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TJUL SRc SSELS POST
Four new cases of small -pox were
(t bt ',1611105d5 ASt roportetl in Montreal hest Friday.
Quebec for Liverpool per SS Parisian
The Wimbledon team sailed from
FRZI).1I , .TPILk 3, 1885. Saturday.
A clover counterfeit of the $2 Do -
TETE recent bye -elections all re- minae note wits refused at one of the
suited in favor of the Mowat Gov- Montreal oxides.
eminent. hi East Kent Mr. Fer- 1 Whole fields of potatoes were de -
gnaw' WIN elected by acclamation. , etruyed at Cape Vincent by the severe
In East Siineoe Mr. Drury was el- i storm of Sunday morning.
ected by a majority of one hundred Mrs. Wilson, wife of Jas. Wilson,
and fifty, six times as largeas that of the township of North Goaver,
by which he was elected over too while iu a lleighbor's lionse Tuesday
e opponent in 1888 In Leu- evening died suddenly.
sale Ben Ty years old, was
nes Mr. Hawley again defeated sant to gaol for three Clays at Toren.
Mr. Blackstock, and in the new toe for robbing the Berkeley Street
constituency of West Algoma Mi'. in Church.
Coinmee defeated the Conservative The Government have passed an
candidate by over a hundred. Order -in -Council reducing the tolls
rrell ten
East Algoma elected Mr. Lyon by
a large majority. In the five
constituencies the Dominion Fran-
chise Bill was the subject of dis-
cussion. Mr. Mowat's Govern-
ment will now have the support of
52 members out of the 86 of whom
the house consists. This gives Mr.
Mowat a working majority of 17
in the House.
THIS the age of quackery, and
the great wonder is that so many
pec,1 allow their good sense to be
over -balanced by the most outrag-
eous swindles. The tramp that
begs from door to door is not the
meanest kind of a man, as these
wandering spirits who visit us
periodically, curing (?) all our ills,
giving us unheard of bargains, &c.
by their cheek, mixed with good
clothes and jewelry, bleed their
victims every time. Why pass by
the resident physicians and allow
men you know nothing about to
treat your case, or pretend to ?
Why purchase your jewelry, Rm
from outside parties ,when our
townsmen can give you- better
bargains? We have no sympathy
with those who get bitten. We
know of one instance in connection
with a well-to-do farmer living
near Brussels, visited one of those
itinerant quacks and was told he
had a bacl case of catarrah. $10
was paid on what was to be a $50
job. The farmer to be sure, call-
ed upon a local physician and ask-
ed him to examine him regarding
the complaint. The medical man
said there was no catarrah, only
a cold in the head but advised him
to go to a brother practitioner and
get his opinion. He did so, and
without either physicians knowing
what he had done they were united
on his case. The farmer is on the
look -out for the travelling M. D.
(money down) who was taking his
$50 for nothing. Let whoever
reads the above take warning and
govern themselves accordingly.
Canadian N cows.
One hundred and forty girls, from
Quarrier'e Orphan Homein Glasgow,
were brought out by the S. S. Siber-
ian.
Mrs. Corbett, Ottawa, carrying an
infant in her arms, stumbled over a
broken sidewalk, and falling heavily
on the child fatally injured it intern-
ally.
A number of seizures of Paris green
imported by leading houses in Mantra.
al have been made by Customs offic
tale at that port for alleged under-
valuation.
A majority of 289 votes was polled
in favor of the Scott Act in Guysboro
county, N. S., last Thursday. The
opponents of the measure recorded
only 20 votes.
Last Monday morning at half.paet
three the town of Trenton, Ont., was
visited by a conflagration which be-
fore it was extinguished bad destroy-
ed propety to the value of $75,000.
Tho fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
A lively fight is reported to havo
taken place last week at Biecotasing,
at the head of the 0. P. R. construc-
tion, between whiskey peddlers and a
gang of men led by Harry Abbott
who were endeavouring to destroy the
liquor and tho tent containing it.
The whiskey men made a determin-
ed stand, and by freely using their
revolvers compelled Mr. Abbott and
his men to retire without aceomplieh-
ing their object.
At the Criminal Assizes at Toron-
to Margaret Bennett, who was lately
beaten in a $6,000 libel against a
Toronto paper„ was arraigned for
perjury committed during the trial
for libel, she leaving sworn she had a
child and then denied it. The Crown
Counsel neglected to put in evidouce
to ohm that the child had not been
born, and the prisoner was acquitted.
She is in custody on another charge
of perjury.
on grain shipped from the west to
Montreal or further east.
It is rumored at Quebec that all
arrangements concerning the pur-
chase of the North Shore Line for
the summer terminus of the C. P. R.
were eoneelled by the Government
on Thursday.
In the case of the Scribner Com•
parry of New York, whose consign.
ments of Encyclopedia Britannica
were seized at Montreal, the Minister
of Customs has allowed the books to
be released from detention on deposit
of full duty claimed being made, un-
til after the affair is fully investi-
gated.
An attempt was made Thursday
night to burglarize the vault in the
Post Office at St. John's, Que. An
entrance was effected through a back
window. Several holes were drilled
in an iron door and an unsuccessful
attempt made to blow it open. The
parties were evidently surprised at
worh, as tools, powder, &c., wero left
behind.
The judge of the County Court of
the County of Elgin (Judge Hughes)
has given judgment setting aside the
decision of the Court of Revision of
the city of St. Thomas in the appeal
of the Grand Trunk against assess-
ment under the frontage tax for sew-
ers, sidewalke and grading on Rail-
way, Wellington and Moore streets,
in St. Thomas, bolding that the com-
pany should not be assessed therefor
as in his judgment it receives no ben-
efit therefrom, the company draining
its laud into the gully, and using the
property for only such purposes as do
not at present require sewerage. The
costs of the appeal are to be paid by
the city.
An Australian correspondent of the
London News of the World, mentions
the following as among the gifts
Hanlon received before leaving Syd-
ney, Australia :—From the testimon-
ial committee, $2,250 ; from Messrs.
Allison & Rignold, $500 ; from Miss
Myra Kembls, a diamond ring ; at
the Sydney opera house, April 20, a
diamond set of jewellery for Mrs.
Hanlan, a diamond and sepphiro ring
for himself, and an illuminated ad-
dress from the steamship and Port
Jackson proprietors, accompanied by
a silver salver. He also received
other sums of money, all of which he
said he would invest for the benefit of
his two children.
Mies Schaffer, a seventeen -year-old
teacher at Clarksville, recently in-
curred the enmity of a family named
Forney. On Thursday evening as
she was returning from school, she
was met by Mrs. Forney and her
daughter. The mother caught Miss
Schaffer and held her, while the
daugbter beat her over the back and
shoulders with a rawhide. The as-
sailant continued the beating until
tired, and after resting began it again.
Finally Miss Schaffer escaped and
made her way home, with the blood
running over her clothes from the
wounds made by the whip. Mrs.
Forney and her daughter have been
arrested. Miss Shaffer's breast and
back are in a fearful condition, and
she is suffering from nervous proe-
tration.
Gananoque village was startled last
Saturday morning by an alarm on
the fire bell, and it was soon made
known that Mrs. Dr. Fraleigh and her
baby wero missing from the houee.
Yesterday the Doctor was away at
Napanee and arrived home about day
light this morning, On entering tho
house he could not find his wife and
child. Becoming alarmed, ho roused
the neighbors, and a general search
was made. About six o'clock Mrs.
Fraleigh's body was found in a stoop-
ing position, partly lying in the water
at Squaw Point. She was quite dead
and had evidently walked from the
house to where she was found. The
baby has not yet been found, but
search is still being made, and it is
certain that the body is somewhere in
the water. The dootor's grief is
Heartrending. The child had been
sick over eineo it was born, last Oe-
tober, and needing constant care.
The long and anxious watching eeems
to havo affected Mrs. Fraleegh's mind.
An immense crop of hay is prom -
heal in the Kingston district.
A. Government name declares that
the onetime port of Prince Arthur's
Landing will henceforth be known no
the Port of Prince Arthur.
Chas, Burt and Thomas White
were convicted at Toronto on Thurs-
day for uttering forged .1250 circular
notes of the National Bank of Scot-
land.
Orders-iu.Council havo been pass.
ed rogulnting foes in civil and crimi-
nal trials in the Northwest Territory,
dividing the pilotage district of Syd-
ney, N. S„ into two districts, and
declaring the Canada Tomperanes
Act to be in force in Chicoutimi on
the expiry of the present 110008es.
Jos. Middleton was presented at
Toronto Saturday night with a eilver
medal for heroism displayed in say.
ing the lives of Wm. Tarlton and
George Randall, who were upset in
the lake on the 24th May last. In
the same accident a young man
named Harper and a girl named Ettie
Farmer were drowned.
John Garrow, a member of the
Port Elgin company of volunteers,
was anxious to avoid going to fight
Riel, so he made himself scarce for
the time being. The other day he
turned up again and was takeu be-
fore a Justice and fined $20 and
costs for neglect of drill—a salutary
warning to all those who may here-
after feel inclined to follow his exam-
ple.
A proclamation is humeri establish-
ing quarantine regulations supple-
mentary to those established May
28, 1868, and Jan. 21, 1878, and to
remain in force to Oct. 18, 1885, ap-
plying to vessels from 11Iediterranean
ports as well as from London, Eng-
land. By another proclamation the
words "quarantine Italian" are made
to apply to Grosse Isle, Lawers and
Patridge's Island. This proolama.
tion creates Victoria, B. 0„ end Syd-
ney, N. S., quarantine stations.
The following young ladies won
diplomas at Brantford Ladies' Col-
lege :—Miss M. Lizzie Chambers,
Trenton, N. J. ; Miss Katie G. Clete,
New Westminster, B. C. ; Miss Da-
vina Douglas Hart, Montreal of ;
Miss Jennie Kennedy, of Sullivan;
Mies Melvina Loekner, Hawkesville ;
Miss Tana H. Mowat, Guelph ; Miss
Agnes Moore, St. Marys ; Mise Mag-
gie Somerville, Dundee ; Miss Katie
F. Turner, Hamilton ; Miss M. Wil-
son, Seafortb.
Special crop reports from Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kansae,
Missouri, Kentucky and Teunessee to
the American Rural Home of this
day, gathered by correspondents in
every county, show that wheat pro-
duoiug areas do not promise more
than bread and seed in winter wheats.
The first twenty-one days of June
wero exceedingly trying and areas
that were thought good for half a crop
are now turning out largely a cheat.
All estimates of the spring wheat
yield at present ars idle conjecture.
The most conservative estimate
points to a 10 per cent. decrease com-
pared with 1884. Corn is doing fair-
ly. In no State, however, are the
prospects above the average. West
of the Missouri the whole season has
been wet; east of the Missouri cold
and dry. The oat crop is much larg-
er than 1884, because large amounts
of wheat lands were put into oats.
On the whole, the season is an aver-
age one.
The Lon3on Free Press says :—
Among the gentlemen who accepted
the invitation of Dr. Shelly, the dis-
coverer of Krao, the alleged "missing
link" at the Grigg Hoose were Drs.
Bucks, Edwards, McDonald, Drake,
Wilson, Eccles and others, and soy-
eral members of the press. It is not
our province to decide whether she is
infect a "missing link," or not, but
she is without a doubt a cariosity.
She is a little girl about three feet
and a half high, with a very dark col-
ored face, heavy black hair growing
down on the forehead nearly to the
eyes, largo dark epee, a fiat nose,
minus any cartilago whatever, and
full lips. She ie of a slender figure,
and though not graceful in her mo-
tions, displays an agility and lithe -
toss not noticeable in many children
of her age, Two other peculiarities
in the little creature are worthy of
notice, these being the ability possess-
ed of turning the fingers backward
until the ends touch too back of the
hand, and the possession of two
pouchee in the mouth in which the
girl stores bits of food, generally nuts.
Krao's anatomy varies remarkably.
She has thirteen pair of ribs instead
of twelve. Krao acts like a little lady
and talks Dither English or German
fluently. Dr. Shelly gives an inter-
esting account of Siam, Krao's native
e0untry, and relates her capture and
the trials and tribulations, incident
to having her brought hero, in a most
interesting manner.
A Halifax despatch says; —At the
old Sydney Mince Colliery on Thurs-
day, Neil Me:funes (79) and Thomas
Meagher (72) was knocked down by
the ears and instantly killed, as they
were approaching the bottom of the
shaft. They had juet finished their
day's work, and wero about to go above
ground.
Nothing lies yet been done to per.
feet an agreement with regard to the
differences now existing between the
Grand Trunk end Cenatliaa Pacific
Railway. The officials of the fernier
say they have granted everything the
latter had stipulated for, and are at
a lose to know why an agreement
cannot bo arrived nt. In the mean-
time, says the Globe, freights are bo-
tug carried at any price offered, and
the whole traffic and business of the
oouutry is unsettled, as no morcuan-
oaros to accept the rate offered, foart
Mg hie ueighbor may gat it lower one.
Proceedings have beau instituted
in the Superior Court, Murray Bay,
to eat aside the Island of Anticosti,
which was purchased by F. W. Stock-
well, for $101,000, last year. The
petitioner, Capt. Forsyth, is one of
the heirs who spent a largo sum of
money upon the island, and claims
that the property was acquired by
Mr- Stoskwell by fraud and conspira-
cy. A preliminary exception raised
by Mr. Stockwell was dismissed a
few days ago.
JULY 8, 186.,
(,001) NEWS
For the Farmer,
I have secured the luclJlT for
Grey township for a
Patent Load Lifting Machine.
1on can do your hauling and
snowing ivitl'1 one Chale less than
usual, as 0 boy can rein the nut -
chino. It is ebnplo, durable, labor
saving, convenient and canoe had
ata small expense. Partners do
not be deceived, order this patent
and take no other. We will take
pleasure any time in testing it
with any other load lifter made,
' and as to its reliability, safety,
strength, lightness of draught and
expedition, it has no equal. Wo
have testimonials from fanners
saying it is the best thing they
have on the farm and that they
would not be without it for three
times its cost. See this Lifter be-
fore you invest a dollar in any-
thing of the kind as it is just what
you want. Any information de-
sired will be furnished
Anyone infringing on the Patent
will be prosecuted.
I1IRAM WHITE,
OouiomOox, ONTARIO.
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5ust Received a Fine Selection of Crockery, Glassware and Io
Cases of Self Sealers which we are Offering at very Low Prices.
BAKERY DEPARTMENT.
Our Oven having undergone repairs we are offering First -Class
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