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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-01-29, Page 1-td- imity .hrough his atoeie ternary, found -the had yet TOO kcoats, Too kets, r Too ae Cloths, Few Furs. - EIGHT WHOLE ENTEE YEAR. NUMBER 946. JA1)i UARX 29,, 1886. Cheap paring 8410 • HOFFM N 1311.0.& MAIN ST ET, SEAFORTH, (erson who mg • or si of the go edabove; pey by gp ry Goods lery Haas We are now Sale in every 11 offering at a see the bargain olding a Great Clearing e of goeds, which are eat sacrifice. Call and The goods ar , all new, being bought for this fall and rinter trade. In Dress Goods we never had such a choice, variety of fabrics. . In Mantle a a d Ulster Cloths, all the new novelties. • Ladies', Miss s' and Clindren's Jack- ets, Boy's Over oats and Suits. Ladies', Gent Boy's and C Haven's Underclothing all in latee assortments C3 • La.cliee' and Misses' Fur Caps, Fur Capes, Fur Set and Fur Trimmings— evtra. value. Alen's and Caps,. Plush a,ps, Knit Caps, etc., in large stacks. Tweeds, Fla eels, Shirtings, Cottons, Cantous, Greta es, in fact all kinds of goods fully as orted, and all will be said regardless f cost • y's Fur Caps, C1oth- TH, Come along d get prices. We have a v ry large line of Velvets and Pinshes, w ich we are offering ex; tra. inducement in. and the* people repockets and ha Marelay eveping [Lev. Mr. Ban, of Lon plain in the North ¶. C1 - his celebrated '‘Men who Fought Fought With " Presbyterian &unit Vomen's Foreign M Notwithstanding th er quite a number tielly those who read knew -what a trea -outing. The leetur ,t only required hear • and should Mr. Ball e this part he meg e urater reception. --At the first pace eit on isa was elected deputy' tes was eppointe.d. y ofTh; Mr. Thos. , salary .1475, and M ileetor at the same Mr. Gardiner, an Homey, that Mr lilted clerk at a s JS J., Clarke, resi t to the effect that 0. rk at the same ▪ Halls, and second . carried by the sve, and Mr. Holm pointed clerk. There's, ons for the position. the proceedings w111- e Inspection led at the Cheap Cash Store OF--- HOFF N BROS.,- Agents for Patterns. i.AFORTH. p. Butterick's Reliable —The present population of Toronto • is 123,861, an inerease of 5,684 over 1885. In 187 the inhabitants ofethe city numbered •cancely 57,000, and thus in the past nin advanced_ nea are at present 200 doctors, backer shopsi companies ; of cals there are 27 weeklies, 8 eemi-monthlies, 23 month- lies and 2 qua terlies. It contains 103 places of • reli there are 26 1:oman Catho Methodist, 7 ish synagogue. years the population has Ly 120 per cent. There - the city 500 lawyers, 20 grocery stores, go 267 hotels and 28 loan newspapers and periodi- dailies, 1 senii-weekly, russels. iL Mitentse.—The .of the members "of ‘,gricultural Socie Os on Thursday 0 trtuai report WELE- r [-freasurer and s gl been expended, ionnte to $553.09, lite the treasurer of $1 adopted. The felle Aors were elected: ergusan ; Vice-Prein : Directors, Alex. W. H. McCrack 1. • Iiornas McLauchr Miehael, John Hingston ; Auditors, Scott The tin the present fair gr a more commodioul (tssed, but final action e- meeting. wrz.-s.u.--The new en Iast and appointed :trs : Scott, -assessor ; Thomas T ORM -Kelly, treat pound kee aline, Thomas Ma •Pierce,. fence Vie H. Young and Th Reeve - and clerk !ard of ,J-lealth, and Medical- Health 0 HTionnas Farrow, hi, as week. • Rumor halt hitaself -with the 1.i=folatiers should laa -James Hicks tat Northwest e few Iritral.---4.71. B. Smale, 47:er for smile time, e and is following but rumor hee into partne mad kind. ----Some imnber of skating' secretary had stor t -the riuk. He is a_safe place her -The regular mee , Board took pieta the new trustees ni Shaw was reapIr atter-Intt refused ow* Xating tl tat he had held 'tears and -under 17 alid -was alwa.ys el !except twice, last Moss was uppoin E. Wade W8.8 el 'Gus worship, of . these • nglican, 11 Beptist, 19 Presbyterian, 25 engregational and 1 Jew- , --The Kin ardine 'Repartee.- of last week says: ,J4s. Carroll, of this town, has been nursii g a sore head for a week or two past. met with this tated his wear on his forehe wit iie driving On being asked how he isfortune whiclenecessie g a large piece of plaster he informed us that ti the Durham line on his way home, he 'gave a stranger a; ride, picking him. P this side of Davie. A udIe or two urther on the ' stranger shoved Mr. Carroll out of the buggy, and : - falling upon the hard road he was partie ally stunned, and while -in that condition' .$1.0 were stolen from his pecket The stra.nger then made off. The horse ran away, but wita caught a short distance down the roadi • —D. L. Pa, Kingston cher under Wee pr from Bath, an (roods organ, trim various ting them plac rented, endea chattel mortga nterchants tha which was in the bills wc•u Paul was. arre pante for swi ishment Whie in Kingston he came engaged' to a respectable yo lady, and she hought he was fittin the 'louse for I r. The organ he g 1 has beei-! arrested at ed with obtaining goods nces. He went there obtained furniture, dry c., to the extent of $600 erchants, ad after get - d in a house he had Net ored to raise $400 by e on thern. He told the e had plenty of mo ey, lawyer's hands, and hat be paid in 24 ko is. ted a year ago in &- ling, but escaped n- be - ng up ve to her as a Ch istmas box. • --The Ayr Recorder of last- w says: News reached here on Men of the death Stratford of Jahn Ecu, 'son of M . Robert Cullen, of place, who f 1 a victim to typ levet; and o Tuesday the additi bmi, news came the same dis head miller lin time, and w t neighborh in-law had rec their own in paring to star him off. vounuest a ba • ek lay uI- his oid nal hat his wife had died of ase. John Cullen was •Mr. D. Goldie for some • generally respected in I. He and his brother- tly erected a fine mill of tratford, and were pre= it when death carried ✓ young children, the ‘, are thus suddenly left THE INDIANS OF T E NORTHWEST. BY REV. JOHN'• ,112-DOUGALL • The Indian question is one w ich at- tracts a large degree of interest at this time, andit may not he iniprope for me to have my say, as I ought to ha -e some experience in- this matter. M whole life up to the present has been s ent on the frontier among Indians,- an when Treaties No. 6 arid V took plac on the ground at the urgent re both Commissioners and Indie since then have been thoroughl sant of the doings of both parties treaties. I know that, when the Gov raiment first came to the Country the Indians niet its representatives gladly, and when treaties were proposed there teas very little difficulty in effeeting those treaties. Moreover, I know •the reason hy the different tribes met the GOY rnment gladly and were readily ind iced to become parties to treaties whic spirit and sound were alike hon the Government and liberal an dal to the Indian. And the re the Indian then ected was beca constant -recital of the honest dealing of our Government in it towards Indians. This was on chief lessons put bef re the In the latter all the while in the, hearing of the •native, and without any quali- fication, eriticiaing and magnifying these defects and - misdeeds of the former. How could any government corrunand the respect of a popidation like ours under such conditions. Then, notwithetanding all honest en- deavor, how was it possible to legislate for the Northwest in Ottawa? Here was a totally different country and different people-. No matter how good I was . nest of a law was for Eastern Canada, it is • s, and Plain to be seen it would want some eeitet_ modifying or alteration to fit without to these friction into these new and foreign con- ditions; and because of this, in common with other deleartments, the Indian De- partment suffered. . Laws were enacted which could ,nat be enforced. Furthermore, simply unfit men, were appointed to office without any knowled e of the nature of the work expecte1 of them, the Indians and the country a d Government having to run the risk in the meanwhile of theie being experimented with. Surely we have had enough of this; mere than even intense loyalty should be asked to stand. Let us e now, have 'a change. - Give the Indian in the Northwest a fair chance. Let °in -:Gov- ernment's Indian Tolley in its true spirit be , carried out. Does it not ,aim at making the Indiaie a responsible citizen in the commonwealth ? If so let us -have all -honesty_ in the working out of this grand purpose ; a thousand times nobler than driving them to desperation and war. Yes, and ten thousand times cheaper. ; Give_ us men as Indian Department employes a every grade, who will be true to their country if not to their God, and who will have manhood enough to refrain from licentiousness and blas- ,pherey and drunkenness nd laziness. And on the other hand wi I have force mand the re- 'in their rable to beneti- son why e of the nd just eonduet of the an mind by the loyal -pioneer who prec ' ded the Government's occupation of. th west Territories. These true successful in planting in the many of the Indians a very gr. ,for British rule. At the differe *meats, around the camp fire, ii dian lodge, these 4dvance te civilization. missed no pport preach loyalty and edueate t mind to expect hcinest and c dealing from the Governinen would come to this country. ' were successful in , great mea clearly demonstrated, for at 'di pearance of a polieeman the once submitted to a thority, a coming of a treaty oi very little parleyin , signed th f mmission, With little exceptton this gay satisfaction, and thatIndiaai De took the field in accerd with of treaty and -began its work. A few years elapse and we I teringa of discontent. 'The ment is false to the treaty, • men have lied to us, we have ceived," and everywhere it c necessity in the interest of pea loyal " old-timer " to palliate a and defend the Governmeu often we have •pteached. the , patience, have tried to shoat North- ien were 'leads of respect t settle the In- chers of nity to e Indian aritable when it hat they ure was first ap- ndian at d at the he, with; treaty. general artment he terms ve mut- '0overn- ie white been de - nes as a e' for the d excuse Hsv rospel of that the great distance, the lack of-spee ly trane port, the tremendous cost of bringieg, material into this_ big country, were some of the reasons why the Government was behind. Of course we couldn't find,nor did we try to find, any excuse for the promises made but not fulfilled, for the cut-throat policy oftenexhibited and sometimes- enforced by officials of the Indian Department, for the shameful and immoral lives of many of 'the em- ployees of the same. Some Of these were a disgrace to the lowestb charism, let alone civilization. Nor_ uld we, when earnestly trying • to tem,t the In- dians habits of industry and hrift, be expected to excuse the Iazine and in- competency of many sent into he 'coun- try to teach the wards of th Govern- ment those lessons we have ben work- ing for them to acquire forjj so many years. Moreover,could we bebl med wh en we felt stronglythat some hing was wrong in the system which allowecl such men in its branch of the service. The inconsistency has oftentim s appeared to us very glaring when We bjoedat a de- partment claiming to have1 certain ob- ject -in view, set aside by the country at large, whose servant it is, to attain this object, and yet within its own grasp and power doing those things, adopting those -methods which are det feating this object And what is the outcome of all this. Let the scenes of last spring speak for themselves and we see some of the results. For were not these same Indians who took part in the rebellion last spring under like tempta- tion 15 years ago? I say Most assured- ly they were, and then the advantage, would have e; And yet • friends and - loud in their sh action of eetgrass' and 1 of the time and I kuow- ften in coun- say to their e for the fu - hey expected for the time being at leas been altogether on their si they stood fast to their ol remained quiet and were denouncement of the • fool the rebels. I was in Se Big Bear's camps J1 good de during the first rebellion, what their views were. cil I heard these chiefs people that their only ho ture was in the fact that the British government to be their friend and help them ' a different mode of life. These men then foretold to theirl people the-disappe ranee of tlw buiralo,"and an ipcoming opulation to - this country, and their a lvice always was: Be the friends f the white man. He is stroke, we ar weak. He will rotect us and open th way for our lion in these . And had officials of this country ie respect of ve been no Indians last dering influ he hearts of liveli mod." - There was very little rep men 15 or yet 10 years an, the conduct of •Governmen every Department sent into been such as to eonunand t without fathe - or mother. His aged the natit'es, there would. -parents in Ay have the sytnpathy of rebellion on the part of th the eommunit • spring, nor would the smou • epees thereof stilt rankle in rsayy services of Willis' many in thistcountry. will be held on the The strongest elements i February, the 7th Fox. 1 ment in our day for thee et Rev. (. M. Milligan, gation of an ,untutored an rew's church, Toronto, people 'are charity and j pulpit twice that day. was what the intelligent In he could hope for in our go after yearsof experience is shaken. False representa this evil. There have been Popular and interesting 1 representatives in this co en of in, how they 1 the natives doing this wor There has _been, the gover false to his position, and al. be citizen false to his elle former full of defects a •The anniv ellen-eh,. Clint that Sabbath ji it ie expectedta of oSt. A ti occupy tl he anniversaa y entertainment will be heId on the M tidier evening following. • *fee will be ser heel in the lecture room. Tile RON'. W. i"; Ball has been secured delit-er his lecture " fought &c.," d the late rebe riling with incidents of Lion. in the Northwest 80:ne choice music will be furnished by tht• eheir, assi ted by others. • of character enough to co spect of all parties native and foreign, and who with by precept nd example, teach the Indian to devel pe an .inde, pendent spirit which will I lake him in- dustrious, thrifty and law- biding. , Give us schools for the I dian youth. Hitherto the Governinent as done little or nothing for the Indian ii the matter of education. By contin ous corres- pondence a.nd pertinacious importunity some _church organizations have wrung out Some help from the Government, by red tape much. As stil a desire f the parents g efforts to but this is so conditioned that it does not amount missionaries we have to i for education in the minds and children, and after lch secure an average attenda ce of child- ren. Then the Goyernme t will step in arid help us with a Small 8 m per Capita. Now, what we want is a strong effort to educate aid civilize. All mission schools should have suppleinentary aid from the Government. All Indian Department machinery should be brought to bear upon the Indian e to induce thern to send Caw children taschool an4 keep them there as mach as peacticable. • We want more of these Industrial Scheele, now organized in the country, run in the in of the Indian and the country, and not for sectarian purposes. We want more of these Industrial Schools, and feel that the time has come for their • being built and thoroughly equipped for work. • These institutions well conducted (and it is the duty of the Government to see that. they are,) will pay richly. Pau- perin-m will decrease, and an intelligent understanding of men and things will take the place of suspicion and mis- trust. • By vigorous efforts in these directions we will soon have • some in every reserve Indians who _will npt take the word of any agitator or disloyal person, who, by magnifying -their wrongs and, troubles and decrying their advantages, would urge them to unlawful acts. . Morley, December 30th, 1885. Dots Fiorn Snowflake. SNOWFLAKE, Manit ba, Januray Mith, 1880. • ii DEAR EXPOSIT° .—.A.a - we Manitob- ans are denied sotie of the privileges that Ontario people enjoy, perhaps we • may be pardoned it we have inclinations to get Out our " LiterarYhorn "to break •the Monotony of these long winter even- . ings, and if we d not sound the horn professionally, we an at -least make a few amateur blurts at it. I might say here that there are mere professionals in •sounding the horn of hard times at pres- ent than any other horn, from the fact that herd times ar pressing -the farmers Of this province. There are many causes that have led up to- these hard times, and the date begins with the collapse of that memorable boom which your read- ers are familiar with. With two frosts out of three crops and a prevailing poor price, and heavy implement bills and other liabilities, the farmers have been placed in an unenviable position. Per- haps someof these !misfortunes may be attributed to the farmers themselves in going abead too fast. Buying-expepsive machinery and paying exorbitant prices for doctored up horses from Ontario. I do net. wish to reflect on the honesty of Oietario horse dealers or to strike at the good reputation of her horses. But this has been quite an item with a very considerable number .of settlers, the losses of high priced plugs. And an- other cauee that has materially- helped to bring about this state of affairs is the prevailing spirit that pervades -a large number of settlers that "1 will have more acres of gin than my neigh- bor." This spirit, in itself, is good enough, but what_ I am. endeavoring to point out ' is this, that almost every farmer has bought an entire outfit of machinery, when in a good many cases if he had furnished half and his nearest neighbor the other half a large expense would have been saved to both and left there means to go more into mixed farming. Another little item ii, that the Majority of settlers in this district left 'comfortable parental l roofs in On- tario, and the fact of the matter is they d misdeeds, were, as a rule, reared too well and easy any govern- ctual subju- barbarous tstice. This ian thought ernment, but is confidence ion has done two kinds of • try before I allude to. ment-offieial o the would- iance. The 1 to take kindly to bar their parents went th themselves out homes Ontario, and I verily b average Manitoban on settlers of Ontario live dr three years, that he *quire a bicycle to do But I guess I am tree ground and I will chaa , Well, the municietal for 1886 and the natu that the required nd and the balance "got remember that I intin that we were bound, our candidate for the Municipality of Lo Will have to humbly a left some 14 votes a beaten in the bargain Were all elected by a one. I will here giv -short description of and the part it fen county. This. mimic" townships,' 4 lyingl e three north and sont ship is six miles spia municipalities for the has the same area. with a royal name in lordly Derby to th Lorne lying to the no Argyle to the wes townships form a by one councillor, so bers six members' the seventh and hold power. We have n� Present. Mr. T. S. didate fox the Reeve, was only defeated by qf 11. He would hav for the tactics purshe and some were heatd four hours for caitin him, for it is admitte is a jolly good fellew Ability to fill even quite agree with M his letter to the EXri s'ons are foremost in this copritry. This What an Indian said settler told him that Huron or Bruce. If that "Huron and -Whole of Canada.", There seems a geo in political circles ,as spire after the Doini but I think there i how we farmers aile deadlock in the Men I have wheat that s' have sold readily for that would not brin It is a pretty blue o and the sooner the better.' I must say ers at this point class and they mei more. I do not think tha tamers of this Pr tirely with the Por sion in regard to the staple prodiict& oviding that earlier varieties could be * troduced without too much delay an expense, for Red Fyfe has Been e pensive experiment to the farmers of M eitoba. Of course I am aware that a g od deal cif pressure Will be brought to ear to induce the farmers to continue raising it, but I for one insist that we grow some earlier variety that would ature at least ten days sooner than Re 1 Fyfe. I have ob- ter the straw began main stationary for o weeks, and this e circumstances as g weather. , There a could we grow lly, that it would price in Liverpool n my opinion past ships like ivhat ough in hewing the forests of lievee to put the the fare that the on the first two would really re - his ehores with. ing en dangerous ge the subject. race as been run 1 co sequence is ber get there" eft," and you will ated .tnyl last pos ible, to elect ship of the eev Ise. 1 Well ir, I mitrthat we got a *e are fairly Our councillors .clamation, except your readers a our municipality is of Rock Lake elite,- contains 12 stand west and , and each town - e. There are four county and Louise sta then com each ts off s the west ef ouise, th of Louis and of Lorne. Two ard, repre ented the council he reeve, ng the bale County Cou ienarey was of Derb the small nn been electe by his opp to rue in t their vote ' by all tha besides hav higher o ce. I . D. McNaught in m sreethat ituron's filling the offices in walls to my mind vhen settler after he was from either replied by saying ruce must be the num- eking ce of cil at a can- , and jority only. nents, venty- eeinst Tom lig the deal of speculatiOn. to what , will tran- ion Ho4se 'meets, more speculation roing to . break the tou wheat market. weeks ego would 45 cents per bushel 25 cents to -day. it -look at present, spect changes the hat the grain buy - e a much abused t it all and even a majority of the vince coincide en- ge la Prairie deci- d Fyfe wheat, as served of Red Fyfe a to color, itwould r a period of nearly under fairly fa.vorab regards good ripem is not the least dou Red Fyfe successf command a higher than any other, but experience does not warrant us in risk- ing too much if we c • do better. uary we have been per week, leaving s via Ruttaaville, nd Mowbray, which otn here, returning peating the journey days. I have tried my Reform friends he fruits of a good ment,and it is all the as entirely unsolicit- *t will be more of a rs than to us bene - hat they will knew old thing wcirks in eek. Mr. S. Oke, hislgood lady, are ts to distribute the ca be said to their im co plaining about in which the office erly of Exeter,but owilake, is going to residence in aid of wi 1 be largely at. •ote last we have k ef cold weather. ammeter fell to 48 ite a strong breeze occasion to go to 'eresidence, a dis- Since the 1st ofj' treated to two mail Manitou on Monda taking in Snowflake is about 7 miles f on Tuesdays, and r on Fridays and Satu to convince some of that this is some of Conservative Gover morewelcome as it ed on our part, but boom to the bachel diets, from the fact henceforth how the Ontario twice per the postmaster, and untiring in their eff mail properly, and i credit that there is n the thorough mantic is conducted. Mr. T. White, for now a resident of Si give a social at -this the church debt. I tended. Since I w had about one we Last Friday the the below zero, with q at the time. I hai the Municipal Cler tance of over ten miles and I can assure you I felt it decided chin. With the e snap, we have lead In fact neither the c terfered with the us ness. The to yea NVelcome stock, bt vince by Mr. Geo. A the property of R. ize all the expectati superior 'points. I in blowing my horn amateur bow and re horn) but to roost. WEL y grating on a bare ception of this cold beautiful winter. ld nor snow has in- let routine Of husi- old entire bolt, of ught into this Fro - ▪ Chesney, and now . Barber, will real ns formed of his ave lost my` breath aid will make an ire, (not from the Yours truly.' INGTON BARBER. 'ervice employee in e or four elections rty in the city own - me name, who has he city,only spend- asionally with his —A certain Civil • Ottawa, has for thr been voting on pro ed by a man of the s been engaged out of ing a few days oc family who remained in the city. The Civil Service clerk, who is unmarried, was much surprised the other day to receive a bill for $10 from a prominent medical man in the city for services ren- dered to his wife. On repudiating the debt he was told that the doctor knew the lady was the wife of the property - owner, and knew that the clerk had re- presented himself as being that happy man, and therefore had concluded that he was the man to. foot the bill. Canada. • There are over 10,000 United Work- men in Ontario alone. —The date for the meeting of the Dominion Parliament has been fixed for February 25th. 'for relief, from u ceived by the may —A gang of 100 the Canada Pacifi Toronto the other day. • —A young man has been fined 1 Tor- onto under the amended Crooks Act for purchasing liquor in prohibited hours. —The amount expended by the vari- ous charitable societies of Toronto dur- ing 1884 was $104,300. —St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, London, ,have the "organ" or "no organ" question under consideration. • —A youthful son of a prominent Otta- wa lumberman has scandalized his family by eloping with the cook., —On rednesda last 30 applications fortunates, were, re - r of Toronto. Italian •navvies from • Railway, arrived in •• - —Mr. Wm. Gooderham, the well known philanthropist of Toronto, is seriously ill with congestion of the lungs.. —Over fifty of the Sabbath school pupils of Knox church, Kincardine, have united with the church during the past year. • —The Grand Trunk Railway from the Bridge to Windsor'has just recent- ly been inspected by Messrs. Stiff and Larmour. scheme is being perfected by the Marine Department at Ottawa by which it is hoped to determine the direction and force of the Gulf stream. —The Victoria curling club of Brant- ford were beaten by the Caledonians of Buffalo at the latter's rink last Friday, by a score of 86 to 09. —Hamilton City 'Council has passed a by-law prohibiting the dangerous prac- tice of coasting on public thorough- fares. —Rev. R. E. Sinclair teas inducted to the pastorate of the Presbyterian churches at Mount Pleasant and Burford on Tuesday last week. The proceeds of the welcome social were $100. • e -Mr. Gardiner, of Tilbury East, lost $100 while coming from Chatham the other day after selling a lead of grain. He would like very much to know who found the roll. —The other evening in Toronto two drunken_inen drove their horse and cut- ter over a child running across the street. The little one was badly hurt, and the men have been arrested. —The members of a Toronto corona's jury have 'been summoned for purchas- ing liquor at Patterson's hotel on a Sat- urday night. The proprietor was fined • for selling liquor on that occasion. —Samuel Wood, a Belle River, Essex county, wood -chopper, filled up with whisky and slept by the roadside one night Mst week. He • was carried home in the morning, badly frozen. . —A series of Mormon meetings are being held nightly at Mooraown, county which was plainly audible. Th crossed from southwest to northeast. of Lambton. Some of the citizens of t that place claim they would be as well —Professor George Templeman Ring - pleased if the smallpox had struck the ston died the other day in Tot -mite at town. •the age Of 59 years. Professor Xingston —The London soup kitchen has more was a man of solid scientific acquire - applications this winter than ever be- ments, and had paid special attention to fore. The daily distribution averages the study of meteorology. His aequaint- ance with this subject led to his ap- about 148 quarts of soup and 140 loaves of bread. Great destitution prevails in pointn)ent as director of the agnetic the city. Observatory at Toronto, which osition —The following are the returns of the he held until compelled by ill -h 1th-to Western Cattle Market in Toronto, for resign. • the week ending January 16; Received —A meeting to establish a ll'armers' • —Cattle, 1,202; sheep, 374; hogs. 241. Weighed -110 cattle at 142,330 lbs.; 223 sheep at 2,785 /be.; 305 hogs at 48,170 Ms. —A fire caused by the upsetting of a coal oil lamp, broke out in a grocery store in Galt last Friday evening. The grocery store was completely gutted. A couple of dry goods stores in the same block were also badly damaged, the pro- prietors losing considerably. •--A few days ago Thos. Short, an old resident of Pilkington, after receiving his mail and going about 200 yards to the hotel for his horse, fell down dead from disease -of the heart. He was high- ly respected in the locality, where he was well known. •—Wine Bagsley,. aged 23, employed at the shoddy mills, Lambton, was sen- tenced by Mr. J. M. Wingfield to pay a fine of $10 or serve 20 days in jail for disturbing a service at the Salvation Army barracks, Lambton, one evening last week. —A Toronto despatch says: Mayor Howland's well known sympathy with cases of distress has 'already broright on him a _flood of letters about children and women who are undergoing cruelty or other forms of suffering. He gives them his close personal attention: • —Private letters received at Ottawa from Prince Albert state -that Indians are constantly driving off and killing settlers' cattle, and "caching" the meat for future use, and that so far the efforts of the Mounted Police to recover the plunder or punish the marauders have and she therefore could not go. been of no avail. - • for spite or disappointment the —A terrible tragedy has -occurred lady procured her father's razor near Thorold. John Hicks, a farmer, her throat, but is out of dange when driving into Thorold Saturday girl's Mother had been an inmate morning, discovered an old-fashioned asylum, but returned a few mon farmhouse near Allinbiug on fire. The considered cured. Since the place was occupied by an old couple named Bates. They were very deaf, and are supposed to have had money in the hciuse. Hicks forced an ehtrance and:found Mrs. Bates lying dead on a sofa, her face covered with bloke' and her left band burned to a crisp. The body of Mr. Bates was found in the cellar burped almost to a cinder. Fur- •ther examination proved without doubt McDEAN 33ROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advanceb that the aged couple_ had been murdered and the house fired to conceal the crime. The excitement in the neighberhood is intense. It is known that the old peo- ple received money for stock sold before Christmas. ''Z—The grist mill at Centreville, near Ingersoll, of Mr. George Garner, for- merly of St. Marys, was destroyed by fire the other morning. Mr. Garner lost everything, even to l'the books. There was an insurance of $3,000 on the build- ing and contents, but the loss is nearly $5,000 mere than that sum. —Mark Checkley, once the lio at the Toronto Zoo, but recently ing the employment of " rat -ca cher " in the city, was found dead in a cell of the Police Station the other morning, having strangled himself by attaching his muffler to one of the iron bar& in the cell door. —A train on the Canada which left Winnipeg for Otte tamer oflow- Pacific a and ruining the cutter. Miss Donley, who had taken the horse by the bit, was knocked down and run over and re- ceived some severe knocks and bruises, but, happily, none are of a dangerous nature. 'Miss Beaubier was fortunate enough to escape unharmed. —John Tohnie, manager of the People's salt works, Kincardine'had a. narrow escape the other day. He was engaged in digging or loosening salt for shipping when suddenly, and without warning, a tremendous bulk of salt which had been undermined fell upon ' him, and crushed him violently against the building. Fortunately some of his employees saw the occurrence and at once set to work to release him. When dug out his injuries were found to be comparatively slight. —Wm. H. McNeil, the absconding president of the Lancaster National Bank, of Clinton, Massachusetts, is sup- posed to be in Cie western part of On - was due at the latter place at 7:45 tario ; is about 45 years of age, 5 feet Saturday morningwas snowed- in at 10 inches in height ; weight, about 185 White River and did not reach Ottawa lbs.: round, full face, sallow comrexion • until 2 p: Til. Monday. The thermont- eyes blue, -rather small ; blac - curly zeeteror. registered from 40* to 50* below —There is a great deal of povIerty in the city of Hamilton at present, nd the many charitable societiee are kept very busy relieving the wants of the poor. The management of the Aged Women's Home and Ladies' Benevolent Society have petitioned the city council for a grant of $500 to assist in carrying on their work of charity during the 'winter. —The Parkhill salt well company has settled its affairs, stockholders in i arrears _paid -up their subscriptions, an every claim against the company has heen ad- justed. The company have a balance in their favor of $150, and declare them- selves now ready for proposals to operate the well. • —James Kelly, employed as mail clerk between Hamilton and Kineardine, is suspected of robbing the money letters in the mail bags to the extent Of some $200, Although there was not !enough of proof to • convicts him, Inspector Sweetnam thought his discharge advis- able'and since he carried this in effect - Mr. Kelly has been missing. —A " Wild -Cat " engine goi g north on the Northern railway _collided with the mail train coming south about a mile from Newmarket at six o'clock Monday evening, resulting in ope fire- man being killed, another fatally injur- ed, and several others more or less hurt. The passengers escaped with a Shaking up, but both engines were coMpletely wrecked. — Rev. A. D. Sylvester, w-io left Halifax, Nova Scotia, suddenlyl est week leaving a number of unpaid bills, has re- ceived and accepted a call to the assist- ant rectorship of St. Luke's church,Balti- more. He had begun work there, when his credentials were withdrawn by the Bishop of Halifax. Bishop Paret pro- scribed him from furtherwork in the diocese, and he took the next steamer for England. • —A magnificent meteor f1ashe1 acreis the sky shortly after midnight cn Mon- day, the llth inst. The inetepr was visible throughout this sectioe, and those who witnessed the spectacle say that the heavens were illumine ing the passage through spec visitor, and that when a short above the horizon it burst with d dur- of the ista-nee re ort meteor Institute in the county of Prince Ed- ward was held at Picton on Friday. On account -of the heavy snowstorm making the roads nearly impassable only a lim- ited number were present. Professor • ral Col- e, and boy and a graduate of Guelph College, were present. —The wife of R. H. Reynolds, station agent at Middlemiss, met with an ad- venture which might have proved seri- ous, but luckily it didn't. A large Lei- cester sheep of the male gender attacked her; after knocking her down several times and badly ,bruising her, she man- aged to escape 1 by crawling i to the -barn. Mr. Reynolds was also attacked while driving the animal off, but he managed to subdue the ram with a three tined hay fork. —The Bishop of Huron has ap ointed the Rev. J. Jacobs, Missionary Super- intendent of the Indian congreg tion in connection with the Church of Jngiand in the counties of Kent and L inbton, viz., St. John the Thiptist, Walpole Island, St. Peter's, Sarnia nese ve, St. John's and Kettle Point. 4s Mr. Jacobs reads and preachee in t e Ojib- way language,' no interpreters are re- quired. The entire mission has a church population of about 800. —A young girl, in Parolee, named Lettie Hunter, wanted a new dress to go to the rink in. Her mother, it pears, wouldnotpurchase the article or her, Either young nd cut .• The of the hs ago above transpired Mrs. Hunter has become terribly deranged. —What might have been a v ry bad accident happened to two ParIchi 1 ladies who were out driving the other day. In their attempts to reach a farm house they drove into the wrong lane, and on discovering their mistake, tried to turn around in the deep snow but Were upset, and. their horse -ran away completely Mills, President of the Agricult lege; Professors Brown and Ba Mr. Raynor, a Prince Edward hair: has a habit of running his hands through his hair; beard cut lightly, but spare growth; walks with long- stride or swinging gait; when sitting seldom sits up straight, but slides down in his chair, resting his head on the back of the chair. —Silas Shaver, the bigamist, sen- tenced nt Belleville to the Penitentiary for three years, was interviewed at the jail Friday morning by his Lindsay wife, Miss Walsh. The Ontario says • that she • fondly kissed the acautairel • through the bars, and promised to be faithful to him during his absence. She wept bitterly, and in compliance with his wish gave him more funds. Their parting created ,quite a scene in the jail, the Lindsay bride bidding him an affec- ttiornaewives. tmefa,reswell.- Shaver, aver, it is said, has he . —Rev. T. O'Connell, formerly rector of the Chapter House, London, has ob- tained $600 damages at the London Assizes for illegal arrest. • Four ether snits growing out of the same case were on the docket in each of which $10,000 , damages was claimed. One was against Bishop Baldwin for slander, one. against Mr. Shoebottom for slander, and one against Police Magistrate Parke for il- legal commitment. The suit against Bishop Baldwin was settled by com- promise, as has also been all the others. —The statistics of the township of Beverly, in Wentworth county, show that during I885 a large number of the early residents and pioneers passed to their long home. The following is a list of their names and ages :--Jane Roberts, 96; Thomas Tinney, 83 ; Lewis Mc- • Donald, 65: James Wilson, 77; George Cook, 103; Janet Knox, 73; Elizabeth Misener; 73; Adam Wight, 81; Susan Grummett, 87, Ann McIntosh, 73; Margaret Watson, 79; Salome Lemon, 84, George Miley, 66, Hugh Harvie, 74; Mary Misener, 88 ; William Ire - 78. • heattention of the Government has been called by fishery officers and others to the neceseity of taking prompt action to preserve the lobster fisheries • of the Maritime Provinces from destruc- tion. 'The lobster canning business has been carried on to such an extent dur- ing the past few years that the fish are becoming scarce and small. On the coast of Prince Edward Island there bas been a great falling off. Four million lobsters more Were taken in 1885 than 1884 to fill the same number of cans. The phial for peeeerving this fishery which finds most favor is to peohibit ahl fishing for lobsters for at leant three years, when the business might be re- sumed under regulation. —Mr. David Stevenson, farmer, of• • Buffalo Lake'near Moosejaw, in a pri- vate letter toa friend in Toronto, writes as follows: There is likely to be serious trouble with the Indians here before long. The Mountain Indians, as they are called, including the Bloods and Blackfeet, are setting the law at defiance, helping themselves to things in general, and horses and cattle oft the ranches in particular. A small party of Mounted Police went to their reserve to take some prisoners, but ,they were escorted off by the Indians, and were warned not to return. These Indians - also stole horses from •the very body of police who were sent to watch them and prevent their stealing from others:" —The Government has just published a Blue Book entitled The 44ueen Louis Riel," containing a verbatim report of the evidence adduced at the Regina trial, speeches of the prisoner, and the judge's sentence; the decisions of the Manitoba Judges, appeal to the Privy Council, petition for a Medical Commis- sion,and list of petitions for the commu- tation of the sentence.- There were 63 petitions presented to the Governor- General, thirteen of which were for the appointment of a Medical Commission,' and the remainder for commutation of his sentence. Of these, fifty-four are from Quebec, three from Manitoba, one from Chicago, one from Whitehall, N.Y. and one from Minnesota, one from Otte- wa,ene from County of Essex, Ont., and one from Granville, France. —In Toronto since' the cold weather set in about forty cords of wood has _ been cut by persons applying to the House of Industry for lodging and meals. Each individual saws and splits one- eighth of a .cord of wood for a day's pro- visions. This simply means that 320 men in destitute circumstances who are winkle to work have applied to this one institution for help. As many as 111 transients have been kept in the House of Industry in a single night during the past week... Mayor Howland, when spoken to, said this was a very bad state of affairs. He intended, if possi- ble, that this should be the last winter that men willing to work should be out of employment, and will take steps to- wards having certain civic works, in fu- ture, done during the fall and open weather during winter.