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The Huron Expositor, 1885-11-20, Page 1?eoppe • w € coat_ e a Dney )ale WARTA eheves thit ae▪ r this sea. is is a- Gas; sty turn the Toney at the knows that it at the tin tk, and bav+ i order cash,, he hat - i induces� he bauce of you posted eady Money n accordance [r.. Charleton, Mc; : which Lf those who The sermon E.—Mr. Jost, e Perkins,, of the Orange tr.. Balfour ii :hoot Section Iin Campbelt aged to teach 1886.—Mt Ir.. Win Ara h has got hilt which lmt nmoh.-=-Mrs; wed to - €art, o time on the paper,the rider ciret -la ' predecessor*' an eminent " The news., of the nines ng the case, have a wide strong, V a few daya ends ;will be to attend to tgbas moved to Mr.. Win. at church..— has moved in which the it will not be tor's sanctum was printed. as store. No t pay for the less: has gone [et again, and; e old Fnter- our new : ild about 4 Mr. Samuel th end of the ier en: Satur- aid that the ease a mall • r. D. l ipector, spent Monday in c• lasses. He well pleased e schoo L- A E held in the r. Mr. Moore- Adresse—The gs so far have try are under Jnr -ors of the anion. The society' merit "est they are v iYla e. fir. een sick for to leave his o resides in a Tuesday.- township hall ithe building aranee The ad, owing to t week ohn,: non of he t Ith con- tzned to his- bs in his back,: tion of the edieal treat - rt way of re_ is said tele supposed to a rtion in car- EIGEETEENTH YEAR. wiEprilat NUMBER 936. GR HOF SEAFORiTH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1885. AT BARGAINS 'MAN, BROS. In the following Lines just to hy.nd. ' BOYS! - OVERCOATS And Cloth nits which we are offering very cheap. FULL -LINES IN ' MEN S UNDERCLOTHING COMBINATIO.N SUITS, VERY calEAP. L THE HEST ASSORTED STOCK OF FURS, FUR CAPS,IFUR CAPES .We evea-had, to be seen with us now in Ladies' Misses' Men's Boys' and Chil- dren's. Cell and see them. BUTTERICK'S RELiABLE PATTERNS. Cheap Cash Store HOF MAN 1j.110. Preside t Lincoln's Mother. "Mrs. President, youth, a le nature re ordinary her as be" cided char ineoln, the mother of the is said to have been, in her omen of beauty. She was by ed, and of far more thao tellect Her friends spoke of g a person of, marked and de- ter. She *as unusually in- telligent, reading all the books she could obtain. She taught her hugband, as well as her son Abraham, to read sad write. She was, a woman of deep relig- ious' feelinge of the most exemplary character, and most tenderly and affec- tionately clevoted to her family. Her home indieated a degree of taste and a love of beauty exceptioltal in the wild settlement in which she lived,and, judg- ing from her early death, it is probable that she was of a physique less hardy than that of the most of those by whom she was s mounded. But, in spite of d been reared where the very xistence were to be obtained natant struggle, and she had this, she means of but Ler a c learned to use the rifle as well as the distaff, t e cards and the spinning - wheel. SI e couldnot only -kill the wild game of the woods', but she could also dress it, make of the skins clothes for her family, and prepare the flesh for food. He e was a strong, self-reliant -spirit, whi h commanded, the [respect as well as t e love Of the rugged people among wh m she' lived. pression G her weary her busy 1" read and t facea,bly a on him that love .of truth and justice, th t perfect integrity and rev- erence for God, for which he was noted all hie life. These virtues were ever as- sociated ia his mind with the most tender lov and respect for his mother. ' All that am, or hope to be," he said, A Few Guesses. A correspondent says : "I wish there was not so much guess work in farmine operations, but guessing from my own experience, I cannot aftbrd to keep a butter cow without eome kind of provender. I also guess that I cannot afford to grow roots or buv wheat bran for her. Corp ground in the ear two parts, and ,cotton seed, one part, three quarts of the mixture night and morn - best re- , and our I have gles from the mind of the s She had found ti toil and theItarct e, not only to tea write, but to ire n as tast- e amidst rieggle of • sults in cotv's milk, and butte, costomers I never find fault. the been or chew bones, while upon this feed, If Mon have no cobs, t row in a small handful of &tiles once o week also give them all the will eat. Fonbeef oxen hav Cat two dollars in corn meal iind one in cotton seed will do as much as four in earn me.a.felone. The miore experience pleased with it, while the more I have with wheat bran the I think of it I know that smarter men than I feed bran and stick to it, and I often think that I must have been mistaken and try it aman, but always with the same un- satisfaetory results. Barley meal gives good renilts for beef, pork and butter. twice a salt they_ decided THE , SYLVAN . LAND OF I and SUNNY SKIES. nate! To the Editor of TIIR HURON EXPOSITOR. the bu , DEAR Sta.,---Thee time is still spring, to-dep. in this country, th,e furtheit from the tra,vel metropolis of English civilization. The for th writer, is at present a. sojourner not 16 the banks of the Clyde a small river navigable for a:bout twenty miles, and flowing into an arm of the,Pacific, called Bateman's Bay. It is a very unworthy -namesake of its illustrious prototype, bearing the craft and merchandise of all mations to many etateXa cities. The land for 40 miles north and south and 60 back gis covered with trees and scrub, is of poor quality, and very thinly settled. Here and there a " free selector " has pitched his tent, and erected a. hut of logs and bark for the shelter. of his family. But I pity the man, who, when choosing a home- stead, has not sense enough to select a piece of good soil, for a sheep could not get enough to eat on many a smiare mile of Australian vegetation. The pioneer cuts down the scrub and burns it, but as " ringebarking," which costs from two to five shillings per ecre, and left standing, which. gives many, parts of the. country rather a rugged appearance, _especially Where two or three hundred acres of hilly ground is covered WILth old dead gum trees from which the bark has 'fallen, leaving them white and sepul- chral -looking, especially under the sil- very rays of the -moon -from a clear and cloudless sky, seldoM dimmed - by va,pOrs, and loath to shed tears o?er the perishing grass and -withering crops on which so, many lives depend. _Enough money to keep a family for one year, a pair of bulloCks, and a gun, with a few minor articles, is considered a fair cap - such ,ft start meny have acquired for - times in a short time, apd many more arc still seratching from hand to 'mouth, or land r their n pram for the iTt!i 11 e4 for a time, but after a hard le he said, " By crimes it is no ey are too many for us." Forte - they were not reinforced by s, or -we might have been forced nip. This reminds me of the two "night The ope, an Englishman. g out, felt a little anxious about the accommodation, apd looking round spied a young bug going up the side of the register where they had just entered theirnames. Drawieg the attention of hie friend Pat no it, Pat replied, " Never mind sure, and isn't he just prospecting round for the number of your room. ' Go where you will here a variety of insects seem to find both you and your room without much prospect- ing, aad we are told worse times are coming when the weather gets warmer. When we were leaving in the morning I gave the old man sixpence for bringing .up our horses, and told him he could buy some " Or candies for the old woman ; but he said she could do that 'out -of her own money, and this ,perhaps because they are' on p and ean never get any return f I work ; or beceuse they have be 'deal advocates of " short hours working man," going se fat as o advo- cate "no work between „meals," which is . said to be the only terms to which the average working man here will give his hearty support ; or 'worse still, they Imam imeie influeneed tab mubh by King Bacchus, and what now appears to the credit -of their more successful neighbors might have been theirs as well, only for , the "mrog faal below their nose, which is far worse for danger than all the deaf addere in the bush." So sai a poor di orphan balf-caste, and what maul of superior breeding and education can Through this sparsely settled country I *as directed to come a few ays ago in quest of information about the above " named bay, but. a chanced te see • a "cove "noing the same way, and it does not require many ceremonies to make friends - when you are 45 miles from much settlement. My new made friend was “ Mike," -who was as good as his name. So on we went timether. As it was coming near noon, Mike said we would hurry on to a place where he was acquainted, and where we would be sure. of our " tucker." The woman told us she came from Ire- land in 1847 because she could_not get enough to eat there when the potatoes failed, and ehe had not been much better here, however we were welcome to what she had, and when we offered te pay her for her trouble she said no it *ould be beneath the dignity of an 'Australiao to _charge for a meal, and I have mostly found her words correct. By -and -bye we cama to A branch of the Clyde, where we gave our horses a . drink tis they were fording it. Peeple hardly think of feeding a I Ilona during a ride of 40 miles, !mid ia many places there is no feed to be got for them. So we wandered -on and en, over hill, around hill, and through many a gully, but as the day ems pr tty hot Mike said we wopld not be able our destination that night, but an 'old English ample who wou us over night, if we paid them for it. So we decided te go there, but distances are very deceiving when winding in all directions to get round the coetinuous successioa sof hills. Night was now upon , us, - twilight had deepenrd into darkaess, end we were afraid we had taken the wrpng way, when suc den -1y a to reach le knew a keep light - glimmered through th Mike gave a whoop and led but soon discovered that it was from a dwelling, and imam back me with a face more easily i lagined ;r than described.. Hewever, o a. only chance lay in makina for it. At first we thought it was some one ca med. in the bush, but closer observation ed us that it was ra bark chin fire, and Mike discoved that it place we wanted. So we harriet scene, but when we came within dred yards or so our horses gave a snort and came to a sudden stand. Di mount- ing quicker than it takes to te 1 it„ we hung them to a tree and lamina but we were too late to render any assist- ance, the old couple had subdued the fire and were coining 4 the roof op to a bOx which served for a step up -and down. They had only been in bed a short time when they noticed the fire, and without waiting to make their teilet went, as they- were. as all should de Under - pre 581.11 g circumstanCCS. What the old men had on was like Joseph's emit of. many coloin. -The °Id lady's garment had once been1white, bat its hue had chromed without dye. Little apology.was made, their little all soon arranged, a fire made, the " billy" bell- ed, and we bad a good supper, which always tastes sweeter when far away from plenty. Ournepose would probe- bly have been just as refreshing on a mattress as that of the epicure imbedded in' feathers ernia his luxurious home, had it not been for the body guard of blacks, which Mike slaughtered right trees. e way, light behind onvinc- ney on' was the I to the woul Main y. I tried to persuade him not to it so foolishly, when he quickly d thathe had a mind of his own. Mike, who is a wearer of the " blue 451)4i " and rather impulsive, chimed ha that if it was like his body it had simn better days. I "atly child," says he, "I d , not like to hear boys ivithout a ict bear on their face talk like that to men of s nse and experience." So we left, and ito doubt, long ere this reaches your fair. own of Seaforth, he will have spent the first that have travelled the way. On my way back to Nowra ,, entertained with the history of an clock, now the, property tif John . It was made in 1615 by James. Allen, of Kilmarnock,•need I mention Ayrshire, and Ilea been in the Latta feanily ever since. It is still i' good running order, and keeps good ti e. I d -tine another in 270 yeats, and many mile§ their extreme Kids had lied 'their; lenath being six inches. the n Not sam I wa Lat Pass how trav Those Who try to guess may be as wide Of thd mark as I was. Not far from the euriosity just mentioned I came upon John Parnell, first cousin to Ireland's great politician of the same 'Janie. He would not let me go till we had tea to- gether and he had given me the history di his life, which wet very interestieg. He said he liked to have a " yarn ". wita a Canadian, for he had been up the St. Lawrence as far as Montreal. Born in 1805 he went to sea at 10 years of age, and was cabin toy on the man-of- war that took Napoleon to the lonely °island of --St. Helena. After au active and rough life in -many ports arid seas, he entered tae Sydney Heads on the first manrof-war that _arrived tn that port. He says he might hava been wealthy, but he spent his money freely as he got it, and now for a living he is master of a small " grog shop " near Jervis Bay. Such is life: Tae most disagreeable feature in travellhm here is not the expense, which is tall enough ; but the slovenly way in which Ifood it generally dished up to both man and horee. - You are not wanted roUnd the drinking ' dens at all, unless yOu have lots to spend over the bar. Here you receive every attention from the beauti-, ful barmaid, but the kitchen is kept by some cheap and inferior looking domes- tic.' Tea is seldom better than a decoc- tion of senna leaves, and puddings, the staple desert, are rarely more than half- dooked. The meat is sent utt in all shaties, with very little taste or relish. The , butter is mostly No. 3, !though there is lots of good butter Made, if they would only pay for it. Cakes and pies are never seen, except in shim win- dows. Preserved fruits and jelly are absent, and the monotony of bread, butter, tea, meat and potatoes is some- times broken by a small dish of jam, or colonial honey, imported from Tas- mania, or canned peaches from San Francisco. Stranaman a country where fruits of all kinds grow to petfection the 'Americans can fled a market for theirs canned. Not less strange, when valuable trees rear their umbrageous heeds far above the dense scrab, that white people sit down on American chairs and up to American tables. Where every mineral known tO the geologists, is found in great abundance, they have foreign cooking utensils and Sheffield knives and forks, and where 'the staple article of export has elicited firm George Agustus Sala during his hits tour " The Land of the ,Golden eece," not,one yaid of cloth is manu- factured. • In view of the centennial year in 1888 the Colonial and India ex- hibition in London next May, and on the back of the bold dash of the " Con- ti gent " '''to the Soudan, little 'wonder' atthe curiosity of the world isi stirred out the condition, progress ana future ospects and resources of this great developed island. When the over- crowded cities of Europe are made ac- quainted with the vast unsettled wood- land; with Inestimable treasures; below, and no misty, cold, drizzling atmosphere above, and when they will riot have to protect themselves for .200 days out of the year with umbrellas and overcoats ; When they -are convinced that irrigation, •proper measures for conserving water and digging for it, will in a great meas - ere counteract the suffering and death Often caused through carelessuess and laziness, will they not then -come here, and beholding with their own eyes, as I liave done, exclaim, yes, Sylvan Land Of Sunny Skies ! To those who are com- fOrtable in Ontario I say stop where you are and be contented. The call is not ta troll, for in every respect you are bet- ter off than you could be here, extremes. of climate excepted. But, 16ts 'of room - calls to those who have none, 4nd un- developed resources on the. speculator for the investnient of his money. plenty, says to the hungry, come and get fed. Teeming nature says to the cast -down aind struggling come and a will help you. Manufacturers call for the ex- perience of the capitalist and for their support. , But again I must say goo friends. That is said to be English words that often breaks down the bravestaand most daring, as the re- lation of ideas come up with our muffled sobs but there is no lamp here and our e western protection -by to my ne of the luminary, recedine behind t hills, with his last flue golden pencils moving blue, writes the wor good -by. Yours erm rays, like Nowaa, dth Oct. 1585, New South Wales, Australia. cro be continued.) • Hurohitee in Kansas. Mr. John Skene in a le ter. to the Bruasels Post makes ienti n of some came across during his travels in who lives about thir een miles from Abilene, has 480 acres o lan TWo of his 'farms have good b s on them —as good as he had i Ca ada., etter- houses if anything. H has done well. I visited Thos. Nichol, late of Tu ker- smith, and was shown over his lace. He has 30 spring calves, 5 thoroug bred. cows and 150 head. of , other cattle. He shipped 16 head of two-year-old s an they averaged 1,490 lbs. When shrunk, nd I do not know how many hogs he ha , for he did not know himself. He has 1,280 acres of land and good buildings. After and Baile"ys, formerly of Hallett.- They keep a very heavy' stock of cattle and hogs, as does Hugh Mustard, forMerly of Stanley. He has a very fine alace. I also came across Mr. Robert Laidlaw. He looks 10 yeare younger than when in Brussels. They have a comfo4able place 160 acres and a nice house pn it, and 'they are doing well. The are about five miles from Sol Mr: Robert McColl, former! has a beautiful place, abo north of Abilene ; he has go and a good Stock of evei witheut number. He has as fine land as ever the sun in fact, the land is all good section of country. omon City. v of N orris, t 6 miles d bid clings thing hogs 80 acres of shone on ; rounl. that A Voice From the We DEAR EXPOSITOR.—I Will ve with your 'permission, to give readers a few scattered remark cernina this part of our adopted province, which lies to the north of the 49th par- allel. ',There have been so many letters written to the local press of Ontario, that it appears to us Manitobans that there is little left to be said. But there is an old saying that a gdod story will bear to be repeated. Suppose, how- ever, we reverse the order of things, and tell a few facts relating to- the present year which, in my judgment, ,will not spell good by any means., The all aasorbing topic among the farmers of this district, (Township 1, range 9, west frost that occurred on the night of the of first meridian,) is tae merioro,ble 23rd of August, and so effectually dam- aged the fine fields of wheat. Aud now that threshing is the order of the day it confirms the worst anticipation in re - my own case as an instance tp show your readers what John Frost tlid for us. I had some forty [odd cree of wheat that was in diffetent a ripeness, according to date of when the frost came, and t e fi t. ture, your ges of owingt ld that writ nearest being ripe of c urs 1,is only slightly damaged the Outare lekin or covering`of the kernel being just enough to air his eloquence. This sample will rank No. 1 frozen and wi weigh be- tween 60 and 62 lbs. to the ushel. My next field in rotation, ' as r gards ripe- ness, was more damaged than the first 'on account of being not so fu ly matured, some of the worst dama ed- kernels showing a crease the Whole len th of o. 2 7 to 59 d worst aleable, mg, and o make to the ht to be theni. ' This sample will ran froaena and will weigh 'from Ibia- to the bushel. My aast a damaged wheat is not *at al/ being shrunken .to almost not the " nothing " that is left, itself more hideous, id blac centre, or where the centre ou located. This special grade count' 44 and goes by the name , fl "Did Usual." My case, just [stated, t by no wid Or three h"ch is six od wheat as means worse than mee nei the contrary there are only farmer§ in this township, miles square, who have as g The Manitou market has good working shape yet an price paid so far for No, 1 ctsa while at Morden, the 20 miles nearer Winnipeg, been paid for the same whe being, no competition , at a, which we hope to have in poSsible time.- No other ki or yegetables were hurt by oats, barley, peas, andamta and the hardest varieties o and they preseet a showing that ,any proud. of. Now, Mr. Editor, you must net sup- pose that our sole pastime is to ctnverse no get into fr zen is 45 6 eta has t, he secret he shortest da of grain rost. Take oes, turnips about frozen wheat, altholg you may be' justified after remarks, for even opt here political discussions, and w N ed to one of them on :the 7 h Manama by the leading lo a. of both sides of .the Eto Opposition, commonly calle elusion that I observed an e the EXPOSITOR a short time ago on the subject. of frozen . wheat and the best method to avoid such by intrOdueing earlier varieties of wheat an perhaps he, above we have -ere treat - hist., at members cti that the the Phil - g ,left to skin was cheers for ay in con- ditorial in better acquainted with the wantt of this country, and ended by saying that those who had pluck and perseverance would in the end succeed. These are senti- ments that I readily agree with, yet it requires a good deal of faith although perhaps we have not so great hardships as the pioneers of Ontario endured. And Mr. Editor, I, as a Manitoban, thank you for the faith you have in this province. But perhaps I had better stop for this time and perhaps you may hear from me soon again. I am yours WELLINGTON BARBER. Formerly of Tuckersmith. Messrs. Scott & Hogg, egg dealers, of Galt, are shipping eggs to San Fran- ' --Irishmen in Kingston are holding meetings to discuss the coming elections in Ireland. -L-The Kennedy family intena making another tour _ of this province during 1886. --Miss Howard, of Strathroy, has been appointed matron of the Mount Elgin Institute in Caradoc. —Young Howard, who accidentally shot himself on Thanksgiving Day at Hagersville, died Saturday morning. —Another Indian uprising in the . Northwest is predicted for next spring. Cause, starvation. —Two thousand barrels of apples were shipped from Picton last week for Mon- treal. All grown in Prince Edward county. —A canal boat has been suhk at Medina, New York, on which was a loadlof apples insured in Toronto for —A young man named Christopher Teeple committed suicide near Thames - ford on Monday morning last week. Cause, domestic infelicity. —Mr. Thomas Donley, of Parkhill, has gone to Central America, where he will officiate as conductor on one of the railways there.' • —A tramp named Peter Lond had his right foot crushed on Friday While try- ing to catch a ride on a freight train near Walkerville. —Since the present season of naviga- tion opened the Government has paid steamship companies about $70,000 for assisted passengers." —Magistrate Bartlett, of Windsor, on Tuesday tined four young men $6 each for disturbing the meetings of the Salva- tion Army. —Two children of Alderman Burns, of Guelph, died last week of diphtheria, and others in the same family are dangerously ill. —Lieut. Gordon, Royal Navy, and Captain Harbottle have been appointed a court to enquire into the wreck of the ill-fated Algoma. —Messrs. C. T. Pickard & Co., Mon- treal, importers of jewellery, have fail- ed, with direct and indirect of 855,000 to $60,000. —The Michigan Central has reduced the section gangs between Essex Centre and Clifton to five men. Fifty-two men are thrown out of work by the order. —Whilst a number of Belleville boys were trying to shoot a squirrel one of them shot himself in the hand, inflicting a very 'painful wound. —A Montreal telegram says the British -American Bank note Company is charged with swindling the Govern- ment of $150,000 on engravings import- ed from New York. live with her. The magittrate remanded the doctor to bail until Wednesday. Mr. Joseph Anderson, of West Nis - before morning the rambling ybuth had disappeared, carrying off a, silver watch. The latter was found in London, but the boy is still missing. —Four five dollar bills were found in the pocket of a garment sent to Parker's dye works, in Peterborough, to be re - dyed. They were returned to the owner, who,,by this act of honesty, was made a surprised and happy man. • --A tramp who gave his name as Geo. Soper, while stealing a ride on a Grand Trunk freight train, fell off at the Don bridge, Toronto narrowly escaping death. The wheels of the ear cut one of his heels clean off. He was taken to the hospital. —Mr. Joan Wells, of North Dum- fries, near Galt, lately threshed his oats and obtained a yield of 80 bushels to the acre. The variety is that known as the " Mordlin," and was brought- from Illinois three years ago- by Mr. Wells. --A skunk by some means got into a cellar of a dwelling house in Galt. After considerable effort the owner suc- ceeded in getting the " pretty little pet ," out, but what it left behind is likely to stick to the premises for some time —At the fat stock show in Chi- cago last week John Rutherford, of R-oseville, Waterloo county, won two first prizes and.-- one third for Leicester sheep ; two first and one second for Lincolns ; two first, one second and two third for grades and steamer Quebec, sunk in 125 feet .of water, near Sault . Ste, Marie, has at last been raised and successfully floated. Murphy, the con- tractor for the work, receives from the insurance companies for the job $18,500. It is pronounced the most difficult and hazardous wrecking job ever attempted on the chain of lakes. —The Stanstead and Orleans Veneer company have put into their establish- ment at Beebe Plain, near Lennoxville, a lot of new machinery. They are em- ploying twenty-five hands now, and when in full blast will employ about seventy-five. iThey are making butter- btroaxyess,.bottle-tops, nut -baskets and strew —Wm. H. Jackson, who acted as Riel's secretary during the rebellion in the Northwest, and- who was sent to Selkirk lunatic asylum as insane, has effected his escape. —Two children in Thorold have nearly lost their lives by sucking toys given as a bonus with candies, and which were found to be coated with a poisonOus mineral composition. I • —Mr. M. Parkinson, head master of tlie Ailsa Craig Public School, has ac- cepted a position as a teacher in the Parkhill High School and „will enter on his duties there after New Year's. —Mr. Borthwick, of Guelph, has in- vented a new pot lid and holder which does away with the risk of scalding the hands in draiuing potatoes or other vegetables. It will be sold at a trifling cost. —A few days ago an East Whitby farmer. fed some hard cider to his hogs. It made them not only drunk but so raging -that he had to shut up the large ones in order to prevent their devouring -- the smaller animals. —Mr. Moses Unger, of Waterloo, near Doon, sold a few days ago to -a. gentleman from Montreal, a very fine young horse for $240. He is a Peacock colt black in colour, about 16 hands high, and weighs about 1;200 pounds. °—The Mounted Police recruiting is finished for the present year. A con- tingent of 25 men has been secured frorn the Maritime Provinces. _This, with the 250 men enrolled in Ontario and Quebec, will fill up all vacancies. —Mr. Wm. Campbell, who for twenty years past has been postmaster in Ayl- mer, has absconded with funds belong- ing.to the office and a large arhount of borrowed money. The total amount will probably be about $5,000. —At Montreal, in the police court Saturday, Dr. Knapp was charged with abandoning his wife without any reason- able cause. The doctor is the son of a wealthy merchant of New York, and last June he wooed and won the affec- tions of a handsome young lady, whose people are well-to-do farmers at Beau- harnois. . Scarcely bad three weeks of the honeymoon elapsed than the newly married husband disappeared from the domestic circle. For a time, the lady awaited patiently the return of her absent loid, and learning that he was sporting about Niagara Falls, she put a detective on his track, who arrested him and brought him back to Montreal. The doctor says he onl _married the lady for d becoming fun, and has no esire to centMue to --An experimental , importation of California raisins has been made ly Mr. John McMillan, of Toronto. The con- signment it composed of 1,400 boxes, and will be the first lot of California fruit ever brought into Canada. The quality as said to be quite the equal of Mediterranean goods. —The Alabastine Company, of Paris, is incorporated. its object is the mrai- ing and selling of preparations for coat- ing and•finishing fencee and buildings, and of machinery for regrinding, ap- portioning and mixing of powdered or plastic materials, and the acquisition of gypsum mines. The capital is $50,000. —At Toronto two .bailiffs entered Tung Kee's laundry to distrain the fur- niture for unpaid taxes. The Chinaman drew a loaded erevolver and pulled the trigger twice, but fortunately it would not go off. He then seized a hatchet, but was disarmed by a policeman and held till sufficient furniture was taken away to satisfy the claim. —The residents of the village of Bright receited a shock of alarm about 2 o'clock Suhday morning by hearing a loud explosion which they immediately attributed sto burglars operating on somebody's. safe. They were consider- ably relieved, however, when it turned clot to be only some mischievous boys op- erating on the village smiddy anvils. —At Baden the other day; Mr. Am- mon Merner met with rather a serious accident. Mr. Merrier had occasion to mien and in going_ around - tepped into the entrance to he doors of which were open, and unobs rved by him. An ugly deep gash on his amid which came in con- tact with, the- brick wall, was the re- sult. —Catherine Howe, a woman who was rescued off • the steam barge Tecumseh during a big storm recently, married an old soldier in Kingston, named Smith, on two weeks' acquaintance. When about starting on the wedding trip she was arrested for stealing a seal jacket, and was subsequently found guilty of theft. The groom has disappeared. —A fiendish outrage was perpetrated in Thurlow, near Belleville,' the other night, when the dwelling of Mr. Pell, manufacturer of aerated wateft, was set on fire and the doors barricaded, with the object of preventing the exit of those within. Tim inmates escaped through the windows,- but the contents were destroyed. —A company of Ontario gentlemen have leased from the Canada Company, for 7 yearS, with the privilege of twelve years, the famous wild duck resort, Lake Smith, in the township of Boson- quet It is the intention of the club to increase the membership to 20 - or 25, and erect a commodious shooting box at the lake and strictly preserve the call on a the house, the cellar, —The 30tb anniversary of Chalmers' church, Elora, was held recently. Ac- cording to a statement made by Rev, Mr. Middlemiss, it appears that the congregation, whose present member- ship is 230, hes been contributing at the rate of nearly $3,000 a year for all pur- poses since the erection of the new cherch was resolved ;upon, ten years —The United Empire arrived down on Saturday, 7th inst., with seven car loads of flour from Duluth for export ; ten tons of wheat for Clinton millers, and 32,000 bushels of Manitoba wheat from Port Arthur for Goderich and Sarnia. She left Sarnia again on Thurs- aay, the 12th, with fourteen hundred tons of fr ight, the largest cargo ever el. carried by one vessel up _mike Superior. Her cargo included salt, coal oil, apples, dry goads, hardware, groceriesand other supplies fot Port Arthur and the North Shore. One Sarnia dealer shipped four tons of poultry fer Winnipeg. —A family consisting of a woman and five children, recently. removed from Montreal to St. Lace, where the head of the family had died of smallpox, and shortly after her arival the mother game birth to another child. Smallpox broke amongst them, and they succumbed, the last one having died on the 12th imst. The whole family of seven are extinct. —The other day three intoxicated men burst into the store of B. Gunn, at Ails& Craig, and began smashing up everything in the place. Two of them, Campbell and MeLean, came up before Squire Priestly the next day and, were fined $34.80. Rather costly fun, A warrant has been issued for the third. MOM. A similar drunken outrage was perpetrated at a house in the village of —A correspondent writing from Cheeky, county of Bruce says : The hammer of the auctioneer is in almost* constant requisition and farmers take holidays to attend the credit auetion sales, where whisky circles round in pails to help' the business on. One far" - mer, near Malcolm, had no less than twelve gallons of the circulating fluid at • his sale a short time since. : —Mr. D. Lorn Macdougall, member of the lorcal Stock Exchange, Montreal, formerly president of the board and managing director of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Cmhpany, died the other day. He was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, a little over 74 years ago, his late father being major of the Twentpfifth British infantry regi- ment. _Deceased came to Montreal at an early age and became a produce broker. 3rd inst. performed a most critical surgical operation on a valuable short horn cow at iierwood village. The operation consisted in removing a large tumor which enveloped the carotid - artery and jugular vein, and expbsed each for about eight inches, from the neck -of the animal. The tumor weighed 18.a lbs. Dr. Shaw iitends presenting it to the Ontario Veterinary museum at Toronto. The cow is doing well, —Last Saturday while Mr. A. Mc- Failme, aged SO, was returning home near Napanee, his buggy was struck by a train b,t Mooney'e crossing. The horse was killed, the buggy smashed and the occupant thrown 25 -feet and fatally in- jured. He was very deaf and. did not hear the warning whistle and bell. No blame attaches to the train officiaas. Immediately after the accident the old .man's son happened to drive up from another di rectioirand took his father home —Great excitement was caused in Beamsville on Wednesday evening, owing to a mishap which occurred at the new Church of the Disciples. The nut on one of the chandeliers hanging in the centre of the edifice became loosened and dropped off, letting fall the half-dozen lighted lamps to the floor. The burning oil ran io all direetions, and soon at keit "three of the pews were enveloped in flames. The walls and ceilings were badly damaged by the smoke. Fortun- ately the accittent occurred early in the evening when only a few persons had yet arrived. —Murtagh McHugh, Henry Goodwin and David Brock were tried at Ottawa ton Wednesday, last week, charged with haying on the Ilth of June committed rape on Miss Bella. Graham. They were found guilty. Ryan, -Burns, Rolph, Black and Nolan.were also found guilty of criminal assault on Miss Truman. Mr. Justice Rose proceeded to deliver sentence on the eight young mem sen- tencing each prisoner to imprisonment for life in Kingston penitentiary. Bnt for the recommendation to mercy His Lordship said he would' have imposed the death penalty. —It is said that a party win start out shortly to make a preliminary survey of the proposed route of the Hudson's Bay railway from Sea Falls, at the head of Lake. Winnipeg, to the bead of tidal navigetion, on the Nelson riveraa point about 60 miles above Port Nelson. Should the survey prove, as the project- ors state, that there are no engineering difficulties in the way in this part of the route, English - capital is ready fer its construction, and the work may be com- menced next spring. Mr. Doaald Grant, contractor, states that he is prepared to construct this portion of the road in one year, and to eommence any time he has instructions and the necessary guarantee. --The Harriston correspondent of the Guelph Mercury says : The ranks of the Salvation Army here were increased on Sunday last by five new recruits. Notwithstanding the opposition they have to contend againstthey work away with unabated vigor. Neither stormy weather, nor the storms ef those opposed to them appear to, in the least, dampen 'their zeal ; day and night they shout and sing, drum and pray. They have beyond doubt been instrumental in mak- ing sober men of some who were much addicted to strong drink. It is safe to say that no church in town would work as faithful, neither would they ever reach those that the ArmY are gathering. —A late number of the Paris Tran7 Script records the death of an aged resi- dent of Dur*ies township as follows : " Another old pioneer passed awaY the death, at Lennel Cottage, near Glen- morris, on the 29th October, cif Christina Scott, aged 92 years and 5 months, re- lict of the late Robert Turnbull, Esq. 'Mr. Turnbull and wife and family' came to Canada in 1832 from Roxburghshire, Scotland, and remained on the homestead in South Dumfries till his death, which occurred a number of years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull bad a family of four sons and three daughter& The sons are all settled in good circumstances. The eldest daugh- ter, was the first wife of the late Hon. D, Christie. The second daughter, who is dead, was never married. The youngest daughter is the wife of Win. Drynan, Esq., -of South Dumfries."