HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1882-12-01, Page 2THE FALSE PROPHET.
A -Party- by the- Name 01-4,ohnson- Filling
the Role.
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A -Philadelphia despatch says e • I'th
. earlier park of tie present _ century a large
_carpo df layes, direct from the Arabia-
- speaking regions: of northern . Africa, Was
•secretly landed pear Yorktown, Va. This
ship-ioast of humito- chattelswas delivered
• to awaiting agents. ° Eight .hundred Intel-
.1igent Mohammedan, lighteleinned Afri-
cans, were distributed_ among the plantere
Of Eastern Virginia. Fierce as untamed
tfgersethese.Wild followers- the prophet
eAMecoa gave-the:slave-Owners more trouble
than .any_o_ther eight kindred bondsmen
•eoutli of Mason and Dixon's line. Many of
them escaped north, and their descendants
live an Fayette comity, this State: Among
theca; are the Blues, Jacksons, Uundys,
Pelmets,,Maneways• and others whose thin
• Ups; high foreheads/aquiline none, intele
Ieatual capacity- and splendid physique
stamp them at once as superior in every.
• respect to the • foil blooded. negro. .
. Philadelphia: Timescorrespondent has found
"among these people the old home of the
great falseprophet of -Soudan.. His story- is
this. Among the eseaped Mohammedans
, Were George Johnson. and Wife. George's
• real_ name was 13eyash-el-Azwaho He was
a. sheik and priest of the order of . Demi.
• For several years he lived in the• moun-
tains: near Connellsville„ but, fearingrecap-
• ture„ wentto,Canada. 112.1850 he returned
to, Pennsylvaniaand settled at Uniontown.
It 1854 he removed to Brownsville, and
• subsequently- to Pittsburg, where he
died in 1877, at .et very advanced. age.
- In 1830, while at Connellsville,: his: son
Thomas was born: At the age of 10 Thomas.
had learned the Koran from his father, and
could repeat hundreds of pages. No tur-
reted mosque reared. itsmassive walls; no
bearded inue*in celledthe ex -slave and
his family to _worship; • but Beyash-el-
Azwah never target "There is but one God,-
• and. Mohammed is His prophet," and in
land of Christian itrangeresecretly adhered
to the faith of his fathers. In 1849 Thomas.
• Ain:Leon drifted to'Californie, to return to
Uniontown two years later: - In 1853 he
,went to Paris and joined theFrencharray.
He was sent taAlgiers: • At the close of his
terra of ' service he joined, a caravan •and
crossed the great Desert of Sahara south-
ward into Soudan. - For several years he.
• lived 'among the natives of • that almost
ineicessible regime.: With his almost
• perfect mastery of the Koran, and his
• eoperb. . knowledge of the arts of civi
especially of War, he forged_
to the• front as leader. In 1862, when-
. he heard of the war of the rebellion, and
was tiredwith an ambition to help_ tree
• the 'slaves: Of the South; he Wrote a long
letter to President Lim:Loh:et ;offering to
• . reorta & thousand Arab zouavesfor the
•_Union army,. i! the United States- Govern-
ment would ftgnish transportation. The
letter got into the newspapers, and was
• published as a -great joke. He returned
•, just as the war closed. Yet no more en,
tleasiastio lover of the unicei cause stood
upon Pennsylvania- avenue in the city' of
• Washington on. the -day .of the last mind
parade o! the federal armies than • the tall
• e ed -capped Sheik Johnson, fresh_ from the
Wilda- Af ice.• _
After bath g on the Turkish Minister he
visited Conn.alsville; Uniontown, Browns-
ville, theo itteborgh, to see- his father..
In, August; - went to Egypt. There,as is
the duty of .. all Mohammedans; he Made a
pilgrindage to e tomb of the prophet at
. the sacred. city Of Mecca. Returning to
Soudan he acquired a greater influence
than ever over the semecivilized
taut* of. that extensive country,/ and
claimed prophetic powers. • As time rolled
on; his wealth and power increased; and
when the English. -invaded Egypt he pro-
claimed''hiraself EitMehdi, de the last
prophet Allah shall send to conquer the
.enemies of istaixt and rule .supreme over
• the:world. While Arabi Pasha was suffer- -
ing defeat, rumor- had it that the false
-
prophet was achieving extraordinary vioto-
riee and slaying thousands of his foes. TO
suolt a • person all :Mohammedans
• will kneel. - -According to Moham-
LATEST NANITOBAN NEWS:
Brandon has a ,ekating rink.
Weddle -bringing $6- peroard izethe Pr=
Vigo: •
A Masonic: Hall is being built at Minn'e-
doss. • .
'Nelson &McKenzie are building a new
grist mill at Birtle. •
Elk shooting is reported to be good in
Southern Manitoba this season. .
Skunks Iie diligently in wait for ,hen
roosts in the vicinity' of Pilot Mound.
Severe/ sheep have been lulled by wolves
in the neighborhood of Pilot Mound.
The Street Railway in Winnipeg extends
from For Garry to the C.P.R. depot.
The price of coal has been raised to $15
by the Northwestern "Fuel Company, of
Winnipeg, - •
A mammoth hotel, with a frontage of 60
feet, is tole commenced forthwith in Pilot
Mound.
Wheat is reported to be coming in rapidly
at Emerson, -and is quoted at from 78 to 80
cents a bushel. _ -
The engineer of West Lynne reports an
expenditure of $4,500 in grading streets
during theipast season.
A seizure of Canadian Pacific rolling stook
was made by the Customs authorities on.
Friday last. '
Initiatory steps for the erection of a
second bridge over the Red River between
West Lynne and Emerson are being taken.
There were twenty-eix drunks before the
Winnipeg Police Court last Friday. - Two
of them. were young boys about 15 years of
age. .
-
A large number of Icelanders, direot from
Iceland, arrived at St. Vincent last week
to settle along the internatio)isi boundary
west of 'Pembina; in the Icelandic colony
there:
A company is being formed for the pur-
pose of quarrying and bringing into Winni-
peg for buildingpurposes thefine stone
found at Rat Portage and vioinity. The
incorporation of .such handsome building
material into Some of the colossal buildings
that are to be built—notably the churches=
would do much to relieve ' the distressing
monotony of the universal white prick.
Some time ago the Scott Act was voted.
an in Lisgar and. carried. No attempt,.
however, it appears, was made te enforce
the -provisions of the 4ot, and the hotel
keepers went on selling licAor as usual. A
mo.vernent is now on foot to test the validity
of the Act, and a number of hotel keepers
will shortly be summoned for selling liquor.
contrary to itsprovisions. The result will
be Watched with interest. - 0;2
A' largely attended union- thanksgivingm.eeting was held in • the Presbyterian
Church, Rapid City, on Thursday evening
last. Alithe choirs of the laity united in
Tendering choice selections of sacred music,
and able addresses were deliveredby the
-
Revs. j.-0. .Tibb - (formerly of Hamilton)
G. B. Davis, W. Te Dyer and Dr. Crawford.
A thank offering was taken up at the close
for the benefit of the Winnipeg Hospital.
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sAss- DEATH. OF A. climist.
Given Liquor by a Braaten Aunt—The
• Little One Dies.
A Buffalo despatch says Yesteedey-
afternoon about 2 o'clock -Mrs. Stephen
Myers, residing at No. 344 Bristol street,
had occasion to leave home, and left her
two little children in charge of her sunk.
Mrs. Mary -Hoggins, aged 55 years, who
bears the reputation of _being an habitual
drunkard. When Mts. Myers returned
about 4.30. she found her youngest child,
about 12 weeks old, lying on_the floor in a
state of suffocationA dooter.-weia called,
and pronounced the: child dead. Mrs.
H-oggins was found lying on the floor intoxi-
cated, and it Was discovered that she had
drunk about three pints of whiskey which
was kipt in the house for medicinal pur-
poses, and it is supposed ehe , gave the
child genie, which caused its d -Nth. The
wretched woman was arrested on a charge
of manslaughter, and will be held to await
the result of an inquest. "
FLENDIPIII FEMALE
gmme• • -
Medan El-Mehdi le to come a"riPm her Two;Year'°14 Ch
Boaiiis it oir a Red-hot Stove.
ild
Naked and
with great signs and wonders just before
the judgment day. • He will appear on a
•-milk-white charger, accompanied by an
innumeral army of beeided Mussulmans,
all Mounted on show -white stallions. He
must- be a visible ruler with power and
• *ictory on • his side.. If he manages to
• -read the report that he is killing Jews,
• 'zetse and pagans by-thouiandshe may
• iatrt. byipeMoslems. was arrested
t et. 11
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A Louisville, Ky., e despatch says:
Martha Robinson (colored) heated a stove
red-hot, stripped the clothing front her
child, agedI years and a half, and laid it
on its back on top of the stove. After a
time She took the child off, carried it to a
factory near by, and laid it in a hallway,
where the officers found it. The woman
She says she wanted to eet
•ieui3 ownstivrriectey tlifigiht rid of the child. Will die. -
the words were a11 ta eau
4.
ie-auother- illustiration of trek
power dee popular hymn. On•e
$61,..061 Tirdesi eighteen 4, from
_ questiOn ws.s first pubtalial;a18. teo.
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•tshirealliOitslior Plealcuitri9v1;:a :ell : ti. vte:
new• power to day in Ili °-0, is a
of whom it singe
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In Indio. there tia*, er
.,...Citeleelies and 325,000- Vte.
Preshyterien ohuroltes ,-00
mencof the South are inor%.
The'ldoravians were thole
'leg
_,geotiltively 12,1114aann
-elPhtheria.. Another son is now do s., -
ihe disease, and. Mrs, Wilson is at the
e
oftleath. ' • , _ .
• ins- His Wife, Child and Hilmself.
•tub, Ind., telegram says: This
a well-to-do farmer named Jasper
g,- living three miles from this
nooked his wife and little son
• nszta with a whiffietree, and, then out
theirthioats with arazor, after which he out
his own throat- with the same- Weapon.
• is mother-in-law, on visiting Spaulding's
residence, discovered the whole family
lying -dead oh the floor of the kitchen. , The
cause of the act was insanity.
As. the Rooky Mountain range - is so
,depressed north of the fifty-second parallel
as to allow the. great wavS from the
extreme Northwest to, pass Over its summits
toward Manitoba; and enter our Territories,
Rig:Obvious that, for purposes of weather
prediction, it is extremely desirable to
extend the sYsteni of telegraphic weather
reportsas fir north in Manitoba as possible.
--N. Ir. Herald;
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The Penalty -for 3a. Kiss.
A New York -telegram says: Henry
Huhn, aged 20, of 18 Humboldt street, and
George Graver, aged 19, of 756 Flushing
avenue, met Barbara Dreiohlein and her
sister on the stret on Sunday evening, and
while the four friends were laughing and
talking together, Halm threw his arms
around Barbara and attempted to kiss her.
Graver told him to let the girl alone. The
girl struggled and screamed, and Graver
interferedto protect her. Huhn told him
to. mind bis business. 'The girl brokeaway,
and then Huhn and, Graver clenched.
Thilin fell in the struggle, and his head
struck the --pavement with great force.
Yesterday he was thought to be dying of
conclusion of the brain. He'was so law
that Coroner Parker could not take his.
ante-mortem statement. Graver was
arrested.
The arrange and horrible scenes enacted
nightly in some of the ordinarily frequented
• quarters of Paris would make one imagine
that the most civilized people of :the
universe had suddenly become more savage
and lawless than-. the Ku•Klux Klan of
• America. It is not an uncommon thing
for a foot' passenger returning home from,
the theatre to be stayed in his promenade
by a human form flung "from an upper
window and falling lifeless at his feet. Nor
is it tare to be accosted a- group of
brigands who pinion theixi-vritini behind,
while the accomplice -- rifles *lepookets.
Even in the aristocratic,- streeta it is
dangerous to remain -chitlate at night,
and the police are becoming less and less
able to compete with the dangerous organ-
ization of thieves who usurp the pavement.
One pound of learning requireseeten
pounds common sense to apply it. —Persian
Proverb,
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TILE DEMOCRATIC . VICTOR
Sonie Signialcant-Figares—Ilow this Gains
- were Made up._
A telegram from Buffalo says.: The fol-
lowing briefly summarises the result of the
late eleotions throughout the country. Of
the fifteen States.which; on Tuesday, the
7th init., elected Governors, thirteen chose
Demacratio . executives, by . unparalleled
majorities for the most part, while two only
went Republican, and these by a very close
'shave in each cleat,. The following is a
complete list : • --
-----; ...- - - Majorities.
California, George Storeman (D) 30,000
Colorado, James B. Grant (D): ...... 2,500
Connecticut; Thomas M. Waller (D):, .5,000
Delaware, 0 a Stockley (D) ' IMO
Kansas, George W. Glick . (D) - _ 10,000
Massachusetts, Benjamin F., Butler (D)15,000
Michigan, Josiah W. 13egole (D) ' • , 4,330
Nebraska,'Tallies W. Dawes (R). . . ... ......s. .. 1,500
Nevada,J. W. Ada ' D .' • 1,000
New Hampshire, S. W. Hale (R). •300
New York, Grover Cleveland (D) -200,000
' Pennsy lvania, R. E. Patteson (D) • 40,000
South Carolina, H. S. Thomson (D) 40,000
Tennessee, W. D. Bate, (D) 5.00u,
Texas, John Ireland (D) 30,000
In additionto these victories the Demo.
brats gained abOut 90 members of the
House of Representatives, as competed
with the election two years ago; thus giving
not only a majority inthe forty-eighth
Congress . of over. 75, but a majority by
States as well, the Democrats having a
'majority in 23 States and the Republicans
in -19..
Dis/asTEB,Aw NEW it onii. ,
A Bare Run into by a Plteamer and
- isunic—Two Women, Three Children
and Two Deck lianas Drowned. •
A New York telegram says: While the
barge Signal,. with seven hundred Pelvis
of eugar, was being towed down East River
last (Thursday) evening she was run into
opposite Williamsburg by the steamer City
ot Worcester and a large hole stove in her
side. The steamer was _sligntly injured and
proceeded on her way, while the barge was
taken in the direction of the Brooklyn
navy -yard. There were On board- Capt.
Taylor, his mother, with and three children
and two deck _hands, The barge filled
rapidly and sank before she was reached.
Those in charge of the tug quickly turned
about and steamed _in the directionof the
sinking craft, but owing to. the darkness it
was found difficult to diritinguish objects in
the water-. Hearingcries for help, they
were followed up and •Capt._ Taylor was
rescued. His mother, wife, three children
and deck hands were nowhere to be seen,
having evidently been carried to the bottom
by the barge. The river.weesearched but
to no purpose. The oeuse of the accident
was not learned.
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LEGI-ACV OF • .S2,500,000.
Arlie -Tontine Lett to Three Po,or .Little
Orphans in Boston.
A . despatch from Boston says: • The
legacy of $,50O,000whioh Michael Loeman,
of Melbourne, left in. his last will could not
Italie fallen into more grateful hands than
those of Thomas Loemen'- a cash boy in
Arden, Mush & -Co.'s,- and his younger
brotherand sister. - The little- trio of
orphans have been kindly eared for by an
aunt, a worthy woman, whose circum-
stances are straightened, and who has
:labored for them without an inkling of the
good fortune impending. Thomas, who is
now 14 years old, is a bright, well-behaved
lad, and is well spoken of by his employers
and associates.. Mrs. Loeman received the
news on Thursday in a letter from the
men in St. John, N. B., who are the
trustees under the will, but the young
millionaire was allowed to .run on cash
errands in the store until -yesterday after-
noon,. when he was joyfully told of his new
life and stopped Work. The Loeznan children
were m Portland, Me., of Provincial
parentage, and are to start 800a for St.
John, where they will be educated.
What Caine tit Trying to Kim a Girl.
A New - York- despatch says : Henry
ARABI% GUILT. '
Alleged that he Ordered the Burning of
Alexandria. and She Murder ot the
- Khedive.
An Alexandria despatch says: Suleiman
Daoud asks to be confronted with Arabi in
public. He dares Arabitodeny the state-
ments he • made before the Prosecution
Commission. Daoud was examined before
the Prosecution Commission yesterday.
He admitted that he gave the order to fire
Alexandria, but alleged that he received
perethaptory orders to do so from Arabi,
who, when the general conflagration was
not at first apparent, sent Mahmoud -Semi
several times with instructions to Suleiman
to fire more pointe ate:time. Suleiman
further.. alleged that when Ramleh Was
surrounded by the troops on July 12th,
Arabi ordered him to murder the Khedive.'
Hesitating to comply, he was taunted with
cowardice, and thereupon, aciompanied by
four soldiers, he started for the palace. On
the way he met Sultan Pasha, who pre-
vailed upon him to return and re -discuss
the matter with Arabi. It is stated that
Neuri Bey, who .commanded the troops
;surrounding RentIehe has given evidence
corroborating Suleiman.
Cooked and -Eittenby
A Panama despatch. says : The success- of
the Messrs. Reyes in trading with the
Indians- dn the upper. Putumayo River,
which rises in the mountainous districts of
Pasto, in the State of Cauca, induced a
young merchant of Barbacoas, named
Partes, to engage in the same enterprise. In
company with some friends he established
himself On the banks of the river, erected.
a house and made a small clearing. They
early saw their way to &profitable business
when they Were visited bye a number of
jevenetos Indians, who came ostensibly to
trade. They were received well, and Were
apparently satisfied, but suddenly they,
attacked and killed • the Colutabians and
afterward- cooked and ate them. These
Indians had never visited the -Putumayo
before, and no one had ever fallen in with
themonthe Amazon. Residents on the
frontier euggest that they may have been
driven from their hames by the slavers,
whose vessels ascended several of the tribu-
taries of the Amazon a few months ago in
search of slaves and produce'.
' Cursed by War.
A Lima despatch says: The situation in
Peru is becoming worse daily. The de-
partments of Tunin, Ayacucho, Arequipa,
Tuno and Cuzco, where the undisciplined
-
forces of Caceres and Montero are found,
are in a lamentably miserable state. The
fields are reaped by the Monteneros or un-
cultivated from want of security, aed the
laborers hardly produce the crops in-
dispensable for the food supply of the
army of Arequipa, and of the banditti who
make war npen their own countrymen in
the districts occupied by the Chilians. The
Peruvians are forced to pay war contribu-
tions, whilst foreigners are . compelled to
pay import and other duties, far higher
than under the Peruvian -regime. ,
• A Good Word for Cremation.
(London World.) .
There are only three ways in which dead
bodies can be disposed of—either-in earth,
sea or fire; There are obvious objections,
on the score of good taste, to sending our
dead to be torn to bits by fishes: It is also
certain that our cemeteries and graveyards,
with slowly -decomposing masses of animal
matter, leadsice the surrounding Soil being
poisoned by the products Of pntrefaotion,e--
a result that cannot be considered, healthy
by any stretch .of imagination.' But if we
burn a dead body to ashes -we do,orneed .
do, injury to nobody. There is nothing
unwholesome in the -ashes,' which _ may:
be • preserved with reverent care as
saored:relics, and people who prefer to burn
their dead rather than let them." lie in cold
obstruction and rot "have both sense and
science_ on - their- side. Indeed, we have
Huhn, • of 18 Humboldt street, BrooklYn, never heard of anything like a good argu-
whose skull was, fractured when he fell ment against eremation save one. It is
upon the pavement in a row with George that started by, a Belgian statesman, who
Graver, because he attempted to kiss holds that, if we burn dead bodies we lessen
Barbara Dreichlein on last Sunday night, the chances of detecting eases Of pOieOtlitig.
died early yesterda morning. Graver is But surely it would be possible to devise
in jail awating the don* of the coroner's means whereby, while the body was con.
jury. Burned, the stomach of each corpse might
be preserved for a certain time ,after death
lest it might be Wanted for analysis.
e do not share' the terror of those
bishops, Who, like Dr. Wordsworth,
think that cremation may tamperwith the
popular belief in the resurrection of the -
*body ; nor can we affect to sympathize
with the late Home Secretary, who, when
cremation was once bruited in his presence,
is said to have asked with horror, "But,
then, what shall we do for burial °era&
°atm?" The world eall and has. gone on after
the saiirifice of far more important fortns
than the burial- certificate, which, to -Sir
Richard Cross, seems an essential element
in the constitution of society; and it ought
not to be more difficult to believe in the
resurrection of a body which a shark has
eaten and digested than of one reduced to
ashes in a funeral pyre:
Royal
• The Vienna cone
•Standard' telegraph
marriages will eh
will unite one of th
many with the hou
tie. King Hum
Amadeo, Duke of
Spanish crown fo
and who has bee
has just been bet
Princess Theresa,
Louis IL Of Bavaria.
Princess Isabella, w
lip betrothed at th
burg to Prince Tomm
a first cousin of the K
quarters here the han
is seen in these pro
ar,riiiges.
otident of the London
"1 hear that two
tip take place which
royal families of Ger-
of Savoy by a double
rt's brother, - Prince
Aosta, who wore the
upward of two years,
a widower since 1876,
thed to the Be -Varian
first cousin to King
Another cousin, the
only.a few weeks
Castle of Nymphen-
o, Duke of Genoa,
g of Italy. In some
of Prince Bismarck
oted unions This
however, is, I belie , mere conjecture.
There are some peopldwho credit the Ger-
man Chancellor with being at the bottom
of everything that happens. I have even
.
heard the 'appearance,' of the comet set
down to his neachineteeeeet The approaoh-
mg matrimonial r ,,, 'al:if& son wit
misinformed, •
sense mere
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Canine Fidelity.
A very touching illustration of the
fidelity' of the dog to his theater was fur-
nishedithe other day in a village upon the
banks' of the Seine, not far from Paris.
Spree labprers working in a „field -saw a
having Y e 'seised man alkin the bank,
little•deal, 0,e -h. .
the books,
Iva,- a noosing the p 3„„,;„
and B11.. • ininpeu ur body is
luvrit witch was
CANADIAN NOItTRWE ST
' Dr. piton, M.P., is again in Manitoba:
•- -Basiness-18-brilike and -
iehing lat Foe lgoLeocl.
•''' -11.114,mher of oattle• died during the 1st!
Marro in the eieinity of Calgary.
:The ilsw Presbyterian- manse at Nelson. -
is progressing rapidly. e • . . :
Teethe . have commenced -Crossing Bed. .
River on the kis at Winnipeg.
The new steamer D. L. Mather was
launched at Rat Portage last Thursday. .
The Hudson Ray Company have just •
completed a- new Warehouse at Ret Port- :
age. •- •
There• is a big rush_ to West Lynne with
wheat: . - Mennonites are the principal
vendors.. '
Winnipeg
Nelson,lh13- arereEipbretpe raiiiii 14 forthe.Lt hills teletehtei Gun; near
fanr-
fine, church.
The school teachers havesent
a resolution to the Board of Trustees ask-
ing for in increase of solarise. '
i There is at present a great scarcity of
cealoilin Southern Manitoba, and the old-
fashioned.tallow dip- has been pressed into
service lagain. ' • - . . _ j ,
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The tilow. is still deep and travelling
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hard between Fort McLeod and Calgary. .-
Theiels none whatever in the . Vicinity of •
Maclond.• ' , ' . r . . • - . • -
• J . . .
The snow is reported as „being three feet
deep between- Calgary and • Gen. Strangese .
cabin, and .none Whatever from the latter to .
the Blackfoot -Crossing.- - - - _ : . •
; . . .
• Quite a rippie of excitenient was 'eseitied '
•at Pilot Mound last week by the marriage
of -Mr: John Robertson • to Miss Barbara
be sk°The:np' opent6ne alt winter. quarries .at Pi This e*wiallif haeteat
important item to that. • burgh, as one
employer pays over '$5,000 einonthly for
wages.
Mr.. M. Ryan - made the journey from
Mirinedcipa to Winnipeg in twenty -filo '
hoots. It used to take -three days and
sometimes:. longer in the good Old tithes.
There is - still a thirtsefive mile .-drive
between Minnedosa and the railroad.
The territory is subdivided probably
thirty . Miles west .of Moose Jaw Bone.
Next sumeaer will probably see this country
surveyed into teopynehipte and sections,. so
that our ranche115 -can get a title to their
land, ancline* settlers will have no difficulty
in locating
i t
There are about forty -actual settlers at
Medicine 'I Hat, with good, . comfortable
houses, each on quarter sections: They all
intend tput in : crops next spring. The
country:- around Medicine-HOthas not been •
stibdiVideili as yet; The - soil there is
reportedasbeing good. - -
- A bridge is to be built Over the River
.Qu'Appelle north of the -city of 'Regina.
The site -selected is at the jiinctitne of the
Grand Forks River (the' outlet of Long
Lake) and the .gu'Appelle River. The -
estimated cost is about $4,500. This will
open Up the Long Lake district, which is .
said to be the best in the Northwest Terri -
tarp. It will also give the people -of the
Prince Albert district a splendid trail to
Regina and the Canada Pacific Railroad.
The trail up and demi the banks of the
RiveeQu!Appelle is better here than at any
other paint:
Game itt the *Northwest.
Mr. W. Hi LaPenotiere, P. L. S., of
Elora, who has spent - six_ months in the
Northwest with a Dominion surveying
party, proceeded as far west as the Foot
Hills.' He returns with .glowing ;views of
the prospects of the Prairie Provmces.
Speaking of the fauna of the country, he -
says, reports the Guelph Mercury, that the
buffalo are rapidly becoming eoarce, but
that antelope are numerous.. These he
observed in herds OD their way south, but -
they stopped invariably when they came in
contact with the road upon which iron had
been laid, they grazed up to its very edge
but seemed afraid to cross it, while the
simply graded treek offered no Ranh ODSta-
cies. Badgers and gophers infest the
whole western country, and seem to have
honeycombed the soil, but prairie -wishes
are not _ numerous or manage , to.
keep out of sight. Of birds he
saw numerous prairie chickens,- ducks, -
geese, sand -bill 'crimes and a few spoon-
bills. . Numerous 'birds winged their way
south before the Ootolser storm, but ree
turned when it had passed. away. Rattle
snakes ' are plentiful about • the reeky
banks of the Saskatchewan. .1'No extensive
outcrop of rock was seen,. however, until
the Porcupine hills were reached. Here' it
was red. sandstone of a fine Avor
quality. The flora of the extreme lar
is -magnificent, comprising various lilies, .
geraniums and other floral beauties, con-
verting the country, for &brief season, into
a perfect garden. Mr. L. speaks highly
of -- the eatable qualities of the
buffalo berry and the buffslo grape,
and of the extra beauty of the Wolf willow
with its Blistery leaf and seed pods, found
in abundance everywhere.
. Lake Winnipeg.
_ .
A correspondent writes: Lake Winnipeg
is larger than Lake Ontario, -although its
waters are not nearly so.deep. Its shores on
both sides are clothed with _dense forestsof
fine timber; ahi fly poplar, birch and tams- -
rack. Its euitice hl dotted with innumer-
able :islands, pecially • on the western --
hore,1--- _These _ands like the bankskt the
leguti:4e with tiraber down -*the
sairthreugh these islands
-delightful. Lake .
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quarter seems, indeed, to be; of all places
in London proper, the spot where remark
able instances of longevity might natur
bemloovkooldivf:r*A'mes, 'Lie
utenant-G-over
elect of Massachusetts, although now
man of great wealth, was trained to wor
and did work for years in his father's shop
as a comnion journeyman shoemaker. Hie
example is being followed* his son, new
20 years old, daily works -at the bench
and anvil-
f- 'I( Mamma," said little Johnny,
wonder if the schoolmaster's rcid is a p'
of the Board of Edtioationl"
*ere greatly
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tion eins'neand$,:Pt.tetnlhea,
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