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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-07-08, Page 1, 1881. MOVAL & BE; Re 'II a INTO STO14E 1 OLE OF TITEIR AT St Price - E THIS DAY Me .Mcnith. FOR ASH RIcE. imp will be harged GoodswW e sold s to Cash astern,- . :TINE ALE, ropq.re. Pric3s with Canada. tk e z:ece cents pc.r yard. ALL Co. !..VFORTH. the Tr asurer :u the To nahip : accrued on the aly, 1081—Gar- Aikerthe d. sec - at the t aches bate the ohooIs ly, the 7t July, gaan on t a 8th 13- Board then n at BrT cefield smber a 2 p. :engaging teach- -Geo. PEWIT,. -A great sense - village oi. Wed - f aUege4 chit The facts are earned Iebecca before rtr. F, ealment f ged the f ct, and 'found b4riea in reads fr re. her table au4 an as - arch, dis overed ches be ow the lbox wi hout a rhael at nce em - an est waa L Dr. M Solvay, post ?nor ent ex - said in bia opin- born alive. He its mouth, which oath by atrangri- elerice upon the were examined, t no evidence of Iced, aa kl pro- of the matter, Same house with r made a state - the child was the 10th ult., that tha infant Ue of olOth was keep the pirt out, f body Out and assistanee. The st to the effect its death by *le alio was immeciia ecellan.ce and re- ol in charge of a iree-vear-old SQ.11 ell, of Stra,tiord, nce enclosing a horse, was amas- s about. Seeing it reached over and a half feet ttle one by the ng for a three - lifted over the away the horse k.outih the field, y and it dropped rrse commenced tic mother who rrence hastened .1ii1d. With Clio arra and. BOZO of this extraor- pla7 was not j uteri . a k FOURTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 709. SEAFORI1H, FRIDAY JULY 8, 1881. Mc1.1EAN BROS., Publishers. $1,50 a Year, in Advaaace. ONTARIO HOUSE, SE_A.POIR,T1-1, OPPOSITE THE MANSION HOTEL. X have received instructions trim the proprietors, Messrs. Smith & West (at present in. Winnipeg), to reduce the stock as speedily as possible, and in order to do so, mark down goods to snob, a low figure, that our customers from the surrounding country will avail themselves of the opportunity of pur- chasing goods at prices lower than they have ever been offered before. The stock is new and first-class ; no old ru b- bish that has been lying in stock for ten or more years. Yon will find it all fresh and fashionable, and consisting of everything required in a firet-clas s I Dry Goods Home, and will be Gold f or I CASH ONLY, and to every per on th e same. Bantering discouraged. A call is respectfully solicited, when the goods will be shown to yon with pleastLe, and we will not impertinently insist on s ell- ing you goods but will give yo hat you do not want, an opportunity of com- paring prices anit quality with any ot her house in the tra e, and purchasing only what pleases you. Call early and often. J A. SMITH, Manager. 1881 SEAFORTH. 1881 SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING. WM. CAMPBELL 1 HAS Just Received a Fall Stock of Spring and Summer Goode, so Varied and Well Assorted eh any one can be suited. THE (MAHONEY " IRISH TWEEDS, Scotch and Canadian Tweeds in Full Lines. As these were all bought strictly for CASH DOWN, they were consequently bought at the Ldweet Figures, and my customers will get the Lowest Quotations. HATS AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS. Ia Hats and Gents' Furnishings] have double the stock of any former season. Also a Fall Stock of READYMADE CLOTHING I Gegitl'e•uten contemplating Matrimony are par- ‘lattl:ally invited to inspect the Stock, as every PtevISion is made for their wants. &magas for Boys' Suits. Ladles W Jing;temnants for Boys' nits can and them ehattP • WM. CAMPBELL }hick Bieck No.1, Main Street, Seaforth. STORES TO RENT. TEIREE STORES, nowi,in course of ere ction "*". in. the 'thriving and -business Town of Olin sitt4ted on the junction of the 0 rand • A sod London Huron itBsnoe Dikihray, e, 012 %tiller of the lest baiiness street in the ,whewe successfalbusiness has beenc arried , years. No.1 Store, 103x21; No. 11 Store, • ; 8 Store, 771Q1 ; atone sellars the hole size of the building. Stores to be corn • Piet etabout the lst 04 Septemb er . For farther particulars apply to WILLIAM COATS. 708 Th6Exeter Races The races On the Exeter Dri on Friday last,Dominion Day, successful. The attendance o tors was not nearly so large as seen on former occasions, but races were well filled, and mos tolerably evenly contested. was very pleasant and the tr splendid order. Exeter has,wi ception, the best track in the The first raoe was a LOCAL RUNNING RACE, Open to horses owned miles of Exeter ; half mil best three in five. For there were only three entries two started. The starters Carey's la m., Lady Brown, Bieset's s. m., May Morning. not much of a race. May Mo things pretty much her own won the race easily in three heats. The second race was LOCAL TROTT, Open to horses owned withi • 2 miles of Exeter, and that never com ted for pablic money; mile heats, best hree in_ five. In this race there re four entries and four horses sta ted, viz : E. Bisset's b. m. Little Nell; W. Bis - set's b. m. Little Netty ; G. :Mace's b. m. Daisey, std W. C. Charts g. h. Tommie Murdock. This wa1 a very interesting race, the horses bei g pretty evenly matched. First Heat.—Little Netty ok the lead and kept an easy first t oughout the heat, making -it without a skip ; Daisy took second place and lept' her position well the first half mile,1 with Tommie Murdock third and L tle Nell last. On the last round Little Nell 11 came lea and behind, ion the tisTising d heat. pt an second n her Daisy e into kept, ahead m Mur - ed with re being any of r. evenly k the uring a e one hb first 1r nice ell and ing Park ere fairly speota- e have all the of them he day k *as in Belot ex - County. thin 12 heat, race d only re Pat. nd W. his was Mg had ay and straight commenced to show herself, a up to second place in good s kept this position. Daisy fel taking last place, in which pos heat was ended, the horses under the home wire in a stri Second Heat.—This was a g Netty took the lead again and easy first all round. Nell ke place until the home stretch driver pulled her up, permitti who was following close to c second place, which position and crossed the ecore a good n of Nell, who was third with T dock fourth. This heat was cl the horses all well together, t not over half a length betwee them when they crossed the s Third fleat.—This was a ve trotted heat. Netty again the lead and kept it througho the' entire race she never break, and she web earned money. She is a remark working little mare. Both Murdock showed better burst but they did not keep at their Well. Daisy is a neat little m very light stepper, but seems high strung and nervous, driver had a good deal of t keeping her at her work. dock is a good style of a horse, ed to have the most speed _them when he liked to use • it needs training. They are all green ones. In this heat Nel good second with Murdock t entering the home stretch, f speed,. rk so and a be too her ble in Mur - d seem - any of, I but he praising ept ird until; hen the horse increased his speed and passed the linare, and bid fare to tak9 second,if not 'first place in the heat, but I just as he was at his best he went upland Nell took her place, leaving him third and Daiey a good fourth. This closed the race. The following summary shows( the positions: Little Netty, • 1 41 --let. Little Nell, 2 3 12 -2nd. Tom Murdock, 3 4 13 Daisy, 4 OPEN BUN. This race was open to all ; best two in throe. Five hor and. started, viz : John Bo Sam Willard; H. McLean's Jack ; R. Grundy's s. m. Litt S. Fairbairn's r. g. Beacon ; ham's b. g. Antelope. Barri horse this was a good race. mal was evidently what is "ringer," and understood his while the others were mostly had not seen ranch, seririce on but: were all very evenly There was no contest for money, Sam Willard having but the second and third pl closely contested for by Bay tle Mand and Beacon, and th well togetherThe race final as follows!: Sam Willard, Bay Jack, Little Maud, Beacon, Antelope, OPEN TROT. This race was open to he had no better record than thr mile heats, best three in fl' horses started, viz :_ Joh berry's b. s. Dexter ; E. A. M b. g. Brown Prince ; A. R. No Marquis of Lorne. First Reat.—This was a heat. Prince got the first ter second and the Grey third, kept this order throughout Deter made a good second, quis who did not seem to b; working trim came in sever behind. Second Heat.- Prince a.n made this an interesting hsl bay horse got the lead, and th although he tried hard could haul him. The three horses c in good form in the same or lest heat. Third Heat.--Fsom the the horses ire the former he tie general impression that the raoe, and he did not disa orowd. They did not get a send off, and Dexter was when passing under the first thus Lost time at . the very went of the race. He work bad for the first roun quently made good bursts of that he was ne'Ver long far in leader. Marquis also br 11 1 2 3 5 q 1 e' 3rd heats, ntered b. g, .Bay Maud ; as. Bays g the first his ani - ailed it business; een and thhe track etched, he first at sur EiS Wer apk, Li4 all ran resulted -1.st. 2nd. 3rd. 1"12W-11. Bee that minutes, . Three Batten- ormickia r's g. g. • • .1 • 11 y fair e, Dex- 4id they e nd Mar- na good lengths Dexter ,'nt the stallion ee t over; hona in the Ofun Vsilhen bijoke a a VO'eor- 'iligilittthe jt fet a fi t erg by Pr show Br De 31a Thi P ciPI fe, in thl 1r acted lar e A' -811 k, `of 1 ✓ .rY. n eC iia•t 1111,0 • aye tave eas ably- ing t ea • ci sIen tE1-4n the s C fat p Ysi E ;ot he at b fi le fd • 11 here entering the home etre up for the first titue iij e is a bad breake auled him and the ade in grand style, eck and teck tle way, but Dexter ' gai d Prince got ahead an ith Dexter a dos is third. The race wit nce in three straight by the following ettra wn Prinee,... ....... . .. 1 te,r, 2 quis of Lorne, L 3 ended the daysIspor left the ground all that they had got goo oney. The folio* ng as judges: J. J. es Jas. Flanagan, C rp, Seaforth, and London, starter. THE LACROSSE IATCi C he forenoon of the sa nteresting lacros e on the .Agricu tural, Grounds n picked teams o the Bxeter ani n clubs. The match was wit- ople, most and prob- has show- eople and ke ba this , a 110] he ch Prince the race, d Dexter ie stretch wo horses greater part i lost his came in s cond and thus won eats, as is ary 2 -2nd. 3 -3rd. , and the evidently value for gentlemen tcott, Us - an obey ; T. . McCor- e day a atch was 11 • by a large crowd of p m were from the town he larger part ladies, e interest the towns alf t • ally the fairest h id, manly game - 1 Tjhe Exeter took the first i genie, tie Clinton cond and Exeter the third. The n players can not [ compare either ally or in point of skill with their r competiters. The Exeter team mproVecl Wonderfully ince their atch, and if they kee on they ery la BO be iu good ha ii) the b st team in the not excepted. , . Canada. ensiv 1 btish fires 11 e to chal- c unty, Sea - ar 7 ihrueeithlecycheac crop tod3:Cartwrightabotit8 boi rg to -day (Friday.) p Ln unnlyceodilteo bbeeear splileeenusied lit, has been te e • out in Toronto. The cost is $600. 1 e- he Quebec i Legislature was pro - ✓ gu d on the 30th nit lw th the usual f ran liti s. i ea- on. Mr. Mowat, Attorney -General f t 0 ta io, leaves Englaad on August 1 th or Quebec.; 1 , i — he Canada Meth distS are erect. i $ t e fir t church itt West Lynne, kianitoba. 1 , he estate of tho late Hon. D. hritie, n ar Paris, has been sold for ,0 O. 1 I 4- wo thousand dollars a iay is now bein any.' yet produced iu Canada nouncee it a lubricating oil first quality, almost identica famous lubricating oil of W --The Kingston and Pem Way is advertising for 300 on their extension. Men ca in. Kingston, altnough $1.50 offered. -a-The crops in the county never looked better, and splendid harvest. They look better in this county t other in Ontario. --Manitoba has an °title 950; and for disbursing this pays this year $56,685 besid ernor's salary., This is pa fpr the whistle, -a-The Internatiohal Ch stian Tem- ierence Camp'Meeting will be held at rimsby Camp Ground fro Sunday, uly 24th, to Sunday, ,J ly 31st, in- cluSive. e-Streetsville, a hamlet rear Alvins- ton, has a stave factory whi h employs 23 hands and turns out ,3 ,000 staves per day, besides a large qua tity of bar- rel hoops. —Mr. John Finley, an ag d farmer of Colborne, while watching the circus procession, was relieved o $1,000 itt bills, which he had but a f w minutes efere drawn from the ban . -a-A hot period has set in about Win- iipeg, with the thermometer over 80 egrees in the shade. he nights, iow'er, are cool. The er ps in conse- uence are looking splendid ---Mr. Charles: Simmon , of Lobo, old a shorthorn bull a, Jew days ago, or beef, which crowded 1, • 00 pounds. ?ire cents per pound, live weight, was he price paid. —The 'members of t e Women's hristian Association and the City onncil of Belleville are end eavoring to rrange for the erection of a combined oapital and house for the rieudless. -f-.A.' number of young la. ies bave or- . aUlZed an archery club in Guelph. hey enter with great spi it into the pert, and certainly a mor interesting aetithe for ladies could no be fooled. He pro- twen f the very boat: with the Mc st Virginia. ago i roke Rail- of th en to work — not be got town per day is pure num of Victoria are promise a Lon re said to speal an in any — a fe y of $186, - amount she s the Gov- ing dearly .re raging sneaks at lleville is Otto- 1) • 1 P to 1.6#0 ght ftiu 1 paid out for wages on :he Coteau ay , elleville merehants haai e all agreed se every Fria s; during July ugust. I rei R. Gibson, of he township of tob, exhibits fallwheat five feet inches high. ory thousand Orangemen will t their banners in Toro to on the of l" ly. ing complains o profanity kenness, since the repeal of e cott Act in that county. r.1 Morris Williams, _ of Forest, • yP ru id three year old steer recently for 200 to 4 Toronto dealer.' Others in the Belleville district he barley will hav More smut usual this year. Vo,odstock did noble thity by sub - sing $800 toward e pill. McKay's • ing college in ForinoSa. . bench show is tai ta1Ie4 of among aae cog breeders of the nigbborhood of • on for the Provincia Flair. - gilyie & Company, o Montreal, debided to erect a mill with twen- o ran of stones in Men toba. anguine people say that the it Velley Railway wi1 le) graded to honsas within five weeks.. he pounty Counoil of Oxford has ed by 16 to 14 votes that a Poor e is not necessary in t at county. ive car loads of !fine iorses, pur- based in Kent and eastern counties, er lately shipped to anitoba from S'ay an cti'rad en hey tySt ;e Ou odm ,k w ect er Ole rue TO ,Odg a or ak 0 sot iss ard lete s. ani • ter of at he foun • the to t The ght d i t fur t is nto -do ile Tvee ste e de 11 • Annie. Beau oin, Beaudoin, of Maid a quilt which co is agitated 'ler t orks, and there i omething definite nce. ody Of a riewly on the roadside other day. o fa e matter. Fekeeley oro ram Detroit to jail on Friday 1 her proceedipge. stated that the rc nd Ottawa railtv t from Peterborc of Perth.. , Toronto ebultetors f Sir George E. C for the statute to • aughter ef n, has just tains 4,756 e question fair pres- being done born infant near Hes- there is no hers were ondon and st, there to ute of the has been to within are to send n b tier for ac - pt be erected e t easedetatesman. The excursion business en the St. ••rerie is very light ths summer. he steer boat men attribfite this to the ece London disaster —Th friends of Hon. Al x. Macken - and. Mrs. Mackenzie wil be pleased kao that their trip to S otland has ofis great advantage phsically. M utreal merchaats w erit to assume control h lnes, to preven thei ked nri ' 37, the American The v. Mr.' S ill ith, ly, 1 ft on Monde of 1 otta y of Grey, w scire ding their BRIXIME) liCji Mr . F. Taylo , ; of tl o ny, of Sarnia, t e 11 produced a 11 on tLo Mauve 11. o a y of last ve by the analyst of ks. The analyst fferiig in many I , ! 1 i 0 king of it was oe had it the good us feet re and i21101100 - tied to ut fre- ed so of hie badly, • ---The body of Thomas armer who lived about tw f str etsville, was found (i mad a road on Saturday t is s pposed he had falle agon: --A company has been ostou for the purpose of railway from Duluth t ie millions of dollars ha cribed in that city to the ompany. a -During the past twent han 13,000 Indians in B tnerica have been receiv ombership of the Chu aid. They report the nu unicants in 1879 at 11,62 —The effort made to int aw in the Winnipeg Cou 9th to grant a bonus to t o build the Southweste ailed for want of a two- uspend the rule. —At Grand Valley, Nor ory, oats are selling at $1. 1, and wheat brings fr 1.25. The crops in that n the vicinity of Big Plai o looking superb. —One hundred and gents belonging to the United States bn nd Canada are holding a onference at pre ontreal, in order to perf et arrange- eve ents for expediting fast f eight all over can pa he contineut. —The Elora High Scho • ecided to reduce the Fri rom $1,000 to $900 at the r. Field's engagement, a Mr. MacPherson, the assis at the close of the current —From the assessment ord county it appears tha tion of the following towns has diminished. since th 1880: Ingersoll, Tilsonbur oodstock and Norwich s increase. —The farmers a4Kazub Gatineau, are in despair crops. Only a few shower ed that region during the summer months ; the eri burnt and in a very bac tion. —The Sombre townshi port shows that the sum was lost by the departure Ma,ybee, and that a fur of a791.12 is either in the defaulting treasurer or the collector for 1879. —The work of putting n poles for the telephone line betwe n Hamilton and Toronto has commenc d. It is ex - Tooted. that the two citie will be in telephonic communicatio with each other by several wires by he middle of August. —The receipts at the Halifax Cus- tom -House during the yea ending Rule 30th, amounted to al„176, an in- crease over the preceding ear's receipts of $230,400. The Inland Revenhe re- ceipts for the year were increase of $23,162. —The census of the 0 has been announced. It increase in the populati now about 800. There slight decrease in the serve, whiah now has onl nt the Gov- tants. —Miss Mary J. McCo f the tele- Mr. Evan McColl, and an being gob- a Wee" and other poems, onopolists. i at Kingston on Monday 1 Schulte, of Hasbruck Ins f Galt, and City, New Jersey. Bot t 'week for i groom have been for year hey purpose i literary and edaoational p das. —A correspondent of the Boy'a , Times makes the rather a sample , nouncetaent that the wa 1 the Company's 1 Simooe are gradually rl farm to London ! croaeluing on the land. k,: fcbr examine- ! which was a footpath in the Victor Oil i boa es now run in deep spotted the oil 1 writer says that in anoth partibulars from ' water ha si risen, to his ow 0 11 NO • It yifeet within thirty years, so that cen pass across the butt end of nes' point now, where thirty years Wes and and tree* The cause rise is a myetery. r. Richard Gibson, of London hip, the noted cattle breeder, has aged three Oxford' bulls and a er of ; heifers in England. They 11 high priced aniraals, and the on, England, Agricttltural Gazette s vera highly of his purchases. n Oshawa lady wa badly scared days' ago, while Sitting in her he sudden appearance of a ees in the roam. They had parler, by mar of ted o the chimney On the top of rested the prisoner. On the road. to oase, and entered the room by the the city the prisoner managed to slip pie hole. A gentlenaan appeared the detective, and has not been seen e ecene and. quieted matters by since. g the !swarm. —Roert Griffin, the defaultina book - he Weather being delightful, one keeper employed by Messrs. °H. B. largest gathering :that ever as- Rathburn & Son, of Nttpanee and Des - led op the lacrosse grounds were eronto, who absconded on. the 20th n together in Toronto on the lat June, was arrested the other day in he match betweeps the Toronto Montreal. The deficit .at both places, ntreal lacrosse clnbs, which was as far as is known, is in the neighbor - more, as the books have net been all gone through. Griffin had been stop- ping in Montreal about a • —A young lady was d the pleasure grounds in 0 laid before Walter Sage, J. P., and a warrant issued for their arrest. They appeared on Tuesday evening at Mr. Sage's -residence, before W. Sage and ties and telegraph i poles along the route are being rapidly shipped, princi ally to Chicago and Fairport, Ohio. The lumber mills at Spanish River are Wm. Edmonson, J. P:ii, and were re- working Overtime and turning out spectively fined. and bound over to keep great quantities of i limber, which is the peace. Lowe was fined on one being conveyed by veesel to Buffalo and charge, and Watson and Johnson on otherpoints. three charges each. ; • , —At the Ottawa regatta on Dominion —On Friday last a Warrant was is- Day, Edward Hanka, who was referee, sued. against one of the male attendants was presented by Mayor McIntosh on t. at the London Asyl , for criminal as- behalf of the citizens with an addrees sault upon one of t e female attend- and a massive gold chain. The pro - ants. The warrant Was placed In the ceedings were witneSsed by about 12, - hands of County , Detective Schram, 000 people. For the regatta there were who proceeded to the Asylum and ar- 9 entries, viz : Trickett, , Riley, Gatts deur, Hosmer, Teneye, Schaefer,Ross, Smith and McDonald. The race was won by Wallace Resit, one of Hanlan'a lold antagonists, by; iabont two boat lengths. his time being 27 minutes. —A lady teacher in one of the public schools in the city of Winnipeg profit- ed the other day by 4 ale of real estate to the extent of $9,00€. The property consists of a house an lot situated on the east side of Maia treet; j-ust south b of the Canada Pacific Railway passen- ger station. It was ought about a year ago for $2,000, and it was sold for $11,000. This is making inoney a little more rapidly then is cnstomary among school teachers, pa#icalarly among Dominion Day, in company with a the lady members of the profession. gentleman, witnessing the games. The —The Inspector of County Schools young man appears to have been mole- will hereafter send :to the trustees of ing a cigar, when a spark, it ia thought, each section a report en the condition must have fallen on the lady's dress, of the school and blinding immediately setting it on fire. She frantically .after inspection. Parents desirous of jumped from the buggy, and ran a short ,knowing the exact state of the school distance, thin; assisting the flame to in- can. thus obtaih the information by ask - crease. After considereble exertion the ing the trustees for. the report. The fire was smothered out but not until form is to contain the following par - she was seriously burped. The acci- tioulars : As to schoel-1. State of re - dent may yet prove fatal. pair of building, its Windws, walls and —A Tilsonburg despatch says : The ;cleanliness. 2. Condition of desks, largest delivery of harvesting machines seats, blackboards, lighting, heating ever made in this part of the country and ventilation. B. iState .of 'school., took place here the ether day. The yard, fences, closets or: privies, outte: Joseph Hall Manufacturing Company houses, well or other -water supply, shipped and delivered through their drainage, tree planting and other inci- London agency over -$7,000 worth of dentals. 4. Whether the extent of the 8 Champion reapers and mowers. The accommodation is adequate to the num- farmers fell in procession at the Air bet_ of pupils. As t� the pupils -1. Line station, headed by the Springford Standing of pupils exmined. 2. State Band, and drove to thie place for din- of discipline, order and management in ing. One of the burglars awoke ner. When under Way the procession schools 3. Whether the school is mak- Young, telling her h wanted her was nearly half a mile long. ing satisfactory progress er not. Should ey.1 She escaped though a pas- —The lumber yards; rains, factories further information be required in re - sage and called a nihbor. In the and residence of E. B. Eddy, of Hull, gard to the efficiency ,lf yonr teacher, mea e her mute srter forcibly Quebec, has been lighted by electric it will be readily furntshed on applies- ejec the scoundrel, ret ining posses- light. The Ottawa papers speak of the tion. , 1 sion a part of his cloths. experiment as being e complete suc- —Amongst self-tauht ' linguists, Mr. Samuel Lyle, rettiding near the cess. Forty lights are used, each of John Lupton Lister, of Elniwood,Bruce lea mnes of Galway wnship, killed these lamps has an 1 ammating power county, Ontario, is ttracting notice. ) a she bar and three cub a few days equal to two thousa d candles, and He is a young man o ; about thirty-five ago. he cubs ran up st tree, and Mr. sheds a brilliant light, with strongly years of age, and is said to be wellread Lyl nt up after them. It was a hig u 31 in t the r alig the stov on t hiviij of th sem dra to se and won test. the deat ing. whe whi ed a abo Ban 26th reje Ban thic mal may lage taki poets for Mr. SUM long hig 6 t least 3,000 pe Bois were on rand istand. young lady in Ingersoll was at 's door, a day or tw ago, by chok- She was eating a. piece of bread, something stuck in. her throat, h, upon removal by a doctor, turn - t to be a piece of broom straw, t two inches long. meeting of th , Consolidated • hareholders will Ise held on the J ly, to decide up° accepting or ti g the offer of t e Exchange • to pay 12-a per cat. of the re- d Par value of the s tick for the re- ing aasets, or any o her offer that be made meantime. Tcgonto arcbitec of Ayr on Tuesday g neasurements, new and extensiv he Ayr Agriculture Watson purposes (A.. The building feet wide, an a d built of brick. orrissey, a T e dwelling of th miles east of B aohville, was brok ead on the mor 11 *as in the vit Of last week, for the pro - establishment Works, which erecting next will be 400 feet four storeys eek. ving around n Sound. on f last week. mis out of the mo farmed in constructing Winnipeg. e been sub- apital of the years more itish North d into the ch of Eng- ber of COM.- . cduce a by - oil on June e Syndicate n Railway, hirds vote to hwest Terri - 0 per bush - m $1.10 to vicinity and are said to We Po fty freight exP Misses Young, into the other ti ed of ly Pet dra uca ric bro vie the sch 11 I Board have cipal's salary a "v expiring of d to increase ant's salary ear. roll of Ox - the popula- and- villages returns of and Embro. ow a slight zua, up the as to their have favor - spring and ps are Sun- ward condi- auditors' re - of $1,219.46 of Treasurer her sum of ands of the 11 1 041:1 110 41 .40 '31 3 3 reo fal fir ear mo tio 811 • Ti rb t a interesting st ught one of the ranches of a tr u91. marked shadows, over an area of sn fourteen languages, exelusive of Eng- ggle, for Mr. 12,000 square feet, tho whole of the lista namely, ancient ; and. modern cnbs whilst up lamps having an illutainating power Greek, Latin, French. German, Span - fifty feet from equal to 80,000 candle* and lighting a ish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Ice - combined area of 480,000 square feet. landic, Swedish, Dutch. Gaelic and —The returns for the month of June, Ojibway, and with these ca -n converfie reported at the Iminigration Depot, To- with more or less fluency. in German, ronto, show the arrivals via the St. Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Lawrence and Halifax to have been Dutch, Ojibway and French. For four 2,486. Of these 1,314 were for Ontario, years, from 18751 Mr. Lister labored 35 for Manitoba, and 1,137 for the among the Ojibways in the Cortgrega- Western States. There were 573 Eng- Collet Indian mission o and more recent- lish, 463 Irish, 311 Scotch, 52 German, ly has acted as professor of Greek in and 1,087 Scandinavian. Of those the Berean College, Brooklyn, New coming to Ontario, there were reported York., from the duties of which office 692 farm laborers, 97 ,mechanics, 14 he was hastily summoned a short time clerks, traders, etc- and 60 female ser- ago to attend the sick -bed of his wife in vents. Farmers coming in looking for Hanover, Grey county. His desire is help are giving from $20 to $25 a to use his talents as a teacher of 1= - month and board for men for the next guages to any who may -with to se - two months. quire any of these languages with which —A savage assault, which will prob. he is familiar, with a, view to mission ably prove to be a murder, took place in work. Tpronto the other day. An old man —It is not very generally known that natned Bard, a blacksmith, had been the work of building ; the double track drinking rather freely, and laid down in on the Grand Trunk between Montreal his shop in a haltdrunken stupor. and the west is now, and has been for Some man then played a trick on him some time past, progressing very quiet- ly pouring oil over his head, which ly. The sidings between the different caused him to jump up and threaten stations have been extended from time the person who had done so. J. Nelson, to time, thus ultiniately connecting a scissors grinder, who is said to have each with the much 'ranted double line. played the trick, heard the threat, and Between Belleville and: Toronto will after knocking him down twice, stabbed likely be the firet complete double him with a large knife. Two doctors track, as that section is looked. upon as who examined him think Board can likely to require the itaprovement first. not recover. That portion of the roadbetween Strat- -An Emerson correspondent to the ford and Sarnia will be the second sec - Free Press says : "The reports of the tion to be completed witb tb.e doable existence of coal east Of here seemed at track, and before long the relief afford - first to be too good to be believed, but ed by these improvements will have it ia now beyond any doubt that there given quicker despatch to both freight is a sufficient quantity of coal in that and passengers. The ultimate comples region to remunerate -investments. A tion of the whole double- track line is credible eye witness informed your something looked forward to by every correspondent that Mr. Sifton so merchant in Montreal, Toronto and well pleased with the ;discovery that he elsewhere, and the Conapany is to be has decided to bay a steam borinf sp. congratulated that their financial SRC paratua, and has ordered one from On- cess in England lately Warrants them. tario. That there is good coal is now a in carrying on the double track im- positive fact, and imaltes everybody here provem.eist. feel good. —A few days ago lawny Luka,s, of • —Mr. John O'Brien, of Motint For- Grimsby township, committed suicide est, while going home Monday night, by cutting his throat With a razor. It purchased a fruit :cake, which, of appears that Smith Lukas, his son, had course, he took home. It was partaken occasion to visit soine friends in Taplye of by all the inmates Of the house. The ton, leaving his sister Alice an an youngest of the family, very soon after adopted son to watch over the old man. partaking of the cake ooramenced yore- Alice watched ditigeatly over her iting, and inside of ten Minutes all the father, who was quite oat of his mind family were in the same fix. At &bent nearly all the day. He bad tried say - three o'clock Tuesday' morning the ma- eral times to precipitate himself owtr jority were relieved of the vomiting, but the mountain since he was brouet felt very weak. TWO of the family home from the Himilton lunatic asys- were given to reaching and vomiting -at lum, but was prevented by his ail. - times al night and a ,considerable pot- dren. This time, laoWever, he in Bone tion of Tuesday. Mr. O'Brien says he way seemed a razor and steed to the never experienced snail a :strange feel- centre of the rocaa. , Alice heard his ing, 'being unable to do anything. He footsteps and ran to the , door, but was proposes hawing a portion of the cake, too late to prevent the dieed. With the still in his poesesatoia, analyzed, as he exclamation, "My Cacid. I'll do it this thinks some poisonous substance has time 1" he drew the razor acroas got mixed up in it. throat from ear to ear. Alice sprang —Business is brisk on the Manitou- forward, caught her bleeding father in lin Islands. The Morehants and her arms, and seated herself with him traders at tle different ports report on a chair, holding one hand over tile doing a largey increaised trade as corn- wound and wiping awa.y her tears with pared with former years while the far- the other. When her neighbors came mers are actively preParing for haying, in she was completely saturated with the crop of which premises well. The blood. Dr. Alway was . called in, but general prospects for the harvest are could do nothing, ana Lukas died in an much in advanee of the section of On- hour after committing the act. By - d. The fall isipelas in the head ill said to have neen the cause of his inanity. Mr. •Iiikitre was a wealthy farmer, and WILS high* respected by all with whom he as ac quainted. He 'DAVIN a 90n and dangb.ter. e Warden of the County of memorial to the Minister of Ed - re has named. al 'committee to io praying that the matter of ag- tatal instruction lia schools be ght before the Legialature with a of having this subjeet included in programme of our public and high ols. Wbrk on the new liridge for the and Railway cross* Mariatt d is progressing favrably, and is cted to be finished next week. The ge 's built nearly steel. From en appearance, if e unlooked for t he occur, it probable the 1 ay be opened arseut the latter of t month. Mr. ames McClur Watford,made ry ge sa.le of flo barrel hoops ntly. He sold 2, ,000 to a But firm and 600,000 to a Michigan ad has still on h ad 400,000. For y deli ery, he is o ering 1,000,000 e. The hoop indu try in that see- d country is takin a boom and as - in hhge proportions, 0 111 Truancy in North Chatham was deal t With some two y ars ago, and so effe tually, by the apointment of a tru nt officer, thafthe vil ceased, and lat ier1Y it is stated bhatl, owing to want of school accommodation, it is not tho ght desirable to stimulate an in - ere sed attendance, which would tend to till greater over-° cavding of the sc. • ol kcom. A daughter of iir. Joseph Crone, to ns ip of Warwick, aged ten years, wh w nted to try the management of a owr, was placed On the seat by he brcther. As semi as the horses sta ted she was thrown off in front, and th knives cut her ants in a fearful m ner. From the ctushing of some of he bones, the surgeon was appre- he sive that he would eventually have to esort to amputation. Th doii m th6 riv bei It Qu th eff th e little steamer Dodge at Lon- de several trip il up and down er on Dominion Day, each time gas tsell loaded with excursiomsts. : bought the renlembrance of the n' Birthday ditsaSter would deter crOwd, but it seem ia to have had no t in preventing pleasure seeking in t direction. Had the large steamers $202,610, an be4n rPnning they would have been cowded as usual. eida Reserve Temperance people of Kent are hows a small rising to action .again. Thursday of n, which fit last week s. county convention was held re and important business transact - e the coming camaign. An ad- eonvention wars called a few ter, which had More temperance it than any held, for the lest few The prohibitionists may be said y organied, and awaiting the er time to put tiheir plans into t. A most disgraceful and oovrardly oec trance took place near Weaver's hotel, TranquIlity asighborhood, OIL day evening, 23th Ult. About 9 p. 1:, Xr. John 8 erobheieHenry and eburning from been spendin brutally at ng on named Jcsh hot, without any banied. A has been a th Muncey Re- ed 400 inhabi- jou da ,daughter of to hor of "Bide was married to Mr. Otto H. pr itute, Jersey bride and engaged in rsuits. the Orillia starthn an- ot ing and en - one plaoe, 1823, steam - water. This r place the knowied s 1 8 m. we th th BOV ulling and two Thomas Sopr, • • Park, where the afternoon, died by three # son, Lowe and ! • • ocation, and complaint was 11± t,ario about Owe wheat, which s tion from the recent vicinity, promisee; yield on the islands, ant root crops. The such destrac- te in the latter be an average also the differ- ge quantities of 634