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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1886-08-13, Page 1ii lid HOUse. artment PLETE Trade.. [AL r CAN PRINTReet [ fast in color) ate e. Also earn Muslin Stripes, Effects, &c;. AUL, ooDs AND MIL - ROUSE, 011ife aly years took an. &fairs, and particu- societies and all ended to advance: own calling. He farmer, and was .1 -winner at the an- e and he was one farming pay. He - kind and gener- seful citizen, and rot to learn of his He was a life-long; CS, and an adherent. ch. The remains ,Bayfield cemetery e high esteem in AS held as well as the bereaved fami- monifested by the - >pie who attended 1et rieat in this part is la a fair crop, but, not be over half a lamson, one of our' as purcha.sed a new' teen, Ayr. James Halliday,. caFtle feeders, do- - Iaet week 35 head land, for which he A $.2,649.79. The 1,412 pounds,:Is a• in the county of t this? if so, we m -him. ur painful duty this ath of Mrs. Scott,. - if on Sabbath, the rs. Deceased wat, hire, Scotland, and, d, who died about. a county 28 years' led in the town of -ed for upwards of terwards removeth on the 17th con - where they We- ever since. -Mrs. y of six, three sone , all married, Mr. astadt, Mr. John, a the Northwest a r Scott, who occu- Mrs. Murray, Mrs. illnie. Mrs. Scott, 1th for a long time. us to her death it Ir journey here was refused to eat, and til death terminat- the following Sab- emaing were follow-- etery at Clifford411 tuber of friends and led to pay theirliat as mortal of their med friend. Mrs - was a devout men:I- lan church, and, if her walk and con - gone to be a mem- hurch above, where re parting. GW. e Sacrament of the administered in the t Sabbath to a largo - ts.—The farmers - ,ugh with their fia spring grain" letr the coldness of the ason.—Last Than - holiday. Quite ns Went to Listowel y review and band. he recent Toroniee ions, W. A. Baird., aster, stood first hi ation examinations. a was in Tara last - funeral of Mrs. r-irt-law of Mr. R. on. of Red and White straw, have been ree 4., Arcade, Toronto, - North West Ter- . 6. was grown by Joel. Tp. 26,- Range 4 - on -April 12 and The wheat aver* has "fine heads with J•• WHOLE NUMBER 974. EIGHTEENTH YEAR. / SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1886. - {McLEAN 13R0S. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. JUST OPENED OUT —AT THE— Cheap Cash Store, SE.A.F1CDP,'111--1_ Dress Goods, Prints, Corsets, Bustles, Buttons, Mantle Ornaments, Silk Gloves", Dress Muslim, Gingliams, Hoop Skirts, Parasols, Dress Clasps, Mantle Silks, Cotton Hose, —AND A GREAT MANY— NMW G-0 ODS, too numerous to mention. Call and See hem, at the 'Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Company, Cardno's Block, Seaforth. NWICE. Our Monthly Fashion Sheet just to hand, and those wanting one will please call and get one before the supply runs out. Prince Albert District, North- west Territory. PRINCE AbBERT, Saskatchewanit July 20th, 1886. DEAR EXPOSITOR, —Having borrowed a new pen, and imposed on the vendor of paper and ink who hangs out his shingle immediately below where I am allowed to linger, I am in hopes that I will be able to write in such a manner as will effectually prevent my being under- stood as having camped beside "a store" in a wilderness, or having "snuffed" for the night in the vicinity Of Pitt, but make assurance doubly as- sured that I am "snubbed," or tied up, "near the shore," and within. the cer- poration of the Queen City of the Sas- katchewan. The TOWN OF PRINCE ALBERT is situeted on the south side of the Sas- katchewan river, and in what formerly may have been the bed of the river, but which is now some twenty or perhaps thirty feet above the average level of the Saskatchewan. The land immedi- ately in rear, or to the south of the town, is high and rolling, and inter- spersed with small lakes. Viewed from the high land to the south or from the river on the west, the town presents a fine appearance. There are quite a number of fine brick and frame dwelling .houses in the place, and the stores, for the most part, are large and well stocked. There are in -the vicinity forty business places of one kind and another, four churches, two public schools, a convent, college, and a school in connection with the Presbyterian mission within the corporation. It is the most city -like place in the North- west west of Moosejaw, and contains a vastly superior class of buildings, to any place west of Brandon, The main street, or business street, fronts on the river, but in time, I think, the chief business street will be situated closer to the high ground to the south. A large court house and jail is in course of erec- tion at present, which is to cost in the vicinity of $50,000, -and a permanent police barracks is to be located within, or close by, the tOavn. Quite a lot of building is going on besides the court house, a large hotel being in course of erection, the first one worthy of the name. This will provide accommoda- tion for the stranger, and prevent the occasional visitor from begging sleeping accommodation from his bachelor friends. There are two or three log houses on the north side of the river, but I do not think that the town will ever spread to that side, as the site is not nearly so good, besides there is absolutely nothing but wilderness to the north of Prince Albert, and when you arrive here you are at the northern limit of civilization. The Hudson Bak Post, which gave the town its geographical position, is located a little to the east of the main portion of the town, and in what was formerly the settlement of Prince Albert, but which is now merely a suburb of the Queen City. The Hon. Lawrence Clarke is the presentGovernorof the Hudson Bay post. He has been in this vicinity almost all his life is widely known and greatly respected, as he is always ready and willing to assist in any good work by every means in his power. The chief AGRICULTURAL COUNTRY • —Among other farms through which the Canadian Pacific short line is being made is the Mooney farm at Ladhine. Mrs. Conway and other heirs took ac- tion to get more compensation than the railway offered. -The railway company —the Atlantic and Northwestern—went on with its operations, and Mrs. Conway took summary proceedings in court to stop them. Wednesday Judge Torrance gave judgment against the railway corn - pity, ordering it to stopwork immedi- ately on the land in dispute until the main issue in the case is decided. The company is also condemned to pay $50,- 000 for illegally continuing the work, besides $460 for actual damages. —A shocking murder occurred at St. Sylvester on Thursday afternoon last week. The victim was a farmer named Keenan, and the parties arrested for the crime are a neighbor named Napert and Fortier, his father-in-law. As far as can be learned the difficulty arose out of a farm which Was sold to Napert. The two families were haymaking, and to- wards the close of the day Keenan cross- ed over to speak to Napert, when some- one came behind and struck him with a scythe and cut him almost in two, caus- ing his d eath on the spot. Keenan was about 51 years old, and a native of Ire- land. Napert, one of the accused, was the principal witness against Keenan in the shooting of a horse case, of which he was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the fall term of Queen's Bench in 1885. —A holiday party of yachtsmen, in- cluding Messrs. Telfer, manager of the Bank of London'Watford; Wm. Vidal, stathin agent, Watford, and son of Senator Vidal; W. C. Morrison, of Jar- vis, formerly of Sarnia; Wm. J. Sin - dein law student, and secretary of the West Lambton Reform Association; Hope Mackenzie and Fleming Macken- zie, nephews of the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, left Sarnia about the middle of July in a pleasure yacht for a cruise to the Manitoulin Islands and the north- ern enters of Lake Huron. Saturday, 31st ult., a telegram was received from them by friends in Sarnia, to the effect that they were just leaving Southamp- ton on their return. Nothing more was know•n until the boat and three of the bodies, that of Teller and the two Mackenzies, were found- drifted ashore at Port Franks. It is supposed they were swamped in the storm on Sunday. All were young men, only Vidal was married. Two of the bodies avere lash- ed to the boat. . —A Hibbert correspondent says ;— Among the improvements going on dur- ing the present summer, Site think. the 12th concession, for building operations, takes the lead. Messrs McKaig and Speare have each had commodious brick residences erected, and Mr. John ,hyte's, splendid edifice, which has been in the course of erection during the past two seasons, is almost completed. While the above-named gentlemen have been actively engaged providing. for their ownand comfort. Messrs McLaren, Stacey and Crawford have been improving the comforts and con- veniences of their farm steadings. The first -named gentleman has raised and, enlarged his barn, putting a brick stab- hnirunder the whole, and the twolatter have built large barns with stone stab- ling underneath, in which to house their stock from our generally severe Canadian storms. The township as a whole is rapidly improving agricultur- 44, socially, morally and financially. the Edmonton district, but sheep are in greater abundance. _Hogs are mot numerous. I notice also that the beef in this district, at least that -which is rendered over the counters in the butcher shops, is not of the tenderest kind, and not at all sweet. They evidently make it a practice here to sell the old cattle. In Edmonton, on the contrary, a man could at any time get a morsel of tender beefsteak for his breakfast, cooked in a scientific manner. There are a number of INDIAN RESERVES within a radius of fifty miles of Prince Albert, all under the control of the Prince Albert Indian Agency. About 600 Sioux Indians make a living by hunting and laboring in this district, and afford a striking contrast to their ever - needy, ever -begging Cree brothers. The Sioux are a vastly superior race to the Crees, both morally and intellectually. It is true they have not been a friend of the white man in days gone by; they have never submitted tamely to the en- croachments of civilization, as the bloody Minnesota massacre establishes beyond a doubt, but with declining power they have taken kindly to a more peace- ful life, and, I have no doubt, when -the last Cree Indian has journeyed to the happy hunting ground, there will be de- scendants of the hardy Sioux tribe lingering in -this mundane sphere. About a goodday's drive to the south of here brings the traveller to I3ATOCHE, a place which will be ever known in Canadian history because of the many heroic' yet melancholy incidents con- nectedwith it. To -day peace reigns within the once valley of carnage, and it seems almost impossible to the tourist to imagine that men could have been in mortal combat where valley and river, where the wild rose, the lily, the green trees, and the greener grass, basking in the sunlight, seem to tell a tale of peace in the past, and betoken peace for all time to come. But how true it is that outward appearances go for little, and that the most peaceful communities may experience a rude awakening to the fact that beneath our feet may slumber a volcano. So it was with Batoche. The most persistent grumblers, the moat ardent sympathizers with half-breeds did not expect that blood would be shed, but all were startled with the news of the Duck Lake fight, the beginning of a con- flict which cost the country many preci- ous lives and many millions of dollars—, aebloody drama, the closing act in which was performed within that valley which now seems se peaceful, decked as it is in all its vigorous verdant beauty. There has not been much crop put in in and around Batoche this summer, as the most of the settlers left after the re- bellion, and have not returned, and those who are on their -places only toil in a half-hearted way. The great body of the half-breeds of the South Branch have an aversion to farming on a paying scale at the best of times. They have made their living heretofore by freighting and hunting, and seem to think it a hardship that they should be compelled to give up their old way of making a living. But the good old days when freighting was abundant, and when it paid, have passed away since steamboats have com- menced to navigate Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan river, and the Canada Pacific Railway has wormed its way across the prairie to the Rocky Moun- tains. There is quite.a boom in the FUR TRADE just now in the Northwest, and the com- petition between buyers is very keen. Time was when the Hudson Bay Com- pany had a monopoly of the fur trade, as the half-breeds had a monopoly of the freighting, but during the last couple of years private individuals of largemeans have commenced to pay cash for furs, something the company never did, and, as a conse- quence, are securing the most of the fur. As an instance of how keen the com- petition is, I may state that recently a large lot of fur was sold at Lac Ste. Anne, west of Edmonton, by tender, the estimated value of which was about $85,000. Tenders were put in by the Hudson Bay Company and a Mr. Rogers, of Winnipeg, and the Hudson Bay Company only secured the fur by chancing to bid $20 more than the Win- nipeg buyer. The advent of private buyers, of course, is for the general good, because the vendor of fur is not forced to trade with the Hudson Bay Company, and can spend his money where he chooses, -vale heretofore the Hudson Bay Company reaped a profit on the fur and a profit on the goods given in exchange. for it. The last time the steamer Northwest went down she had on board $250,000 worth of fur, and that is only a small -fraction of the amount of fur which will go to eastern markets this year from the Great Fur 'Land. of this district lies between Carleton and this point to the west, and St. Laurent and the Pines to the south. Carrot River settlement is situated to the south of the South Branch, and follows the river of that name in the direction of Lake Winnipeg. The soil between this place at St. Laurent and the Pines is very good, but between the Pines and Carleton it is a little too sandy. Like in the Edmonton district, there seems to be a great deal of nourishment in the soil, but, on the whole, this district is not to be compared to the former. The settlers in the Carrot River settlement are all Canadians,some of whom are from Huron. Those to the west and south, between St. Laurent, the Pines, and Carleton, are English-speaking people, .many of whom are from Manitoba. There is a settlement to the east of this place, on what is called the lower flat, composed principally of English-speak- ing people, with a liberal sprinkling of Scotch half-breeds from Manitoba. To the west of the town, along the river shore, is the settlement of St. Ca.therines, composed principally of Scotch half- breeds, all of whom have the reputation of being good farmers, and seem to be in good circumstances. Of course, as in all business, there are the thrifty and the indolent, so there are bad and good farmers among the settlers of this dis- trict. It is not unusual to hear men grumbling about their crops being poor, not worth cutting, while others again are claiming, even boasting, that their crops this year will be above the aver- age. What is the reason of this dif- ference in prospects? Nothing but the reason I have given above; one man cultivates his farm as it should be, while the other neglects his. How true it is that "God helps those who help themselves." But there will be grum- blers to the end of time, and what would we do if there were no beg,gars on whom to beetow our cast-off raiment and our surplus schuniac. Among the best farmers in this dis- trict are William and Thomas Miller. The former's homestead is situated to the east of this place and just outside the town limits, and that of Thomas to the southwest on the Carleton trail. Both of these gentlemen will have good crops this year, and their gardens are the best I have seen for many a day. Before you receive this letter Wm. Miller will have harvested his barley, which is ready to mit at present. This, it seems to me, is quite as early as the same crop is harvested any place in Canada. The Millers, as you know, are from Huron, and they are a credit to the county which has given so many good settlers to the Great Lone Land. I notice, however, that the best of the farmers here do not go into cattle raising to the same extent as they do in surprise which could not have been equalled had he been suddenly con- fronted by 10,000 Arabs. He was vexed, if his language could be considered an evidence, but it was no use; he had to laugh, and laugh he did. They received a very warm welcome at Battleford—at least as far as the Sun was concerned, and they returned not a little disposed to excurt to some other quarter in future. But the chief topic in town to -day is the MAIL ROBBERY, of which you will have heard before you receive this letter. Our acting mayon who had been in Ottawa on business connected with the town, was one of the passengers. It seems that the object of the thief was not to rob the mail, but a Mr. Swanson, a wealthy resident of this town, who was returning home, but after overhauling him and his compan- ions and not securing the amount of boodle he calculated on, the robber laid for the mail. How one man with a shotgun could tie up three others, rob them and then rob the mail, surpasses my comprehension, but he did, and after securing all he could, or all worth tak- ing, freed the captives and coolly went abotet his business. I trust your readers will not judge the other people of the Northwest by the three heroes who figured in this robbery business. No, no, there are men of grit in this Northwest, but the robber happened, luckily for himself, to ,have another stamp of men _ to deal with. What amount of money he secured is not known. Where the robbery took place is about the most lonely and likely spot for such an occurrence on the trail, and the wonder is that the mail has not been robbed before. As an example of how cautious the Mail driver is, I may state that he was without arms, and last year the mail driver was in the habit of carrying a rifle without having any cartridge to load it with. On Saturday last a HAIL STORM passed over the country west of here, and east of Carleton, which for destruc- tive powers exceeded any which has oc- curred for years. It mowed down every- thing in its path, broke all the windows, killed 26 fowls in one place, and also killed a calf. I have not heard all the losses which have occurred through it. but where one man has suffered so much others must have lost heavily. H. T. MCPHILLePS. A few days ago our town bind made an EXCURSION TO BATTLEFORD with the ostensible purpose of recuper- ating their health, and the pros- pective object of cheering up the sun- burnt citizens of that thriving burg. How the ship they sailed on ever arriv- ed at Battleford is a puzzle to me-, for a more mischievous, obstreperous, and tantalizing set of boys never went afloat. They went with the intention of having a time, and they had one. There was no sleep for the captain or the crew, and if a man stole away into some snug cor- ner to steal a few winks the boys would arm themselves with their horns, whistles, triangles, etc., and with the most fiendish of noises awaken the slum- berer. There was on board the boat one of the steamboat captains who went to the Nile, and who received a medal for his services. This distinguished individ- ual, one afternoon was enjoying a snooze, dreaming perhaps of the sandal - footed Arab damsels of Egypt, or his old home in the sunny south, when the band boys,14 in number,armed with all manner of instruments, formed a circle around him, and at a given signal blew their hardest, and immediately the hero of the Soudan bounded up with a look of and the Northwest in soil, climate, tim- ber, water and markets. I shall not trespass further on your valuable space, but will conclude by congratulating you, Mr. Editor, for the wide -spread circulation of THE EXPOSITOR in the District of Algoma. Yours Truly, R. A. HAGEN. Canada. —The Irish lacrosse team is expected in Montreal this Friday. —The Governor-General sailed for England by the Parisian on the 5th inst. —The Salvation Army intend to open out on Cornwall as soon as a suitable building can be procured. —A new arrival at Toronto, named Arthur Hoxford, had his pocket picked of £13 lOs at the Union depot. —The new High School building at Windsor will cost $14,800. It is to be completed by January 1st. —Property to the value of $15,000 was destroyed at Wallacetown, by fire on Friday last. —A printer named Robert Merchant, who learned his trade at the Sentinel - Review office, Woodstock, died the other day at Ingersoll. —W. F. May, principal of Granton school, has been appointed first assistant of Parkhill High School at a salary of $650. —Mr. W. McNamee night. operator Grand Trunk Railway at Granton for the past two years, has been promoted to the position of day operator at Lucan. —The statement that the bodies of victims of the wreck of the Algoma had - been rifled by fishermen is positively denied. —During the month of July 3,379 persons emigrated to Canada, of which number England contributed 2,727, Scotland 321, and Ireland 331. —The Revs. H. F. Crossley and J. E. Hunter, the evangelists, are this week assisting at revival meetings being held in Kincardine. —Mr. P. Boyle and other persons re- siding near Guelph have lost a large number of horses and cattle since May by strychnine poisoning. -L-Advices received from Hon. Alex- ander Mackenzie state that his health has greatly improved since his arrival in Great Britain. —The Irish Benevolent Society of London had a mammoth excursion to Port Stanley last week. Sixty cars Were required to convey the excursionists. —D. Vance, of Wellesley township, sold 100 bushels of new barley on the Guelph market, on Thursday last week, at a fraction over 60c per bushel. —The Emerald societies of Toronto, Hamiltonand other places celebrated O'Connell's birthday last Friday by a pic-nic and games at Toronto. —Mr. Peter Schryer, an old express driver on the Buffalo and Goderich rail- way died the other day at his home in Fort Erie. He was the last of the old staff of that road. —It has been ascertained that Evans, the absconding agent of the Grand Trunk Railway at Port Dalhousie, got away with $2,895, which he had collect- ed for lighterages. —Collector Caven, of Stratford, and Officer Lang, of Neustadt, seized an il- licit still last Friday, in the township of Sullivan, county of Grey, and arrested the owner. —The Ontario Beekeepers' Associa- tion has arranged to send to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition a large supply of honey, as soon as the season's crop cornea in. — Rev. Dr. Young, thenewpresident of the English Wesleyan Conference, is a native of Nova Scotia, having been born at Halifax in 1829, He preached in Toronto two years ago. — Robert Perry, employed on the De- partmental Buildings at Ottawa, fell a distance of 20 feet while at work on Wed- nesday, and died from the result of his injuries. —Mr. R. Mathison, of the Belleville Deaf and Dumb Institute, arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, on July, 27th, by way of San Francisco and the Sound. —The Government will prosecute the owners of trespassing American fishing veseels on the line followed some years ago in the case of the White Fawn and the J. H. Vickerson. —A memorial asking the Dominion Government to grant lands or medals to those volunteers who served during the Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870 is being numerously signed in Belleville. • —Rev. Dr. 'Wilson, who left St. George's, Kingston, owing to his con- nection with the Salvation Army, is now getting a stipend of $5,000 a year in New York. His salary at Kingston was $1,200 a year. —Sir Richard Cartwright left King- ston Monday on a camping tour of three weeks. When he returns he will make a trip to the Rockies, and then fill the en- gagements he has made to speak in Eastern Ontario. ' —Theather rhorning the large barn and sheds of Mr. Glazebrook, on the Hunt farm, near Simcoe, were entirely. destroyed by a fire that is supposed to have originated from children playing with matches. Loss, $3,000. The remains of the late Thos. A. Tel- fer, one of the victims of the yacht " Cruiser " disaster on Lake Huron, ar- rived at London Saturday morning, and the funeral procession proceeded to the Lobo cemetery. - —On Friday Lady Macdonald laid the corner stone of a Methodist church school house in Victoria, British Colum- bia, and in the evening Sir John and Lady Macdonald attended the citizens' ball. —The remains of the wife of Captain Ben Beatty, of the Salvation Army, for- merly of Sarnia township, were brought to Carlisle for interment last week. This young lady, Miss Calhoun, of Car- lisle, had been working in the Army for some time, being stationed as Captain at Sarnia, Goderich'and other places. She was married to Captain Beatty in the Temple at Toronto a few months ago, p • A Trip to Algoma. Lowerby, Algoma, August 2nd, 1886. DEAR EXPOSITOR, -*Hoping that it may be interesting to some of your readers, I send you this short descrip- tion of this part of our Province. I left Hensel' on the 1st of July and came via Wingham and Palmerston to Wiarton, and arrived there a little before six o'clock, in time to witness some interest- ing boat races and fire -works that were given in honor of the birthday of our young Dominion. The steamer " Atlantic " of the Northern Transportation Company ar- rived from Collingwood on the following Saturday night about eleven o'clock, and I shipped on board for Thessalon. The scenery on the way is very roman- tic and beautiful, towering hills and mountains adorned with evergreens are to be seen on the distant mainland, while thousands of beautiful islands are nestled on the calm bosom of the bay. Our first stop was made at Killarney, a fishing village at the base of the Cloche Mountains on the north shore. We then went across to Manitoulin Island and visited Manitowaning, Lit- tle Current and Gore Bay, all pros- perous little towns on that island. Then we again crossed to the mainland and touched at Spanish River and Blind River, two lumbering centres, and Al- goma Mills, the present terminus of the Algoma branch of the Canadian Pacific • Railway. We then recrossed the chan- nel to Cockburn Island and then back again to Thessalon, where we arrived at six o'clock on Monday morning. Thessalon is situated on the North Channel of Lake Huron about twelve miles east of Bruce Mines, and has a population of about 500, and boasts of three general stores, a confectionery shop, planing factory, photograph gal- lery, harness shop, hotel and a large saw mill that gives employment to about forty men. I then wended my way back through the townahips of Thessalon, Day, Bright, Gladstone and Thompson, and was much surprised to see the excellent crops of fall and spring wheat, oats, peas, hay, COrn, potatoes and other vegetables that are grown in these townships. I visited one farmer in the township of Day that has twenty- five acres of fall wheat, and one in the township of Thompson that has thirty acres, and I never saw better crops, not even in old Huron itself. It is true that the country is broken in places by bluffs of rock and small lakes, but, not- withstanding these I think there is plenty of good land to make 'a fair agri- cultural country. The surplus hay and grain raised by the settlers is all bought up by the lumbermen at prices much higher than they are in the older parts of the Province. There is abundance of beautiful spring water, free from lime, and the water in most of the 'small lakes is so clear that you can see the bottom plain- ly through thirty feet of it. The principal timber is oak, maple, pine, birch, hemlock and spruce, and farmers get their lumber sawed on their own farms by portable saw mills for $3 per 1,000 feet. There is always plenty of work in the mills and lumber camps at wages ranging from twenty to thirty dollars per month. Churches and school houses are convenient in many parts of the district, and Government roads are opening it up in. all directions. In conclusion I would advise the young men of eastern Ontario who are desirous of making homes for themselves in a new country to see Algoma before going west to the bleak, told prairie, as I have visited both, and I consider that Algoma has the advantage of Manitoba at the time it was opened, being the first wedding ceremony held there. She ac- companied her husband to Prescott, and a Short time after she was taken sick with fever, from the effects of which she died. —Frank Brereton, a Guelph butcher, and a friend ate heartily of blackberries the other night, and almost lost their lives in consequence. It was discovered that the fruit had been plentifully sprinkled with Paris green. —Archbishop Fabre officiated at the ceremonies in the chapel of the Hoche- laga convent last Sunday, when twelve nuns made their final vows and eight young candidates took their first vows for admission to the order. —The Attorney -General of Newfound- land has telegraphed the Minister of Marine and Fisheries that his Govern- ment will co-operate with the Dominion Government in measures for the protec- tion of the coast fisheries. —Sixteen hotel owners and barkeepers in O-uelph have been summoned to an- swer charges of violating the Scott Act. Three separate charges have been laid against every, hotel -keeper in the city but one. Charges against four of them were dismissed. —Notwithstanding the adoption of the electric light in Montreal, the con- sumption of gas in the city has increased so enormously thatthecompaityhasfound it necessary to procure a new gasometer having a capacity of one million feet a day. —The crops in parts of New Bruns- wick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia were greatly injured, and in many places destroyed by the disastrous hailstorm on Thursday last week. The hailstones were an inch to an inch and a quarter square. —Mr. Morley Punsh-on, who has lain at the Toronto General Hospital for eight months suffering from a severe spinal disease, and who is daily sinking, summoned up enough strength to leave for New York the other day, whence he will sail for England. —Inquiry into the cause of a largely increased death rate in Ottawa during the month of July, reveals the fact that out of 144 deaths, 113 were children, the greater part of whom died of cholera infantum, which for some unaccount- able reason has prevailed to an alarming extent. —A comprehensive display of natural products of the country along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway will be made by the company at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition next month. Ef- forts are also being made to get up an exhibit of minerals, etc., of British Columbia. - —A train of thirteen cars, containing a load of tea direct from Yokohama, ar- rived in Winnepeg on Tuesday evening, having made the run from- Donald, B. C„ a distance of 1,022 miles, at an average speed of thirty miles an hour. Part of this cargo arrived in Toronto Sunday night. —Miss E. Balmer, B. A., of Oakville, who recently completed her university course and who obtained a most distin- guished position throughout, has been appointed teacher in the Brantford Young Ladies' College. The college is to be congratulated on being able to secure a lady with such a record on its staff. • —Mr. Angus McIntosh, of Dunvegan, county of Glengarry, was recently the victim of a robbery. Burglars entered his premises, blew open his safe and carried off S200 belonging to the Orange lodge which had been left in his care, together with several valuable watches and money to the value of $7,000. —The great International Prohibition camp at Lansdowne Park, Hamilton, held under the auspices of the Royal Templars of Temperance, was formally inaugurated on Monday. Several thousand spectators were present from Canada and the United States, and stir- ring temperance addresses were delivered by prominent orators. —The construction of the Canadian Pacific air line from Montreal to Smith's Falls has been temporarily delayed, in consequence of the high prices demand- ed by the owners of lead required for the road, and the refusal of the court in Montreal to allow the company to ex- propriate land until its value has been settled ,by arbitration. —In view of the existence of -Asiatic cholera in parts of contineetal Europe and smallpox in the United Kingdom, a proclamation has been issued putting supplementary, quarantine regulations in operation. The port of Hawkesburg, N. S., and the harbour of Miramichi, N. B., have been made additional quar- antine stations. —The pottery works of Gray and Glass, Tilsonburg, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning last week. Loss $13,000, partly covered by insur- ance. Since then we learn that Mr. S. F. Glass'has purchased seventeen acres of the Hyman estate, oppeeite the asylum grounds in London, far the pur- pose of establishing a pottery on a large scale, thereon. —The ritualistic troubles at Christ church, Gananoque, are approaching a climax. On Sunday morning all the male members of the congregation- left the church in a body when the vesper lights appeared on the altar. Rev. Mr. Austin has been informed that unless he abolishes the innovation there will be a general withdrawal of members. A meeting of the vestry will be held to consider the situation. —Mr. George A. Greene, a member of the firm of Greene, Sons & Co., whole- sale furriers, Montreal, and his daugh- ter had a very narrow escape from being drowned in the St. Lawrence on Friday evening last by the upsetting of a small steam yacht. They had intended to stop at Lachine, but £03 it was near mid- night and quite dark they went past it without knowing, and if the yacht had net come into collision with a scow, which caused the upset, they would have been carried into the Lachine Greene took off the life preserver she had on and gave it to her father, as she - knew that he was not a skilled swim- mer, and supported him with one hand while she swam with the other until - they were rescued. The men engaged in the rescue speak, with great admiration of the courage displayed by the young lady, who is only 18 years of age. There was an engineer on board, but he struck out for the shore and succeeded in getting there. —Last Friday Mrs. G. Massecar, of Brantford, was shot in the arm by a stranger who called at the door and asked her to get him a drink of water. She fell to the floor unconscious. On regaining consciousness she found the door closed and the man gone. She managed to alarm one of the neighbors, who came to her assistance, and a doc- tor was immediately summoned. The cause of the shooting is a mystery. —This year's businessl in Montreal harbor shows a large increase over for- mer years. Since the opening of naviga- tion up to the 1st August 42 more ocean steamers have arrived than in the cor- responding period of last year, while the tonnage of vessels arriving shows an in- crease of 56,000 tons. The number of inland vessels arriving'has increased by 286, and the harbor tolls show an in- crease of $16,700. • —Mr. Alex. Cranston, an old and well-known resident of Galt and Dum- fries, died last week at his residence in Galt after a week's illness. Deceased was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, February 1st, 1822. In 1831 the family emigrated to Canada, and after living at Kingston for some two years, removed to the township of North Dumfries. In 1875 Mr. Cransten retired from farming and took up his residence in Galt. —A few days ago a wealthy German farmer named John Schwartz, living on the town line some, five miles east of Teeswater, was discovered hanging by the neck to a logging chain in his barn, quite dead. He leaves a wife and fam- ily. Some trouble about a newly pur- chased binder is said to be the cause. No other reason can be assigned as he was in very comfortable circumstances, having, it is said, $10,000 out at interest and a fine farm. —Wm. Smith, 3rd baseman of -the Toronto base ball club, met with an ac- cident while bathing e the island last Sunday afternoon, wflich caused his death a few hours afterward. Smith belonged to London, but his, ,widowed mother and two sisters now livein Cleve- land, where his remains were sent. He was the only son, his brother having . died a few weeks ago. He was the only support of his mother and sister, and the blow will be a heavy one to them. —A serious accident occurred near Merritton on the Grand Trunk Railway the other day. A train ran into a team driven by a man named Elliott, who was hauling stone. The engine struck • fair between the -horses and wagon, kill- ing one of the horses instantly. The driver was thrown on the cowcatcher of the locomotive, and had three ribs broken, and was badly bruised about the head and body. The other horse also fell on the cowcatcher on top of Elliott and was badly cut and bruised. Elliott is not. dangerously wounded. ra ids After being immersed Miss —Among the largest losers by the sinking of the steamer Passport, at Cornwall are Ellis & Co., of Toronto, who had trunks on containing jewelry and watches valued at upwards of $40,000. Twenty-five per cent. of their val ue will, it is said, represent the loss to the firm: The Misses S. Green, A. Butters and J. Butters, all traveling to- gether from Niagara Falls, state their aggregate losses to be about $1,000 ; Miss Wright, of New York, and Miss Hadrille, of Montreal, say- $600 ; Mrs. and Miss Kirkwood, $500. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Wood, who were on their wedding trip, lose a great number of handsome presents and expensive ward- robe, valued at upwards of $700. Mr. Dowe and wife, of Toronto, and Mrs. and Miss Kirkwood, have suffered great losses. —The Niagara whirlpool rapids were again navigated in a cask built express- ly for the purpose last Sunday, the perilous feat being successfully accom- plished by Wm. Potts and George Haz- litt, coopers, who were employed in the - same shop with Graham, who made the initial trip about three weeks ago. The novel craft was submerged about half the time while passing through the rapids, but while circumscribing the outer circle of the whirlpool the occu- pants thrust their heads through the opening and Potts calmly smoked a cigar. A successful landing was made at Queenston on the Canada side, five miles further down the river. The 'en- tire voyage occupied 15 minutes. The feat was witnessed by 15,000 spectators. —Commissioner Coombs and Mrs. Coombs, of the Salvation Army, re- turned to Toronto from their continental tour last week. A welcome meeting was held in the new temple Friday night, and the hall was filled with enthusiastic Sal- vationists, who fired volley after volley when Commissioner Coombs entered and took the middle seat on the dais. He was supported on the right by Cap- tain Narain Das and Sergeant Narsi Gopal, and on his left by Mirza Nanroz Ali and Major Jai Bhai. The opening hymn "Shout Aloud. Salvation Boys." was lustily rendered. Captain Cha,pon- and gave a stirring address, in which she detailed the progress of the Army in her native town. The address was fre- quently interrupted by shouts of "hal- lelujahs" and "God bless the Army." - Captain Narain Das, the high -caste Hindoo and Mirza Nanraz Ali addressed the meeting. The latter described his missionary work in India. The army had, he said, reclaimed 250,000,000 of lost souls. There would soon be 3,000,000 priests without an occupation, and mil- lions and millions of idols would be de- stroyed. Commissioner Coombs then addressed the meeting, and was listened to with great attention.