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killed 50 Picees of Now Winter Dross Goods,
2, only tes• 15 per centlower, than last Io
10,.Pieces (AI:Leavy Mantle Beaver, 6-4 wide, frora
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early i They are a Great Bargain. --
,pOnnd 75 Pieces of Dragon and Silver Shield Brande "
Black Lustros from 14c to 700 per yard,
The Richest Lustres imported bite
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50 Pieces of New Winces's—an pekes,
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200i Promenade Scarfs, from 25e to $2 25,
800 Ladies' and Children's Fancy Clouds, from
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100 Now Felt Skirts at 75c, worth $1,
10 PIOCC5 of Tapestry Carpet at from 85e to $1,
5 Pieces All -Wool Carpets, yard wide, 1st 95o
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Delightfully Warm for the Fall
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NEW COTTONS
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ALSO THIRTY PIECES OF
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Orders for Clothing will receive Prompt
Attention and will be found
PRECISELY RICHT IN PRICE.
PRECISELY RICHT IN QUALITY.
PRECISELY RICHT IN MANUFAC'RE.
Delightfully Warm for the Fall
Season.
the Very Lowest Prices for these
Tight Times,
iMade Most' Carefully on the
Premises.
Conte Early and, leave your measure.
First Come First Served.
- You can make the Best Choice now.
TERMS - - - CASH.
Or 1 per cent per month added.
GENTS' FURNISHINGS,
HATS .417.1) CAPS,
Weekly Arrivals from New York of the
Newest Styles Out.
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WANDERINGS IN COLORADO.
PAPER NO. IX. •
Spoon Creek is one of the tributaries
of the Huerfano. It is a live running
stream, and like the Huerfano, its banks
are thickly settled, and the majority of.
the settlers are Mexicans. A large num-
ber of sheep are kept in the country
about. Notwithstanding the ill -fortune
which has attended many of those who
have invested in it, the sheep interest in
Colorado is increasing rapidly year by
year. Although wool has been extreme-
ly low this year, evidently sheep owners
do not expect this condition of the mar-
ket to continue, as sheep still command
as high or higher prices than formerly.
The prairie about Spoon Creek is much
broken with gullies and bluffs, and is
studded with cedar bushes and pin.ons,
as the Mexicans call the stunted pine
trees. This affords excellent winter shel-
ter, and the sheep will brouse contented-
ly among the pinons during the severest
winter storms. The Denver and Rio
Grande Railway has lately been extend-
ed through this country on its way to
New Mexico. A station has been es-
tablished near a little old Mexican plaza
on Spoon Creek, and a few rough frame
dwellings in the way of stores and store-
houses have been erected. The build-
ings of the "new town," as they call it,
contrast curiously with the low adobes
and log huts of the Mexicans, the former
seem to symbolize in some degree the
rough and rugged enterprise of the West,
while the latter represent, equally well
the semi -civilization and contented con-
servatism of the Mexicans.
One night' while we were camped on
this creek a rain storm occurred, which
forms one of the best remembered inci-
dents of the trip. It had been threaten-
ing rain all day, but no one believed
it wouldocome. It is one of the peculiari-
ties of this climate that no one 'can pre-
dict the weather, Even Old Probabili-
ties himeelf would be unable to make -a
respectable guess 24 hours ahead. There
will be every possible sign of rain—
clouds, wind, everything indicating rain
—but the indications will pass away,
and week after week will pass with un-
interrupted sunshine. Again, with hard-
ly any warning of its coining, almost
from a clear sky, a torrent will burst
forth, threatening for the moment to
submerge the whole country, as if with
another flood. This time the threatenings were not for nothing. About dark
the ram began to fall, first slowly, but
soon in torrents. Most of the camps
were at supper, and a cowboy does not
allow a. mere sprinkle to come between
him and his grub. But when the rani
began; to put out the camp fires, they bre.
gen to think that it meant business, and
the grub was deserted, and every one
did his best to hunt a dry spot. Soon
the creek beian to rise, not slowly, but,
as it were, in leaps—a foot or more at a
time. Some of the outfits were camped
low crown in the bottom, and it required
their utmost exertions to haul their wag-
ons and camping paraphernalia to a plum
of gaiety before their camp ground was a
surging mass of water. Some of the
boys of our }clamp and those of our next
neighbor, after we had placed our provi-
sions in a place of safety, gathered wood
and built a large fire, big enough to burn
in spite of the ram, and standing about
it, tried to take the rain as a good joke.
The Pioneer and one or two others
stretched the wagon canvass tent over
the tengue of the 'wagon, the extreme
end of which.was elevated and supported
by a stake, thus making a sort of tent.
Here they placed their blankets and
crawling under went to bed. In about a
couple of hours the storm was over, and
those of us who had managed to keep
their bedding dry spread it out and went
to sleep, the others set to drying their
blankets or lay down in them, clamp as
they were.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1876.
111cLEAN BROTHERS, 'Publishers.
OA 36 a Year,th advance.-
Another of our camping places on
Spoon Creek was near the Glastonberry
ranche. The pioneer had informed us
beforehand that we would have a good
time when we got there-Lthat we would
have all the milk and butter we could get
away with. Our outfit int& our camp
near the house, and sure enough we were
kept supplied with all the milk and but-
ter we could use. No one who has not
been deprived of them for a long time can
appreciate -what luxuries milk and butter
are,and the quantity we hlingry campers
caused to disappear was surprising, The
Glastonberrys had a lot of cattle them-
selves, and the boys had been with us on
the round -up, and this, as well as her
own warm-heartedness ace,ountedlor the
old lady's kindness to the cowboys.
Besides, Mrs. Glastonberry and the Pion-
eer had been old acquaintances in Mis-
souri. He told us that she had been con-
sidered a beauty in her younger days and
that she was the first young lady he had
ever " waited on." She was, by no
means, a beauty now, and the vicissi-
tudes of frontier life had left their mark
on her temper, manner and conversation,
as well as ripen her personal appearance.
The Pioneer and one or two o: the rest
made a call on the old lady in the even-
ing, the Pioneer to renew his acquaint-,
ance,and the others for the sake of a little
fun, as they had heard the old lady was
a charaater. The Glastonberrys, like
many others during the war, had been
forced to fly from combrtable homes in
Missouri by the outrages of the Bush-
whackers on one side, and the militia on
,the other, who between them laid waste
many fair counties in that State. Refer-
ring to these times, Mrs. G. said to the
Pioneer, "You will have heard, Sam, that
I've got to be a regular onnery foul-
mouthed old woman. You tieedn't say
you hav'nt, because it's true. But no
wonder Ah, Sam, we've seen hard times
when we came here, we had to borrow
the blankets we slept on, and we hadn't
a bull to beller for us." The conversa-
tion becoming more general, she asked
the Pioneer, "Who is that fine -haired
gentleman Sam, 1 see with your outfit?"
referring to the present writer. "Oh,"
said he, "that fellow's Wen with me all
through." "Why," she returned, "1
thought he was the saloon keeper from
the new town." I had ,been flattering
myself that the accumulated dirt and
filth of a six weeks' in camp had quite
obliterated anythingilike 'fine-hairedness'
about me, but it seemed the old lady was
not to be deceived. The people here are
wonderfully sharp at detecting a new-
comer or recent arrival. Whether it is
by his air,or dress'or general appearance
I don't know, but they can spot a "ten-
der foot" or "fine -haired feller, as they
call every Eastern man at a glance. The
first question is generally, "How long
have you been out here?" the next,
"What did you come for?" and the next,
"How long are you going to stay?" the
whole category accompanied by a look,
expressive of, "What a blessed fool you
are to be here titian!" 1 intend in future
to say, in answer to the first query, that
I was born here, and thus block further
investigation.
There is a curious idea among many
people here about getting .one's clothes
wet. It may be common euough in oth-
er places,too, but I never heard of it
elsewhere. They say when you are
caught out in the rain and get wet
through, never change your clothes, or
you will be sure to catch cold, and, per -
baps, get the rheumatism,let them dry
on you and you Will be all right. I have
not had an opportunity as yet to test
this theory myself. Perhaps some of my
readers, when they get Soaked through
in one of your cold fall rains, may think
of it and give it a trial. . 1: know- one
thing, however, that last fall, when they
were driving railroad ties down the Ar-
kansas River, and the men had half the
time to work up to the waist in water,
one of them told me they never took
their wet clothes off at night, but went
to sleep in them, covering up warm with
blankets; that they found by experience
this to be the only way to ward
off rheumatism and to prevent taking
cold.
The rain -storm spoken of above was the.
beginning of the rainy season. During
about two months in Summer, from the
latter part of May to the beginning of
August, nearly all the ram for the year
falls. The amount of rain varies greatly
in differeut years. This last summer was
very dry, but in the summer of 1875, on
the other hand, there was abundance of
rain. In the 'rainy, season; efor a week or
more, there will often be a heavy shower
every 'afternoon, which will dry up- so
quickly, that next morning one could
hardly tell it rained at all. These sum-
mer showers are generally only partial,
extending over but a small area of coun-
try. It is nothing unusual for one to see
a rainbow every day in the rainy season
for a long time, and often two in a day,
although there may have been no rain at
all at the point of observation. No cattle
man on the round -up ever begrudges be-
ing caught in the ram. The more rain.
-the more grasS, and the more grass the
fatter the cattle, and the better off their
owners. The inquiry when cattle men
meet is not "How's business-?" dr "How
are the crops?" but "How are the cattle
-looking?" or "How's the grass yonr way?"
This fall, on account of the drouth, the,
grass is very poor, and the coming win-
ter, if at all severe, will be a hard one on
cattle and. stock of every kind.
One night toward the end of the trip
there happened to be strangers in camp,
and s they were unprovided with blank-
ets, it became necessary that one of them
should sleep_ with two of our fellows, this animal is one extremely familiar to
three in a bed. They got through the olfactories of Coloradans, At a place
night, I supPose, as comfortably as could down on the river, where I was staying
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be expected, and in the morning one of for a while last winter, we used to kill
them got up pretty early and set out to two a week regularly. They used to at -
look for his horses. In a little while, the tack the storehouse where the flour and
ther provisions were kept, and it
second got up, and happening to look . o
e
back to where he had been lying he was used to be our great ndeavor to
horrified to see a good-sized rattlesnake get them hunted out and killed with such
coiled up and peacefully reposing beside gentleness and persuasiveness that they
_ should not emit any odor. In this we
his still sleeping companion. :Me imme
diately shouted, "Ho, Jim, there's a never succeeded but once when a big one
snake in your bed." Jim heard, though was shot rio dead that death was instan-
half asleep, and not stopping to argue the taneous, and he had not time to dissem-
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right of possession with the reptile, made inathis perfume. It is generally be -
a bound of about twenty feet. The
lieved that the bite of one of these ani -
snake was undisturbed and was soon mals is similar iu its results to that of a
killed by those wbo gathered about. The mad (reg. But of this I have no person-
al knowledge. A man, who lived over on
night had been a little chilly, and the
snake doubtless attracted by the warmth, the Republican river in Northwestern
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had crept in among the sleeper* and, Colorado, where skunks are much more
numerous than even here, told me that
finding the place comfortable, had, lain
he knew of a man having been bitten by
quiet until discovered,
one of them,and that he afterwards died
Rattlesnakes are quite plenty on the
of hydrophobia. How this may be I know
high prairie, but are seldom found in the
not. Whether skunks are naturally hyd-
bottoms. They take their position under
rophobie, or whether they are more liable
a cactus or sage bush, and, when a man
or animal plusses near, sound out their
to rabies than other animals it is certain
alarm. The species found here is rather
that the belief is formally held by many
that madnees is sure so follow their bite,
small, not being more than three or four
feet in length. In warmer and more and no one is at all desirous to test the
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southern countries as every one knows,
they attain to much matter by experiment
greater proportions. After the Huerfano and its tributaries
Unless they are stumbled ni:di unawares had been rounded -up, the St. Charles was
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they are not dangerous, for though their he next in order. When this was reach-
ed our party were on their own range, so
tile and give warning before they strike.
bite is deadly, they are an honorable rep -
to speak. They no longer sent away the
cattle gathered, but branded the *yes
Cattle and sheep are often bitten by
them, and if somethingbelonging to them, respectively, and
is not done for
their relief they generally die. Since 1 -then turned them loose, it wasnow the
have been in the country I have known
tnrn of those whose headquarters were on
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of only one case in which a man was bit-
other creeks to send away their cattle.
When the coantry from the St. Charles
ten, and that did not result fatally. A
young fellow named Wilson, about 17
years of age was hunting in the moun-
tain side above Mace's hole the valley I
have heretofore spoken of. lie was about
to return home, and was proceeding
down the side of the mountain, when he
stepped on a rattlesnake which was ly-
ing in a ledge of the rock. Both were
taken by surprise, but in the twink-
ling of an eye the snake had bitten him
severely in the lower part of the leg, just
above the shoe, leaving two deep wounds
where the fangs had entered. Here
young Wilson showed great curage and
presence of mind, and to this fact there
is little doubt that he owes the preserva-
tion of his life. He was more than two
miles from any habitation, and felt that
all depended upon his strength holding
out till he could reach a place where he
could procure some kind of antidote. He
took a cord he had with him and tied it
tightly about his leg, then with his jack-
knife he made deep gashes in his foot all
around the wound, so that it bled freely.
He had seen snake bitten horses treated
this way, and it occurred to him that it
would be the best thing he could do for
himself. Then he set out on the terrible
journey homeward. 'Every moment he
aeemed to grow weaker, every moment
the poison seemed to take more terrible
effect upon him, and when he reached a
place of succor he was almost at the last
gasp. Relief was quickly afforded him.
He was promptly dosedwith large quan-
tities of whiskey, which proved an effec-
tive antidote. It was a good many weeks
before he was all right again, but ulti-
mately he entirely recovered.
Not less dreaded than the rattlesnake
is the tarantula. The tarantula is a large
_spider, about three inches in diameter.
It is covered with short mouse -like hair,
has great crooked legs extending out from
its body, and altogether is Avery repul-
sive looking animal indeed. They fre-
quent old cabins and places whereltimber
has been lying a considerable time, but I
have also sees them on the high prairie.
The bite of the tarantula is thought to be
even more deadly than that of the rattle-
snake,. but I only kuow of one instance
where a man was bitten by one of them,
and I never saw anyone else who knew
of another case, either. The instance I
refer to took place only a few weeks ago,
and within a short distance of where I
am now writing. A big Irishman, who
was working on a ditch, made his bed
one night on the floor of an old cabin.
He was scarcely asleep when he felt
something pinch his shoulder and then
run across his face. He jumped up,
and almost immediately, feeling acute
pains shooting from his shoulder into
every part of his body, he knew that he
had been bitten by a tarantula. Half
crazed with pain and fear, he rushed to
a neighbor's house in quest of whiskey,
to use as an antidote. Not finding any
he hurried off to another neighbor's, and
was again unsuccessful. Poor Pat never
wanted a drink so bad in his life before.
Finally he got a third neighbor to mount
his horse and gallop to town, some eight
or ten miles, for a supply. It was near-
ly three hours from the time the man
was bitten until the whiskey arrived,
and by that time his body had become
swollen to an extraordinary degree. He
was unconscious, and evidently death
was very near. Nearly a quart of the
strongest whiskey was administered, and
proved entirely successful as an antidote.
From being unable to move, the poisoned
man became so violent that several men
were required to hold him, and after this.
paroxysmwas over he fell into a heavy _
perspiration which lasted more than two
days. Apparently he sweated all the
poison out of his system, for after that
he recovered rapidly and was soon at his
work again.
The tarantula is the standing bugbear
of the camper. I confess that many times
I have awakened in the night, and the
blankets rubbing my face or the dry
grass rustling near me, suggesting the
thought of tarantulas, a cold shudder has
run through me. But considering how
many people are constantly sleeping out
doors on the ground, and in old cabins,
and how very rare are the instances of
tarantula biting, the danger must be ex-
tremely small. In Texas and Mexico,
however, I am told, they are much more
numerous and venomous, and instances
are quite common of persons being bitten
by them.
Another "varmint," very plentiful in
this country, and which, if novvery dan-
gerous, is certainly the reverse of agree-
able, is the skunk. The pungent odor of
isting on 15th September. They will couldscarcely be convinced that the heap
also advance fourth class freight rates to
18 cents to New York, and 20 cents to
New England,.
—The village of Ayr county of Water-
loo is at present discussing the propriety
of securing a new cemetery for the village
and surrounding country.
—The Lieutenant -Governor of the
Province has appointed Thursday, 2nd
November, as a day of thankagiving.
throughout Ontario.
—Diphtheria is making sad havoce in
the vicinity of HaWtrey, eleven deaths
having occurred within six weeks, and.
several fresh cases of the disease are re-
ported.
—The -Public School, at Comber,
Essex County, was re -opened on Mon-
day, 16th, having been closed three
weeks toprevent the spread of diphthe-
ria among the children.
—The Grand Trunk Railway managers
are about erecting at Port Huron, Mich.,
repairing shops of brick 120x244 feet in
extent. They are to be finished by 1st
January next.
s —Mr. A. S. Rolland, of New York,
was in Stratford, during last week, with
a view of establishing a manufactory of
syrups. No definite action has as yet
been taken.
—Stratford has secured a morning
closes at 8.30 A. M., This will enable
Stratford correspondence to reach Listo-
well and points north the same day.
—Rev. Father McGrath thanked the
Protestants of Mitchell from the altar on
Sunday week, for their kindness and lib-
erality in handsomely subscribing to-
wards the erection of the new Catholic
Church.
—A good. days work was done the
other day by Messrs. Peter Gilmartin,
and L. Beyet for Mr. &mud Crawford,
Lot 4, Con. .11, Logan. They felled,
topped, measured and sawed 110 logs in
nine hours and a half 1
— The Listowell Public School Board
has engaged the services of Mr. John
Hall, Jr., Guelph, as their architect for
the new school. They have decided on a
ten room building, in the Elizabethan
style of architecture.
— Last Friday in London the board of
Aldermen beat the board of School This -
tees at base ball on the fifth innings by
one run. The game was full of amusing
muffs. The stakes were 400 loaves of
bread for the soup kitchen
—Mr. C. Hall, contractor for the lay;
ing of gas mains in Stratford, collected
about $300 recently and left for parts un-
known, lea.ving the laborers who had
been working for him in the lurch as re-
gards their pay.
--There died on the Governor's road
township of Blenheim, on the 16th inst.t,
Michael Showers aged 78 years, one of
She oldest settlers in the district. He
was a native of Ancaster, Ont. , and moved
into Blenheim when only 17..years of age
and has ever since resided on the same
farm on which he died.
—Op Thursday night last week, a
poor (Adman named James Scott, while
fixing his horses, upset his latnp in the
stable, which set fire -to the straw. His
stable and hay were consumed, and the
fire sprs&l to an adjoining stable, which
was filled with hay, it was also destroy-
ed. The total loss is about $275.
—A. new company is making "frost
pipes" in St. Catharines, out of asphal-
tum, canvas, wood, iron'sand and pa-
per, whith are intended to be used for
water pipes, and are claimed to be very
durable, while costing a half less than
iron. They will resist sulphurio and
muriatic acid, but not coal oil or fire.
—Thos. Baylis, blacksmith, residing
in the Township of Canboro' was robbed
of $250 on his way between Canfield sta-
tion on the Grand Trunk Railway and
Hamilton. The coat breast pocket,
mail from that town to Guelph, whic
of dasfiguredfiesh and bones were all that
remained of his once good team. Al-
though the eight cars were broken to
pieces, no one warinjured in the least.
—Mr. Richard Shoultz, of MeGilivray,
has decided to live in Parkhill in future,
having sold hie_200 acre farm for $14,-
000, and stock for 8,2,000 -more. He has
purchased Mr. Phipperr's place there for
$2,500.
—LMS Saturday Mr. Bernard Devlin,
M. P., took suit against the city of Mon-
treal for the sum of $18,000, which sum
he alleges represents professional ser-
vices he rendered while City Attor-
ney.
—During last week the following prop-
erty has been shipped from Bright:station
on the Grand Trunk railway: Mr. Bal-
lantyne, 178 boxes of cheese from Wash- '
ington factory, to London, England;
Messrs. Porter and Mills, 150 barrels of
apples to Ottawa and 130 to Montreal;
Mr. Snyder, 200 liarrele of flour to Prince
Edward Island; Mr. John Robeon, 180,
and Mr. A. Martin 97 iambs to Buffalo;
Mr. T. Hutchinson, 115 fat hogs to Ham-
ilton. and Mr. Cameron, 1 car of heading.
—Whilst Mr. P. Whelihan, Registrar
for South Perth, was drawing a load of
hay across his farm on Tuesday morning
of last week, the wagon, in passing over
some uneven ground, gave a pitch; and
Mr. Whelihan attempted to jump off the
load. In doing so, however, he became
entangled in the lines and alighted on
his head and hands. When taken up it
was found that his arm was broken at
the wrist, and he was otherwise consider-
ably bruised. We are happy to say that
the injuries tbough somewhat serious,
are not likely to result fatally.
—The Collingwood Enterpri8e says :--
Two dogs were playing on the railway
track at Stayner, a few days since, when
one of them by some means or other got
killed, and. was found lying near the
track the next morning, with the living
dog lying dose beside him and re -fusing
to leave- the carcase, although several
attempts weremade to induce him to do
so. He ate an'y food given him, but
would not go away nor allow any one to
interfere: with the dead animal. The
poor brute was almost famished, lying
out in the cold and storms for two or three
nights.
—We find in the Monetary Times of
the 205h inst., the following: "A gro-
cer whose bushiest; life dates from 1858
at Brantford, down through 1859 at
Guelph, 1860 and for a dozen years there-
after at Mitchell, where he had to use
the cover of another name, is at last
heard from in -London. T.he gentleman
is Mr. D. H. Stewart, who it appears,
was not to be heard of in London on yes-
terday, although he had called a meeting
of his creditors in that city for to -day.
There have been various suits against
him of late ;. and. a wholesale house there
has issued a writ of attachment against
his effects.
—Mr. Thomas Duckham, the English
judge of cattle at the Centennial, is on a
visit to Canada. He has been the guest
of Mr. Stone, at Guelph, and has inspwt-
ed Mr. Stone's herd and the Model Farm.
Mr. Duckham, Who resides at Basyham
Court, near Ross, Herefordshire'well
is we
known as a successful farmer,but has
attained greater celebrity as the editor of
the klerd Book of Hereford Cattle. He
has been visiting the Western States dur-
ing the past week or two, and is now
paying a flying visit to Canada, with
which he expresses himself as highly
pleased..
—One of the most notorious charac-
ters who have located themselves in
Toronto for many years has at lengtb
been arrested in Brantford, where he had
attempted to carry out a plan of robbery.
This man's name is John Rand, but he
has many atia8e8, and on his arrest at
containing a wallet, and money, was cut Brantford. he gave the name of Ward.
out and the loss was not discovered. until
Mr. Baylis arrived at the city.
—Mr. James McPhail, of the firm of
McPhail, Hennieke & Casey, has jast
received from the Government a patent
for his elastic gearing buggy, which is
celebrated for its easy riding, simplicity
of construction and durability. We ex-
pecteMr. McPhail will make money .out
of his new patent, as the principles in-
volved in the buggy are a great improve-
ment over the old style, and it reduces
the cost in manufacture as well as fur-
nishing a, handsome and easy riding ve-
hicle.
--Mr. and Mrs. John Manson, of Ayr,
_left recently on a visit to California to
see their sons, Dr. John Manson, of
Grass Valley; Dr. Peter Manson of
Gold Hill, Nevada ; and. William Man-
son, Foundry Proprietor of the same
plaL. They took first-class tickets
through and intend spending the winter
out there. It cannot but prove a pleas-
ant trip for the old people who go out
)°gi-
there to see their sons, all in good tions, and enjoying the c-onfidenee ofthe
society in which they live.
—A very sudden death' occurred . near
to the mountains ha,d been hunted over, London recently. Mir. Pike, a well
general spring round -up, which I do farmer in North Oxford, IeWns home
have been trying in some manner to de- in his usual health on Saturday Morning, I
cerest regret we say MrRed. or
scribe, and which lasted about ten weeks
was over. In my next I will deseril:4 the 14th inst., accompanied by ,shis son, fallen from a position of which any marl
. for the purpose of transacting business in might be proud. No business man in
th manner of branding calves and the
cl se of the round -up. A. MCL. London. He made no complaint during
the day. On nearing home in the eve?. pijeirteiht badmtedor,e,,friends, or was more lin-
ing, his son noticed somethinunusual
He has had an exceptional run of luck
in the peculiar trade which he follows.
Many express robberies and other exten-
sive work in that line have been planned
by him, and it is believed that the noted
express robhery on the Great Western
Railway, near Toronto, about two yearis
ago, was planned and carried out by the
instructions of the prisoner Ward.
—Concerning Mr, Redford's failure,
the Stratford Beacon says : "Making
all due allowance for the grossly ex-
aggerated character of some of the re-
ports which have been and still are in
circulation, we fear itraust belacknowledg-
ed that recent developments too dearly
prove, that MT. James Redford occupies
a position several degrees worse than
that of an absconded debtor. When the
excitement caused by his flight has sub-
sided, and the.dust raised. by friends and
foes has 'cleared away, when time, which
puts everything right that can be put
right, has done its work, doubtless some
of the many charges made againet Mr.
Redford will be in a measure explained,
and perhaps explained away; but trans-
actions lavexecently come to light which
it is vain to hope that even time can ex-
plain on the theory that Mr, James Red.
ford acted honorably. With `the an-
-nMonday, Oct. 165h, a farmer
Canada. about his father, but before any assist- named Robt. Smith, residing on Black
14r. 1:). H. Stewart, late of Mitchell, ance could. be rendered his head dropped creek in the northern part of Sombre, was
has gone into insolvency, in Londonvisited by a terrible family affliction and.
--The aseessment of the town of Ber- loss of property. Mr. Smith, who is a
lin has been fixed at two cents on the new settler,
was away at a "raising"
dollar. when his Wile went into a field to set bite
—There is talk of starting an agricul- to some log heaps, leaving behind her in.
turi.l works at Kingston, and utilizing the house the children, the oldest being
about five years old. and the youngest
hardly as many months. While Kra.
Smith was busy in the field the house
caught fire, and the fire must have made
considerable progress before it via no-
ticed. The second child,by some meaner
got out and saved, but th.e other two, like
the house, were consumed to ashes, to.
gether with the effects of the family,
leaving the bereaved father and mother
with only the, clothes on their backs.
This calamity' has aroused the active
sympathies of the neighbors, who have
taken up a subscription to assist the un -
'fortunate family.
eon
a. C
John, New Brunswick.
—A big stnrgeon over six feet long and
weighing over 200 pounds was caught
near Kingston a few days ago,
—Mr. RichardBarley of Mitchell has
recently been left heir to the sum of
£1,000, by the death of a brother in
England.
—The Great Western, Grand, Trunk,
and Canada Southern railways have
agreed at a conference in Chicago, to re-
store rassenger rates. to the Ogureaex-
ict labor.
Four thousand dollars were raised at
tholie bazaar, recently held it St.
forward and. he was dead. Coroner -
Causland was notified and gave his per-
mit to bury the body, an inquest, itt. his
opinion, not being necessary.
—On Monday of last week a wood traini
on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
was going down the heavy grade at Or-
angeville, the engine driver was startled
as he rounded a curve by seeing a team of
horses, attached to a wagon, standing
across the track, he at once attempted to
stop his train, but too late. The engine
struck the horses and, carried them and
the fore part of the wagon off, leaving
the box and hind wheels standing. The
driver of the horses, who was asleep, only
awakened after the engine had been
thrown ,from the track and eight cap
piled on top of each other., He spear-
ed very indignant that some person
should have unhitched his homes, and
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