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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-03-10, Page 1AN & D 40 mAR°11 18s uN0AN t A_RE OFFE 'ekes, Black Cashmeres, Colored Cashmeres. French if English Dress [Fabrics, Black and Coiored [Lustros, eedingly low prices, to make km their SPRING IMPORT:te- a whioh are expected ii a. feW 4T8 I PRINTS I Huudred and Fifty Pieces (job} dea.red oat. New patterns, new iew colorings. ,IVIEROIDERIES. :Hundred Pieces to hand, from taper yard upwards. KID GLOVES. bine and other celebrated makes the• new shades. Silk, Lida, - and Cloth Gloves in grea.t ry Cottons, Plaiu and Twilled se, Piliew Cottons, Cetton :larpet Warps, at Mill Prices. :AILORING DEPARTMENT found c rmplete. Ail goods a first class style, and a fit CAN & DUNOANI URECT IMPORTERS. — — e first came here. He also - tented the ladies far acting trt se well, and showed them ,y have taker no small part in encetnent and prosperity of the - He strove to impress upon, Is of the yowler lathes the, nacos- :the/ming good, hard-werking, 3 ad honest hashande, and them against being too ready to e seledong looks of love. eII head aud heels into it with wlao always kept his hair the This, with his remarks an p, seemed to leave a very favor- rression -upon those for whose =benefit they were given. To - language of our eateenaed chair - lee feels somewhat edified after - a speech frona the Reeve.,' keeper, Mr. Samuel Reid, ehed the tea far the occasion., praiae for his liberality and se. I ara not much of a, judge ut it was sufficient to see sev- :ding their cups over to heve, led for the third or fourth time, ere smack their lips, sa.ying, am keepa good tett, any way," f thanks Were tendeted to the sa and others, who had aeeisted intellectual part of the pro - t and also te, the ladies who' rtiehed auch ample and rich mf provisions: Enough, must zi broneht to feed 300 people, el supply remained after feeding tL Let these ladies not forget Ir akin in preparing and their by iti dealing out the good as mach adcaired.—Cose. Zurich. ess CHANGES- —Arr. Robert Boa - hag for many years been e in Mr. D. Steinbach'e tin and sinesie has purchased it from Uleach exd is now ruuning it Cuatomere will find. Mr. always up to the requirements' itce and prompt in bueiuess.— johneton of this Flees' has r his entire business to Mr. New Duudee. Mr. Wiog ap- der an enterprising business will no doubt aucceedi in his ture. Mr. Johnston intends A short. nnipeg Speculatiorts. D. Burns, Esq., of c,boarg, -James F. Rolls ef Brightoe, daturday last. drought 90 feet Portage A.venue, corner of for e50,060. property (in gain street, 'appo- int! Aveeue, 41i- feet frontage, >th of lt;,, feet to Rorie street, ether dae sold by Mr. Joseph ldt. Joshua Cello -weer for $57, - Wolf purchased the property : for $40,000. Mr. Calloway is Hurenhie, having formerly ,Iritish. Exchange Hotel, God - n purchases of property have ie on Kahl arid Broadway tar the Hudson Bay buildings, -mg syndicate, composed of McColl, George Casey, M. Coyne, T. W. Kirkpatrick, C. O. Ermatinger. J. -M- , J. Fiaher, J. W. Scott, j. A. V. M. Gartahore. 3. N. Lee, Martyn. The value of prop- ased amcunts to about 112507 - lands exes iu the immediatee the large hotel which is to ted at once. Several of the who compose this synclicate GIATn in this section. FIFTEENT WEIOLE NU ER, 744. YEAR. / EDWARD CFAUL- WILL sHoW ma) WEEK A I \ SPLENDID LINE OF IIEW PRINTS —AT— TEN CENTS PER YARO. limy Yard Wide Factory Cottons —AT— TEN CENTS PER YARD.' TABLE 'LINENS —AT - 20 CENTS PER YARD. HANDSOME JAPANESE POPLINS —AT -- 12i CENTS PER YARD. IN* STOOK LARGE RANGE OF Denims, Ducks, shirtings, Cotton- ades, 'Pickings,c. PR' DUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. E. M eFA lu Leucorrhea and all ed by dieordere to the Ladies try it, it will sale by J. S. Roberts, Seadoxth. weaknesses cans - Female System; cure you. For Cardno's Block, The following additional Testimonials have been received by us without solici- tation. The below 8Absaribers are people of good Stantlitig in sooiety, and will gladly be interviewed or answer correspondence on the subject. From many hundreds of letters received, we select and submit the following:— Ten Years Afflicted. Toronto, December I1st. 1880.— Gentleinen,—At the time of the inva- sion in 1,866,1 was one of the Advance Guard at Germantown.. Through ex- I posure I got cold, whieh caused severe Pain in iny Back from Inflarnms.tion of the Kidnees. Fur the past ten years I have taken it:numerable medicines, but never fouucl muou relief until I, tried your Kidaey Pad; from the first day I put it on it gradually did me good. and to -day, (after wearing it two months), I am happy to state that I am completely cured. Please make this public), for the beaeftt of those who are afflicted as I was. Yours respectfully. Joian MItirg, Care of F. W. Coate & Co. r+m•••••••••=.,.. Had Piles Four Years Toronto, Ootober 20th, 1880.—Gent1e• men, --I have been afflicted with Piled for over 4 years, have worrj one of your Special Pads for two months and am Perfectly 'cured. Yours truly,—F. P. Beeriaees Track Superintendent Credit Valley Railroad. Made Well and Hearty by its Use. Galt, December 20th, 18801 Gentle- mea,--Ettving given your Kidney Pad it trial for the cure of Larne Back and. general Kidney derangement, and having been znade well and hearty by its use, I can conscientiously recom- mend it to those who are troubled. with the complaints above, as a reliable cure. It has rendered me a great service and believe that no one ca,u speak too highly of its wonderful merits.—j. N. SIPES. Painful Lumbago Cured, Gentlemen,—Your Kidney Pad cured lay mother of a very painful Lunabago of long standing in two weeks. Over SaVell mouths have now ela,psed since the Pad. was discontinued, with no re- turn of the disease. Obedienty yours, —JonC. CALDWELL. SEEDS ! WHOLESALE CO E.,rorything for the 0 Plower Garden No but —7—fresh, lid" seeds hi kiand for Price Lin. odk.M. Address— VJ SEEDS! AN D RE TA TT, farna, vegetable and koPil in stook. genuine, reliable sol41. Correspondence Invited Pearcel Weld ($r CO., LONDON ONTARIO. The A deputation representing the tario Salt Intere waited on the minion Govern 11 ent on Saturday to ask for the i is position of a upon foreign sal imported into country. The d:putation were received by Sir Leonard Tilley, Sir Charles Tupper, Sir Heo or Langevin and Mr., Bowel]. The de :ntation was composed of Messrs. Rig i tmeyer, Kincardine ; Kidd, Dublin; Platt a,nd Scobie, God- erioh ; Coleman, Seaforth ; and Rans• ford, Clinton. hey were introduced by Mr. Shaw, of South Bruce. The first speaker of t e deputation was Mr. Rightmey , who stated that he had hem eleven ears in Canada en- gaged in the salt industry, which was capable of vast p ssibilities, but did not receive fair play • nder the tariff. He had been a suppo ter of Mr. Blake, but when the Conser ative party proposed the National "'icy, vshioh, to his knowledge, had iseen attended with such splendid res tts in the States, he made every effort ti) secure the return of Mr. Shaw, and with others rejoiced at the defeat of t e MackenziwGovern- ment, which had permitted the kets of Canada to ibe occupied foreigners, to the • etripaent of our people and of ou ow4i interests. deputation repres:nte one-half mil of capital investe in t eir own ri and in addition, o e million had lost in connection with past operati Their chief difficu by was due to great quantities of salt whiole poured into Cana' a eel .half price f across the sea. e hed rook -salt of inameiase exten , lop feet solid depth, and despit the slanders to contrary, it was t e purest and bes the world, being dmirably adapted for ,-----.--..- :11 SEAFORTH) FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1882. MeLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a, Year, in Advance. t Interest; posed 600,000 tous of Nova Scotia coal On- could be brought into Ontario. Sea- Do- forth would take -30 oars, Clinton as a much, and Stratford 100 oars. duty t Sir Leonard Tilley—Would it be bet - this ter for you to get Goal dust free from the United States than to bring it up frhua Nova Scotia? Mr. Coleman—It would cost us $2.50 .per ton there, and with the changed rates we could bring it up as cheaply, frOin Our own mines, while Ohio coal is very inferior iu quality. The manu- facture of soda had attained enormous proportions in England, and practically none was made on this continent. The manufacture of soda could be carried on to great advantage in connection with our salt works if there was any in- ducem.ent, and the quality was as good as the English. In Goderich three- quarters of the salt works were idle. In Kincardine, Mr. Rightmeyer alone held out, and the works which Mr. Kidd had purchased from the Consolis dated Bank for $30,000, although they cost $275,000 would be sold' to a pur- chaser for 50 cents on the dollar. The ;industry wile in a very depressed con- mar- dition, and if some protection was not by accorded they would be compelled to own go to the wall. A. duty should be irn- The posed on foreign salt, the tfishermen's lion interests being provided for. ght been Sir Leonard Tilley replied that the , Ministers present would submit to their Ons. oolleagues the statements made, and the see what could be done; but he was were afraid they would uot be able to pay rem back the duty imposed on their exports beds , by a foreign country. in After thanking the Ministees for their the courteous reception, the deputation in withdrew. dairying and meat -during proces The prices had b en greatly redu in fact below a liv ng basis, and it ouly fair that th Government sho do something to •revent, the indu going cleen to the wall, which with aid was inevitab e. Wood fuel giving out, and he. ides was now v expensive,, being $ a cord, and duty and freight ade coal dust screenings; — anth &cite was the b — too exporter e. He mauuf Canada', ses. ded, Joe Banks. the well-known Toronto was comedia,u, died at Jacksonville, Florida, red on Monday. stry —The Duehese of Argyll, mother of out Lord Lorne, is lying dangerously ill in vtas London. —February. 1882 just closed,Was the ery the the warmest February ever recorded in and the Toronto Observatory. est —Tweuty two cendidates received ac- second class certincates at the military tared yearly 12,000 tons of.a and supplied A moue & Comps, the largest pork packers in the wo but had to meet 'aginaw prices, pay American due. which was $1 per bulk ton. He did not obtain machinery in OaLl da, and hadto pa duty on it; and under , all circa stance, the poli y which Engle adopted origieally production should When salt was dis they prevented im•ortation, and tin protection the ind stry had grown herculean proport ons, and this s was now sent to C nada as ballast half price, to the n ter ruin of Canadi producers, but wit protection the terest would beco" 0 strong, and p tection couldthen •e removed. Th had no objection to the entry of En lish salt free to fi:hermen, but ap from this the same • uty should be i posed on all foreie as was now i posed on American salt. In oppositi to therm they had t e vessel ballast i terest, and many •airymen and. me packers, but the prtjudices of the la ter were disappea ing, as the gre purity and uuequ lied excellence Canadian salt luta leen unquestionab established. Befor: salt was found Canada the Arne icans charged $2.50 a barrel, but hen Canada se was discovered it as placed -on t market at $1.76, 'an prices had sin been. reduced to $1, nd had lately bee as low as from 50 . to 60c At th price it could not be; produced, save a loss. The salt manufacturers wishe either to obtaiu protmtion or a refan of the duty which •he Americans im posed cne our salt when exported. H 000 last year o . If he did n he would be cone Canadian maxke ompetitione whic keen. r—Can you furnish as cheaply as they alt, school fel' the lower provinces'. —Mr. Abner Chase, prominent mem rld, - ber of the Society of Friends,1 died at and- Sparta last week, at the advalticed. age .60 of 98 years. his —A well known clerk of the Finance Department at Ottawa, has been placed yana. under arrest for obtaining money ander ha false pretences. —The farmers of West Yo forming a proteotive sooiety, t being to get high atid nnifor to encourage salt here be adopted. overed in England, k talk of object 11 prices der (for their produce. to —The Hear Iton moulders last week alt struck for hieher wakes, demanding an sit advance of 15 per cent. They Were ah offered 10 per eent and accepted it. —Mr. Stewart, SOD of A. T. Stewart, re_ of New York, has purchased from Mr. Donaldson, of Toronto, a pair of Can- ey g- adian bred horses, for $600. art —A Montreal post office clerk, who ne- has been 21 years in the service, has rre been arrested fee- steeling lettets. Sev- eral were found on him. on n- —Friday enorniug, in Brantford,three. at men. fell Vora a scaffolding 40 feet high. t. One of the:n had some ribs fractured. at The others escaped with slight injuries. of —Last Saturday aud Sunday, trains iv on the Intercolonial Railway, &Om Que- be' bec to St. John, N. B., were detained US for hours on anconut of snow drifts. lt Lang m uir, Inspector of he Prisons, states that the Central Prison ce • is almost self supporting. Last year the returns from ,prison labor amounted ia is to 857,000. at Archbishop Lynch leaves for Rome a the middle of this month, and will be a absent about three months. Before had. paid about $15 salt sent to Chicag supply that market polled to sell in the and increase the was already only to Sir Charles Tupp salt to pork paokers can get it elsewhere 11 ot t, Mr. Coleman —W can supply it about ten cents a sack less than foreign salt. - Mr. Rightmeyer stated that, at a modeeate oalculetio , the prosecution of this industry d ring the het ten years had saved the Canadians not less than $500,000 a yea , and as the people had so largely ben fitted, he thought that no objection - vs aid be taken to protection, which ould prevent th industry from bein destroyed. Th Canadian market s ould be preserved for Canadian salt, and a drawback equal to the duty on coal screenings, a all events should be ranted. He trust ed the Government oulcl see their way clear to granting so e relief. • Mr. Coleman, as regarded freights agreed with Mr. lt1 Cerny, that rail- Ry way competition was a necessity. He ask was obliged to pay $1 a barrel or $80 a car on the salt sent to St J h the return freight wa in the Maritime Pro ton, and he had paid falo $3.85 a ton, the $5.85 a ton at Seafor are NV turn per C end if th could profi easil even high. poun ronto the 5 hund duty on cortrse bags s on finer qualities, an this discrepancy won]. the rates on coal were his returu to Canada he will v sit Ire- land. --The lambs oftpver fifty ew s have already made their appearance at the Ontario Model Farm. This is larger number than ever beforte in the month of Februaly. —Mr. Jdel McLeod, ef Tharaesford, had all his fiegers cnt off but one, with .woodsawing 'machinery, which he was oiling up hest Thursday. It i feared he will lose his whole hand. —Dr. Tache Deputy-Ministe of Ag- riculture, will be superannuated at mid- summer. ilia actual time -of 1 years will be exteuded to 28, and heill re- tire, on an allowdance of $1,700 a year. —The Directors of the Car Works Compeny, at Kingston, have purchased 42 acres of lance near the Grand Trunk Railway station, at $100 per acre, and works will be erected thereon. —A number of new cheese factories will be erected in the coming spring in the various counties of the district of Quebec. Cheese making is largely on the increase in that Province. —The Toronto Public School Board.is moving for the erection of a statue in the , Normal School grounds of the late Dr. ersou. Outside Boards are to be 0 to co-operate. —Mrs. Simpson, of Whitby, has gone to Toronto to get relief from what her medical advisers, suppose to be a frog developed from a tadpole, swallowed in a qup of water taken from a pool. —Operations at the Canada Consoli- dated G ld Mining Company's property are beingconducted with, vigor. The main sh ft is down 200 feet, and the vein continues strong, whilst a rich find is reported. - —Last week one of the prisoners em- ployed in ,wheeling and grading near Central Prison, Toronto, attempted scape, but was promptly brought to shot fired by one of the keepers. Some of the Faxnharn merchauts into a uice little trap last week, ng coal oil. It appears that a uger has been in the habit of going , ana $24 a car. Coal hafts was $2.0 a last year in"Val- total cost being b. The salt men illingto pay $35 or $40 a car on re - freights, and he esired the freight ar on salt via ti e G-raud Trunk Intercolonial to 1 e fixed at $40, and e return freight as the same, coal he brought bac , and a large aud table trade lfoste ed Th y pay $4.50 a ton 54.75. The rai A charge of de was tnade fro/ , while for the tates the charge red. He did .1 y con t the for their coal, or , to e way rates were by a 0 cents per 100 — Seaforth to To- fell same distauce in bnyi was 2i• cents per stra 11 ot h ,ould be less than he hoped that be removed. If lowered as pro- . ere to sell coal oil whioh he repreei sented as smiaggled, and thus could heti, , sold cheap. The last time, as usual, he) ; came at night; but instead of oil he de- livered water in oil casks. The riser- ' • chants feel rather cheap over the mat- ter. The oil did not leak out but the story did in spite of them. , —Quebec timber merchants, now in Europe, state that most of them hive met with fair success in effecting sales, and a good number of oontradts are being , entered into for the coming season, —Father Labelle is circulating a pe- tition to -the Local Governmeet to build a railway to St. Agathe and on to Notre Dame de Desert, about 100 miles from Ottawa. tie claims it would open up 200 or 300 ,new parishes, —The gauge have returned from the Muskoka lumbering district. They eay it was a wretched. winter. It is antici- pated that "driving" will be poor this spring, owing to the scarcity. of snow to swell the streams. —While Hon. C. Weldon, M. P., was on his way to the House of Commons on Tuesday evening of last week, he was assaulted by a crank named Sulli- van, who, a- ter knooktng him down With a club, kicked him unmercifully. , —Mrs. J. . Kerr, of Toronto, sister of Hon. Edi ard Blake, died on Friday from the effects of a lanaentable mis- take. By the blunder of a servant car- bolic add was dropped in her ear in- stead of a lotion left by her doctor, and she died. of effusion on the brain. —A. man named Stewart Jamieson, formerly of Hamilton, was killed lately in Cincinna‘ti, Ohio. The landlord of the house where he was boarding, in a fit of auger, struck him 'a blow under the right ear, which resulted fatally in a short time. —On the seeond reading of the Bill in the Local House, to give unmarried women duly qualified votes on bonus by-laws, Mr. Mowat said he hoped the ladies would yet have votes in all elec- tions. —Two men entered the gas- works at Chabhamt on Friday night, and assault- ed the night watchman. They smeared a piece of paper with coal tannand put ft over his mouth, and knocked him. down. He gave the alarm, but the as- sailants escaped. — A lady living in Toronto has a pair of twins, one of whioh was born in 1881 and the other in 1882. One was born on the last day of December, his broth- er on the first day of January. There is but four minutes difference in their ages. — A young man named Fleming, who acted. as salesman or druggist's clerk to a firm in Strathroy, and also as tele- graph operator, in both of which inn sitions he was an adept, committed sui- cide by taking poison a few days ago. Whisky was at the -bottom of this, too. - Teronto carpenter, Abraham Briggselately arrived from Winnipeg, says that laborers' associations are in process of formation now 'in Winnipeg; that the rate for stonemasons and brick- layers will , be fixed at $7, carpenter's, $5, and corrimou laborers $3 per day. —The 4ne herd of Highland Black cattle atlEastview, Cooksiaire, Quebeo Province,the residence of Hon. J. El. Pope, is oue of the sights -of the village. Mr, Pope refused lately the large price of $1,500 for the best cow in the herd, from a, cattle dealer from the States. —Mr. Charles Conroy, of the Auditor General's department, at Ottawa, within two days last week lost four M.ouhtains during the early summer. They are engaged by a large land specu- lating company just organized in the city, who will expend about half a million dollars in the purchase of lan—Ar. Peter Redpath's reaiton for re- signitig his pdsition as director of the Bank of Moiatreal had no • other cause than his determination to reside per- manently in England, he having pur- chased the Manor House, Chiselhurst, said to be the seat recently occupied by the Emprese Eugenie.. —Mr. Reeben Powell, an elder in the Society of Friends; and formerly an active member of the old Reform Vigila,nce Odnamittee of York, died at Newmarket pn the 25th ult., at the age of 71. Mr. Powell was born in Whit- chureh. During hie long life he _has ever taken 84 deep interest ia municipal affairs. —A who had. been with the Oka Indians at their Reserde in Muskoka, sa,ys he found them 4nite contented wttla their lot. The hunting had been good throughout the season, and they were preparing for farming in the spring. Several of them will leave. shortly for Two Mountains to bring on the femiliee they left at Oka. —A. petititien which bears the singna- ture Of 300 residents of Elgin county, will be forWarded inernediately to the Minister of justice, praying for the re- lease of Sam ' Hawkins, who was four years ago sentenced to itnprisonment for life for the attempted assassination of hie wife and brother-in-law at St. ThOnias. —Sohn Wagner, living in Gosford, Esse e coanty, cOmplained to the police at Detroit the other day, that while -he was lie the city on Thursday afternoon he lost a new, overcoat, in the pockets of which were $230 in gold and bank notes; also a single -barrelled shotgun. He is on, hie way to Manitolaa and stopped over to "see the sights." —Mr. Thomas H. Ross, merchant tailor, Hamilton, while on his way to his shop on Saturday last was stricken by paralysis and fell prostrate and ,powerless. He suf- fered ho pain and was quite conscious but unable to move. Medical atten- dance was at once summoned, but the unfortunate man died on Sunday. —The exodus to Manitoba has glut- ted the Toronto market with property, and aecordingly there is a great decrease in sales. Speculators who can see into the future are availing themselves of the low prices,and are buying such farm and city property as promises profit. Many are so anxious to reach the Western El- dorado that they part with their lands at surprisingly low prices. —Parties who have just returned from Winnipeg, say that farmers and others going into Manitoba this I spring should leave their wives and children here till summer, as it is almost, impes- Bible to find a place to stop at. A man from New York went through the other day taking with him 300 large tents to sell to the settlers in the Northwest. , —A Montreal man, Julien Lefebvre, has arrived home from Winnipeg. He went to the Northwest six weeks ago, from Montreal, with a life's earnings, $1,200, and -speculated in lands. He lost and returns the owner of a few res hardly worth, he says, having as gift. This is the other side of the cture, and not so pleasant totcontern- plate as most of those pu —A touching instance f canine in- telligence and affection b just occur- red in Toronto, A gentl man of the west end of the city died bout ten days ago and was taken to t e Neoropolis Cemetery. He had owne a large New- foundland dog, which followed the hearers to the Cemetery howling piteous- ly. It has remained about the place ever since, though members of the family to whom it belongs have repeat- edly endeavored to coax it away. - —On Saturdayafternoon an 18 year oia daughter of the Superintendent of the Dominion Police, at Ottawa, rescued, from drowuing, a man and a team of horses. which had broken through the ice ou ttie Ortayra River. This is the third tittle the same young lady has rescued ° people from drowning. Last fall she, with the assistance of a young- s er sieter, Raved the lives of five young men who broke ;through the ice in the o same locality. —The heavy eains of last week caus- ed considerable damage at Warkworth, Northumberland Ceunty. The mill- dams were weehed away, causing con- 0 siderable injury to the mill property and adjacent buildings. Mr. Wm. G Bensley had a very narrow escape from T drowning while working at the ice jam R at the gates. The stables belonging to f the Daily house had the floors washed away, and not a little difficulty was ex- k perienced in saving the horses. na —Two young geutlemen,accompanied fe each by a servant, passed through To- ronto the, other day, bound for the Sas- ri katchewan Valley. where they intend to d briy two monster farms and carry on br stock raising on an extensive scale. th They had no end of luggage, guns, snow- se shoes, camps and camp -fittings, and ic each several dogs. One is M. Alfred. al Brighton, and the other Charles Edgar, X both of London, England, and both br it was learnt recently from Oxford. ITni- wi versity. ice —A couple were married by a minis- ed ter in Toronto a few days ago. When a 1 they had Signed the register they were no asked what denomination or religion bo they belonged to. They said that they ice were simply Christians, and persisted Th in the statement that they did not be- as long to any particular religion., They str were instructed to find out what re- ligion they professed, and meantime To the book was left blank. Subsequently it was aecertained that they were a Plymouth brother and sister. —Mr. Ogden, a Nova- Scotian mem- ber, arrived in the House on *Thursday afternoon, 2nd inst., having left home for the capital on February 2nd. After he got font miles from Canso the roads ac fine children from diphtheria, and the a eldest and only remaining daughter, pi nine years of age, is now Own and being attended to by two phys,iteians. —A few deys ago Mr. James Fisher, J. P., of Hyde Park, sold ten head of heavy fat cattle to Mr. D. McDougall, a drover, at 60. per pound, live weight. the best price known this season. The beasts average 1,400 pounde,and will be shipped to Liverpool. —The London township horse thief, who answers to the name of John Brunstead, was captured by Detective Hodge, on Suuday night, at Moore's hotel, about two niiles from St. Marys. The prisoner is a tall, stout built fellow, about 25 or 28 yew s of age. deputatien representing thou- sands of unemployed persons in Lon- don, Englapd, a few days ago, waited on the Lord Mat or, asking advice and eepecielly wirer regard to emigre, tion. The mayor advised them to cou- fer with Sir Alex. Galt, high commis sioner for 0amda. —The first sod of the Lambton Cen- tral Railway, was turned on Tuesday, at the Enniskilleu aud Plympton town - line. The promoters of the road will make every effort th have it completed this fall, and the connection made with the Grand Trunk in time for next sea sou'epetroleurn trade. —The returns fm the three feu tories managed by the Brownsville Cheese Madmfecturing Company show that 6,278 007 pounds of milk were made iuto 602.459 pounds of cheese. The cheese sold at an average of 11.18c. per pound, realizing from shipments 566,150.34, from patrene $1,197.80. —A deputation from the Quebec branch of the Dorniuion Alliance has been waiting upon the Provincial Treas- urer to request some legislation in the interests of temperance. The .Treas- • urer expressed a willingness to do any- thing so long as it would not affect the revenue. —A deputation of pilots from the Lower St. Lawtence waited on Sir John Macdonald andother ministers on Fri- day last, asking that their fees for pilotage service might be increased laY 15 per cent. Sir John Macdonald promised the consideration of the Gov- ernment would be given to the matter. -e-The late rains caused much dam- age'in Kiugston and vicinity, streams having overflowed and inundated con- siderable of the country. The canal embankment at Washburn would have been carried away, and probably the mills, had the villagers not turnel out in force and strengthened weak points. —A party of explorers, in Toronto, are fitting out for an expeditiot through the Saakatohewan Valley and through the timber limits toward the Rocky became so blocked up with MOTT that he had to return home, remaining until February 24th. On that day he set out with his laaggage on a hand sleigh, which he drew behind him for two days, making in all 32 miles. He says thet storm. was the worst experienced in Nova Seethe Some of the snow banks are 26 feet high, and one was ten feet higher than the telegraph polereg. —Two brown mares and a bay mare, all aired by the famous stallion Black - hawk, were recently imported from Montreal to Philadelphia. Duty was paid upon them as breeding mares, but it is assertr by the Custom House au- thorities t at the animals were brought there to be sold. There is considerable difference between the duty upon stook imported for sale and that on _ animals for breeding. The mares have been seized by the United States Marshal, and will be sold unless security is entered. — The blizzard on Saturday night in Manitoba. left disaster in its train. At Meadowlea, some 30 miles west of Win- nipeg, a house belonging to Mr. John Taylor was burned down, and his wife and three daughters were frozen to death, the body of one daughtet has not yet been found. Their hands and feet were frozen badly. Miss Reid, from Winnipeg, on a visit to the Taylors, kept close to the fire during the night, and in the morning went to a vacant house close by, where she was found, and is now in good hands. Her fingers and toes are slightly frozen. —The steamer Milanese, from Bos- ton, bound to London with 130 head of cattle and general cargo,putin to Halifax ou Saturday. Six days after leaving port, when 200 miles to the eastward of Cape Race, she encountered thick; foggy weather, fields of ice, and. also some very large ioebergs, and was in that po- sition for eight days endeavoring to clear hereelf In order to keep the ship afloat about 100 tons of cargo had to be thrown overboard. While the steamer was in the ice she stove in her bow, making a hole 18 feet long by 7 feet deep. The forward compartment of the ship is full of water and some of the cargo is slightly damaged. —About twelve o'clock, on Monday, a fire broke out in a dry goods store in Strathroy. The building was a brick one, and occupied by Heal's dry goods; R Diprose. groceries, and P. H. Ma- thew's tailor shop up stairs. Just as the firemen had the fire about under control, and nearly extinguished, and while a number of citizens and firemen were standing on the sidewalk in front of the building, the roof shot out into the street, carrying the front wall with it, and buried a number of those stand- ing on the street. A man named Ham- ilton Howe was instantly killed, and. a number of men dangerously injured. —John Bushell, of Notth Norwich, had a terrible experience recently while engaged at his occupation of well digging. He had sunk a well to the depth of eighty-six feet, and was on his knees cutting out the curbing, when a stream of gas broke through and burst into his face with a loud re- port. He shouted for the rope. The gas took fire from his lighted candle, and he was in the midst of flames. Re- taining his presence of mind in this awful position, he fought the flame from his -face with his hat. The rope was lowered rapidly, and he was drawn up with hie life safe, but severely burned about the hands, arms, face and neck. —A correspondent of the Globe in Winnipeg writes to say that the Syndi- cate's lands are in brisk demand by settlers and speculators, and that the same is true of Government and Hud- son Bay Company's lands. A large influx of immigration is expected in the spring and summer, and therefore new immigration buildings are to be erected at once at Brandon and Winnipeg The contract for ,these buildings is ih the ' hands of Mr. Grant, of Toronto. During the coming season a number of fine vessels will ply between Winnipeg and Edmonton, carrying freight and passeegers and settlers to the intermedi- ate points. —The following is a list of surveyors o far appointed to the charge of the Dominion lands surveys for the season f 1882 :—Edgar Bray, Oakville; Thomas Drummond, Montreal; 0. J. Klotz, Preston; Wm. Ogilvie, Ottawa; W. F. Thompson, Cannington ; P. R. A. Belanger, L'Islet ; A. F. Cotton, ttawa ; Thomas Fawcett, Uffington ; ernes F. Garden, Toronto; T. S. ore, Gore's Landing; Tom Kains, St. homes; C. F. Miles, Toronto; G. C. aiuboth. Aylmer; 3. G. Sing, Mee- ord ; Hugh Wilson, Mount Forest ; harles E. Wolff, Ottawa; F. W. Wil - ins, Belleville. It is understood that oreappointmentswill be made in a wdays. —A large Newfoundland dog was car- ed over the American Falls on Settle - ay, and succeeded in getting to the ice idge below, but got so jammed among e ice that he could not extricate him - if. From the weakened state of the e bridge, people could not rescue him, though several attempts were made. uxt morning the whole of the ice idge was carried away, and the dog th it. He stuck to a large piece of ,and floated down the rivenand pass - under the Suspension bridge, where arge number of people witnessed the vel sight. When the dog and his ice at reached the Whirlpool Rapids, the crumbled into a thousand pieces. e dog made a bold. attempt to swim hore, but the current proved too ong for him. —A Winnipeg correspondent of the ronto World gives a little sensible advice to those intending to go to that great city. He says,—Avoid your friends, if they deal in real estate; for when they have been here a short time i they lose all sympathy with their fel- 1 lowmen, and they are only looking for- ward to make their pile and get mit sec- ond. If you come to speculate, you will have to bring not less than $10,000, and then you have no sure thing; if one is seeking employment there will be no _ trouble, as there will be plenty of work to be done this summer, and, althoutgh labor will, be plentiful, and wages good, you must also consider that living will be in proportion, as you cannot get any kind of board and lodging here for less than six dollars per week—that is the cheapest board you can get here at private, and there is none vacant at that. —A sad phase of the social evil came to light in Toronto the other day. A gifted and bettntiful girl, who recently passed successfully the second•olass ex- amination for a non-professiopal cer- tificate as a teacher iS uOW an inmate of a house of ill -fame on Adelaide - street. When she left her houae last fall, it was with the intention of enter- ing the Normal School at Toronto, and her friends were not aware that she was employed otherwise than in pre- paring for for her profession of teaching. Recently she was seen at the house in question by a yoeng man, who had known her as one of the most charming girls in the western village to which she belonged. He will acquaint her family, who are eminently respectable, of their favorite idaughter's sad fall. The girl taught school two years. What led her to her present mode of life is not known. —The remains of the late Roderick Fraser, a native of Kenyon, Glengarry, who was killed. by lightning during a thunderstorm, near Brandon, last sum- mer, were brought down recently for in- terment in Brookside Cemetery. It will be remensbeeed that a number of men were at work on the Canada Pa- cific Railway, some 12 miles west of Brandon, on the 30th July last, when a severe thunderstorm came on, forcing them to seek shelter in a convenient spot close by. The lightning struck the group, instantly killing Roderick Fraser and Wm. Sutton, besides seri- ons4 injuring several other men. The two men killed were interred at the time on the prairie, but Malcolm Fraser, a brother of one of the deceased persons, had the body raised and brought to Winnipeg, where it was buried. Fraser was an -unmarried man of 27 years of age, respectably connect. ed and highly esteemed amongst his fellow workmen and also in Glengarry —An amusing incident occurred at Toronto on the 1st inst. Just as the Manitoba excursion train was steaming from the Great Western depot. Two intending settlers, after having presum- ably gone up town to see the traditional "man," missed the train by about fifty yards. They were wild with excite- ment over the situation. Some sympa- thizing bystanders suggested that they run for it ; others thought they might catch it in a ba -ch. But the distressed pair took no heed of the 'suggestions. An express wagon standing by had caught their gaze, and, without hesitat- ing a moment, they jumped on board, lashed up the horse, and went tearing away after the receding train like mad, amid the cheers of admiring on -lookers, but to the intense annoyance of the. driver of the vehicle, who had been - thus deprived of his rig without leave or license. They, however, caught the train at the foot of Simooe street. Be- fore boarding it they left the horse and wagon in charge of a railway employe. Both the Great Western and Union stations were crowded, but no accidents were recorded. —William Whelpton, of Ethel, in the township of Grey, intends going to the Northwest shortly. He will locate near Brandon, where he has taken U13 land. —The Exeter Times of last week says: "The Rev. Mr. Macadam, who has occupied the pulpit in Cavell Pres- byterian Church in this place during the past few months, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday last to a large congregation. He goes to Strath - Toy, having accepted a call from the Presbyterians of that town. During the reverend eentlemanci sojourn in Exeter he has done much for the ad- vancement of affairs in connection with the Presbyterian Church in thie place. Being an ardent worker in the cause of religion, he spared no pains in trying to instruct his congregation re- garding their relation to God, and strougly impressed upon their minds the duty they had to perform as Chris- tians. He also took a deep interest in the young people of the church, and met them frequently for the purpose of teaching the German language, and in- structing them in other matters per- taining to every day life. Mr. Mac- adam, although only in Exeter a short time, had formed the acquaintance of a large number of people. We feel con- fident that the people of Strathroy will find in him an efficient pastor," —We last week published an extract from a Dakota paper- to the effect that Mr. Alfred Brown, a former prominent resident of Morris had been guilty of some questionable transa,ctions and had got himself into trouble thereby. In a recent issue of the Scotland, Dakota, Citizen, a paper published in the town where Mr. Brown resides, we find the following. We repeat what we stated last week: “All the parties named in the Journal article live in Dakota (as- suming that A. j. Brown. & Co., means Alfred Brown), and can be found at home any time they may be called on.' Mr. Brown has notskipped.. He is and has been right here in Scotland, and emphatically states that he has no no- tion of "skipping" or of evading any charge that may be brought against him. No officers from Racine or else- where have been in Scotland to arrest "Brown and his pug ;" no requisition papers have been issued, and probably will not be, as it is not clear how a man can be taken to Wisconsin and tried for an alleged offence committed in Da- kota.