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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-06-27, Page 4144 - ' 4 , THE HURON EXPOSITOR. NEW ADVERTISE NTS. Reduction in Prices—T. D. yan. Good News for All—F. 'Smit The Eclipse Engine—Testi u onial Bargains—Laidlaw & Fairle Farming Tools—Wm Roberi.:o▪ n & Co. Farming Tools—Johnson. Br, there. Selling Out—William Hill Notice—John A. Young. — - Cottage to Renti---I L. Murph Note Lost—Tames Ryan. Ten Dollars Reward—A. Mc Farm for Sale -,Isaac Grails e Farm for Sale -s -William L. eys. Farm for Sale—john C. Ste le. tion between a fierce combatant and ani, indifferent herdsman. According ' toi the laws of war, •as we have before, stated, the property of a non-combatant is entitled to protection. Bat the British troops not being able to know the difference betWeen the property of a treacherous foe from that of a friendly native, no doubt feel justified that whenever they come across a Zulu hut or a.Zulu man's cow, they are to give the affirmative the benefit of the doubt, ormick. and conclule that it belongs to a com- batant Zulu, and destroy or drive off accordingly. Again, the conduct of "native contingents" is not unfrequent- ly a source of much pain. These na- tive contingents appear to be fine, strapping fellows, and. being friendly to the British cane, are Of valuable assis- tance, but as they have never been taught civilized warfare. it is not to be , 1879._ supposed that they will be charitable enough to take •a very large number of prisoners—in fact they cannot be in- duced to take any at all, preferring to do unto others as those others are sure to do with them. It has always been so with. native contingents, and very likely always will be. Our American cousins know that the native •contin- scarcely gouts in the United States, in George ds glance tirne, •used the scalping knife e world's pretty promiscuoubly. It was very sad, g. to the but it could not be helped. Nakive con- - tingents cannot be turned into aeivilized urpose in army in a day. Then there is a diffieult he multi- matter about flags of truce. When civi- n handed lized armies are dealing with each ration to other, of course their duties are plain in, a matter of this kind. But it is a articular- perfect puzzle when they are in contact rs of the with a savage foe. How is the civilized ich have party to know but what the welcome white sign in the distance, may not be in later buta cunning stratagem on the part of ave beeil the savage fiends to, gain an 'advantage, on blood- which may prove total disaster. There s of the are two prudent courses open in such a Itr011 txpe SEAFORT TUNE 2 The Laws of W • [CONTRIBUTED.] According to ancient aut hag been defined as "the na of man." The trtithfulnees plication of the definition ca be questioned, when our • back over the centuries of t history frorn the beginn present day. It is not our this a-Aids:4o reflect upon plicity of ,wars that have be down by historiains from gen generation, nor yet to dwell ly upon the scenes and horr battles and slaughters w taken place all over the worl periods. Newspaper readers - so long accustomed to feast shed and revel oii the borro battle -fields, that some observations and reflections upon thel modern method of carrying on warfare may prove timely and suggestive. First, let it be observed thal there is a grand, a noble, and a hurna.ne dis- tinction between civilized afal savage warfare. Civilized men all savages fight after altogether different fashion • Originally, no doubt, there was only one kind of warfare, as all mankind were savages. The only objet of war to these priraitive minds was to kill as many a the enemy as possibl . Hence e havariably- utchered, , recover fr m their liter, war ural state f the ap- the wounded we lest they shoul wounds to figh, again. Hence, tee, poisoned weaponsss not - to speak of poisoned rivers and':wells, w re recog- nized. agents of warfare-. No arm was thought, if, after having ki led your enemy, you caught: sight of is little boy running away crying, hat you should run after laina and put the inno- cent., harmless little fellow o t of the way too. It was manifestly eager to make short work el him whe he was unable to defendi imself, tha to stand the chance of mee ing him in a ter years, , when yon would have to kill him. or he you. As to the fate of the enemy's wifeand daughter, it will pro • ably be prudent to draw over the veil of dark- ness, or leave it t� the irnagi ation of S. the reader. When, howevei men began .to grow more civilized, the usages of w r. gradu- ally softened, and at last it can e to be considered "contrary to the la of war" to do a great many thin ss vr ich had originally been thought perfec ly justi- fiable. The poisoning of w lls. and rivers was, at a I co.naparativ y early period, eondemnet as barber° s. The slaughter of the °landed, tho Oa still not unfrequently practised by i furiated solthery,wits sternly forbidden b all gen- erals and commanIdets. . The I ves• and property of those in sympat a y With; but not actually engaged in th outest, were no longer at he mercy of t„ aon- queror, and a regular code of r les dame to be established in regard to °stages, flags of truce, and. priSoners of war. Great Britain ha, to, her erzdit, al - Ways carried • these pring ilea of ' European warfare with her . t, foreign parts and aMong -barbarians, dierever she has of necessity been engi ged. It ie a noble and honorable tho ight to ponder on that the British soldier . neither killer the i wounded Z lu nor Afghan, nor matilates the de de Such practicee are so utterly abho rent to civilized feelings that they would not for a moment be countenancedt8, uch less commended. Their enemies, he. Zu- lus, however, do mutilate the dead. It is said they invariably disern owel a dead enemy. These savages, like ell- snotion other uncivilized races,are super stitious, and they are posessed with that so long as a man, however badly, or it may be mortally, W01111dEC , is left unnautilated, it is in the power of . the European "medicine Mau" to put re- newed vigor in his, shattered fr me and make him able to fight again ; so that they never lose an opportunity of put- ting the finishing touch upoti a enemy without mercy. It is needless to state that their civilized opponents d not re- taliate in, the same manner. uch an idea wodtd be indignantly scouted by , the most dissipated and vice-dograded private in the Britisla army. " Ve war not with the dead," is 'the sentiment of the entire British army, from t1io high- est officer down to the drninrneif boy. Tis Afghanistan, hoWever, the British troops were compelled to regaifd it as, one of the hard necessities of t eir po- sition to oceasionally burn thgr ene- my's dead. It must be borne ii mind that in Afghanistan the natives fear the loss of Paradise, and t eir no- tion is that they will lose it if their bodies are burned, 'because then they will be uuable to rise again. Although it may seem hard to think that a civil- ized army will use such meanas this + to bring an enemy into abeyance, yet it cannot by any means be considered as at unjustillaIle action. It is at once barbarous and useless to mutilate a dead man, when life is gone, and the action will cause ne gain, whereas the slifiapest pang au _Afghan can feel is caused by the knowledge that his body will be burned after, death and his ashes scattered to the wind. There are other circhmstances in , connection with these wars with sav- ages; which have caused British officers rauoh trouble, in their attempts to as nearly as possible carry out the proper principles of honorabla con- ' ciliated contests. For install e, the. uniforms of Zulu warriers and nola -coin- 1 batants are so much alike—in fa • t there 1 is no means of discerning the • istinc- I t case. Either fire upon the bearer, or entice him into your lines and handcuff him. The choice must be guided by circumstances, as there is a good deal to be said in favor of either way. In concluding this article, we may be allowed to glance for a moment at the scenes of the late Russia -Turkey war, and to say that we might almost be tempted to, infer that the Russians really did not deserve their barbarous -actions so severely criticized as they were: by some. They. doubtless met with similar difficulties .in Turkey and Cau,casus, that the British did in Zulu and Afghanistan; but then a thought strikes us that we shouldnet for a mo- ment presume that a Russian is as hu- mane as an Anglo-Saxon. Yet we will say that, to parody a well-known say- ing, " Thereds a good deal of inhuman- ity in mau, whether he be Saxon or Slav ;" also, that an accusation of un- exampled cruelty .brought by one na- tion against the men of another is not unfrequently to be regarded merely as a sign that the accusers are not particu- larly well posted up in the history of their own race a,nd country. There is a moral to all this that would be well to be borne in mind: civilized nations must not be fond of fighting with bar- baria,us, if they do not wish to act bar- barously. • tss News of the Week. FALL OP Roca. -'-A mass of rock, the removal of which will take a year, has fallen on Mount Simplon road, Switzer- la,nd. A temporary passage is being. made. DISASTROUS PILGRIMAGE.—During a pilgrimage of 60,000 Poles to a miracle - working picture at Creuctoken, fifteen pilgrims *ere killed in a thunder storm. Aevaerce IN nas.----Considerable ex- citement exists among. manufacturers of silk goods over the extraordinary ad- vance in the price of raw silk, owing to the short crops. SPINNERS' STEIKE.—The strike at Fall River, Mass.,!still goes on. The ma -eters are goingeto make an effort to run the works with other hands not en- gaged with the strikers. DEPRESSION IN TRADE.—Shefdeld, 7acl- vices say that it is a lona time since such a feeling of eneasiness prevailed there. The local failures for the past week aggregate 200,000. Emmy:realm—By a violent earth- quake in Sicily, live villages were al- most wholly destroyed. Tea persons were killed and several ,injured. The inhabitant S are fleeina en masse. FEMALE PROGRESS.—In the SUpreme Court of Madison, Wisconsin, Miss La- vinia, Goodell, of Janesville, has been admitted to the Bar. She is the first woman admitted to the Bar in that Court. ROYAL &MEATH-Y.—Queen Victoria, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, visited Empress Eugenie at Chiselliurst, Monday. The Queen had an hour's interview with Eugenie. ' THE ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP OE TUE. WORLD.—A' rowing match has been ar- ranged for the 30th of August, between' Trickett and Laycock, at Sydney— £200 a side, for the championship of the world. I' THE .DA.NISII ADVENTURERS. — The boat Uncle Sam, with _ Captain Gold- smith laid his wife, from Boston, bound - round the world, arrived at Halifax last Friday evening, and sailed again on Monday for England, via Newfound': land. —Tax COTTON ICOLLAPSE.—FHIlk dd Co., an extensive exporting house at Liverpool, are heavily involved by the enormous cotton Speculation of their agent, Ernst Weber, who has abscond- ed. The collapse has depressed the cotton market. SUDDEN DEATH ON THE RAILWAY.— Arvin Cloyes, Farnaiug,ton, Michigan, aged. 70, died at Utica depot on Mon- day en. route for Detroit. In his pockets were over $5,000 in money and certifi- cates, and his will. His relatives at Utica took charge of the body. SILVER FIND IN WYOMING.—Great in- terest is manifested at Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, over a rich silver mine discovered. there. The official assay certifies the ore to be lead car- bonate and to contain 433 ounces of silver per ton. Crowds of adventurers are rushing hither. INDIAN TROU.13LEs.—Advices from Da- kota say troops have been sent from Fort Burford to the Poplar River agency, where the Indians rebelled and. stopped work on the agency farm and closed the agency buildings. All the agency people took steamer for Fort Benton. From a passing steamer three bodies were seen on the shore. The In- dians number 6,000. It is believed that he trouble has been stirred up by hos- • tile Sioux. The Indians are running off all the stock on the Yellowstone and are making travel dangerous. It is ex- pected General Miles will hasten his expedition into the field, or send a strong battalion of his oldest fighters to Poplar River by forced marches. WARNINo.—The Government received an anonymous letter, giving warning that an attempt would be made in Cheshire to upset the railway ram con- veying Queen Victoria and. Prin ess Beatrice from Balmoral to Wind or. On Saturday the railway line was on - sequently guarded by hundreds of on - stables. The journey, however, as uneventful. The letter was proba,b y hoax. How FRANCE FEELS THE PRINCE M- PERIAL'S DEATH.—The news of ' he death of the Prince Imperial, thoiigh known in London on - Thursday e en- ing only reached Paris at seven on Friday morning. The event greatly shocked the public mind, though it doubtless helps to consolidate the m- isting institutions. Many Republic ns participate in general regret at the timely end end of the brave young Prioce. The Bonapartists are overwhelmed by the news of the Prince's death. With the death of the Prince Imperial the last hope is gone from the Bonapa,rte party. Cassagnac, the recognized. leader of the Imperialists, in his jour- nal, Le Pays, puts the question: "Does the Empire die with the Prince ?" He answers, "No. There is an heir whom the Prince designed should be his suc- cessor. Prince Victor, the eldest on of Prince Jerome Napoleon, a youth of warm heart, bright intellect, worthy of us and worthy of France." DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL — A few months ago the Prince Imperial of France, son of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon, went to South Africa to perfect .his knowledge of military science, by participating in the Zillu campaign. On the 3rd instant he ac- companied a recondoitering party of officers from Colonel Wood's camp, and while they were disneounted in a corn- field some of the Zulus crept up and at- tacked them, putting' the Prince to death with their spears. When found the body had seventeen assegai wounds, one, through the left eye, and Was stripped of all clothing and. ornament, except a neck -locket. The body is to be brought to England. The Prince's mother, the unfortunate Eugenie, has now lost her crown, her husband and her beloved only child. The last his been the worst stroke of all. When the news reached. her at Chiselhurst, she became at once insensible and con- tinued so for some time. Different members of the Royal household. in England, includiug the Queen and Princess of Wales, have visited her. TERRIBLE DE:ARIL—On Wednesday of last week a crippled boy hung about the Grand Trunk Junction at Detroit, begging a ride from the trainmen. His story was that he lived near Smith's Creek, on the Grand. Truuk Railway, and had smuggled_ himself to Detroit, where he was led to believe he could. make an easy living by selling daily pa- pers in the city. His crippled condi- tion arose from a paralytic stroke which disabled one side of his body. He wanted to get away from the city, and said he did not wish to steal a ride. It was impossible for any of the trainmen of the outgoing trains to give the per- mission asked, owing to existing orders. Thursday night Conductor Ruthoff left the Junction for Port Huron, and when near New Haven a fire was dis- covered between two Cars of his train. The train was stopped, and the con- ductor found the crippled boy clinging to a car, and was all ablaze. It is pre- sumed. that a spark from the locomo- tive set the boy's clothes on fire, and being unable to extricate himself, he was compelled to endure the deadly embrace of the flames till discovered. He was taken off at New Haven and. placed under medical care, but he died at 2 o'clock the following day. Canada. —Hanlan is to leave England for home on the 1st of July. —The cottages on the Thousand Is- lands are rapidly filling up. —Mr. Charles 'Wallace, for 31 years a resident of London, died a few days ago. —Prittie's seventh party of emi- grants from. Ontario has arrived at Winnipeg. —TheCounty Council of Kent has refused to erect a Poor House, although it has already the site. —The wife of Rev. Dr. Bond, Bishop of Montreal, died very suddenly last Fri- day afternoon, of pneumonia: —Robert McLearey, for three years night turnkey at the central station, Montreal, has become insane. I —Dr. Carlyle, of the Normal School, Toronto, has received leave of absence for three months to visit Europe. —There is to be a quoiting tourna- ment in Drumbo, on Dominion Day, when prizes of $30, $15 and $5 will be, offered. —A large quantity of knitted goods valued at $50,000, was shipped at Paris station last week to various parts of Canada. —A recent fire in the village of -P• res- ton destroyed a portion of the large woollen Inn' of Messrs. Robinson, Howell & Co. —rotatoes7' are down to 25o per• bushel in ErcierSon, Manitoba, and the Mennonites are bringing them in in large quantities., —A large bear was killed in a swamp near Duntroon, Simcoe cou,nty,.on Mon- day morning. It weighed, when dress- ed, 300 pouncle, —A valuable -cow belonging to Mr. J. A. Rose, Esse k Centre, had its horns completely knocked off by a passing trainon Wednesday. —Edward Thickpenny, for the mur- der of Elizabeth Thompson in Mark- ham, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 12th day of September. —The recount of ballots in tile South Wentworth election has resulted in sus- taining Mr. Carpenter, the successful candidate in his, seat by a majority of one. This is pretty close shaving. — The Denaldson line steamer Colina, from Glasgow, with a. general cargo, on, her voyage up the St. Lawrence, struck a rock, knocking a hole in her bottom, which caused her to sink in ten min- utes. Tne crew were rescued. —Saturday night, Mr. John Jewell, engineer and part proprietor of a tug boat on the St. Lawrence, fell over- board and was drowned. Strong en- deavors were made to save him, but without effect, as after the first cry nothing was seen or heard of him. It — may be mentioned it was the same place where his father was drowned last fall. The unfortunate man leaves a wife and. five children to mourn his un- timely end. —A young man named Gilholm, be- longing to Galt, while engaged. in a lacrosse match in Berlin, accidentally Id! and broke his collar bone in two places. —George Fleming, an old resident of p3rautford, and at one time proprietor of the Brant House,. is dead. Matthew Whitham, another al resident, died on Saturday last. —Last Friday a young map. • named Robert Walker, of Egremont, son of the late Edward Walker, was kicked in the bowels by his stallion. He died soon after from the effects. —A fire in Merritton, on Sunday morning, destroyed a large wholesale bakery and confectionery, also a flburine mill adjoining, tegether with several thousand bushels of wheat. —The army worm has appeared at New Annan, Colchester county, N. B.. in immense numbers. They stripped. the woods on two farms, and at last ac- counts were moving towards the grain fields. —The carrying of dynamite over the Pembina branch ef the Canadian Paoific Railway, attached to pas- senger trains, has been brought under the notice of the Minister of Public Works.. —Mrs. John Marshall, Sr. residing near Morriston, lately met with a seri- ous accident. While milking one of her cows the animal kicked her severely, and broke her 'thigh bone a few inches above the knee. —A young man named Walter Hynes drowned himself in the canal at Corn- wall, on Friday, while under the in- fluence of liquor. His co:stand hat were found on the bank of the canal, and his body recovered shortly after. —A. match game of lacrosse took place last week between the Hurons, of Goderich, and the home club of St. Marys, resulting in a .victory for the Hurons in throe straight games in 33, 45 and 28 minutes respectively. — Mr. W. ,Weld, editor of the Far- mer's Advocate, who is at present in Manitoba, telegraphs from Emerson to London that the destitution there is fearful, and that many who arrived there from Ontario are walking back. —John Flett fell from the roof of a new building at Mount Forest, on Thursday last week, and. was killed. James Brown, late of Toronto, who was underneath the scaffolding when it gave way, is speechless, and will not probably recover. —A little boy named Baker, who had wandered away from his home in Fred- ericton, N. B., Was found in the woods near that city, after wandering four days and. four nights, famished and nearly dead. He was carried to his home, and died of over -eating. —Mr. John S.Coppin, Mitchell, has purchased the house and grounds of Mr. Abbott, lately insolvent. The house is a handsome brick, with 51 acres of land attached. The price paid, $4,300,„ is coneiderably less than the cost of the residence alone. —A Montreal journalist was publicly caned the other day in Montreal by an irate citizen, who took --offence at a cer- tain article published. The writer was taken unawares while on horseback. One man held the bridle rein while an- other laid on the cane. —John Sunderland, a respectable farmer. of .Anderdon, aged 67, while re- turning to his home, one afternoon last week, was thrown from hie buggy and instantly killed, his horse having run away. His daughter-in-law was also thrown out, but escaped unhurt. —The announcement is made that the Governor-General and Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise will visit the Ontario Ladies' College at Oshawa, in September, and. formally open it as Ryerson Hall. Dr. Ryerson has pre- sented a bust of himself for the hall. —Four persons were fined. in Hamil- ton the other' day for fishing with an illegal net, the meshes of which were smaller than allowed by law, viz,, four inches in extension. The leader of the party was fined $10, and. the others 45 each, losing their net into the bargain. —Late frosts have done considerable damage in the township of 'Downie, corn, fruit, potatoes, &c., having suf- fered. much. Other crops are looking well, the rains of late having made a great change in the appearance of things. Hay; owing to the long, drought, will be short. —The teachers of the Millbank pub- lic school have built a sidewalk from the school house connecting with the other walks of the village, with the pro- ceeds of an entertainment gotten up by them and the scholars. Such enter - prize deserves the thanks of the sec- tion. —At the sale of the estate of the late James McCullough, of Stratford, last week, Mr, James Trow, M. P., purchas- ed the Grange, including the house and eight acree, for $5,000, and another parcel of 11 acres, was knocked down to Mr. Thomas Ballantyne, M. P. P., for $1,300. —Mr. Pearce, D. L. S., Emerson, with a large party, has gone west to survey more land for settlement. The land to be surveyed will include town- ships 1 and 2, ranges 15 to 26, west. These townships will embrace the Tur- tle .Mountains, but will not extend. so far as the Souris River. —The New Hamburg Independent re- lieves itself .of the following rather doubtful compliment to a brother co - tem.: "The editor of the Paris Tran- script is the most unblushing follower of Banta Manucbassen—the greatest liar that ever lived—that we know of." Take care, Mr. Independent. pretty strong language that. —Tire important arbitration of Col- quh.oun vs. town of Berlin, involving the right of aetown to build a road al- leged to be detrimental to private property, has be,en decided. against the plaintiff, costs being divided. The ar- bitrators were Judge Miller, of Milton; Jas. Livingston, M, P. P., Baden; and Henry D. Tye, of Wilmot. —A couple of young medical men in St. Roclit, Quebec, have attracted the attention of the police. The story goes that the rival Esculapia,ns are neigh- bors, and keep respectively a horse and. carriage for the purposes of their prac- tice. One of the two, however, has a better horse than the other, and the complaint before the court is that the ,latter, actuated by a feelinabof jealousy towards his more fortunate rival on this account, has endeavored to poison his horse. The police have artested young man named Picard, in the ser - TIGHT BINDII:G vice of the accused- doctor. It is said that Picard has admitted to have mixed phosphoruswith the animal's feed of oats by order of his employer. - —Miss Minnie J. Erb, of Preston, Obtained the valedictoryea,t the -gradua- tion exercises of the Female Wesleyan College,. in Hamilton, last week. —One Mrs. Moulds, who keeps a boarding house in Petersville. has- been committed for trial at next fall assizes, under charge of illegal detention of a little girl, stepdaughter of Mr. George Kidd, of Aylmer. —Two brothers belonging to a French fishing vessel were rescued from an open boat off Newfoundland and. land- ed at Cardiff, 'after drifting eight days. They are terribly exhaust4d. and emaci- ated by cold aud hunger. - Mr. J. M. Dykes, o -Wardsville, the Canadian champion daught play- er, has issued. a challenge to Mr. James Wyllie, champion of the world, to play a match in Toronto within 40 days of the date of signing articles. , —Rymer, the notorious Toronto forger, was arrested. in Winnipeg, but managed to escape from Sergeant Sey- mour, who had him in charge on the wa,e7 to Toronto. He is supposed to be lingering somewhere in the vicinity of Prince Arthur's Lauding. —A man was recently sued in Mon- treal by a barber for $3 due for shaving defendant's dead father. Another in- dividual was sued for selling a horse with only one ear, after guaran- teeing it had two. The ear that had been lopped off was secured by a skewer. — Some fiend. on the night of the 12th inst. -entered a field belonging to P. M. Clarke, Ernestown, and with a sharp instrument tore open the stomach of a three-year-old colt, leaving the poor brute to die a slow death with its entrails hanging out. The animal also had one of its ears out off close to the head. —A resident of Hyde Park, London, named Allwell, while walking home one night lately, was invited by two men in a buggy to ride with them. He joined. them, and while riding along they demanded. his money, then pounced on him, dragged him out, tied and rifled his pockets of all that he had. _ —Last Friday, in Hamilton, a little boy named Albert Upsworth, was acci- dentally burned so as to cause his death. The little fellow was playing in the back yard, and a brother of his hat1 some matches playing with them and. gave one to deceased, who set fire to his own clothes. He suffered for 12 hours, when he was relieved by death. —An old man, 87 years of age, hail- ing from Cobourg, WaS arrested last Sunday in Hamilton on a charge of bigamy, preferred by his wife, who had followed him to Hamilton. On arriv- ing in the city she learned that he had been married a couple of weeks previous, to a young girl 19 years of age, who had come from Whitby for that purpose. —Some mischievous boys attending the union school at Oshawa, collected all the straw hats that could be found in the hall of the building, andd, placing them beneath the staircase set fire to them. The smoke making its way into the school room alarmed the inmates, who succeeded in extinguishing the flames before any extensive danaage was done. —Ma club fell to beating it on the head immediately below the mill dam, when thing 'got stranded, and was making about $100. The family were arous- ed, but the burglar made his es- cape. Many robberies and housebreak - Kitchen, photographer, New Hamburg, blow. —The residence of Mr. Cousins, town - years of age, the only son of Mr. J. B. ployingwith some other boys about his own age, near a deep spot in the river was recovered shortly after, but life was esxh—tiipnB2cplutfr.John.rgwiaressT.tininMistedrd, laemshoroe,h rt taiestfaonucne- late.watches and jewellery amounting to ings have occurred in Westminster of was drowned. on the 19th inst. He was he accidentally slipped. in. His body west of Belmont, was broken into a few nights ago and robbed of $40- cash, and grants from , Birmingham, England, deep water, when Maaritt Stewart ruth- lessly came down the hill and. with his desperate efforts to get from shoal to brought out, to the Guthrie Home, near London, another batch of orphans, 19 since 1872. clubbed to death in the Sauble, near Atkinson's, the other day. The poor until it succumbed to the twenty-first girls and 35 boys. This will be Mr. Midcllemore's seventh annual visit to this Province with, juvenile immi- der of the Orphau Children's Immigra- tion Charity, Westminster. has just —A bright intelligent boy, about nine —There was a 40 pound sturgeon broke into the Hamilton and Northwestern reilway station at' Milton, a few nights ago. The Ameri- can Express Company's safe was ex- ploded and the key hole blown o pen drawers were wrenched and burst open, and. a general hunt made in every conceivable icorner for money, but only 80 cents waa secured, the funds having beeri a few hours before sent to head- quarters. —There are at present 300 prisoners confined. in the Central Prison, Toronto —a number rather below the average. With the exception of a few who are sick or crippled, all are busily engaged. in one` employment or another. The principal industries carried._ �u are those of brick -making and broom manu- facture. The bricks are being used in the erection of the Andrew Mercer Re- formatory. —Mrs. James McDougall committed suicide by shooting herself at Little Saskatchewan on- Wednesdaylast while en route with jare husband to her new home. The act was committed in the morning, while her husband was outside washing. She was 20 years of age, and had been only marl." ed a month. An inquest was held and ' verdict of temporary insanity returned. It is be- lieved. to have been the result of home ' sicleiess. —On Tuesday last week, in Harris- ton,a yo lad named Hill, running a sawn Dowling & Lggliton's cabinet i factory, had a finger taken off by care- lessly putting it in front of the saw. Another young fellow, named °lark, was at once put in his place. He could not see how Hill was so careless as to get caught by such a saw,d was put- ting on some style, when u tutned pale, while his righ hand turn- edred, and upon examination it was found. he had been successful to the ex- tent of three fingers. The inrnber of fingerless men about this fact ry is sur- prising. , —Michael O'Grady, a well-known catttle dealer of Stratford, die1. in Mon- treal on Saturday last. —A laborer named Head ey, living in the township of Downi , burst a blood veesel on Thursday esi 'ring last week,. and died iu about five minutes. He leaves a wife and family. —A clerical fraud, who cal s himself Father Dominic or Father 01 mentine, has been imposing on the C tholies of Essex County by collecting m eaey for a Dominican • monastery in rontreal, which has no existence. H is about thirty -five -years age, and -dre sed as a Christian brother. —The Government has adv rtised for tenders for the construction of 100 miles of railway west of . Red Riv r, Mani- tobae The railway w,ill .cornesence at. Winnipeg, and run northwest et -connect with the main line ill the nei hborhood of the fourth base line, an� thence westerly between Portage 1: Prairie and Lake Manitoba. . —On Monday, June 30, 'Male Penin- sulars„ of Detroit, play a -,cricket match with the Carleton' Club, OLL tit Toronto grounds; on July dat, with amilton club on their ground, and on ;Tilly 2nd, with London. The Perainsulats,are the -strongest club in the West, 'ailed some fine playmay be expected. Last season the Detroiters beat the St. G orge!s, of New York, also the Manhat ens, and the Germantowns, of Philadelphia,. . —A couple of weeks ago, th granary of Mrs, K. MeDonald's barn-, , n Blau - shard, was entered, and abaci 'twenty bushels of wheat, 25 of eats, a dozen fleeces of wool, and sonae 10 o 12 hams carried off. .No „definite tree of the perpetrators has been found, brit the authorities are .on. their .trael, and it will not be surprising so hear that they have been discovered, at a neighborly distance from the SCelle of "th-e urmeigh- beily act. • - —In 'the Province of ,Qu. bec the teaching of drawing is mad •compnl- sory, and instruction inragri ultimo is il becoming very _general, The trustees and conaraissioners are by law required, n to keep their teachers paid ' to the enof each half year, and t e - :semi- annual reports of the secretary -treasur- ers of the boards must specify that they have been paid-, in ,orderi . to en- title a school to its share in. the Govern - in Brantford, John McAdarasf carpen- ter, aged about 24 years, fell from the top of a building. His neck wat broken, causing instant death. McAdanas was raising some shingles with li. pulley through a hole in the roof, and 1 is sup- posed he slipped through. In falling he 0 grasped at a rope that was hanging to - the pulley in the roof, but unfortunately he got hold of the loose end, which ran through with him. —Mr. J. Wallace, jeweller, of Luck- -now, has in his possession a couple of Australian potato beetles whioh have originated. much discussion; some ar- guing that they -were artificial. Mr. Wallace, ha order to prove that they were natural, broke the wing off one, which conclusively showed. that they were natural. They are a very pretty insect, rather larger than the olorado beetle, bright green on the .hack and dark brown beneath. --It is the intention of the overlie merit besides imparting military instruc- tion to pupils attending High chools, to have seventy-five compa . les of thirty-five boys each—twenty-fi e com- panies to be in Ontario, twent -five in Quebec,and twenty-five in the aritime Provinces. They are to be coni osed of -boys not less than fifteen year of age. Their arms will be furnishe by the Government. Instructions will be im- parted by instructors from the ilitary c Colleges. . —The London World, in its last is- sue, says: "The Princess Lo ise has Made the most of the long C nadian Winter in the pursuit of art stu y. She has attempted bolder flights th n satis- fied her when she lived within he eir- chnascribed limits of these isla ds, al- beit they include the county of Argyll. Her Royal Highness, attracted by the manifold beauty a Canadian timber, conceived the idea of making a antel- piece, of simple but beautiful de ign, in- laid with a variety of wood. T is work is nearly finished. , —Professor Grirnley made 's bal- loon ascent at Montreal on Saturday evening, in presence of 20,000 ersons. He was accompanied only y Jas. Creelm:an, of the New York Herald. The balloon rose to an altitude of over two miles, crossed the St. L wrence, and after travelling some 'stance alighted about 11 p. m. The t o men had a pretty hard experienbe, t e Prof. being nearly suffocated. by escap ug gas, and Creelman htd a narrow eseape from somersaulting to the eart when two miles up. . —Another of the first settlers of Bid.- dulph township has passed awa, in the person of Mr. John Armitage, wjho died. on Sunday, the 15th inst. at he ad- vanced age of 85 years. liecea ecl set- tled in Biddulph when it wee an un- broken -wilderness. He reared large family, all of whom are corn ortably settled in business. Two of hi SOIIS James and Crawford, are in bus nese in Parkhill; another, Mr. J. R. A mitage is at Liman, and his son 4eo go re- mains on the farm. Mr. Armit go Was much respected iii the commun ty. —An unexpected difficulty occurred in the building of the Credit Valley Railway bridge over the Grand River at Galt. A mistake was made by the g engineers in estimating the de. th of gravel over the rock where th piers were to he built, which was given as nine inches. When the first coer dam was sunk the work aia not progress properly, and soundings were taken, when the sounding bar penetr ted. to nearly 2( feet -before touchin r rock. The mistake will not seriously retard the work. . —Sno. Cain, proprietor of- tbej Royal Hotel, Llican, Ont., received a letter from a man calling himself Wiijiarn A. Ross, a few days ago, telling 4,ira to come to New York and bring with him all the Canadian dollars he caul scrape together, as Ross intended to gi e him. $3 a piece for them. Cain arrived, there the other day with $150. He met Ross and was taken to an office somewhere down town, where Ross gave hiin $4.50 for the money he had brought. Dazed by this generous treatment, Can per- mitted the money to be taken from his hands and put into a satchel. He was then requested to sign a receipt, after which he was placed on a crois-town car. As soon as he got into the car merit grant. —On Thursday morning la t week, 3 /TM 271 1879. Iand was carried over the Horse scat' Ea--.1113T.he immense reservoir from allies an opposite direction, while kis wit ma_nmhreispbe. eHaoahnrreess,te:f. nig. NA hen on the second islaesit country. The unfortunate was a pet bterlaTiinbeleouertillawilh an axe while elle eff ders ever committed in any tiViliibl uncultivated, desperate -cripple, ec. sessed of—the devil—in short. scene of one of the niost atrocionsiese and her husband, George Antickaapre! hist says: Arthur, usually considesse the very dwelling -place of peace, i. raony, "good will towards men's-sfe -was—was yesterday morning in the act of -milking a cow ---ie an dit sumed the minor impurities of thl but honest and industrious menet, who is alleged to have accomplished* than otherwise, inasmuch as thereof, on. Shoals of tadpoles were spell was considered rather advan water. Arthur Enterprise of the 1.0e the city of Toronto is supplied ssishcl: • ing. The water having become s " ' filtering abatshinrallghplpneVrhtailatib:11E111.10641 around the edges of the basin, astei few pea-green frogs, but then- existent* ter, is 'undergoing cleansing and text drink, in doing which she sli le; fell into the water. She was 0)41 on a trip around the world, 'visit/ail; husband's attention. beca.rae engsgeae went to the edge of the rapids to eet . reach before he discovered her dose Mcovered rCai Cain that°Pen he abey hadtkhtiee ebk iteeih:satcheln 0, ditIli sp e e .111iII3 ilv i red itp to that the satchel contained. Reef iel: pber_eannxcaerrr: elintteectdsztjnrsva.isn.othuiNdia, fp,o,fa ;al roll of brown svrapping paper vas 1 Zorra, county of Oxford., aeconepliolea a feat at the recent Provincial *lee** _ worthy of notice. Mr. Holmes is large property holder in' Oxford ad ' Perth, and. succeeded in marking Sas , lots in North Oxford for the Hon,* . Mowat, in South Oxford for the. Ifes, Mr. Crooks; in North Perth for /se Hay, and in South Perth for Mr, bil. lantyne. He travelled from 3 del* in the morning until near 5 eclooliss the afternoon in accomplishinghis tak and when night came had th Three Sister Islands on gat dayel e solid* tion of knowing that &lief the gentle men for whom he voted were eleeted, one by the largest majolity given intim • Province, two by large majotitieseand' the fourth by a respectalde vote, —Considerable excitement wee ooet.. Maned in St. Marys, a few days ago, the rumor that a well established co f sinall-pox had been discovered. Ma victim was a• man. named Wm. Gra- ham, an hostler, who, it is said, see tracted the foul disease from a jockey who attended the races held on the 21th May. The party at whose hotel Gra. ham was stopping, it is said, turnal kiln out of doors as soon as he beam • aware of the nature of -the disease, ad Mao unfortunate 1112.11 wanderedarowel town in an almost dying -condition. Many of the citizens express themseiva - in the strongest terms over the bungling of the Health Committee, and a deep j feeling of indignation against the mew bers of that body on this accomet-per -wades the -people. Grahana was nnalle housed. in the oid woollen mills on Wa ter street, where he -died. —The vice -regal party are still at the fishing grounds at the Metapedia. The !, best catch so far was made by tis i Princess, who killed a splendid 281 salmon on the day of their arrival. Ea Excellency was in the canoe with het at the time, but did not touch the rol or reel at all, except just as Her Royal Highness was stepping out of the can upon the bank, when bet left hand,in which she had been- holdiug the red, having become tired, he put up his hand to'lialte the strain off just for a second. As soon as she was on tie bank, however, she coutinued to, work both rod and reel till she managed to tire out the big fish and bring hilv ashore, when he was gaffed by a Ifia Mac attendant. This 'was a remark- ably fine fish, and. those who saw him taken say that he Mowed an extra& dinar y amount of game and activity His Grace the Duke of Argyll took thi next largest. —A panic occurred in a church sett Markham on Saturday evening. About 800 of the, sect called Token hal assembled for the purpose of eelt brating the Love Feast, John Hemet in attempting to light a fluid lama tilted it so much that some of the Id escaped, and corning in contsat with the flame from the wick, the wholevu soon iu a blaze. Horner, seeing tbi danger there was of the church bei4 set on fire, courageously tock hold Mac Fainp, rushed with it- to the door„ ° and, threw it out. Unfortunately it. alighted on a youngman namedlloneX and set fire to the upper part of 1111 clothing, the result being that he svs badly burned. about the face and necks Women screanaed and men shouted, and there was a regular scramble te get out at doors and windows. Ira body was seriously hurt, 180 (I - it Huron Notes. —The combined weight of three 1e. males of Dungannon village foots uisid 764 pounds.- -The residence of Mr. J. D. Baia in Brussels, lately -conapleted, is go handsomest ha the place. —A stalk of wheat grown on thefand of Mr. Chas. Wilson, of the toweshiP Hay, measures five feet in. length. .—The bankrupt stock of Getrtl Green, of Wingharn, was sold at 1-0- ronto lately to Mr. M, A. Kerr,- It .61 cents on the dollar,. —The tenth Division. Court, s, ned one, has been established, Its tali` toirywll icocmparisze uthrieottownship of Bill wthanoffice tch. Robert Souch, of the 3rd -concession nMe os ris s, againwhh —We are pleased to learn that 3ff.- ha—veAslhesirsrpse.aGs.o&mejw. hBerroelsn, tot oBille- odnavaloleseng eannta, Painful 1' borhood of 200 cars of tan bark fold Exeter station to London lately, cen—tiDyrp. aMssa,ceaTfiadnd, eoxfeGodeptioginacnh,ytshe cradi able exanaination at a more than s ly severe ordeal in Toronto and , awarded. his diploma as doctor of mew' eine, contemplates residing in for the practice of his profession- ecslt—earbkAli, snhaeenwr Division iZvi.us4inohsse. Cnifurycthri.elas, 133Zeli,beelij Thos. J. Stinake of the towns -WI"' 31 re nes omE a-nair Avitb j3ell) 1111r4011413 -tobra3 Lie city' f, rlpiDg Tf#, • ena - AliniketY On _ owning 4: • 4ina tiny '• - flictin tures _ - - iaent .dosvU tiie -- he • deSW dasavceiel of •finanditt --bave io0. sing of Me ddlei iensii tousitT , T. TeiI bnying .1* ship sininais, ougingl DO pteswil 311.4ot ti dualbe ling a a, people. prance • .address , Ineetalg! —Or ;gravel, flaploy- Ieg ht .cf the, -and them s.i JtickecTli cutting the bon0 AT4 15 nevi 4 •sti.11*.ati - -the But aceiden1 aula tr I recover —On Itullett the Ale Ehe h ship, fo _ very consist her 11, -Ameral Sunda tha , With *I7 CO tee .pe lyver 4 taupe .came • buil. ' liquor and it water. -thems Ind t fm ineu'd thew is t ana. Wate =1St - 4rops keep yeah Polio the e mblIc Az.t Row the h s them Od. Re the I was' ere • 1430, very. 'the Tha Pose' the Svho