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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-07-10, Page 1!Id 'est. are ;ash the reep hem Per - 4 -the • halt- ta,na ill p_ L the _ 0.1Cse , • S - -rrttt, iodge 411, ?tiSto- ; of Nrieh rg- old r itto- !AL Zrl- kcithe finest , Mere,' wing :as it Were I I Mr. s for s shot- ; nart- Lion:eel krdtw- very hpa ;tit -fish xi both ;ter in •retir- et- day ngibie ia the eee. met - k4aturs ree je ene reeking 'out at from he roof estr me- -Water- turned- piacmg to of so as • — .EIGHTEENTH YBAR e WHOLE NUMBER 918, A POri1/41T NOT DISCUSS BY THE HOU' E OF ' COMMONS. I EV ENOXONTAN IN CANADA PREsin TERTAN. Most of the people of this country have heard that the House of Commons is considering a Franchise Bill. They have given it a good deal of considera- tion. They sat up all night considering it. They discussed it for fifty-three hours coutinuously and then took a rest and began a,gain. The discussion tv-as exhausit-e. That is to say, it exhaust- ed the members. In the first scene the ladies were M the foreground, but they were disposed of quite soon, and Big Bear, Poundmaker, the Revising Barris- ter, and other distinguished persons came to the front. Though not very long the debate on giving votes to the ladies was fairly good.: There wasone point, . however, in this connection, Which the members did not touch. It is a tender, delicate point for members to handle. In fact they could scarcely be expectedlo handle it. It is not like- ly they. ever will handle it to any great; extent. If diseusted at all it must be discussed by the Press. That is the reason why this Contributor says some- thing by -way of supplement to the cussion of the Franchise Bill. The paint in question is the effect that giv- ing vetes to. women would be likely to have in .1 ELEVATING THE CHARACTER OF M]M- BER OF Abstract reasoning on this point is not of much use. The best way to come to a correct conelusion is to as -certain the effect of Female Franchise in other places. The territory of. Wyoming, is not Canada, but it is sufficiently like - Canada to make the comparison fair. Women have had votes in Wyoming for •sixteen years, a period quite long enetigh to test the effect of their franchise. ' A writer. in one of the leading religione papers of the Union, published some value le testimony, showing that One invaa able result which follows from giv- inglt. e women votes is that much better men are chosen far public positietts. The women persistently refuse to vote for. an immoral or dishonest man‘ on party grounds. • We give a few extracts fi ore. he article and ask our readers to flake how they ring on the point. The Gates or of AN yommg says; r women consider much more weft DT than our men the character of candi 'ates, and be, th political, parties have ound themselves oblieed to norni- nate heir best men M oreher to obtain thess pport of the woMen." "Heis a politiCian," shouts some un- scrupulous partisan, " and he eompli- mate the ladies in order to get their votes. Now don't go too fast. Don't judge everybody by yourself. governors of territories are appointed by the Presi- dent, and, therefore, don't need votes to put them in Office. This Governor, who is peesennalAy good authority, declares that ete effect of giving women votes is that ijoth parties are compelled to pat clean andidates in the field. Women. di t vote for a besmirched,, immoral mans That alone is worth, millions. I Ants her prominent ma,n closely con- nected with the Governor says : "If a bad man is nominated, the wot men quickly scratchhis name from their ticket, and he is defeated_ They have done this sa often that now the politi- (slams kok man's character through and through pretty- thoroughly before they notafnate him. It puts both par- ties " on the trump ;" they know they mmt nominate respectable Men or they are beaten -in advance:" Veil done That is the right way to purify the political atmosphere. Hear another witness. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Wyoming sap (A. ame to the Territory in the'fall - of 1871 with the strongest possible pre- tudide ateitist woman suffraee. But e R� w ankty acknowledge that under ati niy bservations it has worked well and b en productive of much good in our ter itery, and no evil that I am able to ditcent. 'The woilien usethebanot with more independenee -and discrimination in ret'''ard to the qualifications of candi- datesthen men do. - If the ballot in the hand of a woman compels political parties to place their best men in nomination, -this, and of itself, is a sufficient reason for sustaining woman -suffrage." Yes, it is one reaeon, whether a suffi- cient one or not. -There are some rea- sons why it might be better that women should not have votes, but if giving them the franchise compels political parties to put their best men in rionst- nation, that certainly is a great point gained. But hear what one of the judges of Wyoming says: " Our women are making themselves felt at the palls, as they do everywhere eIse in society, by a quiet but effectual diseoluttenancing of the bad, and ae Itelpieg hand for the good and the trite. We are all beginning to feel and appre- ciate tied s power, and the direction in which it ie sure to be exercised. It will net be loeg before our caucuses and our emendates understand that the nomina- tion of a debauchee, or a gambler, or a drm:kard means defeat : and that a Mall }:; (x1,ct to1i elected to any office la Wtenaittg Territory must have a geed privete character and a clean re- . met A tyeteni that drives debanc1iees_gam- liler6 and drunkards out of public life, add brines men of good prie ate charac- ter awl `ie clean record to the front, is Jut the thing greatly needed in more pieces than Wyoming- A superinten- dent (4 i4e400is gives this teetimony: If a candidate is not correct in eheracter, the entire feminine vote is ag-Limit id rn, irrespectiVe of party. This feet readers it a necessity for each party to nominate good men, or their defeat is a foregone couclusion." Aud a gentleman of prominent posi- tied mulleins the foregoing facts in this av : "Though men would, for the sake of party, vote for immoral men, their s ives refused to do so, often: voting ' for the opposing candidate, and their htisbends commended them for doing it." The te timony ,thus given will not be seriously pies -timed by many except by the debau hoes, gamblers and drunkards -that the o en weuld drive out of Par- liament t t the first chance. The fact that the ch racter of our -public men would be gteatly improved by giving . the-franel ise to women, is not the whole question, i but it is a very important questton. A good many • by any means radical or point in th people, not fanatical, hi k this fact alone more- than outweigh all the arguments against a Female anchise. . es . An Oct ogenarian's Opinion of . Dakota. StiELDON,Dakota, July 3rd, 1885: . DEAR EXPOSITOR,—As many of my friends requested Inc to write to them, I thought by melting to you all could ob- tain through your columns my experi- ence of thiscountry. I expected when I wrote to have been able to give a more extended account of our journey than I can now give, but the incidents have got so confusedn my mind that I cannot keatethem, 9 I have tb pass over them. t About nine o'clook on the eirening'of the day we left Seaford', we crossed the line, and. it being dark we did not See the river.- On the following day we reached Blue Island, Note& We ehanged cars,and continued our journey west through Illinois. At Rock Isla id we crossed the Mississippi river. I such a vast body of n but would have been sa said it was a part of crossing the air got cold falling. Most of our journey through Iowa was in the night,' so we did not see much ofhat Stater On the follow- ing day about noon e arrved t Min- neepolis, in Minnesota. ' As We had to twi.a stay several hours at this fine city we took in the sights. What struck me most was its stone -paved sidedralks. The blocksof stone are of different colors, and make the walks appear as if they were carpeted. In the evening We left Minneapolis for Fargo, Dakota, at which city we :arrived early next Morning. Here we again changed cars, and were soon journeying southwest toward Shel- 1 don, which lace dv reached at 11 o'clock, a. in., wherei ss; met many old neighbors and friends eil tilting to receive us. Our thanks are chie to all th,e con - death s, and railroad employeeswho did everything in their power to make the journey pleasant to us. Mrs.Mc- Intosh stood the joUrne- very well. -She has not been troubled with a cough or asthma, since coining here, and her health otherwise has been greatly im, proved by the change. At present she is more lively and--actite than slie has been for years. Since ety errival; here, I have been busy going about this new . country visiting the fermi and homes of 'old neighbors. Their houses are all snug and comforta,ble, and their farms are such that they would not under any circumstances leave and go hack to r saw ' ould not believe ater was a river, isfied had they he ocean. After • and snow began Ontario. IA all my travels I nev nicer spring clops than they hav here at this time. of the yeaa. On th 27th of last morith a most destructive - hail storm passed over a poition of this dis- trict, doing'great daniage to thegrowing crops all along its Conese. Many former Canadians who lare now residents a the township of 1hgh1and, Cass County, have suffered evere1y1L by their crops being badly cu down by the hail. I consider thie a fine cohntry both to live and farm in, an 1 as far as I have seen of the country would Prefer livin here to being in Onaxio. We are b th en- joying .good health, and thou d the winter agree with us as well s the summer has as yet done, we sled have no ea. -use to regret our coming here. Yours, Wm. Mordrosn, Sr. The writer of the above letter with his aged wife, left here early in the spring. He is well known to many of.our readeys, having r9sided in Hullet for a number of years, and previous to that was one of the pioneers of Tnekersu ith. • • canada. Henry Hough ,-of the Cobourg World , has purchased . a Controlling interest, in —From onemillion to twelve Janke gallons of water are consumed daily in watering the streets in Montreal. - —Mr. Weatherstone of Hamilton has purchased the Hamilton and . Dundas — Railway. ---.-A young men and aeyoung girl out boating on 'Toronto bay, on Do pinion , day, were drowned. , 1 • J e --Ninety-rseemi children from Bt rming- ham, England, arrived et the Guthrie Home, London on Friday.- - . —There is a probability of the Atlam- lantic cable :telegraph tides being re- duced to 8 cents a word. i —The first sunstroke of the season in _Montreal occurred on Saturday, to a man working on the wharf. 1 ' _=Good butter was sold in Gla lstone, Manitoba, a -couple of weeks ago It' ten cents per pound. .The entire clover crop in the ounty of Hastings is threatened with de- struction gkom the ravages Of a small worm. . —The expert of cattle from Montreal o to Great Britaint• since the opening of navigation has ben 10,000 head -5,000 more than last year up to the same time. . —Peace has been proelaimed between the Grand Trunk and Canada iPacilic Railways. There will he no mole cut- ting of rates. ., --Rev. E. A. Stafford, late of Winni- peg, the new pastor of the Metropolitan churcheToronto, was tendered a recep- tion by his congregation last Friday night. _. - - 1 —During the month of June 1,468 Mindere-11a arrived in Toronto. T'Of these 899 remained in Ontario, 191 went to Manitoba, and 378 to the Western States. The nationalities were : Eng- lish, OSS; Irish, 140; Seotch, 255; Ger- mans, 287 ; Scandinavians, 98. The ar- rivals in Toronto during the hrlf year 1 SgAFORTH, .FRIDAY, - . .1U Y'10, 1885. rMcLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. ending June 30 were 4,70f. Of these 2,739 remained in Ontario, 702 went to. Manitoba, and 1,360 to the Western States. 1 . —Mr. David Christie, son of the late Senator -Christie, paid a visit recently to his netivq county, Brant. „Mr. Christie ie engaged in the "Ranching '.' business in K Mises. - - —At the(sk° ein, exercises of the WeSlpyau Lail ics' College, Ham il ton, the GovernoaGeneral's Medal for Eng- lish Literature, was awarded to Miss Clara J. tleClung, Toronto. ; - —At the closing exercises at the Agri- cultural College, Guelpheon Tuesday of last week, ' the Lieutenant -Governor presented diplomas to the most success- ' ful students. ' i —Prof. Hutton of University College, Toronto, Was'inarried the other evening to the daughter of his predecessor in the classical chair, the Rev.r. McCaul. to d—A Montreal hotel-kee er accidentally overturned' the lamp as hi, was retiring to • bed While under the influence of liquor. His body was foetid burned to a crisp. • —Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Linton, of: Adelaide, celebrated, the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding day on June 17th. Relatives and friends to the number of 60 were present: . : —Four cigar manufacturers of London -have decided not to take out licenses this ya,r, for the reason that the carry- ing of the Scatt Act in the county has killed their business. ; . —The C. P. R. Steamboat Express from Owen Sound,, last Saturday made Toronto Station; in; four hours and ten minutes from the time the " Alberta " touched the dock. —Alexander Graveline, of Anderson, Essex county, -was lately the .ower of a chicken, which had four feet, ..and walked on all four. It only lived, two days. —The eurees who went from Toronto with the Mother Superior of the sister- hood of St. John, to take charge of the military hospital at Moosejaw, returned to Toronto last week. . --A new company is being started in Montreal entitled "The American Clean Towel Company." For twenty cents, pa,yable, weekly, they .frnish every morning a clean towel of 'heir owe, de- livered tOsany itart of the pity. 1, Port Elgin at six o'clock Friday morn- ing on his bicyee and arrived M Dray- ton the same evening, ma -king the long journey of 73 miles in 15 1iours, includ- ing stoppages. . —The Montreal City Council have voted $1,200 towards entertaining the city volunteees returning from the Northwest. The welcome home will be in the shape of a public hutch and pic- nic on 8t. Helen's Island. . - —Rev. John Ross, Of Brumfield, as- sisted by Rev. Mr. McLeed, dispensed the Sacrament to the Loebaber congre- gation, East Williams, on Sabbath 28th ult. There were a great number of communicants. • _Thoinas Flynn, for ten years chief detective of the G. T. R. at -Toronto, moves to Detroit, having been promoted :to be general claims agent Or the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway and other lines west of the St. Clair riven — The Oval Wood Dish Company, of Delta, 1 Ohio - have started a branch busi- ness in Essex Centre. It is said that last year 8,000;000 wooden dishes were imported. The machine used can trim 500 a minute, and a man can make, by it, 40,000 or 50,000 a day. - —George Carmichael, a cab -driver in Hamilton, Sunday morning, was seized by a vicious _stallion he was training, and setionsly injured, both bones of the right arm being crushed and the mus- cles' and flesh between the wrist and elbow frightfully mangled. ' . .—At a farewell entertainment to the family of Rev. David Savage at Petrolea; Mr. W. E. Paine, OD behalf of the ladies and friends,. presented Mrs. Savage with $65 and Miss Hattie and Miss Annie each with $15, and Glover with $5, making in all $100. — Messrs. Brown, Bird & Co,, of r the Kingsville Woolen Mills, county of Essex, have received an order for 250 of their blankets for the Toronto Lunatic Asylum. They supplied a large number of their -finh blankets to the London Asylum, last year. —About $1000 worth of the jewelry stolen -some time ago from Mr. Trotter's shop•in Galt; was found by detectives in a store in,Buffelo, a few days ago; They also recovered a large quantity of stuff stolen from a jewelry firm in, Quebec in February, 1882. —Drs. McLaren and McArton of Paisley, and Secord, of Kincardine, late- ly performed an operation upon Mrs. D. McGillivray, of- the 12th concession of Bruce, removing from her breast a -malignant tumor which weighed six and e half. pounds. . --Mr. J. Strachan's grist and saw mills atLisle, Simcoe county and about 7,000 or 8,000 bushels of wheat and 200,- 000 feet of lumber and 350 cords of pine wood asid,slabe, were destroyed by fire the other night. • Total loss es timated to be about $16,000. Insurance on buildings and lumber $40,000; ' . • —The Rev. James Barclay, pastor of St. Paul's churth, Montreal, and family, left on Friday for Cacetina, where, the family will spend the season. Mr. Bar- clay in a few days will go to Scotland, and in August, by- command ofj the Queen, will preach befote Het- Majesty at Balmoral. . . ' . —Wesley Vansickle, a Lynden store- keeper, administered a severe punish- ment to an elderly man named Kitchen, whom he thought he overheard making improper proposals to his wife. At the police court Vansickle was fined -$20 and $15 costs, half the 'fine being given to Kitchen as compensation. — Owing to' the termination of certain articles of the Washington Treaty, United States Customs collectors have been notified by the Secretary of the Treasury that from and after ,the 3rd inst., all merchandise shipped from one part of the United States to an ther by way of the Dominion will be iable to duty as ordinary importatioi s from - foreign contiguous territory. —Satutday ievening, at le prairie Quebec, whilst Mr. ,Harrington was sit ting conversing; he happened o -place his hand somewhat sharply agi hist his vest pocket, which contained a box of potash lozenge. These burst into a flame, burned his clothes and corched his hand someAat severely. • The trial or Louis Riot will com- mence on the 20th, hest., at Reg na. —Hiram Walker & Sons, of Walker- ville, have been defrauded out of $1,000 by D. J. Williams, timekeepei in the establishment; .he was sentence to nine months M the Central Prison. —The most harrowing disk starvation prevail among the In the North Shore of the St. L The nes a delega, tribe, ar interviei Affairs. —The Innes. lto Soaapt iutradl .a tarn at proceed visit rel rest. fall. ss and ians on *Tome. grand Chief, Morse Be .On, and ion of the i- leading me of his "about. to proceed t� 0 tawa to theDepertment- , of Indian . . Guelph . Mercury say -: Mr.. .P., and Mrs. Innes, left on evenirtg on their •way to the It is nat theirintentim to re - he close of the session, but to to Scotland and Eng and te tives, and enjoy a well earned hey ekpeet to return in the , '—A erecer An Si. ' Thomas vho in- tended going fishing Thursday, filled a can full ,f- bait and.carefully tie it up in paper. A woman Came in an bOught - some sugar, -and alga carried off he can of bait, thinking she had a can o fruit. She got left,and the grocer enjo ed the little gir ,. about 13syears Of sg eldest Ince. perforni • , , ' • - .t—On .aesday -morning. last eek,.a daughter of Joseph Blackburn, -o Wood - stoat, while .teetering on a lum ter pile in the rear of her father'shou e, fell, breaking her . arm and reeeivin other injuries, vhieh resulted ;fatally , a few minutes efter the accident occurred. • • —As e„. mark of 'esteem to tie late Rev: Dr. 'Kemp, a beautiful mo ument has .beeti ,erected to his memory Bur- lington CeMetery by- the mils 1 Of the' • Brantford and Ottawa Ladies' C. lleges', in Which colleges the decease( for . a • number of year was the -honore prin- cipal. • . - , '-d-A vete', audden,', death occurred in A lvinston the other day. A doniettic in the ,,empld.y of A; J. Wood; baker named Crary, -18 years.' of age, went ou to the pump to et a pail of water, wl en she dropped dead -from heart cliseasel Mrs. Woad saw . the girl fell and wen to -her assistance, btit - the.. unfortupate Victim was dead. , ,1 • ---.-A Torontobaker named Le , while rimuneging in an old Imx Pride,' morn- ing, cut his arm itabove the wrie with .a - broken bottle. It was over an h ur and a half be ore the heinorrhage was -.topped, •and thm the unfortunate -man was so week that his ettepdants ent rtained fears for his' recovery. -- -J4-mes Robinson, a New Br uswick merchant, who absconded after securing thietedfive thousand 'dollars from , the Bank of Montreal on forged notes, has been arrested, in MeXi (a - There • being no extradition tteaty, lowever, etween the Republicand. the Dominic) , it is - doubtful Whether the fugitive can be brought back.- . •e -The unrevised sta ement Of he Do- minion bland Revenu accreted clueing the Month of June sho s exeise revenue of $1,469,914, and rev nue from canals, rents, minor public iss orks, inspection, etc.; $43,888, making in all $1,513;302. The excise from i3piritsi was $1,140,.073, from tobacco, $248,973 and froi i cigars, $41,503. Canalyield d $37,06e, . • --An amusing robb ry is .repeeted to, have occurred front the G rOlogical Metseumat Ottaita du ing Friel yheight, a thief having broken pen on of. the 'show casesand abs racted a nugget labelled ‘` Australiap old, valite , $15,- 000," but which Was r ally a pldeter of Paris imitation Of a c lebeeted, Mist:a- ! 1ian nugget, . ! .. ' .. —Master Ed. Johe ton of Wallace - ,burg, .while in sWirnmi4ig one day lately, received a, very severe cut on his shin from a sword -fish. T14e fish struck him on the buteide of the 14g and cut clean to the bone, and around the .shin to the inside of the lege making .a very: ugly wound: . He can only -.get - around: now witiethe assistance of Crutches. • - -d-John Dobson, a young farmer liv- ing near Comber; met with a. singular, accident the other day He was logging with e tea„m.of horses, tnd attaehed the end of a long chain to 4 heavy late He had one of his feet ' in the chain; and when the horseestert d the chain fast- enedon his .foot b.nd .fr ctured it out of shape. Amputation w s thoughtneces- sallyA 'sbert time age a farmer living I; near Dundas advanced 25 cents to :-a needy tramp who insisted on takitet his address for the purpose of return lig the money to him. Not having th least idea that melt a thing would be done, the farmer was eonsid ra,bly astonished the other day at receiv ne0 a letter from - ., . the tramp enclosing 45 cents, repeyinent of the loan with big interest. , --Th ere was a celebration at Tenswoeth on Dominion Deyeivien a diseussion arose as to the merit. of somelof the dancers. The result u as that a gener 1 melee occurred and tiie aged into 4i party fight. • One farmer, used a seyth , thin off a finger of R. Shannon. lilevol. vers and clubs - wet% . brandished and women participated in • the fight'. The people of that clachap must. be a refined and cultivated lot. , .—At Lansdowne Perk, . Ottawa, one day last week, His Warship Mayor Mc- Dougall called Up ,Faistache Dupont, one of the returned voyagenrs, and recount- ed the Circumstances when at the risk of hislife Dupent jumped the dOgetous rapids 300 miles up the Nile and saved. a comrade named Lavelle. This act had. been reported by the officers in charge of theexpedition to the Royal Humane Society, who deemed it Worthy 1 of their recognition and had Canada one of their medal hoped Mr. Dupont would wear. Duiont, who is a fir young raftsman, ' modestl thanks. ,• --News of the death of sent out to v hl iocohg heto e strapping returned Lieutenant - Col. A. T. Williams, M. P., of Battle - ford, was received at Ottaw on Sunday. There is a wide spread, feelh g of regret among the members of both sides of the Hoese,with whom he NNT,S nost popular. Col. Williams was enga d to Mrs. Banks, daughter of Sir Da,v-d ,Macpber- married on est. Mrs. her on the son, and was to have been his reture from the North Banks is now With her fa Continent. ' —Aman named Lapairi, 77 years of age, who resides in Twee , went in a trance a few days ago. He ;as laid out ani everything arranged f r his burial. While - being_ 'waked," th neighbors who were seated around the Orpse, were startled at noticing one, of the arms, which were folded across hi breast, ex- tended. A doctor was called in and the supposed dead- man brdu lit to life again: - . —When Colonel Miller, of the Queen's Own Went to fight the redkjinsand half- breeds in the Northwest, les. Miller closed up - the residence on Hazelton avenpe, Toronto, and went n a visit to some friends in the count y. During ,ber stay out of town she pre ared a large quantity of preserves and bought them home with her, Storing thern in the cellar. She was very mu h' surprised anc annoyed a few morning4 since, when she discovered that some thef had got into the:cellar and carried t ein all off. —In October .last a larg quantity of manufactured lumber and ties in -Heidi- mend county, owned by George P Moore, (} were set on fire and burne up. This property Was insured for a out $5,000 and although every endeav r was made to discciver theperpetrators efthe arson, it was not until a few day ago that any ' arrests were made: De ive Wynn was recently put on the cage and arrest- ed Geo. .P. Moore, Oscar Mc onald, and Robert Rhodes. McDonald : has con- fessed since his arrest,.and all were re- manded to the 9th inst. —James Brant, a farmer, of Adelaide townshipeMiddlesex, came 9ut ahead in his defence on a case of a haly fork swin- dle, on Friday at Newini,rket. The only new features in the -ces were that the note given had the words " ca - order " inserted in them, when the de- fendant swore that they were payable to Jones only. The Federal a,nk sued on the notes, which were- f r $300, and a - verdict was brought in for the plaintiff. . —Mr. Charles Herein een, Talbot street east, London, went o his stable to attend to his: horses on aturclay and found that a tramp had a,ken up hii quarters in one .of the stall . He order- ed the fellow out, who bee me abusive, - and pulling an open knife from his, pocket, threw the weapon at Mr. Heren- deen. . The latter jumped te one side, and the knife buried itself to the depth of two or three ' inches in the flank of one of the hors+. The tramp thee ran - into the yard, and escaped. —Some days ago, while a, number of farmers on the 7th concession, Wyoming 'were engaged, doing their statute labor in removing gravel from the pit, they Unearthed seventeen human skeletons, one of - which was of gigantic propor- tions, the shin and other bones measur- ing about one-third longer than those of an ordinary person, indicating that their lowner was a man of about 'it feet in height. The spot is supposed to have been formerly used as an Indian burial ground. —Dr. H. T. Corbett, who left Ottawa shortly after the breaking ont of the rebellion in the Northwest, died at Winnipeg, on Friday last. He Was at- tached to the medical corp, and was c -d prostrated with dropsy. T e eceased was a son of the late Sheriff Corbett, of Kingston, and was, for Scene years surgeon on the Allan- line and Mediter- ranean service. He ,,was pne of the volunteer physicians wh attended patients during the chole a outbreak among the etnigrants , in Halifax in 1866. . —The Canada Pacific Railroad steam- eleAlgonia, arrived at Owen Sound from Port Arthur, on Tuesday afternoon with a load of grain and a fair number of passengers. She had on -board the body of Private James Hutchison, of St. Thomas, to which place the reinaius will be forwarded for intertnent. Capt. Dil- lon, of he 7th Battalion, Leedom and a captain of the Montreal At tillery, are down on leave of absence. Several pri- vates of the Queen's Own Rifles and one of the Montreal Battery were amongst . - the passengers. es . —For some time past the mechanical officials of the Canada Atlantic railway have been much puzzled to account for the heating -and consequent11 destruction of journals on freight cars, eaessitating the laying over and repairing of ears. On a watch being set it was found that the cotton waste used to hold the oil had been abstracted front many of the cars on the mill siding at Casselman station, 25 miles from Ottawa. A detective dis- coverdi the culprits, and arrested three young men. They stole the oiled cotton waste for the purpose of mailing torches for spearing fish. -1-Mr. James Burgess, principal of the High School at Sydenham, County of Addington, Mrs. Burgess, and Mrs. C. Heutig went out boating on St durday , an d the ladies noticing some pretty flowers grovving among the rock s, the boat was tak- en to the shore,which is very steep just there. Mr. Burgess getting out climbed about six feet up the bluff, and getting a foot -hold upon a large rock, was in the act of plucking the wild flowers when the boulder gave way, and down it went with a crash, rolling upoi the boat, smashing and capsizing it, nd precipi- tating the ladies into the , at,er. Mr. Burgess also fell into the 1kle, but soon reached terra firma, and wated no time in rescuing the ladies, who clung to the boat for iflear life. Fortunately the ladies were in the stern of the boat when safely' thaero k fe. 1. Mr. Burgess then -secured anoth r skiff and ill three reached home -. —P esfeisor H. A. Bruton of Buffalo, 1 ' who i well-known as an officer of the Y. M. C.A.., and who, has been .ene of the pr me -Movers in the movement of that o eanization, together with Frank J. White,ef the firm of E. & B. Holmes, of tha citr, started from Dunkirk with a cate 'gg d yacht on Thursday morning_ last w ek, and were not heard from un- til Sm day, 'night, when it became certain that t ey had been drowned in the gale the sa ne afternoon off Stoney Point,five miles oath in the lake. Some men saw the y ht capsize. Mr. Bruton was a resideiit of Toronto until about twelve months ago. —D ring tqe latter part of last week a num er of shady sports in Toronto put u a job to raise a little money, and succeeafied to a moderate extent. They had ti kets printed 'alleging that two well -k own pugilists would- fight to a finish 4t one of the parks near the city on Su day and sold them, of course, only o• those who &slid keep their mouth shut. A large number of citi- zens b light the tickets, and on Sunday were tiken out into a lake on a small steam r,but the pugilists did not appear. The w wle affair was a farce, and was simply a trick to get a crowd on board for tbtl purpose of playing poker and in a few green ones.". It is roping understood that the little entertainment will he repeated on Sunday next, if the police, who have been notified,' do not interf(re. . —A: Henryout four o'clock Saturday after- noon, Rangle and George Cline were hoeing corn at D. B. Hoker's farm on the 6th concession of Markham. Mr. Hoker seeing a thunder storm ap- proaching left his men and went to the stable some 60 reds distant, taking his horse About five minutes • later there was a flash of lightning, and Mr. Hoker saw the two men fall suddenly. On go- ing to them Rangle presented a terrible sight. His hair was completely burned off his head, his clothes and boots tern to shreds and burning. - The hoe which he had been using was broken and thrown scene . distance. Death must have been instantaneous. Cline lay about six feet from Bangle considerably stunned, but in about fide minutes was able to get up and walk to the house. Dr. Sangster was sminnoned, and pro- nouncedCline in a critical condition,. R,angle was in the prime of life, and leaves a wife and three children. d --A. girl about eighteen years, who calls herself Annie Kelly, but • admits that that is not her. real name, joined Doris' circus at Strathroy in the posi- tion of camp follower. She was deter- mined to go with the circus, and - when it left Strathroy for Stratford, via Lon- don, she bid herself under one of the car S on a piece of board stretched across - the iron bars. In this perilous and un- pleasant position she rode to London, _where she was discovered by souse train men. When Constable Allison went to look after her she got ont from her perch and hid herself in one of the stock cars amongst the horses. She was arrested and taken to London Police Station, be- tween two and three o'clock a. m. 'on Tuesday. She was taken with severe nervous fits after being taken in, and Dr. Smith had to be called to prescribe , for her. She remained in a very dan- gerous State, al d was too unwell to ap- pear at,the police court. .Her condition is ascribed to the treatment she was subjected to by the circus employees, and the strain on her nervous system by such a long ride in such a position under the car. She is described as hav-- ing been -a good-looking, intelligent girl. Her last place of residence was Port Huron. Several railway men say that this is the first time in their experi- ence that a woman has been known to steal a ride on the train under such cir- cuinstances. It is comparatively rare for men to attempt it. _ ' Perth Items. - Fifty dollars were stolen from the safe in the Royal hotel, Listowel, a few days ago. —A vote by ballot is to be taken in Knox church, Stratford, from members and adherents, to decide the queetien of procuring an organ. —Knox church, Listowel, has in- creased 109 in membership within the past eighteen nionths, and since the int duetidn of Rev. Mr. Campbell. John Mason, foreman in the Stratford Beacon printing department for. the last twenty years, left a few days ago for a trip to Scotland. —The cheese fair held on Thursday last week, was the largest yet held in Listowel. Forty-one factories register- ed 16,408 boxes principally June make. —Mr. Archibald McCurdy, of Kirkton who had been suftering with that linger- ing disease, diabetes, for some time, passed away a few days ago at the age of sixty. —The editor of the Mitchell Advocate has been feasting on new potatoes, pre- sented by Mr, Goforth of Logan, he says they waked well; but how did they eat? that is the question. —A surprise party visited the Metho- c ist personage at Listowel, previous to ,t he departure to Guelph'of Rev. J. W. Iolmes and family, and among other things left behind when they retired, was 4 purse containing $71 in gold. --The committee appointed to arrange for the inauguration of Stratford as .a dity, announce a grand gala day for Wednesday, July 22nd, and have ar- ianged a fine programme of sports. - 1 —Mr. J. Ellis, who was manager in the Stratford woolen mills 18 years ago, timesince he left it. Hewes astonish- isited the city last week for the first d at the progress the town had made. Vhen he left, the population was a little_ ver a third of what it is now and the xtensive manufactories, substantial limildings, handsome churches and ele- ifant residences of the present day .were - _ hardly even dreamt of then. Mr. Ellis is now thriving in Port Dover, where he owns about 7 large pop knitting manufactory, and e —The Ellice council has awarded the Contract for a large drain eleven miles long to a Mr. Elliot of Brantford, for $9,990. This drain starts at 13th con- cession and has its outlet in the Mait- land riker in Elma. .—The Orangemen of Perth and neigh- boring counties will celebrate the anni- versary of the Battle of the Boyne on a grandscale in Stratford on July 13th. It is estimated that three hundred lodges will form in procession. —Wm, H. Adams, for many years an active and respected citizen of St. Marys, died on the 1st inst.., after an illness of about four months. He had been an enthusiastic cricketer, and "Old White Hat," as be was familiarly styled, will be mourned for by many a cricketer frotti St. Marys to Detroit, —Mr. William Bright, town clerk of Listowel, has purchased. ;the Miller farm on the toerline between Morning - ton and Maryb rongh, for $4,000. The farm consists of one hundred acres, is all cleared and fen ed into ten acre blocks. It is one of the nest farms in the town- ship of Mornin ton. —At the session of the Perth County Council at Stratford On Monday the 29th ult., the following tenders were read for the erection of the new county buildings. -d-John E. Ashworth, $07,000, Thomas Orr, 66,800; Thomas Greene & Co., $66,700; Scrimgeour Bros.; $65,400. The contractwas awarded Messrs. Scrim- geour Bros., of Stratford. —The funeral of the late Mrs. Perci- val Armstrong, of the West Mitchell Road, which went to St. Marys Cem- etery, the other day, was one of the longest funeral processions ever witness- ed in the county, 114 teams forming the • cortege. The deceased was the daugh- ter Of the late Richard: Switzer, Esq., of Blanshard., and was universally respect- ed. She was only- 19 years of age. - "—The grand prize drawing at "Cheap- side'Stratford, took place on Wednes- day last, week. The handsome set of drawing room furniture was won by Mr. J. Lavell, a Grand; Trunk conductor, who held No. 2,370, and the sewing machine fell to Thos. Little, a workman in the Grand Trunk shops, who held the next number_ The number of buttons in the bottle was exactly 2,370. —Mrs. Hicks sr. of Mitchell, relict of the late Col. John Hicks, died on Thurs- day last week, at the residence of her son-in-law, Rev. Mr. Kirkby,: Collings wood, where she had gone on a visit a few days previously. Mrs. Hicks was one of the earliest settlers, having taken up her residence with her husband on the Huron Road when the place where. Mitchell now is was an almost unbroken forest. She was widely known and highly respected. —The annual picnic was held at Irieh- town on Dominion day, and, as usual, was largely attended. The day was most favorable for the sports, the weather being cool, and the dancing was kept up with much zest until late in the evenings The yOung men enjoyed them- selves at games Of foot ball, and numer- ous swings were kept going throughout the afternoon , Recitations, dialogues, &c., by the school children, formed an intdtesting part of the programme. The, Very Rey. Dean Murphy was favored with the presence of Rev. Fathers O'Shea, Keally, Carl:big and Moir, be- sides a large number of prominent lay- men from Seaforth and Mitchell. —During a visit of inspection of the Grand Trunk Railway property at Strat- ford the other day, by General Manager Hickson and other railWay magnates, the fire brigade at the shops turned out very promptly in answer to the call and got a powerful stream of water playing on the buildings in a very few moments. Messrs. Hickson, Stephenson, Hanna- ford,Wallis, and- others were standing loeking on, when the section of hose against which they stood burst, and in an instant the whole party were deluged with water. Mr. Hickson and Mr. Wallis, the Mechanical Superintendent, 'fared the worst, and with pockets full of water, and clothes ringing with it, were forced to retire, and after squeez- ing out all th e water they could,to complete their tour of the shops much in the same condition as a shaggy deg who has just been swimming for a stick. ' —Mr. Wm. Jackson, the famous hat- ter of Clinton, has furnished the mem- bers of Goshen Line, Stanley, and Bay- field Orange Ledges' with helmets, over fifty in number. —The death is announced of Mr. Archibald McCurdy, sr., of the 13th concession of Usborne. Mr. Mc- Curdy, who was much and deservedly esteemed in- the vicinity where he has so long resided, passedaway on the 2Ist ult. • He was born in the County, of Antrim, in the year 1819,and was there- fo e at the time of his death66 years of age. 1.1 .emigrated to this country in 1848, se Ming firid in the township of Fuller - to 4 County of Perth, where he lived a fe v years, after which he removed to U borne,where he resided till his death. D scending as he did from a long-lived al cestry, his years were comparatively fev, but the most rugged of constitu- ti ns give way before the ravages of disease, which was particularly math - feted in his case. For about two years h was afficted with a very painful di ease, during the last six months of w rich his eufferiug was intense, yet be bore it all with Christian fortitude, and constantly exhibited that patience and hdpe known may to those whose hope is fo tided on the " Rock of Ages." His e d was a peaceful passing away, as one fa ling asleep. Through years of patient tol and a life of probity he hadaccumu- la d a fair share of this world's goods, al of which remains as a monument to rseverance and industry. He leaves a ife-, three sons and two daughters mourn their 'great and irreparable lo s. , .e -