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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-05-19, Page 1. t MAY GOOD S, c4 sit ITiN DLESS'ARIET . sfatment Just Received Campbell's SIM, S AFORT WEST DE SIGNS IN SQUARES AND CENTS* NtS}! . SEE THIS CHOICE LOT Fx CAMPBELL.. er congregation was sent. nemitted in the regular hough the session of Man., exon was granted three of absence, owing to %l1= ttery then adjourned to .eld, on the second Tues - t 11 a.m. � a egn in Winnipeg. [as had another sensation. om that city, dated Mon- 'he alarming fact has been minds of the citizens: nized band of desperados r, whose determination is. peg in ashes, hoping to ader while the conic-lama-- Tess. onflagra►;cess. Oa Saturday afters- ' than five attempts were aur o'clock to fire build int. parts of the city, each situated for the purposes s. Almost simultaneous 3avered in a stable attach. Ruse House and in the. of the Framers' Hotel and swell's residence. The onsiinied, but the other anguished in time. Pine ' from a stick had been. hese places and ignited, a_ smoke attracted attar.- the ttestthe flames had gained ; 11 o'clock at night a man trying to fire the Ameri it he escaped. Two other o discovered on Sunday n outhouse in rear of icni , factory was fired; ;or being seen running morning preparations for laundry in rear of the• were discovered. Kind - rapped in paper andsatu- al oil, had been inserted. ae boards of the house. b. ,ed Alexander McArthur, a hail from Kincardine latterly from. Brainard, is arrested, and hasbeen the person seen loafing- ies: of three of the fires before" they started. A nd on him has two nicks vhioh would make a mark. wood whittled with it. ponding exactly with what are plainly visible en the secured by the police On Saturday evening & of special constables. were after church last night a €ueeting was held in the - en a Citizens' Protective as formed by the leading • e of whore made strong. urged that prompt ac- t and swift punishment coundrels: if caught- The trolled night and day by t, who will shoot down in- sight. The excitement ally subsided, and a feel - restive security prevails, papression being that the F of the authorities and eterr=ed the fire -hugs from •' ur• nefarious work. burred at Ridgetown on lorning, which destroyed hole l»siiiessportion of phe aggregate toss will int to aver $100,000. One tie companies lose heavily. ,ing of Irishmen held in esc€ay evening, presided askerville, M .PP'., resolu- sed expressing abhorrence outrage in Dublin on regarding the assassin-- I Croteudish as: an act to bring disgrace upon expressing the hope that be authorities to appal- naia would be successful. t expressed. for the fam- whom the murderous reaved, and praying that nsoation will be vouch- of the resolutions were transmitted to the Irish to this families of the . sda r morning the bodg` is discovered in a dread.- 1 read-1 condition on the Tor - Brace Railway track,. s south of Woodbridge, in It proved to be a Mrs. 'lived near where the olid, and who had been. Moe early the previous as evident that she had by a train passing during at what time it is not able message from the. to Bishops of Ontario _ has ed to lir. Gladstone by. '. Walsh,. Bishop of Lon- e of their sympathy with. Sir condolence with the lies of the Secretary and' ry for Ireland in their la While manifesting [horror of the foul murder nblin, and trusting that -would overtake: the per- dark a crime; they yet t interfere with the re - es he had in view for theel Ireland. FIFTEENTH YEAR. 01.al NUMBER, 754, kms.! -.e=• - . -. _.. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1882. McLEA.N BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. CFAU L'S COLUMN. E. MCFAUL IS SHOWING THIS WEEK A E P'.A. 1OT —0E --- FANCY GERMAN HOSIERY For Children's Wear. A FULL LINE OF Seamless Hosiery In Misses' and Ladies' Sues. SPECIAL VALUE IN SILKS AND SATINS FOR MANTLES. JUST OPENED NEW PATTERNS IN BLACK & CREAM SPANISH LACES A LARGE STOCK OF PARASOLS & SUNSHADES FROM 25c UP. MILLINERY, STYLISH ! GOOD AND CHEAP. THE OTHER SIDE 'OF, THE PICTURE. A correspondent in Manitoba writing to friend in Ontario, ander date of Aril 28, among other things says Yo ask me what I think of this country. I ill try and give you a fair represents, - do of it, though perhaps I am not in th right mood to do justice to the co retry. The soil of the prairie is no do bt of the very best quality, although sorje of it is too heavy and other parte to light, but the greater - part of it is we 1 adapted for wheat or roots; I ha e no fault to find with the soil what} ev r. What I do find fault with in the gr at Northwest is that there are se m ny drawbacks and disadvantages that they • entirely over -balance an goad qualities which it possesses or wil ever possess ; some of these various' an different qualities I will try to eaplai and compare. As a prairie country, i possesses the greater number of the dis advantages of prairie life—the extreme lye cold, long and very disagreeabl winters, so long and severe that fe people can endure them, and even thes sooner or later drop off with some inn dEease,and die in a few years. Of oours there are exceptions to all rules, bre this is one that has proved true in mos ca es ; several hundreds died this sprin of that trouble, who have been old resi- de , is of Manitoba. I have never see an old man who has, lived here an le gth of time ; the oldest inhabitant sa was -one who had been here thirty ye rs, and .he was nearly dead. with co sumption. The moat of what they c 1 old inhabitants are people who ha e only lived here some ten years,and th se .are the very ones wha are dying wi h long troubles. I myself have had. th worst cold since I came here that I ev r had, in fact I was afraid I would ha e to come down entirely with i , h Wever, I am improving, but I fe 1 d adfully used up with it yet. Nearly ev ry one you meet has a bark which w uld outdo the most cowardly sp cies of canines. There is but little time to grow and take care , of crops ; in fact,_ I think, iosnfficient time. T en look at the social and general dr whacks. In country life, look at th distance from neighbors, schools, oh rches, post offices and in fact all the ac ommodations which Ontario affords. 0 course it will be better as the country i as proves, and, Says a Manitob`an, • we will have better schools, wealthier ohurehes, nicer and larger towns, in fa t better advantages than any, other co ' ntry in the world.' I think this will ne • er be the case. On the contrary I th nk'it will never affoid suitable ac - co as modation for a respectable white m : n. The farms being large, the sc a ools will necessarily be small and r. As to towns and villeges, they 4;n -ver will or never oan afford the ac- emodation in any line that our On- io towns do. Just look at Winnipeg, 'great baby Chicago' ; there are fine res, it is true, quite respectable ough even for Toronto, but they are • There are a great many poor, m serable shops ; indeed most of them are. The hotels are miserable. Even the Queen's, the best in the city, does no M be Ol cls st 1. STOCK COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. E. McFAUL, DRITG- SEAFORTHI J. S. ROBERTS begs to inform hie friends, customers and the public gener- ally, that during his absence in the North-west his business will. be under the management of MR. REHM, a thoroughly competent gentleman, in whom all oan place the utmost confi- dence, and he hopes for' a continuance of the liberal patronage he has received siuce starting business in Seaforth. Feels Better Than for Ten Years. Toronto, September 20th, 1880.— Gentlemen—My father had piles for three years ; his kidneys were affected, and he had a pain in the sraall of l4s baok ; he could not vralk sometimes for weeks at a time. ,He is wearing the second Pad now, and is -nearly well. Hews that he feels better than he haa for ten years. Thankfully yours, Given up ny Doctors. Toronto, Novertiber 10th, 1880.— .Gentlemen—Two months since I was taken very suddenly with a pain in my left kidney, and a large passage of blood through my urinary organ. The doctors gave me up, and eexpected me to die hearty for two or three days, but the heramorrhage ceased and I got about again, but -I_ continually had a dull heavy pain in the small of my back, which I could not relieve until I saw your Kidney Pads advertised. I tried one, and can add ray name to the list of those who have found them beneficial, and moommend them. Yours truly, G. MCCLANE. For sale by J. S. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth. Female Weakness Cured. Guelph, May 21st; 1880.—Gentlernen --In reply to your note, I have to say that I called upon the ladies you men- tioned, and both assured me that Starr's Kidney Pad had effected 'a perfect and permanent cure. One of the cases was of -some three years' standing. Re- - tpectfully yours, J. R. Celignost, Editor of the Guelpla Herald. For sale by J. S: Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth. t at all compare with the Royal of 'When. The other thirty-three num- r down to the lowest, filthiest dens tario can produce ; he fact this last ss are the most numerous. The eets are kept in nearly a continual te rible mud, which is brought upori t e walk by one's pedal extremitiee, making the walks so slippery that you o e. (The police verify this .fact.) c tild write volumes on my opinion of t e Northwest. Suffice it to say I do nsit like the country for agricultural, commercial or other purposes. Theta are hundreds of oarpenters and other inechanice walking the streets dailY mit of emeloyrnent, with not much money aad no material to work with even if there was work to be done'. Board is all the Way.from $5 te $14 per week, aud nearly every place fall at that, the cheaper ones cram full, many of the being tents and shanties." PROM ANDTHER CORRESPONDENT. Another correspondent writes 'fro C stal City under date of April 24, s b most emigrants in coming into th•s c ataxy with their families so early n the season. It is enough to make a sYrapathetic person weep tears of blo d to witness the hardships, privations, sufferings and Struggles of the po r people going west during spring, with bad weather and worse roads. Orl t e 9th. April I started from Emerso forCrystal City, a distance of one ha 'area miles, with a horse and cutt and from such another drive, go d Load deliver me. The average dep h of snow on the prairie was about t o and a half feet, andem the beaten tr about four and. a half feet. The slig t thaw having rendered the snow soft, a herse could only get along by contin ally plunging through it, runni g naomentary risk of breaking both h's legs and his neck. A continual stream of emigrants going west, with all kinds of possible and peculiar convey- aaces is one of the features of the season. Some drive one, some two, and others three or foar heroes ; some one ox, or two or raore, While some have an ox and a horse to- gether. Last week the snow went and tile floods came, and bridges were swept away and travel interrupted. Immi- grants arriving on the east side of's stream, and finding it large and swollen without a bridge, quietly settle doWn for a few days to anode the water to sub- side. It is wonderful with what patience and equanimity people take such things here. A thing that would put a man in a fever in Ontario, is viewed with almost indifference here. Even recent arrivals become indifferent to obstacles, and the coolness with which an old settler takes apparently insurmotint- able difficulties is amusing to behold. As an instance : Last week a man was driving a load of goods from Emerson to the Badger, thirty mil6s west of here. Arriving at Clearwateri he' found the, Cypress a raging river with only a small row boat as a mia,ns of crossing. He quietly unhitched his team and sent them ba,ck by me for silabling, left his load on the open prairie, and walked home. To -day he retumed for his load, feeling perfectly contented about the whole transaction. The smaller streams, Piss) and fall with singular rapidity. A stranger's curiosity is suddenly raised on coming out here, to know where all the people live. The country seems alive with people while houses are scarce. House room is pretty well utilized. In a small house from fifteen to thirty people will live, and one is led. to wonder where they stow themselves. One thing is certain—every person coming to this country must make up his mind to rough it. The elegancies and. luxuries of life he must leave be- hind ; and thousands are contented to rough it, BO long as they Make money or have a fair prospect of 1 making it. Every man, woman or hoj( you meet appears to have plenty of filthy lucre, and they spend it with all the complais- ance of a Bob Ingersoll. This state of affairs may continue for a time, but a reaction will ensue as certainly as ef- fect follows cause ; and just as soon as the stream of emigration to any partic- ular locality ceases, money will get scarce and times stringent, hard times being the result. Such is my prediction, which time only can verify. The cautious, long headed ones who quietly salt down their surplus are the ones who are going to come out ahead. People are singularly honest in most respects, but in dealing in town lots do not trust your grandfather or any one else; even preachers are not exempt from this failing. Town sites are the. bane of this country, and will continue eo long as Ontario people buy lots in paper towns ; there is too much town - site and too little town for practical purpooes. Towns two or three miles square cannot afford half the accom- modation required by either the settlers or travelling community. I wars shown., the other day in Clearwater, a raging river with a current of at least ten miles an hour, and four or five feet in depth, beneath which flood lay town lots for which, only a few weeks before, $100 per lot was paid. I think, how- ever, that the back of the town site business is broken, and it were well for Ontario people with money to invest that it were BO. The boom in farm lands is not nearly so brisk as it was ; prices are down somewhat and few sales occurring. Almost everybody is glutted with land. When there are about twenty sellers to one buyer, the market is generally dull. Notwith- standing the fact that it never rains in the spring in Manitoba, and that April is a beautiful spring month and that in a week from now people will tell you the same thing, yet at this present mo• ment if I can credit the evidence of my several senses it is raining a cold, drizzling, heavy rain. Anything die. aareeable about the weather is a thing never known to have occurred before ; but "With all thy faults I love thee still," appears to be the motto of set- tlers, and people here are as enthusias- tic as ever about the future of this great country, and, notwithstanding the drawbacks, some of which I do not hesitate to ventilate, this conntry has natural advantages enough to ensure its future prosperity and greatness. Canada. Sir Alex. T. Galt has arrived from England. —Oscat Wilde is the guest of the Marquis of Lorne at Ottawa.- - There have been 189 tavern licen- ses granted in Toronto for 1882. —An immense quantity of salmon and whitefish fry have been placed ia the tiverat Niagara. —Ten oar loads of agricultural imple- ments arrived in Toronto from Dayton, Ohio, last week. — Houses are very scarce in New Hamburg. Fifteen or twenty new buildings will be erected during the — Saskatchewan Forks stock Monday sold in Kingston at 25 per cent. pre- mium. It is considered the best on the market. —A steamship has been ordered to the assistance of the Allan Line steam- ship Peruvian, spoke on Saturday with her propelier broken. —Four men have been starved to death in Placenta Bay, Newfoundland. The tragedy is due to the severity of the winter. -IThe people of an entire township on the Isle of Skye, numbering one hundred souls, have decided to emi-1 grate to Canada. —An extensive fire occurred in Dan- ville, Qaebec on Monday morning; forty houses burned down and losses esti- mated at $200,000. —The late rains have done great damage at the Toronto brick yards. One firm in Yorkville .having lost over six thousand bricks. —A somnambulistic girl leaped froin a three-story window, 30 feet from the ground, at Montreal, the other evening, es6aping with alew braises. —A little daughter of Ald. Frost, oi Belleville, swallowed two twenty -five - cent pieces a few daYs ago. The red eultant symptoms are alarming. —Mr. D. Barrie, residing near Camp'. bellford, Northumberland county claims the bounty—$6}00," for the hea of a wolf he killed the other day. ' London East cpontractor, died Saturi day from the effects of burning, h having fallen over a stove a few day ago. —Subscriptions towards the Queen' College five years' fund are still bein made. Within the last few days $1,02 per annum has been guaranteed. U to the present $5,000 of the 510,000 asked for have been subscribed, over $2.000 of which have been promised by the whole amount is expected. —A canary bird belonging to Mrs. Munsie, of Uxbridge, died last week, having attained its twentt -second year. This is a very unusual and extraordin- ary age for a canary. —The Kingston cotton' mill is now turning out 3,000 yards.of cloth per day, andin the course of a month will turn oat between 6,000 and 8,000 yatds per —Two hundred and !sixty Russian Jews ate coming to Montreal per Beaver line steamship Lake Huron. Their friends are making preparations for their reception. • : —A congregation of nuns from Mon- treal has purchased the residence of the late Senator Foster, at Waterloo, for a nunnery. The price is Said to be $30,- 000. —Five cars of well-brell horsee have been shipped from Torouto to Halifax. They are intended as saddle horses for a number of English. offshers wise) have recently arrived -at Halifax. —Mrs. Dr. Tamblyn, of Garafraxa, died last week from the' effects of an overdose of laudanum which she had taken for the toothache. Medical aid was summoned. but it was too late. —Mr. John Watson, of the Ayr Agri. cultural works, is shipping a large num- ber of reapers and other agricultural implements to Prince Edward Island and Manitaba. —Donald Smith, of Luoknow, has been appointed a constable in Hamil- ton. "Don" stands six feet seven inches in height, and 18 well calculated to make the earning tremble. —Miss kauglian of Toronto has en- tered suit against the corporation of Brampton for $2,000 as compensation for injuries sustained by accident on a bridge in Brampton last February. —A $500 team' of horees belonging to backed into thekiver feom the Great Western wharf in Windsor on Friday afternoon and were drowned. —There are 145 lads in the News Boys' Home in Toronto. For the year ending Saturday last they contributed $669.73 towards the expenses of '• the Home, and deposited $224.52 as sav- ings. e -The Queen has caused her thanks to ise conveyed th the City Council of. Hamilton for the congratulatory reso- lution adopted by that body at the time of McLean's attempt on her Majesty's —The Island at Toronto is being gradually washed away. It is feared if ,the present rate of wasting goes on lor a short time longer, the harbor will be completely destroyed, and the island will entirely. disappear. — Mr. Robert Graha;m, who retires from the Head Mestership of the give Public School, in order to take his new position of Principal Of the London West school, was presented. by his Arva pupils with a 125 gold ring on Friday. —The steamer Mississippi arrived at Montreal on Monday, after a passage of 25 days from Liverpeol. She was detained by thelmasses of ice met with in the Atlantic ,Ocean and Gulf of St. Lawrence. —Mr. John Hewitt, an aged and much respected citizen of Peterbo- rough, has mySterionsly disappeared. and his family are in a terrible state of anxiety concerning his fate. For some time past his intellect has been some- what impaired. —Smallpox is spreading in Windso,r and Detroit, notwitlestatiding the vigor- ous efforts of the authorities to keep it down. In Windaor the schools are to' be closed for two weeks, or until the plague shows signs of abating. — At the late tneeting of the senate of Toronto University, Rev. Principal Caven and the Rev. D. 1. Macdonnell, who have been reappointed by the On- tario government for the next three years, took their seats. —Arrangements are nOw so near aim- pletion that when the Lewiston and Queenston bridge over the Niagara river ilecommenced, which is expected to occurinside of a month, the first sod of the St. Catharines and Niagara rail- way will be turned. —A number of farmers in the town- ship of .Sombra with their teams to the number of fifteen or sixteen, assem- bled one day lately and ilotied tied har- rowed in forty buehels of grain for Mrs. Albert Henry, a widowed farmer's wife, of the twelfth liue. ---Exeise Officer Brotn, of Elora, on Saturday, while rernovi g a desk from one house to another, sat down, and when spoken to could not reply. He cannot talk, write or think. The medi- cal attendant says that he is troubled with torpidity of the liver. s — One day recently while Mr. E. Jones, formerly of Collingwootla was carrying some dynamite to do some blasting in connection with the C. P. R., near Algoma Mills4 the sabstance by some means exploded', and the un- fortunate man Was blowia to atoms. —The high winds of last week played some curious ,freaks about London. Signs were blown down, fences de- moliehed, umbrellas reversed by the score, etc. One lady had her umbrella snatehed aloft, nothing but the knob being left in her hand. —50,000 fry consisting of white fish, salmon trout and California salmon have this spriing been deposited. in. Puslinch Lake. It is expected that if nothing happene, in three years' time Puslinch Lake will be oae of the best fishing grounds ,in Canada. - numbee Of colliers were brought out recently iron' Scotland to take the place of the men on strike at the Cape Breton coal mines. On their arrival at Little Glace Bo and Lingan,they were met by a deputiition frem the Provin- cial Worknae03 Association and in- duced to join the union and be govern- ed by its laws. Matters therefore fire not iniproved in the slightest degree, csoerfnaerd.as resumption of work is coia- -A few days ago as Mrs. John Mac- donald, of West Garafraxa, was boiling soap her clothes caught fire. Her hus- band crushed out the fire and burnt his hands severely, the skin dropping off in a cooked condition. Mrs. Macdonald's clothes were burnt off her back but she escaped injury. —Mr. F. Goodwin, a wealthy farmer, 66 years of age, committed suicide on Saturday afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor after an un- successful atterapt to hang himself in the loft of his own barn at the village of Richwood, in the township of Blen- -Warden Massie, of the Central PrisOn, has seat to the Chiefs of Police throughout Ontario, a complete list of all the prisoners to be discharged dur- ing the month of May, together with theie description aud the nature of the offerice for which they were sentenced. They number thirty-nine. —In the gale on the night of the 10th, inst., the Hamilton & North Wes - tent express had a narrow escape, the locoinotive leaving the railsi while cross- ing the bridge over the Burlington Canal. When the locomotiye left the rails (or failed to catch on to those on the bridge) she dragged the cars after her, breaking some twenty kef the needle beams, or ties, and damaging others. —A lad about six years Of age, son of Mr. Alex. Love, of Deayton,. died sud- denly the other eveaing. He left the hopSe with a piece of bread which he was eating and was in a few moments after discovered in a dyiag Icondition by his mother. Whether he iwas choked by evhat he was eating or died thus suddenly from BOMA other cause is not known. persons entered Mr. Henry Powell's sugar woods, in West Nissouri, and after committing some small depreda- tions among the sap crocks, threw the boiling kettle into a creek and burnt the bottom of a tin pan Ion the fire. Such petty conduct shows,l, -to say the least of it, a low, mean and revengeful disposition. terious disease " at New Glasgow, Nova -Scotia, to be anthrax. The cattle take a trembling as though cold when really they are felt to be burning hot. The jugular vein beats violently, breathing quickens, the animals weaken, fall down and stretch themselves out with head drawn back. The disease kills in six hours or more. —A man named John Fuller, living in East Zorra, was found dead Friday raornine about one mile from Wood- stock. t'It appears that Fuller had been drinking during the day, and started for home about eight o'clock, p.m. Nothing more was known of him until he was found dead, lying under his own wagon. The horses were still attached to the wagon. —The Seminary of St. Sulpice has come° to weatiefactory settlement with the squatters on the lands in Muskoka upon which the Oka Indians have been located, and are leaving satisfied with' the manner in which they have been dealt with. The cost to the Seminary was about $5,000. The Indians are pleased with their location and are preparing for the summer'S work. . —Timothy Sullivan, a farm laborer, of West Nissouri, went to Thomdale few days ago, and imbibed rather freely of bog whisky. When next seen he was found ying in a ditch on the morning of the llth, nearly drowned. Medical aid was procured, but he never recovered consciousness, and. died in a few hours. He is said to have relatives in good cir- cumstances in Chicago. —For 'some years back a Gaelic scholarship of $40 per annam has been in existence in connection with Knox College, Toronto, which h s been volun- tarily subscribed by gentlemen in the city speaking the Gaelic language. Efforts are now being m e by the Rev. Principal Caven to collect a sufficient sum of money which if invested would for the future place the echolarship on a permanent basis. —A Hamilton paper priblishee a statement by a man named Barr. who says a man named Wood died in Brook- lyn, N. Y., last winter of sionallpox, con- fessing that he had murdered a man while playing billiards at Brantford, Ont, It is believed Wood Was the .nur- derer of John B. Sage, Of Brantford. Sheriff Griffiths was in the city holding a conference with Barr, hut considers the statement a fraud. 1 —A terrible accident occurred at Lucknow on Monday, by which a boy named McClure, twelve years old, met with a shocking death. , During the temporary absence of the engineer of Hays ,Bell's furniture factory the boy wept into the engine koom, awl by some means his olotheseciaught on the main shaft. His arm was torn out at the. shoulder and both legs broken off by striking on the floor. He died. in- gstoau—lirtT,iformerly of Montreal, who died at Yle'e remains of the late Joseph Kil- Cornwall in July 1874, werle on Friday removed to Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London. It is worthy of mention that upon removing the face plate of the metallic caeket, the features were found to be in as 'perfect a state of preserva- tion as when interred, being nearly eight pairs ,ago. The result was more remarkabldfrom the fact that the cas- ket was found in four feet of water. —Mrs. Macdougall, whose letters from Ireland under the nom de plume of "Nora," attracted considerable at- tention because of their peertliarly inter- er's gallery,Ottawa,on Wednesday night last week. She stated to a member of Parliament that she was, a native of the county Of Leitrim, and; expressed a particular desire to shake Mr. Blake by the hand.' • Her reque4 was made known to the leader of the Opposition, who was afterwards introduced. to Mrs. Macdougall. —An action is pending at Osgood° hall, Toronto, in the Queen's Bench division, brought by• one Codd. against the Manitoba south-western coloniza- tion company railway to recover frora theca 5250,000 for commission and ser- vices rendered to the company in sell- ing debentures in England, and in other ways'. It has been decided to extend the time for defending, as the officers of the conipany are scattered over the province. ---There was an interesting scene at the Union Station, Toronto, last Fri- day when 211 men of the Northwest Mounted Police bade farewell to their friends and were borne ,away towards the "Great Lone Land." One young woman held the hand of her lover till the train started, and only released it when a friend drew her away. A mother, who restrained her feelings to the last fainted in the arms of her daughter as the tram steamed off. Kuox Church congregation, Mitchell, They took passage at Sarnia for Duluth. are arranging for a grand concert in the It is estimated, the time occupied in Town Hall for the evenieg of the 24th their journey will be about a month, so of may. —Stratford Council have built a tower over the engine house for drying the hose. It will hold six lengths of 50 feet each, and will enable tlae firemen to keep it in better condition than heretofore. —The infant child of Mrs. J. BOM- bery, of Mitchell, fell from a high chair in which it ,was sittiag te the floer, striking its head on a piece of .broken bottle and. making a bad gash in the —A correspondent of the Stratford Beacon highly corapliments Rey. elr. Wright, of Knor Church, in that tow -n, r the manly and independent express sio from the pnlpit of his convictions st Saturday eight and Sunday at the hotels. —Last eek a lad in Mitchell put a couple of bullets into a dog, and then buried the body in &Manure heap. The boy then came over town °aid on re- turning nearly an hour afterwards he found the "dead anima' chasing a fowl —At a special meeting of Elina Council recently a settlement was effected betvveen that municipality and the town of Listowel in the matter of the Improvemeat Fund. It was agreed that Elms. pay 5200 to Listowel as its share of the fund. —At the conclusion of the cattle fair in Listowel an exhibitionplowingmatoh took place on the farm of Mr. John Barber. The exhibition was given by several implement agenti to illustrate the merits of their machines, and there was quite a number of farmers in at- -Here is another sheep and lamb story which comes from Downie. Mr. P. M. Conroy has a ewe that gave birth to a lamb about thee, 8th of April and gave birth to twins on the 6th of May. One of the other ewes in the flock bas taken the feest lamb, leaving her with the pair ofiltvins. Lang, of Downie, who has been a cadet of the Kingston Military School for some time, has been chosen on the ar- tillery team who will uphold Canadian prowess in the celebrated artillery cone tests at Shoeburyness, England, dur- ing the coming summer. —The high wind prevailing on Wed- nesday night last week, proved destruc- tive in the vicinity of Dublin. The roof was blown off a barn belonging to Mr. George Turnbull, and Mr. Andrew Turnbull's barn was levelled to the ground, fences and sheds blown down, and other damage done. —Mr. John White has purchased. the property in Mitchell now oecupied by himself as a pork packing house from the vendors of the Babb estate -for the sum of 12,500. There were still two years of his lease of the property to expire, and by his purchase he saves two years rent, 5800, less the interest of the purchase money. —Two games of draughts were play- ed over the wires last week by Mr. W. Davidson, of Listowel, and some of the Milbank players. The first game was a prolonged struggle for advantage, and lasted about six hours. It Was. finally won by Mr. Davidson. The second game lasted about two hours and, a half and was also won by Mr. Davidson, who conducted both games with credi- table skill. —Master Wm. Lochead, son of Mr. Wm. Lochead, of Elma, has again die- tinguished himself at the McGill Col- lege, Montreal. At tbe entrance ex- amination last year he carried off the University prize of $225 ; and at the examination just closed he has almost made a clean sweep of the first prizes in the classes for the students of the first year. :He stexxl highest in Greek, Latin, Latin Histpry, English Lan- guage, Mathematics, German, Honor Mathematics, and second in French, English Literature and Chemistry. Such a brilliant record falls to the lot of but few students. —Mr. Herman Tauber, formerly of Mornington, contrary to the general current of the emigration stream, went South, and has made his horue near the village of Cullman, in northern Alabama. He is farming 80 acres of land. The climate is to his liking, eighteen degrees above zero in winter and 106 degrees in sumraer These are the extremes. On the 28th of April he had his first mess of new potatoes, and other crops are equally advanced. There is a good deal of bad, sandy soil in the State, but there is much good land, which can be bought at a reasonable rate. o erich people should be ashamed of themselves. The Court House Square is furnished to them for nothing, and the very least they might do is to keep the cows and pigs out of it. If they had reasonable taste and enterprise they would have the square nicely laid out in walks and flower plots, and then it would be a real ornament to the otherwise ornamentIess old town. Perth items. The 'Mitchell Lacrosse Club has been organized for the season. —It costs St. Marys 514 per week to lay the clust on the principal thorough- fares. —We are scirry to learn that Mr. W. Guest, of St. Marys, is in an extremely critical condition of health at present.. —The total population of Mitchell is placed at 2,226. There are also in the place 127 dogs, 221 cattle, 32 sheep, 106 hogs, and 157 horses. —The young men and bachelors of that it will be the middle of June be- fore they arrive at their destination. —The American Consul at Prescott reports 5200,000 worth of eggs iinported during the past year from Canada to the United States free of duty. He re- commended that a duty of one cent per dozen be laid on eggs, and asserts this duty would pay the expenses of the cus- tom disteict of Oswegatchie and Cham- plain, New York, and District of Ver- mont. He also suggests a duty of a dollar a ton on straw, four cents eac on railroad ties, six cents on fenc posts, and that the duty on hay be one dollar per ton, hop poles half cent each instead of twenty per cent., and iron ore eighty cents a ton instead of twenty per cent. He sdds : butter and potatoes can be sent into this country at a profit under the present .tariff. —The Kingston News says : The election of Rev. Dr. Sullivan, of Mon- treal, has brought to light the remark- able fact that the Diocese of Huron may be considered a nursery for the production of Canadian Bishops. The first Bishop.of the Huron Diocese was the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Cronyn. Then followed' the present Bishop, Rt. Rev. Isaac Hellmnth, D.:I).- then the Bishop of Saskatchewan, Rt.iev. Dr. McLean ; the late Bishop Fauquier, of Algoma ; the present Bishop Sweatman, of Tor- onto ; and, laatly, the• present Bishop elect of Algoma, Rev. Dr. Sullivan, who wag ordained in London, and re- sided in, that neighborhood for some years. It May also be added that the Rev. Canon Baldwin, of Montreal, Canon Carmichael, of Hamilton, and the Rev. j. P. Damoulin, of ' Montreal, three able and eloquent divines, are Huron men. —A train of thirteen cars with Ger- man immigrants arrived at the Union depot, Toronto, late last Sunday night. There were about 400 in all, and they were anything but comfortable on the train. They had. been on the oars for three days, and when the train strived they were nearly all asleep. Men, women, and children were hustled to- gether like so many cattle in the dirty and badly ventilated cars, naany of them being prostrate on the floor of the passage waye. Most of the Beats were filled, the octupants sitting with their heads on the window sills, and their feet projecting over the aisles in a man- ner that made it almost impossible to pass through the cars. Two other trains, one (:, seven and the other of five cars, . with English, Scotch, and Irish immigrants, arrived on Monday —At the recent assize court held in St. Thomase a case of some interest to school teachers, and those who think that their unruly children are too good to receive puaishment, was tried. T. N. Wilton was charged with brutally assaulting a teacherna-med Gray. From the evidence it appears that ithe prison. 11 er _was sen ing a boy about twelve years of age to a sohool kept by one Gray. Mr. Gray punished the boy pretty severely, and the prisoner ,made up his mind to give ' the teacher a horse-whipp ng. The prisoner keeps a livery etable in Dresden. He waited for the teac er in the livery stable the morning af r the occurrence at' the school, and hen Mr. Gray was passing he went out and struck him twice with a horse whi , aud after a tussle they fell to the round, the teacher being underneath. While he was down the prisoner str A him, breaking his nose. The prisons of Toronto, player, who five years and remaine tage, is one the followin San Antoni heaviest an tions that h time was eff J. 0. Sulliv purchased a ranch of was fined $100, upon pay - h he will be liberated. . Sullivan; once a resident nd a well-known lacrosse tarted for Mexico about go, on his wedding tour, there to his great advan- f the parties referred to in paragraph taken from the Express : " One of the most important transac- s taken place for a long bed yesterday when Mr. n and Mr. De Bardeleben wo-thirds in est in the which is. s tasted Afty mil ts below Laredo, on he Mexican - aide of the river,and be ween there and Eagle Pass. This ranch i one of the largest in the world. The rice paid was the handsome sum of 150, .0n this ranch are t Wenty thousand e es, or twenty-five thoasand sheep in all, horses and cattle in" pro- portion, an two hundred thousand acres of fin arable land, making alto- gether the most extensive establish- -The G. erioh Star of last week says : "Th Square, which might be, with a trifii g expense, one of the most beautiful p blic parks in Canada, is again turne into a ceow pasture this week, a nu ., ber of wandering bovines grazing with little interruption in the (not) forbid en enclosure.' The God - drin —Mr. John Young, of the township of Colborne, who has been attending Q neen's College, -Kingston, for the past four years, hu succeeded in getting a first scholarship, 1100, and besides which he took two first prizes and his