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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1882-12-15, Page 1• A • 8 4't fl in Die. reab -et very abbe PaPPison Methodist —if those re in the regatiena in enday even- nseana of Quid confer Oer mere Chrietmas as rushing, tinted it to trading in; "tciwn," Vrs- A. ja n the 8tle. reen,Daketae aft, tie alma Wylie Ex. Roxboro riday next. at 5 &dock ana friends r invited tee YEAR'S SENTS the T H orium, 18670 by rs4TER, kt_ JEWELLER. I PLATE. le -hes, Break - i: Receivers, aekets, Cara Eperenes, ande, Frower Pitehers, In - 'kande, Knife eessert, Fruit, in Rings -25 bee, Sardine r Salt Stands, )rt, Tea„ Egg, _ Sugar and le Cups, Knife Boxes, Vases, ,rs, Children's emplete. largest stoole rought to- the feat they may • shall, for a discount of nanufacturere HES. and Iniu'ling 'dein, open feeee I aed silver; hunting case, der, open face and silver ; e, silver; G. • Russel and looks, from $5; spring clocks. ete day weights, [Dished in solid ay tiraepieoes,. , i'LRY. Ad Guards and rite,' RoaI Plate les' -end Gents' s ; Laelies" and ld, Saver and a Bright Gold el _Gilt Sets; lecklets, Bracee tdage, and Plain to $50; Scarf Buttons, Shirt RIESe Keys, Silver and Stieel Spec - Li; Goggles, Gold d Alberts, Steel bad Combs, IGO- and Bill Books. meerseleaum, t. French Clay robitaco Pouches - al aware. will be sold on rarranted as re- bueduees from t be undersold. ig good bargains. 1NG Watches, Clocks end warranted tee alas' practical ex- , stand, Oppdait° Cash Furniture eding jeweller. ken at my gore en by BESS Nettie b; 520 -each, or can be seen in FIFTEENTH YEAR. vnioLE NUMBER, 784 E. IVICFAUL Win offer During the Month of Deeembirz SPECIAL BARGAINS —M— OW AND SEASONABLE GOODS, sucn: AS Mantles, _Dress Goods, Furs, do. IN MILLINERY Will be found the Newest and most itylish Goods, frorn the Cheapest to' the Best, at RARE BARGAINS. In Mantles The stook will be found complete, in diterent styles, and of the beet ma - lavish", at Decided Bargains. IN DRESS GOODS Will be found all the leading makes of goods, in the Newesi Shades, ainong which can be had GENUINE BARGAINS ; From the Southwest. RIIESPA240 Comm, Colorado, November 27, 1881 I The boom whichstruck Colorado with the discovery of the Leadville mines, and continued for two or three years after, LISA quite subsided. Business generally is fairly good throughout the state, and there is sufficient employ- meut for nearly all who want to work, butithere is no speculative excitement, and no call for labor from abroad. The Leadville era made a great change in Coierado. Towles like Denver, Pueblo and Celorado Springs, trebled and Tied- rupled their populations. Many new tons sprung up where there was nothing before, and the business popula- tion and importence of the State all • enOrmously,ireireasedl But the change hal been not only a :material one,—it bee reached the sochil habits and the very dress of the people. A "tender- foot" uaed to be looked upon with a sort of good natured contempt, as a person, who, although possibly a Solomon on histown dung hill, in the presence of the Rooky Mountains and the "old-timers," became but a very simpleton. Now that the "tenderfeet" have become a majority in the community, with moat of the business and wealth of the state in their hands, they are very much more respected. By the way,I am begin- ning myself to take rank as an "old - tinter,' and when I deliver myself on snob important matters as the weather, the grails and the prospects for gook, I otte be quite oracular, as befits my ex- perieuce. When I first knew Pueblo, General Brown, Colonel Jones, Judge Rebinson—in fact all the leading citi- zens, used to appear on the avenue in their shirt sleeves and susperiders. A stiff hat, a straw hat, or a plug hat, marked a man at once as a "tender -foot" fresh airived; norespectable citizen with a character at stake, would wear other bead covering than a slouch. Now, when I go to Pueblo I observe Judge Beibiuson and his friends the General and the Colonel, arrayed in the neatest and tightest business suite of the latest °eaten] pattern, while --the slouch hat, although some of the elder men cleave to it yet, is in the main relegated to the ranchmen. Although there has been no great ex- citement in mining- matters, and al- though a second Leadville has not yet been discoverea, new strikes are _con- st4nt1y bolesmade, and an immense senor:int of mineral is being produced, making Coiorado still by far •the most ieeportant mining country in the world. The mines in the Gtinedson country are not panning out so rich as was at one time expected. It is said the ore there is mostly low grade, and while there is abundance of it, it cannot be profit- ably used, with the present means of reduotion. The San Juan country,how- ever, is surpaseing expectations. From etate paper before me I take the fol. lowing paragraph concerning a recent strike in that region: "The most won- derhil mineral' deposits ever found in Colorado, poseibly excepting the oar- enatee at Leddville, are those recently iscovered in the Red Mountain dis. pilot, eight miles north of Silverton - Enough mineral is already in sight in _LINT HITTIZS Will 'be found e complete stook of LadiesCaps, Boas, Muffs, Sets, Capes ice, all offered at Immense Bargains. NOTICE.. All the above are New and Season- able gap- ds, just what the people want at present. Those who have the Cash to buy with, will find this an extra opportunity to secure UNSURPASSED BARGAINS while the stock is fresh and fully assorted. E. McFAUL. SEAFORTH. EIGHT OASES NEW GOODS Just Received at WEIR'S :NOVELTY —AND— t Fancy Goods Store, OPPOSITE WEIR'S. HOTEL. Voveltiea M China Goods, Vases and Toilet Sets, 4*/• Toys of sit kinds, Tartnese Goods, Set Bracelets and Brooches, Dolls at low price's, Pocket Books, Band Bags, Photograph and Autograph Albums, cheap and line Note Papers, velopea in lots at very low prices, School Books, School Supplies, Violins, Vi 11n Sao lies, Month Organ*, ite. We can and will sell cheap, as our expenses are low. Call and see. ALEX. WEIR, Seaforth and Parkhill. MISS SHANNON, Manager.. CARD OF THANKS - GENTLEMEN : Please accept my many thanks for the very liberal pat- ronage you have extended to me during the past five years in Seaforth as hair dresser, and. I beg leave to ask for a continuance of the same. I have my premises fitted up with the new patent adjustable theirs, which for comfort and convenien.oe are second to none. With a cordial invitation to all, I am, your obedient servant, JOHN CONSTABLE, k •SEAFORTH DECgMBER 15 1882. season, and sheep o4ters are wonder, ing why similar mutes do not prodoce similar resulte... Wetbera, dressing fifty pounds, whioh 18 aboitt the average of the best Colorado stock, are worth $2,50 to $3, and this has been the price for hal a dozen years back. Yetlin the Meat markets, in Pueblo or Deliver, a pound of mutton chops costa as much as a pound of beefsteak. • The stook business on the Plains seems to be falling into the hands of large companies. These compenies are mostly joint -took arrangements. The oa.pital comes from the East, and the business is carried on by a manager and foremen on the .ground. In the first place, they buy up the water over a large tract of eountry, and then buy as many cattle es they wish to begin with. Two or three of these companies have started thie hi -mediate vicinity, but oie a comparatively small scale. That is, in a small. way compared with the Way they have gone in about two or three hundred miles southeast. There the whole country is falling under the control of large contpanies. The largest of these; so far as I know, is the Prairie Cattle Company. This coucern oontrols a vast territory, about where the States of Kansas, Texas, Colorado and New M.exioo corner together. I am not in a 6osition to he well iuformed as to its affairs, but I em quite within bounds when I say this Company has invested at least 03,090,000, and owns more than a hundred thousand cattle. Its repre- sentatives began last year buying cattle and ranches, in what was then thought a very reckless manner, paying $16 a head for cattle, With range delivery, and proportionately for ranches, but the same cattle are now worth nearly fifty per cent. more than was then paid for them, besides the increase. The stock- holders in the Prairie Cattle Company are said to be mostle English, but the manager is an American, and the bosses and hands are all experienced cattle men. The success of these Companies will depend greatly on their manage- ment. Where thee:uanagers understand their business, are careful, and economi- cal, and. above all, honest, they- should yield large dividends, in ordinary sea- -sons, on the money invested. The land, it will be remembered, owing to the scarcity of water, is good for nothing but grazing, so as settlements are impossi- ble, it is not to be regretted that it is falling .under the control'of those who can make the most of it. A. McL. • • Canada. Sir John °A. Macdonald confined to his house owing but is recovering. —Wm. Fletcher, of St. ThoMas, vomited a live lizard nine inches 'long Saturday. —Local dealers in Hamilton, are making arrarigerneuts to harvest 20,000 tons of ice this winter. —The Church of England clergy of ' Ottawa discussed at length the temper- ance question on Sunday. ! —A fine window in memory of the late Hon. H. B. Bull, is being put in position at phrist Church Cathedral, Hamilton. —The Mer nig of Lorne and Princess this camp to sppport a city of ten or Louise arriyed at San Francisco on fifteen thousand people." Saturday. Salutes were fired in their •; Vie past season has been very favor- • honor. able for crops and stook. It is said that —Michael Lee's sentence of death the state has produced eufficiept grain for murdering Maggie Howie at Napa- fee- its own consumption this y'ear, and nee, has been commuted to imprison - that there will be a surplus for export. i.nent for life. There has not' been so good. a crop of —Fever, both typhoid and scarlet, grass on the praieie for years past. is very prevalent in the townships Places where the grass ,seemed last contiguous -to Ottawa. Numbers of year completely killed out by the deaths are reported. drongbt this year grew grass which —Lady Macdonald es taking un Might be cut far hay. In several places • active interest in the afternoon meet - hay has been put on the prairie—some- ings under the auspices of the Womens' tliing not often done in Colorado, Christian Temperance Association. though common enotigh in Kansas. —The Grand Jury at the Middlesex But then Colorado hay is, hay, equal to Sessions in their presentment recom- timothy, while Kansas, prairie hay is • mended the practice of corporal punish- -about as nutritious as stubble. Stock ment for juvenile offenders. of all kinds was never in better condi- —A well known fanner of North Mid - Mon. The ouly complaint I hear is dlesex, near Ailsa Craig. named William from some of the cattle men, who say Bastard, has been arrested on suspicion their cattle aile too fat,—sOme of them of having killed his insane 'wife. dying of black leg, which they attribute; —Rev. J. S.. Stone, late of Toronto, tp that cause. The weather all summer and now of St. Martin's, Montreal, has and fall, andao far in the winter as we been appointed Profeasor of Church have got yet, has been magnificent,— History for the Montreal Diocesan Col - ideal Colorade weather. The south- lege. *est wind, our worst enemy here, has , • —Hon; Mr. Chapleau and some • been very mqderate, although it has , friends, while driving in New York, had not quite forgotten how to blow. An ac- a narrow escape by the horse running quaiptance of mine who is eomewhat away. They received a few bruises in given to prophesying evil Bays : "We'll jumping out. catch it before spring to make up for —The blizzard with the heavy snow • this," and peihaps we will, but let us fall on the 7th inst., was general enjoy the sunshine while we May. throughout Ontario. Two men Mich The price of cattle throughout the ael Ellard and James King, were West is higher than ever before. Stock frozen to death near Beeton, Simcoe cattle, which 'used to sell at about $15 a County, during the storm. head, will now command $25, and are —A terribly malignant 'form of hardly to bo found at that. This is diphtheria has attacked al family in where whole herds change hands. 'Milch Sidney toweahip,M the vicinity of cows, with their calves, were all sum- Belleville, and carried off four members mer worth $50. Three and four year within a week. Another member is in old beef steers have sold this fall 'at $40 a critical condition. Practical Halt Dresser, Cady's Block, Opposite •Comnaercia1 Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. It_B,—Bowling Alley in cOnn." eotion. and similar or worse losses m the bad suinmer the flowers on the same plant were red and of an entirely different shape. It is very peculiar conduct for an oleander, and some of our floriaul- turiste might explain it. —Burglars visited the o'ffice of Messrs. has been to illness, ter of the music they sing, which, weird and quaint as it is, becomes addition ally attractive by the simplicity of its harmony. It is music that the people" can understand, and the words are so Patterson di Co. lumber neer- distinctly enunciated as to render every chants, Chaitham, Friday eigbt, and -phrase dear and comprehensible. 1 - after effectiug an entrance blew the —john Randall,. of the village Of door of the safe off, and succeeded in Angus, committed suicide Friday morn - obtaining about 150. No arrests have ing by hanging himself. Nothing t's • known whicile could' have caused him to been made.tt 1 e. person of a miserable old do so rash an act, as he was to all woman in Montreal, who was supposed appearance in good health, and a most to have died from cold . and starvation, unlikely man to do such a thing. was found $13 rolled up in her rags. Great sympathy is expressed with the that she died from syncore, arising peotea, Medical testimony was to the -effect from exhaustion. ° —A. Woman, in Yorkville, last Stin• day, experienced the ead, though now somewhat familiar seneation of attend- ing her buabaud's fuuerial, this being the fifth time she has been balled on to per- form the same mournful rites. He was her fifth husband. —Trouble has nroken out at the Medi. , I fazeily, which is very highly re and long resident in that par country. . —Mr. E. DeCew, of St. Tho of tile ate hes a curiosity in his shop in the sh pe of; a , stove fully 80 years old. It was grown in Scotland, and imported to this coun- try when thirty years old. It was origin- ally intended for burning peat. The workmanship is excellent, and the stove manufacturers of the present day have cal ' College at Kingston, between the not apparently made such great ad. male and female students. The latter vanees in their business as is generally took offence at remarks by the professor supposed. and absented themselves from several —A despatch from San Francisco on lectures. The male students in retalia- tion have asked the faculty for their ex- pulsion. —During Thiirsday night or Friday niorning, the frarae stables of Mr. John Lahattahe well known Londou brewer, Monday, says the Marquis of Lorne With the Princess Louise, now in San Francisco, has applied to the -Secretary of War for a military eseort as far south as San A,ntonio, Texas. They fear, it is said. they may becorne the victims of a were burned. The contents, includina Fenian plot The secretary of War four valuable horees, a cow and several has ordered ten men and an of6.oer to accompany the party. —A special despatch from Brantford says: "During the past few days 150 Grand Trunk Railway employees have been discharged from the shops in Lon don, and nearly one half have been sent to the shops here. A gentleman in the confidence of tbe Company is authority tents on Weduesday last week. The for the statement that the round Louse fire caught from a steam thresher at is to be remodelled,and the repair shops work on the premises. greatly enlarged, and his prediction is —A Kingston gentleman, who bought that the Brantford shops will soon be a thirty dollar lot at Reck Lake city, received a tax bill .he other day in which he was charged with three dollars for statute labours, which it was ascer- tained,behad not performed. Be thinks it would pay him to tramp up sled do his statute labour, a- otherwise he will soon ipso the value ( his farm. —Monday afternoon GuelPh, a blacksmith named Alexander Ryan, was putting a hold-backetrate on a pair of ehafts with a braze and bit, working it upwards towards his face, when the bit Slipped off the screw and strnek him on the eye,caneing it to drop out of its socket ,onto the &or. —Diphtheria carried off at one fell swoop four children of Mr. Thomas Shields, Division Court bailiff, at Van- kleek Hill. Three of them were buried in one day, and the fourth died on the night following tbe burial. This dread disease iS said to have raged in that neighborhood' with unequalled severity. —Rev. W. S. Ball ittte of _Guelph, was on the 7th inst. inducted pastor of the Presbyterian Church at English Settlement, llth concession London Township, and also of the Proof, Line Church. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr McAdam,of Strathroy. A social entertainmentin the church edifice followed. —A few days ago. while a horse, be- longing to Mr. Walter K Dryden, of North Dumfries was drawing wood out of Mr. John D. iloore's bush, it stepped on a stick, which flew up and strnek the animal on the stomach with such force as to let out its entrails The injuries were such- that the horse had to be killed. It was a fine beast, and was worth $200. —An immigrant and his young wife, the latter possessed of some money, who staid in Ottawa for some months, went to the States. On arriving across the border, the immigrant heartlessly de- serted his wife, firet securing all her ef- fects. She made her way back to Ot- tawa, and was assisted to return to her former home in.the old country, by the kind-hearted Ottawa agent. —Mr. Cushing, manager of the Jubilee Singers, on Saeurday puticbd the head of Mr. Thompson, leasee of the Horticultural pavillion, Toronto. The cause of the trouble was Thompson failed to appear in time to open the doors to the public. Mr. Cushing was summoned befdre the magistrate, but the complainant failing to appear the case was dismissed.. - —The 50th anniversary of tbe wed- ding of the founder of the London Herald, Mr. Freeman Talbot, takes place on the 8th of next January, at Cleveland, Minnesota. The present editor of that paper regrets that dis- tance prevents the acceptance of his kind invitation, and hopes that many happy:years may yet be spared the aged couple. —Wm. McKay, Clerk of the County of Elgin, died at his residence in St. Thomas a few days ago, at the age of 71. The immediate cause of death was paralysis, but the deceased had been ill for seine weeks, though attending to his duties in the November session of the Council. He had occupied the position. of county Clerk for _thirty years, and was greatly respected. —At the Montreal police court Annie Josephine Warren, alias Annie Abbott, pleaded guilty the other day to stealing 03,000 feom her employer at Wadding- ton, N. Y., andbringing stolen money into Caeada. Joseph Plants was ar- raigned as an accomplice by receiving the money knowing it to be stolen. After a long trial he was found guilty. Sentenee deferred. —The Fisk Jubilee Singers gave an entertainment in Toronto last Saturday which was very largely attended. The. Globe sp.ys of this troupe: "The Jubilee Singers! are always welcome, and no class of performance seems to take so well with the general public, as tbeirs,as is shown in the uniformly crowded houses I with which they are greeted. Apart from the aesociations which sur- round them, their success is doubtless due, in a great measure, to the chars°- , cutters and wagoue, were eleo destroyed. Loss not ascertained. Building and stock insured. —The barn and out buildings ob the premises owned by Wm. Boyd, oil the first concession of Bidd ul ph , occupied by Isaac Button as tenant, were entirely consume with all the oon- to $45, whereas formerly $25 to $30 wee —The ladies of Knox Church, Ayr, reckoned a fair price. A neighbor of have handed their pastor, the Rev. John of mine here, wishing to go into the cat- Thompson, the aura of $182, being the tile business, and being unable to buy at proceeds of the'socials,held smite months heine, went as far east as Atchison, ago, for the purpose of assisting to fur- Kaa-sa.s, where he bought 150 cows nisi) the new manse. among the farmers, and shipped them. —The Senate of Toronto 'University back by rail: The large shipments of have recommended the creation of nine cattle to Europe for the last four or five fellowships, each tenable for three years, years, together with the extraordinary at a salary of $500. These will probably losses on the Plains in the winter of be the first salaried fellowships in 0011- 1880 '81, are the causes ascribed for this neotion with a Canadian university. increase in price. Whether it will be —The Toronto- Globe says: A let of maintained is a qUestion which time hogs were received by a merchant here can only answer. Those who have cat-. from theMount Forest district. In the tle find it very easy to persuade them-, gullet of one of the oaroa.ses'were found selves there will be no fall , in many three" teeth" out of an old fashioned years -to come, while others, who have drag, or harrow. The transacition would pone or wish to buy, profess to believe net the seller about 25o. the present values entirely fictitious. —A large oleander plant, which was gowever that may be, cattle men never growing all summer in a box in the open Mit better pleased with the proepeots of air in the garden of a citizen of St. their business than now. Thomas, NM taken into the house when There has been ,a stiffening in the the cold weather came on, and at once value of sheep, but not to anything like blossomed out, and was covered with the same extent as in cattle. There has beautifal and delicate white flowers, been the same exportation to Europe, not unlike single roses. During the the naost important on the line." —Major Rogers, engineer of the Can- ada Pacific Railway, has arrived from the Pacific slope, where he has com- pleted a survey of the line to connect_ with Galgarry. He says it will be con- n by the Ars ago, Mein- er Had will be will be an lines. Brown , proprietor of the Brown House, Am- herstburg, was attacked with bleeding from the, nose. At first it was net thought to be anything serious, but when all efforts to stop the blood were apparently futile, although Drs. Fisher and Perk had been summoned, the family and friends became alarmed. During ' the afternoon and evening it was thought by all that the case Would soon end fatally,but at 11 p.m. that night the bleeding was stopped, and Mr. Brown has since been improving. —At Port Hope, on Sunday night, Mr. Clarke came within an ace of losing his life by suffocation. The coal stove in bishouse is a new one, and had not beeu properly registered, and after going to bed and while asleep gas began escaping from it, filling the room. Waking up almost suffocated, he staggered to tb window to raise it, but being 'unable b turned for the door. He fainted an fell as be reached it, and was found there sometime afterwards, life all bu extinct. The extreme necessity of look ing carefully after the regulation of coa stove is apparent from this. —Mr. 3. T. Brill, of Guelph, ha been very successful this season wit his oreiamery at Teeswater, He ha shipped to London, England, hi all 11 packages or 60 500 lbs. of butter whioli he has turned out from this facto during the season. Mr. Brill is in re ceipt of a letter from London stating that his shipment had avrived in good condition and was of excellent qtiality, The prices have been good and the business consequently suecessffil thiS 1 McIallAlc BROS., Publishers. #1..50 a Year, in Advance. bide was quite thick. The bridge is bout fourteen feet high where Mc- siaghliu went over, and it is a wonder e was not killed, as it is, his collarbone i broken, several ribs are smashed, and e is otherwise badly bruised. -eA number of farm sales are report -- d from West Zorra. Mr. D. G. Mure Tay has sold his farm of 100 acres to A meeting was held at Avonton the Mr. John Andison for $7,000. Mr- other evening at which a number of use- ndison also bought the farm of Mrful and instructive addresses relating to ohn McLeod, 100 acres for $6,000. Mr. farming interests were delivered. ndison sold leis terra of 100 acres to siderably shorter than laid do Government surveyors some 3, and the new pass on the Roc taine far surpasees the Leat Pass, formerly selected. Ther no tunne ing, and the gradien less them on any of the Ameri --Early Friday morning;Ell people were at the barn. When they came in, they found the drawers ran- sacked and the money miseing. The neighbors turned out to look for the thief but no trace of him could be found. —A number of the Downie agricul- turists have established a farmers' club. r. E. L. Sutherland,' for $7,200. Mr. —A young man named James Tay- utherland sold 50 acres of the same to 1°r, lost the thunab and two fingers of his rigbt baud by accidentally essrs. Robert and ' Thomas MacRae, or 13,400. Mr. Alex. Bain sold his coming in contact with a buzz saw w farm of 50 acres to his brother Andrew which he was attending in a St. Marys for $4,000. Mr. A. Bain has since workshop. •ought a farm of 100 acres in the —A Shakespeare correspondent says: aunty of Bruce. Mr. Wm. MoIetosh "The laziest man hes got to out his ought Mr. Bass' form of 150 acres for wood this winter, as there is not a man 9,000. —Families who have ot be to careful and management of them. rregularity _ even m most serious results. master of the Londefr Schools, with his inily, narrowly escaped suffocation by coal gas a few nights ago. It appears that one of the mice plates fell out of the stove, the draught of which had been closed when the family retired to bed, and SO the gas escaped into the roem. Mr. Eckert, fortunately woke up during the night, and after several effort succeeded in • reaching the windows and letting in the carloads of horses, cattle and. seep from St. Marys last week. He pm' has - ed two fine Douglass horse% that *ere shown at the spring fair there last spring, and were so much alike that the judges could not distinguish between in the villaee who will do a day's work. coal stoves can- There are lots of idle men, but they cautious in the seem to be above work. A very light —The other morning when Mr. Jas.- y produce the s Moore, of Shakespeare, went to feed a r. Eckert; head span Of well matched ponies, he found East Public oue lying on its back in the crib. When the pony was taken out it was found to be al moet dead. A farrier was sent for, but to no purpose, es the horse died two days after. —Mr. Saxby, °St. wealthy farmer of Illinois. who, makes periodical visits to Western Ontario to pr chase steck, shipped a couple of air. He suffered severely himself, and his children were prostrated for some time, but have now recovered. —Ati- the Elm street Methodiet church, Toronto, last Sabbath, Rey. them, and. justly awarded them each a Mr. Laird made an announcement first prize in the general purpose class. which occasioned considerable regret He also took with him some splendid . and surprise. On the 20th November brood-maree, some thorough.hred cattle and a few !dne sheep. year. —Last Sabbath evening in Letulo as a woman was making her wa through the crowd at the Sa1atioTh Army gathering, in the City Hall,sle o served three young men jostling rough] beside her mei' requested them to deeist Instead of acceding to the appeal they began crnwding all the more,and gavt3 her la violent shove. She • promptl. took the law in her own hands, elappe one of the roughs sharply in tbe fac and with a straight blow from th shoulder hit another on the nos drawing blood. This appeared to hay the desired effect and the disturbanc ceased. e firm of Messrs W. J. Stewa & son, of Harristom has lately bee turning nut some fine specimens Marble work. One of these is a mo umeot for Mr. William Davidson. Howick, to be erected in memory of hi son. It is manufactured frora-the ce ebrated Ottawa granite, and weighs over 4000 pounds. The workmanshi is most artistic in both finish and d4 - sign. Another, a monument to be erected in memory of the late F. Brown, Cllifford, is a gem of workmansbi This one is of gray granite and weig over 3 000 pounds. —Abent ten o'clock Monday nigh, last week, Mr. Duncan McLaughlin. 6t concession of Egremont, was on his wajv home from Cedarville with a team an empty sleigh, and when crossing bridge on the 7th soncession, one of b horses. a blind one, walked off, draggi the other horse, sleigh, and Mr. M Langhlin with him. Mr. McLaughTha had stopped at Mr. John McLaughlin a short distance from the bridge, and as it was thought he might drive off wbi e passing over it, the night being very dark and stormy, watch was kept, mid the noise of the fall being heard assist- ance soon reached him. The unfor- tunate man was found in the water with the sleigh on top of him, the force 0! race to the Governitesall. the fall sending him through the Me village at the time and the two young stock and a (Nig' • • last, he said, Miss Mary A. Walker, eldest daughter of the late Charles Walker, was suddenly taken ill, suffer- ing from an affection of the lungs. On the same day, aud about the same hour, bar cousin. Miss Jane Walker, eldest daughter of the late John Walker, was -similarly afflicted. The first -mentioned ladv died tai Friday, and the latter ex- pired on Saturday The 0011E4 11A who —Many 41 Can a.d ians are deluded by the advertisements BO plentiful- ly distributed by railway companies and land speculators, depicting in glowing colors the advantages offered te settlers in tbeWestern and Southern States. The Beacon says: "Two years -ago Mr. James Porteous, of Fullerton, were fast friends in life, lived, one on sold his fine farmeand broke up a cora- King aud the other on Church street, had not seen each other for some days prior to their last illness, but during tbeir conscious moments on the sick bed each enquired affectionately after the health of the other. The remains of both were interred in•the same grave- yatd. —On -Friday afternoon, 1st inst., a very distressing accident, with a fatal termination, occurred on the farm of M Levi j Hatch about • two milets a r. south of Tilsonburg. A well digger, named John Easton, from the township of Walsingham, was engage) in digging a well for Mr. Hatch, and ke,d sunk the well to the depth of 49 feet. Beginning at the bottom of the well,he had bricked up between 6 and 9 feet, and when emptying ia bucket of gravel behind the brick he struck the curbing, and • a part of it giving away the sand caved in upon him, and covered him to a depth of three feet. As soon as the alarm was given, a large number of men congre- gated, eager and anxious to help, but it was impossible for more than one man to i get into the well at once, and even one man was so cramped that only a dipper could be used to bail out the in- coming sand. Those who went -down risked their lives every moment they remained, and are deserving of all the praise that brave men should be given. The work of extricating poor Easton went on all Friday night. He was badly injured, but lived until 11 o'clock Satur- day forenoon, when death relieved him from suffering, being Still immovably wedged in the debris. It was 9 o'clock in the evening before the body could be got out of the well. The deceased was 50 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children. fertable borne in &metequence of placing faith in these Yankee stories. He bought an eetate in Virginia, and after giving the eXperiment a fair trial he has determined to return to Ontario. He writes us: 'The South is beautiful to look at, but no place to live in," and he strongly advises Canadians -to keep away from it. Mr. Porteoue is to settle in St. Marys, where we wish him a long life and much prosperity. —Mr. 'Jelin Nott, veterinary surgeon, of Brussel% states that Mr. John Rod- dick, 14th concession of Grey, lost a valuable mare from inflammation of the lungs, caused by giving medicine through the nose. The history of the case is as follows: The mare took sick with an attack of indigestion, Mr. Rod- dick not being at home, some of the neighbors were called in, and through kiudness tried to administer some medi- cine. The animal refusing to swallow the medicine, it was given through the nose, and instead of going to the stom- ach passed into the lungs, and caused violent inflammation of the lungs, which proved fatal. Mr. Nott says it is * dan- gerous and foolish practice, and he has known a number of valuable horses killed in the same way since be -came to Brussels. Persons should not at- tempt handling medicine tailless they have some idea of the action of the same, and know how to adminieter it. Perth Items. A snow -shoe club is being formed in Stratford. —A St. Marys school boy had his leg broken a few days ago by a kiek from a mate while playing foot ball. —Mr. McGregor has been re -appoint- ed principal of Stratford High School at a salary of $1,100 per annum. —Quite a number cif farina have changed bands lately in Hibbert. The prices realized varied from 166 to 075 per acre. —Mr. Charles Merryield has got the contract of carrying the mails between Mitchell and Monckton,the prioe being $400. —There is almost a water famine in St. Marys. The majority of the wells are dry. causing great inconvenience to housekeepers. —Mr. S. M. Lindenburg, formerly band -master of the 13th Hussars, has undertaken to instruct the Stratford town band. --It cost Mitchell $111 for the wood used at the waterworks engine house this year, beeides 126 worth of coal pur- chased ter the same place. —Principal Cavan, of Knox College, Toronto, will preach . the anniversary sermons in Knox church, Stratford, on Sabbath. the 24th inst. —St. Marys eurling club have ap- pointed for skips for this season Messrs. Somerville, Moore, Grant, Weir, Sperling, Robson, Andrews and Moir. t —There will be a concert and enter- tainment at School Section No. 5, Hib- bert on the evening of the- 21st inst., when it -may be predicted an amusing and enjoyeble time will be spent. —Mr. James lktoTavish has sold his farm of 100 acres in Hibbert to his neighbor, Mr. A. Bruce, for 17,500; and Mr. George Leary has purchased 50 acres from Mr. Bruce for 03,300. —Wm. Brown a fermer living within a couple of miles of Idrkton, had $90 taken , from his drawer a couple of weekslago. The old man was in the —The reopening services in connec- tion with the Priehitive Methodist Church, Cranbrook, were held on Sun- day and Monday of last week, u an; nounoed. Three excellent sermons were preached, by Rev. Mr. Ferguson, of Hawksville to large and attentive con- gregations. Tlie tea meeting on Mon- day evening was well patronized. the church being literally packed. After a feaet,of good things, prepared in a first- class style by the ladies of the congre- gation, Mr, Richard Sperling was called to tbe chair, and e by his Irish good - humor did much to make the, pro- gramme a pleasant one. Addresses were delivered by Revs. D. B. McRae, D. C. Clappison, jeFergnson, and R. C. Burton, the pastor of the church. Music of a high order was discoursed by the choir, under the leadership of Mr. Thos. Angus, Miss Dames presiding at the organ. The proceeds of the servicee, together with a subscription list, amounted' to $25-7. The church looks much the better of. the improvements, and the best of it is that, with the ex- • ception of about $20, the building is free from debt. • -A correspondent writes of the im- provements recently made in the Port Albert harbor: The work has been most wretchedly done, and the bungling and incompetency displayed throughout has been the talk of the neighborhood. The work has not been "pushed vigorously on." It has been done mainly by mem- bers of tbe overseer's family. It has been no uncommon sight to see four of them filling a wheelbarrow, and the " superintendent " damping the load. " Vigorous," indeed! Shingle shavings from Mr. W. T. Pellow's mill were mixed with beach sand, etc., and used for filling b. This is rather a poor in- vestment for the Government. But the " superinten lent" and his relatives were paid byethe day, and were willing to sac- rifice time and muscle for the good of their country. A number of holes are already apparent in the pier, and the shavings, chips, ete, are washing out. The county piledriver is now a. sight to behold. It is badly wrecked, and anew one will be needed if efficient work is to be done at any time. It is said that a portion of the county piledriver is in the adjoining connty, used in moving barns. The Port Albert harbor if; a laughing-