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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-01-06, Page 1A • FIFTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 735. 1 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 18182. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Tnense Attractions —IN— ADY-MADE OVERCIATS, ULSTERS AND ULSTERETTS, T WM. CAMPBELL'S GREAT CLOTHINC HOUSE, SEAFORTH. e Public are particularly invited to look at is Stock Before Buying Elsewhere. hese are all warranted to give satis- tion, and they are sold at close es. e Stock is, as ndual, well assorted all the Fancy Suitings for nobby ts. A ls,rge stock of FIJR CAPS, newest thing oat, in RSIAN LAMB, SEAL, &O. laves of all kinds and Winter Flan - in endless variety. WM. GAMPBELI. RINATE SOHOO.L —AT THE— POPLARS," JOHN STREET. MISS ROBERTSON • 1 re -open her school on MONDAY, ary 9th, at 9:30 A. M. Musie in rge of MISS BOOTH, late of the sic department Wesleyan Female ege, Ha.nailton. English Bramohea rench, Drawing, Sewing, Fancy ark, Calesthenios. Young ladies pre - d for 'college. Special attention to ortment. Terms -moderate. MISS ROBERTSON will also open Evening Glass for young ladies, un the auspicea of the Mochanies' In - ute. Subjects—Reading, Writing, thmetio, Grammar, Bookkeeping, ry, tzto. Terms made knowa on plicatioia to Mr. Moore, Librarian of e Institutes HOUND DOLLARS WANTED. Wishing to raise the a,bave in as short time as possible, I have determined ffer the whole of. my valuable stock f YATCHES, JEWELRY SIL - 'VER -PLATED WARE, CLOCKS, &C., the Public at a greatly tire; for the next month. reduced Pries wishing anything in the above elie would do well to give me a call befcire the FIRST OF FEBRUARY,' while:the bargains are going. M. R. COUNTER. e Royal Hotel, (LATE CARMICHA.EL'S) S AFORTH, ONTARIO. JAMES WEIR . _ -'S U) inform his old friends and the travel- ing public that having purchased this new . numodious hotel build:in _ ,. he has thorough - *ref -furnished and re-atted it from top to bot-_ ni,.and it is now one of the most comfortable d xnveuient hotels in the county. By strict tkka to the wants of his customer s he hopes iti_ .rit a -.hare Of public patronage. The rooms 1 Ix a ,I well furnished and well heated. . The bar .711 a k:ept mipplied with thebest, and an at - tentative and trust worthy hostler wit 1 always be iniaaitTratenvdeain?: Geod sample rooms- fo r COmmer- Banana-a the "itoyal'Hotel," earner of Main and Cloderich Streets, Spain -al. . ,. 733 JAMES WEIR, Proprietor. IMPORTANT NOTICES. - - - OCK FOR SALE -The undersigned has two heifer calves Fired by `Tdoras oxford," and earling heifers sired by "Young Earl of for sale on reasonable terms. They e alltiriit-class pedigreed animals; JAS. Dux- `rsckersmith. 732x4 I Stookraising in the. Northwest, from a Colorado Standpoint. HU1C11FANO Cour, Colorado, Dec. 19, Ma. DEAR EXPOSITOR :—I have been read- ing with great interest in the Canadian 'papers I reoeive, accounts of the new stockgrowing region which is being opened up in the Canadian Northwest. Allreports seeralo agree that the cli- _mate and country are both suitable for cattle and horse raising on a large scale. If the climate is favorable and the grass sufficient, there is no doubt that the projected stockraising enter- prises will be generally successful. Those engaged in their man'agement will soon find out what it is necessary to do in the circumstances in which they are placed, and no doubt the cattle raising businesa will be oarried ort very much in the same plan as here and in Texas and °elsewhere, Where cat:: tie are kept on a large scale. Those intending to engage in the Ibusiness, however, or the public gener- ally, will not acquire much wisdom freria the "special correspondents' or troll' the newspapers which have under- taken tO enlighten them on the subject. I have been greatly amused by some things in the papers about this North- west ranching. For instance. there was the Montreal Witness, which ad- vised the establishment of raechee with four or five thousand head of cattle, with dairies in connection, the cows to be milked by Indians, who are thus to be brought within the "blessed influence of Christianity and civilization." The good old Witness is nothing if not phil- anthropic, and the article may have been written by John Dougall himself, for surely Mr. Clarke would have too much worldly wisdom for such guff, but it ought to have explained .how the thousand or more cows were to be gathered at milking time;—andthen, what neat, tidy milkniaids the buck Indians. would make, or the squaws either, for that matter. There seems to be an impression in the minds of all who write about the matter that a thousand or more head of cattle can be held under a man's hand, so -to speak, like a herd. of sheep, or as a fiernier.helds his dozen or:more miloh aows. On the contrary, a thousand cattle require a vast extent of territory," and the very essence of the business is that they roam at large, with as little driving or handling as possible. The special '-correspondent of the Globe, a gentleman of very horsy pre- tentious, furnished a letter on the Bow River country, as amusing as a chap- ter of Mark Twain, but much leas in- structive. His estimate of the cost of a "moderately complete cattle ranching outfit," comprising 4.000 head of Cattle, ia.$128,000. One item in his estimate is forty throughbred bulls at $500 each. In Colorado. we have more bulls:worth $25 -than $50, and as for $500 bulls, a his advice in respect to mule raising would be quite Bound. , What the Globe correspon ent says l,about the leasing system is ve y pertin- ent. The granting of large tracts of territory to companies or ,i dividuals should be looked upon with t e great- est jealousyt and suspicio . If, as many reports assert, much of the land is fit for agricUlttire, there ill be a constant strifa between the a ricultural and the grazing interest, nnti either of these goes to the wall. Looking at the matter from a Colo- rado -standpoint, it is difficult o believe that the climate in the Nort West can - be wartn enough for cattle a d horses to subsist. without shelter or feed the year round. Doubtless, small numbers of cattle have'been wintered t ere, but when thousands take the plac of tens, - it will probably be a differen matter. If animals have pleuty to eat they can stand a great deal.• While the country is new and the range fresh the cattle should do well, but when it becomes trampled. out and eaten out, ad at the same time the animals t� be satisfied are greatly multiplied, then look out for losses. We know it is sometimes cold enough here, and we know it is yet aoldea-in Montana, and natbrally we conclude, that farther nut i, in the Canadian territory, ,it must be still more severe. But we are told that the Chinook winds temper the cli a. ate and melt the snows. We have a strong. west and sauthwest wind in. olorado, and they have it also in Kansa uring a considerable portion of the y ar it °sees far to make life a burdet to us, and we have good reason to k ow it, al- though we do not call it the 'Chinook wied." It is always a dry ind and nearly always a warm one but we heve seen it blow over snow far weeks and scarcely faze it. It is Liar., there- fore, to believe that so 'nue' further north, a wind fromthe same direction can be so much warmer. A.. McL. Canada. Geo. Drewitt, trainer of Hanlan and other celebratectscullers, s dead, —Hon. Alex. McKenzie nd Mrs. McKeezie spent Christmas amongst their friends at •Saruia, — Sir Hugh Aden's offer for the Que- bec, Montreal and Ottawe, Railway is eight and a half millions of doNars. — There were 6411 callers at the Gov- ernment House, Ottawa, on Monday afternoon, between the hours of four and six. —Mr. David MoCulloch, for years editor of the Hamilton Spectator, has been appointed Collector of Citems at the port of Hamilton. — In London a few days ag a Vain able horse belongieg to a farmr was SO frightened by the snorting of a4i nine that he dropped down dead. • —Two large frame store e we in Ailea, °ride, last Saturday burned waling. man would be adjudged a lunatic who Mr. Hall occupied one as a shoe sore, would "turn one loose on the range." his loss is $3,000. But while the correspondent's ideas are —The Ontario Legislaturelis to be very large in some respects, in ethers asked at its coining session to grant they are very small,—thus, another powers to the Grand Ti -auk to extend . item in his estimate is 'fencing 500 its line from Paris to Galt. 1 acres for pasture for cows and calves —One hundred and thirty-four thane - sand letters and over 25,000 papers were delivered in Toronto by the carriere during the week en ing ,De, 1 more than make a, good corral for comber 24th. the and bulls out of season, 100 of which •would be :required for cultivation." Five hundred acres wouldn't much cows and calves in a herd of 4,000, let —Women are getting their •iglits in alone a "pasture," to say nothing of the ntano. Mrs. 1 eresa Mac'. ay, has , t "bulls out of season." "Cows near been appointed as agent for the loca- calving," says the correspondent, tiop and sale of free grant lands in "should be fed hay if the weather hap- Parry Sound. —Hon. James Macdonald, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, has been ap- poiuted Judge Ordinary of the acerb of Divorce and Matrimonial Ca sea 'for that Province. pens to be severe" The correspondent could easily go into his 500 acre pasture and gather in his cows near calving, but if, as must really be the case, they should be scattered over forty or fifty miles square, he would not find it eo —During the year just p Great Western Railway carrie easy. cars of oattle, 819 of hogs, But it is when he comes to speak of sheep, and 64 of horses over t horse raising the correspondent seems to Buffalo. to think he is on his "native —The Mechanics' Institute heath." He sagely -advises against ilton is in a bad iix. The libr crossing the little broncho or kyles mares with Clydesdale or Percherons,— about as gratuitous as to advise against crossing a lady's lap•dog with a mas- tiff or Newfouadland. The kynse and broncho he regardaas entirely different breeds of horses, thus be says, "I would prefer kyusesi to bronchos for various reasons." Now, I submit that "kyuse" is siraply the Indian name for a mustang pony, and that "broncho" is the Mexican name for the same animal. The Spanish word broncho simply Means unbroken or wild, and is applied by Mexicans to wild cattle and all other animals which are not gentle. —Last Friday evening the Mrs. Ashton, a widow lady of B t the 4,1562 444 of eir line i H m- ry is in the hands of the Sheriff and tike other property is likely to be sold iley f re- closure of mortgage. , —Donald McDonald, of Rip ey, leas been appointed to be Bailiff of he Ninth Division Court of the C unty of Brace, in the room and stead o Al a. McDonald, resigned. —Mr. G. Ross, a Montreal ustoties officer, has returned from a tri w st on the Grand Trunk to loo af er smugglers. He seized $3,500 orth of goods at various peints, inoludin Ham- ilton, Ingersoll and London. What "kyase" may mean I don't know,. ighton, l but I have been told by, Montana men was entered during her abse ce at that in that territory bronchos were watch -night services, and a tru -Lk eclat - called "kyuses.." I would like to have taining watches and other jewelly and a the opinion of my old friend, David quantity of plated ware taken away. McNaught, V. S., •af Rapid City, on Value $150. this question, viz.: What is the 'differ- —At seveu o'clock New Year' e morn- ence, if any, betweeu a kyuse and a ing the thermometer at Toronto regis- broncho? He might also give us his tered 9 ° below zero • .at Parry Somid, tell us what he thinks of a Man, "for zero. In Toronto at 2.50 in th opinion of pony stock • generally, and 8 0 below zero; at liontreal, 4 9 aabftoe- years accustomed to the saddle," who noon it registered 8 0 above. says he rode One of these ponies 40 —The customs receipts at M ntrear miles in one day with as little fatigue last year were a7,672,268, an inc ease of as if he had -been riding in a railway $1,322,474 over 1880. The rece pts for carriage, as the correspondent. says he December were 4525,688, an inc easel of did. I, and.doubtless others, would be $88,000 over the corresponding month interested to know what Mr. McNaught in 1880. - thinks of the stock business generally —Petitions are being circul ted in in the Northwest and Manitoba, and Belleville asking for the amend ent of what he thinkeef the hay they can put the law of evidence so as to p rmit of up at a dollar and a half a ton,— the affirmations of unbeligaer being whether it has any nutriment to it. In received under the .same condi ions as this country horse raising from pony evidence taken under oath. stock, even with good stallions, has al- —Over fifty new buildings ha '0 been ways been the most unsatisfactory erected in Prince Albert, Northwest branch of the stock busieess, and I do Territory, during the past seas et, at a not see why it should be greatly differ- cost of about $50,000, aud now a week- ent in the far north. The correspon- ly paper is about to be started l in the dent gives some good advice about Place - breeding mules, aut I hardly under- —Wm. C. Little, M. P. for South, stand when he speaks of "securing a Simeoe, died at his resideuce in Innis - Spanish jack at $1,000." What is gen- fil township, early Saturday morning. Mr. Little was a native of Glo ceeter- shire, England; and one of tie Old pioneers of that county. He rep esent- ed his township in the conuty pouncil ouse of erally known as a Spa-nishlack in this Western oountry is a Mexican donkey, and he can get his pick at $25. If h.e had said a Missouri or KentuCky jack, •as Reeve for upwards of a quarter of a century, during which period he also filled the warden's ohair. The deceas- ed has represented the riding of South Simcpe in the Dominion Parliament uninterruptedly since confederation. Mr. Little, who was in his 'sixty second year, leaves in gad circumstances a wife and family of nine children. —Last Saturday at Woodstock were interred the remains of Margaret Smith, who had lived to the ripe age of 102 years. She was wife of the late Wm. Smith, of the ,}79th Highlanders, who died in 1867. —Capt. Allan McLean, for over thirty years shipping maeter at St. John, New Brunewick, died 'Tuesday morning. Capt. McLean was of High- land extraction, and was born at Quium in 1800. There were 84 sheep killed by dogs in Saltfleet township, Wentworth county, during 1881, costitig the town- ship the sum of . $267.2. The amount Of dog tax collected awes $225; the sheep costing the township $42.02 more that' its dog tax. —Mrs. L. Steele, of Lakefield, made and sold from the milk of four cows, besides supplying the family, 713 lbs. of butter, at 20c per lb., realizing $142.60, in five and a half months time. These are facts that can be substantiated at any time. —The Government telegraph line, at a point some eighteen miles south of Edmonton, is said to have been destroy- ed by Peace Hill Indians.' The line hae been repaired, and the perpetrators of the deed are being lookedior. —Mr. D. II,. Craig, of Ailsa Craig, is operating largely with kanitoba this wiuter. Two weeks before. Christmas he saipped 3,000 head of dressed poul- try and fifty head of cattle, quartered and dressed, to Winnipeg, where they met with prompt sale. --The Ontario Government is again inviting tenders for the new Parliament buildings, to be received up to Thurs- day, 16th of February. The tenders will be opened while the Legislature is in session, and definite action will probably be taken. —On Monday a young man named. Frank Burns, a resident of Richwood, was killed on the Grand Trunk Rail- way between Drurebo and Richwood while walking along on the track. He left Drumbo about one o'clock a. mein a state of intoxication. " ,---Thomas Laut, a Toronto tea deal- er, who recently disposed of a piano by lottery as a bonus to purchasers, is being prosecuted by the authorities, under the Gambling Act. a The case will be heard iu a few days. —The convicts hi the Kingston Peni- tentiary had their usual New Year's dinner, the expense of which is borne by themselves. Six hundred and fifty pies, an equal number of pound cakes, 170 geese and turkeys, and immense plum puddiugs were prepared for the feast. —Mr. Robert H. Lawder, on investi- gation, finds that the total quantity of barley held in warehouses at all points between Toronto and .Kingston does not exceed 550,000 bushels. The ex- ports uring the month have been about 200,000 brahels,rather ovsa than ' under this quantity. —The value of the export of live 'stock from Hamilton to the United States for the months of October, November, and December was as follows: Horses, $16,259; cattle, $31,124; sheep, $38,361. The total exports to tbe States in De- cember amounted to 091,381.35. —Mr. Marx, the . Chatham philan- thropist, on Saturday night treated 60 poor children of that town to an excel- lent meal. Subsequently about 40 of them were each provided with a sub- stantial,pair of shoes at that gentle- man's eipense. —A school teacher in the township of Houghton has been sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment and to receive fifty lashes wath a cat-o'-nine-tails for committiug an indecent aesault on one of his scholars. The penalty, though severe, is only a small installment of what the fellow deserved. • —The United States Government is said to have detailed a special officer to report upon the exodus from Canada to the United States via Port Huron. It will be interesting to compare the figures thus obtained with those pre- pared by Mr. Lowe, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, and which were so severely criticised before the Committee on Immigration and Col- onization and on the floor of Parlia- ment: —Harry Shaw, 15 years of age, was killed at the Grand Trunk Railway depot et Sirncoe on Tuesday. He at- tempted to get on a train after it had started, and was crushed in a most horrible manner. .His .parents live at Orr Lake, county of Simcoe. He had been attending the Canadian Institute, at Woodstock, and spent his Christmas holidays with his relatives in Sinicoe. —John Marshall, fourteen years of ,age,ran away from his home in Chatham ,to Detroit to make his fortune. Be -found that running away from home is not what it appeared in cheap litera- ture'. •On Friday bight he slept at the Central -Station, the Light before in a dry goads box; has had nothing to eat in two days, and now wants to return home. —The • opening or. Monday of the first coffee tavern in Hamilton. was a great success. The tables were fully occupied thronghout the day and even- ing. There is a good' reading and smoking room with chess and draught board, which have been well patroniz- ed. The house is conducted on the Cld Country coffee tavern principle. —Last Monday morning two Sons of Mr. Elijah Eagle %rent skating on Pus- linch Lake, three MOSS from Hespeler, when one of them named George, aged 10 years, broke through the ice. His younger brother gave the alarm, but before assistance could reach. him the poor little fellow was drowned. His body was recavered shortly after- wards. —On Saturday a doctor in Kingston was called to attend a mother and child, who had symptoms of poisoning. They had been eating canned salmon, which, when examined by the doctor, was found to be putrid. The child was so had that it was thought that its life could not be mined, but it rallied as also did the mother. —At the sitting of the Board- of County Court Judges for Ottawa dis- trict, held for the prial of the appeal of the Canada Pacific Railway Company vs. the City, it was held by Judges Daniel and Lyon that the station houses, sheds, and storehouses of rail- ways are not exempt from taxation. —A lady came very near falling under the cars ati the Credit Valley Railway station, Ingersoll, on Saturday evening while trying to take a valiee from her husband who was on the train. A gentleman caught her in time no doubt to save her life as the brain was in motion. — Woodstock is infested with sneak - thieves who are prone to slip quietly bet° a house, if the front door be open while the inmates are in the back rooms, and make t off with coats, um- brellas and other articles usually left in the hall. Dr. Mackay lost two silk umbrellas the other day in this way. — The managers. of' the deaf and dumb institution, at Belleville, gave an entertainment aud pantomime to the inmates last Frid&y night, there being about 800 present. The entertainment consisted of shadow scenes and a farce entitled, "The School in Uproar," in which the characters were all mutes. Dancing was indulged in until mid- night, and a pleasant time was spent. —The Owen Sound board of trade favors Grand Trenk control of the Toronto, Grey and' Bruce Railway, and a deputation will urge the Legislature to confirm the arrangement made some time ago between,these two lines, but which has been nullified by the North- ern and its allies. —An incoming train on the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway divided be- tween Weston, and Toronto Saturday night. The engineer brought his part of the train to astandstilabut the second part could not be stopped and came crashing into its leader. Six flat cars, laden with lumber, were smashed, and the track was strewn with the wreck. ,—A little severt year old child in Brantford got lost on his way from a Sunday School social. His parents and friends madedilieent search for him, but could not, learn anything of , his whereabouts, -and at 3 a. m, the fire 1 bell was rung to call citizens up for RB- sistance. About this time two gentle- men drove into the city with him, hav- ing found him wandering about two mile ii north of the eity: — A couple of weeks ago Rev. Mr. Clark, the clergyman of St. Paul's, CopetOwn, had to stelain the. midst of his serMon and retlike some young men who were conducting themselves in an unbecoming manlier, and finally had to dismiss the congre- gation before he had finished. his ser- mon. .t —Some three Sundays ago the cur- ate of one of the leading churches of Guelph preached both morning and evening in the absence of the rector. In the morning the reyerend gentleman preached from the text, "Ye are of your father the devil," and . in the evening from the L words, "Children obey your parents." No wonder tho. congregation was a little amused. —A cattle drover states that an old farmer on the Opeongo, from whom he recently purchased some cattle, keeps his money, consisting of $5 bills, rolled around a portion of a broomstick, which he keeps locked up. He had some $3,000 in $5 bills rolled around the broom handle when the drover paid for the cattle purchased. --A sad accident occurred at a chop- ping bee near Norwich, on the 28th ult., on the farm of Mark Hutchinson. The accident was caused by the fall- ing of a limb, which struck Albert Hutchinson aged 23, and George Axel - by aged. about 40. Hutchinson lingered for *six hours after the accident, but never moved or spoke. His skull was severely fractured. He was single. Mr. Axelby when last heard from was still unconscious, the 'doctors having slight hopes of his recovery. —A poultry mercliant in London had a number of wild turkeys on hand for the NDSV Years market. One of them, a fine gobbler, weighing 25 pounds, not relishing his confinement in a back yard, suddenly took flight, and away went three dollars and a half over the Oddfellows' Hall, till it disappeared away in the northeast. —A man named Jas. Campbell, a sub -contractor on the Canada Pacific Railway, who arrived in Ottawa from Winnipeg a few days previously, was found lying dead cm the ice in the Rideau Canal on Friday morning. He missed his way arid fell into the canal" du hislace. It is supposed he was stunned and smothered in two inches of water there was on tae ice. , ----They do things in a hurry in Win; nipeg. The other incireing a...young man met a young lady- witIrwhom he was not very intitnately acquanted. In the course of conversation the mar- riage question was discussed, and it wound up by his proposing. Barkis' was svillin'—and the marriage cere- mony was performed the same evening. —About three weeks ago Messrs. 'Wilkinson and McKePlay, two farmers of Plympton, lost 37 sheep at the bands of thieves. Since then the owners of the lost eheep have persis- tently followed a trail which seemed to lead to the guilty parties, and the result is that four men have been committed to gaol charged with the crime. Their names are Alfred and Joseph Broughtcin, of the township of Enniskillen; Wm. Broughton, of the township of Euphe- mat ; and Thomas Wm. Hibbard, Lon- don Road, Sarnia township, Bard to be brother-in-law of the Broughtons. - One day last week Heckman and Tuck, Government Railway Engineers, in British Columbia, were thrown out of a buggy and down an embankment OD the Thompson River and serionely injured. The • hurts are on the head. Tuck's injaries are not thought danger- ous. Tuck -is from St. John, New Brunswick; Heckman from Nova Scotia. —A man named Humphreys started irom Monmouth to go to Haliburton, in Victoria County, arid lost his way in the woods. For three days he wander- ed through the forest without food and exposed to the inclemency o the weather. When found he was en the point of perishing. Another night in the woods would have terminated his existence. He was brought in and carefully cared for and next day was greatly recovered. —The Lindsay Post says: Mr. J. H. McFaul, for some years head mas- ter of due public schools and pribcipal of the county model school, has acci3pt- ed the position of priucipal of the pub- lic and model schools of Ingersoll. Mr. ailcFaul is an advauced and thorough- going educatioeist, a successful teacher and an estimable citizen. —An old resident of Glenmorris, Dumfries townehip, Mr. Jas. Lapraik, died on the 19th ult., at the advanced age of 88 years. The deceased was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and &Di - grated to Canada in 1817, and todk up his residence in Dumfries about 1828. At that time Galt (then known as "Shade's Mills") waslittle moro than a hamlet, and the township an almost unbroken forest. • —At 11 o'clock on the 26th ult., some two or three hundred of Rev. Mr. Ham- mond's friends assembled at the Great Western Railway station, Hamilton, to say -Gated bye" to him as he left for Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Hammond spoke a few` farewell words to the people, thauking them fpr their kind- ness to him. His five weeks' stay in Hamilton will be long remembered. —A terrible aecident occurred. en Thursday evening of last week :near Toronto. Mr. G-eorge Valentine aud bis wife, coming into the city on a fertile wagon, were driving over the track of the Kingston road crossing when they Were struck by a pilot engiae. The woman was hurled in the culvert and instantly killed; her husband- was fear- fully mangled and died a couple of hours afterwards in the General Hos- pital. - —On Saturday evening a young boy, son of Japes Wallace, of Lucknow, while carrying wood into Mr. S. Robert- son's tannery, and pegging the steam vats, slipped and fell into one of them, and was fearfully scalded. On remov- ing his clothing, the skin peeled off from his waist to the soles of his feet. A doctor was immediately called in, and all that medical skill could do has been done for the utfortunate youth, bollix) hopes are entertained of his recovery. —At about sixio'clock on Monday ala inside wall of tha gas works at Cobourg, fell in upon the gasometer, which ex- ploded with great force, cracking sever- al brick walls and setting" fire to the roof of the building. The alarm was quickly given, and the fire brigade were soon on the spot, and extinguished it before much damage was done by fire. The damage done by the explosion to the building and gasometer was 10 great that there will be no gas in the town for at least one month. — Dr. Ephraim Cook, the oldest Physician in the county of Oxford, died at his residence in Norwich on the 28th ult., at the age of 77 years. For years past he has been almost entirely confined to tbe house, feeble in the extreme, and gradually approaching the end. • He was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1805, and the hi tory of his early life is suggestive of fa 'humble entrance upon the careek which has proved so useful and inflta ential. — A young son of Mr. Wilson, of Etnily township, in the county of Viol- toria, duriug his father's absence, on Monday last week went to the well to draw a pail of water. The well heel no pump and. is only about eight feet deep. He was in the act of patting down the draw hook when he slipped and fell in through the aperture head foremost and was drowned. His father! coming home about twenty minutest after found the boy in the well and drew him up with the hook. He wa quite dead. —The following Montreal statistice will be found interesting: The ship -1 merits of live stock for last year were 42,000 head of cattle and 61,000 sheep, valued at $6,000,000. Horses shipped' to the States in 1881 numbered 7,093, costieg$68,300,a decrease of 174 as com- pared with 1880, but an increase of13,000 in value in favor of the past year. he arrests by the police in the city in lag were 6,400, an increase of 90 over 1880-: The receipts of the Recorder's _Court • for fines field -age were nearly $5,000 in exceadi of last year. The fires in the My were 240, an increase of 75 over 1880. —At a public meeting in one of the city wards of London the other day a fifteen -year-old son of Sergeant Craw • ford, of the city police, was presented with a gold watch and chain and an address, as a mark of esteem for the conspicuous bravery displayed by him in saving life on the- occasion of the boat calamity on the 24th of May last. He was on board the ill-fated steamer, and seeing that she was sinking he with a companion, jumped overboard. and swam ashore. They immediately threw off their clotla- ing and sprang into the river, and suc- ceeded in saving many precious lives. In the excitement of the rescue: Craw - ford's oonapanion is supposed to have dived or been drawn underneath the wreck, and was not missed until his body was recovered. The presentatiox was made by Alderman Boyd, and responded to by Sergeant Crawford on behalf of his noble and brave son. — The Canadian Pacific Railway Company have selected the route from • Callender to Prince Arthur's Landing, north of Georgian Bay and Lake Su perior. Instead of running in a north- westerly direction towards Moose River and Lona Lake as at first pro- posed, the roawill run from Calkndar north of Lake Nipissiue in a south- westerly direction. to Sanish River, near Lake Huroe, thence to Mississaga River, thence northwest • to Michi- picoten River, skirting the shore of Lake Superior to Pic, and theu crossing Red River at Red Rock, thence follow- ipg the shore of Lake Superior .to Fort William . — An old resident in the Muskoka district, Mr. Aubrey White, writes that the Executive Committee appointed to receive and distribute the money sub- scribed for the relief of the aufferershave received returns from 84 families, whose losses range in value from $50 to $2,000. But the committee is aware that some of the sufferers have not made their position known, having seen better days, and dislikiug to be- come objects of charity. The com- mittee feel certain that there are at least thirty families who have not made their wants public, and altogether there are 111 families, aggregating wobably 500 souls, requiring assistance, some baying nothing but the clothes en their backs. —The steamer - Moravian, of the Allan Line, Captaip Archer, from Port- land, bound to Halifax, to leave with mails for Liverpool on Saturday, ran ashore on the southwest point of Mud. Island, fifteen miles from Yarmouth, at 9 o'clock on Friday mornieg, during the dense fog. There was a strong breeze from the southward, with a heaty sea on shore, and her forward conapart- ment has filled With water. Her cargo, which consisted of wheat, flour and other produce, was thrown overboard. The passengers were all taken off in boats and landed safely. Alt efforts to get off the Moravian have hitherto failed, and she is said to be breaking to pieces by the gale. The mails on board were forwarded to Liverpool by the Sardinian. —A fushiou&ble wedding came off at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Strathroy, on the 28th ult., Rev. R. &obi°, late pastor of St. Andrew's • Presbyterian Church, and Miss Annie- Vennor, daughter of Mr. John Vennor, being the contracthig parties. Mr. D. McKenzie, of Parkhill, and Mr. D. Reynolds were groomsmen, arid Misses Louisa Raymond and Mune Stalker, of Brantford, bridestilaids. The presents were valuable. About eighty sat down to a wedding breakfast. The newly married couple left for New York, whence they sail for Scotland. The Light Guard band aud a vast concourse - of people followed the bridal party to the Great Western Railway station. — The other day at Sarnia some sharp tranger taking advantage of the absence of Mr. James King, miller, from his office, stepped in and un- ocked the safe, and escaped with over $200 in cash and cheques. He was seen coming out, and a description of him was telegraphed to Point Edward. On his arrival there be overheard the - constable discusideg the robbery with others at the depot, and becoming alarmed he threw the money into the water closet, and made off -to the woods. The money was afterwards recovered, and was fouud to be within a few dollars of the amount stolen. The thief has so far evaded arrest. —The notorious Billy Goodfellow, who for the last year has been wanted by the Ontario police force, charged with numerous crimes, was cornered and arrested in a tavern at Drummond- ville one day 'eat week by officers Young, Wynn, and McMicking. He was brought to the Falls in a hack and lodged in gaol. This desperate char- acter, who has been a sort of terror to citizens in that vicinity of late years, has been playing the Sittieg Bull dodge of late by skipping buck and forth across the lines, and thus evading the police. It is hoped that the suspended sentence which is hanging over his bead will now be put in force by the authorities, and thus rid, this vicinity of the desperado for some time to come. —A gentleman, who has been resid- ing in Winnipeg for the past two_ months has kept a. diary of the various temperatures during that period, from which we make a few extracts. On . November I, 22 0 of frost were register- ed, dropping to 10 on the 3rd, with a leap to 25 on the 4th, and a drop to 3 the next day. On the 10th, the ther- mometer dropped to 30 below zero, with calm, clear weathereeucceeded on the 12th by a heavy northwest gale, and 20 lower temperature. On the Othereal cold wea- ther set fn, with 150 below zero. Good sh3ighipg was enjoy- ed on the 18th. Thirty degrees below zero on the 19th, was followed. by 10 above on the 21st, and 28 below on the following day. From that time until the 26th the weather moderated, com- ing to 20 above zero on tbe 27th. De- cember.opened out with 20 degrees of frost, a,nd remained with mild temper- ature till the 10th inst., when it again dropped. eto l olww 1 From 15kh November to 18th Decem- ber, when the diary closed, there was beitibawclear, ; finevavarying weather.5 inches fsnowuoedgooid-3asIveiinggfhinaguL.about nine h —A short time ago Mr. John Stewart', of Mitchell, offered a prize of a wash- tub to the first couple belonging to that town getting married before the clove of the year. It was claimed by Mrs. John Hudson (late Miss Sarah Patter- son), who was united in "holy wedlock" on Christmas day.