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The Huron Expositor, 1877-08-17, Page 4.z? 4 THE HUR0111 \ — EiPOS1TOR. 1 AUGUST 17 1877. NEW ADVIIRTISEMENTS. Fresh Arrivals—Waddell & Co. Books and Station ry—C, W. Papst. Great Clearing Sal —John Rogers. Winceys—Duncan I& Duncan. Dress Goods—Duncan & Duncan. Voters Lists—Township of McKillop. Legal Card—Cameron, Holt & Cameron. Coat Lost—Robert NeMichael. Valuable Property for Sale—S. Hannah. Prize Drawing—Mi Robertson, • min xpoottot. 1 I 1 SEAFORTH, FRIalkY, AUGUST 17,1877. The American and the Indians. Few countries in these latter days have suffered more severely -from border raids and messacree by the red men of the forest, than the United gtates has. This, however, under the circumstances, is not much to Itti wondered at. The disgraceful treatment accorded the In- dians by the United States authorities was sufficient to e rage and exasperate civil- ized people than th American Indians. even a much more ntelligent and civil - The officers appointed by the Govern- ment to deal with the Indians, seemed to consider it a virtue to rob and plun- der from them as much as possible. Hun- dreds of political backs and ringers -in - , I have secured Indian agencies, and in a few years have made immense fortunes by plundering those whom they were supposed to proteet from imposition The Indians, of cmirse, were well aware of this, and failed through repeated re- monstrances to the Government to se- cure their just rights. The GovernMent, instead of removing or , punishing those who had so shainefelly abused their _. trust by systematicilly robbing and op- pressing the Indians ' who were placed under their chargej attempted by force of arms to compel tlhe Indians to submit to this unjust and Idishonest treatment. The Indians, of Course, in their own way, resented the cruelty and oppression of the Government and thus there has been for years a continuous war between the border Indian e and the Anaerican authorities. The destruction of life on both sides has been lamentable, and at length the Indiana seemed as if they were likely to gain the upper hand of their antagonists. 'Ilie recent reverses and repulses which Jthe American troops have met with, seei4 at last to have open- ed the eyes of the American authorities. From recent reporte it woullit seem they have determined that tt will not do to longer allow politica favorites , and hangers on to fatten and become rich at the expense of the poor red man, and that if they are to keep the latter in peaceable subjection, they must not only •withdraw the leeches, but they must also resort to persua ion and fair dealing instead of force of a ms. In this respect they have determined to profit by the example set them bk the Canadian ain thorities. Canada has evet dealt honest- ly and. honorably with her natives. She has seladued and pacified them by kin4 and honest treatment. The 'United States, on the other hand, has tried with the same class of people the most harsh and tyrannic I rule, and has mis- erably failed in he attempts to bring them into ubjection, tenet now she has determined to change her course. A Commission is to be appointed by the United States Government to confer with the disaffected tribes, and to en- deavor to conciliate them. The sharks who have for years peen plundering and robbing the Indians i ueder the guise of Government agencies, are to be dismiss- ed, and the care of the Indians will in future be entrusted to experienced army officers. For the sake of humanity it is to be hoped the proposed experiment may prove successful. Whatever it may do now that the wet -at passions of the Indian tribes have heen raised, there is no doubt but had a !sintilar course been I pursued years ago, much bloodshed and trouble would have been avoided. , One of these hostile Indian tribes, that under the lead of 1Sitting Bull; which has given the Arneriban authorities con- siderable trouble, recently transferred themselves to Canadian territory, taking up their quarters a thort distance from the American border. This acquisition to the population ofI the Canadian North West was not appr ciated by the Can- adian authorities, arid it has been a mat- ter for serious consideration what would be the best and safeet ineans to adopt to get quietly rid of the; unwelcome visitors. nize the gravity of tie'coraplications that The Canadian Gove ninent fully recog- may arise from the nresence in our terri- tory of foreign and hostile Indians. Sit- ting Bull and his band are now in a sec- tion of country where buffalo are plenti- ful, but not more ,so than is necessary - 1 for the support of our Own tribes. These, Blackfeet, Assiniboiaee, and Crees, are fiercely jealous of the advent Of the hos- tile Sioux, and may at any time make war upon them, thus involving our whole western frontier in a general In- dian war. To avert such a catastro- phe it is necessary that a neighborly policy ahould guide the'two Govern- ments in dealing with this question. Consequently Mr. Mills, the Canadian Minister of the Intetier, recently paid a visit to Washington1 for the purpose of arranging with the 1 American Govern- ment for the peaceahle transferrence of Sitting Bull from Canadian to American soil. The American Government have agreed to the appoIntment of a corn - mission to be composed of three Ameri- cans and two Canadians to confer with his Bullship and secure his return to his , 1 native hunting grounds. Mr. Mills is - very,Sangui e that the Commission will be successf 1 in its mission and Ithat th more enligh ened policy to be adopted i future by t e AMerican Government i its dealings with/ he Indians.will secur the establi hmen of a lasting peac throughout the Western country. It is to be hoped he may not be disappointedt 1 • -`t There were no other laborers in the family, his oldest child being a girl 8 years of age. He has $6 a moeth to pay fol rent, and the rent had been seldom paid. Ceffee they could not use, bread was ,almost a Juxury, mush was their staple erticle of diet, and tea at 20 to 25 cents a pound was the most tempting article in the daily bill of fare. I heard n of an engineer, who is supposed th be e doing very well as work goes, who had fed a family ef , nine personson meal mush three times a day, from pay day to pay day,' for months." The Peni sylvania Coal Miners. J The recent strikes, in the American coal region have brought to light a con- dition of th ngs which is most deplorable. The work.i • n at the several mines are in a state of a solute destitution, and man are borderi g on starvation. It is no that they the wages t so low as t themselves wages whic were by no three years cent. Th there is n does not ise due partly 10 the fact that the laboitmar ket is oven eked. There are too man laborers for the work that is to do There is as inuch if not more coal con Burned as there ever ;Was,Ibut it is wit the miners a it is with the railroads. A rivalry has sprung up between the com- panies, the result Of a broken combina- tion, and c al istioid for less than the coat of pro uction. To make up for this loss caused y over competition the com- panies grin their men down to starvation price, and he large supply in the labor market ha enabled them to carry out their schern•s of oppression. The com- panies seei to forget that during the time of combinat on they made vast profits, and accumulate o wealth, and that they did not remune ate their men in proportion to their proots, although they now want to cut the.. down to , make up for their losses. A short time ago the miners' committee ent to the officers of certain companies o ask for the rescinding of the 'order for a eduction, suggesting that the market prise of coal was so good that the compane could afford to grant the request, th: reply was given: "The mar- ket is none •f your business; we shall regulate w ges by the labor- market." While this is the kind of treatment to which the miners are exposed, can any wonder tha they should strike, and that they shuh even resort to violence to se- cure their r ghts? A correspondent of an American aper gives the following touching d scription of the way things are conduct d. He says: "1 have spent nearly a day among the miners, visieing them in their meetings and in theit houses, and I have been astonished Ito 'find them cool, quiet, anxious to eep the peace, friendly to the militar, , but so poor and hopeless that their c ndition cannot •possibly be —much wore without driving them in desperationto rash acts. This morning, on going into the hall where they hold their assemblages, I was surrounded by a throng of hem. They were respectful in their allusions to the company, they were willin to grant me every facility for ascertai ing exactly what their con- dition is, ad they were rejoiced that they had an opportunity to present their grievances j st as they were. There was ote man in the crowd, an Irishman, whom I add eased. He is employed in the Contine tal Mine of the Delaware, Lackawann and Western, and is a laborer. II is perhaps in a better place 'than the or mary helper, the man who loads the co 1 for an experienced miner. He goes in a mine himself, and with another miner takes a chamber to work it. Instead of taking one-third of the earnings—tIie portion allotted to ordin- ary helpers he has one-half and shares with his paiftner the cost of the supplies. Having pai4 his necessary expenses to the compan , at the end of last month he had $19. at of this came $4.30 for rent of his house and $1 for coal. He has a wife and th ee children and his mother, 74 years old to support. Their diet has been for mo ths simply a round of mush made of In ian meal, and occasionally potatoes. he man was clad in clothes very much 4 e worse for wear, yet he - said they w re the best he had to put on when he ca lie out of the shaft. 'But do you not ave meat?' I asked., 'Meat is it! sure I wouldn't know how to eat it,' said the e an in reply, and the truth of his stat ment was corroborated by several earn:at and intelligent men who stood near. Indeed, the crowds in the hall contain d a large number of men who spoke i o good terms, with judgment, and iith choice of language that showed a considera ole degree of study. The Irishman sa d that beyond a bit of pork oti pay-day e had scarcely known avhat it was to taste meat for months." "A vror an of the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Co oo pany here said that while it was prete o ded that the store of that company w s one at which they were not compell d to buy, they really were constrained to buy there. If they did not they wo Id soon know of it, and they _would get little employment and lit03 or no cash. The stores, thie man assede ed, would s pply everything that could possibly be -anted by families. To get cash the roei at one time resorted to the plea of fu erals, representing that Mende or r datives were dead, and they needed mon y to bury them. An un- dertaker w s added to the store, and now the funeral plea is a worn out one. It is charged that doctors who attend the miners pees at their bills through the company sto e, and that the miners have to pay 5 pe cent. for the collection of the bill. TI e ordera of the company are discount d, the miners say, and a case was me i tioned of a borirding-house keeper who took a miner's order for $40 as payment o a debt, but could only get $38 worth o goods at the company's store prices. A man in the pine shaft said he had a family of nine to support, and that "no hing but the mercy of God had kept the oo alive." He broke his leg in the mine in November, was laid -up six months, and on going to work in March was able to make onlv $17 or $18. THE Stratford Herald thinks us ignor- ant and parse and possessed of an ill-in- formed mind b cense we cannot appreci- ate its style of c mposition al. utterance. While presumptuous self-coneeit is the leading feature of our contemporaries y charade/. we dp not coneidet it worth t while to attem t to change its opinion. re unable to get work, but ey receive for their labor are be utterly insufficient to feed and their families. The even in the best of times means generous, have within been cut dowa over 40' per cause of this is, not that demand for coal, or that it y to work the mines, but is We merOy remerk that if th4 ability to string tooether mass of words in mean- ingless sentences, together with the free use of such high sOunding phrases as "stinkpot," "smellfungus," &c., are .an index of intelligence, refinement, and a well-informed mind, the editor of the Stratford Herald must be exceedingly refined, and welleinformed. For proof of the statement we made last • week we 'have pnly to refer our con-, temporary to a Perusal of its own editori- • al columns for the past few months. When - it acComp1ishes1 this task, it may then h "say the few words that will prove of interest to us" if it is, convenient. , , 1 IN an 'aide °it the labor troubles the Clinton New Era says: "Ti Montreal 1.1 "the city laborers ere receiving eiehty 1 "cents per day,, and in Chicago laborers "are only receiving $1 a qi%y." And again: "When labor is so high that but "little, if anything, can be made out of "it, the s'demand for it will not be very I "brisk, and so long as the laborer stands " out for that price, his services will not , "be wanted only upon special occasions. " If laborers wish toobtain !steady em- , i " ployment let them offer their services " at a reasonable figure, end 'then it is I "certain that fernier& will be eager to "engage tthem, and not otherwise." If the editor of the New Era, 1 and other e theorists who speak and write in a simi- lar strain, -were forced to support them- selves and their families on 80 cents per day, with flute at $7 per bartel and oth- er necessaries Of life proportionately high,- they would probably change their minds as to the .tralue of labor. I i 0 1 News (ifof the Wee • 1 I THE Messissehhe — Engines report the channel of the Mississippi! t be con- tinually deepening. 1 A SENSIBLE PRESIDENS. — resident Hayes requested no great display during his New Hampshire visit. He thinks when many people have so much trouble to find bread, it would not be in good taste to spend large sums in eptertaining the President. ' AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM. — The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad presents a claim for transporting United States troops from Washington to different points along its line to protect it from strikers. No other railroad has made such a charge. The matter has been re- ferred to the Attorney -General. TRANS-A.TLANTIC TRADE. —Qnly three ocean steamers sailed from New York last Saturday. Freights show a large falling off, attributed to an advance in ocean freight rates, and to the feet that farmers are holding back their products for higher prices. Shipments i on Satur- day include 136,000 bushels grain'45,000 boxes cheese, 6,200 packages butter. The fresh beef shipment is the" smallest re- corded, only 800 quarters. , KILLED BY LIGHTNING. —1)6ring the Sunday School services in the Swedish Lutheran church in Jamestown, N. Y., last Sunday, the lightning -entered an open rear window, passing out of a front window, and.instantly killing a bornam- ed Anderson and prostrating a lady and pwo girls. A private residence was truck about the same time. and one woman was rendered insensible. ' A HANDSOME LEGACY. —The late W. L. Newberry, of Chicago, left an estate al ued at from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. is widow was to get $10,000 a year for er life, and at her death the estate was o be divided, -half going to the . heirs, and half to the 'city for the 'establish- ment of a public library. Mrs. New- berry has elected to take her 'statutory share, and the heirs have ailed for and obtained an order for immediate distri- bution, so that in a very short time the city of Chicago will have e princely library. . I 1 THE INDIANS IX TME WEST.—AU -en- gagement took place recently betWeen the iJnited State t troops in Montana, and 1the Nez . Perces, which resulted in the defeat of the United States treops, with four officers and twenty-two Men killed. The troops are reported as bein in want f everything—food, clothing, Imedicine, and medical attendance. A .co tier from General Gibbon arrived at D er Lodge •on Sunday with dates to the 11 h. There was no fighting after the first day's bat- tle on the 9th. Gibboti's losses are Killed, 'Captain Logan, Lieutenants Bradley and Bostwick, and seventeen men and five citizens: The wounded are General Gibbon, Captain Williams Lieutenants Coolridge, Wooderuff, -and English, the latter seriously, besides 36 men and four citizens. The Indians suf- fered severely, as 40 dead Indians were counted on about half the battle field. Howard had arrived, and Would pursue the Indians as soon as his command ar- rived. Gibbon would move to Deer Lodge and take his wounded to Fott Shaw as soon as medical aid and trans- portation garrived. The Indians had disappeared, in which direction it was riot yet learned. THE NEZ PERCES. — The New York Graphic gives the following -account of the Nez Perces, with whom the United States troops had the recent 'fatal en- counter: They are half civilied Indi- ans, who have been deceived an4 defraud- ed. until a revolt has resulte . They number about 3,000 people, 100 of whom are warriors. They are brave and intel- ligent. One or two hundred an read English, and many can write. ,They till 3,000 acres of land. They own 14,000 horses, 70 make, 9,000 cattle, boo head of hogs. Last year they ;lased 30,000 bushels of grain and Man vegetables. They have a saw -mill and. a grist -mill. Last year they sawed 50,006 feet of lum- ber for houses. Some of them are car- penters, masons, blacksmith, tinsmiths, and other useful occupations. And now they have broken out in rebellion be- ' cause the Government has cheated them, has lied to them, has diverted their an- nuities, teas stolen their goods. There is but one ablution of this question: the people must be given 160 aea•es of latal each and subjected to lawt Then let every agent be dismissed, aid compelled to work for a living,' instelad of steal- ing. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. -4t a public meeting at Madras for s curing help from England for famine a ferers, .the Duke of Buckingham, Gov rnor of the Madras Presidency, stated t at the fam- ine area contains 18,000,00 r people, a large proportion of whom a e dependent for daily food upon the exer ions and ac- tivity of ,those who transp rt grain to the country. The necessit of supplies! is ateadily increasing. The wants a Madras are already beyond the means Of the Presidency. The increasing severity public Dr. Cornih, . 'Sanitary of the distress necessitates ln appeal to ublic c Cornmissipner, said there were already 1,500,000 people being fed, aid over 500,- 000 have clied. A resolution was adopt- ed that the principal cities of England, Scotland, I Ireland, and India be informed of the urgent necessity fol assistance. The mover of these resolutio is said more people were found dead in a single morn- ing in Madras than had died in the Whole Bengal fainine. . 1 atAst War Ne ! FRO TUESDAY'S DEsrAlreliss. The despatches this mornia g relate for i he most part the atrecitie committed y the Turkt, and likewise - he atrocities erpetrated by the Russian. The for- mer have begun with renewed fierceness their buteheries of Christians in Bul- garia, over :twelve thousand of these having been massacred in two districts alone. Every Christian who ventured out of his house was shot, and those who remained within were burned. Village after village was 'devastated. -The Rus- sians are eccused of crimes almost as ter- rible. They burned village after village, slew the unarmed, and ill-used the wo- men. The news from the Balkans is meagre, but favors the supremacy of the Turks in that quarter. , The attitude of Greece bebomes more, warlike. The resignation of Gortshakoff, the Russian Prime Minister, ia reported. It has not yet been accepted. The Belgarian army is expected to cross the Danube as soon as the Russian rein- forcements arrive. 1, FROM WEDNESDAY'S DESPATCHES. The Queen's Speech yesterday regret- ted that the exertions made by Britain to preserve peace had not been success- ful. It reiterates a determination to re- main neutral as long as British interests are unaffected, but makes the Queen to say that she relies on Parliament to vin- dicate and maintain the rights of her em- pire if assailed or endangered. The Russian General who Icommanded at Plevna has been succeeded by General Latoff. General Ignatiefi. is Said to have fallen into disgrace, the advance on the Balkans being on his advice .1 The 'Rus- sians claim. a slight victory over the Turks at 'Topkeny. Prince Eugene, who was in charge of a detachment_oef cavalry under General Gourko, hadleto cut his way out of Eski Saghra withia loss of 800 men. , 1 Servia and Roumania are reported to have entered into an alliance.The Rus- sians and Roumanians are expected ,to enter Servia and receive the aid of the latter. I I 1 The Greeks are making further warlike preparations. Mukhtar Pasha claims to have defeat- ed the Russians in two minor engage. meets. The Turks also claim that they inflicted a loss of 12,000 men on the Rus- sians in the Balkan campaign: s. . 1 1 . FROM THURSDAYS' DESPAjTCFIES. ' The.Balkan campaign is not over. The Russians are entrenching ire the Shipka Pass. Two corps of Russians are sta- tioned advancing ti tioned near by as support to he former. Against these the Turks are from three different points, arid a severe engagement may be looked for. The Russians have been largely reinforced, but sickness among themselves and the 'arrival of Turkish reinforcements from 'Asia have placed the combatants on an ' equal footing. .1 The inassacre of Christians on the southern slope of the Balkans by the Turks appears to have been understated. The Christians are fleeingen masse from Janina,ja Province of Southern j TuTrhekeyi.orm er reports of an elliance be- tween Roumania and Servia, and of war- like preparations in Greece re ' denied. The latter may be changod, owever, if thereportof the sinking of a j Greek ves- sel by -a Terkish man-of-war rove true.- , Huron Notes.. Spring wheat will average about 30 bushels to the acre in the township of Colborne. I —The Goelerich Foundry 0o. have on hand contracts for fitting up two large flouring mills, and a contract to manu- facture two 'large boilers and pther work for Mr. Attrill's salt works. —Two dentists of Exeter, named Ellis and Kinsman, were lately fined $20 and costs each for practising dentistry with- out the necessary license. This is, the 'third time Ellis has been. fined. 1 —Mrs. Ireland, who has been for a long time an inmate of the Goderich jail, was removed a few dayinago to the Ber- lin Poor House. The poor woman is 'very bad with St. Vitus dance, and un - 'able to do anything to help herself. —On Sundey evening last, e threshing machine was driven along a certain con- cession of Hullett, by a thiesher who had either forgotten the day, or else had little respect for it. The rattling of the carriers rather disturbed the ceuiet of the vening. —Mrs. Hooper, of the 1st Concession of traborne, on examining r cently her pork chest, which was kept in the granary, found that three large hams, Weighing nearly 30 pounds each,had been letolen therefrom. No clue has yet been developed, but a liberal reward will be paid for the discovery of the perpetra- , tor. —Mr. James Stretton, of Grey, while driving along the 10th concession of Grey, encountered a large snake sur- rounded by her -numerous progeny. On observing Mr. Stretton, the mother gave a shrill cry and opened her mouth, when the greater number of the young ones ran • inside her. A few took to the side of the road and were lost to sight. Mr. Stret- ton killed the old one and took from in- side her forty-three young snakes, rang- ing from six to eight inches in length. These reptiles are very prolific in breed- ing. —The crops in- the vicinity of Wing - ham are simply magnificent. The fall wheat is now all safely housed, and a better crop was never known. The spring crops are now being harvested, all of which, with the exception, perhaps, of barley, will yield abundantly. Root crpps are looking well and will be great- ly benefitted by the timely rain. —Work was commenced at Goderich oa Wednesday of last week on the long projected salt mines. They are ! to be called the Manhattan Salt Mines, and are owned by H. Y. Attril, of Goderich and New York. The first shaft will have , a delivering capacity of '1,200 tons per day *hen sufficiently developed. The mode of sinking adopted ia by the "long hole" process with the diamond drill. —The following notice appears in the advertising columns of the Clinton New Era :—"Notice is hereby given that ap- plication will be made to the Parliament of Canada, at the next session thereof, by John Mooney, of the town of Clinton, in the County of -Huron, in the Province of Ontario, drover, for a Bill of Divorce from Lois Ann Mooney, his wife, late of the town of Clinton aforesaid, on the ground of adultery. —On Monday afternoon of last week, Mr. ,John. McNabb, of the Exeter bend- ing factory, met with an accident which may be said to be a narrow escape from being fatal. It appears that he was standing on the floor of the second story of the building, when a heavy shaft, with which a workman in the third story was working, fell through an opening in the floor, the end of it strik- ing McNabbti left hand, which was rest- ing upon a piece of machinery al the time. • —On Wednesday of last week, as the steamer Ontario was preparing to leave Goderich with the Seaforth excursionists for Kincardine, atlady might have been seen hurrying down the hill, and she reached the wharf just as the gangway was being withdrawn. She at once sprang on the retreating plank and as she felt it sink beneath her weight she gave vent to a scream that might have made a steam whistle envious. Fortunately some gentleman on -board the steamer seized her by her clothing and drew her on board. —A party of gentlemen from Wingharn_ went on an excursion to Teeswater on Sunday last, taking a span of horses and a two -seated carriage. All went merry enough until they were returning home, and near Cargill's hotel, when something went wrong about the whiffietrees, the horses got frightened, the pole broke, and the spill was complete. One of the party,- a gentleman from Galt, received a severe cut on the head from being thrown out, but the others escaped. with; very slight injuries, they having jumped out in time to save themselves. —At a regular meeting of North Star Lodge No. 317, Independent Order of Good Templars, Londesboro, held on Tuesday evening, the 7th inst. Mr. Jno. Murdock, Lodge Deputy, installed the following persons as officers for the term ending Oct. 31st: W. B. Murdock, W. C. T.; Miss M.A. Smith, W.V.T.; C.Mc- Lennan, 'W. S. ; Miss S. J. Morris, W.T. J. C. Adams, W.F.S.; Nelson Murdock, W. M. ; Miss -J. Cottle, W.I. G. ; George Cock alin e, W. 0.G. ; Miss A. Craven, W. AS.; Miss A. Grey, W.D.M.-'Miss H. Dowslin, W.R.H.S.; Miss D. Longman, W.L. H.S. The lodge is in a prosperous condition, and the weekly meetings are well attended. —The Blythe Magistrates had before them last week a case upon an inter -ma - tion laid by David McConnell against Henry Gosman, both of Morris'on a charge of assault and battery. In this case Mr. Gosman acknowledged to, hav- ing struck McConnell,the result of Which was one eye inmourning, but he stated that the provocation was so great that he could not help it, McConnell having called him most offensive and dirty names. McConnell claimed $10 damages for his injured eye. The magistrates, Esquires Wm. Wilson and VVra. Drummond, after hearing the case, adjudged that Mr. Gosman should pay the sum of five dollars for the repairs of McConnell's eye, together with the costs of the court and one dollar fine—in all, something over nine dollars. Perth Items. The Listowel races will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, 29th and 30th August. —Mr. Archibald Hamilton, of ;1 orth Easthope, last week threshed 22 leathels of fall wheat in 10 minutes. —The River Thames never was lower at St. Marys than it is -at present. Where three months ago the angry waves lashed against the rocky shores of the river, not a drop of water can now be seen. —At a meeting of the Directors of the Perth Mutual Insurance Company, on Wednesday, Mr. W. S. Cowan, for sever- al years the efficient general agent of the 'company, was reappointed to 'that posi- sition, in the room of Mr. W. F. Cornell, resigned. —The cooper shop of .T. & J. Kidd,- at Carronbrook, in connection with their salt works, was burned on Saturday while the men were at dinner. A strong breeze was blowing at the time, and several other buildings caught fire, but were only slightly damaged. Less, $1,- 000; insurance, $600. HT Craig's (fore- man) loss, $300; no insurance. —On Friday of last week, about two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. JolurKerr's barn, on lot 15, concession 10, Morning - ton, was discovered to be on fire, and be- fore anything could be done to extinguish the flales the building and contents, consisting of a quantity of hay and sever- al farming implements, were totally de- stroyed. No insurance. —A young man named Weir, while working in the stave facthry at Newry, met with a serious accident last week. He was engaged in heading cheese boxes, and whilst so doing the saw came in contact with his hand, severing the bones of three of his fingers, and severely injur- ing a fourth. By careful attention it is tcehsos. ught that the bones may still unite, and as yet there is every prospect of suc- -A serious and almost fatal accident befel the township Clerk of Mornington, Mr. Roberts, on the evening of Tuesday last. Mr. Roberts, in contpany with his wife and child, had been pn a visit to Listowel, and when passing the third concession on the way home, turned off the road to let a team with a threshing' machine pass them. In so doing, the horse suddenly shied to one side, upset- ting the boggy' and passengers into the ditch, and throwing itself down at the same time. Mrs. Roberts and, child, — strange to say, escaped without injury, but Mr. Roberts was severely hurt about the head. After the accident, when Medical assistance was called, he was quiteinsensible.hild Aeabout 5 years of age Wee burnt to death on Thursday last, on lot 5, concession 6, Mitchell road, Fullerton, lit appears that Mr. George Foster, the'. father of the ehild, arose early in the Morning and went to the harvest bal& the cows, and on returning found the bed. sought,her child, which she folind in the Mrs. Foster lit a fire and went to Milk TOM on fire. She extinguished it and barnyardMonday rng rnattotnitocriisnp. o last, shortly , after the bricklayers had ecommenced ririsaltriamwekjamipson,,awile. towel, thekonthe nseeawffoslcd.hionogl bguaivldein Lis. in, ma four men, with a targe stone eighing several hundred 'pounds, fill tit the 5: y ground. Fortunately, however, no one was much injured, with the exception o a young man, Who, besides receiving a f a severe cute was, considerably bruised. A lesson of this kind ought to serve as warning to thoee who are in the habit of constructingtemporary affolde,cwohether ii ot nd_go i ens gto reoA venot on en.1 i r.:t i vv:YBee 4th line of Blanshard, 'managed to get herself into a very uncomfortable , position. On Mr. Jamieion's farm there is a tree which, about a couple of feet from the ground, separates as if split from the top down, and grows up two distinct trees. This cow with the crumpled horn got her front feet upon the trunk of the tree, to enable her to feed upon the green leaves. While doing so her feet kept slipping down until they became wedged in the crotch of the tree so tightly that she could not extricate them. In this position she was found in the morning. The ground upon which her hind feet rested was hammered down about a foot in her frantic efforts to release her front feet. When extricated she fell to the ground and was unable to rise for some tiln, e'About a year ago a young widow — nanted Towers came from England and settled in Milverton, where she engaged in business as a general storekeeper. She bought most of her goods from Mr. Cor- coran of Stratford, and other leading mer- chants in the west. The creditors be- came suspicious and con7stthabluelyM.cCarthy arrested her on the 2 When brought to jail, she was searched by the matron and $166 found secreted in her stays. She was this week brought be- fore the Stratford police magistrate on charges of fraud, false pretences, &o., the county attorney and Mr. J. P. Woods appearing for the prosecution, and -Mr. J. 0-. Smith for the defence. The lady was on Thursday. committed for trial, bail being accepted for her appearance. Immediately after her release, she was arrested by constable T. B. McCarthy, and taken to London to Answer other charges there to be preferred against her. , —An eccentrio old. man named John Stacey, who lives alone in a shanty west of the Logan gravel road, about four miles from Mitchell, is frequently annoyed by bays throwing stones at his shanty, to the detriment of the old man's property. He caught some of the miscreants in the act of throwing stones tee., and forth- with lodged a complaint before Mr. Ifnmberstone, J. P. The parties were summoned to appear at 10 o'clock a. re. on Monday last. They pat in an appear. ance, but Stacey failed to appear. The defendants seemed. very 1 penitent and acknowledged the charge and were let off by paying the costs. About 2 o'clock Stacey put in an appearance and stated that on the previous evening two young men came to his place and treated him to forne whiskey, and that he did not rec- collect anything until he awoke from Bleep and found himself in the midst of a large bush about four miles from his shaenty, and he had to enquire the road before he knew which way to go. - —On. Monday, a boy, ebout 12 years of ageenamed Thomas Middleton, from the township of Elm, near Newry, ap- peared before the Mayor of Listowel, charged with- having a short time ago placed an iron rail across the track of the Great Western Railway. The lad, who is said to be' noted for 'playing tricks," admitted to having placed the rail as atated, for the purpose of seeing the cars "jump" . as they went , over it. The "trick" was just 1 discovered by one of the section men in time to prevent the afternoon train from getting the antici. Rated "jump," as it went towards Brus- sels. After the evidence had been heard, the, culprit, in charge of constable Woods, was sent to Stratford, to have his case further considered. Boys who are in the habit of playing tricks for the fun of the thing should learn a lesson from this case, and not be guilty of -such actions as may send them to the Reformatory prison or Penitentiary, should they be so fortun- ate es to escape the mellow. Miscellaneous. ' The fifth Itnd latest attempt to run a second daily newspaper in Winnipeg, haasy,s,tras d proveeabortive, after a 15 d —A fine large stone block in St. Marys was destroyed by fire on Monday night kat. The building and ' contents were well insured. A fire als6 took place in Parkhill the epee evening, which de- stroyed Johnston's & Henderson's plan- ing mill, and two other buildings. —A terrific thunder storm passed over the city of Ottawa last Monday evening, A brick block, owned by Mrs. Beaubien, on the corner of Cumberland and York streets, was struck by lightning and bad. ly damaged. A portion of the wall on Cumberland street was knocked down. The lightning set fire to the outbuild- ings in the rear of Townsend's store on Albert street, but the flames were ex- tinguished. before any serious damage was done. —A fevt days ago Mayor Beaudry of Montreal purchased a number of tickets for the city street cars, but on perceiv- ing that they were of prange tint he fell into an alarming rage -much to the sur- prise of those about him, and. after call - mg the Company a pack of d—d Orange rascals, and that it was fresh insult offer- ed to the Roman Catholicof Montreal, askecl why they had the impudence to print tickets in orange. Being referred to the President of the Company, that gentleman informed his worship that no insult was intended to himself or his co - religionists by the orange coloured tick- ets, they having been printed indiscrim- inately in various colours. His Worship condescended to take blue tickets in place of the yellow ones. It is stated. that the Presideut, after this little epi- sode, immediately destroyed about 20,000 - t• of the wrath -provoking tic Mayor Beandry seems to be the sooner the sensible peop ooetrealiThindeepa Aro fis ezhpdimriztihoRenevgbietotgter. tosay Cram, near White Lake, took days ago -while some men we neatyerxtinit. guTishhear wwhasenevianthatsho(1 at a little distance buret into 1 men after this were on the ' some time subsequent they their eyes a third coil ignite,v1 outward visible cause, when. , forced to the conclusion that bastion was owing to the hea gre—euheaylai Tht night express tn Canada Southern Railway, night, left Amherstburg la connections from the west, the run to St. Thomas in two two minutes. Sixnainutes tiC"arnestfo°1r1wem°ahmatileas fowrarlrl r has never ,been equalled exc great run made some time tL this -line with Mr. Venda ,same train made the run Thomas to the International miles, in two hours and nin rites, deducting the time use - —Five hundred and three polled on the Dunkin Act Tagoanstto it and on2 1forWednesday,jt. h of the measure have contrived their majority by 73 votes, entire lack of organization Aet's supporters. The inajo is the largest since the first thousand six hundred and n votes have now been polled generally estimated that not 8,090 will be polled altege figures now stand 2,538 nays, yeas; majority against, 378. —On Tuesday morning Da.vi a farmer of Algoma District, Montreal per steamer from Th where he had completed a which had piteed $916 in Without loss of time he proe Bonaventure depot intending oars for home. He showed t carelessness in buying his ti place of taking out- of his po dollars to pay for' it he took roll of bills, all of which -we denominations and wrapped, and placed the parcel upon near the pigeon-hoje of the ti While Dumont was porch:main the nwhosoeciieeur$ee Av.916 disappeared, thief is now probably rejoic possession of it. Dumont, w lost no time in eozniaranicat police, who ha,ve not, howe the thief, nor are they likel have thunder storm Wallacetown on Sunday in 12th inst., doing considerabi among which was the fello the lightning struek a barn Mr. Angus Campbell, near lo ing it and its contents, whic of about 300 bushels of evh quantity of barley. There exitance on the building or Three men, neighbors of Mr. on seeing the fire, started to assistance they could. While on their way to the - burnin another flash of lightning men ing them and felling them to t rendering them unconscious. ous consequences are feared shock. A cow belonging to Rae, of Dutton, was kill lightning, and Mr. McRae bei man enough money has b by subscription to purchase h cow. Republic into ,Grewge --A novel experiment has made in the importation of be A recently arrived royal ma from Montevideo landed a tins, each containing about si raw beef, and 480 some tins beef, the whole having been tween four and six months. meat consisted of the bullock pieces, while the cooked pc xnade up of loins, ribs and th' Submitted to critical inspee -claimed that the cooked. beef, ing tender, retained much of i flavor, while some steaks of meat proved tender and juicy deficiency being in the lack o taste. .As respectetsweettess, :unexceptionable. Regardin ment of price, this meat can in England at live cents per wholesale its. , —A-Bellary correspondent the awful effects of the famine ern India. He Bays a few the working gangs contained portion of stalwart men and w this is no longer the case. bulk of the people are now their ribs stick out, their akin ered with dry looking desqua scribed in the Irish famine as • famine eruption. These fam are almost universal. The dent of relief operations in ports that a journey over roads resemleled a path throu battle field, in the numbers of dying. If the people had. be by a local oatbrea.k of cholera times, they would' have fled works and never returned; b is the pressure for food that afford to leave the works an pay even fmta eingle day. Neemeee Cropsin the 014:1•00 The Mark Lane Express o inst., in its weekly review of corn trade says 2—In the hom the most striking feature is of the wheat plant on the an. examinationof the ear sho be poorly filled and bean traces of blight and rnilde has commenced, but with su as we have been having Iatel vest will be much protr the result scarcely encoura Mend. The Essex crop seems to b unsatisfactory, and wheie rea gun the more farmers see o the lees they like it. Proceeding northward ap less gloomy, and the Scotch -upon the whole, promising growth of cereals is unusually and even with ftner weather will not commence before Of course, the late harvest -is sexily a bad one, still the:ehan age from untoward weather increased as autumn approac Barley has certainly deri from the rain, and the roots growing fast, but Borne appnth felt for the potato cro moisture is likely to pre is