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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-04-11, Page 1APRIL 4,, 1879. emeetate sone le John Vesey J J. Nto D.IEllenbaum 1, H. Weber itat 3, Ed. Bowes 3, X. Fren- -j. Ling 2, S. Dunn 2, atta etrsone each : Kernighan, Z D. Johns, Wm. Deir, an. Abe Jilman„ C. s W. Burgess, Geo. Tapsoa, Joseph Culah; Jos. Fit:deer, ieepabe, H. Cadraer, Thos. Wm. Brown, J. H. Elliott, nd J. W. Ring. trouble trouble,. team •oubles you. Dont worry ffects of theNational Polley. lie people's friend , will k-eep, '1.ctwn. The change in the - El no difference in Maley & . prices. We have a large English, Scotch and Can - (1.s at the old prices. No- ) things under cost to cheat (mare dealing in, every thing that accouuts for the warm going into the Oak ng Establishment. Arrived ke second lot of those cedettie Hets. The magnitude , end the variety of styles, tn. to be fully- appreciated. ' are selling repidly,especiale :new tariff has been unfold- & ANDF.ASON, Seaferth. Trr E NT. eDOUCALL & CO. asuro in Announcing /amorous Friends and 'a that they have add - Ar already Extensive Businsss ,..11Y DEPARTMENT Engaged an Experi- iiner to take Charge )epartment, we have ddence in recoramend- o the Ladies of Bea- , vicinity. prise the Latest Nov - he Season, Purchased p -est Prices, from the Louses in the Trade. E STYLES onstantly Added to frame all the Leading id English Fashions, arsonaliy by our Mr. who is now in En - :THING NEW; pay Every Lady to oods_ before making g Purchases, as the, all New, -DSTOCK.,. archaser can rely Mt Latest Styles out. HOW .t001‘11‘ OW OPEN, t cordially ask fro* n INSPECTION OF OUGALL & CO' iTters and Dealers itv boods Only. TWET__;FTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 592. 11 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY APRIL 11, 1879. 'BROADFOOT & BOX, SEAFORT1EL, UNDERTAKERS; &C. EINERAiS ATIRNDE. D ON THE SHORTE6T .NOTICP. COFFINS AND SHROUDS • ALWAYS ON HAND. , — HEARSE FOR. HIRE.. , REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. 310ROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, that con- venient and desirable residence on the corner of High and Market Streets, lto1y occupied by Dr. Vereoe. Apply to DR. V1R00E. 988 _ WfITJEVALE.—New Dwellin House in Bluevale ox sale • story aud a halt,18x26, with lciteheu attached 14;18; extra well finished ; one quarter ecre lot well fenced and pump.- Price, aa500. Ap- ply to JOSEPH BURGESS,131uovale. '589 FOR SALE.—For Sale a first class Planing Mill, nearly new and iu geed running order, situated in the flourishing Town of Sea.forth, Will be sold cheap. Terme easy. Enquirer of SECORD, COSSENS & CO., Goderich, Ont. -17-10R—sii<T41.—The subscriber has for sale a. 50 serelot in. the township of atcliillop, County of Huron, 20 acres are cleare1 and the balance well timbered with beech and maple. The property will be sold cheap. Apply to JAS. 11. BENSON, Solicitor, Seaforth, Ont. 517 VOLLMAR COOPERAGE FOR SALE.— That lot of land, with shop, stable, boiler and enfaine, heading turner, starve jointer, planer, owing saw frame, &c., as left after Hie lire, to! be sold cheap. These machines, with small outlay, equal to new. Enquire at THE EXPOSITOR 589 • FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot No. 5, Bay - x field Concession, Godorich Township, con - gaining 85 aeres, 50 of which lard cloarecl and in a good state of cultivation. The farm is adjoining the village of Bea -field, and will be sold cheap end on favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, JUDI GOVE.NLOCK, 524 0110ICE, FARM FOR .SALE—Being Lotl 4, Con. 7, Hallett, County of Huron; 100 war s ; 80:cleare5, well underdrained, and in a good state of cultivation; buildings convenient and gocid ; terms easy. Per further particulars apply! to Iteasts..Ale0.A,IFGRE3 &PIOLMES1.1A), Seriforth, oron the premises, to WM. E. COLDWELL. Cart- atence P.-0. , 566 17i17;i1A1314' FAltat F6R, SALE.—For Sale, -• the east half of Lot No. 4, Con. 4, H. R. S., TriekersmitlaCounty of Itur'ou, consisting of 50 -aexes, 31 miles from the Town of Seaforth, and coavenient to school.Thc. land is of the very' best quality. For farther pareuitirs apply to TalfleS PICKARD., opposite th premises, or ',to EgmOndville P. 0. r 5I4- 2 . . _ _......._. . j-ifTUSE AND LOT IN SEAFORTH FOR SALE.—For Sale, o.dondortable frame dwell- ing house and a quarter -acre lot, on the corner of Market aud Louisa streets; there are six rooms and a kitchen, 3 -up-stairs and 3! down ; ' good well, stable and wood -shed; the house is well finished, arid the lot well fenced.; Apply -on the premises. PETER DALEY. ' 585 1111LACK.S.fiTH 81101' FOR SALE.—Fr Sale, the Village of jamestean, a good blaCksreith shop, with three- quarters of an aare of lend at- tached, in which aro a numberOf choiee fruit tiaea. There is also a stable au the premises. This property is situatedin a god. lecality, and will be sold on terms to Suit purchaser. Apply. dn _ thepremises to JAMES LYNN, jainestown. • ta 584. 110 USE AND LOT IN SEAFORTIL—For sale, the house and lot: formerly occupied by Mr; C. Friel, on Mau Street, Seaferth ; th.e house is neiv, and contains seven rental; there -is also at' atahle on the premises ; the property is con- veniently &knitted to the. bueiness part ! of the' town.; 5350 of the. purchase- Money 'moth, the lmilance to suit purchasers; • apply to A. sTuoNft.. Land Agent, Seaforth. 589x4 WARM FOR SALE.—Lot 22, Con. 3, to7,vriship Hay, County of Huron, about,one mile, from the flourishing village of Hensall and the London, Heron and lattice Railway, comprising 100 acres, tifieieared„ soil clay loam, in a gocd state 'of - cul- tivation,good buildings and lenges and a acted orchard, three never failing 'wells); the situabtion as: regards neighborhood, see o ols, I:lurches roads. ; For terms s JAS.- WEIR, 589x4 markets, (ke., cannot be sarpas apply on the premises; or addre Ren,all P. O. UNDER -CRUST ENC4LISH OPINION. ' WHAT A BRITISH WORKMA.N T KS OF THE PERFORMANCES IN SOTJT AF ICA —SLACK WORK AND WIDESP1 EAD IIS- ERY—THE AMIE VEMENTS OF HE BRITISH DETECTIVE FORC IN THE • CASE Ol? PEACE. •MANCHESTER, ENG., Miirch 17, 1879. - Those " heathen Zulus" not allow us to do all the slauahteiing busi- ness alone, but. *actually had t e irnPu- dence and audeeity to take th greatest part of it out af our hands, so that in- stead of eur spare time being akeu up in hunting them, it has ta en us all our time to prevent them from hunting us and almost annihilatieg o r men. In. fact, as you all know loteg be ore this, one fiue regiment. of "ours" got com- pletely annihilated, '" cut to pieces," "brutally massacred," or a y other horrible term that can be ,a plied to fitly describe the awful fate t iat befel those fine fellows who com tosed it. Now this is a sort of treatment that does not take well with us, bec use we are quite unaccustomed to 't. We should take it very badly fro a civi- lized army trained to absolute perfec- tion in the art of taking life ,• -foemen like these would be somewhat worthy of our steel; • but for these iserable blacks to take such a mean a vantage of us is something.dreadfully unendur- able. Therefore we are goin to but - Ghee those Zulus with a pro ,er good will, only our good will is of a wicked port, and means wer instead o peace. It takes the form of a vengean e most deep arid deadly. From thronz to cot- tage nothing is heard but a cry or ven- geance. One of our poets has already shrieked out this sentiment a idst a multitude of similar ones: " To -morrow ! God hasten tomo row ! That, with Sabre, and rifle and acm, We may wipo out this chapter of s rrow Anil slanghterarach Zulu-boni 80 1" These are brave words, you kno v, from civilized Christians who are all, ays, at other times, preaching about leaving vengeance to the Lord, etc. at the lisping peer now whiues for t, and thinks it would not be a bad hing to reduce his farna-laborers' wages so that they might, earn rather more at • eldier- ing than at farm -laboring. The loafing "corner man "leans back at h s usual augle, and vows eternal vedgeance against every blooming black. nigger that opposes him in blackguardi m, and to kill scular I, my - tion to 'd Ern - every fight some Cape. la has, tmate, many would, no doubt, be glad enoug the whole lot, only for the m exertion required for the effort. Self, feel like heading a deput the Federal Comicil of Associat ployers, asking them to call upo one of their " Gaffers " to go an the " Caffres." Yet it require consideration befere going to th This disastrous n !fair at Isund had an awful ef;ect upon the c Before the cetaetrophe happene of our aristocreac heroes were d sirous of airing their heroism at this e -treme corner of Capeland, and even ou Duke of Connaught meant to make som show of business in that direction. Jut all is changed now except Lord Chel sford who ought to be. "Urgent , priv te af- fairs are once more pressing ver heavily upon our upper classes, a dth sons and brothers therefore pre er te and toast to Cape cod and.Coc tecl-u toes. Our Field Marshal Conlin nder n-Chiet went as far as Portsmo th to itness the departure of his troo s, but cliciously arra,nged for a specie train take His Royal Fighness bac again e moment the ceremony was o r. THE ROYAL WEDDING AND HUN RY SUI3JECTS; All these high and Mighty n odles are very much interested in th corn- ing royal wedding just now, and re far more anxious for an invitation o this oft -recurring event than they a e wil- ling to sacrifice -their sacred sel es �n the shrine Of patriotism. Yet t ere is no mistake about us being in A ve un - amiable humor, and I -would ser ously advise other nations not to open p any Alabama or fishery question just now. Meanwhile immense sums are sp.-, ding in arraying Windsor Castle in th suit- ably expensive fashion whieh so well befits our wealth aud wisdom vhe.n- ever a royal wedding, christen ng or burial is about to take place. ' Si e by side, however, with the glowi ac- counts which our newspapers ive of these extensive and expensive er inents, ,we find a.ccounts of in uests held on men, women and ch ldren whose deaths Occur, according o the medical evidence, "from exha, stion through want of food." So our great wealth and wisdom keeps well §-de by side with greater want and wo and both of these opposite condition will continue to grow till the end f the 'chapter headed "Imperial Mona' cher." All our relief cOmmittees have ,now sed their books, and we expect a re- n both of fine weather and full york. e weather,' however, is beh ving ieu better than the work, for w are ving both sunshiny days and oon- it nights, while thouseuds of people either out of work altogether r on 11 time or short time of some s A— bell time, short time, or n6time t all ng the rule, and full time the eeeep- vidual cases of great destitution are constantly occurring, and coroners, with their juries, are in great request at times. , HERRON'S ESCAPE FROM " JUSTICE." Next to. the great disaster in Zulu- land our greatest sensation cif the sea- son has been of the "monster murderer" sort, our pet criminal . this time being the lateinotorious Charles Peace, The minds of Meuchester men were special- ly exereised about this "burglar bold and murderer old" because he confessed to a murder committed. among us three years ago, which was much coinmented upon. at the time because it involted the prosecutiou ot three perfectly inno- cent inept, the youngest of whom was within lan ace of being hanged for a murder !committed by some one else. Our newspapers had many leading ar- ticles about this murder at the time,and their influence, together with a petition or two On the part of our inhabitants, got the man reprieved a few hours be- fore the. time fixed. for execution. Though. !sev.ed from a felon's death, he has since been leading a telon's life (only oite remove, I suppose,- from a living d.eiath), and now we are going to give him, -most graciously, though most grudgingly and very gra.dually, "a free pardon "1 for a crime which he never committed! In this we behold a beau- tiful example of our free and easy terpretation of the la,w at the expense of justice. This man was convicted solely on the evidence of detectives. Now, counting beads, there is not a more immoral clase—in fact, a more criminal classe-thau this class of men. who are paid so well to detect crimes. "We set thieves to . catch thieves." I almost believe -that there are " forty thieves" in the deteCtive force to one in any other class of men. Scarcely a week passes in which' some great officer or gangs of great officers - belon.ging to this force is not 'brought before the magistrates and charged with more crimes than ever the wh.ole. force " detected " daring their whole exist- ence. Indeed,- one of the greatest • puz-, zles our authorities have to solve just. now is how to detect the detectives." Yet these are the men who had the whole management of this man's case„ and who 'would have hanged Hebron with pleasure had not the power of the. press and the people been putforth just in time to save him from •a dreadful death. If our Home Secretary made these mon go down on their knees be- fore all England and hunably epic par- don, from every one of the Hebrons, and theu reduced • the wages of every de- tective in' the town ten shillings. a week and gave it to_ Hebron and his heirs forever, he would only be doing, scant justioe. Instead of this, he seems in- clined to. give -these real criminals great credit, while keeping theinnocent con- vict waiting for- weeks before he can ac- cord to-hiin this monstrous anomaly of "a free perdon." Returning, however, to the real: murderer, Charles Peace, you have perhaps noticed how satisfac- torily to hinaself Peace made his peace with God iand man, although he had broken the laws of both so outrageously. y You perhaps have also noticed ' how e many punediave been made upon the a poor felloW's Dame. POLITICAL senews. Only a week or so -since, one of our leading Liberals, in a splendid speech. delivered to a crowded. meeting in the Salford Town Hall, told us that "in their respective professions there was not mech. :difference between :Charles Peace and Lord Beaconsfield, except in the fact that the ;former was the far more skilful of the two." He alsoled'iii to infer that some future historian might tell us that the results were not synonymous, one being "Peace well hanged," , well -merited punish- ment, the other being "peace with honor," as an ill -gained. glory got on.. a false. pretence. Most certainly we hanged. th one and we honored the other; but in. the after -ages of time it will be a atter of wonderment why we should th-u honor a man who, in my humble opinion, has been mainly re- sponsible fer more misery and blood- shed than et thousand such men as Charles Peece would have caused; had they been llowecl to commit their de- predations iu the greatest quietness, instead of eing harrassed by detectives, and hange by the neck at last. One.of t e Speeches at the meeting referred t was made by Malcolm Macleod, Beg., a man. known to many - working men in America by a lecturing tour he made through theUnited States some years ago. He is the author of a standard brk- on emigration called " The Ern grants' Guide," which is looked upoi here as quite an- authority on this sub ect.' I have known him al- most a lifebMe myself; he is now an -employer, S ith works andoffices of his Own; no -p easauter 'recollections re- main with e than of the time when, as a workin man himself, he worked at the same shop and on the same bench with your humble servant, A BRITISE WORKMAN. . What Manitoba Can Do. -ARM FOR SALE. --That well- own and hue- w ly situated farm, Lot 1, Con. 1, Hullett, in the 4,, County of Haien, containing 100 acres, 90 eif which are cleared; there are two frame dwelling to houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house th and drivinghouse ; also orchard and abundance of water. The farm is situated two miles from the Town of Seaforth, on the Huron Itoad. For full particulars •apply to Ma:M.70a STED, Seaforth, Or to SIMON Y LING, proprie- tor, on the premises. - 553-4x jOrROPERTY VOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 14, _ Con 16, Grey; Weat half of Lot 29, Con. 6, with cheese factory cumplete ; ot 11, Coo. 6, and sonah half of Lots 16 -and 1 , Con. 5, town.: ehip of Morris • Lot 22, Con. B, a a Lot 28, Con, B, township olHowick, all good i Droved farms, together with several 50 acre far s in Grey and Morris, and honses and lots an vacant lots in the village of Brusaeha Prices 1 w, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN ECKIE, Brus- sels. 574 pAR.ai Fon SA Lal.—For Side; that most desir- able -1-: farm, being Lot .1, Con. , the town- ship of Hallett, situated 1.4- raffles rem Kinburn, and 6 miles frorn Soaforth. Ther are excellent buildings on the premises, includi g a first-elass stone house, two storey, 30 by 40 eet. A spring creek ruris through the faam; goo( orchard, good fences, and the land in an excellen state of cul- tivation. Apply on the prerhises o JAMES Me -- MICHAEL, or to MR. JAMES H. 13ENSON, Sea - forth. 562 _ TOWN PROPERTY FOR SA.LE —The proper- ty at present occupied by M. Adam Gray, situated in Coleman's survey, 0"e -half acre of ground, on which is a eomfortable and commodi- ous dwelling house, 11. storeys Ilia ; there aro 8 rooms hi the house, two fire grat s, wash room, weed shed, hard and soft water, a a good collar, and the house is one of the tin et finished in town; there is a choice bearing oi hard, and the property is situated on elevated round. From. 8.250 to 5500 cash, balance on -easy terms. Apply to A. STRONG, Land Agent, Scale th. 590x4_. Y .HOLME- VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE —ForSale the • west half of Lot 27, Con. 3, McKillop, con- clo &ninth g50 acres, known as the Deig e estate. This arm is situated within one mile tin a quarter of tut deaforth. The land is of the choicest quality. Th There is a handsome residence and bags. The I arm. is well planted wit ha uamental trees, is in excellent o -der, and well fenced- It is aamirably suited for retired genhgl - tleman, dairy -man, or market gar. leuer. Terms are easy, alus property must be sold t . A pla ha to A. STRONG, Seaforth. 539 FARM FOR 5ALE77--Sooth half f TM 26, Con. a fruit and or - 6, Monis, County of Huron, ontaining 100 bei n • as regards work. In my :own acres, kia a.eres cleared, balance 1 ardwood ; 60 ti.0 acres dear of stumps and ip-,iilrainr.el ; soil nei Olay loam; 13 litre:4 fall wheat; good bearing „ orchard; bank barn 401:60, nearly n w, and other ti.?* outbuilding:4; good log house, will new frame the addition ;9 wells;. well fenced. The ahoy° farm kno Is.only two miles from Brussels, or good gravel of roads; school houae on the lot. Fe: further par- tieulars apply ou the premises, or to C. R .Cooper, Banssels P. O. ROBERT BROADFOOT, ing gbborhood of Ancoats are many !large ton mills and machine shops : among latter are those owned by the well - Wil firms of Peel, Williams & Pee1, Soho Foundry ; Parr, Curti & Co., oenix Works; and Messrs. 1 ea her - ton ct; Sons, Vulcan Works:hese ee vast shops are all within ifive utes' walk from my own door; one hem are employing half their t eual befof hands,while those who a e at k are on very short time, and new are told that. the principal firm are ut closing their doors altogetheaand both foremen and workmen are under notice of dismissal. The cotton -mill hands have a little more work, and, as we are surrounded here with someim- raense cotton' mills, it makes t hags 11 somewhat better, despite the great de- pression in the iron trade. But nth. etor, Brussels P. 0. , 588 thr PARM FOR ai ALE subscriber offers for -4- sale Lot 22, Con. 12. of the township of Stan- ley, containing ono hundred acres, 83 acres clear ed and in a good state of cultivation, and good - fences, balanee 17 acres good hardwood bush; one half of clearing seeded down, there will be 13 min of t ULO WOT we acres of wheat put m this fall, there is about 3 acres of a thriving orehard on the premisps and abo a vataety of fruit trees all now bearing. The farm is well watered, a never failing creek runs throtigh the farm, also two good wells, largo 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 ef the village of Bayne& For further particulare apply to S. McLE AN, proprietor on the premises or to W. Connor, Bayfield P. 0. 672 The assessor of the township of Rock- wood, Manitoba, sends the following interesting etatistics to the Free Press. He says : I Having s me curiosity to know what the people the township of Roclewood are capable of doing, I determined to ascertain b, compiling a census, or sta- tistics, of p ople, produce, stock, etc., etc., for last year. When about to set out on an as essing tour, ,I prepared pa-- peVor that purpose and carried it with ,me. I WEIS requested to publish these statistics, mid having summed them up I determine to do so, and with your permission beg to submit the follow- ing: Exclu ive of the convicts and their keeper at the penitentiary, we have a pop lation of 217 souls -111 males and 16 females. We cultivate 1,065acres o land, and have 508 acres enclosed for asture and other purposes. We sowed 528 acres of wheat, and threshed therefrom 10,081 bushels. had 74 acres of barley, producing 1; bushels. In oats 241 acres, return 9,414 bushels. Potatoes 18 acres, p duct, 3,180 bushels. In the sowing a handling of this crop, along with 1,7 tons of hay, we employed 26 ho teams, 33 ox teams; and 16 reaping a 31 mowiag Machines. , Although we into root crops, millet, flax, etc., etc sought no returns in them. In sto we have 74 head of horses. A.mong t drivers, saddle, • general purpose a draught, we have a number of P vincial 'winners. Cattle 336 head, 98 them cows, from which our wives a daughters made 13,886 pounds of b ter, In this class We have a f thoroughbred short -horns, and a nu ber of short -horn grades, Provinc winners here too. Sheep, only 152, so winners; the whole clipping 926 lbs. wool. . Our hensIcackled over 2,893 doze of eggs. The farmers seem to be ha on beef, having killed, consumed or so on foot 29,998 lbs. of it. Pork :got at 13,680 lbs. We kept 64 pigs f breeding purposes. Full bloods som of them, Provincial takers too, a sonee from the- Model Farm, °uteri We sol 892 cords of wood, a broke acres of prairie. Now, cur -tail his statement, I mention dogs. I saw yew' issue of the 8th inst. stamen of a, crop produced by 2,8 Mennonit s, the inhabitants of 25 v lages. T ey show an area of 10,4 acres uud r cultivation last year. Th is an acre ge per head of the populatio of 3.657. We, with our population. .217, culti ate 1.065 acres, an acrea per head- f 4.909. They produced 125 000 bush ,ls of wheat—a. return p head of 1.399. Now, we had. 10,08 bushels, r turn per head 4.641. Do n take it th t 'making this conapariso I seek to isparage the energy or indu try of th Mennonites. • In these r spects thet are in the highest degre commend ble, but being aware tha our num ers at first sight appear small, I an endeavoring to show tha our propo Monate results are great. I may be se d that they raise other crop So do we, s I have already shown. 0 the whole I am much pleased with the showing, nd I must acknowledge that it affords no inconsiderable degree of satisfactio to those of us who com- posed the alter's dozen. who came here in '71 and '72, and struggled through four conse utive years of the grass- hoppers, oming out with depleted pockets, t. see that he a race with hard working p ople we come out ahead. Three ye rs ago they started with money in heir pockets, We started at the same t me with comparatively noth- ing in our „ We 918 ing ro- nd 22 rse nd go ., I ck he nd TO - of nd ut- ow rn- ial me of ns rd ld off or nd o. nd to 53 a 41 il- 70 is 11 of go er ot n, s- e - $2,000 can in three years make himself a comfortable home with very httle la- bor.. A person coming here' with very little capital would have to endure a great deal of hardship. This is not much of a place for a laboring man; not much work here in the winter, ex- cept to get home a little firewood and rails, which farmer -Can do themselves. They have no money to pay* men. A Man can take his team and go out for a load of wood. in a day that will last a couple of stoves two weeks in the win- ter. If a man could get here by the 1st of April, or sooner, he could get some crop in, but if he waits till May it would be too late for a crop the same season. The prairie should be broken in June or July. It is plowed about two inches deep the first time, let lie till fall, then turned. back again two yr three inches deeper, bringing allthe soil possible up; then sow in the spring. We have had a steady, cold winter ; the mercury has been 47 below zero, and frozen at that. We had six or seven very stormy days. It is very dry here in wiriter—no .wet feet. We dress to suit the cold. Wheat brings 30c. to 50c.; oats, 30c. to 750.; barley, 40c.; peas, $1. If you come, you better briug a span of nice young mares with you. Oxen are very slow when a man has been used to horses. If yon have things of every kind you think you will want here, you better bring them, than sell them for little or nothing. I could not tell -what it costs to bring horses here.- We like this country well. There is room for about 45,000,000 of people. It is calculated that about 40,000 or 50,000 people are corning here this spring. I have told you as near the thing as possible. Hoping this will be satisfactory, I remain, yours respect- fully, EMMA. HUGHES. GLADsToNB, March 12th, len. • Canada. —A mastiff bitch, belonging to a To- ronto boy, has produced no less than 17 pups at a birth. . —An organization for conducting a t beet sugar factory was established at t New Hamburg last Saturday. s. -LA. reduction in the wages of the n Grand Trunk employees is contemplat- ed, owing to the depression in traffic. —The Tecumseh Base Bali Club has been re -organized at London. It will be a purely amateur concern this season. —One hundred and twenty emigrants from England passed over the Great Western Railway for Winnipeg the other day. —Two Ainericans were at Brantford this week, making arrangements for the starting of an organ finishing factory in that city. —Quilt of many proportions: Miss Minnie Hea, of ,Raleigh, Ont.; 2,888 pieces. That's somewhere near the bead. of the class. —The consecration of Bishop Sweat- t man takes place at Toronto, on the 1st t of May, when all the Bishops itt the r Previece will be present. • —A school teacher in- Middlesex county, who wished_ to resign his posi- tion, advertised for a substitute, and by o one mail had 28 applications. —The grand jury at the Hastings' 'As- p sizes in their presentment recommend- t ed that the verdict of the majority 1 should by law be made sufficient. —The party that left Paris for Mani- toba last week represented $250,000 c The passage money paid was over $15,- It 000. Two bands played. the emigrants d off. —Thomas Benson, of Orangeville, is a now in. his SOth year, and is the father d of ten children, grandfather of fifty- t seven, and great-grandfather of six- -There is a new church started in y London, Out., which forbids the mem- w bers wearing gay colors,flowers,feathers, H ribbons, or fancy trimming on any gar- y ment. iv —A 25 -mile pedestrian contest be- tween Miss Jessie Morahan, a Montreal r space annihilator, and. a young man, is the latest phase in the walking o craze. —F. Heeslop, one of the contestants th in a Peterboro' walking match, WAS h suddenly taken ill shortly after retirteig s from the track, and had. to be removed fo home in a sleigh. th —The Warden of Leeds has given & $15 for the bestand second best babies at the coming South Leeds fall show. pr Here's a chance for our Huron County M Warden to do likewise. —A second party for Manitoba, con- po sisting of one hundred and twenty-five T persons, has been organized at Ottawa. th They took with them twelve car loads m of freight, and left on Tuesday last. ne —At Brentwood, Simcoe county, re- cently, a corpse, before being interred, M was dressed in a bran new suit of da clothes made for the purpose, and a no watch chain atts.ched to the vest as in de life. ca —The survey and final location Of Al the Stratford and Huron Railway froiii. la Listowel to the Georgian Bay has bee* len commenced. It is expected the survey will be completed in. about three Me mouths. ere — The Hon. W. P. Howland, ex- sto Lieut. -Governor, was recently the re- ag cipient of a postal card containing a On threat against his life. It warned him fra that he had. only ten days to live, and. sta was signed by a resident of Centre street, aft Toronto. tim —A Guelph paper describes the mo escape of one Jacques, Singer sewing als machine agent, who was once of is h Guelph, and who was arrested at Elora, on a charge of "pecuniary bara- Ha boozlement." The phrase is good ; we cie have heard till -tapping called. pecumary in prestidigitation. Ke —Last Sunday three men visited the tow house of Wm. Hood, a farmer, residing Gr about six miles out of Guelph, and while the one held his hands and another his feet, to t the third proceeded to ransack the to house, and carried off the sum of $1,200, or which Mr. Hood had received. the day said preview! in. part payment for a farm t The foll Mr. Stirliu his in Gla many are may not b DEAR SI questing m tion about now try an ference bet tario. Nea here is te.k or 10 miles here, whic to $10 per ments. M but a little have no st stones or t plow right When well of wheat many peas Potatoes fr acre, end o kinds of ve of hay to g about 100 about 40. where ther both doing another at Mauitoba. there. Th very easily prairie, some covered with willow and poplar blu s, and some with rose bushes. T ere are large belts of tim- ber here an there all over the country, mostly popl r and spruce, some very good oak an some very scrubby; ma- ple, birch, hite ash, cedar and pine -grey, in so ee parts. There is a large belt of woofs about five miles from Gladstone, nostly poplar. There is a steam saw nd shingle mill about 18 miles from here. Spruce and poplar lumber is $ 0 per thousand; pine, from $30 to $80; hingles, $5 per thousand. Dry goods a e as cheap as in Ontario • groceries a little higher; horses per team, from 100 to $500 ; oxen, from $100 to $15 ; oows, from $25 to $60 each; good heep, $12 each; pigs a lit- tle higher t in Ontario; eggs, 25c. per &Fen ; butter, 25c. per lb. Ma- chinery of a 1 kinds can be bought at Winnipeg, ortage La Prairie and Gladstone, t reasonable prices. We have reaper here that bind the grain themselves. Our cash markets for grain and .tock are Winnipeg and Portage. "e expeot a cash market here soon, a Winnipeg t stone consis post office, o and general store, one sh blacksmith s one doctor, o church, ono: grist mill, be ling houses, ings, and a b spring. Ex summer and iniprovemen tion. There through. Glaf stone, it being situated on the trail lead ng to the ear West. A man coming if ere with from $500 to Manitoba. wing is a, letter received by , Stanley, from a friend of stone, Manitoba, and as so oing thither this spring, it uninteresting: t,--1 received your letter re - to give yeti some informa- his country, which I will do. There is a wide dif- veen this country and On- ly all the good land around n up, but there is some 8 away. The .land around. can be bought, is from $2 cre, according to improve- st of the land here is good, alkaline inlsome places. We reps to contend with; nO istles ; nothing to do but long and . get good crops. •ut in, we realize 50 bushels per acre; oats, 70. Not own, but berley does well. m 400 to 500 bushels per her roots in proportion. All °tables do well here. Plenty for the cutting. We are ilea from Winnipeg, and rom Portage La Prairie, are two largo grist mills, a big business. There is the Totogau near Lake We are about 20 miles from land here is a sandy loam, vrought ; some of it is clear o a railway, to start from. lis- next summer. Glad - of one grocery store and le hotel, one dry goods tore, one farra implement e shop, one tin shop, two ops, one cheese factory, e new school house, one team. saw mill, one steam ng built ; about 20 dwel- four or five more build - ick yard commencing this ect a new court house this two new hotels, and other s too numerous to men - is a great deal of travel Is McLEAN BROS., Publishers. t *1.50 a Year, in Advati oe. which he had sold. The robbers es- caped, there being at present no clue to their identification, as Mr. Hood could not describe them. ' —The Belmont cheese factory re- quires the milk of nearly 2,000 cows to keep it running, and last year's cheese amounted in value to a.bout $35,000. —A mass mooting of the working classes will be held shortly in Guelph, to discuss the National Policy. Mayor Howard will receive a requisition for this purpose. —B. Corthew, Collector of Customs at Guelph, was struck down by a, par- alytic stroke while sitting in a chair his residence on Sunday. He is in a critical condition. position, as his lifeless body was found on the following morning. An inquest was held before C. E. Ewing, coroner, and a verdict returned in accordance with tleese facts. Mr. McDonald had reached his fifty-third year,and was une married. —A genuine Highland marriage party honored the , town of Durham, Grey county, with visit one day last week. The procession. was headed by .the inevitable bag' pipes, and, altogether the party presented rather a, gay as- pect. —Parkhill is 'possessed of quite a at novel industry—it is the aDnly ]lace itt Canada where moulding kinves—sur- face and edge cutters for shaping and - moulding neachines—are made. This new Can a.dian enterprise was established in Parkhill by Mr. D. P. Campbell. —Chatham can now boast of having the youngest editor in the Dominion, if not in Anierica, and probe,bly the young- est in the world. Master George Payne, aged 11 years, has published a nice little four page monthly sheet, called The Youth's Paper, and al- ready has quite a little subscription A . r. —There was sawed on the farm of ed Mr. David McIntosh-, of West Zorra, oia to the 24th ult., by Messee. Morrison And Clark, with it six -horse power dragsaw, es- 96 large maple and beech logs, some ex- y's needing three feet in diameter. The 8:- time occupied was 7 hours and 25 min - in ntes. ' This is undoubtedly an exanaple as of fast work. —A young mail by the name -of h Henry Taylor, who was employed with as Mr. John Douglas, on the 9th line -of he St. Vincent, Grey" county, met with a n sad accident by getting his hand into a u- cutting box. The hand. and arm were all chopped off to the elbow, said was - amputated above the elbow. Tbe poor s young fellow bore the operation with h, soldier -like strength. a- —The sea,son for " impossible" hen's - eggs has 'Come, and no -doubt we will re- ceive our usual quota -of double -yoked —The Teeswater Skating and Curl- ing Club Joint Stock Company, ha,ve settled up their last year's business, and. paid the handsome dividend of $3.12 upon every $5 share, —Messrs. Edward. Stewart and An- gus Mathevison; of West Williams, cut half a cord. of hard wood in ten min- utes, and cut a hard wood log 20 inches in diameter in 35 seconds. —It seems all classes of people are affected with the Manitoba fever. Presbyterian' clergyman, the Rev. M Lawrence, of Adelaide, has rem:ov with his family, and intends going in farming in the Prairie Province. —A fire at Enniskillen on Wedn day of last week destroyecIP. Marone =liege works and the Methodist Epi copal church. Maroney was insured the Royal for $600, but the church w uninsured. —At a public naeeting of the Guelp Council, on Friday evening last, it w decided to hold the celebration of t inaugaration of the City of Guelph o the- 23rd inst., the date originally a flounced. —John Collins, arrestjd St. Thorn. as on a chaege- of concealment of book from the official assignee at Guelp has been adjudged guilty of a contr vention of the Insolvency Act, and cora mitted for trial. —Mr. John Phin, of Waterloo, ha sold three of his, fat steers to the 0 tawa butcher who supplies the Governo General. The price paid was $13. each or about 6ic. per lb. liv Good beasts and ts good. sale. —In the to tenship of Dunwich, coun ty of Elgin, the printing of the voter lists for 1877, cost 8195; and in 187 $65. Some of our municipal Council in Huron grumble sadly because the‘ have to pay $30 for the same work. —Christopher Fee, a boy of 9 years o age, was arrested. at Loudon on Frida afternoon upon a charge of drunken ness. The boy presented a Most pitiabl plight, being unable to stand from the effects of whiskey which he ha drank. —At Kincardine, ori Weduesda night of last week, snow fell evith al be fury of a December storm. Th rain due at five was an hour late, an °ports the road considerably blocked The storm was fatly as bad as that o January. —Some days ago, Mr. Hugh Patton f Ops township,- drew into Lindsay with a team of horses weighing 2,28 (minds, a load of wood which turned he scales at 7,730 pounds. To get the owl onto the scales he had to drive ver—Hb a. rre T, ground.eet er of Teeterville, has ompleted arrangements with H. P eer, the perpendicular jumper .into eep waters, for a grand. leap from the ew Suspension Bridge. over the' Ni - gar a River into the depths below, a istance of 192, feet. This event- will ake place about the 20th -of May. -.-A Parkhill gentleman has in his ossession a Bible printed in the ear 1591—consequently 288 years old, hich belonged to Oliver Cromwell. e has also a testament printed in the ear 1633, a most elaborately worked ory card case of considerable anti- uity, together with a lot of other elics. —A young man named Arthur Kidd, f Rice Lake, who had hithertO borne it ood reputation and was a member of e Young Men's Christian Association, as been sentenced at the Cobourg As- izes to tvtelve months imprisonment r stealing goods from his employers, general store firm of Cole, Saunders Rose. —A farmer near Pine River, of a actical turn of mind, whose name is r. Thos. Weigle, has erected a wind - ill on the top of his bane, for the pur- se of chepping grain and cutting feed. he arms are nine feet in length, and e diameter conseqelently 18 feet. This ill is more powerful than is actuelly cessary for the purpose. —There is one brave young lady in iddlesex county anyway. Miss Bell, ughter of the postmaster at Nairn, tieing the roof of Mrs. Fraser's resi- nee in flames, rushed. to the scene, rrying a ladder on her shoulder. one, and with two pails, the young dy worked so strenuously that she at gth subdued. the flames. —We are pleased to bear. that the rchants Bank of Canada has recov-. d. the greater part of the money len from it by its Owen Sound man- er and a confederate last Christmas. e of the parties , to this miserable ud has become insane, and it is ted he is now under confinement, er having spent some considerable e in a Buffalo jail. It has been ru- red, indeed, that the other is insane o. Verily, the way of transgressors ard. —Mr. Alex. MeDonald, Secretary of mitten Township Agricultural So- ty, was on Mondey night °fleet week Cobourg. On his way home, to Mr. rris farm on the north-east of the n, he took the short tut by the and Trunk Railway. In crossing in dark the high bridge over the gully he east of Cottsmore-avenue, he [fell the ground, a distance of twelve fifteen feet, WIN stunned by the fall, Suffocated by the mud and water a he gaily. At least this is the sup- s fruit. We hear of several competitors t- among the feathered tribe. The last ee -heard from is it black Spanish hen, 0 owned by Mr. George Russell. For e. weeks at a stretch this useful bird has every day laid a double -yoked egg, 8x, - inches in circumference. s' —At the Peel Assizes, on Saturday, 8, John Jennings, George Thompson, Wm. s Black, and Roland Jackson were tried. y for burglarizing a store in Dixie in -Feb- ruary last, and sentenced. to SaVell f years, six years and eix months, , five y years, and four years and six months, - respectively-, in the Kingston Peniten- e tiary. Vele will dispose of four of the worst ruffians in Western Canada,. d —A baby -farming nest has been dis- covered in Hamilton, kept by one Nellie y Smith, a worn= who, although. never 1 married., has been the mother of five e cnildren, all of whom are dead, and in el, whose care three others out of four - • have since died. Nellie's !original name f was Dawson. She ran away with her brother-in-law, Jack Young, evho was , hanged 111'1876 for the murder of ya.c- , &nada. 0 —Last Saturday, at Weston, the ease of Charles McBride, of Ilogg's -Hollow, . charged by Inspector McConnell, of West York, with contravening the Dun- kin Act by selling a, cra,cker and then giving liquor away with it, came up for . judgment before Messrs. Wallace and Crookshanks, Justices of the Petteee The magistrates fined McBride $30 and costs, with the alternative of sixty days' imprisonment. —The fields of winter wheat around Newina.ritet,are presenting it very prom- ising appearance just at present,but the frosteenights and cold winds will soon have their effeot if they continue. A considerable breadthwassown last fall, and a good deal of anxiety ie felt as to the character of the weather, Aneariy opening up would be very acceptable just now. —A single lady, who keeps a store in Toronto, went to New York three weeks ago to bny t some goods. While there she fell in with a stranger who subsequently professed a strong attach- ment for her, and, returning home with her, proposed marriage and. was accept- ed. The lady gave Eine $600 to buy , furniture the day after their arrival here. With this the man departed,and has net been seen ,since. —A tramp, whoee name is said to be Duffy, was struck by the cow -catcher of an engine on the Grand Trunk Rail - why, as he lay drunk upon -the track, nearly half way between Cobourg and Grafton. He was brought to Cobonrg station, and. his wounds, which were of a sothewhat serious character, dress- ed. A black bottle was found by his side. He was then sent to jail. —About a month ago an employee of the Montreal Rubber Conaps.ny, named William Bruce, while working ran a nail through the sole of his foot, inelud: in -g boot and all. This accident necesti- itated cessation from labor for a 'week or. so, when he returned. to the shop in apparent good health. Three days at - ter symptoms of lock jaw began to ap- pear, and he was removed to the Moue ' treaI General Hospital, where Ire died on. Tuesday of last week, in great agony. —An Ottawa paper (the Citizen) calls attention to an advertisement of Pur- cell & Ryan in, the St. Paul Press, ha which they advertise Tor 2,000 men to work on the Thunder Bay section of the Canada Pacific Railway. It then -adds: Messrs. Purcell & Co, may be good contractors, but we venture to say that had they desired to employ Can- adian money in feeding and. employing Canadian laborers, they might have found their 2,000 toilers in. Ontario and Quebec. It is a crying shame that they failed to recognize the d-ealora,ble state of our working population, and to make such arrangements as would secure em- ployment for hundreds only too anxious to do something for a living. If the action of Meters. Purcell & Co. can ha any way be nullified it should be done at once. • !