-- New Advertisements This Week. | THE- TIMES' LATEST "1N- : - } SULT!" Rent----Wm. Gordon. slater New oods--x HH Nasmyth & Co. Servant Ww. seh Mrs, W < Goren Central Business College--W. H. Penpyroyal Wafers--Enure " 'Chem. Stratford "Fines ut 7. BUTLER, EDITOR AND P BOPRIETOR. Weowesnay, Fey. s. 1888. "APTER MANY DAYS!" STRATPORDS CELEBRATED WATER LOT-SOME- STRANGE REVELA- TIONS BROUGHT TO LIGHT, WHAT STRATFORD's TAMMANY " RIXG " ACTOMPLISUED, Mr. Alg. Gibson, chairman 6f the Fire, Water and Gas Committee, is going to revolutionize Stratford's system of fire pro, tection--if it ia possible to acomplia such a deatrable necessity, In preparing bis ieport last Monday afternoon, as published in another dolumn, asking the council to buy a site for.a fire hall, etc., the Mayor and Mr. Ald. Sharman asked him why he did not utilke the 'corporation lot" on George street, which was purchased for that pur- pose il years ago, by the then Reeve, Mr. Johr Read, in rear of Mrs. Patter- son's store. Mr. (jibson replied that he and Ald. Payne had visited the lot, and could not find land enongh on which to build. The city map was then consulted and it was fond that lot 249 on George street showed off to good proportions, but it was hinted that there was fraud con- mected with its original purchase and transfer to the corporation, and therefore was made to the city archives. Th. a + tHhad were uncarthed --one w adeed of the property from John C. W Daly to John Read {at that time reeve of the town) for the sum of 8700--this covenanted that there was a lane of 10 feet in width from George st. to Brunswick st., most adjacent to lots 248 and 249, - This document was dated 7th of Septem- » ber, 1877, The next decument was a mortgage from John Read to J. C. W. Daly, covering the same lot for $600. This was dated the same day! The next document wag a deed from John Read to the Corporation ot Stratford of the same lot for $700, This was dated, 18th Septem-_ ber, 1877, only om few hours after the two above recoriled transactions. By reference to the minutes of the Cowucil at that time a motion was discov- ered, moved by John Read, on the night of the 17th Sept., 1877, ordering the purchase of the to be made and vompletecd / --it must have been completed almost before the ink on the paper was "aie Jak soon not Svotth $108 at that dais, oe i it is questionable whether $100 could be got for it, if offered for sale to-day! A more barefaced job was never perpetrated upon this or any other community.-- Who received the proceeds, we suppose will never be found out, as Col. Daly, who sold the property, and the Mayor for 1877, Mr. T. M. Daly, sr., are both dead. Proceeding to the 'lot " in question, it was discovered that there was barely standing room for a team of horses on any part of it, According to the town map, the lane spoken of would pass right through Mr. T. Hagarty's large brick barn. Mr. Hagarty observed the measurements being taken, and asked the parties what they wese looking for. The reply was that they were looking for the lane run" ming from George st. to Brunswick st. Come inside," said Tim, "and IU will show you something none of you ever dreamt of." Accepting Mr. Bagerty's invitation, a survey of the produced, made by Moses Mcodden, P. L.S., of the whole block, and from this it appeared that there was no lane at all between lots 250 and 251, or 248 and 249, as had always been represented. Instead, there is a lane al! on lots 250 and 251--but in rear of Mr. Wingfelder's it -is only jive feet wide, while betweea the lane and the Tings WIN every time. « When Tux Trurs, }2 years ago, exposed | | the rascalities of the Grit ex-Member for | North Perth, a defaulter.and skedaddler, | it was accused of * 'insulting the Keform j [pares ' Later on, when it exposed the | rascalitizs of the notorious defaulting tem- | -perance leeturera, me B. Chisholm, "insulting the tempe france party. it showed up the notorious ex-Monk Wid- ' it was charg gel "insulting Protestants." Then when the drankard,' Dy 1. K. scaring people by the 'converted Kine, came to the front, { score in the Erie street church one nights | and next morning attempted to cebau hostit was shouted by Rev. Manty Ben-+ son, in the city hall, that Tux Times had | 'insulted the Methodists." tain Stratford preacher, during a drunken debanch at St, Catherines, was: exposed through Tux Times for baving laid ont jo| When « cer the snow all night, and the driver who wa's with him lost his feet and part of his hands from frost, the cry went up that Tue was "insulting the Baptists." Again, when the' Converted Brahmin," ¥ ceragava Roy, 'held the fort," but fell from grace, it was the whole missionary army who were "insulted.". When Tue Times succeeded in having the notorious Wilson bounced frem the office he had so lorg dishonored, the wail went up, 'Tuk Times is insulting the Orangemen, and the Episcopalians!" Then when Rev. P. Wright's friend, ex-Ald. Jameson (then Herald editor), cleared out, having went throtgh the Bank of Montreal and his friends, it was declared that Tue Times' exposure was Utterly shameful and sinful, and that 'the Presbyterians were all grossly insulted." In spite of all this, Tur Times editor was chosen by tho peo- ple of Stratford to fill the Mayor's chair. This was the climax, and was declared to be *'an insult to the ' Dungboys,' the 'old man,' and to the whole Province." But it f was not until last week that Tue Times scored its biggest "insult." Because it woukl not fall down before, and worship and glorify the 'converted conductor," it is accused boldly by that impadent fake of having "1nsuLtEp Jescs!!!" Wesup- pose if a "converted horse trader " should come along, Tux Times would have to turn hypocrite at once, feign a pain in the stomach, and then sprout up boldly as a "converted Mayor!" No joke intended, As nothing appears impossible in the line of sudden " conversion," why should there not be a chance for the Mayor of Stratfo:d to start forward in the pulpit? One thing he would s'ipulate--at his preachings the collection must not be taken up by 3 Government barnacle nor any of his kids ! The line must be drawn somewhere. Tue Tiaxs will neither give nor ask quarter from the army of hypocrites, frauds, thieves, cranks,--religious, politi- cal or municipal--who infest the commun- ity, --It- will fight them in the futare as it has in the past,'and what is better, it will | PRCULIAKITIES Marvin Knowlton and | | with | day morning Whea j, Ps dows' true character it was accused of | sother i ott ait fat watag, . a young girl residing in the house of bis | THE DAKOTA BLIZZARD. | The Recent Terrible Storm in the Grit Paradise: 4 OF THY PERATH-DEALING BLAST. &CENEM OF SUFFERING AND HERGISM, y otter character. As experienced snow feil heavily ail day vithor at Ti ich wind. Thurs- e elements themselves to- most fearfal onslaught. Be- 'clowk the anoW again be- denly before nmenced with terrif e. lustrate the sud- denne s of the change: A lady working t the house was as ked by her daughter now was failin A: ther inomcnt and she heard a shriek, "asieming to MaYN the Cruse itshe i the er ot dk torn open by the vio- ad, equired the unit- ot het two daughters and hersel rain. No wonder that people, r homes by th aayone was rien > a4 HLNi = OF THE MORNING, ' «ben the blizzard struck afi night the storm con- ity im poss ible to de- e our i rmed ice e-dust, y the wind with eveh } pene = ate were "bewild Ali da "d with an i. acre through one's clothing. thick with the flying sn and other large objects close entirely concealed from view, a storm was out of the quest The only safety for anyone caught out in it was to travel with the wind. Many of the incidents told in coni..ction bi the storm are cruelly pathetic, Think & poor woman struggling to reach h- a and perishing within 20 feet of i: own door! A farmer near St, Lawes, Dak., seh bewildered in the etorm and passed within 20 feet of his neighbor's barn without knowing it, and then wandered on | for three miles before he finally succumbed. Avother farmer went out to water his stoc only eight rods away, but was unable to find the stable, and aiter seeking in vain for saltes he perished within a stone's throw of a neighbor's house. A similar case is repo! from near Yankton, where a farmer went out toa straw stack, not more than 100 feet from the house, but lost his way, and his frozen body was found the from his » that next morning 10 miles ome, "Near Aberdeen, Dak:, two men went out te attend to some stock a short distance from the house, One turned back, frightened at the storm; the other insisted he could find the wuy, went on, became Pa COMPLETELY BEWILDERED, and after groping about blindly for a while, part of the tim his hands and knees, sank down chanel and died. Aft Rush- more, Minn., s woman, alarmed at the absence of her husband, went out in the storm to look for him She wag over- powered by the storm and perished within 40 feet of her ownhouse, Another sad case was that of a family living near Sicux Falls, Dak. The father was caught out in the storm, but found a haystack in which he buried himself and passed the night safely. His wife and son went out to hunt for him ar both were lost, At Conny Cerro Gesto, ape m drove u ficed 'thet the the diver did not did not alight, 'Op a ing outto him it was found that he was dead--frozen stiff in 4 seat, Such are a few of the many distresting incidents which have occurred to mak oo storm so memorable. -- 'There have also many instances of the NOBLEST HAROISM AND SELF-SACRIFICE. EMIGRANT CROFTERS FOR AUSTRALIA, Mrs. Gordon Baillie, who has just returned to London, England, from a visit te the Australian colonies, where she has been making enquiries ah behalf of the pieigts thus expl. scheme to : all Gazette. reporte' of "That w settlements of 100 to 550 e sea coast of Tasmania and siesta where each head of a family will proprietor of a fifty-acre freehold ma a 'renty year purchase of one shilling an acre. land is fertile, with co of game (and no game laws), and the coast abounds with og ng noo a _ is Tha 70, Vv x for this at anrthi = colonies, porte this contrast," added Mrs, Baillie, handing twu Lae age ork: one of the com- fortable house of a and the other of a Witrare crofter's hut prom range for the conveyance of the crofters to their new homes, the' crofters who wish to go on have to be carefu lly select- ed. There is sfmpathy ay hs find sufficient " "T mean, do you ex. assistance from the Governinent Roland Chambers and his son of nineyears, living west of Huron, Dak., went out to water some cattle and were overtaken by the storm. Unable to find their way back, the father made a place for the oe} in the snow and wra him up as best he could, The boy urged his tather t to go and look for help, but he refused to leave him. ey remained together during the night, a St. Bernard dog with them. The boy was en- tirely covered up with snow and says he was quite comfortable, though he knew his father was freezing. In the morning the aioe, was still alive and-said to his boy, we, tnow Ged ae ~ and I'R pray, and then'F kn ake you through all right." 'They saved oo soon after the father becathed od bie last. The dog stood sentry over them and guided a searching party to where they lay ; but the father had giver his life ae his a Another inci- A lady, basely deserted in the storm com- nions, two young men, who went off an ound shelter for lves. Undis- the boy in all the extra and stayed with him un- 7 hiortrecert blizzard ¥. or Taat to blow . , and 'mm young oie ft in charge a. a tad ol of 12-years, was | deli Qualifications of Music ' Téachers. The following are some importint ex. tracts from the address of the President, Dr. C, A. Sippi..of Loadon, at the second a meeting of the Canadiaw Society f. Mahalo, held in Toronte: in, Dewess ; Something About THE NEW CHICAGO TIMES. the Men Who Leconstracted that Notable Journ elate lamented Wilbur F. Storey > the daily newspaper which he founded in the days. when- aaphe ts A. Dong. te stays of The qe sestion of **Qualific ation of Mem bership" will be one ot the nyattera you will be for it a just and prac tic "al euntidie reat on, and that no anxiety to postpore the deliberation of this very important ques tion will be evinced. Delay' are dangerau and I feel that too much del 'lay has taken place already, whieh is plainly to be acen by the mu ical profession having heen so ar belind the other professions in the matter, by their not taking steps to insist on the proper qualitication of thorea who re among its ranks, and the nusi-cal pel lie-protegtul against charlatanry, Why is it that public opinion doea aut ran\ He Serene thee Fee Have | al. SELLING All our Jerseys at a Disconat of I0 Per Cen® off has induced a Good Illinois -- woulkin't reeogrize the sheet, Typogrs raplicntt, again. The ok d } arnal stg new prey new 'editors and a . The latter, James wttat prier ter mov o Chicag zt oO, Was mainly en- cormpxiss *y the ident: of "IRIring @& aaagiate cilia fry in view. ISI, be exter a 'the erploy of lity wath | gs 09 for his first vear's we of school | comment ry ou the manner cause there are too | career many superfical meddlers with the art, and incompetent teschers vsaiting under he rv! L waubets tov thany who até engaged iu easy means of adding a little to their in- come, or who have been unfortunate in | hix little "de 'bt obtaicing a livelihood in seme othe chanpel, perhaps not #0 genteel, perll » taken lessons in their younger days on the piano, or learned to sing a simple ballad pleasingly, and 'therefore who have 1 foreign pur pos 8, we - noting the practice of it, because they think it en! his hepe earn enough to pas and have 4 over to defray -th expenses of pursu- 7 ing bis theolosic: al : 33 stax lies, But BOTTI « from consider themselves perfectly competent | gh. Gutsct he devel to take up the art (without any experience | further than I have already mentioned in | t teaching): and very often will give instruction (badly, I fear), for the emall sum of five dollars pér quarter, and too frequently compete with those who are thorough musicians and good instructors, "who have spent many years and much perpen in obtaining @ first-class education ! - «d experience in the art of teaching, and yo are compelled, in order to get any ti tien, to bring themselves down to the | gia e of the eigen ones? It is gthe:..ore for these ons I urge upon ) you the necessity ads giving immediate consideration to this important question, but in the consideration of the matter it must.not be forgotten that the rights of | those who have been legitimately in the practice of the profession of music should in every way be protected, apd that a rospective, rather than a retrospective view of this question should be taken, The first ain of this Association should be to obtain a proper standard of profici- ency, and that standard obtained by ex- i Sopp before a Board of Examiners, ¢ ap ted at each Annnal General Seetia I should also suggest that diplomas be given to the successful candi- dates, setting forth their | alana also, that there should be t rades, or de- grees, attainable, viz., " Moenbes " and *"Fellow." All those who now belong to, or who may join, the Association prior to the date given for the examinatio: tobe ey for admission, I should style '* Member," and all desirous of going bigher and con satisfy the Board of Ex- miners as to their proficiency for the higher degree, I should style ** Fellow The candidate for Membership, or the cage degree of Fellow, could se ~ either @ piano, organ, violin, 'cello, o instrument, or voice culture, together with -- in every case. I should have the ifions divided - ~y Practical and Theorttical the practical part showing , th of the candidate, and the theor- etical | to consist of musical history, barney, acoustics, copatecsyia, fugue, ngical form, sud person shotild be itt = aera to the higher degree of Fellow without first ob- falaing ths enree of Member. The _ tBminetions at first for': Membership should j made too difficult, but so a the difficulty ould be in- r standard should be "this subject I would rovision should be uted to wait upon the Government and pean all the necess- ry ts to obtain a charter esting that power in us. various details of an important question can be id eum advo bg emai you will deem to bi gre a this poten notices of motiod will ote Soeaant fore ron for eck be liberation, the en to aes the name of the one more appropriate and diguitied th hen the one oe now -- ee. au! that whatever may come to = this matter, it will aes the main object done. for the best advantage of BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. ttic. corporation lot 249 there is.a strip of iand belonging to the Daly Estate, which has & frontage of 5 feet, 1 inch, on George street, and rans back to Mr. Hagarty's "stable in the form of « ¥, being 14 feet wide at the rear! Phe city fathers left the you going to do about it?" Mr. Sharman brought the question up at Pine Creek t largely of ofthe the highwines, and two Sin victims are ve died last night. Mr. dl naa, sod leaves a eae er, not ut of a tanner a be premature to discuss that question now, as I have only just arrived t there will be any amount of scigei assistance." Saya the Montreal Star:--We are glad aan that Mr. McLelan, Postmaster- ey setting about the zing his ment. 3% has found an extremely other competent men, either in the service or outside of it--we don't care where he if they are too dazed to their slumbera to march of of spb dress sonia her, and a smile was on her THREE DAYS OF AWFUL AGONY. A recent pa telis of the heroic welf-sacrifice~of-tieorge Patrick, a young school teacher in an isolated district about 40 miles north of Mandan, D. T. His | 1001 consisted of five pupils. On the day' e blizzard raging, rather than aravd its fary he concluded to remain over night in the school-honse, expecting that the storm w ore 'ou in But the followi eos than ever and the those people | that at the end the year he was---- piven a very responsible position, aud by the end of his second year he was manager in chief under a very lucrative contract. A year later he wasa full partner in the con- cern, having bought a fourth interest for 266,500, which amount he paid in cash a his salary and commissions. Under W< management the company sold 1, $00,000 copies of one book, retailing it for $4.50 por copy. From the profits of this business and occasional ventures in real estate, he has, in less than seven years, gained what the major- ity of men would consider an ample fortune, imesproperty, with the Storey estate, eost the new purchasers €1,200,000, and of this amount West paid more than one-half, so that he is now the contr: ling owner of the paper founded by Mr, Store f the younger generation of Chicago journalists none nown than Clinton A. Snowden. The Times is no nove 'ad JAMES J. WEST. tter k | to him, because he was for a time managing editor of the paper while Mr. St alive. He is a native of Minois, McHenry county, in February, his youthful days were spent and where his st labor was done on his father's farm. Sent to Chicaga.to perfect his education, he was graduated fkom the Chicago university in 1871, and in the autumn of the year fol- lowing' did his first newspaper wo ort as night reporter on The Times, He was seon mado law reporter, and looked after court proceed- ings up to and including part of the year 1875, when he resigned to take the position of chief clerk of the seeret service division of tho treasury department at Washington. Two months completely filled the measure of his aspirations in this _ of duty, where- upon be resigned and w to The Times to assume the tate of assistant city editor. So- satisfactory to Mr. Storey were his services in this capacity that he was pro- moted to the city editorship and then fo the position of managing cditor, During bis administration The Times was amarvel of journalistic enterprise. When Caton Farrar -- his (fa- on "Hell, "Snowden RICSRRTET Ti HTS i : ° iz CLINTON A. SNOWDEN. that highly tropical locality. Again, in 1880, his arraygements for reporting the Republican convention wd which Garfield was nominated were so fect that the Associated Press adopted haan bodily and sent them out to its patrons. ~ In 1881 Mr, Snowden went to Washington as The Times' co: lorado for a few months' rest. Return- fag to Weak eee charge of The a eer tha or 98 as managing editor, was so marked as apse oatin ies of Joseph Pulitzer, of The New York World, and induce the offer .of a lucrative position on that journal. Bg The Mail. Hard work and efficien ment have developed The Mail so tas itis now paying property: Mr. Snowden is part of the reconstructed Times ard will control the editorial policy of the sheet. Three Iowa men are also interested in the purchase, their aggregate holding of stock being #125 5,000, West eaut Snowden--havo lon< becn inti. ¥y *peaking, it has bee n bern | ly <i | a '+ apily. Poke 'MVHS lth _ extending to Many Ladies to ) Top off s 8 ia sat + with & Good Je TREY. sae Many have been sold and a lot more have been added to Stock. This last lot. includes Navy and Brown, and were bo't at a Big Re- luction, and marked close, and with e10 per cent. off. They are going Jerseys, Jerseys, , Jerseys. tian 10 to 10 cent, cent, tent. per per per W.J: FERGUSON. NEW GOODS for February The Medical Hall. Colgates Odors, aan' 4, Lubrns a eo, and. rs Soaps, aes', Shaver's ra atrial, Pull Supply. Badger ar bie th Brus! noral Tooth --_-- edad Tooth Brush Goods. J. H. NASMYTH & CO. PHAR MACEUTICAL . eennens Ontario St, NIGHT BELL, TELEPHONE. 7 | | | | | sdopprop pu 'wor quie sazeinarns 'sorj;now aindooord ayy euodaeys oye sl "On| UE aes MA PUY Wary Juno, sapeonpe yy "Pasty, Wy 4H) IOOHOS ASNAT NONNKOD VY "SUVBY Houyeng JO OApojmouy one 'LNO 'GHOsLVULS TPIGa Fey; UEqION 10 Guu FuNod v FOAL BTR UONMONPY WIN wH fyoules MoOADOLVLVO Bost STIaM | amo "mayeide Pre 5 ouridpsyp paw az snyeeeoons © 20] Your Children Are constantly exposed to danger from Colds, Wheoping Cough, Croup, and diseases peculiar to thé~throat and H For such ailments, Ayer's My children have been peculiarly sub- t to attacks of Croup, and I failed to ek ae ¢ Fes ay -- ee Sin the diticulty beni WwW allirritation, peevenes from he lungs, : and and quickly ove a outzeal £ Star af last | Saturday eid The shocking -accident--if it is mate friends, oo case is one involving 4 harmonious relations which now pir in biod together of totally dissimilar t West isa brunette, cance' cen 2 quick and energetic, compactly balit, : mo 0 that he 18. a large man without looking it. He is ah-intense worker, and in sore respocts 5 dif. dent and retiring. Snowden is 2 blonde of blondes--a big stalwart fellent of soviable ine stincts. He ean work bard under preswre, and amuse himself in gcentictnanly ease when the pressure is removed. The Times proti- ises to be more independent than ever under its new management, William E. Dodge. William ©. Dodge, of New York, no medicine so effective, = ee 3 sat 'Whooping Co Cc , as Ayer' It my little bo x , only six ng him 5 Congh Lever ane Malone, ey Flats, Tena. Ayer's Pectoral, oh iacreeahaaioaia try PB nav raving the life ot thé worst casé be | gone, hun- pagel anrs tortured by hun d down with his "The sceie} States, whist 5 recon ef the Evangelical Alliance of the United inet at "Washington, | B LITTERS.