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DECEMBER 1894. The remains of Henry Melviu, formerly a bandsman in the Brechin Detachment of Volunteers, were interred with full military honours on 1st inst.
At the Martinmas Feeing Market, foremen were engaged at £18 to. £21, 10s.; first horsemen, £17, 10s. to £19; second men, £16 to £18; halfiins, £10 to £15.
A second Board of Trade inspection of the Forfar and Brechin Railway was made at this time, and considerable impatience was shown, on the part of the community, at the long delayed opening of the line.
The annual social and dance of Maisondieu Lodge of Ancient Shepherds, came off brilliantly on 7th inst.
A large electric lamp, erected at St. Ninian Square by the town, the electricity to which — equivalent to 1000 candle power —is generously supplied free from Denburn Works, was lighted up for the first time early this month. The lamp will be a boon and a blessing to the many comers and goers at this part.
Mr. J. C. Murray, organist, assisted by several ladies, gave a much appreciated chamber concert of classical music on 7th.
Mr. R. Marsden was engaged as instructor to the Brechin Brass Band. A party of ladies and gentlemen gave a highly appreciated amateur representation of " Over the Garden Wall" and concert on 15th, for behoof of the Horticultural Society.
From a sale of work on 17th, to complete the furnishings of the Parish Church Hall, the sum of £48, 10s. lid. was realised.
A number of claims by parties for damage to their houses by flooding through overflowing of public sewers were dealt with by the Police Commission.
There was some feeling manifested by business men at the resolution of the postal authorities to remove the post office from the business part of the city to Panmure Street, and efforts, without avail, were made to prevent this being done.
After a fair trial of "tar macadam" for paving, it was found that for footpaths it was all right, but for crossings it was deficient in durability.
The Town Council resolved that the town treasurer, as chamberlain, find a fidelity guarantee to the extent of £300.
The income of the Brechin Infirmary for the year was £520, 15s. S^d. ; expenditure, £724, 4s. 2^d. ; deficiency, £203, 8s. 6d. The invested funds of the Infirmary stood at £4990, 12s. ; Dispensary, £773, 4s. lid. ; total, £5763, 16s. lid.
141 cases were treated in the Brechin Infirmary during the year, besides 81 out patients.
There were found to be within the burgh at the half-yearly census on Sunday, 23rd, 30 beggars, vagrants, etc.
In connection with the Evening Continuation School a very enjoyable social was held on Christmas Eve.
The quarterly dividend of the Brechin Equitable Co-Operative Society was 2s. 8d. per £1.
The Brechin Almanac and Directmy for 1896.
JANUARY.
New Year was ushered in, in good ol5 festive style, and with especial manifestations of good will all round.
A novelty in the salvation way was the marriage of a " captain " and a " lieutenant " of the army "under the flag." There was a general parade of all the detachments, and salutes of hallelujah artillery were fired without stint.
The annual dinner of Brechin Castle Curling Club was held on 3rd, under the genial presidency of the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, when a jovial evening was passed.
A most intense frost set in on 10th, when 5 degrees below zero were registered.
Consequent on the early symptoms of an approaching general election, the M.P. for the Burghs entered in conference with his committees in the various towns, preparatory for the " coming day."
Mr. G. W. Baxter, the Unionist candidate for the burghs, also com- menced his campaign in opposition, and addressed a meeting on 14th.
The Police Commission resolved to join with the County Council in the institution of an epidemic hospital for the district.
According to police statistics for 1894 there were 165 persons apprehended or cited, within the burgh, for crime.
The number of Parish Councillors for Brechin was fixed by the County Council at 12 for the burgh and 5 for the landward divisions.
The refreshments to the magistrates for two days attendance at Trinity Market (for June 1894) cost £11, 8s. 2d.
The Council's annual dinner cost £10, 9s. 9d.
During the year Nurse Lyon had attended 116 cases to whom she had paid 2366 visits.
For impudently entering a house in River Street by means of a skeleton key, and stealing there-froni a quantity of Jewellery, John Dunn, a tramp, was at Dundee Circuit Court, sentenced to 5 years " penal."
The granting of a license to a private slaughter-house in the vicinity of the burgh by the District Committee of County Council, gave rise to a pretty spicey correspondence between the burgh local authoritj' and the committee, the former contending that the latter had trenched within their jurisdiction. An appeal to higher powers was threatened, but the storm blew over.
A question of a wholesale paving, instigated by some ultra-progressionists in the Town Council, was wisely handed over to the Dean of Guild, and very judiciously it was allowed to sleep.
John Gordon the last of the precentors in Brechin retired, after 21 years service in that oifice, in East Free Church, and on that occasion was pre- sented with a substantial testimonial.
A serious subsidence took place in that part of a field on Limefield, directly over which the Brechin and Edzell Railway passes. The hole 20 feet deep by 40 feet circumference, was caused by the collapse of an old lime-stone quarry, and caused considerable loss and trouble to the contractor.
Contracts for the erection of the new Post Office in Panmure Street, to cost between £2000 and £3000, were accepted and arrangements made (weather permitting) to start building operations as soon as possible.
At the " Carlie's " Market foremen engaged at £32 to £33, ordinary men £30 to £32.
Property No. 1 Panmure Street was sold by roup at the upset price of £515.
Epitome of Local Events.
FEBRUARY.
The annual gathering of the Brechin Celtic Society took place in the City Hall on the night of the 1st inst. , when Gael and Saxon mingled in harmonious throng the "lee lang nicht," unmindful of ancient social feud.
"Punch and Judy " was the somewhat uncommon subject of a lecture delivered under the auspices of the Cathedral Church Guild by the Rev. Robert Barclay, Greenock.
The Juvenile Branch of Shepherdry in Brechin was formerly con- stituted a lodaie on 9th, when over 20 members were initiated.
The Brechin Police Commission, as Local Authority, repudiated a claim made on them by the Infirmary Directors for cost of interment of a tinker boy who had died in the Infirmary.
An extraordinary hurricane of wind, accompanied by a terrific snow storm, occurred on fth. All traffic, whether by foot, vehicle, or rail, was blocked for a considerable period. This was followed by a frost which, for intensity and length of duration, was unparalleled by any within the memory of the "oldest inhabitant." Much privation was, in consequence, experienced by outdoor workers.
There were numerous complaints as to the deficiency in weight of the quantities of coal sold in the streets, and the proper officials were ordered to be on the alert as to the cause of complaint.
By a sale of " jumbled " articles, numerous and unmentionable, on 16th, for behoof of the Brechin Cricket Club, £58 was netted.
At a sale of 1000 trees of various species on the estate of Keithock on 16th, ash fetched 98 to 14s ; birch, 6a 6d to 93 ; other lots, 23 to 48 6d.
The Secretary for Scotland authorised the Brechin Town Council to borrow on the security of the Common Good of the Burgh an amount not exceeding £20,000 for payment of debts, the sum to be repayable within 50 years
At the Court for revisal of Parish Council Election Roll, there was only one claim sustained.
The Town Council remitted to a Committee to enquire and consider as to the disposal of the old Town Hall.
A grand entertainment in the shape of a Concert and " Living Pictures " was given for behoof of the Infirmary under arrangement of Dr Parkinson, in the City Hall on 14th. A tidy sum was realised.
The annual festival of Court Brechin Castle of Ancient Foresters came off with great eclat in the City Hall on 15th. A feature was the realistic production of the comedy "The Serious Family." The light fantastic toe was tripped till the small hours of next morning.
An appeal by Guthrie, Martin & Co. , Ltd. , of the North Port Dis- tillery against a decision of the Brechin Magistrates fixing the valuation of the distillery property at £340 instead of £240 as claimed was dis- missed by the Court of Session.
The annual assembly of Lodge St. James of Free Masons, on 28th, was a brilliant affair.
At the "Causey " Horse Market there was a poor show all round ; business stiff, although work horses sold up to £54.
4 The Brechin Almanac and Directory for 1896,
MARCH. By a concert in the City Hall on 2n(I, for behoof of the unemployed, £11 3s 6d was raised.
Sheriff Cheyne, as abitrator in the application for the disjunction of the Landward and Burghal portions of the parish, after hearing the "pros, and cons.," found that the applicants had failed to establish a substantial case, and the Secretary for Scotland therefore refused dis- junction.
Miss C. E. Burns, Rosebank, bequeathed the sum of £20 for behoof of four funds connected with the East Free Church.
At the annual ball of the Brechin detachment 2nd V.B.R.H., on 8th, there was a brilliant assemblage of soldier and other citizens, and everything went merry as a marriage bell.
£30 was realised from a sale of work on 5th in West Free Church Hall for the Women's Missions.
The mortality of the burgh had been exceptionally high for a month previous owing to the excessive severity of the weather.
The question of opposing Home Rule for Ireland agitated the Unionist mind somewhat, and in furtherance of the opposition Mr. Webb, from Antrim, addressed an enthusiastic anti-Home Rule meet- ing in the Mechanics' Hall on 8th.
The Brechin Mill and Factory Operatives' Union resolved that fire and break-down allowance be included in the rules.
A large party of emigrants left Brechin en route for New York on 15th.
The annual social of the employees of the " City Press " and Stamp and Tax Office on 13th was a most enjoyable function. Mr. W. Anderson performed the duties of chairman with considerable credit to himself and all concerned. The most interesting feature of the even- ing's enjoyment was the rendering of that beautiful piece, entitled "Joe, the Ostler," which was done with true dramatic fervour by Mr. G. S. Farquharson, Brechin's world-famous elocutionist.
The grant earned by Damacre Road School was the large amount of £446 9s, and that of Union Street School £l40 9s lid. Reporcs on both schools were very satisfactory.
The Shepherds' dramatic corps gave a very realistic production of " Sudden Thoughts " and " Stage Struck " to a large attendance of the public on 15th.
The question of disposing of the old Town Hall was delayed by the Town Council pending the completion of the consolidation of the town's debt.
The question of not reappointing Mr. Foster as Burgh Assessor cropped up at the Town Council's monthly meeting, which, however, was relinquished for a resolution to enjoin Mr. Foster to give more attention to the work.
A donation of £15 was voted from the Town's Improvement Bazaar Fund toward the cost of removing the Dalhousie Fountain from the West Port to St. Ninian's Square.
Co-operative dividends were — United Association, 23 8d ; Co- operative Beef Store, 2s 4d ; Equitable Society, 28 4d.
Epitome of Local Events.
APRIL.
The reports of Mechanics Institution for the past year showed that the membership had not kept so well up as desirable.
Journeyman slaters' wages were raised from 6^d to 7d per hour. The Police Commission resolved on 8th to consult an engineer on the question of laying a duplicate water main from Trinity Reservoir to the town.
The polling for the Parish Council of Brechin took place on 2nd. There was a good deal of interest in the election, being the first of its kind. In the burghal portion 923 voters exercised their rights, and of the 27 candidates the following were the 12 successful : — Murdoch Beaton, draper, 528 ; Wm. Jamieson, photo dealer, 492 ; Gr. A. Scott, manufacturer, 489 ; David Duke, manufacturer, 484 ; Geo. Forrest, photographer, 470 ; J. M. Dunn, insurance agent, 446 ; A. R. M'Lean Murray, teacher, 422 ; James Straiton, factory worker', 481 ; Joseph Mitchell, tenter, 380 ; David Dakers, manufacturer, 362 ; John Irvine, factory worker, 362 ; VVm. Britcher, tenter, 3(50. Of the 7 candidates for the landward, the following are the five successful : — James Carnegie, farmer, 105 ; David Hume, farmer, 100 ; Allan Blacklaws, grieve, 97 ; John Clark, postmaster, 95 ; James Smith, farmer, 87.
A suggestion by Mr Laing to the Town Council that four additional baths be put into the public washing house was "left over in the meantime."
The cost of the Parish Council election was £26 13s 8d.
The Town Council voted £10 to the funds of the City Brass Band.
The cost of clearing the streets of the sn(jw during the late storms was about £125, or about Id per £1 on the rates.
The past year's grants earned by the Bank Street School was £278 16s, and that of Tenements School, £479 3s.
The total number of volumes issued from the Public Library for the past quarter was 10,067, and the total number of readers at the end of that period was 1811.
Statements made at the first annual social of the Female Court of Foresters, Careston Castle, showed that good work had been done during the year, both membership and finances being very satisfac- tory.
Primrose Day received but slight buttonhole recognition this year in the city.
Grass Parks let for the season rather higher this year, those of Vayne about 3^ per cent.
The swallow arrived here this year rather earlier than usual — first appearance, Sunday 21st.
A red letter day among the Masonic brethren in the ancient city was the 17th, on which date the Provincial Grand Lodge held its quarterly meeting in the Mechanics Hall, when inter alia the Hon. C. M. Ramsay was installed Substitute Provincial Grand Master of Forfar- shire. The brethren after their labours " refreshed " at a banquet.
A dairy class, under the auspices of the County Council, was opened at Little Brechin on 25th with most favourable prospects.
6 The Brechin Almanac and Directory for 1896.
MAY.
Operations were commenced early this month with the construction of a goods station for the Caledonian Railway, at Strachan's Park, prior, it is presumed, to the reconstruction and improvement of the company's present passenger station.
The Parochial Board, at a special meeting on 3rd, resolved to borrow temporarily from Bank the sum of £780 6s to pay the purchase of ground for cemetery extension.
The Brechin Farmers' Mart (Limited), at their first annual meeting, declared a dividend of 7^ per cent, profit on the year's transactions.
The funds of the Scottish Mill, Factory, and Bleachfield Workers' Federal Union, with which the Brechin Mill and Factory Workers' Union is federated, were stated at meeting of their Council on 4th to be £3745 16s ll^d.
At the half yearly meeting of the Brechin and Edzell Hallway Com- pany it was reported that of the £37,500 authorised stock £20,723 had been received, £10,940 unissued, and £24,704 2s 8d had been expended up to date.
The Brechin Lawn Tennis Club courts were opened on 8th in fine weather. Several sets were played, and a refreshing cup of tea was partaken of.
A farewell meeting was held in West Free Church on 8th to bid God-speed to Mr. and Mrs. John Irons on their departure as mission- aries to the Congo.
The Town Council resolved to approach the Parish Council with a view to open to the public the pathway along the north-west end of the cemetery, and of which the Parish Council are proprietors.
The sum of £2000 — part of the sum given by an unknown donor to establish the public library — was, on resolution of the Town Council, entered in town stock for annual revenue to the library.
The town's agents' expense in connection with the appeal by the North Port Distillery Company against the town's valuation of their works was £14 4s 5d.
Alterations on the public washing-house — including six new baths, in all costing £300 — were resolved on by the Town Council.
The Finance Committee of the Town Council was empowered to approach the Gas Company with a view to ascertaining whether the works could be acquired by the town.
The Town Council voted £5 towards the cost of providing a public clock to be placed in the Post Office.
The Board of Trade resolved not to proceed with the provisional order for the lighting of Brechin with electric light.
The Police Commission resolved that Pearse Street be levelled and paved, and taken over as a public street.
Of 17 samples of milk taken for analysis, 13 were of first-class quality, 3 low in fat, and 1 very low in fat — who was the vendor ?
During the lighting season 718,130 cubic feet of gas was used in the public lamps, an increase of 8823 feet as compared with previous season.
The bakeis in town raised the price of the 41b. loaf ^d.
Epitome of Local Events.
JUNE.
Mr James Smith, West Kirkby, Cheshire, a former townsman, made the handsome donation of £200 to the funds of the Brechin Infirmary.
At the Whitsunday feeing market a good deal of business was done. First horsemen got £18 to £19 ; second do., £15 to £17 ; third, £11 to £14, and boys £9 to £11.
Our townsman, Emeritus- Professor Mitchell of St. Andrews University, was presented with an illuminated address, his portrait in oil, and a cheque for £200, by his admirers after a professoriate of 46 years.
The Forfar and Brechin Railway was opened for passenger traffic on 1st curt., when the first train, consisting of 9 carriages, started from Brechin at 7.30 a.m. with 40 passengers, to which number additions were made at the various stations en, route, and arrived at Forfar in due course with 200 on board. In all, over 500 passengers went the route on the opening day. There was no demonstration further than the firing of fog signals and the gay decoration of the engine.
Mr J. Shiress Will, M.P. for these burghs, voted in 69 out of 118 divisions up to Whitsuntide.
By means of powerful screw jacks, rollers, etc., a large cart shed was removed Yankee fashion trom one part of Strachan's Park to another without so much as a pane of glass in the windows being broken. The novelty of the operation excited the interest of a large number of onlookers.
The last of the four-loom shops in Brechin, situated in Bridge Street, was gutted and ficted up as a dwelling house, there being no further use for it, the race of hand-loom weavers being almost extinct.
There were numerous samples of ripe strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries by the middle of this month.
A recommendation by the Property Committee of the Town Council to take the advice ot an architect as to the extending of the City Hall stage was agreed to.
The Police Commission made their usual holiday " inspection " of the Mooran Water Works on 17th.
Mr Laing, at the meeting of Police Commission, suggested that the town officer be instructed to see that all bottles of whisky charged for at the Commissioners annual visit to Trinity Tryst be delivered and consumed. Mr Laing is a Good Templar.
At the quarterly drill of the Burgh Fire Brigade on 22nd, a novel and interesting feature was the competitions by trios and individuals in a programme ot " events for prizes given by several citizens." The events were smartly gone about.
Mr Philip, solicitor, of Messrs Will, Philip, & Aird, was appointed legal adviser to the Parish Council.
After a long spell of scorching dry weather, rain made its much- needed and welcome appearance on 18th.
There were 203 vagrants in the burgh at the half-yearly census on Sunday evening 23rd.
One of the severest thunderstorms that has been experienced for a long time broke over the city on 26th.
JULY^
The Gaslight Company at their annual meeting on 1st declared the usual dividend of 25s per share, and continued the price of gas at 4i 7d per 1000 feet.
Dr Adams was appointed joint medical officer of the Brechin Infirmary along with Dr Parkinson.
For the quarter, Nurse Lyon, of the Victoria Nursing Association, made 591 visits.
The Salvation Army celebrated the 9th anniversary of the intro- du«tion of the corps into Brechin on 7th.
The Dalhousie Memorial Fountain was removed from its site at the Mechanics Instituta and re-erected at St. Ninian's Square, and the effect thereof is admitted to be much better than before.
A report by Mr Gale, C.E., Glasgow, on the Brechin water supply showed how this could be increased sufficiently at a roughly estimated cost of £900.
In response to advertisement, orders amounting to £20,330 were received for the £20,000 of 3 per cent, stock issued by the Corporation on security of the Commun Good.
In response to a memorial from the Police Commission, the Cale- donian Railway Company agreed to issue cheap tickets on Wednesdays for the shopkeepers' Wednesday half-holidays.
For support of the poor for year 1895-96 the Parish Council's estimates were £2873.
The result of the burghs election satisfied both Liberal and Tory — the former that their candidate had been again returned, and the latter that his majority was reduced. As regards the County election, only one side was proud — the Separatists.
The construction of the Brechin and Edzell Railway had made con- siderable progress by thi« month, and it was believed that the line would be in full operation before twelvemonths from that date had expired.
The Edzell Highland Games were as much in vogue this year as usual, and with several new attractions the whole passed off success- fully, both as attendance, competitions, or finances.
The week of midsummer holidays this year was not so enjoyable as formerly. The usual facilities as regards travelling were afforded both by rail and road, but the weather clerk behaved cruelly.
In answer to a petition by the trustees of the late Rev. Alexander Gardner of Brechin Cathedral to erect a new church in Brechin in con- nection with the Established Church in terms of Mr Gardner's will, the Established Presbytery unanimously resolved to take the necessary steps to give effect to the petition and cite all parties concerned.
Three acres of land Avith house and office in Latch Road were sold by roup on 30th for £640 — upset price, £460.
The Brechin group of the I.L.P. resolved to run a candidate for the Montrose Burghs on Socialistic principles at next election.
During the year ending with this month the number of volumes issued from the Public Library was 33,769, and there were 1658 ticket holders.
Epitome of Local Events.
AUGUST. At the first roup of growing potatoes for the season on 2nd in the district prices ranged from Is lOd to 2s 3M per fall.
The whole of the public and other schools were re-opened on 12th.
The burgh police, with their effects, on 7th removed from their old quarters in Church Street and took up their abode in the new Municipal Buildings in Bank Street. The first police court therein was held on 12th, when bails amounting to £3 17s 6d were forfeited, and 2 navvies and 1 woman were dealt with by the Provost.
Twenty acres of growing oats at Little Keithock fetched by roup at the rate of £5 15s to £6 Is 6d per acre.
The annual inspection of the burgh police was made on 10th by H.M. Inspector, who said that the force was more efficient than it used to be, Vut numerically weak, their being only one oflicer to 1300 of population. He suggested an addition of two constables.
In a Sheriff Court action by a miller against the Brechin District of County Council for damages received through insufficient fencing of a road, decree for £3 38 and £3 12s of expenses was given for pursuer.
The festival of St. Grouse opened rather inauspiciously as regards the weather, but notwithstanding an immense number of "shooters" passed through the city en route for the moors in high hopes.
A teetotal campaign, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, was held for a week, open-air meetings being addressed at various parts of the city.
The Town Council voted the sum of £81 15s 8d from the residue grant to pay off a like sum still remaining as part of the guarantee by several gentlemen for the supply of 6000 vols to the public library.
The Town Chamberlain was appointed registrar in connection with towti's debt consolidation scheme.
The magistrates, in reply to a petition by farmers and others, resolved to limit the Trinity Muir June Tryst to one day — Thursday of the usual week — instead of two days as heretofore.
Plans and a report respecting the alterations on the City Hall plat- form, etc. , were prepared and left for inspection of the Town Council to be dealt with. .
The annual exhibition by the Brechin Horticultural Society on 16th and 17th was a large, brilliant and all-round successful display.
At the quaint and ancient ceremony of awarding the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon, at the village of Little Dunmow, West Essex, a Brechin woman and her husband were awarded a flitch as one of the happy couples who had not said a "hard word" to each other for ayear and a day.
The granting of a "special license" at a Brechin cricket match was the subject of some bantering and strictures passed at the granting magistrates by some members of Town Council. The opinion of some was that if cricket could not be played without " special license " it should be left ahme.
The Parish Council empowered the Cemetery Committee to proceed with the cemetery extension without delay. The cost of ground and conveyance expenses was stated at £7^0 14s lid.
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SEPTEMBER.
Scarlet fever of a mild type was prevalent in the town at this time.
Garden plundering by youngsters was greatly prevalent. In the Police Court " admonitions " was all that was meted out to the culprits, but the application of the birch rod was advocated by a great many of the citizens.
The inmates of the City Alms House had a very enjoyable pic-nic to Edzell Castle on 5th.
A sample of this year's oats, grown on Hillhead of Burghill was sold at 208 per quarter of 42 lbs. per bushel.
Grain cutting was finished on one of the farms of Careston on 3rd — the first reported in the district.
The Caledonian Railway Company paid the sum of £17,7592 4s for the Forfar and Brechin Railway, including stations, bridges, and roads.
For the purpose of keeping up old associations, the Police Com- mission agreed that the old names of the Brechin Streets should be placed alongside the new ones — e.g., Union Street — Cadger Wynd ; School Lane — Clypes' Wynd, &c.
The Established Presbytery, at a meeting on 3rd, unanimously granted the petition of the trustees of the late Rev. Alex. Gardner to sanction and give all facilities for the erection of a new Established Church in Brechin in accordance with a bequest of Mr Gardner.
The members of the Brechin Burns Club had a very enjoyable jaunt to the Brig o' Mooran on 11th.
The Brechin Cricket Club had a fairly successful season. Of 15 matches they won 8, lost 5, and drew 2. The second eleven won 3, lost 6, and drew 3.
A question was raised in the Town Council to open up to the public the path along the north west of the Cemetery, but the Parish Council who were approached on the matter were rather obstructive.
Consequent on the old municipal buildings being vacated, the Town Council as proprietors agreed to put up the same for let.
At the annual meeting of the Diocesan Synod of Brechin on 11th, a congratulatory address was presented by the clergy to the Most Rev. the Bishop of Brechin, primus of Scotland, on the occasion of his having attained the jubilee year of his ordination.
A train of two wagons and a carriage with an invited party was, on 21st, for the first time, run on the Brechin and Edzell Railway as far as West Water, where a pic-nic was held.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Southesk entertained his tenantry to dinner in Kinnaird Castle on 18th.
A grand three days " Princess '' bazaar was held in the City Hall on 19th, 20th, and 21st in aid of the East Free Church organ fund and for hall extension. Nearly £1015 was realised.
Harvest thanksgiving services were held in St. Andrews Episcopal Church on 29th. The church was finely decorated for the occasion.
Co-operative dividends per £1 were — Equitable Society, 23 lOd for the quarter ; United Association, 2s 8d', and Beef Store, 6d for the half year respectively.
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OCTOBER.
On the Autumn Holiday the weather was clear and bracing, and a general exodus of the citizens enjoyed a splendid outing.
From the great charity demonstration held for behoof of the Infirmary and Victoria Nursing Association, the net sum of £90 was realised.
The postal officials on 7th took up their permanent quarters in the handsome building in Panmure Street erected as a post office.
A new club room, as the headquarters of the Unionist organisation in Brechin, was inaugurated with a conversazione on 2nd, when there was a brilliant assemblage and brilliant speaking.
The Directors of Brechin Infirmary intimated to Brechin District of County Council at sederant of 8th October that the arrangement for accommodation of patients from the district would close on 24th March for want of room in the institution.
For the quarter Nurse Lyon of the Victoria Nursing Association had made a total of 484 visits.
On Sunday 20th the large collection of £167 Os 4|d was made at three diets of worship in Maisondieu U. P. Church for the purpose of clearing off £120 of debt ; which was thus accomplished and a balance over.
The annual lantern parade of the Brechin Cycling Club, on the evening of 16th, was a fine fantastic show, witnessed and enjoyed by many.
A Women's Unionist Association for Brechin and District was formed on 22nd, with a large membership to start with.
After much discussion at the Parish Council anent the incidence of local taxation, it was agreed by a vote of 8 to 5 to allow the matter to lie on the table on the ground that ' ' they had not sufficient brain power to understand the question."
During this month a splendid new organ was erected in the West Free Church for congregational purposes.
At the half yearly meeting of the Brechin and Edzell Railway Company, the contractor intimated that he expected the line would be ready for goods traffic before 1st January, 1896, and shortly thereafter for passengers.
The angling on the South Esk during the season was fairly good but "nothing phenomenal."
At the annual conversazione of Lawn Tennis Club on 30th, a goodly turnout tripped the " light fantastic " with vir till the small hours of next morning.
A very interesting lecture, with limelight illustrations, on the subject of the "Martyrs and Heroes of the Scottish Covenant," was delivered in the City Road U.P. Church on 30th by Mr J. D. Duthie, London.
Lodge St. Ninian's of Free Masons met for the first time in their newly acquired and finely decorated lodge-room on 31st. It was just 100 years previous to that date that the lodge appointed a committee to look out for a suitable site for a hall ! !
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NOVEMBER.
The "ever genial" J. L. Toole paid' a visit to Brechin on 4th, and gave a production of "Thorough-Bred" and "Podgers" in the City Hall to a crowded audience. After the play was over J. L. was enter- tained to supper by the Brechin Amateur Dramatic Club.
The cycling assembly in the Mechanics' Hall on 8th was a great success, both as regards brilliancy and beauty, as well as by the big turn-out of wheelmen, who whirled their fair partners at a high-geared speed till the small hours of next murning.
Tom Mann, in a stirring lecture in the City Hall on 9Dh, expounded to a large audience " Why working-men should join the Co-operative Movement." Tom's ideas of co-operation were apparently quite diverse from those who run the Brechin dividend mills, but he was all the same appreciated.
The Parish Council, at a special meeting, adopted plans of a prij- posed extension of the cemetery, ground for which had been purchased at Smith's Bank by the Parochial Board, before demitting office, at the beginning of the year. At the same meeting a resolution that one of the conditions of contract for laying-out the cemetery be that the minimum wages be 4^d per hour was passed. This led ac a subsequent meeting to unseemly conduct on the part of certain of the members, who went the length even of swearing about it.
By the explosion of part of one of the boilers of the Paper Mill on the 9th one of the firemen, William Sheriff, was so severely scalded with the escaped steam that he succumbed to his injuries a few hours thereafter.
Although municipal election matters presented a smooth surface there was a strong under current of feeling, caused evidently by an intense desire on the part of a section of the Council to oust, or rather prevent, the return of a retiring member, who, although serviceable, was more frequently obstructive than judicious in his conduct at the board. The result of it was that that member returned not. There were five candidates for the four seats, and the polling was — Alex. Annandale, 608 ; G. Cumming, 545 ; D. Murray, 502 ; M. Beaton, 49;^ , Wm. Jamieson, 439.
The annual balance-sheet of the East Mill Company (Limited) showed the regrettable result of a total loss of £1551 2s 4d on the year's business.
Miss Imandt, one of the Dundee Courier's lady correspondents, who recently made a tour of the world, gave a very entertaining lecture on her journey, in the City Hall on 14th, for behoof of the Brechin Infirmary and the Victoria Nursing Association.
The cost of printing this year's valuation roll of the burgh was £13 16s, as per estimate.
The Local Government Board sanctioned the Police Commission's resolution to adopt the Notification of Diseases (Scotland) Act.
A splendid organ of 918 pipes having been erected in West Free Church the inauguration took place on 15th, when selections on the instrument and concert of vocal pieces was also given to a large audience.
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©bitoarg ^ctiaB.
F. B. PATON OF CAIRNBANK.
Mr Paton was the eldest son of Provost George Paton, who was one of the original members of the now well-known firm of Messrs J. & Gr. Paton, niillspinners. His late father along with his brother, Mr John Paton, might be said to have, in a large measure, established the mill- spinning business m Montrose. He was born in 1815 on the day when the bells in the old steeple rang out a joyous peal on account of the victory at Waterloo. He received his education at the Montrose Academy, and when a young man went out to India and became a partner in a leading firm of merchants in Calcutta. Possessed of great natural busmess faculties Mr Paton proved himself a most valuable partner of the firm, and in what may be looked upon now as a com- paratively short period earned such a competency that he was able to return home early in the 60's. On his return to Montrose he married the eldest daughter of Surgeon Major Craigie, H.E.I. O.S., and took up his residence at Turin House, Aldbar, and afterwards at Bellevue, Hillside. He also acquired the estate of Aucharroch, Kingoldrum, and improved that estate very much by planting. He disposed of it in 1878, having previously succeeded to the estate of Cairnbank, near Brechin, which formerly belonged to his relative, Captain Edward Whyte Smith, of the F. and K. Militia Artillery. He was long, one of the Directors of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum and Infirmary, in the management of which institution he took a deep interest, and for a considerable length of time occupied the important position of Convener of the House Committee of the Asylum. A pleasant featui'e in the deceased's character was the universal courtesy which he ex- tended to all classes of the community. He died after a short, but severe illness on 21st December, 1893, aged 80.
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
Fob the long period of forty- six years Mr Mitchell occupied the same premises in St. David Street as a shoemaker, doing a quiet, but sub- stantial old-style business, and through all these years that he has gone in and out, he was ever the same in life and in character — quiet, industrious, shrewd, and circumspect, always pursuing the even tenor of his way. He was no boastful man, but one who took his place steadily and yet with purpose unflinching in the storm or sunshine of life. He had convictions, formed in knowledge and reason, and these he stood by through evil and through good report. These characteris- tics were marked during the time he held office in the Town Council. He was the oldest established tradesman in Brechin at the time of his death, which occurred on 3rd February, 1895, at an advanced age.
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DR. JOHN MAOKIE.
Dr. Mackie was a native of Brechin, his father being the late Dr. Mackie, who died in 1889. On completing his education here he pro- ceeded to Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine, and graduated as M.D. and L.R.O.IS. m 1863. He then proceeded to Southampton, where he acted as assistant to a resident medical man for about a year, when lie returned to Brechin and entered into partnership with his late father. He rapidly gained for himself a high reputation as a skilful physician and surgeon. By his earnest, active, and unwearied attention to his duties, and keeping abreast of his arduous profession, he very soon gamed the entire conlidence and esteem of all classes, and liis father was relieved of his more exhausting duties. Indeed it is not too much to say that he became one of the beat known medical practitioners throughout the county, and many came from considerable distances to consult him in cases ot a serious nature. The good old practice gradually grew so large that the services of an assistant were found necessary, and ultimately a partner. Dr. Mackie held several important public offices. He was medical superintendent of the Brechin Inhrmary, was niedical officer of the burgh, and also parocliial doctor for several of the parishes in the district. He was un officer of the 2nd Angus Volunteers, holding the rank of Surgeon Lieut. - Colonel. Besides being a skilful doctor, he was possessed of no mean talent as an artist, and at various bazaars and otiier functions in the Ancient City most creditable specimens of his artistic work were disposed of. He had also considerable literary ability, and many will remember the able, clear, attractive and instructive lectures he delivered in connection with the ambulance classes. He died suddenly on 24th March 1895, in the 53rd year of his age.
B. M. BISSET, V.S.
Mk. Bisset was a native of Brechin, being a son of the late James Bisset, innkeeper and V.S., Market Street. He received his early education in Brechin, and served an apprenticeship with Mr. Hodgeton, chemist, and afterwards for some time followed that profession in Edinburgh and Bo'ness. Later he resolved to qualify for practice in veterinary surgery, and with that object in view he entered Dick's College Edinburgh, where he prosecuted his studies under the able tuition of Professor Dick, and m due course passed, and received the diploma of M.R.C.V.S. He then, in 1864, commenced practice in Brechin and district. Soon after he met with a serious gun accident, which deprived him to a great extent of the use of his riglit hand. On the death of Mr. Taylor, V.S., he took over the blacksmith business carried on by that gentleman in City Road, which Mr. Bisset had con- tinued for 27 years. In his V.S. practice Mr. Bisset had for a con- siderable number of years been efficiently assisted by his brother, Mr. James Bisset. As already indicated Mr. Bisset was recognised as a nost skilful surgeon, and, rising to eminence in his profession, he enjoyed a practice which extended over a wide district. After a pro- tracted illness he died on 1st May 1895, in the 50th year of his age.
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J, 0. INVERARITY
Was a native of Brechin. For eighteen years he had been in the employment of Messrs C. &, W. Anderson, for the greater portion of that period holding the position of cashier, and for a considerable period was inspector of poor for Stracathro. During the winter Mr Inverarity had a severe attack of influenza, and had recovered to some extent, but subsequently caught a chill, and removed to Lethnot for the benefit of a change only a few days previous to his death, the end coming somewhat suddenly. He was secretary of the Brechin Cricket Club, and was a first-class player. He was treasurer of the United Co- operative Society, and took a great interest in tem[)erance matters. He was also the prime mover for several years in the Saturday evening entertainments, and in recognition of his unwearied efi'orts was pre- sented with a handsome marble timepiece. Of a quiet and loveable disposition he endeared himself to all, and gained for himself a large circle of friends. He was 40 years of age at the time uf demise, which occurred on 26th June, 1895.
REV. HUGH AIRD, D.D.
Was born in Glasgow on 3rd November, 1824. After receiving a fair education he was apprenticed under a firm of upholsterers, Messrs White & Son, Glasgow, serving with them from 1837 to 1844. At the close of his apprenticeship he attended classes at the Anderston College and Glasgow University from 1844 to 1851, graduating M.A. in the latter year. At Glasgow he was a prize man in moral philosophy, and after being a session at a German University and completing his Divinity course, he was called by the City Road U. P. Church, Brechin. Dr Aird preached his " trial " discourse before the U.P. Presbytery of Arbroath in Brechin on Tuesday, 16th January, 1855, the ordination took place on Wednesday the 31st, and of those who took part in the proceedings our deceased friend was the last survivor. He was intro- duced on the following Sabbath by the Rev. Mr (afterwards Dr) Ker of Glasgow, and preached his first discourse in the afternoon. On the occasion of his semi-jubilee (29th November, 1879) Dr Aird was pre- sented with a purse of sovereigns and an illuminated address by his warmly -attached congregation. On 26th April, ] 889, the Senatus of Glasgow University conferred on him the degree of D.D. in recognition of his schuhirly attainments and his abilities as a commentator, which were widely acknowledged. The Doctor ever took an energetic, warm, and practical interest in all local affairs. He was for six years — from 1873 to 1879 — a member of the Burgh School Board, holding the office of Chairman during the latter three years. In the Parochial Board he also did much good work ; he was Chairman of the Brechin Savings Bank, and was the first to promote, by practical and powerful speeches, the principles of co-operation in Brechin. He had been enjoying a holiday at Forres, where, on Sunday, 1st July, 1895, he officiated for the Rev. Mr Watson, apparently in his usual health. At the end of the service he was taken ill, and gradually becoming worse he was, on 11th July, removed home to Brechin, where he died on 18th, aged 70 years.
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JAMES BAXTER, -BUILDER,
Was a native of Brechin, being son of Mr. John Baxter, for long a builder in the city. He received his elementary education in his native town, and afterwards served an apprenticeship with, and learned the profession of, his father. On the latter resolving to devote the whole of his attention to farming, Mr. James took over the extensive building business on his own account. Mr. Baxter was a thorough and painstaking tradesman, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of all with whom he had business connection. His knowledge of architecture — ancient and modern— was remarkable, and having read and studied carefully and widely, he was able to apply his knowledge to good pur- pose. He carried out numerous important contracts throughout the district, and only some weeks before his death he was announced as being the successful contrac tor for the large additions to Sunnyside Asylum. He had for a considerable time been in rather poor health, and latterly getting weaker died on 17th July 1895, at the age of 41.
THOMAS NICOLL
Was born in the parish of Menmuir in 1805. He learned the blanket weaving when quite young at Inveriscandy Mill, and afterwards went to Galashiels. He then settled in Brechin in 1840 as salesman in the Co-operative Association. He was married in 1842 to Mary Skea, a farmer's daughter, at Montboy. A short time after his marriage he became manager of the refreshment rooms for working men in Union Street, which he carried on successfully for 12 years. He then started business as grocer in St. Mary Street, and from which he had retired for a considerable period after having acquired a competency. Mr. NicoU was a real old merchant of the old school, and was very fre- quently to be seen behind the counter in a striped Kilmarnock night cap, but was a conscientious dealer in all respects. Those who wanted a real good article could depend on getting it from " Tammas " at a good price all the same. He was a most unobtrusive man in all things, but had a keen eye and ear to all that was going on, and could draw a sound inference therefrom. He was possessed of a fine cheery, pawky manner of expressing himself, and, moreover, being possessed of a wide knowledge and intelligence a "crack" with Tammas, as with one belonging to a past generation, was a treat to be enjoyed. He was a staunch supporter of th*- Auld Kirk, and in fact was the oldest member of the Kirk Session. He died on 9th August 1895, at the great age of 90.
JOHN MACKAY
Was a native of Arbroath, although for long resident in Brechin. In his youth he served in the Royal Navy, and had seen some active ser- vice, having been with the Baltic fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Charles Napier during the Crimean War, and took part in the cap- ture of Bomarsund. At the time of his death he held the appointment of bell-ringer and " minister's man " at Brechin Cathedral. His death was the result of an accident which occurred on 7th December, 1895.
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ProfeBBtiJUB anb %x^zb ^ixttUx^.
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Note. — The Publishers have made every endeavour to ensure correctness in this Liat. Omissions or inaccuracies on being pointed out will be corrected for next year.
Aerated Water Manufacturers. Lamb Brothers, 32 City road
Architects.
Fettis, William, 31 St. David street
Auctioneers.
Brechin Auction Co. (Ltd.), Swan st. Anderson, George, 42 City road Law, W. M., St. Ninian Place
Bakers.
Aitken Brothers, Montrose street Belford, Alex., 28 High street Belford, John, Market street Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety (Limited), Montrose street Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation (Limited), Witchden road Crockett, Alex., Montrose street Fleming, John, 112 High street Gellatly, J., 45 High street Low, Alex., 76 High street Milne, T. L., 31 High street Peddie, J. M. (pastry), St. David st. Ritchie, James, 26 Montrose street
Bicycle Hirers.
Bain, — Market street Duncan, John, St Mary at. Hutchison, John, Union street Milne, D., Montrose street Scott, Wm., Bridge street
Billposters. Henderson, G., Market street
Blacksmiths.
Bisset & Douglas, 48 City road Davidson, Alexander, River street Duncan, John, St. Mary st
Oswald, John, Jr. , Damacre road Sherret, D., 6 Clerk street
Bleachers.
East Mill Company, Limited Inch Bleaching Company
Booksellers and Stationers.
BLACK & JOHNSTON, 40 High st. Alexander, W. & D., 41 High street Alexander, William, St. David street Batchelor, J. T., Swan street Mackie, D. B., High street
Boot and Shoemakers.
Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited, 36 High street Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation, Limited, High street Brechin, M. A., 5 Church street Clark, John, 17 High street Collie, John, 36 Market street Cooper, J., 11 Bridge street Findlay, J., Church street Gall, George, 12 High street Jenkins, Jas., 6 Swan street Kidd, Ramsay, High street Sherret, John, 15 Market street, and 35 Montrose street
Brewer. Ireland, Thomas, North Port
, Brokers.
Barrie, Jas., 7 Bridge street Ferrier, James, 93 River street Low, David, 27 River street Meldrum, J. B., 59 High street Whitlaw, David, High street Falconer, J., Nursery lane
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Builders & Quarrymasters. Baxter, James, Park road Crabb, David, East bank Crockett, Alex., Montrose street Smart, David, 36 Bridge street
Butchers.
Anderson Brothers, City road Brechin United and Equitable Co- operative Beef Stores, 33 Montrose atreet and 42 High street Gardyne, John, 53 Montrose street Reid & Barrie, 58 High street Do. Market street
Reid, J., 5 High street Strachan, J., 16 High street Aberdeen Meat Coy., High street
Carters. CroU, Jas., Railway Station Hood, John, Railway Station
Chimney Sweeps. Smith, William, Bridge street
China and Glass Dealers. Ferrier, James, 93 River street Lawrie, Elizabeth, 98 High street Low, David, 27 River street Meldrum, J. B., 59 High street Sharpies, Joseph, 28 Bridge street Whitlaw, David, High street Wilson, John, Southesk terrace
Coach Builders. Simpson & Mitchell, Clerk street M'Gregor, J., Southesk terrace
Coal Merchants.
Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited, Railway Station Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation, Limited, Railway Station Oroll, Jas., Railway Station Hood, John, Railway Station Muir, Son, & Paton, Rly. Station Taylor, Robert, Railway Station
Confectioners. Belford, Alex., 28 High street Belford, J., Market street
Bruce, Miss, St. David street Fairweather, Miss, High street Fleming, John, 112 High street Gellatly, J., 45 High street Hogg, Miss, Union street Johnston, Miss, Montrose street Milne, T. L., 31 High street Mitchell, Peter, 54 High street. Peddie, J. M., 24 St. David street Peterkin, J., 9 High street
Corn Merchant.
Milne, George, Swan street
Cooper.
Fyffe, William, Black Bull close
Cowfeeders and Dairymen.
Clark, David, Newington lane Eggo, Misses, Park road Finnic, T., Latch road Hampton, W., Montrose street Jervis, Mrs., City road Mitchell, James, Andover Hill Robertson, Jas., Southesk terrace Smart, George, Townhead Wood, Alexander, Montrose street
Dentists.
Bower, D. , Market street Grant, John S., Southesk street Spence, David, Swan street Stewart, Dr., Clerk street
Distillers.
Guthrie, Martin, & Co., Limited,
North Port Glencadam Distillery Company
Drapers.
Bisset, P. M., 35 St. David street Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited, St. David street Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation, Limited, High stree t Callander, George, 6 Bridge street Christie, James, 3 High street Duncan, J. L., Swan street Ford, J. & W., 24 High street
Gardyne, J., 14 Market street Hendry & Gardiner, St. David street Hillocks, Mrs., 42 Montrose street Jamieson, J., & Co., High street Kennedy, Mrs., High street Lindsay, J. S., 20 High street Miller, Misses, St. David street Mitchell Brothers, 20 Swan street Mitchell, Misses, High street M'Kenzie, Alex., 14 High street Morgan, Robert, 15 High street Small, M. & J., Market street
Dressmakers, Milliners, &c.
Those marked * are Milliners only.
Adamson, Miss, Clerk street Anderson, Miss, 12 River street Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited, St. David street Bruce, Miss, High street Brechin United Go-Operative Associ- ation, Limited, High street Cranua, Miss Mary, Market street Drummie, Miss, Union street Duncan, Miss, Higli street Duncan, Mrs., 38 High street Edwards, Miss, High street Edwards, Misses, 55 Southesk street Edwards, Miss, 12^ Bridge street Edwards, Miss, Kinnaird Place Gardyne, Mrs., 14 Market street Gillespie, Misses, Park place Gray, Miss, Church Lane Grimm, Miss, 27 Southesk street Grubb, Mrs., Market street Hampton, Miss, River street Hendry & Gardiner, St. David street Herschell, Miss, 34 High street Hillocks, Misses, 42 Montrose street Houston, M. G., Ann terrace Kennedy, Mrs., High street Mitchell Brothers, 20 Swan street Mitchell, Mrs. D., River street Mitchell, Miss, Castle street Morgan, Robert 15 High street Morrison, Mrs., 60 High street Muckart, Miss, St. Andrew street NicoU, Miss B., Clerk street Nicoll, Misses, River Street NicoU Miss, 66 Market street Ogg, Misses, High street *Rattray, Miss, .33 Sfc. David st.
Riddel, Miss, Damacre road *Shaw, Miss, 17 St. David street Small, Miss, 72 Market street *Smart, Miss, 93 High street Smith, Misses, 19 Southesk street Sutherland, Miss, 25 High street *Willock8, Misses, 35 High street Young, Miss, 13 Clerk street
Druggists.
Perrier, W. M., 4 St. David st. Hodgeton, D,, 8 High street Mackie, George, 51 High street
Dyer.
Britcher, James, 20 Market street
Fish Dealer.
Corral, James, High street Lindsay, W., High street
Fishing Tackle Makers.
Clift, Alexander, 40 St. David street Murray, David, .Jun. , St. David st. Steel, W., Market street
Flax Spinners. The East Mill Company, Limited
Fruit Merchants and Green- Grocers.
Brown Bella Montrose street Bruce, Miss, St. David street Duncan, James Channonry wynd Knowles D. C, 8 Market street Mitchell & Son, Swan street Scott, J. G., High Street Soutter, Mrs. James, 64 High street Stewart, Bella, 61 High street
Furniture Dealers.
Barrie, Jas., 7 Bridge street Cooper, D., Maisondieu lane Davidson, Wm,, St. Andrew st.
Game Dealers.
Cooper, Jonathan, 77 High street Corral, Jas., 95 High street Findlay, Miss, Market st. Lindsay, W., High street
Gardeners (Jobbing).
Gray, J., City nursery Hax'die, J., Crocket's buildings Johnston, James, High street King, John, Channonry wynd Scott, James, Montrose street Whitton, David L., Kintrockat
Gardeners (Market).
Clark, David, Newington lane Duncan, James, Channonry wynd Gray, John, City nursery
General Dealers.
Barrie, Jas., 7 Bridge street Hutchison, John, Union street Nicol, Alex., 44 Bridge street Robertson, .James, Southesk terrace Sharpies, Joseph, 28 Bridge street Smith, A. H., Swan street
General Jobber. Dunn, John M., Montrose street
Grocers (not Licensed).
Anderson, J. (Wholesale), 69
Market street Barron, Mrs., Damacre road Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited — 17 River street ; Montrose street ; 1 St. David street ; 71 High street ; Southesk street. Office, 73 High street Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation, Limited — South Port ; 9 St. David street ; River street ; and 1 Witchden road. Office — Witchden road Oallendar, Robert, 108 High street Dunn, Mrs., 2 St. Mary street Fraser, David, 75 Montrose street
Glen, Janet, River street Gourlay, J., Market street Grieve, A., Church street Hill, Jane, River street Hunter, Mary, High street Kinnear, M. C, 26 Market street Laing, J., 141 Montrose street Lawrie, Elizabeth, 98 High street Milne, B. S., Union street M'Laren, Mrs., St. .James' place Neish, Mrs., Market street Ogilvie, Grant, 19 Market street Paterson, May, Union street Scott, James, 44 Bridge street Small, M. & J., 70 Market street Smith, David, River street. Soutter, Mrs. James, 64 High street Stewart, Mrs., Trinity road Wallace, Mrs., .33 Church street Young, Wm., 11 City road
Grocers (Licensed).
Black, Robert, Market street Buchan, W., 38 Union street Cairncross, W. H., 39 St David street Hampton, R., 1 High street Hodgeton, D., 8 High street Knowles, D. C., 8 Market street McMann, John, 100 High street Matthew, William, 44 High street Meiklejohn, H., 11 Market street Mitchell, C, & Son, Swan street Mitchell, P., 4 HigR street Petrie, John, 24 River street Scott, John G., 27 High street Scott, William, 55 High street Shaw, J., 17 Union street Smart, William N., 69 High street Thomson, Robt., 159 Montrose street Wish art, David, 17 City road
Gunsmith. Murray, David, Jun., St. David st.
Hairdressers.
Bell, J., High street Clift, Alexander, 40 St. David street Smith, J., 103 High street Spence, David, 8 Swan street Sutherland, N., 30 Market street
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Hatters.
Birse, Mrs., 18 Swan street Taylor, David, 89 High street
Horsehirers.
Grieg, J., Brown Horse hotel
Knowles, C, Crown hotel
Manson & Sod, Wm., Paiimiire street
and Commercial Stables Taylor, James, Star stables
Hotels.
Greig, J., Brown Horse Hotel,
Market street and Clerk street Hood, Chas., Trinity Village Jolly, J., Black Horse Hotel,
Clerk street Knowles, Miss, Crown Hotel, St.
David street Pirie, Alexander, Commercial Hotel,
Clerk street Steele, David, Star Hotel, Southesk
street Wood, James, Dalhousie Hotel,
Market street
Ice Cream Merchant.
Gardyne, Orland, High street
Innkeepers, &c.
Burnett, J., Exchange Inn, 10 Church
street Christie, Walter C. , Bed Lion Tavern,
Montrose street Fearn, James, Rob Roy Tavern,
River street Ireland, Thomas, (Porter and Ale),
North port Macdonald, John, West End Bar, 44
St. David street M 'Arthur, Mrs., North Port Tavern,
Gallowhill Mitchell, Mrs., (Porter and Ale),
46 High street Muckart, J., 73 Montrose street Murray, Robert, The Eagle Inn,
105 High street Smart, G. (Porter and Ale only),
Park road
Smith, Robt. (Porter and Ale), South
Port bar Spark, Alex., City Royal Tavern,
City road Stevenson, George, Railway Tavern,
7 Damacre road Traill, John, Cross Guns, Market
street
Inspector of Weights and Measures. Law, Alexander, Clerk street
Insurance and other Agents.
Anderson, C. & W., St. Mary street — for Caledonian Insurance Coy. (Fire) ; Scottish Widows' Fund ; and Phoenix Fire Insurance Coy.
Jamieson, T. A. — for the Singer Sewing Machine Coy.
Black & Johnston, High street — Advertising & Emigration Agents
Black, J., Clydesdale Bank — for the North British and Mercantile In- surance Company
Burnett, William City road — for the Scottish Legal Life Assur- ance Society
Campbell, Andrew, Market street — for the Caledonian Fire and Life Insurance Coy., and Sickness and Accident Insurance Coy.
Clift, Alexander, St. David street — for Singers' Sewing Machines
Craig, James, Swan street — for the North British and Mercantile In- surance Company
Croll, J., Railway Station — Cart- ing Agent to N. B. Railway Co.
Gumming, Gregor, St. David street — for the Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, Life Assocation of Scotland, London & North British Plate Glass Assurance Company, Scottish Employers' Liability and Accident Assurance Coy . , and Allan and State Line Coy.
Don, James, St. David street — for the Sun Fire Insurance Company, and City of Glasgow Life Assur- ance Company
Elliot, Robert— for Caledonian Rail- way Coy.
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Ferguson & Hood, Swan street — for the Howe, Willcox & Gibb, and Standard Sewing Machines Fettis, William, St. David street — for the Lancashire Fire and Life Insurance Company Ford, J. & W., 24 High street— for Stevenson Bros., Dyers & Cleaners, Dundee Forrest, George, — for Royal Liver
Friendly Society Craig, James, Swan street — for the National Guarantee Associa- tion, Limited Gordon & Lamb, Swan street — for the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Guthrie, David, & Sons, Swan street — for the Northern Assurance Co. (Fire and Life) Guthrie, James, Swan street — for the Scottish Provident (Life) ; Royal Insurance Coy. (Life and Fire) ; Caledonian Insurance Coy. (Life and Fire) ; London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company Henderson, W., 2 Panmure street —
for Prudential Assurance Coy. Hodgeton, D., 8 High street — for W. & A. Gilbey, Wine and Spirit Merchants, London Hood, John, 63 Southesk street — Carting Agent to Caledonian Rail- way Company Kennedy, Mrs., High street — for J.
E. M'Lure, Dyers, Arbroath Mackie, D. B., 56 Montrose st. — for the Caledonian Insurance Coy. (Life and Fire). Mackay, L., Damacre road — for
the Prudential Assurance Co. Milne, George, Swan street — for the
Blaydon Manure Company Scott, James, Panmure street — for Scottish Amicable, Economic, United Temperance, and General Life ; Caledonian Fire Insurance Coy. ; Cunard Steam Ship Coy. Shiell & Don, St. David street — for the Scottish Union and National Fire Insurance Co. ; Scottish Equi- table Life Assurance Society ; and Accident Assurance Company
Small, M. & J., 70 Market street— for PuUar & Sons, Dyers, Perth
Smith, David, Goods Station — for the N. B. Railway Company
Strachan, A. K., High street — for Perth Dye Works
Todd, David, Black Bull close — for Patent Heddles
Vallentine, W. M., Clerk street— for the Scottish Accident Insurance Co. ; Equitable Fire Insurance Co. ; Equitable Guarantee and Accident Co. ; Standard Life Assurance Co. ; The Insurance Company of Scot- land; and Queen Fire and Life Insurance Company
Watt, W. Watson, 5 Union st.— for for the Equitable Fire Insurance Coy. ; The Sickness and Accident Insurance Coy. ; West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company; and London Edinburgh and Glas- gow Insurance Coy. ; Security Coy. Ltd ., for Burglary Insurance ; and Beaver and Shire Line Steam Ships Watt, William, & Sou, 5 Union street — for the Lancashire Fire and Insurance Company; Scottish Plate Glass Insurance Company ; and Boiler Insurance Company, Ltd. ; also House Agents Will, Philip, & Aird, Panmure st. — for North British and Mercantile Insurance Coy. ; Royal Insurance Coy. ; and English and Scottish Law Insurance Association
Iron Founders. More & Dargie, Montrose street
Ironmongers.
Ferguson & Hood, Swan street Napier, William, 21 High st. Samson, James, 104 High street Smith, John, St. David street
Joiners and Cabinetmakers. Black, William, & Son, 20 Clerk
street Bruce, Walter, Southesk street Christie & Cameron, 12 Clerk
street Cooper, D., Maisondieu lane
Professions and Trades Diredoiy.
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Coutts, James, 44 Union street Davidson, Wm., 1 St. Andrew at. Dures, James, Jun., Damacre road Ogilvie, George, 58 Montrose
street Reid, Joseph, 90 Market street Watt, Wm., & Son, Union street
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Manufacturers (Power-Loom).
Duke, D. & E,., Den Burn Works Lamb & Scott, Caldhanie Works Smart, J. & J., Valley Works
Manufacturer (Hand-Loom). Dakers, David, 92 High street
Manure Merchants.
Brechin Agricultural &, Trading Co.
Ltd., Park road Milne, George, Swan street
Medical Practitioners.
Adam, T. B., and Robertson, H. M.,
37 Church street Anderson, John, Park road Leishman, Thomas, Castle street Myles, Thomas P., 1 Castle street Parkinson, T. W., Westwood Robertson, H. M., 37 Church street Watt,
Monumental Masons.
Baxter, James, Park road Hunter, Wm., Southesk street
Musicsellers
BLACK & JOHNSTON, 40 High st. HoUingworth, J. & H., Panmure st. Alexander, W. & D., High street
Music Teachers.
Blackball, Miss, Southesk street Brown, John, Montrose street Crabb, Misses, Church street Edlington, J. A., 11 Panmure st. HoUingworth, J. & H., Panmure st. Lindsay, Professor, Edzell— Orders,
cjo Black & Johnston Murray, Miss, High school Murray, J. C, Latch road
News Agents.
BLACK & JOHNSTON, 40 High st. Alexander, William, St. David street Batchelor, J. T., Swan street Bell, John, High street Mackie, D. B., 95 High street
Newspaper Reporters.
Darroch, J., High street — iov Dundee
Advertiser and People's Journal Napier, George, 32 Union street — for
Montrose Standard and Aberdeen
Journal Watt, W. W., 5 Union street,—
for Daily Mail, Glasgow Herald
and Aberdeen Free Press
Painters.
Bruce, Wm., 43 Market street Hutcheon, David, Swan street Middleton, J. C, 12 Market street Nichol, William, 27 St. David street
Paper Makers.
Guthrie, Craig, Peter, & Co., Brechin Paper Mills
Photographers.
Forrest, George, Damacre road Ireland, M., Bank street Milne, James, Southesk street
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Plasterefs.
Farquharson, G., Channonry wynd Gibson, James, Clerk street Thomson, W. & C, Commerce street
Plumbers and Gasfltters.
Cuthbert, George, Summerbank lane Kinnear, Jas., & Son, 27 Market st. Middleton, C, & Son, 30 Market st.
Potato Merchants.
Adam, Thomas, Montrose street Allison, John, City road Barrie, Jas., 7 Bridge street Beam, James, Bridge street Duncan, J., Channonry wynd Laing, James, 141 Montrose st. Nairn, William, Bridge sti-eet Smith, David, River street Young, W., City road
Printers.
BLACK & JOHNSTON, 40 High st. Alexander, W. & D., 41 High street Edwards, D. H., Brechin Advertiser office
Rag Dealers.
Ferrier, James, 93 River street Low, David, 27 River street Meldrum, J. B., High street Stewart, Wm., Bridge street Whitlaw, David, High street
Reedmaker. Todd, David, Black Bull close
Refreshment Rooms.
Bruce, Miss, St. David street Fairweather, Miss, High street Hunter, Mary, High street Laing, Mrs., Montrose street Lyon, James, 9 Union street Milne, B. S., Union street Mitchell, Mrs., 46 High street Smart, G., Park road
Ropespinner. Finlay, Robert, Montrose street
Saddlers. Braid, H., & Co., Panmure street Davidson, J., 19 St. David street Morrison, A., 34 St. David street
Seedsmen &. Nurserymen.
Dickson & TurnbuU, St. David street Gray, John, City nursery Henderson & Sons, Den nursery Jackson, D., Westbank Young, James, 16 Swan street
Servants' Registry Oflfices.
Gardyne, Mrs., 14 Market street M'Laren, Mrs., St. James' place M'Omie, Robert, 57 Market street Smith, Miss, High street
Sheriff-Officer.
Watt, W. W., 5 Union street Watt, P. Watson, Union street
Slaters.
Davidson, John, Southesk street
Fraser, Wm., City road
Scott, Mrs. James, 48 Market street
Solicitors.
Anderson, C. & W., St. Mary street Black, John, Panmure street Gordon & Craig, 2 Market street Guthrie, T. Maule, Royal Bank Scott, James, 7 Clerk street Shiell & Don, 14 St. David street Shiell, D. G., 14 St. David street Steedman, R. A., Swan street Thomson, Alex., Swan street Will, Philip, & Aird, 16 Panmure st.
Tailors and Clothiers.
Birse, Mrs. John, 14 Swan street Bowman, A., 26 St. David street Brechin Equitable Co-Operative So- ciety, Limited, St. David street Brechin United Co-Operative Associ- ation, Limited, High street
Professions and Trades Directory.
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Craig, Alex., & Co., Church street Eaton, Charles, Montrose street Hampton, Alex., 21 Montrose street Hodge, Wm., & Son, 4 Swan street Jamieson, J., & Co., 20 High st. Keith, Wm., Market street Smart, D. K., St. David street Strachan, A. K. , 63 High street Taylor, David, 89 High street
Tanner.
Wood, Alexander, 16 River street
Tea Merchants.
Anderson, John, 69 Market st. Campbell, Alex., Montrose street Jack, James, 19 Southesk street London and Newcastle Tea Coy.,
87 High street Mitchell, C, 78 Market street Mitchell, Misses, High street
Tinsmiths.
Cooper, William, 115 River street Ferguson & Hood, Swan street Samson, James, 104 High street
Tobacconists. Bell, J., High street
More, Maggie, Montrose street Ogilvie, Miss, Market street Smith, Miss, 32 High street Smith, W., 75 High street Spence, D., 8 Swan street Stewart, Annie, St. Ninian place Stratton, G-., 39 High street Walker, William, 11 High street
Upholsterers.
Black, W. & Son, 20 Clerk st. Bruce, Walter, Bank street Christie & Cameron, 12 Clerk
street Cooper, D., Maisondieu lane Davidson, W., 1 St. Andrew st.
Veterinary Surgeon.
Gumming,
McLaren, L., 39 City road
Watchmakers & Jewellers.
Clift, J., 36 St. David street Duncan, J., 4 St. James' plaoe Guthrie, G., 18 Swan streat Hutchison, John, Union street Mitchell, John, 20 High streat Sharpies, J., Bridge street
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Dr. E. B. Sheriffs . D. Leighton, Bearehill . Jas. Hood, manufacturer A. Mather, Cadger Wynd David Mitchell, W. Port Rt. Rev. Bishop Moir, D.D. Rev. N. Morren W. Peterkin, confectioner John Ruxton, distiller . George Scott, builder Rev. J. Brewster, Craig . J. Burnet, Bother's Close Wm. Crofts, gaoler Rev, James Goodwin James Hebenton, teacher A. Mitchell, N. Careston Jos. W. Ross, auctioneer
D. Shires3,Channonry Wy'd R. Adamson, M. Drums . James Baxter, brewer
J. Chalmers, Gold's Yards
E. J. C. Duncan, merchant Rev. James Gray .
Jas. Lawrence, N. Port . David Smart, slater Jas. Marnie, of Deuchar Sir Jas. Carnegie, Bart.,
of Kinnard . James Craig, beadle William Low, Cross Patrick Wallace, merchant John Symmers, dyer W. Mustard, of Viewbank Geo. Ross, N. P. Distillery David Scott, of Springfield Alex. Don, Ballownie L. B. Douglas, sheriff of
Fifeshire John Duke, bleacher Ben. Mitchell, Fettercairn Colin Rickard, merchant Rev. W. Gerard, Stracathro Sir John Gladstone, Bart. ,
of Fasque Dr. Joseph Hobb, R.N.
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Died |
Age |
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1846 |
39 |
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1846 |
63 |
|
1846 |
51 |
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1847 |
92 |
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1847 |
— |
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1847 |
70 |
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1847 |
49 |
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1847 |
71 |
|
1847 |
25 |
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1847 |
91 |
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1847 |
70 |
|
1847 |
76 |
|
1847 |
54 |
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1847 |
48 |
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1847 |
53 |
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1848 |
72 |
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1848 |
67 |
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1848 |
77 |
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1848 |
81 |
|
1848 |
|
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1848 |
60 |
|
1848 |
57 |
|
1848 |
77 |
|
1848 |
54 |
|
1849 |
97 |
|
1849 |
74 |
|
1849 |
50 |
|
1849 |
71 |
|
1849 |
79 |
|
1849 |
78 |
|
1850 |
88 |
|
1850 |
69 |
|
1850 |
50 |
|
1850 |
62 |
|
1850 |
68 |
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1850 |
|
|
1850 |
55 |
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1851 |
63 |
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1851 |
51 |
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1851 |
53 |
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1851 |
74 |
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1851 |
36 |
Died Age Wm. Don, tool maker . 1851 73 Right Hon. Lord Panmure
(William Maule) . . 1852 James Peter, "Laird" . 1852 G. Singers, blacksmith . 1852 D. Henderson, D. Nursery 1852 D. Reid Baillie, tanner, . 1852 W. Hood, gunsmith . 1852 A. Lawson, camb-builder 1852 Rev. John White, Lethnot 1853 James Speid, of Ardovie 1853 John Cairncross, merchant 1853 Robert Don, carpenter . 1853 Dr. Alex. Mather . .1854 Assist. Adj. -General Hon.
Lauderdale Maule . 1854 Capt. R. Barclay, of Ury 1 854 Patrick Chalmers, of Aldbarl854 David Guthrie, merchant 1854 Wm. Hunter, teacher . 1S54 Dr. James Laing , , 1854 Rev. D. Lyell, Careston . 1854 D. Reid, carpenter, N. Port 1855 Jas. Scott, N.P. Distillery 1855 John Smart, bleacher . 1855 James Crabb, painter . 1855 Thomas Don, carpenter . 1855 Wm. Gordon, solicitor . Joseph Hume, M.P. Wm. Rickard, auctioneer Colin Smith, agent Wm. Gordon, draper Wm. Licklie, Swan Street 1856 Jas. Mustard, Leuchland 1857 George Bain, watchmaker Rev. John Eadie, Dun . Walter Ferrier, carrier . Alex. Laing (Poet) Alex. Leighton, Drumcairn 1857 Rev. J. S. Memes, LL.D.,
Hamilton . . . 1858 R. Wyllie, Pearse Street 1858 James Wyllie, M. Edzell 1858 Robert Millar, builder . 1858
1855 1855 1856 1856 1856
1857 1857
1857 1857
Willie Gunn, "Almanacs" 1858
Half-Century Obituary.
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Died Ag«
David Mathers, S. Port . 1859 73 Hon. William Maule of
Maiilesden . . . 1S59 49
Prof. J. P. Nichol, LL.D. 1859 55
Wm. Smith, W. Drums, 1859 79
D. Alexander, bookseller 1859 43
Rev. Wm. Cron, Menmuir, 1859 73
John Todd, T. Market . 1860 77
Rev. W. T. Rankin . 1860 42
Alex. Strachan, solicitor. 1860 42
Dr. Martin B. Lamb . 1860 33
Sir David Leighton, C.B. 1860 85
John Speid, of Ardovie . 1861 49
David Hobb, T. Market . 1861 83
James Mollison, Hillhead 1862 85
W. Blackhall, chemist . 1862 51
W. Mackie, teacher. Dun 1863 63
Gen. Sir J. Outram, K.C.B. 1863 60
James Eaton, builder . 1863 80
M. Ferrier, manufacturer 1863 64
John S. Hendry, W.S. . 1863 30
Robt. Lyell, Old Montrose 1863 85
Chas. Ogilvy, solicitor . 1864 66
W. Penny cook, Bridgend 1864 83
Jas. Anderson, Bridgend 1864 87
John Dakers, shoemaker. 1864 93
Dr. Jas. Don, of Bearehill 1864 65
Rev. T. Hill, Logic Pert 1864 65
Jas. Hampton, T. Market 1865 67
John Grim, manufacturer 1865 61
Jas. Knowles, Crown Inn 1865 50
D. Laing, manufacturer . 1865 60
James Neish, beadle . 1866 68
Robt. Scott, Pittendriech 1866 70
Wm. Anderson, solicitor 1866 84
Rev. H. Brewster, Farnell 1866 60
Robt. Buchan, Edzell . 1866 76 Dr. Alex. Gibson, Auchen-
reoch . . . . 1867 67
Rev. D. Harris, Fern . 1867 93
Hunt. Mather, Association 1868 68
John Patiillo, Burghill . 1868 73
Geo. Reid, tobacconist . 1868 81 G. Cooper Scott, of Glen-
cadam . . . 1868 46
Dr. William Sharpe, . 1868 71 John Inglis Chalmers, of
Aldbar . . . 1868 59
John Valentine, carpenter 1868 75
R. Vallentine, Bogmuir . 1868 82 Rev. Geo. Walker, D.D.,
Kinnell . . . 1868 85
Wm. Fraser, town-ofhcer 1868 97
Died Ak« Wm. Mill, cabinetmaker 1869 64 Alex. Monro, East Mills. 1869 A. Pirie, nurseryman . 1869 Dr. Alex. Guthrie . . 1869 A. Sievewright, Association 1870
1870 1870
1871 —
1871 1871 1871
Alex. Black, bookseller Alex. Burns, fisherman Jas. Fairweather, distiller 1870 Charles Mitchell, draper 1871 Rev. A. Simpson, M.A.,
Tarfside J. Carnegy Arbuthnot, of
Balnamoon . , . 1871 David Craig, solicitor . 1871 Patrick Guthrie, draper . 1871 George Jarron, Mains of
Melgund Dr. Robert Jarron . Thomas Kerr, Viewbank James Thomson, Findowrie 1871 John Mather, postrunner 1872 J. Smith, Masons' Lodge 1872 James Speid, of Forneth 1872 David Black, Barrelwell . 1872 Geo. Anderson, auctioneer 1873 J. Anderson, cabinetmaker 1873 Rev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D. 1873 J. Alexander, bookbinder 1874 Right Hon. Earl of Dal-
housie (Fox Maule) . 1874 James Don, candlemaker 1874 Rev. James Gowans . 1874 Rev. A. Halkett . . 1874 David Lamb, manufacturer 1874 Rt. Rev. Bishop Forbes,
D.C.L. D. Robertson, Mains of
Edzell . George Scott, banker Colvin Smith, R.S.A. D. D. Black, town-clerk Joseph Hendry, draper Rev. John Lamb, Errol Alex. Lawrence, Greenden 1875 John Lawrence, S. Port . 1875 Geo. Scott, of Renmuir J. Jameson, ironmonger Sir Jas. Campbell of Stra
cathro . Rev. R. Inglis, Edzell J. Lindsay, T. Market Dan. Macintosh, registrar
63 66
70 65 55
78 87 79 92 62 59 72 69 64
73
72 82 63
77
1875 69
1875
1875 1875 1875 1875 1875
1876
1878
1876 1876 1876 1876
C. Oswald, tobacco manufr. 1876
63 69
80
78 77 87 87 61 89 84
72 83 78 85
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James Ogilvy, Pitforthie James Peter, Tillygloom Wm. Ruxton, Farnell . Rev. G-. Alexander, rector David Duke, manufacturer G. Duncan, W. Pi'udreich D. Duthie, Timber Market Dr. J. Fettes, Laurencekirk Sam. Strachan, High St. James Dall, nurseryman Rev. A. L. R. Foote, D.D. A. Jervise, F.G.A. insp.
of Registers Thomas Don, Balzeordie . Jas. Vallentine, Arnhall . John Watson, Ledmore . Charles Will, solicitor . John Smart, Jun., . T. Ogilvy, corn merchant James Guthrie, Edzell . David Hebenton, S. Port G. Henderson, D. Nursery Alex. Joe, mason . D. S. Shiress, Edinburgh James llarclay. Gas Co. . W. Christie, upholsterer Right Hon. Earl of Dal-
housie (Geo. Ramsay) . Wm. Lowe, postmaster . Lieut. -Col. Swinburne, of
Marcus John Valentine, draper . Jas. Watt, Provost of Leith Wm. Shiress, solicitor . Dr. Douglas, of St. Ann's Alex. Guthrie, Maisondieu Alex. Laing, LL.D. Robert Symington . Robt. Stocks, Westside . Capt. Hon. John Carnegie,
R.N
Col. David Guthrie . Rev. Alex. M. Davidson,
Kinnell John G. Scott, Cross John Davidson, saddler . J. Edward, Ms. Keithock Major - General Ramsay
(Edward Bannerman) . F, M. Lord Strathnairn,
K.C.B. (Hugh H. Rose) D. Crighton, Maisondieu
Lane . • • •
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Died |
Ag-e |
|
1877 |
88 |
|
1877 |
82 |
|
1877 |
— |
|
1877 |
92 |
|
1877 |
55 |
|
1877 |
77 |
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1877 |
80 |
|
1877 |
79 |
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1878 |
74 |
|
1878 |
93 |
|
1878 |
74 |
|
1878 |
58 |
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1878 |
74 |
|
1878 |
65 |
|
1878 |
84 |
|
1878 |
68 |
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1879 |
24 |
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1879 |
82 |
|
1879 |
53 |
|
1879 |
77 |
|
1879 |
77 |
|
1879 |
47 |
|
1880 |
55 |
|
1880 |
75 |
|
1880 |
39 |
|
1880 |
75 |
|
1880 |
76 |
|
1881 |
51 |
|
1881 |
56 |
|
1881 |
76 |
|
1881 |
77 |
|
1881 |
84 |
|
1882 |
83 |
|
1882 |
74 |
|
1882 |
71 |
|
1883 |
75 |
|
1883 |
54 |
|
1883 |
69 |
|
1883 |
47 |
|
1884 |
52 |
|
1884 |
79 |
|
1884 |
83 |
|
1884 |
58 |
|
1885 |
82 |
|
1885 |
S3 |
Died James Fletcher, of Feme 1885 R. Gordon, Gold's Yards 1885 Alexander Mustard . 1886
Horatio Ross, Netherley 1886 JohnSmith, Andover, Mass. 1886 Rev. Archibald Buchanan,
Logie-Pert . . . 1886 Alex. Fairweather, Pearse
Street . . . .1886 Dr. Alex. Guthrie . . 1886 Alex. R. Laing . . 1886 Rev. Andw. M'Hlwraith,
Lochlee . . .1886 James Webster, Farnell . 1886
C. Young, nurseryman . 1886
D. Young, St. Mary St. . 1887 Alex. Airth, blacksmith . 1887 James Bruce, butcher . 1887 William Craig, Drum . 1887 G. Cromar, missionary . 1887 John Dakers, manufacturer 1887 Right Hon. Earl of Dal-
housie (John Ramsay) . 1887 John Dear, mason . . 1887 Ross Dear, painter . . 1887 James Alex. Gardner . 1887 John Guthrie, M.D. . 1887 James P. Jack, Penrith . 1887 Rev. Walter Low, Lochlee 1887 Alex. Millar, slioemaker. 1887 D. M'Gregor Peter. . 1887 John M'Pherson Scott . 1887 John Morton, joiner . 1888 Hugh Baird, Menmuir . 1888 Joseph Brand, merchant 1888 Robert Anderson . . 1888 James Scotland . . 1888 William Angus, . .1888 David Rose, farmer . 1888
John Rose, farmer , . 1888 Richard Alexander . . 1888 Alexander Buchan, joiner 1888 John P. Rose, California 1888 John Crowe . . . 1888 William Watt, joiner . 1888 David Inglis, Montrose . 1888 G. Davidson, N.W. Bridge 1888 C. Lyall, Old Montrose . 1888 D.S.Robertson, Murlin'deu 1888 John Sutherland, Lochlee 1888 James Pert, local character 1888 James Hood, weaver . 1888 David Gordon, farmer, 1888
75 95 58
77 56 59
73 83 86 69 86 70 93
40 84 69 30 57 66 84 56 84 36 63 84 73 75 53 70 82 78 67 76 37 54 73 57 79 75 86 65 76 80
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Died Age |
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James Duthie, innkeeper |
1889 |
29 |
William Bruce, painter , |
1891 45 |
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Duncan Duflf, shoemaker |
1889 |
53 |
T. H. Cox, of Maulesden |
1892 74 |
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George D. Leighton, farmer 1889 |
70 |
John Sandeman, manager |
1892 55 |
|
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John Michie, gamekeeper |
1889 |
45 |
Rev. Donaldson Rose |
1892 74 |
|
Alexander Selby, tailor |
1889 |
52 |
Jas. Inverarity, bookseller 1892 80 | |
|
|
David Christie, watchmaker 1889 |
46 |
Wm. Black, joiner . |
1892 81 |
|
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John Lindsay, joiner |
1889 |
59 |
Dr. Thomson . |
1892 44 |
|
David Bean, auctioneer . |
1889 |
73 |
John Peacock, joiner |
1892 92 |
|
John T. Hood, bleacher . |
1889 |
52 |
Robt. Keddie, Calcutta . |
1892 47 |
|
James Duncan, shoemaker 1889 |
54 |
Jas. Mustard, corn mcht. |
1892 — |
|
|
George Milne, farmer |
1889 |
75 |
Jas. Henderson, Kincraig |
^ 1892 — |
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Hugh M'Pherson, book |
James Lesslie, slater |
1892 62 |
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canvasser |
1889 |
59 |
Wm. Duncan, merchant |
1892 87 |
|
James Will, solicitor |
1889 |
42 |
Wm. Smith, farmer |
1892 73 |
|
John Mackie, surgeon |
1889 |
80 |
Dr. Burns, Kirkleston |
1892 84 |
|
Major General J. Smith . |
1889 |
65 |
R. Meldrum . |
1893 61 |
|
John Hood, contractor |
1889 |
67 |
John Adamson, Careston |
1893 80 |
|
Dean Moir |
1889 |
— |
Wm. Low (Lairdie) |
1893 72 |
|
David Scott, Newington |
1890 |
78 |
Jas. Melrose . |
1893 78 |
|
Wm. Laing, meter insp. |
1890 |
77 |
John Gibson . |
1893 59 |
|
Wm. Johnston, pedlar |
1890 |
90 |
Rev. Alex. Gardner |
1893 SO |
|
John Belford, Chicago |
1890 |
66 |
Rev. Jas. Edward Carlyle |
|
|
Homer Neish, postman |
1890 |
72 |
London |
1893 71 |
|
Wm. Neish ,, |
1890 |
30 |
J. L. Gordon . |
1893 71 |
|
A. Paxton, J. P., Viewbankl890 |
61 |
Jas. Edwards . |
1893 66 |
|
|
J. Mitchell, Stannochy |
1890 |
55 |
James Scott . |
1893 81 |
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D.Fairweather, Langhaugh 1890 |
72 |
D. Duthie |
1893 — |
|
|
Rev. D. Davidson . |
1890 |
89 |
Wm. Carnegie of Dunlapj. |
ie 1893 91 |
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John Adamson, Negapataml890 |
39 |
William Sinclair, slater |
1893 49 |
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G. F. Fenwick, revenue |
Wm. Davidson, Calcutta |
1894 52 |
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officer . |
1890 |
75 |
Thos. Picken, teacher |
1894 69 |
|
John Towns, America |
1890 |
76 |
Robt. Thomson, plastere |
r 1894 86 |
|
Wm. Steven, slater |
1890 |
76 |
Chas. Oswald Hall . |
1894 40 |
|
Wm. Lyall, teacher |
1890 |
30 |
Charles Mitchell |
. 1894 68 |
|
Archibald Duke |
1890 |
20 |
James Ford, draper |
1894 66 |
|
D. P. Mitchell, architect |
1890 |
27 |
W. H. Duncan, tinsmith |
1894 86 |
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J. Martin, N. Melgund |
1890 |
76 |
J. Buyers of Easter Braik |
ie 1894 79 |
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John Low, cowfeeder |
1891 |
89 |
Chas. Alexander, solicito |
r 1894 41 |
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James Gordon, tailor |
1891 |
78 |
Wm. Allison, land stewai |
-d 1894 72 |
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James Ireland |
1891 |
66 |
David Glen, clothier |
. 1894 64 |
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Robert B. Thomson |
1891 |
41 |
Wm. Mitchell, shoemaker 1895 73 |
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James Bruce, mason |
1891 |
66 |
Colin Sievwright |
1895 76 |
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Charles Martin, farmer |
1891 |
77 |
John Mackie, M.D. |
1895 53 |
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Dean Crabb . |
1891 |
61 |
Jas. Thomson, Plasterer. |
1895 52 |
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J. Steven, flax inspector |
1891 |
46 |
B. M. Bisset, M.R.C.V.f |
5. 1895 50 |
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George Wyllie, bleacher |
1891 |
83 |
John MoUison |
. 1895 82 |
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John Jarron, clothier |
. 1891 |
57 |
J. C. Inverarity |
. 1895 40 |
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Alex. Christie, shoemake |
r 1891 |
84 |
Rev. H. Aird, D.D. |
. 1895 70 |
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Wm. Davidson |
. 1891 |
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Jas. Baxter, builder |
. 1895 41 |
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J. Spalding, factory-work James Myles, forester |
er 1891 |
84 |
Thos. Nicol, merchant |
. 1895 90 |
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. 1891 |
49 |
Thos. Anuand |
. 1895 86 |
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H.D.Prain, Scottish Unio |
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Jonathan Davidson |
. 1895 82 |
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and Nat. Insurance Co |
. 1891 |
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G, Cuthbert, plumber |
. 1895 44 |
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%txitxti{ piudorg.
TOWN COUNCIL AND POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
Wm. M. Vallentine, Provost and Chief Magistrate.
Wm. Ferguson, Senior Bailie ; D. Murray, Junior Bailie.
G. A. Scott, Dean of Guild ; J. L. Aird, Treasurer.
David Dakers, Hospital-Master.
Councillors — D. C. Knowles, J. S. Baxter, Thos. Moir, James Laing,
Alex. Annandale, G. Cumming, and M. Beaton.
TOWN COUNCIL COMMITTEES.
Finance — Treasurer Aird (Convener), Provost Vallentine, Bailie Ferguson, Dean of Guild Scott, and Councillors Baxter and Cumming.
Burqh Property and Charters — Provost Vallentine (Convener), Dean of Guild Scott, Hospital-Master Dakers, and Councillors Annandale, Knowles, and Laing.
Bilk— Prowost Vallentine (Convener), Treasurer Aird, Councillors Laing, Annandale, Moir, and Beaton.
City Hall — Bailies Ferguson (Convener) and Murray, and Coun- cillors Knowles, Cumming, and Laing.
The Town Council meets oii the second Wednesday of each month.
POLICE COMMISSION COMMITTEES.
Finance — Provost Vallentine (Convener), Bailies Ferguson and Murray, Dean of Guild Scott, Treasurer Aird, Hospital-Master Dakers, and Councillors Baxter, Cumming, Laing, and Annandale.
Heater— Bailie Ferguson (Convener), Bailie Murray, Dean of Guild Scott, Hospital-Master Dakers, and Councillors Annandale and Laing.
Watching, Lighting, and Fire Engines — Bailie Murray (Convener), Bailie Ferguson, Hospital-Master Dakers, and Councillors Cumming, Annandale, and Moir.
Paving, Roads, and Improvements — Dean of Guild Scott (Convener), Bailies Ferguson and Murray, Treasurer Aird, and Mr Cumming.
Sewage Farm — Councillor Annandale (Convener), and Councillors Baxter, Laing, Beaton, and Moir.
Dean of Guild's Court — Dean of GuUd Scott, Provost Vallentine, Bailie Ferguson, Hospital-Master Dakers, and Councillor Knowles.
FUNDS OF THE BURGH.
Estimated Funds at 1st September, 1895 Debts and Obligations
Surplus
Revenue for the year 1894-95 was
Expenditure for do was
Surplus on year
£43,195 19,981
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623,214 |
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2329 17 |
9 |
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2218 |
1 |
8 |
£111 16 1
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Public Park. Expenditure for 1894-95 £44 14 3|
Property and Funds held in Trust for Fducation.
Black's Bequest, for Bursaries for young women. Property at Little Brechin, yielding yearly rent of £10.
Dakers' Bursary, for young men. Property at Poet's Lane, of the yearly rent of about £26, 2s 4d. These two were founded by the late Mr. D. D. Black, Town Clerk.
Chalmers-Jervise Bequest, for two scholarships for a boy and girl. Capital sum of £670, 5s., yielding about £20 yearly.
Fife Mortification — yearly, £1, 7s. Q^d.
Linton Medal Bequest, for providing Medal for Latin Class in the Grammar School. Amount, £46, 17s. 6d. ; yearly value, £2.
Mortification for Burgh Teacher — £600 ; yearly value, now paid to School Board, £30.
Endowment for Rector of Grammar School — yearly, £8, 13s. 3d.
The above-mentioned Bursaries are in the presentation of the Council.
HOSPITAL FUNDS
These are valued at £1740 5s lid, and during 1894-95 yielded £69 11 5 And the payments to 26 pensioners on the fund, and
expenses amount to 57 4 4
Leaving a Surplus for the year of £12 7 1
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Sum presented to the town by an Anonymous Donor for
the Endowment of the Public Free Library £2000 0 0
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Provost Vallentine, Chairman ; Rev. T. L. Ritchie, Vice-Chairman ; Jas. Craigie, Librarian and Clerk. Committee — From the Town Council — Provost Vallentine, Bailies Ferguson and Murray, Treasurer Aird, Councillors Knowles, Moir, Annandale and Laing. From the Ratepayers — Rev. T. L. Ritchie, Rev. Robert Paisley, and Messrs R. M'Lellan, J. H. Lamb, Wm. Fyffe, David Joe, John Paterson, and David Todd.
BURGH PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
Town Clerk, Jas. Craig ; Police Clerk, Jas. Scott ; Chief Constable, Sanitary Inspector, etc., David Smart ; Inspector of Markets, L. M'Laren ; Inspector of Works and Water, William Eggie ; Police Treasurer, Collector, and Town Chamberlain, Jas. Stevenson '. Town Officer, Drummer, Collector of Petty Customs, etc., G-eorge O'Neil. Public Steelyard, St. Ninian's Place — Peter Philip, Weigher; Inspector of Weights and Measures, Alex. Law, Auditor of Town's Accounts, Alex. Thomson ; Police Accounts, Charles Anderson.
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POLICE COURT.
Ordinary Court held in the Burgh Court-Room every Wednesday at 10 o'clock, and oftener when there is business. Judges, the Provost and Magistrates ; Procurator-Fiscal , David Smart ; Assessor, James Scott.
DEAN OF GUILD COURT
Meets in the Burgh Court-Room every alternate Monday at 10 o'clock.
BURGH LICENSING COURT
For the grantins; and renewal of Hotel, Publichouse, and Grocers' Certificates. Held on the second Tuesday of April and third Tuesday of October within the Burgh Court-Room. Judges, the Provost and Magistrates ; Assessor, James Craig.
JUSTICE OF PEACE SMALL DEBT COURT
Held in the Burgh Court-Room on the first Wednesday of each month, at 12 o'clock noon. Clerk-Depute, Alexander Philip ; Pro- curator-Fiscal, Wm. Anderson.
SHERIFF SMALL DEBT COURT-
Held in the Burgh Court-Room on the third Tuesdays of January, March, May, July, September, and November. Clerk-Depute, Alex. Philip.
FIRE ENGINE
Engine House — Southesk Street. Keys at Police Office, Church Street. Captain, Wm. Eggie.
STAMP AND TAX OFFICE
Wm. Johnston, Sub-Distributor and Sub-Collector of Taxes, 40 High Street.
INLAND REVENUE
Excise Office.— Gallowhill — James Ferguson, Supervisor. Glen- cadam Distillery — W. A. Boulton, Officer ; W. A. Callaghan, Assistant. North Port Distillery — Geo. Douglas, J. Michie, Officers; K. Stewart, Assistant.
BIBLE SOCIETY
President Secretary, Andrew Robertson ; Treasurer, James
Craig, Solicitor.
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BOOK AND TRACT SOCIETY.
Seoretary, R. W. Duke ; Treasurer, James Oraig ; Wm. Laidlaw, Colporteur.
BRECHIN PARISH COUNCIL.
Office, 49 High Street. Robert Allan, Inspector. Office hours — 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. ; Saturdays, 10 a.m. till 1 p.m.
Murdoch Beaton, Chairman. Bukghal Ward — Wm, Jamieson, Southesk Street ; G. A. Scott, Park House ; David Duke, Summer- ford ; G-eorge Forrest, City Road ; J. M. Dunn, Montrose Street ; A. R. M 'Lean-Murray, Grove House ; James Straton, Park Road ; Joseph Mitchell, Montrose Street ; David Dakers, St. James Park ; John Irvine, River Street ; Wm. Britcher^ St. Mnian Place. Landward- — James Carnegie, Arrat ; David Hume, Barrelwell ; Allan Blacklaws, Burghill ; John Clark, Little Brechin ; James Smith, Findowrie,
Committees.
Standing Orders Committee. — Messrs Murray, Jamieson, Soott, Britcher, Forrest, D. Duke, and Dakers.
Almshouse. — Messrs J. Straiton, J. Clark, Britcher, Duke, Jamieson, and Dakers.
Cemetery. — Messrs Forrest, Duke, Carnegie, Dunn, Scott, and' Hume.
Law and Finance. — Messrs Murray, Smith, Scott, Irvine, Dakers, Mitchell, and Hume — the Chairman to be ex officio a member of each Committee, and also Convener of the diflferent Committees.
Landward Committee. — Mr Carnegie of Arrac, Chairman ; Mr Hume, Barrelwell, representative to the County Council.
Legal Adviser — Alex. Philip, solicitor.
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE.
49 High Street. Robert Allan, Registrar ; Wm. Henderson, assis- tant. Hours — 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. ; Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.ni. ; Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, 6 to 8 p.m.
Notice of a birth requires to be given to the Registrar within twenty one days after its occurrence ; of a Marriage, within three days after its celebration ; of a Death, within eight days after the event, and before the interment. Along with the registration of a birth, the date of the marriage of the parents must be given. Penalty for neglect, £5. Parents and guardians must now have children vaccinated within six months after their birth, and lodge a certificate (which the vaccinator is bound to give) with the Registrar within three days thereafter, stating that vaccination has been successfully performed.
PAROCHIAL' ASSESSMENTS.
Burgh. — Poor Rate — As Owner, at 7d per £ ; as Tenant, at 9d per £. School Rate — As Owner, at 7d per £ ; as Tenant, at 8d per £.
Landward. — Poor Rate — As Owner, at 7d per £ ; as Tenant, at 9d per £. School Rate — As Owner, at 3d per £ ; as Tenant, at 8d per£.
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POLICE AND OTHER ASSESSMENTS.
For General Purposes, 9^d per £ ; Library Id ; Cleaning Snow from streets and Assessment for Municipal Buildings, Id — total, ll^dper£; Registration of Voters — As Owner, Jd. as Occupant, Jd; Roads and Streets — As Owner, 2|d, as Occupant, 2|d ; Mooran Water Scheme, Is 3jd ; Drainage Scheme, 4|d per £.
Office — Municipal Buildings. James Stevenson, Treasurer! and Collector. Hours of Attendance — from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m., and from 6 to 8 evening ; Saturdays, from 10 a.m. till 12 noon.
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Aldbar |
A. C. Robertson. |
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Arrat |
Isabella TuUis. |
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Careston |
... James Lowson. |
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Edzell |
... Thomas Bennet. |
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... Annie Hampton. |
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Famell |
W. S. Lothian. |
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Jessie Gordon. |
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Feam |
J. Miller. |
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Lethnot |
David Philip. |
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Little Brechin |
Charles Richard. |
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Lochlee |
Sam. Cruickshanks |
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Logie-Pert |
Geo. Porteus. |
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Menmuir |
Alexander Coutts. |
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Stracathro |
James M. Mills. |
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Waterside |
Isabella Black. |
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
Brechin High School. — Rector, A. R. Maclean Murray ; Classical Master, Adam Thomson, B.A., Oxon ; Mathematical Master, Ben. Thomson, M.A. ; Modern Languages, Miss Murray; Assistants, J. Nicholson, M.A., Agnes Mitchell, Mary Glen, and Mary P. Ewing.
Damacre Road School. — Headmaster, Robert M'Lellan ; Assistants, J. Mackay, M.A., Jane Bruce, M. D. Bartie, Bessie Mitchell, Jessie Scott, C. Coutts, Jessie Small.
Bank Street School. — Headmaster, James M. Bain ; Assistants, Thomas Blythe, Margaret Carnegie, Elizabeth Davidson, Susan Baillie.
Tenements School. — Headmaster, R. A. Scott, M.A. ; Assistants, James Mitchell, Christina Grimm, Miss Forman, Maggie Stewart, Maggie Cowie, Jeanie Rogers, and Jessie Souter.
Union Street School. — Headmaster, James D. Ross ; Assistant, Miss M. Anderson.
Cookery Class. — Miss Croal.
BURSARIES.
Smith Brothers' Bursaries. — Founded in 1878 by Messrs. John Smith and Peter Smith, of Andover, Mass., U.S.A., natives of Brechin. Funds yield about £120 annually. Patrons, Burgh School Board. — To be applied for the purpose of enabling the children of persons of limited means, who are receiving their education at the Public Schools in the burgh and parish of Brechin, to receive higher education at any Secondary School, Normal School, or University, or at any School where higher education is given, approved of by the Patrons. Examinations held in June, and Bursaries awarded in October.
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Dakeb's Bursary. — Town Council, Patrons. Also founded by the late Mr. D. D. Black. Proceeds to be applied by the Council in providing a Bursary or Scholarship tenable by young men, and the conditions being — 1st. That the Bursar must have been for three years at least educated at the Brechin Grammar School ; 2nd. That the Bursary may be applied in assisting him in pursuing his studies at any University, as well as at a Literary or Scientific Institution or Seminary ; and 3rd. That it is not necessary that the Bursar has resided in any particular parish, but only that he is a native of Great Britain. Annual income, about £16.
Black Bequest. — Town Council, Patrons, Founded by the late Mr D. D. Black, to provide an annual Bursary or Scholarship for assisting any young woman or young women in pursuing her or their studies at any Literary or Scientific Institution or Seminary proper for the trade or profession such young woman has in view. Open to young women who for five consecutive years immediately previous to appoint- ment have been resident in any one or more of the following charges, viz : — Brechin, Lochlee, Lethnot, Navar, Edzell, Stracathro, Menmuir, Fearn, and Farnell. Value of Bursary, about £8. The same young woman may be presented from year to year, but not exceeding five years. Patronage to be exercised as near the 3rd of July as convenient.
Chalmers-Jervise Bequest. — Town Council, Patrons. Founded by the late Mr Andrew Jervise, for the purpose of founding two Scholarships, each to be tenable for four years by a boy and girl respectively, whose ages shall not be under 9 nor above 12 last birth- day— whether Roman Catholic or any other persuasion — but who shall have been educated at some male or female school within the town or parish of Brechin, the children of deceased parents and widows having a preference — those of parents having an annual income of £76 and upwards being excluded. The election to the Scholarships is in every case confined to the boy or girl who shall stand highest for good con- duct and scholarship on the joint report of the Teacher and the School Inspector. Annual income, about £18.
Ball's Bequest. — The minister and elders of the West Free Church, Brechin, Endowment Trustees of the late Mr James Dall, authorised to apply income of Trust in assisting to educate young men for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland. Parties to have preference — Ist. Of testator's own kindred ; 2nd. Of the name of Dall ; and 3rd. Natives — fathers resident in the parish of Brechin for not less than five years.
Murray's Bequest. — Trustees authorised by the late Mr Alexander Murray to pay out of the income from his estate such sum as they may deem proper, to assist young men, natives of the parish of Brechin, in prosecuting their studies at any of the Colleges of Scotland.
M'CosH Bursary. — Patrons, East Free Church, Brechin. Founded in 1893 by President M'Cosh of Princeton, for the purpose of assisting any young man of good moral character, connected with the congrega- tion, in prosecuting the studies for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland. Capital Sum, £250,
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BURGH SCHOOL BOARD.
John Lamb, Chairman ; Rev. John A. Clark, Messrs Thos. Moir, Gregor Cumming, Wm. M. Vallentine, Wm. Ferguson, and Alex. Thomson ; James Craig, Clerk ; Charles Anderson, Treasurer ; James Neish, Officer.
LANDWARD SCHOOL BOARD.
Alex. Carnegie, Forebank, Chairman ; Patrick Chalmers, Esq. , Aldbar; R. V. Cowan, Balbirnie , Andrew Doig, Middle Drums ; Andrew Stevenson, Cookston. Alex. Philip, Clerk and Treasurer.
CEMETERY, &c.
New Cemetery, Southesk Street. — Opened 1857. Robert Allan, Treasurer ; James Gray, Keeper.
KiRKYABD, Cathedral. — A. Philip, Clerk and Treasuier. Magdalene Chapel, Montrose Road. — Interments rare.
LAWN TENNIS CLUBS.
Bkechin. — Court at Park. Hon. President, G. A. Scott ; Presi- dent, W. C. Christie ; Vice-President, H. H. Kerr ; Secretary, D. Edwards ; Treasurer, Thomas Gardiner.
City Tennis Club. — Court at St. Andrews Street. President, G. A. Scott ; Secretary and Treasurer, M. B. Lamb, Glencadam.
CURLING CLUB.
Brechin Castle Curling Club. — Patrons, Earl of Dalhousie and the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, ex-M.P. ; Patronesses, Mrs. C. M. Ramsay and Dowager Countess of Dalhousie ; President, Hon. C. M. Rainsay ; Vice-President, John Shiell ; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Ferguson ; Skips, J. Shiell, D. Hume, W. Scott, G. Cumming, James Anderson, Hon. 0. M. Ramsay, W. Ferguson ; Chaplins, Rev. D. H. Brown and Rev. J. A. Clark.
ANGLING CLUB.
President, D. Murray ; Vice-President, Wm. Anderson ; Treasurer, Alex. Clift, St. David Street ; Secretary, James Dures, Damacre Road. Competitions in April, June and July.
BOWLING CLUB,
President, Wm. Ferguson ; Vice-President, G. Cumming : Secretary, And. Campbell ; Treasurer, R. A. Scott ; Curator, Jas. Wood.
GOLF CLUBS.
Hon. President, Hon. C. M. Ramsay ; Hon. Vice-President, Pat. Chalmers, Esq., Aldbar ; Captain, H. P. Gordon ; Vice-Captain, D. Wilson ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, J. L. Aird, Panmure Street.
Artisan Club. — Captain, David M 'Donald ; Vice-Captain, James Hunter ; Treasurer, Peter Robertson ; Secretai-y, Thomas Gillies.
General Directory. 37
GYMNASTIC CLUB.
President, G. A. Scott ; Vice-Presidents, Provost Vallentine and J. H. Lamb ; Captain, Alex. Nairn ; Instructor, James Neish.
SESSION CLERKS.
Brechin Parish (Cathedral) — Andrew Robertson, 61 Southesk Street ; East Parish — John Duncan, 46 Union Street.
CITY CLUB.
Mechanics' Institution Buildings. Geo. Smart, Chairman ; Secre- tary and Treasurer, J. C. Murray ; Committee, A. Philip, D. Lamb, and D. G. Shiell ; Keeper, Thomas Short. Hours — 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
BRECHIN VICTORIA NURSING ASSOCIATION.
Hon. President, the Dowager Countess of Dalhousie ; Hon. Vice- Presidepts, Hon. C. M. Ramsayand J. A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P. ; President, Provost Vallentine; Vice-Presidents, Robert Duke and J. A. Smart ; Joint-Secretaries, Mrs J. H. Lamb, the Latch, and Mrs Val- lentine, British Linen Bank House ; Treasurer, Mr J as. Scott.
BRECHIN AMBULANCE CORPS.
First Officer, James Martin ; Surgeons, Dr Adam and Dr Leishman ; Secretaries, A. Cooper and R. Stewart.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.
Local Beanch. — Hon. President, Jas. Smart; President, Provost Vallentine ; Chairman, Major Duke ; Secretary, W. Watson Watt ; Treasurer, A. Coop«r ; Auditor, R. W. Duke.
UNITED OPERATIVE MASONS' ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND.
Local Bbanch. — President, W. M. Milne ; Treasurer, Wm. Ross ; Secretary, James Smith.
SCOTTISH WINE, SPIRIT & BEER TRADE ASSOCIATION.
Local Branch. — Presidant, D. C. Knowles ; Vice-President, John M 'Donald ; Treasurer, P. Mitchell ; Secretary, W. A. Scott.
EASTERN DISTRICT OF FORFARSHIRE CLYDESDALE HORSE CLUB.
President, J. A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P. ; Vice-President, Hon. C. M. Ramsay ; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Mitchell, Muirton of Ballochy. General Meetings, second Tuesday of January and August.
CELTIC SOCIETY.
Secretary, George M'Kay ; Treasurer, Silas Fraser.
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LIBERAL UNIONIST ASSOCIATION.
President, John Shiell ; Secretaries, Will, Philip & Aird ; Treasurer, William Ferguson.
GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
Directors — James Guthrie, Chairman ; David Hodgeton, Vice- Chairman ; William Johnston, Andrew Simpson, W. Fettes, James Christie, James Scott, D. F. Anderson, R. Hampton ; Secretary, John Black, solicitor ; Manager, Collector, and Treasurer, J. B. Terrace.
YEARLY SOCIETIES.
The Brechin Benevolent Benefit Yeakly Society. — Meets in St. David Street on Saturday evenings at 7 o'clock. President, D. Watson; Vice-President, J. Dures; Treasurer, A. Bowman; Secretary, J. Crabb.
Bridge Street Benefit Yearly Society. — Meets at 12 Bridge Street on Monday evenings from 6.30 to 8 o'clock. President, David Joe ; Vice-President, Peter Lyon ; Secretary and Treasurer, John Will. Breaks up at end of December.
Montrose Street Deposit and Friendly Yearly Society. — Money deposited every Saturday evening from 6.30 to 8 o'clock, at the Society's Rooms, 27 Montrose Street. President, David M 'Hardy ; Vice- President, James M 'Intosh ; Treasurer, W. Thomson ; Secretary, John Cameron.
Montrose Street Penny Yearly Benefit Society. ^ — Meets on Monday evenings from 7 to 8 o'clock, at Montrose Street Society Rooms. President, Wm. Davidson ; Secretary and Treasurer, David Brown.
South Port Deposit and Friendly Yearly Society. — Money deposited every Saturday evening from 6 to 8 o'clock, in the Society's Rooips, 12 Bridge Street. President, John Forbes; Vice-President, John Gordon ; Treasurer, John Joe ; Secretary, John Sandeman.
The Brechin Building Trades' Yearly Society. — Meets at 61 High Street every Saturday evening, from 6 to 8 o'clock. President, D. Nairn ; Vice-President, James Easson ; Treasurer, G. Findlay ; Secretary, W. Dear.
Shoemakers' Deposit Society. — President, Alex. Colville ; Secre- tary, John Paterson ; Treasurer, Thomas Whyte ; Committee, Messrs. Whyte and Donald.
ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS-
Court Brechin Castle, No. 6950. — Meets in Masonic Hall on alternate Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock. Chief Ranger, J. Morgan ; Secretary, D. Caution ; Treasurer, W. Caution : Medical Officer, Dr. Leishman.
Court Carbston Castle, No. 8287. — Meets in W.Y.C.A. every alternate Tuesday evening. C.R., Mrs. Bruce ; Secretary, Mrs. Gard ner ; Treasurer, Mary Hutcheon.
General Directory. 39
LOYAL ORDER OF ANCIENT SHEPHERDS-
Maisondieu Lodge, 2041. — Instituted in 1884. Meets in Masonic Hall on alternate Tuesday evenings at 7.30. Ed. Lyall, W.M.; D. Gibb, Secretary ; Dr. Adam, Medical Officer ; W. Reid, Juvenile
L.O.A.S. Juvenile Branch. — D. Gibb, President; Wra. Reid, Secretary ; D. Fairweather, Treasurer.
INCORPORATED TRADES-
GuiLDRY Incorporation. — The Interest of the invested money of this body is spent in pensions to decayed Members and widows of decayed Members. Dean, David Duke ; Treasurer and Fiscal, David Lamb ; Clerk, W. Anderson ; Officer, John Clark, Little Brechin. Funds fully £900.
Tailors' Incorporation. — Deacon, A. Craig ; Clerk and Treasurer, Alex. Hampton; Councillors, Messrs Strachan, Bowman, and Cameron.
Glovers' Incorporation. — Deacon, J. B. Hodge ; Treasurer, Arthur Whitson.
LITERARY SOCIETY-
South Port Mutual Improvement Society. — Open every week-day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Business Meeting on Thursday evenings at 8 p.m. President, James Duros ; Vice-President, John Will; Secretary, Wm. Jamieson ; Treasurer, William Reid ; Finance Secretary, Peter Lyon.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Instituted 1866. Meets in the Association Rooms, Bank Street, every Sabbath morning at 9.45. Hon. Presidents, James A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P. , and Robert Duke of Bearehill ; President, James Craig ; Vice-President, James Gellatly ; Secretary, James Bruce ; Treasurer, W. O'Neil ; Organist, Jas. Allison ; Hallkeeper and Librar- ian, John Whyte.
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Instituted 1880. Meets in the Association Rooms, Southesk Street, every Sabbath morning at 9.45. President, Mrs. J. W. Chalmers ; Vice-President, Mrs. T. L. Ritchie ; Secretary, Mrs. James Bruce ; Assistant Secretary, Miss L. Duke ; Treasurer, Miss Stewart ; Librarian, Miss Moir ; Organists, Messrs Bruce and Millar.
CHURCH DEFENCE ASSOCIATION.
President, James A. Campbell, M. P. ; Vice-President, Gregor Gumming ; Joint-Secretaries, Robert M'Lellan and Robert Oswald.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Reformed in August 1875. Hon. Presidents, James H. Lamb, Latch, George Wallace, and Provost Vallentine : President, G. A. Scott ; Vice-Presidents, Captain Mitchell and A. Annandale; Treasurer, M. Beaton ; Secretary, D. Jackson.
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TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES
Total Abstinence Society. — President, Thomas Moir; Vice-Presi- dent, Alex. Rankin ; Recording and Corresponding Secretary, A. Taylor ; Treasurer, D. Todd ; Registrar, D. Spence ; Directors, J. Christison, Jas. Scott, David Whitlaw, Rev. Alex. Mitchell, Jas. S. Ross ; OflScer and Hall-letter, Hugh Edwards.
EiST Free Church Temperance Society. — President, Rev, T. L. Ritchie ; Vice-President, James Guthrie ; Secretary and Treasurer, Alex. Silver.
GOOD TEMPLAR LODGES
Ancient City Lodge. — Meets in the Temperance Hall every Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Lodge Deputy, D. Todd.
Hope of Angus Lodge.— Meets in the Temperance Hall every Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Lodge Deputy, W. Watson Watt.
Hope of Brechin Juvenile Lodge. — Meets in the Temperance Hall every Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. D. G. Smart, Supt.
City's Hope. — Meets every Monday evening at 7 o'clock. Bella Moir, Superintendent.
Dalhousie Rescue Lodge of Reformed Templars, No. 71. — Meets in Episcopal Schoolroom on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Worthy Master, James Vallentine ; Secretary, D. Thomson, River Street ; Treasurer, Murdoch Duncan.
FOOTBALL CLUBS
Brechin. — Hon. Presidents, J. W. Chalmers and Wm. Johnston ; President, Wm. Dalgetty ; Captain, John Bowman ; Secretary, James Fowler, Bridge Street.
North End. — President, Jas. Fell ; Vice-President, Jas. Findlay- 8on ; Captain, T. Richardson ; Vice-Captain, Alex. Watson ; Secretary, Alex. Davidson, Clerk Street.
Harp. — Hon. President, Wm. Anderson ; President, Geo. S. Farquharson ; Vice-President, D. Barclay ; Captain, J. Ogg ; Vice- Captain, J. Ferrier ; Secretary, A. Reid, 9 Airlie Street.
Thistle. — Captain, George Donaldson; Vice-Captain, J. Dakers ; Secretary, Alex. Lyon, Bridge Street.
Crown. — Philip Mackay, Captain ; Vice-Captain, James Ferrier ; Secretary, John Findlayson, Kinnaird Place. Belmont.
South Port Junior Association. —President, Wm. Dalgetty ; Secretary and Treasurer, George Dundas.
147th ECONOMIC BUILDING SOCIETY
President, Jas. Guthrie, J.P. ; Secretary and Treasurer, Jas. Scott, Solicitor. Office, 6 Panmure Street.
BRECHIN AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY.
President, J. H. Lamb ; Secretary and Treasurer, G. Gumming.
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PUBLIC HALLS
City Hall, Swan Street — George O'Neil, keeper.
Town Hall — George O'Neil, keeper.
Mechanics' Hall — Thomas Short, keeper.
Temperance Hall, City Road— Hugh Edwards, keeper.
Masonic Hall, Church Street.
Young Men's Christian Association Hall, Bank St. — John Whyte, keeper.
Drill Hall, Bank Street — Serjeant-Instructor W. Manning, keeper.
Parish Church Hall.
St. Andrew's Episcopal — Mrs. Roberts, keeper.
St. Ninians Hall, Market Street.
Maisondieu Hall.
DISTRICT CLERGY LIST
Ordained. Rev. Alexander Anderson, Established Church, Dun ... ... 1873
,, D. H. Brown, Scotch Episcopal Church, Brechin ... ... 1892
,, J. B. Burnett, Established Church, Aberlemno 1891
„ T. A. Cameron, Established Church, Farnell 1872
,, J. A. Clark, Established Church (Cathedral), Brechin ... 1886
,, F. Cruickshank, Established Church, Lethnot 1854
,, Peter Edgar, Free Church, Memus 1844
„ William Fairweather, Free Church, Maryton
,, John Ferguseon, Established Church, Fearn ... ... ... 1860
,, J. D. Fisher, Free Church, Aberlemno 1862
,, John Eraser, West Free Church, Brechin 1865
,, W. R. Fraser, Established Church, Maryton 1867
,, Robert Grant, Established Church, Stracathro 1851
,, William Gray, Maisondieu U. P. Church, Brechin 1885
,, Established Church, Tannadice
,, Richard Henderson, Assistant and Successor, Established
Church, Maryton 1893
„ A. D. T. Hutchison, Established Church (Cathedral), Brechin 1893
,, James Landreth, Established Church, Logie-Pert 1876
,, D. Macmillan, Established Church, Careston 1892
,, Alexander Mitchell, Evangelical Union Church, Brechin |... 1880
„ W. A. Mitchell, XJ. P. Church, Muirton 1873
,, George Monro, Free Church, Menmuir 1854
„ D. M. Morgan, City Road U. P. Church, Brechin
,, R, Workman Orr, Bank Street U. P. Church, Brechin ... 1863 ,, Robert Paisley, Established Church (East), Brechin ... 1883
,, J. Paul, Free Church, Lochlee 1890
1869 1880 1876 1868 1885 1891 1875
W. Presslie, Scotch Episcopal Church, Lochlee
T. L. Ritchie, East Free Church, Brechin
A. L. Roberton, Free Church, Logie-Pert
D. S. Ross, Established Church, Edzell
J. Stewart, Established Church, Lochlee
T. C. Sturrock, Free Church, Edzell ...
J. L. Thomson, Established Church, Menmuir
PUBLIC PARK Park Road. Open during Summer months from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. ; from sunrise to sunset during Winter ; and from 1 p.m. on Sabbaths.
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PLACES OF WORSHIP
Cathedral Parish Church - - . - Do. ...
East Parish Church, City Road West Free Church, Church Street - East Free Church, Panmure Street - Bank Street U. P. Church City Road Do. - . .
Maisondieu Do.
Scotch Episcopal Church, Argyle Street - E.U. Church, Southesk Street Church of the Holy Trinity (R.C.), St.
Andrew Street Salvation Army, Barracks off Swan Street. The Brethren, Bank Street.
Rev. John A. Clark, B.D. Rev. A. D. T. Hutchison. Rev. Robert Paisley. Rev. John Fraser. Rev. T. L. Ritchie. Rev. R. Workman Orr. Rev. D. M. Morgan. Rev. William Gray, M.A. Rev. D. H. Brown, M.A. Rev. Alexander Mitchell.
Visiting Priest.
BANK OFFICES
Bank Hours— 10 till 3 ; Saturdays, 10 till 12. British Linen Company, Clerk Street — W. M, Vallentiiie, agent. Clydesdale Bank, Limited, Panmure Street — John Black, agent. National Bank of Scotland, St. David St. — J. Shiel] & J. Don, agents. Royal Bank of Scotland, Swan Street — David Guthrie & Sons, agents. Union Bank of Scotland, Swan St. — J. Lamb & Jas. Craig, agents.
LOCAL CARRIERS
Montrose — Wm. Thom, Market Street - Do. Hugh Hunter, Union Street -
Edzell — Henry Johnston, Jolly's Hotel - Do. Alex. Silver, Do.
Lethnot — R. Drummond, Do.
Careston — John Milne, Do.
Lochlee — A. Christison, Do.
Daily.
Daily.
Tuesday and Friday.
Daily.
Tuesday.
Tuesday and Friday.
Tuesday.
INSTRUMENTAL BANDS
Bkechin Brass Band. — Meets for practice in the Drill Hall, Bank Street, every Monday and Thursday at 8 o'clock p.m. Bandmaster, W. Burnett. Conductor, R. Marsden.
Ramsay Brass Band. — Meets for practice in Tenements School. Bandmaster, John Walker.
Burnett's Quadrille Band. — Leader, Wm. Burnett.
Quadrille Band. — Leader, John Walker.
Hollingworth's Quadrille Band. — Leader, J. HoUingworth.
Campbell's Quadrille Band. — Leader, R. Campbell.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
President, Wm. Shaw Adamson, Esq. of Careston ; Vice-Presidents, R. W. Duke and J. D. Ross ; Secretary, Alex. Watson ; Treasurer, J. Mitchell ; Curator, D. B. Robertson.
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ORNITHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
Hon. President, Wm. Johnston ; President, J. Stirling ; Vice- President, D. M. Duke ; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Jaffrey ; Assistant Secretary, Wm. S. Caution.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
Equitable Co-Opebative Society, Limited. — President, Jas. Bruce ; Secretary and Treasurer, R. H. Gray ; Treasurer, Thos. Gardiner ; Manager, Frederick M'Leod. Office — 73 High Street. Grocery Branches 17 River Street, 55 Montrose Street, 71 High Street, 1 St. David Street, and Southesk Street. Shoemaking Depart- ment— High Street. Tailoring and Drapery Departments — 6 and 7 St. David Street. Bakehouse — Montrose Street. Coal Depot — Rail- way Station.
United Co-Operative Association, Limited. — President, Chas. Laing ; Secretary, William Fairweather ; Treasurer, G. Carnegie ; Manager, J. Nicol. Office, Witchden Road. Grocery Branches — South Port, 9 St. David Street, River Street, and Witchden Road. Shoemaking, Tailoring, and Drapery Departments — High Street. Bakehouse — Witchden Road. Coal Depot — Railway Station.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTION
Instituted 1 825 . President, James Smart ; Vice-President, D. Duke ; Treasurer, Gregt^r (Jumming ; Secretary, John S. Baxter ; Keeper and Librarian, Thomas Short.
Tickets of Membership — Apprentices and those under 15 years, Is 6d ; Artisans, 28 ; all others, 3s per annum. Lectures delivered fortnightly during Winter m(mths ; Members admitted free ; Non- Members, 6d each Lecture. Library hours — Mondays, 6 p.m. till 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 p.m. till 9 p.m.; other days, from 11 a.m. till 3 p.m., and 6 to 9 p.m.
The Directors have at their disposal, in terms of the settlement of the late Mr. Andrew Jervise, Three Prizes (value £4, £3, and £2 respectively) from the revenue of his bequest, for the three best Essays written by apprentices in the town or parish of Brechin, on the history of the profession or trade in which they are themselves personally employed.
CYCLING CLUB!
President, James Wood ; Vice-President, J. Watson ; Captain, A. Nairn ; Vice-Captain, F. Hood ; Secretary and Treasurer, Albert Wood ; Captain of Wednesday afternoon Section, J. Beattie ; Vice-Captain, W. Robertson.
CRICKET CLUB
Brechin Cricket Club. — Patrons, The Right Hon. the Earl of Southesk and Hon. C. M. Ramsay ; Hon. President, Provost Vallen- tine ; Captain, G. M. Scott ; Vice Captain, J. HoUingworth ; Secretary and Treasurer, C. Lamond. Ground— Nursery Park.
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MILL AND FACTORY WORKERS' UNION
President, G. Taylor ; Treasurer, James Watson ; Secretary, R. Fraser ; Collector, John C. Hendry.
INTERNATIONAL PLOUGHMEN'S SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.
Brechin Branch. — President, John Irons ; Secretary, Charles Strachan ; Treasurer, Wm. Petrie. Meets on second Saturday of June, September, December, and March.
BRECHIN AND DISTRICT CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION
Instituted in October ] 884. President, The Right Hon. the Earl of Kintore ; Vice-President, James A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P. ; Chairman, John Shepherd of Lundie ; Secretary, Wm. Anderson, solicitor, Brechin.
PRIMROSE LEAGUE
Brechin and District Habitation, No. 1741. — Formed on 5th October 1889. > Ruling Councillor, James A. Campbell of Stracathro, M.P.; Secretary, Wm. Anderson ; Treasurer, James S. Lindsay.
WOMEN'S LIBERAL UNIONIST ASSOCIATION
Hon. President, Dowager-Countess of Dalhousie ; President, Hon. Mrs. C. M. Ramsay; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Don, Maulesden; Mrs. Baxter, Ashcliff; Miss Campbell, Stracathro; and Mrs. M'Nab, Keithock ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Duke, Rosehill.
LIBERAL ASSOCIATION
Instituted 1880. Hon. President, James Smart ; President, James Guthrie ; Vice-Presidents, Provost Vallentine, Robert Duke, George Smart ; Secretary and Treasurer, T. M. Guthrie.
BRECHIN SAVINGS BANK
Established in 1852. Certified under Act of Parliament, 186.3. Office, 13 Church Street. Open for the transaction of business on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. ; also on Friday evenings from 6.30 to 8.30. Actuary, W. Anderson ; Auditor, David S. Barrie.
RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS
Brechin Detachment 2nd (Angus) Volunteer Battaxion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). — I Company — Senior Captain and Hon. Major, David Duke. J Company — Captain, Charles Mitchell. Lieu- tenants. David Lamb and J. L. Aird. Drill Hall and Armoury, Bank Street ; Drill Ground, Park Road. Sergeant-Instructor, W. Manning.
INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY
G. Henderson, President; Wm. Jamieson, Secretary and Treasurer.
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LADIES' PERMANENT COAL FUND
President, Miss Duke ; Vice-President, Miss Thomson ; Secretary, Mrs. Buyers ; Treasurer, James Craig ; and a Committee of Manage- ment.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND
Brechin Local Association.— Meets in Brechin and Montrose alternately, on third Saturday of February, last Saturday of April, •econd Saturday of June, last Saturday of October, and third Saturday of December. President, R. A. Scott, M.A., Brechin ; Treasurer James Mitchell, Brechin ; Secretary, A. C. Robertson, Aldbar.
BRECHIN DISTRICT OF COUNTY COUNCIL
Chairman, Alex. Carnegie, Forebank ; Clerk and Treasurer, Alex. Philip, 16a Panmure Street ; Collectors, Jas. Craig and H. P. Gordon, Swan Street.
POST OFFICE
Office — St, David Street. J. 0. Robertson, Postmaster. Open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Order and Bank business, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ; Saturdays, to 8 p.m.
Telegraph Office, open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; Sundays, 9 to 10 a.m.
EAST MILL COMPANY, LIMITED
Works and Registered Office, East Mill Road. Shiell & Don, Solicitors, Secretaries ; J. W. Chalmers, Manager.
SCOTTISH LEGAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Brechin District — John Paterson, President ; Thos. Moir, Secretary.
INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY
President, The Right Hon. the Earl of Southesk, K.T. ; Vice-Pre- sident, John Lamb. Directors — J. W. Chalmers, Jas. Gruthrie, Jas. Craig, Wm. Ferguson, John Black, David Hodgeton, Robert Allan, Andrew Simpson, Geo. Smart, Chas. Laing, James Bruce, John Watson, John Gillespie, Geo. Donaldson, Peter Hay, James Belford, Geo. Riddell, Alex. Scott, David Watson, Robert Whitelaw, David Carnegie, H. H. Kerr, Alex. Neish, Wm. Macintosh. Secretary and Treasurer, James Don. Matron, Miss Fraser.
ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY.
Meets in High School on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. President, R. W. Duke ; Secretary, D. Wilson ; Treasurer, Dr. Anderson ; Conductor, J. HoUingworth ; Leader, H. HoUingworth ; Accompanist, Mrs Gumming.
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OPERATIVE BAKERS' NATIONAL FEDERAL UNION OF SCOTLAND.
President, R. Barclay ; Secretary, D. Low ; Treasurer, J. Dakera.
MASONIC LODGES
St. James Lodges, No. 123. — Instituted 1770. Meetings held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each months in the Masonic Hall, Church Street, at 8 p.m. Wm. Eggie, R. W.M. ; W. J. W. Cameron, P.M. ; James Dures, D.M. ; George Wallace, S.M. ; J. C. Middleton, S.W. ; J. T. Batchelor, J.W. ; James Duncan, S.D. ; Wm. Law, J.D. ; Rev. J. A. Clark, Chaplain; D. S. Barrie, I.G. ; E. Ireland, Secretary; Robert Allan, Treasurer ; W. C. Christie, Director of Music ; A. Paton, Tyler.
St. Ninian's Lodge No. 66. — Founded in 1714. Meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month, at 8 p.m. Robert Walker, R.W.M. ; J. B. Hodge, P.M.; D. Gibson, P.M.; Bro. Stewart, S. W. ; C. Finlayson, J.W. ; Malcolm M'Kay, Secretary ; D. Spence, Treasurer ; Rev. Robert Paisley, Chaplain ; John Brown, Director of Music ; D. Riach, I.G. ; Geo. Henderson, Tyler ; Bro Crocket, Grand Steward ; Bro. Ivison, Depute Steward.
Royal Arch Chapter Noah, No. 7. — Instituted 1774. J. Clift, P.Z. ; J. O. Gibson, P H. ; D. G. Shiell, P.J. ; H, Braid, Treasurer , J. M. Mill, Scribe E. ; W. Eggie, Scribe N. ; C. Gibson, A.'Christison, W. J. W. Cameron, and John Christison, Sojourners ; John Brown, Janitor.
BRITISH ORDER OF ANCIENT FREE GARDENERS
Sotjthesk Lodge, No. 206. — Wm. Davidson, W.M. ; Alex. M'Gregor, W.D.M. ; John Smith, P.M. ; David Binnie, A.P.M. ; D. Lowe, S.W. ; Jas. Barrie, J.W. ; Alex. Burnes, Chaplain ; John Sandeman, Secretary, 18 Union Street ; John M. Milne, Treasurer ; Medical Officer, Dr Parkinson ; Druggist, Geo. Mackie.
DISTRICT FISHERY BOARD
Sotjth Esk. — For the upper Proprietors, Mr Alexander Carnegie, factor for Lord Southesk ; Colonel Gardyne of Finavon ; and Mr W. Shaw Adamson of Careston. For the lower Proprietors, Captain Stanfield of Dunninald ; Colonel Blair- Imrie of Lunan ; Mr John Shiell, factor for Lord Dalhousie ; with Mr James Johnston, of Rossie Fishings, of the firm of Messrs Joseph Johnston & Sons, Montrose, as, Chairman. Clerks, James Don, Writer, and D. G. Shiell, Solicitor, Brechin. Superintendent, Joseph Fraser.
BRECHIN AND EDZELL DISTRICT RAILWAY
Brechin and Edzell District Railway. — J. A. Campbell, Esq., M.P., Chairman ; Messrs John Shiell and John Shepherd, Directors ; Mr W. M. Vallentine, Secretary.
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INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES
Independent Order of Rechabites — Brechin Tent (2335). — Meets in Temperance Hall, at 8.15 p.m., on alternate Fridays. Chief Ruler, James Martin ; Treasurer, T. B. Graham ; Secretary, Wm. Jaffrey, 107 Montrose Street.
Mayflower Juvenile Tent (119.3). — Meets in Temperance Hall, at 7 p.m., on alternate Fridays. Superintendent, T. B. Grahame.
NATIONAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
Exchange, 10 Swan Street. Oall-OflBce, Black and Johnston, 40 High Street.
UNIONIST CLUB
President, Hon. 0. M. Ramsay ; Vice-President, the Earl of South- esk and others; Chairman, John Shiell; Vice-Chairmen, Col. John Duke and Alex. Annandale ; Secretary and Treasurer, J. L. Aird.
BRECHIN BURNS CLUB
Brechin Burns Club. — Instituted March 1894. Meets in Masonic Hall. Hon. President, D. H. Edwards; President, G. A. Scott; Vice- President, James Laing ; Secretary, Ed. W. Mowatt ; Treasurer, Alex. Hampton.
MINSTREL SOCIETY
Brechin Amateur Minstrel Society. — Meets twice a week in St. Ninian's Hall. Hon. C. M. Ramsay, Hon. President ; J. H. Lamb, Vice-President ; J. M'Lean, 7 City Road, Treasurer and Secretary ; with a Committee of five.
THE FARMERS' MART, LIMITED
Directors— D. Hume, Earrelwell (Chairman); A. Spalding, Broom- knowe ; Jas. Samson, Balwyllo ; John Baxter, Pitforthie ; A. Couper, Brae of Pert ; Wm. Doig, Carcary ; Thos. Seniple, Farnell ; G. Gumming, Secretary ; A. Campbell, Cashier ; Auctioneers, G. Anderson and W. M. Law. Weekly sale of Cattle on Tuesdays, at 10.45 a.m. precisely.
BRECHIN AGRICULTURAL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED
Office and Works, Park Road. Directors — D. Hodgeton (Chairman); James Guthrie ; John Lamb, Glencadam ; J. Young, Fordhouse. Wm. Vallentine, Secretary ; Alex. Gray, Junior, Manager.
POPULATION
Population of Parishes. — 1891 Census — Brechin, 10,453 ; Edzell, 745 ; Farnell, 627 ; Careston, 198 ; Aberlemno, 926 ; Dun, 552 ; Fearn, 277 ; Lethnot, 239 ; Maryton, 376 ; Kinnell, 643 ; Menmuir, 664 ; Cor- tachy, 440; Lochlee, 343; Tannadice, 1117; Logie-Pert, 978; Stra- cathro, 505.
Brechin Burgh Electorate, 1895-96. — Males, 1230 ; Females, 564.
Parliamentary Voters — 1230.
Voters in Brechin District — 455.
Burgh Valuation— 1894-95, £28,779 19s 2d; 1893-94, £28,559 16s Id !^oth exclusive of railways.
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Post Office. — John Thomson, Postmaster. Mails arrive at 8.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. Despatched at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Parish Council. — Chairman, Rev. D. S. Ross; Inspector and Clerk, John Milne ; Medical Officer, Dr Parkinson.
School Board. — Chairman, James Anderson, Clerk and Treasurer, Rev. D. S. Ross.
Scottish National Bible Society. — Auxiliary Branch — President, Rev. D. S. Ross ; Secretary, Mr Bennett ; Treasurer, John Milne.
Gas Company. — Manager, James Whyte.
Banks. — Union Bank — John Milne, Agent. Savings Bank — Rev. D. S. Ross, Treasurer.
Hotels. — Panmure Arms ; Star — J. Nelson-Bairner.
Special Drainage and Water District Sub-Committee. — James Anderson (Chairman), Hon. C. M. Ramsay, John Shiell, W. Lyon, John Milne, John Soutter, James Robertson, Alex. Philip, Clerk. Superintendent of Works, Jas. Whyte.
Curling Club. — Sergeant Lyon, Secretary and Treasurer.
Golf Club. — D. Ferguson, Captain.
Angling Club. — President, W. Robertson ; Vice-President, J. Cooper ; Secretary and Treasurer, Harry Watt.
Ploughmen's Society. — President, J. Beadie; Secretary and Treas- urer, Frank Carr.
I.O.G.T. — Gannochy Lodge — Lodge Deputy, John Duncan.
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REPRINT OF A SHORT ACCOUNT
OF THE
TOWN OF BRECHIN.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
T. COLQUHOUN, 29 Hanover Street,
EDINBURGH, 1828.
Brechin is a royal burgh, in the parish of the same name, in Angus- shire, of which Forfar is the county town, and was anciently an episcopal see. It lies 12^ miles north-east of Forfar, 8 west of Mon- trose, 25 south of Stonehaven, 26^ north-east of Dundee, and 71^ miles from Edinburgh.
It is situated on a rising ground (whence its name) which is washed by tlie river South Esk. It consists of one street up the face of the acclevity, another nearly at right angles, and it has a third from the west adjoining, with some bye lanes. The royalty extends from the cross about half-a-mile in every direction, and the suburbs a con- siderable way farther. To the south and east are the Tenements, which are two streets of some length, independent of the burgh of Brechin, being without the royalty, and held in feu of Sir James Carnegie of South Esk.
Brechin is a well-built town, and contains a number of good houses ; those lately erected are handsome. The town is well supplied with water, by means of leaden pipes. At the lower end of the south, or Nether Tenements, is a stone bridge of two large arches over the South Esk. The town had many years ago been walled round, as the names of South, West, and North Ports, still indicate. It waa twice destroyed by fire, by the Danes in the year 1012, and again by the Marquis of Montrose, in 1645.
A bishop's see was founded here by David the First in 1140, richly endowea. That part of the cathedral which still remains, is an ancient Gothic pile, supported by twelve pillars, and having a door and window in the west end, of curious and beautiful workmanship. When entire it was 166 feet long and 61 feet broad. At the north-west comer ia a
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square tower, with a handsome spire,' together 120 feet high. The present parish church occupies the west end of the cathedral, which was some time ago repaired at very considerable expense, and makes an elegant place of worship.
Adjoining to the church on the south-west, is one of those round towers, of which this and another at Abernethy are all that remain in : Scotland. Antiquarians have long been divided in their opinions con- cerning the time when these towers were erected and their use. One conjecture is that they were watch towers, several suppose them to i have been belfrios, whence the criers summoned the people to prayers, ! while not a few, knowing that similar towers are to be found in , Ireland, nsimedi the land of sanctity, think that they must have been places in which penitents were confined till restored to the bosom of the church. This tower contains four openings or windows at the top, directed to the four cardinal points, and comm.ands a tolerably ex- tensive view. That at Abernethy overlooks the Firth of Tay and part of the valley of Strathearn, and this at Brechin is directed towards the great valley of Strathmore. The conjecture that these were watch towers is but ill supported, the view from the tower of Brechin is very limited, extending only to Montrose on the east and a short way into the valley of Strathmore, neither is the view from the tower at Aber- nethy very extensive.
The tower at Brechin is a circular column of great beauty and elegance, 80 feet high, with a kind of spire or roof, 23 feet additional, of an octagonal form, making the whole height 103 feet, the diameter at the base is 16 feet. The building consists of ^& courses of stone, not regular in their depth, some of them measuring 24, some of them only 9 inches, and the stones somewhat deeper at one end than the other, so that the courses bear some resemblance to a screw. This fabric has sustained little injury from time. The door is about 6 feet from the ground, 22 inches wide and 6^ feet high, the sides^are formed of large blocks of the same sand stone, of which the rest of the tower is built. Nearly in the centre of each stands a human figure on a kind of bracket, supposed to be one of the apostles, having a rod or staff in his hand. The lintel is another block of sand stone cut into a semi- circular arch, over the centre of which stands the figure of our Saviour stretched on the Cross, whence has arisen the probable conjecture that this tower was built after Christianity had been introduced into Scot- land. The sole is another block of the same kind of stone, on each end of which are the figures of two animals, conjectured to be a lion and a lamb, the whole entrance is ornamented with two borders of small circles, which surround the figures described.
In a lane at the upper part of the town are some remains of the chapel of Maison Dieu, an hospital founded by William de Brechin, and confirmed by James the Thirci in 1477, part of the revenues of which are still applied by the magistrates, its patrons, towards the support of the poor, and part to pay the salary of the master of the grammar school, called Preceptor of Maison Dieu.
Near to the town stands Brechin Castle, the ancient seat of the family of Panmure, and residence of the honourable William Ramsay
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Maule. It was built in 1711 on the brink of a perpendicular rock overhanging the South Esk, and erected on the site of the old castle which sustained a siege of 20 days, in the year 1303, by the English army under Edward the First. Notwithstanding every effort used to compel the besieged to surrender, the brave governor, Sir Thomas Maule, held out till he was killed by a stone thrown from an engine, when the place was instantly given up. A descendant of this brave man was, in 1616, created Lord Maule of Brechin and Earl of Panmure. The estates and title were attained in 1715. While the property is again in possession of the family, the Peerage has not yet been restored.
Brechin is governed by a provost, two bailies, a dean of guild, treasurer, hospital master, convener of trades, a trades councillor, and five ordinary councillors. It has six incorporated trades, and joins with Aberdeen, Aberbrothick, Montrose, and Bervie in returning a member to Parliament. Brechin is a presbytery seat. A town court is held in it every Wednesday, and a Justice of Peace court on the first Wednesday of every month.
Three new schools were erected a few years ago by subscription, one for the languages, taught by the preceptor of Maison Dieu, of which the crown is patron, another for the parochial school under the patronage of the heritors and magistrates, and the third for the mathematical depaitment.
Besides the church belonging to the parish there are in Brechin two episcopal chapels, two meeting houses belonging to the united associate synod, one for the anti-burghers who refused to unite, and one for a, very few methodists.
Two works have long since been established here, in which yarn is bleached on chemical principles, and these are carried on with such activity that 10,000 lbs. are whitened at each in the course of a week. Streams f;'om the South Esk turn, at the lower extremity of the town, two mills for spinning linen yarn, one of which contains 16 frames and the other 26, besides flour and other mills.
One distillery of considerable extent established here has attracted notice by the superior quality of its whisky, and operations are about to be commenced in another.
A porter brewery is also carried on here with success, and a tannage ; but the business which occupies far the greater part of the working classes in this place is the manufacture of coarse linens, the yarn of which has previously been bleached. This branch of trade is managed here, in favourable times, as in the other towns in Angus, with great and increasuig activity.
A branch of the Dundee Union bank, and one of the Montrose bank, is established here.
The weekly market is on Tuesday, and there are three great fairs held every year, viz., on the third Wednesday in April ; the second Wednesday in June, called Trinity fair, the greatest in the north of Scotland for sheep, cattle, and horses ; and on the second Wednesday of August. Besides these, a market is held on the Tuesdays after each term of Whitsunday and Martinmas for hiring servants. There
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are horse markets on the last Tuesday of February and all the Tues- days of March, and cattle markets each Tuesday during winter.
The population of the town in 1821 was 4520, since then it has con- siderabiy increased.
Latitude, 56° 40' north, Longitude, 2° 18' east.
Population, town and parish, 1811, was 6559.
1821 „ 5906.
BY
Ex=Bailie Brother ANNANDALE,
Read at St. John's Festival,
2nh December 1895,
On the occasion of the Portrait of Brotheb the Hon. C. M. RAMSAY being presented to the Lodge.
Saint Andrew's nicht ower a' the warld Brings memories dear to masons free ;
Sae lat us in oor mirth this nicht Mind absent freends ayont the sea.
As year by year this nicht comes roond — What tho' some vacant chairs we see —
It shows the Architect Sublime Aye visits Number 123.
Tho' silent voice and vacant chair Wi' tears may sometimes dim the e'e,
They stir the tender thochts within, An' mak' us better masons be. .
Some brethren hae but life begun.
An' some hae seen three score an' three
We'll happy be tho' auld or young, If true to Number 123
We a' upon the level meet.
An' a' oor actions plumb maun be ;
We aye pairt fair upon the square To meet_^again^in 123.
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When met aroond the mystic board, Free masons guid I trow are we ;
For whether peasant, priest, or lord. We're brithers a' in 123.
Sh'd some frail brither mak' a slip (Can ony ane frae sin be free ?)
D«al gently wi' 'm an' help him up — Perfection here we'll never see.
Sae let us aye tak' special care To keep oorsel's frae errors free,
An' carry oot the golden rule :
Treat men as we would treated be.
To ilka brither's sorrows share An' mak' them to 'm lichter be,
Oor joys to share an' mak' them mair, Sh'd be the aim o' 123.
To nurse an' carp on petty cares
Mak's winter's frost whare'er we be ;
A cheery word, a happy smile, Mak' sunbeams aye in 123.
It's nae for greed or warld's gear. It's nae for gowd we're masons free
Oor greatest aim is aye the same : To cultivate the virtues three.
Oor bite o' meat, oor duds o' claes — A groat for wants we canna see —
Is a' we need, an' aye we'll get. If true to Number 123.
Oor Maister's gifts are manifold, Sae lat us aye contentit be ;
To sit and sigh as time gaes bye We canna thole in 123.
We read in yon auld sacred book Fan Saul was dour as dour c'd be,
That David played an' sang to him. An' garred his evil sperits flee.
We'll follow guid King David's plan, An' spend the nicht in mirth an' glee,
Fley evil sperits ower to France, An' oot o' Number 123.
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Mony a nicht we've happy been,
Happier nichts there cudna be ; Tho' oceans wide oor paths divide,
We'll fondly mind on 123.
We'll wish success to masons true,
An' lodges a' faur ere they be ; But aye St. James abune th«m a',
Oor mither, Number 123.
In fancy's car we wander far ;
We'll tak a trip accross the sea, An' be in time for auld lang syne,
An' end the stratin in 123.
This Poem was originally intended to have been read on St. Andrew's Night, but owing to the presentation which was to take place on St. John's Night it was postponed till then.
The brethren of Lodge St. James (No. 123) celebrated the Festival of St. John in their Lodge, Church Street, ttn Friday evening, 27th December 1895. Brother Cameron, P.M., occupied the chair, and Brothers Eggie and Middleton, the newly installed R.W.M. and S.W., acted as croupiers. After partaking of an excellent supper purveyed by Brother Wood, of the Dalhousie Hotel, in his usual first-class style, a lengthy and varied programme of songs, readings, and recitations was carried through. The most important event of the evening was the unveiling of a splendidly enlarged photograph of Brother the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, subscribed for by the brethren of !St James as a mark of the esteem in which he is held by them, while a similar one, presented to the Hon. Mrs Ramsay, was hung in the Lodge for the evening, previous to being transferred to Brechin Castle. The Chairman, in the course of his remarks, mentioned that the Ramsay family had been closely connected with Masonry for nearly a century and a half. In 1767 the eighth Earl of Dalhousie was Grand Master of Scotland ; in 1804 the ninth earl tilled the same position ; in 1808 the Hon. W. Ramsay Maule, afterwards first Lord Panmure, was Grand Master ; in 1836 Lord Ramsay, afterwards tenth Earl of Dalhousie and first Mar- quis of Dalhousie, was Grand Master ; in 1867-79 Fox Maule, eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, was Grand Master, and it will be in the recollection of many that the late earl held the high and responsible position of Provincial Grand Master of Forfarshire, 1876-80. Brother Annandale, in supplement to Brother Cameron's remarks presenting the portrait of Brother the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, mentioned that to complete the chain
Original Masonic Poem. 55
of Dalhousie Freemasons they had now got hung in the Lodge the portrait of the late Earl of Dalhousie, who was M.W. Provincial Grand Master of Forfarshire from 1876 to 1880. This was subscribed for by the members of St. James Lodge.
The portraits bore the following inscriptions : —
"Presented to Brother the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, M.W. Substitute Provincial Grand Master of Forfarshire, by the brethren of St. James Lodge (No. 123) as a bniall maik of appreciation of his kindness to the Lodge, the last of which was the ventilating and decorating of the Lodge. 27th December 1895."
"Presented to the Honourable Mrs C. M. Ramsay by the brethren of Lodge St James (No. 123), Brechin, as a small token of the respect and esteem which her husband, the Hon. C. M. Ramsay, is held in the Lodge. 27th December 1895."
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Jfarfarshirc Jfairs anbCattlc pfCarkcts.
January.
Arbroath, hiring and general business, last
Saturday Coupar- Angus, cattle and sheep, 3rd Monday Brechin, cattle, every Tuesday ; feeing, last
Tuesday. (Garlics') Kirriemuir, 1st Monday Laurencekirk, feeing, last Wednesday
February.
Brechin, cattle every Tuesday ; horses, las
Tuesday. (Causey) Coupar-Angus, cattle and sheep, 3rd Monday Edzell, hiring, cattle, &C., 3rd Thursday Kirriemuir, Ist Monday
March.
Brechin, horses, every Tuesday Coupar-Angus, horses & cattle, 3rd Thursday Kirriemuir, 1st Mondaj'l; Horses, 2d Friday
April.
Brechin (Trinity Muir), sheep & cattle, 3rd
Wednesday ; horses, Ist Tuesday Carmyllie, cattle, 3rd Tuesday, o « Coupar-Angus, cattle & sheep, 3rd Monday Forfar, cattle and horses, 2nd Wednesday Glamis, 1st Wednesday Glasterlaw, cattle, last Wednesday Kirriemuir, Ist Monday
May.
Arbroath, hiring, 26th if Saturday ; if not,
Saturday after Brechin, feeing, Tuesday after 25th Coupar-Angus, cattle & sheep, 3rd Monday Dundee, hiring, 26th if Tuesday or Friday ;
if not, Tuesday or Friday after Dun's Muir, 1st Tuesday, o « Edzell, cattle and sheep, 1st Monday ; feeing,
26th Forfar, cattle & horses, Ist Wednesday, o s ;
feeing, Saturday after 25th Friockheim, hiring, cattle, last Thursday Glamis, Ist Wednesday and Wednesday after
26th Kirriemuir, Ist Monday & Friday after 26th Laurencekirk, fe«ing, 26th May Letham, Forfar, cattle and hiring, 26th Montrose, Friday after Whitsunday, o s
June.
Brechin (Trinity Muir), 2nd Thursday. Dun's Muir, cattle, horses, 3rd Thursday Forfar, cattle, 3rd Friday Glasterlaw, cattle, 4th Wednesday Kirriemuir, Wednesday after Glamis
July.
Arbroath, hiring and general business, 18th if Saturday ; if not, Saturday after
Coupar-Angrus, cattle, &c., 3rd Thursday
Brechin, wool, Monday after Inverness wool fair
Dundee (Stobb's), cattle, sheep, and horse, Tuesday after 11th
Edzell, cattle, Friday after 19th
Forfar, cattle, horses, Wednesday after Ist Tuesday
Friockheim, hiring and cattle, Monday after Arbroath
Kirriemuir, horses and cattle, 24th if Wed- nesday; if not, Wednesday after ; sheep, day before
Laurencekirk, harvest feeing, horses, and cattle, last Thursday
August.
Brechin (Trinity Muir), sheep, cattle, and
horses, 2nd Thursday Dundee (First), cattle, &c., 26th Edzell, cattle and sheep, Wednesday after
26th Forfar, sheep, cattle, horses, and wool,
Wednesday after 1st Tuesday Glasterlaw, cattle, 3rd Wednesday
September.
Brechin (Trinity Muir), sheep, cattle, horses,
Tuesday before last Wednesday Dundee (Latter), cattle, horses, 19th Forfar, horses and cattle, last Wednesday Glenisla, sheep and cattle, Thursday before last Wednesday
October.
Brechin, cattle, every Tuesday till April Trinity Muir Tryst
Dundee (Bell's), feeing, 1st Friday
Edzell, sheep, cattle, and horses, Friday be- fore Kirriemuir
Forfar, cattle, 2nd Wednesday
Glamis, Saturday before Kirriemuir
Glasterlaw, cattle, 3rd Monday
Kirriemuir, horses, cattle, Wednesday after 18th ; sheep, day before
November.
Arbirlot (Arbroath), cattle, 2nd Wednesday
Arbroath, hirintr, 22nd if Saturday; if not, Saturday after
Brechin, cattle, every Tuesday ; feeing Tues- day after 21st
Coupar-Angus, cattle and sheep, 3rd Monday
Dundee, hiring, 22nd if Tuesday or Friday; if not, Tuesday or Friday after
Edzell, feeing, 22nd
Forfar, cattle, 1st Wednesday ; feeing, Saturday after 22nd
Friockheim, hiring and cattle, 22nd if Thursday ; if not, Thursday after
Glamis, cattle and hiring, Wednesday after 22nd
Kirriemuir, cattle, Wednesday after Glamis
Laurencekirk, feeing, 22nd November
Letham, cattle and hiring, 23rd
Montrose, Friday after Martinmas, o «
December.
Brechin, cattle, every Tuesday Coupar-Angus, cattle and sheep, 3rd Monday
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"he UYETH long THA.T UVETH "WELL."
INTERESTING GLEANINGS AND GATHERINGS.
iEsCHYLt'S, filipolis. Cratiniis, and Enniiis are said never to have sat down to compose till they were intoxicated.
Hekui JIuitGETi, the famous French liternry Bohemian, died in a hospital, and was Ijuned at the expense of the State.
True case in writing comes from
art. not chance. As those move easiest who have
learned to dance.
>iV.
The cheque cannot he proved to have existed in the coimiier- ci.al transactions of Europe, out- side of Italy, until late in the seventeenth or early in the tvK? eighteenth centiirv ; in Euj;- land not till about 17C0.
The privilegre which the family of JJe Cunroy enjoy, of standing before the king covered, was granted, it is said, l>y King John, in 1203, in conscmience of one of that family having vanquished a foreign knightwho had chal- lenged every Court in Europe, and up to that period had carried olf every laurel.
Those who have seen the ^*^ mariner's compass, or, indeed, a dr.awing of it, must have observed the fleur-de-lis at the point of the needle. From this circumstance the French have laid claim to the discovery ; hut it is much more probable that the figure is an ornamental cross, which origin- ated in the devotion of an ignorant and supersti- jo^ tious age to the mere symbol.
Charles Mathews, the great comedian and .author, was naturally very shy. In the "life and Correspond- ence of Charles Mathews," written by his wife, she says that " he looked sheepish and confused if recognised, and his eyes would fall and colour mount if he heard his name even whispered in passing along the streets."
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And'tis a pain thatpain tomiss; But of all pains the greatest paiji It is to love and love in vain. CowLKr.
O
GeoegeTrout was a messenger of the House of Commons, who died about the year 1840. Trout — familiarly known as "The Dwarf "—was barely a yard high, but had very short arms and legs, and an enormous head. He was a very well-known character in Westminster Hall, where he was employed by members of the House to carry papers and messages to difEerent parts of London.
In ritt's day, during the war with li'rance. It was peiial to the extent of itsuo to p.art with an English newspaper to a French- man.
When Bishop Burnet was at college, his father aroused him to his studies every niorning at four o'clock; and he coiitiiuied the practice of early rising to the end of his life.
Samuel Foote, the great dra- matist and actor, was very lame, luit his own cheerful disposition enabled him to make light otit. One of his bc^t pinys is The I. lime Lovtr, in wliicli the author himself enacted the lover.
-3S
THE CHILDREN. A drcnrii place would he this earth
Were there no little people in it : The sonij of life would lo^e its mirth
Were there no children to begin it. The sterner souls icould grow inore stern.
Unfeeling natures more inhuman^ And man to stoic coldness tarn,
And womau would be less than woman. — Whittiek.
DRYDEy often had himself bled, and ate raw meat to assist, as he said, his imagination. Sliad- well, De Cjuiucey, Psalmanazar, Dean Milner, Coleridge, and Bishop Horsley stimulated them- selves witli opium, as De Musset was helpless without absinthe.
A REFUSAL.
Since Fortune favours not.
And all things backward go, - And since your mind hath so decreed,
To make an end of woe; Since now is no redress,
But hence I must away, Fareicell, I waste no vainer words,
I hope for better day.
— Barsaby Googe.
The saintly George Herbert was a devoted lover of music. "His chiefest recreation," says Walton, "was music, in which heavenly art he was a most ex- cellent master, and did himself compose many divine hymns and anthems, which he set and sung to his lute and viol."
Pope's inflrmities were a drag upon his genius, hut could not keep him from painstaking and brilliant labours. "He was so weik as to be unable to dress himself without help." His own statement was that he did not expect to enjoy any health for four days together, and the evi- dence of liis contemporaries makes it clear that he did not exaggerate.
HoJiER, Horace, Virgil, and numerous other ancient writers were early risers.
Alexaspre Dumas the elder earned millions of francs by his novels and plays, but cuded sans un souvaillunt.
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Venus, take my votive glass ; Since 1 am not tchat I was ; II hat from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see I
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Gp.otk, the historian, hnd con- sideialile ta'ent for music; and it is recorded that he and his wife would frequently play duets t<igetlicr, sometimes on the pianoforte and sometimes on two violoncellos.
The first originator of a plan establishing public ve- hicles in Paris open to all, and running regularly, was the grave philosopher Pas- cal, in the days of Louis XIV. One of his friends, the Mar- quis de Uoanne, took up the suggestion, and in the year 11)72 obtained a privilege for the undertaking. ''^^ Heine's name is a word of tragedy to all conversant with literary historj'. They think of tills keen storm-spirit condemned to imprisonment in a body slowly robbed of every power and attri- liute except bare life and daunt- less thought. And ill that dismal cavern of Jiis despair the poet, through an amanuensis, still ,^ bravely added to the volume of his life work.
The Turkish star and cres- cent is a curious relic of the old worship of the moon and Diana. This goddess was the ancient patroness of Byzan- tium, or Constantinople, and when Mahomet II. took the city In 1453, he adopted the crescent moon for his device in honour of the victory. The flag is a red ground, ■^ with the crescent and star in white.
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Jl/V qirl, thou gazest much
Upon the golden skies : Would I were Heaven, I would behold Thee then with all mine eyes I
TUREERVILLB. <^
The finest fruits of Schiller's muse were gleaned in years of pndonged suffering. He was in- cessantly racked by pain, and often visited liy a dangerous and harassing insomni.a. But he would not abandon work. His gallant spirit made the best of its frail tenement, and each new assault of his foe seemed to strengthen his resolve to make the fullest use of the salvage of wrecked hours.
Sib Matthkw Hale always rose early, and studied sixteen hours a day.
Carneades, the rhi'osoplier, seldom wrote without dosing himself with hellebore.
Gray seldom fat down to conuiose witliout first reading thronph some cantos of the " Faerie Queene."
God takes the good— too good on
earth to stati. And leaves the bad— too bad to
take away.
Plays were first acted in Eng- land at Clcrkenwoll, A.n. ]:w The first coinrany of iilaycrs tliat received the sanction of a patent was that of James Burlmge and others, the servants of the Earl of Leicester, from Queen Eliza- beth, in 1574. Plays were sub- jected to a censorship in 1737.
Fabkicius states that " Lin- naeus arose very early in summer, mostly about four o'clock : at six he came and breakfasted with us, aliout one-ei«htli of a league dis- tant from hisrusidonce.and there gave lectures upon the natural orders of plants, which generally lasted until ten."
Ood Milt Ids singers upon earth Wilh songs o/saiinet-s andof mirth. That they might touch the hearts of
meij. And bring them back to Heaven
again.
In 17'10 there was in London a Persian dwarf forty-five years of age, and three feet eight inches in height. He is stated to have delighted "the nobility and gentry of Europe" with his won- derful performance in carrying on each arm the largestmen amongst the spectators.
" The biscuits my mother made
weren't like these "
The young wife burst into tears — " For these are as light as the froth of tile seas, And the best I have tasted for years.''
iSiie smiled again,^
The first translation of the Bible from the Hebrew into the Greek was made by seventy-two interpreters, by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus. It is thence called the Septuagint version, and was completed in seventy-two days at Alexandria, 277 yeai's n.c. The Jewish Sanhedrim consists of seventy-two members, and this probably accounts for the number of translators mentioned. They were shut up in thirty-six cells, and each pair translated the whole; and on subsequent com- parison it was found that the thirty-six copies did not vary by a word or a letter.
Dr. Doddridge says it is to his habit of early rising that the world is indebted for nearly the whole of his valuable works.
Henry Buckle could not tell one tune from another, and was moved by music only when he heard such a player as Liszt.
Burns was not only a music lover, but a very fair performer on the violin. Many of his best songs were written for already- existing tunes.
Bellmen were first appointed in London, 1536. They were to ring their hells at night, and cry, "Take care of your fire and candle, bo charitable to the poor, and pray for the dead."
DIEU SAUVE LA REINE.
For the French siilijects of her Majesty in tlie Cliannel Islands and oilier regions where tlie French tongue is in use as %oell as English, the following is the version of the Queen's Anthem :
" Bieu sauve la Reine, Long jours i la Seine,
Bieu lasaave. Son rSgne glm-ieux, Jleureux, vlctnrieux. Que ses ans soieni nombreux,
Dieu, la sauve.
*' Dieu, en ta colore,
Abat Vadversaire
Jusqu'en terre ; Confond ses notions, F^'ustre ses actions ; £n elle nous esperous,
Sauve 6 Pire.
" Ta faveur preserve.
Pour elle reserve
Un long regne. Pour dtfendre nos lois; D'accord, et d'line vnix, Chantons tons & lafois,
Sauve la Heine. Amen."
Samuel Rogers showed his love for music in rather a curious manner. When he dined at home and alone, "it was his custom to have au Italian organ-grinder playing in the hall, the organ being set to the Sicilian Mariners' air and other popular tunes of the South."
Goldsmith's relations towards music are well known. Ue played tolerably well on the flute, which ho would take up, it is said, to calm himself after his temper had been disturbed. He was also afairly good singerof Irish songs, his renderings exhibiting much of the peculiar humour of his country.
TuK ancient English penny was the first silver coin struck in England, and the only one current among our Saxon ancestors. At the time of Ethelred it was equal in weight to the present three- pence. Till the time of King Edward I. the penny was deeply indented, so that it might easi ly be broken and parted on occasions into two parts (these being called half-pence), or into four, which were called fourthings or far- things.
Balzac, but for his marriage late in life with the wealtliy Polish widow Madame Eve de Hauska, would have died poor.
Under Draco's laws, enacted .it Athens 521 B.C., all idlers were executed, the law being carried out to the letter with as much severity as though the ofl'ender had been found guilty of murder.
Hoio poor are they that have no
patience I What wound did ever heal but by
degrees I
The Bank op Esglaxd was first established in 1094, in the reign of William and Mary. It was projected by one Paterson, and its original capital was fl,'200,noo. The style of the firm is The Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
LaFontaine and Goldsmith are the two stock examples of child- ishness in literary history ; and childish enough they were, almost inexcusably so, in life. But when we find them with pen in hand, we never think of them as of any- thing but very clever men. It is not given to anyone to be great in every direction.
Take no man to your heart at sight, But prove ids friendship strong :
The man who says you're always right. Will ojtenest think you wrong.
Sir Thomas More set a good example by practising what he preached. He made it his invari- able practice to rise at four ; and he became so well convinced of the excellence of the habit that he represents the Utopians as attending public lectures every morning before daybreak.
We love The king v:ho loves the law, re- spects his bounds. And reigns content within them;
him we serve Freely, and with deliglit, who
leaves lis free : But recollecting still that he is man, We trust liim not too far.—
COWPEB.
The inventor of clocks is not known. The obscurity is owing to the fact that the Latin word for c'.ock may signify any mea- surer of time, not excepting even the sun-dial. Watches are gene- rally stated to have been invented by Peter Hale, of Nuremberg, in 1500, who first made "a clock without weights." In the strict acceptance of the term, all clocks must strike. When the clock is not made to strike, it is a time- piece : but the distinction no longer holds.
1st Month,n 1896. J
JANUARY— 31 days.
THE MOON'S CHANGES,
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QUI PLUS SAIT, PLUS SE TAIX WHO KNOWS
MOST SAYS LEAST.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Make life a ministry of love, and it will always be worth living.
TuAT st:ito of life is most li.TlUiy wlievc supci-fliiities arc iKrt rciinirod and necessaries are nui wauiiiig.
TuE leading motive iu the majority is vanit.v, the highest virtue domestic afcection.
Moderation is like temper- ance: we should wish to eat more, but are afraid of injuring our health.
HOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
If evil come not, then our fears are
vain, Andif they do, fear hut augments the pain.
1,—Laus Deo I was the first entry by merchants and tradesmen of our forefathers' days in befjinning their new account books with the New Year.
3.— Rachel the actress was cold and very unamiable. Heracuteness and force of character cannot be too highly extolled. She kept aloof from her fellow-actors, and cared nothing in the world for stage business.
She filled the stage completely. The audience cared nothing for the play when she was not on, and talked as if it were between acts. At her entrance all noise ceased, and her impassioned eloquence thrilled and carried the feelings of the audience. The other actors were disheartened, and dared not receive any honours for fear of being dismissed. Rachel did not care to share any of the honours.
She was extremely parsimonious. The latter quality was exemplified at a big dinner that she gave to some aristocratic guests. liuights, courtiers, and tlie highust in the land were present.
Pineapples were very expensive and rare then. The fruit centre- piece she desired to have sur- mounted by a pineapple, and instead of buying, she hired one for the evening for seventy francs.
All went meri-y at the table. Rachel was in high spirits, when suddenly a mischievous friend wickedly inserted a knife into the pineapple. The tragedienne uttered a piercmg shriek ; the guests rushed towards her, when she endeavoured to calm herself, and said that she had a strange pain, but that it had passed now.
A witty poet present quietly a'kcd: "Was the heart of Mile. Rachel hidden in that pine?" He knew her pain came from the de- struction of the pineapple, for which she would have to pay.
7.— The day after Twelfth Day was called St. DistafE's Day, or Rock Day, because it was celebrated in honour of the roclc, which is a distaffheli in the hana,from whence wool is spun by twirling a ball below. It seems that the burning of the flax and tow belonging to the women was the men's diversion in the evening of the first day of labour after the twelve days of Christmas, and that the women repaid the inter- ruption to their Industry by sluic- ing the mischief-makers.
Herrick tells us of the custom in his " Hesperides " : — '^ Partly work and partly play
Ye must on St. Distaff's Day ;
From the plough soone free your teams.
Then come home and father them.
If the maides a-spinning goc,
Burne the tlax and fire the tow.
Bring in pailes of water tlien. Let tile maides beioash tlie men. Give St. D istaffe all the riglit. Then bid Cliristmas sport goodr
' •WISDOM D0E8 NOT AlWAYS GO BY YEAES.
16.— Dr. Parr preached the Spital eermon, at Christ Church, on the invitation of the Lord Mayor, Harvey Comhe, and as they were coming out of the church together, "Well," said Parr, "how did you like the sermon ? "
" Well, Doctor," replied his Lord- ship, "there were four things in it that I did not like to hear."
" State them."
" Why, to speak frankly, then, they were the quarters of the church clock, which struck four times before you had finished."
Yet Parr's Spital Sermon, in 1793, occupied nearly three hours In its delivery 1
22.— The anniversary of St. Vin- cent is entered as Sunbeam Day in the " Natural Calendar." It was so called from an old proverb that it liodes good luck if the sunbeams be seen breaking out any time to- day. A Latin proverbial line has it, " Vi]icenii festo si Sol radiet inenior est)," which has been thus rendered into English and extended :—
" Bememier on St. Vincent's Day, I/that the sun his beams display. Be sure to mark the transient beam Wliich through the casement sheds a
Oleam ; For 'tis a token, bright and clear. Of prosperous weather all the year."
23.— The advice of Plutarch to the unfortunate is very ingenious and ought to be consolatory. " Con- sider," says the philosopher, "you eiiual the happiest men in the one half of your life at least: that half, I mean, which you spend in sleep."
26.— The faraousLord Jeffrey was born in the upper part of a house in the Lawnraarket of Edinburgh. The ho?'.se happened to catch Are at the time when he was only about a year old, and in the hurry and confusion the child in the garret was for a long time forgotten. When it was almost too late ho was remembered, and an honest man, by trade a slater, volunteered his services in rescuing the infant from his perilous situa- tion. "With much ditllculty and no little danger he was brought forth from the burning house and de- livered into the arms of his anxious relatives.
Thus was a life, which assuredly has been of some importance in Scottish literary and political his- tory, preserved by the courage of a poor tradesman.
30.— The chief events of the life of Charles I. are as follow:— Born in 1600 ; succeeded his father, James I., 1GL'.5 ; dissolved his third Parlia- ment, 1G2S ; troubles in Scotland, 1637 ; Long Parliament convened, 1610; battle of Edge Hill. 1642; brittle of Marston Moor, 1644; de- feat of Kaseby, 1645 ; executed, 1649.
" EIRE 1 "
A u-an in the night bawls out lusiily—
"Fire I" " Where ? where f " cry the folks, half awake and affrighted: Qtiotli the fellow below, ".That's what I wish to know ; For my pipe is gone out, and I want it just lighted."
MONEY-MAKING ON A COLOSSAL SCALE.
THE history of the Rothschilds, the financial rulers of nations, is a sensational story. Mayer Amschel, bora in the Frankfort Judengasse in 1743, was the real founder of the firm, though his father had been a trader before him, dealing in curiosities in a small way, and travelling the country with a pack and a donkey.
Young Mayer, with the trading instinct which seems the birthright of Jews, showed more than their ordinary com- mercial precocity. A schoolboy of twelve, he was alieady dealing in coins and laying the foundations of a future business connection.
His father had meant him for the Church— or, rather, for the Synagogue— but the trading spirit v/as too strong, and he came home to settle in the Judengasse. He did not stay there long, for his reputation as a man of business recommended him to the wealthy banking firm of the Oppenheims.
They appreciated him, and he had fair prospects of advance- ment, but with all his caution and prudence he had a dash of the adventurer, and determined to set up] upon his own account. Very soon he had a variety of iions in the fire ; from buying and selling curiosities and objects of art, he quickly developed into a banker and financier. He impressed all with whom he came in contact with the sense of his capacity.
A fortunate acquaintance he had formed introduced him to the Landgrave of Hesse, who intrusted him with the adminis- tration of his vast private means, and that proved the turning- point of Rothschild's own fortunes. The Landgrave, who had made himself specially obnoxious to Napoleon, by selling his subjects into English and Prussian services, fled before the advance of the French. The story of how he gave his treasures into Rothschild's charge has been told in many ways and ivith much fanciful embroidery.
The facts are simply that Rothschild managed to remit the money to his son Nathan, who was already in business in London. After the peace it was all honoui'ably accounted for, and duly repaid — principal and interest. The probity and ability of the Rothschilds were at once extensively advertised.
But in the meantime a singularly bold and lucrative speculation had redounded still more to their credit. The Duke of Wellington, during the Peninsular campaign, had been suffering from the precariousuess of specie supplies. Tlie English Government were greatly embarrassed, for no bankers would undertake the responsibility of transmitting them.
Then Rothschild came forward, and formally undertook the contract, on a heavy commission. For eight years he is said to have cleared £150,000 annually, and his success may have been due to the international relations he had already established. Be that as it may, lie gained the conlldence of our Government, and the consequence was that he had the profitable charge of remitting the enormous subsidies to the Continental princes in our pay.
When Mayer Aniscliel died, like one of the old patriarchs he summoned his five sons to his death-bed to give them his blessing and his best advice. The advice was to remain faithful to the Jemsh law, to remain united to the end, and to do nothing without consulting their mother. "Observe these three points," said the dying capitalist, "and j'ou will soon be rich among the richest, and the world will belong to you."
The sons fuiniled to the letter the precept that enjoined harmonious combination ; till lately they kept all their money in the family by intermarrying. But they achieved their financial supremacy by separating, and starting new centres of activity in some of the chief capitals of Europe. While the eldest son remained in Frankfort, his four younger brothers were directing houses in London, Paris, Naples, and Vienna.
2nd Month,! 1896. J
FEBRUARY— 29 days.
[PEACTISB WHAT YOU PEEACH.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Thk hjTOcrite is a saint, and tbe false traitor a maa of l\onour till oiiportunity, that faitbriil touclistoue, proves theii' metal to be false.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
The things are generally best remembered wbicli oii.cbt most to be forgot. Not seldom the surest remedy of the evil con- sists in forgetting it.
We are never so well pleased with an antagonist as wlien he makes an objection to which we are provided with a good answer.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
Who dors the iesl his circumstance
allows. Does well, acts nobly : Angels could
no more.— YonNG.
12. — Abraham Lincoln is one of the marvels of history. No land but America has produced his like. This destined chief of a nation in its most perilous hour was the son of a thriftless and wandering settler, bred in the most sordid poverty. He had received only the rudiments of education : and though he after- wards read eagerly such works as were within his reach, it is wonder- ful that he should have attained, as a speaker and writer, such a mastery of language, and a pure as well as effective style.
At the same time, he was melan- choly, touched with the pathos of human life, fond of mournful poetry, religious though not ortho- dox, with a strong sense of over- ruling Providence, which, when he was out of spirits, sometimes took the shape of fatalism.
Lincoln's goodness of heart, his sense of duty, his unselfishness, his freedom from vanity, his long- suffering his simplicity, were never disturbed either by power or by opposition. He spoke always from his own heart to the heart of the people. His brief funeral oration over the graves of those who had fallen in the war is one of the gems of the language.
14,— St. Valentine was a saint and a priest of Rome, who was beheaded during the persecution of Clau- dius II., about the year 270. He was first beaten with clubs, and then beheaded. The greater part of his remains are preserved in the Church ot St. Praxede at Rome, where a gate (now the Porta del Popolo) was formerly named from the Porta Valentlni.
Comparatively little has been handed down relative to the saint, or tending to show that he had any connection with the annual custom now prevalent of choosing mates and sending valentines.
26.— It is said of John Kemble, the celebrated tragedian, that he was not afraid to speak his mind to any- one when he deemed it necessary. Kings and princes had no more terrors for him than persons of humble rank or of no rank at all.
At one time he had the honinir of giving lessons in elocution to the Prince of Wales, who afterwards became King George IV., and his patience was much tried, for his Royal pupil was far from being a brilliant scholar.
At last one day, when the Prince, according to the vitiated pronuncia- tion of the time, had been saying "obleege" instead of "oblige," Kemble, with great disgust depicted on his countenance, said flrmly :
" Sire, I must beseech your Royal Highness to open your royal jaws, and say ' oblige' I"
27.— Longfellow was of York- shire descent on the side of both his parents. Hisparental ancestors were domiciled at Horsforth, and are traced as far back as 1-1S6. The first of the race who went to
"sow GOOD ■WOEKS AND THOTJ SHALT EEAP GLADNESS.'*
America in 1C76, was "William Long- feilow, haptised in 1030.
28.— Jail Steen, the famous Dutcti artist, was bora at Leyden in the year 1636. A taste for art came upcm him when a child; he drew with so much skill tliat his father, who designed hira for a brewer, lil'iced liim under Nicholas KnufEer, with whom he mastered the science of paintinw! but he completed his education in the studio of John Van (ioycn, with whose daughter he fell in love, and married when he was some twenty yeai-s old or so.
The produce of his pencil was so trilling that his father established him iu a brewery at Delft; but the daily sight of li(iuor and the prac- tice of proving the strength of it, were too much for his resolution- he gave way to intemperance, and the speculation failed.
His second choice of a business was no wiser than the first ; he opened a tavern, but he drank as stoutly as his customers did, and the profits were found unequal to the maintenance of his household.
His biographers have expressed both sorrow and anger with him on account of these injurious habits of Indulgence, and S(mie of them seem to think that for a time the painter was lost iu the toper. They have not, however, explained to us how he happened while keeping the brewery and the tavern to improve his eye and hand, both in composi- tion and colour, and paint some of his best pictures.
He relinquished the tavern, and, betaking himself: to the pencil, oIj- tained what he coveted— livelihood and fame.
29.— The name of Solander, the Swedish botanist, the pupil of Linnajus and the friend of Sir Joseph Banks, was honourably distinguished in the progress of natural science in the last century. He was born in Nordlaud, in Swe- den, on the 29th of February, 1736 ; he studied at Upsala, under Lin- najus, by whose recommendation he came to England in the autumn of 1760, and was employed at the British Museum, to which institu- tion he was attached during the remainder of his life ; he died, under-librariau of the Museum, in the year 1782.
It was, however, in voyages of discovery that Solander's chief dis- tinction lay, especially in his con- tributions to botanical knowledge.
20.— This being Leap-year, there are twenty-nine days in February.
" In Leap-year," says a Belgian proverb, "the weather always changes on a Friday."
MANKIND. Men are biit children of a larger
growth ; Our appetites as apt to change as
theirs And full as craving too, and full as
vain : And yet the soul shut up in her dark
room, Vieivinn so clear abroad, at home sees
nothing ; But, like a mole in earth, busy and
blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it
outward To the world's open view,— Duyd'eis.
They controlled the Bourses, as they had the ear of the Cabinets ; they were called into consultation when loans had to be raised in contemplation of breaches of European peace ; they are supposed to have sometimes averted wars simply by refusing to draw their purse-strings ; and once, as a condition of furnishing indispensable supplies, they forced an un- welcome Finance Minister on the tyrant of Naples.
As a rule, howeVer, they seem to have conducted their financial arrangemEuts from the purely business point of view ; and they insured the success of their speculations and tlie accuracy of tlieir cosmopolitan information by establisliing agencies with leading mercantile houses all over the world.
Naturally, they provoked envy and jealousies. But iu their united strength and with their admirable organisation, it became difficult to compete with tliem and impossible to crush tliem. The few s]ieculators who had the courage to make the attempt invariably had reason to repent it.
The remarkable feature in tlie rise of the Kothschilds was the thoroughly cosmopolitan manner of managing their business. They had no prejudices, no principles, and no patriotism. For example, " whilst on the one hand they provided supplies for the armies of Napoleon, on the other they raised loans for his foes."
Nathan Mayer, the first head of the English firm, was the ablest of the five sons. Millionaire as he was, his lot was far from an enviable one ; his hot pursuit of money gave him neither leisure nor rest ; he directed everything. His couriers were coming and going at all hours, and even when he retired for the night he was never sure that he might not be roused up to read and answer important despatches.
He was anything but an attractive character, as he must have been a miserable man. His disposition was not only money-getting, but grasping ; on the strength of his enormous riches he permitted himself almost brutal licence of speech ; by his will he did not bequeath a shilling even to those who had laboured indefatigably in liis service.
His son, Baron Lionel, who inherited much of his father's business talent, impresses us more favourably. He, too, had rough and rather repulsive manners, and latterly he was racked witli iiain and irritated by rheumatic gout. But he was benevolent in the best sense of the word, and always ready to reacli a liberal hand to tlie deserving.
Like his fatlier, he was entirely given over to business, although, unfortunately, he did find time to catch rheumatism iu the hunting-field. Like liis father, he had such faith in his own powers of administration that he insisted on super- intending everytliiiig personally. But if he had the i^assion of acquisitiveness wliich made the fortunes of his family, he had the charity which covers a multitude of sins.
Baron James, wlio established the Paris branch, was one of the shrewdest and most eccentric members of the family.
It was what may be charitably described as his extreme astuteness which provoked the most formidable combination ever formed against the Eothscliilds. The Barings, the Hopes of Amsterdam, and other important European houses, organised a syndicate which successfully contested the con- cession of the Kussian railways.
As an admirer of the arts, he went to Horace Vernet to arrange for having liis portrait painted. Vernet named 4,000 francs as the price.
Tlie Baron tried vainly to beat the painter down, till at last Vernet threatened to treble his charge if there was another word on the subject. "Am I to paint it, or am I not ? "
The Baron bolted from the studio, thinking that the audacious artist must be mad.
" Wait a moment I " cried the artist after him ; " I will do your portrait for nothing."
And he painted him on the gigantic canvas of "La Smala" as a hideous-looking Jew running away with a casket of jewels and money, his face expressive of the most sordid avarice.
3rd MontU, 1 1896. J
MARCH— 31 days.
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UST IS A KISG'8 WORD.
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QUI n'a SAXTE, n'a KIEN HE WHO WANTS
HEALTH HAS NOTHIXO.
John Wesley died, 1791.
Thomas Otway, dramatist, b., 1651.
Rooks begin to build.
" Difflculty makes desire." Dr. Samuel Parr died, 1825. Anna Letitia Barbauld died, 1S23.
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William Cobbett born, 1762. Prince of Wales married, 1863. Tasso, Italian poet, born, 1544. " Luvs deliglits in praise." 14. Battle of Ivry, 1590. Humbert, King of Italy, born, 1841.
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Close season for fresh-water fish begins.
St. Fatrlclc's Day.
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17. Dr. Thomas Chalmers born, 1780.
"Never quit eertainiy for hope." Henry Kirke White born, 1785.
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']['y " Live and learn."
"W^ Anmmciation — Lady Bay.
Til Duke of Cambridge born, 1810.
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S I Duke of Albany died, 1884.
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JM I " Pleobsino zoare is half sold.'
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WOEDS OF THE WISE.
Thk less we speak about our intentions, the more chance tbcre is of realising them.
Talbnt, lying in the under- standing, is often iulierited: genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.
Be not afraid of enthusiasm ; you need it ; you can do notliiug effectually without it.
To have a respect for our- selves guides our morals, and to have a deference for otliers governs our manners.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" T7i e onlij amaranthineflow'r on earth Is Virtue: th' only lasting treasure.
Truth.' COWPEU.
2.— A farmer went to hear John Wesley preach. Wesley said he would take up three topics of thought ; he was talking chiefly about money.
His fli-st was, "Get all yon can." The farmer nudged a neighbour, and said : " This is strange preach- ing ; I never heard the like before ; this is very good."
John Wesley discoursed on " in- dustry," "activity," "living to purpose," and reached his second division, "Save all you can." The fanner became more excited. "Was there ever anything like this?" he asked.
Wesley denounced thriftlessness and waste, and he satirised the wilful wickedness which lavishes in luxury. The farmer rubbed his hands, and he thought, "All this I have been taught from my youth up;" and what with getting, and T/liat with hoarding, it seemed to him that "salvation" had come to his house.
But Wesley advanced to his third head, which was, "Give all you can." "Ah dear 1 ah dear! " said the farmer, "he has gone and spoiled it all."
3.— -Even in this kingdom so late as the Reformation eating flesh in J^ent was rewarded with the pillory. An instance of this occurs in the " Patriot King," the particulars of which, quoted in "Clavis Caleu- darie," are somewhat amusing.
Thomas Freburn's wife, of Pater- noster Row, London, having ex- pressed a particular inclination for pig, one was procured, ready for the spit; but the butter-woman who provided it, Bciueamish as to the propriety of what she had done carried a foot of it to the Dean of Canterbury.
The Dean was at dinner, and one of his guests was Prcburn's land- lord, and Garter King-at-Arms, who sent to know if any of his family were ill, that he ate flesh in Lent.
"All well," quoth Freburn (per- haps too much of a Dissenter for the times), " only my wife longs for pig."
His landlord sends for the Bishop of London's apparitor, and orders him to take Freburn .and his pig before Stocksly, the Bishop, who sent them both to Judge Cholmley ; but he not being at home, they were again brought back to the Bishop, who committed them to tlie Compter.
Ne.'ct day.beingSaturday, Freburn was carried before the Lord Mayor, who sentenced hiiu to stand in the pillory on the Monday following, with one half of the pig on one shoulder and the other half on the other.
Through Cromwell's intercession the poor man at last gained his liberty by a bond of twenty pounds for his appearance. The luisehief- m iking pig was, by the order of the Bishop, buried in Finsbury field, by the hand of his Lordship's appa- ritor; but Freburn was turned out of his house, and could not get another in four years. Hence we may infer his ruin.
"put no faith in TAIB-BEAEEES."
Ki— During the battle of Ivry, Rosni, subsequently Duke de Sully, wlio fought by the king's side, had two horses killed under him, and received himself several wounds. He fell in his own blood, and fainted.
Being recovered, after a long while, he found himself alone on the field of battle, surrounded with dead. He imagined the day to be lost ; when four of the enemy's p,arty, coming up to him, entreated him to receive them as prisoners, and to spare their lives.
It was thus that he learnt the news of his master's victory.
17.— A native of Fife sends us the following story, which used to be told by his grandmother :—
A near relative of hers lived in Anstrutber, Fifeshire, at the end of the last century. He wasahumlile man, a crofter, and had for neifih- bour Dr. Chalmer's father, the liouses and kailyards of the two men were close together, and iu the gloaming they of ten leaned on the dyke that ran between the two kailyards, and talked oyer the news of the day.
" One evening," says our in- formant, "they had alongdebate on some knotty question— likely a Kirk matter — when my grandmother's friend's attention was directed to old Ciialmers'6 kailyard.
" ' Wha's that there at this time 0' nicht?' said he, thinking likely that the debate had had other listenfrs than it was meant for.
" Old Chalmers gave a look round to whero his friend pointed. It was to the head of the kailyard, where a figure was seen standing stock still.
" ' That ! ' said old Chalmers, with a grunt meant for contempt. " Hech I that's oor daft Tam looking at the stars I '"
Dr. Thomas Chalmers will ever be remembered as one of the greatest pulpit orators and divines that Scotland has produced. He died on the 3l8t of May, 1847.
31.— Dr. Donne had great faith in the power of music. He was ac- customed "to shorten and beguile many s.id hours by composing sacred ditties," one of which, made on his death-bed, shows his habit of conuectiug devotion with the art of sweet sounds: —
" Sivce I am coining to that holy room Where,with Thy quire of saints for evermore I shall be made Thy music; as I come, J tune my instrument here at the door. And what I must do then, think here before."
TIME.
Time is like a fashionable host. That slightly shakes his parting
guest by the hand ; And with his arms outstretch'd, as
he would fly. Grasps in the comer ; Welcome ever
smiles. And Farewell goes out sighing.
SnAKBSPBAM!.
A REMARKABLE ARAB CHIEF.
IT fs now aliout twelve years since the able and spirited Arab chief, Abd-el-Kader, jiassed away into the other world after having played a prominent part in this. A few notes on his career will be found interesting, and instructive as well, for he was a great man, from wliose career not a few lessons may be drawn by those who are that way inclined.
He was the tliird son of a revered Marabout chief of the province of Oran, Sidi-el-Mahiddin, and ■was born near Mascara in 1S07. At an early age he evinced a precocious intelligence in expounding difficult passages of the Koran, while his skill in horsemanship and in yielding the yatagliau caused him to be regarded, before he was sixteen years old, as one of the most promising warriors of his tribe.
An anecdote is related of him which, whether true or legendary, shows in what general esteem he was held. It is related that in his seventeenth year his father presented him with a beautiful white horse, which was much coveted by a chief named Yusuf. Proposals to buy the horse having been declined, Yusuf determined to obtain it by stratagem.
One day, as Abd-el-Kader was riding near Oran, he heard a crippled old beggar crying lamentably to him from the road- side. Night was advancing ; the beggar was unable to walk, and besought the young rider in the name of the Prophet to carry him to the neighbouring town. Abd-el-Kader at once dis- mounted, and lifted the beggar into the saddle ; but scarcely had he done so, when the unworthy Yusuf disclosed his identity by spurring off and breaking into a loud laugh.
Abd-el-Kader stood speechless for a moment ; then, putting Vioth hands to his mouth, he shouted after the man who liad duped him: "I give you the horse I but on condition tliat you tell no man how you have served me. You would disgust others from doing good."
The story, of course, adds that Yusuf, being struck by these words, turned rein penitently, gave back the horse, and remained ever after Abd-el-Kader's admiring friend.
Many romances of tins kind were invented about the son of Maliiddin, and they serve to explain how the Dey of Algiers took alarm at the young man's popularity, and sought to have him killed. Abd-el-Kader and his father fled into Egypt, and there the young Marabout (for he was already called by that title, which may be translated as Reverend or Saint) first made acquaintance with European civilisation, or, at least, with what passed for siich at Alexandria and Cairo.
He also performed the pilgrimage to Mecca ; and he had just returned from the accomplishment of this pious duty when news reached him of the French invasion of Algiers. The Dey had insulted the French Consul by striking him with a fan; and Charles X., being anxious to win a little glory for his army, had decided upon an expedition which was re]iresented to the British Government of that day as having no territorial aggrandisement for its object. HoAvever, when Abd-el-Kader returned to his country, he found that the French were already masters there, and expressed no intention of going away.
lie at once set to work to drive them out, and at the same time to break the last remnants of Turkish power in the province. The people of Oran rose at his appeal, and elected Mahiddin king ; but the old chief waived his own claims in favour of his son, and soon the French found it expedient to sign a treaty which recognised the latter's sovereignty over Oran.
It was hoped that he would agree to consider himself, if not as the vassal, at all events as the ally of the French ; but Abd-el-Kader quarrelled with the foreigners in less than six weeks, and preaching a Holy War soon gathered 10,000 horse- men under his banner. With these he marched upon Oran, which was occupied by General Boyer, laid siege to the town.
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9nb ^utttJau after Chaster.
10. Lord Beaconsfield d., ISHl.—rrinirosi
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"Money makes marriages."
St. George's Day.
23. Shakespeare died, 1616.
SI. Mark, Evangelist and Martyr.
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"Ko living man all things can." Edward IV. of England born, 1441. Battle of Fontenoy, 1745.
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WORDS OF THE WISE,
The man who is too busy to attend to his business will flud plenty of leisure later on.
Above all things be kind. Kindness is the one thing thriuisjh which we can the most reseuilile God and the most disarm men.
Mankind in the gross is a Galling Monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed.
TuE real strength and all the resources of a country ever have sprung and ever must spring from the labour of its people.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" The surest road to Uealth, say what they icill. Is never to suppose we shall be ill."
CUUIICHILL.
6.— Easter-day is distinguished by Its peculiar name through our Saxon ancestors, who at this season of the year held a great festival, in honour of the goddess Kastnr, pro- bably the Astarte of the Eastern nations. Others tliink it is so called from the Saxon Osier, to rise, being tlie day of Christ's resurrection. The French call thisfestival;i03»cs, derived from the Greek pascha and Hebrew peseeh—i.e.. passover, ami whence we have theEiiglish pnscftn/, as applied to the Lamb in the Last Supper.
The earliest possible day whereon Easter ctn happen is the 22nd of March. It fell on that day in 18is, and cannot happen on that day till the year 2285. The latest possible day whereon Easter can happen is the 25th of April.
?■— About seventy years ago, in a city of Italy, at Bergamo, by a singular contrast, the comjiany of the opera-house was quite in- different, while the chor'sters were excellent, it could scarcely have been otherwise, since the greater part of the choristers afterwards become distinguished composers. Donizetti, Cruvelli, Leodoro, Bianchc, Mari, and Dolci, com- menced by singing in the choruses at Bergamo.
There was, among others at that epoch, a young njan, very poor, very modest, and greatly beloved by hia comrades.
This young man, in order to assist his old inoiher, united the functions of chorister to the more lucrative employment of journeyman tailor.
One day, when he had taken to Nozari's house a pair of pantaloons, that illustrioussinger, after looking at him earnestly, said to him : " It appears to me, my good fellow, that I have seen you somewhere."
"Quite likely, sir ; you may have seen me at the theatre, where I take a part in the choruses." Have you a good voice?"
" Not remarkably, sir ; I can with great difficulty reach sol."
" Let me see," said Nozari, going to the piano ; "begin the gamut."
Our chorister obeyed ; but when he reached sol, he stopped short, out of breath.
" Sound ta— come, try."
" Sir, I cannot."
" Sound la, you fool."
" La, la, la."
" Sound si."
"My dear sir, I cannot."
" Sound si, I tell you, or I'll "
" Don't get angry, sir ; I'll try : la, si la, si. do."
I told you so," said Nozari with a voice of triumph ; " and now, my good fellow, I will say only one word to you. If you will only study aud practise, you will become the first tenor in Italy."
Nozari was right. The poor chor- ister, who, to gain his bread, had to mend breeches, amassed a fortune of two millionB, and was called Rubini.
"■WE AEE APT TO BELIEVE "WHAT WE WISH FOE."
17.— "When I was a little boy," says Dr. Franklin , " I remember one cold winter's morning I was ac- costed by a smiling man with au axe on his shoulder.
"'My pretty boy,' said he, 'has your father a grindstone J '
"' Yes, sir,' said I.
"'You are a fine little fellow,' said he ; ' will yon let me grind my axe on it!'
" Vleased with his compliment of 'fine little fellow,' I answered: ' Oil, yes, sir; it is down in the slioii.'
" • And will you, my man,' said he, patting me on the head, 'get me a little hot water? '
"How could I refuse? I ran and Boou brought a kettleful.
" ' How old are you. and what's your name!' continued he, without waiting for a reply. ' I am sure you are one of the finest lads I have ever seen. Will you just turn a few minutes forme!'
"Tickled with the flattery, like a fool I went to work; and bitterly did I rue the day. It was a new axe, and I toiled and tugged until I was almost tired to deaih. The scliool- bell rang, and I could not get away ; my hands were blistered, and it was not half ground. At length, how- ever, the axe was sharpened, and the man turned to me with—
"'Now, you little rascal, you're played the truant ; cut to school, or you'll rue it.'
"'AlasI' thought I, 'it was hard enough to turn a grindstone this cold day ; but now to be called a little rascal is too mucli.'
"It sank deep in my mind, and often have I thought of it since.
" When I see a merchant over- polite toliis customers, throwing Ills goods on the counter, 1 think within my self, 'The inanhas an axe to grind.'
" When 1 see a man flattering tlie people, making great professions of a tachiiient to liberty, who is in private life a tyrant, methinks. ' Look out, good people ; that fellow there would set you turning grind- stones.'
" When I see a man placed in office by party spirit, without a single qualification to render him either respectable or useful ' Alas I ' me- thinks, 'deluded people, you are doomed for a season to turn the grindstone for a booby.' "
23,— St. George has three entire countries under his charge— namely, England, Bavaria, and Piedmont. He is also the patron of seven cities and twelve orders of knighthood.
He is universally known to be a hard-working, uncomplaining saint, but that he is greatly overworked is perfectly clear. No saint, no matter how able and willing he may be, ought to be burdened wiih the care of three nations, seven cities, and a dozen orders.
SWEET KETIREMENT. "Bow much they err, who, to their interest blind, Slight the calm peace which from
retirement flows ! And while they think their fleeting
joys to bind. Banish the tranquil bliss which Heaven for Man design' d 1 "
MliS. TIGHB.
and did not retire until he had repulsed three sorties of the French troops and inflicted heavy losses on tliem.
These reverses — though the Government endeavoured to attenuate them — created consternation in France. General Desmichcls was sent to take the command from Boyer ; but all lie could do was to vanquish some of the Emir's partisans in occasional skirmishes. Abd-el-Kadcrl^ept the field, killing more men than lie lost, and so weakening the enemy by the rapidity and vigour of his movements that they were glad in 1Sl!4 to conclude a new treaty with him.
'1 his time a regular kingdom was formed for Abd-el-Kadcr out of the Chelilate of Mascara, bounded on one side by the Empire of Morocco, and on the three others by the provinees of Oran, 'I'iteri, and Algiers. The Emir was acknowledged asking absolute, and promised on his side to leave the French in un- disturbed possession of the provinces which they held. He so far kept his word that he subdued several chiefs who were inimical to liiniself as well as to tlie French ; but it was no part of his purpose that the French .should remain in Algeria, and his only object in signing the last treaty had been to gain time.
In 1835 he was ready with a new army, and the French, who had originally undertaken the conquest of the Dey's domi- nions, thinking they were going to make a simple promenade mUituire, found tliemselves obliged to send against the Emir no less than 40,000 men under Marshal Clauzel and General Bugeaud.
The war that ensued raged ten years, and cost France more in men and money than has ever been officially acknowledged. The fierceness of the struggle and the ardour which the French threw into it were shown by the fact that Louis Philippe sent all his sons to take part in the war, and the exploits of the Dues d'Orleans and d'Aumale in particular were watched witli as keen interest and chronicled in as brilliant language as if those princes had been engaged with a first-class military power.
It must he confessed, however, that Abd-el-Kader's tactics were splendid, and entitled him to the praise which the Duke of Wellington gave him as being a captain "who witli more troops and better arms would have made Algeria un- conquerable." The Emir was, in fact, only conquered by numbers, though this is said without any dispaiagement to the valour which the French displayed from first to last in their terrible encounters.
In 1842 the capture of Abd-el-Kader's smaZa— that is, his family, baggage, and treasure — by the Due d'Aumale, forced him to take refuge in Morocco. The Emperor of tliat country, Abd-er-Kahman, was notoriously friendly to hiui, although pretending to be neuti'al ; and alter a little while a Moorish army, commanded by Abd-el-Kader, recommenced hostilities against the French.
The war against Morocco was closed in 1845 with the bombardment of Tangier and Mogador by the French fleet under the Prince de Joiuville, and with the victory won at Isly by General Bugeaud, who, in honour of it, was created a Marshal of France and Due d'Isly. But it was not till 1847, after two more years of indefatigable guerilla warfare, that Abd-el-Kader felt completely beaten and surrendered to the French.
They had promised that he should be allowed to retire into Egypt ; but it was decided that he was too dangerous an enemy to be let loose, and, as Thiers remarked, "he had the honour of being treated as the English treated Napoleon." He was confined first at Pau, then in the Chateau d'Amboise, and his captivity only ended in 1S5'2, when he consented to swear homage to Napoleon III. and to become pensioner of the French Government, who agreed to allow him £4,000.
Abd-el-Kader's object in making his submission seems to have been simply the honourable one of sparing his country- men further useless strife.
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"UN FOU AVISE BIEN UN SAGE A WISE
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"KnoiD thy self." Earl of Rosebery born, 1847. Turtle-dove first heard. Partridges begin to lay.
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" Live and let live." Santeul, French-Latin poet, b., 1630. Sir Aj-thur Sullivan born, 1842. Ascension Day. — Holy Thursday. Whitsuyiday : Scotch Term. 15. Edmund Kean died, 1833.
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^&nttzast—miit Sunday. Whit Monday. — Bank Holiday. Princess May of York born, 1867. Paganini, famous violinist, died, 1840.
"Hoses have thorns." Restoration of Charles IT., 1660. Voltaire died, 1778.
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WOEDS OF THE WISE.
To give heartfelt praise to noble actions is, in some measure, making them our own.
Marriage is a lottery, in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
He that has no friend and no enemy is one of the vulvar, and without talents, powers, or energy.
It is not the cares of to-day, but the cares of to-morrow, that weigh a man down.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
When fishes leap in silver stream.
And tender corn is sprinqivg high. And hanks are U'arm loith sunny beam, And twittering S2calloios cleave the sky. And forest bees are humming near, And cowslips in boys' hats appear, And maids do wear tlie meadow's
bloom — We then may say the May is come. Clare.
6.— The travelling carriage of the great Napoleon was a perfect curio- sity, and siuKularly characteristic of the prevailing temper of his disposition. It was divided into two unequal compartments, separated by a small low partition, on which the elbows could rest, while it pre- vented either from encroaching on the other; the smaller was for Berthicr.the larger, the lion's share, for himself.
The emperor could recline in a dormeuse, in front of his seat ; but no such accommodation was afforded to his companion. In the in- terior of the carriage were a number of drawers, of which Napoleon had tbe key, in which were placed dis- patches not yet read and a small lihrary of books. A large lamp behind threw a bright light in the interior, so that he could read with- out intermission all night.
Ue paid great attention to his portable library, and had prepared a list of duodecimo editions of about Ave hundred volumes, which he intended to be his constant travel- ling companions ; but the disasters of the latter years of liis reign pre- vented this design from being carried into complete execution.
12.— Santeul was very vain of his poeticnl talents. 'When be had linishod any poetry with which he was particularly delighted, he used to say, "Now I will go and put ch.ains along all the bridges of tlie town, to prevent my brother-bards from drowning themselves."
15.— The precise date of Edmund Kcan's birth is a matter of consider- able doubt : October 29 and Nuvcm- bcr 29, 1787, have both been assigned to this event. His last appearance was at Covent Garden, March 15, 1«:J3, when (as Othello), after utter- ing the words "Villain— be sure," his head fell upon lago's (Mr. Charles Kean) shoulder, and he was borne off the stage.
He died on May 15 of the same year.
1 7.— Talleyrand was a snufl-takcr, not from devotion to tbe habit, but on principle. The wily politician used to say (and doubtless Metter- nich, who was a confirmed snuff- taker, would have agreed with him) that all diplomatists ought to take snuff, as it afforded a pretext for delaying a reply with which one might not be ready; it sanctioned the removal of one's eyes from those of the questioner; occupied one's hands, which might else con- vict one of nervous fidget; and the action partly concealed that feature which IS least easily schooled into hiding or belying human feelings—
" EXPEEIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER."
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the mouth. If its workinga were visible through the fingers, those twitches might beattrihuted to the agreeable irritation going on above.
19.— "SJ. Dunstan, as the story
goes, Once pulled the deviliy the nose Withred-hot tongs, whicUmade him
roar. That he was heard three miles or
more."
27t— Herr Joachim, of violin re- nown, liad been iJlnying at a concert ill Manchester. After it was all over, he was walking up and down the railway platform, enjoying a good cigar and the consciousness that ho had never played better in his life. The cheers of his audience still rang iu his ears, and he was full of pleasurable self-satisfaction.
A respectable navvy- looking man, dressed in his Sunday best, kept passing and repassing, and gazing intently at the great master. Presently he came up to Joachim, and asked for a light. This the musician gave him.
Having lit his pipe, he looked Joaehinj full in the face, and then, tapping him with emphasis on the shoulder, he said:
" But Paganini was the man I "
That was all. But it was enough. Joachim says he never felt so small in his life.
29.— It was on the thirtieth birtliday of Charles II.— he was born on the 29th of May, 1630— that, the misfortunes of his early life were closed by his triumphal entry as king into London.
His restoration might properly lie dated from the 8th of May, when he was proclaimed in London as sovereign of the three kingdoms : but the day of his entry into the metropolis, being also his birthday, was adopted as the date of that happy event.
A sprig of oak in the hat wns the baJge of a Loyalist on the recur- rence of the Restoration Day, in allusion to the royal person having been concealed iu an oak after the buttle of Worcester.
30.— It is asserted that on every anniversary of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, Voltaire was seized with an involuntary shudder, which always brought on a periodical fever of four-and-twenty hours' duration : so great was the impression the idea of that horrible butchery had made on his mind. "This," wrote the Marguis de Villette to M.adame de VUlevrielle in 1777, "is a fact which hitherto I had obstinately disbe- lieved, but which I now attest, and of which Voltaire's establishment has been witness for the last flve- and-twenty years."
THE SUN.
I marvel not, 0 Sun I that unto thee In adoration man should bow the
knee. And pour the prayer of mingled awe and love ; For like a God thou art, and on thy
way 0/Olory sheddest,withbenignantraT/, Beauty, and life, and joyance from above.— SOVTWKY ,
ABOUT THREE FAMOUS ARTISTS.
XN the "Reminiscences" of the 'n-ell-known animal painter, Mr. Sidney Cooper, we meet with many interesting particulars regarding other famous artists. One of these is Turner, of whose domestic menage Mr. Cooper draws any- thing hut an inviting picture.
" I called," he says, "upon Turner at his house in Queen Anne Street, and a dirty-looking house it was 1 Tliere was no evidence of its having been painted for a groat many years. I knocked, and knocked again, when at last the door was opened by a most frightful-looking creature — a short woman, with a very large head, wearing a dirty wliito gown, and with a ragged, dirty thing tied round her head and throat, making her already large head twice its natural size. She looked just like tliose ogres one sees in a pantomine before the trans- formation scene, and was altogether a most appalling vision. I told her that I wished to see Mr. Turner if he was within. She said he was in, but she did not tliink he would see anyone. ' But I will go and see if he will,' she added, and showed me into a small room by the entrance, where she left me. I shall never forget the damp, dirty smell of tlie inside of the lioiise."
Of another great artist Mr. Cooper draws a very painful picture. It is of Sir Edwin Landseer in his latter days : " It was somewhere near Carshalton that he lived, and we went down together on a Sunday. I was indeed shocked when I saw him so changed. He was always crying out for more drink, and was to all appearance half out of his mind. He said to me : ' Oh ! Cooper, you do not know how ill I have been, and still am 1 And tliey don't care anything about me ; they leave me alone and do nothing to help me ; they will not even give me anything to di-ink when I am dying of thirst.' " Mr. Cooper mentions seeing him again a week later, dining at tlie Athenfeum. " He was walking about more tlian half boozy ; his nose of a purple-brown colour, and looking altogether repulsive — like all men who are haliitually intoxicated ; and eveiyone in the place making remarks about him, either in derision or in pity."
A funny story is told by Mr. Cooper of George Cliamhers. " One day, when the artist was hard at work in a back room on a little picture whicli he liad been commissioned to paint, he heard a commotion and cries of lire in the house. He ran into the bar, and found that the chimney was aliglit, and men were trying to sweep the soot down with a broom, but the flames had taken hold of it too high up in the chimney for this means of extinguishing the Are to bo successful. George Chambers, seeing this at a glance, cauglit up a thiclc mat, and ran witli it to the roof, and, climbing up the stack of chimneys, he put it on the top of the one that was on fire, thus stopping the smol;e. As there was a stiff breeze, he sat on the chimney-pot to prevent tlie mat from blowing away. Suddenly, a moment after he had taken his seat, he found himself,|mat, and everytliing dislodged, with a loud report ; so he went down again to see what liad happened, 'iheu he found that one of the inmates had tired a carbine up the chimney, with a large charge of gunpowder ! No one Ivnew that Chambers had gone aloft; and when he stopped tlie smoke from coming out at the top, thinking that by excluding tlie air he would put out the fire, the smoke had come down into the room, in such volumes that tlie other people present were frightened, and had resorted to this measure, which elTectually removed all the soot, and George Chambers at the same time."
BE WISE TO-DAT. Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent mil plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled; And to the mercies of a moment leaves, , The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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1". Charles GounotI, musical composer.
Ijorn, 1318. St. Alhan. First English Martyr.
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Thbee ai-e two classes of people in the world— tbose who make fools of themselves, and those who don't need to.
Ton may depend upon it that he is a good man whose most intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are de- cidedly had.
If all the people knew what they were talkms about, there wouldn't be nearly so much said as there is now.
Love cannot exist in theheart of a woman unless modesty is its companion, nor in that of man unless honour is its asso- ciate.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" True Wove is swift, and tlics with swalloto's wings. Kings it viakes gods, and meaner creatures Idngs."
SUAKESPEAUE.
3.— In his writings Sydney Smith made good use of his own varied personal e.-speriencc. He took ;in interest in and tried to understand everything. When, in 1809, he quitted London and went to he the pastor of a country parish in York- shire, with no educated neighlioxir within seven miles, he set huiiselt to farm his s-tubborn glclio, though he, a dmcr-out, a wit, and a pnimlar preacher, did not know a turnip Iroin a carrot. But he aiiplied him- self to the mysteries ot fanning with such shrewdness that his clerk, who, like all rustics, judged every stranger by his ability to talk ot bullocks, said to Liiu at their flrat interview —
"Muster Smith, it often stroikcs moy nioind that peojile as cmiHS frao London is sncli fools ; but you, I see "(and here he nudged the rector siguiflcautly with liia stick;— "but you, 1 see, are no fool i "
9,— Mr. Wybert Ueeve describes, on the axithority of Wilkie Collins, asceneat Judge 'fa If ourd's, in which Dickens played a part :—
"It was a dinner party, at which most of the leading representatives of literature and art were pre- sent. The conversation turned on Dickens's last book. Some of the characters were highly pi'aised.
"Mrs. Dickens joined in the con- versation, and said she could not understand what people could see in his writings to talk so much about thenii The face of Dickens betrayed his feelings.
•' Again the hook was referred to, and a lady present said she won- dered when and how many strange thoughts came into bis bead.
"'Oh,' replied Dickens, 'I don't know. They come at odd times; sometimes in the night, when I jump out of bed and jot them down, f(n' fear I should have lost thein by the morning.'
" ' That is true,' said Mrs. Dickens. ' I have reason to know it— jumping out of bed, and getting in again with his feet as cold as a stone.'
" Dickens left the table, and was afterwards found sitting m a small room ofl thehall— silent and angry."
11,— George I. came amopgst us with little knowledge of English poll tics and little interest in English legislation. He was so ignorant even of the language of his new subjects that his English minister, wlio understood neither French nor German, was forced toconimunicate with him in a jargon of dog-Latin. For literature and art he had the utmost contempt.
But he was an excellent man of business, and while accepting our loyalty for what it was worth, filled his own pockets, the pockets ot his German attendants and of his German mistresses, got away from Englaild as often as possible, and used the strength of this country for the advantage of his beloved Hanover.
"no sunshine but hath some shadow."
17,— Gounod's parents did not at all fancy his becuraing a musician. They took counsel on tlie sulijejt with the head-master of the school which their son attended, with the JolUnvinff result :— . .
" Your'son become a musician? Never, sir!" rrplied the worthy M Poirson. " He has a decided aptitude for Latin and (ireek ! "
The next day Master Charles was called into M. Poirson's study. '• Well sir. thev tell me you've been caught sci-atchiug down iiotes on paper." , .
"Oh, yes J I want to be a musl-
" Von a musician! "Wliy, that's no professiim at all. But let me see what you can ilo. Uerc'ssonio paper and a pen. Write mo a new air on the words from Josc;>;i : 'Scarcely emerfe-ed from infancy.' We 11 see wliat von can do," said the good professor, deli^jhted at the clever- ness of his device.
It was the noon recess. Before the bell rany to resume studies, Gnunod was back with his page blaek witli crotchets and quavers.
"What, a I ready V said the pro- fessor. "Well, sing It."
Gounod sang. Ho sat down at the piatio,andS"oa tears came into the head-master's eyes.
He embraced his pupil and ex- claimed- "Mafoi! lot them say what they please. Study music."
24. - Tlio character of Marl- borono-h is ahuost as complex and as diliiciilt to analyse and under- stand .-IS that of Bacon. Homo duplex,' says the, proverb; but there were four distinctly difforent John Churchills-a mighty miliiary commander; an almost indescnb- ahly in-ofligate statesnuiu ; a Liver o£ pelf, as miseily as he w.as rapa- cious: and, finally, the most con- stant of husbands and the tenderest of parents. , ,
Altogether, perhaps, ho may be regarded as one of the most extra- ordinary examples ever known of how pre-eminent qualities c.-in be degraded bv ambition, by the lust of swav, and by the greed of gain. Ho recoiled before no infamous action when he had a purpose to serve. He was the favourite of two kings both of whom loaded hini witii honours, and linth of whom he shamelessly betrayed ; he raised the military prestige of Britain to the highest pitch which it had ever attained; while for years he w.as dabbling in fraudulent army con- tracts, and meanly swindling the State liy drawing the pay of soldiers who were de:id.
Of his qualities as a military commander wo have nothing but praise from all who are competent to give an opinion. He is the greatest general Engl.and ever produced before the Duke of Wel- liiigtuu.
COU^'TIlY LIFE.
" Tlie fall of waters and the sotig of birdK. And hills that eoho to the distant
herds, Me luxuries excellinn all the glare The world eaii boa>'t, and her chief favourites share,"
Cqwpbe.
A DANCER OF WORLD-WIDE RENOWN.
ONE of the most famous of modem dancers was Maria Taglioiii, w]io was bom at Stockholm in 1S04, and died only a few years ago at the age of eighty. Her father was ballet-master at some of the opera houses on the Continent, and his gifted daughter made her debut at Cassel when she was only nine years old, while Napoleon I. was still on the throne and his brother Jerome was King of Westphalia.
The exercises of a dancer must begin wlien she is between seven and ten years old, and they must be carried on with daily assiduity and through terrible fatigues, until the child is shown to be physically unfit, or until her limbs acquire a suppleness which, compared to those of ordinary persons, is as indiaruliber to wooil.
Dr. Louis Veron, who was director of the Paris Opera from 1S13 to 1S31, relates in his Memoirs how pitilessly severe Philip Taglioni was in the training of his daugliter. Hacking headaches, overpowering lassitude, nausea, were excuses never accepted by the implacable father, who held that every day should be marked by distinct progress.
IBeing much consulted about the organisation of ballets in the principal Continental theatres, Philip Taglioni travelled a good deal, and he generally took his pupils with him ; but on one occasion he left Maria to continue her exercises under a famous dancing-master named Coulon, and tlie latlcr's pupils all laughed wlien the lean, awkward, plain-looking girl first .joined their lessons. "The idea of sucli a little lumcliback as that tliinking to become a dancer !" was what these young ladies said.
She was never a beauty, though she grew in her maturity to have a pleasing countenance, radiant with intelligence — for she was very clever — and with the serenity whicli success brings.
The stage slang by whicVi the French describe the elasticity of a dancer is ballon, or ballooning power, as to which it may be said that the word "balloon" is itself believed to be derived from Ballon, a famous dancing master of the seven- teenth century. Nobody ever had so much ballon as Taglioni ; she seemed to fly from the stage as from a spring-board, and lier superiority over all rivals lay in her being able to repeat her feats of agility so mucli oftener than they, and to pause on one movement for a much longer time without any apparent effort. It was her father's prime maxim that the moment effort becomes visible in a dance it ceases to be dancing, but turns to gymnastics.
When Taglioni first came out as a premiere danscuse at Vienna, at eighteen, her style was quite new, and afterwards in Paris it got called the " Ideal," in opposition to the old- fashioned "Bealistic" taught by Gardel and the younger Vestris.
In those days the ballet was much more popular than it is now. Tlie repertory of the Paris Opera between 1S30 and 1S35 always included about twenty-five ballets d'action, and it was the same at tlie Opera in Loudon. But long before Mr. Lumley retired from his management of Her Majesty's Theatre he noticed that the public were growing impatient of ballets in whicli a dramatic action was evolved by pautomine.
Audiences inclined more and more towards tlie divertisse- ment, or dancing interlude in operas ; but from the time of this change in taste Che race of great dancers was doomed to extinction, for it was no longer wortli the while of a girl to go through the fearful apprenticeship by which a danseuse of old becaiue perfect, if she was to have nothing more to do tlian dance a few figures in a divertissement. Some of the ballets in which Taglioni won her i-eiiown had three acts ; in fact, singers v,'ould often complain that they were neglected for dancers, as the audience seldom filled stalls and boxes till the ballet began.
Mr. Lunilcy's treatment of Ijola Montez in 1843 shows how
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
A PBiKCE has need but of eyes and ears ; his mouth only serves him for smiling.
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It is much better to endeavour to forget one's misfortunes, than to speak often of them.
I WILL envy none but a good man : I will pity nothing so much as the prosperity of the wicked.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
Tlie first sure symptom of a mind in
health Is rest of heaii, and pleasure felt at Aome.— Young.
6.— The Emperor Nicholas was stern by nature, while sternness, moreover, was forced upon him by the attitude of an influential portion of his subjects on his accession to the throne. After suppressing the military and political insurrection of December, 1829, he hanged the five leaders, and sent the principal conspirators, who, for the most part, belonged to the leading families of the empire, by hundreds to Siberia.
Prom that moment to the end of his reign his policy was simply one of repression, no action, no word, no thought or aspiration which seemed calculated, in however remote a degree, to interfere with his system, bemg tolerated.
He was as decided, and as rapid in his decision, as he was severe; and when the engineers consulted him as to the course of the projected raihvay from St. Petersburg to Moscow, he took up a ruler and traced a straight line between the two capitals.
Once, as head of the Russian Church, he was requested by the Holy Synod, in a long memorandum, to declare whether or not the exist- ence of purgatory was an orthodo.'c doctrine. After reading the docu- ment he simply wrote on the margin " No purgatory."
He engaged in four wars — the campaign of 18i'3-29 against Turkc.v, the suppression of the Polish insur- rection of 1831, the sujipression of the Hungarian insurrection of 1848 -49, and tUe war known ns that of the Crimea, in 1.8.54-55. Tlie Crimean War and the failure of his military system, as brought to light in tliat struggle, broke the Emperor's heart.
9.— Burke was so very partial to children that he would play at tee- totum and push-pin with them ; and apparently take asmuch delight in the stories of "Jack the Giant- killer "and "Tom Thumb" as them- selves.
" Half an hour might pass," says Murphy, "during which he winikl keep speaking in sucli a way thnt you could see no more in hiiu th:in an ordinary man good-naturedly amusing his young auditors, when, some observation or suggestion calling his attention, a remark of the most profound wisdom would slip out, and he would return to his tee-totum."
It is related of him that one day, after dining with Fox, Sheridan, Lord John Townshend, and several other eminent men, at Sht-ridan's cottage, he amused himself by rapidly wheeling his host's little son round the front garden in a child's hand-chaise. While thus employed, the great orator, it is added, evinced by his looks and activity that he enjoyed the sport nearly as much as his dehghted playfellow.
11. -In 1657 George Fox, the founder of the " Society of Friends " or " Quakers," made a tour through
"•WE ABE MOEE MINDFTTL OF INJUEIES THAN BENEFITS."
Scotland. Upon Scotland, however, be seems to have made no impres- sion whatever. He was not per- secuted: he was simply ignored. The Council, it is true, at last ordered him to cross the Border within seven days, but they appear to have permitted him to construe thy seven pretty elastically.
The people, still under the spell of the hideous eschatology of Knox and Calvin^ were little in the humour to listen to the doctrine of perfection. At Stirling the towns- folk attended a horse-race in pre- ference to his sermon. In the whole great city of Glasgow he could not muster an audience of one.
Even in Edinburgh, where the Lord blinded tiie sentries to enable him to pass the gales, he was only indifferently successful. At John- stone he was seized gently, but flrraly, and put across the river. It was in vain tbat on market days he took his stand beneath the village cross; the populace took no notice of him, not so much as to throw a carrot at him.
Still, there were times when his earnestness thawed the frost of his unwilling listeners, and the deep Northern nature answered back in unexpected sympathy.
These, however, were the excep- tions. The Scotch, he declares, "being a d.ark and carnal prople, gave little heed ; but the husband- man is to wait in patience."
Comforted with that, he crossed the Tweed at Berwick, and rode South again.
16.— To read the mere list of the sitters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, one would imagine that not only the British peerage, but also every celebrity and beauty of the time, had gone in a long procession through Sir Joshua's studio. He used to consider 150 finished por- traits as a fair year's work; and, incredible as it seems, he was able to finish a head in four hours.
His main desire was to pamt the countenance of his sitter at its bfst. "His men are all nobleness, iiis women all loveliness, and his children all simplicity: yet they are all like the living originals."
Having caught not only the features, hut also the expression and the soul of his subject, be loved to idealise the costumes and sur- roundings—especially of his ladies— and in the charm and variety of his poses and accessories he has per- haps never been equalled by any other portrait-painter.
His prices were at first very moderate, but he continued to ad- vance them without diminishing the number of his patrons. Both he and Garrick were said to have bad a keen eye to their own pecuniary interests; but what sensible man does not get all that he lawfully and honourably can ?
HAPPINESS AT HOME.
It's no' in books, it's no' in tear.
To make lis truly blest ; If htt}rpiiiess lias not her seat
And centre in the breast. We may be u-ise, or rich, or great.
But never can be ties*.- BuitKS,
high dancers used to stand upon their dignity. Lola Montez had been announced to appear as an exponent of the Spanish school of dancing. She was a lovely woman, and danced prettily, but there was nothing of high art in her performance ; and after she had made her debut, drawing an enormous audience to Her Majesty's, some Spaniards in London in- dignantly protested against her being regaided as a repre- sentative Spanish dancer. Upon this Mr. Lumley apologised, saying he had been deceived, and he forbade Lola Montez to appear again. Mr. Lumley felt that he owed respect to the ladies of his corps de ballet in not allowing their art to be caricatured on his boards.
There were never so many great dancers as in the years when the ballet was on its wane. Fanny Cerito, " the charming," Adele Dumilfttre, and Pauline Duvernay were the favourite pupils of Vestris, and the first-named exhibited in a rare degree all the seductive attributes of his peculiar school. Carlotta Grisi, whose husband, M. Perrot, was for a long while ballet-master at Her JIajesty's, was in Italian character dances held to be inimitable. Of Fanny Elssler it has been said tliat she was the only artist of the century who combined in an equal degree the talents of actress and dancer. Her sister Therese, "the Majestuous," who afterwards married Prince Adalbert of Prussia, was celebrated for her commanding stature and amazing strength. To these names must be added those of Rosati, and Lucile Grahn, a Dane, wlio figured in the famous }'as de Quatre, which was the great event at Her Majesty's in 1S45.
It was the Queen who first expressed a wish to see Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Cerito, and Lucile Grahn all dance together, but the matter was not accomplished without considerable difficulty. A performance had to be arranged in wliich each dancer should shine to her utmost and yet 'not be in a position to outshine the others ; and then there was the question of precedence to be regulated. All the other three dancers willingly yielded the first place to Taglioui— that is, consented tliat she should dance her pas seiijlast ; but none of them would make way for the other two. At last Mr. Lumley had a really happy thouglit. "Let them dance by order of age," he said, upon wliich the ladies reddened, tittered, and allowed M. Perrot to settle their places for them. The Pas de Quatre was repeated on several nights, and created a veritable furore.
Tlie final night of Taglioni's appearance was really the close of the eia of grand ballets. Jlr. Benjamin Lumley used, at the close of every operatic season, to give a great garden /tie at his villa. The Chancellors, at Fulliam ; and at the last of these entertainments which Taglioni attended, in 1S47, she said, seeing people flock round Jenny Liud, "La danse est comme la "Turquie, bien malade."
To the end of her long life slie wished regi-etfully that she had been born in an age when dancers had as much honour as fell to the lot of Mile. Guiinard a hundred years ago, but the regret was no mercenary one. Though a great stickler for dignity, "La Grande Taglioni" was more accommodating in money matters than any of lier terpsichorean sisters, and M. Veron mentions with admiration that having concluded in 1831 a six years' engagement with him at £1,200 a year, she refused an increase of salary which he offered, saying that she had been more than paid by her triumphs.- Cerito was said to have remarked on this occasion that artistes ought not to manage business for themselves, as they are apt to spoil trade.
CONSTANCY. If Time, penurious of his treasure,
Shall steal the gold from that bright hair Poor, but contented, still with pleasure
I shall behold the whiteness there — A'n?/, love the simple silver more Than e'er I prized the richer ore.
From the Greek.
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AUGUST— 31 days.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
The utmost reach of reason is to recognise what an iufluity of things po beyond it.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
The man who is always anxious to take the chances, invariably takes one chance too many.
It is h.avd to believe that a Bin will bite when it comes to us with gold in its teeth.
HOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" Tlietruhj nenerous is the truly wise ; And he rcho loves not others lives unllest."
Ho EXE.
4.— Thef;iraons:MornyshiieFIoorls, about which a l)ook was written bv SirTbOMias Dick Lauder, took ulaee on the 3rd and 4tb of Aupnst, 1829. They were caused by sweUinps of the Spey, Don. and Findhorn. They were preceded by a storm, more like a tropical hurricane than any tem- pest ever known in our country • whicli extended, almost simulta- neously, over a triangular range of country, from Loch Rannoch to Inverness on one line, and thence diiwn to Stonehaven on the other. The united line of the different rivers which were flooded could not be less than 6no miles in length ; and the whole of their courses were marked by the destruction of bridges, roads, buildings, and crops.
Sir T. D. Lauder has recorded the destruction of thirty-eight bridges, and the entire obliteration of a great number of hamlets. Some new ravines were formed on the sides of mountains where no streams had previously flowed ; and ancient river cliiinncls, which had never been filled from time im- memorial, gave passage to a copious flood.
The bridge over the T)ce at Ballater, built of granite, with piers resting on rolled pieces of granite and gneiss, aniassivc structure with a waterway of 260 feet, after stand- ing unharmed for twenty years, bad the wliole of its upper parts swept away in succession by the flood ; and, at length, the entire pile of lower masonry disappeared alto- gether in the bed of the river.
e.—One of OCounell's earliest displays of forensic acutcness took place at Tralee. The question in dispute touched the validity of a will which had been made almost in articulo mortis. The instrument seemed drawn up in duo form ; the witnesses gave ample confirmation that it had been legally executed. One of them was an old servant.
O'Connell cross-examined him, and allowed him to speak on in the hope that he might s.ay too much.
The witness had already sworn that he had seen the deceased sign the will. " Yes," be went on, " I saw him sign it, and surely there was life in him at the time."
The expression, frequently re- peated, led O'Ciuuiell to suspect that it had a peculi:ir meaning. Fixing his eyes on the old man, he said : "You have taken a solemn oath before God and man to speak the truth and the whole truth ; the ey of God is on you, and the eyes of your neighbours .are Ilxed on you too. Answer me, by viriue of that sacred and solemn oath which has passed your lips, was the testator alive when he signed the will?"
The witness quivered, his fnce grew ashy pale as he repeated : "There was life in him."
The question was reiterated ; and at last O'Connell half-compelled, half-cajoled him to admit that, after life was e:f tinpt, q. jjen had been put
"long absent, book rOEGOTTEN,"
into the testator's hand, that one of the party guided it to sign his name, while, as a salve for the conscience of all concerned, a living fly was put into the dead man's mouth to qualify the witnesses to bear testimony tliat "there was life iu him" when he signed the will.
The fact thus elicited was the means of preserving a largo property iu a respectable and worthy family.
17.— The table of the great Frederick of Prussia was regulated by himself. There were always from nine to a dozen dishes, aud these were lirougbt iu one at a time. The Kini; Ciirved the solitary disli, and helped the company.
One singular circunisiance con- nected Willi this table v/as, that each dish wascoolci'd by a ilifEereiit couk, who h.-id a kitchen to himself ! There was much con?eiincut expense, with little magnificence.
Frederick ale and dr.ank, too, like a lioon-corapanion. His last work before retiring to lied was to receive from the chief cook the bill of fare for the next day ; the price of each dish, andof itsseiiarate ingredients, was marked in the margin. Tlie monarch looked it cautiously through, geuerally made out an improved edition, cursed all cooks as common thieves, and then flung down the money for the next day's expenses.
31.— Few people are in the habit of classing the author of the "Pilgrim's Progress" among the poets ; but a poet he was, for all that. It has been the fashion, indeed, to call Buuyan's verse doggerel, but no verse is doggerel which has a sincere and rational meaning in it.
Goethe, who understood his own trade, says that the test of poetry is the substance which remains when the poetry is reduced to prose. Bunyan had infinite invention. His mind was full of objects which he had gathered at first hand, from observation and reflection.
Ho had excellent command of the English language, aud ccuild exprc.-^s what he wished with sli.'irp. delined outlines, and without the waste of a word. The rhythmical structure of his prose is carefully correct. Scarcely a syllable is ever out of place.
His ear for verse, though less true, is seldom wholly at fault ; and whether in prose or verse, he bad the superlative merit that ho could never write nonsense. How neatly e.\ pressed are these lines of his " On a Swallow":—
" Tliis pretty Mrdt Oh, how skcflies and sings .'
But could she do so if she had not wings .'
Her wings bespeak my faith, her songs niji peace;
When I beliei:e and sing, my doutt- i)igs cease."
FRIENDSHIP. Friendship is power and riches all to
nie ; Friendship's another element of life : Water and fire not of mote general use, To the support and coiujort vf the
world. Than Friendship to theheing of my joy: I would doeverything to serve a Friend.
THE MOTHER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
As Walter Scott was one of many children, he could not, of course, monopolise his mother's attention ; but probably she recognised the promise of his future greatness, and gave him a special care ; for, speaking of his early boyhood, lie tell.^ us : "I found much consolation in the partiality of my mother." And he goes on to say that she joined to a light and happy temper of mind a strong turn to study poetry and works of imagination.
Like tlie mothers of the Ettrick Shepherd and of Burns, she repeated to her son tlie traditionary ballads slie knew by heart ; and so soon as he v.'as sufficiently advanced, his leisure hours were usually spent in reading Pope's translation of Homer aloud to her, wliich, with the excejition of a few ballads and some of Allan Ram.say's songs, was the first poetry he made acquaintance with.
It must often have been with anxiety, and sometimes not without a .struggle, that his mother — solicitous about every trille which afl'ectod the training of her child — decided on the books which she was to place in his hands. She wished hira to develop his intellectual faculties, but not at the expense of his spiritual ; and romantic frivolity aud mental dissipation on the one liand, and a too severe repression — dangerous in its after-reaction — on the other, were the Scylla and Cliarybdis between which she had to steer.
The ascetic Puritanism of her training and surroundings would naturally have led her to the narrower and more restrictive view, in which her husband, austerer yet, would have lieartily concurred ; but her broad sense, quickened by the marvellous insight that comes from maternal love, led her to adopt the broader, and, we may safely add, with Sir Walter's career and character before us, by far the better course.
Her courage was, however, tempered with a wise discretion ; and when he read to her she was wont, he says, to make him " pause upon those passages which expressed generous and worthy sentiments."
A little later, when he passed from the educational care of his mother to that of a tutor, his relations to literature changed, as the following passage from his autobiography will show : " My tutor thought it almo.st a sin to open a profane play or poem ; and my mother had no longer the opportunity to hear me read poetry as formerly. I found, liowever, in her dressing-room, where I slept at one time, some odd volumes of Shakespeare ; nor can I easily forget the rapture with which I sat up in my sliirt reading them by the light of a fire in her apartment, until the bustle of the family rising from supper warned me that It was time to creep back to my bed, where I was supposed to have been safely deposited since nine o'clock."
Luckily this tutor's stern rule did not last long, and when a severe illness attacked the youth (then advanced to be a student at Edinburgli College) and brought him under his mother's charge once more, the bed on which he lay was piled with a constant succession of works of imagination, and lie was allowed to find consolation iu poetry and romance — tliose fountains which flow for ever for the ardent and the young.
It was in relation to Mrs. Scott's control of her son's reading that he wrote with gratitude late in life, "My mother had good natural taste and great feeling." And after her death, in a letter to a friend, he paid her tliis tribute : " She had a mind peculiarly well stored. If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting the past times, it is very much from the studies with wliich she presented me. She was a strict economist, which, slie said, enabled her to be liberal ; out of her little income of about £300 a year she bestowed at least a third in charities ; yet I could never prevail on her to accept of any assistance."
SEPTEMBER— 30 days.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Those men who are com- mended by everybody must be very extraordinary men ; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
Thk great struggle of life is first for bread, tlien butter on the bi'ead, and at last sugar on the butter. This is the best any of us can do.
The three things most diffi- cult are — to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of labour.
Philosophy hath given ua several plausible rules for at- taining peace and tranquillity of mind, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
High stations tumult, brit not Miss,
create ; None think the great unhappy, hut
the great.
14i— A well-known writer, speak- ing of a visit paid by him to the favourite residence of the great Duke of Wellington, says;—
"A neat-handed little Phyllis showed me over Walmer Castle, and, opening one door with an air, she said, ' This is the Duke's bed- room, and that is the Duke's bed,' pointing to a little camp-bed in a room about ten feet square."
A story goes that William IV. once said of this bed, " Why, you have not room to turn round in it."
"When you think of turning round in the bed," replied the Duke, " it is time to turn out."
15.— Poggius relates of Dante, that he indulged his meditations more strongly than any other man he knew ; whenever he read, he was only alive to what was passing in his mind ; to all human concerns he was as if they had not been 1
Dante went one day to a great public procession ; he entered the shop of a bookseller to be a spec- tator of the passing show. He found a book which greatly inter- ested him ; he devoured it in si- lence, and plunged into an abyss of thought. Ou his return he declared that he had neither seen nor heard the slightest occurrence of the public exhibition which passed before him.
17.— Lander's first work was published in 17S5, his last In 1863 ; he was twenty-five when Cowper died, and ... he survived to receive the homage of Mr. Swinburne. He fought as a volunteer in Spain in 1808 ; he was in the heart of France during "the Hundred Days ;" he claimed to have seen Napoleon during his final flight from Paris to the west coast after Waterloo. He had relations, either of friendship or enmity, with almost all the great writers of his time. He had sat at the feet of that curious Gamaliel, Dr. Parr ; he lived out his last years under the fostering care, if not in the actual presence, of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
19.— When Lord Brougham, ele- vated to the woolsack after a career of popular agitation, chose as his motto, " Pro Rege, lege, grege," he meant it to signify," For King, Law, People," and no doubt thought he had very happily adapted the old punning style of motto to his own case.
But when an enemy perceived that " grege " could only mean " people " in a very free transla- tion, and that "lege" might lie taken as a verb, the unfortunate motto, " For King, read, mob," be- came a standing satire on its pos- sessor.
24.— "Bowles, like most other poets," says Samuel Rogers, "was greatly depressed by the harsh criticisms of the reviewers. I advised him not to mind them, and eventually, following my advice, he became a much happier man. I suggested to him the subject of the ' Missionary,' and he was to dedicate
"look not a gift hoese in the mouth."
it to me. He, however, dedicated it to a nohle lord, who never, either by word or letter, acknowledged the dedication.
" Bowles's nervous timidity is the most ridiculous thing imaginalile. Being passionately fond of music, he came to London expressly to attend the last coniniemoration of Handel. After going into the Ahbey, he observed that the door was closed ; immediately he ran to the door-keeper, exclaiming, " "What I am I to be shut up here ?' And out he went, before he had heard a single note.
" I once bought a stall-ticket for him that he might accompany me to the opera ; liilt just as wo were stepping into the carriage, he said, ' Dear me ! your horses seem uu- conuiionly fi'isky 1 ' and he stayed at home."
29.— In the Christian world St. Michael is looked upon as the chief of angels or archangels. There is a good deal of obscurity about his history. In Scripture he ia men- tioned five times, and always in a warlike character: namely, three times by Daniel as fighting for the Jewish Church against Persia ; once by St. Jude as lighting with the devil about the body of Moses ; and once by St. John as fighting at the head of his angelic troops against the dragon and his host. In art he is usually represented in coat- armour.
30.— One of the most celebrated of tl\e dwarfs that have left a name in the history of curiosities is, perhaps, Joseph Borowlaski, better known as " Joujou." He was born in 17.30, and died at the great age of ninety-eight. In 178.3 he visited England, where he created some sensation. "Joujou" possessed good capabilities, and was con- sidered very smart at repartee.
On one occasion, when questioned by a very stout and rather vulgar lady as to what religion he pro- fessed, he replied that he was a .Roman Catholic. Upon which, she told him there was, she feared, no hope of his going to heaven. He reminded her that the Scriptures said that the gate to heaven was narrow, and therefore he hoped that he had more chance than she had, glancing slyly at the same time at her broad and bulky pro- portions.
"Joujou" •i\Tote his "Remin- iscences," and gives a good illus- tration of the irascible natiu'e of dwarfs in general, as exhibited in Bebe, afaujiuis dwarf of the King of Poland. He relates that, whilst visiting the Polish Court, the King took much notice of hiui, which caused Bebe to show signs of the greatest jealousy and hatred, and, in the end, to attempt to push " Joujou " into the fire— an offence for which Bebe was duly punished.
THE WAY OF THE WOULD. With common men There veeds too oft the show of war
to keep Tlie substance of sweet peace: and
for a kind '(Tin sometirites tetter to he fear'd than loved.
A MAN WHO PLAYED MANY PARTS,
WE find a remarkaWe traveller, scholar, linguist, solclier, and adventurer in the person of the late Sir Ricliard Francis Burton. He was born in 1S20, and was educated partly ahroad and partly at Cambridge.
His career, however, at Cambridge was cut shortby a frolic, wliich in these days, when true discipline has Improved at the Universities, would not have been visited severely upon him ; and in consequence the intention that he should enter the Church was abandoned, and he was allowed to follow his own bent and become a soldier, though it was but in the service of John Company.
Here he showed at once how great was his power of absorb- ing languages. We have used the word " absorbing" instead of " learning," and we have done so purposely, for with each fresh language he attacked he studied surh literature as it might possess, and also the manners and customs of the tribe or people speaking it ; and in order- to do this he lived among them as one of themselves, and developed rapiilly a po\ver of assimilating himself to Asiatic peoples and of following their trains of thought — in fact, of being able to think as they would think, in addition to thinking as a European. It soon became possible to him, therefoi'e, to live among the people as if he were one of themselves, and witliout their suspecting that he was not an Indian but a " Sahib."
In the conquest of Scinde he was Napier's "Intelligence department," and for months and months his life depended solely upon his disguise not being penetrated.
It was here that he learnt the marvellous self-control which enabled him to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. He is the only man who has performed that pilgrimage in disguise. Other Europeans have visited the holy cities, but they have done it after openly professing Mohammedanism ; and though they might be suspected of not being very ardent Moslems, and be closely watched, they ran no extreme danger.
Burton, however, wanted to see all and everything, and, joining a band of pilgrims as one of themselves (he even lefl: London in an Oriental disguise), he was able to see more accurately and more closely and clearly than any other who has written a description of the pilgrimage.
Stories have been told about him shooting a man during this adventurous journey in order to save his own life : these were made-up stories, and not only were they false, but it was also impossible for them to be true.
After the Crimean War, with his old companion Speke, we find him returning to Africa and proving the existence of the great lakes which at that time were only known to geo- graphers through the report of natives, and were represented on maps by a huge slug-like expanse of blue, occupying as much space as is now covered by the three Nyanzas, Nyassa, and Tanganyika.
"The story of that journey is known," says another dis- tinguished traveller. Commander Cameron, " but I may say, having been a follower in his footsteps, that if Richard Burton had never written anything but the ' Lake Regions of Central Africa,' he would have deserved well of his age and country. An unfortunate outcome of this journey was the severance of the intimacy bctv/eon the two travellers. The reasons of that severance it is not for me to discuss ; but often and often, when I have spoken to Burton about this journey and about Speke, he has spoken of him in the highest terms of praise, and has never said one word as to the unliappy difference between them."
Burton was our Consul at Fernando Po, and because he accepted that post while on leave, without consulting the Indian authorities, after twenty years of service, during wliich he had rendered matchless services, he had to leave the Indian Army without pension or reward. His work continued even in the depressing climate of the Bight of Benin, and his
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Camoens, Portuguese poet, born, 1524.
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" Trusting often makes fidelity."
14. Sir W. V. Harcourt born, 1827. MicliaelmasFirelnsurance must iepaid. Allan Ramsay, poet, born, 1686. Swallows now complete migration.
15. St. Luke, Evangelist.
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21. S. T. Coleridge, poet, bom, 1772. 24. Daniel Webster, American Btates- nian, died, 185::.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Charactkr is what we know ourselves to be ; repu- tation is what others think we are.
What a charm there is in agreeable manners, and liow soon one feels at case with those who possess them !
IT is a good rule, eat within your stomach ; act within your commission ; live within your means.
Is it possible that the reason some people "love at Hi-st sight" is because they don't know e.ach other then 7
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
In Nature there's no blemish but the
mind; None can be called deformed but the
«»l/a>JC(.— SUAKESPEARE.
3.— Camoens, the celebrated Por- tuguese poet, was shipwrecked at the moutli of the river Meeo, on the coast of Camboja, and lost his whole property ; but through the assist- ance of his black servant, he saved liis life and his poems, wbich he bore through the waves in one liaiul, whilst he swam ashore with the other. His black servant begged in the streets of Lisbon for the support of his master, who died in lu7ii. It is said that his death w.as accelerated by the anguish with which he foresaw the ruin impend- ing over his country.
In one of his letters, says his bingraphcr, he uses these remark- able expressions : "I am ending the course of my life : the world will witness how I have loved my country. I have returned, not only to die in her bosom, but to die with her."
He was buried, as obscurely as he
had closed his life, in St. Anue's
Church, and the following epitaph
was inscribed over his grave :—
Rere lies Lewis de Camoens,
Prince of the pccts of his time.
He lived poor and miserable, and died such. Anno Domini isry.
8.— REMBRAxnT was the fifth child of a miller of Lcyden, who was blessed with a large family. Like so many other remarkable men, he was fnrtunate in his mother. She appreciated his talents, and was specially solicitiius as to his religious instruction. No doubt that subsequently inlluencod him greatly in his strong partiality for Biblical subjects. But the atmo- sphere In which he was brought up iniist inevitably have biassed him in the same direction.
The heroic Leyden of the memor- able seige was invited to ask a boon of the grateful Stadtholder. The half-ruined citizens, in place of a money grant or a remission of taxes, preferri-'d to apply for the founda- tion of a university. So trans- formed, their town not only became a school of the arts and sciences, but a great theological centre.
The worthy miller sent his son to college, where the education was sutllciently cheap. But the youth scarcely repaid the money expended upon him, and among the preco- cious evidences of his special genius was neglect of his regular studies. Oil the other hand, he soon began to make himself a domestic nuisance, by sketching the members of hid family A tort ct i truvers.
Latterly, as they began to recog- nise his powers, and take encourage- ment from the gulden with which he was rewarded, his parents resigned themselves to sit with the best grace in the world, and so their faces are continually reappearing in all manner of characters and disguises.
21.— We may think, as we must, of Coleridge as man. We may secretly lean to Carlyle's view of Coleridge as talker, Coleridge as
" MIETH AND MOTION PEOLONQ LIFE.''
"logician and metaphysician ," may have little to say to us, but Coleridge as "bard" remains our inviolable possession.
"The wizard twilight Coleridge knew " is Mr. Watson's characteT- isation in " Wordsworth's Grave," and it expresses in aline the espcnco of his poetic charm. With ihe exception 01 MissChristinaRossetti, there has been no English poet ■who has rendered the invisible, the " supernatural," with that peculiarly convincing thrill of his — that Celtic glamour.
Keats, in "La Belle Dame sans Merci," exhibited the rare gift, but Coleridge beyond any poet sat most constantly at those
Charmed magic casements opening
on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands
forlorn.
24.— The manner of Daniel Web- ster's engagement to Miss Fletcher lias been thus pleasantly described : " He was then a young lawyer. At one of his visits to Miss Grace Fletcher he had probably with a view of utility and cnioyment been holding skeins of silk thread for her, when suddenly he stopped, saying:—
" ' Grace, we have thus been en- gaged in untying knots ; let us see if we can tie a kucjt— one which will not luitie for a lifetime.'
" He then took a piece of tape, and after beginning a knot of a peculiar kind gave it to her to complete. This was the ceremony and ratifica- tion of their engagement. And now in a little box marked by liiiii with the words ' precious docu- ments,' containing the letters of his early courtship, this uniciue memo- rial was found after his death, the knot never untied."
29.— Keats was distinguished by an unusually small head, which was covered with copious auburn- brown ringlets, parted down the middle. Ho had largo, blue, and sensitive eyes, and a singularly sensitive mouth. There was a pug- nacious cliaractcrin the full under- hp, meeting a rather overhanging upper lip. Everyone was struck by the general brightness and even beauty of his face, and he was ob- served to wear " an expression as if he had been looking on some glorious sight."
30.— Judge Buller, when in the company of a young gentleman of sixteen, cautioned him ag.-iinst being led astray by the example or persuasion of others, and said, " If I had. listened to the advice of some of those who called themselves my friends when I was young, instead of being a judge of the King's Bench, 1 should have died long ago a prisoner in the King's Bench."
FORTITUDE.
The human race are sons of sorrow
horn ; And each muH have his portion.
VuUjar minds Befxise, or crouch beiuath their load;
the brave Bear theirs without repining.
name is still held in affectionate memory by those who survive him who luiew him there, though tliey are now but few in number.
Philology occupied him here, and several volumes are extant showing how insatiable were his industry and appetite for ac- quiring knowledge.
His minor travels, if they may be called by that name, include North America (California in the early days of the gold fever), with a visit to Salt Lake City.
One anecdote he was fond of relating was that he asked Brigham Young to allow him to preach in the tabernacle, saying that he had become a Mormon. The elder, however, said, "No, captain, youdon'tplay that game twice" — alluding to Burton having been selected to preach a sermon in the Mosque at Medina (this sermon being one of the great events of the complete pilgrimage), on account of his being better acquainted with Moslem doctrines than his companions.
Iceland, a trip to Scinde, two journeys to Midian in search of the ancient gold mines there for Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, and a trip to the Gold Coast, besides many other wanderings to and fro to Egypt, Algiers, and elsewhere, filled up much of his time.
" From 1872," says Commander Cameron, "though I some- times corresponded with Barton, ever receiving from him the advice or information I needed, I did not see him again until we met at the Geographical Conference at Vienna in 1881. This was, indeed, a time in which to see him in his glory. Men of learning and of di.'itinction from all civilised nations were there, and each found in his own language and on his own special subject that in Richard Burton he met a man whose opinions were worth having, and from whom he could learn much of value.
" But though his learning and attainments were beyond those of most men. Burton was not a Dryasdust philosopher. No man loved a joke better than he did, and no man under a somewhat rough and cynical exterior concealed a kinder or more loving heart. He could bo as tender, as unselfish, and self-denying as a Sister of Charity, and was ever ready to do a kind deed, though he never cared that his kindness should be noised abroad."
Judged by the world's standard, Richard Burton was not a fortunate or a lucky man, but he had the fortune to follow a life full of interest to himself; and though he did not reach tlie Psalmist's litiiit, he lived as long as a score of centenarians of baser metal. In one thing above all was he fortunate — in his wife, who was the one woman in the world who would have suited him, and whose devotion to him, her hero and her husband, was above all praise.
IF THAT HIGH WORLD.
If that high world, which lies beyond
Our own, surviving Love endears ; Jf there the cherished heart be fond.
The ei/e the same, except in tears — ■ How welcome those untrodden spheres !
How sweet this very hour to die! To soar from earth and find all fears
Lost in thy light — Eternity!
It must be so : 'tis not for self
That we so tremble on the brink ; And, striving to o'erleap the gulf,
Yet cling to Being's severing link. Oh ! in that future let us think
To hold each heart the heart that shares, With them the immortal waters drink.
And soul in soul grow deathless theirs !
— Byeon.
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17. George Grote, historian, born, 1794. Suez Canal opened, 1869. Sir David Wilkie horn, 17S5.
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WORDS OF THE WISE.
Peikcks are brought up to live with the world— all the world ought to be brought up to live with princes.
There are too many people who talk much about what a h.nppy place Heaven is, who do not do a thing to make this world resemble it.
Many persons criticise In order not to seem ignornnt ; they do not know that indul- gence is a mark of the highest culture.
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be supposed for that reason to be pernicious to the peace of civil soeietj-.
NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
" 0 what may man within him hide.
Though angel on the outward side 1
Shakespeare.
4. — How Mr. Stanley was sent to seek Livingstone is an interesting story. It was while resting at Madrid, after the fatigue of cam- paigning, that Stanley received the now historic telegram from Jauies Gordon Bennett, who was the son of the then proprietor of the New York Herald, and managed the paper for his father. On October 16th, 1S69, he wired to Stanley in these words : " Come to Paris on important business," and on the same day Stanley left Madrid for Paris -nnd for the great opportunity of his life. How the two met, and what tran- spired between them, is more than a twice-told tale, but its interest is such that the salient points of the interview cannot be omitted here. Stanley may well be allowed to tell the story in his own words, aud in his own striking manner :—
" On arriving at Paris in the dead of night, I went," he says," straight to the Grand Hotel .and knocked at the door of Mr. Bennett's room.
" 'Come in,' I heard a voice say. Entering, I found Mr. Bennett in bed.
" ' Who are you ? ' he asked.
" • My name is Stanley,' 1 answ^ered.
"'Ah, yesl sit down ; 1 have im- portant business in hand fur you. Where do you think Livingstone is '/ '
" ' I really do not know, sir.'
" ' Do you think he is all ve ? '
" ' He may be, and he may not be,' I answered.
'"Well, I think he is alive, and that he can be found. and I am troing to send you to find him. Of course you will act according to your own plans, and do what you think best- but tlnd Livingstone 1 ' "
On Stanley referring to the great expense of the proposed expedition, Bennett replied—
"'Draw a thousand pounds now; and when you have gone through that, draw another thousand ; and when that is spent, draw another thousand; and when you have finished that,draw another thousand, and so on ; but find Livingstone 1 ' "
17.— Mrs. Grote, the wife of the historian, was a high-spirited hoydenish sort of a girl ; rode without a saddle, and sailed a boat. Sydney Smith once said of the pair : "Ido like them both so much, for he Is so lady-like, aud she is a perfect gentleman."
18.— Sir John Sinclair, happen- ing once to dine in company with Wilkie the painter, that distin- guished artist was asked, in the course of conversation, if any par- ticular circumstance had led him to adopt his pi'ofession.
Sir John imiuired: "Had your father, mother, or lany of your relations a turn for painting? or what led you to follow that art ? "
To which Wilkie replied : '■ Truth is. Sir John, that you made me a painter."
" How ? II " exclaimed the baronet. " I never had the pleasure of meet- ing you before."
' OPPOETUNITIBS NEGLECTED AEB LOST."
Wilkie then gave the following explanation : " When you were drawing up the Statistical Account of Scotland, my father, who was a clergyman in Fife, had much cor- respondence with you respecting his parish, in the course of which you sent him a coloured drawing of a soldier, in the uniform of your Highland FencihleRegiment, 1 was so delighted with the sight tliat I was constantly drawing copies of it, and thus insensibly was trans- formed into a painter."
20.— TVycherly, the typical "Re- storation dramatist," was born at Clive, near Shrewsbury. The whole of his life was that of an improvi- dent man of pleasure. He lay for seven years in the Fleet prison for debt, and even after his release, which is said to have been procured by King James, he continued to be a needy sort of person.
29.— In his "Men of Invention and Industry" Mr. Smiles tells the story of how the Times came to be first printed by steam. "Great," he tells us, "as was the secrecy with which the operations were con- ducted, the pressmen of the Times oflice obtained some inkling of what was going on, and they Towed vengeance on the foreign inventor who threatened their craft with destruction. There was, however, always this consolation— every at- tempt that had heretofore been made to print newspapers in any other way than by manual labour had proved an utter failure,
" At length the day arrived when the first newspaper steam press was ready for use. The pressmen were in a state of great excitement, for they knew by rumour that the machine of which they had so long been apprehensive was fast ap- proaching completion.
" One night they were told to wait in the pressroom, as important news was expected from abroad.
" At six o'clock in the morning of the29th November, 1814, Mr. Walter, who had been watching the working of the machine all through the night, suddenly appearedamong the pressmen, and announced that 'The Times is already printed by steam I '
"Knowing that the pressmen had vowed vengeance against the in- ventor and his invention, and that they had threatened ' destruction to him and his traps," he informed them that if they attempted violence there was a force ready to suppress It ; but that if they were peaceable their wages should be continued to every one of them until they could obtain similar employment. This proved satisfactory so far, and he proceeded to disti'ibute several copies of the newspaper amongst them— tlie first newspaper printed by steam."
ADVERSITY.
' Adversity is the first patli to Truth ; lie who hathprov'd war, storm, or teaman's rage. Whether his winters ie eighteen or eighty, Ilath won the experience which is deemed so weighty."
BTEOX.
THE AUTHOR OF "NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND."
GHARLE3 RBADE, the novelist, was a character of singular interest and originality. He was born at Ipsden House, O.-cfordshire, on June 8th, 1SI4. He was descended on the father's side from King Henry HI. and from King John, and on the mother's side from John Balliol, besides being connected by marriage with Charlemagne.
His father seems to have been a commonplace country gentleman. His mother was a daughter of Major Scott, or Scott-Waring, the "jackal" of Warren Hastings. In some respects she was a devoted mother, but she was ■whimsical : wlien her children came home from school or college she loved tliem for a day, tolerated them for a week, and then devoutly wished they were out of tlie house. Slie was honey one moment and vinegar the next ; and much as she loved the baby Charles, she loved her own whims and fancies more. She seems to have been a woman of some strength of character and originality — she "abominated the low wit of Dickens," but found "James, with his love-ladies, interesting" — and Charles Reade was no doubt right in boasting himself " his mother's son." She became an ardent Evangelical, was intimate with many distinguished clergymen of that school, and died at the age of ninety.
Charles Reade's first sclioolmaster was the Rev. Mr. Slatter, of Illley, a merciless martinet; his second was the amiable and indulgent Mr. Hearn, curate of Staines.
In 1831 he was elected to a Demy-ship at Magdalen College, O.xford. He read little (his tutor, by the way, was Robert Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke) ; but once a Demy, he could scarcely miss a Fellowship save by gross misconduct or stupidity. According to his report, it was his dependence on his Fellowship which prevented him from marrying.
He was called to the Bar in 1842, but never practised. An attempt to establish a trade in Italian violins was unsuccessful, and for some years, though his income of about £330 should have sufficed for a bachelor, he was in serious pecuniary straits.
So early as 1835 he had begun to make notes witli a view to WTiting fiction, but he did not set to work seriously until 1850. Then "I wrote," he says, "about thirteen dramas which nobody would play."
One of these luckless works brought him into contact with Mrs. Seymour, tlien an actress at the Haymarket. He called to read her a play, and was mortally offended by her asking, " Why don't you write novels?" She mistook his wrath for the pride of poverty, and sent him a £5 note ; and thus began a thirty years' intimacy of a purely Platonic character.
Soon afterwards Tom Taylor's collaboration enabled him to mould the idea of Masks and Faces into actable form. The play was produced at the Haymarket in 1852 ; and from this time forward the story of his career resolves itself into a list of his plays, novels, and controversies.
He became known to the reading public in 1852 as the author of " Peg Woffington." This was followed in the suc- ceeding year by " Christie Johnstone." After these came the well-known work "It is Never too Late to Mend," "The Cloister and the Hearth," "Hard Cash," "Griffith Gaunt," "Put Yourself in His Place," and many others whose names are familiar to all readers of fiction.
A good deal might be said regarding Charles Reade's connection witli the stage. Dramatic writing was his hobby ; he loved it with all his heart and soul ; and he loved it none the less because he was again and again defeated in his efforts to attain success. It was George Eliot's ambition to be recognised as a poet ; it was Charles Reade's to triumph as a dramatist. In neither case was the wish completely granted. When the drama of It is Never too Late to Mend was first produced, it was a comparative failure ; and it was only in
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DECEMBER— 31 days.
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" Truth is God's daughter." Beethoven, musical composer, b. 1770. Rooks follow plough for worms. J. M. W. Turner, artist, died, 1851.
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He who is virtuous is wise j and lie who is wise is good j and be wlio is good is happy.
Therb are only two rules for good manners. One is, Always think of others ; the other is, Never think of yourself.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to consider a half -hour a trifle.
We are doing a great deal toward making ourselves look old and ugly when we give way to worry and fretf ulness.
KOTES TO THE CALENDAR.
We rise in glory as ice sink in pride. Where boosting ends, there dignity begins.
Tonso.
.5i— At Pults, Dumas died on the very day— in the Wiuter of 1870— the Germans entered and occupied Dieppe. Le pSre prodigue, notwith- standing that in his time he liad earned some £300,000, died woefully poor. They say that just at the last he showed a piece of twenty francs, all he had left, and "They tell nie I have heen e.xtravagant," said he. " See ! I hegau my career with twenty francs; here they are! "
17.— Beethoven was essentially a composer of instrumental music, and as such may be regarded as the ne plus ultra of absolute music. His vocal compositions are few in comparison, although what there are of them are works of the great- est magnitude. But it would appear that his free spirit could ill liear the restrictions to which a com- poser must submit when writing for the limited rauge of the human voice; and accordingly the full orchestra, with its innumeralile combinations of tone and limitless powers of e.xpression, became his favourite medium.
All pianoforte players owe a double delJt of gratitude to Beet- hoven—in the first place , for pro- viding them with a supply of the greatest music; and in the second, for Ijringing ahout a great improve- ment in the construction of the piano. This instrument, as he found it, was widely different, with its thin wiry tone, to that of our day, and no little of the credit is due to our composer, who wrote many of his greatest works for it- works which require all the power and resources of our present instru- ments ; and it is largely owing to the demands made upon the piano by Beethoven that its makers have Vieen constantly striving to improve its mechanism in every possible way.
19.— Turner, happening one day to pass a print-shop, noticed in the window a copy of one of the en- gravings from his famous " Liber Studiorum." The print was in a very dirty ragged state, and Turner naturally felt aggrieved at seeing the work of his hands in this dilapi- dated condition.
Entering the shop, he proceeded at once to blame the master in no measured terms for having neglect- ed so valuable a print, and for having allowed it to become so disfigured.
The man protested that it was no fault of his, as he did but offer the engi'aving fur sale in the same state in which he had bought it from some other dealer.
This did not satisfy Turner, how- ever, and he and the man continued arguing in this fashion for some time, each making the other more angry by contradiction.
At last the print-seller lost all patience. "Perhaps, sir," he said, " when you have quite finished what you have to say, you will kindly tell me what you have to do with this engraving, and what
" PEOSPECT IS OFTEN BETTEE THAN POSSESSION."
business it Is of yours whether the print is clean or dirty! "
" This is what I have to do with it," answered the enraged artist. " It was I who drew the original of that print. My name is Turner, and I did every line of that engraving with my own hand. Now do you wonder that I am angry at seeing my work in so disgraceful a state ? '
"Indeed, sir," replied the print- seller ; " so you are the great artist himself! All my life long it has been my wish that I might some day have the good fortune to see Jlr. Turner. And now that I have seen him, I sincerely hope that I may never see him any more."
26.— The good and great are al- ways young, and it is not dilllcult to discover why Mrs. Somerville, the mathematician, was as truly happy in far-advanced age as in the joyous spring of life.
First of all, she did not allow her- self to suffer from that which kills, or at least prematurely ages, the faculties of so many people in what are called "easy circumstances" — brain rust. Of herself she thus wrote in her ninety-second year :— "I am still alile to read books on the higher algelira for four or five hours in the morning." Her last occupations, continued to the actual day of her death, were the revision and completion of a treatise which she had written years before, on the " Theory of Differences " (with diagrams ex<iuisitely drawn), and the study of a liook on Quaternions.
Above all, she had a child-like trust in her Heavenly Father, and took an interest to the end in the world He had made.
Nearly her last words were :— "Though far advanced in years, I take as lively an interest as ever in passing events. I regret that I shall not live to know the result of the expedition to determine the currents of the ocean ; the distance of the earth from the sun, deter- mined by the transits of Venus ; and the source of the most re- nowned of rivers. The Blue Peter has been long flying at my fore- mast, and, now that I am in my ninety-second year, I must soon ex- pect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not dis- turb my tranquillity."
31.— The more northern nations anciently assigned portentous quali- ties to the winds of New Year's Eve. One of their old legends in Brand may be thus versified— the last line eking out the verse :—
If New Tear's eve night-wind blow
south, Tt betokeneth warmth and groiclh ; If west, much milk, and fish in the
sea ; . If north, mnch cold, and storms
there will be ; //■east.Wie trees will bear murh fruit; If north-east,/ieeii, wirtu and brute.
INGRATITUDE.
Blow, blo>i,\ thou winter U'ind, 'Thou art not so unkind As man's intiratitudc ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou, art not seen. Although thii breath be rude, Bhakkspbark.
after years that it became successful, and repaid its author for tlie laljour and anxiety bestowed upon it.
When Eeade essayed theatrical management for the purpose of bringing out his own pieces, he invariably lost large sums of money. His one great financial success came late in life, in Drink, a free adaptation of L'Assommoir.
In his personal habits Reade was exceedingly eccentric. For example, he liad a mania for buying all sorts of flotsam and jetsam, with the idea that tliey might "come in useful." On one occasion he purchased a stufl'od horse's head, thinking he might utilise it in one of his plays, and placed it in his lumber-room, where it soon became moth-eaten.
On another he invested in a large number of knives and forks, which he secreted away, thinking to produce them afterwards triumphantly. "Seymour," he explained to a confidant, "thinks of giving a parly ; so I've purchased this cutlery in case she may run short."
He was troubled with corns, and wore enormous boots. He was found by a visitor one morning with a whole waste- paper-basket-ful of new boots, which he had ordered whole- sale after a pattern that took Ids fancy. His gingham umbrella would have deliglited Mrs. Gamp.
He had tlie unstable temper of genius, and some of the controversies in which he engaged gave infinite merriment to both friends and foes. He went so far on one occasion as to write to the editor of a London daily paper, threatening that if his books were not more fairly dealt with he would order his publisher to witlidraw his advertisements from the offending .journal. One can fancy what terror the threat of the loss of a few shillings a month would have had upon the proprietors of a flourishing London paper, and the amount of ridicule to wliich the bare suggestion of sucli a thing exposed the iiritable novelist. But Reade was incurable. He would keep pelting his peppery little notes at the head of anybody and everybody against whom he fancied he had a grievance.
Perhaps Charles Readc's intellect was not speculative, perhaps it had exhausted all its speculation in the " Sturm ■unci Drang" period of early youth ; but whether or not, his latter mood was one of untroubled faith in an All-Wise and All-Merciful Father. "He believed in science," says Mr. Robert Buchanan, " as all sane men do ; but he clung to religion, as all wise men must. He was not, until the very last, a churchgoer, and he had no regard for dogmas, however domineering ; but he was deeply and unobtrusively pious in his lieart of liearts. Remembering what he was throughout all his days, I think that last epitaph of his, composed for his gravestone when he already felt the finger of Death upon him, one of the most touching things that have ever been written by a strong man. It was as follows ; —
" ' Here lies,
By the side of his beloved friend,
The mortal remains of
Charles Reade,
Dramatist, Novelist, and Journcdist.
His last words to mankind
Are on this stone.
" ' I hope for a resurrection, not from any power in nature, hut
from the will of the Lord God Omnipotent, who made nature and
me. He created man out ofnothinq, which nature could not. He
can restore man from the dutt, which nature can not.
" 'And I hope for holiness and happiness in a future life, not for anything I have said or done in thisiody, hut from themerits and mediation of Jesus Christ.
" ' He has promised His intercession to all who seek, it, and He luill not break His word : that intercession, once granted, can not be rejected: for He is God, and His merits infinite ; a man's sins are h^U hurruin and finite.
" ' " Him', that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." " If any man sin, we have an advocate v)ithj,he Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous : and He is the propitiation for our sins." ' "
"to BEAE is to CONaUEE CUE FATE.'
GOOD WORDS ARE WORTH MUCH.
" Words are the wings of actions.^'
Calumkt. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Shalt not escape calumny.
The Fisbst Aex.
A BEAUTIFUL behaviour Is hotter than a hoautiiul form ; it is the finest of line arts.
" I Don't Care." s^-"
The man who doesn't care what people tliinic of hiiii.nuistn t be surprised ti) find that they don't tliiuk anything of him. TuK Shut Mouth.
It appears to be an es- tablished truth that au ounceof Ifeep-your-mouth- shut is l)etter than a pound nf explanation after you have said it.
Best oe All.
To think kindly of each other is good ; to speak kindly of each other is better; but to act kindly one towards another is ^,y best of all. f^
IXPLUEXCE.
Every man, however humble his station or feeble his iwwers, exercises some influeuce on those who are about him, for ,,, good or for evil.
Sex.sible Coxduct. In taking revenge, a man is but equal with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.
Good Looks.
Duty. EvKST duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
LIVIKO FOB Sele. The man who lives only for himself is engaged in very small business.
PROTERBS OF AFFECTION.
Hot love is soon cold. Faults are thick where love is thin. Where pride befiins, love ceases. Love and a coujh loon't hide. Sweet is the love that meets return. The heart's letter is read in the eyes. Love and lordship make no fellow- ship. Love lies in cottages as well as in courts. The remedy for love is— land between. Kind confidence begets confidence, and lore begets love. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Love can hope tohere reason would despair. In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness. Nothing is more tender, nothing more violent, than love. Tlie science of love is the philosophy of the heart. Love cannot be bought or sold; its only price is love.
Cake. Cabes will come, but it is not God's intention that we should keep one of them over night.
GoOD-XATURB is more atrreeahle in conversation than wit, and gives a cer- tain air to tho coun- tenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Adversity. He that has never known adversity is but lialf acquainted with him- self or with oihors. Con- stant success shows us but one side of life ; for as it surrounds us with friends who tell us only of our merits, so it silences those from whom alone we can learn our faults.
A COBE OF MORAL VIRTUES.
Imagination. Happy moments live more frcuuently in me- ]uory than in reality. If we look forward and ex- ., pect them, we also look '*' back through the haze of distance upon golden hours of unalloyed delight. Imagination is a kindly faculty, and helps us to forget what we do not care to remem- ber: it fools us so pleasantly that we have no wish to disturb its illusions. Half tho discon- tent of the world would be ciu-ed if our imaginations were only allowed fair play.
77te following code of moral virtii/'s tons drawn up by Dr. Franklin for regulating his life :—
Temperance.— £ai not to fulness ; drink not to elevation.
Silence.— Speafc not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Order.— iei all your things have their place ; let each part of your business have its time.
Resolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform witlioutfail what you resolve.
Frugality.— /?^CM^•)iO expense but to do good to others or yourself— that is, waste nothing.
Industry.— Z/OSe 710 time; be always employ fd in something useful; avoid all unnecessary aetions.
Sincerity.— Use no hurtful deceit ; think innocently and justly ; and if you speak, speak accordingly.
Justice. — Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting benefits that are your duty.
Moderation. — Avoid extremes; forbear re- senting injuries.
Cleanliness.— S7(#er no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation,
■rrauquillity.— i?e not disturbed about trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Humility. — Imitate Jesus Christ.
A Hard Master. ■When you want a hard master, work for a beggar who has just become rich.
Leading Others. The important thing, if you would lead others, is to go that way yourself.
sc^ In Love.
It is with bachelors as with old wood, it's hard to get tlieiu started, but when they do take tlamo they burn prodigiously.
Motives. Never judge and con- demn amilher liastily, for if you do you may judge wrongly. Attribute a good motive to others when you can.
Those we Dislike.
If there is any person
to whom you feel dislike,
that is the person against
or of whom you ought
^^ never to speak.
Giving.
We should give as we would
receive, cheerfully, quickly, and
without hesitation; for there is
„„ no grace in a benefit that
sticks to the fingers.
Deeds of Love. "What wonders love can do I How the most trivial duty, the meanest, the most loathsome, tiuiched by love's fine hand, be- comes a service all re- verent and beautiful.
Langu.vge. When the language In common use in any coun- try becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by the rum of its citizens, or their degradation. For what do tei-ms used with- out skill or meaning, which arc at once corrupt and misapplied, denote, but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servi- tude?
Winning and Retaining.
We attract hearts by the
qualities we display; we retain
them by the qualities we possess.
Belief. Find a man who is moving tlie world, and you will find a man who believes something. A man on the fence has no moral weight.
Courtesy. Know thou that court- esy ia one of God's own properties, who sendeth His rain and His sunshine upon the just and upon the unjust, out of His great courtesy. And verily i'i courtesy is the sister of charity, who banishes hatred and cherishes love. Sklf-Rksi'ect. The same seU-i-cspect which lircvents an honourable man from doing in secret that which he would be ashamed to do openly, should also prevent him from tolerating within himself a single wish which his best jiulgnient disapproves, or his highest moral conception repudiates.
" PEECI0TJ3 THIN&S AEK NOT rOXTNTD IN HEAPS."
THE FRIENDLY COUNSELLOR.
" Good counsellors lack no clients."
(M'
Foolish Fashion.
Ladies of fasUion starve their
happiness to feed their vanity,
and tlieir love to feed their pride.
Padlts.
Ten thousand of the greatest
faults in our neighbours are of
less conseiiuence to us than one
of the smallest in oui'selves.
QnESTIOSS AND ANSWERS.
Who is wise ? He that learns from everyone.— Who is powerful? He that governs his own passions.— Who is rich 1 He that is content. In Eabnest.
Don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to lie done in it, and going straight through it from heginuiug to end. Work, play, study, whatever it is, take hold at once .and finish it up squarely and clearly; then do the other thing, with- out letting any moments drop between.
At Home.
Do not seek to get away from the common, every- day things of life. In them is found the happiness and peace of mind that, it may be, you are looking for in opportunities and circumstances which lie in times and iilaces now far removed.
Specdlatoks. ^—
Search through the world, visit every clime, examine every nation, and you will never find a speculator esteemed or beloved ; they may com- mand outward respect and fear, never a spark of friendship or affectionate attachment ; they are human sharks, aud happy are the smaller flsh if they can keep out of their devouring grasp.
BiiEOXEons Wats. It is a great mistor- Vflne that people so com- monly arause themselves with idle and imaginary schemes— how they would behave, and what they would do, were they in such or such a situation. Tbey would be very good and very exemplary were ^ they very great, very learned, very wealthy, very re- tired, very old, and the like. But they neglect the gift which is in them, and the work which is ap- pointed for them, while they are thinking of that which is not. Alas I that man's thoughts should be so taken up with dreams aud reveries, how they would manage were they in another station, while the chief wisdom of life consists in the assiduous dis- charge of those duties which belong to their own proper calling.
SUPFERINO.
The heart that has not suffered has not loved.
Weak Points. Self-oonsciousness and aflfec- tation are the besetting infirmi- ties of the literary temperament.
TniB. Time by moments steals away, First the hour and then the day: Small the daily loss appears. Yet it soon amounts to years.
WISDOM IN FEEDING.
No economy without efflciency. All sweets are not wholesome. Eat-well is drink-well's brother. Lonti fasting gains no meat. The best flsh is the one that's caught. Ill beef never made a good broth. Hunger will break through stone walls. The stomach hates long sermons. There is reason in the roasting of eggs. All meat is badto a full stomach. ^yho dainties love shall beggars prove. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
He Never Gets There. The man who would have done so and so if he had been there, never gets there.
Forgiveness. Let u8 he forgiving, remember- ing on how many occasions we ourselves need to be forgiven.
Fire.
Fire is a good thing in the
house -, but it should be in the
cliimney, and not in the wife's
temper— cooking victuals,
.^ not roasting the husband.
CTsBFUL Opposition.
A Oii;RTAlN ainoimt of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head-wind is better than none. No man ever worked his pas- sage anywhere, in a dead calm.
Toil.
Trust Not.
Trust not the praise of a friend,
nor the contempt of an enemy.
Closely Connected.
A GOOD conscience and a good
temper are intimately connected.
MAXIMS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
livery bee's honey is sweet. The house showeth the oimier. He that is at ease seeks dainties. Anger at a feast betrays the boor. In a good house all is quickly ready. Everything is of use to a housekeeper. As the year is, so must your pot seethe- Many a good dish is spoiled by an ill sauce. The biggest calf makes not the sweetest veal. Never haggle about the basket if you get the
fruit. He that saveth his dinner will have the more
supper. Tliere is winter enough for the snipe and
woodcock too. Squeeze not the orange too hard, lest you hax<e
a bitter juice. When the stomach chimes the dinner-hour,
don't wait for the clock. They who have little butler must be content to
spread thin their bread.
If you want kuowled^
you must toil for it; if
food, you must toil for it;
niid if pleasure, yon must
— jj5 toil for it. Toil is the law.
Pleasure comes through
toil, and not by self-indulgence
and indolence. When one gets to
love work, his life is a happy one.
Character. Instead of saying that man is .^^ the creature of circuiu- 7r; stances, itwouldbenearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circum- stance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is me.asured by our elastic power.
Without Mind. Dahlias are like the most beautiful women without intel- lectuality—they strike you with astonishment by their extreme spleudour, but are miserably des- titute of those properties which distinguish and render agreeable lessimportant flowers. H.ad Nature given the fragrance of the rose to the dahlia, it would have been the most magsiflceut gem in the garden ; but, wanting scent, it is like a fine woman without mind.
Little Things. Close attention must be given in business to the slightest details, and evci-ytliiug has to be done carefully. The cost must be measured in every transaction. Application is necessary if you would attain the best results. Look out for the little things. They do not seem to count at the time, but every item heljis to count up ou either side of the balance-sheet.
Genius and Goodness.
"^ " I HAVE sometimes," says Victor Hugo, the famous French novelist, "had at one and the same time in my two hands the gloved and white hand of the upper class, and tbe heavy black hand of the lower class, and have recognised that there is but one man. After all these have iiassed before me, I say that; Humauity has a synonym— Eijuality ; and that under Heaven there is but one thing that one should bow to — Genius ; and but one thing that one should kneel to — Goodness."
THE POET'S PAGE.
The Child and the Stab.
She had been told thai God made
all the utars That tioinkled vp in heaven, and
now she stood Watching the coming of the tici-
lii/hton. As if it were a new and perfect
world. And this were its first eve. How
beautiful Must be the work of Nature to a
child, In its first fresh impression I
Laura stood By tlic low window, with the silken
lash Of her soft eye upraised, and her
sweet- moufh Half parted vilh the wcifl and
strange dcli'/lii Of beaufij that she could not com- prehend And had not seen before. The
purple folds Of the low sunset clouds, and the
blue slcij That looked so still and delicate
above, Filled her young heart iclth glad- ness; and the eve Stole on with its deep shadows, and
she still Stood Inokinq at the west with that
ho If siirile, As if apleiisant thought were at
her heart. Presently, in the edge of the last
tint Of sunset, where the blue was
melted in To the faint golden mellowness, a
Star Stood suddenly. A laugh of wild
delight Burst from her lips, and, putting
up her hands. Her simple thought broke forth ex- pressively,— " Father, dear father, God has
made aStar /" ^ N. P. Willis.
THE CELAXDIXE. Pansies, lilies, king-cups, daisies. Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets.
Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets.
They will have a place in story. There's afloirer that shall be mine,
'Tis the little celandine. See its varnish'd golden-flowers Peeping through the chilling
showers Fre a leaf is on a bush. In the time before the tlirush
Has a thouijht about its vest. Thou wilt come with lialf a mil.
Spreading out lliy glossy breast, Like a careless prodigal; Telling tales about the siin. When we've little warmth or none. Comfort have thou of thy merit. Kindly unassuming spirit ; Careless of thy neighbourhood.
Thou dost show ilty pleasant face. On'the moor, and in the wood.
In the lane— there's not a place. Howsoever mean it be.
But 'tis good enough for thee.
"SHE WAS MIKE."
" Thy tears o'erpr'ize thy loss ! Thy wife. In wliat ri-as she particular ? Others of comely face and life. Others of chaste and warmth there are. And when they speak they seem to sing ; Beyond her aex she teas not 7i>if:e; And there is no more common thing Than kindness in a woman's eyes. Then wherefore weep so long and fast? Why so exceedingly repine 7 Snv. how has thy beloved surpass'd So much all others T' "S/ie was mine."
COVBXTRY PaTMORB.
^^
A LOVE SOSG.
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly lo'e the west. For there the bonnie lassie lives,
The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row.
And mony a hill between ; But, day and night, my fancy's flight
Is ever wV my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefa' birds
I hear her charm the air ; Tliere's not a bonnie flower that springs.
NO comparison.
You meaner beauties of the night.
That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, — Tnu common people of the skies, What are you when the moon shall rise t
Ye violets that first appear. By your pure purple mantles known. Like the proud virgins of the year. As if the spring were all your
own, — What are you when the rose is blown t
Ye curious chanteis of the wood. That warble forth dame Nature's lays. Thinking you passion understood By your weak accents, — ichat's
iiour praise When Pliilomel her voice shall raise ?
So when my mistress shall be seen. In sweetness of her looks and mind. By virtue first, then choice, a queen. Tell me if she was not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. Sir Uesry Wottex.
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE.
In days of yore, when Time was
young. When birds convei's'd as well as
sung. When use of speech was not con- fin' d Merely to brutes of human kind, A forward hare, of swiftness
vain. The genius of the veighb'ring
plain. Would oft deride the drudging
crowd : For geniuses are ever proud. He'd boast his flight 'twere vain to
follow. For dog and horse he'd beat them
hollow : Nay, if he put forth all his
strength. Outstrip his brethren half a length.
A tortoise heard his vain orn,tion, And vented thus his indignation : " Oil, pass / it bodes thee dire dis- grace. When I defy thee to the race, Coine, 'tis amnteli ; miy, no denial, ril lay my shell upon, (he trial." 'Twas done and done, all fair, a
bet, Judges prepar'd, and distance set.
The scnmp'ring hare outshot the
wind. The creeping tortoise lagged heh ind. And scarce had pass'd a single
pole, When puss had almost reached the
goal, " Friend tortoise," quoth the jeering
hare. " Your burthen's more than you
can bear ; To help your speed it were as
well That I should ease you of your
shell; Jog on a little faster, pr'ythee, I'll take a nap, and then be with
thee." So said, so done, and safely sure. For say, what conquest more se- cure ? Whene'er he walk'd (.that's all thcU's
in if) He could o'eriake him in a minute.
Tlie tortoise heard Ids taunting
jeer. But still resolved to persevere. Still drawl'd along, as who should
say. I'll win. like Fabius, by delay ; On to tite goal securely crept, While puss unknowing soundly
slept.
The bets were won, the hare
awoke. When thus the victor tortoise
spoke: "Puss, tho' I own thy quicker
parts. Things are not always done by
starts ; You may deride my awkward
pace. But sloio and steady wins the
race."
Lloyd.
LAW SITTINGS, ECLIPSES, AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
INTEREST TABLE.
Witboiit giving an elaborate series of tabulated ligures to as- certain the interest due on any given sum at 2J, 3, 5, or any other rate per cent.,any person may cal- culate for himself the amount of interest by a very simple process. The amount of interest upon one pound for every month at 5 per cent, is one penny. Having as- certained what any given sum amounts to at 5 per cent., other rates may be calculated by adding to.ordividingit.thus: ^months. 5percent.for£80wouldbe£2 0 0 2i per cent., which is one- half 10 0
S per cent, is six-tenths ..140 3iper cent, isseven-trnths 1 8 0 4 per cent, is four-fifths .. 1 13 0 If the interest should be more than 5 per cent., then the extra rate of interest must be added. Thus for 61 per cent, add one- fourth; for 7i per cent, add oue- half.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, &C.
In MnijUmd an infant must be registered within forty-two days of Its birth. Ilesponsiljle persons failing to do this without reason- able cause become liable to a penalty of forty shillings.
When a death talces place, per- sonal informatiim must be given to the registrar within five dnys. A certificate must be obtained to give to the clergyman performing the funeral service.
In Scotland a birth must be re- gistered within 21 days; a mar- riage within three days ; and a death within eight days.
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TABLE TO CALCULATE WAGES, &0. |
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Tr. |
Pr.Mnth. |
Pr. Week. |
Pr.Day. |
|
f. |
£ 8. d. |
£ s. d. |
s. d. |
|
1 |
0 18 |
0 0 4J |
0 OJ |
|
•i |
0 3 4 |
0 0 91 |
0 l| |
|
3 |
0 5 0 |
Oil? |
0 2 |
|
4 |
0 6 8 |
0 1 6j |
0 21 |
|
a |
0 8 4 |
0 1 11 |
0 3i |
|
H |
0 10 0 |
0 2 3J |
0 4 |
|
7 |
0 11 8 |
0 2 8i |
0 4» 0 5| |
|
H |
0 13 4 |
0 3 o3 |
|
|
H |
0 15 0 |
0 3 5J |
0 6 |
|
11) |
0 16 8 |
0 3 10 |
0 6.i |
|
11 |
0 18 4 |
0 4 2 |
0 71 |
|
12 |
10 0 |
0 4 7 |
0 8 |
|
13 |
1 1 8 |
0 4 11: |
0 8J 0 9| |
|
14 |
13 4 |
0 6 4 |
|
|
1.1 |
15 0 |
0 5 9 |
0 10 |
|
IH |
16 8 |
0 6 li |
0 10 |
|
17 |
1 8 4 |
0 6 6} |
0 11 |
|
IH |
1 10 0 |
0 6 lOj |
0 11 |
|
1» |
1 11 8 |
0 7 3J |
1 0 |
|
an |
1 13 4 |
0 T 8 |
1 1 |
|
30 |
2 10 0 |
0 11 6 |
1 7 |
|
40 |
3 6 8 |
0 13 4i |
2 2 |
|
••X) |
4 3 4 |
0 19 2 |
2 9 |
|
60 |
5 0 0 |
1 3 01 |
3 31 |
|
70 |
6 16 8 |
1 6 10| |
3 10 |
|
m |
6 13 4 |
1 10 SJ |
4 4: 4 11 |
|
90 |
7 10 0 |
1 14 71 |
|
|
lUO |
8 6 8 |
1 18 .51 |
5 5 |
If the Wages be Guineas instead of Pounds, for each Guinea add ]d. to each Month, or Id. to each Week.
LAW SITTINGS, 1896.
Begin £nd
Hilary Sittings Jan. 11 ..Apr. 1 Easter do. Apr. 14i .. May 22 Trinity do. June 2.. Aug. 12 Michaelmas do. Oct. 24 .. Dec. 21
PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF
THE CALENDAR FOR THE
YEAR 1896.
Golden Number, 16; Epact, 15 j Solar Cycle, 1: Dominical Let- ters, E, D ; Roman Indictlon, 9 ; Julian Period, 6609.
FIXED AND MOVABLE FESTIVALS, ANNIVER- SARIES, &;c.
Epiphany Jan. 6
Septuagesima Sunday . . Feb. 2 Qainquages.— Shrove Sun. „ 16
Ash Wedneedai/ „ 19
Quadrages. — 1st S. in Lent „ 23
St. David Mar. 1
St. Patrick „ 17
Annunciation — Lady Day „ 25
Palm Sunday „ 29
GoodFriday April 3
Easter Sunday „ 5
Low Sunday „ 12
St.George „ 23
Rogation Sunday May 10
Ascension D. — Holy Thurs. „ 14 Birth of Queen Victoria... „ 24 Pentecost.— Whit Sunday ■ • „ 24
Trinity Sunday , 31
Corpus Christi June 4
Accession of Q.Victoria.. „ 20
Proclamation „ 21
St. JohnBapt.— Mids. Day „ 24 St. Michael.— Michael. Day Sept. 29 Birth of Prince of Wales Kov. fl First Sunday in Advent ■• „ 2U
St.Andrew , 30
St. Thomas Dec. 21
Christmas Day „ 25
FOREIGN EPOCHS.
The year 5657 of the Jewish Era commences on Septembers, 18%.
llamadan (Month of Abstinence observed by the Turks) com- mences on February 15, 18u6.
The year 1314 of the Moham. Era commences on June 12, I8a6.
ECLIPSES IN 1896.
In the year 1896 there will be two Eclipses of the Sun and two of the Moon :—
February 13. — An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, invisihle at Greenwich.
February 28.— A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, partly, visible at Greenwich.
Axigust 9.— A Total Eclipse of the Sun, invisible at Greenwich.
Au(iusfi3.—A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, partly visible at Green- wich.
ENGLISH QUARTER DAYS.
These arc— Lady Day, March 23; Midsummer, Juno 21 ; Michael- mas, September 29; and Christ- mas, Decern I)er23. Quarterly trade accounts ai'e made up to the end of the montlis of March, June, September, and December.
SCOTCH QUARTER DAYS.
Candlemas, February 2; Whit- sunday, May J5 ; Lammas, August 1 ; and Martinmas, November 11. The Piemoval Terms in Scotch Burghs are May 28, November 28.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
Tn England and Ireland.— TLastcr Monday, the Monday in Whitsun week, first Monday iu August, 26th day of December (or 27th should the 26th be a Sunday).
In Scotland.— ^evf Tear's Day, Christmas Day (if either of the above days falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be a Bank Holiday), Good Friday, first Mon- day in May, first Monday in August.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Where an inmate of any build- ing used for human habitation is suffering from an infectious disease, the head of the family, and in his default the nearest relatives of the patient present in the building or being in attend- ance on the patient, and in default of such relatives every person in charge of or in attend- ance on the patient, and in def.ault of any such person the occupier of the building, shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering from an infectious disease, send notice thereof to the medical officer of health of the district.
Every medical practitioner at- tending on the patient sliall send to the medical officer of health for the district a certificate stat- ing the infectious disease from which the patient is suffering.
Every person required to give notice, who fails to give the same, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
The following diseases are included : small - pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of the following names — typhus, ty- phoid, enteric, relapsing, con- tinued, or puerperal, and includes as respects any particular di&tricl any infectious disease to which the Act has been applied by the local authority.
STAMPS, TAXES, LICENCES, EXCISE DUTIES, &o.
BILL STAMPS.
& g. d.
Not exceeding 5 .. o 1
/- 10 .. 0 2
but not \ is :: s i
exceciling 1 75 .. o 9 C 100 !! 1 0 And every additional £100, or Irac- tion of £100— is.
DAYS -OP Grace.— Bills of Ex- Cliange or Promissory Notes pay- able at any time after date liave three days of graceallowed— thus, a bill dated Jan. 1 at two months' date is not due till March 4; but no days of grace are allowed on Bills at sight,oron demand.
Bills falling dne on Bank Holi- days are payable the day after ; those falling due on Sunday, Good Friday, or Cliristmas Day, must be paid the day before.
RECEIPTS.
Receipt for the payment of
£-' or upwards Id.
Persons receiving the money to
pay the duty. Penalty for giving a receipt, liable to duty, not duly stamped. .£10 The person giving the receipt shall, before the instrument be delivered out of his hands, ob- literate the stamp by writing his Name or Initials, together icilh tlic true date of his so writing, so as to show clearly and distinctly that such stamp has been used,
CHEQUBS. Bankers' Chcijues Id.
PATENT (LETTERS) FOR INVEN- TIONS.
On application for patent £1 0 0 Complete specification .. S 0 0
Every patent is granted for the term of 14 years from the date of application, subject to the pay- ment before the e.xpiralion of the fourth and each succeeding year during the term of the patent, of the prescribed fee. The patentee may pay the whole or any portion of the aggregate of such prescribed annual fees in advance. Before the expiration of thc4th year from date
of patent £5 0 0
Bthycar 6 0 0
6th „ 7 0 0
7th „ 8 0 0
8th „ 9 0 0
0th „ 10 0 0
loth , H 0 0
nth 12 0 0
12th „ 13 0 0
13th , 14 0 0
For additional particulars, see the "Circular of Information" issued by the Patent Office.
SPOILED STAMPS.
All applications for allowance must be made within six months from the time of spoilage of un- executed instruments, or within six months of the date or of the first execution of others.
INCOME TAX.
Schedule C, D, and E, &d. in the pound. ' Incomes under £160 exempt ; those under £400 alloiced a deduc- tion of £160; those between £400 and £500 a deduction of £\Q0.
LICENCES, EXCISE DUTIES, &0.
Appraiser's & HouseAgt's.
United Kingdom £2 0 0
Armorial Bearings Gt.Brit. 1 1 0 „ onaCarriage. do. 2 2 0 Arms.grant of,starapdty. 10 0 0 Auctioneer's Anl. Licence
United Kingdom 10 0 0
Banker's Annual Licence,
United Kingdom SO 0 0
Beer and Wine Retailer's 4 0 0 „ not to be consumed
on the premises 3 0 0
Beer not drunk on the
premises (England) ..150 Beer drunk on premises 3 10 0 Brewers' Licences :—
Brewer of beer for sale 10 0 Dogs,any kind, Gt. Britain 0 7 6 „ Ireland, one dog.... 0 2 0 „ ,, Every addl. dog 0 2 0 Game Licences (U.K.) :— If taken out after 31st July and before 1st No- vember, to expire on 31st July following; .. 3 0 0 After 31st July, expire
31st October 2 0 0
After 31st October, ex- pire 31st July 2 0 0
Gamekeeper's (Gt. Brit.) 2 0 0 Game Dealer's Licence,
United Kingdom 2 0 0
Gun or Pistol Licence .. 0 10 0 Marriage Licence.Special,
England and Ireland 5 0 0
,, by Superin-
tendent Registrar — 0 10 0 Medicine(Patent)Dealer's,
Gt. Brit., annl. licence 0 5 0 Passenger Vessels, on board which liquors and tobacco are sold,
one year 5 0 0
„ „ one day ..100
Pawnbrokei-'s 7 10 0
Publican's (U. K.) licence to sell spirits,beer,and wine to be consumed on the premises:—
If rated under £10 4 10 0
„ ,, 15 6 0 0
„ ,, 20 8 0 0
„ „ 25 11 0 0
„ 30 14 0 0
„ „ 40 17 0 0
„ „ 50 20 0 0
„ 100 25 0 0
And £3 for each addi- tional £100 up to £00. Servants- Annual Licence for every Male Ser- vant in Great Britain 0 15 0 Retailers of Sweets<U.K.) 15 0 Tobacco&SnufE.dealers in 0 5 3
Tea, customs duty 0 0 4
Vinegar Maker's annual
licence (U. Kingdom) 10 0
Voting Paper 0 0 1
"Warrant for Goods 0 0 3
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.
On every £100 of Capital
toberaised 0 2 '
AGREEMENTS, &C.
Agreement, or jlemorandiim of Agreement, under hand only, of the value of £5 or more, when not otherwise charged, 6d.
Ditto, to let a furnished house for Jess than a year, the rent being above £23— 2e. Cd. Affidavits and Declarations, 2s. 6d.
Articles of Clerkship to Solicitor, in England or Ireland .. £S0 „ for Lancashire, Durham, or Scotch superior courts £00
ESTATE DUTY.
where the principal value of the Estate exceeds £100 and docs not exceed £500, 1 per cent. ; £300 to £1,000, 2 per cent; £1,000 to £10,000, 3 per cent. ; and so on up to £1,000,000, which is charged 8 per cent.
HOUSE DUTY.
On inhabited houses oc- cupied as farmhouse, public- house, coffee- shop, shop, or ware- house of the annual value of £20 and not.
exceeding £40
Exceeding -£40 and not
exceeding .£60
Exceeding .£60
Other houses of the
annual value of £20
and not exceeding £40
Exceeding £;40 and not
exceeding £00
Exceeding £60
50 3
CONVEYANCE.
Where the purchase money
shall not exceed £5
Excdg. £5¬ excdg. £10
For every additional £23 up
to £300
If exceeding £300, then for
every £50
Any kind not otherwise
charged
Conveyance or Transfer —
Of Bank of England Stock
Of East India Coy. Stock
Of any colonial debenture
stock or funded debt.for
eveiy £100 or fractional
part of £100 of nominal
amount transferred ....
0 6
1 0
1 6
2 0 2 0
2 6
5 0
10 0
7 9
30 0
GOVERNMENT INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES.
The Postmaster-General is em- powered to insure the lives of persons of either sex for any amount not less than £5 or more th.an£UXi.
An insurance may be effected by any person not over the age of 63 years and not under the ago of 14 years, or, if the amount docs not exceed £.3, not under the age of 8 years.
The Postmaster-General is also empowered to grant immediate or deferred annuities for any amount not less than £1 or more than £100 to any person not under the age of 5 years.
Breakl r..i.o, uutiici.>, itsas, Hot Pies, Porter and Ales.
DAVID WISHAgr;
• ^ca, Mine, ani Spirit .^iiftad;
17 CITY ROAD, BRECHIN.
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Tastefully Ornamented. Infants' Rusks.
Tea Bread and Biscuits of all kinds. Short Bread made to Order. / Dishes Covered, &g. ,
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46 HIGH STREET, BRECHIN.
Breakfasts, Dinners, Teas, Hot Pies, Porter and Ales.
DAVID WISHART^
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17 CITY ROAD, BRECHIN.
First-Class Liquors only kept in Stock.
A^ '
ROBERT HAMPTONf n/?^
(Late W. DUNCAN & CO.), LP>-
Qrocer, Tea, Wine, & Spirit Merchaiit,
1 HIGH STREET, BRECHIN.
BRECRIM.
Try the Far-Famed DALHOUSIE MIXTUEE.
Large Assortment of Ladies' Hair Switches and New Season's Perfumes. Combs and Brushes in great variety.
Kn / oo3sr:PEoa?iODsrE:R,
TOY & FANCY GOODS WAREHOUSE,
. ^ / 54 HIGH STREET, BRECHIN.
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Violin Strings, best quality, kept in Stock.
JAMES MUCKART,
EAST END BAR,
73 MONTROSE STREET, BRECHIN.
WINES AND SPIRITS OF THE BEST QUALITY ONLY KEPT IN STOCK.
Advertisements.
What Shall I Drinh ?
VERY OLD SCOTCH WHISKYiO A MORE HONEST WHISKY CANNOT BE ynJ
To he had from all Grocers ^ Wine Merchants in our Lahelled and Capsuled Bottles.
D. A. RHIND & CO.,
And 60 and 70 MARK LANE, LONDON, E.G.
SERQT. KIDD &
DOGCART or WAGGONETTE meets each
Parties Driven either Country or
Reasonable Rate. ^
1 DAMACRE ROAD,
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G. HENDERSON,
BILLPOSTER AND ADVERTISING CONTRACTOR,
Having added a number of New Posting Stations in the City, is
in a better position at present tiian ever to supply the wants of
his Customers. All orders left at
MARKET STREET, BRECHIN,
/ PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
JOHN COLLIE,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
36 MARKET STREET,
B R E o h: 1 3sr.
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Oustomer Work, Repairs, and Country Orders promptly attended to. Every Description of Ready-Made Stock at moderate prices.
^^^"ROBERT BLACK,
GROCER AND SPIRIT DEALER, ^ 47 MARKET STREET. BRECHIN.
TAILOR AND CLOTHIER, 6.S HIGrll STREET, BliEOIII HST.
First-Class Workmanship, Style, and Fit.
Gent-'s Underclothing, Hats, Caps, Scarfs, Ties, Gloves, Umbrellas.
CHARGES MODERATE.
Agent for P. &. P. Campbell's Dye Works, Perth.
CUTTING taught in all its Branches ; a sure, simple, and scientific
method of Ladies' Dress Cutting taught. Terms on application.
Advertisements.
IMFERML Mill
PARCHMENT
mot;
Surface
(Semi-Rofgh)
Ivorv/FL
Every Sheet bears the above in Watermark. No other islgeni)
Cream Wove Vellum Notje.
One of the best Writing Papers introduce^ for manr yearsl For Office or Business Purposes it has ad^antadfes 0/ quality and appearance, while its very moderate price enaiole^it to be used with economy by large consumers. For .Pp^te Corres- pondence it is especially adapted for embossing from private dies.
ALSO MADE IN
Imperial Parchment Blue Wove Note.
The old-fashioned pale blue shade, very pleasing to the eye- sight when writing. Smooth finish, but without glaze.
Imperial Parchment Bank Post for Foreigrn Correspondence.
Envelopes to match these Papers in all the fashionable shapes.
Imperial Parchment Correspondence Cards. ^ \
BLACK & JOHNSTON,
PRINTERS and STATIONERS, BRECHIN.
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X ^/a^bAer and confectioner,
iff // ^J, 4|p^^ STREET, BBECHIJ^.
CAKES— pastry, Seed, Plum, Madeira, Sponge and Rice. <^ Marriage and Christening Cakes tastefully ornamented. Infants' Rusks. Tea Bread and Biscuits of all kinds.
Sbott aSreaJ). Disbes CoveteO, ^c.
Tlte West End Bar,
,^44 ST. DAVID STREET
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First-Glass Liquors only kept in Stock
EDINBURGH ALES AND LONDON PORTER ON DRAUGHT.
JOHN MCDONALD, Proprietor.
J. & W. FORD,
by Repository— 24 High Street, Brechin. laU Wares, Hosiery, &e. Baby Linen and Underclothing
Berlin, Fleecy, and other Wools, &c.—only best quality kept, and at lowest prices.
I Agents for the Dundee Dye Works. Stamping for Embroidery.
Advertisements.
J. M. PEDDIE,
PASTRY COOK AJVD COJ^FECTIOJYER, 22 ST. DAVID STREET, )/' J'^ BRECHIN. ;
JEarriage, (Ekmtcntng, f irthbap, anb gesert (ITahcs
AETISTICALLY ORNAMENTED. CHOICE SELECTION OF FRENCH AND GERMAN fASTRY.
Jellies, Creams, Souffles, Meringues, Ices and Ice Puddings.
DISHES COVERED.
JAMES S. LINDSA,;^
29 HIGH STREET, BRECHIN.
JOHN A. McMANN
FAMILY GROCER, 100 HIGH STREET, BRECHIN.
Fine Old Matured Whiskies direct from Distilleries.
Brandies, Wines, &c. Porter and Ales in prime conditio
CHEESE FROM IIRST-CLASS DAIRIES.
BEST SMOKED AND MILD-CURED HAMS
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G. SCOTT,
FAMILY GROCER, TEA, WINE, AND SPIRIT MERCHANT,
2; HIGH STREET, BRECHIN. For the Finest of SCOTCH WHISKIES apply as above.
W. BLACK & SON,
X ;^CENSED APPRAISERS,
^aJorce^election of household furniture
Made on the Premises always on Stock.
'CARI5ETS in great variety, in Brussels, Tapestry, Kidderminster,
Kensington Art Squares, etc.
QUALITIES ALL GUARANTEED.
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OFFICE AND SHOWROOMS :
4^ CLERK STREET, BRECHIN. Funerals Conducted in Town or Country.
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^ i^:^^ SADDLER, -^ ^ S^. DAVID STREET, BREOHIN.
^ Orders Neatly and Promptly Executed.
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Advertisements.
DAVID SMITHj/f^
®r0ar, Park anii potato ^^ahant,
22 RIVER STREET, BRBOHIN.
J. C. MIDDLETON,
PLAIJY AJYD DECORATIVE PAlJfTER, 12 Market Street, BRECHIN.
Pictures Framed to Order. Mouldings, Glass,
Backwood, etc., in Stock. »
Latest Styles in Paperhangings, at lowest pvssioU pr\cis. Estimates given for all classes of work.
ESTABLISHED 1851.
WILLIAM WATT & SON,
JOINERS, and FUNERAL UNDERTAKERS, PROPERTY & INSURANCE AGENTS,
LICENSED VALUATORS, . /| '^
5 UNION STREET, BRECH™. ^,
Jobbing of every description Neatly and Promptly Ex0puted.
Funerals Conducted in Town or Country economically.
Grave Clothes and every Requisite kept in Stock.
Charges moderate. /' .
SALES UNDERTAKEN AND REALISED. V \ \
Properties Managed Carefully, also Bought and Sold. Heritable and other Property Valued. Insurance Agents for all Class of Risks.
A Large Assortment of SECOND-HAND FURNITURE in Stock.
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MMES BARRIE,
f^"^ potato Merchant
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^NERAL DEALER,
7 BRIDGE STREET, BRECHIN.
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Light-Lorry and Dog-Cart Work Done.
New and Seeond-Hand Furniture Bought Sold, or Exchanged.
Orders Punctually Attended to.
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Clean Oat Chaff always on hand.
RAMSAY KIDD,
OBoot anti7^J)oemafeer, 74 hi;qh street,
BRECHIN.
Large Assortment of Boots, Shoes and Slippers. All kinds made to measure.
iWBlB
TAILOR AND CLOTHIER,
%6 ST. DAVID SIREET, BBECHIJY.
jEvecg IRcquisite for ©entlemen's *waear hcpt In Stoch.
Ladles' Jackets and Ulsters made to order.
Advertisements.
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Established in 1852. ' , ; <
CERTIFIED UNDER ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
THE HEAD OFFICE, i3 CHURCH STREET,
IS OPEN FOR RECEIVING AND PAYING MONEY
On TUESDAYS, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and in the Evening, from 6 to 8.30 ; and on FRIDAY
Evenings, from 6 to 8.30. . ^ Jf/
The Branch Office, The IV^a^se, -^dz^ll,
IS OPEN FOB BUSINESS '2'^ ^
On SATURDAY Afternoons, from 1 to-8 o'clock.
DEPOSITS received of ONE SHILLING up to ;^5o, in one year ; and ;^200 in all.
The Rate of Interest is £2 los, per cent, per annum.
Deposits at 20th November, 1895, -^52,330. Number of Depositors, i8i6.
Trustees and Managers.
Andrew Robertson, Esq., Southesk Street, President. James Craig, Esq., Town Clerk, Vice-President.
Charles Anderson. Rev. John A. Clark
William Johnston.
James Young.
A. R. Maclean Murray.
Alexander Philip.
James L. Aird.
George A. Scott.
David Arnot. Alexander Christison. James C. Robertson. "- Alexander Jack. Rev. Thomas C. Sturrock. Thomas Bennet.
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The British Linen Company Bank, Treasurer.
William Anderson, Secretary and Actuary.
William H. Duncan and Francis C. Anderson, Clerks
Rev. D. S. Ross, Receiver at Edzell Branch.
David Smith Barrie, Auditor.
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MRS. PINDLAY,
GAME AND POULTRY DEALER, 7
10 MARKET STREET, BRECHIN.' . /,
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Game, Rabbits, etc., contracted for from Gentlemen in any qoantity.
Highest Prices Given.
DAVID SHERRET,
^mtxnl glatksmttk, 4" ^-i^ 6 CLERK STREET, BRECHIN.
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JOHN ANDERSON,
hckBak (^XQttx ani %m Merchant,
MARKET STREET, BRECHIN. / SALT ^IMPORTER.
AMES LAMOND
Beqb to ioximate that he is now carrying on the Business of pf MiDpLETON & Sons, and hopes by strict personal attention to Business that he -will receive the support of the General Community. Country Orders strictly attended to.
32 MARKET STREET, BRECHIN.
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DAVID SMART,) /^
36 BRIDGE STREET, BRECHIW,
Jobbing of every description neatly and promptly executed,
CHARGES MODERATE.
N.B. — Sanitary Matters receive that care and attention which only
long and personal supervision can render.
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER, and OPTICIAN, 4 ST. JAMES' Vl^hQY. {Opposite joot of Clerk Street),,
HAS a large and selected Stock of first-class Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery.
The Newest Designs in Silver and Electro-Plate. Engagement and Wedding Rings and Keepers. Spectacles and Opera Glassea. Particular attention given to Bepairs of every description.
Messrs Thos. Muir, Son, & Patq
COAL MERCHANTS,
BRECHIN,
Beg to intimate that they are in a position to Finest ENGLISH and SCOTCH COAL at '^very reasonable Prices.
STEAM AND SMALL COALS ALWAYS ON HAND.
5obn Smith, Hoent
OFFICE— RAILWAY STATION.
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HN FINDLAY,
BOOTMAKER, URCH STREET BRECHIN.
High-Class Hand-Sewed Boots made to order. Select Stock of Ready-Mades. Keenest Prices.
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VAMES COUTTS,
S:E CARPEJVTER and JOIJYER,
44 UNION STREET, BRECHIN.
Funerals conducted in Town or Country at Moderate Cliarges.
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