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EIGHTEENTEC YEAR
WHOLE NUMBER 917.
SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, J6LY 3, 1885.
MCLEAN BROS., Publishers.
1131.50 a Year, in Advance..
Ontario to the Antipodes.'
NOTES BY THE WAY.
To the Editor of the 17 uron. Expositor.
DEAR Sin,—In my last letter I
promised to give my impresiions of
California, but after considering the
matter, I think it has been so much
talked of, that most people are ah-eady
pretty well posted. The " Horse Shoe
Bend," 40 miles of snow sheds, and the
rounding of Cape Horn, where .the first
foethoid for the road had.to be made by
letting Chinamen &rem from the top
with rapes, are among the noteworthy
sights through the Sierra Nevada mouti-
tains. Then the great flumes - for float-
ing timber down from, the mountains,
-,'d the mining regions 'withfth their -vol-
inmes of interest. Sacramento,the capi-
a
I, with its own peculiar history, .and
i !
en Oakland, where the "Hotel run: Ii
ners " from San Francisca across the bay
of the Same name meet you, mid 'try to
outwit ,one another in offering the best
and -cheapest accommodation and in-
ducements. They look more like a host
of blacklegs from Perademonium than
anything else, and seem to be fair speci-
mens of a large proportion of a city,
which can have but few rivals -in iniquity.
For before Gabriel has sounded his
trumpet above its hill top, his Majesty
from below seems to have almost frill
control. Though the city is only about
30 years old, its population is nearly
360,000, of which over o0„000 are
Chinese. This is the principal commer-
cial emporium of the Pacific coast, and
the gateway to the Pacific -seas.. The
bay makes a fine harbor; and ranks as
the third best irC the world, Sydney
standing second, and Rio De Janeiro in
South America, first. The narrow
strait connecting it with theocean is call-
ed the " Golden Gate," or the gate to
the land Of gold. There are many fine
buildings and places of interest, among
which are the " Mint " ; the bank of
Ualifornia.; the Palace hotel, said to be
the best on the continent; the Cliff
house, near Seal reek, where the sea
lions are always to be seen, and the
Golden Gate park, which. contains 1,100
acres of gorgeous scenery. Then from -
the top of Telegraph hill, a birds -eye
view of the whole may be obtained.
„The climate is mild, and always pleas
ant, but not suitable for those suffering
from catarrh, . asthma or consumption,
who frequently make this their resort,
as the air is too moist, and the .almost
constant sea breeze too chilly for those
of delicate or diseased constitutions.
All the religious denominations are well
represented, and there are some fine
buildings for worship, among which are
the ' Synagogue, the 1st Congrega.-
.tional church, and St. Patrick's
Cathedral. But the most impos-
ing church edifice in the city
is St. Ignatius church and college on
1Hays street. The entire structure covers
a block, and the cost of erection was
$750,0011 It is under the control of
the Jesuits. We were to have sailed on
8aturday, April llth, but on Accipunt of
some delay in the arrival of the English
Mail, we were r.' delayed until Sunday
afterniion, when we got on board "The
City of Sydney," one of the Pacific mail
steam ships, and in a short time were
outside the gate in Ithe largest of the
oceans, and just losing sight of the
continent of our birth. Our vessel is
'ironbuilt-ten years ago, and is run at
• an expense of about $1,000 per day.
The length is 350 feet and the width 42,
with accommodation for about 400 pas-
sengers besides 100 officers and crew.
Cabin tickets from San Francisco to
Auckland or Sydney cost $200, and
steerage half that amount. The question
of personal Concern now is sea sickness,
When will it begin, who- will it attack
first and what are the best precautions
to guard against it? Some suggest one
thing and some another. Others can
control circumstances, and have nothing
to fear; but time, that tries all things
revealed many disconsolate faces in the
morning, rebellion had broken out dur-
i ina the night and spread with the terror
)
an epidemic. Notwithstanding vigi-
lance and care, many of the bravest had
' lost the balance of 'f6wer and were being
. ntrcilessly used by the internal states
over which they seemed to have no con-
trol. This state of affairs lasted more
. or less for the first three days, and after
. a ternjorary reign of peace, hostilities
were a ain renewed during three stormy
days b fore reaching New Zealand: By
some g od fortune I escaped altogether,
for wh ch 1 was very thankful. On Sat-
urday he 18th, we saw sonm flying fish,
and on Sunday night a little after dark
we reaChed Honolulu, the capital of the
Sa.ralwch Island, named after the Earl
of,Sancwich. Just before landing, the
myster, of the reported stowaway •was
-
revealed by- the announcement that a
young ppglishman had just been born in
the steerage. This is somewhat an un-
usual 6.rent at sea and is generally char-
acterized by a good deal of °eminent.
Still al are a unit in feeling that ,he is
a barn ;sailor and that his name must . be
Sydnesi- in honor of the ship. -Next day
the cal
preent
c nue a
for 21 li
a gQoa raa.ny times, and will make a
1
u've' s uvenir of the important event.
A -e c uld not see ' much of Honolulu
11,
a ter a rk, but were told that the popu-
11;1. tio:riartsg.2.es5:00b0a.naTnhaes*,nagttilta'evsacaineilyie c,loa'tiviciii
(11see71:-,sq; artikoi dm:hEeevt b re111; us,
tnzhl ivi 1 lei dtgh- blorvliaocsih- eqdts1 quiet and
02 natives, have made rapid pro-
'ess in, the arts of peace since they
muhbed tire unfortunate Captain Cook
t'). de-atl iCarakakooa Bay, about 200
• iLiIOS solidi, on the largest isla,nd .of the
group,
very ri
a pile
vast -vo
abyss of
aln altit
As surf
botton
in passengers sent dawn $30 .as a
th be invested for him till he shall
age. This at compound interest
'ears will be multiplied by 'itself
0
ailed Hawaii. This island is
e -y and volcanie. It is, in fact,
volcanic cones, or essentially a
cane, which, rising from the
the Pacific ocean and attaining
de of nearly 14,400 feet above
e, equals in altitude above the
of the sea, the highest of the
,
HimalayaS above the level of the valley,
of theanges, and as such it presents
an exposition ofthe volcano as a factor
• in the formation ft:4f the solid earth,
. which for grandeur and sublimity as a
spectael4, and at the same tinie for cora-
pletenes . and convenience of study, is
without a parallel on the globe. But as
volumes Could, be written on this place,
we Must passon ,and•merely glance at
the topie.s of ; interest : as we go. The
government is:mdependent, and the na-
tive king. KalakaMa, has a fine residence
• at Honolulu. IThat most terrible Of all
diseases,lepresy, is quite common, and
One of the islands has been set apart,
where all those affected are biinished.
Smallpox has visited -the people several
tirnes as an epidei,nic, 1.nit as civilization
advances sanitary! laws are more strictly
enforced, and the counteracting influ-
ence Of .vaccination Makes them com-
paratively safe. The 60 Chinese emi-
grants had 41 - •
arants We i board got off:here '
They are going to work on' the exten-
sive sugar plantation, Which is carried
on I)_y a wealthy Ameriean monopolist.
April 20th agalh finds us piirsuing our
way at the rate of about 300 miles in
the 24 'hours. Within our horizon naught
appears but the same monotonous, glassy
sheet of blue, and in considering we.
have already travelled over 5,000 miles,
and are I not half way to Sychaey, we
begin to feel that the world is large, and
that we are a long way from home. The.
weather is pretty warm for we are nciw
in the tdrrid zone still the air is baliny;
• and the almost ednstant breeze makes us
feel very' eoinfortable.. -
- On the 24th We crossed the equator,
and though it Wa..4 eagerly looked' for by
an English dude) no one saw it. The
"temperature - of the water here was
about 800, and fortrinately for us it was
cloudy most -of the time. On the night
of the 27th -fire broke out down.
among the • coat It ' was' the result
Of spontaneous combustion. After twe
'hours hard work all -clanger was over, -
still few .could gait°. sleep, -for at sneh a
time, in the middle of the ocean, all
realize their helpleasness and. the
thoughtless and gay,who a few moments
before appeared -to have scarcely- a key
in their heads On which to hang an idea
had elongated faces as gra,v-e as, an. owl.
On the afternoon]; of the -sameE day we.
passed the Navigator's, Islands, which
as yet are unimportant in the history of
civilizatik a small boat met us about
half a mile off tb. exchange mails and
had 'a lOt of line bananas for our
cdptain. • , . •, •
On Friday, lstMay, we reached the
180th meridian line and herewe skipped
Saturday. One gentleman on board
whose birthday fell On the 2ncl of May
was deprived of his usnal anniversary
which he could -not well "understand.
On the Morning bf the 5th we arrived at
Auckland and were very much shocked
to find'one of our passengers arrested
for murder, which he -had committed in
St. Louis, Missouri. The United States
Government had spent about $500 in
cablegrams authorizing their consul in
New Zealand to have him arrested and
had him' so well described that it was
impossible for him to escape. ; The chief
constable came out with the pilot and
met us out of the harbor and had him
identified, handcuffed and all ready for
the\police station when we „airived at
the dock, He had- been trying to palm
himself en us for a French Colonel. He
was rather gentlemanly lookina, ciiiicl -
appeared to be perfectly contented. ' He
rarely interfered with any one except a
few times when he got into a religious
discussion, when he seemed glad of an
opportunity to tell us "Bob Ingersoll is
the cleverest Man in the, worldto-day,
I believe in all he:believes, and he be-
lieves nothing." The i'affair impressed
us all with the fact that, "-murder will.
out " and how hard it is to escape the
keen grasp of the law. •
' Auckland has a population of about
35,000 and is a fine -looking city. We
. were all glad -to get ashore for breakfaSt,
which we had in one of the best\hotels
for 18 pence each. Everybody -seethed to
notice the quiet mannerlydisposition of
the .people in striking contrast with the
bold bustle and stir of Americani.
• After a stay of 10 hours 'we_Awain put
out to sep,, this time for the 4` Radiant
Land of 'the Southern i Seas," so aptly
named by Lord- RoseburS. After five
days rough sailing we ' reached Sydney
on Sunday morning, tenth May, about
two o'clock a. m. and anchored in the
hay till day -light. As we were repar-
ing to come .on Shore the rising un lit
-
up. such a sight -as we . had neve - seen
before, and one, we are told that cannot
be surpassed any where else for natural
and artistic beauty. Here the shrubs
and tree S of the surrounding hills are
-never stripped of their perennial . green,
• no ice bound fetters check inavigation,
and no winding sheet of snow holig the
vegetable worldin its cold embrace for
over half the year. Yours Respect:
fully,
J. SMILLIE. !
_
Sun -:v, Nen' Soutli Wales, May 15th 1885.
Te Be Continued.) •
—Mr. Totten, on behalf of C. Bishop,
hm issued a writ against Police Magis-
trate Field, of Woodstock, for not inalt-
inga return of certain convictions as
required by law, The stationary fine
for each case of default is $80, - - As the
number of convictions is 40 or more, the
amount for which Dr: Field is alleged to
be liable is $3,200. • In such cases half
of the fin goes to the local Government
and half Q the prosecutor. This case
has made qiiite a sensation in the town.
•- —A young man named Alex Scott,
son ofehn Scott,. of Moray, in the
township of McGillivray, made a visit
to Parkhill i few days ago and while
lounging around Mr. J. Jarvis' ware-
house, stole two grain cheque blanks out
of the book used by the warehouseman.
These be afterwards filled out for $70.00
each and iagl them cashed at Mr.
Rogers' bank.' A few days afterwards
the forgery was discovered. The man
washuntedup and brought to time and
confessedhis guilt and paid over all the
,
• money that he had left,labout $120, but
Was aceoMpanied by the baili is son out
to his father's;_ where the remainder was
paid over. It is said that this is not the
first game of the kind ,that young •Scott
has tried. . 1 . • I '
Big- Bear's lirisoners•
The Folt Pitt cori eivendent of the
Glebe, under date of rine 6th, gives the
following reportof an interview wliieh
he bad with Mrs. Go vanloek and Mrs.
Delaney; two of the prisoners who were
captured. I t Fort Pitt and recently re-
leased. 1e pticeeds1
• This mo ming; after !breakfast, I had a
half,hour' chat with Mrs. GowanioCk
and Mrs. Delaney. Boh have now to
an extent recovered froth their fatigue,
and are in very much otter spirits than
• yesterday. The; chane from the.hard-
ships : of a prisoner's life in an Indian.
• camp to their presentpleasant quarters
on board the Northwe1st? with friendly,
smiling faces about ItIern, and every
hand ready and anx ous - to do them a
service, must be ver3 Marked to them.
LI
• "I can assure you," aid Mrs. Delaney, _
With a smile,a after I h greeted them,
" focus assure you th we fully appre-
ciated our soft mattre, s last night.
'. "One can easily Ilelieve that," I re-
lied, " butI understand that your lot
meng the Indians has been nothing like
o hard as was that of the McLeans, and .
• the other prisoners ?" ! .
- "Yes, indeed, we have Much -to -be
thankful for. I do not •know -what would
have.become of us if we liad not had the
haffbreedato take care of Us."
"_These half-breeds, then, since they
were able to protect ybia
CAN SCARCELY HAVE EEN THEMSELVES
PRLSONE S.?"
" Well, it: was thiS way. s The half-
- breeds Were always anxieusfto get away
from the Indians, but were not allowed.
But the Indians Were afraid to do them
any harm, fearing that Riera: men would
punish them if they did." .
"1 understand they purchased you
from, the Indians for horses ?" I said.
" Yes," sbe replied, "-on the very day
we were tagen, after the massacre of our
husbands mid the others, at Frog Lake,
the half-breeds immediately bought us
from two Indians who had taken us into
• their camp," !' I
t
"They gave three horses for us," said
Mrs. Gowanlock with a smile.
" tour friends down at Beamsville,"
I replied jocularly, " will be able to size
up your value pretty w41 now." .
She laughed, while Rev. Mr. Quin-
ney, , who was one of the party, inti-
mated that the price only ruled among
the Indians • in the ,Northwest . in war
, .
. time. , 1 ,
• "'What are ' the nanies of the half-
breeds Who thus befriended. yelp" I asked
of Mrs. Delaney. :
• " There were four of them," she re-
plied, " Johnny' Pritchard, the Indian
'Agent's interpreter at Frog Lake, was
one cif them. The others were Adolphus
Nokia Peter Blondin, and Andrieux.
We were put under charge of Johnny
and131ondin, and remained
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IN THE SAME TENT WITH THEIR FAMILIES
,
•
during the whole' time iThree or four
• daysafter our capture Nidin started for
Duck Lake, and • said he would bring
Some others back with him to release us.
Buthe never came."
"Did the Indians ever try •' to molest
you in any way ?" • • -
"Oh yes, they were continually about
our tent, and we were afraid :to go any
distance from the tent aanong them. We
• would hear soine of them Say the Indians
who had sold us' were foolish to take so
little. ;But the Halfbreeds stood guard
over us all the time. At night two of
them would watch -- while the others
.s.les`P`litl Ow was: it Nolin, was allowed to go
aivayi frem camp?" •.
' "He got the Indians to believe he was
going to Battleford and Prince Albert to
bring news to them) and theY consented
to let. him go." .
.
Did the half-breeds who b
"efriended
you know you before the massacre ?"
• "The only one we knew was Pritchard
the interpreter. It was he who did most
for us. The Indians 1 ..
•
THREATENED TO KILL HIM
several times, but he succeeded in keep-
ing them biLek." 1 .
•"Where did the other half-breeds come
from,?" • :
"They had • been up on Moose River
cutting logs during the winter, and were
taken into the Indian camp before the
massacre. 1 : think , they came • first
from*Duck; Lake. They said'eo any-
way." • .
• "Were they allowed to carry arms ?"
"When they first came into camp
their guns were taken from them, but
after the capture of Fort Pitt, • where
the Indians ' got a lot more rifles,
they
RETUR'NED THE GUNS TO THE PRISONERS."
• "In what directi n did the Indians
move after they left Frog Lake ?"
"We stayed, abouft fifteen days near
Frog Lake, and then went to Pitt, where
the McLeanS and bthers were taken
prisoners. After th t they kept moving
• about constantly, iever staying more
than two or three da s in One place. They
seemed to be afraid on account of what
had been • done, and were in constant
expectation of the coming of the sol-
diers." i 1 •1 ]
"Only some of thm Were frightened,"
said Mr. Quinney. • "Big Bear himself
always disbelieved hat was told about
the soldiers. He
EXPECTED RE NFoRCEmENTs
for himself, too. List fall, /You know;
he went to Duck Lake, rhere he had an
interview with Rid. Riel brought him
into a splendid furnished apartment and
treated him like a Ilrince, giving him all
theilimuries he could get. Big Bear,, of
course, marvelled a1 the splendor of his
surroundings whe Riel told him his
present apartment you14 be nothing in
comparison with th lodge that would
be given him after ihe -white men were
driven out. " You will be a real Chief
then,' said the • r bel, "not a poor
_Indian as yon are now. You will have
fine horses and a lodge much bigger and
better than this, if you
,1iB1P ME TO GET IT FOR YOU
He told Big Bear to tell all the Indians
•�n his wayback about it. Tell the
Chiefs," he said " of what you saw here,
• and tat they will all soon be real Chiefs
if they come with me. My brothers
aeross the lines," he said, -`.` are going to
send me -five thousand men with rifle's
and; cannons to help me." "1 tried,"
said Mr.. Quinney, "to disabuse Big
Bear's mind of those lies, but he stub-
bornly refused to listen to me His
savage nature went for war m an case,
• and itneeded.leader." ieeodaedlittle to induce hin to fol-
low ". Well, I really don't think " said
Mrs. Delaney, "that Big Bear as Tas
bad as some of his men." ,
•" No, I don't think so," said Mr.
Quinney. " The truth is that after Big
Bear had sent them on the warpath he
was wholly
1
• POWERLESS TO CONTROL THE I.
He had learned nothing of Riel's ffefeat,
and was quite r unaware of 1 any of the
fighting except that at Duck Lake."
"Do you -.think he would have stir -
rendered had he known these things'?"
• "Oh, no. He seems convinced that
he will be killed now if he is caught,and
that is why he is holding onto the pris-
oners. I fear very much. they may be
shot if they do not soon mak their
escape."
. "After the capture of Fort Pit," re-
sumed Mrs. Delaney, ." our ha dships
were more severe. We were allowed to
ride' in the half-breeds' waggo s, but
the country is a terrible one to travel
through—all dense poplar and njuskeg.
The waggons would often go up Ito the
axles and of course they would ave to
be unloaded to get :them out.. Across
these muskegs we often had to walk. It
Q,
seemed to be continuous putting p and
taking down of tents loading w ggons
and travelling, and we were of course in
constant fear of what might be coining."
"Did they require you to "wOrk ?"
" Oh no, we were never forced to do
anything, but of our own accord did
most of the cooking and -washing for
ourselves and the half-breeds."
"You fared_a great deal better than
we did," put in Mr. Quinney.. "There
was lots to eat, but it was the unpleas-
ant shape it -came in. There would
• som.etimes be
TEN OR FIFTEEN OXEN KILLED A DAY,
and thea there would be a regular gorge.
The Indians' would. eat eight or nine
times a day, and seeined never, to be
satisfied. • After such a gorge 'there
would probably be a dance, and of all
the . howling discomforts possible to
imagine this is the worst. The poor
fellows seemed completely to lose tliein-
selves, and dance and rush about in the
wildest kind of -foolery, while the tom-
toms keep banging, and the Indiana,
yelling and whooping like very fury."
"1• perceive you still retain sOme of
.your jewelry," I said, turning to Mrs.
Gowanlock. "Did they not seek to.
take that from you ?" .
.4
"Yes,- they wanted it badly enough,"
she = said, with a smile, . "but I kid it,
and when they found after all thatI had
it, I refused to give it up. '
• THE HALF-BREEDS INTERVENED
in my belialf, and so I kept it."
The words were spoken cheerfully .
enough, but a moment afterwards when
her eyes fell upon the ring that btought
back the happy memory of the wedding
not a year ago, and at the same time
forced upon her •the realityf her
41
widowhood', the tears came to he eyes.
and I changed the subject as sha ply as
possible. ,
"Tell me, Mrs. Quinney, if please,
how you at length succeeded in effecting
escape ?" •
"On Sunday evening last,' she said,
"the Indians caught sight of same . of
Steele's scads, and fearing an attack
they got up shortly after midnight and
started away early in the morning. The
half-breeds and ourselves lingered as
long as possible, and when we got the
Indians out of sight turned into another
trail. You know the rest." 1
When the ladies "arrived here they
were both decently dressed in black
cashmere, and *though they had lost
their hats they were otherwise well
clothed,. neat, and clean: It is expect-
ed both will leave for Battleford in a
day Or two.
,
The Scat Act.
- To THE EDITOR :--Having travelled
Constantly for the last four years through
cities, towns and almost every village in
Ontario, being not a total abstainer, but
temperate, 1 claim to be able to judge
the working of *the Scott Act impartially
in counties where in operation, and com-
pare it with the counties selling under
license. Nbw, for anyone to stand up
and say, as I have often heard said, that
there is as Much drunkenness in Scott
Act counties as there is in licensed
counties, is absurd, and is far from the
truth. I have ,no doubt but there is
drinking on the sly, the same as Satur-
day night and Sunday drinking under
the Crooks Act, but the restraint and
fear of getting fined is such that I do
not believe there is one -twentieth part
of the drunken exhibitions to be seen on
the streets or around hotels in Scott Act
counties as in license counties. I will
give an instance which, I think, ought
to settle that point, which can be sub-
stantiated by. other disinterested
parties as well as myself : About four
weeks ago I happened to be in •a small
city, • not 100 miles away, where the
Scott Act was defeated. The firemen's
tournament was there. It was on a
Wednesday. • The town was full of
people from other towns and villages.
The hotels, no doubt, did a large busi-
ness; three or four bar -tenders at most
of the hotels were kept as busy as could
be. At 6 o'clock in the evening two
other business men were sitting with me
ou the veranda of one of the hotels. We
counted fifteen drunks, principally
young men,some'of them, one trying to
lead the others. They were very drunk,
1,
/hardly able to take care of themselves.
In walking around the town at 7* in the
evening, we -were met at every corner
and opposite hotels by any number of
drunken young men and old men. We
Were toldsthey were not citizens but si-
n -Mat all outsiders. So much for licensed
towns or cities. New for a Scott Act
county. Net my busir ess called me to
North Bruee • it was on , Friday of the
same week, 1 stopped at a large village
on a point of Lake Huron. Tile Nickle-
Plate Circus happened t be there, and
the neighboring towns a id villages were
fully represented. I sh uld judge there
were fully 2,500 or 3,010 outsiders, or
as many as at the firem n's tournament
in the other mentioned ity; The place
was taken up so inucl ith the circus
that'I could get no one to do business
with. There are four hotels, and as
they are all in sight of one another, and
as I sat down atthe fron of theone where
I stepped, I could well ee what was go-
ing on and how the -cr avd around the
hotels behaved themselt es. There was
any amount of treating vith ginger ale
and pop. If there was nyi drinking of
beer or'whisky on the s y, 1 could have
observed the effects of i on the crowd..
They were orderly. a °thing could I
see,' with one exceptio , that showed
the effects of liquor. T iat one party we
saw between 6 and 7 o'c ock in the even-
ing in the post ;office. • 11ne of the town
constables was there a i the time. - A
business man of the vi lage asked the
constablehow many dr nks did he see
that day. His answer vas, "Just that
one standing there: 5 w no other so
far," said he. "That man is from a
boundary village in the Ounty of Grey.
There, if you look you an see a bottle
in his pocket." The co stable was ask:
ed how this year compa ed with former
Years when under liceo e. His answer
a.s that last year when a similar gath-
ering took place he had to take •care of
several drunks whO wer unable to take
care of themselves, and hat the fighting
that used to be then un er the influence
of drink was more thiu the Constables
• Could keep down. Wh n sueh evidence
as the abevecomes fron a constable it
ought to go some leng h. Reports to
the contrary are genera, ly circulated by
interested parties. As yas coming on
the train next mornin young man
came on -in the county:10f! Grey. • An-.
other business man and mleelf were re-
ferring to what. we saw 1 in the place
• above mentioned. We referred • to the
workings of the Scott A t, and --that we
saw only one drunk. •he young man
referred to jumped up d said he could
take us to a place in ti at same village
where liquor was sold 15 the wholesale.
On further questioning nm, he admitted
that he was a liquor tr°a, eller for a To-
ronto House. That set led him. Not
wishing to 'take up mor of your valu-
able space,I will merely s y that travellers
in Scott Act counties an get as good
• accommodation at same rates as usual.
A few houses ask more. They will come
to it soon. Yours trul
A TORONTO WHOLESALE
.LIIMBE TRAVELLER.
. I
Canad
• Therewas an incre :e of 125 in the
population of Tees -water d4ring last year.
—There are . over 201 an idates •for
matriculation at the To onto University.
—After 1st . July, C nadian fish are
liable to' duty on, en ring American
markets.
—A Montreal grocer asi been fined $5,
and costs, -for selling ream of tarter
adulteratewith starch and gypsum.
• —The Wimbledon ea,m sailed for
Liverpool Saturday frm 1 Quebec in the
steamship Parisian.
—The Scott Act is • eclared in force
on the expiry of the pr sent licenses in
the county' of Chicoutin 1, Quebec.
—Mr. Garner Dingm n has sold his 50
acre farm at Southw ld Station for
$2,100.
• --The expense to anada of the
Northwest • rebellion p to 23rd June
is put down at $1,64i, 0.
—Al• species of green aterpillar is do-
ing mntic1i damage to o chards in "some
parts f Bruce county.
—The Government ave passed an
Order-in-pouncil reduci g the tolls on
grain shipped from the est to Montreal,
or further east.
--Tilsonburg !perch nts are 'asking
the Canada Southern managers for a
spur track from thatro d into the centre
of the town. ,
• a—The Ord farm near Tiverton, 150
acres, has been purchas d by Mr. John
McLean, llth con., incardine, for
$6,600.
'
—Colonel Win. Clay, who died in the
village of Norval recently, had been dili-
gently engaged in business as a merchant
for nearly fifty years.
,—Rev. Jasper Wilson, Methodist
minister at Camlachie, was presented
with a handsome purse of money prior
to his removal to 'Watford.
—Two Thedford lads were fined last
week for disturbing the alvation lArmy
while marching. The port cost one of
them $5.33 and the oth $7.33.
—David Hay, of 4Va wick, =bas a calf
three • months • and th rteen days old
which tips the beam at the astonishing
weight of 407 pounds.
—The Toronto Police Magistrate has
decided that barbers ea ot s ave their
customers on Sunday, and fined one
tonsorial 'artist for the el ence.
—Rev. D. Cameron o Luc ow,Pres-
byterian minister, has a cepteI a call to
the Manitoulin Islands and will start
for the new field shorda.
—The total vote ea, t on the •Scott
Act, in Middlesex was 115 out of a
total of over 20,000: T e rn jority for
the act was 3,375.
—The public schools *. Kinston were
closed for holidays a we k eafrJier- than
the regulation time ow g t4 the pre-
valence of .scarlet fever.
• —The Grand Trunk ilway is per-
fecting arrangements b r the construe-
tian of a tunnel unde thei St. Clair
river between Port Hu on aid Sarnia,
to connect the Chicago Grand " Trunk
with the Great Westo Div* ion. This
1 11
will give the Gland Trunk aii all rail
linueo.
efffrom Chica ro to Niagara Falls and
B
•
L • ckwood, •of Delaware
West, has sold us homestead, contain-
ing 100 acres, t Mr. W. H. O'Neil, Of
Dorchester, for ;7,000.
- —A fine of $ 0 or imprisonment for
twenty days is be penalty by a recent
bylaW passed in Peterboro', for carrying
a catapult in th it town.
—Twelve Je nit fathers are leaving
_Montreal for St Boniface, Manitoba, to
re -open a collegi their under the auspices
of Archbishop 1 ache.
• —Mr. David Hare, of 'Violet
IT
he
is the ruler of a colt with five
complete feet. he extra foot branches
off the right ' front leg and contains a
complete hoof.
—Thos. Gillies, son of Mr. Donald
Gillies of Kincardine was drowned a
few' days ago at Wiarion, where he was
employed in a sawmill.
*
—The new St. Peter's Cathedral at
London was dedicated on Sonday last
with grand and imposing ceremonies.
-There were 2,000 visitors from outside
places.
—On Bay street, Toronto, the other
day a little girl was set upon by a Vicious
dog and had her face half eaten away,
over a dozen stitches having to be put
in. • She is horribly disfigured. 1
. -a-A series of meetings was heid in the
Disciples' church, Walkerton, last week:
They w re conducted by Rev. 0. G.
Hertzog,
be an ab
of New York, who is said to
e, earnest and orthodox speaker.
—A - jcommercial traveller named
James eredith, was chloroformed and
robbed of $140 while asleep in the Smok-
ing car of a train running from Allanclale
to Toronto, last Friday night.
—Ten thousand school children pa-
raded the Toronto streets on Thursday
of last week, on the occasion of the an-
nual sports of the public schools. Ten
bands were in the procession and
number of fine banners.
The Prohibition Society in Kingston,
will employ a detective next winter to
see that no liquor is sold to minors and
that gambling is not carried on in the
city. ' 1
--Mr. G. Thompson, a merchant from
Winnipeg, who was stopping at the
Windsor Hotel, Montreal, was suddenly
taken ill with hemorrhage of the lungs,
and is not expected to survive. --
-A tramp broke into the house of
Mr. Nicholas Deitricha near St. Agatha,
on Sunday when the family were away
at church. He Secured $430, in cash
and bonds. There is no trace Of him'
yet. -
—An unknown man wae -found dead
in a ravine at Rosedale, Toronto, last
Friday. A revolver covered with crust-
ed bloed found near the body, and some
writing on a piece of birch bark, indicate
suicide.
• -s-Rev. Mr. Hall, Methodist clergy-
man at Gananoque, while putting a bar
rel of sugar into a skiff to take to the
island, fell into the water, and it being.
dark it the time waa rescu d with diffi-
culty.
—Rev. W. C. McIntosh, who has been
assisting Rev. Mr. Savage *n the Metho-
dist pastorate at Petrolea,, is giving up
his charge to devote his tiline to evan-
gelical work in connecti n with the
hallelujah band. -
—Four young men weite arrested in
Detroit on Thursday night with a quan-
tity of cutlery supposed to be stolen.
The goods were identified.by a hardware
merchant of Essex Centre as having been
stolen from his store.
• —The Governor -General's gold medal
at the Brantford Presbyterian College
• has been won by Miss Maggie Somerville,
of Dundas, and Mis Maggie R. Wilson,
of Seaforth, took the general proficiency
medal in all subjects of the senior year.
—A furious rain -storm at Watford on
Saturday afternoon made a total wreck
of all the gardens in the place, and
greatly damaged crops on surrounding
farms. • Most of the bridges in the
vicinity were swept away.
1828 a lumberman discovered a
silver mine near Charleston lake, King-
ston district, but died with the secret.
On' the 8th of June- Prof. Johnson dis-
covered the same lode, and there are
prospects now of its being worked.
—The customs authorities have stop-
ped from being delivered, a package of
• books consigned to a Montreal book-
seller from London, England, on the
•ground that they are immoral. They
will have to be sent back again.
• —The Bible Flower Mission, of Lon-
don are doing a charitable and gracious
work in distributing flowers among
the sick and delicate poor of the city.
Last week over 50 baguets were sent to
the hospital, and a large number to in-
dividual sick pie, rsons. •
—S. P. C. Clark, of Windsor, has
been arrested n a charge of smuggling,
and held in $1 000 bail by Magistrate
Bartlet for e amination There has
has:been a lot 41 contraband goods offer-
ed for sale abo t Windsor, lately.
—Rev. H. A. 'Thoma, of Wallace -
burg,. has been invited by the seket
vestry of the Protestant Episcopal
church in Springfield diopese, Ohio' to
the Pastorate of- their church, withan
income of $11250 per annum and a
rectory. •
• —The Hamilton city cOuneil has been
petitioned by the combined plumbers of
the city to have all plumbing and sewer
connections inspected by an inspector to -
be appointed by the council, and of hav-
ing plumbers licensed so as to prevent
poor work being clone to the danger of
public health.
—A Kingston dispatch says: A
schooner has just arrived from Welling-
ton Square, Halton County, where the
Scott Act is in force, and the captain
states that his crew went ashore at night
and got an abundance of liquor. He
asked them how they managed to get
whisky, when they mentioned three
hotels, saying that they got liquor in
all of them. In one place the whisky
was kept in pickle bottles, which were
filled with small cucumbers and toma-
toes, and which looked as if they held
their ordinary contents, vinegar and
pickles. The bottles were kept in the
pbaeenntreya,rarnieadtohnussufaccrestsully.
hfe deception
• —While the Salvation Army were on
street parade in Picton the other eve-
ning, a young man employed at a hbtel
turned the hose on them. A girl named
Alice Welch, on being struck by the
water fell in. a swoon and now lies in a,
precarious condition,
—Rev. Andrew Jamieson, rural dean
of Lambton, and missionary among the
Indians at Walpole Island, died last
week at Algonac, Michigan, where he
resided. II was greatly beloved by all,
and his death will leave a Malik. in the
Indian settlement which will be very
•
difficult
ithtoBry'filla. n, .• 'jr..-, eonof Mr
' , John
.._
Bryan, who recently moved from Lon-
don to E erson, Manitoba, returned
ii
home with he Doris show after seven-
teenni years absence. He was surprised.
-to find -the !Ad homestead occupied by
strangers, for he had had no communi-
cation with; the family during all the
years past. 1 •
,
—Mr: Hobson, of Mosborough, and.
Mr. Thomas Shaw, editor of the Cana-
diyantLhepr
Live Sock Journal, have been ap-
ointed judges on prize -farms this year
vincial Fair Board. The
counties cm. prised in the group, eight in
number, ari the most easterly in the
Province. The inspection of them, with
a view to making the awards, will take
place early in July.
—The Aylmer Express of Friday, 19th
June says: Mrs. Clayton, wife of the
late Peter Clayton, a very respected old
resident of this place, reached her '76th
birthday yesterday. The event was
celebrated by a family gathering. Among
those present were her sister, Mrs How-
arth, of Mount Brydges'aged 91, Miss
'Aim Beemer, aged 74, Mrs. Edwards,
68, and her brother 'Squire John Beemer,
83. The rel -union of this old and re-
spectable fa nily was a ,pleasant one.
• -Miss Christina F.- Sutherland the'
gold medali t of this seasion at the Nor-
mal School, Ottawa is a young lady
still in her eens who belongs to Wel-
lington cou ty. She was educated at
the Glenallan public school. At the age
of 13 she toak a third -class certificate,
and at 14 hr nonprofessional second A
certificate. Besides being an able teach-
er she is an adept with the pen, and
was for some time editor-in-chief of the
Normal School Exponent. She is a
daughter 01 Mr. Sutherland, of Glen-
allan, late Reeve of Peel township.
• —Last Sundsy evening a storm passed
over the town ef Gananoque, an4 dur-
ing -ervice + the Presbyterian church the
lightning struck the spire, passhig
down the front, shattering one of
the front doors, throwing splinters
and broken, glass in all directions
and making •a report not unlike
a nine -pounder gun. - Children scream-
ed, ladies fainted, and the congregation
seemed panic-stricken, and rushed for
the main and rear exits. Alex. Me
-
Naughton, who was in the vestibule at
- the time, was badly sturmed, it is feared
seriously. As soon as quiet was re-
stored the congregation were dismissed.
--I The Embro Courier s'ays : We have
received a copy of a Michigan paper
from a former Embro boy, who has
been for a good many years a resident
of the United States. One of the ar-
ticles marked is a vile piece about our
lady, the Queen, and on the margin is
written "what do you think of your
Queen?" .Well, there are people who
think more id royalty than. we do but
we think a kood deal of the eld lady,"
Victoria. _ Much more than we do of
Canadians, Who go to the States and
instead of being true to the land of their
birth, allow themselves to be saturated
with the vile blackguardism of a portion
of the Ametican-press. .
As Doris' circus wagons were being
driven in • the exhibition grounds at
a;
London las week, Willie, a ten year old.
son of Staffi•Sergeant Conroy, now with
the 7th at Clarkes Crossing, was stand-
ing near the gate. Just as a heavily
loaded tent wagon approached the boy
attempted to run through the gate. He -
was caught between the wagon and the
post, the hub of the wagon struck hhn
in the head. The by was knocked
senseless and fell down almost under the
wheel. The driver pulled his horses to
one side so sharply that the pole of the
wagon broke short off. The little fellow
lies in a precarious condition.
--W.,Metcalf, M. D., superintendent
of Rockwood .Asylum for insane, at
Kingston, when returning a few days
• ago from a tour of inspection of Public
Charitable Institutions in the Western
States,- visited the House of Indnstry at
Kinnettles, and was surprised and de-
lighted with what he saw. He found
the building scrupulously clean, the in-
• mates comfortable, and marks of kind-
ness everywhere. He thought that the
institution had fallen into good and safe
'keeping, and that the County of Wel-
lington had good reason to feeLprond of
that which is generally regarde as a
disgrace.
—Mr. R. Young, of LakeiefS died on
Friday of last week, after a prolonged
illness. Mr. Young -was an old and
highly respected citizen and a very
large attendance of sympathizing friends
were present at the funeral seri iees not-
withstanding the inclemency of the
weather.
—The Clinton New Era says; Rat-
tenbury Street church choir will lose
in a few days one of its most accomplish-
ed and highly -esteemed members'and
musical eircles here will be deprived of
one of its most useful assistants, by the
removal to the United States of Miss
M. Callander, who beeontes the wife of
a former Clintonian ,Mr. Colville'of
St. Louis. She has been a very active
worker in church and social circles, and
will be greatly missed. That she ca,rries
away the good wishes of .st very large
circle of acquaintances, goes without
saying. • -