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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-06-19, Page 1ns obbiest ttorna.ti Besides colored ate& ;fariety.. select t.st and Aderies inch ta tes. ,..xlves- 'atton Is littlik of the ts Only he est gen- ;la rtS, !nontlig., ;at cost.= • retched We are - stylish - .4nd be the iods. ... ta ;s- gave Owarda 6 of the ;ie re eouta. P`reele lie yea - !Bunts, tsented ied 1jt A lin d Iegs doeY- t from see, o get e fen, ex- itation. _ Pe of House :Friday meet Eng- :tstage to and - sad- . '• nee -British -o eince ee ear - the dier e book e le, and h from osed to by Mr. Ilej kind curiMIS Wiit- nd iS eiad rd anzer atreal ing the en Eng - es, anad e great- ) be a - ached t coll- ets at on the What rkere, he• ve her s also n ed with -looking is about d three CO EIGHTEENTH YEAR. WECLE NUMBER 915. SE FORT, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, .1885. McLEAN BROS., Publishers. ti1.50 a Yeair, iii Advance. PRIQE _LIS: FOR JUNE. George MONS OLD STAND; , • • • '- 8.E -A FORT Great Ba Hat$, Caps, during thisi Five thou., §lippers, under. P. &Co., Ifau ng list : Ladies' fin pair, worth Ladies' fin Ladiee hi! 'worth 'Ladies' hi Ladies' al. Ladies' - boots for Ladies' n worth Childrens and $1.00. Boys' hea worth • ains in all kinds of Roots, Shoes, 4.oceries, Crockery and GlassWare ionth. net pairs of Fine Boots, Shoes and selling at SJc on the, dollar, and of the establishment of.John Garret ton and Toronto. Read the follow - polish calf buttoned boots,$1.90 per -.50. kid slippers for 85c, worth $1.25. h cut buttoned Blelmorals for. $1.00-, h cut strong leather boots for Sile. wool carpet slippers for 55c. o. 1 basreli French kid buttoned .00, usual price.:,,z4.00. stylish buttoned boots for $1..00 heavy school boots for 50c 60e S5c .oJ y school boots,. riveted bottoms. for $1.50. Boys' heavy school boots, pegged bottom $1.15 worth $1.30. Neils' Ion -boots at wholesale prices. '1 A splendi ;aced Balm HAT • collection of inen's fine ha.nd sewed rals and low shoes at --89c on. the i EVENTS AT PRINCE ALBERT. \, The following diary of eVents at P ri n cc_ All tert, f u latish ed by Mr. William Miller, formerly of Wroxeter, , and who has been a resideat of the Prince Albert district fok• many. years, WttS smithy him to his brother Robert, who has kindly foewardec - it tous or publication: Mae- l Mat _6 --Major Crozier arrived. in Prince Albert from Carleton last night, and started back for Carleton today after requesting Captain Moore to find out how many aiolu n tears he could get to go to Carleton. Men::: would not volunteeruntil suelh tune as they knew what theY were wanted for, 17th— Posters were put up, calling a meet- ing to try and find put what need there was to take men from their,homes to defend a Ruction Bay Poet: 18th— No one seemed • to know - what men were wanted for. Captain Moore said he was d if he knew any cause for it, ain knew of Bonspiel. day fo egetten.,. . 20th—Two meni came in fitem. .. Carleton this morn- . e message . to . Inspector -kitbag that the French and ad taken hp arms, captured ' six prisoners, and plundered - several stores at the south branch. 50. volun- lied and stliated along with 2i). The former were • einernied,1 g in Carletbn. They went off in sleigh- all in high spirits, - We gave three hearty cheers as they started.; There were more'volunteere enrolled te act as berne.-guards il,nd scouts. All the .weapons we possessed e Were . 70 - Snyder rifles and a_few shot - gILDS and-- pistols The Preebyterian church- was made into one baereck room. - Guards and scouts were sent but. I got an order about 11 pan.,, : tq furnish five horses. - 21st -- After aegrood deal of blundering. we are. getting ieto better order.. Three copa panics•o h drill and feding on govern -.11. , ,ment grt b. 1 .Was on ' duty • ail -.night.- 22iid--:S. ada,y, :but no &arch seevice,. Under arms all clay expecting Eul'ettack.. Dismissed in the evening. -23rd—Re- ported- this morning that the • English half-breeds were to 'have a meeting at 10 a.m., to cleeiele whether they would join Riel .or not. I was Appointed bythe com mittee to, attend it and use what influence I had aniongst them to advise them to stay at home. - Wei had a delegate there, .i After a Cceaterenee with them .[.succeed- ed in, my 'errand.. 24th.—Major Irvine got in this evening with 80 police, dans- ' eng Oft a bustle about the berrac-ks.. - The ar ,' a welcome eight- to us. 25th. —Snowed all day-.- Was out 25 miles on the Carleton -road, Major. Irvine. en- rolled - more volunteers for Carleton: 26th.—Major Irvine • left for !Carleton with 125, met. '-27th.—News -came in about Midnight that Major -Crozier had gone do alto Duck Lake with about 80 men, anhl had to retreat before -the rebels after having 112 of his men killed and. ale. geed many wounded. Nine: of them were volunteers from here. They and one thatl was woundedwere left on the field. The • police; managed to take. their o*Pekilled back. to Carleton .with them. It is said they were caught- in e bad position, but :i so why did they un- hitch the horsee Out of the sleighs,- M - stead of falling backfoe abent 100 yards, where they could have had a good posi- tion, with little cover for either party. It is said by some that were in the fight that the- first 'shotwas fired- freneour side. They had got orders not to move out till Mador .Irvine Joined them,- but Clarke & H.d some Of them had too , much Dutch c -urage, end wanted to display it - for the b. but the steid- for field not left to t non gen 'r with them, but only fired two h bat little area. 1- While re - he third- time the' man that. ve pet in the powdee was shot , did not think Major Crozier. any. 19th—Grand Curlers, The noisy meeting of yestere . r from Carleton with the:pollee I -day. :He had gonedownas far as Hood with the man who was carrying • clespi tches tothe telegraph station -at Humbo stayed at Hoodo. with his team ti ether "ban carne back.. While t 'party �f Itiere men ciune and. 'too; and the men who kept the nisi" .8 .prisonees, team awl all. Thep eft battle OfDuelt Lake Riel Sent hini letterito.Carle ton requesting th send aftee the dead bodies. got to Carleten they put him, in and brought him down: here n.ex He got out. in the evening and cal ie up Mg with Moffat, Indians 1 teers enr police. rifles beii AND CAPS? Another ot just received in stiff and soft ifelts, . new styl . Straw hats in great variety. Mens' and boys' hats new and Cheap— Every hat LI new, not by and cheap. Helmet- hats in c-reat %ariety. GROCE A tut' sto stock of fre Agents fo tatter an GOOCkERY AND GLASSWARE. , k at prices to suit the times. A full h.turnip seed, the Kerby Climax cattle feed.1 eggs taken in exChange for goods.- E RGE GOOD EAFORTH. ARRIVALS —AT THE -e - Che p Cash Store .Beauti New De. sels, Fee of hose, in the t (eat juel eaee e Oh t,and 1 the uire a, h im talon r the wi th in to n he cell day. along- with US and -stayed all night: Thomaa -Sandereon started off for Lake this morning along with two Men and two teams. Nothing new to tht day.. • P. .Settlers risovhig in from all directione.. Thomas. Sanders° I and party got back from Duck Lake br nging bodies along With them. They h. not been all 'dead but the Indians had fi ished them after. Some of their faces were lack ened With them firing close to theh heads but mew of them were scalped.. 31st. The were buried today n the English church -burying ground. The proeeseien; 'Which was a very lerg one, was headed by the band playing e dead matehi On .arriving at the churc the coffinswere taken -from the. sleigl . Carried shoulder high • into the c • and After the- buriel service was they were cerried out in the sera nee; -eed laid. Side by side in one They. fell together, and now the together. neVer wish to see • sight like it. 29th. Dock other nefit of their French neighbors, reft kbadly soki. Had they a few minute § longer on the one of them wpuld have been 1 the tale. They had one cari tS t showi • loading should h down, ici his ..emutaile put in the shell , witho.ut, he p.owder•so that was Useless. 1 . The seat messenger that -.brought the news of i he battle, brought orders also .1 for the settlers to come into tOwn. , •A ' man .ca,the down herebetweenj two 'and three ce4ock in the mOreing to - telt us, , and. the-, started -down by the lower flat to tell a; •the .ne the me were st ceedwoe I, taking in the Presbytenan -church,! •,greimd.J, aroimell noon. -- men an s and urch, read, man - grave. sleep iother • -April let—About 1000 people' on rations besides thd police. My -family stay a home and. :the guards col ie out this length. - My house is the st place for the scouts. • On this roa are four of them, two being m Richard and John, and the Willie Lovell and A. McBeth. G ly they ,are out two at a time, 12 each. The first nine days, Jol out nearly night and day, cold weather, and had not so mud as a blitliket with him. 2nd—Hot ses in town crowded with men, WOM n and children, and a good deal of grumbling tions. pping there sons, thers, eneral- hours n wa,s -sleety about not :getting enough of r 'Lawrence Clarke, Hudeon Ba pany's chief factor, is appointed. officer. . It is a grand job for . th pany. They are gettina clear of their old truck. 'lie T factor ma I. the requisitions and- Signs the for his own good. i The bills willaston- ish the govletnm nt when they donie in, and ley the tithe they are paid, they will think it would have been better had they not ignored the many petitions .sent in from the Northwest, and not hoisted on the people sp many useless o 6th-aThe Freneh hold Carleton, is said that they have secured 'a plunder -and havedriven away a the settlers' stock. 9th ---A11 the build- ings at Duck lake burned. down except the grist mill,- and the French are croeg- ing to. the south side of the river.' Men underordere to merch to the front. It is thought they will not move till they get orders from General Middleton. 0 10tha-A ceurier got in froin Battleford with alarzhing news - that the Indians had taken up arms between here. and Edi tler, 'say. man Bros., SEAFORTH, LOvely Prints, ',gas Muslins, Fancy Para- ionable Gloves, Splendid line he -beet-and cheapest Corsets Ade, San end Sailor Hats at under, some lines of Millinery we are offering away hely requiring any of the above ed goods,should not fail to _ that a b ge body of French and Indians 1 the people down there. After s came in about the battle all and horses we could muster rted at making a stecka,de of manse, and aboitt two acres of We had one row of cordwood it eight feet high in the fore - Then food had to be g$ in for d horses. There were nearlyla thousand bags of flour and stacks of beef n. A shed was built about 200 and nearly closed in and a f ice, when night came, extra were put around the town. ut another row of cordwood eet high to stand on and still supphes and other valuables. and bac feet Ion supply guards 28th. about 5, taking A couri value from Carleton with a stating that Carleton was burn - and the men all on their way ee, the first move in the -right e They got down about 4 m essey ed dowi doki-n h' directio !o'eleck nd were marched right into the stockaeo that was built' for the women ren who were told to go to the utside. About 9. p. ne 'scouts lopingein from the west saying and chil houses came ga ‘‘ ere on this side of the ridge about .xamine same end prices at the twelve miles from here. The church bells were rung and a generalhubbub -ensued; men women and children flyieg ap Cash -Store for their lives into the toekade. Lots of the children being in ed were bundl- ed up in blankets and ca -lied off. ' Such OF a scene! women fainting, men shouting and children crying .all_oi=ereethe place. The mOst of the fan was past by tbe i BROS- time we got up, we only staid . about .9 two hours and then came down home again, loiter it was found out to be a false alarm. -It had been some men 'driv- ing home their cattle. Thomas Sate' derson from Carrot River came down FMAN SEAFORTH. COM- upply coin - lot of es out eceipts male. and it lot of lot of Onton, and they are attacking set- . 6th—A courier from ,Humbolt there are 1000 volunteers there movingon to Prince Albert, also Queen's Own by way of Swift Current en route for .beleagured Battleford.- 19th—Scouts started out yesterday for the south . branch. .The_police Was to follow in the -morning, but -did not get started before three o'clock in the afternoon. The eiviliens are getting tired protecting the 20th—The police got back this morehig at three clock. Their horses and Weee,teete coining rattling in at that .time ofthe inornieg caused a good deal of exeitenient in town., It was inore I Duck. enter intk the grievances of this countrye leaving this Tor my next letter to you. , WTM. MILLER.. Froin Dakota.- , Sheldon, Dakota Territory, June Ilth, 1835. DEAR EXPOSITOR., -1. send you a • few miscellaneous notes from this partof the west, which inay be interestingl to some of your Many readers. Our past winter a8 severe as in. t we have experienced since evtottisiitniglehfielii'ees. Athletlii)Oriei geehd the frost \rest the absence of. snow: made it much pleaenter to us dwellers here, than any of its predecessors. The snowfall was ex- tremely light; and .sleighing excep- tion, notthe rule.. At times throughout the winter, the wind would :rise in its might, and. try it could to get up a blizzard; but the meagre supply of the 'beautiful, made all its attempts abortive.. Our spring opened early, with. favorable weather for man and beast to do their. -pert, it being drt and cool. Seeding ! Went rapidly forward, most of the farm- ers in our . neighborhood had finished • seeding 'before 461 was out. This spring has been relnarkable for continu- ous high winds, Mostly every day a stiff breeze was blowing, often rising to aifull gale, and several times this spring work .on the land had to be suspended on ac- count of the flying dast In the spring, when the prairie is bare, and the plow- ed lend loosened by the harrews,, you in sheltered Onterio, can form but a faint idea'ofthe immense volumes of dust a, gale will raise here. I do not exaggere ate when I say that hundreds of squarer yards of Dakota dirt have by the action ' of the winds, changed owners since spring opened. Owing to the cold, dry, windy weather, 'vegetation advanced Slowly until the. -15th of May, when we had heavy rain, followed by warm weather. Since then the crops are repidly edvancing, The ear1y6owing is now waving in the wind, and the 'latter eowing hovering the ground. Potatoet, born, .beans and turnips, and all garden truck,. ere all well advanced. Should no. accident befall present crop, it gives promise of being one of the finest, as it is the most extensive, ever grown here. We are aotv -having beautiful weather, the therneimetee in the shade, from 50 Ve 80 degrees above eero. ordetlyretreat than the one fro lake. e- 28th ---Twenty-two men to Geeen lake to guard a Reds Post..! Many of the farmers wit get olit to their farms to put clomp some crops but were mit allowed, which is ceasing A.good deal of grumbling and I em -not eetoni •-hed et it, -for I cannot see t 11PW ,many:- o them are to. -"iv' next : Wintet. eWe received the neWs of the fight at.Fish creek. The courierl3 had it hard timegetting in this time. • One of them had a rifle shot off his ba*, lost his hbrse,- and made for the W ods on foOt. . - • _ tarted n Bay ted to at the Ingersoll high School, she -passed the matriculation, first and second year examinations, taking at eech of these several first-class honors; 1 —Terrible gales, causing the loss of -many fishing vessels with their crews, ' were -experienced off the cc ast of New- foundland On Sunday, the 7th inst. .The aesessed valuation of property in the county of Essex. fee: this year is S,330,000;$the rate of tee ation will be two mills on the dollar. , —A sturgeon, weighing 105 pounds, and measuring six feet ten inches in length, was caught lest week in the St. Lawrence, near Rockport. . —Sir Leona,rd Tilley has undergone an operation in London for the removal of stone, and Sir Andrew 'Clarke says there 's every prospect of Sir Leonard's °mewl te restoration to health. 1 1—The 25th annual coevention of the Ontario Teachers' Association will be held ip Toronto on Tuesday, Wedndday - and Thursday, the lith, 12th and 13th of August. he mail contract between Ber- and Nev York, for a further term years from ist of January, 1886, en awarded to the Quebec Steam- ompany. he bell presented by Mr. Timothy- Cokeley, to the St. Basil's Catholic church, Brantford, has arrived. there It weighs 3,700 lbs., and cost the donor about $1,000. —.At a Meeting of the Bruce County Council held at Port Elgin last week each Member of the 32nd battalion was granted 30 cents per -day for the time they were on duty this summer. , —Rev. R. G. Fowell, M.A., of Cam- bridge University, England, has been selected to be principal and divinity pro- fessor in Huron college, Londor in place e . .of Dean Boomer, resigned. 1 ---Mr. Alex. Finkle, barrister, Wood- stock, has been appointed judge for the county of Oxford, to fi.1 the vacancy ceased by the death of the late Judge McQueen. —The Imperial Government- has _or- dered the payment of £100 to each widow of a Canadian voyageur in the Nile expedition. It is else ordered that • the mothers of lost voyageurs shall be paid £50 each. :—It is proposed to hold a grand service otpraise in St. Andrew 's church To- ronto,• on Friday evening, June '26th, with a choir of about two hundred voices, 'formed from all the Presbyterian church choirs in the city. - —J. Barrie, book-keeper for J. A. Griffiths, of Parham, Addington comity, decamped Friday with and notes. It is nothn tion Barrie took. He h fiths' employ three mont is. ' .; Now if reciprocity had been between . our two countries, we could have been a mutual benefit to each other this spring: we giving you a week of our coolelrying winds, and you letting us have some of your extra moisture. , I cannot account for the poor opinion the Rev. T. G. Thomson, ia the letter published in THE EXPO4ITO1t, has of Da- kota, unless he considered be entered Dakota after ceessing the • Missouri rivet, or otherwise passed- through its eastern part in the night. Many of your readers know the description given,can- not be applied to that large portiop of our fair land lying between the roaring Red, and. Muddy Missouri, that part being a gentle, undulating, open prairie, With no natural defects to mar it fair face, and is a beautiful land to look upon, whatever faults it may have other- wise. Canadians here, feel proud of yo two bodies of brave men, who are no fighting the battles of their country. refer to your volunteers in the abet west, and to the loyal Opposition.. 4 May 2nd.—Farmers are 'again' trying to get to their homes, but thete is no hope them. It is very easy tb keep them, for L. Clarke brought in most of their provisions and seed, and they will not give them anything to go out with. 9th.—The steamboat passed B,atoche. They fought the rebels one hour and five li minutes, and had three theitw unded. 12th..—The mall came in this ' online,. the first we have had for seven weela Some of the mail matter hadbullet holes some of 15th. him to doubt- Mid - is men i• popu- al Mid- is men. They look as if they had had head times, in . 14th.—News came that the half-breeds had surrendered Riel captured. It is better for be captured than shot. I am ver ful if the Covernment thinks so dleton seems to have handled I very well, and is said to be ver lar amongst them. 19th.1.-Gene dleton came in• to -day , with as they are ragged and dirty, b Seem -to be in good spirits. 1 i of Samuel Playford's sone, and that bla,c - with powder and dirt think it !would havepuzzled hs father to have known him, 22nd.—Middleton li started flor Battleford this 1 orning, taking over 300 men with him. They were grumbling a good deal at the Hud- , • - . son Bay prices. ; It opens their eyes wheh we tell them that is noth. ig ; we are used to it and the Govern it in their power to do as they it • they et one he was that I ent put thought fit -with us. I think the war Is nearly over now, and I have no hesitation in saying thet the Government is o blame for the whole affair, and the holies that have been made desolate- As thy letter is now somewhat lengthy, I twill not 111 your parliament at Ottawa. Both de- serve well from their countr and our wish is that both may be •v torious in • their several spheres action. • We have had quite a few arrivals ti spring to our neighborhood, of pees from Ontario, among others. Wm. Mc- Intosh, senior, and wife, from Hullett Both are advanced in years, and did not come to raise No. 1 hard, but to spend their remaining days near their family who are residents here. Mar the pere ozone, and bracing zephyrs of this Eden, give them 'renewed strength and vigor, and may their new home be te them a pleasant land to dwell. in. Wiehing THE EXPOSITOR and its pub- lisher all success, I reman yours, HIGHLAND. c - of 15 Mu& of tw has b ship C Canada. Mr. Jos. Ityleal, ex -M. P., is lying very ill at his home in Barton. —Over 3,500 'families were relieved by charity during last winter in Tor- onto. Cesey, of Taylor's Presby- terian chureh, Montreal, died Thursday of small -pox. —The Congregational Union has re- solved to commence a mission work in British Columbia. —Potatoes were a drug on the Guelph market on Saturday, farmers not being &hie to sell them at 10 to 15 cent e a bag. —A farmer living near Widder has a cow which has given milk dal three years and four months without break. —The council of the College of phy- sicians and surgeons of Qutaribe met in TorontO last week, the vice-president in the chair. —Eight hundred miles of new tele- graph will be constructed by tbe Gov- ernment in the Northwest Territory this year. --A counterfeit 82 Dominion bill is said to be in circulation dated June 1, 1878—check letter C. No. 104,707, Tor- onto issue. . —Kincardine council offer a reward of 8300 for the conviction of the party who set fire to Mr. Joseph Barker's office and barns. • —Hamilton had a two hundred thous- and dollar tire on Satur‘ lay. The Fear - man pork factory was completely de stroyed. —Miss Ella Gardner, of Ingersoll daughter of Rev. James Gardner, D. C L., and sister of H. Gardner, M.A.;' o the Hamilton Times, has received. th degfee of B.A. at Toronto University taking honors inFrench,German, Ethnol ogy, English and Italian, and standin first in Italian, English and Eethnology Miss Gardner has just completed a bril liant university career. While a pupi —T $2,000 in cash wn which three- s been in Grif- ' —The citizens of.Tor ed to tender a public b. lan„on his return to t held within the next te to present him with an dress. —The fund collected St. Sauveur for the relie families of local vohmte the North-West now an 62, of which only $1,43 expended. . —Mr. , Robert Proc lately purchased from le of Kincardine, one of little carriage ponies that village. . It is sal( beauty and an exeellen —Wiliam A. Fulle killed Alfred Tenbroac a bottle of whiskey, in St. Catherines, hes b two years in Kingston light enough senteece s —Mrs. McIntosh o ' mother ef Alex. McI shot dead by Sam Mi An order for an arch blue and Sutherland fa erected to the memory $200. —Mr. John Howell, Robert Howell, of Wm Ot ' er day found lyiu II st. ble, al horse having region of the stomach. day. He was about 2a a universal favorite. --This spring an um sually large num- ber of fruit trees are dy of Harrington. Pin totally deaned out; cherry trees are also of the apple trees pres appearance. • 7 ---The Montreal C. ledonian ,Society haere decided to send a Highland. piper with the delegation to beNationargames which are to be held th s year at Newark, New Jersey, where ti e Convention of Caledonian Societies -wets at the same time. —The last cattle fa r at Harriston is reported a complete fl. ttener'only a few head of cattle were o ered for sale on the grounds; all the beef cattle being by the drovers at nto-have decid- nquet to Ram- at city, to be .days, and also illuminated ad - in Quebec and of the destitute irs on service in aunts. to 83,586, ,50 has yet been r of Luaknow, r. John Gentles, - the handsomest ver brought to to be a perfect traveller. , , the man who in a quarrel over March last, at n sentenced to ienitentiary. SV Thomas, tosb, who was hell, has given d monument of is merble, to be f her son. Cost, 500, and may easily be extended, is a model of beauty and convenience. It has a lofty sph!e, seen from the River St. Lawrence -and for miles around to great advantage, while the interior has been richly cushioned, carpeted, 'Mid also provided with handsome ebandeli&s by the ladies of the congregation. 4 —Angus Roy McDounell,of the Seal) Branch, Charlottenburgh, county of Stormont, died at his late residence on the • 4th inst, Deceased was born in 1801 in the very house in which- he breathed his lost. He leaves a host of friends in Cotnwall and. in the county of his bil•th, --e-Miss Josephine Jackson, a Swede girl., employed at the Lincoln hotel, Port Arthur, threw a dipper of scalding water in the landlord's face, because he visited the kitchen and found fault with her for net attending to her work. She has been committed for trial, and Mr. Norman is ill from the scalding. t -Some months ago Garaett & Com- pany, wholesale. boot and shoe dealers, who failed in Hamilton, discovered that 20,060 pairs of boots and shoes were missing from the stock. Donald S. Bet - cone, who travelled for the firm at the time of their failure, was arrested Satur- day at Cobourg for the robbery. : --A few days ago a son of Mr. James Strachan, of Holyrood., Bruce county, met withaserious accident in his father's steam shingle machine. It appears that a belt broke and the boy tried to snatch it away when he was caught and thrown around the shaftseVeral tithes, tearing hie right arm out by the elbow. —A few days ago a daughter of Mr. Edward Gamble, of Maryborough, was riding * a waggon, when the board. on which she was sitting broke, and she was thrown out, her leg eatching in the wheel breaking the bone. The young lady, rwho is about 18 years • of age, is progressing very favorably. —The press association of the state of New York, numbering 150 members, held their ennual-convention on Wednes- day, at Niagara Falls. Thursday they proceeded to Toronto, and after doing the city will proceed north for a few days' recteation among the islands of the Georgian Bay. . —Mr. E. W. Law, ef Victoria Harbour, purchased for Mr. P. Burns of Tomato, 9,600 cords of wood during the past winter. It took from Tuesday morning until Friday night to measure the wood, itbeing piled. at venous points along the track. Mr. Law expects to buy 12, 000 cords of wood next winter, —Friday afternoon, a sta,ble belong- ing to Mr. Hugh Mitchell, Fergus, was discovered hi flames, and the town being without fire protection, nothing could be done but let it burn itself out. Loss about $500, partly insured. The fire is sapposed to have originated by children playing with matches. . —Two men were arrested at Ottawa the other morning for passiug counter- feit coin. For some time past a quan- tity of lea.den twenty -five -cent pieces of date 1883 have been in circulation, and all efforts of the police to discover the guilty parties have. failed until •now. Orte of the parties. is an old offender, having already served two terms in the 'Venitentiary. —David J. Richardson, an old and rtspected citizen of Windsor; and one of the pioneers of Essex county, died at his residence on Chatham street_ at an early hour Saturday morning. Mr. Richard- son was for a quarter of a century con- nected with the Customs Department of the Canadian civil service,and some time ago was pieced:ion the superannuated list. • - —Teenier, of Pittsburg, has chale lenged Haden to row One race of foul! or five miles for 81,000 to $5,000 a side and the chathpionship of America, or five races, eadh of $1,009 a side; three miles, three miles and er-half, four miles, four miles and a hall, aud five miles, races to be rowed on any Water or waters agreed upon. Teemer has de- posited a forfeit of 8500. —Thursday night last week, a bullet was fired through the window of the office of the Bruce Herald, a prominent anti -Scott act paper. published in Wal- kerton. The ball went through the double windows and flattened against the wall over the editor's cbair. For- tunately Mr. Chambers had Vacated. his seat a short time previouely. A reward of 8100 ie offered for the discovery of the perpetrator of the outrage. - —Affliction has laid. a heavy hand of late upon Hon. A. A. C. LaRiviere Minister of Agriculture in Manitoba,. .A. year ago he lose& charming daughter. Later his son, a bright boy who had dis- tinguished himself at school, was drown- ed in the -Red river. A fortnight ago his brother died in Montreal, and a Week ago Madame LaRiviere, who had long been in delicate health, passed away, the shock of her son's death having hastened the end. —Judge Armour, at the Toronto As- sizes the other day, thus spoke, after several spectators had laughed outright at a pun of Mr. Osier's: "The constables don't seem to be here. If they aee they must be enjoying themselves instead of ateending to their duty." One constable me. s reading a paper, another was dozing .-I, in, a corner, and others were taking things equally easy, but all suddenly straightened up, and with one ananimoue vice shouted "Order !" —While on her Way from_ Toronto a izi f w days since Mrs. John Beattie, of London, met with a serious misfortune in the loss of a small hand valise which she bad on the seat -beside her in the traii4and which she believes to have been Stolen. It contained four gold , rings, - diamonds, a set of valuable air of dia,mond ear -rings and hies amoimting in all to some arch has been made in all but not the slightest trace r been found. Greig, wife of Rev. G. B. nox church, Paisley, died on orning, 7th instant, at the f 22 yearse The Advocate rcely a year ago they were son of the late ertown, was the r insensible in a "eked him in the He died on Fri - years of age and ugh' the vicinity are almoet large number of oing, while many nt a very sickly previously bought up the barns. The demand for horses was 'good, and quite a _number were sold. —At the General Assembly meeting in Montreal last week, sixteen ministers of other churches—Congregational, Bap- tist and Methodist—applied for admis- sion into the Presbyterian church in Canada. The applications were referred tees. ific Railway Com- hree pianos, one ly's steamers ply - Sound and Port lents are of the I be placed on the ew Presbyterian church built in Corn Tall of which the Rev. James Hastie is pastor, was for- mally opened last Sabbath for public worship. The edifice cosi 820,000 in erecting. Three services were held. The Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brantford, preached morning and evening to crowd- ed audiences with his usual ability and fervour, and the Rev. Dr, McNish in the afternoon, who 'delivered an able discounte. The collections were liberal. The building which is seated for over to appropriate commi —The Canadian Pa pally has purchased for each of thecoma ing between Owen Arthur. The,instru finest quality, and Wi beats immediately. —The handsome married, and she .enteted Paisley a stranger, but among vs she tion and her eater, gainee hearts and a clueing her short residence has by her kindly disposi- etarsistent Christian char - a Strong place in the fections of her husband's congregation, as well as among our .eiti- zens generalle —Mr. Huntley McKay, a former em- ployee in ti Witness, wa engaged 111 ti dary betweei. South Afrie. Boers. The satisfaction t work was fi- ,ished be hadridden2,000 miles onhors ,baek. Atits dose he was iin- • mediateiy. se- ected to accompany Capt. - Condor 300 iiiles further: Wand. This 'selection nue -well be regarded in_ the light, of pron lotion. • • en appropriately decided to nadian Club iii New York Day, July 1st. The com- mittee decid el upon No. 3, Washington Piece, as the most aecessible location. It is estimat el that th-e number of Cana- dians in N York is fay 6,000. Prominent Canadians. have already en - Ives as non-resideut mem- them, the president, Eras - has proposed Sir- John A. Sir Alexander Campbell, - Hon: Edwa -d Blake, Hon. Wm. Mc- erbert Mason, and amen - e office of the Montreal one of the fuer officers e delimitation of the boan- the British possessions in and the country of the boundary is said to give both parties. Before the —It has b open the C on Dominion rolled theme ben. Amon tus Wiman, Macdonald, Dougall, J. ous others. —The An Toronto la-st sion, adopte action of th compiling a of schools. A scheme was arranged for ion of missionaries assigned the diocese, the term of being fixed at three years ewal. Notice was given by of resolution disapproving e's treatment of the Scott • minimum salaries, graded. length of service, were 0, 81,-200 and $1,500 for the 'ongregations. An earliest e made byaneans of a, eas- three set i jewelry, a other valu $2,000. S direction's; has thus f '—Mrs. Greig, of Stuideir n early age says :-1Scs lican synotd.which met in week, after a long discus- & report approving of the Education Department in cripture reader for the use - the permute to stationi- engagement subject to re Dr. Snelling of the Sena Act. The accordiag fixed at 88 pastors of effort will 1 tentation sc ieme to reach these figures. —A most diegrapeful occurrence took place in Lecknow 'the- ether evening. The Sentin Isays Seven or eight young men in the jrillage got gloriously drunk, and we are.ire nnfortunately there should be a iy• strangers in the village at the time th4y would not have been very favorably iijipressed with the idea that the Scott At stopped the sale of hquor. After breaking into the Temperance hall, and suring the drums and tam- bourines belonging to the Saved., Army, they Serena we don't th place that cause they front of his couple of ed the whole village, and nk- thereis a citizen in the eels any way slighted be - did not remain longer in residence, We believe a he tamboutines were com- pletely dest 'oyed. There it no. denying the fact tha whialfy is sold in Lucknow to some of he more favored ones, but we are informed that the great bulk of the liquor i procered by "syndicates" in other pia es and brought into the vil- lage in jugs L.M ntreal Witness says; The Hou. David Laird, Minister of the In- terior uncle the Mackenzie Government and ex1 -I; utenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories, is one -of the, delegates Irene his home, Chanottetown, to the Presbyterian Assembly in this city. Mr. Laird was Minister of the Interior from 1873 to 187-6. He had much to do with half-breed claims in Manitoba. The first half-breed claim only (mine up when he was Lieutenant - Governor in 1878. ii deputation cantle from Duck Lake with a petition in Feb- ruary of that year, and when the Coun- cil met in J ily, it was laid before them. A resolution was passed recommending the Gover ment to grant similar -con- cessions to those of the half-breeds in Manitoba, with the exception that absolute tit es should- not be given until the half-br ede had settled down in order to pijevent sharpers speculating. -This petitioi went to that limbo of lost manuscript , the Department of the In- terior and that is the last that was heard of it. . —Mr. Ja . Hayes, Reeve -of McKillop, left on Tu sday of last week for the Northwest o bring home his son who it lying ill at Brandon. —The C. nton New Era of last week says : One of the saddest deaths that has occurred h ,re for some tune is that of Oliver Hoe son, which took place on - Tuesday m -ming of last week, after an illness of o ly one week. Deceased was the third on of Mr. Jas. Howson, and had been f r some time in the employ of R. Coats Son. A week 'before his death he vas in his usual health and strength, ut was laid up on the 2nd inst. with n attack of peritonitis, com- monly kn wn as en ailment of the bowels. Two medical men were called in, who di all they possibly could for his relief, but the disease defied their skill. He as young in years, just en- tering upo enanhood, and promised to be a very enseful youna6man, he was -very quie and reserved, and highly esteemed by all who knew him, and - beim the eldest son left at home, wa very thoughtful of the family. tiring his brief illness the hope of his recovery was at all times upon ever 'one's lips, so great was the interest ta -en in him. Just two weeks before his eath he made his first ap- pearance' n a public platform as the soprano s nger of a jubilee trio. He was a men ber of the town band, which accompani d his remains, in mourning, to the cem tery, and as a mark of friend- liness andi respect, the Doherty band also attended. He was a member of the Presbyterian church,' To say that his relatives 1ave the deep, heartfelt sym- pathy of te people here, does not con- vey a pr per idea of the feeling of the community. The floral tributes sent by friends were beth numerous and very beautiful.1 * e