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vet got $.2,000
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oil property
the market
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of Galt, says
sold the ten
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FOURTEENTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER, /16.
SEAFORTH
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1881.
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CLEARING .SAL
GENERAL DRY GO9AS
A G-REAT SUCCESS.
WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL
FIRST SEPTEMBER.
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OPPOSITE
MANSION HOTEL.
SMITH- & WEST.
GREAT ItTTRACTIONS
1AT—
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CLOTHING HOUSE,
—IN—
FUR HATS,
FELT HATS,
DRESSED WHITE SHIRTS,
REGATTA SHIRTS—all prices,
RE ADY-MADE STJIT S.
AL.1.7 FIRST—CLASS GOODS.
COME AND SEE,
AND YOU WILL GET A_RGA.IN S
WM. CAMPBEL4
Campbell's Block, No 1, Seaforth.
RE:MOVALy REMOVAL
A. C. MGDOUCALL &
MAIN STREET
CO.,
SEA.POIR,'111-1,
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.,
Azy buying at this Bale on time will be charged
Ten Per Cent. Extra, but the G-ootli will ba sold.
at Wholesale Cost the same as to Cash Cus t ) m-
er4.
THIS Is A GENUINE SALE)
&Tad all we ask is a Call- to Comore Prices with
anY other Dry GoodiolIonse in Canada.
Factory Catton by the Piece
At 6 cents, Old Price 8 and 9 cents per yard.
MeDOUGALL 8i CO.
MAIN STRUT, SEAFORTH.
A COLORADO JOURN-EY
III. —GUNNISON .
Leaving the summit and passi
clownea very steep descent for a out
mile, we emerge from the pass into a
comparatively open country. e re
now in the Gunnison region. T is i a
rather indefinite term applied to a d s-
trict about a, 'hundred miles 1 ng y
fifty miles wide taking its nam friun
the G-unnison River, which is i self; a
somewhat indefinite stream, as it is
first called the Taylor River, and fin 1-
ly, before it; enters the Color do, is
known as the Grand. The pr no4 al
towns and mining camps are GU nig •n
City, Ruby, Gothic, _Schofield rest:d
Buttes, Virginia and Pitkin. As e
leave the pass we are about thirty -h e
miles from Gunnison City, wh(h
though there are no mines in its im e
diate vicinity, is the chief supply! poi t
for the district and the largest tow.
The road passes down • a small creek,
then leaving it a little to the left it
strikes across the prairie, or ratli r
foothills, to within a dozen miles ; of
Gunnison City. The valley is narro
at no place are we more than the
miles on either side from the MD
tains, which rise several thousand f et
and are covered with snow. Sin e
crossing the range a very decid d
change in climate has been experienc d.
Although the days are as hot de ev r,
the nights have become cold, aud 1 -
most every morning the water lett u
our camping vessels carries a filen of
ice. This cannot be caused by the al i•
tude, which is not greater than that to
which we have beeu accustomed, but
must be on account of the 8UOW3 moin-
tains which surround us. Mos uito s,
from which other parts of Color do are
almost free, are very annoying, and in
the evenings, until it becomes t o c Id
for them to be abroad, are the c use of
great discomfort,
•
Some new mines have been diecov r-
ed to the left, along Cochetope; Cre k,
ranched
a
and we hear that several
prospectors and miners are at
them. Our road, however, give
the go-by, and there is little to
the traveller until we reach th
ing of Turnitchi Creek, stwelv
from G-unnieon. Here the roe.
the Alpine arid Marshall pass
with that from the Cochetope,
travel from the three roads bei
bined the remainder of the way
nison, becomes thronged like a
At the crossing there is a stage
kept by a man named Parlan, a
and a blacksmith shop. Pari
one of the earliest settlers, havi
in about four years ago. He ha
quite a fortuile by selling hay to
ere and travellers and furnishin
to stage passengers. At Parla
the Denver and Rio Grande, a
Denver and South Park, the t
roads which are being built i
Gunnison, come together a
parallel tracks to Gunnison Cit
expected both these roads will
ished and in running order befo
ter. Both are narrow guag
*narrow guage has found its
home in the mountains, and t
failure elsewhere, is here al gr
cess. Several thousand men w
ployed at grading by both co
and although they were payin
a day for laborers, they could
as many as were needed.
The Tunaitchi is a beauti
rapid stream.'The water is c
clear as crystal and abounds wit
There are fine bottoms on eac
which are all taken in ranches.
is abundant water for irrigati
every foot of ground which can b
into meadow has been ma
most of and devoted to raisie
Ever since the rush of immigration
gam about four years ago, hay h s
king in the Gunnison country. 17
this time, I would rather h
money which has been made on
hay than what has been made f b
mines. The hay from these an
on Tumitchi Creek Sold last w ate
from three to five cents a poun r
only crop which has been rai ed
been hay, yet I doubt if there w s
another agricultural community in
world who have prospered lik t
ranchmen in the GunnisonOu
All of them have settled withi t
or four years. having little or sbti
and now, almost without e oep
they are independently rich. 1he
ing of hay has been so profita•le
hardly any effort has been ad
raise anything else. Some of the ra
men told me they had raise s
quantities of oats and barley a
garden vegetables, but on ac dun
the cold nights, they thought it
doubtful if general agricultur w
succeed. With the advent of be
roads, hay will be a less profit le
and the farmers will probably
they can do in the way of p
graiu and vegetables.
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Gunuisou City is situated at
tion -of the Tumitchi with Tay
which is then called the
River. The valley here wid
siderably., which gives the city
room for wide, straight streets
plenty of room to grow and spr
I would guess the inhabitants
ber about three or four thous
-a large transient or floating p
Architecturally it does not ar
much yet. There are abou
dozen stone buildings, and
brick, but the great majority
en' structures and unpainted
The streets are crowded with
ari'.extent altogether out Of
with the population or with
ness transacted. One sees ve
the gentler sex, but a great
very many of them dressed
canvas clothingiwith soft hat,
boots. These are not exact
but have usually come down
of the mountain camps to g
and spend a, few days in the
they are travellers, tramps
od
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pi
ors, euch as we have seen on the road.
o a cur ry observer the saloon busi-
est) wou d seem to rank first in the
owu, and the feed or livery stable
nsiness would come next. Certainly
he form r is very numerously and
orgeous represented, and some of the
ost eligible business stands and the
• ost pro ineut signs are claimed by
t e latte , Their apparent prominence
i not co pensated by any great mod-
eration i charges, as the -uniform tariff
of all kinds is twenty-five
I was charged two dollars
ig a single horse over night.
a Sunday evening, the first I
unnison. As I walked about,
v a sign before a ' large tent,
e• d "Presbyterian Tabernacle—
Welcome." It being about
t r for service, I dropped in. The
i 'found to , be quite large and
i and cheerful looking. Al-
t lY of can,vas, it was a minia,-
t h, with pews and aisles, aud
her end a platform and a
all organ. As every one knows, in -large s
ew miniig camps,whether in Colorado But the railroad is now being graded
r elsew re, the first day of the week into th place, and it is hoped when
i cl regard neither ae a day of rest nor there ate better facilities for shipping
f devoti 1. I wive therefore consider- ore, the ;mines will be developed. It is
bly sur ised when quite a respectable thought too, that N.vhen the mines got
ongrega on, comprising about a hun- workin on a' scale of some magnitude,
red per ns gathered in, aud appeared means ill be found to keep them work -
t join iri the service with interest. ing all inter, and that the annual he -
he mini ter, I suppose, is sent out by gira of ctober will become unnecessary.
t e HOIL NI i8810111Board of the Church, There re htindreds of mines in the
s it is hardly likely that in a new •near vi inity,; but the one which is al -
lace like Gunnison the congregation , lowed o all sides to be the richest is
ould ,het self-sustaining. • When the the " orest Queen." I forget ! the
ervice isf . over, the contrast between : amount
1
✓ drink
nts, an
r stabil
It was
ent
obee
hich
trang
e ho
terio
ery nee.
lough o
re cr u
t the 'n
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Ruby. Among the pines on each side,
are large drifts of snow, some of them
five fee deep. This seems singular in
the middle of rune, and momeutarily
sets on back about three mouths in
the cal ndar.
Ruby is located in a gulch. Stand-
ing above on one side, a man might toss
a stone ;clear over the town to the op-
posite -a all of the canyon. It is a, lively
little place, with steep, narrow streets,
which it takes one's breath away to
clambe up. The year here only lasts
from pril to November, the other
months being given up to winter and
snow. n October, business places are
closed nd almOst every one leaves till
the foll wing spring. The altitude is
about 1 ,000 feet, but being completely
shut in y high mountains, the snow
lies mu h longer than in more exposed
places. The residents complained that
businea was dull. For some reason or
other t e owners of the surrounding
mines «ere not, developing. them, and
things ere at a stand -still. There is a
elter, but it was not working.
1
e quiet;
nd the el
very at
o01119ar
all is in
usiness
t is hour
ut it
•orld, ex
ngland
so decent
uteri()
nd decorum of the church ed," an
Ise and activity of the street for vera
iking. The saloons and keno somew
r. opeu and crowdedethe dance Crest
ull blast and some of the River,
onses are yet open, even at are ext
Some readers may doubt it, no lead
fact that in no country in the dull pis
ept the rural districts of New to mills,
ud of Scotland, is the Sunday :situatio
y and strictly observed as in altitude;
nd in no city in the world of stream
ita size sthout exception, I believe, is . splendi
) generally respected and la- Gunnis
ensive amusement so gener- sparkli
ned from, as in Tnronto. • they fo
The future of Giinnisou City depends of the I
entirely pon how the surrcamding Abou
relines "p u out." Two railroads will Buttes
be alumina into it this fall, and it will Gothic.
possesS eiery facility to make it a dis- 1 Ruby, i
tributing oint, if only there shall be a smelter
sufficient popula.tiOn in the surround- flashin
Jug moan aius to distribute to. Therei ing came) is Very much the couuterpart
is aced Fly thin easy reach, aud if the of anot er. The gulch here is rather
silver anv gold mines are anything like wider, owever, and there . may be a
what it is claimed they are, large re- hundre or two more Settlers. Here,
dui_aion orks will no doubt be estab- too, thee is Co'mplaint of dullness in
lis ied at
kiIl1ds of
water an
are two o
toWard t
1.
and track laying has commeeced. The
short hne will be finished by the 1st of
November at the latest.
—J. Potter, of Albion, last week cut
ten acres of fall wheat in five hours,
with a Maxwell machine.
—Mr. J. J. Cook, of West Zorra, sold
his farm of 100 acres last week to Mr.
Geo. McDonald, for $6,500 cash.
, —The Guelph City Colima have ex-
empted a, new organ factory and ma-
chinery from taxation for ten years.
—The Review, the only paper pub-
lished at Portage la Prairie, ie to be is-
sued semi-weekly after this.
—The first steamer of the new line
between France and Brazil, via Canada,
will leave Havre End th,is month.
—The master plasterers of Toronto
have agreed to the advance asked by
their workmen of ten cents per day.
—The annual sports of the students
of the Guelph Agricultural College will
be held on the college grounde to -day.
—The St. Gabriel Presbyterian
church, Montreal, has sued the late
Miss Scott's executors for a legacy of
$2,000.
— The new Napanee glass Works will
start up about September 20. Eleven
experienced operators have been secured
in Boston.
— McDonald, who defeated Lynch, a
noted wrestler, at Halifax on Tuesday
night, is a stiident in Kingstoa medical
school. -
—A car load of reapers from ; Watson's
Ayr Agricultural Worke left the Ayr
station on Tuesday last for Prince
Edward Island.
• I will not risk my reputation action against -the Bradstreet Commer-
-Mr. Geo. Wright has entered an
fer which this mine is aboud•
ity by guessing at it, but it is cial Agency for defamation of eharacter.
ere up in the millions. _ Damages, $2,000.
d Buttes is situated on East —Dr. McVicar, of the New York
usive coal deposits (dose by, but take a place in the Baptist Theological
State Normal School, has resigned to
eht bailee from Ruby. There
Seminary at Toronto.
—The English Jockey Club has
bought for $900,000 a fine estate near
Newmarket. It includes 2,500 acres,
f water running by. There are with a fine mansion.
—A race horse owned by Mr. White,
streams everywhere in the f
Qu country. Clear, cold and against
aAiurnstpraiopro,stanadfewvadlaaeyds ago
$500,w
, ran
s
g and abounding with trout, allied.
m the most attractive feature ' —A number of open street railway
gie°inlit miles above Crested cars arrived in Toronto by the Great '
gWestern express on Thursday morning
nd acroes a low mountain lies of last week from Schenectady, N. Y.
This place is very much like
fact, from the big ugly looking this —Siyear
the opening of navigation
on the outskirts to the gilded, loaded lumber at Montreal,and received
year twentv-eight vessels have :
saloons in the 'centre, owe min -
dispatch for South American ports. min
—A double track, nearly a ile
length, is being laid opposite each of
the stations on the Grand Trunk, be-
tween Toronto and Colborne.
the da Y s
bor and o
ally refra
of gold or silver. It is a small
e, with not even a keno room
n its dullness. It has a fine
, however, at a much lower
than Ruby, and a beautiful
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Queenston street, the wheel went down
between two planks and the rider Was
thrown violently on the sidewalk, re-
ceiving a severe shock, which caused
him to faint several times.
—The Goodwood cup (Eng.) was won
last week b Madame La Barrydn 5 min-
utes.Ham ton,in 1877,won ire 4 minutes
56i second, and Doncaster, 1874, in 4
minutes 5 seconds.
—Duriui the first week ef August,
the through rate on wheat from Chica-
go to Liverpool, via Montreal was 18
cents, and via New York 15 cents,
which were the lowest rates ever known.
—Railway ties are now floated in
rafts, instead of being loaded on board
schooners. Two large rate, contain-
ing ties, were brought from
Bruce Peninsula to Sarnia; the other
day.
—The Kingston locomotive works
are being ripled in size, aud McKech-
nie az Bert am of Dandasels,ve received
an order f r upwards of $25,000 worth
of tool ma hinery for the enlarged es-
tablishme t.
—Some ody stole $100 from Mr. John
Wiggins while he was asleep in his' ho-
tel, Parlia ent and Gerrard strieets,
Toronto, hursday night. The police
are lookingfor that somebody.
—The P rt Hope Guide says that
Mr D. Rulbidge and wife, of Denver,
Colorado, arrived in town 011 Wednes-
day night by the Montreal boat. They
are visiting friends.
—The post office building, Otter-
ville, was entered by burglare last
Thursday pight and a safe belonging to
W. B. McKay, Post Master, was blpwn
up. Nothing of any value Was taken.
— In the lacrosse match on Thursday
last at Kingston the Peterborough club
beat the Kingston team, taking three
straight games in thirteen,; eight and
eighteen Minutes respectively. They
are thus the holders of the Gildersleeve
Cup.
—The Intelligencer says that work
ou the neNt independent telegraph line
which is t be constructed along the
Grand Junction Railway from Peter-
borough td Belleville and from Belle-
ville to Micloc has been begun.
—At Oak Grove Farm, near Brant-
ford, on Abgust 2nd, Jenny; Jinks, the
property oMr. P. J. Pilkey, and dam
of the cele rated stallion Amber, drop-
ped a fine !foal by Brant, he by old Clear
Grit.
—It is reported that Mark Hopkins,
of St. Clair, will soon build an iron
steamer la ger than the Idlewild, which
;vill run over twenty miles per hour.
She will be placed on the route between
Detroit and Port Huron.
—Mr. . L. McLean, who for over a
.The first` shipment of 'Canadian
s
tories. It has good regardig the developing power of the
year has conducted an exteninve tailor -
as well as various the mining, and great hopes are held phosphates from the Buckingham mined ing busines in Petrolia, left on Monday
situation, but these railroad, which is expected to reach the to Bordeaux, France, being a lot of 500 last for Chicago, where he a.ssumes the
of a large city. a "boss'' miee, the "Silver Knight,"
also, has_ to n_s ,mweisls1 resh. oIrutglyli sb eezdHe eupuattecrheodf . Guelph general management in the cutting de-
n City, I visitect the which it worth ever so many million are removing their large foundry and ma- salary of $1,500 per annum. ;
partment of a large clothing lhonse, at a
t factors which go , camp before ;winter. Gothic,
chine shops to Toronto. Nearly all —The cbuuty of Essex continues to
ub Crested Buttes ' dollars. There is no discount, how -
their employees will accompany them. turn out qtiantities of hickory, ash and
unniso
ED an u fa
a fine
the lea
e inakin
Leavin Gunnis
mieingic re of R
GOthic,
lie in
miles
to IRuhk
miles, th
of Jhid C
iulhabi an
Germ
frolm
Ri ver,
family
nd Schofield. These places ever, I belieVe, as to the richness of
luster, feom thirty to forty this mite. Specimens of ore, almost
Gunnison In going 1 pure mineral are shown ,which contradict
or hwest o
ego up
n crossi
reek.
in the person of an old $2o0, aud it was sold a second time for
n named Tingley. He came . $700.* it is now owned and worked by
tint court, on the Arkansas • a company. It was near Gothic,I fell in
in 1873, ai d settled with his with twb Canada boys from the neigh -
n the rano he now occupies. , borhood of Cornwall. Their names
There 1• ere then almost no other set- were no very definite as descriptive of
tlers in the country, and the nearest Glengarey men, being McLennan and
stOre a d post offi e was at Saguache. Cameroa, but they were good fellows,
He too
251 he
the river about four , any suspicions of "blowing" on the part
g it strike the valley of the peoprietors. The lucky prospec-
ere I met the "oldest tor who fourid this mine sold it for
• i with h in from Bent county and playeical y and socially worthy of
d of cattle, but next spring he the goodold Stock they came from. I
ha only eighty left, the rest having was glad to meet them, and I wish
di4d fr • the sev rity of the winter, them good kick with the ranche or at
;
the lumbering, or whatevee, they may
the en ev falling s deep that the cattle
conld Ot get at the grass and remain- turn their ha4nde to. cl-
ing so lon that they starved. This old Schofield s another mining camp
man lats ad a good many ups and above Gothi. Here the Wagon road
do vns, b t he is well off now, having a ends, an su plies are carried'to camps
l)
madov om which he sells fifty or beyond only by pack animals. The
ty t9>n of hay, e early. countryabout is a wild labyrinth of
The re beautiful meadows along mounts,inagnIches and canyons,covered
Ohio Crk, and tie foothills between with ttick timber and abounding
the k and the mountains are in
deep' seowdrifts even in July. Yet
e
thickly! c vered with fine grass. Thie everyw ere it is honeycombed with
isi splen id sum er range for cattle. prospec holes and mines, and from
T ere is ery little stock in the coun- June til, Oc ober swarms with miners
tr , buthat few battle I saw were fat
4-
and proapect rs. This was the furthest
ek • The residents say the Gun- westwa,ed pont of our journeyeand we
ouietry will not do for cattle un- to make back tracks. The
d ; through; the winter. Some
, hey say,' cattle will go into
fat in December and die
rty before the end of March.
ne grasa and plenty of it, but
covers it so deeply and lies so
nimals ; can notet to it
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e of t14 ranches I see large
ay and quantities of baled
told th.at those parties were
0 a ton On the ranch, last fall,
d it ara too little. They will
to be content with $30 aud
88.
wenty miles above Gunnison
famous Castle Rocks, appar-
or five miles to the west- -
pe roact They consist of a
all, rising near the summit of
tain, and perhaps half a mile
. They are of a bright, varie-
ff color end present the appear -
e rains, of a gigantic castle. I
• as the sun was just setting
nd with their surroundings of
and valley, sunlight and
thought it one of the finest
had ewer seen. Above the
cks the valley narrows -almost
y n, and the ascent becomes
. I should have said before
Bus the Elk Mountain region,
prises all the mining camps
med with others besides. It
i h in mineral, but lies within
.Reserbation. The Indians
ago left the neighborhood and
Mg new about two hundred
he southwest, but until a set -
made with them and they
the reservation, no proper
be had to property, whether
of other description. Pass -
evitable toll gate, we come to
, berind which is situated
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1
must prepar
next let er aed last will describe the
mining Camp of Pitkin,the Alpine Pass,
the journey down the Arkansas Valley,
througb Wet Mountain Valley, back to
our star ing point. A. Mae
Canada.
Twen y milli in the dollar has been
fixed ae Guelph assessment rate for
1881.
Ont.,
Octobe
—Dr.
guest of
Englan
—Ge
attend
bition.
W stern University, London,
ill be opened in the first week in
Grant, of Ottawa, has been the
the Baroness Burdett Coutts in
eral Grant will be invited to
the Toronto industrial exhi-
.
ess than eight ocean steamers
arrived lin Montreal harbor one day
las—t wer.Etk
m . el:16
Casswell, 'Of Ingersoll,
took sec ud Prize in the bicycle race at
W—oocidesTtsrck800excursionists
Monday.
from Ken-
tucky arrived in Toronto on the morn-
ing—osfiFr Friday, rldasTt
icylleeeyiLis expected to
return from the garitinae Provinces
this
—Tw4.
e joy;
Bons of Isaac Matthews
of Chaham were drowned in the
Th_anages sorsn.WTed. neTsaday.
kay
anagi and F.
Ohtsak of Japan, are registered at the
_W—induittho ,CMrsOdiaittr veaal.
ll
ey employees hold
their aijnual :ticinite and games at Milton
rove 14 -morrow miles �f
h
week. te
_
Canada Pacific
railwy west of the Portage, Manitoba,
is co4q4leted. Grading on the whole
line clf he new route between Winni-
peg an the Portage is now going on,
—A special London cable says that it
is reported that the Great Western
Railway Company of Canada, has pur-
chased the Northern Railway.
—The St. Catharines Journal gives
Toronto credit for its wise expenditure
in railway extention — the principal
cause of that city's progress.
—Rev. Mr. Cameron, of Thamesford,
during his late trip to Scotland was in
Inverness, and visited Rea. Mr. Mc-
Tavish, formerly et Woodstoek.
—James Laughlin, a cousin of John
Laughlin of Point Edward, was found
dead in his bed at the Narrow Guage
Hotel, Port Huron, on Friday last.
—The Rev. R. N. Grant, of Knox
church Ingerioll, conducted the servi-
ces in one of the Halifitx,N.S.,Presbyter-
ian churches on Sabbath last.
—Mr. Peter McNeil, of Culross, has
sold his farm, lot 8, concession 7,
for
$2M,7r00. .George Gehl, of Carrick,
—Mr. J. T. Brill shipped 69 factory
fed hogs weighing 11,870 lbs., to To-
ron to, ou Thursday last week, from Tees -
water.
—A Hamilton firm has received an
order for the manufacture of 200 com-
plete turbine wheels for the Welland
Caual lock gate.
—The venerable Dr. Ryerson, late
Chief Superintendent of Education for
Ontario, has for some time been in ill
health, and is still confined to his bed.
—The Princess Louise expects to be
in Canada at the end of October. So
said the Governor-General in replying
to an address at St. Boniface.
—The Strathroy t Company
are making arrangeenents with the
Great Western Railway for two cars
daily, rain or shine, to carry their ex-
port flour.
—Mr. W. II. Grant, of Strathroy,
rode his bicycle from Strathroy to Ade-
laide village and return, a distance of
fmoniuruteteens. miles, in one hour and 55
— Mr. Montgomery, of the Toronto
collegiate institute, has presented Uni-
versity college museum with a number
of Indian relics, taken from the Indian
mounds at Medonte.
—The hay crop of Cape Breton is
greatly damaged by continuous wet
weather. The damage to dykes in
oeCtieTb$701,a0oond.by the late floods will ex-
-The Sarnia Syndicate arc putting
down a well on the Mackenzie property,
Indian Reserve, close to Raton street,
and near the Great Western Railway
track, Sarnia.
—Arrangements to ship square tina- •
ber from Ottawa to Quebec by the Q.,
M., 0. & 0. Railway have been finally
made by Messrs. Allan, Gilmour & Co.,
of Ottawa.
—The Grand Trunk have booked ,
about 3,500 passengers between Chicage
and Boston in the first fourteen days
of their sale of the east bound tickets,
and about half that number west.
—One day last week when Mr. B.
Johnston, of St. Catharines, was giving
his velocipede its morning trot and was
elm. Au Anaherstburg firm, Jnoe Her
& Company, shipped last week 14 tone
of manufaatured wheel -spokes to Mon-
treal, and 12 tons of bent -stuff for car-
riages. ;
—Mr. Donald Cameron, an oil oper-
ator from Pennsylvania, has entered
into a contract with Mr. Ward for the
putting down of twenty-five wells at
various points on the thousand acres of
land which have been bonded by Mr.
Cameron in the township of Sarnia.
—Mr. Wm. Hamilton, of Peterboro',
has receiv d a large order ' from the
Canada C nsolidated Mining Company
for engine, boilers, water wheels and
other mact inery to be used at Deloro,
ni
the new ining town in the neighbor-
hood of M
—Capt.
master of
of Aineric
at Milwa.0
concluded
feet, thus
32,000 bus
one hour,
the throu
the same
ronto and
—We 8
t larer of
mora.
McDonald, part elwner and
he Canadian schoOner Pride
, which has been in ordinary
ee for nearly a Month, has
to lengthen his vessel forty
increasing its capacity to
els. I
— When the Credit Valley Railway is
finished to St. Thomas fast time will be
made betWeen Galt and Woodstock;
r
the thirty miles will be run; inside of
ncluding six stoppages, and
h time to St. Thomas will be
a is now made between To -
Ingersoll.
e that the veteran manufac-
ricultural machinery, Mr.
John Wat on, of Ayr, is abort to erect
new shops for the accommedaaion of
his growing business, and he estimates
that 1,000,000 bricks will be heeded for
the buildiiig. His former premises and
water pow
—As a
distillery,
four-poun
dently lair
years. It i
soldiers, in passing from Detroit to To-
ronto, had camped on the edge of the
River Speed, and must have dropped
the ball at that time.
—The Bobcaygeon Independent says
that Alex. Hall, of Dudley, went out
fishing last week at Farqueath Lake, in
the towns ip of Monmouth. A squall
came up o4i the lake and upset the boat,
and poor lIlall sank to riser no more
alive. Ne.t day his body was found,
and interr d in the Bitchie settlement
burying gr und.
—Mr. ickson,' head master of the
Hamilton choo1s, and Mr. Williamson,
from Teroiato University, accompanied
by several Markham and Stouffville
friends, paid a visit to the ; Markham
Indian ossiaary and succeeded in getting
a few bones in a good state of preserva-
tion, but d'd not find the object of their
search—k ttles, or implements of any
kind.
—Frogs legs are sold , in Barrie at
25 cents a pound. They wOuld readily
fetch that price in Toronto. I There are
a good many frog eaters in that city.
At the island the other day a, World re-
porter sa* some young men camped
over there who were panning some-
thing in the marsh. He was told they
speeeding along at a rapid rate up were after
r are advertised for sale.
an was excavating at Allan's
Guelph, he came; across a,
cannon hall, which had evi-
there for over oife hundred
supposed that a regiment of
reporter a dish full thae they had killed.
They stew them in inlIik and make a
capital dish.
— Recruits are now being engaged at
Ottawa by the Departinent of the In-
terior for the new.Mou ted Police. The
conditions of engagenlient are : Five
years' service, a, free kit on joining, free
rations, and pay 40 cents per day the
first year, 55 cents the Second, 60 cents
the third, 65 the fourth and 70 cents the
fifth, with extra pay at the rate of 15
cents per day to artiza
—Sir 3D. Astley's horse Peter is
one of the most ill-tere ered brutes on
the English turf. At the Goodwood
meeting, when starting for the cup, he
suddenly stopped,and afl the persuasive
powers of his jockey, F ed Archer,failed
to make the brute m ve. Peter was
purchased as a yearlin , at a very high
figure, but his owne 's expectations
must by this time be vaning.
—An observant -farm r on the line of
the Air Line Railway, County of Elgin,
believes his farm is specially benefitted
i h fields on either
by the railway running through it, as
he has noticed that t
side and adjacent to the track are more
productive in all kinds of grain grass,
etc., than those more eemote. He be-
lieves the soot and cinders from the
passing locomotives have an influence
in fertilizing and manuring the soil.
—Mr. 3. B. Hall, of Woodstock, has
in his Apiary 250 thriving; hives, and
has this year made over 6,000 lbs. of
honey. A gentleman loiag aud intimate-
ly connected with bee -keeping declares
that every township ini Canada is an-
nually losing $10,000 b failing to keep
as many bees as will gather all its
honey.
—It —is reported tha the Winnipeg
and Western Transport tion Company's
and the lifidson Bay C mpany's steam-
ers have been put into one . ownership,
making a complete lin on the Assini-
boine, Red River, Lake Winnipeg and
the Saskatchewan.
—Minnedosa, in the North-west, has
a.base ball club, and the members are
arranging for a grand t urnanaent to be
held in that embryo to n shortly. The
Washtas of Rapid City Red Stockings,
of Newdale, and two tubs from the
Plains will be invited. Fifty dollars in
cash will be offered as first prize and
the second prize will co sist of a cup or
some other trophy.
—W. J. Henderson of Artemesis.,
Grey, showed in Toron o I ail t week a
stool of Clawson whea grown on his
' farm. Forty-six stalk had grown from
a single grain of wheat. The average
height of tlae stalks was five feet seven
inches. The heads were remarkably
Icing and well filled, and tlae average
number of kernels on each head was
sixty. This gives a to al yield. of 2,760
grains from one.
—Selling whiskey without the trifling
formality of obtaining a license still
continues at Rat Portage, and during
one night last week two prisoners con-
fined in the gaol awaieing their trial
for that offence effected their escape.
The constable who ,was in charge of
the law -breakers took suddenly sick,
and was absent one hour, during which
time they escaped.
—The Canadian mare Lucy, owned
by Palmer and Wells, Aurora, is
one of the best improved trotting horses
iu Canada. Her present reeord is
2.201. This year she , trotted within
two lengths of Piedmout when hemade
his mile in 2.18, and also distanced.
Alexander, at Chicago She also beat
So -So, Powers and Irene, at Columbus,
Ohio. She has won 212 first and 15
second prizes.
—The Review says Mr. John MeLay,
Registrar of the county of Brace, and.
an old journalist, has been staying in
the Portage during the early part of the
week, the guest of Mr. E. McDonald.
Mr. McLs.y, after visiting the splendid
farms of High Bluff and the Portage,
has decided that there is /IQ better place
where he can invest motley than in this
locality, and intends doing so largely.
Before returning to Ontario, he has gone
west to visit the various settlements.
— The following are the officers of the
Public School Inspectors' section of the
Ontario Association for the current
year: Messrs. J. S. Carson, Strathroy,
Chairman; D. A. Maxwell, Amherst -
burg, Secretary. Directors—Messrs. a.
L. Hughes, Toronto; J. Dearness, Lon-
don ; D. Fotheringhana, Aurora; E.
Scarlett, Coboarg. Legislative Com-
mittee—Meagre. J. L. Hughes, J. S.
Carson and D. Fotheringbam.
—Mrs. Dodds, of Hamilton, who had
reached the age of 91, peacefully passed
away last Thursday night. Deceased
was born at Greenock, Scotland, on the
20th of December, 1791. She was the
daughter of the late James Chisholm,
of Greenock, and witlalier husband set-
tled at Smith's Falls, in this Province,
thirty-seven yeare age; About twenty-
eight years since they removed to Ham-
ilton, where she has since resided. She
leaves nine children living, all grown up
and married off. .
—In speaking to an Emerson, Mani-
toba, reporter, Mr. P. J. Brown, con-
tractor for 112 miles of the South -West-
ern Railway, stated that he felt confi.
dent of being able to Complete the road
to Nelsonville in time to secure the
bonus from North Dufferin. Five grad-
ing machines were reeeived on Wednes-
day week, and the dirt will now be
made to fly. Fifty miles of English
steel rails have been purchased, and
will arrive this fall Via the Northern
Pacific to Fargo, andlthence down the
Re_dRhiveepr ettro °WuTn Winnipeg.
Tsay
s
:
A young
lady from London, I visiting at Mrs.
Banham's, Petrolia Junction, is posses-
sor of an amber fan the existence of
which she can trace hack 200 years. It
has been owned by the descendants of
one family for upwards of 100 years, by
one of whom it was lost on thefield of
Waterloo during the I progra of that
fo
z.
chrestoit wreaths to
rightful owner. The young lad. y has
relic.
frogs, and they showed the refused $100 for the