Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-10-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TIER SUPPLY OP ANIMAS AND CANADLIN FOOD. —The following were the consignments of fresh meat and live stock Landed at Liverpool during last week : Montana, 830 quarters of beef and 325 carcases of mutton; Helvetia, 633 quarters of beef and 59Damns of lamb.; Bohemian, 1:95 quarters ef bee!; City of Montreal, 720'quarters of beef, 100 carcases of mutton, and 50 dead pigs; the Germania, 660 quarters of beef and 200 carcases of mutton; the Pembroke, 21.0 live rattle, and 1,326 sheep; Bohemian, 31.8 0444 838 sheep, 336 pigs; Quebec, 262 cattle, 206 sheep, and 88 ; Palestine, 204 cattle and 214 sheep; and the Ike Nepigon, 134 cattle and 950 sheep, being 3,736 quarters of beef, 625 carcases of mutton, 50 dead pigs, 59 carcases of lambs, 1,128 live cattle, 3,034 sheep, and 424 pigs. When compared with the previous weak them is a perceptible decrease in all classes of food, though the reduction is more noticeable as regards live and dead sheep. WET NOT ?—A movement has been sat on foot by some worthy enthusiasts to supply our troops still remaining in South Africa with tracts. Not a word is to be said against this proposal, for anything which tends to instruct or to improve the soldier deserves support. But as there seems to be plenty of room in Zululand, why not carry, the notion a little further Tracts of land, now, are things the colonists all under. stand.—Jody. ARTISTIO Anessristwa. —ln a western city of America there lived two young fellows who painted signs for a livelihood. On a certain occasion sae of the painters had some out door business to attend to, and left the studio in charge of his partner and a boy who was employed to grind paints. Daring his abases the partner, to gratify a whim, painted hbr boy so as to represent a large gash upon his forehead and a cut over the eye. He bespattered the floor with red paint, clotted the boy's hair, and made him lie down in a corner, after which he painted a great gash on his own cheek, hared his bosom, disordered his draw, dipped a longbladed knife in the red paint pot, and patiently awaited the coming of his partner. Directly afterwards he heard him at tne door, and then the performance commenced. The partner looked in at the door, and saw the boy prostrate on the floor, groaning and crying murder; chairs, tables, benches, jugs, and paint-pots being strewed round the room in dire confusion, while the murderous-looking partner, with the red knife in his uplifted hand, was running through the room uttering wild and incoherent expressions. It was evident to the partner at the door that hie partner had killed the boy. Swift as lightning he fled to obtain assistance, and s number of friends were speedily mustered and repaired to the scene of the supposed terrible tragedy. The crowd augmented as it neared the shop, and in walked the whole posse; but in the meantime everything had been set to rights; the boy was without a mark of any kind, the room In perfect order, no marks of blood perceptible; and the artist, who was engaged in painting a sign, declared his utter ignorance of what his partner alleged to have occurred; but took the opportunity of distributing business cards amongst the crowd, and the result was a great influx of fine art orders. Tam