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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-01-12, Page 1uARy L 1877 7777777 7 7777777 'Eti. 7 7 7 --tr.24 7 `Va "Tt* *V4, E CO:ts,:`,TAINING (-EIGHT PIECES 0 17- ARDS OF SS GOODS, e New Makes in 33-±-tOWINT, Y BLUE PLUM, New Shades Just Opened at UCALL, & C0.4, / ssms op THE 77777 77777 77777 77771 1 7 7 -7 7 7 7 7 7 7 • 7 'I 7 7 7 7 • 7 - 7 7 7 7 detained hare at the SEIFORTEI /or the last Seven Weeks by the HOUSE -AUTHORITIES ee. We are 'neat allawed t-: them for sale for the N -71.103 IT MA.Y CONCERN• F THEIR VALUE 20 PIECES 011 WOOL TWEED: per yartl, worth $3 t -S., per yarl— t.. Cheat Goods- are a. AT _IA17,0AI.N. LL RESPECTFU L REQUESTED iicDOUGALL&C } *TENTH YEAR. WHOLE NO. 473. BEAL ESTATE FOB. BALE. FRAME COTTAGE FOR SALE. -e -Containing 4 [REPORTED FOR TH rooms aud 2 kitchens, aituated near Mr. A. Stewart's brick denee SeaforthAp The Fifth County Sabbath School Con. resi. ply to W. N. WATSON, Seaforth. 468 Ventifin of Huron was held on Wednes- day -and Thursday', 3rd and 4th insts., FOB SALTI—A new Frame Cottage and acre north of the Railway. Apply to C. R. COOPER, Brussels P. 0, with stamp for answer. 41744 the Executive Comnittee,' to all Sabbath Schools throughoutthe County to send 'ROUSE ,0 RENT OR SELL.—Will be Bola delegates. The tail was responded. to -Rea- or rented, a comfortable frame house, with ew large number of those engaged in well arid garden attached. This house is adjoin- a hag the ExPosiToa Office. Apply to A. m. Sabbath School Work from Goderich, CAMPBELL, Seaforth. 465 Clinton, and all Parts of the County. COUNTY SABBATH s SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1877. HOOL CONVENTION HURON EXPOSITOR.] 2 in the Bible Chris4an Church, Exeter. of land oil Turnberry street, Brussels just A cordial invitation was extended by Seaforth also contributed her share of VARMS FOR SALE.—East half Lot 11, Con. 1 and 212, delegates, the Presbyterian Sabbath MeKillop; also South eo acres of Lots . Con. 10, Morris, adjoiniugf the village of Blyth. School being represented by Messrs. For particulars apply to McCAUGHEY & HOL7i1E- Wilson,Luensden,1 Laidlaw, Watson, STED, Barristers, &a., Soaforth. 425 and the Misses Brine and J. and M.And- VAR'M FOR SALE.—North half of Lot 12, Con. 13, McKillop, containing 75 acres, 40 cleared, balance well timbered, with good buildings; for, sale cheap and on easy terms of payment. Apply to MeCAUGHEY & HOLMESTED, Seaforth. 449 WARM FOR SALE. — For sale, that splendid -'farm now in the occupation of Micha_el Madigan, being Lot 11, in the 5th Concession, MeKillop, containing 100 acres. Excellent build- ings, good fences and terms easy. J. 8. POR- TER, Seaforth. 471 pPROPERTY FOR SALE.—That valuable prop- 2/- erty on. Goderich Street occupied by the Goder- ich Manufacturing Company as a Machine Shop. Also dwelling house and lot adjoining. The above property will be sold on easy terms. Fr particu- lars apply to GRAY & SCOTT. 439 Tr 0 SELL 4311 RENT.—To sell or rent, that -I- comfortable and pleasantly situated dwelling jiouse and grounds recently occupied as the Pres- byterian Manse. Possession given on the 10th of „tannery. Apply at The Expottitor Office, Sea - forth. . 474 VARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 34, Hu- -1: ron Road, McKillop, containing 100 acres, 85 of which are cleared and in a good state of cultiva- tion. Is -within anaile, and a half of the town of Seaforth. It is one of the best farms in the coun- ty and will be sold cheap. WILLIAM FOWLER, Seaforth. 475 "1-11611ILDING LOTS IN SEAFORTH FOR SALE —Dr. COLEMAN, having laid out the grounds recently occupied as a Driving Park into Bait'. ing Lots, is prepared to dispose of lote on'reason- able terms to any who may desire them. Parties desiring to purchase should make immediate ap- plication. 864 erson, R. McNabb acting as stenographic repOrter for the delegaticin ; and the Episcopal Methodist Sabbath School by Rev. Mr. Griffin and others. The Con- vention was opened at 2.30P. M., Wed- nesday. The greater portion of the first session was ,occupied by an address from the President, Mr.Miller ; in hear- ing reports from Sabbath School Super- intendents, and the appointment of Committees. The second sesSion com- menced at 7.30 P.M. Rev. W. C. Hen- derson delivered am admirable address on "Temperance in the Sabbath School," but not being there the first day no ex- tracts can be given: from -Mr. Hender- son's remarks. "Review Lessons on Blackboard," was then taken up by Mr. E. F. Moore, who combined blackboard illustrations with verbal explanations. The third sessionopened at 9 A. M. on Thursday. e"How to Conduct a Sabbath School Sessibn," Was the subject of Mr. J St 's Iver exc lent essay. PROPERTY FOR SALE.—Two lots, with a 2 story frame house and barn, situated on the Market Square, Seaforth. The premises have beennsed as an egg packing establishment, and are Well adapted for any public business. For part*sulars apply to the proprietress, Mrs. MAL - COM, Seaforth, or to, D. GORDON, Goderich, 456 Ontario. VARM FOR SALE.—Lot 15, Conceasion. 4, Town- -1: ship of Stanley, containing 981 acres, about 50 acres clear and in a state of good cultivation,the balance well timbered with maple, elm, hemlock, and cedar. There is a good frame barn on the premises. It is convenient to school and church, and within two miles of, Brucefield station. For particulars apply to ALEXANDER IlIcE WEN, on the premises. 470t1 ACHANCE FOR MECHANICS. --For sale cheap lot with a house, wagon shop and lumber shed thereon, situated in the village of Walton. The buildinge are all new, and this is an excellent opening for a good wagonmaker. There are three blacksmith shops in the village and only wagon shop. A stook of all kinds of seasoned lumber will be soli with the property or separately. Apply to JOHN COWAN, Walton Ont. 47046 H. . rang This with criticisms from different dele- gates took up most of thetlaird session. During the fourth session, commencing at 2 P. M., Rev. H. •Gracey, of Usborne, threw out kerne very valuable suggestions on "Home Preparations for the Sabbath School." He rePlied to the questions how, when, and, by whom, can home preparation be given, by saying that it should be givenl by the parents. In- stead of wasting the evenings in chatting nonsense, if parents would only gather their -children around them and review the Bible lesson, it would not only be instructive to the children, but would help greatly to realize the,ideal of a h.appy Christian home. He upheld that if the Sabbath School diecounte- nanced home preparation, it would be of littleutility, and would be running in the face of one of God's plans for Christ • ian nurture. He then urged on the teachbrs the necessity of coming with their lessons prepared. It required stimulants of the highest order to keep them working, hut if their desire was to save souls they Would look upon all labor as light and easy. • He concluded by re- marking that while they had- hopes for the future they Were niet without present reward, but that the enjoyment of their own religious knowledge would reward them tenfold for all their study and all their labor. Rev. Mr. Griffin, of Sea - forth, next addressed the delegates on "Teachers meeting for study of lesson." He was in sympathy with the object of the meeting, because he looked. upon Sabbath School work as one of the noblest in which an intelligent being could be 7:30 P. M., at which all the children of the neighboring Sunday Schools assem- bled. Several addresses were delivered, those of the retiring officers- and the inaugural of Mr,, D. D. Wilson, the President elect, being the most note- worthy. Mr. Miller stated he had held the office of President for five years, and before retiring wished to express his heartfelt thanks to the officers and mem- bers of the Conveution for the support they had given him, and hoped they woul still extend. to his successor the same assistance they had. ever given him. Mr. Wilson thanked the members of the Convention for placing him in such an honorable position. It was one he had never assumed, but as aa advocate of the passing around of the honor of an insti- tution of this kind he would accept it, and hoped that with the aid of his col- leagues he would fill the position satis- factorily After farewell addresses from • TIESIRABLE PROPERTV FOR SALE.—For -1-' Sale on reasonable terms, the residence and grounds in Egmondville at present occupied by J. S. Porter. There is a comfortable dwelling house with all necefsary out -buildings and con- eniences, also a large driving house and -stable. "'here are four acres of land, well fenced, an a be a most desirableproperty for a market gardbner engaged. He would not take up a mo - good bearing orchard of frnit trees' This would or a retired farmer; Apply to J. S. PORTER. 466 merit in discussing the superiority of the Christian system over all others. HOUSE AND FOUR LOTS FOR SA.LE.—That" Eighteen hundred. years of *experience Huron Road, Seaforth, with four lots adjoining ; has deraonstrated its superiority, and as elegant two-story briek dwelling halm on the there are & bedrooms, parlor, drawing room, din- ----- entor of evil, a conservator of br- ine room and kitchen with aoft and hard water ' most convenient; there is an excellent garden t ' attached, also Stables and outbuildirigs this is a handsome libuiestead, and a' rare chance' is offered to intending purchasers-; it will be sold on iftVOrabie terms. For further particulars apply to THOMAS S.CEPFIENS, Seaforth. 462 _ . some of the delegates, Rev. Mr. Gracey brought in resolutions, which were un- animously adopted, expressing the heart- felt thanks of the members of the con- vention to the people of • Exeter, and to all who had acted so yindly and ener- getically in making this convention what or wrong; it truly was, the most successful and en- stricted, a thusiastic held since the plan of con- pressed. al veetion was adopted. Thanks were also ten —Last dered to the choir, under the management ed Stokes, of bilessrs. Snell and. Smtth, whose ser- to death vices added mulch to the Pleasure of the in Brantf occasion. The convention was • then diately ca brought to a clese, every one leaving with a sense of entire satisfaction with the manner in which the whole pro- gramme was sustained. Canada:. IlIcLEAN BKOTIKERS, Publishers. $1. 30 a Year, in advance. was. accommodated with quarters at the Central station. He wants to be sent to jail. —Dr. Landor, Superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane, near London, died on Friday morning last. He was well known and much respected. —Meat i Canada can't be called dear when quar rs of beef are selling in Ot- tawa naarke s at 3i cents per pound, and 1 lb. turk ys for 60 cents. —The he s in the township of Albion are dying b the wheelbarrowful with a complaint alled the epizootic. The un- fortunate g -layers take sick one day and' are de the next. • —.It is s ggested in the Montreal pa- pers that tie salaries of Quebec judges ought to b raised, as the cost of living has incre ed since salaries were fixed 25 years a o. r—The lo g talked of eurling bonspiel on Burling n Bay, between Eastern and Western 0 tario, came off on Thursday of last wee, and resulted in a victory for Wester Ontario. —One o the Frontenac License Com- missioners has resigned, because he be- lieves the iquor trade to be either right if right it oiight not to be re- dif wrong it ought to be sup- ogether. unday afternoon, a man nam - alias Bainbridge, was choked hile eating dinner at a hotel rd. Medical aid was imme- led, but arrived too late to be • _ It is estimated that public vaccina- tion "has cost the city of , Montreal not —A leas than $10,0001 ! while his —Is is rumored that Mr. W. K. Muir Friday e is io becorne General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railwey. —The non•organists of the St. Thomas Presbyterian church • have seceded, and are forming a new congregation. —Recently in Williaansbury a herse, belonging to Mr. Calvin Bedstead, broke both his hind legs by kicking against his stall. —Mr. Samuel Chanter, a well- emaouustehd fu known citizen of Toronto, and a I was —Miss oiwas prominent mason, died. last Friday morning. [cards for transmis: the other sion to the United Kingdom, will be man of issued in a few days, and will be sold at end her strychni two cents each. —It is reported that a company is be attempt, ing formed with a capital of $100,000, rashness for the purpose of starting a new Re- —The very apt form paper in Toronto. —In the Queen City of Ontario, Tor- Joanna Sheehan, of Belleville, a silver onto, of about 65,000 inhabitants, there I medal for gallantly rescuing a child from are over 200 known houses of ill -repute, drownini in the river, in August last. The me with neerly 1,100 inmates. —A London paper credits Lucan with Mayor, sion for having the oldest couple on record, Wm. Bell, aged 08; his wife, 101 ; united ages 202. —,About o'clock last Friday evening, the pattern shop of Harley & Heather's foundry, Guelph, was burnt down. Loss and insurance unknown. of any ass stance. —The ( rand 'Trunk Railway loss to the Company by the strike has been grossly exaggerated, it having been placed at about half a million of dollars, where, as officials' say, at the outside it will not e ceed $60,0001or $70,000. ontreal man named' Dalton, wife lay dead in his house last ening, came home and acted violent manner that all the FARM FOR SALE.—For sale the West half of Lot 29, Con. 8, McKillop, containing 50 acres, 25 of which are cleared and in a good atate of cultivation, the balance is well timbered with htirdwood. !Mere is a good frame house and frame stable on the i*emises, also a young orchard. It is ons mile from the gravel road at the village of Winthrop, where there is a stiov flour mill, stores, school, chuiches, and all other village conveniences ; also within sir miles of Seaforth. Apply to the Proprietoi on the prem- iBeE, or address Winthrop P. 0. JAMES Mc - DONALD. 470 FARM FOR SAE.—For sale, north half of Lot 11 and east half of Lot 12, Con. 12, Hallett, containing 100 acres, 85 of which are cleared and it. a good state of cultivation and wellunderdrain- ed, balance is well timbered; a large frame barn and frame stable, good log house and other build- ings; good bearing orchard; a never -failing stream running through the farm, also a good well ; about 8 acres of fall wheat sown. Is situ- , _ated about 11 miles from Clinton and 12 miles from Seaforth. For farther particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises or to Harlock P. 0. ANGUS CAMPBELL. 460 in such a -- relatives Thomas Bowen, whom he h an axe, cutting him seve —A Stng lady was as- saulted o Sunay evening by a ruffian whose i tentions were evidently bad. Fortunat ly she had a large umbrella which sh bravely brought into play, and e rascal to scamper off, his 1 of etirsing and bitterness. burning of the lockup, some time ago, falling from the upper floor into the burning cell below. —The carrying off of a live engineer, during the strike, occurred at Prescott junction. On the arrival of the morn- ing express train from Montreal, the en- gine driver belonging to- it was seized - upon by several Men, about twelve of whom drove up in sleighs just as the train stopped, and carried him off bodily. Up to latest accounts he had not turned up to give an account of himself. —One day last week Dr. Orton, of Ancaster, left Dundas to conduct the sale of two lots of horses which he agaseammgmeas osional quendam gentleman who now finds himself in the ranks of the Mount- ed. Police. Force, objects to this happy state of affairs. How often has it been said that*. prohibitory liquor -law -would b of no avail, etc, etc., but here we se it in an admirably successful opera- tion. By obtaining a permit front the Lieutenant -Governor of the Province, any one white man can get permission to take two gallons of liquor bite the ter- ritory for his own private use, once a year, but should it become known that he gives a single glass to an Indian, he can be severely punished. In this coun- try orewe have an illustration of -------- shinned to Britain, one lot to London the white man legislating for the benefit an the other to Liverpool. Other par- ties in that neighborhood contemplate going into this species of speculation, and it is just possible that before long a brisk trade will epring up in this line in this locality. —A shooting affray took place at Guelph, on Thursday night of last weck. A colored man named Baker discharged two chambers of a revolver at a man named Johnson, who was on the street with Baker's wife. After shooting at trainlmoved off, and the strikers friends slunk off without effecting their object. Some of the engine drivers who went up to take the places of men who had struck, returned last Saturday night from the west. They are so disfigured by having been trampled upon that it was with difficulty their relatives re- cognized them. —At al late meeting of the Dominion. Executive, the Comraittee on Insurance applointed at the last, annual meeting, ha* completed their scheme for con- ducting a fire insurance company under the auspices of the Dominion Orange, presented their report; which, after some slight revisions, was adopted, and the committee instiucted to proceed. with the organization of the company, in the manner and according to the Act gov- erning mutual insurance companies in Ontario. t While this will at first only give Grangers the privilege of doing business iu Ontario, further steps will be taken upon the completion of the organization to extend it to the other .1 Provinces, Kate Leitch, a Duart damsel, unclad in her tender feelings day by the marriage of a young he village, that she sought to earthly career with a dose of e. But she was foiled in the and may yet live to repent her and folly. Royal Humane Society has ro riately awarded to Miss —The City of Kingston voted on the Dunkin Act, on Thursday and Friday o last week. At the close of the polithe I the me vote stood, for the bill, 659; against, —Mr. 787; majority against, 106. roy, ha —Mr. Hickson, of the Grand Trunk have fi childre Railway, denies most poeitively the the fam statement that 35, per cent. of the re - been sp til this son -in -1 receive al has been received by the who awaits an appropriate occa- ts presentation. • - —Judge Mond.elet, the oldest Judge of the Superior Court, died at Mon- treal, on Monday of last week, of in- flammation of the lungs. He was noted for his decision in 'the Guibord case, and his refusal to recognize the constitution- ality of he Insolvent Act. It is said he will be ucceeded as Judge by Mr. J ate, ber for Montreal East. Hiram Dell and wife, of Strath. e been married 42 years. They e children and eight grand- . No deaths have occurred in ily. Nineteen Christmases have nt together with lie absence, un. year, when Mr. W. C. Smith, w, was kept at home by a hurt recently on the cars. New Year's Day, Mr. and Mrs. rown, of Brownsville, celebrated anniversary of their wedded pwards of a hundred of their of the red man, but seenamgly incapable of directing similar legislation for his own benefit." —Au incident of the stirike comes from the, eastern section of the Grand Trunk Railway, where an engine driver was threatened by two belligerents with pistols in their hands, and warned, not to move his train at the peril of his life. On receiving the signal the driver let on -the steam as quickly as possible and the Johnson, he discharged the revolver three times at his wife. Jealousy was the cause. None of the shots took effect. Baker was promptly arrested. —A few days since Robert Mackie, son of. Widow Mackie, of Toledo, was returning from Smith's Falls on horse- back, when the horse fell on his leg, breaking it. The unfortunate young man! !seeing that he would ,probably perish. by the roadside, dragged himself to the fence and again mounted the horse and rode to New Bliss with his leg dangling. --Mr. John C. Winnebery, the archi- tect of Bull's new Opera House, Belle- ' ville, while engaged on Thursday of last week in that building with a work- man named. Bachard, in taking down a scaffold, fell a distance of thirty feet to the ground, fracturing his skull. His 'death was instantaneous. De- ceased leaves a widow and four children. Bachard saved himself by hanging to a broken support. • —0n New Year's day a man, sup- posed to be a coal dealer, entered Mr. Louis Dorr's saloon, St. Catharines, and called for a couple of glasses of liquor, which Mr. Dorr's son supplied: After drinking the liquor, the man threw on the counter O. $10 bill of the defunct "Colonial Bank of Canada," dated at Toronto, April 4th, 1839. and received. back $9 90 in change. The boy is satis- fied that he can identify the man who passed the money. —It may be interesting to know that the total Dominion, Provincial and Mu- nicipal debts of the Canadian people amount to about $200,000,000, which is po per head of the population in .1876. The Dominion owed, on July 1st, 1876, the sum of $1314663,401, but had, in the shape of various investments, assets amounting to $35,665,023. The net in- debtedness was, therefore, $116,008,378, and the average rate of interest paid upon it was a fraction over 44 per cent: The municipal indebtedness of Ontario aggregates $19,500,000. —From a St. Thomas paper we take the following : Two of the cendid.ates for aldermauic honors had a regular "cat -fight" at one of our groceries Satur- day evening. They scratched each oth- er's faces and pulled hair in a way that would have delighted the heart of even the most vixenish beldam, whilst lthe floor was littered with various articles knocked off the counter. The rampage was t r;nated. by the twain falling into a tub o. • a .,er. Verily bOth "struck ile" with a vengeance. -,—An auctioneer in Hamilton sold. on Saturday last two prancing steeds. to satisfy the demands of a chattel mort- gage. The first one put up brought the handsome sum of one dollar and fifteen cents, and the second one went up to the extravagant figured two dollars and seventy-five cents • but that was be- cause a saddle and 'bridle were included. The pedigrees of the animals had been mislaid by the auctioneer, and, there- fore, could not be obtained, but' aecon- noisseur in horse -flesh who was present said they were got by Difficulty out of the Stable. —We understand that a movenient is on foot among the dairymen of Ontario to present a testimonial to Mr. E. Cas- well, Ingersoll, in recognition of his valuable services in behalf of the dairy interests of Canada, in bringing that breech of husbandry to such prominence at the late Centennial Exposition et Philadelphia, Mr. Caswell worked early and late and unremittingly in con- nection with the Ontario display of dairy products, and. the proposed testii- der, and a system of brotherhood and duction on the men's wages ever went to fratereity, it tranicends all others. He 1 the officers of the road. deemed. it of -,the first importance tha they should commence early and lay th right foundation in the minds of th young, and sow the seeds of truth i their hearts, and ' thereby give to th rising generation .a, legacy of sounc moral truths, and noble principles ,• Bu the ability to impart instructio recinir ecl self -cultivation; so teaches shoul often meet 'together for an inte 'change o sentiment, and thus get - informatiOn A very animated discussio.n ensued, mos of those taking part concurring with th sentiments expressed by the talente speakers. ' Mr. Allenetheii read a ver interesting paper on "How to retai senior 'scholars." Otne of the best way -he said, to retain them was to form senior Bible class, and secure an efficie teacher. Aluaost everywhere, whe there was no senior Bible class, they lo , theirsenior scholar's. Also to hay t school roona Pleasant 'and invit,i, ing ou have a tendency to make the scholeas d sire to be present. The securing of an e cient teacher was, sometimes Lund to a difficult task, but there were numbe who could clods° if they would only sha off the dust o, idlenees. He finished impressing on the teachers the necess of patience in the class: Mr. Holmes, in referring to Mr. Alle remarks, said it was a very importa eubject,but he would like to ask the qu tion how they were tfo get senior schcd 11 cl s, nt re st he id e- ffia be. rs Ire by ity n's nt es - ars —A respectable, young woman in Mon- treal, who has gone crazy through re- ligious excitement, rushed from her father's house one evening last week, and began preachin had collected. BUSnf'ESS..—For Sale, in one of the best locali- ties in Ontario, Lot No. 5, Village of Belmore, Township of Howiek, County of Huron, on the gravel road, 7 miles north of Genie and Wroxoter stations; Dwelling House and Shop, built for a 'store; Lot contains about three-fourths of an acre of good land; splendid, opening for any business, especially a, harness maker, as there is none nearer than 7 miles. The above property will be sold cheap. If required onlypext of the purchase money down. Apply to S. PEE13TMS, HopevillerOnt., or to WM. ASHDOWN, Merchant, Belmore, Ontaaio. The above Lot is the property of the late William Fitzgerald. 472,x12 VALITABT,TI MILL PROPERTY FOR SALE.— The property is situated on the Town Plot of Grey, about 8 i miles from Ethel station, on the Southern Extension of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway.. The machinery consists of 35 - horse engine, 40 -horse 5 -fine boiler, large circular *edging and butting saws, shingle and heeding ma, thine (aid Shingle jOhitiOT. . Tho machinery is all tiret-class, and has only'been running about a year aud eight months. This is ,a rare - chance for men of capital, as there is a good local tyade, -and. any quantity of Timber of all Ends to be had. Satis- faetery reasons given for selling. Fall particulars on application to GARROW BROTHERS, Grey Post Office. N. B.—All notes and accounts over- - due,must be settled at once, and save trouble and expense. 1 475 MINCE LIAANEOUS. VOTICE.—The Council of the Corporation of -1-1 the County of Huron will meet mthe Court Room, in the Town of Goderiela, on Tuesday, the 23rd instant. PETER ADAMSON, County Clerk. Goderieh, Jan. 8,1877. • 475-2 (ARD OF THANKS.—The undersigned'desires to return his sincere thanks to the Managers of the MeKillop Mutnal Fire Insurance Company for the prompt manner in Which ray loss by fire has been settled by the Company. The premises were examined by the arbitrators on the first of January and.the loss was paid by the Treasurer on the 10th of the same month. CHARLES MASON. 475 —The secretary Newfoundland, ble few days ago. He wife. in the drawi ting a pistol to his fell dea1. to the crowd which o the Governor of his brains out a vas sitting with his g room,- when, ptit- outh, he tired, ancl —011 B.P.IE the 60t life. children, grandchildren, &c., were pres- enth on the occasion, and a pleasant fam- ily gat ermg was spent, speeches and the ex of the 7---T press —The latest offipial statements give tion f the revenue derived from liquors by th6 mail, Diminion Govern eut, for the fiscal law re year 1874-5, at $4,,S7,775, or, in round 1 affixin numbers, five millin dollars. t 1 ter st, sentin sente —At a meeting of the Ontario Agrieul- tural and Arts AsSociation, held in Tor- onto last week, it was decided: to hold the Provincial Exhibitien of 1877 at London, commencing On. the 24th of September. • —The North Oxford. and West Zorra gravel road has been seized at the suit of D. Matheson, Esq., df Embro, and will be sold by public auction at the sheriff's office, Wo dstock, on the 31st of March. —Unlicensed dealers n Belleville sell ginger beer and cider, and give away "fermented and spirituous" liquors. This reminds us of the old time fashion of selling a biscuit for six cents and back after they had gone. Be found the giving a glass of whiskey to wash it only successful method was to go for them. down. While they talked in teachers' meetings I —The Protestant ministers of Ottawa, about getting them back they were only at a meeting held to discuss the question of taxation of church property, express- ed themselves in favor of taxing their e I incomes and residences, but objected to any rate beiug levied on buildings de - Voted to religious purposes. ' —At a late meeting of a neighboring e township council, a man made a great f ado about the loss of two or three planks,- el wasting time. time. it was better to go their homes and see them personally. Mr. Lumsden, of Seaforth, also ma some , very pointed and well-timed r marks'. Mr. H. Watson,. of Seaforth, then troduad some of his object charts, t exhibition of which elicited expressions admiration and surprise from all, a Seaforth bas reason to feel proud. of p sessing in her midst so accomplished artikt as Mr. Watson. Then followed the election of officers. lively discussion took place,but the mat was suddenly settled by the electioa Mr. D. D. Wilson, Seaforth, to the Pr dential chair. Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, Seaforth, was elected Vice:President, 4nd 1 night, coolly left the sidewalk, and pick - Mr. Moore, of Goderich, Corresponding ing up a piece of ice threw it through Secretary. The place for holding the the window, and made a grab for a num- next Convention had then to be decided ber of watches which were on show with - On. M. Lumsden,on behalf of Seaforth, in. Mr. Hogg •hastened outside, and 'moved that it be held there. Clinton caught Woodman as he was reaching for VS next proposed, aid on motion it was the jewelry'. The scoundrel turned upon decided that Clinton should have the; Mr. Hogg and struck him in the face. honor. . Mr. Hogg held him, however., until the The evening session commenced at A. er of si- of and threatened to make "mince -meat of the deputy reeve with a long -handled whip -stalk. Order was restored, how- ever, before he could accomplish his threat. —A young man named James Wood- man, a stranger in the city, while pass- ing the jewelry store of Mr. Isaac Hogg, London, about 7 o'clock last Friday hood, engin Mr. r .sul Tb18eh7tew5 drive warr to b as it ing pute all p ed o onto Gen pres ma clos of h J. the had yea $7,000, most of which he had taken in at *mes during the summer. He had inc at fail sh hange of presents being the order lay. e notice which has appeared as a em, in reference to the registra- e to be paid on parcels sent 'by as incorrect. The clause of the ds, "parcels may be registered on thereto a five cent registered let- mp, in addition to stamps repre- the postage," instead of repre- by "ordinary postage stamps." resident Arthur, of the Brother - and a Grievance Committee of ten drivers, had a long interview with ickson at Montreal, on Friday, mg in a permanent reconciliation ,en the Company and the men. erms are that the agreement of hall be faithfully adhered to. , All s area to be taken on and: all • nts out for the arrest' of men withdrawn ; the pay to remain is. License Inspector in a neighbor- ounty, in order to settle the dis- 1 question whether the law requires aces where liquor is sold to be dos - election day, telegraphed to Tor - for instructions. The Attorney- ral advised him that there is at et nothing in the Municipal Act ng it obligatory on liquor sellers to their places of business on the day lding municipal elections. A Toronto fruit merchant, named V. Smith, was one of the victims of railway accident at Ashtabula. Be been in business for about two s and decamped on Friday with Pertn Items. The market fees of Stratford sold this year for $1,260. ----According to a census lately taken, the population of Mitchell is V,379, an increase Of over tifty over last year, —W. R. Davis, Esq., of the Advocate, has been re-elected Mayor of Mitchell. Mr. J. Sills is j reeve, and J. W. Cull, deputy reeve. —A contemporary mentions that the _town debentures of Listowel, amounting to $26,000, bearing interest at 71 per cent. have all been sold at par. —So little interestawas taken in the voting on the Dunkin act in Logan, on Wedneeday of lase week, that only 91 V-otes were polle4 2 for the by-law and 89 against. ,., —On Saturday Mailing about half - past 7 o'clock a frame building in Strat- ford. used as a wagpn shop, and owned. F by D. MacDonald, was burned. Most of the material waaesaved. Loss $1,000. —The Stratford ladies' aid. society have decided to give $40 to the Council to a41. 'in establishing a soup kitchen, for the relief of the poor of the town. They have also given $10 to the Young Men's Christian Associatien for the tack poor under their charge. —Oa 'Wednesday of last week a by- law to grant a bonus of $10,000 to the Stratford and Huron Railway, was intro- duced in the township council of Morn- ingt,oin It will no doubt be carried by the Iratepayers without opposition. A $12,000 bonus is also submitted to the ratepaYers of Wallace. • - —A. number of his parishioners -wait- ed jupou the Rev. F. J. Ouellette, at • M idstone Cross, on New Year's Day, - and Presented him with an elegant new carriage as a New Year's gift. An ad- dress. was read by Mr. John McHugh, . of Maidstone, on the occasion, 3nd Rev. Father Ouellette suitably replied. —The Warden of Perth, the Mayors ' of Listowel and Stratford, and the Re ve of Mornington ,met at Stratford. on th '4th inst., and handed over the de- bentnres to the Stratford and Huron Railroad, in all $165,000, As soon as • the balance of bonuses - required, woo, are voted, the work will be be proceeded with. —The Beacon, says: "The condition of the Northen gravel road at the pres- ent time is simply deplorable. • The snow ie as high as the fences, and pitch - holes almost irinumerable. Whose duty t is it to put the road in a proper condi- tion? Several accidents have already occurred and the sufferers talk about Mr No ge fro CO Fo pl I : al police came along, and then Woodman -valved serious internal injuries at the eased his business largely, and sold rices below cost, thereby causing his re. His wife accompanied him, and red the same sad fate. On Thursday morning of 'last week, Wm. L. Hearn, foreman at the on Bros. Manufacturing Works, bi- son, dropped dead shortly after rising bed. He was attacked by a fit of ghing and expired in ten minutes. fourteen years he has been an em- yee of the above establishment, and won the confidence and respect of his fellow workmen. The deceased subject to heart disease, and re - sub: suing the County. monial will, no doubt, be liberally scribed to by dairymen. f ' The following is the County Council —In ingston on New Year's Day, of Perth for 1877:: Stratford, J. Read, two boys were seriously injured by the fall of a snow house, one Mills having a leg broken, and a lad named urns hay - n13 ing .his ribs fractured. IC ay strike some as singular how such unfortunate results could be laid, to the collapse of a snow house, but the positien will be'un- derstood when it is explailned that the house was two stories, and that in itl building timbers were used for the pur- pose of giving the affair an appearance of structures of the modem design. The boys had a stove in it, and were so much taken up with it that they were living as much in it as at home. —A_ correspondent of the Ottawa Free Press tells how -the prohibition clause lof the liCeewatin constitution works. It. will, doubtless, be neore difficult to en- force as the country fills 'up, but never 'so difficult as it would. be if whiskeY was once allowed to get a 'foothold, Says the correspondent: "Here is an argu- ment for a prohibitory liquor law. The importation of liquor into, or sale of it in the Northwest Territories is forbid- den by the Federal legislation, and the consequence is that the Indians, whose uncontrolable craving' for strong drink is proverbial, are necessarily a very sober people. I have not seen a solitary in- dividual under the. influence of liquor since my advent into this country, and no person, excepting perhaps an occa- I I Reeve; J. Abraham, A. W. Robb, an Jas.' Fisher, Deputy Reeves; Mitchell, J. , Sills, J. W. Cull, Listowel, T. E. Ray, D. D. Hay; Blanshaxd, T. Dina - more, W. McCullough; Downie, J. Brunner, J. Fairlee ; Ellice, J. Ben - W. Suehrinda Erna, R. Cleland, S Roe; Fullerton, W. Davidson, R. Francis; Hibbert, R.Gardiner, j.Harburn; Logan, R. -Tones, R. Keyes; Morning ton, E. F. Rutherford, G. McKee ; N. Easthope, Jas. Trow M.P., J. McMil- lan ; S. Easthope, J. Schafer; Wallace, J. McDermott, A. Kennedy. • —About two weeks siuce Joseph Clark-, an itinerant vendor of lead pen- cils and knicknacks, com4gotily known 1.as "Old Pencils," was committed to jail in Stratford as a vagrant, at his own re- quest. A few days afterwards he was allowed to leave the jail,- to dm' pose of the remainder of his stoek-in-trade, which he attempted to do on the market Square. The day being very severe, and the man insufficiently clad, he took cold and was again committed. to jail. On Saturday he died. An inquest was held on Monday by Dr. Hyde, coroner, and a verdict rendered of death from natural causes. Clark WAS well known In this section of :the country, and wis a guiet, inoffensive person. He wan the bus!: band of the fat woman, who visited Stratford with Cole's circus last summer.