Every Wednesday Morning. THE STRATFORD TIMES, thirty-six col from the office, a Neotel Svupscarrrion Price: ia advance ; $L.50 per sy Pinot oo pall. First 10 centa line. Bach su ant insertion, 3 cents per line. Resting 15 cents per line for first in sertion ; 10 cents line for subsequent oe ed 12 months, Coppeneninase ence and items of news will be thank y reptiver. courag a publid wervice the opinion Only the Katee) be done by the publicat Ciagnel oaly with anom de pi be ume will such comm: n the columns of THz Tue Tinea. re all cases, however, "name author must be capped % to the Editor. JOB PRINTING. Our facilities for ex Editor and Me a Menrew. - Sinancial and Legal. THOS. T. PORTEOUS Barrister, Solicitor. Etc. FFICE :--ODDFELLOW®S' BLOCK, STRAT FORD, 470tf. @tratford, Jany. 1, 1885. G. W. LAWRENCE & SON, --Barristert, Atterncys-at-Law-- Bolticttors tz Chancery Pablic ke. Office Market snore Reweie Brceetor OF MEDICINE et Terente Unires- ford, Ontario, , with Pust Clase Hovore ano member « % W, Lawrence. Wa. Lawrence. the of Phy and Burgeone of Untario. Stratford, Feb. 3, 1830. ily |" OFFIC E--Muiback, " artesian . May dup, 1836. 530 J. G.. KIRK, CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. Idington's Block, Erie Street, 'ord, , Patents for inveations secured ae @. KIR Gunaterd, Sept. Oth, 1586, E. SYDN EY "SMITH, ARRISTER, &0,, 8T. MARY'S, ONT. _Bt. Mary's, Sept, 16, 1894. o JOHN E. HARDING, BARRISTER, Cllgone Block: brie 8. * Gerailord, Sept 1.188. re . SMITH & GEARIN G, BaRRNisT«ens. wo. STRATFORD- J. @RAYSON SMITH Btratford, Aug. 6th. 18%. Ewart & McPherson, AUCTIONEERS. ¥. W GEARING, 448-8 «omumission. "OF FICK--)ver Mr, Conoco ars re, or 7" Stratford P. eee & icPBERSON, i yd LEND A' T Reasonatic KR. of Interest, on Farm and Town property. App.y to LAWKEN Stratford. 6 Per Cent. Money, 4 LARGE AMOUNT oF 1 MONEY bf LOAN aT @iX Pek CENT. INTEREST IDINGTON & PALMEH, BARRISTERS, ETC. STRATFORD. erate EY TO LEND. Stratford, Jany. mh, 18. W. MOWAT & SON. BANKERS, biished - * = mEAOT S a General Ban yy at par 523-tf ng Business, in Canada or ceat. Tr peeegy op Witnin the aey! 7 Honey T Money! OI M3 an Sa tae 6 "PER GENT. . INTEREST. re a = _ Sontil, Deo, 12, 1888. W. J. _ CLELAND, CENTRAL BLACKSMITH, Graduate of tae Dotted States Shocing "HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY. 7 baptionlar Ateation paid to eras ant Next t'orbes' Li 6. On- haere efmrare ORD 'ONT. Back to his Old. Stand, Sse D. McoBETH AS Ontario Street, OLD -- oa eee a the same = _PIGTURE FRAMI ssuleTyRE CDAMING.... ; - bows, hair and keys in stock, allthe venues of the Unlocks clogged s ing off Cw without weakening the foul {. MILBURN & 00., Propristers, Toresit> PFICE 'AT us RESIDENCE, a =_ 0 Downle road. : ROBERTSON, M. DB. c. 7s MR. O. P. and oe inte me wl Getero Seaneen vBtionargh e. centiats in Midwifery (Royal Bicck, Market eran OFFICE : Kilngton's TFORD, ONT. w.N.B Ca. KMRICK, MB &M.C.P. £80 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. ene A. E AHRENS, L D. 8. Dwi Idington's New Biook, Mar- Vitalized air used for the Panes eee of. Teeth) sa. ; J. £. CALLIN, VETERINARY § Sutin Treats Digense of Dow S77 CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Cuarozs Mopzaats, BS April ist, 1885 4a3-ly Eye, Ear and Throat. DR. RYERSON, LEBGP.LACS E., ECTURER ON THE EYE, EAR AND LI 1 bert, 2 -- yy Coliege, Toronto, and Surge: ercer K infirm. Sui nist Sank Arist to y "ihe Hospital for Children, Late Clinical Assistant Roya! Cnien Upnthalmic Hoepital. Sy ert aud Central -- -- = Kar H 60 College "Ave. Toronto Qhak Hotels, & &e. COMMERCIAL HOTEL, ARKET SQUARE STRATFO for eecaial be stabling and Toe Lon ig Aa omnibus runs to and from all trains. 405 T. HAGARTY. Proprietor, Stratford. QUEEN'S HOTEL. Cerner of Waterloo and Ontario Streets, STRATFORD, ONT. « Proprietor. 564 N fers. A. A, GOETZ. - Stratfierd, Aug. is, 1386 THE TERRAPIN, ONTARIO STREET STRATFORD, Jon Gray, PRorRixtor. Ths Beas Brands of Wi.es, Liquors, Ales Cieare, ete. ta. Dow's Celebrated Montreal Ales on Dravg' < Stretford. Dec. 1885. 518-tf. Worth's Hotel, Twat snown SUSSORIEER having leased ve? THE "AVON HOTBL, ONTARIO 5T. west. STRATFORD. JAMES RANKIN - PROPRIETOR. uors and and an Orsters on Oysters, Ballimeres, Seats VICTORIA HOTEL. DOWNIE STREET, STRATFORD. god om other and rh ler ae aweeps the full veale of ripened grain into the storehouse © do we pause and sigh, as we ree kon up the results of the year's harvest, over the * might have} ° 61735 | came the " Ring out, wild Dells, to eky, eo fying cloud, the trosty light -- te in the night " Hing out the old, ring in the new King, bappy bells, across the snow ; ' The y Ring out the f. ~In Memoriam two-headed Thus do we greet the, Janus, of the Romans, deity who presides ¢ er g, as thou dost, on the Ever thus as the scythe of time our lives; thus *" and involuntarily arises to our lips "God's pardon rest upon the dying year, new months ahead." Tenderly do we whis per, in Tennyson's touching words | Old year, If rou mast die. But the chasm between the old year and! the new is bridged by the flashing rainbow | of expectancy and hope, over ich our! spirits rene | from the past, which is ours forever, into that mystic country of the future. ! The lar back into observance of the New Year dates fa: historic times, China, the oldest child of civilization, resees to the front with her " flowery Fis riom" and almond -eyed people. re follows, under the shadow of her py jprag with the ibi ew Year, over ots dog-star, cast its regulating beams ; the Persian exchanges his aer-rus or pre sents of eggs. The martial ms -- aside his rmor, himself in ptet | Later on, visiting be-' tesque masques wandered at wil " thtongho out the streets of the capital, with many quick and fantastic pranks Strene, for luck, were exchanged, and all the vast possessions, over whic watched eagies of ae las! given over to -- and good. Christian folk, forbidden to join in of spent their time in the pagan, o' ; Animals | ots of meditation, and prayer. About the fifth century, when the 25th o' December e acknowled 1 as the te | estern Charches ; bat it was not until late in the bright New Year. "Tis serng reat holiday of France, the jour d't trennes ing etrictly ° by =. 4 classes. Giokeaes customs seem to to have been the ° order of the day in ' Ye olden tyme," and aa keep their hold upon the present centu , the ancient custom of watching the old coll out and the new one in still existing, and tonchingly appropriate does it seem _o old and dear friends, who have stood s by side through good and evil, trials wo happiness, shou nd pasa into the new order o things hand in hand. In the old town ot Coventry, En d, on New Year's Day, there sounds through the quaint streets the -- of '* God-cakea for the New Year," an g and old crowd to eat of the triangu- ar » iittle God-cakes, filled with a sort o mince-meat, and costing about a halfpenny apiece. In more modern times, among the French, the observance of the New Year's Day is the great holiday of the year, and celebrat- ed much in the same way as tie English bree Canadiana ria Ngee | by inter- of good wish and bon- ie, reunions of tube ait visitin: among friends. Indeed, over nig the wort seems - hover the white --_ a@f the Spirit of Peace and Hope, and happy face of a whole sedi is uplifted te an eqtally happy heaven above. - ---- -- Canada. No account of the unexplored regions o the world would be commpiete that left out a considerable part of our own country. Prof. | Low, of the Canadian Geological , Survey, has made a trip from Winnipeg to Hudson's Bay, and says that the existing! of Hudson's Bay the country by an ro imencuee trac of with scarcely any vegetation. Hudson Bay slope was reached, became much more fertile. The party, arriving at the source of Berens La which flowa westward nto Lake Winnipeg, soon found the souree of the tale _ flows eastward int' Hudson's here became ntiful. Atout one + hendesd miles down this river from its source Prof. Low's party discovered | four cr five large lakes, about sixty miles in width. The land syn sradiuapt ei hty or - hundred r * aes orth ti country re vught or taken in exchange fer} Snocxixe Treatment or Poon Bors Near time ago by the revelations whieh teidead out as to the systematic ill-treatment of a number of poor boys who hac to work in the isle of Porquerolles, near Toul- on. The had seve . belied, and at length a full investigation was instituted into the affair. that, in 1483, M. de that time director of the nd gi Pelt Republique Prancater, ask the head of the poor-law board, to employ at Porquerolles, chile _ selected from those who hid given *| the mos waxing dim tee " Bu tho' his eyes are wax nt was, accordingly, dispatched to the plese tho r hle tose speak ill of him, ' island, The t voys were engaged frop morn Old year, you shall not dle \ing till night im field work. At the outset We did so laugh and cry with sou, ' all seems to have gone well, but after I've half a mind to die sith 5 | tinre the children were sadly neglected of in the When the UNFORTUNATE CHILDEEN. OU LON You ma mber, indignation which was excited here som m sent children times re Five mem | entin, permission apprentices, ROURLE TO THB AUTHORITTES, God's blessing fall like --, upon the young, band who were about to be transfirred to = {the rural proved of the. plan, yenitentiaries. M. _-- a and the large detach hey were fed almost exclusively o} beans and potatoes, very badly cook ek they never touched a green vegetabli; the meager allowance of wine allotted 4 them was insuffictent, and they only sat meat once a wee Their clothes were it 3, their linen foul, and they have no proper lavatory. Un the smallest provieation these unluc ky wretches were condemped to. abread and water dict; incarcerate in a' damp and filthy blackhole, where the were} left entirely to themselves ; | BEATEN UK TORTURE with diet ag was thrown to them they were arshly punished, and the report lead) one ney the conclusion that M. de Rossen'spwife was one of the _ promoters of hese arre relates, as o@ in. to iT, a8 he had not been wry He was thrashed then and there by the overseers. '*He then went to Ming de e Roussen's house asking to be employ the farm. ' threatened him with the black-hole, and, as he persisted, she pad him tied to a tree by three overseers, tho beat him unmercifully, The poor cild screamed pitiably, but Mme. de Rogen called out | rom her window to ¢t Boorse: him. He has ont *" Itis not likely that the will end with the -- of M. varre's exhaustive report. So LATE DOMINION NEWS. | ----¥ Campbellford haa a haunted house. = | New Brunswick has 1,379 milea of rq- New iesnanrich is excited over a pub exhibition of drunkenness by a promin and popular clergyman. A man named Wilkins has been fined ' and costs by the Mayor of Galt a distu ing the Salvation Army. - | An Emex Centre resident realized $35 fd the cream from eight « of his cows for twenty six days of Novem Mr. Thomas Graham, of the 7th conceamo of Markfam, « short time ago lost by deat Markham paper is to be relied upon. Bruce township has a-surplus over a liabilities of $3,300, and is one of the mos lightly taxed municipalities in the Province Une woman in Sy acy} threw stones at a other's '* lad the other cosaliahas by throwing Fooee sat eo for so doing, and * faults, was fined $12.35. Sheriff Der, of Essex, to deliver the writ and ballot coming Pgorincial election at Isle of Pelee, which is a portion of the south riding of the country. A row occurred at a dance on the Indian Reserve near Brantford a few days "go, during which a young Indian named Marti received dangerous injuries. Fears are tertained for his recovery, and F, ! Jacket, Augustus = Jacket, Jr., js. arlort ba Mrs. A J. Garlore ae ae arrested ab in pe gm steady, hand: svorking "tecliaa, 'thee' twen three years o age generally known by sty. name of Bombe | A little boy a irl, Samuel McCourt, Colli om children of Mr. Township, ngwood : maps of that district are incortect, rain | wore recently at home alone in the absence BD [ C+ A B ~e parents. To the + | based on descri, their ainuse writes Paris and. if de correspondent of The London Talégraph, st oN the duck's assailant variety of otherpo has offered the owners.of the steamer City of Dresden $100]%*- boxes for the rs. Hill Mrs. P. Hill ---- .A. HEPBURN Al Yat ag! <A gelled RAL CaaS di PLANSOP with « Stratford. J.R. PICRURN ARCHITECT. Office--Over Mowat's Bank Marble & Granite Works, | ADSRY & SHARMAN, Importers nea manuiacturers of Forei and (.4n- dian Marbie and Granite Monutici:'s, Tombstones, Mantle} ieces, W Stand, Courter Te &c. Inecriptions cut in bruih end German, M LL, tre ford. + 76. 246 "W. 8. COWAN, | AUCTIONEER, VALUATOR, &c. BALES ATTEN DZD a In Counties of Perth or Oxford. Orders left at Tne Times Office, prompt:y attended to. Stratford, Aug. 23rd, 1882. Ne County of Perth. UBLIO NOTICE! * he arden will be in and third Pacete euch menth, from to three o'clock. ae (or itl be tn at eleee + his -- needay oa! *ednes- Ser of poh week, m to thre o'clock. pi iplig meow | wi be | be in attenda: ce his Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdsy, Fri- day and Saturday of each w wm. ba YEDSON, Co. Clerk. LAGER! LAGER! GEORGE BECK, ARK&T SQUARE, =e Has the Agency for the sal SLEEMAN'S CELEBRATED LAGER, ALE AND PORTER In Wood or Bottles. Lager obtained the Only This Celebrated Metal awarded atthe Toronto Exbibitios of Cellar Lately coann On oy GEO Market BECK scene aa Fahrenwald {Staliherg FRESCO ARTISTS, FURNISH DESIGNS FOR PRESCO PAINTING For Private Residences, Ohurohes & Hills. P. 0., BEW maMUad, OMT. New Genders, March 16, "ROYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL. Molliday's Olid Stan¢ * - Market sper aa NHIS HOTEL 18) FITTED UP it rm style, The tabe i in Canada, and thecomfort of the; ry ' i C rf ne roon.3 for commercial travelie:s. . Taylor & Baivs' Celebrated Lagerand les on Draught and in Bottle Sa Stabling for 150 Horses -Gt aoe PAYNE, Proprido Stratford, Aug. |, 4 ly CENTR&L HOTEL RATFO AMES ILSON, PROPRIETOR = T!HE above house, sitnated on Ontario striwt. Lirectly op the Beacon Book Sore i« 2 oa a througheus Tl. constantly suppli wah t hoicest hqu and c: EM Niquors betr peut hig Le aye Uquor hous as. ken Do 'e always aa rs sanch tention, ad civility. always shown Also stablin nnecUon, r oni pectful'y solicited, JAMES WILSON, Proct- tar Siratford, Janne 2%, 1883. : alace Cigar Diva STARKS & COUNTER, ianufacturers of the best brandj of SI children got got some powder placed it on the hot stove. The powder exploded and a wed to the little boy's coat, when honever were 80 are likely to be disfigured for life. 14th Dec., reached her one hundredth birth- has two sisters fen ed 8 eleven boys and girls, a ~&. Loyalist, who went to New beaily nag toch that they Mrs, Sisley, of Richmond Hill, on the ok a runs- WHOLESALE AND masa Also, dealers in all kinds king and Chewing Tobac: Pipes. and Smokers' £ PERRY DAVIS' "eae IN-KILLER 18 RECOMMENDED BY everybod: who has ever ping @ trial. Los INTERNALLY MIXED WITH A WINE GLASS OF HOT MILK AND 8UG4R, IT WILL BB FOUND A MBVER Patiine FoR . DEN COLDS, CHhif.Ls, CON- (ESTION OR STOPPAGE OF CIRCULATION, CRAMPS, bANS IN THE STOMACH, SUM- wm AND BOWEL CUMPLAIN rs, SORE THROAT, &c APPLIED FXTERYALL T, ponte SCE HAR PROVEN tT THe MONT sFECTIVE AND BEST LINIMENT ON CARTH IN REMOVING THE PAIN ARISING Fuom BPA TNS, BRUISES, RHEUMA- TM, NEU RALGIA, SWELLED FACE, TOOTHACHE, YF RNS, FROST BITES, &e., &c. Vets. per Bottle Beware of Imitations. "@e ' t lot ners, have yc ee ate, we ware alway Tan 3 gar?) Kemember, there wack which did pot ongiaate ina BLEN'S LUNG BALSA) um newtor Rysicians who have failed to cur wave thais pat { Price 25c., 50c., and $1 per Bottle. 25c. bot les are put ui for the accomm Cru his agreeable Pe -- prepara ta is especially adapted for the relief ei cure of that class of disorders gendant upon a jow or reduced state dhe systent, and usually accompanied 4 Palos, Weakness and Palpitation dthe Heart. Prompt results will fdow its use in cases of Sudden Ex. hastion arising from Loss of Blood, Aute or Chronic Diseases, and in the vakness that invariably accompanies b recovery fro fro} ah Wasting F evers. No kspepsia or Tnfieesiloa, its action on irmless tonic, exciting gestion to ac tion, and thus afford: ng _ imediate and permanent relicf eminative Bro rties of the diffe rent joa atics which the Elixir contains / nder it usefulin Flatnient Dyspepsia. jis a valuable remedy for Atoni spepsia, which is apt to vccur | rsons of a gout character,, ST., TORONTO. --¥ phon oon th egg sally tavahaabie. re ite, Desh rove a valuable restorative, ouetesie: of Cinchona Cea i | ntaria are universally recognized | o specifics for the above-named disor- bold by all Dealers in Family Medicines. 1 per Bottle, or Bottles for $5. Price, $ Siz | ieee' 7 KG. E ome, ys SBrford. Sept. 1% 1882 KESPEARE | | WAGON , JOSEPH OGRADY - - PROPRIETOR, farming-land, and it was eal tin a coe durin sehg st be for American Inde- R UCHED PRICE . $8 ACCOMMODATION ¥ FOR its would not nero the the raliing at crops,| pendence, and c2 Nal S11. the travelling pu b } Severs! Recently 4 PN held at th best Ales, 4 [nn to the Be River, ad F sently a chai was oF NDERSIGNED. HAVIR@ BETTE kept at the Bar. ies time the cca tices, ce at Meds pak male a" of Mr. Si . : . T ses for man manufactt ai now p Stratford, Feb. 18, 1885. 76-1y. Prof. Low says that there is a tract -- ee county mm which & a| ia ae ident i. roOUng [ @} E ndred and thirty miles across from Lake ry oucerres young mea ve GRATED WAGONS LENN ON HOU SE. Panes to Hudson's Bay which witb oe on a 24 seis our} ST. MARYS GRAVEL RO. AY } an bas ever traversed. In this region there} }, ble ° en Of hem © ed and BETWEEN STRATFORD Mana." are rent sumbers of doer and. cartheo, bas! © gba At off ee is ons of! 'Lower . Prices than Evir Befo sina e is very scarce. : eee ; T. LENNON, PROPRIETOR. somts stayed at Fort Severn, co a "a was 5 by ae on: And U warrant themthe ; HIS HOUSE has good accommodation Hudson's Bay, a short time, and then travel-| ;,,; red aa ps standing by was| Lightest Rum and Mom Durab fahg ye s ead nade led the coast fak River, two hund- es te alco lout his le pao ena Sn scent Made t"™%& C Aied ond the pubis. Winsipes. north, and thence returned to} had to be amputated. | and would also beg to G Pi "TI device for CITY HOTEL, An Admirer of the Beautitl. Jone oMhy Pam ote Se dimyplaial a A neat Market Square, STRATFORD) Pe Lowe. crag Are you an almirer of found her dat wer pais 7 monte s ine ; e utifn Slasher * rn I am! sobbed the young ROBT. SHORE, PROPRIETOR, Dr Slasher (a young sawbong)}--"* Oh, He Pa abpe yoo. soa a ea, i i "Ne but he does w: i Apoommodation In the|" ¥ ony 6108: a1 i S58 EERE m in the} Young Ledy-- y--" What isthe mim beaut] menting with susstiie thine, sodanet ey rar acy 's NES: sche > bustle asa < -- "(contemplative mw PB oe akould "hve area Nas gg LOWEST RAP This Hotel to Gtted wp in Gret-claes think the moat hing ta Well, 7 . Every ra tapes shee re a e and the Bar supplied the was the way in te whine Prot Desslatine tovke lad is the i \ Geto." in Wines, "end soeecaae temperate pm young lady ameteur is al e instrument . Liquors -and-Cigars. = "woman's teg off attire hospitultag week, ! will last « very | ine gh gaia. MEvY Te 188 -- Ina Bridge, 5 Davis & Lawrence Co. (Limited) SOLE AGENTS, Monrneat, P.Q. }0. PERTH MUTUAL F. I. C! ESTABLISHED 1863, BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT ---- Merchandise, Man tories and all 6ther déscription a "Torarable: ph 5. on the prem- mr hote or cash *yute: _4 Lesacs Prompily y Adjusted and Pa'd.. BOAKD OF DIRECTORS: ohn Hyde, Eaq, MD, President, Stratford. laines irow, Keq, M P, Vice-Pres., Stratford ieorge Rock, ex Dt ty Reeve, Downie. ye builder, Stratford as Orr, ¥eq, , \. Hyde, Esq, Deputy Reeve, North Es CHAt. PATEERT, ' Scmurr. Y, Way 16, 188t~ year meres aah ™ a, apt ma oe ATTY ie SEO NAAR Ad IE): rs ree