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GOJ)ERICH. ONT.. FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1889.
JD. ]IoGILLiCUDDY. PrUM/s WM
t SLOG A 1k.tlt IN ALTA .t'a
TO ADVERTISERS.
Notice of changes must be left
at this Office not later than
Monday noon. The copy for
changes must be left not later
1Lrr+ were .nty eleven test. at WinR1
h eta last wa•.k, .ltd br. 4 fes emit* al
1.
The baf'a•ra ere ho..t.v fifties est in the
harts It• •i Bill M ►r. ly to move early
wee aw•eh
111 r. C:ookott, of Guderieh, has quite
en art school in Ethel. His class of
pupils meet to one of the T. M C. A.
r, r a.. 4.
11r James Bailey, hasine retired (rota
the burlu..s. will ds.p.me tat ilia
hot .1
The bhtog tugs and boats are brine
fitted of for en early departure. • The
lake is now open •,.d the boars are ea -
parted to leave within the Walt 0001/Id j
of woke..
The Band of Hops will west on Sat.
A FORTY-NINER.
Overland to Oaltfbrnfa in '49
1tlbs,44A.444444 $0.46 tisk! PA 14; 0e404tto-I01 BY THlel. DARK.
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OUR PHLJC \VOIIKS.
How Goderich Town Has Helped Itself.
The Finest Waterworks and Most Per-
fect Electric Light System The
Great Northwestern Fair The
Government Buildings.
�'• lIE past year has witnessed the com-
pletion of several iu► w.rtAut public
improvements in Gash -rich which are prob-
ably not equalled in any other town in
Cauaela. From the inception of the
works the municipal authorities have ha.
the hearty support of the ratepayers i
carrying them out, and economy of con-
struction has been made a secondary con-
sideration to that of securing the best pos-
sible service. First ana•ingst tiles,: improve-
menu is to is• name.(
THE WATERW'okKS 1Y8TE11
in I$Sfi an artesian well, to test
- the quality .)f the water obtainable,
wits Boreal to a depth of 275 feet
on a lot on East street, the highest
art ailalrle site in the town. The qual-
ity of the water was found to be
unetccpti incl, " ahmont absolutely
pure," was the anal,l'ist's report, but
the sufficiency of the supply luting
in doubt, it was decided to sink the
welly on the harbor fiats, where the
lake would be available in case the
wells proved insufficient. Four
.e ells were boreal to a depth of about
240 feet, reaching the same water
ns in the ur t4.wn well, and after
tests of the qualite raid quantity
of the whiter, the erection of the
pumping statietrt anal thea construe -
tion of the works was begun, Mr.
Willis Chipman, C E., of Toronto,
I.'ing engaged to prepare the plans
:me specifications, anal superintend
the work. The foilowing is a syn-
opsis of the Government Analy'st's
report on the quality of the water :
" In 1,000,000 grains of water
evaporated to find the amount of
solid matter dissolved, there were
found to be when dried at a tem-
perature of 1(0) C. only 532 grains
of solids, and of this only 148 grains were
lost by igniting (the remaining solids not
darkening). thus showing the water t.. 1..• re-
markably free from organic matter. In the
value quantity of water only 4 25 of a grain
of nitrogen was found. Without nitrogen,
iiitritcs, nitrates and ammonia, which are
--nb:dances so deleteria►us to water, could not
exist. Only 10 grains of chlorine were
found, not, a remarkable showing for a salt
region. The oxygen alrs►rbeal from the per-
IilAl11,h1tlntee t, st at lie° Fah. in 15 minutes
wens only 4 2:1 of a grain, tend in 4 hours
only 1.45 grains, which is another proof of
the remark itdale abseenc'e of tlelete•rioua'
'natter. The water is clear, colorless and
sufficiently soft for artesian well water,!
bring softer than the water supplies of Lon -
elan, Eng, Rath, Cambridge, Maidstone, OfI
Shrewsbury ; and it is all that can he ale-
sirert for domestic purposes. Is•ing of great ,
a•rganic purity anal excellent 1111414e. -
The water is pump.. , dilat into they
main. ht- It tuagriticeut pair of i ,i•„uaanu.
factureil to order by tI,• I; .r,i,ytdr Maxwell
Company, of .I»wilt•ae a II, o' Etch pump
has a capacity of 1,250 _..II•.uv peer umlaute;
OD amountfar in eats— ;ar any pe..ssil le re-
quirement fair years t„ ,.,'line. 'nit. mai,-
mull- steel letilere--ttas.sl-,►1 41:e product of
our townsmen, Me►►sa,. t iii yrtal •t► Black,
anal expert jualgex ponaeliar•• thele of the
finest workulanalsip anal ha.,.t iuipruvetl de-
sign. At present the teas ii has over six
milts of mains, whirl. tt til .1x.. added to as
the demand warrant, Four handsome
fountains have been created tedl on the Court
Ileum. Square and one ell the Harbor Park.
Two of the four are for .drinking purpose's,
the funds for their co,+traction Inning eol-
s lectealf►y a committee Jif ladies, silo ale)ecteal
I designs which alla.w both man and beast to
n quench their thirst. The other fountains
are ',f ornamental design and the effect of
the whole is to aalai uitich to the beauty and .
attractiveness of the Square. The total cost
of the Waterworks has barn about $54,000.
is reduced to a minimum, the rate beatg
only 16 cents per night for arc lamps.
THE AsiRla'l'I.Tt'RA1. PARK.
GOderich being the County Town of
Huron—a distinction given it by the Im-
perial Government in 1826, when the colt-
veyance of the Huron Tract. was inside to- --
the Canada Company—it has always been
a leading centre for Agricultural anal In-
dustrial Exhibitions. Of late years the
grounds and buildings in use proved entire-
ly too small, and in 1887 sixteen acres of
land were purchased, anal spacious bmild-
ings erected thereon, the buildings alone
costing about 87,000. The building, include
the main Exhibition Hall, a spacious
octagon, two storeys high, with two wings ;
$ machinery hall, a poultry house, cattle
anal sheep shoals, and excellent stalls for
alsiut 1:10 horses. A first-class halt' mile
track is on the ground, and in all its ap-
pointments this is one of the most complete
and convenient Fair Grounds in the coun-
try. Theis annual fairs are held under the
title of ” The Great Northwestern Exhibi-
t ," and the officers anal directors
for the present year are : Presi-
dent, Robert McLean, Goderieh
First Vice-Pr`sident, John Aiken
head, V. S., I halerich ; Second V ice-
Presialent, 1). A. Purvis, Galerirh
Township ; Secretary, R. C. Hays,
Gaalerich : Treasurer, Alex. Watson,
Goderich. Directors—Alex. Mel).
Allan, John T. Dickson,Wm. Clarke,
Isaac Fisher. James Connolly, Roar
erb Medd, Anthony Allen, Geo. Car-
rell, and John Gc►vicr.
The prize list of the Society ag-
gregates over $2,000 annually, and
in all departments the e x h i I. i t
stand equal to those at the great
Provincial Fairs.
THE GS►t-ERNIIENT BUILDING.
Goderich is the distributing cen-
tre for some thirteen other post
offices in the Western part of the
'County, and in the amount of its
revenue front sale of stamps. etc., it
stands in the front rank of Ontario
towns. The Iloverntnent blue book
gives the returns for the fiscal year,
ending June 30th, as follows :
188;1. .$5,146.72.
1886 5,117.43.
1857 5 37171.
l'ustoms and Inland Revenue
Offices are also located here, anal
e business transacted annually reaches
respectable figures. The customs re -
ens for 1887 may be quoted here as a fair
-rage :
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-ATERWORKS AND ELEITRIt' LIGHT ENa1IVE Horn.
THE EI.E(TRH' LIt1HT SYNTEX th
The Electric Light system is another int- ttry
portant addition to the beauty anal advan- to
lager; of the town. It is operated in con- , av
nection with the M'at.•rworks, the plant hav-
ing been furnished by the Reliance Electric
Light Co., of Waterford, Ontario. There
j are two dynamos, each of 3.1 arc lamp
!capacity, 'bitten by A Whe•Io'k Engine of
Ell horse power, manufaeturesl by ()oldie &
McCulloch, of (;alt. At present the town is
tlWardav,
e/ ie. et the commercial co eye,
Thomas,
Kr W. S. Swafleld, of the Oak's
Organ Ce , Clinton, wem in terra us
Tassdati, on a business trip.
The sale of blurs Curry's ferwita.s will
be held os Kosday, April 1, cosimene-
lewgt at I o'clock. Rome fine furniture
w*B be pissed on sola,
Dr M Niebuhr*, the West -et dentist,
makes tM tion of the natural
teeth a spas . Gee dmieistered from
$ a
a, . 11 Yes *alms extraetioa of
-teeth,A Ineratew.ln. —A mow
sale li Plasotorte risen* enes-
pleted by mere Newcombe & Co., To-
mato, I. ing gnat satlafastion. It
Ails the ,req to for a reliable ha.
etrwsent by het at... mabar at a flgsru
within the mash et all. Write tb.m ter
particalara tt
t•
supplied with 26 street lights, and the peecul-
inn plan of the town emblem each lamp to
throw light on 4 to 5 streets, making the!
service most a furtive. Indeed, it is univers-
ally admitted that Goderich is perhaps the
best lighted town in Ontario, the effect on
the Square at night being extremely pretty.
A private circuit supplies light to the great'
majority of the stores, hotels and other;
business places. and the light ie being in -1
troaiucel into the churches also. The costs
man wee a neighbor. a SoNeh-
waw, sad asked him to indorse a mote is
order to raise molly at a bank. The
neighbor refined, guying : "If I was Se
pit my sante HU't, ye wad gut the miller
ns. the Wk, sad when the time eau'
rota ye wads. be ready, and I wad be.
to pay't, sae thea you and I would quar-
rel ; sa. we mama just as weel quarrel
the ono ae lang's the millet's in my
Oetnid*sble improveadste are going
so mid have been made in eimmeeties
with seamy of our places of hominess.
Perhaps the most roti eahls are the
images made in ensnertion with Dewn-
beg's boot sod shoe store. eters* of Mast
street and the Square, whisk bee bees
ly overheated. ptaisted end
frosted it eau wow ._gels
y with any flan al btssitw sl
its suss is Caned..
111PORTS. EXP(,RTS.
Qr'.tRTF.R ENDING. t'ALt'a. Dl'TY. v A Li. E.
Meh :1i Dutiable $ 3,443 $ 628 20
Free 7,060
Jun.30, Dutiable 18,686 4,130 84
Free 3,937
Sep. 30, Dutiable 2,649 784 80
Free 33 046
]Lipp, 31. I)utiwble 11,:)99
Frio 3,37
2,064 81
CasrTra V.
e kdi:er et Tait vials At..
IsroeaisR the Alps,t 'and it tree farther
Mimpressed up. n use that this Liston*
ort was y »
I stye auLlIN TYR •NRAL4
Iof muderO war fare. In our r realest
situation it utt'uirid to etas that atter all
the celebrated and distinguished general,
seated on his One white horse, had a
pretty easy too • .1 at compai•ti with
I'bat we now had •e encountrr. I bee.
tiding unreelves now surrounded ice' desire too. uiia.t or soca Ly myself
treaty, we settled down to camp, , open to the chera,e •.f sanity, as I was
, if p seiole, tot. recuperate and rest ; always known e. • modest buy, and sow
.re proceeding f.rther or. our , with increased )tare nut still jealous i f
eery, both man and beast sadly re- , wy reputation, tut for ail that, at strikes
rine the change. to a short while we i we that a e• isupanaon ptetme to the
iue the happy p.asrse..r• of a'loarter ; above, showing our party shu..tlog the
beef, which each of us tackled au his Ituckies, would trove ibierrsuug at.d at-
m account. cutting off pieces to suit ; tractive to the preeeut geuerstiou. It
Ise•e, ae.d toasting them on poinded was «sly pssiub to take nue waggon up
ka before the tire. eta tutu-, 's iii the to rses erre required
TA La .tROt'T .MIA1..nN 'T[A KN, Ito deals it, she • a u.•n lad to be planed
hotel style, or .ren quad on btNt; . at each wheat to 1.locti every yard we
euala out far • moment compare I
gamed. Ti.. ha•rsoe sh..ee wore now so
the luxury we enjoyed with ourj•m.e.th after- their long drives over the
}af cuukad in thta,.tbo moat prtti�itiee., Piatua. that the poor proles ware down
�u: r, and eaten with stash appetites I half the time, their noses cut and
oaly hsif-starvad men could po•srss. bleeding on for sharp rocks at almost
re utter stepped frastiwg until we l.ad every •face. Groat caution was cue-
Mtpiete;y div .tired every':h.u,e but the tinual.y uecessaiy, as a false move, eaas-
and these, to, were hastily ing a series to either right or
011A
en up and put on to hal to furnish
..lett, would have hurled us to tf.e bot-
rtli, fair an e.•r y m..roii, ; hreakta.t. ;Una of sows rocky csuyon, dashing se
wcicon.e cha.:go fr+in chit r: -ton• , to planes hundred.. et tent below
all alnll.daa ce of good t;,.!rt r.i, tl I Arrtkt Takatlt-kieti S LABOR,
ane, .4„„, pn.duced its bw,,i4iai ei'e.a•, with many hair -breadth escapes, we sec -
1
wing us improved beekh and spirits. ce.de.l is getting our sant waggon to aha
* ti.to0gb oar ismg. Med tilos me
1$►u"y
TOM MOODLtrra
the chief wonder. On leaving hone
was as thin as a rake, and in apFear-
MNe strongly reminded you of the p.iur
epos. who had teased up for his dinner
ad lust it. Now the continual open
Or exercise, and the ad vantages of
jMiping out, inhaling the fresh air both
I day and night, had made him a new
Min, his bronzed and happy -looking
res presenting a picture of health and
metentmeut, the very counterpart to
het ..f a well-known host of one of our
Itincipal hotels of the present day.
/fgt. Waldron, the 'gentleman in charge
of the relief camp came over to see us
s morning, ti ascertain our wants
necessities, and kindly informed us
we were welcome to all the floor,
and other provisions we required
present and even fur future use, and
Sat no remuneration would be accepted.
Sash liberality was so unexpected and
seisnrshing that after all, we could not
millp feeling that now indeed, "Our
lime had fallen in pleasant places."
net night the old clerionet was once
mere bruuyht to the front, and in grati-
tude to the euuntry and the man who
had thus rescued us, Woodiaffe struck
test with all his might and main, the old
poplar air of "Yankee Doodle Dandy. -
in which we all most heartily joined.
Now commenced preparations for
soother more, accepting first from oar
liberal donor all the provisions we
thought we should re iuire tG put us
through to our journey a end. Before
•e left we saw him bury slightly in that our camp. A hasty fire, with eatttally as
tiva ud,hasty •supper was soon over, and we
Tax -Aar or nova, lay down tired mud weary, so much so,
ich was t'ien marked by stakes a. a that we mule not sleep, livasd duty
ase t ► any other parties who eight was dispensed with, as we concluded
illill be in our ream and who, possibly. that any Indians who would tura out is
spire similarly situated as r ureelres. The i • snow storm, over ousts a path as we
' Country which we now traversed was I had trod, in search ot scalp., certainly
both pleasant and easy of access- ample deserved to trot them. In the mornio5
fired for our horse., with here and there
Ins streams of water every few mile..
This continued for ssverel days with
nothing of particular interest to note.
At last we arrived in a locality pacing
the singular feature of stumps of trees
* owe seven and eight feet from the *or-
bit* of the ground. We were of course
hnuch surprised at so unusual a sight,•nd
wondered if a rsce of long legged mien{.
top, which we safely secured, returning
for the others and repeating over again,
what we had accomplished. This done,
we commenced preparations for the des.
cent on the other side, and it ie really
hard to say, which ..f the two tasks wart
the most difficult, ea in going down, the
hoisse were of little or Ito service, w•
having t.; rely mianly on our own indi-
vidual efforts. However, we were re-
warded at least, by reachuaa the bottoaa
in safety. The tremendous strain ow
our nerves, in scot wpliwi►u.g this peril-
ous part of our journey, had complete-
ly prostrated us all, fur the day had net
only been a bard one, but it had shoo
been an unusually lung one, it being
quite dark by the time the last waggon
was down. Looking back at that portion
of our travels, 1 tun led to think, it. is
aatcntebing what man can do, when
backed by resolution and determination
tombtued--n , danger seems too gleet
to risk, or obstacles to otercome wham
knee the mind ie fairly made up to mon
mount them nd as
TML a'CASSON cu INT LY waves MIR
itEko,
so di&sultiee like the above call forth
the very best traits of our manhood,
and produce iii glowing colors, those
eterliag qualities, which have carried
success and victory tatumphantly over
both sea and land. For a day or two
the elements had warned us ,.f approach-
ing change, which made us particularly
anxious to get through the mountains
before it set in, and ever before we dad
so, snow commenced falling, accompan-
ied by severe frost, canine.; us .nweb
suffering before we got settled down in
had preceded us. Later on we were
$ 16,557 'formed this was the very spot where
• unfortunate party of the year before
bees
WEE ix TRI DREADFUL arrow
errr►NM,
so many lives had been lost, and
ich I referred to in the commettoe-
rent of say narrative. The depth of
show welt so great that when thee* trees
Mere chopped they were done so at that
gegulation and usual height. Fur
*oral days we could see away off in
the distance the gnat range of formida-
Me mountains which we knew we most
!lees over, and now we had approached
stair very base. What we had hitherto
`ssesd through we, as compared with
tis, but mere child's play. The task we
any had before us presented each ate -
:Lk'
s at voodoos difficulties that even the strong-
' est and moresolute of men might well
-fes pause before undertaking it.
FOAM 1 •. $1 and $2 TO CLIMB WIRRAL TXOVti•SD PINT aeon,
a bottle. The small ore lata sixteen over plebes in some instances nearly per -
days, the other thirty-two days. 0.11 rir pendisular, with yawning chasms os
write for McLeod.' System Iteeovator,
Newgate -et. , Godench, Ont.
Peel Liberals met in oonvention at
seam on yesterday and *molested Mr
Joseph Featherston w their ca dilate for
the oiireons and Mr Chisholm, M I'P,,
/s their eandidate for the Legislated
19,677
34,553
75,297
' Total, $81,791 $7,608 65 $146,084
Recognizing the importance of our town
in these departments of the public service,
the Government has now under construction
a handsanne and spacious public building.
The building will cost in the neighborhood
of $20
,0O0, and will be completed in 1890
t seems an absurdity fur three -loaners
of those having beamed.* at the county
town to be eoespelled to go to GoderiA
to trainer* it, when a mash more cen-
tral sad suitable place scald be selected.
The semsty buildings will eventually
ems to Clinton is spite of all that can
be done to provost it. (There are a
number of way closings going into Chi
ergo exactly in the same fix es Clinton.
Fifty or owe hundred people ernwd the
little pleas• wp so that the residents get
their heads swelled sad imagine fag/
things of themselves and their Nista
Bet is the big towns sash en index
erestes no saeiteewent. Nearly all the
people who go to Termite oe the 0.T. R.
from the west per through West.., bet
we barest heard that Weston vests to
have Osgoode Hall located at that point.
011aka Isn't the first little nbap that
Las stied for the moon sad dib t get its
_$.. Suva L j
•
O. Saturday neonates last while Kr
liee. Murray and two other young saes
ot Ssalnrth, were retaniie, home in a
honey the hetes hewer Inghtesiod near
the railway track ane ran away throw-
ing the osespasta nut thereby breaking
Mr Murray, right leg below the hese.
Ye was estwte1 to the oaks of Dr
Marti+ where the broken hones were set
mid the pelmet is mow doing well, bet
the *shimmed abeam, from his daily ate•
pp.slue is rather mimesis
on looking out, it was discovered that
several tnohee of *sow had fallen during
the night. Before moving say further
we determined to abandon our waggons,
and peck all, oar provisions and eftecte.
on our hones' backs This took cenaider-
able time, es we lacked the expenesos
of the old pioneer packers, who it r
said, would stow away eouugh staff os
a mules' back. sufficient to last a small
family for • month. Hr -ever, we I.ft
nothing behind as, sail when all on
commenced Ger jpurtey. tins night a
short while after we bad been in camp.
we were disturbed by the incessant bark-
ing of
• Paan Or woLvcs,
who had got in among the bursas- 'rhe
terrified brutes kept up a curatinual
etampna with their fore feet, whaoh kept
the wolves at bay tilt we got out and
fired off every gas and pistol we had
in our possession, which proved *uceew-
fel in driving them off. The roads were
now very bad and rough, large• boulder.
lying mood in all directions, compelling
us to go ria -sag all day, and when noghl
bad overtaken savory little distance had
been gained. Getting through this we
came to rather a decent Ina..;rna place foe
a halt As the pasture for our horses woe
better than we had obt ined for some
time, we typed and rested fora cuuple._
of days. Looking aerate the plains one
morning we observed a horse, wittiest
say rider coming rapidly teemed* se, no
all turned out and, tike the Iriemes who
every side, mod at the name time guide took three pneoneet by surrounding
our hones amid waggons with our camp than. we eauRbt the horn. The anima
supplies iselwded, required a heed as
clear as • Mme Minister's, a nerve like
the celebrated Burnaby, .ad as meek et
8a...oeian strewth ss you wield posse -
el possumsfor the *omission. Added to
all*omission. thane asomesaey qualities, a large
amount of pianism* sad skill might well
he thrown in. in the days of our youth
were aeaestomed to took with wee-
der end ade.iraties et • familiar pietnn,
proved to be • Sue mare and as all
had given • hand in watching her, to
avoid disputes, we decided to auction her
of. This wss dons, and I remember nay
share of the poise money amounted to
about $12. The sexliraight, we wee,
woke up by the growling of
A GOT Or aEMM.t' PRAT"
Coming so soon sitter the wolf mare.
we were woos on the alert. Ths great
whelk at that time hang from the walls bid Imam alter poking •boat in rather
of al isnot every household. It re an wndeeided malmer, soweluded to give
t:«��tad a Gee looking soldier on w the [o by, whish 7011 ay beam,
beek, sword is heed. pointing to ; rmestly relIeved w of anxiey. Ton OF,
the top of • very high hill, white thou- more travel, with aa.eely onythisg
anile of armed mon were Iollnwin$ be- werthy of mos, now brought es to "Tina
hind. in reply to my lunacies qu�u_eetion., told of (jtaid !"
I wag told it was the grit "imapoleee (To sa eoirrutt ea)