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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1877-12-07, Page 1' iovEmBER 30, 1877. SEAOORTH. - ret kIEW PREMISS. SA MCDOUGALL &CO:Sp - THE THREE SEVENS. ; A DEG TO- INFORM OUR, ICTJ-- DUS CUSTOMERS IN TOWN COUNTRY THAT 'WE INTKND1 ENG INTO- ILI NEW PREMISE t7P THE FST OF JANUA Ya ; IN ORDER TO REDUCE !iENT STOCK WE WILL C PE A EAT CLEA ENG SAIrE. ;SATURDAY THE FIDST I OF rEMBER, Isms OF OUR WHOLE CK, OF STAPLE AND FANCY' GOODS, READYMADE CLOTHING, :TS' FURNISHINGS, HATS !iANDs FURS, ste., &c AT PRICE NT. WILL EFFECT SPEEDY CLEARANCE. ARE DETERMINED- TO- IS THE GREATEST SALE EVE -OWN IN SEA.FORTH AS MD CLEARING S4E. ALL AND SEE THE GOODSs ..JULD, BE IMPOSSIBLE TO .GIVE ;JAILS, AND. SATISFY YOURSE:INES :ENUINE -CLE ILTDIG 1.1_,E, IS GOING ON. CDOUGALL 4114 GO - MAIN 'STREET, SEAFORTEL - - TENTH YEAR. WHOLE 141.TNBER, 522. REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE. VOR SALE. -The subscriber has for sale" a 5 acre lot in the township of McKillop, County o Huron, 20 aeroa are cleared and the balance wel timbered with beech and nraplq. The propert will be sold cheap. Apply to JAS. R. BENSON Solicitor, Seaforth, Out, QTORE-4N» DWELLING FOR SALE.-Fo " Salo or Lease, in the thriving village of Hen esu, a Largo Store and dwelling in connection Immediate possession cm be had. For forth& information apply to the undersigned. I\TILLIAM MOORE, Masai P. O. 519-4 F°RSALE-‘-A two storey- frame house and orril buildings., situated on the Market Square o Seaforth, for side or to rent. The building is ve suitable for a boarding house or a public business For particulars apply to W. N. WATSON, Sea forth, or to DANIEL GORDON, Goderich. 493 AGOOD CHANCE. -$1,500 will buy 150 acre. of good land in the Township of Keppel county of Grey. Bush land, all hardwood, an within two miles of a flourishing village. It ruigh be exchanged for a small farm in McRillop, Tuck ersmith, or Hallett. Apply. to A. STRONG, Land Agent, Seaforth. : 515 -VARM FOR SALTI.-For Sale, thel‘..1 W. corn& -I-. of Lot 15, Con. 4, MCKillop, consisting of 7 scree, with ise house and frame barn, good orch- ard, well aud pump. One mile and a quaxter from church, Post Office and Sehool, and 5 miles from Seaforth. Apply on the premises to MARTIN FRAWLEY. 521x4 FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, a valuable farm • consisting of 100 acres, being the north half of Lots 26 and 27, Con. 10, Township of Grey, County of Huron. Is a beautiful lot with 40 acres cleared. No buildings. Terms easy.' For further particu- lars apply, by lama, to WIL A.N MORTON, New- market P. 0. 5214 -w0R SALE -For Sale, choap, the west half of the north half of Lot 9, Sauble Line, Stanley, contaiuMg 57 acres, 40 of whieh are cleared, and the balance well timbered. It is within 3 miles of Bayffeld. There is a never failing stream of water running through the place. This property must be sold at once. Apply to SCOTT 131.1.0TIMRS, Seaforth. 520 VARM FOR SALE IN TUCKERSMITIL-For -L. Sale, Lot 2a, Con.. 3, . L. 11. S., Tuckersmith., containing- 100 acres, about 80 cleared, the balance hardwood timber. Large brick • house and good. frame outbuildings; an excellent orchard of the choicest. fruits; is well watered. Is situated 5 milesfroro Seath, and i miles from Brucelleld station. For terms apply by letter to E. NIOOL, Grocer,. Wingham. 518 WARM FOR. SALE.,--4!or Sale'Lot .2, Con. 9,- -X; 11.-11, Trickersmith, containing 100 acres, 70 acres cleared, and in a good state of cultivation. The balance is well timbered. There is a good, frame barn wlth stone foundation, log house, good orchard, plenty of water; convenient to schools and churches.. For 'farther particulars apply to MRS, McDONAL0,. ork the. premises, or to Sea - forth P.. O. . . 519m4 VAIIM FOR SAL -K. -Far sale lot No. 27, and -K half of.26, and half of 28, on the Fourth Con- eession, London Road Survey, Tackersmith, con- tain 200 acres. The farm wBi be sold as a, whole or in two parts to suit purchaser. . First-class out buildings, good, orchard, plenty of water, and within four miles of Seaforth, and throo of Bruce - field stations. Apply on .the premises, or to A. STRONG; Land Agent, Seaforth. - 508-4m • TIESIRABLE RESIDENCE IN EGMOND- -" VIT.T,P, FOR SALE.. -.Por Sale, that desirable and pleasantly situated residence, the property of Mr. Mr. John Stoddard, Egraondville. The house is comfortable and has in connection all necessary conveniences, with a good cellar. The lot is large and is planted with fruit and ornamental trees. For particulars apply to thg_ proprietor ou the premises or to Egmondville F. 0. JOHN STOD- DARD. • 513 FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, the west part of. Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Grey, containing 50 acres, 35 of which axe cleared, well fenced, and in a state of good cultivation. There is a good frame house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the gravel road leading to Brussels mid Seaforth,' tmcl adjoins a Churel, and School. It is also within half a mile of the yillage of Walton. Apply on the prendses or to Walton Post Office.. CHARLES BIURCHIE. • 520 TYROPERTY FOR SArx,..2,-For Sale, Lot No. 14, • Coiaq16:, Grey, 100acree,'. 16 acres eleared-an excellent lot. West hall of nerth. half of Lot No., 29, Con. 6, Morris; adjoining ,E the Village of Brus- sels, 50 acres, 33 acres cleared, cheese factory and machinery complete thereen. Four }rouses and lots, and. u. large number of vactvit lots in Brussels, all the property of the undersigned. -Also a num- ber of improved, farms, the property of -other par- ties, JOHN TMCFTE. Bruascis. • 51E- . A STRONG'S LAND AGE,NCY,-For Sale, .50 acres of Lot 9, Con. 8, II. 11. S. Tucizersmith, 40 acres cleared, free of stamps, finh. all well un- derdraned. The balance is well timbered. A Ise house and frarne barn, with Stone basement; a good orchard and plenty of water.- Oa a. good. gravel road,. 5 miles from Seaforth and 4 miles from Kippen. There is a school house within, 80 rods. Immediate possession.. For further par- tiatilars apply to A.. STRONG,. Seaforth, or to the proprietor. on the piemises. 519-4m FARM FOR. SALE. -Being .south half of Lot 29, concession 7, towaship of Monis, con- taining 100 acres, 40 clefired and wellyatered. It is situated 24 miles from B-rcissels,,18 miles from, Seafortit, and halt a mile from the gravel road. Also, south half of. lot 27, concession 7, township Morris, all bush, 80 :acres hardwood, the rest va- rions kinds of Useftd timber; situated only a, quarter of a mile front the above. For .terlas, a,p- ply to the undersigned ou north half of lot 28, concession 7, township of Morris. MARX .WALICTIR, Administratrix. : 514 , : . _ vA.Rx FoR SAT.,10,.-Being Lot 18, Coo. 4, L.11, -4•: S. Tuckersmith., containing, 100 acres, about 80 of widch are cleared and in excellent cultivable ccardition. There is a 178:1116 barn, log stable and goodlog house on the premises, also good orclia,rd. and two pod wells. The bosh land on this hula 'is the best in. this section of the country. The farm is situated. within, 8 miles of Kipp= a ate - on the London, Huron: and 33rucci and 6 miles from Seaforth. :For further particu- lars, apply to ALTIXANDER: LIVINGSTONE, on thepremises, or to Kippon P. 0. . . 515 „VA,RM ..1.cfcliILLOP FOR SALE.--7-Fer Sale,. the westhalf of Lot 29-, Con. 9, awl the South half of Lot 30,,Oon. 9, McK.illop, each containing 50 acres. On the former there are 40 acres cleared and . under good cultivation, the :balance is well tim- • bered with hardwood, and the whole is well .fenced. There is ft gvod Irmo house :and new frame barn., also two wells and a good orchard. Lot 30 adjoins Lot 29, contains 50 acres, the wholc of which is cleared. The two lots will be sold, together or sep- arately. Is Situated within three-quarters cif a, mile of school house, grist and saw mills, post office, &c. Apply on the PTCriliSCS to OHARLF.1S CLA,YDON or JOHN ALEMANDER.. • 516 •VALUABLE. FA.R11 AND SAI,V MILL PROP- • • ERTY for Sale in the County of Huron, being • Lot 12, Cons. 8 and 9, in the Township of Hay. This property consists of a :first-class farm, eon- tgaitig 100 acres, 71i cleared, 25 good hardwood bush ; 111 acres in fall wheat ; orchard, no bettor in the county ; buildings first-class, largo • and very commodious; well watered mil feucod. The mill prpperty consists of a largo steam saw fittedwith largo circular,edger and butting saws, Itir,o. cutter, &c., also a shingle and planing rein- Tte distinct roads run froril the saw Mill. 15 -horse engiue, fitted with a large planer, moulding sticker, Hall S.; Lath's patent shingle inarhine, shingle jointer. lath, . rip and batting, saws,v, run of French burr stones for choppiug; 6 acres of laud and two- good dwelling houses me la connection with the mills, also 410 acresof pine land, only 40 rods frma the mills, .50 acres of which has been reserved, and is of good value ILOW. The mills aro in•fall operation and as • ,good. as xrew. . Alarge stock of saw logs are noir-in die yard, and abundance- of timber for years to comein close proximity. • This is- one of the finest properties in Ontario, and will he sold cheap on easy terms. Price, for farrn and mills, $7,000; $4,500 down; balance to suit purchaser- at 6 per eent4interest. The 'above property will • be sold together or in parts. Apply to S. RENNIE, on tile premises, or to Hensel.' P.,0. 515 OW THE 1CO OP I! IONST INTLIAS NATIN WHICH A The antNZ. Hudson's B Saskatchetv ported to be This is par the antum proceeds of • Ell.FORTII, FRIDAY, D-ECEMbER 1$77. • McIsEAlaT BROS., Publishers $1.50 a Year, in Advanee. EMMICAN 'DENSED FOOD IS MADE AN S, PEBBLES, em., AS SPICE. EMMICAN TASTES -FLAVOR, W CANDLES AND SOFA CUSH LIQUOR TRADE AMONG 'Brit AN LNDIAN'S METHOD CI HIS FRLENDS-THE USES T MUTH MAX BE PUT, ‘-rarno, mulfrobA, Noy. 7,1877. n trade along the line of th y ,Company's posts in th or Plain' districts is m more than usually light ly owing to the failure o buffalo hunts, thTe entir vhich have heriftofore, Wit • 'ttle ;excel' ion, found' their way inti, t e forts of the Fur Company.. and • part to tho establishment of fur-trad ing stations hroughout: the Indian Coun try. With he exceptieri of dealings i buffalo robe.. and, provisions, but littl valuable trate reaches the Saskatche- wan district. Indeed, the entire line of southern iorts would -probably have been aband. lied long since, had the company co sidered. merely the ques- tion of profit upon the trade of the dis- trict; which, I am given to -understand has not pa.icllexpenses for several years Unfortunately, the Plain districts fur , nish a species of provision miattaina,b1 in any othe portion Of the territory aad to sec se this the company ai. forced to rnpanbain many expensive es- tablishment and a large force of men This provision is - manufactured from the flesh of the buffaloand is almost the sole article of food issued. hy the company toits thousasids .of vsyagettrs hunters anc traders. A scarcity of this staple t13ra• tens the vast transport servie' e of th cmporation with the dir- est cOnseque ces. Take from the reg- ular army sation .flour and pork, and you wou1d Produce alioutthe same ef- fect , s that produced by the subtrac- tion of pemmican from the daily sup- plies from the vast force of the com- pany's servants -a force equal to more than half ybur standing army. It is the nationatl dish, so to speak, of a pop- ulation corn osed of many nationalities; and, like eve ything• else in this pecu- liar Country, 's a wonderful mixture. It is a difficult natter to tell at all times exaCtly wher theThalf-breed ends and. the white m n or Indian begins; cor- resp mdingly difficult is it to tell where the buffalo t =Mates and the pemmi- can begins. rnsituceIta It is only cf late years that pemmican has come into public notice as a con- densed food valuable te the commissari- at -upon long expeditions. Hitherto it has been a peovision peculiar to British America, and particularly to the ser - Vice of the Hudson* Bay Company. Notwithstanding the vast annual „slaugh- -ter of buffaloes south of the forty-ninth parallel; no pemraiesin is made there; the meat being used in the fresh or green state, or in the foam of jerked beef. The pemmican" of the English Arctic expeditions differs from the real • article in being made of beef naixed with raisins nd spices, and. preserved from decay by being hermetically seal- ed. • Buffalo pemmican may be aaid to keep i6seif, requiring no spiCes nor seasoning for its preseivation,:and. may be kept in any vessela,nd under an conditions, except that of dampness, for unlimited time. R. is one of th Most perfectforras - of condensed. foo known, and is excelled by no other pro vision in its atisfying quality. The am ount of it us d throughout the territor is almost in. redible,a,s,besides the enor mous quant ty connumed in the corn pany's servic , it appears, when attain able, upon tIte table of every half-bree in the count y. Se essential is it to th wants of the voyaguers, as the staple ar- ticle of food upon the long voyages mad in the transportation service of the Fu Company, t at its manufacture is stira ulated in ev ry way by the agents o that corpor tion, and every availabl pound is bou lit up for its use. . 1 HOW PEMMICAN IS MADE. 'Pemmican forms the principal pro- duct of the s miner buffalo hunt, when, to preserve rom decay the large quan- tities of mea, taken, some lartificiel pro- cess is nece sary. A Considerable am ormt is also ade in the earlier part o the autumn hunt, though the Majo part of the p oduct of this chase is pre served by fr st in a fresh condition. T nianufactur pemmican the flesh of th buffalo is fir, t cut up into large lumps, and then ag in into flakes of thin slices and. hung up, in the sun or over the fir to dry. When it is thoroughly dessicat- ed it is take down, placed upon raw hides spreac out upon the prairie, an pounded or eaten sometimes by typed en flails, aga 11 between two stones, nn til the Meat s reduced to a thick, finks substance or pulp. Bags made of buf fade hide, tvi h the hair on the outside about the sis e of an ordinary pillow o flour sack, s y two feet long, one and half feet evi e and eif,iht inehes thia are staading ready, and each one is ha filled with" he powdered. meat. Th tallow or fat of the buffalo having been boiled. by i iself in a huge cauldron i now poured hot into the oblong bag i whicIrthe p lverizedmeat has previous- ly been plac The contents are then stirred. toge her until' they have -been thoroughly ixed ; the dry pulp bein soldered dos m into a, hard solid /nag by the melte fatpoured over it. When full the bags are sewed up as tightly as possible, and the perumicau allowed to cool. Eaeli bag weighs one hundred pounds, the c uantity of fat being nearly half the tot 1 weight, the whole com- position forn ing the most solid descrip- tion of food t • at man can make. It is the travelling provision used through- out the Nortli, where, in addition to its already specitfied qualifications, its great facility for t ausportation renders it ex- tremely valultble. There is no risk of spoiling it, as if ordinary care be taken to keep the b. gs free from mould, there is no assigns, le limit to the time pem- mican will k ep. It is estimated that, on an avnrag, , the carcasses of two buf- faloes lesr pemmican-14one filliag the bag itself, e required to make • one bag Of the- other Supplying the wants of the. wild sirVage engaged in hunting it down. : • A. DAINTY DISH. . Thel ;best form of pemmican, -in‘ ade for table us , generally has added to it ten pounds of sugar and. saskootoom or service berries -kw latter acting much as currant jelly does with -venison, coy- reeting the greasiness of the fat by a slightly .anicl- sweetness. Sometimes wild eherries are used instead of the. • saskootoom, This berry-pemmiCan 12 coasidered the best of its kind, and. s very palatable. As tb the appearance of the coinmo et form of pemmican, take the scrapin. s ' to it t d. rtti. ece ocold. roasbeef, ad from t e dryest outside corner of a very. stale lumps of tallowy, rancid fat, then gar- nish all with long human hairs, on I which Wing pieces, like beads upon a necklace, and short hairs of dogs or ox- en, or both, and you have a fair imita- tion of common pemmican. Indeed,. the presence of hairs in the food has suggested the inquiry whether the hair on the buffaloes .from which the pem- mican is made does not grow on the in- side of the skin. Thef abundance. of small stones or pebbles in pemmican also indicates the discovery of a new buffale diet heretofore unknown ; to naturalists. In fact, I have seen men who svere only prevented. from taking e sieve and fine tooth comb to the table when Ipemmieali formed the principal taiahelly a Cert their liost's • feelings. But these men _ ain 'delicate . respect for did not like pemmican. Carefully made pem. can, flavored. with. berries and sugar, is nearly as god; but of most person nevi to the diet it may besaid that, i - twoienses, a little of it goes a king Way. . othing can exceed its suf- ficing ualitly ; it's equal or superior to the fa oust Prussian sausage, jadging of it a we Mush. Two - pounds weight, with bead and tea, is enough for the thnneil of eight hungry men. .A bag- weighi g one hundred pounds, -then, wouldisupply three good meals for One hundr d and thirty men; A sledge -dog that will eat firm four to six pounds of fish per day,,when at work, will only consume tVin pounds of pemmican if fed upn. .ttet food ramie. I have of- ten ae n hagry men laughincred.uloue- ly at the si1aLU haadhil of pemmican placed; bef e them as sufficient for a meal; yet they went away satisfied, leaving half of it. On the other hand, I have seen all -breeds and Indians eat four peunds of it in a single day; ap- petitelike hat, however, do not count in ordinary food estimates. ' - THE IITAVOR OF PEMMICAN. The, flat/or of pemmican depends' mueli on the fancy of the person eating it. There is no other article of food that bears the slightest •resemblance to it, and as al consequence it is difficult to defihe its peculiar flavor by compari- son. I have heard. .it likened. to saw- dust, oak chips and tallow candles; again, to tallow candles: elm chips and the staffing of sofa . cushions -the can-: die flavor being the only point common to all descriptions of it taste. Pemmican may be iprepared for the table in many different waye;the -con- sumer; being at full liberty to decide whichlis the least objectionable. The method largely in vogue among the voyageurs is that known as " peramiean straight," that is, unaooked. But there are sterol ways of, cooking it which • impro . e its flavor to the civilized palate. There is rubeiboo, which is a composi- tion ofi potatoes, onions, or other escu- lents, and pemmican,' boiled up togeth- er,- and, when properly seasoned, very palatable. In the form of richot, hoWe ever, remmican is best liked by per- sons who use it, and by the voyageurs. Mixed!with. a little flour and Moll in a pan, pOnmica,n in this formcan be eat- en, previded the appetite be sharpsand there is nothing else to be had. This last censideration is, however, of in"- ' portaniee. - _1 'DRIED MEAT, Another form of provision, also the produOt of the summer hunt and- exten- sively bsed,' is dried meat. In its man- ufacture the flesh of -the buffalo under- goes tl e same treatment as in the pre- parato y stages of pemrnicsaiaanaking- whert lt has been cut into thin slices it is bun , over a fire, smoked and Cured. It resenib1ee sole leather very much in appea, ance.' After *being thoroughly dried, it i§ packed into bales weighing aboutixty pounds each, and shipped all over the territory. The fresh dr green...neat Aupplied by the late autumn hunt 1'3 geneta,lly consumed. in the set- tlemeats, eled is not much used as a travelling pitovision. • The 'serions decrease in the ntunber of buffalos) twhich has been observecl year 1y year, threatens to . produce -a very d sastrous effect upon the provs- ion trtlde of the couutry ; and the time. cannot be far. distant when somo new Ipvrhoev:31,pie o:nammustan,be found to take the place Of the old. I recollect very well which now can be procured with difficulty for one shilling and three peuce a poand, could be had at two pence, and dried meat formerly costing two pence now costs ten pence. This is a fact which threatens to re- volutiOnize in a manner the whole bet - Mess cif the territory, but more particu- larlyi!)any flhe transport service of the com- pany of the fur trade is pemmican So requisite0 the i uea' !sntsi INDIAN..S. ieti.1 1-xe..•f i e' . • coatid red to be by the company, that-, until a comparatively late year, it was the on y article embraced in the trade - lists '-fer which lastior was bartered. Spirit never at any time form a meal - um of xchange for furs in the company's servic , and their importation into the northern districts for any purpo.s.e . whateVer is strictly prohibited. In - th.e Plain districts, however, the trade in liquor was first sugeested as a stimulant to the eatumfacture o'Pf provisions; the am- ount given being limited to a small quan- tity to each Indian at the termination of a trade. Even then no drngwaspermit: ted within a mile of the forts-e-aeourse doubtless suggested by the fact that • an intoxicated Indian is about the most irrepressible being a quiet man can pos- sibly have about him.. Unfortunately for the moderate use of this incentive to pemmican -making, on the part oil the red man, his acute intellect in- stantly conceived lshel idea of utilizin this particular provision as a perpetu legal tender for liquor. So he withh.-el his pemmican until the food; Supply ran short among the forts of.,the eorporation', and forcisd a compliance -with his own terms. For all the other wants of his savage life he had furs and robes to trade. The scenes that oceurred in the Indian rooms of the forts 'during the progress of a lignor and pemraicantrade were not calculated to impress one favorably with theanoral status of eith- er his white or red. brother. The spirit used was generally .nrum, which, al- though freely diluted -with water,soon; redneed the assemblage to a state of wildhilaaity,Ipickly followed. by stu- pidity and Sleep. The strength of the fire -water dealt out was veaied according to the capacity or hard-headedness of the different tribes. The liquor for the Crees, as living in the neighborhood of the forts and supposed to be capable of standing more, was. composed of three quarts of water to one of spirit; that of the Blackfeet, a distant tribe, who had. access to liquor infrequently, . seven of water to one of spirit. So great, how- ever, is the power which alcohol in any form exercises over the red man that the Blackfeet, even upon their well diluted liquor, were wont to become hopelessly intoxicated. QUEER SCENES AT i LIQUOR SALE. A liquor trade generally began. , -with a -present of fire -water all round. Then, business went on apace. After an In -1 dian had taken his first drink it WaS, matter of little difficulty to obtain all helia,d in exchange for spirits. Horses,' robes, tents, provisions --all would. be prof- fered for one more dram of the beloved poi- son . As the trade advanced it degenerated into a complete orgie. Nothing _could exceed the -excitement inside the room, except itwas the excitement outside -for only a limit ed number of the thirsty crowd could obtain entrance at a time. There the anxious braves could only learn by!, hearsay what was going on I within. Now and then a brave, with an amount of self-abnegation worthy of a better, camas would issue from the fort, withi his cheeks distended and his rciouthfii111 of rum, and going along ranks of his friends he would squirt a little of the liquor into the open mouths of his less fortunate brethren. There were timea,; however when matters cIid not go on so peaceably. ;Knives were wont to flash and shots to be fired, and the walls of the Indian rooms at man$r of the forts show many traces of bullet marksi and knife hacking, done in the wild fury. of the intoxicated savage. Some seven- teen years ago' this baneful distribution was stopped by the company in- the, Plain districts, but the fur -traders still continue to employ liquor ast means of acquiring the furs belonging to the Indians, Great as was the quantity of pemmican obtained from the Indians during these trades -more than thirty thousand bags being stored in the com- pany's forts at one time -it isetill small as compared with the amount produced in a favorable year by the semi-annual buffalo hunts of -the nomadic half; breeds. H. M. R. '! Canada. A soup kitchen is about to be esta,bs lisked in Brantford. . -Mr. J. B. Stfathy has tendered his resignation as Collector of Cuetoms London, and. it has been accepted. ! -Mr. Win. Flewelling, of Nicholi has 133 turnips which weigh over ond ton. Five of this number weigh 100 pounds. • I ! -The Christmas vacaltien of the Public Schools will commeace on Dec. 24th and end on January 2n1, including both days. -Five carloads of cheese were ship- ped -from the'Port Dover an&Lake-Hu- ton Railroad. station last \lir for Lon- don, England. • -The poll for the Dunkialet in the county of Wellington was closed on Saturday with a majority bf 2,158 against the Dunkin Act. 7 -A young son of Robert Watson, of Puslinch, died on Tuesday fast'of cerel bro spinal meningitis. This isi the first case that has occurred in that st;eighbor- hood. - Two young students at tte Hell 1 muth College, London, were ,arreste the other day fur ill-treating a cow, which had broken into the Colleg,4 grounds.. , - , ; • , -The Canada Paper CoMpany- claim that their process is now so perfect, that it is possible to 'cut down a green tree and from its fibre produce a bound boo} in Six hours. - • -Wm. Gray, recently . appointed school teacher in London Eat, said in his application. letter that he Was aged 28, was a Presbyteriao, and. belonged to two secret societies. - john Davidson,postmastei it was dseovered they belenged to Mr. Mcllhar , near Elginfield, and had been ta4en from his stable by some misoreailits some time in the previous night. -Mr. Thos. Elms, an old resident of Blenheim township, was very severely injured by being thrown frOm a demo- crat wagon while proceeding -to church at Richwpod, on Sunday, 2fith Novem- ber. - -Through the death of J his brother in New Zealased, john H lmes, ex -M. P. for Carleton, inherits fortune of $500,000in cash, and property to the value of half a'fnillion dollars, in Mel- bourne: - -Two womenin Toronto quarrelled the other night.- After exchanging sev- eral, volleys of abuse the one picked up a fessel.of boiling water and hurled it at her -antagonist, scaldingher severely in the lower extremities. . -Six hundred della& worth of jew- ellery, stolen -from the reeidence of a gentleman. in Montreal two years ago, have been recovered. from a jeweller in Ogdensburg, who purchased the -articles from a notorious _thief, -since deceased. -The officers of the Huron townshiP Agricultural Society have; in answer to the -request of the DePartinent of Agriculture, forwarded 'samples of wheat, peas, oats and barley for • ex- hibition at the Paris Exhibition next year. . -The village of Ridgetown, Bothwell county, boasts two. branch banks, and claim to have built during the year four stores and four dwellings ,of brick, five houses Of ' wood, and to have nine brick and fourteen frame houses in course of erection. . 1 1 • -Dr l McKay, of Ingersoll has been appointed medical officer fer the Great Western Railway Company, 'and also for the Provident Sooiety of that Com- pany, fitr that portion of their line ex- tending from 'Beachville to Waabnno, 1kusive. - 1/i -Lieut.-Col. George T. Denison,'To- ronto, strell known as an enthusiastic volunteer officer, has been awarded the prize 01,5,000 roubles (equal to $3,750) offored. y the Russian. Goveinment for the best works - on the history of . cav- alry. ' -A , shoemaker from thee town of ,Perth, County of Lanark, named Frank Hetherington, traveled on foot all the way -from Sarnia to Winnipeg, Manito- ba. The Government should give him a seetion of land as a reward for his perseverance. • . -Dr. Wm. Sommerville, the 'celee brated horseman and veterinary surgeon of Buffalo, etas one of the first to take hold of the Horse business in Canada. He alone has spent over $112,000 in horseflesh this season; besides this, he has buyers all over the Dominion. ,. -Mrs. Port Johnson, lately, of . the 15th concession, London, while standing at the looking stove, was taken sudden- ly ill, and in a few minutes lost her rea- son, in WhicheconditiOn she lies at the present' time, though her medical at•-• tendant has fair hopes of her ultimate recovety. - -The Grand Jury, in their recent presentment, found -that the Central Prison in Toronto was over -crowded, there being 352 prisoners, and 200 in the jail.' The Lunatic Asylum contains 670 patents. The farm of the asylum, which it worked by patients, -this season • produce1 vegetables dm, valued at their market prices at $11.510. - • -An American gentleman in Quebec while passing from the lower to the Up- perpartpf the city, one eveninglast week was so Shamefully assaulted by roughs as to have liis leg broken, besides other injuries Which will confine ;him to bed l. for five or six -weeks. '' Hs ,assailants wil have been arrested and ' probablybe committed for trial. - 1 -A charge of striking a Passenger on. the 'Montreal, Ottawa andWestern rail- way -wa4 brought against cit brakesman on the line. It is represented thatthree passengers were talking t gether when they were ordered to shut ip. The or- der -wa,sinot obeyed, the brikesmen lift- ed a piebe of wood and fell d one of the parties to the ground, cutt ng his head Open. ! . : • , - -A few days ago a wo an and five children arrived at New H enburgfrom. England., their destination being Ham- burg, in the county of Len ex, the rail- road cO1E1pafly ha,vingbrou ht them two or thre ' hundred miles irther west than neeessary. This and similar mis- takes havnbeen made on a count of the railroadauthorities, omitti g _the word , Newura• . on :tickets issued for NNewHam- '. b ' . isir -Our Dundas exchange rises to re- mark as follows: "We . ee that the • Ayliner•Mechanics' Listit te has a re- creation room, with two bi lard rooms • in running order. Our he titute has a a splendid library:and ver: few readers -and a $400 piano in th town hall, which has thus far been a poor invest - 1 roent. Perhaps if the pian was traded I off for a billiard. table and a 'recreation ; room' started, new life w nild be put into the concern.'" • .. - -On Thanksgiving Day Mr. Donald Dawson,- of Hamilton-, while out sport- ing, shot a squirrel with. on' y three legs. The animal was a - cross between the red and gray squirrel, and the limb miss- ing was the Mt fore one. There was no appearance that the 14g had ever been on the -animal, as tI4e hair was completely grown over the jsturnp that remained. It was shot on the moun-- tain, on the property latels owned by Hon. Isaac Buchanan, ant was most artistically stuffed lese ane i4tist in the city. -Within the last three o four years several families removed fr re London township to the Muskoka ree Grant District. Several of those f milieshave been severely -pelted by sickness lately. We learn from the Free Grind Gmxite, the death, by typhoid fever of Thomas Langford and Mary Debella, Langford., who rembved from that locality to Mus- koka a few years since; also of the death in Galt for over twenty years, died last Friday afternoon at five o'clock, afteri an ill - bass of about three weeks' I duratioa. Paralysis was the cause of death. ! -The Grangers in the neighborhood ! of Glencoe shipped, on Mon lay and, !• .Tuesday of last week, a coneie meet of 6,500 bushels of barley to; Glasgow,. Scotland. The grain was Putj on the cars direct from the farmers" witgOns. - -One morning lately, :a. John Campbell fouud a span of liars'es on concession _10, 13iddu1ph, in I a very muddy and exhausted conditipn, giv- ingevery evidence of having been rid- den or driven hard throughnut the night. On each horse was a bridle, the reins of one being thrown over the neck of ; the other. Hebrought them to " Jimmy" Hawkins' shop, Garret's Corners, when _see - . 1 of a child, aged 4 -years, of Joshua, tang - ford, and. the t ' d son, aged. 5 yeats, of John Haw, by he same disease, and all within eight da s. -The farm • f 245 acres, in Dumfries, belonging to th estate of the late Hugh Arthur, was o red for sale by auction a fen; days ago. The bidding was not 1. spiritte and. th highest offer made was $9,080, at whi figure. it eves with- drawn. • 3 -Napoleon h oulet, the dishonest National Bath messenger, Montreal, wile ran away_evith $90p of the Bank, was arrested. at Lawrence, Man., and brought back te Montreal on Saturday. He pleads guil* and. says he was drunk, and. took the moneyfrom a $2,000 pack- age; to have a sprees. -On Thursday of last -week, a little girl belonging to Mr. David Barton, Richmond street, London,swallewed. an' Americantwoscent piece,. which lodged in the passage, and has not since been removed. The childhas not eaten a bite since, being unable to swallow. Every effort is being made to dislodge the coin. -A family of travelling beggars, con- sisting of a, mother and. our young chil- 'dren, ono of whom, a girl af 15, had an infant 18 months oia: were fouud- near, the Grand. Trunk station, London, in a starving andrishinicondition. They - ' - f were remove to the .Central Station, and on the f owing morning. provided with food. -We regret to learn that the wife of Rev. Dr. frasenmissioliary of the Pres- byterian church in Canada, died a,t For- mosa, China, on the 4th of October, of puerperal. fever. The deceased lady was a daughter of Me. Jacob Wells, Aurora. ,It is between -two and three years since Dr: Fraser and his -Wit6 went i . L• 1 1 , , , to China. -Another g, 'sibling denhas been dis- covered in. Montreal which is; visited nightly by prominent men in the city. Several of these have been victimized out of large sums and one gentleman some days since was swindled out of $2,300. The place is kept by a man from Toron- to, and is conducted similar to places in ' :Chicago. -It is not often that tiiehard, worked scribes of the Press receive any , ecognia tion at the hands of bodies corporate,and ' it is retreshing to read that at the re- i cent meeting of the ,that county 1 councilat Belleville,a, motion was unani- mously, carrie voting the reporters of the prees $25 4ach for reporting the pro- ceedings din•in the year. -The Dun as Banner has been in- formed thatit is the intention of some few of the se tons of the churches in Dundas to e erinaent on the science of cremation dur ng the next few months. ' I If they cannot succeed in redubing the ' bodies f entir congregations tO ashes, they aiit at le st determined te choke their v aims ith foul air andi,Scorch- , i ing he t. -1 -Tle exec tion of John Williams, , for the murde • of his wife at Weston, ' on the 22nd • f September last, took place at the 'ail, Toronto, on Friday morning last. The great lanaent iu his written confession was that heeteglect- .ed the Sabbath and did not ;attend church, "For then (said he) I' would have known something about God, be- • fore whom Imust stand in a few hours." 3 I 1 eaThe colored people .of Essex .have been holding a convention for the pur- pose oil ascertaining the best Means of elevating themselves to a higher plane, -finaalcially, politically, and socially. They desire to secure for their children a better education than is now attain - hey also wish their people to more extensively in agriculture ful trades. able. engage and us - -During the celebration. of • St. An- drew's daytat Barrie, at 1 e'clock a. in., as the rocee 'Inge were about to come to a clime, the end. of the roo ing the coal oil all around, an pede, but by tl buckets of wat chandelier at the north fell to the ground,burst- lamps and spreading fire causing quite a stem - e application of a few r, and by smothering the fla,mos with b .ankets, further damage eves prevented. short th e ago the London, Eng- land, Times de. in Canada,. journal in Fr fire in Sti. Joh 41 cribed Ontario as a town ow wehave it prominent nce, in referring to the , describing St. John as being :situate on "Lakes Manrebas and. Pontchart ain. 9 It is traversed by the Mississip i River. Its surface is 200 square mil s, with a population of 7,517 inhabits, .ts, of whom 2,777 are free, and 4,550 slave." • -Mr. John "tore, of Antabel, missed from his apiaily a nice bee hive One morning lately and on looking around • he. sawi tracks and followed them to the road. where he f iund buggy tracks; these he folred to his next , neighbor's, and ling luluse he saw where the -bees had been drowned. The parties were given the choice to either pay 510, .or be put under arrest. They preferred the for- mer. -A "few days since Mrs. Wilson, of the io Uship of Horton, county of Ren- frew, laving just finished milking a cow, w is suddenly and fiercely attackedin by the Jana', which kuocked her clown. ; Mrs. Wilson was compelled to crawlun- der a wagon near by where she remain- - ed a prisoner for an hour, during which timo ti `e animal kept li•atcli over her waiting1 to renew the attack. When res- _ cued :NI WilSon was found to have sus- tained considerable injury, her breast bone 11 ving been broken by the blow • she rec ived. -A iunipeg _Free Press Battleford special says two traders arrived frona the Cypre.ssl Hills with a petition to the Lieut. -Governor, requestneg that they be • put on the same terms as the Indians in regard to the killing of buffalo for this year. Their request was granted, They ! report buffalo plentiful on this side, south of Saskatchewan. The Blackfeet • are very much alarmed -at the attitude assumed. by Sitting Bell, and fears are entertained of trouble. Sitting Bn11 on goit g to the creek behind the dwel- says he would like' to know when the Almighty gave the Canadian Govern- ment authority to keep the Indians from killing buffalo. Sixty tents of Sioux have joined 'Sitting Bull since the Coniraission mete -In pulling down the old lower bridge over the Grand River at Paris, one day last week; the whole structure suddenly gave way, precipitating the workmen into the riVer. One of them. was -carried quite a distance down the stream before he got to land. No one was hurt•with the exception of a -cold bath, not very acceptable at this time . year. • - -Itis said the " debatists " of East Oxford settletheir debates in a new fash- ion. Recently a discussion came off be- tween. the Orators of Eastwood. and those of Vandecar, '(subject unreported), The eloquence on both sides was so °olivine- illa that the chairman could not decid.e. Bah parties thereupon Went at it -with their fists, and it is said that some of them IVOTO Made to see the question in thousands of different lights at one and the same time. The damage to huts, collars and overcoats is said to have been immense. --Isabella Brigas, wife of Thos. Briggs, postmaster of Hepworth., Grey courkr, who was eonnnitted for trial on the chine of opening registered letters and. abstracting money therefrom, andmade her escape from the constable as Me was taking her to Walkerton jail has not been retaken yet. It is supposed she has gone‘to the States, as she has friends there. She leftbut few sorrowing friends behind. her, on account of her qaarrei- some dieposition with almost evely one who had to do business in the post office. -On the night before Thanksgiving Day, some thieves enteredthe barn- yard of Mr. Walter Poster, on the Brd concession of West Flamboro' and se- lected three of the very best and fattest animals and drove there. off. In the morning when Mr. F. discovered his loss he traced the track of the cattle and the thieves as far east as the stone road. beyond Rock Chapel, but at this point he could trace them no further. One two-year-old and two three-year- old heifers were taken. It is a great pity that some of the parties engaged in thieving from farmers in that section of funcioshenedtry could net be detected- =a -On Sunday morning a woman with five children arrived. at Napanee in search of her husband., James Skilleon. The woman left Liverpool about twenty days ago, arrived at Portland, and was ticketed through to New Hamburg. On her arrival there she couldnot hear any- thing in reference to her husband's -whereabouts, and. was retm-ned to Na- panee station, hoping to Rini him at Hamburg in South Fredericksburg. All the information she can give is that her husband_ is working for a farmer named James "Sutton, at or near New Ham- burg. The woman is destitute'and is • on the chs„rity of the town. - Arty in- form:ation communicated to Mr. C. James, Napanee, will be conmmnicated to t1)0 W0111 -nn. -A collision occurred at the east end of the Belleville station yard about seven o'clock on Saturday morning be- tween'the morning express and afreight car on a siding, which was not clear of the main line. A second-class car and a baggage, express, post office and smok- ing cars were thrown from the trac'k. Only one passenger -was injured, named. John Bryan. of Toronto, who was in the second-class car and whose face and • neck were cut slightly by glens froth the car window; The freight car was completely, wrecked and. the second- class car was also badly damaged, but the engine and other cars -sustained but slight injury. The line was cleared again by ten o'clock, up to which time the passengers were detained at Belle - young mum and it young woman - • are just now making a trip through the section of country iix the -vicinity- of London, and paying their expenses in a novel and truly ,original plan. They represent themselves to be it couple of runaway innOnentS, -who -were married privately and then obliged to flee from the wrath of a wealthy and tyrannical father. All that is required, of courses is it little money- to enable them to 'reach rich friends in a 'town it little further on, wherethey propose to wait • till the storm blows over. The girl's great beauty and the young man's very plausible manner seldom leil to work up the desired amount of sympathy, which is readily 1convcrted nate cash, and the precious pair pass on to greener ;people and pastures new. -Mr. FrancieBVIII1S Cornish, writing horn Winnipeg to thc London A:din:r- • aker says: 4. The Minister of the In• as you are aware, paid this Province a visit lately -I -fen Mtuati‘)a.it‘ matter rettinlige ±0 his deelp"asartmentt,f) whith hen already commenced to bear fruit, evidenced by an order to -day promulgated throwing open the lands until now locked up as " Railway Reserve." These lands are of the best in this Province convenient to our best markets, 'Winnipeg and Sel- kirk, and have been much coveted. by intending settlers, ntuly of whom re- turned in consequeece of this " Reserve," The terms are most liberal, attnal f:ettlement within one year of locating, and payment of first instalment being required, each settler to have the privi- lege of locating 320 acres. Canb pay- ment, neither scrip, military, or other WalTallt3 accepted. I have on doubt that early next spring these lands will he mostly taken, and I write simply to ktold friends and neighbors, desirous of locating in this Previnee, knowef the opportunity of selecting farnas second to none on this continent awaitingoecupa- tiojn,ethreustezt;lih :ndinge abeehisirgeh , `e' fame is come, fist that this may prove to be but the "be- ginning of the end" of Mr. Mills' policy as to "reserves" in this Province.', A