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The Huron Expositor, 1873-03-14, Page 1a MARCR NEW RINt GOO AT HOFFM> BROTIE NEW , ITS,' Dark avid Light, suitable for the season. Dre3 a 2tti<resserd N VERY CHEAP, - t LEACHED COTTONS, Good Value. wallet ?Janis of thosewel&knoteit COTTONS, t, Wichhave no equal for wear,: uniformityof threat 'rapidity inn bleaching, lowness; in prices, whzektt the mann obj.eot. LsSi AHD I tELIR'. .1 Z'DLESS VARIETIES. TABLE .LINEN And Table Napkins. ;D- SPREA7 White sad Colored. WRITE COTTON 'HOElt r IFr' Ll ROIDEI D !COLLARS AND CUFF H.2&NDKERCHIEFS, die All the above Goods,just opened out, bought for Cash, and well be sold Everybody knows what SEAT DTTCTIONS 'an be allowed for Cash, which kvstez''pre in lily adhere to. Parties not in need of any of the above G tad better not price them, for they are sure to ^hen they see t1 e QUALITY AND PRICES OFt M.AN B C `11 fru y CASH STORE. fir heavy !:J GQtens Web tern' be Rohl at cost - .17,0 < S YT[[ YEAR. WHOLE NO. 215.1 S EAFORTH, ° FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 4873. • f 1t cLEAN 811OTHER8, Publishers. l i 50 a Year, in advance. NNW to Tiotatt toy Sate. FARM FOR SALE. �OT 22,, north half, Con. 7, Township of Monis, County of .Huron, 100 acres, 20 notes cleared; balance in good - hardwood bush; a new bank frame barn, 36 x 56; also, a good yonng orchard. The above lot is Only two miles off the Gravel Road between Seaforth and Wroxeter,; and 3 miles from Brussels, a station of the Southern Exten- sion of the Wellington, Grey and, Brnae Railway. Will be sold cheap for cash, or on other terms. For further particulars ongtiire of C. R. COOPER, Land Agent,Brussels P. 0. 275c8 HOUSE; AND LOT FOR SALE. 1`011 SALE, the House and Lot on North Main - L street formerly occupied by Mr. T. P. Bull. Terms reasonable. For partioulai4s apply to ere A. G. VAN EGMOND, Seaforth. SUPERIOR FARM FOR SAtTt.F CHEAP BEING the west half oft -Lot 6 in the Bayfield Road North Concession, Township of Stanley, County of Huron, abutting the Gravel Boad in front and the River BayAeld in rear, commanding a view of Lake Huron. The halm contains 9 ;acres, the gieater part of which ht clear and free 'from stamps. There is a new two --story brick dwelling -house, frame balm and a large and very superior orchard, bearing fruit; en the premises and pleat of water ; it is convenni�ent to all the County kots; there is a schodlhoose on the corner of a lot and several : ohnrches near. As the prope y must be sold,this spring, parties in want of a arm should aply; a Inore beautiful residence Cannot be found in Huron. The soil is of the best quality. There is about 300 acres of bush adjoining for sale. Apply to 273 JOHN ESSON, Bayfield. FARM FOR SALE. FOR SALE, on reasonable terms, the east half of the north half of. Lot 34, in the 13th Conces- sion of Mcnillop, containing 47A acres, be the same more or less. There are about 12 acres cleared and. well fenced; the balance is well tim- bered withgood beeeh and maple Wood. - The land is all high and dry and entirely without waste. It is situated within two miles of the Northern Gravel Road leading to Seaforth and only ten miles from that village. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the pru ntaes, or if by. letter, to Walton P. 0. 273*4 Y ZOH1`l: McEWEN. FARM FOR SA E. A VALUABLE FARM, 100 ac s, First Con - .ti. cession, McKillop, near Seafort , on the main gravel road to Goderich; 85 acres c eared and free from stumps; 35 acres plowed, te rest tinder grass; well watered and fenced, wi h large frame barn,stable underneath; log farm hon boarded out- side, and good orchard; possession immediately er particulars title good and terms easy. For fort apply td - 272 LUD`IG MEYER, Seaforth 1;'. 0. BRICK YARD TO RENT. TO RENT, the Brick.Yard an the Second Conces- sion of Tuckersmith,. at Eginond ille, the pro- perty of Mr. Thbnias Govenioek, M Killop. This is a large yard,with four lar a mills, and a bank of splendid clay eight feat thick, a never -failing supply of water; th yard is fur- nished with every convenience a d facility for manufacturing. -HOUSE and ST LE on the yard will be sold; alio, to be sold a carts, bar- rows, and other implements used he etofore in the yard, and about 5,000 feet of good I tuber. Rent of yard $100 a year. The house and stable will,be sold for $100 cash ; the other articl s will also be disposed of very low. This is an excellent chance ' for any one wishing to engage in the.Briekrnaking business, as bricks are now selling a from $6 to $7 50 per 1,000, and wood obtainable at $ 50 a cord. For further particulars apply to 265'"26 JOHN BOWDEN, Egmondville P. 0 STEAM SAW BILL AND FARM FOR SALE. BEE G Lot 84, Con 7, McKillop,'c taining 104 acres, all cleared, with good barn and stebles, two good orchards in full bearing; t. o never -lut- ing springs which supply the mill. Also, lot 35, Coq. 9, containing 48 acres of bush.. The property is sitated- 6 miles from Seaforthj' with a good grave road thereto. For further pa �icnlars apply on th premises. If by post, to JO THOMJ - SON, onstauce P. 0:, Kinburn, Ont 260 STORE TO RENT OR SELL IN SEAFORTH. kn T _ THAT old and favorably -own stand; the MAN - "I' HOUSE, lately occupied by Mr. JOIN LOGAN will be sold, or rented on reason- able terms. Apply at the store of 270 „LOGAN & JAMIESON. ARCHITECTURE. THE. undersigned is prepared to furnish Ple{tns, Secifzoations, &c.,. of Public and Pritn►te Buildings, and also to superintend tie ercetion of the same. Carpenters, Plasterers' and Masons' work measured and valued.. 1 . ADAM GRAY, 262 Second Concession; McKillop. ADMINISTR• ATOR'S NOTCE. ALL PERSONS having any claim aged st the estate of .JOHN WELL, Sr., lave of the vil- lage of Zurich, in the County of Huren, yeoman, deceased, are hereby required to render the same to the undersigned on or before the first day of April next. I HENRY WELL, Administrator, Crediton P. 0. Stephen, Feb. 1, 1873. 272 W. T. HUNTER, BRUSSELS; Horseshoer attd General Blackssiitith, Manufacturer of Iron Harrows. 8pec.:al attention to Job work and Horse Shoeing. TERMS REASONABLE. - Shop latelycccupied by G. J. BAIT.1 Y, in rear of Wynn s Wagon Shop. 270c13 NOTICE TO HOTEL KEEFERS. •SnArouug, Febs: 27, 1873. GENTLEMEN -As -several complaint:; have been made against youto me, and also to the Conncit, for selling spirituous liquors contrail,- to the Pro- vincial S tatute made and provided, you will now take notice that sed-era1 of the young men of this place have been iu the habit of not only driniking on the Sabbath dun, but also wetting drunk, and that for the future yon are strictly prohibited from sell- ing any spirituous liquors ou the Sabbath, or even lighting your bars on the night of the Siath, as aallsusuch.violations .vvi11 be most strictl.bb y enforced andprosecuted by zee. You will further observe the Statute against selling liquor on Saturday after the hour of 7 of the clock P. AL I hope, gentlementhis notioe will prove siffiicient, and that you will carefully obsery=e it. THE MUNICIP f L LOAN LUND BILL. On Friday last, Hon.Attor--ney Gener- al Mowat, 'in an able, . explanatory speech, introduced the Government scheme for the Settlement of the Munici- pal Loan Fund ! indebtedness. .The :fol- lowing fol -lowing resolutions show what that scheme is : • 1. That it is expedient to provide for for the re -arrangements of the Municipal Loan Fund debts, so as to secure the due ,and regular payment of such oft. hem, or of such portions thereof, as are to be 4. paid: 2. Zhat it is expedient to distribute among the municipalities of the Province for local purposes, the future produce of the said debts, and so much of • the other funds of the Province as may, with the produce of the said debts, be equal to the allowances hereinafter mentioned. 3. That with.- respect tothose debts to the Municipal Loan Fund, on which an assessment of five cents in the dollar on the assessed annual value of the prop- erty of the indebted ..municipality in 1858, was not en tient to pay the inter- est, the practice effect of the Statute 22 Vic., Cap. 15,ke titled An Act further to amend the onsoliclated Municipal Loaa Fund Act ,) has been to reduce every such debt on the first day of De- cember, 1859, to the sum on which the said rate of fi e cents in the dollar would pay interest at five per cent ; that it is expedient to accept this re- duction as the basis of a new settlement with all municipalities which desire the benefit of a settlement on that basis, and to give to other municipalities some com- pensation in respect thereof, by making to .such other municipalities the allow -- epees hereinafter provided. - 4 That for many years it has been the policy of this country to give public aid . to useful railway enterprises ; that the late Province of. Canada -largely •aide ed certain railtday s in Upper Canada ; that other railways in Upper Canada were built without any aid from •the Province of Canada, but with large aid from some of the municipalities in Upper Canada, by taking stock in the railway companies whichwere to construct the said railways, and by making loans to the said companies,which stock was taken; and which loans were made on the mistaken representation to the said municipalities, axd in the delusive expec ; tation by them that - their advances would be made good out of the profits of the railways; that •the railways so re- spectively aided by the said Province and by the said municipalities have been greatly instrumental in developing the wealth and resources of this Province ; and that, witli respect to the said rail- ways so built without any Provincial aid, it is expedient, in view of the said facts, to credit to such of -the said mu- nicipalities: as are not benefitted by the Statute 22 Vic., Cap. 15, ;a sum equal to $2,000 a mile of railway $o - aided, the said sum to be divided among the muni- cipalities respectively:,. in ropor-tion to the amount of their said. contributions, laid to be.allowed to, each as a payment at the date of its debt therefor con- tracted. • . 5. That after the Confederation of the Provinces in 1867, and before the passing of the Railway Aid Act of 1871, divers municipalities, which will not be bene- fitted by the said Statute 22 Vic., Cap. 15, have given sums of money by way of gilt or bonus to divers erailways, or por- tions of railways, which, if not commenc- ed prior to 7th December, 1870, would have been entitled to aid under the said A ct ; that the sums so given were larger' than might have. been necessary if the said railways had received aid. from the Province in the same way as the Act of 1871 provided with respect to railways commenced after the said date ; that it is expedient tomake to these municipal- ities an allowance, as. of the lst of Janu- ary, 1873; at. the rate of $1,000 per• mile of the portions of railways'aided by the said m:unicipalitieS respectively ; such allowance to -be divided among the said municipalities in proportion to the amount of their said contributions to the railway ; provided that this allowance shall not entitle any municipality to an allowance in respect of any railway which may receive aid from the Legisla- ture during the present Session, Or to any railway which, if commenced after the passing of the said Railway Aid Act, would not be entitled to aid- under the provisions of :that Act. 6. That it is expedient to give to mu- nicipalities in default, and not benefitted by 22 Vic., Cap. 15, credit as of list January, .1873, as against their debts, for the share which would from time to time have been payable to them respec- tively, of the Clergy Reserve Fund, if they had not been in default to the said Municipal Loan Fiend. 7. That it is. `expedient to allot to all munivipalities ' not benefitted by, the Statute 22 uric., Gap. 15, tie sum of $2 per head of the population, `according to f the census of - 1871 ; which allotment t shall be in addition to the railway..al- t lowances aforesaid where these are ap- plicable ; and that the allotment and U ailway allowances -aforesaid shall be ap- lied as follows : 1. That anount going to a county, tv, or separated town indebted to the iunicipal Loan Find, shall be applied rst to pay the debt to the said Fund. - ?. Where. a balance remains of the lotment to a county, the share accord - g to population of any local mtinicipali- therein, which is indebted to the said unicipal Loan Fond, shall be applied ward the payment of such debt. - 3. The remaining sum going to a unt,x (or in case the county was not in - refuge, or in building o. ir.ovi schools, public halls, bridges, harbor piers or graven roads, or shall be appli in making other public improvements a fectiing the Municipalities, or shall applied ip or toward the reduction payment of muiiicipal.oblig_ations alreat contracted for permanent work ' ; an proper prevision should be made for t due application of the money to the o jects specified. • 4. The amount going to any city kcal meinicipality after the payment debts shall be applied to any of the sa he objects which may_be determined by th Council of the city "Or local niunicipalit at any time -after the firet day ot Febr 5. Where is- portion of a county,, union of counties, indebted to the IVI nicipal Loan Fund, has been separa'te from the indebted county or union, an hes assumed .part of the debt of th county or union, the allotment_ in r spect of the railway allowance shill b divided in like manner. 8. That a like sum of $2 per head b alloted to those districts which have no yet been organized into municipalities and shall be applied to permanent ina provement affectina the localities, au approved by the Legislature. - I). That, in view of the past historyjo the Municipal Loan Fund, it is essenti that the new debentures to b obtaine from municipalities indebted t the sal fund shall not exceed an amo nt whie shall constitute such debentures goo and reliable investments to all holders that V the Municipal Act of 1866 it Was enacted that no Municipal Council shall assess or levy in any one. year more tha an aggregate rate of two cents in th dollarlexclusive of school rates) on th value of the rateable propery in the muni cipality ; that it is expedient, in. Makin a final arrangement in the Municipa Loan Fund debts; to act upon the policy involved in this enactment, and to pro- vide that incase a rate of two cents in the dollar would be insufficient to pay five per cents annually on the debt, or reduced debt,\to the said Fund, after al- lowing for the ordinary and necessary expenses of the municipality (other. thaii schools), the amount -of the debt tothe Municipal Loan Fund shill be placed at such e sum, that the interest thereon at five per cent Shall not exceed what an assessment nf two cents ih the dollar on the assessed: value of proOerty in the mu- nicipality would.be siAcient to pay, af- ter meeting the ordinary and necessary expenditure of the municipality other than for schools as aforesain e that it is xpedient that the annual amount to be o paid should be fixed and not fluctuat- ; and that the amount of the assess- ent, and of the ordinary and.necessary xpenditure respectively of the year 1872, lie therefore accepted as the basis of the said calculation'and settlement. O. That where injurious legislation, municipality indebted to the Municipal Loan Fund, has taken place without the knowledge or concurrence of the muni: cipality, or against its active opposition, and in the interest, or supposed interest, of the public or of other parties, and has -resulted either in no railway being built, or in the building of a railway which has not advanced the local interests of the indebted municipality, it is expedi- ent, in view cif such injurious liegislation, to cancel the balance still due by .any such municipality to the Municipal Loan Fund after making the allowances hereinbefore provide&for. 11. That the City of Hamilton took stock in the Berlin and Preston railway, and issued debentures therefor, amount- inglto $200,000 ; that $80,000 of these debentiires were purchased by the late Province of Canada. and are now held by this Province ; that no interest has been collected thereon since the same were purchased by the Province of Canada, shortly after the issuing of the Said de- bentures ;/ that in consequence of certaia proceedings authorized by an Act of the Parliament of the said Jate Province Of Canada, 2/ Vic., cap. 56, the said rail- way has been destoryed ; and that hav- ing regard to these facts, and to the financial position of- the said city, it is expedient to cancel the said debentures now held by the Province. 12. That where any muuicipality holds revenue producing investments, made with the money borrowed or obtained. under the Municipal Loan Fund Acts, or with the produce Of such money, Buell investments shall, at the discretion of the Lieutenantl Governor in Council, be assigned, in such way a,s he may appoint, as a security for the balance due by the municipality to the said hind. Or, where such investments are of greater _amount and value than the balance still so due, the Lieutenant -Governor in Council may require the said invest- ments to be assigned absolutely, in dis- charge of the said balance. , 13. That new debenture§ be obtained rom the indebted municipalities respec- ively, for the balances due by them ; hat the d.ebentures Shall be in such form ncl in such respective sums as the Lieut. - overnor in Council shall direct ; *that ng esd be or ly Or of Or d. e - al 3-2 SAMUEL STARK, Inspector. r SCHOOL HOUSE FOR SALE. TUB SCHOOL HO -USE and ground's • in School ei Settion No. 3, Tuckersutich, Bincefield, will -A be got/ by public auerion on Tuesday, April 1st, .1873. The grounds contain one quarter of an acre, and the building is of brick. Terms and conditions , will be made known on the day of sale or precious- al la, on neelicatitet to either of the undersigned in ty JAMES DALLAS, ) IWNCAN CAMERON, - Trustees. -51 WELLINCTON, GREY AND BRUCE co htea to the Municipal Loan Fund, the hole sum going to the county,) in re- ect of the said allotment and railway lowauc,e, shall be divided among tha cal municipalities therein (or the other cal municipalities therein, as the case • be,) zcording to pOpulation, and all be applied in aid of railways, of ling or improvement to jail, of the building de hospital, of provid- municipality an in- fie se of industry or of :NOTICE is -hereby given that the Plan and Book Sp sluice of the Southeni Extension al of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Rail- lc way, through part of the Township of Turuberry and the. Village of Winghatn, in the County of 10 Huron, having been examined and certified, m as required by law, have been deposited in the ea eh flee of the Provincial Seeretarv, Iasi) in the of - flee of the Clerk of the Peace Tfor the said County dr of Huron. WM. AloGiL ERIN, WM. -ft-CI'LLOCII, Secretary. President. aina,ge of the buil of the court house o or improvement of ing for the use of th dustrial farm, a ho feet to the said. considerations, the bal- ances due to the Municipal Loan Fund by the municipalties named. in schedule A are hereby canaelled ; the balances due to the said Fund by the municipali- ties named inschedule B are to be deem- ed the sums mentioned in said schedule B ; and the municipalities named in schedule 0 are- to receive in manner aforesaid the sums mentionedin schedule C ; which said SUMS Mentioned in the said several schedules shall be subject to correction by -the authority of the Lieu- tenant -Governor in Council in case of errors of calculation appearing, but are not to be varied otherwise. The following sehedules show the amount for whia each indebted Municia" pality is still held, as also the amount which each unindebted municipality will receive : SCHEDULE A. Showing Municipalities which ate to have nothing to pay or receive : Town of Dundas, Norwich, Town of Prescott, SCHED14E 13. Showing Municipalities! still indebted. to the Municipal Loan Fund whose debts being unaffected by the 5 cents ruk, or by the 2 cents rule, the Mitnicipalities have receieted credit for the heveral lowances hereinbefore Set forth. Durham $204,553 Cline Ottawa - 19,186 Belleville, Hastings . - 2,568 Cornwall, Stormont.. 252 Guelph, Wellington 51,315 Town of Hope, Dur - St. Catharines, Lin- colu 262,149 Municipalitiee still indebted to the Municipal Loan Fund, whose debts are reduced by the 5 cents rule. Lanark and Renfrew $322,069 LOCAL MUNICIPALITIE. Town of Brantford, Chatham, Kent 103,478 Elizabethtown, Leeds 98,847 Goderich, Huron,- 101,823 Ops, Victoria . 38,216 Port Hope, Dilrhana. -166,930 Peterborough, Peter - Stratford, Perth• 77,797 $1,174,643 Showing the Municipalities still in- debted to the Municipal Loan Fund whose debts are reduced by the 5 cents rule. and are furth.er reduced by the 2 cents rule. Brockville, Leeds.... $135,375 Chipnewa, Welland 3,318 berland 69,580 London, Middlesex 486 058 Niagara, Lincoln 14,205 Total amount payable by mu- nicipalities uuder the resolu- tions $2,711,835 SCHEDULE C. Showing Municipalities which have sums to receive, besides their debts to the Municipal Loan Fund being- dis- charged. Bruce. Elgin (exclusive of Si. Huron (exclusive of the pepulation al- lowance to town of of Howick and Lincoln (exclusive of the population al- - lowance to towns of,Niaga,ra, and St Catharines • $97, 367 73,332 46, 056 117,376 197,110 23;0\9 LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES. Brantford township, Canborough, Heidi- Moultop and Sher- brooke, Haldituand Middleton, Norfolk.. Paris, Brant - Stanley, .Huron Wainfleet, Welland 31,711 .73,231 70,985 $730, 192 9,046 47,549 3,288 10,547 4,91.7 19,972 4,849 14,518 Total $844,882 the debentures shall provide for payment Showing sums going to Municipalities by the same sums per annum, as nearly which were not indebted to Mnnicipal as may be,• thepanicipalities are now Loan Fund.. liable to -pay ; provided that no more shall be payable aunually for twenty .years than two cents in the dollar on the assessroeut of 1872 would provide for as aforesaid ; and that no debenture shall allow. todre than twenty years for pay ment of principle ; that these deben- tures shall, so far as practicable; be equally distributed. at par among the inueicipalities are. respectively entitled ; that any balance going to a, muaicipality after such distribution, shall be paid in money ; and. that the debentures shall be delivered a.nd. the money paid to the municipalities or to their use at any /time aftei! the first day of February *eat, under proper statutory reaulations fitted secure the due application of the laid the said money, to the objects sped- unicipalities entitled thereto, in pro- ortion to the sums to which the said. bentures or -the produce thereof; nd. d. 14. That for the pur• pose of giving ef- I • • Brant (exclusive of towns of Brantford and Paris and Tp Dundas 37,554 37,554 Frontenac .... 32,620 32,620 Grenville (exclu- sive of town of ce 0 4z Haldimand (ex- clusive of Can- t borough and 'Moulton and • Sherbrooke) 43,08e 43,086 Kent, (exclusive a Leeds (exclusive of Brockville and Elizabeth- town) . 24,827 24,827 Lennox 32,792 32,792 sive of Lon- don) $22,770 133,538 156,308 Norfolk (extlu- sive of towie of Siuicoe and townships of Middleton, Wiadham and Woodhonse) .. 34,158 34,158 Ontario (excluts- Peel (exclusive of . 32,738 32,738 Peterboro (exclu- sive of town of Peterboro) 24,717 24,717 Prescott. 35,294 35,294 Russell 36,688 36,688 of Barrie and Stormont (exclu- sive of Corn - Victoria. (excIu.- Waterloo (exclu- Welland (exclu- Chippewa and. Wellington (ex- clusive of Guelph town- ship, Town of Guelph, Elora, Fergus, Mary- barough, Minto. ville and Peel). 31,074 31.074 Wentworth, (ex- clusive Town York (exclusive of Scatboro and Total . 22,770 424,466 424,466 DISTRICTS. Parry Sound 10;014 10,014 4,022 4, 022 3,582 3,582 3,038 3,038 .Total to Districts , 31,456 31,456 CIT1 ES. Hamilton 31,039 53,432 84,471 Toronto... 5'5,730 112,184 167,920 Total to cities... 86,775 190,430 277.205 Albion 4,518 9, 714 14,2,32 Maryborough 6,276 8,836 15,112 Peel Township. 6, 276 11,488 17, 764 Wallace .. 3,922 (Absorbed 3,922 Total. . 4.2;153 24,964 67,117 Total of Conn- • ties, Cities, Districts, and palities.... 210,325 1,643,840 1,860,165 Canada. A deputation from Newfoundland hhs arrived Ottawa to negotiate for the admission of that Provinee into the Do- minion, • of Teinpleton, Province of Quebec, who was injured in the Shannonville dieaster last June, has received $4,250 from the Grand Trunk Railway in compensatiop for the injuries received. -The small quantity of Canadian but- ter now on offer in Liverpool commands 108 to 118 shillings for the- best, and down to 45s. for other descriptions. The stock is being cleared off. -At a meetiug of the Reform mem- bers of _Parliament held last week at Ottawa, prior to the opening of the" Do- minion Parlianient, Hon. A. Mackenzie was unanimously chosen Leader of the Opposition. -The an-nual meeting of the Provin- cial Grand Orange Lodge for Ontario East, will be held in the city of Ottawa, on Tuesday, March 18th, 1873, at 12 o'clock, noon. -Canada has 90,000 seamen and ranks third in the countries in the world in the extent of her ship tonnage-Englaucl be- ing first, the United States second, and Canada next. - -A. man named John Bowden, em- ployed at St. Catharines, in the Ameri- can Express office, left for parts unluiown on Wednesday evening of last week, tak- ing with him two express parcels valued at $10, 260. -A man named -Newmarch, an em- ployee in the Grand Trunk Workshops, Montreal, and aged about fifty years, has run away with a woman about fnrty- five years gof age, the wife of another' cm- ployee in the same works. Newmarch has always borne the reputation of being a steady, honest ream. He left behind MO 1 erableproperty. Before leaving he made a will, bequeathing all the property to his wife in ease of death. The woman has also left four Or live children behiud. Her hueband is in good circumstance& Tim truant pair have gone to the States. -A Strathroy paper understands that diseaie which has so far baffled medi- cal skill, has made ite appearance at Ko- mokas ; some seven or eight deaths have already becurrede Some regard it as cerebro -spinal meningitis ; others call it spotted fever. -By-laws grantina bonuses of $30,000 each -to. the Port 1:Cover and Stratford Railway, and the Stratford and Lake Huron Railway were voted on in Strat- ford on Friday last, and carried by 'ma- jorities ef 189 and140 respectively. Only 9 votes against the foamier by-Iaw, and 15 against the latter. • -A young woman named. Kate Mc- Donald, a servant in the house of kr. Edmund Gunther, in York township, was committed to jail a few days ago, on 7a charg,e of having attempted to set fire - to the houie. The prisoner waa taken before a magistrate, when she admitted having made the attempt with which she was chaagecl, but woald assign no reason for having done so. -Among the apprentices in the gen- eral machinery departmeut of the Hall Works, Oshawa, are : son of a retired.' army officer, the son of an ex -Cabinet Minister, the nephetrof an- ex -Cabinet - Minister, and the son of a Judge. ---They are indentured. for the, regular period, and take the regular apprentice work. son of Mr, Thomas MaDowell, Palmerston, aged •ten years, was killed in the stave factory in +that yillage on Saturday morning last, by being ca.ught in a belt which was swinging frorn admit.: was drawn up and wound round -the shaft, and his body literally cutsin two by a plank that lay across the- beams. The head was al- most severed from the body, and both feet torn off. -Boasting of the high morality of Walkerton, the Telescope says : " Except when the County Council. is here we hardly ever see a man for whom the side- walk is -too narrow." ROugh on the Bnice County fathers. -A few days ago a farmer named Snider, while on. his way to Hamilton lost a valuable buffalo robe off his sleigh. Upon arriving at the city he communi- cated his loss to a policeman, and told that official that if he would fled his robe for him he would liberally reward him. The policeman spent the whole day peering round every vehicle he saw en- tering the city by the road the farmer had come, At length, near dark, he of a wood teamster who said he had found it on the road several miles out. The policeman, after considerable search found Snider in a -store and delivered to him his robe. The. owner of the robe seemed much rejoiced. at having it return- ed again, and took from his pocket a handfal of silver, turned it•all over care- fully, picked out an Ameritan quar- ter and handing it to the policeman took his departure with his robe over his • ehoulder. The policeman took the coin t without comment, and making his way to the hotel where So idees horses were stabled, handed it to the landlord and. told him. to give it to 8nider and tell him to invest it in oats for his horses before he started. for home. -A young man named Andrew Pat- tullo? of the CountY of Oxford, has this year been the successful candidate for the Gilchrist scholarship. The scholar- ship entitles the winner 'to a full course in London or _Edinburgh University, free, with $500' additional, cash, each _ year -three years-makiag in all $1,500. -A. S. Hardy, a young lawyer of Brantford, is spoken of as Mr. Wood's successor in South Brant. There are far too many young lawyers in the Ontario Le.gislature already, and we trust the people of Saudi Brant will not add to the number by selecting 'Mr. _Hardy, no ;matter what his other qualifications may be. There are many sauna, practical farmers, and business men in the constit- uency, any of whom could represent it with honor:to himself and profit to his aonstituenta. Thousands of dollars have Veen wasted during the present session by young lawyers introducing clap -trap measurekand malting buncomb speeches solely tOr the -purpose of advertising themselves to the country. -A lady in a neighboring town, a wife of ten years' standing, having given. her servant a holiday, was attending to culinary matters herself, and hearing her husband coming into the kitchen, thought she would sul-prise him as soon as lie entered the door by throwing her hands over his eyes; imprinting a kiss ..on his brow, as in the days of the honey- moon. The hu§band returned the salute with interest, and asked as he disen- gaged her hands " Mary, darling. where 18 ybur inistress " The wife discharged. " Mary darling " the next day, and will, no doubt, adopt a new plan of surprising Green, a, farmer near Lun- cly's Lane, and. a participator in the great battle which occurred at that place in the year 1812, now over ninety years of age, has never drank a drop of intox- icating liquor, used neither tea or tobae- co, and was never heard to say a profane word in his life: Few there are, even of much tenderer years, who can look back upon so virtuous a life as this old vet. e-ra-ILThe Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec -M. W. John IL Gra- ham, of Richmond -has issued a procla- mation suspending all intercourse with the Grand Lodge of Canada (Ontario), and hall appealed to the Grand Lodges of the -World. to sustain the:Grand Lodge of Quebec Some thirty-five Grani Lodges have already recognized the Grand Lodge of Quebec as the only right- ful sovereign of Masonic authority in and for the Province of Quebec. , -Snow has entirely disappeared from the streets of Toronto, and mud and slush taken its place.