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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-09-22, Page 11882. It poor affair. le were offered lozen sales wera ringham, of St, extended ton The reverend e pleased with taken up a seer ardiinterals going t>. hear, Weighing 'riday night by • Car '1 [itcheIL Bears otion this seas w sheep in the Stratford on Mr. Louis atotrt at that station itPontiac, Mich' the Air Line -.He leaves a dlaren to Mourns arson, had, a very at might have He was building Preshyterien Al Road, The, as standing fell, tO the have been. pre- uxty feet. Yt- formerly et Lase Shipley, of Manitoba lase tre well of the ritend going back Rray has taken e by the Canada, r from Regina, vive it. a of Flillait021, while threshing on Wednesday he machine, and ot the band cut With the knife ktting the _ bone e fingers. It is her he will ever era or noti on the aid con- e)n purchased by le sum of $5,900. lied extensively but not being Saari°, and now am& Mr. Sohn ils farm- on the ima to Mr. Jahn of $5,500. • a hill with a t. Marys, a few- oore had a some- erience. One of 7oke,allowing the d on the horse, it as to make it uggy was upset, it but not seri- rican horse buys ell three colts 15 Id Lord Haddo tiel $1,270. Mr.. tord Haddo, the ;. Brooks, is the made without a he makes the ience of 25 years h. thoroughbred s , a recent visit to General -Melnik - k Railway, aesur- zens who waited gh there would be Lent on the fusion, lee there was no the force of men The repairs on, m the lines north ad in the Great Ed more or less eh indeed was the lie section of the moon of last week rains and cool eat anmener have acing rot to a very the potato crop, 1 somewhat short it was expected. rerved, the Beauty is almost entirely ese, but the Early which ate princi- rei are badly affect- : to have suffered L Where the fielda ned the potatoee (ihn Thompson, a. a at the Albion ling something eta unpleasant ex - ago. He arose himself partially, wiadaw of his flat to the sides rchrean, :heard the the spot, found e sidewalk groan- Sistance and Went ined the sleep - hat, although he no bones 'were distance of some that he agE not ase of M. Frank 'rest known Civil orriuion, will be ere died suddenly near Brockville, ceased, gentleman, L health wheat he previous evening, ivionsly compleint id °oak, about 8. with her grand - in St. Catharines, aage dog on Barter - tore in a horrible she. was playing €d before assistance- og had, torn her al bitten her so- € in a very pro- d but slight hopes - a recovery. says : In the his there has not been d hay gathered to- r as there has this: and you will see a elmost every barn - street, East Wil- rly noticeable, and 'arm of Mr. Donald after filling every lings with grain or is barnyard with on. could be found alit two mammoth slow the; barn. •±1,• 11 • fon,- ft.„1 N411'4 41.44 7-4 nes Jilt FIFTEENTII YEAR. ViSOLE NUMBER, 772, S AFORTH, FRIDAY, St TEMBER 22, 1882. 1 lkeLEAN BROS., Publishers. ' $1.50 a Year, in Advance. E. 11/1cFAUL Is now offering Special Inducements CASH BUYERS IN THE FOLLOWING New Fall Goods. Impressions of the Northwest. (Continued from Last Week.) The statement has frequently been made by one f$ection of the Canadian press, and as frequently denied by an- other, that the states of Minnesota and Dakota are largely settled by Canadians, and many people who have reliedun newspapers for their authority MI this matter, have been sorely vexed about which to believe. Seeing is believing. From a personal knowledge of those who had gone from this county to settle in these states, -I felt convinced that at least a goodly number of our best people had left this country and taken up their abode under the Star Spangled Banner but I had, no idea that Canada had los so many of her sons and daughters unti my visit to the Northwest. I canno say much from personal knowledge a to Minnesota, but 1, can truthfully sa that no patriotic Canadian can trave through Dakota without feeling dee and humiliating regret that so many a our best' and most promising yonn men have been forced or induced to fin homes in a foreign country, while w have room in abundance and to spar for them within our own borders. was told by a gentleman, a Canadian upon whose word I can place the mo implicit confidence, who has been resident of the state for four years, an whose business has led him to vis nearly every settlement, that at lea three fourths of the settlers in Dako are from Caoada, and a large propo tion of them from Ontario, and I ca also say that this statement was ful corroborated by other. intelligent Can diens whom I met there, some of the being former residents of Huron, and is also borne out by my own slight e perience and observation in the countr During a two days' drive through o of the most thickly settled portions Northern Dakota, I only met or bon hear of tWo Who were not Canadian Many of these settlers also had been Manitoba; and for various _reasons h left there and gone to_ Dakota a taken up land, and they will rema there and will forever be lost to Caned It is also equally true that this emig tion from Canada to Dakota has n yet stopped: Nearly every train brin new recruits and I was informed Iffantis Cloths, Ulster Cloths, Tweeds, Flannels, Black Cashmeres, Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Flushes, Sash, Ribbons, &c., &c Those who give us a call will find our Pries right FOR CASH, and will receive the full benefit of the Cash System. OUR MILLINERY OPENING WILL TARE PLACE ON a e, at a it st_ ta r- ly a- m it X- y. no of 'as. in ad nd in a. ra- ot gs by those who spoke from personal know- ledge, and admitted the fact with re- gret, that during the present season hundreds left Manitoba in disgust and located in Dakota. A new territory, an Indian reserve on the Pembina moun- tains, was opened this spring, and when I was there nearly the whole reserve was taken up and settled upon, and three out of four of the new settlers are Canadians, and by no means a small proportion of them are parties who have left Manitoba. This, also, is not the worst feature of it. Many of those Canadians entertain the most intense animosity towards Manitoba, and will use their entire influence to induce others to follow their example. It is not pleasant for a Canadian to have to make these facts public, but he is no friend of his country who,knowing them to exist, would close his eyes to them, and hide dr attempt to deny them. Such a state of affairs plainly indicates that there is something radically wrong th rong for what the ultimate resul will be if things are not changed. he railway monopoly in the Northwe has driven more people from the con try than any other cause. Not that the people have yet commenced to feel th effects of it so much, but they fear an dread the future. The next great st grievance with the Canadian Nort west is the immense number of land eserves, and these reserves embrace t e very best and choicest lands in the ountry. No person who is not, wilfu ly blind can fail to see that the Cana ian Govern- ment committed a fatal mistake in making additional reser es to those already existing by g to private and colonization compani a such large blocks of. land. The o untry would have settled up quite ra idly enough, at any rate emigration would have arrived as soon as the Go ernment were ready to receive it, in th natural and ordinary way without cal ing in the aid of monied corporations a d companies of speculators. Thousan have this season left the country i disgust be- cause they could not et permanent and certain locations on ccount of the surveys not being ma e. Intending settlers will not buy fr m 'companies and speculators at the en aimed values they put upon their land , if they can get Government lands el ewhere. They want to get the cheap 1 rids, from the crown, and the Gover ment .should have been prepared wit such lands. THE MONOPO Y. FRIDAY &.SATURDAY SEPT. 29TH & 30TH, When the Ladies of town and country will have the opportunity of seeing the Greatest Exhibition of this kind ever held in Seaforth. Make it a point to see the Newest and Best Styles for Fall and Winter, and compare prices. E. MbFAUL, SEAFORTH. IMPORTANT NOTICES. V -- STRAY STOCK.—Strayed from Lot 40, -L4Con- cession 9, East- Wawanosh, about the l 5th of Xay, 2 yearling steers, 5 yearling heif era. They are all red, the 2 steers said one heifer hate a small star on forehead. Any information con- cerning them will be thankfully received. JAS. ANDERSON, Belgiave P. 0. 767 NOTICE TO DEBTORS.—Dr. Duncan's books are left in my hands for immediate- cones- -lion. If not paid without delay they will he handed into the court for snit. JOSEPH BRINE, Auctioneer. Harpurhey, Sept. 4, 1E82. 770 • Mennonites, and they will nth' her sell it nor use it themselves. Had his land been open for settlement it (mid all now he Producing millions of shels of grain animally, and the advan age Oda would be to the country is ine tinsable, while the loss the country su tains in having this beautiful land 1 in`g idle cannot be calculated in do ars and cents. ' TOWN LOTS. I think I am within the mat when I Bey thatithere are a greater ia 'tuber of town lotii in Manitoba than in fly other country iin the known world of twice its. size. The speculators exerted their in- fleence with the authorities o Winni- peg, end had the city limits enlarged three ties for no other par °se than to help them in "booming" t wn lots, so that the limits of the city ow em- brace atlarger area than can ' be occu- pied du ing the present deca e,' even if the mot visionary dreams of the most sanguine be more than realiz 4. The *lame nay be said of all e other principal towns, and, as is we known, duringlthe excitement, lots 1 ny where within the corporation limit ti of Winni- peg, Portage la Prairie, EI erson or Brandon sold off as fast as t ey could be put :rip, at fabulous price:, and in addition to this, for miles s rrbunding -these places, outside of the r gular cor- poraticin limits bands are sur 'eyed into town lOts, and most of them 'ave been sold. .These lots, many of t em with- in these corporations, and al of them withotit, will never be value' le except for farming lands, and by no eans can a small proportion of 1 them be. made lavailable even in thi .way, be- cause they are so wet as to , be worth. less. When this is the state of affairs in and around these principa teems one can form BOMB idea of the hies that have been given and the BW1 dling that has been practised in t e smaller towns, and in places where here is • no town or village, and nev r will be. Thousands of lots even in the towns we have named, that were b ught last winter at prices ranging fro five hun- VABISI FOR SALE. --For Sale or will be ex- ' changed for a farm either In Meltillop, Tucker - smith, Stanley or Millen, Lot No. 85, concession 12, Turnberry, containing 60 acres good timber land. For Further particulars apply to A. Sarnoilo, Land Agent, Seaforth. 7118 ,EEla WHEAT FOR SATM.—The undersigned " has a limited quanta.) of good, clean (Bell. able)FALL WHYAT for SEED PURPOSES. He has thoroughly tested the wheat, and ean highly recammend it to his brother farmers. It now threshed ; the yield is 40 bushels per ware; and it weighs 63 pounds to the bushel. GEORGE SPROAT, Tuckersrnith. 767 C°w LOST.—Strayed from the premises of the undersigned in Seaforth, about the 20th of ' August, a small, red cow, three years old, and giving milk. She had a small white spot on her bag and a small piece broken off the right horn. Any information that will lead to the recovery of this animal will be liberally rewarded. GEORGE EWING, Seaforth. 769 somewhere, and the sooner e w is made right the better it will be this Canada of ours. Among other. Canadian settlem which passed through in Dakot one in west o of a Or in in 0 While it is true that the monopoly given the Pa.cific Railw y Company in the Northwest has drive thousands of good settlers from the emmtry, it is eqeally true that that onopoly cannot long be maintained. T e people every- where aredetermined o this point. If they cannot be freed f om it id any other way they will, in spite of either the Government or th Syndicate, or both combined., constr et independent outlets themselves, and nce these out- lets are constructed, no ower on earth will prevent their being worked. This is the general determin Mon, go where you will, and the peo.ple are only wait- ing until they gathe a little more strength to pat their lana in opera- tion. It is not likely tie Government will permit matters to come to this, pass, or that they will wait -Until the. people take matters in heir own hands and place them at d fiance, but the people are determined, even if they have to adopt the extr me measures I have hinted at to be reed from this bondage,,end it would be wisdom for the Government to be guided by the signs of the times. THE MENNO The principal Menn is located in Southern of Emerson. The Me by 'any means favorites toba people. They being careless and filth and very exclusive in t and,of very little good in so much as they onl what they can grow o am inclined to think t pects their short -co very greatly exaggerat doubt but they are frugal in their mode of what antiquated. in t upon the whole, I sh are not, by any mean settlers, and I noticed numbers of them aro the various villages, s or other they must d amount of trading. remember correctly, wide and forty-five stretching along the and, RS 4113 known, th settled in groups or vi termed, along each of village is probably fro miles apart, and will ings of from six to eig of families. The build frame and covered vvi The dwelling house a usually under the sa there is a distinction departments even on house part is covered generally painted whi is simply rough boar the houses have grou very comfortable and ents a, is iles ame. pally Hay etter not ye a now with - The e of have to be mple- this win that aches sown well. eerie other ot far doing re of rly of f Mr. Mr. and parts, ecall. le for n Da - that al re- their homesteads t st as other settlers who m Pembina county, about 30 m the town of the same his settlement is composed princi Germans from the townships of nd Stepheia in this county. A b more thrifty class of people conic e met with anywhere. They ha eautiful location, and a railway is nut arid will be running this fall a few miles of the settlement. arms seene to be well tilled, som hem are fenced., e,nd nearly all onifortable buildings, and appear ell supplied with all modern i ents of husbandry. Their crops ear are among the very best I sa he Northwest, and I also noticed everal of them had, considerable pa f Hungarian grass and timothy or fodder, and it seemed to do here are also a number of p rom Tuckersmith, Hullett and ownships in this county settled n rom here, and all are, apparently, ell. Of these I had the pleasu meeting Mr. Alex. McLean, forme Rodgerville, Mr. Manson, son o David Manson, of Thckersmith, Crombie, formerly of Seaforth, everal others from different whose names I cannot just now r THE REASONS GIvEN. The reasons given by these peop leaving Manitoba and settling kota are manifold. They admit the climate and soil and natur sources of the one country are ju (rood as those of the other, but object to the Governmental m merit of the former country. The they have better railway fa and cheaper rates in Dakota than have in Manitoba; that the land are better and more satisfactory that there are fewer reserves, and but not least, they can get price -is -for their products, and ca chase -their implements cheaper. a fact, that on an average 20 cen bushel more for wheat can be Dakota than in Manitoba, an binders can be purchased in Dak from $225 to $275, while the pre prices in Manitoba are from $ $350, and all other implemen machinery the same in proportio cause of these discrepancies an remedy for them it is not my pr to ascertain. I simply point o facts as I found them, and le those whose duty it is to propo remedy. It is imperative, ho that a remedy should soon be if it ie not, incalculable injury suit to the Canadian Northwest has suffered enough already, b loss thus far sustained is not PARK. TO RENT.—The subscriber wishes to rent his Farm, situated on Concession 5, of Stanley, being part of Lot 22, and containing 74: acres, of which about 65 acres are cleated, and ad seeded down with • cloaer. and timothy; well watered; well suited for stock or other farming purposes; good bank barn; good dwelling house; never failing spring of water convenient, and a good orchard. it is situated 31 miles from Bruce - field, Ill miles from. Seaforth, and 7 miles from Clinton. For farther particulars apply to THOS. 11ILLS, Constance P. O. 767 ----a-a. VOR SALE.—The undersigned offer their Fruit Evaporator and Cider Mills for sale cheap and upon easy terms of payment. The buildings have been fitted up in a complete manner for the carrying on of the Fruit Evapor- ating Business, and are now in first-class working order, and a fine paying business can be done. But as W. S. Robertson one of the partners of the firm of D. D. Wilson' & Co., has gone to Ed- monton, Northwest Territory, to remain per- manently, the property must be sold and the business of said. firm finally closed up. For any particulars with regard to said property apply to the undersigned. D. D. WILSON. Seaforth. 762 A SPLENDID WHEAT FARM FOR SALE IN HOWICK.—For saleaLot 33, Concession B., Howick, cont,ining 100 acres; 85 acres cleared, and in a good state of cultivation. There are 300 rods of board fence, the balance is well fenced with cedar and hardwood rails There is a good house, and a good hank barn with stables under- neath, 40 by 66 feet. There are two orchards of Choice fruit trees. There is 45 acres seeded down with grass. There is a never failing spring of choice water in the centre of the farm. It is situated 2 mites from Wroxeter, on the Toronto, Grey &Bruce railway, and 2- miles from Gorrie, and 11 miles from Brussels and Wingham, both on the Great Western Railway, and convenient to charches,schools and post office. Terms: one half cash, the balance on time, and will be sold Cheap. Apply on the premises or to Wroxeter P.O. ARCHIBALD MALCOLM 765 pectations not be realized, they will find it very difficult to give up, and the coming down that many will yet have will form to them in the future one of the most unpleasant. as well as most memorable reminiscences of the great land boom, when almost every person became rich in a few weeks. THE MSS. It would hardly be proper to close these "Impressions" without making some reference to the "Art Preservative of all Arts." Manitoba is already well supplied with newspapers. Winnipeg has three daily papers and two weeklies, and I do not know how many job printing offices. Emerson has a daily and two weeklies, and Portage la Prairie has a semi-weekly and a weekly. All these are creditable publications and appear to be prosperous. Besides these, however, there are some two dozen or more papers scattered throughout the Province. Brandon, Rapid City, Pilot Mound, Crystal City, Nelsonville and Gladstone each has its paper and print- ing office, and new claimants for public favor are springing into exietence almost every day. Winnipeg, how- ever, leads the van. The Free Press, of which Mr. W. F. Luxton was the founder, and is the present proprietor, is the oldest and decidedly the best paper in the Northwest. The Free Press occupies in the Northwest a posi- tion and influence similar to that which the Globe has in Ontario, and it is seen everywhere in the hotels and in the oars. The newspaper and printing business seems to be just about as much over -done there as it is in Ontario, al- though the prices for advertising and job printing areess yet, very much higher, proportionately. It would astonish some of our Ontario businiAts men the enormous prima paid there for advertising. Bat in this, as in every other branch of business, keen compe- tition is springing up, and present prices cannot long be maintained. 'TES. mite,settlementManitoba, west nonites are not with the Mani- c) described as in their habits, eir associations, to the country, use -or consume manufacture. I at in these res - jugs have been d. There is no economical and living, and some- eir habits, but, ilia judge they , a bad class of boost daily large nd the stores in that in one way a considerable his reserve, if I s eighteen miles ilea in length, • merioan border, Mennonites are lages, as they are he trails. Each three to four ontain the build - t different heads ngs are mostly of h grass thatch. d the stable is e roof, although between the two he outside. The • with siding and e the stable part ed. Yearly all d floors, but seem even tidy. I got a glimpse into two or three of the hones along the road and they appeared to be kept dean and in good order, and while very plainly furnished, evidently contained. every requisite for comfort. The villages or Comm- and well kept appear seems to be very orde of nearly every hens 0 • 51 dred to fivethousand dollars each could not now be sold for one tent the pur- chase money. It will also • remem- bered that wherever there was likely to boa station on the Can, da Pacific, lands adjoining were consul, red , prime value, and lots sold rapidly 11 over at fabulous prices. Well,to see he value of these prospective towns now' e will take for instance any of the stati ns between Winnipeg and the Portage., At each of these stations the land aro* d as far as .the eye can reach has bee surveyed into town lots, and most of these lots have been sold, and there will never be even a village at ny one of these placee while the Ban shiiaes, for the simple reason that ther is' nothing to make a village, the lan generally being so wet as to be unfit dr cultiva- tion. In many places also, n the open prairie, one will come acres a "city" in Imagination. There is not, perhaps, a habitation within miles o it. This city, with a high soundin name has had a map made- of it, a d the lots have been sold from the map.. Some- times one will see out on the open placed on a the board e of some m that will Mg themselves to save the remains of the other men from being burned with the stack and stable. . • —Two barns were struck by light- ning last Thursday night near Thorn- hill by the greatest electric storm ever known in that district. One owned by Jam .sBumble, the other one by John Cox, in which was all of this year's crop The loss will be about $1,000. —A heavy rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over Stre tsville on Wednesday night of last week. The barns and outhouses of Charles Shain, were struck by the light- ning and totally consumed, together with a large quantity of feed, grain, and a vrable cow. The loss is heavy. No insu ance. —Joseph O'Hearn, of Erin, Welling- ton bounty, while threshing at David Kennedy's place, Waterloo Road, a day or two ago, had his left hand. drawn in- to the cylinder and before he could dra leo offi an I,, nities have a neat nee. Bverything ly, and in front I noticed a well - kept vegetable garden and a neat flower plot. In fact the M4nonites seem to be much more tidy and tasty around an many of the ke much greater the community As advantages in etc., it has many The principal e was, first, , the second the dis- fire was to get in - es, nothing could go from destruc- onites cultivated de it would take e fourths of their e meals to their not cultivate the or one-fifth of it, mode of working y were not aceus- try to having large t want them here. re by taking care ealing in much, pie so much land e a great mistake. amily received a instead of 160 it they an age - y say ci ties they laws , and last, higher pnr- It is ta per got in d self- ota at veiling 300 to ta and n. The d the evince ut the aye to se the wever, found, will re - She at the hing to pretensions. Whil system of living has the way of sociability great disadvantages. ones which struck danger from fire, and tance from work. I to one of these hon save the whole viii: tion, and if the Men the whole of their la the most of them thr time going from the work. Bat, they do whole of their land, and by their present they never can. Th torned in the old con 'berme, and they do n They make money m of the little than by In giving to these pe the Government ma Had each head of a homestead of 50 acre would have been abundance; as much as he will ever requi e to use. In this reserve there are th wands of acres of as fine land as there is in the world lying unproductive. prairie a neat square board nicely squared post, and o will be painted the na avenue; a short distance ft be a similar board bearing the' inscrip- tion "Market Grounds," an so on. This is all there is now or ever ill be of this "city." Many of those he inyested their money in lots last wi ter with the expectation of making thei fortunes out of them, must have been pretty tick when they came to see th kind of in- vestments they had mad and I am not et all surprised at th man who, last apriug, attempted to drown him- self When sailing over his , a steam boat. It would 7 to estimate and almost oomPute the amount of m worse that thrown away 11 wild town lot speculations II I • • • • Canada. The severe wind storm of Thursday of last -week did much damage to the apple crop in and about Toronto. —The rate of assessment this year in Winnipeg will be one cent on the dollar on thirty millions assessment all within the old city limits. —A. youthful marriage took place at the parsonage in Burford last week. The bride was seventeen and the bride- groom nineteen. - —An order from Southern Russia, for 100 mowers and 50 hay -rakes, has been received at the Patis, Out., Agri- cultural Works. —Dr. Wm. Keefer, son of, Peter Keefer, Esq., of Galt, is at present serv- ing with his regiment, the Bengal Lan- cers, in Egypt. —The potato crop in and around Quebec is reported unusually large, but the rot is very bad and is likely to do :serious damage. —There are 230 pupils in attendance at the Deaf and Dumb Institute, at Belleville, which is the largest number ever in attendance at the opening. Forty more are expected to arrive. Br to zee 63 Br eq pl own lots in, e impossible mpossible to ney that was at winter in It is not so surprising that people at adistance from the cOuntry should be du almost past belief that seeing, calculating men, the Spot, and could. see w buying could permit them come so crazed as to inve t lavishly in property of this class, and yet there are thortaands who have done's°. MANITOBA. ?AMMO AIRES. Here in Ontario we co alder a man pretty well fixed who iS worth from fifty to a hundred thonsand dollars. But these amounts are not thought anything of in Manitoba. scar ely be recognized in des there who is not r worth at least two bunch and ia fortune of -from forty to fifty thonsand dollars is a very. common thing. But, notwithstanding all this "blowing," there are not so many men of fiend wealth in 111a0toba as one would be led to suppose to hear the talk in financial circles. Of course there are Many men who have, made wealth and, made it rapidly, put when cue comes to enquire into imatters . it is found there are very few who have -not invested the money they have made in property, and if they could realize for that property the prices they had paid for it would probably be worth what they are classed at, but will they do this,? It is extremely doubtful. Nearly evety man in Manitoba is land poor, and many of those who are reputed to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been hard premed dur- ing this summer to meet instalments and interest coming due on their lands, and not a few of them have had to sacrifice lands they held in order to do this, so that by the time they close up their arrangements an come down to solid hard -pan there not be so many millionaires in Manito as there are now supposed to be. One of the worst features of this state of things is that the supposed wealth and puted position of these people ind s and requires them to adopt ext nt habits and btotild their ex - ed, but it is shrewd, far - ho ,were on at they were elves to be - A man will andel oir- puted to be red thousand, • in TO in ta gi oil, though the concussion of the first is an posed to have caused the second bl iw up. No one was injured, for a w nder. Two men named Treaoy and Cor - were threshing on Friday on a farm upied by a man named Miller, in jala. After doing their day's work, ey left their machine and four horses the premises, all of which were —An old man, nearly eighty years of age, named Schwenkedel, a resident of Berlin, was struck by a train on the Grand Trunk Railway on Saturday morning, and his shoulder so badly crushed that he died in the afternoon. • • it out the muscles were terribly rated. He was taken to a doctor's e, where the wound was dressed, he is now doing well. ridging from a statement in the mpton Banner the citizens of that n are not a very Sabbath -observing pie. It says that on one Sunday ntly there were 127 newspapers and letters of all kinds posted at .:the mpton post office. This is nearly al to one letter for each family in the e. • Mrs. Geo. Gregory, of North Yar- uth;was carrying a lamp across the in Tuesday evening of last week, en it exploded, and at the same taut a large lamp standing on the le also exploded. No reason can be en for the explosion except bad :teal this she became indignant and slapped his face, a compliment which he return- ed, and a lively scene was then witness- , ed. The 'parties were finally induced by the spectators to come to terms of pe---alme days ago as repairs were being ade on the well at the premises of Mr. . j. McLellan, Port Hope, a number of Children were playing around when one of them, a little girl about three years cif age, fell in. The well was about 30 feet deep, and had about three feet of waterin it Hearing the splash of the child into the water below, a man who was near by slid down the pump and. rescued the child. Although_ she fell such a great distance the little thing was not .much the worse. —An amusing incident occurred on Monday at the Canada Methodist Gen- eral Conference at Hamilton, Rev. D. . Lucas gravely proposed that the obligations imposed by the marriage service should be precisely the same for bridegroom and bride. He proceeded to read the form for thebridegroom, amended as he would have it—" You will love„ cherish and obey her," to which Rev. Mr. Philp loudly responded, "I will," bringing down the house. .Mr. Lucas is evidently an advanced thinker. . .As James McKay, well known in 1Ripley as an implement agent, was corning down the hill on the 15th side - :road, near the 6th concession, his horse by some means got his .leg over the cross -bar of the shafts, and making a 'bolt threw the occupant out on the ;road, and then made a fatal leap over the bridge. The horse, although hail- ing from Caledonian Lucknow, was not well up in gymnastics, and being en- cumbered with the buggy, managed to break his back. Mr. McKay, fortunate- ly escaped with a few bruises minus his horse, which was buried without honors. —On Monday forenoon Ben. Rut- ledge, aged twelve years, was struck by .the engine of a train passing Cornell station in the township, of- Blenheim, and killed. It appears that the boy was driving some calves off the track, and 6 —The Toronto Exhibition of this year was the most successful which has yet been held. The gate receipts exceeded any former year by sherd $6,000. The exhibits also were largely in excess of former years. —Mr. J. O'Mara, of London, has, a copy of the late D'Arcy MoGee's Can- adian Poems, with autograph of author, dated 1858. It was given to Mr. John O'Mara, of Montreal, and is now looked upon as quite a treasure. —The strength of the volunteer camp at London this year is distributed as follows: Staff, 13; 4th Cavalry, 33; London field battery, 63; 26th batt., 250; 28th batt., '216 ; 29th batt., 206; 30th batt.; 336; 3rd. batt., 211. Total, 1.329. It is understood that the steamer Manitoba of the Beatty Line will be laid up for the season on her return from Duluth. Her place will be taken by the Sovereign, the officers and. crew of the former being transferred to the latter. —Last week John D. Moore, a far- mer of North Dumfries, sold 97 hogs to Mr. A. Martin, of Bright. The total weight of the animals was 22,020 pounds, and the price paid. 7 cents per pound, live weight. Mr. Moore thus realized for the lot the handsome sum of $1,541.40. .—By the resignation of members of the Local Legislature of Ontario, to contest seats at the last Dominion elec- tion, Borne eight seats became evacant. The writs for the election of members to fill these vacancies have been issued. The elections will take place on Wed- nesday, 18th October. =The Grand Chief Templar, at the instance of the executive officers of has Grand Lodge of Quebec Good Templars. has declared forfeit the charter of the Shaftesbury Lodge of Good. Templars of Montreal for having held a dance and card parties during an evening social of the lodge. —The severe wind storm on Thursday of last week blew some sparks from the fire grate of *the engine which was threshing at Curtis' farm near Lucan, and ignited the straw stack close to the barn. The machine and everything in and around the banned were totally consumed. —Thomas Aitcheson, aged 45, and a young man named Martin were killed on Thursday of last week by lightning in Garafraxa. There were four men building a pea stack by a etable, when the storm came up and strnck the stack, killing two men and. stunning the other two very badly. The stacik and stable were burned, and the men who wer stunned had barely time after recover. It a rued together with a large quantity of am owned by one J'. G. McDonald, remained too long before the approach- cidental. is not supposed that the fire was ing train, which struck him, throwing him about twenty-five feet. The train —While Mr. James McKay, of Luck- was net stopped, and the boy was not n w, waii returning from Ripley on found until about three quarters of an S turday last and *hen a short distance hour after the accident. It is supposed frOna that place the horse fell over an that death was instantaneous. His embankment, receiving such injuries as arm was broken, and he had. received t4 cause death in a few hours. Mr. Mc- several internal injuries. —The causes of fire sometimes elude ay had a very narrow escape from a investigation. Mice have often been a rious and probably fatal accident, but credited with having started destructive ✓ oeived only a few slight bruises. The _conflagrations, by getting at the matches. b ggy is almost a total wreck. On Saturday morning last a dog came —A man who gave his name as George very near accomplishing the same feat, yeer went into a jewellery store on on Hughson street, Hamilton. The ng street East, Toronto, a few days , climbed tip to a shelf -in the pan- - ago, and asked to see Borne silver animal try of a certain hotel, upset a box of etches. They were shown him by a I matches, a bunch of which ignited in c erk, and it was agreed that he should the fall. Fortunately the landlord's 'ye his own watch and $8 for a. new little boy was passing the deer at the ne. He paid the $8 and walked out, and noticed the burning matches arrying both watches with him, getting tithe as the fire was spreading. No damage tie new watch for 08. ' —At noon on Thursday last as a little resulted, but that dog's movements will .r1 aged 7, daughter of John E. Kenna- be closely watched in future. —Large feet are sometimes an ad - y, of Teeswater, was crossing the rive n a plank elle was blown off by a sud vantage atter all, according to the fol - en gust of wind, falling a distance o lowing incident reported by the Paris bout twenty feet and striking on th Review: "One of our manufacturers tone work below. Her face and boa who weighs in the neighbourhood of ere badly cut, and. one arm shockingl 200 lbs. or over, met with a narrow angled. Although very severely hur escape on Tuesday afternoon. He hid taken his seat in an arm chair, near a he will likely recover. —Early on Saturday morniag, th trap door in one of our grocery stores, adly decomposed body of a man waii when a collapse of the chair legs near- ound on the lake shore about three est the trap, pitched him headfirst down iles above Fort Gratiot. . There were it. He disappeared all except his 'feet o marks of violence on his body, and which he managed to retain on terra early all the flesh had fallen ere the firma, and which, assisted by the length ace. A linen handkerchief, with the and strength of his body saved him nitiads "C. G." marked in one corner from a 14 feet fall. It was fortunate as found in the coat pocket. Th sudden halt, dorchariseelrowe aswoulbrdonugoht thtoavae ody was unrecognizable. —Mr. lasso C. Tilt shot two crane been worth a button. est week near Blair, in the County o —Mr. W. J. Kain, broker, of Dallas. aterloo, one of which measured 4 fee Texas, and his bride wee Miss "Baby" 1 inches from tip of toes to tip of bill, Flannigan, of Clandeboye, =rived in nd 6 feet 2 inches from tip to tip o London on Saturday. It will be re. wings; the other measured 5 feet 1 membered that they were married in 'riches from tip of toes to tip of bill, an the. Roman Catholic church, Biddulph 6 feet 7 inches from tip to tip of wing. about the first of May last. Since that These are considered remarkably largo time they have travelled through every 1 country in Europe; also visited Pales- -A. man named John Cook arrived tine and Cyprus, and would have staid birds. in Toronto on Saturday from 'Victoria over at Alexandria, but did not like the Square, in Markham township, to vie% appearance of things in Egypt. As the the exhibition. While he was eatin happy couple were constantly moving dinner with his sister, Mrs. Collin, 2 from place to place, consequently they Francis street, he was c'hoked to cleat had no means of receiving any news from home. judge then of the profound. by a piece, of beef. A doctor was s moned, but the man had died. fro grief int? which Mrs. Rain was plung. strangulation before he arrived. ii ed on her arrival in London on being ceased leaves a wife and four childre acquainted of the death of her afternoon Mrs. James —The first marriage under the ne mo—thoenaisunaay law of the Dominion permitting ma riage with a deceased wife's sister, h Astell and Miss Emily Astell, of taken place at Cape Breton. T Harriston, met with a serious accident. couple married were Newfoundlander, They were driving, the mother and who crossed to Canada to be united, as daughter sitting in the back seat of the their marriage would be illegal if pe . democrat and a son in the front. Pass - formed in the colony in which- 'they Gram's House, one and a quarter miles live. In Newfoundland, as in England, east of Clifford, the son touched the a man cannot marry his wife's siste , horses with the whip. They made a sudden Spring, and the seat fell off however willing the sister may be. behind throwing out both the occupants. —A young man tied a horse to lamp -post in St. Thomas, Sand The 'daughter fell on her head and evening while he kissed his girl go shoulders, fracturing the spine. The bye at the gate, when the lamplight seat fell on the mother's chest, break - came along and suddenly lit the lam ing some bones. A. doctor, who was The wheels will do to repair, but tha '0 passing, at once took charge of them, about all that is left of the buggy. T e -removing them home on a bed. Au - e' other of the same family met with such an accident last year tind has been an Mitchell's barn near Niagara iFnallsv—aliltdwobe6aiusrtedee'stroyed by fire Saturday morning about five o!clock, with its contents; a thousand bushels of grain, a quantity of 'hay, eight valuable horses, and a thoroughbred cow perish- ed in the flames, which were kindled. by -an incendiary. The doors were all nailed and. shut so that the inmates could not be got out. This is the fifth barn which has been fired. in this vicin- ity inside of three weeks, and there seems to be an organized gang of fire fiends in this locality.. The farmers talk of organizing a vigilance committee to bring the monsters to justice. It belongs to the modes of life which, a. harness is as badly demolished as t buggy. The young man did not know that the woodwork at the bottom of t e post was rotten, and the lamplight r did not see the horse. —An exciting and no less anausi g scene occurred. on the market in Loud n a few days ago. A woman residing .n. the southern part of the city purchased s. baby carriage at a sale. In handing the money to the man some mistake was made by which she claimed to have given a dollar too much. The man be- lieving he was right, but without look- ing carefully, denied having received the extra bill. While he was fumbling wOle the money the bill in dispute fell to the ground, and to prevent the woman get- ting it he pheeed his foot upon it. At