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WIN G HAM 'BII) Y JULY 10, , '85
50 men of. the Winnipeg Light In-
fantry, the 90th Greuadie s. A square
was farmed inside the stockade, and
the service performed by the Rev.
Messrs, Whitc,rbe and Gordon.
RI84's TIi1A7.,
At a numerously attended meeting of
Riel's Defence committe Friday night
at Quebec, it was decided to call a
public meeting after vespers Sunday
in St. Roches to organize public sub-
scription to defray expenses, as, there
was little hope of the Government
Winintieg, Man. July 5.—Big Bear giving the desired assistance; at the
throe they ordered all correspondeeiee
with the Government to be published
iu the French papers to show that
they have done all in their power.
It is said that Reil Will.probably be
confined in a cell in the courthouse
during the trial, in order to overcome
the task of ccnveying him from the
barracks. nearly three miles distant,
daily. In .that event the members of
the Garrison Artillery Will likely serve
as a guard, camping in the,,vioinity of
the court house. Biel while exercis:
ing, still continues to wear .shackles,
no instrnctions from Ottawa to the
wits captured Friday morning near
Uarletou by by Sergeant Stuart, efj
the Mounted Pokers. The chief's sons
end one, of his counsellors *ere teAten;
se the same time.
Big Bear said his bhnll Was on their
'tv.ty to surrender. They had been
some days without provisions He
had passed Otter,s and Irwin's forces
on the way. Seven more of the band
were captured ' by the Surveyors'
Scouts, and Irwin has taken seven: .
teen. The -remainder are surreuc?ering,
to the Indian agents and giving up
their arms. •
One of the Fro Lake murderers is
among, those captured by the scouts.
Winnipeg•July 5--A despatch from
Batteford announces the embarkation
of the troops for howwe.
,Winnipeg, July 5—A despatch
from Battteford announces the death
•of Col. Williams, of the Midland Bat-
ttalion, of brawn fever., Deceased vas
the 'hero ef'the c lebrated bayonet
,charge that ilec;ded the battle of Ea.
toche. A metallic coffin is tieing
forwarded far the remains, which are
being taken overland via S•vift Cur:
rent.
The news of thedeatlhof ti,il: Arthur
T• H. t'Ctlliaing,,of,•t a �.tldln ice, Wali
be'a great shock to his 'friend`s, and
will, doubtless, dash the rejoicing at:
tendauton the regiment's return home.
He was the sou of a man who did
battle for Canuda, John T. Williams,
who had pr'ev,ousty serval. for some
mire in. Her Majesty's errvy, having
commanded a venal uncer,Toe ou the
Lakee'•during . the war ed 1812-15.
The military instincts;.eflitte deceased
filing vent in the militia; and for
:VW years he had beeu Liont, Col. of
t>;ie 56th Beeitneut,• winch blas been'
brought to th high stateofeliotplitxe by
hie efforts, In .1880 los :commanded
• ihe3 :Canadian Wintbletott ream, and
jAl;t before the Etiet rising he made en
offer to the Imperial 'government to
velem a regiment for entice in the
Soudan.. Oanada, however, had heed
• of his services before,'his•uffer had been
eons'derea by the Iumperial autboriies
and he was comntiasiened to raisa qh,
battlion from the different regiments
of the Midland countiea,litzd in a short;
time a magnificent body of men were ,
,selected, the material being drawn '
,Korn the country lying to the north '
et L,tke Ontario, with the edition of al
compat.ty from Carleton c nutty, In •
1867 Col Williams was enacted to re:
present Rant Durh,Lttt in the Local
1ngtslaeare, w:ls reelected in 1871,
• was ch•,aeu at the general election by
the same constituency for the Donn:
nion Parliament, and was re:elected at
the last general election. Iie w.a§ born
in 1837 and was coiiselttoutly �8
years of age. His conduct in the
North Vest has been thatof a brave
end cool leader of men fit far any
soldierly artrltlra'ise,
WintilDe °`1.1u1y ,e6—M11r. De'a:ley
grid Mrs• (owenhlock arrived ' fr in
the west this evening, and are enjoy-
ing by in'vit;tition the hospitalities of
Mr. and Ars. Bennett, of D,luglasa
House. Both present a earowora
appearance, and seem anxious to roach
their triends iu the east. They start
via Port, Arthur either tern lrrow or
next day.
l3attleford.July 50-4he removal of
Cel. William'3 body from the boat to
the fort took p'ace'1o•day. The order
of snatch wt s the Midland, 90th, 11
and A Battery •.gun, hearing casket,
the Colonels of 111 e.did'e 'ent, li.Lttalione,
as bearers, the Gelkeret4vtkl sttatF, and
town constables was there at the time„
A business man of the village asked)
the constable how many drunks did
he see that des. His answer way. ''Just
that one standing there. '80.‘wno•other
iso far," said he. 'That than is 'from
boundary village in the county of
Grey, There if you iook you can see
a bottle in bis.pocket." The constable
was asked how this year compared
with former years ;When eindar license.
His answer was wittiest year when a
'similar gathering took place he had
to take care of several drunks who
were unable to take care of themselves,
and that the fighting that used to be
teen ..ander the influeuce of drink
was usore than the constable could;
'keep down. When sucn evidence as'
the above comes from a tanatable it
ought to go some length. Reports to
the contrary are generally circulat-
ed by interested parties, As I was
coming on the ttatn next • morning a
young roan came on in the county of
Grey. Another business man and
myself were referring to what we saw
in the place above mentioned. We re-
ferred to the workiuf 1 Scott
DISTRICT NEWS
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The Week.* Round of Life in the County
of Huron and Vlolntty
'SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Sickness!. Is very prevalent in
vicinity 'at present..
Mrs. Jno, Gemmell, who has
ill for some weeks, is recovering
slowly.
The Salem Methodist Sunday
school held a very succi ssful picnic
here on Dominion Day.
. The three�churclhos on the circuit,
viz ; Belmore. Salem and Wroxeter,
united and spent Dominion Day in Mr.
j Alex Thompson% grove. Baseball,
Croquet, swinging, with music and
• speaking, filled in the time most enjoy-
ably,
njoy
ably, The same churches intend
holding ,lawn social at the residence
of Mr. dno Gallaher on Friday even-
ing, the 10th inst.
this
been
very
;s o the cot BLUEV ALE
contrary having yet been received. Aet, and that we saw only one drnthk. T_
The young man referred to jumped up O ll 1
and said he could take us to a place in
that same village where liquor was
sold by itlhe ;wholesale. On further
questioning him•,• he admitted that he
Was a liquor traveller for a Toronto
House. That settled hinp. Not'wisle.
ing to take up more of your vauable
space, 1 will merely say that travellers
in Scott Act coihnttes can get as good
accommodation' at same rates ss
USLIgj• A few houses ask more.
They will came to it soon.
Yours truly.
A Toronto Wholesale
Lumber *Traveller.
P. HE SCOTT AOT.
To rut: EDITOR .—Having travelled
constantly for the last •fc.ur years
through cities, towns and almost every
village in Ontahia, being not a total
abstainer, but temperate, I claim ,Ito
be able to judge the working of the
Scott Act impartially in counties where
in operation; and compare it with the
counties selling under license. Now,
for any ()tie to stand up and say, as 1
have ofteii,hcar I said, that th,,te is
as much drunkeness in . Scott Act
counties as there is iu licensed covet
res, is 'absurd and far from the truth.
I have no doubt but there is drink- A • EUORD OF IMPOTENCE,
ing on the sly the same as Saturday
night and Sunday drinking under the
Crooks Act, but the restraint and fear What displays of impoten.:e the
•ot getting,finecl, is suck that I,, do nyot.;Goorernim nt has meet The License
beLeve there 'is ono twentieth part of Actnotlhiiio "but a:""series"of 1ptiiigles"
the druuken exhibitions to be semi on from beginning to end, and finally
the strebts or around hotels in Scutt complete defeat. The boundary des-
Act counties as in license counties. puto with Ontario, tiniest, etioroach.
1 will give an instance which, X think, meats, and.in the end forced retreats.
ougut to settle that point, which can The Gerrymander 13111, a most foul ab-
be substautiated by other disinterested tempt to prolong elle power of a
parties as well as myself ; A bons party. The Franchise Bill, an in.
four;weeicsago I happened to be iu a qnitous measure, aimed at the liber:
small city near 100 miles away, where ties of the people with the ammo-
the
ame
the Soot Aet was defeated, The fire-• object. Our fisheries yielded for a
metes tournament was thee, It was segs at least to the t?.rited States
on a Wednesday, The toWx was fall. without any, return, and all chancel: '
of peel le from other towns & villages, ;of nu elly .00111'oeity or renewed 4
The hotels, no°iloulht did a Ivo besitze 'tire Tate treaty lost by the delay and
esu ; three or four! bartenders at i P:ovideiice of the t+overntnenb. The
/ hese of the hotels 'were kept as busy' emu muses producing a rebellion in
as eould be. At 9 o'elook in the e0csa-. the Northwest; disoont;ent in Brit's 3
ingtwo otherlhusiness men 'were sitting Qoluinbla and uneasiness theoughout
with nee on the veranda of ohne of the thrr length and breadth of the Portent -
hotels. We counted tiateen drunks, ion. Btrhu'what effect has ail Shia pro:
'principally young wen, twine of theist, dneed on the •Governtnetit party an
nun trying to lead the others. They
were very drunk, hardly ebie to take
caro of tee nselves. In walking around
town at 7 in the evening, we were met .
at every corn •r and opposite hotels by • _
any uumhertof young men awl olcl men,
\Ve were told they were not citizens
but almost all outsiders, So wne:ll for
license 1 towns or cities Now for a
Scott Act conuty, Next my boniness
called me :,O Neetli Ilrue.s ' It was on
Friday of the satno week. 1 stopped
at a large vill,h,gs en a point of lake
Huron. The Nickle•Plato eircus
happened to be there, and .tete _neigh-
boring towns and vil:ages were fully
represented• I should judge there werh
fully 2,8Q0 or 3.00p outsiders. or as
malty tag Ili,, tlreuien's . tottrnanieut in; On Monday morning last Detective
the othee meutiuned ci•ty.:: The place: John Reid, of WpFpl{arrested jos.
was t:iltltt,uteso mucic with 2ti e circus: epll Parr, hotelkSenoll . of Kincatdhne
on a charge of sendnin• threatening
with. ']I'Pero are four hotels, and .as; letters t,,SIr. Josef li Barker, Magis•
they aro all in 'sight of oae Another, trate, in which it w4 Ord that gr.
and as 1 sat clown at the front of Barker would loose hie life if he did
the ono where I stopped, t could well not cense to act as a Magistrate on the
see what was going on and l.ol' the Scott Aet Iiquor'cases, and that his
er.lwcl around the hotels behaved cattle would be destroyed. Parr is
themselves. There was any amount also. held on suspicion of behig int -
of treating with ginger a e and pop, plicated in the burning of Mr. Bat k-
.lf there was any drinking of beer or er's stable and Dimon Cort ofie in
whisky on the ill', 1 could have obscrv. the town a few weeks ago. The pre.
ed the efieets of it ou the crowd. They ltmininary examination took place
*ere orderly. Nothing could . f • she, at Walkerton in the afternoon before
with one exemption, that showed the Macnauhara, J. P. with Thomas Dix.
°Teets of liquor. That one •party, we on, drowse Corney, proieeuting,
'saw .;bevy a and 7 o'eteek in• then when the qi against 31:r, Parr
t]t@ttl►1 h1 silt ▪ sI .' w 4iswi1. '
Parliament 9 Led like sheep infer; they 'aost•1 nore eagerly for in'for
oration a9d;aet as little upon what is
forced upon them,--flalifax Chronicle.
The Clinton ' New Era says,: the
Northwest' Rebellion hits been a good
tbirg indirectly for some of those who
have horses to hire ort there. We
know of"two brothers front this neiglt-
horhoecd; wlho hired their teams when.
the engagement just commenced: One
put in .20 days at $10 a day, and the
other not quite so lone. At tins
price; there is cnnstderhble more profit
then tilling the prairie, out the busin-
ess is much less permanent.
that I squid got no one to do, business
WHOLE NO 681
menta for both old and young. The
Band will be in attindanoe and fur;
nigh •us with music. Tea will be
served at 5 p. m. Come one, come all
and yotttih will be restored. Admit;
sion 116ets.
We deeply regret to record the first
break in the Band of Hope by the
death of 'Willie Elliott, fourth son of
!Jr. James Elliott,
nen Vine wiener:
Sad the silents at parting
From those we dearly Iove ;
Blissful the consolation,
Soon we shall meet above.
Partings on earth should brine us
Nearer still nearer God ;
Bowing in sweet submission,
:Kissing the chast'ning rod.
Silent, silently sleeping'
Pulseless, and still and cold. t
Still there's no cause for weeping
For lambs of Jesus' fold.
Tho'.tleese sweet bads} of promise
Early are cane- from time,
Sweetly they sing m glory,
Safe in that blissful chime.
n Dominion c sty a barge crowd as- N.ei gliboring Nerve
senibled here to witness the slugging..
base ball match between the Hurons I r. J. Hunt, proprietor of the Royal
of Fordwich and Bluevale base hale:-. hoteel, ` ` Wroxeter, has . removed to
club. The game opened by the visit.. Palmerston:
ing team going to bat and •4. ,three_year old daughter of Mr.
retiring with one run. Iu their first Angus McQu age, of Lucknow,'while
innings J3lirevale made three runs. walking on the, railway bridge near
In the next three initings the-visitilhg that place the other •day, was • struck.
team did net succeed in adding any_' by the steps of one of the passenger
thin, to their score, .vh�ile the Blue- coaches'of a traits, aLd seriously tie.vale boys .piled up .9 ruitei'inaktii the • guru,,
gave on the 4th inninirg ..1,2 • to 1 in Jlev, Mr;' Taylor, of Bayfield, IS not"
favor of the home team. Iii the next - leaving Canada for good, as was stated
tour innings the Hurons scored one sometime Since, as Bishop Baldwin is
more run, while B1uevnle made 18,' most anxious to keep him in Huron
the game on the eight Innings being Diocese. The Bishop has readily •
30t
In the last innings the l'ordwich boys:, and he leaves for the old country at
made 3 more run but liluevale did en early date,
not go to bac ors the Oth innings, the >Mesars. Donaldson and Perdue.,
a l
0 2 uh favor of the Home team. granted him a earls leave of ab
y senor,
„r:nle c o,ing with ti score et 30 to 5 'iVho stave been sawing at Mr. James
"1"Y" of B1311waie with an inniings Sallie' Ooderich township, the past
to 'spare. ' y p. p
pletely para
ing of 'eV.
'Supported b
The playing
and T. John
good, and son
the' outfield
Stewart and
Messer. as she
When waisted.
visittngftea re w.
ing, but the 13
.Hunt's pibehii
The Fow4w oh
pruritic° before t
successful; in pia
Out village has a
shtfuld bc;Iprou3 o
tattd making it hot
ing towels this sea
of Ford - h
10 .Ela cons were coin,- two months, removed their mill to the -
reed with the curve pitch-* Bayfield Lino, where they have a'large
,edger, who was 'abl3 number of logs to saw.
While at i�It
send tlhe bat by MclIardy,. Wallis' they flawed giver 100,000 feet.
1 J. Johnston, Musgrove Lv't week n fire broke out in .the
ton ou tylia bases• • wiis dwelling house,a
e flue play was salads by 3 and " boot and shoe
s, ' J. (:l ardier, • .W. store attached, belouging to Peter
Patterson, tivhion la Doo. Wallace, Manchester. '.rhe• villagers
stop wag, always arses , turned out to a man, and saved nearly'
p- g� all the contents, but the building
The lite Ti e;
s vary, goi l "aansr ;.er Was reduced ;:to ashes. The En ;lisp
evale boystpoatar *;,rlhurell and J. P. Brown's ,carriage
all over the ; treed.',-' op•had a narrow escape, and were
team require �t>aore saved only by the efforts 02 the people
ray can hope to be 1 ,Tie Advocate says ; Blyth court of
ng outside °Tubs. revtei n, was held last Friday riven:-
earn
ven
eam of which tdiey ing gild dissolved without a motion of
and the boy3 ri$ t i�'ourninent, consequently the sitting
ors the neighbor-witl;iiro 144 hours` the longest by far.
111r. Gibson, ; of any, ever recorded in the annals of
.wtv , umpire. the game to the ' the Douunion. Parliament at one time
satisfaction of all, and the time oc- . during the present session sat for 57
copied in plying it was 2 hours and hour without an adjournment, but
15 'minutes. that does not ooinpare with 8.'ytli
iolirt of Revision
Runs. Onts. Lightning rod men nit operating in
5 2 the neighborhood' of Moleswortn.
8 4• They are working on the same old
4 2 plan which should be well known by
Niemen and others, which is as follows:
They represent that they will appoint
the party they are trying to induce t,s.
buy Their rods the sole agent for the
Mcllardy, c
W. Gardner, p
A. Musgrove, 2nd b..
J. J•olinston. 1st b.-.... ... 3 4',
Patters'ln,1. f • , ... 8
J. Gartner. r. f ............ 2 4
T. Johnston, 3rd b,.. 3 1
J. J. Messer, s. s
r1, . Stewart, c. f
Total
No►tnlvte •11.
8 g township for the sale of their rods,
• 2 but that he mast buy eerod nr rods
—_._ from then hefolto they appoint hint
30 24 agent. The patty buys the rods,
gives the note in payment, and the
Duns. Outs.
Nash, c 1 4
Hunt, p . . ............ 0 3
Stratltey, est b .... 0 3
W 'Lied h,.... 0 8
Duncan, c. f.. • . 1
W. Williamson, r,.f.....,.. 0
Mattbows, 1. f... ,., 2
Sothern, s. s .... 1
Bell, 3rd b... 0
• Total
lightning rod man ties the man on
next farm, and goes through the
same performance, and so on. Quite
a number of ,,,he farmers in Wallace,
Grey and Howlett have been duped oy
these sharpers.
8
4 Two men were struck by lightning
2 on Saturday in Markham township,
2
and one la 1, ie:..
Titers is probability of the Atlantic
5_ —27 cable telegraph rates beitlg reduced to
'8c: a word.
Tho Woniene' Christian Temper.
a nce Union `.if illltevale rLurpose (hold:
hag a garden party at the reeideuee of
W. F. Shiite on 'iWedliesday 15th
fust. There will he re:Linters, gongs'
thud recitetious, end amine,) (maned,.
The Arthur Enterprise relates the
tollowirng story efunexampled.generoei:
ty; A wealthy tartrer in the township
of Arthur has very generously donee.
eel otic dozen' ogee towards Lzt.
Juhuso Cherub plena).
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