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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-07-30, Page 1, ___18• Faurs• nd y House, irtment PLETE Trade. e AN PRINTED fast in color) at Also. - am m u suns tripes Effeks, AUL, ,GDS AND MIL - &USE, - [(I viait to Bal- a summons from ' that place.—Our avei Thursday of -Brussels is going [ay on July 29th,- Listowers band ithhas returned :ino with him a i some Durham- usual.—Dr. Mc- iskoka on a -trip. a busy decorating Int and paper. atees, business is Ttrooks Act. ... ocial held at Mr. sdaST evening,vealt :cess.. The even - large number as - don of spending aut as usual the isements (except far between. We , iy it is that more • Tarnished, on such - are the host and an be eipected of beautiful lawn, nittee should pro - e band enlivened extent by their of the Women's iety in connection church, was held It was address- ef Toronto. She ;he Women's Mis- ' le wark, that has and other parts of and Mrs. Brown Lt, are visiting at )wan, of Toronto, r MeLeata's.—Miss en, is the guest of i.- R McKinnon is don this week.— ; - e its trial trip on h it did not work rialit is expect ortly.—Our hand 0 on 'Wednesday e in the excursion en they were in the Exeter people best bands they el them to go with n.—A very able Rev, A. McLean I scholars of the n Sunday morn. - peeple, occupied made a very good was "Quit yoo pad; concert will 'teultural Hall, on. r 24_th. Thie pro' 1)eat affairs of the ..-- close of the con - till take place. 6 ;Iven to /the mo' st teThernai Gibson, k last week„ --0. & 'ie fre,m-Aiviton ag.—MyIes Young M tiskoka.-1-Berte this week.—grn. trate is in townayth played base on Saturday, but , elle News_ Record inlets are &Toiling U s that none of the taekle them. it ii n toteB17tl,. are aching to OK' dy any time they 8 that George T. ifier Ca,. Stratford, f their well-known ,uog Industrial &- They expect to :ay ever made hY will run an tk- ackson, Michigan) te of theill attractions be the presence brass band front 4 -filch will pleY 1)ition. The core - the millers of the tit time. — ^Ss. rt!i / EIGECTEENTH YEAR. WQLE NUMBER 972. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1886. {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. - Extra Granulated, Standard Granu- lated, Bright Yellow, Dark Yellow, Porto Rieo and Demerara. Raw Sugars if you want the Biggest $ Worth OE THE LOWEST PRICE By the BARREL, GO STRAIGHT TO THE Star Grocery. Gooseberries, and *Cherries For Preserving, at lowest prices. Also FRUIT JARS —IN GREAT VARIETY— Teas. • 1 a Teas. We are still selling all our Teas at Greatly Reduced Prices; 20e, 25e, 30c, 35e, 42e and 50c. Our 25e Japan, 40e Mack„ 420 Mixed, and 42e Gree -n, are giving great satisfaction. Another big lot of Raisins at 5e per pound. - George Good, Star Grocery, MAIN STREET, - SE AFORTH. JUST OPENED OUT —AT THE— Cheap Oash Store, SMA_PORTI-1. Dress Goods, Prints, Corsets, Bustles, Buttons, Mantle Ornaments, Silk Gloves, Dress Muslins, Ginghams, Hoop Skirt, Parasols, Dress Clasps, Mantle Silks, Cotton Hose, —AND A GREAT MANY— - 1qw 0-001DS, toe numerous to menden.. Call and see hem, at the Cheap Cash St ore —OF— Hoffman cE Company, Cardne's Block, Seaforth. NOTICE. Our Monthly Fashion Sheet just to hand, and those wanting one will please ca.11 and get one before the supply runs oat. PORT ARTHUR AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. DEAR EDITOR, —Before the comple- tion of the Canadian Pacific Railway Port Arthur was one of the busiest and most promising towns in Western Can- ada. NOtwithstanding many changes and the fact that the activity of trade by reason of railway building has been ex- tending further westward, it has man- aged to hold its own. The discovery of rich gold and silver -producing ores has contributed to the advantage and pros- perity of the port: Adjacent to the silver mines, which are only some twenty-five miles from the town, is a stretch of good agricultural country, known as the Whitefish Lake Valley. It is, I should say, about the size of the county of Middlesex, in On- tario, and very productive. Mr. Keefer, a barrister and prominent townsman, formerly of Toronto, and who has taken a lively interest in the development of the mines, informs me that there are now in warking order five mines, each employing from twenty-five to one hun- dred hanos.Three mills have also been built, for the smelting and reduction of the ores. The most satisfactory results have been obtained, one car -load net- ting the handsome sum of $4,000. Low grade ores are now ' all treated at the mills. Another silver mine, the Ita,bbit Mountain Mine, situated in the White- fish Valley district, is being developed and will be worked with profit. A ship- meot to New York of ten tones of ore yielded 164 ounces to the ton, and an- other ton of selected ore gave 640 ourices. The silver is found in what is known as the Hurenian formation of rock. A specimen case of the various ores peculiar to the neighborhood has been sent to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, and, I learn, elicits decided commendation. Gold mining/ on a limited scale, is being -prosecuted at Lake Shebandowan, some one hundred miles to the south- west. Here, on the authority of Mr. Goreham, gold is found in whit was once a river bed and in sufficient quan- tity to pay for the working. A railway is projected which shall connect the mines and the Whitefish Valley with Port Arthur. It is expected that rails will be laid as far as the valley and the silver mines by the end of the summer. This will prove an additional source of profit to the town. To the north is a lake into which run several small. streams. There is some talk of connect- ing these and forming one powerful stream capable of driving the largest mills. A 500 -barrel grist mill is not un- likely to be one of the first factories. PORT ARTHUR. There are not a few good business houses at Port Arthur % One of the old- est and largest of these is the firm of Thos. Marks & Co. During the early history of the town their sales reached huhdreds of thousands of dollars per an- num, I have heard. They still do a very large trade. The long line of docks and storehouses opposite their commodious block are filled with merchandise. One warehouse alone, as pointed out to me by the senior member of the firm, will - hold 40,000 barrels of flour. This firm has some six steamboats plying the lakes and rivers. Another large concern is that of J. M. Meikles, who does a busi- awes of about $50,000 annually. Bank- ing accommodation is supplied by the Ontario Bank and the private banking firm of Ray, Street & Co. The press is represented by two daily and several weekly journals, one of which, a late coiner, is devoted to mining. One of 'the centres of business for the • Canada Pacific Railway is Fort William, situated on the Kaministiqua, distant from Port Arthur about seven ndles. Near the old fort the railway company has built a large elevator having a ca- pacity of $1,250,000 bushels. There is no village or town of any im- portance between Port Arthur and North Bay, but the traveller is struck with the grandeur of the scenery in many places. The mountainous islands of Lake Supe- rior and the picturesqueness of numer- ous nooks and corners brought to view by the hundreds of indentations made by the head waters of the lake are strik- ing, especially at sunset. Here and there, too, fertile spots are met with, but the road runs through a land not yet "flowing with milk and honey," and ex cept for the timber is of little value to the pioneer. Some day, after other por- tions are settled, these regions may- be made productive as pasture, and, per- haps, mineral lands, but the time is not yet. NORTH BAY. e, North Bay, my next stopping place, commands a fine view af Lake Nipissing and its numerous islands. Two years ago it was merelyforest. There are now several first-class itorea, besides quite a few smaller shops, and a population ofe between 800 and 900 inhabitants. It is also surrounded by a very good agricul- tural country, and I am informed that cereal and root crops yield- abundantly. The Government of Ontario has granted $3,000 to make a road to these lands, and other $3,000 to build a registry office. Messrs. T. & W. Murray, of Pembroke, with their charisteristic ener- gy, have erected a very handsome busi- ness block- and one of the largest hotels hereabouts, which has just been opened. Ffteen months since its site was covered by the "forest primeval." North Bay also contains the repair shops of the Canada Pacific Railway. Connection with the North Pacific Junction will soon take place, and the line will be open for traffic thus effecting a saving of some 200 miles between here and Toronto. So much has been said and written about the great overland route that any- thing I might add would not count for inuch. Still I niust say this. As a fret quent traveller over inost of the best roads on this continent I have found the Canada Pacific Railway a really first- class, well -constructed, well-nianage and comfortable road on which to travel, and in the words of Dominie Sampson it is simply "prodigious." T. G. A. a liberator of his country; but we live in an age of commercialism, when every- thing has its price. As Emerson says, "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind." For a long time there was Charles Stewart Parnell. an ostentatious profession of virtue in 13Y V both the English parties, and some 'N:ILLIAM CLARKE. people thought that the shrewd Parnell Any one who hears Mr. Parnell for had miscalculated. These were people the first time will be inclined to wonder who were not shrewd. The Tories, in how it is that such a man has retained their endeavor to eject Mr. Gladstone so strong a hold over the Irish people, from office, found it convenient to make and has overcome the prejudices enter- use of the Irish vote, and their not too tained -in England .and the opposition modest leader, Churchill, sought to in - manifested by both' parties in England gradate himself with the Irish members. to his schemes for .Irish legislative in- Votes of censure followed each other in dependence. The Irish are a warm and quick succession, all framed by Tories impulsive people; Mr. Parnell is cold, and supported by Irish. At last the un- reserved and phlegmatic. The majority natural combination succeeded, and in of the Irish are Catholics; Mr. Parnell June, 1885, the Gladstone Ministry fell. - is a Protescanteand he used once some Then followed a Salisbury Ministry, very strong language about "Papist -which took the great step of abandoning rats." The Irish are given to rhetoric coercion for the sake of the Irish vote. and poetry; Mr. Parnell is dry, hard As a quid pro quo, that vote was in the and unimpassioned in his style of speak- November elections -given to the Tory - ing. The Irish are supposed to love party. Every one knows how that flattery and " blarney ; Mr. Parnell party, owing to the singular and un pre - has never flattered his countrymen in cedented balance of parties, was defeat - the way that every English politician ed in January. rhen the Liberals, who thinks it necessary to flatter the Eng• had been denouncing the Tory-Parnellite lish people. I once put this question to alliance came in by fhe aid of the Irish an Irish Nationalist member of Parlia- vote. As an illustration of the ludicrous ment : "How is it that your people conversion of an English politician with - follow Parnell with such unswerving de- out policy . or principle to Home Rule, votion ?" His reply was, in substance, let me say that Sir William Harcourt in this: "The Irish have had a great December. declined to help in turning number of the impulsive, -rhetorical out the Tories, whom, he said, he would. leaders whom Englishmen think are the leave to ‘ stew in their Parnellite fitting and natural exponents of Irish juice ;" this gentleman is now Chancel - sentiment. These have done, on the tor of the Exchequer in a Home Rule whole, but little for them. At last 'Cabinet. A sudden conversion, certain - came forward a plain,clear-headed man, ly! And there h -ave been many more no orator .like O'Connell, no poet like as sudden. I believe the great masses Thomas Davis, no enthusiast like Smith of the people of. England who support. O'Brien; but one who knew exactly Home Rule at the present time are what. he wanted, and meant to get it. honest; but so far as most of the poli - And the Irish people, who had so often ticians are concerned, Mr. Parnell's been .disappointed at the small results cynical estimate of their virtue was not obtained by their brilliant rhetoricians, very wide of the mark. determined to rally round this plain, Mr. Parnell has never once appealed blunt rnan,' in the belief that he was to the English people in favor of Horne more than a match for the English poli- Rule for Ireland. Early in his..political ticians on their own grOunds." This career he saw that the old methods of was the explanation of my Nationalist Irish agitation were useless,- and he had friend; and how fully this trust in the not the warmth and feeling which int - Parnell leadership has been justified by pels Davitt to appeal to the generous in - facts all the world knows. stincts of Englishmen. Parnell deter - Mr. Parnellia certainly no orator. I mined to strike straight at the English have heard him many tines, and I must political system in its vulnerable point, confess that his speeches never afforded and to turn Parliament into a chaos go me the slightest pleasure, although the long as the detnands of the •Irish were strong will and clear mind of the speaker not conceded. This is the central fea- were revealed fully in what he said. ture of his method, and it has been corn - The labored Manner -of the speaker, the pletely successful. 1 well remember hard tones of his voice, the entire ab- when Parnell's obstructive policy began, sence of fancy or imagination, the gen- some nine or ten years ago. I recollect eral impression of gaucherie, were not being in the House of Commons one very attractive. Only once do I .remem- . night in 1877, when hours were spent ber any speech of his which seemed pene- in the fruitless attempt to put Mr. Big- trated by feeling—that, viz., in which gar on a committee. People laughed, and he expressed his deep regret at the mur- said that Parliament would notsta.nd that der of Lord Frederick Cavendish. Then, kind of thing long. -Another night Mr. indeed, he spoke like a man with a heart Biggar read from blue books for five as well as a head. But Mr. Parnell's mortal hours to at audience comprising speeches read well, and the more im- the Speaker and one of the clerks, sim- portant are really prepared with careply to kill time. The very useful and A reporter who once reproduced a speech justifiable obstruction offered to the of Parnell's in shorthand said that when South African bill was the first _ hnpor- he was taking it down it seemed a very .tant work of the new party. Soon laugh - lame performance e but when he carneter gave way to contempt, and I well re - afterward to read over his notes, he member how prominent Liberal mem- found that the speech had a real artistic bers, who now listen for every word that unity, and that its literary form was ex- falls from Parnell's lips, used to speak cellent. I cannot help, however, in of him with scorn. But irritation speedi- reading these dry, business -like state- ly followed, and the foolish and fatal ments, sighing -occasionally for a burst ejection of 35 Irish members from the of passion from an O'Connell, or a state- House of Commons, in January, 1881, ly and splendid period from a Grattan. marked the hatred felt for the Irish Every one is sufficiently informed on members by both English parties. But the Irish movement to know that within thoee parties played into Mr. Parnell's the ranks of the Land and National hands. No,hing could have better suit- -Leagues there have been two parties, ed his purpose than the insane bungling the respective chiefs of which have of unhappy Mr. Forster and Parnell's been Parnell and Davitt. While Mr. arrest in 1881. I said at the time that Parnell has been for peasant proprietor- the fate of English rule in Ireland was ship, Mr. Davitt has been for land sealed, and soit has proved. Dublin nationalization. Mr. . Davitt was the Castle and all its works were at last main author of the famous No -rent hopelessly discredited, and Lord Spen- manifesto of 1881 ; and I believe that cer s adhesion to Home Rule proves that he, Brennan and Egan had much.diffi- his own honest and well -meant adminis- culty in securing Mr. Parnell's adhesion tration was a failure, even while English to that policy. Naturally the antagon- Liberal caucuses were passing resolutions ism between Parnell and .Davitt has extolling it to the skies. often been strongly marked, and was Mr. Parnell, therefore, systematically probably at times imbittered by all man- demoralized Parliament, reduced it to ner of intestinal quarrels within the impotence and anarchy, so irritating it ranks of the Irish party, the members that it struck out • wildly, injuring itself of which do not dwell always in broth- much more than it injured him, and, . erly unity by any manse But Mr. moreover, making it assist in the sup- Davitt recently declared to me in the pression of Irish liberty at the very time strongest terms his implicit Confidencee. when it was legislating in the interests in Mr. Parnell'shonesty as a leader, of the Irish people. Looked at purely and his own determination to do and as political strategy, it was masterly and say nothing that would defeat or thwart admirable. Whether it was very noble Mr. Parnell's plans until Home Rule or high-minded I will not say. Suffice was secured. Davitt did; not believe in it -for us that it has-been successful, and the electoral .policy by which the Irish in warfare success is everything. Mr. vote in Britain was cast almost Parnell's predecessors, Messrs. Butt and solidly for the Tory party at the last _Shaw, might have gone on moving their election. Mr. Devitt hates the Tories, excellently -worded resolutions till the. and never hesitates to say so. At the Day of Judgment, but they would have same time he believed that Mr. Parnell accomplished nothing. Mr. Parnell has had the Irish cause really at heart, and, struck at the heart of the English Gov - from a -tactical point of view, the latter ernment,t he has taken, advantage of has certainly been justified. Both Mr. English party necessities, and: he has Davitt and Mr. Parnell are agreed in a speedily succeeded where O'Connell very high regard for Mr. Gladstone. failed. Mr. Parnell said in conversation a short I have not portrayed a very attractive time age', " Gladstone's Irish policy has personality, but it is a fact that Mr. always been heroic." But, with this Parnell is not attractive. His habits are one illustrious exception, Mr. Parnell peculiar. At times he absents himself has a contempt for English public.men, entirely from his friends, and they do and for both English parties, which is not often know where to find him. He not unjustified by thefacts. When Mr. is not .a man of any literary taste, and Parnell. determined to seize the reins of has no talent for conversation. But he Irish leadership from the weak and has the qualities essential to success as a flabby hands of Mr. Shaw, he set out on political leader. In order to accomplish his eareer by assuming that English. his task, he set himself to master so politics were in the main corrupt,' and thoroughly the system of Parliamentary that English politicians were quite will- procedure that he became a .greater ine to do a good stroke of business for authority on it than the Speaker .hine- themselves. The Irish vote was to be a self. He had, besides, the faculty for _purchasable commodity, which should picking out the right lieutenants. His go to the highest bidder. Such was Mr. determination ie dogged and persistent, Parnell's cynical design. He believed his Will is iron. Without haste and that the talk about the exceeding high -t without rest, he goes straight to his ob- mindedness of English statesmen was ject. Like St. Paul, he might say: mere claptrap, and that either side "This one thing I do." Sluggish he would solicit his aid when it was needed. may be by nature,. but he is full of en - He desired, on the whole, thatthe Lib- ergy when the time for action comes, as erals should be his friends, but he did witness the way he put down mutiny in net greatly care, and would have the camp in Tipperary and at Galway, traded with Charchill or with Chamber- going at once to the spot, and meeting lain indifferently. This is not, cer- the rebels face to face, met by hisses and tainly, a very exalted frame of mind for applause, his purpose achieved. He is, indeed, a man born to rule. "English people' will be surprised," said Mr. Davitt to me, "when Parnell - comes to rule Ireland, what a strict conservative government he will establish." I be- lieve it is true. What will be his future? Who can say? He is only forty years of age, and has consequently, in all pro- bability, a long career before him. Will he continue to be master of the situation, or will a stronger than he rise?ii.Some think that Healy, a man of far greater intellectual power than Parnell, and with quite ae rnuch strength of chara.c ter, will try to oust the leader from his place. This is what every Irish move- ment has ended in—dissension; will the present be an exception to the rule? It is impossible to say. But this much is certain: that when Home Rule is once conceded, Mr. Parnell's greatest trou- bles will begin. Meanwhile, let it be said that he has done a great work for Ireland. And one day, when the pas- sions of the present time are forgotten, it will perhaps be admitted by Eng- lishmen that, whether intending it or not, he has done not a little for England also. Canada. The Ayr Plow Company has closed down for a month. —There has been one case of smallpox at Leith and one at Wiarton as reported. —The Canadian Pacific railway have commenced the building of another gi- gantio elevator. in Montreal. —Galt Public School Board adver- tised lately for four female, teachers. They received 45 applications. - —A carload of canned meats • and fruits has been shipped to England by the Aylmer Canning Company. —On the marsh farm of II. Walker & Sops, in. Colchester, Essex county, a gang of 70 men handled 1,100 acres of hay in 24 days. —The Ridgetown Public School Board has engaged Mr. W. II. Bingham, of Corneville, as head master, at a salary of $500. —M -r. Charles Stewart, of West Gara- fraxa, had a valuable horse killed by lightning kit Saturday morning. The animal was in the pasture field at the time. —Jas. Black, of Aberfoyle, slept over night in 'Jones' temperance house, Pus- linch, with Mike McCaig. In the morn- ing Mike was gone and -so was Black's $90. —A respectable farmer, named John Schwartz, in the township of Culross, near Formosa, committed suicide by hanging himself last Saturday. Reasons unknown. • —Mr. E. Pengelly, of Walkerton, has a rose bush in his garden that shows two roses in bloom, one a beautiful clear white color, and the other a deep red. —James T. Rosser, of Ailsa Craig, was carelessly handling a revolver, not knowing it to be loaded, when it went off, breaking the centre finger of his right hand. —Daniel Cumming, of Mount Forest, has been fined $50 and costs of the court, by Police Magistrate Lowes, for an offence against the second part of the Canada Tentperance Act. t—The Wimbledon meeting closed Saturday. The Prinee of Wales gave the prizes to the successful marksmen and bestowed gracious words on the Canadian prize -winners. —During the Week ending 17th July, the carriers of Toronto delivered a total of 175,481 letters._ Of these 4,874 were registered. Total newspapers delivered 49,888. —Martin Driscoll, of Guelph, while playing, accidentally fell on a needle, which had been in the grass. It ran into his back, and three doctors had to be summoned before it was extracted. —Mr. Geo. Innes, of Lawrenee, Kan- sas, a son-in-law of the late Donald Matheson, of Embro, has been asked to be a candidate for the Governorship of Kansas, in the interests of the Demo- cratic party. —The temperance people of Halton are beginning to prosecute false wit- nesses in Scott Act cases for perjury. Two have already decamped. The anti - perjury crusade will probably become general. —The death occurred Monday morn- ing, _at the age of 72 years,.of Mr. Jas. Fair, one of the oldest residents of Brantford. The deceased came to that city from Ireland when quite a small boy, and had resided there ever since. —The Allan steamship Grecian, from Montreal, arrived at Glasgow on Wed- nesday, 21st inst., and landed her live stock shipment of 362 oxeri. and 675 iheep in good order, with the exception of four sheep which died on the passage. - —On Thursday eveninoalast week, as four members of the Salvation Army were passing along St. Lawrence street, Montreal, a stone was thrown, which, instead of strikinge them, went through a large $100 pane of glass in a clothier's store. —The Indians of Walpole Island, whose names had been put without their consent on the preliminary franchise list have unanimously asked leave to withdraw them. Walpole Island is the Hon. David Mills' constituency. —A very destructive fire occurred on Friday about noon at Glencoe. The Burns Presbyterian church. Clanaham's sash and door factory, and a couple of houses were burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at from $12,000 to $15,- 000, mostly covered by insurance. —As Conductor Frank Abbott was returning to his home in St. Thomas early Wednesday morning, 21st inst., he discovered his mother's house to be on fire. He ran to her rescue, and both mother and son experienced 'a narrow escape from suffocation. -- -The large quantities of mackerel that have been taken along the coast of Prince Edward Island this season have set fishermen of that Province to think- ing how they can better carry on tha business of fish catching. The fact of sullen frowns; leaving amid enthusiastic American vessels being obliged to keep outside the three-mile limit has given the island fishermen a better opportuni- ty to secure large hauls. A number of large seine boats have been ordered from Gloucesterwhich will be used in the fisheries by the islanders. —The Grand Trunk car -ferry Great Western, which is being overhauled at Windsor, will be out in October. Four new steel boilers are being put into her. They almost rival in size those of the steamer Greyhound, and were built at Montreal. —Captain Zetland, of the 'steamer Ontario, was fined $5 and costs for blowing the whistle of the steamer at the wharf at Sarnia a few nights since. The captain said he blew the pesky thing in order to collect the members of the Mounted Police, who were scattered about the town. —Dr. Bucke, Medical Superintendent of the London Asylum, has returned from his trip to Great Britain. On his way'back he spent a few days with Walt Whitman, and reports the good gray poet," though w erik on his legs, better in other physical respects than for some time past. _ —Miss Louisa M. Wright, M. E. L., daughter of Professor Wright, formerly of the Hamilton Ladies' College, has been appointed Preceptress of Music in the University of Southern California, located at Los Angelos. Prof. Wright has been compelled by many infirmities to desist from active life. —While working in an Ailsa Craig pump factory recently, Angus McLean fell through a defective piece of flooring from the upper storey to the floor below with a fearful crash, breaking one of his legs completely off. It was a wood- en one, and he is making himself a new one. —Edward Cummings, a visitor to Toronto from Michigan, made the ac- quaintance of a pleasant -spoken young man, who, after the usual formalities, stated that he had $50 freightage to pay an his goods, and would his friend help him out of his difficulty, at the same dine presenting a check for $165. The trick was successful. —Rev. Thomas Brock died at Mount Forest on Saturday, 17th inst. He was a member of the Methodist Conference, and was taken ill at the hotel soon after his arrival in Woodstock, at the meeting of the conference. He had been sinkina ever since. He was stationed at Paris at the time of his death. and other Indian leaders, as well as Mr. Paterson, M. P. Hon. A. Hardy, and. Mr. J. W. Bc:w1by. By invitation, Messrs. Henry and Hawkinswere al- lowed to speak for the Tories. Just be- fore the close of the proceedings the following resolution was -unanimously adopted: "Whereas the policy of the Reform party is in our opinion one of justice to all classes and particularly to the Indians, and the Reform speakers upon this occasion have satisfactorily explained. such policy, therefore be it resolved that we do hereby tender a hearty vote of thanks to such Reform speakers and pledge them our confidence and support." —The records of the market superin- tendent at Winnipeg show the amount of business done during June: Hay, 450 double and 66 single loads; straw, 14; wood, 417; potatoes, 417 bushels; oats, 3,240 bushels; wheat, 240 bushels; bar- ley, 480 bushels; beef cattle, 208,875 lbs.; mutton 2,020 lbs.; pork, 33,990 Ms.; eggs, 2,445 dozen; butter, 3,407 lbs.; poultry, 1,200; cows, 68 ; vegeta- bles 108 loads. —Some excitement has been occasion- ed by silver discoveries near Port Arthur. The mines are located 38 miles . westward. The richness of the silver is described is remarkable, and some folks are comparing it with Silver Islet. It would not be wise for a whole township to emigrate thither on the strength of this, however. —With the assistance of a young man who was passing, a Guelph wife dragged in off the street what was supposed to be her drunken husband the other night and laid him out in her room. How- ever, bringing in a light she made the startling discovery that it was another man altogether. Her husband hap- -pened to come home sober that evening. —Two men of Gananoque were charg- ed the other day with an infraction of the Scott Act. A number of witnesses testified to drinking something under the name of raspberry viriegar, but none of them would say that if was an intoxi- cating liquor. The liquor in question is made at a vinegar factory in Belleville. The cases were dismissed without costs. —A man named Martin, who had charge of a recent demonstration on the Six Nations' Reserve, near Brantford, after he had got the crowd inside, start- ed with the gate receipts for Hagers- ville, and boarded the express going east. By means of the telegraph, however, he was stopped by a constable at Clifton, brought back to Hagersville, and put in safe keeping. —The Qrillia Packet says; Numbers of the salmon trout fry (now developed into fish of almost a pound weight) put into Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching about two years ago by the Government Fish Hatchery Officer, Mr. Willmot, are being caught in gill nets and hawked about for sale. ` We again ask the oft repeated question"' When is an overseer of fish- eries going to be appointed ?" ' —Adeline Every, an Ottawa servant girl, who was arrested on the charge of robbing Wm. McCaffrey's house, _has made a confession, in which she states that two men caane to Mr. McCaffrey's when she was left alone in charge of the house. She showed them where the money was kept, and they took it. The prisoners are at present in jail awaiting their trial. The amount taken was over $500. —The deaths in June in the chief towns and cities in Canada were: Mon- treal 564, Toronto 193, Quebec 191, Hamilton 59, Halifax 60, Winnipeg 26, Ottawa 90, St. John, New Brunswick, 48, London 36, St. Thomas 16, Char- lottetown 10, Guelph 9, Belleville 11, Three Rivers 27, Chatham 12, Sher- brooke 0, Peterboro 15, Sorel 22, Fred- erickton 12, St. Hyacinthe 18, Galt 8, Hull 29. —Samuel Zimmerman, of Bosanquet, Lambton county, spent several weeks in Dakota lately looking for land. He re- turned home on Saturday, and his im- pressions of that much -lauded territory are not calculated to encourage anyone else to visit it. He says he would not exchange 40 acres in Lambton for a thousand in Dakota, and would not thank anyone for the gift of a homestead there. —A great gathering of Indians took place on Wednesday last week in the beautiful grove of Chief David Hall, near the Council House on the Indian Reserve at Onondaga. Nearly 4,000 per- sons were present, the Indian popula- tion of Haldimand and the Mississauguas being present in full force, as well as the Tuscarora Indians. The demonstration was given under the auspices of the Lib- eral party on the reserve, and speeches in favor of the Liberal policy were de- livered by Chiefs Josiah Hill, Clinch —Rev. Wm. Patterson, a recent gradu- ate of Knox College; was a few days ago inducted to the pastorate of Cooke's church, Toronto, which has been vacant since, the resignation of Rev. John Kirk- patrick about a year ago. At the social in the evening Rev. Dr. Gregg, who has occupied the pulpit during the vacancy, was presented by the congregation with a handsome gold watch and chain, suita- bly inscribed. • —Mr. John Conrad, of Oregon, has leased in the Northwest Territory 200,- 000 acres of land from the Dominion Government, upon which he Will drive this season 10,000 head of cattle and .200 head of Oregon -bred mares. The lease is made for a period of 21 years, at two cents per acre. -The land is located along the soutslope of the Cypress Hills, and is pronounced one of the most desirable locations for a stock rattche in the Northwest. —As much objection has been taken' to algebra in the intermediate examina- tion, Mr. Irving, of the Colleoiate In- stitute, of Kingston, in order t(i'secure a consensus of opinion regarding the paper, issued circulars to various examiners, and already had received responses from seventy gentlemen, all of whom agree with him that the algebra questions are too ,difficult altogether. The replies which Mr. Irving received will be laid before the Minister of Education. —Tuesday night last week the only son of Mr. Wm. Uglow, of North Dor- chester, aged 22, went with others to catch some horses, and in the chase Mr. Uglaw became warm. In order to cool himself, he stripped and waded into the River Thames, at a point where the water is very cold and deep. It is sup- posed he took cramps, for he immediate- ly sank from -sight. His comrades en- deavored to find him, but without suc- cess. The body was found a couple of days afterwards. —A 10 year old lad named David Young was arrested the other day near Tilson burg on a charge of throwing a stone at the sleeping car " Kalamazoo" on the special Samgerfest train on the 20th inst. The boy was arraigned be- fore Police Magistrate McLean at Tilson- burg, who suspended sentence, releasing him on his father's entering into bonds of $50. The father is in destitute circum- stances, and on that account the Magis- trate exercised leniency. The lad could have been sent to prison for life. The stone struck a lady passenger in the coach, but she was not seriously in- jured. —A few days ago, while Jas. Park, 2nd line of Plympton, was drawing hay something went wrong with the reach, and while Mr. Park was under the wagon attempting to repair it the horses started, drawing the front wheels for- ward and a:lowing the load to fall on the unfortunate man, pinning him to the ground in a recumbent position. Two men, who were assisting him, succeeded in extricating him, and after carrying him to the house summoned medical aid. It was found that he was seriously in- jured in the spine and chest. His re- covery was at first considered doubtful, but with careful nursing he is now im- proving. —On Friday afternoon Mr. Bell, a member of the London Township Coun- cil, who resides near St. Johns, pur- chased a self -binder in that city, and, loading it on his wason drove home. When some distance from London and at a narrow and dangerous portion of the highway where it approaches the bridge his horses became unmanageable and ran away. The wagon, was wreathed and the self -binder strewed along the road. A portion of it fell on Mr. Bells," son, a boyof 14, and fractured his skulN Mr. Bell himself was also injured, but not so seriously. Saturday the boy was in a dying condition. —The other day Mr. Rufus Reid, a young man living about two miles from Georgetown, was buried in a well:twenty feet below the surface of the ground. It appears that the young man was down in the well trying to repair something that had gone out of order, when the stone work caved in and buried him deep down in the earth. It was hot lonebbefore the well was surrounded by sturdy farmers who set to work to dig the unfortunate man out, he all the. while straining every nerve to keep the stones and earth at breathing dittance from him. One of the men shouted : "Are you there, Rufus?" The an - Ewer came firmly, "Yes." "How long can you stand it'!" 4‘.1 can stand it about three hours, but dig away with all your might." It is simply wonderful that this victim of what might have been a terrible accident hanging for two hours, with seven feet of water be- neath him and a mass of stone and earth crushing around him, came out but lit- tle the worse for his unutterable ex- perience. Ouly a few slight Aerate hes and bruises could be found on him. -