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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-11-14, Page 1LL their -New THING • ad Cheapest SHOWN. f• rom 51.50 to from $1.00 to from $3-.0G to RS, from COATS, fr ro, n's Citk- e(rp. • and see the ce at which E OF PANTS, Overcoat, casa, k_RTIVIENT .LL & GL MINTED, of LO ROBES, I Lined 03R at very small & 00.2: -.:ra in DRY , 'I Mr, Robert r aud intro- tiemen, .tropriate ad - ravine, Jona. Stinsaa- :sem. gave y closed the 'ilia is direct- Lble fur cape [all Clothing of Sea Seal, Ytter, with lineaili Also a fall :Latium, Sea, Plush and large variety 'a vies with or as goods are, he seen to be an about to aspect them lithea TWELFTH X.VWHOLE NUMBER, 623. JAR. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1879. { McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE, CHANCE —Twent -five acres of 1 d ' A"RE y an wi,h house and barn for eale in Egnion.dville. This property' is well situated for either farm or israen parrot -res. Title indisputable. Apply to goORT BRETT. 615 DOB SALE. --For Sale as -first 'class Planing I mai, nearly new and in good ramaing order, , 'jigged in the flourishing Town et Seaforth, wai be sold cheap, Terms easy. Enquire of 11 WORD,. COSSRNS & 00., Goderach, Ont. (4 latatli AND TOWN' PROPERTY FOR SA_LE, X PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.—Lot 17, co the lith cencession, McKillop; price $40 per fa* Building iota in different parts of the on town of SeaforIth; purahasers can make their own terms of payment, at 8 per cent. interest. JAS. WITTE. 591 ITILUABLE FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, Y the east half of Lot No. 4, C011. 4, H. R. S., Tackeramith, County of Huron, consisting of 50 ores Si miles from tire Town of Seaford; mad convenient to school. The land is of the very beat quality. For farther particulars spray to /0E8 PICKARD, opposite the preraises, or to igmendville P. O. 521 rA.1:11I AND TOWN PROPER rY FOR SAT.R, r OKEIP.—Lot No, 24, Con. 9, McKillop, 100 carel,„; north half Lot 30, Con. 9, McKillop, 50 saes; north half of north half Lot 31, cou. seraop, 25 ores;aresidence oconpied- by Mr. lfskolmson on Gouinlock Suraey, Seaforth bcoading lots on-jarvis' and F. G. Spading's Sur- veys.. Apply to GRAY, YOUNG & SPARLING, geaforth. 595 FARM F°R SAT5.—For Sale, the west part of Lot No 1, Con. 17, Gray, containing 50 acres, 35 of which are cleared, well fenced, and m a state ot good cultivation. There is a good frame house, good orchard and plenty of water. It is on the revel road lea.ding to Brussels and Seaforth, and Adjoins a church and school. It is also within kaftan:tile of the Village of Walton. Apply on the *rises or to Walton Post Office. CHARLES 11URCHIE. 493 VARM F411 _SALE.—'For sale Lot 2; con. 10 • Trickersinith, containing 100 acres, about to cleared, the balance well timbered. There is a otone house and good frame barn, it is well fenc- edand nuderdrained. %here ha a young bearing orchard. It is Orono sin -1i mile; from Seaforth and four from Hensall, and is convenient to school. Two good wells ot water. Posseasion given at any time. Appiy at the EXPOSITOR office, Seaforth. , 610- 1IIIM FOR SALE ---For, sale, the wear; half of • Laa.ag, Con. 5, maraalop, containing 51 acres, over40 of which are cleared and freeirom stumps. There is a good frame barn, log house and orchard. The soil is bursa, clay fit for raising ail lands of afore. .It isaituated within four Rod a half miles °facet:all. For further particulars address the proprietor, Poole P. 0., or apply personally at his residence within one and a half miles of Milverton =away -station. GEORGE DICKSON. 618 8, 1 pi:WPM:era: FOR SALE.—For Sale, Lot 14, Con 16, Grey; West half of Lot 29, Oen. 6, with cheese factory complete; Lot 11, Con.B, and south half of Lots 16 and '17, Con. 5, town - p1 Morris; Lot 22, Con. B, and Lot 28, Con. B, township of Efowick, all good improved farms, together with several 50 acre farms in Grey and Morris, and houses aid lots and vacant lots in the -village of Brussels. Prices low, terms easy, sad tide good. Apply to JOHN LECKIE, Bros - sib. • 574 02,11 FOR SALE. -For sale Lot 17, concession -4; -8„Stanley, 100, aeree, 80 cleared, well fenced wile a good state of' cultivation., the balance Tell timbered. with. maple. Frame house barn todadreda. Five acres ot • good .bearing orchard, sfulkwo never failing .wells, -le on a good gravel road within a miles of Varna, miles from Bruce. ficastation„ Great WesternRailway,. and 12 miles famSeatortla: and C,intort. . For farther partieua hrsfipply to the proprietor on.the premises,or to Verna P. 0. JOHN REDMOND. 598 A HOUSE AND LOT FOR. $200.—The under- " signed will sell a. neat and comfortable Cot - f, twin Egroondville, situated. opposite the mill, for 6200; there is a good lot, cellar, water and all other canveniences ; easy terms of payment; if notsold it will be rented, With privilege to buy. &also offers for sale the banding at presen t oc- coaled by Mr. Jacob McGee being a neat aud oommodious etore, with dwelling house and stable attached, situated on Masa Street ; terms easy sod rent low. Apply to A. STRONG, Land ; Agent, Seaforth. 611 FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA.. grain here that would. average 40 bush- els to the acre remaining uncut, for want of facilities to remove it *to mar- ket. As it. is, the whole crop will not bring money enough to cut it. People here have . all bee a speculating on a. railroad, but have about given up hopes. They have some eplendid farms and well furnished, everything being brought over the mountains, ,in some instances, over 200 miles, packed on mules or horses. Even reapers' . and mowers, sulky rakes, plows, threshing machines, etc., being all taken apart and costing six cents per pound for freight from Victoria. So you, can guess the people in this country had Money at one time. The nominal price fOr flour here is now $4 per barrel, but only for local use. A _hundred barrels could not be sold for cash at 50 cents each. A steer that would dress a thonsand pounds beef eau. be bought for $12. and which one year ago was :worth $35, and in Februl ary last winter was tworth. six cents per pound live weight in Victoria, but is now worth about -a Cent and a half. So you see we have the, bad times here as well as elsewhere On the Lower Fraserflour is W rth $7 a barrel; wheat, $1.25 per b shel ; butter, 35c.; bacon, 150.; eggs, 25c.; barley, 75c.; oats, 60c. Wheat a ,erages 28 bushels one year . with another. A mower, single, is worth$140 ; combined reaper is worth $230 here; a gang plow, N5; common, 22;$ a good lumber wagon without box brings 135;$double buggy, $250; single, $180; Iset double harness, $40. In fact to get the price of any- thing here, just donble your prices at home and 'you haVe it at once. Where I am now, owing to 'high freights, sugar is worth 25c. -' dried apples, 22caisalt, 10c.; and al' household necessaries in proportion. As yet there are no five cent pieces in British Columbia, all business being transacted without small- er change than the ten cent piece. We have little or no Catadiau silver here, American half-dollers being the cur- rent silver coin, quarters and dimes, of course, included; b t uutil the present year one would never look for change from a half -dollar, 4o matter how small the purchase, and even now the cur- rent price for a glass of spirits is 25 cents, and I think that a good. thing; but people drink 'away the same and worse than at home, even at the price named. We have been permitted to extract the following interesting particulars re- specting the Proaince of British Colum- bia from a private letter received by a gentleman in Seaforth from Mr. Wil- liam Megaw, formerly of Clinton and Goderich. The letter is dated Nicola, Oct. 6, and. the extracts -we give will prove both tinteresting and instructive. The writer proceeds I have not yet permanently settled, but was not here six months until I had concluded to make this or some place on this coast my home. If for no other reason, the mildness of the climate has such a charm for me that I could not now be satisfied to live in On- tario. I arrived in Victoria. an the 3rd e June, 1878, after being thirty days on the ocean to San Fancisce, and three days from that port to Victoria. The weather then was bright and not Warm, but agreeable; thermometer about 60 degrees in the shade; could wear flan- nels with comfort and sleep at night with two pairs of blankets—while the winter here is something' wonderful, After a trifle too much rain in Novem- ber, December set in bright and. clear, with just enough frost to harden the surface, and nothing but a continua- tion of bright weather until the 5th of January. I had a ganie of base ball on New Year's Day, with light calf boots on and coat off, and the dust flyieg like summer at hom.e. January and Feb- ruary were something like our April weather, excepting that there was rather more snow—say• a, foot to 17 inches, lasting some six weeks. The people here thought it terrible to have so much snow, andaay it was the severest winter for fifteen years, and I think they tell the truth, as they ap- peared quite lost to get around, having no sleighs, and when they got them i made the snow was gone. Vegetables of all kinds remain in the ground with- out injury, the cabbage stumps growing out again in Mareli are used for greens, and make a nice dish. Flowers of all kinds are abundant here. I have seen rose trees in Victoria twenty feet high and four or five inches in diaroeter, some of thern bearing different varieties of roses, and all covered for several months in the summer season, while other flowers bloom the year through, and appear to require no protection. There is something magic in the way all trees grow bre. An orchard plant- ed here will bear the following year, .and in three years will be as far ad- :vancel as in ten at home. Everything appearato flourish, and such a depth and riebness of soil I have never seen. There are no foul weeds of an kind— no potato bugs nor caterpillars, nor any of those insects that destroy things gsnerally in Ontaaio. But for all, this country ,has its (evil .drawbacks. The fertile lands are the prairies on the Lower Fraser, a lot that river ,ife subject to extreme high \eater iu July and Au- gust, as the water comes down then from the Cariboo country, and if the previouS winter was heavy with an ex- treme snow -fall, the Fraser people. have to , look out for squalls. In '76 the water reached the roofs- of houses in several cases, and I 'believe two-thirds ofthe dwellings on :the Lower Fraser were flooded, some having a foot• of water, and from that up to the top, owing, of course, to the height of the spot where they build. This may last from four to eight weeks. During this period sorne drive their cattle to the mountains, and travel from place to place in canoes. You would not like this mode of life, no doubt. No more do 1; but there are places that axe above high water, but at present under railway reserve, and when thrown open :I intend locating, and will run a dairy or sheep farm. The upper oountry, east of the Cas- cade Range, is extremely dry arid more adapted to stock. It is entirely open and rolling bills a,nd valleys, covered with bunch grass. Cattle require neither fpod nor shelter, and are always in the best of condition, four year old steers often dressing 1;200 pounds. Settlers here at Nicola own on an aver- age about five hundred head each, but owing to dull times and over produc- tion, there is at present but little sale; still, they cost nothing to raise, except catching and branding. They also grow the beat of grain, fruit, and vegetables here, but require to irrigate. Although it is rather high for fruit trees and they are of slow growth, the winter, also, being very frosty, with little Or nO snow, they are not a success. Owing to that and the extreme distance from market, I prefer the Lower Fraser country as a place to reside. This is a great country for horses, as they, like the cattle, run wild. There are bands of horses here, fine, well bred animals, some of them eight or ten years of age, that have never been caught, an 1 some never will: One,can not sight some of them without a glass, they are so wild. 'WARM FGR SALE,—For Sale, Lot 2, Con. 11, a- II. 11.8., containing 100 acres, 82 cleared and - first -class state of cultivation, the balanct 'king good hardwood bush; log house, with stout i cellar ander, and well finished ; frame barn lik60 with stone stabling -underneath; good I tearing orchard and 3 good wells; convenient to chinch, school and post office; is situated 8 miles from Seaford' and 5 from liensa,11, on a good 'Pavel road. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises, or if by letter to Chiaelharst P.O. JOHN:. C; STEELE. 603-4x — - - --- • - - FOR SALE OR TO RENT—For Sale Cheap, and on easy ternes, Lot 3, Concession containing 100 acres, 70. of whith are Ideated and in a good State .of cultivation ; on ;the balance there is a large amount of excellent fencing timber; there is h new frame house and alood.franie barn and stables ; .there is a young mdfaad and a well of splendid water • it is on the Dahlia ; if not 1;old within one Month it will be rentedfor a term of years ; apply on the premises ortollablin post office. PATRICK MIT6R2P1x1Y, •!FARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 2, Con. 17, 1. Grey, and part of Lot 1, Con. 17, containing Allan 129 acres, about 90 of whieh are cleared, /lad ander good cultivation. The balance is well ihnbered with hardwood. There is a hewed log ikou, Re,‘sad. frame barns, sheds and stables. There ara good bearing orchard and good water. Is likated Gila good gravel road within half a mile Waltoll vidage; Ave miles from Brussels, on. .thezreatWestern Railway; and ten miles from " worth, on the Grand. Trunk Railway; with a Ithoice of markets. For further partieulars apply 4,4th eproth prietor on e premises or to Walton ZORN McFADZEAN. 610x20 !'t 'lawn Road, within one rade of the 'Village of 1 .,.„„ pair FOR SALE.—Fot Sale, Lot 22, Con, 3, Township of Teeketsraith, L. R. S., contain - 1 it100 acres, about 70 of Which 11X0 cleared and ; agood atitte of cultivation ; the balance is good - 141(ltrocal bush; good frame house, barn and :111!b1e; excellent water on the premises ; well . rAmd; good young orchard, and eery conveni- . i'*appertaantuK to a farm. Is situated a,b ont 7 Val, esfrom Seafor tie 21- from Kipper; and 3 from -1,..44rekekl, on the London, Huron and Bruce .ntfray. The land is first-class clay loam.. For . praie3, e:parctafb3,lettericuilarsalytottlroB e prorpuriethotooraP. o on the 1 'US MeMILLAX. . 601-4x -RUM' IN xeK.ILLOP FOR SALE.—For Sale, ; it., the North part of Lots 8 and 9. Can. 13, Mc - containing 112 trues; there are about 80 Weil fenced, underdrained, and in a high 'age of cultivation, the balgnce is well timbered bth hardwood; good dwelling, new haul: frame k;450X57, with 'stabling underneath, and other . building, sago a. good pounce' orchard and _t14,17 of water. Is 10 a4.es from Brussels, 5 from 1,1tan, and 12 from 6M:forth, with good gravel 14 to each phree; convenient to church and :4418.1 will be sold as a whole or in two parts, - OR he exchanged far e., small farm. Apply to 4t1 P. 0. or to the proprietor on the premises. 41A3.1 DYNES. 593 SUNDID FARM FOR SALE, --For Sale, that fine farm, the property of David Fergu- f 7kheing Lot 1, Con. 9, II. R. Tuckersruith, Xi'14,4iLnine 100 acres, 75 of which are cleared and 'very best order; is all well fenced and iintr-atned the timbered portion is beech 4141,1e.: tht.re is a new frame house, frame • stablca, sheds and outbuildings ; an ex - Cala orchard of bearing trees and plenty of 1:4,41)ring -water ; is within 7 miles of Seaforth, Grana Trunk Railway, and the same (Es- - :'vk:efrote Hentaall, on tho Great 'W.estern, with made leading to eneh place; a spring creek 1:471hrough the fruma. Apply' if by letter to '44°,11 I). „ or en the preLisea to DAVID • al `art SON" 617 This is the boss country for game. The mountains are alive with grouse as large as hens, also plenty of deer and bears, and. for ducks I never saw its equal. There is on an average a Jake for every two or three square -miles of country, varyin4 in size from a small raill pond, say fifty feet square, to lakes ten Miles in length by three to five broad. T -hese lakes are alive with ducks at all seasons except after the frosts set in, in November, when they .come down to the bottom lauds. I am al- most tired shooting. It is so easy to get game, it takes all the fun out of hunting. The fields swarm with prairie chickens, and I often see a flock of a hundred or so fly up as I ride by and light in a tree by the roadside. They are a very plump and tender bird. The wild geese are here in millions in the fall, but are pretty shy. A person needs to shoot off a horse to capture them successfully, although so plenty. It looks hard. to see such a noble country lying idle for want of a rail- road. There are hundreds of acres of lCanada. Three huv ndred nal eighty English enaigrants,ag,ricultutists,passed. through Montreal for Manitoba, last Friday morning. i — Andrew Gage, of Albion village, Saltfleet, has been tiled $20 and. costs for selling liquor o Sunday. Served him right, too. —Hon. Mr. Lyneh, of Brome, Que- bec, has been suffering from illness, and. his wife and. children are prostrated with scarlet fever. — The famous lay Evangelist, Mr. J. Bennet Anderson, visited. G -alt a couple of weeks ago, and addressed a large congregation in the Methodist Church there. —Mr. Ballantyne M. P., of Stratford, has purchased all September and Octo- ber cheese at the Bright factory, for 121c per pound ---some 600 boxes—of a very line article. —It is intended to employ a night staff at the WinnipOg post office in fu- ture, in order to facilitate the delivery of the mails as soon' as possible after their arrival. —A. number of Montreal ladies have formed themselve& into a snowshoe elub. Officers wereelected, names en- rolled, and the Utmost enthusiasm evinced by all. —At the Stratford Assizes. Wm. Jones, of Forest, ma mulcted in $350 damages on account, of a dog that had bitten a Mrs: Humphries, causing her serious bodily injury. -- - —Toronto tailors are complaining that so far :they have done ,no business in winter coatings, and that in this line of goods this has been the dullest sea- son experienced for years. —Anticknepp, who was recently con- victed of the murder of his wife at Arthur, has been s removed from the Guelph gaol to the lunatic asylum at London, he being hopelessly insane. —john Gibb, of Anderdon township, Essex county, husked 85 bushels of corn in a field, from 7 in the moriiing hill 6 at night—besides tying up the fodder after the husking. A pretty smart day's work—T. squatters at Bow River,North- . west Territory, haVe petitioned the Goverunaent to indemnify them for losses sustained on account of cattle al- leged to have been slaughtered by In- dians. —Dogs are particularly - actiye in sheep killieg around Brantford. On Friday night one Henry Cole, a farmer, had thirteen animals ekilled, and an- other farmer had fifteen worried to death. —Wm. Oassidy, ex -Treasurer of West Garafraxa after some in.onths' impris- onment iniGuelph gaol on is charge of .I 'embezzling 'county fands, was 021 Sat- urday releaaed on bail being given to the extent Of $14,0001 ' —Mr. Glendinning, formerly of Bruce county,Ont4 is now busily eugaged at Boyne Rivet erectinghis new steam saw and grist mills. It is expected that both will be in ninning order by Christmas. The machinery for both mills was manu- factured by tGoldie, McCulloch & Co., Galt. 1 1 —Some startling things are said to have taken 'place reeently at Eddy's match factory, Hull, Pear Ottawa. It was in the room where the finished matches are!packed into paper boxes. Upon the middle of al round table lay a large pile of I matches,land around sat the girls at +ork. Fr a moment or two a cessation took place, and a num- ber of workers incautiously placed their hands o11 the table, .This produced sundry currents of electricity, which caused the table to w Itz around in a • ; • lively manner. One of the girls fainted, and the in,ajority of the others have beeu so Severely frightened that they decline to work around that Particular table. —Two men in Egremont township recently succeeded in killing a large black wolf, which they caught worrying their sheep. The animal measured 6 feet 4 inches from the nose to the tip of the tail. —Mr. D. Hamilton Veterinary Sur- geon, of Llarriston, sold to Mr. Ashley, of Neustadt, a 2 year-old short. horn heifer for $100. Mr. Hamilton purchas- ed the animal when a calf from Mr. Moore, of Minto. —In a debate- in School Section No. 2, Bidduljah township, subject, "resolv- ed, that it is desirable for every man to marry under forty years of age," no fewer than four of the debaters were named Armitage. —Mr. Robert Wainright, of Peter- boro, last week sent a drove of 80 head of fat cattle north, to furnish beef for the lumber shanties. The same gentle- man will shortly send off another drove for a different section. —The woman Lulu Ellis, tried at the Bellville Assizes for shooting and killing Diancan McIntyre, was acquitted by the jurY. The shooting was not de- nied the prisoner pleading justification on accomA of great provocation. —Mr. Say. of High Bluff, Manitoba, has just got through his threshing, and reports 31 bushels of good wheat, 65 bushels Of black oats, acid thirty-five bushels of barley -to the acre, off land cropped siliccessively for 18 years. —Messrs. Lee & Boyd, of Walkerton, have taken in at their store and ship- ped this season, 600 packages (3,200 lbs) of butter, aid to be the largest quantity taken in exchange for goods by any merchant in the county of Bruce. —Mr. Jahn Hays, of Haysville, who has been in Manitoba for over a month, likes the country so well that he has decided to settle there, and has taken up a homestead of 160 acres near Rook - wood. a.botit 19 miles from Winnipeg. —The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk for the past eighteen weeks ex- ceed those of the corresponding period last year by the unprecedented figure of $204,979. The Company's sheds at Montreal are overflowing with produce. —A married man named Potruff left Burford last week with his cousin, a young girl of the same name, who is eot of very bright intellect, and whom the scoundrel had deluded. into the belief that he would mt marry her. Potruff lef a wife and family in Brantford. —A negro opened a barber shop lately in Merritton and immediately received natice that he must leave, as he would not be tolerated, on account of his color. He did not obey the injunction, and on Saturday his shop was visited and his chairs, etc., carried off, and thrown into the canal. —A most brutal dog fight took place at OttaWa a few days ago, in which the dogs were almost torn to pieces. The inhuman exhibition was witnessed. by about 1,000 persons. $200 was the amount of prize money. Such abhoreut exhibitions should not be allowed in a Christian laud like ours. —One night a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Wm. DeLottinvillesof Saltfleet, was driving home from Hamilton, and while in a half -sleeping condition he was at- tacked by two men and robbed of $70. The work was one so suddenly that Mr. L. had nde o time to defend himself. The robbers disappeared as quickly as they came. —A man named Mat Day, who lives between Woodstock and Thamesford was the other day working with a young horse which did not obey him, when he kicked at it, his foot becoming entangled in its tail. The horse started off, drag- ging him nearly half a mile and bruising him very badly*. His recovery is doubtful. —A pigeon shooting match between Mr. James Thompson, of Toronto, and Mr. Peter McNeil, of Teeswater, took place a few days ago foi $60 a side. Mr. Thompson was best man, bitting 19 birds out of 22. The next morning another 'match came off between Mr. Switzer; of Teeswater, and. Mr. McNeil for $40 a side, and was won by Mr. Switzer by one bird. _ —Last week three Lucknow boys, being out of work, set out on the tramp, first making the agreement that who- ever got a job was to pay the return passage of 'those not so successful. They reached Ripley, foot -sore and weary, and at once applied. for sits ;" one of them a tailor being successful. Faithful to his promise he sent the others home, but, like a true tramp, fell out with the boss next day and return- ed, home himself. —Professor Macoun has discovered a large tract of valuable agricultural land south-west of the,Battleford region, out of the ordinary 'routes of travel. There is no timber, but there are unlimited supplies of excellent coal throughout the region, which has been tested at many camp fire. He denies the stories of disaffeetion among the Indian tribes, but gives them ,great praise for patience while undergoing privation, hunger, atid want of every conceivable description. —Abont two weeks age Detective Rosseau, of Hamilton, arrested a, man named George Patrick McDermid on a charge of having stolen a horse, which he was trying to dispose of in that, -City, from his brother itt Toronto. The prisoner was conveyed to. Toronto mid lodged in gaol. On Saturday a farmer named. jOhn Maxwell, residing in the townshipof Vaughan, came into the city and got out a search warrant "for a horse which he lost on the 27th July, and which it was supposed McDercuid, who had work -ed with the former, had stolen frona him. Mr. Maxwell Fent to the re4dence of McDermid's brother, and discovered the stolen animal. It seems that the prisoner had sold this horse to his brother, and then stole the other one from him, for attempting to sell which he was arrested in Hamil- ton. Detective Reid then proceeded to the gaol and re -arrested the prisoner on this additional charge of horse stealing. —pne line of steamers from Mon- trealito Liverpool has conveyed , 5,465 cattle, 23,312 sheep, 99 hogs, 180 horses, and 74 mules across the AtlantiC this season. The loss on the ocean did not. exceed a dozen all told out of the iwhole number. —Police Constable McGhee, of i'eter- boro, received a postal card the ;other day from "Otto who will do it," threat- ening that if he is caught over in Ash- burnham, his brains will be scattered over the street and his carcase torn limb fropaAimb. --The\Studente of the Ontario Agri- culturaVellege at Guelph, rebently presented Mr. Natrass, English theater at the college, with a handsome gold ring and a box of surgical instruments. Mr. Natrass retires from the college to fill another sphere. --The death sentence of Susan Ken- nedy, of Montreal, who was found guilty of killing another woman, chopping up her body with an axe and. placing the mangled remains in a tub, has been commuted to imprisonment for life, on the grouud of mental derangement. —Thomas Fairchild, a tenant farmer in the the township of Vaughan, com- mitted suicide last Friday by hanging himself in his barn. He was 35 years of age, and was married to his Second wife. He attempted suicide a iionth or so a.go. The jury returned a v rdict of "temporary insanity." —Mr. George Lees, one of the oldest inhabitants of Hamilton, died last week at the good old age of 78. Mr Lees was -a native of Lauder,Scotland, a Presbyterian in religion, and a lifp-long Reformer in politics. He was one of the oldest Masons in Hamilton, baying been one of the founders of Barton Lodge. —Mr. W. D. Williamson, of Chfford, owns several lots of -land in Maeitoba. The other day he received a letter from the locating agent of the pacificRail- way line, informing him that a certain portion,of one of the lots was required for„the 'Railway track, and. asking! upon whet terms would he be willing tia sell it to the Queen. —Da a temperance address delivered at Kingston recently, Honorable Vice - Chancellor Blake stated that England and Wales yearly spent for strong drink about one hundred and fifty milhens of pounds sterling, equal to seven hundred millions of dollars. He also stated that the yearly whiskey bill of Kingston alone ambunted to two hundred. and fifty thousand dollars. —A men named Michael Mrirphy, laborer, at the Commercial Hotel, St. George, Ont., died on Wedneadayi even- ing of last week. He had. been rink- ing very hard for the last three weeks, and died from exhaustion. De‘eased had worked in that section for a 'num- ber of year, and usually spent the sum- mer's wages in a carouse, drinking as long as his money lasted, , —On Wednesday of last week, over 50000 pounds of butter was receiVed in Peterborough from the farmers, Valued' at $9,000. On Tuesday two firths re- ceived 10,000 pounds, averaging $2,000. The other firms must have received about 5,000 pounds. It is estiinated that over 80,000 pounds of butter have co -nae in and have been taken for ship- ping abroad since the fall deliveries com- menced. —J. H. Worthington, of Dorcliester, formerly of Sandwich, has lately talleu heir to a large fortune from his rela- tiVes in England. It is said, to a.mount to £20,000 sterling. At one tinie Mr. Worthington was tolerably well of, but through family sickness and othercir- cuinstances was brought very IoW, and at -the present time he is working; as a hired man with a farmer in Dorches- ter. He is not a very old mar yet, only 55 or 56 years. It is to be !hoped he may be lohg epared to enjoy this windfall. . —Chang Clark, who was taken from St. Thomas to the peniti:intary a short time ago to serve a two year's sentence for burglary, is well known throughout the United States, where he has led a most desperate career, having bee con- victed in nearly every State. H was sentenced to three years for killing a negro in New Orleans, two years in Buffalo for burglary, and four .years from Toronto for highway robbery. He was also indicted in Hamilton i and Niagara for burglary, but was ac- quitted. —Our Harriston exchange discOurses thus in reference to the "cow nuis- ance." "The village cows are nove busy trimming down all the shade trees which they can reach, and a picket fence four feet high is no obstacle in the way of a cow that has to hunt her own grub, and there appears to be , qiijte a I number of such vagrant boVin s in town. There are pious and indus ions men who rast spring compla ently gazed. on a promising lot of shade trees just planted, and which they have i care- fully trained ever since. Next Spring they will actually indulge in profanity in reference to the hungry cows aid the people who own butslo not feed them. —On Saturday morning, in Toronto, a shocking accident happened. to a young woman aged 18, named Margaret Baker, by which she lost both feet. The unfortunate woman went tp the morning train on the Northern Rail- way for the- purpose of bidding good- bye to her father and mother, who, af- ter a short visit to the city, were going to their home at Barrie. - She aecom- parded her parents on the train as far as Simcoe street, where she attehapted td leave the train while in motion 4 . On jumping off, her clothes caught oti the platform and .her hmbs were dragged under the wheels. Both feet were Crushed to a jelly. Her scree s at- tracted the attention of those alt thea4 station, and she was taken 'up and ! driven to the General Hospital, where I ampu a on o o ms eo e ' TIGHT BINDING ' knees was performed shortly after- wards. When leaving the train Miss Baker remarked to the conductor, "please take care of father and mother," and strange to say she was repeating this while under the influence of ether.. Miss Baker boarded with a Miss Shaw at No. 18 Sheppard street. —A gentleman interested in the iron mines of North Hastings says that the output at present of the two mines near Madoc is about 1,000 ton § of ore each working day. This would mean that the money left in Madoc for labor and raw Material amounts to four hundred dollars a day. —There is said to be any amount of employment offered for laborers this winter in the Michigan lumber woods. I The demand for laborers is said to be 1 much greater than the supply. Some of our poor people who are looking for- ward to a winter of idleness might do well to go over and earn some of Uncle Sam's sheckles. —Bedford. Groom, who forged the name of N. G. Townsend to a note of hand for $50, and. who pleaded guilty to the charge, was sentenced at the Brant Assizes, by Justice Armour, to four years in the Penitentiary. A strong effort was made to induce the Judge to render a lighter sentence, but was un- availing. _mmost illimitable quantities of coal have been discovered about sixty miles south of Grand Valley, on the Assiniboine, and a company has been formed, by whom 4,500 acres of land have been secured. The coal is said to be of excellent quality, and it is the in- tention of the company to bring 1,000 tons into Winnipeg, this year, by means of carts. —The forty cases sf dynamite so long stored. in a fiel near Point Ed -ward have been medal:0 with. The schoolboy's curosity mus be satisfied. One boy took a bar home, placed it on the table and asked his p mats .to guess what is was. As soon as the problem was solved the father rus ed frantically to the St. Clair into cvhic he burled the bar. —Mrs. Mary Jane Fest r, wife of Mr. John Foster, of Windsor, died on Sun- day evening, 2d inst., afte enduring for upwards of 36 years the eains of a ling- ering illness. Deceased h s been dur- in a this long period the s bject of an asthmatic complaint, whi h baffled the skill of the best naedical experience. She had been upwards of ,25 years mar- ried,marn. and Salters, a mt estimable lady. _- of St. James' parish, near Winnipeg, has raised from his market garden this season over 30,- 000 heads of cabbages and cauliflowers, 10,000 bunches of celery, and potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, onions, turnips, etc., in quantities unknown—and all from a patch of ground a little over ten acres. He has also sold 5,000 bunches of celery to a city huckster. — Thomas Coats, whose thread has a world-wide reputation, is at present on a strip through Canada. Our readers may be interested to learn that in the factory of the firm at Paisley, 800 tons' of coal, of 2,240 pounds each, are con- sumed weekly, and that the engines are of 4,000 horse power. Mr. Coats, whose present trip through Canada is his first, was agreeably surprised at the progress this country bas made, it being far be- yond his expectations. —Mr. Thomas Jamieson, of the 8th concession Beverly, lately received sad tidiugs of the death of his soa John Jamieson, who went out to Manitoba, this season, where he took up a farm. The unfortunate man met his death While digging a well on his property. He had reached the depth of about 40 feet, only part of which was curbed, when the earth fell in and buried him. It was two hours before the body was found. He was Married, but had no family. A brother has left for the dis— tant Province, with the intention of bringing home the body. -_--The Rev. D. M. Gordon, pastor of St. Andrew's church, Ottawa, reached home last week from his double trip across the continent, first by rail to San Francisco, thence by steamer to British Columbia, and home by "the overland route," passing through northern British Columbia, the Peace River district, familiarly known as the " Great Lone Land," through the Saskatchewan val- ley to Manitoba and then home. He left Ottawa on the 12th of May. Con- sequently he was abaent On his trip nearly six-Nniths. —In the e 1*,ly hours of Friday even- ing last, ,a-inatt wearing a mask and carryingl, parcel in his hands, knocked as the door of a house in Moncton, New Brunswick. The lady of the house, upon answering the summons, was somewhat affrighted' to see a masked man at the door; but be coolly walked in, placed the parcel on a table, with the remark '.that a man had sent him with a present of a Hallowe'en goose for her," and then left in a hurry. She then opened -the parcel, and to her as- tonishment she- saw, instead of a nice fat goose, the smiling features of a healthy looking infant,apparently about six weeks old. to one has appeared yet to claim the baby. —Prairie fires have been doing im- mense damage in different parts of Manitoba. A fire near Kildonan, on Saturday night, burned 75 tons of hay and a quantity of fencing belonging to Ma. Taylor. Mr. Lowe also lost 50 tons, while a number of others 3nffered more or less, making the total loss of hay alone about 300 tons. ' Donald Matheson, of Bird's Hill, lost his whole crop of wheat, oats and barley, in all 700 bushels. John McIntosh and H. Garvin also lost a quantity of hay, and Capt. John Smith had a stack of wheat burned. Many others have suffered to a greater or lees extent. Hay has gone up at Bird's Hill from 1)4 to 57 in con- sequence. Extensive fifes have wrought great destruction in the vicinity of Rapid City and Grand Valley. The re- cent fire there origmated at Harris Crossing, on the Saskatchewan. It iSk. Ph. i • ti- ! . • . . t , • ,....., .. ...- W , I travelled at the rate of twelve miles an hour, and swept east beyond Grand. Valley, devastating about 37 square miles of country, consuming a number of houses and over 600 tons of hay. The whole aspect of the country is changed in the burnt district. Owing to the detstruction of hay, that com- modity is now selling at Rapid City at 512 per ton. —A Napanee paper tells how a horse- hair amputated, a man's finger the other day. Mr. John Menore, of Ernestown, was visiting a friend at Verona,and was invited. to look at a fine horse in the stable. Instead of opening the stable door he looked at the animal through a large crack. The horse was not in a good. position to be seen, so he caught hold of two or three hairs in the horse's tail that Protruded through the crack, and gave them a gentle twich, accom- panied. with 'a chirrup to make the animal stand over. The hair had ap- parently taken a turn around the fore- finger on Mr. Menore's left hand, for on the horse making a movement the im- prisoned finger was cut clean through by the hair, bone and all, and lento the floor. —Medard Lemieux, a farmer near the Peche, last Wednesday started for Ottawa with a cart kaa of grain, hie wife being with him ana riding on the load while he walked by the horse. When near Mr. McLaren's at the Peche, his foot slipped and he fell, the wheel going over his neck. At the time he did not feel much hurt, but on his ar- rival in Hull his neck began to smart. He applied to Dr. Cook for relief, and when the latter lifted up the man's beard, which was very heavy. a' shock- ing sight met his gaze, the wheel of the cart having cut into the flesh, exposing the arteries and laying bare the wind- pipe. It took fifteen stitches to close the wound. The man had travelled twenty miles after the accident hap- Eeneai —llnstrative of the risks which members of the medical profession run in their practice, is the case of Dr. Craik, of Montreal, whods now confin- ed to his room. Dr. Craik a. short time since had occasion to perform a slight operation upon the soap of a patient, in the course of which a portion of the noaious matter worked itself between the nail and flesh of one of his fingers. He took no notice at the time ; inflam- mation set in and pain ensued, with considerable swelling, which necessi- tates his temporary confinement to his room. Had. the same thing happened. to one not conversant with surgery, death might have arisen, as cases are not rarein which persons have come to their death entirely through ignorance of such matters. Dr. Craik's case, however, is not thought to be serious. —Last Friday evening the new Grange store house at Napanee, which contained. 75,000 bushels of barley, gave way, tearing out half of one side of the building, a stone wall two feet thick, which, with the barley, went crashing through the roof of Messrs. Pringle 86 Co's foundry, which joined the storehouse. About seven to ten thousand bushels of barley lay exposed to the weather, part of which is in the foundry. The Messrs. Pringle had a, full set of moulding patterns all ready to cast, half of which are covered with barley from two to ten feet deep. They estimate their loss on building and con- tents at $500. Had the accident oc-' cured M the day time, several lives would have been lost in the foundry. The buildin4 was not stayed sufficient- ly, which was the cause of the accident. The loss on grain and building will amount to $1,500 to $2,000 at least. —The death is recorded of Mrs. Ann. Keough,One of Guelph's earliest settlers, at the ripe age of 74. The deceased, though in failing health, was able to at- tend church on Sunday, but A was with difficulty she got home, and without much suffering she passed 'away on Monday evening. She was the first woman married in Guelph,and with her husband settled in 1-827-011 the farta now occupied by her son opposite the Model Farm. Here she shared in all the hardships of the early settlers, and. continued contented and happy through- out her life; respected by her neigh. bors and. many who to the last were ac- customed to see her on the street. She was one of the honored guests at Guelph's celebration of its Fiftieth Anniversary on tbe 23rd of April, 1877, and took pride in taking a, part in the precession that day. She leaves but few behind her of those who settled in Guelph in 1827—the birth year of that city. —The Portage In Prairie Review, of October 81, tells the following sad story 'A mournful procession wended its way through our streets on Monday last, be- ing the funeral of Yr. Francis Gowan, third. son of Mr. Charles Gowan, a new settler residing about four miles ham this town. This is the fourth death which has occurred in this family with- in the past three months. First his oldest son James fell a victim to typhoid fever, at the age of 26 years—then his wife was attacked by the same fever which' carried off her sort, and her health being broken with nursing and trginlle, she soon passed away—William, affid-16 years, was next called to his 'long home—and last Francis has now joined those gone before, at the early age of 20 years. The subject of this sad affliction, Mr. Charles Gowan, is from Dublin, Ireland, who served seven years in the Irish Constabulary with distinction; and after a long residence in Ontario came to Manitoba on the 22nd of June last, bringing with him a fine healthy family family, consist- ing of father, mother and four sons; and. with bright prospects for a success- ful future. Sad to say these bright prospects have been blighted, and all that now remains of a once bappy fam- ily is the father and one son. The many friends of the afflicted extend to them their heartfelt sympathy in this sad be- reavement."