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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1878-04-26, Page 1APRIL 19, 1878. GREAT OFFERING NEW QARPETa: McDOUGALL openea yesterday, 18th. inst., 0 :1:'IOMS 2 OF NEW TAPESTRY CARPETS, JUST -ARRIVED EX STEAM. ER ‘*1 -A -TE OF. NEVADA" ROM GLASGOW [MEM „ TO US. THEY ARE Ail OF . :E VERY NEWEST PAT. TERNS, SUPERB OOLORS AND FIRST 9UALITY. AS T !ta LOT IS OUR SECOND Sp -RING,, WE SHALL". IN ORDER TO CLEAR THEM OUT, OFFER THEM FOR oAeti. AT THE FOLLOWING WONDERFUL LOW FIGUR- ES , CHEAPER THAN: EVER, VIZ.: !65.0 750 AND 800, CHEAPER THAN YOU GAN B.UY IN HAMILTON, TOR- ONTO OR MONTREAL, UN! LESS AT WHGLESALE BY THE PIECE WHEREAS WE OUT ANY LENGTH - YOU REQUIRE AND MATCH T1. p, e CARPETS FOR THE FUR - • CHASER. s. HO SEKEE' PERS WOULD ; .D0 WELL .TO GALL AND. , it• SEE THIS ASSORTMENT. Fi THEY ARE CHEAPER THAN YOU CAN MAKE A RAG CARPET, AND CERTAINLY MORE HANDSOME AND DURABLE; COME EARLY AND GET A CHOICE. A GOOD CAR' PET IS NEARLY ALL A 00Pilt RE Q U IR ES TO FU ISH ALSO ARRIVING 50 SETS OF NEW LACE --CURTAINS. The, ?all be opened on Monckir a or Tuesday °Ite.rt. They will be ag , R eered.at Wholesale Prices - NOW IS THE TIME RE EMBER THE CHEAP STO THE 3SEVENS, OARDNO S BLOC - Aar 11111111111 - ELE VkINTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER; 542. SEAFORTH, I FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1878. MCLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. GODERICH HARBOR JOB. R. regROW'S SPEECH.. - Mr, Farrow said he did, not -.want to detain the House very long upon this Goderich Harbour Job. The more that affair was looked at, the worse he thought it seemed. The Government 119A tried -in every way.to clear them- selves in conn.eetion with it, but they had only shown themselves in a. darker jight. Honorable gentlemen on the other side, seemed very atudous to have their conduct investigated by a Com- ....-mittee, but he thought any additional 'evidence whieh could possibly be brought before a Committed would. only place them in .& more discreditable position. He did_ not, however, think it. Was necessary to have pi Committee ; they had all the evidence they wanted, the country ha.d all the evidence it -requir- ed, and they did not wishto receive a partisan report from any Government or -interested Committee. Allthe facts - in connection with the transaction were iecoeded in the journa1s:1'0f the House, and no additional evidenee was requir- ed. He hed never spoken on the mat- ter at 'e public meeting or • to a private individual; but the - Government was condemned for the estay they acted in reference to that contract. He could quite conceive that the Preraier would - rather hearthem talk .of anything else than that, and hence the Minister of the Interior was set up to make a kind of clefence—a sham, lame defeuce. - When this subject was brought up last . year, -s.vheil papers were moved for, the Premier was in a, greetbustle; he seemed. - to be stunned and scarcely knew what to dos- Mr. .Page, however, was asked, to state the reasons why Mr.. Tolton did not receive the eontract, and. Mr. Page wrate an explanatory letter. That letter, he thought, did not reflect any great credit on the Premier of this Do- minion. What did Mr. Page say? The burden of his letter- was this, "We clo . not know Mr.' Tolton; therefore, he rand nothave the contract." Nowsliad it not beein proved over and over again to the satisfantion pf everyintelligent member of that .House that such was net the case? Did. not he (Mr, Farrow) show a telegrani from a friend of the Pre- mier explaining Mr. Tolten's position as a man of standbag,as a man of ineens,es -a contractOr who was acquainted with such work.? Onthe'oceasion to which he alluded, the Premier had that telegram in his ppeket„, or at least a copy of it. The forwarder of that telegram, think- ing such a message was not sufficient, sent a letter the • same evening. That letter,like the telegram, explained that Mr. Tolton was a unlined ability ancl experience, not a .man, of straw. Mr. Page Pagesaid he was not known, and that histender was too lows If it was true that Mr. Page knew nothing about Mr. Talton, why did . not the Premier, with that information in his possession,' set him right? Why did. not he acquaint him with -what he knew of Mr. Toltoe's ability to undertake such. contracts? Before sending in his offer, Mr. Tolton - wrote to Mr. john Brown; who con- tra.cted for the Meaford•job, and Mr. - Brown said he would. Undertake the dredging work in connection with:God-; erich Harbour, for a certain sum—jUst $12000- less than Mr. Tolton had sought. Then the person who had -the contract *for the iron work at Meatord. Harbour, hearing -that Mr. Tolton had sent in. an offer, said to him: "1 can do some- thing for you: I can. go to Toronto, where I have influence with Mr. Brown 4nd Mr. Blake." Accordingly he went to Toronto, but -came back,- and said. to Mr. Tolton: "You °millet get the -job; there are. others., in the . way." This. took place, after thatlittle letter, about which there had, been .se -nauch talk, was sent; arta no doubt it had a gpod deal to do with th.e matter. All he (Mr. FarraW) knew about the affair was this; that $30,000 of the _public funds: . were thrown into Lake Huron, or at least might have been, for all the. good i they did. From that pint of view would the country judge of • the tran- ea.etion. ; there was .evidence on the Journals of the 'House, and. that was .. all he required to satisfy • him as to its shameful characters • sin Joux A. wienoxann's spEncu. - Sir John A. Macaonald said. the hon- orable the Finance Minister and others said it did not lie in tlie4notiths of the Opposition to make any charge, because the late Government were liable to mis- takes when they were in power. This was really depriving them of their. right to perform their_ duties to their coa- eat-tents. The Goyerament repudiated. any blame, because their predecessors had been guilty of siniiliar offences. Why, this was . a new doctrine. This -was not. & doctrine that came from the .Parliament or the British Constitation. • Every member in this House was re- sponsible to the people. Supposing, all the members of the late Government - corcunitted offences, those present were still menabas. of Parliament, and had still their duties to their constituents to • perform. It was absurd for the Gov- ernment to endeavor to shirk their re- sponsibility in this way. It Was an at- tempt to get 'off the charges against them by saying; "It is 'very true : but you did so before, ao, therefore, it does not lie in your mouths to bring charges sgaiust us." Mr. Oartwright—That is not the 'ar- gument at all. . Sir john A. 'Macdonald said he Would give an inetance. Supposing. a man who had been guilty in his youth of ooni- mitting larceny was sworn upon a jury ask. had to try a man for stealing. That juryman must not find the man guilty, although the crime- was proved. by the- _cleared esidence, be8ause he knew that he had comraitted a larceny himself once in his life. He must not look upon his duty, his sworn duty as a itirynian„ because, forsooth„ he might himself have perhaps committed an of- fence of the same kind. This Was the argument of the honorable, gentlemen Opposite,. and this was the way iii Which they tried to evade eyery charge brought against them. But he believed. the House and the country' would not be satisfied with that line of argument. The question was not what the late Government had. done, but what the present Government were doing. If the previous Government had been guilty of all the crimes in the calendar, it was no answer to the charges against the hon- orable gentlemen oppose, and it show- ed. the weakness of thei4 case when they descended to such an are ment. Now, with regard to the Goderich harbor business, it was quite true that the member for Charlevoix, when Minister of Public Works, rejected many ten- ders that were lower than the one az- cepted. He had no doubt that the hon- orable the Premier had rejected many lower tenders; the law especially pro- -vided that the lowest tender need not be accepted.. The question was wheth- er the lowest tender was improperly re- jected. That was the question in this individual case. It was nothing that the honorable the Minister of Public Works had rojeeted a great many ten- ders during the time he held office; but, if he had. rejected any on insuf- ficient grounds, he must take the conse- quence of his acts. The --honorable member for Cumberland (Mr. Tupper) had called the attention of the House to the different system in letting ten- ders which obtained when the Opposi- tion were in office. In his time every, tender was considered, and, as the hon- orable the Premiee knew, they .had number of bogus tenders put in by members of a ring. He was not at all sure that there were not SOME) advan- tages in the amended system, but there were some great disadvantages. He be- lieved the deposit of security was an advantage in. some respects, but it was overbalanced by its disadvantages, be- cause it gave an opportunity for the dis- play of favoritism.. Mr. Mackenzie—No., - Sir John A. Macdonald said it gave an opportunity for favoritism in this way, that where a man had. a friend. in the Goverment, he could ensure getting his • deposit back if he was not successful in his tender; There was a great limita- tion in. the number of tenders by the present system ; there was no limitation, no check, no necessity for deposit or se- curity of any kind under the old. All kinds of men, from the ragged subordi- nate of a late contractor, who wished to get into ;the contracting business himself, to men. of all kinds, eould ten- der and theresva,s thea great necessity for closely examining into the tenders, as there was now, ana therefor -he could quite understand that, during, the reign of the late Minister of Public Works, there were, a very great many tendefs rejected, and there were under the present system for what he (Sir John A. Macdonald) knew. But that was not the question. ' The question in the present case wai whether the hon. the Minister of Public Works had improperly rejected the lowest tender, with respect to -the Goderich Harbor cantract ; and te issue did not rest, as the hon. the Minister of Fina,n.oe con- tended, upon a collusion being establish- ed. between the member for South Bruce and the hon. the Minister of Public Works. The questisbn was whether he had rejected the contract of a man who Offered. the lowest tender, who' was known to the Department, who was rec- ommended to the Department by men in the confidence of the,hon.the Minister. The question had been put through the hon. the Minister of the Interior, wheth- er he (Sir 'John A. Macdonald) meant what he said when he remarked that there was nothing improper in the let- ter given to -Mr. Moore, by the hon. mem- ber for South Bruce. He did not mean what he said. He did not see anything improper in that.letter. He saw noth- ing in its terras except that it was a friendly letter in favor of the man who had supported the writer, possibly. The letter wasguarded, and did not press for the contract to be given to the bear- er, Mr. Moore. Now, Mr. Tenon would . have performed this contract for $30,000 less than Mr. Moore, then by giving it to the latter gentleman tlae country had sustained a loss of $30,000. This was clear. It -was said that the matter had been left with Mr. Page, but the hon. the Minister of Public Works was not the man to give up his own power and his own responsibility to a subordinate, and he had no right to do so. A subor- dinate could always shelter himself by the plea that he was acting under in- structions from his superior; but a re- sponsibleMinister could not shelter him- self on the plea, that he had instructions from his subordinate. There was such a thing as responsibility of office, and no man should be .more distinctly:and decidedly held responsible for his acts than the Minister of Public Works. As to the question of collusion betweenthe hon. gentlemen he did not wish to en- ter into that; but, while he said that the letter was in its terms per- fectly harmless and justifiable he might say the hon. the Minister of Public Works evidently accepted it as a mandate, and gave this contract t� the writer's friend, Mr. MOore, simply be- cause his powerful, dangerous, restless and . uneasy friend, the member for South Bruce called the contractor his friend. If a harmlesS letter of that ldnd--bectiuse it simply called the con- tractor his friend — c'ost the country $30,000-, what would it have cost the country if he had said: "1 must have the contract, if possible, for my friend?" The hon. the Minster of Public Works was responsible for giving that contract to Mr. Moore. Yet he had. a telegram from Mr. David Stirton—honest David Stirton—a nian they all knew and re- spected, who, he was glad to see, when he left the House, pro- vided for for life, a man too straight and correct for some, a Scotchman arid a man who knew what he was about. The Premier had a telegram from him that Mr. Tolton was a good man, a fit man, and that he would do his work well. The hon. the Premier, had that information from a reliable man, a Per- sonal friend of the hon. Premier, a man who was respected by both sides of the House, and who held an ,office of trust under the Government. That man had written that Mr. Talton was a good and fit man to be entrusted with the con- tract; but the hon. gentleman gave the work to some one else, and now shelter- ed himself under Mr. Page. The hon. the Premier gave the contract to Mr. Moore on receiving that letter, after having a telegram from Mr. Stirtoia that Mr. Tolton. wass-a fit man, and having besides stated in his own. report that Mr. Tolton was doing, the work satis- factorily. The hon. the Minister of Fi- nance said that Mr. Tolton was not a contractor but a foreman. Mr. Mackenzie—Not a contractor at all; he was an employe of the corpora- tion. Sir John A. Macdonald said exactly, the corporation did so much, and the Goverment so much of that work, and, although he was not an employe of the Goverment, the Government had to pay part of the expenditure on that labor to Mr. Talton. And he did his work so well that he was brought to the notice of the Department and mentioned by naro.e 000. He would not enter into a discus- sion, because it was well known that the honorable gentlemen opposite were afraid to ask for a Committee of investi- gation, but wished to use this matter at their future picnic, as they had done last summer. He had never stated Mr. Tolton was worth $30,000; he had only one hundred acres of land, and was worth from $8,000 to $10,000, at the outside. He made this state- ment in order that honorable gentle- men might know what Mr. Tolton was worth. '• - Canada. Vennor predicts rainy weather, with flurries of snow aboutthisttime. —A High School is talked of for Paisley, a number of the residents fa- vour the scheme. - _ —Forty seven miles of the Canada Pacific Railway are laid. with rails, and 131 miles graded. —Prince Arthur's Landing has the champion • baby -14. pounds, at birth. Its name is Woodside._ -e-A fine red mullet, weighing 64- Ibs., -was caught in the Grand River, a little above Prestonea short time ago. —The Epikopal ..Church at Water- ford was streak by lightning last Friday ht The 'fire was extinguished with- • g • Mr. Mackenzie—Not till long after outAuch loss. that. —The Presbyterian church at Auburn Sir John A. Macdonald said tb. atper- -was struck by lightning durine the haps it did not suit their purpose, and heavy thunder storm of last week, aud ithey had left it out. damaged a good d.eal. ; Mr. Mackenzie—That is as good as —A by-law for th6 compulsory sweep - the rest. • mg of chmmeys, -under penalty of $a Sir John A. Macdonald said the hon. fine, or two days' imprisonment has the Premier had that letter of Mr. Stirle been passed by the Galt town council. ton's and the telegram; and he should --The International Sunday School have -acted on that; but the same day Convention, the session of which last Mr, Page took the ground that one of Friday closed at Atiaata, Ga., has de - Mr. Tolton's secarities was not a pleas- cided to hold its next meeting at To - ant man. A man might be very trouble- routs. some if- he were a contractor, and, per- —True bills have been found against haps, if he was a bumptious fellow, he both Angus Smith and James Lockhart, )Sir John Macdonald) would go so far as at the Walkerton assizes, for illicit dis- to prevent his being principal in the tilling in the neighborhood of Tees - work ; bat the man who offered security water. - simply had nothing to do with the work. —Mr. W. H. Crosby, of London, had Who was the security objected to? The his pocket picked of- 425 by a young Sheriff of the county and a well-known man whom he iuvited to a seat in his man. Whether he was pleasant or not: buggy, when returning home from the had nothing to do with it; was his se- country. curity for (15,000 or $16,000 a good se- —On Monday last a large number of minty? He ! could not interfere with journeymen shoemakers left Toronto for the contract ;, he had no right to inter- San. Francises where they have been fere with it. It might be that he was engaged to take the place of the Ilea - as cross-grained or ill-tempered, Or un- then Chinee. pleasant a man as any in the Dominion, —Twelve steers breaby Albert Fer- yet, if he was a good security, that was guson, Yarmouth, were sold. the other all they bad to enquire into. What had day, their total weight being 17,370 lbs. they to do with. Sheriff Sutton's temper or bumptiousness, or want of -these characteristics? There was no allega- tion that Mr. Tolton was a bad-temper- ed or a dangerous man, s,nd he was the contractor. He was vouched for as a respectable man, fit for the job in every way. Why -did he not get it then? No- body could tell except the hon. the Min- ister of Public Works, who said that his man (Mr. )Ioore) was a friend of the member for South Bruce -(Mr. Blake), and that he would oblige him to the ex- tent of $30,000. It was a small affair, and the Fort Frances Lock, $130,000, was a small affair too for a great Do- minion like this. • This money was lost to the country. This $30,000 would have been saved -if Tolton had got that contract. They would -not be guar- dians of the public jusce if they did not bold the Government to a strict ac- count in this matter. It was quite, evi- dent the Government looked.•upon this enquiry as a formidable one when they put up two Ministers, one after the other, to support this transactiou. When the hon. member for North Hu- ron had stated he knew one of the se- curities to be worth $30,000, the hon. the Premier stated he would not take his word for it. Mr. Mackenzie—I said I could not take his statement as to what the man was worth. It was quite impossible that he could. know -what the man was worth. - Sir John A. Macdonald said it was only on reputation one could know what a man was worth. He did not suppose that the hon. gentlemen hela an inqui- sition in every case to find what a man was worth. He judged it from his reputation, from the opinion of Ins banker, or his neighbors. How, then, stood this transaction? In this single ease, there was a loss of $30,000 to the country. It was said the man who of- fered the lowest tender was an ineffi- cient men; that he was a farmer. But he was not, and never was a farmer. The reasons given were that he was a farmer. The men who got the con- • tracts were fanners. The reasons given were that he was a farmer; that he was too pugnacious. Mr. Mackenzie—Does the hon. gen- tleman say Sutton is a wealthy man? Let him give a partiele of evidence of his worth. • __ Sir John. A. Macdonald said he had not the register of Ins property in Ins pocket. But why was not that given as a reason? That, was not alleged; it was allbed he was' a disagreeable man, who had given a great deal of trouble, to the Department before, What .had! the Department to do but to carry on the business of the country? and, if a man was a little troublesome, they I must put up with it if the interests of the country were to be subserved. There was no donbt that this innocent ,transaction had one more injury to the - Government than even the Fort Fran- ces lock, or any supposed loss of mil- lions of dollars on steel rails, because it showed a want ef' watchfulness of the public interests, of administrative ability and. attention in the great pub- lic works, and, more than that, an un- due subserviency, when it suited the head of the Department, to vague state- ments got up for a purpose. Mr. Higinbotha,m- said. he desired to say one word. about Mr. Tolton. The honora,ble. member for North 'Huron had stated that he could prove in this House that one of the securities of Mr Tolton, in this matter; was worth $30, - One weighed 1,280 lbs; two, 2,510 ; four 4,880, and five, 8,700 lbs. ' —One day lately Mr. Thos. Stevens, of Chesley, cut 10,350 shingles in three ed. Mr. McColl represented the West Riding in the Ontario Legislature for a parliamentary term, having been elect- ed in 1867, but retired from public life in 1871. —At a meeting of creditors in the Lower Town, Quebec, a few days ago, an auctioneer threw a glass inkstand at the head of another. The missile re- bounded from the wall and struck one of the creditors, cutting his face and throat; —In the township of Plympton, on the 5th inst. a young cow belonging to Mr. Donald inst., of the 5th con- cession, east half lot 23, gave' birth to a calf with two heads, five ears, two distinct backbones, two tails, and. only four legs. —The station master at Waterdown horsewhipped a boy who was trespassing on the Company's preraises, the other dayeand. the pohce magistrate oD Ham- ilton charged him $2 and. costs for the iileasure he derived from taking such gejatle exercise. —Some of thefarmers in Brant town- ship have been -victimized. by a number of Yankee sharpers, who are going around pretending to graft trees. It is about tirae the farming com-munity was becoming acquainted with the tricks of these travellers. • —A. young man by the name of Geo. Archer, of Aldboro, while jumping off a train at Newbnry, while it was in full motion, strtick his foot against the end of a tieeand bruised his toes in such a manner, as to necessitate the amputa- tion of two of them. —It is stated that Mr. ArchibaldF mor- bes, the world faous war correspon- dent of the London News, intends visit-' ing Canada this summer, when he will deliver a series of lectures upon his ex- perience as war correspondent, in the leading towns and cities. —One Mrs. Franks, of Hamilton, has been troubled. with sundfy visits of a neighbor's chickens. The other day she decided to do away with the nuisance, and tossed. a lot of poisoned bread,where the fowls could easily get at it. Result —510 fine and 410 ilama,ges. •—Mr. Arnold, of Chatham, was cross - Mg the .commons in that town a few days ago when a large hawk swooped down and. struckehim an the breasttear- big the front of his coat with its claws. Mr. Arnold caught the bird by the neck and with a small stick killed it. —Two Indian families from Rama, Ontario county, of the Chippewa tribe camped out near South Falls, made 200 lbs. of sugar, together with 60 or 70 gallons of molasses. They also caught about 100 Wauseshqueon (muskrat) and one sa,uguish (mink) near the mouth of the river. hours and fifty minutes. When any- —A girl staying at D. Cameron's, body makes a better tally than this Kensington, PrinceEdward Island, was Mr. Stevens will try again. —Mr. Thos. R. Smith brought an ox into New Hamburg one day lately which weighed 21,250 tbs. This is about the heaviest animal that town has ever had the pleasure of entertaining. —Rev. A. B. Mackay, of Brighton, Eneland, who has been officiating in - seriously injured by the explosion of. a package of powder, which she put in a stove, not knowing its contents. The explosion, besides burning the girl, started the ceiling, and blew the win- dow out into the road. —Wednesday, the „lst of May, has been appointed a holiday for the special Crescent street Presbyterian Chard-, purpose of allowing Collingwood.' Montreal, has received a call from the congregation to become its pastor. —Mrs. S. Milton, Colchester, has a cow that gave birth to twin calve on Friday, March 29th, and the same cow had twin calves. in May, 1877, thus making four calves inside of eleven months. —In tbe libel suit instituted by the Dominion Premier against the publish - en s to -plant shade trees on the streets. The holiday is to be voluntary, but it is thonght there will be a general observa- tion of it, and that the object of its es- tablishment will be energetically carried out. —The Dioneton, N. B., Times says: Mr. John Hogan, overseer of fisheries succeeded in seizing 45 nets between the 26th of March and the 6th of April. ers of the Sarnia Canadian newspaper, Messrs. Hogan and Copp made a raid tried at the Lambton Assizes last week, on the night of the 26th, and captured the jury failed to agree, and -were dis-, that night alone 25 nets, three axesenst- charged.• withstanding the whooping and signal- -Mr. F. J. Sergeant, near Wards- ling of the victims. ville, has a lamb which weighed 16i —Rev. E. G. Pelley, one of the min - pounds when one day old. Pretty good, isters attending the Methodist Episco- but North Easthope can beat it, having pal Conference at Ingersoll, had hisval- a 19,mb which weighed -19 pounds at ise stolen on Ins arrival at the Great the same age. Western station last week. It contain- -The Methodist Episcopal Church ed about $200 in cash, and a number of Mission at Lake Opinicon is prospering. valuable papers. Later accounts say A class of forty-six members has been the valise was found in the car where organized, while at Wright's school the reverend gentleman had left it by mis- house there has recently been an addi- take. The money was still in it. , tion of 37 members. —Mr. Fred. Richardson, of Ingersoll, —An exchange says a. dog with two while returning -from a funeral on Wed.. tailswas seen on one of the back streets nesday. last, met with an apcident which of our town, the other day.. -One of the narratives, -the anine was carrying in its mouth-, it had formerly belonged to a good sized porker. Rev. Mr. Gundy, Courtright, fell in to the St. Clair river the other day while endeavorinabto show how a sim- ilar accident had happened tp a sailor. He was rescued, as the sailor had been, without any injury.. • —A barn on the farm of Andrew Ed- monson, about threelmiles west of Jar- vis was struck by lightnine during the storm of last Fridayjnight'and burteed. The barn contained a considerable quan- tity of hay, grain, &c. —Rev. A. Glendinning, who was a. short time age inducted into the pastor- al charge of the Presbyterian Church at Glenm.orris has been obliged to .resign on account of an affection of the throat, which prevents his preaching. —A young man only eighteen years of age, belonging to one of the oldest river at Gtielph, and after hearing the and richest families in Montreale has evidence returned -a verdict of" Found lately plunged his family into grief by Drowned.',' It appears from the evi- running away to the United States with dence that being out of tea she was a servant girl and getting married there. coming to the village with some butter —A disgraceful scene occurred at the on a plate . wrapped in a towel. It is meeting of Welland town council a 'week supposed that she attempted to cross ago, between tills Mayor and Reeve, the the river on a plank, and in doing so Chief of Police also taking a part in the she becaro.e dizzy, and fell in. jawing match." The latter has been —The entire moral- sentiment of the notified of his dismissal by the Mayor. city of Hamilton has been recently —Mrs. Fred. Charles; of Burford, shocked by the defection of one of having occasion, in the • performance of the hitherto most highly esteenaed household. duties, to go out in the yard, clerg,ym.en, Rev.. R. Bell, pastor, stepped upon a rusty nail, which pierc- of the Wesleyan Methodist Mis- ed nearly through her foot. Under sion Church, Simcoe street. The- facts medical treatment she is slowly im- are as follows: Mr. Bell, who is a, young proving. , -unmarried man, came into Ins present —Mr. Nicoll McColl, ex -M. P. F. for charge about two years ago, and. has West Elgin, died, at his residence in been boarding for the lest 18 months at Southwold on Wednesday of last week, 691 John street Nbrth. A few months at the age of 66 years. He had been in after his reception as a boarder at the failing health for the past two years, house mentioned, the family engaged as but his death was somewhat unexpect- a servant, a young girl of about 16, and very neafly proved fatal. It appears that the horsewas fractious and. baulked and kicked twice. The first time he kickedlthrough the cover of the buggy, which was a covered one, and the sec- ond time he struck Mr. Richards on the leg, causing a fracture, which will lay him up for some time. :—General Smalley, who mysterio us ly disappeared from New York a few months ago, has turned up in Montreal. He was the receiver of the National Insurance Company in New York, and is charged -with taking with him 420,- 060 of the funds of the institution. He denies the charge and' says that he is over " on a spec," arid will return to New York shortly. ?He took the train for Toronto a few nights ago, and goes under the name of R. G. Henry. _ —Dr. Johnston, of Fergus, held an inquest on the body of Margaret Rich- ardson, which was taken out of the it now turns out that .there has been criminal connection between M. Bell and this girl, resulting in the moral ruin of both. Mr. Bell, on. being charged with the offence, frankly admitted Ins guilt. The unfortunate girl returned Some time ago to the home of her parents, and the disgraced: man lias left the city for parts unknown. —At Ailsa Craig, on the 12th inst, $7,000 was .paid out .111 a day by one firm, A. & S. Nairn, of Toronto, for cordwood, the circulation of whichhelp- ed. the merchants of the village. Dur- ing the week previous over $40,000 was was paid by this firm for cordwood de- livered on the Grand Trunk Railway, between that station and Sarnia. Be- sidep.whicb. they have large contracts along the Great Western Railway. —A farmer in the County of Elgin was lately inspecting his wheat bin, which he had in his barn close by the road, and found. to 'his astonishment a large hollow in the centre of it. He first thought that it was a rat that had been cutting a hole underneath in the floor, but on going oat to examine, he found. that en augurhole had been borea up through the floor into the bin—and whi4 at once explained the inystery. This is the laiest plan of thieving. —On Thursday, 18th inst., Mr. Thosono of her fingers taken olf,and a couple Kirkland, M. A., Science Master of the �f othersbadly injured. Normal School, whose honor, in corn- —The house of Mr. JaenesBra,dsha-w, painy with Prof. McLellan, was so fero- ciously attacked by various anonymous correspondents in the public press, but wlio was -fully vindicated by Mr. Jus- tice Patterson's report of the Commis- sion df Enquiry, was presented. with an address by Messrs. Moses,of Haldimand, and Carson, of West Middleeex,congrat- ulatine him upon the result of -the in- vestigaion. The address contained.188 signatures. —Mr. Kindness, of West Zorra, re- cently removed. from the farm on which he had for same tirae resided, but his dog, a valuable animal could not be per- suaded to accompany.him, and conse- quently remained on the old farm for often beard to say that she never knew what a day's inDeSS was. For 80 years, she was a member of the Methodist - Church. Perth iteseas. The fall wheat in every part -of the township of Welke° is said to look well, and promise a fine crop. . —Last week Mr. A. M. Crerar, Con- CeSSiOD. 2,, North Easthope, had. fieldof spring wheat shewing wellabove grounds —A_ number of men froro. Listowel and neighborhood left that place last, week with the intention of proceeding to Oregon. --Mr. W. W. Stevenson, late mer- chant at Briton's Corners, Mina, has removed to the village of Cranbrook, in - the township of Grey. —One Sunday a horse belonging to Mr. John Delaney, Hibbert, Z1-opped dead in his harness while tied to. the fence at Iriehtown. church. --We mitlerstand steps are being, :taken to have the name of the villaoe ofCarrenbrook changedto Dublin. The reason for making the change we have not heard. —A few days ago Miss Margaret Con- nelly, while working on. a machine in Mr. Forrester's flax mifl, Mitohell, bad in Downie, was recently destroyed by ' fire, -with the exception of the kitchen, which by great exertion on the part of those present, was saved. —The temperance cause still pros- pers in Mitchell. Large meetings are being held every Sabbath afternoon, which are made interesting and instruc- tive by addresses, music, Sm. —Last week in Stratford a man named Thomas Sylvester was sent to jail for one month, for a vicious attack on a little boy with whom he bad a dis- agreement a few days previously. —One Mrs. Lucas, of St. Marys, has been fined. $1 and costs, $3.75 in all, for strildng a neighbor's child. Wheu severaldap, existing,no one knew how. the father of the -child remonstrated But on his maeter retmeling he mani- with her she abused him, and. said. she fested the greatest transports of joy by woull whip the child again if she got fawning and nanabolling around as if an opportunity. frantic with delight, but in the midst of his joy fell down dead- tet Mr. Kindness' feet. 'Another strong instance of the de- -votoduess of the dog to liis owner. —On Thursday morning of hest week, -about eight o'clock the barns and sta- bles of D. Gallagher, farmer, of Rib- bert, were totally aestroyed by fire with —During a severe storm on Monday about 900 bushels of grain. Loss $3,000, afternoon, lightning struck a two-story partly covered ° by insurance. The ori - brick house, owned by Mr. Edward gin of the fire is unknown. Rogers, one mile westfrom Jarvis. The ---A man in Listowel brought an =- current struck a chimney, shattering a, splitting and throwing out the end Wall in. the centre to the foundation. Part of the current was diverted into a lower room, and tore the whole casing of a, door to splinters, leaving the door uninjured, doing some damage to the ceiling and the floor, and passing, into the cellar. Fortunately, the house was unoccupied, having recently been vacat- ed by the owner. most lamentable mistake result- ing in the death of an estimable young man named David Scott, a, resident of Galt, was made last week. Mr. Scott had been troubled for sorae time by -what he thought were neuralgic pains in his head. On consulting& physician he was advised to take a dose of gulli- ble. Mr. Scott wrote met the prescrip- tion,' but =fortunately substituted mor- with a painful accident. She was run- phine for quinine, almost immediately ning up stairs, with a pitcher of water after taking the medicine he became in- sensible, in which state he continued until next morning, -when be expired. —A distressing case came on at the police court, Hamilton, last week; Mrs. James Kinn, of that city, has a son, who lies at the point of death, appar- Toronto, where a skilful operation was cutler' from hydrophobia, having been bitten nine months ago by a dog, about which he has been raving almost con- tinually -since. The owner of the dog has repeatedly refused to kill the ani- mal. Yet, according to the medical at- tendant if the boy ean be convinced the dog is dead, he raay live. Mrs.Kingip- peered. in court to compel the owner of the dog to take itslife, and. with tears in his eyes he at last consented. The dog was a great favorite. —Wm.. Somers, of Blanshard, has a -hen which is quite a prodigy in the lay- ing of eggs. A couple of weeks ago she sat down on the nest, and sat all -day without laying any eggs. She made up for it the second. day, however, by lay- ing three; on the third day she perform- ed a like feat,and on the fourth day, do. On the 'fifth day she beat all former ef- forts by laying four. But on the sixth day. she returned. to her former under- taking of laying three. Sixte,en eggs inside of five days isn't so bad for a hen, and she's not a very big one either. After that she evidently theught she deserved a rest, and got off the nest. But she is tion against his neighbor for trespass by his hens. The owner of the hens was fined besides paying costs•of court. This is a warning to hen holders not to allow them to give annoyance to or de- stroy the property of their neighbors. —Detective Heenan, of the Grand Trunk Railroad, Stratford, was the vic- tim of Et cruel sell the other night. He was sunaratmed from bed to arrest two desperate characters, who were said to be in a freight car just in from Toronto,. Taking an assistant with hina they re- paired to the oar In question and found two little boys, who seemed the picture of misery and. texror. They -were placed in the station lock-up, but managed to escape shortly after. —On Sunday morning a little ditigh- ter of Mr. J. P. Woods, Stratford, met in her hand, when she tripped and fell to the bottom, the vessel being shiver- ed into fragments. One of these enter- ed kyr eye, cutting' it severely, and at _ first it was feared. that the sight would be destroyed. The child was taken to performed by Dr. Reeve, eetdist, and. it is now thought that no serious results will follow, - _ —About three years ago a young col- ored girl named. Lucy Russell, stole from Messrs. Hoffman & Son-, Strat, ford, some fancy Berlin wool work, val- ued at about $5. nt was not known that she was the thief, but the article was described. by Yr Hoffman to the Stratford police, and by thein to Detec- tive' Smith, of London. On Monday, 15th inst., Detective Smith happened. to see apiece of work in a second. -hand , store in London kept by a German Jew named Marx Lery, which he immedi- ately identified, and making enquiries found. that the girl Russellhad sold it a few days previously. The girl was ar- rested and brought to Stratford, -when she was sentenced to a mouth's impris- onment. Huron Notes. The Turnberry Agricultural So- ciety's spring show of horses ana bulls, was held on the grounds in Lower Winghain, on Friday, 12th inst. The preparing again for a grand effort, and show of horses was tolerably good; but is now setting her nest in orderthe bull show was a failure. Priies' —On the evening of Wednesday, loth were awarded. as -follows: Horses— inet., a farmer from the township of Ro- heavy draught—let T. Dustow, 2d W. e cheater brought a strange man to the Bell, 3a. T. Seals, recommended. Gen.- -village of Comber, and. without coin- eral purpose -1t John Cunnxting, 2d municating with any person, laid. bim D. McPherson. Roadsters—lit James down on the stoop by Harmer's hotel. Johnston, 2d John Perdue. Thorough -.. Shortly afterwards the landlord found bred—No class—Hodgins and McLa- the matt in a dying state. He tookhira tosb's young stallion was strongly re- in and,sent for a doctor, who, after ex- commended to a special prize. Bulls -- ambling the unforttuiate man, declared Thoroughbred Durham -1st Re Curry. that he was past recovery. He died on Thoroughbred Devon—lst James Per - Thursday at 5 p. na., and was buried on due. Friday. The deceased was Wm. Ab- —A lady came from London to Exe- bott, lately of Charing Cross, thence ter on Saturday, to do some business from Hamilton, where he worked as a with a gentleman in the village. Be - gardener.. He died of a conibination of ing too late to transact the business, she diseabes, and was in,a fearful state of sought lodgings for the night in. a hotel. filth and corruption. The hotel being full, she went out on —There died on the Iltle day of thie the street, where she attracted some at - month at Peterborough, an aged woman tention among the fast youths of the town, who began to insult her. She a.sload some one to take her to the con- stable, and the person .she addressea promised to do so, but instead of taking her to the eonstable he lea her off to a back street, where she Was. again in- sulted. She struck one of them with a parasol, and meAe her way back to the village, where she found. Mr. Gill, who, however. could not tell who the boys were. Exeter seems to beinfested with last three months of her life she was -a lot of bad youths. named Mrs. Ehzabeth Sharpe. She had attained the extrEbordinary age of 104 years, was born at Ballychamy, Done- gal, Ireland. In 1837, she .came to this country, and has resided in Peterbor- ough ever since. She married in Ire- land, where were born all her family, consisting of two sons and. five daugh- ters. Her husband, Mr. Robt. Sharpe, •died in 1862. Mrs. Sharpe was unusu- ally free froth sickness and until the case