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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-05-25, Page 1_ rsx 18 1877 77— 771 OFFERING OF ?ESS GOODS WEEK AT ROLL &. CO3 • _ pr CHEAP. ,DS. STORE . ot Dresa Goads -at from 8 'yard, worth 251to 40 cents -a= 'Olen, the ! ST BARGAIN n' to our CustOnters, and we 6 t� See them ILIT ft WE TEN DAYS. ALL OUR SILKS- 3. CANTS PliiR YARD ice, our Mr. nA.T.T.Y having id at a Great Besrgain Stock of Silks, PARIS Last gonth. • PIEC'FeS OF -RY CARPETS Lents per yard by the pine, or ents added if cat. 4E LADIES., reDOUVALL. &a. to the Ladies- of Seaforth, and '-ntry that they have added to ry Goods Buaiuess the Manna GKETS AND MAt4TLES 7ES1' STYLES and Made of the ERIAL. Thia Department is ge of ERIENCED .04iTTER - ve every coialidenco in recoma se who may favor us with. their will find in. this Department TENSIVE STOCK ' est Mantle Cloths to Select from FIT AND FiNtS114 . h Moderate Charges, Guara-nteed NOW SHOWING SAMP;T:g MANTLES anufactare, in addition t� a very f Foreign Make. We Invite a Cell. $$ BLE TO :SHOW THEW. le_DOUGALL & • TENT.', YEAR. 'WHOLE No. 494. It , SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 25,1877 BEAL EiSTATE FOR—SALE. 10DROPERTY • FOR SILE.—For Sale, venient and desirable residence on t of Ifigh and Ma let Streets, now omapi Vereoe. Apply to DR. VERCOE. hat con- e corner dby Dr 988 -GURU FOR S. T.E.—For sale, Lot No. 80, Con- -1: 13, Magillopl containing 50 acres, 15 a which i are cleared, the alance well timbered. Is situated one raile from gravel road, and convenient to , churches, school' a &e. Price $1,800. Apply to A STRONG-, Land Agent, Seaforth. 491 VOR s A two storey frame house and Out- si uated on the Market Square of Seaforth, for sal, or to rent. The building is very suitable for a boarding house or a public business. For particulars apply to W. N. WATSON, Sea - earth, or to DANIEL GORDON-, Godericla 493 VARM FOR SALE.—North half of Lot 28, Con. -/ 5, township ,,1:d Morris, County of Huron, con- taining 97 acre, beet of land, 70 acres cleared, balance all hardWood bush, good frame barn and stable, tmd ft, boring. orchard. The farm is well watered and jIL the best condition, and is only one and a hall miles from Brussels station, Great Western Railway. For terms apply to GEO. FOR - STH, on the premises, or Brusssels P. 0. 491 TIESTRABIA PROPERTY FOR SAT:PI —For -1-' Sale, a brick dwelling with 8 acres of and at- tached, on which is au orchard of all kinds of fruit trees. The houSe is 24x30 and in good repair; tLere is a woodshed and milk house, also a stable; and a second dwelling house of frame 18x24. • The property is situated within two and a half Miles of Seaforth. Also aeveral dwellings and other prop- erties in Seaforth for sale. Apply to A. STRONG, Seaforth. 486 • T_TotrsE AND LOT FOR SAT:PI —For Sale, IL that comfertable and conveniently 4ituated awaiting house and lot, adjoining the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at present occupied by Mr. , W. S. Itobertsctia , The h use contains kffahett, dining room, parlor and. 5 1edxooms. A good cel- lar and woodshed, also hard and soft water, and a stable. The lot is a corner lot and is within one block of the Main Street. Apply to g. ROB- ERTSON, Seaforth. 486 VARM FOR SALTI—For sale, Lot 10, Con. 6' -1: township of Grey, County of Huron, can- tainine 100 acres of good land,, 58 acres &care., balance timber d with Beech, Maple and Elm. New frame banl barn and. stable. A good bearing orchard of 50 t ees. The above facia is 5 miles from Brussels s ation, Great 'Western Railway, and only 21 miles cff gravel road. i'or further par- ticulars apply -4 JOHN LONG on the premises, or Brussels P. 0. 491 paRlf FOR SAL-Pl.—For Sale, East half Lot 8, - -1: Con. 4, TurnbenT, County of Huron, contain- ing 50 acres, 40 acres cleared; good frame house and stable, also good bearing orchard. Situated 4 MUM from WrOxeter Station and 24- miles from Bluevale Station, on the Great West -ern Railway. Possession given. 1st Septenaber'1877. For fiuther particulars appy to ROBERT RICHARDSON, on the premises, 1311ue-wile P. 0., or to C. It. COOPER, Brussels P. 0, With, stamp for answer. 481c VARII FOR ALE.—For Sale, Lot 26, Con. 2, Tuckeremil containing 100 acres of excellent land, about 70 ewhich aro cleared, the balance is good hardwood bush ; frame house, frame barn and stable • orehard, good well ; convenient to schools, chinches, &c. Is situated about 6 miles • Iran Seaforth aud 1 mile from Brucelield station, on a good gravel road. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises or if by letter to Brumfield P. 0. THOMAS kUNRO, Tuckeramith. , 492x13 -WARM FOR SALTI—For Sale, Lot 26, Con. 11, Hibbert, containing 100 acres of excellent land. about 80 of w eh are cleared and in a good state of cultivation, he balance is good hardwood bush. Good framehouse, frame barn, stables and other buildings; hood orehard, Well watered; convenient to schools, chnrehes, &c. Is situated about ten miles from Seatorth and two and a hal/miles from Cromarty, on a good. gravel road. Terms Easy. For further, particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, br if by letter to Cromarty P. 0. JOHN RICE. 485-4x Ti.a_RGE FARM FOlt SALE.—For Sale, that .L.4 beautiful farm, coraprising Lot 26, Con. 12, end the aorth earee-quarters of Lot 26a. Con. 11, 175 acres in all, situated in th.e Township of Me- Rillop„ County of Huron, on the leading gavel read, iniclway between Seaforth and Braseels. The farm is in a geed state of cultivation, well fenced and watered, and convenient to chureli and school; 135 acres aro Oleared and the balance hardwood timber.. On the foam is a dwelling house good ontbuildinga, Mad a young orehattl. For further particulars address SAMUEL' HANNA, Oil City, Pennsylvania, U. S. 473 1 IfleLEAN BROTHERS, Pnbliallerm. • $1 50 ft YOur,, in advance. , 1 i THREE LEADING CAN IAN RAILWAYS • ---L. 1 I The rePorts of three railways—the Grand Trunk, the Grleat Western and the Northern—reach the Canadian pub} lic about the same time. • The Grand Trunk and the Great Western may posi. sibly have to be conaid red in connectiori hereafter ; for arrangements have for some film° been goingon for settling their future relations. Neither company, in its report, lets its shareholders know the nature of the arran ement proposed. The Grand Trunk dire tors only let it be known that " a -greater approximation of views has resulted. frokn these negotia- tions than on any recent occasion and they express a hope that the rela- tions between the two companies will be "established on a footing free from ob- jections which all formpr plans have en- countered." The pro sed arrangement is, therefore, somethi g different from any that had previousl been suggested. The reciprocal adoptior of uniform rates over competing areas is nothing new. Some such plan as th s has frequently been adopted; the la4t time very re- cently. But the agr ements hitherto rnadehave not generaijy remained long in force; though it ma be an exaggera- tion t� say, as Mr. B. Man did, at the Great Western meeti g, that the most binding arrangements h therto made with the Grand Trunk had Ieen broken with- in two months. 1. Captain Tyler Pres' ent of the Com- pany, at the brand 1 Trunk meeting, blamed Canada for wh t he'called allow- ing her main lines to starve, and their traffic to remain conjparatively unde- • veloped. But he did. not explain the meaning of this gener 1 criticism; and it is not more easy to se its point thah it is to' discover its just ce. He went oi1 to say that she might 1 ow be fairly in- vited to aid in facilitat ng the union df the principal lines, in restoring the r credit, and in securing them a* reaso - able share of Americ.aln trade without due competition. Som of these objects are wh011y beyond the power of Cane- dian legislation, or a4iy other forna cif co-operation; and as qiaptain Tyler re- fused to enter into de ails, there is no substantive propositionl to claim exam- ination. Canada cannet save these rail- ways from the competition of .Americau lines; and she would idepart from her original policy if she were to sanction an amalgamation that would put an end to local competition. Th existence of the Great Western • did - eat, prevent the Canadian Government from granting aid towards the• con truction of that part of the Grand Think, as well as the rest, which occupies a competing area. - Mr. Childers, at theGreat Western meeting, asked, as a matter of prudence, that he should not be the nature or 'state of He wished to' establis tions between the d stockholders as exist between the Millie - try and the House of, Commons. He asked for the director e the confidence of the shareholders, and ion the assurance that any present explanations would be prejudicial to the inteilests Of the latter; and. he promised that jwhen any 'agree- ment was concluded toi call stockholders together to ratify it. rnents, which are mer most seems to follow, cessity, that some f tion was under cliseu shareholders at the G hag did not conceal th local rates ought to he raised; and *e. still adhere to the opinion previously ex- pressed, that the proposed arrangement, whatever be its form, has for its object the raising of rates tCanadians, We shall be grad to see th se companies pros- per, but not at the ex ense of undue dis- crimination against 1 cal traffic; a dis- crimination which. alr ady goes very far. -WARM FOR SALE—Being north half of Lot 25 --.1-` Con, 2, Township of Hay, containing 50 acrea, 45 of which are cleared, in a good state _of cultiva- tion, and well underelrained; the balm& is well timbered witl a hardwood; good, dwelling house, frame barnast tbles, and all neMssary otiabaildings, good orchard, two- good wells, good fences, and everything in irstclass order; convenient to schools, &larches, &c. Is situated 2 milba from either Kip - pen or Hens ; there are 25 aeres in crop, and the restis well styled; the farm will be sold with or without the mop; possession win be given iminedi- ately. For further .partiettlars apply to the pro-- prietor on the premises or, address Kippen P. 0. BENSON S. PHILLIPS.- - 492x4 -WARM F011a SALE.—For Sale, Lots' 15 and 16, -12 Con. 6, Stanley. containing 99 aeres, 85 of whicli are cleared and about 40 acres in seed.ft is within one mile of the village of Varna, where there are churches, schools, and all :village convetionces. There is a elloce of four good -markets Within 11 miles, the neart being within 4 nines. There is a good dwell g house and frame out -buildings, consisting of Wan, horse and cow stables, driving Sh.ed, sheep it( ns, &e. Plenty of water -and an ex- tra good orchard. Tliere is a cheese factory on the corner of the farm which could be Purchased with the farm if deaired. Immediate possession. Apply to the proprietor (u). the prerniaeS or to Varna P. O. THOMAS JOHNSTON, je- , 488 VALUABLE' MILL PROPERTY FOR SALE.— T, - The pro .ierty hi- situated on the Towa Plot of • ,i Grey, about t mites from Ethel station, on the Southern Ex elision of the Wellingtma Grey and Bruce .1tailway. 'The nutehinery consists' of 35- hozse engine, edging anal in Chine and sit first-eittas, au and eight mot of capital,- as quantity of T 407.1torse 5 -flue boiler, largo Guarder tting haws-, shingle ana heading raa- ngle jointer. , The machinery' is all bas only been muting about a year ths. This is a rare chance for men here is a good local trade, and any tuber of all kinds to be had. Satis- factory reasoits given for selling,. Full particulars on application to GABIZOW BRUME -RS, Grey Post Office..ji3.—'A11 notes and accounts over- dae lutist ltlod at once,: and save trouble and expense. at": 475 -; AVATA'AUT. T RUA St 11 Ing 150 ttert good state of house and E FARM FOR SALE.—Foy Sale, Lot We half Lot 17, Con. 1, Hay, contain-- xao of which are aleared and in a cultivation- There is a =good *brick mute eottage, the . barn, stable, cow stable ano d other utbuildings are all ,• there are about 10 tares- of choke apple, pear and other fruit t lava, arid about. sprue e trees planted. 10 years. Tiler • is a never -failing strew running •through the it..qtt re of the farm. on whichis a good mill site, a good gravel road on two aides of the farm. It is thtuated ono mile from Hensall sta- tion and filer miles from Exeter, ou the London Road, and just steross the road !foul the itodg,er- vita: post °Psi aud ehurch. For furthei' partieu- lara apply to JAMES W. ELDEElt, Veterinary 8,urgeott, Seaforth 1'. 0. - • - 481 V- TALVA:BM PROPERTY FOR. SALE.—For • Sale, Lae Nos. 24, 25 and 20, in the 9th Con-. cession of McKillop, containing 200 acres„ about 80 of which are -cleared, well fenced and in a good state ef cuItWatiou; the balance is well timbered with the best el hardwood.. There is a new frame house with satiric foundation, also a frame Stable and log. barn ; there is also another .frame dwelling' house on tlic place. A bearing orchard of 150 trees, also a young, orchard with same number. Plenty - of 'rater. ater. Is oa the darthem max& road, 5 milea flap Seaforth, and adjoins the village of 1.Vinthrop, in which aro all villag,e conveniences, including a eheese factory, saw and grist mill. Also the building known as. • Hannah's Hotel. The property will he sold in ore parcel or in lots to snit parchasers. Apply to the proprietor on the premises or to Winthrop Post Office_ ROBERT FrAsTINAH, Proprietor. • 485-4x interrogated as to the negotiation. 80E110 such tele - rectors and the From these state- ly negative, it al- as a matter of ne- rm of amalgama- sion. eat Western Meet- ir opinion that the at £104,000; and much traffic as t fused as unremunerative, at the rates fered. And yet the increase in the v jume of freight carried was 18 per cen land the -increase in passengers 2 cent. The working expenses, inc uding renewal fund, "per train mile ba e fall- en to the smallest amount they ha e e'er stood in the history of the company," so e- f- 1- er Isaid Mr. Childers,but then he halted and added "at any rate for many years past II—viz., 3s. Hid. as compared wi 40. in the corresponding half year, or 5s. 4d. in the year before. The Wellington, . Grey and branch is still far from remunerativ yet the directors intend to purchase the Brantford,. Norfolk and Port Burwell line, which cost £69,853, for $10,000 and. a guarantee of interest on £25,000. The company proposes to assume another heavy obligation, Which 'Mr. Childers thinks will prove profitable, but about which he gave Mit little information, and asked the shareholders to treat the proposal as one of confidence in the directors. The Great Western is to get the practical control of the De- troit and Milwaukee line by guarantee- ing the capital, $5,000,000, either to be raised to re-equip the line, or to go in substitution of existing bonds. The whole line will be laid with steel rails, as the Great Western has already been. The amount on which interest will have to be paid will be something more than £5,000 a mile, in the way of rent. It is expected that the speculation will prove a paying one. But the element of cer- tainty is on the side of the Detroit and Milwaukee company; the only certainty ;the Great Western acquires is the obliga- • tion to pay the firet year £26,000, on the next four years £48,000 each, for the subsequent five years £54,000 and theneeforward £60,000 a year. I While the earnings of the Great West- ern and the Grand Trunk have deelined, those of the Northern have increased. The net revenue for the year 1876 was $326,249.15, against $270,634.89 ; show- ing an increase of $55,614.27. Id the meantime, the working expenses were re- duced from 63.64 to 58.42. The reduc- tion is attributed te three causes: a fall in the rate of wages and the price of ma- terial, and " vigilant economy of admin- istration by heads of departments." By • the end of the year the company will have a continuous steel track twenty miles outside of Toronto. The directora of the Northern, instead of having to re- peat the old lament about the branches eating up the trunk, are able to point to the acquisition of the branches as con- taining the secret oi the augmented. revenue of the past, year. th 4s. f last Bruce ; ahd The condition of boith these roads sug- gests the necessity of 1oing something to improve their financih.1 condition. Thel gross receipts on the rand Trunk for the half year, ending Dec. 31st, 1876, showed a decrease of £129,97 or 12.69 per cent. as compared with thejlatter half of 1875. Though the number of passengers carried was greater by 59;256kthe receipts there-, from were less by £14;647. Of the freight traffic, the same stay is told ; an in. creased tonnage of 581,178 tons, equal to 5.43 per bent., and decreased receipts to the amouat of £118i188, or 17.55 per cent. Two causes are given for these toward results; increased competition pn the American Trunki lines to the sea- board, and a short Co.nadianharvest. At the same time it may be noticed that, as a favorable featde,tlie working expehses were reduced Z101,7(110 or 12 per ceiht. The decrease in 1°04 receipts is stated at £86,000. I The Grand Trunk and the Great West- ern both charge rene al of rolling stock to capital; a practice w iich imphes a per- petual increase of tile capital account. When this charge i's ncident to a change of gauge, as it was o the Portland sec - Optea' ada. lee cold cream and milk, is the new drink in city restaurants. —At Sault Ste. Marie flour is $10 per barrel, potatoes $1 per bushel, and la- borers' wages are $1 25 per day. —A philanthropist, named Nichols, he distributed some $1,800 werth of seed among the poor farmers in the I vi- cinAy of Ottawa. . —Rev. W. B. Cerran, rector Of Trin- ity church, Galt, has declined the call lately tendered him from the congrega- tion of Trinity church, Montreal. —A child of Ma. Wm. Kelly, of the Queen's Hotel, Teeswater, was run over by some reckless driver, a few days -ago, and badly if not fatally injured. —We learn that Mr. J. Howard Hun- ter, the superinteadent of the a.sylum for the blind in Brantford, has fallen heir to his fat her's estate in the south of Ire- land. —A man in Hamilton was fined 810 the other morning for having a nuis- ance in the shape, of a hennery, which was never cleaned, in the basenient of his house. —Seventeen thotasand bushels cif wheat were damaged GO Morrisburg by the Sinking of the barge Wheatbin,- Which is the property of the Montreal Transporta- tion Company. —Mr. Thomas McWain, of West Nissouri, has just built the larg st barn in the County of 1Vliddlesex. is 90 feet long by 46 wide ; built on nine feet of solid masonry. • • —A. private in No. 5 company, 6th Fusiliers, Montreal, obtained leis dis- charge a few day e ago: preparatory to proceeding to Turkey to serve in the Turkish army.I —In the Whtby Public SchoolS, there are 559 pupils taught 1.yr teachers, who are to • nee ve salary $3,350. In the High Sc 126 pupils, salap, of Thur t $3,259. —Mr. A. G. Markle, of th p R Hotel, Harrision,, went out fishin Monday of last Week, and on sent home by express the resul day's work, consisting of 250 of splendid brook tr ut. —A nian name Hall, of Eat Gara- j fraxa,, chased Mr. Munn, of Orangeville, with a pitchfork he ether day, and then paid Mr. Munn $50 to allow hi to stay tion of the Grand Tr ilk, it is more ills-, at horneon thecoukday. They h d quar- tillable than in ordinary renewals. But, relied about some seed drills. in thishase, the renewals were only par-. —On Tuesday tial, as they arose fro ,oldicars to the new change of gauge is to capital much that ac ue of he me as ool, ers, yal on day one oat Of last week a nn ber m the adaptation of of boys were playing base ball at Mc gauge. But if the Mahon Corners, Essex, when the 'club properly chargeable ,flew out of the batter's, hand, and struck is incident thereto a son of Mr. John 'Malion on the tenaple, ter exceedingly well, requiringless honey than the unburied hive; Of three un- buried hives one peri!shed, while the other two required much more food than those that had been burled. 1 —Ilion. L. S. Huntington, Postmasiter General, is to be married to a Boston lady whom he met at his son's wedding a few months ago. I The ceremony takes place in the latter part of this month. Some of the honorable gen- tleman's colleagues have accepted in- vitations. —Postmasters are new instructed "le• the Department to sta p all registered letters twice on the ack with their office stamp. This wil prevent letters from being opened or ampered with by officials, or at least the cannot be with- out its being discoVere at what ()facie ft —Colburn Wright, o Windsor, will was done. working in his garde on Wednesday last week, felt the ear h give way be- neath his feet, and fell into a hole to his arm -pits. Upon extrieating himself he made an examination, which revealed la well 25 feet deep, the presence of whit had not been known previous to the di cov—erDyu. ring this age of celebralions,lhe members of the craft which has long since been decided to bp " Thel art pre- servative of all arts,"lin Monlireal and other cities on this co tinent, will cele- brate the 26th of 'Jun next, asIthe four hundredth anniversary of the introduc- tion of printing in En land by William Caxton. - . —On Friday night last a party of men supposed to be navvies working on the Hamilton and North Western Railway, broke into two farm houses on the Es- sex road, near Stroud, and helped them- selves to provisions. In one instanee the sufferer was a widow, who lost all her summer stock of provisions and seed potatoes. I —The London Advertiser is respensi- ble for the following: Mr. Edgar En- sign, of lot 1, con. 8, Westminster, has shown us a sample of "barley that in its growth may well be palled extraordin- ary. The stem is thr9e feet in length, and the grain is dry and fully developed. The rest of the field said to be fully as well developed. Can anybody shew better? —On Thursday night of last week, las one of the ferry boats i was crossing the river, a Detroit man, named William Gweski, leaped off the ,bow on to a cake of ice, and floated into' eternity.. Owing to the darkness and mist all attempts to -rescue him were of no account, and it is supposed., that of was drowned before floating many hundred yards. He was' suffering from delirium tremens. —The town of Brantford, being aboiat to separate from the cciunty of Brant,the town of Paris is making an effort to have the county buildings I removed to that town, and has instrueecl its representa- tives at the City Couneil to make an of- fer of a sufficient sum to erect new build- ings for county use within the town of Paris, equal to those bow in use. The is amount Paris is prrpared to offer $3.0,000. —Several of the teamsters, under the contractor McDonnell,. en the Hamilton t and North Western Railway, str ck during last week for higher wages. Tie wage for team and teamster is 88 er a day, and this they deemed insufficieht. • Some of the strikers threatened violence to one or two partieS who were wilhng to work, for which offence they were summoned. before a Brampton magistraie, and fined collectively $20 and costs. I—About a week since, Rev. Mr. Cut- ler, pastor of the Methodist EpiscoPal Church in Petrolea, was attacked by two scoundrels while driving along the road between Thedford and Watford, who seemed intent on doing him bodily harm although no provocation whatever had. been offered. Information was laid be• fore a magistrate, and the ruffians were subsequently arrested, tried. and sen- tenced to pay a fine, which, - together with costs, amounted to over $33. • ' pe an we re pe lo in sons, the animal was thrown down, in a short thine the tumor, which ghed a pound and three-quarters was oved. A similar operation was also formed the same day on a horse be - ging to Mr. M. Connors, of Brant, and oth cases the slink was most skil- ful y done. Dr. D. B. Johnston, an old miner of ifornia, Cariboo, Idaho, and Montana, been sent up to the new mining re - at Gravenhurst by Mr. C. W. Mo- ly, to test the gold mine in that place, reports that after working for a short e he washed six or seven buckets of d' which had been puddled in the well, obtained therefrom several very fine Ca ha gi be an ti sa an sp eimens in nuggets and, in black sand. H4 asserts the product to be most extra- mary. A few days ago a man named Geo. dson, a resident' of Petersville, was nd lying apparently dead near the e bridge. A vial labelled " lauda- " was found beide him on the und. His wife says the deceased has late given himself up to drinking its, abandoning her for days together, camping out with a party- of tramps o prowl around the neighborhood and ep at night in the woods. He has n in thehabit of taking small doses laudanum to promote sleep. or Ht fol co nu gr of ha an wi sl be of On Thursday morning of last week, about two o'clock the railroad bridge, , RO called in North Monaghan, five miles fr m Peterboro, was burned, and had it , n t been for the care exercised by the engineer and conductor of the train that le rn b te N fiendish an outrage, and the authorities 94 deterrained to ferret out the mis- creants. —A boy of about thirteen years of age, i of Mr. Patrick Hogan, of Ramsay,; a killed while working a roller in the lds a few days ago. i The bey, it is sup - sed, fell from his seat to the front, and e roller passing on to his body, remain - there by the horse c coming to a stand, e little fellow remained in this position til assistance came from the ouse, 1. en he was taken Up a corpse. The y's father was in Almonte at the time, d a younger brother who was with the, fortunate lad was unable to render any up able ' I —The Council for the township of orth Dumfries recently passed the fol - wing resolution: That in accordance 'th the Act passed at the last sesidon of e Ontario Parliament, all farmers' sons, t bona fide tenants or bon q fide part ners of the property , heldi and for hich they are or may have been in the p st assessed, shall be liable to perform t o days statute labor. This resolution as found necessary, owing to the large r duction which would otherwise have t ken place in the statute labor of the t wnship under the Farmers' Sons' Fran- c ise Act. —A great whirlwind and hurricane oc- c rred last Friday afterneon at River ouge, St. Jacques and L'Assumption, rovince of Quebec. Fifteen buildings ere blown down, and a - man named apette had everything smashed in the h use. The inmates (seven of them,) veil their lives by throwing themselves the cellar. The top of his house was own in the river, with all that was in s garret—a distance of two eves. Much mage has been done to the 8110- shes, and one man had 400 trees pulle s suffered by it. up. The upper prixt of L'Assemption —The newspapers on the other side a e rejoicing over the expiry of patenta o the principal parte of certain sewing achines, the owners of which, it ia s id, have during the course they have ✓ n, exacted from those who have ought their wares about $25,000,000 of rof3t. The result it, is affirmed, will be t e universal fall of prices to at least• one alf, if not one-third of what has hithl. e to been charged. Machines whiel. aye been, up to this tinae, sold for $60, ill be had for $30, or even $20, and wil yield very handsomeprofits even at th I 1 west of these. 1 —Bogus four dollar bills on the Do inion Bank ere in extenSive circulation s arisen having pahned them off o f rulers in large numbers. They are th •ld form of "fours," in which the vi ette represents a farm yard with horse, •igs, &c. in the foreground. On the left f the bills is a picture of Prince Arthur. he engraving is dark and coarse. The • ignature "W. H. Howland" on he left is written in the original, ut in the bogus bill it ie ngraved. The lath work surroun - 1 g the figure 4 on the right is poorly e cuted, and the numbering is badl one. 1 —A young man in a deranged state ef ind -was recently committed to jail in -ndsay who was determined to starve imself to death. When brought to jail he jailer was not told the young man ad. eaten nothing fa- three days, and. onsequently the persistent refusal tel ake food. told so severely on the poor fele ow's system that the pulse all but ceased o beat, and in a few hours more death Ould have been inevitable. The jailer, owever, kept him 'alive by the prepare -- ion of the, whites of eggs, a little alcohol, ream and sugar, which would go be - ween the teeth and. down the throat pite of all resistance. In thia way the ad, was brought around. so as to be ready or removal to one of the asylums. —One day recently, while a number Of cattle were grazing in Mr. James Camp- bell's orchard, near the foot -bridge across the river a short distance below Galt, a strange cow came amongst them, and com- menced to eat with the others. After so con- tinuing for a short time, the strange ani- mal bellowed as if in pain, and some of the residents of the vicinity happening to look toward the Spot, saw it lying en the ground. On going to the field it was found that the strange cow was dead. There were no marks of violence on the body, and nothing to indicate from what cause death had resulted. None of the residents of the neighborhood knew the animal, or had any idea from where she t Peterboro at six o'clock the seine rning a serious calamity might have en. the result. This is the third at - pt by wreckers to wreck the train. law is strong enough to reach so 1 11 —Asad case of poisoning weaned at Woodstock last week. • A little clam h - ter of Mr. J. Sutherland,aged five ye rs, and a son of Mr. John Barney, of abut - the same age, when at play found what appeared to them to be "green chees ." They immediately ate it, and were sh rt- ly after -taken sick, the little girl dy ng in a few hours. The l'green cheese" as found to be a mixture, of arsenic and tal- low, prepared by a former tenant for the purpose of killing rate. —A Wardsville correspondent writes to the Strathroy Dispatch : "A far er who lives in this neighborhood had 00 bushels of wheat in store at the time the late rise on that article occurred, and re- fused $2 a bushel for it. A night or two after having the offer some person persons bored a hole in the floor of granary, and took therefrom about bushels of it. Not much sympathy felt towards him in his loss, and 11 is now selling the balance of his stock m ch rower than the offer made him, in co se- quence of the fall in price." --One morning last week, David Beard, a farmer, living about a mile nd . a half southeast of Eastwood, Ox ord county,' and about theeesame dist nce north of Vandecar pestoffice, committed suicide by hanging himself. He owued or his 00 is may fairly be includ - killing him instantly. a farm of 50 acres, on which he lived The Great Wester reported, for the I , —The Galt Reporter says: "There with his wife, having no family. De - half year, receipts to the amount of , were five hundred and forty-nine stiff I ceased Was about 6Q years of age, and £'401,628, against a expenditure of I necks in Guelph last Thursday afternoon I was to all appearance in comfortable cir- -£314,713. -But the balance of 1£87,913, —all arising from looking up to see I cumsta.nces. He was subjecti to fits' of . . . . despondency, and it was in all pro- bability while thus affected that he comnaitted the rash • act which thus prematurely hurried him into eternity. —On Tuesday of last week, J. J. Rich- ardson, V. S., of Paisley, performed a very successful operation on a horse be- longing to Mr. D. McLaughlin,of Arran. For some time past the animal had been troubled with a tumor or cancer w had been formed on the inside of thigh, and althongh Mr. McLaughlin consulted several persons in referen tlaedisease, nothing hadbeen done ford relief. At last the horse was bro to Dr. Richardson, who at once con ed to cut out the swelling, and, h which these figures show, came short by £7,775 of paying the charge of working the leased lines and interest on bonds and debenture stock, which amount to'r gether to £95,688. The exceptionally hard winter is made responsible for the inability of the cocci any to pay at the rate of a three per cent. dividend on the ordinary stock. The Great Western is a cosmopolitan li e more American than Canadian, and may be seriously af- fected. by its United States connection. It lost heavily — the figure is put at £28,000—through t e severity of the winter,which by som meteorological an- omaly, proved more everts in Southern New York than in C nada. The loss from carrying at too lo rates is put down • ss,_ if the rain wasn't going to quit in or on. They are not used to looking up, you see ! =Mr. Alfred J. Wilkes, barrister, of Brantford, and one of the Board of Pub- lic School Trustees, has made an offer to establish for one year, at least, a scholar- ship in the Collegiate Institute there, open to the pupils entering from the Central School. The example is an ex- cellent one. —Rev. Mr. Stump, of Har forms the Walkerton Telescope, ing read tiara the Russians wint bees by burying them in dry last fall, as an experiment, b hives. The buried hives passe der to allow the base ball match to ge -j ove tha red in- 'hay - their sand, he rie4 two the win- ich the had to af- . ght lud- ving secured the assistance of a numblr of s I I • 11 14 • came; and although she was not buried until it was !absolutely necessary, in or- der to give sa chance for identification, all enquiries,' failed to trace out her - owner. , —The Oshawa Vindicatcrr Bays "How noxious insects are brought into the country is illustrated by an experiment of Mr. John Currie. At the Centennial he obtained a few grains of the fine Ne* Zealand wheat- that was on exhibition. He brought them home and placed therd'in a glass bot About thre wheat was that hadt nels, leav of the grain. The eggs which produced these insects were, no doubt, layed in. New Zealand, in the grain, and in due time hatched. They won't get out of the bottle though, to add a new plague to the Canadian farmer." —It will be remembered that last fall a young man, Wm. Gayper, formerly of Ingersoll,. but lately connected with the post office in Hamilton, was reported. to have committed. suicide. His hat was found in Burlington Bay, and he not having been heard of since, his family was left in suspense until Saturday even- ing, when a telegram was received to the effect that his body had been recov- ered. It was 'found floating in the Bay by ttwo raftsmen. The head and face were so disfigured as to be utterly an- recogniiable, but the body was identified by a brother of deceased by the clothes and by a ring still remaining on the finger. The cense of this sad event was disappointment in love. le, with a tight glass stopper. months after he found the live with a small black bug at,en the flour out of the ker- ng nothink but the shells 114 —The Suspension Bridge Journal tells the following extraordinary story: On Tuesday night a young man partially deaf, a painter, for a short time in the employ of .Bi F. Swain, fell over the bank near Witmer's mill, striking some 60 feet below on a tree top, and in the morning came up the mill stairs. Strange to say he was not killed. outright, but only received some bruises about the head—heearidently was top heavy."— We are told that he is the same person who about two years ago, fell over the bank near tne -new Sus- pension Brike, and struck the ground abeut 80 feet below, and lived. to fall again. A few more experiences of this kind ought to satisfy him. 1 — A than named John Miller died in. Hamilton a few days ago under very per culler circumstances. Six years ago, while attending to his work, that of an, iron -founder, he injured his hand, but the hurt Was not considered a dangereus one, and 804 after it apparently got well. Some time afterwards it com- menced to, give him considerable pain,. and during the past three years he was unable to use.it. Ever+ remedy possible was tried in the hope of effecting a care, but without avail, and three weeks ago, it was finally decided to have the hand amputated. This was done, but the un- ortunate man'e constitution was so worn out by his constant suffering that he was unable to stand -the shock of the operation, and after lingering a few days, died. —A volume of railway statistics has been issued by the Canadian Government. It containe a vast mass of information interesting to the public, as showing the facilities provided for railway -communi- cation, and the profits and losses thus in-_ curred. The total mileage in the Do- minion is'5,157f miles, being an increase of 524 miles sduring the year. - In these lima there are invested $317,795,468 47; and the total earnings 'in 1876 were $19,- 358,084 11. The expenditure amounted to $15,802,721 411. On the Grand Trunk IRailway there were carried. 1,972,535 passenger, with 2,113,852 tons of freight. The passengers on the Great Western numbered 1,133,667, whilst the freight amounted to 1,579,090 tons. With all that has been staid derogatory to Can- - adieu railways , the exhibit made in this volume is not of a discouraging nature. 1 Perth Items. The , tenth annual convention of the County of Perth Sabbath School Asso- ciation, will be held in the Bible Chris- tian church, Mitchell, on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 29 and 30. j —At the meeting of the Victoria Divi- sion Grange, held in St. Marys, on Sat- urday last, it was determinecl to had a pic-nic uuder the aukpices of the division, at some prominent point, on the 2nd of June. —This week Messrs. Pridham & Head, of Fullerton, shipped to England a lot of as fine cattle' as ever crossed the Atlan- tic. Their last exportation,notwith- standing the rough knocking about the stock received owing to the stormy weather, turned out profitable. I —Owing to the high price of flour, Mr. James Clarkeof St. Marys, has com- menced the manufacture of barley flour, which he sells at $3 per hundred pounds. This flour is wholesome and nutritious, and is sold at a price which will be a boon to the working classes during the present famine prices of wheat. , —On Tuesday of last week, several Car loads of Scandinavians arrived at Stratford station, en route for their future home in Minnesota. They were a fine, healthy looking lot of people, most of them evidently ,belonging to the agricul- tural dais. They had a schoolmaster, doctor and clergyman with them, and. Ialso a sufficient number of artisans to supply the Most pressing wants of the settlers, such as houses, implements, &c. They ere an exceedingly hardy' and thrifty people, and make excellent settlers. —On Monday of last week, 41 • -man named Peter DeCourcey, while raking salt at Kidd's works, Carronbrook, fell into the pan, and was severely injured by the hot brine. His right side and feet were badly scalded. We are happy to learn I that he is in a fair way of re- covery. ---On Wednesday of the same week, while a 8011 of Mr. Mark Edmund- son, of Logan, was standing in Mr. Ross' , blacksmith shop, in Carronbrook, he was struck in the eye by a piece of steel . that flew from a bar which Mr. Rosa was cutting. Medical aid was secured, and it is hoped the eye will be saved. s a 4