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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-08-28, Page 1-„, 4 b NTG- RIES, .,:dtictimes bet , 04th. srs. Mitchell hreshing this ;ntlemen that ten would do rews Record. prevalent iu entertained lunch. this year in s has been ene church, Mit- alillalien are Home" from 1SL P. P. has 1 Agricull• aral , ratforcl. a 10 u. Fettle, fell pis leg. acher in St. r the past ten tuition. layed between ket clubs, one KiddeV. a flyiug ball. MS ret armed to oimtry,lwhere his studies for itter from the • kh Easthope, Leis Mr. Branw, ts per Fran& ly's make of r day from . Stratford at t dSOT, Metho- - taker. a few f his health. 27 years the -en la:alders. e 30t1I June ere made at eh amounted m St. Marys Mitchell, has a.& entirely to II leave foi- e his favdrite se' of his photo were tender - eat of KIIOX after par - music and pleasant time ly cattle fair es, of Logan, stook at from • There Waif er offered for y teacher in f the Public engaged fora cited Central ip the moults iary of $864 a o and family' Marys to the where he hes . Sommerville - s of 23 years, regrekied by 1 ecirge Moeeei vas. hitching en- his father a barrel on his took fright, pole of thse, ose, tearing Its Little hopes ained. see, pastor* of . Marys, ia if tuat session ament of the ion at the St -- -ground. Tb.: me is ea the 1. s and one sett - EIGHTEENTEE YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 924. SEAFORTH, MAY AUGUST 28, 1885. mcLE,Alq BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. pRAND Genuine Clearing Sale —AT T ff Cheap Cash Store H offm a n Bros., SEAFORTH, Tremendous slaaghter of Dry Goods. Every article and all Goods in the place will be sold regardless of cost. We lhold this sale in circler to make rooni for NEW F+LL GOODS. Don't confound this sale with the so-called I ° clearing sales generally advertised. We do exactly what we say, and all you re- quire bade is to, call at the Cheap Cash Store and _be coivinced.. Come one, come all. No trouble to show goods. •i'Vre want everybody to see the goods and prices, and eatend a hearty wel- come to all. Remember the spot, the Cheap gash Store OF-- HOFFNIAN BROS.,' ` SE ORTH. —Tuesday afternomi Mr. Thos. Stock and four ladies were driving over the high iron bridge } over the Grindstone creek between Waterclown afnd Burling- ton, _ Went,,vorth county, and met a heavy loaded lumber wagon in the mid - die; of the bridge. I The space vas too small to admit of the free passage of the two vehicles, and the wheels became locked. The horses attached to the democrat in which the ladies were seat- ed became unmanageable, and Mr. Stock was thrown from his seat clean over the bridge. In his descent he grasped the _ wires and vas suspended_ by them until tke driver of the, other team rescued hrm. Had he not been so lucky in ob- taining a hold he would undoubtedly have been dashed to pieces, as the bridge is over 125 feet high. The ladies were also pitched out and sustained injuries more or less serious. —Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fortner, of the 13th concession, Lobo -who weremarried. and moved t� Lobo forty years ago,wish- mg to celebrate the anniversary of their fortieth wedding day,gave a large dinner party the other day. The guests on the occasion were_ their sons, and daughters_ and their families, mimbering in all, in- cluding themselves, forty-one. who sat dawn to one table spread on the lawn beneath the shade of the beautiful ever- green grove sutra -ending their residence, and among the fruit trees bending be- neath their burden of ripe golden fruit. All partook heartily of the many choice delicacies provided in memory of their wedding day forty years ago. The con- trast indeed was very great betweenthe meal partaken of on this occasion and a dinner eaten by Mr. Fortner forty years ago, seated at the foot of a tree in the same place, amid the howling of wolves and surrounded by thick forest on every side, —Professor Tanner, of London, the Government examiner of agricultural classes in England,, is in Ottawa on busi- • ness with the Department of Agricul- ture. Professor Telma is taking an acthe interest in immigration matters, and has a scheme on foot, which, if adopted by the Government, will likely prove advantageous to the Dominion. In Great Britain the Imperial Govern - meat give a regular course of instruction to about nine thousand agricultural young men and women annually; of these about six thousand go before a board of examiners, of which the Profes- eer is a:member. A large proportion of these are the sons and daughters of far- mers. The Professier's visit to -Canada on this occasion is to endeavor to increase the facilities for passing these people over to some of the older Provinces as well as to the Northwest', In addition to the class of young people above allud- ed to, there are many -others wile have a small amount of capital, who promise .to make good settlere, and are eminently suitable to this cOuntry, but to make their course successfu1. necessary means will be required to be adopted whereby they can settle in small villages instead of being isolated. The necessity- for :inch an associated system of residence is 14 the purpose of, mutual benefit, and they claim it is absolutely necessary for the protection of small capitalists and the maintenance of friendly a,ssociations. 'The Professor has received some encour- agement from the Government, and feels confident that his suggestions in connection with the scheme will be early acted upon. AUSTRALIA. , To the Editor of The Huron Expositor. - DEAR Sin.--" Health is wealth," and this countay has it. The people are re- markably plump and ruddy, and all classes, except doctors can make money if they like. Doctors fees are very high, still in this colony many of them are poor, so few require their services. Teachers and ministers are well educat- ed and well paid, but many Of the latter are pretty prosy, and from some cause producing the same effect in all climes, they lose their individuality and in- fluence, and walk and preach in circuit- ous ruts that grow deeper with their age. If *some of the hackneyed Canadian ones were here they would be appreciat- ed and better paid for the little they do than in a Country where they are so often subjected to a comparison with their superiors, for Canada has the repu- tation abroad of having and producing many clever men. ; ! I The laws are good and well enforced, which makes it a good field for lawyers, as more than half the population cannot boast of . a very honorable extraction; and the drinking customs and disipa- tions tend to disorder and disobedience. Drink is the curse ' and stain that has left blotches of corruption on the fair face Of this country, and many a bright future and comfortable home has been sacrificed at its shrine. The, public hoeses are in every corner, and you cermet go, many miles without seeing one, but good stopping places are few, and good licitelS can be counted on the fingers of an aimless soldier. Trayel; ling expenses are high, and 'board More than double that of Ontario, we are pay- ing 25 shillings per Week at present. and that is the cheapest we have had, we gave two guineas each in Sydney for; no better. The reason isnot because food is high, for in most cases it is cheaper than,iin Ontario; but house rent is very highs and good servants can ' hardly, be got at any price. Very ordinary girls, who know little about cooking, get, 12 shillings .per week, and ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry men 8 shillings. for 8 hours work, or a shilling an hour, while' artisans get from 12 to 15 shillings per day of 8 hours,and that not for a few anonths of the year as in 'Canada; but all year round, for the weather here never stops any sort of work, except when it rains, and that is not as often as people would like: It has been unusually dry for the peat three years, and a great deal of suffering and loss r has been the result. It is estimated that 20 million of sheep have died in that time for want Of feed and water, also' many horses and. cattle. A few weeks ago the people here were paying 5 shillings per barrel .for water, but we have had 3 or 4 days rain lately, and the supply is _sufficient at present, but it has all to be filtered before being used, and is not eery good even then., , My brother and I are, at present, in the town of Wollongony, in the District of Illawarra, about 60 miles south , of Sydney. 1 This ranks as the thard sea- port town in New South Wales, and is built on a nice plain, behind which the ragged peak of Mount. Kelm, • rises 12e hundred feet above the sea. Here is to be found one of the most extensive coal mines in the colony.* My wife and sitter -in-law went with Me on -Saturday to. see it, and Mr. Biazher, one of the managers, very kindly spent two hours in showing us through. The opening to the mine or tunnel is 800 feet up on the side of the Mountain, and to give some idea of the extent, excavations extend in various direetions, as much as one and a half miles from the opening. The mine his been in operation for 20 years, and at present about 250 miners are employ- ed in connection with it. 1 The whole in- terior Of the mountain is made up of im- mense 'veins of coal, one on top of the other, and each about_ 6 feet high, aect there is no place in the world -= where it is so easily got out, all the *fees have to do, is to loosen it with aipick, and loadit' on trucks, which are -Intinght to the main line by horses, then by steam to the mouth, *here they are emptied into larger train cars that convey it down to:the sea; where it is emptied into the boats for about 10 shillings per ton.. The miners,- Mostly all, make good - wages, some as high as £5 per week. -Still, few of them eave any money, for as soon as they are paid on Saturday afternoon, which is a holiday to there, they go in ‘ for a ' booze" till Monday morning. Mount Pleasant mine is just about 'half a tisile north, end Moimt ,Keinbla mine about a. mile south, but neither of them are so extensive, though Wrought on the same principle. The next Most important export is butter, for this is a dairying district,and the land is cut up into farms of from one to three hundred acres, and all is used for pasture, except little patches for green feed for the cows. The batter is good, and !brings- a. higher price than that from any other _part, of Australia. There is !o e creamery with American machinery- which gives good satisfaction and pays ell: The farmers are very lazy, and do not try to improve either their farms- or anything else. They have never beerraccustomed to work,and wont do it. Every kind of fruit will grow here, yet few of them have any orchard, or even a garden. When they take their butter, calves and pigs to the Market, they buy What they ,need, which has been imported from other parts. They will even buy and draw home feed for 1 their horses and cattle in the . winter, when the ipasture is poor, rather than raise it. Carts are their principal vehi- cles, and they made so heavy that an empty one is a lead for a horse. I have seen ' at many as four in ti, line in front of a ea:ft, and the driver walking along side i with -a big whip, Which he seemed quite proud of being able- to handle -well. Some use oxen instead of hisrhes, and in taking a eart load of lum- ber up. the mountains they sometimes put on seven yoke. The roads run zig- zag and every other way, and it is pretty • ,. 1 hard to find how far it is from one place to another. They mostly calculate by how long it will take to.goto a certain point, east and west, north and 'south, many of them have not .learned yet, as the tnountain and creeks are their more familiar guide . I Riding on 1 orseback is a favorite ex- ercise and me ns of travelling. Nearly every lady and gentleman can ride well and manage a horse to perfection. It has often occurred to me, why do Cana- dians ride so little, seeingthat it is such a convenient way of moving quickly from place to place, and when horses canter nicely, as all saddle ones do here, it is very pleasant. The colonial would rather go half a mile for a horse to ride than walk b. quhrter of one. Horses are about the , seine -price as in Ontario, but more feriay in color, very pretty piebalds,beingccommon. They are gen- erally euperior in quality, with better developed meseles, and very few of them are diseased 1 or lame, simply because they run out all the year, and their blood is never overheated by excessive feeding, or their feet ruined by standing for weeks at a time on a dry plank floor, till -their hoofs get contracted and use- less.; When working they are fed prin. ci0.11y On oat chaff mixed with corn. They are hardly ever tied up or kept in the stable, and when through with their feed at liberty to go into the paddock and pick for themselves. .Many of them have never seen a stable, and are fedi in a box nailed to the end of the house' or fence as convenience may direct. The cost of keeping one when fed at the hotels in travelling is about eight shil- lings per day—two shillings for stable over night, and two shillings for every feed; or, as the natives say, "Two bobs a Clip." Pasture here ' is -about the sane as .in Ontario. ' Though this is mid -winter, .and early morning, the weather is beautiful, and one can sit &even for hours in the open air without .batehing cold, and behold, with enthusiastic interest the vastness and grandeur just being lit up. Behind us Ithe Unknown jungles -of Australia stretch 2,600 miles westward; and befere us rolls the great Pacific, whose waves wash the shores of our native land. Asetty on the skirt of the horizon, as if emerging from its morning bath, we See thel same sun, that clears away the night from Canadian homes, rising to she a more brilliant light o'er this rugged land of hill and vale. Yours very truly, , .. 1 J. SMILLIE. W ollongong, N. S. W., July 13th, 1885. ' t (To be continued.) Canada. ! -1-The Salvation Army have let the contract for a new $5,000 barracks in Hatnilton, on Hunter street east. , -+-Recent heavy fogs in parts of the county of FrOntenac have caused seridus injury to the potato crop; the tubers ret - ting in the ground in some places. - ! . —An .electian under the Canada Tein- perance Act is appointed to' be held in the ounty of Peterboro, ion the 24th September. .• . -.1 r. Geo. Sharp, of Waterloo, lest. i , I .., 1, week cut for Mr. Wm. Marshall 7i acres ()floats in four hours, with a Max- well reaper with a medium sized span of. horses.• I • —An order -in -Council is -published disallowing the ordinance of the Council of the Notthwest Territories respecting the exemption of certain articles from seizure for debt. —Hay fork sharpers have! got the start . of two Egremonttownship farmers, one to the extent.of $50, and the other $300. They signed an 'innocent looking ."agreement." ; •1 i —The spring wheat in the Comity' of Victoria is nearly all destroYed by rut. Many farmers are cutting their fields f it for feeding purposes only, as it wl1 not be productive enough for threshin —Mr. J. M. Anderson,teecher of Ea4t Williams, rode on a bicycle !from his r - sidence to the ' corporation limits , f Straahro on Saterday last,a distance jf 84 miles in thirty-six minutes. - --,-A private letter received from Sr Daitid Macphefson, who is at present s :, journing lin Germany, contains the intel- ligence that Sir David has much improir. ed in health. I , - 3 -i-Mrs. John Quirt, oneag the old set- tlers of Arthur, died last week at the ac- vanced age of 95 years. She was a natie e of Ireland and emigrated to Arthur 1825. ! • —Mr,- John Wade, of Grand Ben had his house -andcontents destroyed by fire last Friday evening. Nothing was saved but the organ and 6 few sma articles. No insurance. •' —A respectably dressed man name Grant was found lying on the roadside near Napanee nearly dead from starva- tion. He was tramping from Toronto to Kingston, and had not tatted food Mr some time. . —Mrs. D. White, who has been a resident on the Paris Plains, , Brant county, for over forty years, died last week at the advanced .age of 82 years. She was a person who was greatly esteemed for her many virtues. -.The Pacific Railway syndicate -a nounce that they will not require th $5,000,000 of treasury bills granted thert underthe act of last session, as the . have been able to float $15000, bonds. . . —James Frazer, an apprentice in th moulding shops of Buck's stove works Brantford, while carrying molten iro Friday morning, spilled some of th metal on his foot, burning it in a dread ful manner. • • —On Sunday morning, between 5 an 6 o'clock, the barn Of Mr. Lawrenc Tape, three-quarters of a mile north o Highgate, in the County of, Elgin, as struck by lightning. The barn and colt - tents were completely destroyed. The barn contained the crop of wheat off twenty acres of this year's growth,about twenty-five bushels of old wheat, twelve tons of hay and some implements. The barn was a valuable building,and undee- neath it was the stable in which was de- ! stroyed $150, a about $ —Las driving Bay Mr was thr no bone seriousl —On •Mr. Ge of Midd his fath by a° r medical • —Spr is ruste • yield. Arthur, belt, re age. --Dr. tor of Kingsto murder doubt is accused will be —The ation ha pounds and if • market, surplus —Mr. ters en Dickson into the ing is a Mr. Dr jured.- his". thoroughbred bull, wort d sot e sheep. Loss altogeth r ,600. No insurance. , 'Wednesday evening ,whi e from Waubashene to Sturgeo Geo. Cormack, sr., of Male Wn from his buggy. Althoug • were broken Mr. Cormack w s inj red. Zatutday last a boy belonging o . Anderson of Brigdon, county esex, while out in the field whet r *as reaping oats, was bitteh' Westlake in his heel. -Under treatment he is rechtering. g wheat inthe vicinity of Ga t • so as to seriously injure t e Joni the north also, in ti e Luther, Proton and .Melancth . is Ms ere current of serious da • O'Reilly, the Provincial Inspe risons, has laid information t charging Maloney with t e Of the late Dr. Metcalf. Sol e entettained as to whether t e really insane,and the piesti n Wed by his trial. Lucknow Bee Keepers' Assoc - shipiped about eight hundr d f extra,cted honey to. Liverpo 1, it is found to be a profita le they will in future ship all th ir Obey to the Old Country. J. Thryclen, one of the cere - aged in shingling the roofof s Mills,inGalafell from the r of mill race- Although the bui cl- ut BO feet high, strange to s y d•en ives but very slightly IP 1 —A was sen •onment obtainin characte life, and decent e —The amongst the Co present twhieur ebf reo promise —The farm ne instantl neer, a Duncan • cord woo gine an —Also 't 3 o'clock Sunday morn'ng, fire waslebserved issuing from the oof of Mr. ugh Mustard's new flea ling mill in • yoming, and in an hour the w iole edifiee, with its 'valuable tnachin ry, was in ins. , The loss is about $20, with an surance of $11,000. —Mis Airth, a young lady W ose home is et - Shelburne, Ont., but Wh • is at prese t visiting relatives in Florida, -has rece tly received froth the manage- ment of the IVorld's Exposition in New Orleans • diploma and award of 'merit • for a b • ; tifully etched table, which she had on e hibition there. —The city ,of St. Thomas is an un or- tunate p ace. During the last two y ars 75 -perso s have been killed, 51 on, the railways and 24 otherwise. In the, s me time the 6 have been 93 accidents wl ich did not esult fatally, 64 on the rail ays and 29 o herwise. - ---Las week a farmer 'mined John on, near Sto ey Point, Essex county, ho had con entecl to act as an agent nd signed a contract for a consignmen Of patent h y forks, was requested to my a prornis bry hote for $350 that he n ver saw befo e. —Mr. Robert Cantlan, of the To n - ship of rthur, has recently purch sed of rm. st, in oung girl named Mary Tay or • i nce4 to three months' imp is - in -London the other day, for a situation by means of a foried . She had been leading a fast took this method of obtaining tployment. e is some rot showing :Itself the•potatoes in various 'parts of nty of Elgin, and • should he et , weather continue the 1 ss on anything like heavy 1 nd enous. The I crop, otheraise to be a. very heavy one. 1 boiler of a steam thresher, o a r Forest, exploded on Frid y, killiug Jas. Duncan, the e gi- d badly injuring two Oth 1-8. Was blown through a il of and torn to pieces. e en - boiler are totally wrecked. • ; 111 the, ' W llace " fan in Townshi Egremo t, Countof Grey. This f is mil§ t ree miles from Mount For and sup osed to be one of the fine 'the coun . It cost $4,880. 1 . - —The songregation of Knox Pre:by- terian C firch, St. Thomas, has exten d - ed a call to Rev. F. W. Archibald of Truro' 4oVa Scotia. The stipen is $l,501,w th manse and four weeks' holi- days. be pulpit was rendered va ant by the d parture of Rev. M. Fra,ze Hamilto . • -I —A valuable; grey mare, the pro of Dona d cRite, London towns ip, jumping n a picket fence. Two p ek- 141 'met wit a very serious accident by ets ente ed . her abdomen, tea nd thirty in hes, inflicting a very dam er- • ous wou d. It is thought she will re - wirer. - —Mr. ugh Carthichael, son of C as. Carrnich el, .one of the pioneers of obo township died suddenly from blee ing of the lu gs OD the 12th inst. Not ith- • standing the •busy season, the fu i eral processio was the largest ever se .4, in the town hip. Deceased was 53 yea s of age, and eaves a widow, four daug ters and a so to mciurn his loss. --A w st Nissouri farmer named m. Noar w driving a fine team of hi rses upon a fr • nt cut mower one day rece I tly, when he pped one of the animals ith the line. • This caused the other hor e te spring o t and backward in front of the knife an one of its legs was cut off above th hoof. The animal had • be shot. •—Mr: as. Mines, aged 21 years, of Mount rydgei, 'While helping thresh- ing at D r. Bireh s, concession 4, Cara- doc, On i onday last, had the misfortune to catch I is pitchfork in the large driv- ing belt, driving the handle into his ited to rty c 8 1 a a A ti a a a parents sey that their mother Jas three eis, years older than their father,h ce their certainty of the patriarchal ag of the deceased. Mr. Cummings was born in i Tyrone, Ireland, and when a y ung man left his native country for cotland ; from there he emigrated to Canada. —A boy of twelve or thirteen years of age presented an order for eighty-five cents to ti. merchant in St. Thomas the other da'. He was paid the money, and afterwards it was discovered that the youn chap had raised the order .from eighty-two cents to eighty-five.' This is th smallest forgery on tecord. —Mr. as. McLaren, who has for some thne canted on a float' and feed store hi Galt, has old that business to Mr. Jas. Finlay, and has purchased from Mr. Alex. Co key one of that gentleman's Clyde, Beverley. The farm • 100 acres, is well utder mi- nd the price paid was $4,500. alt Reporter says: While in s the turnip crop pr mites all there, in rust has likely to sly. The d decay farms nea consists o tivation, —The many cas that can be desired, here an certain +thins, a species o shown i elf, which appears leaves ass me a reddish hue, ti injure th crop very ,serio almost iminediately sets in. —J. It Spackman; well- nown in 'theatrical circles in the Dominion and tes, died at Toronto on Sat - ht, after a linger 'g illneas. ered from Bright's isease for e leaves a young wife and three chil rem the youngest 'baby arms. -e-Mr. Robt. Wood, of Watford, ha completed a newly invented combined potato planter and digger and gave it a practical est last week, when it proved in every ay successful and performed the work in a , thorough manner. Slich a machine when thoroughly. introduced will revo utionize the _potato growing business. . • —A wh. ky detectiye net with rough treatment on Wednesday of last week at Simcoe, in the county of Norfolk. He 'was mobbed in the magistrates' office, ly enter - deal of threat - as allow- . actable -farmer of Elderslie township, C unty of Bruce, aged 67, was crossing th track near Chesley on Saturday afterno rt last, his horse ran against the hind c • aches of an express train which I was • artly over the crossing, both being t rown over the . cattle guard and ins ntly killed. •. : se -A yoUng men named Thos. regg, employed by Jas. It. Dixon, of tobi- poke, on 1'rida,y slipped into a thre hing machine and had his lege fearfully man- gled. A aoctor amputated • the in ured limb, but the poor fellow only lived about three hours. He is a street er in the di trict, and his friends are s id to live in the old country. • —Dr. Moffat, who is about to eave Walkerton after a pastorate,of 27 ears •over St. John's Free Church,coimn need his labors in that place in a log sh nty. ,He also laid the foundation of the Han- over, Malcolm, West Bentinck an • Eck - ford Presbyterian churches. Th call which he has accepted is from West Winchester, in the Montreal P sby- tery. ' I • ! —On aceunt of the increased xcise duties recently imposed upon liqu s the hotel keepers in many parts have opt- ed the following scale of increased rims for. drink: Brandy, rum, gins and port' and 1 sherry wines, ten ents ; whisky, fie and ten cents; native wines and beer, ,'sre cents ; mixed drie 8 not lets than ten cents, and lemonede and nearly all Other mixed drinks, fifteen. , —As Mr. D. A. Taylor, a Lambton fernier, was taking the cows from the pasture fled to be milked, on the morn- ing of the 14th inst., he found a black bass abouta pound weight alive lyitig on the grass. It had evidently been de- posited there during a heavy thunder and rain stornitsvhich passed over this section about two o'clock, on the morn- ing in question. —Mr. John Currie, of Ayr, has been Iled upon to submit to a severe blow 1 b the death, almost suddenly, of his b loved wife. Mrs. Currie has been a ufferer for a short time from heart dis- ease, and last Sunday evening -was taken o ill as to give but little hopes of her ecovery. She somewhat rallied, how - ver, but only for a short time, passing to her rest on Wednesday morning. —The Lindsay Post tells of a servant girl in the emp1oym6nt of Mr. McKib- on, just north of that town, took a and at binding last week. She- was uite an adept; and challenged four oung men who were also binding to a ontest. She went in on her muiele and eat them all; and it was not her best ay for binding either. What demand hat girl will be in, now! —Dr. W. H. MdDonald, a young and ising physician, was ,found dead in bed est Friday moreing in Toronto. Ile pent the previous aight at a friend's ouse leaving there in excellent spirits, hordy after ufidnight. The death is ttributed to heart disease: Deceased as about 30 years of age and was a gold medalist of Trinity College. His parents esicle in Acton. • —The appeal case on the constitution- lity of. the Dominion Liquor License ct of 1883, which the Supreme Court f Canada declared to be ultra vires of he Federal Parliament, will be heard y the Judicial Committee of the Im- Oriel Privy Council on November 1st. Ir. Burbidge, Deputy Minister of , Jus- ce, ivill represent the Dominion Gov- rnment, -and will leave for England bout the middle of October. . :-.-A well-known and worthy farmer of he townshiP of IMenheim, in the,e,ounty f Oxford, went to his rest a few days go,at his comfortable homes on the ne-quarter town line. Mr, J Ines Pipe as a native of England, and with his amity came to-Canadawhen qu te young. e settled in Blenheim some years go sp.(' was one of the many th ty pio- . -United S urda,y He has su years. neers who have made this part of the township what it is. Betook an active interest in agriculture. matters and in the affairs of the local Agricultural So. ciety,of which he was r cently president. A quiet, unpretentious!'honorable man, Mr. Pipe enjoyed the espect of all who knew him. , . —Mr. W. Wooden the farm of Mr. Frank A. Metcalf, litt ford, on Friday afternoon last, did one of the greatest threshing feats on record in that county. They began at 1 :15 o'clock, stopped at 5 o'clock for tea, andi at 7:30 had put through the large amonnt of 702 bushels of barley. The work was done with a new model thresher ade by the Hall Machine Works, Oshawa. In 13 hours and a half he threshe 1,785 bushels of barley and wheat. - I —St. Thomas Journal :" Mr. Fred Sanders has taken out etters of admin- istration:of the este s of his wife and sen, killed at the Fair Grounds' crossing on the 7th inst., and an Action will be brought against the G and Trunk Rail- way for damages. As et no action for damages has been en red against the company by the fath r of Mr. slt O. Dempsey, killed on the same crossing, but it is altogether robable that pro- ceedings will shortly b taken. ' —Mr. John Sellow Guelph Town- ship, while working o the. loft of his barn the other day, missed his foot- ing and fell head first the ground, a distance of thirty-five feet. In falling e instinctively caugh at 6 ladder lead - g to the loft, which had the: affect of ming him round, cansing him to fall on his feet. Strange say MisSallows' injuries did not exceed a spraieed ankle and a severe shaking A —Jos. Shedler and wife; living near Meunt Albion, were driving into Hamil- ton last Saturday night, when the horse jumped and got away s they were com- ing down the Jolly ca in the rhountein. Mr. and Mrs. Shedler, with a two -and - a -half-year old boy, vIr re thrown several feet over a wall into n old graveyard. Mr. Shedler had his co lar bon and two ribs broken, and Mrs. Shedler had her back injured. The ch ld escaped. , —Hog cholera has r cently developed to an alarming extent ' the county of Essex, and several f rmers have lost their entire herds, 0 e farmer is men- tioned whoe had twen y die from the disease inside of two ek& I is feared the pork trade of the c unty this season erill be seriously affec d by th ravages of the disease. The disease can be traced back two years, when so e deed hogs were thrown 'off a Canada outhern car near Amherstburg. ! —Mr. John McMillan, proprietor fof the Planing mill near Erin village,in the County of Wellington, died last week from the result of inju ies which he re- ceived while at workat his mill. It seems that on Thursd y afternoon MT. McMillan, had been dr wing logs to the mill4when one of the iffletrees became loose. As the horses ere pulling head atthetime, the breakage caused Mr. McMillan to be drawn n the log, which -rolled over hill, inflicting internal iiii- juries of a serious eatu e. , 1 —Lieutenant-Colone Ouimet, at la dinner given to ColonelHughes in Mon- treal the other night, stated the reason of his sudden return from his regiment in -the Northwest. He had been ordered loot get equipment or to'clo so by General St nagtae,raesrhoforcotirs march to Edmonton, and Colonel Ouimet was despatched by him to Ottawa to ex- plain matters. ColonelHughes testified to this, and so also has General Strange. Colonel Ouimet's friends are pleased t the way he has borne himself. 1 —A Drumbo, Oxford county, corres- pondent says: Scott Act makes busi- ness brisk in this place George Keeler sold 14 cigars, 6 glasses of lemmlade and 4 meals last week, an had 3 horses in the stable f Jas. Atkinson 11 qigars, 8 lemonades, 3 bottles Pop, 5 meals, 2 horses in stable—one D. H., no pay. This Act is a daisy for I business, and I would recommend it very highly where tbere is a; class of people who like holi- days the year round. • 1 I —Mr,. Wm. Mullen, the well known general agent of Bell & Son, agrieultural implement manufactures, St. George, met with a painful accident Saturday afternoon. He had driven frompuelph to take part in a barn raising on the farm of Mr. B. Shaw, a few miles from the, city. After the raising wait over Mr. Shaw,: who is .a, jolty man, and full of frolic, ran up 'Ites r. Mulkn and the two conanenced wrestling. 1ln the etruggle1Mr. Mullen's foot doubled under hinaand his right leg * broken a little above the ankle. 1 ' —Mr. Ben. Bretz, who lives near Mosborough, in the !Co nty of Welling- ton, met with a yen! severe accident with a rack lifter a few days ago. He had hauled up the load the mow and with great force. The atter str ck Mr. again and drawing back the Bretz and broke one of his legs in five was unhitching his oxen whenwhth.proeththraeenerd: wheel broke,causing th load to descend places below the knee ' His who was under the Tack at the time,had a narrow escape fawn eiug . struck on the head. Mr. Thomas ' ance was struck on the legs by the whi h etree,s, but for- tunately escaped witho t seriouslinjury. _ —A case of wholesal smuggling has just come to light at K ngston. About three months ago Sol mon Vermilyea and his wife, of Belle ille, started. an alleged corset factory in Watertown, New York, and she :sup lied about 200 ladies. A few days go the Custom authorities at Cape V •cent were in- formed that smugglin of corsets was, going on, and going to Watertown found the corsets bore the mark of the Belle- ville factory. One thousand dollars' worth was seized. The ethod of smug- gling adopted by Mrs Vermilyea was simple. She and her t o lady assistants would make frequent trips to Belleville and purchase a large namber, ranging from $200 to $400 worth. The steels would be removed And the ladies would roll up the cloth portio and make them into bustles, working th steels in a large which was wrecked and forci ed. After receiving a goo rough treatment and being th ened with more, the informerl James Sloan, a re ed to go. groin. I he injuries have since res fatally. —The Yesterda to his res quarter o to the re and Wal Palmer ton Telegraph ys : (August 5th) there was ken an stld man who for the last a cehtery has been well k own idents on the townline of into ace, and whose aged figur was 'often seeik on theetreets of Palmers n— , Mr. Andrew Cummings,who died t the residence of hit; !grandson, Mr. vid Shove, at the exttaordinary age of 103. Deceased tame to this country in 1846; being then apparently an old mai, his hair •being so purely white. Thirty years ago his wife died at the age Of 86, and his children have often heard their ^ • number of dress skirts, 'which they always Carried in their trunks while going and coming between the Cape and • Kingston. Several of these steelless corsets would also be -tightly rolled and • placed inside a dirty corset, which at a careless glance would not appear suspici- ous. In that way $2,000 worth of cor- sets have been einuegled e • i --On the 24th of June a, fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, occurred en the premises •of Mr. Wm. Moore, near Corinth, towhship of Bayham, in the • county of Elgin whereby the barns, stabks and eonients belonging to that . gentleman were destroyed. A fire also • took place on the 10th inst., ' when the barn- of Chas. M. Moore, of the same township, Was destroyed. The matter was placed in the hands of Chief Few- ings, who discovered that Patrick But- ler, a resident of Brantford, was the party. . The Chief went to Brantford the • other day, and succeeded in arresting Butler, who, however, shot at the effi- cer iii making the arrest., Butler was nevertheless overpowered and secured. • —A frightful accident happened on Saturday last, about noon, on the farm of Mr. Donald McPherson, 18th conces- • sion, Eat Williams, by which his Sint Donald, a bright little lad of twelve years, lest one of his limbs, and it is feared may lose the other also. The unfortunate youth was engaged in driv- ing the reaper, and got- off to lift a sheaf out of the way of the machine, when his team started to run, catching ,him and • completely severing one limb above the ankle, and so severely lacerating• and fracturing the other that it is feared it • table ill be necessary to amputate it. After h had lost the lit' nb, he fell upon the .. , of the machine where he was car- ried until the horses were stopped. - • —Mrs. Cochrane and six children, of Barford, had a serious runaway accident while driving to church at Princeton last Sunday morning. A hame-strap broke • the horses became frightened and clashed off, and the driver; a twelve Year old boy, lost control of them. Presently the horses broke away from the rig-, and the tongue of the -democrat striking the read, the whole party were thrown out. The driver was plated about 20 feet, lightning on his face, bruising and lacer- ating it terribly. . The mother and girls were all more or less seriously injured, the rig falling on top of them. Fears are entertained ..that the shoek and injuries will prove fatal to Mrs, Coch- rane. —A citizen of Loridon relates a pecu- liar accident that happened in his lame Friday night, where a party of friends, had assembled to dinner. A beef heart was taken from the oven smoking -hot and placed upon the table. The "bead of the household "at once proceeded to perform his duties as carver, but, with the first cut of the sharp blade a stream of boiling fluid and steam spurted in the air, spreading dismay among the guests, and completely wrecking the boiled shirt, white tie and frock coat worn by one of the guests. The disaster did not ' end there however, fin. the host was 7 compelled to the greater part of • the night applying remedies to his scald- ed face and handssupon which the marks of the burning were still plainly visible the next day. —The Guelph Mercury says: An agricultural implement agent who has ' been travellingthrough Pilkington,Peel, Garafraxa, Nichol, and sections around Guelph eays that the spring wheat crop this seasen will be a total failure on ac- • count of the rust. That which has already been threshed is said to be fit only for chicken feed,and in sorne places where it was predicted to yield from 25 . to 30 bushels per acre it has turned out about five • bushels. In the County of Halton, where the crop was _earlier, it turns out to -be exceedingly good,having escaped the blighting effects of rust. - Some of the fields in the townships above referred to are being cut simply' for the . sake of fodder and bedding. —Mr. Wanley Clark, aged 18, son of the late colleotor of Port Dalhousie, and - Miss Gertrude Kennedy,- of Toronto, were drowned near lock 3 of the new Welland canal, about nine o'clock last Friday evening. Miss Kennedy and her mother were visiting at Port Dalhousie. Mr. Clark and Miss Kennedy drove into St. Catharines early in the evening, and were returning by the road running along the canal bank. The night was dark and the read narrow, and in turn- ing out to pass another rig Mr. Clark's horse and buggy went over theedge and into the venal. The buggy was I, cover- ed one, with the top ap, and both the occupants were heldfast and •drowned. The bodies were recovered in a very short time, but too late to save -their lives. —The Acton Free Press relates the following accident which occurred on Thursday -week t- A young lad, -son of Mr. Jas. Aikens, Erin, while driving a reaper narrowly escaped a shocking death. In turning a corner the horses, which were unaccustomed to reaping, became startled at the descent of one of the rakes, the quick jerk broke the doubletree, one of the whifiletrees and neekyoke, causing young Aikens to fall forward, and in sonie unaccountable way to become fixed between the timber supporting the seat and the driving wheel, the spokes striking the side of his head with eaeh revolution. Mr. Aikens, who was binding, ran, expecting that bis son had dropped off the machine. He, however, wee horrified to find the young fellow being dragged over stub- bleand sheaves and in danger of being crushed to death every moment. When the horses were brought to a step the lad had sufficient presence of minsl to prompt his father what part of the at- taclunent to loose so that he might be relieved from his .critical position. On examination his head was found to be severely cut and crushed, and as a re- sult of the dragging on the stubMe the skin was almost entirely torn etr his side, shoulders and 'back. Fortunately the horses did not go off the walk had they done so the result surely would have been fatal.