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FIFTEENTH YEAR.
NVHOLE NUMBER, 787,
SEAFORTH FRIDAY JANUARY 5 1883.
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McIJEAN BROS., -Publishers1
l..50 a Year, in Advance.
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E. 1101CFAU L 44,
wm offorp.iing the Mouth of Deeatab7„
SPECIAL, BAIR
AINS
NEW AND SEASONABLEr ODDS,
SUCH AS
Millinery,
Mantles,
Dress Goads,
Furs, cfe.-
IN *MILLINERY
Will be found the Newest and moet
Stylish Goods, from the Cheapest to
the Best, at
RARE BARGAIN&
In Mantles
The stook will be found complete, in
different styles, and of . the best ma-
,
terials,ab
Decided Bargains.
• IN DRESS GOODS
Will be found all the leading ina,kes of
goods,. in the Newesi Shades, among
. which can be had
GENUINE BARGAINS
11\T FT3-13•S
Will be found a complete stock of
Ladies' Caps, Boas', Muffs, Pets, Capes
aro., arl offered: at
Immense Bargains.
NOTICE.
All the above are New and Season-
able goods, just what the people wept
at present. Those who have the Cash.
to buy with, will find thie an extra
opportunity to secure UNSURPASSED
BARGAINS while the' stock is fresh
and frilly assorted.
E McFAUL.
SEitFORTH.
NEW LIQUOR §TORE.
Wed take pleasure in announcing to
the, people of Seaforth and surrounding
vicinity, that we have opened out a .
NEW LIQUOR §TORE,
Comprising the Choicest Brands of
Wines and Liquors, selected and bought
from one of the leading Wholesale
Houses in the Dominion.
OLD PORT WINE
From England. ,
DRY SHERRY AND CRAPE WINE
From France.
itadeira and Marsala Sacramental Wine
from Spain—warranted pure.
D. K.. AND KINK'S HILLARD DIN.
- Mountain Dew from Scotland.
GUINNESS' POFtTER
- Bottled by Burke from Ireland.
CARLING'S AMBER ALE
Old Rye, Malt & Superinr Whiskie8
From H. Walker & Son, Windsor.
Ilennesy, Martell, Jules Robin
Brandies,
AU those liquors are speci9.11y selected for me-
dieinal purposeand family use, Also, several
°tiler kinds of liquors, which we hope will give
every malaise, ion to our customers.
Remember the place, two doors eolith of Rob-
ertson's Cironlar Saw.
W. KILLORAN.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED AT
THE HURON EXPOSITOR OFFICE,
SEAFORTH, PNTARIO.
KO WITNESSES REQUIRED.
A NewZealander's Opinion
of Thip.gs Canadian.
A number of
district of Ne
of their numbe
relative of Mr.
to proceed to
Offloads, and
tion of the ohe
a view to its
'Zealand... The
ly M. P. 'for 8
of the leadIng
mission. Be
,returned with
gations. -Cap
41,tratford laat
of introductio
,tvne, M.P.P.,
'Zealand preps
'which we find
'number of the
;.country and th
-.Item says:
I now pas
States of
into Canada
town of
, Perth, Wee
of, if not tilis
,in the Dom ni
tion of th c
and Stratford i
broken and a
1 1
leading farmers in a
Zealand appointed one
. Captain Runciman, a
. Runciman; Stratford,
he TInited States and
ake a thorough inspec-
se factory system, with
'ntroduction into. New
ate Wm. Scott, former-
uth Waterloo, was one
pirits inpromoting the-
ied- before the delegate
he report of his investi-
a.in Runciman visited
ummer, having a letter
to Mr. Thome Balkan-.
d on his return_to New
d an elaborate report,
published in a recent
aikato Times. Of the
ngs hereaboutthe Cap -
oi through a corner of the.
en sylvania, and New York!
, vf ere I pulled up at the•
ra ford, in the County of
er Ontario', that being one
rincipal, cheese centre'
n. ' A considerable por-
untry between the Falls
of a .poor description,
ony, until nearing the
latter plac , here it improves very
much, and y tJhe time I reached Strat-
ford the co nt y all round was hal
good and b ati iful, and the crops of all
kinds were be ter. The harvest was
fairly begu . n my arrival at Strat-
ford I went as.J I bad been directed, to
find Mr. B lla tyne, who is a member
a the Prey um 1 Parliament and Pron.-
dent of th W stern Dairymen's Asso-
iiiation, tha g ntleman having the re-
putation of being the greatest authority
on the man f ture of cheese in the Do-
minion of an da. He was from lhome
and. would no return till the morrow
evening, but I t once resolved to wait.
In the meanti e I found a cousin ofi
mine, whom I ad expected to meet 70
or 80 miles fa her away. He ie not e.
dairyman, liIt eat in iron and mulling
inarihinery. I found myself quite .at
home, for kir. Ballantyne -was a.
personal friend of his. Next day my
cousin drove m around some portions of
the siirrouu.ding country, and in the
evening we called on Mr. Ballantyne
after his retur and explained.my busi-
ness. He b °ace vereekindly arranged
1
that he sho ld g rive me round to several
factories ne t i ay, and explain to me
all about their working, and in short
give me au yl in ormation I required. I
am very plelati ci to tell you he did. this
in the most ' ainstaking way. After
calliug at save al farms as we went
elongt be to k ii e to one _ of his own
factUriett ite oreekt, ft:04, the one
having the ifrio t perfect neat bieery in
that neighor ood. The machinery
was a very ec ded improvement over-
many factor es I had been through in
the States, nd the article produced was
superior to u h I had seen. Here I
saw the gang roes, which I waif; much
pleased wit The cheeses in this fac-
tory were ad abouttwoinches deeper
than any f ct ry Iliad previously kisit-
ed, not tha M. Ballantyne either era
commencle th 9 inch or condetuned
the 7 inch. II z pointed out the ecotioney
of labor an s ace, but admitted Other
disadvanta es were about equal. This
factory rec ive the milk of somewhere
about 1,00ft oo es, whieh comes fie:1m a,
distance, at le at on one eide,of over six
miles, biretgen rally not exceeding four
mile. This i the first place where I
found the whei fed to pigs kept at the
factory. The e were emmething ! over
300 pigs, rcpst y all of good quality, and
ail thriving w 11. I was very plemied
to ape the stet in carried out practipally,
as most of you are aware we had ' been
contemplating doing the same thing
here. Sinde t en I have seen four or
five other ' factories working the
same way nd I am now fully
persuaded t• at it is by far
the best gra of utilizing the whey.
The system a opted in some districte
of teking the hey back to the farm to
be utilised flit ils waste, but it is rum
necessary t ' his time to enter upon
this subject After about 3 hours ex-
planation oi 1 the details, Mr. Ba an-
tyne turne lit horses' heads ho a-
wards, but or . e round another vay
over a large tr ict of capital country all
ins. very gpod state of•cultivation. he
--whole distr et I's just so slightly undu at,
ing as not Jto )e a dead level and Jth
laud a raid li I g heavy loam on ap arl
ently sand -to , e roek as shown in the
many little ri ulets we passed oyeri
The crops bei as a whole were beet
than in mot daces I bad been. Wh at;
barlea, oat, pas; and lint (flax), vere)
the most fpre alent ; potatoes loo, ed
well. but in very small patches ; ot
turnips Sw de are the only kind grOwn,
and, those n1 in very small patches,
not looking we 1. A few small patchee
of carrots 'pole d very well. At least
three-fourths f that part of the couatry,
was ether kine er crop or had been cut
for hay. Her: as elsewhere, timothy
and red doter are the prinoipal grasses,
and the cattle as a general rale were
better bred th n most I had seen. But
here, as else here, the pastures look
poor and thin Mont that richness of
appearance w ich our New Zealand
pastures plresint. And then that de-
plorable Can dian thistle made the
pastures almo t useless in many places:
Were that o gzt into our land with our
temperate loll ii ate our country would
be ruined. l 'I hey can hardly cope with
it where tirley • ave only a short season
of growth. i he thistle does not only
take possessiop, but keeps it ; its roots
run ander igrohnd and every bit of root
2 inches long will grow, and its seeds
will blow by the wind nearly as fax al
the thistle we have. We have , twe
spots of thistle growth in Waikato, one
near Cambridge, and one near Te Awar
mutu, and after aeeing the condition
which part of Canada has got into with
them, and the small chance of extern*
'grating them from any plea.° of :ground,
the damage they do the crops which can
he handled only hy machiLery, I would
gladly coUtribute to exterminate what
thistles we have here. Some teastures
/ saw wets just next thing till useless
owing t the thistle, w4ich in
some paces is almost ; driving
the peo ;(3 •out of their farms.
Mr. Ballantyne aid I got back to Strat-
ford by dusk, and he gave me ar letter of
introduction to another faetory at
Tavistock, which I was t� go to early
ing, and he back to ptratiord
Mr. Ballantyne to tt cheese
out 40 miles away. ji did so,
• it almost a fac eimilie of the
eek factory. About t 40 pigs
there ill of good fait!quality,
ng well. I went to the cheese
at Listowel, about 't0 miles
atford, with Mr. Btalantyne.
a. buggy there, and drove to
er, cheese factory, tv,here a
n was workingewhem lie could
mend to me if he eould be
go to New Zentaei, but the
ot care to go till after the end
eason--the end of November.
ed and attended the market
s held in a large hall: There
30 or 40 representatives from
acteries, and I was told that
uridred tons bad. 'Changed
thiu an hound. a half, and
standard price from the best
elivered into the railway cars
next _mor
to go witi
market a
and faun
Black C
were kept
and thriv
fair held
from St
We -took
see anot
young na
fully reco
induced t
man did
of their
Weretur
which w
were Bona
as many
several! I
hands W'
that the
factories
was 11 to 11 one-tenth cents perib.
et over, a general talk ensued,
eral questioning of inc as to
y, ate. To a very great eetent,
e, and in many othet places,
ecu looked upon as O. natural
omin.g from such an outlined -
but everywhere I wes treated
dest, possible way, and every
as paten my way tel get the
on I wanted. Nest day I
saw through mot o the
al machine and tether
in Stratford,- from which
ed. catalogues, price lister
, trona Messrs. Ballantyne
Fie a very large and Yalu -
f rePorts and tra,nsactiops
:tern eand Western Ontario
tt Associations, a part of
ft to come with the machin -
following day I moved for -
y journey, went and vieited
rris to be the largest herd of
(shorthorn) cattle in the world,
ark.
The mat
and a ge
my count
both the
I had
curiosity
ish place
in the ki
facility
informat
went an
agricultu
factories
I obtai
do. Ale
and Ha
able lot
both Ea
Dairyme
which I I
ere,. Th
ward on
what Oa
Durham
at Bow
- -
F110
Emer
DEAR
for some
letter 1)
off till
gun now
hard to
rural di
where, if
a tbreshipg the nearest village would
hear of i
here you
and per
place I s
ther as i
as it wil
This has beer
thing re
they. say
till next
one day,
ing tie
weather
but I ba
changes
about si
in, since
steady t
39 ° bolo
zero. But I.believe we do no ' feel 35 0
e than we do 10'0 ie Ontario.
ritt eay it is on account of the
the ateaosphere, but all kinds
catiug liquor will stupify a
joker especially in wipter from
cause. The snow ienot more
I
IS
the 'Gateway City.
on, Manitoba, December 2nd, 1882.
XPOSITOR,—I have intended
time back to drop yoa a hort
down nu account of so ranch poor giain
coming in, and the faro3ers had to turn
-their teams homeward again, and feed
their grain to their cattle and hogs.
Er:Denson has almost been taken by
dtoraz with the Mennonites corning in
to be nattiralized. The county. clerk
swore in 600 here and 400 at Win-
nipeg. They ,hold some of the best land
in!Manitoba, but still they seem to be a
very thriftless Time of people. They do
net care to better themselves and they
went to keep their own people within
themselves, and if any of their sons or
daughters adopt -the Canadian dress and
manners they are immediately bronght
home or else 'boycotted." The weekly
and semi-weekly newspapers have
emerged into the Evening Iuternational
and Daily Manitoban. I would like to
know what tciw.n in Ontario of 1.700 in-
habitants could support two daily papers
and one weekly.
Mutt beautiful moon -light evenings
we have -just now, so clear, bright and
frosty. :We can distinguish friends
almost a quarter of a, mile away, and
the jingling sleigh -bells sound so musical
ati the pleaaure cutters xdash past filjed
with fur -clad, inerry people out for an
honed drive, or perhaps speeding their
way to some festive gathering made all
the merrier by the sharp drive. Com-
pliments of the season to all your readers.
Yours,—J. Melt. 13.
Canada.
Andrew Bryden has purchased the
Burt farm of 500 acres, in West Gera-
fraxa, for $8,500.
—The Canada Worsted Factory of
Quebec, will apply for power to double
the oapittil stook, making it $400 000.
--James SeMple, of East Gerafreara,
bought Jas. Iltirris' two farms, of 100
acree each,on the 9th and 10th (maces-
sione, for $8,500.
—John R • tinecontractor on the On-
tario and Quebec Railway, has bad a
$400 team , of 'horses drowned while
crossing Sharbot Lake.
—The Dean Grasett mei:aerial win-
dow has been placed in St. !Tames Ca-
thedral, Torouto. It -is a bectetiful work,
of art, add cost $3,000.
—Rev. Mit Rausseltit, of Montreal,
was presented 'by the parishioners of
Notre Dame with $3,600 on his leaving
fpr another parish in the city.
- —A faemer gamed Haat was murder-
ed at the Grand Trunk Railway station
at Arthabaska pn Wednesday night last
week by four men, three of whomwere
errested.
—The bronze medal of the Royal
Humane Society has been awarded to
Master Joseph Wallace, of Ottawa, foil
bravely rescuing two boys from drowp-,
ing above tlie Chaudiere
w and then, but always put- —Canada is Working up a heavy lum-
begau to tnk if not be- ber trade vvitli SetiitheeArreerice, forty -
t would never be done, but it is eight sailing ships being engaged in tne
et news especially from the husiness, aud the ebipments the past
Wets, as it is not like Ontario year being 40,000,000 feet.
an aecident should happen at —A fine eagle has just been ,catight
would hear nothing fOr a -week
in it Try short , but, /up
aps never. Well, in the first
all try and describe the wea-
has been this fall and perhaps
be fpr the next three mouths.
an unttsuallywet fall some -
able for this country, as
it hardly ever rains after July
April, but it has been raining
sun shining the next and enow-
third, The people say the
oes -not change in thil country,
e seen as many, if pot more
than ever in On4Oio. Till
weeks ago- when the froot set
then it has kept tip a very
mperatiiretowering te 35 P and
, but very seldom ri ing above
0
a.r
here mo
The maj
rarity of
of intox
person q
the sane
thanthi teen -inches deep on the level -
and elei
bing excellent" The ice on
the Re River is about 27 motes thick,
and botI the curling and skating rinks
have heu operled, and the new railway
and trafic bridge will be cemmenced
as soon 4s the plans and spe dfications
have pa sed at Ottawa, both Nayor
Carpev and Captain Nash' being now
down there to !complete arreugeneents
and sign contrects.
The! political meetings weee all the
exciternent.here for some time. The
opposing parties are very bittet to one
another, but the majority say that Nor -
quay's rkce is run. Greenway is the
coming premier of Manitot a. The
school children seem to have a very
e, on account of soine irregm
some of the trustees, there be -
res extept when they see a,
to obtain a eloa.cl of wood.
this tate of affair fi is due to
ity of that important artfclein
good ti
larity of
ing no
chance
Wheth e
the scar
this country or to the inexertion of the
Board, I do ootkoow, and no eine knowe,
and no eine sees to care to know. •
Now Srbout the crop ; bothIgrain an
root crops have been a very good yield
this last season, wheat averaging 35
bushels to the acre, oats 85, bet I believe
they have been; still better in elerne parts
of Dakota, especially the lattei, some as
high as 92, and I know of ouelwhe had
103 to the acrelthreshed. Wheat aver-
ages about 75 eents per bushel, oats 33,
barley 36, potatoee 50 cents tiF bushel,
butter 3t centitper lb., eggs 5 cents per
dozen, -poultry from 12 to 28 eents per
Ib., oyst rs 75 tents per can, wood from
$8.50 to $1.0.001per cord, hay $5 to $7
per ton, coal $i7.00. The priee of grain
varies v ry much on account of there
being somuch poor wheat in the country.
The Me nonites grain is dry' and hard,
but as they do not fan it, it ie generally
very di y, while some of the 'Canadian
farmers have vetry damp grain. I know
of some jwho brought loads to market
and on1r succeeded in getting l 40 cents
per bus el for it. In fact, one week, a
short the ago ki the buyers had all shut
by Mr. Smith, 'caretaker of the Ocean
Holes° at Burlington, measuring over
eight feet from' tip to tip of the wings.
The bird was caught near the canal.
' —Edwin Undetefood, a highly re
epeeted and well-to-do farmer, about
fifty years of age, living four miles not th
qf Norwich was accidentally shot Fri-
day morning While out squirrel hunt -1
item
I
--Last Saturday evening Judge Mil
ler was presented by the Law Societ
of Winnipeg w:th a solid silver tea' set,
ttidge Miller enters politics and will bet
thel next Attoiney-General if the Con -I,
Her atives whai
An eagle fihot by a lad at Midland,
a ew days ago, after falling to th
gro»nd, rallied) sufficiently to whip th
and attack the lad, but wa
41r4lly mastered by the use of his gu
,
as it club.
•-e-The residents of Cedar Creek,
orth Dumfries, a few daysago shipped
bent 2,000 bushels of barley to the
are of the Grange Wholesale Supply
House in Torobto, who are negotiatins
or its sale.
TA man and woman ordered oyster
tIa
0
out
wa,
an forks.
' —Mr. Justice Lavanger, of Montreal,
jh
de lared labor unions for extorting
bier wagee illegal and awarded an
emPloyer 020 damages against a mat(
named Bourden, a member of a union„
wh icduced a fellow worker tradesert
his master's service.
Dr. Kernaptt's ,widow ip Loudonit
i!
ha received la $2,000 death benefi
fro the Royal Teroplars of Temper
an e, througlt: the Secretary of th,
De roit Council. The council was or
ganized four ytars ago, and this is itli
i
first death. I -
—Mr. Dicksem a farmer raiding' i 1
it
th; in a wagon he was driving, em
township of Dawe, while carrying
gu ,
dettally disc arged one of the ball
int e his side, grazing his skin, tearing a
large hole through his overcoat, under-,
coat, veet mai shirt.
--Mr. W. E. Anderson, telegraph
rep rotor it Lechute has fallen heir 6
u ther bequeet of $10000. left to hind
y a secondmtcle named Canaeron, wh
died lately ip Ediuburgh, Scotland
TItis makes altogether 8850,000 dollars
left by the two bachelor uncles to their
Be-,--°Seywivester Day, who was shot b
Mies Eva Wpod, at jerseyville, earn
e ago, is reported out of danger an
btu recover. He does not wish
Becute a young woman for the
rice. H will, however, be ree
rid red to ap ear against her at the
aseizes. - •
—A handsetne gold watch was. a few
days ago presented to Mr. R. P. W Ili t
late station Master at Ayr, by his f llo
employees on the Credit Valley
wap, and a vatuable gold chain w
the same timegiven him by the citi
of I Ayr. Th proceedings woun
with a supie at which the kin
• r
ee's restauranf,, Hamilton, Thurtt
night, and while the waiter went
of the reom to get them, the pait
ked off with all the silver epoont
sentiments were expressed towards Mr.
Wyllie, and wishes for his futnre -wel-
fare. Such tokens of appreciation of
'honest and faithful service must be
very gratifying to both Mr. Wyllie and
his friends.
—Mrs. S. Victoria Craig, and Ellen
Blyth, ',if Bank street Ottawa had an
extremely narrow escape a, few nights
ago, from beim( fatally suffocated by
oat the Niagara district. Mr. Carlisle.
was with When de McLean at Niagara
nearly 40 years ago. and began husiness
for himself in 1857 together with Mr.
Robert Struthers. In many cepacities
Mr. Carlisle, served the bornraupity and
the conntry : mayor, bank director, pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, efficer of
volunteers, and in all he was eonscien-
tioue and attentive.
the escape of gas from a coal stove. 1 —On June 20 Donald MeCaskell,
After putting in suffioientcoal, they of Manitoba, a cattle drover, arrived at
retired to bed, neglecting to cover the Detroit by the early train en eoute to
stove.. St. Thomas. He was decoyed. into an
—A sad. accident occurred in the 'unfrequented portion of the Michigan
vicinityof St. Thomas recently. Mrs. Central station by two thieve S named
Cole in driving from her home to the !Johnny Boquet and Dewitt or Allen,'
house of Mr. John Mills, wrapped tier who followed him from Chimp. They
baby up warmly, and on arriving at got McCaskell, to exhibit hit pocket
her destination was horrified to find. book by exchanging a bill, wh n they
that the little one had been suffo-
cated:
—Donald Dinnie, the celebrated ath-
lete, so well known throughout Ontario,
has been robbed of his gold medals.
He left them locked in his trunk at trial.
Bunnell's Maseuro., New York. Tues- —The other morning Mr. Waddell,
day he found that his trunk had been the station agent at West Lerne, ebe
broken open, and onIy the silver medals I served an engine and train passing at at
snatched it and ran off with
tents $1,180. Boquet was ar
Chicago but escaped. A few
a detective succeeded in takin
He is now in gaol at Detroit
he con-
ested at
lays ago
Allem
waiting
remained.
—Mr. Uriel Cann, of Mariposa, near
Little Britain, bought a four year old
bull on the 14th of February last, when
high rate of speed. Clingiag to the
coupling pin in the rear! of the
'tender was a little boy • about
eight or ten years of age. The
heturned the scales at 1,335 pounds. little fellow was in an exeeedin ly peril -
Mr. Cann fed him up to the 14th. of -ous condition. The agent sent nessagea
May and sold him at 1,777 pounds, a to Rodney, the not station and to
gain of 440 pounds in 90 days, or not Taylor, further on, ordering them to
quite 5 pounds a day. Can any cattle flag the train and remove the child.
feeder imeat that? The message waitreceived just in time
—A young lady in Toronto who was at Taylor and the train was stopped.
going home to spend her Christmas in The little traveller was sent beck to his
Guelph, dropped, in to see a friend on home at Delhi by the next train.
her wey down to the Union station. —The other morning abdat eight
As she only intended staying for a min- o'clock a man named Mike Healy was
ute . or 'two, she lett her valise -in the observed rushing wildly over Dufferin
vestibule. On coming out. however, it bridge, Guetph. When near the
was Rope, and now the police are trying western appreach he deliberately put
to find's leather satchel containing a his hands on the railing and vaulted
quantity of dry goods. over, falling a distance of about thirty
—The Court of Queen's Bench, feet. The suicide was witnessed by
Toronto,decided unanimously on Satur- several persons, who immediately sum -
day, that there is no restriction in this moned medical assistaace, but the un -
Province on the carrying of passengers fortunate map received fatalinjuries,
by land or water on Sundays, over- and two hours later passed away to join
ruling a dedision by ChiefJustice Robin: the silent majority. It was not consid-
son, of about 30 years ago, under which ered necessary to hold an inquest, as
since then it has-been held illegal to the deceased had led a most dissipated
carry passengers betweeu Toronto and life, and it is eupposed he was delirious
the Wand on Sundays. from drink when be commited the rash
—The first train was run over the act. He was fift§ years of age, and it is
Essex Centre Cutoff, of the Canada said was an educated than and at one
Souther p Railway, on Friday 22ud ult. time held a responsible position. .
Thetentractors who had the work in I—On Friday Dec; 2nd, Johp Besiger,
chargefinished their contract on the pre- an old resideot of 13, dford, died in his
viops Wednesday. They have had in 83rd year. He wattliorn June 22nd,
their employ on the work an average of 1800, in the State ofPennsylvania. In
377 teams of horses and 632 laborers. 1843 be, in company with eixtyg of his
—A sermon was preached in St. An- countrymen, emigrated to Canada.
drew's church, Montreal, last Sunday, Almong his fellow emigrants were the
by the Rev. J. Edgar Hill, in relation Spiders, _ Shantzere, Clements and
to the deeth of Sir Hugh Allan. His Morthyes, all of wilt* be out;itied but
text was the 9th chapter of St. Mark, Six, yirhO' to a mari. lad ' 'twit+ famitiee,
and latter clause of the 23rd verse. The were at the funeral. .His remains were
preaclier drew a lesson from the de- baried. Dec. 25th,Cat the Mennonite
ceased's life, showing what persever- barying ground, near Bright; an the
aims could de in attaining an object of old Shantz estate. He leaves behind
ambition steadily pursued. him a widow about his own pge, who
—Mr. Peter McDonald, of Kinear- niourns his loss deeply. acing 110dine„ is experiencing a fall measure of children of their own, they have rais-
affiictfon at present. A few days ago ed some twenty orphans and given them
his wife fell upon the ice as she was all a good start in life; all of whom call
aboutentering the Louse and sustained them father and mother. Jollen Besig-
very serious injuries, and is since con- er's father emigrated from Switzerland
fined to her room. Mr. McDonald, in the latter part of the eighteenth ecu -
however, -was obliged to leave her on tury to Pennsylvania. ' 1
Friday morning in order to hasten to —Mrs. Meezies, relict of the late
the bedeide of his son James who is George Menzies, editor and founder of
dying 'at Stanton, Michigan,
the Woodstock Herald, died in Wood-
-00e evening lately the young stock last week. Mrs. Menzieli survived
people of the congregational Church her husband over 30 years,and reached
Embro, took Rev. Mr. Silcox, corn- the advanced age of 78. Dieriug the
pletely by surprise when about sixty of latter part of her life she was a sad
them assembled at the parsonage and but patient sufferer, being ibedridden
preseeted him with a magnificent and much deformed by rheumatism.
Russitin wolf -skin overcoat, and Mrs. In spite of the pain and ravages of
Silcox with a butter dish, after which disease she retained her mental facub
tea was served,_ and after spending a ties unimpaire4 to the last. he was a
pleasant evening all dispersed to their woman of eduoation, an extensive and.
home. thoughtful reader, and although it may
—St. George's Society in Guelph dis- be said that she had disappeaeed ahnost
tributed Christmas cheer to 46 families entirely from the world of th present
;
in the! city. , The tutat amount of pro- generation, she still tetaine a keen
visions given, out was as follows : Meat, interest in all that came to her of its
400 lie.; bread, 200 lbs.; tea, 20 Mee life and varied interests. '611e was a
raisins, 30 lbs.; currants, 30 tbs.; oat- devout and cheerful Christian, her
meal, 200 lbs.; flour, 300 tbs.; potatoes, knowledge of the scriptures being quite
3 bag. The Society did not confine extraordinary.. Her intense suffering
i
had neither mpaired her mind nor
eloud.ed her bright hopes of a future in
which there would be no suffering.
—Mr. John Malcolm. sr., a very old
resident of the township of Beverly,
died on the .28th ult. For some time
Mr. Malcolm leadepiffared from a disease
which his medical attentants knew to
be incurable, end his death while corn-
peratively sudden was not unexpected.
Mr. tlelcolm came to Canada from near
Glasgow, Scotland, in 1843, and at once
settled on the farm where he died. He
' was one of ten children, all of his broth-
ers and sisters yet surviving him,
amOngst whom are Mr. Andrew Mal-
colm, of Galt, William Malcolm, of
Kiuloss, and Robert Malcolm, long a
merchant in Galt, and now of Kincar-
dine. Mr. ,Malculm was the father of
four sons &lel three daughters, all of
whom are liviug, viz:—Andrew, former-
ly of Seaforth, now of Manitoba, Archi-
bald, of the township of Howiek, John,
who resides on the homestead, and
James. &student at Knox College, and
Mrs. T. C. Douglas, ,wife of Mr. Thos.
Douglas. _Deputy Reeve of North Dum-
fries, Mrs. James Jamieson, of Manitoba,
and Mrs. John Valens; of Beeerly.
—The accident to the Rey. Canon
Henderson, of Montreal, laet Friday
evening, while tobogganing, is a very
serious one. it appears from theetate-
ment of a meinber of his family that
he was induced to take a slide with her
as steerswoman. The toboggan became
,
unmanageeble, left the trackt and went
over some bard, frozen groupd like a
rocket..,Th-ere was a frozenIcreek bot-
tom ifi froat of them, and into this the
toboggan plunged, thr9wing Miss Hen-
derson .out intro the snow insensible,
and tossing Mr. Henderson into the air
seveial feet. , When the lady regained
her, feet she fOund her father, some dis-
tance.away, lying on the toboggan, un-
able to move !handl or foot. He oon-
tinned in that helpless condition for
some time, but is now s shade- better.
He gaffers intense agony. What, will
be the outcome of the accident is anxi-
ously awaited by sorrowing friends.
T he lreverend gentleman is Principal of •
the 111mi-treat Diocesan College, and is
widely 'known in educational circles in
the Dominion.
•—Early rChristmas morning two cit-
izens of London East were passing
along Dundas street, when directly in
front of a brick cottage they came on a
man extended on the sidewalk. He
evidently must have lain in that con-
dition for many hours, as the frost had -
settled on his . unkempt Mad matted.
-hair. In his right hand he held a cud-
gel, and his left grasped an empty
whieky bottle. The men were just
abort to inspect the 'remains in order
to aacertain whether the vital spark
had. totally disappeared or if there
wer any hopes of his being resusci-
1
tate , when the large hall door opened
and woman armed with a pitch fork
appeared on the scene, telling them in
tone of thunder to begone about their
ess, that this was some of their
. The men protested and explain-
ed. that all they wanted was to find out
if the man was still alive. The old
lady soon set this matter at rest by
plunging the pitchfork unceremoniously
into tae man's overcoat, and lifting it
aloft disappeared thmugh the side gate.
The men then noticn. for the first time,
that it was an effigy stuffed with straw.
—Last Friday night a Mrs. White of
London, with her thildren, had a narrow
escape from being suffocated with boat
gas. i She had closed the doors and
dampers of the coal stove before
retiring, bat - forgot to open the
gas I escape, and this neglect, to -
.3
geth r with one of the doers being fin-
perf et allowed the gas to escape into
the toom. The doors and windows of
,
the room and adjoining bedroom being
tightly closed, with the exception of the
bedroom door, which opened into the
sitting- room, the consequence was that
the fumes of gas filled the two apart-
ments to swill an extent that towards
morning the children became asphixiat-
ed, and two of them were rendered in-
sensible. Mrs. White herself awoke in
gmeai torture, and found herself choking
at a dreadful rate, so much so, that she
had great difficulty in rolling out of bed.
So Fibrin as she reached the floor she in-
haled a current of air which was not so .
much impregnated with gas. Whitt in
this position with her mouth close to
the floor she heard her children groan -
red choking all around her. This
her fresh courage, and by a des-
te effort elie burled herself against
f the windows, which she broke
, and in an instant she began to
le the pure air. The heroic woman
now sufficient, strength left to pro -
ti the doolr,Vhich she finally
ed and was enabled to alarm the
them
Scotc
elves to ,Englishmen alone, as
and Irish were among the recipi-
ents. -
—M.r. W. J. Graham, Manager of
peat North-Western Telegraph
any. at Mon treatwas the recipient
w Year's day of an elegant and
tea and coffee silver service by
merous confreres in the estab-
lit. Mr. Graham has been about
re in the service, having com-
menced at the bottom rung of the lad-
der, and attained his present responsible
positien by his own merits and zeal in
behalf of the Company.
—A sad. accident occurred at the
Grand Trunk station at Kingston on the
arrival of the express train Thursday
afternoon last week. Henry Coyle,
cabmtin, attempted to run across the
track tn front of the train, but, miscal-
culating the speed of the locomotive,
was naught and knocked down. One
leg wes cut off above the knee and the
other so mutilated that it was intended
to renteve it also, bat the victim never
rallied and died a few hours after.
o tvards.
—At Upper Cunard, King's county,
Nova! Scotia, on 'Christmas day, two
sons of Jas. McRae, aged respectively
11 ard 17 years, were shooting with a
single barrel breech -loading pistol, and
the.elder had just inserted a cartridge,
and was pushing the -barrel into its
place when the charge exploded, and
lodged a bullet in the right aide of his
brother's abdomen, inflicting a very dan-
geroue wound. The doctor probed for
the bell, but was unable to find it, and
at last accounts the boy was in a critical
eondition, although hopes are entertain-
, d—o hhies recent
dery.
ath of Mr. Henry Car -
isle, hang a successful and honored_
ne merchant in f3t. Catharines, of which
up .eity be was repeatedly chosen mayor,•
0 has csused ve0 general regret through -
the
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neighbors.
From Manitoba.
NORWAY, December 19th, 1882.
Ma. EDITOR. —DEAR SIR—The woa-
theij has been somewhat stormy here of
late with the thermometer ranging
frou 20 to 35 degrees below zero. Tiled.
oleo is about 2 feet 6 inches deep on
thee evel. Some of the travellers think
we ave _snow enough to last all winter,
esp chilly those travelling through the
cou try selling sewing machines. This
con try is at present actually swarming
wit sewing machine peddlers and
poli ical candidates, the latter of whom
are ow busily engaged canvassing for
the oming elections. As the people of
this part seem to take a great interest
in election matters, a loud tine is anti-
cipated, and judging by the way the
lastgeneralelection came off, the Re-
fornters will come ont victorious. Two •
traips a week have been running from
Winnipeg to Manitoba City, which is
abotit 20 miles from Norquay. But -
since John At lias disallowed the rail-
road charters, our hopeteare rather dull
on railway communicatien. The farmers
of 7-12 and 7-11 are 'now busily en-
gaged drawing their surplus grain to
market, ;tome of them having a yield of
from 40 to 42 buehels wheat to the acre,
and 60 to 75 of oats. Wood is very •
cheap here. Oue can get all he needs
for the cutting and drawing of it. Several
wells have been dug in this neighbor-
hood lately, and the very hest of spring
water procured by digging from 12 to
25 fi3et, in fact there are several spring
creel e open all winter long, notwith-
standing the cold weather we have
sometimes. Judging from imme suspi- •
clout looking barrels, -kegs and bottles
that arrived here a short time ago, a
jollY time is anticipated for Christmas
and New Year. 'The new -saw mill is
expected to be running bere-shortlytind
a grtst mill is to be erectedin the spring ,
in the place of the oue that was
buried down last epring. So hoping
I h
ive not taken up too much of your
valpable space, and wishingyou a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year, I
remain, yours, tto.,
jecos Dieirre
—Twenty four persons of the name of
Livingston dined together on Christmaa
day at the residence of Mr. James
Livingston, Fullerton, near Mitchell.
--Mrs. S. S. Rothwell, of the 2,1 line
of Elms., has purchased the north half
of lots 27 and. 28, on the 3rd line, from
Mr. W. J. Rothwell, for $2,700.
—A man named Gilbert Scutt, a
native of Dumfries -shire, Scotland, died
on Wednesday last week, at the Aineri-
can hotel, Stratford, after a few days'
illness from inflammation. He arrived
at Stratford the previous week in very
ill health en route for Chicago, and being
unable to proceed on his journey was
taken to the American where medical
aid was procured and every attentioit
shown him by Mr. and Mrs. Pethiek,
His remains were interred in Avondale
cemetery, Rev. P. Wright, Presbyterian
minister, conducting the funeral ser...
vices. His age was about 37 years.
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