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ISG SALE
GO 0 3D S.
EENOINO• ON
JUNE. ` 24.
contemplated int.
oar present premises.
uFined to= ciear out owr
ER aeons:
sperate Prices.
THE LIST ;;
ihitEings,wide widths
Fwiped Printer, wide
►mall Pattern P
F. 7 cents.
11
:ut Prints are nearly
Flth o.# regular Alfieri -
3S GOODS..
Phan, striped and
;iaa-g front 25 cents to 45
need to 17F cents and
Ford.
'kivIE LINENS..
iag Checks and Stripers
!shit price 2- cent.,,
RAS OLS.
sf-.. of New Cotton and
tobe sold: very cheap,.
e its' 50.
.L GOOD'S
ked sat P .A I•Iv 1? igitres,
se throtrrlao ft..
T PRICE. PAID
any siacaa astity of flatter.
IVITE A CALL.
OUCALL & CO,
Main Suet,. t#caiortke
TENTH YEAR.
W$OLE No. 499.
777 —777-- 777
2MP01R.TAI\TT
AND EXTENSIVE
CLEARING SALE
OF
DRQ GI- OOI S
CO'MMENCINO ON
MONDAY, JUNE 24.
On accoant of contemplated i
•
provements in our present premises
we have determined to clear out our
present $tock of.: _
SPRENG AND SUMMER. GOADS
At Desperate Prices.
READ THE LIST
New Oxford Shirtings, wide widths
111 cents.
New Light Striped Prints,
widths. 7 cents.
THE PROSPECT OP OUR DAIR ' PRO- 1
DUCTS THIS SEASON.
The dairy prod.
a feature of as m
try as the great
years ago ; and,
premise of •
the b
crease. In the s
al cash received
and butter is th
tome, and an un
pest before us ma
The season for
early this year,:
world were bare
ceipts were prom
daring the Mont
ant month, the fi
'atoll has appea
iii England.'! Th
largely exceeded
theUnrted States
for English accou
ingetting orders
ing values. If th
Where near the
our factory men_
!pod deal of nerve
a low price for se
The past has sho
Cheese needs to
from the moment
the consumer's tal
is got therethe b
it as it passes al
August are neo da
oh, consignment t
gleet or attention
and any receiver
4 apt to see after
cpnsignments.
There is an acti
buyers who still p
for cheese, aid w
means sell -to the h
or fifteen days.
who say the Price
go down to seven c
Of this we cannot
are supplying cons
there is no can
more will be ette
is stated thatsev ral factories are now
pretty full of unsold- cheese, havin re
fused 9; and 10c. If our informati n o
the situation in Britain, the U ite
States and Canada is as good as, we his
it is, these factories have made a mietak
by holding.
As to butter, th • demand for it ha
been very light s. far, and stocks are
quietly accumulati eg all over the oun
try. This is partl due to the low rice
and partly to the 1. ck of facilities fo for
warding in hot we ther.. Shippers have
from Canada t the
on markets to si pply
that this is mainly
ator car being daily
ers from as far west
the butter is la
ton quite firm, a
rs furnished wit.'
hambers. This
holders of bu
uch if butter p
t of an ice hous
by the sudden
perature. The g
judgment,to be
s the scattered
butter. The
is the remed
s male butter
y as they coo the
ounce to th po
cool and film
. Then we can
et a 1?etter price 1,
the lines. We
sations with En
invariably rep
for cheap, i. e.,
want good c
and .mild, fit t
-General's table,
you 20c. per p
than 14c. per p
Iter gathered i
the land."
at fine butter is
anything inferio
m 14c. to 16c.,
r butter trade 'i
Canadian butte
than America
ince the Ameri
ropean "Be
I
all and Ot
e.
cts df Canada nosy form
ch interest to thi coun-
heat interest w a few
nlike wheat, the future
siness is toward an in -
miner months th .actu-
by farmers' for cheese
it main source of in -
lased view of th pros -
be of service. ,
making cheese paned
nd the markets 4 f the
f stock, so that 11 re-
tly absorbed in •ritain'
of May. In th . pres-
st indication of ac umu-
ed at the seaboa d and
production has, o far,
hat of last year oth in
and Canada; and uyers
t are finding d' culty
nder the rapidly eclin-
production 'free s any
present prop tions
will need to exer ise ;a
and to face what seems
eral weeks at an rate,
n that in summe time •
be handled pro ptly,
t is cured till itr aches
le and the quit er it
tter for all who touch
ng... June, ! ,Jul and
es to have cheese going
take the chi nee f ne-
as the case; ma be; ;
ho has cheese b ught
s purchases bef re his
e competing band of
y all that can he iven-
venture to say by all
guest bidder every ten
here are some 'dealers
f factory cheese will
nts per pound ere long
udge i but if thos wbo
mers'cannot pay more
of slipping wh reby
to the produce . It
n
k
e
s
1 tel b
y een going
New York and Bos
o dere. -We learn
owing to a refrige
siipplied to-forwar
wide as Illinois, by whic
in New York or Bo
there stored in cell
fany's patent ice
gr'eat advantage fo
but we doubt very
board a steamer o
not suffer seriousl
severe change of to
est difficulty, in ou
come in Canada,
small production o
orcreamery syste
this -let our farme
misery or a facto
t it mildly, say x
an I pack and keep
sh pping lot is read
a better article and
our neighbors acros.
had repeated conve
buyers lately, whc
"We are not 1pokinl
priced butter. . W
yellow butter, sweet
put on the Governor
would rather give
for a car load of sucl
for; any ordinary bu
criminately all over
We understand tb
ing
shipped at 1St;
this to be had at fry
hope to hear that o
ing systematized, as
a better reputation
England, especially
ha e been imitating the E
butter.—Trail? Revi zw.
J ttings---Base
wi
s many readers
are aware, a strong
for some yeare bet
clubs of Guelph . an
as these clubs ere strictly amateur,
Stars, of Seafo th, h ld a good poei
among them, but he Maple Leafs
Guelph, and the Tec msehs, of Lon
clubs. now, mad
players, and db
ass -as the St
r, the Guelph;'
ut last year, a
tches, the Lon
cu became the cam
club champions. This sp
a regain their
ral first-classI
ding Hastingh,
played with
he game of Thi
d this year for
n 1 hese clubs,
ictory for Lon
If -past three,'
New Light Small Pattern Prints,
wide widths. 7 center.
Thome 7 cent Prints are. nearly
w
double the width of regular Aeri-
can Print.
DRESS GOODS.
Assorted, in Plain, Striped and
Checked, ranging from `$5 cents to 45
cents—all reduced to 171 cents and
25 cents per yard.
COSTUME LINENS.
r.
A large lot in Checks and ' Stripes
at 16 cents—usna l price 22 cents.
PAR SOLS.
Several cases Fof New Cotton and
Silk Parasols, to he sold very cheap,
E
tt•om 22 cents to S2 50.
ALL GOODS
Will be narked in PLAIN Fig ures,
and ONE Price throughout.
HIGHEST PRIDE PAID
l[tt cash for any quantity of Batter.
WE INVITE A CALL=
A. G. MCDOUCALL & CO.,
cr
SEL
of THE l'L:i_POSI
rivalry has exi
eel).e�the base:
Loudon. So 1
are both professional
lar rely of American
play in the s hie c
Pr vious .to la t ye
hell the silver ball,
some hard fought m
Guelph, determined
pos•tion, engaged sev
eri an players, incl
cat her, who fc)rmerl
St.lLouis Browns.
day last was the seco
championship betwe
first having been a -
by one run.
time appointed
2,0 0 people we
tw
ded
d is
Tif.
18 a
ter
t on
will
and
e
eat-i
ever
and
airy
for,
•a a
se;
uud,,
ill a
offer'
than
lave
;fish
ly—
low
oice
be
and
and
and
dis-
be-
r to
We
be
has
in
ans
sh"
er-
ons
ted
all
thee
ion;
of
on,
up
not
rs.°
lub
ter
on
ing
old
m -
as
he
rs-
he
he
on
t h he
for he game, neap ly
e on the ground., he
clubs—the Tec msehs with `: ed
stockings and red trin wings to the s a in
—the Maple Leafs wth green --present
a great difference i.. physique. . The
London men are he vy and stout, the
Ga,
uelh liht an you 'hful lookin
pgg. he
man who attra ted ost attention, ! in
either club was Gold.mith, the London
pitcher. The enorm•us development of
muscle about his sho .der and arm—the
result of exertion—w s : the occasion of
remark by many o! the spectators.
Promptly to time the game commenced,
with W. Andrus as uaepire, and Powers, 1
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY JUNE 29; 1877.
Hc.rAN0BY,itU dPraunbechem.
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The three first innings of London—and
of Guelph—were whitewashes. In the
fourth the Tecumsehs made a run by an
error of. the Guelphs. In the fifth, sixth
and eighth innings London succeeded in
scoring four rune, partly by errors of the
opposite 'side, but lin the seventh and
ninth they were unable to make a run,
so close did the Guelph fielders stiek to
their work." Guelph only siacceded in
making two runs daring the whole nine
innings. London thus secures another
game in the contest for; the champion-
ship. To an amateur, the chief differ-
ence between these i wo famous clubs ap-
pears to be in the pitchers. Goldsmith,
for London, delivers his alls with great
swiftness,' and sel om makes a wild
pitch. _His balls are very difficult to bat.
But the Maple Leafs seer i quite equal to
the Tecumsehs at t. a brat, while their
outfield takes everything that can be
taken.
When our party arrived at the depot
of the London, Huron and Bruce Rail-
way, , we found that the evening train
had gone. Many ,tgho had depended on
the announcements in the Advertiser.and
Free Press, that the trains would be iie,ld
till the conclusion of the match, were
thus compelled to" spend the night in the
city..; From conversation with Mr.
Dawson, the superintendent of the road,
it appeared that ho had only, authorized
the train to be held for half an hour af-
ter the ordinary time. " It certainly
woffld be more just o those who attend
those matches, if th London papers an-
nounced the true time of starting.
The crops along this line of road pre-
sent a magnificent' appearance. One
drawback„ however, is to be noted:
Many orchards are suffering severely
from caterpillars. - Some are completely
devastated. At different points along
the line, too, the worms, not satisfied
with orchards, were busy with the forest
trees. Large sections of the bush have
thus been I stripped of leaves, and the
trees are standing desolate and bare. It
is fortunate that these insects do not at-
tack the field crops. CASUAL.
Immigration.
We nav•
e not the means just at hand
to state precisely what number has been
added to otlir population this season by
immigration, but `would approximate it
at three thousand, This tide, but little
abated, may be expected to continue to
flow for another month, when, perhaps,
there will lie almost a cessation until the
last few weeks of navigation. We con-
sider it quite safe to predict a total im-
migration for the season of from five to
six thousand persona. This, of course,
far exceeds -L, perhaps doubles—the result
of any previous year, since the "creation
of Manitoba." We have aforetime men-
tioned that this year is a favorable one
for settling stating reasons which need
not now belrepeated. We have also in-
dicated wh t classes should and what
classes sho id not come to this Province.
This will aldmost bear repeating, for, de-
spite the m st earnest and oft -repeated
warnings, of a few are coming hither
who find emselves as much out of
place as'a r and peg ,in a square hole.
For agriculturists alone is the field prac-
tically unlimited.,
It{ is folly, however,
for -even them to come to Manitoba, ex-
pecting to be able to settle down on 160
acres of land in the heart of the City of
Winnipeg, er even upon the corporation
limi' ;and that without a dollar,
Seri„u.}iy, Of course,-' we don't suppose
that any person expects to do exactly
this ; but really to converse with some
of them, after their arrival, is to be im-
pressed that little short of it will realize
them their' " requirements." Land is
not now to be had for the taking within
the bounds indicated.. But, as we have
often said before, excellent farming lands
are purchasable within a day's market-
ing distance,of Winnipeg at from two to
five dollars 'per acre, and in good, but
more remote, localities as fertile lauds as
there are in the world are still, open for
free settlement." But in no case need a
man reckon Ito- be able to successfully
establish himself without some capital.
Five hundred dollars is, perhapsas
small an amount as any one can possibly,
expect to get along with, and those who
have a thousand or more are proportion-
ately advantaged. There is no prudence
in any : one coming to Manitoba swith
only a few dollars in his pocket after
landing. Not a few of such are included,
in this year's immigration ; and, as may
naturally be' expected, they are not long
in the country before they " have had.
enough of it," and along with their
cousins on the look -out for a "soft job,"
if they have sufficient money to procure
a ticket; leave by the first boat, " dis-
gusted " with the country that is either
too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too
muddy, too sparsely peopled, too much
monopolized, or too something or an-
other. Every departing boat takes out
more or, less' of such people ; and it is
not uninteresting to " take stock " of
these emigrants. One peculiarity about
them is that they are Nearly all young
men. The elderly men, who have done
settlers'i work in other countries, are al-
most to a man pleased wit l> the advan-
tages Manitpba offers ; and , it is mostly
left for the younger ones, whose fathers
did all the hard work incident to bring-
ing a bush farm under cultivation in On-
tario, to; be frightened at the difficulties
(!) that present themselves in conneotion
with pioneering in Manitoba. These,
upon their return, will, of course, give
anything but flattering accounts of the
zountry, to justify their own conduct,
which nay deter some other people from
coming but the testimony of the hun-
dreds who remain will soon neutralize
that of the tens under reference, As
well as ,for farmers with some means,
there are many legitimate Openings for
capitalists. Other people I should not
come to Manitoba without specific ad-
vice.—Free Press, June 16. i
TESTIMONIAL. — Nelson, ept. 20th,
876.—Massey Manufacturing Co.—Sirs:
o Lendon, at the bat. - It was a keenly
contested game. Ev.ry man played for
all that was in him. The smallness of
the score showed tha there wit not
Blain street' Seatertlt. ,much " loose fielding " on either si e.
I have purchased from your agent, E. R.
Hunter, Esq., of Lowville, 'one of your
Sharp's Rakes, which has given me en-
tire satisfaction. My little' son of ten
years worked it all season, raking over
100 acres of hay and grain stubble,
without costing me one cent for breaks
I can cheerfully recommend Your
before any other'I have ever seen in
Yours respectfully, HENRY Fos
Reeve of Nelson Township.
and
ges.
rake
Use.
CER,
Canada. • I
The latter day saints are holding un -
day services in St. Thomas.
—Rev. Mr. Roy,, of Montreal, . has
been expelled from the Methodist min-
istry.
—Rev. John Scott, M. A., has leen
appointed Principal of the Dundas Wes-
leyan Institute. . E
—The Roman Catholic church,receptly
and
burned at Oka, was 100 years old,
had lately been repaired.
—Rev. Peter Curry, pastor of
Church, Teeswater, left on Monday
week for a trip to Gla gow.
-John Bird, of .Belleville, has
ion
last
een
found guilty of practicing medicine with-
out a license, and fined $20 and' costs
-A young girl named Minnie Chase
was drowned while bathing in the river
Speed at Guelph, last Friday af>;er-
noon. I l I
—Potatoes are selling at $2 a ba in
London, at these prices many fam hes
have determined to do without till > ew
ones come in.
—John- Beattie, a: farmer who lived
near Essex Centre, was found drowned in
a well in . his yard last Thursday. He
was of unsound mind. ; .
—A $15,000 fire occurred at Hull, Ot-
tawa, last Sunday. The fire is supposed
to have originated float boys smolfing
cigars in the yard.
—The charge of arson brought against
Mr. Frey, of Crosshill, was thrown out
by the Grand Jury at, erlin, there being
no evidence to sustain it.
—A private letter fr m Dufferin, Man-
itoba, says there has been steady slain
there for two weeks. I On June 6th there
was a heavy snow stor . l
—A man with the s all pox landed in
Sarnia from St. Clair, i ichigan, but. vias
promptly shipped back by the Mayor
as soon as the disease ;was discovered.
—Nine applications have been received
for the purchase 'of the $10,000 t,
Thomas school debentures. A London
gentleman offers to accept the entire !lot
at par.
—Mr. W. A. Sampson, for a number
of years past manager of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce at Woodstock, has
been appointed to a similar office in
Galt. I
—Mayor Waller, of Ottawa, present-
ed Willie Brown, the boy who saved a
companion from drowning on Sunday
last, with a gold medal as a reward or
his bravery., ,
—A few days ago a party of six Ipft
Chesley village on a tr ut fishing excur-
sion to the Township of Sullivan. In a
short time nco less • th n 40 pounds of
trout were secured.
-The meeting of the Presbyterian As-
sembly at Halifax was rought to a close
on Monday evening, Jiine 25th, after a
a session of eleven days The Assembly
meets next year in Hamilton.
—A little son of Mr. Butterworth,
dentist of Moorefield, was drowned in
the Conestoga River a few days ago. He
had gone alone to fish, and it is not
known how he fell into the river.
—Complaints are beginning to be very
frequent about hotel and boarding-house
runners at Duluth, who hongregate on the
wharf on the arrival of steamers and bu ly
and annoy passengers n t a little.
-Mr. John Freeland, f Scotland,On .,
has a curiosity in the sh pe of a pea ' e.
The vine is growing fro a tea pot spo t
and stands 5 feet 5 inch s in height. t
also contains 8 pods with quite large pe s
in them. ,
—Large subscriptions are being tak n
up all over the Dominion in aid of the suf-
ferers by the St. John fire. Over $200,-
000 in money besides large contributions
in clothing and provisions have alrea
been forwarded. .
—One night recently John Prain,Esi
Reeve of Minto, had seven valuab e
lambs killed by dogs. A few days b
fore he had refused $3 each for . thent,
preferring to keep the lambs to . improve
his stock. i
-At a late meeting of the West Mus-
koka Agricultural Society a general sen-
timent was expressed for amendments to
some of the minor clauses of the freie
grant act, which changes it was held
would be conducive to good husbandry.
y
—A Canadian manufacturing firm •h
received a telegram from one of the co
missioners to the Sydney Exhibition, o
Bering 50 reapers to be sent at onoe td
Australia by way of New York. The
$10value,000o.f this consignment is about
—The Methodist body at Oakville is
busily erecting a commodious and expenn-
sive brick church, with spacious school-
rooms attached. The corner stone is to
be laid by John Macdonald, M. P., of
Toronto, with imposing ceremonies, on
Dominion Day,, in the afternoon. •
—On Monday morning last week M4
JohniM. Caffery committed suicide at Por
Hope, by taking Paris green mixed
buttermilk. He had for 24 years acts
as porter at the harbor, and while they
saved a number of lives. Several yea '
ago his dissipated habits led -to his dis-
missal and he engaged in carting abou
the town. He was about sixty-eigh
years of age.
—The cotton mills, at Merriton, nea
St. Catharines, which had been closed fo
some time, were reopened a week ago,an
the employes b' gan working full hours
It appears thatlthe policy of the ne
manager towards the hands forms s
agreeable a con ;rast to that of the former
one, that the very recollection of the
latter so enraged the mill hands that they
made an effigy Of him and hung it upon
the telegraph wires in front of his hour+
—a very childish proceeding truly.
—At Galt, on Thursday evening las
week A. Hutton, a young man abon
'22 years of age who had been brough
to this country by Miss Macpherson, an4
has been working for Mr. Allan Goodall
a farmer, opposite the 'Home, met his
' death by drowning. At the place where
the deceased was drowned the water was
not more than eight feet , deep. It is
supposed that death Was caused by hea
disease or something of that nature, as
if it had been cramps he would in all
probability have called out.
—The Meaford Monitor says an extra-
ordinary flight of the insect known as the
devil's darningneedle is reported from the
4th line. The swarm extended about 30
rods and kept in a straight line from west
to east.
—A Londoner named Chas. Welch has
been tried inLucan on the charge of car-
rying unlawful weapons. A revolver,
dirk and razor were found upon his per-
son. He was convicted, fined $40 and
costs, or two months in jail.
—Mr. Wm. Moyer, an old and respect-
ed farmer, a resident of Berlin, was last
Saturday afternoon killed on the street
by a kick on the head from a horse he
was driving. His skull was smashed in,
and death was almost instantaneous.
—A quarry in the Bay of Islands, New-
foundland, containing handsome pink and
white marble deposits, is to be worked by
a British Company. A deposit of ochre
has been found near Bracebridge, and
Galena in Armour township, Mnakoka.
—The following is the bill of fare for
working prisoners at the Central Prison,
Toronto : Breakfast—Bread, half pound;
porridge, one pint ; and milk or coffee,
one pint. Dinner—Bread or potatoes,
half pound ; meat 8 or 12 ounces, and 1
pint of soup. Supper—Same as break-
fast.
—A little boy, son of Mr. Black, plas-
terer, Guelph, got up in his sleep a few
evenings ago, and sprung out of .a window
some 14 or 15 feet from the ground, the
noise awakening the lad's parents, and
they got up. The shock awakened the
child, but strange to say he was uninjur-
ed. His escape from serious injury if not
death, was certainly miraculous.
—Mr. John Pulse, of the London
Road, township of Sarnia, has some long
wool. One of his samples was shorn
from a yearling ewe, and was 17 inches
long ; two other samples, 16 inches long,
were from two ewes, each of which
raised two lambs this spring. From 23
sheep Mr. Pulse clipped 1841 pounds of
this wool this season, an average of eight
pounds to each.
-A conductor named James Smith, in
the employ of the Grand Trunk railway,
was badly hurt a few days ago. He at-
tempted to put two tramps off his train,
who got on at Stratford and refused to
pay their fare. They resisted, knock-
ed hi* down, and kicked him about the
head and face. His cries brought his
brakesmen to his assistance, and they
ejected them. He is in a critical condi-
tion.
—District Inspector Davis, of Windsor,
Collector Caven, of Goderich, and officer,
Craig, of Walkerton, on Monday, seized
an illicit still in full operation, also a sail.
boat, valued at $200, on Big Island, fifty
miles north of Southampton. They also
captured the operators, White and Amos.
Adams,the principal and assistant respec-
tively who were fined $500, and sentenced
to six months in jail each.
—Recently a business man, living in
Guelph, was in Brantford, and in leaving
the train on the Great Western, he for-
got to take his satchel with him,in which
were over $200 in cash and $1200 in notes.
The property was carried on, but the rail-
way authorities being informed of the
loss, traced the matter up and succeeded
in getting the satchel, and returning it to
the owner.
—A daring robbery was perpetrated at
the post office in !Niagara last Friday
night. The safe door was blown open by
means of powder, and the contents, sup-
posed tobe about $1,000 in money
and stamps, besides a lot of notes, mort-
gages, bonds and other valuables were
stolen. The office in the evening was as
securely fastened as it could possibly be,
so the work must have been done by ex-
perts.
—That once famous summer resort, Ni-
agara Falls, isllosing its old prestige. Re-
tribution seems to be overtaking the place
for the exorbitant charges demanded
there. The balance of "Table Rock," es-
timated to weigh 60 tons, fell the other
day with a tremendous crash, that was
heard at a distance of five miles. With
the rock disappeared the names of over
4,000 visitors engraved upon it. _
—It has been discovered in Guelph
that.the stinking lime which has been
used by the gas works for purifying gas,
will keep potato bugs from potato vines.
Mix the lime with water to the consis-
tency of milk, and sprinkle it on the
vines with a broom or brush, and the
bugs will retire in disgust. As the lime
costs nothing— for the gas works are
glad to get rid of :it—and as it has no -
poisonous properties, the discovery is a
good one, and people ought fo know it.
—Last Saturdaymorning whiles a young
woman named Mary Jane Kneiller was
proceeding to her work in a clothing store
on Main street west, Hamilton. She was
set upon, when opposite the Grammar
School, by a man named Wm. Johnston,
and stabbed with a knife in nine places
about her neck, face, ear and breast ;
the most dangerous wound was received
in the right side and behind, penetrating
the lung. Johnson was ai{rested, and is
now in jail. The young' woman is very
weak from loss of blood,but hopes are en-
tertained of her recovery.!.
—On Saturday morning, while Mrs.
John O'Keefe, lot 116, rear of 3rd conces-
sion of Sandwich East, was sitting beside
the stove a brand fell out of the stove and p
set fire to her clothing. - In an- instant t
she was enveloped in flames, and in her to
consequent bewilderment she ran out, t
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father die than live a life without a ray
of hope. Before the poison could be taken
from her she drank it. She lived until
last. vening, being perfectly; conscious to the
— dreadful accident happened on the
Great Western railway not far from
Glencoe on Friday night. A farmer liv-
ing in the vicinity named. ied Murdock Mc-
Crae, was run over by a freight train and
horribly mangled, and subsequently the
expres passed over the remains reducing
them o fra encs. The head was found
two c rs' len th, fromany other portion -
The man had had a bottle of whiskey in
his pocket, a d it is supposed he was
drunk and asleep when first struck.
--Mr. Be of Beggsboro',has returned
from Scotian . He says as to emmigration
matters Can a need not expect any big
rush from S - otland, he says, at least
where farmers' men are getting up= to
$12.50 per month with board,aud women
working in the ields $8.33P er month.
The Pacific Colonies Seem more popular
just now for emigrant, and are offering
greater inducements than Canada. Ofir
emigration! a ents, it seems, are at last
wiselydevoti their energies to
g g bringing
out small farmer capitalists, and others
ith means,
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—One night recently, the residence of
o e Donald Munro, eleventh line, East
orra, was visited by a, large number of
ung men, Who went ostensibly for the
purpose of giving him ;a charivari,"
bt the affair culminated' in a row. It
a pears that they broke into the house,
d abused the lady ocenpant in a most
*graceful way. Munro claims they
also stole $108 in money, a silver watch
d other property from him. Seven of
e party, all that could be secured
were arrested and lodged in Woodstock
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jail. Their trial was announced to take
pace before the Mayor, last Thursday
a ternoon, but the matter was settled out
o court by the payment of $500.
—The practice of carrying concealed
w apons is one fraught with danger in
Many ways. Until recently any man
c rrying a dirk or similar weapon could
b punished, but pistols were not pro -
h sited. At the last session of the Do-
m ion Legislature, Mr. Blake intro-
diced a bill, which was carried, making
it a severely punishable offence to carry
aistol, The first.prosecution that we
have noticed, took place before the
P lice Magistrate of Toronto, on Tues -
y last, and the offender was fined $50
d costs. Many are ignorant that
su h a lawxists, and we call at-
te tion to the imatter that all may be
w rned.
Mr. John Rodgers, a practical Blen-
he'm farmer, being in a fair way of losing
Is. entire fruit crop from the ravages of
th caterpillars, set to work to devise
so a plan that does it completely. His
fir t move is to rid the tree of the insects
w ich is an easything to do, either by
b shing or shaking, that done, he wa-
ve .ts them or their friends from return-
in by putting a strip of zinc three inches
wide round- the tree, king the pre -
ca tion to smear it with grease. It is
de idedly comical to witness their vain en-
deavors to ascend, till wearied with the
effort, and with, no hope of ever being able
to rise, they die of brokenhearts for aught
we know. The invention' is simple,cheap
and effectual, and. we should recommend
its introduction..
Improvements appear to be goingn
quite rapidly it the Muskoka district.
Mr. David Beattie, P. L•,5., will pro-
ceed to survey the township of Wilson,
on the Magnetawan river, about 40 miles
north of Parry Sound. !Mr. Byrne, P.
L. S.. is surveying the township of Mills
on the"same riser, and Mr. Fitzgerald
will start soon'to survey the township of
Ferric, Mr. Jaynes K. McLean, P. L. S.,
of Guelph, is surveying the township
of Wood, on the Severn river.
Mr J. Armstrong, of McKellar,
has started. the ' improvements on the
Great Northern road, north from McKel-
lar village. Mr, Frank Strain will begin
improvements on the Great Northern
road between Waubamik and McKellar
Falls. Mr. Judd is making a splendid
progress on the Parry Sound road. Thos.
Canton will build the North Seguin bridge
immediately.
—At the late bounty Council meeting,
at St. Thomas, a serious charge was pre-
ferred against Mr. Butler, County School
Inspector for Elgin, by Mr. David Me -
Laws, of Wallacetown. 1st. That his
inspection of schools had been inefficient.
2d. That his duties as !!Inspector had
been unfaithfully discharg 'd. 3rd. There
is every reason tb believe that he has a
pecuniary interest in introducing a cer-
tain school desk' in the schools of the
county. Mr. McLaws stated that he
knew there was great dissatisfaction
among the teachers with Mr. Butler, on
account of the superficial manner in
which he conducted the school examina-
tions, but the majority of them were
young, and they hesitated to tell all they
knew of the. matter, for fear the Inspec-
tor may use his influence against them.
A committee of .five, consisting of Messrs.
Nairn, Stalker, 1 pobbie, Payne and
the Warden, were appointed to in-
vestigate the charges and report next
meeting,
—A case of some interest to dairymen,
was, tried at Glencoe last week. J. E.
Campbell, President of the directory of
the Mayfair Cheese Factory, laid corn-
laint against Wm. Cowan, for watering
he milk which he -supplied to the fat-
rya On the trial it was shown that
he milk supplied by him at several
times registered from 85' to 90° on- the
crometer, while the average should
have been about 100°. The directors,
with the consent of Cowan, had Cowan's
cows milked, and on testing the product
found it to register about 100. Mr.
Cowan then signed a document, agreeing
to deduct ten per cent. from; what he was
to receive for his milk. He attributed
the excess of water to carelessness in
milking ; by the rinsing of the milkpalls
having been put with the' milk. Mr.
Cowan was fined $5, and $7 50 coats.
Mr. Horton, of Londoat, attended on
the part of the defyindant, who, it
u.
said, will appeal tib the Court at Lon
of doors and through the fields to her hus-
band
Before reachinghim she fell ex-
hausted, her clothing aving been con-
sumed and her body dreadfully burned.
It is hardly expected that she can sur-
vive.
—A melancholy suicide took place at
the residence of Mr. Joseph Boyce, in
Windham, on Saturday, 16th inst. Julia
Young, about 20 years of age, who had
lived with Mr. Boyce from the time she
was seven years of age, mixed some Paris
green with water, and after she had the
dose ready told the family she intended
to poison herself, as she was an orphan,
.and had no friends and no one to look to
for help and comfort, She said she would
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