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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-04-28, Page 1Spin.42-1, 18811 krit gt. DUNCAN - magnificent stoek et nd Colored Silks, Satiate; ks, Moir; Antiqnes, Satin ce Buntings, Nun's Vette the latest styles of Mantle Goods. Extra value is lack, Cream and Colored, meat Beat English and brio Prints, New Coloringst iLace Patterns. ewing 250 pieces a beano. t 10 cents, which Were cheap, and are equal ea ds in the market. n Parasols, tined, any color. e Parasols, Iace trirarainger colored Silk Patasols, perior Fittings, Magma w Prices. Special attene ed to our immense stock of Hosiery. Cotton, Lisle Feta Silk and Lace Gloves wo, four and six button. Batton Kid Gloves in all lest Ladies' and Misses/ eau Hosiery, all colors— rked and plain; all sizett Gents' Balbriggan, Merino Jndercloehing and Hosiery. FURNISHINGS. he largest, cheapest and I stock of Gents' White and rts, Collars, Cuffs, Scarfs, •, Silk Handkerchiefs, &c. et, and for price cannot be; is lateat American styles aoft Fur Felt Hate, only to tek. INC DEPARTMENT, rine Department is come endt'see our stock of Scotch nit lengths—new patterns rice. Caaaadia.n. Tweeds in t Patterns. Splendid suitS :der for $16, worth $18e ages, Trowserings and ev- be found in a first-class nirments cut in first-class style, and fit guaranteed. & Duncan 1CT IMPORTERS. trekeepers in the country 11 wares, &G., cheaper here ion and Toronto. 3eme 'through very safely, at very few losses.. Lter in Red River is very clearing. The bridge at Ls entirely ifwept away at k laat Sunday night. The ing like a mill -race. Sem- re flooded. A large wheat ram West Lynne floated pm the River. The flood WIGIES flood -on record there. use of Mr: Wm. Goviert. range 8, near Newhaven, a ,.y- fire on the 3rd inst., b. I all. ita contents.- Mrs. e ell a bed -ridden invalid, icaped petishing in the flew ocourre4i about sun- esitresulting rroin a deice - 0. 'ion sale of *Id -numbered ranges 23 to29 illeltiSiVai fr, pa 15 northw d as far as an at the Bi le DOMilli011 on SatardaynApril 1, and cl on Monday; and Tuesday ere being some 2,000 quar- t prices ranging from 02.55 ere. The lands nearly all bands of speeulators. Ya agothirty teams left Ying in charge some hum. oroughbred horses an& for the Ceclirane ranch, at They have 1 a distance Of hundredd lies. to travel r g their destillation. Elora° gave out before reaching Iage of Milverton was, aesday of last week by raent of the death Of Mr. Item It appears that the 0 was a well to do farmer, to leave for the Nortliewest, his sons were conafartably had loaded daririg the •d of effects at the s ation, to leave by the -rand ay excursion ttain ori Tues - tired to bed at Hood's peered to be in his usual had two young taken s wife having die, some the morning he did not o breakfast, and when Xr- o his room he discovered -Oss the bed„ and on ex -- e found that he was in - then eud.ea,vored to arouse r a, few convulsive breaths e cause of his death is sup- e been heart diseasar lia f about GO years, an old much respected by hla Transportation; .1.11ey, an old eccentria eit- eself boxed up with 4 flask kvo, bottleof beer and eh rk The box was addressed Ldhiladelphia, and shipped At Van Wert, °hie, Mc - covered by the elxpresa d jailed, but afteewarde, He states he chose that portation to save fare. on, 10 SW • 4,0 • • 'ITT FIFTEEN _La YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 751. ' SEAFOR.TH, FRIDAY, APRIL 28 1882. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. MDFAUL'S COLUMN. HEAVY OROS CHAIN SILK, AT $1.25—EXTRA VALUE. A NEW LINE OF DRESS GOODS . FROM laic UP. • PARASOLS & SUNSHADES FROM 250 UP. LACE TIES IN NEW PATTERNS FROM 10c UP. HOSIERY & GLOVES (Full Range) at all Prices. MILLINERY Complete in the Latest and Best Styles. E. McFATTL, Seaforth. What Physicians' Say About the Starr Kidney Pad. Treatment by absorption has for some time been recognized by medical men to be the most simple and effectual means of oonveying to diseased organs curatives, but in cases of kidney disease and complaints attendant thereon, sue- nesstal treatment was practicably im- possible until the introduction of the Starr Kidney Pad. It costs less than a single perscription, and . is immeasur- ably more decisive and effective than any quantity of internal medicinal dosing. -Worn immediately over the seat of disease, its curative properties become absorbed by the diseased and enfeebled organs, continuously and 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 notbing else can. The Starr Kidney Pa,c1 accomplishes positive, de- cisive results. A more valuable dis- covery as a true remedy for Kidney Diseases was never made.—aleclical Gazette. The following additional testimonials have been received by as without so- licitation. The below subscribers are people of good standing in society, and will gladly be interviewed or answer correspondence on the subject. From many hundreds of letters. received, we select end submit the following: Ten Years Afflicted. Toronto, December 21st, 1880.—G-en- tiemen—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 my back froth inflammation of the kid- neys. For the past ten years I have taken innumerable medicines, but never found much relief until 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 cured. Please make this public, for the benefit of those who are afflicted as I was. Yours respectfully, TWIN NUNN, care of F. W. Coate & Co. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth. Rad Piles Four Years. Toronto, October 20th, 1880.—Gentle- men,—.I have been afflicted with piles for over 4 years, have worn one of your special Pads for two naonths and am perfectly cured. Yours Truly, F. P. BROTHERS, Track Superintendent C. V. R. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth. A Voice from Manitoba. Mu. EDITOR,—,Dear Sir, ---In auswer to numerous questions from old friends and acquaintances in the county of He- ron, concerning Manitoba, permit me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to give to your numerous and in- telligent readers a few hints on this great Lone Land of ours. Having travelled over the greater part of the Province of Manitoba, and a large por- tion of the Northwest Territory, during -last summer and autumn, and carefully noticed everything as I went, I have no hesitation in saying that as far as agri- cultural facilities are concerned, Mani - tette will, ere long, be one of the leading Provinces of the Dominion. I do not mean to say that all her lands are adapt- ed for growing grain; far from it, in- deed; but what is not suitable for grain growing can be profitably utilized for stock raising which pays exceedingly well in this country. The'quality of the soil may be rough- ly divided into three classes :-1st heavy clay with rich alluvial soil above; 2nd, clay loam with fine allavia,1 soil above, and in many places sandy loam; 3rd, that which is too sandy for grow- ing grain, but would do well for sheep grazing. The following question has been asked:of me frequently of late: "What capital is necessary with which to commence familia?" In answering it I would say that it depends a very great deal on circumstances. A young man without a family can, if he is ener- getic and willing to work, secure for himself 320 acres of good farming land, should he have no more than $20 to spare. There is always plenty of work for him to do at high wages, and he -could thus very soon work himself into a yoke of oxen, plow, harrows, &c. He is allowed six months from the date of taking it up before it is absolutely nec- essary for him to go on to it. Of course it is better to have say $400 or $500 to get an eutfit and go right on at once, or if a person wishes to be a men- tleman farmer he can, with from 61,000 to $1,500, act as follows :—First, buy a Syndicate section, (first payment is $346.66) then let the job of breaking and back -setting 80 acres, (cost about $7 per acre) to fence half of the section would cost from $250 to $300 ; the next spring sow the 80 acres already -prepar- ed and let the job of breaking 80 acres more. The crop of the first 80 acres would pay for breaking and back -setting the second and the next instalment on the land, and so on until the six years are up, at the end of Which time he would get a clear deed for 640 acres, 320 acres of which would be under cul- tivation, and have more than the origin- al investment in his packet. A large number in this country are farming in the above way. They either look after it themselves or get some one compe- tent to do it for them. There are two parties from this town who farm 16 months. sections in this way, and in the mean- and e time they themselves are engaged in a age feels lucrative business. Portage Intending settlers, especially those during t having fansiilies, should not come to this country before the latter end of April or the first of May. They can then go out, choose their land, and get things pre- ' pered before the breaking season be- New r gins, which is about the first of June, to preve whereas if they come out before the in Quebe snow goat away and the ground gets a —Mr. Pacific Railway. in the meantime a large nu ber of immigrants came `pour- ing in f om all quarters, some1 with large fa ilies, to look for land, and not afevt, af er having spent abouta two weeks a d the gre ter part o !their money, ere calmly told by the !land agents t at they h d not' the ower to grant •ODIef3teadS 10W. What shall they do under th se circumstances? cs., The will just go to Dakota or some of the othe westerns -ates where they ca,n get f ee grants. If our Governinent is oblige to make changes in the ,land regulatio s, why not give at leasit six months otice to the Public before these changes ill beoorne law, so , that lin- tending s ttlers could govern themeelves accordin ly. Two or three weeke ago we notic din the papers that the , Do- minion overnment would not grant a charter o any railroad south pf the Canada acific railroad, or any i other road tha might du any way affect, that gigantic onopoly. Now, I aslel you fellow C nadia,ns: Is that justice oil the part of ny Government to a young Province? Has the Dominion Geyern- meat an right to disallow chartere for local roa s? If so, What is the necese sity of a Provincial iHgislature at all? Why net abolish it altogether as a, heavy expense nd let the Dominion Govern- ment ale e look after our eighth and in- terests, hether they look upon us as Plebian.s or not. 1 In conflusion permit me to say a Word or two a lout Portage la Prairie. From its posit'on between the Asainibaine River an Lake Manitoba, together With the fact that it has the largest and richest a ricultural district in the 'Pro- vince of Manitoba all around it, the natural bserver can see at oncet that the Portage must necessarily beborne the grea railway centre for all lines heading owards the Rooky Mougtains, We has over 60 mercantile establish,- • meats in full blast at present, one of which did a business last year ambunt- ing to $!0,00O and several other e from $50,000t $75,000, be111.11 sides a large 13- ber ef ho els, mills, &e. There are over 50 build ugs under construction now and a ve it, large number under coatract to be co a pleted by the latter epd of August 'feta, a few of which I will mention, with their estimated cost: A woolleni: ctory, $150,000; paper mill, $50,000 ; foundry, $70,000; P. N,; and Westbou ne railway car shops,$206,000; two flour mills, $60,000 and S25,000 re- spectivel ; printing establishment, .$30,000 ;'three churches, two of which will cost 10,000 each ; a school -house, $15,000 ; post office, $30,000; cut 'Stone bank, 6 5,000; three hotels, $0,000 each, bes des a large number ofiblock terraces, c. Last spring the •Pottage had a population of only 800, to -day it is estima ed at 6,000, and is still in- creasing y scores every week. 1 City property as gone up invalue with Mar- velous r pidity during the last six Many have made fortunde3 by ery business man in the Port - confident that every fobt of roperty will double in -Value e next six Months. I ALEXANDER DAVIDSON. PORTAGE 14 PRAIRIE, April 8, 1882. 11 11 111 little dry they can't go to leek up land or anything else, and it don't pay to go idle in this country. Board. is from 05 to 07 a week, ,and some of it very thin at that; washing and everything else in proportion. To those who have Small families I would emphatically say leave them behind you until you know where you are going to locate, get a house up and things comparatively comfortable, then send or go after them. To the young men of the older Provinces, who have nothing but their day's pay to de- pend upon, I would say come to Mani- toba, there are ten chances t1 one for you to become independent in this world's goods. I know there aremany who come to this country, perhaps as far as Emerson or Winnipeg, look around them for a week or two with their eyes half shut, and then go back saying that Manitoba is no place at all for a white man to live in, and every- thing that is discouraging, and in fact they seem to know far more about the country than those who have been here for years. Well, to those I would say, by way of consolation, that we appreci- ate your absence more than your pres- ence. We want men that are men in this country, not Lilliputians. I admit that the thermometer registermat times a great deal lower than in the t Eastern Provinces, but at the same time we have a different atmosphere altogether. Any one who has given it the least thought will agree with me in saying that it is not by the thermometer the cold should be measured, but by the humidity of the atmosphere, according to its humidity so is the cold measured by individuals. I have spent a winter here, now, and I can conscientiously say that as far as the weather was concern- ed I never enjoyed a winter better in my life. I am sorry to say that we are labor- ing under two great grievances in this country. I refer to the sudden changes in the land regulations and the dis- allowance of railway charters. A short time ago a message from headquarters was flashed over the wires to the Win- nipeg land office, instructing the agents to withhold all the even numbered sec- tions adjoining and alongside of the Canada Paeific Railway and its branch- es and to inform other land offices to that effect as soon as possible. Now, the construction the land agents put upon this mysterious telegram was that the Dominion Government intended to do away with homesteading altogether, and acted accordingly, until they were informed by another telegram a week or so after that the former telegram had only reference to the even numbered aections within one mile of the Canada I • Oan.ada. gulations have been adoPad the spread of the sheep Scab lexander Kennedy, Burette of the Orilla+, Asylum, died on Friday evening. —Dresi en talk 3 of organizing a base- ball club, all the nembers of which are to be you f g la,die —Exte @sive r pairs on the G -and Trunk 11 .0 betw&rn Toronto and Strat- ford are 1 eing made. — A f w days ago three Sandevich boys kille 95 slakes while strolling through e Park Farm. — A ve y fine maskinonge weighing 35 pound:, was taken in the Thames near Lou on, a few days ago. Baylis, of Princetoia, has purchases a young short -horn bull of Mr. T. F a,ser, of North Dumfries, for $150. —Five ,oneg lads, sons of respeetable parents i a the town of Paris, were fined one day 1 st week for being drunle and disorderl . —Ther was a deficiency of $33,000 in the accjounts of the late manager of the Toro to branch of the Ontario bank, who oorii4nitted saicide. — It is robable that the next annual - meeting o the British Association for the Adva cement, of Science will next year be 'h ld in Cenada. • —The ity of Halifax has advertised that its s bsidy for building a dry dock will be gi en to any company depositing $25,000 within thirty days. 1 —Betw en 400 and 500 men left; De- troit last riday for Algoma Mills, hav- ing been ngaged to work on the Canada Pacific rarlway. —Stepat are being taken towardthe establishment of another iron and steel manufacturing industry to Operate in the vicinity of Three Rivers. —Mr. Se Kingsburgh has purchased the Dolnian property in Ayr, which consists ef a comfortable and roomy stone cottage and large garden, for $1,500. —Over a. thousand signatures of To- ronto citizens have been attached -4) to petitions against the granting of new liquoa licenses, or renewals in certain cases. 1 e --A, mammoth International Band Tournament is to be held in London some tim during the coming season. Two thou and dollars will be offered in prizes. —The 1 terary executors of the late Dr. Ryereen are Revs. Dr. Potts and Dr. Nelled and Mr. 3. Hodgins. They are at Present engaged in e iting "The 5tor of My Life." ' a ineeting of Montreal citiZens on Saturd eathe Protestant Bishop of Montreal jresiding, it was resolved to' give the 1ev. Gavin Lang,: Minister of St. An& ws' Church, in connection with the Church of Scotland, a public breakfast, before his departure for In- verness, Scotland, where he has accept- ed the charge of the West Church. —The Freach Canadians are return- ing in vast numbers from the States; 500 Were on a single train which arriv- ed at St. John, New Brunswick, one day last week. —A petition, a fourth of a mile long, signed by ten thousand citizens of Montreal, is , about .to be sent to the Legislature against an increase of the school tax.- -Within a week the family of James Lynch, residing a few Miles from Madoc, suffered a heavy affliction in the sudden death of three children, within a few days oteach other. —A brakesman on the Grand Trunk Railway, named W. McCabe, was seri- ously injured lea Friday night by an overhead bridge. He was brought to Brantford, where he now lies. —The Belvair and Manor herde of shorthorns, owned by Richard and John Gibson, of Frederiekton, Canada, were sold at Dexter Park on Saturday, the 47 head bringing $27,000. —A Montreal ragman recently sold a copy of the Quebec Gazette, the first English paper published in that Pro- vince, for waete paper to a second-hand dealer. ...Its date was 1764. — An old 'house at the southwest corner of etreets, in down. It w ichmond and Church oronto, is being pulled s built in 1822. An old lady is now hiving in Toronto who lived in it in her glrlhood, sixty years tko. , —The Credit Valley Railway/ound house at Pa kdale, Toronto, was com- pletely destroyed by fire and four loco- motives the eiu nearly rendered use- less. Loss.e tirnated at about $50,000, which is party covered by insurance, —Mr. Joseph Olivier Cote, N. P., clerk of the Queen's Privy Council, died Monday mor Am. He had. not been in good health for some time, bat death resulted rather suddenly. He leaves a wife and six dhildren. —In a breah of promise of 'marriage case by Miss Sarah J. Hacker, of Port Hope, a,gain t Fletcher Chalk, of the same place, t e plaintiff was awarded $800 damages : at the Assize COurt in C o_bourg * mr. Wm. Ireland, a prominent resi- dent of Sarni, who has held -office on several occasiens as ReeveandDeputy- Reeve, and was ex -Warden of the county of Laribtont died. suddenly last Friday of hemorrhage of the lungs. — The Rev. Mr. McGregor, of Termi- te, has received a call from the congre- gations of Tilsonburg and Culloden, in the Presbyter Y of Paris, at a salary of $800 and a manse. Mr. McGregor is to be inducted early in May. —The desk at which Wra. Lyon Mackenzie sat in the old Parliament of Canada may be seen op the third floor of the examination vvarehouse,at the foot of Yonge street, Toronto. It is an old- fashioned, rotigh-looking piece of archi- tecture. t — On Saturday afternoon part of the Northern Railway timber train left the track near Bitrrie, wrecking two cars and throwing the timbet into the bay. The long Mealier i would iiet allow the cars to turn the curve and get on the switch. .Thrt . . J. M. Thexton, who spent his early life in Landon, is on a visit among his friends in , and slant the city after twenty years absence in Colorado. He bas been activtely engaged. in mining at Silver Cliff, npar Denver, and is novy comparativelya wealthy man. — The number of deaths in Montreal for March were 325, an increase of 7.16 as compared with the same month in 1881. TwentY-one deaths were from consumption and 17 from diphtheria, a considerable decrease as compared. with the preceding Month. —The Canada, Southern Railway will begin running its through sleepers by way of Niagar4. Falls, instead of. Buf- falo, as hereto ore, on the aOth of May. All trains will stop at the Falls' for a short time, to ive passehgers time to admire the great Canadiat Falls. —There is onsiderabl dissatisfac- tion in Ottawa, on account of French school books iiaving been introduced into English classes in the public schools; alsol a grievance against teachers who e in the habit of send- ing children 11 me from the, school as a means of puni hment. —Rev. Mr. Scrimger, Presbyterian minister at M ntreal, is obliged to re- tire from his harge for he present on account of ill health. His congregation presented him with *a parse containing France. $450onhis leaving for the south of — Octave Dilgnauelt, the * brute who was convicted of outraging an infant, was on Monday, at Montreal, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Gideon Viani a Etalwatt scoundrel, who kicked an old man 60 years old to death, was sentenced to tan years in the peniten- tiary. —The striking girls engaged in the Toronto shoe shops and the shoemakers have arrived at A canditiOnal solution of their troubles with die employers, and commenced -work on Monday morn- ing. They are tcl, receive Some, advance in wages. Th p striking carpenters -have also gone td work again. —At the Northumberland Assizes on Friday the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against a yhung married man named John Purdy!, of Grafton, who was indicted for the Murder of his aged two ed the crime illegitimate son, James years. The evidence sho to have been a brutal one. — An old man named lieury Shook, 84 years of age, from Springfield., in the township of Toronto, wits choked to death while taking dinner at te hotel in the city the other day. While masti- cating a piece qf corn beef a portion of it became lodged in the windpipe, and before medical aid could be summoned the old man ex ired. , —Aeriong thepassenger by the Great Western Mani ba excursion on Wed- nesday last ¶ek were two Jewish m I exiles, who have been living in Toronto since they :tame into the country. They are going 6 Rock Lake, where they in- tend prespecting with the view of locat- ing a settlement for some of their come- ligioniste. . —Mr. Alex. Fisher, Manager of the Toronto branch of the Ontario Bank, committed.suicide the other morning by shooting himself through the mouth with a pistol. The event caused a sen- sation ia the city. The deceased had held his position in the Toronto branch .for eighteen years, and was widely known mad highly respected throughout the Proyince. —It ifi hinted here that Winnipeg will sooe cease to be on the main line of the Pacific railway—that in fact Selkirk IA to be the coming centre of of the 1\11orthwest. An air line from Selkirk to the main line—away west of Winnipeg -his already projected. The sYndicate say there will always be ttouble With the bridges at Winnipeg. ! —The debt of the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Montreal has been reduced fit= $800 000 to between $400,000 and 3'500,000 in the past year. In two years more the whole is expected to be cleared off. It will cost half a million &liars still to finish the new cathedral, Which has been in the course of con- struction there for seven years past, Mad is not yet roofed ip. I —Rem 0. C. Therapeori, of Detroit, Who filled the Congregational pulpit at St. Clairlest Sunday, recalled. the fact that it wad forty-eight years that day since he I Preached bis first sermon in that churelh, they then worshipping in the county court room in the upper story of the old log jail. The occasion naturally alled out reminiscences- of tip pastl nd comparisons with the p esent, of great interest to those who beard —Two i . T i ore suicides reported on Fri- day 1as4 Christopher Johnston, a Watchman on the Grand Trunk Rail- way at ontteal, by taking Paris Green, on ccount of unhappiness with leis wife A. J. Nash, of New York, Was found ead in his bed at the Essex House, Windsor, Friday morning. In his pocket was found a four -ounce bot- tle, about half fall of laudanum. An inquest vtaa held, the jury returning a verdict of guicide. Nothing was fotind to show a y cause for bis having corn- niitted sui ide. I —A star hotiia at Inverhuron belong - 13 ing to Mee rs. Ogilvie & Hutchinson, of the Harbo1Mills, was destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. There were 10,400 bushels of wheat in the building. Both build ng and grain were insured. A cargo Of 10,000 bushels had been shipped to Goderich by the schoonee Ontario a ew days previously and was lost with the schooner which went ashore between Inverhuron and Kin- cardine oie Wednesday last, and is al- niost a total loss. The boat is insured for $3,000 and the grain for $12,000 in the Royal 10anadian Insurance Com- pany. k —During the storm on Wednesday of last wee* , lightning struck the drug store of Dt W. Pole, in Strathroy, and came very near remitting in a serious fire. The electric fluid set fire to the curtains en the front window and he floor of the oil room at the rear. he fire in front was easily extinguish d, but in the ack room it spread ram ly among soa4e of the combustibles, 1ut was flna1y conquered after conei er- able dame e was done. There were five or six persons in the store at the time, one or two of whom were envelb ed in the first flash, but fortunate y escaped' h but slight singes. —A sen tion has been created n Montreal the news of the arrest f IL S. W. gloodhue, a young lawyer f that city,' 111 Brussels, Belgium, on charge of malversation of a latge amount of 1onds belonging to the de- posed Bisbbp of Tourney. Mr. Geed - hue was einployed to catch a sharper who had stolen the bonds, and. succeed- ed in his mission. On returning. to Brussels1e 7,1 was himself taken i to ctistody. is friends in Montreal e - hove that le will come out of the ord al with his character untarnished, and. he intervention of the Imperial Forma Sticreiary bas been invoked in his t.ct- he —Last Monday -morning two London horse buyers, named Anderson EMd Gray, started for St. Thomas to look at some hors. When near St. Tho as Mr. Gray IIiad occasion to jump out of the buggy and threw the , reins on he dash boardj This movement started the young orse, and befere AnderSon eould gra e the lines the horse shied find jumped the fence, taking the buggy With him. i At the fence . Anderson was thrown out on his head, nearly severing his nose, and cutting several deep gashes in Ilia face and head. He Was taken to St., Thomas, where his wounds Were dressed by a surgeon. His ill- jnries are very severe. Gray remained behind to igather up the fragments of the wreck. I —There is considerablei eecitement in the county of Halton anent the Scott Act regulations, which are to come in force on the 1st May. The hotel keep- ers of the county, have decided to close their houses and sheds and refuse a,ny accommodation to the travelling pubic on and after the first of May. It is generally understood that any financ al loss they may sustain by this actin will be made up to them by the P o- vincial organization. As houses of 4n tertainmenbi are necessary, the frie ds of the Act are putting forth an effort to secure otho houses and stables of ac- commodation in all the incorporated towns and villages of the county, so that no serious inconvenience to the travelling public need, be anticipated., —A short time before the usual' hear for stopping' work on Monday, the 17th, two of the , Oonvicts employed at the brick yard at the Central Prison dreg - ped their 1 implements of labor and started offl at a ran. The guard pn on their continuing their headlong course he fired. As it was impossible for the guard. toleave the convicts under his charge, the fugitives had succeed- ed in passing over a considerable space of ground before two guarde started off ire pursuit. Numerous shots were fired but without the desired effect. The two runaways had only two months more to serve, but it apPears that the anticipation of their approaching liber- ation rendered the period intervening one of such torture, that in order to end it they were willing to stand the chance of being shot. .. —On the morning of the 20th inst., the Evangelical Association of North America opened their eighteenth an- nual conference session in their church at St. Jacobs, in Waterloo county. Bishop R. Dubs, D. D., bf Cleveland, Ohio, opened. the conference with an appropriate Scripture lesSon, devotional exercises, and an excellent address. With the exception of Ds Brand, of the Rockingham mission, and, If. Holzman, who was released from his active work by the Divine Master in the middle of the year and taken to hia eternal rest, all the itinerant brethren, 39 in num- ber, were present. Rev.; Joeeph Um- bach, of New Hamburg, Was re-elected for the fifth term of four ears as a iipre- siding elder or district c irman. Next year the conference is t be b.eld. at Zurich, coutty of Huron, to begin on the third Thursday of Aptil. —The Paris Transcript says: "A lady whose son is in the Northwest mounted police force informs HS that the public are not made aware of much that occurs in that distant region and which ought to be known. Murders, and even massacres, of isolated kvhite settlers, and other acts of violence are committed by the Indians which the police are forbidden to mention even in letters to their friends, much less to communicate to the newspapers. Act cording to our informant, !a recent letter to the Globe from a member of the force, was considered an infringement of this rule, and the writer was subject- ed to a heavy fine and otherwise pun- ished. She also states that the spirit- ual needs of the men are not cared for as they ought to be, the infrequent and accidental visits of missionaries being almeet the only occasion on which re- ligione services are held. —A sad affair happened the other morning at the residence of W. R. Henderson, 267 Sherbourne street, To- ronto. That gentleman's sister, a Mrs. Hazard, from Buffalo, was staying with him for a few days on a visit. The previous night she retired to rest in her usual health and spirits about 11 o'clock. .A. servant on passing her bed- room in the morning was alarmed by a strong smell of gas coming from it, and on opening the door discovered that Mrs. Hazard. was a corpse. The phy- sician who examined the body stated that e had been extinct for about two hour). It is presumed that the lady when turning out the light must have partially turned on the gal again in withdrawing her fingers franxi. the tap, as it was found to be half open. The deceased was about thirty-three years of age. , —The passengers who were in the blockaded train at Reabiirn, says the Winnipeg Times, are laied in their com- plaints of the treatment received at the hands of the Canada Pacific -Railway Company while sno w bound at that pla,ce. They say that, all statements to the contrary notwithstandingeno efforts at all were made to furnish them with food, and that by a stupid piece of blundering when a train was sent to te- tlieve them, instead of taking out the needed provisions, it carried instead the iron for the Brandon Bridge, and as the sidings were blocked with snow, an- other long delay ensiled. before the trains could cross. Resolutions reflect- ing on the management heve been sent to Ottawa. 1 —A farmer named. VI3a. Miller, of the 6th concession of Bentinck, was found dead in the woods about a mile from his own house on Sunday after- noon. He had. been ehotl through the chest. The bell entered hisdback and passed out of -his heart. The gun had evidently been held close ,to his body when fired, as his clothes were burned off a large space of his back. There were two large wounds on his head, and a contusion over his eye. He was found lying on his face vtith his cap under it. No trace of any scuffle exist- ed, neither was any blood found where he lay. He was evidently murdered at some distance from thespot where found, and. when the bleeding had stop- ped, Was carried there. He was in Hanover on Saturday evening, and was murdered on his way home. Dr. Lauderhill, the Coroner, was notified of the murder, and with Conetables Small and Carson went out to Searoine into the case. —It is well to look at both sides of the picture: Mr. Houghtan, for eleven years gardener at Alwington, Peterboro county, went to Manitoba a short while ago intending to settle theta on a farm and share the universal prosperity which is attributed to that heaven for immigrants. He has returned and will remain in Ontario, imbued with an in- creased affection for life in this Pro- vince. He went to the Tartlet Moun- tain district, reputed. to be one of the richest parts of Manitoba, and had soon laid up experience that will last him for years to come. A geod pair of steers could not be got less than $300, and none at all for less thart 1)200. He found that there were more laborers and mechanics in Winnipeg than work could be provided for, young carpenters whom he came across stating that they could only secure odd jobs at $1e50 per day. There would be more linilding going on if it were possible, to,qprocure lumber, but this was very scarce and dear. The severity of the climate proves fatal to man and beast, and Mr. Houghton saw many deal horses along duty hailiuolordered them to stop, and the sides of the railway track where ttete, ' they had been frozen to death. A whole carload of sixteen animals were destroy- ed in this way within our informant's experience while on the road to the North-west. Instead of the land being invariably fertile, he found the oldest divisionsof good and. bad strongly marked in the new country as in the rest of the world. At the Mennonite settlement Mr,. Hotighton found the snow up to the tops of the houses with the exception of small breathing holes cut out by the inhabitants. Great complaint and inconvenience was caus- ed. by the land grabbing of speculative capitalists who have purchased large tracts which they hold for a rise in value. Mr. Houghton believes that no farmer need go to Manitoba without considerable capital, as the high prices prevalent will swamp him before he is fairly afloat. —On Thursday of last week there died at -Uxbridge a man named Angus McDonald, who passed the usually al- lotted span by over 35 • years. On the 12th of February last he celebrated his 105th birthday. Mr. McDonald was born in the island of Islay, Scotland, in February, 1777, and in 1803 enlisted as a driver in the Royal Artillery, and af- terwards served in the Peninsula under Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wel- lington. His reminiscences of the Iron Duke and his vivid delineations of the Titanic Struggle were always interest- ing episodes of a visit to the brave High- land veteran. He belonged. to a race who have almost passed away, but not before adding lustre to the history of the land that now prides itself on giving them birth. Mr. McDonald emigrated to Canada in 1832,having been discharg- ed from the army sixteen years before. He settled on a farm near the village of Acton, where he has lived ever since, except when at rare intervals he visited some of his numerous descendants. He had 7 children, the majority of whom are still living. —Terrible storms have been raging throughout the raomatainous districts of California during the past month. On the 15th of March a tornado swept through Mono county, and in its de- structive course the Turnbull House, near the foot of the May Lundy tram- way, in Lake Canyon, was completely destroyed, and four men, named Robt. 3. Turnbull, Alex. McKeon, D. B. Grant and Henry Schumaker, were either killed outright or were subse- quentlyeaphyxiated under the snow. Stephen Turnbull, another inmate of the place, got out barefooted, and with nothing but his under -clothing on, and through the deep snow and bitter veld storm managed to reach Pat Regan's cabin, some 300 feet distant. His suf- ferings were terrible. A man named Christian Hablitzel was dug out of the ruins still alive, but nearly exhausted and bleeding at the lungs. The first named victims were all formerly resi- dents of Norfolk county, Canada, and the father of Robert J. Turnbull, re- sides at Winghtun, where he is highly respected and one of the leading men of the town. —On Sunday morning a party of six left the residence of Mr. Robert Smith, Blanshard., for church, but had hardly taken their seats in the vehicle when the horses ran away. Miss Ryan, who was visiting at Mr. Smith's, jumped out, breaking her leg in two places, dislocat- ing her ankle, and spraining and frac- turing her wrist. Two of the Misses Smith also jumped and were hurt, but not so badly. Miss Ryan's escape from death was very narrow. - —The Stratford Beacon of last week says :—As we expected, quite a number. of disappointed °aces are coming back from the Northwest, the prospects there not coming up to the extravagant expec- tations they had formed. We heard of one instance where a Stratford mechanic threw up a job at a1.60 per day a few weeks ago, and returned to work in the same establishment at n per day, hav- ing been to Winnipeg in the meantime and expended a good deal of money in travelling. In another case a railway mart obtained leave cf absence for two weeks to spy out the land, and arrang- ed to buy a grocery business in Winni- peg. He paid $200 to bind the bargain, but before the stock-taldng was half finished he concluded it would pay him better to forfeit the deposit, which he did, and came home. His experience of the Northwest cost him nearly $500. —Among many others, Mr. Wm. Gordon, Stratford, has had his tele; the Prairie Province, and his impres- sions, being those of a shrewd business man, are worth noting. After breaking through a snow blockade he found him- self in Winnipeg. Nothing was talked of but land speculations, and the im- mense fortunes some parties had realiz- ed. Mr. Gordon could. see no chalice for a prudent investment, and refused the tempting offers made by the army of gamblers in real estate. Auction sales of lots in paper cities are going on in all parts of the city, and the feverish anxiety shown by the owners to effect sales shows that they do not believe the boom will last long. As soon as the large expenditure on the Pacific railway ceases there will be a tremendous col- lapse in values. There may be a year or two of fluctuations before the solid basis is reached. Mechanics in the building trade rushed in too early in the season, and idle mei can hardly, afford to pay $7 a week for board. The em- ployers are doing their best to get me- chanics there so as to bring down wages. Growing wheat and raising stock will be the mainstay of the country as soon .as things have settled down. Mr. Gott don gives a word of caution to me. chanics. He says all the materials for building have to be imported, and. the facilities are so inadequate that it will be impossible to get one quarter of what is required. The rush of imnaigrante is so great that the railway companies can do little in addition to accommodat- ing the ineomers and their stocks and furniture.