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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1883-01-12, Page 1"-t • the • 825," • plaoe .j�I int Livi tne sr; Geo. B P. Boe, D L Henrys FIFTEENTH Ir/B.AR. 9THOLE NUMBER, 78E3 SgAFORTH FRID Y, JANUAliY: 12 1883. entuu4Immiimmolorammemw AY YEARS rESENTS B t the R T kporium 1867,)by NTE .1 -AL DISCOUNT SALE Regina, the Queen Cit of t e Plains. Mr. W. C. Hamilton, f rmerly Goderich, writing from Regi a to the Signal'un er date of Dece ber 2 st, gives the following interes ing pai culare co cerning that e bryo city: Regina is about 370 miles West of Wins nipeg, on the main line of tie Canada,- Pacific R and will be tbe half- way city between the gate ay of the Northwest and the Rooky and the ne great rival o along th Pacific the ore interests way, the E. RACFAU offering for the balanee of this month A LARCE -CASH, DISCOUNT Off all purchases: in, FURS, main line of t Railway. The city " is tion of three powerful the Canada P cilia Bail- uke of Mauchest r's Syndi- cate, and the Dominion qovernmetit, whose faith is pledged.to bl,}Iding it up. Three M'as ago there as no sign of a town, and nothing met tbe eye of the traveller but boundless prairie,to- day we have a thriving city of between eady there ildings, and day. The oannct be firms here tly expected. ion of ,000 hant's ink anch, - and 1 building occupied in bank is 'also perial Bank Times, under wholes Flood ountains, Winnipeg e Canada JEWELLER.. 'ER PLATE. Dishes, Break.. Card Receivers, Baekets, Card lets Epergnes. , Starlets. peewee .oe Pitchers, In. Studs, Knits r„ Dessert, Frait. Lakia Rings -25 - Dailies, Sardine. -itar Salt Stands, eased, Tea, Egg; ttrd. Sugar an& CuPas Knife, rect Boxes, Vases, Jokers, Children's. a Coraplete. the largest Stook • brought to the - I that they may t all, I shall, for e a discount of emanufacturere" tOKES ace and hunting • lelgin, open lam "gold and silver; ned hunting case, srabier. open fam Id and silver; S. it ease, silver; G. few Russet and 8. OKS. locks, from 15 - Lay clocks. ; one day "weights, —finished in solid day timepieeese rELRY. , [Gobi Guards and , Gents' Roai Plate Ladies' and Gents' ierta; Ladies' and Gold, Sliver and and Bright Gold' and Gilt Sets; . Necklets:, Braoe- 1 Riuga, and Plain [40 ta MO; Scarf MT Buttons, Shirt DRIES. Vetch Keys, Silver or and Steel Spee. tits, Goggles, Gold and Alberts, Steel reed Combs, Viet.. and Bill Books. - e in raeerschaum, Ices. French Clay - ea Tobacco Poached mall ware. M be sold OA warranted as re - an: basiness from Dot be undersold. rang good bargaine. DRESS GOODS, MILLINERY AND 1,000 an are abou more ar only tro supplied fast eno that we .ill have a popula, in a year's lime. The Mer have opened their the Beek ' Montre is up and will be a week's time. A private about sterting, and the I is to foil the abl 1,200 souls. Al 20 substantielb beiog put up ever ble is that lumbe by the five large gh. It is confide MANTLES. GENUINE SALE. LARGE DISCOUNTS. NO RESERVE, ea4 As the Stock MUST BE CLEARED to make room for Spring Goods. RING ef -Watches, Cloake - i, and warranted to ears' praatical d'd stand, or.posita p Cash Furniture UNTE Fry eading Jeweller. iaken at my store you by Ifies Nettie rieb IWO each, or le can be seen E. McFAUL. SEAFORTH. FARMERS ATTENTION. _Largest, Be8t and Cheapest A sortraent of CROSS -CUT SAWS —AND -- CHOPPING AXES Ever shown in the county. pi kTFORM. SCALES. w. The Regina managerreut of N Davin, will make its appearance with the New Year. Mr. Davin's building is already up and the machiuery is eapect- ed ever Reform wee nephew% o the original -members of the Inman 'Company. —A span o five years old, owned by R were stolen f Year's day, =At the C Mr. Mathews old steers for oughly convi than wheat. —A. G. E iron -grey mares, four and with cutter said robes, bort Gilbert, of ' Odessa, m that place pn New ristraas fair in Clifford n sold three two year:. $33 per head, and. is thor- ced that cattle pay better Osborne, of Andeedon, Essex conntte left for England e few days ago t twelve thous ed back in a, — The Ho London, and tertained his at an oyster day evening. — A 8011 of Glennaorris, maa mornin , with the loa breaking it i —The Gr a new passe The buildin red brick dr height. cured help and found the be a boy's head, the rest under water having gon ice,. The lad was pretty a few minutes longer wou ed him, —Mr. Robert Minter, heim township, celehrat wedding on New Year' friends and relatives ed and. spent a happy e were some very valuabl sented to Mrs. H., who and happy as she did All enjoyed themselves, a very pleasant one. —Michael Coughlin, old pensioner, while su attaok of delirium tre to kill a Mrs. Brownl to lend hina money spree. The cries of the assistance, not, howeve soon, as the old man hack her with a knife. -locked up. —Mr. Isaac Samm wealthiest agriculturist of Elgin, while in St. T day, "hooked" a cane" ing to Mr. Boggs, an afflicted with rheumati ing cane was found in and he Wa8 taken befor the Peace and given si nate and the Regina Sq13, a newspaper, will ma ke ite; first appear lice by the middle of jaouazy. The Methodist and Presb, terian 13odies have erected churches. The Church of e England services are being held in a building rented in the meantime until the congregation can eredt a soitable baildin . The Baptiets and B.oman Catholtes also intend building at once. This is also the head rmiartere tf the est Mounted Felice, and at there ere 100 af the fore° sta. under command of Col. Irving, North,. presen Monad receive a legacy of pome nd dollars. Ile is expect - out five weeks. . John Carling, M.P., of Peatmaster Geperal, en - past and present employees upper at the brewery -Fri- Major aisle. and Inspectqr Steele. The force i ' to be increased to 250 streng in the spring. The barrack are stetioned about mile and a ba.lf f a visit to the head quarte of interest ; and the disci veils among the corps is e om town, and s will: prove pline that pre- recellent. You to her that will lie doubt be surprised this rceashroom city luta a telephoue systerci, but such is the caise. We have a telephone communication between the Canada Pacific Railroad statipn, Policia Court, Government House, bar- racks, the Banks and a number of pri- vate armee. Several lend compenies have their offices I here. The Ontario and. Qu' Appellee the Qu' Ap- pelle and Long Lake, and the Qu' Ap- pelle Colonizatioa Companies, and their lanclaare being rapidly disposed' of. We are in the centre of the fertile belt, the soil of which cannot be surpaesed on ad been per - end of the this of itself f between 300 and 400 Men, and with heir families a population of 1,000 saalsi 'The railway workshops are to be placed here and will give employment to a large number of skilled laborers. I A4 branch lines mulling to the G-reat Peace River Dis- trict on the north, and the Wood Moan- tadh istriot on the South, will have ilD thei juncpion here, as he Canada Pa- cific Railway has been pledged to build them from this point ; and, already a charter hes been applied for Ito run a line from Regina to Pd ce Albert. The busipess-transacted at the Regina Sta- tion and yard, would surprise many who are accustomed to a rush in large miles of siding —Mr. J. making the Hamilton, tricycle, in journey in 6 —The N building a their trade treal. Sh- and will ea besides frei —The fe agitatieg f the cOntinent. Regina manently made the railway division, and means the enaploynient STAMPED WEIGH BEAMS A SpeciaAty. • Mr. Duncan Munroe, of bile eleighriding, Christ - fell off the sled and it on, passed over his leg two places. nd Trunk is about to erect iger station at Strathroy. is to be a white brick with ming, and two storeys in oodie, jr., is credited with dietance across the bay at hich is over a mile, on a ve Minutes, and the return x minutes. tional `Steamship Line is -ew monster of the deep for •etween Liverpool and Mon• will be 6,500 tons burden, ry about 1,000 passengers ht. ale teachers in Toronto are r equality with the men in • AO city lock up. —The safe in R. H. Lumen, was burglari night. The burglars g through the front doo lock. The office next ed a scene of debri deeds, mortgages an documents being scat office in confusion. the matter of salary, seeing that • they 1 behind them a quanti I must have the same qualifications. It —The Dominion re is remarkable° and very unjust, that six December show an i men draw half as muchsalary as twenty- corresponding month . four ladies.793, and an increase —A large flock of wild 'geese flying months of the fiscal southWard -alighted in some trees near $2,188 637 compared Gordouville, in the county' of Welling- spending period of t ton, on Sunday week. Many -of the The rterencte for th birds which were very much exhausted were captured by the residents of the heighborhood. —Five Members of the family of Mr. John Dignan, of London township, in- oludiug his wif.e, succumbed to diptheria within a little over a month. The un-. fortunate man was himself laid up m the city hospital at London, of the same disease, but is recovering. r..W' Give us a call when in town, and save money. WM. ROBERTSON & CO. Sign of the Circular Saw, SEAFORTH. MARRIAGE LICENSES 1BST.TED AT' citiele. There ar,e two down, and these are con par e ; another mile isle spring. To give en rush, I may menti�i t this point weekly poilids along the lin conae thrpugh to Re chants of the city al which gives eniploy bernf hands. We hotels, and a joint beep formed with a to put up a moneter directors, expect to mottle' time. Th delightful, and the have -been enjoying casioned, western THE HURON.EXPOSITOR OFFICE, BEAFORTE, ONTARIO. rowom••••••••........." NO WITNESSES HEMMED.. —Dr. G-eorge Dawson, of the Geologi- cal Survey of Canada, has returned from a trip to Europe, and after careful inspection- expresses himself satisfied that the soft coal of the Northwest is. superior to what he saw in Germany and Boneinia. —Mr. Glod Reahme; of Jeanette's Creek, delivered 4,420 muskrat skins, and 153 racoon and other fare, a few days ago to a firm in Chatham. This young man (Mr. Reaume) is quite a successful trapper, and 300 of the musk- rats were -of laiskiwn trapping. —Captain Horner. of Princeton has returued from West Lynne, baying dis- posed of aAl his horses, but will carry an ugly scar on his forehead through life, from the effects of a horse kick, which caused him to retire to Ids bed for a week during his sojourn in the far west. tinnally full of be added in the example of the at 600, cars pass or, the front and , 40 cars a week hie for the mer- ne; the handling of ent to alarge num- have seven good toele corapany has capital of $25,000 hotel, which the e ompleted in two imate is really Mitt few' days we almy weather, oc- en say, by the Chi- nook winds from th am& !coast. I spent last winter in Winnipeg, and find the climate here m congenial. The quality and plenty Outario and Lower not comfortabiy pl living on mortgage to a country like t yeers be independ rap.ch richer, the and labor ranch les de more mild and oil is of excellent f it, and farmers in Provinces who are ced, if ipstead of farms, WOuld come is, they would in 5 lite as the, soil is yield ranch greater s. —All the test wells that have been put down, both on the Mousseau and adjoining farms, Belle River, have pro- duced great quantities of gas. One of them has burued constantly for three weeks with a column of flame four feet high and a foot in diameter. —Mrs. 0o,an elderly lady living on the Hamilton Road, near London, who had the misfortune last week to get her leg broken by a boy, a dog and a hand-eleigh, is recovering slowly, and her friends will be pleased to hear that there is aProspeot that she will soon be about again. —Mr. Michael Lowes, of Omemee re- turned lately from Menitobe, bringing with him a curiosity in the ehape of a set of elk horns of the following extra- ordinary aimensionet :-4 feet 6 inches long -circumference, 10 feet 2 inches -be- tween the horns itt the roots 9 inches— from tip to top 6 feet. Each horn car- ried seven branclees. dark object to him being through the adly chilled, dhave finish - f North Blen- d his wooden night. The re all invited ening. There presents pre- ooked as gay ve years ago. he party being f Toronto, ark ering from aa ens, attempted , who refused o• continue hie woman brought , a moment too as preparing to Coughlin was in her adnes. They went into the wait- ing room, but immediately the' husband hunted r• the baggage -master and .re- quested ley awe to.do it sick an waiting turned been 80 sufferer tied died during his absence. The father gayethis name as A. D. Bell,. and stated that his home had formerly been M Milton, but his present residenoe Wati Grand' Rap ds, Michigan. —Mrs. Bach er, of Bayham, in the county lof Elgin, is the oldest female ounty She is 84 years , one of the in the county omits the other or fun" belong• old gentleman m. The miss- ammy's sleigh, the Justice pf months in tliie im to change his Credit Val - for a Clanada Southern, and came such as to excite " attention, she uickly, ias his child was very called a police officer, and through her °Mai he wanted to go back to the influence the women were induced to who I room. When the husband re- quietly enter a cab, laid were iramedi- capt o where his child lay there had ately drrien to the Agnes street station, the ange fot the worse,and the little and their relatives notified. When othe they arrived a medical man was sum- had moned, and the ladies were examined. — The physician decide& that the lour Rem patients should be removedtin the Asy- the lum at once, and about 8 o'clock they even were conveyed to the Asylum under a reali strong escort of police, and accompanied out by their friends. The daughters, it ap- was pears, had nursed their mother for the thir past year and a half, during which time List she had been of unsound mind, and Sea this has been assigned as the cause of the sudden loss of reason by the young women. - —A s'ad history is that of an inmate of a cell in a Quebec police station a few nights ago. The prisoner's name is Laud Kavanagh, and he is the only son of polling sub -divisions, and the boundary the celebrated General (Iiticknovt) of e ch thereby being changed without Kavanagh. The prisoner -stands cliarg- not ce, makes the voting of Monday od with robbery, the offence alleged January 1st ielegal, and a neweelection against him being the theft of an over- coat and a pair otgloves from the Fin- lay Asylum. Kavanagh has been some time in that city, and was in similar trouble Stvo or three weeks ago being charged with the theft of an overcoat, dee., from the Marine Hospital, where he was for some time a patieut.- That affair was settled, however, and. the ooat returned. Kavanagh is evidently a highly educated individual, and quotes Horace and V:rgil by the chapter: He claims Lord Napier of Magdala as his godfathert and says that he was on the staff of that distinguished officer in the Abyssinian campaign. He sold his commission for a trifle, and his friends then purchased for him a coffee planta- tion in Ceylon. This was also sold by Kavanagh for an inconsiderate trifle. Soon after he came out'. to Quebec, be joined "A" Battery, but was soon sent to the hospitel disabled for active duty by the breaking out of old wounds upou his legs. The Secret of Kavanagh's terrible fall is of course the wine cup. , . street, about four o'clock, they all sud- denly began to display signs of insanity. They had a lady companion with them, and when the conduct of the ladies be- IsicL AN BROS., P-ablishers. 1;1. 0 a Year, in Advance. churo eelve into t been for a resident m the of age, and is a ing at present quilt, hile he Mrs. from t rid was made er appe Woods. She her wardrobe pocket -hanker( ben the battl other becident Mr. T lson, th board4d with ing the town which now bears his name. Mrs. Buchner now lives with her son John. They have an excellent farm, and the venerable lady is enjoying every comfort in the evening of her life. —O'Rourke condemned to die for the murder of Patrick Maher; aged 80, and his daughter, aged 30, was executed. at Milton on Friday morning last. The crime for which O'Rourke was executed was an atrocious one. He left the em- ploy �f a farmer named Pat Maher, in the township,of Nelson, about 13 miles fromillanailton, on the morning of Fri- day, Jan. 19, 1882. He returned in the even -'ng about nine o'clock, and enter- ing t e isolated. • log house killed Pat Mah r's aged and helpless father and sister, the fatal instrument in both cases being an axe. No motive could be aesigned for the terrible deed but that he was drunk. He confessed his crime, and after a full trial was found b a jury in March last and sen- d by Justice Cameron to be hanged rune 9th. Upon application, the rney-General issued on fiat respiting risoner.till the 5th inst,in order that ts raised by his conneel might be ed at Osigoode Hall, these being un- essfully, however. O'Rourke had a O'Neil's bank at ed last Fridey ined admittance by forcing the orning present - and °end:align, other valuable ered aronnd. the he burglars left y of tools. •enue returns for crease over the of 1881 of $111, - upon the first six year of 1882-3 of with the corre- e previous year. current year is 41 estimated, if the preeent rate of taxa- tion is maintained, t last year by two milli —Dr. Robert Mill Miller, of Galt, who tion of medical attetu of the Northwest stationed at McLeod leave of absence i visit to his family an His leave of ease February, but very received a telegram to his post, an epide ly broken out among about the fort. —The expenditri Paoific Railway up t placed at $25,000,00 taken up with the b line and branches, Perth, workshops rolling stock on the hundred and forty graded, and this, in about $12 000 a , II Telephone coin established betw Guelph. Goldie, of his flouring mill so 500 barrels per da —The Assistant Toronto, has recei new 'copper coin f total value being —The postoffic Essex Comity, wa night of t50 wort cash and other ar —J. Inman, arr lately in Toronto, on a charge of drunk- enness, was found dead in the cotrider of the police headquarters next mom - i g. Deceased, who had owe been in g od ciicumstamtes, was addicted to drink daring the early years Of his life. He was engaged ii. the New York offices a the 4namks TAO ot Oteataahirs, a. unication has been en Hamilton and Gaelph, has enlarged that he can turn out of 24 houre. Receiver -General at ed eighty boxes of ✓ circulation. Their 8,000. , at Maidstone Cross, robbed on Sunday of postage stamps, $2 ides. sted late one night 119 —W. G. Powell, Esq., of fthe Paris Star, met with an accident al few days ago. In passing down his back stairs, the lower part of his pants °Aught on a stick, and he fell to the flgor, striking his left arm against a piece of wood which caused a fracture of that member. It was re -set without delay, and is now doing Well. - —One day lately, while ore of Squire Hickson's boys, a little east! of Credit- ville, went .out hanting in the large swamp north of the Governor's road, with a blood hotted, he came upon ai large wild cat which at once attaeikedi him, but the blooa hound sprang upon the wild cat and with the by succeeded in killing it. The hound was badly used up. - —The Marquis of Lorne has written to General Sherman, at Washington, asking if it would be safe for his wife to winter in . Charleston. It seems the Princess has changed her mind about Bermuda, an d. prefers Charleston. General Sherman replied that in his opinion there was no Beier or more pltaaant place in the United States for the Princess than Charleston. —The eateneive firm of Messrs. Rath- bun, in Kingston, have effected a con- This Act is consr tract to furnish the Canada Southern and, assuming railway with from 120,000 to 200,000 Majesty's domin 8,982,177 square deceased wife's over an extent o of British territ over 2,183.124 positively illegal miles. —When the ed in St..Thom 5 o'clock last alighted from youPg couple, t exceed that of n dollars. r, son of Judge as held the posi- ant of the portion Mounted Police arrived home on Nofernber, on a friends in Galt. cle extended into unexpectedly he allingbim at once ic baying sudden - the Indians round of the Canada the end of 1882 is . This has been ilding of the main he car shops at t Hochelaga, and oad to -day. Seven iles of road west luding bridges, cost ile. Amsterdam ever. county 1818, livelY as a cricket, be. ard at work on a patch brain is as active as uchner eame to this e Niagara -district in the first woman who ranee in the North Pine walked from Hamilton, being carried in her hief. The lady remelt - of Lundy's Lane and of the war of 1812 13. founder of Tilsonburg, er while he was found- 11 bankers, through their agents in New York, are the partie up two-thirds of the recently amounting —A. Toronto law_ in Winnipeg for recently returned fr In no city al there business air. But naede by work, not climate is cold. tl people are health under. Judge 'Du Montreal for years. says he finds Win- s with him better old home. People emsel yes properly, t well, and so doing ate and get fat. said to have taken new iseue of stock o some $50,000.000. er who has resided °me time, and who m that city, says: uch a bustle and money has to be iy speculation.' The e winter longbut eel happy there . uc who lived in gall ten° on Att the poi argu 811CC nipeg weather agre than -that of his have to clothe t avoid stimulants, they enjoy the oli z. —A most heartr ourred near Buckh third son of Mr. of the neighboring ing rabbits. Youn against a tree just nard, took his axe After a while h Taking hold of it by the muzzle, he drew it towards him, and caught one of the gun cocks on t passed through He was caught in panion, gasped twice, hut never spot°, and dropped dead. He was a young man of fine pronai —The case of Wentworth Day up at the Wentw She appeared in , three parties, who call them- sleampers, effected an entrance e schoolhouse, where there had. eft a sufficient supply of eatables social, and stole two of the est cakes. One of the paatiee, as standing guard,. was chased, red, • and frightened. into telling names. In the meantime the escaped to their slaanty, and second tea with whiskey Zto. r. T. H. Race, of the Mitchell rder, completed his contract with isk Jubilee Singers on Tuesday ng 2nd inst, at Listowel, having ed considerably less than $1,000 f the speculetion. The best house in St. Mary's, next came Goderich, Mitchell, fourth Clinton, fifth Wel; and the poorest by far orth. The municipal elections of the 1st inst in Stretford are pronounced illegal by t tha the at t e town solicitor, who has decided in consequence of the failure of late council to give proper notice e time of dividing the wards into wife and child who live in Kingston. --dIn a ladies' college not far from Harailton, a few weeks since, the solutlars and teachers were assembled fororning prayer. The reading and t .sin ing were over, and all were resum- ing their seats, when one of the young ladles. of a very short and thick sta- tur, , missing her chair seated herself t,, wit a " thud " on the floor. Nobody smiled. All were too decorous for that. Thefallen one, embarrassed into a.mo- meatary loss of common sense, retain- ed her lowly seat, opened her -prayer book, and appeared to be earnestly en- gaged in examining ite contents. This wae almost too much for her com- panions, and a smile began to struggle on many a fair countenance, when the rector rose and commenced reading the firet morning lesson. She read. from the fifth chapter of A1:008, as follows: "he virgin of Israel has fallen; she shall no more rise; she is forsaken upon he land; there is none to raise her . up." This was too' much ; the voice of the rector trembled as she looked up and saw the fallen virgin; the scholars turned red in their faces, and the exer- (does riding accident co- rn last week.* The m. Clark, with some ovs, went out shoot - Clark stood his gun elled by Mr. May- nd began to chop. - went for his gnu. O bark. The charge he heart and lungs. he arms of a cora.. e. vaWoods for shooting t Jerseyville, came rth assizes last week. ourt with a child in her arms and ano ber by her side, both of which she says belong to Day. On the witness stand Day said that he bad very intimate rel tions with Eva about five years ago, which continued for some time. He oes not know whether be is the father o the children brought by Miss Woods tp court. He did not - JOhn a OM thle c fo 1 want any more t neither did be w laid against her. only twenty min verdict of Rep:Litt —The Go-vern has been informe o do with the girl, ant any information The jury was out tes, and rettirned a 1. r General of Canada by despatch from the Secretary of Sta e that the Queen will not be advised to' exercise her power of disallowance in r spect of the Act legal- izing marriage w th a deceased wife's' sister recently passed in the Dominion. quently now in force, he total area of Her ons to be as estimated, miles. marriage with a Eder is ahsolntely legal 6,678292 square miles Dry, , couditionally legal square miles, and still ver only 120,761 square li fo ly fr able man mai hour nece r ob r th f Ily ere brought to a hasty close. few days ago, as a farmer named ecord, and his son, were turning er in Tilsonburg at a rapid rate tter stewed around with such ce as to throw both of them out. e Younger Mr. •Secord was not much ur d, but his father was shockingly rt, he having alighted on his head on ard road. He was carried into e h tel insensible, and a doctor sum- oned to look into his injuries. He und the frontal bone of the skull bad- . I1111 oes one of of sta ba bel str with the rest of the buildings. The pri,ce paid was $6000. That a human being ehould starve death in Stratford.and during Christ - week too, is a crying shame, yet Perth Items.• Perth county Sunday school con- vention meets in Listowel on the two last days of January. The teameeting in the Bible Christian Charch, Mitohell, on New Year's night was a grand. success the proceeds amounted to $150. —In consequence of the Listowel gas works beiug destroyed by fire, all pieces of business are being lit with coal oil lamps again • the streets are dark. - Rev. Mr. Mitchell has returned from the far west. He occupied his old pulpit in Knox Church on sabbath morning 31st ult and was greeted by a large coegregation; --Miss M. P. Barbour, of St. Marys, has been engaged as teacher in the seventh department of the Mitchell Pablio School, at a salary of 6200 per annum. -a-A. little boy seven years of age, named Willie Hay, attending the A.mul- ree school, never missed a day from school during 1d82. Every day, through cold and heat, rain or storm, the bright face of the little lad was present. Out of the twelve members of the new town council, of Mitchell 5 are English, 2 Scotch, 5 Irish. 5 are mem- bers of the Church of England, 4 Presby- terians, 2 Metlaodists, and 1 Bible Chris- tian. Politically,8 are Torys, and 4 Grits. —Mr. Alex. Brown, of Downie, shipped a fine lot of cattle from the Stratford station a few days ago. Five of them were from the farm of Mr. T. Ballantyne, M. P. P., Downie, and were very superior animals. One of them turned the scale at 1,690 lbe and. the others were not far behind. 'Mr. Robert Jones purchased a valu- able span of mares east of Toronto a couple of weeks ago, They were detain- ed on the Gland Trunk an unnecessary • length of time, and were sobadly used up that after being delivered at the Mitchell Station one of them died the same night: • —Mr. James Trow, who has filled the office of Warden in the county of Perth for the past 21 years has been presented with a handsome gold watch and chain. The presentation was made by a nnuaber of Mr. Trow's friends as a token of the esteern in which he is held in his county. —The induction of the Rev. E.W. Penton, of Bradford, into the charge of St. Andrew's church, Stratford, took place on Tuesday afternoon of last week. The services were conducted by Rev. Messrs. Hendersma, Pothering, ham, Kay and MoPhersqn. The Banner thinks Listowel, for ittl population has mare tall men and boyS 128.11 any other town in the province IAA a specimen of some of the boys it quotes Master Henry Davidsotd on of Samuel Davidson, Esq., who ie just 17 years of age, weighs 184 pour -Ala and measures 6 feet. 41 inches in height, —Mr. W. J. Fear, of Mitchell, spent New Year at his home in Baud eels, and on returning found his two valuable canaries both dead in the cage, where they had plenty of food, water and fresh air, and it was not cold enongt to freeze geraniums in the windovnt. The query is how came they both tti take the same notion at the same time. The birds were worth at least $15. ; —Mr. John Inglis has bought Mr. Geo. Sangster's farm, on the 7th *con- cession, of Ekes for $6,000. The farm one of the best in the township, contains 100 acres, of which 80 are cleared. Me. Sangster has purchased the Cunning- ham farm, near Moleswortb, containing 200 acres, for $9,500. This farm lies en the west of Mr. Geo. Brown's farm (ilt the townline. —On the evening of the Presbyterian. tea meeting, at Monkton after tea had been served and all had adjourned to the e - railway ties. The sa,nee firm have also recently received orders for a large number of doors for Squth Africa and Kingstou, Jamaica. Including thee eugaged in logging operations, tnere must be at present 1,600 men on the pay roll. —One morning last week in Galt, a man passing over Main street bridge saw some dark object on the ice in the middle of the river, at the same time he thought he heard. a cry. He pro- redit Valley train arriv; s from the East about hursday night, thire the passenger coach a LO wife carrying a baby 4.,414.4 t be held. Min John Inglis, of the 6th. con - ion, of Blenheim, has purchased. of the hest farms in the township lma . consists of 100 acres, 90 hich are cleared and under a splendid e oficultivation. There is a large k barn 90x47, with stone ba.sement ev, and a large shed in front /or w. The dwelling house corresponds to ni Hush a thing has happened. The un- fortunate man, named Samuel Lett - ore, lived alone eolith of the track, d being entirely without means of sn port, and helpless, lay dodu to die al cc a ne. Word was sent to the relief mmittee of his condition by some ighbors who accidentally discovered it, d a basket of necessaries was sent, it the old man died shortly afterwards. —Mr. James Jackson, died somewhat s ddenly on Tuesday morning 2nd i st. He bad been staying with his s(bn Robert on the . old homestead, ire ullarton, since the death of his son Thomas which occurred a few weeks a o. Monday afternoon he reoorded Is vote at the Bethel schoolhouse in 18 accustomed health, but while t king his tea the same evening some - t ing lodged in his throat and caused is death during the night. The cofifin, e handsomest ever furnished by a Itched undertaker, was made of met - 1, with heavy glass top and sides. he plate was handsomely engraved. The cost was $100. —Ou Friday, 29th -ult.,. Mr. John uir, an old and highly respected. resi- ent of the township of Downie, pamed way to his rest. He was a native of Peebles -shire, Scotland, and came to Canada, settling at Galt in 1837, the year of the Canadian rebellion, and was Palled out and drilled with the militia. ae married in 1838, anel moved with - his family in October, 1842, into Dow- nie, being one of the first settlers in these parts, and had to undergo all the hardships of pioneer life, but by indus- try and frugality he and his partner in life, like many others, made a comfort- able home for themselves and. their family. He leaves a widow, two sons, five daughters and a number of grand- children to mouru his loss. —John Wiles, son of Mr. John Wiles, of Fullerton, was driving a spirited, horse from St-ffarys the other day and came near losing his life and his horse at the crossing near MoIntyre',s. He did not observe the traiu coming until he was within a few feet of the track, and his horse seems to have been as unconscious of its approach as himself. The frightened animal started. up the track alongside the train at a terrible - pace and it was with difficulty that the driver could prevent him from colliding with the passing coaches. One of the cars struck him in the side of the , head and etunned him for a time, and ha a few moments the train went past and all danger was over. Mr. Wiles turned his horse round, and made his way to the road, and went on his way rejoicing, being happily 'delivered from what might have been a terrible accident. °tared, and a piece of consider- ize pressing upon the brain. Tbe was as insensible as a log, and re- el in- that condition for three . The compression of the brain sitated the introduction of a silver to lift the bone away. This r delicate operation was success-. erformed by the doctor, and the an came around all right, and is now oing finely. The practice of turning corners at break -neck speed with light outt rs is quite a common one, but it ie ht ghly da4erous, as the occurrence just related has amply proved. It is reported from Biddulph that One of the Maher boys, a cousin of Car - toile and who was eupposed to be impli- oated in the Biddulph tragedy, has be. &mee deranged in his mind. The malady is 4aid to have first manifested itself about Christmas, and to have become 4o a arming since that time as occasion- Oy to require the efforts of several ons to restrain the young mantevio- • e. The most prominent feature in , ection witla his mental aberration stated to be an incessant desire to see Mr. Hutchinsen, Comity Crown Attor- ney, and some go so far as to believe tha;Ian early interview might result in t im ortant revelations with respect to the tragedy, which up to the present time has remained shrouded he mystery. iIt has since been ascertained that the !young man is demented, and raves continually about the tragedy. He was i arrested during the excitement, bat :although a relative of Carroll, was :allowed out on his own bail. Further I L Ideyelopments may be looked. for if the neighbors choose to tell what they over. liather4ere daughters became suddenly and. .-Friday afternoent a woman and her simultaneously insane while walking on the street in Toronto. They left their home in the Western part -Of the city to go shopping, a.n.d when on Yonge It er en on —James Smith, teamster, employed by the Kewatin Mining Company, lost his way during the night on the Lake of the Wood, unhitched his horses, and was unable to keep up, his feet being clogged with ice, water having over- flowed the main ice. The horses made their way to camp, and the neighbors roused the miners, who formed search- ing parties. A party directed by Hugh Brown, two mouths out from Scotland, discovered Smith and. carried him to camp. He will recover. —The other day a laborer on the Canada Pacific Railway east was engag- ed in drawing a can of nitro-glycerine over some tressle work, near Perrywood Lake, on a hand sled. On the way, happening to look back, he observed the can sliding over the edge of the sleigh, and, having a tolerably good idea of what was going to happen, he dropped the rope and made a dash for other parts. He had only taken a couple of steps when the can dropped between the tressle work and struck the ground, with the usual result. The tressle was blown to rags, and the sleigh went twenty feet into the air, but by some miraculous chance the man escaped without a scratch. The event so upset the poor man that he gathered up his little -sled and went back for two more cans of the festive explosive, which he transported to the place where they were needed. He had a similar racket about a week previously, and is begin- ning to enjoy that kind of thing.