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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1879-12-05, Page 1& CO. eking the ;clods, „Ike, Sati • wear, leads, t Squares, tone, t Tweeds, rots, Feathers.. WENT, full to Lasing the et Oyer - we sell 'nn a bad WENT. French naments, ailed and GES. s—Mink ds. New 009, DRY, . — Urea- ur caps 'tithing Sa Seat, I', Wail ;:tleii ill ele Seal, tell and variety- ' with or ,ode are . .'em to be !bout to - them IALLY / T H I RTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER), 626. HILL B ROTH ERS, (Successors to Wm. Hill ct Co.) SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. in succeeding to the businds of Win. Hill & Co., we have entered the lists with the deterniination of doing A LARGE TRADE,1 And hope, by striotly carrying out the following Rules, to LEASE ALL OUR CUSTOMERS And convince theme that we are able and.willing to give them SEAOR.TH, "N•minImmomm•d• RIDA DECEMBER 5, 1879. IllichE0ANa ROUGHING 'IT IN NEW MEXICO. LINCOLN Comm, N. M., October, 1819. , When 'esti wrote I was at La junta, "tamping" railway ties and doing other work of a section band. It was not long after I wrote that I quit the job. Therewas a change el boss, and be- tween the new . boss and myself there was an incompatibility of temper as it were. I would have liked to remain until 1 was in better funds, as the place Was an agreeable one, ha fact the only decently - habitable section of New Mexico that I have seen. The Moro Valley is a good one, either for agricul- tural or for pastoral use.. It is, how- ever, I believe, closely o&upied, and by Americans, the settlement containing a greater average oflAmeriet us thitu any other in the Tetritory. As it was, I left the seetion with some few dollars in my pocket and a few little 'necessary perchases in my pack. Leaving the railway, I went to Fort Union, some and six or seven miles westerly, thinking oth that Itnight possibly get ajob of team- dro ing or "such." But I found nothing, Thi get hea the Th 011 a r Pid one. The latter is a larger place bea than 1 expected to see, evidently one of at' commercial importanee, as things go in wh this antediluvian land, where they cut Els hay with a hoe, plow with a stick, ed picket out their hogs 'with ehains. and wa say "guies sabe ?" The "new town," an like other railway towns, is merely a abo collection of rum shops, gambling dens. her and places of worse repute, with two or pia three. firnas like Otero, Seller & Co. and an Brown, Manzanares & Co. thrown in. mon h. I pronneed to help generelly, and o we started off. My remembrance of dates and length of times is somewhat confused, but I thin that Sec coul thro wOr COU eve For not OCC war hill and • • we were nearly four weeks. on dismal, wretched journey to rro. A more uuattractive land. not be distovered than we passed igh. The -further we came the e became the appearance of the try. Generally it lacked anything grandly revolting . to interest one. the most part it was a dreary mo- ny of sand and pinon trees, with sion rou and, stony p]aces. To - the river—the Rio Grande—the become loftier, the passes steeper, the views ,not unfrequently ma - jest°, but the same features. of waste pre Ailed; and indeed became intensi- fied You. can imagine pretty well wh t is a Mexican freighter's style of livia g, so I need. not descant on , the me nness and: ;insufficiency of the tor - till s and coffee that -formed our diet, the diel of everybody and. everything, the mismanagement, delay and r -annoyeuces of such a trip. i We 6 by day, by night, at all tithes. was partly due to the necessAy of ing to water, partly to escape, the of the sun at tinaes, and partly to beastly stupidity of the freighters. re are only two permanent waters i4 route—.one at a pond owned by nehmen, who .charges so much a for watering stock, and the other little plaza called Punta di Aglla, re there is a spring and small creek. where, we (men and beasts) water - tholes where what we called water a horrible mixture of adobe, mud slimy liquid. Flocks of sheep ind in parts of this 'district, the ers driving them froni place to e, wherever .water can be found, being always on the move.b ou can imagine that after a series toppages by break -downs, by los- the oxen, which were turned. out to andthence went to Las Vegas, about twenty -eight miles. The railw ay trains had. begun running to that town only a few days before, and all Was bustle and confusion, a new town being literally thrown together in. proximity to the of I spent several days in Vegas and also - spent most of my money, without earn- mg any, as the only labor in demand For was that of carpenters. I left Vegas, tiro Ii\TS hoping to add a little to my pile by a as - few days' work on the grade," beyond gla. , the town. I had as -companions two the fellow -tramps, whom I had fallen in - . of t with between Fort Union and Vegas. Gre One had just come from the Black tan Rills, Where he had been a miner in the FOR THEIR MONEY: FIAST—Buy Always in the Best jliarkets. SECOND—Keep the- Stocki always - Assorted • with New and Fresh Goods.. TIII_RD—Sell at the Lowest Profit Possible. FOURTH— Allow no House to Undersell us. WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO . PURCHASE DRY GOODS OF ANY CLASS, Remember that as We are CLOSINC OUT OUR PRESENT STOCK , We will give you More Goods for Your Money Than can be had from any other House in this Town,. WE ARE NOW GIVING: Bargains in Dress Goods. Bargains in Millinery. Bargains in Cloths and Clothing. Bargains in Hats and Caps. Bargains in. Cotton Goods. Bargains in Buffalo.RobeS. Bargains in Groceries: GIVE US A CALL _ AND CET THE BARGAINS, As we know that it will pay yet, and hope to have an early opportunity of showing you our Stock. HILL BROTHERS, Main Street, Seeforth. placers, and he cursed the day on which he came southward. He was an are not always to be trnsted as retards mericata, a Pennsylvanian, "sifted the green and beautiful any more than through Texas," rather an intelligent in o her things, especially when seen at • d'stance. man and a good fellow. ' The other was S COITO itself is, at least in its situ - an Irishman, Tim Collins by name, an ex -sailor, ex-suldier, and now a pro- Mt3 dress, a really pretty place. The fessionai cook queerish compound houses and streets are -like those of ✓ Mexican plazas, but nearly 4very se has a garden or field adjoinhhg it, d with fruit.trees. There are also yalamos altos throughout the town, the effect of these trees is to give a htful sense of cooling shade, which specially agreeable to one ooraing the terrible heat of the dusty gone up to Colorado, where he "went Plasm. There -is, I judge, considerable broke," through whiskey, I judge, and 00r was now trying to get back to this re- of gion. With him I was destined to aye travel in company for some tune after- for wards. We struck the railway grade da about twenty miles from Vegas, and for ired as teamsters at the camp of be lush & Co., pay being $1.50 per day, offi oard $4 per week. ' The slavery of the w ife of the men in that catnip was simply be bominable, although no worse than in- gru he other camps on the grade. From thr arliest- dawn till darkness, with_ scarce- Ti y time to swallow their meals with de- cent leisure, the men were hurried and to brow -beaten and subjected to every du- ne dignity. Excepting the absence ot the fon whip and the presence of the fact that the one could. leave at will, the life there wh was worse than that of the average did lack.slave before the war. I stood it too or five days, and then, Tim Colhus and yself quit. I got in pay no money, wh' but succeeded in getting a cotton shirt nd OLIO dollars worth of tobacco. vas luckier, getting some two d r sp in cash. With this store acco and funds, dubbed in for e without herders, aud then hunted uring one and even two days at a ; by all sorts of more trivial and nnecessaxy causes, I was heartily when wo. reached the summit of river range.and could see the valley e Rio Grande lying green before n aud beautiful it looked at a dis- e, compared with the barren. waste ad passed over, but appearances • • of good humor and crabbedness, with Ito some sense of fuu, considerable expere- fill ence in "bumming" this country, hav, ma ing been long ea New[ Mexico and an Texas, and havi .4 a strong determine- deli tion not to want tor anything for the is lack of asking. He had left a situation fro in this country where I write, and bad • 11 • lth in New Mexican fa,shon in So- o. Th.ere are several large owners attle, sheep and so forth, and. the -age inhabita,uts seem to be com- ably "fixed." I spent three or four s loafing around the town, waiting im Collins whose train had fallen ind the one with which I had been feting as popper of a bull whip. en he . came we started southward he river, With a little money, a little • and tobacco—very little Of all e,for the wretched Greasers cheated of part of his due and gave me next othi ng. - shall not go into details of our jour - clown the river as fax as Dona Ana,. miles above Las Cruces. But for intolerable beat we would, ten the le, have fared well enough. • We not 1Lck for grub, had Sometimes beds, and found a friendly Mexi- going to Hillsboro:with a wagon, helped. us considerably by carrying t titnes during three days. For. all , the trip was one I would not care epeat. The heat was something tful, and the lack, of water—in the ey of the' Rio Grande !—was dis- sing. There has been a great drouth ver New Mexico this year. From orro to Cruces there was no place re- the Rio Grande could not be ecr, and only at rare intervals would aye been necessary to wade—one ld cross the mighty river without keg the soles of :his boots damp. eythina in •the way of crops was In ) any other country, among other people than the Mexicans, relivould have already been a cry rd for aid from outside. Most of the ple had scarcely anything to eat.. at they will do this winter is a -toys- . There was much sickness. 'Near - very inhabited house had- more or of people down with chills and er. Very many rancheshad been de: erted, the people having fled t� the untains to esCape the ehills and to eavor to raise some provisions least the winter. This state of things tinues. There is now no hope of ter in the river until next spring. w it is below Cruces. and Mesilla I 't know, but all above that is a ruin - district. At those towns they have some time been digging wells in the er bed to obtain water for domestic poses. Mills are stopped entirely, even those persons who have a little eat or corn cannot get it ground. . he further down the river we came, more wearied and disgusted we re. I had some notion of • going to lleboro, to' try my luck at the placers, - t, heard that the creeks which. supply diggings with water had. nearly given. —that there was much sickness and le chance of getting Work. Couse- 11 Tim tha llars to f to- . file om- on benefit, we set out for Anton va hico, on the Pecos River. tre all I a,bandoned the intention of going to- So anta Fee and thence through Arizona, wh ming to the conclusion that the wa sier way to get through to the Pacific it oast would bto.getto the railway at cot ucson via the Rio Grande and so on. get ur hope was to strike a mule or bull Ev rain at Anton Chico that would bring rpi is to Fort Stanton, in which neighbor- an hood, where Tirn was well acquainted, th he was sure we could get work to put he us in funds. We stopped one night at pe Anton Chico, where a good-hearted W young Mexican and his amiable little ter woman,whose father, she said, was au ly American, gave us a good supper, ex- les cellent bed and first-rate breakfast. fe Some soldiers who happened !there, en route to Fort Union as escort to Col. Dudley, also gave us some rations for the road. There also, or rather in a plazita hard by Anton Chico, a Mexican storekeeper, who had given me a com- fortable dinner in American fashion, showed me a, place in a gulch where he had found what he thought to be silver ore. I believe the stuff was good, and if I ha& had a ten days' grub stake would have stayed and prospected for myself. The ore; or whatever it Was, had a striking resemblance to L ead- ville corbonates. Not striking a train at 'Anton Chico, we set out to look for ono on the road, which passes six miles from the towu. We fell in with a, Mexican bull train of seventeen wagons, or rather three trains travelling in com- pany. They were not going by the 'Stanton read, but to Socorro, on the Ric. Grande, then down the river to Las Cruces, and then to Silver City. This would not have been a bad route for me, and although I would have pre- ferred the other road, we decided to and the chances of getting some work join the train. One of the bosses was „ hereabouts seemed good from all that I short a man, and engaged Tim to I h d heard. , whack bulls as far as Socorro, or further if he wished, promising $16 a i 6 • na en ag CO 11 do ed fo ri pu an t1. bi tli ou lit quently, I decided to acconapany Tim ov r in this direction. It would be a ba k step from the coast, but I was an bus to get off the tramp for a time, e left the river at Dona Ana, walk - to Shed's Ranch, twenty-five miles, on this side of theiver range, in one night. It is a wate less stretch and we had no canteen, soute miscreant on the railway having stolin the one which my friend Clincher Bill had given me at Cucharas : hence ofir night walk. At Shed's Rauch I stayed a week, waiting for a train to pass in this direction, and doing a little worktu exchange for grub. Shed s a cattle ma." and has fdr neigh- boroite Davies, a sheep man, who has a spl ndid herd of 10,000 intprov,ed sheep These men have no other neigh- bors t bother them,get-sufficient water from prings in the Oregon Mountains, at whose base their ranches stand, and altogether have the most desirable ranges that I have seen in New Mexico. Shedllas3nade tanks to store his water, and sells it to freig ters. Davies has also tanks and hu dreds of feet of troughs, but uses the water exclusively for his flocks. I left Shed's in company with three Mexican freighters, Tim hav- ing gone ahead of nie with others, and I have not seen him Since. After a week of another beastly journey ovek water- lesssand, I brought up at Blazer's saw- mill, on the Tularosa River, 18 miles from Fularosa town, and. 36 from Fort Stanton. That was toward the end of September. In this neighberhood I have remained since. G. Canada.' Messrs. Hettle & Inglis, Teeswater, have sold their butter factory to Mr. Brill, of Guelph, for $2,750. - —Rev. Mr. Hammond is sbill conduct- ing religious meetings 'n London. Crowds assemble to hear h in, . —Bernard Devlin, ex -I11. P. for Mon- treal Centre, has gene to spend. the winter in Colorado tor the enefit of his health. —Tho ch arming . an youthful daughter of a wealthy resi ent of Mon- treal, a few days ago, clop d With her father's coachman. —At a social in aid of the Presby- terian Sunday -School at Portage. la Prairie, held at the house of Mr. Camp - 'bell, $17 were raised. —Au old and much respected lady of Loudon, Mrs. Moore t fell backwards down stairs and when found was quite dead, her neck being broken. —Mr. J. B. Weller, Belleville, within a few weeks has lost three of his children -by scarletfever. His two re- maining children are down with the fever. —Work on the Snowdon iron mine eorth of Victoria County has been dis- continued, on &count of inability to find the great bed of iron ore whichwassup- posed to'exist. . —.This year the farmers of Essex, in addition to 'what has been retained for home consumption, have eold upwards of 600,000 blishels of wheat for expor- tation. —D. K. McNaughton &go., Chathdun have purchased a quarter million doken eggs the past season in the countiee of Kent and Essexelor shiprdent to Am- erican markets. —Walkinshaw, the "quoit champir,' will uot accept the offer of John Ran in, of Glasgow, Scetland, to play for $1,000, as he (Walkinshaw) only challenged players in America. —Mr. !Thomas Carruthers,brother of David Carruthers, of Beverly, and of the late John Garruthersf Rockton, has recently died in California, leaving a fortune estimated at $80,000. —Messrs. Enright and Gerrie, of Dundas, recently left for Manitoba with a very large shipment Of fowls, cured bacon, fresh meat and horses. These gentleman are building up an extensive business with the Prairie Province. —A -gentleman who was duck shoot- ing at Idyl -Wild, in Rice Lake, when the recent cold snap came on so sudden- ly and SE verely, says that next morning he was able to catch a number of wild. ducks whose feet had been frozen to the ice. —At a Bailiff's sale in. Caledonia a few days ago,a threshing machine which had been in use only two seasons, cost originally about $400, and was in good condition at time of sale, was knocked down to the highest bidder for the sum of only $25. —Au atteiept was made by a tramp to rob the station house on the railway at Renswick, N. B. There were only two women in the house at the time, but one of them struck the would-be rebber to the floor. Just then the whistle of an approaching train was heard and the tramp escaped to the woods. There was a large amount of money in the house at the time. — The family -of Mr. A. C. Campbell, of Woodville,were poisoned by partaking of canned salmon, fortunately the re- sults were nothing serious they soon got over the poisonous effects of the salmon, with the exception of one of the childreu, who it is said partook more freely of the fish than the rest, and was in a critical condition for two or three day, but is now recovering. —F. W. Jarvis, the winner of the Gilchrist scholarship, recently left Ottawa to take an art's course in Edinburgh University. In a competi- tive examination for bursaries in arts, recently held i a that city, Jarvis came out third in the list of a large number of competitors, and has been awarded a bursary of $100 per annum for three years,which added to $500 from the Gilchrist Scholarship, makes 600 per annum. - little_girl about nine years old, daughter of Mr. Michael Hogan, of Oustic, Eramosatownship, met with a rather severe accident mi the 18th ult., while going to school. She along with some other scholars w4s riding on a wagon without a box belonging to Ed.- ward Cox. When near the school house, a boy behincl moved it stick to which the little girl was leaning, caus- ing her to fall down, and before the driver could stop the hind wheel passed. ditectly over her head. On examina- tion, the skull was fotuad to be frac- tured on one side and slightly depressed on the other. Under medical attend- ance she is now do ng as well as could be expected, consi eriug the nature of the wounds. If i fiammation is kept down nothing, seri us may result. —Mrs. David Aikman, of Colchester, attempted to eommit suicide on Satur- day, by taking two ounces of laudanum. Her husband Sold his farm contrary to her wishes, and she took this means of 'getting even." —The Rev. Mr. Large, of Kincardine, met with an accident last week, his cutter upsetting and his horse running away,. dragging him 100 yards. The Rev. gentleman was severely bruised, while the cutter was broken to splinters. —The Gra ' a Opera House in Toronto was destroy d by fire last Saturday morning. The caretaker, his wife and little girl perished in the building. This house was built about five years ago and wa4 always conducted with great propriety. —The London Actvertieer' next sub- ject for a parody is the " . 13." to be written in the style of "The One -Hoes Shay." • Thel prizes are ood. Who will try for the next one ?t A gentle- man. in Guelph was award d the first prize for the parody on "Hiawatha." —The girls employed lit Teller's fi corset factdry, Toroeto, struck for higher wages a few day ago. The girls who iumber about sixty, state that their ages have been reduced. three .or fo4 times and they are not. new paid according to their work. —Nextye r will be the jubilee year of the Primitive Methodist Church in Canada, the.,trst class having been or- ganized in 1830. Of those who formed that class, nearly all have passed away. There are now 8,000 in the member- ship of the denomination in Canada. —W. H. Hutchins has erected a bar- ley warehou+3 at Lublin., in which the grain is taken in by machinery, weigh- ed by machtery, cleaned from hulls, smut, Canad thistles and other defile- ments, by 'machinery, elevated by machinery, and rattled into cars by a similar appliance. --t-The Cliftord cattle fair held -on the 27th of November was quite a success. A large number of buyers w re present f and nearly, everything o ered . was bon tht up at good figuree. At least 100 cattle chenged hands, st, ers in fair condition sold at $30 to $35, cows from $28 to 32;$ ' a yoke of oxen Sold for $115. —Seine auXiety is felt for the safety of Mr. Arthur Maddock, of Woodville, and Mr. Thompson, P.L. S., of Canning - ton, who sta ted in the latter part of July last, ac ompanied by an Indian as guide, on ai explering expedition to James' Bay.. It was their intention .to return home, in October, but as yet no tidings have been received of them, and their friends itre naturally anxious about them.. , —On Monday, 17th ult., while a team belonging to Mr. Kennedy, of High Bluff, Manitoba, was standing be- fore the blacksmith shop at that place, they took fright at something and. start- ed off at full speed, thro wing Mr. Ken- nedy underthe wagon, which was heavily loaded, 'both wheels passing over his chest. He was at ,once placed under medical care, and at latest ac- counts was fibill in a precarious condi- tion. — A1 , the London Teachers' Associa- tion held *Friday, Nov. 28. Miss Kes- sack delivered an essay on " The Force of Habit," elicwing the neeessity of punctualithitindustry, perseverance,gen- tlemanly manner, neatness of address, obedience, truthfulness and honesty. Miss Kessack has been a most sussess- ful and energetic teacher in one of the London Schools for many years, and is eminently qualified to discuss with clearness and power the several subjects of her essaye —On Friday Nov. 14, a large straw stack in the! barn -yard of Mrs. Neal, on the 12th eoncession of Arthur, was struck by lightning and consumed. The barn was saved through the exertions of•the neighbors, although only seven feet from !the ' burning stack. The lightning, or thunderbolt, struck the stack in the centre, opening a hole thtough it tb the bottom and dug ahole about the size of a barrel in the ground. This is a most unusual occurxence so Jate in the stason. — On Monday evening of last week a poor woman' was found lying insensible on the side of the street in the eastern part of Oshawa. She was removed to the lock-up,and when she had sufficient- ly revived, was provided. with suitable nourishment and food. She told the officer that she was making her way on foot from Toronto to Kingston, where she has Children living, She was entirely destitute, and had. had. no food since Sunday Morning, but she had trudged on hoping to reach her destin- ation, till she reacb.ed the place where she was diseovered, when she fell down in a, fit. —On the23rd of November a Mrs. Evans was buried in the township of. Murray, Northitinberland County,whose weight sometime before her death was 475 pounds Her coffin was 3 ft. high and 3 ft. 7 tn. across, and &hole had to he cut between the front door and window to get it out. Death Was came ed by fat 'around the heart. The deceased lad§ was only 34 years of age. She leaves a son who is not yet 8 years old, and who turns the scales at 175 pounds. Last year the parents were offered $2,000 by a travelling showman for the privilege of putting this boy on exhibition. —A mowing machine was awarded to Cheeks Grant, of Thornbury, Grey County, for the best collection of grain at the Smuthern Exhibition in October, 1878. protest was entered by Mr. Stock, of Waterdown, against the award, on the gi ed was at Toro were ma commit deemed it best to keep possession of the maChine and prize money. Mr. Grant brought an action against the ound that a bag of rye exhibit - 'nought from Walter Smith tce and affidavits to this effect de by Smith .& Brother. A tee of the Agricultural Board South Brant Agricultuted 'Society to recover the machine. !Although he succeeded in proving the genuineness of the samples exhibited, yet the Court held that the Board had power to deal filially with the matter, and that their decision could not be questioned now. . —Last Sabbath the sermon of Rev. Mr. Bray, Montreal, was telephoned. from his pulpit to the office of the Do- minion Telegraph Company, and the members of the city press reported it, each seated at the table in that office, half a mile distant from the church. —Last Saturday two men named Hutchinson..and Dinton were injured badly, by the bursting of a circular saw in a shingle mill at Saurin, Simcoe County. Hutchinson had one. arm taken off above the elbow and his ;side ripped open. Dinton had his head badly cut. They 'will both likely die. —The steamer Fitzroy, which' ar- rived in the Thanabs from Montreal on the 24th ult., wet, severely danaaged by a collision, and Ilaa to be taken near the shore and sunk. The Fitzroy Mt Montreal for London on the 10th, with a crew of 22 men, and was laden with fifty or sixty thousand bushels of grain. —A correspondent writes that a very interesting religious work is going on in Port Elgin, under the two Evangelists, Mr. A. Benson and Mr. Bennett An- derson. They have beer i holding meet- ings for three or four weeks, almost every night. The town hall is crowd- ed and many sometimes cannot get in. All the ministers of the town are con- curring heartily in the work. —One day last week the body of Dr. Moberly, of Collingwood, was found about amile and a half north of Allen- dale, on the Northern Railway. It is supposed that while walking. on the track he was struck by a passing train. On examination it was found that .both legs were broken,the head badly fractur- ed and the body much bruised. Death must have been instantaneous. —A few days ego a span of mares, harness, robes, and blankets, were stolen from the premises of John Frey, Jiving near Breslau. The same night Abraham Weber, living on the adjoin- I ing farm, was relieved of a carriage, 1 buffalo robes, and blankets. The value of the plunder is about $400. It is sup -- posed the thieves passed through Bloomingdale on the road , to Guelph. —At a, Presbyterian missionary meeting in Montreal the other night, Rev. A. B. Malay, of Cresent Street Church, referred to the Marquis of Lorne standing aloof from Presbyterian missionary work, although he took an. active part in /dein(' some Anglican funds in England. 11: he • has severed his connection with the Presbyterian Church, of which the Argyles were always staunch adherents,Presbyterians should know it. —The Atolietary Times says: "lt is al- ways a good. plan not to halloo before you are out of tilee woods.But we feel treat confidedbe that the clouds which have so long overhung our lumbering interests are beginning to lift.. Besides the improvement in the United States, there is quite a revival in the ship. building and other industries of Great Britain; and these circumstances, com- bined with the greatly increased care- fulness and economy being practised by those in the* trade, .have given us a fore- taste of a revival of our luinbeting in- terests." —A year has now elapsed since Margaret McVey disappeared so unac- countably from her father's residence in Yarmouth, and still no clue as to her whereabouts has developed itself. A detective from New York was engag- ed on the case, drawn there by the large rewards 'offered, but after spend- ing a few weeks in the neighborhood, confessed himself baffled, and returned. home. It is feared the girPs fate will ever remain a mystery.' It has no parallel in Canada since the , Arthur mystety of 1865. The girl who disap- peared from that place has never since been heard of. —A gentleman in Ottawa sometime since had delivered to him through the Express Company several boxes of wild ducks. He was pleased and astonished, wondering who could have sent them, not having any friends who were sportsmen. However, he revelled in black duck for a week, and mentally prayed. for his generous unknown friend. A few days ago he learned by letter that a man by the same name in Oshawa is the most unreasonable fellow in the world; he asks to have the ducks .Sent him, as there was a mistake in the di- rection. The Ottawa man replied offer- ing to to return what was left, i. e., the feathers and the .bones. —Shortly after eleven o'clock last Saturday night some Toronto police- men made a raid on a gambling bons° on King street East, and. aucceeded in arresting eleven young men„ who all ex- cepting one gave °fictitious names. Friends of the prisoners 80011 heard of the arrest, and. bail was given for their appearance at court. Next morning they were fined $10 and. costs, or thirty days' imprisonment. The fines in all amount to about $600. As the prisoners were tried under fictitious names, the Police Magistrate would not release them on - —Rev. Mr. Castle of Jarvis -street Baptist Church Toronto, last Sunday gave a striking and original analysis of the character of the petriatch Jacob. It was not the character of a good man, nor of a noble man, nor of an honorable man, and the bible has not so portrayed it. This patriarch drove a hard bar- gain with his only brother when that brother believed Lb:Ha-self to be dying of hunger. He deceived his old. and blind father, and by a crafty trick got the blessing which Was the elder son's by tight of birth. He begged God to give him wealth, and promised. to give him back the tenth of it I He got rich in the service of his father-in-law, and then sneaked off to his own country without as much as saying good by. He fawned RO S., Publishern. ear, in Advance. ; upon the brot er he had robbed, and sought to m.o4lify him by briees and self-abasemen . In ehort Jacob was a mean ream at cunning man, a contemp- Cable mans; end whatever of good was found in his character after the sub- jugation of P niel only shows what the grace of G-od an do to improve and re- new the mail e of a very base man. ---Mr. Robe tson, of Perthshire, Scot- land, has and ed in Ottaws„ his -object being to inspe t the country with a view of eecuri g homes fot a number of Scotch "stnal farmers," who desire to better their c ndition by crossing the Atlantic. Mr. Robertson submitted a scheme on Saturday to the Hon. J. H. Pope, Minister of Agriculture, in which. he purposes tie setting aside •of a cer- tain tract of land in Manitoba to be colonized by 1 Highlanders, and to be known as "New Scotland," or "The Land of Lorne," —It having been rumored that there is a prospect of the Consolidated. Bank selling As assets to a financial institu- tion in Montreal; inforrostion was I sought from the cashier, Mr. Camp- - bell, when it was learned that negotia- tions to this end. are in progress, but ha,ve not yet ,been perfected-. If such sale can be carried out on fair terms, it will be a greet advantage to the share- holders, as it Woulcl obviate the neces- sity for a. call or bankruptcy proceed- ings, and would enable the Directors to pay depositors without ranch delay. , —A case is reported of a man artiv-- mg in his boat in the Cammig River, Nova Scotia, and, as the tide was low, making his boat fast to a large schooner. It was then dark, when he started. to walk ashore on the mud. Soon after the *captain of the schooner Chaunee heard. cries for help. - He sprang -on deck, when he heard a man say, "throw me a line, for I'm up to my shoulders in rind." The captain was, on account of the clarkness, _nimble to see the man, when he again heard him say, "I' now up to my neck; for God's sake throw me a line." The captainlost no time, and with the assistance of the crew of the schooner Miriam, lowered a boat into the mud, when they could distinguish a small black speck. A. line Was thrown in the direction of the spot, and_ the man having his hands uplifted, caught the rope and was dragged from his perilous position. A few moments more and he would have perished. . - —A. couple of bogus horse buyers have been playing it sharp 111 Ottawa. On Saturday night the officials of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa received a telegram from New York, pipped -ming the cashier's draft for $3,000 a forgery. It was purported to have been drawn by the Commercial Bank of Rochester on the American Bank of Exchange' of New York. It was presented by two men named -Wilson and Smith, horse dealers, who were in the city for about ten days,- and accepted with- out inquiry, the sharpers being intro- duced by an Ottawa man. Both escaped to the United. States, but have been heard from in Utica; They drew $2,500 on Thursday and $500 on Fri- day, but the fraud was not discovered. until Saturday night, after they had. made pea their escape. The fellows bought a number of horses, but only paid $5 earnest money on each of them. The men have since been arrested. —The trunk of Captain Burkett of the lost Breeden° has been found. by one of the men searchine for retina/is of the wreck. He depositead the trunk on one of the islands close by, and went back to resume the search. To his surprise he found upoii his return that the trunk had been forced open and everything stolen out of A. The man who found thh trunk offers :to give the names of the parties who burst it open if the pro- per persons will go there and look after them. Dr. Doupe's trunk, contain- ing his stock of medicines and some other things, has. also been secured, and is at Penetaliguishene in the possession of the man who found %Who is willing to give it to the proper parties as soon as they claim it. AFrenehman living in the French settlement near Penetanguishene, who has been gather- ing up some of the wreck, is said to have obtained about $400 worth of flour and. other stuff. The Indians and half- breeds living on the islands near the wreck are having a rich harvest. —Mr Wm. Hornell, a young man 29 years of age, and son of Mr. Herne% Paisley, died in Toronto a short time ago. Deceased'had lived in Texas for several. years, but on account ef ill health was obliged to return home in August last. His disease was one Whith baffled the skill of the best medieal men in Toronto. Everything was done for him that long experience and eminent skill could desire, but all failed tocheck the progress of his extraordinary aids ment. Indeed, from the first examin- ation by Prof. Aikens he regarded the ease as a hopeless one, although the patient himself and. some of his relatives were sanguine of his recovery till the last.- A slight operation was performed. bringing away a considerable guantity of water, but failed. to give any relief to the sufferer, or to augment know- ledge as to the cause of the unnatural swelling of his abdomen whieh. had par- tially displaced the heart and pressed. painfully upon the other organs. The theory by the medical men before -death was that the enlargement was in some way due to an affection of the spleen, but the post 7nortent examination reveal- ed a very different state of matters dis- playing a monstrous fleshy excrescence with a fmagus like root from it, weighing when removed from the body, over 40 pounds' It would. appear that during his trouble his appetite was enormous, the temperature of his body Often very high, and that he seldom 1314310 without the aid of morphine. The case has created an unustudinterest amongst the faculty in Toronto as one of very rare and inscrutable character,anadoubtlest a professionad diagnosis will be gen in some medical book ere long.