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I i j' Just a Few Words about the new Fali and Winter.... Jakéts' For some years past COUCII, JOIINSTON & CRYDERMAN have carried a big stock of Ladies' and Misses Jackets and Wraps, but ~ owing to the improved outlook for business they have bought for this Seasoji a much "I- larger and better stock than ever before. They are now stiowing some ot the very latest productions of tho best Canadian,- German and American ManufactUrers in Frieze, Curis, Tweeds and Beavers in ail sizes U4 le M and qualities. This is HoN. A. S. HARDY, PREMIR 0PONTARIO. ENGLISU LETTER. ýss in coni»)any w aheNut this Ilailway may be interesting te some. It is not the biggest railway nisystem in the world, but it la said te ho - Ynot onlýthe wealthiest Railway Co- in, IANY OVER-DUR, BILiLS. Accounts are being sent out from Tup, STATESMAN ofce this month as fast as they can be made ont. We shall be glad if any errors are discovered if those receiving them will make saine known to ns immedatel v, And we ask urgently for an early settiement. We need ail the mnoney owing to us. Many p ersons have kept us waiting ail too long. Attend to these littie bils at once as we do flot want to spend time and money sending out the same accounts twice. NEWS OF THE DAY. Mr. Nansen,' the Arctic traveiler, lefz Liverpool for New York on Saturday... . Mr. Chas. A. Dana, editor of the Nýew York Sun, died Sunday afternoon at hîs residence on Long Island..Ed- ward Lan gtry, the husband of Lily Langtry,dSied on Friday in the lunatie asyluni to which bc was conmitted Iast week..Disaster overtook the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, Sunday. A fire started at 2o'clock a m and at 9, seven- eights of the town had been ïwiDed out. TE edirect financiat lss was a million and a hail of dollars with but hall a million insurance. Windsor is a histor- ical town in the land of Evangeline, 50 miles from ]Halifax, and is famous as a seat of learning, contaiuing a ladies seminary and the King's college, one oï the oldest univfarsities in America.t It was one of the wealthiest towns for its size in Canada, and contained about 4000 inhabitants, 3,000 of whom are now homeless. A colored man named Geo. Fletcher kept a billiard and bar croon combined. Saturday a paper was ser- ved upon hîm for selling lîquor con trary to provisions of the Scott Act. Saturday night he ceebrated the circnmstance by getting gloriously drunk and his actions are suspicous. Then he rushed out, the flames followed hlm out the door TERMS :-$i1.60 PEBR A1iNtm. OUR TOWN AND COUNTY FIRST; THE WORLD ÀFTERWARDS. M. A. JAMES, Editor and Proprietor. N"wSERIES. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WVýEDNESDAY, OCTOBElI 20, 1897. VOLumE XLII [.No. 43. - - - - - -- ------- - ---- ----don, lm-- -t 1