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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-01-28, Page 1I. 1887. t season with ATRONS ! E o new sea, ert _ ake our great !EVER ! Dotn 'very depart- ) lots we have • ry and Cloth- ith. !auditor,, and to draft a inee Moved ed by Witio nurer be ins ity returning a, total $20e toting to $9. - end seconded the Mewing ity: Edward m. Elgie and an that the 1: Township .$L4; Voters.' iery for Do - :Waved by D. by Wm. G. ae4 adjourn icFebraarY at d the hour of p, offers great eries, Boots and s• satisfaction in mts per NO Is— risting promptly iistatice wilt get Wanted to pur- - '' loo•s—Bock Elm r13:3 STATION. —0.n i 2til !lost.; a !Hs of School „ and their rr . ence of Mr. : When all George Mar- rhtheir.',dering to Mrs , e did in a ..nof the es - of numerotia eriented, and Ormer pupils Then two - the school gold watch- ' read an &d - em for him ia.n, their ap- d efforts on at he might e token. of -er was that a h over and the address express haw nate esteem wards ehims his heart' by •t they ! ap- ey had first e beet way nhool and a atif al token a necessary rapethy, but -a singulerly ar the chain o.r their iii - more es - 'haler of the scholars of "!Killop. His .e as it had efforts both would bless Sion a pro- nals-Una of etramentol), hes &a. Mrs. )inted chair- promptu en - ;ten followed. ided by the 5er the coul- ee -end games proceedings it to a close and "Auld eornpany.--A from Park- esideace and making the NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE;NUMBER 998:. Gl-reat Cheap Sale —NOW IN -- 1, S --AT THE -- HEAP ._*)4.4,kSIT STORE MAIN -ST., SEAFORTH. We have jilt finished going through er whole stock, marking down every aetiele in each ilepartment. Never be- ' Ire did we male such sweeping reduc- tions, a greet many lines away below wholesale prices. The following are a few of the leading lines: Dress Goods, Prints, Ginghams, Shirt- , Cottons, Denims, Ducks, Table Mons, Towellings, Hollands, Lace Cur- . t has, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Rib - ons, EmbroidTries, Frillings, • Yarns, Glatfis, Tweeds, Ulsterings, Undrelothing, Boys' Suits, Jerseys, Shawls, Squares, lankets, lean s, !Jackets, lends, Scarfs,. Leggings, etc. Remember the place— Hoffman d Co., eap Cash Store, Cardno's1 Block, Seaforth. -We learn that Mr. john Watsoo, of tihe Ayr Agricultural Works, left his - intpreseion in h pretty big snow drift be- tiweee Roseville and Ayr one evening last week. Finding the roads blocked, Mr., - Watson turned off to- go through the fields, and in doing 80, the ruener of his cutter struck a hidden reii.lof nthe fence,- breaking. thee whiffietreee, and -throwing Mr,. Watson "out over the cash -board.. He fortunately escaped ala- i Joey,. the snow-. being deep where he f-11. ; and the horses were at mice.- se- - !1!:10(irTati-enotel,criut 1 eV,Bit.- irbiartealsItift:curo e.htt:oyafstydifficulty.iipit.e.plal:Cedt:11,0:and. tii,taiip.oiar!cwait!efi: undergone a -marked improvements -nice he Act they had two . taverna where heSeett Act came in force. - Brier to soalwey, last north of Shelbouree, has !rid no. chetrebes. ' Now," writes the :tea. Mr. Ross„ Presbyterian minister of aundalk„ "the- taverns are elosed, the l:ale of liquor abandoned., ond two - eintiches„ a Presbyterian and. a Methoe ' list, have been opened." —Win. L. Britsehgi„ m •middle-aged Swis-s, wearing a. Week beard over. a. re- ennive face, has hem eeraingla boil- -mod in Toronto for some time by -draw- ;ng indecent pictures and selling them to !Soya. He had some .of them i on his. itaeada on Friday„ an!d showed them to 1 'ome girls on the street. - . One ! of the. .irlstold her mother ribald it, and . the -molt was that the offender was! arrest-. 1- d and brought before the pollee court. le was sent to- gaol. for three Months, tot having $5.0 and costs to his cOedit. —In • defence of Sir John the !Hamil- On Spectator says: _Reformers- aay Sir : oho Macdonald is a. very old than. He -s six years younger than Mr. Gladstonee ad the same Reforraers look upon the I otter as the hope and mainataY of the I Liberal party in Great Britain, Bis- aarek was born in the same year with . -le "ir John;. Von Moltke is fifteen years Idea Lord Geanyille was bora in the. . aisie year,, and President Orevy two ,ears. _earlier__ Lesseps, who, is digging he Panama Canal, is ten years o.der ' !haat Sir John. ! —D ennia Sullivan of. Detroit, went to ' lam -Uteri in search of. employment. Not t train, tender orento. i In his arrival, at Toronto_ he was "diseov- . Ted,. ahnest frozen to death„,and had to ei helped from his position.. le., was 1 i eken to the .Central Pollee Station. and I nixed foreand thence the local magis.- itrates seat him to the hospital!. Beth ! aars„ bath feet and one ban& weeterri- bly frozen. ;Sullivan had' to be carried ..j ut of court. and if the Cenadie.n. Pacific Railway, —On Sunday afternoon in Lood-on are I Company can prevent the -destruction of the -valuable timber by fires, they: will ;confer a, boon on the country and secure for themselves valuable freight. A number of _saw mills are in oeeration along the line of the road; and no deeibt others will coon start. .' There . was a good deal o talk about mining atevery 'ferried, atui it id a reueurkable- fact that - paint, a -ad to doubt numerous parties they should loth i have paesed. away will be aid next wine. I may Men- tion that th p Canadian Pacific .Railway • people are jutting forthevery effort th make the trip through - the mountains. pleasant for tourietse At Banff theY are erectingle hotel to accommodate 259 or 300 guess, which Will- be finished bY- the 1st ' Of :Tidy. Its site,,cominahdireg from the elevated situation, 1 A 1:1 NE VIEW ' of the Spray and Bow rivers', and havink the Peak mountain to the eight and the Cascade . to. the left, with the range which they tertninatel, is . certainly, one ! indiag it, he boarded a freigh inere ting him self between the old the first car, and left for OVER, THE ROCKIES. , ; • FROM WINNIPEG TO VANCOUVER. Rev. James Robertson, Superinten- dent of Presbyterian Missions, has re- cently returned from a trip to Vancou- ver, British Columbia, by the Canada Pacific Railway,: ' He gives the following interesting description of his trip: "I need say little.about the 840 miles between Winnipeg and Calgary; suffice it to note- that the first 400 miles are being gradually brought under cultiva- tion, and the second 400 are being used as cattle ranches. Lands have been leased soeth of Moosejaw, and even Regina, not to speak of the lands stock- ed near Medicine Hat; and the pros- pects are very favorable. Nor need I mention that the Red River country promises to be one of -the best ranching districtsof the West. It may be mention- ed that the towns along the railway, with few exception, are. growing up. This is espedially the case with Carberry, Oak Lake, Virden, Wolseley, Qu'Appelle, Regina, MedMine Hat, and particularly Calgary. 21, few . FINE STONE BUILDINGS have been 4rected at Calgary,. one of!' them being a Presbyterian ehorch which will cost when. finished, about $8,000. From Calgary the railway may be said to be ascending the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. The alignment is, along the valley -of the Bow, the rail- way crossing the stream five. or sixl times before the summit is reached. The valley it its eastern end is wide, with gentle ascending hials,butnarrows as yeti proceed westward until there is scareei ly more than room for the stream, one would think, as you enter theenoontains., The ascent is easy, and the railway' enters the mountains at Kaneskis on tin down grade.' From Stephen, t e water, of Bow- flow eastward and fnd thehl outlet into the Atlantic by the Sas-1 katehewan and Hudson's Bay. From the same point the Kicking Horse takes its rise, thence flowing with the Columbia and emptyi - g into the Pacific. Thede, scent on thel west side of the mountain ii : 1 bell butinjured only the pa much shorter and more precipitouS than 1 e weather in the mo on the:east side. Here is ! I SE of the beat in that whole distr co -npany are moving their frem Canmore to Bauff. GOvernment-have laid out a halve a very efficient officer i sor of Mr. Stewart in eharg in erests. I was astonished a d ne at Banff by Mr. Ste% short a time. The Glacier h su nmit of the Selkirks, I ha referred :to, and can only ac situation and appointments able in every wily. I know sere one could spend a week th greater enjoyment. . At a are already aware, a. rings. It is certainly a p see water at a temperat hrenheit bubbling out and WI Wi yc sp to snow and flowing down -hill at- -earn. I met it number of the Springs, end it is full -that in summer the accommo b taxed to its utmost. w om I spoke stated that ti p rienced great benefit from these. waters. In the valley several •ar ha ra COAL MINES e in operation. The anth s 75 or 80 miners at work; no mine and that owned b and Brown, of Winnipeg, ing operated. All seemed t e value pf their locations. In reply to many enquirie I o not think the railway co meet with insuperabte di working the ioad in winter. fall in the Selkirks is certai already seven feet are said to bet by the action of the sno shovellers, the track has hi k pt clear. It is expected slides may be troublesome in February aid -Marsh; but tho snow sheds built last summer will, it is belie' ed, obviate alb/ difficulty. Some slides have taken Anse already, and the she s stood the -Geist well. I heard of a rock getting de- tached away up towards he top of -a mountain. and tailing upon one of the slied; it went through li e a cannon t it struck. ntains it is Manitoba. esti need- anff is par- ect. As to - FORTH, FRIDAY, JA et. The orkshops 'here the own and • the per - of their the work art in so tel, at the e already' d that its re admir- f no place iii sumnier Banff, as the hot enomenon re of 96° under the in a large atients at expected ation will everal to ey had ex - the use -of f the Bow aeite Mine the Coch- O'Connor re. also be- onfident of I may say npany will culties in The snow - ly heavy ; aye fallen, v -plow and herto been that snow- THE STEEPEST GRADE along the road reaching as high as 41 feet in the: 100; the distance for this steep grade, however'is short. The work of he:ping trains from the west is done by large Reid win engines, weighine 99 tons; these push the train,the or- dinary, engine taking the lead up th hill. The crossing of the Selkirks doe not seem £10. difficult, as the wester' slope of the Rocky Mountains, still i has engineering difficulties of its own. At the summit, the road, in Ek distant of 11 miles, makes only 2-1 •o the old " tote " road. The , road alon the Frazer, especially in the neighbor- hood of Lytton and Yale, was partic- ularly difficult of construction. Me had to be lowered from the top o the cliffs by ropes, to begin ..blesting. The line is -1 operated throughout witl great caution, watchmen being a tationec along its whole course on the dingerou places, and their cheery lamp in " the darkness of the night gives you the!as- surance that all is well as you pass them. Of the seenenry of -the Rockies and th Selkirks it is imp.ossible to speak. THE ROCIES ARE WELL NAMED; for their heads are bare for 1,500, 2,00 or -even 3,000 feet. The vegetation even around the base, is frequently very. fiCa4 ty. The strata everywhere are bare and welhoutlined, sometimes horizontal, more frequently with a dip of 30°, o' 45 0, and often on their edge. At et - tam n points the mountains look fearf ally contorted; end, even along the road, one notices decided faults. Speaking with travelers who had visited the Alps and the Pyrenees, I found them of the opin- ion, freely expressed, that, in massive- ness, grandeur, and boldness of stweep, the Rockies excelled anything they had seen. The Selkirks have I a beauty of their own. They are mostly wooded, all along the line, right up to what is called "The timber line ;" leeyond that, of course, the reek is seen, but even the top has some soil. The wealth of tim- ber through the mountains is certainly very.great ; -cedar, Sprape, fir and hem- lock abound. The cedars are- large qf of trunk and tall. Away down 'mai the sea coast, it is of the white variety!, and in the mountains, of the red. I saw no cedar on this side of Donald. One tree was pointed out to me , at Craigel- lechie which was said to "measure 32 feet in circumference. I heard of one SIXTEEN FEET IN DIAMETER1, whereas -trees 8 and 10 feet in diameter are common. The cedar is extensively used on the west coast for lumber, an I 1 sells, undressed, at $10 a thousand. :The Canadian Pacific Railway Corn -- puny have built a fine hotel On the top of the Selkirks, finishing it with red' cedar varnishedi , and the appearance is certainly very striking. I need sair no -thing about the Douglas fir, excep that the massiveness of the trees canno be appreciated until they are seen. I the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, trees are very thickly crowded together; urpreesive doahle tonere', was witnessed vhen the near/nue of Thomas Ile -ming :Lnd John Masoo were laid in their final 'dace of s-cpultare at Woodland eeme- ery . The two had Iale5"red together at /he same anvil in the Grand Trunk Rail - 'Ivey service in tendon for a considerable withus.2.4 hourl of each other. It seem- ' d fitting that after being so intimately i• ssociaeed in the busineos:oflife, when he great call cline they should be still ititeel in death. The two funerals were Onsolideted, and the cortege was a very karge one. The Knights of Labor came isrst, followed by the brethren of the canadian Order of Foresters, both hay- iog been members of these organiattl'Ons: The two hearses containing the eolith -is followed side by side, and a long doublo 12 Cray of vehielee elms) the eortege.. As to th very m I the ch milder than in ime I spent in the e4 only la light overcoat; ti ularlY favored in this res tl- e • WEATHER -ON THE PACIF IC SLOPE it was very disagree-ble wh n. I happen- ecil to be there. I undereta id it rains for nearly three months in winter. The mound in the end, of Deceml er was cov- ered with snow except along the water's 1 et ge. I was reading yester ay that the s1.ow: had disappeared since, and that the people were -gathering eansies. It Must have been pansies d ied by the hudien last summer, for the t ermometer, (hies get down in British lolumbia to zero and even below. There is appar- ble land in sea .islands, being very f I too, about tl Nicola and S country is a. ly for fruit r id ate -were mitly no great extent of ar B1ritish Columbia,: !Lulu and h wever, are spoken of a rtile. I heard a good dea e Chilliwhack .district, th alluina.cheen valleys. Tim linirably adapted, apparen ising. The apples I saw ail that could be desired in aird flavor. - There is no r god trade in fruit should ored. VANCOUVER IS ADMIRABLY for a large city. It is near Georgia and the open sea; its harbor is rge and well sheltered; there is abun- nee of room 'for- busine gher locations of the neigh hird good sites for 'private appearance ason why a ot be devel- SITUATED he straits of 1 Ii a, s, and the orhood will residences. he totvn site has been clea ed of brush a repetition With great ilt up the ere is a good rraded from r 3 miles of inus of the y has been ily be laid, gine W -ill be Vancouver aid timber, thus preventing of the fire of last summer. energy the peoplehave b tewn the second time, and t business, -,The railway is Vancouver to within 2i Port Moody, the present ter road. When the right of w secured, the rails will spee and the whistle of ..the en heard within the new town. Contains a large number of Winnipeggers, and they are helping to hum. To show you how pr I was told that the Meth ad sold a water -front lot 3 the Government some ti 5,500. !In reference to the work Yterian . church, Mr. Rob re are extending mission o the west. We have a missionary at Revelstoke, who operates east and west from that point; another b and Donald"; and a third, to and allow Mr. Carneron t attention to Banff, has been uilding for church purpo s cured at Revelstoke. Mom ollectedefor the erection of .onald, and a church is to miff as soon as spring open olumbia our stens becomi nd, soon nota district in the e without a Presbyterian Ye are not withdrawing any flrom any district in the Nor taffnever was so large for his year. We believe that as a future, and we are en how our faith by our work nake things perties sell, dist church tamed from e -ago for f 'the Pres- rtson says: erations in 4 UARY 28, 1887. horse -steal ng as they were calmly pur- suing their way. on King- street. .Ex- planations followed. They were _releas- ed, took a seat in the sleigh the had engaged, aod finished their drive. County ,Temperance Con. en - tion. The Con ention called by the Execu- tive Corn nittee of the Scott Act Associ- ation to bdi held in theRattenbury Street Methodist church, Clinton, on the. 21st inst., was well attended. s. . In the -a senee of the President, the Rev. Geo' e R. Turk, of GodericI4 was celled to me chair as president during the foren on. In the afternooni the Rev. J. ough, of Londesboro, filled the posit n. The morning sessiori was occupied ith receiving reports helm the delegates resent, concerning the work- ing of the leottAct in the various local- ities repr ented These reports plainly 'showed t t the laui is not enforced as it should e, an that the chief cause of ; the failur in en ()ming it, is the I ek of a Police Magis rate' before wh m to bring the harge of violation. Ii view of this Sac the c nvention unaniniously decided t again appeal to the . ounty council to recom end the appointinent of a poliomagi trate with salar, -, by the Ontar o Gov- rnment, and in -accord- ance witl that -r aolution the folllowing memorial has 'een forwarded o the County Clerk. tween Banff ake Donald confine his sent for. A es has been ey has been a church at be built at . In British g increased; ountry will missionary. issionaries hwest. Our he winter as the country eavoring to —The Jersey Creamer f Galt, shipped last season o the butter made) over 5 f fine cream to the cities nd Toronto, and as it ha niversal satisfaction, thi ill ship 20,000 gallons fo nd family use. —An American doctor wl Toronto telephoned to ave a horse sent to a treet. He and his wife en ake the vehicle of a gentle an who had left his rig standing on King street while e went into the Dominion Bank. They rove off, and after a hue and cry had een made, and the police of the differ- ent Canadian cities had been telephon- ed to keep a look out for the horse and ts drivers, were arrested an a charge of Company (in addition 000 gallons f Hamilton given such year they • ice creasn o is visiting a livery to re on King ered by mis- The Co sociation this mem lows: I. Tha Temperer into fore the will polls. - 2. Tha available may be b of the c county, f made to of -the cot 3. Thu county t who will Act. So J. P.'s whom ti tions, an one or ti 4. The appointe of the co ment, bu Mr. Just diction s mine eas 5. No to as -sum the ardu for the Ns out salsa secured f fair rennt 6. Th have alr ment of That re enforced duty of to repea tion alre 7. No the exis without county c 8. Th in counc ernment all fines the prov by the c 'ally, res of the A 9. It i incurred such an than me saved b fines wh costs of petty cri before of earryi the coun 10.T this Act -tent, ow for the thereof. 11. T failure o contemp and upo order w will far few doll pended 12. It county, and to leave no maintar has been ple of th that the of fluro pass a re ency of Police Huron. Thec. -iodize th present of Polie to autho to make of the The ot through to co-op tion in t The f with th License unanim since th Assoeia God to Brother the We vention its high integrit M ,MORIAL nty of Huron Scott Mt As- n convention assembled, by rial eg to represent. as iol- the se ond part of the danada ce Act 1878, has been brought in the county of Huroa, by the p ople expressedaat the the nly persons at present before whom prosecutions ought are mayors of the towns unty nd the J. P.'s f the em wl om an appealthasi to be e qui -ter sessions of the l peace in t e West Riding lef the nty. r i ere.ar only one or two . P.'s onsen to hear eases um er the far a is known there re no a the South Riding, efore e Ins ector can lay in orma- in th East Riding the e are o. -e hay been Police Magi. trates in th East and South 1 idings nty, y the Provincial G vern- , owi Ig to a recent deci ionro lour, they have Juis f- one to hear and deter - r the Scott Act. ce Ar ting mid Yates, both as a citizen and air officer, in connection with the enforcement of _ the law, and while we bow in submis- sion to the Divine will, in this dis,pen- Baton of His providence, we express our. {McLE.A.N BROS. Publishers $1.50 a Year, in Advance a great deal of the work himself, ab.c1 posisted in burning the brick used. For e time he was an officer in connec- tion with the Inland Revenue Depart- ment. Six years ago he removed to sympathy with the family of Our late Astmia Oregon, where some of his faro - brother, and earnestly pray that God may vouchsafe to them the support of His grace, in this their sad bereave- ment." ment. ' Anent the appointment of Mr. Paisley_ to the position of Inspector, in place of Mr. Yates, a motion was agreed to as follows: "Resolved that this convene on record its satis-i ointment of Mr. W. ctor of Licenses for assure Mr. Paisleyi athy and our earnO erson has a right to be , asked the grave responsibilities. and' us' duties of Poliee Magistrate, hole of this large, county, with - and we believe no one an be ir such a position, witho , t some neration. . i ; • representatives of the county dy recommended the appoint - Police Magistrate with -Salary. arnmendation has never been and- it is now the bounden me representatives of the pounty and enforce the recomMenda- dy made. such appointinent, can, under ng state of the law, be made rich a recommendation f Elena the •uneil Of a county. - ; county, by virtue of anI order 1 passed by the Dominioe Gov - now receives into its -treasury and penalties collected' under sions of thesaid Act, an4 there- unty is legally, as well als mor- oresible for the due enforeement tin the county. ! believed that all the eXpenries by the county, in the mient lof appointment,, would be more by the amount which wPuld be such an appointment, lin the eh would accrue, the &thing of ppeal, and in the hearing of Anal cases which can bel heard eh a Police Magistrate lnstead g the same before a jildge of Y. e failure in -the enforceMent of s, it is insisted, to "a leap ex - ng to the want of such an officer earing of cases of violation 1 1 r me serious consequencs of the justice in the county b inging uponthe British cons the sIcred cause of la ch w-11 result to the utwei h the paltry su rs wh ch will have to be ex - cans of such an a.ppointment. s the duty of every one in the •ountry in, to and which e peo- , pray county ed, do xpedi- alaried nty of itution hV and ounty, of a duty to God and our' law nd justice ther hing ondone to vindica the s nctity of this la solem ly adopted by t county. We, therefor ount Council of the , e tined now assemb oluti n affirming the he a pointment of a agist ate for the co vent Onta w go Magi rze t uch ctio ier ut th rate mis m lowi fam nspe sly last on, mov Step on decided also to )nemor- Item the ntment way as rnment cut s. laticite asked. ssocias io Legislature to a erning the appc; trates in such a e Provincial Gov ppointment, inde of the county c emperance ass Province will ith the Huron S.C.- g expression of s ly of the late I tor for West Hu dopted. " Resol neeting of the IS has pleased from amongst u's en Yates, Inspe Riding of the county, his con - mild desire to place o record appreciation of the Christian and sterling worth of Mr. tion hereby places, faction with the ap J. Paisley, as Insp West Huron. We of our cordial eym est -co-operation in the discharge of the duties of his offiiie. The illness and Inspector, have rein" igorous work on the nspector. an imperae! death of the late dered earnest and v part of the present tive necessity." The convention a tive Committee to local temperance or diligence in assisfin the performance placing them in formation they ma cerning violations o OCCUr. Disapproval of ments to the Sen wai expressed in unanimous vote, James Thompson, onded by R. Adam the effect "that th that in recent appo ate no disposition to consult the tem this Province, and ments of Mr. Mer to a house alread tagopistic to the S decided censure." vote the conventio resolution; "That of the Scott Act ha pathy mented on, Was ed that ott Act lmighty y death tor for thorized the Exeeu- endeavor to get the ienizations to use all the Inspectors in f their duties, by ossession- of any ins be able to get eon - the Scott Act that - the recent appoint - to of the Dominion the adoption, by a f a motion made by f Clinton, and see- d Londesboroe to s convention regrets ntments to the Seri - has been Manifested erance sentiment of hat the -late appoint- er and Dr. Casgrain overwhelmingly an- tt Act, calls foe our By the same decisive passed the following vhereas the operation been seriously em- barrassed for the ant of certain impor- tant amendments contemplated in the Jamieson Bill, this convention hails with ge which the Hon. iven the country to o secure the needed o aid in the enforce - by all the power of and recommends to to require from all candidates solicit -rig their votes, not already on recor pledge to support to - remove the ex secure the fair a in the various cou Rev. B. B. Keef inimi Alliance, wa the morning and the convention, to US success by picussons, and givi on many points course of debate.' The convention ex- preesed its appreciation of his assistance by ki v in g him a hearty vote of thanks.: The meeting was closed with the bene- diction, and adjourned sine die. Canada. A movement is on foot in Toronto to secure shorter working hours for shop girls. —John Charlton, Esq., M. P, of Norfolk county, has been visiting friends in Iowa. —A detachment of the Winnipeg Sal- vation Army opened fire at Brandon on Sa.turd,ay night. . —Mayor Scott, of Galt, instead of entertaining the new council to a supper has donated $50 to the poor of the town. —Lady Macdonald has an article in Murray's Review, London, on tile open- ing of the Canadian Pacific railway. —Fred. Westbrook and Chas. Hacker, the Canadian trick bicyclists, have re- ceived an offer from Barnum. —A resident of the township of East Oxford, named Michael Toohey, has just died at the extreme age of one hundred years. —The Guelph City Council have ard of Education to h as soon as possible. ester, one of the pio- n citizens of Toronto, evening at the ripe satisfaction the pie Edward Blake has exert his influence amendments, and ment of the Act executive action, temperance elector in favor thereof,'a 11 legislation tending sting difficulties, and d full trial of the Act ties." r, agent of the Dom - present during -both afternoon sessions of • id contributed muOli rticipating in its die - g needed information hat came up in the ily were living. The news of his death - will be learned with regret, by a large circle of acquaintances in Bruce county. —The lifeless body of an unknown. Frenchman was found on the cowcatch- er of a Canadian Pacific Railway loco- motive arriving at Montreal the other day. —The Bishop of Kingston was in Treoton Sunday opening!), new convent, the fourth in this diocese in two years. The -other convents are at St. Andrews, -Corewall and Westport. --Mrs D. Wylie the veteran Brock - yule newspaper editor, is, for the :38th year, a member Of the School Board of that town. He has been honored by beirig elected Chairman for 1887. —s -A motion is about to be intreduced into the Winnipeg city council tolextend the municipal franchise to unmarried women and married women holding pro- perty in their covn right. boy arrived ,at Port Hope on, Sathrday night almost frozen and fam- ished. He had walked all the weer from Torbnto. Efforts are being made to find him employment. --1-Two little girls fell into Mud Creek near Niagara Falls, on Saturday after- nool), and were rescued just in time to prey! ent_their being swept into Niagaraj Riyer. challenged the B play a curling ma —Mr. James neer and best kno died on Saturda old age of 84. —J. Comisky, fined $2 in Ing horse tied to a tel hours. —Robert MeC Hamilton to thre tiary for beating Kingston, Friday --The Manito passed a grant throughout the P regarding dairyin was a I kept the store. Such is the un of J. R. Sterling, —The Hon. G appointed by the Sons of Tempera to the National —A. Garden, a Barrie, slipped a shen. few days and since -then he a few inches ahoy —There is trou of the Fingal Ba day night, 16th i vice, the door h one of the memb —The Kincard a notice of the d which occurred the 30th of De The deceased wa Kincardine, having settled here abiout the year 1850, and owned and worked a -sawmill on the Penetangore riveui in those early dee* He was an active member and atk, • official of the early Methodist church in Kincardine, and was largely instrumental in securing the erection of the first 'brick Meth o having n Oxford farmer, was rsoll for leaving his graph pole for several [lough, sentenced: at years in the peniten- is wife, was taken to a Government have for the circulation ovince of information orkman and his wife They have assigned. relished and brief tale a St. Thomas grocer. o. W. Ross has been 'rand Division of the ce, one of its delegates ivision. commercial traveler of d fell at Penetangoi- eo, injuring his spine, t can raise his feet oily the ground. i le in the congregation tist church. On Sim- st., there was no ler- ving been locked 'thy TS. ne Reporter publis'ees ath of Wm. With4re, storia, Oregon, on ember, aged 84 ye4rs. one of the pioneers. of --Seven Montreal sportsmen bay leased 25 square miles of hunting coun try in the Mattawan district, and bay establish -ed a club for the manager -pen and enjoyment of the same. —The Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, woolen milli. people retently shipped a quantity! of their goods to Jamaica, to fill orders, and now, says the times, have orders from British Guiana. --Mr. T. Kilborn, of Plattsville, wh was nominated by the Oxford Temper ance Conyention as County Police Mag istrate, has received his appointment t offipe. The choice is an excellent one. 4 -Thursday forenoon last week, while 'Donald Galbraith, who lived three mile noidh of Dutton, was engaged in th woods felling trees, a limb froma tree fel), striking him on the heads killin hies instantly. --Major Bell, of the famous Bell farin, was in Ottawa last week on his W-.9,7 to England to organize , a company for developing what is believed to be a veey valuable silver mine at Rabbitt Mountain, near Port Arthur. -,—The congregation of the Rev. Gus- tavus Munro, .Presbyterian minister of Etebro, has just presented him; with a handsome cutter and robes. ' An ap- preciative congregation makes at, power- ful' pulpit. a • • -! Mr. Alex Cam bie, chief clerk of the n Canadian Patent office, is dying of .Bright's disease and dropsy. He is now in Montreal, whither he went to consult some eminent physician. He was unable to !return home. is estimated.. that four million bushels of wheat have already been ship- ped from Winnipeg to Eastern Canada influence to his energetic work. De- ceased was born in Delaware and was 24 years of age. —Messrs: Purcell and McKenzie, both of Glengaryomar Cornwall ,have secured the contract to build the new railway from Algoma Mills to Sault Ste Marie-. This contract covers 88 miles,. and will eventually serve to connect the Canada Atlantic by a direct line to St. Paul, Minnesota, and the .Ameriaan Western Railways. —The affairs of the Ayr American Plough Com pan y at Ayr, have been placed in liquidation. The trustees' statement gives hope that all claims will be settled in full. It is said that the coin pany's outstandings in the Northwest reach a large 'awn and will, it ie thought, be hard to collect. , , —The train on the !Northern and Northwestern Railway leaving Toronto - on Saturday afternoon was run into be- tween Allendale and Colwell by the train for Penetanguishene, which was 1 following. A few of the passengers were slightly injured and the rest shaken. —Mrs. A. E. Griffiths, wife of Rev. Elder Griffiths, of St. Thomaa was de- scending the stairs with a lamp in her hand one morning last week, when she stumbled and fell heavily upon her side, sustaining a facture of the hipbone. As Mrs. Griffiths is an old lady, her injuries are of a very serious eharaCter. —Joseph Jackson, well-known in East Oxford, who was staying at the resi- dence of Alex. Davidson, of Oxford Centre, arose on Thursday morning, and shortly! after some one in the house heard him failing down stairs. When found he was completely paralyzed. He linger- ed until Saturday morning, when he died. ,He was 75 -years of age. —Mrs._ Draper, Grand Lodge Lecturer for the. Province of Quebec, is visiting every, locality under time jurisdiction of Sherbreoke District Lodge, and has already had encouraging success in the work of organization. The lady has a. fine presence, and believes in temper- ance, not only in the lodge -room, but also at the ballot box. byi the Canadian Pacific Railway this season, and there is still about one million bushels in the hands of farmers. Ministerial Association of Win- nipeg have decided to invite Dr. Murt- ha% the celebrated American Evangel- ist, now laboring in Dr. Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle, to conduct a series of lunion revival services in Winnipeg in March next. s—Wm. Glassy, aged 17, has been ar- rested on information, which charges hin with having, on the day of the On- tario elections in St. Thomas, imperson- ated his father, Mr. David Glassy, and wilfully and falsely sworn that he was 21 years of age. 1 ---The Scott Act enforcement goes steadily on in Halton county. Last w ek Peter Tymmerman, in, of Bur- g gton, was fined $50 and costs, $64 in al , for illegal selling. In default of p yment two months' imprisonment is ordered. Mr. Thos. Pearce, County School Inspector for North Waterloo, slipped B o the street, near his residence in er- , the other day, and falling heavily fractured two of his ribs, which will incapacitate him from duty for some time. —Mr. A. S. Johnson, M.' A., Modern Language Master of Caledonia High School, has left to take the position of Ptofessor of Metaphysics in Cornell U iversity, Utica, New York,- at a s4ary of $1,000 for the coming six months. —During last week, Inspector Boon, of Kent county, had five Dresden hotel - k epers fined $50 and costs each for vio- la ion of the Scott Act, and one of allaceburg fined $100 and costs and to $50 and costs each for the same of- f e ce. Total $450 —The other evening the barn of'i CI arles Hyssop, township of Pittsburg, near Kingston,was burned. Besides the beilding Mr. Hyssop lost his year's crop, agricultural implements, 5 horses and 21 cattle. Loss, $3,000. The fire was oc- canioned by the upsetting of a lamp. :—The Northwest Claims Commission has concluded its labors in Montreal,and will shortly meet in Ottawa. , The re- port will soon be, presented to the Gov- ernment, and will, it is said, , indicate thot a great saving has been aceomplish- ed in the adjustment of claims. ' —The annual meeting of the Dominion Cattle Company was held at Sherbrooke, ;Quebec, on Thursday, last week. The -stetement indicated heavy losses in cattle during -the storms of last winter. Hien. M. H. Cochrane retired from the od:esidency, and Mr. Hugh Bryan, of Toronto, was elected to the position. ,—Mr. Henry Weld, third son of Wm. Weld of the Farmer's Advocate, died on onday of last week at the family resi- d nee, London. Mr. Weld was for a tine fruit farming in Texas, and as he did not like that country he returned home and for some time assisted his father in the direction of that journal, dietchurch.done Which owes much of its circulation and —The iron on the Lake St. John railway, Quebec, has been laid to within forty miles of the lake, and the board of directors have approved of the location for that forty Miles. • From 800 to 1000 men are now employed on the work and when spring rolls around will have the grading ready' for track laying, which will be proceeded with just as rapidly as possible. —Mrs. John R. Campbell, wife of the proprietor of the Essex Hotel, Winds6r, -who eloped two weeks ago with apeddler named Joseph Henekler, taking with her $3,000 in cash, $1,000 in jewelry and. a trunk load of silks and finery, has re- turned home. Campbell found his wifein Buffalo. She had repented of her hasty flight, and wrote to him asking forgiveness. —There is a big sensation in Frank - ford, near -Belleville, over the recent death of a lady and the early marriage of her husband. After the death of the lady, who was beloved by a large num- ber of the villagers, a few days only elapsed before the husband sought an- other wife, whMh aroused Aro little gos- sip. It is now hinted that the first wife may have met with foul play and her body is likely to be exhumed. —A large shipment of machinery was made from the Wm. Hamilton Manufac- turing Company's Works, Peterboro, to New We -stun British Columbia, last week. Accompanying it, for the same purchaser, was ten thousand _pounds of copperine, the well-known non-fibrous box metal for journal bear- ings, which the maker, A. W. Spooner, Port Hope, says has met with good suc- cess during the. past year. —F. W. Coleleugh was arraigned- a the Provincial police court, Winnipeg, the other day on the charge of perjury, made bfWm. Clark. The plaintiff is accused of having made a false affidavit in Connection with a voter's ceitifieate previous to the recent elections for the LoCal Legislature. There was no evi- dence taken, and the ease was adjourned until the 27th inst. Mr. Coleleugh was released from custody on his own recog- nizance for $500. -LA daughter of Thomas O'Neil, of Hamilton, is confined to her bed from wounds received by being bitten by a huge Newfounilland dog, While enter- ing a neighborle house she was attacked by the dog and bitten in seven or eight plecese on the arm, under the arm, and on the back and side. The dog, which -was ope Of the largest of its breed in the city, was immediately -destroyed. It had never -shown any signs of attackina the girl before, though she had frequent- ly been around the place. —Mr. C. S. Drummond, who recently retorned to Winnipeg from England„ whither he had been in connection with the fludson'e Bay Railroad enterprise, states that' before leaving England he witnessed the launching of the first steamship for the new route, the Port Augusta. She was built by Milburn and was launched. at Newcastle. She carries 3,000 tone and makes sixteen knots an hour. She is specially built for the trade, and is steel plated with teak linings Accommodation is pre- vided for 1,000 passengers. Her sister ship is the P rt Nelson, which will 'be launched in f arch, and is similar in every respect • to the Augusta. Besides these, two steamers are being fitted out in ,Neweastle, the Maharajah and Sir Richard Corry. The first carries 1,900 tons and the second 3,000 tons. The grid voyage will be made in the earl* part of June, either as an experiment-oa to carry rails. There are two thousand thos awaiting shipment. Mr. Drum: - mend says that another and larger sec- tion of the -road will be built this sum- mer. The precise number of miles will depend largely upon the action of the Legislature in adopting the provincial guarantee to suit the requirements cif English financiers. If this guarantee iss made satisfactory to them, as much, probably, as two hundred miles will be completed before the fall.