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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-07-29, Page 1y 22, 1881, dIed and firreay ade -Se hack, which wale /aye by this croces,s. interest to serve 34 hies only to benefit nalady referred -to. iontoka Post Office, - • who cures. by this ured my wife. yours TROMAS CORXIS11'. arena ConserVa- v Liberal Conserve. on was held at Wines ust. Delegates froee eipalities were pees. eessful meeting wee were: Turnberry, trton, J. Farrow, se essgroe-e, ETiudai - Leech. Howick,— T. Roddy, B. 8. J. Perkins, R. Ala. Wroxeter,---ste pees shi—R. Beiiyle lune, R. Buchalaae. -R. Ellis, \Vila. Ellis, wens. Motris,—G. J. Gardner, Thos. te. Ashfleld,--A. 0„ ..ow—Dr. Gardner, Grundy. Blythe— l'horne, P. Kelly. -,gers, C. R. Cooper, -WM. Holmes, Jas. —H. Meyer, Dr, a, W. 'Watson, Dr. ivniont, C. T. Scott, — I)a.vis, T. The followires Dr. Tennant,t'Vicee • INfeyer, Secretary. ee appointed Presi- t Municipalities: ewe; Howick, Hy. ry. Jos. Johnston; Iton ; Morris, Geo. 13. Willson'East ; West Wrawan- 4cknow, Dr. Gard - lege ; Ashfield, A. C. ns endorsing the vernment in their N. P.; also the ac-. entative, Mr. Fer- ried. The meeting `sin Kansas. '1 Two Alut Shot -- Ea ptricnce. 41g- last an express' land. Itailsva,y, con - rid baggage cars, six rid one eleeping Ica.ving Kausas by thirteen armed train left Kan-, • the eveniug, atict- eitiou at 9.30. The traiu at Cameron, 1 at Winstou they es with drawn re - • bandits advanced tach hand toward • and ordered him to The couductor bes ug was shot through ✓ robber shot one e cutter, of Wilton ed outward in his :lieu went through ress ear, overpower - :y, and intimitlated d safe, from which etates that the rob - of confederates on y boarded it, and at the conductor, and -cutter for the 611- tu rushed out u which they fell ecured possession of robbers ran to the applied, and the- e track at a furlong ae of the robbers express Messenger, Etaxted for the cars, given to the pas- hauds and give Let valuables. The ress car "took the red all the money iterated. The naes- down because there 1.1s.e- to eatisfy the ,ateued to kill him, tlien he told them t in his possession. ucceeded in robbing brakemen pulled Lie train stopped. robbers, who left -or the woods. The pirteen. Two had about their face& cured le not de- ft is between two liars. It is believed profeseion els. One e since the robbery, e identified. Men Ilbbers found where a 'nes in the wOoc18. away they cut the • hauging to the rN 1:WIRL) foot, of I3russel5, su robbed at Wins- • exit from etkeees, lie conductor. He that after he he lowered his rubber who had g him off his feet. ;heir flight reached . same illetan t, and you the platform :-!r • euette is said to 200 miles :_laerto the head of 'and a dwelling- -t en the 10th con- e•er Duriegai, this eke prosperity. • and Scrimgeour, Listowel High iu order to coin- - course. Two .ertised for. • River has risen - the seasou. The the heavy rains i nut the case in ract of land along ecouuted for by the having turn - he Aseihiboine nnipeg. tl 8 "r• eealbridge was the n re 2d uu dent, wiliah erepertions thau e there had beeo. nguishing it. hut happilY FOURTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE I NUMBER, 712. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1881. ONTARIO HOUSE, OPPOSITE THE MANSION HOTEL. I have received instructions from the proprietors, Messrs. Smith & West (at 1 present in Winnipeg), to rednce the stock as speedily as possible, and in order to do so, mark down goods to such a low figure, that our customers from the surrounding country will avail themselves of the opportunity of pur- chasing goods BA priceidower than they have ever been offered before. The stock is new and first-class ; no old rub- bish that has been lying in stock ifor ten , or more years. You will find ' it 831 fresh and fashionable, and consisting of everything required_ in a first-class Dry Goods House, and will be sold for • CASH ONLY, and to every person the Barae. Bantering discouraged. , A call is respectfally solicited, when the goods will be showu to you with pleasure, and we will not impertinently insist on sell- ing you goods that you do not want, but will give you au opportunity of com- paring prices and quality with any other house in the trade, and purchasing only what pleases you. Call early end often. J. A. SMITH; Manager. GREAT ATTRACT IONS . —AT— WM.. CAMPBELL S CLOTHING HOUSE, • --IN— FUR HATS, FELT HATS, DRESSED WHITE SHIRTS, REGATTA SHIRTS—all prices, READY-MADE SUITS. ALL FIRST CLASS GOODS. OOME AND SEE AND YOU WILL GET BARGAINS. - WM. CAMPBELL. Campbell's Block, No11, Seaforth. P.A_IZIVLER.S° BANKING HOUSE. SEAFORTH. OFFICE—In the premises forilner- k occupied by the Bank of Com- merce, and under the Commercial Hotel, Main, Street. NOTES AND BILLS DISCOUNTED. English and Foreign Exchange Purchased and Sold. FARMERS'SALE NOTES Purchased at Reasonable Rates, 31-00eY Lenten Collateral Securities. Drafts Issued, payable at par at all Branches of the Bank of Commerce. INTEREST Allowed on" Deposits Money to Loan on Mortgages. M. ID: la ACY MS, Manager and Proprietor. IticLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Canada. • Rev. Dr. Bonar, of Ednburgh, hes arrived in Toronto. —St. Thomas now has a populati of about 9,000. Eight year ago it h only 2,100. —Five car loads of butte were shi ed from London the other d y for G1 8- gow by Heath & Fiunemor —Upwards of $18,000 have be�u spent on St. Andrew's Chu ch, Sarni by the Building Committee. —There will be a graud •rofessiou regatta in Toronto on the 7 h and 8th of September, during the ft st week f the Fair. —Mr. Milner, a gold medalist, of T selected as llegiate i -1 1 etter fro a thousau etakes Ross thee emigreal t Edwar e for tie alance f r iver is t t, and the who a e power atfe ronto University, has been a teacher in the London c stitute at $800 a year. —Hanlan has received a Erie, Pennsylvania, offering dollars to be added to the $2,000 a side if be would row it —Over 1,000 European Went over the river at Poi last week. About 800 we Western States and the Manitoba. . i —The water - in Grand present at a very low poi prospects for manufacturer dependent upon it for their not good. —The new comet has bee the naked eye. It will mak helion passage about August ]twill be 'twenty-five times brighter than when first seen. —Mr. Amos Hill, of Pari, died on Thursday, 21st inst., aged inety-two years. He was one of the oldest set- tlers of the town, having li ed wher he died over sixty years. 1 —David Smith, of Townse d Centre, While drawing out manure, nearthed live hen and fourteen eggs n a hole, where she had been buried withoutfood or water for two months. —Winnipeg has voted $1,5 Manitoba Government $500 the expenses of receiving the General. Private subscript believed, will be liberal. —The Nottawa.saga aerie ciety has done away with mo and will hereafter give only the best exhibits at its fairs. new departure. How will it Li .1 8, seen wit its per - 18th,when 0 and thit to defri4 Governor - ons, it ida itural SQ- ey prizes, edals for This is it, ork ? —Alex. McWilliams, Esq, of Buil- lord, has sold his homestead if 92 acres', one mile from the village of Burford for $7,500 to Alex. Mclrvine,i n. Thi is a good price for a fine prop rty. —Eighteen buildings were burned i the little village of Chippew on Sun day afternoon. The fire was caused b a spark from a locomotive ring th freight house. Loss about $12,000. —Thomas Gegen, of Gri sby, mad the first shipment of pea hes from Grimsby on the 20th inst. T e sampl is as fine as was ever shipped Peache this year are going to be -Of good siz and flavor. I—The first child born in Northwest Territory, now a two weeks old, has been William Scott Brandon Coll a grandson of the laee Si Colles, of Blyth. —On Tuesday night last d ring th thunder and lightning storm two chil- dren belonging to Mr. White of Otta- wa, were so seriously injure; by th electric fluid that they died o ) the fol lowing day. —Messrs. John Jaycox nd Will Ward are making a bicycle our froin Ann Arbor to Niagara, via Amherst bmg. On an average they avel from fifty to sixty miles per day. The tri is 'pronounced most enjoyable —On Thursday of last eek Mrs. Rippen, wife of a Brockton st rekeeper, was struck by lightning whil standing at' theestove in her kitchen. The elec- tric fluid scorched her chee and in- jured her clothing. She was not seri- ously hurt. . !--A little boy at Smithville a ehocking accident the other child, who is a son of Mrs. S di I0 Brandon ittle ove hristene s. He Willie met with ay. The ah Hew- son, had his head neatly cut off by a scythe in the hands of a you g woman teeing to cut grain. He died t e follow - in day. Mrs. Grey, of Drummon ville, ob- seeved a large snake at ber ittle girl and promptly crushed the l'fe out of the reptile with the heel of he boot. It preyed to be a rattlesnake fon feet in length, with ten rattles. The hild was not bitten. 1—Last Sunday morning bound. Grand Trunk freight - off the track at the Nort Nerthwestern junction, near town. Two cars area total w the Northern and Northweste was injured. Friday morning about 8 son, aged 3, of Mr. McGee ne0.r Whitby, wandered fro andeeas found dead in a fiel No. -Inquest was considered Thenloctor says the child, finding him- self lost, was terrified to death n east - rain ran ern and George. eck, and n bridge o'clock a , farmer, n home, of oats. ecessary. —Farm labor in the vicinit and other parts of Waterloo rate exceedingly high. In a stances as high as $3 per day offered and refused for harv and many farmers- Were co give from $2 to 2.50 per day. Mr. Ephriam Stauffer, .fo Blenheim township, but now toba, is so well pleased with t trythat he has taken up one tion of land between Turtle and Pelican Lake. ,This is but in hundreds who do likewise. —Mr. Robert Bernard W Winnipeg contractor, is going a three run of stones steam g and saw mill at Pembina Th p Pembina Crossing people Watson, 5200 cash, 200 cords and 4,000 bushels of wheat, as forlsaid mills. -L-Arrangements are being m the Commissioner of Indian A the transfer of the Oka Indi the Twol Mountains locality i 11 cif Galt •s said to few in - has been st work, celled to merly of f Mani- () COIIII- alf sec- ountain one case tson, a o put up ist mill rossing. ve Mr. f wood, a bonus de with airs for ns from Quebec ta 11 Pr MC , to Muskoka. It is under- sto th t the removal of the Indians 'will shoetly be made. Ten thousand i acz1es of F land have been secured in Mit koke as a reser e, and the Indiens will be lecated upoi4 t is and suppLed wit)il provisions, farn implernents, etc. 4 -On ISaturday. ilarge a large New- foun la d dog brok into a sheep yard in 1ontieal where 1ep w re kept or HhiPping to Britain, ud when caught at four o clock on S nday 'peening, had I killpd se en and s4oi11nded seventeen oth es. 111 It is stated up -di good, authority tha the crops betjwen Quebec and 'Xiciiii rea will fall m h short of what they hay yielded n ordinary years. Ha has been so badl , burnt up by the drought hat the tot 1 crop will not amo nt o more thaii 0 per cent. of the aver ge. — c trapany has been formed in Edi bur h, Scotian , by capitalists in tha i y and in Du ee and Montre 1, for , the purpose 1 of promoti g emig atiOu to Manit ba, where th y hay bdught four hundred thou- san acres of laud om the Paci c Rai Way Company. —The storm on Mo day night di a vas1 amonut of dam e in Western On- tia, tari The crops i many, sectio s wer seriously iujur , and barns a d farm outbuildings we 0 etruok in t e vicie ty of London, undas, Ingers 11 and other places by i htning, and wi h their contents destro d. --1married wome ton, residing in A 11 0 named Joh s- hburnham no:r Petetiboro, tried to ,comniit suici e twice on Thursday nie t of last week, by throwing herself i , the river. S e was pulled out eadh time, and look d after eo as to prevent or putting an e d to her existence. , —Mr. D. Muchwaeg r, of Bright, hs two cows which he el inas cermet ee , beatee by any other b cows in t e Province for giving fk. They ave aged f or the last mo t i over 100 pounils each day, and he got a theque from t e cheese factory for $2 , 6 for the mon ih of Jure°. I —On the day of t a ,egatta at Ha ilton, Mr. Angus Mo neon, of Toront while:asleep on a s a in feont of t e Oce tte House, at the ;aoh, was robb d of a valuable gold N a h, with chai lockets, and seals, th hief ne doubt b ing one of the many 4rpers1who wee about, on that day. , 1 1 n Wednesday f last week M 1 Sanc1rson, of Peterb y, aftee making a shipnaent of cheese, t to the facto y to give the proceeds, 0, to the for man :but the latter 0 being on han , he g Ye it to Sam M , cheese -make , to h rid laim. Moor "sappeared, and he 'I r the money ha not been hea d of si ce. , , —i few days ago young strang r entered the Toron • Youog Men s Chrittian Associatio eadinn room o le .1 look ever the paper. He placed h s luncleon 4 cbair unt e should finis his reading, but wha as his surpri e when the Was prepar n to leave to find that lit had been "ho k d." —The Galt Report r Says: The Doo ,. flax redhe under the b 0 management f the 4essrs. Perrino, re rapidly d ] velo ing into a very xtensive ente prise Additions aaie yeerly bee mad ;of late to the iuldings and m chin ry, and at prose upwards of ono 1 hun red end twenty h nds Bale emplo 1 ed On the premises. he thee day rear Pertage lIa hors ft att °hod to a Wagon along t e Prai ie a armee was delving a team f edge 10f the river, wh n the bank san , precipttating the whele outfit into the water.1 After a little' loub1e the ma succ4ectedl in fishing Ilie animals an vehi le out, apparent none the woes for their Unexpected th. — t street car d i er in Londo nam4c Collins, ran s v ral blocks aft r a lad passenger, on turday and gav her a jurse contain' g 13 which sh had dropped. -He 8 o id be coalmen ed for his honest, as en of his oc patiog are not usuall t oubled in thi way. But there are fter all, hones men, even in every ran of life. —While Joseph ckard, son o Mr. Alex. Crockard, OL Sarnia town ship, was holding a c for a momen at M .1Cole's barn, t other evenin the taimal kicked h m in the le beea i g it below t • knee. Dr. Mc Lean, , as called and • t the fracture lirub, lalnd the boy i ow recoverin ra_pidEv lys. . Father S z of St. Ise': College, ,thirty-two Ls from Mon trealekindly lent a E3 ranger whom h met at the ferry dock Detroit, and wh was going to the same pace as the rev erend father, $44, all had, upon se curite Of 0. $1,000 G vernment bond which Was valueless. either man no moue ehave been see spice. -_ Monday mor i g- a brakema , -- frorn f,ratford name ames Redman While Standing on the b mpers betwee wo c ts,a6cidenta1ly li ped and got hi oot b dly 'crushed. e rotests agains , eying it amputated It is said h ried td pn 1 the pin o t f the coupling ith 1s et, which es a very fool itl ardy action. 4 the 8th of J ly, 1880, Mrs proule, who reside near Arnprior ost a son by a stroke f lightning. 0 he 1 repent annivers r5 of the lad' eath the body of er son Thomas, aged q, wo.8 found in t e Madawaska, ' -her he 1ad been b t ing. Her hus- )and a fei years ag Was frozen to e-LathA yo ng lady w 11 ng Hyde ark, Lon on, the ot day, had a I .1 artoW;escape. Her r es wae ignited by a sPelrk ' from a aseing teain, and ,t he firea made co s ders.ble head - ay wlaen it was not cd by her com- aniota: By their u ited efforts the re WaS extinguished ithout serious onBecjllen es. —Af you g lady in o onto was pass - ng al rig ti lug street is thatcity a few veni ge :.i,o when she •as approached y a y tug man who e to her. She ; 1 Id • 11 011 Id le 0 told him to native on, but he persisted in talking to her, whereupon she dealt him a vtgorouS blow in the face with the ivory -handle of a short walking - cane tyllich See had concealed about her person. , The young man has not ap- peared en thietreet since as, he wear the mark of "ane" in his face. ie —T. G. S.. evills, the runaway Ailsa Craig merchant, abandoned the 'frail woman, the wife of an Ailsa Craig man, who had agreed to share his fortunes with hina, at 1Sault Ste. Marie. The unfortunate woman, who was almost pennilees, was obliged to work her way as best she coeld to Lucknow, where, it is said, she has some distant relations. —Robert McElroy, long a resident and muCh reepected citizen of Hamil- ton, died at hie residence in that city on Thutsday of last week. The de- ceased Was seventy-ooe years of age, and wae Mayor of the city in 1862, '63 and '64, and for a great many years a memberl of theCivic Corporation. The dreecn.easedi leaveS a wife and five chil- dl —The Rev. Robert Wallace, of the West Presbyterian Church, Toronto, met with an accident on Saturday night which] Will prevent hint from doing aey sertrice for Berne tiMe. He was walking altnag the street, when he slipped off the,sidewalk to a depth of about twenty inches, breaking the small bone of pile of his legs. —Abotit five o'clock Wednesday morning of last week lightning struck Ur. Robt. Millory's barn, about half a mile north of the village of Queensville. The buildingWere totally destroyed, with 30 tons of hay and 260 buehels of grain, a new drill aud other imple- ments. Ineurance, $1,000. —Mr. J. Y,. Shautz, the enterprizing button manufaeturer of Berlin, has 200 or more e,irls employed in his extensive factory. To previde suitable accommo- detiou for those who are boardtng in the towie, he has erected an elegant ho- tel just opposite the factory, which will be surrounded with garden, &c., and be a naost attractiVe place of residence. ,A. daring robbery was perpetrated in Port Hope on Saturday night The residence of tate W. Quay was entered, and his gold Watch and chain, ivalued at $150, and a considerable stim of money, Were taken from his peckets. The thief must have been veryi quiet about hie work, as no one in the! house heard the slightest noise during the night. —Last sunarrier Mr. Walbank, land surveyor in Montreal, in mapping out the Indian Iteeerve at Caughnawaga, discovered EL boundary stone bearing date 176 and the arms of King George. Last wee M. Walbank on examining papers in connection therewith, found a prodessl verbal, i dated 1815, describing the stone referred to, and referring to the same line as far back as 1673., —Am was slig home fro n named Robert Hewitt, who tly intoxicated, was returning rn the vtllage of Cookstown, in Simcoe !county, on Saturday evening last, when his horse became unmanage- able and tossed him. quickly eto the ground. His bead struck on it stone, which caused a fracture of the , skull. He survived till two o'clock on Sun- day, when death ensued. — The Great Western Railway] Com- pany objected to the assessment made upon its ;Windsor property for taxes, and Mayer Coventry had a survey made of its lauds. It was discovered tha.t the Company had been paying taXes on thirty acres, when in reality it owned twice that amount of land, and has been encroaching fifteen to twenty-five feet on Sandwich street. The matter will be settled, in the courts. — A singular scene is reported to have happened on the steamer Montreal. Au old gentle en from Quebec dr amed that he was a out to die, and o1mored for a notery to make his will. e did not want a doctor, as he felt certain as to death's visit. A notary was p educ- ed, the will made, and the old entle• man recovered. Perhaps had he been provided with a, doctor this case 'would have turn d oet differently. —The uelph Herald protests againet the cruel of using for horses, especi- ally in h t weather, the patent doable bit with heck rein. When horses are left standing for any length of tine in the sun, pestered by flies, and uneble to move their heads without irritating their months, the use of the pate? bit is simply atroaious and should c 11 for the intervention of a law officer tb pre-, vent cruelty to' animals. —It is said that this season the bass, except those cseight in the lakes and in running teams with gravelly beds, are full of wo ms end are entirely unfit for human feod. ; The worm is located down the back of the fish, and is of a bright yellow color, the shape of pea. When the outer covering is brok n the small yellow worm crawls out. No cause can be aesigned for its a,ppeerance iu the fish. 1 —The international band coinpeti- tion at Ingersoll on the 31st of August and 1st of September will, it is thought, eclipse ahything ever attempted in Western Ontario. One thousand two hundred dollars will be offered m cash prizes, and bandsfrom all parts of Can- ada and also froth the United States have signified their intention of com- peting. There will be a contest for military bands, the three prize e for 0 which will a,mourit to $500. —Last Monday morning near Luck- d now, while a sou 9f Mr. L. McQUeens, aged 17, wee engaged fixing a neck yoke 1 prior to cittting fall wheat, the horses o attached t9 thelreaper ran away, knock- b ing him dotvn and bruising him severely, s and breaking his right arm near the shoulder, while the cutting bar gashed y his leg seyerely. . Several doctora were t promptly 'summoned, and on arrival s found it necessary to amputate the now isa at the joint! The yoting man is e postmaster, who has only one arm, was badly beaten and his face potinded to a jelly in one of the Lucan hotels by two men named Keefe and Brahain. Later in the evening Braham had his harness out to pieces. Ancither Lucanite has got into trouble. Frank Quigley used abusive and insulting language towards a young son of Dr. J.11. Flock, for which he was mulcted in $8.30. —The other evening in Galt as a lady in the northern part of the town was sitting in her room sewing about half past nine o'clock, she was surprised and alarmed on looking up to discover a man peering through the open win- dow. She instantly demanded what he wanted, when with a quizzical ex- pression be replied—"I'm Woking for my wife, darn her. She's always gali- vanting round somewhere so es a fellah can't find her. But I see she adn't here" —and he walked off. It is needless to say that that window was closed in a —Rev. Dr. Boner, the distinguished Scotch Divine, spent last Sabbath in Toronto. He preached in Knox Church in the morning and in St. James' Square (Mr. King's) in the even- ing. Dr. Boner is now about 71 years of age, though still vigorous. He minis- ters to one of the most influential churches in his city, and is widely known as a worker among the poorer classes, with whom he is exceedingly popular. He was on his way to attend Mr. Moody's Conference at Northfield, Connecticut. —Notwithstanding the . semi-official statement made that the Governor- General is to pay the expenses of his trip to the Northwest as an excuse for the shutting ont of Canadian and American correspondents, it is firmly believed that the G-overnment will foot the bill. in proof thereof it may be seated that a box or two ,of silver watches, meerschaum pipes and other articles, intended for gifts, were fel-- weeded from the Department of the I4terior to Toronto, addressed to the G-overnor-General, in -time to be taken hi charge by his attendants just prior to his starting from that point. —Some time ago a Miss Brent, o ,Toronto, was induced to sign a docu ment which she supposed was pai agree ment to accept the sole agency fo patterns sold by A. M. Tbeal, 13 r Yonge street. Some time afterwards much to her surprise, she received demand for the payment of severe notes which, as it transpired, were Oa real documents signed. She resisted the claim, and on the matter coming up at the division court judgment was given in her favor. Several other parties in the city are in a' similar position. . 1 —A few days before the Gov. -General left Quebec, en route to the Northwest, the city newspapers noticed. the arrival at the St. Louis Hotel of a couple of distinguished visitors, "Lord and Lady Belper," and the Governor-General sent his card from the Citadel. In the af- ternoon "Lord Belper" drove up to the Citadel in princely style and net His Excellency. The Governor extended his hand, but suddenly something in the alleged nobleman's appearance caused him to suspect that he was a fraud. Very slight investigation proved the suspicion to be correot. The fellow was ordered to leave the city fcirthwith, which he did. —A school section in the vieinity of Arkwright has been greatly moved by the recent birth of an illegitimate child, and the announcement that the father is a school teacher named S. M. Monk - man. The Tara Leader says the girl, under intimidation, made a declaration clearing the teacher and implicating another Person, but afterwards in an affidavit placed the paternity of the in- fant upon Monkman, and set forth the circumstances under which she had been induced to state otherwise. The trustees have referred the whole matter to the Minister of Education. —We learn from an exchange that one D. McKinnon, who has been carry- ing on business in his wife's name in Dlount Forest, Ontario, sold out his business some few days ago, settled with some of his creditors at 50 cents on the dollar,then decamped for Duluth with the balance of proceeds of sale in his pocket. Messrs. Macmahon, Boult- bee, Dickson and Jeffrey, of London, acting on behalf of some Montreal creditors, caused his apprehension at Southampton,as he was leaving the Pro- vince, and brought him to Owen Sound; and on his being arraigned before the police magistrate there he compromised by paying the full amount due the creditors for whom they were acting. —Mr. John Wark, of Ayran, lost a son about two years and six months old, a few days ago, under peculiar cir- cumstances. The little fellow, with a brother of six or seven, was walking through the fields, and as the younger lad attempted to crawl through a fence he got stuck fast. -The elder boy called to his father, who was working at some little distance away, but he could not make him hear. He then attempted his brother's rescue by the removal of the fence, but the breaking of a rotten ' rail let the whole weight of the fence down upon the fastened boy, and his ' ender life was crushed out ere relief ould reach him. i —The store and dwelling, with stock f goods, of P. Duncan & Company, Camden East, and the office and reelence of Benjamin Clark, postmaster, were destroyed by fire about 11 o'clock est Saturday night. It was feared at ne time the whole village would go, ut there being no wind, the fire was ubdued. After a time the charred re- mains of Mr. Seth Duncan, about 35' ears of age, were taken' out of one of he buildings, burned to a crisea He is npposed to have gone back f r cash id papers left in the store. he fire supposed to have originated by the xplosion of a lamp. —The funeral of the late James Pat- ullo, of Brampton, was what an ex- hange calls a "model funeral." It was larely attended. There was no pomp, Vanity, or extravagance about it. No crape was used, not eve a hat band. The 1n1 of the ceffin was thickly covered with flowers, among th m two flower lacro,sees sent by the a.crosse club, of whiich the young depart d wasa prominent i- member. Twelve young friends as rneurners 'wore whi scarfs on their arrne, who carried the emains to the cemetery, six relieving t e other six when tired. Everything bout it looked very sympathetic, to see so young a citizen whose robust - a few months ago ooked so hill of pr mise. —A Park -ill grocer named D tton is suspected of i piling upl tea ch sts and .old barrels att the rear of la' shop, thereby forming what is known as "the crow's nest." Here the able bodied West Williams farmer, and ,so etimes his wife, are Supposed to drop ack be- hind and sample the' old r . The charge was kr selling liquor by the glass, but the prosecution fai ed, and the case lwas dismissed. Man of the witnesses stated that they had bought and drank lietuor at defendant1s store, s but none of them wonld Ewe*r that they had got liquor at I the p rticular so the case f iled to be made ,ou . time specifie in the informati n, and —One evening lately, while Mr. D. Patterson, Photographer, of L °know, was visiting With his sister in Bruce township, hewas hastily sum 10 oned to a neighbor's, 'where an accident :ad be- fallen the man of the house. T e man had been out mowing, and in climbing a fence, slipped and fell on the scythe, inflicting a BOvere cut on his f rearm. He grasped the arm around the ut,and walked to the house, some dist nee off reachingit atmost in a faintin condi tion. M. Patterson dressed th wound and bandaged it, and says that man i the luckiest man he ever s w, for though the wound extends h it way around his terra; and laid bare 11 five cords of thefingers, yet none o these were cut, nor was the artery se ered. —A Buffalo Sunday paper, s :taking of the Buddie McCrae case, say it is s expected that the trial will tak place 1 in September next, until whichtime - it is probable the prisener, B own, of - Chatham, wild remain in jail. Among r the quips and quirks of the la,w o 1 of which advantage , may be taken i the -District Attorney may find it a not so easy a task to Secure a comic 1 tion as some persons mey thin . The e opinion is thet should I indict ent for murder be persisted in, a w ak case '11 b th ult, and should t e trial curing abortion, t e Can- ment may interfer on the the prisoner ca t b noyed, as incidents are cited. where 25 bushels to the acre will be taken from. fields that were thought would have to be seeded with other grains. Spring wheat also looks well in York and. On- tario Counties, and is said to be very even in height. The straw of oats is rather short. —The old„ adage that "murder will our is fairly exemplified in the circum- stances here related : On the,27thJune, 1870, a logging bee 'was held in Mnlmur township, Simcoe county. On the evening of that a SOME) young men engaged M jumpin , and a quarrel en - seed. A quiet, ino ensive man, named Sohn Bengman, e deavored to qfiiet the trouble betwee two of the young men, when he was Struck on the head. with a sled roller, in the hands of Henry McCormaek, fracturing, his skull, from which death resulted on the following day. McCormick flea the country, and not a word was heard of him until three Weeks ago, when J. Murray, a Government detective at Toronto, learned that McCormick was ha the vicinity of East Saginaw. De- teetive Murray, attoompanied by an- other officer, at °nee proceeded to East Saginaw and traced out his man, whom he found on a farm- some 40 miles dis- tant. They arrested him, and brought him to Toronto, and he is now in the county gaol, awaiting the necessary ex- t dition papers to be obtained! Mc- Ormick has lived for eight years in that vicinity, and has a family of eight children. —The gentlemen doing business on Saturday in the London Cheese 'Mar- 1t—now :an important institution to s the city—felt incensed and insulted by an alleged! practical joke. As is well s known, the Saturday's business is trans- acted upstairs in the City Hall or below hi the Arcade. teeters and sellers naturally :spend considerable time in telling over the points of trade. These cOnversattons sometinaes occur on Rich - Mond Street near the Arcade. On Sat- urday an ettempt was made by some person or persons to hold the cheese Men up tg ridicule on one of the main streets of the city—Richmond. An uneightly object, in the shape of a bench, was placed just to the North of the Arcade, in front of a store window. Back, front, sides and ends were pasted oVer with such expressions as these : ‘‘Pree seat for cheese speculators," "Take a glass of crank," "Pkeete do not slt on the signs," "Cheese Al" "Keep pour brognes off our signs, "Do you know anything about points? if not, take a seat," "Part of this to let," "Don't crOwd the ladies off the walk," "Take a seat," etc., etc. After being , on the street for a time, the object was ' picked up' and thrown out on the Mar- ket Square. Buyers and sellers took the mattq as a personal insult, and ptotested egainst it. °tithe °thee hand the business men, who occupy stores in the Arcade, say that the cheese men lounge about their premises unneces- sarily and id isturb btasiness. progressino favorably. —It appears that things are still lively in iddulph. On Thursday of t last week George Porte, son of the c 0) be one for pr adieu Goveri ground that tried after being extradited for an offence which, under the treaty, is not extraditable. —A few nights since several e:luable sheep w t len from the farm of Mr. Samuel Long ord, orBiddulph. It was ascertained t at the sheep ha been sold. to Mr. le anigan, of the 5th °netts- sion, London township. Mr. Fl nigan, when informed that the sheep h d been stolen, set out with the officers Ibo cap- ture the thieves. They drove to Bryan - ton, and thence to St. Mar's and Mitchell, where the thieves se .arated, one continning his road in their agon, the other purchasing a ticket t the railway station. He was seen boarding the train, and was soon arres ed. A stern chaBel again commence: after Little, the other man, and he w: taken not fea. from Seaforth. II 10 s over - The pritioners were brought back an taken before Squirel Peters, who re ended them. —The other day in Montreal well dressed, respectable looking in n was walking along the street with a rather gaily dressed woman, when a thi d per- son appeared Upon the ecene a n d de- manded an explanation why t e first woman was in company with h r hus- band. Without waiting for t she pounced upon her rival, and fe there, parasols and ribbons flew in all direc- tions, while the guilty husband 1 ft the scene as fast as his legs could carry him, leaving the female combat nts to fight it out. This they proceed to do until the arrival of a detecti , who separated the enraged women The husband is a Man regarded as highly respectable, a Iresident of the Ea t End, a president of a charitable socie y, and certainly kncivts better than to k p the company in which his indIgnan wife found him. he affair, it is be 'eyed, will end in a separation. —The law respecting the taki 11 g and paying for newspapers is very strict, and delinquents would do well no- tice the following : The Welland Tele- graph lately spruced up some of ts de- linquent subscribers by bringing them before the judge of the Division ourt, and we copy its remarks anent th case : "In one of the defended snits b ought by the proprietor of this !paper gainst one in arrear e for subscription, t e de- I fondant clainted that he had no sub- scribed to theM, for the Telegrap . He had paid Mr. Dewhurst one do lar to January, 1874, after which time e had not subscribed, The paper came along, however, and he took some out f the post office. ge afterwards mov his residence, and. for over ttvo yea s had not had it. The judge Fnled t at he was liable for the amount, $1 50 per year, it not being paid in I advance, and 10 : i0 9 : gave aid 'the law ie very plain o soint.7accordingly. His „dgment —A corres ndent who has t most of the country around, T and made extensive enquiries co ing the crops,states that the crop in a radius of fifty miles ,of T *ere never better. A great d -al of barley has been cut, and , in malI y sec- tions it will thrash out 40 to 60 bus i els to the acre. The color iS ex :• ngly bright and the; kernel wig/ fill: Al- though fall wheat is ratler late than usual; it has urned out better th • the most sang ne anticipated. Many farmers who plowed tip their ft.ids of fall wheat in the spring are mu —A very heartless desertion of a Guelph girl has recently came to light. The girl iS a daughter of Mr. John Thompson', of Guelph, who is manager of a large 'Cabinet factory there. She is young, handsome and accomphshed. Aenong the hands in the factory was a fine, smart and handsome young man named James Allan. He got acquaint - 64 with the young lady and professed to have fallen in love with her. He pro- posed to her and was accepted, but Mr. Thompson would not hear of the ar- rangement. Affairs went on in this way for sotne time when the lather was again appealed to but being still inex- orable the young couple took matters into their Own halide and started off for Oswego, R. Y., she taking with her ail the money and clothes she possessed. Here they were married by a Justice of the Peace and lived happily at an liotel for a week. The week over, Allan, having heard thathe was wanted by a woman who was then in town looking forihim, became excited, and confessed to Miss Thompson, or Mrs. Allan, as she thought, that he had an- other wife living. The scene that fol- lowed was an exciting one, and when the injured and outraged girl found herself deceived by the man upon whom she had lavished her love, and for whore she had &Sorted her home and her friends, Allan rushed out of the room to escape her reproaches and did not return till night, when he found. the woman he had so shamefully betrayed hick from the excitement and grief through which she lead. passed. He persuaded lier to take something he called medicine, and in a few momenta she was in a dead stupor. The villian had drugged her, and during the night robbed the girl of $54 which she had in her pocket book, took all her jewellery, except that, which she wore, and left by the 4 a. m. train. The next day - she awoke with a terrible sensation of sickness, ° and it was not long before she discoveked the loss of her jewellery and xnoneyi Sick and faint, she craw- led to the hotel office and learned that Allan had gone away by the last train. She comprehended that she had been robbed, as Well as deceived and deserted. With four dollars, which the rapacious Allan over14)oked, she came to Buffalo to look for Work, not daring to go home, Honor and saw mil advertisement from a lady this on Prospect Avenue for a domestic. She went alert?), and finding that she yelled could not sgree with the lady, she ronto, sought a new place in the family of Mr. cern- R. Stafford' there. After a short time with- she fell seriOusly ill, and itt her anguish ronto told Mrs. Stafford the whole story of her wrongs,' Her father was telegraph- ed ,for, and he came as soon as a train could bringlhim, and his joy at discov- ering the de.ughter, for whose recovery the family had almost ceased to hope, was beyondlthe powers of description. He at once took her back to her home, and has instituted measures both here and in Canida to bring Allan to jus7 h au- tice.