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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1885-11-13, Page 1xsople of tht e corn, - 24; oney Bale VALITABLI kelleves that lwer this sea- sta is a Cash bssity turn this limey at the knows that ist at the time Lem, and haste L in order to cash, he hails ey Induce - the baian e Of es you, posrea • i; Ready Money ATLI. S fr. McNamit*a, Ese tea meeting out, reflecting id the manage- , us Linge rind his place last ichigan, where n future. The !an success and nne. p s s the mission Res, an occasion. in seven years, isoisted by Rev. [ French settle - 4 twice a day, aking- an active iser,son of Mr. .ri Miss Annie Brill, of this partnership i on tial knot Was immediately -•r[y- set out -Tor groom's father wedding fe/S- o : roots yet un - ere badly dint - 4 . A number. of apples on the weeks previonits . - not come" and attend to y the appleS re- [ exposed to the tatly injured if _ d, quantities Of 11 considerable rtimate. Dlan- zen too, but the heavy. --yl lately Casper * t had a dispute e latter's house. e the work to and this gentle- ' the job. Front a short stereand t like tigers till r. Zent got : tbe t day each ;knte d laid inforMas gainst the other. , tied by Weaver enses, and Zent rer to finish, his sMrs. concession, HAY-, a year's visit :fst where they spetSt ntly with their ends. Thef cm - he journey ! things they AMC, ntario the, ;best t be beat boil, &STY Mr. Schhicla- ansas a badjail- - Mr. Shupp,', hssi will not get lue a first-cla,ss rop. on has been V- on No. 8, Dosvifrs advance of $40 0° - " E- NUMBER 935- EIGHTEENTH YEAR. WHOL} SEA"ORTH, FRIDAY, 'NO-VEMBER. 13, 1885. McLE,A.N BR 0 S. , Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. SELLING OUT. A GENUINE CLEARING SALE. W. KEMPTHORNE & Co. Raving recently decided to sell their whole th• ck of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, at a little above Nv.hol esale cost, and some lints at cost. Stock in the above lines, comprising about $4,000 worth, all to be sold forthwith, as it Is intended to CLOSE UP TEE BUSINESS as soon s possible, which bas been carried on for some years past at the Seaforth Boot and Shoe Store. Now is your opportunity Of securing goods at; a very low figure not often given. The greater part of the goods are new fitock, which have not been long on hand. I will hot at present rnen- 1 tion a long list of prices, bid a number of differ- ent kinds. Ladies' Department. Ladies' Fine Sewed Laced Boots, from SOc to $1.75 and ifp. Ladies' fine sewed Button Boots, ;. from 80e to $1.75 and up. Ladies' fine sewed Slippers from 90c to $1.50 and up. Ladies' _ strong sewed Slippers frdm 50c td, $1,10 and up. I, Ladtes' felt sewed Gaiters, $1.45. Ladies' strong sewed balls from S1.25 to $1.75.. Ladies' strong pegged balls front 90e to $1.50 and up. Ladies' ' Overshoes and Rubbers selling off i cheap, as well as Misses' and Children's. A lot lof Ladies' fine work will go at cost. Misses' Fine Button Boots from $1 up-; misses' fine balls from 90c up; misses' strong balls from 80c up. Children's strong boots and shoes from 40c. • Gentlemen's Department. A lot of fine sewed balls very cheap. A lot of Oxford Ties a little above cost. A lot of Men's Gaiters, pegged and sewed, from $2.20 up ; a lot of men's fine calf boots, our own make, for $5 ; alot of men's fine veal calf for $3.50; a, lot of men's long heavy boots from $1:60 up; gentle- man's fine and strong Slippers in great variety; gentlemen's Overshoes and Rubbers in a variety of descriptions, selling at the very lowest figures. Youths' Department. Long.Boots from $1.35 up; balls, from 90c ; overshoes and rubbers at very low 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 department I will give You good bargains during the sate. I have a Ipt of men's and boys' Winter Caps going very cheap; must be sold, as well as a lot of Felt an4 Hard Hats going, some for cost, and others at a ,very small advance. Time fails to give more particulars at present. Come and see for yourself' and be cominced at the Seaforth' Boot and,Shoe Store. Kempthorne & Co. TI.A.LaD, 1885 - New Fall Goods -AT THE - Cheap Cash Store H ofrm a n Bros., SEAFORTH, New Fall Goods -arriing daily. We are now prepared to show bargains in New Dress CSoods, new Trimmings, new Plushes, excellent values; new Buttons, new Flannels, new Winceys,- new Cot- tons, hew 'Cantons, new Hosiery, new Gloves, new Corsets; in fact, new goods in all lines: Every department replete with all the latest novelties. Call and Bee our neW lines of Kid Gloves, a special line bought at a bar- gain. They are sfdenclid value, and we are offering them at a sacrifice; it will pay you to see them. All lines of g000s coning to hand ; our stock was never betterassorted than it will be for the fall and winter trade. fires.- and White Cottons at Mill prices. We are still offering all kinds of Sum- mer Goods at cost and under to clear. Call and inspect goods and prices at the Cheap Cash Store —OF HOFFMAN BROS., SEAFORTH; - P. S.4 -Agents for Buttericles Reliable ratternii THE RAMBLES OF AN M. P. IN THE NORTHWEST. ,TAMES TROW, ESQ., IN. THE STRATFORD - BEACON. LETTER V. - In former communications we brought your numerous readers across the plains, a distance of 40 miles from Winnipeg, and landed them at Calgary, In full view., not of the 'promised land, but of the Rocky M ountains, a most delightful situation oil. the fiats or bottom lands at the eenfle ei tee of the :Bow and Elbow riyers, onsiderahle streams, -having their rise in tile mountains and running Over gravelly and rocky beds over one hundred. miles before uniting together: These rivers form a V. the flats widen- ing towards the mountains and as level as a howling green. The j principal por- tion of the . • . TOW N OF CALGARY is built along the south side of the Bow for fully a mile in j lengths The popula- tion numberabout 500 and is evidently increasing pritity fasts Fortunately for this place no great boom ever overtook them, no fel leue prices Were ever ask-, ed for towe the place -consequently has had a steady natural growth. The great plain laf.,L.-.-eert the two rivers is not so luxuriant with jgrasses as the great prairies further east. . This may in great measure be accounted for by its being the -general rendezvous for traders and ranchmen with their herds during the summer, season. During our stay at Calgary we met Profeissor. McKeown, of Belleville, who had just returned from a long tour in the mountains making further explorations in his favorite study. of botany. No doubt the professor has added this season numerous rare plants and flowers to his already large collec- tiOn. There is no conntry in which. I have travelled that can lay claim to 8110. - L. VARIETY OF PLANTS AND PLOWERS aS Manitoba. j' This no douot is attribut- ableto themarm summer's and undis- turbed state of the soil. No such vari- ety is found near the • Mountains.At Calgary we parted coMpany with Our fellow traveller, Judge Travers,. of Nova Scala, who, during last, session of par- liament received his appointment- from Sir. John Macdonald, j for turning. his Coat in878 it is alleged, and aiding Sir LeonardTilleyin his election when the - Finance Minister carried his riding by a bare majoi ity of nine votes. However the judge is a good social fellow and reported to be well up in his profession. The'last I saw .of the j judge he was trudging over the plain to the town, his coat-tails spread. to the winds, carrying under his arm a black tom cat he brought with himjall the way from Nova Scotia. A JOLLY PLEASURE ,PARTY._ As previously arranged by Supt. Egan, we fell in with Mr. Duncan McIntyre, of the C. P. R., -accompanied by Mrs. McIntyre, eir son, Hon. Peter Mitenell; Mr. Cassels and wife, Mr. McDougall and Mr. Force, of Montreal, travelling by special train, having --their own cook, waiter, battle -washer and boot- black on board. I. wits -very fortunate in joining this party, for had I taken the regular. train I could not have- had the leisure and opportunities of sight- seeing and remaining over at various places, and of prosecuting our journey some 80 miles beyond Donald, the first crossing of the Columbia river. • At Cal- gary -I was surprised. to notice so many of the BLACKFEET TI413E lounging about j the station. Many of the juveniles would have Even much better -employed .under their school_in, structor, and the- adults, able-bodied men, should be taught habits pf industry and kept constantly at work on their reserves, and encouraged by allowing' them to participate in the profits there- from. The whites have demoralized the poor Indians, taught them to Jim ardent spirits, which they are passion- ately fond of; gambling is also very pre- valent.- The mounted police are gener- ally on guard and suppress • the liquor traffic, yet notwithstanding this check • evident traces of intemperance are pre- • valent. Horse racing is greatly. prac- tised -this should not be allowed. The police should compel- any: party -getting any property from an Indian to return - it, and prosecute them severely for prac- tising dishonesty. So long as they are wards of the Government they should be protectedeas much as a minor or mem- ber of society under the care of his or her parent. Leaving Calgary we recross the Bow . river which is spanned by an excellent iron • bridge, and run up Os picturesque valley . into the foot hills' through the j - .COCHLANE RANCH. containing many townships of fine graz, ing lands on each side of the river, in- clnding thousands of acres of table lands adjoining. We -noticed a drove of horses probably 400 in number, on the flits• and thousands of sheep on the higher lands. Senator Cochrarie -pur- 'chased several thousand head of cattle in Montana and Kansas two years ago late in the season and _drove them hun- dreds .of miles to this -ranch, arrived with the herd late in the fall consider:. ably jaded and reduced. in flesh. The. herd boys, afraid of their straying away; cOnfined them- to small limits; no pro: I vision in the way of shelter or provend- • er had been made, and the winter being unusually severe, two-thirds of the cat- tle died. Such a lesson of dearly bought experience taught the senator . to pro- - cure a ranche much further south, near Fort McLeod, and he keeps .it exclu- sively for horses and sheep. He has also - taken the precaution of erecting large sheds .and procuring supplies of. hay for the sheep; the horses winter very well without any care further than keeping them within reasonable limits. Mares and foals, cows -and calves and improving Stock require .shelter during winter and -spring.. ONE OF TRE NOTORIOUS BRIBERS. In our travels west of Calgary, Fred. Stinson' or Lynch joined_ our party. Fred is notorious for the part he is al- leged to have taken in the bribery case with members of the Ontario Asserribly. He was considered the Judas ofi the party, who carried the bag lined with $100 bank notes. He 'rehearsed to me some very amusing anecdotes in regard to that scandalous affair. He was great- ly amused at the exainination 'of wit- nesses and the tedions length of the trial. Fred is certainly a Character , and a general favorite among the cow -boys. From COCHRANE STATION, TO MORLEY, distant 20 miles, the line has many cur- vatures and considerable grades, round- ing the foot hills or Bow river benehes. The landscape is grand beyond desrip- tion. Few places can present a prospect so interesting. There are little copses of spruce poplar, and fir, with an Occa- sional pine thrown in,4Which adds t� the variegated coloring of the landscape. The rolling lands, with ridges of the saddleback hills and the rugged moun- tains in the back grounds. clothed With verdure for hundreds of feet from their base and becoming more stunted as we ascend, while others more remote tower still higher above vegetation and- being covered with perpetual snow„glitter like mirrors in the sun. FRIENDLY REDSKINS. . At Morley station we observed num- bers of the Stoneys, a warlike tribe. Many bloody encounters used to take place between them and the Blackfeet. The latter alwayfought to better ad- vantage on the plains while the Stoneys fought with great success on the moun- tains and foot hills. Th `e Stoney § are peaceable and well advanced in civiliza- tion, industry and sobriety, which is at- tributed in a great measure to the good example and moral influence exercised upon them by their spiritual adviser, the Ref; Mr. McDougall, who under- stands their language thoroughly. This DEVOTED CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY has been administering to this tribe the greater part of his life. His much la- mented father was in charge before him and lost his life while on a visit to some members of the tribe. Returning home he was overtaken by :a blizzard on the open prairie, lost his way, wandered in lihat fearful storm, became chilled and xhausted and lay down and died. The whole tribe went in search of their devoted minister and travelled far and near. His body was found on the third clay. The poor inclia:ns inournPd their loss for months. His son at once took upon himself the responsibility of minis- tering to their spiritual Airtint§ and con- tinues with the tribes., No miniSter to the gospel was ever i more respect- ed than the Rev. Mr. McDougall by, his rreople. FROM MORLEY TO CANMORE, some 26 miles we are climbing the louptains gradually, oceasionally get- ting a glimpse of the Bow river and its clear waters. Canmore is the terminus of the Calgary seption; 121 miles from G-leichen. Early I in the., morning our party took observations of the surround- ings, were shown:the Devil's toothPick, on the mountain -side across the Bow river, which resembles two • enormous gate posts, some 50 feet in height of nearly a uniform size and shape, looks more like the work of Man than nature's handy -work. Not far from the station we find the Devil's head and the Devil's lake. His Satanic Majesty seems to be in possession of considerable property in this locality, judging by the . frequency with which his name is used. Thirteen miles west of Canmore we arrived at Banff and devoted considerable time in exploring this section. The special train being under the sole 'control of Mr. Mc- Intyre, he very kindly made frequent stoppages to enable his party to prospect and enjoy themselves in favored locali- ties. Several members of the party, in - eluding Mr. McIntyre', who is as light on foot as a wild roe, climbed the moun- tain On the right of the station and ex- plored several eaves in it where parties. had been mining coal. • Several tons were thrown out of one pit. The indi- cations were good and the coal of good quality,it being tolerably fair anthracite, much super* to any I noticed fuither j east. The seams or layers were from 18 inches to 2i feet in thickness. JAMES TROW. (Continued next week.) Canada. At least a dozen casei of smallpox exist in Ottawa. . -Three deaths from measles have oc- curred at Innerkip. -Dr. Muller, of Montreal, has been arrested for concealing a ease of small- -Toronto Industrial Exhibition As - pox. sociation has decided to extend the park to the north. -An engine and two cars were wrecked at St. Thomas the other morn- ing. Cause an open switch. _ -The Dominion govornment will shortly establish a life saving station at Pigeon Bay, Lake Erie. -The cheese factory at Williamstown is filling an order for twenty cheeses weighing 1,200 pounds each for an Eng- lish firm. I -Both teachers of Granton school h ve been re-engaged for 1886 -Mr. W. aF $M2a2y5.at $575, and Miss B. 'Westman -A fakir following up the cattle fair a Harriston was fined $5 and costs for actising the pea and thimble business oi the simple ones an the crowd. -A farmer named Swartz, at Lyne - d ch, county of Norfolk, left his home oi Wednesday evening, last week, ac- e rnpanied-by his dog, and not return - in, a search was instituted, continuing -al day Thursday without success, but F iday morning his body was found in a field near the residence of Mr. John Charlton, M. P. When found the body of the dead man lay on the ground with a 'bullet hole through the heart, and a revolver still firmly grasped in his hand. The dog which accompanied him on his joinney from home had never left the • body except to go to the door of Mr. Charlton's residence, which he did so often as to attract attention. Finally they followed him to the field, and in thiS way the body was found. -The Lieutenant -Governor has or- dered that every individual in the ser - vide of the Province of Ontario must be vaccinated forthwith. -The Presbyterian Sunday School returns for Nova Scotia show 108 con- gregations reporting with 1,648 teachers and officers, and 12,057 pupils. -A petrified tooth, twelve inches long and sik inches in diameter, supposed to belong, to a mastodon, has been unearthed in 6., gravel pit at St. Catharines. /----Farmers in Malden and Anderdon in Essex county complain a great deal of nripe' corn, this season. The frost struck it before it was ripe and it will reniain soft. J --The Detroit News sayr : All measures to check the ravages of hog cholera in Essex county have thus far been futile. About 125 farms in the south riding have been quarantined. - L --Last week Mr. Richards, of Wood- stock, shipped a consignment of 600 boxes of soap to Winnipeg, also large consignments to Edmonton, Calgary and Prince Albert. J -The Salvation Army now has in Canada. 135 stations 69 outposts, 430 officers, and over 20,000 soldiers. The contributions for the year were over $90,000. , -Bishop McLean, of the Saskatche- wan diocese, has collected on behalf of his mission enterprise $518 in Toronto and $259 in Hamilton, and is engaged in the same work in London. , J ---J. B. King, of Oakville was fined $5O and $13.20 costs, for violation of the &Ott Act at Oakville last week. This is the, first case of contravention, con- vieted, outside the hotels in Oakville. 1-Th08. Cochrane,of Kingston, waiter on the C. P. R. steamer Arthabasca, fell from the main 'deck into the hold and was instantly killed. The accident oc6irred while the steamer was lying at OWen Sound. , J J -The other day a firej broke out in the apple drying factory of Messrs. Mc- Donald & Kelly, Tilsonburg, and made a total wreck of the building. The greater part of the contents were saved. . a -A new barn belonging to an Indian constable on the reserve below Brant- ford was burned to the ground with its contents the other " night. The barn cost $800. The fire was the work of an ineendiary. -Three young men belonging to Hamilton have been sentenced to five, fotir and three years, respectively,. in Kingston penitentiary for the burglary of , Burbank's store in Lynden on the night of the 28th October. -The oil well at Burgessville has reached a depth of over 200 feet. At a depth of about 180 feet a very strong• vein of sulphur water was reached, which is still 'flowing with considerable force. -Parsonages are in course of erection at the following missions of the Methce. dist, church: Bridgewater and Lock- port, Nova Scotia ; Holly Station, Henfryn, and Thessalon j Ontario; and Maple Bay, Vancouver island. --At-a vestry meeting of St. Jude's church, Brantford, it was 'decided to ex- tend a unanimous call to Rev. Mr. StrOng, who has been rector of St. Jarnes' church, Paris, for two years past. . -1-One Sun ay, lately, a farmer who " theft takel no paper," drove into Fenelon Fal s, and waslastonished to find the store and shops all closed and everything q let. He had mistaken the day,. • _-The flax mill at Beachville belong- ing to Mr. J. H. Brown was destroyed by fire on Friday, 30th ult. It contained flax, tow, rope and flax seed to quite a large amount, which with the machin- ery makes Mr. Brown's lOss very heavy. I There was no insurance. ' ,-1-Last Sunday afternoon two men in atteMpting to cross the 'Niagara river from the American side in a row boat, were carried over the Falls in plain 'sight of a number of people, who were poWerless to give any assistance what- ever. 1 -lePort Huron papers Say that a tele,. graidi line, with extensiVe connections thrOughout the United States will soon- reaeh Port Huron from Detroit, and that the intention is to extend it to Sarnia, where it will connect with the telegraph service of the C. P. R. i -J-Samuel Lafferty, of Anderdon, couitty of Essex, has harvested this yea 1,049 bushels of wheat and 3,000 bushels of corn. Mr. t Lafferty now owns. land representing j about $8,000, whieh he has acquired by the steady and intelligentlabor of the .past seventeen years. , -Mr. J. K. Stewart i a well-known temperance worker and Reform speaker, contracted smallpox on a railway train some days ago and is lying ill in the hospital at Ottawa. Mr. Stewart got vaccinated about the same time he caught smallpox, and his :case is not con- sidered dangerous. -One evening lately Mr. George Mc- Intyre, of Alvinston, was on his way home from Newbury with a'horse and sulky attached, when a man jumped from the side of the road, armed with a club, and struck a blow at McIntyre, but, fortunately the horse made a spring forWard, and evaded the blow. -In going through a copper vein in the Colonial Copper Mines, Dorchester, says the St. John Globe, the workmen found a peculiar fotenation of red marl, whieh upon analysis was found to con- tain gold averaging $7 per ton, leaving a reSidue as fertilizer worth in New York abont $10 per ton. -Conductor . W. Smith, running betWeen Stratford and Buffalo, had what might be -termed a brush with the Indians the other day. Two Los got on at Brantford, and wanted a free ride to Onondago. Mr. Smith attempted to, collect their fares but received a very nasty clip from one of the Red men. On arriving at Onondago the Indians got off and com- mence firing stones at the cars, one of them 1 rge enough to inflict a danger- ous wound, came very near hitting bag- gageman Mettler. The agent at Onon- dago Was roughly handled while trying to arre t them. • -A grain elevator at the Great Wes-. tern R ilway depot, Norwich, collapsed Saturday morning, -and is now a total wreck. About 15,.000 bushels of grain were stored in the building, not half Ha capacity. The foundation had become unsound. Ross & Scott, of Tilsonburg, are th4 losers of the grain. -Tile Lieutenant -Governor of the Northwest Territories has been inform- ed by the Governor-General that the law is to take its course in the cases of Little Bear; Man Without Blood, Bad Arrow and Miserable Man, the Indians now in prison at Regina under sentence of death. - A fifty -mile extension of the Mani- jtoba and Northwestern Railway from Minnelota to within seven miles of Birtle las been completed, and was duly opened, for. traffic on Saturday. The Canadian Pacific Railway was finished, Hon. . A. Smith driving the last spike at 9 a. m. Saturday morning. - v. Mr. Dyke, who has been very intima ely connected with the Baptist church extension in Toronto,was a few days ago made the recipient of a hand some silver tea -service and a beautifully illu- minated address, frpm the members of the- denomination in Toronto. The reverer gentleman is removing to Colo- rado. -Geo. A. McLaren, a traveller for a j Montr al drug store, has been arrested on sus icion of being one of the men who hung tte body on a hook in front of Langri l's butcher shop on Hallowe'en night in Toronto. He was too ill to appear in the Police Court on Friday, and th case was remanded until tilte 10th. -We regret to have to chronicle the death qf Mr. Robert Hall, builder, of Ayr, on the 4th, inst. Deceased came to Canada with his parents, from Jed - burgh, Scotland, in 1834, he was then only 11 years of age, and from that time until his death he was a constant resi- dent of Ayr. He was an honest man and a ood citizen and his death is much , regrett d. -An old man named Wm. Childs of Grenne 1, Iowa, Was relieved of $100 on No. 7 dxpress, on the Grand Trunk Rail- way, 1 at Thursday, by confidence men, who se ured the money as an advance to clear n alleged shipment of goods. They a e supposed to have boarded the train a Hamilton. The old gentleman went o westward in a very disconsolate state o mind. -A jlasterer named Thos. Garrett, left his home in London the other day, telling is wife he had to go into the city ont business. Not returning, en- quires ere made, when it was - ascer- tained he had left the country with a young irl from Delaware. He has left his wif and family in most destitute circum ' stances the neighbors having to gather foodfor their sustenance. „A. large number of debts are also left be- hind him. -On Wednesday last week a young lady arrived at the Royal hotel, Hamil- ton, and asked for a room. She regis- tered. ais Miss T. Williams, and fre- quently made enquiries from the clerk whether a young man had called and asked fpr her. In the afternoon she got e into co versation with a lady guest at the ho, 1, stating that she came out from England for the purpose of getting 1 marrie . Immediately on her arrival she wa to have been met by a Hamil- ton ma., , whose letters she had in her possessijon. About 4 o'clock a letter was put into Miss Williams' hand from the bridegroom -to -be, informing her that he had to leave the day before with a Cargo of cattle, and that she in the meantime had better take a situation and await his return. Miss Williams had croesed the sea to meet this disap- pointment. She intends starting back to her home in the old country imme- diately. ,_, -The ituniversary of the Gunpowder Plot was celebrated in Toronto by an Orange concert. Mr. Hughes, Public School nspector, in a speech, fold their enemies are still as ready' as ever to blow up Parliament buildings with • dynami e. The Chairman of the Pub- lic Sch ol Board stated, on the same occasio , that sixteen out of twenty-four membells are Orangemen, and one of the a1dermei states that half the city coun- cil are rembers of the order. -Th4 contracts for building the Can- ada P ifie Railway cantilever bridge over th St. Lawrence, near iLachine, have been awarded. The contract for rk in erection of piers and four approaches were awarded to Robert Reed, of Guelph, Ont., ford Fleming, Civil Engineer. work goes to the - Dominion ompany, of Lachine, a Toronto tion. The total cost of the estimated at $1,250,000, and it finished on the 30th November, ably the oldest man in Ontario is 'Wm. Alexander McLeod who lives on the monntain between Kirkville and 'Bank's Post office, in the county of Grey. He is 107 years of age, and until he took sick, a few days ago, his memory, eyesight and hearing were un- impaired. On the 12th of October he Walked four miles to see a friend, and Was well and healthy. He has seldom had any sicknese, although, strange as it ma.y seem, the pipe has been hiscotustant companion. Since he took sick he has been compelled to quit smoking. =The body of an unknown man was recently found in the canal at Merxiton, with the throat cut, and the head terri- blY crushed. The appearance of the clothing would lead to the supposition that the deceased was a man of some culture, and a business man. It is now su posedsqo be the remains of a Mrs Stone w Miles o Messrs. and Sa The ir Bridge organ iz bridge inust be 1886. --Pro Hughes, who had left Detroit for Hamil- ton on September ist. The supposition is that, having a quantity of money, a watch, and other valuables, on his perion, he was murdered while on the train, and the body cast into the canal. - A Bay City despatch says: A. J. Kniffen, a young physician of good standing in East Saginaw, where he has practised some years, has been found guilty of forgery on the estate of the late D. D. Calvin, a wealthy Ontario lumberman, who died last year. Knif- fen, by means of a forged deed, secured a loan of $600 on 504 acres of land in Maple Grove township, Saginaw county. The penalty is from one to fourteen years' imprisonment. Soon after coin- mittieg the crime KniWen went to Til- sonburg, Canada, and married an esti- mable young lady of that place, for whom considerable sympathy is felt. -James McQuirk, a farmer residing in the township of East Nissouri, hang- ed himself with a plow line to a beam in his barn on Sunday 1st inst. He attend- ed the Catholic church at St. Marys in the morning and returned home in the afternoon. He remained about till S.3n in the evening, when he went out, as the family supposed, to attend to his .,work in the stable, but as he did not return his brother Richard went out to see what detained him and discovered him hanging as above stated,quite dead. He was an unmarried man of about forty years of age, and lived with his brother, sister and cousin, on 'a far:n left them by their parents. It is said that the unfor- tunate man was driven to commit the rash act by financial difficulties. - The sagacity of a dumb animal was observed by a number of persons in London on Saturday. A cow and two calves attempted to cross the river from Kensington to the flats. The cow and one calf swam directly across and reach- ed the opposite bank in safety. The other calf was carried down by the swift current, although making frantic efforts to save itself. Seeing the dangerous predicament the calf was in, a lad ran up and drove the cow and calf - that were on shore into the water. The cow started- out for the bank from whence it carne followed by the- two calves. The effects from being in the water so long commenced to weaken the calf, which showed signs of being sub- merged entirely, when the cow with wonderful sagacity, turned comp"letely around in midstream and came up be- tween the two calves, and they placed their heads on the cow's back and were towed to shore. The act was witnessed by a large crowd on the bridge. -Rev. David Savage addressed a .Salvation Army meeting the other even- ing in Hamilton, speaking in praise of the organization, and exhorting the s'oldiers to go on whether they were or were • not supported. Said he: "You may have crosses to bear -we all have- -but that is what makes soldiers of us. I have had my share of crosses, God knows, but I go on. The army methods of freedom have been taken into the Churches and been blessed there, and we have conducted parlor services at the Female College and many of the girls have come -into the light of God. In some places the ministers scowl upon me but in others, as at Ailsa Craig, all of them assisted, including a godly clergy- man of the Church of England, who was down on his knees among the penitents." During his speech much emotion was exhibited by himself and his hearers, and it was not by -any means decreased when Mrs. Ludgate arose -and sang the touching song, "Beckoning Hands." -An interesting horse case was tried in Woodstock, at the late court, before His Honor Judge Finkle. without a jury, in which Dr. Clement, of Innerkip, was plaintiff, and Mr. Alfred Winscom, tea merchant, of London,was defendant. It appeared, from the evidence, that Dr. Clement sold the herse to defendant Winscom for $125, to be paid at a future time, and warranted the horse sound. The horse, after it came into Winscom's possession, acted very unsatisfactorily, and the defendant took the animal to a veterinary surgeon, and found that he was unsound. The defendant then de- sired the doctor to take the horse back, which he refused to dos whereupon the defendent sold the horse and offered the . • proceeds to the doctor, which he also refused to accept. The doctor then brought suit, and the case occupied the greater part of one day. Drs. Rudd, Wilson, Jr., and others, of,London,gave evidence on behalf. of the defendant, tes: tifying to the unsoundness of the horse, and Dr. Clement and several farmers gave evidence to the contrary on behalf of the plaintiff. The Judge reserved his decision, with the final result that a verdict has been given for the defend- ant, dismissing the plaintiff's action with costa. Mr. Armstrong Again to the Front. To the Editor of Tun HURON EXPOSITOR. Sra,-In your strictures upon my letter of the 22nd of October, last, you say, "We think Mr. Armstrong is en- tirely too severe in his strictures,in, fact, taking his own version of the case, that they are uncalled for. Messrs. Drum- mond and Young have undertaken the performance of a very unpleasant and thankless duty, and instead of being abused, and unfairly j- criticised, the public should commend and uphold theta." I suppose you will have to al- low others to think as well as You. And if you think that the actions of Messrs. Drummond and Young, in this case, will be upheld by the intelligent public, I think that you are very much mis- taken; for I know that the law _will not uphold them. If you think it is the - public duty of Messrs. Drummond and .Young to bring ten respectable farmers, and mechanics, away from their busi- ness, five of whom were never called, and at their own expense, to have them fished for evidence in a whisky ease, and to be abused because they would not answer to all the bablings of this lawyer from Clinton, who ran the show; I_ think you are again mistaken. I also -think that Messrs. Drummond and Young will find that it was no part of their public duty to be trying a man who only existed in their disordered imagination. They issued a summons for one Robert Mullen; this surnnions was given to some little boy, and the boy give it to his father, and the father sent it back to where it came from ; therefore Mullen never got it. And Messrs. Drummond and Young did not know it was a part of their public duty, after Robert Mullen was called in this, High Court, to enquire if he (Mullen) vvas summoned, and have the party sworn who had served the summons. This they did not do in either of the three charges preferred against Mullen. But instead, they proceeded with their mock trials and fined Mullen, whoever he is, and made an order that they dare not try to enforce. Messrs. Drummond and Young do not seem to think it any part of their public duty to put the Scott Act in force when it is broken intheir own village,and under theirvery noses. George Andrews was allowed to go free when it was dis- covered that he did not rent the stand at the fair grounds in Blyth. It was a Blyth man who rented it, and of course under the Drummond law he would be convicted, and not Andrews: And the two witnesses who were summoned to prove this case were allowed to go home; notwithstanding all the vain boasting of Drummond about not being afraid to put the Scott Act through. Now, sir, you and your correspondents are constantly reminding us of the 1,600 majority that voted in Huron for the Scott Act; but Lord Macauley has said that all parties and sects,in the majority, are both corrupt and wrong. And the Tories in this country are in the majority too ; ,arid yet you have been telling us in your paper for the last eleven years that they are wrong also; therefore to be in the majority is no proof of being right. But, sir, this majority for the Scott Act, in Huron, was made up by the whisky drinkers, and hereabouts they are the ones that are breaking the law. Before the passing of the Scott Act in this, county we had a thing called whisky and whisky drinkers; now we have got the Scott Act fanatics added to the number, and both are becoming a nuis- ance to the -public. He must be simple- minded, indeed, who thinks that there is any less whisky drank now than be- fore the passing of the Scott Act in Huron. Before the passing of the Scott Act whisky- was only sold in certain places; but now it is sold by the- way- side, in the fence corners; this I know. ROBERT ARMSTRONG. MORRIS, November 2nd, 1885. [We have no intention of entering into a eon- troveray with Mr. Armstrong on this subject. We leave him to the tender mercies of Messrs. Young and Drummond. We May say, however, that if two witch intelligent gentlemen com- mitted the errors Mr. Armstrong says they did, it is the best possible evidence of the necessity for a Police Magistrate who understands his business, and veho will deal with these cases legally and properly. -En. Exr.1 The Stanley Plowing Match. The annual plowing match under the auspices of the Stanley and Goderich Plowing Association was held on the farm of Mr. Ross, London road, near Brucefield on Friday last, A better field fir the purpose could not have been selected. It was a nice, firm soil, perfectly level and free from every ob- struction and convenient to the village. The ground also was in excellent con- dition, and it was the general remark of the spectators that they had never seen better work done at a match and that there' Was not a poorly plowed ridge in the field. The weather, hovvever, al- though not cold., was wet and otherwise disagreeable, and the heavy down -pour of ram during nearly the Whole forenoon must have prevented many plowmen and spectators from being present. But, notwithstanding this draw -back, there was a fair attendance of both, and those present seemed to take an unusual in- terest in the work being done. The fel- lowing is a list of the successful compet- itors in the several classes FIRST CLASS MEN. -First prize and association cup, Peter McDougall, Porter's Hill, Miller plow ; 2nd, john Marquis, Benmiller, Miller plow; 3rd, Hiram White, Grey, Hogan plow. SECOND CLASS MEN. - 1St John Stewart, Hibbert, Hogan plow; 2nd, Daniel Ross, Brucefield, Miller plow, 3rd, Wm. Bird, Grey, Hogan plow. FIRST. CLASS BOYS. -First, John Bell, Hibbert, Hogan plow; ;2nd, Wm. Charters, Tuckersmith, Irogan plow; 3rd, Wm. McDougall, Egmondville, Miller plow. SECOND Cts.—Boys with Wooden plows. -First, James Taylor, Chisel- hurst, Hogan Plow ; 2nd. Geo. Hunter, Tuckersmith, Hogan plow. JUDGES.—First class men and 2nd class boys, -James Young, Clintem Geo. Anderson, Stanley; and Davit'. McLean, Kippen. Second class men and 1st class boys. -Wm. Courtice, Goderich Township; Alex. Ross and James Patterson, Brucefield. . Blake to Exeter. DEAR EXPOSITOR.—Mr. J. Swinerton, of Exeter, has erected a handsome brick building, part of which is to be used as a strictly temperance house kept by Mr. J. A. Hayes. Both are Scott Act men and Should be encouraged in their efforts to promote the temperance cause. His fine etabling and blacksmith shop are just what is necessary. I have been re- -quested to try to put a stop to the sell- ing of liquor in Zulieh, and I fear it is time something was done. I may as well mention that 1 bought Mr. John Dinsmore's farm of 50 acres for $2,500, and sold it -again to Mr. Robert Allan, my next neighbor, Yours respectfully JOHN REITH. 41, -Mr. Chris. Stampe has sold his 5 acre farm, on the 9th eoncession of Logan, to Mr. Conrad Mogk for $2,- 450. 1:1 P1