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Just opened another new lot of HATS, BONNETS SHAP NIS, FLOWERS, FE TITERS, Al ORNAMENTS, GAUZES, . SATINS, SILKS', . ch. _ARARAT IN .AUSTRALIA. • BY J. pmiBBIE. • . The value_ of names is relative and quickly estimated by the relationship of ideas they conjure up. By the 'above we are led to Asia—to the cradle of Bible stories; and from there 1.:rterriciry carries us back • to the. old log house, where, by the fireside, \VC first- learned to read them. Who has not .read the remarkable stery of Noah and the- Ark? • Thesuccessive waves of time ha,veburiede those days of childhood deep in the depths of the mighty pasta but the stories still remelt; and will survive the wreck of creeds. The family circle gathers no loner by the open tire; and the Pacific—'.' that symbol of drear im- mensity "—rolls -between us and home. Some of you may say .this it tee senti- mental. • Well Reverse positions. Come to Ararat and look, back over ; ten thousand miles, and sentiment may sometimes creep on you too. If not,- I don't care to have much to do with you. -Whenwe have to find an ephemetal home among the hatels, public houses, boarding houses, taverns, innse " pubs " and coffee palaces of Australia, we do not always feel gay and thaughtless. Surroundings exercise an unconscious in- fluence upon us, and we sometimes move as we are moved. I know not in how many points the original mount of Sacred History resembles its Australian patronymic. This leers its sugar -loaf head, in the b-aekground, above the town; but is not as many hundred feet high as the other is thousands. You who have a map will find the place about a hundred and fifty miles north- west of Melbourne, in the Western Dis- trict of Victoria. The town, or borough here, is about the size of Seeforth. It is dull now, but has seen better days like many other mining tome. . Twenty years ago the populationWiuding those under canvas, was upwards of 90,000: Mining is, played out—the Miners have decamped; and the alluvial, nearly as white as ashes, make every- thing look barren and. desolate. The weather is beautiful, but the sea- son is very. dry. The runs and .pad- docks are Jest the color of the earth. Sheep; are dying by the scare, and every squatter and farmer is a .pessimist at heart. When Booth, :• the temperance Maurer, was here, he told the people to • " curse the weather less and dem the rivers: more if they wanted. Australia to prespendt He also -.told'. them that "Americans got credit for . doing a good deal of blowing; but that they would have to rise" very early and wer•k very hard to beat the colonials." But a new epoch is about to dawn from which Australian history may tfrow brighter. Two Canadians—Chaffey Brothers --who have hada great deal Of experience with irrigation schemes in. the. United .States, have arranged with the Victoria Goe- erament for a quarter of a million tares, along the Murray river, on which to start an irrigation colony. They expect, to have two • hundred men at work in a: short time.; and if successful in carrying out this gigantic undertaking, as they no doubt will be,. a 'practical lesson, lit - tie short of a miracle, will be set before the people of these colonise What • Canadians have, done, they can do again; and ;where they take hold- they generally lea.de - their impress. Of the 'Metsts: Chaffey you will hear more by-atidihy. • We will now return to Arai -at, and. lunch at Scott's hotel, which is kepi an Irish widow of more. then -ge girth and calibre. The Various ins tions and public buildings are simile thoie of other Australian towns, mivith the ; exception of the lunatin asYlum,- which is th,e fifth in the colony, and • worthy of notice. It stands about a' mite out on a convenient hill, and it surrounded by a beautiful greve Of -ever greens, pines, firs and wattles. In the distance, it looks like some - grand old Mansion,- where,a Lord might luxuriate' amid the sylvan shade. .The.appearanee of the building is white, and upoa doter examination is found to .be buil of te- neeted brick. It is capable- of •modating over 400 patients, and tresent. .Strange that a• colon Also a full stock of PRINTS, GINGHAMS, SEERSUCKERS, MUSLINS, PARASOLS, tl LACES, EMBROIDERIES, CORSETS, GLOVES, HOSE, HOOPSKIRTS, BUSTLES, PANNIERS, DRESS -IMPROVERS, FRILLINGS, RIBBONS, BUTTONS, STRAW and FELT HATS, Men, Boys, & Children Cheap Cash .tore of Ito !Ilan Cd,,. Cerdno's Block, Seaforth. thro and whi told mat she. thro utes who IA is me befo and May No. of Butteriek's , Fashion Sheets Just to Hand. gh the wards, too back to the wad h we started.4 He me he would take on of the female would send some gh that. After w he came back with n I was introduced Campbell, but ish f any Miss Campb di I had known e. As we left t e waiting -room utered the corrido she locked the doo , which is part of e programme in goine through such in titutions ; every attendant carrying a key. Now I felt not but won nett mus same as when at large, and kept pretty e1o4 to Miss Campbell, who was very s, padded eelle ingt room from, e sthe attendant he'order to the epartmeut, and one to show me iting a few min- a young lady to Her name was did not remind only a stranger in a strange land, shut in from all' mop with 200 mad en. Probably :some would ,not be ous -under the oircinnatauces, but I t . confess I did not feel quite the C011 my Can not gro kno war, on the male side. in addition there was. the sewing -room, th.e laundry, the wash- room, and the kitchen, all of which were very clean and tidy looking. After ascending a zigzag stair we reached the turret balcony, from which a good view of the yards and 'email farm beyond could be obtained" On the farm all the vegetables required are raised, and it gives exercise to hose who are able and 1 'willing to' work In. the yard for the quiet patients, some were walking about and _some were sitting or reclin- ing on sheltere -seats. But in the other the seene "was less tranquil. Some were lying flat on the ground. Some , were desoribing zigzag circles, one was kneeling and in the attitude of prayer. Some were swinging their arms and gesticulating wildly, Others cursing and swearing, and two were squaring up for a fight. , Hardly a day passes with- out' a row. In the' male yard, I met a big heathen Chinee, who wanted " much- ee muchee " to punch the head of an idiotic looking Englishman. Terrible depravity ! Mis days yarded u market. Educe imbecility are et here. Somebody's sons and somebody's daughters—out- "casts from society or loved ones of a once happy family—not responsible for what they de. When retracing our steps, Miss Campbell asked me to go in- to the sewineedoona where some of the better class were at work. ,There were about two dozen i busy in this room. ;Some were so buy ;they had not time to look up. One Oiling girl hid behind the door. A few hung down their heads as 'if they did not Eke, to be seen. Others laughed as. if I were a curiosity, not often seen. 'One whispered loudly "it's a man." Four stood up and very grace- fully courtesied.every time they eould catch my eye. But one more queenly than all the rest, educated, and .refined and dressed in vlbitemuslin, came quick- ly forward and clasped the hand which 1 I unconsciously xtended, saying, f' Ohl I like you." ; felt like reciprocating the compliment,' for, her face, surmount- edity wavy *meths of auburn hair, wa - inexpressibly siteet. Her voice wag , melodious and Paethetic ; her figure an 'movements weie graceful as a swan. The very counterpart of one of thos fairy pictutes, ennjured up in ideals o the ima,ginatioa. But then she -wa delirious, infatuated, furious, Mad Judgment was bffits balance. Nature' crown jewels had ' been wrenched, from their imperial 4etting, and reason ha left it i regal seat. As I turned away I could not repress -a tear. which' gushe forth and fell at her feet. One sh fai and lovely, the inmate of an as'ylumn and why? " The old story," ' 'Mis Campbell told the; "a false lover is re sponsible for Anis." Responsib bteaking a woritaads heart, and. her to a refuge like this. Think ye animalized Ortroons who boa trifle with and real the sacred t of feminine aff ction and love. if the archdem n Of the.Pentonian shor has one corner hotter than another, h will keep it in warm reserve for You. Ararat, March 21st 1887. • , . Canada. There were 20 failures in Caned last week. .1 . ' —The first steamerofthe Season e tiered the -St.`LaWrence on Friday, . --Iti one day a Wiarton man recentl killed four black foxes and a red on *near his haute. ' • —Wm. Leonard, 4 the township Onondaga; Brant ceuntY, has been fas ing for.some 35 days. —Five -steamers left Liverpool la week with 2,750 emigrants, chiefly En fish, for Canada.; - ,—It Will cost $25,000 to investiga the charge of boodling against membem of the Montreal City council. teouS in giving me the Tull benefit of disit When I told her I was from da, she frankly confessed she did know where that was. She had n up in the esylum and did not much outside of it. The rooms, s and yards were similar to those rable wrecks of other like swine for the on, culture, genius and the city of Tokble The other sister's destination will he 150 miles in the -in- terior, where, as the wife of the Rev. J. W. Saunby, B. An, she will be engaged in generel miesimilary work among the native Japanese. s . —One of Messrs. Hell's booms , on th , Chaudiere. at Quebec, broke on account lof the floods, and 50,000 logs drifted 1 away. —The priests of St. Boniface; Mani- toba are strongly opposed to the threat ened invasion of the town by till Salve don Army. . . --Mrs. Fenwick (Maggie Bain), th well-known vocalist, is suffering fronr paralysis of the tongue, but it it hopee y temporary. 1 pays 25 cents for every the village streets, i three weeks and ar 1 . 1 settlement betwee and his tenants ha ad now Mr. O'Brien it) ; , ssed " Mr. Greenfield' ave by teel. itu- to —Three residents of Fullerton passed away last week. They were Mrs. Jehn IL Metier, who had a ieng time of ill- ness and suffering : Mra. Stacey, aged 85 years, and Dr. Burn, who had also reached the advanced age of 85 years. The Doctor had been a nuch retpected resident of the village for nearly :-10 years. —A Mock Parliament, instituted some weeks ago in Mitchell, in the interest of the Ladies' Aid Souiety of Knox church, was closed on Friday tight. The col- lectiuns at door at the several meet- ings replenished the Ladies' Aid Treas- ury to the amount of $80. The subject of debate was "Self -Government for Ireland," and a number of the most in- telligent citizens took part in it. cco is filll with only a million of a population sho Id re- quire five institutions of this kind, ben sides an hospital in every, town of about three thousand people. The aggregate accommodation of the five asylums' will be :of or on about 4,000, and I am told they are all full. Imagine over 4,000 idiots, imbeciles, and those who have "gone cranky," kept at Government expense, except the few who are able t pay, and look for the cause. Some of the causes assigned are drink, money, love and religion; but every superintendent I have met mentions drink first. The mayor of the town told me I would have no difficulty in getting through the astd lam if I wished ; so I went.up yesterday morning and interviewed the superin tendent, Dr. Armstrong, and he gave me an order to go through ;with one of the attendants. I am always a little timid when visiting jails or institutions of this kind lest something should occur to. detain me. It is said "-there is but a -step between the sublime and the ridieu- lops," and I often think the difference between those who are cenfined and many who are loose may ,be ;just the re- sult of an accident. The first fellow we met bade me "good morning, sir," and wanted to tell me about being reporter for the Czar of Russia. He said, "He was the only one in the colony who was licensed to forge cheques on the Bank of England, and that he had lots of money hid over yonder." pointing to the far corner of the yard. The next big fellow was very sellen looking and was taking his Morning constitutional in a strait jacket. He committed some crime and got off on the plea of insanity. The at tendaeat told me this class of lunatics is always the .hardest to do with. They are the knowing ones, who exult in the fact that no matter what they do, they cannot receive any further punishment. After we had gone through the two yards —one for the rough characters and the other for the quiet ones—I was shown e fo rivin of it tfull ndril urel the affliction is on —Essex Centre tree planted on they have been in growing well. —The propose Lord Lansdowne been broken off, a bound for Canada — A letter addr again. farm,. Uppet Catada, by Dundas," i awaiting a claimant at the Dundee post office. 1 ent of hides, leathe ade Saturday at Sa ast over the Canadia t, living on the fart near Walkerton, ha uspicion ot child.mu —A large ship and sugar was Francisco for the Pacific Railway.' — Lena Winces of Neil McNeil, been arrested on der. —The debris accumulated on th streets of Montreel during the late flood is likely to remaia, for lack of funds i the city sun veyor's hands. — During last week fifteen hundre immigrants arriaed in Montreal, th majority intending to settle .in Ontari and the Northwett. —Miss Dollie- Harrison'daughter John -Harrison, of Parkhill, has secure a position as music teacher in the Co vent of the Sacred Heart in London. - — The . Salvation Army in Toron celelerated the anpiversary of the ope ing of the Temple in that city last Sa urday and ,Sabba h. , . —Rev. Robert Wallace, West Prcsb terian church, T ronto, is preaching course of §ermons on "Heaven and the present state of departed spirits." _ —During the recent flood in Montreal a Mrs. Rafferty fell through a trap do9r in the store -whoa going to serve, a ea <- tomer, and was drowned in five feet water. —Pruning apille trees seems to be dangerous business. Two men ha been killed in Wentworth county with a week by fallind from trees they we ;pruning. —The Hamilt have decided to not to grant t Reform Associa Dundu-rp park o —The Rev. G dent of Knox call to Rodney. a will be indticte 'London on Tues —Two trains from the east arrived t Winnipeg' Friday bringing 600 limn grants. ' ' —The celebrated Henry George wi lecture in Hamilton shortly under ti e auspices of the Iron _Moulders' Union. —Mr. John Lane of Prince Alber while in a fit of despondency recently hanged himself in his stable. —On Tuesday fast week J. Founsen , a Brantford youth, was fined $2 a d costs for Sunday fishing. . —It is expected that Kingston will .contribute 880,000 towards the Jubil e endowment fund of Queen's universit —Misses Hannah and Eliz e Lund, Woodstock, two sisters who have deci ed to -devote their future lives to mi sion work i Japan, were tendered farewell seryice at the Riddle stre Methodist church, Woodstock, the oth r evening. Miss Hannah Lund goes o t under the auspices of the Women's Id's- sionary Society of the Methodist churc to take an important place in the colle. which the missionaries are conducting a I —The Brantf decided to build a lose his license. The 'North Wentworth Commissioners have gpue urther in this direction. A resolution of that Board declares that any lieens -holder who Ai-if:dates the Act with no be granted a farther license, whePier convicted or not. 1 ---Strong parties of Mounted Police are in active pursuit of parties of In- dians, supposed to be Bloods, who re- Cently fired, on Mounted Police scouts at -CYpeess, and freighters '40 miles south - est of of Lethbridge. The offenders are supposed to be horse thieves from across the .ines. 1—The phunny man of Burford village perpetrated a joke on the managing com- mittee of a church tea -meeting at that place a couple of weeks ago, by sending in. a basswood cake nicely turned to have the appearance of a fine three-story silmeeimen of the real. article. The ladies are now after him with a sharp stick. On Saturday morning a consignment of 12 carloads of rope ends passed through Ottawa for the Lachute 'paper mills. The weight of this waste material was con- siderably over 500,000. lbs. The Citizen says that at one time it would have had n� more matket value than Ottawa saw- duse has at present. ; Mr. Chas. Wilmot, superintendent of the Newcastle GOvernment fishery, on Mo day deposited 300,000 young white- fish nex u,p salt n Central Labor Uni n etition the city council e request of the Morel ion for the closing bf Sundays. o. A. Francis, late st i- tollege, has accepted a d New • GlasgowIEe by the Presbytery ay, May 10.. rd City Council ha a ditch and dyke alo the western city limits, to carry off t water and preve don of West Br —The value o minion for the nm 31 *as $74,934,090, and the exports for the same period' amounted in value to $66,357,000. —Work on Una St. Clair River t nd l is at a standstill on both sides of the river. 'Water on the Canadip.n side interfered With the work and the steam pumps wit be placed in positicr'n. —A Caistorylle young woman, who mithville High School, ed the remarkable som- of walking in her sleep to her home, 15 miles t the annual imam ntford. imports into the Do- e months ended March ne n - of is attending the has twice perform nambulistic free from Smithvill away. —The school1 population of Brant county is 5,000, with an average attend- ance of 2,200. The amount paid in teachers' salaries is $25,000; average salary paid mal tt teachers, $444; female, $285. ; —The Provinoial Fair people are try- ing to get a special grant from the Do- minion Government towards this sea- son's show whiCh is to be held in Ot- tawa, the regular $10,000 grant having been secured by Toronto. —People in Hamilton, whose children can attend schdol only half of each day on account of lack of accommodation, are indignant at the Proposed addition to the Collegiate Instiiute at an expenditure of ii about $21,000. t7,:tteird'irnialqfnb.,; —Messrs. D. McGillivray, M. A., C.; W. Webster, B A., W. P. McKenzie,' B. A., Rev. J. Goforth, of Knox Col-: lege, are appointed by the Foreign Mis- sion Committe to make a tour over in the interest of the reign missions. Pitt, second son of Mr. of the pioneer settlers, citizen of West Zorra,' died a few days ago in California, where he had been for the last four years. FES death was somewhat budden and was. Qn cha the Th the an un it. aft c,as Wm ne Ha br we ant Western Ontari great work of f —Mr. David John Pitt, on and a prominen caused by inflammation. —A largely attended meeting of inj fiuential citizens was held in Montreal Friday, at which a series of propositions for preventingi the recurrence of dist estrous floods alas unanimously adopted. It was stated that the loss in wages alone during last week's flood amounted to over $100,000. —The Hamilton License C,ommissione ers have cut eff one saloon and seven tavern licenses., Six of the taverns have been doing only saloon bust/less. Six f other taverns heve three months' exten- - sion of the old licenses. Twelve tavern- - keepers have been notified to bring their a premises up to the standard or to be cut off also. Four grocers are cut off, and one is put on his good behavior. FortY grocers' licenses are issued. The,- com- • • • da of do Ar ce gu M. ne Ys bi missioners will eend out a circular next week ging weaning to license -holder§ that every one who is convicted of a breach of the "Act during the year will • in the lake at Toronto. Within the month Mr. Wilmot will distribute ards of five million white fish and on trout at various points in Lake ario. George Mellon, 87 years of age, was ged at the Hamilton Police Court other day with beeting his wife. y quarrelled over the possession of ✓ money. He hid $1,600 in a lounge had the detectives earching for it er the impression tha she had taken Decisions were given Saturday rnoon in the Woodstock Scott Act s. Geo. Forbes, of the Commercial; a Farrell, of the Royal ; Jas. Ken - y, of the North American; Wm. ward, of the Elgin House, and Am - se Hayward, of the Lorne House, e each convicted of a first offence, fined $50 and costs. Miss Mary Macdonald, fourth ghter of the ex -Lieutenant -Governor ntario, was married o Mr. G. C. Mac - gall on Thursday 1 st week, at the hbishop's palace, Montreal. A re - tion attended by sts was held at the cdougall after the ore than 150 esidence of Mr. eremony. The dy married couple then left for New rk. Da Andrew Jack on Grant, the • one of whose victims lives in St. Thomas, died at the Cambridge, ssachnsetts, jail on lri'riday morning, r an illness of several days. He was Ring trial for robbing and deserting Cambridge lady immediately after rrying her. Other charges of a simi- nature were accumulating against aft aw a lam understand the terrible in9midation being practitsed in Ireland, and th cision of the Dominion Parliament not appeal to any one acquainted the whole facts of the case. him a A valuable Jersey bull, the prop - y of Mr. John McBeth, Essex Centre, 1 one of its legs frozen off last winter. e animal now uses an artificial limb ich is made of peppersage and is very ht. It is fastened to the stub of the by a leather socket girded with ong straps. The brute uses the arti- al limb almost as well as the natural er ha. Ti Ii le st fi'e OD in Dlo li II a a a k. su ot in fr t. fl fi ,---SOmef the pupils in the 1 1" 1 -eters. They had 'Just aboutItime to get. to their traps when the gale came up with increasing violence and blew with wild fury all bight. Retern was im- possible to the boats, and their families - on shore Spent id night of :fearful sus- Schools of Toronto have started a Paper, pense. Several lives were lost and and in it they makea fewgoed sngge tit, ns boats swamped, but the calamity was —one 6f...theta being that the large and not so greet as was anticipated. smaller boys should have different 1 mrs - ----On Mondayi evening last -week, for recess. There is a refreshing • se, shortly before tett o'clock, a bullet, dis- ; of humor in a paragraph stating th he charged from a revolver, -went crashing editor thought highly of the Knigl of thrnugh the south side of the residence Labor till they passed ;a reso ▪ on I of M +agistrate Joseph Barker, Kincar- recommendh iug that the summer o ys dine' , perforated 4 framed prture hung. in schools be reduced to one rr • h" ing' on the wall Of ;the front bedroom, The editor frankly says 'this prep al passed within an inch or two of the head makes him -"sick.' of one of Mr. Barker's daughters, and --Mrs. 'YeSinans, the celebrated fri nd buried itself in the plaster on the oppo- of temperance, lectured last week in site side of the room. Why was this Galt. In her address Mrs. Yeomkns diebolical act done? mayibe asked. There were certain liquor trials in pro- gress. _Magistrate Lawrence, of Luck - now, received a threatening telegram before he left hem le, and that gentleman, along with Insp Mit Barker's ho shooting. - —A serious a Morning at the b road by the \ known as ;the C MVS. Carter was dwelt largely upon Nehemiah as an ample for young men. . His labors lan ly resembled those demanded of. temperance reformers. He experien the same. indifference at first; thea encoutagedby the activity of his friends; then subjected to ridicule, nd fly rk- p- e- he .cd as Albert Eaton's hotel and the adjoin - • barns at Carlisle, East Flamboro, re burned the other morning. Eaton's s is put at $2,000, no insurance. niel Harris, mail carrier between Car- le and Hamilton, °copied tine 'barns. lost four horses, two cows, harness, stage and three sleighs. His loss is out $1,000. The fir o was of incencli- y origin. 1 —Tom Gould, the ' notorious dive eper, and lately a resident of Toronto, prised District Attorney Martine the ler morning by walking into his office New York and surrendering himself. said -he was tired of keeping away m the police, and that things were too e in Toronto. 'Judge Gildersleeve ed him $1,000. He paid the fine and s released. —A cow belonging to S. W. Bigham, Etobicoke, gave birth to three heifer Ives on the 23rd April, 1886, and on e 2nd April, 18873she gave birth to ree more, two heifers and one bull. ey all lived last year, but one of the ifers is dead this year. The cow is e years old this spring, and sine had a If when she was two years old, and an - her at three. She is art Durham and Devon. - —The13rampton Banner is responsible fer the following: The other day a formers' team ran over a dog near Nor - al & Jones', breaking the poor brute's g. The dog seems to; have known just hat to do, for it made for Dr. Heggie's next ; to - violent oppositton— triumphing oyer all. Temperance era were now in the violent stage position and they would triumph. —4 few days ago fifty -tine ban whisky marked " vinegar, " belen to E. 'and A.. Robitaille, of Quebed, A seized for infraction of the excise 1 in that city: On Friday, 120 ha of "'vinegar,." censigned to the s firm, were received at Hochelaga whicl fifty nine were seized. All cise and •shipping marks had been 'iterated from the barrels. The bal, of 120 barrels is being traced. excise' tax on 120 barrela of whisk nearly srol000 and on the same q tity of vinegar is $192. —The boiler of a portable,saw engine which was at work on the town line between Dereham and Dorchester, near Culloden, burst a few days -a,go, killing two --men—father and son—' vho 11 were running it. The explosion vas heard along the lake shore, from tem to , In WI of el NV office, and, by kicking up a noise, a tracted attention. The doctofput the b oken limb into splints, and the animal b ing released hobbled off gaily on its three sound legs. —Mrs. Connors, an old lady, almost at her life az Harrisburg the other ening. It appears that an undertaker th d left a bottle of preservative material the 74 are not the worst of -the ntaining arsenic, for the preservation cants, and as a poor wido , a the body of Mr. Holman, lying dead whom there was no complai , w the house. By mistake Mrs. Connors prived of a license to make rbom zek of atrhgee dose u gc ha causing of nf g the er tofluid,yomthiet now ap,plicant, the temperanee are greatly disappointed. The eely, and no doubt in a great measure alleges that they have put back the ved her life, although she was greatly of temperance for years by acts of prostrated. I . ing injustice. 1 —When the telegram from Ottawa —The people living about the sating that the Dominion Parliament Islands, .near Yarmouth, Nova S had passed a resolutiorm condemning the and neighboring mainland Irish Crimes Bill was received in Lon- 48 hours of terrible anxiety' rec on, England, several, Liberal -Unionist These islands are the great lol,)stet nd. Conservative members expressed ing grounds, and at this seasion reat surprise at their 'adoption. They year there is everything to be gain greatly wonder that the Canadian Par- getting shipments to Boston whi Oil ament should have ieterfered with market holds good. Hence co aid risk is run by lobstermen. 0- 1 of ing ere WS els me of ex- ob- nee he is all- ctor Stewart, was in se at th time of 'the cident occurred Friday -idge on the Beachville -"oodburn Mills, better .day Creek bridge. A driving with her child to see sortie Mei ds in Embro. On ar- riving at Ithe b idge the horse became friehtened and anmana,geable. He be- gan backing up, and there being no rail-. in on the bridge, there was nothing to prevent horse a d leaggy,i mother and, child, from goin over the side and down the embank met1 Straage to say neither Mrs..0a) ter nor her child was nce was Soon at hand, d removing the harness released., but tine buggy. piece's. The ownership as been the subject tif us, dispute injured. Assist and by cutting the horse. was was smashed to 1 ill of this bridge king and vexati fifteen miles south of Tilsonburg, an points; as far, as 25 miles south Mat people thought it was an ea quak,e, and 'although it took place in midst of -a thickly settled communit one seems to kaoW much about it, a has ben almost impossible to get particulars... . —On Wednesday last week, m. Broven and Chas. Collins, of B rk's. Falls, were crossing the Magneta van River atehort distance above the fills, when their boat was caught by the cur-, rent and wide -led down stream. Jut as the. eergdeif the falls was Je-ached men sprang for a short pier Whi there. Collins reached it, and was a wards rescued, but Blown missed hold -and Was swept over. He Wa killed .Itt, the. plunge but sank :N. t swirerning to catch a boom some c is below the falls. His body Inas n t ; recovered. - , —Says the Elora Express: Mt. Eby, a foi'mer resident of Elora, di his home in Kingeville, Chita+, Thursday. Mr. Eby was born in caster, :Pennsylvania, in .1815,his 'pa removing td Berlin, county of Wateeloo, 1. at est. th- the no d it any otl) h is ter - his not bile nee neen Das, at last J an - cuts in 1817: He learned the carpenter joiner trade. At the age of 23 be married to Hannah Fessant, and sh after, went to Guelph to reside ; ti to Goderich-; and about 1847 beca resident of Elora. .From here In meted „to -Kingsville about 16 ago; where- he died, as above stat dropsy, occasioned by an affection heart. , -H-Miss Ballingall, of Ayr, is the sessor of a newspa.pet to which att a peculiar interest this Jubilee fee is a copy of the Sun, of LondOn; land, of date Thursday everting, 28, 1838, being the special coron number of this journal, containin details of the coronation of Qneen toria. In honor of the event the S printed in gold ink or is bronzed thr mitt with a medallion portrait o youag Queen. The Queen ascende throne on June 20, 1837, and WaB c ed oh the:28thof June, 1838. i —At Cornwall in the crimi,nal case brottght by R. R. MeLenn Alexandria, against C. W. Yoneg prietor of the Freeholder, the 'ur dered a verdict of guilty. Ju ge charged very strongly aga nst Young. In giving Judgment, he under the circumstances he would ; no penalty, but merely bind Mr. I to appear for sentence if necessa In any future time, he to pay th co the suit. Judge Rose conm strongly on the utterances of papers, said to be owned by Mr Lennaretsaying their language wa rageous and uncalled for, and he like -to be able to reach them at we NI —There is said to be any hin satisfaction with the . way in 'hic Toronto- License COMMiSSiOn 'rs_ granted licenses for the curre t y the city,. By the by -1 w were-- required to reduce the her' of licenses by 74; ef the 74 are discontented, 1 • orne politics, especially lied condemnation of th gislation proposed by t nd now going throng ouse. A leading I, ays it is not possible for Canada to in their im- , remedial Irish le Government tine Upper iberal-Unionist and was rtly ence C re - ears , of the pos- ches It ng - mine tion the Vic - fl is ugh - the the wn- liboefl pro' ren- sli°a said flict oung y at ts of m at ht ee dr Mc- Out- ould 1. but the have r in they urn- apui npri Issi B de - for a °I.oP1 1.) ee a.use glar- sk et .fnosttstlie?e,. fish - d by the rable TliedaY afternoonjast week there was k gal eand the men were unable to go omit -La their traps, but towards 5 o check the wind died ,out, and from every island boats put out by the score to take it the r lob - A G od Retort. An Ontario st eet subsetiber brought to our office on Monday AN hat Inc called a National Polley hen's egg. It's weight was 31 ounces, length 71 inches and cir- cumference fit inches. Will some of otir Grit friend § ;beat Mile with their jug-han died frei trade heits t—Stratford Ti es. fies one of the certain dangerous an4 pernicious results of protection. It is an over production and weli will venture to, say.that the hen after laying that egg eaperieuced aseason of depression border• hag on a complete collapse., Free Trade; sir, is a system of normal and continuous pp:Auction, regulated by the law of de- mand and supply, and a fair exchange of products. That big egg strained the source or power of production, -the hent it glutted the market for the time by its bulk, and it was followed by several days of non -production, hence, produced a disturbance in the 'supply market: You will perceive therefote, sir, that it produced a general trade disturbance— it disturbed the hen, distutbed the pro- duction, and then disturbed tine supply, —Mitchell Recorder. That egg, Mr. Times, clearly exempli- Perth items. A base ball, club has been organized at Motherwell, lewith Mr. 'Hugh flamilt ton as captain, , —Mr. Matt. Riddle, of Shakespeare, has sold. his fine horse, "Sorrel Cloucl,7 to a party from Bradford for $800. —Mr. James Dow, an old and respect- ed. citizen of Hibbert, died at his old, homestead on Wednesday last week. t —Mr. Robt. Duncan, of Mitchell, has contributed two articles of more than ordinary merit to the Cenada Presby- terian on the subject of Bible insects. —The brown stallion, '1Clan Fraser,7 property of Forbes Brothers & Easson of Stratford, died of acute colic a fey days ago. —Donald McKay, an old man from East Zorra, was robbed in Stratford on Tuesday last week of $110 and violently assaulted. —Mr. P. Lilico, of Listowel, is bring. ing a carload of Red Fyfe wheat from Manitoba, to be disposed of for seed among the farmers in the vicinity. —Mr. Win. Pomeroy, who has had charge of the Fullarton; cheese factory for the past two years, has gone to take charge of the Avondale factory for Mr. Thos. Ballantyne. —Postmaster Blair,,of Stratford, has disposed of his well-known trotting stallion "Oscar Wilde," to Frank Wesley, of the Albion otel, Graven - burst, for $850. —All the handa,formerly engaged in the woolen mills lately burned in Mit- have secured situations in other towns, and the population is reduced some 14 or 15. ' ; —The Stratford Herald is disgusted with the army of ears infesting that city. It says :—If the I Mayor would proclaim the 6th of May "Dog Extet- mination Day," it would be better thin 1 Arbor Day. —Mr. W, G. Murphy has purchased Mr. J. H. Flagg's handsome brick resi- dence in front of the Presbyterian , church, Mitchell. He got the property at a bargain, paying therefor the BUM of $2,400. Mr. Flagg intends building at once on Main street. —The body of the late Clement' Hol- land, a former' resident of Mitchell, was found two weeks ago in the river run- ning. through Kincardine. It was not disfigured, and about $1,500 were found on his person. His widow and children arec h—e 1 staying1 lrs.with Mr. F. Holland in Mit- McAnch, of St. Marys, came very near losing her life from coal gas the other night. The previous evening being mild she had closed all the damp- ers of the stove before going to bed. , Some of the neighbors noticing at noon that there was no one moving about the house broke in and found her insensible and the heart almost ceased beating. A doctor was in called, and she was brought around after considerable trouble. 11 4 -