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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-03-19, Page 1- ettegit-fp- a result ._ Mg this will se * Fe.xed question, an tve this a space te sign ourselves -- john Sparrow-, Jag:. tett, Alex. Foster , Clarke, Isaac Er. Jos. ttorrow. Iteran , Te "Reti- e, Sin,1,--.1 see there e individual in on hamedt to sign hk tion. Now, sir, ' f anricate fame lies, that man it al &liver of Me k his throat, he i Pmmodity alre,adn ` was eh sen Deputy' teitatio , every. i,, .eting nows to ous teleenood. 11, myself into a, fury. 1, not gire his Dam et knest the ' differ - contempt' and fury. feelink I can entse °nor Pecight," "Cht payer.1 He salysT [ 1 setter ehind t °ll- ama in etiug, s not a iosen a, 0 for the Reeve s I urt erstand yet 1 ay anis ebeteof th -meetin . I leave to is the Iiar in tide s, When "Ra: ' pledged myself*. hull he lies or he ' what I believe he re and simple.' The ed me to give my trot:tall are men et i who 1 em confideet at in this matter. 1 proof Ihat what 1 . M. D .by, Mr. G. aird, sr, Mr, Ala' Browe. I went - 01 urifettered by Y- one and have ied a my vote. I r in reply to "Ott AO intend to take O letters en this silt tor Bright" wouli tied give the nault 'Ratepayer's. t as re it, and contained eente I could not In gain. Yania, JCAIX Tottretnen. s - mow. 'he spring assize.s of Aped, at Walker Itose.---Mr. O. 0 eratedl on bail. If .f.iiseIph last week.-- 1i:smith', has perdu* 4 church which_ b1aels4tnith shop. :soon fiave his ler under the roan nville,11.1. P., left- f. attehd his par the re resentativen Cameron hat rriage peg* frson,sh.fi,eldet- he orieat cartoonists e ru 1.4toknoW oil Itbt in the esiapices of tht sodiety.—Menne - station last week drltught stallion. Crete 'Turk, wife !ir, has been seri° to hear r she is slow Il Clark, the Boot B f two teetures on - Jch and 30th instnt the' Sens of Tent froni Goderieli ter clhbs played the riak here a feW iaa ietory for ibh ton'daughter of Be" aielsyterian fractueed one of vdtse, lwbo bas be Iethodist church b Lys, wals preteuted, nety with a purse h services. _ ',amps are 'allowed he the council ehan! rith wood ertongn are a.11 night. it - ft EIGHTEENTH YEAR:. WHOLE NUMBER. 953: SEA.FORTH, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 886. MCLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a, Year, in Advance. *NM. Bootsi & Shoes .George Good,' Begs to- announce the arrival of his mammoth stock of Boots and Shoes for spring wear, prom- inent amongst which is the celebrated EAGLE BRAND of Fine Boots and Shoes in Ladies', Gents', Misses' and Children's sizes. This brand of Boots and Shoes is now considered to be the best goods in Canada, as to style, fit and wear - lug- qualities, while the price is within the reach °LAI. Every pair warranted. Owing to the great dullness prevailing through the w:nter, we were able to place orders for SPRING GOODS On much more advantageous terms than we ever did before. The result of this is that we are in tt position to show our customers much better I alue than on any previous season. Hand -made Boots & -Shoes Will be a prominent feature of our. stock this season, and the prices for which will be very Mae- higher than the machine made goods of former masons-. Our aim for this season is to be able to offer to the pulAie the largest, most stylish, most reliable and cheapest stock of Roots, Shoes and Slippers ever brought into Seaforth, and we feel that we have succeeded.. The production of fourteen of the leading fac- tories is represented. We baxe picked out the hest lines front these factories, buying only from each what we know t� be reliable goods and suitable for our trade. We will sell goods this season Whelesale & Rotail. We Invite Inspection. HATS AND CAPS A* usual. A full stock and new prices right The styles, and Star Grocery Always to the front. ! Every article of best finality. Lake Huron Herrings atiowest prices. 1 G EU • G 0 , 1 ,I SEAFORTH. ten Agent for Iterby Climax aittle Huronites in Kansas. Pi correspondent of the Chicago Cana- dian -American writing JroM Abilene, Dickinson county, lian86,8, says . One of the prettiest towns In Katatas is Abilene. It is situtted on the Ka, sas ri division of the Umon Pacific, in the middle of One of the finst1.eounties in Kansas, -one largely settled by Canadians. from the counties of Huron and Bruce. Abilene it a very prosperous town mid is growing very fast. "There are very many tine residences? which would do credit to eastern. towns., 11 1 The lately eleeted County Treasurer of Dickinson county, Kansan Mr. JI. T. Cooper is a native of Peel county, Ont. Mr. Cooper mewed to Kanas 14 -Years ago, with nothing to back him but good health and lots of push. He took up his land here and gradually kept on increas- ing his resources until he became one of the largest farmers i in the county. He was the owno of la ranche comprieing 5,000 acres ip. Edwards county Until letely, when he sold put his business and moved into Abilene.' At the last election he ran for county treasurer and was elected. The positi $5,000 a year, and is sibility, His term next. Mr. Cooper Mall, and Wend t this western cmintry Mr. J. E. iRoss, svho was for some year with C. W. Papst, of Seafo th, Ontario, came oet to Abilene , about one year ago, and secured a very lucrative position vsith C. A. Kenyon, one of the leading merchants in town. Mr. Rote it doing very well and is weil satisfied with the change he has made. One of the leading stockaisen in Dickinson couaty, Kappa, Mr. Thomas Nicol - came west 14 -year e ago from Ilnron county, Ontario. He now owns two sections of the finest land in his county. Besides having this farm he now owns nearly two hundred head of grade.and. 'thoroughbred tock end 25 fine breeing horses, including two imported Clydes- dale stallions.. Mr. Nicol has been very successful in all his ventures and is now one Of the wealthiest farmers in the coun- try. .Mr. Nicol has a high opinion of Sunny Kansas, and particulaely Dickin- son county. n is worth about ne of geeat respon- begins'tin October is a good busiiiess make his mark in !Amon county ha r sent put a great many good farmers, nid many of them have settled in Dickinson county, and ha ve zdl done exceedingly well Among them is Mr. .1 -An Trott, who settled here in 1873. He has got 240 acres of tine land under' cultivation. Mr. Trott is a good Canuek,_. and would like to eta mere of Me friends from Canada out lune. Another correspondent of the same peper writing from Kansas. city says : .7% gentleman ss -ho left Seaforth in 1862, ML . -T. W. Johnston is making money 0Itt, here. He fir -4 went! to Grand Rapids, tliefsigan, where he had the rontraa for cartying the mails West to Winnipeg during the great boom, and was there for some time. Coming here our years ago he engaged in the btoker- ' age business, in which he is now ern- pl 0 v ed. MrJohnston heartily en joys a tatk abut old times in Canada. THE YLVAN LA.ND, OF - SUN Y SKIES. DEAR EXPOSITOR :—I forgot to men- tion that when coming from Sidney to Melbourne We passed through Wagga Wagga, a promising town of about 3,000 population. The name of this place may be remembered by many who took an interest in one of the world's greatest lawsuits some years ago. Here, in 1867 was hatched the conspiracy, which de- veloped in Sydney, and gradually fructi- fied in London, to defraud the present owner or one of the oldest estates in England. Here Tom Castro, an expert butcher, alias Sir Roger Tichbourne, alias Arthur Orton, did business for a time. As Ledy Tichbourne continually advertised a. reward of ;€1,000 for in- telligence of her lost son, and as Orton had been at Valparaiso, he entered into correspondence :with the old lady and learned enough,from herto induce him to come forward as the lost heir. This perjurer, swindler, associate of " bush- rangers," or, highway robbers, with which this country was a goocl deal troubled until a few years ago; this miserable poltroon and suspected mur- derer, as you all know, got his reward and succeeded. to. the estate .of picking oakum. I also Omitted mentioning that there are three large brick flour inills in this town with the latest and most im- proved Hungariataroller machinery, also two large saw mills. Along the banks of the river are belts of timber, which is cut up and shipped to other parts both by rail and ,water, the Murray being navigable for six months of the year with steamers ofilight draught for 1,703 miles from Encounter Bay, at its mouth. Behind the belts of timber and stretch- ing forty miles back on each side arethe Murray _Plains, suitable either for graz- ing or farming. These, with some of the other more extensive plains, are sim- ilar to the prairies of the United States. Probably abountwo-thirds of the Tugged physiognomy of this great land is still covered with a dense beard of scrub, scattered, but extensive forests, less dense than in Canada, with here and there clumps of cabbage and other na- tive trees; hence Sylvan Land, The cedar is more like Ontario butternut than Canadian -cedar. It is getting scarce, and is one of the most valuable woods here. The soil _ on the -plains is cleeis, rich, and in many places,. _highly fertile. Many of the dwellings are handsome, substantially built of brick- and stone, hat are scattered on accountof the farms beine large, from. 320 to 1,280, and sometimes More, acres. The :iand is equal to any in Ontario, and would be just as good a field for the agriculturist but for the irregular and -uncertain rains. The waters of the MurraY could be utilized for irrigation, but so far the very , thing that would be of sueh in- calcuable benefit to both colonies is passing on to the - ocean while , the two Governments are quibbling over who has the best right to it. Some oee asks,. " Are, tiles used in drainine° ?" I inay say no,nst least outside oftons and cities, where they are sometimes used for gardens. I have never seen any un- derground drains on farms and very few open ones. The soil is less porci1us than in Canada, and there is 'very litt e or no underground soakage, ' conse uently, tiles are never likely to be wanttd much in draining. , I Most of the towns :in the colPny are I drained by gutters at the sides of the; streets, the same as Melbourne, and all draining is likely to; be on the same principle. We generally find the customs of the people in a country best suited to the wants and peculiarities of that conntry. 'When it rains here "it pours" and .open drains carry ,off the surface water more expeditiously than closed ones, and prevent floods - It is very imprudent to jump at cone or express yourselves rashly when ling, for what at first sight m appear ridiculous often turns ou the outcome of experience as wi rooted' as our own. Many trave here and bring upontheir own h indignation of a people who i.re too democratic to recognize the superiority of any who try to shine above them, and too impulsive and proud to receive the many uncomplimentary comparisons that are disehed off by the yard tn their midst. "N� one likes to have his little all neglected." The Laplaaide , amid Ms home of eternal snow, thinks that home and land the best in the world, .and his thoughts are heartily reverber- ated by millions of patriotic sons in this Sylvan Land—the prodigy of the nine- teenth century. Not a few lecturers ing to rent of he dis- ceurt'esy and lack of reverene found -here and tracing it with too much truth to the exported ruffianism of a great i i nation. Among those inferred to are Dr. Sarah Parker and George A gustuS Sala, the we1 ll -known English jo rnalist, editor of the London "Dail Tele- graph," and author of "The Land of the (toldezi Fleece," which is noiv 'being usions, travel - y even to be ely di- lers err :ad .e the have found their mistake in tr sail against the stkong under cu colonial feeling, hi referring to published. As a:" free -selector English vocabulary the abov chome and cognomen for this gr ture land, where the estimated 80 of "Fleecy (told Winners" are on the plains and hill -sides. in the is his at pas - 000,000 t work On the plains now under cultinatiou, the principal wheat of Australia is raised, and in this part the crop has been fully above the average this year. There are lots of mowers and self -binders, lint strip- ping machines, manufactured in Mel- bourne, are mostly used; drawn by four horses, manacled by one man, nd can strip about eight acres per day the heads are taken off. The s left standing, and afterwards b irnt, as it is not needed for feed in a country like this. The ss -heat is cleaned at the head- lands, put into sacks that hold four and a half bushels, which are sewed ep, then taken to the barn or market. • The price lately has been 3s. and 6d. per bushel. When far from market, the farmers often Only raw is " double bp," and on a lar made wagon, drawn by fr twelve pair .of bullocks, they - in 100 sacks or. 450 one load. The following will give an idea of the extensive way in which things ete often done here : Hill River estate consists of 60,000 acres of purtha4ed land. It is 88 miles from Adelaide, and is the station o Fisher. The sheep shorn last bored 50,600. The clip of m ran from 9 lbs. on the weth on the lambs, m the grease, age all rotind of about 7 lbs. for which an average of 70. was obtained. One two -tooth merino ram's fleece weigh- ed 174 ZS., and a four -tooth, 21 lbs. The shearing -floor liccommoclates forty shearers. On the estate are 200 head of superior sliort-horn cattle, and 200 horses are employed. The cultivateiiland is in large fields, one of which is three miles long, and boptains 4,250 acre i of wheat, besides 40 acres of peas for liorse feed, and a -quantity of barley, as well as 1,800 acres new land, turned up as fallow. Next year the land first plowed will be three yearjin crop, when it is proposed yearly to ay down that which has yield- ed three, crops, in lucerne a 4 prairie grass, and shift the wheat g ound fur- ther on trhe new land. T1 e plowing t was clone by thirty-four -.ho se -teams, c drawing a double.plow each, oing from two te%hree acres per day, ac ording to the time lost in travelling to and from the work, and five single pious striking out. 'the sowing was done by six tvven- ty-two feet broadcast- machines. The e heaVily in sixl to ften biing ushela at Mr. C. B. year num- rino wool s to 344- lbs ✓ an aver- lands are plowed one chain wi harrowed b, y fifteen. sets nf harrows, doing a land in two t harrowing is finished at the r acres per day. The wheat 200 acre blocks, as harvest, a, by mowing machines, cutting . wide stripe ; and then strips ri the crop elle plowed for protecti e, and are rns. The te of 500 cut into proacbes, wo chain tilt round n against fire. Tbirty-seven stripping machines ace employ,ed, each drawn by fo and which can each cut ab acres per day. One winnowe r horses, t eight , or fan- ning mill, ' o every three stripp' rs, cleans at the hea lands, and here it i bagged, sewed up, and then taken to the barn. The wheat -yielded last year 1 bushels per acre; he peas 40 bushels and the barley :10. Two large clams in pply the home station with water, and here are six others', in various_ parts 0 the run. Sixteee acres of trees have bee planted in two -acre blocks, in variou parts of the run ; he kind found to do est being the Tasmanian red gum. A 70 ncre plantation is in ourse of prepartion ; and olive planting s carried on annually. Experiments are made to prove the efficiency of subsoil plowing, and different kinds of grain ar sown to try their snerits. -A large -cm ntity of manure is made, and pigs are rofitably kept on the waste wheat.- ' he farm buildings are most complete an1 exten- sive; the barn will bold 60,000 bushels of grain ; there are saddlers', carpenters' and blackernithe shops, and, a -large number of cottages for the men. Seven- ty hands are usually employed, but 200 in shearing and harvest time. The men are directed by rules posted els, among which are stringent orders agt inst the use of grog. There is a librar for the use of the men; and altogether it is a model farni, such as few outside of Aus- tralia can conduct. Such. a farmer as the above has the honor of being "a boss cockey " here, and is on a par with the squatter, Who will be the subject of my next letter, . as he holds ,probably the most important place in the history of Australia. Next in rank comes the "grass cockey;" this takes in the grazier on a small scale and the dairy farmer. Last and least the-" selector," struggling to get possession of a piece (Aland, or one who has a small farm,under 320 acres, must submit to the lowest degree of comparison "little eockey." - Having given a farmer an idea 'of how such work is done in Canada, he exclaim- ed, "Why -they are on still a smaller scale than out tittle cockles!' We do every- thing here on a large scale and with very little work." fle is correct; every- thing ladone.on a "large scale' and in a bouncing off -hand manner. It is only lately coppers, pennies and small " white money" have been used. When times -were good, no smaller than a shilling was wanted, and " shonting " to a mug of her was a "bob a clip." Most of these " Cockies," especially dairy or grass ones, are bonier on a " large_scale," and their language is as slangy as that of the Lehdon street. arab fifty years ago, when "Flare up," or "Does- your mother know you're out ?" was in everybody's mouth. You must not ecoine up as his superior, neither cringingly, but toe the mark at his own level ; then if you can " spot " him in the right place, he softens *down, asks you iit, and is inclined to be rather long-winded ; for he is fond of " swap - pin e •' yarns and exchanging experiences. Before letting you gehe ".sings out" to his wife to bring something to drink, -and you may have your choice from milk, wine, &c., up to pure Scotch or Irish. The wife is mostly a silent part- ner, for it is her duty, with the help of the elder ones of the family, to do the work, While he does the principal enter- . a - H • ' tabling an outing. e is the boss, and the dozen Or fifteen children know that, and so doe t his wife, for. things are done On a ‘.` large scale" in •Australia. The author of The Dairyman's Daughter" cannot hade found his heroine here, for when tranSplanted beyond a " coo-ee " of her home she does not appear to ad- vantage. If you attempt to converse - with her she is _soon "stuck up," and when yon tell her you came from Can- ada she tays, "Just fancy !" 'Then with an effort at being more loquacious, she asks, " Did you come all the way on thef care ?" You reply in the nega- tive, when, she adds, "No fear !" , The above are .not overdrawn speci- mens, but such as have frequently oc- curred in my own experience. Neither is such ignorance confined to farmers' daughters or any one class. Not long , ....... ago a prbminent barrister and B. A. wanted to know what city was nearest to where I came from. When I told him London, he said,. "It must be a small place, for I never heard of it. I have heard of Quebec and Montreal. Isn't Toeonto one of the Provinces ?" When you receive and read this, with the thermometer probably below zero, you can remember it was written at 105 0 in the shade, and kindly make the necessary allowance, for it is a ques- tion if a person is compos mentis in such heat. Many . times we have realized this is summei. in Australia, and many sleepless nights with the room like an oven at 95 ° have given time for mature reflection in arriving •at the conclusion that the summers here are more than an offset to the winters of Lake Huron. Bank from the sea coast the nights are often not much cooler than mid-daynand though we haVe mosquito nets over the .beds, sometimes one gets through to help to aggravate misery. As I close !something is handed to me, and the reply. "Pause lJeetL And tell me Sithat is this?" Ah! could We expect less; it is the 25th of Januesty. An invitation to at- tend the anniversary banquet of "Scotland's Bard." The programme bears the oft -repeated couplet: "The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." To=itight the voice of Fitz Green Halleck rises from among the tomb stones of NewYork and inspires us with; "The memory of Burns, a name that calls, When filled her festal cup, A nation's glory or her shame In silent sadness up.'" Yes, to -night, around the haggis, in the festive halls of the many scattered lands where Scotchmen have found a home, will be gathered the patriotic scions of worthy sires to do honor to him who Wrote their never dying songs. Aye, to -night, the Ayrshire plowboy who could touch the joys and sorrows of mankind, will live again, and through his immortal lines, addressed to all con- ditions of men, move a great people over 12,006 miles from where he quietly sleeps in the church yard of Dumfries. Yours, Very Tinily, Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 25th January, 1886. )- (To be Continued.) messenger waits for no. g moments e'er you go,' J. SmiLLIE. late meetin -lution was ing Mi. To flitting $15 able testim tee who ha cided upo locket. A tural Gar weeks ago, the presen The gift is the wearer —The lo Railway C tically en _agreeing same condi lock -out, --The c Montreal raise $1,0 paying off smallpox e tary impro —Rev. sermon to testant Be last Sabb congregati service am dollars. --Brake years, was coupling c merly bag and was w brother is Triink at three chit --A far living in t visit to th Thursday After he he discove had been s —There Kingston, • Ernestown of 12 chil great gran passed a.w person of --Mr. II a valuable the other very unfo Canada. The next Provincial Exhibition will be held at Guelph. -j-The New Brunswick Granite works at Carleton are closed down. —Twenty farmers from Prince Ed- ward and Hastings counties, emigrated to Dokota last ;week. —There waSnew maple syrup in the London market last Saturday, offered at 45 cents per qiiart. • —Hog cholera has appeared at Put- - namville, and the farm of Mr. Charles Duhdas has been quarantined. —Mr. Peter , ?iliddlerniss has sold his 60 -acre farm in Beverely, Wentworth county, for $4,000 cash. • - 4- -The cotton batting factory . at Chat- ham wa,a completely destroyed by fire on Saturday, morning last. The machinery will be alinostnseless. —Ellis, who was accused of being im- plicated in the Allanburg .murder, was liberated Friday on his own recogniz- .ance. Thos.:Scott, who has acted in the capacity atown treasurer of Wood- stock for over 30 years, has resigned the position. —Mr. Thos. A. Anderson, an esteem- ed member of the Guelph Mercury edi- torial staff, died last week. He had been ill for sonie time. —A young man named Johnston, -While in the midst of a dance at the house of Mrs. Moran, in Sombre, Lamb - ton county, dropped down on the floor, and in a few minutes expired. —Two men in Montreal have been so seriously injured •by snow -slides from the high roofs as they were passing along the streets, that the lives of both are de- spaired of. , —Sir Hector Langevin has promised to spend $15000 or $20,000 this yearon permanent harbor improvements at Bellevillenhat will prevent further dam- age from floods. • —Rev. D. G. McKay and wife, who had been visiting their brother, Rev. W. A. McKay, of Woodstock, left last week for their home at Park River, Dakota. —Complaint has been made to the Chief of Police in Hamilton of the num- erous gamblinghouses and saloons in the city where poker is played until all hours in the morning. - —A school teacher of Churchill, South Sincoe, was arrested on Friday at Brampton for snmggling jewelry, which he traded in after school hours, and his stock, worth nearly cone thousand dollars, confiscated. —At the recent fire in Forest a whisky bottle half full; of coat oil, saved from the flames, was sampled by several thirsty men, who declared it mighty bad liquor. —James Armstrong, of Brantford, Who was burned to death in the St. George fire, was a member of the Royal • Templars of Temperance. He leaves a wife and a large family who will receive $2,000 from the Order. —Mr. Wm. Walker, late treasurer of the Westminister Insurance Company; wae recently presented with an elegant gold watch and chain in acknowledge- ment of his services. Mr. Walker has been a director = of the company for 2$ years, and treasurer 17 years. —During the past two years Warren Totten, Esq., of Woodstock, has held the position of Grand Master of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. As usual with Mr. Totten he filled the po- sition with zeal and ability. He spent a great deal of time and hard work in advancing the interests of the Order, • and was one of,the most popular of all who have held As high offices. At the of the Grand Lodge a reso- nthusiastically passed thank - ten for bis services and do - for the purchase Of a° suit- nial for him. The commit - the matter in charge de - e gold watch, chain ansi a concert in the Horticul- ens, Toronto, a couple of the presentation was made in e of several thousand people. a really handsome one and is justly proud of it. 3k -out of the Toronto Street mpany's employes was prac- ed on Saturday, the men o resume work under the ions that existed prior to the airmen of committees of the ty council have decided to ,000 by means of bonds for the deficit incurred by the idemic and for making sea ements. , r. Potts preached the annual he members of the Irish Pro- evolent Society' in Toronto, th afternoon, to a crowded n. The collection after the unted to over two hundred an J. Reinhart, aged 38 killed at Galt, Friday, while es. The deceased was for- age man on the Dutch mail, 11 known along the line. His ection foreman on the Grand reslau. He leaves a wife and ren. er named. Wm. Sheppardson, e vicinity of Meaford, paid a • Toronto Police Court on • witness the proceedings. had satisfied his curiosity ed that his watch and chain olen while he was in court. died on the 9th inst. at Henry Asseltine, born in in 1800. Ile was the father ren, 67 grapdchildren and 25 lchildren. An old patriarch y about the saane time in the Irs. Walsh; aged over 100. Patinore, of Harriston, lost horse after two hours' illness, ight. Mr. !Patmore has been tunate in horse flesh during the past fit e years, as it has taken poo to replace orses he has lost in that time. There mus be a cause for this, and Mr. Patmore sl ould investigate matters. -nThe C Poat anYs'aopptS t ' tors they which the mended 't • would thr vency. 11 chrane Menufacturing Com- . Thomas, has at length come go. At a imeeting of credi- offered to pay 22 per cent., creditors present were recom- accept, or their banker tv the • concern into insol- , —Mr. 1oolican, real estate agent, Toronto, hiss just lia,d made for him a map,of the city of Totonto and suburbs, measuring 23 by 14 feet. This is said to be the largest map in the world, the next largest being in London, England, 18 by 9 feet. . —Freight traffic 013 the New Bruns wick Railway has increased of late. Five carloads of manufactured cotton rner and one carload of confectionery were good ? forwarded from St. Stephento Montreal —1' _ in the first week of March. In the fol young lowing week 2,500 l+shelit of potatoes yortih-se were forwarded to Botton. —Mr. John McLister, of Oil SPrings, Falls, had a valuable horse injured beyond re- intot covery the other day, 'While engaged flAshn un in pulling out a pump the horse became the chocked in the collar, and the' pump set- saiide db .tling back, threw the horse on its head toned on some timber, with such force as no falls Zrue.n part of The fir " Was which rested on the ground. 3t question put to blot was, e hurt ?" to which he replied " No ! -where's my whip ?" . —The Monetary Times says: It is proposed to build a radlwa,y between ,Deseronto and Pict= via. Demorestville and. Northport. Such a line, it is thought, would benefit the whole county of Prince Edward, bringing it into closer connection with Deseronto, Napa - nee, Kingston, and other eastern mar- kets, to which, during winter, its people have now only limited access. . —A few days ago while a gang of lumbermen were at work hewing a large pine tree in a bush in Sullivan township, near Owen Sound, a bee flew out and stung one of them on the nose. This induced an investigation, which resulted in. the taking of between thirty and forty pounds of honey, and now that gang of men is known as "The honey- ed gang." —Mr. Peter Curran, of Galt, who has. been engaged to go to Vienna, Austria as trainer and driver for Prince Schmidt, left Galt on Tuesday last week for De- troit, Where he will Join the gentlemen who engaged him, assist them with the horses they have purchaeed on their way to New York, from whence, at an early day, they will sail. Mr. Curran was a great favorite, a good judge of a. horse, a first-class driver, and a thoroughly trustworthy man. —Thursday afternoon last week the residence of John Armstnang, a garden- er, on the third line of March, Lanark county, was destroyed by fire. The old man, aged 80, went upstairs, and trying to retutn was prostrated by the flames. He reached a window, and when partly out the sash fell and caught his leg. He remained suspended till his left leg amd arm were burned to a crisp, while no ladder could be found to reach him. His face was terribly charred. There is very little hope of his recovery. —We have reeeived from the Salva- tion Army nheadtquarters a copy of the "Canadian Advance." It contains a general account of the work of the Army the world over, with particular refer- ence to Canada during 1885. Under the "Field State of -Canada" the fol- lowing table of interest is given: officers Corps.. *- Outposts Meetings weekly Attends.' lee At knee drill Received and expended weekly in local eorps War Cry weekly circu- lation,' 22,085 35,950 13,805 --The Erin Advocate says : A curie ous leg farmer chine sold the farmer an implement taking his note in payment, and said note has a condition attached which declares the machn e is the property of the company until t ie note is paid. The farm build- ings are burned, and the machine is aniongl the contents destroyed. Who stands Ithe loss of the machine, the far - company ? And is the note still , • ursday Imorning last week a man apparently about 25 or 30 f age, rushed towards the brink bank on Cedar l Island, Niagara rel throwing himself head first e boiling, rushing torrent was over the falls. Some parties saw ortimate man pass over. They had his overcoat on, tightly but - p, but he had not gone over the Any minutes before his clothes rn freml his body by the heavy of water. His coat, turned in- side mit, was soon after, seen floating in the ed . —A onto, John ion Ca object 0, ing cattle trade between Canada cf., n d Great Britain. Mr. Frankland states that it is believed on all hands that this year will be the crueial year In respect to the exportation in • cattle, and that the n the sal a fair next that t sides. 'tie w sides time ne per cent. of what they. use has to come" from ;foreign, countries. It is very necessary ifor the interest of Cana- dian agricultere that Canada should' keep t� the front. America is trying all that sl e possibly can to fill every depart- rnent t Britaizi —A living laid i against calf, s ing his Metca river t week t commonly called a skunk. Jabez sr., ) melte ly shot it to s with it. George took the animal to school. Scott. ment would head a back o to SCh(, the sientlt arid sent the two youths home. The young fellow Scott, Who was bit on the head, is now seriously ill. His hair had to be shavedd off, which, to- gether with a bad cold, contracted by being forcccl to sleep outside; has laid him uji. Scott also claims damages. ' —T e death of the unfortunate man De Witt, who lost his life at the Ameri- can Fells a week ago last Sunday, and whose' corpse was only discovered on Friday last, would seem to have been In - 1854. 1885. crease. 205 478 153 80 148 68 35 47 12 975 1,635 600 196,478 209,100 72,912 1,261 2,550 1,289 2,581 82,903 $322 al question has arisen between a in this neighborhood and a ma- ompany. The machine company knock ah —Mr. NN breeder of another fin ter breed Auchenbra which he animal is mers in th an opportu —Two li dentally g which th swallowed. a ew minutes both f children w saved by t sician who few hours though ver —While P., was h attending stacks of h and total evidently he work of some malicious scoundrel Who was well posted as to Mr. Featherstone's movements, and took ad- vantage of 'his absence. —Mr. , . Harvie, miller, at Glen - monis, is 1 making tensive peepara- T tion for the erec ion of a large dam to be built aeross the Grand river. As the river iv very wide at that place, the glen will be quite a distin- guished • p ace, as it will then have the largest dal and the 1 ngest foot -bridge on the Gra e in its head. m. Somers, the noted sheep Blanshard, has just received animal of the Border Leices- rom Mr. Robert Wallace, of neMaachline, Scotland, for aid a handsome sum. The very fine one, and the far- neighborhpod will thus have ity of improving their stock. tle boys in Montreal acci- tposeessioh of a box of pills y mistook ' for candy and In re in convulsions, but were e prompt arrival of a phy- administered an emetic. In a' the boys had recovered, al - weak from their adventure. Mr. Josepn Featherstone, J. Sarnia on; Friday last week, the Bachelor's Ball, three y in kis eland were set on fire destroyed. The fire was driver. —Rev. Dr. Sanders n, of the Metho- dist chum , Strsthrojy, who is now in his 70th Iyear, on at recent Sabbath preached three time, conducted two. sacrament 1 and love feast seen -ices, and drove 1,8 n iles throligh a blinding snow- storm. II voluntarily Shoulders work from whi h many yOunger men would plead off. ; —The e ght days' !celebration of the centenary f the foundation of Presby- terianism in Montreal was concluded last Sabba h by servioe in St. Gabriel's church, a building fully one hundred years old. The celebration has been a most unq alified success, having been taken pari in by Protestants of all de- nominatio is in the citte —The o'her day a man driving a dem- ocrat wa on across the track of the Grand Tr ink Railway near Montrose ow escape. E The train took off hind wheels of the vehicle, hem into match -wood. After assed the man was found sit- ly in his wagon, the hinder - had a. liar the two smashing the train ting quie y in front of the Prospect House. derman G. F. Frankland, of Tor - as assoeiated himself with Mr. unn, the President of the Dom -in - tie Dealers' Association, with the f thoroughly testing the export - tubers ibought in Canada and s made in Great Britain will be epresentation of the trade for the 5 years. It is well understood ere is great depression on both Cereals; were never cheaper, cat - re never more plentiful on both f the Atlantie ; but at the same at requires animal food in Great few days ago a man named Scott, n the Gore of London township, formation before Squire Currie Jabez Metcalf, jr., Jabez Met- ., and Geo. Metcalf, for assault - 12 year old son. It seems the brothees had seta,trap near the catch musk rats; one day last ey caught an odoriferous animal the animal afar off a,nd prudent - it. He then told George to take iool with him and amuse himself The first boy he met was young As a sort of inaugural experi- to what sort of fen the skunk produce, he swung it over his d hit Scott very hard on the the head. The boys then went ol, where the teacher confiscated one of the most terrible that the human mind can conceive. From the appear- ance of the body it is judged with good reason that the man was never in the water at all, but had slipped down the ice mound. and landed in a -crevice or icy hole with but little injury. His hat had been lost in the descent, and he had tied his handkerchief ever- his head. The corpse lies on its back, with hands in the pockets of the overcoat. •The snow is firmly packed into a path where the unfortunate victim had walked backwards and forwards until death came to his relief. Such a fate presents to the imagination the climax of hprror. Wfth the roar of the cataract -deafening any shout that be could make, death was a welcome release from his awful prison house. Men are busy blasting, and it is expected they will soon be able te reach the body. , —One day lately a corpse was taken from the township of Peel for interment in the Elora cemetery, and a clergyman was in attendance to perform the cere- monies at the grave. The funeral party arrived there, when tAVO of the daugh- ters of the deceased asked that the lid of the coffin -should be removed so that they might look upon the features of their mother. There had., unfortunate- ly, been family quarrels of a more than usually bitter character, and the brother became incensed, and declared that as his sisters had not seen his mother while recently living, he would not per- mit them to look upon her when dead. An unseemly altercation ensued, but all attempts to gratify the wishes of the daughters were resisted by the brother, and nothing short of an appeal to force seemed likely to be of avail. The min- ister, disheartened at the display of such uncl;ristian conduct, left the ground. --A singular aceident occurred a few days ago to the engine of a threshing 1 machine'owned by Mr. Walter 'Hender- son, in Beverly, a few miles east of Galt. While at work and everything going Smoothly, the large belt of the thresher came off, and the eegine, re- leased from the lead, started offat great speed. Mr. Henderson -•ran te turn. off steam, but before be could. do se, the " governor ", belt also came off. Then, the engine fairly ran away, until a ter- rific speed was reaehed, when its parts broke and collapsed, the whole ma- chinery flying m all directions, large pieces of the fly -wheel and other heavy parts being thrown hninertse distances. Although the men engaged at the work were all around, yet they escape& with- out injury, though in several eases parts of the mahhinery whizzed past them like cannon belle. One of the men had put up a board to keep the wind off him, when a piece struck the board be- hind which be was standing and broke it through, but then its force was spent and he escaped. Tbe boiler was unin- jured, but the engine is a total wreck. _ e - Huron Presbytery. The following are the recommenda- tions of a committee of the -Presbytery of Huron, respecting the supply of vacant congregations, to which reference was made in the report of the proceedings of such Presbytery whieb appeared in the EXPOSITOR of lint week : lst—The list of probations from which appointments may be given, shall be made up by anthoiity. or = the General Assembly, and the list of vacancies from the reports of Presbyteries. 2nd—The committees east and west. shall draw up such regulations between them that will enable them to transfer Probationers from east to west, as occa- sion May require. :3rd—That -appointments be given only to such Probationers as by application have their names put upon the list. 4th—That Presbyteries give the pref- erence in vacancies to those receiving appointment from the committee. - 5th -That Probationers shall be ex- pected to fulfil appointments unless relieved therefrom by the committees 6th—That an annual report of ap- pointments Made by the committee shall be givento the Assembly. 7th—That appointments be made if possible for not less than three weeks to any vacancy. 8th—The rate of renumeration to be settled by the Presbytery 'within whose bounds the vacancy is, but the Presby- tery report the amount to the committee as soon as convenient, regard being had in every case to the amount of stipend paid under the previous pastorate.. The aboverecommendations are to be considered seriatim, at next meeting of Presbytery. A. McLnees, Presbytery Clerk. e e -Mr. Jonathan Ellia ha -s purehased the Norfolk Woollen Mills, Port Dover, for $20,000; about 90 hands are at pres- ent employed in the mills, Mr, Ellis was at one time publisher of the Winghame Tithes, and had he remained in the newspaper business it would have taken about 999 years to accumulate suf- ficient to buy such a property as he has. So says the New Era, and it tells the truth, as we can truly testify from ex- Pe—rieOrtneeWednesday of last week a mid- dle aged man named Edward Kribb, of the township of Grey, was almost in- stantly killed, while ehopping in the bush near Rock's raw mill, by a falling limb. He was struck on the top of the head, the limb penetrating his brain. A physician was sent for left the man was dead before he arrived. A wife and large family of small children are left to mourn this' sudden and unexpected death. —A young man named Robert Cul- lison, employed as porter at the Dinsley m House in Wingha, met with a very pain- ful accident on Mondaymorning,8th inst. He was at the time engaged in washing windows, and while pressing against one of the panes in drying it, the glass broke at the top and allowed. Cultism:es arms to come with full force to the jagged edge of the broken pane. i Both of his wrists were terribly lacerated, and it will be some time before he can use them again, 1