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1371101,1E NO 257.
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FOR SALE.
T OT 8, in the 6th concession, Kinloss, County of
- Bruce, 100 acres, 45 acres &eared ; a good log
houae; land excellent and cheap. Also, lot 14, in
the male concession, 100 acres, 30 acres cleared.
apply to Samuel Roach, on the premises, or to
257_8 CAMF/RON & GARROW, Goderich..
THE PROFESSIONS AND LIGHTER
OCCUPATIOAS.
There appears to be a groWing disposi-
tiop among our young men to crowd the
learnediarofessions, to rush into business,
and generally to seek the lighter occupa-
tions of life. The farm and the -work-
FARM FOR SALEshop are, in many cases looked. upon as
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OR SALE, north east quarter too hard work, and to dautile life away of lot 23, Con. 7, • .
111, an office, or measure tape behind a
counter, is considered -by many to be
mach easier and happier. Theu others
regard these so-called lighter occupeanSns
• much more genteel and respectable,
quite overlooking the 'dignity of human
labor, and the practical independence of
the man who is a r direct producer Of
-wealth.
As the result • of such erroneous and
rather unmanly opinions, we find the le-
gal awl -medical professions becerming
crowded, hundreds anxious to "keep
Township of Morris, containing 50 acres, 35
-acres cleared.; log house; with timber and lumber
out for a frame barn. For further particulars en -
vire, if by letter, prepaid, to C. R. COOPER, Land
Agent,Ainleyville. 257-4
BUSH -FARM FOR SALE.
T OT No. 21, Concession 8, south half, Township
Morris, containing 75 acres, 50 acres being the
hest hardwood land, balance in pine cedar and
Neck ash. A good spring creek runs through the
lot. The above lot is two and a half miles Off the
Northern Gravel Road. For tutherparbiculars en-
quire of C. Ba GOOPER,Land Agent, Dingle, P. O.,.
or to PETER MoDONAId), Lot 23, Concesoion- 8,
Morris. 257.4*
FARM FOR SALE.
V./1RM of 13a mores for sale, 20 sores in woods,
J: good land and good buildings. Siandles from
Clinton. and three and a half from; Bayfield.
257 ALFRED STONEICOUSE.
-FARMS FOR SALE IN McKIL.LOP.
R on reasonable terma, the north half
of Lot 26, Con. 14, Mclullop, containing 40
acres, 20 of which are cleared, in a good state of
cultivation, and well fenced, the balance is
timber land; this lot adjoins the village of Wal-
ton, and is well situated; there is on the Premises
&frame house and barn. Also, for sate, a LOT
containing 25 acres of land, on the Gravel Road-
foor miles north of Seaforth; this lot is all -wood
land, and, is Well timbered with hardwood, the
land is of excellent quality and dry. For further
parkieulars, apply to the nndersigned, if by latter,
address Seaforah P. 0.
256 ' N. H. 'YOUNG.
STORE AND PARK LOTS FOR SALE
IN -WROXETERa
THE subscriber offers for sale the building in the
village of Wroxeter now occupied as a store by
Mr. A. Hood, Also, eight PARE LOTS near the
village, coutaining ua all about ten scres,in a good
state of cultivation. The store :sad lobs will be
sold jointly or separately, and on easy 'terms, as
the subscriber is about to leave this country.
JOHN MOORE, Turnberry,
Within a mile of Wroxeter, on the Seaforth Road.
Wroxeter, ea. 28, 1872. 256-8
FARM FOR SALE IN H TT.
Walt SALE, Lot 10, Sixth Concession, Hulett,
-a: near ginbarn, aeven miles from Seaforth, and.
even miles from Clinton., the property of Isaac
Johnson '- 100 acres, 95 clearedand ingood cultiva-
tion; splendid barn, stable'sheds and outhouses ;
large, soling, bearing orchard; a stream a water
runs aoross the lot. Terms to suit the purchaser.
If not sold this farm WILL BE LEASED for ten
years, for A1,000, paid in advauce. Apply to H.
HALE, Clinton. .. 2554*
FOR SALE-
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TOll.E AND DAMMING in the Tillage of
Harpurhey, at present ocoupied by HUGH
ROBB, Esq. For particulars apply to ICH ,r,maa..N
& RYAN, Seaforth. 252
FARM FOR SALE IN MORRIS.
VOR SALE, on easy terras north half of Lot No.
12, Concesoion, 6, Township of Morris, centain-
ing 100 acres, 50 of which are cleared, well fenced,
and in a good state of cultivation. There is on
the premises a good log house and barn. This
from is situated within two miles and a half of a
good gravel road, and four miles and a half from
the village of 4 interille, at which place there
Will be a station of the Wellington, Grey and
Bruce Railway this fall; it is watered by a never
-
failing stream running through it; there is no
awaste land, and, the uncleared portion is well
timbered with hardwood; Itais one of the most
ehoice lets in the township. For further par-
ticulars apply to J. R. GRANT, Motley rille, THOS.
HOLMES, Blyth, or to the undersigned proprietor,
Nippon Post -office.
251 ROBEBT MeMORDIE.
• store" if they only can get goods on
credit, and bookkeepers, clerics, , et hoc
genus ws plentiful as blackberries
in the month of July. A single adver-
tisement offering a ,good salary for one of
the latter class, has been known to over-
• FARMS FOR SALE IN MORRIS. I
CNE °RED ACRES, being South half of i
Lot 23, sal oncessionot Morris; 70 acres dear
of stumps and well fenced, the remaining 30 hard
wood bush; good orchard of about 100 trait trees,
apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach, and grape vines;
log barn 30i84 and, stable, log house half mile
from sahool house, n miles from gravel road, run-
ning from. Seaforth, to Ainlepille, 5i miles from
Ainlersillewhere a station of the. W. G. and B.
Railway will he erected this fall, and 14 miles from
Seaforth. Also 100 acres of valuable bush, land,
being north half of lot 26, 8th Concession of
Morris; there i$ a largo quantity of pine, cedar,
black ash, hemlock, and haril wood on this lot.
No incumberance, title indisputable, being Crown
Patent for both lots. Terms easy. Apply to
THOS. EELI,Y. on the premises, or by letter to
Walton Post Offiee. • 24941
whelm the advertiser with application*.
And this, too, whilst there is an abund-
ant and more profitable field for labor
on our lands, in our mechanical and man-
ufacturing shops, in our forests, and in
Our now rapidly -developing mines.
There can be no doubt that this dispo-
sition on the part of the rising generation
to avoid. these. pursuits which are con-
sidered hard work, is all wrong, and just
as silly as it is wrong. The fact of the
matter i, there is no royal react to suc-
cess, and at the present time of the day,
with the keen competition which exists
in every department of human industry,
hard Work is the invariable price which
has to be paid for success in whatever
calling is entered upon. • The lawyer
without a brief, may have -easy work;
but the few of them who are successful
have had to toil late and early. . The
physician without patients, who ekes out
a miserable existence, may have easy
work; but what could be more laborious
than the work of him who has a large-
• practice ? And as regarde keeping store
and "clerking," the work may be light
but the hours are long,s and we do not
know a Single occupation which appears
to us so tiresome—so hopeless—so unat-
traetive to a young man of energy and
spirit, who has some ambition to make
his way in the world.
Take the retail mereha,nt as an illus-
tration. Almost every one seems to
think himself qualified for that business,
and thatetoo, without any previous ex-
perience or acquairitance with it. The
result is that every town and village
contains more merchants than oars pos-
sibly do a living businesse-the trade is
overdone—and _every few months the
assignee or sheriff steps in and adds an-
other t� the victims 9f failure. Llaek
around •your town or village and ask
youreelf how many of your present retail
dealers were in business twenty •years
ago, or have retired. with a reasonable
competence ? The per corsage of the
whole number will be fouad exceedingly
small-, and the lot of even the nineteen
out of twenty. who failed—Was it pleas-
ant? We can iinagine 'nothing- more
calculated to use up_ a man mentally and
physically, than the toil and worry of a
hopeless struggle to keep a business off
the rocks of -bankruptcy. Following the
plough or striking at the forge all day is
,undoubtedly laborious; but six o'clock
in most cases sets the workman free, and
• night's slumber finds him as active and
vigorous as ever. But the trader who
toils in his shop frommorning to • dark,
who cannot escape the worrying details
of a besiness, whpse bills payable never
fail to mature however business may fall
off; his work may be truly said ne vet to
be done, and instead of being.. light and
easy, as inauy young men suppose, it is
wearying and trying to an unusaal de-,
gee. •
The rage for professional life and
the supposed lighter classes of pursuits
is annually reducing the Chances of suc-
cess. Where one succeeds, ten fail, and
after many years uselessly spent - not a
few have to 'Settle down Ise occupations
which they would have ' sneered at in
early years.as not sufficiently genteel or
respectable. There is still, of course,
and always will be, room for realtalent
in mercantile life, law or 'medicine ; but
real talent is a scarce commodity, and
the great majority of,the youths of Can-
ada, cannot be too 'strongly advised to
engage in those numerous other forms
human industry, which, if not consider-
ed by snobs and shoddy quite so genteel,
at least hold out the certain prospect of
success_ to all who are enterprising aud
industrious.
It is a fact frequently remarked that a
very large proportion of the young men
who crowd to our cities are fanners' sons
from the country. There is certainly no
occupation, in Ontario, at least, so uni-
formly successful as agriculture, and cer-
tainly none more independent and
pleasant in itself. How, then, Can
we accouut j for so many deserting
01 good pine en t;he lot, within one mile and a half their fathers'., comfortable farms to
acreo cleared log house ; there is a quantity
of two good saw-raills. For farther particulars, enter upon the eicissitudes of city
4_ge
addressiwiLliaAar AMOS% life ? We cannot attribute this wholly,
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_ Dingle '. O. assomedo, to a distastefor manual la -
_HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE IN SEAFORTH bor. We leer the trne cause in most
I-7011, SALE, a ilouse and lot on Goderich streetcases to be that one fanners' homes are
24--1-0Tfor further particulars, apply to belt made sufficiently attractiv'e to their
. Seaforth
ROUSE ta LOT FOB SALE in HA.PUR,HEY.
1.?01t SALE, in the Village of Haipurliey, near
•Sealorth uvrelling-bause told lot. _There is
FARM FOR SALE.
S'OUTH B aT1F of the South half of Lot No. 24,
• Fifth Concession of We township of Morrie,
containing 50 acres, 35 cleared ; well watered by a
spring creek; good log house and frame stable.
The above farm is only a mile and a half on a -good,
road from the rising vilbsge of Ainleyville, where a
station of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Rail-
way will be opened this fall. For price and terms
inquire (if by letter, prepaid) of
C. R. COOPER,
2'35 Airdeyville Iatnd Agency, Dingle P. O.
FARM FOR_ SALE IN Pair:
VOR SALE, south part Lot 21, Ninth Concession,
-•A- Hay, known as the "Troyer Farm ;" one-half
mile from. Zurich, on the Gravel Road ; 70 acres:
50 cleared; clvrelling-honse aud barn; good ,young
beating orchard; the hind is in a good state of era- •
tivation and well fenced. For further particulars
apply to G..WILSON,
2401'4 Zurich, Ont.
FOR SALE.
•A VALUABLE FARM, 100 acres, First Conces-
'• sion, McKillop„ atear Seaforth, on the main
gravel road to GoderiCh. ; 85 acres cleared and free
of stumps, with ten acres. of a fallow, the rest
under grass; well watered and fenced, with large
frame bean, stable underneath; log, farm-hou.ee,
boarded outside, and good. orchardpossession im-
mediately ; title good and terms easy. For far-
ther particulars apply (i/ by letter, prepaid,) to
242 LUDWIG MEYER, Seaforth P. O.
FARM FOR SALE.
OT No. 26 Con. 5, Township of Morris ;50
SEAFORTH, FRIDA_Y, NOY. 8, 1872.
class who are eager to find something
respectable and light. This unworthy,
and at the same time foolish, tendency
Imo fortunately not attained, such head-
way in this country' as in the United
States, but that it is cn the inerease
amongst us there is only too much rea-
sqn to fear.
The whole matter -may be sumnted up
in a few words. Hard work in some
form cannot be avoided if success is to
be aehieved. Whether in professional or
rnercantilepursuits, in the woekshop or
on the farm, toil must be encountered,
difficulties overcome. The question.
therefare, just resolves itself into this?
Is it wiser for young men to go on swell-
ing the number of those 'engaged in over-
crowd.ed professions, mercantile and
other occupations, in which a lucky few
draw prizes and the many blanks; or
should they become our futule farmers,
mechanics, maamfacturers and artizans.
which occupations, while not less healthy
and. agreeable, liolcl.ont the certain pros-
pect of success to all who display ordin-
ary prudence and industry? The answer
to this questien ought not to be difficult.
—Monetary Times.
Bayfield as a Terminus for the
Toronto, Gi or and Bruce Bail -
way.
To the Editor of the Huron Expositor.
• The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
Company is about applying to the Legis-
lature of the Province of Ontario at its
next sessiou for an act to empower them
to adopt other terminal points for their
Railway than those specified in their
Charter, and that company some time ago
made a movement as though they had
had in contemplation the elitension of
their line of road .frorn Kohut Foreet
Southwesterly by way of Wroxeter, and
thence to Seaforth, making the village of
Bayfield. situated on the eastern bank of
Lake 'lure's,- its Southwestern termiuns.
It, therefore, plainly appears the- time
has arrived to make it a duty, in the in-
tereet • of, the different municipalities
throughathich it is contemplated to pass,
as well as . in the interest of the said
Company, to place the matter before the
public in as correct and prominent a
light. as possible. It is, however, im-
possible, beforehand,to arrive at a correct
estimate of all ths varied advantages and
benefits arising from such enterprises—
to the farnier, the merchant and every
variety of dealers—in a word to the
whole community. • There' would be a
market at every mau's door, for every
possible article produced on the farm,
factory. and shop. To the development
of such, means of communication easy
and rapid are of the highest importance,
• not only for 'through travel but for
facilitating local trade, the conveyance
of home freight and the tupply of
'home markets. It would add more than
the entire cost of the road to the value of
\the lands. The effect of public works of
•thiseort in increasing the value of lands
through which they pass, we have ample
enough proof on all hands. Ite, therefore,
becomes a privilege and duty of every
one at once to place their shoulders to
the wheel in order to iuduce the eastern
cities and Company to grant this in. -
estimable boon. We again say it ia a
great privilegeto advocate the adoption
of this route for the Toronto, Grey and
Bruce Railway, 'and prove by acts wi
deeds that we are -not to be behind hand
in endeavoring to develop the manifold
• resourees of this most productive and
rich agricultural section of the Province,
the garden of the Dominion.
We inow corhe to speak of the' advan-
tages of this route to the eastern
cities and to the Toronto,Grey and Bruce
Company. The route in question pesses
through a most -fertile aud productive
agricultural country, thickly settled with
a prosperous, industrious, and wealthy
population, abounding in all kinds of
produce —.krone fruit, cattle, and tim-
ber,- which, with the necessary foreign
supplies for such a population, would
afford ' a large revenue in •addition to:
throughtraffic, and the cities would ba
supplied with cheap wood and previa.
ions of all sorts, and numerous other.
articles which at present are excluded
from city consumption for want of a
direct route and ready means •of trans;
port.
There are some who May be induced
tc object to the narrow gauge. To those
we would say that this objection ie easily
answered by referring to the fact. that
the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
conetructed to Mount Forest, and the
Toropto and Nitissing constructed to
Argyle, in the township of Eldon, are at'
present doing a large and profitable
business. This is ample proof of itself'
of the capabilities of the narrow gauge
road to do all the business - required on
such lines for years-. Vet in the eventof
business traffic increasing to an extent• ,
requiring enlargement to the wide gauge
of 4 feet 81 inches, the gauge adopted in
Great Britain and the United States,
• this can be quite easily effected with
little or no additional cost, it requiring
only 141 inches extra width. • It is well
and -generally known • that • rolling
stock wears out in from 10 to 15 years,
and .must be renewed. and at such a.
time a changed condition can easily be
effectedwith comparatively no cost,as
Perth at the late election, was, on Fri -
same bridging and grading the
will answer
clay, tried at the Perth Assizes in Strat-
ehildren, and that they grow up to con-
sider farming not as they should do, the
noblest of human pursuits, but as a life
of dulhaesd and drudgery, to be escaped
ort the preiniseo a good. bearing Orchard, a never- from at the earliest opportunity. lhis
atablea. together wilh all other neceasary out- tact lies at the root of the evil, and it is
tailing well of water- also, a good work -shop and ,.
buildings. The house is frame, well finished and hioli time that our farmers, most of .
plensautly located. For terms and other particu-
lar, apiav to PETER McCIPNNELL, Harpurb.ey,
or to the undersigued proprietor, Harpurhey, or
- fleaforth Post -Office.
248*I3
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jOECN REEDY.
G. F. THO-MPS-ON,
Csrpenter and Dailder,
la prepared le take.eontracts for all kinds of work
ha hal line. He is also prepared to remove houses
or other Imildiugs.
Work clone promptly and in the best and most
Workmanlike manner.
a. F. THOMPSON, '
22644 Seaforth.
whona ca,n now afford it, shooed turn
over a new leaf.
• The rush for what may be call the non-
productive occupations, is no doubt
caused to some extent by the increasing,
wealth of the country, -and the rather
luxurious and artificial style of living
which seems to be -creeping in among
those families who aim to be considered
the better classes of society. With some
notable exceptions, the sons of Canadian
upper-tendom are trained to despise be-
ing fanners, mechanics and artizans, and
the bulk of them go to swell the large
can be found in the cities. Bayfield,
the next in Magnitude , and population,
delightfully located as it is, on an devat-
edplot of ground, 50 or 60 feet above
the lake and. river, at the confluence of
river Bayfield with the lake, having
an area of thtee or four hundred acres of
land all surveyecl into village lots. The
mercantile, manufacturing, and fishing
enterprises are also largely represented.
We may safely -add that lethia villa,ge is
surrounded by an extensive, unequalled,
rich fertile agriCaltural section of coun-
try, secopd to none in the Dominion.
Very large shipments of wheat, barley,
oats, peas, pork fruit, butter, fish, wool,
cheese, poultry, etc., all of which are of
the very best quality, second to none,
are the annual production of this densely
peopled district of hardy, intelligent and
industrious farmers. The river Bay-
field, a noble stream, at this point pre-
sents a fall of 8 or 10 feet, with a levee
volume of water in the spring and fall
of the year, arid could readily and cheap-
ly be improved so as to develop even
duringthe dry stages, extensive
water po.wer. Steam power -can also be
cheaply and readily. utilized to any de-
sirable amount ot horse power. There
can also be im doubt but that the same
salt bed found .at :Saginaw, Goderich,
Clinton and. Seaforth, extends to Bay-
field, and is_perhaps to be found as near
the surface as at 'Saginaw. • If such be
the fact a large and profitable business
in this article can be built up at much
less mitlay than at other places, and vast
wealth would be the result, especially
should reciprocal trade be established
with the Ur_itecl States; and there is no
good reason to cloubt but that reciprocity
with the Dominion will be in due time
• an • established fact. The late move
merits in the United. States in this direc-
tion plainly showing that they Are be-
coming wide awake to their c7wii interets
in respect to this question. The Bay-
field harbor is of vital consequence as a
harbor of refuge to the carrying trade
and navigation of the lakes. We under-
stand that all the harbors in the Domin-
ion are the property of the Dominion,
And therefore it is justly • thought and
expected the Domittion Government will
ere long take hold of this harbor
and put it in good repair. A few thou
sa.
dollars expended on it would rren-
der it/safe and commodious, equal if net
better than any yet constructed on the
eastern simile of Lake Huron, and of vett
importance to the lake trade as a harbtr
of refuge.
The Township of Stanley some years
ago expended a. large sum on this harbor,
but, as they failed in carrying out th ir
plans for want of sufficient meaus, th- 'r
works have been lost, except the north
pier, which is still in a -good state of
preservation and wilr peril -aim remain so.
for years to come. •
Besides the local traffic, it is - quite
evident that any amount of business de-
sirable could be diverted to this channel
from the Westera States, Upper Lakes
and. Manitoba. It is therefore with the
greatest confidence we assert unhesitet-
ingly, that Bayfield is the legitimate
and natural terminus for the Torono,
Grey and Bruce Railway
In conclusion, we would beg to, invite
the municipalities and villages through-
out this section of the country to dir et
their interest and energies to the no le
work of opening up tlfis line of commu-
nication to yourselves and children here-
after, and leave them an inheritance
worthy a great people. We also beg to
express our entire convietion thatethe -
Toronto, Grey and Brude Railway Com-
pany have evvy reason to be encouraed
to carry their road by this route . in the
full assurance that it will be a paying
ancl profitable investment, and that Ian
the benefits ead advantages anticipated
from its construction will be fully rea-
lized. BAYFIRL1D1
tilictEAN 111110TAUER 0, Pabibtherft.
In 50 a Year, in advance.
are accused of beating, starving and
otherwise abusing the patients. The
matter should be probed to the bottom
by the Government
• —Mr. John Snell, of Edmonton. the
well known stock importer and breeder,
died atl his residence, on Friday last.
• —The election for Welland, the con-
stituency of the late Mr. Street, will
take place on the 19th inst. The nom-
ination takes place on the 12th.
—Thursday, the 14th day of Novem-
ber, has been proclaimed a day of
thanksgiving ;and a public holiday in the
Province of Ontario, by the Lieutenant -
Governor, •i
—Mr. John Robertson of Kincardine
township, has lost six fine horses by the
Epizootic.
• ---ialr. William Bell, of Shakespeare,
County of Perth, has purchased. from
Colonel Taylor, of London, Ont., a
short -horn bull calf for $500.
—Mr. Thomas Moffatt, of Dumfries,
near Galt, has several cows sick With a
disorder which resembles the epizootic
in many particulars. They have the
same cough, the same xunning at the
nose, and exhibit the same languor.
They have become very much reduced.
in flesh and their milk has almost en-
tirely dried up.
—And now Goderich is putting in an
oar for the Western. Normal School. A
deputation composed of the following,
gentlemen waited upon the Ontario Gov-
ernment a tew days ago for the purpose
of presenting the claims of that enter-
prising town :• Messrs. Horace Horton,
M. P., Robert Gibbons, M. P. P, Thos.
Gibson, M. P. P., J. R. Miller and J.
S. Sinclair.
—A frame barn belonging to a small
farmer whose land adjoins the village of
Mitchell, was burned on Monday night
of last week. The building contained a
censiderable quantity of bay and. oats,
and a number of farming implements, all
of which were consumed, together with
three fatted pigs which were in a pen ad-
joiuing the barn. There WAS but little
or no insurance on the building ot con-
tents. The - fire was undoubtedly the
work of an incendiary• .
—Mr. James Redford, ex -M. P. for
North Perth, recently purchased at an
auction sale in the County of Perth, a
Durham cow for which he paid the hand-
some price of $235.
—A buck deer was recently shot in
the township of Williamsburg, County
et Dundas, which weighed when dressed
250 pounds.
—ala. Angus Gillespie, of Minto, had
this year 4 acres of California white po-
tatoes, containing 180 drillsthe yield
of which averaged about eight bushels
to the drill, making 1,440 bushels alto-
gether, or 360 bushels per acre.
Ctir-ada.
Butler, the coloretl barber of Listowel,
who was suspected some time ago of
miirdering his wife, has been committed
forstrial at the next Lambton assizes,lone
a charge of murdering a laboring Mari in
Moretown, a village in the above naniied
county. •
• —The track of the Toronto, Grey and
Bruce Railway between Mount Forst
and Harriston, is now nearly all grac ed,
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the culverts in and the road ready for
the iron, with •the exception of one or
two bridges which are not yet qiiite c in-
pleted. •,
—County of Wellington • debenteres
sell at par. and debentures of the Coun-
ty of Wentworth, bearing interest at
the rate of six per Cent, sell at one per
cent premium.
—At the Assize Court in Stratford,
last week, Mr. W. F. Hacking, of Lis-
towel, obtained, a judgment again s tith e
county and $250 dameges for inju ies
sustained on the Logan gravel road ast
Spring. . 1 '
—The ,merchants of the village of
,
Ailsa Craig, are " running " each other
in the butter businese. During last
• week as high as from twenty to twenty-
two cents was regularly paid. Some-
• body will get badly nipped. '1
--Hugh Craig, one of the leaders of
Mr. • Daly's electron rioters in North
the changed condition. --
In connection with this subject it
proper here to refer to the topographic
eharacteristics of the rout of the pro-
posed extension. lts entire distance
from Mount Forest to Bayfield does not
exceed sixty miles, and presents a re-
markably leyel and uniform surface for
construction and operation, without en-
counter -nag any engineering difficulty or
expensive work. It would. embrace 9 or
10 arge prosperous and increasing vil-
lages, viz., Harriston, Gonie, Wroxeter,
Diegle or Ainleyville, Walton, Seaforth,
Egmondville, Brucefield, Varna, and
Bayfield. • Seaforth, the largest incor-
porated village, and perhaps ding the
largest business of any, and rapidly
itt-
creasing in size and population ; com-
mercial and manufacturing enterprise
are here largely represented. There are
• as fine stores located in this village as
- ford, and sentenced to _four months, im-
prisonment and to pay a fine of $50.
A number pf others for similar offences
were hound over to a,ppeer for trial at
the next sitting of the court.
•—On Friday of last week as a number
of inen were repairing alarge brick bailda
ing, on Colborne street, Toronto, the
wall gave -way, and the whole structure
fell, burying • a number of workmen
in -the ruins. A crowd soon. assembled,
and in a few hours removed the debris
and. rescued the men from.their perilous
position, and strange to say none of them
were severely injured.
—Diphtheria, or. black sonethroat has
been very prevalent in the village of
Mitchell for rnany weeks, and in a num-
ber of instances it has unfortunately
proved fatal; in some cases takiug two
or three out of one family.
—A few clays ago Mr. renry Eck-
stein, of Tavistock, was about to chas-
tise his son, a lad of ten. or twelve years
of age, for some offence, when the latter
turned on him and inflicted two very se-
vere wounds with a large butcher knife
which he was using at the time. The
boy first struck his father on the wrist
with the edge of the weapon, laying the
bone bare, and then stabbed him in the
breast, causing a serious wound.
pear tree in the garden of Alder-
man [Prince, of Kingston, is Covered.
with blossoms, and the leaves are bud-
ding out. It must have miscalculated.
the season.
—In the township of Buckhorn, near
Peterboro, the ague has become so prev-
alent that the hogs have become affect-
ed with it. • One member of the porcine
species, in that vicinity has for some
time been severely afflicted with the
disease, and shakes for two hours every
day.
—Mr. F. McCann, of the township
of Seymour, has grown mangolds this
year which weigh from twenty-five to
• twenty-eight pounds after being trim-
med and cleaned.
--A baggageman in the employ of the
Grand Grand Trunk Railway at Whitby,
named Jackson, has been convicted at
the fall assizes there ler stealing a silk
dress and other articles from a trunk
which passed through his hands as bag-
gage. This is a meaner crime than rob-
bing hen -roosts.
no- means a safe place for any of our
shipping to visitin bad weather, as was
formerly the case. The prospects of it
harbor of refuge are dim, and apparently
far distant. How is this?
• -a-During last month twenty business
men in the Province of Ontario are report-
ed. to have gone into insolvency.
—A case is reported. frorn. Vittoria,,
County of Norfolk, of a man who is af-
fected with a disease bearing all the
symptom's cf the epizootic in horses. He
thinks he took it from a team that he
was driving, while they Were very bad
with the disease.
— Mr. Edward Jeffs, a farmer living
near Bradfercl, has just arrived from
England wherehe had been to purchase
stock. On the passage home he had the
misfortune to lose two • very valuable
horses. Another horse which was being
brought ont for Mr. Allan, of Montreal,
also died on the voyage.
—Nine dollars per month is now beink
paid fGr servant girls in Hamilton, and
still it is almost impossible to , procure
them even at this price.
— The opening of the railway to Pais-
ley seems also.. to have opened. a way- of
entrance for thieves and burglars. The
post office of that village was broken in-
to on Monday night last, and all the
drawers rummaged for pelf. Fortunately,
however, the only valuables left in the
office were a few. coppers and a silver
watch which were taken.
—A few nights ago while the family
of a farmer, residing near Toronto, were
seated at supper, some person entered a
bedroom adjoining the diningroom, by a
• back window and took froin a drawer a
package of billicontaining $200.
—A train on the Toronto, Grey and.
Bruce Railway was thrown off the track
near Owen -Sound, and three men, em-
ployees of the road, killed. It has' been
ascertained that the accident was cans -
ed. by a number of stones having been
piled upon the track by some ill-disposed
person.
• a -George Lowe Read has resigned his
position as chief Engineer of the Great
Western Railway, This step has been
rendered necessary by Mr. Read for do- .
mestic reasons, which require him, with
his family to take up his residence in
• Europe at least a year. He. has beeu
re-
taincd as consulting Engineer of the -
Company. His place is to be tilled by
the present chief Engineer of the Wel-
lington, Grey and Bruce Railway.
—A letter published in the London pa-
pers, by a late employee at the London.
Lunatic Asylum, states that the patients
therein contained are subjected to the
most outrageously cruel treatment from
Dr. Landor, the principal of the institu-
tion and his assistants. These worthies
• e
--A. By -Law to raise by way of loan
the sum of $20,000 for the erection of
docks anctrepairing the street along the
harbor, has been passed by the Goderich
Town Council, and will be submitted to
the ratepayers for their approval or re-
jection at are early day. Our county
town seems to be looking up in its old
age, and. if it keeps on bide fair to be-
come as enterprising as other places of
less note.,
—Mr. Adam Spencer, an old and reli-
able resident of the township of North
Norwich, sends to the -Woodstock Re-
view a description of a visit to the West-
ern States. In speaking of farming in
Kansas he seems to thiuk that a man
can make more money withoot working
so hard in Canada. He says that a
man with one team, if be is industrious
ancl works hard, can raise in one .year
grain and other products to realize
about $500. Out of this, however, he
will have to keep himself and his family
and pay all necessary expenses, and. as
all articles of clothing and implements
are aearly twice as dear there as they
are here, be thinks he will not be able to
lay by much.
—According to the Detroit Daily
Union, the haroor at Goderich, for
which the Dominion Government a year
or two since granted a large sum to con-
vert the same into a place of shelter for
vessels in great peril, is. according to
strictly reliable information from that
place, going to destruction. The con-
tractors for building the new baibor
hal e made but little advancement, while
in the meantime the old entrance has b
come sadly dilapidated, some of tlke
warehouses are in danger of being washh\
ed into the lake, and, in short, it is b
—A most painful accident occurred
on Tuesday last, at the London station,
to a woman named Mrs. Wilson. It
seems ahe has a son fireman of a locomo-
tive, and ou the above day She paid him
a visit, and- got up into the cab ef the
engine to speak to him On leavin
she caught hold of the lever to support
herself in the descent but fell, her little
finger becoming entangled in the appar-
atus. and her whole weight suspended
from it The finger was-torm completely
from its socketl
--The weather in Manitoba this fall
has been very wet, and the roads are re-
ported eto bein a shocking bad condi-
tion. To travel over them with a eon-
veyance is next to impossible. IVirster
• is being anxiously looked for by the in-
habitants.
—Rev. J. K. Smith, late of Galt, was
inducted to the pastorate of Fort Massey
Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and. com-
menced the duties thereof on Sunday
last.
_
Three horses in Mr. George Nichol's
livery stable, 'London, have died. froni
the effects of the Epizootic, ani another
one is so ill that its recovery is not ex-
pected. They were all valuable ani-
mals.
—Rev. Alexander Mathison, of Osna-
bruek, in the Presbytery of Brockville,
of the Canada Presbyterian Church. has
accepted the appointment of the Home
Mission Committee to Manitoba, and
leaves for his field of labor early in No-
vember. • Mr. Mathison is to occupy the
district left vacant by • Mr. Fletcher,
who returns to Ontario, on account of
ill health.
- There is trouble among the jail of-
ficials at Walkerton, County of Bruce.
and the Prison inspector is jholding a
public investigation. Charges of the
the gravest character against he jailer,
• especially-, appear to have 'been estab-
lished, aud evidence revealing a state of
affairs as existing within the walls of the
jail which is both shocking and disgust-
ing. The officials of our sister County
seem to be badly demoralized, and the
County Service requires reconstructing.
From all accounts the County Council is
not mach better than the official staff. -
Like master; like servant.
--In referring to the Butter Conven-
tion held last week its Seaforth, the
Monetary Times remarks : "We have
little doubt that •a thorough system of
inspection and classification, if once
brought • fairly into •operation, would
prove a sovereign remedy. Inferior and
bad butter would then be ranked accord.-
ingly, the latter being wholly rejected,
except as grease, and would sell at a
corresponding price. This would bring
the fanning community to their senses ,- '
it would place such a prerninni On good
butter as must soon effect a reform. At
present little Or 210 discrimination is
made, and that is the same thing in
effect as paying a premium for a poor
article." •-
—A. rare occurrence took place in
Chatham, a few days ago, which was
*e second marriage -.of Mr. 'Francis
Jacque and his wife. both formerly
from the Province of Quebec and resi-
dents of Kent county for the last thirty-
six years. They had been married 60
years ago, the 15th of October, had 16
children, misted ten to be men and wo-
men and have seen the fourth genera-
tion of children and grand -children.
They have lived happily together for
the above period. but thought the effects
or virtues of the old marriage had died
out; so they made thole way to the R.
C. Church with a large number 6f chil-
dren, grand -children and friends, and
Rev, Mr. Reynolds reunited them in the
holy bonds of wedlock.
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