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The Huron News-Record, 1889-10-16, Page 1b • TIIE NEWS___RIJCORD TERMS —$1.5O per Annum, $1.25 In Advance. VOL. XI. ---NO. 44. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. NEUTRAL IN NOTHING CLINTON, HURON COUNTY, ONT., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, -1889 WHITELY dC TODD, Publishesa W EIO L E NO. 573 pal (1orreoponfence 1 goad gorreopcindeai!ce Goderich. Mr. E. Campion has moved into his brick residence on Nelson street. The Salvation Army had a brass band parading with it last evening. Grain has been coming iu a little more freely the past week. Early communion next Sunday at St. George's. The Goderich Board of Trade will hold a special meeting tonight. ' The usual mid-mouthly meeting of the town council on Friday even- ing. The new post office, from present appearances, will be ready for pub- lic use before the advent of 1890. IIis Honor Judge 'toms held a Court of Revision for Colborne township at Carlow on Wednesday. A very pretty portion of Clinton will from to -day belong to Goder-. ich. Mr. J. H. Williams has hot and cold bath's iu connection with his new barber shop. Our lumber merchants are com- plaining very much about the scarcity of cars. Miss King who has been the guest or Miss Ausebrook returned to her home, Brantford, last week. Miss Ausebrook returned from a short visit to Brantford on Satur- day. Mr. Harry E. Johnston, our one time town clerk, was in town this week. Tho mission baud held its usual afternoon meeting on Saturday in Knox church lecture room. New plate glass fronts have been put in Mr. P. O'Dea's, Mr..J'us. Yates' and Mr. Chas. Nairn's stores the past week. Mr. Jas. Yates has moved his hardware stock into the store recently occupied by J. C. Dotlor & Co., on corner of North streets. Mr. Abraham Smith .rill move into the store next his present one as soon ae it can be thoroughly re - .novated, Mr. Joseph Kidd, Jr., has a .large number of men employed restoring and re -building his salt works at the station. A large plate gltla-s light for' Mr. R. McLean to replace the one recently broken by accident was found to be in two pieces when •un- packed last week. • Mr. Samuel Cox has purchased from Mr, S. Stokes the brick residence on St. Patrick street at present occupied by the latter gentleman. Our energetic townsmen Chrystal and Black have been very, busy the past few months, their reputation as first class boiler builders being very extoneive. The town clerk has issued his notice for the election of a council- lor in St. Georges ward, and a trustee in St. Patricks in place of the late A. Morton. The news received here on Thurs- day of the loss of a whole family by the upsetting of a fishing boat near Invorhuron, caused a feeling of sorrew to pervade our sailors and fishermen, the lost ones being well known to most of these classes of our townsmen. So far the only name mentioned in connection with representation of St. Georges ward is that of Mr. E. Campion, and as the gentleman is a large property owner in the ward and would snake an excellent member of the council board it is probable there will bo no opposi- tion. At the opening mooting of the High School Literary Society ou Friday evening, Miss E. Halla was elected editress, and the following programme presented, chorus the Glee Club, reading Miss McCormac, recitation Mies Winnifred Ball, chorus Glee Club, reading Miss Ruth Williams, recitation Miss Crozier, reading Mr. 1i, I. Strang B. A., reading Mr. Boyd. The late Mr. A. Morton was in• tarred at Ayr on Thursday laet. The remains were removed from his late residence on Wednesday to the Grand Trunk Station a very largo number of our residents, including the A. O. i7. W. of which society deceased was a member, Town Coun- cil and School .Board, being fires- ent. Messrs. S. Malcomeou on be- half of the School Board, and W. B. Proudfoot on behalf of the coun- cil proceeded to Ayr with the casket. A'ilargc number of floral tributes were laid on the casket, prominent among which were handsome ones. presented by the members of A. O. U. W., the Coun- cil, the School Board, the' common school teachers and the Sabbath school of ICnox,Church. Goderich. Poles for the electric light on the bridge hill were placed iu position last week. 'The, nominations for councillor and school trustee will be held at noon on Monday; polling, if requir- ed, on Monday week. Revival meet.ngs have been hold the past week iu the North street Methodist church, large numbers being present on each occasion. The adjourned meeting of the Public School Board was not held on Monday evening, members enough to forum a quorum not being p rese nt. PURELY PERSONAL. Mr. James Vivian returned home on Wednesday. Mr. Robert Thompson returned last week from his visit to Chicago. Mrs. A. Murton and children have returned to town front Ayr. Mr. Stanley Hays, barrister of Brussels, was in town this week. Mr. Abraham Smith hes returned from a visit to Chicago and Dakota. Mr. Henry Clucas was in tuwir this week. Mr. Jno. Ransford of Clinton was in the circular town on Saturday. Mi. Holmested, barrister of Sea - forth, was in town on Mood:ty. Mrs. F. Marlton and children left for Torouto yesterday. Mr. Geo. Swanson junior return• ed to town on Thursday after a long absence. Miss Flossie Downing of Siutcoo is the guest of her aunt Mrs Geo. Black. The Misses Nicholson have re- turned from , their visit to the States. Mr.'Hilton Holmes spent a few days at the paternal residence the paat week. Miss Laving Johnston formerly of Goderich and Lucknow is visiting at the residence of Mr. J. Bates. Mise Cassady; who ie in town, is visiting at lire re81d60ce of her brother Dr, Cassady. • IIARBOn NOTES. The Schr Cataract light arrived 9. in port on Saturday. The Schr. Niagara with 5 cargo of lumber for `Mr. H. Secord arriv- ed in port last week. Mr. Robert Clark left on Friday for the fishiug islands for the Fall fishing. The Beatty line Str. Campana was in port on Saturdayand loaded a quantity of freight. The schooner Carter with a cargo of lumber for Mr. N. Dyinent arrived in port on Monday. Tho schooner Ontario with a cargo of lumber for Mr. Joseph Wil- liama reached her dock duriug Sun- day night. The steam pleasure boat Inter Ocean of Collingwood steamed into port ou Saturday and loft again on Monday. She tichr Mary S. Gordon with a cargo of salt, barrels, provisions etc sailed f.,, the Fishing Islands on Thursday . The S•L . Pinafore with a cargo of hoops 311.1 staves from Wallace - burg reaclr.'.I dock on Friday morn- ing and a':or diiarging, moved into her w:titer birth. The Sir. United Empire was in port on 'Thursday and took on a largo quantity of freight including five car loads of salt for Port Arthur. . e Mr. William Marlton has .finish- ed the life boat for the Dominion Government. As previously men- tioned it is a perfect model reflect- ing great credit in the designer and builder. A sand bar averaging 15 feet wide has formed off the mouth of the riser, extending from the break- water in circular form to within ton feet of Attrills beach. Tho length of the bar is -about three hundred feet, and its distance was travelled by hundreds of pedestrians ou Sunday. Some few years since our people used to fish off the, end of the breakwater, now land extends from it a distance of four hundred feet lakowards. It may also be mentioned that since the wreck of the Schr. llathbone some few years since 275 feet of land has been added' to the Island between the breakwater and the north pier. We think the rapidity with which land is forming North and South of the harbor entrance will in a fow years cause a continual block of the har- bor entrance, that is if the North pier is not to ho extended West- ward. —The wheat yield in Ohio this year is about 37,000,000 bushels. solid ( arreoponclen€e Ililyth. Mr. Will McElroy returned to Listowel on Thursday. Mr. Arthur Emigh of the Forest city was visiting hie parents here on Wednesday. Mr. William Suuthcott, of Exeter, a former residenter, attend• ed -the fair.• A meetiug of the ladies of Trinity church congregation is to be held in the Rectory at 7.20 p. m. for the purpose of organizing a womau's guild. BLYTII FAIR. The Big Blyth I+'air cause off ou Tuesday and Wednesday under beautiful weather. The show was a grand success financially and other- wise. The inside of the hall was fully up to the best display of pre- viops years. A very large crowd attended on 'Tuesday evening and enjoyed themselves hearing the Organ competition and viewing the beautiful things that were to. be Been. The hand played some beautiful selections at intervals. Early ou Wednesday morning teams loaded down with human freight might have been scall coming from all directions to get in its tittle to see ono of the great attractions of the day, the Monster trade procession. At 10 a, m. the streets were literally blocked with people waiting pati- ently fur the desired spectacle. At hall past ten the procession started headed by the baud and the fire company ; their apparatus take- iug the lead„ Every trate and manufacture of this prosperous hamlet b.:iug represented, many having been hoard to remark that it beat any that they had ever seen before at other places with bigger pretentious. After having paraded the principal streets they were dis- banded. After dinner the great rnass of people, which was ahead of previous years, made for the grounds to see the horses, cattle, implements and carriages of which there wee 'a grand display. The officers of the Society are to be congratulated on the grand success that has attended their•efforte. The receipts at the gate were above previous years, -being' some little under $350. Ale` told there must have been well up to 4000 on the grounds. Tho • playing of bagpipes, and heel and toe manipulations, and dancing of the highland fling, and the bucking of wild horses imported from their native heath in the far west, interspersed with music from the Blyth Band under Prof. Gidley, lessened the tension of minds wrought up to an exceeding pitch of wonderment'at the superb speci- mens of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs etc, as well as at the samples of grain, roots and vegetables. We give the prize list on another page. Straugors to the locality were coutinually asking questions, if various exhibits of agricultural product, were grown in the locality. A farmer looking than from Morris undertook to answer eome of the inquirers and conversation some- thing like the following might have been hoard :— "Seem to grow good wheat hero 1" "Wheat !" was the reply, "you never saw the like i Tho farmers here in some years have to rent the ptiblic roads to get room enough to stack the wheat. Wasn't roost enough in the fields to stack the wheat. I saw one—" "How is the fruit crop V' "Fruit ! Not mach this year, brit some years apples aro as big as can- non balls; grow in clusters as big as haystacks. Last year I saw one apple that-" ' "Don't the trues break down 1" "Trees ! You never saw the like I The farmers plant sorghum seed, got from Andrews, of Clinton, in the orchards and the stalks grow up like telegraph poles and support the• limbs. I saw one stalk of sorghum that was—" . "Do they snake much cider 1" "Cider ! You never saw the like ! Ocoana of it! In gond years the farmers in this part of the county fill their cisterns with cider. A proposition was made a few years since to a projected water works cotnpany in Clinton to supply that town w cider through pipes, but the company was compelled to de- cline because they wore afraid' the cider would rust the pumps. I aaw one farmer who—" "How is the potato crop 1" "Potatoes? Well, this is an off year. But oven this year a neigh- bor of mine dug a potato the other day that was so big ho uses the cavity it grown for a cellar. I saw one potato that—" "Sorry I can't wait, but I have to catch the 3.45 train. Much obliged, will call round next year." Xoeal ((orreoIJouclee. (Blyth Mr. John A. Brownlee, of the hub, took in the fair ou Wednes• day. Mr. Robert McDowel has moved into one of Mre. Brownlee's houses this week. Mr. John Freeman left here on Weduesday with a carload of lanibs for Buffalo. The carpenter work of the uow Methodist church is almost complet- ed. Our artistic painter, Mr. John Howard, is beautifying with a fresh coat of paint the Presbyterian Manse in Auburn those days. Messrs Freetnau "Watson&ship- ped a carload of cattle for Montreal and a carload of lambs for Buffalo from this station on Saturday. Mr. Thos. Potter loft here on Monday, via Wiugharn, with a car load of horses for Manitoba. Suc- eoss, Turn. Mr. Stewart, principal of our public school, was attending a tearhers' convention in Brusdols on Thursday and Friday. Mr. Watson, shoemaker, has opened out a shoe shop in the building on Dinsloy St. formerly occupied as a printing office. Rev. J. W. Taylor, of Mitchell, is to officiate both morning and evening in Triuity church ou Sabbath next. Rev. G. W. Racey takes his place in Mitchell. The young people of the ,Metho- dist church have purchased for the new building a pipe organ from Oakes & Lo , of Clinton. It is the oue that was on exhibition at the Fair here. On Monday evening Industry hall was crowded to its utmost capacity to listen to a concert given by a troupe in the interest of a Pat - tent Medicine Co., which gave the audience a couple of hours'of fun and laughter. They ,intond giving nightly concerts during the chole week. A large number of the young people attended on Wednesday evening the assembly under the auspices of the Fire company, in Industry hall, whore they enjoyed themselves immensely tripping the light fantastic until near -midnight. The boys added to their funds. $15.00 from the evening's entertain- ment. Ou Fair evening Mr. John Mason of the Central hotel had a barrel of rum and some sherry wine taken out of his cellar. The porpretators having taken the advantage whilst the instates were busy after the fair. They got between the build- ing and Scott Bros. furniture store and made an entrance into the cel- lar by digging a hole and breaking some of the timber away which was rotten. There is no clue to the thieves as yet. It is to be hoped ere long that the scoundrels will be fond out and severely punished. ' lliclgrave. A now stone foundation is being 1 hilt under the Orange hail. .`.Irs. T. 11. Taylor has returned from Guelph. Mr. G. W. Solar left on Thursday for the Michigan lumber woods. Mr. D. Scott was in Goderich on business last week. Mr. L. H. Shane of Blyth was in town Sunday. Mr John Coulter is shipping a largo quantity of potatoes from this station. Mr. C. McCrea is putting up a large frame addition to his dwelling house. . Miss E. Solar who has been visiting friends in Dundalk return ed home on Faiday. The good templars had a well attended entertainment on Mon- day night. The Poet Office has been re- moved from the store occupied by Hamilton & Tovell to M. H. Mc- Kinnon's, one door north. Tho work of -erecting the new store ie being pushed rapidly for- ward by Messrs Welsh and How- ard. What has become of the Blyth senior base ball team 1 The corres- pondent of the Wingham Times speaks of the Blyth juniors defeating the Belgravians, their best nine therefore must be only a second class team. —At Terre haute, Indiana, Fri- day, the stallion Axtell trotted to beat the three-year-old record (2.131) held by the California filly Sunol. Axtell lowered the record by 1 sceonds, making the 'mile in 2.12. The track is seven feet over a mile by actual survey. gOra1 gurreOponden.ce. Goderlch Township.., COUNCIL met at Holinosville, Oct. 7th, 1889. Members all present. Minutes of last meeting read and passed. The collector was present with his sureties, passed his boud and was given his roll. ,The clerk handed in the treasurer's bond to be looked over by Council. Moved by John Beacom, seconded by Geo A. Cooper, that having examined the treasurer's bond we find his sureties eatisfactory—Carried. The following accounts wore paid, via : Wm. McCabe gravel $11.82, Mrs. Bray indigent $19, Win. Collins indigent $18.75, New J,ru printing $1, rent post -office box for 9 months 75 cts, Wm. Sterling cedar for bridge per order from Jobn Mc- Clellan contractor $60, Mrs. McRae iudigeuce $15, Win. J. Patton con- stable at Judge's Court.of Revision on voters lists $1.50. Council ad- jo'u•ned to meet again on first Mon- day in November.—JAMES PATTUN, Clerk. Friday night the farm house on the farm of the late W. W. Connor iu this village was destroyed by fire.. Tho building was worth probably $400. No insurance. ']'his is the third fire ou this proper• ty within a few years, two dwelling houses nod out barn, and in every case the tire caunot be accounted for except on the theory of iucen- diarism. There died in this village on Saturday October 12, Mrs. Erwin, aged 57 years, relict of the late George Erwin. Deceased had been ailing for about two years. For some time past not much hope of her recovery had been entertailred. It is 35 years since she married her late husband and settled in Bayfield, and she was a most exemplary wife and kind mother. She leaves a grown up family some of whom stili reside hole. Mss. Erwin was a sister of the Meesre. Beacom of Goderich township, and her mother` still survives. Burial took place on Tuesday 15thinst., a very large following accompanying the re- mains to their last resting place. One day' ••last melt 1-1-' repre- sentative, Mr. Ian MCMillan,M.P., in company with Reeve Castles Viewed the condition of the harbor here with the object of calling the attention of the Government to the need of an appropriation for its betterment. Mr. McMillan was much impressed with the needful. nese of the work pointed out by the Reeve as necessary to bo done. It was shown that a gravel or sand bar had formed so completely across thn mouth of the entrance that oven fishing snacks had to be lightered over it, going in and coming' out. While we do not look upon the Government to aid private enter - prize, we do think that a fairly decent natural harbor like ours, which if kept open • would serve largely to the development of our fishing, agricultural and manufactur- ing industries, should be made reasonably accessible at all seasons. 'rho fall fair here last week, and every year, shows the large agricul- tural interests that centre here. And as a summer resort we have acquired a prominence which in- creased harbor • facilities would develop into very considerable pro- portions indeed. While we have recently shown that we are willing to help ourselves by granting mone- tary aid'to the extent of $5,000 to establish a roller flour mill, a saw mill and a planing factory. A few thousand dollars judiciously ex- pended here would be returned a hundred fold in a few years by the impetus it would give trade— agricultural, industrial and com- mercial. It may not be out of piece here to state that the people of this village, and of the rural territory adjoining -considerable portions of the townships of Goderich and Stan ley- are chieflysupportersof theGov- ernment, and while we do not claim any partiality on that account, we do in all fairnors expect that wo shall not be punished for being so unfortunate as to be Conservatives. Sometimes, however, the powers that be neglect their friends and do better for opponents in the hope of conciliating the ' latter. I would fain hope that the people of this locality will not have this to say in tho matter of improving Bayfield harbor. —Tho famous Brooklyn 'Taber- nacle, of which Rey. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., is pastor, was burned early Sunday morning for the second time in its history. The loss on the church building, inelud, ing the organ, which was one of the finest in the country, is $150,000, and it is said to be covered by in• durance. SCIENCE AND MECHANICS,• The publishers of the Scientific American journal issued the first numb.:r forty-four years ago. They also publish ?he Architect and Builder, a monthly edition of the Scient fe American. We have receiv- ed a copy of the monthly. Each number contains about forty large quarto pages, equal to to about two hundred ordinary book pages, form- ing, practically, a large and splendid Magazine of Architecture, richly adorned with elegant plates in colors and with fine engravings, illustrat- ing the most interesting examples of modern Architectural Construction and allied subjects. A special feature is the presenta- tion in each number of a variety of the latest and best plans for private residences, city and country, inelud, ing those of very moderate cost as well as the more expensive. Draw- ings in perspective and in color are given, together with full Plans, Specifications, Costs, Bills of Esti• mate, and Sheets of Details. No other building paper contains so many plans, details, and specifi- cations regularly presented as The .'trchitcct and Builder. Hundreds of dwellings have already been erected on the various plans they have issued during the past year, and many others are in process of construc- tion. Arobitects, Builders, and Owners will find this work valuable in furs eishing fresh and useful suggestions. All who contemplate building.or im, proving homes, or erecting struc- tures of any kind, have before theta in this&work an almost endless series of the :latest and best examples from which to make selections, thus sav- ing tirpe'and money. Many other !subjects, including Sewerage,Piping, Lighting, Warming, Ventilating, Decorating, Laying out of grounds, etc., are illustrated. An extensive Compendium of Manu- facturers' Announcements is also given, ii;t which the most reliable and approved building Materials, Goods, Machines,Tools, and Appliances are described and illustrated, with addresses of the makers, etc. It is $2.50 _a year or 25 cents a copy. Munn do Co., 361, Broadway, New York, are the publishers. AFTER 131 YEARS. • THE REMAINS OF LORD IIOWE, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF TiCON-,' DEROGA, TOGETHER WiTH THE COFFIN AND TOMB- STONE,'UNEARTHED. Troy, N. Y., Oct. 10.--A special from 'Ticonderoga says :—\Vhile laborers were engaged in digging a sewer in one of the principal streets of this village to -day they struck a tombstone. At the bottom of it was found a coffin containing the bones of a human being. The stone was washed off, and found to con• tain the inscription and date of the death of Lord Howe. Tho skull was iutaet, but the rest of the bones were disjointed and considerably decayed. As soon as it had hi learned about the village an im re crowd' of people assembled, and many made desperate efforts to pro• cure pieces of the bones The coffin, which was of oak, was in a fairly good state of preservation, and it was with great difficulty that people were prevented from cutting it to pieces for relics. 'Several yeas ego the street whore the remains were found was filled in several feet, which accounts for the depth of the coffin's location. The remains will probably be reinterred at (Ane.) in the village cemetery. Lord Howe, or George Augustus Howe, was born in England in 172t, and was shut in battle at Ticonderoga on July 8th, 1758. Ile er:!ciod the army at a very early age, 4non rose to distinction, and in 1751 ^ is sent to America in comm tnd bf the Sixtieth Regiment, arriving at Halifax, N. S., iu July of that year. ile was trahsferred to the command of the Fifty-fifth Infantry, and was promoted Brigadier -General. On July 6th, 1758, under Commander - in -Chief James Abercrombie he landed at an outlet of Lake (George. Coming suddenly upon the French forces two days later at Fort Ticon- deroga ho fell at the bead of his corps in the ensuing skirmish. The General Court of Massachusetts appropriated £250 for his mere- moist, em r•meat, which was erected in \\'• -t- minstor Abbey. —Windsor's population is 0,931, au increase of over 1,300 during ti,u past year. —It is rumored that the 0 ,t.r Benchers of the Law Sonioty will advance the fee for call to the bar from $100 to $500 and for certili• catos of fitness for solicitors ft•om $60 to $400. —Tho population of Brantford this year is 14,726, as against 13,384 last year, en increase of 1,342. The aggrogste valve of property is $5,46t,230, as ngeinst $5,172,630 last year, or an incroaao of $201,000.