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i1011 Si1Le'3I TO [LENT—A. Store
ie Coutttilite, ouCorner of Station and Main
broets; Wal noted ftp, and snttabto fur Dry
Coeds, Grooury tot General Stone. For further
res,rttculttrs apply bo J. F1, FLYNU3IAN, Exeter, or
ott?u,r(E1L1 Y, Gentrslia.
1O11, SALE ---AN EXCELLENT
'`'ARM of one hundred acres on the London
',oad,lyst cones ion of Eitetgteu, near the village
of 1i otor' Apply toId;lt.L3,V.imam 0u1.o1-
^dor Exeter, August 13 I870.
L�BARGAIN. -00R SALE 'I'\VtJ
Lots situated on Main Street in the Village
•elf Excitor, suitable far private or pnblie buildings
—will be sold cheap,, For particulars apply t.,
JURY BREWER., Exeter, Ont.
WAGON SHOP AND DWELLING
'louse for sale in ;Dashwood, with ono -
fifth of :tu acre o11a11(1, situated near Orth's hotel
lltainvtroot,ate]. iu the bestpeat of the
village. 'Buildings needy noir. Quantity of fruit
dtrues on tue',retained' Price $451. Time given to
suit the purchaser. Apply tel L I1'I'ilit WIN 4E,
•Crediton. im.
a1 Af M FOB SALE.—Lot 6, bauble
' nine, Stephen, 50 soros, 30 acres cleared, 1,
ehupPod, good brick house, good stable, wel,
enuutt. k,wud excellent, On lake shore. } of et
mile kola Port Blake, where boats run there
linins v. week, and of a axile from Grazed Bond
'eiourenitntt toSOD oe and ohurobes, on good road
h.'rino, :3%500, terms easy; Sii)it.i'C J)F1SJAR
1v 114 S,13rewstor p o
FARM SALT .—Lot 14, CON-
meet°u 10, Stephan, containing 100 acres. 70
morns cleared. Good 1 g house tool fra•.ua barn,
x60. Good young arena.. d, gratted fruit, The
arnt is well fenced and a good state of culti-
vation. There is a, large uantlty of black ash,
also a never failing well, For terms apply to
33 ttN11Y FI3ILLIPPHI. (]rcditou. Juno 5
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I,lPP0RTANT NOTICES.
.grlevrONEY LOAN +'D IN LARGE OR
a.. small sums o•1 tlrst-rate security ata ono.
aerate rate Of interobt. Apply to
B. V.ELLIOT,
Solicitor, Exeter,
20thNovombor,1379. tf
j A.MES OKE, COUNTY AUCTION.
e e neer. Sales p-omptly attended to. Days of
sales arranged at this office,
NT J. CL:A.RK, Agent for the Us -
.Lr •ho•tloandIlibbort 0futualFiroInsurance
Company,44tosid'ence—Farclunar, Orders by
mail promptly attended to.
11 S. 0A.MPBELL, PROVINCIAL
J.J • Laotl Surveyor, &c., will Le at the
It yell Hote1,L•'xoter,cu the firstluosday in each
mouth. Orders for work left with Mr, John
Spackmanrillreceivoopr on�lptttttoution
p .
MIE
FIRE INSURANCE COUP'Y, OF LONDON.
ESTABLISIcBD IN Val
Agency established in Ca' lade.in1804. tJulimi-
8Nu liability of all the Stockholders, and largo
Reserve Funds. Moderate rates of premium.
JOHN A. 111YNOSIAN,
fi0J3T W TYRE, Manager. Agent at Exeter.
ONEY TO LOAN ON REAL El' -
tate for the Huron S Erie Loan Savings
Society. Low rates of interest. Apply to John
Speakman, Exeter.
TOIIN Ii, HYNDMAN,
t.
ACCOUNTANT, CONVEYANCER, REAL
ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT.
moueyto lean on mortgages, notes and other
securities. Runts and acconuis collected on rea-
sonable terms. Insurance effected in flrst•cltt3s
Colnppaties at reasonable rates. 0u3ce—at 1)r.
Ryndtnan's.Main Street Exeter
A LAKE, AUOTIONEEB FOR
• THE COUNTY OF HURON,
ALARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY
just received for investment on mortgages
at i.tper cent.
1 IIEDS,WILLS. ETC„ DRAWN
.1 on reasonable terms.
R.,ABB0TTL.
• kiraduatd of•RoyalColloge of
DENTAL SURGEONS.
Office over O'Neil bank, and opposite Samwoll
Fieksrcls.
1,(4OO KEGS
CUT NAIL
—AT—
Montreal Makers' Prices,
M. 11.46.OZ7,
IMPORTER
Carriage and Builders' Hard-
ware,
ard-ware,
CLINT Dw•
Exeter, Ontario, Thursday, May 6,
iYtanttoba Correspondence.
1880.
No3?
WINNIPEG, April 20.
inasmuch as there is no intermission lasting will be begun from the Stony Last week, W. 0ampbe11,jr., a yoJl,Iig
in the oonstautdownpour." More bare. Mountain end very shortly, and as soon man about 20 years of age, iu the em-
ploymeut of - Mr. A. Govenlock, o4
Winthrop,met with a severe accident,
ly whirls leg was broken. He was.
engaged io \logging at the time, and
while rolling a log ovor, it fell back
suddenly nponjhis hand-seike, which
came down upon his leg, breaking it
about four inches above the ankle
joint.
faced misrearesentatian than this awn
The mission of the delegates from hardly be imagined. As for the asser-
the Provincial Government to Ottawa tion that spring only commences in
has been, so far as knowu, attended May, the present season completely re -
with success, acid the Icon. John Nor- futes it. We have enjoyed beautiful
gutty and bit colleagues have been weather for the last two weeks, not a
congratulated by the press of the Pro- Bingle drop of rain having fallen from
since on both sides of politics. The the "weeping heavens." The winter
action of our Dominion Goverument is has been a severe one—abuurmally so
—and it has beeu loth to relax its icy
grip on the laud; tut in spite of this
exceptional drawback Winuipeg is, and
hue been for days, as dry as a plank -
walk, while the couutry round abotat is
drying up rapidly. As a rule our farm•
ere finial seeding on or at•ont the 26th
of April, and oommeuae nutting hay on
the 15th July, and would do so sooner
if the date was not sot by law. To he
sure the roads are bad at this seeson—
how could they be othertrise in a new
country?—but people mauage to get
about nevertheless, and with the ad-
vent of the dry season they will again
become goad. During the winter and
most of the summer the reside are suf-
ficiently good to enable people to tia-
vel without difficulty, and though they
inay be bad during the break up in the
spring and for a time in June, this
drawback will be largely obviated by
extensive system of drainage which the
Provincial government proposes to pro-
secute, and which, in additioi ai to
rendering the highways much lees sus-
ceptible to the chauges in the seasons,
will be the means of reclaiming a great
deal of rich laud which at present is
unavailable for agricultural purposes.
As for Winnipeg being as a "deserted
city," such a statement is absolately
false. There it no time in the year
wheu Wiuuipeg looks like a "deserted
city"—no time when her streets do
not bear evidence of a vigorous activity
in business—no time when her indica
Hous of commercial prosperity are ab
sent. Hard times—as utderstflo_ d
Ontario—are a ikuown here, an•i at no
handing over to our local authorities a
certain portion of the swamp lauds in
considoratiou of their being drained is
a stop iu the right direction. These
marshes withiu the present Iimits of
Manitoba do much to retard the settle -
mint of the country, as daring the
early spring, wheu full . to overflowing
with welter, they make portions of our
public highways difficult to travel, be-
.ithis which a large area of fine country
is lying waste, which, with' a little Iron•
ble and expense, could be redeemed to
cultivation and settlement. The sooti-
er, therefore, they are drained the bet-
ter, The withdrawal from the capital
account of the Province of $100,000
which has beeu agreed to by the Do-
rninion Gov.erninent, is to be employed
priucipally iu these drainage works.
The Toronto Telegram takes excep-
tion to our public buildings being built
at the expeuse of the Dontinlon, but
wheu it is considered that we have no
means of creating revenue (our lands
beicig the property of the Dominion)
outside of our regular subsidy, and that
we entered Confederation, unlike the
other Provinces, without public build -
lugs, it must be conceded that justice
only is being granted us in thislin3atter.
At present our legislature, wheu iu
session, occupies the Court House,
which is frequently a source of annoy-
ance acid hindrance in the adinmistra-
tion of justice, when the time for hold-
ing the courts happens to fall on . the
same date as the sitting of the legisla-
ture. •
It was hardly to be expected •that
any decisive step would be taken itt re-
gard to tyle enlargement of our bouud-
aries, ite consequence of the eziatiug
dispute between the Dominion and
Ontario on the boundary gnestiou, but
it is understood that the matter wili
receive the atteution of the Ottawa an-
thori'.iee at an early day. The, quest•
ea the new government pile bridge is
constructed across Red River, ballast
trains will run between this place and
and the gravel pits at Bird's Hill,abont
seven miles distant on the Pembina
Branch, so that the work will be carried
on from both ends, It is anticipated
that by next fall trains will be running
as far west as Portage la Prairie. The
utmost necessity exists for the vigorous
Pushing of the line to the westward, as
it will prove a potent factor in opening
up for settlement the fertile plains be-
yond us.
The pity is full of emigrants, most of
whom are bound for the west, but in
view of the near opening of navigation
many are waiting over till the boats
shall commence to run, which will en-
able diem to proceed to their destina-
tions with very little work. As nearly
all the outfits required are purchased,
here, bosinese is fairly booming, par•
ticulariy in agricultural implements,
vohiulerr, horses, horses,oxen, and other
supplies requsite for alsettler'e outfit.
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Dominion.
At Fieehertou, on Friday night, about
an inch of snow fell.
At a meeting of the Fergus Turf
Club officers were elected for the year.
Darius Smith, late Superintendent of
Lighthouses, died at Otissea, Out., on
Saturday.
Belleville's cruel police officers would
not let Murray Young commit suicide
iu the °elle while he wee drunk.
T. Connolly, Loudon Tunes Canadi-
an correapoutlent, fres, itis understood,
beeu appointed immigration ageut for
Ireland.
The Government has given permie-
siou to Montreal butchers to import
American hogs on condition that they
be 4anghterod'on arrival•. •
season during the year is this more ap- • M .s A. Govenlock, of Winthrop, has
parent than at the time when "Essex" lout store valua'lle pigs. They were
characterized Wiunipeg as a "deserted vary fat and succumbed to the el3ecte of
city." Another statement published overfeeding.
with a view to injure this country is About 400'immigrauts from Great
that "with the exception of small Britain and Ireland arrived Sunday.
isolated tracts of land, there are pos- 815 are for Ontario, 25 for Manitoba,
itively no desirable for settlement, .and 341 for Montreal and the remainder for
ui a few yearnthese fi,nreis will be the Western States.
tion is of great importance to us, as We largely augmented by reclaimed lands,
ought to be in a position to take ad-+ s.
while in the great west beyond us the
vantage to sup benefit that may arise area is praeticall y unlimited and cap -
and which we can Duly do by having able of affording Monies for -millions
ftotn the C608118 to be taken iu 1881.
the limits of our Proviuoe properly de-
fiued before that event takes place.
No thinking man can advocate the
creation of a number of small provinces
in this North-West. Between Red
River and the Rocky M•sunt•aine there
is room for just three good sized pro-
viuces, which could be governed at ono
half the cost that would be necessary
ii the same extent of territory were cut
up iuto ius.arnificant parts like Mani-
toba is; at the present'time. The psu•
pie outside the present limits of the
Province to the westward are as a gen-
eral rule eager for admission as a
part of I4l:initeba. We have very little
iuterest in the natter of our eastern
boundary, and do not care vary much
where it is located so lone as we extend
far enough westward. If we could be
assured of a port on Lake Superior it
evonid he a different mutter, but as
that is now ont of the question, it dons
not interest us very much where the
eastern hue is drawn.
,The past winter has been a very try-
ing one, even to Manitoba, and the ad
vent of a more genial season is viewed
with satisfaction by man and beast.
There are not wanting those who are
ready, and whose bosinese it is. to de.
cry the climate, andespeoial:•y the whit -
ere of Manitoba, and in many eases a
tendency to exaggeration —not to say
dowt,right f,lsehootl—exists ill dealing
with this subject. These who are loud.
est in their fault finding generally have
sump other motive than a desire to ad.
visa iutendiug emigrants of the nature
of the couutry they are owning to:
For instance, a writer in the St. Pani
Picineer Press, signing himself "Essex,"
indulges in two columus of the grossest
misrepresentation respectinu this conn -
try, for which he'hem doubt 'paid by
those whose aim it is to divert the
stream of emigration to the western
States. Amoleg other things he states
that the springs "linty be sail to' oom•
mono° in dley," "Winnipeg," he says,
"is fillet a deserted city at this some();
ferment and others are prevented from
going to town owing, to the bottomlee.
roadie The weepnig heavens aer.tn to
yet to Dome. The communication re•
tarred to is filled with jO.t such ab air, The rulaor that Messrs. Gooderham
dities, and as the author claims to have & Worts, of Toronto, had bought the
resided for some time in this country,
Toronto & Ottawa Railway charter is
Dan Bromtey,wauted in St. Thomas
for a burglary committed there on the
Loth of April, was arrested at Clifton
on Saturday night. Part of the stolen
goods were found on him.
it is safe to say that he has subordinat-
ed his veneration for truth to the temp -
Wiwi of the almighty dollar—a result
whish causes very little surprise to
those who are iu a position to make a
shrewd guess as to the indeutity of
"Essex."
Considering the minimal gnantity of
snow that fell during the winter just
passed, it was not surprising that there
were those who prophesied freely of
floods when the break-up sliotrld come.
But it would seem tl+rtt these prophets
are destined to be false pr,..pheta. Win•
ter has merged into spring, the gaper -
abundance of snow, arid n»t the faint-
est indications of the dreaded °inutility
have presented themselves. It is many
years since such an evouc ocourred—so
f,tr off, indeed, as alino't to have be-
come a tradition•,—and in truth it would
seern that the forces which combined
to produce floods ,in the past have no
existence now, or at least ex)8t )tt such
a molifie,i term that no evil is feared
from thein. The Red Diver, which at
the time of the important, flood, some
thirty years ago, was a comparatively
ivaignificaut stream, is now a mighty
favorably received, 9a it is generally be;
lieved they will go on with the work
without delay.
In Pittsburg township Wm. Ander-
son rented the Hyslop farm, which
had been sold fit Sheriff's sale. When
going to take possession of it he was
shot in the neck by a concealed mis•
creaut. The wound is slight.
A new tobacco tactory, with a capit-
al of $80,000, is about to be establish•
ed in Montreal. Its first directors will
be Edward Mackay, Jonathan Hodg-
son Win. Smith, G. K. Starke and
William Reid.
The Coaticook Cotton Mills, just op-
ened, adds another factory of import-
ance to this Province. This mill con-
tait,e 200 looms and 10,000 spindles,
and employes 250 operatives, It is of
a capacity to turu out $200,000 worth
of cotton per annum.
From the 12th of November last to
April 23,d Messrs. Linghaln & Co., of
Belleville, have shipped from Halifax,
Portland, Boston, New York, t'hiladel-
phia and Baltimore. to England, 15,-
221 cattle and 4,291 sheep, valued at
waterway capable of carrying off all the ;1,700,000.
water of rte tributaries without the Thomas Naggs, came into Wood -
slightest danger -of orerfoWing its !sigh
baokt. At the present juuctnre,when, stook, blew out the gas in the bed-
ttccording to the prophets, we should be .ern at the Carderimmecial Hotel Sun-
day about .over the site of Winni- day night. A boarder hearing a noise
peg in fiat bolasthe water is from
le his room about four bl;oudav morn -
1 level
ins, became alarmed, and on breaking
a
steen to twenty feet below the
eve °pen the (I)" Neggs wets found near -
of its banks, with not the remotet+t
danger of overleaping them. Old set. ly (lead. fle is expected to recon
tiers here, who aro conversant with the erThe Finance Minister on 111�nday
devia enation of the river in years gone laic' on the table a return showing the
by, assert the causes which led to the
former floods are not in operation now, relative receipts on account of customs
aed this is generally accepted,opinion and excise tor the years 1878, '79, '80,
on all Hides. respectively, shown as follows: --
The trach of the Winnipeg branch of
the Canada Pltoifio Railway has boon
laid to Stony Mountain, a distance of
some fourteen nail+'a, to its junction
with the main line, andusing are
sympathist with the dejected citizens, passing ovor it almost daily. The bal-
1877 1879 1880
Ctistoms...$ 001,661 $628,705 $1,159,260
Excise 310,306 790,588 582,319
Entad A1.211,007 8768,873" 0.634,602
The exhibit, as may be, seen, is one
of the most gratifying description,
Several days ago a farmer living in
the country a short distance south of
Woodstock, named George Wood, was
brought up before the Police Magis-
trate for attempting to murder his
family. He told his wife in the morn-
ing that he bad beeu thinking about it
all night, and then procuring a hatchet
made the attempt ou their lives, but
was overcome by his wife and daugh-
ter. Tile Police Magistrate sentenced
him to jail, and Monday morning he
suatehed an old knife dropped acciden-
tally by a vagrant in custody, and out
bis throat, dyiug iu.about two minuteste
He was insane.
THE HANDFORD TROUBLE.
FIRST MEETING OF THE INVESTIGATING
COMMITTIrE.—NOTHING IMP0RTANT
BROUGHT FORWARD.
Toronto, May 3.—At the special
committee meeting held on Saturday
evening, Mr. Fraser in the chair, 111r.
M. H IL•ish read rho following report
on behalf of the committee :
Mr. Handford expressed his grateful
pleasure on receiviug the resolution so
unanimously passed,declining to accept
his resignation, and said that the re-
signation expressed exactly his wishes,
and that he did not regard it best to
ask its withdrawal, but would leave the
whole matter entirely in the hands of
the committee, 'with the wish and
earnest desire that every effort would
be Made to elicit the truth concerning
the rumors' already before the publio
reflecting upon his character; and that
he was too ill to attempt to fill Lis pul-
pit on Sunday.
At the morning meeting Sunday,
Mr. Elgar stood up in the body of the
clruroh and said that he had had a
lengthened interview with Mr. Hand-
ford, who, he was now convinced, had.
a complete answer to the calumnies
which were in circulation concerning
him. He felt assured that Mr. Hand-
ford would occupy the pulpit of the
church next Sunday. These remarks
were received with applause, after
which the audience slowly dispersed.
A prayer ►peeling was held in the
church in the evening as was announc-
ed in the morning, which was presided
over by Mr. Elgar.
Toronto , May 4.—The committee
appninted to investigate the charges
against the Rev. Mr. Handford, pastor
of Bond Street Congregational Ohurob,
metMunday evening in the church and
proceeded with the work before them.
A series of rules were adopted gover-
ning the manner of taking theevidence,
and it wrs decided that no charges
should be entertained further back than
1877, the time when he was accepted
as pastor of the church.
Mr, James Thompson, one of the
complaining deaoous,was then examin-
ed at great length, but his evidence
amountedsimnly to hearsay statements,
in some cases being sifted through five •
or six persons. Iu fact, act one of the
members of the committee uniquely
expressed it, his evidence did not
amount to a row of pins. The press is
not admitted, but at the close of the
examination a full text will be given to
the newspapere.
General.
Prince Leopold leaves England on
May 13th, accompanied by floe. Alec,
'Yorke and .l)r. Iihyl. He will first
visit his sister at Ottawa, and then f 1 -
low a route including St. Louis, Chi-
cago, Cincinnati, Washington, Now
York and Newport. He will spend four
months in America.
The difficulty about Chas. Brad-
laugh, the Liberal and atheist, return-
ed to the House for Northampton, Lek
tng the oath of allegiance, has not been
nettled. He is willing to make affir-
mation, but the auth oritlee of the
these have not agreed whether Ante
will be admissible, and it may .bo are•
oeesary to appoint a committee to cou-
aider the question, whittle is within the
iuclusive control of the House,