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The Huron Expositor, 1879-01-03, Page 11 1. • , • -z-a -zee T W ELFTH Y WHOLE NUMBER, 578. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY; JANUARY 3, 1879. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FOR SALE.--7Tha subscriber has for sale a 50 acre tot in the township of McKillop, County of Huron., 20 acres are cleared and -the balance well timbered with beech and maple. The property will be sold pheap. Apply to JASalt. BENSON, Solicitor, Seaforth, Ont. 517 - nnoICE FARM FOR SALE -Being Lot 4, Cou. 7, Hallett, County of Huren; 100 acres; 80 cleared, well underdrained, and in a good state of cultivation; buildings convenient and good; terms easy. For further partichlars apply to Messrs. Mc CAUG Y HOLMES"ED, Seaforth, or on the premises to WM. E. COL WELL -Con- stance P. 0. 565 ATALUAI3LE FARM FOR SAI the east half of Lot No. 4, Co Tnekersmith, County' of Huron, co acres, 3i toilei from the .Town of convenient to school. The land best quality. For farther partic JAMES PICK hRD, opposite the p Egmteadville P. 0. _ WARM FOR SALL:a-For Sale, L Hallett, containing 100 acres, 8 °leered and free from. stumps. Th dwelling house with stone cellar un frtune barn and stable. Plenty 'of Sale, . 4, H. R. S., .sistling of 50 Seaforth, and s of the very lars apply to emises, or to 524 t 14, Con. 7, of which are re is a frame erneatholso ood. water and a small orchard. Is within six an a -half miles of Clinton andabout 9 miles from eaforth. Ate ply at THE EXPOSITOR Office, Se orth: 528 FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, ot Il, Con. 3, H. R. S., Tuckersmith, con -tai ing 50 acres, about 40 of which are cleared, well fenced and under good cultivation. No buildings. Is within one mile and a hall of Seaforth, on the Grand Trunk, and & miles from. Kippen en the Great Western. A good gravel road leading to each place. Apply to C. R. VANEGMOND, Egmond- 575* TTOUSE AND LOT FOR. SALE. -For • Sale, a -1-A` frame dwelling house and one-fifth acre of land. Th.e property is situated opposite the resi- dence of S. G. MeCaughey, Esq., and is very pleas- antly located. The house is convenient and corn- fortable. A good Well and cellar. The lot is a aDrner tot, and has in it a few choice bearing fruit tees. This property will be sold cheap. Apply to the proprietor, .TOHN ATKINSON. 560 WARM FOB SALE. -That well-known and fine- ly situated ftarra, Lot 1, Con. 1, Hallett, in the County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 of which are cleared; there are two iraine dwelling houses, barn, horse stable, (sow stable; sheep -house and driving house; also orchard and abundance of water. The farm is situated two miles from the Town of Seaforth, on the Huron Road. For full particulars apply to McCAUGat I4Y & HOLME- STED, Seaforth, or to SIMON YOUNG, proprie- tor, on the premises.. 553-4x WA.RM FOR SALE. -For Sale, that most desir- able farm'being Lot Cott. 6, in the town- ship of Hallett, situated ij miles from Kinburu, and 6 itales from Seaforth. There are excellent buildings on the premises, including a first-class stone house, two storey, 30 by 40 feet. A spring creek runs through the farm; good orchard, good fences, and'the land in an excellent state of cul- tivation. Apply on the premises to JAMES MO MICHAEL,_or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Seat forth. 562 pROPERTY VOR SALE. -For Sal e, Lot 11, 1- Con 16, Grey ; West half of Lot 29, °MI 6 with cheese factoty complete; Lot 14, Co. 6 and south half of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 5, town ship of Morris • Lot 22, Con. B, and Lot 28, Con! 13, township alio wick, all good improved lanais, together with several 50 acre farms in Greyand Morris, and houses and lots and amulet lets In the village of Brussels. Piices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to 4OHN LECKIE, Brus- sels. ' 574 'VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 11, Con. 8, H. R. S., Tuckersanith, con- taining 100 acres, 90 of which are cleared and in a good state of etiltivation, being well underdrain- ed, the balance is good hardwood bush. Good stone house,frame barn and stables ; well watered, and good hearing orchard. Is `situated about 5 miles from Seaforth and Brucefield, and. 31 from Kippen. Sehool close by, and all other conveni- ences. For further particulars apply to DAVID BIOCiRE, on the premises, or to Egmondville 2.0. 543 VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale the west half of Lot 27, Con. 3, MelCillop, con- •adning 50 acres, known as the Daigle estate. This • arm is situated within one mile and a quarter of Seaforth. The land is of the choicest quality. There is a handsome residence and good outbuild- ings. The fermis well planted with fruit and or- namental trees,: is in excellent order, and -well fenced. It is admirably suited for a retired. gen- tilaEuan,„ a dairy -man, Or market gardener. • Terms easy. This property must be sold at once. Apply to A. STRONG, Seaforth. - 539 . FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 9, -Con. 2; i Stanley, containing 100 acres, 80 of which are °leered, well fenced, free of stumps, and in a good. state of cultivation, A never failing well of water on the farm, also a good young orchard, good frame barn and stable 40 x 60, also a frame honse. On a good gravel road, within 2i miles of Brneefield, and. 81- miles from Seaforth. Con- venient to schools churches &c. This is One of the best farms in the count& of Huron, and will bo sold cheap. For partieulars apply to the pro- prietor on the premises or to Bracefield P. 0. COLIN SMITH, Proprietor. . 576x4 FARMS F011 SALE. -For Sale, 'two splendid farms in Usborne, Huron County, being Lot 31, Con. 3, containing 100 acres, 85 cleared, dis- tant from Exeter or Honsall 4 miles hasgood brick house and good out -buildings. Alse South half of Lot 32, Con. 1, London Road, distant from Exeter 3 miles, and from Hensall 24 mile, (both stations on the London, Huron and Bruce Rail: way), go od frarea house and good outbuildings. Both farms ale well fenced, well watered, have splendid orchar ds, and are convenient to school house and churches. For particulars apply on Lot 31 to RUSSELL J. ROSS, or to Rodgex•ville P. 0. 5744 FARM IN McKILLOP FOR SALE. -For Sale, the North. part of Lots 8 ancl 9, Con. 13, Mc- Killop, containing 112 acres; there are about 80 cleared, well fenced, underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation, the balance is well timbered with. hardwood • good dwelling, new bank frame .uarn 50x56, with stabling underneath, and other ontbuildings ; also a good young orchaiffancl plenty of water. Is 10 miles from Brussels, 5 from Wal- ton., and 12 from Seaforth, with good gravel roads to each place; convenient to church and schools ; will be sold as a whole or in two parts. Apply to Walton P. 0. or to the proprietor on the pram - ea. WILLIAM DYNES. 547:: prem- - EOR--SAL-E.-The subscriber offers for sale, Lot 22, (Jon. 12 of the township of Stan- ley, containing one hundred acres, 83 acres clone cal and. in a good state of cultivation, and good. fences, Wane.17 acres good hardwood bush; one half of clearing seeded down, there will be 13 acres of wheat put in this fall, there is about 3 sexes of a thriving orchard on the premises and a vat iety of fruit trees all now hearing, The farra is well watered, a never failing creek runs through the farm, also two good wells; large bank barn 36 by 60 feet with good stabling under- neath the barn, haat a log dwelling house. The farm is situated within two and a half miles of the 'village of Mayfield. For further partieultns apply to S. MeLEAN, proprietor on the premises or to W. Connor, Baylield P. 0. 672 _ LARGE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, East hall of Lot 4 and Lot 3, Con. 13, Hullett, con- taining 225 acres of land, 180 acres cleated an& nearly free from ,st amps, the hal eine is heavily timbered with beech, maple, elm and basswood, and is first-class, not having been culled ; there are 65 acres in fall wheat, 80 acres newly seeded down and is a good catch; theland is of the finest quality, being, a rich clayloata • the land lays a little rolling, bat not hilly • is watered by a never failing spring croak; there are three and a half a.cres of a young orchard, with apples, pears, Plains, peaches and cherries Past beginning to bear; the buildings are largo and commodious; the bora is 58x60, and is nearly new; the driving house and stable is 40160, and is also new; the house is a.larfae two-story franae, with good stone - collars under the whole building, and is filled be- tween studding with lime and gravel ; the farm is situated 10 miles from Seaforth, 12 from Clinton and 6, from Londesborough ; there is a good gravel road from the place' to all the shove markets; there is a school hei . ae and post office within half a ; a good part of -the purehase =May can remain on mortgage long enough to make it ont of the place. THOMAS ATKINSON, Harlook POSt Office. 567 MAGNIFICENT LAND •STEALING. - HOW A CUNNING ENGLISH SOLIOTOR STOLE' TEN TIMES AS MUCH OUT OP AN ESTATE ASaTHERE WAS IN IT -HOW THE LAND LAWS OF ENGLAND OPEN A DOOR FORFRAUD-CURIOSITIES OF THE BRIT - ISE CRIMINAL LAW. LONDON, Eng., Nov. 3O,]878. In 1867 a solicitor named Frederick Dinasdal, a man of good , rofessional and social standing, was e4iployed to negotiate &loan of £25,000 o ain estate near Croydon, to enable thd owner to build a numher of villas. Dimsdale was solicitor for the mortgagee, and the title deeds were left with him for safe keeping. Twenty-nine very handsome villas were built, but before they could be rented the owner failed, and the estate was in great confusion. Dims - dare then stepped forward, bought . the equity of redemption for £5,000, agree- ing to carry the mortgage and. pay in- terest, extietly as if he were the origin- al owner. He could not retain posses- sion of the title -deeds, of course, but he had the right to the management of the estate, and he collected the rents from the tenants. His plan hadi been well arranged in advance, and instead of- giviug up the real deeds, he hlanded over forged copies. These were very skilfully executed, but apparently be was so completely trusted that there was little or no examination of them: There being no records of any of these transactions, Dinasdalewap now, to all intents and purposes, the absolute owner in fee -simple of an estate worth about £30,000, wholly unencumbered, since .he held the title -deeds thereto. Most men would have been satisfied to have sold the prOperty- Outright for its cash value and eecaped with 9, booty of about £25,000; but Dimsdale had evi- dently resolved upon fax greater gains. The manner in whicli be operated was X'a,poleonic in its audacity. A SIMPLE YET SKILFUL FRAUD. He first caused the title to be trans- ferred to Harriet Meredith, a house !serva,nt who acted as an innocent ac compliee thenceforward,. signing what- ever papers Dinaedale presented to her with a happy indifference to results. 'Then he executed a number of leases for ninety-nine years each to fictitious persons or accomplices. . This kind of lease is frequently used as collateral security for loans,. and, having Made about a dozen Buell duplicate leases for each one of the twenty-nine villas, he was ready to begin business. He sim- ply borrowed - money in any aanount that he could getlit, depositing some of the ninety -nine-year leases as security. His loans ranged from £450 to 228,- 000, the latter -named amount having been loaned by two corporations separ- ately. Dimsdale was net even content to get a reasona,bheamount. The cash value of the estate could not be regard- ed as -much more than 30,000, yet these two money -loaning societies were each induced to lend 228,000 on lease- hold security. This was partly due to the carelessness of the companies, and partly to Dimsdale's cunning. -The coraeanies wereso anxious to lend their money at the high:rate of interest offered by Dimsdale that they did not give close enough attention to , tbe se- curity, but even if they had- instituted inquiries, they might still have been deceived. All the tenants were under pledge to represent, in, answer' to in- quiries, that they were paying from twenty to forty per centum more rent than they Eictua,lly were paying.- It was, of -course, easy to induce them to do this, by . making each one believe that he was specially favored in getting his house cheaper, than his neighbors, and that he should not let them know of his bargain lest they_ shoulcl be dis- satisfied. Inquiries among the tenants, therefore, would only have corroborated Dimsdale's statements as to the income from the property, and the inquirer's notions of the security would, of course, have been correspondingly enhanced. HOW DIMSDALE GATHERED IN HIS GAINS. The total amount obtained by Dims - dale on these- fictitioud leases was never accurately determined, for there were -it was Elwu on the trial -many per- sons swindled who refused to enter complaints. Aware that their money, was hopelessly lost, they preferred. not to acknowledge publicly how foolish and careless they had been. The total amount shown by those who did ap- pear on the record, however, was more than £300;000 -roughly about $1,500- 000. Dimsdale kept up his interest payments regularly, both on the original Mortgage and on his later loens, . and none of holders of the forged pa- per ever suspected that there was the least irregularity in their securities. -There is no telling how long he might have gone on if he had exercised a reasonable degree.of care ; but about a year ago he seemed to become reckless, as if he thought his previous immunity from detection must last forever. He borrowed se extensivelythat- his good I luck was talked about among his brother solicitors very enviously, it be- ing supposed that he must be getting large fees from the rich clients for whom he was making the loans. Sud- denly a, solicitor who had acted for one of the loan -makers was astonished by another client calling upon him in re- ference to the Making of another loan upon exactlythe same security as the former one. Ila.ving once had his sus- picious aroused he acted with great caution and food judgment, and Dims - dale quickly ell into the trap laid for him. Forge y after forgery came to light, until t ere seemed to be no end to them, and Dirntdale had not the shadow of a defence. He had taken the precaution, however, to send his son Clarence and the rest of his family out of England with the great bulk of his ill-gotten gains, so that there was, no hope of getting anything back. All that could be done was to make his punishment the severest that the law • 7./ a owed, and so imprisonment for life as his sentence. ROPERTY AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD. This sentence brings to my mind t at there is apparently a greater re- s ect for the rights of property her than fur the rights of the individual. S ort of downright murder there is s aroely- any limit th the injury an Eng- hman may inflict. on his wife with - O t danger of seriolis punishment. If t e.woman is so beaten and trampled u on as to be seriously anth permanent - 1 disabled, the brute may be Bent to j il for eighteen months -rarely longer, • d often for not more than six naonths. F r ordinary beatings- and bone -break - es not involving lasting injury the s ntences vary from fifteen•days to three onths' imprisonment. If the injured p rson is not the wife of the assailant, t e sentence may be slightly heavier, b t not very much. An instance occurs t me where a man poked out the eye of a business rival with whom he had crt arrelled. I think his sentence was le s than three mouths' -imprisonment. 13 t if the most triviial theft is charged, t ere is a vast difference in the punish- nt. From the tow -healed urchins, a ed from six to tenyears, who became t e special object of the wrath of the c untry Dogberries for stealing turnips o picking flowers in an enclosure, up to t e half -starving street -walker who s atches a, two -and -sixpenny scarf -pin fr m her tipsy companion on the Strand, t e debased Briten is carefully taught b criminal punishment that "lie who ta, es what isn't his'n, when he's caught - m st go to peison." This regard for p perty rights in preference to personal • htfi is so great, that I am doubly Bur- p sed to find that the tenure of proper- ty in land is so, lightly protected and I .an account for the carelessness shown in this Dimsdale matter only on the h othesis that real estate has been re- ded. as 4) sacred, that the idea of fr uds and foreeries in connection there- with was b let° be too much like sac- ril ge to b probable. There is every pr bability that a bill will be intro - d ced at the next business session of P rliament-,-the present one does not co nt-to establish a system of county re 1 ords throughout the United Kingdom. A. B. C. -FIE CANADA PACIFIC !RAILWAY. PR GRESS QF THE WORK FROM WINNI- PEG TO THUNDER BAY -SECTION P1]? - TEEN -WHAT AN OLD HURONITE IS DOING. , special ' orrespoudent of the Mani: to a Free PIre. says: hrough the courtesy of Mr. Charles itehead, the energetic general super - in endent of Mr. Joseph Whitehead's wo k, and Contract 15, we were invited to ccompany him on the construction tr n to Cross Lake, the present tenni- nu of the Cianada Pacific Railway east of innipeg, and the east end of Con- tra t 14;an4 also to make a tour of in- sp ction of the entire contract from Cr ss Lake to Rat portage, a distance of Of miles. We were not promised a ye pleasant or charming trip. But ou desire to become, posted overcame all •hysical scruples a,nd we embarked, ta -mg a reserved seat on the engine. FR M ST. RONIPACE TO SELKIRK JUNCTION A • ista,nce of twenty-two miles, the ru was made in less than an hour over a lil e alm.pst as straight as the bird flie , and as smooth end level as a floor. Th s branch was ballasted and ironed by t r. Whitehead and does credit to his ability and experience in making a tho ough road -bed. From Selkirk to Cr Se Lake, we passed over 78 miles of tin allasted road, but:under the dircum- sta 1 ces it was an easy Ewa safe trip. Alo a the line to within a few miles of the terminus there was here and there a f rm, and then passing through the fax famed Julius Muskeg, we, sped on ove a rocky, mountainous country. rived atethe headquarters bf Mr. Wh tehea,d'se • contract, where there wer offices and buildings private resi- den es, etc., of substantial appearance, and not the usual log huts, but good fra e buildings, & buy scene presented itse . Two'long construction trains, run mg night and day were car- ryin sand. and graiel several miles for heavy trestle falling, being supplied. by ponderous steam shovel. We were at o ce struck by the organization and syst m everywhere apparent on this wor . Not a. moment was wasted in load g and unloading the cars and the hugi banks gave way rapidly -to the enoro. ous machine at every dip of the sho el. A more complete and satisfac- tory combination of forces in such wor cannot be imagined. INTO THE WILDERNESS. tet leaving the end of the track one rnay be said to plunge into the wilder- ness Passing over Cross Lake, the eye mee s with mound after mound of im- pene rable 'rock, and the dark grey cres s of many high hills stretch away itt t e dista.nde„ covered by a stunted gro th of spruce and sage bush. There are •o signs of vegetation, and it is a case of energy or starvation with the towe animals, who dine upen other prod ctions cif the earth than the abov mentioned. Here at pnce the imm -nse diffiqulties, of Conti -ea 15 are visib e to the most careless observer, and o the inexperienced in. such mat- ters _he obsta4les seem at first glance to he insurmountable. The deep pas- sage cut through the mountains of gra i e and forced into the rock paved valle s and sWamps below seenisto have been a task years, and yet at the first utting-we approach, our eyes are omething about building open d to the nodus operandi, and we begi to learn a rail oad through a rock-bound terri- tory., Before leaving the first cutting, we w give the reader the result of a few i i quiries we made of our compan- ion n regard to this section of the Cane a Pacific Railroad, and explain some of the difficulties of commencing and 'ushing the work. . We learned that lae work was begun in February, 1877, when the line, as marked out b the engineers wasi uncleared, though th chopping had been done. During tha winter there was the transportatio was only accom and enormous ex not even be obta cept at exorbit they reached Fifteen it was like dinin on gold dust and diamonds, though n premium was -offered for light eater It was almost next to impossible t transport heavy p ant, and how some o p[ ant, large boilers and pieces of heav machinery ,ever reached the points a which they are lopated, is still a mys tety to the -writer. But the energy perseverance and determination of th contractor overcame even the mos' t dis the work with less thon 250 me th couraging difficultiee, and "comlacin number has gradually increased? unti a pay -roll of ovee 1,500 men is i mad out each month. : The work was push ed ahead at enormous expense but wit unswerving fidelity. Since February 1877, over 3,000,090 cubic yards of soli rock have been removed, principally b hand drills and that most powerful o modern agentsltro glycerine. W understand there at,' recently been pu on the work some, 18 steam drills an steam hoists, betides an additional steam shovel, which is also ' kept run ning night and day, and in answer to question put to M. Whitehead he esti mated the a,mount of plant,. now em ployed at $250,000; the greater part o which was transported at a prodigiou cost. These stea drills, boilers, etc. in could not be got p to the workuutil th cars reached Crds Lake, although the were for months -lying at Winnipeg an along the line o railway before th road was in con tion to carry them through. but. little snow, and of plant and supplies lisbed by great labor ense. Supplies could ed iir Winnipeg ex- nt prices,-: and when ON THE °CONTRACT. We are too chartable, and have too much of the milk f human kindness in our compositions lo ask our readers to follow us for thel three long days we climbed the rocks struggled and stum- bled through swa, ps and undergrowth, and plodded over the wild passes of thie pottion of our great Canada Pacific Rail- way. We will look over the pilgrimage, and stopping once hi a while to rub a swollen joint or pet a rock -grown blister we will leave the rugged retrospect and. cull from our notes a few pertinent points. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEN. The entire contract is divided into three divibions, western, central and. eastern, "each division having its superintendent who is a, thoroUghly practical man. Next in authority Comes the foremen, all under the guidance of the general , superintendent of the work, Mr. Charles Whitehead, and chief engineer, Mr. II. N. Ratan, who travel constantly over the entire coutra,ct and keep a watch- ful eye on everydepartment. Lt is only in winter that there is any chance of riding or driving over the work. At any other time the engineers and Superin- tendents are compelled to walk the entire distance, there being no chance to use a horse. Each cutting ia so or- ganized and arranged that the contrac- tor knows at the end of each month what has been accomplished, and so perfect is the system that were each cut sublet the management could not be more closely looked into. From forty to fifty men are in each gang, and their camps are close at hand, being built at regular distance. along the line, and at the different stations, where reside the Government Engineers, there are stores where goods can be purchased as cheaply as in Winnipeg. An immense number of fine looking horses are employed. on the works, and one following the train as it winds along the base of a hill is often surprised. to see a horse standing fax aboVe the ob- server's head, apparently alone in the are seventeen lakes d, but some of the em are almost im- wilderness. There along the line of roa portages between t passable except in winter. They are very beautiful water stretches, however, though of but little use to the contrac- tor except when frozen over. If we could put a prairie farm into every other one of them, it would be a great thing for this part of the railroad. In the face of enormus cost of trans- portation, high wages, expensive plant, such as steel -large quantities of which we saw along the line -the work has been successfulltr pushed. forward, each succeeding month showing greater pre: .gress and improving the general facili- ties for the completion of the work. No doubt the i cost of this portion of the Canada Pacific Railroad has been en- ormous, but by experience, careful an.d economical - management, and a wise distribution of the forces at hand, the contractor has kept within limits and saved himself from loss. Judging from what has already been accomplished under such surprising disadvantages, it is evident Mr. Whitehead knows pre- cisely what he has undertaken, and understands his resources and respon- sibilities, and it is not improbable, that with his experience he knows the mar- gin he has to go upori, and will be able to accomplish the completion ,rof the contract with advs. tage to himself. Now that there is re; road communica- tion nOt only to Win ipeg, but to his contract, the ,:progre s of the work is comparatively easy. It is estimated that witliethe prese t force employed and witlrJi the modern appliances in machineey, etc, all the rock work will be done by the early jart of next July. This part of the w rk done the com- pletion of the contraet is a comparative- ly easy matter, and 1 depend largely upon the force of mexi employed. We understand Tut. NEXT CONTRACT, SIXTEEN, as it is called now, is even worse than -fifteen has been, espeeially for the first fortyter 'fifty miles, aid the difficulties of getting in supplies and plant will be something appalling. However, the work ittrist be done, and let us hope the contract Will fall into as good hands as it was the good fortune of the Govern- ment to place "fifteen," for ]heavy capital, thorough experience, and indomitable energy and nerve will be required in the accomplishment f the work. Now comes the pleasant part of our journey. After toils and dangers we are offered. the use of a dog train mild are promised a quick trip from Keewatin to headquarters. From lake to lake we have a smooth and.comfortable trip and. no hard work. The silence and. ' enot- ony will only be invaded -by the hoice curses of the deg driver and the occa- sional yelp of the dogs; but the writer will recline upon the buffalo robe e and not care a cent so long as the tohoggan keeps right side up and aeciden s are avoided. • Canada. -There 'are 672patientsin the Lue natio Asylum, Toronto, at present. ----A Toronto firm is bout st rting a very extensive biscuit manufac ory itt Montreal. -Mr. Woodburn, of McGillivr y, has been employed as principal in the Thedford School for 1879. -Mr.Sohn Murdock,of Plymptmre- cently lost his three children by diph- theria,, two of thern being buried on the same day. --e-The Mayor of Kingston gave a Christmas dinner to the inmates pf the Penitentiary, Asylum and House of Industry. -Thos. Scott, of London, was bottiacl in $1,000 bail of thepeace, at the Po- lice Court, on the complaint of his wife that he had threatened her life. * -The Conservatives of Kingsten are mystified about $10,000 of which they cannot get any trace, but which, tumor has it, was circulated about election day. -Mr. George Sleeman, of Guelph, has completed tbe erection of a brewery for the manufacture of lager -beer. The building, exclusive of machinery, has cost over $8,000. -Day before Christmas in Ottawa 700 loaves of bread, 500 pounds of meat, 80 gallons of soup, and some luxuries, Con- tributed by a number of citizens, were distributed among 380 poor families of Lower Town. -An interesting event in Toro tO on Christmas Day was 50 reformeddrunk- ards sitting down to a bountiful dinner of the orthodox roast beef and 'plum pudding, provided by the ladies o the Temperance Union. • . -At Montreal the Street Co AB III s - sumer employs a gang of men to brow the heaps of snow which have been piled up alongside the pavements into the middle of the road, thus m king the sleighing more even. -The County Council of Elgi are going to petition the Government • do away with the long summer holid ys itt the public schools and ha,vevacation re- duced to two weeks. Shortsi Med policy, gentlemen, don't do it. -The inquest upon the body of Mr. Patton, of London, who died in 14 on- treal, has resulted in a verdict weich, in effect, means that the decease, died. cf grief. The medical evidence sh•wed that the deceased had taken niorpa inc. -The Great Western Railway ore- pany has recently granted free p sses, good for thirty days, to all the emp oyes of the line who wish to avail t em - selves of the offer. , Over five hu dred such passes have already been isued along the road. -The Rev. Father John Macdo iald, of Glengarry, is the oldest prie t itt North America, his age being ni • ety- seven years, and the years of his p jest, hood being seventy-three. He is and has been a total abstainer all his r -It is stated in the Boston fl raki that orders from England have bee se- cured for 100,000 broom handles. an - adieus should. not only make all the broom handles they need but ake their full share in supplying the ar- kets of Great Britain and Ireland. -The clergy of St. Patrick'sChujrcli, Quebec, are making an active warion I dune novels and trashy literatur of that kind. A quantity of the tuff found in the possession of their pa ieh- ioners has been recently consigne to the flames, some of it having been nly borrowed. -The Minister of Public Works at Ottawa, it is said, has received several thousand applications for employ/la ritl Many of the applicantsamblushingl as- - sert that they were promised emp oy- ment if they supported the Conse va- tive party, should it be returned to power. - • -There are 55 post offices in M ni- toba, 8 in the Northwest Territo •es, and 3 in the. District of Keewatin. Of the Manitoba offices, 15 are in Lis ar, 24 in Marquette, and 8 each in P ov- encher and Selkirk. There are wo money order offices -Winnipeg nd Portage la Prairie. -A wealthy resident of Pictou he other day distributed to twenty fam es each 40 pounds flour, 25 pounds co meal, 12 pounds beef, a pound of r is - ins and half a pound of tea,. lf mor: of the wealthy citizens throughout the o - minion would exercise a similar lib r- ality, the suffering in poor fana' es would be greatly alleviated. -St. Thomas was first settled in 1810, became a village in 1825, !I d grew slowly until' its incorporation in 1853, when it had 1,300 inhabita • s. In 1866 these lad increased tci 1,7 but on the opening of the Cana Southern Railway it developed into stirring town, gas and water works w iiantroonl7,o. duocedo, oand now it claims a po ti -411 the charitable institutions Toronto such as the Ho of Industry, the Girls' Horne, the Boys' Home, the Horne for Incura- bles, the House of Providence, the Magdalene Asylum, the Newsboys' Home, and the Protestant Orphans' Home had a gala day on Christmas, sumptuous dinners being provided, and in some instances the walle decorat d 0 a a N re m tee a ea li se t ft) fe a with evergreens, mottoes, &c. Si ilar favors were dispensed at the Central Prison, the Gaol, the Lunatic Asylum, arid the Hospital. -A Galt bus driver has invented. a charcoal stove for heating covered. con- veyances. The stove takes little room, is not expensive, and. makes the vehicle comfortable. 1 -There have been three births and fifteen deaths in the Waterloo Poor House during the past year, the'average ages of those who died being eighty- one years. , -The snatching of valuable caps from the heads of gentlenaen and ladies in the street, which was so cominonly practised. in Montreal last winter, has again commended, several parties being victims lately. • -A Kindergarten school has been es- tablished. in Berlin by Mrs. Stanton with the assistance of Miss Gerbig, a young lady from Germany. The pu- pils are all between the ages of three and six years. -Mr. Fletcher, the Principal of the Winnipeg city schools, has 'resigned his position, he having failed to pass the necessary Provinzial examination, al- though holding the highest grade On- tario certificate. -Mr. R. Graham, of Pine River, Huron township, was presented by his pupils with a beautiful writing desk and gold pen, on the occasion of his re- tiring from the school in that section, where he had labored faithfully for three i years. -The Rev. Dr. Topp's congregation of Knox Church, 'Toronto, have called Rev. A. M. Mellingen, M. A., fbrrnerly of Constantinople, as assistant, with only one dissenting voice. Dr. Topp gives up half of his salary of $5,000 to him. , -Mt. P. A. Tremblay, M. P: for Charlevoix, publishes a letter stating that he believes his earthly career is about drawing to a close. He asks for- giveness frona those he has unintention- ally wronged. in tpaym.anner, and forgives all his enemies.1 -A woman named Hester Wools -on whose husband deserted. her two years ago, was fined $5 for keepnag a disor- derly house at Hamilton. Th7e evidence was that she seals seen to be kissed by one of the men for whom she washed. without makingiany objection. - John Tennant, Esq., an old and much respected. resident pf the town- ship of Brantford, died at his residence on Sunday moriaing,22nd Dec. Mr. Ten- nant was a Scotchman by birth, a staunch Reformer and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. =The publication of the New Do- minion, Monthly magazine, ceased with the Christmas number, It has been a losing investment, the magazine being too good for the price, and never from its commencement, eleven years ago, did it pay expenses. -The yourg man employed by Mr. H. R. Parsons, Waterloo, who was so severely blistered a few days .ago by tbe premature explosion of a quantity of gunpowder in his coat-tail pockets,: is rapidly recovering. It is said. that he never before knew how difficult it was to sit down under certain circum- stances. -A few days ago while Mr. R. Rob- inson was assisting at a " raising " on the farm of Mr. Page, of Grand Bend, he was severely hurt by a stick of tim- ber falling and striking him on the head and shoulders, knocking him senseless: He soon sufficiently revived, however, to be taken home, and nothing serious is apprehended. . -A few weeks ago Mr. Winters. of North Harvey, in Perborough County, killed two large bears near -Squaw River, after a hard tussel witb one of them. After the bear was wounded they had a regular wrestling match, Mr, Winters never leaving his hold of its throat till it became exhausted from loss of blood, when he despatched it. • -An enterprising -Guelph Boy of eleven years purchased a horse the other day for $1.50 and after borrowing a set of harness and a sleigh, weFiat to work to make naoney for the Christmas holidays by drawing 'wood into town. He is making a dollar a day oii an average, besides having a " real live horse all his own."' The "other boys" are envious. -Says the Orillia Pack -et: " It is stated that Mr. Cook sent -a present of a. case of choice brandy a few days ago .to one of his enthusiastic supporters in East Simcoe, but some bibulonsfriend.s, discovering the destination and • na- ture of 'the easel' broached the con- tents, and sadly diminished the quan- tity in drinking to , the health of the generous donor." -John Parker, a Nova Scotian, has a curiosity in the shape of a hall cow and half moose ; the part from the shoulders backward- is fornied like a, moose, and the head from the end of cal engineers in Canada, has accepted a lucrative situation on the Chicago, alichigan and Lake Shore Road, and will enter upon his duties with the ed, and who is one of the best mechani- on the Great Western and Port Stan- ley Railways ever since they were open - England. Brook, Antigonish, and will be sent to is also moose. Its actions raised by Allan McAdaine Bailey's are those of a, Wild animal. It was the nostrils to aorpss the eyes, e_Nmiarg.ar Jae- seph ew Year. Mr. Harrison was the first an who crossed the Suspension Bridge -Mr. Wm. Harrison, who has been Aftl hand, of the 4th ne Warwick, was agreeably surprised. he other day by having his daughter, ho had been away from her - friends r twenty years, return home, where ho was received with the warmest , fa- ction by her people. She has been in etroit the greater part of the time, nd has been married twelve years. &lig rather young when she left home, he had forgotten her parents' address, - McLEAN 13ROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. • and it was through the correspondence of a physician of her acquaintance in. Detroit, with Dr. Harvey, of Watford, that she was enabled. to find them. -Conspicuous amongst the guests at the at people's dance, recently held at Belleville; was an active sprightly dame ttho tips the beam at 300 lbs. -It is reported that the portion of Windsor known as the Dougal farm, -which includes some of the best bnikl- ings in the town, is to be claimed by 801318 heirs in. France, who inherited it from an ancestor who had a clear deed. for it before it came into the hands of the Dougals. But the Dougals and their successors have had undisputed possession of it for so many years, that they will most likely be able to hold it against all claimants. -The Free Grant Gazette chronicles the death of Mr. Samuel Holditch, at the advanced. age of 82 years. He ar- rived in Muskoka about 15 years age, settledin the township of Mouck, and took up about 1,000 acres of land, the, northern part of that township being then an -unbroken solitude. He has lived to see smiling farms -and all the evidence of agricuitural civilization sur- rounding him, and leaves a numeronS family -to mourn his loss. -The leading inhabitants of New Hamburg aneWelleslev, met s, few days ago, and decided to establish a beet root sugar manufactory in the for- mer place, and $96,000 were subscribed. for that purpose. Messrs. Samuel and Fred. Merner and J. G. Reimer, were appointed to interview the Ontario Government with reference to the se- curing of a grant of money,. A firm in Boston, it is stated, has offered the SLIM of $50,000 to assist in -establishing this manufactory. -An employee of a company in 'Mon- treal was given 575 to buy a lot of tur- keys for the use of his fellow -employees . on Christmas Day. He went to St. Hyacinthe, and to forestall other pur- chasers met the habitants outside of the town and purchased the required. num- ber, taking them to St. Hyacinthe sta- tion. He was there arrested, and his turkeys confiscated, for purchasing off the market. He was fined $20, besides losing all the turkeys. -stiAbout 8 o'clock last Friday night two'young couples left Bearesville for a drive in the country. The horse at- tached to the cutter in which were Mr. Marrs -and Miss Annie Cornwall, took fright and ran to one side of the road, - upsetting the cutter and throwing the occupants againet the fence. The other cutter came up and picked up the young lady, bleeding from cuts in the face- and insensible, and in this condi- tion she was brought to a cloctor'elance, where she died in about an hour. • -An accident occurred on a rail- way train in Colchester County, Nova Seotia, which is worthy of mention. A man under the influence of liquor 'Went to the door of the first-class car, and. While there the train_ commenced ITIOV- ing somewhat suddenly and ,threw him off his balance. Hewas about falling between the two ears when - a, lady sitting itt a seat near the car door sprang and seizing him by the coat, held him till help arrived and the man was rescued from his perilous position. Had it not been for the woman's pres- ence of mind and pluck the Mall would. in all probability have fallen between the cars and been killed. Her we believe, is Mrs. Shaffer, and she deserves honorable mention. -On Christmas morning, a, eon. of Mr. McKinnon, of the Elgin Hotel, of Kincardine, met with a very severe ac- cident, from -which he now lies in a pre- carious condition. It appeare he went into the stable to see if the horsee had hay, and entering the stall beside a horse owned by a Mr. Grant, the animal struck him with his fore feet, knocking him down and trampling upon him, tearing a piece of the scalp, near- ly as large as the hand, loose, and crushing in the skull. Happily the lad, who is only about 11 years old, retain- ed sufficient consciousness to crawl up over the manger and make his way into the house, but how he did. so is mirac- ulous. The poor lad has been very 'un- fortunate -with horses, as this is the fourth time he has been under the doctor's care owing to accidents by. horses. -In the month of April last a car load of plows, made by the South Bend Iron Works Company, of Indiana, mine into Canada, and, were entered at the port of Sarnia. Following this, Cana- dian foundrynaen in the vicinity where they were offered became aware that they were being alarmingly undersold in this line of manufacture. Recently seven more car loads of the same make of plows were entered at Stratford, and the unfair competitioia increased, of course. The knowledge that there was a screw loose somewhere came to the ears of Mr. T. C. Mewburn, Inspector �f Custonas for Ontario, who, on ferret- ing out the case, found that the plows had been entered at a startling under- valuation. It seems the party to whom • they were consigned was a relative of one of the proprietors of the South Bend Iron Works Company. He re- fused to have the invoiced price raised to a fair figure, even on the urgent re- quest of the appraiser at Stratford. Mr. Mewburn secured the services of Messrs. Cossitt, of Guelph, and Thomp- son, of Messrs. Copp Brothers, Hamil- ton, who made a careful appraisement of the plows and affured. their lowest value at thirty per cent more than the invoices showed. The goods which had. been entered at $8,000 were thus found to be worth lf,12,000. Upon. the whole duty thus increased, which had paid a fine of fifty per centwas levied, and the upshot of the matter was that the South Benders, who had originally paid some $500, had. to pay in all about $1,400, which does not include alt the °oats of the case, which were also levied. The importers are doubtless wiser if not sadder men.