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-city houses.
is how we can
;LASS WORK
4. TRES. -How
expenses;
lattsinessa
urehesing."
on to give
ARTICLE.
such a large
rkers. Every
try,invited
et Str tt,
'Waivanosh
e held on the
4-e, and was
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' list el prize
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lett, town-
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linlernae John
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rn, and James
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' heard before
t the spring
tvision of the
1. at Goderich
1,!•unk Railway.
ley- _Mr. Platt
,any for, dam-
s mill privi-
the London
costs of day.
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(Aaintiff, Mrs.
)elered that a
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d deed. His
holding the
in injunction
m slandering
-This was an
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as granted in
ditesklect with
!the parties do
•-•
also was an
lei -fern -mance of
'father to his
him of certain
re his death
land to the
tate, with re -
His Lordship
ite out his case,
1-eirrance of the
-An action for
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:--This was a
which was
This was
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ite • of last week
known and
;County,. was in
... •
view of buy -
at is getting. a
Ithe bays, yet,
'nen a pointer
they intended
teat when the
p, Instead , of
to sell liquor
will -appoint
is means: will
Ilbusiness:vry
sis a- vent
is will it
EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
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1885.
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The Scott Act.
▪ -Enos!-Dear Sir: In last
w -21.e..4 EXPOSITOR, you attach consider-
abl blame to the McCarthy Conanis-
SiO rs for giving licenses to all Conser-
vat yea But I think the day has come
wh n we want a third party like the St.
jol n party of the United States as both
co servatives and Reformers, politically
ap aking, seem afraid to touch whisky
1
1 unless' with their mouths or pockets.
f The Scott Act reads that fines are to be
paid to Inspectors appointed by the
Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario, and
t
di posed of as he may direct This is
fio-viucial rights. Why does not Mr.
1‘1, wat use them and appoint Inspectors,
and make such regulations as may be re -
Et , ired by those selling either separate or
in conjunction.' with other business.
Rn. A. McKenzie and E. Blake must
have considered the Provinces had the
right when they passed the Scott Act,
as there is nothing in it about regale -
tins, and Sir John A. Macdonald con-
sidered the same thing when- he passed'
the McCarthy Act, as they were govern-
ed by the requirements of the Crooks
Act. Again, the Scott Act says only
druggists and other vendors can buy or
sell. Now,•tir, druggists, do not need
lieenees by t e Act, but must keep a
register of the ales. Noweas Seaforth
has three drug sts; they are all allowed
to buy from br wars- aml distillers, and
sell to parties with certificates. There-
fore, by the Act, the Commissioners
have no authority to grant licenses in
Seaterth or any other town where there
is a dreggist, :or can they, by the Act;
compel any man to keep it in a separate:
house. I see by the list of names that a
number noted for selling contrary to
the Crooks Act, after hours and on
Silk-11days ?are the parties licensed to sell
ui der the Scott Act. In McKillop it is
a4 insult to all lave -abiding citizens.
The man ireceiving a license is MA a
re ident nor does he pay - taxes hi ' the
to -nship, .and another Party applied,
n ar the -centre of the township, who
-
never sold liquor and was likely to keep
within the limits of the law. Buf ! but.
he isla, Reformer! I consider the ,action
of the Commissioaers a greater loss to
the Conservative party in this county
than if the Conservatives did not have a
Conservative Reeve in the county,, or
Warden. either. Of course all Reform-
ers will condemn their action, and all
true Conservatives and loyal nien to
their country will condemn it also. But
as they are all Irishmen, and that f class
are generally level headed, I th k, .to
keep thentselvesaylear, they should pub-
lish•ahe names of parties recommending
the applicants fortlicenses, and let them
e bear the odium. 'I3ut, sir, the action of
the Oc.mmissioners,of this county does
not apply to all the Province, asuenuern
her of Wardens, atleast, are Reformers
in Ontario, and I think the judges alt
ways act fair, no matter what party
they beleng to, and ,Lhave seen them of
both sides at Courtstof Revision, and r
can assure your readers that there are a
large number of Conservatives of my
,
opinion. A TRerE GEIMERVATIVE.
Mc -Km -nor, April', 22, 1885.
INKE.—Our correspondent, cat his starting out
-.,ectecee, is wrotg. :We did not blame the Com-
missioners under the McCarthy Act, for giving
licenses only to ConservativeS, we only in-
stanced,the fact that they had dote so as proof
(if the inshicerity.of. those who hadjustified their
support _ of the Dastinion Act, on the ground
that the Ontario Act pad been administered with
ajltasluift,rd for partizan purposr.s.—Enrroa
', 1 • ! -
--The Women's Christian Temper-
,
twee Association of Toronto are About
starting an institution to be called the
Kitchen Garden, in which neglected
girls may be taught the rounds of ordin-
ary household duties in a pleasant And
pm -retinal. ineueen,
THE FIRT BATTJJE.
MIDD ETON'S OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
'.1the fo lowing is the official report of -
the Watt fought On Friday last between
the fore s of ateneral Middleton and
those of Louis Reil, led by Joseph Du-
mont : -
Hon. 4. P. Caron: From. ksh Creek,
25 milesi north of Clarke's Croising,
April 24th.—Have had an .ffair with
the rebels at this spot on the 'ast bank
of the riaer. . My advanced s outs were
fired upon from a bluff, but M e manag;
ed to heli our own mad tin am n body
arrived, when I took measttr to repel
the attack, which was done a out 2:30.
We have captured a lot of th ir pen*
and have three or four of them (appar-
ently Indians or half-breeds) the ecr-
ner of a bluff, who have done good deal
• of mischief, being evidently heir best
shots, and as 1 am unwilling to lose
more Men in tryina to take them I have
d
-surrouned the bluff and shall wait until
they have expended their ammunition to
take them. Lord Melgund joined me as
soon as, he could_ from the other side,
with the Tenth right and Winnipeg half
battery, ,but the affair was even.
As -
the most part of the left column is thus
Upross, and as it is a work Of difficulty
crossing, I have ordered the rest to fol-
low, ail 'shall march to -morrow iinitecl
upon 13 toche. The troops- beh ved very
well • iii this their first ail; it. The
killed awl wounded, 'I deeply regret to
say, are numerous. 1 I do not know. what
the loss of the enemy was, but I doubt
it was pretty severe, though from their
great advantage of position and mode.of
lighting it might be well less than ours.
I shall Proceed te-morrow, after bury-
ing the dead and sending the • wounded
back to'!Clarke's Crossing. By moving
on this iside I lose the telegeephline,
but I shall keep up communication by
Clanke's Crossing if possiblei 1 regret
very mach the Wounding of my two
aide -de -Camps. Captain Wite'.s horse
was shot' previous to his being wounded.
(Sided). FRED. MIDDLETON,
Major- Imre,' commanding the North-
west field force.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE.
• A correspondent who was on the spot
gives the following interesting desCrip-
tion of the engagement : •
'BEGINNING THE FRUIT.
When Boulton's scouts first :found the
enemy, at 9:15 o'clock, they . rode, back
three miles to the main column. Capt.
Wise, gen. Middleton's adjutant, at i
once came up and otdeted'Itthe fro* to I
, advance. The Men gave .a loud ;cheer
and then struck out, extending their for-
mation as they neared the edge of the
" coulee," from which phffs of smoke
• were already curling tip, twenty of' Du-
mont's men, with Winchesters; firing
crter a natural shelf or parapet protected
by big •bouldert. The column was divid-
ed into two wings, the le t consisting of
"B " and " F " Corn panic of the 90th,
with Boulton's mounted .orps; and the
right of the test of the 90"4" Bat-
tery, and " C " School of infantry; The
left wing, " F company leading, came
nnder fire first. As the n en were pass-
ing by him, Gen. Midd. efirm .ehouted
out: ,
" Men of the 90th, d n't bend your
heads ; you Will soon be th‘re ; go in,
and I know you'll do you d ty,"
- The men were bendin d wn, partly
to av.oicl the shots ' and arltly because
they _ were running over the uneven,
scrubby ground: Colour -Sergeant Mit-
chell,, of " F " Company, (one of the
famous Wimbledon Mitchells) displayed
great coolness, and afterwards did good
execution with the rifle,' when the troops
had entered the bush. / `` A," ‘` C," and
113s
"" Companies of the 90th,l, with "A"
Battery and the School of Inf ntry,were
an the right, the whole force forming a
huge half moon arouncli the mouth of the
coulee. The brush wa , densely thick, .
and, as rain was faille ,{ the imoke hung
_in clouds a few feet !ofl the 'muzzles of
1
the rifle •
Here the 90th lost heavily. i Ferguson
was the first to fall. The .bandsmen
came up and carried off the injured, to
the rear,. where Dr. Whiteford' and other
surgeons had extemporized a small camp, ,
the :men being, laid some on camp
stretchers and some on rude beds of
brartehe and blankets. " E ",Compeny
9(
of the. th, under Cata. Whitla, guard-
ed the .wounded and the ammunition.
Gen. Middleton appeared to be highly.
pleased with the bee, ing of tl e 90th as
they pushed on; and/repeatedly expres-
sed his admiration. Ie seemed to think
however, that the in n exposed themsel-
ves unnecessarily. When they got near
the coulee in skirmishing •order, they
fired- while ying prostrate, but some of
them, either through nervousness or a
desire to .getemarer the unseen' enemy,
kept rising to their feet, and the moment
they did so Duniont's men dropped them
with bullets or buckshot. The 'rebels,
on 'the' 'other :liand,'kept leiw. They
loaded, most of them having • powder
and shot baga, below the edge of the
ravine or behind the thicket, and then
popped up for .an • instant and fired.
They had not time to take aim except at
the outset, when the troops were ad °
vancing.1
THE ARTILLERY AT woK.
*.nrennevhile the right wing had gone.
into Linton also: Two guns of " A "
Battery;under Captain Peters dashed up
-at .l')10'a,, clock, and at once opened on
the coulee. A couple of old barns far
back to, the right were knocked into
splinterS at the outset, it beteig supposed
that rebels were concealed there; and
three haystacks were -bowled over and
subsequently set on fire by the shell, or
the fuses. Attention was then centred
on the ravine. At first, however, the
battery' fire had no effect, as front -The
elcvatioi on which the guns Stood, the
shot at t whizzing , over it. Dumont
had sen 30 men to a small bluff, cover -
fed with ioulders and Scrub, Within 450
yards of the battery, and these opened a
sharp fi e. The battery could not fire
into thi bluff without running the risk
of killi some of the 90th, who had
1 .
-worked; their way ,up to vards the right
,of it. Siweral men of " A" were struck
here, . The rebels,satv t mat their sharp -
i
shooters were eau ing e illusion in this
quarter, and abou, 20 o them ran clear
item the back of the retitle past the
fire of C -and p conmen es to the bluff,
and joined their cemrad s in ' a rattling
fusilade on " A." Tem tunately only a
ifew of them had Win hesters. t` A"
moved forward a little, nd seen got the
measure of .the ravine The shrapnel
screeched in the air, an
among the brush and be
the snraggy tree , and
moss that Oovered the g
The rebels at o cc s
was. up in this . uart
kept up a bold front am
'firing except wh
back. into new
1,hurst right iii
lders, smashing
tearing up the
-ound- in patches.
w that the game
r, though . they
seldom stopped
onv:eit.,heett were dodging
In doing ' this
.. - -
they rarely •expoted ti emeelves, either
creeping on all fo rs oi else running a
few yards in th shel er of the thicket
andthen throwi - g themselves Pat an
the ground • again, bobbing up' only
when they raised their heads and elbows
to fire. -. . - 1 . ;
i - •
..
. THE CiEN ,ERAL TTAOK. '
--:• .-
. The shrapnel was to much for th-em,
and they began to bolt towards the other
side of the ravine where our left wing
was peppering t tem. This.. move ,was
the first symptom of Weakness they had
exhibited, and reneral I Middleton at
(nice took admen ge of it and Ordered
1,
the whole force clos in upon. them,
his object appare ttly bing to surround
them.- _The rebel cora • milder, however,
was not to be ca,u It imi that way. L In-
-stead . of . bunch' g all his force on -the
left ateatefrom th fire of the artillery,
he sent Oulra potion of it there to keep
our men busy wh• le the r st tailed off to
the north, tetiri .g slowly as our two
wing, closed on theni. Dumont .' was
evidently 'err the 1 ok-o t ' or the •epnear-
ance of :Colonel Mon tz,nibert'a force
from the other. sio e of he river; and in.
adopting the m veme '.t. I have :jest
deseribek he con plete y disposed of Our
. ,
chances of ciittin him. off, , , ' •
The general a vance began at 11:45
e. ii., 'Major, Bu ohm]; of the, lead-
ing'the right Win , and Meier Boswell Of
the same . carps the left, ' When r the
1
rebels new this'a Umbel, of them rushed
forward ene the left of the refine, and
the fighting for a time wets carried onat-
close quarters, th • enemy net being over
60 yarcli away. n old leg . het and a
number of bartica les, formed by placing
old trees' and In tisblwood between the
boulders, enablech them to make it ex-
ceedingly 'warm f'
.At. this L.:point se
wounded, and Ge
self had a .narrOw
through .his - • fur
and DOneet, ef IV
adjetants, were
r our men for a- time. \
eral of the 90th were-
eral Middleton' him-.
escape, a bullet going
- hat: Captains Wise
,ontteale the general's
wounded about this
time. •\i" C " infae try behaved • remark-
ably th and bore • the
brunt of the go sial advance for seine
time, the buckshe fro .11 the rebels doing
. much damage. Ti 'ere mei front "WaS Won
' driven -back, but teither here nor at. any
other time could ,e et. certain their loss,.
though it must have b en pearly as Urge..
as outs, . consi4 ing that the artillery
had full fling at em or a while. The
India* ...among t em, win) were armed
with guns, appe red. to devote. them-
selves.mainly to s loot ng ,p,t our horses.
A good, .many Ti dia s were hit, and
every time one of then was struck the
others near him r :ised e loud shout,' as
if cheering. The troo is. pressed on gel-
e-
lantly, and the ie-.elfite Slackened and
I after a time died wa , though new and
then their front r flem n Made a, splurge,
, while the ethers ado their way back. "
Captain Forrest f th 90th, headed the
advance attthis p• mt. Lieutenant Hugh .
J. Macdmald (sop. of , tr Jona
Macdon-
ald), of .this corn maai who lied done
. excellent service all lay, kept well up
with Forrest; th tw ) being ahead of
their men, and co nine in for fair share
of attention -from the *eating'. rebels.
-Macdonald was nt r potted as :killed
and then as. vvo nide , but he tires not
injured, though true on -the shoulder
by.- spent 'mash it. Forrest's- hat was.
sleet off.. At, 12:. 0 e rebels were fan
.out of range, go tg oniend•Bateche's,
and the battle of Nell reek was practi-
-calfy over.
THE ORE N,- DIE COME UP.
Jut before the general- advance , was
Ordered Gen. Mi Idleton emit a .signal
officer to the - r ter to bring over the:
Grenadiers , who were With the left
columit- -wider C.!. Montizambert and
Lord Melganid. hey had heand- the
firing of the artill ry early in the fete -
noon, and the renadiers, with .• the
Winnipeg Field eatery, had been, or-
dered to -the rive , skirmishers ging in
advance, and Fre ch's scouts tiVatching
the , north, where it was supposed an-
other body of the rebeli Was hovering.
The troops had a ood five mile. merche
They headed. for he spot where the ar-
tillery. firing was loudest,: and at noon
were at the river )ank. Gen. ° Middle -
ton's Messenger a once signalled them.
to cross, and the came over, believe,
in a steam scow mat had come up the
river from Prince Albert .on Thursday.
afternoon.. .B-371: 5 o'clock -the Grena-
diers had crossed They Were eager to
get action, -b it by this aS I
„have -said, Dame]. 's men were retreat!
,ing„ The Grena Hers, however, were'
-pusbed.,. one and. • span joined the 90th
land C,". their arrival 'being greeted
with tremendomr leheering, to which
:they responded b hoisting their head-
gear- en their bay nets' and. cheering in
reply.
The echele no v emerged from the
wooride. at the mid f 0, second. re' vine, be -
'hind the one in w -they -had fought
so toughly, and. al out a Mile • from the:
advancing troops. "A" Battery sent a
couple of shells ef er them la but most of
the rebels had. the r horses tethered be-
hind a- plump of trees, and :they rode
away shouting am defiantly brandishing
their guns. This Was at 2:30 o'clock..
0.4,mpuie. It OR THE NIGHT.
• The Infantry c not, -of course, fol-
low mountedenen and. Boulton's scoute
were not numerout enough to:attempt a
•
pursuit. The whole force, theref re,
was ordered to halt; and at 3:3 it
marched back a little tothe south of the
ravine -where the fight be an and c ose
to the river, where dinner was prepa ed,
and the men repaired dameges a ter
their hard day's Work. he Winn peg
Field Battery arrived fr in across the
river; and, with the Gr nadiers,
ave -
the best they had to their gallant om-
redes of the 90th, "A" an 1 "C." ,C inp
N.lias pitched here for th night. mist
below the camp is the rou h field h spi-
tal in cherge of Dr. Ot on and et1 era,
who were busy with the wenn ed.
Nurses were drafted a d everyt ling
made conifortable for the poor fell ws,
ho will: be removed et once un er a
s rong escort to elarke's Crossing,w iere
shed is being prepared las a hosp tal.
ain had fallen from time to time ur-
i ig the day, and about 8 p. ne, a h avy
$rm of rain, hail and ightning, ith
t rrific thunder, passed er the e p.
, (Albin gnards were put n, and pie -ets
nd videttes posted e erywhere, the
eneral taking the unite care to ro-
tpct the troops in case thle rebels ret rn-
,ed. Not was seen or heard of t em
however, except when a Ismail mou ted •
arty of 1 them approached the o ter
ickets and cheered. Alnumber of cat-
tle whic Dumont ha • with him, and •
tn.
which had been stampe ed during the
fight, s ayed into camp during the
night, amid were promptly corralle by
IV
our men. A number ofIrebels rema ned-
all night at McIntoshls, four nine- up
from emir camp, and Or pickets c uld
hearthem getting outtheir hors s at
daylight.
nuMONT AND RIEL.
omit was not seen during the ght
but o le of our scouts sa v him ridin off
after all Was over. His directing hand -
was plainly seen,how ver, as nobody
else on Riel's side could have arrai ged
the rebel plans or picked the ground so
well. The rebel movements appear d to
be directed by long, lowi whistles. 'en.
Middleton said it was like the piping of
a boatswain. Occasionally they c uld
be heard shouting tei each oth r to
"keep back," • "go on," "this way,"
fire lower," " fire higher," etc., but
during the serious part of the day hey
fought in grim si1ence.1 The rap diti-
with which some of them - loaded heir
shot -gun with the old` fashioned 'pm der
horns and paper wadding, was tfruly
marvellous. A few of them who had.
Winchesters ran from ne part of the
ravine to the other, strengtheninghzairi
line as ei -cumstances dieected.
Middle -ton says they are finer - skirn ish-
ers and•bush-fighters than 'he ever itn-
agined them to be. Itiel was not ii or
.near the fight as far as we can 1 arn. _
The scouts may that he lwas at 13ato he's
all dayagetting his reserve force re dy.
It is 11014j said that he is quite iimsamr.
The buckshot has made very ugly and
painful flesh wounds. Old style le den
balls were also fired with consider ble
effect. • ad the rebel's beenarmed vith
Sniders hey would have wiped us o • tin
short or Cr from the shelter they o cu -
pied.
! THE LATE*. •
, _
A de patch from tish Creek, the
scene o the ibettle, dated 10 p.
April 27 says :it
We ye done athing since Fri ay,
Save in iialung prepare ions for an ad-
vance• The rebels a e now on oth
,
sides of the river. They have 9 of
their bet men in t e.•rifle pits at'
-Gabriel' Crossing. T is• detachme t is
said to b armed with Winchesters, and
if so, on united force off nearly a th us -
and will have hard woxfk to root t em
out. Lo d Melgund an Captain Fr nch
with the r scouts have earned that the
place is cry strongly fortified. T ere
is a ridg of rocks 40 a d 50 feet h,igh,
covered with small s ub, which will
shelter he rebels fnon our artil ery.
Further back_ at Ba che's there are
rows of ifie pits.
Riel h
breed h
Batoehe'
thein if
On th
from Ga
every pr
dug all a
the river
beavers.
with am
The •0
Clarke's I
but the
fierce will
from th
Lieutena
low to-ni!
astosGeneral
li
Colonel
BedSon
country
Albert is
men all
somethin
restraine
children.
Anoth
Our sup
Albert.
We h
colutim a
banks ha
'had evid
the rebel
s put his prisoners in the alf-
uses on ! the river bank at
,so that our guns must Ikill
e use artillery upon the pi s.
other (west) s' de of the nifver,
riel's up, the rebels have nlade
paration, rifle pits having Ieen
ong both side of the ban of
They must avp worked hike
nce the --fight t Duck Lak . -
uts have been so often misled
rought in by lle ed deserters,
if
been let go a i , that we are
about receiv g their repOrtse
however, th t Riel ha S no
as was rep rted. On the
we know t at he has, two
ashioned Hudson Bay cannon
unition.
ounded • have been sent to
rossing. They are doing well,
eather is intensely cold, with a
, and they must suffer also
jolting over the bad trail.
t Swinford, of the 90th, is very
Our Sc'
by Yarns'
cautious
as
They sa
artillery,
other ha
small oh f
•
•
Middleton is evidently
at the non-appearanc
rvine from Prince Al
ys the forty-three mile
tween Batoche's and Pr
lear of rebels. Irvin has
d, and should be able to
It is supposed that h
bylear for the women
r big snow storm is corn
lies will not last us to Pr
d a, big job getting the
eoss from the west bank.
• to' be cut. , The wire c
ntly been sawn in places
and kept breaking.
uch
of
ert.
of
ce
300
do
• is
and
g.
nee
left
he
ble
by
The o inion here is that it would ave
been wis to put the Grenadiers in rey
or in bla k like the 90th and Qu en's
Own, heir red coats in this ush
fighting ill be targets. They ca ot
get thro gn the scrub with their o er-
coats on.
I do ni t know when we 'shall m • ye,
but the order may come at any mo-
rnent. '
Canada.
—A 1 dies' college is about to be.
started i4m Kingston.
-LA The at P,etrolea on •Friday: -night
destroyed three stills, each centaining
300 barr is of Crude oil.
—Can dians- resident in,- NewiYork
are 'tali g steps for forming theniselves
into a C nadian Club.
— Vo' e g on theScottAct in the county -
of Front nac and the city of Kingston
will be old on 21st of May.
—T e breaking up of- the ice On the
St. Le ence river last week, caused ai
flood in ontreal unequalled since 1859.
- attalion of four companies of
forty- w men :each is to be formed im-
mediately n the county of Essex.
—The Wooden bridge on the Credit
Valley Railway, crossing the Nith at
.Ayr, is to be replaced by an iron one.
—The Ladies' Brass Band of Caro,
Michigan, are filling a week's engage-
ment at the Princess rink, London.
--
-Tnl thousand Martini -Henry rifles
and 3,0 ,000 rounds of ammunition ar-
• rived .a4 Kingston the other day, and
were s red.
—J�hi Sands, an East Sandwich far-
mer, hald about $.60 worth of sheep
mangle by dogs on Tuesday night last
week.
. ,—A d unken virago was arrested in
St. Tho as the other day on a Charge
of brutally beating her little boy four,
years of age: .'
—TheLadies' Aid Society of Colches-
ter South held a pancake -and -molasses
social on Tuc4sday night. Meple molas-
ses, of a urs .
e. --An Ord r-• n -Council declares the
close se son for! whitefish and salmon
trout in Opt rielto be the whole month
of NovenberI in each year.
—A 1411 granting an annuity of $509
to the Void° v of the late Hon. Jlaseph
Howeas been passed in the iNova
,
• lo
Scotia ouse Of Assembly. i 1
—Act rdi g to the Echo, the *Reeve
f Arnhrstbg so 'insulted the Deputy -
eve that tie latter knocked the form-
er out witit one blow, on the public
street
' —The dead body of Margaret Kenne-
dy, of B ddulph, was found in the out-
house cif her brother-in-law in East
Saiinewi on Saturday last. She was a
sister-in-law of Mr. Wm. Donnelly. ,
—Th &able mills of the Messrs. ItIc-
Lean, bm.ilt last winter, have a capacity
of 50,000 feet Of lumber per day, and are
termed the largest sew mills on the pen-
insula. -
— W. S. Ball, Presbyterian
clergyman of London township, fo mer-,
ly of Guciph, has received appointment
as chapl in to the 7th Fusiliers, and Will
proceed to the -Northwest in a few days.,
--At lhe Elgin Assizes at St. Thomas
the' juryreturned a verdict of man-
slaughter against Samuel Mitchell for
shooting McIntosh, his wife's paramour,
in St. Thomas on the 5th of Marchi •
1--T le Salvation Army at Norwich
have lately erected new barracks. , The
foitrnal opening took e)lace on Tuesday
night, at which Major Coorribs and a
number of other officers officiated. 1
J--- is McNaughton
•-i o of Gourock,
county of Wellington, recently sold 12
young hi onze turkeys for the snug little
sum f $25.75. It pays to have lgood
breedsoi poultry as well as of cattle.
nember of Ladies in Toronto are
making rrangements for sending food,
clothi g, writing material, etc., to' the,
ToFoito troops in the Northwest. Mr.
Edward jBFkc is one of the prime movers
in his Cited work.
. eel. W. T. McMullen, for 25 Years
past n I charge of Knox Presbyterian
church, Woodstock, received a congatu-
lat�ry address and presentation lfrom
the congegation upon the anniversary
of his induction.
I 1
e Dominion G vernrnent has
given a Montreal firm a contract fot
I ' worth of milit ry clothing. In
ithis �rder there are 1 ,000 overe ats,
thof cloth for which is now being lnade
at the Paton Mills, Sherbrooke. - : l
±Tor6nto hay was clear of ice Friday,'
1.
haintg been closed for the longest time
,
on record since 103; with the exception,
of 1836, when the ice broke up on the
25th of April, one, day later, than this
year. 1
-I-Mr. 'Win. Stewart, -of South Bum -
Vies, ha concluded toi try the experi-
ment of introducing the prairie chicken
on his farm. With this .object he has
ordered ggs for hatching from theWest.
The experiment .will be watched with
much in rest. '
—A Toronto firm has sent a gang of
men, with horses and machinery, to
Pelee Isl nd, where they will be engaged
most of the Isuminer getting out block
stone, w deli will be shipped to the mill
of the,above firm at Toronto, and there
sawed into sills,. flags, &c.
—A man named Dean el Darroch, for
the crime of committin an indecent as-
sault ;on Eliza Wynery of Minto, has
been committed to the Central Prison
for -a term of one year and three months:
receive three' floggings of ten stripes
each time. ter,in of incanaeration he is to
..
' 1
—At t. Thomas the other day a man
named Jo mes Hannon was seized with a
fit and ell forward on the stove, and
before a sistance arrived his face and
hands ere terribly berned. One side
of his fa e was fearfulV burned, and it
is feared he will be disfigured for life.
- —Sir eter Lumsden has three three broth-
ers in th Dominion.. His second brother
Mr. Joh .M. Lumsdeni reside's on .his
farm ne Galt, Ontarie, the third, Mr.
Thos. L msden, is a farmer at St. Fran-
cois Xa ler, Lisgar connty, Manitoba,
and Hug D. Lurnsden' of Toronto is
? ,
the. youn est of the family.
—The Rev. Egerton Young,- a Meth-
odist rni sionary from the North-West,
in a pub ic lecture in Toronto the other
night, g ve the clearest evidence that
the Indi ns ffiareistarv d chiefly because
i.
the officials are unfai ful to their trust.
The amounts spent ,y- the Government
on the 1ndians average $30 a head, of
which eachL Indian , gets nominally $5
and some- one else the S25. In reply to
a question at the close of the lecture he
said he would send -the Indians all to
the country north of Lake Winnipeg,
and leave the half-breeds to be dealt with
by the people who have votes.
-e-The ex -Monk, Widclows, writing to
the London Advertiser, under deth of
April 11th, says: "Since I have left
London, Ontario, I have been lecturing
and preaching in many cities in Eng-
land, meeting with wonderful success,
and I am now.in Dundee, Scotland."
—Matthew Adams, of Colchester
South, Essex connty, has a sow which
has given birth to,52 pigs in less than a
year past. This le a profitable animal,
especially when pork is $8 per cwt.
The sow had. 15 on April 24th, 1884; 17
in October of the same year, and 20 on
the 14th inst.
—The Society for the Suppression of
Vice in Toronto held a meeting a few
days ago, and passed resolutions con-
denming the issue and sale of Sunday
newspapers, and appointed a deputation
to wait upon the Police Commissioners
to urge the enforcement of the -law
against ,the desecration of the Sabath.
— Disastrous fires occurred at Kincar-
dine and Strathroy on Saturday. At
the former place three large store-
houses were consumed, involving 'a loss
of several thousand dollars. In Strath.:
roy several important buildings in the
business part of he town were utterly
destroyed with the greater part of their
contents. • .
—A young man nemed Armstrong be-
longing to Hepworth, Grey county, kill-
ed himself by taking Paris green a few
days ago, because he could not get work -
and his father refused to provide him_
with funds in order that he might marry
a Miss Partridge. The wedding dress
,and other articles had been ordered.
—The .Hudson Bay Company sent an
order to F. Sweat & Co., of Fargo,Dakota,
for 100 men and 200 horses and wagons,
to be uted to transport supplies from
Winnipeg to the volunteer?. Another
company in Fargo received orders from
the Canadian govermnent for a large
number of army 'horses, to be used in the
Riel rebellion.
-e-Rev. Robert Cameron, M. A., pas-
tor of the Park Baptist Church, of
Brantford, on his recent visit to Denver,
Colorado, received a unanimous call to
the Baptist church in that city. The
seating capacity of the calling church is1,500, and there are somewhere about
700 communicants. It is understood
that Mr. Cameron has accepted the call:
—One day last week .Mr. Chas. Young,
of Glencoe, started to London to dispose
of - a valuable horse. When crossing a
bridge in Lebo the animal became
frightened at'tilebreaking ice, and made
a spring back, landing on his head in the
gully, sustaining injuries which caused
his death. Mr. Young had a narrow
escape. The road was unprotected by
railing. The horse was valued at $180,
—Mrs. Lemay, of Amherstbura, an
old lady of 88 years, and who is blind,
was smoking her pipe, and accidentally
dropped some burning tobacco on her
lap. She did not realize what had hap-.
ported till her clothing was on fire, and
her handsandface were severely burned
and her hair singed. Her daughter
heard her call and ran to her, and extin-
guished her burning clothing with a
pitcher of Water.
—It is understood that a change -will
.-shortly take place in the management of
the Roman Cathedral Archiepiscopal See
of Torentni. A council of Bishops was
held. lately in Hari -Alton for the purpose,
as it is rumored, of appointing a co-ad-
jutor to Archbishop Lynch. His Grace's
infirmities unfit him for the active super-
intendence of his flock. The name of
Bishop Walsh, of London, is mentioned
as the prelate likely to be appointed.
—Last Friday at Paris station, a
staanger named Jas. Black; about 40
years of age, from the vicinity -of Palm-
erston -or Durham, attempted to get a
free ride on the Great Western Railway
train going west by jumping on the cow-
catcher of the engine. Ile/unfortunate-
ly fell off, and the engine passed over
his legs, crushing them fearfully. Media
cal aid was promptly on the spot and
amputated one leg. The strain was too
great for his -system, and he expired. an
hour or so afterwards.
—Senator Cochrane, Dr. M• cEachran,
and Mr. Davies, of Montreal,. waited on
the Government a few days ago, and
urged the imposition of 20 per cent.
duty on cattle brought into the North-
west Territory from the United States.
It appears that settlers in the 'North-
west have been importing cattle from
Montana to improve their herds; and
the above parties, who are interested in
cattle ranches, desire to prevent them
from doing so by the imposition of a
large duty.
—The new regulations for school holi-
days will be of interest to teachers,
pupils, parents, and in fact everybody;
In rural districts the schoolsi will close
for the suinmer holidays on the 1st Fri-
day in July, and re -open On the 3rd
Monday in August. The other holidays
remain the same as. leefore.
towns and incorporated villages, Public
and High Schools also close on the 1st
kriday of July, and re -open. on the last
Monday in August. Trustees cannot re-
duce the holidays as.hereto, fore. -
1—At the Elgin assizes bat week Dun-
can Cameron, who had pleaded guilty to
al charge of forgery; was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary. His
LOrdship, Chief Justice Cameron, said
that during his 36 years' of legal experi-
ence he had never been called upon to
defend or try a man by the name of
Cameron. , The clan had played an
honorable part in the history of its na-
tion, and the prisoner was said to be -
highly connected. He could not deal
otherwise than severely with him.
. —The Conference. of the Evangelical
Association in Ontatio appointed a special -
Committee of five to deal with the case
of Rev, P. Anwar of Waterloo, which up
to the, assembling of the Conference,
remained as it had been left kyear ago,
he and his wife living separately. Mr.
Alles appeared before the Conference,
however, and profesSed a desire to live
with his Wife again, Whereupon the Com-
mittee was appointed to look into the
matter. The parties enet the other day
and as both seemed Willing to try again,
the matter bids fair for re -adjustment.
• —The wife of Rev') Leo. Gaetz, form-
erly of London, now in the far west, has .
written to a friend in Hamilton, stating
that Mr. Gaetz spent many days 'near
his home some 80 miles north of Cal-
gary, endeavoring vainly to tranquilize
the Indians. After burying most of
their valuables, the family started for -
Calgary, taking along their honsehold,i
goods. No sooner hed they gone than
the Indians demolished the homestead
and swept away the etock. Mr. Glantz,
and party, however, arrived safe at Cal-
gary.-
-Mr. John S] -ore- a promising young
farmer from England, living in Delaware
township, was the -victim of a terrible
accident the other citay. He was work-
ing the cutting box at Mr. Richard
Gibson's establishment and while push-
ing in the, fodder his left hand was
caught betweenthe knife rollers and
drawn in. The Machine made eight
revolutions, each time taking off a piece
of every finger. The mangled hand '
could only be extricated whent every
finger was cut off to the knuckles, and
the fist was too big to pass between the
knives. He lost coneid.erable blood, but
is now, doing well. 1
—A forger and embezzler who had
fled from Avon, Illinois, and taken re-
fuge in Ontario, wei arrested at Elora
last week, and remanded to Guelph jail.
He first denied all, but afterwards own-
ed up -to his guilt, and agreed to cross
the line and be conducted back to en"\en
without further ado; He acknowledged
to Detectiee Howie -that he had secured
over $200,000 by -forgery and fraud.
Althoughprofessingto be a saintly tem -
penance man he was not altogether MI -
mindful of his stomach, as Howie found
a neat pocket flask lof rye whisky in his
overcoat pocket. I.
—0n Sunday morning, 19th ult.'while
Mr. Ryder and his wife were at church
at Little Germany, their farm house,
near Winterbourne, in the township of
Woolwich, was burned to thextound.
It is supposed that the - fire originat-
ed from a defective chimney. There
were only the little children in the house
at the time, but some -of the • neighbors
-who hadngathered succeeded in remov-
ing a pin -am of the household effects.
Mr. Ryder did not know anything about
the fire until he returned home. The
house was a two storey one, which, with
. the contents destroYed, would bring the
loss up to about 82,000 or over.
—A Parkhill correepondent says : Mr.
Wm.. Donaldson. surprised his friends
and acquaintances last week by very
suddenly taking to himself a wife in the
person of Miss Mary Ann Thompson.
Mary Ann did not -know herself in the
morning that she was to be a bride that
evening, for she called on a lady in town
and wanted to engage as a maid of all
work. Her age is 33, ba Mr. Donald-
son'who by the way is no sbring chick-
en, his age being 73, wooed and won his
fair lady before sunset that day, and
after tea, Mr. Loeheed, the Presbyterian
minister, made the twain one. The
happy couple did not go On any wedding
trip, No cards.
From Missouri.
°PEI., Sullivan County, 'Missouri,
April 27th, 1885.
&neon Extostron,—I have not seen.
any news from this country in THE EX-
POSITOR, I thought perhaps & few items
from this pact of the great West and
South-West would be of interest to your
many readers. I get THE EXPOSITOR
through the kindness of a friend in
Huron, 'and. I take great pleasure in
reading the news from old Huron, as I
formerly. resided in that part of Canada,
It is about thirteen years since I have
become an American citizen, but never-_
theless the people Of Canada are very
deer to me. I wa S in Huron last Sep-
tember, and it was al great pleasure for
me to meet my old ftiends and relatives.
We had a very celd winter here the
mercury fell to 20 and 25 degrees below
zero a number of times, and we had good
sleighing for about two months. This is
quite a good fruit grewing country, ex-
cepting peaches, whtch will be a failure
this year, the tree e being almost all
winter killed. Spring is rather back-
ward. Farmers are ah out done sowing
oats, and some hate plowed for corn.
The surface of the country is rather un-
dulating, about one half timber and the
other half prairie. Stock -raising is the
chief industry. We have good railway
facilities. The society is good, there
being churches and !3chools convenient.
The populations consist of people from
nearly every State in the Union, Canada
and. Europe. It was an exciting time
here last fall, about the time of the
Presidential election, but everything is
quiet now and times are getting better.
Mr. Jas. Laut, of Stanley, is in Brown-
ing, a town about nine miles from here,
with his fine Clydesdale stallion. . We
are glad to see such fine horses coming
to this country. For }fear that I may
occupy too much space i1 will close and
-if this escapes the waste basket I may
give more news next time.
LEUr1$ N. TROYER,
Frirmerly of Huron.
—The assessors o Clinton, says the
New Era, have finis ed their work for
this year, and from the roll -as- made out
by them we learn the folloWing facts :—
The total value of real property is this
year set down at $517,300, being an in-
crease over last year of nearly $17,000.
The value of Personal- Property is $30,-
450, an increase of ,lover $2,000.. Tax-
able income is $10,600, being $300 less
than last year. The total value of
Real and Personal P-•operty and taxable
income is $558,350, an increase of nearly
$19,000. The number of dogs in town
is set down at 79 whith, we believe, is
-considerably less then the actual num-
ber. The population shows a slight
increase, but has no yet reached 3,000.