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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-09-19, Page 1)TEMBER 12, 1879. McDOUCALL & CO. RECEIVED THIS ;EW JAQKETS: )f the, I test Styles. EiTARD CHEAPEST LOT aaye Sb,own. Prices te Suit the Times. Laal $2.50 $2.75 43.00 $3.25 00 4.50 4-78 5.00 5,50 50 6.75 e00 7 e - --- , .,.4 7.75 ,50 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.0o 1E00 20.00 22,00 25.00 CTION INVITED Et UCALL & CO. ..th pleasure in announcing ta emers and the public geaeral- iey have Opened Out ENDID .LOT FEW FALL AND WINIT,11 SS GkDQDS ey have Just Received Direet from the OLD COUNTRY, g all the Now Makes, and hades, and surpaseing any- . Shown in Seafortli for their T) TNT S S, ty and Style Considered. 11C4OUGALL &CO. l_ty advise all who want Choice 5 GOOda to call early and Eld' BEFORE THEY GO- onoe they are sold out, wa V them Wholesale in Canada 9e we sell them here at. 777-1-101..M inter Stock will be Completei artments (in a few days,} iw TOOK OF MILLINERY e Our First Fall Seasou for the Stock will be entirely will be under the -manage-. n such general satisfactiea 4 and _Summer. OPENING. DAY ounced by ciretiler and a- t next week. CDOUGALL & Oat TWEreFTH Y WHOLE NUMBER, 615. 11 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMi3ER 19, 1879. MaDEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, 131 Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. llePROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, that con- venient and desirable residence on the corner es nigh and Market Streets, lately ocereied by Di. Tome. Apply to DR. VERCOE. 4 'FARM AND TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE; -X PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.—Lot 17, en the lIth concession, McKillop; price $40 per seee; Building lots in different •parts of the town of Seaforth; purcbasers can make their own terms of payment, at 8 per cent. 'interest. JAS. BEATTIE. 591 VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, the east half a Lot No: 4, Con. 4, H. R. S., Tuckeramith, County of ECtu•on, consisting of 50 saes, 8,1 miles from the Town of Seaforth, and eclivenient to school. The land is of the very Lest quality. For farther particulars apply to JAMES PICKARD, opposite the promises, or to Egmondville P. O. 52t LIAM AND TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE, CHEA.P.--sLot No, 24, Con. 9, McKillop, 100 sores; north half Lot 30, Con. 9, Mots:Mop, 50 res; north half of north half Lot 31, Con. 9, Narlillop, 25 acres; residence oecripiad by Mr. Malcolnison on Gouinloek Survey, Seaforth; building lots on Jarvis' and F. G. Sperling's Sur- veys. Apply to GRAY, YOUNG & SPARLING; Bealorth. 595 'FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, the west part of -I: Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Grey, containing 50 acres, 25 of which are cleared, well fenced, and in a 'date of good cultifatiou. There is a good frame house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the gravel road leading to Brussels and Seaforth, and adjoins a church and school. It is 9.150 within half a Dille of the Village of Walton. Apply on the premises or to Walton Post Office. CHARLES itURCHIE. 493 _ VARM FOR S ALR.—For sale Lot 2; con. 10 Tuckersrailth, containing 100 acres, about 80 cleared, the balance well timbered. There is a stone house and good frame barn, it is well fenc- ed and underdrained. There is a young bearing orchard. It is about seven miles from. Seaforth and four from Hensall, ancl is convenient to sahool. Two good wells ot writer. Possession given at any time. Appiy at the EXPOSITOR °Mee, Seaforth. 610 FARM FOR SALE.—That well-known and fine- ly situated farna, Lot 1, Con. 1, Hallett, in the County of Huron, containing 100 acres, 90 of whieh are cleared ; there are two frame dwelling houses, barn, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house and driving house; also orchard and abundance of water. The farm is situated two miles from the Town of Seaforth, on the Huron Road. For lull particulars apply to bleCAUG}4es11 & HOTA17, STED, Seefortle or to SIMON YOUNG, proprie- tor, on the premises. 553-4x PROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 14, X Con 16, FOR ; West hell of Let 29, Con. 6, with cheese factory complete; Lot 11, Ccra. 6, and south half of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 6, town- ship of Morris; Lot 22, Con. 13, and Lot 28, Con. B, township ofEfowiek, all good improved fame, rb together with several 50 acre farms in Grey nd Morris and houses wad lots and vacant lotsc in the vidage of Brussels, Prices low, tering easy, and title good. Apply CO JOHN LECKIE, Brus- sels. , 574 FAlibl FOR SALE.—For Sale, that moat desir- able farm, being Lot 1, Con. 6, in the town- ship of Hullett, situated li miles from Kinbarn, and 6 miles from. Seaforth. There are excellent buildings on th premises, ineltiding a first-class stone hou,se, tw storey, 30 by 40 feet. A spring creek runs throjigh the farm; good orchard, good femme, and the land in an excellent state of 'cul- tivation. Apply on the premises to J aMlilS Mc - MICHAEL, or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Sea - forth. 1 562 WARM FOR SALE.—Far sale Lot 17, concession -a: 8, Stanley, 100 acres, 80 cleared, well fenced and in a good state of caltivation, the balance well thabered with maple. Fram.e house barn and sheds. Five acres ot good bearing °lobar d, and two never failing wells. Is on a good gravel road within 2 miles of Varna, 6 miles from Bruce• field station, Great WesternRailwey, and le miles from Seaforth and C.inton. For further particu, lara apply to the proprietor on the promises,or to Varna P. Q. JOHN REDMOND. 69 " WARM FOR SILE.—For Sale, West half of Lot 31, Concession 12, McKillop, centaini g 50 acres, 40 of which are cleared, well fenced ad itt excellent condition; a good log house, els a young orcharci commencing to bear and abu d- ance of splendid water; is within half a mile o a good gravel road, and is converriena to church s, ilehool and post oftioe; is within 9 miles from Sea - forth and an equal distance from Brussels. Apply to the proprietor on the premises, or to Leadbury P. O. ISAAC GRAHAM. 603-4x A HOUSE AND LOT FOR $200.—The under - 4 -z- signed will sell a neat and comfortable Cot- tage in Egmondville, situated opposite the mill, for $200 ; there is a good lot, cellar' water and all other conveniences ; easy terms ofpayment ; if not sold it will be rented with privilege to buy. and rent low. Apply to A. STRONG, La d 'Agent, Seaforth. cupied by Mr. Jacob McGee, being a neat a dm comodious store,with dwelling house and sta. le He also offers for sale the blinding prosen t attached, situated on Main Street; terms e sy 61 • FARM FOB SALE.—For Sale, Lot 2, Con. 1, H. R. S., containing 100 acres, 82 cleared a d in a first-class state of cultivation, the balancr being good hardwood bush • log house, with store. cellar under, and well finished ; frame barn &MO, with stone stabling underneath; good bearing orchard and. 3 good.nwells ; convenient to ofrarch, school and post office • is situated 8 miles from Seafortb. and 5 from ileneall, on a good gravel road. For further particulars apply to the Proprietor OTC the preraises,e. or if by letter to Chiselhuret P.O. JOHN C. STEELE. 603-4x. _ WARM. FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 2, Con. 17, " Grey, and part of Lot 1, Con. 17, containing in all 129 acres, about 90 of which are cleared, and under good cultivation. The balance is well thubered with hardwood. There is a hewedled home, and. frame barns, sheds and striblea. There is a good bearing orchard and good. water. Is situated on a good gravel road within half a mile at Waltou village; five miles from Brussels on the Great Western Railway ; and ten miles irom Seaforth, on tiro Grand Trunk Railway; with a eaeise of markets. For further particulars apply to the proprieterem the premises or to Walton P. O. JOHN MCFADZEA_N. 610x20 -WARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 22, Con, 3, -a: Towuship of Tuckersmitb, L. R. S., contain- ing 100 acres, about 70 of which are cleared and in a good state of ealtivation ; the balance i good hardwood bash ; good filmic herise, baxu and stable; excellent water on the premises ; well fenced; good youSg orchard, and. every conveni- ence appertalralua1> a farm. Is situeted about '7 miles from 8'es:forth, 2i from Rippen, and 3 from Bracefield, on the London, Huron. and Bruce Railway. The laud is first-class day loam. For lather particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or if by letter to Brucefield P. 0. MILES McMILLAN.. 601-4x Venal IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For Sale, . the North part of Lots 8 and 9. Con. 18, Mc - Knipp, containing 112 a.cres ; there are about 80 cleared, well fenced., nralerdrained, and in a high state of cultivation, the balgnee is well timbered with hardwood; good dwelling, new bank frame harn 50x57, with stabling underneath, anal other outbuildings, also a good yormg oreherd and plenty of water. Is 10 miles from Brussels, 5 froni Walton, and 12 from Sertforth, with good gravel - roads to each places convenient to elarch and schools ; will be sold as a whole onin two parts, or will be exehanged Ler a swell farm Apply to Walton P. 0. or to the proprietor on the premises. WILLIAM DYNES. 59s - FARSI FOR SALE.—For .sabs, lot No. 8, con- , cession 9, Hullett, and south half of lot 8, eonces-sion 10, coutaining in all 150 acres, about 120 of whieli Aro -cleared, well fenced and in a good state of cultivation. There aro 100 acres clear of stumps, 42 acres Seeded down and. 35 acme of fall wheat. Theta are two dwel- ling houses and good frame' ,barns stables and sheds. A. good bearing orehard, anti. two splen- ' did welle. It is within 9 miles of Sealofth and 1, equal distance from Clinton, and within a mile and a half of the village of Kinburn, with good gravel roads leading to each pace. For further_ partienlars apply to the zinclerigned on the prem- ises or tolConetauce P. 0. WM. DUNLOP. 611x8 ,Railway Freight Rates. To the Editor of the Huron Exliositor. SIR,—The regulating of the 'carrying t ade of this continent on an equitable bttsis must become the all important - q estion of the day. Other small re- f rms, such as compulsory voting, minority representation, and euch like are as nothing compared with this sub- ject. The unjust discrimination in rates' of freight directly affects the pockets of producers all over the world. In England this question is engaging public attention. The law ahd. the rail- way commission appointed by the Gov- ernment are expected to be able to put a stop to all differential rates of freight. In the United States a railway commis- sion is appointed :to inquire into the working and management of all rail- ways. These .comMussioners are already doing good work. The revelations they are making in regard to rates of freight show that the whole railway system is a huge swindle. There are instances of freight having been carried from St. Louis' to New York for nothing. Commission* men doing a large busi- ness are in league with railway men, who give them- the privilege of over- loading cars, also epecial rates and re- bates on the business they do over their lines. These commission men charge their customers the regular rates of freight, and put the rebates into their own pocketseor divide witb the railway men as they think beet: Men withou a dollar in the world, by getting on the There is no use, however, going to tbe right side of a freight superintendent other side to fiud instances of bad faith. can handle millions and millions oi Sir Heury Tyler, when he entered into bushels of arain. Thai can be done by au egreement with the Grand Trunk selling say°100,000 bushels to arrive in Railway two years ago to adopt uniform New York. They then purchase this rates to all Eastern points, took great quantity on cars, and draw against the ceedit to himself before the English purchaser with the bills of lading at - shareholders for the splendid arrange- tached. By getting a reduction in rates meut he had madeeand pledged his of five cerits on the bushel, the "scalper" word that the "able manager " of the and the railway robber make$5,000 ou Grand Trunk Railway would not be the the transaction, while a miller who has first to break the agreement, but while ployiug a large amount of labor; cannot perhaps $100,000 invested, and is one - Sir Henry was gine iving this pledge his "able manager '( was giva miller in live. It is this vicious settem that is this town an advantage of °from $15 to the cause of so many mills .being stand - $50 per car, and continued to do so. It ada, and of the great depreciation Mg both in the Eastern States and Can - seems hardly possible that an 'able in value of that kind of property. The manager" would give such an advantage ; to a wealthy firm without having some milling property of the Dominion has shrunk at least 75 per cent. during the pecuniary interest, seeing he got no ex - y . last five years: Now, is it right that the trit traffic bdoing soThere are any number of wealthy firms doing business welfare and prosperity of a ceuntry and. that would willingly pay more money of individuals should depend Upon half to a manager for similiar advantages, a dozen railway hirelings, 'who, do, just than it is possible for the English share - as they please, there being no one to holders to pay for his services. Such say "what doest thou ?" England has being the case, I contend that Canada, not been greatly troubled, because the country is small and has no foreign having sunk so much money M rail- ways, should have railway commission - railway connections. Still the people ers to guard the interests of the coun- a single dollar into railways. The peo- grumble, although the country never put try. These commissioners should have ple in the Eastern States are also the power to examine the books both of the raihasecis and the shippers. E this grumbling, who gave no money for rail- way purposes; but elanada, which bas was done, it would soon show the rea- son why some firms have got so wealthy, given a40,000,000, iodependently of all and also the cause of others beine.so other municipal 1 eauses, as sheep be - poor. Some people seem to thunk that fore her shearers, ie dumb. The com- railways haven right to do just as they ters on the other side give an instance missioners now sitting on railway mat - please. There could not be a greater mistake. According to their charters of the Grand Trunk Railway carrying 18 loaded cars from New York to hi - they must charge the same rates for the C cago for $179. 'Now just think, if this same service rendered, and. are boiled railway that we have built would take to prevent all monopolies. This, cer- the same interest in developing the taiuly, would soon become a queer , trade of this country a.s it does in building country to live in if both the Govern - up that of our neighbors, what a differ- merit and the railways were allowed to ent country Canada would be. Coal play into the hands of wealthy firms. might be had along the entire line of One would think that the advantages wealth. gives ought to be quite sufficient the Grand Trunk Railway at less than $3 pet tom and Seaforth salt might be for them. I believe strongly in Prince Bis- marck. He has been giving protection Mr. Cross, the Home Secretaiy, in to German farmers, and re-gulating the speaking at a farmers' meeting, the carrying trade. He does not do things other day, in-Englaud, told them they by halves. It would be well if our were not suffering any more from legislators would take -a leaf out of his American over production than the far- book. Milling in bond is not allowed, niers of the Eastern States and Canada. and railways are not permitted to cairy Mr. Cross' head is level. New, what is foreign produce through the country the cause of the present agridultural de- under the regulation tariff rates, be- • rangement all over the world? The sides certain duties are imposed. With great cause is the radically vicious dis- the exception of the last restrictiou, crimination in freight in favor of West- Canada ought to adopt the self -Same ern farmers, who farm on such a gi- policy. The Grand Trunk Railway peptic scale... Just think of it; last should uot be allowed to compete with year's grain crops were carried relative- American railways for their produce in ly 17 cents per bushel lower to the sea- Chicago. The road not being a favorite board than they should have been. one with shippers, it is compelled to cut Thi e entailed a fearful loss On the rail- rates all the time, and has been the ways, which had to be made good to a chief cause of the war in rates.. It - certain extent cut of eastern traffic and stands to reason the lower American local freights. It is estimated that produce is carried, the worse it crowds Western fermers derived an advantage us out of our own markets, and the less of • $43,000,000 from this source. Al- able we are to compete in- foreign ones. though this large 'amount would. nat. If American railways were allowed. to many increase their purchasing powers, impose on American farmers by charg- which the country would get the bene- Dia the rates the law allows, the same fit of, still the people in. the Eastern as°Canadiau railways do on the farmers States complain that this advantage of this couutry, it would cure all our comes right out of their pockets, in the troubles at once. Corn, kir instance, depreciation of property, by being rob- could not be shipped, and the profits of bed out of all their natural advantages. wheat growers would. be taken i away, so Rochester, for instance, used to be a that we could. hold our own with them (treat milling centre. There are mil- in any market. How foolish, then, to lions invested in mills, and their mag- allow the Grand Trunk to combine with mficent water powers were supposed to the Great Western Railway for the very he worth millions more; but tioW the purpose of imposing on us more effee- mills are mostly standing and the water tually, and taking $1,500,000 to expend running to waste, simply because the in Michigan so as to carry the war of railways carry flour cheaper from St. freight rates right into Egypt. To al - Paul and Minneapolis to New York low such conduct is equal to allowing than from Rochester. If, then, the the country teicommit national suicide. Eastern States grumble, who belong to I intended this to be the last letter I the country, and who derive some bene- would. ever trouble you with, but your fit, how much more ought 'Canada to objections against milling in bond were complain, which has suffered all the bad so well taken that I will reply to' your effects, without any of the advantages comments. Yours, JAMES PRINGLE. whatever. A good many people think it makes no difference that the price of ---The annual sale • of stock and seeds grain is regulated by the English mare at the Model Farm, G-uelph, took place ket. This is quite true, unless in times Friday last and. was se decided success, of scarcity; but the price paid to pro- a large amount being realized. Over ducers is goverUed by the cost of trans- 1,000 persons were present, among portatiou. If not,:why witS the price whom were buyers from all parts of the of spring. wheat 17 cents per bushel * Province. There were present over a higher in Chicagoell July than in Sea- thousand farmers from every section of forth. This is proof positive. What, 1 the Peovince. The followine were the Shen, are the effects? Simply this, average prices obtaitied : °Short -horn Shat faxming, both in Europe, the East- yearling bulls, 78.34;$Hereford bull ern States and Canada, is unprofitable. calves, $150; Ayrshire heifers, $35; What do people. farm for but to make Cotswold shearling rams, $20; Cots - money? The more money that can be wold ram lambs, $14.12; Cotswold aged made, the faster farmers want to make ewes, $l0; Cotswold shearling ewes, it; hence this "bonus" of 179. perbushel $16.16; Cotswold. ewe iambs, 9.75;$ stimulates the production in the West, Leicester shearling rams, 1936;$Lei- and having every other natural advan- cesterram4,014; lambs,iaeice$slt4erewe-lambs, amb ;11,lcestes,r tage in their favor such as 'good land, aged ewes, large farms, aud light taxes, it is im- possible for farmers in any other part of the world to compete. Take -the noted. Dalrymple farm for instance that employed 400 men during the present harvest, and would have used 600 more only for self -binders. It has no less than 115 reapers and 20 steam thresh- ers. The farm contains 75,000 acres, more than the original District of Col- umbia. Ground was first broken in 1875. This year more than 20,000 acres are in wheat, and the owner will shi 500,000 bushels this year at a eh-ofit ef $1.80,000. Now, if railroads , 'would charge according to the service 'render- ed, $85,000 would. come right. out of Dalrymple's pocket instead of the pock- ets cf Eastern farmers. It is surely too bad. that the Eastern States that were the backbone of the country, and who pledged their all to put down the re- volution, and who have contributed the lion's share to the revenues of the gov- ernment ever since, should be robbed in this way by a lot of soulless railway corporations. From time to time these trunk lines have been entering ' into agreemeets, only to be broken, pledging themselves to maintain. certain rates. The summer agreement was that 15c per 100 lbk was to be the regular rate from Chicago to New York. The com- raissioners' report shows that Vander- bilt and his agents .broke this a.greement. over 2,000 times by entering into con- tracts. some of them being 'as low as 71c per 100 lbs. the salt of the Dominion, at least. 410.75; Southdown shearling rams, is much admired. by those who have 13; Southdown ram lambs $7.66 ; come in contact with him ou his west - Southdown shearling ewes, $1Q; South- ern tour. dome ewe lambs, $9; Oxford Down —Frederick William Jarvis, of To- shearling rams, $25.50; Berkshire ronto 'University, has been awarded the boars, $7.86; Berkshire sows, $3; P. Gilchrist Scholarship from London; A. Windsor boars, $15.25; spring England, University. six. Canadians wheat (Russian No. 7), $1.18. applied, and. the report says all passed in the honors division. Canada. —Mr. George Jenkinson, an old resi- The Ottawa Valley is becoiniug dent of Brantford, who, some eighteen famous for vine culture. ° years ago kept a grocery store on Col- —Chief Justice Wood, of Manitoba, borne street, was killed by an Indian has been lecturing at Portage la Prairie, on "Cosmogony." • —A row of empty stores in Ailsa Craig were burned to the ground early Monday morning. —Harbor dues at the port of Mon- treal are said. to be more than double those at Philadelphia and Baltimore. —Mr. Arch. Ballantyne, of the 7th concession °made°, had nineteen sheep killed by dogs on the night of Friday, 5th inst. _ —Mr. John Osburn, lot 22, conces- sion 12, township of Huron, thresbed oats last week which yielded 50 bushels to the acre. —Mr. Robert Lincoln, son of the late President Lincoln, and a prominent member of the Illinois bar, is at pre- sent in Toronto. - — Three separate claims were pre- sented to the North Dumfries Council at their last meeting, for damages for sheep -killing by dogs. —Rev. J. H. Spurgeon, brother of the great London preacher, is expected to preach in the Baptist tabernacle, Otta- wa, on the 8th of October. — The great cricket match played at Toronto, last week, between. Daft's English eleven and twenty-two Anglo - Canadians resulted in is draw. —W. F. Munger, of Lobo village, has been fined $40 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday. The heavy fine was owing to its being the second offense. —Mr. A. McKenzie, editor of the Celtic Mageteine, of Inverness, Scotland, is now in this country. He is to deliver a series of Scottish lecturer itt Canada. --Nearly all the old drunken sots who are discharged at the Toronto Po- lice Court promise to leave the city and "go and work on the CreditValley rail- way."- -The Sabbath School Assoeiation of Canada will hold its sixteenth Provin- cial Convention for Ontario and Que- bec, on the 7th, 8th and 9511 October, at Toronto. —Belleville harbor is being made shallow by the saw -dust thrown into it by mill men on the Trent. The authori- ties, fishery officers included, are look- ing after the offenders. — By a fire in the village of Alliston, Simcoe County, the firm of Scott & Scott, egg merchants, were burned out one day last week. Loss $5,000, with an insurance of $2,000. —The Quebec Colonization Society is actively working to obtain means .for settling five hundred families of the bity, now out of employment, in the valley of Lake St. John. —There is a large and flourishing Young Men's Christian Association in Winnipeg. Mr. A. M. Aikins, son of HOD. J. C. Aikins, Secretary of State for Canada, is President. —The Canada Medical Association held their annual convention in Lon- don last week. At the close a greed banquet was given them by the medi- cal profession of the city. , —A man with his wife and two chil- dren sought a night's rest at a police station, Toronto, one evening last week. The quartette were making their way on footfrom Ottawa to Windsor. —A family named Smith, four in number, residing in Buckingham, neat Ottawa, are said to have fallen heirs to an estate valued. at $2,000,000, left by a bachelor brother in Australia. —Dr. Palmer,, Principal of the insti- tution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Belle- ville, has resigned, and. Mr. Matheson, lately bursar of the Central Prison, has been appointed to succeed him. Luxtou, editor of the Winni- peg Free Press, retires from the candi- dature for Rockwood, in the Manitoba Legislature. Mr. J. A. M. Aikins, son of Senator Aikins, is now in the field. —Dr. Schultz is urging on the Gov- ernment the necessity of modifying the land law so as to allow the settlement veloping the mine. —Mr. Donald Macintosh, who has of homesteads of 160 acres each through- out the reservations of the Northwest. —The firm of Cant, Gourley & Co., of Galt, has been very successful at To - at Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, on the 19th July last. —Hon. Mr. Pope, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who has been for some time confined to his room by se- vere illness at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is again convalescent, and will arrive in Ottawa shortly. —The man, R. P. Bradstreet, injured. by coming into collision with a sema- phore on Thursday evening, llth near the Great Western raila ay station, Hamilton, lingered until 10.30 Friday night in an unconscious -state, when he died. —Mr. George Davidson, of Aberdeen Scotland, the famous athlete, states Shat the Caledonian games in America compare favorably with those of the old country, and. that the Lucknow meeting was one of the finest he ever attended.. —Mr. Thomas Fox, baggage master ning, rowing, quoiting, shooting and brother in Manneirda, Central Africa, at the Great Western station, Galt, for what not ? during a journey through that part of the last twelve years, was lately pre- —Mr. Jas. Manson, of Strathroy, the dark continent. sented with a purse of $54, by some of lately sent the Marquis of Lorne aud —Augustus Jefferson, better known his friends in that town. Mr. Fox has Princess Louise a pair of young deer, as "Dr." Augustus Jefferson, is colored judges, was awarded, to D. Gordon, the second to John McDonald, and the `third. to G. A. Smith. —The Cool Burgess-Widgery scan- dal has been settled by the comediau writing a letter denying that he ever found Widgery in is compromising po- sition with Mrs. BurgeaS. —The new Presbyterian Church, Kincardine, was formally opened on Sunday, 7th inst. Twenty-five years ago the congregation built their first church, a very different one from the fine edifice just lately completed. . —Dr. Emily H. Stowe, of Toronto, was recently brought before the Court of Quarter Sessions on a charge of ad- ministering medicine to a young girl named Sarah Lovell, for the purpose of • procuring abortien. The girl died on the 12th August last. —Mr. Charles Harper, of the Hamil- ton Fire Department, the other morn- ing performed a feat of daring which would be undertaken by few. He climbed to the top (thirty feet) of the flag pole on Messrs. Wood dt Leggat's establishment, and Adjusted the rope thereon. —At She annual pienie of Foresters in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. George Vair, of Galt carried off first prize in the 100 yards race, which was 37 ; and 2d prize in the mile race, which was $5. Can- adian muscle tells on all sides, in run - destroyed by fire, with this year's erops and a large qualatitv of wheat held over from last year. Insured for $500. ----JohneArnistron& of Chaffey, Mus- koka, delivered, -in 'Bracebridge, a load of oats, just fourteen weeks from the time the seed was sown. —Master Harry W. M. Perry, the little son of Mr. W. C. Perry, of Mount Forest, won aemedel at the Caledonian games in Lucknow for best dressed. boy in Highland 'costume. —D. S. Mackay, formerly of Lind- say, has organized a company for the puepose of developing and working the coal deposits on the Assiniboine xd Moose rivers in the Northwest Terri- tory. —Mr. Robert Scott, grain merchant, ,‘ Paisley, has enlarged his store -house at the railway station to more tb.au half, its former capacity. An elevator is being placed thereiu, which is expected to be in working order in a few —It is now stated that Clark Brown, wbo murdered his father and sister a couple a weeks ago, now confesses to having poisonel a young woruau named Hilliard, who died very suddenly under suspicious circumstances, about a year ago, at West Winchester. —Mr. John Liviugstone, a brother of the late Dr. Livingstoue, the African ex- plorer, has an assegai 011 exhibition in Hamilton -which was thrown. at his been in the employ of the Great West- male and female, bred by himself, and ern for 26 years. appropriately named ''Lorne" and —A. reaphie machine in East Wil- "Louise." Lerecognition of the grace - man who _resides on the Brock road m West Flambore, and who hat -for some years been practising medicine., was re - hams lately cut down nine acres of ful gift he received from the Governor- cently fined $25, on information by De. - wheat in one • day, and on that day, a General a beautiful and valuable watch. teetive Smith. young man, George McLeod, after walls- pendant. - —Mrs. !Clarke, of Hamilton, has 011 Mg two miles to the" field, bound the ----The press of Winnipeg, vhich seve . view -one of those stupendoos works of whole alone, between the hours of 7.30 -en years ago consisted of five new -spa- - quilting, which makes us pause and a. m. and 6 p. m. pers has no -w simmered down to three, ask if time has any value, in the ehaae —During the visit to Toronto, Her if le Metis may be considered a Winni- of a Lorne enilt, in win& there are Royal Higbness Princess Louise made peg paper. During the past year, how - over ,6,000 pieces Of silk, satin, and vozd- . a tour among the charitableinstitutions ever, four new papers, have been ,start-,;. vet, and:which required the .consumpe_ of the city, visiting the House of Provi7. ed itt different parts of the Province, tion ,of 2,600 e-ards of ...thread. detice, -Protestant Orphans' Hpme, -which goes far to show how much the .e--A-gentleman in 'Toronto was walk - Burnside Hospital, and other places of population of the Province has iiaereas. hag along Queen street west on Friday eimilar charactered, and other business centres -are de - night, when two men -estaght hold eot - —Donaldson, the well-known whis- Velopino. him, and while oile - pinioned his urine key informer, who has been the means of having so many hotel -keepers fined for infraction of the liquor law, has been committed for trial on two charges of perjury preferred. by tavern -keepers in London township. —A man- named Couron, who was committed to gaol on a charge of stab- bing one ,Giudbeeu itt e bar -room in Weston, has been discharged for want of sufficient evidence to criminate him. The people of Weston strongly censure She County Attorney for his want of energy in the matter. —Mr: 3. G. Bailey, of. Guelph, has recently patented a new spring coupling by the • Government to opine to the designed. to obviate the squeaking of country under the name of "farm tabor-. single -leaf springs. The patent appears -ere They were next to penniless, and to be a perfect success, and. has beee ' not a few of them had so little money purchased by Mr. J, B. Armstrong, of ' that utter destitution 'stared them in Guelph, who has it on exhibition in To- • the face before they reached Toronto., —At the International Agricultural the other stole Ins watch anti. chain, Show held not long since at Kilburn, breaking the latter close to the cross - England, it was considered a remark- bat. Although there was a policemen able thing that while there were no within fifty yards of the scene, the der - dairy exhibits from the United States, ing rascals escaped with their booty. Canada was represented by a cheese a —On Thursday, llth inst,, at 9 a. ton in weight, exhibited by Mr. jubal m., a young man named Joseph. Alley Webb, a well known London cheese was on his way home, when about a factor, and. made by Mr. Morton, of mile from Camden East village he was Kingston, Ont. stopped by two men, one bolding his —Large batches of English' emi- horse and the other presenting re - grants continue to arrive in this coun- volver to his head and demanding his try. Upwards of four hundred. arrived money. He handed them his pocket - at Montreal a week ego. About 200 book containing $6 and was allowed. to were mechanics who had been assisted proceed. on his way. —During the thunder storm whiole passed over the village of Shelburne, in the east riding of Grey, Oil Saturday af- ternoon, Cornelius Robinson, hie &ugh - ter, aged about 12 years, and John Durkin, took shelter from the storm in an old outbuilding. A few minutes after entering the building it wasstriick by lightning. The three were leaning against a log of the building. The log was shivered to matchwood, and. all three were knocked insensible. The, burnt track of the electric itnia was well marked. from their heads to their feet, especially in the case of Mr. Rob- inson, who was badly burnt about the abdomen. They are all recovering.. —The Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Review, says if the noble red men of the Northwest proves as apt at agriculture as at card -playing they will soon be- come expert farmers. It is rather , a, /level sight to see half a dozen braves, in all the grandeur of paint, feathers and cheap jewelry, busily occupiedin the absorbing game of " euchre" or " cassino." Just behind the office -of this paper is a favorite resort for this,- and, so interested do they become, that route, where it attracts great attention amongst spring makers. —Anewly-married man named. Harry Gully, residing at Copetown village, on the Great Western railway. near Dun- das, was charivaried by a number of youths in the neighborhood. The fun was lively for a while, but the recollee- —John Young, aged about twenty years, eldest son of Rev. Alex. Young, late pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Napanee, now of Toronto, was drowued in the Bay of Quinte last week. Mr. Young, with some other young men, was camping on Hog Island in the Bay of Quinte. His companions tion of it afterwards was rather damp- report that he went out fishing in a ened by the leader being fined $30, and several others of the band $15 each, or 30 days in jail. —Two brothers named Deal have been arrested in Montreal on suspicion of being the Parties who attempted to kidnap Mr. Jaffrey, of Toronto. They were brought to Toronto on Tuesday. small ducking skiff, and not long after- wards the boat drifted ashore upside down. It is supposed the boat swamp- ed, and as he could not swim he was - drowned.. - —It is not often that three men are made great grandfathers by the birth of one child. Yet swell a thing occurred The detectives on the case are satisfied on the 265h of August, when Mrs. Rob - that these men are the kidnappers of ,son, of the township of North Dumfries, Mr. Jaffrey. A book with some rays-, timer Ayr, presented her husband with terious writing was found in the posses- a daughter. Mr. Robson's grandfather, sion of one of them. Mr. Wm. Knox, of London township, h ers down b the land his wife's two grandfathers. Messrs. Manitoba on her last trip, wits Mr. 1Benjemin Knight, of Lobo, and Henry the game is carried on until one or more • Peter McKellar, of Fort William, who •Funger, of Delaware, are all alive and *become bankrupt in -tobacco, or in the was on bis way to Toronto with speci- healthy, and all three attained the bon- tin stamps on the plugs, whichseemsto peens of gold from a mine recently dis- or of being great grandfathers on the pass as currency among the " braves." covered at Jackflsh Bay, Lake Superior. date named. —Mr. James Belcharaher'of Sarnia, The mine is said to be yielding at the —One of nature's freaks is to be seen founder of the well-Itnown hotel which .rate of $1,300 per ton, and Mr. McKel- at Mr. John Robertson's, on. the Era- bears bis name, and an old resident, of lar proceeded to Toronto with a view of mosa road, in the suburbs of Guelphthat place died on Tuesday night, 9th getting Toronto capitalists to aid in de- It consists of a finely developed calf, inst. Mr. Belcb.amber had been suf- having a double-barrelled head, joined fering for some years from softening of at the base near the neck, the heads the brain, and the death of his adopt - making the shape of a V. It has four ed daughter a little over a week ago eyes and two mouths, but only the usual proved such a ehock to Ins system, that number of ears. The mother of the he rapidly succumbed. to the disease. calf belongs to Mr. Adam Robertson, Mr. Belcharnber settled in Sarnia near - and is a fine-looking cow. The mother ly 30 years ago, and after he had. aeon - dislikes the look of her offspring, and mulated a good deal of property retired. whenever she sees it she clears out at a from hotel life and settled. in a. private lively rate. Although still alive, the residence. He was highly respected by calf is likely to die. those who knew him. —One day last week there left Guelph —Saturday morning Wm. Johns, two sisters, who, some time ago, pledg- who was descending a well which he ed their word that they would meet had been digging on the farm of Wm, their mates when they sent for them. Gunning, four miles and a , half from Two young men, brothers, went to New Granton, and which was sixty feet deep, Zealand, a year or two ago, to find a was overcome with foul air and fell to home, and succeeded pretty well, the bottom, where he lay unconscious, kept true to their partbag wofd His comrade attempted to descend, but was tlra-tkna up nearly suffocated, • Two others also tried to descend, but failed. He was at last raised by grappling irons, and medical aid having been summon- ed, every effort was made for four honrs to resuscitate him, but without avail. One of his legs was broken. Johns lived at Osborne, and leaves a wife and seven childeen„ —Mr. John Canapbell„.ceniage man- ufacturer, London, has just finished one of the handsomest vehicles ever built in the ,city. It is built at the or- der of tb.e Bishop of Huron, and.willbe first used by the Governor-General and Princess Louise. It is of the close lan- dau order of coaches, built with tlae box lower down than so that the steps almost touch the ground -when lowered. The finishing is done in oil with silver moimtiugs, and blithe panel of the doors is His Lordship's cresti. with the motto " Antiquam. Antinensi' The coach will be revarnished altar the visit of tlae Vice Regal party and exhib- ited at the Western Fain g P for over twenty years beeu head ac- countant in the Provincial Peniten- tiary, at Kingston, died on Sunday even- ing. He had not been sick long. He ronto, having taken 10 first prizes, I was a native of Scotland, but emigrated second and 2 highly recommended on to Canada in 1837. He had. a very the wood working machinery they ex- eventful life,. and was one of the pro- hibit. meters of the forwarding business at —Rev. Mr. Leghcrn, of Rawdon, Kingston many years ago. Quebec, has been appointed to the pro- —A Mrs. Hunter, living a.the Grand fessorship of Hellmuth College, render- Trunk Railway station, Bell -0'611e, who l -v e.acant by the appointment of Rev. has been in poor health fof-atine time, Mr. Sweatman to the Bishopric of To- ,was visited on Setarday evening by an ronto. Indian doctor, who had been holding —From five bushels and a peck forth on the market with his nostrum of wheat sown last fall Mr. Hector Me- Of roots, herbs, dm. He left the woman Lean, of Wallaceburg, this season some of his Medicine, and. soon after threshed 1r,3 bushels and thirteen taking it vomiting was produced, which with their affiances, and a little pounds. This was grown on afield of ended in Mrs. Hunter's death on Sun- :while ago sufficient funds were re - about 31 acresday night, her constitution being too ceived to enable the young women to go -s-The Caledonian games at Lucknow -weak to stand the strain. lasiivveek were very successful and were —Six pipers entered_ on the bag -pipe witnessed by about ten thousepd pee- contest in Toronto, last Saturday. A ple.lj; It is said the society intend offer- large crowd assembled to hear, at its ing- 1,000 in cash, besides specials, for best, the music which has risen wild priz s next year. and shrill, and died. away in fitful ----'Last Saturday night two women 'cadences over the hills of Scotland for destination. were drowned at Ottawa. They had centuries. The names of the competi- —Mr. James Cook's barn and out - been out on the river, and when leav- tors were Donald Gordon, Toronto; buildings, with their contents, one ing the boat stepped on some sawdust McLellan, Toronto, John ,McDonald, mire from Alvinston, were destroyed by and cuttings on the water, suppoeing it the Marquis' piper, Ottawa, Wmfire on Saturday evening. About one to b land. They went down in the Grum, Embro ; G: G. Fraser, Wood,- thousand bushels of grain, together stock; and G. A. Smith, Hamilton. with a large quantity of hay and straw, The judges were Donald Gibson, Hugh were burned. Loss, about $2,000; In - Miller, and David Anderson. Each &trance, $500. Cause, incendiara. Piper played a Pibroch, is march, a strathspey, and a reel, and as thepipers marched up and down wailing out their pibrochs or stirring the blood with their marches, their strathspeys, and reels, they were greeted with frequent and hearty applause. The first prize, after careful consideration on the part of the to them. The young women are now on their journey, and expect to be in New Zealand by Christmas, at which time a double wedding will take place. They first go to England, and from there take the Australian line to their wat e and no one being near, both were drew, ed. e Toronto Club gave a grand banquet in honor of the Governor-Gen- eral in their rooms, on Friday evening last.' The affair was attended by about one hundred. persons. The chair was occupied by ,Chief Justice Moss. The Governor-General, in response to the toast of the evening, made a very neat, modest and rather witty speech. He Last Monday night the barns and out- buildings belongmg to John Shaw, jr., of the main road, Warwick, were de- stroyed by fire, -with contents, consist- ing of implements and. all this year's crops. Canse of fire unknown. On Saturday night the barns of James Cook, of the township of Brooke, were