Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-06-08, Page 11 _ UNE 1, 1877. titian Liberality." Res -- d that he would reserve- ,- church opening—they. reat treat then. Rave Ai of England, sent an, sbsence. He was called 7- important matters. F select character was, e following Iadiea arid. 5 140.z presided at the a Pickard, Mr. Senior; aid Mr. H. Cowan. Thes auks were given and re - a very happy evening close by the singing of and benediction acey. Proceeds of the nestownJ .1DGE.--The small bridge lacksmith shop, James.Jt week; and if oar don't seeafter it at once ourity a few dollars. 777 OFFEiZING GF ESS GOODS WEER; 4T WALL & cus F.D- CHEAP ODS STORE. les of Dress Goods it from 8 r yard, worth to 40 cents— the ST BARGAIN to our Customers, and we ta see them PIT IN TEN DAYS. WE ALL OUR SILKS .t15 CENTS PER YARD ace, our Mr. LHALLY having ed. at a Great !argain Stock of Silks PARIS Last fi&lonth. PIEC S OF RY CARPETS ats per yard by the piece, Or its added it ea. E LADIES. bOUGALL & Co. O the Ladies of Seaforth and 'try that they have added to Y Goods Business the Manti- L :KETS ANi MANTLES T STYLES and Made of the IAL. This !Department it of RIENCED , CUTTER every COREAORCO in maom. who may favOr uswith, their rill find in thia Department • TENSIVE STOOK it Mantle Clothe to Select iron/ ANO FINISH, inderate Charges, Guaranteed r. SHOWING SAMPLE MANTT,Rs ifacture, in addition to a veil' reign Make. We Invite a Call. ,E TO SHOW THEM. McDOUOALL & Co. TENTH VEAR. WEIOLE No. 496. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 8; 1877• REAL ESTATE FOR. SALE. HOTEL FOR SAT—In the Village of Ilarpur- hey, with good accommodation for the public, also good stabling and driving sheds, with 4 acres of land more or less. It will be sold cheap. Apply to MRS. C. DILL, Seaforth P. 0. 4964 "GIARM FOR SAT,TI.—For sale, Lot No. 30, Con. .1 13, McKillop, containing 50 acres, 15 of which are cleared, the balance welltimbered. Is situated one mile from gra,vel road, and convenient to churches, schools, &c. Price $1,800. Apply to A STRONG, Land Agent, Seaforth. 491 FARM FOR SALE. -100 acres, 85 cleared, being Lot 31, Con. 3, Usborne, County of Huron; good soil, well watered, well fenced, splendid orchard; sehool house adjoining; two-story brick house and good outbuildings. For particulars address RUS- SELL J. ROSS, Rodgerville, Ont. 496x8 WOR SAT,T1.—A two storey frame house and out- -a- buildings, situated on the Market Square of Seaforth, for sale or to rent. The building is very suitable for a boarding house or a public business. For particulars apply to W. N. WATSON, Sea, forth, or to DANIEL GORDON, Goderich. 493 wARm FOR SAT.—North half of Lot 28, Con. A- 5, towwhip of Morris, County of Huron, con- taining 97 acres, best of land, 70 ares cleared, balance all hardwood bush, good franie barn and stable, and a bearing orehard. The farm is *ell watered and in the best condition, and is only one and a half miles from Brussels station, Great Western Railway. For terms apply to GEO. FOR - STH, on the premises, or Brasssels P. 0. 491 DESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SAT.—For Sale, a brick dwelling with 8 acres of land at- tached, on which is an orchard of all kinds of fruit trees. The house is 24x30 and in good repair ; there 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 several dwellings and other prop- erties in Seaforth for sale. Apply to A. STRONG, Seaforth. 486 TTO.USE AND LOT FOR SALE.—For Sale, 4-1- that comfortable and conveniently situated dwelling house and lot, adjoining the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at present occupied by Mr. W. S., Robertson. The house contains kitchen, dining room, parlor and 5 bedrooms. 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 W. S. ROB- ERTSON, Seaforth. 486 FM FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 10, "Con. 5 township of Grey, County of Huron, con- taining 100 acres of good land, 58 acres cleared, balance timbered with Beech, Maple and Elm. New lframe bank barn and stable. A good bearing orchard of 50 trees. The above farm is 5 miles from Brussels statioh, Great Western Railway, and only 2f miles off gravel road. For further par- ticulars apply to JOHN LOWE on the premises or Brussels P. 0. 491 WARM FOR SALE.—North half of Lot 15, Con. -a: 8, FOR of Morris, containing 100 acres, 90 of which are cleared and in the very best state of cultivation; good kick house, frame barn and driving house; good bearing orchard; farm well watered is situated 6 nailes from Brussels and Blyth stations, on the Great Western Railway. For terms apply to P. LYNN, on the premises, or to C. R. COOPER, Brussels P. 0. J. J. LYNN, Proprietor. 495 WARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, East half Lot 8, Con. 4, Turnberry, County of Huron, contain- ing 50 acres, 40 acres cleared; good frame house and stable, also good bearing orchard. Situated 4 miles from Wroxeter Station and 2,f miles from Blnevale Station, on the Great Western Railway. Possession given 1st September'1877. For further particulars apply to ROBERT RICHARDSON, on the premises, Bluevale P. 0., or to Q. R. COOPER, Brussels P. 0, -with stamp for answer. 481c FA' FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 26, Con. 2, Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of excellent land, about 70 of which are cleared, the balance is good hardwood bush; frame house, , frame barn and stable; an orchard, good well; convenient to schools, churches, atc. Is situated about 6 miles from Seaforth and 1 mile from Brucefield station, on a good gravel road. For farther particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or if by letter to Brucelield P. 0. THOMA.S MUNRO, Tuckersmith. 492x13 WARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 26, Con. 11, Hibbert, containing 100%acres of excellent land. about 80 of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation, the balance is good hardwood bush. Goodframe house, frame barn, stables and other buildings; good orchard, well watered; convenient to sehools, churches, &c. Is situated about ten miles from Seaforth and two and a half miles from Cromarty, on a good gravel road. Terms Easy. For further partieulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or if by letter to Cromarty P. 0. JOHN RICE. 485-4x VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—Por Sale the T. east half -of Lot 9 Concession 3, McNillop, containing 50 acres, known as theDeigle estate. This farm is situated within one mile and a quar- ter of Seaforth.. The land is of the ehoicest quality. There is a handsome residence, a.13.6, good out- buildings.. The farm is well planted vvitth fruit end ornamental trees, is in excellent order, and well fenced. It is admirably suited for a retired gentle- man, a dairy -man or market i.gardiner. Terms easy, apply to the proprietor ou the premises.or to Seaforth P.O. E. TES'KY„ Proprietor. - 495 1 1RGE FARM FOR SALE. ForSale, that ‚-beautiful farm, comprising Lot :26, Con. 12, arid the north three-quarters of Lot .2,6, Con. 11, ".475 acres in oil, situated in the Township of Mc- Killop, County of Huron, on the leading gravel road, midway between Seaforth and Brussels. The farm is in a good state of cultivation, well fenced and watered, and convenient to chm•ehand school; 135 acres are cleared and the balance hardwood dauber. On the farm is a Ow -Oiling honk, good outbuildings, and a young orchard. For further particulars address SAMI/EL HANNA, Oil City, Penusylvania,-11. S. 473 }'ARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lots 15 and 16, Con. 6, Stanley. containing 99:acres, 85 of which - are cleared and. about 40 acres in seed. It is within one mile of the village, of Varna; where there are churches, schools,and aul vuiege conveniences. There is a choice of four good markets within 11 miles, the nearest being within 4 miles. There is It good dwelling house and frame out -buildings, consisting, of barn, horse and cow stables; driving shed, sheep pens,. &e. Plenty Of water ami an ex- tra good orchard.. There is a cheese factory on the corner of the farm which could be purchased with the farm if desired. Immediate possession. Apply to the proprietor on the premises or to Varna P. 0. THOMAS JOHNSTON, Jr- 488 VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY l'alt SALE.-- • v. The property is situated on the Town, Plot of Grey, about 3 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 -flue ..boiler, large circular edging and butting saws, shingle aud heading ma- chine and shingle jointer. The machinery is all first -da, and has only been running about a year and 'ght months. This is it rare ehance for men of capital, as there is a good Local trade, and any quantity of Timber of all kinds to be had. .Satis- factory rtatsons given for sollinr. Full particulars on application to GARROW BROTHERS, Grey Post Office. notes and accounts over- due must be 'settled at once,. and SSW trouble and expense, 475 VAR.11 FOR SAI.E..-LPor Sale., Lot 3, Con, 3, Tnekersnaith, eontsintter 100 'acres, 80 which are cleared.and in agood state of cultiva- tion, the 'Ls:lance is %cell' timbered math the best of litualweod there is a first-class brick house 38x28, kitelten 24a15, with static cellar Under both house and kitchev t a good frame. barn 60x40, driving hon.. e 4x13t., with steno basement and cattle ltousas the whole length -of both buildings ; leading from the cattle house bafiow is a large root house, ta0x9, dug out of the solid bank, built of solid stone and lime and swelled over with brick, Ealld is frost aroof ; there are 3 wells, eaeh about 40 feet deep, built tip with brisk, and arenever-fniling spiings of Water; there is a good orchard Of apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, and small fruits - also abealt 300 roods of drains :with tiles carefully laid down; the stables are all floored with. stone, eare- fully, arid evenly laid; also log barn 48x28;. and 2 stallies. is Situated 7 iniles From Exeter, 10 from Lieaforth,-and 2 from Mansell etation. Convenient to schools and churches. Terms ---$2,000 to be Paid down, the remainder to snit purchasers. Ap- VY tattle proprietor on the premisesor. to Hensall 0, Wkl, STONEMAN. 496-4x i HE EXETER PRESBYTERIAN CHM H. , The following is the address read by ev. Mr. Hartley on the -occasion of the aying of the foundation stone of the ew resbyterian church at Exeter, a re rt 4.f which was published last week: While an occasion like the prese t— laying thecornerstone of another h se for the worship of, God, with religi us Ceremony—calls the people together pd twakens.curiosity that demands sati ac- ion; it affords a desirable opportu 4 or the Church to give explanations pr of he motives that have inspired the un i er- taking, and the objects sought to be se - Cured by this erection. Your prese 'ce here to -day makes !a demand on us for explanation—a demand, at once obvi ius 1 and reasonable, arid we cheerfully nd frankly address oureelves to the task of re- plying to such reaeonable enquiries s : Why do you build at this time? in his [ lace ? or why build at all ? i 1 Our first and prinie object in buil his house is onein Common with all G eople in such erections—to promote ihe pure worship of Almighty God by reasing the facilities and attractions uch religious puroses. The Chu ; like the family, re uires a home. It subsist in lodgings; but to realize its sion and prosper it requires a home in accord with thoie instincts of our nature which incline us to make homes beautiful and p.ttractive safe anchorage for the Bocial virtues the family, the Church seeks as it have ability, to make the house of attractive and beautiful,its society frie ly and inviting,its stcred services pleas and instructive. While we deprecat ineritritious ornament of the house of which would grictify a voluptuous t as inimical to theimplieity of the Ch tian spirit and subversion of a p Gospel; we at the same time hail with mingled satisfaction the treasures of a itectural skill an Modern taste and s adorn the house o i these temples of Our country while e,anctuary of our s tues. The public Moulded by Uhri svere madness to n fulness and then destroy the fruit. Changes in our pl as compared with They evince an im tural skill and co tihipper, and are i greased wealth of gur fathers worshi in rude buildings of Heaven ; but their families in ru est they could o leased to 'accept inherit the fruit o thous, and as the 'hem and, us shelt beauty with w 3ience are begiamin praser, thus 'ma race the ornamen heylare the school cial and national taste ;has been lar fiats-- teaching, an urish the tree t� fr rush the blossoms We hail the stri ces of public wore hose ef fifty years rovement in archi venience to the keeping with the ur country. It is t ped God fifty years nd found them the hen they dwelt e shanties—it was er to God, and He t at their hand. their labor and pri rude shanty that g r for a time has gi way to comfortable homes it is meet t he house of God should be proporti tely improved. There was no dispar ifcient fifty years a there is to -day. merit of their piet in rude buildings our day. We cla corner stone of w with all the adva rive from it, and tabor and money but a bare defence of our Christian c Eistency as a congregation ; and that s honoring us more in permitting us uild this house for his worship than re honoring him in building it—for ✓ what are we that we should buil house for God? ' But not the oastlaetic taste nor accou tic effect, nor architectural display, nor these combined constitute our supr me dbject. Though' these things h ve their importance, they are all second tic) the great work of preaching Christ he Gospel. If we build a house • clorn it; it is only that we May gat he people in greater numbers in the p nce of the cross!. , If we seek accou ffect it is onlyl hat we may the m stmctly and en4hatica11y preach Ch nd the resurrection. If we set our ho n a hill and giv it special prominenc I only the more certainly to attract ultitude to hea the "old, old story' he great salvati n. Deeply impres • ith the fact tha [men are lost, and t ek and save the lost, ng d's he in. for eh, ay is- nd na- Ur a of ay 'od d- nt all ad, te, 18. re n- h- ich to ng of nd ir- ely it it - or ing p, go. ec- Or- in- ue go ate ith he as a- ve en at n- ge- ty e - ed in he d, is n. n- od to we ho a o in living in a sh It was no dispara that they worship it would be to us Lm that the house, ich has just been 1 tages " we hope to with all the anxie has and will cost u 11 rY nd nd er es - tic re ist se , it he of ed at nd ng an is or - 'hrist came to s hat man is the enemy of God,and noth ut the Gross ca i free and respo sovereign and gr tal and must apar in judgment to ive reconcile him,that n eible ; and that Goc cious• that man is the flood. The time to build is when the people see and feel they ought to build. Then, if money is scarce, material and - labor are cheap, and the probabilities are that for many years there ma yi not come another time when the work can be done so cheaply as now. In the meantiine the building is needed for present purposes, and should we wait for better l times we might lose the golden opporthnity, and not require it at all." And altheugle times are dull just now the prospect e are good; markets have risen; the email' g harvest promises to be an abundant on, atid the probabilities are that by the tinie t e pay- ments fall due the current of: ret rning prosperity will have set in upon. oui coun- try - then the rapid increase f the population and. business of the pla e, and the social and religious wants of the peo- ple make time a matter of even greater importance than money. As a congrega- tion we are deeply impressed with the con- viction, that if we are to retain au exist- ence in this place, the time has come when we must rise and build. Society. cannot await our leisure nor will our in- terests, as a Church, alloW Us to delay the work. We ,must vindicate our claim to the confidence and sympathy of the Christian public by prompt,earnest,Chris- tian work. But, though it may be necessary to build and to make the house one that will -answer the demands of the present age of earnest men and to build it now,yet it may beasked, "Why change thesite of your church? Why not simply replace the old building with a new one, better suited suited to modern taste and present con- venience ?" To such enquiries we 'would reply that we deem it high time that the Presbyterian Church in Exeter should forsake its hermitage and set up its stan- dard squarely and prominently before the public. There is nothing in our ecclesi- astical arrangements or theological opin- ions that we are. ashamed of, or that we wish to hide from public gaze—nay we admire them, we glorfr in them—and we are anxious that the public should under-, stand. us, and our principles and work. Hence we come out, though at this late hour, into the publie view. Whatever may have been the prospects of the place at the tithe the former house was bailt, it is obvious now that! the situation must always remain obscure and -inconvenient as a place of public worship, and to hare built there would be!t° "put our light under a bushel." The preaent place, we think, must commend itself to the public as central, prorainent and -easy of access, and when our church is completed we think it will afford co venience to all who may desire to worshi with us for many years to come, and in its architectural proportions form a fitting object to crown so prominent a site, and one on which our eyes may rest as a nother church orna- ment to our rising vi lage. The Presbyterian phurch has existed too long in the place Ito require a formal. introduction to the people of Exeter, or • an apology for its exiatence here. In the past we have had.j pleasant fraternal relations with sisteri Churches of other idenominations, and ii coming into closer neighborhood with 1hem we hope to be able to render more otent influences in aid of such work as is common to all our Churches. We frankly confess our de- cided 'ecclesiastical preferences and the steadfastness of our theological convic- tions, while we woulil not conceal our ad.- miration of the character, talents and la - hors of those who, in minor matters, dif- fer from us; and while -we attach a high importance to an or hodox creed, we re- gard as of greater iroment a pious and consistent life. W trust that as we come into closer neighborhood with oth- ers in the location of our church that we may find ourselves banded together in closer "league and. ovenant " with the people of GO in the great work of evan- gelizing the world for Christ." And now may "God be merciful to us and bless us, and cause His face to Shine upon us: So shall Thy way be made_ known on earth, Thy saving health among all Thy people." Amen. Manitoba Notes: [FROM FR THE EE PRESS OF MA.Y 26.] Some practical sYstem of drainage is wanted by farmers ! in the vicinity of Emerson. —Between 800 and. 1,000 head of cat- tle have been brought into the 'Winnipeg market this season. —Largs flocks of '"waveys" have been passing over the city almost continuously for the past few days. —The Winnipeg hotels and boarding houses are so crowded. that it is difficult for some of the emigrants to had lodg- ccount for thep (IL's done in the bOdy,— ' ing. —A:nougat the late arrivals at Winni: peg is Mr. Geo. M, Mowbray, of North 1 elieving all this; we desire to sound larm, - hold up; the Cross, to cry I old the Ikmb ofi God,"to gather the he e- ul- abolit four hours after the acci • ent. Latest reports received are that T rner and the Fleet children would almost certainly die, and Ithat Robertsou the Turner 'children could scarcely vive. , —Preparations f r the erection new stage in the ci y hall—one sui for theatrical or other entertainments— have been commenleed. The old stage has been taken down ; and the neW one will be completed shortly. — Up to May 24th, sf.,--venty-se^en flat- boats had brought into Winnipeg 1,327 tons of freight; the steamer Manf.toba in five trips, 826 tpns ; the Minnesota, in four trips, 560 tons; the International in four trips, 489 tons; and the Dahota, in one trip, 80 ton—making a total of 3,282 tons brought n this season. —A correspondenit says: For the ben- efit of immigrants intending comin this way 1 may enumerite some of the leas- ing features of Portage la Prairie. We have two first-clais grist mills, with three runof stones each; two first clan hotels, five general stores, one bu cher shop, one baker shop, one harness hop, one druggist shop, Dominion Land ffice, registry office, one tin shop, two lack - smith shops, one carriage shop, phree churches, a public school, post -office and atiognresa.,t many other important ins'titu- -An adventurous immigrant named Langlois, a French Canadian, spd Ding the luxury as well as the expen e of steamboating, made a raft of the harnber he bought to build his house, and thereon embarked, from Winnipeg, with his wife and children, has arrived safe and sound from Crookston, through the meander- ings of a stream quite unknown te him before. He anchored at St. Norbert's parish, and leaving !his family aboard his craft, went in seareh of a farm. 1 He succeeded in secueng a splendid lot of land, owing to his thriftiness, and is now about transforming is craft into a dwel- ling house. 1 L - I Canada. 1. Rev. Father Chiniquy is seriously ill. —A- barn was burned in Hull, near Ottawa, last Friday, in which 42 horses , perished. , —Ten thousand 1 dozen eggs were shipped one day reoently frem Fergus to New York. —Mr. Amos Snyder, of PlattsVille, has about one hundred and forty acres of flax sown. —They have new potatoes at the Agricultural College, Guelph, grown on the grounds. 1 — A •Gananoque retired physicia has been fined $10 for writing prescriptions I without pay. [ on the north shore on her firsk tr p to —The steamer Manitoba made.32calls Lake Superior. —The wire worm is making sad havoc in the barley in some parts of West Ox- ford, but the fall and spring wheat. ooks well. —An illicit still on Lot No. 30, 5 township of Erni, was seized o 1st of June by Collector McLean, of Guelph. —On a mud turtle's back, cauglit in , Lake St. Clair the other day, was the announcement : "1877 — war with Mexico." —On Thursday," May 31st, Brantford took its place among the cities of Orl- and obbie and- sur - of a able Con. the tario. The celebration was large enthusiastic. —A horse belonging to Alex. D and barn and stable belonging to Robt. Richmond, were 1.estroyed by fire at Chesley on Friday. —The corner stone of the new CoLsoli- dated Bank, in Norwich, was laid on , Wednesday morning of last week before an admiring crowd of citizens. —The third anniversary of the intro- duction of Patrons of Husbandry into Canada was IcelebrSted in various parts of the Dominion on 4turday last. —The death is announced of Thomas Sudden, an old resident on Sprague's road, Dumfries twnship. Deceased settled on the farm on which he died in 1831. —Mrs. P. G. Robertson, of Springford, Oxford Co., has a fuchsia, only one year old, which now stands two feet high. :It is of -beautiful shape, land has upon it now 139 flowers. —Dr. Kirk, a resident of Moulton, Monck 4unty foil the last 35 years, has gone to Dakota Territory, under Uncle Sam, and purchased about 1,000 acres of land. —Rev. G-eorge Si:Emilie, of Fergus, sails from Halifax in June as a member of the deputation from the Presbyterian church in Canada, to the Pan -Presbyterian conference which is to assemble at Edin- burgh. —Mr. J. Smith, son of Wm. Smith, A.dams, Mass., inventor and manufactur- 1_ itude to the Banquet of mercy, te "t ste er of gome of the modern powerful explo- of Sophiasburg, was found dea& in a mi see that the Lard is good." While the sives. field where he had been looking; after reaching of the ross the divinely,sp- —Mr. .Hespeler, immiartion agent ointed means foi+ the salvation of sin- is kept pretty busy, there 0 ing no less ers, the same Means are necessary for than two hundred and forty persons in he, edification of the Church itself. This the sheds. There are only four on the ouse is designed -to be the hospital , for sick list, and those not very seriously ili. the morally diseased within its walls, and —The Queen's Birthday was celebrat- t the same time ths school of spiritualm- ed right loyally in NVinnipeg, by sports, nowleclge of salvation. In all the future, foundry lin.e of bu. Mess. the history of this house of prayer III:ust been disbanded, and. the majority of the members have joined the Winnipeg Field —The married. men and single of th compositors' staff bf the Globe played base ball match in the Park, Toronto, o Saturday morning. The result was i —Lowerlort Garry was the scene of l_favor of the single men, with a sore o some horses on Thursday night las week. It is suppised he was kicked. b one of them. —Mr. James Gladstone, of Salem; ha bought out the interest of the Messrs, Potter, in the Elo a Machine Company, for $5,000. It is the intention of Mr. structiou ',for all who are seeking the Gladstone to dev te his attention ,to th games and races, The city band has ssociate itself with the destiny of im- Battery, to which corps the band, as re- ortal souls, and the earnest prayer the organized, will belong., flarryr Walker ongregation, by liona the building ia be- remains as -leader. . g carried forw:d, is that "when ; the .,ord shall write up his people, it May e said of this mail and that man, that he as born there." But granting all you claim for a house i proportion to the means of the congre- ation,both as resects capacity and com- f rt, it may be as t e times are hard, e ; crops have b, hy seek such I eighty an under. have been a wis t trade should rket become embership of t hat increase, en a strain upou siip." Now, to al i a tide in the a Would ensure suc 1 .1 ed, "Why build now? ; commerce is depress - en below the average. a time as this for so baking? Would it not policy to wait a little evive and, the money a.sier ? perchance the e Churcll might some- bling you, to build with e individual member - this we reply "There airs of life," and if we ess we mast take it in one of the most distressing occurrences 33 to 31 for the benedicts. i we have ever been called upon to record —A destruct+ fire occurred i —and 4'11Na was attended with atal re- Orangeville, on thr evening of -Tune 1st sults. Queen's Birthday was b whereby several buildings were destroy served in t ner at t ed, among them the Primitive and Epis and in the e g salutes wer ing ob- e Fort, being fired in honor of the event. or this purpose a quantity of damaged Powder, which was "caked," owing te its having been damp, was used. By some means the powder took fire, and froin its being damp, did not -explode as powder ordin- arily would, but spluttered fire in every direction, enveloping the two men in charge, and six children, in fire. Two of the children were son and. daughter of Mr. Fleet, the °Inner in charge, of the Fort; three were children of Ge. Turn- -er; and one a daughter of Mr. McLeod. McLeod's child thed during the night, copal Methodist lhurches, the latter -be in reduced to aslies. The total loss a estimated about $12,000. I —A new pattern of grain cars hlas bee introduced by the Grand Trunk Railway They are 20 feet long, instead of p, th usual length, and are capable of carryin 16 tons of grain, being loaded higher t the ordinary rani They will be us Geespecially for grain —Eorts of from Bent Coun is stat at 3, dozen per day, on dealer in Chatham has laid away pickle for the 411 trade, over 50 e reflects that 1 • ozen. When o " I I I I I I t ItIcLEAN BROTHERS, Publishers. 1$1. 50 a Year, in advance. ' J dozen fill a ten -barrel tub,some idea may be formed of the space and labor requi- site to carry out this trade. . —The General Assembly of the Pres- byterian church of Canada, meets in Halifax, on the 13th lune. About 350 delegates are expected. —The Roman Catholic Corpus Christi procession in Ottawa, last Sabbath, was the largest and most imposing that has been held for many, years. • —At Fort William a weekly Liberal newspaper, called the Fort William Day Book, is issuing its prospectus. The first number will appear about the 10th of June. —In Montreal contributions are still pouring in from the citizens to the fund on behalf of those who suffered. by the disastrous fire on St. Urbain street. The members of the Corn Ex- change have given $1,519. —A pickpocket attempted to rob a gentleman of $200 on a public atreet in Ottawa the other day while Barnum's cir- cus procession was passing along. The thief was captured and. handed over to one of the gang, who represented himself as a iug on his knees ai nd his hands supporting his head; and as he continued in this po- sition for some time, they Went over to ascertain the cause and to their surprise found him dead. 'He was a remarkably robust and full-blooded man, and the den death is supposed to poplexy. He was about cause of his su to have been 30 years of ag —Mr; Beamish Gibb, the oldest and wealthiest bachelor in Montreal, died. a few days ago of debility. His father founded a tailoring business there 101 years ago, and it is still the aristocratic place of resorti Deceased was passion- ately fond of horse racing, and also had the finest pr vate picture gallery in Canada. , — On Monday night of last week, Mr. Alex. Snider, a farmer living in Port- land, Leeds county, built a fire outside of his house to keep away the mosquitoes. During the hours of sleeping, the fire spread and caught the building. The parents saved themselves and five of the children, but were baffled in their efforts ,to secure the other- 'two, al- though Mrs. Snider did not desist detective. Both escaped. from her efforts till she was severely —While a laborer named Lacrapell was burned; passing through Torontohe allegesthat be —A au -it is o be instituted in a few was swindled out of $800, which he had days by a clergyman of the Presbyterian saved in a four years' stay in California, by church sof Canada, in connection with a former friend named Labue, who in- the Church of Scotland, to reclaim from duceI him to accept a bogus $1,000 check the Presbyterian•church in Canada the on t 'e Bank of Montreal. temporalties fund, now amounting to the morning of the 24th May a over 8509,000. hors- belonging to Col. Cowan, of In- on behalf of the Kirk in this country, n The suit will be taken gersoll, was harrowing a field, when some and will test the conttitutionality of the mischievous boy threw a fire -cracker Provincial Act sandtioning the Presby - under the horse, who becoming frighten- terian Union. ed got entangled in the harrow and —Complaints having been made to the broke one of his legs. He had. to be Reeve of Morrisburg, Dr. Chamberlain, sh against the loCk master and laborers, for — The Brantford gas works have violation of the Sabbath by locking been leased for a term of fourteen steamers, &c.,, on that day, the Reeve years at an annual rental of $7,530. isaged warrants and had them up for Messrs. Ashton Fletcher, Alexander tr.0.1 on 'Saturday evening, but as the Finkle and F. H. TDate, of Woodstock, paid until the new works are com-. parieettehde. lessees, one half rental only to be —A young lady in Toronto Miss Alice Grand, was severely injured by attempt- ing to jump off a street car while it was in motion, missing her footing she fell with great violence on the back of her head, the shock rendering her insen- sible. She lies in a very precarious condition. —The mill known as Platt's mill, in Plattsville, was sold a- short time ago for $8,500. This course had to be taken as Mr. E. Platt, one of the partners, died last winter. Mr. Ralph Marshall, of Blenheim, purchased the interest of the late Mr. Platt, and the firm will here- after be Tew & Marshall. —A very fine young mare belonging to Mr. F. J. Chubb, of Fergus,broke her leg while engaged in a trotting race in the driving park on the Queen's birthday,and had to be, destroyed. The loss is heavy, as Mr. Chubb paid $325 for the mare a few weeks ago, and since then spent con- siderable in ritting her for the races. —Mr. Joseph West, of Elora village, who was hurt some weeks ago by a runaway team and plow, died on Sun- day afternoon. Mr. West was an esti- mable young man, who will be missed in the circle in which he moved. The injuries which he received were su- pervened by typhoid fever, which prov- ed fatal. —One evening lately, M. Garvin and his wife, living in Ottawa, while taking their evening meal, got into a dispute over some matter, when Garvin struck her in the face. She immediately picked up a plate and struck him with it under •the eye, inflicting such a severe wound that he will lose his eye- sight. —Mr. Chilman, of Hamilton, who, it will be remembered, got a small piece of bone lodged in the upper portion of his oesophagus some weeks ago, still remains in a very precarious condition. Severe inflammation of the throat and lungs has supervened, complicating the original difficulty. The piece of bone has never yet been removed. —Mr. Wm. Loveys, of West Zorra, has in his possession a document which, after a close scrutiny, he has made out to be a lease of some land in Scotland. It is written on parchment, and bears evidence of having been penned during the reign of King Charles II., nearly 200 years ago. It was used for binding a , Conductor Fraser was compelled to leave book in 1813, and was only removed a 1 the freight cars on the siding. The Sar - short time since. —While feeding an Alderney bull on his stock farm at Petite Cote, on Thurs- day of last week, Mr. Wm. Wright was badly gored, and when assistance came be was insensible, and the infuriated animal was about to run at him again. His injuries were found to be a tooth knocked out, part of left ear gone, nose smashed, one rib badly injured, and side and hip gored. His face is also baily canal superbatendent asked for an ad- journment of the case until he had heard. from the department at Ottawa, it was granted for one week. —At the building of a wall of Mr. Jas. Murray's barn!, 7th concession, North Dumfries, recently, a scaffold fell, on which Mr. Murray and two other men Messrs. Fulton and Wildfong, were work- ing. Messrs. Murray and Fulton escaped, uninjured, but, Mr. Wildfong received in- juries which are likely" to unfit him for work for some time. his ankle was badly bruised by a falling stone and the other two gentlemen falling partly on him. —Edward Murphy, for many years was .a prosperous saddler of Portage du Fort, Quebec, but some two or three years ago he beca.me enamored of a farmer's life, and invested all his surplus cash and more in the purchase of a farm and stock. Such divided affections ultimately result- ed in his being both a poor saddler and 'an unsuccessfal farmer. Last summer Ihe failed, owing about $7,000, an as- signee is again in possession. ! —Capt. Job; Blauvelt, one of the oldest !shipmasters of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, iwho -died recently in his 805h year has a record worthy of notice. His shipown- ers the Messrs. Hatfield, never insured when he wentin their vessels; he made over seventy voyages to the West Indies, never lost a man or sail, never called on the underwriters to pay a loss, and in his long career met with but one accident— drifting ashore in the Spanish Main in a dead. calm, With the rapid current, in ' spite of anchors or cables. _ —Last Monday a ten year old daugh- ter of W. B. Watters, of Westfield, New Brunswick, noticed. the railway sleepers near- her father's house on fire. Fearing serious -damage might result she went to !put mud on the flames; her clothes I caught on fire land every particle of cloth- ing was burned from her body, and only iher fade, head and one arm escaped seri- ' ous b rning. When she- was found where he had thrown herself on some wet mad her, body was almost baked, a,nd d ath soon ensued. st Monday morning the Port —L StanleY train,1 due in London, at 8:10 A. M., was about an hour and a half late— stopped near ,Gla•nworth by myriads of caterpillars oh the track. So dense were these pests that . they were literally thrown aside, by the shovelful, and it - took a gang of men nearly an hour to clear the road sufficiently to allow the engine' and passenger car to proceed. nia mid-day tram was also detained by the same cauae. —Jeseph Grant, an old resident of Pus- linch, and.ssessor for the township, was found. lhanging by the neck on Tuesday morning in an old house on.11his premises. When found. life was extinct. No special cause is assigne&for the rash act by which he took his life, but the general impres- sion is that lie was overwhelmed with township and other troubles. He had - cut in two or three places. been for many years one of the assessors —Rev. W. E. Mordon, of London of the township of Puslinch, and also Township, a minister of the Baptist de- Secretary of the township Agricultural nomination, and till recently stationed at Fredericksburg, county of Norfolk, com- mitted. suicide by shooting himself in the head with 'a revolver on Saturday after- noon last, on Richmond street, London. He was supposed to be insane at the tion, it was Celebrated with great eclat time. He was some • years ;ago afflicted in Montreal. An unusual number of with a sunstroke, and since that time arches covered. with evergreens and inter- , has at intervals shown signs of mental i spersed with bunting and nsottoes were derangement. Upon the person of the. arranged across the main streets through deceased was found a letter mainly cotn- which the grand procession passed. Flags posed of quotations from Scripture, were flying on the chief buildings in the which fully shows the disordered state of city and also on many of the ships in the his mind. harbor. In the evening there was a grand —On Wednesday last, Mr. Ezra Zim- illumination.1 The Cathedral towers, 220 merman, conductor on a freight train on feet high, were surmounted by immense the Grand ceTrunk Railway, died fire balls and rows of lanterns, and a - very suddenly at Sarnia under some- grand, display of sky rockets were made thing like the following cireum- from the toWer tops. A powerful lime stances. He had been on duty the light was used on the Commercial Acad. previous night, and brought in his train emy, on St. Oatharines street, and lit up that morning, apparently in the best of that portioni of the city like day. St. health. During the day he commenced Mary's College was brilliant and the sem- to make some repairs about the premises ,inary of St.1 Sulpie,e a perfect blaze of where he boarded, and while doing so, light. However, the palace excelled ev. he and some of his comrades were en- joyin' g some pleasant banter and railery. They left him to attend to their own af- fairs, but one of them happening to look back to where Zimmerman was working, saw him sitting down, with his arms rest- cramned to Society, and of the Farmers Club, and. took an active interest in all matters con7 nected with the township. —Last Sabbath being the day for the Roman Catholic Corpus Christi celebra- erything ant was resplen en t every win dow glittering.with gas. A large trans- parency mil displayed from the roof giv- ing welcome to the Apostolic Delegate. Private resiliences by the hundred were suffocation by sightaeere.