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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-06-13, Page 1JunE6, 1879. lone under the direetiozt -Came& sMoved by a. ided by j. Howson, that av prepared end peaeaa ttlimasters, feacevieweee pers for the present yeaa he by-law was then teaa. goved by 3. Mason, see- ashana, that the by-litee .7 dividing the township_ livisions for the present passed -Carried. Movea seconded by J. rtOWssa; 161 do now adjourre to Londesborough on Sat - June, 1879 -Carried. WIEST STOCK -or•---- RESS GOODS, -.V- -A- 1...J -CT SHALL & CO.1 rea.tly depressed state of ype, our Mr. McDougall sr Cash a lot of Dress Lower Prices then the Dade for. FIDENCE n buy Better e No House 11 upon a Smaller Profit; n offer greater Advent - few equal. sustres, e Shades, 10 erd. eistres, Extra Heavy, LT 3a1naoral Tvtills, 20 mats - French Cashmeres, 25 erd, Lil Wool Foule Bege, 30 rd. Great Bargains at al, New Shades, 85 cents, N GOODS. Prints, 5 cents per ton, 5 Gents per yard. elling, 5 cents per yard, uere 10 cents per yard. S MANT.LES lot of French Pattern aslemere and Worsted Y' DEPARTMENT. 'election of Paris and /eery. Feathers and Flowers" and Ribbons, in the : the Most Fashionable be found the most ex- ;aforth. `3110111d see our _Shaer Parchasing. to Show Goods. OUGALL & CO ers and pe era lit oods Only. L-7 TWELFTH Y VTI/OLE NUMBER, 6Q1. SEAFORTH, F RIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879. { McliEAN BROS, Publishers. 01.50 a Year, in Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. PROPERTY FOR SAL -E. -For Sale, that eon- renient and desirable residence on the corner saligh and Market Streets, lately °oar pied by Dr.Vereee. Apply to DR. VERCOE. 488 TtLITEVALE.-:New Dwelling House in Bluevale -17 for sale; story and a half, 130,6, with kitchen ed 1418; extra well finished; one quarter lot well fenced and pump. Price, $500. Ap- to JOSEPH BURGESS, Blidvale. 539 jo'SALE.-For Sale a first class Planing Mill, nearly new and in good running order, guested in the flourishing Town of Seadorth, will be sold cheap. Terms easy. Enquire of WORD, COSSENS & CO., Goderich, Ont. VARA AND TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE, • PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. -Lot 17, ter the Ilth concession, MeKillop; price $40 per Kee; Building lots in different parts of the town of Seaforth; purehasers can make their own terms of payment, at 8 per cent. interest. JAS. BNATTIE.I. 591 ITARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot No. 5, Bay- field. Concession, Goderich Township, con- taining 85 acres, 50 of which are cleared and in a geed state of cultivation. The farm is adjoining the village of Bayfield, and will be sold cheap and es favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, JOHN GOVENLOCK. 524 • FARM FOR SALE -Being Lot 4, Con. 7, Hallett, County of Huron; 100 acres; 80 °leered, well underdmined, and in a good state et cultivation; buildings convenient and good; terms easy. For further particulars apply to Messrs. McGAUGH. &HOLMESTED, Seaforth, °ton the premises to WM. E. COLDWE'LL. Can - stance P. O. . _ 555 _ _ VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, • the east half of Lot No. 4, Con. 4, H. R. S., Tnekersmith, County of Huron, consisting of 50 seres, 3f miles from the Town of Seaforth, and eonvenient to school. The land is of the very blot quality. For further particulars apply to jAMES PICKA.RD, opposite the premises, or to Mgmondville P. O. 52 t VAIL AND TOWN PROPER CY FOR SALE, OFFEA.P.-Lot No, 24. Cou. 9, MeKillop, 100 acres; north half Lot 30, Con. 9, McKillop, 50 acres; north half of north half Lot 31, Con. 9, Wallop, 25 ares; residence occupied. by Mr. Makolmson on Gouinlock Survoy, Seaforth; btelding lots on Jarvis' and. F. 0. Sptirling's Sur- ; says. Apply to GRAY, YJUNG (3: SPARLING. Seniorth. . 595 ! FIRm FOR SALE. -For Sale, the west part of ' Let No.1, Con. 17, Grey, cant:lining 59 acres, 35 of which ao cleared, well fenced, and in a state et good cultivation. There is a gootl frame house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the • gravel road leading to Brussels and Seaforth, and adjoins a chnrch and school: 'It is else within half smile of the Village of Walton. A.1 -ply on the • premises or to Walton Post Office. ClIARLES /dURCEflE. 493 ; VARM ,F011 SALE. -That well-known and fine- : ly situatbdfarm, Lot 1, Con. 1, Hullett, in the , County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 of ! 'Id& are cleared ; there are two frame dwelling houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house s, and dtivinghouse ; also orelnull and abundance of , water. The farm is situated two miles from the Town of Setiforth, on the Huron Road. For full particulars apply to McCAUGIIEY & HOLME- 8TED, Seaforth, ar to SIMON YOUNG, proprie- tor, on the pre.mises. 553-4x PROPERTY FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 14, -s• Con 16, Grey ; West half of Lot 29,Con. 6, with' cheese factory complete; Lot 11, s Co 2. 6, and south half of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 5, town- . ship of Morris ' • Lot 22, Con. 13, and Lot 28, Con. ! B, township ofHowick, all good improved farms, ' together with several 50 acre faxres in Grey and Norris, and houses and lots and vacant lots in the village of Brussels, -Prices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Brus- .1 574. FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, that naost desir- " able farm, being Lot I, Con. 6, in the town- ship of Hullett, situated 14 miles from 'Unborn, and 6 miles from Seaforth. Thereare excellent . buildings on thc premises, including a first-clase stone house, two storey, 30 by 40 Feet. A spriu,g ereek runs through the farm; good orchard, good knees, and the land in att excellent state of cul - Apply on the premises to JAMES Mc-) MICHAEL, or to MR, JAMES II. BENSON, Sea- s• birth. 562 ; TIESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. -For ; Sale, &comfortable brick Cottage with: 8 acres otchoice land, in Roxboro, township of McEillop$ 'within: two miles mad a half of Settforth. Thernis der a ',fine orch-tril of' ehoice bearing ;fruit trees, also Balti wells, stable, blacksmith shop, -and all nescessary. Anis 1 antseniences. It is pleasantly situated, and is a had gone to sohool, ands when only six - moat desirable property for a retired farmer or a minket gardener, It Will be sold cheap and onteen years old, had written iaditorialar- ose-testae of payment if desired Apply to the ticles, for the Newburyport (Mass.) ploptieter on the p; misers o to -Seaforth P. tee beath of Mr. Garrison.. 1 THE STORY OF ms LIFE. The year that saw the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower witnessed also the arrival of a Dutch slave -ship in the James River; and before fourth of July, 1776, three huudred thousand bondmen had been brought to this country from Africa. It therefore is not piasbable that the readers of the publin prints were surprised at seeing side by side in the columns of a Boston journal, on the 22nd of july, 1776, the Declaration of Independence and the folloaiing advertisement : • "SLAVE SELLING IN BOSTON. "T be sold, a stout, strong, healthy negro man, about twenty-five years of age; aas had the snaallpox ; ca,n . turn his hand to almost anything. He likes farming business the best; he is 'well- °lothd. The pay may be on interest, giving security. Inquire of the printer." Protests indeed had already been ma.ele against the permission of the traffid. As early as 1646 a memorial had beeu presented to the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts, beariyg witness against "the heinous and crying sin of man -stealing ;" while a, few'years later the missionary Joint Eliot ,had told the authorities plainly and Perhaps prophetically that "the selling of souls is a dangerous mer- chan I ise ;" and in 1770 the Rev. Dr. Saan el Hopkins, of Newport, Rhode Israu , had preached vehemently aga.inist the practice. Nevertheless, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which ern- powe ed slave -owners to capture and back their property wherever it be found, was passed. in the of Representatives by a vote of is„ht to seven. The conscience North, -however, continued to itself troublesome in the national 1 on the side of freedom and. • Lloyd Garrison, .who died in New York on the evening of the 24th of May, was a firm and -unflinching friend of liberty, and an active and en- thusiastic abolitionist. Some remini- scences of his early life willbe found interesting to our readers. bring 'neigh Hous forty - of th make capit equal rights until at length in May, 18:16, the House of Representatives, by a laza% majority, resolved.: "T at all petitions, inerieorials, pro - posit' ns or papers relating in any way, or to tny extent whatever, to the sub- ject f slavery,. shall, without behest eithet printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no.• further action whatever shall be had thereon.", TH'i FIRST ANTI - SLAVERY NEWSPAPER. Th s was eight years after William L1oyc1. Garrison, a native of • Newbury - port, Massachusetts, is lid the son of a captahi of a 'vessel eneuged in the West India trade, had sterted, at Benning- ton, ermont, a newspaper called the Jour) al of the, Times. the avowed pur- pose of which was -the suppression of intemperance and its associate vices, the gradual emancipation of every slave in the Republic, and. the perpetu- ity o national peace.' Garrison was then in his twenty-fourth year,, haviug been born on the 12th of December, 1801, aud had had an experience disa.- greeeele enough to strengthen rapidly a nataraslly strong dila broad oharacter. His father, a drunkard, had abandoned the mother and her 'Children to utter poverty. William had been appren- ticed o a shoemaker; had served un - wood sawyer; had run'errande in ore, and had. learned type -set - his native town, where also he Herald. Under the signature of "A THOMAS HYSLOP. 599:tidesij also, be had contributed. with VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale the local elebrity to the columns of the 'west half of Lot 27, Con. 8, McKillop,-con- taining50 acres, known as the Deigle estate. This fermis situated within one mile audd, a quarter of tkaforth. The land is of the choicest quality. There is a handsome residence and good outbuild- ings. The fann is wen planted with fruit and or- namental trees, is in excellent order, and well kneed. It is admirably suited for a retired gen- tleman, a dairy -man, or market gardener. Terms aany. This property must be sold at once. Apply te A. STRONG, Seaforth. 539 RAI& FOR SA:I.E.-South half of Lot 26, Con. 6, Morris, County of Huron, containing 100 sores, 85 acres cleared, bashinee, hardwood'; 60 lams clear of. stumps and unclerdrainecl ; soil day loam; 13 acres fall wheat; good bearing ateshard; bank bara'40x60, nearly new, and other outbuildings; good log house, with new frame addition ;3 wells; well fenced. The above farm *only two miles from Brussels, on good gravel Naas; School houge on the lot. For further par- 11snlars apply on the premises, or to C. R Cooper, Brussels P. 0. ROBERT BROADFOOT, Propri- etor, Brussels P. 0. 588 XLLLAGE PROPERTY FOR SALE. -Being Dwelling house and two lots, containing one- half acre each, in tlie Village of Varna, situated 011. the corner opposite tlie post offle:.,•,, which "lakes them suitable for building for b 'usiness Purposes. The house cOntains 5 bedrooms, sitting Icom, dining room and kitchen, with woodshed attached, soft water eistern and every other con- venience to make a comfortable and commodions dwelling. On'the lots there is a good bearin,,'p orchard of various kinds; of fruit, ts,nd a quantity Of grape vines. There i. also IL well and pump, and good stable and driving Rliod. Terms eassv. tossessiongicssn on. the 1:4 of Octobers For fur. ther particulars apply to the proprietor. S.' A.„ XOPPATT, Varnst P. 0. 593-4x FAMI McK1LLOP FOR SALE. -For 8 ale, Lite North part of Lots 8 and 9. Con. 13, Mc - • containing 112 acre; ; there are about 80 dean& weli fenced, underdrainedr and in a high gate of cultivation, the balguce is well timbered Lath hardwood; good dwelling-, new bank Inane IA 501)7, with stabling underneath, and other outbuildings, also a good. young prehard and Plenty of water. Is 10 mile, from linissels, 5 from Walton, and 12 from Seaforth, withl good gravel zoadi to each Pace; coluenknt to church and aellmis_; will la' sold as a whols or in two; parts, Or will b. exchan,zed for aysiiall farm. Apply to \Valton P. 0. tit to the proprietor on the premises. 'WILLIAM DYNES. 503 Pall FOR SALE. --The srth,vriber otTers for sale Lot 22, Con. 12 of the township of Stan- ley, containing one hundred tteit•s,83acre4 clear _admit' a good state of cultivation, aid.good lances, balance 17 ar-i es good hardwoodbush; orm half of clearing seeeee tlown, there wql be 13 "Tna of wheat put in this fall, there is about 3 soma of a thriving orchard on the premises and Valley of fruit trees all now bearing. The farm *1., well watered, a. ne.ver failing creek runs Waugh the farm, also two good wells, large bank bun 96 by 60 feet with good stabling under- atil the barn, and a log dwelling house.. The .„1101 is aituated within two and a half miles of ulatllage of Bayfield, For further partieulars 1191y to S. MeLE-AN, proprietor on the premises $t to W. Conner, Bayffeld P. O. ; 672 Sale (Mass.). Gazette, and, under .his oWn i4ame, had fop nded two newspapers in su cession, each of which foundered withi • a years; So we find him in 1828 the p oprietor and editor of the Ben- ningt n (Veritiont) Journal of the Times,' prob ly the "first distinctively anti- slaveiy journal ever published in Amer- ca. It :lived neither peaceably nor rosperously for .one year. Its mile next went t� Baltimore, and, in . connection with the philanthropist and. 't t r Benja.min.Lundy, -whose name nous in the history of political freed in, established the Genius of Uni- versal Emancipation, a journalistic title that reflected clearly the soaring aspira- tions pf its principei editor, and that took ofrily two years to decompose. On the 1st of January, 18,61, William Lloyd Garrison isstiecl the first number of the Boston Liberator, the fiercest, ablest, longest -lived. and most famous of anti -slavery newspapers. Its last number appeared on the last -day of December, 1865, the business of liber- ating it.merican slaves having displaced itself by its own success. Its history is a prineipal part of the fame of the man "whose voice and pen were among the - most potent influences that produced s the anti -slavery revival of that day," and thau whom "uo person, is more . inseparably associatecl with the great conflict between freedom and slavery in America." "A COVENANT WITU DEATH AND AN AGREE - .1 ' fE?.;T WITH IIEtL." Somebody has said that the notion of , natural right ia a purely modern oue ; • that it did not euter the human mind until ages after the publication of the Institutes of Justinian. Mr. Garrison dicl not think so. Ile believed that ll God made amen. free; and because the Constitution of the United States did not recoguise this doctrine, he de- nounced it as coveilaut with death and an agreement with hell," and ex- horted his hearers, during a Fourth -of-. July speech at Farmington, Massaohn- s setts, "to register, our pledge anew be- , fore Heaven and the world that we will do what in us lies to effect the eternal , overthrew of this blood-stained Union; that thus our enslaved countrymen I may find a sure deliverance, and we- , ina,y n!o longer be answerable for their I blood." "We loudly boast," )he ex- gi is lu claimekon another occasion, "of our free country, and. of the union of these states; yet I have no country. Where is our Union, and of what value is it to me, or- to any one who belives that liberty is the inalienable right of every man, independent of the color of his skin or the texture of his hair? We cannot enjoy the privileges of the Union.The right of the free and safe locomotiou from one part of the land. to the other is denied to us, except on peril of our lives." At the meetipg of the American Anti - Slavery Society in New York, May, 1844, he raised. the cry of secession, proposing that "henceforth until slavery be abolished the watchword, the rally- ing cry, the motto on the banner of the American Anti -Slavery Society shall be No union with slaveholders,' " and voting for the adoption of a resolution declaring that secession from the gov- ernment was the duty of every aboli- tionists and on the 21st of October, 1845, at a convention held in Concord, Massachusetts', he presented. a resolu- tiou declaring that it would be the con- stitutional duty of the Legislature of Massachusetts promptly to assert, that if the illegal act of the annexation of Texas as a .slave state should be 'con- summated it would be null and void. . "I am aware," he wrote in the first number of the Liberator, "that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth and as un- compromising as justice. On this sub- ject I do not wish to think or speak or write with"moderation. I em in ear- - nest. I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat- a single inch, and I will be heard. I' desire to thauk . God that he enables me to disre- gard the fear of man." "eowner. AND COLD STEEL" FOR . ABOLI- TIONISTS. With the fear of man before his eyes - he might have held his tongue and - escaped imprisonment, contumely and • the violence of .mobs. "The best way , to meet the abolitionists," said Gov:- ernor Wise, of Virginia. "is with POW - der and cold steel." On the 30th of November, 1831, the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia resolved "that the sum of live thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropri- ated to be paid. to any person or per- sons who shall arrest, bring to trial and prosecute to conviction under the laws of this State, the editor and publisher of a certain paper called the Liberator, published in the town of Boston and state of - Massachusetts." The grand jury of Raleigh, North Carolina, in- dicted. him for distributing his paper in that State, and .the Vigilance Associa- tion of Oolurqbia,, South Carolina, "composed. of g ntlemen of the first re- spectability," offered, a reward. of 41,- 500 for the apprehension and conviction of auy white person found circulating it in that commonwealth. The Cor- poration of Georgetown, District of • Columbia, made it r) penal for any free pereon of color to take it from the post ' office, and. imposed a fine of 420 or thirty days' imprisonment for each of- fence. If the prisouer could not pay the fine it was ordered that he be sold. iuto. slavery for four months. . , . A PRO -SLAVERY MOB ON BOSTON COMMON, ; But the persecution that drew Mr. Garrison's invective farthest beyond bounds was his treatment by se Boston mob under the shadow of Bunker Hill ,. Monument.. On seeing hina after a long and excited search, three or four of the rioters, etteriug yells, furiously dragged him to the window of a build- ing where he had taken refuge. They coiled a rope around his body. De- scribing the attack, he says: , "I bowed to the mob, and, requesting them to wait patiently until I could de- scend, went down upon a ladder that was raised. for that purpose. I for- - tunately extricated myself from the -rope, and wa,sseized by two or three of the leading rioters, powerful and ath- letic men, by swhom I was dragged along bare -healed (for my hat had been knocked oft and cut in pieces on the spot), a friendly voice in the crowd shouting, 'He shan't be hurt! He is an ,American.' This seemed to excite sympathy in the breasts of some others, and they reiterated the cry. Blows, however, were aimed at nay head by such6a.s were of a cruel spirit, and at last they succeeded in tearing all my clothes from my body. . They pioceed- ed with me in the direction of the City Hall, the cry being raised 'To the Com- mon,' whether to give we a coat of tar and feathers or to throw me into the pond was problematical. As we ap- proached. the south door the Mayor at- tempted to protect me by his•presence .; but as he was unassisted by -any show of authority or force he WaS quickly thrust aside. And now came a tre- mendous -rush on the part of the mob. to prevent my entering the hall. For a time the conflict was desperate, but at length a rescue was effectea by a posse that came to the help of • the Mayor, by whom I was carried up to the Mayor's room." After a brief consultation, the au- thorities told him that his life depend- ed upon being committed to jail, os- tensibly as a disturber of the peace. A hackney coach was brought to the door. He was taken to jail, but soon liberated. Hi 8 purpose iu early manhood was to abolish slavery by moral suasion. In later years he preached disunion and secession as the means of riddinee. the North of the slave -holding South. When the war came he saw in if, the liberator of the bondsmen; and at its successful close he WAS invited to join the party that sailed . for Charleston harbor to raise the stars and stripes over historic Fort Sumter. Many of his countrymen, in token of his public services and. private worth, presented him soon afterward with a purse of • thirty thousand. dollars. Not long ago he Sent to the newspapers several let - ters defeudi g a "stalwart" policy for the Republican party. The peaceful close of his eife is in pleasing contrast with the turbulence of his best years. -Coal ha about fiftee -There pox in Otte, -Hon. M from Engla -The Co drawn its b Norwich. -Manito 1 a will receive this season over 218,00 ,000 feet of lumber from the Upper Miss ssippi. -Mr. M.' A. Kirk, of Westminster, has clover g owieg on his farm aver- aging 33 inc es in length. -Wool b i ings 22c per pound on the Guelph ma ket, and for good South- downefleece 27c per pound is paid. -One hu dred boxes of scythes have been seized t Coaticook because they were entere through false invoices. -The fo ndatiou stone of a, new Methodist hurch was laid. at the village of T orndale on the 3rd in.st. -A bran4 h of the Bank of Commerce has been op ned at Norwich under the management of Mr. 3. R. Clark, of Brantford. -The to er showing the light which is reflected y the apparatus on Al- gernon rock in the St. Lawrence, has been destro ed by fire. -On Sat rday night the warehouse of James P >pier, leather dealer, Toron- to, was eut red, and goods to the value of over 415 1 abstracted. - A youn lady of prepossessing ap- pearance w s actively engaged ell day on Thursda ",5th inst., at Bowmanville, taking vote s to the poll. - A you g lad named. Smith was poisoned i Hamilton, last Saturday evening, by eating gooseberries saturat- ed in a solu ion. of tobacco. -Au old' man, 93 -,years of ageenam- ed Donald Graham, was accidentally killed on th Great Western track near Hamilton, n Thursday of last week. -The M gdalen Island. fisheries are doing well Mackerel and cod are plentiful a d of good size. AU the lobster fact ries are in full operation. - A tea her in Toronto named Spence, ha been fined 43 and costs for whipping too severely a little girl attending h s school. Mr. Spence will appeal. -The M tians have conferences week. Th at Kingston -At the last week independen prize of 415 Canadian b -The ne Burlington bath. The Fletcher pr morning an -Jacob of the tow was arreste gery, he ha cheque pur St. Louis. -A valu J. E. McPh ton county, pasture Bel horse in the j u red . -Last F over 60, livi instantly. man were f him to run, under the f -At Min man named boating par lifting aege dentally sh of his reoov of age. -The ha Mr. Wm. C completely moruing. fire was o had taken building. -Dr. Cea to hini the young pig, The animal and eight le to the docto served in al -At a str the 6th inst. Canada. been discovered on a farm miles out of Ottawa. ave been 200 cases of mall- s, since January last. . Joly arrived at Quebec d last Sunday morning. solidated .Bank has with- anch from the village of sis 1 from Stamf son, sustai other of t had a piece lower lip, in doctors subs thigh. -A man London -a fe being the killed Mr. Pert Colbor Constable Colborne fo wanted at D sault on a p D and respecte of Howard, vanced age in Argylesh this country farm where lase of Iont named after his native s -An exc young men Toronto, m Chatham a gullible tow law grantin in aid of es Fortunately before subm of the peopl • • • thodists and Bible Chris- een holding their periodical in London during the past Congregational -Union met real band tournament held n Port Huron, the Sarnia band carried off the first in the competition between uds. • Presbyterian Church on each was opened last Sab- Revs. S. Lyle and D. II. ached dedicatory sermons eyening. Currier, of Windsor, clerk ship of Sandwich East, on Saturday last for for - mg obtained $300 upon a orting to be signed by Leon ble horse belonging to Mr. rson, near Crieff, Welling - was killed. by lightning in a .on the 31st ult. Another same field was badly in - • iday Mr. Wm. Palmer, aged g in Sherbrooke, was killed Elis sr'- and another young lling a tree, and shouted for and unfortunately he ran lling tree. en the other day -a young Thomas Gardner, one of a y from Boverna,nville, while by the muzzle was acci- t. The doctors give no hope ry. He is about 22 years pressing establishment of le, in London south, was estroyed by fire last Friday t is supposed that the casioned by tramps who p their quarters in the er, of Port Hope, had sent ther day the carcass of a hich was quite a curiosity. had one head, two bodies It was dead when sent , and he has it now pre- ohol. et row late on the night of ,in Clifton, a young man rd, named James Thomp- ed severe injuries. An - ie party named. Waters f flesh bitten out of his the place of which the ituted a piece from his amed O'Brien, arrested in ✓ days ago on suspicion of ersou who waylaid. and Cleveland, contractor, at e, has been identified by a.ynard and taken to Port trial. O'Brien is also troit or a murderous as- dicernan. ncan McCormick, an old resident of the township ied on May 30th, at the ad - 1 83 years. He was born re, Scotland, and come to in 1832, settling upon the he eastern half of the vil- ow stanch; and which he the famed island adjoining ore. auge says: A couple of named Steinhardt, from de their appearance in ew weeks ago, and. got the council to prepare a by - them 420,000 as a bonus ablishing a silk. factory. some inquiries .were made tting the by-law to a vote , and the unsubstantial na- 0 • - ture of the whole concern was exposed in time to prevent further action. The same men tried a similar little game at Simcoe and. other places. -Mr. John Sutton, of the second concession of Yarmouth, has a 'cow which this bbason yields 35 pounds at a milking. -Those who are in the habit of handling small silver would do well to exercise caution, as there is a large quantity of counterfeit five, ten and 25 - cent pieces in circulation.' -A Mr. Marks, who was seriously injured in Toronto the!other day by the falling of a sign which was protruding over the sidewalk, in lontra,vention of the law, intends to bri g an action for damages against the city. -The barn belonging to Mr. Walter Barrie, of North Dumfries, was burnt by lightning during the storm of the 31st ult. There were 400 bushels of wheat and several implements in the building, all of which were burned. In- surance, 4800. -A settler in Oakley, Muskoka, while engaged in ferrying potatoes across the river, near Elm Portage, was swept into the current and drowned. The body has not been recovered. The deceased was a young Englishman, and leaves it wife and one child. -While the Duke of Argyle's party were waiting at Kingston wharf on their way down the river,' it man named Evan McColl, landing waiter, and a well known Scottish bard, had a con- versation with His Grace and Lord Campbell. Mr.. McColl is a native of Inverary and had not seen His Grace for over thirty years. -Mr. George McMillan, near Bala- klva, in Carrick township, county of Bruce, raised aalarge frame barn last week, at which 80 men mid 20 women assisted, under the captaincy of Walter Adams and James Reddon. Neither liquor nor politics were allowed on the premises. Adams came out ahead. Henry Hill was the builder. -Rev. 3. A. Johnson, a colored min- ister from -Nova Scotia, who has been attending the B. M. E. Conference in London, delivered an eloquent sermon before a large congregation on Sabbath last in that city: He is a colored man 22 years of ace, but considered on a par with the most eloquent of our white di- vines. - -The Directors of the North Riding of Oxford and Blandford Union Agri- cultural Society, met in Woodstock on Saturday, for the purpose of reviging liarn Tierney was walking on the the prize list for the present year. An picket fence of Victoria Park, the other endeavor will be made to raise sufficient day, when he fell off, one of the pickets money to make the prize list for horses catching him under the chin and in - such as will draw competition from all flicting a deep gash. He was kept sus - Darts of the Province. pended for quite a time, and occu- -The body of Frederick NOrtligraves, pied a very perilaus position, the -whole of Belleville, a travelling clocIsmaker. weight of his body being on his jaw. was found near the track of the North -R. P. Mills, M. B., formerly a Hastings Railroad, beside Hog Lake, teacher in Newbury, has just completed on Thursday of last week: One of his a most successful course in medicine, arms was badly crushed, as if he had being a graduate in first-class honors been run over. Foul play is suspectedand gold medalist in the University of The body was partly decomposed, hav- Trinity College, and also a graduate in ing evidently lain where found for sev- honors and first silver medalist in the eral days. University of Toronto, and passed the -The fool who jumped into the examination for membership of the Niagara River from the upper Suspen- College of Physicians and Surgeons, 13/.011 Bridge, made about 25 cents by the Ont., without an oral. operation. The spectators wouldn't -Two little boys named A. Potter pay 25 cents for his photograph. He and Walter Mason, aged. respectively expects to make money when he re- two and four years, were playing about peats the experiment on the Fourth of Perley's mill -pond, near Ottawa, the July, but if he abesn't do well, he will other day, when the former fell in. go to Europe, where he is confident that They had been playing at fishing, and a good perpendicular jump will be ap- little Walter had presence of mind preciated. • enough to hold out the pole which he -A man who resides at Blue Rock, held in his hand. to his unfortunate Carleton, New Brunswick, has been ill- companion. The two year old grabbed using his wife of late. The other day, the pole and was safely landed. after beating her severely, he dragged -Last Saturday two servant girls in her out of &ore and lashed her tightly to a fence post, where she remained en- during great agony until a number of the neighbors went to her assistance and loosed the cords. The man was not arrested. -Nearly two years ago Mr.. John Paul, Chicago and Milwaulsee railway, was taken. Mr. McDougall has been nineteen years in the Northwest. Ile reports very favorably on the climate and the fertility of its soil, and is of opinion that with railway communica- tion the territory would. be rapidly de- veloped. -The Orangemen of Montreal have decided to make no public demonstra- tion matil the legality of the Order is established. The proceedings against ex -Mayor Beaudry are being under- taken at the expense of the Supreme Lodge, and the Orangemen in Montreal, it is said, are acting under the direction of that body. -One William W. Patrieks, accused of embezzling $2,200, the property of a firm in St. Louis, was arrested the other day in Montreal. Patricks bad fled to that city, and had registered. at the Ottawa Hotel under the na,me of W. PsPeterson. 41,900 were found on his person. He agreed. -to: return to meet his accusers. -It is said. that His Excellency and Her Royal Highness are being flooded with begging letters of 41 descrip- tions. People who have been unfor- tunate in business and. want 'assistance, philanthropic enterprises wentinc assis- tance, or patronage, or botheandin fact all sorts -of institutions want1 to be re- cognized in some manner. - -A determined suicide by hauging Was committed on Sunday last by Wendell Bushert, a well-to-do and re- spectable farmer, aged fifty-nine, and residing -about six miles fromDeceased attempted suicide only a short time ago, but was deteeted in the act. The cause ie supposed to have been family and religious troubles. -A. woman who was recently,arrest- ed. for keeping a disorderly house at Belleville attenapted to co-minit suicide whilst in the cells 011 Wednesday last. She had torn strips from her dress, with which she had made a rope, one end of which she had fastened to the bars on the window, when she was dis- covered by the constable on duty. -Last Monday afternoon, in Corn- wall, a man named Harriman. was thrown from a sulkey by a runaway horse, and his feet catching in the axle - tree was dragged a long distance. The flesh was nearly all torn off his breast and his throat and face terribly lacer- ated. Ile was living at latest accounts, but there are no hopes of his recovery. -A little boy in London named Wil - London, Eliza, Stother and Eliza, Camp- bell, were tried on it charge of con- spiracy to rob General Renwick, in vvhose house Stotheras_ had. been em- ployed. Campbell letes discharged, there being no evidence against her. Stothers, who is the daughter of a re - Peters, of the Dundas Road, Beverly, spectu.ble farmer in Enniskillen, pleaded had his valuable dog Bruin stolen from guilty of having the goods (4100 worth) him. He could find no trace of the in her possession, but said that when animal, and finally gav,e him up for arrested she was intending to make re, lost. Some time ago onb lof his family stitution. She appeared very penitent, overheard some persons describing a and was sentenced to only one nionth's valuable dog that they had seen, and imprisonment. Mr. Peters being inforined of this sus- -The number of Canadian horned pected the animal was his, and on go- cattle shipped from Canada this season ing to the place desorilfed- found his is reported at 7,260 head. Last year suspicions were correct:- The dog had nearly 19,000 head. were exported from been kept in custody during this period Canadian ports, nearly half of which just four miles from Mr. Peters' dwel- were from the United States. This ling house. -time last year only 3,356 head of cattle, -During their visit inQuebec, the United. States and Canadian, had. been Governor General and. Princess have shipped, so that more than double that made themselves as popular and. won number have been forwarded so far general favor just as rapidly as in the this season, all raised in Canada. The other cities they have visited. The number of sheep exported since the only Canadian aristocracy is the old opening of navigation is 1,799, against French noblesse, and the h.earts of this 841 last year. important class are being rapidly won -A numbee of settlers sent out to by the affability and dignity of his Manitoba by the Hamilton Colonization Excellency and the culture and sim- Company are located at Bird Tail plicity of her Royal Highness. They Creek. St. Clair City is- the embryo both, of course, speak German and metropolis of the settlement. The set- Frenchwith fluency- andgrace. Indeed, tiers are represented. as much pleased French ladies declare with much em- with their homes, and there is every phasis that the Queen's daughter has a prospect of it becoming a thriving set - Parisian accent and prefers their lan- tlement. There are now sixty-five ' families settled. there, and several guage to the English. -Rev. John- McDongall, Metho- more expected. The land thereabouts dist minister at Morleyville. Bow river, is well wooded, and mill privileges are on the Saskatchewan, arrived in To- abundant, so that it is intended to put ronto on Sunday last, having travelled up one or more mills immediately. continuously since the 2nd of April The Princess Louise Drawing Room. He brought with him two Indiau which was held in the Legislative youths, sons of Mr. Steinhauer, the na- Council Chamber ot Quebec, Saturday tive missionary at White Fish Lake, evening, at 9 o'clock, was one of the who will be sent to Cobourg to be ; most brilliant gatherings of the kind trained for the ministry. Mr. Mc- s that has taken place since the arrival Dougall's station is about 600 miles of Hor Royal Highness and His Excel - west of Prince Albert, and it has a church, a parsonage and school house. s His mission covers an area of about 500 miles, and is principally among In- dians. The reverend gentleman had. to travel 1,200 miles by team, via Ed.- monton, Battleford, and Portage La Prairie, a journey which occupied near- ly two months. From Portage La Prairie to Winnipeg was done by boat, and from thence to Pembina by steam- er, when the regular route, via St. lency in this country. It was notice- able that while the majority of the ladies wore dresses that were low- necked in the orthodox sense of the term, many simply had their dresses cut low in the corsage, while not a few wore dresses that were not only pro- nouncedly high in the neck, but sur- mounted by a plaited collar or frill that in some cases ahnost threatened the fair wearer's ears. Fully to -thirds of the gentlemen presented for ot the in- junction issued at Halifax about back- ing out, but on the contrary bolted out head -first as soon as they had bowed to the Princess. The presentations were made at the rate of about eight to the minute. -The Credit Valley Railway is pro- gressing rapidly. Gangs of men are at work on different sections of it. It is expected that passenger trains will be running between Toronto and Milton in a very short time. • -Mr. T. D. Hodgens, of the London Oil Refining Company, returned from England. on Tuesday. He has im- ported for breeding purposes twelve veryfine Shropshire Downs, to be add- ed to his fairra. -The trustees of Zion Church, (Rev. Mr. 'Bray's), Montreal, will apply at the approaching session of the Legisla- ture of Quebec for power to mortgage Zion Church property to the extent of $20,000. -Wallace Ross, the St. john oars- man, arrived. home from Englund on Tuesday. An immense crowd gathered at the wharf to see him, but there was no attempt at it reception. of any kind.. A nevv boat, built expressly for him, and presented to him by his London backer, Mr. Bush, will shortly arrive. -The Cornwall Freeholder says: That the election in Stormont will be pretested at once oti the ground of bribery and. intimidation. It seems to be very generally admitted that Mr. Farren would have been elected by a handeorae majority had he not been in- capacitated by a serious accident during his canvass. -On Wednesday, the 21st ult., 35,- 000 logs went over the Government data at Fairy Locks, Muskoka, and formed a jam some distance below. The greet pressure of the legs, occasioned. by the swift water, completely overturned the breakwater, and drove a large quantity of sand, gravel, ete„ into the canal, which will stop navigation for some time. -An accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon by which John Boyce, son of the late George Boyce, of the township ofFenelon, lost his life. He was driv- ing a young horse in a sulky., and when. about half way home the foot -board of the vehiclo broke, when he fell forward. upon the ground, breaking his neck. The corener s jury,which sat immediate- ly after the occurrence, brought in a verdict of accidental death. -Donald McLeod, of Inverhuron, (three miles from Tiverton), a young lad 14 years of age, left his home on last Saturday evening, without telling his parents where he was going. SOME; time in the forenoon of Sunday his par- ents•sent one of the children to their friend's house to learn why he aid not come home, when, on the way, the child met a neighbor coming to tell the parents that their son's body had been found in the lake very near the shore. -The other evening Hannah Wad- dell, a young girl, residing near Stra- bane, Wentworth eounty, in perfect health, went out to briag home the cows, and not returning in proper time a search was made by the peighbosa through the fields, but failed to find her. 1 The party continued their search arou d the house, when entering the barn they discovered the body in a -sit- ting position, with the hands upon the face,1 quite dead. She -was subject to fain ing fits, which has been attributed. as t e cause of her death. n. action for $10,000 damages to reco er the church property of the Pres yterian congregation at Cote St. Geo e, county of Soulatiges, has been elate ed by JP°. Morrison, trustee for the aid congregation, in connection with the Presbyterian Church in Cana- da, ainst Donald McCuaig, represen- tativls of the Anti -Union party. It ap- pear- that the said congregation voted in favor of the union of Presbyterian Churches, but that the Anti -Union part in 1876 forcibly entered the chur h, placed a new lock on the door, and iave held possession ever. since. Hence the present action. - ne night lately the residence of Charles Whitlaw, Esq., of Pari, was entered. by burglars and quantity of his plate, valued at $200, carried off. Mrs. J. Whitlaw was lying sick in the house at the time, and. presrimably asleep. Mrs. Fletcher, the nurse, was in an adjoining room awake, and heard. the window opened, but sup- posing it to be opened by some one who desired more air -the night being 'very warm -she paid no attention to it. The scoundrels were, therefore, unmo- lested. in their work of plunder, and managed to escape with their booty, the lOss of which was not discovered by those in the house until some hours af- terwards. -Says the Advertiser : Another large party for Manitoba passed through Lon- don last Tuesday Bight (under the care of Mr. Patterson, who has already taken about 16,000 to that ProVince this sea- son, without any passenger receiving a single scratch, which speaks well for the arrangements and enterprise of Mr. Patterson. This party was joined at this station by a party of about sixty persons 'under the -direction of Mr. Thomas Greenway, who has also taken several parties up this season. Shortly before midnight the special, consisting of six coaches, one baggage car, and eleven cars of stock and freight, started Jot the Far West, amidst the -cheers of a large number of persons who had as- sembled to witness their departure. There were about 300 passengers all told, several of whom came from Lon- don township. A noticeable feature of the party was the large nuraber of valu- able horses and cattle which were 011 the train, and the enterprise of the set- tlers in thus importing stock of a super- ior kind into Manitoba is au auspicious sign for their future prosperty, Mr. Hun- ter, the affable and indefatigable agent of Mr. Patterson, aecompanies the train. to St. Paul, Minn. ha. -