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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1872-05-31, Page 1g MAY 24, /872. HILLIS ritaIlilia Rouser OPrOSITE KNOX'S• HOTEL, ' 011.11.0.,,,i1..r...111.11.1"1"11111.11.11111"111.13.1.111 • A FULL STOCK. OF ey Cottons, Grey Shootings, lirlfite Cottons, White Sheetings, e Shirtings, 'hheck Sirtings, Jeans, Prints, Ginghamss, RiSS GOODS In, Plain and Figured La AND COLORED LUSTRES„ LUSTRE BROCADES, SATTEENS, Inslin Robes, STRIPE POPLINS, IROCADE popuNS, Mack and Colored Silks... HE "YOKOHAMA' Goatume Moths. in colors, A good assortment of Fancy Goods, ibbons, Laces, Gloves, Hosiery,. 'arasols, Ties, .Collars, Cheraisettes, elved Muslin& THE MILLINERY PARTM ENT,. Wilder the charge a 'Miss Brent, from gr. Jan aya_a Toronto,1 especially iatractive, bolters eppiiaa with stock of the Iateet styles, and the taaost attention may be relied on in filling orders, [he "Persian Stripe Shawl' Ana the ne-,•,-ost patterns in CLOTH' & VELVETEEN MANTLES. The supply of Cloths. and Tweeds is large, and* 11. orciera for clothing will! be satisfactorilly filled- . The usual assortment in GENTS' EuRinsinNqs 'Of Shirts-, Drawers, Ties, Colleas, Fronts, Giave:•4.* :!loaiary, etc, IATS Ir FtAt, Cicala, Silk, Straw, Leahorn and repalila" g Caps it Cloth 011 Silk ete. • MADE CLOTHING"' BOOTS AND SHOES. A good supply c Groceries always ori lianda" Special value in Teas will be given. A good stock ace to chouse from,eaood vane for the raoneY, goo .i market/ in plainfigure, and 1 - one prie, revEr OD 4 the principles closely adhered to at 1111E13 BRITANNIA HOUSE,' VOLVIIIIC .5, No., a6. loraoLE NO. ,234. • SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1872. jacIAVAN BROTHERS, Publishers. A el 50 a Year, in advance. 11111IDICAL. ,'VWMITCHELL, M. D., Graduate of victor ria College, Physieian, Surgeon, ate., ete., loarotoie, Ose.—coroner of the County of Huron. Ivo and residence, at Thompson a-, Stanley's. Tali, VI. R. SMITH, F'hysician, Surgeon, ate. Offase—Opposite Scott Robertson's +Grocery, Win street, Seaford- . 63 oils STEWART, M. D., C. M., Graduate of Pi lbGiU, University, Montreal, Phyeieiart, Sur- - aeon, etc. 0111ce aad llesidence—Brncelield. lar VERGOB, M. D., C. M., PhysiCian, Sur • gem ete. Office and Residence, corner of Msxket and High streets, next to the Planing Mill. TaR. CAMPBELL, Coroner for the County. Offiee and Residence, over Corby's corner store, Main atreet, Seaforth. Office hours, from 11 to 4, each ,day, and all day Saturday. 159 Tthainhabitants of eato-rth and surrounding el- country. Dr. J. G. BULL having been cellea through sickness in his family, to suspend busineas for some time in this place, has pleasure in an- motuscingto the public,. that through a eine Pro- vidence he has been permitted to return to the rooms formerly occupied by- him, over Mr. A. G. McDougall's Store, Main street, where he intends •permanently to remain, and will be idolised to see Vs old patrons and as many Dew ones as may favor jam with a can. All operations performel accord- ' jag to the latest approved style, and fees as low as to be 'found elsewhere. Office hours froni 8 A.. Mato 5 P. M. tm LEGAL. T I 1T,rSolicitor, Wingliam, has been ap- t" • pointed Agent for the Coloniel Securities Com- pany of Englcuid, he is also Agent for several pri- mate Capitalists of Toronto, who 'loan Money at very reasonable rates. Intereat payable yearly. Caine.% raoderate. Wingltam, Deo. 1.5, 1871. 218 JUDGE LYNCH IN LAWN. horse on which he is seated with the rope about his nck, leaves him struggl- . From ".Red Blrainiscences in the Southing in the Sunday light, in a feveminutes west," M. Baker. to hang revolving to right and left,— • Possessing the fine imagination you do, dead ! And so the two are laid side by dear reader, conceive yourself upon a brilliant Sunday morning in the spring, in the centre of the vast Cypress Swamp, west of the Mississippi River. You are one of a large camp of emigrants from east of the father . of waters, on your way with the twenty-two household& compos- ing the camp to a new home upon the banks of the White River. Bee deliber- ate in acceding to this imagination, since, -if you do, it _makes you a member of a church, for the camp is not only ie neigh- borhood afloat, afuturetown upon White River in the air, it is also a regularly organized bhurch, pastor, ofCcore, mem- bers, and. all. In that largo red wagon with a dose covering, off to the right, is a particularly large and new trunk con- taining the pulpit cushion; the commun- ion -service and fout, the huge gilt Bible, the church records, and all the lesser volumes for the psalmody and the Sab- bath school of the building for worship, which, by the by, wili be the very first structure effected when this ehurch itine. rant shall have reached its selected rest- ing place. . • •• The men and women in their Sun- day demeanor and clothing are seated in a • semicircle, of which a rude. pulpit is the centre, upon the hide -bottomed chairs, brought ,along largely for this very pur- pose. The venerable pastor is closing a sermon upon the divine command from creation to slay the murderer ; and,, immediately before him, beside some long object sup - potted by a horse -trough under each end, and covered with a quilt of white May- seilles, sits the murderer, already con- ' derailed to die, and toebe hung as soon as the benediction -is pronounced 1 The facts being simply these : John Arm- strong, a sande -haired, huge -limbed, wresolute Scotch -Irishman, pillar of this church, and born leader among men, was the getter up of this move of the church from its worn -outlands intNorth Caroli- na to the new and fertile location select- ed by himself, after years of careful ex- amination out West, sent out by the' church for the purpose. As the leader of the party he always rides a few hours in advance of the camp, along the military road upon which they are journeying through the swamp,to select a camping spot for each night. •Now, only last 1\londay, they stayed in Memphis a day or so, making the last purchases before leaving all civilization behind and plung- ing intb a world almost as new as if cre- ated the year before. At that date Memphis swarmed with desperadoes; fly- ing from the older States, unwilling to go on to Texas if they could possibly avoid it. One of theae, Beauty Harmon by name, chances in Memphis upon John • latreCAUGHEY ISOLMESTED, Barristers, At - At& torneys at LawaeSolicitors in Chancery and insolvency, Notaries Public and. Conveyancers. Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Sonforth. Agents for .the Canada Life Agenrance Company, • NiB.--a:30,000. to lend at 8 per eent. Farris, Rouses and Lots for sale. 53 latENSON & WRYER, Barristers and Attorneys ••1•° at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency, • Conveyancers, Notaries Pablic, etc. Offices---Sea- forth and Wroxeter. $28,000 of Private Funds to • invest at once, at Eight per cent. Interest, payable • yearly. 53 TAS. H. BENSON. A. W. 0. IST0YEIt. HOTELS, OOMMERCIA.L HOTEL, Ainleyville, Out., WM. ANNETT, Proprietor. This Hotel is under entirely- new management and has been thorongly retovated. The Bar is supplied with the beet Liquctrs and Cigars. Good Stabling and attentive Nostiers. A First-class Livery in conneetion. 228 • NOX'S HOTEL, (Late Sharp's) The tinder-. •L3.- siguecl begs to thank the public ler the liberal patronage awarded to him in times kpast in the betel bnsiness, and also to inferm theni that he has • again resumed business in thb `above stnd, where: lie will be happy to ha° a call from old friends,. •-And many new ones. • 126TalOaLk$KNOX. OF WALES HOTEL, Clinton, Ont., -2- C.. J. McCUTCHEON, :Proprietor. Firsaelass • accommodation for travellers. The Bar is sap- -plied with the very best liquors aud cigars. Good •tabling attached. The stage leaves this House every day for Wingham. • 2044t side in the same grave. The women, too, cluster about the cleacl now and lend. their tears astad. their voices to the funeral Psalm. Another prayer in which both of the dead aro left in the hand of God, with humble entreaty for forgiveness if any sin has been committed in the mat- ter. The doxology and benediction yet again, and the service is ended It was years after, that one of the of- ficers of the church, now an old man, told the writer the whole story with no shade of regret as to the course they had pursued 1 "And, you see, we wrote to Beauty Harmon's people as soon 's we could learn where they lived, tall them the whole story. just how it happened." the old pioneer said to me in continuation- " And what did they write ?" I asked.. "They never wrote. The old. man, the boy's father, he came out here. You see, we had kept the boy's saddle bagsit an' didn't know what. to do with the things. Mighty bad. boy Beauty always was, desperate bad. boy, the old man said ?" my aged friend added. "But what did he say to your haneing his son ?" I ventured to ask. And how the exact words of my informant's reply. • linger to this hour in ny ear "0, the old man, h that mightily! It was ed. murder, and John 1paRITISH EXCFraNGE HOTEL, Godmich; Ont., "AP X. CALI,AAVI,.PrQprietor ; J S. Wramaws, (late el American Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.,) Manager. This boteI hae recently been ma -1y furnished, and re- fitted throughout, and is now one of the niost corn- • lortable ana commodious in the Province. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travellers. Terms liberal. 123 __KAYE RV. sr A. SHARP'S LIVERY AND SALE TABLES. 1- • Office—At Murray's Hotel, Seaforth. Good • ones and first-class Conveyances always on hand. • irrHOMSON'k LIVERY, CLINTON. ' CONIMERCIAL HOTEL. • Good quiet Horses and Firt-Class Vehieles always on hand. Conveyancefurnished to Commereial Taravelleas on reaeonable rates. •221 • - JOHN THOMSON. actually lost , But what 'did they lose? That is the question. The enly solution that I can give, is that they have „been nursing that drunken, worthless clebau- Ghee, Alfred Scott, late delegate of the Provisional Government, all winter, and, of course, though it is an act of charity and mercy, yet the Canadian Govern- ment is rich and let us have a share of the plunder while there is any going. I have asked a good many people what the Mission lost by the rebellion, but the answer invariably was entry. They Were the wrong kind of people to suffer at the bends of Riel and _his confreres. Well, nsuppose it is all right, and we, the English speaking portion of the Domin- ion, have no right to say anything. It is all done by order of His Highness Sir George E. Cartier. Well, I suppose he is "the right man in the right place." No man can know better how to reward treason and rebellion than the man who was -once openly a rebel and is yet one at - at hFeorfarralte.first boat Garry last Friday, bringing a large of the season arrive .d. number of passengers and a large quantity of freight. • • Business is begining to look up. Mer- chant are are gettuig their stocks in and preparing for a rushing summer trade. Another cause of jubilee here is the removal of Governor Archibald. •The Lord send him a speedy release. .It was a had. wind blew bun here but it will be a good one that will take him out. • With regard to the coming elections I think that they will go as followe Lisgar -Dr. Schultz, a pretty tight sgseeeze ; Selkirk—D. A. Smith, St. Boniface, —Hudson Bay -Company in- fluence and money will put him in if he don't die before the election, and he don't look much like it ; Provencher will be represented by a tool of the French party, and in Marquette Dr. Lynch's election is to my notion very doubt- ful, so that with the exception of Liner the chances are that the Ministry will be strengthened by all the members from Manitoba, so that it is going to rest altogether with Ontario, and the - Re- formers there want to be "up and do- ing " if they mean to oust the Ministry in the new Parliament. t W. S. oELL'S LIVERY STABLES, SEAFORTH, Ont. =•-.' Good Horses and Comfortable Vehicles, always • on hand. Favorable Arrangements made with • Cernmercial Travellers. All orders left at KOX'S ROTEL, will be promptly attended to. OFFICE AND STABLEs :—Third door North of • Inox'sifotel, Main Street. 221 THOMAS BELL, Propriete • r. REISCELLYBOUS. T GILL RCHILL, VETERINARYUR SURGEON -1- • (Meber of the Ontario Veterinary College,) begs to intimate to the inhabitauts of Seaforth and se/amending country, that he has opened. an • Office in Sea:forth, where he may be consulted per. Banally or by letteraon the Disea-ses of Horses, Cat• ile„ eta. Raving received a regular and practical education' and having been awarded the Diploma tif the Veteinary College of Ontario, T. J. Churchill has every confidence of giing satisfaction to all who may employ him. es' REEEENCES—A. Smith, V. S., Principal Onta- io Veterinary College; Professor Bnkland, Dr. horburn, Dr. Rowel, ad — "%Veils, M. D. & V. S. Veterinary aledicities coristantly on haua. All calls promptly attended to. 011Ice---Carmichaer s Hotel, Seaforth. 182-2en VETERINARY SURGEON,—D. MeNAUGHT, V. S., begs to announce" to the iuhebitants of Seatorth .aud surrounding country tbat he has been awarded the diploma of, the Ontaaio Veterin- ry College; and. is now prepared to treat ,diseases of Horses and Cattle and allm doestic animals. He bas opened an office in. connection with his horse:- -*hoeing shop, where he will be found ready to at- tend to cells. Diseases of the feet speciially at - „tended to. Resitlence, office and shop in the rear Killoran & Ryan's new store. All kinds of Vet- rinary Medicines kept constantly on hand. Charges reasonable. 229 Armstrong while making his purchases, for Armstrong is treasurer of the colony as well as everything else; sees hinl in possession of largesums; follows bim up- on his lonely ridein advance; shoots him from behind on this very spot ; rides on with his plunder only to be rid- den down and. captured by the young inen of the colony, for escape is impos- sible in such a swamp, no turning off to the right or the left from the embank - A LEXANDER HUNTER, Licensed Auctioneer, • Cranbrook. Grey P. 0. Sales attended on • mode:ate terms. Commissioner in Queen's Bach, • Conveyancer, Land, Lean and General Agent.— Also, Agent for the following Companies, tviz. : Huron and Elia Loan ,Society, London; Farmers' • and alethanics' Savings and Luau Company, Town ie ; Royal Insurance Company of Livrpool and • London, Fire and Life •, Ontario Mutual Fire In- sarance Company and the Agricultural Iusgrance Company.. Any amount of money to loan at low rates of interest. Several good Farms for sale, cheap. ”„ 2.i4-Bin raent for the 'military road through the same, and the horses of the pursuers _ were freshest and swiftest. And so, there the murderer site F But far from sient. Now it is impossible for the camp to halt while the criminal is guarded back to civilization. Along trial tarried for, almost certain escape from the log jail there while awaiting trial ! Besides, thef colony oat wholly satisfied that no jury can be found just now in Memphis whieh will not be a " hung jury," whatever the. evidenee, even if it does not acquit the grumbled about such a cold blood- rinstrong he was such a good man, real 1 valuable man, I had no more feeling in hanging that Young wild-cat,—what e beauty he was, eyes and claws and satin skin !" my friend added after a long silence. 'But when we came to examine his saddle -bags closely after lie was buried, we found one little bundle. The Women they had a cry over it. I couldn't help feeling some myself !" • But what was it ?" • • "0, nothing in the world! In that saddle -bag was loaded • dice, decks of marked cards, books 'full of the dirtiest pictures you ever saw. But that little bundle! Nothing at all, at last, but a pair of little rectbaby shoentied up very carefully in a bit of white paper all to themselves. It is mighty foolish I know," added my friend taking out his large, black, greasy pocket -book, selecting a crumbled bitof paper therefrom and put- ting the same in my hand, "but I've kept that, tied up in the shoes it was, ever since, a reminder like 1" I careftillyi unrolled the Worn paper, and could hardly xnake Ott the faded • words. What a foolisli old man he was! Nothing at last written there but the words, A nise pare' of • littul shoos° bought by Beauty for his deer littul Bab - by bruther ?"--Atlante Monthly. ri• la_ COOPER, Conveyancer, Commissioner in 'Li. Queen's Bench, Insuiance and Gent -tied Agent, Agent fur the Freehold Permanent Building and Salines Society of Toronto, whose rates are as low as any Company doing business in Canada. .Applia rations for Loans promptly attended to. OFFICE. --Opposite Bess' Tailor Shop, 186-14 A.1NLEYVILLE. • , MANITOBA. From an Occasional Correspondent. STONE FOhT, May 14, 1872. DEA.R EXPOSITOR,—It .18 a long time • since 1 wrote last. arta as I am not press- ed with other business just now, 1 thought I would let you know bow the world wags in this portion of Her Ma- jesty's Dominions. . Well, in the first place, we have had a - long. tedious winter, and consequently a great deal of starvation among cattle. Owing to the. [destructive tires last fall, a large quantity of the hay intended. foe winter consump- tion was destroyed, making feed scarce. Then the snow' carne about - a month earlier,- and stayed two or three weeks later than usual, so -that taking all these things into consideration the • farmers have had a tough time during the winter. Cattle have been dyieg in ereat numbers. The spring has been very backward this year. Very litt!e seedine has been done here . so far; but the weather has '..een a little more like summer this last few daya. - I d.are not say much about it for fear it might "go back" on us again. It has played. us that trick pretty often this spring, and I have finally given up the prophesying in• disgust and intend for the future to let the weather please itself? Contrary to all expectations the snew went off gradually and beautifully, and we have not hed a flood of any ac- count this year, in fact. the river at pros- . ene, is not muck higher than it was in July last year. . - The Hudson Bay Company has just launched a fine propeller of about 250 tons burden, which -'they inteud to run between here and. Mossy Portage, on Lake Winnepegoosis, there to connect with a steamer on the great Sascatch- o be built this summe, giving, e break of four miles, ninnterrupt- • MONEY TO LOAN.' '1, subscriber has MONEY to loan to any • amennt on good. farm property. Interest, SIX • per cent- per annum, when the interest • and prin- iciple Etre paid yearly, and 8 por aont. per annum when theanterest only is paid. A G-. McDOTIGALL, 227-52 At cheap cash. Store, sign of tae Bear. MONEY TO LEND. murderer, leaving him free to wreak after -vengeance upon them ; associated, as they have every reason to believe he is, with tho "Murrell Gang," then the gee ror of that region. N o ! • The matter has been thoreughly discussed all the Satur- day night by the men of the colony, the pastor presiding, and. with frequ en t prey er tor Divine guidance. Are they not a town ? The having motyet reached and actually turned theirltents into log -cabins upon their town site,—what difference does that make? And who doubts or denies the guilt of the Murderer? Money, watch, memoraudum-book, well-worn pocket Testament even, of the murdered man found upon him 1- Ana Beauty Her- undersignecl has $3,000 and upward, private fatle, to loan, at 8 por cent. per annm, on Farm property. Mates moderate. Marriage licences issued. Apply to 227-52a W. G. WILSON, Zurich- • mon neVer denies the crime at all ; only csurses and strikes and spits at them till he is exhausted, boasting all the time of what " the boys " will do to. them for hit death,. bewailing only the factthat h separated himself frem "the- boys." and "took to rough gambling" by himself ! • Very easily Could the criminal have had his casj. at least postponed, -for he is not- twentY years old.; "the most perfectly handso me human being I ever:saw," one of family have been hurried beyond the gloomy portals, through one or other of these diseases, within six or eight days. -- The daily expenses of running Van Arnburgh & Co. s Menagerie'which will visit Seaforth on Wednesday next, are set down at $1,500. There are, it is said, over 400 men and horses employed. — The authorities of the County of Wellington, after kicking vigorously for a considerable time against the division of their County forregistration purposes, have at length tamely submitted. to the situation, and have advertised • for tenders for the erection of a new Registry Office. — The Manitoba, the first steamer placed on the new route between Sarnia, Goclerich a-ncl Fort William, had as a cargo on her first return trip 176 barrels of silver ore from the silver mines, each barrel being valued at about $1,100. It • is said that she was unable to bring half the- freight offered. . — The railway war at Niagara has re- sulted disastriously for the public. The Great Western Railway hold. two miles of the Erie and Niagara Railway between Clifton and St. Davids, and. the conse- quense of the difficulty it the entire sus- pension of the road. the men afterwards told the writer. Ho had but to acknoWlecige beg and pray, and promise for -the future, and Over the Very body of bis victim, pos- sbly-by the women first, the men fterWard,--he Would have been held, at least, under adVisment. Rut he has driven the women into' silence from the firet by his obscene curses upon them, simply a beautiful animal, al sleek end spotted pnthr utterly untamable, 00 Wicked ancl. daalgerous to let loose! And so the sermon is ended, not with- out doxology and. benediction. The weep- ing pa,stor attempts beseeching exhor- tatiou to the Condemned; till cursed. by him into despairing silence. The women • Canada - A McGillivray farmer, mimed McCal- lam, owns a hen which lays occasionally a four ounce egg. — Sproat, of North Bruce, after the Treaty vote, wrote home •froin Ottawa "the Grits are sick, sic." The Walker- ton Tele8cope replies " not half so sick as Mr. Sproat will be after election." • — When Van Anaburg's Menagerie six.- hibited at Petrolia, last week, the lion nearly made a meal of his keeper. Prof. White, the keeper, entered the lion's cage, but the lion was very restive, and he could. not catch its eye, so he retired. He made another attempt, hewever, when the lion pounced upon him and. tore his arms and bruised his body badly before he could be got out, which he final y did with the assistance of three other — The Guelph people now propose to • loan $6,000 at 6 per cent. for four years to Mr. Rayner, of Whitby, to enable him to remove his piano manufactory to the former place, and to extendhis busi• ness. The amount is to be raised. by private subscription, and the Corpora- tion exempts from taxation for the same period. —Typhoid pneumonia, a disease of a most dangerous character, hs of -late been prevalent among the horses of Mr. Wood's livery stable, in Stratford, but smcler skilful treatment all the animals affected have recovered. —Some prowlers entered the milk house of Mr. John Murray, 9th conces- sion, Downie, a few nights since, and stole a ham and a considerable quantity of other edibles. Such occurrences as th.e above are said. to have becorae quite prevalent in Downie. some of whom have already commenced rebuilding, and others will follow im- mediately, —Hon. Malcolm Cameron, -who has had a severe attack of small -pox, at Ot- tawa, is recovering. • --- A quarrel has arisen among the Orangemen of London. The other night the hall was forcibly entered and robbed. The warrants, granted by the Grand Lodge to the three Lodges were taken from their frames and carried. - off, and the records and other valuable books, numbering some 25 volumes, were taken. uncover the face of the deed for a last look but are hatened. from it by the brutal language of the murderer. Then the men, the pastor following in the rear, bear the murdered au A the murder- er to the live Oak beneath which the body was found, and where a wide grave has been already dug, D. stout halter from one of the horses already secured to the limb overhead. It is wholly useless, the attempted prayer of the pastor, for Beauty Harmon gives way to a fiercer frenzy of cursin, possibly to keep hs courage up to the last,ursing which cea.ses only when a sudden blow upon the ewan, 't ith on eel stea navigation from. Wiunepeg to Fort Ernonton, at the foot of the Rocky M oun.tains. The next thing that is bothering us here at present is the rebellion losses claims. You will find a list of the prin- cipal claimants in the Liberal newspaper. Now, for your special edification, I will just go ever a few of them, just to show you the positioa they ocupicel then and now. Dr. Shultz collies first. Well; he was 'a sufferer there is no doebt, but where the $34,000 :..omes in can't see. I think he has had. as large a, stock in his store since I came to the country as ever as a. stump speaker Once, abont 10 he had before and I never could, see that years ago, he was nominated to contest —The Messrs. Livinstone, propriet- ors of the Listowel and. ether flax mills, are about to commence the manufacture of linseed oil in the village of Baden, County of Waterloo. Theyhave already erected large buildings for the purpose, and i,t is expected that the machinery to be used will cost about $30,000. When in full operation the mill. will employ about 200 hands. — The little village of A ylmer, 14 miles from St. Thomas, offers $10,000 bpuus for • a manufactory. It has a population of only 800. — A draught match between Lucan :and Exeter took place in the latter vil- lage, a short time ago. and remitted in a victory for Lucan, which club claims 24 games against Exeter's twelve, and four drawn. • County of Perth exatairiation of common scisool teacherS for second. and third elass certificates will commence on the 16th July, aud for first-class on --- Henry Sandfield Macdonald, eldest se of Hon. John Sendfieldi 'Macdonald, of1 ornwall, passed a most ereclitable ex- mmtion for Barrister last week, in To- ro 1l.s.l to. Mreacdonald is a 'Youeg man of considerable ability, and his friends co fldently predict for him a bright future. • —Mr. Ridout, Chief Engineer of the • Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway, wasin Kincardine on Friday last, and re- ports the building of the Southern Ex- tension as progressing rapidly. 'The con- tract for the Kincardine section will be let by the middle of June, and work on both extremities will becarried on simul- taneously. The engineers are now in the vicinity of Lueknow, and the line will be decided. on in a few -days. -- A celebrated running horse, named Bay Jack," was poisoned at Strathroy on Thursday night of last week. and died the next day. Some bran, which, it is supposed, contained. the poison, and. of which the horse bad eaten, was found in his manger, This horse was to run at the races in that town on the 24th. It is supposed that parties interested in an- other horse called "Baron Rothschild," which wag to compete with Jack ose the 24th, and which was not considerd. so fast, committed the font deed. A young colotedlad, "Baron Rothschild's" train- er, and others, have been arrested on suspiciore It is said that this lad was seen to purchase a small paekage of bran the previous evening. r. James H. Gerrie, late mayor of Whitby, one of the most prominent sitizeDs, and a resident of Whitby for over a quarter of a century, was teem. euddenly ill at his store on Saturday - week with inflammation of the lungs. His case appeared nearly hopeless from the first, and be died at seven o'clock last Monday evening, deeply regretted by the whole community. keepers using pikes. This pert of the the 23rd July in the Town Hall Strat- proramme ha, since this occurrence, , been omitted in the performance. ford. — A special meeting of the Oxford -- It is expeeted business in the House TownshipCouncil was held to consider will be sufficiently advaneed to allow it the advisability of issuing debentures on to prorogue about the 10th of dune. the credit of the mimicipality, to the ex- - Cattle are so scarce in Manitoba tent of $50,000, to assist the business that some persons haele gone to the States men of Ingersoll in rebuilding the burnt to purchase. Iminigrants had better district. Great opposition was shown by take their horses and cattle with them. the members, and the representatives The stock there is infe.rior and the prices from Ingersoll withdrew the application , altogether. frightful. --- Mr. Adam Henry, of the First Con- —A sand bar has been formed in the Kincardine harbor by the spring freshets, cession of Uollingwood, had a merle and a which prevents large veseels landing at cow, each of whieh lately gave 'birth to thatharbor. If this bar be not removed an animal of its own spe,cis. The- mare the trade of that place during the season lost her colt and the pelf lost its mother, of navigation is -likely to suffer. Ap since which the marefeeds and caresses plication was made to the Dominion the calf to their mutual satisfaction. The citizens of London are about to present an address to Bishop Hellmuth on his proposed erection of a Cathedral. They speak as " admirers of the courtesy and urbanity" • of the Bishop, which has endeared him to them all—of his earnest- ness and zeal for. and perseverance in the promotion of good morals and religion —of his public spirkas evinced so nobly • 1in originating and successfully planting — A girl named Catherine Cowl liv- ing with her parents about twenty miles from Stratford, was arrested on Satur- day, charged with Concealment of -birth. She acknowledged the crime, stating that she had buried the body in the gar- den, where it was found. An inquest was held on Tuesday, and the verdict rendered was that the cluid -same to its death by negleet of its mother, Cath- exine Cowl, who is now confined. in gaol awaiting further action. in the premises, Onelast Tuesday morning about five o'clock, the body of_ au unknown. woman, thirty-five years of age, was - found near le apanee Station between the` mile, a short time after two freight trains had passed on the Grand Trunk Rail- way. She was linen the previoue even- ing at the station. and said her husband had misused her and. had gone away with two other women. It appear s she lay down on the track end fell aeleeP. Her neck and one arm were brakeli, aala there was a large scalp wound on the back of the bead. The clothing was mostly torn off the body, and the shawl was carried half a mile. — A. man ,by the name of Craig, wbo comes linen the neighborhood of Ottawa, met with a dreadful accident at Dur- ham's saw -mill, near Barri, on Tuesday last. • lie was putting a small belt on a wheel which made about three hundred revolutions to the minute, -when in some Government for a small grant to -assist in way his right arm got caugnt m the beet, removing this obstruction, but has been and he was drawn round the shaft. His refused. The town autherities, there- - right arm wee torn completely out of the fore, contemplate, with commendable en- socket ; both his legs are broken, and a terprise, ueing the money -which they hole made as if by It spike through one of had intended for the erection of a town them ; his ribs ere broken and in feet he hall, in dredgingthe harbor. . is mashed to pieces: But faint hopes f e ov as -- A. new cheese factory has been are entertanied- o Ins r e erY' Be has in Tiverton, County of Bruce, a. wile awl, five small cildren, who es ere capable of manufacturing the milk of entirely dependent on his daily earnings for support, es tw The Dynasty of David. TbiS volume consists of a series of dis- courses on the different Kings of Judah, from David. to Zedekiah, with an addi- tional one on Immanuel Jesus, as the true seed of David. The author, the late Rev. . Duncan, of Bayfield, County of Huron, WIIS not SO well known, either the two Hellmuth Colleges ; and they over 200 mws• This is we believe, the • • j.first cheese factory started in that coun- most heartily commend. his (project, and We trust the experiment may proye desire to cheer him on his good work of 'Y. satisfactory to all concerned, and that faith and labor of loe. • this branch of the dairying business may more eterided, as we are sure it —At a fancy fair in Ottawa, last wek, become a chair was to be given to the minister would add much to the general agricul- who received the most -votes. The °h- tural prosperity of the farming commul. ject, of course, was to give it to the most ity of that fine county. popular clergyman, but prominent mem- It is. said that the Militia author- bers of the House of Commons gob up a . eubscription and carried it in favor of Sir john A. Macdonald by a large ma- jority. The fair got altogether some $30 for the chair, and as' much for a cane for a most popular docthr. ities have decided to filcrcase the ration as a preacher or writer, as he ought to, • allowa,nce to the men when in camp next have been, but those who did know him June, at Windsor. The horse allowance will also be increased 11'011175 cents to $1. -- A medical man in a distant town - was last week fined $10 for neglect- - Mr. Robert McLean, of Galt, receiee shin ed the nomi• nation Of the North Brant Loge, of Bodgerville. ing to register a death. loved and honored hun His nn - eventful history is given in a short bio- graphical notice prefixed to this volume by his friend and neighbor, Rey. J. Mn Duncan was originally minister in Reform Conention last week, for the —Mr- D. Grahani, of the township of w , , , , al kwortn, in England, but smee 1854 Cemmonse Mr. Mc'Lettia is well known East Williams, took 40 lbs, of wool from as Inspectbr of Agencies of the Gord Dia- three yearling ewes of the Leicester had been settled in Bayfield, in Ontario, where, up to the time Of his death, he trict Mutual Insurauce Company. He breed. The wool was of a very superior ministered to a not very lare, but an in - is an old political war hole, and ILI every queity,and some that -was measured telligent and atta,ched congregation. ties of -Wateloo arid Oxford for the last —T - he Guelph Mercury states that vantaae of being posthumous—not above The volume. conies out with the disad- election that has occurred in the Coml. went 16 incises. ; 0 .e will s f t the second. brigade of volunteers at tile press by Mr. Duncan himself. In spite haemg been prepared for the 20 years he has taken a prominent part Colonel Ross, of Goderic , 11 commas d beet 0 Windsor Camp, -with Major McMillan, of this draw -back, it is in every way ex f the 0th, as Rrisgele Major. IN - ceedingly well got up, and will be vety amount in it. Then Bannatyne and Begg—well that money is not paid for losses sustained ,in defence of Canadian rights,- but, you know, • Mr. Bennatyne acted as postmaster for Riel and. his col- leagues, and clid a good deal of dirty work for them, and when. Riel left he for- get. to pay those little bills, soMonsieur Bannatyne quietly billed. the Canadian Government for it, and now Pockets the amount opposite his name and .growls at the parsimoniness of said. Governmnt. Hon. A. Boyd, ditto, guns seized. Yes, when he told them where they were, of course they seized them. A. Gingrass, a noted rebel and sympathizer of Rid's. John FeGrant, ditto. Then conies the dap sheaf, the St. Boniface Mission, $4'39. Why not make it the even see00 . But I 'suppose His Holiness, Bishop Tache, is so serupulouily honest that he would not charge one cent over what they • North Oxford, but Isy some hocus-pocus arrangement in the eonvention he was afterwards thrown out, to make room for the late I -lope F. Mackenzie. Me. McLean has always been a consistent Reformer and if he accepts the nomina- tion and gets elected will make a good representative.. —The disease known among profes- sional men as -Cerebro -Spinal Meningitis has assumed an epidemic form in various parts of Canada and the neighboring Re- public, and is producing no little amount of anxiety. In the vicinity of Clinton, Beachville and other places, it has suc- ceeded in obtaining a foothold, and ap- pears to cling with unpleasant pertinacity. Scarlet fever of a malignant type has also made its appearance; and many victims have succumbed to its deadly effects. In some instances three or four in the same emderstand, farther, that Col. Richard- son, of Woodstock, will have command of the first brigade, with Major Walker, of the 7th, as Brigade Major. — The corner stone of a new cathedral to cost $100,000 is to be laid. in London on the 5th proximo. Bishop Helhanith is not lacking in energy, and has no doubt seen his way clear in the matter of funds. H-owever, the resources of his people will not be lightly taxed to raise the required. sum. — Sines the disastrous fire in Inger- soll, the greatest activity has deen dis- played by the business men of that place to re-establish thercuielves in business. Many of the most eligible sites have changed hands at high prices, falling into the possession of good, energetic men, acceptable to piousandentelligentree ere, We hope it wil have, as it deserves, an extensive ale. The mechenieal part of the vole.* is in the usual neat and tasteful style of the Messrs, Campbell; the publishers, and in saying this we say all that is necessary in the way of commendation. --Canada Presbterwn. Hayrick. neRfonntilea sitthiepetoillf gllOofwtib:e ilerli' 3f0IfinttThjeNGiow—An will be held. at John Miller's, on Saturdy, the 1st clay of June, at 6 o'clock, P. M. Delegates will_ be appointed to attend a Reform Covention to select a candidate to contest the Riding at the coming elee- tion for the House of Commons, also any other business necessary. —COM. • •