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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1884-09-12, Page 1• INERT GREAT - MAN CE INERY GREAT .MAN r thresh - is hardly I_ , will fen lace. Hit npathy is aeighbors, all hape. -ng of the Iiinbum member meeting ty dollars - le, an tuat- ara were , t heti made engineer'e a present espor ;ween the. George tilers, the work on. , red to to be 1$100, for la 5 and 6, alland, of aesDodds, ; Thorn tr., $122.15, lreins Nos. be survey at /4; Mr. taer. The "esent• year viz: Two purposefa townshila 1 amounts request- porationta nfirm the ttrer were for two bank iTh ties of the atturned tG et Reeve. e,obaId, of under the are OM the by sego held that ing to fill t of 188:I, the CO Court of SPIVENTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 875. • SEVEN HUNDRED PAIRS —OF---. EN'S and BOYS' ONG BOOTS ALL FIRST -GLASS GOODS, A great number of theee boots are band. made, and will be sold cheaper, quality considered, than ever before heard of in Seaforth. A latige stock of Ken's and Boys' LACED BALMORALS, Baited for Fall wear, got up with best quality uppers and heavy rivited bot- toms. Every one needing a real good iseful article should call and see them. We will sell them very cheap. OVER ne Thousand Pairs OF Ladies' Fine Buttoned and Laced Boats, Of the very lotted styles, all widths, data prices and4 qttalities to choose from. MEV SUPPERS VERY CHEAP •••1•14.1.•‘.. Sof1001.,- A great variety of Boots for Fall and W prices. BOOTS. Childre's Strong inter wear at low Men's and Boys' Hats in great variety' and, very cheap at the Seaforth Boot &ore. CHEAP SUGARS 1 jest received another lot of taxa beautifal White Sugar, thirteen peunas fer $1. TEAS TEAS Our 30c, 400 and 50c Teas are the best value in the market. Mull stook of gboae usually found a first -lass groceey store. Agent for the Ketby Climax. Cattle Peod, the best and cheapest in tha laarket. Call and get circulars and testimonials. EO GOOD, atforrison'a Oild Stand, Seforth. A TRIP TO 414ciii On arriving atWiarton We sage on board the fine ie. "Pacific," of the Great Noirt sit Company, of CollingwOo Campbell, Master. 1We 1 steamer with a fell litit of cabn pas gers bound, as we were, for acki Ou looking over the iStewar 's list found, that our company hail d fro parts of the province, and.owe f Buffalo, and Albany,. New Y tk: IT were a large number1 of youn Men board who were evidently in f taeg time " and, they were not dis Leaving Wiarton We pass o Colpoy's bay, which iforms4 harbor, and ran to Killarney, of about 100 miles from Wier place is the headqua tiers of gian Bay Fisheries, t 'e Mess Bros. being among , the lar :est pers. Here also are gathered ap ped south ifilMerlSe qua-ntities berries. The population nu be 200,1comprised mostly of I die, half breeds; it contains two tor hotels and a Roman Catho ic Church, besides the ' buil ing storehouses of the ehip ars scenery in this vicinity is J'wil rugged. Passing onward tljrou lightful scenery our nextstep' AC. took Pa stea ern T ,:0tPtti 1111c1 • • Al lw la er o 1 • 10 11. *It h is Manitowaning, on Manitoulin sl n Being the principal , villa e on t Island, it is a place Of 00118ifi rable portance, and contains a umbe good stores, hotels aud °the place business. There are several eh re the most interesting of whie is he Mission Church, which was uilt s 85 years ago. The Domini n dov ment is erecting a new lighth this point. The land on the generally is good, and a large Inn farmers are settled there. 101 had in abundanc, end of I th best quality. Being I warn d steamer's whistler we re:e ba pass on to Little Current, a r th village with a beautiful her r Here we found a couple of di work blasting rocks in order o the channel, so that, the lar st may pass. A ' dredge was ls shovelling up the ,rocks they were broken up by t Having changed the mail Bay and delivered some frei again whistled on board, a through delightful 1 scenery Bay, situated at the head of cent harbor. : The farm la de section are said to be excell nt siderable lumber is also cut principal hotel is Abe Qc kept by an American na Gore Bay alsosupports a which was establiehed about In the numberwhieb: we gl the editor anneubced that h to seek a short season of re gigantic labors, and COIIS0 would be 10 iSEille of the pa next week.- l• We now enter the Nort which usually gives strange insight into the sterner re voyage in these waters. 0 now headed Rix Spanish Ri distance of about thirty m dee entire route being at picturesque rooks and island en Dente, "Little Detriot," s sailors from the fact that a large qnantitieri of, railroa was brought in by Water for ing of a branch line of the amide eifio Railway'. On the doek, whict le quite large, a censiderable uantie stone, etc., may still be Been for w it is probable the company ha further use. A little beyon Our course lies through so narrow that one can -a from the deck of the stea 00 4 0 0l 11 er a ew DC wa fr ti' I. I • er 10 01 us Isl b r cari y t •r lpa er dee ves a ast aluld wela sae Go • • eg ID - 0 , f• 1 the mot dangerous elm linel tire route. Beyond this Js L through which the smile expended some three m4lio 8 in making a channel three ho wide and eighteen -feet dee these channels are in the S and through them pass all engaged in the Lake Sus including Canadian as well 8 00 shipping. -The entire ctst o h: works was borne by the Tin t d Government. We nowollnet. C landing, with the " Ec o in the distnce, near w ich valuable [Mum of silver llea in g up the river weo st ruails at Garden River, nee the Victoria mines, alsolsilv r this place Duce dwelt tre go missionary, Father u rq next stopPing place ein Marie, we are all alive hen summons he from our v sit store which the place c nate somewhat amusing to 816 t floek 1nto the storest ev some hunting up span ens work, oth re purcbasm sto apples, aniI other ligif re while thee who desir n stood arod, blocking p t and making all sorts of porn everythin ' in eight. B t to r voyage, w soon come u Indian training schools ea which pre ent a fine pe the rive. Lying at the ha little stazIn yacht, whi h was the Iproperty of 1 ish of the Di mese of Alg lenian impo t tle further FRIIDA he en- eorge, ve nment of dollars d ed feet oth of t river, vessels trade, erician se vast States urch's Wits " ooated roceed- to chenge hich are le A. At t 1 rench • Our nit Ste whistle single It was outlets uding, udian's f nuts,_ ments, f these maps e that gen lead. .kI- li t residenee, a very co d though not a very larg f erew n * run up all th e e'en be crowded on, an y Jack floating proudly a O steatri nito the dock of d After spe ding a shore t ing about tbe village, appear 1 t� be very t steamer c ossee to the t n name on Le Michigan s canal leadng from La y the American side, B appearance of things i to What we have seen Sault. We paid a vi e lockaof the canal, and n pressed: ith the m e works. 1 These locks a engineering skill, and s canal.cese upwards of • dollars. They are lig e electric: light, and e , them is l finished in the . manner. As the entir great northern lakes this ,canal, it can rea ✓ that the work ie one t ta,uce. The United S 8 visited by many of e several 'enjoyed the thr e of " shooting " the grea canoes ander.the guid 1, After we had taken in e we re crosed: to the a wtiere our steamer wa snight, as owing to the a the channel it is not c t navigate after dark. li rnotnine, We bid adieu t s retraced our course do y our way to Mackinac. t the mouth of the river 1 side or IA eriean chan known las the "Sailor' - On one right is Mu s which the American f now making anew ch h save eighteen miles of o to and from the Sault. t that the work will o 11 Hope H n pa ar a ti or • Cha s t9 1 Utile ✓ bo les, al de 10 e.aa name thia' mat the b this a eha, most er to islands on either side. Fr m the of the pilot house the view i one Of passing grandeur. Near thi point tain Campbell informed s a Indian battle had been foug1it. We reach Algoma Mills, where 4largo 1 bering business is done. This is terminus of the Canadian acific way, on the Georgian. Bay. This at one time gave promise ofj beco an iraportant town: The oundat were laid for the bnildingof 4n imm hotel, but after spending s me $8 on the foundations, the workl was a doned. A. large frame hotel vas ere close to the bay, but was not oorepl and there is little prospect f its being finishd. Considerab e In however, is shipped from Jhere. now steam on through begs straits to Cockburn Island, wher large amount of shas shipp d to 1 .r.4; 1 ri il 01 11 ro • a re 00 00 porsa there are about 75 ettlers gaged in farming on this is and.. next stop is at Thessalon where located large saw mills; e con here is well settled; for f rty • back the Blind river near h re is n gable for vessels. drawing 12 fee water. We now have del' fal run to Bruce mine:. Op tions at the - mines have • been pended, and everything abo t the fast falling into mine. Imm nse w en buildings, mountains of sand rock mark the spot where m re mo has been sunk than is ever rkely t realized _ from copper mini Bruce mines. We next Ten Landing on St. Joseph's Isl vicinity of which considerab is done. We then prooee Wilson's Channel to Richard on the Bear Lake. The along this route is -of the descripton, and cannot be s any on this continent. Passi • the Devil's Gap, we come i the "Last Mail Carriers" or Rocks," for the histOry cen which we refer our ;readers,. Campbell of the Pacific. now lies along Sugar Island, through Neebitaa Cutting, the.bouridery line betwen. the United States. 'This deepened at immense cost by States Government,;it being • • : 00 a a 1 0 a te • g at 11 Hilt nd, iia e far thro s Lan cenery •ery ft rpasse g thr • sigh "Piot' ected o Ca tir co Michi hich i anada he II anneli t one 01 • • 1 years. e pass en rot the site of an America of 1812, aaso Battle Isl British F distance Detour, Lake H rt in the Ba' e. see the t ichiga.n, at ron. We al Is and, and after a • d 120 mileslwithout a st 1- we are t see all the e kinao Islrd ab three .0 are engaged to drive island. t woald owe s to describ eveaything e suffice it o say that it 0 coming so many miles t cen fort oecupies a co man d tion on t e height abo the on one seekipg amiss n with the utmost cour sy. , the party managed to antic e ber of whle helmets. hie merly wo n by officers t a Donning hese trophie wh ✓ ornament d with sunflowers, • • ed our pr cession, and timi ✓ racking s rains of the azoo e ed in trin ph back to •ur the boat. Shortly afte tea out from our deck. id straits t� oint St. lattice; f town whi h. the Capteen ii t- was four iles long and eig t wide! an there is 'mere teu statement than would tat The tow consists olas d -for nearly if not quitel four along the rater front, nd t rear being backed by h gh te this place in 1672 t e 'gr. Father Marquette set nt to Mississip • i river, and t wh'c brought b ck to die theo For many years this ea nes labored a to ong the sav ges iv ed- these egions. Hi reel buried be eath the alt of t Church w ich was af erwsx Aefewyea s ago the r covered, a d were re -i spot, and handsome ed by the eople of St. by the Ca seam we vis mept, and gazed with overen spot whic I contained the r the great Jesuit who ;had died on th shores of L ke d 200 years go. At mid igh S on the ret orn trip, in o der to d Detour crossing at day reek. •e 1 ing this pont we tame a t • a • ma, ted is ort e bn 1 in bu in wit • he Union th peak we aul te Marie. biQ in) I. on i wn o sho e e S net qui it t • ea e a t uitra hay Me ed 8 upon • me opr of the eSfaruolmt, s a neat for MeG11 will were told best stu ent in S llivan, —Ed ard which dead in Eng- He wor ishop'e —Th looking. has bee . Our iBnriutiushel which of Scion —Th calored proeller, I and him; and altho in our wake, wa the narrow cha reached. Our turn and twist the proceseion order to- make t at the °trance sporting passett match on the 1 down trip we fot hold a series of trip. Officers a pointed, a BIT prizes was take ranged in true a very pleasant trip, and got freshe,d by our s lakes. SEP succeeded i gh he fellow unable to nel which we ily Captain k the channel, ill We parted f the Sault me peas! plea ers organized wer deck, an med ao aseo games during Id committee scription to .up, and ever orting order. time during erne feeling ort jaunt on The Se tt Toronto.i —Thursday, giving thy. —A• 1 rge e inches f oen tip shot nea Mont anada. et is to be su mitted in ovember 6, Thanks - 5 feet 7t has beep EM passing d closely ass US ih had thee ew every, so we led company iver. In antly our basebali on out iation to the home were ap- purchase thing ar- We had he whole will re - he upper CUBIST. le, meesurin to tip of wing at the two repauga sh ted $6170. three -tear -old chil nes Pr ngle, fell into to and •as drowned. Britisl Association e given annu civil engineer heru, aged 4 a° hotel at Guelp ed in a organ factor Rev. r. Torrence, admit ed a, life me esoCia ion for tae ad e.. • holm of Mr. Tho h was ntered last w oys ab out twelee ye a wander- and a g ld wat h valued aite does not —Wo eeley h • mg, our :birh ba k can the same Canadia Indi As the Company to tr riot is on. Nile. ally the —Lady Lams olLefaedrieannt htooslpayitataleacnodrn tie great which o remon ly im. few wee 13 11611C —The receipt: perform- ances of the F w in St. Thomas aggreg —A , named Mary A a cistern in Toro —Th old medal • ery mo tona pasee ily te f gte atea ur party, and tenced, lin xperience peniten Sault repids in in the c ce. f Indians. —Th Kings stew of coal, were before,r't Ca, dian side, Monday, and p mo d for the for doing bus na wness of understood the nsid ed safe to a stubborn figh d reak next —The seas Sult, and • river on rriving at eilthe out. a point mpment." e, through nment is hich will or vessels eetimated about five Island, in the war I • • ee e lof the a -Ca tain ienaph of Govern r -Gene with the been a.p ointed itlions of Major enniao uight by dition f r the r ng about —Th Berlin complete to leer that go of the eaterpil ex is d • through to the 1 avee o imagined should e on th • t impor- —Ma tin M Fort was father a d son he fat iary, a ntral • rr the n th On 0011' el, Ge nn 1 •av It s en y Far nd, t erivie O ti) • ighef we clocjk sig1t: Us EL y to We • s- 18 e site of a r. In the Own of trance of ss Boblin 1 run of each Mac - p.m. As carriages ound the nch space aw there, ell worth • Ameri- hig posi- town, and. e treated Several of "a num- wre for- arriton. t ey_had hey heed - the soul • e march- atters 011 e ateamed 11 seed the ichigan, a mined us en inches h in this ✓ t appear. n•le street tches out miles, the ffs. From at Jesuit each the • he was ears later. riest had o inhabit - ins were e Mission s burnt. :males were dis- t terred near the °nit lo ent erect- guao. :Piloted ted. t monn- e on the mains, of ived and • je tlbie o n's the ing g' 11 et IL d *h an a • • UTOn over e started each the On pass- e with a • when w hear nite nuijiber of years of age, re jest cox4pleted 4,000 pi ces, e size of al ceut. —T!i4 Dom Commissioner of a license to Board- "luring Judge BoYcl d a,nce people Ii —A sale of limits on the I Jas. McLaren, paid was $35 were bought years ago for 1 — Another a of, to start alio be taken for sny part Of plored sdvthitn to resp nd t explore it. — Th re is a during tbho lat Labrad r. Th bells aiiid Jess e with cargoe wrecks in Na took Bay a One vessel was lost at Marin and thr e of th . crew perish —The com a. issionere ap the Goirnme bia and report he re urned. recommend th he regutatedeif naeasure. Jeffer cut intd the e'tt he had • tootle taken up their and took from the finest hone off, and propos their work. —A one ye Haines, a Toro rather peculiar day. It • appea alone in a carr pleasure steam careened the c water. —David Gr trains, in the e Donough; of R Hamiltion,whil ing to board a fell under the run over and Graham now li a serious condi — Three cour hunting Oil Sun mouth of the Detroit river. revenue officer, on the look along side their boat and gr af the guns bel nging to the the ground th t it was unl American to b • g guns int lly to the ug. dropped Monday.. as tune* f Guelp , ber of th ancemenit as Peppe ek by tw rs of ag 0 stole s ordered a four fatho e nd a pick s from the 11 nsport hims ovtine hasbe stone of the onto for the perfo elniont Arm drew df them Bay up thr n invited Belleville riendleas, med in a, nd, of the elle Foot Guerd, has second in co mand to oa the Egyp ian Expo - 1i ef of Gordo Nelws says: e regret grub rese bling the ingeonsidera le damage the turnips. Farmers lookout for these pests. lin and Jon Mann, of Guelph, ere ser- er. to seven y ars in the d the son to ix months rison, for catt e staling. on livery sta le keepers e police. ma estrate ou id .510 and osts each ness on San ay, It is will appeal nd. make n is around once more f :quilts made of an infi- pieces. An o d lady 82 iding near LT 'lover, ha,s one containug nearly 13. apiece boil): about the 41 Dion Board f Licepse has granted t e transfer he Industrial I xhibition the fair i • Toronto, ssenting. T e temper- iedigna,nt. . B. McAllis er's timber dian river w 8 made to of Ottawa. The price 000. The s me limits y Mr. Me llister two s than $240$0. lar expeditio is talked t a year hello:. limey granted tha a,s long as he world re •• ains unex- one spirits wi 1 be ready the call fo people to fresh crop o disastees .storms repo ted from Valeria, Cha lenge, 1s4 - are tot 1 d rs Island d. ointed. by t to visit Britsh Cola el Chinese migratio It is Under tood they t Chinese 1" migratioa dot reStricte • , in some on, of Milto • , recentla es of his ho • et, where d a swarm o bees had bode for the past year, hem fifty-one pounds of He has b xed them 13 to let them go on in r -old child. of • Henry to, was drow • ed under circumstance on Sun - s1 the child was left age on the eck of e, r, and. the • .at being reiage ran o' into th • hm, news agent o ploy of James S. M ilway News at Guelph, express for train, getting his head b s in Gee; h on. , geons Amercanawent •ay in tlie ma sh, at the little Bassett channel, A Canadian Custom bubt,erdowoedi ni3 party, oei awful foe Canade. • ER 12,18 4. 00 ompan attempt- amilton, his arni dly en ospital i One of the men bit head with anr oar, w the gun and get out other of the party d him, with his gun an of small shot to r Then they conclude soon become too sul nd so they media a —A scheme is 011 ing, at the Gayer canal connecting River at Longnertil River at Chanabley. be about eleven mil he official over the ich made him drop f reach, when en- liberately aimed at • gave him a charge member them by. the place wotild benzine su insensible found medi and they a le now doi —Waitorl Raleigh late fol1osf of Trin bridge, and a dieting ry to hold them, the BritishiAssociati ee line for Detroit. day at the general foot for construct- ment's expense, a he St. Lawrence ith the Richelieu The canal wduld s long, and w uld eal d- 1 • ocated th o the fl al eaten reduce the wider vvey between Mont and New York abont 80 tidies for H son River boats. —A sugar fact.* and refinery has been established at Essex Centre, ly a Mr. Wright, of Cuba. The sugar jivill be manufactured from sugar carub, of which the proprietor has nearly seve ty- five acres under Cultivation at the Centre, besides a lar e quantity gro ing in Cuba, which he i tends to impor to Canada. • —One of the teamsters in the employ of Forepangh's cireils was badly hurt in St. Thomas, He ,was driving three teams attached to al circus van, when the horses became frightened andhe lost control of then, anl was jerked from his seat. He ali hted beneath the feet of the flyin anireals and was badly trampled. —By orders of thp Customs authori- ties a quantity of nninggIed liquors and the three 'schooner concerned in the recent smuggling atl Quebec, and seized It appears that the d who came to Can meetings. ijad been the conntr, , sight -se ng. On his val in Mon real last vreek, he was t sick with Ityphoid- fever and ra grew worse. Inflam ation of the 1 l set in, resulting in hi death. --The A thur Ent rprise says: Cockerell, marrieda an of thisvii who has a wife and. family &pert on him fo support, has paysterio disappeare for the past two w We unde stand since that he eloped wit a young girl whoee ho near Harri ton. No plue canyet belied of them, hint it is 4enerally beli ved that they Fent to the States. We are afraid if he - does not use this pe eon any better than his w sadly rue this change —At a meeting Committee of the M. Friday last a commi , to meet r. Mowat side of t e bridge,- on Monday, inst. Ar angements have been for holding a grand demonstratio Niagara. The Premier will be d to the Car,a.dian side in a carriage, cfsalutes fr in batteri s of artillery m, and they fell or. As soon as ance was cal ed, g well. Browne, M. A., ty College, C ished menabe n, died last Th °spittle Mont ceased gentle da to attend travelling aro • 1110111.1AN BROS., Itu liehera. 1131.50 a Year, in Ad ance. of the unfortunate father 10 y be imag ined when, upon approachi g, he recog- nized the mangled form of his child, whose face and legs were e teirely eaten up. The poor little girl stil held in her her father's m- hands the tin can contain -in of dinner. rs' —There are one hmadre tale eight widows and single la an, the nd rri- ken My ngs m. age ing sly eks. has 018 ife, that ehe will in after life. of the Exec o tive owat receptio . on tee was appoi ited at the Anae icau 5th ade iven and will some weeks go, we e aold by auction be fired. Several m mbers of the on Saturday. The liquors realized fair eminent will acco pany the d prices, but the scho ners were sold. for tation. ridiculonsly low figures, The highest —A M being $235 and the lowest $85. citing sc —The iDominion and °uteri° Govern- : Circuit ments ha.ve arranged with Mr. W. G. Walton, of the Waleon Dairy Company, Hamilton, to exhibit the new Danish system of butter and cheee-making at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition. Ar- rangements have been made to work up force at at least one ton of the exhibition. —Rev. Father who speaks Egypti ti, has been appoint- stunning ed chaplain to acoo pany the Canadian few min contingent of the N le expedition. The cuffed an fourth officer,whose name is not known, , _Jack will be drawn frona the Three Revers battalion. Surgeon Major Neilson, of oBffi!teart.tery, Ottawa, goes as medical —The 'services of Captain Alexander McRae, 6f the 7th usili rs, of London, in Bran the rafting and limper usiness on the offices t ;r who has had many , yeare' experience in worked t St. Lawrence, haveibeeh secured by the again. Imperial authorities to take command 'Noalan, of one or ale detatchments of Canadian shelf in B voyageurs in conneetion with the xpo- haps tram dition for the eeliefi of General Gordon printer. in -Egypt. i —As t --Henri Mieer went out on strike ing Port with some other dyers at Cornwall last a man w week. Ws wife c011ared him a ong ship's sto the CTOW and deManded his in uanudderhea g He refuse to give lup whereupo strack Hi bebween the' eyes; re the guard ing that she wonld I do all the st the priso for the fareily. The blow stunned and a sea and as he tay on the ground his p about five tic spoushwent through him. found by —On Thursday of last wee pit s c osme opul young children of Ernest Girardot lives in Sendwich, were left alo anthoritie the house, It is supposed they se ha—rbRore,P°or, some matches andlset fire to the ing, as it was discoaered to be in fl there ha la,tely be Catholics troubles a portions. wounded, their lives ntreal telegram says an ne occurred. at the Bat ourt last IThursday. Philias L diets Laitaigne, the Deur of his co sin, had ben adjudged in and order d to an a ylum, he seiz large wa er pitcher standing on table nea him and urled it with ttorney-Ge eral Blair, a sa,me tim exclaimin in French am goi to be hart ed you'll diefi The pit her struclt Blair's te ilk eper day during oucher, of Ottawa, whose r many ye the " Te arrested ing robb him but tes. The it removed, ohnston,t latives res rs, known 11 over Anaeri ror of the Lakes," has t Niagara n suspicion of d a posto ce. " Jack " ford a fe weeks ago o or three ays at One o ere, fitted wandering f ith the ex eption of Nie ho is a p esent LIM on ran tford, t e Terror has ped it na re than any e recovered risoner was le crying bitterl e tramping pr ded in Bran • 01 ney. she ark- iking I him gilis- , two who e in ured nild- mes, tain- No an4 e fire i.boub does math low ,000 por- their. 011e - CI e steamer rthur on s discovere e. Shack • as pla,oe ard, hitt s and. hid If er the boa ch instit hours, wh n the prisoner was ne of the crew in the crank —The visit of Lord Melg red to Catigh- 0 and was , betroyed. The barn co ing a b. ree was also consumed traces of t e ehildr n were found it is fek ed they perished in t they start d. —It is, estimated that there are .300000 dogs in Ont rio, and what it cost to keep the ? A dollar a is a low estimate, tut even at thi figure the Arend ageregate is $4,32 a year. We euppoite that only tion of the numb r are worth keeping, i perhaps ot more than third. Then see 'IMao ' vast a ount. wasted innually I besides the great amount bf damage done by the worth- less curs. • —The lumbering industry of the Ot- tawa district has tlecome so depressed tinder the present i Government's high taxation policy tht there will be no difficulty in obtaining all the men re- quired for the Gordlon relief expedition, A great many lumbermen have gone to Michigan and elsewhere,- but still there is no lack of unemployed men in that city. —While rowing irom , the island to the mainland at Puelinch lake the other day, two Galt gentlemen saw a huge sereent lase fully blur feet out of the water. The reptile headed toward The, their boat, an onlY .ceased following them when Bi now' water was reached. The serpent ie desctibed as being fully fourteen feet in lenth, with a large flat topped head. An old farmer who lives across the lake says the same serpent was seen twelve ye —The 23rd of th be marked for fat On the 23rd of Beckett Was kille railway station, an Robert Loyd was same spot, On Sat rs ago. mouth appears be ities at Strathroy. une last, Michael 1. at the Stra.throy on the 23rd July, Iso killed near the rday morning 2rd August, themang1ei renames of an un- known man were feiand near the same spot as the first two named were killed, These are merely coincidences, but there is in them en to cause speculatio superstitious. —On Saturday na o'clock two young years, employed at Brantford, went fol benzine, whicb is kept in an undergrotind cellar a short distance froro the foundry. They did not put in an appearance at 1 o'clock to work, and inquiry was made. It was ascertained tlaat they had not been to dinner. A search was immediately made, and the twO lads wbre found lying insensible on the floor of the cellar. It is supposed the fumes of the ugh of the unusual in the minds of the ming about eleven ads, aged about 15 m.Buck's foundry, ov- pp- ex uret f ter erer ane d the reat the If I ple, a nd- nter ford a as eau av- WaS and the rth o1 as the pet ther ntario was ear - her last up trip, stealing fro the es were pet on him in the state mehow he el • self. On mi was checked ted, which 1 om ded sing own sted and fifty ies entitled to vote at the coming mto icipal elec- tions in Galt. The Reporter says: The wives of candidates fo honors in Ontario now trouble staring them in t will be necessary hereafter Galt for an example—for th to embrace some one hund eight widows and -single la canvass; and while it may be suppoeed that they will talk muni orly, and demurely ask t their "votes and influeneet fact that candidates will h it their business to look ladies will trouble the wive But the candidates themse after indeed will a canva labor of love! r —The London Adver iser says : Shortly after 11 o'clock Saturday those passing in and out of theme ket through •sad sight. in the shade ghastliness dark skin, with blood. municipal nda /IOW e face. It let us take ir I eige lords ed and fifty - its ha their ipat politics e ladies for the simple ve to make after these not a little. yes 1 Here - 8 become a the arcade were treated to Stretched 01:1 the sidewalk lay an Indian dead. The of death showed through hi and his mouth was fil!ed He had died from hemor bilge of the lungs. His name was Da el Birch, he belonged to Mmaceytown, a d bad come into LOD1013 111 the morning. For four years he had been in a decline from consumption. While wal hag past the arcade he was taken ill ao d sat down on the sidewalk. Some pe sons stad- ing by moved him into th shade, and laid him down. He sat u., wiped his forehead, lay back again and died with out a sruggle. Dr. Steven on was sent for, but Birch was dead b fore his ar- rival Health Inspector ell had the body removedto isoffice. Birch was a man of about 35 years f age. The body was coffined and tit n home to Munceytown by his friends —An important expe ent in the direction of imprdving vigation in the lower St. Lawrence is about to be tried by the Dominion Government. The Marine and Fisheries agency at Quebec has just received. per "Ocean. King two of the celebrat d pitch gas buoys, enormous iron globs or tanks, which it is said when 4harged. will burn continually night and 1ay for three months, enabling vessels t4 distinguish the proper channels, i dangetons localities at all hours and ii any weath- er. It is understood thalt the three :buoyS, which are the first f their kind. impotted into Canada, will be plaed, one in the channel -ptch in the traverse, and the other ou the Pilgrim shoalas soon as possibiej to serve for the remaiuder of this na igation 13ea- son, and the necessary preparations are being made in consequen e to charge them. The buildings foil the manu- facture of the gas which t ey burn, and which is derived from c ude oil are about to be erected on the Queen's wharf, Quebec. 09 094 obtain recrui s for Lord tely covered with oil. He I newitgee tG ed and handed over to the Wolseley's expedition u the Nile, at Port rthur. 1 created a great deal of interest, but had otherwise very little effect. Grand ts from hateau au Hinley the L Chief Williams accompanied the Gov - • been ernor-General's deputy an interpreted ween th for him to the Indians, illiams said. that he bad done what he could to help t these p e assumi good. The brador boast, requent colli Orangemen int, and Ma g very serious eople have id some have rty is cerryin s,which are f provocaion. has reqaeste war veseel t requesti has say 10138 and the pro- een lost re- eely It is the the been Many nd it is s Each p volvers ani other ar used on the slightes said the overnor Admiralty to order scene, an that th acceded to —Hugo ons Germ Central P 28th of Se sentenced for horse s he almos escape b of the wor ed before ednesd a tal, he ha being ill, About /100 dinner, 01 hospital made goo — The p were late Holland, teft, won and they friends in undertook cles she h over ninet society's o found the 'Toronto came out mate of result is t Barope at has been expenf3e - fe farmer, n vicinity et home to g wood, ins twelve ye ner when in the aft • line is the name of a n nthief who was sent t ison from Hamilton o tember lst, he having o 23 months' imprison ealing. Three month succeeded in effeetine his burrowing a hole undo one shops, buthe was disc ver - he could utilize the ole. he was alaced in the eel:d ing represented hints f as ut he did not stay there ong. , while tae guards we e at ne quietly slipped out of the oor, soakd the west wal and his escape. ison aid society of To oteto y badly taken in. A Ms-. ho had been convict d id the sympathy of the So iey, decided to send. her t her nrope. At her request they to redeem a /amber of arta d pawned and she It ded en pawn4ckets. 'Whe the cer redeemed the goo s he were linen articles m rked General ()vital.' It then hat the *,man was a in the hospiIlal in 1883, an the at instead. of being se t to the expentie ofthe societ ' she ent to jail fcir50 days a the the eity. days ago 4 French -Can dian med Leb anc, living i o the Shrewsbu y, Quebec, le t his and fell tr esin aneighb ring ructing hi wife to send heir ✓ old little girl with Eis din- oon came At three o' lock moon thol child had no yet made laer appearanc , and Leblan de- cided to return ho e. He had li rdly walked a ew ares hen he perc ived large besr busily engaged in - de our - Mal arer, the 118 ain, ught grief tori - the the been ent ago AO is • • • ing smetaing. He hred at the a but misBei his sho . Coming n Leblanc 4as able to scertain tha, wild boa4 was making its repast human b ing. LoadIng his gun he ike•d a second time, and br down the animal. ¶Ihe terror and them, but without mac pay offered to the foremen one of whom would go- with every twe ty five men, was '$75 per month, and $ 0 was offered to the men. Only goo4, experienced men were wanted, bowesoler, and such won't not go for less than 50 a month. One man thought he con] get Indians at S. Regis to go, but that was dobt- ful. 'I told them," ectitinued ,the Gra d Chief, " that their rafting was over 1 for the summer, a d that they wou»i do better by taking 1 this invita- tion than by staying at h me through the winter. Here tbey arel only making some lacrosses, or going 1 through the States selling bead -work. What white men can do Indians c n do. Lord Wolseley himself was -at Red River, and so were Indians. Now Lord Wolseley is going to Egypt, and so can the Indians. If I were a young man I slieuld go my- self." * 1 —The regular Directors"' meeting of Mao Howiek Mutual Insure ce Company was held in Genie on Sat rday of last week. . Fifty applications Were accept- ed covering risks arooenting to $57,550. The claim of Alex. King, let 5, cones- sion 12, Howick, whose barn and con- tents were burned on the night of Itho 24th of August, was coneidered and eight hundreddollar awarded. Twenty-five dollars was o dered to be paid to Mr. McNeil, of t e third line,_ Wallace, for a, heifer killed by lightning in May last. —The other day as Mr. S. Barr, of Goderich township, was *riving home he caught up with a yount man named Leslie, and getting ont.ort • e rig, boxed his ears for insulting la 0 guage that Leslie -had used toward It arr's sister. For this assault Leslie h: 0 Barr elm- moned before Mayor Forre ter of Olin_ ton, who imposed a fine of 1 and costs. Leslie was known to have revolver in his possession, and, it i said, een threatened to shoot Barr, elio offered, if the other would pay to a expertees already incurred, not to ay a COM. plaint against Leslie for c rrying a re- volvek. This was not aece ted and the complaint was accordingly laid, Leslie being arrested by ConstalpJe Paisley, and spending the night in Ithe Clinton look -up. Next day he w brought up before the Mayor for trial, sjrho iinpoeed a fine of $50 and costs, the lowest fine the law allows. • Leslie pa i $10 of the fine, and was given eight aye in which to pay the balance, but 1ie "jumped the town " bet the first train • 1 41 1 14 •. .21 !I - 17: •;I:tt ;I a 5. •