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The Huron Expositor, 1879-01-24, Page 1NUARY 17, 1879. ;eased, with her husband, the earliest settlers of Us - til a late period she had en.. !kable health, 'and in her old. ea considerable distances thin the last two years, how- aad suffered severely from which undermined her con - td resulted in her death on a Her sufferings. were en- , Christian. patience and forti- _ It -- not an established fact that NDERSON'S-perfeet fitting suits qual for (t, style or finish. ng suits or overcoats should -eorders at once, ant save des are selling the belence, of our 'A very cheep for cash. Re- n every line in the store ; 00., good value at 75c.; seeks worth 40c.; under -clothing n to cost, at the Oak Hall atablishment, Seaforth, Ont. 4. CLINE & Co. :weft -Illy examined the 'working of ,Regulator, and am greatly pleased [I, on account of its cheapness and hould be used id preference to all t.EIERURN, Architeet, Stratford. !teal to aNnst them to windows now •a. from contraetors solted. J. A. CLINE & Ca., Seaforth. ' 9 14379 "O TIA1rE NEW' YEAR. ANI - DAY SEASON rTRACTIVE, VIDDOUCALL & --HAVR FOLLOWING GOODS TY PER CENT. LOSE THEN OUT: T—The Balance of Colored a'airich wide, in, Seal Brown, . ,Bine, Dark Green„ (New and Drabs. WI—The Balance of Silk d Scarfs, )T—The Balance of Ladies' ad Seal Sete. LOT—The Balance af Chid- ir Caps and Sets. YT—The Balance of Ladies' and Opera Shawls. Yr—The Balance of Ladies ildren's Hosiery and. Gloves. LOT—The Balance of Dress ings, Friages and Buttons. LOT—The Balance of Ladies' Oath Jackets. • R G I L S,." —CAN GET -h DD SELECTION the above Lots, and at CENT. LOWER PRICE EAN: BUSINESS it S'el1 ! Somcbocly will get argains ! Why Tr& ,rot?? rate call to4h the e for yourselves. S WE ADVERTISE. ODS to Everybody is Our Ray where you can buy the .ST ie Yours. made Clothing OUR BOYS." f'.:UfTS for all ages. RE - (10E—$2 90, $3 50, $4, $4 90, and $6 -50. ng and Neatly Trimmed. MEN'S 1' -6:at ,•`1' ULSTER. Overcoats for t Drop in Prices ever known. tiar before they all go. FFALO ROBES ta clear. $ Whole Buffalo Robes, larg- r $5 50. Whole Buffalo Robes, not gest siaie, for $4 50. Whole -Beffalo Robes, not alt sizei, far $3. hance this to .Itobe your - Little Money. I.D0 GALL & GO., ›orters and Dealers in 000ds Only. • TWELFTH YEAR. -NIVIIOLE NUMBER, . 581:- SEAF RTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1879. MeLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year; in Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. THE POOR IN, G-LASG-OW. -1DROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, that con- venient and desirable residence on the corner of High and Market Streets, lately occupied by Dr. Vercoe. Apply to DR. VERCOE. 488 - -S:(LE.—For Sale a first class Planing ▪ Mill, nearly new and in good running order, situated in the flourishing Town of Seaforth, WIII be sold cheap. ,Terms easy. Enquire of SECORD, COSSENS & CO., Goderich, Ont. FCR SALE.—The subscriber has for sale a 50 :acre lot inthe township of MaKillop, County of Huron, 20 acres are cleared and the balance well timbered with beech and maple. The property will be sold cheap. Apply to JAS.H. BENSON, Solicitor, Seaforth, oat. 517 — — WARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 5, Bay- • field Concession, Goderich Township, con- taining 85 aeres, 50 of whieh are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The farm is adjoining the village of Bayfield, and will be sold cheap and enfavorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, JOHN GOVENLOCK. 524 OIEOICE FARM FOR SALE—Being Lot 4, Con. '7, Hallett, County of Huron; 100 acres ; 80 cleared, well undethrained, and. in a good state of cultivation; buildings convenient and good ; terms easy. For further particulars apply to Messrs. McCATJGHEY &HOLMESTED, Seaforth, or on the premises toWM.E. COLDWELL. Con- stance P. 0. •555 NT. A—LVABLE FARM FOR S Sale, 1' the east half of Lot No. 4, Con. 4, H. R. S, Tuokersmith, 001113ty of Huron, consisting of 50 • acres, 31 miles from the Town of Seaforth, and convenient to school. The land is of the very best quality. For further particulars apply to JAMES PICKARD, opposite the premises, or to Egmondville P. 0. 524 -F -AIM—FOR C IL It. S., Tuckersinith, containing 50 acres, about 40 of -which are eleared, *ell fenced and under good cultivation. No buildings. Is within one mile and a half of Seaforth, on the Grand Trunk, and 6 miles from Kippen, on the EGreat Western. A good gravel road leading ee oaeh place. Apply to C. VA_NEGMOND, Egmond- vale. t 575 1.4"AltiV FOR SALE. --For Sale, West half of Lot 9, Con. 9, Hallett, containing 50 acres, 40 acres are well cleared, without stamps, and in a good state of cultivation, being well underdrain- ed ; on the premises there is a new frame house, 22xa2, frame barn and two frame atables, also a • good bearing orchard and never -failing well with pump. Considerable fall plowitig done; also fall wheat sawn. Apply to DAVID HILL, on the premises, or to Constance P. 0. 578-tf. pltOPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 14, Con 16, Grey; Wet half of Lot 29, Con. 6, with cheese faetory complete; Lot 14, C01. 6, and south half of Lots 16 and 17, Can:5, town- ship of Morris; Lot 22, Con, B, and Lot 28, Con. B, township ofHowick, all good improved farms, together with several 50 acre farms in Grey and Morris, and houses and lots and vaeent lots in the village of Brussels. Prices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Brus- sels. 574 WARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, that most desir- j": able lama being Lot 1, Con. 6, in the town- ship of Hullett, situated miles from Kinburn. and 6 miles from Settiorth. _There are excellent buildings ore the premises, includinga first-class stone house, two storey, 80 by 40 feet. A spring ereek-.runs through the farm; good mallard good fences, and. the land hi an excellent state cif cul- tivation. Apply on the premises to JAMES Mc - MICHAEL, or to MR. JAMES II. BENSON, Sea - 562 forth. WARM FOR SALE. --That well-kaown and fine- -'- ly situated farm, Lot 1, Con, 1, Hullett, in the County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 of whieli are cleared; there are two frame dwelling houses, barn, horse stable, cow,stable, sheep -house and -driving house; also orchard and abundance of water. The farm is situated two miles from the TOW11 of Seaforth, on the Huron Road. For full particulars apply to MeCAUGHEY & 110LME- STED, Seaforth, or to SIMON YOUNG, proprie- tor, on the premises. . 558-4x_ VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, , " Lot 11, Con. 8, H. R. S., Tuokersmith, con- tainiug 100 acres, 90 of whith are cleared and in a °°bed state of cultivation, being well underdrain- ed, the balance is good hardwood bush. Good' stone house, frame barn and stables ; well watered, and good bearing orchard. Is situated about 5 Miles from Seaforth and Brucefield, and. 3./ finin KiPPen. School close by, and all other conveni- ences. For further particulars apply to DAVID MOORE, on the premises, or to Egmondville P. 0. '548 ' ATALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale the west half of Lot 27, Con. 3, McKillop, con- I 'sining 50 acres, known as the Deigle estate. This ; arm is situated within one mile and a quarter of , 8eaforth.' The laud is of - the ehoieest quality. There is a handsome reSidenee and good oatbuild- into. The farm is well planted with fruit and or- tramental trees, is in excellent order, and well fenced. It is admirably suited for a retired genr tleman, a dairy -man, or market gardener. Terms easy. This property must be sold at once. Apply to A. STRONG, Seaforth.. 539 FARM IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For Sale, the North part of Lots 8 and 9, Con. 13, laic- Killop, containing 112 acres; there are about 80 cleared, well fenced, unclerdrained, and in a high state of cultivation, the balance is well timbered with hardwood; good dwelling, new bank frame Darn 50a56, v.;ith stabling underneath, and other outbuildings; also a goodyoung orchard and plenty or water. Is 10 miles from Brussels, 5 from Wal- ton, and 12 from Seaforth, with good gravel roads to eaeh place ; convenient to church andschools ; will be sold as a Whole or in two parts. Apply to Walton P. 0. or to the proprietor on the prem - es. WILLIAM DYNES. 547 . _ HOTEL FOR SALE.—For Sale or to Rent, for a term of years, the Railway Hotel in the Village of Dublin. This hotel is situated in the most central and best business part of the vil- lage, being adjoining therailway station, the new mill, the pinning inill, saw mill and salt block, oleo opposite the stores of Messrs. Joseph Kidd and Thomas King. There are ten comfortable bed rooms upstairs, besides sitting, dining, bar and ,other rooms. Ala° first-class sheds and stabling, andel other necessary accommodations and con- veniences. Possession given is of April. Apply personally to 'JOHN McCONNELL, Proprietor, or to THOMAS KING, Dublin. 58b FOit, SALE.—The subscriber offers for sale Lot 22, Con. 12 of the township of Stan- ley, containing one hundred acres, 83 acres clear ed and in a igood state of cultivation, and good fences, balaisce 17 acres goodhardwood bush; One half of clearing seeded down, there will be 13 :Ceres of wheat put in this fall, there is about 8 acres of a thriving orchard- on the premises and a vat iety a fruit trees all now bearing. The farm is well watered, a 110Var failing creek runs through the farm, also two good wells, large bank barn 36 by 60 feet with good stabling under- neath the barn, and a log dwelling house. The farm is situated within; two and a half miles of the village of Baytield: For further particulars apply to S.iMeLEAN, proprietor on the premises or to W. Calmar, Bayfield P. O. 672 . STOCK FOR SERVICE. rp0 PIG BREEDERS.—The undersigned will keep during the present season, on Lot 271 Con. 4, McKillop, a Suffolk Boar. Terms al per sow, payable at the time of stervice, with the privilege of returning if necessary, WILLIAM J. GRIEVE. 578 TO PIG BREEDERS.—The undersigned will -a- keep for the improvement of stook during the present season, on Lot'2, COTI. 10, H. R. S., Tuokeramith, a Thorough Bred Suffolk Boar. This pig took the first prize at Seaforth, and is one of the best in the county. TERMS.—One dollar,to be paid at the time of service, with the privilege of returning if necessary. ADEXAN- DER YULE. 572 TO PIG BREEDERS.—The undersigned will keep during the present season, at his prem - ises, Lot 11, Concession 8, L. R. S., Tao -ker- et -DWI, one mile Beath of Egmondaille, a Th oro' - Bred Berkshire Boar. This animal was sired by a pig imported from the Old Country, and for 'Which the sum of $750 was paid. Eis dam was ?Aso iroported. Be is one of the best at present in the County of Huron, having taken first prizes at the County and all the other Elbows. Terms, td, to be paid at the time of service. J. H. CARTER Proprietor. 570 A few -weeks ago -we published. a com- munication from a Glasgow paper, de- scriptive of the terrible poverty existing among the working classes of that manufacturing centre. Below will be found a second letter from the same source. The 'writer says: In resuming my notes, I feel it is only due to those whose cases have been brought before your readers, to repeat emphatically that the " class " under notice does not rank with " the poor whom we have with us always." In times like the present, there are " employed and unemployed "—a class comeatable with " relief " in any shape, and a class that cannot be reached by public charity through the medium of Relief CoMmittees, or other charitable organizations en the pauper scale. Suf- ficient is being done outside for such as will take advantage of the schemes proposed. for relief through public sources; hence my attention has only been directed toward those who cannot ma,ke known their distress in a way that would lead. to exposure; and I may state, it is only through Miseionaries and district visitors that the true state of matters, in the present crisis, among respectable workpeople out of employ- ment can be got at, and not until star-. vation breaks down the barrier of re- serve. Taking a portion of the northern dis- trict, ,mder the charge of Mr. W—, missionary, I visited, with that gentle- man, some very presssing caees " of distress. These were almost within a Stone cast of each, other, a,nd in near proximity to the luxurious homes of the rich: Striking off Garscube Road, We :turned into a compact little street that had not yet taken on the grime of the city. It was school hours, and the ju- venile portion of Street was only represented by a few groups of toddlin' babies out for a constitutional airing in the morning hour. Number fifty was a specimen of the sort of people who dwelt here. Stairs clean and well kept; windowOright ; doors with nameplates and. belle polished. and shining; strict attention to "appearances," an unde- niable respectability: ; The g 's house was no exception externally itt the matter of " shiney " respectability, and. it was almost iinT possible to reconcile hard pinching poy- erty With outward appearances. But every effort is made to hide the secret; and next door neighbors must not sus- pect dull times cannot be tided over at a pinch. " Mother, why don't' you make any dinner now ?" asks huhgry • little Nellie. " " Don't say that, outside, mind, for your life," the children are told. "It's bad. enough BA it Says the mother in apology, "without our secret being telPt." Bad enorigh ! The once comfortable home was stripped as bare as it could be to keep life in, and the secret could no longer be kept. C , the father, had been nine weeks idle; was kept on as long as his master could give him work; was employed at a saw mill; had tried everywhere for work, and Mr. W—'the missionary, had done all he could also to get him employment. Be- fore C— lost his work his wife's ill- ness had. increased the household ex- penses considerably, and we were just, as it were, beginning to come round eosin when the dullness came on and threw father idle. Mrs. C said, "Nobody knows the extent of our pov- erty. When we could not pay our way, as usual, we just wanted. Father goes out every morning, aye hoping some- thing will turn up. Sometimes he comes home drenched to the skin on rainy days; and he has got rheumat- ism. He was used with warm clothing in winter, but we have had to put ev- erything away. If the laird. had. press- ed for the rent we would have • been homeleaS the day; but he said he knew we would pay when we could.", Home was everything to that loving house mother; as long as the little • family band could hold together, she could brave the worst. There were six in that famine -stricken hpusehold-afour young children,' the youngestla baby six months old. Two of filet:little ones had succumbed to dull times,' Nellie and. the baby. Wee Nellie had never been strong, her mother said, and she requir- ed good nourishment. Being delicate, a little difference was made in her case from the common run of the family's, and it was incomprehensible to Nellie how no dinner was made now. . "1 keep them (the children) iu bed as long as I can," the poor mother re- suined ; "it makes the day seem short- er to them when I have nothingto give them. The father goes out in the morn- ing without breaking his fast. If we have a little meal, it is kept for the bairns. Nellie Misses her tea sadly, but the rest try to divert her. Yeeterday she was at a Mothers' Meeting, and got sing- ing for her tea !" The baby's oase was more serious than little Nell's. The patient little thing was lying on a woOdea stool, bol- stered up with a pillow (the cradle was away), a look of weary suffering on its waxen face, so silent you might have thought him asleep; or dead, save for the great solemn oyes following the mother, and the brh htening under lier smile. t Dying—with the '4o1d year—in the hard struggle with dull times. Baby had got cold (sometimes there was no fire), and the doctor said it had turned into bronchitis. But they did all that was in their power for him; gave the last few pence that was left to buy bread for powders, and managed to raise a shilling for a "bottle " ordered by the doctor—andperhaps baby might " wars- tle " through yet. The mother found it hard to part with the little white blossom that had gladdened happier days. But, alas! she could not give the little one a chance to waretle through. She hacl no means where- , with to get what the doctor oi dered. Condensed milk was seven -pen e -half- penny a pot, and, doling it out *th the utmost care, two pots a week =as re- quired—a bit of warm flann 1, too, was wanted. But the solem eyes looking out, from the bud lit le bed seemed to say. A baby that needed so much couldn't expect to live iut dull tines." • One pities the weary brea winner knocking at every gate for work n vain, whilst that day ends as it be an—in hunger, afid cold, and sickness o heart: But the mother at home are eve more to be pitied—with famishing c ildren looking up in her face with silent appeal for bread, and dying bef re her eyes for the nourishment she ea not get for them. Think, mothers—wh would not let the wind blow upon Yo r little ones—what those mothers (w o have the feelings of their kind) mus -Suffer whoa they see the* children a vake in • the morning with nothing to gi e them —after going suPperless to bed. I .am terrified when forning comes," said a mother, lookin a round on her brood • of starving coildren ;- ." they wauken up so hungry ant begin to greet, it's waur than e'to se thena lying in the coffin. There's no s ffering there." • The next house weyisited wa in the .same street. This family was n star- vation, Mr. W said, but di n't like to tell. G , the father, was smith - to trade. He had met with an ccident .his work, arid had been hirteen weeks in the infirmary. Since hen he had been unable to find empl yrnent, although he had tried in ever direc- tion. His master could not "t ke him on," owing to the slacknes of 'trade. There were four children too y ung to work—Kitty, aged 11 years; B ssie 9, Willie 7, Johnnie. 5 • Mrs. G says: "When father was laid up I to work, and as,lona as I was a we could struggle e'through, bu my confinement drew near I drop working, and then there w ina corning in. - We . . . that the baby was born had onl penny in the house. I sent fo with it, and made a little p Couldn't ask credit, for I didn't way to pay. We had to part our things to get meat for the Our laird was kiud, and didn for the rent, or we would have home. . . When I was ill sent a nurse • the day af . baby was born she- came. She brought some tea and bread, for nothing. . . . The baby die have to pay for his burial yet. - never was one belonging to us h thing to do wi' the parish. W die wi' hunger before we wou help in that way or gang before lic. We let nobody ken how ill are. But God is kind, for we have been dead wi' hunger bu lady who called to see me—a washed to She was very kind. Yesterday she sent soup, and th had that. There was a little 1 I wanted father to take that b went out this morning, but he w for there was nothing for the He goes out early, trying to get the boat yards and a' place, but nothing. My man is not strong enough for the work given to the unemployed, and he wouldn't like • to b seen there if he could get work an where else." • I may remarkin passing that work- men like G feel to b seen amongst the equad " of -'un mploy- ed," and will rather face' starve ion in the fruitless search for their ow work. The prevailing idea is that th y may be losing a chance of getting in o per- manent work if they go over to he un- employed.. In any case, it is t the very last shift only that they 11 turn -in that direction. Looking up the street next w paid. a visit to a widow's dwelling. dozen singing birds were in full cho s, and. "dull times" had no part their morning carol. The birds w e not hers. They belonged. to an old gentle- man, her lodger. . W s she feeling the dull times? Of cou se, like the rest o' our puir folk. She ad to earn her own living wi' working, and the folk she wrought to were not so able to employ her noo. Had been a wid- ow many long years, and had seen out a big family. Aye, said the old lady, I hae seen different days. My husband. was a sergeant o' police Glasgow for seventeen years; but he is awa, lang syne, and I maun jist do my best. I'm no repining. I can work yet ne, if I could get At'. It's a bit" pinch " t pre- sent, but the Lord will bring us t 'ough, and I should be 'thankful there s only my_self to battle . for. It's h rd for faithers and 'Dithers wi' hungr bairns at haene, I daurna complain. I look around. me. The singing canari s burst into song, as if there was no rea on for taking up a lament on their side Passing on, we _called at house where the father had been four Mouths idle. He had held. a sithation off trust, and. had been ten years in his master's service: was well educated, and had travelled -with his master on the Con- tinent. He lost his situation through his master's inn ess ,bi s services being no long- er required. -Hie wife,who had held an important situation before her marriage, said—" When my husband was no longer required by his master we came to Glasgow, as my husband had good prospects, and had got the promise of engagements for the winter. These have all been lost through the failure of the City Bank, and my husband cannot find em- ployment. Re gets views, and then it comes to nothing. We have five child- ren. The oldest is not ten years old yet. We have carefully kept from tel- ling our poverty. We would not wish it known—if it were not for the children. It is hard to ' see them hungry. We have had to part with our good things. If there was ouly work to be got, but ent out le for't when had to s noth- he day a half - meal rridge. see the ith all bairns. t press ad no r• W— er the kindly we had . We There dw-MrCi e d ask every day it seems getting blacker for us. It was a neat, tasteful little dwelling that we passed on to next ---the home of a young couple. It had. been better furnished when they started in life, and there were " gaps " (carefully concealed), with a little skilful manceuvring where the plenishing had been taken away. At the semblance of a fire the girlish Wife sat, pale and shivering, with her baby (a fortnight old) lying in her lap, she is hardly able to sit up, and she had no warm clothing nor wraps around her, though she shivered. Her husband a fine soldierly -looking young man—sat gazing at his wife and child, the picture otatlespair. They were starving, and haidn't a morsel of food. within the .holiee. L had. been nearly four rectliths out of employment. He was taken fz4om his -work when the reserve force was called out, and was kept three nao4phs there. He says— "1 got just two pounds at the end, and my place was filled up, and I have not beeit able to get into work since. I have tried everywhere, up and down, until I have been like to drop. . . . We have tried to hide our:poverty •' we didn't like to let it be known thatwe were in starvation at home." Whilst wastelling his story the young mother's tea fe wdre falling on the sleep- ing baby's face. It's not for myself she said. in apology, but I think the baby will no live. Poor girl (she was oply twenty-one), the day the baby was born she had nothing to eat. Since her con- finement shea had no • nourishment. Some days -they had not broken their fast, and her breasts were dry. I had milk, she said, but it has gone away, and I have nothing to give the baby. Both mother and child appeared to be dying, dying of want. The last thing that was left was the husband's boots, and he had taken, them off to polish them up before he offered them to raise a shilling. Canada. —Diphtheria has broken out in Corn- wall jail. , —A flock of English sparrows are hovering around Hespeler. —Bogus notes on the Dominion Bank are in circulation in Ottawa. —The population of Parkhill has decaeased fifty in number since last year. —The Princess Louise -will be pres- ent at the opening of the Dominion Par- ' liament. —The mercury registered 200 below zero at Lindsay, on Tuesday night of last week. / —Bruce Couiaty Council will this &ear have 37 members, an inerease by two over last year. —Mr. Thos. Smith, of Arran, Bruce e pub- Co lately threshed 168 bushels -of bar- eff we ley"off three acres. would —A -new Masonic Lodge, under chart for a from the Grand Lodge of Ontario, ha,s la,dy I- been instituted in Parkhill. • —One of the Great Western Rail- way drays at Guelph recently took six ft and tons of potatoes at one load. fore he —The Rev. Mr. Conron, of Hanover, uldn't, bairns. There is somesense in gifts like this. ork at —Mr. Charles Belford, late editor -in - there's chief of the TOrouto Mail, is not ex- pected to recover from serious illness. —The Princess Louise is very fond. of snow -shoeing, and devotes an hour or two eyery afternoon to the amuse- ment. —The patrons of Husbandry, in the vicinity of Peterboro, are talking about placing a grain buyer on the Peterboro market. • —A Charing Cross drunkard clrank the health of the preacher and people openly in the church the other Sunday. —The Crescent Street PreAyterian Church, Montreal, has _given a call to the Rev. A. B. Mackay, of Brighton, England. —The Rev. D. J. Macdonnell, has been, unanimously appointed Moderator of the Presbytery of Toronto, as succes- or to Rev. Dr. Robb. Elderslie sportsmen have paid $40 each for two shots fired into a a horse supposing it -to be a fine buck while out on a deer hunt lately. —A colored newspaper man is at present in Ottawa, soliciting funds to establish a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, for the benefit of his race. was lately presented with an overcoat. • —The presses, printing material and furniture of the old. Toronto Leader office have been sold. by Mr. Edward Gigg for taxes. The articles reailzed fair prices. —Mr. Malcolm Leitch, of the 6th concession, Dunwich, recently killed four hogs, eight months old, which averaged 455 pounds 'each, dressed weight. —John Morris, the whiskey informer, was released. from custody in Toronto the other day, on condition that be leaves the country at once and never returns. —A hawk killed. a fine specimen, of sea -gull recently in East Wil- liams. The late heavy storm must have driven it thus far from its na- tive element, _ —The Grand Trunk are after the baggage- smashers. IA. champion one has been caught in the act. He has his option to' pay $22.75 damages or leave the road. The world is getting better. • —A kind-hearted Montreal carter al- lowed a boy to ride on the back of his sleigh, and when he arrived at his des- tination discovered that the boy had quietly dropped off, and a roll of calico, which lay in the sleigh, had also drop- ped out. —On Monday night Mr. Ramsey's barn, in Camden, Lennox county, was entirely destroyed by fire with its con- tents, including thirteen cows, three horses, and between three and four hundred. bushels of grain. There was a small insurance on the building. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, although it is difficult to believe that any human being ould inflict such torture on poor dumb ani- mals, not to speak of the rest. _ —About one million pounds of pork has been bought in Chatham since the new year, which at $3.46, the average price paid, amounts to the sum of $34,- 600. —A Montreal newsboy named Ben- nett has been left an immense for- tune by a deceased relative in Eng- land.. It yields an income- of £5,000 a year. —They have got the real remedy, in Whitby: Last week the magistrates there sent three tramps to durance and toil—hard toil—for four months. That's what fetches them. —" Rev." T. V. Roy, the coneerted Brahmin, has turned up again. He is being educated for the ministry by the Presbytery of Barrie. Mr. and Mrs. Roy are living at Innisfil. —Edward Jobin, a respectable mas- ter stone -cutter, of Quebec, was rutal- ly murdered by one Edmond (levet, because he would not ask him up to the tavern. bar to have a 'drink. ---A fire occurred in the grammar sehool, at Orangeville, on Weduesday last week, but Was soon extinguished by the citizens after causing a damage of a few dollars, fully covered by psur- ance. —H. W. Dimon,of Pert Rowan, while out driving Friday afternoon was seized with a stroke of paralysis. Whenfund. he was insensible, and was taken to his Muse, where he now lies in a very crit- ical state. —We learn that the tax collector for Tyendinaga, Hastings County, was rob- bed of $200 by a burglar who entered his home during his absence. The thief left no clue by which he could- be followed or indentified. • —There is a story going round to the effect that a Brockville girl, out riding with her lover, lost her hat, overshoes and gloves on the road, and did. not discover her loss till she arrived home' I • Of course this ie the truth.. —A person the worse for liquor pnter- ed. the office of the Brantford Daily Expositor on TueSday afternoon, and without any provocation hurled a large ledger at Mr. Yeigh, striking him on the temple, inflicting a very painful blow. —Wm. H. Philips, formerly a jewel- ler in London, and who failed. to ap- pear in the Court at Hamilton, where he is "wanted," was arrested in 'the former city on Friday by Detective Murphy, and taken to Hamilton for -ex- amination. —Within the past two months sixty- five deaths from diphtheria have I taken place in Hull, near Ottawa, and the country to the northward. Several deaths have occurred from the same cause in Prince Edward Island ; in one case, four in ope family. —Mrs•McKillcan,who died. last week, at her home ha East Williams, was the first white woman who ever trod the virgin soil of that • Township. - She left Scotland, 48 .years ago, and settled on the banks of the Sauble in the Town- ship of East Williams, which was then an unbroken forest. --Some agriculturists 1 of Welland County, met last week, and resoiVed to memorialize government to inapose duties as follows : Wheat, 20o. per bushel; Flour, $1 per barrel; Oats. Corn, Rye and Barley, 15e. per bushel; Butter, 4c. per pound.; Live Stock, 20 per cent. —A down east contemporary says that Mr. Burgess, of Dunsford, Vibtoria County, is said. to have some f the largest oats in. the Province. Th y ere so large, so the story goes, that when threshing out the concave of th ma- chine had to be lowered ill order o el - low them to pass through. —One night recently a rrian rarned. Arthur Dunning, from Strathroy, Ont., who was in Montreal, hired a ca ter to drive him around to see the sight, and was brought back drunk to -the Albion Hotel. Being unable to get in, • lay down in the lane and. was robbed. )f $35 in cash and general valuables. . —Information from England a oints to the story that George Ribband naerly a saloon -keeper in To onto, had been hanged for the mur er of his wife as being without found; tion. It is reported. that Ribbands fell t the taking of Plevna. It is known th t he intended to join the Turkish arm • -The Ontario Pork Packers' sso- ciation don't want any National a olicy. At a meeting Of the association, h ld re- cently at Toronto, it was resolvedl that no petition to the Government b Irnado for an increase of duty, but that f r the interest of the trade and the ublit generally the duty should remain as at present fixed by statute. —A Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, who died in Berlin last week, was the mother of seven children, five of whom survive to mourn her loss. Her grand -children numbered 67, of whom 56 are living, and there are 151 great -grand -al dren, de- scendants. Her age was 87 ye s, 7 of whom 121 are living. Total, 25 de - months and two days. Truly a patri- archal age and. a patriarchal family. ---Canadian musical talent has shown itself suprethe in the States. A Woodstock contemporary' has just learned that Mr. E. R. Deverall, on of John Deverall, of the East End, 1Vood. stock, has been appointedi to the posi- tion of first tenor singer in the incm- nati Musical College Choir. Th Pro- fessor of the College intimeited t him that he has the finest tenor voice in the United States. —Crooked whiskey appears to have especial attractions for the residents of Wellington and Waterloo counties. An illicit still was found. by Collector Mc- Lean and other Guelph authorities last week„ by lamp -light, at the side of a hill, in Arthur township. The Unlaw- ful machinery was bein; loaded upon vehicles for removal, and the drivers made a bold. dash for freedom by put- ting out the officers' lanterns and scampering into the woods. The men L • were arrested, however, and. most of the apparatus destroyed. Its owners are said to be residents of Maryboro and Arthur townships. —The Canada Temperance Act of 1878, otherwise known as the Scott Act, is to be submitted to the people of the City of Loudon and. the County of Mid- dlesex, as soon as the necessary number of signatures to the petition is secured. —The election of Mr. Campbell as Reeve of Carrick, Bruce County, has been protested. This is'said to be the -first instance in which the election of a, reeve has beea protestea since- the separation of the county from the county of Huron. —At the Peterboro' carnival -there were fifteen la:dies, in masquerade, ana five of the number represented the " Queen of Hearts." It is an easy mat- ter to see what the ambition of the five amounted to. Perhaps it's not generous to say this, but one can't help thinking, you know. —Mr. Freeland:late treasurer of the municipality of Houghton, Norfolk county, has left for parts unknown, taking some three thousand dollars of the anunicipalityle money. ile has been very unfortunate, since a resident nf Houghton—being- burned out, but managed to get a heavy insurance paid to,him, far in excess of its value. It is said his sureties are not responsible. It is further hinted that there are other irregularities with emne of the other municipal officers. — Jainee Patterson, a respectable citizen of Palmerston, an employee of the Great Western Railway, left home on Thursday, 9th inst., ostensibly to go ato his work, but instead. of doing so, bought a ticket and took the train for Hamilton.. His wife thinking he was out with the snow plow, thought nothing of the matter until Monday, when she karned that he had not been at work. Inquiries have been made "all along the line, but thus far nothing has been heard of him. No reason can be assigned for his sudden disappearance, as he has always lived. peaceably with his family. —Montreal is infested, with a num- ber of refugees froni American justice, embracing embezzlers, defaulters, breach -of -trust men, etc. . The detec- tives have under special observance a Chicago post office embezzler. from Missouri county, who •walked off with a large amount of funds belonging to the comity, a forger of great magnitude from Boston, and several others. A than who has been treasurer of a large cotton mill, in Fall River, Mass., and who defrauded the Company out of a large sum of money, is living in great style on St. James street, but through some legal quibble be is proof against arrest. — Last week an attempt was inade to burn the Presbyterian Church at Not- tawassa,ga, Sinicoe county. A pane' of glass in one of the back windows was broken, through, which a pine stick, saturated with coal oil and lighted, was thrust in. The stick landed fortunate- ly on some snow that lay near the water pail, and its intended course was thus checked. It is suspected by some that a fellow, working on the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway, is th.e cul- prit, as he was frequently heara to threaten that he would: give Presby- terianism a check " wunst Wthativer." It is sincerely hoped that the person who perpetrated. the deed. will be ap- prehended and punished. —An old. man, named W. Jamieson, a resident of Point Fortune, Quebec, died -at Fenelon Falls, Ont.-, the other day, and there is a tale connected with him, which is really marvellous. Dur- ing the rebellion of 1837, Mr. Jamieson got into a dispute with a rebel, and his opponent drew a pistol and fired. at him. The bullet broke the iron buckle of his suspender, and then entered the breast, inflicting a wound, which. nearly proved. fatal, and from which he was laid np six weeks. The bullet, was never ex- tracted, and during his last illness Mr. Jamieson expressed a Wish that search should be made for it in his body after death; which. was done, and. both the bullet and a piece of bucklewere found, Mr.Jamieson having carriedthem in his body for nearly 41 years. —The community near Ailsa Craig, in thetownship of Lobo., were pained last Monday week by -the announce- ment of the sudden death of a young lady named Elizabeth ,Walker, who was well known and highly respected in the neighborhood. She was engaged. to be married to Mr. John Cousins, and the ceremony was shortly to be cele- brated. As soon as the young .raan heard of the Sad event which had. -hap- pened to his .betrOthed, he was seized with a frenzy of grief, and retiring to his room, cut his throat from ear to ear. He was found weltering itt his blood, but still alive. Medical aid was promptly sumnaoned, and everything done that was possible to staunch the flow of biood,1 and it is thought he may yet recover. The young lady's mother, upon hearing ofher death, was so affec- ted that she died also. The sad affair has cast a gloom over the neighbor- hood, the young couple being both well known and respected. —The • Middlesex " Enoch Arden Case" is no doubt fresh itt the minds of the reading public. The leading fea- tures of it were: John McArthur, the plaintiff, owned a lot in the township of Ekfrid. Ile left Canada in 1847, leaving his wife iV possession of the lot. He remained absent for 30 years, during which time his wife never heard from him and. supposed him dead. In 1852 she married Alex. Davidson, by whom, she had. six children. She and Davidson mortgaged the lot to the Canada Permanent Building Society, and the Conapa.ny selling it to Eglestou, the defendant in the case. Mr. Mc- Arthur, after his return in 1877,brauglat suit to recover the lot. The case was tried before Chief Justice Harrison, without a jury, in the fall of 1877, and a verdict rendered in favor of the plam- tiff, McArthur. The defend -ants ap- pealed to the Queen's Bench. That Court, after three arguments, decided in favor of plaintiff. The defendants again appealed to the Cour s of Appeal. The Court has just dismissed the appeal with costs, 'upholding the verdict of -- Chief Justice Harrison, thus giving the land to McArthur, the first husband. --,Last week Geo. Potter, who res • 'robbed his host, and stole an - o r man's horse, was taken to the POitentiary, out of which he had only been few mouths after serving ten. year e: He was tried at Napanee, and sentenced to seven years imprison- ment for each offence, the terms to ran_ concurrently. He did not appear to feel bad at the prospect of another long term, but smilingly expressed himself "sure of a steady job," when th.e mat- ter was referred to. —The new Mennonite church about two miles from new Dundee, Waterloo county, was recently finish.ed. It is very neat wooden structure, very sub- stantially built, and cost a little over 41,000. It was dedicated to the service of the Lord. on Christmas •Day, when sermons were preached in. the morning, afternoon and evening. Verily, the old adage, " a country of churches" can ap- propriately be applied here, as there are no less than -eighteen churches and meeting houses within six -or seven miles of this place. —An owner of a dog in Stratford. was MUNI 41 and costs for haying a vicious dog, which was in the habit of assault. ing people passing. We give this item of news mainly because that it is just as well that it should be known that., persons who wish to enjoy the luxury of keeping yelping, -snarling curs around their premises, should. see that they are properly secured and not allowed to at- tack innocent pedestrians. It is a great pity that society is iaot educated enough to consider that there is nothing "mean" in carrying out the strict letter of the law in this respeot. --News from Kinmount says that a coesiderable trade in railway ties, s ngle bolts, hardwOod lumber, birch sa -logs, cordwood, tanners' bark, and fence posts, has been developed along the line of the Viotoria Railway, large qiantitiet of which are being plated al fig the line for shipment, creating a-. source of industry for a considerable number of people. The success of the construction of this road for coloniza- tion purposes, and for the development of trade that otherwise Would not exist, is certainly placed beyond. doubt. A large number of people have taken up locations for settlement aloatg its route. —A sad sight was witnessed. in Kin- caraine last Saturday week. A poor man, laboring under an attack of de- lirium tremens, Was digging_ i'nto' a snow drift with his bare hands evi- dently with. the impression that he WEIS rescuing some relative, as he kept saying, "Come out, Mary. They won't touch you now. Come, come, Mary." And upon an attempt beiii.g inade 'to lead him away he refused, exclaiming, "Do you think 1 will leave her here to die?" By being coaxed, he got into a passing sleigh and. was taken to some place where he would be eared for. Such is the result of drink. Young people, shun it. —The annual meeting of the Strat- ford Young Men's Liberal Club was held on Friday evening, when the fol- lowing officers were elected: John Idington, Q. C., President; D. B. Bur- ritt, lst Vice -President; Alex. Adair, 2nd Vice -President ; C. S. Walker, Secretary; John Brown, Treasurer; 3. F. Miller, Accountant ; I. S. Griswold, A. Scott, Fred. Scarff, J. H. Nasmyth, John Creme, Councillors. The club is every day becoming a more popular - place of resort. The reading-roora is supplied with the leading papers of the Dominion and the United States, and. the principal magazines are to be found. on the table. The club is open at all times for the use of members and strangers -whom they may introduce. —A four year aid boy, the son of Mr. John Gray, grocer, in the village a West Lorne Elgin county, met with a sad accident on Monday, 13th hist, which has since proved fatal. In: cora- party with a number of other boys, he. -was trying to get on a sleigh loaded with wood, when he Jilipped and fell, and the hind bob passed over his leg above the knee, ahnost severing it from the body. Everything that medical skill :could do was done without avail. The little sufferer was gradually be- coming weaker, until early • on the fol- lowing Wednesday morning death put an end to his sufferinas. It is only two months since- his 'little sister was drowned by filling into a well. The bereaved. parents have the sympathy a the conamunity in their sore and trying affliction. —At the Hamilton Coundii Board. the proceedings at the last meeting of the Council of 1878 were brought to a terribly tragical termination by the a-wfully sudden death of Am. Fitspat- rick. The deceased was among the first wh.o arrived at the ineethag, ana,as Chairman of Finance, it devolved upon bien to move the usual grant of $1,200 to the Mayor. The resolution was passed, and the oustonaary congr-atula- tions were being indulged ill, -when Mr. Fitzpatrick was observedto leave the Chamber and enter one of the ante- rooms. He was followed by the mes- senger and requested the latter in a faint voice to bring hinux a glass of water, which he proceeded to do. Medical aid was also summoned; but it proved. of no avail, as they found the patient unconseious, and soon after he breathed his last. Deceased was in- jured in the street by a runaway horse several weeks ago, but had recovered sufficiently to be about as usual. The sad event, however, leaves little room for doubt that the injuries then received were more serious than his friends, or perhaps himself, imagined.