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ley had beee
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hed for. and
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t of Embro
the 3rd Di.
purchased
near Stra,ts
ha -v& peat
eriy owned
St. Marys,
iU case of the
ag daunted
gh le about
factory at_
whct WaS
lin an attack
g. ancj wilt
stss.
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!gmation
iat town to
its meeting
=mil tonna
ewn costaficently at
ho at once
Ron, of Mit-
: coming in
ay that he
sides and
ertneil has,
ielature for
gity. They
D empower .
debt,eay
exitly sold
of Downie,
Their
P-.° pounds -
>turd.
cheese fair
6,600 boxes
km (twenty-
• the fall
aesa of the
'Maas was:
the barn -
aillon, near
/An& The
his whole
as destroy-
arrottudine
5: H there
✓ which is
other it is _
u resident
ttended ex -
• neighbors.
ation of tar
keep him
eh.
the music-
Meraorial
ew others, ;
tnd in the
, presented -
antairiing a
and an ad-
recia.tiart of
[gh.'s cirous
the street
an. named
Villiamson's
window in
idewa,lk be.
up it waa
ed no More
aking of 11
eek, wbiie
tbor's, near
r met with
a SeriOUS
DallY on to
korge power
time, his
-e raa,olain-
rho wrench-
ngS, tearing
t in no way
en a second
been badly
says : The
stable, and
g rampant--
anism was,
ammunity.
.started by
e Army in
by several
:to its bar -
'em,. Ward
i a captain
tly, Later
' door was.
ung and
unsling in-.
ranee of Ra
ht to light
ut 13 miles
ht of the
, a Gerisaa,m
-n, of about
eared from.
*th his wife -
ed Daniel.
next lot,
mace, made
wife and
bouts, but
eplies, and
Deed. Ile
remises in
rother, wha-
Finally he
umps, and
d by what
rred meat.
noticed a
game por,-
a jaw bone
is were
those of et
S wife have -
some time
ment being
een ars-
her Daniel&
t the 131311
the 190d1
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VIVENTEENTIE YEAR.
virlIOLE NUMBER 876.
SEA
RTH, FRI
SEVEN HUNQRED PAIRS,
—OF—
MEN'S and BOYS'
•
ONG BOOTS
ALL FIRST -GLASS G.00DS.
A great number of these boots are
hand made, and will be sold cheaper,
quality considered, than ever before
isard of in Seaforth. A large stook of
Sues 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
tidal article should call and see them.
-We will sell them very cheap.
OVER
ne Thousand Pairs
OF
Ladies' Fine Buttoned and
Laced Boots,
Of the very latest styles, all widths,
tints, prices and qualities to choose
from.
LADIES' SLIPPERS VERY CHEAP.
SCHOOL BOOTS.
THE MOWAT
RECEPTION.
THE MOST BUCCEBSPII
BTRATION EVEB]
POLITICAL DEMON.
EDD IN mamas
The Premier started from Nigara
Falls Tuesday at se en .a. m., travellin
in a special car attached to the regale
morniug express.
by the Toronto r
and a strong body o
every station alon
A great variety of Children's Strong
Boots for Fall and Winter wear at low
prices.
e was accornpanie
°option committ
local follo ers.
the line orowd
were waiting to cheer him as hepassed
$ of th
nd th
incoln
acoomt
ttalione
At St. Catharines the delegatio
Lincoln Reform Association,
Young Men's Liberal Club of
two hundred in number, aud
palsied by the band of the 19thB
Men's and Bayed Hats in great variety
and very cheap at the Seaforth Boot
Store.
boarded the train. The del gationii
bore blue Bilk banners with the wordS
" Lincoln and Niagara " inscribed
thereon. At Grinasby the tqwnship
and village delegation, which seerned
to comprise almost every man in those
portions of the electoral district, got
aboard and crowded- the train to it:
utrnost capacity. i
AT H*ILTON.
Upon arriving at Harnilton t
was an animating lane in the
The spacious station platform
mass of humanity, that cheere
alai again when :the traiu .ca
stand -still, while the splendid
the 13th Battalion played See
quering Hero Comes, as IYIr
stepped upon the platform tliat h
been erected to do duty for the (imago
did• n
harlto
orxn A --
;s fro
milto
Mow:
ed, and'
ddres
th ai
t ma
s. T
OBIIM
eeted
d gat
QHEAP SUGARS !
just received another lot of that
beautiful White Sugar, thirteen pounds
for $1.
TEAS! TEAS
Our 30o, 40c
to seen
xtrem
Ite on
agai'
ne to
band
he Co
Mow
The Hamilton demonstration
occupy many minutes. B. E.
president of the Hamilton Ref
sooiation, presented an addre
the Reformers of the city of 11
congratulating the Hon. Mr.
upon the victory he had achie
upon his safe return. Similar
ea were presented from Sot
Nor th Wentwort h. M. Mows
a briefreply to these address
party then had breakfast, and'
the march ,to Toronto, being g
several places along the way, a
ering strength with eery rale un
the two large trains cbuld co tain
d
HIOT-
IN TCRONTO.
From early mbrning in the city tij
streets were thronged with, peopl
every second persou wearing bad
The early trains brought in de egatio
from all parts of the con trv,av
mingled with the throng and dded
the jam, until it was scarce p ssible
move along the streets. Th re con
not have been less than 60,000 trang
in the city. I
Mr. Mowat's train arrived shor
after eleven, and as tlae arraiigerne
ite co
stairs
gge, el
omine
ach a
t leng
d
. As
s greet
er ne
reach
heer t
4 tho
1
f
t
t.
fie
0
and 500 ,Teas are the
best value in the market. -
full stock of goods usually found
in &first-class grocery store.
Agent for the Kerby. Climax Cattle
Food, the best and cheapest in the
Market. Call and get oirculars and
testimonials.
GEO. GOOD,
for the procession were not q
pleted he was spirited away u
the station, while Manager Wr
Mayor McMurrich and other p
politicians guarded the appr
kept the crowd irmorder.
everything was jut in shape, a
THE CHAMPION
of Ontario's rights appear°
stepped from the station he w
with a ringing cheere-that ch
died away until the procession
the Queen's park. It was a
miles long, a cheer one hundr:
and throat power strong.
THE PROCESSION,
led by the chief marebal, Cap
Manley, began to move‘in the
order at half -past eleven :
Five hundred young men of
with band and banners, "_Ho
Franchise Champion," "Ca
Fealthe."
North Oxford, one hundred
men, with banners, " The
Riding Honors Ontario's C
and " Mowat Right Again." -
Toronto, two hundred nen
ner, "The Queen City Rejoi
Citizen and Statesman."
Algoma, sixteen men with 1anner.,
Brant, one hundred men,with ban
and banners.
Bruce, forty men, with banners,"
Men of Bruce Oarior MoWat,"
Mowat's Ability, Integrityl Wisd
and Honor."
Cardwell, two Ifundred en, w
band and banner.
East and West Elgin, ei hty m
with three banners.
South Essex, fifty men, wit bann
Halton, fifty men, with ba ners.
Hastings, sixty men, with bann
" Mowat's Caution, Wisd m,
Honor," " Civil and Religious quali
and "Who is the Constituti nal Li
per?'
South Huron, three hun red
with band and. banner, " No entre
Lion at Ottawa." '
West Kent, eighty men, with bann
Lambton, one hundred andi ftfty. ix
with band and banner, " owat
Territorial Rights."
South Grey, fifty men, with bann
" Ontario's Rights Must Ndt be
rendered,". and " Ontario's 14ights
tained." -
Lanark, one hendred axlid' tw
men, with banner ," Doirly
Hurrah ?"
Lincoln, fifty men, with
banners.
London, fifty men, with
banners.
,Middlesex, one hundred.
mem with banner, The Th
United for Mowat."
West Simcoe, one hundred
men, with band and berm
with the Frozen Whisky Bri
East Simcee, sixty men,
nera.
South Simcoe, one hundr/J1 an
enty men, with banners.
Victoria, sixty men, W Ji b
Mowat, the Law Reformer '
Muskoka and Parry Son d, se
men with band and bann r, "
Middlesex, Muskoka and L nno
deemed."
West Northumberland, o e hu
men, with banner "Mowat Di
Go."
South Ontario, sixty men, with
ner " South, Ontario Firs. E
l!ilowat."
Itiorrisoreo Old Stand, Beaforth.
t
e
1
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0
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01
n
1#
ain F.
ollowi
Ontail
or to t
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and fi
Ban
amPio
and b
es in
h
er
0
n
Rodeoi
band a
ban it
and
ee
and
wit
h
n
t
r
n
r
r
North °uteri°, one h
with band, and banner rt"
unites in Welcome to the
Ontario LAteral Club,
dr d men,
Ontario
ier."
hundred
banner
general
re
ne
and sixty mei, with band an
"Oliver Mo at triumphant a
elootiozis of 1 7 , 1879 *01188
Peelt one nndred au fif
With and, ia d banner lc
Rights Pro Motel Rigb's,
Sustained."
F'ertla, one
with bend an
South and
dred and th
banners "H
of Ontario's
Tyrant Trim
Wellington
Guelph city
"Hail to the
Wellingtons
North Wer
eighty men,
battalion and
South Wer
banner " Re
Oen turyi. "
West York
band, and b
Premier," "
deemed,"
East York
band and b
Courage a
More Mani
tario," " Es
tario's Ch
Mowat," "
whiskey,"
policy," " T
by Mowat
" Mowat Ag
to Mowat, 0
man and Pa
Welland,
handsome s
Mounted
young men.
Carriage
Mowat, Ho
lldoMaster,
of Oxford R:
Mounted
men of East
Carriage
Blake, Hon.
Cartwright
Carriages
hers of the
hundred and
banner.
North Water bo, On
irty men, with bai
neat for Mo
Eights," and
phant."
four hundr
eve
y
1
men,
Itario's
ust be
y men,
hun-
d, and
at, fender
'
T1i& Little
d n1iei, with
andand two fine b nners,
Chief," and !" T Three
or Mowat." .
tworth, one iunrf3d and
with baud !Of 1he 13th
banners. '
tworth, seventy ipjn, with
orm for th Pt.slt Half
,our hundr d
n.
n
-
f
y
d
d
y
8
n
Per
nber,
As the'pr
street the BI
gotten. As
the street
ing, perspiri
waving awe
•oompletely
wedged fan
while conti
hats and h
gress of Mr
the head of
the park it
and Mr. Me
passed through to the P1 tfor
HE MASS MEE11iNG.
The mas: meeting irJ th
park was a uccess, thou h it
what tedi us. A pled rm
erected fo the speak
soon crowd d to its ut
Hon. Alex: nder Mack
the chair, nd was accor
and heart recognition') es
the old -ti ers: Fully eigh
people w re ' congrega ted
stand.
Captain bMaster, P esidie
Provincial eform assodhttioln
address fro that body. M
son read n address, from
Reformers f the prods ce.
were read rom the foil win
districts: estern Mgma,
eludes th disputed t rrit
Brant, Sou h Brant, Ca dwe
the two Ontarios, E)st
Northumb rland, the thee
two Durh ms, East Hest
Grey, Nort • Lanark, est
two Water oos, East Mi dies
the young Liberals of Loi
i
East York Peel, North Gre
West Lam ton, the thr 'e
r
Algoma,St rmont and Aldi
presented n of these 1dri
pied considerable time, and
rapidly thilnned ant, though
sufficient reixiiksined to cOnsti
audience. 1 ,
When Nr. Mowat repic to
cheer that'went up split
here that ha
was a gener
nestion and
delivery. II
gain.
s were also d
lahe, " Honest a
It
a
I •
limners "Welijoom
est York lWill
ountry Befo e P
eight hnndreld
loners; "Mowat
d Perseverrnce
oba Artillety
st York Weloo
mpion," " Hu
ure Eleotio s—
(mat Souu
e Boys of Eat Y
and Provinbial
in Victoriouti,"
tario's Champio
riot." ,s
one htiedredll Ir
tin banner.
escort, con4tin{
f East York.
containing t Ho
. Alex.' Mate')
nd Mr. Douglass,
formtAsseci ion.
escort, thi ty.fi
York.
containing on
n, with
to the
e Re-
rty."
e , with
donee,
" No
Li
On-
es On -
h for
frozen
Timber
iSghtatenf,'-i'
elcome
States -
in with
11) f thirty
1
T. B. Parde , Si
nd Hon. L. 11
containing pijomi
eform party.
oession mod
ht was one reve
far as the ey co
as one dense,iblac
g, shouting, IOhe
m of humani y.
•locked, rail ay
as easily as 1aby
nous cheerio an
ud-kerchiefs 4ark
Mo w at's o ria
the processida h
alted, the li ee o
wat and his tiou
B,
OBt
DZi
lcd
11
e
t
r
r
d
li
11.
e
11
111
the atmos
His ispeec
boundary
an hour in
again and
Address
Hon. Mr.
and other
t
Oliver
, Capt.
resident
young
Edward
Richard
tington,
t mem-
Yonge
be for-
d reach
BWelter-
g; hat-
ffic was
ys were
arriages,
aving of
the pro -
W hen
reached
ned
d escort
blage did nc
midnight.
And then
ended. In
iSEPTgMB1411. 19, 1884.
i
t brea
j/t,
np until long after
owat demonstration
in it was a -decided
success, the best o the kind ever held
in -Toronto. Ther wee no lack , of en-
thu iasm, no lack f numbers, and in a
general way the arr ngemeuts were good
and were well carriediout.
the
the m
N TEe.
North Ontario 4arried the handsom-
est banner, and Welland was not far
behind.
Photographs of 1r. Mowat sold like
hot cakes. •
Some thane aft r the procession had
reached the Queen's park the St Marys
band ;same intoithe Union station.
About a score of I additional delegates
were picked up, and away they marched
•Queen's
as some -
ad been
ich was
apaaity.
occupied
generous
ially by
hob -sand
bout the
't of the
read an
acpher-
e Young
ddresses
Tectorial
hick in -
y, North
1, London,
d West
roes, the
P, South
lgin, the
, Ottawa,
n, Kent,
East and.
lingtons,
nd. The
es OCCII-
e crowd
all times
te a large
eply, the
through
losed yet.
w of the
ed about
cheered
;kJ
4
1
a
d
a
or.c
no
1 re
)000p
THE BANQII T.
The Granite rink waS ga
greens and bunting whet t
to hold tick ts f
et ranged t 6111
The differeitt ba
cession, wer
f the hall, w
imiipediately
ate enougli
wat bane
the table.
in the pr
the sides
end, and
trance, th word " wel
three feet Ihigh beamed
guests. Upon entetin
Motvat
'enthueias
He return
a cheerful
s received wi
ic welcome, b
3d the greeti
smile.
'thou h the menu las a
be °sired, the caterer I bre
and hung y Reformers wer
ing until heir patiene
hausteda At some of
wee tre endons cla
at length 11 were satin
The toa t list was lo,
Hon. Edward Blake oc
and in Irit
len:th on
of the
wh t less
mapy i
Speeches
Q. C., Et
Cartwrig
Mr Mer
Ilu tingt
ra
ile
fac
• Da
chw
he
hi
#/
Or
ed
g
upi
oducing the gue
the principal I pol ti
ay. Mr. Mo •at
thanan hou , to c
portant poslic
ere also ma ee by
n. -R. NV: SOU, S
t, John Char ton
ier, of Quell:an
n, and othe 40e
I -
4.
1'
0
1
0
1
0
0
to the meetng.
cession all o the
The mounted ea
ey hada little pro -
selves.
ort for the Premier
was arranged throngh the effort$ of G.
W. Badgerpw, M. P. P. They added
greatly to the appearance of the iproces-
sion. I
Covers were' laid for 2,000 guests at
the Granite rink!. Every cover was 1
U8'd.
been on terms of intimacy for some
menthe past, but their parents forbade
marriage till a few more years had
P9188114;
1— . T. D. Miller, of Ingersoll, has
•
repeived a cablegram etating that his
cheese reoeived a first pries+ at the Am-
sterdam Exhibition. This is a great
tr umph for Ontario, taking first honors
ri ht from among the famous cheese -
m a.kers of Holland.
—An aged lady Darned flauntz, of
erionsly in -
while par -
there, and
The driver
Preston, was run over and
jilted by a team in Heepler
acing in the Salvation Arm
isInot expected to survive.
of the team was drunk, and is now un-
der arrest.
—Peter McLaren received a check
for $120, 000 recently, in full of the
jddgment obtained by him against the
C nada Central, now the Canadian
P cific Railway, for lumber burned in
hs yard at Carleton Place—$100,000
fdr damages and $20,000 for costs.
—A farmer living near Walkerton,
race °minty, held over 400 bushels of
heat from last year, after being offered
.10 per bushel. He will now be glad
sell at la+bout 75 cents. A grain mer -
ant in the northern part of the same
unty carried over 6.000 bushels. His
ss will be nearly $2,000.
—Mesdre. Meredith & Meredith, of
ondon, have entered an action against
e corporation of St. Thomas, on behalf
f Mr. and Mrs.F.G.Mammery,claiming
5,000 damages for iejuries sustained
Mrs. Mummery through an accident
used by the defective condition of a
dewalk.
—An exchange remarks: Canadians
re a nation of griimblers. While fficers expect to
ther countries are being ravaged by n 25 days. The
lagues and famines, torn up by to join the expe-
yclones, washed out by floods, and, s that if it had
racked by wars, all is serene in Can- at was wanted
da, and yet Canadianii are always cora- uld have easily
•laining about something. been obtained.
—So great has been, the demand for —Mr. Hamel. of Three Rivers, Pro -
twine binders this sewn that the Wat- vince of Quebec left wIth the Canadian
B011 manufacturing company, of Ayr, contingent for Egypt. General Wolae-
i tend soon to start on the manufacture ley, with whom be had served. in the
.1
f one thousand of these machines for
ext season. There is not one of the
result year's make left in the shop,
nd scores more could have been sold.
—Last Friday evening as a freight
rain was going down a grade between
aorpse jumpedtow nautdh etrack Dundas,anthe w etrher eewreck-
d.
last
/
Conductor Turnbull, of London,
as killed, and brakeman Thomas
tnith, of Hamilton, WEIS injured, and
it is feared fatally. Robinson, another
rakeman, escaped.
—George Scouter, a preminent car-
iage builder at Forest, while working
n his blacksniith shop on Monday, was
truck in the breast .1ty the handle of
is hammer, it having been accidentally
truck by a sledge ha ' mer in the hands
f au employee. He
e leaves a wife and
—It is stated that
ho returned to Ottawa ' on Friday,
ooks anything but Well. His trip to
ugland has not by any means improv-
ed his health. His friends state that -
he will not be fit to stand the worry of
nother session, and that he intends
esigning, probably to; accept the Geyer-
orilip of New Bruniswick.
—The Paisley Advocate is responsible
or the following: A patron of the
alkerton cheese factory put yeast in
is creana to raise; it. The butter-
aker could scarcely keep the cream
rom running over the can, and when
e got it into the churn, it nearly_ burst
•t open. The linttermaker thought
there was dynamite in the' churn and
early lost his wits, 1
—In connection with thedrowning of
a child in Toronto Bay on Sunday of
last, week, through a ; perambul-
ator in which it wag seated slipping
rom a gangway of a ferry boat into the
water, a coroner's jut& returned a ver-
dict of culpable negligence against
Captain Carnegie and John Quinn,
deck hand, who were immediately ar-
rested on a charge of manelaughter.
• t
Almost every speaker during the day
,k
laid great stress upon the statement
that there ere edifier battles for Ontario
to fight, an v,ehielt must be fought in
the near future, that were of , as great
and even g eater importance than the
one just c
stood to m
to assume
vered by
Rymall "
nolude
an tha
he agg
. This was under -
Ontario was about
essive.
AP
e: a
Ca ada.
Rev. Dr1 Cochrane has returned to
rem S otland,
al Dawson, of MaG111 Uni-
ntreal, has been knighted.
will be taken on the Scott
Barry ounty on Oct beri8.
rroll, f Biddulph n toriety,
m the Rock Monn-
Brantford
versity, M
vot
Act in Gle
—Jim C
has returned fr
tains.
—It is estimate
people visited ti
Exhibition ;On Mc
—The Algonqe
trict of Lake Te
be Starving.
that at least 40,000
e Toronto Iediestrial
nday.
n Indians, iu the dis-
.
iscaming, are said to
—A colored maned Jas Wilson
was beaten almos to death by roughs
near Tiverton, B uce county, recently.
—An Ott wa ming man Was set
upon in brio d da lighton Craig street,
Montreal, aid ro bed of a gold. watch
—A St. John, Newloundla,nd dis-
patch says 319 icebergs are drifting
sonthwar4 between Cape Freels and
Cape Race.
—The gross ieceipts for the eight
0
1
and $350.
days of the Dominion and Provincial
Exhibition at
on Saturday, wer
—The Grand
asking for 1,034,
it that the Wes
double tracked.
—A special se
Court of Caned
hearing argunse
cense Act, will b
Septembt '
—Mr. John Gr nt, formerly lof Grant
Brothers, Elora, has traded his grist
mill in Listowe for $1,000 worth of
dry goods and has opened a large store
in Lucan,
—The Toront grand jury threw out
the bill agains John 1'. Thomason,
Treasurer of P rkdale School Board,
who was charge with embezzlement
and larceny of a, heque.
—A young woman named. Hawley,
while waiilticg on the Kingstonat itPem-
broke R ilway track, near Sharbot
Lake, the other night, was struck by
a train and died few hours afterwards.
--Thetvacancy on the Superior Court
bench, oaneea- by the elevation of Chief
ith ever-
fortun-
the Mo-
es about
ers borne.
ed about
the upper
the en -
in letters
upon the
Oliver
y Mark of
• pporters.
nod and
hat could
ed badly,
ept wait -
quite ex-
bles there
food, but
d varied.
the chair,
spoke at
-al topics
oke some-
ing upon
questions.
'Da Lo-nnt,
r Richard.
. P., Hon.
on. L. S.
Lie 11800Da•
optreal, which closed
not /pile 513,000.
Trunk Railway are
0 ties, and rumor has
ern Division is to be
sion of the
, for the pu
its on the Li
held on the
upreme
pose of
uor Li -
23rd of
Justice Hagerty
has been filled
Hon. Johia O'Co
—Only 64,235
o the Court of Appeal,
y the appointment of
nor, Q. C.
immigrants settled in
Canada thie year as compared with
80,011 in 1883. No doubt the partial
failure 9f the °reps last year had some-
thingit t� do with his.
—Pres' dent S ephens,of the Canadian
Pacific R ilroad entered an action of
$1,528,39 "against Bradley Barlow, exe
presidentof the
er adva ces m
Pacific td the S
—The ProVie
men's Christie Temperance Unions
will be held in Toronto in October next.
The niembers of the Toronto Union
are busily employed in billeting the de-
legates.
—Alderman Wilson, ex -chairman .of
the Finance Committee of the Winni-
peg City Counci, has been arrested on
a charge of fraud laid by the Mayor.
The all ged fraud was in connection
with a 1
—At
of GoVe
Universi
Donald
50,000 f
for worn
—The
outheatern, to recov-
de by the Canadian
theasteru.
ial Union of the Wo-
ti
an front the city einking fund.
aturda,Y's meeting of the Board
nors Of the McGill College
y, Montral, a letter from Mr.
A. Smith was ,read, offering
r the endowment of a college
n in connection With McGill.
crooks who are to be found in
attende ce upon every circus did aome
succese 1 work at Forepaugh s show in
Toronto. A m n named Travers, from
St. Thpmas,hahi8 pocket picked of
$140, even,' ot er oases were reported..
—The , com any which has been
boring fcr natur 1 gas at Albion Mills,
near Hamiltoe, having reached 1,600
feet vvitliout r
abandon the we
one.
—One hundred
were dispharge
fit Rail ay fro
nated with co
family had to b
when they rea
the United Stat
—The Hamil
be regretted
threatens to be
of sickness an
Since its firs
pores, and the whol
taken to a hospita
bed th metropolis o
on Tim says :It ie t
hat dip theria agai
()me a p ominent cause
death in our midst
appearance seven,
months ago t e Board
B.
8
of Health ha
been very actiVe in takng every ste
calculated to stamp it o
hoped they d suoc
laudable object but the
the last few da s show
is not only still
that it is aga
ther a virulent
—Serious
swamps along
t, and it wee
ered in their
occurrences of
hat the disease
present u the city, but
n spread ng and in re-
form.
res are I raging in the
he lake shore in the vi-
cinity of Tiver on, Brucecounty. Large
tracts of valuahle cedar aye been burn-
ed. A farmer near Porit Elgin has lost
his dwelling house, ba ins, and almost
his entire crop. Nea Inverhuron
number of t e reside
obliged to wath their
and day for the past we
oases all the furnithre h
ts have been
buildings night
k, and in some
s been emovd.
from the dwelings. Rain is eager
looked. for t� Stay the lament ble d
struction of valuable timber a d prop-
erty that is going on.
—The steatiaship Ocean King with
the Canadian hontingent for service
Egypt left Moiatreal for sea at daylig
Sunday morning. She will touch
Three Rivers and Que eo for portio
of the expedition that re to embark
these ports. I The Oc an King, whi
has been specially fitte tip as a troo
ship, is of 245100 tons register, and
built of stee . Her
reach Alexan4ria with
nunaber of applications
did= were SO 11.11111er0
been a fighting force t
4,000 or 5,000 men
11, •
tilt, have decided to
1 and commence a new
and fifteen hands
the Canadian Paci-
eir
work e in Mon -
treal last weeki Phis step has been
necessitated b the extreme dullness
existing in locom.oive and cenbuilding
circles.
—Ottawa can n
raent as well a
evening last a son
fled awe in the n
Pattee,oilatightt
man. Carling
some two years
)W boast o
New Yor
of Hon. Jo
ght with
f a wealt
s but 18, Miss Pattee
younger. They had
an elope-
. Friday
n Carling
Miss Eva
y lumber
ied in 40 minute.
ve children.
ir Leonard Tilley,
lo
111
11
—One night last week, as Arthur
Woods, a farmer living in Arlington
was driving home frdni Toronto, he fell
asleep in the wagon, ttnd was awaltened
by a man going threugh his pockets.
The man jumped froiln the wagon and
sprang into a beggyn folloWing behind,
in which a confederate was seated.
Wood's pants pockets, containing $80,
were cut away and carried off.
—The other evening about dusk five
young men named respectively P. Lam-
phier, of Gralmmsville •, J. W. Kennedy,
Thorndale ; Harry McIntyre, Canning -
ton; Jas. Milne, Agincourt; and J.
Benyon, of St. Catherines, while boat-
ing were run into by,a steam yacht. J.
Benyon was the only one saved. All
were students of the St. Cs.therines
Collegiate instititte. The bodies were
recovered.
—A tobacco manufacturing firm in
Hamilton, has obtained a contract from
the Imperial Government to supply the
Canadian Nile expedition with its smok-
ing tobacco. The first shipment was
sent off last week. What with Cana-
dian men, Canadian officers, Canadian
clothing,Canadien CanoeB, and the best
Canadian tObbacco,'; says the Hamilton
Times, "the Canadtan Nile expedition
is incomparable. Gordon:is safe."
—Last Thursday evening about
10.30 the mail driver between Simcoe
and Brantford was waylaid about two
miles oat of Brantford by, three men,
one of whom sprang to -hs horse's head,
whilst the other two approached the
wagon. The driver, whose name is
Sears, told the trio to haul off, but as
they took no notice of his SUMMODS be
pulled out his revolver, firing low and
wounding, as he thinks, one of his way -
layers in the foot.
Red River ea
to him mettle
diately. Tw
edition, ersenally wr te
tine his services im
hours 1 ter Mr. Ham
who is inspector itt Three Rivers, h
resigued his poition, vsorth $1200
annum, and Was ready for Egypt.
hashed con si era,ble nalitary eaperien
The 100 men raised n the vinicity of
Three Rivera *ill ac/in:Tatty him to
Egypt.
—Another ;abitconde
in the person 1, of L.
accountant i La Ban a-
cinthe, Montreal, who is understood to
have embezzled or made away with e-
tween $30,000 and $40 000 of the ban 's
fund. It appears the defaulter hats
been giving1 his ow
advances ;Wit out any s
He is alsotc arged wi
mere' nantes to eheipae
own delinqu ncies. I
whether ith loss will embarrass tihe
hank and caPse it to Suspend, but it is
expected there is enough left to meet all
liabilities.
—A youn
WmCr:tnoh
Reform r
from his mother.
pi
twelve, was ent to th
titution. A other sis
was sent dowe last
offence. The eldest
19, when a youngster
five years in the Refor
ing, and eignteen mon he ago, when he
came out, fdr Iliimerol1s other offennes
of a like nature, reoeived five years in
the penitentiary, while a second bro-
ther,. who hikl likewise served, five years
in the Reformatory some eight months
ago, was sent up for a term in the Cti-
tral Prison. ' .
—Particuars have been received of
e-
1,
er
le
has tnrned
P. Herbert,
que dn. St. II
relatives la ge
curity whatever.
h . forging Ong o-
to cover up ais
is not yet known
MereFt4N BROS., Publishers.
$1.60 a Year, in Advance.
—Too rauch car° caneot be taken by
housewives and can ing factories in put-
tingrup fruit and ickles in cans. A.
great many personshave been poisoned
by carelessness in canning. Donald M.
McDonald, a Toronto layer, and his
family, while on their way to New York,
ate canned pickles Which were impreg-
led in Brantford na
DI was' s Lit dW11 tO
ed
he
for five years fot stealing sion who have stooped to very mean Re-
is sister aged Mons: He next went on to ishow how
Mercee for p1(. whisky dealers made their isioney and
er, aged about said that such men he could not pray
year for a I for. I was always under the impres-
oy, who ia sion or Saviour came upon earth to
as sentenced
atory for st
in the county of Huntingdon, was shot
and killed instantly, in his own home,
late on Saturday night last, by a band
of violettly drunken scoundrels, who
attempted an entrance by battering his
door. Finding that deceased and his
young son offered a stern rsistance,
one of the party fired a pistol, through
an opening in the door, putting an end.
to the life of the head of the family.
So far there have been no arrsts, and
full particulars have nottbeen received.
The parties had been drinking heavily
previous to going to the scene of the
fatal event, but there is no news obtain-
able as to the object of the inarauders
in attacking the house,
—The Winnipeg Free Press tells the
folloWing storyin connection With Hon,
Alexander Mackenzie's Northwest trip:
When the train stopped at Stoney
Mountaih an old gentleman named Mc-
Farlane boarded the train ingairing for
the Hon, Mr. Mackenzie. When intro-
duce& he addressed that honorable gens
tleman in his native Gaelic, -and it was
found that they came from the same
parish in their native Perthshire. The
langnag
Garden
The old
twenty
inches t
several
tongue.
cient
him to o him the balance of his natur-
al life, and seemed to feel happier thaii
been presented- witb a ranch
ow River country."
exchange says: Although it is
wn that the greatestiCanadiat
scientist, Principal Dawson of Mon-
treal, is an orthodox Christian, many
people ibelieve that the majority of
scientists are infidels, but the Philadel-
phia Time e has been interviewing is
large nuinaber of the leading members of
the American Assecietion for the Ad
vancement of Science, whieh is now
assembled in Philadelphia. There are
learned men from all over the continent
there, a.nd some from Europe. The
great Majority declare their belief in
God and the inspiration of the Bibl,
and sai
accord
cessary
Genesi
be the
idea se
oif,b
fescie:
i
branch
dence a
said to be first used in the
f Eden flowed freely fora. time.
gentleman seemed to etyma
years" younger and several
ller when he was addressed by
f those present in his mother
He left the train with suffit
ighland pride aroused within
if he ha
in the P
--An
well-kn
that Genesis was entirely in
ith geology, the only thing Ile -
being to understand the days of
as ages which they believed to
h.orrect translation. The general
med to be that a paetial Study
e inclined men's mind e to litre -
that a careful etudy of all its
s must lead to a belief in Provi-
ncl Diety.
catt Act Advocates.
MR. DIT011,—DEAR SIR,,-7he other
night, t, like a few other Simpleton,
strayed into a school house ;to hear a
few speeches on the Scott Act. I was
late for the first speech but had the ex-
treme kleasure of hearing the Rev. Mr..
Danby's opinion on the subject.
Anion
of one
his wi
was an
not co
are de
could
t many other things; he told us
an who, to obtain Whisky, sold
e's shawl. Now, I consider this
insult to his andietice ; we do
pare ourselves to suCh. There
raded men in all clsses. We
oint out men in his Own profes-
ke
ow
to
al-
a terrible murder at
Canada Pacific Rail
Collins, who hails fre
saved $480, which he
around his 'body. H
companionea worthle
camp together. Ryan
day and repiorted that
work and gone to Tor
A week later Ryan al
He was traced as far
he forged Collins' na
cashed it. Six weekt
lins' body -Issas found in the .bush
Ryan's ha,smer beide it. He
been killed lby blows n the skull.
ckfish bay on the
way. One J Jan
m Montreal, bad
arried in a belt
and Ryan, his
s fellow, left the
1
returned the ext
Conine had ' eft
onto by etea er.
o left the canp.
as Toronto where
e to a heck, tnd
afterwards €oI-
and
ad
—r. W
the Bank o
had a very
other day
tending th
the Canoe
reached a point in
when the heat was in
fish, which,jumped fr
was killed ith an oar
to shore Iwas found
feet 8 in hes in 1
weight, aid measu
circumference, It is
and has ben visited
citizens. 4Similar o
ported, at honsand
ing the pr
—Robe
appointed
to investi
means of
canal sys
which, it
S. Clonst
Montre
reesarkab
bile out i
races in
Club's
n, paying telle
1, at Brockv
e experience the
a row boat at.
connection with
egatta. He had
American water,
aded by a huge
re the river.' It
and when brought
to be a sturgeon 4
ngth, 42 pounds
ng 22 inchei in
now on exlaibition
by hundrede of
currence was re -
Island ;park, tinr-
sent season.
t E. Douglass, commissiener
by the Dominion G-overntuent
ate and renort upon the est
dealing with the Carta tan
em, has shbmitted a re ort
nudersto d ,the Governrient
will act upon. He thinks the sucicess
of the St. Lawrepce toute depends upon
increasin the depth
unless the inaproveu
rence -waterways ke
construction of th
Railway and the sett
try, trade of the C
will seek foreign ch
soutbwarq. via St. P
Chicago.
for deepe
will prob
Bien of th
—Info
Mentreal
living on
pray f
have
Tories
troubl
the po
the 'deers either. The reVerend gen.
t1emat told his audience it was a plea-
() pray for farmers I would
him to buy sheep amengst them,
ht then change his opinion. His
next tdea was that if the taveres
were Closed there would be plenty of
widows with their daught
houseto oblige the pub
ODiniOb there are too Many s
✓ sinners. He thei said we
uch to contend with but if the
would turn in there would be no
to carry the Soott At. I think
✓ Tories would hue no share in
sure
advise
he mi
rs to keep
ic. In my
ch houses;
they tigbt do for his reverence but not
for the travelling minim
preset day as it takes a
time t keep a respectable
DANIEL WILSON,
The Frst Great Politic
Ever Delivered in W
A *innipeg correepondent
to the recent visit of Hon.
kenzie and Sir Richard Cartwright to
the NOthwest, says
in On the return of the Hon. Alex.
ile, Mackenzie and his party from the
Rocky Mormtains, last week, the Liber-
als of the city got up a deptonstration
in his honor, and without any puffing or
bill posting, but the lmere announcement
that e would deliver a short address, if
his vice permitted, the rand Opera
Hous was crowded to th doors on
Tuesday night with the moat hatelligent
and respectable audienee ever got to-
gether in the Northwest, M. Mackenzie
made a brief but lucid speech on the
present political condition of the Do.
minin, which Was exceedingly well
received, and it could eastly be seen
that the meeting, though largely -Con
servative,was in hearty accOrd with Jais
views.
SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT,in
who happened to be here on busess,
followed with a telling indictment
of the fiscal policy of the present
Government, and showed in the most
logictil and conclusive manner that it
was entirely owing to the high tariff,
railway monopoly, and other artificial
obstructions, and not to any natural
drawbacks that the settlement and pro-
gress of the Northwest were so dispro-
portionate to the expectatione ha refer-
ence to it entertained in the east and
elsewhere a few years ago. Instead of
gettingonly about 20,000 additional
-population every year we t3hould have
had five times this number only for the
unpardonable blunders of theDominion
Goverm3aent. It was really the first
great political speech ever delivered in
the Northwest, and made a splendid
e near Ormstiown impression on the crowd.
P
nity of the
an all hiB
0118e.
Bayfield,
Spee0h
.n,lireipfeerrgin* g -
Alex. Mao -
of the water, lan&
s of the St. iii,w-
p pace with' the
Canadian Pacific
en:lent of the c un-
nadian North est
nnels eastward or
l, Milwaukee and
The necesisary appropriation
ing the canal to fourteen feet
bly be asked at tlae next see
Dominion Parliament.
ation hap been received at
that a mai named Rouleati,
the roadsi
1;4
t'