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GODERICH. ONT.. FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1889.
J $LO s YEAR IN ADVANt d
TO ADVERTISERS.
Notice of changes must be left
at this Office not later than
Monday noon. The copy for
chanes must be left not later
sirs were .et'y viola's meta M %Mg j
haat last weds, ends breed tem steals a 1
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The .•.ilosa Srr h.oie using as * In au,
herb a•• d *Mt reeve re.'y to reve early
neat
1w. flamrhett, of Ooderieh, has quite
as art abuul in !Ethel. His claw ..f
pig Meet iu ane ut the Y. std C. A.
rooms.
Mr Jame, Bailey, having retired trout
the hotel buruiess, will dispose art his
hrYlaletae +eer,.M. d►lw►gs
CODER/CN ILLUS!h'.-17/:/)-S/GNAL-STAR.
% rihune, who was lirtr.i.l.•ut of the party
if forty American hict"elers, whit•h made
the "'(;noel Tour" through c httario:
We entered) (:.ulerich in the evening owl
the party stole slowly around the b•autifui
little circular park, with a Itsiulsomn•
courthouse in its rentre, w'hieh nab inns the
very centre of the town, facing whirl, are
all the_principal hotels.. -stores and li
houses.
During the night the wind ruse until
it blew a half gale. Early in the morning
the artist, President Bates, and some others,
roseand took a spin about the place to
inspect it. Gislerich is the principal
watering -place of Western Ontario, anti it
well deserves its high reputation for beauty
of location and surroundings. The
WWII is built upon at bold. headland
overlooking the lake. There is a
small bay, the entrance of a river,
and another bidet headland, called
.'The )'ape," on its opposite sidle,
which shows finely from the town.
I'pc►n the brow of the headland is a
reserver) parade -ground, with the
light -house. Here the bluff is al-
most a precipice, and the view is
very fine, embracing 'slily mild
of coast, the buy, anti the steep
side and end of the t plsisitt cape.t
on this morning, the waves of
Leake Huron were Ideating sullenly
at the foot of the bltltf. the sun
had risen amid drifting clouds,
casting checkered lights and sha-
dows over the water, which had a
blue -grey hue, of a threatening
character. Within the harbor be-
low lay a number of - vedgels : while
several miles out in the lake, half a,dozen
fishing -smacks. ktantling in a direct line
offshore, were dashing with white
out to their distant fishing grounds, regard-
less orf the ominous aspect of the lakeand sky. • 'Mese little eraft are p.e•riagua
rig,—a rig much used on the lakes fur
fishing boats, as it is easily handled bet•
one or two men. and sprerpls a cloud of
canvas to boating.the light airs for boating. The
two large, almost Owen. fore-and-aft sails,
with their broad heaths str'sined Nat as
I
MATTERS Of III>I'ORY.
Interesting
Incidents of Early Years.
ld5I,0 ss The Visit of De Champlain Story of' the
First Sett'
•
(*rowing from
an Indian Stition to a
Thriving Town
HE following interesting data has
been obtained from Bs !dries Adm,
and other sources, and will prove of in -
The fishiest lege and boats are bare
fitted out for an early departure. • The
lake now Iroaid the boar. are .A-
pectedis to leave"within the nett caapi,
! of wakes.
The lland of Hope will meet .,n Sat- '
asikeis /Web Yliah at 3 ,kioni t did t
3
for dames of years afterwards, being from
the Upper Ottawa to Georgian Ban, whence
he coasted around into and down Lake Hu-
ron, through the River and Lake St ('heir
and Detroit River to Detroit. After this
visit of I)e Champlain, the mouth of the
Menes•tung grew to be a frequent calling
place for those indefatigable workers, the,
• Jesuit priests, in their expeditions to and
fro lietween their settlenients on the shores
of Georgian Bay and those farther Clown
towards Detroit
In the year 1r42.6, V. F. Gooding, accom-
panied by a Frenchman named Frank be-
dlam!), left the mouth of the Grand Rivtr
in a small vesstel, loathed with such goods
as they considered necessary for the estate-
lishment of an Indian trading post,
and sailed along the southern
coast of south-western Canada, up
through the Detroit and St. Clair
Rivers and Lakes St. Clair and
Huron to the mouth of the Mene-
setung —thltnceforward called the
Maitland River, in honor of Sir
Peregrine Maitland, Lt. -Governor
of Upper Canada—noel there they
disembarked, secured their vessel,
and erected a small cabin or "store"
where Ogilvie's mill now stands.
Here they remained snore than
three months before seeing the
face of a white man, and it was
not till IM2$ that any other settlers
came in.: but in that year Mr.
(:alt, the Superintendent of the af-
fairs of the ('ands Company, I.t-
whom the entire Huron Tract was
owned,determinedl to plant a settle-
ment at the mouth of the Maitland. This
determination was probably formed by the
recommendation of Dr. Dunlop. who -hail,
previously visited the place, guided) by an
Indian named Captain Jacob, and who was
very intimate with Mr. Oak.
The road surveyors, immmeiliately after
their arrival, laid out .the town in its pre-
sent novel shape, according to a plan which
had been prepared in the► Company's office
in York. Many of the laborers who came
through with the surveying party-, took up
Wel and settled in the vicinity, and many
more settlers followed as soon as
the road was Stade passable.
Among the first to arrive after this
was Alex. McGregor. who saute
through the woods from Zi,rra. in
Oxford County, bringing several
yoke of cattle with which he
worked on the Company's roads.
During this year also there arriv-
ed John Wilson, who built a house
and tannery on the harbor Nat,
this being the first tannery in the
Huron TractMr. Wilson, in t51111-
pany with Jacob Coomer, 'nlen-
tine and Michael Fisher,arid some
others, were sent up from York in
a schooner at the expense of the
Company-. Before the establish-
...Ai:- inert of a poet office Wm. Reed
used to make semi-monthly trips
to Guelph to bring the letters for
the Company's agents : and any
settlers who were so fortunate as to receive
letters, were charged extra for their carriage
from Guelph.
in 1834, George Fraser arrived, in com-
pany with the Sturdy family, William
Rutledge and wife, and Andrew Whitely
scan s, and with straight lines,
have a peculiar picturesqueness.
like Gothic architecture : and the
sight of a fleet of them standing
out of harbor in a win.) is a finer
marine view than flat of a squad-
ron of the most shapely yachts.
And for fleetness it is doubtful
which would win, as these boats
are built very sharp, light and
strong, and are sailed by the most
skilful and daring seamen of the
lakes.
Turning from the lake view the
town is a pretty sight, being neatly
built, with many tine house., and
smuttier residences, with gardt'ns
and ornamental grounds, the busi-
ness portion clustering ai,out the
pretty little circular park hereto-
fore luenti.ntedl. All about the vim
neighlio,rhmissI, within a radium of
half a tlosxn mile s, are stormier hotels,
and s Mil,liner residerg•es, on locations which
e.,ldminntkl the choicest views and other
ii It riot itius,"
Many similar opinions could also lie
quitted dial space permit.
GODERIs'H TOWN HALL
terest to alt who are anxious to know of
the inception and growth of (:.slerich :
More than two centuries previous to the
first settlement of a representative of the
Anglo-Saxon race at the place where the
handsome town of Oo.lerich now stands, the
locality was visited by Samuel de Cham-
plain, the most daring adventurer who ever
held his way through the unbroken and un-
explored forests, or pa.bfle•I his FAWN' up
the noble rive-rs and over the magnificent
lakes of Cs:in•la
That fad. .ms explorer landed at the
0 u
FROM SPIRE ant- ST. eiE4►RI1E.S (1111141'H—I.IH►KINO Stu-TH.
mouth of the Menesetung—as the Mait-
land) River was called by the Indians --in
the year 1618, while on his way front the
eastern part of the present Province to
Detroit; the route taken by hint on this
occasion, and indeed the only one known .
colter.,
Thaws.
Kr W. S. Swaflild, of the Oak's
Oras Co., Clinton, was in town us
Teesdav, on a hominess trip.
The sale of stn Curry's furniture will
be held on Monday, April I, commenc-
ing at 1 o'clock. Some fine furniture
will be placed on lata
Dr K liieholeoe, the West -et dentist
ggyg tion of the cistern!
baa y. Gas administered from
B ♦ Oh painless eitaMi'n of
A Pilletaa Iwersokark-1 sew
seats i; t Pianoforte peeestfy som-
pleeed tr, f Neweembe & Co., To-
mato, le ing prat eaNafeetion. It
fills the fee a reliable is-
strove/at bf % ineelta maker at a figere
odds the mash of all. Write them fee
partieatlra tt
A sen went to • neighbor, a Soe/eb-
man, and aaked him to indorse a note i•
order to raise money as a bank. The
neighbor ref seed, saying : "if I was be
pit my name till't, ye wed get the am.
(raw the hank, and when the time eam'
row' ye wades be ready, and I wad has
to pay't, w the• yes and I would gear.
rel ; sae we masa jest as areal quarrel
the neo as leee's the idlst's to my
Considerable Improvements are (eke
se and have bees made in weeoaken
with many of oar places of benne,,.
Perhaps the most notieeable are the
*hinges made In eeenection with Dows-
i•g's hoot and shoe store, ewer* of Rest
street and the Nears, whit* bee bees
it overheated. paiaMd asd
plat. eye. (rested. It eat sew amperefavorably with any plow of babes,, of
its nee lel Qaaada.
t scams an absurdity for three->)uarters
of those having business at the county
town to be eospelled to go to (boderich
to trammel it, when • mush more cen-
tral and suitable place would be selected.
The county buildings will eventually
was to Mates in spite of all that ma
be done to peewit it. (Thew are a
.umber of way meetings geeing into Chi
sego exactly is the maw Ix es Clinton.
Fifty or one hundred people erowd the
little places up en that the residents get
their heads swelled and imagine lag
things of themselves sad their future.
Bat In the hits towns Welt an index
etratas •o et t. Nearly all the
people who go to Teraete int the O.T. R
from the weal peas throegh Weston, bet
we hasn't heard that wester waste to
have (lagoon, Hall located at that point.
Olielen isn't the Crit little chap that
las cried for the moan and didn't get it,
Bliir.caL'
.a.slaritiss
and (terser. r. $1 sad $2
• bottle. The small sire lasts sixteen
days, the other thirty-two days. Call or
write for McLeod. System Renovator,
Newgate-st. , Goderich, tint.
A FORTY-NINER.
Overland to California in '49
BY THOS. DARK.
CHAPTER V. 1Miter of Tuts ritusu.. •t
'tiding ourselves now surrouude
p'enty, we settled down to camp,
, if possiole, t.. recuperate and rest
cb
re proedtnil f irther or. our
uey, both man and beast sadly re-
tnt• the change. Io a short while we
me the happy possessors of a quarter
beef, which each of us tackled on his
account, cuttiuq off piece* to suit
t taste, aid toasting them on pointed
leis before the fire.
TALK stx,l'T SIRLOIN .TCAKs,
it hotel style, or even quail on toast;
elf such+ out for • moment compare
Als the luxury we t moped with .our
4 cooked in this, the most primitive
O,r, and eaten with such appetites
ly half-starved men could raiser'.
Utter stopped fiesta.. until is t.s,l
ir'cly n,-v..ured eier):hno1 hut the
asp, and these, t.n., were hastily
"hen up and put on to hal to funiish
for an c..r y morass, t .hreakraet.
selcon.e chat:4e Sr ani ,heir micea
n abundance of good • ho!eren.o
Moo produced is hooei.;ial effects,
ins us improved health sod spirits.
tiuoush our !ung and tiresome
y
laroesi•g the Alps, ' and it was further
impressed un me that this Listens
My.
eat waL'Rs
Eut"tLL1D IS Ta* ANttaLs
.rd modern welfare. In our rreseet
a:tuatiou it occultist to me that atter all
the celebrated and distinguished penorsl,
seated on his sue •bite Lore.. bad a
pretty easy tits e .1 is tvapsi.0 with
whet we now had de eucouuter. I save
nu desire to to mao.,t ur ,.ear l..y inyeslt
open. to the rhsrae of vanity, as I was
always known as • modest buy, m nd new
with tuureas.d vias am still jealous d t
my reputation, 1441 lar all that, a strikes
me that a c.lupanwn pictuis to the
above, showing our parry ulni.t ing the
Rockies, would prose iwarretiug std at-
tractive lar the piebald. generation. It
was eoly p. sable to take uoe waggon up
at • taus, , s sit the lin raps were required
ILO Brae it, tole. Sc 11.6n had to be placed
at each what to Llock every yard sus
maimed. Ti.. horwi shoes were now so
i sn oe'th after their long drives veer the
plena, that the poor brutes were down
half the time, their noses cut and
blteduol on the sharp ricks at almost
every step. treat motion wait c,a-
tinual.y necessary, as a false move, cam -
mg a seer ye to either right or
lett, would have hurled us to the bot -
`tum of some rocky canyon, dashing es
Ito pieces hundred& of feet below.
a►TR,: Ti ass W,I'N LAnuit,
with many hair -breadth escapes, we ewe•
evaded in gettl9, our lint watltlon to the
top, which we safely secured, returoiwg
for the others amid repeating over again,
what we had soc..mplisbed. This done,
we commenced preparations for the des.
cent on the other side, and it is really
hard to say, which of the two tasks was
the most difficult, as in going down, the
horses were of little or no service, we
having mainly on our own indi-
vidual efforts. However, we were re-
w arded at least, by reaching tho bottom
to safety. The tremendous strain on
our nerves, in sea mpttsowg this peril-
ous part .t our journey, had complete-
ly prostrated us all, fur the day bad oat
only been a bard one, but it had also
been an unusually lung one, it being
quite dark by the time the last wagildoa
w as down. L,uking back at that portion
of our travels, I am led to think, it. is
aatrnehiug what man can do, when
backed by resolutiou and determination
combined --u . danger seems too great .
to risk, or obstacles to overcome when
Knee the mind is fairly made up to s•ra
mount them. Amid as
Tats teat.:Ashy% IRRyCg5TLY WAKatl Tse
NCRO,
so diffi:ulties like the above call fog*
the very best traits of our manhood,
and produce iii glowing colors, those
sterii.ig qualities, which have carried
success and victory tsiumphastly over
both sea and land. For a day or two
the elements had warned us of approach-
ing change, which made us particularly
anxious to get through the mountains
before it set in, and even before we did
so, snow commenced falling, accompan-
ied by severs (net, cawing. us .ouch
suffering betas we got settled down to
our amp. A hasty fire, with e.tually as
hasty a supper was soon over, and we
lay down tired and weary, so much so,
that we could not sleep. Guard duty
was dispensed with, as we otacluded
that any ludians who would turn out in
• stew storm, over such • path as we
had trod, in search of scalps, certainly
deserved t'; vet them. In the morning
on looking out, it was discovered that
several inches of scow had fallen during
the night. Before moving any further
we determined to abandon our waggons,
mad peck all, our provisions and effects.
cm our horses' backs. This took censider-
able time, as we lacked the expersenote
of the old pioneer packers, who it is
sell, would stow sway enough stuff dna
a males' back, sufficient to last a MA
family for a month. However, we law
n othing behiwd us, and when all on
commenced our jf.urney. One night a
short while after we had been in cane
we were disturbed by the mimosa( barbs•
log of
•
TOM WOODLIrrg
he chief wonder. On twitting horse
utas a. thin as a rake, awl in apt ear -
amp atroes ly reminded you of the p. for
hats who had teased up for his dinner
tiff lost it. Now the continual op ee
e exercise, and the advantages of
yting nut, iuhaline the fresh air both
y and night, had made him a new
u11, his bronzed and hsppy•hoking
aspreeenUug • picture of health and
mtetitwent, the very counterpart to
mat of a well-known host of one of our
d asipal hotels of the present day.
rpt. Waldron, the grntiennen in charge
f the relief camp cases over to see us
sthe morning, is ascertain our wants
sit necessities, and kindly informed us
tae we were welcome to all the flour,
t at and other provisions we required
w /resent and even fur future use, and
art •.• remuneration would be accepted.
se` liberality was so unexpected and
ttoaishiiig that after all, we could not
sip feeling that now indeed, "Our
e at lied fallen in pleasant places."
bat night the old ctarioaet was once
sots brought to the front, and in grate
ode to the suuntry and the man who
ad thus rescued us, Wo odlitle struck
e1 with all ha might and main, the old
costar air of "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
s which we all most heartily kneed.
low oommsnced preparations for'
n ether move, accepting first from our
distal donor all the provisions we
bought we should re tuire to put us
breugh to our journey a mad. Before !
vs left we saw him bury slightly in that
pseud,
- TEN Ra .y Or FLOCS,
Stich was t'ten marked by stakes as a!
•,side to any other parties who might !
.till be in oar rear and who, possibly,
rets similarly situated as curatives. The
Reentry which we now traversed was
.lith pleasant and easy of access- ample
ked fur our horse., with here and there
See streams of water every hew miles.
This continued fur several days with
nothing of particular interest to note.
At last we arrived in a locality possessing
the singular feature of stumps of trees
erne seven and eight feet from the ear- .
laps of the ground. We were of course
Hoch surprised at so unusual a sight,and
tesndered if a race of lung legged giants
had preceded us. Later on we were
Wormed this was the very spot where
the unfortunate party of the year before
heel been
SehIRTSRILS IN Tal DREADFUL SNOW
STORM,
▪ so many lives bad been lost, and
wblch I referred to in the commence -
wait of may narrative. The depth of
goon was so great that when these trees
age chopped they were done so at the
resalation and usual height. Fix
severs! days we could see away off in
the distance the great range of formida-
ble mountains which we knew we meet
Mee over, and now we had approached
their very base. What we had hitherto
paaeed through was, as compared with
this, but mere child's play. The task we
sew had be.ore us presented such ate -
voodoos didieelties that even the strong -
eat and most resolute of men might well
pause before undertaking it.
TO CLTYC TNOOaa`tD FRET SIGN,
over plains in some instances nearly per-
peedisular, with yawning chasms oe
every side, and at the same tone guide
our horses and waggons with our amp
supplies metaled, required a head as
leer as a Prime Minister's, a nerve like
be celebrated Boraaby, and as mock of
8awisonian strewth as you mold possi-
bly pewees for the omission. Added to
all
pewees these necessary qualities, • large
so•nt of patience and skill might well
be thrown in. In the days of our youth
were aesustosed to look with woe.
der sad admiration at a familiar picture,
hung fns the walls
hosselold. It re-
lookieg soldier nu
in hand, pointing to
high hill, white thou-.
mea were foltnwing ho-
my aesioes vest Week
t L'!ra 1
Peel Liberals met in convention at e
Brampton yesterday and nominated Mr
Joseph Featherston as their eandidate for
the Commons and Mr Chisholm, M 1' P.,
as their candidate for the Legislators.
Ow Retarder morning last while Kr
(hen Murray and two other young mea
of Hesforth, were returning home in a
beggy the horse beam, frightened sear
the railway track we ran away throe/ -
line the oseepaats out thereby brushing
Mr Murr•yk right leg below the bees.
Me was assisted to the Ales of Dr
Meekid when the broken how wemi e
tied the pelmet is sow doing well, bet
the teeferesd atrmmes from hill icily as
gereiea is rathar irksome,
whteh at that time
elf almost every
presented a floe
hersebask, sword
the top of a very
..lade of armed
hind. In reply to
I was told it w e
fits rim Po see
A PML OF woLvam,
who bad got in among the horses. The
terrified brutes kept up a ountiseal
stamping with their tore feet, whisk beat
the wolves at bay till we got oet and
fired off every gun and pistol we had
in our possession, which proved wows, -
tel in driving them off. TLe roads were
now very had and rough, lame.. boulders
lying ronad in all directions, compelling
us to go lig-zag all day, and when night
had overtaken surety little listance had
been gained. Getting through the we
came to rather a docent Ins..Jnr places for
a halt. As the pasters for our horses was
better than we had obbined for miss
time, we camped and rested for • coop's'.
of days. Looking aortas the plains one
morning we observed a horse, without
any rider coming rapidly towards us, we
all tamed out and, like the Nieman who
took three prison,,s by surrounding
them, we meant the horse. The animal
proved t.. be • fine are and se all
had given • hand in catching her, to
avoid disputes, em decided to auction her
of This was done, sod I remember my
share of the prise money ambeated to
shoot 1112. The belt ayilit, we wees
wake up by the merlin/ of
a %Or or uatai% slat..
Coming so soon after the wolf scan.
we were Bonn on the alert. The gest
bet brake• alter poking ab,wt is rather
an undecided mantser, eoacluded to give
es the go by, which you may bosoms
g reatly relieved ue of anxiety. Tea days
more travel, with eeareely scything
[worthy of sole, now brought es to "The,
tend of lipid !"
(To ea torflaVID,)