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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-01-27, Page 1en ------e se Lotion Mond pIaee, flzabeL residenoe. this place 13' revive,' a snap 1, • ttottott of ad testing evening in at week on lo lately rovemente ast. ?ter Hortis tite 2thrvenee Diasotora Malcolm. Alexatlasr Ea ad Wm. rreasarer. lawrertee m George am Kara, g, Richard :offal and appointed ill be had a Mills, of rednesday, at 6.3& h is elIeth.adist it Murray, i ra aronatd 1 the Ria - rumor as- miness with • a partner John is to tiever won. :McMillan, loan buyer o "Just in MaSfM, for nagnifteent %tea.— Mr. atire twa Wm- Winn Ike of Hal - ,tie he paid was sired the meet - I, held Ott township liters, Xas. • ..enson ; as - ”Cf; eoi- Iar M. were ap- at a- srdary so engag- structed to the 24th report will rratige_ "ed for the the Uilicka he auspicea egttiou, on inst. Ad- Jrq. the pas- t. Mr. Cam - Rev. Meesrs. nson, ; Danby, Una auct . A select deip of _Mr. rill provide maim:. Tea Six, and the f•past gEiVela. .devoted. to - Lath Behool -doubt, be giach a ODD1- Lid attract a. iepeadent of f .very in - Lk a(;: per coepea, Bras - for ele past , and great grain have od deal of away. The The llawe : Fail ring wheat to 75c., oats 80c., perk utter 16c, to, ge. La 553,, .4barrd 85c, gilt. of Me - ✓ Inspector )efore, J. Pee a.11-ing liquor ivB.-3 fined $20 1882. were ening Iast,_ T Hertwiek Tho. Eng - for Manitjba. ilii, of To- n:ar lecture,, [to Ireia.nd," auspices of eilowe.---Tris t. preached on ge coagra- LErY. :---- The :aet Eforon election of i the _Tewn, The Treas.- el:owing re - and dis- t. balmice an .r. -n, of Mor - Fent ; D. Me- -President ; : - 2nd Vice - g Di reotors i•na A. Mal- de. Grey; D. L Wroxeter ; .-3,'; 1.1. Me- raytli, Afar- c•c-p. :a. Gih- ,h,r, Morris, o Provincial atd 0. R. reeintecl An- - of , Direc- -seiawas re - A. meeting on the L, to decide fall show.. on of, "MIIIM11•111111111•16, PIFTIOINTIE YEAR. WHOLE, NUMBER, 738-; Ininiense Attractions IN— SEAFORItki, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1882. f -BROS., Publishers. 1 tif1.5Ch a Year, in AdvanCe. READY-MADE OVERCOATS, ULSTERS AND USTERETTS, AT WM. CAMPBELL'S 4.4 GREAT CINKINC HOSE, AFORTIL The Public are particularly invited to look at This stock Before Bitying E sewhere. These are all warranted to give satis- faction, and they are soil at close figures. The Stook ie, a8 uauai, well assorted in an the Fancy Suitings for nobby suits. A large stock of FUR CAPS, the newest thing out, in PERSIAN LAMB, SEAL, &C. Gloves of all kinds and Winter Flan- . nets in endlese variety. wM. CAMPBELL. work wiU be pointed out and particulars made known by applyieg- to either of the undersigned, miles north frlom Seaforth. The lowest tender not necessarily accepted unless satisfactory. RODBEtieli. GRAY,OBERT GOVENLOCK. 737-3 MR. GIBSON'S SPEECH. The following is a summary report of the speech delivered by Mr, Thomas veto to be put-upon the Act without ao- 1 quainting the Ontario Government of tho intention. Mr. Meredith—Would it have done Gibson, M. P. F. for Diet Huron dur- any good? ing the debate on the address, and to Mr. Gibson—I suppose not, for those which we made allusion last 'week: Mr. Gibson thought that notwith- standing the position assumed. 1,y the Opposition they had reached a grave constitutional crisis in . their history (hear, hear)e He did not think it right to, discuss the National Policy in that House, but nevertheless he thought that the firat paragraph in the speech was quite true. (Applause and laugh- ter). !Adverting to the second para- graph respecting the Boundary Award, he stated the position taken by Mr. Meredith, the leader of the Opposition, to amount to this, that the Mackenzie Government was in fault for not hedg- ing around the succeeding Tory Govern- ment !to that they would not do wrong. (Hear, hear). He referred then to the Berlin Treaty, the Alabama Award, the Halifax A.ward, and the Quebec Award as cases where, notwithstanding tremendous opposition, the respective Governments felt themselves bound by the decision of the arbitrators, and they held the awards sacred. (Applause). Why; he asked, did not the 'represen- • tatives in the House of Commons from Ontario stand uplor Ontario's rights? If they had taken a leaf from, the book of the Quebec.. Conservatives_ in the matter of the Letellier disnaissal, and presented an ultimatum to the leader of the House the boundary difficulty would have been speedily solved to the satisfantion of Ontario. The matter was becoming a,serious one, and had to bemet. They read, therefore, of a representative of an Ontario con- stituency (Mr. Dalton McCarthy) who felt compelled to refer to it, and he told bis hearers that the Dominion Govern- ment had crept out of it very nicely. (Hear, hear.) Reading between the lines he led them to believe that Lower Canada objected to the ac- quisition of territory by Ontario, and so they gave a partion-of it to Manitoba, thus dragging in a third party, and making the complication worse. (Hear, hear.) That gentleman, however, had omitted to state the important fact VSTRAY STOCK—Came into the premises of "'a the undersigned, Lot 36, first coucession, London.Road, `Ruckersmith, sometime in July last, a. red and White yearling steer and a young ewe of the CotsWold bree I. The owner is re- quested to proVe property, pay charges and take them away. J.0. MeLnx, Sr., Kippen P. 0.737x1 A-SPLENDIDCHANCE — That commodious Hotel in the the thriving- village of Hensel", known as the Centennial douse, wIll be sold cheap or exchanged for property in the village of neosaliit is situated immediately opposite the Railway StationF and is one of the best hotel properties in the County. For further particu lars apply to the undersigned proprietor, Hensall P. O. JAMES COXWORTII. 737-4 ICE —The adjourned meeting of the Share- holders and. Patrons of the Iffuevale Cheeae and Butter Factory, will be • held in Patterson's Bluevile,-On Monday, February 6, 1882, a t 1 &clock p itt., *hen the- seasoa'slmak.e of whe y will he offered far sale. The drawing of the milk on the different routes will be let, alsotih e amending and confirm-ing of certain by-laws of the Company, and any other business done that nay be brought; before the 'meeting. JOHN BUR- otrv,;, Secretary 737-3 TIISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.— Notice is hereby elven tb.at the partnership hither- to existing between the undersigned, under the name and firm of Brownell & Abel, carrying on business in thelTown of Seaforth as Draymen and Teamsters, has ,this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts contracted by- the late firm Will be paid by •-lornia.ii Brownell, who will also eoilect all deb's Iclue the said dime. N. BROW sxn, ABn. Seslorth, January 2nd, 1882. N. .H.—The Imsiness will hereafter be carried on by the undqsigned, who hopes by strict at- tention to the Volute of the public to receive a continuance of Ithe patronage awarded the old Josaru 736-4 OMR TO GREDITORS of the estate of 11 an- nah Cluftlate or the Township nf McKillop in the County of Huron, deceased.—Notice is he re- gis-en that an parties having claiims ag ainst like said Hannah Muff are requested to send par- ticulars there If lwith vouchers, on or before the First day of.Fetiruary, 1832. All parties indebted to the said estate will please remit the amou nt of such indebte aims on or befoni the id FT ay of February, 1882. Otherwise their claim wi be forever barredd JAAas IL Bassos, Solicit° r for the said Estate Dated at Seaforth this 9th day of February, 1802. 736-2 VALI' ABLE 110T Ef., PROP ERTY FOR A.LE The subscrit)er offers for sale that valuable and well situated hotel property knonm as the Prince of Wales, in Vie rapidly rising town of Clinton. Large stables in. connection, capable of holding 80 horses. Bar fixtures, &c., will be sold t bloc- The hote is now doing a. very profitable business, and ghe only reason for selling is owing to the failing health of the proprietor. None but men of means lined apply. Intending pureh.asers would do well to make a personal visit. GEoriom SWAR4TS, elintOn, 736-4 whom the gods destroy they first make mad. (Loud applause.) It was never intended, he continued, that the veto power should be exercised in such a manner. When introducing the measure last session, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, stated distinctly that in passieg the Bill they were not mak- ing a new law, but merely interpreting the law as it stood, adding the clause providing for oompensation. In this opinion three judges of the highest court in Ontario concurred, so that if the matter had been intelligently con- sidered by the TifilliBt81' of Justice he. would have discovered' that he was re- commending the disallowance of an Act which merely set forth clearly the law of the land. (Applause.) In the celebrated case before the courts quoted last session, Mr. Caldwell was a man wealthy enough to make him- self independent of Mr. McLaren, and built a mill above the dams, on the Mississippi River, and sent his lumber down over the Kingston and. Pembroke Railway. But a poor lumberman could not do that, and. although the relief -in a particular case was no longer necessary, still it was srequired in the public interest and as a measure of justice. (Hear, hear.) He did not want to infringe on the Dominion pre- rogative, but he was determined. to take as firm a stand upon the question of Provincial rights. (Applause.) Mr. Gibson proceeded to refer to the want of a forest law. In some European countries, for every tree cut down an- other must be planted, and some meas- ure in this direction would, he thought, be of great benefit to Ontario. Re- garding the reference to the Agriculture and Arts Association, he remarked that Toronto, in his opinion, made a mistake in refusing the offer of the Pro- vincial Association, and the farmers would resent it. In respect to the Crown Land Im- provement&und which the Govern- ment of Cahada has retained from 1861 to Confederation, he thought the set. that the Dominion Government still tiers in Huron, Bruce, Wellington and retained the Crown Lands " and the Grey on these lands had just the same timber of immense value. To show right to have the money as those on the immense value of what the Do- Common School lands, and he was sure minion is depriving Ontario of in this that the Treasurer has been doing his matter he quoted from the report of Col- utmost and will continue his efforts, Denn'.son, Deputy Minister of the In- until the Dominion Government pay terior, showing the value of the tiraber over the money. Seeing they are now alone on this large tractesof land, and in funds, having a large surplus, he Col. Dennieon's estimate was generally hoped they would do so at once. He believed to be under than over the cor- concluded an excellent speech which rect amount. This report Ithen, fur- took well .with the House, by regretting nished by an officer of the Dominion that the members of the Opposition Government shows that there are in this., territory twenty-six thousand million feet of lumber. Taking this amount at 75 cents per thousand feet, the present government dues, and we ,,..••••••pf Antigonish, New Brunewick, on Thurs- 1 ago. Mr. Logs -a still kept quiet about day of list week. and haw been identi- 1 the matter till_he carefully wa*.sd up fied as that of a little two years old, all the evidence required. the daughter of Angus litoGillivray, of who stole the boots is Thos. that settlement, who was missing since of Belle River, who was broug the aid at October last. —M. 0. Anderson, of the' township ot Oneida, has sold his farm of 120 sores, situate on the River Range, op- posite the village of York, to • Thomas Peart ohip f the same towns, for $4,50fi —A Montreal gehtleman oalled a saloon keeper a thief, for which he was sped for $2000 damages. When the libel -snit ()erne up for trial the plaintiff was unable to appear, as he was serving a sentence in jail for robbery. —A fire broke out in Gravenhurst le.st Friday evening whioh at one time threatened to destroy the whole village. Fortunately' help was obtained in time to prevent such a disaster, and three buildings only were destroyed. —Mr. James Whitehead, neer Can- ning, a few days ago delivered at Princeton a load of grain -75 bushels— one of the animals which drew the load is '27 years old, and. Mr. White- head has sold $1,705 worth of horses' from her. —A meeting of the London Division Grange was held in that ,city on Satur- day, when a large number of subordin- ate Granges were dropped from the Order for non-payment of dues. The feeling was that the Grange movement is a failure in Middlesex. - , —Charles N. Ferguson, late of To- ronto met a violent death on the train in Chicago on the 19th instant. He had just arrived from Toronto, been in- toxicated, and fell off a car which was being shunted, His body was fright- to his widowed mother. fully mangled. —James Curry, Sr., died in the Oen- -Rev. Dr. MoVicar, of McMaster tral Presbyterian Church, To onto, last !Hall Toronto, delivered an able lecture Sabbath night. He atte ded both morning and evening servi es. Feel- ing unwell before the services at night came to a close, he retired to the vestry NOTICE. THE ANN I.' i.l. MEETING of the Usborne and -1- Hibbert :Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held a the Company's office at Farquhar, cin Monday th Rh Pebruary,1882, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the pa' )ose of receiving the Atmual Re- port of the Directors, the Treasurer's Financial statement and Atiditors* Roport, and for Electing a 13oard of DReetors for the current year. BORT. OARDLNED, Preisid..,ent X. J. CLAREE, Secrerary, 736x2 r-. 140 1 FOR DAKOTA. A MEETING of those intending to remove to -i--1. Dakota ( r Manitoba duzing the coming spring will beheld at the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, on Wennesday February 15, 18842, at 2 o'clock p.m The objeet qf this meeting is to organize a company so as to economize in freight and pas- senger rates, and make other necessary- arrange- ments. Wm. Sunin. 7381:3 could not throw aside their- party pre- dilections and unite with the Govern- ment in endeavoring to secure justice for the Province, but they had taken another view and must abide the con- have,the immense sum of $19,500,000 sequences. (Loud applause.) which rightfully belongs to Ontario and of which the Dominion Government is • Canada. endeavoring to deprive her. Besides .It is said that Hon. Mr. Chapleau this there was a ground rent of $2 per has decided not to go into the lottery square mile on all the timber limits business. sold. Of all this the Dominion Govern- —The St. John branch of the Land • merit is despoiling this Province, and it would seem by their peesent course that the Opposition in this Heinle would fain Judge Little, of Sandwich, an —The latest discovered wit connection with the Sage mu -at Brantford is an Indieu lad, who is alleged to have stated on several oo- casions that he knew who put the missing man's body into the rilvere On being brought up for examination the witness proved obstreperous, pretended he aid not understand English and de- clared he knew nothing whate the matter. He will be br again for examination. in the township. Mr. Gillies, M. P., addressed the meeting after which he man resolutions were passed expressing con- obash, fidence in the Hon. E. Blake as leader t before of the Dominion Opposition, in Mr. found Gillies';the member for the COMMODS, in the Mowat Administration, and in tees in Mr. Sinclair, M. P. der ease - -e-Mrs. Richard Britton, of Tilson- burg, recently eloped With a young man named Jan Bouglaner, leaving her husband and several children be- hind. The mother of the deluded wo- man traced -her and heeparamour to East Saginaw, Michigaite where the pair were found at a boarOms g house liv- ing as man and wife. The woman,who is five years older than the' man with whom she eloped, being 27 years of age, admitted that, she had a good and kmd husband in Canada, but she did not care for him after becoming acquainted with the other, with whom she appeared to be completely infatuat- ed, and. it was a long time before she could be persuaded to return with her commencing to screed', when be struck mother to her husband and children. her to the ground with his fir+, When —A rather serious accident took the victim recovered suffiniently to place last Friday forenoon at the cross- atate her case, an effort was imade to ing of the Grand Trunk Railway and discover who the rascal was but he Governor's Road, neaf London. The had made good his escape. train was coming along at the usual —James Lyal, a workm n in D. speed, and a son of Mr. Ebenezer Mc - Maxwell's foundry, Paris, wa 'instantly Carthy, of London township, was driv- killed on Thursday of last w ek, while ing a pair of his father's horses Oil the ascending an elevator with s e iron. cross road. The young man saw the train, but seemed to become confused, first stopping his team and then start- ing again. The result was a collision just as the horses stepped on the track, and both of the animals were struck on the head and killed. The young man iumped off the load and escaped with- out injury, while the only Part of the wagon broken was the tongue. —Matters do not appear to run very smoothly at the Guthrie Home in London. The manager, Mr. Gibbons, was tried by the police magistrate last week for cruelty to one of the inmates, lel a series of monthly lectures for the room, where he lay down on the sofa. but the case was dismissed. Parties r about ght up —While a lady in Tdronto as mak- ing some purchaees at the St. Lawrence Market one forenoon lately,Ishe was approanhed by a rough loo+g Wal- e, which nd. She end was vidual, who snatched her pu contained $4, out of her h caught the thief by the coat He was unthinkingly looking over the side at his companion belowJ when his neck caught between the hoist and floor, mashing his neck badly. De - old. and is dead, be a help ceased was about 18 years highly respected. His father and he was just beginning to tin "Habits and their power" at the Canadian Literary Inetitute, Wood- stock, last Friday. This was the first A friend coming i a few mi utes after- , students. —A few days ago Mr. Robert Wad- wards found him very ill. e said he the inmates of the HOMO are, as a dell brought into Mount Forest seven' felt this coming o him for Ile last. two rule, the most degraded children of teld 'hogs eight months old, weighing 1608 or three days. doctor as called London. Most of them , are totgly pounds net. These he sold at $8 per ultimately, but i a few minutes he irreclaimable. Their moral influence cwt., bringing home the nice little sum 'of $128.64. Who would not be a far- mer? —Mr. Hector Beaton, who has been for thirty-six years Clerk and Treas- urer of the township of Pickering, was entertained at dinner by 300 of the electors on the 16th inst. As a, further mark of esteem he was presented with a handsome gold watoh and a purse. 7 ---There is a great scarcity of third, class teachers in the ceunty of Fron- tenac. Several schools are without ,them, and, muSt be clued unless the Education Department relaxes its regulatione or makes epecialconcessions in view of the present unhappy state of things. —Rev. John- Foster, Episcopal clergy- man of Coaticooke, was sued by the mother of Emile Couture for $500 dam- ages, for marrying the girl, while she was under age, to George S. Cleveland. The case Was dismissed in the Lower Court„ taken to appeal, and argued be- fore a frail bench. Judgment deferred. —D. Storey, the pioneer hackman of Winnipeg, has retired from business with a e0Enfortable fortune. Four years, 'ago he went to Winnipeg with a span of horses, a good carriage, and $180 in cash, and these comprised all his worldly possessions. Hi a total re- ceipts for the first three weeks were $5, and his expenses $16 per week. —A letter from Rev. Mr. -Findlay, of Bracebridge, says that the statements 'as to the sufferers by the fires in Mus- koka are not overdrawn, but that great destitution exists, the most pressing wants next to food beiug aubstantial warm clothing and bedding: A. relief committee consisting of the Reeves of the Muskoka, municipalities distributes any contributions that are sent. .—Two lads in Chatham named Han- nan and Thibaudeau, in the employ of Thos. Stone, dry goods merchant here, were arrested. a few days ago on a charge of stealing gdods from their em- ployer. A large quantity of goods, in- cluding some silk handkerchiefs and nearly fifty white shirts, was found in their room. They pleaded guilty, and were sent up for trial. —Alexander McKay, of Palmerston, a brakesman on the Great Western Railway, was killed at Guelph on Sat- urday morning. It is supposed he was thrown between the oars while coming out of the vanias the train was enter- ing the yard. He was dead when found. by the conductor a few minutes after, the wheels having passed over his chest. Deceased leaves a wife to mourn his lost. . —In the House of Commons at Ot- tawa the hot air ducts have been re- moved and replaced by hot water pipes, and measures taken to prevent noisome smells from the kitchens in the bane - merit being spread through the build- ing. The ventilating shafts have been enlarged andeimproved and new °him- ney tops were put in to improve their draught. —The Rev. Pr. MacNish, of St. John's Church, Cornwall, has com- menced a course of lectures in the Presbyterian College, Montreal, on the Gaelic langu.age and literature. The Doctor is without doubt the finest Gaelic scholar in Canada. Those who have heard his lectures testify to his thorough conversancy with the subject, which he handles in an able and ex - living in the neighborhood say that League have forwarded $200, more to Ireland, making 5500 so far. ' —It is stated. on good thority that' support tiler°. in this unjust act if they the strength of the mounte police force only dared. If the leader' of the Op- is to he increased from 300 to 500 men. position when "speaking out in meet- —Upwards of 1,400 invitations for ing" at the recent Tory Convention had the fancy dress ball at the 'Government told his co -delegates that they must House, Wednesday night, were jested. unite with him in enforcing Ontario's —The polling in St. John, New just claim, be would have risen in the estimation of his fellow electors. (Ap- plause.) But he did not embrace the opporturaity. As,to the disallowance of the Streams Act, he took his stand upon the grand old principle of Responsible Govern- ment, and be maintained that when they entered Confederation. they relin- quished none of their rights. (Hear, hear.) He read from the report of the Brunswick; under the Canada Tem- perance Act will take place on the 23rd prox. —The squatters on school lands in Manitoba are organizing a deputation' which will proceed to Ottawa and pre- sent their case to the Government. —The wife of the Hon. John Stevenj son, at one time Speaker of the Muse, died at Napanee on Thursday rhornin of last week in her 66th year. Commission appointed to revise and —Several farmers in the vicimty consolidate I the statutes of Quebec Napanee have effected a sale of 40,001 Province and he trusted his friend bushel e of barley to a Chicago dealer a from Glengarry would subscribe to the sound_ doctrine therein enunciated. The extract first set out that the Con- federation of the British Proviuces was the result of e solemn compact entered into by the Provinces and the Imperial Parlia,ment, which was simply ratified by the British North American Act, and that the Provinces retained their corporate identity and all their legis- lative powers. Clause seven of that report reads :—"In the reciprocal sphere of, the authority of -those Provinces, but, subject to Imperial sovereignty, these Province S are sovereign within their respective spheres, and there is ab- solute equality between them." There• fore, the hon. member continued, they were supreme in all matters within their competence. The memorandum made by Sir John Macdonald in the early days of Confed- 90 cents per bush.el, delivered. at th cars atNapanee station. , Winnipeg official ie in Toronto engaging six of the city police to go to Winnipeg. He offers railway fare an $65 a month. It is likely he will se cure six good men. —Miss Ida Quigg, of Brockville; &mil dentally shot herself on Thursday o last week with a revolver which lay or a dressing case she was dusting. Heir wound was fated. —Mr. Alexander Molson, of Mon treal, has been condemned to one yeartf imprisonment for uot rendering a stab:4 rnent of his affairs under a judgment of the Superior Court. —Oa the farm of H. Covert, nea Cobourg, last summer, from one bushe of white oats, there was a yield of fifty two bushels and five pounds.- Who oa beat this ? oration, when he was in his prime, laid —The annual ball in connection wit down the same rule aud on which he the London Asylum for the Insane took acted in the celebrated Goodhue case, place Thursday evening of last week, where by an Act of this House a dead and proved a decided success. man's will wa altered, involving a far —Mrs. Welsh, of Maccau, Cumber - larger money interest than by any pos- sibility could. be ascertained as fairly due in the McLaren case, which took none of his (Mc-Laren's) property, only the use for a few hours of the water of the river whioh he could not sa,y Was land, Nova Scotia, believed to be par- tially insane, committed suicide at that place by hanging herself with two skeins of yarn. —Re E. O'Connor, railway and steam- boat anent, and son-in-law of the late solely his, and for the use of which he Lieutenant -Governor Letellier, died et Was to be paid. (Applause.)' He de- Ottawa on Sunday of inflammation Of fied honorable gentlemen to point to the lungs after a short illness. any one act of Queen Victoria during her —The Governor-General arrived at reign in which she exercised her prerog- Halifax on Saturday. After dining ative of veto. It wile, therefore, an with the Lieutenant -Governor he took usurpation on the part of the Dominion - Minister of Justice to exercise that prerogative with reference to the Streams - Aot=an Act dealing, with matters in which that House had su- preme authority. (Loud -applause.) He was sure that the member for East Toronto 1(Mr Morris) would never go t for setting up a "Star Chamber" in special train for Ottawa, where he ar- rived on Monday morning. =One day lately, as Mr. Samuel Moore, of the township of Normanb was hauling wood to Mothit Forest, slipped off the load, and the wag passed over him, breaking his leg. ) —.The dead body of Schild was found in afield near the residence of John thisnountiy. Nor was it fair for Or McFarlane, in rear o e on traffic and obtain through traffic with- iu five years. The Syndicate disclaims any connection With or interest in a railway Project east or south of Mon- treal or west of Perth. —Another pioneer who has had a ' rather adventurous career died in To- ronto a few days ago, at the ripe age of 87 years,J, The person referred to is Mr. SEMI* Lee. He was born at Blakefield, " Eianiscorthy, Wexford iounty, Ireland, on. the 25th Decernber, 1795. In. 1814 he went into th.e 'East India Company's employ, and saw some active service ineCa.wnpore, Bom- bay, Burmah, and other places. He was afterwards stationed at Calcutta, and remained there till 1827. He then returned to London. When he got his discharge six years afterwards, became to Canada with two sisters.and reathed Toronto in 1833. In 1835 Mr. Lee married Miss Jane Taylor, by whom he had five sons and one daughter, three of whom, two sons and one daughter, are still Hying. Deceased. was for many years Manager for Mr. Ritchie, builder and was, later in life, in the Leader l Office. He took part in the re- bellion,of 1837 figainst William Lyon It Macke zie and his followers. The York ioneers' flag was hanging at half- mast, es a mark of respect to deceased's memory. —John Smith, a quiet and inoffen- sive citizen of the township of AM- aranth, in the county of Grey, was foully Murdered in his own house last Sunday night about six o'clex3k. The unfortonate victre was a bachelor about 60 years of age, and usually lived alone; but it happened that when the murder was cOmmitted a nephew named John Smithi about 14 years of age, Was with him. The boy's story is that his uncle and hineself, after taking supper to- gether, seated themselves by au open - fire place, and that Ehortly after _he heard la report, either of a gun or pis- tol, and the old man fell: The boy immediately started for the door, which was opposite the window, when the man fired at - him, the ball passing through the top of his hat. He ran for dear life and alarmed the neighbors, who hastened to the spot and found breathed his last., . on the neighborhoodis very . the'hOnse on fire and the body of Smith --eYojin Carson, a Lobo township attempt had been made to teach them nartially burned. The old man was farmer, who has lived on the same at Odell's school, but they had shown r -e 1 - . , puted to nave men quite wealthy, place for the last three year, has been such depraved morals that the trustees and td have kept a, large sum hidden - visited every year in succes ion by a were forced to shut their doors against about the house, but it is not known them. Another neighbor joined in by whether he had any or not at this saying that such outrageous and im= time. ' The greatest excitement pre- moral conduct as that of some of the ' veils, las the old' man was universally inmates had never been known in the respected by all wno knew him. township before. . —There appears to be an epidemic —On Wednesday, the 18th inst. Mr. A. Thibado celebrated the fiftieth an- of horrible tragedies abroad in the land gray bird the first year,. leek last, and blank bird S#alige to relate; the visitor , With the fowls, coming witlal them to the door of the house to be fed. They will always come in the fall; stay all winter, but go away as son as the sprieg sets in. It is quite e 'dent John is a charmer. born in' Kingston in 1809oand has seen Mooretown, C mina, and the growth of the place from a small other plaoes along - the frontier have town of 2,000 inhabitants. He was in been extensively burglarized teithin the 1837 regarded aa a rebel, having taken last week or two. There is km clue to a decided stand against the Family the perpetrators of these 'burelaries Compact, and was several times ex- meadow - this year. will roost niversary of his wedding. He. was just now, one of the most revolting of wheal was perpetrated. in the township of Nelson seven or eight miles from the city of Hamilton last Friday night. A young man named Michael Rourke, who left the employ of Patrick Maher, a farmer in Halton , county, not fax from Hamilton, on Friday morning re- turned at night to the house in Pat- rick's absence, and with an axe cleft the skull. of Maher's -aged father, and. with the sa,me instrument killed an unniarried daughter, almost severing her head from her body. Some three or four weeks ago Patrick Maher, Jr., engaged the young Man Michael Rourke to out wood with him on shares. In the course' of a short period they disa- greed about the proportion of profit due to each, and on Friday. morning last they decided to part. Rourke re- ceived the money due to him from Maher and proceeded in the direction of Nelson village, a few miles distant. In rarting they shook hands in a friendly way, and. no other feeling was manifested on either side. Rourke walked to Nelson village where he, from all accounts, spent the day drink- ing. When last poticed he had started. from the village back towards Maher's house. Whisky, rib doubt, prompted. the horrible deed. He has been ar- rested, confesses the crime, and lies in ?linen jail awaiting further proceedings. e but it is evident they are the work of rested and incarcerated. He was a an organized gang whose h adquarters compatriot of Parker, Montgomery, are in Port Huron or some other place and others who escaped from Fort near the Michigan frontier ' There is Henry by a secret passage. Mr. quite an uneasy feeling among hnsiness Thibado was liberated from gaol the men, as the police force is lalAgether last time to attend the funeral of a inadequate to cope with a id of pro- relative, left the country, and exiled festional thieves such as is now being himself until the feeling againit him made. bad cooled down. He was an ally of - —Last Friday the aftern on express on the Toronto, Grey & Bruide Railway ran off the track about half a mile from Owen Sound station, oaused by rails spreading. The passenger coach, postal oar and two freight I oars were ditched, meeting with donsiderable damage.. There were between twenty and thirty passengers on heard, many of whom received slight injrries. Mrs. Kelso, residence unknown ; Mrs. Jones, of Brampton, and Mrs. , Ogilvie, of Shelbourne, were serionalY hurt. Mr. Portland, commercial tr also rather badly hurt. —Daring a race on the MI rink between Borne ambiti a little boy named Willie , knocked down and run °vier. One of the sharp steel skates pas ed over the poor little fellow's flinger, completely off between th eecond joints. The finger lated as cleanly as if it ha by a knife, and upon gettin was taken to a doctor, lea of his finger on thee ice ; i up afterwards by another 1 to the rightful owner. —A gang of six thieves Were arrested at Niagara Falls last week her breaking open and stealing -from the oars of the Great Western and Canada Southern Railways. At the trial on Friday the evidence given by one of their number, James Hoey, who turned Queen's evi- dence and peached on hiji associates, goes to show that they ha; e been car- rying on this business for he peat twe years. They seem to hay been a well organized gang of young ,thiaves, who stole from the cars and sold their booty to different parties in itown and yeller, was 1 - 1tin t Forest, us skaters, alfour was loutting it , first and WaB ampu- been done ;rip the boy mg the tip was picked and taken —The steamer Merlin, a John's, Newfoundland, re gales. At one time her h tirely submerged, and wh n rrived at St. orts terrible till was en- sile rose, jibboom and jibs were c rried away, and everything moveatke on deck swept overboard. Her decks forward were opened in places to the extent of two inches, On Saturday morning a large vessel under full sail was running, -in the midst of a snow atorm, right square on Great Island reef. When the atmosphere cleared u for a few moments there was no gn-whatever haustive manher. of the vessel. It is sup sed the ves- -A year ago ls,st March a robbery sel alluded to struck the 43ef and sank was committed at Belle River, Great immediately. • Western Railway when a car loaded —A meeting of the Refermers of the a withboots and shoes was broken into and a case of boots stolen. Constable Logan of the Great Western Railway, was diepatched from London, and after a vigoreus search he discovered the booty in a swamp. Suspicion rested on a, certain party, and Constable Logan, who had been on the watch ever smoe, f th S th River,suddenlycame on bis man a few weeks township's:3f Bruce was held, in Brace's Hotel at :Underwood on tbe evening of the 17th inst., when the bellowing offi- cers were elected: President, Dr. Mc- Kay; lat Vice -President, Mr. M. Mc- Kinnon ; 2nd Vioe-Presi nt, Mr. G. H. France), : Secretary- assurer, Mr. were ap- hool &odious James Ross. Commi hued for the different Baldwin and Ser Francis 'Lucks, and the recognized leader of Kingston Radi- cals when Parliament sat there. -e-An interestink session of the Fruit Growers' Association was held at Ham- ilton last week. In discussing the new varieties of the potato, Mr. Wellington spoke highly of the White Elephant variety. Mr. Beale had compared the Dempsey and Early Rose varieties. He had planted them side by Aide. Dry weather had affected both, but the for- mer were a fair crop while the latter were a poor one. He had decided to plant in future the Dempsey. Mr. Morris favored the White Elephant. Mr. Backe believed that no petato came to stay. They would all run out in time. The President, in his remarks, stated that the Dempsey was a seed- ling of his own, a cross between. the Early Rose and Early Goodrich. It never attained a great size, but was smooth,the eyes near one end, and a good cropper. He also -stated that it was easy of cultivation, as the stalks generally grew straight upwara. —A very sudden death took place in the village of Preston on Monday of last week. Mrs. Wm. Dalgleish had been on a visit to Galt and ether plaees on Monday, returning home about 4 o'clock. After getting out of the cutter she walked a few steps towards her own door, when she staggered and fell, and before she could be carried into the house her spirit had, fled. Mrs. Dalgleish had been in but indifferent health for some years, having been subject to fainting fits. She was in the 696h year of her age, and was widely known and respected. With her hus- band she came to Dumfries in 1834, settling on the 10th concession. The family lived there for a number of years, and then moved to a farrn itt Waterloo, after leaving 'which Mr. and Mrs. Dalgleish resided for a, few years in Ayr, and latterly in the village of Preston. —Mr. Drinkwater, Secretary to the Canada Pacific Railway Syndicate, ee- plains the Company's. intentions in many important particulars. With a view to commencing the construction of the Rooky Mountain section from both east to tweet in the opening ej reached the wharf, lie was completely - 1883, duringnix months of this year exhausted and almost perished with five hundred miles of continuous track cold. the rairies The - en • —A reckless and foolhardy feat was attempted at_Toronto a few days ago. -A man named Forbes made a bet of $100 to $75 with another man that he would walk across the bay on the 17th inst. Accordingly at an early hour on Tuesday morning Forbes secured a long pole and started on his dangerous trip from the Northern Elevator. A large number of ho friends had assem- bled on the wharf ,to watch his ex- ploit. The ice bent under his weight, and his friends becoming alarmed, en- treated him to return, but he was in exorable, and buttoning his coat tightly around him, he waved his band and commenced running towards Haulm's. Point. About a rod from • the wharf the ice was very thin, and as Forbes proceeded his uneasy motion revealed to his friends that there was danger ahead. Presently a shout was heard from Forbes, and in an instant he fell through the ice. By means ot the pole which he held in his halide, he was able to extricate himself from his perilous position, and what was the earprise of his friends to see him still direct his steps toward the Island. He had'not gone over ten yards, when the ice broke again and down he went. He again managed to get out with the help of the pole, and seeing that it was impossible to cross, be turned and. started on the return journey toward the wharf. He broke through twice on the way back, and when he at last yvill be laid across p . Thunder Bay Branch will be operated as soon as handed over by the Gov-em- ment ; the Pena will be open in time to move the com- ing. season's crops, and the Sault Branch will be constructed without de- lay. As for the Eastern Section, the Company by keeping the line as near the shore of Lake Superior as possible hope to complete speedily several minor sections and open the same for local bina Mountain -Branch —At the fent meeting of the new Council of Goderich township held last • • wa resented from Thomas Welsh and forty-two others, 1 praying that a grant of money be made sufficient to make the hill commonly known as McGuire's Hill, on the side line between the 6th and 7tb comes- sions, safe for teams tor traffic. The Council voted the sum of $200 to be expended in improving the said hill. IMPORTANT NOTTCE 5. t rittenz FOR SALE ---1 good driving hors e for a -s- sale, rising p years old. Apply to JAMBS !MANLEY, Constance P. 0. 737-2 WOR SALE -4 number of horses ranging' in L' price from 13 0 and. upwards, also one cu tter with pole and sh fts and 1 democrat wagon nearly ReW. Will be sold cheap. WADE BROS. 736 PRECEN20R Church, Brucefield, church psalmody. plications received Josrall MCCULLY, WANTED—Wanted for Unio n a Precentor to lead th e Salary $50 per annom Ap- up to Feb. 6th. Apply to Brucefield P. 0. 737-3 "TEACHER WANTED. -1- for school s temide teacher h certifioate. But plications sta.thie- dressed to either Join i BODE and JO — Wanted immediately ction No. 4, Morris, a male or *ling a second or third class es to commence at once. Ap- salary desired must be ad- of the undersignied trustees. I4N McRAR, Brussels P.O. 736-3 TO STONE MASONS—Tenders i..4 wanted for the --..... l.-..,....1.,.4,41-vri -txtniia 'Ph A work wiU be pointed out and particulars made known by applyieg- to either of the undersigned, miles north frlom Seaforth. The lowest tender not necessarily accepted unless satisfactory. RODBEtieli. GRAY,OBERT GOVENLOCK. 737-3 MR. GIBSON'S SPEECH. The following is a summary report of the speech delivered by Mr, Thomas veto to be put-upon the Act without ao- 1 quainting the Ontario Government of tho intention. Mr. Meredith—Would it have done Gibson, M. P. F. for Diet Huron dur- any good? ing the debate on the address, and to Mr. Gibson—I suppose not, for those which we made allusion last 'week: Mr. Gibson thought that notwith- standing the position assumed. 1,y the Opposition they had reached a grave constitutional crisis in . their history (hear, hear)e He did not think it right to, discuss the National Policy in that House, but nevertheless he thought that the firat paragraph in the speech was quite true. (Applause and laugh- ter). !Adverting to the second para- graph respecting the Boundary Award, he stated the position taken by Mr. Meredith, the leader of the Opposition, to amount to this, that the Mackenzie Government was in fault for not hedg- ing around the succeeding Tory Govern- ment !to that they would not do wrong. (Hear, hear). He referred then to the Berlin Treaty, the Alabama Award, the Halifax A.ward, and the Quebec Award as cases where, notwithstanding tremendous opposition, the respective Governments felt themselves bound by the decision of the arbitrators, and they held the awards sacred. (Applause). Why; he asked, did not the 'represen- • tatives in the House of Commons from Ontario stand uplor Ontario's rights? If they had taken a leaf from, the book of the Quebec.. Conservatives_ in the matter of the Letellier disnaissal, and presented an ultimatum to the leader of the House the boundary difficulty would have been speedily solved to the satisfantion of Ontario. The matter was becoming a,serious one, and had to bemet. They read, therefore, of a representative of an Ontario con- stituency (Mr. Dalton McCarthy) who felt compelled to refer to it, and he told bis hearers that the Dominion Govern- ment had crept out of it very nicely. (Hear, hear.) Reading between the lines he led them to believe that Lower Canada objected to the ac- quisition of territory by Ontario, and so they gave a partion-of it to Manitoba, thus dragging in a third party, and making the complication worse. (Hear, hear.) That gentleman, however, had omitted to state the important fact VSTRAY STOCK—Came into the premises of "'a the undersigned, Lot 36, first coucession, London.Road, `Ruckersmith, sometime in July last, a. red and White yearling steer and a young ewe of the CotsWold bree I. The owner is re- quested to proVe property, pay charges and take them away. J.0. MeLnx, Sr., Kippen P. 0.737x1 A-SPLENDIDCHANCE — That commodious Hotel in the the thriving- village of Hensel", known as the Centennial douse, wIll be sold cheap or exchanged for property in the village of neosaliit is situated immediately opposite the Railway StationF and is one of the best hotel properties in the County. For further particu lars apply to the undersigned proprietor, Hensall P. O. JAMES COXWORTII. 737-4 ICE —The adjourned meeting of the Share- holders and. Patrons of the Iffuevale Cheeae and Butter Factory, will be • held in Patterson's Bluevile,-On Monday, February 6, 1882, a t 1 &clock p itt., *hen the- seasoa'slmak.e of whe y will he offered far sale. The drawing of the milk on the different routes will be let, alsotih e amending and confirm-ing of certain by-laws of the Company, and any other business done that nay be brought; before the 'meeting. JOHN BUR- otrv,;, Secretary 737-3 TIISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.— Notice is hereby elven tb.at the partnership hither- to existing between the undersigned, under the name and firm of Brownell & Abel, carrying on business in thelTown of Seaforth as Draymen and Teamsters, has ,this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts contracted by- the late firm Will be paid by •-lornia.ii Brownell, who will also eoilect all deb's Iclue the said dime. N. BROW sxn, ABn. Seslorth, January 2nd, 1882. N. .H.—The Imsiness will hereafter be carried on by the undqsigned, who hopes by strict at- tention to the Volute of the public to receive a continuance of Ithe patronage awarded the old Josaru 736-4 OMR TO GREDITORS of the estate of 11 an- nah Cluftlate or the Township nf McKillop in the County of Huron, deceased.—Notice is he re- gis-en that an parties having claiims ag ainst like said Hannah Muff are requested to send par- ticulars there If lwith vouchers, on or before the First day of.Fetiruary, 1832. All parties indebted to the said estate will please remit the amou nt of such indebte aims on or befoni the id FT ay of February, 1882. Otherwise their claim wi be forever barredd JAAas IL Bassos, Solicit° r for the said Estate Dated at Seaforth this 9th day of February, 1802. 736-2 VALI' ABLE 110T Ef., PROP ERTY FOR A.LE The subscrit)er offers for sale that valuable and well situated hotel property knonm as the Prince of Wales, in Vie rapidly rising town of Clinton. Large stables in. connection, capable of holding 80 horses. Bar fixtures, &c., will be sold t bloc- The hote is now doing a. very profitable business, and ghe only reason for selling is owing to the failing health of the proprietor. None but men of means lined apply. Intending pureh.asers would do well to make a personal visit. GEoriom SWAR4TS, elintOn, 736-4 whom the gods destroy they first make mad. (Loud applause.) It was never intended, he continued, that the veto power should be exercised in such a manner. When introducing the measure last session, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, stated distinctly that in passieg the Bill they were not mak- ing a new law, but merely interpreting the law as it stood, adding the clause providing for oompensation. In this opinion three judges of the highest court in Ontario concurred, so that if the matter had been intelligently con- sidered by the TifilliBt81' of Justice he. would have discovered' that he was re- commending the disallowance of an Act which merely set forth clearly the law of the land. (Applause.) In the celebrated case before the courts quoted last session, Mr. Caldwell was a man wealthy enough to make him- self independent of Mr. McLaren, and built a mill above the dams, on the Mississippi River, and sent his lumber down over the Kingston and. Pembroke Railway. But a poor lumberman could not do that, and. although the relief -in a particular case was no longer necessary, still it was srequired in the public interest and as a measure of justice. (Hear, hear.) He did not want to infringe on the Dominion pre- rogative, but he was determined. to take as firm a stand upon the question of Provincial rights. (Applause.) Mr. Gibson proceeded to refer to the want of a forest law. In some European countries, for every tree cut down an- other must be planted, and some meas- ure in this direction would, he thought, be of great benefit to Ontario. Re- garding the reference to the Agriculture and Arts Association, he remarked that Toronto, in his opinion, made a mistake in refusing the offer of the Pro- vincial Association, and the farmers would resent it. In respect to the Crown Land Im- provement&und which the Govern- ment of Cahada has retained from 1861 to Confederation, he thought the set. that the Dominion Government still tiers in Huron, Bruce, Wellington and retained the Crown Lands " and the Grey on these lands had just the same timber of immense value. To show right to have the money as those on the immense value of what the Do- Common School lands, and he was sure minion is depriving Ontario of in this that the Treasurer has been doing his matter he quoted from the report of Col- utmost and will continue his efforts, Denn'.son, Deputy Minister of the In- until the Dominion Government pay terior, showing the value of the tiraber over the money. Seeing they are now alone on this large tractesof land, and in funds, having a large surplus, he Col. Dennieon's estimate was generally hoped they would do so at once. He believed to be under than over the cor- concluded an excellent speech which rect amount. This report Ithen, fur- took well .with the House, by regretting nished by an officer of the Dominion that the members of the Opposition Government shows that there are in this., territory twenty-six thousand million feet of lumber. Taking this amount at 75 cents per thousand feet, the present government dues, and we ,,..••••••pf Antigonish, New Brunewick, on Thurs- 1 ago. Mr. Logs -a still kept quiet about day of list week. and haw been identi- 1 the matter till_he carefully wa*.sd up fied as that of a little two years old, all the evidence required. the daughter of Angus litoGillivray, of who stole the boots is Thos. that settlement, who was missing since of Belle River, who was broug the aid at October last. —M. 0. Anderson, of the' township ot Oneida, has sold his farm of 120 sores, situate on the River Range, op- posite the village of York, to • Thomas Peart ohip f the same towns, for $4,50fi —A Montreal gehtleman oalled a saloon keeper a thief, for which he was sped for $2000 damages. When the libel -snit ()erne up for trial the plaintiff was unable to appear, as he was serving a sentence in jail for robbery. —A fire broke out in Gravenhurst le.st Friday evening whioh at one time threatened to destroy the whole village. Fortunately' help was obtained in time to prevent such a disaster, and three buildings only were destroyed. —Mr. James Whitehead, neer Can- ning, a few days ago delivered at Princeton a load of grain -75 bushels— one of the animals which drew the load is '27 years old, and. Mr. White- head has sold $1,705 worth of horses' from her. —A meeting of the London Division Grange was held in that ,city on Satur- day, when a large number of subordin- ate Granges were dropped from the Order for non-payment of dues. The feeling was that the Grange movement is a failure in Middlesex. - , —Charles N. Ferguson, late of To- ronto met a violent death on the train in Chicago on the 19th instant. He had just arrived from Toronto, been in- toxicated, and fell off a car which was being shunted, His body was fright- to his widowed mother. fully mangled. —James Curry, Sr., died in the Oen- -Rev. Dr. MoVicar, of McMaster tral Presbyterian Church, To onto, last !Hall Toronto, delivered an able lecture Sabbath night. He atte ded both morning and evening servi es. Feel- ing unwell before the services at night came to a close, he retired to the vestry NOTICE. THE ANN I.' i.l. MEETING of the Usborne and -1- Hibbert :Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held a the Company's office at Farquhar, cin Monday th Rh Pebruary,1882, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the pa' )ose of receiving the Atmual Re- port of the Directors, the Treasurer's Financial statement and Atiditors* Roport, and for Electing a 13oard of DReetors for the current year. BORT. OARDLNED, Preisid..,ent X. J. CLAREE, Secrerary, 736x2 r-. 140 1 FOR DAKOTA. A MEETING of those intending to remove to -i--1. Dakota ( r Manitoba duzing the coming spring will beheld at the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, on Wennesday February 15, 18842, at 2 o'clock p.m The objeet qf this meeting is to organize a company so as to economize in freight and pas- senger rates, and make other necessary- arrange- ments. Wm. Sunin. 7381:3 could not throw aside their- party pre- dilections and unite with the Govern- ment in endeavoring to secure justice for the Province, but they had taken another view and must abide the con- have,the immense sum of $19,500,000 sequences. (Loud applause.) which rightfully belongs to Ontario and of which the Dominion Government is • Canada. endeavoring to deprive her. Besides .It is said that Hon. Mr. Chapleau this there was a ground rent of $2 per has decided not to go into the lottery square mile on all the timber limits business. sold. Of all this the Dominion Govern- —The St. John branch of the Land • merit is despoiling this Province, and it would seem by their peesent course that the Opposition in this Heinle would fain Judge Little, of Sandwich, an —The latest discovered wit connection with the Sage mu -at Brantford is an Indieu lad, who is alleged to have stated on several oo- casions that he knew who put the missing man's body into the rilvere On being brought up for examination the witness proved obstreperous, pretended he aid not understand English and de- clared he knew nothing whate the matter. He will be br again for examination. in the township. Mr. Gillies, M. P., addressed the meeting after which he man resolutions were passed expressing con- obash, fidence in the Hon. E. Blake as leader t before of the Dominion Opposition, in Mr. found Gillies';the member for the COMMODS, in the Mowat Administration, and in tees in Mr. Sinclair, M. P. der ease - -e-Mrs. Richard Britton, of Tilson- burg, recently eloped With a young man named Jan Bouglaner, leaving her husband and several children be- hind. The mother of the deluded wo- man traced -her and heeparamour to East Saginaw, Michigaite where the pair were found at a boarOms g house liv- ing as man and wife. The woman,who is five years older than the' man with whom she eloped, being 27 years of age, admitted that, she had a good and kmd husband in Canada, but she did not care for him after becoming acquainted with the other, with whom she appeared to be completely infatuat- ed, and. it was a long time before she could be persuaded to return with her commencing to screed', when be struck mother to her husband and children. her to the ground with his fir+, When —A rather serious accident took the victim recovered suffiniently to place last Friday forenoon at the cross- atate her case, an effort was imade to ing of the Grand Trunk Railway and discover who the rascal was but he Governor's Road, neaf London. The had made good his escape. train was coming along at the usual —James Lyal, a workm n in D. speed, and a son of Mr. Ebenezer Mc - Maxwell's foundry, Paris, wa 'instantly Carthy, of London township, was driv- killed on Thursday of last w ek, while ing a pair of his father's horses Oil the ascending an elevator with s e iron. cross road. The young man saw the train, but seemed to become confused, first stopping his team and then start- ing again. The result was a collision just as the horses stepped on the track, and both of the animals were struck on the head and killed. The young man iumped off the load and escaped with- out injury, while the only Part of the wagon broken was the tongue. —Matters do not appear to run very smoothly at the Guthrie Home in London. The manager, Mr. Gibbons, was tried by the police magistrate last week for cruelty to one of the inmates, lel a series of monthly lectures for the room, where he lay down on the sofa. but the case was dismissed. Parties r about ght up —While a lady in Tdronto as mak- ing some purchaees at the St. Lawrence Market one forenoon lately,Ishe was approanhed by a rough loo+g Wal- e, which nd. She end was vidual, who snatched her pu contained $4, out of her h caught the thief by the coat He was unthinkingly looking over the side at his companion belowJ when his neck caught between the hoist and floor, mashing his neck badly. De - old. and is dead, be a help ceased was about 18 years highly respected. His father and he was just beginning to tin "Habits and their power" at the Canadian Literary Inetitute, Wood- stock, last Friday. This was the first A friend coming i a few mi utes after- , students. —A few days ago Mr. Robert Wad- wards found him very ill. e said he the inmates of the HOMO are, as a dell brought into Mount Forest seven' felt this coming o him for Ile last. two rule, the most degraded children of teld 'hogs eight months old, weighing 1608 or three days. doctor as called London. Most of them , are totgly pounds net. These he sold at $8 per ultimately, but i a few minutes he irreclaimable. Their moral influence cwt., bringing home the nice little sum 'of $128.64. Who would not be a far- mer? —Mr. Hector Beaton, who has been for thirty-six years Clerk and Treas- urer of the township of Pickering, was entertained at dinner by 300 of the electors on the 16th inst. As a, further mark of esteem he was presented with a handsome gold watoh and a purse. 7 ---There is a great scarcity of third, class teachers in the ceunty of Fron- tenac. Several schools are without ,them, and, muSt be clued unless the Education Department relaxes its regulatione or makes epecialconcessions in view of the present unhappy state of things. —Rev. John- Foster, Episcopal clergy- man of Coaticooke, was sued by the mother of Emile Couture for $500 dam- ages, for marrying the girl, while she was under age, to George S. Cleveland. The case Was dismissed in the Lower Court„ taken to appeal, and argued be- fore a frail bench. Judgment deferred. —D. Storey, the pioneer hackman of Winnipeg, has retired from business with a e0Enfortable fortune. Four years, 'ago he went to Winnipeg with a span of horses, a good carriage, and $180 in cash, and these comprised all his worldly possessions. Hi a total re- ceipts for the first three weeks were $5, and his expenses $16 per week. —A letter from Rev. Mr. -Findlay, of Bracebridge, says that the statements 'as to the sufferers by the fires in Mus- koka are not overdrawn, but that great destitution exists, the most pressing wants next to food beiug aubstantial warm clothing and bedding: A. relief committee consisting of the Reeves of the Muskoka, municipalities distributes any contributions that are sent. .—Two lads in Chatham named Han- nan and Thibaudeau, in the employ of Thos. Stone, dry goods merchant here, were arrested. a few days ago on a charge of stealing gdods from their em- ployer. A large quantity of goods, in- cluding some silk handkerchiefs and nearly fifty white shirts, was found in their room. They pleaded guilty, and were sent up for trial. —Alexander McKay, of Palmerston, a brakesman on the Great Western Railway, was killed at Guelph on Sat- urday morning. It is supposed he was thrown between the oars while coming out of the vanias the train was enter- ing the yard. He was dead when found. by the conductor a few minutes after, the wheels having passed over his chest. Deceased leaves a wife to mourn his lost. . —In the House of Commons at Ot- tawa the hot air ducts have been re- moved and replaced by hot water pipes, and measures taken to prevent noisome smells from the kitchens in the bane - merit being spread through the build- ing. The ventilating shafts have been enlarged andeimproved and new °him- ney tops were put in to improve their draught. —The Rev. Pr. MacNish, of St. John's Church, Cornwall, has com- menced a course of lectures in the Presbyterian College, Montreal, on the Gaelic langu.age and literature. The Doctor is without doubt the finest Gaelic scholar in Canada. Those who have heard his lectures testify to his thorough conversancy with the subject, which he handles in an able and ex - living in the neighborhood say that League have forwarded $200, more to Ireland, making 5500 so far. ' —It is stated. on good thority that' support tiler°. in this unjust act if they the strength of the mounte police force only dared. If the leader' of the Op- is to he increased from 300 to 500 men. position when "speaking out in meet- —Upwards of 1,400 invitations for ing" at the recent Tory Convention had the fancy dress ball at the 'Government told his co -delegates that they must House, Wednesday night, were jested. unite with him in enforcing Ontario's —The polling in St. John, New just claim, be would have risen in the estimation of his fellow electors. (Ap- plause.) But he did not embrace the opporturaity. As,to the disallowance of the Streams Act, he took his stand upon the grand old principle of Responsible Govern- ment, and be maintained that when they entered Confederation. they relin- quished none of their rights. (Hear, hear.) He read from the report of the Brunswick; under the Canada Tem- perance Act will take place on the 23rd prox. —The squatters on school lands in Manitoba are organizing a deputation' which will proceed to Ottawa and pre- sent their case to the Government. —The wife of the Hon. John Stevenj son, at one time Speaker of the Muse, died at Napanee on Thursday rhornin of last week in her 66th year. Commission appointed to revise and —Several farmers in the vicimty consolidate I the statutes of Quebec Napanee have effected a sale of 40,001 Province and he trusted his friend bushel e of barley to a Chicago dealer a from Glengarry would subscribe to the sound_ doctrine therein enunciated. The extract first set out that the Con- federation of the British Proviuces was the result of e solemn compact entered into by the Provinces and the Imperial Parlia,ment, which was simply ratified by the British North American Act, and that the Provinces retained their corporate identity and all their legis- lative powers. Clause seven of that report reads :—"In the reciprocal sphere of, the authority of -those Provinces, but, subject to Imperial sovereignty, these Province S are sovereign within their respective spheres, and there is ab- solute equality between them." There• fore, the hon. member continued, they were supreme in all matters within their competence. The memorandum made by Sir John Macdonald in the early days of Confed- 90 cents per bush.el, delivered. at th cars atNapanee station. , Winnipeg official ie in Toronto engaging six of the city police to go to Winnipeg. He offers railway fare an $65 a month. It is likely he will se cure six good men. —Miss Ida Quigg, of Brockville; &mil dentally shot herself on Thursday o last week with a revolver which lay or a dressing case she was dusting. Heir wound was fated. —Mr. Alexander Molson, of Mon treal, has been condemned to one yeartf imprisonment for uot rendering a stab:4 rnent of his affairs under a judgment of the Superior Court. —Oa the farm of H. Covert, nea Cobourg, last summer, from one bushe of white oats, there was a yield of fifty two bushels and five pounds.- Who oa beat this ? oration, when he was in his prime, laid —The annual ball in connection wit down the same rule aud on which he the London Asylum for the Insane took acted in the celebrated Goodhue case, place Thursday evening of last week, where by an Act of this House a dead and proved a decided success. man's will wa altered, involving a far —Mrs. Welsh, of Maccau, Cumber - larger money interest than by any pos- sibility could. be ascertained as fairly due in the McLaren case, which took none of his (Mc-Laren's) property, only the use for a few hours of the water of the river whioh he could not sa,y Was land, Nova Scotia, believed to be par- tially insane, committed suicide at that place by hanging herself with two skeins of yarn. —Re E. O'Connor, railway and steam- boat anent, and son-in-law of the late solely his, and for the use of which he Lieutenant -Governor Letellier, died et Was to be paid. (Applause.)' He de- Ottawa on Sunday of inflammation Of fied honorable gentlemen to point to the lungs after a short illness. any one act of Queen Victoria during her —The Governor-General arrived at reign in which she exercised her prerog- Halifax on Saturday. After dining ative of veto. It wile, therefore, an with the Lieutenant -Governor he took usurpation on the part of the Dominion - Minister of Justice to exercise that prerogative with reference to the Streams - Aot=an Act dealing, with matters in which that House had su- preme authority. (Loud -applause.) He was sure that the member for East Toronto 1(Mr Morris) would never go t for setting up a "Star Chamber" in special train for Ottawa, where he ar- rived on Monday morning. =One day lately, as Mr. Samuel Moore, of the township of Normanb was hauling wood to Mothit Forest, slipped off the load, and the wag passed over him, breaking his leg. ) —.The dead body of Schild was found in afield near the residence of John thisnountiy. Nor was it fair for Or McFarlane, in rear o e on traffic and obtain through traffic with- iu five years. The Syndicate disclaims any connection With or interest in a railway Project east or south of Mon- treal or west of Perth. —Another pioneer who has had a ' rather adventurous career died in To- ronto a few days ago, at the ripe age of 87 years,J, The person referred to is Mr. SEMI* Lee. He was born at Blakefield, " Eianiscorthy, Wexford iounty, Ireland, on. the 25th Decernber, 1795. In. 1814 he went into th.e 'East India Company's employ, and saw some active service ineCa.wnpore, Bom- bay, Burmah, and other places. He was afterwards stationed at Calcutta, and remained there till 1827. He then returned to London. When he got his discharge six years afterwards, became to Canada with two sisters.and reathed Toronto in 1833. In 1835 Mr. Lee married Miss Jane Taylor, by whom he had five sons and one daughter, three of whom, two sons and one daughter, are still Hying. Deceased. was for many years Manager for Mr. Ritchie, builder and was, later in life, in the Leader l Office. He took part in the re- bellion,of 1837 figainst William Lyon It Macke zie and his followers. The York ioneers' flag was hanging at half- mast, es a mark of respect to deceased's memory. —John Smith, a quiet and inoffen- sive citizen of the township of AM- aranth, in the county of Grey, was foully Murdered in his own house last Sunday night about six o'clex3k. The unfortonate victre was a bachelor about 60 years of age, and usually lived alone; but it happened that when the murder was cOmmitted a nephew named John Smithi about 14 years of age, Was with him. The boy's story is that his uncle and hineself, after taking supper to- gether, seated themselves by au open - fire place, and that Ehortly after _he heard la report, either of a gun or pis- tol, and the old man fell: The boy immediately started for the door, which was opposite the window, when the man fired at - him, the ball passing through the top of his hat. He ran for dear life and alarmed the neighbors, who hastened to the spot and found breathed his last., . on the neighborhoodis very . the'hOnse on fire and the body of Smith --eYojin Carson, a Lobo township attempt had been made to teach them nartially burned. The old man was farmer, who has lived on the same at Odell's school, but they had shown r -e 1 - . , puted to nave men quite wealthy, place for the last three year, has been such depraved morals that the trustees and td have kept a, large sum hidden - visited every year in succes ion by a were forced to shut their doors against about the house, but it is not known them. Another neighbor joined in by whether he had any or not at this saying that such outrageous and im= time. ' The greatest excitement pre- moral conduct as that of some of the ' veils, las the old' man was universally inmates had never been known in the respected by all wno knew him. township before. . —There appears to be an epidemic —On Wednesday, the 18th inst. Mr. A. Thibado celebrated the fiftieth an- of horrible tragedies abroad in the land gray bird the first year,. leek last, and blank bird S#alige to relate; the visitor , With the fowls, coming witlal them to the door of the house to be fed. They will always come in the fall; stay all winter, but go away as son as the sprieg sets in. It is quite e 'dent John is a charmer. born in' Kingston in 1809oand has seen Mooretown, C mina, and the growth of the place from a small other plaoes along - the frontier have town of 2,000 inhabitants. He was in been extensively burglarized teithin the 1837 regarded aa a rebel, having taken last week or two. There is km clue to a decided stand against the Family the perpetrators of these 'burelaries Compact, and was several times ex- meadow - this year. will roost niversary of his wedding. He. was just now, one of the most revolting of wheal was perpetrated. in the township of Nelson seven or eight miles from the city of Hamilton last Friday night. A young man named Michael Rourke, who left the employ of Patrick Maher, a farmer in Halton , county, not fax from Hamilton, on Friday morning re- turned at night to the house in Pat- rick's absence, and with an axe cleft the skull. of Maher's -aged father, and. with the sa,me instrument killed an unniarried daughter, almost severing her head from her body. Some three or four weeks ago Patrick Maher, Jr., engaged the young Man Michael Rourke to out wood with him on shares. In the course' of a short period they disa- greed about the proportion of profit due to each, and on Friday. morning last they decided to part. Rourke re- ceived the money due to him from Maher and proceeded in the direction of Nelson village, a few miles distant. In rarting they shook hands in a friendly way, and. no other feeling was manifested on either side. Rourke walked to Nelson village where he, from all accounts, spent the day drink- ing. When last poticed he had started. from the village back towards Maher's house. Whisky, rib doubt, prompted. the horrible deed. He has been ar- rested, confesses the crime, and lies in ?linen jail awaiting further proceedings. e but it is evident they are the work of rested and incarcerated. He was a an organized gang whose h adquarters compatriot of Parker, Montgomery, are in Port Huron or some other place and others who escaped from Fort near the Michigan frontier ' There is Henry by a secret passage. Mr. quite an uneasy feeling among hnsiness Thibado was liberated from gaol the men, as the police force is lalAgether last time to attend the funeral of a inadequate to cope with a id of pro- relative, left the country, and exiled festional thieves such as is now being himself until the feeling againit him made. bad cooled down. He was an ally of - —Last Friday the aftern on express on the Toronto, Grey & Bruide Railway ran off the track about half a mile from Owen Sound station, oaused by rails spreading. The passenger coach, postal oar and two freight I oars were ditched, meeting with donsiderable damage.. There were between twenty and thirty passengers on heard, many of whom received slight injrries. Mrs. Kelso, residence unknown ; Mrs. Jones, of Brampton, and Mrs. , Ogilvie, of Shelbourne, were serionalY hurt. Mr. Portland, commercial tr also rather badly hurt. —Daring a race on the MI rink between Borne ambiti a little boy named Willie , knocked down and run °vier. One of the sharp steel skates pas ed over the poor little fellow's flinger, completely off between th eecond joints. The finger lated as cleanly as if it ha by a knife, and upon gettin was taken to a doctor, lea of his finger on thee ice ; i up afterwards by another 1 to the rightful owner. —A gang of six thieves Were arrested at Niagara Falls last week her breaking open and stealing -from the oars of the Great Western and Canada Southern Railways. At the trial on Friday the evidence given by one of their number, James Hoey, who turned Queen's evi- dence and peached on hiji associates, goes to show that they ha; e been car- rying on this business for he peat twe years. They seem to hay been a well organized gang of young ,thiaves, who stole from the cars and sold their booty to different parties in itown and yeller, was 1 - 1tin t Forest, us skaters, alfour was loutting it , first and WaB ampu- been done ;rip the boy mg the tip was picked and taken —The steamer Merlin, a John's, Newfoundland, re gales. At one time her h tirely submerged, and wh n rrived at St. orts terrible till was en- sile rose, jibboom and jibs were c rried away, and everything moveatke on deck swept overboard. Her decks forward were opened in places to the extent of two inches, On Saturday morning a large vessel under full sail was running, -in the midst of a snow atorm, right square on Great Island reef. When the atmosphere cleared u for a few moments there was no gn-whatever haustive manher. of the vessel. It is sup sed the ves- -A year ago ls,st March a robbery sel alluded to struck the 43ef and sank was committed at Belle River, Great immediately. • Western Railway when a car loaded —A meeting of the Refermers of the a withboots and shoes was broken into and a case of boots stolen. Constable Logan of the Great Western Railway, was diepatched from London, and after a vigoreus search he discovered the booty in a swamp. Suspicion rested on a, certain party, and Constable Logan, who had been on the watch ever smoe, f th S th River,suddenlycame on bis man a few weeks township's:3f Bruce was held, in Brace's Hotel at :Underwood on tbe evening of the 17th inst., when the bellowing offi- cers were elected: President, Dr. Mc- Kay; lat Vice -President, Mr. M. Mc- Kinnon ; 2nd Vioe-Presi nt, Mr. G. H. France), : Secretary- assurer, Mr. were ap- hool &odious James Ross. Commi hued for the different Baldwin and Ser Francis 'Lucks, and the recognized leader of Kingston Radi- cals when Parliament sat there. -e-An interestink session of the Fruit Growers' Association was held at Ham- ilton last week. In discussing the new varieties of the potato, Mr. Wellington spoke highly of the White Elephant variety. Mr. Beale had compared the Dempsey and Early Rose varieties. He had planted them side by Aide. Dry weather had affected both, but the for- mer were a fair crop while the latter were a poor one. He had decided to plant in future the Dempsey. Mr. Morris favored the White Elephant. Mr. Backe believed that no petato came to stay. They would all run out in time. The President, in his remarks, stated that the Dempsey was a seed- ling of his own, a cross between. the Early Rose and Early Goodrich. It never attained a great size, but was smooth,the eyes near one end, and a good cropper. He also -stated that it was easy of cultivation, as the stalks generally grew straight upwara. —A very sudden death took place in the village of Preston on Monday of last week. Mrs. Wm. Dalgleish had been on a visit to Galt and ether plaees on Monday, returning home about 4 o'clock. After getting out of the cutter she walked a few steps towards her own door, when she staggered and fell, and before she could be carried into the house her spirit had, fled. Mrs. Dalgleish had been in but indifferent health for some years, having been subject to fainting fits. She was in the 696h year of her age, and was widely known and respected. With her hus- band she came to Dumfries in 1834, settling on the 10th concession. The family lived there for a number of years, and then moved to a farrn itt Waterloo, after leaving 'which Mr. and Mrs. Dalgleish resided for a, few years in Ayr, and latterly in the village of Preston. —Mr. Drinkwater, Secretary to the Canada Pacific Railway Syndicate, ee- plains the Company's. intentions in many important particulars. With a view to commencing the construction of the Rooky Mountain section from both east to tweet in the opening ej reached the wharf, lie was completely - 1883, duringnix months of this year exhausted and almost perished with five hundred miles of continuous track cold. the rairies The - en • —A reckless and foolhardy feat was attempted at_Toronto a few days ago. -A man named Forbes made a bet of $100 to $75 with another man that he would walk across the bay on the 17th inst. Accordingly at an early hour on Tuesday morning Forbes secured a long pole and started on his dangerous trip from the Northern Elevator. A large number of ho friends had assem- bled on the wharf ,to watch his ex- ploit. The ice bent under his weight, and his friends becoming alarmed, en- treated him to return, but he was in exorable, and buttoning his coat tightly around him, he waved his band and commenced running towards Haulm's. Point. About a rod from • the wharf the ice was very thin, and as Forbes proceeded his uneasy motion revealed to his friends that there was danger ahead. Presently a shout was heard from Forbes, and in an instant he fell through the ice. By means ot the pole which he held in his halide, he was able to extricate himself from his perilous position, and what was the earprise of his friends to see him still direct his steps toward the Island. He had'not gone over ten yards, when the ice broke again and down he went. He again managed to get out with the help of the pole, and seeing that it was impossible to cross, be turned and. started on the return journey toward the wharf. He broke through twice on the way back, and when he at last yvill be laid across p . Thunder Bay Branch will be operated as soon as handed over by the Gov-em- ment ; the Pena will be open in time to move the com- ing. season's crops, and the Sault Branch will be constructed without de- lay. As for the Eastern Section, the Company by keeping the line as near the shore of Lake Superior as possible hope to complete speedily several minor sections and open the same for local bina Mountain -Branch —At the fent meeting of the new Council of Goderich township held last • • wa resented from Thomas Welsh and forty-two others, 1 praying that a grant of money be made sufficient to make the hill commonly known as McGuire's Hill, on the side line between the 6th and 7tb comes- sions, safe for teams tor traffic. The Council voted the sum of $200 to be expended in improving the said hill.