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HURON EXPOSITOR.
NEW ATWEBTISICEITTS.
Surniner Goods—At G.McDougall & Co.
Factory Cottorts—Wm. Hill & CO. .
Property for Sale—J. Miller, Brucefield.
Twenty Dollars Reward—J. Barker.
- Farm for Sale in Hullette—johe Watt.
To Builders—Adam Holliday.
DressGoods—W. Hill & Co., Brucefield.
House and Tiot for Sale—M. Morrison.
Horse Straeed. or Steten—J.Donaldson.
Canadian -Pacific R ilway—F. Braun.
Farm for Saie—ra,n4es Young.
The -Voters' List Act—Samuel Foster. -
Wagomnaker Wanted—Wm. Grassie.
Goods for juue—Duncen & Duncan.
Partnership Notice—Reid & Mattice.
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SEAFORTH, JUNE 7, 1S7'8.
• The 'Quebec Legislature.
The newly elected Legislature of the
Proviuce of Quebec met in the " Ancient
Capital. 't on Tuesday last. The event
occasioned the most intense interest
and_ eXeitement not only in the eitylut
alio throughout the Prewince. An im-
mense crowd cellected in the city from
all parts of the: Province, only a -very
small. proportion of whom could gain
admission to the galleries of the House.
The Lieutenant -Governor wa4
cheeqd lay the croWd on his arrival at
and departure from the Parliamentary
bnildings. The first business was the
selection of a Speaker. The nominee
of the new Government Was elected by
a majority of one. This Was the only
business transacted the first day. As
the result of the division on the Speak-
ership was to deterrniete the strength of
the new Govenament, the result al-
though attained by so Haa.TON'y a it'll ajor-
itet is most gratifying, and. securea' be-
yond a doubt a fair trial at least for the
dely Government. As an index of the
feeling of the masses, we may mention
that the members of the Govenainent
on leaving the clia,mber, were followed
and cheered by a concourse of over two
thousand people. If the Joly Govern-
ment carry out their promises oi econ-
omy and good goveniment, there is no
doubt but -they will rapidly gain strength
in the House, and that their perma-
nency is secured. A Reform Govern-
ment ruling the Pieviuce of , Quebec is
what few,even of the .most sanguine,ex-
pected ler many years to come.
• Misrepresentation.
The teak of "refuting mistepre-
sentations on the pert of contempoietries
is, by no. means, an enviable one;tand
the fact that th.ese misrepresentations
are
are made by our immediate neighbors,
from whom we should expect better
things, does not make the duty any
more plea,seolt. Were these misrepre-
sentations cireafated only at home, we
might feel disposed to let them pass
=noticed, as they Cannot do harm
where the facts are known but u -
fortunately, they seem to have more
r than a local circulation, and as un-
truths fly rapidly, the misstatements of.
those contemporaries referred to have
been taken up and reiterated. with all
the ateurance of truth by journals at a
distance, where the facts are not
ketown. Under these circumstances we
deera it necessaxy to refer pointedly to
the following quotations. The God-•
erich Star -of last week said:
During-
During the last live weeks there has been dig -
cord and insubordirultion, amounting almost to
open mutiny, in the Grit camp in this conoty.
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Re (Mr. reenway), accordingly
said in the plainest terms that unless the promise
of an office were fulfillc.d he would certainly run in
the South. Now, this declaration completely
spoiled the. arrangemG
ents which the rits hadr
made with regard to this county. Mr. _31. 0.
Cameron Ivan bound to have a seat; by hook or by
crook, with the aid ot another $20,000, or without
it, aud " et. P. had to be taken. into consider-
ation, for he could not be ruthlessly', 4thrust aside
Without 801110 solatium. What, then, was to be
done? Mr. CarnorOu and Mr. Malcolmson put
' their heads togetivr.timl consulted gr. Greenway,
but he would not yield. An office had been
promised him, and an office, he would have, or he
. would run for the c.onstitnenty, no matter who
or how many might be in the field. This was
fix hard to get ovrr, and' if we may judge from
tho result it wall not got over.
t That any journalist, even. professing
respectability, should deznean himself
by deliberately penning such a string of
fa,lsehoods, knowing them to be such, is
alnaost beyond belief. Now, we make
the following stetementsmend we chal-
lenge the writer in the Sfar, or any
other living man, to succesefully refute
them : Th.ere does not exist either "dis-
-mord" or "insubordination" in the
"dzit camp in this county," but, on the
contrary, there does exist' oily har-
mony and good feeling. Mr. Greentvay
uever asked for,and was never promised
an office by the Government. Ile never
made any claim epee. the Reform
pa,rty, and he never on any .occasion
threatened. to oppose Mie Cameron or
any *other Reforra candidate; but, on
their columns. If they are honest they
will do dis, but if they desire to. de-
ludeand deceive their readers -we do
not expect them to do it.
The Exeter r i71168 also seems to vie
with its Goderich coatemporary in the
matter of misrepresentation. It says
the convention at Clinton on Wednes-
day" was remarkable for the absenCe of
" the leading representativemen of the
"riding." If it wishes to convince its
readers of the untruthfulness of this
statement, all it zequires to do is to
publish -the list of delegates who at-
tended theeonvention. The same jour-
nal, in order to delude _its readers into
the belief that the present Government
has .been more extravagant than its pre-
decessors, resorts to the oft exposed
dodge of representing the expenditure
i of the financial yeax 1872-3 as the last
t year for which the late Governtaent
were responsible, and ,comparing it with
the eapenditure of the last year of t\lie
• present dovernment. This little dodge
1 has been se frequently exposed that it
i is unnecessary for us to refer to it lieee
It also contrasts the number of super,
annuated officers now with the aumber
in 1872-3, and selects a few Aeries of ex-
penditure which are now greater than
• they were in that year, and on the
strength of these asks its readers to be-
lieve in the economy of the Govern-
ment of Sir John 'and the extravagance
of Mr. Mackenzie. In this connection,
if it suited its purpose, it could tell its-
• readers that evert; officer who hare been
supera,mmeted hy the present Govern-
ment, received. his superannuatien un-
der an act of Parliament prepared and
. passed by Sir John Macdonald's_ Gov-
ernment, which Provides that when-
ever an officer attains a certain age h
can demand his superannuation, and
the Government have no power to pre-
vent it. It could also tell its readers
that While in seine branches of the pub-
lic service each as it quoted, the ex-
penses are higher now than they were
under the late Government, • there are
many othersthe expenses of which are
very much less; that to so great an ex-
tent is thislatter the case, that in the
class Of expenditure regulated by the
Government a saving of neerly one and
a half million dollars per annum has been
effected. by Mr. Mackenzie and his col-
leagues; and while during the last
sevenyeats of Sir John's rule the net
public debt was increased $10,000,000,
it lia,e' milk been increased $200,000 -
under the rule of Mr. Mackenzie in five
years. • These ere a few of the things
evhith our contemporary (meld tell its
readers, if it felt inclined to deal justly
by them. Bet tuclging by the course it
and its colleague in Goderich have re-
cently been pursuing,. they are not
anxious to give utterance to the truth
when they think the reverse will suit
them better:- Their cause can surely
not be a good one, if, in order to tem-
porarily advance it, they are forced to
suppress truth and substitute for it
falsehood and misrepresentation.
Facts for the People.
Opposition journals and stuntp orators
seem to have abandoned the various
scandals promulgated- against the Gov-
ernment as untenable, and now devote
their energies to - endeavering to con-
vince the- people that the fiscal policy
Of the Government is ruining the coun-
try and that the finances are being
rathlessly squandered. In reply -to the
firet charge, we, last week, published
an extract from Mr: Mills' speeeh, in
whieh he shows so conclusively' the hol-
lowne s and hypocrisy of the Protection
et! of
the Opposition,- that it is sue -
prism they will persist in their en-
deavor to delude the people into the
belief that even should they be returned
to power, they can. or Will do more -
than is now being done to restore pros-
perity to the country. In reply to the
second charge, we this week publish an
extract from the speech • of Mr. Mac-
ing through an aperture into the horse's tritinloadof citizens of Lexington ar-
apartment for the purpose of stealing rived to render aid, and the physicians
his hey when the sagacious equine from all the surrounding *towns •have
caught her by the tongue with the re- been summoned to give medical attend -
suit a,bove mentioned. The heifer is ance to the wounded. The cyclone was
now doiug as well as could. be expected. the color_of steam, and at times tJie
funeel-shaped whirling eloud wbuld
emit what appeared to be black smoke,
then gather together and move with in-
creased. force. The Mayor has called
for aid for the sitffeters. ' Up to latest
accounts, there Were in all 15 deaths.
News of the Week. Forty are more or -less injured, and
Mr. Mallet has been very unfortunate
with his stock this season, having lost a
Valuable horse by inflammation and
several sheep front various causes.
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Fon EHROPE.—Over 500 ca,bin pas- much: da,mage done to the crops.,
,sengers sailed from New York for
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TE ROWING CereerPIONSIIIP. -4-- The
Europe, on June 1st. rowing match on the Thames Monday
Dipierneete.—Diphtheria 'ages with b--tvieen Higgins and Elliott, for the
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eat virulence at Taloa, Chili. Many 1 championship and £400, was won by
eaths have occurred. Higgins.. It is expected -Higgint will
SING SING —The earnings laf Sing row against the Amerir champion. *
Sing prison r . ay we
d Fainunt s. .THE °RN TRADE .—A
the expenditure, .1,14,000. Liverpool despatch says: The diffi.cul-
,
in Costa, Rica is expected to be 350 000 fall in values, appear to be developing.
quintals, the laraest ever. known.
tiesin the corn trade,o 'nate the heav.v
THE COFFEE Cnoe.—The coffee crop a t
, The failure is announced of Ireland (3.4
THE GARDEN OF CUGUSLBERS.—One Co., commission brokers; liabilities es -
day recently seven car loads of cucuin- timated at £22,000; -Difficulties are
bees were sent north froln Florid e. 'etere also reported in connection with two
to follow.
other small firms. There is an im-
A ST11- ANGE Soenery..LAn organize- pression that these clearances will im-
.
tion -called the Society of a, New Heaven prove the market.
, and a New Earth, o orated in
was c rp OLTAIRE• rENART.
1New York, on June 1st.
Dean WIT IN jAMAICA.—A great drought
prevails in Ja-maica,, vegetation being
tgreally injured and cattle suffering
for want of grass. which is all parched
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PURGER ARRESTED..—W. E. eeray,•the
notorious forger, who is charged. with
having defrauded Wall street -of over
$600,000, has been arrested in New
York. t .
BEECHER.—Manager Baldwi it's the-
atre, San Franciseo, has engaged Henry
Ward Beecher to deliver ten . lec-
tures in California for $10,090 and ex-
pellees.
FAILIF-RE OF CROPS.—The crepe have
failed in BoliVia,, and the Government
of Peru has agreed that provisions for
the relief eef ethe sufferers may pass
through Panama, duty free.
REMOVING TO BRA ZIL.—A large num-
ber of persons, over 300, including 200
colored. laborers, are leaving Wa,shirg-
ton this week to proceed to Brazil, with
the hope of finding pernaanent employ-
ment. '
GOLDWIN SHITH.—TheLondoe corres-
pondent of the Liverpool Courier great-
ly regrets to announce that Mr. Goldwin
Smith's visit to England is dewing -to
• a close, and. that he will shertly return
to Canada.
VIOLENT Snoces.—A severe shock of
earthquake was feltat G-uayaquil, Ecua-
dor, on May 14, preceded by a tremend-
ous moise, and accompanied by exceed-
ingly heavy winds. The next motil-
ity the shock was repeated with less'
violence.'
Itlemmeous Fever.s—A letter from
Constantinople, explaining the recent
change. of position by . the Russian
forces, says the country betweeu .San
Stefano and Adrianople is exceedingly
malarious, and 15,000 Russians on that
line have died mostly of fever within
two months.
A "PICKPOCKET'S PHOTOGRAPII.—A. Bal-
timore pickpocket defeated an attempt
to take his photogeb,ph for the rogues'
gallery by making wry faces. There-
upon the police labelled .him "Thief,"
end marched him up and down &crowd-
ed street uutil he promised to sit quiet-
ly before the camera.
AN ATIOMMODATING STOMACH.—There
died at Prestwich Asylum, near Lon-
don, the nther day, a lunatic, in whose
stomach 1,841 indigestible substances
were foun, namely, 20 buckles, 14 bits
of glass, 10 pebbles, three pieces of
string, a piece of copper, a fish hook, a
pia, nine brass buttons, 1,782 tacks and
POISONED FISH.—Considerable con-
sternation was caused in St. Louis, Mo.;
the other day, by the- discovery that
Several cases of poisoned whitefish had
been retailed in that -city. Several per-
sons were brought very near to death
by eating, but no lives were. lost. The
fish came from Chicago.
Due CUTLER.—Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of
Brooklyn, is going to California on a
three months'. leave: of abseuce. He
has felt. the -need of complete rest
from his exhausting duties as pas -
tee of one of -the largest churches in
the Presbyterian denomination. Rev.
Mr. Pentecost will supply/his Pulpit for
the present.
THE AGED. POET.—William Cullen
Bryant -was taken suddenly and -seri-
ously ill in New York; a few days ago,
from the effect of a . fall, apparent-
ly resulting in .coneussion of the
brain. His coildition, although iieces-
• sexily ceasing anxiety, is still such as
to allow hopes of his recovery to be en-
tertained. -
SACRELIGIOUS THIEVING.—Nine Ro-
man Catholic Chutches in -Philadelphia,
hieve been entered Vitithin a month by
kenzie, winch. shows with equal clear- burglars, who carried off silver alter
ness, that instead of the money of the vessels, the contents of poor boxes,
people being squandered now it is being end -other portable things worth tak-
most economically expended.. The ing. In one instance they fimd the
cm.but the flame was quickly dis-
figures given by MeserseMills and Mac, J ooverecl and extinguished. They also
kenzie are taken from the public destroyed vestments.
records, .as can be seen. by any. Who THE POPE'S Teomiees.---The Po
may wish to exernine for s sai
thein.selves. id to be physically unwell and me
tally distressed by the. Opposition to
We commend to our readers a careful. the reforms .he proposep. It is -even
perusal of the facts contained in both stated -that he contemplate§ resignation.
those speeches. If, after perusing The Jesuits and Cardinal Franchi are
them, any man can conscientiously say at loggerheads, the fornadr en.deavoring
to secure the do -Stefan of the, lat-
that it would be in the interests of this ter, and the latter striving to check the
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Dominion to turn from' offiee the machinations of the Order.
.presenttie erineent and reinstate their
, BOYS AND FLA sn LITERATURE .—The
.4pouents, such a naanenust have very reckless rowdyism of the boys from fife
teen to eighteen or twenty years of age
peculiar ideas of the proper mode of is attracting considerable attention in
New York: A gentleman was recently
walking in a frequented part of the
city on a Sunday afternoon, when he
was deliberately ±ired at threo times by
some boys sitting on a fence. No doubt -
much of this growing " hoodlumism "
may be attributed. to the circulation of
juvenile '• ila,sh " literature, which is
new recognized as a grave social evil.
TERRIBLE STORM IN Missouiu. — A
terrible cyclone passed over Richmond
Missouri, on Saturday last, levelling to
the ground over half the buildings in
Matta Over a hundred houses are to-
tally destroyed, and the loss of property
will reach a quarter' of a million.
Whole blocks were completely swept
away, and the debris Scattered for miles.
The storm was preceded by a heavy
rein fall. Trees were uprooted and car-
ried through the air like feathers, as
were fragments of houses and every-
thing storm struck. The Shaw House,
a large brick hotel, was demolished,
and. the inmates buried in the ruins.
Horses and. stock of all kinds in the
track of the storm, were swept off. A
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the contrary, he freely and frequently , aovern nee a country.
offered to lend his aid. and influence to
secure Mr. Ceraercea's election. There
WOES no rivalry between Alt- Cameron '
and Mr. Oreenwary foe the ca,m4dature
of Smith Huron. The former repeeted-
ly urged upon the latter to accept thait
position, and it was in compliance with
Mr. Cameron s most earnest solicita-
tions, both privately and at the con-
vention, that Mr. Greenway accepted
the nomiaation of the convention. We,
therefore, again repeat that every syl-
le.ble in the above extract is tuatrue,aed
we cail upon our contemporary to re-
tract its statements, or to rest under
the charge of being a wilful and delib-
erate falsifier. We also ask the London
Free Press and the other journals who
aided in circulating these feleehoods to
*e our refutation equal prominence in
A REPORT of the able speech delivered
by Mr. Mackenzie to the workingmen
of Toronto, on Thersdat evening of
last week, has been efors;arded us by
our Toronto correspondent tit Toronto,
but it was received too late to enable us
to publish it in this issue. •
—A somewhat, peel:thee accident to a
two-year old heifer happened on the
farm of Mr.. H. W. Mallett, of Wilmot.
One day recently he noticed that the
animal, which was in a yard adjoining
his horse stable, aid not eat as
well as usual An examination of the
raouth proved that the poor brute had
lost about two inches of her tongue:
The cense of such an tteus-a.al occur-
rence could not be accomated for at the
time, but in cleening out the horse's
manger Mr. Mallet discovered the miss -
ing portion of the heifer's tniegue. Th.e
hypothesis is bleat she hadAteen reach- I
The Voltaire'
centenary celebration waslheld at Paris,
, France, on Thursday, Mar 30. It was
attended by 2,000 person g Admission
Was by tickets, for whieli frem fifty
centimes to eight francs were charged,
the receipts being devoted to the poor.
The celebration was held at the same
hour by the Free Thinkers at the
Amelican circus, on the Place Chateau
d'Eau, admission to which was by
ticket, but without charge. The audi-
ence numbered 6,000. Several speeches
were made, wholly devoted to proving
Voltaire's enmity to religion. - The
audience was very enthusiastic. After
speeches the statue of Voltaire was
crowned with flowers.
A PACIFIC RAILWAY TRAIN BOARDED
AND ROBBED.—On the night of May 26,
four masked men boarded the pa,ssen-
ger train just .after it left Percy station,
east of Salt Lake; entered the middle
sleeping In and proceeded to rob the
passengers. They took a watch and
$100 from one passenger, $50 and. tick-
ets from another, e gold. watch and $35
from. the sleeping -car conductor. Some
, one pulled the bell -cord and the robbers
jumped off. They fired three harmless
shots at the sleeping-cer. A large arm-
ed force is in pursuit. The Union Pa-
cific Railway Comitany offer a reward
of $2,000 each for the robbers.—Later
accounts say the robbers have been ar-
rested at Orn.a,hae and the plunder re-
covered.
GERMAN IRON -CLAD :VESSEL SUNK IN
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.—AS the Ger-
man ironclad. fleet were ' coming down
the English Channel on Thursday, May
30, boned for the Mediterranean, a col-
lision occurred. between the Koenig Wil-
helm and Grosser Kurfurst, the latter
of which almost immediately went
down with some 300 hands. Her crew
numbered, it is said, 500, and only 217
are known to have been saved. The
Grosser Kurfurst, in point of imphrt-
ence, ranked as third of the German
ironclad fleet. She was a double -tur-
reted vessel of 4,118 toils with an arma-
ment of four 26 -ton guns in the turrets
and two 21 -ton guns fore and aft. The
Koenig Wilhelm was built at Blackwell
in 1865. She is an- ironclad of 5,938
tons, with 8 -inch armour -plate, and car-
ries 23 rifled 96 -pounders and four 800 -
pounders.
• Seem) ATTEMPT To ASSASSINA.TE 'ME
GERMAN EMPEROR.—The Emperor Wil-
liam was fired at last Sunday while driv-
ing In- the Miter den Linden
and wounded with buckshot in
the face, back and arm. His as-
sailant is one Nobeling,a doctor of Phile
ologo of Social-Dernecrat tendencies,
who,in pursuance of a previously eoncoct-
ed plan,hi red rooms on the avenue named
and deliberately fired at the Emperor"
with a double-barrelled gun from. the
window of his lodging. Nobeling was
formerly in the Civil Service of the King-
dom of Saxony. He was a regular con-
tributor to agricultural journals, and
seems to have been in easy circum-
stances. Ile admits his plan had been
formed for a long time. He had accom-
plices who had. been in communication
with him on the subject of the assas-
sination of the Emperor for six months.
When the Emperor William was shot a
clia,sseur, sitting with the coachman,
sprang into the vehicle and threw him-
self over the Emperor so that the slugs
from the second. shot touched only the
Emperor's arra. The worst wound is
in the Wrist near the mein artery, frora
which the Emperor lost much blood,
-which renders his condition precarious.
He is, however, progressing •favorably.
A Huron Farmer's Opinion of
Kansas.
• Mr. Robert Martin, of Grey, who has
recently returned from a visit to friends
in Kansas, writes to the Brussels Post
follows:as
The firstthine is to break the prairie,:
which costs„ if 'Dby contract, $2.25 per'.
acre, and has to be done from May to
July. Then cress plow, which costs
$1.25, and harrow, 25c. per acre; $1 -per
bushel for seed, and one bushel and a
quarter per acre to have it chilled in
(40c more.) $5.40 per acre is the first
year's total expense of putting in -a,
crop. The next July it is harvested,
cat with a header, and stacked, which,
if done by contract, costs $2 per acre;
to thresh and put in bag it costs 8c per
bushel; average crop 20 buOiels per
acre; total expense of the first year's
crop, $9 per acre. Threshed by a steam
thresher it is clean enough for market
when it comes from the theeiher. If
sold at one clollar per :bushel it will
leave $11 clear of all expenses, except
hauling to market. Land can be had
at from $4.50 to 88 per acre, from four
to ten miles from a railway station. I
believe there in no other place where
wheat raising is being carried on. on so
large a scale as in Kansas except Cali-
fornia. There are men in Dickinson.
County, Kansas, this year, who !have
from 300 to over 3,000 acres under cul-
tivation, part of which. It saw when I
was there, about two weeks ago, the
most of which was looking well, and, I
think, will be over an average crop.
Most of the large wheat growers are
men of considerable money, and the
work is all done by contract. They
have no fenc ing, as the herd law pro-
tects the crop of this country. After
the first year the expense of a wheat
crop is about $2.25 per acre less than
the first year. After the first crop they "
only plow once, and then sow. They
continu.e cropping for ynars without any
change of crop or labor, and expect t9
have as good a crop as at first; and,
judging frorn what 1 saw, the land that
has been in eultivatidn for a number of
years looks as well as the new land.
Harvesting, is quickly and easily done.
The most of it is cut with a header.
A span of horses and one man workthe
header. It takes three teams and three
wagons to draw the grain to the stack
as fast as it is cut. Five epan of horses
and seven men will cut and stack from
20 to 30 acres per day. The header
cats 10 feet wide, and is run ahead of
the horses. The grain is carried from
the header into the wagon 1e4 by-- care
raw carriers
ats and corn
some good
&teen% look
be in mini-
riers something like the s
of a threshing machine.
do well. I have also see
pieces of clover. Timoth
so well ; the land wants t
:vation a number of years befre seeding
to grass to get the wild nature out of
it, as it is inclined to grow soft weeds
and choke the tame grass. There it
very little timber, ahd what they have
is very little good. I think they are
better without it; if it was a tinabered
country it would take more to clear e,
small farm than to put buildings on- a
large one. Lumber is getting cheaper
than it used. to be aefew years ago, and.
as for fences they can do very well
without them so long as the herd law
is in force. By planting out Osage
orange and keeping them Clean for, four
years, you will have a fence 'that will
turn cattle, and with no wear -Out to it.
This is an advantage they have over
c.Ader climates where they can't grow a
hedge se fast, as the Osage 'orange Won't
de where the climate is cold. Fruit
and vegetables _ do well. The
apple orchards are young where
I was. 'Some of them seem to be
'well loaded with fruit, and I have no
doubt but they will do -well if the wind.
don't shake them off the trees. There
is a cc&ttinual high wind. They tell
me they grow fasteren the trees than
where there is not so much.wind. But
as to that I cannot say. Thepeach is a
- quick growing tree, and is heavilyladen
with fruit. As, Ito health, the people
are apparently pretty well, but I think
-they aee more tanned with the sun and
wind than the people of Canada, and
hardly carry as much flesh. Kansas is
not a good place for a poor man, as
there are more men looking for work
than cau find it. There are men com-
ing in every day in search of work.
The work, however, is all done by ma-
chinery. It is seldom you will see any
person -working on a farm except with
a team. There is almost every con-
venience in Kansas that there is here,
and in some things they are fax ahead
of us. The land is high and rolling in
general, -with here and there a spring
creek. There are no swamps or males
of any account. Plenty of water can
be obtained all over by digging from 10
to 80 feet; Chances to buy farms,
improved or unimproved are num-
erous.
Perth Items.
•
BrickmalEin„ci on an extensive scale
is being earned on in Listowel by Mr.
Charles Sel-wood.
—At the opening services of Bethel
church in Fullerton on the 24th ult.,
the sum of $170 was realized, clear of
expenses.
—Mr. A. Knox, of the Eighth Line, e
Blansharde was recently knocked
down and injured • on the head by a
baulky horse. •
—A match game of base ball was re-
cently played. between the clubs of
Elimville and Anderson, the latter
coming off victorious.-
. —There has been only one interment
in the Stratford cepaetery during the
last five weeks. This speaks well for the
sanitary condition of the town.
. —Simon Sturgeon, from Sarnia, who
has been practising as a surgeon M the
vicinity of Stratford recently, has been
sentenced to a term in jail for practising
without license.
—On May 30, Edward E. Bell, resid-
ing on the 2d Concession, Wallace, had
growing on his farm peas in the pod,
full grown and n.early ripe. Who would
want to leave Canada? ••
—Mr. H. H. Crossley, for some time
cashier in - the freight department,
Grand Trunk Railway, Stratford, left
suddenly the other night. He is a de-
faulter to the amount of several hun-
dred dollars.
—In Mitchell, one evening last week,
ei couple of young lads got into a boat
belonging to Mr. John May. The owner
coining along tipped the young fellows
into the water, one of them getting in
up to his -neck.
— Another foundry will shortly be
started in 'Mitchell by Messrs. Daniel
and James Kerr. They Will principal-
ly manufacture farming implements and
small wares. Both gentlemen are well
known in Mitchell.
Anderson, of Elma, recently
lost his pocket -book which contained a
considerable sum of money, while re-
turning home from Listowel. It is
supposed the packet in some unaccount-
able way slipped from his pocket. ,
—At the bazaar and pubic dinner
helcl in the town hall Mitchell, on the
24th, under the auspices of Trinity
church. The handsome sum of $108
was realized, which will be applied
toward liquidating thechurch debt.
—At thp annual meeting of the Mit-
chell Mechanics' Institute last week it
was ascertained that the total member-
ship is 146, an increase of 90 over the
preceding year. The whole number of
volumes in the library is 1,271. John
Broderick is President.
—Dr. Densmore, of Mitchell, has
been presented by the teachers and of-
fice bearers of Knox Church Sabbath
School, in that place, with a handsome
gold chain, as au acknowledgment of
his valuable and disinterested service
in connection -with the Sabbath School.
— A severe storm of wind and rain,
accompanied by lightning, passed over
a portion of Mornington, last weektblow-
Mg dowel a number of buildings and un-
roofing others, breaking and twisting
large trees as though they had been
pipe shanks, besides levelling thefences
whioh it came across in it e travels.
—The County of Perth, Sabbath
School Association, held a very suc-
cessful Convention at Listowel, on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
The different sessions were well
attended, especially- that on Tuesday
evening, when the Church was crowded
to excess. The next convention will
be held in Stratford., in May 1879.
—?Tr. James W. Bell, 13. A., son of
the late Wm. Bell, of North Ea sthope,
has taken passage for Europe. He will
remain abroad for a couple or more
years. After stadyiug for some time
at the Piaiversity of Edinburgh, he will
complete the course at the Universit
of Leipsic, Germany, -Air. Bell IS ac-
companied by his wife and his mother,
the latter- of whom will remain for
some time with her relatives in Ire-
land.
—A sad accident occurred at Lis-
towel laSt Saturday afternoon. While
a teamster vas backing up a load of
coal to unload at James Freen's black-
sinith shbp, e young son of Mr. Preen's,
about terli years of age, got between the
wheel. andthe stop, and. 'was crushed\
in a dreadful manner, from the effectst
of which lie died the same night.
—Mr. James Cuthbertson, of the
12th concession of Elena, was severely
injured by a limb during the storm on
Monday last week. He and This brother
were in the bush at 'the time taking
shelter under a tree; when a large limb
fell and struck him on the shoulder,
knocking him to the ground. By the
assistance of his brother he managed to
reach helve. Under medical treatment
he is recovering. •
—Stratford gaol h e 11 prisoners,
p males and 2 fema s, committed -1
for 'contempt of court, 2 for larceny,
1 for Wife beating, aed 7 for vagrancy.
The nationalities are ' Irish, 4; Eng,
lish, 1; American, 1; Scotch, 2; G-er-
man, 1 Ceenadiaile 1 e French, 1. Gov.
ernor Itiic-61 utilizes their labor, and the
county owes him an ackno-wledgment
for the taste he has shown in beautify-
ing the grounds that surround a most
unsightly building.
—At,the St. Marys. races on Satur-
day, 25th ult., when the final heat in
the 2:45 race was being trotted, a team
attached to a buggy became frightened
as th horses engaged in the race swept
past them. The driver seemed td lose
all control over:his horses, and in an in-
stant the rig was upset, the tongue
smashed, and the ' team careening
over the field. Beyond smashing the
axle, tongue and"whiffietrees of the car-
riage, no harm was done.
—Chief -Constable Win. Henderson,
of the county. of Oxford, arrested one
George Wiseman in Mitchell on the 1St
inst. It appears that Wiseman was
convicted -of larceny on a somewhat ex -
ten -sive scale in the county of Oxford,
and while leaving the court at night the
gas was suddenly turned off, as is sup-
posed, by some �f the prisoner's friends
or sympathizers, and. he made his es-
cape in the crewd. Constable Hender-
son felt his repatation at stake, and has
been on the teen ever since March,
having put himself to considerable ex-
pense to find his bird, whom he only
succeeded in capturing on Saturday last.
The prisoner is rather a smart looking
young man of about 25 years of age, and.
said by parties in the neighboraod to
have generally been sepposed of good
character.
Huron Notes.
The Exeter races will be' held on the
1st of July. Brussels ditto.
—Mr. W. Smithson, of Ilullett had
new potatoes in Clinton marketpn Tues-
day of last week, which were grown in
the open air.
—Mr. N.. J. Clarke,'1 township clerk
of Usborne, has returned from a trip
to Manitoba. He speaks very highly of
the country.
—Work on the Manhattan salt shaft
at Goderich has been abandoned for the
present. The water in the shaft is now
170 feet deep.
—There have been between 80 and 100
appeals made by each party against the
voters' lists of the township of Goderich.
Happy township.
—Mr. Henry Morris, of the 9th con -
Cession of Colborne; is the owner bf a
two-year-old sorrel colt, which weighs
exactly 1,190 lbs. -•
—Mr. W. Yeo, of Goderich township.
has fall wheat which measures four feet
JUNE 7, 1878.
Immulao
at the scene, she found. her has
was unconscious, but fortunately the
Barry
presentareaecrteever
s swilieepahMin% aboitfheee aisetakt
and
shhOma
uldeslkrs'
TIcKee, a farmer of Goa.
paid the market fees. The fine and eases
fined, by Mr. C. Crabb e of Goderich,
exposing wood for sale without having
erich township, was on50wW.eeedkn,ea.sdfaayrmlaster
the complaint of the market clerketet
Hnainau—mroo°uendnii:SeoTudeaxnatsoeinesaclitbtaililGtfrias6mteritchhe rowetrastactip tit
some business, and bought a valuette,
buggy. After getting tohis frienen
house in Goderich, and having taken
histotalthe , wreck of vehicle_
—winifetwouoty, ethaershtehee-senarlaw4ershi,
a :noefinngThe
Exeter Methodist church Imes incre
from 83 to 130, under the patstorate ee
Rev. J. W. Holme. During the put
cyheuarrethh,eexaceltutisailve.limofountp
subscription ati t: t et
and cwreaasil2b3le5sirt:oHa viheee:laihbnaednr adtlswi4070e tf.' I ti it he e:
r'clicaon:gWheigi:riltseiowIneif returning from Blyt,lete
Imndesboro on Saturday evening, they
met with an accident which might have
proved serious. 'When on- the outskirts
of the village, the axle of one of the
being quiet it did not attempt to nue
ser—ioAuslionwjurayavs ago,
throwing them forward, but the horse
away, so that none of therd„ receive&
wheel
wfahnieenlsg of the absgrugogymmr-d.br,Rotkhir, :lathy)*
Gidley was getting into his wagon in
front of J. Pickard's store, in Exeter,
his horse became fractious, and backing
up frightened another horse belonging
to Mr. Thompson, of Usborne, -which
also became unruly, and backed the
buggy over Mrs. Thompson, who had
fallen between the wheels—but When
asked if she was hurt, she replied that
she did not feel any pain.
—On Tuesday of last week, a ohm
of Mr. Wm. Robertson, of Benraillere
the township of Colborne, met with a
very severe accident, which shortly
proved fatal. A pail of hot water was
placed on the floor for a, moment, and
the child almost immediately stumbled
into it. Medical aid was at once
summoned, but in vain, as death
came 'after twenty-four hours of ter-
rible agony. The funeral, which took
plaoe on Thursday; was very largely —Some -days agola hone belonging to
Mr. Wm. Itbnevick, of Exeter, ran
away, While Mrs. Fenwielt WaS On her
way to the c'euutry. It appears that
shortly alter leaving -the house she rais-
ed her parasol, which. frightened the
horse, causing; it to ran away. The ani-
mal turned down station street, and.
while turning the corner threw' Mrs.
Fenwick and her ehiid out of the buggy;
The horse was _caught by one of the
railway employees, after running as fat
as the station. Fortunately no daruage
was done.
—On Saturday last, while some boys
from Exeter were playing in. the swam
on the Lake Rota, in limning after
some animal, they observed a, large tur-
tle makieg for a creek a short distance
away. The boys put in their best licks,
and reaching the creek before the rep-
tile, succeeded, after some difficulty, in
making a capture. It was very savage,
and snaps at everything that approaches.
It is now in the possession of Mr. Wm.
Carrick, of Exeter north, where it re-
ceives a good many polite attentions
from curiousonmvisitors.onaafa
3oi
st week, Dr. Stew-
art, of Brudefield, assisted by Drs
Worthington, Hurlbert and McLean,
_ -
ut t th 1
ebot rs. D. Morrow,
five inches in length, ana clover which late of Clinton, but now of Stratford.
measures 13 inches. The knee was badly affected and was
:---A few evenings ligo, a clothes line gradually getting worse, and no hopes
. belonging to a gentleman in °the north were entertained of relief except by
—A horse valued at $100, belonging La°
end of Exeter, was visited by thieves,
and relieved of its contentg. osut:itie sthtlrtopsehraetionnotwooinli
,YbuPtasss
hecle.
amputation. We are glad to be able
to Thomas Malloy of Wroxeter, was no fectl h '
killed a few nights ago by. a train- good prospect of regaining her wont -
on the Termite, Grey and Bruce Rail- ed. health. The operation was not
way. '
—The new Itemen Catholic Church
in Wingham was formally opened and
dedicated. on Thursday of last week
by the Right Reverend. Bishop Walsh,
of London.
. —A. J. McColl, Esq., of Brussels,
has opened 4 law office in. Wroxeter,
which will be at present in the office
of Mr. George Gibson, clerk of the Di-
vision Court.
—On Monday Mr. Joseph Horton, of
Colborne, with his sister-intlaw and her
family, started in a Wagon to drive to
the Muskoka. District, to jointo, brother
of Mr, Herten; who Wok up an= there
lett March. -
—Mr. Jobe Stewart, of Benmiller, in
the township of Colborne, had. some
two acres of his stra,wberry field badly
1 damaged by the late frosts. The re-
maimeg two acres were covered. in time
to prevent injury.
ouly successfully performed, but with
'much skill.
—A new cheese factory has been
erected. and put in operation upon the
farm of George Gregg, Esq.tin the vi-
cinity of Lakelet, in the, township of
Howick. The factory has .been estab-
lised upon the joint stock system. Mr.
John Fleming, President, and Myles
Young, Secretary. The Directors have
eedured. the services of Mr. Samuel
Grant as maker, and as they have pro-
vided every necessary appliance, they
are making, and 'expect to make, afirst-
class article. The enterprise is meet-
ing with 'an extensive patronage, and
promises to be a complete success: The
nathe of the factory is the "Hoick
Spring Bank Cheese Factory." '
—A cow belonging to Mr. Jas. How-
son, of Clinton, died one day last week
from the effects of poison. A day or
two previous his two yotinger sons were
. .
__while driving to church at Blyth, driving it home, when it came across a.
on Sunday, Mr. Robt. Laidlaw, of Mor- pot of paint that had been set down on
ris, his wife and son, were thrown from the sidewalka few moments before,
the wagon, and Airs. Laidlaw severely from which it took a drink, the boys
injured, her hip being broken. The driving it away as quickly as possible,
others escaped unhurt. _ thinking more of th.e loss of paint to the
—The schools taught by Messrs owner than the danger of poisoning the
cow, for they did not mention the fact
to their parents. If they had done so
a, remedy could haeie been applied. and
the cow's life saved; but the poison was
ianikthweeaco
tlov,sacat,ea7thhi.ch soon terminated
—On Monday night a hard. looking
tramp appealed to the chief constable
in Goderich for lodgings for the night.
He was furnished with a supper and:
stuck in the lock-up. Later in the
evening a disreputable looking woman,
somewhat under the influence ofliquor,
was picked up and also taken to the
"black hole. On entering the cell she
was greeted by the male prisoner with,
Hello, what brought you here," and.
business of the Company was transactt she responded with aadmilarex'Pression.
ed. The number of policies isshied dur- The two were man mut wife, and
bag the pat -month was 75, covering wi,ehreelrvaotmeaernpplaeiaasetdhetomboenemyliwtehdiohaghainad.
insurance to the amount of $71,406.
The next meeting of the Company been advanced for her liege lord's sup -
will be held. ,cet the last Saturdiy Per.
June. .t —On Thursday morning of last week
—On Monday, the 20th ipst., as Mre Mr. John Oakes, of the 5th concession
of the wagon wheels came in contact
Adam Barry, of the 4th concession of toifedAbsihsfiteeladm,
Hay, was returning from. Hensa,ll, one
to transactarew's'dtroovae post
to iGnodfreorinetlaidansa.
with a stump on the roadway. Thebusotcraheerbusshinopes,switniiloenhseofweehnet
horses became frightened, and the adjacent stores. In his absence a buf-
driver losing control of them, was
blown on the horses' backs, when they
talo robe which was in the wagon was
thrown; out of the vehicle into the mud
and had it not happened in sight of his started towards the market house, and.
dwellina house (in the donr of which
Mrs, glary was standing), the result ing the Court House Square. One of
fished. headlong on the ohains surround -
of the accident would probably have the horses ran against one of the pests,
which entered its breast, tearing aveay
Black and Forrest,' of Morris, held a,
union pic-nic near Mr. Emanuel Oliv-
er's lot, on Friday, 24th ult. Speeches,
singing, reciting and swinging, were the
order of the Tay. A good time was
spent. ,
—Mr. Robt. Miller, of the 8th con-
cessiori Goderi h township, has sold
his farm, lot j23, 80 - acres, to Mr.
Ilenry Bateman, of the township of
Manposaefor the sum of $4,800. The
ferm is a good. one, and the price con-
sidered fair.
—The monthly meeting of the How -
ick Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
was held in Mrs. Days' Hotel, Gerrie,
on Saturday, 25th ult., when the usual
proved fatal. When Mrs. B. arrived
the skhl
entering d
tongue of t
xg, anti Ot
WaS done,
breast _was
sonae tame
Again. -
a short tim
for the ben
one day las
Western Re,
improved i
say.
_mr. JO
Friday tau
season in It
village. It.
.one 01I110e.
Sa131-. Grit
the kind. of
tested with.
.—At the
-Onto Unive
W. G- Hatt
4100 for go
fourth ye
Clinton,
sciences,
ton High S
—On Th
a team <4
Ha.wkshaw.
en alonr, th
stepped7on
upon. the ot
the horse, V
depth. of ab'
ing injuries
ing of the
—On Qxi
Fettypiece
was standi
Wingham,
l
The cordia
at -the expl
crackers igi
the anirnat
speed. Tel
opposite Nil
iher -pro
riled of de
with a sh0
—The .%
ing affair 0C
Of Goderieli
neighborn3g
relatives he
pressed -a did
town. The A
the day, ani]
family eokii
live a ride 1
litaywasnot
offer, -aonne
gracefully il
barrow. Wi
equal good. I
trundleathi
and. stertlei
street with
and. the get
riage and ii
read of cal
never have
' rectly undi
. --The CI
, eays: We a
ide the sib
zens unaer
- do ether ft
that on Ti
who has b
hotel for ti
reakehis a
fast Or tlinl
fore, about
and on op
,ing on Insi
;not =corn
rooria tin ti
the housel
he aia no.
of the bodl
was held,
that decea
for the twi
not taken r
ter hearinl
'witnesses 1
of &alb fl
' ancea fro
- -eating Bali
nourishnu
was a bad
ley for sci
coming te
.—The 1
:Queen's B
cessful el
yttendea
the group
ping race,
mile hea
Triggerso
Storm, an
Forrester.
two steal
The next
heats—be
tered-1tt
tory Boy
The first 1
Lott% dia
were take
was 511 01
ill three,
Smith's S
-Shaw's
-was won A
heat was
two horse
the way.
winning -r
Ana came
abeaa,
third hea
Xurphy
length.
fitrBruce,
i..4)withalleWhrltheirlemen geldaszno°r, atea:elii :raasn:' C:nieli, .:
Passage
-Conrad
on horeel
animal
claimed. t
afternoon
attendin
the barn,
learned
work the
Meyer go
him to 1.4.
paid a 1
and the
air, whe
-with the
drew a re
and whe
the revol
the nisaa
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