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COMMUNICATION.
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to %Y1'TOtee main'.
To rho !Sinter of Tau Posy.
Donn firm—I did not intend to trouble
you again on the above subjeub but Mr,
Armstrong hu.s made same so outrageon5
statomouts in his two letters in oilseed
'
to my letter that 1 feel it u, }' dot Y to
contradict" them, He begins las letter of.
Anglt.t 1 ith with the remark that "Thorn
le no men more to be pitied than the man
who reals end does not Imow . what be
is reading." Well, Sir, I think the man
who writes aria does not know what he
in writing about is muelt more an object
of pity than the man oiled by Mr. Arm.
strong Mr, Armstrong wrote about the
country between. North Bay and Wintni
peg, and ,yot ha had not denied that he
kuo s nothing about it. ITe evidently
did not know that Winnip•`g was a oity.
He did not know the difference between
n rive. and a mod holo. Ho dons not
know that the laud around Winnipeg has
been in great demand this smnmer and
that many sales Mayo been effeoted nt
prices and on terms within the roach of
all, Ito does nob know that farming is
carried on very extensively within a very
shorb diatoms of Winnipeg, though he
migbt have seen many evidenoes of it
had he used his eyes from the oars. I
would recommend Mr, Armstrong to
read the daily newspapers intend of
writing letters of doubtful veracity. Mr.
A. says he arrived in Deloraino on the
17111 of May and found plenty of water
in .he slough holes and no mud. What
a muddle (mud hole) he has got into. In
his first letter be has stated that. Dolor -
sine was built in a mud hole, or as they
call it there, n slough hole. Well, Mr.
Editor, have you seen any mudbolos in
Ontario Lacking thud ? Thus Mr, A. by
his own Wetds donde oondemntd. Lith
er the town is not built in a mudhole or
he mn-t have found mud on his arrival.
NotwithstandingEr. Ars statement Del-
oraiue Is only two years old. Old Deter-
mine was situated 6 miles from the pres-
sed site of the town and consisted of only
a few houses. Mr. A. is also wrong in
saying that the town is built on the Com.
pany's land. It is built on the home-
otead of Frank Lovett, the proprietor af
the Queen's hotel. Mr. A. prides him-
self on his mathematics. I would like to
ask him hew many one and one make ?
Certainly not three or four. Only two
wells were bored when lie was in Delor.
nine. The third was dug afterwards. Mr.
A. trials to know flow many churches
there are in Deloriane. So far as I knew
there are two : the Presbyterian and the
Methi.list, on the south and north side
of the track respectively. Ile finds fault
with the number of saloons or whiskey
shops. Well, Sir, I wont try to justify
their existence, but if Mr. A. did not wish
to patroitize these houses I fanny no one
would compel him to do so, and beeides
theta are two excellent hotels in the
town, the Deloraine Renee and the Sour-
is House, where no liquor is sold. Those
who live in glass houses should not throw
stones, If 'Brussels is as bad for drink.
amass sino0 the repeal of the Scott Aot
00 it ens before the Aot was pub in force
Mr. A. wilt find plenty of room for his
talents (?) nearer home, than in describ-
ing the saloons of Deloraine. In Bottin-
eau the sale of liquor is not prohibited
but la the N. WT. it is, one advantage
that we have over our neighbors on the
other side of the line. Mr. A. seems to
have gone through the country with his
eyes shut as be neither saw nor heard of
a lawyer in Dolomite. Right opposite
the "box oar station" to the law aloe of
F. T. Stewart. I would have thonght
that 111r, A. would have had no desire to
see a lawyer, but some people are never
satisfied. By the way the expeeesion I
used in nay last letter regarding BIT. Ale
description of tbo box car station was
"inane' not "ineano twaddle," but the
compositor who get up my letter evi-
dettly !antes more about Mr. i1, than I
do. In big 2nd letter Mr. A. tries to get
out of his unwarranted attaokon the land
agent by omitting the phrase "and only
answers half of the questions asked." I
now know. from ono who Naw present in
the land office, that Mr. A. got all the
information be asked for and more. Now
for Mr, A's pedestrian powers. I said
that be did "most," not "all" as 'he al-
leges, of his exploring on foot. I had the
information from himself in the presence
of three othsre. Ho landed in Dolomite
on May 17, end began to explore Mani-
toba. As he passed my place on the 211rd
ofIay, having walked all the distance
from 1Deloraine (60 miles) you can easily
oaloelate how much exploring was done
with the branoho. I know that after Mr.
A. returned from his sojourn amongst ne
hisaopbew,112r. MoOutoheon, gave him
rho use of his horses and drove ,him over
info Dakota in his guoet for land. Not.
only that bat ho drove him to Botbiueau
station on ids (Mr. A's) way home, so
that Mr. A's statement of having walked
there was merely brag and false at that.
1ddr, A. claims that the land he took up
over there teas as good a5 any in Mani•
tobe or the N.W.T. I did not see it and
therefore annnet question the assertion,
but ono who Elia see it eaye be would, not
give the half of hie glottal; 500ti00 (in
Manitoba) for the whole outfit. I would
Like to know, and 1 daresay many of
your traders would also, bow mnoh land
Mr. A. took up in Dakota and ou what
terms ? In regard to the fertility of bps
coil in the two countries' I etoloso an 00'
biolo from 'the Winnipeg 11'00 Press,
which is too longfet ineettlon Moro, wbioh
shows that lest year while the average
yield pet acre in Dakota was 10) leash
ole, that of Manitoba was 86,4 bugbolo
nearly twice 00 large, " Mr. A's distinc
tion between a pond 'bole and a slough
hole i0 rather amusing, but wont cin. Ui.
here we call a small, round slough a pond
bole motif they do not grow hay then I
have put no hay up tltie glimmer, for 1
out nowhere else than in those pondboles,
and as a reeult have 20 tons of—wolf I
nail it hay, yes, and bettor hey than ever
grow in ilii. A's swamp, and these ponds
required no draining: IfMr. A, refore to
his first letter he will find "1 found sonde
ttwnhips with only one settler in Gent,
and not mote titan four at five in any."
ma�to
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1888,
I said in any last letter that the latter Washington Letter.
part of that assertion was false and so it
Meant our Itrgular Oorreeeondent.l
is. Mr, A. need net try to wriggle out
of It by a quibble of words, I could take
Mr. A. to a dozen townships with not a
single settler in them, but all the same it
does not follow that all the townships are
alike unsettled, In his last latter Mr. A.
euggosts that the Ciarnduff settler and I
i o use
a
of u8 of vee and u 1
should coil me
I
decide which 0110 has lied, "The ono"
he Bays, "sage that all rho homestead
land an S.W. }tan. and 0,11. Aeoiniboia
has hoer token up," and the other says,
"That any Ontario farmer who tbinke of
Doming to this country will find any
amount of first class laud open for entry. "
Were we liars we would give Mr. A. au
invitation to the meeting, but even 04 the
risk of seriously offending him we will
leave him out. Is kir, A. really so ign0r.
ant of this country an to suppose that S.
W. Manitoba end S.E. Assiuiboia com-
prises the whole country? Pehaw 1
such gross ignoremoe can hardly be creel.
ited. Both statements, T used hardly
say, aro correct in every particular, If
Mr. A. proems a copy of the Dominion
Land Act he will' find from .a perusal of
it that my statement concerning the can-
cellation fee is cermet. Mr. A. says I
did not deny whab he said about the
slavery and bondage of the people. How
dull Mr. dee perceptibility is 1 I show-
ed him that the pioneer settler in this
country had none of the hard work,
drudgery and slavery of the pioneer On-
tario settler. Mr. A. next begins 10 use
schoolboy tactics and calls names. He
says, "If Mr. Young is not eating fool or
knave he must know that it was not the
people of Ontario but a political party in
Ontario who shouted against the people
of Manitoba getting their rights.' If
Mr. A. refers to my letter he will find
"When we began to agitate, des." We
did not begin the agitation a year or 11
months ago. When the agitation begun
the majority of both political parties,
not only in Ontario but in the other
Eastern provinces, opposed us, but event-
ually nearly all of the Reform party (to
their credit) joined with us and oompell-
ed the Government to recognize our
rights. Bo Ole. A. wont aooept my chal-
lenge re frozen grain ? 'Tis well he bate
so much sense. It seems then that even
as a weather prophet MT. A. is of no use.
What is he good for anyhow ? If Mr. A.
will again peruse my letter he will find
that I never even referred to the sod huts
or thebreaking grown over with grass
and weeds, whish he credits me with in
his last letter, so his fool's advice is
thrown away. Let him take the first
sentence of his letter to himself. I naked
Mr. A. in my last letter why he made se-
lection of land up here seeing' it was
coni eentively worthless (in his opinion)
full of pond holes and far from market.
He tells me in his last letter that he was
not sleeting land for himself but for
four others (his sons, T presume). A very
good exams truly. Had the half of his
sedation not been taken up before he
would no doubt havo sent his sons to this
worthless land. No 1 no 1 Mr. A. that
is too thin, to use a slang phrase, either
the land must have been good or Mr. A.
ought to be thoroughly ashamed of him-
self for trying to deceive his sons. Mr.
A. tells us of meeting some Canadians
over in Dakota who had settled there af.
ter hunting land in Manitoba and the
N.W.T. and says, "This is the way that
the U.S.A. bus increased from 19,000,000
10 60,000,000 of people while in the same
period (what period ?) of time tate Dom.
inion of Canada has only increased from
2,500,000 to 5,000,000. How prolilio these
sante Canadians must become after they
go to the Statue, if Mr. i's theory on the
population question is correct l Let me
refer air. A., however, to Sir B. Cart-
wright's groat epesoh on lteoiproeity last
session in Parliament and by exercising
his mathematical powers on the data giv-
en there he will find his solution sway
up Salt creek. Mr. A. says the Caned -
me people are taxed to bring out a los of
worthless people from the streets of Lon.
don, oa. A lot of very worthless people
also came from rho north of Ireland, but
does Mr, A, know that assisted passages
were abolished this spring ? Ib seems
not. Mr. A. concludes his letter by tell-
ing a yarn of a man in Huron County
finding it hard to Molt at nothing, well,
Mr. Editor, what name would yon give
n man, who after taking up over a oral.
lawn of valuable sperm in answer to a let
ter, codas that he cannot find auything
in that letter that he can find fault with ?
This is a very long letter but hope you
will be able to insert it, in toto, ne I eon -
eider Mr, &rmetrong'e remarks are al,
together unwarranted.
I ata yours bo., 6000 'Xouuo.
Anblol',.S.W. Asea., N,W.T., Sept 10.
P.S.—I would recommend that the
next' time Mr. A. takes a trip in quest of
land to this country he should not pro-
fess to knew so much and the information
vouchsafed to him by settlers will be
founcl to be more reliable than what he
collected on hie last trip. The atmos.
phare in this oountry -(or soma other
cause) has a declded tendency to genor-
ato wags and when a "knowing gooney"
comes along nothing dolighte a "native"
more thou to "cook it" to him.
Morn 50 to.—Oorrospondenao must bo.
written so eanot to exceed a oslttnha or it
will sot bepnblislisd,l:
The Wnahiaagton wo other and oro 1e.
port iodinates that corn crop ie pretty
este fawn front, thotigb some damage ago wns
done by the eta snap of last wools.
11 fa very genormlly feared. in London
that Stanley has boon killed and that
Tippet) Tib was. the 001105 of Ma er Bart.
Inlet's death: Capt. Vnugoie, however;,
disputes both 580ertione, and alto feat
that ho loft the Congo only recently
ehould give weight to his opinion,
Tito collection of postage clamps" re-
oontly exhibited in Boston is saki to be.
Worth neatly 6100,000. There were in
the oollaotion single stamps valuta et
$100 molt, and s eeettl groups of six were
placed at $100. That the prises were
itot all fancy wag oliewn by the offer of
$80 feom a dealer for a blue envelope on
wllielt was a gmni) champ marked Brem•
ail. Ono grottlt, consisting of fete;
GOVernlneitt ebl tped onvolopos !Sow ob.
nolete, was appraised at 8400.
1Vnsinv000x, Sept. 10, 1888.
As a natter of policy, and with a view
to 'fleeing upon the Senate the responsi.
bility for further prolongation of the
ourrent session of Gongroee, the Demo.
erats in the House have determined to
int
sten Real notion upon the rn ait
t
u
s
appropriation bills, so far as it lies in
their power. The adoption of the amt.
bronco report upon the furtincation ap.
propriation bill Thursday marked the
inauguration of this policy. The bill
was finally dispoeed of, as Inc as the
House is concerned, without a word of
debate, although it ombotdies the Sayers
proposition of an appropriation of 61,-
500,000 for steel forgings, which was
originally a subject of strong opposition.
The sundry Civil and army appropriation
bills will be pushed through this weep,
and there will remain of the regular an.
nual appropriation bills only the general
deileienoy hill, which le expected to be
returned to the House the end of the
week or the beginning of next week.
A call for a Democratic caucus, to be
held about Tloreday, is being circulated.
Tho object is to secure uniformity of
notion upon pending business to give ex-
pression to the wishes of the majority
relative to final adjournment or recess,
and to discuss the expedienoy of attack-
ing the trusts, as proposed by the bills
introduced by Mr. Breokint'idge, of
Arkansas, Meanwhile, it is improbable
that a mooting of the Ways and Means
Committee will be called until the caucus
has outlined the wishes of the Demooratio
side of the House.
The result of the Maine election was,
of course, the one paramount topic of
discussion at the Capitol and among
politicians the past few days. Opin?ons
as to the effect of the election are mostly
governed by the political feelings and
hopes of the party expressing them. Re.
publicans conteud that they have won a
victory which is significant of a greater
triumph to come in November ; that bbe
vote of Maine—taken in connection with
the eleotions in Oregon and Vermont—
shows that public sentiment is ndveree
to Democratic rule. Democrats confess
no sense of disappointment. They say
they expected nothing from Maine, and
that if the Republicans, with all the ef-
forts they put forth, led by Mr. Blaine in
person, could not do more than retain
tbeir margin of four years ago, it proves
that the Democrats, to say the least, are
holding their own.
Acoording to the figures of the United
States Treasurer in his daily statement
submitted this morning the available
balance, or "surplus," it? the Treasury
to -day amount' to $103,050,000. This,
however, does not inolitde the fractional
silver coin in hand, which amounts to
about 625,000,000. This lest amount is
not considered at the Department as
among the eased available for the pay-
ment of the debt, and f5 consequently
not included in the official statement of
the "surplus." Ib is evident, however,
that the President, in the statement in
his letter of acceptance that the eurplue
amounts to $190,000,000, included tide
item.. Tbo heavy purchases of bonds
butt week caused a deoreese of about
$6,000,000 in the balance.
Disquieting rumors aro aurical with
regard to the health of Senator Bock,
who has boon at .Fortress Munroe since
the middle of last week. Inquiry among
his friends developes the foot that in
compliance with the advioe of his
physicians he has decided not to rehire
to his duties in the Senate until next
session. Ib is reported that he is threat-
ened with an affection of the heart, for
which quiet and retirement aro deemed
essential. The Senator is a member of
the tariff sub.eommibtee of the Senate,
and, being the leader of his party in
financial and polito-economio matters in
the Senate, was expected to prepare the
minority report on the tariff bill. H0 is
universally esteemed, and the wishee for
his speedy restoration to health and
activity are ns heartily expressed by his
polibioal Opponents as by his party
friends,
I am told that Ssorobaey Endicott is
very much averse to having it reported
that he will not be continued in the
Cabinet if Mr. Cleveland shall be rs.
elected. He does not understand why
he eltould not bo retained if any of the
Cabinet offloecs aro to stay. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Endicott have grown very fond
of otfloial life hors and the suggestion
that anything except the election of Mr.
llarritton may canes tihent to give up
their residence hers oauses them uu.
pleasant eoneatione.
BaSe Fall Tournament.
A.s reported last week the base ball
tournament teas Itslcl tit Listowel on
Thursday of last week anti was rather a
suooesslul affair excepting that the at-
tendmaoo waa not nearly es largo as was
expected. That Listowel is not a base
ball town is quite evident, judging from
the meagre turn -out of the residents.
Instead of six or eight bail clubs showing
up ah the Park thorn were only three
peesent, viz.: Tho "Maple Leafs" and
"Antes," of Guelph, and the "Echoes,"
of Bru5eebs, In drawing for places Brus.
eels got rho bye and the two clubs from
the Royal city played the first match.
It wag 0 mossier, however, the 'Leafs'
having 15 t0 their ereclit when their
oppononte had not a int scored. The
game closed with a score of 10 to If hi
favor of the old time ohampions. Tho
following i0 rho score;
nf00000iJ,e0. 11. ,'1127A0. It.
Atkinson, lot b 2 Taylor, p 0
Dhlon, a ...:..... ....... 2 Meisel), let b 1
Meklo,1. ' 1 Malloy, arab 0
8, La\v1oes;2nd b 2 Gibbs, and b 11
Riggers, c f 2 Shoo, 51 0
Cloakroom, s b 'i Gallaghoe, n e .,1
1). Lawless, o f .... 8 tlftLe0d, If 0
ilys0n, 1 i..„. .... .„. .„ 1 Powers e ' 1
Eowai•, Ord b 1 Stsvon ou, i• f ... 0
,Total ..... ,,.10 ..Total . e
1�nta5e- 1 2 0 4 6 0 7 8 0
Mnp1aLoafs...,,,,,0'.7 3 1 4 0 it 1 0-10
,2Wtuao 0 0- 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3
After dinnmr bbe "Maple Loofa and
tke "lienees" faood teeth other and a
e1eIa and exiting pine wee the result.
P, Lawlre., the halt twirler, filled the
box for the Meanie.' and did hie work
well. Our own (i050sr handled the
sphere for the "11el„os," and did the job
very effectively. The score stood it tie,
2 soh, at the close of the 11111 innings
and had it not been for few costly
errors on the part of our boys it would
have been just about as close at the close
of the game. As it was rte "Leafs" bad
4 whitewashes and their highest sooro
any inuings 2 rune, and the "Echoes" tL
'blanks with 2 rune to their credit in all
innings. It was a dandy gitnae all
through and bath sides played. to win
tired place Our boys heal the beaus
filled again and again but failed to cross
the plate. They plea od a game they
need not be whetted of, however. The
score book says :
mime niers, P.. It, 1:cix s. 11. 0.
Alduson,1st t•.... •-' 2 ilrnek, o 2 2
Dillon, a •> 3 J. Muss, end b1 3
filahie, 0 i .. 0 1 I), lines, int b0 1
J, Luwlses, IMO b n 4 Currie, I f 1 9
stagers, o f . . 0 3 tlrewar, p... 0 5
005510nu, a 1 1 1. Stratton, n s (1 4
P .I,aw1esn p ... ,. 0 4 1r. Stretten, 3rd e 2
Dyson, 10 1 8 liesest, r f 0 1
lfewnr, Sul 0 0 4 Oerry, o f 0 4
7 27 'Total 4 27
1" 5 4 8 8 7 8 0
1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1-14
Tol tutal
1pge—
Maple Loafs
Rohm:
Thu lst prize being decided the
"Echoes" and "1Etnas" had to play ° to
see who would telco 2nd plum. The
latter club was too li,;hb for the 'Echoes,'
however, and, although the game was a
good one, the "Maas" were blanked in
the seven innings played. They were
oredited with a run in the 2nd, innings
but it was a "flanke" as a player struck
out of his turn and lot Mallroy scorn
when the striker was ons for taking the
bat. The "Lob's" got 8 runs in the
2nd innings and 1 in the 6th. They did
not bat in the 7th. The batsmen fanned
a good deal of wind on both sides.
Further particulars are given in the ap-
pended score
uottous. 11, 0, 2005100, 15.0.
Drool., a u 0 Taylor, o f 0 8
J. hoes, end b 0 2 MoLese, 1st b... 0 8
D. Noes, let b 0 1 Dyson, 8r0 b ... 0 0
Currie, 1 f 1 2 Moilroy, p 1 1
erewur, 1 4 Glebe, 'Amin -.0 3
J. Setrotton, s e 1 2 Skoe, r f 0 9
0, Stratton, 3rd b 1 1 A25Leod, 1 f 0 2
Oseoatt, rf.,....... 0 8 Gallagher, e s- 0 2
'iorry,01... 0 1 Powers,s 0 2
Total 4 19 'notal 1 '21
Innings— - 1 2 8 9 0 0 7
]7ohoee 0 9 0 0 0 1 +-4
d0
ons........ 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-1
The games were utnr.ired, very int.
partially, by Umpire Ilutahinsou, of
1 ordwich..
The result was the "elsple Leafs" were
awarded $75, the "l;choos" $60, and the
"awns" $26. Onr boys find no fault
with anybody over the result but think
they had an enjoyable day and imagine
they can melee it warm enough for the
"Maple Leafs" any t,me to prove inter-
esting for the combination.
The Guelph Hernial, in speaking of the
tournament, says:—"At the baso ball
tournament held in Listowel Guelph was
represented by the Maple Leafs and
1Gtnae, Brussels being the other con-
testant, Although six tomes were enter.
ed, these were the only three who made
their appearanoe, on account of the feat
flavine been made public that alae Leafs
were entered, The first game was be-
tween the Loafs and the ZEtnas, the
Leafs winning by a score of 19 to 8. The
eeoond game was between Brussels and
the Leafs, when the latter downed the
much-vanuted uorthtnn team by the
Boors of 7 to 4, thus securing first money,
575. The Althea and brussels then
played off for second money, $50, the
Brussels team winning, after a hard
strugglo,.bye more of 4 to 1, the ?Ethos
taking third money, $25. The umpire,
a Mr. Itutohinson, poostbly did as well as
he is otupable of. His mistakes were
equally divided in the firet two games,
but in the jest he roasted the /Ethos
badly. Tho Guelph !Mayors speak in the
highest totms of the courtesy shown them
by Messrs. Rolle, Molritosh and Hay,
who composed the committee of man-
agement "
The Listowel Standard refers to the
games as follows:—"Its the afternoon a
very interesting' and closely oantested
media tool: place bbbween the Maple
Loofa and the 73ruesels olub, the former
again coming off victors by a snore of
7 to 4, entitling them to first money, 575,
The final match for second place was
then played between the Brussels team
aucl the 1Ctnas, of Guelph. In this
match the Brassie boys proved too many
for their young oonteetante, the metal
closing 4 to 1 and an;inninge in favor of
Blessed,"
ri'hrUugh the Rapids.
Ohne, A. Percy mane very near malting
a failure last I1tondny afternoon of hie
trip from bho Niagara Maid of the Mist
lauding to Toronto by way of the whirl-
pool and Niagara ntphdo. Percy got only
as far es Lewiston and had an unexpeot•
ed experience which nearly cost him his
life. Miss Nellie Delworth, the Pitts-
burgh actress who 0150 10 0.031013011117 bin
in the lifeboat, became wearied by the
repeated poatponemente and left Sits -
notelet Bridge Sunday evening. The
boat did nob reach Imre until late Sunday
afternoon. Percy had driven to Lewis.
toll with some friends and the truokman
started back for Buffalo with the craft.
Peroy hunted. up a 'justice of the peso
and obtained authority tie take his boat.
The trttokman wanted double pay,and
while peroy tuns looking for hole drove
rapidly off towards Beide. Portly -anti
hie blonds overtook the driver at Tonne.
woman, ton miles away, and reeovered the
boat mace a hard )iglu, in which the
truokunan was badly (lubbed,
Tn01 LAt1500.
The boat was somowhat damaged in
bho fight, and whorl it eva0 broagltt back
Monthly morning had to bo reputrod, It
was telron to the Maid of the Mist land.
ing and launehod ab 8:26, The forward
air eompertl0ent had boo laundered and
pertly filled with water. 6.hlo wee bail.
ad out, rho ears fixed anal at 4115 George
llbi sh'e, Henry G. ItJobardson and Wen,
Laloy slloved the beat nut into the livor,
Tt contained 100 pounds 01 ballast and It
70.peend iron weight was treed nal a drug.
Percy rowed to the centre of the stream
and at 4:80 fastened his olds anal crawled
IMO a hammock in the roar compartment
of. the boat. At 4:21) the craft passed un-
der the cantilever and railway eutw0ns.
ion bridges, going very rapidly anal turn-
ing aroundin the eddies in a dizzy way.
A few seconds later it stink the first
groat wave of the spirts, A cry of her.
nor went up from the spectators on the
lower Bank when the craft spun nreuud
in the waves and continued eubeaerged.
Whet it acme to the s'itfae', it floated
keel unpermnst for quite a distance. Af.
ter a terrible terming, which lasted four
minutes, the boat went into the big mael-
strom and iloab+el easily around. '!'lie
water was several feet loser than ti u:d
and the boat
cintzai, 'inn mimes
in a dangerms fashion, threatening every
soaond to dash itse f to pieces and thus
sod Percy'e comae for be could nab have
survived the pa500100, cen3irlering the in.
creased danger. The craft eddied in the
whirlpool until 0:30, tcheu Dan Elsheimer
and Wm. ;!Plums got it fu comparatively
still water and towed it around a point
into a current that would carry it into
the Devil's Rapids. They narrow v
escaped going along. Percy'e bontgrazed
rook after rook, and was capsized repeat-
edly. I -bo had gone but a little distance
when the mambo o cover was crushed to
pieces by a rook and the air chamber
tilled with water. Percy crawled out
and clung to the Draft for dear life. When
weer the Devil's Hole he became partly
exhausted and could no longer stand the
suede, as the waves threw the boat
about. Then he swam three miles
further down stream, where, at 7;90 that
night, fisherman John Gillett platted him
up nearer dead than alive. He was
rowed rapidly to Waggoner's hotel, at
Lewiston, and, with great difficulty, re.
vivid, When able to speak he told the
story of his
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In the upper rapids he was terribly
tossed about, bat the lower ones were
hideous. Most of the trip was made in
the dark. "I seemed to be in a grave of
foam," said Percy, "and I can't see how
I escaped with my life. It would have
been baa enough re my boat had oot'bsen
wreaked in the br ..ors, but that swim
in the dark was , erriblo!' The boat has
not been recovered.
Pert€l (,chic Ay NO LOS.
Will Harris, eon of the well-known
cheese -maker at ,llohkton, won $45, first
prize at Ogdensburg Fair.
The South Perth Agricultural Society
have added classes for Imported Norman
Peroheron Horse to their Fall Fair
prize list. ,
The annual Convention of rho Suudsy
school teachers and workers of the Meth-
odist church in the Listowel District will
he held et Trowbridge on Wednesday,
Oot, 17th.
Mayor McClny, of Mitchell, has the
elate roof completed upon his mansion
and is pushing forward the inside work.
When completed it will be the best private
residence on the Huron Road, in the
county of Perth,
The St. Marys Argus ssys :— "On
Tuesday last 10 acres of flax belonging to
Welt . Weir, wbioh was spread on P.
Whelihen's farm, was ignited by a oparll
from a passing engine. The eight was
much like that of a minatu0e prairie
area
One of the patrons of the Newry
cheese factory will shortly have all op.
portunity of explaining, before the 1. P.,
the way that he would make flret.olass
cheese out of watered milk. If his theory
is correct the cow which gives the dark
transparent fluid will become very
valuable.
At two o'clook Sunday morning a Gro
broke out in thekitolisn of David Oliver's
residence, 10th con„ Fullerton, about 7
miles north of St. Marys. The mein
building, being of brick, was caved ; the
other, with contents, was totally destroy.
ed. Loss estimated at $250; no in-
surance.
The Stretford assessor has abort ooln-
ploted his roll. As the sesult of his work
the grand total value of taxable property
in the city, including income, less esemp-
tions uudse statute, for 1888 is 64,119,480.
Last year it was $2,785,040, thus ebowing
an increase in the assessed value of $1,-
877,490. Entering into details ib was
friend that the value of real estate is $1,-
640,880, as compared with $1,017,855, an
increase of 5628,025. The value of build-
ings is planed id $2,509,075, against 51,-
420,885, an ineroaso of 51,079,190. In-
comes are assessed at $161,825 compared
with $115,250 last year which is au in-
crease of $44,575. In personal property
the increase fe vory method, which shows
that dile class of p1ropeety is about aseses.
od mita value. Tho' figures are 6211,650,
against 0121,950 in 1887, an biomes of
$89,700, As regardspopnlation thefegurea
are 9,976.
Huron Comity votvlw.
There aro 122 pupils in attendetnoo at
the Goderioh High School,
Chilton can boast of having a heavy
weight, a four year old child that turns
the scalps at 76 pounds.
a. and E. Beli, of Londesboro, pin:obas-
ed from A. Carlton, of Marnoch, his let.
potted stallion, "Signalman."
Tho members of the afechanios Insti-
tute Exeter, purpose starting an art eohool
in connotation with the Instituto.
Wm. 'Weekes, of Looter, hes te laical) of
korai, which, it to claimed, wag excavat.
od by Do Lossops in the Panetta, canal.
Clinton voted on a By.late to establish
a free library in that town, on Monday,
Tho By -lata teas carr
ied by a majority of
10,
W. 11. Bean's gestated %tore and II.
Zianmerntan's rogideneo, Goderioh, were
destroyed by fire on Wodnoeday of last
Week.
The Godorith Council have decided to
allow the Reliance llleeteia Light Co„ of.
Waterford, to put in their watobhuery ao
a tont' for one year,in oonafderation of
their lender being ,greatly beneath those
Of other ;oompamos.
Number. 10.
17. Cantelou, of Clinton, shipped 1040
barrels of apples to Glasgow and Liver-
p�ool and over 1000 barrels up the lake
laid week,
A pen vine the product of a single' pea
and rantains no less than 179 mature .
pads was grown on the farts of %Monotse
Gibson 70(1 eon. llowick this year.
Wm. Murray, of 3loleswortlt, hon ob-
tained :and etas uo„•prof,.asional oertifi-
caro cm upland. dtabt, J. Beatty, of Var-
na, ltas obtained n third class certificate
iii the attme. way.
D. B. Itodge, a well-known resident of
Goderioll, dropped dead on the writer of
West street &tel the Square on Monday,
about 11 10 a. In. lie wan in his 80th
year, but had been a phi nmpertnaly robust
mail. IIP was 1,9in0 )0th., laying of the
waterworks unties when he was stricken
down. 10 oar, v 1if let hiei been an ern -
pique of the
m-plo:eofthe !stem ltielia Company, and
was the r miehea of an am;ttity fol. -faith-
ful services.
The second play of the Zurich Fair, on
September 14th, men eel with due weather,
the entries were unusually large, ospeei-
ally animals. Tho lodes exhibited were
very good ; also cattle and sheep were in
large numbers, mostly Southdown.
Hogs wore fete, but of goad quality. Im-
plement; mere well represented in every ,
branch. The orowd in the afternoon wee •
the largest ever seen here, the receipts at
the gate exoeoded any former year. The
whole of tee Fair was a success.
The Signal says :—The plans and
specidcatioue for the erection 'of the new
post office, customs boos end inland
revenue office for the town of Goderioh
have been reoeived and are now on view
at the clerk's nmae, town heli. Adver-
tisements have hese published in the
Minirterie,l journals caping for tenders
for the work not later than the 15th of
Ootober. The plans show e, two storey
building, built of red brink withcub-etooe
facings, mansard roof and an examining
warebouse one -storey high on the south
Bide. The main building will have a
frontage of 40 feet and the examining
warehouse will be 14 feet, 8 blebs, by
34 feet.
h c' eo cnawal 1b a caves.
Another dynamiter has been captured
in Chioago.
New York has nearly 150,000 school
children enrolled.
London has 100 first-olass clubs with a
membership of 120,000.
Twenty-eight persons wore drown,.d by
the floods in the Tyrol.
There is trouble in the wool trade at
Bradford and Halifax, England.
Augusta, Ga., has been visited by a
great flood. Nine lives were lost.
Fifty Germans, suspected of being
espies, have been expelled fruit Franco.
One sentence in President. Cleveland's
letter of acceptance contains 020. words.
Kentucky haw sex counties that hive
mover hada church within their borders.
The freshet in North Carolina has
caused damage to the amount of $1,000,-
000.
Another attempt is being made to ao-
olimitize oho Caundian whitefish in Eng-
lund.
One thousand Swedes have been mat-
urahzed nt Chicago during the past .two.
months.
Th•. Nile is rising and the report that
Egypt was threatened with a famine is
officially deolared etit,ue.
Frenob gunboats will proceed to the
west coast of Africa to pursue tassels
engaged in the slave trade.
An old volcano in the Phtllipin° Islands
broke out again in July and over a hund-
red people were killed by Inv& and aches..
The 13.S, Senate refused to reconsider
its vote on the Chinese Exclusion Bill,
wbioh oousequently goon to the President
for approval.
There are eight mission ships now
oruieing in the North Sea, each a combi-
nation of alutroh, chapel, temperance hall
and dispensary.
The largest railroad station in the
world is St. Pancras, London, seven hun-
dred feet long, ono hundred and forty-
three wide, one hundred high, covering:
ten acres.
Fishermen seeking see bass off the
coast of Monterey, Cal.., came upon a
gigantic sunfish and succeeded fu captur-
ing it in about 100 fathoms of net. It
weighed 4,000 pounds.
The largest Island in the world—whiob
is also regarded as a continent—is Aus-
tralia. It is 2,500 miles in length from
oast to west, and measures 1,950 mites -
from north to south. Its area ie 2,084,-
287 square miles.
Texas will furnish this year the oldest
voter in the United Steads. His name is
Biohned Kidd, and he is 115 years of age:
Mr. Ilidd's mind is clear and his strength
remarkable for e, kid of his ago, He will
vote the Demooratio tiolcot.
Probably the oldest pupal in any cans
national institution in the United Stade
is Crazy Bead, onooahief of the Crows,
now a scholar at the Indian school at
Carlisle, Pa. He is over 60 years old,
and was once n brave warrior and an bile
ruler. Vile is very anxious to loam the
austotus of civilization, and has been ro-
aeiving intruotions in blaokeanithiug. In
the winter ho will tackle his A.33 ,Cls.
Twenty-four Swsdishniaidene,'ranging
in ago from 10 to 25, arrived at Castle
Garden, Now York, Monday onthe abeam.
er Iloola, They came first oabinon the
vessel end were put through the garden
as a mere matter of form.. Ail of them
came to this country tinder eontraet to.
merry, Four of the party wont to pro.
speotivo husbands in Brooklyn , and the
remainder went wast, Tho engagements
wore mado by the aid. of photographs and
oorrespaodonce,
An awful crime Was perpetrated near
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana on. Friday
night, when a gang, supposed to be com-
prised of favi, attacked a negro cabin, and
shooting through the wall, mortally
wounding a colored woman, w110 died in
a few hams .afterwards. Frons there
they wont to another cabin, whore they
outraged oeiored women and then whip -
pod a colored' 11110. The i 056000 hays
made no aiitdavit as yet. The white pope.
ulati0n aro -vary-1nuo1) excited twat tbit
/,natter,