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Show toqi' in: villi:. Horace .Siaek has moved into Tom Willis re-adence. Peter Creonhalgh of Meadow w as here tiiis week', advertising' his remedies. Franklin Batty while running after a band of horses ou the .fth ins!, had his hor-e fail with him, badly crushing his foot. A party of welcome was tendered Khh-r Hezekiah Duliln and wife on the Uth inst. Songs, recitations, dancing, etc., was the order of tiie evening. Our drouth was broken by a steady rain of nearly twenty-four hours on the 7th and Srh insts. Heavy frost on the night of the latter date did much damage dam-age to grape vines; other fruit untouched. un-touched. Ruben, the three-year-old son of James and Mary Duflin departed this life on Wednesday, the 11th inst. Some time ago he underwent an operation for the removal of a portion of his jawbone jaw-bone that was diseased, and it was thought that he was doing nicely until a few days ago, when he took a backset back-set having contracted a heavy cold. It is thought, however, that the immedi- ate cause of death was blood poisioning, caused from tho part operated upon. All condole with sister Duflin in her sad bereavement, made harder in the absence of her husband, who is on a mission in Texas. The past week dogs and cats have been made scarce in Toquerville by an unlimited number of strychnine baits that have been scattered around. It is not so much the loss of value in clogs and cats that we mourn, but we feel that such a course amounts to almost a criminal offense inasmuch as it endangers en-dangers the lives of people. Yet if the conscience of these strychnine friends cannot be pricked with the fear of endangering en-dangering the lives of children who are so familiar with such household pets, if they could be made to drink a few draughts from the ditches wherein a number of these animals have died, and that too just below them, we feel that they are not so thoroly hardened but what their stomachs would be effected ef-fected at least, IH O i !' |