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. them and deal with
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horse. In a corner
as a well with ten
The trotter broke,
e ' - ' and in rampaging
a go backwards into
ha went natil his
i the curb ring five
ace, his fore legs on
, shoaldera preventing
A. He was brought
- six hours labor of
ilthough considerably
Led, will not be nauch,
cannot now be either
1 to go near that
aresporident says- :—
imea in Elma is the
a.rmers raising tlaeir
aew ones. 'Logging
• in the lower part of
rally fellewed by a
t fantastio toe in the
I are beginning to- be
lot that cheese rnak-
r all. The mamma.'
e added new nares
s of cheese factories.
a beginning to get
si for themselves the
of the high price of
Recorder says :—
week a couple of
l been through the
e capacity of wash -
era. A few days ago
Ire George Sarainer,
aced him to take at
hine. Drawing front
k of printed forms ta
.nureber of maehines
laened his name ia
s. The same even-.
ips were in Dublin
Sammer's notes to
WO• or thereabouts. -
:they tried atthe
ith no better suo-
t.
has' worried Mr.
that his mind has
ha pressure, and he
Plaa mental condition,
. of the, fraudulent
ra, Notea.
aid to be erecting
at residences," and
agnificeut suburban
a of wheat are new
iimersort, ooming ia
!meats. The pre.
lints per bushel.
baseball club
organized, and is
tnyttting in litani-
aesota or Dakota.
a Ontario Bank is
in Emersen, with
of the Merohant's
aaneger.
while drank, fell
[at Creek into six
. was drowned. It
reit &leak at Flat
be honored. with its
3ircits 4Royai and
is to show at Win -
July, arid on the
,f A.uguat, and at
August Griptvill be
eously in Toronto' • .
e contents of the
dl have it special ap-
tirs in the North -
e are getting thaw -
a Monday last -the
ered 104 ct in the
in the sun, but
ith the heat as
ion'feel it.
atween Forey aad
sitle,with e purse of
ea on the Lake of the
ige on Friday last,
prey. The coarse
nilea and e half and
a was 46.39.
ie Canada Metho-
don, have formed
&dies' Aid Society.
o cfficere elected :
'resideat ; Mrs. T.
it; Mrs. Ef awash,
a. Will J. White,
working committee
fed Gem:tail of Brett-
on the 3rd inst.,
wearing in Mayor
a envie(' as that of
the oath to the
city. The inseior
derinea, and they
n their arduous
g. of the new city
Vas held on Thurs-
est week. The
as follows; city
tberlain $400 ; as-
orabitted, $l,200;
' health inspector,
$150 per Month; '
GO per month.
is appointed assitt-
O G. A. Henderson,
resars, Poacher dt
aers.
l3,000,000 feet of
LI revere floating
. they- come frona
ter and Red Lela)
,heeri so- many logs
a stop too steam
embina, and Fargo,
ned for the eafety
aerson whea the
ive reaches that
rgest drive of logs
:hat city at one
to continue Rim
etaraling the fact
The Free Press a
Mr. John Wolf on
tat week sold to
R.fit half of Mo-
- Streete, 66 by 99
Ea also sold the
raer of .Pritacess
a,te by 99 for
t was excavated
eed to pay the
amounting to
occurred at Kin.
°ruing, which re -
A rchibeld Galles,
iC works- While
the pile driver
lentally thrown
tautly.
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"WHOLE NUMBER, 765, IFTEENTH YEAR.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 1882.
ligcliE.A.N BROS., Publishers.
$1.60 a Year, in Advance.
CLEARING SALE
—0F4
Summer Dress Goods
NOTE THE FOLLOWINC PRICES
Dress Goods Sold at 18c,
Marked Dwitnito 10c.
Dress Goods Sold at 20c,
marked down to 1232-c.
Dress Goods sold at 25c,
marked down to 15c.
Striped Itluelins sold at 15c,
marked down, to 10c.
Prints sold at 8c and 10c,
marked down to 5e.
Gingham sold at 15c,
marked down to 10c.
CLOVES, HOSIERY, CORSETS,
LACES AND EMBROIDERIES
VERY 01-1A.T)
FOR CASH OR PRODUCE.
E. McFAULI.
Seaforth.
J. S. R015i§TS,
DRUG
SEAFORTH,
J. S. ROBERTS begs to inform his
friends, customers and the public gener-
ally, that during his absence in the
North-west his business will be under
the management of Mu. liacRirsc,
thoroughly competent gentleman, in
whom all can place the *utmost confi-
dence, and he hopes for a continuance
of the liberal patronage he has received
since starting business in Seaforth.
Feels Better Than for Ten Years.
Toronto, September 20th, 1880.—
Gentlemen—My fathee had piles for
three years; his kidneys were affected,
and he had a pain in the sinall of his
haok ; he could not walk sometimes for
weeks at a tinie. He is wearing the
second Pad new, and is nearly well.
He says that he feels better than he
has for ten years. Thankfully yours,
F. M. RosE. For sale by J. S. Roberts,
Druggist, Seaforth.
Given up by Doctors.
Toronto, November iOth, 1880.—
Gentleraen—Two months since I was
taken very suddenly with a -pain in my
left kidney, and a large passage of
blood through ray urinary organ. The
doctors gave. me up, and expected me
to die hourly for two or three days, but
the henamorrhage ceased and -I got
about again, but I continually had a
dull heavy pain in the small of my
back, whtch I could not relieve until I
sew your Kidney Pads advertised. I
tried one, and can add my name to the
hat of thbse who have 'found them
beneficial, and recommend them.
Yours truly, G. MoCentiee Fpr sale by
J. S. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth.
Female Weakness Cured.
Guelph, May 21st, 1880.—Gentlemen
-4n reply to your note, I have to say
that I called upon the lathes you raen-
Coned., and both assured me that Starr's
Eidney Pad had effected a perfect and
permanent cure. One of the cases was
of some three years' standing. Re-
spectfully yours, 3. R. CAArgEoN, Editor
of the Guelph Herald. For sale by 3.
S. Roberts, Druggist, Seaforth.
From the Northwest.
We have been permitted to make the
following extracts from a priVate later
recently received from Mr. John Leokda,
of Brussels. Mr. Leckie has been it.
the Northwest for several months, has
travelled a good deal, and being & close
observer and a gentleman of keen
insight 'and good judgment, his opin-
ions are well deserving of respect and
consideration. He writes- from a place
called Weed Creek, in the Qu'Appelle
District? under date of July 16. Mr.
Leckie has taken up a large section of
Jand at this point, and has a number of
men and teams employed in doing the
required settlement duties upon it.
Not wishing to engage in the actual
settlement labors himself, and having
to star close upon his claim in order to
look after it and keep possession of it,
he and another well known gentle-
man from Listowel started a store and
are doieg a good business, furnishing
to the surrounding settlers the requisite
supplies, and he hopes some day to
have adt'city" on or near his property.
He continues:
This is a great country an it is dif-
ficult to gauge the capabilities of it.
They may be great and they P,tay be very
disappointing. Onething le certain,
there is money to be made here for the
next two or three years. After that I
do not know, but I am of the opinion at
present that the party who has his real
estate realized upon then will be the
best off. I do not say this in deprecia-
tion -of the country. Crises come in all
countries at certain states of their ex-
istence, but all the circumstances point
specially to such a stage of things in a
much larger degree of severity than has
ever been experienced in old Canada. I
trust I may be wrong in my prognosti-
cation, but the moment a surplus is
raised in this country I do not want to
own inch property in it.
The land policy of the Government is
simply ' abominable. You cannot tell
what a day or an hour may bring forth,
and actual settlers are disgusted. The
cloud on the political horizon here is
already a good deal bigger than a man's
hand, and will some day not far in the
distant future burst on the heads of the
present Government, and retribution
will be swift - and sure. They
begin to see the hand writing
on the Wall already, hence the dread cif
bringing on the local elections as an-
nounced. If Premier Norquay went to
the country to -day, although he has a
majority of two to one in the present
House, he Would not come back with
more than ten supporters ;- and why?
Entiretly owing to the disallowance of
local charters and the land muddling of
the Government at Ottawa and the
cringing fear of the Manitoba Govern-
ment to assert their rights. Nearly
everything worth having is already in
the hands of the Syndicate, so called
Colonization Societies, Land Companies
or private friends of the Government.
People leave their homes to come here;
bound generally for some particular
locality, — Qu'Appelle, Tonchwood
Hills, Pleasant Plains, Jumping Creek,
Saskatchewan, , or some other place.
They arrive there and find the land be-
longs to the Temperance Company, the
Whitby and Ontario Company, the Qu-
'Appelle Land Company, Qu'Appelle
Farming Company, Primitive Metho-
dists, Press •Association, the Gibbs',
Coughlin's, Kelly's, Elliot's, North -
wood's and a host of others. They do
not know how or where to find them,
and are afraid to squat on the lands,
and what is the result? They get mad
andtleave ; go over to Dakota, where
they are taken by the hand by a Gov-
ernment agent . or agent of a railway
company and get a homestead at once,
and this is not all, they write home to
Ontario and the Lower Provinces, to
England, Scotland, Ireland and Eur-
ope, and advise their friends not to
come, hence the tide of immigration to
the United States, This is no idle
speculation; I know whereof I speak.
Two families in our own locality, who
have large connections in Eastern On-
tario, and One of them a rank Tory,
have left with their whole outfit p for
Dakota within the last two weeks, be-
came) they could get no satisfaction
about their locations, and could not
buy Syndicate Lands in the railway
belt.
The Canada Pacific Railway business
is going to turn out one of the greatest
swindles on record, more so than you or
ever expected. Ilfeel perfectly satis-
fied that they have no•more intention
of building the road beyond the prairie
sections than you. have, All the indi-
cations point in that way: the char-
acter of the line, the policy they are
adopting with regard to their lands, itc.,
&c. By the time they get to the
- Rockies they will have received land
and money enough to clear them
$100,000,000. That will he their profit,
and the Government can take their
third-class road and go to Jericho, where
they must go in a political sense, if
this country settles up as fast in the
future as it has done this year not-
withstanding their policy of obstruction
to actual settlers.
Canada.
Over 4,000 volunteers will be at
Niagara Camp in September.
—The Hamilton gas company has
erected a new reservoir at a cost of
$50,000.
—A rich phospeate mine has been
discovered on the farm of Richardson,
the victim of the Buck Lake murder.
—John Albert, the County Constable
who shot and killed the boy Young,
near Toronto, appears to be losing his
reaeon.
—The crown of the head of the statue
of Nelson,at Montreahsome 60 feet from
the ground, was sliced off by lightning
on Friday last.
—The wife' of Mr. David Hunt, re-
siding on John street, Harailtqa, com-
mitted suicide on Saturday by drown-
ing herself in a soft -water puncheon.
By „this rash act nine children are left
motherless, Deceased was 43 years of
age. It is said that she was subject to
spells:of insanity, and. during one of
.these it is probable she committed the
awfuldeed.
—A son of Ald. Heney, of Ottawa,
fell from the roof of a two-storey build-
ing and received probably fatal injuries.
—The London Wellington street
Methodist congregation have commenc-
ed to hold out -door Sunday evening
services.
--Rev. D. J. MoDonell, of New St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Toron-
to, has been very ill, but is now recover-
ing.
—Anglican Sisterhoods are to be
established in Toronto. The members
will devote their lives to works of char-
ity and piety.
—Ten thousand acres of land are
being'surveyed for stock raising pur-
poses, by the Shelburne, Nova Scotia,
Stock raising Company.
—Samuel Russell Warren, aged 73,
'the well known organ builder of Toron-
to, died suddenly of heart disease at
Silver Spring, New Jersey, last Sunday
night.
—Mr. Thomas Adams and Mr. J. M.
Davis-, of Aylmer, recently disposed of
58 hotel of cattle for' shipment to the
:)1d Country, for $4,200, or an average
of nearly $73 per head.
—Ope of the employes of the Tor-
onto Zoo received serious injuries while
playing with the alligator, lately. With
a whisk of its tail it threw the man
into the pond, breaking his leg.
—On Wednesday last week John
Krue_ga, 9 years, was run over by a train
on the Grand Trunk Railway near- the
station, at Berlin, and instantly killed,
his head being cut off.
—A St. Catharines man has received
an order from a capitalist in Winnipeg
to give him an estimate for the con-
struction of eleven frame cottages, one
story in height and 22x40 with oak sills.
----The Allan Line Steamship, Pari-
sian, made the shortest time on record
in ittelast trip across the Atlantic, hav-
ing reached Moville 6 days and 14
hours after leaving. Rimouski.
—The Grand Trnnk, Georgian Bay
and Lake Erie Railway to Wier -
ton, is open, The Grand Trunk
Railway has commenced to rua two
trains a day through to Wiarton on the
Georgian Bay.
—A. hen belonging to Mr. James
Marks, of Nassagaweya, recently laid
an egg whioh sports an unnecessary
appendage known as a tail. The egg,
which is quite a novelty in its way will
be sent to the iToronto ZoO.
—Sir A. T. Galt, Canadian High
Commissioner to England, has written
inviting the Mansion House Committee
to Bend 100 Jewish refugees to Canada.
The Committee intend availing them-
selves of this permission.
—Premier Norqnay, and Messrs.
Royal and Scott, have called a Con-
servative convention for September
21st, to frame a provincial policy for
the elections to take place in Nov-
vem ben
—On the information of Mr S. G.
Bargess, president of the Spring Creek
cheeee factory, East Zorrat John Blair
was brought before Police Magistrate
Field at Woodstock the other day, and
fined430 and costs for sending skimmed
milk to the lactory.
—Rev. Dr. 'Ormiston, of New York,
preached last Sabbath in St. James'
Square Presbyterian Church, Toronto,
each time to large congregations. The
Reverend gentleman continues to speak
in his accustomed vigorous style.
—Capt. James Mackay of west Zorra,
(near:Ilarrington) sold a span of fiee
horses .the other day to Mr D. G.
Murray, for $725. The horses Were
shipped across the herder. They were
exceedingly fine enamels. Mr D. G.
Murray of the same place, sold a fine
horse for $350.
—At the next meeting of the Senate
of Ittron to:U niversity, Professor Loudon
will submit a scheme for abolishing
scholarships paid out of the University
funds,. rather looking for private acholar-
ships:, and for reducing the number of
examinations to five A. from thirteen,
as at pretent, for B.
—The County- Judge of York has de-
oided that in order to proceed to take
immediate possession of expropriated
land 'under the Dominion Railway Act,
a railway company has not to file a con-
thandus plan of • the yawl° route, but
that a plan 61 the section in which the
land is sought is sufficient.
—Mr. John Thompson, of the 5th
Concession of Camden, . took from his
field of wheat on the 24th ult., a t,peci-
men grown from one grain. It had 58
stalks, each head of wheat containing
an aterage of 35 grades, making a total
of 1e914 grains produced from one
seed!
—The Geo. Holgate, of Philadelphia,
who *says he made the Liverpool infer-.
nal Machines for O'Dpnovan Rossa, and
that Arabi Bey asks his price for mak-
ing an infernal machine wherewith to
blow up the British ` fleet, worked at
the Wanzer sewing machine factory in
Hamilton, about eight years ago.
—,Rev. Canon Dumanlin, of Montreal,
has eteitten to the Bishop of Toronto,
accepting the offer of the Rectorship of
St. James Cathedral, Toronto, stipulat-
ing, however, for the full title and all
the privileges attached to the office.—
This means that Rev. W. 5, Rainsford.
shall not be termed Associate Rector.
—The Customs officers at Montreal
havei made a heavy seizure of flour for
infraletion of the grinding -in -bond rega-
latioas. It is asserted that targe quan-
tities of flour which is entered for ware.
house is allowed to go into consumptioti
and afterwards replaced for exporta,
tion by Canadian flour.
—Mr. James McComb, a farmer living
a short distance west of Granton, hired
a boy about three weeks ago to work
for him during summer, things went
smoithly enough until last Thursday,
when Mr. and Mrs. McComb left him th
chare of the piece, but when they re.
turned in the evening they found that
the boy had "jumpe4 out," taking along
with him a second hend suit belonging
to Mr.MoComb, a pair of pants and a
fine shirt, he has not since been heard
of.
—A letter from M. George Laidlaw,
who was so energeticlin projecting the
Narrow Gauge and redit Valley roads
at Toronto, gives a g owing account of
the construction of t e Canada Pacific
Railway, and says it will be fifty miles
west of the Saskatchewan before win-
ter if the Government keeps the Indians
quiet. Seventy:six hundred men- in all
are at work on the Western Section.
—On the morning of Monday, 17th
inst., about one o'clock, a female child
about three or four weeks old was left
at the door of Mr. E C. Bartley, in the
14th concession, East Nissouri,by an un-
known man who, after wakening the
inmate e of the house got into a carriage
and drove rapidly off towards the west.
It had plainly been vry badly treated,
and was very ill. It has since died.
—Last Saturday ir the London Mar-
ket, business is said o have been un-
usually slack for a S turday, which is
usually brisk: New iay. $8 per ton;
no ald hay offered. Tew notatoes,$1.50
per bushel; raspbenies, $1.50 per pail,
and hard to get; sturgeon in demand,
other fish quiet; Bu ter, 20 cents, eggs
the same; oats,54 cents; cherries, 8
cents.
—A. syndicate for the purchase and
sale of lands has beei formed in Owen
Sound, and they h%vp already acquired
- a large quantity of 1 nd. Their latest
purchase includes number of the
islands in ithe Georgian Bay, among
which are Griffith, Hay, White Cloud,
Bear's Rump, Flow r Pot, and Cove
Island.
—Three young ch. dren belonging to
one Ball, residing ne r Linwood, have
died within a few m ntbs of each other
under rather suspici us circumstances.
The mother of the 4iildren is dead,and
Ball is married to ai4other woman. The
neighbors consider the behavior of the
couple towards the c
gra* apprehension.
--eMr. James -Vali,
Mr. !Thos. Vair, of
heard from. For th
has held the position
tendent under the Ba
writes that the ban
to float down 70,000
30,000,000 feet of 1
which is used in -Vi ginia City in the
mines. -
—On Tuesday, the 18th inst, Mr.
Samuel Toman's barn, near. New Dun-
dee, was struck by lightning. The fluid
struck the west gable end, passing
thence into the stable. where it killed a
hildren as open to
of Nevada, son of
alt, has lately been
3. past six years he
of Flume Superin-
k of California. He
expects this year,
cords of wood and
mber, nearly all of
horse. The barn c nght fire, but ow-
ing to the prompt e ertiona of the fami-
ly, the flames were xtiuguished with-
out doing serious da age. ,
—Many drunken jimmigrants were
among. the last arrivels in Montreal.—
They are constant lfrequenters of the
saloons, women as well as men. Eliza-
beth Hamilton, froth ,Belfast, was un-
able to take the western train hut night
and threw a fifty dollar shower of bills
in the face of the ()listable who arrest-
ed her.
—One of the attraptions of the Indus-
trial Exhibition at Toronto will be a
practical illustratioe of the mode of
modern warfare on the water, and the
use of the torpedo, oe the lake in front
of the Exhibition Grounds, by the firing
and explosion of Shells on, and the
blowing to 'atoms of a large vessel pre-
pared to represent a man-of-war.
=Knowledge of the Gaelic language
has !been turned to good account by
Prof. Nicholson of Qaeen's College.
After a stirring address in it to the
Highlanders of Glengarry, they sub-
scribed $300 to th ia Gaelic Chair of
Literature in Queen's College. The
Professor has also addressed a stirring
appeal to the men ofithe Gaelic race in
America through *the Scottish Amer-
ican journal, on behalf of the proposed
chair.
—A petition has been filed against
the election and return of Prof. Geo.
Foster, who defeated Mr. Domville, on
the grounds of undue influence, money,
liquor, dad other ,corrupt practices
used 'during the election in King's
county, New Brunswick. The petition
'alleges that Prof. Fopter was aware of
these, and therefore phould be disquali-
fied under the Act.
- .
-4-While driving home a few nights
agolin a rain storm, Mayor Beaudry of
Montreal, had his belggy tun into by a
carter ou Victoria . Square. Beaudry
was thrown oat, and would have been
run over but fort the assistance of
several merchants,' ho seeing a colli-
sion inevitable, secu ed and held the
horses, and drag ed Beaudry out
of danger. He is aro nd again.
. —James Wylle, the champion
draught player of th world, well known
all over Canada, andi who is at present
giving a aeries of e hibitian games at
Chicago, has been cliallenged by Chas.
Barker, of Boston, 1 champion of the
United States, to pla for the champion-
ship of the world an $100 a side. He
has accepted, and the game will 'be
played on Mr. Wyle's return to the
east.
7'
Mr Thos. Marthall, Clerk a the
-
Township of NorthDumfries, had a
very unpleasant experience a few days
ago. While driving along the road his
hose was frightened by a dog suddenly
springing from a fence corner, and
plunging to one side, upset' the buggy
intJ the ditch. ir. Marshall was
thrown out and sust ined some painful
bruises and. a genel' al shaking up that
was anything but ag eeable.
—At Eastwood. a faw days ago Mr.
Wm. MoVittie, co -chman for . Mr.
Broughton, Genera Manager of the
Great Western Raliiway, was badly
kicked by a horse. He had driven to
the station on a measage, and was just
going to step into a narriage to return to
the house: While in the act of stooping
to pick up the reins, the horse started
kickingtand Mr. M Vittie was struck
• by one of the corkt in the animal's
she laying open the cheek from his
nose to the jouter part of:the cheek bone.
The unfortunate inan was stunned by
the kick, and rentained unconscione for
some time.
—A few days ago Mr. George A.
Kirk, of Arthur, purchased a veryfine.
lot of cattle numbering twenty, from
Mr. Wm. Ternan, a man well known in
that township as a stock raiser. The
price paid was , $1,230. Mr. Ternan
says they are about the finest lot
that ever left his farm; and although -
having been engaged in stock raising for
twenty years past, he never realized as
ligrigahdeof
prices as this year for the dame
—A very sad accident occurred the
other evening on the 8th Concession of
King, by which a little girl, of 7 years,
daughter of John Cooper, lost her life.
It appears that while Mrs. Cooper was
out milking, the child had been playing
with matches and set fire to its clothes,
and on the return of Mrs. Cooper she
found her child lying on the floor burn-
ed almoet to a crisp. Much sympathy
is expressed for the bereaved parents.
—The period of three months allowee
'the Great Western Railway to deolard
their intention of giving up their lease
of the London and Port.' Stanley Rail-
way, expires on the 20th of August, and
should nothing be heard from the cor-
poration by that time, the London
Junction Company proposes to take
immediate steps to push on the I con-
struction of that line to connect Lon-
don with the Canada Southern and
Credit Valley roads.
—On Wednesday morning of last
week a sad accident occurred in North
Algoma. A little daughter of August
Beesenthal, eight years old, was praying
at the top of the stairs,and accidentally
slipped and tutabled down on a cra-
dle blade that wes carelessly left at the
foot of the stairs cutting from the bit
knee, thence aoress the abdomen, pene-
trating the bowels and liver. She died
a few hours afterwards. •
—Mrs. McKillip, wife of the proprie-
tor of the Brant House, a summer re-
sort on Burlington Beach, attempted to
commit suicide by throwing herself be-
fore a train on the N. W. Railway. She
was dragged from the track by County
Constable Bell. Domestic differences
are said to be the cause. Her husband
threatened to shot her last week, and
was fined on two charges of threaten-
ing.
—At a Baptiti Sunday school pic-nic
at Massassaga eint,Wednesday,a boat
containing nine 'persons, among whom
was Rev. A Turabull, pastor of the Bap-
tist church of Belleville, capsized about
a quarter of a mile frbm shore. Sever-
al of the party narrowly escaped drown-
ing, but all mapaged to cling to the
drifting boat until taken off by persons
who went to thel rescue in boats from
the shore.
—Messrs. Shaw ct Robertson, i of
Walkerton, Ont., for the applicauts,
gave notice that application will be
made next sessien for an act to ineor-
porate a railwayoompany to construct
a railway from or near Edmonton on
the North Saskatchewan, to a point
on the Bow River, at or near Calgary
or Morleyville, dr touching both, thence
to or near Fort MoLeod, thence south
or south-east to the St. Mary's River,
and thence to Cypress Hills.
—John Foley, editor and proprietor
of the Orangeville Sun died last Sunday
night in the 46th year of his age. De-
ceased came to Orangeville about 22
years ago, and began the publication of
the Sun, which was the first paper
published in the county. He was a
writer of considerable ability, and took
an active inteeest in public matters.
He filled the poSition of reeve of Orange-
ville in 1877, hating been elected to the
office by acclamation.
—The case of a physician, (as one
might express it) caught in his own trap,
is so rare that we notice with some
surprise the mistake made by Dr. Baird,
of Paisley. This gentleman feeling a
little squeamish the other naorning,
took a dose of some liniment intended
for external application only. By
drinking it his throat was literally
blistered. The doctor's suffering was
intense, but we are glad to say he soon
recovered.
—.Miss Helee L Pierson who was
born and brought up in Galt, and re-
ceived her education there, has lately
received the appointment of . official
stenographer for the city of Cincinnati.
Four or five years ago she went to
Lonsville, Ky., and obtained employ-
ment as a copyist in an office.Ambi-
tion prompted her in 1876 to begin the
study of shorthand, and she acquired a
considerable knowledge of the art in a
few inonths without the aid of a teach-
er. Since then' her progreps has been
onwerd.
— The American Lumber Company
has purchased rom the Detroit, Mack-
inac dr Marque te Railway' Company,
the standing pine on its entire land
grant, except in Mackinaw county and
the east part of Chippewa county, in
all half a million acres. It has also
purchased 225,000,000 feet of lumber in
the northern pepinsula, giving it con-
trol of the larfli est body of pine in
Michigan. It ' tends to cut 14,000,000
feet next winteli. The head offices are
in Toronto.
— The City of Halifax has been
struek by something which is supposed
to be the army worm. Morris Street
School play gronnd is where they were
last noticed, and they were in such
mimbers as to ehange the color of the
ground, aid wee swarming over the
fence, crossing Morris Street and.
entering housend yards in thou-
sands. Some people threw lime
in their epurse, which seemed in some
measure to destroy the insects, and
completely ()laved Morris street. They
are from one to two inches in length,
being larger than the grubs which did
so much damage to trees this summer,
and of a dark . slate -grey color. The
places they have passed over are now as
brown as though from weeks of drought.
They seem to suck the juice out o the
verdure rather than eat the blade.
— One of the liveliest enoatmters :vet
witnessed on the • London =take , is
said to have taken place Satur1a,
between a city alderman and a h
ster, over a pail of berries. By 1 the
vigorous intervention of friends th
contestants were induced to desist. 1 I
the conflict the huckster hat/tone o hi
thumbs either badly bitten or tram le
on, and after the battle both pati.
presented the appearance of haivin.g
undergone rough usage. One ho
witnessed. the row reports that Use
Alderman received a terrible blow over
the head with a roll of butter.
— There is a type -setter on the ark -
hill Gazette whotias only one handi and
that the left one. 'He can do an ver -
age journeyman's day's work at axe,
empties his "stick" and does not eon
very much disabled by the absen e Of
his right hand. Of all enaploym ntS,
that of a type-eetter requires dexterity
of the hands and fingers, but this young
man, an Englishman, who has peen
earning 24 shillings per week in png-
land, and whose labor is worth $8 or
$10 per week here, shows what may be
done by hopeful, persevering, i dus-
trions cripples." I
• —The report of the Quebec Insp ot4r
of Prisons favorably recommend the
employment Of prisoneraat some use-
ful work, such as the learning of a
trade. It comments favorably on the
discipline maintained at Montreal and
at Quebec, and gives facts as td the
laxity at some of the county in titte
tions. • At B,eauharnois in Dece ber
last the jailer was absent six days and
left the jail in charge of his son, ged
15, when two prisoners escaped. On
the 12th July, at Montmagny, six
prisoners picked a look and esc pea
while the jailer was at Quebec the
turnkey at church, and no one in a arge
of the prison.
. Our spicy contemporary, the Ti son.
burg Liberal, says: "It is with feepags
akin to pain that we observe that ome
of our contmercial travellers are c ()th-
ing themselves in trousers that fit tihern
too quick, and hats that are buil on
the model of a achooner yacht. Thls
gives them the appearance of animated
washbowltrying to walk on stilts.
On Friday Tilsonburg was visited by
one of those leaders of fashion. He
was a big fellow, too, and the sidewalk
seemed to be to narrow for him.lE (e
did not remain long in town, and we
hope none of our .young men saw him.
The tailors will save too ranch cloth by
this new style. !
—A taidern Enoch Arden has tamed
up in the county of lainark, but fortun-
ately without Enochis tragic experienota
Eighteen years ago David Innip, of
Imaisfil, married a young lady of that
place, and soon after left to seek his
fortune 1[7 parts unknown. With the
exception of one letter, no informaticsa
had since been received from him 'until
a few days ago, when the news rettched
Perth that he had returned, and Irs ar-
rival "follpwed close upon," as H mkt
says. He was met by a young in n Of
seventeen whom he had never see4, but
who proved to be his son, by hoin
he was driven home to be re.unit4d to
the patient Penelope who had so log
awaited the return.of her Ulysses. ,
—A lad, twelve years of age, mimed.
Johnnie Turner, whose parents reside
in the Soptch Block, near Georgetown.
died on the 15th ult., after a w k pf
intense anffering. The doctor ii at-
tentlance proeounced the trouble
an abscess on l the boy's leg and tr atol
him accoedingly. He continued to rov
worse, and op Saturday momin 14s
cries of pidn, becoming unbearabl ,the
doctor geese him some medicine to alte
him sleep, from which the poor -ttle
fellow never wakened. The real auSe
of his deeth was found out Su da ,
when hie little brother remena er d
that one evening when he was w kiiig
on top of the board fence his foot slip-
ped and he fell astride the fenc ;re-
ceiving injuries which resulted ta
above.
— A foolish young girl, &lighter -of a
farmer near Staynea, ran away froin
home and was found by her father in
Toronto the other day. The girl, who
is only seventeen years of age, had fool-
ishly accepted the attentions of the
"hired man," a middle-aged individual
named Corrigan, and had eloped wi h
him to Teronto. The father folio we
and employed a detective, who tdac d
the missipg girl to several boardine-
houses to which she had success vely
gone, and at last found her in comjniifiy
.
with Corrigan, on the way to the
ister's house to have the nuptial r. t
tied. The appearance of the irate p r-
ent frightened the expectaaatbrideg oom
and he agreed to forego all claim tc the
young lady, who left that eveninl fbr
home with her father.
— Front the Telegraph of lastv eels
i
we learn that the Rev. A. Russe,bf
Hawksville, who officiated in St. .A. -
drew's Church, Berlin, on ' Sabba h
morning, the 23rd ult., -had a -8 ig t
. paralytic stroke ea soon as he en ered
the pulpit. Not wishing to alarm t e
congregation he continued the sevi1ie
to the end. His left arm and leg were
so paralyzed that he had no control
over them. Dr. Clemens, who wee -n
church, was in attendance and had tie
Rev. gentleman conveyed to the resi-
dence of Mr. ijolin McDoegall, whe e 4ie
was most kindly attended to. On o -
day Mr. Russel was mach better,1 aid
in a short time regained the fail nlse of
his limbs. Mr. Russel has been oftt for
for a few holidays, and it is supposed
over-exeeted himself, which may ha -17e
caused his sudden illness. .
—The decomposed body of a man
was found one afternoon lately in an
unoccupied shed near the Don Riyiere-
-The remains were recognized as those
of a tramp named Crawford, and death
must haye taken place over a week pte-
viously. In one of the pockets o the
deceased. was found a coir
pass book, iii which there
four entries, the first being: "Any
mon
were
per-
son finds this, write to my brother, A.
Crawford, Braehead, Lanarkshire, Scot-
land." Another was dated 14th July,
1882, and said: "My name is T. Craw-
ford. If anybody asks after me, I am
dead." The third note says, "Wednes-
day, 12, I have just one hour to live.
Thomas Crawford. Towards the end
of the book, probably when the man
was about expiring, he had written, "I
am dead." Deceased, -who was about
70 years of age, had starved himself.
—The successful matriculated stu-
dents in arts at the June examinations
number 150, and they are distributed as
regards their training among the high
schools as given below. Where a stu-
dent attended two schools he is credit-
ed. to both. Upper Canada College and
St. Catharines Collegiate Institute, 13
each, private study, 11, Toronto Col-
legiate Institute, 11; Hamilton Col-
legiate Institute, 7:; St. Marys, Peter-
boroa. Galt and Barrie Collegiate Insti-
tutes, and St. Thomas and Bowman-
ville High Schools, and St. Michael's
College, °teach ; Collh3gwood Collegiate
Institute, 6; Canada Literary Institute,
Woodstock, London Collegiate Insti-
tute, Richmond Hill and Whitby High
Schools, 4 each; Brampton, Guelph,
Goderich, Ingersoll, Strathroy, Port
Perry and Weston High Schools, 3
each; Berlin, Caledonia, Clinton,Duian-
ville, Harriston, Markham, Owen,
Sound, Port Hope, Seaforth and Tren-
ton High Schools, 2 each; Aylmer,
Beamsville, Brantford, Elora, Iroquois,
Lindsay, New Castle, Oakville, Orange-
ville, Oshawa, Ottawa, Prescott, Wood-
stock, Uxbridge and Vienna High
Schools, 1 each.
—From the breezy heights of Kin-
cardine, from the Caledonum hills of
Lucknow, from the fertile ,plains of
Blytti, !him tile well -watered streets of
Wingharn, from the classic avenues of
l3russels, from the verdant slopes of
Bluevale, from the busy town of Clin-
ton, from the stirring streets of Exeter,
from the grassy lanes of Brecon, froin
the waving fields of Wyoming, from the
oily thoroughfares of Petrolea, from the
busy shops of Watford, from the am-
bitious burg of Strathroy, from the
quiet homes of Komoka, from the mar-
itime wharfs of Chatham, from the
oleaginous heights of Bothwell, from
the moss -grown turrets of Tha.mesville,
from the ivy clad town of Wattstead,
from the funny streets of Newbury,
from the excited homes of Glencoe,
from the sandy lanes of Mount Budges -
from the antiquated hamlet of Dor.
cheater, from the railroad city of St,
Thomas, !rota near and from far, came
pouring into London, the metropolis
and Forest city of the West, all Friday
forenoon excursion trains with hun-
dreds and thousands of the employees
of the Great Western Railroad, their
wives, mothers, aunts, cousins, eweet-
hearts, sisters and other people's sisters,
armed, more or less, with baskets, um-
brellas, fans, bouquets, and presenting
smiling faces, bright looks and buoyant
hopes, all en route over the London and
Port Stanley Railway for Fraser's
Heights and the cool breezes of Lake
Erie.
Nature's Rose Garden.
Rev. W. A. McKay, pastor of Chid-
mer's Church, Woodstock, has recently
returned from the enjoyment of &four
weeks' holiday in the Northwest. Itt
his sermon to his people on the follow-
ing Sabbath after his return, referring to
what he saw, he drew the following
beautiful and attractive word picture.;
Last Sabbath I preached and dis-
pensed the Lord's Supper in a school-
house in Dakota. Just in- front of us
there were thirty acres of prairie thick-
ly covered with wild roses, the lilies
trying to .find room among the rose-
bushes to receive the sunshine and ex-
hibit their beauty. Imagine thirty
acres of roes, lilies, and other prairie
flowers all in full bloom, and the whole
forming one great and 'beautiful bou-
quet. 1 saw it just after a slight rain,
and the pearly drops still bedecked the
flowers. The air around was redolent
with sweet fragrance, even as if all
sweet and precious incense had. been
poured out as one great libation to the
God. of heaven, on that beautiful Sab-
bath morn. I have travelled in Florida,
the land of flowers; 1 have seen Dun -
robin and its flower gardens, and Iha.ve
visited. a number of the more noted
public gardens in Scotland - but for
simple, artless, yet sweet and Charming
effect, I have never seen anything to
excel what I witnessed last Lord's day
iniront of the little log school house at
Kensington, Dakota. And as my
brother, myself, and about forty others
of varioussclenominations, sat down at
the table of the Lord and enjoyed. the
simple meMorials of Jesus' love /
thought of my dear Saviour as the Rose
of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley;
and niy mind went out to the glowing
language of the evangelical prophet,
when, looking forward to the latter-day
glory of the Church the -exclaims:
"The wilderness and the solitary place
shall be glad for them, and the desert
shall rejoice and blossom as the, rased"
—Mr. George McKibben, a merchant
a merchant of Wingham, appealed
against his assessment as revised by the
Court of Revision, and the matter came
before Judge Squier for adjudication.
The amount originally was 1$2,500, but
was reduced by the Court of Revision,on
the ground that the gross indebtedness
of the appellant was greater by $2,000
than the amount of lais personal pro-
perty, and the appellant contended that
on that account no assessment of , per-
sonal property should be made against
hia3.1 The Judge held that as -this in-
debtedness was not on account of his
personal estate, as between himself and.
original creditors, it could - not be
taken. into consideration. Mr. McKib-
bon having sworn that hied personal
estate amounted to $1,500_, and this
being the only evidence of value, the
assessment was reduced to that
amount.