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MiSoellemeous News 'texas.
—At the London assizea oa Wean
J. H. Hargraves, a the Lois
eBar Factory, was found guilty
11„,ct feloniously done bodily harm to
girl Annie Sparks, and was sent
three years' imprisanment in the
tral Prison.
—A gentleman in Stratford ita
his possession a butterfly masa
over sevesi inches across the wings,
beautifully marked with
The eetyealie was taken off a gerani
plant ia the fall, and kept io. a basket
in the house until one day Lost et
when it burst open, and the butte
emerged. It ia one of the largest
finest ingots of the kind ever seen.
—Attheintermediateexamination
in December last, Miss M. A,. Drapee,s,
pupil of she nigh Sohool,Listovrel, este
trary to expectation, did not succeee
getting a teacher's certificate.
Head Master, Mr. Crozier, wag lea to
believe that there racist have been 11
a mistake somewhere, and made abiti
cation to the Board of Examine/1(1ot s,
re-examination of Miss Draper's paelee
and which has resulted in Miss Djeiei.
being awarded the certificate to "meek
she was entitled.
PRONOVNnEn Uses-sm.—The case ot
Miss Margaret Thompson, who had ber
pet horse shod with golden shoes see
distributed showers of gold. among tee
poor of various European towes, was.
heard before Lord Adam, in Edit.
burgh, on the 23rd ult. The h.earieg
was had on the petition of George Gift.
hara Thompson, and two brothers et
Miss Thompson. She is in the Royal
Lunatic Asylum, Gartnavel, near Glut
govt, whither she was taken ort her ea
rival in Scotlandfrom Barcelona, Spa*,
having been teken_ charge of there by,
the British Consul. She is about 4f).
years of age. On the testimony of nr.
Talmahill, she was declared enable te,
manage her affairs. .
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Spring Shows,
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Showa for the exhibition of Entire Stock wilae.
held this SQawn as follows:
South Huron, at Brucefield, on Friday, Aprn
West Huron, at Smith's Hill, on Wednesk,
April 17.
East Huron, at Wroxeter, on Wednesday, Alai
10.
Stephen and rsborne, at RNeter, on Friday,
April it
Ribbed, at Spring- Hill, on Tuesday ApsiI 16.
Grey, at Brussels, on Tuesday, April 9.
Morris, at Blyth, on Tuesday,A.pril 111
RECEIVED THIS - WEEK.
THE
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CAR KO'S NEW BLOCK.
THE CHEAPEST LOT OF
T171B CatAPEST LOT OF
BROWN HOLLANDS
THEAPEST LOT OF
WHITE -coTroisisti
•THE CHEAPEST LOT OF
GRAY COTTONS.
Tit& CHEAPEST LOT OF
THE oflEAPEgT LOT OF
D OK& DUCKS
TEE CHEAPEST LOT OF
FANCY DRESS GOODS.
THE CHEAPEST • LOT OF
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W 1:1,0LE NUMBER, 539.
SEAFORTH FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1878.
{ 1VIoLEAN BROS., Publishers.
$1.50 e, Year, in. Adveasae.
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WHO SHOULD GQ- TO MAN-
ITOBA.
In the last issue of the Manitoba
Free Press we find.the following article:
The season' g immigration having al-
ready commenced to set in, the time.
seems opportune for giving a few words
of advice to the many.persons who are
doubtless considering whether they
shall try to better their prospects by
removing to the new fields of labor aaid
enterprise presented. so attractively by
Manitoba and the Northwest Terri-
tories.
First of all it is necessary to repeat
cult to obtain, w-hile
the caution, which we have given at in-
tervals heretofore, -with respect to one
particular' class, whose experiences in
S, WV country have been generally the
reverse of satisfactory. There are no
openings whatever here at present for
persons desiring enoplOyinent in genteel
occupations. Of clerks, assistants, and
salesmen we have enough and to spare.
Situations are diffi.
the exigencies of economy during the
long winters frequently oblige employ-
ers to diminish the strength of their
staff in that season when it is most dif-
ficult and, unpleasant to find temporary
outdoor occupation. Persons desiring
employment in stores or counting
houses should make sure of situations
before they come here; otherwise the
chances are they will suffer grievous
disappointment.
Even the case of mechanics, we
should, hesitate to recommend a large
accession to the ranks of those al-:
ready here, -who are .able to meet the
present demands of the public. The
conditions are not particularly favorable
for stray journeymen finding employ-
ment at their oreft ; but a good werk-
man, with a small capital, would easily
find localities to establish himself where
hia services would be valuable in the
young settlements growing up in all
parts of the Province.
Manitoba is essentially a farming.
country, and nowhere in the world. does
the produce of the soil so readily yield
itself to the labor of the agriculturist.
Of farmers we cannot have too many;
but it should be . remembered that, to
emberkteuccessfully in this, as in any
other independent, • vocation, the pos.
- session of a small capital—say at least
$1,000—is almost. indispensable. It is
tnse that some settlers have managecl
to get along with less, and yet have
thriven ,• still we shouldsnot be warrant-
ed. in advising any new corner to yen-
tere to plant himself upon the prairie
in tb.e forlorn hope of successfully Oona -
batting the obstacles thee have been
overcome by only such persons as are
peculiarly fitted by experienee and re-
source to fight this kind of battle. ,
•To the practical farmer with a small
capital Manitoba offers unrivalled at -
tions, for such a man, by the exer-
cise of ordinary thrift and industry,
r may certeinlylook forward to an imme-
diate comfortable living, and to making
money at no distant date, when com-
munications with the outer world shell
• have beau secured. In fact, an enter-
prising, industrious man may fairly
hope to attain on a prairie farm in the
space Of ten years a position that it
took his father 40 years reach in the
heavily timbered portions of Ontario.
It is here, as elsewhere, very advanta-
geous to the new settler tc have abun-
dant help in his own family. Among
the Mennonites, all work—which is one
• of the secrets of the immense progress
their settlements have made. Farms
in Manitoba are easily cultivated by
machinery, of which the most Suitable
kinds are to be obtained. at corapara-
tively cheep rates on the spot, several
firms who make agrioultural imple-
ments a. specialty having already estab-
lished well -stocked agencies in the
Province. With such aids to labor, a
farmer having the help of his growing
sons is comparatively independent. Of
the necessity of hiring, and the bulk of
the profits consequently accrues to his
family.
For the capitalist Manitoba and the
Territories furnish unrivalled opportu-
nities. Money is scarce and commands
a high rate of interest. Consequently
abundant openings for safe investments
at high rates of interest, upon undoubt-
ed security are presented. The oppor-
tunities for embarking iu industrial en-
terprises are very numerous, and the
practical business man, with money at
command, can hardly fail to find open-
ings that will meet his views.
In conclusion we mist not forget to
mention one class which can find here
a. very wide field of employment. The
• demand for domestic servants is always
great, and good girls commend excellent
wages and comfortable situations. The
number of this dass is subject to coil-
stant reduction as the ranks are de-
pleted by marriage, which is sure to
create frequent gaps in a country where
one condition necessary to the success
of the young farmer is the possession of
a Suitable helpmeet.
Venn.or's Latest.
• Mr. Veunor welting to the Montreal
Witness under date of March 27th,
• says:
• As an old Scotch proverb has it
" "%larch borrowit from April
Three_ days, and they were ill.
This winter, however, both March and
February have " borrowit " wea.therniad
does not at all depend. upon the date at
which navigation opens. We shall probe
-ably very shortly have vessels in our
harbor although there are still seVeral
ice blockades to be removed between
here and Quebec—but this will not warm
the atmosphere now, nor will it prevent
the cold white Easter in April. -Unless
I am very much mistaken we will have
to record some exceedingly late fallow
flurries, just as we last autumn eeperi-
enced a very early bne ; and this year,
I expect the autaren to set in early,
with probably early snow falls,the
mer season bids fair to be sho
sweet—this latter term implying t
tensely hot of my October forecas
I have already published my g
forecast for the summer it is un
sary to enter into further details.
probabilitiesehen,I point to in tlai
murucation chiefly ere: Heavy rat
late snow flurries, ik rapid rise of
towards the month of May, and
Water throughout the summer.
The Adulteration of Fo
The Commissioner of Inland R
has submitted a report on ethe
meets made last year in certaii
tricts in Canada, to ascertain w
or not various samples of food s
ted for chemical tests were adult
In it we find the following table:
No. of No. found
Name of Article. samples to be axial-
' analyzed. terated.
Allspice 13 7
Bitters(quininewine) 5 4
Bntter'. 49
Cassia 2
'Cloves . 6
Cinnamon ........... 6
Cocoa and chocolate.. • 2
Coffee 44 34•
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23
5
21 17
Mi • • • 90 53
Mustard. 19 18
.
Pepper
0
30,
Other Spices ........ 4
Paris Green 50 30
Preserved vegetables 2 1
Potted meatsq . 3 0
Spirits 0
Sugar 4
TSweaee.t.s. .. ..,
. ..
truenumerated aria- J
oles
4 247
The reports of t e analysts c
to show that a ve --huge propo
the condiments s
ated, and to a ver
This is espeeially
cloves, ginger,
Coffee is largely
admixture of fors
of 41 saraples onl
Tea, is adulterate
the above table s
pies submitted
pure. "
The samples of Paris green
to above were se t to the Cebve
sum -
and
e in -
As
neral
eces-
The
dam-
s and
eters
high -
d.
venue
xperi-
dis-
ether
hmite
rated.
• No.
nadul-
terated.
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26
2
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Canada.
Track -laying on. the Cenada Pacific
railway is progressing at the Tate of
about three-fourths of a mile daily.
—The Grangers of Grey Division
have shipped from Meaford to Liver-
pool 10,000 bushels of wheat.
—Mr. James Kerr of the 6th.conces-
sion, Maryborough, had an apple tree
in. full bloom in the month of Ja,nuary.
• —Mr. Henry, of Halifax, purchased -
55,000 worth of cattle at Toronto last
week.
—Kenneth McDonald. lately in the
employ of Mr. 3. D. Moore, has been
arrested on suspicion of being a party
to the late robbery.
—The man Donnelly who attempted.
to talse the life of coestable Everett at
Lucan a short time ago, has been see-
tenced to two years in the Penitentiary.
—Rev. John McMicking, of Picton,
has received a UllalliMOUS Call to Wat-
erdown at a salary of $800 with naanse
and some land.
—Last week a Waterloo township
farmer, Mr. john Devitt, assisted by his
hired. man, Wm. Ament, cut 15 cords
of wood in one day.
—A fine $400 organ has been intro-
duced, into the Presbyterien Chnrch,
Tham.esville. The anniversary service
is to be held on Thursday, 17th of April.
—Professor Andrew Smith, Principal
of the Ontario Veterinary College, was
a few days ago presented. with a hand-
some riding whip by the students.
—Mr. Hugh McBuniey, of the 6th
conceesiou of Kinloss, who was injured
on the 7th March by a fall from a low
stable, has succumbed to the injuries.
He died on the 19th ult.
4 —Mr. James Nevin, of Sandwich, a
few days Delo threw some ,2,000,000
yot-uag white fish fry into Burlington
Bay at Hamilton. The fry were from
the fish hatches in Sandwich. .
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21 —The unemployed_ workmen of Otto, -
s -wa have appointed a committee to wait
1
80 -on the Premier and link for assistance
, 20 to enable them to settle on lands in
4.4. Manitoba.
—An Adelaide hen distineuished her -
2 0
self the other day by laying a double -
241 yolked egg, one yolk being enclosed in
ntume another perfect shell about the size of a
ion of pigeon egg.
—A rowing match at a waxier of
$2,000, is to take place on TorontoBay,
between Ha,n1a,n, the Oetario cham-
pion rower, and Plaisted the New York-
er, on May 15th.
' —A party a young men 'has been
formed in Montreal for the purpose of
settling a township in. Manitoba. The
company now numbers about '30 mem-
wore hers, and expect to start on -or about the
15th of April.
eferred large snake measuring seven feet
nment in length, of the blue racer species, was
analysts by the !Secretary of t e De- killed on the Grand Trunk Railway,
partment of Agticultures beca, se, as near Sarnia the other day. It meas -
the drug was argely purch sed. by urea. 12 inches in circumference at the
farmers, who ha1e no means of rotect- thickest part.
ing themselves against impos tion, it —In Windsor dogs must hereafter be
was thought th Department should licensed and nerebered, and wear a col -
shield them as fat as possible frbm im- lar with an official tag affixed. The po-
pure articles. Dr. 13aiker Edwiirds, at lice are empowered to enter premises
Montreal, repoils very fully on this and inspect dogs tied up, to see if they
subject. Some siimples seiat hini. were are collared and tagged. .
adulterated with gypsum, or t rra al- —A -Bible agent in Hamilton named
bra, which. redno d the poisouin prop- Burns has got into trouble, being
erties of the dru by 20 per ce
objects to the us of this poison
where it is large used it is a
' washed by rain from the fiel
streams,where i may do serio
to stpek-or men inking the ater, as
it is not soluble. He has been experi-
menting upon gae lime, ammoui cal gas
h.such
ere are
phorus
eir ap-
bmitted are adulter-
yconsiderable.extent.
he case with ground
ustard and PepPer,
deteriorated. py the
ign substance. Out
10 were found pure.
to a less ext nt, for
mows that of 5 Bern-
er analysis 4
be of brick, with stone :
simple in style.
—Ou Saturday a sharper in Ottawa
got hold of a man named McGrae from
the Gatineau, and in showing him the
" elephant " got him drunk, carted him
out to McKay's bush and there robbed
him of $165, and his watch arid chain.
The detectives are now looking for the
perpetrator of the robbery.
—Land hunters are pouring into
Muskoka. Some of the settlers are
logging, and. underbrushing has been
done all winter. Large clearanoeshave
been made and an iramense quantity of
land will be reclaimed *tin the forest
during the ensuing sumffier. -
—A young man. living in Euphrasia,
Grey County, is said to have mortgaged
his father's farm for $14100 and left for
parts unknown. .His father ig one of
the pioneers of the township, and had
but this one son. Great sympathy, is
felt for the old. Man, he being a- very
moral and. honest man.
—A little girl ten years of age,Fesid-
ing in Berlin, is acknowledged to be
one of the finest violin players in the
Province. She is a pupil of Professor
Baumann, and is the reputed possessor
of extraordinary musical powers, hand-
ling the bow with the skill and- acour-
acy of a Paganini.
—Last Friday a man named Wm..
Grieves was brought from Mount
Brydges under arrest, charged with
forging the name of Thomas Foulds, of
Cara,dboc, to a note of hand for $160. It
is alleged that the prisoner having got
married a fortnight ago, and being witla
out money, took this means of raising.
funds for a wedding trip. He was com-
mitted for trial.
—A fair show of gold. has been ob-
tained at Fifteen Mile River, in eastern
Nova Scotia, and twenty men with four
horses are now at work there on the
Jackson lead, while a Pictou cntsher
is to be set up at once. -The lead. show-
ing gold is from 20 to 24 inches thick.
The lack of a road. to get to it greatly
enhances, however, the cost of sup-
plies.
—Amongst the_ gradua,tes whopassed
successful examinations before the fac-
ulty of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tuesday pre-empted to supply the remaining
March 265h we observe the names of male monabers of the party. They have
the following Canadians: Ambrose -with them 25 horsee; and intend going
Peter McGiiirk, St. Mary's; Thomas into farming on an 'extensive scale.
Allyn Cullis, Auburn ; Hamlet Hart, The young people are4 hardy-loolring
Simcoe ; T. Dixon Keillor, Strathroy ; lot, and just the kind of people suited
Edgar Dudley Lewis,, Ingersoll, and.
W. Lewis Scholes, Constance+
—On Tuesday night of last week a
fire occurred on the premises of Fred.
Krieger, about two miles from Ilespe-
ler, by.which his barn was burned.. A
cow, sgven hogs and two sheep perished. buy it, but said that as he was going to
in the flames. The other contents of Brockville he would see whether he
the bairn, consisting of hay, strew, &a, could dispose of it there. The man
were totally consumed. Origin of the consented., and the merchant sold. it at
fire unknown. Insured in the Waiter- Brockville for 7ic. per pound, on the
loo Mutual for $2,000.
t. He charged with embezzling a large
ecause amount of his employer's money. Bail
t to be to the amount of $1,200 has been'
s into taken, until his trial next week.
s harm —A Cuban lady of wealth and high
social position, of New Orleans, was
married at Nesvcastle, Ont., on the 23rd
of March, to Mr. T. Collins Powers, a
near relative to the great American
sculptor.
—A city broker iu Toronto last week
ring care in t sent to New York for a package of new
t to injure veg tation, i
L silver dollars. A parcel containing a
we obnoxious to the hundred was sent him, on which he
uabble fertilizees of the had to pay $18 express charges and
i -poisonous character. duty.
heir use to that of ar- —The Parry Sound iVorth Star is
ds. Six s,amples of
urea in. Efamiltpn were glad. to find that the prospects are en-
couraging for both the lumberers and
odgson Ellis, Toronto, the men in their employment. Prices
f them pure and the have advanced somewhat, and the de -
adulterated, tee one and will be • quite equal to the sup -
liquor and phos orus soap, wi
success that he s of opinion tl
remedies in sulphur and pho
which, svhile req
plication so as n
are fatal to the
beetle and are v
soil and of a no
He recommends
senical compou
Paris Green pro
sent to M. W.
who found four
remaining tvio
with 21 per cent.
arid the other wi
sample from Lo
found which had
the sulphate.
The followina
covered: No fbo
in tee, but sever
were faced" w'
fee was deterior
roasted wheal, p
with wheat flou
meal and caye
pies were stem
1 " ; and milk fr
water. One sam
mon was entirele composed of
• ed cassia and IN
not one particle
Canned fruit w
She case of F
beans, into whic
troduced to enh
was found. to co
and water. Adelteration reigns
ground spice trade. In Montr
analyst detected! husks of corn a
tard seeds, vaaidus grains and r
of mills, toget er with farina., flour,
ground rice. Halifax as sample of
pepper containe 1 90 per cent. of husks
of mustard see
husks; a third
sand. Some
of sulphate of bltrytts
•h 23 per cent. In it Y'
.
a—The other day three Ingersoll
don ,Prussiae blue was young men undertook a voyage to Lon -
been mixed to conceal don, on the Thames. As the knowing
ones prophesied they received a cold
•adulterations were dis- water bath and were wrecked. about
eign leaves were found midway between Louden and Ingersoll.
1 samples of green tea No lives were lost.
th Prussian blue; cof- —Miss Heximer, daughter of John
ted with chic ry and Heximer, of Stevensville, has eloped.
as and beans; pepper with her father's hired man. The
; ginger wit corn -
young lady's parents are well off, and
e pepper-Lth sam- she leaves a good home to try her for-
eci " pure " an " Not tune with a man who has the repute -
m 15 to 20 per ent. of
tion of being fond of whiskey and
ple of ground cinna- worth nothing at all.
owder- .
eat ilour, tiler
of true -cinnam
s wholeeeme; ex
ench peas an
copper ,,,had b
nce the color,
tain an excess
being —Mr. 3. N. Henry, of Chatham, has
n in if. been shipping clover seed for six weeks
ept in this season, and, shipped'37 'ear eloads ;
Lima all of -which went to England and
en in- Germany. The invoice value is $52, -
Butter 300, one-third as _much reinains in
of salt the granaries of the farmers as. has been
in the sold.
al the —The Dundas Banner says: A firm-
a mus- er residing on the Stone Road above
fuse of Anca.ster village wants us t6 advertise
for the bottom of said road, as he
thinks the township council have last
it. He spent a couple of hours trying to
fiud it -last week and failed in bins
search.
—A. wedding was to have been cele-
brated in PortbBurwell ; the guests had
arrived, the wedding presents had been
admired, and. the table was spread for a
sumptuous repast, but the bridegroom
• did_ not appear. After waiting nearly
all day, it was discovered that he had
taken the train at Aylmer, and fled to
Michigan.
—Falconwood, the place chosee for
the Prince . Edward Island Lunatic
Asylum, is about three miles distant
from Charlottetown, and for a long
tim.e has been used as the Government
Model Farm. It contains about 100
acres, nearly a third being woodland.
The highest point has been taken for
She centre of, the buildings, which are to
s; another, bread. and
bread; and. a fourth,
ustaxd -was; fel rid to
this has-been exceptionably fine, cense- I contain sulpha of lime.
queutly it is extremely- probable that The Commissioner submits that the
April and. May will play ill, and give time has arrived when the law should
just such weather as I predicted last be put into Esctiee operation throughout
October. This was very wset weather. Canada. He adds to his reports 60 en -
1 see already indications of teary heavy graved figures of microscopic objects,
rains, which are likely to extend over illustrating thte adulterants used for the
wide -spread areas, and these will be in- deterioration of food, and furnished by
. .
partment at Somerset
It is believed these
the analysts and other
experts to exa, e samples of food that
may be sent to them.
—Mr.Sauer, Porkbntcher, Guelph,has
shipped. 700 dozen pigs' feet pickled, to
Russia.
terseersed with °occasional snow flur- the British Th
ries through April, and possibly into House, London.
May. Such Ei condition always gives us plates will assis
high water towards and. through May,
and it is my opinionthat this willbe the
case this year to a very merked de-
gree.
An "early spring" is a very vague
expression. To ray way of Oinking this
the year, but the increased demand is
for England. Several car loads, of
from 18 to 20 each, are being taken
over the Grand Trunk Railway daily,
destined for Europe. They are intend-
ed. for military service, and are branded
with the letter "S." Large shipments
of cattle are also being forwarded from
the_ lower Provinces, and the country
east and west is being searchedfor suit-
able horses for war purposes.
• —A Mr. Hobbs, of Warwick, a few
days ago, engaged. a laborer to thresh
some peas in the -barn, who, while do-
ing so, made it custora to enjoy his
usual smoke. Unfortunately, about 3
o'clock one afternoon last week, flames
were discovered issuing out of the
building, and in a few minutes there
was more smoke en that farm than a
thousand old pipes could. make in a
year. Mr. Hobbs will lose abed $800
as the result of that fatal smoke as he
had unfortunately neglected to have the
insurance transferred when buying the
farm.
—One of the oldest Red River set-
tlers—Mr. John Matheson. Sr.—died at
his residence in Nildonan On March 20,
at an advanced age. Mr. Matheson
eame frorn Scotland to the Red River
country with Lord Selkirk when he
formed. his colony; and during his many
years' residence there lived an upright
life which won for him the respect and
esteem of all. For many years he was
an elder of the Kildoean Church. He
was the father of Rev. Alex. Mathe-
son, of Little Britain, Mr. -john Math-
eson, councillor,Kildonan. and Mr. Wm.
Matheson, councillor, Springfield.. The
funeral took place on the morning of
the 22nd March, at Kild.onari.
—On Monday, March 25, about fifty'
persons male and female. left Luck -
now for Trail eounty, Dakota Territory,
where they purpose taking up laud, and.
engaging in farming for the remainder
of their days. They are principally
Highland Scotch people, and comprised
five families, and- a number of young
unmarried men.- Three of the farmers,
viz., Armstrong, Ross and McLeod, have
already taken up homesteads in that
country, and sufficient land has been
were the cynosure of all eyes, and. it is
a question whether their perfect inno-
cence or elegant costumes were the
more envied.
—William B. O'Donahue, the mov-
ing spirit of the Reit Ma,nitoba, insur-
rection, died at St. Joseph's Hospital
in St. Paul. Minnesota, on the 2,7th
of March. O'Doiaahue was Secretary
of the Treasurer under Reil, and took
a very active part in the military oper-
ations under Mei,- and was generally
considered. the - real moving spirit in
that movement. After its failure, and
faihng to receive pardon, as Reil and.
other leaders in the movement, &Dona, -
hue returned to Dakota county and
conimenced teaching schoolovhich he
followed until compelled by consump-
tion to take to what proved his death-
bed. in St. Joseph's Hospital.
—At the last regular meeting of the
Waterloo District Millers' Association
Mr: R. Blain, of Galt, showed samples
of three different varieties of spring
wheat which he received from Man-
itoba, and which he thinks if
our present spring wheat. The millers
inaprovemcoeunnttoryn
introduced into our
would make a decided
are still of the opinion that the sooner
the country substitutes another wheat
in place of the red chaff thebetter. The
varieties Mr. Blain showed are the
Golden Drop, Fife and the 13altic. It
is the opinion of millers that wheat
grown on the ftich soil of Manitoba
would be likely to grow well here.
—A few days ago a yoeng man nam-
• ed. Henry Hope, about twenty years of
age, who live on the 851). concession of
Peel, created it sensation in that neigh-
borhood. He left his parents' house
without giving them any notice that he
was going away, but before he had
gone far We took off it paper collar
which he wore at the time and. wrote
on it, that if any one wanted to 'find
• him, to search for himatthe bottom of
the fax mill pond. The caller. was
picked up shortly after his, departure,
with the ominous'worde written on it.
The alarm was inamediately given and
tile bottom of the pond. dragged, but no
body was found. In a day dr so after -
words, he turned up alive aidl well in
• the township of Wallace. He should.
be taken home and severely punished
for his conduct, •
--Billy Burns, the burglar, is still
haunting Windsor. Witla it keen, \vetch-
ful eye, a dirk- in his boot, a pistol in
his sleeve, and -with apair of legs which
carry him 100 yards in te.n seconds, he
has invariably defied any member of
the police to . arrest him on the street.
Burns has committed numerous bur-
glaries -in Canada, but was last arrested
in Detroit, and. being convicted, was
sent to State Prison °for seven years.
Being imder age he was transferred to
the State House Of Correction at Ionia,
• but he managed to scale the walls while
the guards were at supper, and, with
an hour's 'start, succeeded in. eluding
his pursuers. This was about six
months ago, and since that time he has
spent his time principally in Windsor
and adjacent towns in Canada. It is
said that the Windsor policemen, in-
cluding -Chief Baines, are rather afraid
of flatenineteen-year-old.desperado, and
although. he could be arrested at any
time- for carrying concealed weapons
to stand the rigors of that Western cli-
mate.
—A. party in the tosvnship of Adams -
ton, County of Renfrew, having some
butter for sale offered it to a prominent
merchant in the village who refused to
r understanding that it would be sent
—Another fatal accident happened at , back if unsatisfactory to the owner,who
the Falls on Monday last. Patrick and. was very indignant at his butter being
John Reilly, brothers of Chippewa,.
started to return in a row boat. from
the American gide. When half over it
was noticed that they were in •trouble
as if ain oar was broken, but they were
too far down to render any assistance.
They went over the Horseshoe Falls
just outside of the Three Sisters Is-
lands. ,
—In 1868 Dame Christine Mackay,
of Montreal, Wife of His Honor Justice
MacKay, but who had. not then been
appointed to the Bench, took suit for
damages against Thomas O'Neill, • a
bailiff'', it being alleged that he left cer-
tain of plaintiff's houses in. the city in
a ruinous and disgusting state. The
case dragged on ever since, until Wed-
nesday- of last, week,when Judge Dorion
gave decision for plaintiff for $105.
—The Kingston News says that 62
immigrants recently landed at HEdifa,x
by Allan steamer, who were booked to
Hamilton. The full fere from Liver-
pool to Hamilton is £7 8s., but the
Government paid £2 13s. on each im-
migrant's ticket, leaving bine or her to
pay £4 15s. only. Of the 52, but 15 re-
mained. in Canada, 37 going to the
Western States; and of the 15, four
were America -ns, who, having been_on
trip to " Y-arrup," accepted the Cana-
dian Government's open:han.ded hospi-
tality, and got the reduced. passage.
—Hon. M. H4 Cochrane and Mr. Si-
mon Beatty, of Preston Hall, Arran,
Scotland, accompanied by Dr. McEach-
ren, of Montreal, have beeet making a
tour of the -United States and have
visited some of the best stock farms in
Kentucky and elsewhere with a view of
purchasing horses possessing the best
qualities for roadsters, for the purpose
of exporting to England. They pur-
chased heavily from the stock farm 'of
Col. Legrand. B. Cannon, of Burling-
ton, Vermont.
—The average product per acre, of
the several settlements in the Province
of Manitoba, for 1876, have been found
to range from 20 to 45 bushels of wheat;
barley, 25 to 60; oats, 28 to 65; peas,
20 to ,60; potatoes, 100 to 400; turnips,
100 to 1,000,, and an average for the
whole Province of 321 bushels wheat,
42- barley, 51 oats, 32 peas, 229 pota-
toes, and 662t. for turnips the total pro-
duce being wheat 480,000; barley, 173,-
000; oats, 380,000; peas, 45,000; other
grain 5,000; potatoes, 460,000; turnips
and other roots, 700,000.
—Some ten to twelve families, squat-
ters -on the Canada Company's lands at
Grand Beed, have been ordered to
leave. Had notice been given them
last suramer it would have saved them
considerable expense, as they had from
• ten to forty acres of fall plowing done,
which goes for nothing. Many of them
are old residents, having been on the
land from eight to twelve years, and had
goods horses barns, orchards, dec., and
haveto leave all, the land being held at
so high a price as to preclude the pos-
sibility of purchasing.
—A Montreal correspondence says:
The demand for horses of a particular
class is inoreasing. Some are being
purchased for use in the United States,
as is usually the case at this season of
_
sold at such a price, but cooled- down
rapidly on hearing that he could. get it
back if he chose. The butter was af-
terward purchased. by Starr, Gil & 0o.,
who upon taking it out felled that; the
sides of the firkins were neatly Riled
with stones, so arranged that they were
hardly likely to be touch. with the
piercer.
chapter in his life will be worth to him .
a whole encyclopedia, of commercial
ethics.
Perth Item
Mr. ja-mes Roneld of the third eon -
cession, Wallace sowed four acres of
wheat on the 22nd of Match.
—A snow bird built a nest and is
118IGhing four eggs Ina tree on the farm
of Mr. jitmes Dowd, Burns. It is very
rare that a snow bird nests or hatches
in these regions.
—Sergeant II. T. Thrift has opened.
a school for military drill, in Lietowel.
The purpose of this school, is to afford
a useful and pleasant exerbisa- to the
young men and boys of the town.
—One day recently Isaac Latoan, of
the Ith concession, Logan, had it very
narrow escape from having his brains
knocked out. While unhitching a span
of horses one of them kicked viciously
hitting him in. the face, inflicting some
severe cuts and bruises. Ile is at pres-
ent doing well.
—A few days ago a son of Mr. J.
Stacey, Fullarten, while fishing, on the
river, came across a trap that had. been.
set for muskrats, and, not knowing its
naturebe picked it up, when it .sprang
on his thumb, hashing it badly, and not
being strong enough t� spring it he had
to carryit home on his thumb, it dis-
tance of nearly half it mile.
—Mr. F. F. Pole, of _Mitchell return-
ed from Kingston on Tuesday evening
of last week. He was sentenced todel-
• prisonment for three years in the -Pro-
vincial Penitentiary, but his good be-
haviour and influence of friends got him
his liberty fourteen naontlis leefoee the
expiration of his tern. Ile is said to
look very careworn and haggard, and
much older then when he left.
—The hotel keepers of St. Marfa
recently hold :it meeting at which it was -!
unanimously decided that on and after
• She first day of April next, they cease
to take the G/obe newspaper, on account
• of the very ha,rEih stand the -said journal -
has taken against the interests of those
engaged in the liquor traffic of the Fro-
vin—cei. new railway is en prospect, to
• run from.Pahnerston 56 Mount Forest,
Durham . and Owen Sound or Borne
other point on the Georgian Bay; At
a meeting held in Palmerston the other
night, a resolution was passed to the
effect that the. people of Palmerston
approve of the proposed road and give
it their -support. The amount of bonus
to be given was not particularly speci-
• fied, but there is it strong feeling in
favour of giving about $15,000.
—On Tuesda,y of last week, as it num-
ber of men were engaged in raising a
frame barn on the farm. of the late
Johnston Matthews, near Milverton,
one of their ntunberla young man nam-
ed, Henry Hoffman, ltd his arm smash-
ed in a fearful manner. A number of
them were engaged lifting it heavy stick
of timber and -very carelessly let it fall,
catching the-enfertunate man's arm be-
tween it and another large stick, there-
by bruising it terribly. He will be pre-
- vented from working for erne time.
—The Listowel BC471.71;er says: Thos.
Stevens, of Mornington, a, lad of 19
years, has gone and. committed matri-
mony with a blooming belle of thirty
, Bummers. It is a curious fact that he
is going to revive the ancient prac-
tice of paying for his wife by
working is number of years for her.
His prompt action in procuring his bet-
ter half is deserving of great praise, al-
though (like himself) rather barefaeede
This causes -as to wonder when -our old
bachelors will follow his example. To
them we would say," Come TIOW and
let us Mason togeth.er;" "Why halt
ye so long between two opinions?"
—One day recently the town of St.
Mary's was visited. by it very youthful
and plausible rogue—s, dark-skinned.
youth from "sunny Italy." The boy,
with all the gush and simplicity of kt.-
110CeTlt ehildhood, would step into a
storeand. ask to have a quarter in. ex-
change for smaller pieces. On his re-
quest being complied 1, he "palm-
ed " the quarter and. producedis twenty
cent piece, aud would then enquire of
some bystander if that was a quarter.
In a majority trf cases the money -chang-
er would think. it it mistake, and give
the lad a quarter for the twenty cent
piece, when the young thief would
-blandly senile and. leave—with 5 cents
more than he canie,
—On Thursday,March 21s5, a young
man. went into the clothing store of
Mr. D. W. Cnrnming, market square,
Stretford, and representing him alt as
a son of Mr. Moses Poole, Mornington,
picked. out a suit of clothes, for which
he proraised to settle as soon as he and
his father were paid for a quantity of
ties, which they were getting out. ,
Cumming questioned him closely, and
receiving satisfactery answers, went out
to consult a directory and make further
enquiries. Returning hilly satisfied, he
allowed his customer to take the clothesand go on his way. During the after-
noon, however, he met a resident of
Mornington, who informed him -that
Mr. Poole had. no son answering to the
description of the stranger, and if he
had sold. him anything he had better
look out. Learning that the an had
gone towards Mornington,CPTY).-
ming took the train to Brunner, and
going to Mr. Poole's house, found that
the young Man's name was William
Bloxons, and that he had boarded for a
short time with Mr. Poole while work-
ing on the railway, which accounted for
his knowledge concerning 'him. Mr.
Cumming then bired a horse and -drove
towards Stratford, meeting his mau a,t
Topping, wearing th.e -clothes, which by
this time were completely covered with
mud. After some persuasion, Bloxone
got into the buggy and. was -driven back
to Brunner, whence he was brought to
Stratford by rail and turned over to
the police. Bloxona was remanded for
it week, to enable him to e0mInuPiCatAS
with his friends at Napanee, a.nd if
ressabibilell., obtain funds to settle his tail-
-A most terrible accident happened they very prudently let him alone.
at Muir Kirk station, Bothwell county,
on the morning of March 26th. As
Mr. Edward. Warren, of Bismark, and
Mr. Archibald McPhail, farmer near
Muirkirk, attempted to drive across the
track with a team ahead of No. 7 morn-
ing express west, the train ran into
them, throwing Mr. Warren sixty feet,
and crushing his skull and breaking
several of his limbs. He was killed in-
stantly. Mr. Archibald McPhail was
thrown into a culvert, and his head cut
open in three places, and breaking .his
right arm. It is feared that he is fatal-
ly 'injured. Both horses were killed,
one being thrown about seventy feet.
An inquest was! held on the body of
Mr. Warren and a verdict of accidental
death -was returned, no blame being
attached to any of the railway employ-
ees. Deceased was forty-five years of
age, and. leaves a wife and four children
to mourn his loss.
—On Saturday, 23rd March, two
deaths occurred. at the -Poor House in
Berlin. The first victim was Captain
John Woolkart, aged 82 years, who had
been an inmate of the institution for
nearly eight years. Deceased. was an
eccentric character who had been a resi-
dent of the county for uearly 70 years,
and labored. under the hallucination
Shat he was a near relative of Queen
-Victoria, and, moreover, that he wag to
be the mediera of discovering untold
hidden treasure, but that the time for
revealing the secret had not yet arrived.
The second victim was Job Smith, it
young colored man, who had been
brought in from Waterloo Town oia the
previous day while in the agonies of
death from typhoid fever, and expired
28 hours afterwards. He was known
as a horse trainer, and reputed to have
been one of the best riders in Canada.
There are ot present 102 inmates in the
Waterloo Poor House.
—The Hamilton Times of Friday
last says: The appearance of a newly -
married couple in the city yesterday
was taken by many as a sure sign of an
early spring. They came from an ad-
joining township, and the bride was gor-
geously, if not expensively, dressed;
while the happy man was attired. in
faultless blitck,white kids and topboots.
A slight description of the bride's cos-
tume may not be uninteresting to at
least -our fair readers. Commencing at
the top, her head was adorhed with
a grey rowdy hat, ornamented. with a
large yellow wing, and her fair faze was
protected Mike from curious eyes and
the weather by a pearl -white veil. Then
she had on a red and black striped shawl
' the red. being of a most glaring tinge.
A lavender stuff dress., with gloves to
match, completed her exquisite toilet.
As they promenaded round the market
and. other fashionable localities, they
• —A young man named David Davis
was ruarried at the Police Court, Toron-
to, last Friday, to Annie Florence
Kerry. He had promised to marry her
but had backed out and threatened to
kill her -when she upbraided him. He,
however, fulfilled his pledge, when be-
fore the Police Magistrate, who threat-
ened. to send him down for it long term
unless he married the girl on the spot.
The bride appeared. to be somewhat
nervous, but the bridegroom did not
seem at all interested in the proceed-
ings. When that part of the ceremony
• which relates to the ring was reached,
a. hitch occurred. The bridegroom,
having been in jail all day had. unfor-
tunately been unable to secure a ring,
and everyone in the room looked a lit-
tle foolish until a gentleman present
,stopped forward. and presented the
neceseary article, when the interesting
ceremony was. continued.. Davis at-
tempted to place the ring on the lady's
finger; but notwithstanding all attempts
it wouldn't go on, and he was finally
oblige& te desist in his effor:e, leaving
it midway between the first and second
joints. The happy bridegroom was,
immediately after the ceremony takem
again to jail, but was afterwards liber-
ated • on promising to be a good hus-
band.
—How -two well-dressed and respect-
able looking American gents "played it
upon" a Canadian commercial trav-
eller, is told at length in a late issue of
the qt. Thomas Times. At Aylmer one
day, the tra,„yeller had drinks with his
newly -found friends the Yankees; (and
perhaps if he had let the drinks alone,
the little unpleasantness would not have
occurred.) _ Having found a fourth
Partner, the party went to a quiet -place
to have a little poker or bluff. Cham-
bers lost ,.50 to $60 "in a way that he
did not understand"; and thereupon
sprang up, locked the door, and called
upon the cheats to refund' before they
dared leave the room. The winners
departed, however, without refunding,
and Chambers, together with a consta-
ble, started in pursuit, and overtook
the sharpers, who drew a revolver and
thus escaped. Their description was
wired to St. Thomas, whither they had
walked upon the track, and Messrs.
Smith and- Brown,. their convenient,
names, were arrested there. Smith was
first tried. but was discharged for lack
of evidence ; next Brown was arraigned
and was mulcted in go for carrying a
revolver, 000 more for drawing it on.
some one, $10 and. costs -for gambling,
and. the pair were compelled to repay
$30 to Chambers; itt all 5167. This
• little lesson natty warn such gentry that
gambling and cheating at cards for a
tieing 15 "a way we despise' over here
in Canada. As for Mr. Chambers, this