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GODERICA. ONT., FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1888.
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u4) that polus, and now .4)414 be • goad THE SILVER, LAND id colonisation railway crowseries e.
s the winnowing the rice. It is dried on a sees of &ants sed dements whish
t time for M,w* of our waterworks coin- • Yamioistiqui• our the eoutk of the I • platform of ski- week twenty feet ! mettnue t with !sale interrupttdn shoal
the one of the deq'a journey on Arum
lake. Hare nut smog yeara afro wail Ort
extensive pine forest, uttur'y destroyed
by fire, and progress over the deed tim-
ber, the yew undergrowth and mask
ouulders wise painfully slow Jet tet
frequent intervals we came across the
trail of the pnrpeeior for silver, and •
number of surveys hers been made in
this region by parttus fur the seeoriug of
claims. Before sighting Frog lake, into
which Round lake debouches, we pugged
through • splendid forest of pine--tnostrjp
sows s o gnsd siz a •n
fault.., or the mayor, or some of the
lag I legal gentlemen at the counted beard to
Iacono forward sod let the benighted tax.
Ipayees know that all the expenses oon-
t sleeted with the printing and carrying
ors M1.441Taal.-- I of the bylaws have not been east to the
sealants- What Old •b
Whitefish and follows the vane) of the lams by five feet wide sad supported on
latter up to its source, neer Little (lull i posts three above gi.ou.d. The rice is
Mr. <rohlbe,ld Blues Oj/tt to lake, • distance of not lees than twenty- spread on this platform end dried over
Ontario's Mined. Hae oohs. • slow fire, after which it ia gathered
into a tub of split ceder, bails into the
around, sod there pounded with a pestle
n ur stamp of wood. When thoroughly
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From
— ♦ OLOCIOCd Ytsw.
From the top of Porcupine mouatai
A Pleasant Arrau& of a Jenner to utas • fine view la obtained of the agmen
new /e Musa ir. r ; four winds ul heaven by the council of Three miles eastward, across a lo. rang
>•.sasate• Veutarte ua, ran. of hill is Itahhit mnuhtain • • mile
y111J t'.otr, -sate•, alters eon
Tre Watrrwer•e lir. 1®97. I psoas for • reply, so that •
low gamed se sW deed *eight may be lifted from mymea- u and neva wtw etre and a-ha:f north-eastward i• this soothers
MOlsefil,_ 1 A torus The iso•■ slops of Hoover mountain ; stretching
ey ly bosom. AJAX. t ".`; •at M'g'r' westward a fir a the eye can see is the
• deep and wide valley of the ‘1'bitefish ;
twelve miles soutb-westward is Silver
--lie til" town caned mot Musial'
last •c0.rdi0g to statute, I am inform
.4, sail opened the ball for 1888.
hope they'll put is some bard shim for
the interests of the town duri•g tb
current you, soil be able to pistol
to something done •; the else of
their tenure of ultimo List January,
when some new blond was introdiseed
foto the council, and • brand new mayor
received the right of way to proceed
along the path of progress, I took off my
hat and got • cold in the hood election
night hooraying for the new order d
things, and successful e•ndidates to
match ; but you couldn't get am into
the hooray business anymore, if you
were tc try till the cows came home.
This ecstacy business has all leaked out
-of me, and 1 have grown heavy-hearted,
sad, weary, lonesome, jaded, mortified,
yea, tired, waiting for the benefits that
.ere promised us in the flub of victory
immediately following the election, and
the lack of which crested an aching void,
a vacuum, a hiatus, a dead give-away in
the breasts of the broad electors/4o dor-
ies the months that have intervened.
& none of yoor sugar-coated promisee
fur me, Messieurs Mayor and Councilmen,
but go on with your work to Flame the
town upon sound underpionine, and if
there is • good word that can be said of
you to the neighbors between now and
the close of,, year aro, I'U be newt
happy to give it-
-I see the dtion to Ottawa—Mr
John Butler and Captain Msegregor—
have returned without •coomplishing
anything of importance. It wee well
known for months pant that the inten-
tion of the Gov.rnmeut was to cut •
sluice -way through the breakwater from
the river to the harbor, but 00 in¢
voice wu raised until after the oodlFset
for the job was let, and now an nikiyone
is raised that the °empletioa of the sow-
trset means • paralytic stroke to the
harbor.. Of oourls the Government oma -
not Wee the work from the costrsdor
without allowing him compensation, sad
it is at equally foregone conclusion that
ones • contractor gets his grip on a
Government contract, he never lets
oro his hold without being lolly re-
couped for his prospective profits and
extras. I very Meeh fear the Govern-
ment will not do mach in the prroiw,
and Mon partieslsrly is this the ew
because the protest agsiset the return of
Robert Porter has been lifted. If the
Government tries to help oat the town
in the present Dass the neighbors std I
will be duly thankful, or there nal any
gratitude on the bask strewn.
—Aid while rem on this 'shiest I'd
like to know if the delegation west to
Ottawa at thetr own exposes, or if the
"•shot" was paid for by the town. If the
town paid the piper, how wee the melee -
tion of the deleeraes made, load what
were the instrentsons gives to the dole
gats 1 Also, what did they do in the
public interact when they west to
Ottawa, and if anything was dose, why
was sot a report pressstsd to the stfes-
ctl at the hest meeting t Hays we got
*sough pock for the shilling. huts we
not got .soutths or bate we get too
mash 1 The free and Indepehdeat
*Isogon of the town want fall and free
isfoeastbs as the point, and they don't
wast to wait mail next nomination for
it, either. Orr this *less .here
T .. [lasts et r►s.sa *aA obs Kba .r tlpsla
Weal y r bill W ane dawn sum Sit
hi
Pastia Pr$CELL, who carried lb
cmuty of Glengarry against Mr Donald
I llaamaster, Q.C., has been unseated and
disqualified, and the Tory papers rejoice
e ttrestlr thereat. They cry "Ha, ha i"
sad make merry over Purcell'• fall, and
say that he is • specimen Grit, and a fit
secoesor to Major Walker, of "Come
Along John" notoriety. TH. Snout
admits that Purcell has conducted him-
self badly, and deserves the blight which
hes halloo upon hi. political hopes. It
also admits that he followed in the linea
of Major Walker, who did very badly is
his day and generation, in the Madiver
business. But Tag Smut cannot see
why the (all of either Purcell or Walker
should mese any rejoicing on the part of
any political party, and especially the
Tory party. Walker and Purcell were
for many years •tanncb Tories. They
were both brought up in the Tory faith,
nurtured in the Tory fold, and grew to
sleekness and' fatness under benign Tory
influence ; and if, when their political
understandings were awakened,and they
cut loose from Tory moorings, some of
the peculiar ethics of •l'orydom still clung
to them, sod when the temptation rime
their way, their natural instincts took
precedence and rumors, were had to
Tory methods, the fact is to be deplored,
and nut rejoiced at. It .ill be readily
admitted that new convert•—religious or
political—need careful attention, and it
u easy for beginners to "tumble when
on the new way. We admit that at first
it is hard for • converted Tory to act
honestly politically, but we have known
oases when they were able to throw
away their crutches and walk upwrightly ;
and we would rather have had Mr. Pat
Purcell one of that kind that as he at
present exhibits himself. By the time
his disqualification u removed, all the
maaghty Tory ways will, in all proba-
bility be eradicated from his system.
• In the Annual Report of the Bureau mountain, while midway u the bold out
of Industries issued by the Ontario Goy- line of the Palisades. The culonis,tioa
i ernment hat fall, Mr A Blue, the Chief road has been completed to • point
about • mile beyond Porcupine mise,
of the Bureau, rives an •ex,unt .of • and thence, to the mines at Solver
trip through the mining country of Al- mountain, traiho is carried over • rough
goats—a region rich In mineral, ups- and badly cut up .later road. The
scally silver. This portion of the R. lord' k"wever, is well timbered with
white poplar, spruce, balsam and Usk -
port is graphic in its description, and in pine, and the mil is "f very fair quality.
places racy and amusing, and will be The low branches of the balsam and
found to be moat interesting and untrue- jwk-pine are festooned with reindeer
tive reading. By the way, the Annual in..., which supplies the carribou with
Report of the Bureau of industries u a bis wiuiee Dodder. W e Damped it. slows
woods Thursday night, and Friday
perfect mine of information on matters morning one hone el the team was so
pertaining to agriculture, mining and die& led asst WO were obliged to return
labor, and is the leading book of refer- "n f"oto efnsdlhg a few boon et Rabbit
sada in the debate atoll in 4)o in the muuhaln mine, reschicg the Kaminis-
R :iquis ferry at a late hour in the evening,
question ct Reciprocity. The following esti Port Arthur the following day.
u Mr Blue's account of his trip to the A RCN To Jessie INLAND.
mines :-
It is the prevailing •-pinicn of explor-
ers for the precious metals that silver
occurs at many points throughout the day, which, after "Dina up the Kaeioia-
.Mile •rtbwsn region of northern Oe. ttynia to Neebinr, passed out by Flat-
terw, from the Ottawa river to Lake of land, Mink, Stu alio Jarvis islands, on
the Woods ; bat all mines sol known ex -
tout and value are located in the Thun-
der Bay district, within a radius of fifty
codes to Port Arthur, and chiefly in trap -
topped mountain ranges of Aninikie
slates. Purt Arthur is the commercial
antro of this district, and is closely • spanking speed, but the bream died
identified with the mining industry. Its seat' early to the evening and the great -
merchants furnish supplies for the min. er part of the distance had to be mase
ing camps, its hotels are summer quer- with the help of the long oar. It was
ten for men who hare already invested tea o'clock before we entered the har-
or who are seeking investment in mining bor.
properties, and it u the stattting out On Tuesday morning, September 7, I
place for visiting parties to the mines set out 'gain for the Silver Mountain
now being operated, a well as of explor- district, accompanied by Mr ot'icksteed,
ing parties for mineral trv"sent yet C. E., of Port Arthur, engineer and aur-
undiscovered- veyor of the proposed colcnizstion rail-
way. We %roved at Silver mountain
early i4) theevening, all but the last
twelve miles of the toad beteg in first
rate condition fur travel.
wi:Ten n LAKs.
Thursday forenoon we crossed the
mountains to Whitefish Lake, • distance
ot five miles. A stream known es Bea-
ver Creek Bows through the vatay be -
Rabbit mountain, beyond which he in twesn the two mages of mountains to
&accession the Beaver, Porcupine, Silver joie the Whitefish. A colony ot bearers
Modoain and Bluff locations --the latter have their home on this creek, and the
about thirty-five miles in a straight line trot to the lake crones oes of the dams
ssctb-west of Port Arthur. The Rabbit occupied by them. To the operations
mien is not more than twenty mites in a of Dieu industrious denizens u due tke
straight line from the Port, but by rad- discovery of Silver Bluff mine ; but they
way it isnot les than twenty-eight miles ; ars seldom if ever seen, and their pra-
Silver Mountain mine is by roadway cote is only known by their works.
Whitefish lake is about eight miles
long and two mils wide. Itis a shallow
Indy of water, containing three or four
rocky islands, and having along the
To make the round of the various northern side and at the western end an
mins and prospects of this region is an estmated arse of 1,200 acres under wild
undertaking not to be envied. 1 left rice. The former outlet is supposed to
Port Arthur on Wednesday, let of Sep- have been through • depression at the
amber, in the company of two citizens aorto -eat corner into Whitefish neer,
of that town, and supplied with • week's bit its waters now Bow out at the
provisions. We went by the Oliver cued south -wt oorner through Little White -
through the townships of McIntyre and fish river to the Arrow, which deeoends
Oliver to Murillo station on the Cana from Arrow lake to fall into Pigsoo
than Pacific There townships have river.
numbs of settlers, some of whom have Ili Tag RICE I ELDA.
-I've been informed privately by a
. eie1hb,e e( mese legal stsndisg, that
oar • waterworks bylaw is es deed me
Jiffies Comet, and that nettenthsteeding
the savant bf money expended in pre•
printing sod submitting the y-
w to the nesters, it isn't worth shooks,
sad weal Ohl getsr. Under astute, I
attp inforn 1, %t A provided that as
waterworks spina ase be instituted fee
the !winging is of wailer melees • sell -
meet •e essg" seta-- al le pro-
rated for eanyisg the wenn rater sit
Onnur• •wy. Ns s.s& ponete hes
hest side is Oo4s,ish, and the bylaw,
es 1 renerked lifers, is me eines.t-M-ebl.
es Jgins Giames guns, a "vele fir MA
Odun i hire i Mss been iNlrteeed
THB BOTS OF 73.
tegNssees Rase nag We Temente- Newt -
bees et the Tae 01.0.
The following item has been resurrect-
ed by the Toronto Emper4,6Jan endings
that Mayor Clarke was • ball player
away bask in 1873. A shsgul•r thing in
connection, is the fact that although Dear-
ly Miami years have elapsed the eighteen
players still sur. hive. The pine was
played in the good old days when the
°Winders were not ornamental append-
ages. and the " battery" didn't do all
work
rum the Toronto Si.. Mar S. tall.
A wall contented match game of base•
hall came off on Parliament pomade on
$uta dy evening between the composi
ton of the Assn sod the Moil newspaper
Alois, in which the forcer won by a
The following is
Majority of flve runs.
the score :
Ma&. iR
i r c arks 1ed b 1 4
Dbsaes, est s 4 • i
J Do1.as. r. t. 1 1
W imsaeet.s, p, 1 1
JMelrose. e.L f1
T Jrt►asies, e. • 1
V1KeOal eeuse,*"ay !0 / 1
J Mester. t i. 4
Tete, Of
Ia I
1 1 3 4 •
e.a-te 1 n 7 •
Ma11-1 1 1 3 •
Asa.
R
C ▪ r. ort.. br`.ve -tp. 7 o
W Moeaefl.N7idb. 3 3
W Kerr. a. s. 4 1
Ofnesele, fled b.11J Wrigley.
CRRoodddy. bbs.et.
t. 142
• 7 1 •–R.W
3 1 4 $-.4$
• 4 • /-sr
1644ft ens
t'esplre--mr W tea Orent,
(The night foreman of the Estrin leads
the ensuing team sad flys Mayor of ti
oily °r Tonna the losing. 1N the
others on the whiteness side, Treloar is
foessets M $hepp•rd'• pointing
Chiggers, Forbes . in New York, Bon-
in thin any,
Des. Wimas & Co's arena,
Tercet° Newt, Oiillh ee as 4)m the
.spis i reeaisg fi
stationery btlsinier at ahistgn. WAR
key is in Toronto. Grubbs is is St. Ines
•lid (toddy h • mast., pointer is Toroe-
be.w )lw
o.e, Daimon mon • composi-
tor ane, Donne he. retired,
=metates le •Militant sight foreseen as
the 1lineir., Metros le a eoenpoeitor o.
the Toronto Hass, Jobn.ton 1. • .o.
politer ea the Meer, xNeelf. i in Los
Hotton' ,M y i swing the
teeM- J. est.
is t fittest
T e•epsdnr nu the
wen the
.
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of * ,..r.S n,
Awed `y - alt- coed Reser w4) sin,
E -
Iron were set Imps ia these therefor*, the rosetd h de dab pennons ys, mei,
would V the reeled .MS IMO ' w'
alae men bids?.
Jarvis Island lila about twenty-five
miles southwest of Purt Arthur. I
took passage on the Csisapeea on Mon -
ib way to Duluth. A small row -boat
which put out from Jarvis took me to
that island early in the afternoon, and
after inapectiug the mine I returned to
Putt Arthur by a baking smack the same
nigat. Part of the trip was roads at a
KININO LOCATION*.
The beet known mining locations of
the present time ars situated it. • broken
range of mountains which extends
from the township of Paipoonge to
Whitefish lake, and forms the southern
boned of the Talley of Whitefish river, •
tributary of the Kaministiquia. The
most easterly of these location" is at
about forty -fire miles. and Whitefish lake
is five oils west of Silver mouoain.
AN ARDCOCR JOURNEY.
large clearings ; but the soil doss not
appear to be of very good quality, and
gran Drops do not ripen until late in the
season -probably a result of late sowing.
The Oliver toad 6a been opened some
disanw west of. Murillo, leading near
to Kakabeks Falls on the Kaminiatiquie
A colonization rood 'diverges from the
Oliver • mile west of the station ; it
strikes southward tbn,ngh Paipoonge,
crows the Ksministiquia on • subetao-
stsetiel wooden bridge and trends south-
westward in the direction of Buyer
mine. Seeding the wagon ahead by
this road, we erossd the country to the
fall, fouled the river two ails lower
down, and, after • tramp of several alis
through woods, came or. the tread shoot
hell way tetwes the bridge and Beaver
mine. Above the falla on the left bank
The nee field* fernish in their "sum
a liberal supply of food to the Indian*
of the Pigeon river reserve, numbers of
whom we saw gathering their harvest
Two squaws generally, bet sometimes an
Indian and a squaw, "man" a canoe.
One squatted in theprow handles the
paddle with circle -stroke* w as to shell
es little of the groin as possible, while
the other in the sero, a cedar stick in
each hand, sweeps in the rice and be.ts
off the grain as the canoe Moves on. Two
boatloads ars considered to be • days
work, which u•sally ends at moon : for
u lus pressed by hunger the Iadian
observes the short -hoer system.
olajis got •11 the time there is," is lobs
motto for life ; and he boat*, fishes,
piaks berries and gathers rise in seems -
sive seasons of the year as his necessities
the Lund is wooded with pine, t•marsc, require. He does not kill or destroy for
behest, birch. cedar and poplar ; below any delight it affords, as the white
it has beim swept by iso, and nothing neo often dime, but that h. Msy
remains a the forest bet o slashing of h*.. fund and raiment, and therewith
charred and half decayed timbers.
Along the flats and op the eloping bask
of the river then is a luzeri•nt growth
of
WILD FLAIR,
goat of the eines truffles'. but • few
heavily lades with pods, each of whisk
scutums five 1. seven black pees the lies
of • homoeopathic pill. A hew vines were
still is blo•sem, the tower dowers of •
nsKw beeag pick, (1. appar pals We landed oa a skeletal shore of
peep's, sad blending he the intermediablack trap, sod visited the vamp of the
ens info • ddioste spode of mon, July Indian.. The tents wee of harsh Mak,
is tbe blooming eesoe, and the vies sod nearly .11 the osepute owe Indite
see then said to be risk mad brilliant i. becks, half risked anddr a, a few old
adoring. The rri1gght bmek of the naw s i stundna( hashes nest, end peeks of
still d.neely wtrvd•d, sad the end ap- wallah lop,- Ake resume squaws evh
peers to he deep and of ssestl..t geaher deafly beieg oat is the ries Beide. Th.
I4 the valley ef the Whitefish, .hick shied of the tribe is eems..iy galled
joins the k.nihi eia *beet three muse Mob Foot, from; . delemeity of use
Wow tbtlr ••8.t the land is .etookdooMedly , foot, awl he took the heed is the MR'
(utile, end seises intend by tweet Gres' vaginae! "alk" after my formal /M►
It no hardly fail to grew heentifiel sons emotion to his by Mr W. es R1 Soso.
whin newel mot bredicN agar g+Ii*. body front Toronto. The principal (s.
vide. The 111.41* Bin el the pupate dasevy of thereon, wee dryieg,deim•hiag
he is ')intent. The white man is an ex-
tersheator, and the beaver, the deer,
the otter, the tsaast°, as well as the
wolf and the bear, disappear before his;
while the rad an kills °sly for kis needs,
and so where bei lead of the domain
the Meet and fur -lasers, animals ars
n ot likely to oder extinction. Bet 1
have digressed.
IX AX INDIAN CAwr.
beaten so u to loosen the host or chaff,
it u winnowed with a birch bark screen,
and a there is no lack of wind here in
September the operatt.,n is simple
enough. The rice is then ready fur use,
and it nukes& very palatable dish -when
take') with hunger -sauce. In the west-
ern end of the lake the ries fields are
exteosie., and un the way up we met •
procession of canoes returning laden to
the camp.
s'sota0, TEs INDIAN reosrceroo
Weer, a very respectable Indian of
Grand Portage, Pigeon ricer, has his
summer camping grcund at the upper
end of the lake. His proper name u
Louis Bokachmini, and Woes, u mid to
N f ly e, 11 d a,
fit "to b, the mut of some greet
a1. ' This forest sifted' from Frog lake
fur • iaonsider►ble distance westward,
and Mr W. informed tae that the total
area is about too square miles, satirosted
to yield about 30,000,000 feet of lumber.
Forests of still greater extent lie along
the eolith shore of Arrow fake, compared.
almost wholly of pine. This lake is a
heautiful sheet of pare, sparkling waist,
be • oorruptioe of Lout.. It was he, , wee total !snatch is a1*ut fifteen must;
some persons say, who let Oliver Dau• tomastaD aOCND.
sats into the rich secreta of Silver moan- ; W
tern, -the eastern sone fur • "'side'a 1►a a wet night ender the
sea_
Non of $10.000 wd the western for $LS vise, and Friday 'Morning the wind was
000. He is • a'l, slim, loose I,ciated blowing a gale from the nurth•weet with
do
bachelor Indian of 45 or 50 years, and r reles ofsnow and ram. Starting et
has the reputation of being • very dutiful six " nook, W. Packed • bark eases
inn to his aged mother.
From Weeso's camp we followed a
long and heavy trail northward, &soend-
&coma a portage of four and • half miles
to Whisebsh lake, making the way doom
• steep descent of 400 feet. The load-
ing a mountain range 575 feet above tat¢ at this point of the lake is a slimy
Whitefish lake and descending to • small gusgmire, reminding one of the spat
m
name!,•• lake whoa shore we followed where John Ridd and Caner Doom) met
for the l
for some distance westward through ot times The none was pushed
out between two we got in with
land of very fair quality. Some pro- Di'
peeling work has been done on ,• vein ezrreme care and set 4)R through the
near this lake, (Scripture's mine) but
no silver appears to have been found.
A BIRDS' 171 elzw.
Following the location survey due
west we scrambled up • steep bluff to •
level of 600 feet above Whitefish lake,
from which • fine view was obtained.
Whitefish lake, though several miles the incident of that stormingi., that
distant, seemed to be at our feet. East- were it not for the nerve and skill of Mr
ward we look down the valley of the W. these notes would never haw. been
extended The Frenchman and his dog
were lett at the first stopping plane, find
we rude the waves of the Whitefish for
the rest of the way in comparative ea.-
tr. Silver Mountain mine was reached
early in the afternoon, and Port Arthur
at one o'clock 111 the morning,
mare and a denies vegetaucn of lily -pada,
rushes and rice, for the open water. One
packer ,a Fret,chsau) int in the prow
and W . in the stern, behind whom as
the last to Ret a!m•r4i wa the pseker'e
dog. Now of all things to be taken on a
bark carom • dog is probably the Moet
danger,u. ; and all that need be said of
Whitefish neer, clothed at varying
altitudes with white poplar, tamar•c and
red spruce, and divided with toms regu-
larity by ravines it presents the •ppear-
&nce of fields of green sod gulden grain.
Away to the eastward appears to be the
nose of Silver mountain, while what
looks like the Porcupine lies far beyond.
A long mountain ridge to the northward
forms the watershed between lake Sop -
.nor and Hudson's bay, and at • wide
cut in this ridge it Mask! theta large bed
of iron ore has bees found.
Taking the line of • location survey
still westward across the tableland of
the mountain, we cross a muskeg about
hall a mita in breadth, thinly wooded
with spruce and tamarac and richly
carpeted with mom. Here and there
are clumps ut shrub. known as Labrador
tea, and the purple -leafed pitcher -plant
half filled with water lifts its head out
cf the moss. From the top of the west-
ern bluff we get • sight of the height of
land, stretching away to westward • id
eastward, while in the Talley below is
the sour'). of the Whitefish river, Not
mon than • mile from the source of this
river lis Little Goll lake, when outlet
runs south-westward to join Sand river,
the outlet of Sand Inas, which Bows
southward to Round lake and Frog lake
into Arrow lake. Sand lake is about
three mils loaf, and its southern
soon, is covered with a pine forst
which extends southward to Arrow
laky
A DOLIPCL 40)05710.,
11nppartitoa.
An entertainment was given in the
hoses byE W. Richards, of
nt, on onday the 9th last.,
and drew a fair audience that sewed
well pleased with the program gives.
He intends to bold one at Port Aiken
on Tueday itytbe school house at 8 p
m.
A Orean,who is learning the myst
of the block and cleaver, is Oode
gave out hamlet a net this week.
A number of the farmers teams it
this section, and some of our canny
cousins in Leeborn are drawing lumber
down from 8heppardton for our limbo
king, (iso. Neiberg•ll, to the yards here -
Them is a slight rivalry between Geo.
Fulford'& Bufferin bays and M Finland's
light bays, which muss judges of )toruses
flesh to think • great drawing attach will
00014 on shortly,
Tea Sewooi Picts.. --In answer to
the petition at the eleventh hose
Then is a paucity in animal life in against the decision of the board of
arbitrators,
these woods- Only
a farbitrators, who after holding two an-
thems pecan of Mrd. tinge, granted the wishes of the pro-
moters, • to be ass, but among them is the motors, by girlies them the school, mime
Ceisloda Mol, whose habitat is northern
Ontario. I have seen him in Ottawa, in
Halibarton, in Muskoka and in the vi-
cinity of Sudbury. We heard one near
oar map just as the nen was sinking be-
hind t1e western bill. "O-poor-
Canada-Coda-CMrada r he sang in a
shirropy voice, sad mot et all ea if he
ensue it even among these *appose and
Huroniao rooks. In Muskoka he strikes
three notes before stetting off on the re-
frain, and by the inhabitants a that di -
gist he is interpreted to sing, "Hard-
tiseoe- is - sskoka-Muskoka-Mesko-
k• !" Another of the birds of this lake
Superior region is the Whiskey Job,
known is Maio. and Quebec as the an-
alis Jay. He is OM of kin to the Glee
Jay -mot quite ea talkative, bet mon
(smiler ; and his penmen' never fails,
e specially at Rosa) time. "He likes his
Klass," goes woodsmen say ; hence his
n ame is these parts. Partridges sen
•bendsat is the fall of 1886, sari more.
might be shot is the soars* of a day's
travel, bat last year we did not hear the
Better of more than three or (oar in a
journey of tire hawked moles. Their
disappsannee is said to be owing in part
to lash Gres, but ebie4y to the lanes
.old of the winter of 1886-6. As en U-
nseen of the enuseai severity of the
weather, I wee informed that a spring
week .high tuns anus Mr Maekenxii"
fare near Melillo, and .hieh is about
twsiiyhe fest in breadth, was frown
•slit la the previous year it abounded
with "pomaded trod, het lent teems, not
one mold be fond, sea the settlers
bnlw.e they perished r the is.
itOOVu. Amoy Atte 1000 LAas".
W. left the minted .amp of Bosoms
and Ldtwt arty i. the Messing of the
1011 ..d passed hy the ado s4 the base
et a hlsf diem into the valley et 0.11
creek ; those "even need etre, and
throtigh • dose swamp of seder 4s the
foot al •ils.u.t.ie ridge en the
monk tide lake. Then begot
up in protest un the 10th inst., boars
the sense arbitrators. The school trai-
ts.. of No. 6 were out i• bit force with
Kr Hetberiegton est the sister board at
No. 6, to argon their views in favor of
the protest. while D. Cumming and W.
Clutton showed .b the decision should
not be ohanged. The decision of the
arbitrators is to be given sometime this
weak, and we hope they will uphold their
former sward. As we send ntf to pries
we have sot beard the reealta
Port Libor-
--
TN ree.ot aaosoting and social its
aid of the Sabbath: sehuol tutted &best
Mfg Jae Mahar, has r.t,rned from a
visit to her sister, Mrs McLean/din, at
Beltrva
Jos. Wilson has purchased an acre et
land oe Sydenhans street, from Ronda
Graham, for $125. A reasonable prise.
Mr Wilson intends building • dwelling
os it in the spring.
The school •teesiases averaged fid nil+
during the pest week.
Kim Donnie M.Deo•Id, of Oarbreid,
is the gleet of Mn Mahe*.
A delegation to Ottawa during the
coming session, to interne., harbor std
railway utboeitisi, is talked el
A Kr Richards is billed to appear fie
the seine) heels on Tuesday nett, kis a
o ris of songs, stamp speeches, cheese -
tar dein estious, and so forth. if ~-
half we have heard of Mr Rasherd•' we-
tol,iestrwment•) sad histrionic
be tres,he Onion have • er.iwded
Os ore Buss IIs,.- KO t14 11s Irwin;
who W been very ill with diphthurM
daring the peat week is fest reentering.
W T Fellow is .deri,g hint es attach
of kldesey sod elves eo.phiat. Klee
Milly toot is newly recovering fro so
W eek +iphtti.i.
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