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The Huron Expositor, 1875-01-22, Page 1existieg btw - sit tea art .ei th will be Of the tro eipected tO be paid SCOTT 4,t Go. LOT TYLES Dp-Ds DTHERS' MORE, FORTH, $S GOO--D--S TRES, thIN OS, THE ,TortE, FORTE S' RY t Y iTHERV 70RE,, ERS. EY MADE ST TORE r erY Cheap, F -try Cheap, ,a-e,y Cheap_ lerY Cheeps ert Cheeps -erer Cheap. erY Cheap, ery Ceseap ery Cheap.. res Cheap. ery Cheeps sy. Cheap, ere- Cheap, ;mew tee x astoutit. at te per tor cash - any otter tt'Itsts leepDog, was last Gra-vet sfrg atter directs, :recovery l' op., rc good, it/Ito-at. rrr, 371, Ertarrit WitsttlitE No. 372,:t -eniiiiiiimmThmosomitoutensmema, SEAFORTH, FRIDAY-, JAN. 22, 1875. l'41114 (Sigthvic tor cfalt. FARM FOR SALE. T OT IS Con. 6, Hallett; loo aeres, 65 acres Jai cleared, reminder wooded with beeeh ancl maple- frame dwellieg; River Maitland and a eood sprint on lot; el miles frora lamburn and 8 miles from Clinton. Terms to mit purchaser. For partietilara apply to. L. MEYER, Ilarpnrhey, or BENSON & METIZIt, Sea.forth. 845 • FARM FOR SALE, -part Salt, Let 28, Con. 7,Usborne, containing 1- 74 acres.5 of which are cdeared and iu state ood cultivation. There is a, good frame BARN arid STABLE. The farm is located on a good gravel road, ia conveniently situated to schools, churches aral poet °thee, and i withm 13 miles from Seaforth and 7 from, Exeter. For fulther partieulars apply to the proprietor on the preualses. DINNIN, 351 Lumley P. 0. FARM FOR SALE, Fou SALE, Lot 9. Coe. 1, London Road Stan- - ley, WO acres, Se cleared and uuder forum, the balance tinabered with first-class hardwood ; frame barn 69x40. frame stable 18a.40,log house, good bearing °reheat, well watered, situated within 7 miles of &Moral and a like distance from Clin- ton. Farm well underdrained and in firsteclass cultivation. Apply on the prenuSes or to the pro- prietor at Brucedeld P. O. 3t32. 2VNIAIEW ',WREN= . FARM FOR SALE. T :DTI, Con. 5,Hrille t, 125 acres of first-class •-" land in excellent e nation; well fenced ; good buihfings, orchard, &c., spriug _ °reek crosses the lot. The timbre on the 20 acres of bush land is very variable. The proprietor would sell '75,100 or 125 acres. Post OM te, Sehools, &e., conveni- ent. PILO- property is situated on a good gravel roa1-51. miles from Seaforth. Apply to 1'432 ANDREW SL() N.N. Coustanee P. 0. emorponamosuipeosontamennsemnow . -Mr. Mozart soon began work on an- other watch which he said wasitd 'be an improvement on the first. This turned out to be a stem-winder and. to require winding -Only at, intervals of severardays. It was perfected, and he undertook to negotiateforits introduction to the niar- ket. He had been disappointed in his first venture, and although he expected to profit by the second, he soon found ob- stacles to satisfactory arrangements, and, after repeated and harassing endeavors to obtain what seemed to him a reasonable settlement, he closed negotia- tions with little or .no profit to himself, and after an experience that had worn on him to such an extent that those who Were most intimate with him saw then the -first .signs. Of coming insanity.. Not Ivery long afterthe loss of his money by the failure of the banking -house .of Miier &•Webster aggravated these symptoms almost, if not quite; to -the point of actual melba, fter these, negotiations had _ended, ho 'ever, he seemed to feel better, and went e•nergetically to Work npon the third watch. The design was completed early last summer, end wae a curiosity • in watch -making. Upon the dial was shown the year, month, day of the month, and. day of the week ; the quar- ter seconds were marked, and the simple. openiug and shutting of the watch foitr metive times a day to learn the titnekept it woltud. lf ripened or Shut oftener no itijary w as done, lot the machinery was so arranged that 'when the watch was fully wound the spring, was relieved from the farther strain of surplus wind- ing. This was patented and exhibited to experts in New. York City. It accona plished all that was claimed for it, and experts are said to have been delighted with it, but, as the wealthy New -York- ers had left for the watering -places at tuaimailogiNIWIENNI A WRECKED GENIUS. • Record of his Accomplishments -13'1, nal Inability to Supply 11 Lost Wheel —Ws i.uoyaI to nu Asylunt. A month ago, the Insane Asylura .at• Kalamazoo received the -inventor, •Don J. Mozart. Lle is best known in Michi- gan as the designer of at least three dif- ferent watches, each an impeovement 011 its predecessor, and the earliest regarded as equal, if not superior, to any Ames ican watchmade. He is a Plan of fifty-seven years of age, though ten years YoUnger in appearance, of a sanguine, 'excitable disposition, a restless ingenuity, and. gifted with a tetry instinet for mechane ism. He evertaxed his eye and brain bed working day and night, and then, when his naturai resources were weakened, was' worried by losses and business an, noyances, in which "everything weht wrong!" into an insanity.from . which there is but little expectation that he will ever recover. Mr. tioeatt's personaj history has been of almost romantic interest, so far as anything is known a it. He • himself can tell nothing of his family, except that he is of Italian birth, and that when he was about three years old his father removed to this country. Little im- portance can be attached to the vague and sometimes conflicting' speculations that are found in circulation respecting his early life.It is said, for instanee, ti t th ller Mozart was a street mu - e e FARM FOR SALE IN BRUCE; gician and a relatiod of the famous corn- , • FOR Sale, Cheap. Lot No. 50, Con. 0,- Township poser of that name. It is also said that of 13 mice, County of Brute, containing 100 he was a wealthy Italian, who fled from acres, 30 of Wigeh are cleared. This farm is -situ,- hiS native country for political reasons ated within lave iniles of the rapidly grOwing , lage of PaiSlay, The uncleared portion is well arta was afterwata assassinated. by p0. to Anierica., At all events he died when his seu was very young. The • family were living in Bestow, and some years • later the child, when about nine years FOR SALE. that tune declared the prospect poor for timbered. There is also a Spring' Creek rueniug liticaltemissaries who had followed him •through the place.. It is a desirable property. For flartiter partieulars apply to the Proprietor, -.11ox Saafortb. P. O. ono N. CAMPBELL. ea The Georgia is an iron vessel of about 912 tons burden, about 250 fett in length, -being the original blockade-runner and Confederate cruiser of the Same name.. Heal Vice -President. The retiring daughter, turned the whole fa,mily oat When she was the privateer • Georgia President, Mr. SarviA, did well for the of doors, and then set fire to the house. she had an open deck from amidships Society and. ably filled the office which --A marked change is gable to take forward, but lately the saloon had been he held. - place in the current of the trade in iron lengthened and a second cabin added. — Bode snatching has been going in and heavy hardware. For some tune Last winter the steamer was struck by. :St. Ccnstant, a small village near Mon- past owing to exceptional eircumstances, ice that floated down the St. Lawrence, treale Five corpses were stolen from the large dealings -have been had by our and sank her. Her owners had her ;village chtn-ch, and several medical sin- has dware houses, with the United States raised. and a new shaft, screw, funnel, dents have been at rested. on suspicion of in this line ; but such a fall in prices in and iren plates put in, while the interior being implicated in their removal. Great Britain is anticipated .by some as of thelrcraft was entirely re -fitted and re- Great indignation is felt, in the comma- may enable the British .markets to out American competition. -furnished. She wee built in Dumbarton, nity. Scotland, in 1862, nd retained, in the --Michael Murphy, better known as —A petition for the commutation of i re fitting, the powe ful engines carried "Mayor Murphy,' laee of Dimmer Lepine s sentence has been received. by by her duting the w tie street, Toronto, and two of his •children, the Dominion Government from Mani - She is owned by the Quebec and Gulf died from darvation and exposure at taint, with 1800 signatures, headed by Ports Steamship Company, and was ,Niagara, on Saturday last. The oldest Archbishop Tache. —The Toronto Hationai, which so valued at about $l00,000, insured for boy died early in. the morning, and about $60,000. - Among tne passengers was noon Murphy and his little daughter ex- -vigorously and persistently slandered. Chief . Engineer Merrill, of the steamer pired. Rumours of the family being Mr. George Brown not long ago, has pub- ltabriouth. She carried a crew of 41' poisoned were rife daring the day, aaict fished a most abject apology, declaring mete aud at the time of the disaster had at the desire of a number of citizens a its statements to be false in *every par - twelve passengers onboard. coroner's iminest was held, the jury re- ticular. . Captain Angrove was in command, turnip,* a ve.rdict to the effect that Mur- —A woman named Campbell sued her and the drew were mostly from Canada, phy and his children came to their death sister for slander in Hamilton, and re- havingk aecompanied the steamer here. from starvation and exposure to the cold. covered. $100 damage:s. The eseamer was quite light at the time. —The mills belonging to Bradley & —On Friday night the wholesale fur • ---e•-•-•.- Climie, of Listowel were completely cle- ' ? establishment of W. IL Glasco & Sons, stroyed by fire on Sunday. Insurance Hamilton, w as etered fr OM the rear window by burglars. The value of the Canada. first supposed to be fatal accideuts occurred at To. 1$7,000 ; loss not ascertained, —Col. Wm. Mercer Wilson, Judge -of Pc" taken was at , ronto, on Wednesday, 13th inst. Mr. the County of Norfolk, and Grand Mae,- small, but has since been found to be ; Two ter of the ftrand Lodge of A. F. & A. _M. fully $1,000. Among the furs stolen was a $300 sealskin mantle. —Mr. Ideery Valley is holding revival services in firantford, it is said, with much effect, his meetings being always crowded with attentive' listeners. It is MOM .11c1LEAlc BROT11.1ERS, Publishers. 1 $1 50 a 'Year; in advance. • —Mr. George Roy has been elected iitte.sid.ent of the itlitcheli Horticultural and Aericaltural Societe', and. Mr. Henry —On Monday night, Ilth_ inst., a farmer named. Jackeon, residing near Windsor, after beating his wife and old was enticed by the prom -lee of curl - LOTS in one Meek in Coteman & Gouinloek's ' the immediate organizatien of a company . . scavev, and commie(' era Victoria Square. ous shells, on bcfard a vessel lYing in the Apply to harbor, and. persuaded or Mpelled to 361 E-. HICKSON & Co. take passaee for a long eruise. clid V, to manufacture the watch, and invited Mr. Mozart to return again by the 10th of September, when the _city would be BUILDING LOTS IN SELFORTH FOR SALE not get back for seven yeers, and, 1 in re -peopled with Capitalists. 'ate wept int' Lots. is prepared to diapoae of beta on reason ..never recovered it, though he has tried dertook to iniprove upon theiearance . . OOLEAIA.N, having Iad. out the grounds that interval, all trace of his fitinity home and m the interval or leisure un - recently occapiedas a Driving Park into Balt- seams to have, been lost, and he has • of a part of his invention by substituting able ternia to any who may deatre them. Parties desiring to pureLase slionid make immediate op- - plietatjaii. - 364 EST RAY RAM. into the premises of the undersigned, Lot •--/ No. 14, London Itoad, Stanley, about the 1st of December, Et -SCONNG RAU. The owner is request - ea to prove preperty, pay eharges and take him away. ALE 5:aiNDER ROSS. 369'4 ESTRAY STEER. (IAMB ietQ the premises of the undersinned, \-) Lot No. 6, PC. -It. S., Teckersmith, on or about the middle of June 1ast, a two year old STEER. The owner is requested to Pro -ye property, pay charges and take him, away. TAMES HAY. repeatedly. or a long time e seems . • ready in place in his model. In doing this he lost some piece of the mechanism. He tried to. replace it, and could not do so readily. • His eye had, lost its dear- ness, aud his troubles had shattered his to have led a wandering life, to ha,ve tried- his hand on. mechae- deal . Occupa- tions, and to have dis•played tharvelou.s genius in comprehending, simplifying, aud inventing :mechanical contrivances. 'As a simple illustration, the ttory nerves. However, with the womierf ul told of his applying- to a carpenter, when patience and persistence that has always a elided and engraved cap for the one al - a young matt, for work. ,The carpenter asked him if he understood the'business. He said no, 'but he 'guessed he could. learn. The carpenter asked him if he had. any tools. Nix; he said, but he would get whatever be needed, and ask- ed the carpenter to tell him what was try; believing that under his direction necessary: A list was made out for him the work eould still be dome by skilled and he suvelted himself. but had little ands, but he refused and went on per GAitTLE. . _ . Ca;TRA.YED ;from Lot 7,- Co4111, Hullett, ort or idea of the social use of his new acquisi- sistently. Tbe 10th of September passed also, one tions. However, he must fieye /shown_ . y, t-- about the lit of August, a yearling steer, white and -red, with- Una. spread. Mit horns; , u but he believed. he should' finish his ling heifer, erey, with turned up horns, and some aptitude in becoming atquaiuten d ,s- 1 _ task soon, said so, anti persevered.. 'ovnee Yearling heifer, red. and white. Aay person with them, for Wale long het emp oyer Later still he declared that he , givin-g information that will lead to the recovery Set- hlan t 0 work at the notcaltooether 'WILLIAM TREW1N, child'b play of melte,* sash. s e lute tie eharactetized him, he went on trs ing, breaking his instruments occasionally, making new ones, forgetting his plan, au& working day and eight trying to re- call it and experimenting vainly. His wife begoed him to let somebody else John Gray, of the Brockton nurseries, . was run over tind killed by a train ; and of Canada, died on Saturday morning Master John C. McGiverin, a student of last. I -U. C. °allege, and son of Col. McGiver- —The business of the Montreal Tele - in, of Hamilton, was so injured while graph Company shows an increase, of 10 trying to jump on a train in motion that prcent on the Increase o 1873. he only survived for an hour. --It is stated that a man named Van about time somebody took Brantford in —A young lad, son of Patrick Butler, Oyen, now living in Windsor, has fallen hand, and if Mr. Varley is instrumental living on Caroline street, Hamilton, in heir to a fortune of about t e $300,000 and a e wicked town*he will have aceomplished in reconstructing the naorais of that something to be proud of. • — On Tuesday morning, about 2 company with a companion, foundta erman title. Too( or an. tol in the yard of his father's premises, —Recently a discovery of a very her - of the above animals will be suitably rewarded. P needed only a, tray More, and day after 359':4 „• Constaece. 0. rest were gone to dinner he hanted tip a day he would repeat this. Then was sore that there were only:a few piece of sash, took. • ie carat -01y apart, EST RAY BULL. ours between him and success, and so etAME into the premises of the undersigned, Lo • satisfied himself as to how it et hould be e he labored. on his delusion becomino 3, Con. 2 Stanley, abont the lat of November, made, and went ahead, and weep tly he a yearling iULL. The owner is requested to was the expertest sa,sh-ma.ker in the es - prove property, pay charges and take it away. taitlishment. His swift intelliaence in n ."3684 TO aN McDONAL.D. mechanism became his reliance. He ESTRAY HEIFER. •• '• has said, after in experience of many • CAME into Lot No. 2, Con. 12, lIalett, on or years, • that he never kuew, the time about the lit of December, a. two red- When if he was short of money, he could and white HEIFER. The owner is requested tO . prove property, pay charges and take her away. nOt hide hinaaelt in a hole forn a month 3704 EDWARD STAN -TN. -Y. and %yenta. work an idea, that woaid . bring him ,$1,000. The resulteis that NOTICE.• mone.y has conie to him so cattily he has tA_ME into the premises of the subseribearsot valued it little, has speat it with a 27, Con. B, three yearling caves, two steer - blue and blinille, and red heifer. The owner is re quested to prove property, pay charges and take them away. JOHN GrettrAll. 369-4 BOAR PIG Subscriber has purchased from G. F. Hari - Wirt. F,sq., Perth, a thoroughbred Berkshire Boar of the large breed. Ile will be kept for the Season, on Lot No. 23, Con. 2, H. R. S., Tucker- sinith, and will serve SOWS fa $1.00 with the privi- lefet a being returned. if necesaary. 864-8 IVA. ROBB • • prodigal generosity, not to say reckless- ness, and. having, most of .his life, no speetal-oceasionfor What is &lied besit ness shrewdness, has in later years been victimized. by speculators in .his genius until the very annoyances to which lie was subjeeted, paved the shy to the breaking down of his overworked mind. A Meng his inventions he is said to have made and. told to a:. Cuban . company a clock that would' run . year -without_ and without thought commenced. play- rible- nature was made by a boy named o'clock, Mr, Jessep, a. well known cite- ing with it. He cocked the pistol, pre- Johnston, in the woods nezir Bothweil. zen of Guelph was aroused by the ring - seated it at his sider's head, and pulled the trigger, but fortunately there was uo.exploeion, which caused the young - it -wits the body of a man hanging to the ing of the hall at his residence. limb of a tree by a small cord fastened Going down stairs he opened. the door, around his neck. The alai m being given • and was forthwith throttled by a hard- sters to think that the weapon was un- Coroner Crawford and others repan-ed to .loaded and harmless. Butler again the place to make an examinasiop. It looking case, who grasped him'o tightly biought the. hammer up, aad was M the .appeared that the body mnst have been that he could not speak. With one act of _turning the a eapon, when the there for many da,ys, as the flesh was blow Mr. Jessop felled the miscreant, chatge exploded. The ball erteted the Much decomposed, and. dropping from. and sprineing 011 top of him raised- the wrist of the left hand.and passed up to the bones. The body was that of a re- alarm, at tbe game time using his fiet waids the—arm, lodging about four inches , spectable looking, middle-aged man. It vigorously. MT. John Hall, who lives from where it had entered. it- was ex- was cut down bent removed to Bothwell, next door, heard the fracas, came on the scene with a stout stick, after receiving —1The new means that female pocket I was abie to identify is, however, and. a -a taste of which the marauder managed. . . when a lady is about entering a carriage, • —Senator Moore, of Oswego, N:• Y , street, owever, by Mr. Jessop, -who . gave him into custody. a man puts his foot on the step and ob- better known in Canada as Dr. Geo. E. structs her. Two or three efficient Moore, a patent medicine mane -was acci- ' —The Rend Eau News says : Four 1 " ladies" then press against the victim, dentally killed on the 13th on the Grand men are taking out of the Eau, every hustle her about as if anxious to enter the Trunk Railway, near Stratford, by _fall day, from eight to twenty-five barrels of carriage, - and. while her attention is ing between two passenger cars while . fish, worth from thirty to a hundred dol - drawn to the man who is interrapting - the tram was in motion. His remaans ner entrance, the "ladies" are picking I were forwarded to Berlin, and buried her pocket, and. the whole party of I with Mambo honors. _ thieves then eithergetinto another car- ' —John Small, atias John McNeil, of riage or make off. Ns ontague, was accidentally killed at —.11.enry Varley, the revivalist, 'has iSmith's Falls on Monday, 14thinst, by aroused. a great deal of indignation in the falling of a tree. He and. Thomas Toronto by a sensational attack made in McEwen were weeking at the same tree, the Meteopolitan W. M. Church, on McEwen noticed. it was going to fall, Friday evening, upon the Philharmonic when he told Smell to run ; bat before , .. - Soeiety, in which be characterized the the latter could sitteve the tree fell. kill- -- 'he narriston Tribune says : On Oratorio Of the Meesiah as" revolting," illtr him instantly: He leaves a wife , Monday ramming last„ as the 8 o'clock treated by Dr. White. where an inquest was held. No one to escape . Be was identified on the pickers adopt at railway trains is that I verdict of "Found Dead" was returned. ]ars. Besides some very Inc pike and miskinonge, they are securing a large number of black bass, reek 'bass and pickerel. It has always been said that there were not many fish iu the Eau. • —At a recent meeting of the Sher- brooke Council the Mayor was instructed to sign a petition to Parliament in favor of the total prohibitionof the sale and manufacture .of ardent spirits. mixed. tram On the Wellington Grey and said those singing it were guilty of and family. profanity in imitating the dying cries --The General Manager of the Great and Bruce Railway was passing the first stronger • and stronger, till his friends and groans of our Saviour. Nearly all 'Western Railway, leasing eonsidered the ,erossing above this place, the engine ran into a span of horses owned by William • saw there was no possible couree but to the members of the Metropolitan Church representations of the Commercial' Trav- - remove him to the asylum at Kalamazoo, choir belong to the Philharmonic Society. elers' A.ssociation, las granted its mem- Reberts, which happened to be standing on the track, killing one instantly, and, es ,d t t which was done on the 2d of December —On Wth Wednesday, says e Welland bers all privilee e 1 a re ai o are&e, c., ,, reg aid while a son of Coustable Gil; which weiT concdled in 1874. chriese, a lad about fifteen years of age, —Mitchell, our sister town to the east was walking, along Main street, in coms of us; has among its population oue pany with a lad named -Edgar Doan, the hundred and sixty persons whose Bev - former found a reyolver lying on the eral names do not exceed one syllable. sidewalk near Mellanby's block, He picked it up, and while brushing the snow off the weapon, it went off. The bell lodged. in Doan.'s neck, but fortu- nately the wound is not a serious one, and the lad is rapidly recovering. They seem ,to take it as a matter of —Mr. Thomas Wood, one of the pro- which was recovered, aad from papers course whatever way the wind blows, prietors of the Arthur Grist Mill, was r discovered it is supposed the deceased - s , , and rather ,astonish pecele as to the engaged in oiling the engine of the -grist mill,- a short tune ago, when he became . euta,ngled in the machinery, severely in - sending the other clear out of the har- ness some twenty feet into the ditch. Strange to say, it was not in the. least in- jured, but got up, and with head and. tail erect, started off in pursuit of the train at its best pace. The sleigh was —Some days since a burglary was broken but Mr Roberts escaper - committed at Cape Vincent, the berglar • unin- jured. —During all the recent cold snap the Italians at work on the Credit Valley Railway near Galt -never struck work. • last.. -Within two days before his re- moval. he -was talkine, extravagantly, • but incoherently enough, of his brilliant prospects and the Wealth. and success -that awaited him, and detailed to friends minutely the terms of an agreement that - he claimed to have just niatle with pet - sons in New York, though he had never gone to that City after -his visit in the early • summer. His tnind had clearly reached that stage at which it regarded. the visions. upon whieli it had dwelt as factli finally accomplished. Thie case is a curious one in the records of mAanity. 412he hope that is given by his physicians is very slight, for the mental disease that had seized upon him was so strongly defined as to bar at least the.possibility of -immediate restoration. - During his retidence at the asylnnit however, he has been comparatively quiet, and; of course, he is relieved•from the strain of the self-imposed and almost incessant labor which preceded his re - o val .--Detro it Tr ibu ne. F'artieulp,re ot the Wreck of the Georgia. • windincr. THE BLACK PRINCE. ,n Mr. Slozart has been engaged iin the THE celebrated Berkshire hear, Black Prince, manufacture and improvement of watches 1086'7 he established himself as a jeweler in Anil ArbOT, and thQse of the trade there will remember his emphatie -.announce- ment in his earlier advertisentelit that at his place wetches would be made to order, " bezels included !" the last claim being probably by somebody!s I declara- tion that watch bezels could not be ob- .:tabled except at a distance. 'indeed, he was not the man to be daunted by any- thing in mechanisin. It wee not long before the Mozart Watch Company was organized, a force of employes- obtained, and work began upon the first of _ three win -dee season be kept for the improvement of diStinet watches which he te known to Stock, on Lot 2, Con. 1, Stanley, London Road. Pigs in this aeetion of the country. TERMS—S1 the manufacture had. to lte made at the per Sow, payable at the time of service, with the leutset, anppears that Mr. Mozart privilege ofretereing if necessary. :462 - • WM. BLAIR, Jr., Proprietor. TE rg DERgiNANTED. rrENDERS will be received up to TUESDAY, -1- Jan. 121,1875, for a quantity of square timber and lumber, to be delivered at the Briek ni • Seaforth,. 'Tenders will also be received up to 'the same date for the erection of a buildine 100x80 feet. :for further information, apply arthe of- fice of, the mill. Tenders to be addressed to W. WOrden, Agent. 3701 • ' A. W. OGILVIE & Co. ill be kept at the premises of the undersigned for about fifteen yeae-s. As long lago as in Eemondville fer the service of sows during the present seaeon. Terms, *1, payable at the time of service, with the privilege of returning, if ne- CeiiSary, 366-8 DAVID DUNCAN. BOAR PIG. . rpflE aubsaiber has a well-bred Boar Pie; which he will keep for the servita. of sows for the season au Lot 4, Coe. 3, L: R. S., Tnekersmith. TERMS -75 cents, with the privilege of return- ing if necesstuT. „ ALEX. BUCHANAN, Jr. 868 4 TH!ROUGHBRED BERKSHIRE BOAR, q 'SE First Prize Thoroughbred Berkshire Boar, the property of Mr. IVin. Blair, Jr., of Stanley, This is one of the best and purest bred Berkshire have designed. The tools to be used in DOG LOST. vw•ut tan 2d of January, a °lack sheep Deg, -LI' with a, white breast and the point of tail white. He an:ewers to the name of `` Rover," and. was last • seen near Taeslie's Hotel, on the MeKillop Gravel Road. .Any person harboring the said dog after this date will be piosecuted as the laav directs, and any information that will lead to his recovery Will be suitably rewarded. 3714 JOHN KERB, Con. 7, McKillop. H-ORSE FOR SALE. VOR, sale, or will be exchanged for a good, sound driving horse, a young mare with foal. For partieulars apply to ' Mr. James Kerr, Me - KIRK). 371. ' ESTRAY STEER (-t_AME on the promisee of the undersigned, Lot •-1 18, Con. 8, Morris, about the 1st of December, 1874, a yearling steer, all white. The owner is• re- quested to pay expenses and take the anima away. • JOHN JACKSON, q waiten, o. kept in ------ihands alone -the task of put- • ( Prom the Portland Press, Jan. 15.) - Capt. Coyle, agent for the•Balifax line of steathers, received a despatch yester- day morning from J. McLean, the engie neer of the steamer Georgia, stating that. the steamer .went ashore on the Tri- angles at Tennant's Harbour, Wednes- day night, in -a snow storm; and wea a total wreck. • It is stated that he, with 15 meu, had got off in a boat, and were to try to get a tug to go to theassistance of the steam-. tine together and• finishing', up the er. .17Pon receiving this, despatch the -watches. .1.N o one else was ;, entrusted with this part ef the work, and no Mae else knew -how to do it. Bet before. the manufactory was in full beeiness order, the company found. itself -straitened - for fends, and eomplicatione followed, end- ing in the formatioudf the .1.1eick island Company, and in Mr. Mozart's separae tion front the - original enteitpeise. The steam cutter Dallas prepared to get un- der way, end left for the scene of the accident at half -past ten. A second de- spatch, received at, one o'clock, stated that one boat load of persons from the steamer was missing, but a later despatch stated that the missing boat had been found. by a steam tug and brought to Tennant's Harbor. They were very much E.ock Island Caiipany was eo;have gone ciiilled and nearly exhausted with the on with the Manufacture of the watch, but having lost the services tof :Sir. Mo- zart, found ,itself totally unable to do anything -with the invention. The fact is that of -the first .watcli only thirteen were ever aempleted, and good judges, into whose hands they have fallen, do not hesitsete-to rank them at the head of American timepieces. • They mark the quarter second, need. no tegulation for months together, need cleaning very rarely, and are almost as reliable as chronometers. The chief novelty about them. is, perhaps, their extraordinary simplicity of construction, and Simplicity seems to have been the characteristic and. the aim of all -the Mozart watches. The inventor -took pains to `reduce the number of necessary parts to 3 minimum. cold. Six persons were taken off in a being traced to Milieus' Bay,by tracks on the ice, where it was found he had. fallen through the ice into the river. On Mon- day search was made for the body, was W. H. Rattan, of See ey s a,y, amount of cold they can stand. Leeds County, °none. He had on ' three coats and two shirts, and upon his —About half -past 7 ocick on Tuesday juring his breaet aud breakina log, and person were found a seven -shooter, a ing, and comingeon the main track, two cars, one loaded with grain, and the caboose, got off the track, and as the train was going. at a rapid. rate at the time, the ear with the wheat struck the woodshed With such force as to knock about 30 94,40 feet of it down, and the , car itself was made a zomplete wreck. The other car, with the caboote, were also damaged, but nobody was hurt, al- though one xnan was thrown off. The engine, with nine cars, after stopping some time, went on all right. —A fire broke out about half -past liernin its a special train was going arm. He is rg ecevering. smlver, and a pau ce all ie brass . : b past the Elora station, it ran into a sid- -A few days ago a.little daughter of knuckles. Mr. Merlieh, of Preston, was riding on --Mr. J. Ska,e, brother to K R Skae, the side of a sleigh driven by Mr. Rosen- of Sandwich, and formerly of Windsor, bet -ger. The child undertook to adjust is a participator M the fabulous wealth her shawl, when she lost het hold and accruing from the discVery of the wont fell in -front of the heavily laden sleigh, • derfully rich silver beds in Nevada Ter - which passed over and crushed her right hand m such a frightful manner as te! render amputation necessary.. —In settlement of a bet upon the —Joe Colwell, of Drumbo, turned hie Guelph Mayoralty election, the winner wife and children out of doers one cola wheeled the loeer round town in a wheel- night lately'and the neighbors the next barrow, much to the amusement of the day stritsped him of his clothes and. onlookers. threatened to make a (mese of him if he e' —it is reported. that Hon. Williamten &clock on Momday night in Hiram ; repeated it cow. 0, Lemmey's carriaae shop, Winghem, Thursday morning receivea Macdougall has issued a writ againd the —Lieut. Macnachtan, of -ire, on . the gem which was compretely destroyed, with meek]. awarded by His Excellency Lord , the contents e also 1. L. Jobb's Maas Duffern tth°mediae marksman smith shop and Greer & McDoo's hard.- io e lifeboatfrorn White Head at noon. A despatch was received from. Captain Congreve at four o'clock, which stated that the vessel is a total wreck, and that,- as far es he could learn, all -on board were saved. One boat's crew had left Tennant's Harbor by afternoon train for Portland—the number not known— and they would possibly arrive in time to take the midnight train for Boston. The Triangles, on which the Georgia was lost, are three ugly rocks situated about four miles from Tennant's Har - belt, which place, in turn, is about ten miles from Thomaston, and fifty-five from Portland. At the time when the ship struck it was about tour hours be- fore high water. S--.ratets s ritorye In a few days the rise in the value of shares in one of the mines made him richer than he was by $150,000. Globe Printing and Pablishing Company in a civil action for damages, iu boasea quence of an article in a recent issue of that paper in reference to his connection making the highest score at Wimbledon ware shop, owneci bY VB s • • The fire was stopped at a Lloyd's fur- • asviethlaSi.citlyaetrsI3s01,e0too. Damages, it is said, last summer. The medal is very hand.- scene, on. one side of which is, near the uiture store. . -----On Saturday night, 9th lust, An- outer edge, in letters, " The Dufferin —On Saturday night, the 16th inst, a d.rew Riley left his home in Angus to • go Medal, 1874," and in the centre a bean - barn belonging to James CaMpbell, Gars , a few miles to procure a load of straw, tifully executed_ figure of a rifleman, ie rie, was burned with contents and most act of of stock, insurance tight. On Monday, and when on his return, about one utile officer's tunic, kneeling in. the s from home, the load got upset. The shooting. On the obverse is a finely 18th, the barn and deitiebelonging to man who -w-as with him went on to executed laurel wreath enclosing the fol.. i Richard Ralph, Gotrie, were burned, ,, Angus and. left him behind, and he and.- lowing : " For the highest score made at with their contents not heai d. of till Sabbath afternoon, Wimbledon." Lieut. Macnachten was 1 —A man has been going through the when he was found dead. He leaves a lucky enough to win no less than four I County of Elgin claiming to have lost wife and large family to mourn his loss prizes, which he brought home with him i his arm by a threshing machine acci- -A surprise party visited. the Bible from Wimbledon and this is the fifth , dent A few days ago he stopped at a Christia,n Parsonage Mitchell, on Tiles= secured by him. 'from the 'Wimbledon I louse en 0 , a ad, S th r ld. -Mr: Butcher, the esteemed pastor of the —It has been decided to build a - clock• - 1 his suspicions arouse e made an iu- vedi ation and foun day evening last. alla presented the Rev. match of 1874. i The proprietor took him • in, but, having the nnssing arm Church, with a kindly worded address capable of containing a full-sized iron - for his unceasing labors in the cause of clad at Esqunnault, in British Columbia. i carefully concealed under the shirt. The Christ during his administration in Mit- The British Government has promised to 1 fellow gave his name as John Wilson. chell, and a purse of $60pay $250,000 toward the cost of its con- ! . -----""liw . —A company of players styline them- structions and it is expected the Cana- ! . 0 --Heartrending accounts are tele- selve,s the "New York Com.bination dials will do the same. i graphed from New 'York of suffering Company," under the management of a —The number of insolvents gazetted I cause(' by the recent cold. snap. The man named. Snow, has been victimizing in the Dominion during the year 1874 i crews of several vessels which have the people of Peterboro. After giving a , amounted to 966. Of this number On- • lately arrived have been badly frost - performance, which was tvell attended, 1 tario is credited with 443 ; Quebec 310 • I bitten' , , the manager repudiated nearly all the 1 New Brunswick, 91 ; Nova Scotia, 111 ; --J. Wyckoff, of Navarino, Onondaga, printing, &c., and got , away from the land; 3. The statistics in Manitoba and I Planner, la,st Saturtlay. While the wind town, leaving his creditors to mourn over I British Columbia are not 'given. The was blowing a gale be dropped his bank their misplaced confidence. Such scamps I aggregate liabilities of these insolvents I book, containing $150, which was seat - ought to be put where it would be out of ' amounted. to $7,696,765, and the assets I tered by the wind. Forty dollars remain. their way to prey on honest people. debts contracted by the company for . Prince Edward Island, 8 • Netvfourid- County, met with a loss in a singhlar • I to $3,894,248. • unfound.