The weekly examiner, 26 février 1886, vendredi 26 février 1886

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while the Cartoons will certainly not suffer from extensive improvements in the artistic department.I he price of Grip will hereafter be $3 a year, which is lower than that of any paper of its kind in America,\u2014most of them selling for $ >.Single numbers of Grip will be 10 cen s Twice a year, at Midsummer and Christina3, a beautiful special number will be issued, the number of pages being increased, and ideasing features introduced,\u2014pa-ticulars of w hich will b* given in preceding issues.I bese numbers wid be presented to subscribers without extra charge.c; ii IP\u2019s ps vrroun Humor withou* vulgarity, l\u2019itriotism without Partizinship ; Truth without Temper.Only SS.Ot) a Year.Patlaje Fret.Addri',.th»» Urip Printim: and Publishing fo.; 26 and 28 Front Street '.Vest, Toronto ; or le.v.your order with books- Her or other luc.il ap.nt.^gjf-Tha Uxamisek and Grip will be furnished tosubicribers bjspei ial an nirement with tlie publi her* of the latier journa', both pupera for only ,-* 2*.\u201cAnd why didn\u2019t you come in yourself, Stephen dear,\u201d Miss Jane was saying, about nine o\u2019clock the next morning, to a tall, hoarded gentleman, with merry brown eyes and a bronzed Complexion, who was sitting down with a thundering slap on the table.The oaken leaves shook under it, but Miss Jane only held her prize closer, and looked at the old man with joyous eyes.\u201c 1 want to talk to yon,\u201d her father continued.\u201c Send him away.If he has come to stay -why, it\u2019s his bed time, I\u2019m sure,\u201d grimly, and with a sarcastic smile.\u201c tf I slept Tierif,*\" came in a whisper to Miss Jane, \u201c I wasn\u2019t to cry or make any fuss; but I was to be put in the little room near yours.\u201d Miss Jane, much fluttered, repeated part of this to the General, who roared back.\u201c Then take him there.Mind it\u2019s warm and comfortable.A child like that.Bless my soul.What does it all meanThe General glanced at young James Courtly, \u201c the best of them,\u201d with something shame-faced or apologetic in his expression.But Miss Jane was speeding away, with the child, down the great staircase and up another to her own room, where she rang for Hannah Morris, the maid 'who had grown up and into middle age with her mistress.To this indulgent creature Miss Jane must have confided something very particular; for in less time than it takes to think about it Hannah was up stairs unlocking a lavender press, ordering Joan, the housemaid, to air sheets, etc., and presently, \u201cMaster Stephen\u2019s\u201d crib in the little west room was prepared for a new occupant.It was a very cozy room, with the air of a nursery still about it, although Miss Jane had long made use of it for a dressing-room.The dressing table and window curtains, and even the little bed were hung in a pretty pink and g raj\u2019 chintz, which presented over and again a sm iling shepherdess leaning on her crook, while an amiable shepherd, with fluttering ribbons, played to her from a speckled pink and gray flute.The little boy screamed with delight on seeing this Arcadian pair.\u201c There they are !\u201d he exclaimed \u201c Ktrephon and Cloe ! Oh ! I\u2019ve heard about them, too !\t1 know them !\u201d \u201c To think of all he has treasured up of home,\u201d murmured Miss Jane.\u201cAnd it is we who have been hard and forgetful.\u201d This penitential idea seemed to give Miss Jane new courage as she made her way down again to the long gallery, where the old General, with his hands behind him and his chin in the air, was gazing fixedly at the Courtly children -brave, young James, whom every one admired challenging him, as it were, to remember the days of his far-away childhood.The Anthonys had their own story to tell also.They spoke to the General of the boy be had once loved and indulged, and whose sole inheritance had been their gay brown eyes, merry spirits, and fearless, generous nature.TheCarew traits had all been handed down, even though the heir to them was known as a Courtly; and how curiously like them the little Valentine had looked ! \u201c But, of course, of course.\u201d the old General was muttering to himself as Miss Jane appeal'd in the bend of the great staircase, her eyes still soft with this new delight, her step quickened, her whole being rejuvenated under the spell of the childish presence.How different already the whole house seemed ! No one could call it desolate now.The stigma of selfish seclusion might soon be lifted! \u201cO, Father!\u201d Miss Jane exclaimed, resting one of her slim hands on his arm.\u201cDon\u2019t you see?The child belongs to Stephen ! And he is near us somewhere.You remember hearing of his marriage ten years ajjo ?And we knew he was in the army and out in India.The child says his * home in genuine earnest, the old General said, \u201c for New York City.over \"ung filial with her in the George Inn.\u201c If you brought the little fellow to the door\u201d\u2014 \u201cOh! but I wanted him to make friends with you first all by himself ?He is such a quaint, original little rascal.and he entered into the spirit of it all so thoroughly.He never tired of hearing tales of the old place: and 1 knew he\u2019d feel and act at home there and recognize everything.\u201d \u201c Because you had taught him to care for it all, Stephen !\u201d cried Miss Jane.\u201cAnd oh ! how heartless you must have thought us !\u201d \u201c I\u2019m not so sure of that,\u201d said the other, quickly.\u201c Do you know 1 believe it was a good thing to throw me on m}' own resources.1 was so self-satisfied and exacting.It made a man of me.Not but that I think it could have been done in a kinder spirit; but there ! Yes, of course, 1 11 go back with you at once; and, Jane, you must make the General understand I've made my own way in the world, and 1 don\u2019t want anything but your love and sympathy.D you think 1 would have taken the boy up to the house and sent him in that way if I\u2019d needed anything but a welcome?I thought the sight of the little chap on St.Valentine\u2019s day would break dow n any foolish barrier of pride on either side.I\u2019d had given sixpence, though, to hear him recounting the story of Janies Courtly.\u201d In Devonshire the Fourteenth of February can be like May Day in a country further north.\u2019This particular Fourteenth was one of those blooming heralders of real spring.As the carriage bowled along, conveying, at Miss Jane\u2019s side, the bronzed soldier, who was just fresh from battlefields of the East, the earth and sky seemed full of welcoming light and color.The banks were fragrant, and there was a thrill in the sunshine that meant the wakening of the daffodils and the early celandine.The hillsides, perhaps, were brown and rugged, but they looked all the more friendly in the Colonel\u2019s eyes; and the squirrels flying along a stone wall seemed to pause an instant for a twinkle of recognition in his direction.You see everything herein, dumb living creature, oi field, or flower, had once known Stephen Courtly for a comrade; and, perhaps, these silent friends hold us in sweeter remembrance than we suspect; certainly they seem to greet us with a peculiar loyalty after our strange, sad absences.This was passing through Stephen\u2019s mind in a queer way, as he looked out of the carriage window upon the familiar tokens of the past, declaring to himself that here the crocuses he so well remembered\u2014there there the very hole where he had gone rat-catching on just such a February morning.Surely even the rabbits were his old merry comrades, a bit grayer and wiser, no doubt, and shrewder about the ears, as they stood in the brakes to look out at him, and speetl away to give the other creatures in the woods, perhaps, news of an old friend\u2019s return.Was it not boyish for a man who had so recently led a charge against a horde of savages to be smiling over such fancies; to be wondering if his foot would be as fleet as before when he would take a certain small person out among all the old haunts ?He should be introduced to the hillsides, to the rat-holes and the squirrels, the rabbits, and even the ferns and pollards down beyond the copse.There would be plenty to fill the sunshiny spring mornings.Stephen\u2019s thin face was fill of gentleness before the door of Beardsley was reached.It was just as well; for the General was airing himself on the broad stone steps, determined to temper his cordiality with a bit of sternness; but something or somebody was clutching his old knees.The General down\u2014 behind little Valentine clinging and dancing about him, and presto! Where was his severity now, or even his dignity ! \u201cGet away, you young rascal !\u201d he shouted out; but the boy bad detected his giim smile, and went on with his aflectionate capers.\u201c So you sent me this\u2014begins the General, staring and blinking at the newcomer.\u201cTony the Last, sir!\u201d laughed Stephen, \u201c You see, even as a baby he looked so absurdly like our old friends in the gallery, it seemed impossible to call him by any other name.\u201d \u201c I didn\u2019t tell !\u201d cried the boy.\u201cDid 1 ?Nor have I ever once said grandfather : have 1 ?\u201d And Tony the Last turned his little face up, pleading, into the General\u2019s.\u201c Let\u2019s hear you say it then, now, sir !\u201d thundered the old otticer.\u201c Here's your father come home- -and -\u2014and not going away again m a hurry, I hope.Looks like home, Steve, doesn\u2019t it ?\u201d The General\u2019s tone was a trifle anxious.\u201c Let\u2019s hear you say it, sir,\u201d he added to the midget, who was prancing about in the sunshine, the happiest and merriest of Tonys, surely, the old house had ever seen.There was a rusli at the pair of knees again, and Tony was heard repeating the name so long unused in the old house : \u201c Grandfather ! Grandfather ! Grandfather !\u201d Miss Jane turned aside a moment.The General flourished his silk handkerchief, and Colonel Courtly laid a caressing hand on the old man\u2019s shoulder.Just above them a pair of The Wrong Customer.He was the greenest old man you ever saw.Ho looked around the passenger coach in a way to prove that he had never entered one before, and he sat down so softly, and seemed to be so afraid of damaging something, that all the passengers smiled.By and by a young man went and sat down beside him.This y man might have been directed by affections, and he might not.\u201cWhich way, Cnele?\" he asked very softly.\u201cMe?Oh.1 m going to see my darter in Connecticut.\u201d \u201cEver travel much?\u201d \u201cThis is the first time 1 was ever on keers.I've driv ofl' seventeen miles with the oxen to see my other darter, but oxen habit no comparison to these keers.\u201d \u201c1 should say not.It takes a lot of money to go to Connecticut and hack.\u201d \u201cDrefful lot; but I jist sold the farm, you know.\" \u201c1 presume you could changea hundred dollar bill for me?\u201d \u201cOh, jist as well as not,\u201d \u201cl may want you to, by and by.This is good weather, eh ?\u201d \u201c 'Strordinaiy weather fur fall.James has been worried 'bout his corn, but 1 guess it\u2019s all safe.\u201d Nothing further was said for some time, the old man looked out of the window, and the young man reading a newspaper.The train made a few stops, and the car was so warm that after a while the old man began to yawn and nod.He fought it off for ten minutes, but his head fell back, and his gentle snores mingled with the roar of the wheels.A slim, white hand, with tampering finger, rested on his leg ; then it was raised to his breast.Its touch was that of a feather.Its movement was that of a serpent creeping forward to strike.The lingers touched an old-fashioned wallet.The young man continued to read, and the old man slept n.Inch by inch the wallet wasjliftedfrom its snug resting place, and the hand was almost ready to remove it entirely, when something happened.With a sudden movement of his right hand, the old man pinned the interloper fast.and his voice voice was heard, calling: \u201cYou blamed skunk! But I know ed all the thime what you were after ! Where is the conductor!\u201d There was a rush of passengers, and they found a helpless, confused pickpocket, and an indignant but elated old man.\u201cConsarn his pictur\u2019, but he took me for an old haystack from a hack med-dar! Work roots on me, will ye?Sot a trap fur me, and fell into it yourself, eh ?Even a professional jiickpokethadn\u2019t cheek enough to urge a single excuse.The fellow hadn't one word to say, and w as w alked off to the baggage car to be kicked to the platform at the next station.\u201cYe see,\u201d said the old man, as he turned to the inquiring passengers, \u201c1 liaen\u2019t otter done it.When a man lias been a constable, a sheriff, or a drover all his days, travellin\u2019 all over the country, aii^ meetin\u2019 with all sorts of folks, he hadn\u2019t orter play off greenhorn, an' break a young man\u2019s heart like this, but l felt sort o\u2019 reckless this mornin-\u2019.1 must put a curb on my speerits; I\u2019m gettin\u2019 too old to be playing jokes on confidin\u2019 young men.\u201d mother is in Heaven ?O, Father ! | blinds were flung back, and a great How selfishly we have lived here in j 4.indow opened.It was the window this great house alone, never caring ] of the long gallery.Marks was let-whether James\u2019s poor lad w as dead or j ting in a stream glorious sunshine, j alive or\u2014and he ! How he has re- j The rays touched the jewels on Lady | niembered the old place, and brought I Woolson\u2019s neck, and fell across the ! his hoy up to love us.\u201d Miss Jane | merry faces of the three Anthonys, | was very determined in intention; but i who, you may be suite, had a look of welcome and cheer for their old friend Scientific and Ussful.If the oven is too hot when baking, place a dish of cold water in it.Snow Flake Cake.\u2014Tlie beaten whites of five eggs, two-thirds of a tumbler of white sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder.Sponoe Cake\u2014Four eggs, whites and yokes beaten separate, one and a half cups of white sugar, one and a half cups of flour, two tablespoonfuls of baking powder.Bake in a long bread tin.When your collars and cuffs come from the laundry as hard and stiff as a board, don\u2019t break your studs and cull' buttons in trying to put them on, but just dip your fingers in water and then touch it to the button-holes, and see how easily they go on.A Disinfectant- A pan of sliced rawT onions placed in a room where there is present a contagious disease, will absorb the poison and prevent tlie disease from spreading.The onions should be buried every morning and fresli ones cut up.Potato Puff\u2014Two cupfuls mashed potatoes, two tablespoonfuls melted butter beaten light, two eggs; whites and yokes beaten separately, added with six tablespoonfuls of cream or rich milk.Beat all together until light, turn into a buttered disli and hake in quick oven until they are light and brown.Cream Canhy\u2014Put enough water over a pound of loaf sugar to cover it ; boil slowly half an hour, then add a third of a tablespoonful of gum arabac dissolved, and a tablespoonful f vinegar; boil until it is brittle, take it ott\u2018 and flavor to suit.Pull until it is white, stretch it into stripes and cut in lengths to suit.French Rolls.\u2014Of light bread dough take as much as will make one loaf, work into this one egg, one table-spoonful of lard, two of white sugar, and set in a warm place to rise.W hen light, work down, and knead again.When very light and puffy, roll out, cut with a large biscuit cutter.When raised, bake twenty minutes in a hot oven.Boston Caramels,\u2014Gne pint Baker\u2019s grated chocolate, one quart of brown sugar, one pint of New Orleans molasses, one-half a cup of milk, a piece of butter the size of a small egg and vanilla flavour.Boil about twenty-five minutes.It should not be brittle as other candies.Pour it into buttered tins, and make in squares deeply with a knife.Stcffed Potatoes.Bake potatoes of equal size; when done and still hot cut off a small piece from tne end o each potatoe ; scoop out the inside.Mash and mix w ith it half the quantity of cooked meat highly seasoned and Onely chopped.Fill the skin a little above the edge ; set in the oven to brown the top.< »r omit the meat and fill only with the mashed and seasoned potato; replace the cover and heat again.The Shuckborough Correspon-.dence.FAMOUS l.ETEKS THAT SET \u201c ALL THK WORLD TALKING.\" In his letter to his sister, lately-published by Dr.Murray, Lord Beaconstield makes reference to \u201cthe ShuckboroughConvspondence.\u201d These letters were printed in the new spajters at the time, and \u201cthat ;dl the world should talk of them\u201d is By no means to l>e wondered at.Here they are.The Lady Seymour, of these letters, it may he said, was Queen of Beauty at the famous Eglinton Tournament.LETTER NO.1.Lady Seymour presents her compliments to Lady Shuck borough, and would be obliged to her for the charac ter of Mary Sled man, who states that she has lived twelve months, and still is.in Lady Shuekborough's establish ment.Can Mary Stedmancook plain dishes well, make bread, and is she honest and good-tempered, sober, w illing and cleanly ! Lady Seymour would like to know the reason why she leaves Lady Shuekborough\u2019s service.Direct under tovei to Lord Seymour, Maiden Brydloy.LETTER NO.II.Lady ShuckIsirough presents her compliments to Lady S.Her Duly ship\u2019s note dated (letober \u201cS, only-reached her yesterday, November J.Lady Shuekborough w as unacquainted with the kitchen-maid until mentioned by Duly Seymour, as it is lier custom neither to apply for, or give characters to any of the under-servants ; this being always done by the housekeeper, Mrs.Coueh, and this was well-known to the young woman; therefore Lady Shuekborough is surprised at her referring any lady- to lier for a character.Duly Shuekborough having a professed cook, as well as a housekeeper, in her establishment it is not very likely she herself should know anything of abilities or merits of the under-servants; therefoie she is un able to answer Lady Seymour s note.Lady Shuekborough cannot imagine Mary Stedman to 1k\u2018 capable of cook ing for any but the servants\u2019 hall.November 4, Pavilion Hans Place.LETTER NO.III.Lady Seymour presents her compliments to Lady Shuekborough, and begs she will order her housekoe|>er.Mis.Pouch, to send the girl s char acter; otherwise another young wo man will be sought for elsewhere, as Lady Seymour\u2019s children connut it' main without their dinners because Lady Shuekborough, keeping a \" pro fessed cook and housekeeper,\u201d thinks a knowledge of the details of her establishment beneath her notice.Lady Seymour understood from Stedman that in addition tioii to her other talents, she was actually capable of dressing food fit for the little Shuck boroughs to pertake of when hungry.(To this note was appended a clever pen-and-ink vignette by the \u201cQueen of Beauty,\" representing the three little Shucklioroughs, with large turnip looking heads and cauliflower wigs, seated at a round table, eating voraciously, scrambling for mutton chops dressed by Mary !Au*.U4mul who is seen looking on with supreme satisfaction : while Lady Shuekborough appears in the distance in evident dismay.) LETTER NO.IV.Madame, Duly Shuekborough has directed me to acquaint you that she declines answering your note, the vulgarity of which is beneath contempt ; and although it may be the characteristic of the Sheridans to lie vulgar and witty, it is not that of a \u201clady,\u201d unless she happens to have been born in a garret and bred in the kitchen.Mary Stedman informs me that you only requin- a girl who can cook a mutton chop ; if so.I appro bend that Maty Stedman or any other scullion will be found fully equal to cook for, or manage the establishment of, the Queen of Beauty, I am, your ladyship\u2019s ect.Elizabeth Couru, (not Pouch).Onr UanndlHM Kilk Itnlnslry is prosperous.The great dittieultv to ; be contended with is the low grade of j goods required.In nothing is this more I apparent than in the comparatively small article of sewing silks.The great | demand in Canada seems to he for cheap ( quality, buyers forgetting that a cheap ; thread must necessarily be a fine A con- ! sequently a weak one.Messrs.Bolding, Paul A Co.make three grades of spool silk; cf these different qualities the poorest i4fe has by far the largest sale, at the same time they constantly hear of I complaints of poor sewing silk.If ladies ; will take the trouble to ask for Bolding \\ Paul A Co\u2019s own brand, and trr that thrir name it on each rnd of each tpool, they will be sure of getting the best made.tf Words of Wisdom.Give no quarter to those vices which are of thine inward family, and, having a root in temper, plead a right and propriety in thee.To avenge one\u2019s self is to confess that one has been wounded; but it is I not the part of a noble mind to be ] wounded by an injury.Who is wise ! He that learns from every one.Who is j^verful ?He that governs his passions.Who is ( is rich ?He that is content.Those that would be safe have need to l>e suspicious of the temper.The .garrison that sounds a parley is not far ; from being surrendered.He who expresses in his conduct justice and charity accomplishes the most beautiful works; the good man is.in his way, the greatest of all artists.Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion ; w hat a man thinks of himself, that is which determines or rather indicates his fate.The foundation of good labour in any sphere is a good man, and all that is done to give breadth, depth and ful ness to him will react in ultimate improvement upon his work.Facts.Figures and Fiction.A women at August*.Me., has ordered a set of false teeth for her aged pet pony.According to Beecher the spirit of asceticism still rankles in the blood of religion.National Pills purify the Bhx»d.regulate Stomach, Liver and Bowels, lings It is said that IB.OOO of the 102,-000 stockholders in the Panama Ganal Conn*any are women.A Bridgejsirt woman took a jiair of cost No.7 shoos Itocause they \u201cdidn't no more than them little 3\u2019s.\u201d Destroy The worms or they may destroy the children.I so Freeman s Worm Powders, they expel all kinds of worms.\tIm2& The evil consequences of smoking are illustrated by Mt Vesuvius, which constantly suffers from eruptions.\u201cWell.\u201d said the Irish attorney, \u201cif it plaze the court, if 1 am wrong in tins, 1 have another |>oint that is equally conclusive.\" For (Vamps, pain in the stomach, bowel complaint or chills use Perry Davis' Pain Killer.See advertisement in another column.\ttf Student (to servant at tht> door): \u201cMiss Brown?\" Servant; \u201cShe's engaged.\u201d Student : \"I know it.I'm what she's engaged to.\u201d About sixty patents are issued every year to women inventors.Dist year the total numlier of patents issued was 22,000.Dr.Low's Worm Syrup will remove Worms and Cause, quicker than any other Medicine.\tIui25 Queen Victoria's cream-coloured horses came from Hanover, where, this particular breed has been kept pure for a great many years.Miss Kate Field has lieen telling the women that they had bettor stop talk ing about cremation and prohibition, and learn how to cook.For toothache, bums, cuts ami rheumatism use Perry Davis\u2019 Pain Killer.See advertisement in another column.\ttf A Frenchman says that a French women follows the fashions as a dog follows his master, but American women are as a blind mail who follows his dog.The French say.for good luck, the first time an infant's nails are cut put a piece of gold or silver in its hand.To make a baby a good singer, cut its nails liehiud a door.For Nettle Rash, Ringworm Eruptions, diseases, use Prof.Soap.Professor : \u201cIn one Itching Piles, and all skill Low's Sulphur lui2b \u2018veiling I count- ¦veu meteors, sitting on Class expresses great her words were mingled with dry sobs.I She felt somehow as though she was i addressing Stephen\u2019s old comrades on their canvases as well as the yielding \u2019 General.As for the old man, he looked at her \"in amazement.Could this excited, demonstrative, and handsome woman be his placid Jane, whose presence seemed to him of such slight and the little namesake this bright and happy feast of St.Valentine ; and and if this were not a true story, I might go on and tell you more of it\u2014 all that the Anthonys witnessed and that the squirrels and the rabbits had to tell each other for days afterward, since I am very certain Tony the Last The Faith ('are.This new theory of cure is rapidly-growing in fashion but is illogical in reason and science.Faith without works is dead.Those who have faith in Hagyard\u2019s Yellow Oil have its good works to assure their faith.It is an unfailing external and internal relief for aches, pains, lameness and soreness.\t2w27 Ahvice to Mothers.\u2014Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and cryii.g with pain of Cutting Teeth ! If so send at once and get a bottle of \u201cMrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup\" for Children Teething.Its value is incalculable.It will relieve tlie poor little sufferer immediately.Depend upon it, mothers ; there is no mistake alxmt it.It cures Dysentery and Diarrhœa; regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system.\u201cMm.Winslow's Soothing Syrup\u2019Tor children teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the I.nited States, and is for sale by-all druggists throughout the world.Price twenty-five cents a bottle.Be sure and ask for \u201cMrs.Winslow\u2019s Soothing Syrup,\u201d and take no other kind.\tly** ed twenty-my piazza, astonishment at the sociable character of the heavenly bodies.Music is the s uind winch one's children make as they romp through the house.Noise is the sound which I other people\u2019s children make under the same circumstances.If you an* billions or bave indigt**-: ion siek liendache or dizziness, try Baxters Mandrake* Bitters, used instead of pills; they cure consti|Mition.I Price 25c.]>er bottie.For sale by all druggist*.\ttf A country girl, coming from the j field, was told by her cousin that she i looked as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew.\u201cNo, indeed, was tlie simple reply, \u201cthat wasn\u2019t his name.\" A very precise person, remarking i u]mn Shakespeare's line, \u201cThe good men do is oft interred with their i billies.\u201d carefully observes that this | interment can generally take plat» I w ithout crowding the Ihiiics.G.M.Milgay, Parkdale, Toronto, j writes: My w ife had several severe at-! tacks of cramp*in the stomach.Hear I mg of Dr.Austin's Phosphatine, and j ts pleasantness to Lake, 1 gave her I two bottles and she has not had an at-j tack since, and her health is much improved.' Forsale by all druggists, ti London Trath says:\u2014Mr.Joseph [ A roll has proved a success in the 111uise of Commons ; he is a big burly man, with quiet manners, and looks ' something like the typical fanner.While two women were looking at ! a cage of parr its in Paul, Minn., a day or two ago, one exclaimed to j the other: \u201cOh, Mary, come and look at these partridges, and look at the i foliage on that one !\u201d or VliHl lm|M>rlanre | It is just a* essential that the human body should have sap to nourish and invigorate it* growth.Nearly all cur liiMlily ills arise from unhealthy bits id.Burdock Blood Bitters purities this ! fountain of life, and regulates all the | vital oigana to a healthy action.2w27 Carlyle, being asked the differençe ! between a natural fool aud an educat-; ed fool, replied : \u201cJust aliout the dif-ference between you and me, I sus-jiect.\u2019 The questioner was never aide to determine which kind of a fool he was.\u201cMrs.MeC'irkle, are you in favor of home rule !\" asked an Irish lady of her neighlsiur.\u201cIndeed I am,\u201d replied Mrs.McCorkle ; \u201cI think every woman should rule her own home.I\u2019ve ruled mine ever since 1 was married.\u201d Corn Mowinir Is a process conducted by the agency of tight boots all the year round.Corn reaping is best conducted through the agency of Putnam\u2019s Painless Corn Extractor, the only safe and sure-pop corn cure.Putnam's Extractor is now widely imitated.Beware of all poisonous and sore producing substitutes.\u201cI understand you area graduate of Vassar, Miss Lucy.Did you ever study English literature to any extent ?\u201d \u201cOh, mercy, yes! We had Hogg for breakfast.Bacon for dinner, Lamb for tea and Diver in the evening \u201d Summer Heat.\u2014This is the season for Bowel complaint*.Green apples and cucumbers produce them, and Perry Davis\u2019 Pain-Killer cures them.To the troubled stomach it comes like a balm, and says, \u201cjieace be still,\u201d and the wind is assuaged, and the trouble ceases.Every druggist in the land keeps the Pain-Killer, and no father should lie without it in his I familv.\u201cGood morning, Mrs.Gilligan ; how is Patrick this morning T' \u201cSure, he is no better, sir.\u201d \u201cWhy don\u2019t you send him to the hospital to be treated ?\" \u201cTo be treated, is it f It\u2019s too much treatin' he\u2019s had already.That's what give him the delirium tremens.\" Weather Probabilité».The probabilities are that we shall have much damp, chilly, sloppy weather during the coming season\u2014 just tlie weather to contract sudden colds.Be prepared for them by having on hand Hagyard\u2019s Pectoral Balsam, a safe, agreeable and speedy cure for colds and their consequences.2w27 ONLY COPY AVAILABLE , . tm WËËKtr EXAMFN^f?, «'HËR8R(K>KË, P.Q.fftlBAV, ËKBRÜ4RV 24, t8f«.^laminer.FRIDAY, FEB.2*>, 1885.The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York presents the statement of its business and its standing to our readers this week, which will command the general attention of all those who are insured, or who want to provide for the future, independent of their families.Assets of nearly 1?109,000,000, an increase of over $5,000,000 above previous year\u2019s statement; payments to policy holders during last year amounting to $14,-402,049.90 ; reserve for policies in force of nearly $104,000,080, are facts speaking for themselves, and hardly need a further commend to the careful investigator.We publish in another column a statement showing that the business of the leading insurance companies in Canada for the year has not been profitable.We find a similar condition of things existing in the Cnited States.A leading insurance authority states that of one hundred and fifty-two companies, seventy-six have either lost or made less than $10,000 from their trading for the year.Fifty of them would have been better off not to have written insurance at all.< >nly sixteen of the number made so much as $100,(MX) each, while the otln-r sixty-are somewhere between the marks of ten and one hundred thousand dollars.________________________ Montreal complains of discriminating freight rates on the part of the Grand Trunk and the Intercolonial Railways.It complains, for instance, that it costs, more to bring a barrel of Hour from Toronto to Montreal and from Montreal to Sherbrooke than it does from Toronto directly to Sherbrooke and the complaint is undoubtedly well founded.But any change can only be affected by reducing the freight rate between Toronto and Montreal and Montreal and Sher brooke\u2014for owing to the railroad competition here an advance in rates between Toronto and Sherbrooke for instance w.-u'd result in the transference of the carrying tr;ule of this city to American lines.A reduction in the rates in the two links referred to would materially decrease the revenue of the Grand Trunk and we cannot see how it would restore to Montreal her Hour trade.Sher-brijoke merchants can buy Hour as advantageously in the west as M ontreal merchants can and it.is notât all likely that they will again ha> e to resort to dealing with Montreal middlemen either in dour or American pork.Even our lumbermen and the country-dealers obtain carloads of these goods from first hands, ignoring the wholesale merchant altogether.We scarcely think therefore, even rates would make much difference in diverting the current of trade from its present channels.< >f «course Mimtreal naturally mourns the departed glories of its provision trade and any efforts on the part of its commercial representatives to reduce rates especially between Montreal and Sherbrooke will no doubt be seconded by the Sherbrooke trade iis we behove such a movement wuld be beneficial to our merchants.The Hon.H.G.July in a letter to the .Montreal IFiVu*\u2019*» ijuotes Laocoon\u2019s warning to the Trojan* \u201cTimco />ers who had previously made arrangements to attend, so that at the very beginning our snow shoers were seriously handicapped in their efforts to make their \u201cmeet\u201d a success \\\\ e cannot refer too highly to the grit shown by our \u201cboys\u201d in stemming the tide of adverse circumstances, for they did their part well.We think, however, our citizens could have done better.The almost entire absence of bunting on Wellington Street was very freely commented upon.Surely our citizens intend to | tatin do a great deal better in this respect during the Dominion exhibition.A stranger would certainly not have known there was anything unusual going on from the decorations on Wellington Street.Nearly all our prominent uptown citizens had bunting flying, .fudge Brooks, Judge Rioux.R.N Hall, M.P., Col.Lueke, R.W.Heneker, E.Clark, R.G.Leckie, etc., and the Magog and Sherbrooke Houses schools.Fire Station, Baton Factory, etc.A string of Chinese lanterns was run across the street opposite Brodeur s hut tiie attempt at decorating was by no means general._At 10:00 a.m., the hour announced foi the meet of the snow shoe clubs, toboggan clubs, citizens and guests at the Ice Grotto at the corner of Jving and Wellington Streets, the square was tilled with a mass of humanity, the brilliant colors of the different snow shoe costumes heightening the general appearance.Brief addresses of welcome were read by the chairman of the general committee, Colonel Lucke, and the vice chairman, A.W.Olivier.A procession then formed and proceeded to the Baton Alills Toboggan Slide where the sport «as indulged in the rest of the afternoon.A medical gentleman from the Townships had the wind knocked out of him by coming in contact with the side of the slide, and on Wednesday a dog was \u201c telescoped,\u201d while several toboggans were broken during the two days\u2019 sport, but it 1» satisfactory to report that no one sustained serious injuries.Air.Blanchard took views of toboggan parties in the act of descending the slide.The Baton Alills Toboggan Club had their slide in splendid shape, having worked hard to make everything satisfactory for the \u201cMeet.\u201d I in the w oods The Sfansteiul Snow Shoe Club also hove u large team.nupanieu Jeorgie THE ORAND DRIVE \u2014AN ACCIDENT.It was announced that the \u201cdrive\u201d would leave the ice grotto at 2 p.m., and at the hour mentioned novel rigs of every known design were being :^.t into line.B, was found, however, that several of the horses wrere fractious and a few of the rigs could only he drawn with the greatest difficulty and there was some little delay in forming up tlnfline.The small boy had been given two «lays holidays by the indulgent School Commissioners and his opinion on the construction of the various rigs was very often given unasked, and even the Reformatory hoys, accompanied by their guards, had an outing.Finally the procession started off, led by Air.J.R.Woodward, driving three horses.He was acc by Mrs.R.N.Hall and Aliss < Woodward.Air.Charles L.McDougall driving a four-in-hand, accompanied by Mrs.McDougall and several other ladies followed.1 lie Sherbrooke Corporation was well represented.The safety of the City Treasurer and Council, until at least the financial difficulty which confronts the city is overcome would make any arrangement with that end in view not an unwise precaution, and the presence of Sub-Chief Couture on the driver\u2019s seat of the covered rig which bore the august body showed good judgment.The Sub-Chief\u2019s countenance was as stern as that of a sphinx, and it is said he didn\u2019t \u201csmile\u201d until he deposited his load safely.< ffficerdohn Burbeck drove a city sleigh in which were the following citizens: Alajor Wood, M.Read, C.Alillier, A.Sangster, and Major Morehouse.The Hook and Ladder and Hose Reel and members of the Fire Brigade followed.High Constable Aloe drove a double team in which were Mrs.Robert Davidson and children and Airs.Moe.The Tuque Rouge Snow Shoe Club turned out a large three decker which with eight horses driven by mounted IM»^tillioiis could only haul with difficulty.The hind bob of the sled, it is said, did not track properly and it was continually sliding otf the road.It was well manned with members of the club and gaily decorated.A motto across the side\ttoil/mirs pu ts\" was prominent and pyramids of Snow Shoes, any quantity of French bunting and a large British flag with I sleigh robes on the seats rendered this one of the most attractive features of the \u201cMeet.\u201d Some difficulty was experienced getting under the trees in upper town when to the amusement >f onlookers the members were deluged with falling snow from the limbs.This coveyance, to the regret of the people of Lennoxville, which was en fete, the municipal flag being hoisted, did not succeed in getting as far as that place.The Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Club conveyance was also well manned md brilliantly decorated.It was dr; wn by six horses, driven by postil-ms.This rig did not succeed in reaching Lennoxville.The Sherbrooke athletic and icrusse Associations had also an elaboratly decora' e 1 onveyauce drawn by six horses.< >n an elevated seat were two figures representing \u201cAIc-Sorley\u2019s beautiful twins\u201d who caused much amusement.It is reported that Louis Mayhew and J.Munkittrick represented the dusky sons of Africa who bore the above rather inappropriate title.They caused much amusement as did also Messrs.Martin Lougee and Joe Shuter in a rig bearing a large puncheon.An enormous toboggan on runners conveyed representatives of the Lennoxville Toboggan Club and others, the majority of occupants being ladies.The butchers\u2019 team was characteristic of the trade ; their conveyance Mr.Jas.S.Mitchell drove a lively r of horses accompanied by his V SEllIOUS ACCIDENT.Oa the return of the Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Club upon the breaking up of the procession, the secretary of the club, Mr.H.It.Fraser, received severe injuries.It seems that he was on top of the rig fixing the Hag when the horses gave a sudden start precipi-him and Air.Harry Wilson to the sidewalk.When taken up Mr.Fraser was found to have had at least two of his ribs fractured.Mr.Wilson was not seriously injured.THE TORCHLIUHT PROCESSION.The torchlight procession of the various Snow Shoe Clubs headed by tlie .vinl iiatt.Band Tuesday evening, was a very pretty sight, and the fire works at Cortland Square a fitting wind uji of the days sports for which the Committee deserve great credit.THE RACES.LIST OF PRIZES AND WINNERS: 1st j mile, open to E.T.Clubs only 1st prize Silver Cup, 2nd Silver Medal, did Silver Bin.1st, E.Ban ueton, Three Rivers; 2nd, A.Norbert three Rivers; .'ird, T.J.Maguire, Sherbi'i >oke.220 yards\u2014open to Tuque L'ml K< >uth 1.0 yards\u2014open to Tuque Rouge only\u2014.Medal presented by Lt.-Governor Alasson.1st, J.N.Codere; 2nd, F.X.Ha ins.6th , 100 yards, open- 1st, Gold Aledal : 2nd, Silver Aledal: ,'ird.Silver Uni.1st prize, A.Tessier; 2nd, C.'anneton, all of Elliott; 3rd, E.Three Rivers.iih 2 miles Steeplechase\u2014open to E.T.Clubs only 1st Sliver Cup, 2nd Silver Aledal, 3rd Bronze Medal.1st, Lal\u2019niere, St.Hyacinthe; 2nd, Arthur J raser; 3rd, R.Al.Robins.Stic [ mile\u2014boys under 16\u20141st prize a Toboggan, 2nd Snow Shoes, \u2022\u2019id Moccasins.Jsr, Dessauluiers; 2nd, I.McLeish, 3rd, Morency :Mh, Obstacle Race, open 1st Gold Medal, 2nd Silver Aledal, 3rd Silvei Fin.1st, C.Elliot; 2nd, J.F.Kerr; 3nl, T.AIcLeish.The \u2019Tug of W ar was won by the luque Rouge Snow Shoe Club, who took the first two \u201ctugs.\u201d I here was a large gathering at the paces and the Baton Club Slide during the afternoon although the weather was cold and windy.I lie manageis of the Baton Club Slide are deserving of much praise for the manner in which they did their part in the programme.They had a large amount of work to do in getting everything in readiness so promptly after the recent thaw and well they succeeded.Their slide is a very good one, second only to the Lennoxville \u201cdrop which a gentleman expressed as if sliding down a hill with the bottom dropped out.THE LENNOXVILLE TOBOoOAN SLIDE.! he Bussutiipaic Railroad ran a ¦special train to Lennoxville Wednesday morning for those desirous of going out foi a slide, and it took five cars to accommadate the crowd that assembled at the depot.The run was short and all disembarked and enjoyed for a couple of hours that famous slide \" hich is said to be the best in the Townships.At any rate those who tried it were greatly pleased, and some said they only got their breath on their return to Sherbrooke, the descent was so awfully sudden and unexpected like.CURLING SUPPER BILL OF FARE.ated with flags and evergreen.Three 1 and laxity of enforcement of the law.long tables were put up lengthwise of Mayor During has yet to indicate a the room and one across, with seating j willingness to be again a candidate, capacity for three hundred and up- j He has twice held the office, and 1 wards.About two hundred and thirty ! think he is not a man to refuse to sat down to the feast, which was very i respond to the manifest ca l of the creditably laid out by Mr.J.I.Re- \u2018 people, and is therefore likely to naud, and which was conqiosed of the again lead the Democracy in a seemd following menu in addition to the wine fight against the combined Rum and list:\tRepublican vote.While on politics let me say that I am sure with the return to power of the Cleveland administration 1 do not doubt that if the Liberal party was put in power at Ottawa a Reciprocity treaty that would be to our mutual interests would soon come in force.The Knights of Labour are here in full force numbering over one thousand members and are j recognized by many of our tirst class business men here.W.W.Bortland, Alaine.Feb.22nd, 1886.itc;u .>d*jcvtiscmcuts.lY ii c 11 o ti\t25 « I C^.Stew, Roast Turkey, Roast Pork, Potatoes, Apple Pie, OYSTERS.MEATS.Roast Chicken, Boiled Ham.hors-d'œvke.Celery.VEGETABLES.Beet-», DESSERT.Mince Pie.Raw.Roast Beef, Tongue.Turn ip» Washington Pie, Blanc-Mange, Strawberry Pie, .Strawberry Roll, Cakes.Crapes, Oranges, Nut* and Raisins.Apples Col.G.Lucke, Chairman of the Executive Committee, presided, anti among those on his right and left we noticed His Worship Mayor White, Hon.Justice Brooks, A.Baton, Esq., J.Robertson, Esq., of Montreal one of the team of Curlers, Lt.-Col.Matrice, Capt.J.F.Morkill and many others.The Chairman extended a welcome to all especially those from a distance who had come to participate in this Sherbrooke\u2019s first Snow Shoe meet.He hoped any little mistakes or blunders on the part of those having the management of the affair would be laid to their lack of experience rather than to any intentional omission.His remarks were warmly received by those who could hear him.His Worship the Mayor spoke eloquently and to the point in his address of welcome and was loudly applauded, after which the Chairman proposed \u201cThe Queen,\u201d the orchestra playing the national anthem and the large company singing it.Mr.F.C.Thompson proposed The Bresident of the United States, the band playing their national anthem, after which Col.Lucke, U.S.Consul, made a suitable response.A good deal of unnecessary noise prevented his remarks being heard as they did also the other speakers who followed, and some scenes took place that were to say the least quite out of place in any well regulated gathering.Added to this was the coldness of the room, overcoats and fur caps having to be worn which made it seemingly difficult to enthuse worth a cent, but a little later it was found quite impossible to restrain the playfulness of some of those present, \u201cOur Guests\u201d was given and suitably responded to by Messrs J.Robertson of Montreal, A.Baton, City, Alf.Gouin, Three Rivers, M.Hackett, Stanstead, and Gordon Robertson, Coaticook.\u201cThe Bress\u201d was responded to by Mr.Oubey of Lalibeiie, Three Rivers.Judge Brooks proposed \u201cour hon-oray Secretary,\u201d Mr.H.R.Fraser, who was prevented being present by an unfortunate accident.Air.A.Thomoson of Stanstead proposed \u201cOur Hosts\u201d to which A.W.Oliver of the Tuque Rouge and J.F.Morkill of the Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Clubs responded.\u201cThe Ladies\u201d brought Mr.F.C.Thompson to his feet in a gallant speech for the ladies, when Auld Lang Syne brought to a close the closing public event of the first Snow Shoe meet in Sherbrooke.The Quintette Club who were present rendered some choice selections in addition to the national anthems when the toasts were given, and thereby added greatly to the entertainment.COMMUNICATIONS.f\\Ve do not hold ourselves responsible for the views of our correspondents.] A Correetion.To the Editor of The Examiner.Dear Editor,\u2014Allow me space t< say that these two names, \u201c Isaac Smith and Charles Little,\u201d should have appeared in the list that accompanied tlie address which was present ed to me in Bulwer last week.The omission occurred accidentally in trail scribing for the press.Yours etc., F.A.Read.Cookshire, Feb.23rd, 1886.BV tOIIN J.GRIFFITH.INSOLVENT notice.In the matter of C.A K LEFEBVRE, Dry Hoods, >herbrooke.The undersigned will sell by Au tion en bloc, on VN EDNKSDAY, the 3rd Ma Ku\u2019H, lh86, at 11 o\u2019clock, the assets of the above-named, as uuder Well assorted stock of Dry Goods.amounting as per inventory to $4,120 48 Fixtures,.70 4,527 18 A Liberal Government.CROWDS Rink on LEDONI As vs.SHER1ÎROOKE.OF VISITORS.1 be Sherbrooke Curling AL iiilreal Strut1! was the scene of much into lest «luring both days of the Snow Shoe \u2018Meet this week, large num-hers of spectators crowding the rink during the progress of the game, a large proportion of whom were ladies.I he \u201c I hist les of Alontreal did not put in an appearance as expected, but on Wednesday a strong team from the famous Caledonia Club of Montreal were on hand to measure stanes and brooms « irh their younger though not less plucky Sherbrooke brethren, and all day long the battle waged closely-, the Sherbrooke rinks leading by seven points at noon, and continuing to lead until five o clock, when time was called, with the Sherbrooke team five ponits to the fore.Three rousing cheers were given tlie winning team by the Caledonians, which we need hardly say was reponded to with a will by tlie Sherbrooke men.The best of good humor prevailed throughout, both sides applauding any particular j good shot by the iron stanes, while the 1 yells of \u201csupe her up,\" \u201cshe\u2019s a daisy,\u201d 1 \u201clet her curl,\u201d and other like expres-| sinus reverberated among the low hang i\"g rafters of the rink, making such a | din as only enthusiastic curlers can j make when engaged in a close game of ! this roarin\u2019 sport.In the evening the j curlers attended the banquet in the Drill Shed in a body, including the ; Caludoiiian team.The following are i the names of the rinks that «ere engaged in the game :\u2014 RINK NO.1.!.L 11.Bo SHERBROOKE.M.loinlinson S.Mitchell o.White-\u2014Skip, : KINK VO .SHERBROOKE.D.G.Loomis C.Gordon W.B|ue ip-ar J.Blue\u2014Skip, 25.C.iled'Hii.vns 40, Sherbrooke 54, ma-jority for Sherbrooke, 5.P.Lyle Jas.C urrie J.Robertson f.H.Hutchins THE BANQUET.The banquet was held in the Drill was real and imposing.Each butcher wqis armed vvjth a steel and w;is neatly 1 Shed, which under the direction of dressed.Tfie Craft are to becongrat- ; Alessrs.J.T.Alorkill, A.H.Ander-ulftted on their turn out.\tI son, E.Bartlett, A.Fraser and John The Sherbrooke Boating and Canoe 1 McNicol, who labored incessantly, the CJub had a neatly trimmed boat i large room had been tastefully decor- Wants More Informations.To the Editor of the Examiner.1 he letter of Vox Populi (why not give his name) must be interesting to every ratepayer in the county.From it I gather the Provincial Government has granted in subsidy to the year 1879 the sum of $211,146.79.In year 1880, $128,296.75 ; making in all $339,443.72.Although in the statement of the International R.R.it is given as $339,026.22.I notice also in the Balance Sheet f May 1880, in their assets in their construction subdivision the extension should be $1,306,658,22 instead of $1,314,658.22.Are these discrepancies printer\u2019s errors, or are they the figures given by the Railway ! I for one thank Vox Populi for his letter, hope he may supplement it by others on the subject.I should like know how many miles were constructed in June 1879 and how many-in Alay 1880, 1 am yours, etc., J as.Lyster.East Sherbrooke, Feb.22nd, 1886.- \u2014» - Portland Trade and other Topics.T the Editor of The Examiner.Through the courtesy of an old and valued friend I have the pleasure of reading your ever welcome paper once a week and am much pleased to read the articles written by your local correspondents, in which I notice many old and familiar names, and seeing them gives me encouragement to think that may be some of them would like to hear something of a city so nearly connected with them.Well Mr.Editor the weather of course the first.We have had and are having a splendid winter and have had a moderate amount of sleigliin,.Business is booming here all winter judging from the amount of shipping done here and improvements going on in the city.The lumber trade is more than active, both the New York and South American trade and orders for local trade flow in quite rapidly\u2014and the many improvements made on our wharves for the convenience of handling show that our merchants are fully alive to the wants of the shipper.Amongst the many improvements that have taken place this winter on the w harves are the building up large sheds by Rumery, Birnie A- Co., who are deeply interested in the New York and South American trade and who are already well known in your vicinity as they make a specialty in Canadian lumber both as buyers and commission merchants it would be to the advantage of shippers, to call on them.< >ur municipal elections take place next month, There are two Republican Candidates for mayor, ex-postmaster Hon.Clark H.'Barker and Deacon Charles J.Chapman.Mr.Barker has the more popular following while Deacon\u2019 Chapman is the favorite of the upper-town people.The prohibitionists have named for their candidate George C.Littlefield.He is a wsll known citizen and is a business man who has been long identified with the city, and has filled with credit positions of public trust.He once before led the prohibitionists of Portland in a direct protest against Republican indifferenc* to the esuss A Liberal administration is now in power in the Coaticook Mock Parliament.The following are the ministry: R.G.Trenholme, Drummond amt Arthabaska, Premier; H.Lovell, Two Mountains, Alinister of Finance ; Al.B.Lovell, Alanitoba.Alinister of Justice ; F.E.Wadleigh, !St.John, Alinister of Public Works ; G.L.Pinkham, Alontreal Centre, Alinister of Railways and Canals ; S.Cleveland, Brome, Minister of Agriculture and Statistics ; W.C.Webster, Hamilton.Alinister of Customs ; A.Roy, Quebec, Alinister of Interior; S.1>.Humphrey.Simco, Alinister of Alarine and Fisheries ; G.AL Moulton, Huron, Minister of Alilitia and Defence ; L.E.Anctil, Quebec East, Alinister of Inland Revenue ; D.W.Davis, Northumberland, Secretary of State ; Robt.Patterson, Waterloo, Postmaster-General.B.Austin, Leader of Her Alajesty\u2019s Loyal Opposition ; G.O.Doak, Q.C., Speaker ; Jas.Churchill, Clerk of the House; S.Lemoine, Sargeant-at-Arms.THE ROLIC'Y ANNOUNCED.A wise readjustment of taxation ; judicious relaxation of onerous duties, and honesty, economy and retrenchment in government.Reciprocity with United States.A change of policy of assisted immigration.The right to negotiate our own commercial and judicial treaties.A Senate elected hy the people and responsible to the people.A repeal of the revising barrister j clause of Dominion Franchise Act, j and extension of the Franchise to j women who may have the property j qualification and not nth rwise repre- ; sented.Better protectin;: to children.| under a certain age, working in our ! factories.The appointment of a com mission to treat with the United States Government on the Fishery question.A more humane treatment of the Indians in the North West, tending to a more rapid civilization of the tribes.The immense Krupp works at Essen are rigorously closed against visitors: the outside world has therefore been unable to learn much of the renow ned establishment where the most terrific engines of warfare are made for Gei many and her friends.At last a determined Yankee has penetrated into this mysterious realm of' the Vulcan, with full privileges of cun tiding his discoveries to the rest of mankind, and tlie result is a deeply interesting article in the Alareh llo, per\u2019* called \u201cAn Iron City beside the Ruhr,\u201d by Moncure I).Conway, with an abundance of illustrations.In describing at length such an attractiv» field for the first time, it is not strange that Air.Conway reveals some startling facts and conveys much rare information.The processes of steel working are graphically depicted, h seems that the Krupp guns, which have elevated Germany to the highest military rank, and hy w-hoso reputation alone the Essen works are generalh known, engage but a small part ot Herr Krupp\u2019s attention.Two-thirds of the work is devoted to the arts of peace.His establishment is said to constitute the largest business in the world dependent on a single indi vidual.We can appreciate this part\\ when told that it covers over 500 acres, employs more than 20,000 hands, including colonies of 4000 laborer\u2019s houses, with churches, schools, stores and hospitals; that Herr Krupp owns among other possessions 547 iron mines, 4 sea steamers, about 500 steam-engines, and 50 miles of railway; that he produces daily 2i miles of rails, 1500 bomb-shells, and untold quantities of other things.The colossal hammers, the belching furnaces, tlie frightful abysses of molten steel, and the astounding weapons of war and of war and of peace here manufactured, give the reader an impression tliai this is a kingdom where the work of Titans is done by pygmies, and when Dante's awful imaginings are excelled by actual realities.It is not a little singular that tin leaders of two movements so thorough ly opposed to existing caste privileges and prejudices as the Irish nationa and the English socialist movement should be both \u201cgentlemen\u201d in tin conventional English sense of tlu word.H.At.Hyndman, as well as Air.Barnell, is a man of education and good social position, originally identified with the upper class, and with personal interests directly op posed to the cause which he has come into prominence by advocating.-» ?- A Short Sermon on Temperance.Stock ana 5 1 very nic F.nqnire of FOI?ss Pigeon Hole .via*: Table\u2014nearlr .VI aH WEBSTER.NUTTER Sherbrooke, Jan.21.1888.CO., COME&SEE THE PRICES.G.E.Robitaille QUEBEC STORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1SS6 received instructions Franc Without reset gray Mare, 1 ' l three year o alf, 2 puirtw The undersigned from Executors estate late MR.ADAM FAHQTHAR, to sell by Public Auction at FARM belonging to Est,»t .-j miles \u2019rotu >herbrooke, east side St (Windsor Road), STOKE, vc, 1 large brown Mare, 1 small *\u2019Ork Horse, o nnleh Cows in call, d and 4 two year old Heifers in > year old Steers, 2 yearling Steers, 4 Calves, 33 Ewe Sheep, 1 Buck, 3 Hogs 2 Pigs j lot Poultry,27 tous Hay.lot straw, 2OU bush Oats, J Barhy, Leas, Buckwheat, Potatoes, Turnips, I Buggy, Express and Double W agons, Horse I Cart.Cutter sleigh, 1'raverse and other leds Driving, ''«rt, Team and Plow Harnesses, 2 Buf falo Rol.es, Horse Blankets, Mowing Machine, Horse Rake, Hay Cutter, Agricultural Boiler, Fan nil\u2019g Mill Iron and other Plows, Harrows, Grain t r die, Bags, Sugar Pans.Sap Buckets and Pails, lot Curpentei's Tools, Cross Cut Saws ''toneboat, lot Lumber, Chains, Fanning Impie incuts and tools, die.ALSU, Household Furniture, Ac.TERMS OF SALE.\u2014SH) and under, cash; over $lo and under $\">!», six mouths; over $50, twelve months credit on approved endorsed notes with interest at 7 per cent., payable at E.T.Bank, Sherbrooke.Sale at 10 o\u2019c.ocic a.m sharp.JOHN J.GRIFFITH, 2w*28\tAuctioneer.SPECIAL CLEARING SALE WELLINGTON STREET.th, 188;i SHKHRROOKK.BUSINESS FOR SALE.A well eut aid i felted and remunerative in ana-facturingf business m active operatn^n.Capital required al \u2022old an fa\\orahl ten thousand dollars.Will ba A T etor w R [)JV|0RKILL&C0'S ltd.JNr PERRY DAVIS\u2019 PAIN-KILLER IS RECOMMENDED BY Plu/siricnv*, Min ixfrrs, Jlfixsionrrries, Mawiycrs of Ftiftorit\u2019S.Work'-$hopst Pliint'if A urscs in 11tntpitalx, \u2014in snort, cvertjtuuitj everywhere whM PLAINTS AND Hi 1,10rS DlS-OIÎDKKS.Fon Ac id Stomach and Loss of Ap- ¦ïsyüfiHifâ y Fon pi rn i: BK TEMPERATE IN' Af.I.THIN'iiS.You poor little one-si Jed, one idea mortal, do you never consider that in your tirade against the only form of intemperance you can see in this w «>rld.the use of strong drink in excess or moderate, you are using most intemperate language ! What do you know of tiie temptations of those who pos sess five talents of intellect and ability to your one.Let me tell you that ii they do occasionally take a glass of liquor they possess twice the power for good that you in your narrow-minded bigotry ever dream of possessing.i»\\ all means preach temperance, practice temperance, but be temperate in al! thing?, in all manner of living and conversation, and above all things In temperate in your judgment of others, or look to it there will Vie a heavy balance against you on that day w hen accounts are made up.AnTI-F A N ATIlTsM.KI KTI« -.AM RS\u2014In this city, on th** 2.c»th inst., the wif* of Mr.Alex.Ames of a son.COATES\u2014At Bulwer, ou the 18th inst, the wif.of Mr.Hylan M.Coctet of a son VABNEY\u2014At Brompton.on the 91st instant the wife of Albert Varney of a daughter.CARLSON\u2014At Water ville, Feb.23rd, the wife of C.H Carlson of a daughter K Headache and Dyspepsia.Constipation ob C\u2019ostivkness.hou AM, UoMPLAINTS ARISING FROM A Disordekkd state of the Stomach.Tins medicine being in liquid form, tlie dose can be easily regulated t«> me« t tin* requirements of different per-sons, thus making it equally well adapted to the use of the little child as to the adult.Put up In three ounce bottles, and sold by all dealers family medicines.Price Retail, 25 Cents.House For Sale.rpilAT 1» (?«' a'l't deeiratle Dwelling on Mon-I treat Street, owned by Mr M Tie,niton ,,a* M>»«l water on |.in>«es, also barn, and outbuildtiiR.For term, niid other |>articulara ciniuire ot the iiinierxiuneil on R L.W.tf-M rpiiK 1 I\u2019WELLINt SON AUK on Brook* Street Dow LIN.For Sale, |3liK \\ AU ABLE PROPERTY now occupied I by th* undersigned, Wei I i (South Ward) 40tf Wellington Street.Term* easy.Apply to Z.P.FORM IKK.Land for Sale *cpc lx,t* \u2022o*t purchaser, within half a mile from city limita, mostly cleared.Term* ea*y Apply on the premieee to the proprietor.\tT.CP(X)NNOE.Sherbrooke, Dec.23, 1882.\ti9tf House for Sale.rpiiK DOE III.E TENEMENT BOUHK on 1 Peel Mr.ct, belonging to tin- late Miaa Jan.< ockburu.In good repair.For particular* an-ply to the undersigned.ARCH IK McDONAlff), Sherbrooke, Aug lat, 18M.\ttf-60 FOR SALE.r[THAT conveniently arrang'd and deairahl» 1 residence at tlie corner of Factory and Itel-videre Streets occupied by the undersigned, Han been recently greatly unproved and fined up, and is adapted for one or two families.Eoi all particulars enquire of Sherbrooke, Feb.14, 1HK4 WALTER HI UK.26tf tho varie sure to the PAStUiViPSIC RAILROAD ¦ The Short and direct Rente to all Points in New England and New York.COMMENCING Monday, Oct.2(Uh.188.5.TRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE: R\u2019jfl A M -VUL.arriving St Johns- w.4U H.\tbury 8.50 a m., W.R.rd, N.H., 2 40 Wood Land for Sale.| r lui K undersigned offer* for aal.sou acrv* I wet! tui l.cd HARD and SOFT WOOL* | LAM) in the township of Stoke, being lots ai\"! ïb in th.6th range of Stoke, It mile* fro» railway station at Ascot Corner, and l',o acre, of lot 2 », and all of lot 26 in the ISth range of Stoke, .1) miles from Angus, on the (J U R'* All of the almve land wilt he sold on reasonahl.cleared.i*or particular» apply to alkx.McIntosh, June 24th, 1885,Water*,He, I U ÎÏ Ctlf .To Let TIkLST°5w uNU DWELLING corner o* I i.I n£ï3it\u201crdn-Wî.,I,!,*ton Greets (known a.Urn.cV) GEVEsf\tnt occupied b.>\u2022 i.GRNR T.It in decidedly tlie be*t hiiak.nes.stand Sherbrooke.I'osscM^n ijt next.For particular, app'y to\tf Sherbrooke, Feb.14th, 18R4 WM.MURRAY.tfSB Junction 'M 45 p m.Nashua 4 05 p m., Worcester 5 H7 p, p.m., Springfield 6.0 10.30 p.m.Cone m , Boston 5.So p.m., Greenfield 4.*4 \"P.m., New York 7:00 P.M.: K.function DEATH S.DEAN\u2014In this titv.on the 23rd Feb.instant, Annie, second daughter of James and Mar garet Dean, aged 21 years, 7 months ana 20 d&yt.\u201cThis lovely bud, so young, so fair.Called hence by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower In Paradise would bloom.\u201d JAMIESON\u2014Killed on the 12th instant, by a Railway collision at NorthW'oburuJunction.Mass., U.S., Thomas W.aged lb years and 5 months, second sun of Thomas Jamieson, Montreal.COY\u2014At Griffin\u2019s Comer, Stanstead, 15th Feb.instant, Eunice E.White, beloved wife of C VV.Coy, aged 50 years.3£ tlttcii liait ni.SHERBROOKE BUSINESS- ^COLLEGE, SHERBROOKE, P. Boston.FROrfl THE S0UTH.MAi5ivr.si Boston 8 SO a.m , Worcester 8.05 a m 1 Nashua 0.50 a.m., Concord 10.55 a.m \u2019 ! Springfield 8.00 a m., Greenfieid 9 35 a j m.W R Junction 1.45 p.m., ht, Johns 1 bury 4 18 p.m., arriving Slier- ** '1° I* m.NIGHT EX-1 KEbh leaves Boston 7.00 pm., Worces- i ter « 20p.m , Nashua 8.20p.m.Concord j Î *®»'Aew York 4.3,, p.Spring-field 8.15p.m., Greenfield 0.25 p m W I H Junction 12.35 a.m., St.Johnsbury w\t,*rr*viiiE MivrhriHtkw 7 .VS H lit Monarch Sleeping ( ars i from Springfield to Sherbrooke, and Pull- I man Sleeping Cars from Boston to Newport.For tickets and information as to routes, also as to rates of freight to all of above named poiuts apply to H.F.McLANK, Agent Paasumpsic Kallrea'f, Sherbrooke.N.P.LOVEKING, Ja., H.E.FOLSOM, Gen\u2019I Ticket Agent.\tSupt.LTNiKiN ULLE, VT, To Let.i I /I01 SK on Eondon Street latelj oecu^ 1 w.tl.PkU,benMlJOrf\tvenus \u2018\tklt first of'May*1\t^ Appiy to\th.A.ODELL.until the tf-18 For Rent.A SMA,'L STORE with rooms above (or with-t V ««O opposite Market, Wellington street In.1 cure of R L.PARKER, ne*t d,C 18 CANADA,\t1 Province of Quebec,\t} District of Saint Krain* ( In the Superior Court, The N enth day of Fehrnary, one Thousand, Eiyht Hundred and Eighth-Sir.before SHORT * CABANA, P.8.G WILLIAM FRANCIS CHAPMAM, of th# City ot Springfield, in the State of M attach alette, one of the United Statet of America.Student, and CHARLES WALTER CATE, of the City of Sherbrooke, in the Diatnct of i^aint Francis, Advocate, in their capacity of Kxecutora, appointed in due form of law, of the Estate of the Late David Wells Bog-ers Hodge, in hit lifetime of the said City of Sherbrooke,\tPlaintiffs.JAMES REILLY, heretofore of laid brooke, now absent in the North-Weet, Defendant The defendant is ordered to appear in tbit cause within two montl* frotn the last publication of this order._ (Signed),\tP.HACJKETT, L.K.CflABBONNEL,\tDap\u2019y.p.p.C, ?tt y.tl PUCt\t*w?| a JUST RECEIVED : One C ase UmlnAmlurie* j B>Ocll Estât.© for S3il©^ Direct from the in.siiuf \u2022\u2022 turns in St.Gall.Also a full line of the best makris in Canadian ami American Bleauhod Cottons.R.I>.Morkill A Co.Sherbrooke, Jan.29th, IHMi.I \t ONLY COPY AVAILABLE ^ WEEKLY MAMIKMl fMÎËRMÔOttR P.Q., FMt)A Ÿ, PfiBftÛAJRY 26.1886.imBBINICO DIRECT IMPORTERS OF Staple & Fancy Dry Goods, MILLINERY and CARPETS.SPRING 86 èlje fesamiiifr.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2ti.188«.DRESS-MAKING.We have eecureil the services of MISS KM US, and her assistant, MISS WOOD, ot Boston, Mass., to take charge of our dress-making department.Feeling confident that we can guarantee any work coming from their hands to give entire satisfaction.CITY ITEMS.Another heavy fall of snow last night makes the road quite heavy.MILLINERY.Our Millinery department will still be under the supervision of MISS I).FRANKISH, who will attend to the wants of those requiring her services.NEW GOODS.We have just received 1 Case of HAMBURG KPOINGS and INSERTIONS in white, navy, turkey red and blue, with all-over Embroidery to match.]McCï713I3irV «V Oo.ODELL\u2019S BLOCK.Sherbrooke, Feb.17th, 1886.W.W.BECKETT&C3 Have just received and are daily receiving direct from manufacturers, newest pattern DINNER SETS, CHINA TEA SETS, Better and and diSerent from any others in tin city.china indivibual cups and SAUCERS, Newest patterns and styles.Finest assortment TOILET SETS.GLASSWARE Decanters, Champagne and Wine Glasses, Tumblers, from the finest cut and French Flint, common articles.Fine Beer Tumblers and Bet»r Mugs, Glass Sets, newest patterns.Glass Pitchers and Bread Fiâtes.H.Sugden Evans, F.Ç.S.,F.R.M.S., of Montreal, died Tuesday in New York of pneumonia.Mr.Von Itfiand, (lovemment Inspector of High Schools, will be in town Monday inspecting the boys and girls\u2019 Academies.The Messrs.Bradley had their block at the corner of Factory and Goodhue Streets brilliantly illuminated when ¦the torchlight procession passed on Tuesday night.The Young People\u2019s Missionary-Society of the Congregational Church intend giving a Pink Tea Party at an early date, full particulars of which will be given next week.M essrs C.Millier and Jno.f.Grif fith, have purchased the stock of Dry Goods of the estate of H.Pre-fontaine at 52c on the dollar, and intend closing it out at once.\\Ve have had an engraving made of the new trestle connecting the Central Vermont Railway with the Quebec Central Railway, which we will publish in next week\u2019s Examiner.The grandchildren of Mr.and Mrs.S.B.Jenokes which left here on the Kith to join their parents Mr.and Mrs.las.F.McDonald at Greely Col.arrived safe and well on the 20th hist.The Rev.W.H Graham will lecture in the Methodist Church Lennox-ville, on Tuesday evening next, M arch the 2nd, on Lives of great men and the lessons they teach.Lecture at 7:3U.Tickets 15 cents.All are invited.LAMPS.'Consisting in part of Electric, Fireside, Library, H all.Bracket and Table.Also, tbs usual stock of Heavy Goods \u2014SUCH US :\u2014 1 RON NAILS, HORSE SHOES, HORSE NAILS, CARRIAGE BOLTS, RIVE rs, ROPES.PAINTS k OILS, PUTTY k GLASS, AND SUPERIOR STOVES.ALL OF WHICH «V1LL BE SOLD AT PRICES THAT CANNOT BE BEAT.The anniversary sermons in connection with the Methodist church in Sherbrooke will be preached on the 14th March by the Rev.James Henderson of M.mtreal, and the tea-meeting will he held the following Monday evening.The adjourned meeting of the Agricultural Association takes place at the City Hall to-morrow night (Saturday) when it is hoped that there will be a full attendance of citizens.Prompt action must he taken on this question in order to repeat the success of last season.A very interesting temperance meeting was held last night in the Church Hall, Montreal Street.Mrs.Gore, of Stanstead, and several friends of the city very kindly and acceptably assisted.After a few preliminary remarks by the Preeident, the Rev.R.W.Colston delivered an interesting address.Mrs.Barney, the well known lecturer will deliver an address in the City Hall Tuesday evening, March 2nd, under the auspices of the \\V.C.T.U.Mrs.Barney has been speaking to large audiences in Montreal the jiast two weeks and is sure to interest all who attend.Admission free, but a collection will be taken up.W.W.BECKETT & CO.War WELLINGTON STREET Sherbrooke, Dec.18-5.TEN tiraml Frizes GO AND SEE THE 10 MAGNIFICENT AND COSTLY ARTICLES -TO BE- GIVEN AWAY 4S PRESENTS AT SAMUEL\u2019S The Dominion Parliament was opened by His E xcellency the Governor-General at Ottawa yesterday.The attendance of members was unusually large for opening day, and crowds of spectators added to the general eclat created by the display of viceregal splendor.His Excellency read the Speech from the Throne, which touched upon the abundant harvest, the North-West insurrection, the C.P.Railway, the Fishery question, consolidated statutes and North-West Indians system, Queen\u2019s printer, the work of the session, the country\u2019s ex-pediture, etc.After the opening ceremony the House of Commons met and passed the usual formal motions and adjourned till to-day.The next entertainment under the charge of the Library Association will he given by the Blaisdell < trehestra, assisted by the soloist Amy Aberg, Stockbridge, on Thursday evening, March 4th, and on the following night a second concert will be given with an entire change of programme.This orchestra has a high reputation throughout the New England States, and our citizens do not often have the opportunity of hearing'such concerts, therefore we hope the hall will be tilled both nights, not only for the encouragement of the Association which pro-sides these entertainments at a heavy expense, but to show that our citizens appreciate them.We have seen the programmes and can safely promise a rich treat to all who may attend.Only Nine Cents for a Scrub Brush, a Shoe Brush, a Stove Brush, or a Door Mat.Slop pails 00 cents at the !> Cent Store.THIS ;IS A SPLENDID OPPORTUN-JTX TO .GET YOUR WINTER DRV GOODS \u2014A N D - CLOTHING fUj^\u2019See the new stock of Tinware ! at the !> Cent Store a larger and better stock than was ever seen before, the largest stock in the city.\u2014 (3* If any wants to buy the best Groceries very cheap go to R.L.Harvey & Co.Real Estate Changes.Mr.S.F.Morey lias disposed of a i property on Portland Square to Mr.W.H.Ross for 82,300 Wm.Faiwell, Esq., Manager of the j E.T.Bank, has sold his Mills on the I Nicolet River near Danville, to .I H.Kennedy of Kingsey Falls for 0,000.Bequests to Bishop\u2019s College.By the death of two Quebec ladies, Mrs\u201d Davis ami Miss S.E.Davidson, Bishop\u2019s College, receives bequests to the amount of 810,000.\u2019I hese ladies, who were sisters, and who died within a week of each other, bequeathed to the college 88,000 each.Quebec Mecca ra.A T A CREAT BARCAI and a chance to win one of the grand prizes for nothing.Come and See! I.0.of G.T.The following is the Balance Sheet of Faith Lodge, No.55, I.O.G.T., from .May 1st, 18So, to Feb.7th, 1880: RECEIPTS.Membership Fees\t\t.9-21\t12 < )rgan Fund,\t\t\t50\t00 Sinking \u201c \t\t.\ti\t78 < lyster Supper\t\t.12\t20 \t\u202271\t10 DISBURSEMENTS.\t\t Lodge Supplies,\t\t.8 4\t39 Capitation Tax,\t\t\t 4\t27 Instalments on Organ,\t.50\t00 Rent\t\t.\t5\t00 Sundries\t\t\t.i\t01 Cash on hand,\t\t\t «\t43 \t871\t10 E.Louohf.ad,\tTreasurer.\t Money to Loan.\u2014The Sun j Life Insurance Co.will loan money in Sign of the Good Luck Horse sums from 81rse.The thaw spoiled the good roads but last night brought heavy snow and farmers will he able to resume the work suspended through the past week.- - -\u2014 Coaticook Correspondence.Coaticook, Feb.23rd.\u2014Our people are glad to have sleighing again as there has been but little sleighing this winter and there is a good deal yet to be done in sawing wood etc.The Mock Parliament is in a state of excittment just now.The goverment has been defeated, the ministry has resigned and now the Liberals have to form a government.So no doubt matters will be quite interesting with them for a short time.Captain Yerex and Captain Goodwin of the Salvation Army who came here from Sherbooke are very well liked by the people here and seem to he very earnest in their work.Mrs.Barney from Rhode Island who has been speaking to large audiences in Montreal is to be here on Wednesday evening March 3rd under the auspices f the VV.C.T.U.Barnston Items.Barnston, Feb.23rd.\u2014The municipal council met to organize on Feb.1st, and Walter H.Lovell, Esq., was unanimously elected mayor.A Board of Health was appointed, of which Coun.H.O.Buckland is chairman.H.M Rider, of Fitch Bay, is to address our citizens on the political question of the day at the Town Hall on Saturday evening, Feb.27th.A church is to be built at Baldwin Mills this summer.Another one in contemplation, to be located at Heath Corner.Mr.John R.Noyes has got up a shop for the manufacture of his patent wrought iron sugar arches and has already all the orders he can fill this season.Mr.Wm.Buckland one of the old pioneers of Barnston, died at his residence here Jan.31st, at the age of 82 years.Millington Minutes.Millington.Feb.22nd.Mrs.Alex.Sargeant, one of our oldest residents, and a much respected lady of East Bolton, was striken with paralysis four weeks ago at t he house of her daughter Mrs.John Channell.She is receiving the most tender and loving care from the hands of her daughters, an example worthy of imitation in these days of disrespect to old age.On Tuesday evening last an oyster supper and entertainment was given by the Good Templars in their hall at Millington.Bad roads and weather were against those at a distance who desired to attend.The young people of the vicinity formed the greater part of the audience, A.Place acting as chairman.A programme was presented consisting of music, reading, recitations and short addresses.The parts were all so nicely acted that comparison would be unjust but we must confess that we were much impressed with a recitation by Miss Annis Ball.All present appeared to enjoy the entertainment.Steam Saw Mill Burned.South Durham, Feb.22nd\u2014The steam saw mill owned by Mr.A.Dufresne, situated about four miles from South Durham, was totally consumed by fire last Friday night.It was fully insured.-\u2022 on; ananas, Oranges and Lemons, cheap.R.L.Harvey & Co.KTl'n ;st brands of Cigarettes are kept by H.Fortier.Robinson.Good sleighing again; during last week thaw several waggons were noticed out, rather an anomaly for mid-winter.There bids fair to be snow enough for some time now however.Mr.Von.ItHand the Government Inspector of schools has been here to inspect the high school; Also Mr.Hubbard the local inspector.Both schools were favorably reported.The young people are preparing a dramatic entertainment to take place in a week or so in aid of St.Paul\u2019s Church.E.Lockett, Esq., Station Agent has been suflering from quite a severe wound in his hand, caused by a piece of iron falling on it, and the wound being afterwards poisoned by the liquid of the telegraph electric battery.A number of Robin- sonians drove to Cookshire to see the Boston Comedy Co.perform, while they were there.There was some talk of their coming here for one night, hut they have postponed their visit till in the fall when they propose coming this way again.They may he sure of a good audience whenever they do put in an appearance.As C.Patton, Esq., has resigned his position of Secretary-Treasurer for the School and Council, N.Tambs was elected for the latter position and the former is still vacant.Several have gone from here to attend the \u201cSnow Shoe Meet\" in your city.The Robinson Snow Shoe Club have however decided not to send a representative.The Sherbrooke Choral society need not feel at all jealous as it is very improbable the Bury Glee Club will ever out-rival it.- *- fCc^MeDonald A Tuckett\u2019s Tobaccos, the best, at H.Fortier\u2019s at Sherbrook* Farming in Hillhurst.On Saturday last we had quite a storm making the roads good again ; it was very blustering and cold.The thrifty farmers are busy getting out manure, and preparing to help the spring work along.Farmers are looking forward to a good sugaring season and are preparing their wood, and some few are getting in new arches for boiling sap and making sugar If a quicker process.Everybody seems busy but they keep the International Railway tax in mind all the time and we are never done hearing \u201cwhat good does the International Railway do me.\u201d .Service continues to be held every Sunday, and the people say they have a smart young man to attend to their spiritual wants.Miss Addie Snow is organist and the people believe her to he the best.On Thursday of last week M iss Lucia Crosby, of Compton, was married to Herbert Wilson, of Moes River, and by appearances there is likely to he more soon.Farmers in general are not keeping so much stock as usual and are selling more hay and grain.Mutton is clear down and wool is only worth 15 cents a pound.A great many are getting out timber for new barns,and the barns they have, seem to make small villages on the neighboring farms.A great many farmers are going to put in new fences of barbed wire and move the old rails back into the pastures, making the roadside look more neat and tidy.Johnville Again Heard From.M r.Editor,\u2014It lias been some time since this quiet little village has been heard from through your valuable paper; guess your correspondent is sick or has left the {dace, so I will send you a few little items.Our thaw terminated in a snow storm and now we have quite good sleighing and things are lively.Farmers are improving their time in getting up their wood piles, and Lindsay's sawing machine is taking its annual trip around the country ; wherever it stops the wood has to fly, and the men too if they are not pretty smart, especially the one sitting on the log, for Lindsay very often sends him flying with his heels in the air.We hear that our popular and estimable storekeeper, Mr.E.1*.Smith is about to leave the store and settle on a farm.The store, I understand, is to be leased for a term of years.This is a good chance for anyone wishing to follow the business as Johnville is very favorably located for trade with the adjoining country, it being an important station on the International Railway.The friends of Mrs.R.A.Tabor are very glad to hear that she is regaining her health under the able treatment of Dr.F.J.Ramos, late of Kingston, Jamaica.We hear that the artist in white lead has made an appearance in the Green Mountain State.A gentleman is travelling through here this week repairing sewing machines ; he finds plenty of work Wide-Awake for January proves an exceedingly interesting number, replete with entertaining stories and sketches illustrated in a charming manner.Among the contents we notice The Dumb Betty Lamp, At Breakfast, Three Tobogganese, Through the Heart of Paris, The Alley Cat, A Midshipman at Large, The Little Chaplain, A Revolutionary Turncoat, A Cycle of Children, The Lost Bell, An Adventure in a Mica Mine, Dilly and the Captain, A Little Sermon, «fcc.Published by D.Lothrop «fc Co., Boston, at 83 a year.NOTES AND COMMENTS.An Ottawa despatch contains the information, giving Sir Frederick Middleton as authority, that the Government has definitely decided upon sending a Hying column into the Blackfeet country.It is not yet settled upon what date the expedition will start, hut the Major-General thinks the early spring will see them at any rate en route for their destination.The column will be composed of company C of the I.S.C., Toronto, 100 men ; B Company, 1.S.C., St.Johns, Que., 100; Winnipeg Mounted Infantry,100; Quebec troop of cavalry, 100 ; A Battery regiment of Canadian artillery, Kingston, 200; and A conqiany, I.S.C., Fredericton, N.!>., 100.The troops will be stationed in Calgary, Regina, and some other central points.The commanding officer is not yet appointed.A continued decrease in the foreign commerce of Canada is exhibited by the customs returns for January last, as compared with those for the same month in 1885.Last month\u2019s exports amounted to 83,050,711; those of January, \u201985, to 83,110,028.The imports, leaving out coin and bullion, were 8770,039 less than those of January last year.The adverse balance of trade or excess of imports over exports for the month amounted to 83,310,953.This state of things foreshadows another large deficit for the Dominion government.\u2014Tornto News.Sherbrooke\u2019s star is evidently in the ascendant just now, and we notice that several of our contemporaries are beginning to call it jiet names.We trust that Richmond and Brompton Fall\u2019s will not be jealous at its being awarded the title of the \u201cpretty queen of the St.Francis\u201d by the Montreal correspondent of the St.John\u2019s News.who says : \u2014 \u201cLook out for Sherbrooke.There is another ambitious little place for you.They must needs have their carnival down there, too.So enthusiastic, indeed, are they that letters have been written to M< mtreal for the loan of flags, mottoes and divers other club devices.That is for this winter.Next summer they will be content with nothing less than the Provincial Exhibition.They have secured this high privilege from the Board of Agriculture at its last meeting at Quebec.Well done, Sherbrooke, pretty queen of the St.Francis! Montreal grudges you nothing ; and your rivals, like St.Johns, will find in your example a new incentive to the spirit of energy and enterprise, which is the very breath of life to the people of the Eastern Townships.\u201d The Queen\u2019s Own have got the Allan Line to figure down the cost of taking that regiment to England and back, on the occasion of the Queen\u2019s jubilee, to 835.Colonel Miller says the men will have to pay their own expenses as the Government will not grant any aid.We are not aware of any movement on the part of the 53rd or any portion of it to take part in the jubilee,but we believe that a company, at least, could be got together as a contribution on the part of this portion of theTownships to the great festivities which will make the semi-centinary anniversary of Her Majesty\u2019s coronation.The expense cannot be considered an insurmountable matter when out of one Toronto regiment, four hundred men, or nearly the whole of them expect, according to the Colonel\u2019s statement, to go.We would not urge the triji on the members of our regiment when it is to be accompanied by the sacrifice of private interests, but no doubt a sufficient number of worthy representatives of the 53rd could be found to make the trip without any serious sacrifice, and it would not cost them probably more than a week at Old Orchard or Rockaway Beach.What we do urge, however, is that if any considerable number contemplate the trip they should take the matter up in time so that as regards drill and in every other respect they may acquit themselves creditably.Next winter a series of volunteers\u2019 concerts might be arranged to assist in the matter of equipment and to otherwise aid in the movement.The Rev.Dr.Potts, in the course of a sermon in the Elm Street Methodist Church, of Toronto, the other Sunday said that he thought there was Bible authority for standing and for kneeling in worship, but no such authority for sitting in devotion.\u201c A Kneeling Methodist\u201d in a letter to the Globe admits that where standing is the mode recognized, it seemed to him that there was no excuse for sitting except feebleness,fleshiness or laziness,hut finds an excuse for not kneeling in the construction of the pews in his church, which do not leave suflicient room for him to kneel, except \u201c sideways,\u201d and when the pew s are crowded he is unable to kneel at all.We have looked the Globe over carefully but Had no replies to the Rev.Doctor\u2019s remarks from any members of congregations where the pews are ample in their dimensions, or of congregations sitting in pews which are not crowded.Fresh Imported Cigars at H.Fortier's g^Santa Claus and Woodcock Chewing Tobaccos at H.Fortier\u2019s.Harper's Magazine for March opens with a graphic description of Krupp\u2019s gun-making establishment at Essen, by Moncure D.Conway, effectively and amply illustrated.The subject is one of exceptional interest because this is the largest manufact uring establishment under private management in the world, employing over 20,000 men and owning 574 mines ; because of the social features connected w ith Krupp\u2019s provision for the comfort of his workmen and for the education of their children ; and because the attention of all nations is now especial ly directed to\u2019the manufacture of heavy ordinance.The ar.ic i|:akes its place naturally in the series begun by Me Clellan\u2019s article on \u201c The Militia and the Army,\u201d continued in Sir Edward Reed\u2019s on \u201c The British Navy,\u201d and to be still further extended in future contributions.Miss Woolson\u2019s novel \u201c East Angels,\u201d now approaches its conclusion, and the reader\u2019s interest is wholly absorbed in the heroic char acter of Margaret.A portrait of the author, printed separately on plate paper, is one of the features of thi Number.C.H.Farnham continues his Canadian articles with an enter taining paper on \u201c Cape Breton Folk, beautifully illustrated by A.R.Frost \u2014one of the engravings, \u201c The Open air Sacrament,\u201d having the place o! honor as the frontispiece to the Num her.\u201c She Stoops to Conquer \u201d i: continued and a large variety of other very interesting matter.Sew A Literary Curiosity : \u2014The Glasse of Time, in the First and second Age.Divinely Handled by Thomas Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent.Seen and Allow\u2019ed.London: Printed by Bernard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his Shop over against Staple Inne, 1020.Now reprinted in a neat volumne, Long Primer type, bound in fine cloth, gilt top, beveled boards.Price 50 cents.The quaint poem, of the title page f which the above is a transcript, appeared nearly half a century earlier than Paradise Lost and it is intrinsi oally probable that it would have fallen under the eye of Milton; in any case there are striking points of resemblance between the two poems, and many have supposed Milton\u2019s im mortal work to have been inspired by the former.Only two copies of the work are known to be in existence previous to the issue of the present edition, one being in the British Museum, the other in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.The copy in the British Museum was purchased at a noted sale of old books in 1819, by Baron Bolland, who notes upon a blank leaf that it cost him £21 17s lid, (about 8100.00).Some years ago a gentleman of Viginia, Mr.J.L.Peyton, sprung from the old English family of that name, made an accurate transcript of the copy in the British museum, preserving even the quaint spelling, punctuation, capitalizing, and italicizing of the original.This present edition is printed without alteration.Apart from its presumed connection with Paradise Lost, the poem has very considerable merits of its own and is in every way a literary curiosity.John B.Alden, Publisher, New York.O^Have you tried the Puritan Cigarettes t Poundmaker and other prisoners at Stoney Mountain are to be released.The Annual Meeting of the Orange Grand Lodge will he held at Point St.Charles on Tuesday.The Presbyterians of Montreal are arranging to celebrate the centenary of their church in that city on the 12th of March.Mind and body alike suffer from sluggish action of the blood, the result of biliousness.Ayer\u2019s Pills will stir up the liver, excite the stomach and bowels to activity, open the {lores of the system, and insure health of body, which is indispensable to mental vigor.Every possible effort his being made by the oponents of Mayor Beaugrand in M ontreal to defeat him on Monday, but we hope their designs will be frustrated.Ayer\u2019s Sarsaparilla is the best medicine for every one in the spring.Emigrants and travelers will fiind it an effectual cure for the eruptions, boils, pimples, eczemas, etc., that break out on the skin\u2014the effects of disorders in the blood, caused by sea diet and life on board ship.m' ine collection of Meerschaum and Briar Pipes at H.Fortier\u2019s iUuu Aducvtlscmcnts IXotiecjs.o Compton County Council, 1)UKLIC NOTICE is hereby given that a general quarterly snssion of the Municipal Council of the County of Compton will be held at the Council Koom in COOKSHIRE, on THURSDAY, the ELEVENTH day of .MARC H next (Wednesday being a holiday), at TEN o\u2019clock in the forenoon.All persons interested must be governed accordingly.C.A.BAILEY, Sec\u2019y.-Treas C.of C.Office of the Municipal Council of the / County of Compton,\t\\ Cookshire, Feb.23rd, 1886.\t2w28 Notice.ALL PERSONS having claims against the Estate of the late ADAM FARQUHAR, of Stoke, will please send in the same to the Executors, and all persons indebted to said Estate will please settle at once.WILLIAM BEATTIE, ) JOHN FARQUH AR, [> Executors J.DAVIDSON,\t) Sherbrooke, 24th Feb., 1886.\t2w28 C.E.T.S.A SOCIAL MEETING of the members of this x\\.Society will be held in the CHURCH HALL, on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, MARCH 1st, at 8 o\u2019clock p.m.Music, Readings, etc,\tWm, REED, Sec\u2019y.NrOTI\u20acE_____THE REGULAR QUARTER- LY MEETING of COUNTY COUNCIL for the COUNTY of SHERBROOKE will be held in the CITY HALL, in the City of Sherbrooke, at the usual place of sitting, on THURSDAY', the 11th day of MARCH next, at half past Ten of the clock in the forenoon.J.A.ARCHAMBAULT, Sec.-Treas.Sherbrooke, 24th Feb., 1866\t2w28 Public Notice IS HEREBY GIVEN that the YOUNG MEN\u2019S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, of Sherbrooke will make application at the next session of he Quebec Legislature for an Act of Incorporation.\t5w26 Notice.ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of the late N.HOSKING will oblige by calling and settling their accounts within thirty days from this date, and all claims against the Estate must he sent in at once to Samuel Hosking, who is authorized to collect .and pay all liabilities.S.HOSKING, Wellington Street, Sherbrooke.Feb 12th, 1885.\t4w26 CANADA, ) Province of Quebec.> District of St.E\u2019raucis.5 Superior Court.Ex parte HANNAH REIDY, Curatelle.Notice is hereby given that on the TENTH day of FEBRUARY instant, ISAAH RAMSAY', of the City of Sherbrooke in said District, Laborer, was duly appointed Curator to the vacant estate and successions of the said Hannah Reidy, in her lifetime of said City of Sherbrooke, deceased.Sherbrooke, Feb.16 h, 1886.LAWRENCE A MOtffclS, 2w27\tAtty\u2019s for Curator.TWO ORAINT3 CONCERTS Under the auspices of the LIBRARY, ART A NATURAL HIS-TORY ASSOCIATION, Will be given in the CITY II J\\.T_« I_i, -ON- THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MARCH 4th and 5th -BY THE CELEBRATED- BLAISDELL ORCHESTRA Of Concord, N.H.-Assisted by the Soloist :- AMY ABERG STOCEBRIDGE, Of the original Swedish Lady Quartette.The first of these Concerts will form one of the Winter Course of EIntertainments given by the Association, to which all holding Season Tickets will be admitted without charge.Admission to the second concert (March fith), 25c , reserved seats, 50c.Reserved seats obtainable at T.J.Tuck's store as usual.ÆgÊP'Sea&on Ticket Holders who may be unable to attend the first concert can obtain special tickets for the second upon application to JYcxu Aduevtlscmcnts sT-A-teuvezeustt O F 2U isccll uncoils.CLOTHS CLEANED STAINS of all nature taken off of Cloths without altering the color of the materials, and cloths renewed by Q.VERSTEEGH.Apply at QUEBEC STORE, Wellington Street, Sherbrooke.\t13w26 Babbit IVIetal.A FEW hundred» pound» For Sale.Apply at thia office.F.C THOMPSON, Treae.S.F.MORKY, Sec\u2019y.NEW STYLE ESTEY ORGAN.PRICE $125! » ?II.C.WILSON, SOLE AGENT.M ILLiNERY.S.Carsley has made a specialty of Mourning Millinery.A large stock of Crape Work to select from, CRAPE BONNETS, CRAPE HATS, NEW SHAPES.NEW SHAPES.CRAPE VEILS, WIDOWS CAPS, LATEST SHAPES.NEWEST STYLES.L ADIES Requirin ggood Black Ostrich Feathers, extra value, wiJi find them at S.CARSLKY\u2019S.ADIES Requiring Colored Ostrich Feathers and Pompous, good quality, extra value at S! CARSLEY.NEW NEW PRINTS PRINTS NEW OEILLETTES NEW OEILLETTES NEW SATEENS NEW SATEENS NEW CASH M EEETTES NEW CASHMEHETTES The above are a1! washing materials, leading spring novelties, suitable for the Spring and Summer trade*, and will bvj shown for the first time next week.Call early and inspect them.S.CARSLEY.u SEFUL PRINTS.Lot of choice dark pattern and useful Prints, 6) ceuts per yard.S.CARSLEY.PRETTY PRINTS USEFUL PRINTS FRO M LIGHT PRINTS DARK PRINTS SHIRTING PRINTS DRESS PRINTS COSTUME PRINTS ^ The above new prints will he on exhibition next week.S.CARSLEY, 765,1767.1769,1771,1773.1775,1777 NOTRE DAME STREET, MONTREAL.Feb.10 th, 18P6.-W I L L- CONTINUE TO SELL THE REMAINDER OF HIS Winter Stock < * reatljy Reduced Rrieesis -AS THEY- TVtXJST loo SOIL.!} \u2014TO MAKE ROOM FOR\u2014 NEW GOODS! PLEASE CALL AND EX AM ININ E FOR YOURSELF AT M.McKechnie\u2019s Sherbrooke, Jan.ÎI, 18 6.IKE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO Y.OF NEW YORK, RICHARD A.McCURDY.President.FOR THE YEAR ENDING, D CEMBER 31, 1885.ASSETS, -\t-\t-\t-\t$108,908,967J>1.Insurance and Annuity Acccunt.No.Policies and Annuities in force, Jan.1, 1885 114,865 Bisks Assumed.\u2022\t14 334 Amount \u2019M'El\u2019W GROCERY STORE i The undemgried ha» opened the old Store at EATON CORNER, W ith a first-class stock of Groceries of «11 kinds' They will be sold st'prices as low as goods of ; similar quality can be bought for cash in Shsr» | brooke Qality guaranteed.trial will ensure satisfaction.L.Iv.HAXaL.Eaton Corner.\ttmis Policies A Annuities it $351.8\u2019.6.**41 67\tforce, Jan 1st, 1886 46,5o7,139 16 3 Risks Terminated .129,199 $398,323,080 23 Dr.Revenue Account.No.\tAmount\t! \u2014\t\u2014 \t\tI AM SKLUNH THK BKST 120.952 8,247\tSt3e8,9?l,44l S6 29,841,638 87\tCORSET 129,199 |\t$398,323.080 23 J\t \t\u2014i\tFor the money, for Cr.o> 1 To Balance from last account.*' Premiums.\u201c Interest and Kents.$97,0^9,912 08 14,711 .\t5 446,052 35 By paid to Policy Holders Endowments A Purchased Insurances.$5,270.116 37 Dividends and Annul* ^\u20229 .3,211,900 00 Deceased LiVvS _______ 5.920,033 56 r>OLLA.JR, W.W.MORKNCY.Now is the time to buy Other Disbursem< nts : Commissions and < .Commutation» > *a,2*8.6 1 lia\\e carefully examined the foregoing statement and find the same to he correct A X.WATKRHOUSK, Auditor From the Surplu» above stated a Dividend will he appportioued as usual.Ns» York, January 20th, 1888.ItOAKD OF TKl'NTEKS.Samuel K Sproulla, Lucius Robinson.Samuel D Habcock, George S.Coe, John K.Develin, Seymour L.Husted, Richard A.McCurdy, James C.Holden, Hermann C.von Post, / >OOI1 YOUNG HORSK For Sale Cheap.$18'.908 907 51 rnWO Second hand HUGO I ES For Sale Cheap ^^TAN TKIl\u2014A General Servant.W.W.MORENCY Sherbrooke, Feb.17th, 1886 George C Richardson, Alexander H.Rice, F.Ratchford Starr, Frederick H Cossitt, Lewis May Olivier Harriman, Henry \\V.Smith John H.Sherwood, Robert Olyphant, Geoige F.Baker, Jos.Thompson, Dudley Olcott, Frederic Cromwell, Julien T.Davies, Robert Sewell, S.Van Rensselaer Cru ger, Charles R.Henderson.George Bliss, Rufus W Peck ham, Wm P Dixon, J Hobart Herrick, Robert A.Graninas, Nicholas C.Miller, Henry H.Rogers.Jno.W.Am tuucloss.SamueL HdESC, (SDCCKSSOR TO THK I.ATK X.HOSKING,) N.A.MORKILL, Agent; Sherbrooke, P.Q Gault & Brown, Gen.Managers, Montreal.P- Q.BOOTS St new goods ARRIVING DAILY AT THE POST-OFFICE-STORE.C O MPT ON.Bleached and Grey Collons from 27 to 42 inches, Dress Goods, Ginghams, Shirtings, Ladies Hose, Silk Gloves, 1 weeds, Manuels, Gents Winter Clothing, Top Shirts, etc.Boots and Shoes in great variety.\tlarge supply of Stationery to select from.The best TEA*to be had in the market and warranted to give satisfaction.Steel Nails.Crockery, Glassware, Flour, Salt, Pork, etc.All bought for Cash, and will be sold at a very small advance on cost.M.M.KNOULTON February 4th, 1886.SHOES.MR HOSKING bug* to inform the public j that he baa bought the stock of hin brother, the late N.Hosking, and intends carrying ou the l-uoness.He will be plcaaed to meet all former cut to-I mers at the old stand, where he intends to keep everything in the Bool and Shoe line, and will make a specialty of Fine Goods and filL* want long felt in this city.11c intends sidling Ins goods at the very lowest possible prices at which business can be done.As he has bought the stock of bis brother at a greatly n duced price, buyers will have an opportunity of purchasing goods at less then wholesale rices i'ali and examine bis stock before making your purchases.SAMUEL HOSKING.WELLINGTON ST Feliruary 9th, I88ti.SHERBROOKE* H.C.WILSON, -IMPORTER AND DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS_ AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PIANOS AND ORGANS A LARGE STOCK OF SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS FROM HENRY F.MilLER HEINTZMAN k CO.EMERSON PIANO COY.AND OTHER STANDARD 'MAKERS ALWAYS on HAND CORDON & LOOMIS, CONTRACTORS, BRICK MAKERS and EUILBEBS, VATGULD call the attention of persons intend-vf iug to build that they arc fitting up tha BRICK YARD lately occupied by H.R 11KUK-KTT A SON, w ith the latest improved machinery, and will keep on hand all kinds IIKIi'li \u2014plain, ornamental and red pressed\u2014for fronts.C GORDON D.G.LOOMIS Sherbrooke, Feb.10th, 1880.\tIy2i SPRING COUDS The Largest Assortment of Organs ever shown in the Townships, including the Celebrated Estey Oi*g-»ns ami Gfemtin^ PRICES VERY LOW for First-class Instruments and Terms Liberal.Instruments furnished subject to approval to responsible parties.BAND INSTRUMENTS and MUSICAL GOOD', of every description always in stock.YHanos nn© found complete in all its branches, having received a Diploma at the Exhibition for Millinery.Fancy Goods and Fancy Work And I will not forget the little ones, an you will always find a complete stock of Infant's and c hildren\u2019* Goods at my store.O.I A, NIOltKlNCY KLKTCHKR\u20198 BLOCK, WKLLINGTON 8T.Sheibrooke, Feb.loth, 1886.W.H.WIGGETT 8c Co , Manufacturer» of all kind» of Aerated Waters, Including the ('elebrated CREAM SODA, GINGER ALE, PEA KINK, STRAWBERRY, CHAMITli.VK CIDER, FLAVORED SODA, \u2022 LAIN iiib, \u2019Mong the dank and tangled weeds Where the gaunt sea dragon feeds.How you toil and ply the oar, Strive a truitlcss task to work ! Grim, unseen, storm-visag^d iieath C\u2019losely in your wake doth lurk, Doom is wriiteu on your prow, Kuin is your helmsuiau now.Yt t a better fate be thine, Listen,\u2014look, our isle is green ; \u201e We who sing are fair to see Graced of form and soft of mien, See the warning, piuing hand Beckoning thee to our blest land.Borne on balmy breeze to thee Jake a breath from spicy isles Comes our sweet alluring song Pleading, calling thee ; erewhiles Sunken, cruel rocks are near, Flee, oh flee, thy ocean bier.Come, oh come, no earth marred rest Shall be thine in our fair ho wets, But a witching sweet content Waits in all the golden hours, Such, to mortals o\u2019er the sea, Whence thou sail\u2019st, can never be.Here are roses for your couch, Nectar brims this cap for thee ; Here are robes more rich and rare Than ever decks earth\u2019s royalty ; See this glittering crown, such gems Ne\u2019er graced earthly diadems.Mark how fair the face that bends Pitying, pleading towards thee now , Note the fair hair s golden hue Rippling o\u2019er the radiant brow ; Lips that smile as angels do, Tender eyes of heavenly blue.And our song\u2014but s.-raph voice Ever breathed a lay so sweet, Winning, warning, calling thee To our fair and green retreat, Flee, oh flee the peril near, Itest and safety waits thee here.Lkilla.Sherbrooke, Feb.25th, 188b.The Insurance Business.NOT PAYING\u2014SOME FACTS AND FIGURES.A correspondent of the Montreal Star has published some figures which will have a tendency to remove the popular impression that Insurance companies are coining money and that the rates are exorbitant.He says : \u201cA great many people run away witli the impression that the present increase in rates in the United States and Canada is exorbitant, and that the companies are coining fortunes out of it.Retail merchants in Montreal have openly proclaimed so, and are seeking lower rates.Judges and juries think so, and generally condemn companies, w henever they come before them redress wrongs or seek prevention from being defrauded in the most open manner.The Tariff Association has now been in existence three years; we can therefore see what it lias done for the companies from the figures so far published officially under oath for 1885 : Income Kxp\u2019dit\u2019re Western Ins.Co.,Toronto $ 9Ji,744 $ 1)26,885 British America Ins.Co., Toronto,.644,950\t601,093 Agricultural Insurar ceCo, Wratertown, .824,374\t810,864 Ætna Ins.Co., Hartford, 2,982,457\t2,884.192 Hartford Ins.Co., \u201c\t2,510,535\t2,310 936 f cottishUnion tft National Co., Edinburgh, .416, Fire Insurance Association, London.351,808 928,415 ibove all A gentleman, generous in his contributions for church purposes, but not regular in his attendance upon public worship, was wittily described by a clergyman as being \u201cnot exactly a pillar of the church, but a kind of a flying buttress, supjiorting it from the outside.\u201d Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Rc-newer imparts a fine gloss and freshness to the hair, and is highly recommended by physicians, clergymen and scientists as a preparation accomplishing wonderful results.It is a certain remedy for removing dandruf, making the scalp white and clean, and restoring gray hair to its natural color.tf Once a thin, little curate was examining the village school on the affections.\u201cNow, my deaah children !\u2019 said he, \u201ccould you see my soul /\u201d The chorus answered \u201cNo !\u201d \u2018\u2018Why, deaah children, cannot you see my soul?\" A little hand went up ; \u201cWull it tw fa too tma\u2019.\u201d .\t783,511 and so on, ad nauneam.The do business in Canada, are conservative, and well managed institutions, and yet what do they make out of the increase of rates and the large business they transact?Practically the above figures in each instance show a positive loss to the companies, as they have their enormous business to carry over to maturity only partially provided for by the re-insurauce liability, and have no margin to provide for a conflagration fund which every company is desirous of having.The above figures are not exceptional; they show the same results year after year, and yet the public grumble at the rates charged and seek cheaper insurance in unauthorized and illegal companies (underground, so-called), who gladly take all the premiums they can get, pay all small losses as they occur, but yet remain to be tested when the big one comes along, when probably many of our citizens may find themselves poorer but wiser men ! Remarkable Recuperation.D.M.Ferry Sc Co., the well-known Seedsmen, of Detroit, Mich., announce that they are on their feet again and ready and anxious to receive orders for seeds from erery am: of their old customers, and from as many new ones as feel kindly disposed toward them.They aie in condition to till promptly every order with new seeds of the best quality.On January 1st their immense warehouse was destroyed by tire.It was filled with probably the largest stock of assorted seeds ever gathered under one roof.Their books and papers were all saved, and every person who had ordered seeds of them will be supplied with his usual stock.They had large quantities of seeds in their warehouses on their seed farms in the hands of the growers and not yet delivered, and on the way from Europe, which, together with their fully stocked branch Seed Store in Windsor, Ont.close at hand, and the free and vigorous use of the telegraph and cable, enabled them to secure a new stock in a remarkably short time.Before the fire was subdued they had secured new quarters and were devoting all their energies to their customers\u2019 interests.In thirty days they were in perfectly working order again.When we consider the magnitude of their business, the appaling destruction of property at the most unfortunate season of the year, we doubt if the annals of history furnish a case of such rapid recuperation.Smh raeryy de-serre» sucres».The Lihrant yfaijazine.The February number of The Library Muya-ziue presents the following unusually attractive array of contents: Hinduism, by a Hindu;The Interpreters of nature, by T.H.Huxley, The New Star in Andromeda, t'urnhill Mnt/azine; Reason and Religion, by A.M.Fairbaim; Bulgaria and Servia, by Edward A.Freeman; Superfine English, ('ornhill Alaijazine; The Story of the Bab, by Mary F.Wilson; Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost, by Walter Pater; The Origin of the Alphabet, by A.H.Sayce; Insanity and Crime, by Baron Bramwell; Old Florence and Modern Tuscany, by Janet Ross; On Modern (/\u2019bailees for Chivalry, by Edward Garrett;The Elder Edda the Bible of Germanic Paganism, by H.H.Boye-sen: Suns and Meteors, by Richard A.Proctor; A Novelist\u2019s Favorite Theme, Cornhill Magazine\\ The Coming Contests of the world, Fortnujhtly Review; The Decay of the Central Park < Ibelisk, by Arnold Hague; Eskimo Building-Snow, by Frederick Schwatka.This magazine is certainly quite the equal of the best of the four-dollar monthlies in the value of its contents, though its price is only 81.50 a year, or 15 cents a copy.John B.Alien, Publisher, New York.Excitement Unabated.PROOF THAT THAT PHYSICIAN\u2019S TERRIBLE CONFESSION IS TRUE.(Cleveland, ()., Herald.) Yesterday and the day before we copied into our columns from the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle, a remarkable statement, made by J.B.Henion, M.D., a gentleman who is well known in this ; city.In that article Dr.Henion re- | counted a wonderful experience which ! befell him, and the next day we pub- | lished from the same paper a second j article, giving an account of the ex- : citement in Rochester, and elsewhere, | caused by Dr.Henion\u2019s statement.It i is doubtful if any two articles were ! ever published which caused greater j commotion both among professionals \u2019 and laymen.Since the publication of these two articles, having been besieged with letters of inquiry, we sent a communication to Dr.Henion and also to H.H.Warner & Co., asking if any additional proof could be given, and here it is: Gentiemen: I owe my life and present health wholly to the power of Warner\u2019s Safe Cure, which snatched me from the very brink of the grave.It is not surprising that people should question the statement I made (which is true in every respect) for my recovery was as great a marvel to myself, as to my physicians, and friends.?Tfr ?J.B.Henion, M.D.Rochester, N.Y., Jan.21.Sirs: The best proof we can give you that the statements made by Dr.Henion are entirely true, and would not have been published unless strictly so, is the following testimonial from the best citizens of Rochester, and a card published by Rev.Dr.Foote.H.H.Warner & Co.To (I limn it May Concern: We are personally or by reputation acquainted with Dr.Henion, and we believe he would publish no statement not literally true.We are also personally or by reputation well acquainted with H.H.Warner & Co., proprietors of Warner\u2019s Safe Cure, (by which Dr.Henion says he was cured) whose commercial and personal standing in this community are of the highest order, and we believe that they would not publish any statements which w ere not literally and strictly true in every particular, C.R.Parsons, (Mayor of Rochester.) Wm.Purcell, Editor (Union and Adcertiser.) W.D.Stuart, (ex-Surrogate Monroe County.) Edward A.Frost, (ex-Clerk Monroe County.) E.B.Fenner, ex-Distriet Attorney Monroe County.) J.M.Davy, (ex-Member Congress, Rochester.) John S.Morgan, (County Judge, Monroe Co.) Hiram Sibley, (Capitalist and Seed-man.) John Van Yoorhis, (ex-Menber of Congress.) To the Editm' of the Living Church, Chicago, III.There was published in the Rochester (N.Y.) Demeurât and.Chronicle of the dlst of December, a statement made by J.B.Henion, M.D., narrating how he had been cured of Bright\u2019s disease of the kidneys, almost in its last stages, by the use of Warner\u2019s Safe Cure, I was referred to in that statement, as having recommended and urged Dr.Henion to try the remedy, which he did, and was cured.The statement of Dr.Henion is true, so far as it concerns myself, and I believe it to be true in all other respects.He was a parishioner of mine and I visited him in his sickness.I urged him to take the medicine and would do the same again to any one who was troubled with a disease of the kidneys and liver.Israel Foote, (D.D.) (Late) Rector of St.Paul's Episcopal Church.Rochester, H.Y.It seems impossible to doubt further in the face of such conclusive proof.AYER\u2019S NEW BOOKS RECEIVED Tixilorsi. a dozen.The plant was described as a rare exotic, requiring the most delicate care.The strangers did a rushing business.Now the bulbs are beginning to flower, and every one of them proves to be the common yellow daffodil.ThreaJeiuM» Danger In the fall of \u201984 Randall Miller, of Maitland, N.S., was prostrated to his bed with an attack of incipient consumption.Cough remedies all failed.He rapidly grew debilitated, and friends despaired of his recovery.He tried Burdock Blood Bitters, with immediate relief, followed by a speedy cure.\t2w27 A rtew invention has appeared, by which the healing properties of the Norwegian pine are to be applied in a novel and clever way to the relief of all bronchial and chest affections, without burdening the digestive organs with liquids, pills, or lozenges.The essence of the pine is contained in an amber tube, and the sufferer inhales its healing properties as though he were smoking, the effect being, it is said, soothing and agreeable.No stronger warranty can be given for the merits of a cough medicine than we offer.We say to all who wish to use Allen's Lung Balsam, that unless it gives entire satisfactioiT they may return the bottle to us after they have used it 48 hours, and the money will he cheerfully refunded.This same warranty has been offered from the day we offered the Balsam first for sale and to this time, the first bottle has not been returned, and we have received nothing but praise in its favor from those who have used it.Beware of the medicine represented as just the same, or fully as goodasDr.Smith's Great German Worm Remedy by dealers who sell the article that pays best, regardless of merit.Dr.Smith\u2019s Great German Worm Remedy is being endorsed by all as a pleasant, safe, reliable and prompt remedy for the removal of stomach and seat or pin worms from child or adult.It is easy to take, never fails, absolutely harmless, and requires no after physic.Sold everywhere.Price 25 cents.2w28 \u201cThe oldest son of the greatest Parliamentarian in England,\u201d as Mr.W.11.Gladstone has been styled by The Pal! Midi Gazette, is a mild mannered, retiring young man, of enormous physioial strength.In the last Parliament he spent most of his time in the darkest corner he could find under the gallery, and only made one speech.He always left the House when his father rose to speak.A Hartford man has been for some time complaining that he did not feel refreshed at all after a night\u2019s sleep, and attributed it to the fact that he sleeps with his head to the west.Saturday bis w ife caused the bed to be turned around, the head to the north.This act bore fruit next day of a most surprising kind.The gentlemen got up early and went to church for the first time this year quite restored.A Word of Rxplnnntlon.The liver secretes bile to move the bowels; the kidneys secrete urine, to carry off uric acid, which would poison the blood ; the stomach secretes gastric juice to digest or dissolve the food etc.Burdock Blood Bitters acts upon these organs and purifies the blood by cleansing all the secretions of the system.\t2w27 Hair Vigor restores, with the gloss and freshness of jouth, faded or gray hair to a natural, rich brown color, or deep black, as may be desired.By Us use light or red hair may be darkeued, thin hair thickened, and baldness often, though not always, cured.It checks falling of the hair, and stimulates a weak and sickly growth to vigor.It prevents and cures scurf and dandruff, and heals nearly every disease peculiar to the scalp.As a Ladies\u2019 Hair Dressing, the Vigor is unequalled ; it contaius neither oil nor dye, renders the hair soft, glossy, and silken in appearance, and imparts a delicate, agreeable, and lasting perfume.Mr.C.P.Bricrer writes from Kirby, O.July 3, 1883 : \u201c Last fall my hair commenced falling out, and in a short time 1 became nearly bald.1 used part of a bottle of Avbb\u2019s Hair Vigor, which stopped the falling of the hair, and started a new growth.I have now a full head of hair growing vigorously, and am convinced that but for the use of your preparation I should have been entirely bald.\u201d \u2022T.W.Bowen, proprietor of the McArthur (Ohio) Enquirer, says : \u201cAVER\u2019S Hair Vigor is a most excellent preparation for the hair, I speak ot it from my own experience.Its use promotes the growth of new hair, and makes it glossy and soft.The Vigor is also a sure cure for dandruff.Not within my knowledge has the preparation ever failed to give entire satisfaction.\u201d Mr.Angus Kairbairn, leader of the celebrated \u201c Fairbaim Family \" of Scottish Vocalists, writes from Boston, Mass., Feb.6, 1880 : \u201c Ever since my hair began to give silvery evidence ot the change which fleeting time procureth, I have used AVER\u2019S Hair Vigor, and so have been aide to maintain an appearance of youthfulness \u2014a matter of considerable consequence to ministers, orators, actors, and in fact every one who lives iu the eyes of the public.\u201d Mrs.O.A.Prescott, writing from 18 Etm .9L, Charlestown, Mass., April 14, 1882, says : \u201c Two years ago about two-tbirds of my hair came off.It thinned very rapidly, and 1 was fast growing bald.On using Ayer\u2019s Hair Vigor the falling stopped and a new growth commenced, and in about a month my head was completely covered with short hair.It luis continued to grow, and is now as good as before it fell.1 regularly used but one bottle of the Vigor, but now use it occasionally as a dressing.\u201d We have hundreds of similar testimonials to the efficacy of AVer\u2019s Hair Vigor.It needs but a trial to convince the most skeptical of its value.PREPARED BT Dr.J.C.Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.Sold by all Druggists.FURS! The Attention of the public it inrited to my rery full «took of JET TT IR, cv Specially prepared for this season\u2019* trade\u2014unsurpassed in QUALITY, STYLE AND VALUE \u2014comprising in part- LADIES\u2019 SEAL JACKETS, LADIES\u2019 PERSIAN LAMB JACKETS LADIES\u2019 BOKHARA JACKETS LADIES ASTRAC ^ JACKETS LADIES\u2019 FUR LINED CIRCULARS LADIES\u2019 FUR TRIMMED DOLMANS CAPES, GLOVES, CAPS, MUFFS, &C.GENTLEMEN\u2019S FUR COATS, CAPS, ETC \u2019 In any kind of Fur.MOCCASINS, SNOW SHOES, HATS, CAPS, GLOVES, great variety.\u2022«^Highest Cash Price paid for Furs.Z.P.CORMIER, \u201cSH ERBROOEE FUR STORE.\u201d Sherbrooke, Oct.30, 1886.LUGKE & MITCHELL.CARRIAGE HARDWARE.lOO Hett» PATENT WHEELS 3 Carloacl» WELL-SEASONED WOOD STOCK: SPOKES, FELLOES, HUBS, SHAFTS, POLES X XX, XXX & SECOND GROWTH.300 Sets Axles, 250 Prs.Springs Oil Tempered, Concord Pattern, Single Leaf Caat Steel.SEAT & SULKY SPRINGS.CarriageCears.Dexter Queen, Dexter Queen Phaeton, McLaughlin, Concord, Champion, Atkinson Side Bar, also, Martin Platform for Express Wagons.The above (Lears will be sold at manufacturers\u2019 prices, delivered here.American Carriage Malleable Irons SHAFT COUPLINGS, CLIPS, YOKES, FELLOE PLATES, SHAFT TIPS, SEAT SPINDLES, SHAFT RUBBERS, WHIP SOCKETS, CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS, ETC., ETC.ONE MILLION CARRIAGE BOLTS! FULL SQUARE WITH POLISHED HEADS.Carriage Paints and Colors, Finest New York Varnishes, Taint Brushes ! BLACKSMITHS\u2019 SUPPLIES, bar iron, steel, anvils, vises.BELLOWS, HAMMERS, SCREW PLATES, HORSE SHOES A NAILS, NUTS, WASHERS, RASPS, FILES, BORAX, ETC.« O O T O IV *¦* BEST QUALITY CUMBERLAND SMITHS\u2019 COAL, To be eold in CAB LOADS or «mailer lot*.Lucke & Mitchell, ODELL\u2019S BLOCK, SHERBROOKE, P.Q.Jan.n, isee.\u201e EVERY FRIDAY EVENING -AT- WALTON\u2019S DRUG STORE The old reliable r A !i *8 ilKVv AMMA^ jX WALTON\u2019S DRUG STORE PRICE FIVE CENTS The usual free almanacs are now in and are well worth asking for.(Svoccvs._ WALTON\u2019S DRUG STORE Is now in its sixth year.For the success of his business he begs to thank all who have favored him with their patronage, and to assure his customers that he will continue to make it his best endeavor to give PERFECT SATISFACTION TO ALL.REMEMBER \"WALTON\u2019S DRUG STOEE, GRIFFITH\u2019S BLOCK Sherbrooke, Feb.4th., 1886 SPECIAL.THE UNDERSIGNED IS PEKPAKKD TO EMBALM BODIES So that they can be kept any length of time desired before burying Prices very moderate.Everything requisite in the UNDERTAKING business kept in stock and satisfaction guaranteed.J.H.KNAPP, < o.vricoou.Dec.1st, 1885.\ttf-16 AFTER MANY trials we have secured the services of a really tirst-class Cutter, and consider our establishment second to none in the trade.Our Cutter, Mr.Robie, who has spent a number of years in some of the principal places of the West, as Cutter, and has also taken a thorough course in the John J.Mitchell cutting establishment in New YTork, and holds a first class diploma from that institution, has seen lit to take charge of our Tailoring Department, and being not mindful of our own interest alone, but of the interest of the public at large, we can safely guarantee perfect fitting, garments in every respect, and would here take pleasure in thanking my numerous customers for their past patronage and would solicit a continuance of the same, and would here beg to inform them that an early inspection of my Fall and Winter Stock, in all its different branches would be to their interest.YVlien out 8Shopping\u2019 Do not forget to call and see the New Goods E.W.ABBOTT, LENNOXVILLE, Has now in stock.In Dress Goods We have C\u2019ashmeres, plain and Fancy Dress Goods, Nun\u2019,sVeilings, Ginghams, Satteens, Points, etc., all in new shades and patterns.We have also a full line of Staple Dry Goods, Such as white and grey Cottons, Shirtings, Linens, Luce Curtains, Kdgings, Hosiery, Gloves, etc., and a good supply of Men\u2019s Furnishings, Hats and Caps, etc.Goods not strictly new sold at reduced prices.Special values in Clothing and Tweeds, which are being sold very low to clear off balance of stock left from last year.We keep a good assortment of Boots and Shoes, Crockery, Hardware, Glass, Steel Nails, Paints and Oils, and Groceries, all at reasonable prices for good Goods.Call and see for yourselves.12.w.y\\.i32 sori r.Lennoxville, June 9th, 1885.JUST RECEIVED WE HAVE RECEIVED OUR STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS.CONSISTING OF ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND CANA-DIAN TWEEDS, All kinds of OVERCOATINGS, and a variety of other ; loths.A full stock of Gents\u2019 Fu nisliing Goods \u2014IN\u2014 SHIRTS, COLLARS, TIES, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, ETC., ETC.An early inspection of our Goods would be to the advantage of intending purchasers.C.H.WAKEFIELD & CO., MCCARTHY\u2019S BLOCK.Sherbrooke, Sept.17th, 1885.tf 5 BACK TO SHERBKOOKR AGAIN -AT- CEO.GALE & SON'S CRIST MILL, WATERVILLE:\tI 1 Car BEST YELLOW WESTERN CORN, 1 Car FINE SHORTS.-ALWAYS ON HAND- Bridal Rose Flour, ml we have a large stock of BARLEY and OATS, BUCKWHEAT and WHEAT ON HAND.Above goods will be sold low for Cash.L.E.DUPONT, THE WELL KNOWN Fashionable Tailor, Is back to Sherbrooke again where he is just opening a Tailoring- ?*iliop In connection with the extensive and well known general DRY GOODS HoUSK of C.A.E.Lefebvre, Where customers will always find a well selected stock of Scotch, English and Canadian 'I'weeds, Tricot Coatings, Serges, Fine Meltons, Overcoatings, in all the newest shades and best qualities, and at the lowest possible market prices.All work guaranteed.^r«ï,r\u201cAu early call respectfully solicited.L.E.I) IT P O N T, Above C.A.E.Lefebvre Store, Winter\u2019s Block, SHERBROOKE.P, Q.Nov.10, 1885.V.TURCOTTE, Merchant Tailor, AND DEALER IN READY-MADE CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHINGS, &C.Having just received my Fall Stock of Tweeds, Beavers, Ulsters, Cloths, etc., 1 am now prepared to make up same in suits to order, and for style and fit I wrill guarantee them to be second to none in the trade.Please give me a call and inspect ray goods and prices.REMEMBER THE PLACE, FLETCHEU\u2019S BLOCK, WELLINGTON STREET, SHERBROOKE, QUE.October 29th, 1885.Euunituvc.\"We believe we have a well-earned reputation for doing good custom work at both our GRIST and SAW MILLS, both of which it is our intention to run this winter.HARDWOOD LOGS BOUGHT EXCEPT ELM.FURNITURE.^,°r ih® largest disply of Parlor, Dining Room and Bedroom Suites in all designs of plain and upholster-Æy\u2014\u2022 -v «a ed Furniture go to *\t«i-\t3 V-Jv -QJ OWEN Mr bread made oot o\u2019 that curs\u2019ed floor that she bought, a\u2019 because the grocery was near hau\u2019 and they telt her it was the best the market afforded.But hoo is it, denies, that ye look so fresh an\u2019 healthy, an\u2019 the bairns at your hoose look sa' weel an\u2019 rosy as apples?\" \u201cWeel, dock, that's easy accounted for : an\u2019 gin ye\u2019ll do as we\u2019ve dune ye'll no lang be fashed wi\u2019 soorness in your house.Did ye no' hear, man.o\u2019 Thompson\u2019s Grocery Store awa\u2019 doon on Wellinton Street, whare ye\u2019ll see a great muckle Blue Fish hung at the door ?Weel there never was the like o\u2019 him for selliu\u2019 groceries cheap.The wife heerd o't, and nacthing wad dae her till she wad wraddle awa\u2019 doon aud see him an\u2019 his tine stock ; an\u2019 sin syne we've jist had the maist extraoruary happiness in oor hoose ye ever heard tell o\u2019, the best bread ye ever ate, an\u2019 o\u2019 man, sic' fine Tea and Coffee, it wad make the verra hair stan' on ye\u2019re heed, an\u2019 his cheese is just superb, and the guid wife, she\u2019s in the best o\u2019 humor, an\u2019 for that matter, Jock, 1 feel kin\u2019 o\u2019 extraordinar weel satisfied mysel\u2019.But she says it'sThompson's groceries%n\u2019 his prompt attention tae her oraers that\u2019s done it a\u2019.\u2019\u2019 \u2018\u2018dimes, dimes! say na mair, for Thompson\u2019s Grocery caused a\u2019 the trouble at ween me an\u2019 Mrs Finlay; ye see, she wanted me to tak oor eatables at his store, for she had been bearin' a\u2019 a boot it, but 1 wasna ta'en up wi\u2019 the new store a va\u2019 and there were ither groceries nearer by me than Thompson\u2019s, sae I just tauld her that the auld place wad hae tae dae an' that the stuff she got there wad dae dock Fiudlay, an' losh man, wad ye advecs me to gie in noo, after all 1 hae cam thro' for twa week past ?\u201d \u201cWad 1 adveete ye to gie in ?Why not ! man alive, Mrs.Finlay is in the richt o\u2019t, and if ye had twenty miles to go to Thompson's Grocery, instead of twa, to som»* ither, I wad adveete to go an\u2019 buy ye're goods from him, ye'll get pure groceries an\u2019 o\u2019 the best quality, an\u2019 sic a difference in the price.Why, man, jist let Thompson tan ye thro\u2019 his store an' show ye how everything is kept frae dust and dirt and jist you inquire aboot his prices an' I assure ys ye\u2019ll be verraly astonished, an\u2019 if ye dinna be a convert to Thompson's lang list o' customers, ma name's no dimes Ferguson.\u201d \u201cWeel, Jimes, I believe ye're richt, and I'll consent to gie in, for after a' the wife maun be pleased wi\u2019 her groceries, an\u2019 i hae ua desire to be fed longer on the kine o\u2019 stuff we\u2019ve been get ting at oor grocery, an\u2019 payin' sic enormous prices for mere trash, an' noo dimes I\u2019ll bid ye guid day.an\u2019 I thank ye for ye\u2019re kine adveese.1 was weel aware 1 was wrong but did\u2019na hks ta gaein.\u201d \u201cGuid-bye, Jock, and success to Thompson\u2019s, for it\u2019s the best place in Sherbrooke tae buy groceri s, an' if ye hae ua time to gang doon yer sel, jist step intil some place whare they hae that new tangled thing they ca a Telephone an speak thro' that wee hole in the wee box on the wa\u2019 au it 11 no be long till yon man o' Thompson\u2019s is countin' oot ye re things o the table an 1 11 warrant y*-\u2019 Mrs.Findlay will be aw fa' well pleased, irinna forget the place, the sign o\u2019 the muckle Blue Fish, aboot opposite C.H.Fletcher's Candy Factory, on Wellinton Street A Man May Be A good butcher or horse doctor and not know much about the grocery trade.We have a good assortment of first-class Groceries which we are selling cheap: Pure Teas at 25c to 45c per lb., Pure Coffee 20c to 36c per lb , Pure Sugar aud Cream Candy, Christie Brown &.Co\u2019s fresh Biscuits, Nuts of all kinds, new boiled Cider, Cape Cranberries, Fresh Eggs and Butter, Gurd A Co\u2019s, celebrated Breakfast (\u2019«reals, Dried Sweet Corn, Dried Apples, 10 lbs.for 70c.; Beets, Carrots, Onions, Turnips, etc., Hams, Bacon and I.ard.Choice Pastry and Brand Flour.R.L HARVEY & CO Sherbrooke, Jan.6th, 1880 HENEY & FERGUSON, -DEALERS IN- Choice Family Groceries Are now receiving a fresh supply for the HOLIDAYS.\u2014 T E A S\u2014 Carefully selected for the Family Trade.Best Japans, Blacks ami Hysons, COFFEES.Best Javas, Mochas and Ceylon.RAISINS.Layers, Muscatels and Velencias.New Spices, Pure Oranges Citron and Lemon Peels, Candies of all kinds.BUTTER.Best Compton Print Butter every week.SUGARS.Granulated, Light Brown and Dark.Brown and Frosting Sugar.FLOUR Roller, Patent, Best Pastry, and Family Flour.Pork, Lard, Hams and Bacon.VEGETABLES.Potatoes, Turnips, Beets, Carrots, Cabbages, Onions and Parsnips.Our stock is complete.We study to please customers and sell good Goods cheap.Tracy\u2019s Block, Wellington Street.Sherbrooke, Dec, 10th, 188Ô.War Déclarai ! We are now selling goods at prices that defy competition, w holeeale and retail.Retail an follow» :\u2014 Fresh Baldwin Apples 3\tIfes.extra good Japan Tea for $1.00 4\tlbs.Japan Tea,\t1.00 25 lbs.Codfish.\t].00 Best smoked Herring, 20o.per box 2 lbs best Lard for\t25c.Best Roller Flour,\t$5 50 per bbl.4 lbs.Dried Apples for\t25c 28 lb.box Raisins for\t$1 Canned goods and everything ehe at comparatively low prices.We do not steal these goods nor do we beat wholesale merchants out of them, but buj direct from the producers.Wholesale Orders Solicited.We have constantly on hand a full line of heavy goods such as Molasses, Beans, Sugar, Salt, Syrup.Salt Herrings, in bbls.and half bbls ; Pork, lake Trout, L^rd, sea Trout, Hams.Bacon, arreen Cod and dry Cod.McDonald I Ii-oh.Sherbrooke, April 15th, 1885.Founders k Machinists v.V''k:\t2ELw&%*rzlE: -\tI » rule 1 should be periled to .ay which I should miss moat From a letter ^|f Thomm* SMITH-ELKINS MANUFC.CO.FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS.We are now manufacturing the latest *tjle of SWEEP HORSE POWER SAWING MACHINES, THF- BEST AND CHEAPEST MA CHINE IN THE MARKET.CAN BE USED FOR WOOD SAW.ING THRESHING, OR ANY OTHER PURPOSEWHERE POW-ER IS REQUIRED.IT IS THE CHEAPEST MACHINE YET OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC Mli-Elkins ManTf Co, tRKAR OF E.T.BANK), SHERBROOKE,QUE October 27th, 1885.T.H.CRABTREE, Manufacturer of all kinds of tth t \u201c7 in Ht The (idlcck.'ANADI \\N S( K\u2019l ETY i»i ssm itlj o.^REMOVED-fe* To «tore recently occupied by DYER à GIRARD, opposite H.Fortier\u2019», WELLINGTON STREET.>itk\\ aY of nun h, n U LIrERATURE, uivday, at $3.0© p^r annum, iiitii?THU WKKK appeals Table of Contents to the dif-i exist within the circb» of *en short, crisp Kditorials is > r ii|iM Canadiaii'AmmcAii ¦\tand Literature.iar< ontniiutora it iVofcssor a «h tink.Uifched public man uul* undertaken to supply i 1 otter.Harit* and Waslnng-¦ar at regular intervals ¦\tare special t'ont ri butions lest writers iu tho Dominion rd year with most with maux new C H4.ACKKT ;o BIN SON.loronto, Oot.ation most influential ENGINE REPAIRS .1 i.Harper\u2019s Weekly.11 LFSTHA TKD > tin be-t writers, and kii-portant papers by high authorities on the chief topics of the day.Kvery one who desire* a tniM worthy political guide, an entertaining and instmetite tamily journal, entirely free from objectionable features in either letterpress or illustrrtiona, should sub sc fiber for \u201cHarper's Weekly.\u201d HARUEK N UKKIODU'.VLS.Vrr HAKIM K*S WKKK I.Y .«4 ©o H Kii IT8 MAGAXINI\t'\u20184 M EiAKl\u2019KU\u2019S RAZAK\t4 HARPI K\u2019S \\ I NU i i PU\t2 or, HA HI* KB'S FKVNK.1N SfJUAKF LI- HKAKY, One Year (52 Number*!.10 00 Fr A SPECIALTY.gin with the ear.When derstood that nee with the The Volumes of th first luuuhcr for Jam j no time is mentioned Works: Old Ranuer Sewing M achitie Building the suhacrÜM r wislu Water Street.\tnumbei next aftei the receipt ofovdot.Bound Volumes of Hot j et s II « cUp, for three y eats back, 111 tum! cloth binding, wnl he sent by Seerbrooke, August 14, 1884.\t! mail, postage paid, or by .xj.r.: (Ycc of expense ________________________________ (provided the freight does not exceed on.dollar j per volutin t, for $7. pn volume Cloth Casts tor each volume, suitable for j binding, will he sent h\\ mail, postpaid, on receipt of $1 no cacti.K'-niitt iiiees should he made by Post-4\u2019«Bee Mniiey (>rder or Draft, to avoid chance of Iomh Ktirst'i.n rs art \u201e t t.> .\tthis orfr, rtis, - Buy your Plows where ïlu'm!.\\ ._\t.\tUARI\u2019KK « KHOTHKK S'ra > k you can get the best for they are always the cheapest.\tHarper s Magazine, FARMERS ! 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