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The Huron Expositor, 1882-03-03, Page 1.01 VARY 14, 18 RN & DUNCA SEAF RTH. ARIN8 DEPARTMENT. ' — thing New and Fashionable ma in. Worsteds, English* Irish otch Suitings, English and Fro -wee -rings, &c., &c. - to Order at Prices esnnotFail to Suit AI& wishing good substantial annot do better than call and oar stock, as we are off *. 90e and g goods FOXE MT. lower/ than they oan be elsewhere. Seventy-Pive ...tom. two to SiX yard lengths to clear out. ....•••••••••••••• SE FURNISI-UNGS. ; Lace Curtains, Cretonea, keens, lamainns, Towels, Towel- lte,Oountrerpanes and Fur/11811- W desoripUons. Extra 'values a Cottons, Bleached and un- laheetings, &c. Two cease of hand this week—new design*, e patterns and very cheap. me las° received a handsome steak of American. .Fur Felt Bags, atest Sty/es in the Triarket. ye TM a 04,11, Ind you will find and prices. right. DAN & DUNCAN; IBECT IMPORTERS. ram were appointed to look matter.. It was easa moved slop, seconded by J. Anderson, mea Johnston, clerk, be paid eeing postage, salary, station - ting jurors, registering births, a and deaths, &c., drain 63E - 1E 1881; that R. Porter, col - paid $66, salary and postage, MeLareia, treasurer, be paid rt salery.—Oarried. Adjourn - rob 20th, to meet at Patter- Bluevale. Zurich. .—On Monday Judge Squi.er 'i8i.OR Court in this village when ases were disposed of. Law - le and Malconasoreof Goderich, attendance. MIDER.—MR. ED/TOR,—SIE,-- tO ,the wrathful effusion of the rimes correapondent of last mist say 1 was surprised ta loop a wound the reference to spondeace had made. It ap- went to the quick, and in a :of fervent passion he seized his wrote until his breath failed 1 when unable to proceed ha- d, "this is enough." With to the word"unsopnieticated,' or the impression that it is expressions like the one referred no flattering meaning, but it as a different meaning, and 1 " to know that the Exeter Times udeat had, only the latter in his at _I gave him the benefit of lore, simply intimating] that meaning had been takers, We pose for arguatent'a sake, that ktirely wrong, and that Ina evil could be taken from the word. ope that ignorance is not thole irime that it should lawer me .4imation of alI my friends. pie statement of his taterpreta- he word won't" have cleared ii all odium, bat his temper his judgment, ancl feeling sure as down takes the mean ad - a punching me most unmerci- f I applied a wrong meaning to that proves plainly that I did tto prove tb.a Zurich ladies intriguing and false,4 but it is to notice with what ease he e side and proves that I was e very reverse. His ill humor s icing exhausted, he goes on Leat deal more bluster that ;[otteu all about, but a few ex - such as "lack of knowledge," conceptions," 'thigh hopes tow," Lac., still linger in my What those high hopes were ,quite certain, nor do I know means by such expressional as 1.1itakinabof raising thorn," dm. rapposethat they had reference ex and capacities did I not Exeter Times correspondent'a ampoeition was far too free :to be shackled by the rules -. Hoping that common !sense tly assert Ws right. 1 remain, ' CORRESPONDENT. Brandon Sun of the 9th insta be boom in farna and town still contiatteS and rapidly ex- arma that a few days since [..a been secured. for $8 and isamot be purchased :for twice Other farms at a greater roin the city readily ;bring 84 rer acre. For city :property great clammed, and rase are hands every day at advspoing WILL SHOW THIS WEEK A SPLENDID UNE OF NEW PRINTS —AT— TEN CENTS PER YARD. Remy Yard Wide Factory Cottons —AT— TEN CENTS PER YARD. TABLE LINENS —AT - 20 CENTS PER YARD. HANDSOME JAPANESE POPLINS —AT— IV GENTS PER YARD. IN STOCK LaRGE RANGE, OF , Denims, Ducks, Shirtings, Cotton - ades, Tickings, cfc. PRODUCE TAKEN IN EX3HANG E. E. McFAll L, The Starr Kidney Pad not a "patent medicine," but a healing power, on the natural principle of absorption. Hon- est, efficacione and harmless; safe and comfortable, and easily applied. Prices —Child's Pad, $1 50 ; regular pad, $2 ; special pad for chronic diseases $3. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Caidno's Block, Seaforth. The Starr Kidney Pad. —The opinion of all who have tried it is, that it is the universal remedy for Kidney Dis- eases, and only sure cure. For sale by JT. S. Roberts, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. Treatment by absorption has for Botha time been recognized by medical men to be the most simple and effectual means of oonveying to diseased organs curatives, and in the case of kidney [disease and complaints attendant there- on, it is especianly applicable, and is immeasurably more decisive and effec- tive than any quantity of internal medicinal dosing. Worn immediately over the seat of- .disease, the curative properties of the Starr Kidney Pad be- come absorbed by the diseased and enfeebled organs, continuously and iirectly, as required, to insure in return their healthy action and original vigor. It is comfortable to the patient and pleasant in its effects, and cures where nothing else can. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Cardno's Block, Seaforth: A. sure cure for Diseases of the Kid- neys, Bladder, Urinary and Sexual Organs. No poisons used; contains absorbtive vegetable ingredients. The Starr Kidney Pad not only relieves but positively cures. For sale by J. S. Roberts. Lame back, undoubtedly a symptom of kidney affection, more or less danger- ous, cured by the Starr Kidney Pad. For sale by J. S. Roberts. Inflammation of the kidneys, bladder and urinary organs, causing lame back, pain in the loins, sides, dec., swelling and general derangement of the urinary eystena, cured by the Starr Kidney Pad. For sale by J. S. Roberts. Gravel, causing retention of the urine, difficult and painful micturation, etc., etc., cured by the Starr Kidney Pa& For sale by J. S. Roberts. Diabetes, an unnatural appetite for liquids, accompanied by corresponding excessive flow of urine. The Starr Kidney Pad is the only 3are for this disease. For sale by J. S. Roberts. ••••••••=1111111g Bright's disease of the :kidneys, ca- tarrh of the bladder, non -retention and aappression of urine, bed-wetting in persons of advanced age and childree, cured by the Starr Kidney Pad. For male by 3. S. Roberts. NOINNIPE6 AND ITS SURROtlIDINGS. DIFFEILENT OPINIONS FROM DIFFERENT I30fURCES. The Clinton New Era makes the following extracts from a private letter received by EL gentleman of Clinton, from Mr. Andrew Wallace, a foximer resident of this county, who is now re- siding in Winnipeg. "I would not advise you to come l out here and leave your business to 4411 - gars, unless you had lots of money to invest and time to remain a coup of months, for a stranger has no show amongst so many aharpers and rin s of spectilatore ; it would cost you not less than ,$6 to $8 a week for hoard at a pri- vate house, or $2 a day at a hotel uch as MaCtittheon, (formerly of Cli ton) keeps. Fle told me that he had tuned away all his boarders, at $10 a wee, to make room for travellers, and fronalthis 'out there will be no such a 'thing as getting board. at any price, as there l are so many coming here from all pieta * * * There are plenty of cha ces here for investment all the Mine but the cash must be in the bank readjr to cheque out at a moment's notice, and mostly all the investments are for cash, over and above any mortgage that may be on the property. The time was when a man cardd work on a few hunched dollars, but now you need thousands, for there is n t a lot in the city that I would invest i to- day for less than $1,000, and on ood streets $5,000 is a common thing fo 'the bare lot without a fence on it or a. sod. turned. ,- The best way now to make moue is for three or four to join together land put in so mucb each for invost4ient and keep it in for a year or more, and employ some good agent and have him invest it and keep turning over as cften as possible, whenever there is a pafring margin. I have had e several ood chances to take a share in a blool4 or blocks, and that is where the money is now, but it w•otild take not less 1han $5,000 or $10,000 to do it, and it is @nly at times you can get the chance. Sometimes there are good bargains in farms and other new towns eutleide of this city, but no 0136 is safe to Ibny them unless he sees them or has eli- able information. So, I think, on the whole, a man is more secure in city property, which is always in the ma ket and will be much higher yet. This will be a very large city, and so long as one invests on good streets there is no dant- ger. Sometimes there is a good chance to invest in a house aud lot—foe in- stance, I had the offer the other night of a good house and lot for $2,600 and the house rents for $35 a tnonth. It costs about 150 per cent. more here to build houses than in Ontario, and 100 per cent. more to live, and those who are well off there should remain. The commission charged by all the real estatb men is 5 per cent. cm all sums below $1,000, and n above, and that is deducted every time a sale is made. The Stratford Beacon makes the fol- lowing extracts from a private letter written by a former resident of Strat- ford, but who is now located in Win- nipeg :— THE REAL ESTATE FEVER is about as bad as ever, but the points of interest keep changing a little all the time. During the last two weeks the great craze has been Brandon, and the result has been that Winnipeg property has been very quiet. Brandon has, I think, gone a 'great deal farther in ad- vance of actual value than Winnipeg. It is bound to be it pretty good town, as there is an excellent country surrounding it in almost every direction, but until that country is settled up there must be a certain amount, of stagnatiou there at times. Winnipeg appears to me to offer the best investnaent in the country any- where. It is of course possible that as the railway is continued west a point may be found to rival WinniPeg, but on the first opening of spring the city will be jammed with immigrants from all over the world, whose arrival will be sure to create a boom in city property. It is a remark often made here that there will be a terrible time here in the spring peoviding for the rush of immi- grants. Even how, in the depth of win- ter, every hotel in the city (there are over 50) is full to overflowing, and have been so all winter. There are a num- ber of excellent hotels, -but they all charge high ; $2 to $4 per day is the rule, and about $6 to $12 per week for table -board. It is a great pity that there are SO MANY LAND FRAUDS and paper towns being put on the mar- ket. The worst frauds are those that have been sold in Ontario: The most transparent frauds—towns which have not and never will have any existence— have been sold by auction in Ontario, and have made fortnnes for the owners. There have been a great many proper- ties outside the limits of the city which have been sold in Toronto and Montreal at high prices—far beyond what they fidence of the coal fields, and affirmed could have been sold for in Winnipeg, that the question of fuel for the vast' where their value is known. Another interior was settled in their extent. trouble is the shameful way in which The houses of the future on the prai- property is being out up. Lots are ries, in the opinion of the lecturer, rarely now made more than 25x100 feet, would be composed of clay, straw, peb- as the experience is that a lot is a lot, bles, and sods. He pronounced. the and will sellefor nearly as much with Hudson Bay Railway route impraati- 25 feet as with 50 feet front. When- cable, if not impossible. He thought ever there is any stagnation in real es- in the course of time Fort a -la Corn tate (and it is bound to come some- would be a great city, and be expressed time) these things will tend to hasten a his belief that before long trains would crash. It is certainly a great mistake be running from San Francisco to Hud - for anyone desirous of investing in this son Bay. Speaking of Hudson Bay, country to buy in Ontario, as it is only j the Professor said it 'would pay the Dominion Government to employ Com- mander Cheyne as make an investiga- tion and ascertain if the bay was nevi - le. His five years' practical experi- e in the Arctic Belts qualified him the work better than any man in erica. He (the Professor) believed )the bay was navigable, and he char- acterized it as monstrous that the Americans should be allowed to step in • SEAFORTH, FRIDA this season, not to mention the numer- ous other projects in contemplation, will createa much increased demand for farm prOduce. The C. P. R. Com- pany alone talk of employing 10,000 men on their works during the coming sum- mer. There is almost oertain to be a large immigration to the country this year, which will, of course, help to in- orease the prices of farm produce, and, in addition to thie, it is now expected that the line will be completed east to Lake Superior by the first of July, which will give a new and cheaper out- let for grain. REAL ESTATE ONFICES. One carious result of the land fever is the number of real estate Offices. The papers have spoken of 200. I should think there were fully that or more. Literally about every secoud door on Main street is a real estate office, and there are often four or five in a row or in the saMe building. Most of them are doing some business, and some of them are making lots of money. They all charge a -commission of 2a percent., not on the amount of cash in the trans- action, but on the total amount of the sale, so that it is no uncommon thing for an effice to make $2,000, $3,000 or $4,000 in one day by one or two big 'sales. , The amount of business done in the registry office is immense. During the high pressure of a few weeks ago it is said. they received on some days over 100 instruments to register at $2 eaeh, besides other business. BUILDING HAS BEEN GOING ON ACTIVELY all winter, notwithstanding some very severe weather we have had at times. It is rather striking to see excavations for buildings going on in Main street with the thermometer 100 or 150 be low zero. It is said that there are over $6,000,000 worth of contracts for lenild- ing entered into for next season ill the city. It may be an exaggeration, but there will certainly be a large amount of building done. MANITOBA WEATHER. This has been a beautiful winter here. The weather is, as you know, uniformly colder than in Ontario, but it is almost always clear, and it never thaws. The only disagreeable time is when it is windy, and that is not felt much in town. The thernameter at night usually is down to about 10° he low, and it often is as low as that all day. Two weeks ago to -day was the cold est day of the winter- - -the ther- mometer was variously reported from 250 to 540 below zero. In any case it was cold, but not so much as to in- terfere with anything that was going on. There were just as many people at church and on the street all day as on any milder Sunday. Altogether the winter has been a beautiful one and far ahead of any Ontario winter I have ever experienced. Prof. Macoun delivered a lecture on Manitoba arid the Northwest in To- ronto a few evenings ago. After refer- ring to hie extensive travels through the country he spoke of the richness of the soil in the Northwest, which be iiaid consisted principally in its alkaliue - matter. When he was in Winuipee some time ago he knew of SIX cities ad- vertised there for sale which had no existence. He made a passing allusion to the A.ssiniboine River, which he said was cavigable. Speaking of Brandon, the Professor said. it was a lively little village, but would never become the great city that was expected. Winni- peg, he said, would be a great ciey, but he thought it would be eclipsed by other places in the Northweet. The lecturer said that money obtained as it is at present by speculators was not le- gitimate gain, and the people of On- tario were largely resppesible for the speculative spirit lathe Northwest. If the people who went to Manitoba to. live by their brains were to remain away, the country would be much bet ter off. In 1879, when the speaker was croesing the prairies, nearly every per- son was going to Rapid City on account of the "boom" there, for which Sir Charles Tupper was responsible by changing the course of the railway liue in 1880. The Professor confidently affirmed that the next boom would be at Fort Qu'Appelle, as the land for miles around was the garden of the West. On the 16th of June he had found ripe strawberries in that vicinity in great profusion. The barley crop was in stacks on the 27th of July, while the crops on the Saskatchewan ripened seven weeks later. He had dug holes all over the country to find out the kind of soil, and he could speak confidently about it richness. There might be a temporary lull in the real estate excite- ment, but the boom would continue along the Canada Pacific as long as the stream of capital flowed in to keep the ,bubble from burstiug. Grand Forks, the Professor said, would be one of the booras next summer, and it was his opinion that it would be the ideal city . of %he NorthWest. He spoke with con - properties which are thought so little of here ea not to sell at all that are taken down to Ontario. Farm property, at present prices, offers ga A VERY GOOD INVESTMENT. I en Prices for good improved farms range fo from $5 to $15 and $20 per acre, the 4*. last figure being an extra high one. I/ think that the large amount of work projected by the C. F. R. Company for noesalassieepa.. • MACH3, 1.882. t and take annually $700,000 worth of whale oil out of the bay. Canada. Port /lope is to get $10,000 from the Government for harbot improve- ments. —The Great Western Railway is hav- ing 100 box care built, with a capacity of 40,000 pounds each. —Grasshoppers have already been seen in North Dumfries. What will the harvest be? —The two Presbyterian churches in Ingersoll are moving to unite and form one congregation. --Mrs. Ellen Collins, an Tri3hwoman, died the other day at St. John, New Brunswick, in her 104th year. • —A shock of earthquake vas felt at Murray Bay, Quebec, on Sunday, last - int two or three seconds. No damage. —The committee of Knox Church, Ayr, have let the contract fox building a new manse, to Mr. Robert Hall, for $3,000. —Mr. George Veitcb, of Roseville, has been engaged as Principal of Ayr public School, in room of Mr. G. D• Lewis, resigned. • —There were snow blockades Oil he lines of railway leading to 3t. Jon, New Brunswick, on Friday a d Sat r - day last. —A young lady who has attended. Torouto University has a rived at Kiugston to take lectures a Queen's andograduate in April. —Hon. Alex. Mackenzie w s fined $1 and costs in Toronto, last Sa urday,for not removing the snow from the side- walk in front of his house. —A hearse driving to the at Toronto, on Saturclai ecropolis, fternoon, broke down. The coffin rolle out and was smashed to pieces. — Mrs. Peer, (formerly Amelia Tay- lor,) at one time the belle of Niagara, Out., committed suicide r cently iu New York, by eating rat pois n. — At the lumbering shantie back of the Miesissippi, county of Froutenac, tecently, a stable and seven teams of horses were burned. —At the last meeting of t e Bosan- quet Council $300 was as1el for the depredations of dogs amu g sheep, with several more claims to f llow. —Mr. Alexander Kennedy, of Kin- loss, sold a span of horses the other day for the sum of $200. Mr. Joseph Tiffin also sold a fine two year old colt for $112.50, —The opponents of the Scott Act in St. John, New Brunswick, claim that a recount of the votes would give them a majority. The matter of demanding a recount is being considered. .-Miss Mulligan has entered an ac- tion for $5,000 damages against Mr. Hood, proprietor of the Montreal Soap Works, for the loss of her brother in a soap boiler. —The other day Mr. G. A, Uren and Peter McNamee, of Beachville,cutaplit; and piled a cord and a half of maple wood in 68 minutes, with one of. the diamond saws. — Mr. Miles Charlton, of Mapleton, has a herd of four cows that made quite a record in 1881. In butter and ehielese they made $200 in cash, besides keeping a family of five in butter and mk. —The Duke and Duchess of Edin- burgh, on Saturday evening, opened the Crystal Palace International Electrical Exhibition. Experts state that it is more complete than the recent 'Paris Exhibition. — His Honor, Judge Miller, of Gait. has purchaseeel ono of the numer- ous small islands in Lake Rosses,u, Muskoka, and will, in the spring, have a summer bowie erected thereom —Rea. Dr. Ormiston, of New York, and Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brantford, are to officiate at the opening of the DOW Presbyterian Church, in Galt, on Sabbath next. — It is said that 2,500.000 acres have already been applied for to the Tem- perauce Colonization Society by actual settlers, the names of those applicants formiug a list 109 feet long. —A few days ago thievek brolle into the barn of Mr. A. McQuaig, near the Luckuow station, and stole about twenty bushels of oats and a number of valuable fowls. —Twenty-two cella in the St, Vin- cent de Paul Penitentiary were left un - looked one night a week ago by neglect of guards. Fortunately the prisoners w -ere unaware of the fact. Three guards have been discharged. — Mrs. Ellis, who was committed to gaol at Chatham about two weeks ago as a lunatic, hanged. hereelf the other morning by fastening a sheet to the door of her cell. When discovered life was extinct. She came from Dresden, and leaves a family. —A week ago one of the greatest ice - blockades even Been by the oldest in- habitants of Cornwall was experienced by that town. Cotton and other mills were all closed down, and very serious damage was sustained by manufac- turers. —In consequence of the scarcity of i snow, lumbering operations in the dis- trict on the south side of the Ottawa are almost entirely suspended. In sonie places wheeling has been resorted ' th in order toget out the lumber. —The sugar makers are tappingtheir trees in the eastern section of the country, and already a quantity of maple sugar has been sold on the Brookville market. Maple syrup will soon be a delicacy on our market. — The establishment of an interna- tional money transfer system by the Great Northwestern and Western Union Telegraph Companies has been arranged for. - A money order system in Canada will be inaugurated by the former. —A letter from the Rev. Dr. Mackay announces his safe arrival in Formosa on the 19th December, after a stormy passage of about six weeks from San Francisco. He received an extremely • wanrn welcome from his Chinese con- verts the first of whom was foremost in welcoming him on the pier. —As Mr. Hastings, of Crosshill, was taking a load of grain to market, he had one of his horses badly hurt while crossing the irou bridge at Philipsburg. One of the horses ohoked, crowding the other over the edge of the bridge. The inside of the hind leg was cut se deep as to reach an artery. —Miss Barrie, of Montreal, left her valise in the waiting room at Union Station, Toronto, the other day, while she went to buy an apple. When she returned the valise was gone and the train was moving. In the va:lise were two rings worth $50, and other valu- ables. —Mr. John Spence,formerly Collector of Inland Revenue, at London, has been assigned to Brantford. Mr. T. Alex- ander, who had the charge of the In- land Revenue office in Sarnia for a short time, is likely to be removed to - London, where he was formerly sta- tioned. —The Rev. Robert Hay, of Pine Grove, has accepted a call to assunee the pastorate of the Cougregational Church in Sarnia. Tbe reverend gen- tleman was formerly pastor of the Sar- nia church, and was much esteemed by his people, who welcome him back amongst them again. —The fiendish practice of dog poison- ing has been going on in Lucknow for some weeks past. Several citizens have lost valuable canines in conse- quence. Among others a valuable Spaniel dog belonging to Mr. D. E. Cameron, banker, fell a victim. Mr. Cameron paid $40 for the dog a short time ago —Rev. Father Petitot, who was being conveyed from Winnipeg to Montreal, for treatment for mental derangement, escaped from the prieet and Indian at- tendant who had him .in charge. The train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour at the time. He was afterwards found wandering about near Belleville. —Squirrel hunting has its dangers as well as other sports. A few days ago as Alfred Slierk, of Plympton, was striking and shaking an old stump in the clearing in order to frighten a squir- rel down, when the stump fell on him, breaking his leg above the knee, also fracturing his skull. His case is doubtful. —On the evening of the 9th inst., a number of young men of Knox congre- gation, Ripley, Bruce county, called at the manse, and James McLeod, on their behalf, with a short address, pre- sented the Rev. Mr, Sutherland with a handsome pony, harness and cutter, as an expression of their good wiahes and warm attachment. —Mr. Josiah Howell, a farmer living about two miles from St. George, has Unit for himself a very fine large stone residence at an expense of between $3,000 and $4,000. He celebrated his moving into it by a large party, on the evening of the 15th. Refreshments were served during the evening, and games and dancing were kept up till an early hour. —Mrs. George D. Tucker, of St. Thomas, was robbed of her pocket -book containing a cheque on the Hamilton Bank, made by Mr. John Waldie to her order, for the sum of $180, also $13 in cash, and a note drawn by one Patter- son for $150, with other valuable papers, while on the train between Dundas and Brantford, on Saturday evening, the 18th ult. —From 1,459,402 pounds of milk the Nith Valley Creamery made 110,166 pounds of cheese, and 31,212 pounds of butter. It required 13 pouuds, 3 01113CGS of milk to produce one pound of cheese, and 46 pounds, 12 ounces for one pound of butter. The cheese realized an average Of 7.9 cents per pound. and the butter 22f cents. The patrons and sharehold- ers were paid the sum of 812,400. — Elgin County loses a valued and prominent citizen in the person of Mr. Glasgow, of Fingal, who died on Sun- day last. Mr. Glasgow was a member the firm of McPherson, Glasgow & Co., of Fingal, and had been a prominent business man in Canada for the past 38 years. The deceased was born in Scot- land He was 68 years of age. —A swell marriage took place at Waterdowu the other day, the interested parties being Miss Sarah Jane Sealey, daughter of the popular Reeve of Wat- erdown, to Mr. J. W. Tunis, of Buffalo. Among the guests were the lady's grand- mothers, and there were four genera- tions of the family represented'. The wedding presents were very numerous and beautiful, and Mr. Seeley gave his daughter a dower of $10,000. — There is now $1,400 reward. for Maggie McVey, dead or alive, $1,000 of which sum is offered by John McVey, $200 by the township of Yarmouth, and $200 by the Ontario Government. Since the disappearance of his daughter in November, 1878, the family have gone to numerous places, notably to lunatic asylums in the Province, etc., in search of the long -lost girl, but noth ing has resulted from their researches. —The Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society have petitioned the House of Commons, in the interests of the Geo- logical Museum and the Meteorological Service of the Dominion. The peti- tioners consider that the annual appro- priations of $50,000 for the Geological Museum and $12,000 for the Meteoro- logical Service are insufficient, and they pray for an increase in order to permit of the work of each to be extended and become more thorough. —Early Monday morning the sea at Burlington Beach, breaking on the piers, was one of the grandest sights that has been seen, of the kind, for years. The waves lashed the light- house pier at the east end furiously, submerging it at times fully three hun- dred yards. The sea, on striking the lighthouse ran up to the lantern. Old timbers from the repairs of the picrs were carried up on the beach to the railway track. —Late on Monday night James Moody, whose children were burned to death in Ameliasburg, was found on his hands and knees among the de- serted ruins of. his home soraPing among the ashes in the hope of finding some of the bones of his three little children who had perished in the fire the preceding day. He was in a half crazy condition, and it was with diffi- culty that he could be persuaded to go away. He had been there for some time, and was half frozen. —Two men, residing on the 8th con- cession of Blanshard, named Montries and Moscrip, were disputing over prop- erty, when the former drew a revolver and shot the latter in the chest. A man named Innis wrenched. the revol- ver out of Montries' hand. Montries then went away; after going he got the re- volver back from Innis and went to a neighbor's barn -and discharged the con- tents of two charges in his forehead. Dr. Long extracted both balls from Mon - tries head. They did not penetrate the brain. The -ball has not been extracted from Mossip's chest. Both may re- cover. —About nine o'clock on Monday morning, at Singhampton, shrieks were heard coming troni the residence of Mr. G. F. Riddell, of that place, and upon going to ascertain the cause the neigh- bors were horrified to find Mrs. Riddell lying outside with her clothes almost entirely burnt off her. It is supposed her clothes in some manner had caught fire from the stove, and that she ran outside, when the wind fanned the fire into a flame. No hopes are eatertam- ed of her recovery. —Mr. Melvin Smith, a Montreal gentleman, whose diamonds an.d jew- elry were stolen a couple of months ago, has received them from the New York thieves, who then stole them so adroitly. He had to agree to pay the thieves $1,500 for them, and upon agreeing to do this the property was sent to his house. The thieves in- formed him that he had better keep his word. The money was forwarded after the diamonds were received. It is believed that they were never taken out of Montreal at all. —Messrs. McCrae & Co., of London, purpose erecting a saw -mill at Ettrick station, London township, for the pur- pose of cutting six-inch maple deal for the European market. This appears to be a uew industry in that part of the country. Only maple is used, andlarge quantities have been purchased in the surrounding district, both by the acre and by the thousand. Something like $6.50 per M., board measure, is paid, and $210 an acre for the standing tim- ber. Farmers find these prices more profitable than cordwood. —A peculiar accideut happened in Toronto the other evening. A young lady living on Jarvis street had (Mit- sion to put some highwines on her hair. She afterwards went towards the nre- place, and was stooping down to pick up a hair pin when the flame from the grate ignited her hair. In an instant her flow in,g locks, of which the was so proud, were in flames. With great preseace of mind she ran to her bed, and plungicig her head among the clothine, smothered the fire in a mo- ment. She had her face and bands badly burned in addition to losing the greater part of her hair. —Smallpox has broken out at Ham- ilton. A boarder in a house on Cam- eron street was first stricken down. After his removal the keeper of the boarding house and his wife and child fell victims to this loathsome disease. The authorities have taken energetic measures for their isolation and proper care. This disease has - also ap- peared. in Toronto. This case is a lady who was a passenger on the steamer Peruvian, which, it will be re- membered, landed her passengers at the wharf in Halifax, while having a smallpox patient on board, contrary to quarantine regulations. —Wise Lillie Eastwood, of Port Elgin, died a few days ago of pulmonary com- plaint. Her father was, for years,town clerk of Port Elgin'and the family are generally respected. This is the sixth member of this family deceased within the last five years, and the third within the lea eleven months. Miss East- wood managed the Dominion Telegraph office at Port Elgin up to the amalgama- tion with the Moutreal Co. She was gen- erally esteemed for her estimable per- sonal qualities, as well as for the efficient manner in which she conduct- ed the office, and will be much missed by her friends. —About six months ago, A. E. Har- vey, formerly railway agent at Palmer- ston left for Manitoba. A short time ago he met with an accident on a rail- way there, losing one of his feet. Re- cently Mr. Milne, the present agent at Palmerston, and (who is a brother-in- law to the unfortunate man, brought him home to recuperate his strength. The employees of the W. G. & B. divi- sion of the Great Western, always of a sympathetic turn of mind, learning of Mr. Harvey'sofcondition, made up a purse $211 and presented it to him. A noble act of true noblemen. —An acdident of a very peculiar character hapPened at Mr. John Wal - lace's, in Waterloo, on Saturday, 18th ult. It appears he was engaged in threshilig peas, using six horses, when the joitas gave way, and four of them, with flooring and everything else, fell a distance of nine feet to the ground. below. When Mr. Wallace got to them he found three of the four had. got up and were able to walk, but the fourth, a valuable beast worth over $200 was unable to rise, ana it was soon discover- ed its bac la was broken by the fall. It was of couple destroyed. One of Mr. Wallace's eons had a narrow escape. —An English gentleme.noatemed Wm. Robinson, who has seen some pretty hard times in this country, sailed from New York for England, a few days ago. XCLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. He is a brother of the wife of Sir Matthew Wyatt, member of the English Parliament and a retired General of the arnay. Six months ago he was sent from London to Canada by his sister. He remained in Montreal a few -weeks, when he started on foot for New York. He was four ponths on the way. He had no inoner and became a tramp. At Albany oaajan. 21st he told the story of his wanderings to Dr. Hoyt, Secretary of the State Board ofChari- tie, and was committed to Albany County almshouse. He has now been sett to England. —On Wednesday, 15th ult., was cele- brated the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and 'qrs. George W. Lewis, of Blenheim township. They were married at Canning, (then Mudge Hollow,) when the whole of the now splendid township of Blenheim was a pathless forest ; when the thriving village of Ayr 'was still Mudge's and the only nominunieatiun between. the two places was by a pathway mark- ed only by "blazes" on the sides of the trees. The Madge family were then the proprietora of both Cauniug and Ayr, hence the Dames of "Mudge Hol- low" and "Mudge Mills About the time of his meariage Mr. Lewis brought from the States the firet carding mill introduced in that part of Canada. A dozen years ago the old machine was still at work iu the weollen mills at Ayr, and so continued to work until the destruction of those mills by fire, some five years since. —The Orillia Packet says two Barrie men have been victimized in their Mani- toba land. trantiactions, and that their loes is in the viciuity of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. It appears that through the tepresentatione of land brokers, they were induced to purchase a large quantity of land aithin five miles of Winnipeg, without having seen the property. Before they had closed the bargain they were ( ffered eighty thousand dollars for their bargain, through a friend. This tempting offer caused them to thiuk thet they had found a bonanza, and they declined to sell. It turns out bow that this offer was a bogus one, aull made for the pur- pose of inducing them to'close the bar- gain for the purchaae, which they did, paying therefor the large SUM of sixty thousand dollars. It now appears that the land is worthless, being an "irrecov;-- erable swanap.'' —On Monday afternoon of het week, the seventh line of McGillivray, and the village of Ailsa Craig, was thrown intbo a state of excitement by the announcement that Mr. Thomas Rees, one of MeGillivray's most respect- ed farmers, had committed suicide by hanging himself, by means of a rope suspended from a beam in the barn. On enquiry beieg made, it was discover- ed, however, that Mr. Rees was not dead, but lay hi. a mest precarious con- dition. It appears the unfortunate ionan, while laboring under a fit of tem- porary insanity, proceeded to the barn and made a desperate attempt to de- stroy himself, but was *frustrated in his intention by the rope breaking. The unfortunate man was badly hurt by the fall, but the doctors called in reported that the worst feature of the case was the rush of blood to the brain, occasion- ed by the tightening of the rope. For some time past a strange look, accom- panied by fits of roe ancholy, had been noticed in connection with Mr. Rees, and his family and friends have been anxious on his behalf. In a ionaestic point of view Mr. Rees has had nothing to trouble him, having latety married a young wife, an excellent young lady. He has also been on the best of terms with all his family slid neighbors. There might, however, be a cause as- signed for Mr. Rees depression and sub- sequent insanity. Ever since his late respected father's death, Mr. Thomas Rees, who is a comparatively young man has had the management of the *lade estate, and the care of a large family placed on his shoulders. This, together with the fact that it was an - cording to the terms of his father's will, incumbent on him to raise. year, after year, considerable sums of money to be paid to different Members of the family, must have proved too great a strain on the young man, Should he recover, which is doubtful, the doctors recom- mend his removal to an asylum. Wiughara Advance advocates the advisability of the authorities of that town applying to Parliament for a special act to enable them to move the whole town site and all to Manitoba. This is urged. with a view to previmt its becoming entirely depopulated. Bpt, seriously speaking, there is not much danger of Winghatn or any of the other Ontario towns that are surrounded by such good farming districts. The exodus may be hard on them for a time but the tide will turn, and it will be contrary to all history or precedent if manyfef those who are now sacrificing their etioperty and prospects in Ontario to iush to the Northwest do not regret their haste, and a few years hence would willingly resume their old homes and occupations, if they could. —A wild cat has been creating quite sensation ot late in the vicinity of Ethel. Some of the boys saw it time and again until they resolved to have a chase after it, but did not have any success. On Wedneeday evening B. Tindalre dog commenced barking at a great rate in the barnyard. Then the Nichol boys and Tiudalls armed them- selves with a shot gun and lantern and went to the barnyard, when, rather to their surprise there was tlie wild cat and dog face to face. The dog, seeing the boys seemed renewed with courage went for the cat. Then ensued a most desperate fight, but the dog, getting the worst of it, the boys fired, but ow - bag to the dexknesa and excitement, did not hit the mark, 0,nd before they had time to reload the oat had left for the swamp. It has nut been see n since. 2