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'oak aad Seal Sets.
rEt LOT -The Balance of Child-
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E LOT -The Balance of Ladies'
bias and Opera Shawls.
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d Children's Hosiery and Gloves.
CTII LOT -The Balance of Dress.
immings, Fringes and Buttons.
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BUFFALO ROBES to Clear.
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WHOLE NUMBER, 580.
SEAFORTH FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1879.
McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
$1.50a Yea,r, in Advance.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE._
paonnfav FOR SALE. -For Sale, that eon-
▪ venient aud desirable residence on the corner
of High and Market Streets, lately oecupied by
Dr. Vercoe. Apply t� DR. VERCOE. -488
0R S a -ha -I. -For Sale a first class Planing
-1-* Mill, nearly new and in good running order,
situated in the flourishing Town- of Seaforth,
wni be sold cheap. Terms easy. Enquire of
SECORD, COSSENS & CO., Goderieli, Ont.
FORSALE. -The subscriber has for sale a 50
_
aorelot in the township of Mel(illop, County of
Huron, 20 acres are cleared and the balance well -
timbered with beech and. maple. The property
will be sold cheap. pply to ,TAS. H. BENSON,
Solicitor, Seaforth, Ont. 517
VARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot No. 5, Bay-,
field Concession, Goderieh Township, con-
taining 85 acres, 50 of which are cleared and ip a
good state of coltiaation. The farm is adjoining
the village of Baytield, and will be sold cheap,and
on favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor,
SOHN GOVENLOCK. 524
/1110ICE FARM FOR SALE-Bein„a Lot 4,
• Con. 7, Hallett, County of Baron; 100 &ores ;
80 cleared, well underdrained, and in a good state
of aaltivationa buildings convenient and good;
terms easy. For further particulars apply to
Messrs.McCAUG KY &HOLMESTED, Seaforth,
or on the premises to WM. E. COLDWELL. Con-
stance P. O. 555
ATALUIBLEETAiii-fo
* the east half of Lot No. 4, Con. 4, H. R. S.,
Tuekersmith, County of Huron, consisting of 50
acres, 8f miles from. the Town of Seaforth, and
tonvenient to school. The land is of the very
bst quality. For further parthiulare apply to
JAMES PICKARD, opposite the premises, or to
Egmondville P. 0.524
_
VARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 11, Con. 3,
-I- H. R. S., Tuckersmith, containing 50 sores,
about 40 of which are cleared, weil fenced and
under good cultivation. No buildings. Is within
one mile and a half of Seaforth, on the Grand,
Trimk, and 6 miles from Kippeu, on the Great
Western. A good aaravel road leading to each
pvliafee, Apply, to C. B. VANEGMOND, Egmont'',
i
575
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VARM FOR -SALE OB, EXCHANGE. --The un-
dersigned has 99 Dazes in the township of
Tuniberry, 3 miles from. Wingham., which he will
sell or excba.na°e for a small farm in the neighbor-
hood of Seaforth or Bru.oefield This is a valuable
timber lot, there being excellent pine, -hemlock,
cedar and some black ash. It is within 200 rods
of a first-elass SAW will, and one mile from a rail-
way siding. Apply to A. STRONG, Land. Agent,
Seaforth. _579
VARM FOR SALE. -For -Sale, West half of
Lot 9, Cora 9, Hallett, containing 50 acres, 40
acres are well cleared, Aithout sumps, and in a
good state of cultivationabr ing well owlet-11min-
ed on the premises there is a new frame house,
22;32, frame barn an d twcarframe stables, also a
good bearing orchard and inevor-failing well with
pump. Considerable fall,Plowing done; also fall '
wheat sown. Apply to DAVID HILL, on the
premises. or to Constance P. 0. -- 5734.
_
TI*ROPERTY FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 14,
COD 16, Gray; West half of Lot 29, Con. 6,
with cheese factory complete -, Lot 11, Col. 6,
arid south half of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 5, town-
ship of Morris ; Lot 22, Con. B, and Lot 28, Con.
11, township of Howiek, all good improved farms,
togetb. wit everoa 50 acre farms in Grey and
Morr' , and honses and lots and Vacant lots in
the vi lege of Brussels, Prices low, terms easy,
and title good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Brus-
sels. 574
VA.R1s1 FOR SALE. -For Stile, that most &sir -
able farm, being Lot 1, Con. 6, in the town-
ship of Hallett, situated 1 miles from EKinburn.
and 6 miles from Seaforth. There are excellent
buildings on the premises, including a first-class
stone house, two storey, 80 by 40 feet. A spring
ere& rails through the farm ; good orchard, good
fences, and the land in an excellent state of oul-
tivation. Apply on the premises to SAKES Me-
MICH AFL, or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Sea-
- forth. 562
A Speech to Grangers.
At the opening of a new Grange Hall,
a f4w evenings ago, in the township of
Ya mouth, county of Elgin, the Rev.
of
su
F. Clark of Lynden Bank, delivered
ost excellent and interesting address
which the following is a very full
mary
ij He rejoiced at being at the opening
aof their new Grange Hall, for he was
° 1Ways pleased to see signs of stable
p esperity in an order whith was meant
fo the development of speiality and
ood feeling, and of the multiplication
of thc charms of home and neighbor-
hood. (cheers.) He felt that he was
almost at home in this part of the coun-
try. It was in the adjacent township of
Westminster that he had taken his
first lessons in farming, and when he
realized how long that was ago he felt
that he must be a very old man. It
VARM FOR SALE. --That well-known arid fine-
-1; ly situated farm, Lot 1, Oen. 1, Hallett, in the
County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 of
which are cleared; there are two frame dwelling
houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house
and &riving house; also orchard and abundance of
water. The farm is situated two miles from the
Town of Seaforth, onthe Hill011 Road. For full
particulars apply tomccAuGToTy & 110LME:
STED, Seaforth, or to SIMON YOUNG, proprie-
tor, on the premises. 553-4x
(TAMABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale,
T Lot 11, Con. 8, H. E. S., Tuckersmith, con-
tainiug 100 acres, 9U of whie,h are cleared and in
a good,state of cultivation, being well underdrain-
ed, the halance.is good hardwood bush. Good
stone house, fraine barn and stables ; well watered,
and good, bearing orchard. Is situated about 5
miles from Seaforth and Bracefteld, and 8t from
Kippen. School cloae by, and all other conveni-
ences. For further particulars apply to DAVID
MOORE. on the premises, or to Egraondville
P.0. r 543
VALUABLE FIRM P011 SALE. -For Sale the
-West half of Lot 27, Con. 3, Mergillop, con-
'adning 50 acres, known as the Deigle estate. This
• arra is situated within one mile and a quarter of
deaforth. The laud .is of the eboicest quality.
There is .a handsome residence aud good outbuild-
ings-. The farm is well planted with fruit and or-
nun:rental trees, is in excellent order, and well.
fenced. Itis admirably suited for a retired _gen.-
tleman„ a dairy -man, or market gardener. Terms
easy.. This property must be solki at once. Apply
to A. STRONG, Seaforth. . 539
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VARM•IN MoKILLOP FOR SALE. -For Sale,
the North part of Lots 8 and 9, Con. 13, Me -
Killer), containing 112 acres; there ore about 80
cleared, well fenced, undi3rdrained, and in abigh
state ot oaltivation, the balance is well timbered
with hexawood ; good dwelling, new bank frame
yarn 501(56, with stabling underneath, and other
outbuildings ;also a good young orchard and plenty
or water. Is 10miles from. Brussels, 5 from Wal-
ton, and 12 from Seaforth, with good gravel roads
to each place; cotivenient to ober& and schools;
will be sold as a whole- or in two parts. Apply to
Walton P, O. or to the proprietor On the •prem -
es. WILLIAM DYNES. • 547
Jj0TEL FOR SALE, -For St4e or to Rent,
for a term of years, the BMW:ay Hotel in the
Village of Dublin.. ,This hotel is situated in the
roost central and beet business part of the vil-
lage, being- 'adjoining the railway station, the new
mitl, the planing milIa saw mill and salt block,
also opposite the stores of klessra. Joseph Kidd and
Thomas -King. There- are -ten comfortable bed
rooms upstairs, besides sitting, dining, bar and
other rooms. Also first-class sheds and stabling,
and all other necessary accommodations and con-
veniences. Possession given ist of April. Apply
personalty to JOHN McCONNELL, Proprietor, or
to:THOMAS KING, Dublin. 580
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'ARM FOB. SALE. -The subscriber offers for
-1; sale Lot 22, Con. 12 of the township of Stan-.
ley, containing ono hundred acres, 83 acres clear
ed and in good state of cultivation, and good
fences, balance 17 acres good hardwood bush;
oue half of clearing seeded clown, there will be 18
acres of wheat put ° in this fall, there is about 8
acres of a thriving orchard on the premises and
a vas iety of fruit trees all now bearing. The farm
is well watered, a uever failing creek runs
through, the farm, also two good wells, large bank
born UG. by 60 feet with good. stabling under-
neath the_"barn, and a log dwelling house. The
farm id situated within two and a half miles of
the village of Bayfield. For further particulars
apply to McLEAN, proprietor on the premises
or to W. Connor, Bayfield P. 0. 672
WANTED.
A PPRENTICES WANTED. -Wanted inime
diately, two apprentices to theDressmaking
business. Apply .to MISS _ROGERS, near tha
residence of Mr. C. M. Dunlop, Seaforth. 578x3
TEACHER WANTED - Wanted, for School
Section No. 11, in the township of Grey, a
Male Teacher, holding a second or third-class
certifieate. Applications, with. certificate, stat-
ing salary, to be addressed to JAMES SPENCE,
Ethel P. 0. A persona 1 application would be
Preferred. , 577x4
TENDERS WANTED. -Tenders will be ceisecl up to Febrnary lst, 1879, by the Trus-
tees of Sehool Section No. 8, MoKillop, for the
erection of a Frame School House. Plans and
Specifications can be seen at H. Wietersen's.
The Trustees do not bind themselves to aooept
the lowcat or any tender. lia,NRY WIETER-
SEN, Secretary of Trustees, Broadhagen. 580-1
ac
in the year 1839 that his father,
n living in London, bought a farm
Albert Odell -known &sold Uncle
rt. There he.! (Mr. Clark) • hotight
paid for his experiences in bush
ing.- Himself and brothers were
boys in the old country, and. it
s very little they knew about country
of any sort. He well remembered
day when, with his next brother,
y shouldered their axes and waded
oss the Thames to 'Make their first
est ay at chopping. Each picked out his
tr e, but at the first blow his (the speak -
ell ) axe glanced and struck into his (cheers).. True p
le t leg -a circumstance that damped thing of conventi
hi courage not a little (laughter.) This the outward e
la, d him. up for several days, but he ness and benevol
mastered the use of the axe in time, was all there was
ad in the course of two years he could cultivatable. He
del as much chopping and clearing as usually had three
any lad of his age. He ever looked always helped the
back to his work on the farni'as of the even when guests
I
greatest benefit to hint in the hard men- was not true p
tel labors of after life. He believed however humble,
thjat he never would have been a sue- first consideratio
cessful public speaker butnfor the ex- curred to him, au
ercise of his voice in driving oxen (laugh- the benefit of boy of twelve or thir-
ter). Their first yoke were bought from teen. He was at dinner at a farm
Wm. Niles, and they were the,best at house one day, and while there was
lo&ging bees in the whole country plenty of fat pork jat the table, the only
a und. But, like many another young tempting dish we, ra bowl of sbrawber-
m la his attention was diverteri from ries and cream. j There was many a
t e farm -and he didn't see any reason wistful eye cast at that dish (laughter)
w y , the young men of the country and he must co fess that he looked
s ould not aspire to any position in the wistfully at it li." self (renewed laugh -
la d (cheers). His next brother went ter). The eldest 9f the family -a lad
to college too, and became a doctor. He of 12 or 13-devol4recl his first dish in
is now a member of the Ontario Legis- great haste, and it was soon seen why
la ure, and represents one of the ridings (laughter.) He r ached for the bowl
o Norfolk. The doctor had no particu-
1 agricultural tastes, but he (Mr.Clark) ,
h d. Yet he considered it his duty to -1
gi e himself up to the only . other occu-
p tiou which he considered. greater; so
he left for college to prepare himself for
the ministry. About eighteen years ago
hl, began to do something iu the -way of
a ricultural editing, in the columns of
t e Montreal Witness. It was always
his intention at some time to go 'back
[
on the farm, andwhen his Jiealth fail-
ed two years ago he tookthat step -
chiefly at that particular time because
his medical advisers urged it. Now he
1 8,4 the laird of Lyndon Bank (cheers
d laughter). He found out very soon
ough, that it was very different work
rming on land and farming on paper
aughter). The book farmer is always
fair mark for the shafts of criticism,
d he was not spared. An old Scotch -
was going to see what he would
' tek' o' scienteefic farming.' An old
Englishman was going to 'zee what we
4,11 zee;' and a third man was going to
give him just two years to get tired of
it (cheers). Well, he had nothing to
gret so far; he was not badly disap-
inted (cheers). He saw it anffounced
at he (Mr. Clark) was to deliver on
at evening au address on agriculture,
t at such gatherings the people were
ways in for social entertainment;
erefore he would talk in a free and
sy way and. make what the ministers
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neighber-with whom he had previous-
ly lived on intimate terms -that Her
Majesty having been pleased to put him
upon the Commission of the Peace the
two fanailies could not be expected to
associate as they had done hitherto
(laughter.) In the old country, as Mr.
Spairgeon had humorously said, the
shilling will not speak'to the sixpence,
nor the sixpence to the threepence, nor
the threepence to the penny. This
ought not to be in Canada,. We want
more sociality, and especially we want
it amongst the fa ming °lase (cheers).
He was much surprised a few years age
.in looking over the statistics of lunacy
.in the United Stat
the largest proport
asylums were fro
and the fact was
isolated habit of li
ness which the
this was the case,
make a strong e
(cheers). The G-
aud elevate and e
of the speakers ha
tends to roughness
rusticity implies
He (Mr. Clark) di
was any necessit
didn't thinkit was
he had gone thr
during the past th
s to find that by far
on of inmates of the
the farming class,
attributed to their
fe and the morose -
habit generated.. If
hen farmers should
ort to break it up
ange aims to refine
noble farnalife. One
I. said that farming
,. and the very term
want of politeness.
n't think that there
for this, and he
really true. Wherever
ughout the country
ee months, upon his
lecturing tom- am ing farmers, he found
the genuine thing -true courtesy
liteness -was not a
nal fornas., It was
pression of kind -
nee of heart. That
f it,and it was eagily
new one farmer who
en -servants, and. he
cn first at the tab e,
were present.. This
liteness, for gneses,
re deserving of the
Ohe incident -60-
he would tell it for
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c lled a tea -meeting speech. He cone
atulated the Grangers of the neigh-
borhood on having the enterprise to
build a hall, and so neat and conveni-
t a hall too (cheers). A certain preach -
once said. that he liked everything
a out the new church except that they
ad retained the old 'sleepers' (laugh -
t r). He liked the hall very well, but
f r one thing; he didn't like that store -
r ona and perhaps he would tell them
hy before be sat down. He eupposed
t at there were, many people present
ho were not Grangers, and so he
ould say something about the objects
o the institution. It had long been
f it that there was a lack of organization
mongst farmers, and also lack
opportunities for the friction of
na with mind. Something of this
as inseparable from farm life, but
ore of it was owing to the circum -
Fences over which they had control.
>on't farmers isolate themselves More
t an there is occasion? Don't they do
i in building their houses so far back
om the public road? The only ghost
1 a reason for this is that they want to
O convenient to all parts of the farm.
ut their friends and neighbors would
Certainly call oftener to spend. a few
inutes if the dwelling house was near-
-r the highway, and they worild them-
. elves see friend and. neighbors as they
assed. (hear, hear). He was sorry, too,
o see it caste feeling growing up
mongst farmers, though perhaps this
as not so much the case here as in
ther parts of the country. Some that
e knew discarded the name of farmer
and called themselves retired gentle-
olleS (laughter). Some others assumed
1 he prefix gentleman by way of distinc-
ore than one generation of th.ese, for
ion, -as Gentleman Bates to dis-
inguish himself from Well -digger Bates
laughter.) But there was seldom
the young folks were sure to make for
the towns -the boys must go into busi-
ness and. the professions, and the girls The St. Thoinas !Ione Journal, to
hope to make catches (laughter). He which we are indebted for the above re -
(Mr. Clarke) had occasion many years
go, when he lived. in London, to go
ut into Adelaide township, where so
any half -pay officers had settled.' One
f these was made a magistrate, and. he
elt so proud. over it that he told his
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and helped hit
in fact he
self a second
self liberally, and
ad helped him-
ime • before any, of
the others were ready (more laughter.)
Well, lie (Mr. Cla k) thought there was
f
small chance of iis getting any straw-
berries and onenat that table if the
rest of the family were as -unmannerly
at this fellow. But he was agreeably
mistaken; the eldest was the only im-
polite ono of the family. 1-hestory had
its moral. We must endeavor to make
farha life more attractive if we are to
retain our boys and girls there (cheers.)
Whatever is really good in city life
should be transferred to country homes.
Courtesy is a real charm, and should
_manifest itself on all occasions. One
form of it there is frequent opportunity
to exemplify in show time, and especially
in the crowded railway cars. How of-
ten do we see ladies standing, while
overgrown boys are comfortably seated..
This should never be. True respect for
woman would never tolerate it (cheers.)
After referring to the work of the
Grange in promoting scientific farming,
and theiraining it affords in business
habits and Public speaking, he spoke of
the necessity of farmers having a larger
representation in Parliament. The
country was rapidly increasing in ex-
penditure, and more farmers were need-
ed .in the Legislature to put on- the
brakes. They had a duty to perform
in this respect, and when they had pav-
ed the way from the farm to Parlia-
ment, they woued check the growing
tendency from farm to professional life.
He compared farmers' clubs with the
Grange movement, and pointed out that
while there are no more clubs in On-
tario than he coulld count upon his fin-
gers, there are to -day -four years after
the first was started -more than 700,
Granges. This fact was a strong argu-
ment in support of the assertion that it
does meet the wants of the farming i.
community. Tree, there were objec-
tions to it, and one of these was that it
dabbled in storekeeping. He contend-
ed. that the Grangers had, a right to
start a store if they saw fit, for ours was
a• free country, hut no Granger -was
bound to patroni'ze a Grange store, pr
mill, or elevator, or railroad (cheers),
aid his own feeling was that it was not
geed policy to go into such ventures.
This storekeepiug was the greatest
enemy of the Grantee, for many mem-
bers were too eager to parcel out their
goods to give the time necessary for
more importe,nt objects. There must
be a division of labor, and he believed
that the laws of trade would ultimately
carry the' Grange away from storekeep-
ing. Another objection to it was its
secrecy and its forms and ceremonies,
but these were innocent and harmless,
and there were tone in the ritual but
had a meaning. ' The ro.ore deliberately
and . carefully the ritual was gone
through with, the more the institution
would prosper. And while all other
classes were organized. to advance their
own interests, let it not be to the re-
proach of farmers that they are a.rope
of sand, bound together by no common
interests. He Closed by an earnest ap-
peal to farmers to cultivate the love of
country, and to inspire their sons
with a sincere sentiment of patriot-
ism toivards the great Dominion.
(Mr. Clarke toOk his seat amidst hearty
cheers. .
usually hears a good deal on the subject
of farmers' representation in Parlia-
ment. Usually, too, there is a good
deal of sound sense in what is said ;
but there is also a blending of mistaken
ideas. It is no doubt the case that the
Grange offers fine opportunities to
school the youthful yeomanry in the
art of public speaking, and much good
will unquestionably result to the com
munity through the training for public
life which is afforded at the weekly
gatherings of the Order. But it is hard-
ly fair to run away with the idea that
the country is being ruined by taxation,
that every other class except the farm-
ing class is extravagant, and that until
there is a representation of farmers in
Parliament proportioned to their num-
ber, economy in public eependiture can-
not be looked for. Mr. Clark and the
other speakers who urge these views
might study the fiD.811CeS of some town-
ship municipality to a little profit in
connection with this question. Take,
for instance, the township of -Yarmouth.
The vast majority of its electors are far-
mers. Its councillors have always been
farmers. Do thy practice economy
above the Merchants, or the mannfac-
turer, or the lawyers, or the doctors, or
the capitalists who compose the ma-
jority of Ontario's representatives in
the Legislature ? Compare the figures.
Ontario's expeuditure in 1877 was
300,000, and its population by the cen-
sus of 1871 Was 1,600,000. Yar-
mouth's expenditure last year was $15,-
000, and its population by the last cen-
sus was 5,500. Here we find that in
the ProvinCe the average expenditure
was less than $1.50 per head of the
population, while in the township the
average was $2.50,' per head. In the
latter case, the expenditure is Made di-
rectly under the people's eyes, and they
have the opportunity of applying the
pruning knife at the close of each year.
Do these facts proVe that farmers are
greater economists than other classes of
the community, where public funds are
concerned? We think not. We are al-
ways glad to see farmers take an active
interest in public affairs, and wherever
a farmer is found. qualified to fill public
positions, he can always count upon re-
ceiving a liberal support from all classes.
If the Grange will fit its members, or
any of them, for Parliamentary duties
it will have rendered them a very great
service, even though it should enable
no more of their number to find seats
in Parliament. But whether • their
number be many or few, we see no rea-
son to hope for a new era of economy
brought about by their influence on
legislative bodies. Mr. Clarke made a
very excellent and instructive Spreech
on 'Wednesday evening, but there is
nothing to be gained by misleading
farmers on this important question
of public expenditure and its man-
agement, or by stirring up class against
class."
port, makes the following remarks,
which were suggested by Mr. Clark's
address, and which are also deserving
of consicleratimi4 It says:
"At Grange gatherings, such as the
one held on Wednesday evening, one
Canada.
The McClary Manufacturing
pany, extensive carriage -builders, of
London, have made a reduction of
twenty per cent., in the wages of their
employees.
<, -A cattle droyer named Hunter,
while sleeping in a railway car be-
tween London and Komoka on Thurs-
day night, was robbed of a watch and
some money. -
-The Toronto City Council are about
to make arrangements for lighting the
city and public buildings with the new
eleetric light, and to heat all buildings
with steam or gas.
-" While there is life there is hope."
The first person the Princess Louise
danced with in Canada, was a printer
named Stephenson. He is now a col-
onel and millionaire.
Com -
the cause of so many compositors being
idle.
-Coal oil is $3 a gallon at Battle -
ford, Manitoba.
-Cape Breton was favored with a
green Christmas.
-Wolves are numerous in someparts
of New Brunswick.
-Mrs. Youmans, the temperance
lecturess, is suffering from diphtheria.
-A Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion is about to be established in Win-
nipeg.
-The report circulated. that small
pox had broken out in the neighborhood
of Tavistock is denied.
-The fines imposed for violation of
the Dunkin Act in 'West York, amount
in the aggregate to $2,099.
-Sixty-four gallons of soup were dis-
tributed to the poor -at. the Guelph
soup kitchen one day last week.
-The convicts in the Kingston Peni-
tentiary, 750 in number, consumed 900
pounds of plum pudding on Christmas
Day.
-The firemen of Ontario will shortly
hold a convention in Toronto for
the purpose of forming a benefit associa-
tion.
-The pooling arrangenaent entered
into by the Montreal and Dominion
Telegraph Companies has happily fallen
through.
' -Upwards of a hundred persons on
Saturday and Monday claimed protec-
tion at the different .police stations in
Montreal.
-A bear, weighing 197 pounds when
dressed, was recently shot near Prince
Arthur's Landing, and the meat was
sold at prices varying from fifteen to
twenty cents per pound.
-On Wednesday night the railway
station at Lacolle, Province of Quebec,
was broken into, •and $300 worth of
liquor, consigned. to a Montreal firm
across the eines, removed.
-Mr. Edward Hanlon is
mason. He was admitted a member of
King Solomon Lodge, Toronto, the
other night. Xt did not unnerve him
when asked. tgdrink out of the skull.
-A " ehinney " .aaatch was recently
played at Prince Arthur's Landing,
Hudson Bay, between the married and
single men, which resulted in a victory
for the single men by three straight
innings.
-A locomotive going south recently
brake down near Rat River, Manitoba,
and the conduetor had to trarep over
twenty miles back to Winnipeg in order
to telegraph to S61 Vincent for another
locomotive. .
-David Beebe,' of Aylmer, has start-
ed around the world. He wrote to his
wife, dating frOm1 California. He bor-
rowed $30 and obtained on tick new
boots for his wife and child. It is
probable he will make a long stay.
-The skating rinks of Montreal are
now deemed'desirable fields for the op-
eration of the light-fingered gentry, who
quietly borrow as many coats, &c.,
from the hooks, of the retiring rooms as
they think fit, while the owner is busy
skating.
-The Roman Catholic Bishop of.
Montreal has isseed a circular forbid-
ding ladies to belong to church choirs
after the first of June next. Many
'Roman Catholic eh -arches have antici-
pated the order by dismissing lady
singers.
-The printers of Toronto purpose
getting up a petition to be presented to
the Dominion Parliament, praying for
the imposition of a duty on stereotyped
matter sent here from the United States,
as they allege that several foundries
there send. into Canada every week
many columns of stereotyped stories
for ten cents per thousand ems. The
prhaters say -that this, in conjunction
now a
that he would award him ten days in
jail, for which he was duly thanked by
the 'wanderer.
-The Hon. John Simpson was pre-
sented with 108 pieces of silver plate in
a rosewood chest by the officers of the
Ontario Bank, on retiring from the
presidency of the 9ntario Bank, which
he founded.
-A man named Owen Boucher was
arrested. at Ottawa on Friday, on a
charge of brutally assaulting Mary
Kelly. He fractured her jaw, knocked
three' of her teeth out, and seriously
bruised her body. -An Ottawa trgraro. says : A gen-
rive there at an early date for the pur-
pese of negotiating with the Govern-
ment for a tract of land in the North-
west. Should the negotiations be fa-
vorable, he will bring several 'hundred
Swedes to Canada during the -corning
summer.
-Mrs. Andrew Mercer, me Bridget
O'Rielly, died on Wednesday morning
last week. It is understood that the .
deceased. has made a will bequeathing
to her only son, Andrew, the sum of
$30,000, which she accumulated. during
her lifetime. The sum together with.
the 425,000 given him by the Govern -
been, at the suggestion of the Mayor ment makes Andrew it rich man- '11
should. be fully reported to hi/et by the
Inspectors concerned, so that he may
be enabled to consider them, and to
give the neCessary- directions in each
case."
-A manifesto has been issued to
the employees on the Grand Trunk
that any of them seen going or comina
out of a saloon, on or off duty, 'will be
at once discharged. This is owing to
two or three cases of drunkenness re-
cently detected,! one of which, it
is reported led tO the :canceling of a
train.
-At a shooting match in Winnipeg
recently, one turkey escaped unscathed.
eighteen shots, and. then froze to death
in sheer disgust. - 1
- A Burford farmer has marketed
nearly 500 bushels of white beans in
Brantford, at 85c per bushel. The cop
pays a fair profit.
-The Canada Tool Works at Dime
das, are again running ou seven hours'
tiree. The establishment had. been shut
down for several weeks.
-There is acitron onthe premisea of
Mr. Brewster, near Clifford, which
measures 301 inches in circumference
and 19-i inches in length.,,
-Never were icebergs so large as
they are now on Lake Erie. Otte at the
end of the pier at Port Burwell is said.
to measure 200 feet in. height. ,
-Dog racing he the popular amnse-
ment at Battleford, Manitoba. It ear -
ries witli it all the glory and excitement
concomitant with the "turf."
-A girl named Cavers, daughter, of
a farmer in West Williams, an& Who
was in service at Loudon, tias disappear-
eddn a mysterious manner.
-A workman named. Bennett, m-
ployed by Mr. Minougue, of Chabo ez
street, Montreal, has fallen heir to
twenty thousand dollars a year.
-Intelligence was received. at Quelee-"C
on Monday of the comparatively sudden
decease on Saturday, from apoplexy, of
Sheriff Tache, of Kamouraskaa
-Montreal had its Christmas sad-
dened by a young man, while • drtink,
turning his 'elderly mother and sister
out of doors to the cold street.
-A sugar beet factory will be started
at Gibson, New Brunswick, in the
spring. The concern will be run by a
stock company with $40,000 capita.l.
-The Scott Temperance Act ia. in
force in Fredericton and Northumber-
land, N. B., and will be subnaitted to
the electors of Lambton in February.
-Mr. H. J. *Campbell has assumed tleman from Swe en is expected to ar-
the management of the Consolidated
Bank at Norwich village. Mr. Camp-
bell, it will be remembered, was for a
short time connected with the Seaforth
branch of the Bank.
-A man in Manvers, Ont., --was ar-
rested. for stealing a 42 vest, and after
he had been in jail for twenty-one days
the Grand jury. having been instructed
by $31 worth of officials and heard $44
worth of evidence, brought in a “ no
bill."
-The amount of money usually de-
voted to a torch light procession on the
election of the 'Mayor, in Ottawa has
elect, (Mr. Mackintosh) handed to a -On /slew Year's day Mr. Charles
committee for distribution among the
poor of the city. ;
-There were a number of foreign
buyers present at the Guelph ja,nuary
Fair, and the animals offered, nearly
100, were purchased at prices rangbag
from 42.50 to $3.50 per cwt. None of
the animals -were heavy enough for the
old country market.
-The new irthabridge at Galt was on
Saturday week tested to the satisfac-
tion of the totIvii authorities. The
bridge was erecte1 by the Hamilton Tool
Company, and cest $4,300. It is a very
'handsome structure, and. reflects credit
on the Company.
-Last Fridaymorning in Halifax,
while a colored man named W. B. Cur-
tis, belonging to Boston, was on his way
to work, he fell in the street and died
within 40 minutes after being taken into
a, neighboring house. Pleurisy is said to
have been the cause of death.
-The brother ,and, sister of the girl
Margaret McVey who disappeared so
mysteriously front near St. Thomas
some weeks ago were in Sarnia and in
Port Huron last week -brachia a sup-
posed clue to her recovery. A. reward
of $1,200 is offered for her recovery.
-Apropos of New Year's calls: In
-A. H. Roe, of Napanee, who st pe
ed Centre Huron during the art-
wright campaign, has been appointed
official assignee for Lennor and. Adding-
ton.
-Madame A. R. Anger's, of Quebec,
wife of the ex -Attorney -General of
Quebec, and daughter of the Hon. Sen-
ator Christie, died at an early hoar
Saturday morning.
-A small boy placed his tongue upon
the frosty iron railing of the Drifferin
Bridge Ottawa, the other day, an
jsud-
denly jerking his head away, jerkedhalf
of his tongue out.
-There were 132 illegitimate births
in Toronto last year, of which 26 were
the offspring of Toroiatoniarts, and the
remainder, 106, of women from various
parts of the Province.
-People cannot be too careful with
the drafts and dampers of coal stoves
at nights. Reports of suffocated sleep-
ers during these cold nights come from
various parts of the country. -
-It is rumored that G. T. Burgess,
Clerk of the village of Lttcknow, has le -
'vented, leaving large numbers of credi-
tors, besides appropriating a consider-
able amount of corporation money.
-A few days ago, a yoting man nam-
ed McMahon, was assaulted in a hotel
in Harrowsmith by one Rourke, who
struck his victim and then bit his under
hp off. Rourke was arrested and fined
$100, which he paid.
-A thief coolly walked. into a dry
goods store in Montreal the other day,
and rolling out a bale of cotton placed
it in a cart that was in waiting, and got
clear away with it, leaving no traces as
to his destination.
-A horse was stolen from the farm
of Mr. Burnett, on. the Galt Road, near
St. George, 011 Thursday of last week.
The thief was apprehended at the above
mentioned place on Friday, taken be-
fore a magistrate, and committed to
stand his trial.
-A young woman, employed in the
Delhi, Ohio, paper mills found two 450
notes in the waste. The proprietor of
the mills claimed them, the girl sued
for their recovery, and the Supreme
Court has decided in her favor, holding
that the purchase of waste paper does
not carry the right to unknown valua-
bles which may be found. in it.
-Duncan McGillivray, who claims
to be the oldest journeyman shoeinaker
in the Dominion, and -who says he left
his kit" at Whitby, and. walked from
that place to Toronto. in search of a
"sit," and. failed. to secure one, and
hence meandered to Hamilton, appear=
ed. before the Police Magistrate in that
city, one day last -week, and requested
to be sent to prison for a short time in
with patent outsides for newspapers, is order to get a rest. The Magistrate said
Clarke, Justice Peaee, of Elora, corn-
anitted Edward Welsh., farmer, of Peel,
to Guelph gaol to stand his trial for
forging a note for $211.5G, dated. Peel,.
4th December, 1877 and purporting to
have been made by Williana Brown and.
Thomas Lancaster. Application was
made for bail and was granted-
-Three tourists undertook to walk
behind Niagara Falls a few days aao.
The danger is great in winter, owint':to
the ice. One of the trio, in picking his.
way over the slippery path, ran against
a huge icicle, which broke off and fell
o . H
n hime was badly cut, and has
since been insane, but whether from a.
blow on the head nr from fright is not
settled.
-Brantford has had two sensations
di -
One when a ,ssipatekl. husband, who
had been separated from his wife for
some time, snatched. the -child from her
side as she was . -walking down the -
street and decamped- with it. The
other Wag a decently -dressed -elderly
man trying to navigate on his knees -
and bare hands on NewYear's Day, 'too -
drunk to stand upright.
-The old, oid story, simply told,
easily understood) ftn
so oeunheeded:
James Armstrong, a Muskoka merchant,
Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton, not naet a stranger at the Northern Railway
nearly so many as usual. In London, a
gentlemaii who madetwenty-three calls
reports that only in one house was he
offered. iqoxicating beverages. There
seems to Wave been a general improve-
ment in this custom.
-Mr. H. M. Jarvis, of the London
Post Office, was on Tuesday of last
week arrested by Detective Phair on a
charge of robbing registered letters. The
prisoner is a married man and the
father of a family. Thisis the first case
of a post office robbery that has occur-
red there for seventeen or eighteen
years.
-Information has been received -that
Mr. Joseph Scott, a former resident of
the township of Beverly, Ont., was re-
cently shot dead in Sacramento, Cali-
fornia. Mr. Scott had for some tin -e
back been connected with the police
force of that city, and it was while pur-
suing his avocation that he met with
his death,
• -S. Ford, an Onondago merchant,
who deserted his wife last October, on
a false charge of inaproper intimacy
with a clergyman, has turned. up in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the capacity of
a night watchman. He wrote an Imm,
ble letter to his wife a short time ago,
to know if he could return to his old
quarters, but the lady sent him a nega-
tive reply.
-The death is announced in Victoria,
British Columbia, of Thomas Pattullo,
brother to the Messrs. Pattullo, of the
Woodstock Sentinel -Review. The de-
ceased. was among the first Canadians
who left Oxford for that distant mining
region, where he was pretty successful.
His death will be sincerely lamented by
a large. circle of friends.
-A New York pickpocket, known as
Charley Ryan, who was arrested- at
Halifax during the reception . of the
Governor-General for stealing a watch,
and. sentenced to six months in the city
prison there, was sent- to the hospital
on Thursday of last week on account of
it sore leg, but he was not there two
hours when he disappeared, and has not
yet been captured.
-One evening lately some malicious
scoundrel forced an entrance into the
Roman. Catholic Church, Ingersoll, and
stole all the articles of value, such as
silver candlesticks, (tc., within reach.
Not content with this, however, they
destroyed 'what they did not carry away.
The goods stolen and destrwed were
obtained for the new church in course
of erection, and were handsome as well
as valuable.
-Robert Taylor, a young silver -
plater from Guelph, was skating on the
bay, at Toronto, when he fell through
an air -hole and for twenty minutes
hung clutching to the ice At the ex-
piration of that time, and when he was
thoroughly exhausted, a couple of men
reached the spot and with much diffi-
culty rescued him from his perilous po-
sition. Both of the poor fellow's arms
are badly frost-bitten and the left arm
is seriously cut by the iee.
-The Honorable Minister of Educa-
tion has sent the following circular to
School Inspectors, relative to witholding
the School Fund.: In some cases it
has been. found,impossible,frona various
causes, or extremely onerous, forSchool
Trustees to comply with the Law aid
Regulations on Public Schools. .In
such cases it is not desirable or expe-
dient, in the opinion of the Honorablethe
Minister of Education., to deprive the
school of its share of the School Fund..
The Minister, therefore, requests that
the circumstances' of all such cases
Station, 'Toronto, last Friday evening
who wanted to get an advance of $160
on a cheque. Mr. Armstrong took the
cheque, giving one hundred and sixty
itt ex.change-and the stranger disap-
peared. The cheque is worthless.
-At the Temperanee Coffee House,
15 St. Nicholas street, Montreal, Many
wretched. men, victims of the cursed
appetite for strong drink, are nightly
fed and sheltered, and thus savedfrom
freezing and starvation, and better than
all the rest, some of them are saved
from a .drunkard's untimely grave, as
brands plucked from the burning, by
being induced to sign the pledge. This
institntion deserves the material sup-
port of the benevolent public.
-On the 3061- ult., Messrs. R. A.
Lyon, M. P. P., W. D. Lyon, M. P. P.,
W. A. Abney and Mr. Merryfiela, With
three Indian guides, set out on snow-
shoes from Manitoulin Island. en route
for Toronto, where they arrived On
Wednesday, the 8th inst. The dis-
tance covered by the party was 374
miles, 210 of which were disposed of on
snow -shoes over snow and ice, sixty-
foar by team -and One hundred by rail,.
The party endured some minor hard- x
ships, but dill enjoye& their adventur-
ous trip.
-Recently a number of cattle, the
propertrof Mr. John Robb„ Troy, were
taken suddenly ill, and ill about 15
minutes from the time the disease show-
ed itself the animals died. The hea4
of one was examined and it was found
that nearly all the brain haddisappear-
ed. In skinnin,g one of the beasts Mr.
Robb got his right hand poisoned.
The hand and arm swelled. and. his
state beeame so alarming that at 011e
time his life was despaired of. He was
very much redneed, but he is now al-
most well again.
-Amateurs should try to be careful
how they kill pigs. Recently a newly-
arrivedsettler at Brune], Muskoka, at-
tempted to slaughter a large boar,wlaen,
after he had. been struck, the animal
turned on him and -compelled him to
take refuge by hangbag to the joistef
the barn. In this position the -would-
be butcher yelled for dear life, and
brought to his assistance it boy with a
gun, who shot his infuriated boarslaip,
and sa.ved the Irian just as he was on
the point of dropping from exhaustion.
-On Saturday night the funeral ser-
mon of the late joseph Bell, baggage -
man on the Great Western Railway,
was annorniced to be preaehed in the
Methodist Church, Port Stanley. About
five hundred persons were in attendance
on the occasion referred to, peeking the
church to its utmost capacity. During
the service one of the sills of the build -
bag gave away, causing great excite-
ment among the congregation- It was
found impossible to resnme the service,
and a postponement was had till Sun-
day evening next, when the Town Hall
will be used.
-It appears that a well-known Otte:vire,
physician, vglao, with his family, went
to Southern Colorado a short tittle ago,
ostensibly for the purpose of recovering
his health, left a, number of creditors
behind who are uneasy on aecount of
the non -settlement of notes now over-
due. Enquiry reveals the fr,-L that all
his property and house:161d te'rects
were heavily mortgaged, 1/3n& the crete
itorstave DO hesitation in stating that
they have been vic'Smized. The doc-
tor persuaded his hired man to loan
him $2,000 at ten per cent. interest, all
of which is lost money
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