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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1874-03-27, Page 1MARCH 2 1874. ERB e 0 0 0 0 et - i ack es - C c etn tee et - 0 c� a 0 0 w at l Tweeds,: EW GENTS' 'F.' RNXSH NGS. HANTS AND RACOi' ghly Cured and of excellent 4 uality tor _htilesalc and retail, Trade 111 orally dealilt with. "a11 orders tly attended to. 'VHOMA5 STEPS,;. *repres r sees EiF E NT Et 'A:'E a .R. ) ultra .E NO. 3:9.1 I SEAFOE TH, FR DAY, MARC 27, 1874. -(4.0%11 i tat k i` air. HOUSE ANi-LOT IN SEAFORTH FOR I MEDIATE SALE. BEING. No.104, ' n the South side of St. John Street. Offe s to be made by letter, post paid, to DUNCAN 11IcFARLANE, 329.4 Agent, 109 St: James St., Montreal. REAL ESTATE !OR SALE. THE Trusteees of S. S. No. 7, Stanley, will sell ! by Anetion, at HILLS GREEN P. 0., on MONDAY, April 13, at 12 o'clock noon, ONE ACRE of LAND, itnated in the south east cor- ner of Lot No. 11, on. '7, St aniey, butting on. the concession and s deroad. 4'1'itle , indisputable. Terms, Cash, ' DOIN LLD FRASER, Secretary Treasurer. Stanley, March 2',,1874.- 829.8 HOUSE '` LOT FOR SALE. HST eomfortabl cottage ou High Street, at present ocettpiet by 0.'C. Wilson. The situa- tion is retired and -s ory convenient to the business part of the town. a her© is hard and soft water with pumps. •A firs class garden and every con= venience. Title perfect. For further particulars apply to J. S. Porter, or to the proprietor, 328-4 F. P3,L ' eXDGE, Galt P. 0. t• FARid TO RENT. IOT No.30, Con. 13, McKillop, about 40 acres a cleared and in a good state of cultivation, con- venient buildings and au orchard on the premises. To let on very r asouaable terms. Immediate possession given. tor further particulars apply, by letter, to V. J. S. McEWE/'�N, 3'39 3 Einoardine P. ., Out. HOUSE AN LOT FOR SALE, OR S TLE,. a Horse and Lot on High Street, Scefortb next silex. Stewart's residence.; house 18x22; lot one: -fifth of an acre; two bed- rooms dump ; Cellar ; house new. Will be soul cheap for cash. For particulars apply to ALEX. STEWART, Seafortli, or JOHN DUNCAN, Brussels. 327-4 FARM FOR SALE TN the Township of Stanley,. situatel on the Bayfield Road, 2 riles from the Village of Rey- nold, being the east elf of Lot- No, 6, Barfield Rand, north, centeriizg 96 acres of excellent land, and in a good state t f'cultiv. tion, 55 acres cleared and well' watered, t e balance is well timbered With beech, maple a d cedar, there is a good frame barn and shed, and a log dwelling house: For further particulars apply to It. CIIfl G, on the, premises, or to PAU J CLEAVE, Lot No. 4, Bay- field Line, Goderich ownship, neir Bayfield. 327 FOR SALE. HAN Hotel kwon- i as Ross' Hotel, which has' been aloing a go d business, will to sold cheap on private. terns for cash, as the proprietor is go- ing oat of the buss ess. Also No. 5 storehouse will be sold on the segue terms. It is situated on the south side of the station. This is a rare chance fOr any one going iiitu hotel or grain business. Possession gives. iru-nediately. For further par- ticulars apply ar-ticularsapp.ly to J. R. ROSS' on the premises. Title indisputable. ` 337=4 1 J. It. ROSS, Proprietor. FARM FOR SALE. TOT 24, Con. 4, =lay-, containing 100 Berea, 75 tleaucd;anicl in gc oft cultivation;' plendidland; spring creek residing through it ;. good young or- chard;- one and three quarter Miles from the Lon- don Road.; goad f lame barn, Stix5G; good log house ; good. table.1 For further particulars ap- ply on the Premises, or address 326•4 _L» 4X4 BERRY, Klippen P. 0. FAR rir IP/AV T E TN the County of Huron, 100 or 200 acres, mostly, cleared. and fret: 4•o n stump. . 'Must be first- class soil, -with good orchard cud outnurildings, not. particular about tut. house. Apply to MAR +DEN SMITH, Brussels P. 0. VALUABLE ( FAR1l1 FOR .'SALE, LI\tx west 1 of lot 6, 13. It , Stanley, 2 story biickntruse, inn ie barn, very superior Orchard, plenty of pater, soi Inst quality, 98 acres, price 315-5t1 only. Applyt ijoHN l'IS$ON, Bayfield. FARM FOR ALE OE, TO RENT ''°It LE, on re spnab!e terms, - Lot No. 16, Con..,, Morris, ajimtuining 70 acres, nearly all claret, well feueed an.l in a good- state of culti- vation. There is a !good saw mill, with a circular saw, driven hr i ate •, with an abundance of tim *thetaba:r convenient; T�ai.e is also ib good bearing FACTS ABOUT MANITOBA. 1-- From glen, .1Tap tobcc F9 c Pre=as. Scarcely a wee elapse that we do not receive one -o . more letters from different parts of to worlc making en- quiries about this ; count`s . We have been in the habit of reply g to such by letter ; but it seems to us hat to answer through the Free Press wi meet the re- quirements of our correspo dents equal- ly,well, and besides it ma serve others as well. Before us ,at the present time we have letters ofi the ki.cl mentioned. from Ontario,.New Brunswick, and Ber- muda. The quosti- ns propounded we shall arrange in n mericil order, and then answer ser-icati?. , to t' e best of our ability 1I nuns.hON4. 1. What kind. of Weathe have you in the summer generally ? I1 it very warm and. dry, or have you muchwet weather ? --2..What time doe, the s' ring open up, and about what trine do s the winter come on ? j - 3. Is the winter very stormy, snow deep and great drif s like we _have in Huron, Ontario ? 4. Is it much cold r tha you have ex- perienced it in Ont rio ? !o you have many thaws during he ' iter ? 5 What is the ge era" rice of cord- wood, per cord, and il hat hid of wood do you get ? 6. What rentri er m+nth or year would you have to p'y for pretty good house, for a family of say a*e or six ? 17.I What is the price -of town lots for building purposes, f r priv tGl dwellings, also price of good. in siness stands ? - 8. What is••the p''ce of awn lumber per thousand ,feet ate' Viun peg ? 9. Are dry goods leiud g •oceries high, also provisions ? ' '' 10. Can good farming la d be got near Winnipeg, and at h mu h per acre or section of 160 acres th Q without im- provements ? 11. Have you good drip iog water at Winnipeg and surrou ding country 12. What are the chic tional, adv-.an- tages--are there go c ` con mon schools, and have you any ram ar or high schools yet ? 13. How do peo 1. ge timber for building, fencing an rel ? 14. What are the Ip ccs f 'stock and farm products ? ' 15. .That are the terms and price of Government land to *ins settlers ? 16. What are the ter iof labor, and what is board per we ? ! 17. What is the'p 1 ulat.on of Winni- peg ? What class o oiiild ngs is it macre up .of ? What are i incl, .tries ? Give. an idea of its comme al b iciness, &c. NS\'' i': t8. ' 1.. Summer'in i,ianito )a and the ?s orth-Nest` is a il1(.) -t c elightful sea - sou. The heat is a, ely intense. Oc- casionally the then lite net -r' runs up to. betwecn - 90 and 10O . ra ely over 90. There is always a i refre •hing breeze, and the heat is never oppressive. The nights are always cool. The evenings are the most beau if 1 is the world. For about three -anon ti e cl,irkncss is not on more than from f iii to five 11oui•8 out of the Wen t3 -four The evening and morning twilight eke 'eds that of Eng - writers have lan*thetapoets an +the celebrated'. " Wet iwarthee"is almost unknown. .Showei s are ,frequent ami copious ; but " a w 't! Bell" does not oc- cur. On account o ' he entre of the soil the mud is ver -1 ad after a rain but the ground is so p )ton .that in three hears after a storm, ;cl-1 inciouveuience is past. orcherai also a good. frame barn aud honse.• There ' -• The SP -ow 1-18P 1 is a school and two Churches on the corner of the pear about the mid( 11 of April, and by ea. It is situated Withiu one Mile and. three- • Bruce posiwitr. if !the above fano. .be not som, it prairie enforces. a et li pasture. Winter generally eioses in al tit -the middle of b, rented: For further. particulars apply to thepraprietor on aul premises, or to Belgrave P.O. 312 .ALFRED BROWN. • HOTEL FOR SALE. VBS. ROBERTSON, wishing to retire from the hotel keepin:: business, offers for sale that well-known stand, in ligniondville, now occupied by her; half an tierq of laud attached tb the hotel; good Stables, good *ell, and everY other _conveni- ence for earrying ori the hotel hifsiness. Part tof theptachase money! will be required in cash ; the renniinderIvill be :illewed. to go in easy- install- ments. Apply on the prMuises to - 310 MRS. :ROBERTSON, Egnionclville. • WING composed of Lot 1, Con.10 Of the Town- ,' FAR7 FOR .SALE. ship, of Tackeismith., containing 190 acres nf excellent land, upo which there is anew frame barn 3460 feet, and also- a good orchard. For terms, which are et sy, and. other information, al.) - ply to Mr. JAMES DAVEY, on Lot 1, Con; 12, of said Township, Or o the vendor, WALTER REN - STEAM SAW M AND FARM FOR SALE. • TREE:NU Lot 34, Om. 7, McKillop, containing' 104 .4-' acres, all Cleared, with good barns and stables, two !iood orchards u full bearing; two never -fail - leo' springs which •upply the -Mill. Also, lot 85, Ceti. 9. eon ta in ing • -S a cres of bush. The property gravel road thereto For further particulars apply on the premises. If , by post, to .f0.11N THUMP- sON,Constanec P. 0.:, Kiuburn, Ont, 260 1 FARM FOR SALE IN McKILLOF. PPR SALE, a gf od Farm, composed of North half of lot Li too, tb.e. wcst half bf lot 14, COu. well fenced, and in good. cultivation; balance timbered with ha ((wood; a good frame house and new log barn; lead hearing orchard t wO miles and 1,1 nal( irka .;ooti. gravel -road ; 10 miles sawthills wit 3! 6/Ito; : nvenient to churches, and Ft. o• pa rti vela rs apply rt o the JAMES McDONALD. VALUABLE EAE,m. FOE, SALE ofror for .eile public anet ion, at Dixon's He - tel, tho illage e/f Brueetield, at the hour of 12 noon, oo the ith day of APRIL, 1874, th: followioo buds end remi-.4; being Lot, No. 18, the Township of Tackersinith, in County of Huron, containing IOU tie, 0,, I-1101/ it.AS. The land is a clay lo.on. of t hi) -11 trert are cleared, 75 acres frig- trona stnnon:. 16 acres 'bee vily timbered with bilvt•li and nu di., good. log house, stabld and barn. Tht! propel. y rotuated 7 miles from f -,ea - forth, and on oo road. There is a good orch- ard bearing choke fruit. There are 7 acres sum - r falloWerl, and 0 acres plowed. Terms made . known on day of dale. This is a, rare ehance for latrehasers, LIR the ireperty will -be sold. cheap. For Partieulars apply on , the premises to JAMES -HOLMESTED Solicitors, Seaforth. Offers will be received for said farinup to the day of sale. Engel:re as above. 828*2 e as little earlier, But up to within real winter's day, tiful,. being Indian. 24 hours of the time the weather 'is be4,u 3, The winter can. be stormy, though s is; generally win light dry enow is • rely at rest. The enow es a mule is no more than a foot. reedy, it ie two f some heavy drifts b but the writer 1:1 difficulty in whit r traVel from this • be soarcely said to rine the day there bfoWing, and the 4eep-s-not averaging ceasionall3,, though t deep. There are r experienced the cause, in Manitoba hat .he has in the County-oeHuien; i aril) The nights are generally calm lid cle n and bright and light, either, fr Ini the moon, or the 4. The' average inter - cold is much ties .almost every w titter a *few Eines, in the twenties Most fi- the time, and very seldom rises above the -eerie. *Thaws, -like rains, are unkno n -iii. Whiter. And as there is no such C rug s qaild weather ring from cold attest that the over with far Ontario. The rrors for any ipeg first-class 50 to $5 per upetior article From experi- ence we should estimate t at our !ink is about 25 per cent.. inferin to Canadian beet 40 or 50 in winter, there is no suff all Up, it may be saf4y winter in Ma,nitoba go less inconvenience than in winter need have ino t oak wood sells at faom $ The Oak of -Manitobalis a of fuel to that of Ontbfrio. hard maple; and poildar per _cent: I 6. Rents in irani ieg paying from 25 to 40 per cost of the let and pull house ae is referred te would command a iginit of month. Good. stool; in localities, rent for $100 7. Building lots in .1Wi vete dwellings, sell for fr each, according tO &c. Busi- Ire very high, ent. upon the about $30 per best business, >et month. nipese, for pri- 8. White and red pine and. general building lu 'from $28 to $36 per tho siding and flooring f$40. finishing lumher sells per thousand. Spruc mend various imenSien stuff bere sells for sand, dressed. gear pine and p' —good build- ing lumber—sells at lrom $20 to. t $25 per thousand. - Cottonwood; base ood, whitewood; &c., sells at from $15 o $25 per thonsend. Up to within a ye r or two all clesses of store goods were very high, the -old rule ibeing to pu the Dutchman's one per cent, (100 peel ent.) upen the cost of everything laid. ( own. But competition has cotnpelled the mer- chants and traders to break thei • old rule. , As it now is the merchant's are but little if any larger than in taxi() and other older countries. freight te, this country is' very From Ontario it is about ifive cent pound. This makes the doarser goods comparatively high, but i finer line -8, such as dry goods, &c, the effect is aot so apparent. Upon a 3 ear's sales, a general merchant now nets 4bout 15 per cent. As yet proyisions:arel very high; begause the demand created b - the immigration of a few years past ha eex• deeded the home supply, and, consequent - 1Y, such Commodities sell kt importation this mattter will be found further ob. 10. Tb,e Government land within a radius cif 10 or 15 miles of Winnipeg is nearly—perhaps quite—all teken I up. Quarter sections, within. such limit, of 160 acres, may be get at from $1 5',0 to $5 per acre, with or without implove• remits. Old settlers' farmsi six chains by two milee thus containing 96 acres, hpon the bank; of- Aseiniboine and Red Riyers within from -three to ten miles of the city' May be bought at from $300 to $q200, aecording to the improvements and dis- tanue froin the city. 11. Winnipeg gets its water su ply and all the settlers living on those revers do likewise.. This ,water is very wholesome... In nearly all the new set- tlements the best of. spring water has been obtained in abundance. : 12. The English-speaking settle s of Red 'River, for fifty years past have had their parish schools, up:to the form tion of the Province, under the directi n the clergy. Since the organizatioe of the Proviuce a national system, some- what similar to that of Ontario, has been instituted. The systere admits of a great deel of improveinent,' but a free. common school education is now wethin the reaeh of every community. No high or grammar schools form part of the national ; syetern, but " Manitoba Col - 1 ge," under the anspices of the Pr sby- t gy, located at KU clonan, four miles rem 'innipeg, might be rated with the lasie.esst ntario High Schools, or- yen per Canada College, of Toronto. It pre students. for University rinitricula Though but three years in existen e, it ie doing it large amount of !work. The f es axe, very -reasonable. " Se.. J hn's t le auspices of the Church of Euglend, 'cleated et St. John's, just nttside the city limits. It was founded refits On. - The igh. per ss of the institution, establiehede s its time it eplies, by the- .Wesleynns, in the ity. t e• it with the alphabet, and lea\ e it " St Boeiface College", ie excel. t Catholic .Church many veers o" these fotir schools wiii con a Ay with the Ontario gram Winnipeg Ladies' Saner a -he Re mail ago. Any pare favor- er schools. y the Pres- ishmeuts. Our :public se tool syetem anding this, our edueatio f, It' . e such that a poor maa n ay give his rivers and. over iildree eft excelleet (Aunt 13. The - banks of the s reams ere lined with-lan of excellent . timber. .Diet ibuted the country at no great istance also bodies of it, Varying in - 'f - a, few acres to hundreds, of quare i iles. he plan, of the Govertnnen is to survey t tled to Sine of each lots f r -$10, ii he h s not that quantity of timber upon ri The city, is supplied with fuel, etc., in t ie way; Most of - the tin ber foe' this purpose is cetin the interi r, and rafted down the rivers. . 114: Native poniee sell -from $5 to U00. Good,sized native horses are f om $75, to $100 each, al d cows feom 15. Actual settlers are entitled t 160 acres of land free for homettead. 'h.ree years residence thereon sec tres a patent for $1 per acre cash. But o one person can purchase more than 64 acres. 1 This limitation is intended_ to - p 1 _, , 16. In the brisy season carpenters get from $3 to $4.• per day ; brieklayens and plasterers from $5 to $6 ; laborers fecnn Zra 50 to i $3; clerks end. salesmen from $50 to $I00 a Month. Of t clatter there always has been an over- upply, Board 17. The population of th eity ie now stated at 3,000 in round' nuMbers. There -having been no censua taken for more than a year it is impossible to gis4e the .exact Enures, but there -is every- reason to believe that the figure as, given above is not reach out of the wey: The prig- inal buildings—those erected. ham.° the transfer—wore principally of the .nlass locally- known as " Red River" buildings, .'a, species of log building, although quite unlike the articles known as log buildings it other proviuces. The mode of braiding o :heavy timber is laid,: and corneil posts o the required height, One, two or three s terries, are set up, aster hay g been mor- t'qed longitudinally on the wo faces in t e direetion of the walls. At -intervals of eight or ten. feet other perpendiculars of squared. thuter are also Set up and. also mottised en the two faces in the line of the Walls, Timbers are theu tenoned to 'fit in between] these uprights, am: are thus laid. one above the other to the re... quired height. This makee a very com- pact wall when the interstices are filled with " Oinks " of wood and the tenaci- ous white • clay of the country. The majority of these buildings are subse- -queetly sided with the- ordinary siding, and preeent the. appearance of an ordin- ary frame hens . Since the transfer frame buildings if the balloon pattern have been the mo et popular, and in the construction of wl ich building paper has been largely emp,oyed. Latterly, ow - ever, a style of bnilding known as the "brick veneer," hasbeen adopted, which is simply a frame building enclosed in a single brick wall, having all the appear- ance of solid. bri k house. Walls com- posed e tirely of brick have been !em- ployed, , and. wit" the reduction in the price:of ' the mate aal -which has bee af- fected, will herea 'ter be the most p pu- lar species of building erected. Stone of travel. And when persons, either throegh ignoeance of the danger, or the necessities df the case, have attempted to press forward, they have in several instances done So at the expense of the destruction oil property and the immi- nent risk of their lives. Why, only in the freshet that re -veiled' in the early winter one of our eighbors coming from Clinton with a lo d was caught -in the overflow on the ro d. near whit is known as Quigley's bridg , and it was with the utmost difficulty hat a rescue *as ef- the water, and the must have perished. And even this ver day a traveller with his sulky atterapte to pass Ialone the road leading from We place 'to Alma, but he had reckon (1. without his host. His horse got: be ond his depth, and must have perishe had it not. been for the prompt and. eeergetic assistaece of Mr. McGregor who, at the peril 'of his life, plunged 'rite the current, and hy cutting theha nes him to escape. II' a wreck, lint thr forindaeons -are are rapidly coming in energy of MreMc his driver weresav of things will not Aud then these ar the only cases of ri that have occurred this locality. The off the home en a.bThd mess and sulky ere nigh the daring and 'regor the horse and d. Surely this state e allowed to_ continue. - not by any means k to life and -property from Iike causes in rgument has hitherto de of our toWnship the needed' repairs, vogue, they,' peevious to this time, having been hegleeted, owing to the fact that cellar§ were not considered. desirable so lone as the city was c. without drainage The varioes in- dustries in connectan with the build interest have been the principal ones so been that the fur far, saw milling being carried on to a would not alloW of ccnsider hip extent, and aside from the but this plea is 0 longer of service. ife, local mi. nufacture of lamber sash, doors. i The. fends ere at the disposal of the mu - shingles &c., a yery large 'business has nicipality, and to a low ihem to , lie dor- been do e in the importation of the same. mant under such circumstances Weald All of th principal manufacturing trades, not be only false economy,. but would with very few exce Cons, are well repre- be criminel neglect. Let then a stop be there is AO town of ' the same size in a 11, this reckless ex - other put of the D, minion which doe roperty and ef human tithe of "the busines done here. Wh at the disposal of it is renlembered that ours so far is bu ircumetancecl as We stly the proPertY of tion, and they !only 74. at this continual ai a spareely settled Prevince; this statement may be taken by some as being entitled to be received cans (j• Tnin saliw ; but When it is also remember d. that Winnipeg, edit% of the ad.van, ages 'of its positio is thegeand commercial heart of the e )-- tire North- Weet, it avill readily be se n would seem to be maple accomdelation this line, each establishment tieds its r - sources taxed to the' utmost in 'providing for the wants of thetraveling end local . — A. 'child six (3 bachelor communiti et, and. a ilew brie edifice is in comate el ereetion Which wi ments, with lirst-cla s hotels of 'Potent than passing notice is the new woole Manufacturing mills; lately put in °pm ations and fitted Up 1 ern machinery: 1 ence,. and, above posure of personal life. Th e feeds* the municipalities are. They are kon the present gener have a right to the Krbrisuinc, March 20, 1 ada. The bills incorPo ating the village of Huron for registr tion purposes hay - passed the third r adines and have re- ceived the assent of the°Lieutenant-Gov- e to Mrs. P. Zinkrn 1 ship of Blandford, - to death in its crad Its Mother had gon . absence, one of it tween two and thr onths old, belonging nn of Bright, town - was burned alMost a few evenings ago. out, and, sin ringher little brothers be- e years of age, while me shavings, set fire ith first-class mod. to the child's cloth ng. It died on the following morning. —Messrs. Thom on & of Mitchell, have offered to remove the 'en- ' gine tend boiler !Jept rtment Of their man- ' ufactory to Strad() (I, on condi:tide that the people of that The Application of the Surpin To tlie Editor of the Arttron 4cpalitor. SIR Seine time a4o I took the Ebert- essary grOunds and through your paper -of calling attention nig of this article. far as I know the head" Stratford branch: will give employthe isoundness of the vieks at that time mien- _Dan g canny,, • are that in reaching over the damper to get sotne of the apples, het- linen slip was drawn 'in by the draught and ig- nited. —Numerously signed petitions have been presented to the City Council of Toronto asking, that body to submit for the consideration and, approval of th,e citizens a byelaw granting a bonus of $100,000 to aAsist the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway to construct an indepen- dent line from Westen to that city. The company now use the line of the Grand Trunk, which they consider detri- mental to the interests of the road. -,---It is stated on good authority that Louis Rid is at present in Montreal, and that he is the guest of some old college mates in that city. — An employe in a distillery in Wind- sor, named Pierson, a few days ago, fell into la tank full of whiskey, and was drowned before assistanee reatihed him. Many an old toper would. consider this an enviable death. . —A London paper says : "Butter may now be claesed among the expensive Iniuries of the time. Forty cents per pound, just' think of it ! People whose income is but moderate are almost com- pelled to let it alone.. A good eubstitute for the article is greatly needed, and the sooner such a substitute is invented the better will the majority of butter -eaters —A farmer, not fae from Hamilton, had one of his hogs diseppea.r about six -weeks acre, and suppsaied he had. been man. who was going along the lake shore heard a voice from a heap of iee that had been. piled lipon shore, and on getting an axe and °mining the heep, what was hie astonishment to find a living pig imbed- ded in the ice, and a harrible stench is- suing from the hole ! The hog was un- able to move, and nearlp all his hair had fallen off: It is suppoeed he fell into the hole, was unable ten get out, and the waves shoved the ice on top of the hole, keeping him a prisoner' The return to fresh air was 'tee :much! for him, and he succumbed about nine, hours after his release. . —An Alderman of tl e city of Hamil- ton, named J. C. NEW, rthy, and an ex- tensive timber mercha rt, left that city for parts unknown a fele- days ago- He left a letter for his family stating he-waa a ruined man aud that he left for good, since which time nothing has been heard of his whereabouts. His liabilities, it is supposed, will amount tb about $150, oop. -- Mr. Elliot Grieve, n old and esteeM- ed resident of the to eiship of West— minster, County of M ddlesex, died at his residence in that tostenship on Satur- day last, at the adv4nced age of 90 years. Mr. Grieve caleie to Canada 52 years ago, and settled o i the farm which was his -home when he lied. —The Orauge bill, wlliich passed in the few days ago after . an amen dismission was thrown out by the .1,egiSlative own furnish the nee - Councils This has been the fate of the bruollitilsionf .to do. Ale the measure for several ye The always passes it, and a if the establiehment rejects it. it -to about 150 work- —It is said that -a , train will be run on t ars. The House Couaeil always ightning express le Grand Trunk f V\ (set Garafraxas during! the coming summer. It will run ciated, nor do 1 thir k that they coul in, reeently poison- from Boseon to Chicago without change be fairly set aside ; et any rate all tha t; of a Paul( of four of cars, making the distance from Mon - I have seen or heard since then tot -whinge the matter has tended very largely t ) that was raiding on hie- premieee. It teed to Toronto in (sieve 1 hours. A. com- confirm. my views il8 then expressec measured 5 feet 4 ii ches ft om the Ileac plete neiv outfit is beim -prepared for the Thttt is to say, such is the condition f to the Lip of th • tail, stood 2 feet 9 new train. It will prtbally commence certain roads and bridges in the -Lew - inches, and weig,led 7'3 pounds. Its ranninn on. or about tlhe 18th of next 1)(Nly wae thin NTL y strum/ limbs and month ed one large wolf - ship of Hullett thatlthey ought, of it gent, presSing neceSsity, to be pet tit large head. Air. C tidy gets $6 from the —Some time en Tuesday a most a,uda- positron of the quote, of the stirpins fum e wa—rdAfalieceavPtduaryil;ga ,oh7aalisii7e1;olul.laye-, but : inslateilft(joaitile11)).lifeor(r. octflin't431meexirvcilisle4.1evellaeireYh acceuing to this township would he , 0 judieious, so holiest! or is so imperativ ' not very honest, y ung Man laid out .$30 day during Lent. Thei thie.vee went to ly called for. NoW that the elearir the hopes of Imaking mullion service, consis ing of a pair of and general, improveMent of the comet). The first pound he has been pectty WO developed, it h s - silver cups, and. unscee- been made manifes that freshets, from. : sold was short in , eight, and the con- . the cups-, which were what cause socver 1 i•oduced, are, far mo sequence was tha • the whole . lot ;was they carried them off, 1 g the being equal, than t ey could possibly be 1 . 1: 'a when the country ears in its wildern ss ; in better, and too g to sell by reteil, Y considerable Inoue extensive than 'fornierly, or, other thin es seized. by the to ' of the town. Hon ong the boseis of niaid. with gold, eaving the feet in. conetable, and die the vestry. The value of the cups was heritable `institutions about $50, though, of !course, they were, asty ie the belt policy. valued much higher b3r the congregationi meningitis 'has. be- to which they belonee( —About Belleville feill wheat has been largely -damaged by the recent heavy frosts. The previous fine weather having cleared off the snow, left the crop at the mercy of the frost. Fruit growers an- ticipate a heavy crop as frost has not penetrated the ground to anything like the -usual depth. es says : The earful condition, cleared, and the more thoroughly ditches : come preValent in etrathroy and vicinity, state. The more he country becon es are provided, and d ains of every kind . re although no deaths have as yet occurred supplied for taking off the surface we er from. it from the land as rapidly as possible, in --Mr. G. W. Si ith, of Lindsay, has n_ imported. from th SoUthere States a ly mules in that vici ity. They are ether - es ough-bred, largel,licivi-ell made ahd stand , --The Hamilton Til country roads are in a en about 14 hands n_ —An.old veterei named John Doyle, awl in places almost irepassable. On it in recently died. in Cobourg, in the i84th some of them little or o metal has been he year of his age. e was a memb e- of . put down for a long tie le, and the road- ee the 79th Highlanders, and wa all way is beihg badly cut up. There is, at is through the Pun isular war with the present not a single goo road leading into eying taken parts in Hamilton, and those w o travel on them anca, Pyrenees:Tale pray for the clay when the County will ttoria, the storming of assume -possession, and see that they n of making due pretlaration for -meeting ty Badajos, and. wind ng ap with Waterloo. are all kept in decent repair. A eime At the latter hat le,- near its close, he ilea pra,yer Will be as ferv.eutly uttered, the emergency. • Ifl i no other ill conse- was attacked by a French Cava:437'81dr- before many years, by those Who may (enemies Wauld restilt than the injury to misher, who seve ed his chin with a , have to travel over the roads of Unroll, public property, in the destruction of sabre cut, but wh paid for his temerity ' which formerly belonged to the County, carried with -him to . but which are now under the eupervision ets that could. not be of the townships. , lanitoba. A ,1 mid - 1." F.tt.1.1, ACCIDEST.—It ie with regret cribes the manner in has that we thieweek are 'tailed (ni to record savage' of that Pro- the fatal accident whieh oecurred to Mr. e . Made a crusade. ipon a pint of , rum 2::::17 Finnic, of DoWnie, on Wedries- again. In some inStances this has be n ; nestlaaa an India. ess on _Main street, days 18th hist. It aNears that he Wafi lp winch her drunkei husband. had about engaged in throwing 1(0 froia tin old log vince goes tor tae fire -Water : :“ It\ ed - to be made again and again, and et , li i s person, and h 'rojea41Y emptied! the ,N1:1':101t,tiiiii!11(11iir'l:hir.:01'111:1:3111(1111iliffetinis.tirrktfil)iiil'ilgi?'1\11::ciashili:CsNs-tea-a;17I)11'.14.1fiaaateflae‘I'llligt, available material efrith which to fill i the chasms, that was within reasonalsIle ' dietance, has been supplied and washed nasty stuff into a hole which exist4A— - but just as he began tii recover himself a Way so often -that ilOw material for re- between her nose ind chin." ' another log desceneled strikipg him on just that proportion will floods be creased and our creeks and streams rapidly swollen, sO that culverts a hridges that keg time ago were entir Competent to dischfrge the water in slow, obstructed i assage, - are now deed, this is an iievita,ble result. the hature 'of th'ngs it could. not otherwise. In yerY nearly the ratio the promptitude wsth which the land cleared of surface water, so will volume of the currents be eelarged. this must be admitted so far as the fa are concerned, anal 'hence the necess he gallant regiment, ,ell the battles of Sala ts avera, Nievelles, roads and bridges, this alone wolild -than justify the needed. outlay. -On s era" of the emaller Streams in this tow if re with his life. He a_ the grave four bul extracted from h ship a serious loss has resulted from The soars of charge to adopt the needed enlarge- seven sty meets, in consequence of wh ich the battle. —The female tei , persistent refusal ijof those who Is . , roads have been (*allowed repeatedly, at lepgth reached. • and repairs in the Same _jelace have 11,;1 • ; peg paper thus de. which the " gentl e body, and .shOwed re wounds received in thus incurring ne' useless, expellee om dless, a worse than he township. d there has been a veiy- serious inconve 1- . ence and detangement of travel. Over -and over again parties have been obliged to defer their jour eys, sometimes vei y important ones, to ), by reason of t e flooded state of the eoads and of ruined bridges: Parties ve frequently been away from home, a in view of the ne- ceesity of their pro pt return have had to take some other, nd more circuit* route, doubling and trebling the distanee dey, the 13th inst of Mr. _Robert Ha - was burned to .d about 10 o'clock mother went on a bor's house, and minutes leaving 4 the house alone, the eldest child all her clothes bei The mother had 1 ' ing on the stove Markhaiii; on ,Fri- , by which a daughter eS, aged_ about 5 years,. ath. • It appears that in the forenoon the 1 errand to a neigh - remained about ten hree small children in. When she ye -tinned as found lying outside and blackened corpse, g burned off from, her. ft some apples stew - and collar boric, causie g internal injuries which caused his death. Drs. Wilson and Sinclair, of St. Marye, wen; in at- tendance as soon i11088ihie, but the poor man expired soon after they Ar- rived. He leaves a wife and four smal children to mourn 14s untimely end. His remains were folldwed to the grave on Friday by a large concourse of sor- rowing hien& and neighbors, This sad accident has cast a &km over the neigh- borhood, and the belieaved family cer- tainly -have the symp4thy of the comma - and the prebabilities nity at large.