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The Huron Expositor, 1889-10-18, Page 11899. T OF climate for et sway az offer the, Stocke rER: ICES • thing kept, .5ec There Mug goes, the -season - e animals- ewed care - must here, The at. , ). large as- riaylie at - weather riday wet was any - standing found ott nd imple- hien S-10. LOD, were y public attended,. e manage. uotioneer. aiding in game of th conos- ;stem the i resulted or of the mine/ nm- trtial and ege Kelty„ fr Kelly, tided the• eek.—Mr. We, were last week. y left on_ -The pro - Geist held Niceraek- kat meet - he Board, a of the• resolution dolma by ..rProctor, • Council . a meni- ', express - with. Mr. tent afllie- tructed to on to Me. riar ap a Mthr ugh. redone- and Vials ave agree O oungit engineer to, in4 tel, Mr, t oolleefor area, a Jr' fter u te, the in on tins day, Oa- - h toy on - en• one of terseMiss rearriage E Morris. ?reformed [ton, took an& was tf guests, t of both - ves were cousin . Smithy of whom occasion. iony was-% iceeded to ' he tablet all _the - he wants le, having !,..t before heir sell.' left their are of the d viisheet nanifesta- tfa, show* filch Mr. 1. Smith _ nag lady, both old . 'From our all. Of hing tees. , end we and Mrs. ty friends done in , 1 5 0 Es. ' _ att.. - 0s -ss: TWENTY:SECOND YEAR. I WTEOLE NUMBER; 1,140. SEAFORTK, 'FRIDAY, :OCTOBER 181, MeLEAN BROS. a Pt:Mini:ten- . *1,50 a;Tear, i Advance. T.FI MILLINERY 110 ROO NOW 111 MLitt' AST. Stock Complete InspectionSolicit&ci e—AT THE— Cheap Cast( Store HofFmAN & .00. Also new 'Dress 'Good's, new Jacket Cloths, new Jackets, new Flannels, " new' Underwear, new Glove_s and Hos.e. Stack fall in all lines. 'Plei-se calL and ;take a look through THE— Cheap - Cash. Store HOFFMAN &, CO., OARDNO'S BLOCK; SAA FORT Hs WI3li144:i OUTING. -iWrittse for Tut Exfosliot.1 - In an ungardedmoment ,in May -last I allowed my partner, Mr. Pollock, to become a Candidate, for the 'dabs of delegate to the constitutional convention for North Dakota. Re was elected and this Obliged him to be at the capital, Bismarck, during the, months of July. and August, and promised to keep - the - junior member of the firm cooped up in a lawofficethe two hottestmonths of the year. Imagine then with what' joy I embraced an opportunity' to drop work the last week in July, to get sway from the prairie and ammarthe lakes Of NOrthern Minnesota. • - Casselton, where I make my home, is situated in the •• centre of Cass -county on the level prairie, as 'eye'. as • any prairie to be found under. the sun. Tb the north and east a drive of eight miles brings us to timber. Travelling -west there is none nearer than -forty Within e half mile of the town is the far famed Dalrymple farm said to be the largest whet farm on die continent,. if not in the world. There are WO rail, roads here, the main line of the North: ern Pacific_ and a branch of the St -Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba. We—Dr. and Mrs. Landon and I, their guest— take the Northern Pacific and a,t*entY- two miles ride brings wi to Feigo, the metropolis' of North Dakota and the county -seat of Cass County, a city of about ,9,000 inhabitants. In "boom" thins,' Fargo, like. many other western and northwestern 'cities, pushed ahead faster than the conditions of substantial growth warranted -and has not yet fully recovered from the consequent reaction: Leaving Fargo we immediately cross. the Red River. of the North, of which all Huron county boys and girls know something. Not within the memory of the oldest settler has the Hier WWI BO low !WWII; now.' At maey_points it can be waded. The writer taw the river SOMA YEWS ago at the highest point known t� the oldest inhabitant, and the contrast between then and now would 'fiercely be credited by those who are net acquainted with thehabits of this river. Then a mighty river, with no regard for its natural limits, overflowing its banks, at some points. _fully- eight . miles wide: New an in- significant, shallow, muddy, sluggish stream a few rods wide. The 'steam- boat captains during high water times 'paid little attention to the river proper; but were in the habit of making's direct couree to the objective point. , One of • them, More Venturesome or unfortunate - than the reit, one day found -himself aground, and his boat is still dry dock, waiting for another moving of the waters. Upon the eelst bank of- the Red ie.. Moorhead, Minnesota. Moor- head too is a " home" town, and there arelargt, costly, vacant buildings away lit' from .the badness :portion Of- the town, which never have end probably never.will bring their owners e cent. of revenue. For -twenty mtlei east of Moorhead the ietier stretch AA prairie . continues; after which the lend is rol- ling, with here and there_ a. clump of time Journeying on,. there is more timber, and we p888 several email lakes, or ponds with outlets, and by. the time we reach Detroit, fifty mlles east of. Fargo, we are in a Leountry originally, barring the lakes, completely 'covered by tiniber. A ride of an hour trans- ports us from the bald *prairie to .forest primeval, where the axe of -the wood, man is heard and 'where the.settler is "clearing" his farm, as they did in Western Ontario twenty-five and thirty, years ago. At. Detroit there. is ash_eautitfil 'lake . ileven miles. 'Ong- by athree:wideeinIthe., formkof a. crescent.' :The heel Miene- -sota is,- locatedhere-e.a large three .storey blinding With onehundred rooms,- elegantlyfurnished and i_Omplete el17 .its appointments. There are several: small Steamers, on this, lakealid Detroit is fast -.owning into -.prominence es a summeriresert, But we only remainlu: Detroit long ;enough to engage a Ow and aro loon on our way with to Lake itlelissa—eight Das§ through the woods, Thie,t tho time we mods the trip, WAS one of es prettiest drives naglrjr able, Thou had boon a shower tho night before and the road wa. , Hood on wit side by. a ',afoot mat -of wild roses, whioh have all the stroettioss -of the doMistio variety,- They ilterally oppress sod the sir with ncrfutne, The doctor and hit wife have mei cottage on the north side of Like! Melissa, e lake about one-halfthe die of Detroit.. There are four other summer' residences near by, one of them'occupled by Mrs. Carrie T. Green, Of Cedar Rapids-, Iowa, another by a Mr. Ring, of Chicago,A third by T.! E. Yerxe, of Fargo, and fourth by P. S. Hough- ton, Of Galesburg, Dakota Territory. These people are much like those of the early Church, in particular ati least—they- have pretty much every- thing in common; and if a friend of. anyone of them appears on :the scene i he s received into full membership at sight. The first thing :We did after arrival was to take dinner with Mrs. Green, where we: helpedto bat a 'len and a half pound 'pickerel, caught the, day preVioun' by Sir knight Edb Ains- worth, Past Grand CoMmander of the foWa Knights,Templars,ond like myself, a friend' of '` one of these families . of latter day early Christians. .- ' The- :programme for the Week was fishing, boating, bathing and berry - picking through the day and 'a concert each evening. at one of the cottages. The doctor m an old fisherman and milk not be bribed :to fish with &lir; thing but a' reel rod.. His is ..an eight. mince, rod, and with the reel worth $50. He insisted on my Using a - reel though I had never seen one before.• Those who have not used one of these - rods may be interested in a doseription of this method of fishing, The rod is very light and _fragile and could not be depended u n to land a tWo 'Sound base - 1 ed at the small end of the pole put rues the funeral. 'In general' benefactions through a loop to the reel about eighteen she was always prompt with assistance inches from the butt end. When,' a' and money, and in t.her death Toronto fish takes the bait and finds he is hook. loses - a whole -smiled • philanthropist ed_ he usually starts off suddenlyenot whose memory wilt:live in many a deed 'stopping short of a hundred feet or SO; of kindness done, and whose lose will be Butterick's Patterns for any garment free of charge to any one buying the Cloth or Dress Goods' for said garment Troni-us. Saturdity morning, 5th inst., Dan McLeod, with his wife, his son and two hirfti men, one named Malcolm McKay, and .„the other a young man named McLeod, all of Inverhuron, left that piaci) with their two fishing. boats, for Golden Valley. - The night wile calm when they started, but before morning it turned stormy, and -it is feared a squall struck -them and capsized their boats, as -both boats Were found' badly damaged on the shore, one at Kincer. • dine and the other below Inverhdron. —Conjugal infelicities assume peculiar forme sometimes. Last Saturday in To- ronto Thome! Marks, who . resides on Bright street, discovered that his- dog had pulled down BMW • of the clothesvrhich his wife had hung upon the line in the yard. Instead of wreaking sum mary vengeance upon the canine he tried to get even with his wife by punch- ing her head and . choking her.- He stated in court, however, that she had a way of her own, and was continually nagging at him. —Mrs. and Miss Macleod, formerly residents of Glencoe, near London,' left Edinburgh on the 30th ult. on. a tour rOtilli.: the world.. They sailed...with Mt. John Macleod in the steamer Uranus, recently built for the firm of Macleod & Co; of Manilla, to which place. they go direct via the Suez Canal and Red .Sea, They purpose remaining a year with the . family Manilla, returning by Japan and San Francisco across the American -continent, calling. at Glencoe, on' their way to New York en route for Europe again. • —The other night in the outskirts of __Galt, shortly after 6 o'clock, as Mrs. Ingall was proceeding home wards;: wheeling her three months' Old baby, she • met With A singular adventure. - When near the residence of Mrs, W, Moore two men slumped out from the hushes, and pushing Mrs, Ingall aside seized the buggy and ran towards the woods with the Tho mother's Mos attracted the attention of people 'Hying Is the neighborhood, who gave when the ruffians dropped tho ggy and mods thoir oficapelin the 41 resift= of the woods, - It is difficult to understand thi objeot whioh tho scow drela had in view, that it was nettling good goes without saying, —A singulariticident is reported from. East Zorra. The fatni4 of Mr.of that township, have been afflicted with diphtheria, One of the children died on Wednesday of last week, and another was supposed to have died on Th.urstlay morning. Its coffin was ordered, its grave dug, and the tizne of the funeral set, -but when the coffin ar- rived from Woodstock the child WAS found to be still alive. The same coffin - and grave Were used, however; the same day, the little one passing away shortly after, ma Mr. Chantler, the 'grand- father of this child, was buried Thurs- day. It is told as a remarkable co-inci- deuce that his COffiLl WAS ordered marc than a week before he died. s. - —Donald Morrison, the Megantic out- law, has been sentenced to 18. years in • penitentiary. Early Saturday morning a covered carriage with several own - ',lints was being driven rapidly along Notre Dame street, Montreal, to ;the Canadian Pacific station. The most in- teresting of the passengers was no other than Donald Morrison, of Lake Megan tic fame, who was en route to St. 'Vin- cent de Paul to pass Ding. years within the dismal walls of the penitentiary. Donald did not talk 'much during the trip, but he appeared to -be impressed, by the gravity Of the situation- as the, wails came in sight and he had -to bid a _ Long adieu tothose who had accompan- ied him to his future home. Donald•-• will hereafter be known as No. 833,And thus the last act_ of this not unimportant drama has been played and the doors of St. Vincent de Paul have been Closed behind Donald Morrison. AI/Minding thatmuph inc off the reel„ You then. begin rawing -in the fish 4,y winding up -theline—gradually so as not to &rouge too much antagonism on AIM part the fish. If be is A good fighter he will make a -dozen spurt e before he exhausts himeelf land you Can get him close enough to be secured with it land- ing or small dip -neon we went fish—a four. and the gamiest fish known to these waters. I Wae fully halt an hour landing Min, add- it was the most -exciting half hoar I .ever experieneed With ' the doctor issuing instructions, "Look out, he is going under the boat," "Keep the rod out of the -water,." "P•ive him more ' line," ":Reel ireell 1)3P, 'I scarcely- kbew whether I was Afoot or hbrseliacI6 But when the fish was landed the doctor was more pleased than if he had caught it himself. . The reader may in- -quire, *what the advantage is of the -red over the old plan; and the answer is for the most part—more fun. • The point. it sometimes made that it is cruel to • tor- ture a -fish for a half hour that might as Well be landed in a half minute. But thie objection is met -by the fact that a. isfish's mouth has no more neivek or feel- ilthan- a horse's hoof. . net, The first after- - outl caught the first, a half Poundblack bees, keenlY filthy the maiirwhom she has so generously assisted ° In :their time of need. . • TEACHERS' PARLIAMENT. 'OPENING DAY! _ The semi-annual meeting of the ,North' Huron Teachers', Association was held in the public' school; Brussels, on Thurs. ;day and Friday allot week. The fore. noon Beaton of Thursday opened at 10.30 with an attendance of only about 21 menibers, The president •delivered 'his opening address, in 'Which he touch- ed upen many points of interest to the teachers present. He regretted the ab - sew. of Bo. many ineral3ers. He said teahers were paid for: these days,. and should not ,regard.thein 'as holidays to be partly spent in visiting their friends. All should, become members of the In- stitute arid not only be at the place • of meeting, punctually, but should also take an active 'part in the discussion -a. A committee, consisting of the president', the iteeretary and Mr. ',Campbell. was then appointed to astiarthe local, teach- ers in preparing for the evening meet-, ,-- he bathing at Melissa is excellent. The shore slopes out gradually and a person of medium ,height can touch bottom a quarter df. a mile from the beach. Every Afternoon from 4 o'clock to 4.30 fifteen -or twenty of the neigh: 'bore and friends, men, women and ,chile dren, met for bathing. One never for- gets how to swim,- The writer had not been in-water7-outside of a bathroom— since leaving Idakelet, in Howl* town. . ship; ten years ago; but swimming game qnite.Jas easy. as it did the last• time be dove off a boat in the Big Lake. i The boating -afforded a 'much pleas- ure as perhaps any other number on, the progtamnie. The doctorhas one of these little- boats that are mentioned more or less frequently in every auto- graph album—with just toom. enough for two. This boat was assigned to a youeg lady, the guest of Mts.' Green, who was enjoying a few months' vaca- tion from'oellege duties,. and who 000A• 'donally shared the boat with me. Im- agine the lake without a ripple, a full moon • shining, 61 hall doted row boats gliding.here and there overthe level sur- face., the light but inspiring music of the hatinctud • a in . one direction, the Merry laugh of children in another, the song of voyageuee yonder; and; the al- most noiseless.dipting of the paddles -on 411 sides, aufl I resting on my oars for a ihoment repeated to myself: . V "The holiest eine li the moonlight hour, ' 1 "And there ne br,was moonlight so sweet as II h this.!' , : '; 1 , . . lit '- • . . ' .r—aed don; t e ome an old bachelor for. aiTdulging'in t is little bit of - sentiment.' - The concerts in the evenings were at - ;tended by tbs.-entire 'colony. A :little , 'daughtez of Mrs. Ring_and Alta „Green dance beautifully. There are two or three, tragedienes in the company and 'Shakespeare's Othello is put on, with :fine effeit, especially the smothering scedelp -Solos; elecrusee, organ ,yoltintar- les, stings, comic and sentimental fill in :the eCenings. The **lends Of the writer Will judges of the high „character. 1 of these entertainmente :when they, are iinferined that he was ueeally:- on fore; it' song or two.:: Others May. tell of the, encores ht usually received, . - 81indaylecenes at the lakes as at other places, anti_ we determined - that our habits of Sabbath observance should not be disregarded in eattaege land. Early Sunday morning we procured a couple of teams from a neighberingefatriter and. -the-whole population were BOOII eIIS for church. ., The 'Had wound or und stumps; into pitch Males and out pin, -up bill --and down, Over crossways—in short it liraii j wit *Ugh" * trip As many: ,of the older ' residento 'of -guron county will recall in early times, The ohuroh, whorl We roaohod lt, waw found to be * neat, though small frame @truant*, re. otn3tly built and ow to an ovongolical donominetion, Tho minister from * village a few mihof away proaohodan earliest and interesting sermon, the offoot of whioh WAS lost to a groat **tont, on the ladies, owing to a niarriago oer- • t for -the total abolition of permits mulir any fermi • • • (4) -That whereas this Association has repeatedly expressed its disapproval cif uniform -promotion examinations, Re- solved, that we view the recent action of the County Council in regard to the comi pulsory ntroductiOn of, these exam- inations es,tieubralizing the' spirit of the -Departmental Regulations. - , (5) Resolved, that the cordial'..thanks of this Associaticin be tendered to Reis. J. Ross, S: Sellery, and other kind friends who assisted in the progranune on Thursdity evening; and else to the Brussels public /school board of trustees and the 'Village'. council for the use of 1 the public school building and the town hall. All the resolutions were adopted, ex- cept the 2nd and 4th, which were laid over till the next meeting. The ap- pointment of auditors was next made, and resulted in F. Metcalf and N. H. Young; of- Blyth, 'being chose, after which it was decided that a change should be made in the mode of electing cetera. In the future ,voting will be done by ballot durieg the forenoon of the second day *of the annual meeting. Mr. Alten'Anderson.then reed an inter- esting and instructive; paper on Draw- ing the teacher should 'nett'. cate a love of drawing in :the young minds at first., He illustratedhiepoints by draw'ngs on the blackboard, which' were ry well .exeouted. After a- few *attire were attended to, the meeting adjourned. s C. RI:m=0(4mi Teacher-, School Section No. 8, Grey. ing. • N In the afternoon the attendance- was greatly-, augmented by new arriv pouring in. A reportieg corned e was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Bow- erman, Black, MeFatizean and Plummer; Committees were next • appointed „, on Resolutions, andGeiteral Business.after which a synopsis of the proceedings at e last meeting of, the Provincial aot'vere' Institute was given' by the gite; Mr. Doig, who showed' byhis de • • Canada. , Thuredey, November I7th, hat been appointed- Thanksgiving —Hard -coal is selling. for 19.50 per -• ibteresting and instructive report that lton in Winnipeg. - East HUM WAS,prett3i. well represented at the Niagara meeting. - disoushon then smile between Mr. Doig and Thomas Gibsen•Ascl.,1411.P.Pes• who happened to be present, in which the'former. objected to reducing '.the grants to High Schools; and aged the latter to explain the stand he teok in the'House on the .Teechers' Superannuation Fund 'question. •. Mr. Gibson Proved equal to the • occasion, and 'very ably defended his potation on both questions. Some other points touched upon in the delegates' report were then discussed. Mr. iIoig held that the teiteheredid not. receive much ptietical benefit in Nore mal and Model Schools. Too. much tithe wail there taken up in leo spun theories from Baldwin and Fit0he Messrs. Tay- lor and Cornyn in reply defended the present system of training teachers in thou) schools. Mr.D.Johnston thought that teachers should `heti the benefits - of Normal training first before they be. gan teaching. This plan ,was opposed by Mesars. Taylor; 'Blackwell and Cornyn, the • _latter saying . it was -good enough inlheory but impossible to ,put into practice on account of the ex- pense young • teachers would beputto. Other points of minor interest were then brought up, after which - Mrs. 8:Kirk- man read a number of valuable extracts from a :book entitled, "Teachers . and TeaPr.Clarksonhing 's • next read Ma paper On the" Wantsand Woes of Teaehers," which was well received. The three great woes he referred to were isolation, poverty, and the yearly .engagement'; for each of which he suggested remedies that would•reduce the wants of teachers to a minimum. Amotion to have the paperpehlished in full in the.eleCil -.pa- pers was carried by a large majority., EVENING ENTERTAINMENT. • ' In the evening an entertainment was given in the town hall. The programme was a- pod one and was well • carried o There was a large attendance and e preceeds amounted to over $28. e About $8 had to be taken out of this, however, to defray expenses. ' SECOND DAY, - . Friday's SeNsionbegan at 9 a. m, Mr, .131ackwell road * very suggestive and practical essay on.the teaching of Com. position, Thoughts,' he laid, must pre. cede -ff oaf, The drat thing to do is to got the pupils to think, after whksh they W111-114WO littlo diftioulty in getting words to express the Ideas, Show plos tures and got tho oleos to talk about thorn, Tho piotures in the reading loos sons bail thus be used with groat ad. vantsgetthe Welter tnakin_g eaohleason In NFU, and 'Lid the First Reader' the basis of MI oral Ifingiiage lesion, Re then suggested iiianY valuable kinds of exercises for third -and fourth cleaves and highly recommnded SOW that he had tried in his own school. -- Mr. J. H. Cornyn next took up the subject of Writing, with a class of seven or eightpupils from the Brussels public school., .He first put some writing on the blackboard and then judiciously questioned the class and asked themto criticize errors which he put on the board similar to those some of them made On their slates in copying his writing.. He also read An essay On the successful \teaching : of writing in schools.. He teaches printing at the mune time as writing,- condemns tracing, allows. pu- pils to -write- with pencil at first, teaches all the principles from the very begin- ning, and requires pupik to use the muscular Movement, Conliderable.dis- cussion-followed and tlien. Mr. Clarkson read the following resolution.: (1) Resolved, that the Public Scheel Histoty is quite unsuited to the cleave for which it is authorized, and that book, written in simpler language should b.e substituted as soon is possible. (2) Resolved,that 3rd class certificates .should be made valid for five years, that the Model School Term should beeit- tended to* two sessions, and that the . holders of third blase certificate' be re- quired to iRend , the remainder cif the - year is assistants under supervision be- fore they are eligible to assume full chug of a school. : '„ (3( Resolved- Oa ,,the opinion 0 - oniony w The dress,. which I ong minutely, wer owing to a chase tick, which I misto the region of my eh eh was to follow the eervies, patience, eta, of the) bride, to be able describe likewise lost on me, made after a wood for a bed bug, in cuff, while the others were intent on the ceremony.. early in the season, and th ext time I The. timber abounds withAese insects found one I was too -well bre to be em- barrassed. This finished the week, and though reluctant I was compelled to turn home- ward. . The temptation was strong to join the party in an 'excursion to Loon Lake, twenty miles away, but duty call- ed, and I obeyed. - N. M. YO1ING. Ii smarm, Dakota, September, 18439. • —Toronto ' has again sustained the -lose of one of its most philanthropic citizens.. Mr. E. Dunlop (lied on Fri- day at the advanced age of 86 years, nearly 60 of which she had spent in Toronto, Old .St. Andrew's : church vras-built in 1831, and the next/ear her name wasenrolled as a member under the pastorate of Rev, Mr. Rentoul. With the work .orthis church she has always been'eloseli associated, and In all charitable enterprises has been o leading spirit. She was one of the prin- cipal workers Who founded the Boyle.- ' Home on George street, and the Magda- lene Asylum, Of each of these institu- tions at the time of her death she* was directress, ancl-160 boys from the school paid their last respect* to their benefit°. • Werk is • advancing rapidly on the St. Clair tunnel; —Mr4 Jobe Dale; postmaster at. There'd, died of apoplexy od„Saturday, .e -The Hotel -Dieu hospital," at Win- dsor, was consecrated by -Archbishop Walsh on Sunday last. _ • —Twoenew churches, "a. Presbyterian and a Baptist, were opened • in the sub- urbs of Toronto on. Sunday last. —A disastrOue fire occurred at Cook's Milis,-Alma District,- on -Saturday, causinge ' Osa of items $300,000. :—.Latig quantities of .potatoes are be- ing' shipped. from Nova Scotia to. /Parana. . —Mhas- d his farm . consisting of 200 T ' Oxford, Alex. Ross, of North - acres, to Mr. John Dunn for $11,000. . —A' resident Guelph is said to have fallen heir to an estate yielding an in- come of $150,000 a yeur. -e0ne of the prominent fruit greweri of the Niagara Falls section has gathered only One baskets of grapes of an eight - acre 'vineyard. • Cody, a well-known farmer of Caradoo,.Middlesex county, died from heart disease iinamlit while catching horses in a field tife_ other day. --• handred-Tiotoria studente met, at Montreal on Wednesday 'night, and protested against the union of the -Vic- toria and.Laval medied 'schools. • - —Mr. •lienrY Branton, of:Sombra,vias thrown ordand killed. in a runawdy..the other day,. • His daughter was injured, hot will recover in all probability, •:—About 10,000 Webers of 'b'arley from the vicinity' of Ameliatiburgh, Prince Edward county, have been. sold at 46 cents per bushel. . 9 -year-old ion of Mr. John Patterson, Yarmouth Centre' , while playing foot ball, VMS kicked01 the -shoulder by &playmate, and the point of the bone was broken off. —Tr- -e Canadian Pacific Railway have „ eh opened up a gravel pit at Komoka, oom-. priaing some 47 acres, and have about 100. men at work there and a large number laying rails. —The population of Brantford this year is 14,726, 'ite against 13,3S4 Jait year, The aggregate value of property. 0444,230, increased from $0,172,600' is year ago, • —A$ the Vegetable canning factory of Sheffield, New Brianswiek,whieb dosed last week for the WI, 70,000 eons of India* oorn have Won put up during this sosson, —Miss Alice Alvord, who travoliiid with itho female baseball club *Molt made a tour of Canada this season, has hens suit in Philadolphis to recover $200 for throe weeks' &story, —A flowing well has been struck on thekrin of .Mr, Clark, on the 4th con. cession of Harwich, neer Chatham, which, it it sad, yields enough to imp! ply all •Chatham with drinking • water. teaThers' institute held at Plan- taganet passed a strong resolution of thanks to lion. G. W. Ross, Minister of• Education, for the -interest he has taken • in the educational- affairs of Prescott and Russell. , — Friday night fire occurred in the stone dwelling -house of W. G. Milbtiry; farmer, about two miles from/ Bright station, destroying the dwelling -louse ands large portion of the contents. Jamei Welsh, tir.-'an aged and greatly respected resident of Waterloo township, died recently. -He waa a member of Knox aura, -yr, and was -buried in Ayr cemetery.- -William Paul and Charles Fraser, of Rat Portage, were killed . by the ex- plosion of a threshing meehineboiler at Grafton, Dakota, 'Wednesday of last week. —The midden death of JUdge Olivet leaves two Vacancies on bench in Ottawa district, one in the counties Of Russell and Presaott and the other for the County of Carleton, paused by the 'death Of Judge 1.yone.- -4The Canadian Csnners' Associatien •Met .in Toronto last week, .President William Boulter, of Pictoni Occupied the chair, and there was a fah -attend - ince of member's: The meeting was a _special -one to discuss and take a general vie of -the season's woirk Witk that- of shows a great decrease, and there lensed for this ns a considerable part of the pb.ck of 1888 is still in stock. Matters ari3 beginning to look better for the cin- ners now, althoUgh ,during the year °loan noless than nine.of the canners of Canada have gone to the wall. maker of fanning milk- in Chat- ham, Munson Campbell, has mauufac- tured and sold nearly 3,000 fanning milli this 'ma'am, this' being the' Urged number ever_made in one year by this Taker.. —Mr: Otto J. Klotz, Dominion Land Surveyor, one of the astronomers of the Interior Department, who has been in Alaska for some months engaged on Government -work, is 'en route for Ottawa. —Mr. Thomas Workman, senior, the millionaire hardware !merchant of • iion- treal, died on the 9th inst. He has left large legacies.to various charitable, edu- cational and religious institutions, in- cluding $120,000 to McGill University. —George Irwin, son of a prominent farmer near Leamington, shot himself fatally es Friday last., He was cleaning. a gun,. preparing to go but !shooting, when it went off and the charge of shot tore off.one side of his face, killing him instantly, He was 21 years of age, . —The Massey Manufacturing Cern- pany have received ivotd from Paris, France.. that their Toronto light binder was awarded the highest prize in the World's Field Trial held near Paris in July, at which all the best machines in the world -competed. —Samuel flitch, a middle-aged Englishmae, convicted of indecently as- saulting a 6 year-old child, received. 25 lashes in the Truro, Nova Scotia, jail on Svturday last. The " cat" used was borrowed from a -man-�f-war at Hali- fax. • —Complaint was made at the Police Court, Toronto, on Saturday last:, that, the hotise-Of Mr. JOhl1 ROSI3 Robertson, • 'editor and proprietor of the Telegram, had, been -entered-- anda quantity. of jewelry stolen. Mr. and Mrs. Robert- son.are in England, —From one eighth of an acre Mr. W. P. Despard, of Pleton. had forty bushels of excellent potatoes principally of the White Star variety. •!This yield is equal to 320 bushel& to the acre, which at the current price of fifty cents per bulhel, is $160 per acre. , . —Mr. George Martin, -concession 7, Culross, County of Bruce, .met with a serious aocident the other day. He was plowing,and when turning at the end of theteld the horses became frightened andran away; dragging him for some distance and ditslocatieg his shoulder. —Miss Maggie Kennedy, daughter of the late well-known Scottish vocalist, has- been appointeda sub -professor of harmOey. at ..the Royal - Academy of Music, London, England.' At the close of last -session she obtained two medals, a bronze Medal for harmony, and a silver medal for singing. - • —An Ayr correspondent writes An- other'old landmark has gone in the per- son of Mr. Magnus Flat, of South Dumfries, H -e had been confined to the house for some time, and passed quiet- ly away on, Sunday 6th inst. Mr. Flett. was senior elder in Knox church, Ayr WL many years. the delegates to Canadian soil. In Mr. Wiman's speech he pointed out the rare gifts Canada had at her disposal, and the advantages the obliteration of the customs barrier would be both to her and to the United States. He pointed out that the whole $6,000,000 of duties collected on raw material from Canada, divided among the 60,000,000 of papule - tion, absolutely Amounts to no less than a 10 cent cigar to each person per annutri. ' This may all be truth, but the conference should not have been held on Sunday, . —N. Seigler, a clerk- in Boltzman's general store • Morriston, county, was*b;fore a magistrate Friday on a charge -of breaking into Holtzthan's store on Sunder etening and , stealing $85 in cash. The money Was founds • under the prisoner's bed and (tome of the bilIs identified by Holtzman; Steigler was sent, pp for trial. —The new public school buildings at Bowinanville, erected on the site of the old Union School, which was burned on - September 17th,' 1S87, were dedicated - Thursday with fitting ceremony. • The building proper cost upwards of $18,- 000, and with fumuishings and other necessaries inside and out; about , $22,500. • —While working on the -Ancister road- near Dandies Saturday, Anglish McIsaacs was buried beneath a mass' of falling earth and stones, and was severely bruised 'about the head and body. One foot was badly -Crushed, and it is feared that amputation, will be necessary. The injured mon is. a Seotcliman about 22 years of age and resides in Brantford. —Senatorlierner, of New 15amburg, has arrived home from his European tour. He visited Friedrichsruhe to in- terview the German Chancellor, Princes Bismarck, but was disappointed, the Prince,being unwell, and would receive, no visitors. He also states that he found the----Pir?peans far ahead Of the _ people in Amrica in science and artistic -work. —The coroner's jury in the Douglas shooting case at Hamilton' decided that it was homicide by misadventure, slight- ly blaming. the police for, being too hasty, but finding fault with the take tives oU the dead man for not paying more attention to his tmsound mental Condition. The jury recommended that Constable Boykin' be released from ar- rest and reinstated on the pollee force, —A,distressing accident happened at Bloomfield, near Flaw, last Friday merning. A bright•little boy of some - two years, youngest sou of Aaron Mc- Donald, farmer, while playing about got hold of -a phial containing tooth- ache remedy an4 swallowed a portion • of the mixture, causing immediate eon-- gestion of the throat. In less than an hour be was dead. —A consignment from the United State' under the naine'of butter, which arrived at the port of St. Thomas re- cently, hating been to the -Customs Department was referred to the Dominion analyst, who pronounced itIto be oleomargarine. As the importation of this compound into Canada 15 abso- lutely prohibited by the customs law the consignment_ will be destroyed. —A runaway was peculiarly stopped in the yard of the McClary Manufactur- ing Company, London, the other morn- ing. The lanes in the yard are in the shape of a " Y," and when the horses were rushing through they tame to the "Y and each horse wanted to take a different lane. As a result they came to - a sudden stop at the angle without doing the least damage. —Mr. Francis 'Westlake left London on Monday last on a trip to San Fran- cisco and ,Australia. Some years ago ,he 1 ell heir to some property near a large city in Australia, thee of trifling veltie. Now the, city has grown over the property and it is valued at about £80,000. • —Mr. George Davidson, proprietor of the Aylmer laundry, has instituted proceedings against that corporation, claiming $200 for injuries sustained by his seven-year-old daughter from wrench- 1ui.her foot in a hole in the sidewalle- —The other day Chris Ziegber, of Bridgeport, who has been well-known about Waterloo. county for a number of years as a rag peddler, was returning home on his wagon, when he aceident- ally .to the ground, breaking his Bernie three nionthi ago. The council neck. He died a few Minutes after- • • have. decided to defend the suit. :wards in great agony. He watkabout —Three suspicious -looking character; 50 years old and leaves a largepfamily were arreited at the Grand Trunk sta- time, London, the other day, They had considerable money on them, one having $570,ittid each of the men lied a number of shelli adapted for the interesting and wife unprevided for. He 11 sup- posed to have bPen under the influenee- of liquor at the time. —.A number of _young IsAs in St. Thome* recently rented a room over Po - game of "thimplerigging" in his run' cook'e gore with tbe intention of -using and road dime novolo, Tho urchins wore short of furniture and raided the barn of tho Mothodist.churoh primp and carried of twain yards of carpet, somo stow/ pipes and lot of other lard, ales, Tho police mooted six of the boys, and tho magistrate after weedy looturing thorn, salami thorn to go on suspended sentence, —Robert Scott, from Michigan, who was about to embark on the Polynesian at Montreal for Europe, was met on the - wharf by a young and fashionably dress- ed Men, who engaged in conversation and finally asked Mr. Scott if , he had changed his money_for English cur- rency. - Mr. Scott replied in the ntgak- tive, whereupon his companion asked • him to .walk up the Street and they would make the exchange. Mr. Scott agreed, and arriving at St. John 'trot he produced $180 which the young men snatched from him and escaped, letiv. ing the man penniless with a wife and. five children. —Rev. Mr, limitee, the evangelist, heard many excuses from people for not attending the evangelistic services in , Kingston, but the most original was that from $, man who preferred going to the , opera house because the _evangelists stopped.at a hotel. They should stop at some minister's, save $30a week, and sion and they all appeered dookle ly sus- fig oredezvous for the winter to =eke vicious Wander& —Mr, John bag, reeve of Elmira, dial Monday night after a painful ill, /Wes of about ton days, For some years Mr, Bot4 had boon troubled with indi- gestion, and of lato his trouble; took a more @orlon§ pints., terminating in death, tie was 50 years old, A wife and eight ohildren survive him, - —While Riehardo a son of Mr, T, Dickens, of Siddulph, was using a jack. knife the other day, it slipped, inflicting an ugly wound about three inches long eanutd. Medical aid was at OROS summoned, and it required several stitches to close the two inches deep, on his thigh. —Judge Horne, during the next four Weeks, will hold courts in the different municipalities of South Essex for the revision of the Ontario voters' lista. The _Liberal party of the- constituency have applied to have 360 names added to and 250 struck off the lists. The Conserva- tives have applied to have 170 added to the same lists and 84 struck off. • —Oyster shipment from Prince Ed- ward Island has been aomewhat active of late. On one day a Saturday, the steamer from Suminerside took away .760 barrels; and on Thursday_ About 1,000 barrels offered as freight; and by over wlefleh°e°r give it to the poor. This moved Rev, wthoerthst:vaemreershiltippeiradm. icThhi has proved favorable for oyster•rakiug. Mr. Hunter to remark that they were —The delegates of the International not spongers on anybody. They paid American -Conference were entertained by Mr. Erastus Wiman at Niagara Falls, Sunday last. The afternoon WAS spent in driving through the park and view- ing the falls and other sights, and in the evening a banquet was tendered them by Mr. Winiss a the Clifton House. A sumptuous repast was provided, and during the evening Mr. "Witnan, Mr. Goldwin Smith and others made brief s hes, drawing ettention to the ob. their weye He would_hke to tell that poor, miserable fellow that they were not at shotel. They were at a /ninister's and were paying their way, too. "We are not charity," he said, "and I would also like to tell that deer man that we giye more RN/Rey &way in one month than he doss in ten years, We give away 20 per centof all we make, and. last year we gave away hundreds of dol. hes, and we also give largely to the , on the old p an. The lino as not fastors tress bY turning ont 'In a body to attend this association the tIMO illkS arrived last year, The pi& of this MOMS jects of the conference and welcoming poor. ' 4 _ •