W. Bristow, one of our prominent business men, took the Cali- fornia fever, Bela out a; large and profi- table went to Seattle, Washington Ter- ritory, and while there explored the whole country. From there he went to California, and thence to British Colum- bia without finding the great haven of tion of Fergus: •Mr, Tolmie was lately rest. About a month ago he returned ted tin buitinellses ple who have now called him to be their Occudghteonuotuaghhrfdowr arheiman. presented With a gold watch by the peo. 1 to his family, and said Ontario we/ tor. •- • • in!Rodney, Ont., and he and family left diatressing aceident 'Occurred at t's threshing at Hampstead. on Tuesday last week for their new taking off a fanning mill home. I B he emrtasobyf tehrelinsatmr„. all one t,� the rear of other —Ccidnallyt a abr re e sKt e way or other got rein andit was of John Selling. on the charge of entering the barn of Mr. Wm. Foster, near Lin- wood, and stealing .about 240 bushels of barley, fifteen bushels of -peas and five bushels of wheat. He was seen about the premises during the day. Atnight, it is alleged, he drove up and carried off the stuff to Heidelburg, and in the morning disposed of the pees at the and then came on to Berlin and sold the remainder to Mr. John Moffatt, Selling had wide tires on his _wagon, and with this clue he was -traced, and eons uently arrested, —Mrs. Burnett Smith, of Edinburgh, Scotland, better known as Annie S. Swan, a talented Scotch aathoressithe writer of eg• Aldersi4," and a number of other popular books; has been 'spending some weeks M Western °Maria. She is this week in Toronto, and expresses her- self is most favorably impressed with what she has seen of the people and province. Mrs. Smith is about twenty- seven years of age,and is a typical,highly refine Scotch.As her writings d show she is a keen, shrewd observer, and when •diseussing any'matter in which she is interested, her -features light up with penetrating intelligence. - —.Last Saturday's London Advertiser Bari: Night after night this week the King street Presbyterian -church has been crosvded to the door at the 11131011 evangelistic meetings, besides large 'ga- therings for; the afternoon. bible read- ings, Mr. •• -Schiverea's -searching faith- fulness, his intense earnestness and dra- matic freshness give him a powerful hold of his audience. These, with the k of himself, the pastors and late workers, h ve secured a converts, any of profes�d The servicesThanksgl g Day were peculiarly impressive AO enjoyable, Mr. Schiv eils address in the evening on the b of the gout for the -world - was one o unusual power. ev. W. J. Sperling, of Kingston,' spearing on the temperance question, said he was sick and tired of temper- ance speakers denonnoing the Govern - men when the people. had the power in t eir own hands of having a Govern - men in favor, of temperance if they *is ed. ° It has just been discovered at Digby, Nov Scotia, that Chas. Borden, con - vie d and imprisoned in 1876 for set- ting fire to a sawmill owned by Calvin Ray ond, was innocent of the crime. -Bor en was. sentenced to a five years' ter . At the time of the fire and trial the worked in Digby man named . • Pa ick Lyons,*.whe - soon after distp- pea ed, . conlessilm made by this - in- divi nal at Cleveland, Ohio, has just bee received, in which he -states he set • on fire, an 6 _ was pelt' $25 to do congrat day nigh ell, s Guelph, upon by , Mr. Ste Mark Kyle Belt, to put on a • the machine, in som his right armentangle completely severed lust below the elbow. - The arm had to be amputated six inches below the shoulder. Kyle' is only 24 years,. of age and this accident is a'sesrere blow to him. , —Rev. C, E. Miles, B. A., having re- signed the parish. of Belmont, was the other evening made the recipient, at the ,hands of the congregatione of liarriets- vine, and Belmont; of an address's, so- Companied bia presentation of a, _hand - dome fur coat, cap and defying gloves. Mrs. Miles' Sunday School elvs also presented her with a beautiful toilet set, in token of the high esteem in whieh they are held, . ,. • —An East-Saghiaw dispatch says ;— The action of the Dominion authorities in raising the export duty on pine logs from $2 to $3 will naturally, affect the - log supply of the Saginaw River mills. It was calculated that 150,000,000 feet of logs would be brought to this .river 'next season from Georgian , Bey. • A trade for over 200;000,000 feet of Cana- dian pine, which Bay City lumbermen were closing, is declared off, owing to the increase of duty, - -..The. Post Office Department will soon issue a new style of postal card. It is much like the doub e oaidef the I present.patteron. The heck folds are split diagonally and open' ike a painted' star. the four corners are folded and joined in the . centre, when the card is ready for palling, with a piece of:gum-. mid paper. . The card weighs less than half an -ounce, and will contain no more writing than the present card, the only licivailtag6 being greater privacy.- -Mr. John Blair, a wellAnown and wealthy farmer of the 9t111 concession of *West Zorra, has recently been the ob- ject or an outrage- that is enough to make him think that the worst portions of his native country, Ireland, will come are favorably with our_usuatly peace- earnest wo their assoc large coin — , t :•• ' •-! • ,