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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-08-12, Page 1T 5, 1881. FIMIlla•••111.211a. o broed, said re:. three to extract it. of Londesboro, enitobas and Iikea urchased 640 acres out two of the nag Ady and Rn outthree thousEund, b, Mr. Jae. HowsOri ler power of naort- ferty, iu McKillop, irtg of 371 acres. -Ae the lead is y lit.tieimprove. dered&fl unusually body of Mr. Wle,, - to Clinton ort is Deceased was for- derich, but recently au. on the Canada On Monday night ig in the engine of liscovered to be on. ,ng the top of elle • made a mistep cars, whichpassed erribly niatilating afe ancl child, ui Wecluesday, Young, who with niiy has resided in ey for a number of eide by deliberate..ke. She had been 'rse only about five E;band was inform - 1 been_ taken from Lila lady was about vas subject to fits • Export. stistics show the ieese shipped frozri eut ports. in Great Lo July 30, le81, 1881 1880. 1(12,,23 182,170 28778 17,361 19,887 4,952 5,997 2,451 .....246,450 206,934 !:eneent of the pres- total exports xes,-- against 206, - responding period increase of 39.. shows the num- ter ahipped from .ent ports ha Great o July 30, 1331, 1881 1889. . 1 I,S1G 32,177 • 13,513 11,855 !.... 1,18e 7 197 107 3 took an excar- retitle a few days sving the comer la-terien Church. :Grath, the Liver - en found bamity of _and seetenced to s latter for life, :eel), years. ies of petroleum anover, Germany. 'e of Pieine yields --, 20,000 gallons. to a speculation 3 eeighborhood is /00 art acre. e of robbery ocs during Saturday uce of Mr. Wm. treat. After, Mr. on Senday morn - users, which, on. found iLi the hall - Le steirs, with the ,s, two or three 'ea making further at and vest at irs, but his geld , with some small }eket, were miss- y, other jewelry id was left an.dis- lor or window in. unfastened in the to the belief that )y one of the in sad accident oc- iinith's Portage. th of Longford .sr. As Miss E. liter of Mr. Sae. who was spend. - e, was walking.? ove the portage ped out of its corning between leg was badly le, necessitating elow the knee, accessfully per - has borne up t present is do - possibly be ex - e_ have been raging tie and Maniton- spread to the t loss to the set; a Expositor of eellowina pattion- rought r'by bush, 1 Sandfield : The a to have been of Lake Minde- is a list of the ye, beeu able to 11 his hay, oats, n4es, and soma reline, nearly all ;Cranston, some 'erep ; B. Bock, Wits of hay on grain crop; T- wegon, harness, and part of his res of wheat and. f. Alexander, all stables; Jamee his fences, hay, David Johneton, all his feaces arshall, most of ; Henry Bock, ,LI over 5 tons of hi a fences and and a lot of the deuce Bay Rota David Vanhorne, d fences, stable, uel George and ast part of crop, wagons, cutting ; MoKendrick is at extent is not nd John Ander- David johns' ere scorched, and e greatest axe' learn none of - d. a 11 • ER, 714. FOURTEENTH YEAR WHOLE NUMB . / SEAFOITH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881. GREAT BARGAINS —IN— READY-MADE CLOTHING. Men's Suits worth $16 for 15 14 12 10 cc cc 8 cc tt CC tC CC tt CC CC - .4 cc tt cc tt $12 11 50 11 10 8 6 THE GRAND CLEARING SALE —OF— GENERAL DRY GOODS A GREAT SUCCESS. WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL FIRST SEPTEMBER. DON'T FORGET THE PLACE, ONTARIO HOUSE, OPPOSITE MANSION HOTEL. SMITE[& WEST. 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. COME AND SEE, AND YOU WILL GET ARGAIN B WM. CAMPBELL. Campbell's Block, No 1, Seatorth REMOVAL, REMOVAL A. C. McDOUCALL & CO., MAIN STREET, BEFORE REMOVING INTO THEIR NEW STORE I WILL SELL OFF THE. WHOLE OF THEIR SUMMER STOCK AT Wholesale Cost Price. SALE TO COMMENCE THIS DAY And Continue for One Month. ALL GOODS SOLD FOR CASH AT COST PRICE., Any buying at this Sale on time will be charge d Ten Per Cent. Extra, but the Goods will be sold at Wholesale Cost the same as to Cash Cus to m- ere, 'NIS IS A GENUINE SALE, And &awe ask is a Call to Compkre Prices with any other Dry Goods House in Canada. Factory Cotton by the Piece At 6 cents, Old Price 8 and 9 cents per yard. • A. G. McDOUGALL & Co. MAIN STREET, SEAFOBTH. Canada.' 1 "The silver gate of iiake Superior" is the name bestoweid on Prince Arthur's Lauding by Lox'd Lorne. P t —Hon. Alexander ackeDZ10 and Mrs. Mackenzie will sail for Canada on the 20th inst. He is much imroved in health. —Moir, Son, & Co., bakers, Halifax, have suspended payment. Their direct at between i liabilities are estimate 375,000 and $100,000. —The celebrated Scot ish singEr, D. Kennedy, accompanied by three daugh- ters and two sons has commeneed a tour of the Dominion. —Mr. Pearce, a shoe dealer from Austin, Texas, has arrri ed in Lo don to purchase "Longwool ucks," o ross with "Merinos," on his o n farm. - —There is in the gard n of lir. Ban- natyue, in Winnipeg, a atch Of spring wheat sown last fall. t hasjattainsd a magnificent growth and is nearly ripe. —The Rev. Dr. McKa , the E'orinosa missionary, is now in M nitoba. Last Sunday forenoon he prea hed ib Knox's church, Winnipeg, and i the afternoon in Kildonan. —A local dealer in 0 tawaihas con- tracted with the St. La ranee and Ot- tawa Railway for transp rtation of 800 carloads of coal from S ranton, Penn- sylvania, to Ottawa. —Hartmann, the New ork Nihilist, has left that city and is supposed to have come to Canada. e don't want any such mischief brew r in our fair Dominion. I —Prof. Brown, of the Ontario Agri- cultural College, and 0 lonel Taylor, Adjutant General of Mil tia, have Icon- sented to act as judges of thoroughbred cattle at the Dominion E hibition. —Mrs. Mulick, of Toro to,th mother of the Vice -Chancellor, as resented the Senate of Toronto U i ivers ty with the sum of $2,000 for th pn pose,,,, of establishing a scholarshiplor classics. • —Mr. W. C. Scott, of Sulliyan, has a colt from a four year ol mere, born on the 27th of April las which 'Meas- ures as follows: 14 inc es aprose the pins, 4 feet, 3 inches hig , and: built in proportion. —The lowest tenderer for the con- struction of the }fleundati n of the new Parliament House at tie ec is Mr. W. Peton, whose price bout $13,000, and the contract has ben awarded to him. —The Toronto Dairy hereafter supply the eft bottled in hermetically s and delivered in a paper guard against the chanc tion. —Rev. E. II. Dewart, Christian Guardian, p amil ton , is travellin health. When last he Was at Guernsey island, i Channel. —The heat in Quebec o intense. The thermomet 900 in the shade and 108 As woman fainted in the at a horse fell dead in St. both overcome by the heat —At Wimbledon, on July, in the competition fo Prizes, open to all come Mitchell and Private Mite with Remington rifles, ma each, and won 22 apiece. —Secretary Blaine teleg Washington to Montreal night to Consul -General strawberries for President a supplyavas sent forward Rhodes' farm at Quebec. —The notorious Jack S eeha was tried for the murder f El has become a violent lunatic in Point Asylum. He refuses kept strapped down., to,pre juring himself or others. —The woollen mills a shops at Paris, which power from the water of River, are working on _owing to scarcity of water. has never been known BO lo —There has been a, good wheat at the Ontario M G-uelph, this year. On th crop of the Diehl variety gro acre plot was threshed. Th 255 bushels -51 bushels to t 1 rn IT 11 111 ompeny will with milk, aled bottles 'over, so as to of aclulteraa f the d in his m he nglish ditor blish fo rd fr the , Friday was r r gletered in he sun. eet cars and ohn Street, he 2n4 of the rthur s, Sergeant ell, ellooting e 49 points aphed from last ridity. ian Sh for arfield, and om doloael i, whockett, I ongae food; and is ent him in - d michine erive their the Grand hort time, The river . , ield df fall del Farm, 28th the n ilia five yi el WAS 0 acre. in Galt on 00 nifdles last week ashington, xpenment 39 needles I i ved al con- -A short time ago a lady opening a. pin cushion found imprisoned inside. One day Miss Martha Wakefield, of Blenheim, tried a similar and was rewarded by finding of all sizes in her cushion. —A Mr. Hdlnaes has rece tract from the Syndicate for c on an area of three hundre land near Portage la Prairie, This will make a pretty larg He has got several mowers gang of men at work. —A company has just be to run a direct line of prop tween Montreal and Duln known as the Northwester Company. Three boats will on the route immediatel an additions made next seas VI 13. • 11 ttin an hay es of oba. hay field.. nd a large n formed ller be - h, to be Express e paced fu .ther • • —G. W. Weisberger, of "heeling, Virginia, is anxious to r w a ace with Jacob Gaudaur, of Orillia. G udatir is willing, -end will row three, fo i r or five miles, on Toronto Bay, for -00 or a $1,000 a side, within a morith from the present date, allowing $200for epeeses. —Several horses have died t Ottawa recently from a very peculiar, disease. The cause of the disease is \ nkn' wn. The animal is first taken wit vielent pains in the abdomen, whi h com- pletely prostrate him, and deat follows after several hours of terrible onye —The other Morning John Darnell, who met with in accident on t e 1st of June last at Robertsville, near ngeton, through the explosion of a n while he was in the act of firing it, mider- went a surgical operation,1 w icb, al- though painful, was. atteed d ith once in weight, piece of iron, full3f ' good results. an a portion of th brroh 0 : Is thisi 1 of e un, Was extracted from under the eye It! had ran:milled embedded t vo inches eep below the eye for Over t ' o inot ths , little ,irl, daughter of Mif. Sar - g f Rap d City, Manitoba, nij7steri i app ared some deys ag , an t yet been found. Her p rents t rails distracted, and the worst I nt, ojttsly h s n a. el n f are r entertained. h il ev. Professor Tor ance, pal of the WoOdstock Li erary te, di don the 3rd inst. afl Bob' n. The reverend gentleman had ling fee a year past, and Tor a e there was little hope of his , Ftict c yge eu l.ngtx • COV I —Th other day a young woman, ou h r from Montreal to Ottawa, on t e etba er Maude, had her drees set o 1 fire hy a Spark from the smokedack. Sae Wa saved from a terrible death by toe captain and some fellow passengers, w o tbre away her burning clothe. —Mr. Robertson Young, fourth son • the late Hon. John Young, did on 1`, co; a night after two day's illnees. r. Yodog was for sonie time in the B 'nk ofhlontreal head office, and re - c ptl appointed to the accountautship o the branch at Almonte, where he d ed. —Tha exportation 'of horses from ontrea,l to tbe States for the past fizcal e r shows a falling off in number, a cmpared with the previous year, bt a,r ilicrease in value; the number b iu4 7 093 costing $683,110, as com- p red w th 8 267, costing $670,657, for 1,80.L hitle driving in the Exhibition P rk u Guelph the other evening with hi sile and child, Mr, George Mears w s in, into by some young men who re a ing, Upsetting his buggy and br,eakijug his leg. Mrs. Mears was seiverqy bruised. The child escaped u•nh 1 Offer of 20c. on the dollar from M ss . ;Secord st Nicholson, the Great West° n' Railway contractors, to their w rks en almost created a riot in Thor- ol r. Secard was afraid for hie life. T e en weee finally induced to accept the ca le payment with a due bill for the balan o., v, Mr. Lowry and family, after a resi. e ce of nearly a quarter of a cettijy u Brantford, left on W dues - day q3rt1ing of last week for thei new h Trento. Their dep rture w s taessed by a large numb&r of th riencls, Who, assembled at the st tiu to say good-bye. Tie business men of Kingston are ci u theg a petition for signature prior tog pres nted to the Postmaster - G e 11 It asks for a reconsider tion of regulation authorizinga4 in- ce oil the postage on routine locu- m passedj between lawyers, i sur - an a en, and others. thor ughbred Jersey City cow, of St. Croix, owned by ab, of St. John, N. B., $1,000, died from the ng, a quantity of hard ca an eff br lat ha ye re 2,4 fa ab wo v7a go an in he ly Ga it thr qu ran ha ter difi int tio ho Th str nea ani a fe last No lea bar hor eta Th a w be t i as e4; n0 0 n Pride Vaug ued a of eat The osv took first prize at the hibitioin, and has always been 13;1 successful wherever exhibited. •e tnunter of Canadian veterans bk part, in the war of 1812-15 that 6en paid a bounty so far this 11006. They are given $25 each. years ago there were 3,024 who ed $20 each, and two years ago he ;lumber is being reduced w'll be seen by the figures given ewly 1 arrived EnglishInan lat Hay's factory in Toronto ne a eticking machine and for- e ot the knives. The machine ,poo -evolutions in a minute, knife flew out and buried itself Orkimi,n's cheek. It was thought dad, li:ut he recovered sufficient- c 1 1 { McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Wrecked. The engineer held to his post, and was taken out seriously but not fatally injured, all other train hands escaping. It is reported that the en- gineer is to blame. This is the third i 'engine that has tumbled over the em- bankment at this place. —Duncan McEachen has :secured a location in the Nepigon Channel, from by whieh he expects to derive a fortune eupplying all parts of the country with an exceedingly handsome variety of brownstone, suitable for residences. The article is said to be of the very fitounesstinquthalie quality. d.There are millions of • —One of the steadiest, most respect- able of the drivers in the employment �f the Toronto Street Railway Company *as some years ago a Jesuit priest well known in England and Ireland. He says that a late conductor was formerly a Dominican friar and in se - red orders. Neither has left the Ro• Man conamunion. Each is unmarried nd a total abstainer from fermented 1 quors. --The other morning about one 'clock an oil well at Sarnia took a sad - en spurt at the depth of 560 feet. The il flowed about sixty feet in the air, bove the whole derrick, and the flow 1 ted about six hours, driving the men from their work, but finally toiled own so that the pumps could. be put . The driller estimated the well at twenty-five barrels per day. —Mr. Vennor prediets now that we may expect a great change in the eather about the time the new comet i in its perihelion, when it will be also fearest the earth. This will occur .n the 20th of the present o onth. Durin this week (15th to 20th) iustead of being burnt up, s many expect. I think we shall be •early frozen by frosts and strong, cold, ortherly winds. —Three Cornwall gentlemen, Messrs. . W. Liddel, Donald McDonell and A. . Ross, have leased for a period of 21 ears the three islands in the River St. Lawrepce, about four miles east of Cornwall and known as The Three Sisters." Mr. McDonell takes the northern, or largest, Mr. Liddell the elouthern, and- next in size, and Mr. Ross the centre one. They intend fixing them up for their own private 80. —On Saturday morning as the ex- ess train on the Northern Railway as crossing Yonge Street, about a mile uth of Aurora, a young man named amuel Alexander attempted to cross e track in a butcher cart in front of e train. The locomotive struck the rt, crushing it to pieces, throwing the young man out, and killing him instant- Hon. T. M. Gibbs, of Oshawa; ex - Alderman McGee, Holt, Lees, and Blackstock, of Toronto. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the capital stock has already been subscribed. It will require 150 hands to perform the work when the refiner is in running order, and as it will be run day and night a double staff of employees will be required. —The ravages of diphtheria in some parts of NewBrunswick,areillustrated by the case of the Niel family at Oak Point, Northumberland county. A boy of the family about raven years pld died of the disease, after which a daughter, a young woman of twenty-five years, also took it and died. Then Terenee, the eldest son, one of the ablest men of the parish, aged about thirty years, died, i while the only remaining daughter is at the point of death. The only r maining son, the disease. e by sprrow, ady, and it is . eek a young Snell, while in bathing gotout named doo jofahrn, and becoming tired gave up and was drowned. Mr. Willie Carter sseam to him, and caught hold of him befbre he 4 went down, but his (Carter's) b thing suit becoming tangled with his et he was forced to let go and save hinaself. Young Snell was abopt seventeen years old, and acted as 'clerk in the Imperial Bank. He was the eldest son of the Baptist minieter at Port Colborne, who is at present hi Da- kota. — Mrs. Scott, who left Port Elgin about four months ago to join her hus- band at Winnipeg, returned last week by steamer to Port Elgin in very poor health. She had been ailing before her departure from Winnipeg, but during the passage back got rapidly worse, so much so as to necessitate her rennoval while landing from the steamer in the arms of some of the passengers. 1 Her decease took place on Sunday morning, aged 22. She was the daughter Of the late Mr. Eastwood, Division Court Clerk, and is the fifth member of that family who has passed away -during the last two or three years. — A man named Forbes, a meciianie, who had been in Toronto about two weeks, informed his wife that he was going to the States in search of eraploy- meat. The wife packed up their effects in accordance with his wish, and they, s together with their children, proceeded to the Union station the following t afteruoon. On arriving there the hus- t band, under a pretext of getting tickets c for the party, left them standing on the y platform, but failed to return, and the le. The horse escaped without a poor woman realised the ifact that she scratch. ,was deserted by her husband, who had —The death by drowning is annoanc- left for Detroit by the p. m. train. i ed of Mr. Thomas McKenzie, son of Her baggage had been s "pped to her enneth McKenzie, Esq., of Portage la father-in-law's home at Bolton, where rairie, Manitoba. The young man the unfortunate woman proceeded. as engaged in buying and driving —For a genuine specimen of a good c ttle from the American side into Manitoba, and had with him at the thale of the aceident a large herd of cat- tiband some horses. He was drowned w ile crossing Missoula Ferry, Mon- t81,12—aThe Rev. James Robertson, late pastor of Knox Church, Winnipeg, was i ducted on the 26th July as Superin- t ndent of Presbyterian Missious in anitoba and the Northwest. He was esented with several addresses and a rse of $632 by the congregation. The dies presented him with a costly gold ain. The congregation of Knox urch will now consider the advise- ity of selling their present expensive ifice and with the proceeds building two new churches. —The St. Thomas Gun Club has se- ured a fine trophy for competition. It o sists of a large silver water pitcher, out eighteen inches high, two goblets and glop bowl, together with a magnifi- cent salver. The articles are beautiful 4n design and perfect in workmanship. The chasing on each of the articles is a grand specimen of the silversmith's art. The trophy cost $70, and will require to be won three consecutive times in order to become the property of any cotn—p*etsiatodr. drowning accident occurred .__ Thurso on Friday evening by which es Daisy Bate, daughter of H. N. tei of Ottawa, lost her life. She was m ron's daughters, and venturing out hitpg in company with two of Mr. fer, got suddenly beyond her depth. •e body was recovered in a short time, d every effort made to resuscitate S ap from sharing the fate of her , ut without avail. One of Mr. a ron's daughters had a narrow °e-ilairpii°tiliable scene came under the bseryation of the passers-by in Hamil- on, the other day. On John Street °Ali a respectably dressed woman ea seen in an almost helpless condi- &oh of intoxication, her two daughters, he elder only about nine years of age, David, is also. down wit The poor mother, °vertu) has also taken the mu feared she will not survi —On Thursday last man, of Port Colborne, ' moved. wate in the Grand River at a wer t the present time than n fo several years. Two or s Could drain it without th' it thirst. The heavy oint to the north of us must gen merely local in their cherac- 1 they have made no appreciable eite c in the water in the river. TT eat laet week in Toronto was nss nd several cases of prostra- e repotted to the police. None, hadl serious results. On rs ey two herses, one on Gerrard et est, an another on Queen street alrliame t, were stinstruck. The :ptlrEiithaef ast mentioned street died o Mr. Chas. Parks, near er it fell to the ground. ing a ender storm on Friday 8011 Ugust , was riding a horse and eothe from the field to the th lightning struck the vas iding and killed it in - The other escaped uninjured. oy was knocked -senseless for , but gr dually recovered. Wil iams' large cheese and actoryf at Farmersville was oe the 3rd inst. About one cheeso were destroyed. Con - 1 f th machinery was saved. t4nj lost, it being all stored in a tiding forty feet •west of the he 4re is supposed to have, the r of from the smoke -stack ine. turday afernoon as an eleven s n of Robert Porter, of Pus- driYing a load of barley to e slipped and fell off the load, es loo e on the wagon. The n came rightened and ran away, i acr pass ng over tba boy. It was ' exanaination that niS ribs brOien anal ortished into the lungs. about half an hour after the t occurred. t 30 last Saturday morning an 1 witch at Brampton Station, t d ten c a cattle he Origin° ge, 't of a of 4 10 bbutirtlieer hunt side N sma fact ry caught iia of t e —On year old lincl , vy the arn whi h ks hors the foan wer He acci en a 1 in Mi ba to an he avin • hold of her hands, and a little o3r p • shing a small carriage in front. ihe f:11 heavily upon her face, and it ae lo OA pitiable to see the children ryine to raise her to her feet. The o Tian was taken to her residence by ome 1 cq Joshua Winn, nces. .h a farmer living e r tee village of Hawksville, in the ount of Waterloo, met with an acci- e t on Saturday last of a very serious atur He was assisting in drawing gr: • , and was in the act of getting oWn Off the mow, when it is supposed e became dizzy and fell to the floor, a istan e of nine feet, his head striking he en of the hub of the wagon fractur- ieg th skull just behind the eye. He a ta en up insensible and since that me has suffered from concussion of e br in, and his recovery at last ac- e nht;cwomaspdaonuybthfualsbeen formed in . _a orpn o with a capital of $20o,00p for e purpose of manufacturing grape a ar and syrups. Among the share - era: are Messrs. Stryker, of Buffalo; open cans Rail and ban of th b the len Bot 81of the Grand Trunk t rain to leave the track tP pitch down an em - rt 25 feet at the verge &land with the pilot in Ain street sidewalk. ine nd tender were badly h husband Lower' Town, Ottawa, comes to the front. This model husband has not been known to do a hand's turn for the last ten years, living on the hard earnings of his loving wife, who takes in sewing in order to support herself, child and indolent sponee. She is obliged to do his washing and buy his clothes, and every morning she has his boots shining for him when he gets out of bed. She is obliged to help him put on his garnients, which ' she always keeps scrupulously clean for him. This model wife is possessed of ;more heart than brains, or she would I have made her home too hot for him long ago. —A charge of skimming and milk watering having been preferred against Mr. Benson Baldwin, one of the pat- rons of a cheese factory in London township, a meeting of the Board of Directors was called for the purpoee of holding an inveStigation. Mr. Baldwin was present and acknowledged the truth of the charge, when the Board decided that he should forfeit his entire month's milk (4,024 lbs.), said milk to go to the benefit of the other patrons. Mr. Baldwin signed an agreement to this effect, when the matter was settled. —Last Sunday, as the collection plate was passed around in Knox Church, Ingersoll, a lady who had placed her donation in the little enve- lope supplied for that purpose, put her hand in her pocket and put on the plate what she supposed to be the en- velope, but on her arrival home she discovered that instead. of putting the envelope on the plate she had put on a prescription for sleeping powders which she had received the previous day, and which concluded as follows :—"Divide in ten powders and take one every four hours. The patriarch who passed around the plate has not yet solved the mystery. —An exchange says: It seems the farmers are growing the wrong kind of wool. The statement is Made that 750,000 pounds of Canadian long stapled wool is at the present momentunsaleable. There is no demand for such class of wool. The manufacturers want a finer fibred and shorter stapled wool. The country wants other breeds than Cots- wolds or Leicesters. The Southdown and Shropshire Down will 'give better mutton and finer and higher priced wool, or a cross of the native'sheep with one or the other of these will improve the quality of both flesh and. fleece, and thus put money in the farmer's pockets. —The will of the late Joseph Mackay bequeaths $130,000 currency to his niece, Miss Henrietta Gordon, and $130,000 to other relatives, and some $63,000 to dif- ferent charitable societies. The Home Missions of the Presbyterian; Church in Canada, Foreign Missions of the said Church, and Montreal Presbyterian College, towards endowing a chili; getting $10,000 each. The French Evangelization Society of the Presby- terian Church gets $30,000; the French Canadian Missionary Society, $1,000; Waldensian Mission, $1,000; Preeby- - terian College, Manitoba, $1,000; to as- sist ch4rch building in Manitoba, $1,000; Foreign Missions, Free Church of Scotland, $2,000. —An accident and heavy loss by fire occurred at Rend Eau har or on Mr. James Buchanan's place onl Saturday, July 30th. Amos Anger leered 30 acres of land for Mr. Bucllianan and was to have the first crop—and a good one he had of fall wheat. Phat morn- ing he Oonamenced threshi g and had only about 100 bushels thr shed when they were called to dinner. All hands left, takipg the teams and hat wheat was threshed and leaving o person in charge ; 1 and it is said that t es, left the fire scre n open. But be hat as it may, when they had di ner taken, some party saw the fire, nd by the time the rnen could reach it the stacks of wheat and machine were enveloped in flamieS. Loss about 50 bushels of wheat, Mr. Anger Rumble' machine, separatOr and part of- the the riving belt, Mr. Buehanan's wagon an rack and several 1ags, pitchforks, etc, —A s4idow lady just COMO to live in Torontol was waited upon the other eveningby two respectably -dressed workmeF , as she thought,' who repre- muting themselves to be Sent by the landlord, began to examine the front door lock which was tionieWhat out of repair. Her suspicions being aroused by the way in which they set to work, she slipped out by the ba4k way and brought in her neighbor' son, who took stock of the strangers He saw through their little gamei One pre- tended to be fixing the 1o4 while the other was taking an impre sion of the key in wax. The young fellow stepped forward to seize him, but n fortunately tripping distuebed the m ii by the noise. Seeing they were iscovered, they took to their heels an vanished, leaving behind them their w x and the front door key. —Twenty-eight years ago little girl, Annie Halliday, six years of age, whose parents reside at Chute's cove, Nova Scotia, was missing, and sot4ae 300 men turned out to look for her, b t she was not found, to the great. grief of her par- ents, and after all hope ha4 died out her funeral sermon was pr ached. A few days ago word was s nt to the family that Annie was ali e and was livipg With some Indian fa ilies with- in a few miles of her for er home. Two of her brothers probee ed to the place, and found their long lost sister the wife of a young Indian, nd mother of two children. She went with them to the old homestead, which she recog- nized, and told how she wa stolen by Indians. She refuses to orsake her Indian husbarel, and her jarents are troubled how to act to get h4 to remain with them. —An Ottawa young marl has gone through an unpleasant ordeal at Mur- ray Bay, where he has bee enjoying his summer vacation. It eems that some nights ago his room a the hotel where he was staying was neereznon- iously vieited shortly after idnight by some perties who were disg ised, and, s, he was ducked in an extent o get over ath. The does not e affair; it is quite an in the to have f the em - may have qualities hose city in one of despite his strenuous effor taken out of the place and an adjacent pond to such that it took him swipe time the effects of the 'forced letter bearing the intelligent) give full particulars of t but from what is written evident that there was a wo case. The ducking is sai been administered by some ployees Of the hotel, who been jealous of the captivatin of the Ottawa young man, occupation is that of a teache the publie schools. —Mr. James Matthews,ja farmer living near Wiarton, Bruce oniaty, ar- rived in Toronto the othe morning direct from British Columbi , whither he has been to view the court ry. Mr. Matthew a left his home on t e 26th of May, and [arrived in Victoria tine 13th. His observations extended ifor some distance in from the coast. 1 On the mainland in most of the loc lities ar- able land is to be found in any uantities, and also to some extent on ancouver and acrose the lines in Washi gton and Idaho territories. Mr. Matt ews' ob- ject was tie secure a farm in some local- ity giving promise of good aricuitural advantage, and the result of 1is search is that he intends returning, with his family an4 locating in British' olumbia as soon as, he can make the ' ecebeary arrangem nts. He is well p1esedwith that porti n of the country w thin easy ere it far th of the distance oi the coast, and pre to the American territories so line. —A farmer named McBride residing near the village of Manotic, in the Ot- tawa district, ieft his home on Tuesday of last week for the purpose lof trans- acting some business at the above vil- lage. When night came there were no signs of hie returning. No fn they at- tention was paid to the matt r, as his family thoUght, as had often appened before, that he had met some • uaint- awes at the village and ,wa enjoying himself. Next morning came but still there was no appearance of th missing man. His family becoming s spicious about his absence, made en uiries at the village concerning him, en they were infotmed that he had left for home on the nignt previous. diligent search wag immediately instit ted, but no tidings could be ascertain. d of his whereabouts until a few d s after- wards when the body of the nfortun- ate man was found floating in , the Rid- eau River, near the Long Island dam. —Mr. Wn . Elliott, one of th pioneer i residents o the township of ijwnfries, ( Waterloo ounty, died at his esidence near Galt on Monday of last week. He was 76 years of age. The deceased gentleman came to Canada in lithe year 1838, and settled down at once on the fine property, then a wiIderies, where be died. 1 Of the same in ustrious spirit as characterized the ; Scottish emigrants, who were the pioneers of i 1 Dumfriesehe soon established a -com- fortable home, whieh has 811100 grown into the beautiful homestead where so many of the last years of his life were spent. About II years after settling in Dumfries, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott were severely tried by the death in one week of six of their children, through a visita- tion of scarlet fever. In 1869 Mr. El- liott very suddenly lost his faithful part- ner in life, Mrs. Elliott retiring at night in health and being found quite dead. the following morning. There are now living of the family, Mr. James Elliott, merchant, Hamilton; Mr. Andrew Elliott, hying on the homestead, and Mrs. Andrew Telfer, of South Dumfries. Deceased was an earnest, Christian map, and long a leading member of the United Presbyterian Church. —A correspondent who attended the Buffalo races last week writes as fol- lows of the Canadian horses that were competing there. He says It might be as well to draw attention here to the very favorable positions the Can- - adian bred horses have occupied in the meeting so far. There were only four —Flora F, Amber, Luoy, and Tariff, and they succeeded in placing to their credits two firsts and two seconds, and yet some croakers say we canna breed horses in Canada to amount to any- thing. This will discount for an aver- erage in actual tests of speed in almost any State in the Union. There was another horse from Canada, Byron Cole, but he did not start. Clear Grit and Tippo stock panned out well, I tell you, and the Canadian horsemen here are proud of it. Amber won his race with the greatest ease, and in the 2:34 class, if Eureka had been out, Tariff could have shown his heels to the other entries easier than the winner did to him. Tariff was bred in the vicinity of Cobourg, and was developed by Bob. Reed, the well-known driver, after whom he was originally named. —Last Saturday evening as a train was going west from Hamilton and near the top of Copetown grade, a tall, fine looking young man named Andrews was thrown under the train Ana had the top of his head taken off by the wheels. Deceased was about 20 years of age, a cigar -maker, late of Rochester, and had a ticket from Hamilton to London. The news agent, who was close to Andrews, accounts for the acci- dent as follows: Anderson, it appears, was playing or fooling on the platform of one of the coaches and was giving specimens of hie dexterity by swinging from the step. of 'one coach to the ether. This was acconaplished by holding the railing or guard firmly and then by a muscular effort of the arms swing across the opening from one step to the other. The unfortunate youth either rnieeed the step or else Ms foot caught, and with a wild yell he disappeared. beneath the train, which was going at a conaiderable speed at the time. When taken up the top of his head, together with all his brains, were ground up anti scattered along the track. The news agent says he has seen many an acci- dent, but never before witnessed a sight so horrible. —Cecil Cook, who has been passing himself off as a captain in the army, Was arrested in. Quebec, a few days ago for obtaining money and other valuables under false pretences. He arrived in Quebec in com- pany with a woman who passed for his wife. He managed to get into the con- fidence of some of the leading citizens, one of whom invited him to dine, and subsequently to remain at the house over night. Cook -purchased various articles in town, which he had sent to him at his friend's residence, consisting chiefly of clothing .from Morgan &Co.'s, amounting to $106,and a g tin and ammu- nition from Shaw & Co. for over $80. It being after bank hours he requested Mr. Shaw to oblige him with $20 in cash, which he included in a check on the Bank of Montreal. In the evening Shaw se Co. discovered that the cheque was valueless, and caused the ELIT434 of Cook. Several Montreal pawn -tickets were found upon him for articles pledged in that city, and shortly after a couple of Montreal constables arrived in Que- bec with warrants for his arrest. The woman who aecompanied him disap- peared. —The residents of the village of Chippewa, on the Niagara River, were startled at dusk the other evening by hearing loud cries for help from the river, which was covered with an i131 -- penetrable fog. It was soon learned that John Lehman and his son and John Greenwood, all residents of that village, who had rowed over to the American side in the morning, had at- tempted to return at dusk, starting from Port Day, about a mile above the Falls, but they had been overtaken by a sudden land fog coming upon them as they were nearing the Canada shore. Losing their course they were swiftly nearing the rapids and were being car- ried to destruction through the rushing waters. The town bell was rung.. Some parties fired guns. No other ef- forts under the circumstances could be made to save the unfortunate men, and those who had gathered on the shore from hearing their cries stood stricken with terror, knowing the fearful death awaiting the occupants of the boat. Greenwood., seeing his dan- gerous position, let go his anchor. It, fortunately, took hold of the rocks, and he was saved. He kept shouting for help at intervals all night, and the next morning was found riding safely at anchor. The Lehmans having me anchor in their boat, clrfted down with the rapids, shriekings frantically for help. Almost by a miiracle the current swept them against a projecting point, near the Burning Springs, and they were saved. They returned as quickly as possible to Chippewa, secured aid and waited until daybreak, and witk great difficulty and daring rescued their comrade. ,,