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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-01-20, Page 1WM doing well ArIcouae was here teemed, of inig friends fresh Sad tars ago-, the Smith tion will be inet—The ff. Rae-, a a art dr&w. ee feet in —The new rrived and -J. Fisher, to the old my draught VII be out ['he veteran em --Mr. Leaves next e *stallion -itIr. fIngh ed $25 last tab ran out ereapped at sing tk,Ong I the 1st of El paid out mred athia ming af the eying to Ill hag detitil propeity. will be held ev evening, inform ne v." 1k. of rivertOWn E f twtryg ler, of thie Elagereville, ipal (tavern ielivere1 aa nen in St_ reh oiiSan- r to remain the feliew- Vim Weath- oolien raffls .for Tie-rail- ew of carty- nere °idea- ee facilities inadequate ieinees. Els w veers ia irlif 1119.11110f in St An- a:tree. and t be much will be a roil tort . iWe in his new meeting in Pry - Monday peseed off iiderine the the inclem- uccese aeree- Sneeehes namber of � different appeared to deify was the. en by Rev. his adven- SH4 hair - did ardruale 3tch stvle in eceived With tat receipte onsiderably iald's, teeny 11 regret ta ad a reettr- ef the same ip to Rage' laet spring. would -take beginning of count, and ed for this de with a t medical. er` (Aram are knoWn et Sir John a stay in duetive of r of the -luta. has g. ppliett pm -t- hee falsie veetigation by the irno rather ing that he a dishonest considered etown. To the officers beIougng !able uaddIe A warrant usy, during at Western firfbrd wet •ht arid the pe only got. eir trouble. ig burglars ary's- drug open the jewelry tee he burglar* if the safe used nitro- s estimated box which geld was _ west af the .ern Railway -safe, eeveral a. few gold aiming some ay morning °house and The bur- s Trenton, ed a hand mherstburg track there. Teen. grain,, i merchant, m hie ware - esti rn ecl by $1,600- was there was thieve % in • eneeelFrIFTEENTII YEAR. NVril:E01.431 NUMBER, 737. MI11.1111111111111111V SE* FORtH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1882. { 1 MoLEAN BROS,..,. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Ad -Vance. Immense Attractions READir-MADE OVERCOATS, ULSTERS AND ULSTERETTS, AT WM. CAMPBELL'S GREAT CLOTHINC HOUSE, SEAFORTH. The iubiic are particularly iiivited to look at ThisStock Before Buying Elsewhere. • Thse are all warranted to give satis- faotion, and they are sold at olose figtm The Stock is, es usual, well assorted in all the Fancy Suitings for nobby suits.' A large stock of FUR CAPS, the newest thing out, in PERSIAN LAMB SEAL, &O • (Raves of all kinds and. 'Winter Flan- nels in endless variety. iilfM• CAMPBELL. PRIVATE SCHOOL —AT THi— "P0 JOHN STREET. MISS ROBERTSON will re -open her school on MONDAY, January 9th, at 9.:30. A. „M. Music in charge of MISS. BOOTH, late a the musi4 department Wesleyan Female Ifleileget HamiltonEnglish Branches —French. Drawing, Sewing, Foamy Work, CaIesthenice. Young ladies pre- pared for college. Special attention to deportment.. Terms moderate. MISS ROBERTSON will also open an Elvening CIass for young ladies, un- der the auspices- of the Mechanics' In - atitute. Subjects—Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Book-keeping, Histdry„ &e.. Teems made. knowu on applieetiou to Mr.. Moore,. Librerien of the institute., THOUSAND DOLLARS WANTED. Wishineto raise the above in as short e. a tiene as posfeble, I have determined to offer the whole of my valuable stock of WATCHES, JEWELRY, SIL- VER-PLATED WARE, CLOCKS &C.,• o the Public at a greatly reduced figure, for the next month. Parties wishing anything in the above - i inesi would do well to give me a call befoe the FIRST OF FEBRUARY, while the bargains are going. R. COUNTER. A iONC, FELT WANT REMEDIED —BY— AUtILT & MCCLEAN, 1'N A 0•09100 IITILIARLE TEA. STORE. TB4 eople of, Seaforth have always found it difficult to get 5 good reliable tea at all times. Ault & Me:lean have come to the con- ch:le-0in that by doubling -their custom the next six months, as they have done in the last six months in tea, that small profits and quick re- turral will be their motto. Why, their 50e tea is a perfeet gem, and their 60c tea is said to be equal to whe other hous_s aro selling at 75c. Their Zapan at 50e is generally sold at 60e, and their 80e tea dust they ,have reduced to 25c. Their black teas are cenerally acknowledged .1.ow by nearly every lady to 1.11.vzs to equal in Seaforth. Large buyers will be liberally dealt with. WO keep lel; kinds of flour slid feed on hand. We alloW a tlit,count ou purchases of fe-ir and five gallelno of coal oil. oatmeal will be exchanged for oats ou the same terms as the mills. All kind a of farm produce taken in exchange for goods_ Salt by the barni sold the same as at the salt Wells- Labrador and Lake Huron herrings by the barrell or half barrel. Oar Crcokery and Glassware got a great scat - firing during the holiday seasori, but we never let any ot oar stock run down, So the public can rely en getting almost anything kept 1n a first - dam° grocery, crockery and teu store. Enquire for Ault & !dcOlean's Tea Store, Main Street, SeafOrtb. Ni 113.—GoodE delivered in the corporation free :of charge. A horse always ready. Please gall end inaped for yourselves. AULT & oCLEAN. NOTES OF A TRIP TO FLORIDA. Octra, Florida, December 25, 1881. 008att is the present terminus of one of the many branches of the Florida moister° that all arboreal vegetation is many a similar event. ' Transit Railroad. It is the . county,: festoo ed with moss, and moss means a -John Dugan, who so severely as - seat of Marion county, and lies .100prevailing damp and malarial atmos - saulted Dr. Kincaid, M. P. P., at Peter - miles southwesterly from Jacksonville. phere during the hot end wet months. bordugh, was, on Monday, sentenced Within the borders of Marion lies Of course there:is not the abundance of to eighteen months in the Central Orange Lake, and around this are n.aoss common in cypress swamps, or Prisbn. some of the largest and oldest orange along,rivers or lakes; but there is so --iiOn the morning of the 12th inst., groves in the State. Marion contains a muCh of it as to afford as ranch shade in Guelph, Lyons & McClellan's plan - good deal of hammock land, as it is as thin foliaged trees do through the ing Mills and machinery were burned. called, and next after Hernando county summer at the North. Los, over $2,000; insurance, $500. is credited with -the greatest body of • The oldest and principal orange- -eine firm of Jackson & Hallett, of good fruit land. Let me describe, as geower in Ocala is Adam Ichelberger, Guelph, shipped a few days ago, per near as I can, what “liammook" land who has resided here for more than 30 Grand Trunk Railway, 30,000 pounds is. The word "hammock" in the years, and was among the first to start of perk for Montreal, purchased at El - language of Florida, simply means ole- the business some 15 years ago. In- vated and more or lees rolling hard- deed his orchard of some 40 %ores of wood land, in distinction from the 700 thirteen-year-oldatrees, is about the "piney woods" lands which are MOStly only large bearing one in the neighbor - level, always sandy and generally very hood of .Ocala, though there are said to poor. ' The best hammock lands, be- be nearly 1,000 acres planted and will fore, clearing, bear a heavy grqwth of come into bearing in course of five magnolia grandiflora, sweet gain, live years, inside of two and a hall miles of and white oak, dogwood, hickory, ash, the railroad station and court house. and other hardwoods, with now and. I called •on Mr. Ichelberger and was then; in low, moist places, cabbage politely shown through his orchard and. palmettos, the only large palm of this his banana patch of 20 acres, which is section of the Stet°. -The trees are said to be the largest one in Florida. large and very tall, and stand thick on His firstplanting of oranges was ad - the ground, and there is considerable mirably done by an English gardener, undergrowth, a portion of which be. in themuincinx form, and they stand longs to the orange family, and on this about 15 feet for the younger and 20 land, mostly in moist places, the in. feet for the elder treed. They were set digenons sour orauge is found. The , on top of the ground, which is regarded soil is very largely composed of sand, as the beet way, and from 10 to 15 to but is quite rich, both in mineral and the acre of the magnificent magnolias, vegetable matter, the former contri- , sweet gums and others of the original bated from the rock a few feet' below, • forest growth were lefb. for shelter from (which is a sOft, easily -wrought lime- the heat and drouth of the summer and stone, composed almost wholly of small from the possible cold winds and frosts and large shells), and the latter from of the winter. The bananas k tan d in the heavy wood groteth. The surface rows 20 feet apart and 6 feet in the being broken with numerous gentle and row, and require two years from plant - sometimes rather abrupt slopes and ing before the fruit reaches mat irity. swells, isreadily drained, through There is a very good hotel here, and nuone finds Goshen butter and New York ti, numerous sink holes, and in that re- sp et and several others, resembles dairy cheese on the table, and the those of the famous Kentucky blue Cooking, and the courtesy of the land. grass land. I isaw no grasses but lord and his assistants, resemble that Southern wire grass and the everlasting of the North, rather than the West or broom sedge. These hammock lands South. The crops cultivated her are cover a email acreage only of Florida, very few, and the orange is sole master say 5 to 10 per ceut., the larger portion 1 of the agriculture' situation. There is being vast saucly plains, bearing the very little corn grown, and Dr. Sturte- long leafed pine as the principal wood vant will be interested to know that on growth; the soil scourged with the • tae richest lands here (and ti ey are dwarf palmetto, where the soil is rich enough for auything), climate poor, and covered with wire grasg, compels the planting of one s alk in where it is better: the hill, 4 feet apart one way and 6 AMONG THE ORANGES AND FLOWERS. feet the other. Cotton is grow to a I left Atlanta December 20th, reach- limited extent, wholly of t e long ed Savannah, G-eorgia, on the .21st, staple kinds, the seed being p acured Jacksonville, Florida, on the 22nd, and annually from the sea island istricts Ocala, on the 23rd. Beyond a few in of Georgia. It sells for mo e than private gardens, I saw no orenges or twice the price of common eliton— orange trees in Savannah, and no sign that is, for 24 to 25c., when t of either gla the route, and a few Only in short stale sells for 9 to 10c. .Jacksonville, and these mostly of the Corn Belle for $1.25, and oats native sour ones. le ot until the train both coming ftom the north, had gone sixty miles south did I Bee 30 to 60c. per cental, and is orange trees. But after crossing an down by the steamers from arm of Orange Lake, the train drew up lantic cities. There is plenty o just ou the outer edge of one of the sedge on old fields, and the bu largest orange groves in the State, wire grass in the pine lands is where all my previous conceptions of Cattle are small and thin, but oranges were proved wrone. I was deal better than those seen in treated. to oue of Abe greatestc'end most and some portions • of Te , pleasant surprises of my life.' Fa,ney Florida suffered much from crossing an arm of a lake where the water is said. to be from 20 to 30 feet deep, but where aquatic ,growth of grasses and lilies is so strong as nearly to cover the surface, and suggest a soft bottom a few feet helow ; and in cross- ing, seeing in the distance ahead on the border of •the, flake, a bleak', forest growth gray with- age and moss, and clothed with both from bottom to top, and among the trees the tell, strange form of the cabbage palm for the -first time seen. Then, on entering this forest, to find one's self in an orange grove of immense *ektent, every tree perfect as to form, foliage and robustness of appearance, and loaded with fruit, the bright yellow contrast- ing finely with the deep and shining green of the leaves. When the train, °erne to a full stop, I was not so much struck with the orange trees as with their surroundings. Here I was, on the edge of a swathe), the- heavy timber growth only partially cut away, and towering above the orange trees were the pale, gray forms of the live oak, sweet gum, cypress and cabbage padre, their limbs and trunks loaded- with great drapiers of moss, affording pro- tecting shade and shelter to the ever- green. fruit orchard below. I had always supposed the orange to be a fruit -which required light and heat, and an open and airy situation, but here I saw it at its best, under wholly oppoeita conditions. If to clean, white and fine sand, were added two per cent. of the black soil of the Illinois prairies, the mixture would fairly eepresent the color and. consistence of the soil of this orange orchard, but the compound, no doubt, would be lacking in some of the essentials of the hammock soil. Though on the edge of a swamp, the orange trees stood, no doubt, two or three feet above the water level, and that per- -manent moisture was not far down was shown by the towering cabbage palms here and there. The next morning the first thing that drew my my attention was the orange trees; after theca the bananas, which grace many gardens ;., the oranges of tb.e sour kinds, small and bearing ' unripe fruit, fringing the streets as shade trees, while the sweet varieties. abounded in gardens, and were,in rnost cases, laden with ripe fruit. The bananas were much larger them I expected to see them, seine growing 12 to 15 feet high, and a fair- sized horse coining out through a clus- ter of them steigested the comparison of a poiuter ruthing out of a field of tall corn. Tea mees and eamellias were in bleom ; the tree like castor-oil plant showed no touch of frost; peas, pota- toes and beans were growing; the foli- age of the oaks and sweet gums was colored, but not killed, and the large water oaks had the freshness of May. But though Ocala is 175 feet above the level of the Gulf, and 40 miles from it on the west, and about 60 miles fron,a -the Atlantic ocean on the east, and no ponde, lakes or rivers within miles, the common atmosphere is so fatten with that gentleman's "guid wife." A very pleatiant evening was spent, and on dispersing the happy band- expressed the hope that both Mr. and Mrs. White may long be spared to celebrate which is considered act of, desecration, special service to re crated purity. 0 of Bishop Duhame Fa,bre was telegra brated a special m —The result of tration of the Belleville corporation's poor and indigent and in the hands of the Women's Christian Association has been a saving olosf between $500 and $1,000 during the ight months of the past year in which the ladies adminis- tered the fund. —A hotel keepe in Barrie, John Livingston by, nano, surprised his friends by leaving t at town about ten days ago. . He was apposed to be doing ad credit. This, it taken advantage of money he could g out. ;of St. George, is a dozen, emus or , and. they are now aring has sent for opes ere long to triches, which will by the church an and. necessitates a tore it to its conse- ng to the absence in Rome, Bishop hed fon'and cele - 88. acing the adminis mire the day before. well and enjoyed g —A, son of Mr. Robert C. Tye, of is believed, he has IlaYsville, Waterloo county, met with by pocketing all th a had accident in the Northwest. 'get and then cleari While out in the timber land at Riding —Mr. Mainwarin Mountain, Manitoba. the possessor of ha —L -The Parker House, a leading hotel Australian ostriohe in Brantford, is isolated and in the laying. Mr. Main hands of the health authorities, owing an incubator, and to the discovery that Reuben Green, a guest, is down with the smallpox. —Ottawa lumbermen report a great scarcity of teams for heeding purposes. They are payiug as high as $1.50 per day with board. A year ago any num- ber could be had for $1. —John Murphy, of Derby, Northum- berland -county, New Brunswick, got astray in the woods while on his way sent down for 48 , to a lumber camp on the Miramichi, of Court. and perished from cold and exhaustion- —The Waterloo —Mr. Brock, an .old man over 90 other evening pre lyears of age, was robbed and badly tary, Mr. John Shu !beaten at his home in Ca3sarea, town- Considering that ship of Cartwright, Durham county, gratuitously in the last Saturday night. The robber got tary-Treasurer of $350. past 20 years, th —A. very enthusiastic meeting was •earned. •held at Essex Centre a few days ago to —Two small b confider the advisability of estab- Beamish and Alfre lishing a large central fair in Esser the Union School, Centre. A public dinner was held at an altercation Fri the close of the meeting. Beamish stabbed B —There were forty-three persons on with a pocket knife board the steamer Lion, wrecked near wound. Beamish Bacalieu Istand,. off Newfoundland, the school by the h of whonfi eighteen were pasgengers. —The demand The Lion was 500 tons capacity, mud fanciers for Sont valued with cargo at $70,000. -e-Joseph Dorland, • cf Otterville, while working with a stump machine, met with a painful accident. One of the chains broke and three of the links paseed through the fleshy part of one of his legs. hatch some little o be indeed. curiositlies, if he is suc- cessful. —At the _Went orth Assizes last week a girl, called H a witness in a criminal case, re used to take the oath on the grou d that the Bible commanded her to 'swear not at She persisted in h r refusal, and was ours for contempt School Board the ented their Secre- , with a $20 Bible. r. Shuh has 'acted capacity of Beare - she board for the t Bible was well —A representation is to be made by Montreal merchants to the Dominion Government complaining of the injus- tioe they labor under by the contra- band trade of coal oil carried on into e best the Dominion from the -States. —Major Rodgers, the engineer who 'hag been making the surveys for the Canada Pacific Railway in the Rocky Mountains, says that by the new pass selected the line will be 150 miles broom shorter than by the .Leatherhead pass. den of —The suspended Bank of Prince -heavy- Edward Island sustains a loss of good $216,000, caused by the ;defalcations eorgia ana incompetency of the late cashier. nessee. There is a, prospect of the bank being routhi retestablisbed in a short time. —‘ Pinkeye" of a dangerous type is reported quite prevalent in the Ottawa district. Many fine animals have been lost, and it is feared that it will create great havoc among horses in the lum- bering shanties. • —A 100 -yard race between W. Beech, of Emerson, Manitoba, and. a Toronto sport known as Joe Beef came off on the 2nd in Toronto. The'llani- toba man led by about :twenty feet, securing the prize, which was a basket of wine. or 75c., Hay is rought ie At - which up to this time has not been fairly broken. The planted an tear crops of potatoes, peas, o and other vegetables are corm ward, but they have a delicacy pearance not common in the which is possibly due to th quantity of available potash in a lack of which it is likely w'll be a serious obetacle to the continue heavy cropping of the orenge. While what I have seen has ot les- sened, but rather increased m idea of the immense value and impor ance of the orange, my conceptions in re pect to it have been completely chapge . Given a suitable soil and climate,the o ange is one of the hardiest trees id exetence, and will bear more abuse an bard usage. It can be grubbed up an trans- planted as no other tree can; it can be cut and maimed, and recover f om its wounds with the facility rand c rtainty of the willow. In short, unde • fairly • favorable circumstances of e il and earlier, volun- bbages g for - of ap- north, sm all he soil, climate, it will begin to bear continue more uniformly a yearly crop for a longer time than any kno n fruit tree. It is Christmas day and cloudy, but the mercury stood at noon in the shade. Frid cool and so was yesterday, with frost at sunrise. Open fires ar fartable morning and evening, driving about the country the n visitors find use for light overco B. Canael.a. Mr. J. L. Grant Shipped 38 of cheese to England \-last wee the Bright cheese factory. — Work on the .electric light t wer at Ottawa was commenced the ot er day. It will be 150 feet high. —George Munro, the New Yo k pub- lisher, has offered ten more burs ries to Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia. — Five Quebec vessels, lumbe laden for Great Britain, and out feom 70 to 110 days, have not been heard f om. - —At the funeral services o Wm. Tandy, at Kingston, hundreds wire un- able to gain admission to the ch rch. —Toronto had an $80,000 fir a few days -ago. A hat, cap and fur ware- house on Wellington Street. was de- stroyed. —John Dalgleish has sold he fine farm of 173 acres, near Roseeihe, to about ar tially t 76° y was a light corn - and in rthern boxes from Benjamin Bricker for $11,400, $64 per acre. a -Rev : Dr. Brooke, pastor Fredericton, New Brunswick, terian Church, died Monday m aged 73. —On Tuesday night " 10th large number of relatives and az ances •assembled at the resid Mr. Jililef3 S. White, Central fries, near Ayr, the °miasma be 66th anniversary of the bir of the resby- rning, • net., a • uaint- nce of Dem - ng the day of witted suicide in the sacred edince, —Drs. McKay and Williams, of In- gersoll, and Sparks, of Lakeside, re- cently removed five cancers from the breast of Miss Beattie, of Ilth conces- sion, East Nissouri, , a most difficult operation, which was successfully per- formed. —The annual meeting of the Water- loo County Teachers' Association is to take place on the 27th inst. A number of the most talented teachers in the county will give addresses and hold. discussions on interesting subjects. —A colonizing company, with a capi- tal of one million dollars, has been formed by the Hebrews in Canada for the purpose of assistiugtheir persecuted brethren in Russia tol emigrate; and settle in the Northwest. —Christopher Barker, • Esq., of South Dumfries, had two cattle weigh- ed at the Paris Station, the other daypeople. ys named Fred. Bullen, attending elleville, got into ay morning, when lieu in the wrist inflicting a serious was expelled from ad master. amongst sheep downs continues. Some time ago Mr. Wm. Barbour, of Crosshill, Wellesley township, in - of R. Rennelson, =fries, and pur- also ,obtaining the Ixram, Walsingharn. lief engineer of the yes Winnipeg early amine the South gs and. outfit will e to await his ar- ich point he will dogs, being absent spected the flock Esq., of North D chased three ewes, service of the prize —Gen. Rosser, c Pacific Railway, le in February to Saskatchewan. D be sent to Fort Elli rival there, from w travel entirely with about two months. —A large numbe Mr. A. Kitchen, a St. George band, v man a few evening) after his election to the Reeveship qf South Dumfries, -for the purpose of congratulating him on his success. MIl. Kitchen must be a popular man in his municipality. , —A sad fate is that of Archibald McKinnon, a former resident of Bruce eounty, but rece tly a resident of Dakota. On Chri tmas eve Mr. Mc- Kinnon was on his way home, and while out on the prairiee he became suddenly ill and died. The deceased has a number of friends in the vicinity of Paisley. —Sone time ego complaints were made against the. management of the Middlesex • H01186 of Refuge. These led to an investigation of the in- ward working of the establishment. Tha examination, which was held. last week, resulted in the acquittal of the management of the charges made against them. —A. smoke stack of new design is d on the Canada being straight and netting, while all caught and held wi, until the close of t canbe removed, danger of fire to ad flying sparks. —A few evenin Smith, rector of F at his residence by parishioners, who p a well filled purl amounting to abo ing so soon after th liberal Christmas offertories etpresss a very kindly feeling existing b tween pastor and • of the friends of companied by the sited that gentle - about to be teste Southern, the stack free from cones or sparks coming frorithin the boiler head the boiler will .be (3 trip, when they lens obviating any acent property from. since Rev. S. L. est, was surprised large number of esented him with e and other gifts t$100. This com- A heifer oats year and three weeks old,. Weighed 820 pounds, and a -bull • one year old weighed 1,000 poands.. So much for short horn blood. —On Tuesday evening of last week Mr. William Tandy, political writer on the Kingston Daily Whig, died from congestion of the lungs. He was ' only 41 years -of age, and a gifted vocalist, who for years sang through Canada with his brother Rechab. - —The Bay of Fundy fishermen com- plain that they are subjected to annoy- auce and loss by American fishermen, who use kerosene torches at night, and the oil dropping from them scatters over the surface of the water and drives the herrings away. —Mts. Mary Ann Brown, wife of a ollgate keeper on the Columbia pike oade near Quebec, died a few days ago f erysipelas. She; weighed 426 pounds, n'd has had to sleep in a chair for ears on account of. the asthma from hich she suffered. , —Mr. John Morden, of London township, lately received through Dr. Gardiner, of Lncknow, 120 specimens of birds from Professor Cheeseman, of the Museum of Natural History, Atick- u. ahd, New Zealand. In the collection 43 three wingless birds — Apteryx evenii. —Last Sunday a rather impressive eremony was performed iD. the Ba- ilie& at Ottawa by Bishop Fabre, of Montreal. On Friday a lunatic com- —On the 5th i a farmer residing i Minto, was proceed with a load of woo track of the Toren Railway his horses .away, throwing Ir wagon passing over instantly. —The .Algoma Mr. James Burn Joseph's Island, an Thessalon, who ha past stood the har st., James Irwin, the township of ng along the road I. In crossing the o, Grey & Bruce look fright and ran in off, the load, the him, killing him ioneer states that ide, now on St. Wm. McCrea, of e for three years ships of pioneers, have lately received word that they are heirs to an estate of $6,000,000 through the death of an uncle. A silver mine is nothing to that. —There is one case of smallpox at Mebher, a young to many as the baseball club, has the disease. He Illinois, some time ago with a numb r of other brick- layers, and there returned on Satnr is very serious. Hamilton. Joseph man who is known catcher of the Eagl been attacked by went to Springfield, contracted it. He ay. His condition ----One morning 1 tely, as a freight train mathe Torontele Grey and Bruce Railway was approaching Parkdale, the engineer whist' ceiving no response did all in his power d for ,brakes. he reversed and to stop, but the train swept down the incline towards two open switches, It the rate of 20. miles an hour. Ilhe signalman for- tunately notioed tilt) danger, and with desperate efforts turned the switch just as the engine dashed past him. A moment later and the station house would have been demolished. The conductor and brakesmen were asleep in the caboose. —Miss Laure. Mowat, second daugh- ter of Hon. 0. Mowat, was married last week to Mr. Thomas Langton, a Toronto barrister. The ceremony was performed at St. James' Square Presby- terian Church, the • nuptial knot being tied by Rev. Professor Mowat, of Queen's College, Kingston, uncle of the bride. —During the year 1881, 321,000,000 feet of lumber, valued at $4,173,000, was shipped from Ottawa and vicinity to Great Britain and the United States. There is wintering at Ottawa 36,000,000 feet, valued at $1,644,500. The estimated out for 1882 is 400,000,- 060 feet. , —A, few days ago- , as Mr. James Laidley, of Omemee, was in the act of doing something to a clock high up on the wall, he met with a severe acci-. dent. He had placed a chair on the lounge and then got up on the chair, —A curious accident happened .& which toppled over, .throwing Jahn few days ago to the infant child of Mr. heavily upon the floor, inflicting such W. B. Cawthorne, of Omeneee. She injuries on one of the hip bones that he has since been confined to his bed. —One day last week Mr. B. Wemp, of Dover East, had a narrow escape from his thoroughbred buP, which was iafuriated by the smell of'blood on his master's hands from the salting of pork. The bull tossed him three Or four times, and had not the animal s horns been brass covered, serious re- sults might have followed. Mr. Wemp escaped with a few severe bruises. —Charles Striker, a young man in the'employ of C. G-. Fox, of Kingsville, was instantly killed in felling a tree in the woods about nine miles from Rom- ney. He was struck on lie head by a falling limb. The men who Were working with him went immediately to his assistance, but found they; could do nothing for him. His skull was broken, and death was instantaneous. , —Quebec firms engaged in the pack- ing of pork complain that the local pended a massive evergreen cross, while in front of the reading desk lay a very large cross of white lilies support- ed by a background composed of hun- dreds of magnificent moss • roses. Christmas texts in evergreen letters adorned the walls." —A great fraud was committed at the expense,of farmers in Kamouraska county, Quebec, last fall, by a well dressed sharper, who, =der the as- sumed profession of grain dealer, went from farm to farm to purchase oats at 50c. per bushel, to be delivered in Jan- uary. Contracts were signed in dupli- cate, and it appears that the duplicates in the purchaser's hands were nothing else but promissory notes, which have been transferred to other parties in Montreal, who want immediate pay- ment. It appear e that over eighty car loads of oats were ready for ship- ment. The farmers of St. Anne, Riviere Ouelle, St. Denis and Kam- ouraska have been the most imposed upon. Those having sold, for instance, 400 bushels of oats, have signed notes for $400. was sitting on the floor, and a spool of thread with a fine needle sticking into it happened to fall close to the little thing, and in her endeavors to get it to play with, she lost her balance and fell, striking the head of the needle just above the. left eye, whieh penetrated the forehead between the skin. and boue about aa inch and a half. Mr. Cawthorne palled. the needle out, but the point was missing. On examining the epoot the point was found sticking in it. This should. be a warning to mothers and persons in charge of small children to be very careful.. —Mr. Scales of Keppel, whose son was a hand on the ill fated Jane Miller, which left Meaford and Owen Sound in November and has never been seen or heard. of since, has been continuingthe search for the vessel's hull. He reports that during the past few days in grap- pling the hook was made fast five times in the same place and come up with supply of hogs is apparently very nearly evidences of the wreck. The spot has exhausted, and in consequence it is been buoyed, and an effort will be more than likely that they will shortly made to make further discoveries. Mr. have to_ fall back upon Chicago pro- Scales is confident that he has kcated duce. The cause assigned is that pork commanded high prices, early in the fall, and. that a large number of hogs were slaughtered young in the Ottawa —From the first of September to district. High prices are,consequeutly, the middle of December, Mr. J. H. anticipated in the near future for fresh Smith, Wentworth, County Inspector, pork. - was constantly. enaased in the work of —A carload of whiskey was left inspecting the schools throughout the standing on the track at the Midland country. Ile reports them generally in station, gear Lindsay, the other night. a very satisfactory state. There were. Several boys, after taking in the situa- 24 changes of teachers as against 52 tion, procured a gimlet and bored a changes at the commencement of hole in one particularly apoplectic 1881, a falling off which speaks well for looking barrel. They not only filled the future success of the schools. With themselves with the liquid, but carried regard to salaries, the teachers of off sundry bottles for "future reference, ' Two or three lads were rendered so helpless that they had to be sent home in a most disgraceful condition. —Mark James, a butcher of Fort Erie, Ont., about eight o'clock on Wed- nesday night of kst week, walking on the road near his father's farm, near VarencyPost Office, was waylaid and robbed. of $154 by three highwaymen. They had a horse and buggy. One of the wreck, it being about forty rods from Spencer's landing, Colpoy's Bay, and in a depthof about 150feet of water. -Wentworth are considerably above the average. Three of them receive sal- aries of $550 a year each, and several others have $525, a.. number • $500, and the average for male teachers is $420. —In an interview with a Montreal correspondent Mr. Duncan McIntyre confirms the statements already made public: (1) That the Syndicate have . no intentio of running their line to the Sault Sto Marie.; (2) that they pro - them held the horse while the other pose to tap the lake route with their two committed the assault and rob- main line at Algoma Mills on the bery. They attempted to stab him, but did not sueceed in injuring him to any extent. —The Sunday School in connection with Knox Church, Galt, Rev. J. K. 1 with the St. Paul end of the St. Paul Smith, , pastor, numbers over 300 and Manitoba Railway by means of a Georgian Bay; (3) that when the line is finished to that point they intend to put on a line of steamers to Chicago ; and (4) that they expect to connect o scholars, besides five schools in the country in connection with it. The attendance in Knox Church school on. three Sundays in December were respectively 296, 288, 272. Their contributions to missions are, about $150 annually; collections, $200. Thirty-six classes taught by Teacher's Association are conducted on system- atic principles, meeting weekly. —The steamer Compte- d'Eu, the first of the Brazilian line, which sailed from Halifax on Wednesday night of - last -week had a cargo for Brazil mini sisting of 3,650 drums of dry fish, 259 cases of preserved lobsters, and other goods, consisting of oats, flour, pota- toes, deals, etc., the valets of which is $26,990. She also took a large quan- tity of pickled and dry fish, etc. to St. Thomas, valued at $3,178. The total cargo is about 900 tons weight, and of the value sf $30,000. —A daring attempt was made a few evenings since to assassinate Mr. Dugald McArthur, of Middlemiss. He was" attending to his horses in Mrs. Middlemise' stables, and had ascended to the loft with lamp in hand to throw down some hay, when some miscreant fired a shot at him through an open window, the bullet grazing his head and burying itself in the roof. Mr. McArthur has a good idea as to the identity of the guilty party, although no trace of him could be discovered at the time. —The village of Richwood was in mourning on Monday, the 9th inst., during the burial of one of its most respected -citizens, in the person of the late Mrs. James Young. She had suf- fered severely during the last year from the ravages of a cancer in the breast. iThe end of all her pains was a,nxieusly 'looked forward to by her, and in death she rejoiced that she was SO SOOII te join her loiing Saviour, her only regret running arrangement with the Chicago and North Western. Mr. McIntyre - re -affirms the intention of the Com- pany to run their main line close to Lake Superior in. spite of engineering —,-The safe in Fawcett's banking office at Wyoming was blown open kst Friday night, and •a considerable amotint of cash taken. Entrance to the bank was obtained by forcing one of the windows, and no less than three doors fitted with combination locks were blown open before the cash was secured. The explosions must have been terrific, as they shattered the front windows, thirty or forty feet away, and covered the floor of the large vault with a mass of broken iron and Vaster, while all around were scattered valuable papers of all de- acriptions. Many people were startled from their sleep by the noise, but thought nothing fath,er of it. Tools from a blacksmith shop near by, -a quantity of putty, and a coif of fuse were left behind. by the burglars, who appear to have had an eye to the cash alone. —A Guelph exchange gives the fol- - owing particulars of a very pleasing occurrence which took placeat the resi- dance of Mrs. Budd, Suffolk street, Guelph, it being the occa.sion of the marriao of her daughter Elizabeth to Mr. John G -oldie, of the People's Mills. The interesting ceremony was per- formed by Rev; Dr. McGregor, assisted by Rev. Prof. Cavan. Miss Annie Budd acted as bridesmaid and Mr. James Goldie, Jr., as groomsman. The pres- ents were Lumerous and costly. . Among the principal ones were a silver tea -set comprising seven pieces, a tray, : napkin rings, one dozen spoons, one dozen knives, from the firm of Messrs. John Hogg & Son, accompanied by a letter expressing the good. wishes of the being, "I am so unworthy of this joyous 1 firm to Miss Budd. The employees of culmination of all my trials. Good-bye, the mill presented Mr. Goldie with a friends and neighbors." Good - Mary fine clock and a photographic group of Young will not soon be forgotten. the donors. Mr. J. W. Lyon presented —A friend of the Galt Reporter, who the happy couple with a large and resides at Arlington, Southern Cali- handsome family Bible. The other fornia, sends the following regarding presents consisted of silverware, china, the manner in which a Presbyterian books, bric-a-brac, etc. After a laand- Church there was decorated Christmas some dejeuner, the happy couple left Day: "The PreslOtarian Church here was beautifully decorated with flowers and cypress. The oyprees in the form of decorations looks exactly like cedar. From the arch of the chancel was sus - on the Great Western Railway for a tour throughout the neighboring States. The happy bride above mentioned is a sister of Mrs. Thos. Duncan, of the firm of DIR109,11 & Duncan, Seaforth.