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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1881-09-02, Page 1'ir 26, 1881. 1 pence per lb. Whe lifference, 1 veal ear, hereafter. rtgea mentioned into position of the Brit. 3Ilt can. be better tie, eeral opinion is, that have been able to pay ther the storm. Ae., al the liberalitsr am ir laudlords, who, al we remitted frona lia the rents, are still ope aud fear, expect - ad. cultivating faith, le. The renaaiithig or are going over.. am sold out to their -,,yho have anything leaviug for the col- ited States, to try ag in the new land. a and farmers, as a eaiust the Yaukees, i, for flooding their riculteral products - duta- beiug levied Late ; aud meetings eany places to agi.. it I am afraid it 1,,s the agricultural minority, as come 'antile, ainl inecharis .,-,- the workiug mil - ie great majority, tax the poor maws raise a rebellion. . any such artificial -,,e of agricultural ,.,..1t, in the loug run, !artuer, as rents, by z,lon., would go up ance would simply of the laudiords. v'tiers are also to be :h as the teuants. Intailed, and the ex- 'esipation of their •Iear d. them were just in the goo :ng able to keep up houses are shut up, :e to rusticate in thea- can lay aside aud live cheap. ,ns between land - 'e ie a transition ; part, to the altered. ! food supply. The Lnd through their deed a high cry, eut to have a laud .1 Euglish farinere ;Lilly as they, but aud ferbearancee political quacks, .elieye that for the miles are beYoncl -.Uwe. However, I ra the1 tenant far- :. tided by them for vlio were gluttiug ld 'cheerfully, and `*Como over- and enany of you at the a large, and ia liv land where my im in it for thou - sure to be be oflandlords, keepers, evils A deplore here." eed us Canadians ,eauess ill taxing ,-Iiile they admit- . products free, 1 -V tongue Stuck to —I could, not de - ie.: to bEty. It wee vith fe)me Yankee ;-ith. They were , of the -Britiah .-..duling their cat - au to be slaught- earkation on plea, was no disease Canadian cattle ,,- the country and .,..utaut'e, making athete Yankee, of ead. I must say this sort of thing. - eel remember of nd rather more a- cousius across useieutioueiv tell them right --that e..) blame- Tlee3' 1,rocity treaty we lam, had blocked duties and cora- - outlets fur our eew had got an Li they had to de ir manners, ioja air and equitable they would bald Ii; till then we is line. to consider the an farmer to the 'ow we may best lee of the altered auditions of the i the old land. 'fill LOVE} SR. rd, 1881. of New York, Square Presby - bo, last Sabbath ,-narned Joseph e life, saved two few days ago- aria- worthy of ilop Lynch, ac - Father McCann, cese, have gone the lakes and latter place the opening of ter of section west, in the tion of Manito- tawn eight, and eneur of Sir vae, with 2iE. 0- , owns a large eicinity. Cart - of Emerson. Pertage la t Saturday. and e The origin of it is supposed engine, whieit e the day. The eat $1!?,,000 ; lehu Dale, Jr-, th of London, a Saturday af- Mr.. Dale's e threshing had ago. Cause of Ve years of age tra w -stack, and a got hold of etraw to bars ng except the FOURTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 717. GREAT BARGAINS READY-MADE CLOTHING. Men's Sui ic CC worth $16 for $12 - • 15 " 11 50 cc 14, 11 12 cc 10 10 " 8 8 " 6 tC it .t Cl THE GRAND CLEARING SALE —OF -- -GENERAL DRY GOODS A G-REAT SUCCESS. WILLBE CONTINUED UNTIL FIRST SEPTEMBER. 70EGET THE PLACE, ONTARIO HOUSE, OPPOSITE MANSION HOTEL. SMITH c6 WEST. GREAT ATTRACTIONS —AT— WM. MPBELL'S CLOTHING HOUSE, —1g— FUR HATS, FELT HATS, DRESSED WHITE SHIRTS, REGATTA SHIRTS—all prices, READY-MADE SUITS. ALL FIRS14-GLASS GOODS. COME AND SEE, A.ND YOU WILL GET ARGArNS WM. CAMPBELL. Campbell's Block, No I, Seaforth. REMOVAL, REMOVAL A. C. MCDOUGALL & CO., MAIN STREET, BEFORE REMOVING INTO 'THEIR NEW STORE I WILL SELL OFF THE 'WHOLE OF THEIR SUMMER STOOK AT Wholesale Cost Price. SALE TO COMMENCE THIS DAY And Continue fir One Month, ALL GOODS AT COST PRICE., SOLD FOR CASH Any buying at this Sale on time will be charged Ten Per Cent. Extra, but the Goods will be sold eit Wholesale Cost the same as to Cash Cus tom- er& THIS IS A GENUINE SALE, And all we ask is a Call to Comp.re Prices with artY 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, SEAFORTII. N./ 14 SEAFORTA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1881. A COLORADO JOURNEY. IV.—THE ALPINE 1 PASS. For the return journey, we have at Gothic the choice of fiye passes—the Cottonvvood, the Alpine the Monarch, the Marshall and the Cochetope, with the last of which we are already ac- quainted. It is the Alpine we have re- solved to take and our Icourse will be back to Gunnison City then to Par- lan's, thenup Quartz Creek to Pitkin, where we are at the foot of the Snowy Range and at the entrance to the Alpine Pass. About six miles below Crested Buttes, where the road crosses the East River, there is a ranch kept by There are no re, the foot- ater's edge. two men from Indiana. bottoms along the river h hills coming down to the w Except that there is plenty of water, which cannot be applied for irrigation, and that it is located on the public road, the ranch appears to have no par- ticular value. I had to stop all night here, and I made the acciluaintance of the owners. They told me they came to the Gunnison country, direct from Indi- ana, in July, '80, and cast about for something to do. They saW the enor- mous value of hay, but Ihe meadow land was all taken up and hey had not the means to bay a hay ranch. So they located at this place, and set to work with butcher knives, cutting the mountain bunch grass. They cut about seven or eight toes with the knives and then hired a mewer. How they managed to cut the hunch grass with a mower I don't know, for the ground is about as uneven as a field of hilled potatoes, but they did it, and got al together between twen y.fi ve an d they baled d sold to the road, a pound. lodgings nsiderable ether they thirty tons of hay. This with a homemade baler freighters who passed alon at from five to seven cen They also supplied meals an to travellers and made c money in this way. Alto realized over $2,000 from one year's eir ranch- er imple- work, although they began t ing operations with no ot ments than butcher knives. The hay growers look at the rail- roads being built into the country with 1, great jealousy. And it is with good reason, as the moment the r ilways are running, good-bye freighting and good- bye high prices for hay. The iron horse, unlike the long-eared Melancholy mule, needs no hay to ke p up his t muscle. Grain, too, will fa11 in price, and in fact all kinds of m rchandise, but nothing to the same ext nt as hay and grain. Corn, I may say, was selling at seven cents a pound in Ruby and Gothic and o ts at nine cents. - A little further down East River is a place of considerable note in he mon tains, to wit "Jack's Cabin." T place is near the junction of sever roads and is as well known as any to or city. • It may have originally been a h cabin, but it is now a collection of cabins, th built end to end, apparently as they co were required, until about an acre of ea ground .is covered with one -storey br rooms. "Jack's Cabin" corbprises a a hotel, a store, a saloon, a camp house a and a feed stable. There are fine ha meadows adjoining where the hay sold ab and fed at the place is grown. The bo original "Jack," whose other and less important name is Howe, is still the owner of the "cabin." About a year ago a report was telegraphed to aud printed in all the Eastern papers, that a party of Utes had attacked "Jack's Cabin," and had been repulsed with great loss in killed and wounded. AlthOugh the report was never contradicted, there was not a shadow of truth to lit, as In- dians have not been in that country for several years. , We again pass through Gunnison which has not changed apparently fo elected Governor. On the I question he has very persistently properly stood by the settlers and igrants as . against the Indians as by this course, as well_ as by bility arid Einavity, made hims opular favo41:te. A new county, ears the nantie of Pitkin. The to ively and business like.* It is ounded by •Ihigh bleak mount hich contaiii the mines upon w lie_ hopes of akin are founded. lid reductio6 works, which, it / fforts are be ,:g made this 811IIIM • nduce capita ucts to establish sme laimed, is alp that is necessar Ole the mines "'pan out" big. kin is in the flame position as all other towns ill the Gunnison con E, astern capital has been' expended foWns have been built, the mines een,sunk, but I as yet there has bee cintput—no ore has been sold. Eas Oapital has ceased to flow in, and t iS a Scarcity of money, which will tinue until there is an output ancrsome- ,hing realized from the sale of ore. No the mines. - Pitkin ought to be a- pleas - t otibt the completion of the railways ill solve the problem as to whether lie e ever will be an Output and re - o e all excuse for not fially developing a t place for a smiamer residence, a f ee es there almost every night .du t e onth of _June. A ove Pitkin the canyon beco ndian and im- , and his elf a also, wn is 1 ains, sur- hich Great lting er to is y to Pit - the ntry. have, the fright teams, stages, and vehicles of night with an endless procession of every description. Now we travel half lltenrno here of how.far to the next town. The rail- s ay without meeting a soul to inquire con- w y has been built up the river parallel 1 McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a YOar, in Advaill ce. e w e got out some way. Thus it Will be seen that it is easy enough to Oul a mine or to own one, but to find a paying one is quite another matter. As I passed through Alpine, on the 3oth July, I heard one man on the street say to another "The President was Shot." I only heard these words, and thinking he referred to the assassina- tibn of Lincoln, wondered what had brought up that tragedy of sixteen years ego for conversation this morning. It was not till five days after I heard that President Garfield had been shot. Half a day's travel brings us to the Arkansas River. Here we strike the old Leadville road. Three years ago this road was covered from morning till I Canada. 11 —Hon. Alexander MeKenzie sailed for Canada on the 25th August. — Penetanguishene is moving for the erection of a $4,000 Central School. —The Post Office Department has ordered 300 leather mail bags from a firm in Ottawa. —The safe of the Great Western Railway at Guelph was burglarized the other morning, and about $200 ab- stracted. — There are a number of bush fires in the neighborhood of Ottawa, and the atmosphere is filled with smoke. Not much damage is reported as yet by the farmers. —A movement is .reported among hotel servants in Toronto to secure in- creased wages during the Exhibition week. There is a dearth of female and male help. —By the fire at St. Jean Baptiste Village, Montreal, on Saturday morning some twenty families have lost their homes. Happily no destruction of hu- man life is recorded. —A woman gathering chips on the Intercolonial wharf at York Point on Thursday of last week, fell through and was drowned; a ten -year-old child is elieved to have perished with her. —G. Wing, one of the oldest residents f the township of South Crosby, drop - ed dead in his field on the 25th inst. eceased was very much respected, nd his sudden death is much regretted. —Mrs. J. K. Griffiths, of Kings ounty, New Brunswick, commenced n 1874 a piece work quilt and finished on August 13, 1881, having managed o work into the same, 4,026 pieces. 11 to'the old road, and half a dozen trains a ay now carry quietly and rapidly th travellers and freight which used to ni e ploy thousands of stages and wagons and crowd the wagon road. There are de erted ranches too, where formerly ha and grain, whiskey and canned s itgo ring .r in ve mes ✓ ower, and we fairly enter the pass. er for miles and miles, high above e waeon road, a ledge has beeu hewn e face of the cauyon for the rail - track. It used to be thought nee th way cess si it a ai t u B ar a d ry that the road -bed of a rail ould be almost a dead level and t course should be almost an air 1 e Rocky Mountain narrow gu es however, have denaonstrated t way train can climb steep mo , almost like "going upstairs," t corners, and crook and wind at among gulches and rocky poi . . way hat ine. ro on age horses and mules which have sue - hat cubed by the way and the tens of thou- sands of empty canned -goods tins scat - urn in tered along tell of its former greatness. nts i'roceeding down the Arkansas Val - ds were sold to the freighters and b vellerS, but whose proprietors, find - their occupation gone with the ad- P at of the railway, left them behind P and journeyed further into the mama: p tains in search of regions yet untrav- ed and unharmed by railways. I am 1 inded of the old English coaching er re roads and taverns, similarly deserte °tithe introduction of the iron horse, ba there is no flavor of antiquity nor antic associations hovering about Leadville road, only the bones of d 1 it —Unprecedented audiences assemble et the meetings of Rev. Dr. Talmag at Grimsby Camp. There were esti ated to be from 12,000 to 15,000 per ons on the grounds daring Talmage' tay. —Vennor declares that he does no ant to be,made Chief Signal Officer of e United States, and that his system so different from that of the Meteor- ogical Department that he would be at of place there. —Dalhouise College is to be thrown en to women. Very soon there will in t le most astonishing way. rout of the Denver and South I' acros -the Alpine Pass is one of ex or inary difficulty, even here wh di c lties of construction are expect A the summit there is a tunnel of c er ble length through solid ro en and r feet wide and 11 feet thick, apparently without a flaw. This granite is of the mottled.gray and black, and is consider- ed equal to the Aberdeen granite. It weighed 1,101i tons. — Hanlan accompanied by Jim Doug- lass, has arrived home from St. Louis, Missouri. He speaks highly of the re- ception he received from residents of that city. Ile laughed heartily when he heard of the telegraphic despatch from St. Louis announcing his death by drowning. —The latest reports from Rapid City state that ma tidings have been re- ceived of Mr. Little's child, of Oak River, and all hope of obtaining a clue to solve her myeterions disappearance is almost given up. It is supposed that the child strayed into one of the numerous marshes in that vicinity and was drowned. —The unrevised census statement placed the population of Algoma, at 13,000; but the figures indicate that 20,000 will be nearer the accurate number. This increase will probably give a fraction over one half the unit of representation, and entitle Ontario to one member more than was at first estimated. —Of first-class honors at the junior matriculation this year in Toronto University, Brantford, and Bowman- ville Collegiate Inatitutes carried off ten each, Toronto seven, St. Marys and St. Catharines five each, Upper Canada College and Hamilton Collegiate Insti- tute four eacheand Collingwood three. t —The long-standing difficulty which u kept the Credit Valley Railway ter- r Militia at the far western end of Toronto, m d to the great inconvenience of all travel- lers on the line, has at last been settled. Beginning with the 5th of September— the openining day cl the Industrial Ex- hibition—the Union Station will be the Credit Valley eastern terminus. t —In the Mennonite settlement in Manitoba there is to be seen a re- markable monument of the industry of the Mennonite worcien, namely a drain perhaps a mile lOng, and two and a half feet deep, with the sides nicely sodded and the banks skilfully thrown up. It is stated that the work has been wholly performed by the wonaen. —Jim Fanning, of Winnipeg, met with a painful accident recently at Gladstone. He was in the act of gioona- ing a horse when the animal kicked him in the face, smashing his nose and otherwise horribly disfiguring hie coun- tenance. Dr. Ferrier dressed the wounds, and the young man is recover- ing from his injuries as well as can be expected. —Three wife beaters were arraigned in Toronto the other morning.' One Was fined $5—his third offence—one $2 and another got off, because his wife would not prosecute. Whiskey was at the bottom of it. Judge Mackenzie has been commenting in severe terms upon the growth of , this offence, and Colonel Dennison, Police Magistrate, was covered with blood from cuts re. ceived from the stones in falling. —Sarnia has been invaded. by an army of garter snakes. Numbers of thein have beea found lurking in out corner tl in private houses,stores, &c., and sometimes they cause a good deal of consternation by appearing in articles of clothing, in which they coil themselves up very comfortably. It is supposed that the drought which has prevailed inland has driven them in. the direction of the river in search of water. oronto World: Lord Lorne is not taking a good way to impress the people of the Northwest with respect for the law against liquor itt the ter- ritories. He has entered the country with a carload of it. It is a tough law that interferes with the liberty of traders and settlers, but gives license to a Governor. And the Mounted Police will not be animated to greater efforts in suppressing the illegal traffic after having been engaged in transporting -a load of liquor for the use of His Excel- lency and his friends. —Robert Shortreed, of Harriston, re- turning home at a late 'hour, attempted to cross the cattle guards at the Grand Trunk Railway crossing, and slipped between the stringers. He made des- perate efforts to extricate himeelf, but thenarrow bars held his foot fast, and. as he expected train along every mo- ment to cut hina to pieces, his niental torture was terrible. He remained in his critical position for over an hour ntil his cries were heard and help, sr- ived, and he was released only a mo- ent before a train thundered along. —An East Williams farmer dug a well eighty feet deep without finding water. He then bored a hole with a very wide well augur, and in the oper- ation the augur broke off close to the top or blades. A man named Ned Gallaher volunteered to be lowered by the feet down the hole, into whicla of course he went head first. Ned suc- ceeded in getting a chain around the augur, aiad both he and the iron were drawn out. He says that it was the tightest box ever he was in. —Messrs. G. and J. Bratt, 6th con- cession, Westminster, have attained a, high position among sheep breeders in the western part of Ontario. They have recently added to their already fine flock three Cotswold lambs. They were bred by Mr. Gilliott, of Kilkenny Farm, Norfolk, England, and imported. by Mr. J. Ross, of Jarvis, Ontario, who visited the ilocks of all the leading breeders in England and Scotleaad, and considers these the very best they can produce. —The Mayors of twenty-two -Can- adian cities and towns, together with The ley we see some fine farming ranchels th ark with good crops of wheat, oats and pd- is tra- tatoes. Outside of the fences there is no ol ere vegetation whatever, and I am obliged 0 ed. to buy hay, wherever I can get it, as on- there is no grazing obtainable for our 010 ck. horses. After awhile we come to South Arkansas City. This place was boom - ng a year ago. It was then the point f transhipment from the railroad to wagons of the freight and travel to the Gunnison. Since then the road has assed on, and with it, apparently, has one most ot the business of South Arkansas. About two miles 'below outh Arkansas is the place where once toed Cleora. Here two years ago was toiVrn of fifteen hundred people—larger han South Arkansas now. When the ailroad was built up the valley, the be th a th when they have their road fiuished inning, their troubles here will not i ov r, as for a goed part of the winter o ill be obstructed with snow to extent which will often prevent ir his is one of the most difficult passes g in th mountains. The road is very ba a d there is very little travel, but S w h ve to encounter the inevitable s to s j st as usual. The road becomes a st erar ; we are leaving the trees be- t hi d, nd soon we are above timber r 3' lin At the subemit th ere are vast n- m sse of snow, slowly melting in the Jae ho s n. In places along the road there al ar st 11, on the 2nd of July, drifts wn highe than I can reach sitting on a o se, and acres in extent. Crossi su. so mit, we leave the Gunnis ut y behind and are again on t ster slope. A rapid descent so ipgs us to Hancock, a place of abo doze houses. Just below Hancoc mul , evidently run away, passes at rd t ot, and shortly after a boy ut 14, riding a pony, comes up. T enquires about a mule, and bei e has passed, he becomes muc don't catch him," he says, "he' top till he gets to Wichita." e is something rather amusin boy's earnest confidence that th ill bring up at Wichita, and he should especially select th e his destination. . t's where we come from, fathe . We're freightin' over to Gun niscln ; we have four mules, but tha one ru away, and I've follered hi fifty rn-les to -day." The oy recovered his mule before h got fru h further on the way to W chit, nd returned to his father re joicing. The average freighter takes u about third of his time in looking fo estra,y nd runaway stock. St. Elmo i the ilex town. This place is the pres ent end of the track on the Denver an South ark, and has considerable show of busi ess on that account. A.littl fart er on we reach Alpine, which i the argest camp in this district. It is muc the same kind of place as the mining bamps in the Gunnison country. The 'surrounding raountains are honey- combed with prospect holes, and there are said none of At A pi eral Along t small s "Gold C at Virgi ia City, in the Gunnison coun- try, ti pltce so far out of the way in the niou taans we did not visit it. These of ore have been- packed on dou- ✓ ules across the mountain and been left here to be gathered and shipped n the railway. There is a smelter t Alpine, but it was not work - smelt rs but I did not see a single one la ing. Ne rly every camp has one or two at wok n any of the camps. Some. aft r a smelter has been built and e In p d, - • discovered that the ore in th neighborhood is "refractory" and can ot be worked by the usual pro- cesses o the ore may be "low grade," Bo that it will not pay for working, or lastly, th re may not be any ore at all. These ar some reasons given for the idlene s f the smelters, and I should say a m iter was not a very good class of pro er y. Almost anywhere in these moun al s streaks of rock or leads can be fouid hioh bear more or 16138 gold, silver r opper. But to be of any value a lead m st be of a certain degree of richne s i the first place; then it must be,of c n iderable width in proportion to las al 1 e, or it will pot pay for work- ing; lastli , it must be in a place ac- cessible fir the removal of the ore,—but this laSt i not so irdportant, as if it is • only 4h enough and plenty of it, the company refused Cleora a station and put one two miles further on where they owned the site, and started the new town of South Arkansas. The re- sult was that Cleora was d t d. 80011 eser e ng and most of its baildings and business on houses were moved up to its rival. he There is not a single house now where on Cleora once was. This plan of starting ut new towns close by old ones and killing k, out the lattor is one of the favorite a rascalities of the western railways. I of shall be greatly surprised if the people he of Manitoba and the North-west do not ng get a taste of it before the Pacific Rail - h way and its branches are completed. A few flags are flying in South Arkan- sas, which remind us it is the 4th of July. A few miles below we pass a party of country folks who are celebrate either the better or the worse ince our first' visit, except that now rather neat little daily- paper is ried in the streets. It is called the Ne 8-Dem- oorat, and is rather better wri ten and less slangy thalp the average Western local paper. 4am sorry to saythat a horribly low literary taste prevails among the rather miscellaneons coiled - tion which makes up the population cif these mountains. Actnally, the moat popu lar papers, and the papers I saw oftenest in the hands of readers and lying on the tables in publid places, were the New York Police Gazette and the Police News. Now, any man—or woman either for that matter—mig4 on occasion glance at the Police Gazette or Police News with interest or even with amusement, but I reallY pity a man or class of- men who choose that kind of thing for steady reading. Ne wonder that murders and every other sort of beastly crimes are so cOmmon. This, however, is a digression. We pass up the Turnitchi and are again at Parlan's. Here we leave our o d road, and turn to the north, up Quartz Creek. Our road runs side, by side vith the new grade of the Denver and, South Park Railroad, and the creek rushes along crossing and recrossing Oar path at intervals. There are few ranches, the bottoms being narrow, but v4ierever there is width sufficient to offer a, , pros- pect for a meadow, it has been taken up. About ten miles of travel up Quartz Creek brings us to a collection of a dozen or more houses, the largest of which bears a sign "Ohi Citty es and esurne rhoOd. ad on ose to higher Hotell." We had heard of mi prospects on Ohio Gulch and p that it must be in this neighb From Ohio City to Pitkin the r each side is thickly timbered, c the creek, with quaking ash and up the banks with pine and pruce. Enormous quantities of ties w re cut and piled along, for the use of the rail- way. The town or camp of Pitkin takes its name from the Governor of Colorado, F. A. Pitkin. He was a Wisconsin lawyer, but came to this country,six or seven years ago on account of his health. He entered politics and has bee twice told. o excite "If never The in t e mu e ss ask wh f ‘Th and na ing the day by a pic•nic in a grove. They have a platform laid down and a dance at going on. A heavy rain which came on in the evening must have somewhat dampened the ardor of the merry -mak- ers but as they all belonged to the farms near by, they would hardly grudge the loss of their sport when taking into t • consideration the benefit to the crops. At intervals the mountains cloee in on e each side of the river and the road, the railway track and the stream pass close ✓ together through a narrow canyon. Then we emerge into parks of consider- s able width, where, whenever water can be had for irrigation, the land is taken up in ranches. At length we leave the Arkansas Valley to lose itself thirty miles below in the Great Canyon of the. Arkansas, and turning southward we strike into Wet Mountain Valley. Here we pass through over twenty miles of the finest farming country I have seen in Colorado. The ranches are all fenced. and nicely improved, and on many of them are handsome frame dwelling houses. This settlement more resemhles an Eastern farming district than anything I have yet seen in Col- orado. Many of the settlers are Ger- mans who settled in a colony about eight years ago, and for a year or two after settling some of them were nearly starving. They wanted to kill the founder of the colony, a man named Waster, for taking them into these t barren mountains to die. But a few i years of good crops and high prices, j such as $25 a ton for hay and three h cents a pound for potatoes, has placed them on, the high road of prosperity. We leave Silver Cliff to the left, but c we passaiear enough to see its ELMS of w ugly unpainted frame houses. In less than a year Silver Cliff sprung from a r waterless sun-dried prairie to be a city c thousand inhabitants. It is decadence and dying slowly i lace of one or two thousand t population which its mines g to be sonae rich mines, but hem are sending out mineral e I saw the only sign of a min- ou put on the whole journey. e road,'"in. little heaps, were cks of ore, with the label • The "Gold Cup" mine is sacks keys have not be a college of any importance in Canada or out of it where female students will not be admitted to attend lectures. —Mr. Daniel Maxwell, residing on the Old Ridge, Charlotte county, New Brunswick, recently celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of his marriage, he being 90 years old, and the partner of his joys and sorrows 86. —The construction of the new station house at Squirrel Creek, on the Can- ada Pacific, thirty miles west of Port- a e la Prairi i b i e, boing prosecuted vig- orously, and will be opened at an early day. —A deputation of the leading citizens of Dundas were in London the other day. Their principal object was to en- quire fully into the cost and durability of the asphalt sidewalks and cedar blo pavements, and the waterworks. —Some days ago a quarter of a mi of telegraph wire running betwe Portage la Prairie and High Bluff w carried off by sonae vagabond, and t business of the company was stopp for three days. —Edward A. Green, aged 20, we out 94 boat on Sunday on the bay at Hamilton, and has not been seen since. The next morning the boat was found upside down, aud it is now considered beyond doubt that Green was drowned. a -The other day a twelve acre field of Wheat belonging to Mr. F. S. Gifford, twe miles east of Cobourg, was set on fire by sparks from a Grand Trunk Railway locomotive. The grain was cut and in shocks ready to come in. —A Mono stone mason, who has been in the habit of abusing his wife shamefully, was driven into the pond by a number of indignant neighbors and kept in the water until he appeared to be in a repentant mood. ek regrets that he cannot impose the lash. Dr. W. H. Hingsten, of Montreal, was le recently invited by the American Consul - en General to go to Washington to assist in a consultation upon Garfield's con- hedition. Dr. Hingsten replied that he ed concurred in the opinion of Drs. Hamil- ton and Agnew that there were already too many surgeons attending on the nt . —A Manitowaning journal complains, on behalf of the teachers of Eastern Algoma, of the trouble and expense to which they are put in attending the examination at Sa,ult Ste. Marie. Their .salaries are small and the trip is very expensive. —George Shaver, of Islingham, was tangled in his reaping machine, and had every stitch of clothing torn off him. When he stood in his boots, he could hardly realize that he had escaped with whole skin. —A checker tournament is in pro- gress at Point Edward. It has taken such a hold on several of the prominent townsmen that they may be seen up at all hours of the night "with furrowed brow and clenched fist moving men o'er checkered board." —I. Bracey threshed on the farm of Mr. Weaver, Breslau, Waterloo, N. R., 26 bushels of wheat in 50 minutes; on he farm of Mr. David Ellis 615 bushels n seven hours; and on the farm of Mr. ames Taylor 670 bushels in seven our. —It is alleged in Montreal that the ale of hooks on th Grand T k is ontrolled by a. Roman Catholie, who ill not permit the sale of Protestant book. A good deal of feeling is being aise in certain \ quarters on this ac- -°—utere has just died at St. Thomas, n 59th year, a pioneer printer in he person of Patrick Burke, who erei- rated to Toronto in 1837, and learned of seven now in i 6ff to a people, and res We pas tance, town which ie tunes may suffice to maintain. t also, but at a considerable dis- E sita, a slow substantial mining ag 'oh has never boomed but to ave some rich M mines now workingand putting out ore a Do and a large amount of undeveloped N mineral in its neighborhood. Keeping e p the valley, we come at last uerfano Canyon Divide. An- M s travel down the Huerfano he printing busineas in the office of the xaMiner, which was under the man- ement of Sir Francis Hinoks. —Changes have been made in the anitoba and Southwestern board, cknowledging the place held by the ew York capitalists at the back of the nterprise. In consideration of a $100,- 000 bonus, -a branch will be built to orris and West Lynn. —Mr. H. Walton, quarried at his anite quarries, Spoon Island, Queen's unty, New Brunswick, a block of suite, measuring 65 feet ln length, 20 steadily to the other da and we e again at our starting poin.t and the end of our journey. A. MoL. gr Co gr President, and that an addition to the number would be productive of Et0 good. —Senator Davis says that he is sixty pounds under his ordinary weight, and now uses the same chairs as ordinary folks with perfect ease. When he first 1 became a Senator a large chair was made especially for I his use in the Senate. What can have produced this remarkable redaction [unless indeed it be the arduous labors in connection with a seat in the Senate. —Chief Nelson -Beaver, of the Mancey Indians, says there is no necessity fo any want among the Indians. Darin this season he haa sold wheat grown b himself to the amount of 6603.80,_andi has eighteen acres yet unthreshed Only about eighteen years ago Chi -el Beaver was nothing but a poor hunter, and since then, by industry, he has ac- quired property worth about $11,000. —Mr. M. J. Glass, head master of the London West Public School, has lately executed a very neat memorial tablet, commemorative of the loss the schooi sustained in tbe drowning of seven of its pupils in the late Thames disaster on May 24th. It is in the form of a scroll resting against an an- chor, and as a work of art is very cred- itable to Mr. Glass. —The Mayor of Collingwood has his own peculiar way of dealing with recal- o citraiats. The other day a man who d had ill-used and buried one wife, anu s married a second, came to His Worship b complamitg that his inew wife had given him a thrashing. Mr. Mayor m heard his story, and then told him it o was a pity his wife had not shot him or M broken his skull • that she would be t quite justified in Ling so, and he would a be sorry to do anything to hinder her. p —On Saturday, August 20th Mr. to Jas. McArthur, of Kettleby, bound a fi 1 seven -acre field of oats fin- Mr. Wilford 'Heacock. He commetteed work at d twenty minutes to sevea in the morn- fa ing, partook of refreshmlnts three times p during the day, and finished the field lw at twenty minutes past Six in the even- d ing, binding 2,163 sheaves. The straw to was not very long, but one part of the fir field was quite ripe and many bands n broke. 11 —A four-year old daughter of Mr. James Rice, of New Durham, stumbled se into the well and fell head foremost a T se 1 , an 'gr fo the Lieutenant -Governor of Quebec, Hons. J. C. Aikins, McKenzie 0. Mowat, T. B. Pardee, and S. C. Wood have accepted invitations to be present at the o enin of th T Exhibition on the 7th hest. Fortee Toronto n head of Clydesdale horses, now on the ocean, have been entered by the Glas- gow Clydesdale breeding and exhibiting company. Mr. MoCrae, of Guelph, has entered twenty-three head of Galloways and twenty head of sheep. The show of butter and cheese will be second only to that at the Provincial at Lon- don. The entries of cheese so far ag- gregate 19,200 lbs. Numerous entries have been made for the bicycle races. —A short time ago, as a son of Mr. David Murray, at Riding Mountain, Hudson's Bay post, Manitoba, Wat3 playing along the bank of the Little Saskatchewan, he discovered 120Ma water bubbling out of the edge, and started "to dig a well," as he said. The father, upon digging deeper, found a slate quarry of some depth. There appears to be an abundance of the material along the river, as well as evident signs of coal. A half-breed says he knows of a coal mine within half a day's walk of the post. —One of the moSt interesting natural curiosities in Ontario is the Blue Springs, situated in the neighborhood of Walkerton. These Bprings are at an elevation of 70 feet from the river in a cavity 50 feet deep by 100 in diameter, brimming over with clear, sparkling water, and *furnishing a considerable stream to the river below. The spring has the power of petrifying, and every visitor carries off speoimens of petrified wood and moss. The water leaves a deep stain of rust, but has no taste of of mineral, and is clear and palatable —An action for $2,000 damages was entered last June by Mrs. Tilson, of Toronto, against John Faulkner, a wealthy farmer, for an alleged breach f promise. John Faulkner, the defeia- ant, is a confirmed old bachelor, about ixty years of age, but he is reputed to e worth some $65,00.Th f p - ecutrix is about the same age, but inus the dimes, and having a family f six grown up children. Although r. Faulkner admits the tender rela- ions which once existed between him lid the widow, he declares that the resent action is a deliberate attempt black mail him, arid that he will ght the case to the bitter end. —There will , be a grand display of ogs at the London Exhibition. The mous bull dog, which was so long a risoner on the Island at Niagara Palls, ill be on hand. The famous police og of Hamilton will also be on hand, gather with the celebrated London emen's dog. It is expected a large umber of the best kennels in the nited States will be represented. The ommittee have been fortunate in the lection of the judges. Major F. M. aylor, of Lexington, Kentucky, the minent authority on dogs, has eon- nted to judge the setters, pointers, fox ounds and beagles, and Mr. C. H. ason, of Bradford,,Yorkshire, Eng - and, the great crack English judge d breeder, will judge the fox terrierz, eY bounds, collies, mastiffs, New - midlands, bull dogs, bull terriers, korspo, tailor othisseYorkshs. ire and all other distance of twenty feet. When she rose to the stulace of the water her mother lowered the rope, calling to the child to lay hold of it The child did so; and the mother drew her part of the way out, when she ; lost her hold and, fell back to the bottom. She took hold of the rope again with one hand, and with the other suPported herself till help arrived. When: taken out she n