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FOURTEENTH YEAR.
WEOLE NTTM__BRR, 719.
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NEW COOKS FOR FALL AND WINTER
NOW OPENED OUT AT
SMITE & WEST'S
• ONTARIO DRY GOODS HOUSE,
SEAFORTH.
WE BEG TO CALL
SPECIAL ATTENTION
To Our New Dress Goods,
CC CC LC
Black Casfhneres,.
CC ;c c. C
cc ,c CC
Satins,
Fringes, Etc.
• EXTRA VALUE IN
GREY & WHITE COTTONS,.
WINCEYS; PRINTS. &C.
• WE ALSO SHOW LARGE RANGE OF
Ready-made Clothing
FOR MEN AND BOYS.
These Goods are marked off at very
Low Prices, and we shall be pleas ed to
show our friends through early in the
season.
SMITH & WEST.
W. CAMPBELL,
CLOTHIER, SpkFCRTH,
Has Just Opened up a
FINE LOT OF SUITINGS
.Embracing Canadian; Scotch and
THE FAMOUS BLARNEY TWE ED'S,
TIE HAT DEPARTMENT
IS VERY COMPLETE.
Gents' White Regatta Shirts
Perfect Fits.
CALL ABLY -
W. CAMPBELL,
Campbell's Block No. 1.
much- aA_Dm
OF
BOOTS A. SHOES
GOING ON AT THE
SEAFORTH BOOT & SHOE STORE
NEXT DOOR -TO
ROBERTSON & Do's HARDWARE.
WM. LOGAN,
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The Michigan Fires.
• The destruction of life and property
by the fearful fires which have lately
raged in the eastern part of Michigan is
terrible to contemplate. A thousand
square miles of couutry lie a blackened
and desolate waste. The -suffering of
men, women and children and animals but to See and travel over the prairies is
is most heartrending. • the oul vay to get any correct idea of
The high winds that prevailed cut off these v st plains; From Winnipeg to
nearly every means of escape. Large •Portag le Prairie .From
of the latind in
burning masses were lifted up and . places s covered with water, and the
hand is not fit for the plow at
ut drains are being cut in all
These drains extend as lfar
can see ; they are five
q to three feet deep and
such magnificent soil.
mit alkali land, but I did
•h of that. e' I believe that
o be found in the' soil here
What I Saw in Manitoba.
Ma. >'rrIToi3,—Having lately made
tour thi•oigh a good part 6f 141 arfito
I send yell a few notes of travel, bu
.may not be able to give you anyth ng
new or interesting. I have reaOl nd
heard mach of the Great Lone Laid
a
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borne to great distances, starting fines;
in fresh places, and adding to the de-
struction. A settlement of Poles were
caught in a fire -trap and literally roasted `as, the
alive, together with their cattle and wide, t
horses. As a rule they were all new throug
settlers. Numbers of them, blinded by 'hear a
the smoke and crazed by the fury of see mu
the flames and the agony of their suffer- kali is
ings, either died of their injuries or most p ages,and that is the very
committed auieide. At least 300 are ' ment, when not in excess, to prod , oe
supposed to have perished_ the finest wheat in the world. I as
in the heat fields of many Huroniljes,
s--
The following villages have been coRupert Monroe and sons, Hugh Grant
pletely burned down : Bad Axe, Verne, ; and of er , and found the self bind rs
Forest Bay,Riohmondville, "Charleston, with w rein full operation, drawn by
Anderson, Deckerville, Harrisville and t three l4 rises and followed by two en
Sandusky. Theefollowing have =been to stoop; Twelve to fourteen acres of he
partly burned : Port Hope, Minden: and ' best spring wheat I ever saw was ut
Ubley. At Paris, near fort Sundae, up in a day, clean and nice. Few rake
in the whole settlement there is not ,• the stu,
one building left. Houses, crops, fences, the ber
all have disappeared. South of For- to fort
meado
presen
directidin
y
set
rut
Ne
lot
al
in
le-
b.e, either for want of time or
y being little scattered. Thirty
bihels per acre was the es
sti
estville from the lake back for 7 miles ! mate o Many fields, and I did not
not one house is left to the square think i tto high. Clean white straw
mile. One man at Cato loses . $40,000 as thick as hair on the back of a dog, as
in grist mills,store, and hotel. Here, . the ss„riug is, well filled heads and
the settlers are nearly • all Germans, plump, hard kernel, weighing many
and newcomers, and all have been s pounds aver the standard, was the
burned out. The fire swept their _wheat.,
property off like a hurricane, and drpve the stre
many of them like sheep iuto the lake4 either
where they "perished miserably. In 1estima
3rop I saw on those prairies—
w so stiff, no sign of lodging
f wheat or oats. This last is
ec at from 60 to 100 bushels per
Delaware township the people and cat- acre. This fine result is said to be at-
tle crowded to the lake sho.ra, tributa ale to alkali, but this is not
Men, women and children haveaalostplea.sadit in water. By digging 20 to
even the clothes they stood up in, and 30: feet good water is found in m
the unfortunate cattle have had their places. I will now tell you some
very hides burned through. In Huron what I saw during a buckboard trip
county the same has happened. One over 2 p miles in Southern Manito
man driving through Huron county di Starte tom Emerson at 4 p.
rectly after the spread of the fire, re- crossed
ported that he met five women entirely , a splen
naked, each carrying -a child. He gave ing viii
them two flour bags to cover themselves which
with. A farms r saved his family, con- piece.
listing of his wife and eight children b t i
by taking refuge in a field of buckwheat. this rod you can see plainly the deep
A poor woman in his neighborhood en- paths of i}he Red River Bart, drawn by
deavored to save herself andchildrenby oue ox or pony from the time of the
digging a hole and covering them as Hudso� ]lay Company's occupation of
hest she could with her hands.' They the co u ry down to the present d y.
were all subsequently found dead. .The Our cd rse lay through the Mennen to
little ones had their heads burned off to settle eiit, which corn pa ises 181 tov jn
the shoulders. The loss of cattle and ships a' es good land as I have seen. I
animals is immense. Twenty head hear t ere are 47 villages in groups_ of
of cattle were found in a half -acre _lot three o four within a mile and aver -
dead. Animals are strewed in all' di- is lila f ale miles apart. Their quarter
rections.
st
of
of
a.
t e Red River'to West Lynn by
li l bridge. This is a fine' gr w-
age or town, I do not kn w
to call it—a very extensive
struck for . the Pembina n
called the Missouri Trail.
- section,s stretching a mile in length,
In addition to the dead, w c are w rea ma e acr s ; 20w1i
j—A banquet in honour of Sir Mex -
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 16, j1881.
country, but his decomposed remains
have been found iu u woods near where
the tragedy occurred. He ;is supposed
to have cenamitted suicide.
—The Grand Trunk is unable to ful-
fil its promise of a five dollar rate from
Chiicago to Buffalo n account of the
h avy travel.
The safe at the Midland Railway
st tion, Lindsay, w s blown up and
bTirglarized the of er night to the
a -nount of $400.
1—Mir. Alex. Mon gomery, from the
county of Glengarr , Ontario, has been
engaged as first assi taut teacher iv the
public school at Po'tage la Prairie.
—A site for a Hig School has been
purchased at Port ge la Prairie for
$8,300. It is not xpected that the
scthool will e built his year.
eau Designate of
Many of the Rock take settlers sowed
cdnsiderable timotb last spring, which
is' doing remarkably well. A fine crop
o tame hay next ye ;r is anticipated.
—There is a prop sal to appoint Mr.
Gcldwin Smith, m ster of University
Cellege, Oxford, in succession to the
Rev. Dr. Bradley,
Westminster.
—Rev. Dr. Mal
c ntly of Ypsilanti,
a pointed Princip
B ptist College, in
Torrence, deceased.
—Tee Manitoba
Education has pass
falvour of postponin
lands from the 15
the session of the L
—Judge Tasche eau has given a
jiidgnaent giving 02,:00 damages to Mr.
{ D lion, ,against the ity of Montreal for
net caring for th:ir pavements, on
which ich Dillon slippe ► and broke his leg.
-The Pailmersto brewery is said to
be the largest in the north. The malt-
, ing floor is capable f containing 30,000
bushels of malt, an the establishment
has a capacity of 1 0 barrels per day.
—The ,St. Lawre ce Steamboat Com-
pany claims to hay carried during the
present season so e seven thousand
• passengers, the mai rity of whom were
e ;cursionists.
`-Many Nova Scotia farmers believe
the cattle disease so prevalent in and
around Pictou is caused by a large yel-
low weed called by hem the "stinking
willow," which abet uds in the vicinity
olm /McVicar, re-
ichigan, has been
1 of the Toronto
oom of Rev. Prof.
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rovincial Board of
d a resolution in
the sale of school
h inst. until after
gislature.
of!Pictou.
HSir Charles Tu
tope, B. C., seems
question of the Isl
Leval Government
the coal lands to
tracting to build th
?—The Marquis s
Princess Louise wil
from .Germany_ ab
month, will then g
farewell visit to h
leave Liverpool for
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estimated at from 700 to 1,000, fully
5,000 persons have heen rendered home-
less, of whom many are absolutely ,
without shelter. Near Sanilac town-
ship northwards, the people did not
know any fire was near them until ,it,
was on them, and all had to run for
the lake, and it being but a short dis-
tance-all
ig-
tauceall reached it safely. John Kerr
and family " were asleep when their
building caught, and a neighbor seeing !'
it ran and woke them, and they suc-
ceeded in saving their house, but lost all
else.
Mrs. W. Burgess got separated from
her husband and lay. all night in a
ditch. Another person laid down in a
mud puddle, and rolled over and over
all night. Large parties of men have
been detailed to bury the dead ani-
mals lest their corpses should breed a
pestilence. The task of burying the
human beings has in many oases been
left to strangers, of whom one man re-
ports that he saw 116 persons burned.
In one place he saw four wagons bear-
ing eight coffins, and one man walking;
behind alone. It was his entire family.
Another man was following three
coffins.
The whole of the Sanilac burned
region has been traversed . by Rev. Z.
Grenfell, Jr., pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church. He reports that the her-
ald of the approach of the fire was
darkness and a copper -colored appear-
ance of the sky. Later it changed to a
deep red, and by two o'clock iii the af-
teruoon of Monday it became so dark
that lanterns were a necessity in order
that people might find their way out of
doors. Mr. Grenfell relates the story of
a Mr. J. Jenks, who said that the dark-
ness was so intense that in passing his,
hand before his face it could not be
be seen. In the woods were many dead
of every age, and presenting the revolt-
ing appearance of bodies which are
scorched and charred,by fire. The skill
and courage of man seemed impotent
to combat such flames, and the fleeing
people were caught in fire traps and
roasted as was their live stock. Mr.
Grenfell tells of one farmer Who was
plowing with his oxen a few miles from
Sand . Beach, who, perceiving the ap-
proaching darkness, started for his
house. -Reaching there he found that
his wife had gone to a neighbor's. He
took two children and gave three others
e-
nd
eeI
ea•en ;
3xt
ud
ail
er,
id-
nd •
iu charge of his eldest daughter.
fore travelling many " rods they fol
themselves cut off by the flames.
turned iu„ other direction and esca�
with two Children ; the three child
and the daughter were found the n
day all of a heap, and charred bey
recognition." Wm. Humphrey, a rz
carrier between Argyle and Elrr
started nn hir route on Monday. 111
way he was stopped by the flames,
unhitched his horse from the wag
Mounting his horse with the mail -bags
he turned hastily back. The horse
found its way to Argyle without mail-
bag or rider. A tagwas tied to his
mane and he was urged back over his
usual routeHe reached' Elmer, ut
Humphrey's body was found bur ed
in the woods in one place and the h f -
consumed mail -bag in another. he
wagon was found reduced to cinders
furrow, knot sown, to divide the owner-,
ship. I: ere may be seen - Mennonite
girls d wing the self binders, immen, e Wednesday evenin• . The affair was
.
•
per's visit to Vic -
likely to settle the
ud Railway.
The
las agreed to give
any company con-
railway.
es in the papers that
return to England
ut the end of this
to ,Balmoral on a
r • mother, and will
anada on October
his pocket,
his namesa
some way;
too, who ar
for him. T
George's H
about his M
—Detecti
Trunk, has
two leeks
attempt at
ston. ° A re
the arrest o
mischief, and
for the press
hiding arout
cinity.
—A cable
the Princes
on the 20th
ander Galt was giv•.n. at Winnipeg on 1
wheat fields without fence of pot,
houses mad barns nicely thatched wi h
straw or, better still, prairie hay, a cl
such •xtensive flower and vegeta "e
garden!:, iving'one an idea of ho e
comfort. People say • the Menhonit s
are no cleanly in their houses, t e
Stable adjoining not being' phi fumy d
with t e odor of, f ewers. These poop
have a e great progress during t
short sae they'have been in the con
try, b t they have been supplied by t
Gover 4 trent, to be repaid in a giv.
time b, Etiving security.
We aide 25 miles in three hou
rose rr.erson ; stopped for"the nig
t Brc rt's, a very good hotel. Ma
O.,mii.:s the next day and crossed t
'embi� a' Mountain at the littlei cros
r,ng 1 to 18 miles southeast fro
¶ryst City. Here we met Mr.
Green ay on the train from •Chicag
He w:. -Very enthusiastic in describi g
be pr sperity of his locality ; he to d
e t at{ the Southwestern Railw: y
would stike the Pembina some mils
South •f i Crystal City. Your reads s
' vill •eiiiember that t .lis railw y
Grosse . the Assiniboine 12 miles west .f
Winni ep at Headingly. On the Mi:
ouri t' a 1, 50 miles west from : Eme•-
on ani. 2 miles- south from Nelso r•
ville.' ountain City is located on
high, n raajvelly prairie ; it has two store �'
two to ens, saw and grist mill, run,.
steam d is quite a town as seen !oro
paper. ots of one-fifth of an acre a
elfin in Winnipeg by auction, at $1
o par ies who never saw them. T
lavhite I ents of the railroad builders a
in sig t =rom this place. Railroad a
land s. his are in every one's mouth, a
people -Were pouring in on every traij
that travelled—whole families wit
oxen 0 horses hitched to covered wag
bus. I -here is one-fourth of the land c
this t i1, rather low for wet seasons,ai{
some ravel and small poplar and o
scrubs in; places. The trail is go
drivin,' now, but in the wet seas
must i e the very worst. Thanking y
for gi`4'n this a space in your columns
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141111T11, August -31,1881.
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Canada.'
illage of Parry Sound h s
teat danger from surrounds 6
A. T. McCord, for over fore
easurer of the city of Toronto,
sq ;week.
Charles Tupper sailed' front
British Columbia, for Canada
ith inst.
kinagnificent specimens of t4
American. Buffalo have bee
in the Zoological Garden
o I
Picton the bees finding th
upply of sweetness out off by t
t, have commenced to raid t
stores.
ary Bonnett, of Woodbridge, w
• ays ago shot at by her husbat
ded in such a way as to leap
o .e .of her - recovery. She ha
ved to Toronto hospital. Tl
id was .supposed to have fled tb
•I
—I
usual
droug
grocer
ail
a few
and
little
been r
hush
ou
attended by upw rds of a hundred
leading citizens. - on. John Norquay,
Premier of the M: nitoba Legislature,
occupied the chair. •
—The first whea' ever grown in the
Peily district was r: ised on the Govern-
ment farm, which 's under the superin-
teridence of Mr. Johnstone, Indian
instructor. It is pronounced "par ex-
cellence" and will compare favourably
with anything ever grown in Manitoba.
—In the upper g ' llery, south side of
the Exhibition bu' ding, Toronto, there
aro three inmates •f the Ontario Insti-
tution for the B iud, Brantford., em-
ployed in making baskets and cane -
se t chairs. They • o their work very
deftly, and the pro ess is witnessed by
treat numbers of v sitors.
—The Preston mills in- Southern
Manitoba, together with a quantity of
wheat, flour and umber were totally
deStro3 ed by fire n Friday night, the
26th ult. No i. surance ; , estimated
Bose, $5,000." The •re is supposed to be
the work of an , ncendiary. Mr. J.
B. ,Preston conte •• plates rebuilding at
once.
—Business men : nd the public gen-
erally will read wi h interest the an-
nouncement that a new telegraph com-
pany is being organ'zed in Montreal to
compete with. - the existing unwieldy
corpbination. This company will work
wit4h the. Mutual Union Company, of
Ne Yorkenow actively extending its
operations.
—The City Council of Winnipeg have
ratified the bonus y -law granting two
huindred thousand ollars to lie Syndi-
cate, and the neces ary:instruments are
being executed bet een the company
and the city to car y out the pledges
reg rding the wo kshops, station, and
ro udhouse, which are pow being com-
me ced. -
Following in t e wake of Cole's cir-
cus
ir
cus are the usual omplement of. vaga-
bold sharpers in king money at the
expense of the "in ocents." While the
°irons was in Pete boro' ons old farmer
whom one would have thought knew
better, invested all the money he had,
some $70, and lo a d behold the wrong,
card turned up.
-r-eeprisoner n ed Cavanagh, con -
fin d at Peterbor ', tried - the insane
dodge to secure an early release from
bondage. He tore his bed and bedding
into shreds and broke everything he
could lay hands on. The gaoler gave
hire twenty-four hours to get sane
again, and he wisely took the _hint.
Cayanagh.had told a fellow -prisoner of
his intention, and this man told the
gaoler.
Last Friday orning an old man
named Cox came 'nto the Central Po-
lice Station at M ntreal making en-
quiries about a relative named William
Cox, who, he said, lived in Montreal.
The old man's story was that he had
been a pedlar up West, and had come
a as far- as Belleville a short time ago.
l He put up at a boarding-house in that
town, and while there he was robbed
a of all the money he possessed, about
six hundred dollars ; even his coat was
take from him He had not a cent in
n r .
taut believed if he could find
el he would help him in
el has relations. in Eugland,
Well off and would provide
e old man was sent to St.
rue, enquiries being made
iitraal relation.
Flynn, of the Grand
en engaged for the past
n investigating the recent
rain wrecking near King-
and has been offered for
Ghe mau'who caused the
whose name is withheld
Pt. He is supposed to be
4 Kingston or in the vi -
despatch says that H.R.H.
Louise will sail for Canada
of October.
—J. M. Buchan, M. A., has accepted
the Princip: !ship of Upper Canada Col-
lege, offered h!im by the Government.
—Mr. ` Swarts, died a few
days ago : t Princeton in the same
house wher: a was born sixty-seven
years ago.
—At St. ltomas a few days ago, one
nd a gang of about twenty
sl assaulted a number of
itizens, injuring some of
. On Saturday Hender-
fe ted and fined $28, and
ader named Burke $15.
Merits have been made at
o giving Dr. McKay, the
s ionary, a grand farewell
n of October llth. The
w 11 be of au nndenomin-
c erecter, several eloquent
representative men from
re expected.
aartha J. Brown, school
Section 5, Glanford, was
h assaulting one of her
d Gillen, a lad of 11 years,
e had punished him for
erad snake around the neck
he other pupils after school
Magistrate dismissed the
elle thought Miss Brown
ziight. •
man named John Mair,
ident of Teeswater, was
anitoba on the 20th inst.,
disk shooting. Mr. Mair
eeswater, and settled with
the Oak Creek district, but
inne of his death employed
by the Hudson .Bay Company as en-
gineer in tl ei • mill at the Mountain
house. H w ea general favorite with
all. His u ti ely end is deeply re-
gretted.
—While Anderson Scriver, a lad
'twelve years old, son of J. H. Scriver, of
Hastings, nd another boy named
.Doris, weri
driving a cow to pasture
the animattempted tonna from them.
Young Serer tried to get' before her,
and whileof g so Doris threw a stone
at the cow, bu it accidentally hityoung
Scriver on he head. He fell and. in-
stantly ex it d without uttering_" a
word.
—A Fre ch farmer in good circum-
stances, in th township of Templeton,
who lost hi w�fe some three months
ago, visite tilt village of Templeton a
few nights Since and proposed to the
bar -maid of the tavern at which he
was stopping. The proposal was ac-
cepted, althotgh the girl had never
seen the farm . r before, and next morn-
ing they were my married.
—The diffic lty arising out of the
Great Western refusing the Credit Val-
ley the right tai •cross its track near . St.
Thomas is sal to have been settled by
the Credit Yale agreeing to pay$10,-
3' g g
ivilege of crossing, and
um of $1,200 per annum,
-reat Western agree to
hg and semiphares in
Henderson
other rong
peaceable
them serion
son was ar
another rin,
Arraug
Woodstock
Formosa M
on the even
meeting
ational
speakers an
a distance
—Miss
teacher of
charged wi
pupils nam;
becaused s
winding a
of some of
hours. Th
case and sa
did perfectl
—A youn
formerly a
drowned in
while out
came from
his father i
was at the
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000 for the p
also a further
for which the
keep the cross
repair, and to maintain a watchman at
the crossing.
—The Methodist Ecumenical Con-
ference now initession at London, excites
great interest mong the other denom-
inations, man of whose ministers at-
tend the daily meetings. One of these,
judging from is dress, was evidently
an Anglican dignitary of high standing.
The question gf an itinerant ministry
as a means of
was discussed
ference being e
—Some six weeks ago a son of T. H.
Baxter, of Chatham, a boy of 12 years
of age, swa1loe4ed a straw which he had
been chewing,'and it was supposed it
went down hi windpipe. No serions
results were anticipated at the time,
but a few weeles later, serious symptoms
presented thethselves, the boy suffering
increasing paid day by day until Tues-
day afternoon, iwhen death came to his
relief. For soave days his sufferings
were intense.
—As ars . E glish-speaking witness
from the country was about to be sworn
in at the 1nq ete Court, Montreal, he
was asked if h . knew the nature of . an
oath, and he frankly admitted that he
did not, nor did he know " anything, he
said, about the Bible. On being asked
to point o}t i Bible from amongst
other books, he pointed to the Court
register. Snell an instance of deplor-
able ignorance'is not creditable to a
christian country.
—A few day -ago a span of horses on
• the inclined road on the Canadian
shore at Suspension Bridge, became en-
tangled in the harness and backed over
the precipice, falling a distance of about
30 feet and rolling down an incline
about 100 feet among rocks, shrubs and
trees and escaped without injury any
more than a fe`w scratches. They were
raised again by means of a derrick; The
boy who was driving freed. himself from
them whet he saw he could not prevent
them from gong over.
—Last Sunday five young men started
out in a small yacht frond Toronto, on
the lake. After cruising
for some time a sudden s
yacht and i thele were all
evangelizing the world
the sense of the Con-
idently in its favour.
bout the lake
nail upset the
thrown into
d to cling to
ng some dis-
re the acc'dent was not
hausted, nd letting go
e boat aa. k to rise no
e. The remaining three were res-
cued after being in the water for over
three hours.
—The loss of saw-nlills and lumber
during the recent fires a nuprecedente
In one day last Wee , near Amhe 1".
bu 0, saw mills and 1 raber value . at
fro a $15,000 to $20,00 were dest (ied
by he bush.fires. the vicinity - of
Be leville, in Kingsford township, $10,-
000, worth of property has been. burned.
Th saw -mills round. evern, Muskoka,
are some of them bur ea, and the rest
in auger. In and a out Renfrew, on
th Upper Ottawa, th losses are esti-
ma ed at from $25,000 to $50,000.
On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Brunno
Sc midt, of Berlin, - as engaged in
boi ing jelly—a work not usually en-
d in on the Sa bath—and when
he stove, a big
apr u, which she had. on, caught fire.
Th lire spread rapidl and extended to
so e curtains and pap rs on the shelves,
so hat only for the t rnely arrival of
a an. who lives in th same house, the
bui ding -would have b en burned down.
He succeeded in stop C'ing the flames
aud saving the wo oo an from being
buiMed to death. Shz had both her
ar s very badly burn d, and also the
left side of her face en neck.
e -Saturday evening hen Cole's cir-
cus:, was exhibiting in Guelph an acci-
dent occurred. As Mis Linda jeal," The
Fi e Queen," was pe forming in the
rin , jumping through hoops of fire, the
ho se's hind legs caug t on the hoop,
thr wing Miss Jeal ov r his head. The
ho se fell encircled w th the hoop of
fir Mit38 Jeal inst ntly juraped to
he feet and cried out "save my poor
ho se." One of the a taches threw a
portion of the fire. he horse then
bollted through the ri g with the hoop
sti around him, blaz
ma was passing out o
th attendants gras
ho p and held on to i
Th horse was con
ab tit the shoulders
m n that caught the
ba iy burned, and Mi
Early on the mor
th 'monotony of a v
At leak, was some
bo rd the Parisian, s
Bei ger, by the wino
yoring stranger had b
lis-41of passengers.
CaPt. Wylie, having
th case, requested th
hi assistance, and
aft r that it was a bo
tel *gerice being coin
at lace manifested, a
ab Int $40 were
pr sented to th
Ja •es Smith, from
Inland, by the
gan of Toronto.
lege, Lennoxville, Quebec, and re-
homas Parisian.
as Parisian Smith
his is the first
lendid. new Allan
tak'ng the pot from
th
Co
ceived the .name- of
T ei euphony of Tho
bilth on board the s
—Lake disasters h
du ing the gales of S
da last. The st
bo nd from Chicago
la en with grain, fo
H ren. Fifteen live
hi son. Most of the
Collingwood, and the
th news arrived wa
th extreme. Anoth
de t is that of the
la en. with salt fr
bo nd for Owen Bonn
o Cove Island on
th gale, and went d
bo ra. The most of
al o from Collingwo
le ving wives and sin
cr :—Capt. Amos
; John Young,
Port Ituron, and one
is unknown.
g. As the ani -
the ring one of
ed the burning
till it passed.
iderably burned
and belly. The
oop had. his hand
ed. in the fall.
ing of the 5th
yage across the
hat broken on
en added -to the
efore the event,
een informed of
doctor to lend
. Upon the in-
unicated to the
ontaneous desire
e new comer was
d a short time
subscribed and
father, Mr.
Queen's County,
The little fellow
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turday and Sun-
amer Columbia,
to Collingwood,
ndered. in -Lake
are known to be
Malcolmson and
lost belonged to
scene there when
heartrending in
chooner Regina,
aturclay night in
wn with all on
this crew were
all married men
11 families. The
Ines of the kat
cid; John Oaks,
man whose name
1 ---As. Mrs. Merriot , of the base line,
lady, were on their way home from
Gianton one evenin last week, they
ra t with -what 'nigh have proved a
se ious accident. T ley were proceed -
in along the base li • e,..and the night
c ming on exceptionally dark, they
w re unable to see -here they were
driiving, and having riven too near toe,
a d several parcels, were precipitated
in a promiscuous h ap into the ditch.
T'ie young lady got ore among the de-
bris and made her way to where she
saw alight, in- order to procure aSsist-
ance. In a short ti e she returned
with the ladies and a lantern. They
at once proceeded. to nhitch the horse,
viaich was all the ti e in the
di ch. While they ere thus engaged
t ree young men .c me on the scene
h viug another la,nte IL The horse and
b ggy were soon got ut of the ditch.
b t they were both fortunate in escap-
ilg so well as they did.
—Professor Galbraith, of Toronto,
a civil engineer and well known
7,h inst., having completed a canoe
vioyage, through -the Hudson Bay Terri -
to ry, starting from Lake Superior on
t e 21st June.- He travelled down to
oose factory, then coasted along
J mes Bay to Rupert's Land, thence up
upert's river to Misstassini, thence to
t e Height of Land where he struck the
s oarce of the Saguenay, thence by way
o Lake St. John to Vadousac, having
t *welled 1,270 miles and made sixty
c naps, employing five different Indian
• ews. The canoe he -used he bought
b Lake Superior and voyaged therein
t rough to Tadodsae ; the canoe looks
s if she could go the same trip again.
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Mr. Galbraith is looking just like the
mau that was -equal to sueh an average,
feeling well and hearty after his trip.
He speaks in the highest terms of the
kind hospitahty which the officers of
the Hudson Bay Company evinced to-
wards him at different posts which he
had occasion to touch during his trip.
—On Sunday, the 4th September,
Rev. Dr. Lachlan Taylor died suddeialy
at Sackville„ New Brunswick, at the
residence of his nephew, the Rev. John
Burwash. Few ministers of the Meth-
odist cr any other church Were better
known or more highly esteemed than the
deceased gentleman, and his 'doss will be
deeply mourned by a very large circle.
His labors in -the Methodist church,
which have been of a most varied. char-
acter, have lasted over 45 years, rawly
of which have been spent in travel. 1Yr.
Taylor was bora in Argyleshire, Scot-
land, but in 1836, while yeti a boy,eame.,
to Lachute in Lower Canada. For
thirteen years, viz., from 1851 to 1864,
Dr. Taylor did great work kr the Upper
Canada Bible Society, and Was mainly
instrumental.in bringing it to its present
high position. Some.four years ago he
was attacked with a seriouS disease of
the eyes which rendered him totally
blind, a condition in which lae remained
with occasional intervals of dim Viliii012.
Notwithstanding this the reverend gen-
tletnan continued to lecture, and at
the time of hife death was .1engaged
the city of the Great Xing."
Perth Items.
There were one hundred appeals
against the voters' lists for the town of
three-year old steers, for which he re -
has sold to Mr. Thomas Jones, eight
homas Mutton, Of Fullarton,
Robiuso3a has resigned
the principalship of the Blooming Hill
Public School, Hilbert. He purposes
taking a college course.
—The other day in Mitchell a little
daughter of Mr. W. Moffatt was run
over by a horse and buggy, but not
seriously injured.
--Messrs. W. Climie and W. Loch -
head, of Elma, left last week for Mon-
treal, where they intend. taking an Arts
course at the University.
—Mr. Thos. Mutton, of Fullartoia,
shows monster turnip, measuring 2
feet 10i -inches found; also 'a splendid
specinaen of marigold, weighing 15 lbs.
—The new waterworks in Mitchell
are proving a most decided success.
Three steady streams can be thrown 30
feet higher than the highest building in
the town.
—Mr. Gibson, who purcha.sed the
faun of the late Alonzo- Macdougall,
near St. Marys, has sold 1,000 bushels
of new wheat, the product of his new
farrn, for which he was paid $1.29 per
Elms, Cheese and Butter Man-
ufactory sold their August cheese for
12-8- cents per pound. The manager
and maker- of this factory is Mr. Harris,
one of the best cheese rlaen in the Do-
81226iiiinrrs: of age, and is hale and hearty.
John Barley, of Fullarton, is
He lam been married 50 years, and his
wife, who is the same age as himself, is
still living. He moved to the neighbor-
hoOd where he now resides 31 years ago.
eaThe county of Perth has suffered
severely from fires, especially the town-.
ships of Ellice, aornington, North
Easthope and, Logan. Many farm
buildings,. miles of fencing, and,
an immense amount -of timber have
fallen a prey to the devouringelement.
--LA swamp fire burning about two
and a half miles from Mitchell ran
into the farm of Mr. Moodie, of ,Hib-
bert, destroying his lime kiln and barn,
the season's crop being in the latter.
The barn 'and contents were insured for
5500.
—A fire broke out in Listowel on
Tuesday night of last week, which, be-
fore it could be subdued, consumed
nearly a whole block. Araoug the
places consumed. were the Albion hotel
and stables, Mr. McKinney's dwelling
house and stables ; H. Heather's dwel--
ling and wagon shop, J. W. Scott's
carriage shops, and several other shops
and. dwelling houses.
—The merabers of the choir of the
First Presbyterian Church, St. Marys,
gave Mr. James M. Robertson a pleas-
ant surprise on the eve of his leaving
town for his old home, Glenallan. The
surprise consisted of an address and a
present of two nicely bound volumes of
poems, and a copy of the New Testa-
ment with the old and, new version on
opposite pages, handSomely bound in
The Advocate says : Vr. Jerry
Robinson, formerly engaged in the dry
goods business in Mitchell, is getting
ready to embark in the mercantile bust-
ness in Winnipeg. A store is being
built fur him—size about 24x60—for
which Mr. Robinson is to pay 02,500 a
yeai rental and $100 taxes. Besides
this he has engaged. Et "shop -walker" at
a salary of $1,500, and a head clerk at
01,000, and even then be els,ims that he
will clear $30,000 the first year 1
—On Mondray last week a large
quantity of flax belonging to Dr. Har-
rison, of St. Marys, which had. been
spread out over thirty acres of ground,
took fire from a burning fence on the
Grand Trunk Tailway tra.ok. The
fence was ignited by a spark from a
passing train, and. the wind being in
the directien of the flax, which was as
dry as tinder, the fire swept over it so
Swiftly that nothing could save it. The
loss will be about 41500. -
—During the thunder storm that
passed pver the neighborhood of Ander-
son on Wednesday evening, 31st Tat.,
a calf belongbag to MTa. Donald was
killed by the lightning. A tree stan
ing close to the house of Mr. Thomas
Pearn was struek by the fluid, and Mr.
Pearn who was sitting under the ver-
andah, was stunned for a short time.