The Clinton New Era, 1889-06-07, Page 4•
th tet 4dr eritSfintiliO.
Cheap tees. -- S. Pallieer & Co.
Servant wanted.-lainee l3rown.
For sale. -R. Barkwell.
Tonder s% wanted. --J. C. Cole.
Iinpounded.-F. Folland.
A good show.- Jackson Bros.
Strayed - John Holmes
Manitobe Exoursions.-W. Jackson.
Cheap ,ide T. Jackson, sr.
Umbrella lot-Thie office.
To relit W. Cooper.
Muses Miss Murray.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1889
An Awful Visitation.
The heart.sendingealamity tliat
°court dd last week in the Stale of
Pennsylvanie, whereby a large
number of' people-.4oughly esti-
mated at from ton to fifteen thou -
and -lost their live, and an
"immense destruction to property
occurred, by the bursting of a
reeervoir, can scarcely be fully
realized by thoSe wine dohot know
the peculiar topography of' the
country. Any ono who tiae. tra-
velled through that State hes been
streek with its peculiar grandeur
as the ears pasts along • between
enormosiss rangesof hills, or wind
their way around some rugged
peak, s� irregular that at times
tho rear coach and locomotive are
within a few feet of each other.•
It is a State of mountains, the
towns lying, in most cases, down
in the valleys, while far above
them tower the peaks of the Alle-
gheny mountains. Johnstown,
the principal place that has ssuf-
ford, was thus situated between
two „high hills, and obtained its
.water supply, from an immense
reservoir -the largest in the world
-situated high up in the moun-
tains. Ono can easily imagine
with what force such a body of
water, its barriers remoOed,would
rush down the gorge, but to ima-
gine the desolation 'and destruc-
tion that it wrought, seems im-
possible. To think that this tor-
rent would in a few hourscarry
more people into eternity than
would be killed the fiercest
military engagetnent, seems in -
'credible, and yet Such was the
fact. _Hyman sympathy naturally
gob's out to the sufferers in. an
occasion of this kind, and yet
there is no possible full realiza-
tion of the' awfulness of the ea-.
lamity,4hen removed at any dis-
tance- from the scene of the dis-
aster.
asses -
Tho Toronto bakers have struck
for higher wages. In other words,
they are waiting for the bosses to
"raise.' Dough yeast see.
•
After reading the reports of the
toedoti (.1 ty councilmeetings;
one wonders 'at the ilecessity of
the government sending an en -
einem. to lectors; on 'natural gas.'
- 'Su far, says Prtionier Greeeway,
of Man itolri , there is no word of
damage of any kind to crops.
Hear nothing of efieete of frosts..
Reports all 'that could be desired.
Very lergit urea under crop.
• •
The United States Government
paid Out $12,0.00,000 fbr pensions
in May, rind also reduced it pule
lie debt $8,000,000, in the . same
time, Canada's debt was not re -
'duped 8 cents in the eame time.
lIIt_L0111;ifil
,IiiCIA'1 hui 101111LICIfti DOITlf(1.
guess st heti it prophesis that if
thele 15 fl if10f1 harvest there will
be a generel election this year,
and bad harvest, Ill) fer
another year,
pointhion Voter,' Liete tire
now under revision, It is hoped
that Liberals will get all names
on the list tisit are entitled to .be
put on. I t may he taken for
t:tilted that the tither side svill
hAve evel y 1151110 oh it that it is
possible te here there.
• The 4; lo he, particularly 11
ss"attirdity e ;on, is keine' tittil.
1)9}1l1 venal it, :eel the leet
three or tour Saturday issues love
liven a decided credit to its enter-
prise me1 push, embracing a va-
riety of eubjects always slier ial
interosit to Canadian readere -
The Globe hais evidently lost none
of its old time sprightliness, and
is more than nhreast of the times.
L
An Awful Calamity.
A Mountain Reservoir burets
iii Penusyvania, carrying
everything iu its Eagle g
waters.
---
• Immense destruction of Prop-
erty
•
Thousands loose their lives.
Pittsburg, May 31.-A sud len freshet
000urred in the North Fork river, east
of Johnston, in the Alleghany exam-
ta ins ou Friday.
The flood at Johnston has resulted
in an awful catastrophe. The reservoir
abovelhe town broke about live o'clock
Friday evening, and the immense vol-
ume of water rushed down to the city,
carrying with it death and destruction.
Houses with their occupants, were
washed away, and thousands 0,1 people
were drowned.
The first account of the Johnston
disaster are far below the wildest es-
timates planed upon the calamity, and
instead of 2,000 or 3,000, it is probable
the death list will reach 15,000. The
property loss may reach 050,000,0u°.
It is known that two passenger trains,
two sections of day express on the Penn-
sylvania Railroad have been thrown
into the maddened torrent and the
passengers drowned. These trains were
held at Johnstown from Friday at 11
a. m., and were laying on a siding be-
tween the Johnetown and Conemaugh
stations. The awful torrent came,
down the narrow -defile between the
mountains, a distance of nine miles,
and with a fall of e00 feet in that dis-
tance, sweeping away the villages of
South Fork, D'iinerai Point, Woodvale
and Conemaugh, leaving but one build-
ing standing and a woolen mill, where
but an liner before had stood hundreds.
The tide uf water like a catapult came
down on the trains with such resistless
force that locomotives, Pullmans and
all were overturned, and 'swept down
the torrent and iodised against the great
stone viaduct, along with 41 locomotives
from the Johnstown roundhouse, the
heavy machinery and ponderous frame-
work of Gautier mill, the accumulated
debris of more than 1,0d0 houses, fur-
niture, bridges, lumber, drift and hu-
man beings. The low arches of the.
stone Viaduct choked immediately, and
the up -water backed over the entire
level of the valley upon which the city
stood to the depth of what from the
water marks indicate About 38 feet.
In the
GREAT SEA
thus formed thousands of people wore
struggling for life. Then the accumu-
lated drift gorged at the viaduct to a
height of 40 feet and then took fire
from upsetting of stoves or lamps. As
the dames crackled and roared among
the dry timber of the floating houses
human bodies were seen pinioned be-
tween the house roofs, locomotives, iron
beams, freight, passenger, Pullman and
baggage oars, heavy iron beams, the
greedy flames licking with haste their
diet of human flesh. The scene • was
beyond description.
EOIN COILPLETE
Jonxsrowi, - Pe., June 3. -Nothing
like it was ever seen in this country.
Where long rows of dwelling houses and
bUsiness;blocks stood a few hours ago,
ruin and desolatson now reign supreme.
Probably 1,500 houses have been swept
from the face of the earth as completely
al if they had never been erected. Main
street from end to end •is piled fifteen
and twenty feet high with debris,and in
some instances it is as high as the roofs
of the houses. This great mase of
wreckage tills the street from cutb to
curb, and frequentlyhas crushed the
fronts of buildings in and filled the
space with reminders,of the terrible.
calamity. From the ,v:°pollen mill,above
the island, to bridge, e; distance of pro-
bably two miles, a strip of territory
nearly ha./ a mile in width has been
swept clean,not a stick of timber or one
brick on top of another being left
to tell the story. It is the most com-
plete wreck that imagination could por-
tray: These losses, however,'are noth-
ing compared to the frightful sacrifices
of human lives to be seen on every
hand.
1101MINit TL1E DEAD, •
Each hour reveals some .new and
horrible story of suffering and outrage.
On Sunday night thirteen Hungarians
were noticed picking their way along
the hanks of the Conemaugh towards
Sang Hollow: Several farmers+ armed
theniseves and started in pursuit. The
Hungeriane came upon the dead and
mangled body of a woman, upon which.
there were a number of trinkets and
two diamond rings. In their eagerness
to secure the plunder the Hungarians
squabbled and one severed the finger
upon which were the rings and ran off
with his prize. The farmers gave
che,.se. Some of the Hungarians show-
ed tight, but, being outnumbered, fled --
Nine of the brutes escaped, but four
were driven into the surging river and
to their death.
Men were seen going along the banks
stealing jewels. from the bodies uf dead
women. They cut pieces from the ears
and lingers from the Kinds of two wo-
men. Tine scoundrels were captured and
searched.. As their pockets were cam-
; tied of their ghastly contents the ang-
er of the crowd intensified, and when
a bloody finger of an infant encircled
with two tiny gold rings was found
among the plunder, a cry went up,
-Lynch them !" "Lynch them !" With-
out is moment's delay ropes were thrown
around the robbere' necks, and they
were IffS41 dangling t, thc limbs of
tree,
who heeded it early in the day were
looked upon as cower& and many jeers
ware uttered by lips that are now cold
among the rail grass beside the river.
twee neeeuee, ACRES UV %YATES.
The cause of the great destructiuu at
Johnstown was the bursting of the big
dam at South Fork, the popular Sum-
mer resort of so many Pittsburgers.
The body of water that did this im-
mense damage covers 700 acres. It is
two and a half miles long 'and about
three fourths of a mile wide, and
lies between two high hips. It is the
old canal reservoir, and was purchased
from the Pennsylvania Railroad by the
South Fork Hunting and Fishing Clnb
in 1570. A high retaining wall had
been built aocross the lower end of
the basin and the water from a number
of small streams soon filled tie the de-
pression. When the Hunting and
Fishing Club bought thesite of
the old reservoir a section of 150
fe t of the old wall had been washed
out of the middle. This was rebuilt at
an expense of $17,000 and the work was
thought to be very strong. At the
base it was 380 feet thick, and gratin.
ally tapered until at the top it was
about thirty-five feet thick.It was
considered amply secure, and such faith
had the members of the stability that
the top of the dam was utilized as a
driveway. It took two years to Isom -
pieta the work, men being engaged from
1879 to 1831. .
SUSP/OIONS OE IMPENDING DANGERS
While it was under process of con-.
litruction the residents of Johnstown
expressed some fears as to the solidity
of the work, and requested that it be
examined by experts. Johnston lies, or
did lie, at the foot of a valley which at
that point i little better than_a gorge.
It was situated on a, point orittild be-
tween Conemaugh River etecreek; and'
Stony Creek, as Pittsburg lies between
the Alleghany and Monongahela, with'
precipitous hills. rising almost from the
the waters edge It was in a mere gap
wide.betweee the hills one hundred yards
TUE NMIDER OV TIIE DEAD.
The developements of every hour
make it more and more apparent that
the number of lives lost by the flood
will never be known. The population
of Johnstown, the surrounding towns
and the portion of the valley affected
..by the flood was nearly 55,000. Lead-'
ing citizens of Johnstown agree theft
fully thirty per cent. of the residents of
Johnstown and Cambria «'ere victims
of the disaster. If this be true the tot•
al loss of life in the entire valley can-
not be less than 7,000 or 8,000 and pos-
sibld much greater. Of the thousands
devoured by the flame's no definite in-
formation can ever gee obtained. As
little will be learned ofhiendreds that
sank beneath the current and were
borne down the Conemough, to be de-
posited hundreds of miles below on the
banks and in the driftwood of the rag-
ing Ohio. Probably ,one-third of the
dead will never be recovered and.it will
• take a list of the missing weeks hence
to admit of even a close estimate of
the number of lives lost. The estimate
can never be accurate, for in many in-
stances whole families and their rel-
atives were drowned.
TEN TO TWELVE Tuors.vxn DEAD.
JOHNSTOWX.1 Pa., June 3. -The latest
estimates put the loss of life at from
10,000 to 12,000.
-useeeee ee, esese,
•Jenesrowe, Pa.. June 3. --The four
tracks of the Pennsylsania Railway be-
low the stone bridge were filled on Sun-
day with cars for two miles. The suf.
fere last evening surrounded the freight
ars tittsd up to feed the hungry and
shouted for bread. At first, those in
charge tossed the provisions into the
crowd and an awful scramble followed.
Children were trampled upon and wo-
men were unable to get food, Finally
the police stopped the throwing of the
food, and forced the crowd to pass in
single file before the car doors. lt was
veey cold here last Sniiday night.
Many poor womsn and children Fulered.
Two hundred turd fifty bodies' wen:
prepered here for berial on Sunday.
The calamity sees as sinenier as it
was fault. It is eow very evident that
more livehave been lost because of
foolish incredulity Liiftil from ignorance
of the dam.w. For more than a year
there have been fears e4 an accident
of just such a elle,: a :ter. The foun.
dations of a dam were considered unsafe
early last spring and many increased
leakages., were reported from time to
time. According toi,pcoplc who live in
Johnstown and other towns on the line
of the river, ample time was given. to
the Johnstown residents by the rail-
road officials and by other gentlemen
of standing and repetation in dozens,
yes, in hundreds of cases., This warn•
ing was interly disregisoled, itnd Ones,
STILL ANortm.n
Williamsport Pa. was the scene of a
frightful disaster. •Prom 50 Co 80 per.
sons were standing on the bridge at
efeeket street which spans'the Susqne-
henna River' when with a sudden and.,
mighty surge the angry waters, choked
with logs, the ruing of houses and all
sorts. of .driftwOod, swept, dway on its
bosom. The 'sight -seers were thrown
into the rushing river. Their attempts
to save themselves were desperate and
pitiful, and few if any, were successful.
TIIE STORY OF A WILL.
(From elle Toronto Mail.),
To the Editor of The Mail: Ilaving
seen a letter in your paper frorri Mr 4ohn
Cooper, of this town,reminded ine of an
incident which occurred about three
years ago. A friend of mine, Mr A.
Seymour, was staying at Vermillion
Bay, on the C. P. R., west of hero. A
legacy was left to him -by an uncle in
London, England. Mr Seymour was
in such bad health at the time that he
thought he would not be alive when the
legacy would reach here. Ile therefore
wrote to me asking me to have his will
prepared and sent to him for signature,
etc., appointing me as the legatee in
trust. The will was prepared by John
M. Munn, Esq., barrister, of this town,
and was sent to Mr Seymour. It was
returned to me duly executed, and is
still in my possession.
In the same letter was a request to
smd half a dozen betties of Warner's
Safe Cure.and some pills. I sent them.
I received a letter some time after ask-
ing me to send some more, as he was
feeling much better. I did so, and the
next I knew Mr Seymour himself came
to town and told me (and looked it)that
he was a well man. He got his money
through the Ontario Batik here, and is
how RI British Columbia, and was in
good health wheel I last heard from him.
I may say that I know both Mr and
Mrs Cooper well,and the fats in Mrs
Cooper's case arc as stated in Mr Coop-
er's letter.
• You can publish this or not, as your
think fit, as it is nothing to tyle either
way.
Yours. etc,. \V1 C. Dome J. I'.
Port Arthur, Ont., May 23.
[The foregoing letter is hon,, , and
not an advertisement.-Eerroa MAIL.,
An Important Improvements
The NEW SOFT :STOP and Practic Pedal
attachment to a Newconhe ITeniene
Pres° soaves the nerves of the Retailer
OF performer, WHEN I'LtkCTI4TN(4 as well
as the instrument from wear, and pre.
serves the tone.
To OUR READERS. -You can asslit
us. We knew tha't there are occur-
rences continually transpiring in the
more remote quarters of the town,
which, although quite worthy of pub-
lication, are allowed to remain dor-
mafit simply because the people im-
agine that no one but themselves
cares to know anything about them;
You like to read the local news, so
do all; and we like to publish it, Now
if any of our readers chance to observe
an occurrence not too petty in charac-
ter we will deem it as a favor if,they
acquaint us of such. We cannot be
all over and hear everything and
have therefore, in part, to rely upon
our friends for information. Reader,
please remember Tiros You need
not construct the item ; merely give
honest facts.
A. (rang of tramps raided the
Grand Trunk restaurant at the
oetetestation of Kingston Tuesday
and helped therneelves. Police
wcre summoned by telephone and
ton of them arrested. There k a
eamp of fraternity in the been giv-
ing trouble to farmers.
i.ostiaCorticspleau
buffoonery, and men and women take
part in them, A sweet faced woman
is speaking as we approach and is
listened to with great attention by
hied, rough men assembled After
she sits down the li tle gathering join
Sunday in Mellbcurne -its lse- singing one of these sweet familiar
culiar surroundings -wore hymns that have girded t le world
freethought than faith with a circle'of -ong. The power or
' some of these old tunes ef the Chris,
-outdoor exercises as
dale church is scarcely realized. By
seen by live Cana- LDA:4/4 SfIeFfliCS and scoffers are welted
to tears They are sung iu all parts
ot the world and not even tile church
organ and fashionable choir can drive
them out of existence. Afti r the
singing an elderly man rises to speak.
The Canadian friend, before_ creation -
ed, calls my attention to the face of
the pew apeaker,wbicb bears a strong
resemblance to that of Sir John A.
Macslunald. There is the same clean
shaven cheek, the same keen eye, the
same forhead, the sa ne development
of the perceptive taculties, the same
characteristic nose, and as. 'we gaze
on all these familiar features we sud-
denly:, remember certaiu telegrams we
read 4 year ago concerning-SirJohn's
hymn singing at Ottawa, and wonder
if he has come over in COg on the last
American boat. We take another
glance and are aim( st convinced that
such is the case, one more leek and
conviction becomes a certainty, and
are just going to rush forward and
enquire the latest news about the
Manitoba railway difficulty, or the
last Privy Council decision,when the
crowd parts and we catch a glimpse
of the lower part of the speaker's
face. 'Ali what a %falling off was
there?' That weak mouth and re.
treads -1g chin are not these of onr
veteran premier, though they may
belone Le just as good a man. Sir
John, no doubt still has his hand on
the helm at Ottawa, guiding the Can-
.(l,'
a state through the
dial' eyes'.
(Special correspondence ot the NEW Eitel
MELBOURNE/VICTORIA, Mar. 30 '89.
A Sunday in Melbourne is a strange
mixture of the Puritan and Secular,
the Pharisaic and Christian elements,
The tram cars and suburban trains
must not run in the forenoon because
it is wicked, but they can run in the
afternoon and evening to take people
to and from church. The public
libraries aid museums must be kept
closed all day for fear the working
man will read worldly literature, but
the parks and gardens are opened,
that he may stroll and lounge and
srnoke. The line must always be
drawn somewhere, but the people of
Melbourne have succeeded in drawing
a very zigzag one.
There are many churches in Mel-
bourne and also many empty pews.
Perhaps the best filled church in the
city is the Australian Free church,
founded by an ex -minister of an
orthodox church who was turned out
of the fold for heresy. The church
in which he formerly preached is one
of the most fashionable and • wealth)?
in Melbourne, and its- adherents
drive up in &Nees carriages attended
by liveried coachmen slid footmen,
but strangers visiting the church are
invited by a large priuted notice to
remain in the corridors till after the
prayer, and having done sO they are
somewhat coldly shown to a seat in stormy waves of partyism to -We will
-the gallery. All Melbourne church-
, nut sae where ABNER COUSENS.
os are not, however, like this one,
In many of them the stranger is cord -
r Seaforth •
ially welcomed and made to feel that
the spirit of Christian brotherhood is Rev 1 E. Howell and Mr W. M.
not yet quite extinct. s Gray are this week attending the au -
But, what ever may be the realion, nual Conference at St Marys.
the churches have lost their hold on . Drs. Smith and Campbell attended
the masses of Mehotfrne, and if one The annual meeting of the Ontario
wishes to eee the working men of the . Medical Association, t eld in Toron-
'city gathered together he must go, I to, this week -
not toethe regular places of worship, The Thos. J. Farren Dramatic Co.
but down to the docks where free appeared in L'arrino's Hall, last Fri -
discourses are delivered on almcst day, before re small audi to:4, but gave
every subject imaginable. All kinds a good show.
of questions, social, political, relig-
ious and irreligious, are here debated oesfoith Quartette Club participat-
with equal warmth, and no man can led in the erogramme at an entertain.
speak on any theme without finding
memo urder the auspices of the Pres.
someone, apparently equallsincere, I byterian church, at Mday evening last,itchell, on Fri-
toY take the opposite aide. Here is a '
woman with hard features crying out In the report concerning the Metho-
earnestly against the alarming growth
of the social evil in Melbourn«. She
has a large crowd of listeners and we
caanot get close enough to hear dis-
tinctly what she is sayiag, but gather
that she is trying to prove that the
ranks ofthe fallen sisterhood are
largely recruited annually from the ,will be accompanied by two of his
bar -maid class. Further along, 'a sisters, Mimes Tena and Nettie.
socalist is delivering a harangue A base ball match between the
against all government and every employees of Broadfoot & Box's cabi-
net factory and boarders at the Com-
mercial Hotel took place.last Mon-
day. The boarders were too much
for the wood -workers.
On Friday last a team. attached to
a -lumber 'waggons' while standing
near the post office, took fright and
ran up Main street at no slow rate of
speed. They were brought to a stand-
still opposite the Royal Hotel, and
no serious damage was done.
• • A fat ball match between the Fall -
River Rovers and Seaforth, at the
Recreation grounds, on Friday last,
was played in the rain. There was a
large number present to witness the
game notwithstanding the wet weath-
er. The Rovers were the victors by
four goals to none.
A championship lacrosse match,the
first of the season played here, took
place on Tuesday afternoon, at the
recreation grounds, between St Marys
and Seaforth, which resulted in the
home team scoring four straight
games. St. Marys tied with Stratford
the day before.
At the residence of Mrs Bell, in
Egmondville, on Monday last, a plea-
sant time wart spent by a large nnm-
ber of invited guests, it being the oc-
casion of the marriage of her daugh-
ter Minnie, to Mr John Guttridge, of
Mitchel', brother of Mr Frank Gut.
tridge, centractor, of this place. The
nuptial knot was tied by the Rev.
Jos. McCoy. The bride was the re-
cipient of many useful piesents. The
happy couple left for their hotne in
Mitchell on the 2 43 train, amidst
showers of old boots, riceeand con-
gratulations.
IN DIFFICULTY. -J, .f Millar,
formerly of Toronto, went to Seaforth
about a year ago and embarked in a
gent's furnishing and dry goods busi-
ness there. A couple of weeks ago
the heaviest creditors, who are To-
ronto ,wholesale then, forced Millar to
assign to the eheriffof Huron County.
Later the estate was taken out of the
hands of the sheriff and placed with a
firm of Toronto trustees for liquidation
Immediately after the sheriff's meet-
ing of creditors, and before the trus-
tees had time to take possession,
a chattel mortgagee,which was heldhy
a friend of the bailiff in possession,
was foreclosed, and the mortgagee
seized 81,100 worth of goods to satisfy
his claim. The trustees then sued to
set aside the mortgage, but the action
was dismissed. One of the largest
creditors:issued a capias for his ariest,
hut before it could to executed Miller
it is stated, went to Chicago. There
are barely enough assets left to pay
the expenses of winding up the estate
and the numerous ereditors will re•
ceive no dividends.
dist church, which appeared in the
NEW ERA last week, the present debt
of the church was made to read 81500
-it should have been £1500.
Mr T. A. Wilson, who is this. y.eat:
a member of the Wimbledon team,
will leave shortly for England, and
body in power, and close beside him
a more moderate man is telling his
hearers that manhood suffrage has
already given them a chance to rem-
edy all political wrongs, "but," he
continues, whileogreat dropsof sweat
roll down his unshaven Cheaks;
"young men of, Victoria, when you
have a shilling, you would rather
buy two pints of .beer with it -than
take out an electoi's right and have
a voice in the government of your
country."
A man who calls himself an agnos-
tic mingles with the crowd, selling a
paper called the Liberator, in which
Christianity is spelled with a small
c and treethought with a capital F.
A man over yonder is inviting people
to embrace Christianity,while anoth-
er one here is declaring that no such
person as Jesus Christ ever lived,
The opponents of Christianity in.
Melbourne do not appear to- be in-
tellectual giants.
As we push through the crowd we
hear little side issues being thrashed
out all around us, subjects as widely
different as the federation of the col-
onies, the Devil,' Home Rule and
'Coercion, are furnishing grounds for
debate.
It is a perfect babel of voices. One
mate announced a thing as a 'supreme
fact,' and another dendunces it as a
'sordid semblance.' On one point all
are pretty well agreed and that is
tbat things are not just right: and
that a remedy must be found if, as
Carlyle says, "this earth is 10 con-
tinve habitable much longer." All
men wish to escape the deluge they
fancy is -approaching by climbing
heavenward, but to -day as on the
plain of Shiner the builders speak in
different tongues and no work is ac-
complished. It wait this endless
wrangling about the road to Heaven
that elisgustedthe sage of Chelsea
and caused bins 101 exclaim, "No
Heaven for any body, suppose we try
that for a spell." "Work," he con-
tinues, 'good, honest work, and above
all, silence," is what we want, and
then, as has been said, he wrote a
score or more of volumes to inculcate
this doctrine of silence.e Such is
the consistency even of a philosopher.
The people of Melboune seem to be
anxious, like those of old, `to see or
hear settle new thing.' Much that
we have been taught to accept as
revelation is treated by these iconc
clasta as simple yet beautiful legend.
A Melbourne minister, in a late ser-
mon, doubts whether such a man as
Abraham ever lived. Ingersoll is'
read more than Talmage, and Dar-
win is accepted by many in prefer-
ence to Moses. •
As we listen to one after another
of the de -claimers on the docks, a
Canadian friend remarks that 'every
body seems to have a little religion
of his own in this country, end that
he is about sick of it all." Our friend
is evidently :morbid and would :say
with the poet:-
' -To fool is better than to knotv,
And wisdom is a childless heritage!
One pulse of pession, youth's first fiery
glow,
Ave worth the hoarded proverbs of the
sage.
Why vex our souls with lead philos-
ophy?
Have we not lips td kiss with, hearts' to
love and eyes to see ?"
But after running the gauntlet of
Socialism, Democracy, Agnoit cism,
Atheism, Deism, and various mild
forms of Demagogism, we are attract-
ed by the singing of familiar hymns
presently come to where open air
meetings are being held for the bene-
fit of the sailors. These meetings
are very informal, resembling those
of the StIvation Army, Minns the
Turnberry.
Every train sees some one leaving
here for Manitoba and the Northwest
with an occasional one fur Dakota,
but the Dakota fever bas cooled off
very decidedly the last few months,
especially those wno have gone
there this pring are not sending
home very satisfactory reports,though
they are evidently trying to put as
good a fate on things as possible, but
stories do leak out every now and
again about having to sow the'grain
twice over because the wind blew it
away, or of some one supposed to be
highly prcsperous having to mortgage
at a rate of interest ruinously high.
These things have all had their effect
and it has not been favorable to Da-
kota. Among those who have gone
to the Northwest this week are Mr
John Porter and his cousin, Mr Geo.
Porter. They expect to return before
•harveet, having availed themselves of
one of the C; P. R. excursion tickets.
A farmer was b(ard to say one day
Ibis week that unless something hap-
pened in the Northwest pretty soon
to put a stop to emigration from this
province farm land here would not
he svoitn anything In u short time.
We believe that to that remark he
gave the real cause for the sleprecia- '
tion in the value cif farm property.
[t is not so much the fault of the
government, high taxes or anything
of that sort that is the matter, bt.t
rather the millions of acres of unoc-
cupied lands in Manitoba and the ad-
joining territories, where our young
fancy they see bigger returns for less
labor than in these older portions of
the Dominion.
NOTES.—Mr John Wilson, saw -
miller, is in Algoma at present. Miss
A. Mitchell and Miss E. Pearren,who
have been visiting friends in this vi-
cinity, lave returned to St. Clair,
Mich.
Hensall
NOTES -The continued wet weath-
er has caused the streets to be very
muddy. Rev. J. 8. Henderson and
wife are spending a few days at Mel -
bourn, Rev. J. S. Cook, E. A. Fear
and T. W. Cosecs, are attending the
Guelph Conference of the Methodist
Church, which opened at St. Mary's
on Wednesday last. The work on
the'Odd-fellows' new brick block, is
being pushed raid y forward. Work
is progressing favorably on the new
school houses. Mr T. Brintnell's
new brick house will be an ornament
to the town, Mr J. R. Habkirk
blacksmith, has put up an addition
to his !souse. Rev. J. Ball, of Wood-
ford,. formerly of Henault, preached
in the Methodist Church on Sabbath
a ternoon last. Rey. J. Martin, of
Exeter, breached itt theePresbyterian
Church on Sunday morning. We
congratulate our friend Stoneman on
his entry into the benediction ranks,
and trust that the highest anticipa-
tions of both groom and bride may
be fully realized in their journey
thre ugh life; sone rai re of the bach-
elors of Hensall would do well to fol-
low example and take to themselves
a wife.
NEWS NOTES a
Mr F. Broughton, late general
manager of the Great Western
Railway, died at his. residence,
Eastwood, the other side of Wood-
stock, Tuesday morning:
Tho famous McGarigle, of Chi-
cago, has been fined $1,000 after
pleading guilty to a charge of con-
spiracy. The fine and costs were
'paid and 3IcGarigle is free.
The recent frost in tho neigh-
bourhood of Owen Sound is esti-
mated to have damaged the apple,
grapes, and plumb crop to the ex-
tent of $50,000.
There has boon a decrease in
the United States public debt dur-
ing May of $8,000,000, notwith-
standingthe disbursenwat of near-
ly $12,000,000 on account of.pen-
8i01I'ti.
co Kereitem of Chicitgo,
J
gave this as An advice to it prison-
er whb- was brought before h i at,
for eeritence: "Do you know
what pep ought to do?" Youought
to get a: pistol and blow Your
brains' aut. I'll give you'll pistol
in two minutes. if you'll do
Judge Kersten would make a,
firstolass associate for Mr Justice
Begbie, of British Colunibia.
The cruellest woman in Ameri-
ca is mentioned by the Boston
Traveller as 'follows: -A woman
in Irwin County, Ga., understands
the hen business. Whenever she
gets ready to set a hen, it matters
not whether the hen is ready or
not, she catches the fowl, breaks
ope leg, puts eggs and hon in a
nest and nails them up. . Sho fifty's
there is nothing liko breaking ono
'leg to make them set. By the
time the hon hatches the .leg is
well and she ready to care for the
chirks.
The report made by the Statis-
tician rA' the Agricul tural Depart-
ment 011 the increase 111 the area
of cultivated land in the Tnited
States makes a very remarkable
showing. According to Mr
Dodg's estimates, this area has
been increased by more than 70,-
000,000 acres in less then ten
years. This increase in cultivated
lands is more than the aggregate
of improved lands in thirteen
Southern and South Atlantic
States in 1880. In other words,
the average annual increase in cub
dented area has been equivalent,
for agricultural purposes'to the
annual addition of' a rim State to
the Union.'
.1. R. Grant, after filling tho
position Of postmaster in Brussels
tier the past 90 years, has placed
his resignation in the hands of
the postoffice authorities. Mr
Grant has taken a good situation
at Winnipeg, and his IntAness ex-
perience and training, coupled
with his aptness for office work,
will thoroughly qualify ohim for
the position. Who'll be appoint-
ed Positmaster, is the pertinent
interrogation? Thos. Furrow, ex
M. P., has the best claim( accord-
ing to the usual disposal of 'Gov-
ernment patronage'and he would
be a very neceptable man for the
position.
?,Ir .101111 IL Jaynes, fiwmerly 11
well known farmer in West Gara-
fraxa, who for the past eight years
has been living with his hrothe •
who is a farmer in Iowa, within
two miles of Webster City, has re.
turned to that section with inten-
tion of spending the remainder of
1144 life there. In Ontario ho says
twice the value of produce can he
grown on 100 neves to what ean
he grown in Iowa, and Mr Ls nes
strongly advises farmers who ore
doing moderately well hero to re.
main where they are, and he is
firmly of the opinion that they
would not better their condition
hy going to Iowa.
Around The County,
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The Taylor fttrin, 14 miles north
of Beuseele,has been lately sold to
Edward McNamara, of Leadbury,
for the sum of $5,250.
Mr Win. Henderson, who bas
been a resident of the township of
McKillop for forty-seven years,
says that in that time therehave
only been two Mays in which
there has not been snow.
Mr George McKay, J. P., of
Wingham, on Saturday -last dis-
posed of his residence on the Dia-
gonal road with the 1l acres ad-
joining as well as a couple of lots
to the west, to Mr A. Dakson, in-
surance agent, for $1,7.50.
Thursday, Th' s Newsome, of
Brussels, had the misfortune to
have his left arm broken while as-
sisting in raising a barn on the
farm of Duncan McCuaig, Morris.
A large pale fell on him inflict-
ing thinjury as he was at work
and the wonder is he was not more
seriously hurt.
Margaret the 13•yeas: old daugh-
ter of Jas. Smart, of Silver Corn-
ers, Grey, hes been missing for
about two •weeks. She was sent
with provisions for,her father and
brother who were working at the
Star Saw -Mill but did not return
home norcan any trace 01 her be
found by her distracted parents,
AchiLda little over two
of, age son of Mr Fred Wright, of
Wingham, rnet with a painful ac•
eident on Monday, but 4ow was'
done no one knows, as the child
is too young to make an explana-
tion. It received, 'in aome tioacs
Countable manner, a cut on s the
side of its head about three inches
in length, which bled profusely.
It is supposed to have fallen on
an axe which was standing near
the house.
The Expositor says:, -A good
maily of the. foriner residents of
Tuekersmith, are now settled in
the County of Essex. near the vil-
lag9 of Comber. Until recently
this was a very quiet and unpre-
tentious village, but the recent
discovery of coal oil and natural
gas in. the immediate vicinity has
given the place a bootn,•and it is
now . growing rapidly. , Among
others who are fortunate enough
to own land in the new oil and gas
region is Mr Thos. Robertson, of
this township. He has a farm of
1011 -acres in • Tilbury township.
near Comber, and the oil line runs
right through his plaee. He has
had several !applications for the
• purehaseand lease of his ferns on
which to sink an oil well. He
has already been offered 810,000;
'for the place, but prefers leasing •
'it one taking all risles. •He .has..odb•
accordingly gone to Comber for
the purpose -of completing the•
lease ot the place- to a .company
'fOuni Pennsylvania who are now
extensively engaged in boring
and working wens in this ,ne,w.
district. ' In the event of oitbeiug .
struck he. receives .levery tenth'
barrel of oil made from every
.well on his farm. Mr John Alex-
ander, of thisstoWnship is also the
fortunate owner of three hundred
acres" of these oil lands, all of
which • he has leased on similar
terms. 31r James Sellars, form-
erly of Tuckersmith, is also one
of the lucky ones. Wo hope the
(*olden expectations of our friends
will bo more than realized.
BORN.
NEELIN.-In Seaforth, on the 25th of
May, the wife of Mr J. J..Neelin, of the
Sun, of a daughter.
MARRIED
Ilices-Cuee.-At the residence of,
brides father, Gocterich township, on
the 5th inst., by the Rev J. i,. Fisher,
Mr G. Hicks to Esther, daughter of Mr
C. Cole,all of Goderich
STONEHAN-Ronixsos.-At the resi-
dence of the bride's father, Lambeth,
Middlesex Co., on the 23rd of May, Mr
J: C. Stoneman, jeweller Hensel', to
Maggie A. Robinson, daughter of Mr
Richard Robinson. .
DIED
Clinton,at the residence
of Mr George Glasgow, on 4th inst.,
Addie,daughter of Mr William Bingham, .
of.Hullett, aged 30 $•ears and 10 months.
311HON.-In Tuckersmith, onyrednes.
day, June 5th, Edward Mason, aged 81
years and 4 moeths.
NM/ el% v ertiv tit cuts.
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VTANTED — A 0001) elLitL TO 00
V general housework on farm.Good
wages will he pall to desirable party.' MRS
.1AMES BEONVN, Heron road. '
TO OH SA LE TIIAT FERTILE FARM.
JU the homestead of R. J(irliwtll, Landesboro, offered for sale on easyterms.-
There are Ow farms to equal it in this sec-
tion. Also, desirable house on Princess St.,
(11)500, for sale or to rent. R. BARNWELL
Clinton
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MENDERS WANTED- -TENDERS WILL
1 be receive,l, either separately or fn bulk,
by the undersigned, up to Saturday, June
15, at 8 o'clock pm e for the erection of s
veneer brick Baptist Chapel, in the town of
Clinton. Plans and specifications can be
Seen at the office of .1. C. COLE, to whom all
tenders'should be addressed.
I 5PWOUNDED — T CLINTON, five )(ear -
1 hugs, being one red Heifer, one red and
white Steer, one red and white Buil, ono red
Steer, one red Heifer with white spots: Also
five two year olds, being one red Heifer, two
red and white Steers, and two red Steers. It
not previously reclaimed, will be sold at the
pound, near tiro Foundry, on Saturday, 15th
.Tune '1 11 p.m. F. FOLLAND, poundkeeper
1,ZTItAYED-FROM LOT 4, IIIIRON ROAD.
vs, concession, Ooderich Township, 2 yearl-
ing Heifers, one spotted red and white, with
small horns end red spot on taco, the other
dark rod, with soele white spots, Any one
•etbr:fing them or giving inforniation that
iwri(1)11,1:ar:iltito their r000very, will be suitably
I a. yen Hint; 11.14.1.. spotty 1 white. JOHN
rewarded. Also. came into above 14'61.1408.
MANITOBA XCUBSION
JUNE 11111 & ISth
„hi' • )11'."'llile
Through coupon ticiters for the above ex.
versions. Berths shone] be secured 8( 01100
1'or all information apply to
W. JACKSON
TOWN AGENT Cl, 1', R., CIANToN