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The Huron Expositor, 1879-06-20, Page 1:TUNE 13, 1879. 'ERYBODY ,ULD KNOW IIA.VE DECIDED To. ANY DOLLARS wanza OF AND SUMmER.... La Boys, comprising all the ' Shapes, for old and young, NOW ANO JULY 15111 ieh this Buyers will be givea ,•11. will be named on all our elothirig) that will bring u. want of Nils.1 1\1- !uedon. that the Three Sevens :ace to purohase. It is a IDE DETERMINATION t to sell out this Depart- ICDOUGALL & CO. r ATTRACTION -IN TUE- ERY DEPARTMENT EXPRESS: APES, FLOWERS, -NEV FEATHERS, Of SI'N'SHADES From 5 ▪ ie HATS. 40 cents. ;Every `ec thein. CDOUGALL & CO. BARGAINS, t = Skirts at 35 cents, wortk nts, white and coloredrat worth 75 cents. te Hose at 7 cents, worth s. ;loves at 25 cents, Or ered, at 15 cents -a great I, yirP Better Va&i! wir money than at 'IOUGALL& C0.1 Price paid for No. 1 Butte in Tubs. 11 TWE TIE Y VirECOLE NUMBER, 602. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1879. 1/1cLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, ill Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. PROPERTY FOR SALE. -or Sale, that eon- & venient and desirable residence on the corner of Ifigh and Market Streets, lately Geer pied by pr. Vercoe. Apply to DR. VERCOE. 488 BeuEvaLE.--New Dwelling House in Blnevale for sale; etory and a half, 18x26, with kitchen ettaahed 11x18; extra well fiaished ; one quarter ocelot well fenced and puinp. Priee, $501). Ap- ply to JOSEPH BURGESS, Blu.evale. 589 VCR SALE. -For Sale a first class Planing X Mill, nearly new and in good. running order, Anted in the flourishing TONIM of Seaforth, will be sold cheap. Terms easy. Enquire Of WORD, COSSENS & CO., Goderich, Ont. VARII IND TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE, J PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.-aLot 17, the Ilth concession,. McKillop; price $40per acre; Building lots in different parts of the town of Seaforth; parchasers can make their own terms of payment, at 8 per cent. interest. JAS. BEATTIEf • t 591 'Dalt FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot No.' 5, Bay - x field Concession, Goderich Township, con- taining 85 aGres, 50 of which are cleared and in a good. state of naltivation. The farm is adjoining thevillage of Hayfield, and will be sold. cheap and en favorable terms. Apply to the proprietor, JOHN GOVENLOCK. ! 524 (1110IGE FARM FOR SALE -Being Lot 4, Con. 7, Hullett, County of Huron; 100 acres; 80 cleared, well naderdrained, and in a good state of cultivation; buildings convenient and good; terms easy. For further particulars apply to. Mailers. McCAUGHEY &IIOLMESTED, Seaforth or on the premises to WM. E. COLDWELL. Con stance P. O. 555 --- VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -For Sale, Y the east half of Lot No. 4, Con. 4, rt. R. S., lackersmith, County of Huron, consisting of 5t, acres, 31 miles from the Town af Seaforth, and convenient to school. The land is of the very beat quality. For further particulars apply to JAMES l'ICKA.RD, opposite the premises, or to Egmondville P. 0. ' 52 I -palm AND TOWN PROPER TY FOR SALE, OHE&P.-Lot No, 24, Con. 9, 'Mali:Mop, 100 meg; north half Lot ,30, Con. 9, McKillop, 50 acres; north half of north half Lot 31, Con. 9, McKillop, 25 aeres ; residence oceupied by Mr. Iffalcolmson on Goninlock Survey, Seaforth; building lots on Jervia' and F. G. Sperling's Sur- leys. Apply to GRAY,YOUNG & SPARLING. fleaforth. 695 InaRM FOR SALL-For Salenthe west part of x Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Grey, containing 50 notes, 85 of which are cleared, well fenced, and in a state of good cultivation. There is a good. franie house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the gravel road leading to Braetiels and Seaforth, aud adjoins a church and school. It is also within half amile of the Village of Walton. Apply on the premiaes or to Walton, Post Offiee. CHARLES MURGIU.E. 493 VARM FOR SALE. -That well-known and fine ly situated farm, Lot 1, Coin 1, Hullett, in th County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 o which are cleared; there are two frame_ dwellin houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable sheep-hons snd driving hoffse ; also orchard and abundance o water. The farm is situated two miles from th Town of Seaforth, on the Httron Road, For fu particulars apply to McCAUGHEY & HOLME STED, Seaforth, or to SIMON YOUNG, proprie tor, on the premises. 553-4x PROPERTY FOR SALE. -For Sale, Lot 14, -1- Con 16, Grey ; West half of Lot 29, Con. 6, with cheese fu.ctory complete; Lot la, Con. 6, and sonth half of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 5, town- ship of Morris Lot 22, Con. B, and Lot 28, Con. B, township olowick, all good improved farms, together with several 50 acre farms in Grey and Morris, and houses and lots. and vacant lots in the village of Brussels. Prices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN LiCKIEI Bruis- ed& 674 -FARM F014 SALE. -For Sale, that most desir- able farm'being Lot 1, Con. 6, in. the town- ship of Hallett, situated It miles from Kinburu. and 6 miles from Seaforth. There are excellent buildings on the premises, including a first-class atone house, two storey, 30 by 40 feet. A spring creek runs through the farm; good orchard, good fences, and the land in an excellent state of cul- tivation. Apply on the premises to JAMES Me MICHAEL, or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Sea - forth. 562 TIESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.- Fa Sale, ticonifortabie brick Cottage with 8 acres of choice land, in Roiboro, township of -McKilloP, within two miles and a half of Seaforth. There is aline orchard of Choice bearing fruit trees, als wells, stable, blacksmith shop, and all nocessar tonaeniences, • It is pleasantlysituated, and is most desirable property for a retired fanner or a market gardener. It will be sold eheap and on easy terms of paymeat if desired. Apply to the proprietor on the premises or to Seaforth P. 0 THOMAS HYSLOP. ! • 593 VALUABLE FARM FOR SALL-For Sale th • west half of Lot 27, Con. 3, McKillop, con laining50 acres, known as the Deigle estate. Thi fermis situated within and mile and a quarter o deaforth. The land is of the choicest quality There is a handsome residence and good outbuild Ings. The f arm is well planted with fruit and or- namental trees, is in excellent order, and we fenced. It is admirably suited for a retired gm), Ileman, a dairy -man, or market gardener. =Term Uy. This property mast be sold at once. Appl to A. STRONG, Seaforth. 539 - FiBm FOR SALE. -South half of Lot 26, Con. 6, Morris, County of Huron, containing 10( scree, 85 acres cleared, balance hardwood; 6€ acres clear of stumps and. underdrained ; soil clay loam; 13 acres fall wheat; good bearing orehard; bank bara 40x60, nearly new, and othe outbuildings; good log house, with new fraane addition; 2 wells•, well fenced. The above farm iaonly two miles from Brussels, on good gravel roads; school house ou the lot. For farther par- ticulars apply on the premises, or to C. R Cooper, Brussels P. 0. ROBERT BROADFOOT, Propri- etor,. Brussels P. 0. _ . 588 VILLAGE PROPERTY FOR . SALE. -Being • Dwelling house and two lots, containing one- half acre each, in the Village of Varna, situated on the -corner opposite the post office, whieh makes them 'suitable for bnilding for business Pracsea. The house contains 5 bedrooms, sitting room, lining room and kitchen, with woodshed attached, soft water cistern and every other eon- rini.ence to Danko a comfortable and commodious dwelling. On the lots there is a good bearing orchard of vnrions kinds of fruit, and a quantity of grape vines. There is also a well and pump, alft pod stable aucl driving shed. Terms easy. Possession given on the 1st of October. For fur- ther particulars apply to the proprietor. S. At. nOFFATT, Varna. 2.0. 593-4x PARniIN McKILLOP FOR SALE. -For Sale, the North part of Lots 6 mid 9. Con. 13, Me4 coutuluing 112 acres; there are about 80 cleared, well lencea, underdrained, and in a high etate eultivatiou, the balguce is well timbered with hardwood; good dwelling, new bank frame barn 50aZ7, with stabling underneath, and other outbuildings, also a good young orchard and genty of water. Is 10 miles from Brussels, 5 from Waltou, and 12 from Seaforth, with good gravel roads to each place; conveuient to church and achcols ; will be sold ea a whole or in two parts, ar will be exchanged for a small farm. Apply to alton P. 0. or to the propaietor on the premiSes. -WILLIAM DYNES. 593 PAPOil FOR SALE. -The subscriber offers for sale Lot 22, Con. 1201 the township of Stan. - lea, containing one hundred acres, 63 acres clear (al ana in a guotl state of cultivation, and good knees, balance 17 acres good - hardwood bush; one hidf of clearing seeded down, there will be 13 sexes of wheat put in this fall; there is a.bout acres of a thriving orchard on the premises and I Tat iet,y of fruit trees all now bearing. The farm hi well watered, a never failing creek rtms through the farm, also two good wells, large bank barn 36 by 60 feet with good stabling under- neath the barn, and a log dwelling house. The turn is situated within two and a half miles of the village of Bayfield. For further particulars apply to S. McLEAN, proprietor on the premises or to W. Connor, Hayfield P. 0. 672 • 1 1 OLD STYLE TEMPERANCE I . PROM 1HARPER'S MAGAZINE. TheRev. Dr. Crosby, Of New York, anal his friends have undertaken the temperance Movement in the old ,way, a,ndlwith a piiblic intereet which is the bet i augury. The old way was that of Lamina at teniperance rather then, at 'total abstinence -a way which will be recalled by those who remember the temperance meetings of forty years ago. At a late meeting for 4' moderation," Dr. prosby said that the chief target of the good. temperance orators has been the :moderate drinker. He, after all, is represented as the guilty ,offender. The descriptions of the results of drunk- enness, the ruined home, the broken- hearted wife, the starving children, the poverty and crime, -have all seercied dur- ing the speech to indicate the drunken husband and father as the criminal. Butljust as the interested and sympa- thetic hearer' is preparing himself to join in the condemnation of the father and the husband svho has inibruted himself and = destroyed his home, the fervid. Nathan turns upon him and thunders in his face, " Thou art the map." It is the moderate drinker who must bear the responsibility. It is not the inan whOi is overmastered byhis ap- petites, and who abandons himself to pouring into his mouth the support of his family, lint the man who restrains himself, who, does not degrade his home, nor ruin wife, and child, who is satirized and. anathematized as the wrong doer. The drunkard is to be pitied. When he strikes his wife to the ground, end flings his child out of the window, he is possessed by a demon; "the worm of the still" has stung him. But sad as it is, what word is sharp enough for him who does not, indeed, strike his wife or harm his child, but who is that moral mo1ster-a moderate drinker? : T/1 ere is something wrong here, as an eminent lawyer was wont to say when the evidence went against his client. The l drunkard may be an esti able member of society, but is the mo erate drinker so hopelessly reprobate? Is the man who does not drink to excess eces- sexily so very much worse than on who does? The argument against thedrink- ing of intoxicating liquor is that i robs a men of his reason aud his h alth, produces Ctime, and enormousl in- creases taxation. Is that true of the moderate drinker? Are they the peo- ple who are responsible for thes re- sults? At the meeting of wine we speak, Dr. Crosby and D Mr. Fro hing- ham were present, and made exc llent speeches. Do they represent the class of citizens who are to'be arraigne just- ly as men whose ha,hits rob the of their reason, procluee crime, ani in- crease taxes? Yet CI ey are " 'oder- ate" men. The meeting was ca ed to favor moderation. it was a meet ng of the yery class whicuis roundl de- nounced by sincere orators as the bul- wark of the dram -shop. It is true that Mr. Frothingham said that he s ould advise every young man not to be even moderate, but to abstain altoge her; and that while he did not think th: t he had been injured by his moderati fin, he thought that if he began life agai he should follow hiss own advice to the young men. It was doubtless judicious advice, but certainly the meetingi and its character and the tone of • its speeches should suggest to the ardent missionaries of the good cause that there should be some discrimination, an that to hold the moderate drinker re pon- sible for the crimes of the d unk- ard, isto hold the rich man who s not wil y extravagant to he as what ting a ra raber of society as. the rich man who is. ' Theargument, indeed, is that t is the 4xample of the more intelligen and mod rate class which seduces th less reso]iute, and that the strong sliou1d deny themselves for the sake of the wea . We have heard an intelligent but ot a wise .politician call the rog- shop the poor man's club,' and the ues- tion s often asked why the poor man shou d not take his whiskey if th rich man takes his champagne. Buti any reas liable orator will see the fallacy of such reasoning. If the whiskey be no mor noxious than the wine, an the -wine be innocent, and if the man can affor it, and if he drink it Witho t ex- cas-in other words, if condition ex- ist which do not exist-thcre can e no hari4. If the postulate of the te per- ance orator be that every form of wine as weal as of 1 ardent spirit is unw ole - some', and caonot be taken witho t in that it it in fact a seductive poi- son, the use of Which every more and sanitary and. lsoeial reason conde Ins, then, of course, there is no degree i the wrong of the use, as there is none i the freshness of an egg. But if the ca se is to wait until this point is settl d, it will not advance. - Indeed, the me it of Dr. grosby's positiOn is that he pro- poseto punish the disorder hich druu -enness stric s in the roost sensible way th sale produces, while h re - I of drams, and meanwhile encou ages every appeal to the moral char cter and resolution of those whom the tempter tempts. Of course his plan does not discourage the efforts of hose who are persuaded that the use of. vine or of 'any beverage but water is mo ally wron. and physicallY pernicious. But he s:ys only that if we, would pr vent the io mediate consequences to s ciety of dr ukenne s, we mut agree that the sale hall be sensiblyi regulatedand that I unkards shall be made to pay for ti) e offences which drunkenness pro- duce::. The questions of the essekitial poisouousness of all forms of the 'uice of th grape, of the iniquity of the �east sip,. nd of mutual responsibility he lea.v s to be -hilly considered. But "mo eration." wisely insists that mean- whilii the work of regulating the sale and. if relieving society shall go on and. it ho ds it to be a pity to repel the ac- tive nd earnest co-operation in 1 this good work of those who are very power- ful a d alwa,y-s sober. It is pleasant to remark the cordial welcome which Mr. W. E. Dodge, a patriarch of ab- stinence, giyes to the movement as a forward step. There was one good word spoken at the Meeting which we -have just men- tioned-, and that was the hearty denun- ciation of "treating." Two young brokers meet in Broad street at ten in the morning, and begin the day with a nippei. They are scarcely past 20, cer- tainly nob 30, and one invites the other to drink, and the other "returns the compliment," and by noon they smell "like old topers." The Broker's Board shows a certain number of young men of this kind .whem the nipper has nip- ped -young men with puffy faces and rosy skins, who 'have always a certain ration of ardent spirit in their blood. and who are as plainly marked as if they were stamped and branded. Be- fore they know it they have a regularly recurring thrist, a gna-wiug desire of liquor. It is not moderation, it is im- moderation, and very soon " liquor has got the best of them." it is the result of " treating." In certain parts of the country it was, and perhaps it still.* a point of co-urt- esy to " treat " a friend, or a stranger whom you meet, or the company. To decline a " treat " was to insult the pro- poser. Drink or shoot was the curt alter- native. The habit springs from the feeling of good -fellowship, which has always asserted itself .in this way. The liquor was also considered to be a cordial and stimulant. If a mark raised a house or barn, the rum flowed freely. If he sheared sheep, the "hands " look- ed for their liquor. If he led the mow- ers in the hot July day, the jug of New England lay handy. The funeral com- pany were treated to brandy, rum and gin. Two friends met • "Come, take a drink." In the houses of many poli- ticians no one was suffered to depart without a visit to the sideboard. " Henry Clay sva.sat perfect gentleman; he handed the whiskey bottle and then turned his back," that the guest might pour as he pleased. Yankee -Doodle was the original of Captain Rice. "Captain Rice he gin a treat." Here lea plow to which everybody can put his hand. Public opinion has done much to s' -,op "treating," but much remains to be done. One of the most strenuous of temperance reform- ers said that to make dram -drinking difficult was to complete the reform. It is the ease with which young men can step in and " treat " each other which, in his judgment, was the main source cf the mischief. Drunkenness is originally a social vice, and "treat- ing " is a social ceremony. If, like Mr. Greeley; we could make .the young man hear, we should say to him. whether you go West or go East, or North or South; don't treat and be treated. It is, that senseless, ludicrous, terrible, tragical habit of " treating " which so often kindles the insatiable fire that spreads and spreads, feediug itself, • and consuming health, honor, peace, character, heppiness, home and heaven. _ • Canada. -A, heavy shock of earthquake was felt in Montreal and many other places throughout Quebec Province on the evening of the 12th inst. The shock lastedi only a few seconds. • -Halifax city finances are in a bad way. A very large number of people are unable to pay their taxes, and. there is general distress, but still the volume of civic taxation is increas- ing, - -A Barton farmer named Gregory has been fined two dollars and costs for tying a, calf too tightly and violently pitching it - into his wagon. Cruelty to animals ought never to go unpun- ished. ' -John Bowman one of the most re- spected farmers of Markham, died Sat- urday. morning from an overdose of chloral, taken a couple of hours previ- ously to relieve distress caused by dys- pepsia. He had been in the habit of taking this drug for some time. -Burglars entered the store of G. M. Skinner,at Gananoque, one night last week, an abstracted therefrom about j 175 worth of revolvers and ammuni- tion. T ey also pried open with bars the front door of a drug store and. car- ried off some boxes of cigars, jack- knives, perfumery, &.c., amounting to about $50. They left no clue to their identity. . -A number of Strathroy gentlemen have just received and turned out a shipment of Europeau quail, imported direct from the Mediterranean. Out of 100 birds only seven were lost on the route. .They are rather smaller and lighter in color than the Canadian quail, and it is believed they will mul- tiply rapidly, and always returu to their breeding places in spring after their migrations to the warm South in winter. . -A woman named Mary McGrath, well known in Toronto police circles, was arrested while attempting to dis- pose of a quantity of gentlemen's un- derclothing at a pawn shop on Queen street west. An owner for the articles was afterwards found in the person of Mr. D. I. K. Rine, the temperance lec- turer. The prisoner states that she re- ceived the goods from Mr. B,ine's washerwoman, who had sent her to pawn them for whiskey. She was sent up for three mouths. -The Allan steamship Sardinian has just made the trip across the Atlantic in the fastest time on recorA. She sailed. from Liverpool at 8 to. m. on Thursday, the 5th, and stopped at Mo- ville, 190 miles distant, on the follow - ins, day. Leaving there at five p. m. the same day (Friday), the steamship's log shows that she made the following number of miles per day in her voyage: Saturday, 260 miles; Sunday, 330 miles; Monday, 335 miles; Tuesday, 337 miles ; Wednesday, 358 miles; Thursday, 330 miles; at noon on Fri- day, the 13th inst., the vessel arrived. at Rimouski, having only °coupled 7 days and 16 hours in the trip from Liverpool, which is remarkably quick time. -Rev. S. Lyle, of Habailton, has been dangerously ill for some time, but is now recovering. -It is said that Winnipeg has a, bil- liard table to every three hundred and fifty inhabitants. •-a-A few days ago a whole family in Montreal were poisoned by eating bacon purchased :from a grocer in the city. One child died. -Mr. J. II. Browii, of Maplewood, West Zorra, has a yearling lamb which carries a coat of wool measuring 14i inches in length. -Miss Bye, with another batch of orphans, airived per steamer Sardinian, last Saturd: y. They were destined for the Home at Niagara. -Canoe building is active in Peter- boro'. Mr. English, of that town, has shipped from thirty to forty this year, some going to England. -The Kngston cabmen have sum- moned the liverymen before the Police Magistrate for letting out horses on. Sunday contrary to law. - -The County Council of North Mid- dlesex have decided. to build a poor house, and have bought property in the vicinity of Strathroy for that purpose. -The popils of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Belleville had. their annual excursion to Mill Point on Saturday afternoon per steamer Transit. -A valuable horse, belonging to Mr. Thos. Kane, of Burford, was so fright- ened by the whistle of a Grand Trunk engine that it dropped dead in the har- ness. -Mr, Jacob Englehart, a large oil re- finer in Petrolia, has entered an action for $10,000 damages against Mr. John McMillan, of Montreal, for using his trade -mark. -A yoke of fat oxen was sold at Waterloo on market day which brought down the beam at 4,446 pounds. Four and three- uarters was the price paid, netting 12 -The cil hex° re the people to the St. Huron Rai -The G byterian week and this week. Presiding -A youi treal from in the eye ehester stir of a revolv -A ma been missi 10th inst. discovered he left at a T 2. est Zorra Township Coun- olved to submit a by-law to •ranting a bonus of 160,000 Marys' Credit Valley and. way. neral Assembly of the Pres- hurch met in Ottawa last on thmed the session through Rev. Dr. Reid was elected. oderator. g lady, on a visit in Mon - he 'United States, was shot ast Friday night on Dor- et, by some reckless handler r, who escaped. named William Long has g from Chatham since the His whereabouts cau not be y his anxious wife, whom boarding house. -Mr. P ter Sinclair, of Chingua- cousy, hadi his barn blown down a few days ago. It stood upon posts' and the wind caug t it below, lifted itup and threw it ov r, creating a wreck. -Mrs. lizabeth R. Kirkwood, who sued the C ty Corporation of Montreal for five th usand dams for injuring herankle jfrom slipping on the ice, has been returned a verdict of $200 and costs. -Mr. Sm. Weir, whose home is near Glen orris, but who has of late been a law student in Toronto, has gone to seek oh lige of air and improved health on t e Pacific Coast. His first destinatiou is San Francisco. -Mrs. John F. Miller, of Moulton, is now visitha her son in the township of Harwich: The son is 74 years of age; she is hers lf 101 years; her husband was 103 w en he died, and her mother 111. Triil , a long-lived family. -A boy amed Frank Martin has mysterious y disappeared fro -m Wind- sor, and he is now believed to have been drow. ed. The river has been dragged, an a party of friends of the Martin fam y are scouring the woods in search o the lost child. -By the running &way of his team, Mr.'Richar Pinch, an old resident of Bowinanvil e,one day last week sustain- ed such inj ies as to seriously endan- ger his life. The gentleman is seventy years of ag . His thigh was broken,. besides sus aining other injuries. -Mr. jell erson Foster, of the 10th concession of Blanshard, had two valu- able heifers stolen. No clue can be got to the perp trators. As this, is not the first case of the kind that has occured in Blensha d, Mr.. Foster is going to offer 1100 r ward for the conviction of the parties ho committed the crime. -At Al so onte; a few days ago, a run- away team ollided with & carriage oc- cupied by 1V r. D. Galbraith, M. P., and the Rev. J. W. Manning. overturning and wreck g it, and throwing Mr. Gal- braith out n his head, rendering him insensible. He did not recover con- sciousness ior some time, but it is thought he s not dangerously hurt. -Profess r Grimley, the aeronaut, purposes m king a balloon ascent next Saturday ii Montreal. He will be ac- companied per the inventors and a Wit- ness report r, who made the ascent with him 1 st summer. The adven- turers will, 'f the weather prove favor- able, navig te the air over and around the city in ull sight of spectators, to demonstrat the utility of the inven- tion for pro lolling and steering a bal- loon. -An abl -bodied woman who resides in the neiga borhood of the General Hospital, T.ronto, has successfully im- posed upon a large number of citizens tor several o onths past by knocking at their doors t all hours of the night and early morni is, and begging as the great- est of favor a little spirits for her "hus- baud, who i dying of cramps down the street.' 1 Between twelve and one o'clock on hursday night she rushed through th gateway of a private resi- dence on cerrard street and aroused the inmate by tapping at a side win- dow where he saw a light, and upon beinginterr gated as to her business at that rmre sonable hour, hurriedly told her story, and,. although regarded as an imposter, received what she want- ed, the gentleman who waited upon her thinking it better to be imposed upon than run the risk of refusing aid and comfort to a man said. to be dying. -A WOrtlall in Hamilton was arrest- ed last week for cruelly beating her lit - tie boy with a stick. She was released upon promising not to beat her child again and that would join a tem- perance club. -Mr. Cox, of Strathroy, sold a col- lie dog, eight months old, to. a resident in the county of Elgin.. The pup was taken away in a buggy, but within three days returned to his old master, travel- ling a distance of forty miles. -McAuley, a farmer near Ripley, quarrelled- with his hired man nam- ed Beeton about fifty cents, which the latter owed him, when Beeton took an axe and struck McAuley on the head, it is feared, fatally injuring him. --The n evr `Zion Presbyterian Church, of Orangeville,will be opened on Sunday 'next. Rev. Principal Macvinar, LL.D., Presbyterian College, Montreal, Will preach morning and evening, and. Rev. Professor McLaren, Knox College, To- ronto, in the afternoon. -Rev. Solomon P. Hale, the eloquent colored preacher, of Ingersoll, was ex- pelled from the Conference at the late session in London. He gives as a reason that -he had declined to accept the Peace River mission on the ground that it did. not afford a living for his family. -Mrs. Marsh is a centenarian who resides in Ridgetown. The celebration of her 100th birthday took place on the 7th inst., and the e-ntire village turned out in henor of the occasion. David. Mills, M. P., on behalf of the friends, presented. Mrs. Marsh with a silver medal. -Thomas Grieve, eldest son of Mr. John Grieve, of Eramosa, met with an untimely death on Tuesday, 10th inst. He was engaged in tearing down an old barn, when the framework suddenly gave way, falling upon the deceased, causing a fracture of the skull, and other injuries, which resulted fatally. A young man assisting him was serious- ly hurt. -The vice -regal party have left Que- bec for Restigouche and the Lower Previnces. The scene of their camping and fishing excursion will be a stretch of sixty miles on the Metapedia River, leased by Mr. C. J. Brydges and. Mr. Sandford Fleming. A large number of Indians have been engaged to manege the boats and transport the camping utensils. -A man has been travelling through the eastern townships, selling a package containing what purports to be sure death to potatobugs, without any risk of poisoning animals, as with Paris green. On being opened the packages are found to contain two square blocks of wood, on one of which is written, "Plate the bug on this block and press firmly with the other." -A daughter of Mr. Thomas Pierce, of Franktown,aged eighteen months, got a box containing about two dozen sugar- coated pills, which she ate. When dis- covered she was lying on the floor with the empty box in her hand. The child remained in a stupor from the time it was discovered until death. The case has caused a good deal of excitement in the community. -Robert Jackson, aged 20, and: his two sisters, aged 15 and 12, were drown- ed. on Third laws, township of Stan- hope, twelve miles from Haliburton. They were in a small birch bark canoe, and had with them a dog, whose antics are supposed to have caused the canoe to upset. The boy was the only sup- port of aged amdinfirm parents, and the neighbors had to subscribe to bury the bodies. -A man man was arrested at Ogdensburg on Thursday of last week who had on him descriptions and diagrams of dif- ferent residences in various parts of Canada; also some silver teaspoons of peculiar manufacture and having a crest on the handle and a lozenge figure on the bowl. He is about 5 feet 7 inches in height, light complexion, small dark eyes, slightly bald, and weighs about 145 pounds. He is held in custody awaiting identification.. -The Midland Railway station at Millbrook was broken into by tramps, it is supposed, on Thursday night of last week. The office was ransacked, drawers broken, and a general over- hauling appears to have taken place. Money appears to have been the thieves' object: but they found none; they de- camped, however, with about thirty dollars' worth of new shirts that had come by express to different parties in that place. -A very sad drowning accident oc- curred in Hazley's Bay, a couple of miles below Pembroke, on Monday evening of last week. Two children of a fisherman named Giroux, a boy and girl, aged 10 and 8 years respectively, were out trolling in a bark canoe, which upset, while they were hauling in a large fish which they had hooked, and before assistance could reach the spot, both were drowned. The poor boy at first started to swim ashore, but returned to the assistance of his little sister, only to more surely become a companion in her sad fate. -It is reported in Toronto that the High Church party feel deeply indig- nant at Bishop Sweatman's accepting the position of visitor of the new Pro- testant Episcopal Divinity College. His speech on Friday has created con- eiderable excitement, as in it he said the Church of England could make no headway in Canada because of the low social status of the clergy, their want of education and their deficiency in zeal. He hoped the new College would rem- edy all this. The Bishop will probably be called upon to explain himself, as the whole body of the clergy feel agrieyed. The Dominion. Churchman not coming up to the expectations formed of it as the High Church organ, the starting of anew weekly paper to bet- ter advocate their Views is 'being talked of. -Mr. William How, postmaster at Hillsburg for more than. twenty years, has been dismissed by the Government. His duties had. been efficiently perform- ed, his returns made with perfect cor- rectness, and no complaint against hira was known to exist. -Christopher Edmondson, who was - injured by a barn falling on him on the Campbell farm, hi Burford, last. week, died the other morning at Brantford. The deceased was very highly esteem- ed. He held a seat in the Brant Coun- ty Council for ten years, and last year was elected Warden. ----William Small, a farmer who lives near Kingsville,gave a revolver to his fottr year old grandson the other day, to play with,not knowing it wasloa,ded. The lit- tle fellowfired at the old man'sh.ead,when the revolver went off and the bullet en- tered his mouth and lodged in the base of the skull. Fatal consequences are not expected. -Petitions have been sent to the Dominion Government from every municipality through which the line of the Credit Valley Railway runs,praying that the Credit Valley Railway Company may be granted the right of way as an independent railroad over the land owned by the Government and over the Esplanade' to the waters of the bay at Toronto. -Last Saturday night in Walkerton some person jumped into a grocery wagon standing at the door of D. Mc- Gregor's grocery, and drove off with the rig. The efforts of the owner failed to find it until yesterday morning, when the horse was found dead in a ditch, and the wagon smashed a short distance outside the town. No clue to the per- petrator of the outrage has yet been this- covered._as t Sunday morning, ab Suspen- sion Bridge, a mass of rock about fifty feet long, thirty feet wide and twenty feet thick, slid off the bank, taking everything in its way, a distance of about one htmdred feet, into the Wit- ner's mill -race, on the American side, completely shutting the water from the wbeel. It will take some time and cost considerable to remove it. Two of the guys of the Suspension Bridge .wer broken. -About half a mile from the Clarke House, on the Canadian side of Lake St. Clair, there is lying under about three feet of water the body of a man drowned *some eight years ago. The body can easily be seen from the sur- face. A log lies across the abdomen, and one leg is gone. Otherwise the corpse is in a good etate orpreservation. No attempt has been made to recover and inter the remains. -It is understood that i the great Western Railway Company of Canada has entered into a contract with the Wabash and Grand Trunk Companies for the construction of a Dew hne of rail- way between Detroit and Toledo, and that there is a fair proSpect of the two great Canadian roads uniting in procur- ing a new road to Chicago. This accounts for the recent long and anxious conferences at 12etroit and To- ronto. -Two little girls constructed a raft at Thornbury, Grey county, recently and set off on the bay. The wind be- ing favorable and fresh, they made good speed, when a little boy noticed them and. started for a boat, but the oars were up town. By the time the boat reached the girls they were two miles out, standing clasped in each other's arms. It is supposed they are cured of this kind of excursion. -A man named Chas. Garrett, of Drummondville, while standing on the market in Thorold on Thursday morn- ing of last week, was shot by a young man named William Alexander, of Thorold. He deliberately shot him while standing about three feet from him, the ball penetrating the abdomen. Garrett is in a very critical condition. The cause of the shooting is said to be that Garrett seduced a young lady friend of Alexander's. Alexander is now under arrest. -Mr. and Mrs. John Christie, of Bowmanville, had the privilege of cele- brating the fiftieth anniversary of their, marriage day on the 6th inst. Mrs. Keith, -who was bridesmaid to Mrs. Christie fifty years ago, was present. There was a large assembly of relatives and friends present to honor the occa- sion. It was no wonder that some of those present spent a portion of the evening in dancing, when the bride and bridesmaid set them the example by dancing a Scotch reel, although the lat- ter is in her eightieth year and the for- mer not far from it. --On the afternoon of the 12th inst. a serious accident befell Mr. Thos. Sayers, of Guelph, whilst assisting in placing a stone for the foundation of a well at the back of his premises. It ap- I pears that the unfortunate gentleman his foot on the stone for the pur- pose of fixing it in its properplace, when suddenly it gave way, precipitating hira in a stooping position into the well. When released. from hia perilous posi- tion, and after the arrival of a couple of medical gentlenoen, it was found that his spine was fractured. ,He is lying in a dangerone state, and there is little or no hopes of his recovery. -Mr. John Fisher, a wealthy far- mer, residing somewhere in the vicinity of Carlisle, near Ailsa Craig, had col- kcted a large sum of money during the day, and was stopping for the night at the house of Mr. James Stewart. He He was awakened during the night by a man who had gained admittance to the house. The robber fired. at Mr. Fisher, the shot taking effect under the short ribs and. embedding itself in the body. At this point Mr. SteWart ap- peared, when the robber aimed the pis- tol at him and pulled the trigger. The weapon fortunately snapped, when Mr. Stewart's faithful watchdog made his appearance, and at sight of this addi- tion to the strength of the party at- tack a, the robber took to his heels mad disappeared., There can scarcely be it 'doubt but that he Was ,ateq-aainted with the neighborhood and knew of the large • sum lof money- Mr. Fisher bad on his perscha and that it was a wish to se- cure this that led to the attack. Dr. Anderson was called to attend the wou ded raan, who bled profusely, and has 1opes of his recovery, although the victin of the wanton act is in a low state t the Presbyterian Assembly in 'Otta, a applications were received from the following ministers, asking per- mission to retire from active service : Rev.' D. Morrison, Presbytery Owen Sound; Rev. W. Hancock, Presbytery Hamilton ; Rev. Mr. Forest, Presbytery Owei Sound; Rev. J. Dix, Presbytery Toro to ; Rev. Dr. Fraser, Presbytery Barre; Rev. J. Campbell, Presbytery Prin. e Edward Island. _ serious accident happened at a, ston quarry in Thorold on Saturday mo 'lag, by which Mr. William Flem- ing, f that place, will lose one of his feet It appears he, with other men, were turning over a large stone, andbe- fore ..ie could get out of its way it fell and aught his foot, smaShing it almost to a jeii. He was at once taken to the t. Catharines hospital. Fleming , is hi hly respected, and muck- sym- patiijr is felt for him ana his fanaily. at two old ladies ill West Zorri accomplished v is thus re- late : On Monday, June 2nd, Mrs. M and Mrs. F met for an o d woman's gossip, bit thought it better to oh-auge it into a sewing bee; the bee commenced. at nine o'clock and ended at six. These two ola ladies (both grandmas) cut and made Biz pairs of pants in that short time. They would like to see another pair of grand.- mas that can beat this record. 1 -There is to be a grand gathering of Foreaters at Toronto on the 2nd of next month. The meeting, which is for the purpOse of forming a Subsidiary High Court for Canada, will be the moat 1111 - portant ever heldi in the interests of the Order hi the Dominion,. There will be in attendance two delegates from each of the six_ Districts of Canada, besides one i delegate from each Court. The Ancient Order of Foresters have .aa- vaneed so rapidly in the Dominion d•uring the past few years that the or- ganization proposed is deemed absolute- ly necessary. -The unfortunate result of grain specplation to several farmers of Adolphuetosen, county of Lennox, will very' likely prevent them tampering withsomething entirely beyond. the prop r sphere of a farmer. Last fall seve al farmers of that township club- bed together. and shipped. about three thou and bushels of barley to Oswego.. A fe days since their returns came, and proved to be the magnificent /let sum of 27 cents per bushel. For this very, same barley they were -freely of- fered last fall 11.05, , and might have sold Without trouble for $1.140. -t dile. Letellier De. St. Just, demo' ter of his Honor the Lieutenant- Govtrnor of Quebec, held a reception Saturday afternoon at Spencerwood, whie was attended. by an unusually ]argr nmnber of distinguished citizens and adies of thefrfamilies. His Honor the Lieutenant -Governor, was for - tuna ely well enongh to be present itt an e sy chair. Mille. Letellier wore a dr ss of rich deep blue silk, trimmed with bows of ecru-cokred ribbon and lace dgings to match, red flower in the hair, and ornaments of gold.: MAN. Mari Letellier wore a similar dress, but ith ornaments of silvt3r.' -buring the exhibition of the buffalo hunt at St. Catharines la-st week, the, centte of the 1 grand. stand, which was dens ly packed, gave way, and preoipi- tated the occupants to the ground, a distajioe of 18 or 20 feet. Owing to the darkmess and confusion, the full nature of th4 injuries received by those on the stan4 could not be ascertained. One wom n named Mrs. Cruikshank had. her 1g broken ; one lady named Bee - ton sjirainedher ankle severely; another nam4d Slater, from Beamsville, and a color d woman, name unknown, were also injured. The stand had been erectud for the let of July oelebration of the Caledonian Society, but ill the i dark ess it was overcrovvded. - large number of gentlemen, for- raerii students at Helhiauth College whilat Bishop Sweatman was Head Mast r there, OA well as a number of lathe, assembled at the Queen's Hotel, Toro Ito, on the evening of the llth insta4it, to witness the presenta- tion to His Lordship of lin address and a ha .dsome solid silver tureen. On one s de of the cover of the tureen is engraved the Hellmuth. College arms, with the motto, made virtute puer ; on the 4her side the Bishop's own crest. On the tureen itself are engraved the aria of the See of Toronto, and the in- scription, "To the Right Reverend Arthur Sweatman, from his old boys, June, 1879.2' A solid silver ladle ac- companied the tureen. -During the celebration of High Masaat St, Mary's Roman Catholic Chur he Toronto, laat Sutday morning, one of the numerous candles set light to th4 drapery around the altar. Im- medi tely the surroundings of the altar were lon fire, and the congregation was in. a high state of exeitement. A rush was 4ade for the door, and in theeretsh sever 1 women were injured. Several men urried to the altar and assisted the o ciating priest and vestay boys in extin uishiug the ftaxnes, which was effeclled by pulling all the ornaments dow , trampling upon them, and dren hing them with water. Only one pers n was injured at all seriously, and that was a Vestry boy, whose hand was healIburnt while he was eiVaillg from the anaes a, vessel containing thesacra- mental wafer. t• a