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it•e, haethe 'leis-,
serieus and pain-
tre a tree which
rstck against an-
,Swingiug around
'S.f timber, almost
:hurling it with
Oeil as to crush
fee otherwise in -
it Was at once
pleased to repart
as well as, and
res expected,
• - -•
Moshe
trRE..--An illegal
re of School Sec -
by Mr. Quian on
tss the use of the
,tile- arm trustee
Ot. enough notice
Meeting lawful.
ln Ellis is visit-
e—Misses- Janet
while collecting
-last week, tied.
gate, tald while
ec horse niehg
in
.11 lady drivers
Stage of the ab -
'Jr home. Noth-
r. Gem Quinn
rt business, and
Ines as cheap as
reed. --Mr. Roht.
Its Maggie Mc
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rends in Paisley
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1 ---:At the first
Iwnship council
as re -appointed
75 per annum,
Hut joint Mct
ulitars and Mr..
!inted arbitrator
ship.. The au-
; have the town.
p to the st of-
: was again made
have the north
'Itsession 8,trans-
.1 Section No. 7,
le to schoolsec-
r ' witting the Iast
ted to $32.75.
tem were reps -
et -riven t and 21
ne of council
,f Felintar)%
eouple of giddy
ing their mattes
awl, Wilton, and
eeetable ladies,
a Taranto paper
ee with gentle-
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how ridiculous
- iiarul what risks
"Auk twice before
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'NINETEENTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER ' 1,000.
SEA
OIRTH) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1887.
MoLEAN 13ROS. Publishers
$1.50 'a Year, in Advance
GrOat Cheap Sale,
—NOW IN-
2TT L L -A-8 T
--AT THE—•
CHEAP CASII STORE
SEAFORTH.
We have just finished going through
our whale stock, marking. dowe every
article in each department. Never
fore did wemake such eweepieg re t-
t.iois,1 a great many lines away below
wholesale prices. The followiu
few of the leading lines:
are a
Dress Goods, Prints, Gingham, Shirt -
tags, Cottons, Denims, Dncrks, Table
Linens, To wellings, Holland', Lace Cur-
tains, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Rib-
bcx6, Embroideries, Millings, _ Yarns,
Blankets,
Flannels,
Jackets,
Cloths, Tweeds, Ulsterings,
Underclothing, Boys' Suits,
Jerseys, Shawls, Squares,
Clouds, Scarfs, Leggings, ete.
Remember the place—
Hoffman d Co.,
Cheap Cash Store,
Carduo's Block, Seaforth.
Mr. R.eitli's Valedictory.
TO the Electors of the South Riding of Huron.
GENTeemns,--There have been severalletters in
the papers in opposition to me In reply to one
frorn "A 1,fiberal " in Hensall : 1 did vote and
canvass for Mr. Bishop, though he gave me the
worst pill to swallow that 1 ever took from one
whom 1 supported when he said on nomination
day that he bought his beer and- paid for it and.
drank it above board, but I ani satisfied that I
was right, under the eiretunstances„ in votieg for
Mr. Bishop,and surely every elector in Ontario
has reason to he proud of the Han. Oliver Mowat;
though he is not infallible. -Tri conclusionto this -
reply,. My address contained My own convictions
independent of any party, though I am an out
and out Befortner. - , -
A few words about Dr. Campbell: In his ad
dress he says that 'a Munher cif Reformers asked
him te come out. We believe that to be true,
hut he surely dqes not mean to try to Make us
heave I that he was not waited on and asked to
vome Ottt as a candidate by Conservatives.. It he
:Is trying that little game already, whitt will he
do before the contest is over. I am not at all ac-
quainted- with Dr. Campbell, but what 1 have
heard of him is in his favor, though there seems
to me to be something deceitful in the way he is
comity-, ont. When plaCed inyvelf before the
1,ublier..1 Vetti not aware that I could not withdraw
on the day of nowiniition„ and aa it is too late to.
decide then, whether 1 am wanted- or not, -1 pre-
fer, all things considered, to withdraw now.
In reply to Rev. J. A. Kealy'a address to his:
congregation, I would say that I cant under-.
stand hew it is that he has made- in many gross
misstatements:Mit 1 believe he has made. one •
eorrect statement when lie says that. Eng -land in
Hen -re VITUS time thrcw. off the iron yoke of
Reinei hut he doesn't tell us that- Bloody queen
Mar,y,la Boman tat
lholie, tried to bring the na-
tion again under. the control of the Pope by
burning 288 of her noblest subjectsat the stake,
and in other ways trying to drive Protestantism
from the land. Compare this queen's reigrwith
that of Queen Elizabeth„ a Proteatant, which is
noted as being elm of the most brilliant 41 the
history of the nation. We will pass on to- James
H., who. was a goinan Catholic, and we are ware
of tome of- the erueltibs practised -under his coil
0701, but he. had togiVe way to a more noble ruk,
the Protestant reige of William., Prince of
Orange, and his wife' Mary II. Theipriest speaks
of Ireland, but it was William, Prin,oe of Orange,
the Protestant King,. who saved Ireland from the -
terrors of Catholieism as represented - by the
treatment of the Protestantsat the hands of
James_ at the siege of London.derry, where they
were starving to death, and waiild have been.
butchered had it net been for the timely
arrival of William's troops and the great victory
a year later, where William at the head of his
gallant troops, defeated james. at the battle of
the Boyne-; also helpedto rid the country o1.
that wicked king and established Protestantism
more firmly. Father Kealy says that Protestants'
a( -knowledge the liberties of the Ohttreh' of
itom.e. I will 'give you a few feet* that 1 have
just read about Romish errors: Prayers: for the
dead begau A. D. 200 ; worship of saints, mar-
tyrs and angels A. D. ete ; worship of the Virgin
Mary was developed about A. D. 431; priests be-
gan to wear a different dress. front the laity
A. D. 500, ; worship in an unknown. tongue A. D.
600 ; Papal supremaey A. D. 000 ; worship of
images and relics. imposed A. I). 783; baptism of
In -lis A. 1). 965; obligatory celibacy ol the -priests.
A. 1). 11)00; iufdlibilit,v of the church A.D.
; sale of' indulgences A. D. ma; dogma of -
transubstantiation, ottleially decreed .k..D. 1215 ;
aafrieular confession officiall2e imposed- A. D.
1215 ; :the cup kept back from the laity officially
sauctiened A D.141.5 ; purgatory officially recog-
nized 'A.. n. 1439 -,. llotnish traditions put on a.
level ;vit,h the Serratures A. I). 1540.; the im-
maculate eonception proulaimed A. 1). 1854 ;the
hope's temporal power proclaimed A. D. 1864.;
Patna infallibility- proclaimed -A. D. 1870. - .Are
these liberties ? AR Father Kealy would try to
make ou believe. Does -not the murder of
Seott teaelt us a lesson when the cruel naird.erer,
Kiel, (HMI not be punished before he had caused
so notch misery and blood:shed in the Northwest.
Is not Hackett another example of
the same-. kind? Does Father Kealy wish to
know the secret of England's greatness? When
the King ef Ahyssiela asked that question of
);-eite. Vietoria,, she held aid the. Bible and spid :
This the seeret of England's greataess l"
\ t this is the Bible that Itounim Catholics
kLe 1101 allowed to read. Abrahatu Lincoln saw
'Protestantism to be in danger. .11e compared
the re.11.:thing-1. el gottw to the dark mysteries of
10-11, ilt• says alien, is a dark cloud tilled with
tears Of Mout/ &cming.froni Koine, that will pass
o i the. States, vreading ruin and desolation.
el()1IN REM II. Blake, Ont.
- tiany of our readers will regret to
0. .sru that Mr. E. IL Talbot, one of the
oldest and niostI respected business men
iu Wingham, has found it necessary to
make an assignment for the benefit of
his creditors. For many years Mr. Tal-
bot has carried ea a large and profitable
busieess in that; town, but his recent
heavy loss by fire, in which his entire
etock of goods, Ivalued at $9,000, was
swept away in one night, has forced him
to take the step he has.
AUSTRALIA. -
DEAR EXPOSITOR.—We cannot cele-
brete Christmas here with all the cere-
monies of the olden. time. We lack the
bracing air and exhilarating frost and
snow of -the lands of " Gingle Bells."'
And it takes a good deal of courage to
face a roast goose followed by plutn-pucl-
ding with the thermometer at 100 ° in
the shade. But circumstances or dis-
tance cannot prevent us going back in
imagination to the family gatherings of
this festival season, when gifts, cards
and socials renew and knit friendship
--c1oser4 Such thoughts have induced
me again to play with "nature's noblest
gift, the gray goose -quill," but I hardly
know what toisay. It -is -often difficult
to imagine what will be most interest-
ing to the many intelligent readers" of
THE EXPOSITOR, frbiu such an isolated
and insular land as this. Glenrock,
Dalgety street, St;cilda is my address,
so that if any oneishes any particular
inform' tion, and will let me know what
it is, 1 1Wjll do the
it. For the prese
bourne, I probab.
than just give you
about the city. For among the congerie. s
of settlements in their tadpole stage,
dotting the dusky green isles of the
Southern seas, arid striving with jealous
rivalry for supren acy Melbourne for
population; wealth' and general advance-
ment leads the way, and justly claims
the prourid istinctim of "The Queen City
of the South:" Could Lord Melbourne,
e'er he ascended r the golden stairs,",
have visited this modern metropolis of
Victoria, he would have been surprised -
to see, that in so short a time, a city
bearing his name should rise to the rank
of eighth or ninth among _the stately
competitors of the British Empire. The
population now exceeds 340,000 people,
including the subuibs of which St. Kilda
is the most pleasantly situated on the
north east of Port Philip .Bay. The
eitizens are quite different from those of
colder countries, and agricultural cen-
tres, where domestic and local procliv-
ities are stronger , and .where beys do
not quite so frequentlycall their mother
"the old womau." In this camparative-
ly new land, they lack that reverence
which is "gathered from the wisdom of
age." The superabundance of animal
spirits, continually bubbling over, tends
to larrikinism and all sorts of unenviable
revelry and' dissipation. The exported
"
black sheep" of many English fam-
ilies are • zontinually reinforcing the
ranks; and in the face_ of all that
preachers and moralists can accomplish
the tendency seems' to he from fast to
faster. The fluctuating pastures, the
uncettain'raine end the ups and downs
of mining, Wiith the facilities for un-
checked sport e from one end of the year
to the -other, have all left their imptess
deeply rooted in Colonial character.
This imperishable possession has youth
on its side and is yet plastic: but many
fear it is gradually assuming that dis-
tinctive setting, the reflex of which, like
that of Frenee, will be more dazzling
than substantial. Extensive bettiret
has already commeeced in connection
:with the race that has lately been ,
ar-
ranged betwelm Harden and Beath. ' If
it takes place there willebe more excite-
ment than esier here. Smile think! he
Must have confidence or he weuld 'not
came, but thelMajority would rather see
him again strt nded' on the Australian
r
Beach.' '
est I can to supply
t, as I- am in Mei-
cannot do better
a few straggling hints
Share broking and the atmosphere of
the Mining Exchange have developed
gamblers of the first water, and prob-
ably in no dthee country - do " book-
makers " flourish so well as here. The
city is said tol contain no less than 500
licensed ones, besides the innumer ble
host of satelli es a wa-ys prowling abut
In all countt des, but especially us-
tralia, there seems to be a latent desire
in the minds of very many people to
back their opinion with a wager, and
venture so Much money for Che chance
of making more. To accommodate this
class, the verious racing clubs have
licensed those: members in good stand-
ic)
Mlg, who make it their profession to at-
tend sports and races te receive the ets
of all who have dreamt of the winnet or
got the "straight tip " from some con-
fidential friend. 1
Melbourne,' as we have said before, is
a modern checkerboard city, where one
cannot very easilY get lost, as the 100
miles of streets intersect one another at
right angles.' The principal ones are
well paved, and' have been called after
notable men.. Suburban lines of rail-
way, on Which some American carriages
have been placed, run to all the Out-
skirts. Cable. trams, omnibuses, cabs,
vans, and carts are everyhthere con-
venient and run at cheep rates—for
all ordinary joerneys 3d. Manufac-
tories are numerous, and all the letest
inventions and machinery have beers in•
tradueed. Many improvements and
public works are 'going on, all of which
are of a substantiai and enduring char-
acter. The young Victorians are
naturally very proud of their aity, :raid
quire jealous of Sydney, which. is t•,:ice
the size. The new organ in the t4iwn
,
hall is the fifth largest -in the world, and
the exhibition building cost upward e of
half a InaliOn pounds sterling.
Every street, every alley and by -way,
almost every house to the attics, is well
lit with gas, supplied by the •:\letropoli-
tan Gas Company. In the afternoons
the streets are thronged with handsome
women, many of wham have golden yel-
low hair which is the prevailing colonial
color, fashionably and really tastefully
attired, "doing the block," , patrolling
Collins street, or gracefully relining in
cerriages . of the most modetn ' build,
drawn by sleek, prancing horses, 'with
-well:fed lackeys in livery perched on the
box. Many of the girls are ,handsome
and accomplished, and acquit themselves
very creditably.' : Very few of them
make as good flirts as American ones,
from the fact that they ane more san-
guine and reciprocate attention jnst for
whet it is worth ,as conducive to eriatti-
Ca.
mony. Most travelers agree
have never seen, in any city,
well dressed people; so many
bracelets and rings; so man
cloth suits and bell-toppe
Very- few beggars are to be
with all their faults, this ntu
of the people of Australia, t
are kind, charita
their whirling cycle
remember their de
pitals, asylums and
Mons are abundant
demands that all el
shall be assisted .
especially at this carnival sees
yeer—on this the :natal anni
whom the enfightene&
nations profess to follow—th
Au4tralia get many tangible th
beeign influence of thatchaeita
ingcradled in the east ; and whic
fostered through the rolling ye
0.111 who have been impelled"
man -spring of the soul, to do
toWards the atnel oration of
humanity. Free. libraries ar open i▪ n
all the suburbs, and the centril one, in
le, and
of giddy s
erviug po
benevolm
. Public
esses of th
ted cared
hat they
so many
diamond
broad-
" hats.
seen and
t be said
iat they
with all
orts they
r. Hos-
t institu-
entiment
helpless
for, and
n of the
ersary of
'ataxy of
poor of
ens of the
le teach -
s ha been
rs, by
the
hing
d.ffering
th city proper, oontains 90,00
"embreeing all the beet and m
sive' works that have. been
The fine art gallery, the mu
botanical and geological ga
also free, so that those who
ford to pay have access to th
ed knowledge of the mighty
an opportunity to study the ti
doins of nature to their sa
There are many parks 'nd res
shady trees, making
spaces away from the
dust of the streets. T
general, Mr. noddle, d
rand
bustle,
e first
volumes,
stem pen -
reduced.
earn, the
dens are
annot af-
embalm-
ant ; and
ree king-
isfaction.
ryes with
teething
heat and
surveyor -
serves he praise
of the present and all seeceedit g genera-
tions for the; foresight he has shown in
though it
provision
t of those
1 gardens
en toad -
se. This
I)
laying out a'city &ewe% that,
may in increase tenfold; ample
has -been made foe the. comfo
in the centre. The botanic
adjoin the domain, and are a
vantage from Government Hot
immense vice•regal abode, said to con-
tain the largest bathroom in t
is pleasantly situated on an
overlooking the tortuous a
Yerra, of which little need
Position is sometimes eveiythi
it is one of the Australian
which the capital of a colon
built. .In many parts of
would only be known, locally
body's creek. But, returnin
gardens, we find those enchant
of the south which tongue
never describe, or the m
imaeination overdraw. FlOwe
re world,
eminence
d mucky
be said.
g. Here
rivers on
has been
anada it
as some-
). to the
ng glories
✓ pen can
st fertile
s of every
hue in rich profusion, all the 'ndigenous
ornamental trees and shrubs, a d exotics
from every land, are here ar a.nged by
the cultured eye and hand of Mr. Guil-
foyle, formerly of the Londo gardens.
The paint, the bottle -tree, th bamboo,
the passion flower, the crucifi. ion thorn,
and cactuses, 12 feet high, in full bloom,
have all a history of their own. The
creeping ivy, the fuchsia and
all their place. The green las
merrugated with frost, ,are as s
vet ; but the perennial green
than our Canadian, while the
-more brilliant in hue. The fr
the wattle perfumes the in
roses scent the air. Artific
fountains and ferneries, in in
nature's wildest Wens, give v
additional interest. Serpent
with handsome' borders, le
covered over with vines,
beneath the spreading eucaly
n ,lia or Norfolk pines, offe
opportunities for remen
" spooning," which is a con
here, frequently put 'into pr
is as applicable to colonial
flirting is to the American._
can arrive at the nice distincti
the two words, will have a
n tate of the difference between
of the Greatest Republic a
the Greatest Island in the wo Id.- Yours
truly, J. 'MILLIE.
Melbourne, Christmas, 1886.
adsy have
ms, never
ft as eel-
s duskier
lowers are
tgrance of
ecze, and
al ponds,
itation of
riety and
ne, walks
stic huts
nd seats
tus, mag -
tempting
ding or
mon term
ctice, and
nature as
hose who
n between
ood eSti-
the people
d -those. of
A Letter from Mr. 1 avid
McNaught.
RAPID Cm, Ianitoba, t
• January 29 1887.
iDEAR EXPOSITOR,—After ite a long
time I again send you a few disjointed
notes from Rapid City. I d not know
that I would have done so n w, only I
have just done reading Mr W. Bar-
ber's letter, and he has given eu a little
of his wind about the 'eidetic> s. Now,
I will just say about the elec ions, first,
that Mr. Greenway was at home but
little of the time eith,erbefore or during
the time of the elections. He was doing
missionary work for his p ty in the
other constituencies, and he id a good
work.' I have heard all the :reat guns
on the Tory side of the Lo al Rouse,
and I am sure, and the great 1 sajority of
the people of Manitoba re atdless of
Party will bear me out in s ying, that
Mr: Greenway is as good if n t a better
speak.er than any of them, an 1 that his
any sub-
pur of the
the Local
any sub -
o a large
nitoba to -
his ability
majority
ve before
e, and the
turned to
aye been a
mind takes a better. grasp o
ject presented to him on the
moment than any man in
House to-tlay—and, in fact,- o
tea that comes up-; and al
in[tjority of the people of M
day have confidence in both
arh.1 honesty. The reason hi
was decreased was, as I h
stated, he was away front hon
Government left no stone u
defeat him, and there Would I
howl along the whole line if he had been
left out in the cold. Mr. Edtor, I con-
sider we Grits of • Manitoba made the
best fight ever made by any Irovince in
e Dominion, when you col sider how
we were handicapped. First They gery-
mandered all the constituen ies, except
the French pocket boroughs along the
Red River that were sure te send sup-
porters of the G-overnrnent, e d some of
these had not sufficient resi ent voters
tq sign the nomination pape s for both
candidates. Second—They p .epared the
"voterstlists as suited thems lves ; kept
of all our voters -they could, and when
s me of them, at the Court o Revision,
ti
were ordered to be put en by the Judge,
the m nicipal clerks conveniently left
14.
them o , and the only way ' to punish
such -mtecreants is by a lawsuit before a.
Jedge Of their own --political comple ion,
and th n you will have to prove that it
Was do ie knowingly and with intett to
clefrau4 said voter of h6 franchise. 1 The
Tories Iput people of all kinds o4 the
lists-; s me on salary, others who hid no
lands n `r. any claim were put dowln on
the list: for lands they never os ned,
and we'e allowed to vote. Third All
parties who ran in the Governme t in-
terest ot transfers—that is, if they
were a Rapid City or Brandon and had
to vote at Strathclair or Oak Rive , say
a dista" ce of front 45 to 50 miles and
were g ing to support the Govern ient
candid te, they had pocketfuls of t ans
fers in lank; one was filled up an the
voter wee run out to - the nearest poll-
ing plaee there to "cast his vote; b t all
the Grits had to go Over the roa , no
matter how' long it Might be, a d if
they had property in more than one
place itt the riding they saw their ianie
on the publishecl listsand naturall ex-
pected to vote at the polling place mare
est to t seir place of abode, but on rriv-
ing there. they had to go oftee te thel
polling booth at their farthest of pro-
perty. This was done in a great any.
instances and if the party started late
'in the day, as they often did, the esult
Was a loss of the vote for our side, and
in some instances aparty was all day
getting one vote in while if he had oted
at home he could have cast two or hrce
votes for his party in other ri ings.
When you eonsider the Goven ment
patronage,' the money that was reely
spent and the promisee that were 1 ade,
and that every officer, poll clerk; con-
stable, returning officer, and every louse
in which a poll was held was a Tory
house, in fact all the influences that
could be brought to bear on the el ction
Were hilly carried out, you can onl iin-
magine how We were ha.ndicaped. rheir
ithirtee votes judiciously applied n the
majori ies of the Government su port-
ers woiltld have turned the Consers ative
victory into a defeat, or had therel been
elect -
n de -
the
three other independent members
ed the Government could have be
feated. Now, considering that i
last house of 34 members we had cn1y 8
of an opposition, now in a house of about
40 members we have an opposition of
about 16, and 15 protested Conservative
seats,aid two Independents,and the ma-
t
jorites of the M inisters in many case e were
very sq -all and one represents only Indians
as a Majority of the white votes were
agains
the ele
had n
Mr. E
the st
Barbet
" caln
We
inion
will c
but o
right
battle
humbl
Premi
2him, and he freely stated before
:ions that he would not sit if he
t a majority Of white vote. So
itor,when you hear both sides of
ry you can easily see that Ur.
and his party ought to keep a
look in their heads."
re now in the midst of our IDom-
lections and cannot say how it
me out nor will I venture a guess,
ly hope for the best, as we have
n our side and are fighting the
of Provincial rights in oui own
way, although we have not a
r like your Grand Little Mowat
to ba,cl. us. But we are sure to win in
the end. The Conservatives are greduar-
ly stealing a few of our pleeks to patch
up th
office.
all the
their
disallo
ir platform to retain them- in
I notice, however, that nearly
Conservative,candidates, both in
diesses and speeches,are against
vance, but still • are wilhng to
suppoit John A. the father of disallow-
ance.
for us
aside
servic
the C
quette
place
Consul
and h
that h
but di
that
vative mernbers froth this Province.
Another election ' dodge to -catch a few
Provincial rights votes.. So much for
politic. . . . I
We iave had a remarkably fine Winter,
nice,clear weather,with very little: snow
but enough for sleighing. We haye had
only one blow which quit at daiylight
this morning af ter having been blow ng for
two days, and when lit underta
blor here, with the thermometer
to 30 degrees below zero, it ger
blows until all the wind gees rot
the other side"; so it appears to m
After a long wait for railway c
tion we have at last got a branch ef the
Portage and North-Western, starting
from Minnedosa, whiCh expects to get
the land grant from the Dominion Gov-
ernment which is now held by the Rapid
City Central, and build 100 miles further
west next -season. There was a time
when iwe would not have taken a spur
line from any road, but we had, after
long kaiting, to pocket otir 'nide and
take hat we could get. This eity is
now lo. king up and getting some of its
old tine vim infused into it. The
settler - who sold out their farms otj mort-
gaged and left them, are now corning
back, paying off their mortga
others are buying the ifars fro
i m
Mortg ge tCornpanies, and the c
is beghming to fill up, and the
who said are going into farmin
more hope, putting in all the - cro
can, IA:lying and raising more stoc
are hopeful of a .good and pros
futurei .
The station -house, tank, wind -mill
and round -house, together with the
ng 25
e the
Meas.
large
h the
nown
I suppose this plank is takeri up
during the elections to be laid
ilreean old coat when it has, done
at the election, Mayor Bolton,
nservative candidate for , Mar -
stated at his meeting at this
n last Friday night tint he had
ed the Chieftain on the subject
d his written authority to say
- might support the party in all
allowance, but they•wouldl leave
n open question with the Conser-
es to
at 25
erally
nd to
nnec-
es, or
the
untry
eople
with
they
, and
erous
strings of teams, sometimes com
to 30 miles to our market, ma
place look thrifty and full of bu
G. McCulloch & Co. have put up
stone mill, four storeys high, wi
most approved roller machinery
to the makers in Galt, Ontario, which
will be in running order in about six
weeks. This mill has a capacity
barrels per day, and in connectio
it is a woolen mill, the second
country, where -cloth of all kind
we expect, be manufactured.
f 150
with
'n the
will,
Before
the year is out we will also have it
cheese factory, which has been in suc-
oessful operation for two seasons,' and
which will be run on a larger scale this
season. The last year's crop up here,
although light on light land, caused by
the drouth, was of excellent quality.
One train pulled out of here°, short time
ago with 15 cars of wheat, labeled "No.
1 hard, from Rapid City to Montreal,"
bought and shipped by your old friend
Arthur Atkinson, of Seaforth, who is
the principal buyer here. We have the
papers .started here now, the Spectator
and Vindicator,—oue too many we think,
but that is their bushiest. As I think
this letter is long enough now I will
close, and, believe me, yours truly, ,
D. MoNeuene.•
Canada.
Big Bear has been released frqm,
Stony Mountain penitentiary. -
— There were 32 business failures in :
Canada during the week ending Feb-
ruary 4th.
'
Mrs. Sophia Madaire died a few days.
ago at Deschenes, near Ottawa aged 110
.years.
—Rev. Dr. Laing, of Dundas, _has
.gone to Newark, New Jersey, for a rest.
His health is bad.
— The census of the city of Montreal,
token by the civic a.ssessors, gives a.
population of over 185,000.
— A ten thousand dollar fire occhrred-
at the Cronipton corset factory in Ter
: -
onto on Saturday morning.
—A Blue Ribbon lemperance Society
has been organized at Allansville, _with
Rev. Mr. Sieveright as President. -
— The Presbyterian ladies of Mimi;
peg have undertaken to. educate the
Chinamen; of that city.
—The Montreal winter carnival was
opened Monday, the city being gaily
decorated and crowded with visitors, I
—Archbishop 'Paine, of. Montreal, has'
issued another circular condemnatory of..
the practice of holding political meetingst
on the Sabbath.
—The two upper flats of Christie,
Brown & Co.'s biscuit factory, in To-
ronto, were badly damaged by fire Fri -
clay -. m mai Mg.
—Mrs. Bradley, of London, England,.
is lecturing in Toronto under the aus-
pices of the White Cross League. Her
meetings are Well attended.
—A man in the neighborhood Of
Mount Forestlost a horse blanket, and
on the following Sunday the fact was
announced from one of the church pul-
pits.
—Several Toronto druggists were ar-
rested the.other day for breaches of the
liquor law. One was fined $40 and the
Others were adjourned for more evi-
dence.
. —The house of Ur. Hector Munro, on
the 4th line of West Zorra, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Friday :night, -.28th
ult., and $100 in money lost besides.
The cause was a defective flue.
—The Quebec Treasurer is reported to
havediscovered that the late Govern-
ment had it deficit of over $500,000 last
year, when they were claiming a small
surplus.
- —Arthur Pini, clerk in the Torouto
post office, was op Monday sentenced to
seven years for stealing- registered let-
ters. He was taken to Kingstor. on
Tuesday.
—It is.estitnated that. during October
and November 150 persons died of
measles at Lesse
and Sturgeon
Northwest.
—The exportseef Canadian produce to
the United States from the port, of
Hamilton during January last were of the
value of $42,100, principally bailey,
wood, horses, cotton waste and malt.
—Miss TempletothArrnetrong has
been conducting evangelistic services in
the Presbyterian church, Kilbride, Hal-
ton county, with much success; the
Methodist church joining heartily in the
work. -
—Rev. F. Harding, of New Hamburg,
left a few days ago for the Bermuda
Isles in quest of health. Mr. Harding
has been for some six months unable to
attend to the duties of his parish, owing
toill health. -
-h-The following letter, in which was
enclosed $1.50, was received by a Guelph
merchant a few days ago from Mount
Forest: "1 owe this muchto you.
Better for me to -pay- it in this world
than in the next. Yours truly."
. —The survey of the route for the
Central Ontario Railway to North Bay
has been. completed, and the surveying
party have returned to Belleville. They
report the land fairly level and well
timbered.
gross earnings of the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company for the week
endinglanuary 31 atnounted to $184,-
000, ae compared with $178,000 for the
corresponding week last year, an in-
crease for 1887 of $6,000.
Slave Lake, Whitefish
ake settlements in the
-et-A ,pastoral from the Bishop of
Haron,condemning the raising of money
for church purposes by means of games
of chance or theatrical entertainments,
was read last Sunday in all the Episco-
pal churches throughout the diocese.
—St. Thomas has, a featherbone fac-
tory which employs some twenty-five
hands. This substance is intended to
take theplace of whalebone for corset
purposes, and is made from turkey and.
goose quills.
—On the opening of the High.School
on Monday morning at Orillia,it was
found that all the copies of the Scripture
Selections in the school had been stolen.
Investigation thus far has failed to give
any clue to the thief.
—In Montreal unfermented wine is
used for sacramental purposes by all the
Methodist and Congregational churches,
ten Presbyterian, two Episcopal, one
Reformed Episcopal, one Baptist, and
the Unitarian and Christian Advent
churches.
—Mr. Neil Dewar, one of the oldest
residents its North Yarmouth, died on
the 3rd inst., at the advanced age of 85
years. He was born in Argyleshire, Scot-
land, and came to this country a young
man. He settled on the spot where he
died, in the: northern part of Yarmouth,
having lived these 50 years. He has
threelsons living—George in the States,
Neil et Port Huron, and Alexander in
St. Thomas. Mr. Dewar was much re-
spected by his neighbors, arnong whom
he had always taken a, prominent posi-
tion. He was a member of the Presby-
teria4 church, and was a life-long Re-
fount:fr.
—Dr. G. M. Dawson, in a lecture be-
fore the Ottawa Literary and Scientific
Socie,y on the Island of Vancouver, pre-
dicted that its great natu
tetiat advantages would i
earn for the island the title
Brit*" of the North Pacific
-:—At a meeting of the To
terial Association last Mo
.morial to the Mayor and
protesting against the exerr
R01141.1 Catholie clergy of the city from
the payment of municipal taxes on in-
come was unanimously adopted.
-1-The Rev. -J. Jacobs, pastor among
the Indians on Walpole Island, county
of Lembton, has just published a new
Indian hymn book of about 200 hymns,
The 'hymn book is one ef the best ever
published in the Ojibway language. It
will be a greet boon to the Mission on
the 1s1and.
Ire. Ramsay, of Vienna, mother of
Georee Ramsa.y, machinist, St. Thomas,
who
in th
feland dislocating her ankles Mrs. Ram-
say in 68 years of age.
— r. Bernardo, of London, England,
is se ding out, the first week in March,
200 loys, (ages 10 to 16 and upwards)
for f rrn labor and other employment.
Thote desiroire of securing isuch help are
recornmended to apply arly to Mr.
Edward Duff, Dr. Barn rdo's Home,
Peterborough, who will fu4iish all neces-
particulars.
The repetation of J. ,&
Toronto Safe Works,
nt Australia, as is wit
al and ma -
the future
of the Little
ronto Minis-
nday, a me -
City Council
ption of the
s visiting her son, while going out
bank yard Monday slipped and
rea.king both bones of her right leg
sary
—
the
dist
fact 1 that last week they
wards of two carloads of t
vault doors to that country
have also received orders
week from Ireland.
—Joseph Atkinson, a faerner living
near' Mardeu; four miles from Guelph,
com flitted suicide on Tuesday last week
by shooting himself in the breast with a
shot um He leaves a wife, four sons
and three daughters to Mourn his loss.
Deceased was well and favorably known
thrOughout South Wellington.
—*Ir. James Haggert, of St. Thomas,
went to Brampton on Friday 28th ult.,
to attend the funeral of Mr. John Hag-
gert, the head of the Haggert :Manufac-
turing Company. On Saturday he was
attacked by a complaint from which he
hadbeen suffering for years; and gradu-
ally sank until he expired on the follow-
ing Prida.y Morning. .
--The village of Medford is under
water. The members of the Presby-
terian church ,had to be ferried across
the street in sleighs on Sunday on ac-
count of the thaw. The Elsor of the Sal-
vation Army barracks was completely
flooded and they were unable to hold
J. Taylor, of.
has, reached
essed by the
shipped up-
eir safes and
, And they
by cable this
young Wesson's body. Miss Lovell in-
sisted, ill as she was, in helping. They
at length decided that a terribly dis-
figured mass of flesh, minus head or
arms, was that of the unfortunate man
and tobk it away. He leaves a wife and
four children.
—Apetition largely eigned by rate-
payers' and unions in the county was
sent to the county council of Bruce last
week, asking that they would recom-
mend the appointment of a Police Mag-
istrate for the purpose of enforcing the
Scott Act in that county. For the sec-
ond time the request was refused, only
11 out of 40 members voting itt favor of
the petition,
—The price of black birch of best
quality, says a Lower Province ex-
change, lsas recently gone up from 87 t.
$95 por 1,000. The extraordinary ade
vanee is due to the discovery that boards
Out out of the first logs are susceptible of
a very high polish, and can be used for
almost any purpose hitherto exclusively
reserved for mahogany, which is worth
$250 a thousand,
—A meeting of the Knights of Labor
of Woodstock was held Friday night,
at which the employes of Kern's organ
factory were invited to present their
loeses by the recent fire. Ths
total loss to the employes as
thus ascertained will be in the neigh-
borhood of $1,100. A committee from
the Knights of Labor will meet ths
ministers of the town for the purpose of
adopting some means of assisting the
workingmen who are thus thrown out ef
employment, and, who have lost heavily,
by their tools being burnt.
—The Belleville General Hospital,
now getting into working order, origin-
ated in a gift of a considerable sum of
money for the purpose by a woman wile
had the physical welfare of the people
at heart, and has been placed, accord--
ing to the founder's desire, -under the
management of a Board of Women. It
has been duly incorporated, and is, per-
haps, the only institution of the kin&
wholly under a Board of Directors ex-
clusively composed of women.
—Several accidents took place at ice
boating on the bay at Hamilton, last
week, iu connection with the carnival
then in progress at that city. A man
named Reardon, while ice boating, re-
ceived such injuries as caused his death
in a I few hours. Edward Ra.nlan, the
oarstnan, had a narrow escape from being
killed in an ice boat race. His boat, the
Sydney, was run into by the Wildcat,
and Hanlan was saved only by being
thrown into a snow bank. The Sydney
was broken into kindling wood, and ono
of the crew of the Wildcat was fatally
injured.
—0e Tuesday morning last a sad acci-
dent occurred to Mr. David Graham.,
one of :Arran's earliest settlers'
enel
which resulted in his death. He ana
his son went out in the morning to at-
tend t� the stock, and the old gentle-
man proceeded to ascend an almost per-
pendicular ladder for the purpose of get-
ting sonte feed for the sheep, and when
about to step from the ladder to the
seaffold he took a dizziness, to which he
was subject, and fell backwards, light -
meetings there sinee that time. ing on a . pole and stake winch were
—The Monetary Imes says: The driven in the ground, fractal:Me both his
reason why oats have been imported
frorn Ontario to: Manitoba to make oat-
meal is the comparative lightness of
grain grown there last summer. Oats
front Ontario can also be laid down in
Manitoba as cheaply as the home article
can be bought, and. they are, besides,
cleaned. - I
i
--Mr. Hugh Sutherland states that
the Hudson Bay Railway Company will
expend $4;000,000 in the coming year.
The. company is having three ships
spemally built at Newcestle-on-Tyne,
ten locomotives at the Glasgow Loco-
motive Works, and rails for 200 miles
of road' at the West CuMberland rolling
mills. 1
-t-Great progress is being made in the
dev loprnent of the anthracite coal mines
at anff Hot Springs, Northwest Terri -
tor. A turinel 12 feet wide and. seven
fee deep has been- driven 225 feet into
the mountain, and about 100 men are
kept at work night and day. A new
to n, appropriately named Anthracite,
has been laid out at the mines,
--.-The annual report of the Winnipeg
Board of Trade shows that the city
ma e subs ntial progress during last
t;,
yea . The grain exports reached a
valne of $3, 00,000, and the total busi-
nese of the city is estimated at $26,000,0
000 Upwaids of a Million acres ot good
lan4t are vaint about the city which can
be urchase 1 at an average of $6.50 an
acr . ;
The Montreal Women's Christian
TeniperaneeUfli0fl, which was organiz-
ed three years ago, and at the end of the
first year had a membership of 575, now
rep rts 1,734 ; an increase of over. a
tho
the
sand in two years. The income for
past tsielve months was $627.61.
big lastlyear this organization dis-
tributed 5;000 tracts, 2,000 books and
500 Christmas letters.
Joseph Ayers, Grand Trunk car re-
er at St. Thomas, has fallen heir to
mg little sum. His mother, who
recently, left property in London;
land valued at about $6,000, which
pai
a
die
En
is to be divided between her two sons.
Mr. Ayers and his brother, who lives in
Petrolia, are getting ready the hecessary
papers to prove their claims to the pro-
perty.
Frank L. Wesson, who was killed crowded. The trades procession was an
at he White River, Vermont railway_ unqualified success. It was large,
accident, Saturday morning, was married gorgeous, unique and well •managed.
to i daughter of John Lovell, of Mont- The line of march Wes thronged with
rea , and was brother-in-law of John
Losiell of New York, publisher. He in
. ten ed to leave for Montreal .Frida
mo ning by the day express, but theri
bei1 g no parlour car attached to the
train he deferred his departure until eve-
ning, taking a sleeping car through to
Montreal. He was accompanied by his
sister-in-law, Miss Lovell, who was re-
turning to her home in Montreal.
Walter H. Wesson and his son accom-
panied by Rey. Dr. Eustis and an un-
dertaker, reached the scene looking for
shoulders and three ribs. Heelied a few
hots re afterward.
—Plans for the proposed bridge across
the St. Lawrence at Quebec have been
prepared, and a company is being for-
med to carry out the work. The bridge
will be on the cantilever principle, and
the height of its centre span will be 150
fi•et ebove high water mark. The object
ii building the bridge is to connect the
Inteteolomel with the Canadian Pacifie
and to give the East two lines to the
West and vice versa. No statement is
given of its cost, but it is stated that at
$4 a 'ear it will pay the interest upon the
money expended in its construction,
—The Toronto House of Industry dis-
tributed relief to the outdoor poor dur-
ing the twa weeks ending .January 31st,
as follows : Fifty-seven tons of coal, 94
bushels of coke, 17t, cords of wood,
11,760 loaves 'of bread and over 250
pounds of groceries. These were given
to 194 families, among which were in-
cluded 390 children. The number of in-
digent persons, tramps, etc., admitted to
the casual ward during the two weeks
was 1,447. T. 10 numfmr of breakfasts
supplied was 1,417, and the number of
dinners 998. Seventy-five galloncof
so -up were given out each day, The
Salvation Army is also doing excellent
service among the poor and destitute of
the city.
—R. J. Macdonald, who has been a
yardman at York Station, Toronto, for
three years, was run over by a train
about 10 o'clock on Thursday night, last
week, and died from his injuries at
o'clopk next morning,- While coupling
cars sn the eased he caught his foot ha a.
frog hisd_was knocked down. The car
wheels passed over him severing one leg
at the thigh and the other below the
knee. He was Carried into his house at
York where he died. He leaves it young
Wife;and a child. He was 29 years of
`age, was a member of the Knights of
Leber and generally esteemed by his
comrades on the road. •
—The Hamilton ice carnival, held
last week, turned out quite a success,
The 'whole country side, with its wife,
family and dog was in town. The
handsomely decorated streets were
applauding people. On the bay over
200 curlers from east and west of the
line of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce
Railway struggled for supremacy. The
east won. In the evening local snow-
shoers and tobogganers were reinforced
by blanket -coated brethren from Toronto
and elsewhere. The procession walked
from the Mountain to the Gore, amid
crowds and' music. The crest of the
mountain Was dotted with bonfires and
fireworks at the Gore brought Hamilton's
first winter carnival to a eloise.