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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-04-14, Page 1APRIL72 1882 ememeasetse & Duncart„ GRAND ROOM OPENINC —ON— ay & Saturday 6114 AND &T}-. iglish and Americen Pat - lets and Hats. Alao, ail e, Satin,. Crape and Lace Bonnets- in the New [ga. ring promises to be an nal season for FLOWERS have eclipsecl all their iS il1 producing the most seiecially ROSES 84 BUDS, passingly beitatifuL Our of, Ostrich and Fancy ces, Ribboes, Jet Trim - Ornaments, tat., is very riow complete, compria- try Goods, Dress Goedise uslins, Prints, Cretonnes, arrange, Ducks, Denim; Speoial attention is call - g& stock of. Lisle, Lace, Kid- Gicetea ; La,cliesa ELIA e rench, German and VED TO -DAY ED COATINGS ID MUSH TiVEEDS, a Importations. [9 Department is 12.920 and Entire Satisfac-- xnteed„ lk.OUNGAN- - ;T IMPORTERS., perty was, asseased last only worth 018,000, and Wo witeesses,not experts; A _ icing the ratepayers that Vested one half of what ) er which he took their ; il him to do, and friilly' evidence by the co leery suit last spring. If arty was to be valued by the purpose of getting it is most likely the value great rise within that t RTAINMENT. — The 3 rd a gave their dramat' a on Wednesday evening1 charactens in the plays arried out, and thcertai let it edit on those taking art nd in general. he very good, and *Aft ' members of the band. i fall, and. the proced eys quite a lift, and We ng they will give tis a. They will give the ment at Wroxeter on 13th inst., and vre- - he pi:deli° will be wdll • l„ Good opening here foir * ;charIn .—Several fa. iliea the village this tveek.— tuce more bad, and tc6,ae r quiet.—Miss Carlisle, t late Samuel Carlisle, at id dress -making in the vacatedi by 1Ir. J. Clark, whe has for t been in the emplo of , hatcher, left for Ijon - y, to ioin his rata yes v. A. Y. Hartley del ver- tetUre OR "Anglo Isr el," Hall, on Mo day d. inst.—Mr. T. Mar oak. ieper, is this week °vs eremiees, WeIlIl*ton t frame building situated air village, and formerly 'Wm. Cartiale. We are ern that Mr. Mind ers he increase and rcqire datio z;,—The exodus to the continnee, although, the -there are soraewhal di .it i5 remarkable that,- iny have of late left, our continues to grow t we have little dor.bt ery short time, we wilt raany inhabitantt ag western fever broke out, � would seem eg has it, “the bac ace of another" an y imagine himself, rs to be a great s arch or State, it is revoking, to realize - really missed, and aces are filled by ot le the world goes jo ;hat it is so. I G • 1 rue" d al - be y or on - ow ovt erg, 114 FIFTEENTH YEAR. 'WHOLE NUMBER, 749. 1 11 SEAFORTH, Fl“ AY, APRIL 14, 1882. McLEAN BROS., PublisherB. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. E 0 IN& cI41AUL'S COLUMN. Ia stock Plain and Fancy Prints, Embossed Print, Bordeted Prints, Colored Sateens, Oatmeal Cloths, White Cottons, Grey Cottons, Pillow Cottons, Twilled Sheetings, Towelings, Tablings, Crumb Cloths. McFaulls Column. ' Denims, -Dneks, Shirtings, Cotton, Ides, Tickings, Stair Linens, Hessians, Black Cashmeres, Mourning Goods, Black Silks, Colored Silks, Black Satins, Colored Satins, Plain Dress Goods, Fancy Dress Goods. McFaurs Column. Fringes, Laces, Gloves, Hosiery, Rib- . bons, Collarettee, Ruchings, Buttons, lowers, Wreaths, Feathers, Orna- ment, Bugle Lams, Bugle Trimmings, Lace Caps, Hats and Bahnets. WE STUDY THE INTERESTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS AS Well as Our Own. E. 1114au1, Seaford', • Successor to Messrs. A. G.. McDougall & Co., Seaforth. What .r ysicians Say About the Starr Kidney Pad. Treat ent by absorption has for some time b en recognized by medical men to be he most simple and effectual means of conveying to diseased organs curatives, but in cases of kidtiey disease and complaints attendant thereon, RUC- opasful treatment was practicably im- ssible until the introduction of the tarr Kidney Pad. It costs less than a single persoription, and is immeasur- ably more decisive and effective than any quantity of interned medicinal dosing. Worn immediately over the seat of disease, its curative properties become absorbed by the diseased and enfeebled organs, contianously eald directly, as required to insure in re- turn their healthy action and original vigor. It is comfortable to the patient and pleasant in its effects, and cures when nothing else can. The Starr Kidney Pad accomplishes positive, dee' cisive results. A more valuable dis- covery as a true remedy for Kidney Diseases was never made.--tIledical Gazette. The following additional testimonials heve been received by us without so- licitation. The below, subscribers are people of goad standing in society, and will gladly be interviewed or answer correspondence on the subject. From inany hundreds of letters received, we , select and submit the following: Ten 'Years Afflicted. Toronto- December 218t, 1880.—Gen- tleinen—At the time of the Invasion in 1866, I was one of the advance guard at Germantown. Through exposure I got cold, which caused severe pain in ray back from inflammation Of the kid- neys. For the past ten years I have taken innumerable medicines, but never fonad muoh relief niatil I tried your Kidney 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 tared. Please make this public, for the benefit of those who are afflicted as I wale Yours respectfully, Joan NUNN, care of F. W. Coate & Co. For sale by J. 5. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth. Had Piles Four Years. Toronto, October 20th, 1880.—Gentle- ]nen,--I have been afflicted with piles fee over 4 years, have worn one of your special Pads for two naonths and am perfectly cured. Yours Truly, F. P. Bac:manes, Track Superintendent C. V. R. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Driaggist, Seaforth. THE SUNNY SOUTH. A HORONITES OPINION OF GEORGIA. Mn. EDITOR,—Sir :—Thinking that a few lines, descriptive of what I have seen in may travels in this country,may be of interest to your readers, I make bold to send you this for pubhoation :— On my way from Atlanta to Griffin, a towel of some six thousand inhabitants, about forty miles Maher south, the plantations, as the Southerners call them, appeared to lack that neatness and thrift which characterises the rural districts in the northern States. The sinaLer stations, as we rapidly passed them, seemed anything but homelike and inviting, and were invariably at- tended with a crowd of negroes, who were lounging about, merely to pass away the time. Arriving in Griffin, ap- pearances were rather depressing; everything looked old-fashioned, dingy, and unattractive ;---the "old oaken bucket" hanging aloft in the very centre of its business streets, which are wide and hilly, with very poor walks and poorer accommodation. There are, however, a few very good public build- ings, such as the normal school and good substantial churches. I learned that property of every description here had greatly depreciated in value, and that would-be sellers were more numerous than buyers. The people, however, feel hopeful that a better state of affairs awits them on the oompletion of two new railways, now projected, forming connecting lines east and west. I find the southern people very kind-hearted, entertaining and friendly, and one soon begins to feel at home after a short ac- quaintance. I called on the editor of the Daily News, and obtained a great deal of information in regard to fruit growing in this eectiou of Georgia. There are many large peath rorch ids in this neighborhood—without doubt the largest in the world—one owned by a Mr. Cunningham, six miles south of this place, containing five hundred acres, and other orehards in various places from one hundred to four hun- dred acres. Mr. John H. Parnell, brother of the Irish agitator, has an or- chard of some five or six hundred acres, about fifteen miles from here. He visited this neighborhood ebout a week before • I arrived, on his way back to Ireland, having accumulated already some $20,000 in the peach business. He was a, guest of W. W. Woodruff, Eq., a well known and influential fruit grower two miles north of Griffin, with -Whom he had about concluded arrangements for planting out next season another or- chard of 800 acres. ,Mr. Woodruff has already about 200 ' acres in fruit -10 acres of Concord grapes, several acres of plums, 3,000 or 4,000 pear trees, and 50 to 75 acres of peaches, all in full bear- ing. Fruit trees grew much more rapidly in Georgia, and bear much earlier than in Canada. Peach trees bear say from a half peak per tree the third year after planting; they continue to grow intaze and fruitfulness till they reach the size of full grown apple trees, covering the ground 20 feet apart. Ow- ing to the dwarf habit of the -trees in the north, the usual distance - apart is from 10 to 15 feet. Mr. Woodruff may • be considered the pioneer in -fruit grow- ing in this section of Georgia, having commenced operations about ten, years ago, and has already accumuleted a pretty good fortune. His farm was the t was a refreshing ight to one who had rst I visited after paving Griffle ; and nly a few days ago left the 'snows and ice and sleet of Canada, to be ushered into a region of almost perpetual spring and summer, with extensive fields of peach trees in fall bloom, as far as the. eye could reach, the balmy air made fragrant with its blossoms, and seethe acres of pear trees just bursting their buds, the plum and the apple following in their unmistakable evidence of a bounteous return of golden fruit to re- ward the -p -I was going to say laborer— but, no l—the proprietor, for his 'enter- prise. All the laborer gets is his h4e- cake and bacon. The negroes are ra- tioned. as yOu Would ration a mule Or a horse—one peck of meal and three ad a half pounds of bacon per week, a cab- in to live in-, and $10 per month for his family. There seems to be a surpl s of labor here, as many are quite ide, and are in consequence exposed to t e danger of becoming dishonest. Nes, ly all the °rim. Male are negroes. Th generally live from hand to mouth, having no faculty of laying up a sto for future need, and there are very few of this class who even oan hope for an't- thing better than to be also able to pip - titre employment for a mere pittan e. The planters have generally large far s of hundreds of acres, which yield the but little return. As they are not alo custorned to work the land themselv s, they hand it over to the negroes n patches for a certain share of the cott n crop, or hire hands by the month, who very imperfectly cultivate the soil ; arjd by growing cotton in tar is way, year aft year, with:out a rotation of crops, as t the north, the land becomes less a d less adapted to that staple, until it a worn out, and needs expensive fertili ers. Most of the corn consumed in th s state is imported from the west, n t that Georgia cannot grow.it profitabl , but because the people are absorb id with ootton growing, to the exclusion f almost everything needed for ho e consumption. I saw a planter the oth r day corning from town with a bale ,f hay for his mule. I asked him what se paid for it, he replied $1.50 per 101 ! That is at the rate of $30 per to.. There are no currants raised, and not berries enough for home supplies, utile s it is the wild blackberry, whiah gro s abundantly everywhere, and is gathe and sold very cheaply by the negroe . As I told you in a former letter, that apples were not raised here in a suffici- ent quantity for the needs of the cone - try, although all the above fruits will grow to perfection here. Yu will thus me what an opening the e is at the • present time for men of enterprise to come Routh and supply the country with these great luxuries. Recollect I am now speaking of the negligence of southern planters in gener- al. There are many noble exceptions, however, to the rule—men here of enter- prise and judgment, who areef late striving manfully to turn the tide of custom, and are slowly but stalely bring- ing about a new era in this respect. I noticed a field of barley that stood about knee high, green and luxuriant, almost ready to head. Wheat and other grebe are not killed out in patches by the frost, as at the north, but invari- ably cover the ground. Mr. Kellar, a young man from Ohio, is now setting out 60 acres in grapes. Mr. James Beatty, an old planter, and a neighbor, is dividing up his farm of 400 acres to sell to fruit men, and is himself setting out 50 acres of peaches. Others are doing likewise, and a nucleus of fruit - growers have already concentrated here, with unsurpassed facilities for shippieg fruit to northern cities. Fruit raising for the early supply of the north with the choicest fruits is but just in its. infancy, and must. now develop rapidly, as every encourage- ment is held out to every one embark- ing in the enterprise. The soil is rich ard unsurpassed for fruit,•and may be had from $10 to $25 per acre; labor cheap and abundant; climate healthy; summers cooler than in Canada, while - the winters are much warmer. Last winter, which was the severest ever known, ice formed only about ttvo inches thick, and only remained a few days. Last Bummer, which was usually hot, hot, the thermometer stood 96 one day in August, and then 85; while in Canada it reached as high as 104, and stood at 96 to 100 for nearly three weeks in August and September. There is plenty of good soft spring water in almost,, every field. The, nights during sumnaer are 'always cool, owing to the high altitude of this sec- tion of the country. The highest ground in the state, except the moun- tain peaks is right here -1,105 feet above the' sea; Atlanta, 1,035; Griffin, 975; Macon, sixty miles south, 332, ahd Milledgeville, 264, which is rather warm and unhealthy, with poor gray sandy land and very poor water. After tbis it slopes rapidly, and the country is a vast pine region, affording great fa- cilities for lumbermen, who are driving an extensive business in this line. In the direction of Augustat about 400 miles east of this, the altitade is only 147 feet; - Bald mountain, 4,718; Stone mountain, 1,700. I will compare the . altitude of a few other cities farther north, so that you may know t how high tItis section of Georgia lies: Cincinnati, &40; Indianapolis, 618; Chicago, 600-; Detroit, 5, 7; Buffalo and St. Cath- arines, of ourse, a little loWe . On la clear mor ing I have' dis 'n tly seen Stone m untain from M . !Betty's, which - is upwards ef 50 Mika in a etraight 1 ne. The erbps ield abun- dantly. he number of w rking days through° t the year are alm at as many again as i the north!, and of couree much more can be acotmpli hed,' with- out exercising undue haste in harvest- ing and preparing crops, tri ming trees 'nd vines, and storing frtii and vege- bles safely for the winter. And last, ough not least, the fancy prices ob- t 'lied at the notth • for everything rais- e here on account of its earliness and • perior quality. The Concord gralpei fo instance, raised here, being mach s perior in. size and flavor to the saJme vilriety raised in the north, and 'so of eitery other variety of grapes as well as p aches. Now I will dote this letter b giving you a little insightats to the fancy prices obtained here last season. Mr. Parnell took a wagon load of peaches to the station destined for New York, and judged he would receive for the same from $300 to $400, being his first shipment of the early Alexander. Judge his surprise when he received in about a week a, cheque frtna his agent there for these Remo peaches for $1,200. P. J. Berkman, of Augusta, shipped Alexander peaches to New York May 30, and received .upwards of $32 per bushel. Some crates of the Chinese Cline averaged 11 cents per peach whdesale. I imagine I notice an in- credulous smile lighting up the coun- tenances of your numerous readers at this extraordinary statement, and I would not dare to give it to them on hearsay. As I have no private pur- pos to serve by endeavoring to mislead, but only desire to give you these plain facts for the information of those who. may be interested, perhaps I cannot, in a more satisfactory manner confirm my statement than to give you a short ex- tract from the proceedings of the Geor- gia State Horticultural Society, a copy of which I have in my possession. The President, in his opening address, says: "The first shipment of peaches arriving in New York this year (1881) were from Georgia, and the extraordinary price of $32 per bushel was paid there 011 June 1st," &a. Yours truly, E. S. L. GREFITN, Georgia, March 3rd, 1882. Canada, A farmer near Fenlon Fallanamed John Gillis, has fallen heir to $50,000. —The employees of the Credit Valley Railway have formed a sick benefit so- ciety. —Hanlan commenced training on the, Thames Monday for his race with Trickett on May 1. —A party of 70 children from Glas- gow are expected at the Marchmont Horne in Belleville. —Nearly all the cheese factories ie the neighborhood of Belleville have• commenced operations. — Rev. J. M. King, Presbyterian, To- ronto, has had the title of Doctor of Divinity conferred upon him. - — At the Elgin Assizes, on Wednet1- dey, in the case of Nelson Breyer vat. the Canada Southern Railway, an se - tion to recover damages for the destruc- tion of plaintiff's y and straw stacks, on the 30th of An at, ceased by sparks from defendants ocomative, a verdict wag given for th plaintiff; damages, —A church edi e for wbrshiping in by the French aptists, is about to be built ,in Mon eel, at a cost of $10,000. — His Excellenc , the Gbvernor-Gen- ' eral, and suite, vi ited Niagara Falls during the end of at week, remaining over Sunday. .. . —Dr. Wild, of 'ronto, has delivered 72: lectures thro hout the Province since October last For several weeks :he delivered five eek. —The Hamilto agent of the Tem- perance Colonize on Society is now asking $2.50 per at) e for land in the . Northwest—an int ease of 50 cents. —Tom- Thumb and wife are again making a tour of his Province. The little man must be becoming quite a veteran now. — Mr. James Smith, of Walkerton, has shipped twen ry oar loads of pota- toes to Detroit. Ez oh car load weighs on an average 2T 000 potinds—or 500 bushels. _ —It is supposed a man, was burned in Tolton's mill t Actoh on Friday morning, as the erred remains of a human skeleton w e found among the debris. _ , , —W. H. Berney, postmaster at Mill - grove, took an over ose of laudanum on Sunday to produ e sleet,. A dootor was called in, and he man is now re. ocYvering. 1 i t—In a free fig t at & place called Bullock's Corners near Hamilton, on Good Friday, Tho as Maths had a portion of his right ear bitten off, Joseph Bart being the caunibal. 1 —Rev. S. J. El nter, pastor of the Elm street Method'st Church, in To- ronto, has been inv ted to accept the : pastorate of. Grace! Church, Winnipeg, at a handsome salary. —The other night a Million and a half Of lively young white &Wings were brought down from tho Sandwich Fish - Hatchery, and depoeited in Lake On- tario, near the mouth of the Niagara River. 1 —The Licensed Yietuallers' Coloniza- tion Society has been granted 17 town- i3hips for colonization purposes in the Northwest Territory, whieh is under the operation of the prohibitory liquot -law. . L —Mr. Walter Buchan, 14e of • Dine ,ham, recently sold his; farm and .started for Manitoba. Befire rettohing -there, however, he lost th t balanee of his reason and had to be detained in an aolum near St. Paul. i —,On the night of the 6th inst., Mr. John. Lee, Jr.; who lives three miles .nth of Lyndon, in the county of Wijntworth, had six head "of cattle . and fcjr horses killed by lightning-% -while la riding in the.stables. , . , ! a -The Post Office authorities have .de ided to place" poetal ,cars on, the ic 0 edit Valley and Toronto, Grey & 13 Uce Railways. ; These lines have hitherto not been i permitted to carry m O. . On Wednesday night of last week a young man' abont 16 years of age, by tile name o :, WM. Car; working i workng 'n a sew Mill, w s killed at Tweed, in the eclunty. of H stinge, by falling on one of the saws. 1 i —Five hundred and fifty immigrants arrived at Montreal on Wednesday of last week, from Halifax, en route ' for Ontario and the west. ,On the same day 400 persons left by special train on the Grand, Trunk for Manitoba. . —The funeral of the late R. S. Rob- lin, who !died in Brandon, Manitoba, took place op Sunday last at Pioton, and was attended by 2,000 people. The remains were buried in Glenwood Cem- etery with Masonic honors. ' . —After a severe illnees, Martin Dar- sey, of the Roman Line, Biddulph, died .suddenly on Sunday night, the 2nd inst, abont ten o'clock. He was buried on Tuesday. Martin McLaughlin has just recovered from a severe illness. , —At a wedding held a few days ago in the township of Kinloss the clan, McKenzie, was well represented, there being no fewer than nine gentlemen_of that name with their better halves present. —A large number of imported cattle, which have been in quarantine at Levis for some time past, have left by special train on the Grand Trunk Railway for Mr. Cochrape's cattle ranche at Bow River, Satakatchewam, Manitoba. —Mr. George Wilson, of the 2nd line, Dorchester, has a lamb which came on Good Friday, and which weighs fifteen pounds good. weight. Several of the neighbors affirm that it is the heaviest laMb they ever saw. —Hoe. J. He - Pope, Minister of Agri- culture, has given the necessary in- struetions to admit cattle subject to quarantine at the port of St. John. Hitherto all imported cattle for New Brunswick have been quarantined at other ports. —The Manitoba Southwestern Rail way Company, is said. to have complet- ed 52 miles of railway, and gives no- tice that it will be open for traffic on April 15th. This entitles the company to receive 6,400 acres of land per mile from the Government. --The -Allan steamship Scandina- vian from Portland, via. Halifax, ar- -rived at Glasgow on Monday, and landed her live stock shipment of 390 oxen and 120 sheep in good order with the exception of one ox and four sheep which died on the passage. —The Synod of -Hamilton and Lon- don met last Monday in Knox Church, Ingersoll. The sessions of the court are expected to occupy the greater part i of the present week. The Synod is composed of nine Presbyteries and some 400 ministers and elders. —The grist mill at Georgetown, be- longing to Messrs. G. #k E. Polton, was destroyed by fire on Friday morning, together with 100 barrels of flour arid about 3,000 bushels of grain. The mill was secrirely locked theprevious night, and when the fire was discovered the front door of the -mill was found stand- ing open. The fire was probably the work of an incendiary. Loss about $7,000, partly povered by insurance. —Clarence -Smith, of Walkerton, has agreed to sign the articles for; a five - mile, heel -and -toe walking match with James O'Hagan, of London. It is to take place at Walkerton on May 16th, for a purse of $100 • $50 a side, D. C. Sullivan, of the Teescope, is the stake- holder. —The sudden death on Monday morning from measles of Mr. A. F. McNab, an enterprising. citizen of Winnipeg, and son of Mr. Arch. Mo Nab, ex -M. P. for Glengarry, has cast a gloom over the 'city. Heart disease is supposed to have been the real cause of his death. --James Chute, the Norfolk 'County School Teacher, who was committed' to the Central Prison for 15 months, for attempted outrage on one of his pupils, the other morning received his 'first in- stalment of lashes. Chute received 20 lashes, and will get the balance in three months. — Mr. James Whitehead, of Blen- heim township, near Canning village, has purchased the adjoining farm be- longing to Mr. John Swan, forI; $4,000. It contains some 65 acres in a v ry high state of cultivation. Mr. Whitehead has novt one of the best farrna!in the township. —Messrs. R. & G. Stricklitnd, of Lakefield, the purchasers \of the Do- minion Bank limits in the County of Victoria, have taken out during the last winter 6,000 pieces of timber mid logs to the extent of ten and a half millions of lumber. It is estimated that this is about a tenth of the production of the whole limit. —A poor man in the city of Kingston named Lewis, some time ago made a claim upon the American Government for a pension, he having served and been crippled in the American war. The claim has been allowed, and on. Wednesday he received $2,000 in cash and papers which will entitle him to $12 a month in future. —It is said that Mr. Wm. Dickie, a one-time resident of the Dickie settle- ment,- North Dumfries, and who re- moved to New Zealand some fifteen years ago, is on his way to Canada ac- companied by his son John and his daughter Maggie and her husband. The trip has been undertaken for the benefit of their health. — The Chatham Banner says :—Be- tween the 20th and 27th of last month 37 resident, of Kent county left for the Western States to become permanent residents; 29 went to Dakota, six to Colorado and two to Kansas. Several of these people were men with families, so that the actual number of emigrants was nearly double that stated. —At a largely attended meeting held at Portage la Prairie the other day strong resolntions condemning the Do- minion Government in the matter of the disallowance of the Provincial railway charters and the frequent changes in land regulations and timber laws were passed. The meeting was composed of people of all shades of po- litical opinion. —Mr. Lewis Coryell, of East Whitby, gives the following as a cure for the pea, bug :—Mix thoroughly one gallon of coal oil with 25 bushels of pees, one month before seed time, and the abject is accomplished. He says he bas al- ready doctored 1,600 bushels for this season's seeding, and says if every farm- er would adopt this plan the bug would soon be exterminated. —John McLeod ah e pioneer merchant of Kincardine, lately left for Portage la Prairie, Man., where he purposes erect- ing a store and going into business. Mr. McLeod carries with him the re- spect and esteem of the entire towo,and in fact of the whole country side where he has been so long known. All will be glad to hear of his prosperity in the land of much promise. —A very estimable lady, and orie who has long been a resident of Ayr, Mrs. Dolman, was called to her rest early on Sunday morning, 2nd inst., at the ad- vanced age of 79 years. Deceased was the mother-in-law of John Watson,Esq. Her many Christian virtues and kind- ness to the poor, find a place in the memory of many whom she luta left be-. bind. —The dwelling -house and barns of Mr. Solomon Smith, on the Lake Road, township of Louth, about two miles from Port Dalhousie, were totally de- stroyed by fire about noon on Sunday. The chimney took fire, and the sparks caught in a cupola on the house. The contents of house and barn are almost a total loss, The amount of insurance has not been learned. —The amount expended for mainten- ance and working upon the Government Telegraph Line from Selkirkatlanitoba, to Fort Edmonton, Northwest Terri- tory, in the six years ending with June last, was $96,804. Upon the Telegraph line from Selkirk to Winnipeg, $2,333 had been expended. No revenue what- ever was obtained from them up to the date named, but since June some 0460 has been earned. —A despatoh from Halifax, Nova §cotia, dated the 10th inst., says :-- The first large party of English colonists for Manitoba, numbering upward of 500, ariived yesterday in the steamer Circassian. They left by special trains for the Northwest last night. They carry with them cash aggregating five hundred thousand dollars. It is nnder- stood the steamer Peruvian, the next weekly boat from England, will bring about 1,000 more.- -Mr. C. Askew, Division Court Clerk while getting on the oars at the Great Western Railway depot at St. Thomas • on Friday evening, let /all a pocket. book containing 1130 in money and 8600 in notes. Arriving at Glanworth, Mr. Askew left the train and returned ilka St. Thomas, where his lost treasure was returned to him by Conductor Ben. Areum, who, fortunately, was the finder. Mr. Askew made a hand- some present to Conductor Arnara's young son. — Monday afternoon as Mr. E. B. Reed, Secretary of the Diocese of Huron, was seated. in his office at the Chapter House, London, he was startl- ed by the ominous sound of a bullet, which came whistling through the window and fortunately embedded it- self in the wall of an adjoining room Although Mr. Reed at once sprang to the door,he failed to discover the author of the shooting, and there is nothing as yet to show whether the act was in- tentional or otherwise. — The Toronto Mail says :—The Manitoba fever has struck the York street hack stand, annsi the favorable reports sent down by the two drivers who left hem some time ago has in - &Iced three others to follow their ex- ample, and "go West." Mike Jordan, John Southward, and Thomas Lam- merick left with their hacks Tuesday morning. If they make as many friends in the "Gateway City" as they have in Toronto, they stand a better chance of becoming millionaires than some of the investors in 'corner lots. —Ou Sunday rnorning, the 2nd inst., the barn on Lake Gienge, Huron, be- longing to Mr. Hug!). Cameron, was struck by lightning. Several of the timbers were considerably -damaged and a " valuable heifer killed. The wonder is that the building was not fired, as the electric fluid passed through a quantity of hay, escaping to the ground between the barn and shed. About the same time lightning struck a green tree on the farm of Robert McCosh, on the lake shore, setting fire to the tree. The dry hay escaped; while the green timber broke out in a blaze. —The oldest -inhabitant of Prince Edward Island is Mrs. Graham, of Alma, who was born at Cove Head 105 years ago. This venerable woman was married twice, and raised two families, most of whom are dead, She retains all her faculties almost unintpaired. She spins and knits, and, can read fine print without spectacles. Mrs. Graham remembers when work was all done by hand, no horses being employed, and no implements except an axe and a Leo; when there were no churches in the country, and a sermon once in seven years was the average amount of preaoh- ing enjoyed. —A peculiar case was tried at the Elgin Assizes. A person was. indicted for stealing three pounds of cake from a church, presumably the residue of a tea meeting. A eouple of men sat up all night to wet& and caught the ac- cused. The sum total seems to be that the two inen lost a night's rest, the county and Province lost a large sum of money, the jury, the judge anti wit- nesses a great deal of time, and the prisoner spent 24 "hours in jail, all on account of a piece of cake, intrinsically worth perhaps a quarter of a dollar. It seems to have been a small piece of butiness all rental. —Early on Friday morning a young man named John Moore, of Walkerton, went to Mr. H. A. Wilson's drug Ettore with a prescription from Dr. Smith for his wife, who was suffering from erysi- pelas. In the absence of alr. his clerk, a young lad named' Richard Wanless, put up the prescription. He made a mistake in the drugs, and in an hour afterwards' Mrs. Moore was a corpse. Mr. Wilson alleges that the boy had strict orders not to attempt to put np prescriptions during his absence. !Ars. Moore was a fine looking young wornan.not long married. —A rather peculiar and painful ac- cident occurred in Galt a few days ago. A little son'of Mr. John R. Johnston, between three and four years of age, was playing on the floor and pulled out one of the legs of the coal stove. This brought the stove over on top of the little fellow, and the red. hot coals wee° scattered over his head and back, burning him very severely—the hair being completely singed from his head. Although the injuries are of a very painful nature, they are not serious. The coals set fire to the carpet, but it was extinguished before any serious damage was done. —One day last week a man named McKinnon, who was visiting at the Central Fire Hall, London, took par- ticular interest in one of the horses be- longing to that institution, and after sleeking and patting it on the aide ad- vanced towards the animal's head. No sooner, hewever, did the trod of the man approach that of thleehorse than the,latter snapped at McKinnon with his teeth, tearing off nearlythe whole of his tinder lip and making ra frightful gash. Medical aid was quickly pro- cured, and the lip stitched on again. Mr. McKinnon will be unable to par- take of anything solid. for many weeks. The doctors have hope a of making a good job of his. face, but he will be frightfully scarred the rest of his life. —A special cable despatch to the city papers announces that proposals for an amalgamation have been made by the Grand Trunk railway to the Great Western, the former company guaranteeing the latter interest on. the bonded debt at the rate of three per cent. The same despatch says that the London papers publish a despatch from Mr. E. B. Osler, president of the Ontario and Quebec railway, stating, in view of reports to the contrary in con- sequence of -the proposed fusion, that the road from Toronto to Ottawa will be completed and, opened for traffic in two years, Whatever may be the action of the shareholders of the Trunk and Western. , —The Messrs. Groff were remarkably successful with their cattle at the late Guelph show. The following are the weights of those exhibited :—Canadian Champion, 2 years, 2,300 lbs.; Ring of the West, at 2 years we bed 2,200 lbs.; Young Aberdeen, a year 'ng, 1,600 lbs.; ' Young Shernaan, yearling, 1,550 Ms.; Blossom, 3 years, 1,700 las. All these took first prizes, except Sherman,whicb, took second, Aberdeen getting, first. The Messrs. G-roff have just sold a fine span of fillies rising ahree years, to American buyers, for Ithe handsome price of 0500. These gentlemen have shown our young farntets what can lee done by close attentiolh to breeding superior stock, and we hope the lesson. wi-11 noteybedlaost. Oniast week, as Rev. Dr. Pilcher was walking doWn John street, in Hamilton, on his way to the Metho- dist Episcopai Church, where the Mis- sion Board was in sessiOn, he was sud- denll stricken with paralysis. His con- dition was noticed, and Rev. J. S. Wil- liamson drove the doctot to his resi- dence ha a hack. On being brought home he rallied somewhat, although at present he cannot mave his lower limbs. Dr. Pilcher is oee of the most respected and hard wotking preachers of the Methodist Episcopal --Church. For the past two years he has been pre- sidipg elder of the Hardilton District. 1e is over seventy, and, it is said, had lately been working too hard in prepar- ing an index to the Methodiet Quarterly Review. —�n the 291h of last Month a ven- erable and respected citizen of Berlin, Adam Bowlby, Esq., ,celebrated his 90th birthday. He was ;born in Wil- mot, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, on the 29th of March, 1792, and was an officerin the company commanded by his father in the Coast Guard service in Nova Scotia, in the war of 1812, and was also captain in the Norfolk militia during the rebellion of 11337. The old gentleman,who is quite hale and hearty and bids fair to see the ead of the cen- tury, received, during the day,congratu- latory telegrams from lea children and many others. He has 6 children, 22 grandchildren, and. 7 gfeat grandchil- dren, all living, his children being Dr. - Alfred Bowlby, of Waterford, Ont., Wm. 13owlby, Esq,, Simeoe, Dr. D. S. Bowlby, Esq., M. A., L.L. B., County Crown Attorney, of Berlin, J. W. Bowl - by, Esq., L.L. B„ barrister, of Brant- ford, andDirs. Powell, wife of Col. 'Walker Powell, of Ottawa, Adjutant. i General of the Dominion, —During the end of last week no fewer than four veritable giants stopfed over in Toronto, on their way to Mani- toba. Two of them catnit from Pointe- aux-Trembles, near Montreal. They are brothers named Pr nix. One is 6 feet 41 inches high, ansi the other 6 feet 3 inches; one weighs 213 pounds and the otter 219 pounds. The other two giants are from the county of Glengarry but their names were not learned. Their height and weight were given, however. One is 6 feet 4 inches, and the other 6 feet 21 inches; and their re- spective weights 225 and 209 pounds. These four very large men walked up Yonge etreet - on Monday last, within half a block of each other. Their ag- gregate length is twenty-five feet four inches, and their combined weight 886 pounds. This is all pod bone and muscle, however. The Paoulx brothers are going out as railroaders, and .the Glengarry men, it is said, are going to take up farms. —Several years ago there °erne to this country from Switzerland a young ' man named Edmund von Erie& in search of his fortune. Notwithstand- ing that he was a member of a well to • do family in his native land, his spirit of independence and love of adventure prompted him to cross the. Atlantic. He came to Berlin, says the Telegraph, and shortly after became la student of the High School. His inability to speak the English language with any degree of fluency prevented him from attain- ing his object— that of becoming a teacher—though at the same time he was possessed of a good classical educa- tion obtained in his native land. He theia applied himself to Anything that presented itself by which he could earn a living. Typhoid fever breaking out in several families in town he assumed charge of them in the capacity of nurse. He contracted the disease while nursing the sick and died last week. —Some idea of the immense quanti7 ty of Manitoba and Northwest pamph- lets that are sent out from _the House of Commons to the various constitu- encies may be formed from the faot that 560 large mail bags, each contain- ing an average of a hundred. pounds, chiefly of this kind of literature have been despatched,during the seesion. This would make in' all twenty-eight tons and of late the quantity has equalled a ton an a half per day. The white paper on which these pamphlets are printed alone costs some $4,000. Several mem- bers have sent ORS or more copies of a, pamphlet or document ofi some kind relating to the Northweat to nearly every elector in their ridings. All this tends to make that country better known, but also II1 many cases tends to unsettle persons who had hatter remain where they are now doing well. —A despatch from Qu 'Appelle, dated March 2nd, says :—R. C. McDonald, of Battleford, was living all Winter at El- bow. About three weeks ago ex -police- man Smith, of Dalhousie, New Bruns- wick, went to a cache they had on the prairie for provisions. On the way out Smith had one foot frozen. McDonald gave the necessary treatment, then camped four days until Smith was able to walk. They started for home, but twelve miles from their destination Smith's feet and hands began to freeze and he gave out. McDonald had to drag him all the way home. He found his own feet frozen so badly that he had to out his shoes. . Next day both his OW11 and his eompanion's feet were so bad that he set out and crawled a mile and a quarter on his 1 hands and knees across the Saskatehewan to a neighbor's. On the way rnith died. McDonald's case is so seri us that the doctor, not having instruments, recom- mended that he be taken east. His feet word amputated in part.