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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-11-06, Page 1eeFAUL md iRinery PeoPln of the he will wins ther 24, c:fley Sale. BLE e?lievee that t-cr this seas is a Cash &Hefty turn the r oney at t14 t knows that st at the tin+ - - and hao, in order tO cask he bai y t.tce.- alance of f. you Posted, ,eady Money AND 10USEI, T. horse whicit hing, aspring sed the poor the effects ef mrn, in the' s` turned oil testant. The s and spread was with horses ever ' crop, tde f new reaper, imptemente o insurance tents, -which last wee14, atford that 90 years Of the towri- been found to one of his that he had men with lsG cut, evi- was f01111 cr C/ investj tel -keeper eek, $'20 an .te probibiteel finedi $IQ and ocure 110.4* f the amend- ther witneio under the od as to be spiring. Th eing cfrnn he does save • elt a plea, te meshes �f t hem gentle -- 4 song and et week haiS woman as in showing hy to h ` husbands are ice. of Govete n gueets fdr Hotel, Old 'ing incide t title iropre ed it. The ruination for [ •d the hetet ally at t, seed over ed her, sayl: e. beaten, ;I- e beaten 14: Joan Iiving4 e and sal& t. rt that both deted tiovelte time- , f we been for i surrounded . coterie, and fort to es -e - teed, esit of i Ahe subject in the hotel ig prevaitin ' TEENTH YEAR. E NUMBER 934. SEAFbRTH, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1885. A PEN-UIRE-, CLE-AilING- • SALE. W. KEIViPTHORNE & Co. fraying recently decided to sell their whole - stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats.and Caps, at a little, above Wholesale cost, and Sdine lines at cod. Stoek in the above lines,- comprising about $4,000 worth, all to be sold forthwith, as it j3intended changes will be made in the business own as possible, which has. been =lied on for some years past at the Se forth Boot and Shoe Store. New is .your 'opportunity of securing goods at a very low figuire not often given. .The greater part of the goods are new stoc-; whichhave not li. I been long on hand, -. I will not at present men- - tiorta long list of prices, but a riumberof differ- ent kinds, Ladies' Department. r , Ladies Fine, Sewed Laced 4ots,Ifrorn800 to $1.7.5 and up.. Ladies' fine sen ed Button Boots, from SOc to $1.75 and up. ies1 .fine sewed Slippers' from 90e. to $1.50 rad up. Ladies' strong sewed Slippers from 50c to $1,10 and up. Ladies' fen sewed Garters, $1.45. Ladies' strong - a Ladies' strong I • nd up. Ladies' _ sewed balls from to $1.7 pegged balls from 90e to $1.50 Overshoes, and Rubberi-Selling- Icift, cheap, xis well as Misses' and Children's. A It of Ladies' fine work will go 4t cost, Misses' Fine Button Boots from $i up; misses' fine balls from 90c up; misses' stron1 balls from 80c rip. Children's strong boots and shoes from 49c. Gent' rnen's Department. A lot of fin sewed balls very cheitp. A lotof Oxford Ties sOittle above cost. -A lot of Min's Gaiters, pegield and sewed, fiom $2.20 up.; a n' let of mes e calf boots, our own make, for $5 ; a lot of nien's fine veal calf for 0.50 ; a lot of men's longheavy boots from $1.60 up.; gentle- man's fine and strong Slippers in great variety; gentlemen's Overshoes and Rubbers in a variety descriptiona, selling at the very lowest figures. Youths' Department. Long Boots from $1.35 ; balls, from 9004 ; overshoes and rubbers at very lbw prices; men's and boys' long felt boots at a little above cost; a lot of men's strong boots at Cost. In the or- dered depariment 1 will give yen good bargains during the sale. I have aio of men's and boys' Winter Caps going very cheari ; must he sold, as well as a lot of Felt and II*rd Hats going, dome for cost, and others at a stery small advance. Time fails to give more particulariat present. Come and see for yourself and be convinced at the Seaforth Boot and Shoe Store. • W. empthorrie & Co. 1885. New Fall Goods —AT TEE— Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman bros., SEAFORTH, New Fall Goods arriving daily. We are now prepared to shotv bargains in New Dress Goods, new Trimmings, new Phishea, .excellent values ; new Buttons, new Flannels, new Winceys, new Cot- tons, new Cantons, new Hosiery, new Gloves, neev Corsets, in fact, neiv goods in all lines. Every department replete with all the latest novelties. Call and see our new lines of Kid Gloves, a Special line bought at a bar- gain. Tr are splendid value, and we are offerin them at a sacrifice. it will pay you te see them. All lines of g000s coming to hand, our stook was sever better assorted than it will be for the fall and winter trade. Grey and White Cotton's at mill prices. We are etill offering all kinds of Sum- mer Good s at cost and under to clear. Call and inspect goods aud prices at the Chep Cash Store •OF HOFFMAN.. BROS., S, Petteres. SEAFORTII. gents for Butterick's Reliable THE RAMBLES OF AN M. P. IN THE NORTHWEST. .TAMES TROW, ESQ., IN THE _STRATFORD BEACON. • LETTER 1V. During my stay in Winnipeg I casual- ly fell in with Mr. Duncan McIntyre, of the Syndicate, and family, who with a special Party. were on their way to the end of the track. Mr. McIntyre -kindly invited me to join them, and I assented; and will begin this letter with a descrip- tion of our peregrinations at the point from which I closed my last epistle. For eight or ten miles • WEST FROM BRANDON' the litIld is covered with loose boulders and ou ;the, uorthero decline facing the river • Assiniboine •-eiery little land is .brought under cultivation. Both east and west of -Alexander, which. .is about 15 miles westofBrandon, the crops were very good, and from all the information I could gather were not injured by frosts. We then enter upoita tract of country, not the 'nest invatingedotted with num- erous lakelets, until we pass Oak Lake, a little to the east of Virden, which place is in its infancy but, possessed of considerable life for such a small place. ' To the right .of Virden adjoining- the' town, we peticed a fine farm, the pro- perty of Mr. .Stephen, brother of the president of the C. P. R. Mr. Stephen has erected commodious buildings and has large tracts under crop. A BROAD LANDSCAPE. Every little town andHvillage in the Northwest can be seen to advantage e en it from the platform of a railway car,. he lands being so level; the whole place can be seen at a glance. In Ontario mitny of our most interesting towns are so re- mote fromthe station that the traveller only gets a glance at the outskirts, and should you require to call on business,. are put to the expense and annoyance of hiring a cab to reach your destination. In this new country it is different The first evidence we notice in approaching a town in the Northwest, is an enormous. elevator toiVering up above all other buildings. . We noticed Ogilvies' eleva- tors in almost every place of note which we visited. Of course this is a great accommodation to the settlers, to heve a place in which to store their grain after being threshed. Nine -tenths of the settlers have no barns or granaries. Sixteen miles west of Virden we arrive at • - . ELKHORN, the nucleus of a rising town,providing the extensioniof the Hanitelea and North- western railway (which its\ now 'under construction) does not tap all its Birtle, Silver Creek and Shell River etrade. Should this trade be diverted into its natural ontlet, Elkhorn may not grow much larger. Very little trade can be expected from the Birtle , and Silver Creek districts this season, the crops being totally valueless. Thousands of acres were left uncut in the field!. No richer or more productiveelands can be found than in the Birtle and Shell River districts, but unfortunately sunimer frosts are prevalent. The only alternative for the settlers -now is to take up mixed farm- ing. They should raise steal, go into dairying and cultivate suCh -grain and roots as are adapted to that climate. The settlers seem -to have a mania for raising hard Fyfe wheat, which conimands sev- eral cents per bushel more than any other sample, makes better bread and gives ore flour from a given number of _ ' m ' pounds than any -other variety, but it ripens slowly and the seasout are too short for its cultivation. It may be rais- ed with greater success after the lands are properly drained andsmore. attention paid to the tilling of the soil. ' t'DIOSOOMIN . is another little town springing up by its northern trade from Feet Ellice and surroundings. ' The grain was injured to some extent inthis locality also; but not much crop is raised in the district. From this point to BRDADviEW . little improvement has been made. In the neighborhood of Btoadview the lands are undulating and considerable space under crop. The town being' the ter- minus of that section of ;the Canadian Pacific Railway from Brandon, gives a considerable impetts1 to business and the company keeps many men ' mill ployed in the town, making it a place of f some importance. The next point o any note is QU'ArrELLE 'STATION, ia the vicinity of the cerebrated " Bell Farm "not far distant from Piapot's re - servation. The old man and his - were very uneasy during the reb and had t� be fed • morning, noon -night to keep their loyalty rip to the proper tension. I have frequently tI seen the old chief at Fort Qu'Appelle, distant 18 or 20 miles north of the present' sta- tion, and always considered hine a crafty, ouperstitious old fellow. 1 SWINDLING THE GOVERNMENT. Wonderful stories are told in refer- ence to the furnishing of oats, &C, for the vdlunteers under General Middleton. It is said that Major Bell purchased oats from Major Bell, freighted 'them with Major Bell's teams across the salt plains to Clark's Crossing,occupying ten or twelve days in the journey, at $8 or $10 per day, and that Major Bell's horses were fed during the trip with Government supplies purchafed from Major Bell., Others say that the re- bellion was a good harvest for hundreds of .settlere, more particularly those, who owned horses ; that score% made - during the troubles from $800 to $1,0001 with one team. Supplies were purchased at fabulous figures and scattered proinis- cuously over the plains. Every station house was filled with canned meat§ and fruits purchased in the United `$tates. Thousands of dollars' worth of ! these were sold off after the close . of the re- bellion at great reductions on the origi- nal cost. t JUSTIFYING -THE REBELLION ---SETTLERS' GRIEV4tNCE8. There was a good deal of diversity of opinion 1 respecting the late rebellion. and ilion and Many settlers -sympathize with the half- breeds and even justify their acts, alleg- ing they had glievances which should have been removed; that their lands should have been surveyed in long belts, all having a river front either on the .North or South Saskatchewan, similar to the manner in which the lands are surveyed along the Red river and Assin- iboine ; that the Government persistent- ly declined to pay any attention to their petitions and adopted their usual system of sections a mile square; that many who had removed, from the Red river mid Assiniboine settlements and had sold to actual settlers could not procure a second homestead, and what was very annoying, they were beset continually by Wood -rangers who charged them j. for every stick of timber taken from Gov- ernment lands, and that the rear por- tions of their lands were sold to a 'col- onieation company who were determined to eject them. Settle's are allowed fallen timber procured on Government lands, by obtaining a permit, for 25o. per cord; if trespassing it is usually 50c. or at the discretion of the wood - ranger; homesteaders are allowed Isi800 feet lineal measure, 2,000 rails an 30 cords of wood, or they can purchase 20 acres of wood land for $5 per acre.It seems tome settlers should be allcieved wood for domestic and homestead pur- poses gratis, when remote from railway conimunication, and not in eiretunftan- ces to purchase coal. - Whether their grievances were real or imaginary'', the half-breeds considered they were harsh- ly dealt with by the Vovernment. We nexiU, cell at I REGINA, the 'capital of the great Northwest. is the hird Iselectioeof the capi 1, first it as Fort Pelly, next Battle :now Regina. ! Very expensive go lima buildings were erected at all respective places. The latter in opinion is the riiost central. Reg.in had quite a boom during the rebel being . head -quarters for the mil tary trials of prisoners , &c. The barr cks, government buildings, aied the g ver- nor's residence, are distant northwe t of the town sorne two miles, on Pil -o'. Bones creek, which appears to a casual observer quite a stream; but I noticed that it s dammed below the barracks. - I ealle on Lieutenant -Governor Dewd- ney an4 Col. Richardson, and had an in- tervien with Riel and Big Bear, which will 'lee the subject of a few sentences in a future letter. e - N ARTICLE OF COMMERCE. Sorne years ago in travelling over, the prairies countless heads and bone;s of buffalo4s were scattered over the plains; now these have become an article of cominerce, piles of which are , seen at every station west of Regina. The In- dians gather them up for sale at from $6 to $7 per waggon load, and they are shipped to Philadelphia and other large places where they are used in the manufac- ture of fertilizers and in the refining of sugar. , This al— ord, ern - hose my has ion, A DREARY WASTE OF PRAIRIE. ' Millions of acres of apparently good lands are between Regina and Medicine Hat, yet we found but very few settlers. I am decidedly of the epinion that from Moosejaw, which has grown in a few years very considerably,' west to the Rocky Mountains Were is not sufficient rair for suceessful farming, and water is very scarce. The whole country is de- nuded of its timber, excepting along the borders of rivers and the Cypress for hundreds of miles. I am fully con- vinced this whole western country should be leased for raising large herds of stock, in ordinary sized ranches. I don't know any branch of business more profitable with so little labor. We have already probably 75,000 head of c ttle belonging to ranchmen in the N rth- west, principally in the neighborho d of Fort McLeod, along the Belly River, and the Eastern slope of the mountains, extending from the Montana boundary to within some thirty miles of Calgary. Near the mountains the whole country is watered by creeksand rivulets, flow- ing from the mountains into the Belly and Bow rivers, and bah of th se rivers flow through rich meadow land for hun- dreds of miles and unite the waters within fifty miles to the east f Medi- cine Hat. ALMOST A DESERT WAST . Between Moosejaw and Swif Current there are large tracts Of dry prairie land" without any settlers. Prdbably there is not a sufficient rainfll to nourish and' bring cropa to n aturity. Long stretches of lakes are no iced on each side of the track—Old Wivles Lake, Polican Lake, &c. Numerous stations are printed on the time table that litre as yet invisible; no indication further than a board with the name of the! "tation printed thereon. Several buildings are erected at Swift Current. The 'name is certainly a misnomer for all I Observed was an insignificant creek nearly dry, having 'to current whatever. Maple Creek may yet become- a place of some importanceebeing the station fronIll which ranchmen ship their stock from litestern Montana to Chicago. Some thiousand head of cat4e were then within l'a few miles of the town waiting for shiPment AN OLD PERTR1TE IN 7HE WEST. On. the ve andah of a boarding-house near the station, I noticed a portly man ringing a bell to tell the hungry where their wants could be supplied. Who should I find in the bell-ringer b t our old reeve of Milverton, Mr. J. D Pier- son ! He said that business was good. 1 MEDICINE HAT " was quite an important place dur g the rebellion, for shipping the tro ps to Battleford and Clark's Crossin The town so called, is beautifully loc ted on the flow river, a few miles bef re it unites its waters with the Sout Sas- katchewan.' LATITUDE OF THE CANADIAN ACIFIC RAILWAY. The Canadion Pacific Railway s con- structed as nearly east and west as cir- cumstances would perniit, diver mg to the north or south at various poin toget lighter and easier grades or to arm lakes or rivers. Medicine Hat is precisely in the same latitude, or • nearly the same distance from the American boundary line , as Poplar Point, or Portage la Prairie, about 70 miles. Regina, or dian Heed, is about 100 miles from the boundary?. The road' from Swift Cdr rent to. Medicine Hat inclines to tie southwest, and from Medicine Hat to Calgary, some 180 miles, it runs nor h - West. Calgary is over 145 miles noijth of the boundary liue. THE GALT COAL MIME, of which a good deal has been writ is on the Belly River; some 70 m' southwest of Medicine Hat. The c sfruction of the railway to the mines increased their output to 150 tons day. It was worse than a mistake the Dominion Government to gran charter to this company for a nen w age line. Transhipment at Medic ne Hat of so bulky an article will very ma- terially increase the eXpense of coal to the consumer. This company have se- cured the exclusive mining interests of 26 townships, along both sides of these beautiful rivers to the north and south of the track. The discovery of coal both in Manitoba and the Northwest must eventually prove a boon to the inhabi- tants, and soon come into general se es as er of a for domestic purposes. Thousands pocir settlers are put to great disadv tage for want of fuel. Many teem t wood 25 or 30 miles. Those who fortunate enough to have perchased ber lands are of late years taking m more -care of it, and nearly all Gove mene lands that were timbered are sti -ped or destroyed • by prairie fires. journey from I MEDICINE HAT TO ,cmgARY is wearisome. Scarcely A single set is to , be seen. Large tracts are un lating, open prairie ; not a single sh or tree in view the whole day. Betw Crowfoot station and Calgary we o sionally noticed droves of horses, pr bly belonging to rauchmen. The chi improves the nearer you approach mountain. Before reaching Calgary cross the Bow river and within a sl distance also cress the Elbow, both ri being spanned by splendid iron brid Adjoining the Elbow on the skirts of the town we were shown the establishment of Baker & Co., who have realized a fortune by furnishing suppiies for the Mounted Police and Indiibs. Their -firm had a monopoly of this tr de, and all their supplies are purchase in the United States. It would be m ch wiser policy on the part of the Gov rn- ment to encourage trade with their ewn people, Any quantity of oats, flour and beef could be furnished by the et - tiers in Manitoba and the North est. Arrivipg at Calgary station we were et CHIEF CROwFOOT and several braves of the Blackfeet t The old chief is tall, thin and sp much of the same type of a mai Poundmaker. His countenance is pressive of intelligence. He is very tive on foot, fond of being noticed flattered, and places himself in s prominent position expressly for purpose. All his braves wore ermine and their faces painted profusely. S of the citizens have a very favor opinion of the Blackfeet. Some of t are industrious and engage slightl farming on their reserve, but only very limited extent._ They have nume ponies and some fleet horses of mode size. They are passionately -fon riding and generally at full speed,k ing both legs continually thumping horse's sides. They gamble a good frequently even betting the horse are riding on, and too often are the tims Of designing sharps from Mon who watch the poor Indian as closet a hawk would a. bird, and gene fleece him of all he owns. The B1 feet reservation is located south of Canada,Pacific Railway, in the neighbor- hood of Crowfoot station. It extends west beyond Vdeichen, and contains about nine townships, or a little over 200,000 acres. The mountain scenery will receiv tention next week. of n- eir re eh n- p - he er Liu - U1) en ca- ba - ate the we .ort ers es. ut- 'be. re, as ex- ex- nd me hat ts, me ble em in a ous ate of ep- the eal, hey vic- na, as lly k - the at- JAMES TRO*. -Canada. —Maloney, the murderer of Dr, calf, at Kingston asylum, has been nounced insane. —The Lieutenant -Governor has di ed all public offices to be close Thanksgiving Day. Geo. R. Secord, one of II ton's ; prominent and most resp business men, died Friday of typ fever —All conductors, engineers and hand" running between Stratford Buffalo, have received orders that must,be vaccinated. —The biggest potato yet, weigh' Its. and 4 ounces, was grown by Alex. Maddonald, of the 4th conces Kinloss. —Mr. John Kennel, sr., hal sol farm of 150 acres on 1st concessi Wellesley, to Mr. Zehr, of Zoria, about $8,000.. --Twenty-seven business failure reported to have occurred, Ca during last week, and 174 in the U States. . Mr. David Beattie has sold hie farm of 100iacres in Blenheinilabou miles from Ayr, to Mr. Georg Lan for $7,000. —Mr. Geo. Munger, of Loo, raised 400 bushels of mangolds off opeethird • di an acre of land, which he claims is the largest yield in the township. I —Thomson & Baker's mill at Graven- hurst, cut during the season,' 3,000,000 feet of lumber, 2,500,000 shingles, and 1,000,000 lath. let- TO- • ect- on mil- ted oid rain and 4 Mr. ion, 11 his of for are ads ited fine five reth --Mr. John Hueston, of the 8th con- cession of Kinloss, met with e very seri- ous and painful accident the ether day. He undertook to stop a runaway horse when the point of the shaft of the buggy penetrated the inside of his arm, just, under the muscle, and:passed through to the Opposite side below the elbow. Dr. Tennant, who was - called in, found it necessary to put over fifty stitches in the wound. Mr. W. Huestbn, who was in the buggy when the horse started to run, was also badly hurt by being thrown and the indications are that -the exhibit will be in excellent one and highly creditable to the fruit growers of the province. Many of the specimens are out. , remarkably large and handsome. The en- -At Toronto the grand jury returned , tire collection will include about 500 jars. a true bill against William Kyle, .the —At the annual distribution of prize,s wholesale liquor merchant, charged with at Upper Canada College, on Friday,the Governor General's _silver medal for general proficiency was won by G. C. Biggar, the cla,ssicel prize by L. B. Stephenson and t e modern language prize by 1?. C. Snidr. —Edward Hoed n- has taken up his quarters at Toron • for the winter. He is indignant at Tee er's statements, and einphatically deni having made over- tures to sell the r ce ; on the contrary claiming that he as letters in his pos- session which clear y prove that Teerner was guilty of the charges Haulm wi —A corresponde ing to stamp out 8 it seems to be forg even cats, will carr coats, and thus s I know of an ineta forgery. rst through passenger trains on the C nadian Pacific railway between Toronto , and Winnipeg and Montreal and Winnipeg started Monday. —Owi g to the smallpox epidemic in Montrea the citizens of Ottawa will make a determined effort to have a grand ev. ter carnival at the capital. —The Istoek of machinery of the Dom- inion Tephone Company, now in insol- vency, as told in Montreal on Friday by order, of the court and realized $4,600. —A large amount of counterfeit fifty - cent pieces and forged two -dollar Dom- inion bills, of the issue of 1878, payable at Toronto, are said to be in circulation. — During last month 465 immigrants arriv ed in Toronto, of whom 341 remained in Ontario, 75 went to Manitoba, and the remainder went to the Western for the -week ending the 24th October, - e !Grand Trunk Railway receipts were $330,000, a decrease of $36,000 as compared With the corresponding week last year. —Lady Lansdowne has been in Eng- land for some time attending at the bed- side of her father,the Duke of Abercorp, whose illness terminated in death. a few days ago. —A lox containing clothing to the aloe uf $100 was shipped a tew days ago by the Women's =Foreign Missionary Society Of Lucknow, for the Indians in the Northwest. —A lady in Toronto while crossing Rose avenrie had her satchel, containing $15, snatched out of her hand by a well- dressed young man who disappeared before she could get any assistance. —The Customs duties collected at the port 'of Guelph for October amount- ed to $6,107.96, and for the same month hest year $4,899.21, showing an inerease of $1,208.75. —Two young residents. of West Dum- fries litive invented a turnip gathering, machine, designed to cut, off roots and tops and gather the turnips. A most useful invention if it serves the purpose designed. —At a meeting held at Wiarton last week, the village council was authorized by resolution to prepare a by-law ,to be submitted to the ratepayers for the granting of $10,000 -for the erection of a paper mill. —There has been exported from the village of Delhi this season $14,500 worth of eggs; Ten years ago the value of the shipments did not reach $1,000. A dealer in the same place recently shipped 700 lbs. of butter to Victoria. —There are one thousand and eighty- seven houses, containing, it is estimated, two thousand five hundred persons ill svrtaitffh is 1. x in Montreal. The num-I ber of 6fficers engaged on the isolation I —The' schooner Ida Walker, which was loading barley at the Bayside cheese factory wharf, Ameliasburg, on Friday,! struck against the wharf so severely that she sun, with about 9,000 bushels of barley on board. —H. N. Warner, the ex -temperance lecturer, ' is working at present for Wm. Thornton, West Oxford, on the farm. He has engaged himself to Mr. Thom - tom by the year, and that gentleman says he inakes a good farm hand. . —Jas. O'Hagan on Thursday evening. attempted to walk three miles while Art. Cooley, of Petrolea, skated five on roller skates, and was beaten four laps and a half in 23 minutes and 28 seconds. The hard floor was a disadvantage. —A number of farmers in West Dum- fries have commenced to ship milk per the Canadian Pacific Railway to Toron- to. The milk will be shipped by early morning train from Dumfries station, • arriving in the city betweed 8 and 9 o'clock every morning. —Sir Frederick Middleton, by being placed by the Imperial War Office upon the list of officers entitled to reward for meritorious and distinguished services, will receive an additional annual allow- ance of $500, besides other honorary advantages. —In 1844 there were only 16 miles of railway in all Canada. But there are now nearly 10,000 miles. Canada has $104 invested in railways for each in being only excelled by the United Kingdom which has $107, and the United States which has $112. —The Hudson Bay Compaoy's ship, the Princess Royal, of London, was lost at Sand Head beach, at the mouth of the Moose river, on the 2nd October. She parted her cable during a gale, and was driyn ashore. She had consider- able fur on board. . • - —Th United Empire on her last trip se , down biought into Sarnia 8,000 barrels of Minn apolis flour; 700 cases of canned salmon, and 800 bushels of Manitoba wheat. , She left on Tuesday evening with a full cargo of general supplies, 80 tons ofIay, and 12 car loads of oil. t — Aii4Edmonton, N. W. T., dispatch says: Harvest is over, the grain secured and fall plowing in full blast. The wheat yield no far is from 25 to 35 bushels an acre; oats, a remarkably heavy cro and an excellent sample. Potatoes are all dug and give an exceptionally heavy yield. What b rley was grown Is good. - ; --Th work of preparing the exhibit of Ontario fruits for the Indian and. Col- onial Eiposition to be held in London, England, next summer, is going on un- der th personal supervision of Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London. He has been bu ily engaged during a great part of both day and night for a fortnight past re eiving contributions, assorting the specimens according to classes, etc., .and putting them in glass jars contain- ing a fluid that will preserve them with- out impairing the natural tinting. Over 200 jars, includin an extensive varie very thing that he h. t writes: "In try- allpox in Montreal tten that dogs, and the disease in their read the contagion.. e where scarlet fever McIBEAN BROS., Publishers. - $1.50 a Year, in Advance.- tention of Mr. Bayne was attracted, who with great kindness, assisted by Messrs. Brown and McMann, conveyed the in- jured man to his father's house. Dr. Secord found that both bones of the right leg were broken a short distance above the ankle. —At a -meeting of the Ottawa Cabinet on Thursday, a deputation of iron man- ufacturers from Montreal waithd on the Minister of Customs respecting the seizure of a quantity of steel by the oust toms authorities of Montreal. The dep- utation asked that the steel be released, 9.8 they had bbught it in bond as 'scrap iron. The Minister could not coincide with their views on the subject, and confirmed the action of the officers of the department ConseqUently a duty of 17i per cent. Will have to be paid, —Last Saturday ;tight in Toronto a number of medical etudents . were guilty of the most shameful conduct. They paraded the streets in a boisterous man- ner, and finished up by suspending a male subject, taken from Trinity Medi- cal School, to a hook on the veranda in front of Larithrill's butcher shop on Par - was carried to seeral houses by a eat liament street, where it was found. Sun - that a child had blayed with when re- day morning and taken to the General covering from -the disease. Hospital. Two other subjects were found —An extensive !sale of a fine lot of in the yard that school, which had evi- dently been placed in readiness to be earned off for suspension elsewhere. —The Toronto press say :—cases of highway rohbety are becoming alarM- ingly frequent. Last - Sunday night, shortly before 7.o'c1ock, while the Rev. Dr. Sheeraton, principal of Wyeliffe College, was walking through Queen'i Park on his way to chervil, he was seized by three men, one grabhing him by the throat, and. another hblding revolver to his face and demanding his money. The third went through his pockets, taking from -him his gold watch and chain and the keys of the college., They did not injure him. timber frorn Frenc Quebec on Frida the seller and M the purchasers. about 100,000' fee 90,000 feet of wan feet average and girth. The rate round, or a total o ' $64,600. --An English ge was shot down an in front of his own of Victoria, B. C., last week, by t robbed of $1,800 pin, watch and r married two weeks ing to leave for his bride. —The Toronto presentment last the paltry fees alio asked His Lordshi Government the n the fee to $5 per • ay. They also drew attention to the &tit that nearly all the cases before them were the direct result of drinking and drunkenness. ,—The tug, Frank Moffitt, with four barges, took shelter at Sombre wharf early Sunday morning. She had scarce- ly been Made fast when th el boiler ex- ploded with terific force shattering the boat from stem to stern and instantly killing four of the crew, and scalding and wounding several others. The cause of the explosion is not known but is supposed to hav been a lack, of water in tbe boiler. —Maggie McAlpine, a tailoress in the employ of Mr. Wilton, of Dutton, was killed instantly- at poon on Friday. She was on her way to dinner, when No. 5 express came alorig. In attempting to cross the track hefore the express she was struck by the pilot and hurled a distance of ten rods. She was struck fairly on the head, her skull split open, and brain strewn along the track. Her clothes' were stripped from her body, which was horribly mangled. . —A big negro named James Stewart,. who had been a resident of London, was tracked to a swamp near Strathroy, and arrested by a posse of policemen last Sunday morning. He is suspected of having committed a number of robberies and burglaries in London township and Nissouri, and several other places. He had erected a shanty in the woods in a place where he dreamed he was secure. A quantity of missing goods was found in his possession. He was lodged in gaol to await trial. -The many friends in connection with Knox church, Woodstock, of Miss Rose, a lady missionary, presented her with a purse containing a considerable sum of money before her departure to assume the charge of the mission school among the Pie -a -pot Indians } near Regina. For mally years Miss Rose was one of the most . active workers in connection with Knox church, Wood- stock, but for the ' last six menthe she had been engaged in mission work in Chicago. —In the township of .Whitby last spring, Mr. W. L Bowerman, found a ii young mink—wit its eyes not yet open -1-under a barn t the tail -race of his woollen mill. Tile mink was given to a •z, cat which had ben , deprived of all its kittens except o e. The cat quickly adopted the min , and reared it. The latter grew up a playful household pet, but developed .s. taste for chickens, and in trying lately to get one out of its possession, an u lucky blow killed the mink. River, took place at . Mr. McCann was ssrs. McArthur Bros. The sale embraees of square pine and y; the former is 65 the latter is 20 inch s about 34 cents all time]] named Hicks mortally wounded .door, in the suburbs on Thursday evening highwaymen, and money, a diamond g. The victim was ago and was prepar- ngli;,nd Friday, with grand jury in their week, complained of ed grand juries, and to bring before the cessity of increasing -• • —A man waslately brou the Collingwo d Pollee Magistrate charged with violating the Scott Act. A bottle was produced in court, contain- ing a sample of the stuff sold. The bottle was labeled Red Ribbon." His Worship did not enter upon a long in- vestigation and !paten to a deluge of ex- pert evidence whether "Red ing or not. He jit took a swig, s mouth, reached! a clove, and fuee ht before --On Monde, L. Gamble:of- returning home ; the night was v teams going sou pied the middle succeeded in attempting to el lision occurred' his harness mu events his bug was thrown ou driving ran a team which withstanding t then lying in t and assuring th broken, drove decide the question ibbon " was intoxicat- treached for the bottle, ked his lips, wiped his to his vest pocket for the man on the spot. evening last week J. a, Huron township,was rom Port Albert, when y dark. He met four h, although they own - f the road, Mr. Gamble ing two safely, but on ar the third team a col - and he thinks some of have broken. At all was upset, Mr. Gamble and the horse he was ay. The driver of the ed the accident, not - fact that Gamble was ditch, calling for help fellow that his leg was . After a considerable —Mr. Wm. Hogg, of the 9th conces- sion, East Nissouri, met with a serious accident on Friday, 23rd ult. He en- gaged Mr. Hall, of Ingersoll, to take a photograph of his large Durham bull, and when nearly through the animal Made a dive at Mr. Hogg, knocking him down and goring him terribly in one hip and brusing his breast, nearly crush- ing it in. Mr. Hall, being a powerful rilan, jumped and caught the bull by the ring and succeeded in keeping him under .00ntrol until the hired girl came and chew Mr. Hogg to the Mille- eide of the gate. Mr. Hall deserves great praise for his resolute courage, ---A messenger in the departmental buildings Ottawa named Chapman was found dei;e1 in bed at his residence on Friday morning, Deceased was former- ly a lieutenant in Her Majesty's 55th Regiment. After he and his wife re- tired to rest Wednesday night, neither was seen again till Friday morning, - when the neighbors, becotning alarmed, went to the house and found Chapman lying dead in bed, and his wife insen- sible beside him. It is supposed , they, were overcome by the fumes of coal gas. Mrs. Chapman is likely to re- cover. y. —The Whitby Chronicle says; Some- thing like a concerted arrangement is being entered into by shopkeepers in quite a number of towns and villages in Ontario not to take butter on account after October let each year, but only to take it for goods sold over the counter at the time of delivering the butter. The reason of this resolve is that the butter - makers in Ontario have long shown -a disposition to hold their butter in crocks or tubs in their cellars until far into the fall, when it has lost its flavor, and it is besides, too late in the season to bAltip- ped to the old country markets. —The Merchant Tailors' Association in Toronto are adopting a novel and probably very effective way of collecting their bills. A number of accounts have been placed in the hands of the Associa- tion's accountant, and after a reasonable attempt has been made to collect them during the next ten days, a "dead- beat "-list will be made of all who re- fuse to pay their tailors' bills, and this list will be published in the Grand Opera. House programme. The Association has obtained legal advice on the matter, and is quite confident that the publication of lsiuveth a black list as it proposes, would be no ground for an action at law by any one whoie name may be included in the -e-The following story is going the rounds of the press : The celebrated barrister, George - Tate Blackstock ap peared at the Lindsay assizes recently as counsel for the plaintiff in a case where the paternity of a child was in question. When about to appeal to the jury, be asked permission of the Court to place the babe, which Was in its mother's arms, opposite the reputed father, and having obtained permissioo, addressed the jury. He pointed out -in telling language the similarity in the colour of the hair and eyes, the form of nose, and general contour that existed between the mail and child. His eloquence had con- vincing effect, and when he concluded, the ease wise all but won. But Mr. D'Alton McCarthy loomed. up for the other side, and before connrtencing his address, asked and obtained permission of the court to place the infant along- side Mr. Blackstock. Imrnediateie? this was done a titter ran through the court, and when the M. P. from Simcoe wept on to point out that the ehild had the same wave of Antimacassar hair as George that it was parted in the middle with the mathematical accuracy peculiar to George ; that the shape of the nose and the general expression of the face bore a striking reserublanc,e to George— when all this WAS told in the jocose style Mr. McCarthy eau at times so well assome, the vzhole audience went into convulsions, judge, jury and a,udience joined in a general roar, while George sat paralyzed, with the poor little baby gazing up into his face in mute astonish- ment at the general uproar. The jury could scarcely be restrained from bnog- ing in a verdict of guilty *gams' t of fruits, have aTready been receive, tune, by mean of loud shouting, the at- stock.