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Manager.
, 91' HE EXETER TIMES.
The Huron 1,)eanerY Sunday 1 Centralia.'
tichool Convention. ....... _
—..... Ban:vs.—Joshua Huxtable has had
The annual Sunday School conven- a new Paige wit fence pat arouna
tion of tbe Church of England S. S. 1 hie lot. --Mrs. R. F. Rieke is very ill.
of this county of Huron WaS beta at — tl, W. .Sanith hes bought one of
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.Seaforth On 'Tuesday a last week, Chris Baskerville's barns and had it
whon it attained. to almost diocesan removed to the rear of his oheese
proportions. The following delegates fitctory.--The excavation of Mr. Cot
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trill's new building - is finished and
the contractor is awaiting the manu-
facture of the brick.--Illesrs. H.
Eilber, V. Ratz and. J. Shirritt • took
train on Tnesday morning for the
County Council in G oderich..—
Arrangements are being mad e for
the annual ist a July festival on the
parsonage grounds. It promises • to
be the best yet held,
Tan .. Row. Temenanse—The R.
T. of T. had an ice cream social on the
evening of the 24th of May, 'whieh
was well. . attended. Visitors from
the Crediton, Sodom and Exeter
cOnneils were present and a warm
debate • took place .on "Capital
Punishment," between Messrs. Har-
ris,. Stenlake and -Carrick in favor of
it, and Messrs. Delgatir; Butt and
Prouty. •The former Won by ten
points. --The District Meeting of the
R. T. of T. is to be held here on the
12th a June, and the local council is
making preparations therefor.
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THURSDAY, :TUNE 6th, 1885.
were present from this loettlity.
Exeters—Rev. Mr. and Mrs, Hunt,
Mn Kemp, Mrs, Mein INIrs, Richard -
sou, Miss's Fish (2), Sweet (2), Dyer,
Dennis, Peterson, Horn, Young, Day,
Leathorn, • Newton (2), • Bissett,
Kemp, Mr. Case, Mr. Richardson,
Hem:W.—Rev. M. Roy„Tohn Rice,
Mr. and. Mrs, :51ars1ia1l, Misses Bro-
wnell, - frlinallacembe,• Reynolds (2)
Johnston, Petty (2).
Since the appointment itf Rev. Mr.
Hodgins as Rural Dean he seezns to
have imbued both Clergy and 'laity
with the zeal and energy for which
he is so noted, that on his the
conventiontogether at Seaforth nine-
ty delegates answered their names
from the neighboring parishes. The
twelve elergy of the several parishes
of the Deanery were all present, as
well as two others from outside the
Deanery. The large sehool room was
crowded all through the day, and the
papers read and. discussed were ex-
cellent.
Rev. Mr. Griffin took up the sub-
ject of societies and their places in
the chureh and Sunday school.
Rev. Mr. Jeans, a paper on the
tnodel
Miss Sweet of gxeter, took up the
subject of Sunday school literature,
setting forth the necessity of paying
more attention to the books, papers,
leaflets, etc., used in the Sunday
school. They should be such as are
in sympathy with the church's
doctrine and calculated to elevate
the mind, broaden the soul and make
the children intelligent as well as
active members of the church.
.4. strong pull was made for the
next place of meeting by Exeter,
'Brussels and Whighaan when the
latter -won the day and the next con-
vention win be held there in May,
1800. The following officers were
elected:—Hon.Pres. Rev. Rural Dean
Hodgins; pres. Rev. L. G. Wood;
vice-pres, Miss Sweet Exeter; sec-
treas. Mr. H. Dennis, Brussels, cor
sec, Mrs. Foster, Wingham. Votes
of thanks were passed to the readers
of the papers and also tothe ladies of
Seaforth for their very hospitable
entertainment.
In the evening a service was held
in St Thomas' Church, which was a
treat to many. The excellent choir
of over thiety voices chanted the
psalms and responses in a way to re-
flect credit on the; church, while the
Rev. Mr. Turnbull, rector of Gode-
rich, preached an able, tpractical
sermon on parental responsibility.
A meeting • of the. Ruri-Deconal
Chapter was held next day, all the
Clergy' and some of the laity remain-
ing over, when matters of interest to
the church was taken up and dis-
posed of.
The next convention will be held in
Wingham, _and the September meet-
ing of the Deanery will be held in
Clinton.
Notice to Times' Readers.
The publishers would esteem it a favor if
readers wmad,when making their purchases,
'Mention that they -saw the merchant's adver-
tisement in Ten Imes.
The Crops In Ontario.
Toronto, Ont., Stine 1.—Following
is a synopsis of the Government °rep
bifiletin just issued by the Ontario
Department of Agriculture:—
The month of May opened very
warm and then occurred a succession
of frosts lasting from May 12 to May
21, which were exceedingly severe
throughout the Province. The in-
land and higher sections suffered ex-
ceedingly. A narrow strip along
Lake Erie and Ontario was more
fortunate, especially where sheltered
by high land. These frosts have done
extensive damage to the more tender
fruits, early vegetables, bearingtrees,
imported shrubs, youxig hedges, and
in some districts also to the fall
wheat and spring grains; but the
probability is that the amount of in -
pry has been somewhat exagger-
ated in many districts and that naany
crops will recover.
Fall Wheat.—In the western half
• of the Province, whilemany splendid
fields have been reported, loss by ice
has been common, ranging from odd
patches in low lying fields in
several of the great fall wheat co-
unties to a thinning of nearly 50 per
cent. in otherportions of the country.
In the eastern part of the Province
very little loss has been reported
from winter killing, bnbcornparative-
ly little fall wheat is raised there.
Not much injury from insects has
been reported.
Winter Rye.—Very little grown,
but what there is looks well.
Spring Wheat.—The acreage will
be xnuch smaller than usual this year,
except in the St. Lawrence and
Ottawa counties. Much of the crop
was not far advanced to be hurt by
the frost, although many early fields
got touched.
Barley.—This crop in every district
has been more or less injured by
frost, but may recover.
Oats,—From every county group
reports come of the young plant be-
ing nipped. by the frost, but, as in the
case of barley, it was thought that
favorable weather would redeem the
crop.
Peas.—This crop, where sown
early, was ca:ught by the frost and
considerably injured. Prospects
better for late sown peas.
Corm—Early planted was badly
cut by frost, but conditions are now
favorable to a good start for later
planting,
Beans.—Early beans badly hurt
by frost.
Roots and. Potatoes.—The frost cut
off early potatoes and roots, but very
little had been planted except by
market gardeners, The conditions
for planting were favorable at the
end of the month.
Hay anclelover.—Thefrost has in-
jured clover very much. From
all parts of the Province it is re-
ported as being put back or killed.
Pasture grasses have been sufferingib.
most parts of Ontario from lack of
rain and also from two weeks of the
cold weather in May.
Fruit Orchards and vineyards near
the lakes have suffered less than
others. On the whole the grape crop
is reported a failure, except from
Pelee Island and a fewfavored places
on the south-west and Niagara, dis-
tricts. 'Small fruits, peaches, plums
and. pears will be limited in quantity.
Cherries are likely to be very short.
With the exception of the Lake
Huron tract apples promise a, fair
yield, especially in the cases of
winter varieties. Some fruit trees
may yet make up for the los. There
Will probably be a fair amount of
• fruit.
Labor and Wages.—In-only a few
localities are farm laborers reported
scare. Taking the Province over
the is more than a sufficiency. In
most cases farmers report their helf)
as being of good quality, but in a
number of instances the statement is
made, "The right class scarce,"
• Mary Aikens, a usdow, aged '70
years, died on Friday afternoon in
•Toronto from the effects of an assault
last Friday morning in Queen's
Park, Frank Smith. and Wm. Brown,
two notorious criminals, were arrest -
Oa oiieaspicion of being the assail-
ants and were identified as such by
the victim.
Bradstreet's reports the assign-
• ment, of .Chas. Clutlie, manufacturer
uSseS,. Toronto.
A. Letter from. Colorado.
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To the Rdltor itf the 111weter Times.
la fulfil:1mM ot e pronotte made when
leaving home. I now send you a few Pates
:1 ray trip out here, also my impressions of
the country I left Detroit at nom.: one
day About the middles of March, taking the
old reliable glebisan Central to Ohicego,
I was soon whirled to the Beilington de -
rot, whieh is one of tbe baudsomeet of
the meny edifices of a like °tweeter of
which that enterprisiug city boasts. Pi ay.
hag awned a through tioket to Denver
over the popular Burlington route I wee
soon rushing towa,rde the "wdd and woolly
west." Anyone who intends travelliug iu
this direction wilt 00c1 complete aetistact-
ion if they buy their tickets via the Bur.
lington. Their accommodations vae cars
thinly Emit -class, the train hands are
eciateous and Attentive to the
wants of the patrons of the road, while
their trains, are run at the highest rate of
opeed conaletent with. safety. A noticeable
feature of the railway journey was the
perseveranee ot the inevitable newsboy hi
selling a yellow- covered book entitled
"Cloin's Fine:areal School." Tile sale .)f
this little book was pushed most indust-
riously and a great many sales were made.
I soon disooyered the reason for the many
sales. The great question agitating the
minds of the Americum peoplejust now,
min e particularly in the weat, is the silver
question—shall ib be renaonetrzed again or
must it remain demonetized as it has been
eines 1873 ? tbe weet this cpmetion
enbordinates all others. Republicans,
Democrats—or such of that party as re-
mains—and populists, all appear to be
united on the necessity of again making
silver the unit of value, and if there are
any who believe that silver should remain
subordinate to gold they are slow to ex-
press such views in the face of the over.
whelming publio sentiment in favor of saver.
To be what they call a "goldbug" out here
is to be considered a traitor to the west;
and we all know how much we dislike being
called a traitor. Well. this "Coin's Fin-
anoial School" is a strongly and to most
people a convincingly written argument in
behalf of the reatorittion of silver to the
place it centupled m the ourrency prior to
1873. Hence its popularity with the
average westerner. It is slightly seasoned
with antagonism towarde Great Britain,
but in that respect I this* it appeals to a
sentiment that is all but dead. The
feeling entertained towards England by
the American people is more that of
rivaIry;which is quite justifiable, rather
than dislike, Many ot the best men do
claim that while gold and gold alone
remains the fundamental money of the
nation, England, as the lending nation of
the world doubles her wealth by making
repayable in gold bonds which were
floated when silver was recognized in this
country as the "dollar of our daddies,"
but this argument appears to be weak in
that it makes the English moneylender
stand for the English nation. It is fur-
ther weakened by the fact that the Right
Hon. A. J Balfour, than whom no more
man is more thoroughly British, has
become an out-and-out chimp= of silver
—a ohammonship which has been recog-
nized in Colorado: In the Central part ot
the state one of the most promising gold
=deliver mining camps has been named
"Balfour" in his honor.
SUDDEN DEA.T1-1.—lt in Our painful
duty to record the sudden and unex.
pected death of Mr. Leonard Hunter,
of the 2rid concession of Usborne, at
the age of 08 years. Ile was at
church on Sunday afternoon as
usual, and in the evening went out
on the verandah with his wife, and
though feeling some pain did not
apprehend. anything serious, when
suddenly he fell into his wife's arms
and. expired. Heart failure was said
to be the cause of death. Mr. Hunt-
er, who was born in Westmorland,
England, in the year 1827, came to
this country about 47 years ago, and.
shortly after settled in the township
of Morn°, where by industry and
economy he obtained Obeautiful
home for himself and family. He
was highly esteemed by all who
knew him. For 14 years he served.
on the township as councillor,deputy
reeve, and.reeve, and at the time of
his death he was a member of the
Board of Health and a director of
the County Fair. Relea,ves a widow
aud four children, besides seven
other children by his first wife. The
funeral, conducted on Tuesday by
the Rev. W. H. Butt, was largely
attended. At a meeting of the
official board of the Centralia circuit
of the Methodist elnusch, the follow-
ing resolution was passed and a copy
sent to the bereaved. family, and to
be published in the papers :—"Moved
by John Essery, seconded by Richard
Hicks, that the members of the
Quarterly and Trustee Boards of
Centralia circuit here assembled, de-
sire to express their sympathy with
Mrs. L. Hunter and family in the
great and irreparable loss they have
sustained in the death of a husband
and father. We have always found.
Bro. Hunter obliging, yet faithful in
the performance of his duties in con-
nection with the church or state,
either in private or official capacity,
'end we keenly feel the loss we have
sustained in the deathof our brother,
friend. and. neighbor."
Chattel! Pays the Penalty for His
Atrocious Crime.
The ensign of death—the black
flag—floated from the staff at tb.e
court house Stratford, Friday morn-
ing for the first time in the history
of the county of Perth and. remained
flying for the space of an hour. It
was during that hour that Almeda
Chattelle suffered the penalty of
death for the horrible butchery of
little Jessie Keith, near Listowel on
a beautiful day in October last. He
received a fair and full trial and. that
day the judgment of a tribunal of
justice was carried to a conclusion.
The condemned man's last night on
earth was spent as though the morn-
ing was not to rise to him for the
last time. Two sisters, who are in
convents, had. written asking that he
be visited by a priest. Father Dow-
ney called several times during the
week and on Wednesday for the
first time Chattelle showed some in-
terest in religious services.
He made no confession other than
that already given the public shortly
after his arrest. The hanging took
place at 8.03, and at 8.14 life was
pronounced extinct. The scaffold.
was erected against the west wall.
Radcliffe, the executioner, was the
last person to appear ou the scene.
He inspected the scaffold for a
moment with a critical eye and drove
but one nail as a result of the in-
spection.
There were less than thirty people
present to witness the final scene.,
but outsidethe walls possibly 300
clamored for admittance. Chattelle
ate a hearty breakfast of toast,
poached eggs and coffee and finished
up with a glass of brandy.
Chattelle never winched. He
walked with a firm step and head
erect, the only outward. evidence of
concern being the deadly pallor that
overspread his countenance. On the
way to the scaffold he repeated pray-
ers after Father Downey and again
while he yet stood. under the noose.
As soon as he was placed in position
his legs were pinioned at the knees,
and when the prayers had. ceased
Radcliffe, who during this time stood
at his back, pulled the black. cap over
Chattelle's head, A tnoment later
the fatal trap was sprung and Chat-
telle was launched into eternity.
The Latest News.
It is esthuated that there ara,about
15,000 bushels of wheat in the farm-
ers' hancle within hauling distance of
Forest. This means at least $16,000.
At the Brantford Institute for the
blind on Saturday. Thomas Rennick,
aged 18, and Robert Fyle, aged 10,
who have partial sight quarreled
while 'playing ball, and Remick was
struck on the head with a,bat, He is
not expected to recover.
The exaggerated reports of dis-
covery of lunapjaw among cattle sent
to Montreal for shipment have been
authoritatively denied, It was based
on the fact that some anitnalt aftect
ed. with Itunpjltw and rejected by.
the Dominion inspectors were sent
by their owners to the abattoir to be
slaughtered for local consumption,
bat the abatior people refused to
kill these animals,
Tato X. t 0. for roar ittomooli had
miok hedaeho,
ggr,
Baytleid.
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BRIEFS.-31r. H. Grieve of Sea -
2 orth built a fine wind mill for Mr.
Thos. Dewettdast week for the pur-
pose of forcing water up the hill
trona the river one hundred and.
thirty feet which gives good satis-
faction.—Mr. W. G. Erwin, Sam
Huston and John Herd left by boat
from Goderich Wednesday morning
for Sault Ste Marie. kis. Herd and
Mr. Huston intend taking up land if
they like the country.—Mr. Pridhana
of Goderiele was in town on Monday.
—Mr, James Pollock is repainting
the Queen's Hotel this week.—A.
very sad and fatal accident occurred
near Porter's Hill on Saturday night
about half past ten o'clock. Jonathan
Burton. had been helping Chas Mc-
Gregor during the day to build a
fence and left for his home about
8 o'clock accompanied. by his wife.
When. they reached home be went
out to fix a fence to keep the cattle
from breaking into the orchard
where an old. frame of a barn stood,
his wife holding the lantern for him.
He had. only driven one or two nails
when down came part of the frame
striking him on the head killing him
instantly., His wife tried to lift the
timber off him but was unable, and
being alone her shriekes• and cries
aroused the neigbors Who soon
gathered around but only to find him
a corpse. The sadaffair has cast a
gin= over the neighborhood. His
remains were interred in Hayfield
cemetery on Monday at 2 o'clock.
The respect in which he was held was
shown by the large company of
friends which attended the funeral,
there being one hundred an fifteen
rigs in attendance. The bereaved
widow has the sympathy of the
entire community in her sad. trouble.
Rev. A. W. Richardson, of Brant-
ford, has beea chosen by the First
Congregational Church of Kingston,
as their pastor if he will accept the
invitation, in succession to the late
Rev. Dr. Jackson.
Fire did 825,000 or $30,000 damage
to Mr. Fearman's pork packing
establishment at Hamilton,- but . the
firm's bilsinesswill not be interrupted.
Cromarty.
BRIEFS.—The fanerai of the Tate
Mrs, James McKaig was largely at-
tended, over ninety vehicles being in
the procession. The bereaved hus-
band has the sympathy of the coin-
rnunity.—Mr. A. Campbell is able to
be around again. Mrs. Gorle s also
improving.—Miss Maggie McVeigh
is very ill at present.—Mr. A. D.
Naismith, M. D., has sold out his
practice at Staffa. His many friends
will regret his departure.—The late
frosts have nothurt thegrasshoppers,
as they are quite numerous and very
lively.—Mr. R. Hoekin, of Itirkton,
visits our villa,ge twice a week. Any-
one in need of bread or meat can get
a first class article in either line from
him—The Missionary meeting of the
Y. P. Society Sunday evening was
-well attended. Interesting papers
on Mission Work /were read by Mr.
Park dna 11/iss Jessie Gillespie.
Deming here. There IIEWC been bat two or
three light showers, like "geutle dew from
Heaven." I am told, however, that it can
rain in right good style when it Onee WAS
atart. I have knowledge of my ewa that
it Can SnOW in ouch a, Way 58 to Wake an
eaatern snow storm turn greeu with envy.'
We had quite a stow storm On the 17th of
the preeera "merry moron: of key." But
one Saturday about a month ago we had
a terrific room storm. The wind blew
great gtonssfrom every oceeceivable roint of
the compile, Aey idea that may be enter-
tained tbat tide ie a, perpettral autumn
climate must be diasipatod. Althouali as
a rule the winters are not very cold, the
thermometer frequent'y regiatered from 20
to 30 degrees below zero, which is pretty
cold. But I am told that on attempt of
the dryness of the air this cold its not as
severely felt as when the same degree of
frost is reglotered in the east. On the
other band tbe beat is not extreme in
summer except probably for en hour or
two in the middle of the day. Morninge
and evenings are alwaya cool, quite cool,
blankets read heavy bed clothing are in
requisition the year around.
The dry climate, together with the
charaoter of the soil, ensures permanent
good roadie Mud is an almost an uukuoven
quantity na these regions, wbert people
back in Michigan and Oaterio are wading
in sticky rand up to their boot tope it will
not be over half an inch deep here, and an
hour's sunshine will dry it up ompletele.
The soil is light an somewhat sandy, and
water eaaily percolates through it, As
there is little or no rainfall, fanners have
to depend almost entirely on irrigation,
and the lightness of the soil la therefore a
great advantage to agriculture in allowing
the water from the irrigating ditches to
thoroughly soak the surface of the land.
The crops grown are enormous. Prtatoes
are an especially Sue orop, they often
average oyer a ,pound e,pieme, while the
yield per sore Is immense. About ten
acres of potato land out here is almost as
valuable frora the point of view of produce
tivenees as a 100 sere farm in the east.
All kinds of toots thrive well, and yield
good returns to the grower. The country
is well adapted to fruit growing, Peaches,
peare, plume, berries of all kinds, apples,
cherries, and, in short nearly all fraits
yield enormous samples in large quantit-
ies. This is particularly true of the west-
ern part of *1 State—over the mountain
ranges. A fruit orchard in the Grand
Junction district is a yery valuable _piece
of property. A. bunch of grapes Is fre-
quently large enough to cover the bottom
of a good awed milk pan. Farming is not
called farming here, but ranching. But
there is no farming as in the eaat. There
are ranges and ranches. The latter may
embrace hundreds or thousands of acres,
though as the state fills up and the value
of land goes up, the size of the ranges
diminish. Tee ranges are the territories
over which cattle and sheep roam in charge
of cowlloya and borders respectively, The
ranches are smaller paroele of land, meetly
used for markec gardening .purposes; tie
that usually when a man 38 said to be a
"raneher" it can be taken for granted that
he is engaged in a business somewhat
equivalent to market gardening in the
east. A very profitable business I believe
it is as a rule, Grain growing is not
oomraonly practised. Alfalfa takes the
place of clover. It bears a strong family
likeness to clover, and it yields enor-
roonaly, twice, rornetimea thrice a year.
Denver has iraproved very much since
I was here in 1889. Ib would have improv-
ed very muob more had it not been for the
business panio which followed the acquis-
ition of power by the Demoorats and the
subsequent repeal of the silver purchasing
olausee of the Sherman Law. These two
oanses combined have kept the city and
the State—in fact I may say the entire
west—at a standstill for two or three
years. If the panic has hurt the west it
has been avenged by the utter destruct-
ion of the Demooratio party in the west
There is scarcely enough of that party left
to wad a gun, and unless some great and
Writ:area for change takes place in public
sentiment they will simply not be "in it"
at the presidential election next year so
far as the western states are ooneerned.
Denver bears many evidences of having
been bit by a panic. They are to be
traced in her many empty houses and
business pieces, the many and in the main
fruitless applications for employment. the
extremely low rate of wages now paid as
compared with the liberal spates which
preyailed in the "booming" days, the
great drop that has taken place in the
prioe of real estate of all kinds, the number
of mortgage forecloeures, the low rentals
and the difficulty of making colleotions or
realizing on good securities. Many men
who some time ago thought themselves
independently rich, and quite beyond the
reach of financial squalls, now find them-
selves up to the neck in the waters of
affliction. Numbers of them have been.
unable to weather the storm. Considering
the size of the place—about 160,000—the
business bloats?' are better built than in
any city I havetseen in, Toronto has no
such buildings as Denyer; nor has Detroit.
The Brown Palace Hotel is certainly one
of the finest in the West, but ot course it
is not paying daring the hard times wbich
the country is experiencing. It would
take up too much space to describe this
handsome structure, and I know of old
bow the editor "kicks" when space is
taken up with anything partaking of the
character of a "nuff." There are electric
and cable cars no the oity—no horse care
but one short line in one of the es:herbs.
When I was in the city before mules were.
commonly need for those purport% for
which horses were used baok east, but
mules appear to have taken ,their depap
tore with the "bad Injun" and the festive
buffalo. This is largely because horse! are
now very cheap, I bates been told that
"range' harem( have been sold at auction
out here at as low a figure as 750 per head.
Wild animals are said to abound in some
parts of the moun tains —wolves, bears,
et:tame:unto, mountain lions, the last meip
tioned being quite a dangerous animaL
Jack rabbits, a very large epeeies of the
rabbit family, are very plentiful in bOtne
portions of the State. They multiply
very rigidly and are destroyed by the
thousand, Seyeral kinds of deer are
plentiful in the mOtintaillS, and they
afford yery fine sport for the bunteman.
They sotnetimes bunt the hunter. Tbe
Jaokass, a oloae relatiye of the "tnewel,"
et not in evidence as of en as Ono would
expeot . They are commonly sailed
"burros" here, Facetious people, how-
ever call them "bureaus" sometimes on
aecount of the large loadwhich can be
piled upon there, While there are few of
them in the city there are many of them
in the country, and especially in the
mountains, where they are used to carry
tonriste and others up and down the steep
ascents. They are very Useful in mining
operations, whittle are all Parried on in the
mountains or "among the foothille. Vary
many mines aro located In regions where
there are as yet no road% and the convey-
ing of otos to the damp mina or to the
railways for shipment to the molten
Would be sometimes %spareable Wert, it
•
There are many tnriying cities, towns
and villages on the route through which I
came. Iowa appears to be a particularly
fine state, though one cen hardly judge of
the capabilities of any section when it is
covered with now. There is a good deal
of wooded land in Iowa. There is none
west of the Missouri River unlees where
arboriculture has been practised, and even
then the growth is not prodigioue. In
Colorado 11 is mostly the cottonwood tree
that is planted. Nebraska's snow -clad'
plains did not wear an inviting look.
OmahaOmaha on the western bank of the yery
wide
,
river, and which the trains
cross on a bridge inetead of by ferry boate,
has not yet, it is said, reoovered from the
panic) 01 1893. It is a vety fine city
though, and with the return of prosperity
to the country it will no doubt soon
recover lost ground, for no doubt times
mast mewl again in so great and young a
country as this. I reached Deaver about
breakfast on a Friday morning, haying
been on the road from Detroit only since
the previous Wednesday noon. Tbis is
remarkably quick time in which to make
a journey fully half way }moss the con-
tinent, and must be somewhat startling to
the pioneers who, a quarter of a century
ago or lese, consumed weary, weary weeks
in toiling their way in wagons oyer the
• burning and almost boundless plaine, and
probably fighting their way prat hostile
eaysges. Speaking of savages reminds me
that I have not seen an "Injun" since
coming west, though, when I was here in
1889 they were more numerous though
tame. Perbaps I oupht to amend this
assertion by eayiug that I have seen one
Indian, but aa he has been dead for some
years he is now a thoroughly good Indian
and don't count. He is dirmlayed in a
amseam, and a legend attached to his
anatomy, by meane of a piece of wire,
alleges that he was found dried up in a
caye in the mountains. He looked genuine,
but I have been fooled so often in this
wicked world that I ant- not prepared to
affirm that the c'Injun" may nob have
been a counterfeit prepared by the mus-
eum man to amuse "tenderfeet" like
myself. However that may be, this rival
of the Pharoshs and other distinguished
ancient Egyptians, embalmed by nature,
as he was, or is said to hays been, is use
ful as showing what this wonderful oltroate
will sometimes do for living men. The
climate of Colorado is essentially different
from anything it the climate line back
east with which we are acquainted. This
climate is dry. 1 wonid not undertake to
eat, that dead persons will dry up in every
part of the state so as not to require
burial at the hands of mourning relatives
and frieada, or so that a proud man may
bs able to prove his pedigree by pointing
to the departed "shades" of his ancestors,
properly arranged and ticketed with their
remective virtues in the halt of his man -
aim, but the °flumes does appear to dry
up and heal lung sores. The influence of
this climate is felt by the stranger almost
fla Soon as he readmit tbe state line, and
at first not pleasantly either. It is hard
to catch the breath. nth: diltotilty of
respiration id a pretty more indication that
the liver or some other part of the anetomy
is 'tout of whack." It is more likely to
bother people with weak digestion than
those whore) lungs are alightly affected. It
is a god of gasping sensation that is felt,
trot it parolee away as the condition of the
atomaoh iinproyeat This State is a great
resort for coheuraptives. The dryness of
the atraosphere sada a ours except in
yery baa cages. Some reraarkable cures
have centainly been effected. There
appears to be, however, strangely enough,
a great deal of catarrh here, though it
balarlet be as offensive as in the dewy
climate of the east. Rbetimatiere is also
e, common complaint. The drynega Of the
climate may be judged from the feet that
there lite hew some, oily rain Fame my
not for the "bureaus." The oro le pot
inte molts aud loaded upon the animele'
and the eure-tootecl beaets with a well
trained leader at theit head, raeroh en
train to their destination. Usually they
are wotth but a few dollera apiece, but a
enod leader that knows bushueineee
is frequently worth $100 or more,
this (meat valae being due to the feet thet
roauy of the mines are on mountain peake
very high up and the trail to bo follow ed
is ofteu difficult and dangerous. In the
snowy triontlie thee have to follow a beaten
path, and in many places they have to
wind petit the edges of preaipicee hundreds
of feet dent where a false etep would drieh
them to preclee on the rode beneath. A
good leading burro knows hie bueipess, and
the others carefully follow him. Of mines
more anon,
The umantaine are plainly visible from
Denver, to the westward, They appear to
be quite close to the city, but one really
bee to go a couple of soore of miles or more
before he oan be said to be in the moun-
taine. The foothills are reaobed first.
What these are is alnioat told in their
name, They are small mountains a few
hundred feet high ranged along the moantain ranges. The nearest of these foot.
bills is about a dozen milei from the alter,
but it is diffioult to coneince the newcomer
that they are more than two or three raxlea
distan at raost, enlace' he undertakes to
walk out to them. This optical delueion
is due to the lightnese and clearness of the
atmosphere atathis latitude. A stranger
here for his health might think it a nice
walk to the foothills and bask before
breakfast, but to aocomplieh tho walk he
would require to start about sundown the
previous evening. The following stary
was told out here regardieg the apparent
nearness of the foothills. I do not vouch
for ire truth, but merely repeat it as it was
given me, A native of these wilds in
wandering throogh the prairie oame upon
a dust stained stranger undressing on the
margin of a stream two or three feet in
width. On being asked why he was dis-
robing, the stranger replied that it was
for the purpose of swimming the river in
front of him. He was told that he could
jurap aor0813 it. "It looks narrow enough"
be replied,but,he added,' started for these
foothills several bours ago, believing I
could reaoh them in a very short time, but
they appear as far away IloW SS they ap-
peared when I etarted. This etream ap-
pears narrow and shallow just as the foot-
hills appeased to be °Ion at hand, but the
chances are that it is a wide and deep
river, and as I don't intend running.- any
risk of drowning I shall wade and swim
it." There is no doubt that one clan tee
objects at great distances here. Pike's
peak, which is many miles distant, is
clearly visible any bright day towering
above its less ambitions neighbor peaks.
It os very generally believed bask east that
Pike's is the highest peak of the ranges
out here. It is not the highest by any
means. Long's peak, much nearer to and
somewhat to the north of Denver, is • 300
feet higher, their respective latitudes being
15,200 and 15,500 feet. There are several
°there several hundreds of feet higher
than either. Timber does not grow at an
altitude higher than 11,000 feet, nor is
there any yeeetation of any kind above
that line. Some of these peaks are never
entirely free of E now, and in !edit may be
said that it snows on teem the year
round. The tops of the mountains are
still covered with the "beautiful," end will
be for some time yet. In fact these may
be skid to be the arctic regimes of the tem-
perate zone. A great many lpe�ple climb
these high peaks. It is a very dangerous
enterprise some times, though on Pike's
peak the danger bus been reduced to a
minimum by the construction of a cog
wheel railway. On those peaks where
they have no such aid to locomotion, the
climbing season is very short, say part of
July, August, September and toart of Oe•
tober. I was told a very sad story of an
attempt made to climb Loxzga peak in
November by a young lady from Philadel-
phia. The guide on being asked to take
her np told her that the season was over
and that there was a danger of freezing to
death. She insisted, however, that she
was prepared_to take all chances of dan-
ger as far as she was concerned, and the
guide was finally prevailed upon to pilot
her to the top of the peak. When they
had reached thtt top it was frightfully
cold, and they immediately set about re.
turning. They bad not proceeded far
when the young woman began to suffer
terribly from the frost, and finally she
was unable to proceed further. The guide
carried her a short distance but as the
cold was increasing in intensity he saw
that death wear certain for both unless he
got help: Taking off his own heavy outer
clothing, he wrapped them around her and,
laying her in art sheltered a spot as she
oould find, hastened for help. ' Although
he lost no time, the young woman was
beyond all human aid when he returned.
She was frozen stiff—a victim: of her own
rash courage. The ascent of Long's peak
is perilous, but the descent, at least for
the first few hundred feet is said lay some
of those who have tried one plan to be
quite easy and speedy. This party, as
well as the guide, wore a seersucker coat
over his reat coat, and when tbey were
ready, they sat dorm on the anew, and,
palling the tails of their smooth garments
tbrough their legs, and using their feet as
rudders, they pulled the throttle wide open
and "let 'et go gallagher. ' They landed
in a huge snow drift. and when they had
extricated themeelves they proceeded
downward at a more moderate epeed.
I expect shortly to go into the mountains
and to visit one of the best mining dis-
tricts in the State, I shall aend you a short
account of the trip.
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ma!' GH'T.
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Mr. F. R. Knight has opeu.Ocl
General Store in the stand lately
occupied by Brook's Harness •
Shop, with a hill stock of
GENERAL GROCERIES:
BOOTS & SHOES,
HARDWARE, -
•
STATIONERY,
Produce taken iu exchange for
goods.
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BUTCHERS.
For sale &first clefs Butchers' out fit, in- •
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rflAMWORTH AND DUROC—
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The undersigned has for :tale a number of
young borts—male end female—of the above
breeds, , The stook is thoro'bred, imported
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Terms reasonable, Also for eerviee Thoro,-
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aTerms al for either boar. e3 for them' '
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Visit this Hiatorical Island, which is
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from Detroit ; $15 from Toledo ;
$18 from Cleveland, for tbe round
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of a trip to the Mackinao region are un-
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have just been built for the upper lake
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Four tripe pox' Week between Tolelo, Dees,
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NIOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the matter of the Estate of James --
Brown, late, of the Village of Exeter,
in the County of Huron. Gentleman,
deceased, and of Chap, 110, R. 5, 0.,,
1887,
Notice ie hereby given that any person or
persons having any claim or claims. against
the estate of the above named deceased, are
required to file with hie )1:reenters,. Messrs.
William Hoskin and James Carroll, By, P. 0;,
-
their claims with full particulars thereof and'
t13e securities (if amyl! held by them. Creditors
are further notified tbat 'their said claims. -
must be verified by affidavit and filed with the
said Executors on or before the 22nd day of
June. 1895, after which date they will proceed
to distribute the said estate, having regard to
such claims only as Shall then be filed.
L.B. DICKSON.
• Solicitor for Exeoutors.
DatedZattExeter this 22nd day of Nay. 1895,
N OTICE TO CREDITORS.
—
In the matter of the Estate of the late
Francis Cornish, of the Tineuelaire.
of Osborne, in the County of Huron,
Farmer, deceased.
Pursuant to Sec. 8601 Chapter 11001 the .ge-
vised Statutes of Ontario,1887, notice is hereby •
given that all creditors, and others having,
-
claims against the mate of Franois Cornish,
late of the Township of 'fathom°, in the
County of Huron, Parmer.cleceased,'who died
on or about the nth day of May, A. D. 1895.
are, on or before tho Lit day of Xuly, A. D.
189S, to send be post, pre -paid, to Elliot & El;
liot, Beeter, Solicitors for the Executors of the
said deceased their christian names and Bur- •
Darees, addresses and descriptions, the full
,particulars of their olairos, ei statement of ;
their aceounte and the nature of seetrities (if
any) held by them, and that after the day last
aforesaid tho said Executors will proceed to
distribute the assets of the fetid deceased
among the parties entitled thereto, havnsg re-
gard only to such claims of which notice shall
baye beengiven as above ,teguired and the
said exeoutore wilt not be neble for the Said
assets or any part thereof, to any person or,
Persons of whose ohm or claims notice shalt'
not havo been received IV them at the time of
suoh distribution •
ELL101! itc ELLIOT,
WM. PRIDIJAhri, Solictorstor Executors.
3.4e. JONUS, S ExecutOra.
Dated at Exeter t1iis27th day of May A.D.189S,
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