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. J. A. GLASS Author and Teacher of the Nonpareil System of Cutting. 0m \ “““‘“C Lumbton Street , ' April the First. Don't forget where to go for a first-class Suit or Trousers. I have the finest stock in town (just arrived). Come and see for yourself. A large assortment to choose from. As to fit and style the same as any first-class city firm. Passengers travelling without Live Stock Ihould take tlm train loaving Toronto at, 1.45 p. In. 'ussougors travellin with Live Stock should take the train lruviug oronto at 9.00 p. In. I ‘olonist Sleeper will be attached to each train. For full lmrtirulars and. copy of ”Seulern’ Guiolv," “ \\ o-steln (‘unacla " or “ Britisliifolum- Ilia." apply to your nearest Canadian Pacific 'l‘n Mauitnlm and (‘anadian North-west will lo-avo- 'l‘nroulu o-n-ry TUESDA Y during March and April. 1903, if sudirio-nt busiuws odors. SETTLERS’ ONE-WA Y EXCURSIONS MacFarlane 8:. Co. W. J. ELLIOTT, PRINCIPAL, Here’s an unrivalled collection of wall papers to please critical mates. Wall papers that fastidious house- proud purchasers will enthuse about. We sell from the earner’s standpoint, An axcnllent time to c-nmmeuce a course of study so as M be ready to take a good position in the fall. ALL SCHOOLS ARE NOT ALIKE. Get our catalngue beforn DECIDING 1'0 00 ELQEWHERE. Mail Courses in Shorthand. Bbokkeeping, Pen- manship. Etc. Easter Term ! -â€"~ COMM ENCES â€"â€" If you desire newest designs at lowest possible prices A naiatamt Gmwml Passenger Agent, 7| Yuugu Sh, 'l‘uroutu. Dnmmsrs AND BOOKSELLERS. All Paper Trimmed Free of Cost. Do not send abrosd, you’ll gain nothing by it. We can supply you with the latest productions of the leading manufacturers end at prices you would pay for inferior papers elsewhere. STRATFORD. ONTARIO. HIGH-CLASS ailoring. DRAPE R. A. H. NOTMAN Durham. Ont. 0. C. Lawson sustained a 1089 3900 by having his residence Brighton damaged by fire. Carpenters and joiners of Vancou- Ver want. fcny cents an hour and an eightohour day. John McLaren. ayoung farmer. of Mningbauk. shot himself accidentgl- 1y. From April lst, 1902, to April lst, 1903, 18419 passengersfrum European countries arrived in Halifax, Many farmers around London have finished their ploughing and Spring sowing. A successful convention of the Sunday School Associatlon was held in Hamilton. Mr. Isaac Gunnell of Kaladar, found: 3200 gold nugget in the tbrqat of ; pic that. he, killed In: Employes of the Walkerville Bridge Company threaten to strike for more pay. do; Re". C. C. Owen, of London, will go to Vancouver. During a performance of Kipling’s " Light that Failed ” in London last night, Forbes Robertson, the notor, turned to one of the boxes and said, °' Will the people in this box kindly stop talking. It is impossible to con- tinue the play unless they do.” He was npplnnded. Apart from the amalgamations of Glasgow. Sheffield and Birmingham 8! ipbuilders and gzunmakers no pro- greas ha»: been made towards the com- bination of British iroumasters which has been under contemplation for two years. Several hundreds of men in the building trade at Amsterdam struck work yesterday for a. rise in wages of two-fifths of a penny per hour. Six- teen employers submitted, but In) men are still out. \Vhile herring fishing 0E Cornwall just now is but poor, the German fishermen at the mouth of the Elbe are taking such catches that they are selling fish by the ton to farmers for manure. The Belgium bupreme Court has rejected the appeal of the Anarchist Rubino against the sentence of im- prisonment for life passed upon him for his attempt on King Leopold. The Dutch steamship Prins Freu- erick Hendrik, from Amsterdam, has been wrecked at Tunar Point, Mar- garita Island. All on board were saved. “ Italy owes a debt of gratitued to Mr. Swinburne, the English poet, who has glorified our Revolution,” said the Italian PostmastenGeneral. An Irish laborer named Rhenny has been left £16,000 by an aunt. who died in France. The French Chamber of Deputies hadarecord sitting of :37 hours in adopting the budget. In raids on hotels and cafes in Pre- toria over one hundred foreigners were arrested who were without per- mits to be in the Transvaal. B. A., of Greenock, said within recent decades Scotland has been losing: that supremacy in higher education which she was acknowledged to have held for many years in the past. and be attributed this falling OR to the long continued and mistaken policy of the Educational Department. At a meeting of the West of Scot- land Association of Secondary Teach- ersfibe retiring president ‘Vlfl. Cook, Prof. G. G. Ramsay, of Glasgow. president of the Classical Association 0! Scotland, says no doubt classics were a subject for the superior mind, but in these democratic days they could not make all minds superior. They felt that classics ought to be kept for the intellectual elite, and that the classical would be injured by being brought into every boy or girls education. Frank A. Walden of Peterboro, is A memorial to William Creech, the distinguished Scottish publisher and friend of the poet Burns. has been unveiled 1n Newbattle parish church. Creech was born at Newbattle, Dal keith, where his father was minister {01 a number of years. “ Not proven ” was the verdict at Edinburgh in the case of Mary Smith who was charged with having mur- dered Samuel Pender. with whom she lived, by stabbing him whilst he was assaulting her. While the artillery were giving a march out in Edinburgh the horses attached to one of the gun carriages became restive and plunged into the crowd, killing a six-year-old girl. Mr. Montigue Holbein, who is at present in Coventry. has decided to make another attempt to swim the Channel, probably about the latter part of July or the beginning of August. The jubilee 6f the foundation of free libraries in Manchester was cele- brated 2nd and 3rd April. A large number of distinguished literary men took part in the proceedings. After giving birth to a. child in a field, and being alone in an empty house all next duv. with only a. drink of water, Eva. Prew' t went out. walked to Lancuter, and drowned the infant. Upon the anniversary of the death of the Duchess of Kent. the late Queen Victoria’s mother. her mausoleum at Frogmore was open for two hours to old servants of her Grace. Forty yeere ego e Cemberwell wo- man ran into her knee eneedle which has just emerged from her right shoulder. A love-letter of Robert Burns was sold in London for £10. GENERAL NEWS. of at, limmmwwr “Chum nu. magma-n um- w "BMW-.8793!“ Miss Bertha Rogerson, of Paris, died of typhoid at St. Mark’s Hos- pital, New York, where she was in training for a nurse. Brockville Trades and Labour Coun- cil are endeavoring to secure Hon, J. I. Tame for an address at an ap- proaching concert. Thomas Tanner, of Seneca town- ship. is suing Jno. Harrison. of Medi- cine flat. for $300 commission on pur- chase of horses. Forty shipliners on the Allen wharf at Montreal, are on strike because they object to being bound by a con. tract for the season. Alex. Galloway, of Hamilton, a broker, has been arrested. It is charged that hole short in his ac- counts. 7b .0 mm ca. 1 ”thalliu- Q' Ill'l I.’ fl. "‘2 land WWW 3°33; I hymn-t In Europe sad and: mm mm as “dune and m £9.“ “I“! BE. An unknown woman attempted to commit suicide at Hamilton by walk- xng in front of a moving train. \\ Indaul' cuu’geuters have agreed to we schedule. of wages paid in 1902 to continue UH January 180, 1904. Leonard b‘ous’ boiler factory at London is closed owing to a strike of .n» boxlcr makels. Two hundred employee of the Can- adian budge Company an Walker- Ville areâ€".out on strike. luv. J. G. Scott. of Ingersoll, preached a strong sermon in favour of capital punishmenc. Dr. 1). A Bowlby of Simcoe, is be- illg' sued by David Dodds of Hamilton [or nmlpx'actice. The Montreal Gazette (Conserva- tive) thinks the redistribution bill is a fair measure. Hamilton’s striking carpenters have accepted a graded scale with 30 cents as the maximum. Customs receipts at Hamilton were $115,368.931u3t month, an increase of $23,933.50. Hamilton Police Commissioners will spend $1 .UO on whistles and belts for its men. Stratford Public whool teachers are agitating for an increase of salary H A. Garret is dead at Niagara. ou-the-Lake, in his 90th year. Hard coal is selling at $6.50 ppr ton in Hamilton. The ice i4 soft enough at. Port Col borne to permit of navigation. Mr. Wm. Ross. M.P., at Ottawa introduced a bill to revive and renew the charter of the Ontario and Huron Electric Railway, which authorizes the construction of an electric rail- way from Port Perry to Kincardine. 'l‘hree branches, one to run to To- ronto. are contemplated. Some of the largest centres afiected by the bill are Uxbridge. Newmarket, Brad- ford and Shelburne. Fred. Koblow is under arrest at Hamilton for faking. A new Presbytetian church is to be built a: Gore Bay. The American Cereal 00., which owns and operates the Peterboro’ Light and Power 30.. has made a preposition to takeover the dormant street railway and put it in Operation once more. A gentleman left a pair of trous- ers in a Guelph tailor 8110;) for repairs ()ne of the employee found four five dollar bills in one of the pockets, but returned them to the owner. J. P. Merritt. for the past {our years teller in the Imperial Bank at Woodstock, will take the position of accountant at Welland. Mr. Jones, of St. Thomas, will succeed him. An incoming freight at Allan- dale smashed into a freight in the yards and badly damaged both loco. motives, while several cars were wrecked. The crew jumped. Ald. Dan Gallery. M.P., has suc- ceeded in getting the wages of the employee of the Lachine Canal in- creased from 81.25 to $1.50 a day. Jno. E. Creary, hrakeman in the C. P. R. yards at London, caught his foot in a brake shoe in front of a car and was dragged under the wheels and killed. Rev. Dr. Philip, of Kingston Meth- odiet church, has been givin a lengthy vacation. in which he will go to Cali- fornia for his health. Fifteen of the thirty-five striking C. P. R. clerks at Vancouver have returned to work. explaining that the strike was not legally called. Rev. J. J. Monds, B. A.. has been inductedinto the pastorate of Glen- allen and Hollen Presbyterian churches. near Guelph. I I 0 ma.“ TEEWWW‘? ‘1?.§.‘_:.‘ «I. It on m m mgr“, m’s, 81. may macs, - A-___L._““-‘ -h_- In conducting the Alaskan boun- dary case Sir Robert Finlay, Attor- ney-General. will be associated with Messrs. Blake and Robinson. The Peterboro’ Sugar Co. has just received 45,000 lbs of sugar beet seed from Germany for distribution among the farmers A St. Thomas lawyer has been the victim of an unusual occurrence, re- ceiving 35 more from a client than he asked. Customs receipts at London for March were 883.506.83, an increase of 820,646.87 over March 1902. While handling 9. small calibre rifle, John McLaren. of Springbenk, shot himself in the hip. Capt. Wm. Leslio.of Kingston, is with the British expedition in So- maliland. About twenty fat man of Kin 33- ton have organized a buebdl club. yéé‘fimq I A thousand immigrants passed through Montreal on their way to the {North-west. Since Sunday over five thousand immigrants have gone. The C. P. R. has acquired a lame block of property between the Plece Viger station and the water-front, in Montreal, for the erection of freight sheds and delivery yards; The city will be asked to close up the ends often streets to complete the property. Word has been received that a Canadian buoy has been discovered at Nantes, France. This buoy. fitted with its bronze bell. had made the trip across the Atlantic from its moorings on the east coast of the Dominion. It is valued at $1,000. The old church at Harrieton, which was built during the pastorate of Rev. J. G. Scott, of Ingersoll. is to be replaced by a more modern struc- ture. Rev. Mr. Scott is to preach the final sermon in the church on Easter Sunday. A barn owned by William Ewing. near Elora. was struck by li htning in a thunderstorm and burne to the ground. The loss which includes 21 head of cattle and 4 horses will total The term of Hon. L. J. Forget as Lieutenant-Governor of the North- west Territories, expires on October next. It is said that the Hon. J. H. Ross, at present member for the Yukon. will be his sucessor. Benjamin Jackson sued Dr. McCabe of Hamilton. for malpractice in set. ting a broken leg. but as complain. ant has pulled away the supports from the fracture he lost his suit. The Semaphore is the name of a third paper to be published in Col- lingwood. C. R. Godfellow, editor of the Midland Free Press, will have charge. Evangelist A. H. Rauton has con- cluded a three weeks series of special meetings in St. Catharines. and has left for 300 miles west of Winnipeg. Magistrate Love. of London, he- lieves flogging at the police station is the remedy for truancy. The boys do not reciprocate his tender regard. Four dogs were found poisoned in 'I‘avistock one morning recently. One of them. a big St. Bernard, was the property of Valentine Stock. M. Rev. W. Hartley, pastor of Centre Avenue church. St. Thomas, has re- received a call to the pastorate of a large church in Yonkers. N. Y. Richard Fleming. of Stella, claims to be the first man to take a boat in- to Kingston harbour this season and the last to leave last season. Dr. Vandon. medical health officer at Galt, has announced his intention of having a by-law passed to prevent indiscriminate kissing. MJUHN LIVINGSTON â€"â€"-â€"â€"Duramh . CLOTHING . Second Hand Wheels taken in exchange for new Wheels. We Also SHOE. Massey-Harris, Cleveland, Perfect and Other Makes. Bicycles. hand WHEELS wiiicb we can sell very cheap. REPAIRING done promptly and Repairs kept of Wheels. GIVE US A CALL. S. SCOTT. And Guernseys Ten Days AT COST Ready-Made A fine assortment of new, up-todate wheels -â€"For- â€" Durham. 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