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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1883-06-08, Page 1ite JUNE 1.t 1883„ maimmmin======mm.......m , , all bey with his bunch of flre-craeltewe sin hie glory. The firstevent of the day B a base hall match between ehe irowris " of Morrie and the a Wide le `Bluevale, both. junior clubs. no ne was a. good one, but the Kids wow a score of 41 to 14. The other games owed in the afternoon e.thit all were i-slye contested. We append the prize : Qiioits—lab, J. Mitchell, 2nd, terson, 3rd, Frank Powell. Standing ap—lst, Robt. Black, 2nd, :dy. Running jump -1st, A. Good. ow, 2nd, J. MoCardy. Running p* Step—late A. Goodfellow, 2n ij ticCardy. Three standing jumps__ t ,R. Black, 2nd, A. Goodfellow. nuing high jump -1st, 3. Meeeee5,, I, A. Goodfellow. Vaulting with e -1st, A. Goodfellofv, 2na, J. ltwe. rdy. Putting stene—lat, F. Pcientip I, R. Black. Tossing caber—lee, Bieck, 2nd, F. Powell. Men's foot emIst, H. McCa.rdy, 2ad, W. Patter•a- . Boy's race under 12 -1st, S. Kay, l, J. Torvey. Boys race under 9-- , Bert Bailey, 2rul, J. Sellars. Watm match—All received prises as It was 'cult to adjudge- winner. Calithutn- s—M. FarroweW. McCracken, Nye •ith, 3. Wanasley, II. Jolanstont se race -1st, R. King's " Sinoker,Th , Harry Raine's "Drover," 3rd, 3-. neton's " Skip." Wroxeter. 'ROPESTY PURCECABED.—The briek, k known as Bell's blook has been, dhased by a Mr. Cole, of Colborne, is having it fitted up in good le for stares. TOR2IIV.—La8t Saturday evening the , May, a thunder storm came up ' enpanied by a very violent wind. force of the storra waa not so ch felt here as it was about two es to tlArsouth,west, where it play.. [seem with everything in its track. woofed Mr. Alex. Hamilton's barn, ed the roof of Mr. Sebastian Hoop. house, bore down some coops and s around his barn, and etaved in one 'of Mr. Jahn Knax's harn,while out . bush belonging to Mr, Robert Earl apped off a nnmber of maples 80111ar 4era being over two feet in diameter 1 in BOMB, cases carried the body of [ tree some distance from the stump. fa fury of the storm only lasted rtt five or six secondbut it made t work while it was there. LADIES rho are just now wanting a k Cashmeres, Biack or Celored Silks, Lney or Plain Dress Goods Sirks for Mantles, antle Trimmings, • Mantle Ornaments, ylish Handsome Parasols, &c. find an excellent assortment to pick from: at EE. ritcFAUL'S , kSK DRY GOODS STORE; resses and Mantles MADE TO ORDER. IStCLA8SW�RKUARATEEI Itiargep Moderate. --E ONFAULf E CASH I DRY GOODS MANr SEAPORTHI ONT. - SAXTZ1 NTH YEAR.: virRioLp NUMBER 809. Tev, 001160 SEAFORTHs PRI LS OF EGYPT. D. CUMMING. a The vriT1arY Arab schools educate- - more th. n two-thirds of the, children wil0 are in school at allin Egypt, and coriseeae tly they are of the first interest te any 4ne sande-11s for the improve- ment of the national culture. Unfor- tunately Ithey1 seem to exist only in order to)impart.a parrot -like acquaint- ance with the text of the Koran. For this purpose Only have they- been en- s people. Any one fresh . irdoewmed sbereipei: the primary department of alunfalesriche 1 in England, would feel school, or from seeing & wise' 'of utter bewilderment on en- twine one in Cairo. Everything is topay-ttutvy. The Children read and write freen right to left, and even be- gin to lahen their sole lesson -book, the Koran, backwards, because the latter chapterare easier and moreimportant. al Whe coueequence is that, after a few visits to Arab schools, one cannot help , afe1 elisi of surprise when a child sneezes, er shows ws that he is changing Ilia teetr at the same age • as a little Beropeet. One primary school in Cairo is well worth haviug a peep into. You open a door in the street and find a room about teifeet.square. It is below the level of t1he road, and. lofty for its size. A eratecliwindow, high up, gives a dim liglit ; a flood of sunshine comes in at the on door, and Strikes fall on the brighj crinason robe of the fakeeh tie he sits on his cushion in the corner. Al, one end stands tbe only piece of furniturein the room. It looks like a large hapaoteum done up in brown holland ; but ;turns out to be a box, containins the bones of a saint. In front of thiscurious piece of school furniture quat four -and -twenty black and browe boys. One or two are dis- guised as, girls, to protect them from the evil eye. All have dirty faces, and several aiJe suffering from ophthalmia. They sit iletwo rows, facing each other 13 and siratataneously rock their bodies violently backward and forward as -they recite i the alrhabet, or that verse of th Koran which forms their day's teak The children shout at the top of thei- little cracked voices in, a nasal tone far from musical. The noise they contrive i to make is astounding, considerine haw am 11 they are. • If they cease their rocking and shrieking, even for a 'moment, the master brings dawn bis long palm cane upon their shaven akt lls, and they commence with renewed el 'ergy and an even more vio- lent see-sw. The gentence repeated does not convey the slightest meaning to their nu de, nor is any attempt made to explain it. Two or three other chil- dren are Eating beside the fakeeh get- ting lesson's in the formation of Arabic character. Their copy -book is a piece of bright „tin, and they use a reed pen called a ka lam. The ink-bottleis a box containing a sponge saturated with some brown fluid. A long row of tiny slip- pers, of eery form and color, lies neatly arranged ) at the door ; for the "place where the bones of a saint are enshrined is holy greund, and no one may soil the clean matting of the floor with outside defileraen . No register is kept of the pupils, or of their days of attendance. Indeed, al hough the fakesh can repeat the whole of the Koran off book, it is highly mobable he would find some difficulty ' n connting lap to the number of his sciiolars. His acquirements be- gin and e d with a textual knowledge of the Eacred book, and unfortunately the wishe'e of his pupils' parents with regard to the education of their chil- dren are bounded by the same narrow limits. 1 If an Arab pdhtmary school in a large town like Ckairo lonly gives such rudi- mentary hailtruc tion, the state of schools situated in far -away country villages may °sally h imagined. A visit to iT most of the is by no means a pleasant experience, pr the fuel used by the fellaheen make any approach to their habitations 4ui e unpleasant.: If,how- ever, me can . altogether suppress the sense of sheets% a good deal of amuse- ment is to $le had in penetrating into the homes( of these poor, oppressed, hard-workin natives. There is no doubt that , uch can be done to im- prove133 the atter if the Khedive will continue to Welke the same interest that he used to talfwin inspecting the means of education pr 'hided for. his people. But to ins ec a little Arab school in a poor distri t s really sad. In 'the first plate, al -t .o villages are deplora- bly wretched, a d the women look dirty and degraded. As soon as a stranger is seen conadag, 11 the inhedoitants turn out en mae d follow him about. They kick flp clouds of dust, bring thousande of fli E3 and altotether make things highl upleasant. The visitor L s jostled along. through several mud- la,nes with }i1€,:on either side, oovered by doors which eem to have been made by some rreh storic carpenter with neolithic imp ementa The nearly stifled sight -see at last arrives at the Village acaOeray It is perhaps, a mud - hole without a oor, and in it he finds three or four br glat-eyed boys, a tetrkey cook, and EL fe pigeons. The show Pupil begins o ead at the top of his wyohicieehthhee ohrta1 pi ce of his lesson book : reetommea offacteeeo' us how large and (nsenaged to acquire. The °thee- pup11s sten admitingiy. He rocka backwiet and forward, asjs the ch dist 1 inguished c8untry ; but when he is his andience,the rapidity O his swayilng movement becomes al- arming. It(appears only a question of time how long he can continuo before he breaks in "two. There is however, uo appearanee of itnY -director to his etudiee, but 4 blind man sitting on a stone in the Street turns out to be the village Selwelmaster. The fakeeh's face beams with a proper pride in his establishment). He evidently finds nothing surprOeing in strangers from a- far coentry doming to call ion him. They have, no doubt,- heard of his , learning. He only regrets that some of his pupils are playing truant because of the great feast which is to be held the ensuing week.. These school- masters are miserably paid, mostly in kind, for piastres are dioarce ; but they exercise considerable influence, and no • marriage or family fete is complete without their presence. In betberolass Arab schools a, little arithmetic is sometimes taught, but not always. Boys who wish to pursue that branch of their education gener- ally learn from the public gabani, a man whose business it is to weigh merchandise. A child whose father keeps a small store is taught by assist- ing ha it. Geography is also neglected, whicili is fortunate, as nothing can be more ludicrous than the lessons when they are attempted. The teacher's views with regard to the shape of the earth are, of course, entirely based on the Koran • and. the children learn that it takes five hundred years of 'travel to get round d the mighty plain," while perhaps attfew yards from the school door hangs one of Mr. Cook's placards offering to do the whole bus- iness in ninety days. The one im- portant fact which the children retain is that Mecca is the center of the earth. But these schools arad all now under Government inspectidn, and it is ine' - possible te say what reforms may not be accompliShed during the next few years. Already the municipal schools have been plaseed on the same footing as the preparatory Government, establishments with regard te their code of instruction, and this gives them .a solid bases for the future. Qf the mosque schools the ancient El Azhax is still the most important. It provid.es instruction, such as it is, for more than 11,000 pupils. A consider- able number are housed and fed within its hospitable walls. The scholars are of all ages, and come from the meet remote provinces as well as the larger towns. They may stay as long as they like, and go there when they please. If they are rich they make presents to the professors, who are paid entirely by voluntary donations ; if they are poor, they receive help from their Alma Mater in the shape of food. The school is, in fat, a great free national university for the teaching Of the theology of the Koran. There are few rules; there is no compulsory course of 'Andy ; there is no roll.call or densification of students. Curiously enough, coffee and tobacco are forbidden within the walls; but, no doubt, the students rich enough to have rooms ontside naake up for the depriva- tion byanextra allowance at home. With regard to the edimation,the im- portance which is attached to the culti- vation of a mere mechanical memory is fatal to the develepment of the intelli- gence of the pupils and to progress in general. The stupid scholar learns by rote without imbibing any ideas, and the natur&Ily clever boy is entirely terushed and auppressed by this system. Some of the Coptic schools are well worth a visit. The principal one in Cairo is exceedingly well attended. The boys look as if their intelligence was cultivated, and manymf them read and speak either French or English with ease and a good accent. They seem to have a great interest in each other, and to feel a genuine pride in seeing their tionapanions show off their small acoom- plishments to strangers. The Cepts take some pains to teach their girls, and have two fairly well-managed schools at Cairo. The children are taught reading, writing, arithmetic', singing, and needlework. They evi- dently enjoy their lessons, and we may say, with Thackeray, that He can't but smile who traces The smiles on those brown faces And the pretty prattling graces Of these small heathenigay, except that the Copte are coMmenly Christians. Mehemet Ali wes the original founder of the Government schools. He started. them for the purpose of improving the state of his army. To carry out his ambitious projects, he founds that it was necessary to have officers of intelligence, trained doctors, and able heads of the commissariat. He must train his soldiers by educating them. So suc- cessful was the college to which he sent his own sons that at one time it con- tained 1,500 students. Bet the Hati Sheriff of 1841 wasthe death -blow to education in Egypt for the time being. The schools rapidly deteriorated, for they had taken no hold upon the ua- tional life. When Abbas Pasha ascend- ed the throne, he commanded a general examination of both pupils and teach- ers to he held. So grossly ignorant did Le find them tb.at he ordered all the scietols to be at onoe closed: Ismail Pasha, hcwever, perceiying that it was . , not idone or the sake (# the army that it W53 d irable to organize some sys- tem re' ed cation, did all he could to encourege)it. There is a certain mili- tary arta French tone abont the Gov- ernment schools still, but the boys are well taught, and always learn some language beside their own. The boys wear a naif.erna,'the greater number are boarders, and the " externs" seem to be paid to come. Half the pupils, when they leave, enter Government service in one way or another, The experiment vette tried of sending a considerabl4. number of the raost promising yoan men to finish their education in Europe but the plan did not succeed so well a might have been expected. They did not seem to have energy or enterprise to make use of their advantages. A young man would perhaps gain a gooddiplerna in medicine at Paris, but on his return would never dream of setting up as a physician. On the contrary, be would be -much disappointed if not presented to a lucrative Government situation. - Perhaps the most hopeful sign, of real progress with regard to education in Egypt is to be found in the schools for girls established a few years ago in Cairo. The larger of the two is a fine old palace, which is admirably suited to the purpose on account of. the number of large, airy rooms it contains. There is an inner courtyard, and pekect von-' ctilation and ehelter from the summer sun. The dormitories arerbeautifully clean, and eanh child has herown bed: The kitoheni althopgh -savage-looking enough, would be astreasure in many New York houses and hotels, because all round there is a sort of double roof over the fire -places which draws the smell up the chimneys. The cooking is by no means to be despised; nor does it discredit the .handsome Nubian cooks, who show their white teeth with de- light when their messes are tasted and approved:by visitors. The children look clean, haPpy,tdiligent and healthy. The punishments for misconduct are bread and water, forfeiting helidays, and standing on a form. The bastinado seems to have disappeared from nearly all the schools. One little Egyptian, a model of beauty and grace, was on her stool of repentance as we passed through the courtyard, Her head, covered with short,curly hair, came out in high relief against the whitewa,shed wall, wad might have been the original of ontpof the statues in the Boulak Museum. The ugly European dress could not conceal the heauty of her lithe figure. Her small, delicately -formed brown Wads were clasped together, • and seemed to shine on her white apron. She looked so ;appealing out of her long, thickly fringed eyes that it was impossi- ble not to beg that she might be pardon- ed, particularly as she did not look in the least naughty. The directress of this school is a' Syrian, and seems to be a person of remarkable character. Tier leaat word is law, and -yet the children smile when she seeaks to thetd, as if they loved her. Female education and normal echools seenetto be the two things now wanting to give a firm hold to what has already been .done for education in Egypt. Canada. The Preston mineral baths are now open for the season.- , —Toronto Council will issue $50,000 itt debentureit for the Free Public "Library. • —A comb factory is shortly to begin work, and employ somet-wenty hands, at Coadicook, Quebec. —Mrs. Dr. Hodgkins, of Colborne, is in possession of a china tea set formerly: owned by George rv. —A new Poet Office, named Cape Chin, has beeuestablished in he North Riding of Bruce. —On FridaY June 1st, Mr. M. Flana- gan, city clerk, completed his fortieth year in the service of the corporation of 'Kingston. —A new Baptist church Was opened at Brantford on Sundayi Rev. Dr. Castle of Torontd preached to an over flowing congregation. —The Independent Order of Good Tenaplars of the World will hold their &nulled conferenop - this year at Halifax, beginning on thel2th inet, —The Canadg Cotton Company in Cornwall, have commenced the erection of a new nappibg room for the manage°. ture of Cantoh flannel on their premisea. . —About 400 people yisited Puslinch Lake en the Queen's Birthday. The coy little steamer, the "Royal City," was then launched for the summer season. —Negotiations are now going on which may lead,to the removal of Victoria College feom Cobourg to Toronto. • The new College 'building will probably cost about $150,000. —The ladiesof Stanley Street Pres- byterian Church, Ayr, netted the hand- ed -Me sum of 8275 from their Bazaar of fancy and nseful articles on Queen's Birthday. —A woman itamed McAdem died in Toronto jail 'recently. In the- same prison, at the -same time, were her bus- ba,nd and son, the latter ander the assumed name of Carr. —The Canadian - Methodist Church has seven colleges under its direction, attended by 1,400 students, The don- ations to the education fond for the past quadrenium amount to $200,000. —A man named Nelson, hailing from near Ottawa, got into a York street, Toronto, den the other day, and when he awoke oat of a drunken sleep found he had been robbed, of $180. —A three year old daughter of Mr. Thomas Ebbage, of Acton, while play- ing on the railway crossing on Friday, was struck and thrown off the track. She is not expected to recover. —It is said that Wm. Thompson, son of Wm. Thompson, of Minto, who went to Dakota three years ago, has sold his claim and pocketed $3,000s This is good work for a boy in three years. He will now try hiefortanie in Manitoba. —Mr. Loretto, of Kingston city,, last night wedded Miss Martinelle, of Toron- to, the groom being 64 and the bride not 15. The old gentleman reconciled any objections to the marriage by a, present of $2,000. Aboutt fifty children, sent out by the Ronan Catholic Bishop of Litier- pool, arrived in Hamilton the other day, where they will be cared for till they can be distributed among the Roman Catholic farmers in the Province. —Mr. J. D. McDonald, at one time proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Cornwall, arrived home from Texas a few days ago. He has been absent about three years, and his wesilth is estimated at about $80,000, made in' railroad contracting,. =Bishop Duhamel, of Ottawa, and Bishop G-randin of St. Alberto, North- west territory, with a party of priests, brothers, nuns, and some twenty lay, men, have hone to Manitoba tq minister to the spiritual needs of their sect in that distant Province. —Mr. Jacob Karn, East Zorra, has in his posession an old Colonial E54or 100 ehilling,) note bearing date 1759 and printed by Benjamin Franklin. It is about the length, but somewhat „0 AY, JUNE 8, 1883. MOLEAN )31103., 1"tabl_behera. 1.5O a Year, in 'Advanceb wider than a 25 cent shinplaster,Is still in a fair state of preservation and aoross the face is printed in red ink "TO coun- terfeit is deat "--e, reminder that in those days crines Of this kind were dealt with.much more severely by than now. e---Fourtee# thousand dollars worth of phosphate lands in the Ottawa die- triot, were sold by auction at'Obtawa on Thursday by the Quebec Government. Many of the lots were withdrawn. Prices ranged from $5 to . 031 per acre, . —The grand mansion, of Geo. Ste- phen, president of the Canada Pacific Railway oomp ny now being built in Montreal is being rapidly finished. It is a model of.1 Vanderbilt's Amuse on Fifth ELVellt19, ew York. The cost in- curred will be abont $1,000,000. —Mr. .Richard Holt, a corresponding member of the Geographical and Com- mercial Society of Paris, is now in Montreal. He is going to the Cork Universal Exhibition, which opens at the end of Julia and is prepared to act for Canadian exhibitors. —The Hamilton Chief of Police has been to Chicago to identify Neil O'Brien, who. was at one time a resident of Hamilton. O'Brien got, ae position .recently in the Metropolitan Grain Ex- ehange,of Chicago, as confidential clerk, and in three weeks he stole $3,600. —Early last Sunday morning about 250 Irish emigrants, chiefly from Sligo and Galway, arrived at the sheds in To- ronto. Many of them could not speak a word of English.. Among the party was a lot_of ahle.bodied young unmar- ried men, for whom employment was readily procrid. -,-A clerk in May ft Co's wholesale hoesToronto, was suspected of pilfer- ing, and on being searched a web of silk was !found rolled around his body. In another place (Goulding (St Sons) stuff to the amount of $4,000 orl$5,000 was acknowledged to have beemteken. Quiet settleinents were made: —L. A. Seneca], the railway king, ap- peared before Justice Torrance, Mon- treal, on Friday;at the suit of Hubbard, for recovering $30,000 railway bonda entrusted toedefendant, who iadmitted having pledged some of the b nds and cheques, and sold others. The case was adjoarned. —The death is reported fron London of Alexander Kennedy Ibisteij, M. A., L. L. B., who was largely (instrurnental in securing tho union of the Northwest territory to banada, and Who laid the true value ef the prairies of that section before the pnblic through the columns of the Globe. 1 —Farmers in Bosanquet township are planting trees along the sides of the public' rOads. This is a good move and in a very few years they will amply repay the trouble of planting by their grateful shade to man and beast, and by the add'ed beauty to farms and roads. • • . —Duncan MoVicar, an old and res- pected pioneer of 48 years standing, of the 4th concession, Chatham Township, passed away on the 28th inst. He was a brother of Rev, Dr. M. MacVicar, pro- fessor in 4cMaSter Hall, Toronto, also of Rev. D -H. Mat:Nicer, principal of the PresbYterian College, Montreal. —The Montreal Medical School diffi- culty threatens to become a ques- tion for the adjndication of the, courts, in as much as it is likely that Victoria College will push its Elation againt the nuns of Hotel Dieu should the latter be compelled to refuse ad- mission to the students of Victoria College. —Alexander Cameron, of Windsor, Ontario, is a practical benefactor of hip country. A street in his town has been named Cameren avenue, and he offers • $3 for every child born on the avenue and $15 for twins. His rate for triplets has not yet been fixed, but it will likely be something handsome and well worth competing for. —Ald. Thomas Davies, of Toronto, the well.know brewer, has .been fined $200 by the Inland Revenue for break- ing the seals ori his bonded warehouse. A couple of months ago he was unable to secure the attendance of a Custom official, and he was desirous of saving some malt which would otherwise have been injured. —Levet Saturday, C. Birminghana -a manufacturer of varnish in Kingston shipped to the United States 91 barrels of shellac varuish, valued at $9,100. This varnish will be prohibited from entering the States next month owing to the change in the tariff,- therefore the manufacturer is tnaking good use of his time. he Species of fish known as men- haden are dying by thousands at the east end of lake Ontario. In some places the surface of the lake is covered with dead fish. They leap out of the water, skim along the surface, and then swim round and round in a circle, grad- ually going slower until they turn ever dead. —A gold ring was found in the stomach of a large sturgeon lately caught at Eagle,Elgin County.Whether the ring dropped from some person's hand into Lake Erie,and was swallowed by the fish,or whether it had been feed- ing upon the flesh of "another unfor- tunate" and had eaten the ring with a portion of the human hand is, of course, unknown. —The _T Brakesimen's Benevolent As- sociation of Canada an the United States, opened their anneal meeting at St. Thomas on Friday last. The as- sociation was organized at Stratford for purely benevOlent purposes, in aid- ing the wives and , orphans of railroad brakemen. The association is rapidly growing, and there are now 23 branch lodges. -d-Fourteen years ago Charles Lewis, then of Lockport, N. Y., bad the initials of his " beet girl" engraved on two ten - omit pieces and manufactured into ear- rings. She, not liking them in that shape, broke off the hooks and spent the dimes. This week her brother in Chicago received one of them in change, recognized, the coin and forwarded it to its former owner, who is now Mrs., Lewis, of Suspension Bridge. —One day last week A. E. Thomp- son, veterinary surgeon, of Forest, successfully removed an enlarged thyroid gland, weighing over two pounds, from the neck of the trot- ting horse known esg "Zebedzer," the property of B. Hallock, of- Forest. This is considered by Veterinarians a very difficult operation, and has been attempted by very few of the profession. The animal is doing well. —Milton Champion: "While the temperance hotel here has proved a financial failure, the proprietors of the other three Milton hotele have all pur- chased pianos since the Scott Act went into force. Under these; circumstanees discussion as to whether liqnor sellers should be indemnified for loss of busi- ness or depreciation of the value of their property nnder the Scott 'Act, seems superflaous. —John Somerville, of the 14th con- cession, Bosanquet, recently sold twelve fine head of stock cattle' to David Ham- ilton. When weighed at Forest they netted 15,012 poundssor an average of 1,251 pounds each. The price paid was 5i. cents per pound, making a total of $788.43, Ten of the animals were 3 year old steers. Mr. Hamilton has now 50 head on grass, which will be ready to ehip in a few days. —A fatal accident occurred to a man named, Shaw, tail sawyer at Porter's saw niU, Amabel. He was carrying away i tie which had been sawn, when he slip ' ed and fell on the revolving saw. 1is left leg. was sawn off, and he was otherwise injured to such an extent that he died the sanae eveuing. He was never wholly conscious after the accident and the address of his parents was not ascertainable. —A man named Blackmear Adolphus - town, wa,s harrowing, and while in the act of turning at the end of the field, an eagle and a crow flopped down close beide hie team, making such a noise as to frighten them so that they turned suddenly, and upset the harrow 'upon Mr. Blackadriving one tooth into his back. ' The injury was painful, but not serious The eagle killed the crow and carriedhim off to make a meal. —Th Duke of Albany recently re- ceived n urgent request from Canada to be t e Marquis of Lorne's successor. The Duke, after studying the affairs of Canada, wrote Mr. Gladstone on the subject. The latter replied that - the Duke was too young for such an im- portant position, and lacked. experience in governmental work. The Duke's physicians were of the opinion that his health would permit his acceptance of the pulp. —A dang of horse thieves operating in the'strict around St. ' Thomas; for years,b s been unearthed by the arrrest of Wm. Kenny and Edward Coll. The former las peached on his confederates. The organization has partners in Cleve- land. They have in their service a shaall a appear at the takes t are sol hooner, whioli at stated times on the coast near Morpeth, or au, receives stolen goods and em across the lake, where they and profits divided. —Me ars. Ellis and Ame, of the Geologi al museum, Ottawa, have re- turned om an expedition to Vermont and t Eastern Townships. The object if these Ontlemen's visit to those p aces was to ascertain the age of the roc s found there, about which there h d been .a long dispute. After a careful investigation they concluded that th rocks were of the Trenton age, thus e roborating Sir Wm. Logan's discoveifr made twenty years ago. • —Du ing a heavy thunder atom pn Sunday 26th May, the bet= of Mr. Louis 1 aduo of Linwood, Waterloo County, was struck by lightning and burnt tt the ground. The fire spread BO rapi ly that it was impossible tq get anythin out, and - some epring calves and pig also a quantity of hay, grain and soni farm implements, which were in the b rn were all destroyed. There was no naurance, his insurance policy having xpired a short time previously. — 1110 day morning while John SdOtt, cattle drover, was driving a herd of his cattle through Galt, they rushed on to a plank povering over the race at Crans- ton & S of the p weight ed into that en ortram fished rimger's flouring mills. Some nks broke under the heavy d ten animal's were precipitet- he deep water. , In the scpftle ued one of them was drowned led to death. The rest were ut after considerable trouble without farther serious mishap. — At he annual meeting in Toronto, of the 0 tario Society of Artists, special referenc was made to the pictures brought for sale by American dealers, ostensib y as productions of first class artists,but really only copies of originals, and a r4lolution was passed that the Government be urged to increase the t duty to o per cent. on pictures under value of $1,000 each, and if over that value, a 'd by well-known artists, , the duty to 60 per cent. — George Donald, eldest B0of John ' Donald.prie1 11 r Wyoming, 1047 s month ago for the Northwest, where he i ad taken rip land last spring, On S tur- day, Ma$, 1 We, they received a tel m from Einar on that he was not exp ted to live. , T e old gentleman bec me uneasy an telegraphed back an re- ceived an a ewer that be was dead. Mr. Donald dw s a fine, induetrions y g man, and h s death willlee a la ,devy blow to his aged father. —Thrtred y last week there die at RidgetoWn, Bothwell, Mrs Will'am Marsh aged 106. The Lady had *tut passed . h�rl birthday. - Her younsest sister, Mr Stillwell Wilson., ed 94, was present at the celeb ion of the birthday. Mrs. Mareh w a daughter of: Alex. Montgomery, on of the first residents of Toronto, then M - ed Lith a York. She was also asi ter of Dr. Montgomery, of the Hamilton asylum., She emigrated - to Bothwell 53 year ago, and resided there n- 1 i , tinuously ; surrounded by hosts of friends, and beloved by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. —Lord Lorne and Princess Louise arrived in Toronto last Friday, shortly before noon. There was a large crowd at the station to 'bid them weloome, and they were lustily cheeted while en route to the Queen's hotel. The Princess visited the Art Exhibition in the Nor- mal School, the Horticultural Gardens, a‘nd other points of interest. The party lunched with the Lieut -Governor before visiting the Woodbine track, and left for the east at seven o'clock Saturday evening. few days ago a very large ship- ment of pedigree live stock, was made at Elora destined for the North- west,occupying eight cars. There were 85 high grade and Shprthorn females, ten pedigreed', Shorthorn cows and heifers, three span superior horses, four yoke of cattle, besidee a large number of prize fowl. The whole shipment amounted to $10,000 in value, and will prove a valuable acquisition in stocking the Northwest plains. ' NO138 of the animals were over four years old. —Rev. Jasper iVilson, of Camlachie, has issued a circular to farmers in that neighborhood who made application to him for farm hands, 'staiiing that very few yomig tnen have been sent out to Canada yet by the association for which he was acting. The young man's de- partment had only been organized last Decembereatal it was unable to supply the demands that pane from all parts of the Dominion. The men will be forwarded ELB fast as obtained. A few are expected in July and some More the last week in August. —John Lacy, a printer, who claims to have invented the mailing machines used in newspaper offices for the pur- pose of affixing the addresses of sub- scribers upon papers forwarded through the pbst office, was charged a few days ago at St. Thomas with being drunk and. disorderly. It appears that he entered the Salvation Army tneet- ing, borrowed 25 oents from one or, the soldiers, spent it in drink, and when ar- rested was singing" Roll the old chariot along." He was given two hours to get out of town. - —A despatch froin Montreal on Monday last gives the following report of the crops in the Lower Province : Reports received froni rawly sections are that farming operations Ire ha a deplorable condition. On an -average not more than one-third to ope half of the usual seeding has been done through - Out this part. It is generally expected that all the grain will be nicely through the ground by the early part of June, while this year less than. half of the average acreage is sown, and only a small percentage is throughithe ground. The water is standing on all ground not well drained. The furrows are all full, and for a distance on either side of the grain it has been drained. It will re- quite very fine weather to save the crops from a failure. On the other hand the hay and pasture lands are lookmg well, especially last year'sseed- ing land, and the hay promises tq be a heavy crop. Early sown grain, which has made its appearance thron 'h the groundeis lookingweell. —Two convicts named Robert , Webb and John Josey, escaped from the peni- tentiary last Saturday night. Webb Was sentenced at the Essex assizes in 1876 to thirteen years, and was in the hospital suffering from rheumatism. Josey was sentenced at Belleville • to imprisonment for life for shooting his sweetheart wbile in a State of intoxica- tion. Josey being of a very kind dis- position was placed in the hospital, he and a guard looking after the patients during the night. The guard, whose name is Crawford, went down into the kitchen shortly after ten, and did not return till near twelve. In the mean- time Josey took a skeleton key bild let Webb out of his cell, when they secured a saw and sawed through a bar of a window and let themselves to the ground with a rope made of window cords. They fo.seened a hook to the end of the rope and threw the hook to the top of the wail, whereitcaught the irotrailing,and then pulled themselves up and reached the ground on the other side by the same means. They were gone an hour before their absence was discovered. —As the steamer Quebec, on her first trip of this season, was at Prince Ar- thur's Landing,a man named Singleton, keeper of the lighthouse on Passage Island, was killed by the oars on the Canada Pacific Railroad. The unfor- tunate man was walking on the wharf and stumbled on the track in front of the train, which ran over his body, literally cutting it in two. He had started from his home in a small sail boat as soon as navigation opened, and come to Prince Arthur's Landing, 40 miles to purdhase supplies for his family, the unnsual length of the winter having reduced his provisions to a very small compass. When the Quebec passed the island on her return trip, a bell was rung in the lighthouse, which was taken by the Captain of the Que- bec to be a signal for help. The steamer was immediately stmped,. and a boat lowered and manned, Captain Moore himaelf taking command. When they reached the light -house they found the keeper's wife and five children in a famishing condition. They had been without food for five days, and on short allowance for several days before. They were hardly able to stand. Captain Moore ordered an ample supply of pro- visions from the Quebec for the family, but did not,owing to the weak condition of Mrs. Singleton, communicate to her the death of her husband in such a shocking manner. • —Dogs have been committing great havoc among the sheep in the neigh- borhood of Millbank, lately. Mr. John McKee had in one night 50 of his ohoicest sheep worried, 30 of which are dead and 15 or 16 of the remainder past recovery, their throats being torn and cut. During the last week within a radius of five or six miles no less than four other flocks have been -attacked. Mr. Crawford iosibg 15, Alex. Herron 16, Jacob Speedier 8, and Mr. Gintook 7. The dogs sefir havenot been traced. The township of Wellesley has since passed a by-law paying $10 for each dog killed, known to have worried sheep. Perth Notes. Mr. David Sproat is turning out immense piles of lumber at Ms sawmill in Trowbridge, - —S. DavidSen of Listowel has been fined $20, and costs, for selling liquor withoutThelpeicrerfe ssof Stratford advocate the necessity of a hospital to acconamodate the destitute sick in the town. —The Catholics of Stratford intend holding a grand pic-nic in the town grove on the 20th of this month. —R. Jones, Esq., of Logan, shipped a few days ago several carloads of fat cattle for the Liverpool market. —Mr. John Stephens, of Anderson, has a profitable cow. She gave birth to twin calves both this year and last. , —Mr. J. W. McLaren, assistant drug- gist in Mr. Hodge's drug storeiMitchell, by the death of a rich relative in Scot- land, has fallen heir to 06,200. —Dr. M. L. Rossvally, the converted Jew, press:died in the Methodist church, Mitchell, 012 Sunday last, and lectured on Tueeday evening. —W. G. Hay and wife, John Living- stone, Sr., and Rev. R. Renwick, late of Newry, take their departure this week on a visit to the Old Country, —Three oar loads of fine horses were shipped from Listowel last week for the Manitoba -market. There were site matched teams among them. —Mr. Bennett Mitchell, a, young Irian lately from England, is erecting a mill for making syrup from anaber cane, on Mr. D. C. Brown's farm in Downie, two miles from St. Marys. —St. Mary's papers say Mr. Stuart Cumberland gave an exhibition in the Opera House on Friday evening lest. His audience was small, but his per- formances were wonderful. —J. dr. Eaton, of St. -Marys, while trying to "jump" a ditch on his bicycle the other morning, was thrown 431E1 alighting on his left elbow, and sus- tained double dislocation of thatjoint, —The assessed value of real estate in the ,town of Liatowel is $661,525 ; personal property, 863,700, and in -comet $19,135, reeking a grand total of ii6813138- ment for the town for 1883 of $744,460. 1—The other day, the lighted eturnp of a cigar got into a. crack in the planks in front of the Hicks House, Mitchell, and in a little while the wood was in a. the Downie Butter and Cheese Manu- facturing Company, has .been sold to- fbalcitzoiry,frb.tuhtijawas noticed before any dame Mr, T. Ballantyne at 12 cents. Mr. White, of Exeter, has charge of the age was done. —Half of the May cheese, Made by asmearsia.Hs.rrison, a school teacher in Downie at present, but hav- ing previously taught in Middlesex and Oxford counties, is retiring from the teaching profession. He intends re- moving to Michigan and going into some other business. —The Rev. J. W. Sperling, M. A., B. D., a St. Marys boy, who has for a number of years past been filling the, principal pulpits of the. Methodist: church in Ottawa and Montreal, ha..4t' received a most unanimous invited= to take charge of a congregation in the city of Kingston. —An amusing but not at all profitable affair happeped in St. Marys the other day. House cleaning being onward, the man of the family deposited a large looking glass in the back yard, intend -4 ing to carry it into the house again in a short time. On going out after it, a large rooster 'which was strutting around, was found to be having a rough and tumble fight with it, and had succeeded in smashing it up in good style. —he Listowel Banner says The High School Board in this town has purchased an additional number- of evergreens, and has had them planted. in the High School grounds. The grounds of the High and Public School's, with their tastefully laid out lawns, clean gravel walks, trees and shrubs of various kinds, and • flower beds, make them the most attractive places in town, besidespossessing a powerful force in the proper education of the young. - .—Downie still continues furnishing settlers for the Northwest. Messrs. John Wood and son left some ten days ago, taking with them a supply of farm stock and implements. This is the third time Mr. Wood has visited the "promised land." He has secured la,rge tract in the vichaittetof Broadview. Mr. Wood epeiat the winter there in building a house, but a prairie fire de. stroyed it with contents on the day he left for Downie. --On Wednesday night last week, a fire broke out in the wood working de- partment of Messrs. Mulheren tle Co.'s foundry, in Mitchell, and as the build- ing was a --frame one, it, with all its contents, was soon in ashes. The building contained nearly $800 worth of patterns, about 2,000 feet of dry lumber, the tools of all the Wood -workers, and the wood work with fittings for over 60 reapers all ready to be put together, —A Stratford Presbyterian clergy- naan recently -visiting in Downie, bad s rather implement experienee. Towards evening he wbnt into the house of Mr. Forbes Edrnottds about three miles from town, seeming his horse at tile gates On his coming out all that remained of ; his outfit was the horse's bridle. The animal probably lost its patience or itt. terest in pastoral werk and stteick for his stable in Stratford in the most di- rect way. The vehicle was badly smished.The Reverened gentleman did the only thing possible tinder the circum, stances -e -walk int° town. - , • - ;11 ,