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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-09-07, Page 47 HE HURON EXPOSITOR arm for S Fenn for Sal Valeiable Pa EtstPert'Y f°1` rasitt for Sal Estray Cow-i-Willia,m Campbell. Estray Steer Gordon McAdam. Estray Calve. ohn Ross. Guelph Cantrl Exhibition --G. Murton. New BISOI ..th Shop --A. McIntosh. Farm for Sal ohrt Hastings. Groceries—D can ez Duncan. New Fan Go, Hill &: Co. Mechaaiee' stitarte—D. Johnson. Estray Coi Robert Otterson, Card of Th s --Robert Henderson, Removal of Reoras—H. Derbyshire. Cow Lod -r -J01171 Lee. New Dry Go. s-11. Jamieson, 3 ER.O.LSEMENTS. ie—Scott Brothers. ames Ryan, -Walton. m Leech. Thomas Suter. William Anderson. for Sale John Nairn. ale—A. J. Smith. ohn McConnell. S0 txpoitor. AFORTH, SEPTEMBER 7, 1877. aeleaal EXPOSITOR. We his we present THE EXPOSITOR to, our readers ifl an enlarged forrn and printed on Tie type throughout. We have been ind ced to take this step by detaminatio to continue THE Ex- pos/me in the -ery front rank of local jourrialismaia 1 to place it at the top the heart if we COM- We have added t — its size eight c Imams, thus making ane_ 4f the Ii4rgest local journals i Ontario. We iow give 31 columns equally enjoy die knowledge of tb,e fao that our own town, Seaforth, has /nor ell than doubled its proportions f sev years ago, and it affords us if° littI pleasure to think that we have con tributed our mite towards these last tw pleasurable events. In political matters, while never los ing sight of our principles, we have en cleavored to pursue a straight -forward moderate, and independent course We have rdly adhered to the deter natation expressed when assuming con trol Of THE EXPOSITOR, which Was to give due _credit to those who, as we be hayed, did right, and give due blame t those whom we believed to be dein wrong, no matter to which political party they belonged. We believe this t be the only proper and holiest positio for a journalist to assume, and as w have done in the past we shall continu to do in the future. In kcal matters we have endeavored to pursue a, strictly neutral course. We have kept Tire EXPOSITOR entirely inde- pendent of all _eliques or !parties whatsoever, and intend to continue to. do so. While, not hesitating to bestow praise or ' blame where we considered either deserving, we have refrained. from taking sides with any faction or party, either in town, town - of ship or county, and we have .carefully o :guardecl from our columns abuse or it slander of any individual or party. We n of olosely-printed reading matter, which is more than is furnished by any other local paper in he Province with but one or two except that lee better enterprise, ;and can be afforda by its fully deter -min Seaford' shall it. n is 110W the present management o are sure that ns. We firmly believe index of the prosperity, stability of a town or ven them that which is i ocal Press, and we are d that in this respect aot suffer. We Can heip early seven yea,rs since ublishers assumed the THE EXPOSITOR, and we one will accuse us of egotism or a 1. ' 7 "pu ' ourse aes' if we aow, for he first time, take ourl readers into ouconfidence so far as to let them kno v how our enterprise stands. Seven yeaxs SOOTHE EXPOSITOR ' la t4 _ had a °koala 'Ori of less than eigh hondred, it has ars over two thousa,n have also, to the utmost of out ability, discouraged the introduction of politics iato municipal matters. We beliete that each should he kept separate and distinct, and in the future, as in the past, it shall be bur earnest endeavor to keen • In coaclusion, we have only to say that in the future, as in the past, our best energies will be .devoted to make THE EXPOSITOR a, welcome and anxious- ly looked for visitcir to every hosiseliold where it enters, and as well to Make it, a credit and a benefit to tlA county and the town in which it is published. For what THE E-xroerrou alrea,dy is, we are a very large degree indebted to the many kind friends in the county who have lent us a, helping hand in the way ! of furnishing contributions of local oce pathy. The horrid atrooities whi h are carried on by both -sides- upon t e in- nocent and unoffending victitas, place this conflict beyond the eonfin s Of civilized warfare, 'and outeide p wers may yet find it aecessary in the nter-! ests of humanity to interfere to re train the cruelties which are being erpia: trated upon innecent and unoffe • ding women and. children. It is thi sad and disgusting feature af the war hich will, at no clistant day, inspire i the! hearts of disinterested parties a esire to step the straggle, and which may, lead before long to interference b out- side powers. In the event of no su in- terferenco, it is impossible to predi t, tit thepresent time, what the ultima e re- sult will be, or wlich power *ill emerge from the terrible eolith° vic- torious. - — New THAT harvest is over and fa ers generally have a very fair idea of hat the yield wi I be, the next impo taut question whi h egitates the public ind in this conne tion is that of prices. The question is ftequently propounded: What are the prospects for remunera- tive prices far grain this season? To this query it very difficult to give a satisfactory a swer. Of courhe, a very fair estimate Can beformed, but it is im- possible ler any person th give definite or absolutely reliable advice. At best 1 r conclusions can only be based .on pro- babilities. So fax as we canjudge, there- fore, we shoeild say there • are fair pros- pects for remunerative prices for wheat, while coaxae grains are likely to, rule low. While the price of wheat in this country is regttlated entirely by foreign demand the coarser greins are su ject mainly to local requireraents: Alth in Canada and the United States will be a large average yield of w the production of Europe is very 1 deficient. In, England, owing to }able weather, a short crop een harvested in bad condition, a, e supplies from Itus$ia Mud n saa y be Much curtailed, a very la f et six hundred bcleakeye subscribers, and - all of these 'witi io exception of prob- ably two hundr d e residents of the t cordity of Itar .n. Our printing plant currertces which have transpired from time to time in their several localities, and in recommending it to the attention , of their neighbors and friends. To make it what we desire it to be, we bespea,k continuance of this assistance. But much. as we desire and. rely -upon the aid of our friends in the country, it is ; upon the business men Of Seaforthe and those more immediately interested in • A, that the continued success of our en- erprise mainly depends. The interestaof THE EXPOSITOR &add Seaforth areidelis ical. The one is an importantth aid to e other. While, therefore, we do not ask ! for, andwould not receive, that for which al , we could not give full 'vue in.. return, we feel that we 'axe entitled to and - should receive, the legitimate patronage which the place affords. This, we believe, we have in the main re- ceiyecL For although a few seam to take a different view of this was then of t e most primitive and uteagre cleseri • tion; it is now nusur passed by few any other printing es tablishments o tside of the large cities We fancy there are few local journal's 1 t -taut cart chroni le so large an increase in circulationi so Short a time. It is, i t also, perticala ly gratifying to us to I know that this large oiroulation is f ' natural growth_ It has come gradually vaid spontaneou ly and entirely without the aid of can aseing or drumming Being of the opinion that one volunteer is worth two liaised men, we have preferred rathe to make our journal snob, that the p ople would feel a neces- sity for it and a dett;rnunation to have it, than that we should be compelled to force it on them. In hew far we have t 'been successful n this respect, the suc- cess winch has. ttended our efforts is the best evidencr. It must not be con- cluded, however, that although our *ewer has been Ione of almost unprece- dentedprosperitia We have not met with many difficaltie and discouragements by the way. t would be something really new- in the histoiy of journalism . if we had not. We have had many conflicting 4004 interests to pilot be- tween, not thel ast dangerous of whioh were the various railway schemes which have been agitated from time to time. In all these, however, as in others, we always advocate that whicli we con- scientiously coniiderecl to be just and. right and in thd best interests af the whole, regardloss of the immediate offset which such. advocacy might have upon ourselves. In the pursuance of this course, we have frequently lost, for . a time, \varlet 'deeds, and have had , interested motives ascribed to us, but after calm ratection the estranged friends have in.ariably returned, . and the false accusaltiens have been with- drawn. We liar, also, been forced to - stand quietly by and see our territory ruthlessly invaded by hard-hearted in- truders. Quite regardless of our feel- ings, ambitious villages have put for- ward.t, claims to e distinction of having live newspapers- all to themselves, and hard-hearted newspaper men have step- ped. in and filled those _ claims, thus shutting us on . in a measure, from many of our most fruitful preserves. Six of these int rlopers having been es- tablished in this county within the past six years. Yee, notwithstaauling all these and man3,- other draw -backs, -which it is unnecessary to enumerate, WO still prosper. What we have lost in the quarters indicated we have more than gedned!elsewhere, and consequent - 1Y welteareeanity to no man, and we 11°Petilittiaone bears ernaaity to us. While, awe- weAussee 4ad difficulties to over - COM& and discoiuragements to Meet, we 12476114a really pleasures to cheerus on. We' hoe had thie pleasure of witnessing TIM XxXI0SIT0R grow in circulation and influence.year by year; we have had the eleeseee of lieeing our noble county nareusin we h. and affluence, and we matter from what we have expressed, a very large majority of the basiness. men of the town have not only .eitende ed to us their generous and exclusive - patronage„ but have at all times aused their influence to advance the interests of Tun EXPOSITOR. To all such we tea turn our sincere and heartfelt thanks, and beg to assure them that no effort will he spared on our part to make THE Exeostma in every respect worthy of their patronage and friendship, de- . serving of their esteem, and beneficial in forwarding the interests of the town in which we and they are so deeply in- terested. THE WAR between Russia a,nd Turkey has, within the past few weeks, taken turn which but few expected. Ever since the Russians crossed the banube, they haw been repulsed. in nearly every eugagement Prior to that they carried everything before them. Several fierce engagements have recently taken place, and while the slaughter on both sides has been immense, the Turks have al- most invaiia,bly come off victorious. Of course, the Russians have to con- tend with many disadvantages. They are a long way from their base of sup- plies, they are fighting on strange ground, and they are the aggressive, or attacking party, and almost the only advantage they enjoy is excess in mune hers. The "Turks, on the other hand., are ou their own grounds with which they are thoroughly acquainted, and in uearly every important engagement, thus fax, have occupied a defensive po- sition. . These advantages, together with superior generalship, seem,thus far, to have considerably outweighed the superior numbers of the Russians. As yet there is no prospect of a, cessa- tion of hostilities, neither does there seem to be any immediate. danger of outside interference. So long as the struggle continues equal, outside powers seem perfectly willing to let the belli- gerents fight it out. Except in so fax as the interests of England may be in- volved, it is diffioult for Canadians to sympathize with either side. Both Russia and Turkey have been exceed- ingly oppressive and despotic, andif by the present struggle both are severely , punished and humbled, there will be few who will accord them much sym- ugh here eat, , uch un - has d as cep- gely iiicreased importation will be required from America, so that the price for Canadia,n.a,nd Ainericaa wheat is not likely to be lower than it now is, while there is a very good prospect for better figures. There is an unusually large • shortly resume the offensive, while the Czatevitch, in the east, will act on the defensive against MeheMet Ali. It is believed that jealousy etists between Sideiman Pasha, Mehemet Ali, and Oman Pasha, and prevents their act- ing in concert. If it be true that Osman. is'Bazaine th.ere would be some ground for the theory, as of the feur command- ers in the field one is a T ' k, the second A Leuisville telegrani, ho ever, claims i• a Prussian arid the third Frenchman. ; OsInn7Ansaias apnrApamraetriiocnans. axe apparently being made on 'both sides for renewed activity. The Turks are pontemplating an offensive movement ou Russian ter- ritory, towards Alexandropol to the north and Erivan to •the south. The Alachasia,n coast is. now free of the Turks, the last detachment of the latter having evacuated. Sukum !Kaleh, which was 'immediately re-occapied by the Russians. The insurrection in the in- terior, also, has been suressed, and matters in this region hate once more } assmned their normal condition. The New York Times' special asserts that the friende of Russia in high quar- ters in England are endeavoring to se- cure the intervention of the latter with a view to the conclusion �f peace, as it is thought that at the present juncture both the belligerents would prove amen- able to outside influence. Servia and Roumania seem to beboth preparing for a decisive step. Councils of wax are held. daily . at 413 elgra,de for the discussion of the plan lof the cam- paign, and. all the officers of the Princi- pality have been ordered to join their regirdents by the 13th ,inet. Notwith- standing the militaxy actistity, however, an iMpression prevails at Belgrade that Serviae will not commende hostilities until the forthne of war ' declares itself, Prince Charles of Roumania has been appointed to the supreme command be- fore Plevna,, and has issued. 'a manifesto to his troops announcing the feet, and stating that it behoves the !Roumanians to cross the Damtbe and encounter the Turks, inasinuoh as on account of the proxinaity of operations to the Roumani- a,n frontier a, Turkish 'victory would have ' disastrous results ter she Rou- manians. I . 1 _ num Teammate's Damn -Hes. The lull at the.seat • of War, reported yesterday, has been followed by the ac- customed. storm, and the -long-expected attack on Osman Pasha has been com- menced by a furious and 'successful as- sault 'upon Loftchae Such'was the elan of the Russian attacking party, that they drove the Turks drawn up outside the WallS into the city at cum end and out of it at the other. This movement at Ieoftcha is merely a preliminary to a descent upon Plevna, for which the Grand Duke Nicholas has been prepar- ng.for a month past, in the full deter- mination of achieving a victory whieb shall more tha,n compensate for the des - eat of General Krudener at Plevn.a. A yield. of coarse grains, especially oats, both in Canada and the United States. f Besides this there is lit ely to be a Very t heavy crop of roots of every kin,d. In t view of this fact it can hardly be ex- pected that present pric 38 will long con- tinue, and it would, we think, be a vis - able for farmers to market what hey have for disposal as soon as possibl Th War News. PROM MO1NDAY'S DESPATCHES. The despatches published this m ing confirm the report of a victory ga rn- ned by Mehemet Ali on the riverKara, ,onrn. It appears that the Bats:ism force which had threatened Rasgrad from the rver. Mt Lora, and •which, lied on the ult., been chiVen fit= that posi were concentrated at Eadana, si. miles southweSt of Rasgrad on the rect road. from Rustchuk to Eski Djunaa. Here they were attacked by the Tqrks on Thursday Morning and driven 1ack to Karasan, 48 miles farther to Ithe south-west, where they made a vigo ous st,nd iintu tt., Haidarkoi on t eir left f auk. Fin t ng themselves thu placed between two 1es the Russians e acuated learasan, an by sunset were in full retreat, leaving the Turks in posse •sion of d e places en - toned, and o Pa,paskoi, west of the Kara Lom. A engagement also t ok place on Pride in the r eig]iborho�4t of r3a Since Monday there a,ppet re to have ben: a lull in the .Shipka Fars, due to ihe • preparation by the Turks of a tur 'neb i. moveinent by way of the passes 9u eth- er side of ShiPka. Su eiraa,n , Paha, having been strongly reinforced, is &k- ing arrangements for a decisive attack on the last Russian position in the Pass. 1 1 FROM TUESDAy'S DE,SPATCHES. Correspondeats deny the tales of Rus- sian cruelties. * The famous protocol signed. by nineteen correspondents at Shumla, is pronounced a forgery. The report that Baker Pasha, is missing is not confirmed. It is in w stated that he has been decorated with the order of the Osmanli. The Turks acknowl- edge the loss of 7,000 n the :Shipka Pass. Two thousand wattuded eeac ed. Adrianople on Sunday. By an offi ial statement the Russian oss to the ' 1st ' August is :—At Kadiroe, seven ki ed and thirty wounded; nt Pelisat, 1,p50 killed and wounded. The Turkish oss Was enormous. Neax the villagej of Pelisat alone 300 dead -were countedl on August 31st. The cannonade between Rustchuk andlGiurgevo ' is continued. No loss nor damage reported. A eor- respondent writes on Fri lay that Sulei- man Pasha has,' abandoned the attempt on the Russian! position in the ShiPka Pass and left the neighbourhood of the pass. Some say that he is at Kezanlik, others that heis seeking another. pass. The Russian 1 reinforcements' have marched back, and the Grand.Duke's chief of staff, who visited theass, is satisfied with the Russian position there. A Constantinople telegram says the commandant of Rustchuk made a sortie with seven battalions defeatng the Russians. Osman Pasha, after in- specting the battle -field of Pelisat, re- ports that the Russian losses are gr at- er than at first supposed. .Si1leinau Pasha telegraphs from the Shipka PasS that cannonading began E 4gain on Sa lire day, and,continued on Sunday. A p is- oner states that the effective strength of most of the Russian battalions has been reduced by half. The Bulgarians also suffered cruelly. 1th ion ecu di- •. assault was madeI on Plevna, each eide claiming a vict PROM WEDNESDAY'S DESPATCHES• 1 • There appears to be a lull in the oper- ations at the Bulgarian seat of war, both sides being engaged in preparing for the next move. The Russians are reported to have taken Loftcha by as- sault, but no details of the aff ir are given. The Grand Duke Nicholas will report from• Consta,atinople, even asserts hat fighting is going on argund Plevda, hough no indication is giveii of the way in which the battle is going. The Rus- sians around Rustchuk have also at- tempted an assault, but with .less suc- cess than their comrades in the west, being repulsed with a lass a 1-;000 men. Fighting is again supposed. to he going on in the Shipka Pass, and the Turks in this direction have secured a fresh advantage i11 obtaining farther com- mand of the road from Gabrova, to the miles assigned it, of w ich will be finished. by the 1st of October. The work of the present Season. will be done in Idaho, ',Wyoming and Montana, EXPENSXVE RAILWAY ACOIDENTS.—At the half -Yearly meeting of the Great Northern Railway Company iii London, Lord Col -Well, the &airman, announced that the two acaideists . at! A.bhotssItip- ton and Arlesey siding had cost the Company 100,000 in personal coutpen c - sation alo e. 1 , Bnionee 's WILL. --The Y'ribuiserS' Salt Lake Cityj special says Brigham Young's will was read to the family on Monday. The estate of two -millions is divided equally among 17 wives and 44 children, the division to be made when the youn est child, becomes of: age, Which will b 13 years hence. I 1 i A SINGULAR CASE.—A Post morte examination disclosed a piece of bine walnut—an inch long and,half an bac wide—near the heart of Fred Westhoff who died suddenly on Wednesda,y a Newark, X. J. It was probably forced into his body 16 yeare ago, when. he met -with an accident. Haere Sow Sedatt.—A , heavy snow storm fell 1 a,t Meant Washington o Were spreading, but there was n pearance of serious damage to pro west of 10th avenue. A file engin burned, the firemen being unable it out in consieguence of the in heat. Three hundred. and fifty lies are homeless. FREIGHT RATES RAISED.—The ge freight agents of the Weetern ap- °Ay was 0 get ens° ami- eral unk lines in the United States, made. an aa. wince on freight, by re-classifYing th articles which liave been shipped 30 q per one hundred, such as . grain, eats &ce putting them as fourth clas , o evluch the rate is 350 from Chicago t New - York: This advance began o Monday, contingent upon a correspond- . Th rate se mg a, v n e o 'e to Boston is 40c, to Philadelphia, 33e, and to Baltimore 32c. 1 m BRIGHAM-YOUNG'S DEATH AND FT:011AL. k —The death of the great Mormon lead- er produces less excitement, except , among the members of the higherpriest- t hood, than expeeted. Brigham's trouble was occasioned by indigestion conse- quent upon. meal ate imprudently on a day of extreme heat. On Monday his condition became precarious, bat the fact was kept secret until Tuesday. Monda,y. It commenced 1,at 8 A. M. The thermometer was at 31 at the ho- tels at the base of the mountain, where it was rai ing hard. This is the firs snow stori • on the summit of Kowa Washingto since the 22nd of June; Th month jus passed is the ,first Augnst without snOw for years. - ANOTHER PLANET DISCOVERE11.—Tof. Watson, of the Michigaai University, Brigham's physician his nephew, c Iled in the most trusted Gentile physici n. in Salt Lake City when Young becam un- conscious, and this physician's a vice t was adopted, The Mormon poli of o laying on of hands was adhered to un- til death ensued. The funeral was car- ried out in accordance with written in.-. structions given by Brigham in 1873. He desired that the body be made clean and kept from one to four d.ays ; that the e coffin be of redwood, with a canopy top, giving the appearance of his being able to turn over if he desired; that he rest on a cotton bed and be dressed in tem- ple robes; that the females of his fam- ily buy no black to wear, at the funeral, but they could wear such if they had it, and that the males wear no crape; that the services consist of singing and pray- er,_ and if the friends desire to speak a few words they be at liberty to de so; that the body be carried on. a bier to the south east corner of the private bury- ing grounds on the hill east of the Lion House, and. deposited in a cut stone vault, covered with slabs and earth,then roofed 'over, and there he desired to rest till the resurrection. He desired no one to cry or exhibit signs of grief. , Ten tiers of seats in front were occupied by the family and relatives of the de- ceased.. There were not less than 12,- 000 persons in the building. All his wives and children, with few exceptions, were present, and many scores of grand- children and relatives more distant. The demonstrations of grief were few, though all seemed sad. It is ieported that he will be succeeded by John Young, his youngest son by his first and legitimate wife. Ann Arboa, on Monday announced the discovery of another planet of th eleventh star magnitude. Its right as cension is 23 hours 10 minntes ; its dec lension, zer degree. 45 minutes north; daily f IT WILL 'ISCON END.—Th impression time in the right ascensio . , and south one minutci of arc indeclin tion. prevails in coal circlee that the miners aellit'don:1(iln:Sh5c: uljsleliscniolel:d'sforo ivistroililcye mwlilltgi-isl'Ilioroernes mer president of the -Miners' Natiena Association nowiteeper of ! a notorious coun- ty, boasts of. Ilitving received $20,000 sension amonethe miners, nd instigate i from certain cal compa,nie to sow dis- conspiracies and strikes. • Dasraneroee AT ' WORK.— The pest - master at Sandy Hook, Ky. reports that a gang of desperadoes; on August 22nd burned. half the town, inchiding the post office, their object being to rob the mails. The band is still at large and. threaten the postmaster's life. Th authorities being unable to arrest them, the postmaster advises the diecontin.u- ance of the mail service till arrests are made. ! :DESTITUTION IN BERLIN.—The Amer- ican Minister at Berlin, Germany, giives extracts from papers �f that city disclos- ing terrible destitution, even among the 'better classes. One man who, with is family, asked aesista,nce st a charit le institution, was recognized. as a stud nt I at the University, preparing for .ex m- ination for a judgeship. After be ng aided for a ao.onth he passed a success- - ful exaznination and receiyed the ap- spointment. 1 THE KliEpIVE'S ESTATE.The Ameri- can Consul -General at Cairo reports the .settlement et the debts of the Khedive of Egypt's private estate,. The row :bonds at 5 :per cent. and 7 per cent., when the principal lis' redu.ced. to Ave million Pounds are tol•be exchanged tor Pass.. old bonds, the creditors being allowed a,n advance 'of 10 per dent. on the. nom - News of the Week. JAPAN'S CENSUS.—The census of japan for 1875 gives the native _population at 33,600,000. VALUABLE TROTTER DEAD.—" Ma,m- brino Gift," Na,ye & Foster's celebrat- ed. $30,000 trotting stallion died at Flint , Mich., on Saturday. • JOHN BROWN'S A.107,7UNIENT. — T wo thousand people attended the dedication of the old John Brown monument, on , Friday, at Osawattomie, Kansas. MORE FOOLISHNESS.—An Ohio Sheriff has taken from a strange woman a child positively believed to be- Charley Ross. He will be sent to Philadelphia. _ 1 SMUGGLINO.—A woman has been ar- rested at Ogdensburg, for smuggling silk into the States 'from Mbntreal: She had a large quantity wrapped around her. , A Dileesese ROBBERY. --TWO thousand dollars' worth of diamonds were recent- ly stolen from the room of Mrs. Senator Jones at Dorian House, _Gregory Point, Conlin; BNATIoN, JI E kr Posesd, UNION.—The •, . Danish colonies of Greenland, St. Thomas and St. Jean have been ad- mitted into the international postal union. . A. DEN OF INIQUITY.—The New York Times' speeial says persons iclaiming to know say that a clea,n sweep of the lead- ing officials in the New York Custom House has been determined. on. THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.— The New York Tribune reports that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has nego- tiated a ten million loan, . secured by mortgage on its Chicago division. AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANTS LANDE1).—The Australian emigrants, who left New 'York on April 16th, have been landed. Scarlet fever prevailed during the voy- age, and five deaths' and thrfe births oc- purred. i NOTED PERSONS Deam—Alvin Adaans, founder of the Adams Express Com - any, died at Watertown, I Mass., on 'Saturday, aged 73 years. E. L. Da,ven- port, the actor, died on *Saturday, at Canton, Pa. He was buried, at New. !York on Tuesday. A PRUDENT CLERK.—ChTiStian S. C. Smidt, confidential clerk for Decasho & Donn.er, sugar refiners, New York, -drew a cheque for $14,500 gold, recently, and disappeared, He had invested $1,400 of his own money in the refinery, and doubtless feared he might lose it. . THE DUKE'OP EDINBURGH IN GREECE. —The Duke of Edinburgh axrived at Athens pm. Saturday in an ironclad and :visited the King and Queen. The Brit- ish Government, fearing that be would poem to countenance the war party, tele- a,phed that he must leave immedi- ately. 1 Tut COTTON SPINNERS.— The cotton spinners of Lehigh, Tyldesley- and Ath- erton, England., though in the Boulton !district have not given notice of reduc- tion'but will reduce the wages 5 per cent. if the pending strike is. unsuccess- ful. Ten thousand operatives struck on Saturday. 1 THE HAYDEN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.— The New York World's Washington special says : James Stevenson, execu- tive officer of Professor Hayden's geo- logical survey, has just returned from the field of exploration. Each division of the party has ten thousand square • ins]. value of the old bonds x5o,qcto to be reserved yearly from the civil list to pay this extra sum._ ! A Faeces! IN WASHINGTON.—On Mon- day .a,fterneon, at Washington, Hon. 'Kenneth Rayner, Soliditor of the Treas- ury, meeting Mr. Sataldo, editor of the National. R pablican,! on the Treasury steps, assaulted him with . his fist. Sateldo struck back. Alter further blows, the parties: were separated. The provoeation WiaS repeated pub- lications in the Republican of satirical remarks on the Soliditor's_ age and. in- efficiency. 1 ., • Din:kap rie THE RUSSIAN MY.—The Berlin Correspondent of tie Morning Po St telegraphs that diseasel rages, in a fearful manlier in the Russian army, and one di -Vision is i almost prevented from advancing in donsequence. Cash payments are no longer made to the Russian army contraetorse and many are ruinedin consequence. The au- thorities, issue bonds in pa,yneent of the stores supplied, but no time is fixed for their redemption. Smilax bonds issued during the Crimean War were not re- deemed for 15 years. DEATH or THIERS.--.-M. Thiers' death, which was the result of an attack of appoplexy, has caused a profound im- pression •throughoutiPreasce. The Re- publicans are overwh lmed with con- sternation, as the ex -I) eside t's decease will necessitate an 3ntirel change in 0, their plans•for the t reat ned. Presi- dential contest. Gain etta, s now with- out rival in the rank of t e party, but his views are too asauced to ensure his success at the plls, and, conee- quently, there is som, talk of the Left Centre putbing forWard Ma Grevy, ex - President of the Chamber of Deputies, as their candidate inthe event of Mac- Mahon's retirement. On thootherhand, the Conservatives regard TLiers' ' death as ensuring their suceess at the elec- tions. INCENDIAny FIRE Al: ST. P. M., on _Friday, in the Cty "Saloon, Ionis.—At 1 Paris, near St. Louis', a fire broke gut and spread rapidly on the east, west and south sides of the public square, until ten blocks of businesehouseS and dwell- ings were consumed, including three hotels, the post office, telegraph andex- press offices : Loss $1,000,000 t� $1,500,- 000. Many families are without shelter. Several lives are reported lest, but oaly one bodyhaS been found. It is said a man named, Taylor set fere to the City. saloon by pouring oil on the floor and igniting it. He was arrested.' There was but one fire engine in the town, and the water gave out,1-Nltich left the place almost at the mercy ed theflames. Par- ticislarsi are meagre. I 1 I FATA.P FIRE IN NEW YOK.—A fire broke dut at 9:45 A. M., Monday morn- ing, in J. P. 1 Hate's piano factory, West Thirty-fifth street, New Yomcity. The factory was entirely destroy d. A men jumped from the fifth. story Window slid was killed. Thirty Persons 'perished in the flames. The fire extended to south side of the street, destroying! Connolly's barrel factory, ,Graham & Co.'s silk fac- tory, and several houSes adjoining to the south; also, Walker's charcoal fac- tory, north of 35th street. • ,A. block of frame houses on 10th 'avenue, between 35th and 36th streets; will doubtless be destroyed. In the forenoon the flames s• The Horrid Atrocities of War. Capt. Gambier, an officer in the Brit- ish Army, now' on leave of absence, is one of the -wax correspondents of the London Times.' His reputation as an officer and a gentleman is unquestioned; he has ,paxticipated in several active campaigns, and is of practical experi- ence in Ithe science of wax, and his let- ters from the front are written without fear or favor. Writing Mider date of AugustI10, he says: "Yesterday I visited a large Bulgarian village of upward of 300 houses that had been sacked, burned, and the peo- ple massaered by the Bashi-Bazouke on the 30th of July. The village is called Kara -Atli, about 16 miles from Tirnova, toward Philippopolis. The place is a total wreck, hardly one stone standing on another. It is more completely 'de- stroyed than any other I have visited. The people had all fled, so it is diffieult to say what become of them, thoUgh the account of the survivors seems probabg enough. This is that a great many of them had left before the 30th, and gone to Philippopolis, but about 600 remidned, chiefly women and chil- dren. They all ran away into the Woods and fields on theaipproach of the Bashi-Baeouks; and many were caught and slaaghtered at once, and others are roa,minelabout antil a similar fate over- takes them. Of the few corpses I saw, the most shocking was a woman with her head. half hacked off, her clothes all torn away at the waist, and the body half burned. Dogs and pigs were de- vouring the bodies, while donkeys and cattle strayed through the roads owner- less. The school had not been burned and had evidently been the scene of a terrible fray. Blood on the floors and doorposts, and all kinds of household gear, school -books, and other things in the greatest confusion, told the same dreadful tale. - The spelling -books and childish copy -books appealed power- fully to every human instinct within one. " This( affair at Kara -Atli, however, sinks into insignificance before the ap- palling horror of the massacre at Geula- Mahalisse. It appears that on the 26th a strong force, under Raouf Pasha, made a reconnoissance from Yeni-Saghra, and spent a night near the village above named, -which is situated a, little off the line of rail bet -Ween Yeni-Saghra and. Tirnova. After the force had left, a large body of Circassians returned to the village, and In the first place car- ried off an immense number of young girls, whose fate can only be•guessed at. They then returned to the village, and found that the remainder of the women and children had. fled for protection to the charch. There they slaughtered them all, sua from that church ol. Lennoxi and Lieut. Cherneside, R. E., military' attaches, and Messrs. Le lie and Meyrick, of the Aid to the Siek nd Wounded Society, brought out nd buried 175 bodies of women and clhiI- dren. Besides these there were m4lny others killed in different places •ablout the village, and 36 wounded, had tl eir wounds dressed by the above-nared medical officers. These eye-witne. ses describe the scene in the church as something indescribably awful. he dead and d.yiag were piled in suffocat- ing heaps, little children crawling about looking I for their mothers, wounded mothers trying to move those ghastly heaps td find. their children, and when found hardly able to recognize them with the fearful sword cuts about their little heads. Many women had been violated and subjected . to fearful ar- barites, pregnant -women ripped o en, while others had their breasts cut of- or their hands chopped off at the wrist. mo er ay s one ea and her baby was vainly endeavoring to get the fpod for which it was starving, while an eld- er child was canine and pushing the dead woman to try and, make her awake. Even while these gentlemen were in the village the murdering Was ' SEPT.EIVIIIER 7, 1877. goingn' ethiig on the et tahneoseforrpoacirotu, ferocious atthe- rufad anrs tssiati tAhecirirlioavsesaiasntofrodominbevhieza gllehatedgdteene tooerk. a deliberate shot at Mr. Meyrida ad in'iTasheed- hinispeCill' correspondent of I of htatihe , , Edinburgh Scotsman, who was with Gere Gourkho in his bold ride through Ship- kaPass, writing from. that officer's head- qua2bersanuro syt yards of wi : "Within sought repose .during the few hours of night, I came upon a house, the walls still intact, but with seine of the wood- work still smouldering. Such scenes alas! had during the past ten days been but too co on, andT I would have passed it by r1needed but that a siek- ening stench excited. my curiosity, and I peeped in at what had been the door. It is no exaggeration to say that what little,heavirIinlir terror thea left at taayNtu hveaih d. sTiges with oitet Presented. to I me. The shell of the house inclosed a mass of burned Bee. garians ! .Swellen, blackened corpses ou a battle -field, mutilatedtrunks, an. paled babies,1 crucified. women, females out open all Iliad I seen; yet none pos- sessed half the terrible horror of this ghastly commingling -of charred sskele- tons and half -consumed bodies. Only part of them were exposed, for the roof had fallen in Fon the south side, and covered more than half the floor space; but in the heap nearest the door I counted the remains of 33 human be- ings, besides the disconnected limbs a many more. "They were of all ages and both sexes. Oa theday before, at the capture of Yeed-Saghra,, the Turks in F the town had *sen upon the Bulgarians• and driven th ra into houses selected for the purp se, locked them in, surs rounded the houses, set fire to them, and made of the Bulgarian wretches a burnt offering to their vengeance. Here, near the doorwa,s the blackened corpse of a man who had tried to force the door -while the flames were circling overlread, but he had been shot in the chest, as could be seen from the bullet hole in the charred flesh. There was a skeleton, the vertebrm of which had * literally curled up; another was alibied up with the most expressive contor- tions.; a fourth, apparently that of a woman, had in agony clasped the neck of a fifth at it side. Over against this heap were several with the bones of the legs drawn up; the skull thrown back, and grinning fleshless in 1 the most ghastly manner. The remains of youths and babes were also there, legs and arms twisted and bent past resemblance to human forra ; while limbs and skulls strewn here and there showed that the backed bodies of the dead had been thrown into the terrible furnace with the living. Further up the village was another hideous pile; but words fall me, and•the heart turns sick .at the very remembrance of it. Here I counted the remains of 27 human beings." Perth Items. In the township of Wallace 500 bushels of grain are as easily obtained from one day's threshing, as 100 last year. —The annual match of the Perth Rifle Association will take place on Saturday, 8th inst. Over 100 prizes • will be given. —Mr. W. N. Herrington, chief of po- lice in St. Marys, received. a serious in- jury in his spine by falling on the steps of the mayor's office. . —Mr. James Lang of the 8th con- cession of Wallace, brought a load of ida,x to the mills at Listowel, -which turn- ed the scales at 4,900 lbs. —During one of the late thunder- storms the barn of Mr G. G. Gordon, of Wallace, was struck bylightning, and considerably damaged; insured in the Waterloo Mutual. —Two private schools are about o be: opened in ,Mitchell,'where Fr ch, music, fender needle work, ana the ow- er branches in English will be taught —Over six hundred lambs were last week shipped from the Great Western station at Listowel, for Eastern mar- kets. The price paid. was from 13 75 to $4 per head. —Mr. J. H. Okeeof Listowel, is build- ing four new frame houses for renting. They will be comfortable' and conveni- ent, and will be rented at from $4 50 to $5 50 per Month. —At the opening of Stratford Model School, there Were 40 applications for admission, ,of whom twenty-five were admitted. The lialance will be admit- ted in October next. —At the musical competition at Ber- lin last week, the Stratford, town band won the second prize in the first-class, and the Mitchell band. was awarded first prize in the second-class. —Mr. A Melville, residing on the North Thames road in Fullaston, is the fortunate owner of a magnificent three- year-old mare, which weighed a few days ago in Mitchell 1,800 pounds. —One day recently, Mr. Colquhoun, of Fullerton, with one of Macdonald, McPherson & Co.'s new Standard threshers, manufactured at Stratford, threshed 280 bushels of wheat in three hours. —Mr. John Taylor, of the township of Lima, near Trowbridge, has new po- tatoes from seed 'planted only Six weeks, four of these fellows weighing three pound. They belong to the Early Rose and Peerless varieties. —The following are the parties who obtained second-class teachers' certifi- cates in the County of Perth: Joseph Riley, Joseph Freeman, Joseph Sand- ford Draper, Thos. Alfred Large, Frank Morley, Catherine Climie —The machinery for the new foun- dry at Mitchell is all on the premises now, arid men are busily employed pat- ting it in place and fitting up the shaft- ing. It is expected that -work will cona- naence in a few weeks' time. —The Grand Trunk Railway are to give a grand " Harvest - Home Exclu- sion," en Sept. 11, to Toronto, from Goderich, Sarnia and Londcin. The fare for the round trip fxora Stratford is only $1 25, tickets good until the 18th. --The board of license corcanissioners for North Perth have been authorized to issue cheques 071 the license fund for,, theyeax, payable as follows: Wallace, $13!1 10; Logan, $131 10:; Elms, 41H 63; Mornington, $404 21; Enke, $163 87; North Easthope, $163 BY; List-owel, $609 59; Stratford, $2,143 40; Provincial Treasurer, $1,473 76. —A young man named John Birtch, son! of George Birtch, who resides on Lot 23, Concession 13, Fullarton, lost his !life by the kick of a horse on Mon- day last week. He wail taking a span of horses from a field of grain, and hav- ing cornered them, he caught onebythe tail and administered a kick, which the SEPTEMBER 71 1877. et Co., and one from the Shasman7 tulaki—neurilteplseac. e on the following thresher from Macdonald, Maephe Full-aarThte°rne' °weetr'eNa*t the Grand T South Perth, at St. Marys, Oct. 'cultural workerslie,5mallahaiheme°sslis°:' andof " as cutters,t gaw station, i foroinininStiitrtasarnanmtftifspa;orlirtaufLiraaeatieoftdenti r il,v1a41, gat a3h7coe: ago,p0 linedlirdepAtli. t2c0haelindajild; Logan, anatit'-: 4 ; North Perth, at Stratford, Se ton, at Milverton, Oct. 5; Fullartl Ehna, at Newry, October 2; Mor lace, at Listowel, Sept. 24, 25 an in. the breast, causing death in s and. struck the unfortunate young senirnal resented. by kicking in rs Perth fall shows for 1877 infor toba ; also, a thresher from .the h pay ten cents for ttdraission to the and 15 cents for admission to gron A charge of 25 eecneetennttrissngfisortthe:acbghe.roititii, chell Horticultural .Society, it was= rcieestyolvfeodurtotgicivkeetesacfrheme,etiroertoofgrtohI: and two to hall. Non-members Ar fata—AfotraPsiepteellial' N. tting of the ' — E xlit- i:rvnae —Ex -Mayor it oo .ttiohit,e.c...1(1! , hdrpasaenadnetba:dioeefilthaamtlitsoiNnvng, by offering prize . thebestjuvenile r u nprs . 0 ingyer,150vereeoIIteaifithen egr°e!anolgwhonIas°ettlegir1i markable for her stoutness ana fieeti of foot. She won first money alri every time she ran, and was so' ell] -with her success that she finally th down a challenge to Mr. Matheson i -the Warden for a half Difie ill which the gentlemen, of course, tliel. accept. OnFriday morning last, dining] heavy storm of thunder and lightn the barn of „Mt. W. H. Grey. in township of Hibbert, took fire froml lightning, destroying it, together W the product of 24 acres, which Mr. G had lust finished. putting into the bin hag the night previous. There was insurance of $100 on the peemtises, wh, will not cover the loss by $500. T is an unfortunate occurrence for 11 Grey, as he had only commenced. Iv°--erkInhiSsfa Stratford, isyr. fortdh, thee:tier day, a yes man from the country treated. his k to a glass of lemonade at the stall one of the " eandy butchers" in the (i ous, and paid for the same with a ft] dollar bill, but received only 90 tent51 change. He complained of the swind but to no purpose, and on seeing Ch Wilson informed him of the facts. Til offieer went in and demanded the maxi that the young man had been rogn out of. The ‘4 butcher " refused. : give it up and became insolent, b finally listened to reason, and disgorge The country swain went on his way r j°1ciligi —out 2 o'clock on. Wednesday aft,s _ . 1 noon lnst week, the barn of Mr. jol Green in the Gore of Downie, Del Fairview, was observed to b on 'fir saia was soon entirelyconsumed,toget1 er with its coiatents—this year's crop, abreahang machine and other impl relents, Mr. Green was atworkinenel his fields when he observed. the.fire, at is of the opinion that A must have bee the work of an incendiary, as no one he family were near the barn at A thne. Ile estimates his loss at MOO of which $600 are covered by insure* in the Perth Mutual. --On Saturday, Aug.25, an arbitni tion was held. in St. Marys, the nartie' thereto being the public school board St. Marys and the attached portion e Blanshard. The arbitrators wer Messrs. Alexander, Inspector for Si Marys; Moran, Inspector for Sent Perth; Judge Lizars and W. N. For'lj for St. Marys, and A. -Driver for Man shard. The decision of the arbitrator was that the attached portion shon4 -pay 1}190 annually for five years, coM . mencing on the 1st of january, IS7t This question, whether those: who sisted payment demanded by St. Mary public school 'eoard are attached to school purposes, is finally settled, —On Sunday morning, 26th Angus Mrs. Hanlon, -wife of Dr. Hanlon, o Middleville, Michigan, put an endto he existence by taking aquantity of strych, nine. She was visiting her sister, th wife of the Rev, C. Walker, Stratford at whose house the -melancholy occur: rence took place. She was heard to b . moving about in her bed -room durin . the night and a little while after wen -down stairs, at which tim:e it is believed she took the poison. She came up again'went into her bedroom, stopped ! there for a few Minutes, an.d.then taking - -a lamp in one hand and a hat in the other walked down stairs again, follow-. •ed by Mrs. Walker, who on asking her, if she was sick, learned for the firsti tinae that she had taken the deadly. =drug. Dr. Fraser, who was immediate- ly sent for, did all he _could to save her,. but without effect, She (lied at 4.20 A. Id. Between the spasms ehe told Dr. • Fraser and the farni137 that she had ' taken the poison at 3 A. M., and. that a ' portion of it would be found in a paper . in the stove. She said she was weauof life and wanted. to die, Dr. Fraser found the strychnine in the pla.ce indi- cated. Coroner Hyde held an inquest ly established that she had been a long before attenipted suicide. The jury :tinae of unsound mind and had once theTpuaiensfuda:facevtesni,ng, when jt was clear- ly in a verdict in accordance with Rarvest Prospects in Europe. 8............r.,..„.: . . country, I find that in twelve of the entrtocohti Jamespee:i, brLondon, qtnu.ndaTCool atnh i , r dE, ni in I mill! sa , tuarnimuaal, lreet intear rktos principal wheat counties, which repre- sent one half of the wheat growth of the from farmers in various parts of the by nearly 200,000 acres more than last Years. On a careful analysis of returns - below the average of the ten preceding 11 year, but 400,000 acres, or one -ninth, " The extent of the wheat is greater King aPeofircitehnecyreisnasoainancleewrhoaft tiheesseoinuntp70,ptolrie_ 4),t isf hoi' ot taws. tdt°7hl neaairt,tReturnsi lh ree cesrhgO opuwai is taebrvesel or you rf thethegenerala ra -eetruZdee ,8, 11 trt8673%-four years, but I fear that it will , e r i a y i e 1 a i s even greatlyvybeep .tatrer btb than liaooenwsvi that hoafev el. grs lle5gn3e: While one-quarter give an average crop. or 1875, the three worst crops in . and that, tt,henoeltefweitchtsivteanaicrnopa a i 1