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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-03-25, Page 1{ saw 1- a- 3 ret r4 to fig >la e, I4 of of dk he n- r'a [r-. of b ed nt Ear >n Ise on id - be hat in- Doi to gh T. An on, his: ing ry-- ielY Ind the vn- isit .ve, sly' rh ; the find sed 1c;V :e ;we aaa 4th ple that. taw but the; Felyi aya 1 to L V-1 ata -1 >est! tern• ies. F NINETEENTH Y.A.R. WHOLE NUMBER 1,006. ING, 1887. ALGOMA DISTRICT.. Lints. RArrns P 0.i Algoma, March 4, 1887. has1887. - DEAR EXPOSITOR.—As very 1} been written descriptive of this our fair Province, I v.nce ask a little -your valuable paper. Much = ig GooGoods ���JUSTOPE NE` � —At the— CHEAP CASH STORE MAIN -ST.„ SEAFORTH., New Dress Goods, New Prints, New Cretonnes, New Shirtings,New ,Cottons, New Ginghams, New Corsets, New Gloves, New Frillings, New -Laces, New Embroideries, etc., all at prices that will save you a little cash, n:o matter how small the purchase. You; will say how can we do that ? Well, here is our answer. We can mark every article at the very lowest possible price,. knowing quite well that when we make a small profit, we do not run the risk of losing more than we have made on the truck and trade that we might get did we take trade, but as we only sell for cash, we are sure of what we make, be thatever so little, and everybody knows thatthe cash always buys cheaper than truck and trade. Then take the true and proper way, which is, sell your trade for cash and buy the same way, and you will be the gainer by a long way. If yoa have any cash to spend, try the Cheap • Cash Store of Hoffman & '0., I Cheap Cash Store,E N. Th—Agents for Butterick's Re- liable paper patterns. part of pace in rejudice exists with respect to the na1ure and character of this district. Manyfrankly state that it %a,a territory abounding in rocks and inferior soil., other reports testify that its winters are severe, and are in intensity to be conipat ed with those of the Arctic regions. I shall.give your readers a fullaccount of the char- acter and "resources of this part of Ontario which is at no distant day des- tined to ;compare favourably with other parts of this broad Dominion. i Intend- ing to visit this district I left Kincatrdine on the 15th of August 1886, on the steam- er Ontario, of the Northwest Transpor- tation Company of Sarnia, formerly the Beatty 'Line. The weather was calm. and pleasant, and as we steamed out of port everything was wrapt in tranquil- ity. 'We kept close to the shore of the County of Bruce, and thus an r excellent view of the coast was presented. The beach is low and extends backtowards the higher level, which seems to have been at one time the orginal bd of the ake. After about tU.ree hours sail we came to Southampton, situated on the ,Saugeen river. The appearance of the town from the water is not very grand. Part of it is low and flat, but the better portion appears to be, built on the higher ground. , South- ampton possesses an excellent 'harbor and commodious docks. After. a few minutes stay here, all ate. aboard, and the vessels' front is beaded fair out towards the vast expanse of water: The shores of . the peninsula gradually dis- appear until at length a mere, speck in the form of trees only is visible in the direction of Gape Hurd. As twilight approaches, no land is visible and we are out on the broad waters of Lae ;Huron. No more land is to be seen until daylight. The night was calm and plea -taut. The moon and stars shed their silvery lustre on the clear blue waters. No soiind was heard save that of the plunging - screw, and the splash of the water]. from the vessels bow. These rhythmical cadences in regular harmony lulled us to repose. Just as day dawned we behold the first land in Algoma District, namely, the Manitoulin group of islands.' These islands lie below the 46th parallel of latitude and consist of-the'Grand Man.- itoulin, Cockburn, and Duck and many smaller islands, which dot the North Channel. This group is ferried in the legendary lore of the red man. Here are the islands of the Manitou, the great spirit venerated by the- aborigines. As we approach the coast of the larger island a change of scene is visible. The surface is covered with a dense growth of greentop, and the shore is low and marshy. Changing our position to the other side of the boat, = Cockburn, Island, high and rocky, though picturesque .in grandeur, lies 'before us. The passage between these, . known as Missasauga Strait or Big Channel, is a beautiful sheet of water. A large and commanding light- house lights the entrance to the strait. These islands have a history„ but I shall defer;rny remarks concerning them until I give an account of my trip down the North Channel and the Georgian Bay. At 8 o'clock, a.m., the lofty heights of mighty pleasant barren, and yet again many are cover with forest. On the summits of the. rocky ridges is to be found the -fine pine in the district. Where the be timber is the land is generally worthies The geological formation of Algoma of the Lawrentian system. term This the science of geology represents t lowest recognizable sedimentary f rnaton constituting the earth's cru The name is derived from the River Lawrence, in the basin of which t rocks of this period, highly contort and wrought in all imaginable forms, variedagencies, attain their great development. Much light has in 1 years been shed upon this formation the celebrated Canadian geologists, Wm. Logan, and Sir Wm. Dawson, present President of Magill Univers in Montreal. They are anterior to Cambrian rocks in lime, and are co pared to arid: bear a similarity to the gneiss .which underlies the Lo Silurian formation in the Highlands Scotland. This Scottish gneiss been ' by geologists included in Lawrentian system. All these for tions have certain characteristic fo Barley and W heat. The following resolutions recently passed by the Grain Section of the To- ronto Board of Trade will, doubtless, be read with interest by farmers and others interested in cereals. The resolutions speak for themselves, and need no coma ment nor explanation from us. They are as follows - " Whereas—Owing to the superior duality of the barley grown in Canada, our farmers have been enabled, to com- pete successfully with American growers in the markets of the United States,. even with a duty of 10 cents per bushel against the Canadian. grain ; And. Whereas—An attemptduring the last two years has been made to introduce new seed, and of a variety that does not find favor with American mal'sters and. brewers., And Whereas—It is essential- ly necessary inorder to maintain aur present reputation, of growipg, in Cane ada, the best barley on this continent, that only the most desirable matured seed, properly cleaned, should be sown. Resolved,—That this • Grain 'Section of the Board. of Trade of the city of To- ronto urge upon: the dealers throughout the country, and .farmers generally, to - discontinue the growth of •Mensury,. Russian or Imperial varieties of bar- ley." It was also resolved, "That the attention of dealers and , farmersbe called to the necessity of more care being. exercised in the selection of the Red Winter Wheat seed used that it be well matured, and not mixed with White Winter Wheat, as the mixture, although producing a sound healthy grain, makes it unfit for grading as Red Winter Wheat, and consequently deteriorates its value." - • —Mr.. Dawson-, the tory candidate in. the late elections, describes the difficul- ties of his canvass for Algoma. He says : "The terrible snowstorms were a great drawback in travelling through the district,: and they also preventedhun- dreds of electors from polling their votes. Roads and fences were complete; ly buried by the snow, and in one trip, with a strong team of horses, I was four hours going four miles. The farmers could not get out and the villagers had. 'it principally to themselves." —Mr. Thos. Colquhoun, the celebrat- ed horseman, attended the Spring Stock Show held in Toronto last week and re turned with a handsome Clydesdale stallion, weighing 2,040 pounds. The animal is a bright bas- with four whlite feet and a white star in his. face. He was imported from Scotland last fall by a Mr. Berth, of Bowrnanville, and he took the fiat prize at Toronto last week against twenty others. Mr. Colgnhoun paid $2,500 for this superior animal, and feels justly ;proud of his valuable prize. —At the annual meeting of the Agri- - cultural and Arts Association in Toronto last week, the secretary -treasurer's re- port showed that the following animals were reeorded during the past year : Clydesdale—Males, 200 ; females,. 206. Cattle—Ayreshire, males 95, females 125 ; Poled Angus, males 13, females`?l ; Hereford, males 5, females '11 Devon, males 14, females 18. Swite— Berkshire, 326 Suffolk, 28. The fees for registration had amounted to $1,398, being $181 less than last year.. The sale of herd books amounted to $215.25. The expenditure amounted to $1,805 ; assets $537, with a credit balance in favor of the association. A Clydesdale Association which had been organized. had 131 members and was s increasing rapidly. - land on the mainland are dis Soon ;the village of Thessalot The !scenery is grand. - The the water is interspersed wit islands, some decked with evergreen foliage, others are destitute of all manner of vegetation, and consist of only washed and : weather beaten . rock.. Gradually - nct, and at o think it is n led to the t such is the ole country. But I may here state that the formation of the entire coast of Lake Huron and Superior is very rocky and commanding but back from the coast there is to be found as fertile soil as ever earth pro- duced. i - The position of Thessalon is not very commanding.- A river of the same name here discharges its waters. This village consists of upwards of three hundred in- habitants. This place, though young in years, has a history. Upwards of six- teen years ago Mr. Nathaniel Dyment, of Lynden, in the .county of Wentworth, landed on this shore. Then there was no dock or harbor, so he anaged to land his saw mill machinery on a bare and rugged rock. Nothing erected a mill and soon a, vi up and has gradually dev remains common to them. The fo common to this system is called Eozo or " drawn of life," a most interest organism. This fossil remains is common in Canada. It derives its terest from being the oldest known of any kind, also from the doubt, has been cast upon' its fossil nat The Eozoon consists of a series of ch bers lying in tiers one above snot These cavities were occupied by a Liv ing organism which is seen in existing s • eci- rnens of Foraminifera rocks. Here in these rocks is mush inte ing study. Many of them consis several specimens, and present surf defaced and altered through var natural agencies. Fires have sI ept ion, be nks the rip - hat cts, est. ing, ies, d e t t IS ie r- t. t. ie d; st to tr he t he Id er of. as he a- sil sil n, ng ost in- ssil hat re. er. inctly seen. is sighted. surface of h numerous s o th d lap b �t rn is as gtner est - of ces, ons ,MARCH 25, 18.87. Mc#LEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. eve seen in the hotel before and fo lowing morning i$ mysteriously ea ed. A bunch of partially d atches was also found. There the mind of int the m rn ion suspicion al public as to the identity of the irlcendia y, and it is said the servants in the otel will be able to give some very da : gin r evidence if the culprit is ap- nd d. - • lection 3tatii3tica. llowing comparative statement otes polled for the respective s at the Dominion elections in iron in 1882 and in 1887 will be eret to many of'ou4',readers Total votes Polled. McMillan. Shannon. 80 . 1 28 62 458 322 136 600 159 246 11.8 189 124 inany,ridges of all manner of vegeta while on the summits of others are t seen nothing but the tall skeleton tr of pine, denuded of all foliage by action of fire. Passing from this des tion of the geological structure, to of the nature of the soil and prod there is still the same absorbing inte The land here may, generally spea be said',to consist, of two verdenamely, f3ighland and Green Top. The former is undulating in ap ance, and the soil varies in char from a heavy clay to 'a very sandy 1 The land is not `heavily timbered Ontario proper. The common tim pine,' hemlock, cedar, ta.marac, sp balsam, maple, birch, oak and iron No beech is found here, as no lim ters into the composition of the The largest timbers are pine and b The maple is of the bird's-eye- var The high land is fertile, and is adapted- to all kinds' of grain and r The green -top land is low and level. The soil is very fertile and well cultivated produces the finest c - This soil is timbered principally cedar, spruce and balsam. The m: peculiarity of Algoma land is the dfliculty experienced in clearing it. swamps or bogs are to be found her low land, which to persons familiar the shore appears more dist first sight one is disposed rocky. Many have thus be very common conclusion tha general condition of the w daunted he lage sprung loped. Mr.- Dyment purchased a large tract of pine . land and set to work to manufacture the timber thereon into lumber. These so- called isolated shores were not long un- known to the lumbermen.' The timber limit here comprises one entire town- ship and has proved a valuable tract. The mill has a capacity of from ft:0y to fifty thousand feet per daY. • A ' large number of hands are employed. The river being af considerable depth thus every convenience is presented for the floating of the logs froM the forest. Here are also several stores which con- tain everything required by settlers in a new country. The land in the immed*iate vicinity is rocky and is nnsuita.ble for cultivation. From this point Govern- ment Colonization roads lead into the iuterior. The Ontario Government have endeavored to open up the country by extending the roads and constructing --substantial bridges over the rivers. These roads were cOnstructed without any due regard for regularity: They are very winding, the level portion of the sur- face being selected. The nature and ap- pearance of the country as a wholeis much different from Western Ontario. Here the surface is undulating. Ridges of high land run in no regular direction, while the land between the ridgee very fertile. The ridges are called bluffs. These are of rocky formation ; some are covered with soil, ethers are p m -eh T e f E tre, end dat out 11 f in 1j382. Ilayfi t ay ear- cter am. like er is u ce, ood. en - soil. rch. etwell • ots. ore h en ops. with rked little No ,the with the surface of the land in estern Ontario, resembles swamp, but cleared is geite. dry and can be cul ed With ease.- All kinds of grai. cereals do well. Fall wheat is gen a heavy crop. The surface of the land is only b'oke v hen ivat- an rall with the bluffs previouslyalluded t a multitude of small inland lakes. bluffs which are covered with soi generally capable of cultivation as are not isolated rocks, but are fre ly .of a slanting surface and at termination) the decent is almost pendicular to the earth beneath the top of many' of these so called are to be found deep cavities or cisterns - which hold water all the round. The lakes in Algoma D strict are ;beautiful objects of nature and the Id ull tt.. cKi lop. eaf • rth. tanley . uek rsu. 887. ay eld Iay th.... 498 246401 1 462 2645 1621 1024 1024 597 Total Votes Polled. ]McMillan. Campbell. 341 252 128 212 338• toil tt icKillop :eaf rth rjbta ley ,anc� An .ar the - uent their per - On idges ater year uc Tot Mc •81' j 28 63 439 I 352 87 520 i 414 106- 579' I i 297 282 393 161 232 353 203 150 -ors lith .... 445 329 116 1 in ilia {, f 2810 882.... 2645 165 polled in 1882 1I 1784 21 - 1887 1784 1026 1026 people. If you . rent a nice • house - to them it has a dirty, dilapidated appear- ance in six months. No white man would live in a house after a- Chinaman. Thego`n the cellars and digholes r .Y three or four stories underground to live. When one of them is sick the est of 'de with n have thingto he won't them any him. They open their churches, or what they call their 'Josh houses, only twice in the year. I was through their Josh house and saw their gods or idols— queer looking objects indeed. The way they bury their dead and conduct their funerals is rather peculiar. They hire their mourners, all of whom are women. Their cemetery is a long distance out and they go to it in covered express wagons. They keep throwing out pieces of paper all along the road to frighten away the evil spirit. One time they used to take a large supply of provisions with them and leave them on top of the grave for the dead to come back to eat but they don't do that now as they found out that the neighbouring tramps always visited the cemetry after a funeral and had a few meals. Canada. The fur sales of the Hudson's Company show a decline compared last year. —Professor Goldwin Smith has left for a visit to Washington and the South for the benefit of his health. —A son of Mr. RobertGuthrie, farmer 758 near Ayr, was jammed between two blocks of ice on the river the other day and paralyzed. He may not recover. —Mr. A. IL Cranston, son of Adam Cranston, Esq., of Galt, is now engaged on the artists' staff of the Scientific American, published in New York; —The London, England, agent of James Goldie, of Guelph, has presented the Queen with a barrel of flour, which has been accepted with thanks. —Several converts to the Latter Day Saints' faith were baptized at Blenheim, Kent county, a few days ago, a big hole being chopped through the ice to permit their immersion. —The 8alvationists in Winnipeg are negotiating for the purchase of the roller rink as a barracks at a cost of $9,000. Arrangements for a lease have already been made. —The Clydesdale stallion spring show was held on Wednesday last week in To- ronto, and was a very successful' affair, most of the best horses of the breed in the Province being on exhibition. Adolphe Forget, whose wife was killed by the explosion of a bomb during . the Betting off of fireworks at the Mon- treal. carnival, has entered an action' against the city for $25,000 damages. —The old Methodist church, Park- hill, has been sold for $55, and the fare- well service will be held in it next Sun- day. A new structure will be com- menced at once. -Mr. P. McLaren has completed the sale of his extensive limits, with the saw- mills at Carleton Place and Mississippi, to ''Mr. W. E. Edwards, of Rockland. The price is not public, but is said to be close on $1,000,000. Tuesday, June 21st, has been fixed .at oto 4115 as the official date for celebrating the leg, 3202 Queen's Jubilee in the Dominion. All municipalities and corporations are, however, at liberty to choose any other date if they prefer it. —Mr. Sanford Fleming has been ap- pointed to represent Canada with Sir Alexander Campbell at -the Imperial Federation Conference to be held in Lou- don next month. They both - sailed for England last week. George Walter, the young man who is charged with setting fire to the three barns in West Zorra in the fall of 1884, has be n fully identified as the incendiary by s al people who saw him, and has two of which they spent .,. sweetmeats miffed for trial, and fruit for the little sufferers. The t�n the bee —Over 100,000 -barrels of Nova Scotia balance in cash was handed to - shipped to England Hospital. Their names are Ethel and apples have been Goldie McKay, Ida Gardiner and Edtt pp this season, and about 20,000 barrels have yet to go forward. Prices con- tinue on a paying basis and the' demand inactive. —Among the spoiled ballots at Elmira, county of Waterloo, was one which hal the words, " I. pray for a good! govern- ment " written on it. If he !had had better sense he would have voted against a bad government. - -A colored woman named Louisa Johnston, over whose hoary head 102 years had passed, died the other day in Chatham. She was born in slavery and secured freedom by flight, in the course of which she swam the Ohio river. —A company is to be formed! in Win- nipeg for salt making near Lake Mani- toba, where . salt springs are frequent, especially near the Narrows. Capital to be $10,000, which is to supply ma- chinery to make 50 or 100 barrels per day. • —Mr.. James - Moffat, of Culross, re- cently lost his celebrated stallion "° What Care I." When - attended to the evening before the animal was ap- parently in his usual good condition, and when the stable was entered next morn- ing he was found dead. He was valued at $2,000. - -The young lad, son of Mr. Wm. Watson, of Teeswater, whose leg was caught and injured in a horsepower lately, has had to suffer the loss of his limb by amputation, in order to save his life. The little fellow bore up bravely under his suffering, and is now doing well. —According to an invitation from the WoodstockBoard of Trade, representa- tives of the Boards of Trade and munici- palities between Brantford and Lake Huron assembled at Woodstock on Thursday last week, to discuss railway extension between the Niagara frontier and Lake Huron. About 100 delegates were present. President John White, of the Woodstock Board of Trade, filled the chair, and after. discussion a resolu- tion was carried unanimously pledging those present to petition the Dominion On the whole the Chinamen �.�_ Parliament to grant the charter applied feet opium fiends. The women all for by,the B. W. & L. E. Railway Com- snloke. They are a very filthy class of parry, and that the Parliamentary with It re Sha cion polled in 1882 Can�rpliell " 1887.1... th th ,.. 163 1024 I 1026 _ dire ! 2 t 'r `ill be seen from the above that re were 154 more votes polled in 1887 n ii 1882 ; Mr. McMillan polled 163 m re than at his former election, and Dr C mpbell polled two more than Mr. Sh th scenery is exceedingky grand. vary in size from an' area of a few acres quare high r and t, and seem seiand tible. ding. add nery. mmon tefish, ke in the hque- swood early r and ndred visible The this vety in the ese in- ir rep- Scot - much prove stet- ny in- to that of from thirty or forty miles. The shores are ,lined wit rocky ledges, and the water is cle Icold. Many of them have no outl few have any regular inlet. The to be fed by springs, s-0 that the r fall of the water is hardly perce The shores are rngged and wi Many islands dot the urface an greatly to the beauty of the sc kinds met with are teout, wb pike and bass. The largest 1 this neighborhood' is known i Indian tongue by the ria,me of "W kohing," but in English " Big B Lake." This body of ater is ten miles in length and n places four in width, The w ter is cle cold, and a depth of al ost four h feet has been sounded. It has no inlet, and only a small outlet huge rock formations Isurroundi beautiful sheet of water are of rnbedded s and th lochs of in places breken by them, but they will ye a necessity aa a source I 'will conclude this le ing that I shall at any forrnation required re magnificent nature. rock are rich veined ir land lakes are nutnero pearance resembles th land. The surface is of water ter here b ime give pecting R. SPAR III el vo pa 18' 13• 0r nnen did. With the exception of vote in Seaforth'land Hallett the vote the other municipalities at the two ctiols was very nearly the same. following is a statement of the ast in East Huron in 1882 as corn- vith 1887 : I'he! es c •ed 2. rick y..y M . rris a Tu nbery igh m Br ssel rris W ngh Wroxe er • -;--A dastardly attempt tO fire the • Farrow. . Sloan. 4,i0 317 303 403 292 283 227 228 149 124 /09 90 77 81 24 44 1631 • 1571 ' 1571 3202 Farrow. McDonald. 568 427 316 635 ' 377 365 237 279 217 181 152 145 126 90 34 66 2027 2088 2088 sentives f the constituencies along the - line of oute be requested to support a' ti) tion and one for Government ment said pe aid to the proposed road. The munici- palities represented, were : Brantford, Burford, Paris, Woodstock, Embro, kil West Zorra, East Nissouri, Kirkton, St. Sea- shell Sea vo Mrt Marys, nrieh,, Exeter, , forth, Linton, Kincardine, Bayfield, els Hay, Usborne, Blanshard and Goderich. th e Mr. George of M Fred. Moore, song —Mr. Trunk Moore, proprietor of the Grand T station restaurant in Hamilton, was a guest a the Richmond hotel, Buffalo, burned down last Friday where i� was Y morning. Mr. Moore escaped with his life, but he was seriously burned about the feet —As county A youn the cirri atiendi tie tan thought she was running by the to train and st a ion. He d from h in he fall dislocated his shoulder and ser ously cut his head. He proceeded to ttawa. He narrowly esc ped being led. � boutaged —So much has been saidg ;ers coming to the front at the recent coons for the Dominion Parliament t it may not be out of place to add Four of the lit h following in to the list the g T a Messrs. wawa iI i veers of I\as g Y= Don- McPhedran, John Kitching, John berts and John McAlpine, whose ited ages amount to 340 years, not - and hands. ad accident occurred at Troy, f Wentworth, a few days ago. man named Wm. Mothers, loy of Mr. John Deistic, while g to the horses, was kicked by one of the animals in the abdomen and died sh rtly after. Young Mathers was well th was a he ret Angus search had ta emplo Nicke form t He is ught of in the village. . John Morrison, of Glanworth, ay from home Friday, and when ned he found that his hired man, Thompson, was missing. A evealed the fact that Thompson en with him $55 belonging to his er: It was learned that he had the noon train for London. St. lhomas lad named John son, last Friday fell from a plat - the ground a distance of 20 feet. suffering from concussion of the and no hopes are entertained of his reeovery. His collar bone is broken, his shOulder dislocated, and it is feared that the base of. his skull is fractured.' He is 17 years of age. —It is understood that the Govern- ment will not send an expedition to Huds n's Bay this year. The report of the re aition server at the i 18 rit re in 1887 913 Farrow's majority over Dr. Sloan 2 was 60, and Dr. McDonald's ma - over Mr. Farrow in 1887 was 61. rom the Sunny South. HE EFFECTS OF A SNoW STORM. --TnE 11A ITS AND CUSTOMS OF JOHN CHINAMAN. The following letter received by a ien an from Mr. C. S. Prendergast, of -1rancisco son. of Mr. John Prender- of Tuck'ersnaith, will perhaps in - rest some of our readers : - AR FRIEND, —With pleasure I un- ke to write a few lines to an old I mate. Times on the whole are y good. There is a great deal of in my line and good wages to be at it. I am in the city nearly he time. Oecasionally 1 go out the country' for a day or two and I those days very much.. There a little fall of snow on the night of uary 4th, from tour to eight inches ng fallen. This was the first snow fell since 1 came here (June, 1883) nd is the most on record that ever fell the city. Excitement l That sMall quantity pf snow caused more excite- ast nearly as much excited ae any young CalOornian. Abqut 5:30 in .the morn- ing I looked out through my bed -room window and saw, the snow. lIn a much shotter time than usual I was dressed and I had a snow:ball in my had before I stepped outside of the door. The snow was thrown,around very unmerci- fuilly. Plug hate and umbrellas were knocked in every direction.' The em- plolses in factories and wholesale. houses lgot out on the roofs of th e buildings and let pieces of snow as large as wash tubs ' ellas and craniums of gentlemen. It was, day for the pig -tailed Chinamen. Yetu would see a gang of lit& boys folio ing a Chinaman six -.ks Those Chinamen who worked factories in the white me.n's part of city did not dare to go: to work. y would go as far as the eutskirts of ert Eicho Pret wor had all into enjo as Feb hay ha North American hotel? Kincardine, was made on Thursday morning last week about 6 o'clock. Joseph Parr, the pro- prietor, had only left the house &few minutes previous to Yisit his farm in Huron township when flames were dis- covered issuing from one of the bed- rooms; The servants raised an alarm; and the fire was speedily extinguished.' On examination it was found that the straW tick, floor and walls of two bed- rooms were saturated with coal oil. A five -gallon oil can was found close to one of the beds nearly empty, and no one ap- pears to know who it belongs as it eit ind down on unib er ladies -Or ed, a -snowy blo in th Th Chinatown and on seeing what was aw ba th wi iting them wculd turn rcrend and go k. To get even, any white man y found in Chinatown they treated h very little mercy. There were fights, arrests an several shots fired, all over a little snow. Onefellew, a little smarter than the rest, rigged up a sleigh and had it out early in the morn, ing with four horses attached to it. There were cow bells on the horses. He was accompanied by three or four other men. I think they were ell heartily sick of their ride ma account of the aniount of snow thrown at them. ults achieved in last year's expe- including the reports of the ob- who passed the winter of 1885-6 stations on the bay, will be pre - Bente to Parliament at the coming ses- sion. i —In June a Napanee bicyclist will try Kingston to Belleville, and Belleville to Napanee. He will make the best time he can on a wager. Many have tried it and failed to equal the perfortnance of the young man of St. Louis, who after the feat and because of disappointment in love committed suicide. —The Industrial School for boys at Mitnico, which is being built under the superintendence of Mayor Howland, of Toronto, will be opened in about a month. The work of furnishing and building fences and barns is being push- ed rapidly, but the great need of the enterprise is money. Mr. Howland still requires a large amount for its com- -Halifax is greatly excited over the enforcement of the new Provincial li- cense law, which forbids the selling of liquor in hotels to other thau guests, and in case of guests.to be drank only in pri- vate rot/ins or at meals. At shops liquor cannqt be sold in less quantities than a pint,: and this must be carried away and drank. Hotelkeepers say their receipts have fallen off fully one-half. —A deputation of Provincial Baptists, headed by Dr. Castle, Principal Mc- Vicar, Rev. J. W. A. Smart and Senator McMaster, addressed Premier Mowat Friday afternoon. They urged the ex- pediency of granting a charter to an Ontario Baptist UniverSity, to include McMaster Hall and Woodstock College. The Premier promised to consider the points raised. —In the east end of the city of To- ronto four little girls, all under the age of ten, have organized and managed a bazar in aid of the Hospital•for Sick Children, from which they realized $20, al R w.thstanding the infirmities of age, came o t and cast their ballots in the interest of the Reform candidate. —A scheme is being worked up by rpose of building at the ,Cha,udiere 11C for the manufacture of pulp t of sawdust Mr. Bronson has en studying the idea for some. - e, and it is expected that before long a company will be formed for carrying it out. A powerful water power on the Cihaudiere will be purchased, and exten- s-ve mills erected. —The Toronto Ministerial Association - o Monday had a lively discussion on e question : " How tar is it right to troduce into the Christian pulpit olitical questions upon which the con- regation may be divided ?" All the a eakers were against introducing party °titles, but were generally in favor of iinisters asserting their rights to dis- uss in the pulpit all questions having a oral bearing, whether of a political or ocial character. —Mr. Skyline; an old gentlemen, ad a miraculous escape from death on he Air Line track near Corinth last iriday evening. Mr. Skynner is quite pedestrian, and started out from Sim- oe on foot to visit his son-in-law,- Mr. V. II. Draper,, manager of Molsons ank at Aylmer. 6E1e was approaching oriuth when he stepped off the track to llow a train to pass him, after which he mitinued his walk, not noticing another rain following closely behind the first, hich struck hisn, throwing him into the itch. When picked up it was found hat he had. sustained two severe gashes cross his head, and his body was sd ruised and shaken up that grave hopes are entertained of -his recovery. ti rep re - Boddy. —Mr. Andrew Findlay, who die on Thursday at his residence, Toronto, was 70 years of age and one of th largest and most finely proportione men in Canada. - He stood six feet seve and a half inches, and measured 5 inches around the chest. He was for me ly a mail clerk on the Grand Trunk it bu retired about ten years ago. Th co n measured seven feet six inches and the•outside box eight feet. —Thomas White and H. E. Cunning ham ran for B.eeve in Anderdon town ship, Essex county, lea January. Whit was elected, but his opponent brought charge of bribery against him, and th case was tried before Judge Horne. Th principal charge against White was th just before election day he paid a vot $5 to drive his mother to his brother Ito se. Judge Horne has decided a.ga.in A despatch from Winnipeg on Sa ur ay last says : The blockade on the C adian Pacific in the Rocky Moun- tains is complete, and there will be lo through trains for a fortnight.- T ii w nt west two weeks ago have return d frqm the mountains, having been unab e • 111 —According to the re.port of the Dom- inion Superintendent -General of Indians - for 1886, the total Indian population in Canada is 128,761, distributed as folle•ws.; In Ontario, 17,267 ; Quebec, 12,286 ; Nova Scotia, 2,138 ; New Brunswick, 1,579 ; Prince Edward. Island, 323 ; Manitoba and Northwest Territory, 30,578 ; Peace River region, 2,038 ; Athabaska district, 8,000 ; Mackenzie River district, 8.000; Eastern Rupert's Land, 7,000 ; Labrador, 1,000 ; Arctic coast, 4,000-; British Columbia, 38,539. The total number of pupils attending Indian schools in 1886 was e,595. —Joseph Herron, a Hamilton tailor, , closed his shop late Saturday nigbt and started for home with a ,good sum of money in his pockets. Two higharay- men waylaid him and struck him on the head with a sandbag. The blow fortu- nately, was not fairly struck, andthough Mr. Herron's ear was cut and be was knocked down, be was not stunned and was able to resist his assailants. He did so bravely .and the thieves ran off, one of them leaving his cap and taking Mr. Huron's, but that was all they -obtain- ed. Next morning the weapon was found near the scene .of the attempted robbery. The leather bad been rotten and. the bag broke off about six inches from the end. —An Ottawa dispatch says : The Senate will not be without work the coming session. Notice has been given on behalf of Mr. John Monteith, pro- prietor of the Monteith House at Ros- Beau, Lake Muskoka, that he would ap- ply at the next session of Parliament for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann Monteith, on the ground of adultery and desertion. Mr. and Mrs. Monteith were married. in Parry Sound District in 1880, and lived. there for some years. The family then moved to Lake Rosseau, where Mr. Monteith purchased the Monteith House. Here Mr. Monteith alleges ah intimacy sprang up between a barkeeper employed in the hotel and Mrs. Monteith, and she went off with. him, leaving her four children behind. to the coast by the American lines. —Mr. Alex. F. Gibson, of Galt, is t inventor of a new axle for buggies a light wagons. The advantages claim for this axle are theta is perfectly noise- less, an ingenious device being made u e ofito take up the play of the wheel. cE41 also be oiled without removing t e wheel. Owing to the improved method of securing the nut, there is no dang ofi accidents arising from the wheel dro ping off on the road. - I—Mr. J. A. Macdonald, lawyer, of Sarnia, was a passenger on the Grand Trunk eastern bound passenger train the other day. Mr. Macdonald, -who had been aroused. from a sleep, informed the conductor that he wished to get off at Brockville and mistook the Manitolba sisling for the station. As the train wlas approaching the semaphore the gen- —Mr. George R. Honeinger, of St. Thomas, arrived home last Friday night direct from Winnipeg, via Canadian Pacific Railway Line, and tells a doleful ,tale of the condition of that railway west of Winnipeg. He was one of a party of six young men who left St. Thomas on Monday,/th inst., bound for the Far West. They arrived in Winnipeg on Thursday, 10th, and were greatly sur- prised on being informed by the railway authorities that they could proceed no farther on account of the road being bkeked. Reports given by railway employes were to the effect that a snow slide had taken pla.ce in the Selkirk range of the rockies, the track being covered to the height of 150 feet and the length of 600. On Saturday a train started west for Calgary, but only got as far as Moosejaw, as a large portion of the tracle west of that place and east of Calgary, was washed away, and one bridge was gone. Sunday and Monday passed, and the qoast-bound passengers kept arriving in Winnipeg until they numbered about 300. , No instructions appear to have been given to the Eastern agents of the company to refuse through tickets, and consequently the maledic- tions cast upon the railway by these 300 'Were both loud, deep and numerous. When asked. on Monday what were the chances of getting west the railway authorities said that they could give no satisfaction. The line might be open in two days, or it might not for two weeks or two months. Upon hearing this, Mr. Honsinger decided to return home; as did large numbers of others. 31e pro- pose% if he again Jokes an attempt to reach Kasnloops, to :dry via the American lines to British Columbia.