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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1878-01-11, Page 1STS. n -wen the -th whom such loose deuce eon- & time in S is afford- ated, as s. Melville d in Strafe followed by, .t Me, Mel- -'s absence, ta with the tad raiscon: a la ellarse-- Rr Was very eeedings. as "words. with [f upon hine a, vagrant,. '.tiee IsciagiS- il for eigilt iitil, it 0e-. that if hel ; the goods ess in Mt-, tsld be put _ er due ta- ng on the pal witness . -Mrs. Mel.. i threw the t is was alli eay vagrant) it.the Penit II not dist! ilia house - r be able to1 t he'll get e they are,. tfaitt Here f E i C31. ;ES. SALE iNSee, 7 OUR NU. IN TOWN E INTEN•1> VI1S ANUARY, ITCE OUR ILL- SALE ' MST Oft t WHOLE - FAN CY DE ATS AND • ItRICES. ANOE. 'Ta MAKE k L.EVER tksi A SALE. 000S. IT TO WW1 ELVES RING ELEV_OINTII YEAR WHOLE NUMBER, 527. SEAFORTH, FRIA, JANTJ'AilY 11, 1878. -• McLEAN BROS., Publishers. a- Year, in. Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. pROPER,TY FOR SALF.a-For Sale, that con. .‘• valiant and desirable residente on the cornea of High and Market Streets, lately occupied by Dr. Vercoe. Apply to DR. VERCOE. 988 _ _ VOR SALE. -The subscriber has for sale a 50 am lot iu the- townahip of MoKillop, County of Huron, 20 acres are leared and the balance well timbered with beech and maple. The property will be sold ()heap. Apply to JAS. H. BENSON, Solicitor, Seaforth, Out.. • 517 VOR SALE. -A two storey frame house and out- • buildinars, situated on the Market Square. of Seaforth, for sale or to rent. The building is very suitable for a boarding house or a public' business For particulars apply to W. N. WATSON, Sea; forth, or to DANIEL GORDON, Goderich. 493 A GOOD CHANCE. -1,500 will buy 150 acres -A-1`r of good lanai in the Tosvnship of Koppel, County of Grey. Bush land, all hardwood, and within two miles of a flourishing village. Itmight be exchanged for a small farm in McKillop, Tuck- ersmith, or lialett. Applyto A. STRONG, Land Agent, Serllorth. 515 VARM FOR SAL-Pl.-For Sale, Lot No. 5, Bay- field Concession, Goderieh Township, con- taining 85 aeres, 50 of which axe cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The farm is adjoining the village of Bayfield, and will be sold eheap and on favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, JOHN GOVENLOCK. 524 FARM FOR SAT. -A splendid farm, being Lot -1; 22'Con. 6, Turnberry, 90 aeres, 70 acres cleared, well fenced, and in a good state of cultivation, balance hardwood. Well watered, good frame house and barn, and half a mile from Wroxeter on a good gravel road. Apply to the proprietor on the premises, CHARLES -MeTAVISH, Wroxeter Post Office. 517x13 VOR SALE. -For Sale, Cheap, the west half of the north half of Lot 9, Sauble Line, Stanley, containing 57 acres, 40 of which are cleared, and. the balance well timbered. It is within 3 miles of BayfieId. There is a never failing stream of water running through the place. This property must be sold at once. Apply to SCOTT 1 BROTHERS„ Seaforth. • 520" NTALTLUILal FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, T the east half of Lot No.,4, ,Con. 4, H. R. S.,. Tuckersmitla County of Huron, consisting of 50 aeresk4 railes from the Town of Seaforth, and conveblent to school- The land is of the very best quality. For further particulars apply to JAMES PICKARD, opposite the premises, or to Eginondville P. 0. 521 MR: LADT'S FA.RM FOR SALE. -For Sale, I -v-1- Lot 12, Con. 1, Stanley,' contrdningi100 acres, mostly cleared and in a first-class state of eulti- vation. This ie one of the best farms between London and Wingham. Fairbstildings, plenty of water, and a good young orahard. On the London Road, three-quarters ofa mile south of Brtleefteld. Apply to .1011N LAUT, Bracefich.l. .523-4 _ VARM FOR S ATMIN TIICKERSMITIC-For -4: Sale, Lot 28, Con. 3, L. R. 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 mileafrom Settforth and it miles from Bruoefield station. For terms apply by letter to E. NICOL, Grocer, Wingham. 518 WARM FOR SALE.--aFor sale lot No. 27, and ▪ hall of 28, and half of 28, on the Fourth Con- cession, London Road Sarvoy, Tuckersmith, con- taing 200 acres. The farm will be sold as a whole or in two parts to suit purchaser. First-class out buildings, good. orehard, plenty of water, and within four miles of Seaforth, and three of Brace - field stations. Apply on the premises, or to A. STRONG, Laud Agunt, Seaforth. 508-4 VARM FOR SALE.'—Por Sale, the west part of -A-* Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Greaa containing 50 auras, 35 of whieli aro °leered, well fenced, and in. a state of good cultis-ation. There is a good. frame house, good orchard and plenty a water. It is on the "ravel road leading to Bruasels and Seafortb, and adjoins a Church and. Scbool. It is also within half a mile a the village of Walton. Apply on the premises or to Walton Post Office. CHARLES MURCHIE. 520- TaR0PERTY FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot No. 14, -a- Con. 16, Grey, 100 acres, 16 acres cleared -an excegant lot. West half of iaorth half of Lot No. 29, Con. 6, Morris, adjoining the Village of Brus- sels, 50 acres; 83 actes eleaxed, cheese factory and machinery complete thereon. Pour houses and lots, and a large number of vacant lots -in Brussels, all the property of the undersigned. Also a num- ber of improved farms, the property of other par- ties. jOHN LECKIE. Brussels. 515 'VALUABLE 1?.A.RM- FOR SALE. --.For Sale, Lot 1, Con. 8, 11. R. S., Tuakersmitlia con- taining 100 acres,. 30 of whieh are cleared and in a state of good cultivation, being well maderarained and fenced. It is within 6 miles Of Seaforth, Hensall and Iflppen markets, and is ,convenient to school house and churches. There are on the premises a frame bean and stables, good well, log house and orchard. For further particulars ap- ply an the premises, or if by letter to THOMAS KYLE; Seaforth P. O. 624x4 - mum FOR SAIII.,-Lot 19, 9th ,cona Marrig, 100 acres;. 50 cleared and ia a good -state of cultivation., balance prineipally Under hardwood. Frame house,frame barn and stables,. - Two acres. of choice orchard. Tho farra is distant 24 miles from the flourishing village of Blyth, whial con- tains churches, schools, stores, foundry, grist and saw mills, and • a station of the London, Huron and Bruce Railroad. This is a rare chance in a first-rate locality. For particulars amply ta HUGH BAIN„ Goderich, or to DONALD BAIN, on the premises. .524x4 GOOD Farm for Sole of 152 °Awes, •"•,. being Lot 2.„ Oen. 2, Turnherry. The farm is: 2 miles south of Wroxeter and 7 riarth of Brussels, tit& gravel road running through it. About 60 acres.cleared„ 40, acres of good beech and maple bush, and 15 acres of hemlockand soft maple mixed, the balance cedar and Mach ash, '„I'liere Are 4 acres of fail wheat,: and a. neiv fallow intur- nips.• Barn 2.-k40, log house, a- good well with pump, and. a splendid orchard. of 150 bearing fruit tree -z. W. 0. PALMER, Wroxeter. . • 523 VALUABLE FARM *FOR SALE. -Fon Sale the T east half of Lot 9, Concession 3,, McKillop, - containing 50 acres, known as the Dm& estate. i ; This farm is situated within one mile and a quer- ter of Seaforth. The lana is of the.- choicest quality. There is a handsome residence, and gond out- ; 'buildingA. The farm is well piant&twith fruit and • ornamental trees, is in excellent Order, and well frneed. It is admirably suited for a retired gen- tleman,a dairy -man, Or imulet gardener. Terms easy. Apply to the proprietor on the premises or to Seaforth P. G. E. TESKY, Proprietor. g. 524 VA -10I FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot No. 29, Con -L: - 9, Ribbed, containing 100 acres, 90. of -which are cleared, free of stumps, • \yak fenced and. in lirst-elass cultivation. = A barn 60x40, neakry new, a. shed and stable 30- by 30, a driving shed 24x40, .11, briek root house and a splendid brick 'dwelling house, and all other necessary outbuildings. A good orchard and well watered:. There are 15 • aeres of fall wheat, and about 50'ares fall plow- ed. This is one of the most, desirable farms in this section of country. Terms' easy. Apply to to the proprik-tor on the premiseq, or to I:galena- ville P. O. CTEOROE BALE. - 524 iVAGON AND BLACKSMITH SHOP FOR 1. 1 SALE. -The undersigned, who is about retir- ing from business, wishes to sell his property in the village ef Finburn, townshipof Hullett, county of Huron., consisting of thri?e-onarters of an acre of choice land, well underdralued;- and, having a number of well selected fruit tree. There is on the premises a blacksmith shop :28x38, a wagon shop 29x40, and paint shop the same size, a two storey dwelling house 16x35 and kitehen 16x22, with cook -house attaehed ;also a mew dwelling house 10x94 and stable 16x.25: The buildings are all frame and the dwelling houseS have melt a good cellar. The above is situated in- one .of the best farming communities in the county and. is there- fore an excellent business stand. Also for sale a large amount of oak, rock elni, red elm and pine Inrater, well seasoned, and fit for. use. Wagons, aleighs,cutters, an d buggies on hand, and will be sold cheap to clear out the stock. Payinent is request - eel of all overdue notes and accounts. JOHN WIL- LIAMS, Constance P. 0. 517 TOO MANY _HORSES., By- A PRACTICAL FARMER. . In these -days c4 'shrinkage .in value, and :consequent retrenchm,ent of ex- penses, manifest in all clastes of society it becomes the farmer to keep e sharp leek out not ' only asto where the money goes -for almost all do thie-but more espeeially es to where- the erops go. It is a. prettyewell established principle that thoseshould be • fed. On the farm, but it makes - a worlitevide difference whether they are. fed to . an old. horse that makes little. or no , rare, or -to a cow that. returns a dozen quarts �f milk , .per day. , A keen oldfurrier of . :our ace quaintan -. e once called en, a neighbor, and, looking into his. bar , exclaimed,- " What a stud of horses 1" l3eing invited into the house, he found theititting room .fult of bodies, and, turning to his host,' with more truth ' than pelliteness, said: "With mornhorses than cows, women than men, . i 1 A farmer will grow:rich the 4vil knows when." We know not whether the pouplet was originated With him or not, but he was an original charade; and his horeely emmeiatien of a • general principal in farming deserves consideration. • The, hope ,is a noble !animal, and far be it fromee to decry his nobility. He is especially Useful on the farm, and. we have no desire to•go beck to -the' slow- moving oX-teeen of our fathers, Oxen are more ecohoreical eaters, being .con- tent with coarse fodder, ana when worn out with. .calc anc't old ege-their. Itid.ep, - naesscies and , fat have a value; but in these ast1 days, when time is reckoned as moue', there is ne. use in talking about ox- eams for the farm -much less for thee ad.,• We are so aceustomed to. rapid transit that we can herdly-believe our fathers when they tell us about mov- ing fromape Co'd to Western Massa- (• chusetts n ox sleds, and taking 17 days to .pOrfoi-zi a. journey of 150,miles. . ' But Bitch is the tact, anClsense'of 'them not content -with one such. migration, 'pro- _ jected another to ' Ohio' et then called -New Conpeetieut-whither thet), went:in large, clumpy, 'wagons, -drawn by oxen, end coveted With leather, the latter to be used hete tanneries were unknown. The jou • ,ey often used, up a month. • NOw is , it -then we hear en old croaker. demandh .g a return to turnpike roads and ox-teetes. , We heard ' one lately deseantMg on - the. economy of et mixed. team, 'a y'eke of oxen to go the farm work, and a horse to ride to town for chureh, Market, mail, Ito.. “The horse," he seal, "could be Itept on hay in the winter end turned tit to grass in the suminer, end' the ox I could be managed in like re inter ; anji thus all the grain of the fa.rjm could. be cotivertedin ready , recutey.'! This is too econernical a doc- trine for liming Ainerice to swallow and' digest. We might as Well Undertake to persuade our boys to bcio to church O11 foot and : arefooted, astheir grandfath- ers cid, iarryiig their_ ' shoes in their I hands, and when near :the Church' pet- ting them on; thus saving shoe -leather This was economical, but we as much, expect to see water rue up hill as to see young farmers in these fast days return- ing to the slow moving ox -teams and to the use o . cewhicie boots and tow frocks. Indeed, ve desire no such return were it possibl . The good " old times were good in t mit' day, buta great deal bet- ter to too, back upon and tent -about than acteally to undergo their' depriva- tions and disComforts. ' n is no the chief end of issa.n TO keep NvilAtt -we've got and get what we can. Money is gbpd as a Means,. not -as 'an end. If it leannot be exchanged. :for the comforts ;of We it .is Of no. more use than so much ries. • '• ' What e do desire le that the mania for fast 11 recs.: and lots of them should be cured, �r at least modified. • A good roadsteris a,'ereat comfort to the family, and. a span ofgood working horses is aL v most inc spensable on every farm, but it does n t fellow that e horse should be kept for e cry woman and child in the. family, a, sp-an for the plowend another span for be carriage. , Horses are a very pre9a,rious kind of properby. In the artificial life to which they are con- fined in modern. times they aresubjed to divers diseases, and. the best of groom- ing and veterinary treatment (lees not save them from -death. . When "kept on hay M the winter and turned. out to grass in the summer,', the !horse . is as healthy ae other -animals, but fed high- ly on grain, and confined- in the fe- tid sir of e stable, it is ' at wonder that his cellos are not more frequent than they are, . When, in addition to his in- flammatory food and foul air, he is shorn of the natural protection against cold, which his:thick 'coat of hair furnishes, and put into paces and eerspirations, each time.he is taken etpee • the road, if he does net die of ,.pneumonia his life • may be attributed to good lungs rather. than good tfeatinent. We have kuoivn a $10,000 dlembletoeian eared. for when well, in the kindest manner., as theeewner 'supposed, and 'wheu sick, treated by e skilful veterinary surgeon, still net living out half his days, but iu the midstof his usefulness consigned, to • the compost heap. . It is. risky putting much money into a horse or ' a stud of hopes. It 'is- e lottery in which the chances of loss are three to one for sue - CSS. 1 - . If the herses de not sicken and die; they soon pit themselves up sinless kept at useful Work. No animal pays. better . for his keeping than does a horse if, . he is keptior business-, but he is; a very ex- pensive: playthiug. A close calculating friend of 'elite once bought a horsesthhils- ing to add to the comfort of his family. At the end Of a year. we' missecl the horse and asked the honest Scotchman wh.o tendedhim what had become of the animals " Hods sold," was the reply. - To our question, -which . was sold the man or the horse, hie reply west" Both. He was a good beast, but Mr.— found he ate ' nightie. He figured up the cost of keeping ehorse, and found thateach ride cost him more than would have been his livery bill, and so he sold Eand 'as sold." Fn.ri4ers seldom count the cpst of horse-1ceeizig as they raise their own feed, but a tin of hay and a bushel of oats must be reekoned es just so much Money as theywould bring at tlle market price;. 1,11c1 they vil1 find that the bill • ler horse -keeping; amounts to no small sum in the coupe ' of a year. If the horses are doing enough, or are increas- ing enough in yalne, to pay expenses all right. If not, then it mutt be consider- ed whether the; income, from other sources wihl bala4ce the outgo in this direction. 1' We mut not be understood as object'. ting to horses per se, as President Tyler used to Say. 'What we object to is a su- Perfluity of hers* .the supernumeraries that stand in the stable and kick fliet ihthe summer, and [rub their flanks in the winter. It is the winter keeping thlat tells especially on the farmer's Racket. In the slimmer the 'avenu! meraries can forage for themselves and oom thenatelvet. . All they want is e good pasture with' a spring or run of -water in it, but in winter the care (4 e horse is not e, sinecure and at this sea - Son we should prefer to board a man rlather than a horse. Yet, strange to say, we have known' farmers to buy old plugs in the eutinim, not because they were wanted on the farm, but merely because they were 'cheap. . Livery men, peddlers and. :all others who went horses in the summer and have little use foe them in the winter are slu:ewd enough to,sell in the autumn and always think hat farmers can win- ter their old and broken-down nags cheaply. When °Pressed to purchase these animals, fanners should. remem- ber Franklin's puOhase (If the whistle because it was cheap. Old horses are generally peer property at any price and 14t any season,but to be sedated with an old horse in the autumn is a burden, grevious to be borne. 1 . City cousins are Sometimes so obliging as tooffertheir horses at this season to t;heir rural relatives at low figures, but a Prudent man will tespond with an offer to board rather than to: puicbase the anintels. The boarding mtlst not be done tee cheaply. Cityfolks sometimes have au idea that it costs little or nothr ing to keep horses M the country, as the Provender grows there. If they should plow, sow, and reap for one season they tvould changetheir views on the cheap- ness of supporting both men and beasts pia a farm. If little money is laid out for horse -feed, ranCh sweat of brow is expended, end to Spend one's labor for that which profiteth so little as an idle horse is a weariness to the muscles and ci, greater vexation of the spirit tha,n the expenditure of ite equivalent in money. To all farmers, then we say, thin out tirout stock of hoeses in the Fall, as you thin out your floeli of hens, and for the ante reason. Canada. - 1 Trains hate stopped :running on the Montreal, Porthind and Boston Rail- , -Louis E. Denim, oily treasurer of Quebec, is a defaulter to the extent of 390,000. , 1 . Ya.y. ' .-It is proposed by a New York gen- tleman to establish a kid glove factory at Wella_nd. ' •, 1 -The Ottawa River was frozen over tin the night of tan. 3, for the first time this winter. . 1 -The salary of the Peinciptl of the -Winnipeg schoolhas been reduced from' $1,200 to $1,000. , -A number of Toronto ladies have orneed themsellte into a mutual ira- royement classi • .; - -Mr.- Geo. J. p erer has beep. appoint - 4c1 t Postmaster of Glencoe, in place of r. Lumley, resigned. , -A produce firm irtMontreal is fill- .ipg large English - orders for frozen beef, mutton and pork. - • , =In. Montreal several labourers on .public works in end near the, city have had their limbefeolen. -The bylaw gritnting fk6,000 for har- bor improvements et Owen Sound, was carried. by 45 of 0 majority. 1 e --Mt. Wm. Q earrie hap been appoint- ed postmaster of Galt, in the place of , Jolniq Davidson, deceased. .- 1 -EX-Mayor Qharlton., of Hamilton, has gone to spend the winter in Florida, for the benefit oil Iiis health.' . • -Halifax expersenced. the most se- vere Snow storm known for years, dur- ing Friday night and Saturday. • -Mr. George Munroe, at one -tune 1Mayor of Toronto, and a former M. P. for East York, is 'dead, aged' seventy- seven: , =Thetrial of the Indians, accused of having set fire to the Catholic Church at Oka, commenees at St. Scholastique this week. , -Robert Sines', of Glanford, on the 2601 ult., sowed i, field with rye; and Daniel Fletcher, f Barton, sowed wheat on the 23rd. -Henry Hosk'ns, a wealthy resident 013. the Shore R ad, near Tort Creclitt was killed on Nett Year's Eve by a kick from a horse. --The infant 4itughter of R. Switzer, merchant, - of Ottlawa,'met her. death on ItIonda-v by. su °cation, having while asleep, turned &ter with its face down- wards. -Mr. J. B. Gray, who has held. for years the Principalship of the. St. 7.tia.tharines Central School, has been apt,po. inted. to succeed Dr. Comfort as Inspector. . -Benjamin Dorsey, a farmer, aged about 70, and residing near Clarksville, was choked .to death by a piece of beef, while taking .dinner at a hotel, on Thursday of last week. -It is . reported that a well-known Liverpool firm, largely engaged in the thnber trade, has failedfor about 1750,000. Some of our Ontario houses are said to be interested. . -A ineeting was held at Glamis, on Friday, for the perpose of advocating the extension of the Saugeen Valley Railroad from Walkerton to Inver - heron, in the event of its extension from .1 1VIonnt Forest to vy eleerton, and a eom- mittee appointed tce,witit, on- 'the 4ireb- tors of the road to melte arrangements , for co-operation in tischemes. -Ploughing was ke t up without in- termission by the farmers of Wentworth county, until\December. 29th, and in semis plapes barley and spring wheat have been sown as experiments. , 1 -Last Saturday a s tchel containing a sten of money and some papers, was stolen from Rev. .Alndrew Kennedy, • while he was signin the registration bool at the Post Offic , London. -1The wife of an E. glishman named.Bayratid, gave birth to three children on 2hursday at peinbroke, Renfrew com ty, two boys mid a girl. Both motlier and children are doing well. --fA.bout $13,000 worth of butter, of select quality, for export to England, is seid to have been purchated. by one mart, Mr. P. F. Ferhuson, in Petton tOwnshipt Quebec, during the past few , , months. : - .--1A school teacheetna,med Cassidy Mt, absconded: from Brudenell, • near Pe breke, with e -sum of money raised for the purpose of presenting a testi- monial to Rev. E. II. Jennings, School Inspector. . --;.-While Mr. Cottrell, of West Zorn, was engaged. in chopping one day lately, he had the misfortune to slipeand the axe coming down with full force into hie foot, cat a great gash into it, also severing one of the toes. -'-The usual cleaning, destine and varnishing of the Parliamentary bui14- ing8 in Toronto, preparatory to the a.p- proechinbe session, have been going on for eonteclays back. No Material alter- ations have been Made. -A Lindsay carriage maker has re- ceived an order front a gentlemen neer Sligo, Ireland, for a phaeton, and a Philadelphia, livery firm are now ar- ranging with him tor the purcha,se of his prize pleasure sleigh and cutter. : --Mr. Hespeler, the immigration agent at Winnipeg, and Pierce Down; a ila,ud. surveyor, have been sent- out by :the Government to :try and. arrange the difficulty between the Mennonites , and Squatters at Pembina mountains.' -The death is recorded of Mrs. Ann Platt, relict of the late John Platt, ef London Township, in the • 91sLyear Of her age. The deceased has been in. this country since 1840, and was well known anhis.gb.l. esteemed by a, large circle of friends. -Mr. A. N. Molesworth, of the Can- ada Pacific Railway, and Mr. Vatighan, of Selkirk; arrived. in Winnipeg, On the; 26th ult., by skates, having made the: trip on the river from Selkirk - about 30 miles -in two hours and p5 minutes. I -LOA). New Years eve the worlem n employed in the Ayr: Ag,ricultutel-• Weeks met at the house of their ens- ploYer, John WaSson, Esq., and present- ed him with a beautiful Wilson AdjuSt- ; able Chair, accenapanied by a highly ' 1 , complimentary address. . • 1 -:-A. man in Aylmer named' Philip Daly, while attending a sawing machine, had his hand so much bruised that had to be amputated.Another m -named Francois Grayelle, was hie in 1he face by a horse and. stutmed, and 1 wa, almost frozen to death before ite I i 1 ' 1 1 rec vered his senses. i I ! i -t-Mr. and Mrs. D. Utter, of Burford, .wee, a few days since, surrounded b+' a happy family of eight children, but five have succumbed to that tern 'le dis ease' diphtheria. On one day th ee ad- 1 fins and their little occupants were cae- 1 ried out in one 'funeral cortege. The I otherthree ehildren are prostrated with the sante disease. , • -One evening recently a young man named. Ryan -was arrested by Constable Everett, of Lucan, for having an unlaw- ful weapon in his possession. A -short ! titrie after he had been placed in the ; lockup, however, the doors were broken in. and the prisoner released. He has not yet been seen, and there is no clue to his liberators. ' - • i -At a business Place in Brantford, the other day, a coenterfeit half -dollar' found its way into the till. It stood the test' of acids perfectlY, and only when the plating of silver was removed was the fraud fully discovered. The spur- ious coin is lighter than the genuine, and will ...t. person.' No person was in sight, and. the paii6y Who left it -no.. doubt the mothe -had evidently hurried awey after tering at the door. The child, evideilly a few weeks old, was taken in, warmed before a cheerful fire. and eomforted. .-On Thursday of last wok a run- away t ok place in the villag of Tees - Water, during which Mr. For yth, bar- ber, receives a bad fall, an lay for some time insensible. We ere happy to hear' that he is improving fast, 1 and. will be around. in a few days. . -Mr. G. W. Priest, for three 'years teacher of the Ayr public sehool, was presented by hispupils with the poetical works of Byron & Tennyson, also a beautiful album, on the eve cf his re- I tirement from that situation. Mr. Priest has been appointed Principal of I the: Lueknow public school. On Saturday evening in Toronto a ballet box, to be used at Moudey's elet- - bon, was stolen from the buggy of a returning officer. An irtiprestion exists that the thief thought he had captured a eash-box. The loss was riaade good by the clerk at the City Cletk's office, who prepared new ballot paps. -Wm.. E., Wiley, who for ;ten years held. the position of ticket -agent at the Port guron station, rand Trunk Rail- way, has tendered his resignation' to accept the position of Eastern. Travel- ling Agent of the Michigan, Central, with headquarters at Toronto, made vacant by the death of Ht E. Osgood. -A young man named Clark is sup- posed to have been drowned- in She har- bor at Kincardine, on. Saturday morning by missing his way to the station in the darkness and blinding snow storm of the eaely morning, and walking off the wharf. Parties were grappling for the bedy all day, but so far without success. It -•Amongst the military pensioners paed off by Captain Hesketh at Ottawa a few day § ego, was an old ma,ii named Rebut, who resides about seven miles frbrn the city, On the Prescott road, and who is 107 years of age. He is very feeble now, and could -with difficulty be bp:eight to the city to receive his pen- 811---Nhy the Canadians get along so p acefelly with the Indians, says the New Iork Sun, is partly explained by the fad that every person who, since 104,1sas introduced whiskey into the region' of which Fort McLeod is the cen- tre, has, without an exception, been captured and fined. -Miss Francis Harrison, daughter of Me. M: Harrison,. Toronto, whose awfully sudden death occurred on Thurs- day evening, looked so like life that a •consuttation was held next morning, to see if ;life really was extinct. „Several ladies d.echired they had seen her breathe. The medical men, however, decided that she was dead. ; =The Toronto police have received a telegram from Medina, N. Y., asking them to lobk out for bile John A. Ker- *, who' is charged with borrowing inoney on pretence that he was eneag- ed. in exporting cattle and horses gem Canada; and has recently disappeared. Ile is ; alsd? said to have carried on swindling operations in severel Cana- dian. towns. 1 --The Shakespeare prize at Balliol College, Oxford, has, according to the 0 ord Uniyersity Gazette, been adjudg- e to Mr. John! Fletcher, Commoner. Mr. Fletcher, who took first-class honors, in classics at his "first iublie examina- tion," le, few months ago, belongs to Tor- onto, where he receivecl his education at Upper Canada College and 'Univer- sity College. -Mr. Graves, Great Western Rail- way Station -master at Thamesville; has been chareed by the -Railway Detec- tites with ° abstraction of liquor from barrels freighted over the road. The mode of operations, as described ler Detective Hunter, evinced on the part of the operator a good knowledge of dynamics and. hydrostatics. An exam- ination is -to take place, • ,-At the 'Roman Catholic bazaar in St. Thomas on New Year's Day, a hand- some dressing gown was contested. for as to who was the most popular man in the Domini in. The candidates were Sir John A. Macdonald and Hon. Alex. Mackenzie. The vote stood 557 for the Premier, and. for Sir John 453; major- ity for the Premier 104. The aMoUnt realized on the gown ettas $101. The contested article was at once forwarded to the Premier at Ottawa. - On New Year's eve, Mr. Geo. A. Rose, formerly of the Strathroy Age and now of! the Ingersoll Chronicle, was presented by the choir and menibers of the Ingersoll Bible Christian Church, with a very handsome Silver Inkstand and Gold Pen. and. Holder, accompanied with an address. This pleasing testi- monial, Was given for services rendered at organist', which position Mr. Rose has only occupied but it very ehort time. as a pecaliar eines. Business inen aye to exercise extreme caution. y means of a composition deed -and eettlenient of its., debts, the Brant- - ford, Norfolk. and Port Burwell Rail - Ivey 'Las passed over to the ownership and control of the Great Westein Rail- way' of Canada. The .road is thirty-. three miles long, and. extends front Til- sonbIurg on the "loop line," 25' iniles east of St. Thomas, to Port Bureill on Lake Erie. •. • - the vicinity of St. Jacobs; Wee terlOo County, a dreadful disease among fat hogs is raging, making fearful havoc among them. The symptoms of the disease are a rapidand unnatural move- m.ent of the blood, duperind.uced by a sore throat. • The disease is so deadly thatthe animal generally dies a few minetes after being -attacked, 12 cases (set of a dozen proving fatal.. - Robert Thompson, a brakeman on She Great Western Railway, was run- ning alonehthe top' of a freight train in the depot yard at Windsor, when, owing to the icy state of the car roof, he slip- ped and fell heavily to the frozen ground. He was carried inseueible into She Greet Western Hotel and a physi- cian summoned., who pronounced .his injuries, though severe, in no way claneerous. -On New Year's eve, about half -past nine o'clock, rapping, loud and con- tinuous, was heard at the door of Mr. George Balk -well, grain dealer, Guelph. The Cady of the house answered the call as soon as possible ; but imagine 7her consternation and surprise when on opening the door a faint well greeted her ears, and on looking down to her feet saw in a basket an infant boy wrap - 'pea in a shawl, faded and worn, and evidently the property of a very poor brutal assault was committed at St. Themes one night last week on the person of Mr. E. II. Kirkham, an em- ploye of the Canada Southern Railway. While walking tip Metcalfe street he was struck over the head with a heavy club and rendered insensible. As soon as he was able lte regained hit feet, but found himself alone. The wound is an ugly one-ts se head bein t cut and. bad- ly bruised. It is supposed he wits mit- taken for some one else. -A shocking accident occurred at Halifax last Saturday night. IA young cabman- named. John -Wilson; about 9 o'elock, took two young women named. Flora McDonald and Ida Boutilier, for a sleigh ride. They went towards Point Pleasure Park. About 5 o'clock next morning the horse was found in the street at the south end of the city, Cut and bleeding, and the sleigh much dam- aged. Nothing was known of the oc- cupants till the afternoon, when a sleigh -robe and whip were found on the ice at Steele's Pond. Search was then made, and the bodies of the two women foiind under the ice. Wilson's body has not yet been discovered, but no aoutit 15 also, T was 'bloc • " will be' found under1the ice se road alongside of tlhe pond cd up with stones and:rebbieli thrown dn it from the see shore by the gale of Friday night, and. it is :suppos- ed when the party can tieit they Went on the toe, brae throegh, and ,were drowned the'horse ateine 'scrambling - oLJ. • -WhOe helping to Jerry a stick of timber ii to the J. 117. Steinhoff', at Wal- lacoburg4 Kent County, the other day, Mr. Hee ry Bartlett, the engineer, re- ceived, a he thought, e slight ; setatch on his leg, but worked on ai usual for a day or so, when his leg became , so sore that he was eompelled to qiiit work, and has not yet been able to leave his bed. Under proper treatment e is re- covering and will soon be ab e to be 1 around nein. -Boring for oil r eat: he MiSsissippi, in Lauerk Connty, about two miles from the villagetis still being proceeded. with l'he indications are said by those experieneed in sinking oil wells to be of She me idno upbatn y in Winin18.614o 1866, they have the same formations of strata as those in Which oil has been found eleewhere. 8 -1 : =Last Monday, in Toronto, while a 'a hack was going up Beekeley street, one of the half-starved horses fell down, and the heartless driver coolly took off the harness, and: left. the poor brute there to die, Seme passers-by lifted the aeimal up and plaped it in a stable with plenty of fodder, which it de- voured iravenouslye The City Com- miseion rs were notified of the occur- rence, and. the prosecution of the owner was promised. -Last Saturday Rev. T. -V. Roy, the Brahmin priest, wee tried in Brantford, before His Honor 1Judge Jones. The prosecuting attbrney, Mr. Van Norman, refuged to Prosecute on the ground of false pretences, as there .was no case. On the eount of converting to his own use pro erty belonging to others, that could oii.ly be tried. in the• County of Went* rth, as ' the alleged pale was made ii. Hamilton, but undee the inr• structioi of the plaintiff; She :case was not par ued, andtthe prisoner was im- mediately gi.scherged. =The Quebec city 'tletectiyes have been notified that a reward 6f $200 is offered for • the apprehension of a Pole named'Adolphe Jankoresky, who is az: used of robbing a _bank and. jewellery store at Menominee, Michigan, and is supposed to have travelled in this di- rection. The Chiefi Constable of Tor - Onto has also communicated with the same offieert. respecting the mysterious disappearance fromthat city, on the 205h of December, of a gentleman nam- ed James Claxton. -The -Rev. A. D. McDonald,. pastor of -Knox Church Elora, had a narrow escape 011.Christm4s night. Returning from the discharge of a pleasing official task, at the residentie of Mr. Hugh Rob- erts, his horse plunged into a •gully in the road, and the rev. gentleman was suddenly ejected from his buggy. For- tunately Mr, McDonald is a, geed horse- man, and, although he drives a spirited animal,he had the frightened brute under immediate control, end escaped with no more damage than a few I bruises; . i -Mei D. Guthrie, M. P., Met with an aedd.ent on New Year's eve, being pitched; out of his bUggy on the Eramos sa Road, while returnmehhome. He met some party driving'abuggy, and. at once teamed out, as far aspostiblet The other party continued in the 'centre of She road, and in passing Met Guthrie, She front wheels of the vehicles became locked, and ;Mr. Guthrie was pitched over the dash -board, and one of the wheels pissed over (his body. About the onlst injury he received was a bruis- ed hand. , -Th death is recorded of Mrs. t. promising kind. The only w is, whether oil will be found. •quantities. According' to Sir gats's report to the Government 7 Catherine Fraser, of Elora, -who died at the advenced age of 98 years: The de- ceased Was sisteT of the late Hon. Chief Justice IMbLean, and Imother-in-law of the late; Di Finlayson, of Elem. She was one of the 11. Ej. Loyalists, \Ale, with her family, settled in the Glen- garry district dating the troubles be- tween Great Britain and the United States, and her life forms a connecting link between the early 4a,ys of Canada and its subsequent history. • --Dast Saturd4 afternoon a young man inITorento, named George Kireff, • essayed: to Walk over the ice on the bay to the Wand. He had. not gone over 300 yards whenIthe ice gave way, and he went- through. Some young men who were watching him, and who no- ticed the mishap, procured a light boat and putlied it before them towards so that if they, too, went through, they would. have something to cling to. The half drowned man 'was soon reached, pulled out of his -precarious position, • and taken ashore. Kireff was under the influence of liqubr when he started on his mad -cep adventure. -The Chesley Enterprise says: The two children wise lost their lives last week in Brant, had found ai vial con- taining stryc nine. The poor creatures uneoeked th. vial and 6,sted the deadly contents. The bottle is said to have been. lost for many months, and was discovered outside by the children while • playing. The number of accidents by poisoning in this neighborhood have been numerous. Sense years ago two chitdron lost their Lives' by eating bread on whicb strychnine had. been spread for the destruction of rats. Not long ago two meri died in Kincardine town- ship, from taking -whiskey in which poison had been mixedwo children • were a short time age poisoned in Greenock through eating /hatchet. Some years ago a child in Southamp- ton -lost its life from the same cause. Parents kn owing the curiosity of little • ones, and their readiness to put every- thing they get hold of into their ilieuths, 1 would do well to clear, their houses of everything of a poisonous nature., even. though some inconvenieuce should be seffered. in Consequence.- All children have a great desire for what is sweet, and sugar or its equivelent ill generally kept out of the way. It is very often when searching for Something which nature desires, that poison is discovered and swallowed.• ,4 , -An accident occurred. on Monday morning between St.Thomas and _St. Pierre, Quebec, to thp mixed train on the Grand Trunk Rft lway for River du Loup.: Five or six_ cars- got off the track and were eonsidetably damaged. The postal car was tt riled upside down, and. caught firo, bni the flames Were soon extinguished. Ilo one was injured so far as can be ascertained: The pas- sengers per Halifax express were tran- shipped at the scene of the accident. -A whole famil in Guelph came very near being suffobated one night re- cently, by gas from ta coal stove. In view of these painfu facts the public should. take warnn, and see to, thoroughly underst a. and carry out all the conditions of 13afety in the Mane agement of coal .stov s. If they do not the noxious gasses a ising will superin- duce headaches, the nausea, muscular prostration., and den ert the mental sen- sibilities. Let all honseholders see that thorough 'ventilation is secured. before retiring every night. • -A man in. Mont eal named. Bateau attemped suicide by anging, itithis house on Saturday last. • His wife saw him enter 0; trap, oor, in the upper part of the house, 0 which he placed several bags of peas o prevent any one Opening the door, bu with the assistance of a boy she succeed .3. in removing the peat, and entered in time to save her husbencl's life. T e latter's brother was killed by :a paesing train on the • Victeria. Bridge w ile at work there last suramer,and it is said this family affliction and the . use of intoxicat- ing drink has dere. E.ed his mind. • -The steamer 08 ario, -on her recent ttip to England, en* ountered:the most fearful weather. 011,028 head of live stock on. board. 220 • ,ere washed. over- board. or injured • o that the poor anima's had to be destroyed. When the storm was ar its height the owner of a fine drau ht stallion, Star of Denmark, tried. the odd experiment of • cutting the horse le se and letting bim shift for himselfe t : The horse di.d not receive a se- aScii and was sold on lending for $1,508, while many of the others in their boxe were killed oi- ly bruised. -A few days be ore Christmas, one of Elora,'s leading fishers shipped a lot of poultry to Toren o, addressed to bile Douglas, a dealer in such articles. He received in payrnenr therefor a cheque to the amount of dearly $50. It was returned for collecion, and came back _marked "no funftz." at it seems th there are two men. named. Douglas in the provision bueness in Toronto, and that No. 2 is tr ating upon the good. name of No. 1. AlNo. 2- has ' played this scurvy trick up 1/tethers than the Elora ilesher, it is w II to be on the out- • look for his orders. There is at prese t a movement on foot in Montreal t� organize a band. of Protestant settlers 80 proceed. to Mani- toba, in the spring, to take advantage of . the Government gra 6t there of 160 acres to single men, and of no acres to mar- ried men. There s ems to be a general' desire among -the mechanics, store- • keepers and laborer , to get to a place • where -if they -do no make much money; they will have, at ast, the happiness of owning their ow land, and will al: ways have plenty of food for themselves and families. The intention at present is to have a minister and. schoolmaster with them, and to have their own black- smith, shoemaker, tailor, &c. The set- • tlers are to assist each other as much • as :possible for the first two 343fITS. -Relating to tile Hessian ily or "weevil," the LondIon Advertiser says: Many theughtsthat he prolonged grow- ing. weather would. increase' the harm done by giving the Lya longer time to work. We are piesed to learnehow- ever, that it is the opinion of some of the best farmers, id the country that the weather mitigated the evil in this way: The warm Weather drove the • ram growth of the wheat plant past the first large leaves of "-coverings," thus exposing to the weather the fatal part on which the.. rub fastens itself. Besides this the nczeased growth of the plant will give Ijt greater strength to defy the weakeni et; effects of its in- sect enemy. This wiil be cheering news • to many who feared that their crop was seriously damaged.. It is also believed that the parasite which preys• upon the Hessian fly has taken advantage of the recent fine weather to destroy large nurabers of grubs. • - . -At no place has the gospel temper- ance movement beei more successful Shan in Dundas. qihe work was in- augurated the lst of December last, by Rev. E. Haskell, of Now Hampshire. The first //teethe; was small, and attend - et principally by boys and young men, but gradually the interest increased-, personal visitation secured the attend- ance and reformation of trle31 whenever thought of attending a temperance meeting. One after another of the good etteitizens put in an appearance. and final - 1y the hall was too small to accommo- date the interested ceowds who nightly thronged the meeting's. Twenty-two of such meetings have been held. All in- difference has been overborne itt the grand uprising tide in favor of temper- ance. Three liquor sellers have decid- ed. to give up the traffic, nearly 700 have signed. the total abstinence pledge, and joy and hope has come to many a d.eso- kited home. This wonderful eefornia- tion culminated last Friday evening in a farewell banquet to Mr. Haskell. On the platform were the clergymen of the town and other prominent citizens, delegations from. Hamilton and sur- rounding towns, with a large number of reformed men. - 1