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DLESS'ARIET .
sfatment Just Received
Campbell's
SIM, S AFORT
WEST DE SIGNS IN
SQUARES AND CENTS*
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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