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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-01-07, Page 1- • NINETEENTA YEA R. WHOLE NTJ1.113ER 995: ORTH, FR Store Closed.for TWO iDtlfS.. We have decided to hold a MONSTER C E A -P' SA E And in order to give us a thence to mark all our goods down, we are obliged to close our store on 'January ilth and! 1204 TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY NEXT: In connection with, the abcve, we wish to state that oiir ale commences the following dayi January 13th, andi any one wanting anything in Stapl - and Fancy Dry Goods, Mantles, 'Hat i and Caps, Furs, Gents' Furnishings, etc., will do well tcl call early and ofttil and get some of thL bargains, as we are determined to clear out the whole stocic. The goods are purchased for this 11 new, having bee eason's trade. All are cordiallT invited to inspect the goods and pric s. Hoffma Co., Cheap Cash Stor, ' ji Cardpo's 'Meek, Seaforth. ' —A distressing ease Occurred in the township of Sydenham a fe,w nights ago. Arthur Bye, a welt -known and respect- ed resident, having an attack of colic, got up during the tlight to take a dose of pain -killer, but mistaking the bottlel took some liniment instead. When the mistake was discovered a physician wa.S immediately sent for, but medical seta vice was of no avail, and Mr. Bye died in a few hours. —A shoeking and fatal accident oe : curred oh an up freight special on the eastern. division of the Canadian Pacifie Railway, on Monday night, 27th ult. two miles east of Nepigort. A carpentei named Gordon, from Port Arthur, wa • riding on the engine together wit . Brakeman Frederick, Fireman Harty Brunetti and Engineer Ramsay, when the crown sheet burst. The frightful rush of steam blew the three first named men out of the engine on to the track, where they ',had to lie in the cold, with the temperature 40bkow zero. All were terribly scalded and frozen. Gordon died ttvo hours after with a broker back. ,The firerna,n had one leg broken and /vat badly frozen on the face, hands and feet. The brakeman was badly scalded and smashed about the face, but was aisle to walk. The engineer escaped injury; 1 • --The shipping f the Maritime Pro- f , vinces shows a treriendotis decrease dttr- ing the past year. The number of ves- sels registered to C.ate iu Nava Scotia iT 2,972, of a. total tonnage of 527,037, a, decrease comparewith December 31; 1865, of 59 vessels and 13,818 tons. The number of vessels registered in New Brunswick is lt045, of 270,086 tons, a decrease of 15 vessels and 18,503 ton's. The number for Prince ,Edward Itlaild is 225 vessels, of 4658 tons, a decrease of 2 vessels and 5,3S2 tons. The total shipping registereI in the three Mari- time Provinces aggregates 4,183 ve sels, t of a total tonnage f.827•781, a deo eate for 1886 of 76 vess ls and 37,702 top.; ..011. Christmas morning a party el four started from tolehester, county a Essex, across the 1 ke on the ice to Pelee island, a distance Of twenty-five ilesj to convey the ballet -box' for the r mint election, and arria d safe about 2 . ai. the same day. n Sanday mo ning they started back andlthad proc eded some distance wh ri they enema ered an opening in the! ice about a mi 'e in width. Two of them crossed over in a small boat they had taken with t ! ere, intending to return for the others but found it impossible to Work the boat back through the new Made ice. Con- sequently they had to leave their cum-, pardons and started for the shore, 4rhi1e those left baled • 0,,•erit back to t e "s-; land. Those io th 6 boat got withi t -o miles of the shore when hight overto ,k1 them, and therwete obliged to reJmainE, all night ' on the ice, suffering te ribly from the seerecold, and reached- ,hote on Monday morning well nigh . exh 4 - ed. The other two started bac on Monday and encountered the same dif- ficulty, and had to remain all ,nig t on the ice, reaching the shore on Tu sday morning badly frozen. A young man named Staff Bottoms, who was acting as guide, will lose one of his feet. The Smithfield Cattle Show. I3Y A. 14'D. ALLEN IN TILE GODERVII Van. London, Englaihd, December "17, 1886. To THE EniToROF T1E STAR DEAR SIR,—As pfroinised in my las letter my notes in his will be chiell upon the Smithfield cattle show. Th primary aim of the which was institut courage the select the beet and most production of Inca capabilities in rep or, to quote the Wo the Club, nearly a to supply the-cattl field aod elsewher and best meat. amounted to about ous breeds of cattl given with the vie ing early maturit There is not at the "Smithfield Club,' d in 1798, is to en , on and breeding, o sefulianimals for th , and to test thei et of early maturity ds of the founders o undred years ago,' markets of Smith with the. cheapes The prizes, whic $17,000 for the van sheep and pigs, ar chiefly of encourag in these animals present show so laig a number of animals .as one who ha read and heard much about it woul expectto see, and compared with forme years it would seenin this respect it i barely !holding its own. The only clas that seek& to be aicreasing in favor i the _Hereford, in yrhieh there appears t We a steady growth. The classes thi year ate as followsi: Detons, . 38; Here fords, :35 ; Shorthcrns, 44; ,Sussex, 33 Scots and other br4eds, 89; Sheep, 173 Pigs, 85. Taking a general glance on is struek with the !perfect arrangemen and cleanliness, net only- of the stoc but a.lt their surrodndings, and lookin over alll the animals it is evident ou stockmen do not feed is well as they d here. :It is a mistatke, 1 think, in th breeders here to chtim an animal is.' ma tare,' that is readyrfor beef, at one yea and eight months Of age, as such ani mal, although fdreed . with all th rapidity that hi41z feeding can ci is still only batty bed compare with one of two and a hal years ef age. The hantpion animal wa a Heteford, 1,278 days • old, weighin 2,361 s., or a dai y gain of 1.85 lb. 11 appea ed in every fespect a perfect an mal. see that al Hereford -also too •-•.first p ace at Chicago. There is no doub in my nind, after conversing with breed ers he e, that this lass of cattle is i the a cendency, and justly so if th contention of leading_breeders be correc They qay the Hereford will produce be atfror 25 to 40 pr cent. cheaper that any ot . er breed of cattle; they are pari- ticulaiiy gentle and good grazers ; the are small in bone and lotv in build, am 1 it is Claimed that they mature earlie than any other eed ; indeed,: if th tesults at fat sto k shows in this cou try be taken as a 4st this point seems t be abu damtly pro ed by results. The heaviest ani al at Smithfield wa the or ssbred ox b longing to the Queen but h was rather rough; age, 1,37 days ; weight, 2,489. The sire of thi anima was a PolEed bull ; dam, a cros cow 1 y Shorthorp bull. Taking th Smithfield records ffrona 1870, 1 observ that ler many years the Shorthorns ha a sweep of highesi honors ; but ler th few pa t years this • onor has been share by the Aberdeens and Cross -breeds. Th Queen and Prince el Wales exhibited • good I piny animal, but as a role the were 1 ot up to th -mark, and thus di not s •ore mueh honor. , Among th Devon there vera many really lia,n some -attle, but they do not compar favort. ly in " weight -for -age " wit 1 other breeds. Tie best Sussex steer weigh d 2,103 th . at 1,054 days old. The ltd Polled c ttle will never con4e to the frout rank, either in this countrfr or Ca ad a I fancy, and I might add the_ saitie egarding th Welsh and Ilighlan Seas. t . Am ng sheep th Southdowns were,t my fancy, the be t in every way, an here the breeders know exactly how Ilo prepa e these anin als for show purpose These sheep were lust as fine as the cu1s we ar in the habit of seeibg in mag. zines epresent them, but they are feid and cl pped and co ored with powder ill - order o attain thi apparent excellence. Pigs ere not lar ely represented, blit were ike all British animals, well fed, the Suffolk and Be kshires being evident- ly fav rites. Besides stock there was a very fi e exhibit of roots and vegetables from too, es not a sees in were 1 with t their with o what of Pa arious seeds . en. But thettwere, .„, idently gro -n for exhibition, and all a fair , verage of what One farmers' fields here. Implemeats abundance, and one is struek . e clumsy, ancient appearance of • gricultural implements compared rs. . Seed drills look more like e would- ex eat from the ancients estine, and reapers are both too comprcated and toe heavy. We had a fine exhibit of drain'both in the mil! and i bags, our tridnd Mr. Porter, a Goder ch township, being arnong the rest. Our roots and vegetables alto were eood, and attracted a great, deal ef notice from. visitors. E - I at ended the Potato Tercentenary exhibi ion a few days since, where there was a drge and interesting collection of all kn wn varieties, and a so maps•and pamphlets shesving the progress made in this cniture. The 'Food and Cookery Exhibition, also, was very intereiting, and Meats of all sorts were prepared in every imaginable Shape by skilled hands, so tha the public palate might be tick- led to a sufficient degree to draw out a high p ice for the coveted dish.; 1 The lfruit markets are falling ; off, and prices here are also falling sone. But the trouble here is that Canadian apples are arriving in very bad condition, and from a hat I can now see the fault lies betwe n the steamship Companies and the do k Companies. It is a I common sight t sec a barrel half full when open- ed, a d very many nearly: einpty. I see no solution of this but that in future shippe s should noship a barrel, direct by wa er to this narket: I see some Ameri an apples c ming here via. Liver- pool w ich are all right. 1 ,But am about jeaving for home on the go d steamer S maritan. t 'was my intend n to have visited points in Scot- land b fore returning but time Will not permit After a sojourn here it would 1 be a relief to mix with my countrymen of the North, and -njoy their well-known warmness of .hea t and sincerity. The sinceri4 of the S otch character is well known, and remii ds me of the following lines fr no the pe of someone unknown : • "1 s id to one w o, picked me up Ju I slipping f lo4n a rock, I'm not much good at climbing, eh? NC, sirr, ye ar 1,, said Jock. . I shqwed him th4n ,a sketch I'd made -: Ofrough hilisi eand loch ; I'm not 'an artist, mind, I said ; No, sirr, ye arrn't, qupth Jock.. A poem next I read aloud— One of my num'rous stock; I'm no great poet, I remarked ; No, sirr, ye ars!n't, said Jock." One o the last sightt I . looked upon here wa t the remains of that ancient pri- son heft se so accurately described by Dickens where that pompous individual, the Father of ,t e Marshalsea strutted about, aid wher poor little Dorrit was y born. 1 here arel many such sights here, but it t'veuld occi4py too mach space and time topeak of thern. I . The Official Retuilis. . ‘ The,following,is an official statement of the votes. polled in the respective municipalities in each of tie three Ridings of Huron- at the last election: EAST IIVRON. • 'KILLOP. Gibson. Hays. ou No. 1.. 45 30 " 2.. 65 23 Pollingt-"ubdivis •64 3.. 55 4.. 26 5.. • 56 6.. a2 7.. 23 8.. 15 55 47 :35 43 27 42 Total. 327 302 Majority for 'Gibson25 li "LLETT. - Polling Subdivis-on No. 161 36 - .• " .285 36 42 29 " 463 35 -- 251 136 Majority fo1 Gibson115 I ORRIS. Polling Subdivision No. 158 49 a_ • " 2"9 30 tC. . " 357 " 4. , ;2 40 5. '6 67 6. ,t0 78 Total 3 '0 321 Majority foy BRUSSELS. Polling Subdivision No. 1 " 2 64 4, 3.. CC CO tt it tc it ft Total " 3.. :9 6 30 58 35 19 123 1 Majority for Gibson... 6 GREY. . Polling Subdivision No. 1.. 2. " 3.. 1 4. 5.. 6.. 7.. Ct . ff CC 6C LC Total. 4 Majority for Gibson2 . ta0WICK. Polling Subdivit on No. 1 2 a c. " 3 a " 5 " , 4.. '4 Total, Majority for Hays - Polling Subdivit Majority for TU Polling Subdivis it 44 C . IC 4C: 6.. oxETER. on No. 1.. Gibson... NBERRY. on No. 1.. " 2.. 3.. " 4.. 3 9 4 3 4 '9 4 8 1 1 7 53 22 431 47 49 46 283 - 96 66 98 93 73 63 9 489 100 • 8 8 Total t 2:1 Majority for Gibson... 111 29 47 42 41 50 -- 180 RECA ITULATION. Gib on. Hays. McKil1p 3:71 313062 Hallett Morris.t 3.0. 321 1 Brussel 9 123 Grey -Howick Wroxeter 43 98 428893 • I 29 Turabe Ty 1 180 Total Majority for At this electio pilled, 'and at were 3,825 vot this eletion tha' ty at the last ele SOU ta Polling Subdivis 6C t4 4' 11 Total Majority for Polling Subdivis SS Ct iC Total Majority for Subdivis fC .44 t4 IC it 4, CC tt •tt Total. Majority fo 2,3 Gibson... there were he last elec s polled, or last. Gibso tion was 41. HURON. Bishop on No. 1 75 " 2 98 " 3 111 " 4 97 • -- 381 .Bishop. 291 on No. 1 43 " 2 10 3 5. " 4 76 28 Swinerton EPHEN. on No. 1 4 `` 2 7 " .3 10'- " 4 7, " 5 " • 6 3 ! -- 47 Bishop.. 15 1,863 3 169 votes ion there 344 more 's majori- . 1 • Swinerton. 25 22 18 25 -- 90 112 41 100 54 -- 307 27 68 63 49 33 27 42 40 -- 322 Polling Sub C it 4' Total Majorit Polling Sub CC tt it Total Majori GO Polling Sub ' Total Majori Polling Sub ti 64 it Total Majori Polling Sub it Tota Majoiit Polling Sub Majorit Tuckersmit Usborne Stephen Hay Stanley Goderich T Seaforth Exeter Bayfield Total Majority There we election as last electior Bishop's m 365 less th: DAY, JANU ARY 7, 1887. HAY. No. 1 " 2 it 3 " 4 a 5: " 6 7 ivision 55 81 108 40 86 67 30 467 for Bishop. 281 STANLEY. ivision No. 1 69 " 2 65 " 3 37 " 4 14 " 5 67 -- 252 of Swinerton ERICH TOWNSHIP. ivision No. 3 37 C4 " 4 14 . . " 6 13 64 for Swinerton SEAFORTH.* ivision No. 1 93 38 2 53 18 3 46 22 421 23 5 31 28 60 23 4 14 35 , 22 -- 186 22 40 115 46 32 -- 255 3 61 62 45 168 104 I , CC CI 244 for Bishop121 EXETER. ivision No. 1 27 " 2 17 " 3 24 " 4 45 CC CC -113 for Swinerton BAYFIELD. ivision No. 1 35 for Swinerton ECAPITULATION. Bishop. 381 280 477 467 252 wnship.... 64 244 113 35 19 120 73 74 66 78 291 178 67 32 Swinerton. 90 307 322 186 255 168 120, 291 67 2,313 1,806 1,806 or Bishop.. 507 e 4,119 votes polled at this 'ompared with 3,729 at the , being 390 votes more. Mr. ority last time was 132, or at the present election. VEST HURON. GODERICH TOWN. Ross. Polling Su.division No. 1.. 41 " 2.. 44 3.. 52 4.. 61 5.. 45 6.. 56 7.. 32 Ci it 14 tt IC Total IC CC 44 44 .4' 66 CC 44 c_ Majori Polling Su Total Majori Polling Su 4C tt it tt Total ' Taylor. 50 56 48 35 47 47 39 331 322 y for Ross 9 DERICH TOWNSHIP. division No. 130 " .238 " 541 C 109 y for Taylor ASHFIELD. ivision No. 1.. 57' 2.. 67 " 3.. 69 4.. 36 5.,, 101 6.. 83 7.. 65' -- 478 it 44 .• CC 4' Major' Polling Su 44 4' Total Major' Polling Su ft ft -C4 Total Major' Polling Sub CC Total Majori Polling Sub CC ft Total Major] Polling Sub ft ft 4C 44 't4 Total Majori Polling Su a O for Ross 179 EST WAWANOSH. ivision No. 1.. 51 Ci " 2.. 48 3.. 75 4.. 93 4' CC C4 for Ross AST WAWANOSH. ivision No. 1 tt " 2.. a " 3.. " 4.. 41 65 73 47 185 76 64 75 42 60 15 17 26 -- 299 70 46 62 ;36 267 214 53 77 81 64 58 280 for Ross 104 COLBORNE. ivision No. 184 " 224 " 386 " 447 -- 241 for Ross 7 WINGHA,M. 39 57 43 47 -- 176 51 52 79 52 234 ivision No. 1.. 36 32 " 2.. 33 35 " 3.. 40, 46 " 4.. 59 54 it Ct for Rosa CLINTON. 1 . . 2 3 4 5 6 7 ivision No. tt • ft 44 4' 't• , 4' • CC ci 168 167 1 27 24 44 23 37 30 41 37 30 25 29 33 11 37 34 8.. 41 _ -260 243 y for Ross 17 HULLETT. ivision No. 532 36 " 657 32 1 GC ci Ct 44 .. 63 152 55 Total - Majorityfor Ross BLYTH. Polling Subdivision No. 135 " 237 •ti ft Total 72 Majority for Taylor 29 -- 97 .53 40 •93 21 REoAPIT u LATioN. Ross. Taylor. Goderich Town 331 322 Township 109 185 Ashfield 478 299 West Wawanosh 267 214 East " 280 176 Colborne 241 234 Wingham . 168 167 Clinton 260 243 }Linea 152 97 . Blyth 72 93 Total votes polled 2,358 2,021 Majority for Ross 337 At this election there were 4,379 votes polled, and at the last election there were 3,955, or 424 more than at the last election. Ross' majority at the last election was 167. . lactiE N BROS. PuSishers. *1.50 a. Year, in A4vance. loved by all who knew him. He went to M ntana a few years ago, leaving his famil here; his intention being to honi—naheitrsbtobinu i raise nough money out there to buy the farm le had rented here, and on which his fa ily has since been living. —Mr. James W. Robertson, professor of dairying at the Agricultural College, reached Guelph a few days ago. After having finished his work at the Colonial 'Exhibition, he paid a visit to Denmark, whert he made full inquiries into the systein of dairying practised in that country.ert Willard, a farmer from near . was killed while driving r'tgVindsor on Tuesday night after the election. He drove over an ernba kment and the wagon fell on him, brea ing his neck. He lived only a few hour ,after the accident. ,- — very successful. sale was held at Mr. S. C. Martin's, Waterloo township, near Fisher's Mills, on Thursday, 23rd ult. Good prices were realized through- out, mare $6.80 --I Hay terio ni his hk terio that Canada. An ice bridge has formed across the St. Lasarence opposite Montreal. — Mrs. McCulloch, nee' Maggie Barr, was lately united in marriage to Mr. E. J. Fenwick, of Hamilton. — Archbishop Tache is still ill, and has been temoved to St. Boniface hos- pital, Manittba. —The Tnnrens system of land trans- fer went into operation in the North West Territeries on New Year's day. —The Rosevitle cheese factory have. sold 300 boxes September and October make to a firm in Ingersoll at 12t cents. —It is rumored in 'London that in honor of the Queen's jubilee Sir John Macdonald will be raised to the peerage under the title of the Earl a Ottawa. —Orillia property ownets have car- ried a by-law to raise $20;000 for ex- tending the water -works • system and lighting the town with electric light. — Trigger's hall, West Lorne, Elgin county, was burned to the ground a few nights ago. The Foresters lost all their furniture, which was in the lodge room in the second storey. — The Douglas Methodist church, Moatreal, was broken into a few nights ago, and a silver candlestick, a table cover, 30 yards of carpet and other arti- cles stolen. —The Dominion Government has de- cided to appeal against the Exchequer Court judgment declaring invalid the grant of lands by British Columbia for railway construction. —At Windsor on Friday last Henry Thompson was fined $250 and costs and sentenced to three months' imprison ment for the illicit manufacture of whisky at Essex Centre. —Dangerous counterfeit ten -dollar notes of the Canadian Bank of Commerce are in cireulation in Ottawa district. They are printed on paper 91- a slightly darker color than that used in the genu- ine notes. —About half -past five o'clock Mon- day evening an unknown man deliber- ately committed suicide by jumping from the railway suspension bridge at Niagara into the river below, a depth of. - 195 feet. e—A farmer in the Annapolis valley of Nova Scotia specially put up ten barrels of Graventeins for the English market, and after paying all expenses netted $55, or say $5,50 per barrel. A pretty good price for apples. — One hundred and twelve students have registered for the. session of the Provincial Normal School at Ottawa, which opens on the 18th inst. Thirty- two Of the applicants are males and eighty females. Thomas Scholar, of Hamilton Presbytery, and Rev. Finlay McCuaig, of Kingtton Presbytery, will leave for British Columbia during . January to take • charge of the congregations to which they have been recently appoint- ed.' - —Miss Auning, who died a few days ago at St. John, New Brunswick, left $30,000 to local charities, including the Young Mens' Christian Association, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Orphans' Home. ' —Alex, McDougall, of Chatham, while logging in the woods on his farinthe other day, had the misfortune to break his leg below the knee. To make matters worse the unfortunate man had to ride horseback about ene mile to get home after the accident. —John Hill, a laborer, was found nearly dead from exposure in a shanty on William street, Winnipeg, Wed- nesday evening last week. He was taken to the hospital, where he died shortly after. Whisky caused the trouble. —The annual meeting of the Clydes- dale Hjerse Association of Canada was - held in Toronto, on Thursday last week; ' when it was decided to hold a show during the corning spring in that city. The office bearers for the ensuing year were elected. —At the Barrie Salvaltion Army Bar- racks last week, Miss Burdon, an Army lassie from England, was married to Divisional Officer Burchett of the Bar- rie contingent, by Rev. Wm. 11. Barnes, rectot of Christ Church, and Major Coombs of the Army. —Mr. N. P. Green, of Mount Pleas- ant,. has been appointed principal of Ayr school, for this year at a salary of $600. Miss E. Renwick, who has taught in the ,Ayr school for the past four years, . has received an appointment as teacher in a school at Consecon, Prince Edward county. • —Mr. Thomas Robertson, a former resident of Puslinch, and whose family still reside near Hespeler, was accident- ally killed in Montana, a few days ago. Mr. Robertson was a respectable, indus- trious man, and was respected and be - s the following figures will show:' mare, brought $150 ; carriage $l65; yoke of oxen, $i40; sheep, per head for flock. Ir. W. Reid, teamster for Messrs. Co. of Woodstock, was mys- sly shot in the thigh on Saturday last, while carrying 'in wood, at teheia door. It is the most mys- s case of shooting ever heard of in own. —A man employed by Hiram Walker & Sobs, at Walkerville, met with a pecu- liar accident on Friday. In entering a stall to take out his horse he struck his face against& stiffly frozen blanket, cut- ting a deep gash -over his eye, lacerating the eye -lid and narrowly escaping the loss Of the eye. t—Wm. Ram mill, of Winchester street, -Tomato, while on his way home about 11.30 Tuesday night last week, was at- tacked -by three masked men on College street, who robbed him of $800 and a ,valuable gold watch. Hammitt was struck on the head with a heavy instru- ment, fracturing his skull. But slight hope t are entertained of his recovery. fire occurred in the Baptist Church, Aylmer, on Sunday, just after the iiorning service. The fire caught in the jartition over the furnace, and was disc vered by the sexton just in the nick lof time. lhe alarm was sounded, and he firemen turned out with' alacri- ty, and with axes chopped • through the wallS and flooded the building. —The Ancient Order of United Work- men in Ontario numbers about 12,000. most prosperous, having increased ernbership during 1886 about 2,000. Wheiu a metnber dies the sum of $2,000 is p4d to his wife or family as he directs. The !number of calls made last year was 14, aind each member pays one dollar at every call. Owing to the prevalence of glanders g horses in Montreal and the out - districts, the ity Board, of Health It: i its ti am m lyiri havel requested the Federal Government to pass an order -in -Council bringing into force! the provisions of the Act giving the 1Government veterinary inspector powck to have all infected animals de- strqed. , _ t-- he following minimum temper- atur s were recorded during Suuday nigh at the undermentioned places, in each case being below zero :—Arnprior, 340t; Belleville, 24° ; Des Joachims, , Que ec, 30 ° ; Gatineau Mills, Quebec, 29 ° ; Maniwaki, Quebec, 37 ° ; Mat - taw, 40 ° ; Ottawa, 33 0; Pembroke, 400 Rockliffe, 32 0; Toronto, 17 ° ; Waltefield, North Quebec, '36 ° . —It is expected that Rev. Dr. McDon- ald, I superintendent of the Canadian Methodist mission work in Japan, will -shortly arrive in Canada to spend a year, a futlough- for that time having been graaed him by the Missionary Society's Cominittee at its recent meeting. One of th:e native missionaries will accoMpan y Dr. McDonald, provided he can leave Japan without injury to the work. —A mammoth flouring mill is soon to be commenced at Keewatin, Manitoba, which is the beginning of a tnovement that will in time make this locality_ the Minneapolis of the Northwest. The prineipal mover in the concprn is Mr. Alelander Mitchell, of Montreal. The mill will have a capacity of 10,000 bar- rels er day. In connection with it is to. be bjiilt a huge elevator with a capacity of 1,00,000 bushels of wheat. ! —One day last week (Mrs. Geo. Gil- bert of Almonte,, wenit out froth her home, leaving her ninearienths-old ; child in c large of a little girl. The , child shor iy afterward seemed to fall asleep in tl e arms of its nurse and was tlaced in b d, whereaafter a few moments it throfr up its arms and- expired. The child had not been sick previously, and the 15hysicians are unable to account for its sudden death. • when t there did all —Judge Torrance, of the Supretne ( Court, died at Montreal on Sunday, after a brief, illness from:pneumonia. It - ought the disease.,. wastco.ntracted attending the funeraltof the late e Ramsay. The ;deceased judge born in Montreal in 1823. He was is t jmaw-tuahdosillie time Attorney -General for Lower Can4da, and was appointed judge of the Supleme Court in 1868. —Mr. John Waugh, an old and re- spected resident of Hamilton, died last week. Four years ago he suffered a paralytic stroke, and for the past two .yeare he was a confirmed ilivalid. Mr. Waugh was a native of •Loehma.ben, Dalufriesshire, Scotland, *here he was born 77 years ago. He came to Canada withhis young wife in 1834, and lived in. Montreal for three years, coming 'thenee to Hamilton, wbere he has lived ever since. --At Three Rivers about one o'clock on Saturday morning last, during mid- night Mass, a noise was heard in the e men in the chtnich saw that 'as no immediate danger, they in their power to stop the rush to the doors and Mass was resumed. Fortunately there were n serious in- juries inflict -ed. The a cident was caused by the base of the chimney crush- ing down to the ceiling, thus causing the plaster to detach. —What was called a Ldruukards's demonttration" was held o the evening of Ne W Year's day ,at t e Salvation Army Teinple, in Toronto, and eeveral hundred people gathered o participate therein, or to witness it ommissioner Coombs had charge of the meeting„ but the he ds of all the local corps were pre- sent an delivered vigorou characteris- tic speeches, pointing out the evils of intemperance, and the maierial as well as spiritual advantages of temperance. A couple of tableaux, representing the two sides of the question as shown in ''' the home of a working -man, formed an eftectiVe break in the proceedings of the , even—A9 in.. other disastrous fire occurred at Portage la Prairie last Saturday. morn- ing. From half -past two to half -past four it swept the east side of Main - street. Ten business places, besides professional -'offi•ces, were l burnt out. The loss is about $25,000. The fire originated between Cassells Brathets' baker, shop and Campbe l's furnitaret store.' ' The „chief ' losers were B. M. Canniff, druggist; Geo. Murton, tailor; McK en zie & Campbell, saddlery; R. P. Campbell, Miss Taylor, milliner ; Geo. Andrew, Mather Bros. i and others, some of whom are insured —At a trial at Peterboroi on Wednes- day last Week of a case of violation of the Scott Act, a witness named Warner swore that he asked for ginger ale and that. the bartender said, "I'll give you something better." A glass full of liquor was poured out and be drank it. In a few minutes afterwatds he could not see the sidewalk. It was intoxicat- ing liquor which herank, and be paid for it. He had be At asked about the evidence he was:io give, and when he stated what he was going, to swear be was asked if $25 Would be any tempta- tion to keep him away. --James Hickey and Misses Rugey and O'Brien, while Atating near Garden Island, Kingston, the other night, broke throughthe Ice. Aliss Rugey managed to drew herself out on the ice, When she imme- diately began the rescue of her compan- ions. Taking offher cloud s4he threw it is M i ss O'Brien, who seized it and was drawn out. By th is time Mr. Hickey wasnearly ex- hausted, and in the nick of time the cloud was thrown to him and he was with difficulty pulled out on the ice. The young ladies received great credit for their heroic action. -- —On New Year's day Charles Web- ster started from St. Catherines to ga into the woods with some bther la.ds to shoot squirrels. - One of Ithem had a loaded gun, and while knobking the butt of the weap4n against u tree it exploded, the charge 'entering the !side and ab- domen of i'Vebster, whb was about twenty feet distant. He, was conveyed to the hospital and his injuries attended. to. It was -at first thought his injuries would prove fatal, but next morning' he was better, and. nriy now recover. —Donald McQuarrie, late reeve of Caledonia, county of Haldimand, was instantly killed last Monday morning. He and his son left home to start his grist mill, but the son went back to the house, and returning fifteen , minutes later found his father a corpse. It is evident from the position in which he was found that he was coming up the stairs leading from the engine room, but it being dark missed his footingrand fell backwards on the driving pulley. The deceased was highly respected, and his loss will be deeply felt by the whole village and surrounding country. —The steamer Sir John, which sailed from St. John, New Brunswick, on the night of the 28th Ult., was burned tat* hours after leaving the harbor. Next morning searching parties found the crew of twenty huddled in the snow at Black Point. Their clothing was frozen to their bodies. Five of them, including Captain Purroy, were so badly burned that they cannot recover. John Sin- clair was drowned while swimming ashore. The less on steamer and cargo it $70,000. —At the last Sunday evening service • in St. Andrews Church, Toronto, Rea. D. J. Macdonell, in - announcing the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, at which Hon. Mr. Mowat will preside, and Mayor I -lowland speak, said it was a credit to the Province and the city to have at the he4d of affairs men who were at home pitesiding or speaking at -meetings of this 'kind. It was also a good time to remember the prayer, so often thoughtlessly offered pp, for able men, such as fear God, Men of truth, hating unjust gain, as pur °rulers. —At the annual Nett Year gathering of the Methodist Sunda schools . in Montreal, held on New Y ar's day, the following dispatch was s nt to. Queen Victoria : "Three thousand Methodist Sabbath school scholars assembled in Montreal send greetings this jubilee year." The following repl was received i Sunday night: " Method st *Scholars, sontreal—The Queen th nks you for ypur greetings. (Signed)' PONSONBY." The reply was read in St. James street Methodist church Sunday night, when the large congregation rose and sang "God Save the Queen." —The Portage la Prairie Liberal says that there it a probability that a cut in the existing rates betwetn Winnipeg and Vancouver is riot far distant. he Northern Pacific is making arrangements for the construction of a branch line to tap Winnipeg, crossing the boundary clanIch as of snow sliding on the roof. line in the neighborhood Of Rock Lake. The moment after, the plaster from the Surveyors are reported to be at work ceilikig of the church began to fall, caus- at short distance from the boundary line ing a panic in the church, all the people aid south of Crystal City. This branch rushing to the doors and/ trying to get will probably leave the N. P. at Devil's out,: women and children crying and Dike, Dakota, which is -a point about fainting, causing the priest to stop sing- 175 miles south-west of Portage la. ing Mass. But a few ',Minutes after, Prairie. •-tre