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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-09-26, Page 1;EPTEMBER 191 lgn. FALL SI:COWS. Mowing are the dates of the ran Agricultural Societies in thie distrhao' Huron,at Seafocth oz. Thursday eat rata .t.'25th and !Nth; laron, at BriteaeLe, OU. Thursday maul aolia e tele. and tat and Usborne, at Exeter ant Tuesday Inesday Sept 23rd and 24t1Z ierryfat tviughaes, Ort Thursday 'and rd. 1.2 and 26t1a wawszash,at Belgaave, on Wednesday - re Fair, Loudon, from September 4th to thal, inclasive. vial Exhibition, at Ottawa, frora thellarei 7th September. ineluaive. v Branch, at 13aylle1el, October 7 Show, at Stefan on. Tuesday, Sept. 314 Local Notices. THE SOAP, 25 bars for $1 at &era See that very fine tea at 50 cents, worth and those cheap Raisins and Curraataag =emery. 574 -1E,a1a ART GALLERT----SOtnethiag aawi the time to secure youx shadow. s Meant: is now making four Anabrotypes - Picture frames cheaper than over. 610 ROSE, Family Grocer, Seafeeta, he attentionof cash buyers to his stook ries, His Stock is constantlyturningaand s fresh. His prices are the lowast—it sou ta call. Examine his goods and comps* 574 Olt HALL'S white and colored, eellarattached and detaehed, at -75 cents. LLL & A:ND/Sate:a SEAFORTIL 777 MODUCALL such pleasure in announcing t� istemers and the public general - on KSDAY., SEPT.:24111 ve their Serai-Aanual F MILLINERY sld customers and as raanynew an. eet are cordially invited to fl see the ;NINe DISPLAY' :� FA,SHIONABLE biav- ELT t NS in D ii McDOLICALL & do. RECEIVED THIS. WEEK EW JACKETS the Latest Styles. EST AND CHEAPEST LOT ve Shown. Prices to Suit the Times. td $2.50 $2.75 0.00 (Ja 4.50 4.75 5.00- 5.50 "at 6.75 7.00 7.50 7.75 >0 0.00 10.0a• 11.00 12.O� 00 20.00 22.0G 25.00 OTION INVITED IODOUGALL & oc tittor 11 TWELFTH Y _aeAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 616. SEAFORTH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1879. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, irt Advance. BEAL ESTATE FOR SALE. plIOPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, that con- ▪ venient and desirable residence on the corner at High and Market Streets, lately occe pied by Dr. Vercoe. Apply to DR. VEROOE. 488 -AB' AilD TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE, F PRICES TO `SUIT THE TIMES.—Lot 17, en the llth concession, MoKillop; price $40 per sere; Building lots in different parts of the teen of Seaforth; purchasers can make theix own terms of payment, at 8 per cent. interest. JAS.. ggiTTIE.. 591 ATALITABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, • the east half of Loa No. 4, Con. 4, H. a. S., Taaaereraith, County of Huron, consisting of 50 sena fla miles from the Town of Seaforth, and convenient to school. The land is of the very wet quality. For further partieulars apply to JAMBS PICKARD, opposite the premises, or to ggmondville P. O. 52 uARAI AND TOWN PROPER TY FOR SALE, • 0H-RaP.—Lot No, 24, Con. 9, McKillop, 100 ores; north half Lot 30, Con. 9, McKillop, 50 acres- north half ef north hall Lot 31, Con. 9, IferaillOp, 25 acres; residence occupied by Mr. Nalcolmson on Goninlock Survey, Seaforth; building lots on Aryls' and F. G. Sperling's Sur- veys. Apply to GRAY, YOUNG & SPARLING, Seaforth. 695 VAR6I FOR SALL-a-For Sale, the west part of x Lot No. 1, Con. 17, Grey, containing 50 acres , 85 of which are cleared, well fenced, and in a state of good cultivation. There is a good frame house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the gravel road leading to Brussels and Seaforth, and ieljoins a church and school. It is also within half smile of the Village of Walton. Apply on the premises or to Walton Post Office. CHARLES ifURCHIE. 493 -palm FOR SA T.1.4.—F aleLot 'den. 10 ▪ Tuckersmith„ containing 100 acre about BO cleared, the balsam° 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 aborts seven miles from Seaforth sad four from Hensall, and is convenient to school. Two good wells of water. Possegaion even at any time. Appiy at the EXPOSITOR office, Seaforth. 610 FARM FOR SALE.—That well-known and fine- ': ly eituateclfarrn, Lot 1, Con. 1, Hallett, in the Comity of Etnron, containing 100 acres, 90 of whir* are cleared; there axe two frame dwelling honsaa, tiara, horse stable, cow stable, sheep -house and drivinghouse ; also orchard and abundance of water. The farm is situated two miles trona the Town of Seaforth, on the Huron Road. For frill particulars apply to McCAUGHEY & HOLME- SIPA Seaforth, or to SIMON XOUNG,proprie- tor; on the premises. 653-4s pROPERTY FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 14, A Con 16, Grey; West hall. of Lot 29, Con. 6, with cheese factory complete; Lot 14, Co. 6, sad -South hall of Lots 16 and 17, Con. 5, town- ship of Morals ' • Lot 22, Con. 13, and Lot 28, Con. 8, township offlowiele, all good improved farms, together wall several 50 acre farms in Grey.and Morris and houses and lots and vacant lots in the Village of 13rassels, Prices low, terms easy, and title good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Bus - 1013. 574 FARM FOR SaLE.—For Sale, that most desir- able farm, being Lot 1, Con. 6, in the town- ship of Hallett, situated 14 miles from Kinburna and 6 miles from Sealorth. There are excellent buildings on the premises, including a firit-class done house, two storey, 30 by 40 feet. A spring ereek 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- MIOWARL, or to MR. JAMES H. BENSON, Sea - forth. 562 FARM FOR. SALE.—For sale Lot 17, concession 4:8 Stanley, 100 acres 80 cleared, well famed and in a good state of Cultivation, the balence ,well timbered with maple. Frame house barn andsheds. Five acres of good bearing orchard, and two never failing wells. Is on a good gravel road within 2 miles of Varna, 6 miles from Brace - field station, Great 'Western Railway, and12 miles from Seaforth and Canton. For farther particu- lars apply to the proprietor on the Premises,or to Varna P. 0. JOHN REDMOND. 598 -palm FOR SALE.—For Sale, West half of Lot 81, Concession 12, McKillop, cantiiining 60 acres, 40 of which are cleared, well fenced and in excelleat condition ; a good log house, also a young orchard commencing to bear and abund- ance of splendid water;. is within half o. mile of a good gravel road, and is conveni cut to churehes, school and post office; is within 9 miles from. Sea - forth and an equal distence from Brussels. Apply to the proprietor on the prOraises, or to Leadbury P. 0. ISAAC GRAHAM. 603-4x A ItOUSE AND LOT FOR $200.—The under- '. signed will sell a, neat and comfortable Cot- tage M Egmondviale, situated opposite the mill, for $200; there is a good lot, cellar, water and all other eonveniences ; easy terms of payment; if not sold it will be rented, with privilege to buy. He also offers for sale the building at present oc- cupied. by Mr. Jacob McGee, being a neat and commodious etore, with dwelling house and stable attached, situated on Main Street; teems easy and rent low. Apply to A. STRONG, Laud Agent, Sea forth. 611 FARM FOR SAT.F...—For Sale, Lot 2, COD,. 11, H. R, S., containing 100 acres, 82 cleared and. In ith a first-class state of ultivation, e balance' being good hardwood bus ; log house, with stow. cellar under, and well finished; frame barn BOJO°, with stone stabli g underneath; good bearing orehard and 3 god wells; convenient to &arch, school and post office; is situated 8 miles from Seaforth and 5 from Hensall, on A good _ gravel road. For farther particulars apply fa the Proprietor on the premisoaa or if by letter' to Chiselhurst P.O. JOHN C. STEELE. .603-4x PAM& FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 2, Curt. 17, 'Grey, and part of Lot 1, Con. 17, containing in all 129 aores, about 90 of which aro cleared, and under good cultivation. The balance is well timbered with hardwood. There is a hewed log house, and frame barns, sheds and stables. There is a good bearing orchard and. good -water. Is situated on a good gravel road within half a. mile of Walton, village; tive miles from 13russel9, on the Great'Western Railway ; and ten miles from Seaforth, on the Grand Trunk Railway; with a choice of markets. For further particulars a.pplv to the proprietor on the premises or to Walton P. 0. JOHN MeFADZEA„N. 610.r20 PARII FOR SALE,—Poi Sale, Lot 22, Con, 8, ,Towriship of Tuckersmith, L. R. S., contain- ing 100 acres, about 70 of which are cleared and lira good state of cultivation ; the balance is good hardwood. bosh; good frame heuse, barn land Stable; excellent weter on the premises ; well fenced; good young orehard, and every CO/Mill; ence appertalnine La a farm. Is situs ted ab out '7 tones from atetuut ran 21 from Eippen, andtrona Bracetield, on the Lender' Huron and -1.3rtice Itailway. The land is first -Class clay loam. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the Premises, or if by letter to Brucefield P. 0. MILES AlellILLAN. • 601-4a FARM IN McKILLOP 'FOR SALE.—For Sale, the North part of Lots 8 and 9. Con. 13, Me - op, containing 112 acres; there axe about 80 eared, well fenced, unde.rdrained, and in a high State of cultivation, the balgace ie well timbered with hardwood; good dwelling, new bank frame barn 50xa7, with stabling underneath, and other nritbuildings, also a good young orchard and Plenty of water. Is 10 miles from Brassels, 5 from 'Walton, and 12 from Seaforth, with good gravel roads to cad'. place; convenient to church and achools ; will be sold as a whole or in two parts, !Will la. exelnuiged for a snail farm. Apply to mitten P. 0. or to the proprietor on the premises. WILLIAM DYNES. 593 FAJ FOR SALE.—For sale, lot No. 8, eon- ecaaion 9, Hallett, and smith half of lot 8, concession 10, coutaining in all 150 acres, about I.10 of which are cleared, well fenced and in a etta sate ef cultivation. There are 100 acres dear of stumps, 42 acres seeded dowa and 35- r of fall wheat. Thee are two dwel- ling houses and good frame barns, stables and 11,1?eda. A good bearing orchard, and two splen - mid welb. It is within 9 miles of Seafoftli and equa1 distance from Clinton, and within a mile 111d5 half of the village of Milburn, with good roads leading to each. plane. For further Particulars apply to the undersigned on the prem- ises Or toronstialce P. 0. WM. DUNLOP. 611x8 DOES FARMING PAY. The following article from our excel- lent contemporary, the Orangeville Ad- -1,ertiser, is well worthy of a careful per- usal, especially by those discontented one who are tired of life on the farm and -pine for town or city life. 16 18 true every word of it: - One often hears it stated that farm ing in Canada does not pay, and that those who engage lin it lead lives of. bard and ill -requited toil, with barely a living during their best years and with nothing to fall back upon when old age comes on. The agricultural poptilation, it is asserted, must always be &poor one, and 'must always be de pendent on manufacturing industries There is no doubt that manufactories are a benefit to a farming Community to some extent so long as they are not fostered at its expense, but it is equally certain that farmers are not the poor and. dependent lot they are aepresented.• Thee may be districts in Ontario where the land is poor and the, reiiutri for la- bor expended has been unsatisfactory but it will be found to be the exception and not the rule. As a general thing the fariaers of Ontario are as comfort- able and prosperous a holy of men as are to be fund in the world, and have more real wealth among them than any other. class of the community. Let any one acquainted with the history of a township for the last 25 or 30 years say if the same story of triumph has not to be told of those who with brave . hearts and . strong hands went to. the wilderness to carve out for themselves a home and a living. It is true there have beer a failures—sometimes clis- artrous failures—and in ina,ny oases permanent poverty has resulted there- from ; but this is the case in all com- munities, however prosperous. To every failure that has taken place there can be shown a hundred instances where men who came in with scarcely anything but health and hope have -be- come rich, but who, when in their own country, could look forward to nothing but a life of painful,ill-requited toil, and a pauper's pittance and coffin at the close. The early settlers no doubt had a hard time—harder, by far than they mild possibly experience now, but they went at their work with a will, and are now independentin the fullest sense of the term. Let any one remem- ber what the surrounding country was a few years ago, and then say whether farming dot* not pay. Instead of the wild woods they uow see fertile fields enclosed and without a stump;. sub- stantial brick houses have taken the place of the humble log shanty; school houses of the mostcommodious and elegant description .are found every- where, and churches have been built and paid for. Instead of the heavy lumber Wagon for t. avelling the buggy or democrat now i used, and all the comforts and eveu luxuries of life are found in every household. As vvesaid before, there have. been failures. Farmers like every other °last sometimes -live above their means, and foolish sons often dissipate the savings of industrous fathers. But these isolat- ed cases cannot be taken for general rules, nor do such Gates. prove that farming does not pay. Our farmers have with every one else passed through a. time of dull trade and poor crops, but to -day have fall barns and bright pros- pects, when -every one else is at his wit's ends to obtain either Cash or credit. It is all very well to say they have had to work hard and long for it, but where is anything to be got without hard work? What class can show such results for their labor? For every one who haefailed at farming and has been compelled to sink back to the position of a laborer, a hundred laborers have become -their own masters, and now work their own laud. Daring the last few years—the hardest ever known for farmers—the percentage of failures on farms has been small indeed compared 'with that of mercantile and manufac- turiag businesses. Ca,,n it be said that farming does not pay when even in thee times farms are sold near towns and -cities atfrom 50, 60, or even 70 dollars an acrh, and when men often buy at these figures and pay it off in six or eight ears?YThe farmer's life may not be everything that could be de- sired, but it is very ofteu sketched. in She darkest colors when it is plain to be seen that the opposite is nearer the truth, and. complaints are often made when everything tells of progress. There are drawbacks and trials on a farm as well as in every other occupation, and no doubt they are sometimes hard to bear; but we yenture to say there is no class of people in Canada who during the last 25 or 30 years can show, such progress - in prosperity and independ- ence as the men who have stuck by the farm. Big !Telegraphing an.d Bigger Binding MR. EDITOR—Dear Sir: I was very much amused on looking over your -1)a - per of the 19th inst., at some of your news items. In a quotation from the Beacon, you say: "Mr. Blair, of St. Marys station, G -rand Trunk Railway, has sold during his incumbency there nearly 1,000,000 railway tickets and re- ceived and despatched 1,750,000 tele- grams." Now, being an operator my- self, I pretend to know a little some- thing about telegraph business. And I don't -believe there is an operator inthis or any other county, who has received and sent that number of messages in his lifetime. It would take at least 15 hours each day for 30 years, taking 313 days to the year, and allowing only 45 seconds for eaah message, to do that amount of business. I leave it to your- self to judge if I am correct or not. In another paragraph you state , that "Geo. McLeod, of Ewa Williams, bound nine apres of wheat between the hciurs of 7.30 A. M. and 6 P. M." Nowl,, Mr. Editor, I will stake" my existence that he ueyer , bound two-thirds of that quantity. I should think that living .in the rich farming Community you do, you would have practical knowledge enough of barn work to know that to do such an .amount of work as that in one day is almost an impossibility. I think if editors would consider a little more some of their news items, that the public at large would be able to place more confidence in. the papers of the day than they do at present. I remain, yours ata., VERITAS. TORONTO, Sept. 20, 1879. [ED. Non.—The advice of onr correspondent is very good, but it is difficult to act upon. In culling items for a newapaper, it does not pay to stop and make au aritiunotical calculation to as- certain whether or not each paragraph is correct. Life is short and time is too precious with news- paper men, however it may be with telegraph op- erators, to engage in such an undertaking. The paragraphs alluded to were taken from respectable papers, and although the feats do seem heroulean, yet wo would remind our eorrespoudent that there are some very smart people in this world, and, no doubt, the gentlemea referred to belong to the staart-aassa • . Guelph and the Central Fair— Seeing the Princess. . Few places have been touched so lightly by the hard Mines as G-uelph. There is an air of briskness and busi- ness about the streets, and evidences of prosperity in the private residences and manufactories which have been, unfor- tunately, wanting in most other towns of late 3 ears. They say that G-uelph has not felt -the hard. times to any ex- tent, and I can well believe it. When the now railways started and cut off the .northern trade Guelph had a good start, mid many of its business men were pos- sessed of large capital, and manufac- tories of various lsinds quickly started supplying the place of the mercantile trade diverted by -the railways. In the last eight years Guelph has increased from a population of 6,000 to upwards of 10,000 people. and there are few places which give better promise of con- , gulled prosperity. Within the last four years on what is called Upper Wind- ham street, there has been built a block of about thirty stores and a large hotel, which I do not believe can be surpassed in any city of the Doniiniou. Wednesday was a great day in Guelph. The opening of the Central Fair together with the visit of the Gov- ernor-Geteral and the Princess, attract- ed the largest 3rowd.elier known to have come to the place. In -prepaaation for the re) al visit, the streets and residences were tastefully decorated witb flags and evereareees, and a handsome arch was erected across the principal street. At 12 o'clock- the train with the distinguish- ed visitors arrived, With -the usual escorts and ceremonies they were escorted to carriages, and driven to the Exhibition grounds. As the procession passed along, the sidewalks, the win- dows, the roofs of houses, -every place commanding,- seeing room, was jammed by people anxious, firstly, to get a look at the Princeas, and, secondly to get a look at the Marquis. In the Princess they saw a young woman with good. firm features, and with rather large and bright blue or gray eyes aud smooth brown hair. Hers is not a beautiful face certainly, but it is intelligent, it is dignified and, to a less degree, perhaps, ia is kindly. As she sat in the carriage she seemed to be dressed in some dark material, with tt black hat and a veil lighty falling over her face. From time to tithe she bow- ed to the people as she passcid, in a rather stately and dignified- manner, which in a personage less exalted might - be termed stiff or condescending. The Marquis is a very fair gentleman, withvery blonde hair a,n1 a very blonde mustache. His photographs, which we see so often, do not flatter him. They give him- an effeminate air quite un- worthy of a MacCallum Mohr. I was agreeably disappointed in his appear- ance. He is a fine manly -looking fellow, who might be a soldier or a hero on oc- casion, and who would have nerve to act well his part in whatever emergency he might find himself. The party was driven to the Fair grounds where there ware the usual ad- dresses and replies and preseutatimas. Then the Marquis and Princess were shewn through the Exhibition hall. I am told on excellent authority that the Princess was especially pleased with the home-made carpets and mats On exhi- bition.. The Marquis became purchaser of the prize cheese, ordering it to be sent to Rideau Hall and paying there- for twenty,five cents a pound. If he would buy all the cheese in the Do- minion at that price, it would be a good thing for the country. The owner of some of the samples of prize butter was so enthusiastic as to make a present of them to their Excellencies, and they, too, were forwarded to Rideau Hall. Excepting in the immense crowd, drawn mainly by trhe royal visit, the Central Fair this year cannot be called much of a success. - The total entries foot up some three Or four hundred less than last year. The deficiency is more inarked in the live stock departments of the show than in any of the others. The show of cattle and sheep is said to be much smaller than in former years, and the same to a less extent is true of horses. It is needless to say the qual- ity of the animals, drawn from the great stock -raising country of which Guelph is the centre, is euperb, but the meagreness of the display shows plain- I ly that the "exhibition business" is overdone. The display of roots was very fine, and, of grain the display was what t might be expected after such a bounti- ful harvest. Watson, of Ayr, was the largest exhibitor of implements. Max- well, Massey, Thomson & Williams, Bell (St. George,) and all the Guelph manufacturers were well represented„' besides others I at present forget. I There were very few exhibitors from I Huron in any of the departments, and I veey few Huron people at the Show. In fact, the vast crowd present was mainly drawn from townships imrne- 1 • diately surroundieg Guelph, which on Wednesday Must have been deserted by their usual inhabitants. VISITOR. GUELPH, Sept. 18,1879. Canada. Potatoes have been sold as low as 10c a bushel on the Quebec market. — Six thousand dollars were taken at the Toronto Exhibition tura stiles on Thursday. — Seizures tor smuggling are of al- most daily occurrence in the Lower Proviuces. —Taylor's elevator in Toro-nto was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. Loss, $7,000. —Princess Louise visited the nfants' Home in Toronto on the last dar of her stay in the city. — A Toronto man bought a on of honey at the Exhibition for expor tion to G-reat Britain. —Contracts have been let for the con- struction of 77 miles of the Stratford and Huron Railway. — Two ladies are to compete with one another soon in a walking match for $100, at Point Edward. — The demand for flour at Portage la Prairie is so great, that millers can scarcely supply the orders. —The Credit Valley Railway was formally opened for traffic by the Gov- ernor-General, last Friday. —Mr. George Bemister sold over $1,100 worth otbuilding lots in one day at Portage la Prairie last week. —A writ has been issued against the Mechanics' Bank, and a _meeting of creditors is called for October 96h. —The atsival of Rev. Mr, Spurgeon, brother of the great London preacher, is looked for in Toronto this week. — The Governor-General, Princess Louise and. suite, arrived by, special train at Ottawa on Saturday evening. — The -Brantford City Council have gone pleasuring to Detroit, the Grand Trunk having placed wear at their dis- posal. —We notice that the Lucau Enter- prise has changed hands. It is now the property of Mr. W. B. Abbott, of that village. —Mr. John McCausland, of Mala - hide, recently sold two prime three year old steers weighing 3,600 pounds, for $150 each. —A man named James Hamilton was kicked by a horse on Guelph Exhi- bition grounds, last week. He died two days afterwards. —Thomas Mills, of Westminster, has laid information against H. Dowling, charging him with attempting to, take his life with an axe. - —Twenty-two men left Peterboro on Monday ' marning for Messrs. Cook -- Bros'. shanty, to engage in lumber work, at Gravenhurst, Muskoka. —The St. Catharines Chief of Police has notified all owners of billiard sa- loons to prohibit juniors from playing billiards on their premises. —A rattlesnake was captured near Lake Shore, a few days ago, by Mr. Stollikea of Petrolia. It is six years old and has five pairs of rattles. —Twohey and Massey, lads of 13 and 11 years, were nearly poisoned. to death Monday at Montreal, by drinking bed-, bug poison in mistake for whiskey. —A bear weighing over three hundred pounds was killed the other day at Lit- tle Narrows. C. B. It had previous to capture killed a large nualber of sheep. —Mr. T. Hodgson, of Belleville, has been elected one of the Vice -Presidents of theInternational Dairy Fair, which I will be held in New York in December. —Traders throughout the Sasaatche- wan Valley report the Indians, to be suffering terribly for want of food, and great destitution is feared during the winter. —Mr. Prittie, of Toronto, started for Manitoba on Tuesday afternoon with his thirteenth excursion party. He in- tends making two more excursions in October. —The Hon. Senator Carfall, of Brit- ish Columbia, died suddenly last Fri - dais afternoon at his brother's residence, near Woodstock, from ulceration otf the stomach. —A Mrs. Holt, of Quebec, came to her death on Saturday by being thrown from her carriage in the vicinity of Lennoxville, whereshe was on a visit to some friends. —Alex. Wisely, a young Englishman, lately from Stockport, England, and last heard from in London, when he was ill and destitute, is enquired for by his friends at home. —A nine year old son of Mr. Levi, St. Catharines, was badly bitten about the 1 face by a dog on Sunday. One of his' eyes was nearly taken out and his face seriously injured. — Two hundred and sixty acres of the Point Douglas Common have been as- signed for the railway depot and shops at Winnipeg. A temporary track is be- ing laid in. the city. —Charles Heidt, a farmer residing near the village of Shedden, West El- gin, committed suicide on Thursday morring of last week, while laboring Under a lit of temporary insanity. —The telegraph offices at Winnipeg and Selkirk have been put in telephonic conamunication. Voices were recog- nized and words distinctly heard com- ing over twenty-five miles of wire. — The Inspector of Fisheries in Prince Edward Island- has seized the lobster factories east of Paint Prim for canning after season, and dismissed the. Fishery Warden for not promptly de - in his business. —Last ' Friday sixty immigrants, principally Scotch, who came out by the stealeaship Texas, passed up the Grand Trunk. Some got off at Toronto, others went to Hamilton, and the re- mainder passed on to London. —A man named Wm. Noakes; of Reading, Mass., who bought a lot of horses in Montreal at a cost of about $1,300, was surprised to have them seized. by the American Customs au- thorities, they being entered at the - Custom House as only worth $700. As the duty on horses is 20 per cent., the saving to him if the seizure had not been made would have been of no little importance. —The Cornwall Woollen Manufactur- ing Company carried off the first prize for all wool blankets at the Industrial Exhibition', Toronto, The goods were greatly admired for their finish and ma- terial. —The qttavva district lumbermen are offering their men from $3 to $4 per month mote than last year: The cut of logs during the coming winter' prom: ises to be $0 per cent. in advancl of last year's operations.. —jemmyitPapes, the notorious burg- lar and pickpocket, died on Tuesday morning at the Shakespeare Hotel in Toronto, where he had made his home for eight or ten months. His disease was consumption. —The manufacture of fire lighters, i. e., blocks of wood dipped in resin and rolled in sawdust, is to be entered upon in Ottawa by a Chicago firm, who are said to have bought the right to manu- facture them here. —The hull and machinery of the wrecked ship State of Virginia was sold at Halifax, a few days ago, for $405. The engines alone are worth £15,000 sterling. A large quantity of eargo yet remains in the ship. —Mr. McEachren, inspector of stock at Montreal, is enforcing the clauses of the Inspection Act. Cattle put on board a steamer in port on Saturday were ordered off and the owner brought before the Police Court. —A prisoner in Kingston Penitentiary escaped about a year ago, and a reward of $50 was offered for his apprehension. He, however, succeeded in eluding jus- tice until Monday of last week, when he was arrested and brought back to Kingston. —Rev. W. H. Poole, LL.D., who has labored for over thirty years in various fields in -Canada in connection with the Methodist Church, has accepted an in- vitation from Bishop Simpson church, Detroit, and has departed for his new. appointment. —Mr. Alex. Thompson, an old resi- dent of North Dumfries, where he was very much respected, died recently. He was 81 years of age and had been a resident of Dumfries since 1836. De- ceased was father of Mr. John Thomp- son, of Seaforth. —The Right Rev. T. H. Gregg, D. D., of England, is now on his way to Canada. His mission to this Province is to 13ett1e some differences between branches of- the Free Church in Eng- land and the Reformed Episcopal Church in Canada. —Mr. Joseph Murray, Manager of Miss McPherson's Orphan Home, Galt, has gone to Manitoba, for the purpose of selecting farms for 'boys who, while at service, have accumulated money sufficient to enable them to make a start for themselves. —Last week a stranger put up at a hotel in Point Edward, calling for the best the house could afford. in eatables and drinkables. He di-splatyed. a draft on a California bank for $1 ,000, which did not ptevent him, ho ever, from pilfering articles in the hotl. He was placed in jail for safe keepin —Mr. James Rennie, of T�onto, has received the entrance fee from Mr. W. 0. Fowler, of Wingliam, on behalf of Mr. Walkinshaw, to play - a quoiting match with Mr. Dobson, the present champion and holder of the grand gold medal. It is expected the match will be played at Galt before long. —The Indians of the Northwest are opposed to the removal of Mr. Dickie - son, the acting Indian Superintendent of the Territories. They say he has got to know them all now, and their wants and necessities, and they had got. to like him because if he did not give them all they asked' for, he gave them all he could. • —The man Charts Ossley, who beat his wife in such a brutal manner in Leslieville -some weeks ago, and for whom a warrant for arrest was issued, voluntarily gave himself up to County Constable Woods, who lodged him in jail. The unfortunate woman is at present in the Hamilton Asylum, where it is to be hoped she will recover her senses. —Orders are being filled in Montreal for about 1,500 barrels of potatoes, chiefly Early Rose, for shipment to Liverpool and Glasgow. They cost, about 40c. to 45c. per bag, delivered in the city, and are packed in sugar bar- rels, both ends being perforated to pre- vent them from heating. The freight from that point by steamer will cost 3s. per barrel. —The Indian Department have sent out seven head of cattle to the Indians at Black River and the 'same number to the Indians at Grand Rapids. The Indians seem highly pleased with the action of the Department, and are com- mencing to learn the necessity of farm- ing, as most of the game on which they used rto subsist is either becoming ex- tinct or very scarce. —At the Industrial Exhibition, To- ronto, Mr. A. A. McArthuf; of Lobo, showed some very fine 'specirsiens of the Berkshire breed of swine. He had on exhibition sixteen fine animals, bred by himself out of imported stock, and. he succeeded in carrying off no less than four first prizes, one second, and the grand sweepstakes for the very best boar and sow of any age. Mr. McAr- thur had to compete against the. Bow Park herd. —No less than three cases of success- ful confidence games were published last week in Montreal. One was a very sad case. A farrier going to the West- ern States with his wife and family met on the train an old school mate. They talked of good old. tirnes and scrapes both got into and out of, when the far- mer spoke of his having $250 in Cana- dian money, which was not good on the other side. The school -mate offered. to change it for him, and the offer was ac - a cepted. The farmer and family almost frantically waited his return in vain, and at last he took the train for his new home with but a few dollars in his pocket. —Thonsas Belanger' waa committed for trial at Ottawa Friday morning on a charge of haviag counterfeits of 'United States 25 and 50c. pieces in his possession. Melina Belanger, charged with uttering counterfeit money, was also committed for trial. —A few days since Frank Schermer - horn, of the township of Blenheim, was burning some brushwood. His lit- tle daughter, some six years of age, was with him. Her clothes caught fire, an4 burnt her so badly that she died the same right Mr. S.., -who tore her clothes off, got his hands badly burned. •'—The minim' meeting of the Ontario Building and Saving Society was held on the 18th inst. The transactions during the year have been very large, andthe business was shown to be in a healthy condition. Loans secured by mortgage amount to $264,050.59. The revenue for the twelve months has ins creased by over 87,000. —Mr. Snider, of Johnston Settle- ment, had a horse and 'buggy stolen on Sunday from Mr. Lowrey's Presbyterian church, while service was being ton - ducted. A party was arrested at Mit- chell on. Monday offering a horse and buggy for sale, which answers the de- scription of the one stolen. —A sad accident is reported between Bruce Mines and the Thessalon River, by which it is supposed. three pereoias were drowned, .aamely, Mr. George Chisholm,- of Bruce Mines, and -his sec- ond son, and a Mr. Cowper, of the Crown Lauds Office, Toronto. All three started from Bruce Mines in an open boat, and the weatherbeing stormy it is supposed they were lost. —At the Ogdensburg Fair, our American cousins were very careful about taking Canadian bills. One man, when offered. a $5 not on the Bank of Montreal, remarked, "I don't know anything about that bank. Have you a bill on the Mechanics? I know that is safe," and he gave his head a toss, as much as to. say; "what I don't know is certainly not worth knowing. —Mr. John Thompson, formerly of Arran, Bruce county, Ont., but now of Alexandria; Pembina Mountains, re- ports that the harvest in the latter neighborhood is very abundant, and. proves it by saying that from one bushel of white fife wheat, purchased last spring, he has a yield of forty-three dozen large sheaves, and. a very good sample, although sown late in the sea- son. • s --aA St. JacObs, Waterloo, woman was the owner of a cat which she prized very mqch, and which, about three weeks ago, gave birth to four kit- tens. The lady, not 'wishing to have such a large family of cats, had three of them destroyed. The cat, finding she had only one kitten left, took it by the nape of the neck and dropped it into a tub of water. After waiting until life was extinct, she jumped into the water and drowned herself. —A Penetanguishene correspondent says : " All through- the summer the village has been thronged with visitors from our cities and from the United States, and numbering among them some of our most prominent men. Quite a number of the leadiag citizens of Toronto have selected Sites along the beautiful banks of the Penetanguishene harbor for the erection of summer re- sidences, and next spring we expect to see a large addition to the pretty cot- tages in town." —The Toronto Telegram says: It is more than probable that Haul= will not go to Chatauqua Lake to row Court- ney. He is in anything but in good health, and it will be impossible to get him into proper shape in time for the race. This has been patent for some time back to every one conversant with rowing, and we believe has become a conviction with Hanlon himself. Only those who were with the champion in England,. whet he was preparing for his race with Hawdon, know what -had been taken out of his strength and stam- ina by the sea voyage. —The delegation of English farmers who came otit to this Province at the invitation and expense of the Dominion Government, for the purpese of inves- tigating the advantages of settlement in Canada, are six in number. Three of them have gone to exanaine theEastern townships near Sherbrooke, the remain- ing three are attending the PrOvincial Exhibition at Ottawa to examine the products of different sections of the country. The delegates resemble the average well -to do English farmer. They travel 'first-class„ and are likely to have a pleasant time in this country. —Last Saturday afternoon, as the steamer City of Toronto was backing out of the Yonge street wharf, on her usual -trip to Niagara, with nearly 500 passengers on board, they were startled. by a sharp and peculiar report, followed by the crash of machinery. and. a 'rush of steam. Ladies.and children scream- ed, seeking the best protection they could find. One mass of iron weigh- ing over a ton fell on the upper deck and crashed through, making terrific havoc. Other plebes of iron fell, creat- ing quite a panics iThe damage will amount to nearly $5,000. Fortunately no one was hurt. —The General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada appoint- ed a large Committee of ministers and laymen to revise the -Wesleyan hymn- book, long in use, and prepare a new edition for publication, under the aus- pices of the Methodist book -room in Toronto. The Committee has been for some time in session. in Cobourg, and it is understood. its work is nearly com- pleted. Considerable changes have been made in some of the hymns, and many familiar ones have,for various rea- sons, been expunged, while a large num- ber of the more modern productions, especially those adapted to particular occasions, have been introduced. Much difference of opinion, we und_erstand, exists amongst the Methodist people as to the necessity for any revision at all, while the omission of any of the old hymns is looked -upon by many witb great disfavor, and the introduction of inferior efforts by the later pipets is Warmly criticized.. —The British Agricultural Commis- sioners were much pleased with what they saw of the Province and its pro- ducts as exhibited at the Toronto and Guelph exhibitions. After observa- tions of the system of farming pursued at Markham, Brampton„ Guelph, and. Hamilton, they expressed the opinion that the lands are generally good atel well farmed. They go to Manitoba, Kentucky, Texas, and, perhaps, fo:si:Ia, returning, if time permits, to the Dominion and the Eastern States.. They intend to reach hris home by Cht- In —As a farmer named John Mooney, of Seneca township, was driving into the city of Hamilton. on Monday with a load of wheat, and was coming down the joly eut, Upper john street, the stop used for locking the bind wheel broke, forcing the wagon suddenly -upon the horses, breaking one of the breast • straps and allowing the tongue to fallto the ground. The horses, wagon and load, were precipitated down the mountain side, which is here abasost perpendicu- lar, a distance a about seventy feet. The teami was severely injured, the wagon broken and the wheat scattered over the ground. Mr. Mooney Was only slightly injured. He threatens to sue the city for damages. —A lady residing at St. Margaret's Bay, Halifax County, N. S., was eating nasturtiums in the garden a few even- ings ago, when she felt she had swal- lowed. some living thing, and ina- naediately felt a buzzing in her head. This continued, and was accompanied by pains in the head for three days, the la,dyinhaling the fumes of stroeg lini- ment, thinking to lessen thepain. The noise was evidently that of some insect and was in different Npztsef her head. At the end of the third day she was ly- ing on a sofa when the buzzing sudden, ly ceased, and itamediately after she was seized with an irritation in the nose and sneezed out a, large black fly: The lady has since quite recovered. —Mrs. Lio E. Shipley, of Lobo, is ode second to Mrs,. McLurg in butter making. She says the chief cause for defective butter is that so few farina are furnished with proper facilities for keeping the cream sweet, consequently the butter must be sour. Farmers build fine barns, while they put the but- ter material into dilapidated and rot- ten cellars. The sweet ad becomes impregnated with everything foul, then it is churned and the foul buttermilk not properly expressed. It cannot be good. The merchants at the -same time practically approve by giving the same priee for every kind ef trash that comes to the market. Every induce- ment to excel is taken'away by such in- - judicious patronage to bad makers of 41e articled.. oiclled. —rcian named Joseph Picken, was discharged from the Montreal Po- lice Court Saturday morning. Five. years ago he bad lived on Madison av- enue, New York, and his wife and daughters were leaders of fashion. But his notes were .dishonor- ed, and he packed all his securities and. cash. and disappeared. His wife died broken-hearted six months afterwards, and. his daughters work -ed for a living. One going to Switzerland met her fath- er there, who was a frequenter of gambling houses. Ile fled and came to Montreal, putting up at the Windsor.. Hismoney dwindled away, he took cheap- ea -lodgings, but not being able to pay, he suddenly disappeared, and was arrested for drunkenness and sleeping on the wharf. He presented a filthy 8Peetahdlere —Teis rather an odd state of things in Newcastle. A young woman was imprudent enough to become a mother before a wife. Aftertrying in vain to get the reputed father to recog- nize her claims upon him, she left the child at the house of his father, with, whom the young man resided. The grandraother repudiated the burden thus thrown on her, and had the .mother arrested and trought before the authorities for child desertion, and. the authorities, after the regular exam- ination, committed the wicked. parent to the Cobourg gat51 for the crime. But the babe still remained, and the grand- mother, conceiving the Reeve of the municipality to be officially the foster parent of sueh unwelcome waifs, car- ried it to the domicile of His Worship and there deposited it The Reeve, in turn, grew angry on receiving sueh a gift, and had the grandmother arrested for child desertion, and. cominitted her with the miserable mother for trial. Bet there is the child yet. —During the Exhibition at Toronto, the visitors who paid a the gates num- bered 100,000, the subscribers and holders of exhibitors' and compliment- ary tickets aggregated 50,000; and the aggregate entrances of exhibitors and attendants numbered. 50,000, making a total of 200,000 visits to the grounds. Of course,reany people attended more than once, so that the number of dif- fereut individuals would. be less than that grand total. The gross receipts from all sources sincethe opening oftlie Fair foot up to about 1$52,500. About $20,000 have been expended for prizes, and $20,000 on general expenses, leav- ing a margin of $12,500 to apply en the capital account, or 50 per ceut ef the .expenditure on buildings. This sum, it may be mentioned, far exceeds the amount expected by the Association, and leaves them in a good position for next year. The amount coming from She glass hen alone is $1,200, ortwo- fifths of the whole proceeds of 0,000. The average number of letters passing daily through the branch post office at the grounds was 600.