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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-08-19, Page 11.2, 1881. 1.1111111!MSM sip through Manito- est. He is accosts- 7homits, Messrs. D, Scott and J. Liva 1, and t. of Dublin, haa in a trip to the orts seeing several n different parts of seem to be doing iem will- ha- Ithel, Funar, hive of bees from wing, after winter - honey. From thia since taken four a Harris must una a farmer lost, while sO containing $5. Powell found the writteu notice of :n the post office, :lied it to the own - apt to become _ a ars Notes. for Argenteuil took F, and tile pOnilig Weduesda3r. Mr. ,ed by Dr. Christie. 3-eneral and his 0 la Prairie yes - ,0 Winnipeg. where , formal reception. dved by the last utlenaan in Quebec, accionaId iniormed ss rapidly gaining 11 named Halle, s in Arnprior, was ,10 endeavoring to sad. He was about ;ray on the Main reshed 800 bushels Educt of 20 acres. ood farmer as well d Filiatrault, who iv an accident in vie's flour mill at 1 an action againat amages. ne, of the Military Las presented 350 dwar y of the late Theological Hall, ay rate of interest vestments and to 11 'University will irte this year by Chancellor, ex - led to the friends hundred and fifty flake up for the aysicians are said. the continuance . and if no change Lee within twenty - tions will be that not omove the :he wound is dis- q the new open- ritatiou does not k eery serious. aeired at Ottawa Ialand on Sa.tur- sed improvement Hon. James C. ine and Fisheries-. ent of his illinesa 'whatever. and is g to enjoy daily Merit Canadians mined their ma- :ali Army, are A. Cameron, Hon. J. Hill - apt. Vincent R. he 16th Bedford - of the 17th, or hire. Both were - boys. . Thomas Patrick ago on the llth wnship. Deceas- sxtraordinary age e last 60 years l4 of the township g been one of the dmost any num.- ll be had to con- rer final resting lost of honor was( ra.ndsone, -all fine .f Nelson town - Las just cut a threshed out 10 e has not-finish- lculates that he bushels in all. is in one day of ThoLUA8 Widsoni ushels off seven - n average of e acre. Hwas r to make roona 'est of his crop- ment to Ontario d of even,.‘Ia.ni- _Railway Land ea in Winnipeg. ride are notified ars of their o0 - Company will se of a week or r the purpose of sitherto public th a rebate of Ir certain condi- de public. Ape inarderation 50 - receipt. The the present on the maini as sections in asseusi or possi- auda that may - purposes, as coal la,ads. --power thereon. , of StrathroY• at can be done round. He haa quarts of straw - raspberries, • half acres and rter acre of land. remainder of & realized nearly ` fruits of diffes- -sibly more than radred acre farna lint Mr. Walker ener, and does erica' in expeota- trawbeaiies and ‘im 10 cents s he coat of picks acre arid three' keit% was extra are and attea- FOURTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 715. GREAT BARGAINS —IN -- READY-MADE CLOTHING. men's Suits worth $16 for $12 it _ cc cc 15 " 11 50 ft It it 14 cc 11 cc cc " 12 cc 10 tt CC tt 10 CI 8 8 et 6 THE GRAND CLEARING SALE —OF— GENERAL DRY GOODS A GREA.T SUCCESS. WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL FIRST SEPTEMBER. DON'T FORGET THE PLACE, ONTARIO HOUSE, OPPOSITE MANSION HOTEL. SMITH & WEST. GREAT ATTRACTIONS —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 AR.GAIN S WM. CAMPBELL. Campbell's Block, No I, Seaforth REMOVAL; REMOVAL A. C. MONICALL & CO., MAIN TREET, S E.A_T" f II, BEFORE REMOVING INTO THEIR NEW STORE I WILL SELL OFF THE WHOLE OF THEIR SUMMER STOCK AT 1 Wholesale Cost Price. SALE TO COMAIENCE THIS DAY And Oontinue for One Month: ALL GOODS SOLD FOR OASH AT COST PRICE., Any buying at this Sale on time will be charged Isu Per Cent. Extra, bat the Goode will be sold a Wholesale Cost the same as to Cash Cas to ni- ers, 1 Tills IS A GENUINE SALE, Aild all we ask is a Call to ComF arlY other Dry Goode House in Canada. v.re Prices with i . I -flactory Cotton by the Piece At 6 emits, Old Price 8 and 9 cents per yard. A. G. MCDOUGALL& Co. hum STBZET, SEAFORTH. A COLORADO JO II.—THE COCHRTO The town of Saguache is about a thousand people. if it were placed in a cor two mountain ranges, and i so sitna,te with regard to several mountain passe that a considerable portien o th travel to the Gunnison and San Juan regions must pass through it. ring the past winter the Coch tope ass, between Saguache and G unison was the only mode of entratice o exit rom the Gunnison countryrall the ther panes being closed by snow. here are a number of good stores and ome neat private dwellin, and altog ther Saguache looks as if - it might he a pleasant place to live in no ,withstend- ing the trouble a man' woul be ' to accustom himself to the combinati n of letters which makes up its o thogra hy. It is expected the Deny r an Rio Grande Railway will pass t roug this coming fall, but this is no reg ded with much exultation by th the eo- ple. The moment a railwa real3hes a town, good-bye all trade fro fr i ht: era, stages and wagon road tr vel. Railroads are regarded in the mountain towns as necessary evils, whOla hi vit- ably come to kill good times and high prices. There is a newspap r to?, the Saguache Chronicle, a pate t outaide arrangement, which yet bo sts of tea editor and an assistant eor, whose, names are conspicuously posted in dif- ferent parts of the paper. As the ori- ginal matter is limited to atonS a column, tne editors must have a g time and plenty of leisure to o fishi Still the Chronicle must be prospe 0 as it is comfortably located in a S stone office and has a etes.m re Evidently the proprietor believe ' that maxim of the trade cvlaich "It don't pay to give a nonpareil p to a small pica town." The country about Saguache is of the best farming regions I have se in Colorado. It is a little too high lin cold for corn, but wheat, oats and be ley yield good 'returns. Potatoes a grown here largely and are a profi ab crop, as it is only in a few places a •• e the mountains where they can be ea ed. More or less hay is also grow all the ranches. Perhaps I should e plain we have no cultivated hay of n acconet. It is extremely doubtf clover or timothy could be grown cessfully. Consequently, we are pendent for hay on the natural gra es. There is s,bundance of water for ir tion. The surrounding mines furni ready market for all that can be gr at good prices, and the farmers prosperous beyond the average of t se calling in the West. While inside h fences, where there is water for ir tion, it looks fresh and green wit • on on the prairie it is a desert where sin can hardly find a green blade of g as The great drouth has not yet aroke the neighborhood of Saguac e. he told me it was two years nd e h months since they bed had a rain o any account, and the country loo.e like it. Nearly all the cattle had •ee removed, only a few remaining taloa t the ranches and within the enelosur a. Leaving Saguache we take the Co he tope road, a dusty, much trave le highway, leading across the Coohet Mountains and thence to Gunni City. There are numerou frei RN1Y. E. a plaCe of It elooks a er betiwee SEA.FORTI-11, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1881. timtla are very cheap and suit the coutit#y admirably. There must be a great and growing demand for wagons in the North est, and now, while the tariff is in t eir favor, Ontario menu- Jacturers sho ld endeavor to get the run Of' the tr 'de. If not, Americans willIst p in, t riff or no tariff, and the Bain, chuttl t and Studebaker wagons will ' be as familiar on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan as they are on the Arkansas. 1 1 There are in Migrants on the road, too, as well a freighters. These are all facing west ard, seeking homes in some of the z49nntain valleys, or ex- pecting to ma e money in the mining camps. Some have the appearance of being Well fixe ' mules and hi, pointmants; ce S011ioi3 have co and OiSSOUri the rOad. One came from Ark his wife, two s .A11. ate provide bedding,and ca side. i Most of inquiSitive, and ly comdannicati give a s etch of with ph ir anti and in eturn d mend quite a variet persona information. There are travelers on foot, some of them ca ing tLei blankets, others provided donkey to carry their baggage are a independ nt set of fellows. Ali provi io s. Th se are prospectors men ee ing wo k at the mines. T ere have a little money, , having good wagons, rses and camping ap- hers are just the reverse. - o from Eastern Kansas ad have been weeks on , old gentleman said he nsas ; he had with hina ns and -two daughters. with provisions and p at night by the road he travellers are very itt the same time equal - e. They are ready to their whole past career ipations for the future, alsoyof rry- with 1, 91 ood of t ng- whet et "fixed' er "broke," rather than 1;189 take 1 W wages, they will tramp to the ew , end o the worl 88. whacIj in lazy o Ys. ville er villa and Whose strings lie far below. and *** * * * heY,_ s3nutiatickti34 never rest and they never tire, in rivers, in bays they flow, 08ti Till they reach their father, the world-wide sea, but And are oat in the water's etem4y. * * * Some to he near Pacifle rush By the olden Gate of a mighty land, And so through forests' and prairies' lush Wind sl ly onward, till, warm and bland, • The win comes up from a southern strand, And the join the mighty and rneasured flow Of theiss -Like Gulf of Mexico. A. M. Thompson, Gananoque, Ont., p... c." Of curse, an enterprising people like theiCanadiana are to be found every- wh r Ben a Gunn Dako the ,lo ble to, prefer their solid inducemeuts to the, ore glittering prospects of the r4 ore regions. Some one, probably a toter ing prodigal, was moved to write the folowing warning, which has a spice f humor as well as pathos in it: "ioting man, turn back while your money lasts, or, like me, you'll turn back ere long dead broke." Ope , and nO doubt they had repre- ives who took their part in the son "boom," but Manitoba and a will be found more profitable in g run; and Canadians are sensi- young man drops into poetry and qnotes the following to express his feelings, but I suspect he was home- sick aad only whistling to keep his (tour e up : H re's a sigh for those who love me - 11 re s a smile for those who hate, An whatever "trail" above me, re's a heart for any fate." A little further and we are at the sumpait. We stand on the great divide,. On one hand the water runs to the At- lantioaon the other to the Pacific. Here ia a fit place for the indulgence of sentiment, but being very barren of that article myself, like my friend above, I drop i to poetry, and I am glad I hap- pen to have some lines at hand which are ne and appropriate ; "Where olorado's mighty hills Uplift t pir crests of snow. There le p to life a thousand rills , One of them, wh g along a very obstinate key, tel a me he is from Le is goin to Lake City. "Le ot what ishe used to be, says. h,Lead ille was the daisy; th ne never w s anot er camp likeLeadvil en there e er will ! be another like d agin I' !But stil he thinks Leadvill r- yet th best min ng town in the St re .ida* from li- , there is an imme le outpt4ot minera from the mines in ng vicini ydbut they have got things do B. to a b siness bit;ss, and are manag on them n a quiet,. methodical way. x- shOrt, L Ovine le more like a stem y , going a tern manufacturing city, th if : like t e wild, ri tons mining camp Wall thtreo years o. e- i The ranches b the way have i ore or less acco modations for tray a- ers. They sell bread, milk, butt a 1 raina1n. hay. he prices Charged n i lway Ligh and teadily increase as O 1 et fur er west. It is interesting ir ote tltte decreasi g purchasing power e money. East of ,Saguache a twen a- five cetntpiece ould procure a goo t sized 1 af, but wi h each day's progr e the Ioalf diminish s, until beyond Gu s. nison i is hardly bigger than a biscui n Other hings are , in proportion. T y ranch eh seem to have prospered t this so tiof traffic, for they have WM f ly com (*table houses. and their plac d are en lased by good fences. One n the ne test placea along the way, wi n en ext nsive meadow adjoining, is ow ed by n old Englishman, who is know - mong his neighbors as the "Major d young man I presumed to be t O Major' son rode along the road wi n me for ome distance. He was a fin t looking young fellow, with the unmi g takabl air and speech of a gentlema s Re tol the he had lived there eig They raised hay and kept ca t -years. - tile. H Y had been a very profitab s crop, b t now the railways were corn ' Mg in, e expected they WOuld soo t have n other way of disposing of than to feed it to beef cattle. The had los but a snatl percentage of the eattle i that neig borhood last *hate but the e were only small herds kep 11 the large herd had been moved ou s veral oars ago. The prices for ca tie wer good. T ey could get $30 fo any sor of an ani al that would do fo beef ; a few years ago they could no get over $20. He hought that, in th mounta ns at least, there -would soon b no large herds; people would only kee what t ey could feed through th vi'Antteire.rig th we leave the river an ranches 1 behind, and turn more directl to the Cochetope range. It is a ver loW range, compared with those stir 'gin of a little strzam which has it rotmdin it, but here it forms the con tinental divide. We ascend the mar sonrce at the su e mit of the pass There ate no rano. es here s the narrow bottom has not • :en _thought worth taking up. Soon 'he ravine narrow til it be omes a ca. yon, the steep side ri e almest perpeial order on each side an we enter the Clichetope Pass. This pa s is o e of the f w that are free to pa senge a. The oad was made in early ti •• ea by the overnment and is still call -di the Go ernment road, but whether the Gove nment still holds suPervisi a over it nd hence no one ha a been a owed t put a toll upon it, or pther ie, I don't know. Two or three mulea up the pass we reach the "Stimini House," where there is a grobery b aring the legend, "The Last Chance," ptobably ai hint to passers-by that here is the last chance for liquid refreshm aat before Crossing the divide. o is and ad- ad- ' he ere le ; . Canada. her oman named- Whitlow, now. in e Hastm s county gaol, has been commit - ate. ted 86 Imes. nse —T classes for students at the On - the tario V tennary College begin on the wn 26th ofOctober. ing —Mr. J. Potter, of Albion, last week In out ten acres of fall wheat in five hours, dy- with a axwell machine. '. Wm. Sutton, a former Lon - as killed by lightning the other day ne r Brandon, Manitoba. all —Th Greenock Agricultural Society el- are to hold their exhibition at Pinker. er, ton on Friday, 23rd September. are —NeW steel rails are being laid on we the traek of the Toronto, Grey and to Bruce Railway as far as Arthur. of —Messrs. Cant, Gourley SS Company, ty- of Galt, have finally decided to men- d- mono() the manufacture of bicycles. ess —Mn Christie, of Brant, delivered n- a Gaslie, speech at a social given recent - t. ly in aid of the Baptist Church,- Walk - he erton., by —The, Credit Valley Railway will al- shortly have trains running over that es road to , St. Thomas, its western ter_ d of minus. Ca th —FrOm the St. Marys Collegiate t ra- stitute, eleven pupils passed the recent p reatric ation examination in Toronto a h.e" Iflivmeres:otry. Fraser, Collector of Cus- th th toms at River Ouelle, has been appoint- w Al an —M it doner, : teams on the road, those going up bed* heavily loaded, -while the returning one are empty. They are carrying frei from the end of the railway to Gnri Hen, about 120 miles. Freighting said to be "played out" and "dead fl and the reason given is "too many a it." But that is the chronic ondit-on of freighting. I never knew a ti when it was a reliable and steady b nes& Notwithstanding the hard tiff some of the freighters have fine tea s. Among the best are some of Isix nd eight mules, with trail wagons that is, two wagons, one hitched behind he other. The males are splendid a a- . mals of fifteen to sixteen hand. T •ey go along with ears flopping, in swi gs- mg walk, not seeming to realize ther a load behind them. Ai good eam this kind will haul from twelv to if teen thousand pounds. The dri rides the near pole mule an dri with a "jerk line," another line passi to the rear and controlling the brak a. The "jerk line" is a single ram attach d to the bit of the near lead male, a al the whole team is guided by this sin4o line. Of course, it requites both ,a driver and a lead mule who andersta their business, but these being grant a, the "jerk line" is as safe and a, gre t deal more convenient than a rein each animal would be. The drivers a e very skilful, and they have need to 0, as the mountain roads are diffidult a d often dangerous. One of them poas to me that he had turned an eight.= team with trail wagon in C.aestn t street, Leadville, and I did not dou t his word, although the mules and wa ons could not begin to stand er sswi in the width of the street. The wagons are factory made, as a e all the wagons used in the West. He let me digress to say a word, wise otherwise, on the subject of wagons, f the benefit of Ontario manufacturer. Why does not some firm or cornpan with sufficient capital go into the ma nfacture of wagons for the Canadia Northwest? Nine -tenths of the w ons used west of the Mississippi a from the factories of Bain, Schnttle or Studebaker, respectively of KOosk Chicago and Great Bend. These wag 0I1El are shipped by the car load' fro the manufactories to agents In all th towns of the West, and one piece neve sees another till they are put togethe by the agent. They are of various size from a light farm wagon to a heav freight, and are sold in Colorado a $90 to 8110, with bows and cover com pieta. These wagons will perhaps no equal those of shop make for durabil ity, but they last with good care A lon tvheeling a barrow with bricks, p cipitated a distance of 28 feet to a h floor, sustaining severe injuries, but n o_w Arecovering.ccordingta o the recently publis voters' lists the township of Woolw contains 1;025 ; the township of e- the river Chaudiere on their return. The river was high from the heavy rains, is and when they were in the middle of the stream they found their vehicle floating, and being thrown out by the current both were drowned. :ea -Messrs. W. G. Edmiston and D. K. Fair, of South Blenheim, bound after the Maxwell reaper, in Oats, 1,190 sheaves in two hours and thirty min- utes, and these boys could have naade 1,300 if they had been on time ; either of them can bind his 10 sheaves in a minute. They offer to bind with any two men in the Dominion for $50 a side. —In Winnipeg, real estate still con- tinues "booming." Regardipg late ttansactione the Free Press says that two lots on the corner of Main and St. n, Mary's streets were sold on the 9th of for $25,000, being $250 per foot front- al age, by the Hudson's Bay Company; oe faonodt.the Turner property, oppoaite the customs house, was sold at $180 per n —Miss F. E. Carroll, daughter of the o- late Rev. J. Carroll, of Gananoque, ✓ who obtained the first place in the sec- ond class honors in mathematics, a e first class in history and geography, and e passed in the other subjects for metric- s illation at the recent university exami- n nations, has been appointed. on the staff of the Bishop Strachan school. a, —Walter F. Chappell, M. B., UM- & versity of Toronto, and a graduate of Trinity Medical School, aed son of Mr. 1 Robert Chappell, Thorold, passed his examination at the Royal College of 8 Surgeons, London, England, on July , 20th, with flying colors. He was ✓ ond. ont of a, list of 214 candid ✓ which speaks highly for his att g ments. —The body of the missing yo , lady, Miss Dolly Thornton, of Ha O ton, whose mysterious disappeara On the 27th June last created such unwonted sensation, was found on llth inst., floating in the lake n Beamsville, by two meh named Bon ner and Fleming. The remains w O identified by Miss Stewart and Mee Murray and Turner, of Hamilton. —Col. William Brearley, after a 1 and eventful life, succunabecl to t ays' illness, at his residence on the roof Line Road, just outside the minds of London,on Monday, afternoon. eysas born in New -inn Hill, Stafford - o hire, England, in 1791, and was conse- quently in his ninetieth year. He re- embered with great vividness the attle of Waterloo -and many important outs in the modern history of Great ritain and the world generally. —Mr. Thomas Woodside, for many ars manager af the old city bank of ontreal, in Toronto, and also the ginal promoter of the Royal Cana- dian Bank, died of paralysis on day, the 7th inst., at his residen Lake View, Kansas. He leaves a and three daughters, one matnarri one the widow of the late Mr. Jo Michie, and the third the wife of Rev. Alex. Campbell, of Selkirk, Ma toba. —On Friday last about two carloads a of Indians from the Sarnia Italian Re - ss serve left by the Great Western for n Southampton, to take part in a camp meeting with the Indians of the Sett- le geen Reserve. Rev. Mr. Milligan and Chief John Sumner were in charge of t the party, which comprised Indians flaws and papooses, dreased out liday attire. The cars were attach London to the train on the 1Jortdo ron and Bruce, the route being way of Wingliam and Palmerston to Southampton. —Mr. Gandet, chief factor of the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, in writing to a gentleman at Ottawa, says that the weather during the past winter was unusually severe. On the 3rd of Feb- ruary the thermometer registered 61 degrees below zero. The leiter con- taining this information was mailed on the 10th of February, and only reached Ottawa on the let of August, being nearly six months on the way. In De- cember the warmeat day was 31 de- grees below zero, and the coldest 59. In January the minimum was 23 de- grees (which the chief calls mild), and the maximum 50 degrees below. —Messrs. Woods, Crerar, Lewis and Cummings, of Birtle ; Ross and Mc- Donald, of Rossburn ; Clenient and McDougall, of Shoal Lake; Major Boni - ton, of Shell River, and R.Nelson,town- ship 17,r.25,were nominated to represent Birtle Electoral Division in the Local Legislature at a meeting held in Birtle on Tuesday, 26th ult.,MaRobert Nelson being chairman and Mr. J. H, Woods, secretary. The various settlements, such as Shell River, Rossburn, Shoal Lake, North and South Oak River, and Tupper Town were well represented, some of those present having come a distance of from forty to fifty miles. —The Toronto Evening Nes says: Mr. T. G. Robinson, a former Canadian, but for some years past a resident of Cincinnati, is at present in Toronto on a visit to his friends. Mr. Robinson was born in that city, but went to the United States at an early age, and re- sided mainly in Cincinnati where he acquired considerable wealth. When the war broke out between the North and South he enlisted in the 83rd Ohio Inlantry, and served through three ears of the hardest fighting during the War. He served under both Gtant and herman, and was present at the fall of icksburg. His father-in-law, who erved in the 2nd Ohio Cavahy, was killed at Shenandoah, and Ittr Robin - on himself was several_times severely ounded in other battles. He ex- resses himself as astonished with the rogrese Toronto has made during his bsence. —The Manitoba Mountaineer (Nel- nville) has the following': Mr. Jas. ke, cousin to our much respected former townsman, Dr. Rooker arrived, ere from Carroll City, Iowa, on Tues - y. Mr. Rooke,acoompanied by his fam- ed rjl ch mot 959, and the town ef Water, oo 391 voters. —St. Thomas beat Londen at rifle shooting on the llth inst. gix men on a aide shot at 200, 500, and 600 yards. The total scores were, London 360, St. Thomas 369. —Robert Soott, a laborera was found dead at Brampton MondaY morning. He was struck by lightning, likely early Saturday morning. His face Waa perfectly black, and his boot a burst and torn off.' -- Rev. G. George, of Hamilt has been appointed to the pastorate the Metropolitan Methodist' Episco Church at Ottawa, as succesSor to t President of Alma College. —James Gilmore, a painter, w formerly lived in Toronto, was r over by a train and killed or the ronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, ne Weston, one day last week. --The Harriston Tribune eays T flax crop now being harvested is t most satisfactory both as roger quality and straw that has ever be grown in that neighborhood. —The Rev. B. F. Austin, of Otta has been appointed Principal of Al College, St. Thomas, a new instituti erected by the Methodist Episcop Church. The building cost $30,000. —Mr. Wm. Baker, of Ayr, h bought a number of lots in 0.edburg which formerly belonged to the Pip estate. It is probable that Mr. Bak intends using these lots for buildi purposes. —The annual picnic of Wellingto Grey and Bruce employees will ta place at Palmerston op. August 27ti. One of the Walkerton bands will e engaged to furnish music for the occa- sion, , —Superintendent Atwater, of the Grand Trunk, Georgian Bay and La Erie Railway, says it is the intention the Company to have that road opene to Chesley on or about the lst of Se tember. —Mr. R. C. Read, of Chatham, has p 11 • • 1111 • SSC- ates, ain- mp Meeting has been inaugurated this year with - the ung most promising prospect of success. At mil- the opening on Saturday evening the nee attendance was larger than. at the cor- an responding service for several years the past. Proceedings were commenced. ear and directed by Rev. W. S. Griffin. gh- The opening sermon was delivered by ere Rev. Jail, Masson, of Niagara,. an old - ars. time camp service follower, in which the President, Noah Phelps, of St. ong Catharines, and several ministers and hree laymen heartily participated. —Mr. Myron Auies, of the Paris Plains, who died latey at the ripe age of 73, was descended from the linited Empire Loyalists, his father having taken an active part in the battle of Lundy's Lane and Queensten Heights. The family came to this country from the States in 1804, aad in 1820 removed to South Dumfries, Settling on the farm owned by L. Sovereign, Esq, At the age of 22 deceased ptirchased the farm, near Paris, upon whiCh he ended his days. Mr. Ames was widely known and respected as a kind husband and un- father and an obliging neighbor. ce, —Shortly after tw o'clock on Satur- wife day morning, No. 4 Eastern Expreas ed, on the Grand Trunk an into a cow on hn the track near Prescott, and the engine the and forward. oars were hurled from the ni- track. Engineer Hovaarth was instant- ly killed. He died at the post of duty. When his dead body was found his hand was on the lever. Two express messengers were senously, but it is hoped not fatally, hurt. By a miracle none of the passenger a were injured ex- cept to the extent of a few scratches and bruises. The only book found on his body was a copy of the New Testa - in ment. ed —The Oakville Express says that a n, shocking tragedy occurred on the Mid - by dle Road in Trafalgar :on Tuesday last, resulting in the death Of John F. Fryer, the eldest son of a respectable farmer near Bronte station. The young man left home a few months ago, and re- turned on the 9th lust. Aixiiing at his father's barn he drank a strong poison which he brought with him. After a short time he entered his home, and related the fact, and Dna Buck and MoCrimnion were instantly summoned, but notwithstanding all their skill and care the unfortunate young man expired after fourteen hours of l extreme suffer- ing. --Leo Hartmann, the Rusaian revo- lutionist, was the chief -conspirator in -, the attempt to blow up the train onss which the late Czar i of Russia was travelling. Hartmann fled to Paris, then to Geneva, and lately came to America. A week ago he mune to Hamilton from Buffalo. He stopped at Henderson's Station, Hotel till -tt day or two ago, when he left, sayang he was going by boat to Toronto, which he did not do, but 'amply changed his board- ing house. Hartmann keeps his room rather closely, and a friend goes to the post office and the telegraph office ; he himself is kept pretty busy writing and. answering communications. He is One of the committee of the extreme wing of the Nihilists who murdered the late Czar, and keeps his son, the present Emperor, in a state of terror. His ob- ject in America is ostensibly to make known the aims of the Nihilists, and to raise money to forward their object. IfcLEAN BRCS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in. Advance. ily of wife and seven children, made the entire trip of 546 ' es by mule team,and milli reports having acco plished the jour- ney very satisfacto ly, the party enjoy- ing throughout the best of health. Coming through Minnesota, they found immense tracts of land under water, and a great many Settlers leaving for Manitoba and elsewhere in consequence of the damaging floods. A number of old neighbors in Iovsa are also looking hitherwards. Mr. 'R' ooke brought along with him a number of fine heifers and a thoroughbred shorthorn bull. He is delighted with the agricultural pros- pects here, and proposes to settle in 4-10. We almost forgot to mention that accompanying the caravan was one of those much abused animals, a don- key, the fag ever imported into this section—perhaps the first in the Province. . —The veteran harvester of the town- ship of Blenheim is Mr. Andrew Laid- law, of the 4th concession, three nailes south of Drambo. A day or two ago his eightieth birthday found him on the field and keeping up his end with the best of them. We venture to say few in Canada can repeat such a record. Well done the old generation! —The lighthouse keeper at Bird Rocks, near the Maiadalen .Islands, his son, and an assistant were killed on Saturday by the fog gun exploding a barrel of gunpowder. —The Georgian Bay Lumber Com- ashene was entirely the afternoon of I was one of the an lia.y country, apacity of half a pany's mill at Waub consumed by fire on the 14th. This mi largest in the Geor and had a cutting million feet per day. —The Grimsby C accepted the position of general mana- ger of the Canada business of the Sout Bend Plow Company, of Indiana. T Company is about establishing a suppl depot at London. —Mr. and Mrs. James Bairdsof Hain- b ilton, have returned from a lengthened ev tour to the old country. Mrs. Baird ia B a niece of the late Thomas Carlyle, and she has brought home some interesting ye relics of the "Sage of Chelsea.! - —The Customs returns for the month ori ending July, 1881, show that tit amount of duties collected in Manitob was $49,322.03, and for the correspond ing month last year $28,775.55, bein an increase in favor of this year o $20,546.48. a—One of Ingersoll's oldest residents led last week in the person of R. H troll, in the 63rd year of his age. I he heyday of his life Mr. Carroll was rominent public man in local affai nd occupied many positions of trust i O town. —Thomas Godfrey, of Fergus, whi orkiiag on the Credit Valley track nea ton, on the morning of Tuesday las was struck by a locomotive and severel sq njured internally. He was brought ho ome, but died in the afternoon. _ at —On Tuesday evening a spark Ha from a passing engine on the Gran Junction Railway ignited the larg frame dwelling of Mr. Jos. Lynch Douro street, Ashburnham, and burned it to the ground, with a portion of the contents and the stables and ontbuild- ings. —The Waterloo County Teachers' Association will hold its neat semi- annual meeting in Berlin, on the 9th and 10th of September, when among other subjects that of "Climatology" will be discussed by the oelebrated Moses Oates (J. G. Mowat.) —Two young gentlemen, Messrs. Taylor and Leslie, left London, nt., on the 1st of August for Detroit., They paddled their own canoe all the way and had a delightful time. The start- ed with their canoes from the Rich- mond street wharf and arrived in De- troit on the 9th. e- ed Vice -Consul of Sweden and Nor4ay s- at that toort. \ n. —Mr., Hugh Miller, Toronto, ha ht been elected President of the Ontari t- Collegell of Pharmacy, and Mr. G. le Hodgetts, Toronto, Secretary. - —The heating apparatus of the Otte,- il n• wa Parlament buildings is being re - it newed. Twenty new heaters have been y placed ia the corridors. ir —Rev -r Terence Anderson, a Roman r, Catholic priest from Dublin, arrived at t. the Rossin House, Toronto, on Thtirs- t day of last week. 1 t - r r t e e me si SS, er —The new church in Walkerton for the Disciples of Christ will cost about $1,600, and will be completed by about the 20th of next month. —Mr. C «soros Cockburn, near Drum. bo, had '60 bushels of Clawson wheat 16 acres. Mr. Rush threshed e King of the West. field of Michigan Amber rown on Mr. Robert Fair's nheim, an forty bushels per autiful clean wheat. county Of Wellington, by the •8, has how a population of against 63,289 in 1871, an in- crease in ten years of 10,284. —Dr. *son, Superintendent of Ed- ucation, eft Halifax for Rimonski, on Thursday of last week, en route for Europe, o attend the great Methodist Co—nferen tie. Ahd of tramps attempted to plunder the freight sheds at Prescott, on Friths last, but were driven to the woods by officials assisted by the pas- sen—gersr: MJ. Servos, sheriff's officer of Hamilto , is at present lying sick at his brother's esidence in Niagara, having ked with paralysis the other P growno e it with t —One u wheat, Y Bl Y acre of b —The late cens 73,573, a • All thr ugh the pass, but especially as we ne r the summit, the trees bear the imp eas of hundreds of wanes carved.0'- the bark, the smooth soft surface of the quaking asps offering an inviting eld for the exercise of the penknife. iSome have simply, carved their initi ls, others !have left their fall naMes an !addresses, while yet others haVe scra ed the bark off the dead pines and have contributed sentiment as ttrell as autographs to this album of the road. ;The majority of the ad- dresses ah * the writerto hail from the old stern States, Missouri and Ohio bein in the majority, but nearly every eta is represeitted. I saw but one name rom Canada, that of "G. T. _ on • • 1 9 been atta day. —The will take tem ber 1 day folio "g Lncknow Caledonian games place on Wednesday, Sep- th, and at Brussels on the ing. There will be a grand atheri —Dr. viocfctexrheecilian)sl.a"te Methodist minister at Leslieville, near Toronto, wa.s one o'" those confirmed at Grace Church, , 'lm street, by the Bishop of Toronto o Sunday last. - —Ship ents from the Hematite mine, says the North Hastings Re- view, tak place daily, but consider- able diffie ty is experienced in getting it shipped from Belleville. —The ev. A. Wilson has accepted the call t ndered himbythe congrega- tions of Markdale and Flesherton where he, has been doing missionary work for three itunimers. —A 1a4 I named Wm. Blue, working at the w nen mills being erected by Messrs. G tilt Brothers of Campbell- ford,ednesday lav;t, was, while .s , , —Mr. Gordon Hunter, who car ed off the Prince of Wales' and 2nd p ofi- oiency scholarship at the matriculation examination in the University, is a son of Principal Hunter, late of the Blind Institute, Brantford. He ia a promising young man and gives evidence of careful training. —The Sarnia Observer says The steamers ot the northwest Tranapo ta- tion Company have been crowded ev ry trip during the past month with ca in passengers, the rush from the inte 'or, caused no doubt by the unusually iot weather, being largely accountable or the increased demand for peasages to Lake Superior. —Brant Township Board of Heath have passed resolutions making yam a - tion compulsory in that townshin and appointing Thos. McLennan, James Lookie, J. C. Eckford, James Brocel- bank and Isaac Wright, vaccinatol.s. This is generally considered a move in the right direction, as it is the seco d time that this municipality has been invaded by small -pox. —At a late meeting of the Executive Council of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society, it was resolved th,t the thanks of the society be presen to Lawrence Clarke, Esq., of IFo t Carlton, for the donation of a sk1et4n of a musk ox, also a skin of the (tame. Donations from various contributars to the ornithological department were also acknowledged. —On Wednesday two young m n named Thibaudeau and Gagne, pf St. Francois de la Beauce, Quebec's we drowned; It seems they had been pur- chasing goods, and undertook to eroas 1 —The following is an abstract of the new game law passed by the Ontario Legislature at its last mission : None of the animals or birds hereinafter men- tioned shall be hunted taken or killed within the period hereafter limited. 1. Deer, elk, moose, reindeer or cariboo, between the 14th day of December and the lat day of October. 2. Grouse, pheasants, prairie fowl, or partridge, be- tween the lat day of January mad the lat day of September. $. Wiid turkey or quail, between the 1st day of Janu- ary and the let day of October. 4, Woodcock between the let day of Janu- ary and the lat day of Anapast. 5. Snipe, between the lat day of January and the 15th day of August. 6. Water fowl known as mallard, grey duck,black duck, wood or Bummer r,duck, between the lat day of January and the 15th day of August. 7. Other duek, swans and geese, between theist day of May and the 15th day of August, 8. Hares, be- tween the ist day of March and the lat day of September,. SI