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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-07-24, Page 1OW 4th. NM; iarcl and,: dest this ex - rely ofits 111 tset, and .e of end; loss, hout G-L7Y iIre- are - aieh, eara- dry,. etion .such ,ve a s. et one • Mr. was e the • Mr. t by the esem- f rain o the The a the (ef Raved. : Mr.... at, for g third.. ak be ad_ by - -e be ; with I Sur- airvey _East a the ra.Iu eeper, or the the O meet (et at ealth except evision halves He'T aead of of -lot :S. Car-, comer' :Oen la e or "" esume 'Mewing ered to ae for •it Aiaritye bi Ptd Fadden, eo.nderi itructed remove , roadiUegai- re thwith, on the t of the -a, and cortees- i•rthwith . taken agreed . a a August A be ac- aee meet- :Fulton's day of eople of late reg. - rat t( nem, half ala al a fi.1.1P• ;propert einem' 'tad, the aua r • EIGHTEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 9241 VILLEAN BRO3., Publishers. $1.-50 a Yearn Advance. AR GROCERY. CHOICE GOODS 'OR HOT WEATHER. st the Tiff -1g for Picnics. e Following Toothsome Deli:. cozies Now in Stock: English. 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To the Editor of 71 e Huron Expositor. DEAR SIR,—As 1 haye not beef) ne . sufficiently well acqintinted with the re- sources of this goat -island. and the many Jews, and about 42,000 Pagans and al ( Aiet inn edans . . Both education d anreligiole aided by a firm guy ernment„ are. extending a civilizing e influence., More th oro ugh_ ex plo ration s are con- stantly beiug pack, and the habitable •.parts are being gradually placed andea colonial jurisdiction. The natives, ex- , cept in the vicinity of the colonies„ wear no' clothes - and seek no shelter, except lierge pieces of . bark slanted =against poles, &c. They eat their food with - very little cooking, and often entirely raw: With the whites they are peaceful and friendly, hat the different tribes are generally at war with each other. Their. • arms consist of speats, clubs and the boom- erang, a peculi.aray Australian missile.. 0 As a race they are acgarded as constitut- ing a branch of the negro family, though , 0 . decidedly inferior to the African negro, 'both physically and morally. They lack that development of muscle that charac terizes the white mai, and their limbs appear disproportiont& to the size of • \ .their bodies.- They are, nevertheless, capable. of great em urance. In their habits they are exceadingly filthy, and they are very fond f whisky. They have no marriage cer mony, and every , man can have as myanwives at he can ' keep. Their religion is f an exoeedingly rude kind;- they beti ve in a good and bad spirit, and think that white men are the reanimated souls I of blacks ; and though attempts have been made to con- vert them to Christianity, these praise-. worthy efforts•have met with little per- manent Success; as little has also been effected by -those who .have triedto teach them to de 'any r gular work. Like the red man of Amer.ca, they are fast pass- ing away. _ The last :Tasmanian Abor- igine having .diec some years ago, and it • is not iroprobabl that e'er another cen- tury has gone intothe vaults of time, the same story will be repeated here; but unlike the Indian, they .leave no trace behind, to tell future generations - of their existence.. No temples, tombs, palaces, sculptured shrines, or colossal images, no records Of native, warriors and conqueror§ ; no memories , of the past. . Yours respectaully, i i „ T. SMILLIE. Kiama, New South ie ; ), Austr,,lia, il tine lAh, 1.8;').j ., (To e Continued.) t . -0- 1 • ' The Scene of the Rebellion. .. I : LETTER*1!ROM PRINCE ALBERT. miller and 'democratiC. The mot numetous religious denomination as the Roman Catholic. The next are Protes- tants, about half of whom belong to the Church of England. 'There are a1s8 every day life of its people, I shall not attempt, in this letter, to go beyond Pie general outlines of its geography and history. The peo le here, have not that vertise and push tl eir country' forward, -pluck and enterpri e, necessary to ;W- hence the limited knowledge of Austra- lia, possessed by other nations of the world. ; • . The climate being. grand, and inpre t• of most countries, * for out-deor life and uently the people are form than th a gives every faci, enjoyment, conse more genial - thi n exclusive, more national than d nnestic, and that at- tachment to home and family, fostered : around the fireside during the long Canadian winters, and throwing around virtue and morality their strongest safe- guard, has not the same deep meanin here. Here every man is patriotic, an proud of his country, and every heart beats in allegiance to the." Red-, White and Blue". that waves- in the breeze above him—first planted On these shores in 1770, by the gallant Capt. Cook. No further steps were taken till 1788, when the foundations of e.3ydney were laid: by" Governor Philips and his conviet diarge of about 690. During the tinily years that sacceeded the first settlement - the increase. of population was slow, and the. immigrants were chiefly convicts. , In 1835, one-half the population were eon- victs in actual bondage, and half the re- mainder were. these '-who have been liberated. I need hardly mention that , there is not so much boasting of antecedents here, ae in soine parts Of the world. In 1851, the gold. of Australia was first discovered, and the diggings • became a powerful source of.. attraction, and many flocked to this "land of the Southern Cross" in search -of a fortune, and all who .had resolution enough to withstand the many dissipations foster-, ed here—easily obtained what they came for. The area is nearly •3,000,000 square Miles, and the white population only about 2,000,000, and the nativeless than 40,000—nota man for every square mile. The principal cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Sandi urst,. Ade- laide and Geelong. There are about 2,665 miles of railroad, and 2,039 miles of telegraph in operation.. The north and south masts are marked by deep in- dentations, but east and west the shores extend into the sea in . a circular form, and .possess. feet- good harbors. The central territory consists of vast_ level plains, traversed by no running streaanis, and watered only by -the rains which de - emit irregiderly, sometimes in torrents that transform the vast territory into a great sea; and egain, withholding their 0 , 0 moisture for months, and sometimes yeats,change the surface into a burning, lifeless desert, stretching, a thousand miles in every direction,- These ex- tremes, however, occur only occasion- ally; and in ordinary years; -though the country has not yet been thoroughly ex- plored, it is .belieired that the central plains...yinmake good pasture, if; not possessing -sufficient fertility., to Supply the resource of field and farm. , The principal rivers aile in the south- eastern part Of the country. The Moun- tain ranges eatend along the coast, and semeof the peaks reaCh the height of 5,00 to 7,176 feet. Valuable minerals have been discovered in great abund- ance. At Ballarat, in Victoria., lumps cif gold have been picked up, weighing a:s high as 136 les, North of Adelaide, rich copper mines have been discovered, and in the mountain ti acts of the , north" shorekola is imbedded to such. an ex. population is variously estimated, but , tent as to change the course of the maga the -most reliable authorities place it at netic needleImmense coal fields have 1 506—of whom the areater proportiou . ' Editor400dstock 'Sentinel -Review. • Sir, -i -The sett and stirroundiu brought of Jate the people Of Q scriptien'of the may not • come lenient of Prince Albert' a district have been so prominently before tario, that a short de - lace and its inhabitants amiss to the readers of your paper. The writer having accompanied Middleton's column from Qu'Appelle and been stationed here for some six weeks, has had an opportunity of formiea bis own opinion, correct or otherwise, :bout the scene of what We may now, letm. , us hope, terthe "late unpleasantness." Befoi•e, however, inflicting thee opin- ions upon your readers, it. may. be well to attempt to convey to them some idea of the appearance and topography of Prince Albert and its environs. The village or town,1 as it might (though not incorporated) be called is a straggling t four miles in length, settlement abo situate, as ev reibody know, . on the tight bank of tl e Nom th _Saskatehemien, some fifty miles from its janctien, With the new historic' South Branch, - The already been opened, and large quanti- ties are exported to America and other foreign Countries. • There are mountains df coal sufficient. to supply the , world. Vegetation is of a marked and peculiar nature, fully 7,000 species of plants are ' found, which do not grow in any • other- : • part of the world: The trees do not form dense forests, in any part of the country, but stand in parlielike regular- ity, some attaining the 'be ght of 200 to i 300 feet, and measuring 4 feet in cir- cumference at their base. Flowers bloom with a brilliancy of eolor rarely equalled in other lands, but are mostly" destitute of perfume. while on the other hand, theplants, and :fre- quently the foliage of the trees distri- bute a'fregrance of the most delightful character. ' Beautiful G" ealams, Lovely Print, Muslius, Feeney Para- , e Gloves, Splendid line New Deaigas i sob, Fahhionala of hose, the best and cheapest Corsets tit the trade, Stu and Sailor Hats at ome lines of Ali -innerly -e are. offering away 'cost alta under, e(ocele, which . dawn. Every lady r enumerated go cell and examii Cheap . ' quirMg any of the above • ds, should_ lot to same awl prices at the Gash. Store OF HOFF AN BROS., AFORTH. Nene" of the fruits, so abundant in other tropical dimes, are native to Aus- tralian soil, but all kinds of fruit and cereals, transplanted from other. countries, become immediately adapted to the soil and climate,. and yield with. .great freedom. The orchards and orange groves of 'New South Wales, are ma.ggificent, It is no uncommon thing for 20,000 dozen of oranges to :be pro; deiced in a single season from the plan- tations of an individual settler. The orange trees are planted in long double rows; with an avenue between, and the view along the avenue -on either side of which the dark anien folia,ge of the trees- contrasts beautifully with the bright yellow fruit with which the branches are laden, can hardly fail to re- mind the classic . reader : of the fabled gardens 9f Hesperides. The fig and peacth. are abundant, both in A ew South Wales and the Other polonies. Scores of bushels of peaches are annu- ally fed to the pigs, and you can get all you can carry, during the seasOn, for a few pence. Very few dangerous animals are foimd, and no serpents of great size or venom ; but poisonous insects, such as the scorpion, centipede, &c., are come .men in many parts. The great conti- nent of the Southern Ocean is the noblest outcome yet realized by 'Englishcivili !ration. Unlike North America,. it has been colonized only by the British, and no other nation has foimd a foothold on its shores, and no country in the world enjoys- a system of government more are half-breeds. ' Like all new towns in the North-west it is divided 1 against itself, the natural reslilt of the efforts of the land- speculator to make his own property . the town site. . The prin, cipal ' of these die isions in Prince Albert is "The Mission," which has the advantage ef beieg in a central posi- tion, half way between Goshen in the east- and another 'j young city in the west. Each to number of fair:build. brick, but the inissio spect, .despite the fact that the Hudson Bay Company, variously known as the bane and the blessing of the Northwest, hasestablished its headquarters at Goshen. The whole town is built on the flat, the characteristic high bank of the Saskatchewan having at this point retreated from half a mile to a mile from the river. The • situation is thus rendered picturesque, ' but strange to ,say, the climatic effect is oppoeite to what one would nature* expect; the valley being nmeh•cooler, botb in sum- mer and winter, than the higher praitie land in the immediate vicinity. At the presentseason this peculiarity is very agreeable, but with the mercury at 62 below zero, as it was last winter, it coiild scarcely be considered an unal- loyed blessing. Even now, in • June, the nights are cool, net to say cold, and on the 20th instant a sharp frost nipped the potatoes and a small quantity of grain which, despite the treublous times just paesed,ehad been sown. I We are also consoled for the phone of flies to which we ,are subjected': by the com- forting assurances of the old residents that the August frosts will destroy them. * Here lel. me dieress to deseribe the prairie variety of tile mosquito. He is a very.agame bird of - a mach larger size than his relative in Ontario; bet while he is more ferocious, his movements are not charactelized by the same agility. and he easily falls a victim to a well - directed slap., Nature, however, reme- dies this individual defect by providing moequitoes in such numbers that an odd milliori , or two slaughtered in a dey's ride melees no perceptible difference in -the count—they are as frequent as the locusts whichicarry offthe grainsof corn. •n lot. contains a igs, many being of leads in this re - Demerol. s, the latter aam eno like the: life mise not dis should o ick plaice shoul *here tile winters • summer so short, i no fence The e -would painter, extent, Englan duletes - eminene rmous insect leer fly of Ontario, rendering able to 'horses and cattle, and tailing to !sample human flesh eportunity offer. Why' the in- d- be so numerous re so severe:and the one of those things ' can find qua I enery on. this side of the river - elight theeye of a landscape resembling, as it does to a grhat the more pastoral 'districts' of The face of the country un- ently, iwita here and there an of c nsil erable size, while in many of the ollcii,s lie lovely lakelets of dear' water fringed by willows and backed ley clumps of. poplar and birch: Half way betw of the river sten elevation of ,consi the summit of whi is obtained. On al park like country while away across Birch Hills, into w was pursued, sten tinct against the south-west are to b woods; which) a en the two branches Es Red Deer Hill, an erable height, from a magnificent view sides is visible the already mentioned, he South Branch the mich-Gabriel Dumont up wonderfully dis- distant sky. To the seen the dark pine ording the best of cover, would have effectually Prevented the mud) maligned Mounted Police from ever reaching Batoche had they been foolish enough to attempt such a move- ment at a time when they were perfect- ly ignorant of Middleton's wheeeabouts. Taken as a whole the prdspect from:this point is very , beautiful, particularly. at this season Of t le year, when nature sports her Most hecoining garb. This district, too, having becbme its beauty will have an additional inter- est to the future Canadian visitor. The farm honks as a rule, though comfortable, are etde, being built of logs, while the emount of land under cultivation is Of course limited in a coun- try virtually without a market. The farmer, the most of whom are half- breeds, appear to have but little to do, and t do even less, though their per- formaes this year are certainly no fair criterion. Still, ni a country so rich in grasses and capabl the headiest verie strange that but per eggs the andbeef 18 4ent arrival we innoc these .high . paces inflation of th cl m ing from an influx men end lachl fr. monotonous diet, reliably inforined cheaper this ye Gaticeaies, ha,rdee are also dear, 'but of producing at least ies of grain, it seems M. should be 40 cents ame price per dozen, per I.- On our first ntly auppesed • that were due only to the ket naturally result - of some 1,600 hungry sh from a somewhat t we have since been hat theSe articres are than ever before. re, dry -goods, &c., not extraordinarily' so when one conaidees that Prince Albert is 280 miles fre,m railread. One would, however, itnagine—to return to Our original sale ect--that the bucolic mind would, iii the absence of a profit- able grain market, devote its superflu- ous energy to the production of articles for which there ie a steady home de- mand, rather •th in to the holding of every possible occa- e of airing grievances, Without going too ses .of the rebellion, as our unbiased and n that if the peo- y, .white men, half- , had had more to do, d brains, the late :de. would never- have e exists here, devel- s extent by the lack urse with the rest of erilea petty spirit so less extent in small ies else -where. When nuisance obtains to eh it does here and ken, and reyolution- ressed, as they were g last fall and win - wondered at if evil 1 • blic enumeration by heir doubtless great reiteration of their naturally enough led f their chosen dema- that his white friends main neutral in the public meetings oi sion for the perpo real or imaginary. deeply into the ea we may here state unqualified opini ple of this Territo breeds and Indian both with hanids a plorable outbrea taken place. The -oped to a dangero of healthy intere the world, that pi often observed to isolated comniuni the public meetin the extent to wh rash words are sp ary sentitnente ex by many heredur ter, it is not t be consequences emu The constant p the settlers .of arievances and th 0 righteous demand Rio! (himself bile gogees) to imagin would at least, r event of an insurrection. The settlers, by their far from tacit moral support, gave Louis Riel the inch and he was not slow to take the ell. After all, people who desert civilization to take up their abode in this Ultima Thule - 300 mules frem anywhere, surrounded by bands of aborigines in a state of al- most natural Savagedom, have a right to expect occasional startling experience. Many of theih are now contemplating' removal to m6re Congenial surroundings and those who, intend to remain are ,ii naturally anx ous about the future safe- ty of their w enen and children. How- ever the increased Police Force will act as a cheek uPon the bad Indians and breeds and it is to be hoped that "Old ill either take measures to irre ce of trouble or step clown and out and allow it to be done by prompter and more conscientious i a years truly, . GLOBE TROTTER. ., June 29, 1885. an of the Superior Court, Detroit, refused to grant a divorce to a married couple from Lon- don. The application was made by Mrs. Sophia C. Thompson, for a divorce from John P. Thompson. The 'com- plainant is about 20 years old, and a daughter of 'a merchant in London. The f evidence made a conclusive case for the complainant,. and would have entitled her to a decree had the judge so willed. In his defence he said: I do not believe in making this 'State an asylum where disgruntled Couples can secure divorces which would i not be given to them at their actual homes. The complainant would have grave difficulties in getting a divorce in Canada. Only the act of Parliament could grant it. The parties wealthy, and if I am wrong they can go to the Supreme Court and have my decision reversed I do not believe, however,' that that bodY woilld take a different view from my oWri. I must deny the application for a divorce. • Canada. Henry Varley, the well-known evan-, gelist from England, is uow in Torontd. --The scaly or bark louse i doing great damage to orchards in the ricinity of Brantford. I --The Canada Southern Railway em - e, : ployes' Keine at St. Thomas, on was attended by over 6,000 peop —Staff -Captain WIey, tiou Army, was mar ied last aeek to . l, of th Capmv Captain Thomas, as, of al hitby,aat . Rich- mond Street Barracks ; Toronto. Tomorrow" prevent a rec men. . I Prince Albert, w. —Judge dhip --Two young ,.men l in Ayr, Hanessay and Cuthbertson for and battery, were fined die ot $2.50 and costs. —Jacob Miller, of Kelvin, county, on Sunday, while in a stabbed his wife with, a jackki fficting wounds that nearly prov • --At a meeting of the Paris tery, last week, a unanimous e the congregation of St. George Mi. McTavish was sustained. -'---The Kingston forwardin peaks have discharged all th hands, there being actually doing in marine. named I assault et -day Brant Ifrenzy, ife, in - d fatal. r es11 frloi o Rev.. COM- ir boat nothing 1 other day a fa400 span of horses becoming frightened Jumped from a high cliff into the Ottawa river and were drowned. The driver was baclly hurt. Le -The bodies of Privates OsgOode and Rogers, who were killed in the fight with Poundmaker at Cut Knife Hill, were buried Saturday at Ottaava with military honors. — Wm. Baker, superintenden Hamilton Street Railway for years past, has deserted his wif disappeared accompanied by Sand flie4 and bull dogs axe also very in this case ar F woyflan. • —The Right Ion. al- ea. Edward Fos- ter, liberal member I of parliament for Bradford, formerly chief secretary for Ireland will soon make a visit to Canada. . —A young farmer owned Forsyth, re- siding near Scotland, was tie other eaening, struck with a sandbag, and stabbed by an unknown assaikait. His injuries are serious. , —G. M. Stewart, of the Ontario Bank, Peterboro, is the princiPal heir of the late Mrs. HancoX, of Bath.' The be- quest amounted to between $50,000 and $60,000, —The adjourned court for the re- count of the Scott Act ballots in St. Thomas opened Monday. The- investi- t of the several , having another gation dearly showed that t had been tampered with. --Mrs. G. G. Ballard, wif O. G. Ballard, rector of Trini St. Thomas, died on Friday f is received by a fall a few d ously. —John McLangbean, of Ha thief who headed the trio R. C. 0. Benjamin'the b Richmond, Virginia, has been to three years in the Peniten —The other day $1, 500 wort belonging to a Mont, eal firm ere seized. They had been i nported f York. The duty was paid a ter settled by the collector in ary way. —Dr. O'Reilly, of the pertinent, was last week at K m ballots of Rev. y church, one injar- ys previ- ilton'the ho robbed rrister of sentenced wiry. of watches om New d the mat - the ordin-. sedum De- ingston in connection with the leasing of the old Regeopolis College for the a commode - tion of the insane for whicl the Rock- wood institution has not row . . —Two Russian barques at Quebec since the looming'. up of th war cloud between England ma 1thssia, are load- ing cargo night ant day, in ordcr to be ready to leave , at any mo lent in the event of war. i 1 . . —A few days ag the Street Car Com- pany of London Eat reeived five horses from Kincardine ; two of them are matched greys, and form a , splendid draught team. The otheiLs are fine horses,.large and suitable fo • the heavy work. —In the competition at iWimbledon Saturday for the Canada cup, Sergeant Ashen won, with an aggregate score of 313.. The following Canadiens obtained places in the first 60 for the Queen's prize: Thos. Score, 182; Patterson, 178; and. Ashall, 178. . -L-At a meeting in Detroit on Friday of Canadian general freight agents it was decided to im ose an arbitrary rate on United States ii ports o September lst, which will place Canadian manufac- turers on a more equitable footing With their American competitors. ----The Alert with " the Hads expedition, has ret irned for r St. Johns, Neevfou dland. T 21 days fait in the ice in Hudson's straits. The vessel's stern plate and iron sheathing were ripped off,, and the false stern was damaged. —Mr. Eli F. Reaume, of Amherst - burg, has had pate rted a coffer dam got up on an entirely i He is now exhibiti all over the counti n's Bay pairs to ey were ear wing, and fallen oeITer it to the ground. He was carried into his bed and died in a few hours afterwards. —The Temperance Canip Meeting at - Niagara Falls -last' week, was a great success. All the speakers announced, with the exception of one, came to time, and. the musieal programme was pro- nounced superb. The different meetings were all very. largely attended. —Saturday night, ini Toronto, a printer named William McKenzie, while fooling with two or three other young men On the • font platform of a street car, fell off, arid the wheele passed over his body. He was taken home and died in about half an hour. No blame was attached to the driVer. . —Mrs. Thos. Hopkinse who died a few days ago at Picton, had attained the great age of 104 years. She had been continuously a resident of Picton for over 70 years'. Her grand -children num- ber about 50, andher great -grand -chil- dren upwards of a seem. She was a native of Ireland. , eve and Original plan. g it to practical men , and unanimously pronounce it t thing for that purpose.. --The New Brunswick Lumber Company, allows n they 'almost be just the - Land and fewer than twentY varieties of woods at the Ant- werp exhibition. These incluc e poplar, maple, ash; butternut, spru e, elm, ' larch, pine, balsam, hemlo k,' c. eW Island, • —The silver mine at Albert county, New Brunswicll, is being actively worked. Fiftynsi of ore, lo some of which is said to be very fine,are ready for shipment.1 The haft has been sunk fifteen feet aha the mine grows better. —George Phelps an old Richmond Hill, was 'brougat pitalin Toronto last Saturday the injuries attended to,which ceived in a fight. During :tbe nurse missed him feom his search being made 4 was foun wandered on to the open para connected the hospital with th an from the hos- to have e ha.d re- ight the and on he had t which eye and I —Principal Buchan, of Upper Canada College, Tbronto, died Sunday morning from congestion of the kidneys. He had been "ailing for about two weeks. He was 43 years of age, and became princi- pal of the college about three years a,go. Prior to that he was high school inspec- tor. 4 . —The 4e-tv railroad bridge over the St. John river at St. John'N. B., by which th ' Intercolonial atielNew Bruns- wicki roa. s will be, connected, has been. complete . The opening of the bridge will allow of.a much closer connection on the through run between Boston and Halifax. I I Lotus lNhilTip W. Kneehtel, a farmer of Wallace, in if r atilisn er breaking: his skull and causing almost instant death: The deceased was 60 years old, and leaves a wife and family. - —A painful accident happened to An- drew McIntyre while oiling his engine in the grist mill at Wallacetown. He was in the act of putting. tallow -in the tallow cup, which oils the cylinder, when the molten tallow was thrown in his face by the steam, burning him severely on the forehead. —On Wednesday last week, one Mrs: McIntyre, of Welland,, aged 28, -impru- dently A-enture4 out on a flume bridge extending over the Niagara river be- tween Bath island end Goat island, when she:lost her balance and fell into the water. She was swept down and dashed to death On the rocks below: --At the recent Matriculation Exami- nations of -the University of Toronto twenty-one girls applied, and all passed successfully, some of them with high honors. The total number passed was one hundred and sixty, besides forty-six who have passed' the local examination for women. About thirty male candi- dates faileel at the matriculation. —It cost ss,etoo t remove the ice from the wharves at Montreal. Work was begun on 4th May with 500 men and 100 hotees and carts, and by the 26th of the same month the removal was completed. From a rough calculation it is shown that !about 292,500 tens of ice were• lodged on time wharves, of which amount 135,000 tons were cleared away by artificial means. —Huntingdon county, Quebec, claims to be the chiryinanTs earthly paradise. There are twenty-two cheese factories, five butter factories, and one cheese and butter factory combined, melting in all thirty- eight factories in connection with the dairy. Last season they turned cut 50,000 ' boxes, or .3; million pounds of cheek'worth $250,000 and representing at least $30 per cow. , —The extent of the strawberry crop around Picton may be surmised by the • following statistics :--.-Shipped to King- ston, 36,000 baskets '. to, Belleville 6,000 baskets a to :Deserento, 4,2® baskets; to. liapanee, 2,000 baskets; per steamer Alexandria, 6,000 baskets; total, 54,200 baskets:I The above does not inelude the quantity of berries used at the claming factory and those shipped by express. '1 : i —A meeting of the Montreal branch of the Fee Navigation League of Cana- da was held on Saturday afternoon last, when the constitution of the League was adopted, after speeches from prominent merchants asserting the absolute neces-- sity of the permanent abolition of tolls On the waterways of the Dominion, to enable the St; Lawrence route to suc- cessfully compete with its United States i - —Rev. ba,non Dumoulin, of St James' Cathedral, Toronto, has caused some comment in his congregation by wearing his .surplice while preaching. On Sun- day he told his congregation that he did not consider the matter had any signifi- cance„ as even the most pronounced low churchmen in Canada preached in sur- plices and not in gowns. Moreover, it was much more convenient to perform the hole service -hi the same dress. — omplaint was made to the Toronto police on Friday; by a man named Gray, whoitheovicinity 0000while f Gailienh t, othat tli ee had beeens inrobbedf train doming from Niagara. He was uncle4, the influence of liquor,but said he had. ot into that condition since the robbery. He fell asleep on the train after leaving Niagara, and on 'awaken- ing,fpund that two packages, each cone tainmg $500, Which he had in the breast pocket of his goat, had. been stolen. —iSenatorChapais died at the General Hospital, Ottawa, on Friday morning. He was 73 years old, and had been many years in public life. Be was a member of the Government of the old Province of Canada in 1864, and sat at the Quebec Conference Which arranged the terms of Confederation. He became Minister of Agriculture in the Dominion Government in 1867, and held thatpOSi tion until 1870, when' he became Re- ceiver -General, which position he held ;until: the resignation of Sir John Mac- donald's Ministry on account of the Pee* Scandal in the autumn of 1873. while visiting hisson-m-law, aver, near Heidelberg, assisted -the frame of e barn, when one outs fell, striking Knechtel, II was the opponent at many elections inj Kamouraska, ofi the late Governor tellier. Being ally defeated in moura,`ska he sat f r Champlain in the ielative Assembiy from 1866 to 1871 al4d was called to the Senate in 1808. I --Mr. W. Chute, of Cherry Grove, "Middlesex couety, met with an accident winch, though slight at first, proved v ry serious. He cat his finger at the joint with a nasty !machine knife. In. ti ree days after blo,od poisoning sot in. r) ...McKay, being kilt for, arrived just in time to save his life. Mrs. Chute in dressing the hand got some infection in a 'spot where a thistle had been taken out, and she likewise became affected,- and n4w lies in a precarious state. —Mr. John Skelding, farmer, On the 12th concession of a. armouth, had a narrow escape from being cut intevo the other day. Ile was mowing, and when crossing a ditch the wheel near the mower fell off, owing to the pin being loose. Mr. Skeldina was thrown in front of the knives, but had presence of mind to holler " whoa" to the horses, vThich obeyed the command, and he esca,ped. Had the horses gone -a step *thee-, MreSkelding would undoubted- - ly have been seriously, if not fatally, in- aured. - —Tae steamer Quebec, of the Sarnia line,while on the down trip ran on a rock Mthenerth passage of theat. Marie river on Tu4day night last week, where she - remained until the Ontario came to her assistanee on Thursday morning. After spending the day in endeavoring to get her off without success, she sunk at midnight. All the passengersiand crew were safely landed at Sault Ste. Marie to await return boats. The Quebec be- longs to the Northwestern transporta- tion company of Sarnia, and is valued at about $40,000. —A sink -hole occurred on thethrtario and Quebec Division of the Canada Pacific „Railway the other night. Signs of weakness were apparent at the spot for sevei-al days, and men were set to watch it and do all that was possible to prevent further settling. Despite their efforts, however the track sank dowu. for a space of about 50 or 60 .feet. A temporary bridge wits laid down, and. passengers were transferred. The cause of the sinkage is supposed to be a slant- ing rock, lying at the bottoi . of a swamp, off which the earth gradually slips. Li rival. e —A terrible drowning accident oc- curred one evening last week, at a vil- lage in the county of Maskinonge, Que- bec. A number of young men event on a visit to a friend at the above place, and. during the evening three of them, accompanied by a young lady, got inth a boat with the purpose of crossing the river, when the strong current carried them off, and the boat striking some ob- ject in the middle of the river, upset, throwing all four occupants into the water, all of whom were drowned in view of a number of persons on shore unable to render assistance. —At a public meeting held in Torotte on Wednesday night last week, the mayor in, the chair, resolutions Were passed that further admission of Chinese into Canada should be rigidly restricted, if not totally prohibited, and that the Senate accord to the act now before it, . entitled, "An act to restrict and regu- late Chinese immigration to Canada," its immediate sanction, so that it may become the law of the land. Copies of the resolutions were ordered to be for- warded to the Governor-General, the Secretary of State the Speaketeaf the Senate and Torodo's representatia'es mn Parliament. —A fatal railway collision took plaee on Monday morning on the Grand Trunk track in the- vieinity of Cove bridge, a little west of London. The collision occurred between a freight train and a construction train, the latter consisting of five flat ears and a caboose in which were a number of workmen. Owing to some oversight both trains were allowed to proceed without any warning of danger. All the men on both trains jumped for their lives and all escaped with only slight injury ex- cept the engineer of the construction train who was killed instantly. About $100,000 worth of property was turned into a mass of wreckage, —There are in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, one General Assem- bly, five synods, thirty-nine presby- teries, with a new presbytery proposed for British Columbia, embracing over 1,800 congregations and mission statioas. The Church supports six colleges, at Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and Winnipeg, In these there are eighteen or twenty professors, over 200 students, and from 30 to 40 come forth to enter the ministry every year. In foreign mission work five centres ate occupied, among the Indians of the Northwest, in Trinidad, _in the New Hebrides, in Central India; and in For- mosa. Over 50 miseionaries, native helpers, and teachers are at work in these places. There are 873 pastoral charges, 47 more than last year, and 714 settled pastors, leaving 159 vaeant charges, or 46 more -than last year. The amount of money raised last year for all purposes was $1,5(0,00a. --At a meeting of members and others, of Ontario Street Methodist Church, Clinton, recently held, it was decided to discontinue the appointment known as Alma, on the Huron road, One reason for this is that the attend- ance is not sufficient to warrant the holding of a regular service, and as the distance to either Kinburn or Turner's appointments is not far, it was thought that very little difficulty would be ex- " perienced by the people of Almaein ac- commodating themselves to the Zircum- stances. The advantage to Ontario Street Church, by the change, -will be that the pastor is enabled to occupy the pulpit both morning and evening. It was also resolved tie adopt the envelope system, and to eminence the evening service at '7 o'clock; during the summer months, instead of 6130, asheretoforo.