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0 4 '1'“ \. First-class accommodation and attentive servants. Bar well supplied with tho choic- ust liquors and cigars. ‘Bus to and from all lamina and every convenience for the travel- ling public. This first-class house has just been re fitted, furnished and ot‘lierwise renovated and Imprnvml. Being in the centre of the business part of the village, and furnished with splendid sample rooms. it is therefore most convenient for travellers and commer- cial men, and the puhlic generally. The Bar is‘ supplied with the best of Liquors and Cigqre. Good Stables and llostler in at- texvldiiuce. m mm , mum ' ' WWWâ€"firm' w~»~â€"_â€"â€"*Q_--â€" â€"_-â€"â€" vClerk lat Division Court County Victoria. Secretary Eldon B. A. Society. yAgent P. B' S. Company. Conveyancer, Connois- sloner in Queen’s Bench. Money to Loan M; 6 per cent. OFFICESâ€"Kent Street. Lmdsay, Ontario. 1’. S. MARTIN. ' G. H. HOPKINS. J. NEELANDS‘, l..li.S. I JOS. PRSTLAND, L.D.S. J08. J. GAVE Publisher. Clerk 7th Division Court County Victoria. Conveyancei, Commissionel in Queen’s Bench, c., 520. Office, Victoria Road Sta- tion. One cftne above will be at Hamilton’s Hotel. Banal-ton, on the SECOND MON- DAY of each month. He will also \isit \Voodville on the Second TUESDAY of each month, stopping at Mcl’herson’s Hotel. Livery Rigs at any time and at all hours on the shortest notice. Special attention given to Commercial Travellers. Charges always moderate. TERMS. CASH. Sta- ”bles in connection with the Eldon House. VOL V. OFFICEâ€"Rooms lately occupied by \V. M. ()ochmne, Biglow’a Block, Port Perry. ‘\ OODVILLE ILIVERY STABLES. PR OFESSI ON A L 0.4 RDS. 'A'gcnt for Union loam a Saving's (30. Money to Loan on first-class security at 6 to 65 par cent. Agent for A. HARRIS, SON 8:. C0., Brantford, Manufacturers of Reapers, Mow- ors, SelfiBinders, c. ~0ffice at Montreal Telegraph Company, Kirkfie’kl. OM. Wilson “A.” \Viiaon "B” and "Royal” Sewing Machines and Needles kept constant- ‘ly on fiand. Picture Frammg HCâ€"S‘EESZ finedâ€"ab. 569:5? . litorney-nt-an, Solicitor ln Chancery. Conveyancer, do, d'c. ROSEWOOD AND GILT! \Voodvillo, May, lSSl. fz'clm'es W‘enily Framed " Cutting done to and {mm all arts of the village, Nipissiug and Midlnn Railway stations. Charges moderate. Residence,one door north of Eldon Home, Queen Street, M'oodvillo. A w _ [OHN MCTAGG \R'l‘ Kirklied. (TOIMISSIGVER IN. B. I!" (‘ OXVIIYAVCEB .4â€" GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. LDON HUUSE, Wood ville. BENJAMIN SCARHHDV, I’l'oprlctor. _EORGE \VILLIS MILLAR, OFFICEâ€"One door east of Post Office, “'oodville. Ont. :RED. G. MILLA R, 'EELANDS PENTLAND. UGH D. SINCLAIR, 'ARTIN :2 HOPKINS, 'RéH. CAMPBELL JfiMES fifiWSQN} TIN“ . EIHVAIIDS Proprietor. HONEY TO I'OAN at 6 per cent. - IMPROVED FARMS FOR. SALE. BABnlSTl-IIIS, SOLICITORS d'c. EWEN N. M'LEAN. M. CAMERON. BUSINESS CARDS. BENTISTS, c., Lindsay, 0|“. MQ’ULEING "RSI!" EDWARDS, l’ropl‘lelor. 110 TEL (.iA RDS. CH A RG ES MOD E RAT E. COUNTY ‘ AUCTIONEER. (‘A “TIER, TIMMII‘I'EK. 60. -â€"IN ALL S'I'Y LESâ€"o Cistcrn and Well Pumps, FORCE PUMPS SUPPLIED. WOODVILLE- ONT. REPAIRING PROMPTLY Executed. JAMES STUART. HARNESS MAKER, SADDLER m A large assortment of whips from l5cts. up. HARNESS COLLARS, HALTERS, WHIPS CURRY GOMBS, BRUSHES) TRUNKS VALISES AND All. KIND OF HORSE FURNISHING ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING NEATLY AND QUICKLY EXECUTED. Having bought the shop and fixtures of Mr. G. C. Smith, Butcher, customers can rely on getting the best of Beef at all times, and other meats in season. ALL NEW \VORK \VARRANTED. Farmers wanting meat will please leave their order the night betore at the shop. The highest cash priee paid for HIDES. Buns. Rolls and Pastry a Specialty SODA, ABERNETIIY AND FRUIT BUISCUITS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. FRUIT CAKES. MIXEDTEA CAKES. FAMILY BREAD ISSUER 0F MARRIAGE LICENSES. Provide for the Weak umlcr Your Charge. Parties having fat cattle to dispose of will lease call or xeave wnrd at my shop. HEAD OFFICE, 63 KiNG ST., EAST TORONTO. Incorporated Aug. 24th., ’80. \VlLLIA“ RENNIE. Esq ,Toronto, Pres. A. GlFl"ORD, Esq. \Imford, 0. Vice l’res. \V.1’L\ll$l‘l{0\ll’AGE, Esq. Fonthill, Sec. E. H. HILBORN, Es 11th): Id go. Treas. R. I]. ROBERTSON, q“. 1)., Toronto, Medi- cal Director. GEO. H. WATSON, L. L. B., Toroutn, So- licitor. S. \V. HILL, Esq., Ridgeville, Membership Superintendent. Executive Committee : Wm. Ion-ls. W. P Page, J. I’. lull. P ARTI ES S UPPIJED \VHOLESALE. l...Grcat Inducement to provide for fam- ilies in case of death at small cost. 2...liqnal benefits to both taxes. 3... Uniform assessment of one dollar only. 4...(‘arefnl medical examination required. 5.. No annual dues or extra charges. 6... No large salaries or expenses. 7...’l‘wo hundred dollars advanCetl for funeral expenses when necessary. 8...lÂ¥enofits secured at actual cost 9...Members becomin totally disabled, may draw half of their 0 aims, the balance being payable at death. For particulars and full information apply to IRA AHOUE, Agent for Count] of Victoria. Wsodvills, P. O. . can- ’I. . MUTUAL AID UGH MCCORQUODALE. OUDV ILLE PUMP FACTORY. JACOB BARNES, ‘OODVILLE HARNESS SHOP. ESTABLISHED, I856 OODVILLE BAKERY. Speck! Features of the Asgociation : ‘VOODVILLE BUTCHER SHOP. ORD ERS SOLICITED. TERMS CASH.;. JOHN BEBRIE’S ASSOCIATION, JOHN BERRIE. ORDERS SOLICITED. (JANA DIA.N MA) IS UNXLD IN THE COUNTY .\' UFACTURBR OF OFFICERS: Cor .Kim: and Stuart St \VOODVILLE, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 188]. “ PRO BONO PUBLICO.” A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Engineer-(“1059, late of Loruevfle. found murdered In the Nlngnra River. The Buffalo Express of July 15th contained an account of the finding of the bon of a man at Niagara Falls on [June 15, with a rope round his neck and a 32-calibre ball embedded in his brain. For a time the body was supposed to be that of one 0. F. Rowell, but through the agency of John Byrne Co.. proprietors of the Buffalo de~ tective agency, and detective. Thomas Cur- tin. Rowell was foundlto be alive, and was posted as a lfraud who had endeavored to palm himself off as dead for reasons best known to himself. The body was then identified as that of John 'Close of No. 459 North Division street, Buffalo, and the Ex- press says that of late he had been employed on one of the Canada railroads, with his headquarters at Toronto. On the 28th of last February Mrs. Close received a letter from her husband, dated at Hamilton, Ont, It was writtenlin affectionate words, and said that he was coming home to see “wife. child and father.” She never heard from him again. Time passed, and her anxiety and grief became great. Such means as she had at command could secure no tidings of him. At length she heard of the finding of the body of an unknown man at the Falls. and yesterday learned that Detective Curtin could furnish a description of the corpse. The poor woman called at the de- tective agency, and her worst fears unhap- pily became confirmed. The body was that of her husband. John Close was well known among railroad men in Toronto. For six or seven years he ran an engine on a passenger train between this city and \Vood- ville Junction, on the Toronto 8:, Nipissing railway, and was considered one of the best engineers that ever came into this city. He left the N ipissing last October or November amid the universal regrets of the officials of the road, who were lostato part ~with him. It was understood among his fellow-em- ployees that ‘10 intended to go to Buffalo and join his father. who is engaged in the sale of steel frogs. Close lived with his wife and child at \Voodville Junction. He brought in the 11.15 am. train every morn- ing and went back at 4 p.m. Close .‘was a strictly sober and industrious man, and be- longed to the brotherhood of locomotive en- gineers, to the orderlof Freemasons, and to Toronto up to the 28th of last February, the date on which his wife last heard from him from Hamilton. There is no doubt in the minds of the Buffalo detectives that the man was murdered. but it is not known as yet whether he had any large amount of money in his possession or not. He was known, however, to have had a trunk full of clothes with him and a certificate of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers. Sev- eral persons whom a ‘Vorld reporter conver- sed with yesterday, and who knew Close intimately while he was on the Nipissing, hinted that he and his wife did not live over happily together. and on one occasion he mentioned to a friend that he intended to go to Buffalo and procure a divorce. This was during a fit of despondency, of which he seemed to be a victim. He is said to have suffered almost continually from headache, and during the post mortem examination when the physicians removed the. top of the skull, they found on the inner surface an abnormal bony growth, which must have pressed somewhat against the brain. \Vheth- or J ohu Close committed suicide, or whether he was murdered. as yet remains a mystery. and further developments will be awaited many of our readers with deep sorrow. Mr. Close made many friends during his resi. deuce here and was much respected. That so dark a tragedy should haVe closed his life will send a thrill of intense horror over the entire community, and we hope the identity of the murdered man may proVo incorrect. Since the above the only further develop- ments in the case is that the body may pos- sibly not be that of Mr. Close. It is sus- pectcd from the fact of his being missing and rumours as to differences having existed between him and his wife. 'I hat these differences existed Mrs. Close emphatically denies. She says they parted on most ex- cellent terms, and before his departure they had broken up housekeeping in Canada and were living with her mother. He had no insurance on his life. On the foontrary. he was in arrears in the various orders to Which he belonged. She finds great fault with if the Oddfellows. No one here seems to know of his whereabouts from the time he left \ with interest.”â€"The above will be read by ‘ (From the Toronto World.) HIS IDENTITY DENIED. her fatheniu-law's insinuaticns and asser- tions, and publishes the following letter, the last she reeeired from him, as a proof of tho. ' good terms on which they parted :â€" Hsmuros, Friday. Feb. 18. 1881. Mr Dunc Wrenâ€"You will doubtless think it strange that you have not heard from me ere this, but 1 have been busy and travelling a great deal I have also been sick. I Wrote you a short letter trom Chicago. I have seen a great deal "of the conntrv since I saw you, Have been away to Southern Illinois as far ah. liliiiiglmm, I have had tWo situations, one at my trade and the other as engineer on the Illinois Central Railway. out of Chicago. [ «lid not like the way they have of running trains. and as promotion was slow by the looks of the old hands on the road. who have been running freight ox er tweIVe or thirteen years, I thought it looked pretty slim for me. I am on my way down from the west, ‘ and am going to stop here a few days look- ing around here doing some (railroad) frog ‘ business, and also at the same time seeing if I can get some running to do here. I tell you I like Canada better than the States after all. They have better tobacco and it is a better country to live in after all. My father and I caught cold at the boarding- house where we stopped in Chicago, and I came very near having a fever. I have been taking everything and feel some better. I left father in Chicago putting in his frog in the Chicago Northâ€"\Vestern Railroad. They have the finest shops I ever saw. 'l‘heir sheps alone are as big as all the shoes of the different railways at East Buffalo put together. Chicago has grown wonderfully since I last was there in 1869. \Vhile I was there a safe was robbed of $1,000 about a stone’s throw from where I‘ was boarding. . It is an awful wicked place. They run their l theatres. free and easies. ball-rooms, etc.. all days of the week, and Sunday 'is their l best day. Some of them have matinees on Sunday as well as the performances in the evening. I see by the papers that the Cen- tral Depot caved in and also learned last night as I was coming down that the Palace Hotel had burned down. “'cll. as I am i going to be here for a week I will close this i so as to hear from you here. Give my love ‘ to all the folks. Kiss my little Matey. and tell her papa will see her soon, God willing. and write soon to your loving husband. \Vith much love. J. E. CLOSE, Station House, Stewart St. Hamilton, Ont. It may be added that Mrs. Close, Sn, does not approve of her husband‘s siding against his, daughter-indaw. On the con- trary, she says :â€"â€"-“I reeeivedfa letter from John at the same time his wife received one. We know he loved his wife and child. and John will come home when he gets ready." Mrs. Close answered the letter above quoted, but received no reply. The Chief of Police in Hamilton was communicated with. but could give no information. All she knows for certain about him in Hamilton is that his trunk had a. card tacked on it which bore the inscription, “Mrs. J. E. Close. : Buffalo, N. Y.” Close’s father, who has just returned from the South-West, was informed by a man that he met in Mexwo that the latter parted from John Close at Palestine, Texas, on June 1. Domestic trouble. he declared, had obliged him to give up his position on the Toronto and Ninissing Railroad. and to go away. Mr. Close, Sr.. still insists that there is a scandal in the case, that John cleared out, and is still alive, and quotes the above statement in confirmation of his theory. He has started for Chicago, whence he will try to trace his missing son. I’RESENTATIGN T0 MRS. J. In IIIIRRAY- (From (lac Kincardine Standard.) One of the chief resorts of the town on Dominion Day was the Town Hall, in which an exhibition and refreshments were. pro- vided by the ladies of Knox Church. The exhibition was that of a remarkable quilt, the particulars of which we have given be- fore. It was six months in preparation, and on it are wrought in silk, chain-stitch, two thousand one hundred and sixty names be- ‘ sides one hundred and twenty headings. i On each side is a large centre-piece of mag- nificent embroidery, one of which was work- ‘ ed by Miss Henry, of Hamilton, and the ‘ other by Mrs. D. Robertson, of this town. In connection with this exhibition the ladies provided refreshments. which were served during the day and evening. An interesting part of the programme was the disposal of the quilt. Mr. P. McInnes was called to the platform and performed his part as usual in a highly creditable manner. lie made a proposal to the gentlemen of Knox Church who were present, to make up a prize of one hundred dollars, to be presented to the ladies for the diligence exercised, and good taste displayed in connection with this artiile, offering to he himself one of a bun. drcd. or of fifty. or of twonty, or even ten. tomalw up that amount. Such contribu- tions were not to interfere in any sense with the sale to be reflected. He then asked forbids. The first was twantydollars. and from that figure the bidding Went up to one hundred dollars, which last bid was that of Elder, llobert Richardson, and thé'purchaso was declared to be his. After the singing ’of an anthem by the choir, Elder kit hardson and Mr. Armstrong and his friend from Paris. came forward to the front and pre- sented the quilt to Mrs. J. L. Murray. Tho presentation was accmnlmnicd with the follOâ€" wing address, which‘wns read by Mr. Anu- strong :â€" “M‘us. Mmumv, “mu knownâ€"Having pureh‘lrd this interesting and elegant guilt around which cluster so many pleasant assoeiatious, and which reflects so much credit on the genius taste, and tact of the ladies of Knox Church, I take much pleasure in asking you to accept of it as a token or my very high esteem for you as a personage of great moral worth. Your genial and ex- quisite manners endear you to all who are favored with your acquaintance. The ladies of Knox Church Kincardiue. have ahvays been noted for their benevolence, energy, and Christian activity ; but it is since you came amongst us that these virtues have been fully developed. Unassumiug to ex- treme modesty, you are felt. Madam, to be the very soul of that group of ladies whose pure and lofty ambition is to be useful in the Church and in the world. When ‘eue of Nature’s true ladies is renewed in heart by Divine grace, and_pulished in mind, by the refining influence of culture and educa. tion, she exerts a salutary influence, silent as the dew, but mighty bevond measurement in moulding the minds and hearts of others. Such influence may ycu long continue to ex- ert in our midst. “ (Signed, ) .lonnu'r Rienmvsos.” Mr. Murray, in behalf 'of his wife, made a suitable reply, in which he referred to the many acts of generosity on the part of Mr. Richardson since eoming to Kincardine,’and his constant willingness to do his share Lin every good work claiming his attention. He thanked him cordially for his handsome gift and for the warmly worded address which accompanied it. The quilt, he trusted would become an heir-loom in the family, and would for many years he ‘a nionument of the preserving industry and artistic handi- work of the ladies of Knox Church. and of the affeetion and liberality of the donor-5f the gift. Throughout the evening excellent nius’i; was lurnishcd by Prof. Maishall and his choir. In closinu, the Chairman stated that there were three reverend gentleMen pre~ sent who were bubbling over with loyalty ( n this the fourteenth anniversary oi the natal dayrof our Dominion, and that they were prepared to deliver stirring patriotic add- resses; hut'that the booming of cannon. the display of fireworks, and the cheers of the crowd assembled around the Market Square rendered it impossible. In behalf of Knox Church be thanked all who hail been presmit during the day and evening, especially those of other denominations who kindly gave them countenance in even larger numbers than on previous occasion. He'than‘ked all, at a distance 01 near at band. who cont1 ibut ed their names and dimes to the completion of tins interesting article, and also all 'who devoted time and means towards the succesh fnl carrying out of the programme 1.: tho day. “J Subjoined u a stn’temeht of the sums reaL izud by this entelprisc :â€" Recci'vcd in convmctinn with names worked on quilt,............;:....... Admission fees and refreshments on tho lstofJnly... .. Flom sale of quilt ....... Subscriptions to the Lhiiius Aid Society for the 'olijcct for which the quilt enterpri'zc was originated, ........................ The cr_owd dispersed after sin; Saw: the Queen.” u.â€" Total. DA 00 F rom this Is to be deducted the n 11 1y for material and the expenses in can nuttiun with the public cntcrtéinmeht. 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