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The Huron Expositor, 1886-07-02, Page 11Faid wy Hook partment IPL EIRE Trade. - JAL I" LOAN PRThrrier d fast in corer) it De. Also .earn Muslins d Stripes, De Effects, arc FAUL, tOODS AND MIL. ROUSE, 7"----ee-sseesee npbell the rose te e voted against the solution at the re - aunty council. He el for a Policellat- aey at a previous 7 council,' and that .,stentIy vote for Liter a solo by Rev. of variety, which Mr. Thomas Ma. Signal, Goderich, of one hour and Lion which electri• It was brim -full of Terence argument. laneial aspect of the eestion, pro-ving hii ['ramping a little on se who replied Wel- ne closed. :eter. jr., has justre- 7,200 boxes of his Boat Grease. He rticle, which is be- tnown. If the &- vitt have to put on ove into larger pre - it occupied by him. ea this lose,lity• left ill on Tuesdaylast, this year. Weare efenseless condition Lil away.—Almost onday morning last Bone's blacksmith e Pail Brigade were ut it out before any is done.—Mr., and u left for their home morning Iastt after time with relatives r- to Tose them.—The eam passed -through ast. We hear they h " Gerrie ; we dg —We are going to n on the Ist of July. ley has been raised expect to see IP Kited athletes here, se it will be some - Border. is here at father and mother. machinery in the Monday, 14th tote r three days. Mr, ke a trip to Galt to returned on Weds e are glad to kart king all O. K. noir. earn of the death of e, near Moleswortilt ce on Tuesday but ry here is doing in they are away be - hey are taking II • ool at present, for he highest priee . A. L. Gibson sit on being a WI ill, man, We notice quite a distance tes al. He also meow tity of yarn, shirt - the lower Province. 'II increase. es. --Mrs. Mclaugh:- as. McLaughlin, of n Monday eveninit ell for about a weak not think that her Ir. McLaughlin ana pathy of the cone- d bereavemente-i played in Gorrieeo een the home tee'theevale and Wig of the ninth inning' 37 in favor of tth y little good playing team, althowth cane team made it. g and less sweating arne more interestiof pie. —Our sidewalk!, on the south side or se on the north• sit Tile work ou the ne tauter the super s McGroskerY. WbO t&nds the busincis ol pathenaster in tio 'S his firXt year to or we hope he va faithfully unteers left for Lor , on TuesdaY mOr Inspector of Pub. k visiting schoolo [ EIGHTEENTH YEAR. viraoLE .NUMBER .968 SEAFORTH FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1E----86. IiicIJEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. Extra Granulated, Standard Granu- /ated, Bright Yellow, Dark Yellow, Porto Rico and Demerara Raw Sugars. If you want the Biggest $ Worth OR THE LOWEST PRICE By the BARREL, GO STRAIGHT TO THE Star Grocery. Strawberries, Gooseberries and Cherries For Preserving, at lowest prices. FRUIT JARS —IN GREAT VARIETY Also Teas. We are still selling all our Teas at Greatly Reduced Prices. Edmonton, Alberta, to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. SCOW DRIVING ON THE SASKATCHEWAN —A TRIP OVER THE PRAIRIE—A HINT TO DYSPEPTICS. F'RENCE ALBEILT, Saskatchewan, / May 31st, 1888. ) Thelast time I wrote you I was under orders to shift my base of -operations to Prince Albert, and on the evening of the 30th of April, 1886, I bundled my bag- gage on board one of two scows lying a little east of Harclisty & Frasees mill, Edmonton, bound for Battleford the following morning, with a cargo of po- tatoes, barley and poultry. As[a mat- ter of fact, I felt a little lonely on leav- ing Edmonton, where I had resided for the past two years, and though I strug- gled hard to conquer my feelings, still I could not help repeating those lines of that other " misfortune " (as the Bul- letin man would have it), a little changed, I admit: "Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, 0 give me—all your heart." 20e, 25e, 30e, 35c, 42c and 50c. Our 25c Japan, 40c Black, 42c Mixed, and 42e Green, are giving great satisfaction. Another big lot of Raisins at 5c per pound. George Good, Star Grocery, MAIN STREET, - SEAFORTH. JUST OPENED OUT —AT THE— Cheap 0 a 0-1 Store, Dress Goods, Prints, Corsets, Bustles, Buttons, Mantle Ornaments, Silk Gloves, Dress Muslim, Ginghams, Hoop Skirts, Parasols, Dress Clasps, Mantle Silks, Cotton Hose, —AND A GREAT MANY— That night, for the first time in my life, I slept on the barge, with nothing but blankets to cover me and the starry heavens for a roof. About 3 o'clock next morning the captain roused all hands, and, after partaking of a break- fast of fat pork, potatoes, bread and black tea we pushed out into the mid- dle of the stream and commenced' our journey down the crooked Saskatche- wan. The morning was not what one, strictly speaking, could call pleasant, nor was I particularly fond of rising so, early. True it has been said by some one of the rhymsters, " Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," And though there may be a grain of truth in the poet's lines, still I felt on this particular morning very much like letting the poet put his own theories to a practical test and crawling back into my blankets. But there was no use kicking. The captain was at the helm, there was a potato famine in Battleford, and who got there first with a cargo of the much needed vegetable would rake in the sheckles. Besides, being an Irishman myself, I had an idea of what it was to be short of potatoes, and, for this reason more than any other, I re- frained from throwing the captain over- board and taking command myself. Our erew consisted of five, a captain, first mate, second mate, a cook, and "mon cher shien," as the captain would say. Two oars and the tide embraced the motive power. The captain took charge of the stern oar, and I took charge of the one at the bow. The use of the oars, of course, is not to give speed to the boat, but to keep it in the current, and avoid rocks and sand bars, of which latter the Saskatchewan is full. Having rowed a pretty stiff oar in days gone by I fancied I could swing the oar assigned me in true oarsman style, but when I grappled it I was forcibly reminded of the fly on the wheel. I was a long time in doubt as to whether I was wiggling the oar or the oar was wiggling me. It weighed over 200 pounds. This, of cqurse, was a little on the heavy side for pleasure, and my bellows gave out in a very short time, while I thought I had pulled my arms out of joint, when Mr. Clarke, who filled the honorable role of second mate, came to my assistance. All went well until a little east of Point le Pine when we suddenly heard a bump, bump, bump, and a hard grating sound very suggestive of rocks. True enough, we were on a rock, but the Cap- tain, who was an old hand at rafting, with a few vigorous strokes of his oar, swung his barge around in the current, and in a few moments we were pulled from our anchorage and floating down the river again. About 4 o'clock we passed FORT SASKATCHEWAN, the headquarters of the Mounted Po- lice for the Edmonton district. The fort itself is situated on the south side of the river, but the town, if it may be so called, is On the north side, and con- sists of an hotel, Roman Catholic church, saw and grist mill, and a few log houses for the fort. It did not strike me as being ball proof; it looked more like a place you might easily batter down with a pop -gun. Happily the rebels did not assail it, and besides they had no cannon. A few miles further down, and opposite the farm of a settler named Lombard, we encountered another rock, and though we again swung round, we were unable to free ourselves without the captain and second mate and the cook jumping into the water and making a vigorous use of handspikes,the captain the while repeating a French litany of the reverse order. By the time we freed ourselves night was coming on and we were forced to put ashore on the north side and lay up. Our bill of fare for supper was as usual, fat pork, bread, potatoes and black tea, and though un- der other circumstances I would fail to relish the fat pork, at least on this oc- casion, I took to it with as much relish as the noble red men. We slept on the barges, taking turns pumping o it, the rough experience we had undergone that afternoon having caused. one of the barges to leak badly. The next morn- ing broke fine, and after breakfast we pushed out into the current again and proceeded on our way. With the excep- tion of some hard pulling to avoid rocks and keep in the current, we had a pleas- ant day's sail, and stopped for the night near the mouth of Sucker Creek. The next day (Good Friday) was a repetition of the previous days' experience and we muffed our barges for the night at the steamboat landing, EWcfQQfJS, too numerous to mention. them, at the. Cheap Call and see Cash $t ore —OF— Hoffman &Compan,y, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. NOTICE. west along the river bank. During the war the rebellious Indians paid Victoria a visit and carried off everything worth taking. They even robbed the hen roosts, at least when the settlers returned the hen houses were tenantless. 11, at one time assistant In - at Edmonton, is in charge of office, Dr. Edmunson looks alth of the dusky children of and Peter Erasmus acts as . We unloaded some of our at good prices, and at five t morning we were again tly down stream. We were g the most difficult part of he crooked rapids, and the, ok and myself had to keep a" out, as the boats were not Mr. Mitch dian agent the Indian after the h the forest, Interprete cargo here o'clock ne floating ge now near' the river, captain, c close look built of he heaviest kind of material, and should we run with full speed on a sharp rock we would be very likely to find ourselves in the water shortly after- wards. These stones, in low water, can be seen, and with a great deal of hard pulling to the right or left, may be avoid d, , but the greatest danger arises fr 1, stones which do not rise above the water, the location of which, when the water is at all rough, you can- not tell ith 'certainty. We, however, with the exception of a few bumps, passed t rough the .rapids safely, and put ashor for the night a few miles east of Snake ills,landing, as tired a crew as ever tined a boat. The next morn- ing was a little chilly, but after the sun rose it w niore pleasant. As we were floatingown the stream I gently hinted to our c ptain that it was Easter Sun; day, a f ct of which he seemed to be ignorant, and that our larder was not stocked ith just exactly the fare I had been use to on such occasions. I repri- manded im also for not providing him- self with a gun, in order that we might be able to have a roast goose or duck for dinn r which would have been no trouble, with bot enjoy a in a fea provided board. to overh leaks, as ing we Monday east win we mad enough, wind is obstacle spite of ; ncl. In stopped taken b son Bay his son, on their evidenc Commis night, a Edmon wept NV very ba and I w overcoat veiled, We wer ing Our Monthly Fashion Sheet just to hand, and those wanting one will please call and get one before the supply runs eat. • VICTORIA/ having made remarkably good time from Edmonton. Here we lost one of our men, Mr. Clarke, who had been appoint- ed fame instructor at an Indian reserve close by. Victoria, of course, is a very small place, merely consisting of the old Hudson Bay buildings, now used by the Indian Department, a store and a few log houses extending to the east and and, of for the about h it, and forced u Having to cross : ; ; • 'the river was fairly alive . However, as we could not Well, your imagination is only our reali- eel of roast goose' we indulged zation. The birds do sing up here in t of eggs, whichwere kindly May, and the flowers bloom even as they for the occasion by the hens on do on the shores of Lake Huron, but n the evening we were forced this night and all Sunday old Boreas ul the big sCOW and, stop the and the beautiful let themselves loose, between the bumping and row- and we staid by the camp fire, with - ere about worn out. Easter edit which we found no comfort. The was cloudy and cold, and an cook baked some bannocks this day, as prevailed, in the face of which our stock of bread had run out, but they slow progress. Rocks are bad were not relished very much by the ear knows, but a strong head first mate, and the captain did not take the most discouaraging of all very kindly to them. Next day—Non- as it forces you on shore in day was an improvement on the previous 11 you Can do in a narrow chan- day, and we made a good day's run, and - the evening, just after we had camped opposite Pine Island, about 50 for the night we were over- miles from Battleford. On Tuesday Mr. Thos. Taylor, of the Hud- about 11 o'clock we had to lay up on Company, from Lac Ste. Anne, on account of head winds. About 2 p. and Peter Erasmus, who were m. we started, again, but did not make way to Prince Albert to give much headway on account of sand bars, before the Rebellion Losses Wednesday was a fine day, and we ion. They camped with us all made good headway until about noon we d we heard the latest news from found ourselves well up on a sand bar, n, and how the young ladies but we managed to get off by the usual en we left, which made us feel means. A short timeafterwards, how - Tuesday was cloudy and cold, ever we found ourselves again anchored s forced to wear my glovesand on a bar, and all hands had to jump in all day, headwinds also pre- the water. - For four long hours we nd we made little progress. struggled to free ourselves, shifting the now, as we thought, approach- load from one boat to another,and letting the light one float into the current, then FROG LAKE, 1 carrying the potatoes to it until we had course, were looking anxiously made the other light enough to be able ross erected by the 95th. At to shove it by main force into the cur- lf-past two we came in sight of rent. The captain, of course, was in the shortly afterwards the wind best of humor, though he made the to anchor on the opposite shore. woods echo with repeated volleys of very • o small boat, we were unable unparliamentary language, while the rest he river and go up to where the of the crew were disgusted with thewhole as ereeted, a state 'off affairs business, and honestly wished themselves regretted very much. Frog elsewhere. However, notwithstanding per is a few miles away from he sins of our captain we managed to r, there being no settlement et afloat again and steered for shore'as e cross is erected. The banksWet and cold as we could possibly be. very high on the north side, as, We built a large fire of driftwood which hey are for the most part all - we gathered along the bank and warmed e Sasketchewan. Strolling along and dried ourselves and then went to bed, being too tired to talk. Next day —Thursday—about 1 o'clock, we found ourselves in sight of Battleford, and in a few moments we touched the Star - boat wharf. As may be imagined, we werenot sorry. For my part I there and then made a vow never again to undertake to navigate a scow down the - crooked:Saskatchewan. I prefer shank's mare. My muscle, it is true, is consider- ably developed and my appetite is not bad, but "no thank you, captain,bring down that raft of logs yourself." r, however, am happy to be able to recom- mend a trip such as I had as a positive cure for dyspepsia and kidney ailments. It beats hop bitters, Warner's safe cure or Dunville's Irish all to pieces. spikes and some very bad French, man- aged to get the boats afloat again, and 'about 4 p. m. we arrived, to our great Satisfaction, at [ • FORT PITT. - [ Eager to see the now memorable post, I hurried on shore, and took a view of the surroundings. I, of course, did not expect to see many evidences of civiliza- tion, where barbarism had lately held high carnival. The two buildings of the Hudson Bay Company, which escaped destruction, a couple of log shocks, and the residence of Rev. M. Twomey were all the houses to be seen. But what a change, I fancied, since a year ago. Then all was life and bustle, war and rumors of war, and soldiers from about every quarter of the Dominion were camped, where now nothing remains but a few iron kettles with holes punched in them and empty fruit and meat cans. The site whereon Fort Pitt is situated is not unattractive, and in the not distant future, when we have been gathered to our fathers, perhaps, tall spires, glittering [domes and crowded marts may greet the [eyes of the traveller, where now only a Ifew rude log houses rear their thatched , roofs above the prairie. The next day [ was the most diagreeable we had experi- I enced since leaving Edmonton, very cold and wet, so we did not start until the following morning at about four o'clock. The day was not so unpleasant as the previous one, and with the exception of a short delay caused by making too free with a sand bar, we had a good run, and snuffed for the night about 25 miles east of Pitt. This night we pitched our tent in the woods, a short distance from a store, and built a large fire. Why? you ask. Was it cold? You perhaps re - Member these lines, gentle reader: " 'Tit; May, 'tis May, AO all the earth is gay." But you imagine you hear the little birds singing, and see the flowers blooming along the banks of the Saskatchewan. - west and took my way across the country to Prince A bert. Our journey across the country was uneventful, save that I learned that my coachman or driver was Adolph Nolin, who bought the freedom of Mrs. Delaney and Mrs. Gowanlock in Big Bear's c mp. He is a young, merry looking half- pathies were and his rifle still he is one of those men who take a pride in doing a fellow mortal a good turn,' be he friend or foe. The land along the -trail between Battleford and within a few miles of Duck Lake did not strike tne as being any use for farming, being very s as your read scene of the first engagement during the late rebellion when some of the flower aert's young men laid down defence of law and order. number of what might be made good farms around this place were a little more irustry shewn, as the land seems good. But, of course, there may be reasons for their inaction of which I know nothirig. But, however, I could not help no4cing the contrast between the thriftle;ore industrious brother of half-breed of Duck Lake with his the Edmonton district. From Duck Lake we preceeded to St. Laurent and crossed the south branch to che resi- harles, father of Adolph ousin of Louis Riel. Here epirie, an ex -rebel prisoner, llor of the lately deceased etis of the South Branch. reed, and though his sym- no doubt with the rebels, also spoke on their side, ony. Around DUCK LAKE, rs will remember, was the of Prince Al their lives in There are a Cross which Lake pr the riv where t here are indeed, along t the bea h I pickeel up some fragments of a large stone which contained what ap- peared to me to be a petrified fish. I also picked up a beautiful duck egg, which, along with the fragments of the stone, I carefully laid away in my trunk, but on shaking from B seriousl • y arrival here, I found that the of my trunk during my trip ttleford here, overland, had demoralized the pieces. After laying up for a couple of hours, we again started on our downward course,but did net proceed very far, stopping on the north side near the cross erected by the innipeg Light Infantry. After supper t e captain and I started up the hill and t k a view of the surroundings, and I placked a few flower from the cross • wned hills of Frog ILake. On Wed- sday we again startel on our journey, t headwinds still prevailed, and we did t make much prowess. About 10 m. we ran foul of a send bar, of which e Saskatchewan is fidl from a little • st of Pitt to Lake Winnipeg, and it is possible for any man, no matter how pod a river navigator he is, to avoid, o ice in a while, encountering one. With c nsiderable exertion we managed to get into deep water, but, as the wind was not favorable, and we were likely to ,be driven on another if we attempted to proceed, we put to shore and anchored for the night. Thursday morning broke cold and disagreeable. We shoved out from shore about 4 o'clock, determined to make Fort Pitt that day, which place, we thought, must be near at hind. We had a fine sail during the forenoon, the river being perfectly calm, thus allowing our boats to drift- with the current, and avoid obstacles; but in the afternoon the wind rose again, and the water became ugh As we were rounding a • II a. very r bend app and th'n a whil selves to our aching Pitt we ran on a shoal, looked decidedly gloomy for t we managed to free our - put injuring the boats. But, discomfiture, we had hardly freed oirse1ves when the wind drove us hard 'nd fast on a sand bar. It was ir then, orse than ever before, I realized the be uties of scow driving on the Big Saskatthewan. With the current and wind ressing us en the bar, I could see little hope of freeing the boats until the wind ent down, but the captain and the c dence- of Nolin, and I met Mr. an ex-counc chief of the Next evening at 8 o'clock found me in Prince Albert where I expect to stop, and of which I will speak some other time. ral thousand dollars which has been deposited to the credit of the Depart- ment, pending a decision in each case. The seizures were effected at Hamilton and Clinton. —About 6,000 Toronto school chil- dren marched in procession last Friday to the Queen's park, where the annual drill competition and games took place, the affair being most successful. —Mayor Howland, of Toronto, has is- sued a proclamation announcing his de- termination to see that certain sections of by-laws, regarding public morals, which have hitherto been almost totally ignored, are strictly enforced in future. —A valuable mare belonging to Mr. J. F. O'Neil, of Point Edward, was found dead in the pasture field the other morning, having been cruelly disem- bowelled by some fiend. Her colt also i1\ recover.eidn enh st week, received a severe cut, but —At a meeting of Irish Kingston on Tuesday evenin Bishop Cleary presiding, about $300 was subscribed on account of the Irish elec- tion fund, and a committee appointed to canvas for further funds, —Rey. John Thompson and son, of Ayr, left on Monday last for a visit to Scotland. The congregation in antici- pation of the visit, presented with a handsome sum of money towards defray - his expenses. —Last Friday Henry Baldwin, who is employed in Copp's machine shop, Hamilton, in adjusting the belt on the machinery was caught and whirled around at a lively gait for a few seconds. He was severely bruised, and hurt in- ternally. —The British Commission for the pur- chase of horses for the British army were at Montreal, Thursday. Three hundred are to be bought as an experiment, the total number required being 17,000. The Government price is £40 for each animal. „ --The last contract for convict labor in the Kingston Penitentiary has just expired. It was that of Mr. L. A. Spencer, lock manufacturer. He em- ployed 100 convicts, skilled men, and paid the Government annually about $15,000 for their services. —Messrs. J. B. Rolland & Son'of Montreal, have obtained the contract for supplying the Dominion Government with tub -sized, air-dried and loft -dried papers. This class of paper, we learn, has heretofore been imported from. Great Britain and the United States. —The monthly statement of the num- ber of deaths in the cities of the Do- minion for May has been issued: Mon- treal, 387; Toronto, 225; Quebec, 147; Hamilton, 76; Halifax, 69; Winnipeg, 29; Ottawa, 78 • St. John, 60; London, 33; Kingston 2. —Mayor Howland, of Toronto has issued a proclamation forbidding the sale or exhibition of any inde,ent or lewd pictures. A reward of $20 will be given to any person, including policemen, who lays such information as will lead to a conviction against offenders in this par- ticular. —A few days ago E. A. Blackwell, of Glencoe, was charged . by Edward Skill, of the Salvation Army detachment stationed in that village, with malicious damage to property, two charges, was found guilty and was fiued $2.50 on each charge, $14 for damages and $16.90 costs—total, $35.90. —The presentation of medalsto the members of the 7th Battalion who had served in the Northwest, took place at the London camp on Friday. Colonel Coleman, commandant of the camp, con- gratulated the 7th on the honor about to be conferred on them. About 150 officers and men received medals. —An Order -in -Council has been passed making the inspection of sheep from the United' States compulsory before the animals are permitted to enter Manitoba or the Northwest Territories, in conse- quence of the reported prevalence of scab among United States sheep. —Penetanguishene's annual fur sale took place on the 17th ult. The amount offered for sale was not so large as in previous years, but the quality was con- siderably better. There were four ten- ders. Mr. P. Steatite, of Kingston, being the highest bidder, secured the lot. —At the last meeting of the Bachelors' Association, Watford, Mr. Thomas For- tune, the president, tendered his resig- nation, which was accepted. The sequel transpired on Wednesday of last week, when he married Miss Ida Moore, of Warwick, and sped away to Ottawa on his honeymoon. —David Randall, of Middlemiss, in the county of Middlesex, was bathing in the river on day lately with several companions, and while diving came in contact with some aharp instrument, which seyered his nose from his face so that it hung only by a small portion of the skin. A surgeon adjusted the sev- ered organ. —The youngest daughter of Mr. Alex. Kay, Kincardine, fell into a spring on the premises a few days ago. It so hap- pened " that her father heard a queer noise, and on looking round he beheld his little daughter's feet sticking out of the barrel that was sunk in the spring. A few minutes longer and that would have been the last of the child. —According to the Port Perry Stan- dard, a councillor of an Ontario county municipality, who is very fond of euchre, recently won at play from a con- stituent all his loose change and the family pig. On going for the pig, how- ever, he was so energetically received by the constituent's wife that he deem- ed it prudent to abandon the enterprise. —Since the passage of the Scott Aet in Sydenham, near Kingstoz, a number of windows in the houses of supporters of the Act have been broken. The resi- dents held a meeting and decided to en- gage a detective from the city, but when he arrived, a watch was set on him, and finally he returned to Kingston. A day later a (stranger arrived in the village, and beiag taken for a second detective, he was enticed to drink from a bottle until he got drunk, when his head was transfixed in a fence, and he was left there struggling till rescued by a pedes- trian. Subsequently the perpetrators of the affair discovered their mistake and apologized to the stranger, who was travelling for plea-sure,for their con- duct. • —Cheistopher Nahrgang, one of the pioneer residents of Wilmot, died on Tuesday of last week, aged 84 years, 5 months and 27 days. The deceased was born at Lehrbacla, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. In 1831 he settled on his homestead in the township of Wilmot, near New Hamburg, on which place he continued to reside up to the time of his death. —On Friday, 18th ult., the house of Christopher Smith, who resides to the north of Dunkeld, Bruce county, was burnt to the ground. The occupants were a very old 'couple who lived alone, their family having all grown up and left them, and it is very unfortunate that so serious a mishap should have oc- curred in the evening of their lives. The cause of the fire is unknown. Loss part- ly covered by insurance. —The other day while Thomas Ren- shaw and his two children were fishing, in the Musquash river, near Graven - burst, Mr. Renshaw accidentally fell into the water, and was carried down the rapids and drowned, his children witnessing his struggles from the bank. Deceased was one of the oldest settlers in the neighborhood, and was much re- spected. He leaves a wife and two children. —During the absence, for seven weeks, of the Rev, H. A. Thomas, of Ansa Craig, from his parish, his people kindly turned out (in consideration of his ill - health), and planted his garden with all necessary vegetables, and also kept it hoed and weeded until his return. For this and many ether acts of kindness to - their clergyman the people of Trinity church deserve the gratitude of the re- cipient and the commendation of the public. —A few months ago Mr. Wesley Cole- man, of - Troy, Wentworth county, bought 200 acres of land on Manitoulin Island for a mere song, without seeing it, and had almost fargotten about it, until the other day, when he got notice that a company who were drilling a well on the Island, had struck oil at a depth of 58 feet, and only three miles from -his land. The farm has advanced consier- ably in value in the owner's estimation. —Thursday night George Bright, an Englishman, who had been braking on the Grand Trunk :for about three years, was killed while the train was running under an overhead bridge near -St. Catharires. The conductor heard some- thing strike heavily, and going up on top of the cars found Bright lying dead with his skull fractured. He had been hit by the bridge as the train ran under and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and one child in London. —A Peterborough citizen owns a dog that has become so old and feeble that he decided to shoot it. He accordingly invited the dog to the outskirts of the town, and fired a bullet into his carcase. -- The dog took to his heels and disap- peared, and the marksman thought his bullet had failed to find its mark. A day or two after, however, the dog re- turned home, and on examination it was found that the ball had passed clean through his body without touching any vital part. It has been decided that the • dog hall be allowed to live. —Edward Robinson, an employee of James Stewart, in the neighborhood of Ripley, recently met with a serious acci- dent. Jas. Stewart and two of his sons, along with the young man, were engag- ed removing a stump. As it was being drawn out the chain slipped when the stunip was turning over, the stump fell back and struck the lever, which re- bounded, striking the young man under- neath the chin, and felling him to the ground. The blood flowed from his mouth and oozed from his nostrils and eyes, and he remained unconscious for ten hours. He is about again however with every prospect of recovery. —John Scott, son of J. G. Scott, of lot 19, 12th concession, Kincardine, died near Calgary, Northwest Territory, on the 9th May. The deceased had taken up 320 acres of land near Calgary, and was fairly prosperous. He had been plowing on the Saturday previous to his death. On returning home in the even- ing he complained of a severe cold. The following day it was evident he had the measles. A physician was sent for, but in the meantime the retchings from vom- iting are supposed to have burst one of the blood vessels of the brain and the young man died in the afternoon before the doctor arrived. —About 10 o'clock last Sunday night the ferryboat Canadian, while crossing from the-. Island to Toronto, noticed a row boat containing a lady and gentle- man, in her way. The captain blew the whistle several times to warn them, but as no attention was -paid to the warning, the steamer was brought to a standstill. By this time the rowboat was close upon the steamer, and struck her close to the paddle -wheel. The occupants were thrown into the weer, and the gentle- man was drowned, the lady being re- scued. The drowned man was Thomas Bloomhall, tobacconist, and his compan- ion was a girl named Annie Ingram. —The Church of England Synod in session in Toronto last week, took steps to confer with the Presbyterian Meth- odist and other Christian bodies in Can- ada, for the purpose of ascertaining the possibilities of honorable union with such bodies, and that if such union be found possible without a sacrifice of essential Christian principles, to formulate a scheme for effecting such a union. A few years ago the Canada Methodist church, the Bible Christians, the Epis- copal Methodists and the Primitive Methodiet church united. This union was looked upon by many as a prelim- inary move toward the formation of a great evangelical church in Canada out of the principal Christian churches in this country. H. T. MCPHILLIPS. • Canada. Miss I. Templeton Armstrong is conducting ospel meetings in London. —The Dominion Government have de- cided to grant $5,000 to the Vancouver sufferers. —Ex -Mayor 'Beaudry died Friday morning at, his residence, Montreal, of paralysis. —Over $6,000 have been subscribed in Toronto for the Woodstock Baptist College. - —The steamer Alert sailed from Hali- fax Thursday night on the Hudson Bay exploring eXpedition. —The Wimbledon team, 29 strong, left Quebec by the steamer Polynesian on Thursday, 24th ult, —$12,000 worth of crockery and glass- ware has been seized. in Montreal for undervalulion. —G. Ma ee, of Port Dover, charged with violating the Scott Act, was con- victed and fined $50 and costs. —James Handbridge--- was instantly killed at Rockwood, Wellington county, by falling off Mr. R. Hamilton's barn. —Duringl the month of May, 5,260 emigrants left Britain for Canada. The number last year, for the same month AITS —Mr. Eennedy, the great Scottish vocalist, gave the first of a series of con- certs in Halifax the other evening. —A ma* living near Napanee was fined $40 aed costs, a few days ago, for making maple syrup from slippery elm bark, maple bark, end leaves. —The annual school procession and games of the Toronto school children came off last Friday. Six thousand chil- dren marched, the procession being over half a mile in length. - —A detective from a town near Chica- go was in Kingston Friday night in search of a bank cashier who is said to have about $75,000 of other people's money. —A Young duckling stepped out of its native shell on a farm near Orillia, pos- sessed of one body, two heads, two tails and four feet. It lived only a short time. —Mrs. Bryant Russell, living near Birtle, Manitoba, was killed by light- ning on Wednesday, last week. Her husband,standing near,received a shock, but recovered. —Letters patent have been issued to the Ontario Grain and Seed Company, having a capital stock of $35,000. The promoters are London and Brantford grain dealers. —The Lutheran Synod, which met at Hamilton recently, again expelled Pas- tor M. H. Fishburn, of North Williams- burg, for attending temperance meet- ings. —A barge recently passed through the Lachine canal, having on board 30,000 bushels of grain. This is said to be the heaviesfcargo ever brought through the St. Lawrence canals.- -The first through train on the Can- adian Pacific Railway for Vancouver, British Columbia, left Montreal on Mon- day. Through freight trains will not begin running for another fortnight. —The steamship Vancouver, which ar- rived at Moville from Quebec at 3 o'clock Friday morning, made the trip in 7 days, 1 hour and 30 minutes, one of the fastest trips on record. —Mr. John McLurg, an esteemed farmer of Lobo, Middlesex county, died recently while on a visit to Belfast, Ire- land, whither he had gone with the hope of benefitting his health. —In connection with its mill, near the mouth of the Assiniboine river,the Hud- son Bay Company proposes to erect an elevator having a capacity of 50,000 bushels. It will probably be completed by the fall. —Mr. Justice Teschereau gave judg- ment Friday in a singular snit for slan- der against the corporation of Montreal, which has been pending nineteen years, awarding the plantiff $12,500 and costs. —The Monetary Times says: The In- spector of Customs' Ports for this pro- vince has discovered a system of fraud, practised by means of false invoices, by several importers of paint from the United States, and anticipates that further revelations will involve others, whose names have not yet been sent to Ottawa. He has already obtained seve- BATTLEFORD, SASKATCHEWAN, is built on a site unsurpassed for natural advantages and beauty in the North- west, and is full of men of grit and push. The stranger finds himself at home in Bat- tleford,social distinctions are not so close- ly drawn as in older towns and the longer you stop the longer you want to stop. But when I arrived I noticed that the people looked very thin and some even stood by or sat on the feece around the different potato patches. There had been, as I stated before,- a potato famine, and the people were anxiously waiting for the potatoes to grow. But we raised the siege and joy and potatoes once more went hand in hand and we felt happy. Considerable building is going on in Battleford this- year, but more would be done were it not that there is a scarcity of lumber. The old government building in South Battle - ford is being repaired and is to be used as an Industrial School. A new police barracks is te,be built soon. Battleford contains a saw and grist mil, a shingle mill, a brick yard, two boarding houses, four large stores, a Roman Catholic church, an English church, a newspaper office, a Separate and Public school, In- dian office land office, and other public offices. About 200 police were stationed there when I passed through, under the gallant Major Steel, whois the idol of his men. As to the country around Battleford, I am not in a position to pees opinion on it, but I understand that the soil is better a few miles back than it is close by. After a stay of five days k by the vigorous use of hand- hale adieu to the ex -capital of the North-