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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-05-23, Page 1way 161 1879, ate, except a few remarka from bson at a coramittee Meeting., ss men here all complain, of the :is of trade and scarcity of rosmay. lime *arks are now iiafufliim JAE& on hand at all times. --Tat 11 is runuing fult time. The pro_ eomplain of the ecaecity ea 'for lumber and shingles, of, wheat lave considerable qua,ntitaea f all varieties and at lowest fig. The National Policy has no Td the 'timbering trade. Toronto lease copy. • LARGEST STOOK —OF -- DRESS GOODS, Lao TUE S�' .A..1.4 EVER OFFERRD cDOUCALL a W he Greatly depressed state ea Europe. our Mr. McDougall urea for Cash a lot of Dress a -c., at Lower Prices then the an be made for. DTIGH AND COMPARISON I CONFIDENCE INVITER. uee can. buy -Better; No House :1,1v sell upon a smaller Profit; use can offer greater feacliante al very few equal. it.lth Ltzstres. New Shades, 10 ,per yard. !;!ith. Lustres, Extra Heavy, 115 per yard. ridtl Balmoral Twills, :10 watt trd. Vidth French Cashmere% 25 ! per yard. idth AU Wool Pottle Bege, 30 per yard. Gsea,t Bargains at N, $1,10 Silk. New Shades, 85 cents, 4(1.95. .ON GOODS. ..-. rasiiing Prints, 5 cents per , Cotton, 6 cents per yard. de Towelling, 6 cents per yard; Liuen, 10 cents per yartti- rLEs MANTLES/ !sortie lot of French,.*Pattere. !m. Oashruere and Worsted .rice. I.ERY DEPARTMENT. Selection. of Paris and -.flats, Feathers and Flowerla oilks and Ribbons, in. the of the Moat Fashionable e will be found the most el- ae, Seaforth. eltould see our Show' re Purchasing. to Show Goods. .VIDDOUPALL & 004 nportere and DealerS >17 Goods Only. 1 11 TWELFTH YLbl.A.R,. WSOLE NUMBER, 598 SEiAFORTI-1, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1879. { McLEAN BROS.: Publishers. li1.50 a Year in Athkance. REAL ESTATE FOIR SAL 'PROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, that con - 11. lenient and desirable residence on th eonaerl apligh and Market Streets, la ely OCOr. ied by Dr. Vercoe. Apply to DR. VE COE. 488 .-------- iaLUEVALE.—New Dwelling onse in lnevale - .Dor sale; story and a half, 18 26, with' itchen attached 14x18 ; extra well finished; one nartet *re lot well fenced and pump. Prieo, $5 0. Aa.. jay to JOSEPH BURGESS, Blu vale. 589 SALE.—For sate a first class laning E mill, nearly new and in good running order, • d in the flourishing Town of Seaforth, win be sold cheap. Terms easy. Enqmr, e of swain"), COSSENS & CO., Goderich, On.. DAR 31 AND TOWN PROPEik FOR ,SALE, --- • J PRICES TO .SUIT THE TIMES.—Lot 17, clothe llth concession! McKillop; price 640 per mac; Building lots in different part s of the town ot Seaforth; purchasers can make their own bans ptpayment, at 8 per cent.interest.' JAS. BEATTIE. . -1 591 • -Latlaal FOR SALE.—For SaleLop No. 5, 13ay- r field Concession, Goderich Township, eon- *ining85 acres, 50 of which are'cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The farm is adjoining gmaillage of Bayfield, and will be sold ch4ap and ea favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, 1011N GOVa;NLOCK. 1 . 524 ft- MICE FARM FOR SALE—Being Lot 4, eon. 7, Hullett, County of Huron; 100 acrea ; teeleared, well underdrained, and in a geed state of cultivation; buildings convenient and good; terms easy. For further panticalars apply to Messrs.McCAUGIIEY &HOIZIESTED, Seaforth, or on the premises to WM. E. COLDWE L. Oen- stance P. O. 1 555 ----,-- ITALIJABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, w the east half of Lot No. 4, ICon. 4, 11, R. S., Tuckersmith, County of Huron, }consisting of 50 acres, n miles from the Towniof Seaforth; and convenient to school. The land is of the ve y beet quality. For further .particulars apply o JAMES PICKaaRD, opposite the premiises, oa o ll gmondville P. 0. . WARM AND TOWN PROPERi'Y FOR ' SALE, - - X affalAP.—Lot No, 24, Gond 9, McKillop, 1, 0 saes; north half Lot 80, Con. j 9, McKillop, 0 sues; north half of north half! Lot 31, Con. 9, McKillop, 25 acres; residence ocoupied by Mr. likleolmson on Gouinlock Garvey, Seaforth; bufidiag lots on Jarvis' and F. G. Sparlin 'a SO - 'toys. Apply to GRAY, Youf,"q a SPA LING. Seaforth. 595 FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale; the west I, part of : Lot No.1, Con. 17, Grey, containing 50 acres, 80.of which are °leered, well feneed, and in a state et good cultivation. There is a good frame house, go ad °retard and plenty of water. It is on the gravel road leading to Brussels -1,13.d Seaforth, and adjoins a' church and school. in is also within balf smile of the Village of Walton. Apply on the premises or to Walton Post (*ace. -CHARLES MCFROHIE. 498 'FARM FOR SALE.—That well-known and fine- lyaituated farm, tot 1, Con; 1, ilallett, in the Comity of Huron, containing 1100 acres; 90 of which are cleared.; there aro two frame dwelling houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house and driviughouse ; also orchardand abundance of water. The farm is situated tivo miles from the Town of Seaforth, on the linson Road.ilFor hill iculars apply to adeCAUGHEY & OLME- Seaforth, or to SIMON TOUNG, proprie- tor, on the premises. 553-4x pThaPERTY FOR SALE.—Fr Salo; Lot 1,14, Con 16, Grey; West half Of Lot 29, Oen. 6, with cheese factory complete; Lot 14, Coal 6, and south half of Lbts 16 and 17, Com 5, town - 'hip of Morris '• Lot 22, Con. B, and Lot 28, Con. townahip ofHowiek, all good improved farms), together with several 50 acre farms in Gaey and Ilorris and houses and lots itxtd vacant lots in the vilage of Brusiels. Prices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Bras- . eels. ' 574 FFOR SALE.—For Sale, that most desirl able farm, being Lot 1, Con. 6, in the town- ship of Hullett, situated 1 miles from lainburn, and 6 miles !sena Setiforth. There aro excellent. buildings on the premises, inchiding a first-class stone house'two storey, 30 by a10 feet. A spring areek tuna through the farra; good orchard, good fences, and the land in an excellent state of dui-. tivation. Apply on the prensiscis to JAMES Mc- IIIORAF,L, or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Sea - forth. 562 . I TIESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.— For -"-' Sale, acornfortable brick Ccittage with 8 acres al choice land, in Roxboro, township of McHillop, within two miles and a half of Seaforth. There is arm orchard of clioiee bearing -frit trees, also veils, stable, blacksmith shop, and -all necessary conveniences. It is pleasantly 'situated, b.nd is a mast desirable property for a retired farmer or a market gardener. It will be sold. ()heap and on sky terms of payment if desired. Apply to 'the proprietor on the promises or tto Seaforth P.I 0. THOMAS HYSLOP. 1 593 VALUABLE FARM FOB SALE.—For Sale the ' west hall of Lot 27, Con.3, Meliillop, eon - Seining 50 acres, known as the Deigle estate. 'this krm is situated within one mile and a quarter of lieaforth. The land is of th€1 choicest quality. There is a handsome residence and good autbuild- Ings. The farm is well planted iwith fruit and or- namental trees, is in excellent Order, and pi ell famed. It is admirably suited for a retired gen- tleman, a dairyaman, or market gardener. Terms nay. This -property must be sold at once. Apply W.A. STRONG, Seafortla. • i 589 „ VARkt FOR SALE.—South half of Lot 26, Con. •`• 6, Morris, County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 85 acres cleared, balaae hardwOod ; 60 acres clear of stumps and underdrained ; soil alay loun; 13 acres fall wheat; good bearing otocbard; bank barn 40x60, nes4y new, and other, ootbuildings; good log house, wi al new frame addition; 2 wells; well fenced.' The abcive farm &only two miles from Brussels, on good gravel - les; school house on the lot.1 Foy inrtdaer par th- atcnlars apply on e prom , ises, r tol C. R.I Cooper, Brussels P. 0. ROBERT 13ROADF0OTi Propri- dor; Brussels P. 0. 'I i 588 VILLAGE P1101•1;RTY FOlt S ATA1,1-- Being --- ---- - - i 7 . 1 Dwelling- howh: k..nd two lots, cOntainang one- half acre each. in the Village cif Varna, situated on the corner opposite the Post office, whieh makes them suitable for building for business Purposes. The house contains 5 bedrooms, sitting room, dining room and kitchen, with woodshed attached, soft water cistern and every other con- venience to make a comfortableland cominodiens &telling. On the lots there ix a good bearing orchard of various kinds of fruit, and a nantity. cif grape vines. There is also a well and pump, and good stable and driving shed. Tora ' s easy. Possession given on the let of October. For fur- ther particulars app13- to the proprietol. S. A. 1OFFATT, Varna P. 0. 693-4x FARM MeKILLOP FOR SALE.—For Sale, the North part of Lots 8 and 9. Con. r 13, Mc- Hillop, containing, 112 mores; there are about 80 delved, well fenced, underdrained, find in a high staie of cultivation, the balgrale is well timbered with hardwood; good dwelling; new bank frame - born 50'57, with stabling underneath, arid other cratbuildings'also a good yOun,,r, orchard nail Llenty of water. Is 10 miles froin Brussela, 5 from Walton'and 12 from Seaforth,i with good gravel roads to each place; convenient to church tied nehools ; will be sold as a whole or in to parts, or will be exchanged for a small farm. Apply to Walton P. O. or to the proprietor on the ilremises. WILLIAMDYNES. 593 . FARM FOR SALE.-LThe art scriber olTers for Bale Lot 22, Con. 12 of the ownship pf Stan- ley, containing one hundred az es, 83 acres clear and in a good state of cal ivation, and good fences, balance 17 acres good hardwood bush; one half of clearing seeded do . , there will be 13 acres of wheat pat in this fallthere is I about 3 a variety of fruit trees all now b aring. The farm L acres of lo well watered, a never f iling creek - runs through the farra, also two goo4 wells, largo bank barn 86 by 60 feet with gooI stabling under- neath the barn, and a. log dw Iliiag house. The Warm is situated within two a d a half ,miles of the village of Bayfield. For Irther paationlars aPPla to S. litcLEAN, proprieto on the premises or to W. Connor, BaylieId P. 0. I 672 SILVER 1.1-IN-mth IN COL- OR -ADO. WONDERS 0 1 LEADVILLE—FACTS ABOUT THE NEW SILVER REGION—WHAT .HAS BEEN, WHAT IS, AND WHAT IS -TO COME. L Anmni, Colo ado, May 5, 1879. It was abut the middle of last sum- mer that th value of Leadville as a "carbonatecamp" was discovered. California uleh, on which the present town stand, was an old mining camp, having been, worked for gold from 1859 to 1867, thel yield running down from $3,000,000 ia 1860 to ithout $150,000 in 1866, when the diggingsilevere abandon- ed. In those days it is said the gold miners caulked their log cabin S with what they slapposed waa Mud, but was really carb nate worth $400 a ton. Who discovered the carbonates is a disputed question, bi4t there is nci doubt that W. H. Stevens,of Lake Superior ting fame, a res dent of Detroit., was 116 of . the first, if ibt the first, to undertake systematic nining operatiops for silver in this cam Old California and Ne- vada miner scoffed at the idea, of find- ing anything of value in, the carbonates. They were soft, not hard. They were pancake deposits," not veins. The oldest and. wisest amongthem had never seen any metal extracted from suoh stuff. Still, Stevens• had his ad- herents, too. Numbers of men swarm ed upon the hills and began to sink shafts. They were speedily'rewarded. The Little Pittsburgh, which has en- riehed all its owners, was struck at 38 feet below the surfaceean.d other dis- coveries speedily followed. Romantic stories are • told of the vicissitudes of fortune which befell the early cliscov- the Gallagher brothers wan - tore to store vainly begging for a sack o flour to enable them to go on With their !work, and next week struck mineral, and sold out for I know not how Many hundred thousands, on which they are living in splendor in the Champs Elysees; how Long and. Derry were just about to give up in despair, when old. Long struck his pick into the summer. Are the maims ded t around in his rage, andr uncovered the com.panies all deluas the Leadville mines? In view of the summe writer incurs a grave respo enceurages immigration couple of weeks; how the small grocer Froin all the information bought out the mine, sold a srnall in- obtained, it seems probable terest in bus mine for a fortune, bought than 40,000 people will co other mine, made money out of all of seasonfroth the States of them, and is now Lieutenant -Governor souri and Tennessee alone. W. A. Tab r, President of the Bank of Sta es contribate in even. mal ratio, the slopes of th vide and. the Mosquito Ranges will be whitened the bones of men who have ger and ccld—for it is imp country to feed so many. richest camp ever known i tory., only 15 per centum pectors discover anything; 85 per cen- and climate ut this dis- ✓ the facts And these by persons gh evidence erees—how dered from , get for lots which' cost them 1$50 eix months ago was 61,500 caSh. ! It was possible to get fair boardndlodging , for $1.2 a week. A whispe , which sub- sequently became 'a generalpnblic re- mark, asserted that the grep.test of the Leadville mines, the Little Pittsburg, had l'. petered out," and not a, !few de- clared that Leadville had had its day, 1 and would hereafte; be num- bered. among the dead t wn$ which strew the treacherous slopes' of the Rockies. , It ' may, however, be qUestioned whether these persons ha e not mis- taken a natural reaction f r the final collapse -a- Leadville's pros erity resting wholly on the product of tie, mines, it is pertinent to:inquire a,bo t hem, and the answer is this : In Tanuary last. there were about 20 paying mines in this ' neighborhood; there tre now 49; of these, several, netably tie Australia and the Judge Pendry, iave struck pay ore within the last week. The Australia could have been bought for $3,000 ten days ago. To -day the own- ers would nob listen to an Offer of $100,- 000. . . Againethere were ten ;smelters at work last January. Thereare. now 28 I at work and under way. • hese estab- lishments cost from $20,00 to $125,000. They are owned by men e perienced in mining matters. It is scarcely reason- able1tc7 suppose, that such men would! spend stichelarge sums of money if they had any doubt of the permanent value of the mines. - ! Again, three lines of rai1ioad are aim- ing at Leadville—the Colo ado' Central from Georgetown, the Denver and South Park frbm Webster, and the Atchison and Santa Fe from Cano . Each of thesethree companies exp cts to blast its way through miles of olid rook, to cli lb grades of 150 feet an more to the il mil, to surmount feightfn precipices, and each of them haSthou. ands of men 1.1 at Work at $2 to $3 a day. Each an- nounces that it will be in eadville this rs of these the vane of wall of a best in cam a small gro nainer who ssure vein, one of the very at this pr sent time; how er " grub -s aked " a hungry struck ini end within a Leadville, and a man whose income is reckoned in millions. Wbatever of truth there may be in these :attractive tales, there is no doubt of the fact that by August of last year layers of carbon- ate, carrying silvec varying in quantity 10 on :ices per ton, began to d throughout the range of el:wile:le the town of Lead - from 800 to be discover hills which ville on the ear, and that great for- tunes—solid • a,rtunese-began to be verers. The case save one osits, lying at to 135 feet be - Feely any case in the shafts. as a common extracting the sintering it to be understoed that the nanzaei created mine had "petered out," it is perfectly wide---- a furore well known in inside circles that the Hills fever, and -mine never had so much Ore in sight, realized by he lucky die° carbonates lweru in eve nearly ho zontal de depths varying from 35 low the sur ace. In sc was bla,sti g required Two doll s a ton estimate foi the cost of ore. Such astonishing b an excitement far and far exceedi g the Black which can nly be - co California iage of 1848. people poured into Lea last three !months of 1878, and huge men machinery for smeltin works and saw region would drive through thelime on raills was hauled oyer the mountains at an enormons expense. You most re- member that these fortune-hunters were going not tq a pleasant region like Cali- fornia or N vada, but to a barren wil- derness ten thousand feet above the sea, where he soil will not even grow potatoes, w ere snow falls every month in the year, and a man had his bands and feet fro en one night last Aiigust. the fabulous proportion of Still, no hardships deterred. the adven- of silver to the ton. Ther turers. Tr de and business were dull for upposing that what ha in tie Judge Pendry may in tie other 48 paying mi neighborhood. In. view o pects it is difficult to spelt toiling painfully on foot 120 or 160 miles eration of the future of L through. the now from Denver or In hie address to the Le Canon. Whe I first visited Leadville Governor estimated the si prospect, a sibtlity who o Leadville. hat can be that not less e here this mesas, Mis- If the other. n infinitesi- Grand Di- ud Buffalo ext fall with died of hun- ssible for the In this, the mining his - f the pros - tum fail, and in this regio willibe likely to perish. mal prospeet does not alt with regard to the mines. fact are readily ascertaine li ware competent to W and have aceess to the pr per sources . of information. Whatever motive the owners of the Little Pi sburg may have had in reducing the r force, and pared to the and Ten thousand But ville durina the the was never worth more than to7day. the Judge.Pendry is still more to point. Six months ago scientific declared that if the Miners -of this which the carbonate depo wohld find at a lower dept andlpossibly a third deposi ate richer than the uppe one. The owners of the Judge Pendry mine acted upon. the suggestion, and three days ago they were rewarded by stilking; at 360 feetlbelow ground, the seco d layer of carbonate, parts of which assayed in 1;000 ounces is no reason been done ot be._ done es in this such pros - with mod- ke county. 'slature the ver product of 1ai 879 at $11,000,000, agnst $2,700,- 000rin 1878. The general estimate of rai ers at present is neare $30,000,000 have. money enough to get food without than $11,000,000. Up to t is time the working, and who spent ilkeir days in: smelters have taken no acq unt of ores bar -rooms, gambling -houses, dance- which carried only 46 ounees or less of houses, or on the sidewalk in Chestnut -silver to the tou. But When all the street, discussing the last great strike. new smelting works are in operation, it Half a bed in ft miserable attic was be found pretty profitable to reduce worth from $1 to $2 a night. Stores ore which yield $40 to the ton. It rented at 150 per centum of their cost. wohld seem to trespass upon the credul- Mechanics' wages were $4 to. $5 a day, ity f your readers to set down in black To force one's way into the post office an white the number of tons of this through the throng which beset it from so- alled "low-grade " ore which are in morning till night, required no small sight in this neighborhood, and whieh exertion of strength. Business was have never been sent to the smelter. " booming." Small storekeepers turned There is enough, however, to make a over their eittire stock in two days, and sensible stir in the value of silver then vainly :wrote and telegraphed for thr?ughout the world. S. fresh supplies. Town lets worth ,$50 in October, 1878, readily commanded. Ontario Society of Artists. $3,000 in March, 1879. ' At the Seventh Annual Exhibition -I returned to the " catnp " (Leadville, under the auspices of the Ontario So - though an Organized city, with Mayor, ciety of Artists, now being held in To - Aldermen and all other civic function- ronto, Mr. W. N. Cresswell, of Seaforth, aries, is still called a ca,nap by all but ha on exhibition a number of very fine " tenderfeet ") a week ago, and a mark- pal tings. Of these the Toronto Globe ed change was evident. Prospecting on remarks: Mr. Cresswell shows ea lot snowshoes iii snow front four to eight of water -colors this year that stand feet deep had exhausted. the patience of much better in this class than do his many, and the three stage lines report- oil paintings. No. 102, Near Bic, St. ed. that they carried nearly as many Lawrence," is a light -toned picture, in passengers to as from Deriver and Can- which scene is thrown in a cool, gre.4, on. Both io Chestnut street and at the misty light. In the foreground some post office the crowd had diminished. rocks and rushes are emerging from the Lodgings were easily to be obtained. water, and upon them two or three In - Of the fifteen hundred. houses (mere dian hunters are lying in ambush for board huts) that were under way on the waterfowl. Through the middle dis- 29th of ' March, many Were finished and tance stretches the water 'away to the many were unoccupied. Storekeepers background, which is shut in by the complained. of the dullness of business. Bid Mountains and light, cool, half -lit Is rest, they a I second of carbon - throughout three mont at least 15,C Leadville, a the world, and during the s ending 31st March, 1879, 00 men found -their way to large proportion of them in March last ii was full of men who had no home, -who slept on the sawdust on bar -room floors, who all seemed to Real estate had ceased to move, and. the unfortunate owners declared with tears in their eyes that the best bid they could clouds and sky. No. 103, "Peabody River, near Tuck- ermitia's Ravine, White Mountains, N. • H.," This is a strong piece of coloring and clever drawing, the cedars in the foreground. being paiticu1arly good. No. 108, "Anther t Island, Lower St. Lawrence" is a stri ing and attractive picture, in which Mr. Cressivell has made use of those I, •illiant sunrise tints which he ha,-ndles.so cleverly. The fea- tures of the picture are quickly enumer- ated—water, rocks, icy and. clouds, and yet these have affor ed the artist abun dant scope for his fi e abilities as a col- orist. Al] are _brilliantly lit up with the rich aad brilliant orange and roseate tints of the approaching sunrise. The blending and group g ef colors are bold and bright, but at t e same time easy and truthful. The jsky is particularly good, the gradual fading of the sunrise tints upon the light fleecy clouds that are floating through the, eastern sky be- ing admirable. 1 No. 125, "12th ef !August on Saddle - rock Moors," is one of , Mr. Cresswell's best. The coloring is cool but strong, and the different shadee are combined in such a way as to produce a most pleasing effect. A. small stream is winding down through the moors into the foreground, with a little knoll rising gently from its left 1an1t and the level moor stretching a, ay ,from its right. Skirtingthe knoll re sportsmen and their dogs taking ar early advantage of the ending of the close season. The whole effect of the picture is at once truthful and strikingly attractive. Mr. Cresswell exlnbits three other less pretentious pictures, all of which do him credit. I —Wor Credit Va —The lower tin. for many —The. has left 0 wintered. .4 —Mr. gone to the purpo new steel — The Louise ar on the 4t making f —D. S. Ingersoll, last., fro aconite, headache —Fifty steamshi urday nig Manitoba intelligen conduct° Railway, the Detro the other V Canada. has been commenced on the ley RailWay bridge at Galt. aters of Lake Winnipeg are spring than has been known yresarsi ttmbet raft of the season ta,wa, 4,00 logs which were t the mo th of the Gatineau. . Fisher, f Kincardine, has ashiugto , United States, for e of secu 'lig a patent for his horse coil r. overnor- eneral and Princess expecte to visit Montreal of Jun . Preparations are r their re eption. Ma,edona d, cheese buyer, of died on unday night, llth the effec s of an overdose of hich he tole to relieve a English farmers, by the Texas, lft Quebec on Sat - t by spec'al railway car for ,They possess wealth and e. Day, for erly a well-known on theI Canada Southern and lateri Superintendent of t Coupe Me died in Toledo day. mold Ca pbell, of Lochaber, s to be tile oldest Campbell a, visited His Excellency the General recently, and. was eceived. own -0 uncil of Galt has ohibited the letting off of fire n the public streets in any at town, and the constable uthorized to arrest any per - mg this order. chulta has shipped from Ot- ty-nine head of excellent cat - twelve sidendid horses for ! The stock was bought from Grant, of Kiaburn, and the for the lot Was about $7,000. 4, —Mr. who clai in- Cana Governor cordially —The strictly p °I -takers part of t has been son viola 8 1P • —Dr. tawa twe tle and Manitoba Mr. Alla price pai —Willi m Jaffray, Esq., postmaster at Berlin has been made the recipient t of a wale servie of silver plate, in n: appreciat on of his ervices in the Epis- copal Ch rch choir, he having occupied. the position of choir leader for the last twenty y ars. —As a letter deposited in the Mor- risburg post office Was struck with the cancellin stamp a loud. explosion fol- lowed an the envelope was in a blaze. It was ddressed to, Mrs. William Sproule, Hoosac, and probably con- tained fu minating paper. —Mrs. tario, is e her son, 1878. S peg Free ing him. was work Canada —One Wm. Kin Guelph them int that nine foundere sun-strok It is extr cattle a 1 — Four from th Bellevill Hastings will be t first ship out BO North Et a large c front. —Ane Railway other da candy an emigrant back to foreigner and thro window. lunch fur could. no —Afte Stratford diet of ce for want turing a recomme Government be cal of appointing com maintain a supervi facture of all kin terials, and that it of such inspectors . J. Darham, of Salem, On- ceedingly anxious to hear of • ho went to Manitoba in April, e has written to the Winni- • rats for information regard - When last heard from he ng at getting out rails for the ad& Railway. f those warm days last week ear, of Toronto, drove into th 16 cattle, and when he got • the city it was discovered out of the sixteen were badly and that one had received a from' wh ch it cannot rec over. mely risk business to drive • ng dista ce in warm weather. cars loa ed. with iron ore Seymou mine came into on the B lleville and North Railway the other day. It en by bo t to Buffalo. The ent som time since turned ell that the Belleville and, stings Ra lway have received ntract to bring ore to the sboy on a Great Western rain got r ther taken in the . He d' tributed the usual cake p ckages through an train, b t when he came ather t em up again, the had disp sed of the goodies n the em ty boxes out of the They th ught it was a free ished by the conductor, and be got to pay for it either. a length trial the jury am the explosion case returned a ver - sure on ippers and carriers f care fo ndin both manufac- d shippin the explosive; also ding tha, the attention of the Led to the necessity etent inspectors to ion over the mann- Is of explosive ma - should be the duty o inspect arid certify a 41 IT to the strength and safety of all each powder S or materials before they are allowed to leave the manufactories. —The handsome new Canada Metho- dist Church at Galt was opened on 171undaylast. It cost, exclusive of land, 3,ow —About 1,000 people will join in the Grangers' excursion from St. Thomas to the Agricultural College at Guelph, on June 3rd. —London and nearly all the other principal towns in the west have decid- ed to celebrate Her Majesty's Birthday on the 26th inst. —H. Coleman, butcher, Paisley, has received an order from his brother in England for 10,000 packages of really choice butter, to be shipped by the 15th of June. —The Methodists in the county' of Lincoln have volunteered the use of their churches throughout the riding for public meetings during the election campaign. —The corner stone of the new brick Roman Catholic Church at Hawtrey was consecrated on the 20th inst. by Bishop Walsh. The building is a very handsome mee, 110 feet long by • 48 in width. —The steamship Govina sailed from Montreal on Tueaday, taking with her a fine lot of sheep, 1,000 in number, 200 head of cattle, and a large quantity ' of grain. She goes directto Avon- mouth, England. —Mr. John Kerr, of the late firm. of John Kerr ez Co., of Lucknow, died at his father's residence on Saturday even- ing last, of consumption. Deceased was a young man in the prime of life, and leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss. --Mr. Alex. Calder, late of London, Ont., but now a resident of Winnipeg, is building a branch house for his agri- cultural 'implements at Emerson. He proposes shortly to open another branch at Portage la Prairie. His stock is ex- pected. to arrive at an early date, having. been on the way for some time. —Four hundred and thirty-four im- migrants arrived in Montreal last Mon- day. Among the number -were 105 Norwegians en route to the Western States. The remainder were chiefly English, Irish, and. Scotch, the former nationality predominating, who left for the West, where they intend. tosettle above Toronto. —On Sunday, lith inst., an old straw stack adjoining the house of Mr. James Brown, Sr., near Carville, township of Vaughan, caught fire, and soon set the house ablaze. On Miss Brown going to put out the flames, her clothes caught fire, and in spite of the efforts of Mr. Brown and Mr. Bastedo she was so badly burned that she died on Monday night. —The wages of the employes on the Canada Southern- Railway have been reduced ten per cent. The reason, °in- ciallyaunomtced by the general man- ager, is, that the cost of running the road since the inauguration of the Na- tional Policy has increased so much that the Board are forced to re- duce the wages. They also dismissed a man from each gang. —Last Friday evening, at the Bona - venture Depot, Montreal,a lady passen- ger on the Western train, en route for Liverpool, had her pocket picked of 47 guineas and. her tickets to Liver- pool, while waiting for the trahaleaving herself and her little daughter, aged thirteen, without any funds: whatso- ever. The tickets were afterwards sent to her in an enclosed envelope. —It is estimated that the recent military expedition to Cross Lake, for the purpose of quelling the , riotous Pa- cific Railway employes, will cost the Government about $1,000. Major Kennedy, of 51st Battalion, Ontario, had command of the Winnipeg Field Battery during the expedition. He was in town when the troops were. called out, and gallantly volunteered to ac- company them. —A young man named William Hor- ton, of Fenelon Falls, was drowned a few days ago :while attempting toe cross the rapids between Hall's and Crab Lake. He and. a young Indian were wading across, when the current swept there over the falls. The Indian was saved by the men on the shore, but Horton sank before he could be rescued. His body has been recovered and sent down to Fenelon Falls,where his parents are. —Incendiarism is becoming rank in Tilsonborg. Last Sunday night about eleven o'clock, .a fire broke out in an old. house belonging to the town. It had 'been vacant for a few weeks. This is the fifth building that has been set on fire by some person or persons wish- ing to seee a fire. The water works not being insporking order, they were obliged to Jet it burn to the ground, al- though it was only about forty feet from the reservoir. —The Free. Press says that a person is busily engaged at Emerson discour- aging immigrants, by 'telling them the very worst side f Manitoba life, and when he succeed with his stoiy, pur- chases the effects1 of his dupes at a mere trifle. A team of horses valued at $300, we are told, was bought by this person for $120 the other day from a new -comer whom he had discouraged in the way we have started. It is also stated that this man has made a good thing by his disreputable practices. —Several days ago as Mr. Kenneth. Kerr, lot 34, concession 5, West Zorra, was getting ready to go to Stratford he stood. in the barn yard and lit his pipe, throwing the match at his feet amongst the straw, and passed on unconcerned. The match ignited the straw, and in an instant (before anything could be done to stop its progress, the wind. blowing high at the time) it' reached the straw stack, and thence to the barn, which soon became a prey to the element. The barn contained a quantity of hay and etraw, and about 1,000 bushels. of grain at the time. Some of the grain and implements and the live stock were Church in Canada, 100;$to the Jewish saved, but the loss sustained would Mission Fund of the Presbyterian amount to about $1,500. Church in Canada, $100.3 - to the ecu - -The —The Trustees of Guelph High gregation of the Union- Presbyterian School lately advertised for a janitor, Church of Hopewell, $100. when fifty eight applications for the of- —The Woodstock cheese matketheld fice were received. -,Farnaers at Manitoulin Island have been greatly hindered in their seeding by the late spring. A fall of snow was experienced. there on the 29th April, —Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the :United States female revivalist, commences a series of meetings at the Methodist Episcopal Church, John. etreet, Hamil- ton, next week. —Mr. Whitehead, contractor for Sec- tion 15, Canada Pacific Railway, says that some 1,400 or 1,500 men, including several hundred new hands, are now at work on his contract. —A new fire engine was recently ex- hibited at -Collingwood; With six men on the brakes, it is said to have thrown a stream over a four -storey house, and cost less than $200. --Nearly all the Government land at Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island, has been taken up, but there is plenty of it tering the bar he took some silver from to be bought at a low figure. A great the till, helping himself to liquors and rush is looked. for this summer. cigars. Entrance was made by an up- -Mr. Alfred. Boivers, of Kincardine, stairs window, which had been left open at night. —Four desperate characters, who ansviered to the names of John Har- rington, Philip Harrington, William Mackie and. John Mackie, the first two from Portland and. the others from Boston were discovered. in Berlin on Thursday afternoon of last week, en- deavoring to break into a gentleman's residence. After a hard. chase they were captured and lodged. in jail They are believed to belong to an organized gang, the rest of whose members are stilrat liberty. • —Mr. Dougald. Currie, of Aldboro, its first market for the season on Satur- day. Thirteen factories were repre- sented, but owing to the April cheese being all bought up previous to the market, not many were represented on. the board. April cheese -sold at about 6c. —Three young men hired a horse and. buggy from Evan's livery stable, Chat- ham, on Sunday afternoon, and drove the poor animal at a high rate of speed for between two and three hours, caus- ing its death about fifteen nainutes after it had been brought back to the stables. Shame on them. —Last Sunday morning about three o'clock a, burglar entered the hotel of Mr. N. Sager, St. George, and. having ransacked a boarder's room and ob- tained fitty cents, proceeded to Mr. Sager'sprivate room and took about forty-two dollars from his pants pock- ets, also the keys of the bar. En - has obtained. the Beatty prize in the Montreal Theological Institution. This is the second year in succession that Mr. Bowers has come out with the highest honors the Institution bestows. —Mr. A. Merrill, hotel -keeper, of Dreaney's Corners, died. very suddenly Friday night. He over exerted himself while catching his horse, and on at- tempting to get into his buggy was at- tacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, from which he almost immediately ex- pired. - — A son of Mr. Webb, of Granton, met with a sad accident one day lately. While playing around a newly erected brother of Rev. H. Currie, of Medford, swing on the school premises, the has been remarkably successful in win - swing rope got round his neckthrowing him to the ground with such force as to almost strangle him; at the same time one of his eyes was very much injured. —The remains of Wm. John Davey were brought to Kincardine for inter- ment on Monday of last week. Suffer- ing from lung disease, he had gone to Manitoba about a year ago, hoping to be benefitted by a change of climate. His hopes however, were not realized, and he died on the 5th inst., at the early age of 30 years. —A man named. Sullivan, who was injured by the dynamite accident at Cross La,ke, lalanitoba, a few days ago, lies at the St. Boniface Hospital in a dangerous condition. It appears that one of the fingers blown off penetrated the abdomen, causing a dangerous wound. The attending. physician has little hopes of his recovery. —.Selkirk wants a daily mail and a bank, also protection against drunken Indians. The constables refuse to ar- rest them, because the Government finds it so expensive; meantime the church -going citizens are scandalized by their behaviour on the streets. Some 15,000 rats were killed in the marsh in the neighborhood of Selkirk this spring. —D. McInnes, Esq., who has been track inspector on the Great Western Railway at Paris for over twenty years, and who is about to remove from that place to Ingersoll, was enter- tained. at a public supper by a number of his old friends one even- ing lately. Mr. McInnes was also on the occasion presented with a valuable pair of gold. spectacles. —Aman named Dan Collins pur- chased a bag of potatoes on the London market the other day. Upon emptying the bag into his ice cart, which stood near, he discovered that a large quan- tity of stones had. been mixed with the potatoes. Dan gathered tip the stones, replaced. them in the bag, and Walking up to the seller, quietly informed him that "he was quite a bit Irish, but was not Irish enough to eat stone potatoes." —One of the proprietors of a lager beer saloon,in St. John,New Brimswick, has been summoned in the police court for selling lager, which, it is claimed by the police authorities is am intoxicant. In order to have the gnestiOn tested the saloon proprietor has sent to Bos- ton for Professor Hauls to testify if there is any alcohol in the beer. A chemist has also been summoned to test the beer on behalf of the city. —Last Monday morning, shortly af- ter half -past twelve, the great six days' walking tournament was commenced in Toronto. The prizes are 0500 for first winner, $200 for second, and $100 -for third. The contestants are ten in number, of whom three are natives of England, one of Scotland. and one of Ireland. Two are Canadians, one from New York, one from Norway, and. one from the Isle of Wight. The race will be completed on Saturday night. A large crowd assembled to witness the start. —The jury on the Carleton collision trial returned the following verdict: That the deceased, James Gooderham, came to his death through failing or jumping from a Credit Valley railway car 012 Saturday evening, the 10th inst. Driver Cross, for having run his engine at such a high rate of speed, and Switchman Mayne, for having opened the switch in violation of the rule regu- lating his duties, were censured ; as was also the Grand Trunk Railway Company for a laxity in enforcing the rules for the guidance of employees. —The late Peter Ross, of Hopewell, Pictou county, made the following lib- eral bequests to church and mission funds: To the British and Foreign Bible Society, $500; to the Foreign Mission of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 5400; to the Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 5400; to the French Evangelization scheme in connection with the Presb terian Church in Canada, 5100; to Theological Hall, Halifax, Endo" nt Fund, $200; to the !Theological Hall Building Fund, $100 ; to Aged and Ine firra Ministers' Fund of the Presbyterian be ning honors at McGill University dur- ing -the last session. Itt the fall exaard- nations he took the scholarship in nat- ural science, value $250. At Christmas the scholarship for general proficiency, value $50. In the sprint= examinations he won honors in English literature and history, first rank in rhetoric, and. a special prizo for collection of plant. —While Mrs. Jones, wife of Conduc- tor Jones, Air Line Railway, re- • in St Thomas., went to market on Saturday, she left her little girl itt charge of a neighbor, who, busy with liar household duties, temporarily left the child. Imagine be horror when returning to find the -child sitting in a pail of .scaltling water and so badly burned that the fie& peeled frora her body. Dr. Yanbuekirk,WiLE immediate- ly sent for, and did all he could. for the little sufferer, but small hopes are en- tertained. for her recovery. -eA beautiful writing -desk, made of different kinds of Canadian wood and embellished with silver, has been man- ufactured by the order of the Dominion Rifle Association, and will be presented to Capp. E. St. John Mildmay, of Eng- land, in recognition of the kindness shown the members of the Dominion organization by that gentleman. The following inscription is engrossed. upon the desk '"Presented to Capt. E. St, John Mildmay, Secretary of the Na- tional Rifle Association, by the Domin- ion of Canada Rifle Association; 1879. —At this period when good walkers are at a premium, the feat of a Brant- ford mechanic is worth recorOng. A taorkman in the Kirby Reaper Works, Brantford, walked to Paris on Thurs- day evening, a distance of seven miles and return, makirig a distance of 14 miles, in two hours. On the evening following he walked to Hamilton, a dis- tance of twenty-five miles, and return, 'n all a distance of fifty miles. Tune consumed, ten hours, thus returning in time to start at work Saturday morn- ing,.which Inc did, not losing one hours' work—A. trader from a rural district came to Montreal a few days ago to buy goods. He had over $500 in his pocket, and, putting up iat an hotel, he was induced by some slwarpers to gam- ble at cards. Drink wlas brought on and the trader having imbibed. prett; freely, soon lost all his money. Ou be- coming sober, the trader proceeded to search for his money, but was unable to find any trace of it until finallyenter- ing his room, the bills were discovered lying on the floor, probably placed there of —Farmers are cautioned by the thief or his accomplices for fear against 'be- ing Victimized by the following dodge of rascality: In an eastern county a chicken buyer raised considerable money by a very ingenious fraud. He would go to wealthy farmers, buy their poultry and write a receipt for the money paid in pencil. When the re- ceipt Was jUBt ready for signature, he would break the point of his pencil, and to save time in sharpening it, would. produce a fountain pen for the farmer to sign the receipt. Afterwards this poul‘try dealer would erase his pencil receipts and write in ink notes from $150 to 1f200 above the farmer's signa- tures. ua—mon ed Tihhe6th of April last a onapson, who lit -ea alone on n oia lady the 4th concession of Markham, was murdered. No cause could be assigned for the deed, unless it was that the murderer suspected that she had money. No person was arrested at the time, although suspiciona fell on couple of parties. On Thursday a farm la, borer named Tiaickpenny was arrested in Sparta, charged with having com- mitted the deed. He acknowledged. to his guilt, and in the ra.ost cool manner imaginable recounted the manner in hich the horrible deed was done, giv- ing as a reason for its eommittal that he was starving. All the money begot was 57.50, which he said he knew the old woman was keeping with. a view of iiis pTic- rarOVidingsf:ach:rfuneralexpensea. Sin-oe azresthkpenny has become la TiDgin