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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-05-13, Page 1a says kho 011,_ • auct -lair. he :e bud;. Lueee • tet.: .authett or the :mace ett a, on th ▪ p. er, with tasteatt '7 iti the ut fiud- ier eere- Ttieleette t Beech ranee eo, k" school atm:mita ke any he yote r which tat/late as hrough r necen eting of ated by eerousty. e aFete stion of kieh the organte, talrers hl in tli r.o se repad [esPayers. ,orded la area 'tag hat the nr.y. 11 - be con. ging the- ral sat. of the are Hagan Bushiest ;d home tale and ;vile hu; ma they Mg the as MIL inh, the .hing on 1, throw. ring her we are g roma re. jobs laidtwo, th these a hard like to some up Jarrett ✓ trip te sit an livtitg in 'heron. - his farm. ight oua and in- ess; the go with Maisel ,d Annie • at the, already ithrough irst, an& es *tight - td to be Lor pupils I. -whe ; one an- ths, met to unite they wia a. by the not sure e as yell- af we be- y well to• signifi- • officals: treasttrar, A. Gem- • Harrisr days the 'rat ani freali and ' are very rea,ther be ii seedjuir Is in Wu is spring a seen* riapr, but L. ;orge Gifr Saturdef is cut tut 5.now c� cher' and home 01 attend tht iarehai Iltis,we [off ron elite h e young or emu; s Schaal's. ie 24th 01 e grand a -The „..1..tittt- 11001, aatt • eirening eefia, Th. interest. i tew : Firstt * -,vhieh 'teal "A SJ1g7 :OR and tIc = Hen* ere e and AY° retry Ren't1 rhich Wea rith earl eading 'pprecia ighla,nds lecture Dy RON% auspices 1st Pregb 4 3 • NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,012. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 13 1887. McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Hoffman & Co's. ILLINERY NOW IN FULL BLAST. Just opened another new lot of HATS, BONNETS, SHAPES, FLOWERS, FEATHERS ORNAMENTS, GAT,TZES, SATINS; ' SILKS, &c. Also a full stock of PRINTS, GINGHAMS, SEERSUCKERS, MUSLINS, PARASOLS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES, CORSETS, - GLOVES, HOSE, 1100 PSKIRTS, BUSTLES, PANNIERS, DRESS -IMMO VERS, FRILLINGS, RIBBONS, BUTTONS, STRAW and FELT HATS, —FOR Boys, & Children AT tHE— Cheap Cash Store of Hoffman d Co., Men Cardnoat Block, 'Seaforthe May No. of Batteriek's Fashion Sheets Just to Hand. Perth Items. -Miss Aggie Knox, of St. Marys,' is engaged. to give a series of readings in London this month. -Alex. McKenzie of Monkton; died a few days ago at the residence of his father in that village at the early age of 24 years. • -Father Chiniquy lectured in Knox church, Listowel, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings last week. There was a large turnouteach everting. -Mr. E. F. Davis, jeweler, Mitchell, is owner of probably the smallest Shet- land pony in Canada. It weighs 284 as. and stands three feet six inehes in height. It was imported. from England' last fall. -The Mitchell town council have de- cided to take no action in granting a bonus to Mr. Dorman, of the lately burned woolen mills, and that gentle- man is looking for a location in some other town, -Thos. McClay asks the Mitchell council for a loan ort$S,000, receiving which he will enter into the manufac- ture of furniture on a large scale, agree- ing at no time to employ less than 40 skilled. workmen, -At a faiblic examination held a couple of weeks ago in the Carlingford school the report says: The scholars, under the leadership of Miss Tyerman, rendered in good style a number of ap- propriate pieces ef music. Miss Tyer- .man is a graduate of the Seadorth High School. -Dr. H. R. Hay and Mr. W.F. Hay, of Listewel, made a voyage down the river to Brussels„ on Monday last week, in their new boat, the" Water Lily.' Barring several obstructions in the river below Trowbridges they had a- pleasant sail, .They returned with the -boat by the evening train. t -Cyrus Hoffman, an -ex-Prussian sol- dier, appeared before the Stratford Po; lice Magistrate the other morning to an- swer to e charge of being drunk and dis- orderly. He explained that he had only been (me year in this country and had not yet got used to Canadian ‘whisky, which, he said, affected him very differ- ently to the whisky of his native coun- try. He was fined $1 and costs and given an hoer to pay it. -Friday efte.rnoon fire broke o.ut in a knell house ha Douro street, Stratford, occupied. by Mr. George Canals. Mrs. Whine went out to Sebringeille, leaving three little children, one three, one .foar and one a merebaby, locked in the houee alone. Mrs. Brazier, wife of the land- lord, who lives next door, noticing the tmok€ pouring eutt of the building, rush- ed over and burstatg open the door -tared the three children at the risk of her own life. Other neighboes removedchair this last -winter, were pleased to get awas all and tulle, which as all the furniture back .again. Among the new arrival's eaved. The fire brigade arrived ompt who settled in Snowflake is Mr. James iv after the sounding of tae alarm, but Pyle and hit estimable family, formerly; the building was almost totally wrecked I Of Lumley. We would like to hear from before they got there. The building was Lumley more frequently .iii the same . From Southern Manitoba, SNOWFLAKE, May tat, last. DEAR EXPOSITOR -I noticed in a re- cent isaue of THE ExPosProR that you paid the climate of 111 enitoba quite a compliment,by informing your numeroue readers that seeding operations coin- menced fully ten days earlier here thah in Ontario. In -Southern a. Manitob , which, by the way, is the garden of thi northern paradise,. there were corn hundreds of acres of wheat sown in last week or ten days of March, and by the middle of April wheat seeding was about completed, and at the present date, May 2nd, the oats and barley are nearly all sown. The land was in the finest con- dition this spring that I have ever wit- nessed during my five years experience. in Manitoba. We had such e dry sea- son last year, and on,ly a moderate snow fall, -the consequence being that the ground was dry and ready for tillage as soon as the snow left. Almost every little detail was favorable to the plant- - leg of a large acrea.ge, and if the sea- son of 1887 comes in on the home stretch in as good form as it started, it will in- deed be a jubilee year. for Manitoba, not only for ' Her Gracious Majesty, but for the returning prosperity of our fair pro- vince. Let her roll, (I mean prosperity, not the province), I ' DISALLOWANCE. I also took notice of an editorial which appeared in THE EXPOSITOR, on that much -talked of question, " Disallow- ance," and I see by the same that you do not extend the least sympathy to us poor Manitobans. You say we deserve all -theasqueezing we are likely to get, and I suppose Mr. Editor, that if Wo- man Suffrage was in vogue in Manitoba that the delinquents in that case would receive a full share. Now, Mr. Editor, when this question of Disallowance is so prominently before the public, I will re- spectfully ask you to suggest a remedy for Disallowance. It is a stubborn fact that the contract entered' into between the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Dominion Government, granting certain privileges to the C. P. IL, is law, assent- ed to by a large majority of the people's representatives. And I 'do not think that any party would attempt to repeal that la,w,in the absence of any precedent to justify them in so doing. Then the question arises, how is Disallowance to be disposed of. Some in Manitoba ad- vocate giving the Canadian Pacific Rail- way a money consideration.. Supposing this should be clone, aria added to the national debt, would not Ontario and the other eastern provinces kick against any such proceeding. Then the C.P.R. will reply if you will not giveus a fair price for our valuable right': we will not give it to you for nothing. There is quite an agitation in- this pro- vince at present against Disallowance', conducted by certaineparties, and to my • mind it is only. folly. The representa- tive -of Selkirk wrote back from Ottawa that the agitation in Winnipeg was only hurting our cause with ea,stern members of both sides of politics. Perhaps, Mr. Editor, you will be able to enlighted me and give me an outline of the Reform party's policy to settle, this question. I have failed to hear a Re- form candidate during the late Dominion campaign say positively what his party were prepared to do in the matter of dis- allowance. -They wouldcover the ground by simply stating I aml opposed. to dis- allowance. We were a unit on it, be- fore he would_ make that wonderfel t statemen, and daily certain papers are shouting "Down with disallowance," and yet not a word how they would hold the reins. And, Mr. Editor, you say _we deserve all we will get because We elect- ed men to support the Government. I say that we elected men that will vote against the Government if they attempt a dishonorable act, and I claim it would be a dishonorable act on the part of the Government if they tried to sneak out of a well understood bargain. And, Mr. Editor, some of the -worst enemies of the Canadian Pacific itailway were, delight- ed when the bargain was effected with the prospects of. getting a road. Then we were at the mercy of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba road, yet these croakers do aot stop to think that cif a, it ws not for the policy of the pres- ent Government we would be still at the mercy of American roads. It reininds me very forcibly of the little boy who, said he liked his ma for spreading jam on his bread, but would like her better ' if she allowed him to spread the jam himself. With any little. remarks- I have made about disallowa,nce I don't with it understood that I am favorable to it, for we want all the railroa,d competi- tion that we possibly can secure, pro- vided that we can get it in an honorable way, ettiettenoa. .• Me,nitoba, so far this season has. re- ceived a goodly number of settlers f'slom Ontario, Quebec, and the old countries, and more are to follow. Let them -come, for We have any amount of standing room left yet and reeerved seats thrown in, besides there is golden grain, the setting-sun, big possibilities and mag- nificent distances, and a Tory Govern- ment.'a might say here, some of -the Snowflake ladies, who visited Ontario inhered for $100 in the Perth tlutaal ; pleasant way. the furniture was uninsured, .4-1:sou-nue, 'inter- Our minds for some little time past taught have been full of dissolution. The new ds in "Combine," composed of ( T. Brown I fit of as high i priest; T. Greenway, parish priest; Martin, of Portage la , Prairie, incense igniter, and Luxton, door -keeper,'' to shut out all printing -contracts, was going to compel the Local Government to dissolve. But I think the most im- portant dissolution that will take place is amongst the gophers, as our municipal Council with a good deal of 'generosity and wisdom placed a bounty, of twenty cents per dozen on the bushy, ap- --A few days ago when Mr. ueshate was e hotting the heavy ( stallion Gordon" on his rou (testae, the horse took a aid& trritaidlity, and when chastised by his leader turned upon hint, knack d over the sulky, grabbed him by the atm and gave it a pretty severe bruising., Hithi erto the horse had never been known hut as the gentlest. Mr. Winteri ghaml however, succeeded in conquer ng tho animal and led him back to the stable, G serious reealt i5 anticipated to hie rm, pendages of that interesting little quad ruped, And .1 can assure you Mr. Editor that after a party of boys go over a strip of land with t teir traps, snares and shot guns, the ground is strewn with bob -tailed dead. This is a dis- solution that is extremely popular among all grain gt•owers, as these little pests destroyed large gem titles of grain in Southern Manitoba ast year, and be- fore this spring's crusade they seemed more numerous than bounty puts a slight fritit, as the average properly equipped wi reckon on a larger re and most active lady the afe. Yours Trul ever. This gopher discount on hen small boy can,. i th a gopher outfit, enue than the best egg discoverer of W. BARBER. .. _EEL). None -Our Correspondent i astray on the questio of disallowance The old Province of ifanitoba is not in eluded in the mon ply. clauses of th agreement between t e Government and the Canadian Pacffic tailway Compan§ and hence the Gover ment is not under any legal or moral obligation to the Company to preven competing lines being built within th old limits of the Province of Manit ba. He will re- member the states ent. of Sir. Joh Macdonald when thi monpply questio was being discussed Parliament, tha "We could not chedc Manitoba," an the subsequent stat ent of the Hp Mr. White, Minist r of the Interio that so sodn as the railway was Or pleted around the orth shore of lak Superior, the Gover ment would aba - don its disallowanUe olicy, in so far ais Manitoba is concerne . Mr. Thoinpso theatinister of Jaisti e, also, in his co ference with the Winnipeg delegatio a few days ago, sa d that there is n legal or constitutional reason for thh continuance of the onoply within the original boundaries f the Province of Manitoba, but that i is purely a quee- tion of policy with the Government. This being the case 11 that is required to secure railway co petition for Manl- the toba, is a reversal of the policy of Government. `If Ma itoba was included in the agreement hen the company woeld be entitled o compensation if competition were pe mitted, but when. it is not included, t e Government bh preventing such coin etition are favoring' the company at t e expense of t e country.] A Few Words rOm the Sont SIIASTA CITY, Cal., April 1st. In this letter I niu t leave out myse f and tell you of the e untry, as I promie ed. • This land 'is yell timbered, an could as well as not e well watered. t is a singularly fine p ace for fruit. Fi s grow on many of the red and rocky hil sides without the le. st care or cultur I ence found an old ermit back of tow in'the hills, who gay me a bowl of mil and a plate, of dried figs. This, he a sured me, was his di ly food. His co feeds on the wild oat that grow up an down the gulch, an the figs grow i rank abundance,alw ye with a profusio of grapes about hi cabin door. He cures his figs simply -by tying them u in a bag, and thrnin , the bag over a fe times as it lies th long, hot auturn month'drying on th stone wall before the c-abin. But all inds of fruit, from oranges -to apples, so well in Shasta. county. I must exp am n that there is '8 yet no cannery here, and so the deman for 'fruit is merely local, and of litt e . commercial account Still the canner is only a question of time. This cannin is a sort of Wall st eet establishmen That is, it gives a stud- and a certai value to all sorts of fruit as soon as it pi established. For exa pie, I had a friend in Oakland, or near here, the other da who was in need of little money. He went to one of the f nit canneries' and • cashed his fruit aseadily as if it had been a check, selling it at -so much an acre. And, mind y(1u, this is before t e trees are yet in bloss tn. These canneries referred to send the r produce direct to Chicago. Land here is ch acres within a few $1.50 per acre last the railroad, paying down. There is ple cheap and just as g sante terms, I think. of land to be had of at very reasonable r but thinly settled, t markethere for anyt gradually melted asi road new. pointing and on the eve of co new tarn to affairs soon. , . If I were to advis you with regard o seeking land here I would suggest th t you hug the hills ra her closely. The; e is a little melaria do vu in the rich lan s in the lower part of he country. Tru the hills are hard to handle, being stony and often covered vith chaparral, b t they are rich and th very land for fruit and vines. The lan that I have bought is steep and in plac s very stony, but I .am sure there is a f iture in it for many families if Lean onl 'settle the place up with industrious an contented peope who are willing to p ant and wait. . We are on the e -treme limit df tae thermal belt to th north. ' Both t e latitude _and the altitude forbid th t fruit of the warmer climes, or the fin r kinds of grapes, can grow to perfect* n north of this spot. tAnd so you see 11 Oregon, Weshingt n Territory a d Mdntana and Idaho as well will have o alifornia. And a int of California o seethe, argume t Shasta without an y mine. many cattle in tbe hogs flourish won - whole ' country is d forests of acoen as said before, there for atterthing hete r of a century; eo fornia has languis - 'behinfl other parts ap. I bought 640 iles of this spot for year. I bought of only 20 per cent. ty of other land as od to be had on the And there is plenty private individuals tes. For Shasta s ere having been i4o ing since the min4s ay. But this ne straight to Orego , pletion, will give a ere, and that right be supplied front this is the nearest p these places you ea for pleating; fruit in further 'statement of There are a great fOot hills' here, and derfully. For, the sown with scatter bearing oaks. But, has been no marke for nearly 'a quart that this part of Cal ed greatly and. is fa of the State that have no better natural 'advantages than Shasta. ,_ But I must repeat, and feel like re- peating it over and over again, that if t ou come to settle here you must first be certain that you have, or can get, plenty el good water on your grounds. ['or I dan't want your blame on my head when you are scorched to death in August and' September. And lett me warn you also against trusting too much to appearances here in the spring. The truth is this Shasta is a flirt, and will de- ceive almost any man who does not know "her tricks and her manners" of old. For example, in March, April and May yeti will see her all miles' and roses. The whole mountain sideseevery little hill and every little valley as glori- ous -With waving green grass anch beauti- ful blu and yellow and red blossoms. It loo s like an Eden; the air is so sweet you can feed upon it. You feel at such tithes that you have surely found the Promised Land. But wait. Along in July the gra,ss begins to turn brown. In August it is literally burned black. In September the ground fairly glows from the heat. Every little gulch and creek and canyon that has not living water in it is a fiery furnace. But with vater, What a garden a man can make here in, this soil with all this fervid sun at his back ! . . Taking it all in all, I should say, with this certain precaution about water, that Shasta county is about the- best -part of the wPrld that I have passed over on this trip to settle in, especially if a Man is alone and not full handed. But I do not think - large- companies of rich men could operate nearly so well.here as in the broad, rich lands of Arizona in the : = egion af Fort Bowie: Fish; are abundant here and of the s est. San Francisco takes tons of moun- aba teOut every year from these cool, weet inountain streams, and yet the rout seem only, to increase. The Gov- rnineet has established a " hatchery" ere for the purpose of procuring the ggs of trout . and salmon. It may not e generally known that up to a recent late our Government was in the habit of rocuring all its fish eggs from Canada. Did "you ever. see them " Milk " the ggs from the fish? It is so curious and et so pimple that I will tell you briefly tow it is done. A large female salmon, onspicuotisly large from the great bundance of eggs she contains, is taken roan the river with a net, then a man akes her by the tail and lays her back p along -hie bare arm and with his ight hand milks stream after ,stream of tright golden eggs into a woOden tub. '[ter taking many pounds of eggs in hisWay the fish is dropped back into he river, and she swims away good aturedly, as if rather glad of what has apperied. Then a male fish is taken up ith the net from out the river where sh are so thick that you can literally 'stir them with a stick. And the same rocess hi gone through with the father f fishes. Only -instead of eggs there is erely a milky fluid -called "milt." ' hen he is flopped back into the river leo and goes his way. Then the man teaches Ilia broad hand and big arm own into the wooden tub and stirs the ggs and milt about; and that is all. "hey are " impregnated " now and teady to be put up in layers of moss and ent thus all over the world. The man m charge of the "hatchery" told me hat not, one egg in 100 thus prepared nd sent abroad would fail to hatch ; vhile in truth, by the natural process in he streaths where fish are left to them - elves, only about one egg in 1,000 ever owes to anything. It makes one want o stop and think ! J. M. _t___.e.hte i Canada. Montreal is estimated to have lost 200,000 in three years by the floods. - - Mr. Richard Petrie, of . Ingersoll, ost three children by diphtheria during aet week. -Archbishop Tache, who has been seri- usly ill in Montreal for the past three onths, is convalescing. . -Mr. S. B. Crane, of Chatham. has ecured the contract for the new Knox hureh at Ayr, for $17,500. -The Government telegraph line in he Northwest is being built west from attleford to Edmonton with iron poles. --John Brien, an Owen Sound grocer, or selling liquor without a license, has teen committed to jail for three months. -Richard , Holmes, of Fartnersville, as passed the 100 -year mile -post on the ourney of life. • - At the Guelph cattle fair,on Wed- esday last week prices rattged from t to 41 cents per pound. Trade was n11. . -Mr. McBride has been re-engaged s principal of 'the Stratford Collegiate nstit te for the year 1887 at a salary of 1,300 - --Iightning on Saturday struck the omit ba and Northwestern Railway epot at Minnedosa, and the building vas destroyed. -Geo. Wallace, for many years Mon - real correspondent of the Toronto Mail, lied at his residence in that city last 'unday morning: --Tae promoters of the Hudson Bay taalroed are asking the Ottawa Govern- ment for a subsidy or other assistance to hat enterprise. . -The Canadian Wimbledon team this ear will be -commanded by : Colonel uimet, with F. Hart, of the St. John e Corps, as adjutant. The Temperance society in connec- . ion with St, Peter's Anglican church in oronto, has over :100 members, and the and of Hope 200. - The other day a on of Mr. Wm. ackson, of Minto, started out shooting ith a doable -barrel gun, which he oaded before leaving home. While rossing the fields he placed the gun gainst a fence whilst he got over, and n gaining the, other side he put his and through the fence and drew the un towards him, muzzle forward. The rigger caught against the fence, causing he gun to go off, and lodging the con- ents of the barrel in the upper part of the you to Pal and it broken, ed wit sleeves powder ion Ho will rec his $1,0 ben -W found g $100 ea ,h on farmers in Puslinch town - d sentenced to two years in the iary. s Marjory Kennedy, second r of the late Scottish vocalist, elye married to kr. Alexander aser, mathematical master in the •gh high school. . Kennedy, a London township per,hasbeen committed to jail months by Police Magistrate r non-payment of a Scott Act $50. " There are also $18.10 of 14 1.1 ^ g man's left arm. Ile hurried erston for surgical assistance, was found that nd bones were but the flesh was freely pepper - shot. The coat and shirt ere singed with the flash of the Deputy Speaker of the Domin- se, in prospectus, Mr. Rykert, ive $2,000 a year in addition to 0 allowance as a sessional mem- 'i. Cook, of Glen morris, has been ilty of forging two notes of over ship, a peniten -Mi daught was la Yule F Edinbu -Ge hotelke for tw Noble f fine of costs. -Th Canadian manufacture of mac- aroni a d vermicelli does not seem to flourish very well. Mr. R. Spinelli, of Montr 1, of late the only maker in Canada, has just assigned on demand, owing bout $6,000. -Re . Principal Grant, of Queen's College Kingston, lectured at the Can- adian 1 lub in New York Thersday even- ing la t week on "Canada First." A very 1 rge audience was hresent and great e thusiasm prevailed. -Rav. Sam Jones was called home from inneapolis a few dahs ago by a telegra n announcing. the serious illness of his. ife.- This leaves the revival service there in charge of Rev. Sam Small. -Pe rolia is having a boom in mar- riages': No fewer than six happy couples have e tered the matrimonial state.with- in the last few weeks, and as many more re expected during the merry month of May. -Pe itions were filed at Osgoode hall Monde, against the return of Mr. Car- gill, test Bruce; Mr. Mallory, East North mberland, and Mr. Wilson, East Elgin.' Also cross -petitions in Algoma and E st Northumberland. -T e wife of Mr. Fred. Wade, editor of the Vinnipeg Free, Press, and a for- mer T ronto man,. has surprised her husbapd by presenti g him with triplets -two girls and one boy. The latter died, b t the others 4re doing well. -It is supposed t at lightning set fire to the, beds at Kerr' woodyard, Guelph, early , riday morning. The buildings, engine boiler and other machinery v. ere •destro ed and about 50 cords of Wood burne, . Loss, $8,000. --T oseGuerin, civil engineer of th.e publie works department, Montreal, droppe dead Saturday morning while worki g in his office. Heart disease was the cause. Deceased though 60 years f age was still active and a valu- able o icer. Peter Mahon, formerly of Pus- linch, nd well known in Guelph, now in Au tralia, has sent a letter te• the author ties of the Church of Our Lady, Guelph , stating that he would subscribe $1,000 towards the building fund of the churc -A Brand boro, storm ably. but h also in =-C quanti mean'; marke have Manit $100, -T in E Irish with day e a shor rnagis been C. Ju ark, Jas. G Henr living and c dange one being fully treat resolu Mr. a teic;n ni o demn'ng Mr. O'Brien's visit to Mon- treal. ---T e other day a young man named Wm, leDonald, was assisting at a barn raisin r near Ripley, when he met with an ac ident that almost cost him his life. He as standing en one of the plates, when he fell to the ground, a distance of nearly 30 feet, receiving such injuries as for a time endangered his life. -T e Guelph Women's Christian Temp ranee Union carries on regular work mong the colored people of that place. In connection with this branch there is a woman's sewing circle and eveni g classes for study. Isluch in- terest is shown in the stbjects presented, and all the classes are arogressing. - • ev. James Robertson, of Winni- peg as been able to arrange for the most satisfactory rates for the General Assen bly delegates who are expected in that ity early in June. The return trip f om any point in Ontario and Que- bec tc Winnipeg has been placed at the low gure of $30. If the lake route is adop d the figure is $40, and if only one way ky the lake tae price will be $35. Mr. obertson has also arranged for special return rates west, if the dee- 'barn belonging to Mr. Thomas h, of the 4th concession of Mary - as struck by lightning during the sf Friday and damaged consider - A colt in the stable was blinded, s since recovered, and a team, the stable, have been deaf since. al oil is said to exist in paying ice in some parts of Manitoba, if can be obtained to prepare it for Several enterprising gentlemen pplied for incorporation as the ba Oil Company, with a capital of e • news of the death of Mr. E. , of Prescott, a leading Liberal tern Ontario; and a prominent atholic, was received at Ottawa eneral regret., He died on Satur- ening at his home in Prescott after illness. e following alipointments of police rates for Scott Act counties have ade : Leeds and Grenville, James d, barrister, of Brockville ; Lan- uncan Kippen, of Perth; Brant, ace, of Brantford; Muskoka, Wm. Spencer, of Bracebridge. woman named Martha McLellan, near Glencoe, has been arrested mmitted to jail as a furious and ous lunatic. She assaults every - ho comes within her reach, and powerful woman has to -be care- uarded. t a meeting Monday of the Mop- rotestant Ministerial Association ions were adepted condemning ercier's reference to the Associ- s a "meddlesome body" in con - with the Jesuit Bill, and con - gates wish it. The rates are as follows : To Victoria and return, $45; to Van- couver, $40 • to Glacier, $35 • to Cal- gary, $30. is seeking to induce the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to give delegates a free rideon all their lines in the Province, so that they may see the excellence of the country for themselves. -Thursday night last week a fire broke out in James Smith's mill, Inger- soll, which, with the contents, was totally destroyed. The 'building and machinery was valued at about $12,000. Sonie 8,000 or 10,000 bushels of wheat and a large quantity of flour were lost. There was a entail insurance. -Christopher Roberts, Canadian Pa- cific Railway telegraph messenger boy at Toronto, while sliding down the banish. ters in the Board of Trade buildings Thursday afternoon, missed his hold and fell headlong to the bottom. He wael picked up unconscious, and the doctor' who was summoned pronounced his in- juries fatal. -The present freshet on the St. John river is the greatest ever known in New Brunswick. Frederick ton is practicalle submerged, only the front street bein above water. The loss fo lumbermen i beyond eatimate, and as the snow in, th Upper St. John districts is still ten fee deep in the Woods, no abatement of th flood can be expected for some time. -The late Samuel Platt, M. P. 0 Toronto, left an estate valued at $2,b0, 000. By his will eight shares in stoc of the Consumers Gas Company are left - to each of the following charities! House of Industry, Girls' Home, Boys' Home, Home for Incurables and the Protestant Orphans' Home. -The Government agent at Toronto says most of theimmigrants coming in are of a very .superior class, and nearly all appeaa to .have money. They all state, bewever, that they were assured before starting that work could be had here for the asking, and are disappoint ed when they fail to find situations wait ing for them. -A paekage containing $5,000 Bank of Ottawa bills has disa,ppeare from the Express Company's custod while being taken from Ottawa to Carl ton Place. The city detectives are en deavoring to find the money. It is sup posed to have been taken by a suspicio looking, individual seen lurking abo the station at the time the package w placed -in the express car. -The Canadian Bank of Commer are about to issue a new series of $1 notes. A steamship under full head steam and making the quickest an safest passage on record is the centr4 vignette, while the portrtit of the hat President, Hon. W. McMaster is on th left end of the note, and that of th President, Mr. EL W.Darline, is on th right end, -a linking of the oldlovewit the new. -A man calling himself Smith, h been making his headquarters near the village of Palermo for sometime, and is alleged, has been carrying on syst,i- matic „night thieving from the faxen Is' of such articles as butter, eggs, ha cheese, etc., and disposing of them Toronto, Elamilton and Oakville. was arrested at Georgetown Friday even- ing and lodged in jail at Milton, charge 1 with several thefts. • -Rev. Dr, Castle, of Toronto, h z received an anonymous letter froI "Friend," St. Catharines, enclosing bank draft for $300, "to devote in sue manner as you deem best to promote ti spiritual interests" of a certain specifie .portion of the inhabitants of Toront He would like " Friend " to reveal It identity, so that he may lay before ha his plans for the expenditure of ti e money:. -About 4 o'clock Monday morn.% the house of Mr. John Davis, Inlet; Revenue Inspector at Windeor, was e tered by burglars, and about $100 wort of silverware stolen. The family we awakened by one of the burglars falling down timestairway, and Mr. Davis' el est son with a hired man started in pua- suit, but the thieves escaped down the river under cover of a thick fog. V. -Mr. Drayton Holcomb, who. shel- tered the great Canadian patriot, Wil- liam Daon Mackenzie, and conducted him to the frontier at the time he made his escape from the country, and whea he was confronted with the temptation presented by a standing reward of $20,000 for his apprehension, died at his home in Pelham, Welland county, on the 24th of March lest, at the age of 95 years. -A. most annoying insect, whic heretofore has not troubled the residet of London to any extent, has shown ii self already this season with disastrous conseq,uences on many of the city lawn. It confines its attention exclusively to the roots of grass and clover, which it eats off completely, so that in a few days the sod turns into dust. It does not cate for weeds, dandelions or any verdure of that sort. -Six thousand immigrants have land- ed at Halifax during the past three months, or about 500 more than landed there -during. the whole of last year. They are said to be the finest lot of ina- migrants -that ever landed in Halifax. Fully 5,000 of these seemed supplied with money and were able to buy an pay for all they wanted. They we mostly farmers, a large portion of the English and Irish tenant farmers. 1 is blue border significant of loyalty, a large red square, indicating blood, and a yel- low star as an emblem of purity. In his eddress on the presentation, Captain Burchett charged the soldiers to be faith- ful to God and their duties.; -to do all they could for the elevation of the fallen, with honor to Cod and themselves. -Sir Wm. Young, ex -Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, died a few nights ago, 87 years old. 'Sir, William was a member of the Provincial Legislature, the island and one of the counties of Cape Breton for upwards of 20 years. In 1860, on -the death of Sir Brenton Haliburton, he was appointed Chief Justice, and a few days later had the honor of Knighthood conferred upon him. by Her Majesty. -About eight years ago he retired, being succeeded by the present Chief Justice McDonald. -.--A lad named Harper, about 12 years of age, sustained injuries on the Michigan Central Railway, at Essex ' Centre Saturday morning which will probably result in his death. ' Whether he was strack by the way ear or the locomotive is not known. He was seri- ously cut on the head and forehead, the flesh torn from, the palm of the left • hand, which was badly mangled, and he was otherwise injured. No person knew Of the accident until young Har- per was picked up on the track. -Two families named Potter and Haig, living on Papineau street, in By ward, Ottawa, were evicted. by the . sheriff's dfficer Moriday morning, they having refused to pay rent or to quit property when ordered by the landlord. They had squatted on ordnance land mahy years ago, and last fall the land was sold by the Government to the pres- ent owner, with whom all but the two tenants, named above, made satisfactory arrangements. -e-Rev. Dr. Cochrane closed the 25th' year of his pastorate of Zion Presby- terian church,. Brantford, het Sabbath.. At the close of the morning service he refirred to the many changes that had taken place since his settlement there. From a ;3611 beginning the membership of the church is now one of the largest in the denomination in Capada, being 630., During his pastorate the -"Doctor has received some 2,300 into ehurch fel-- lowship. -At the annual bench dog show, held a few day ago in New York, Mr. Andrew Laidlaw, of Woodstock, saewed five speniele, winning five prizes, three firsts and two seconds. Mr. Laidlaw also won the Westminster Kennel Club's medal for the best kennel of field or cocker spapiele owned by any one.exhibitor ; also tha $25 special prize for the hest keanel of spaniels. His entries for the kennel were Woodstock Nora, Master Shine, Belle and Robin. --On Saturday night Robert Slater and Peter McLeod. boarders at the Com- mercial Hotel, Hamilton, wept to their room, leaving their valuables in their clothes pocliets. Slater had, $50 and a silver watch and McLeod $12 in cash. On Sunday when they arose Slater found that his $50 and his watch were gone, while McLeod's clothes, money and all were gone. About noon a girl employed about the place `found the clothes under a bed in another room, but the money had disappeared. , 1 --The License Commissioners of North Brant -have refused to grant wholesale licenses in Paris. This. decision was ar- rNed at after a rather spicy meeting j he.d last Friday: Mr. Foley, solicitor fo , Mr. Bernhardt (one of theapplicants) claimed -that the commissioners could not refuse to grant a license, and tender- ed' the necessary ,fee therefor ; but the coMmissioners held that they had the poarer to refuse, and finally decided to dol so. It is probable that the matter will be carried further. 1 . --Mrs. Moore, wile of Moore who was sentenced at Chatham to the Central Prison on a charge of false pretences, and who made a desperate effort to break jail, is the daughter of a wealthy resident of Waterford, named. Robt. Me - Cool. By marrying Moore she did so very much against her ' fathee's wishes, wbo has, in fact, cut her off with the proverbial shilling. In his will he had her for $20,000, but when she be- eedm enles.aa and she has nothing, which is very much Mrs. Moore he changed his will, _. --Miss Maud McDonald, a former , reeident of Luck now, met with a terrible accident on the 26th April, at Houghton, Michigan, where she had gone soine time ago to keep house for her brother. She was riding on an ore train when an acci- dent occurred precipitating her and an- other girl on the track, the car passing over her. Both her legs were crushed and had to be amputated, and her head was injured :severely. She died shortly after. Miss McDonald's mother, whose name is McPhee, resides at present in Ripley. Mies McDonald was a niece of Me. Allan McDonald of Kinloss. . -An incident occurred at the Arkona Presbyterian church on Sunday after- noon, May 1st, that will not soon be for- gotten by those who witnessed the per- formance. In the interval that elapsed between the dismissal of the Sunday school and the commencement of the regular service the tall form of Gil Mc- Pherson, sr., a well-known Warwick ; ire farmer, was seen striding up the aisle. . n When he reached the pew occupied by t Michael Morniegstar he deliberately --There is much sympathy expressed retched over and squirted a stream of for Mr. J. W. Bell, M. P. for Adding- tobacco juice direct in Morningstar's ton, wit° has been attacked with a hope- faee. After thus relieving himself he less disease of the brain. Mr. Bell has cobly walked out of the churtaa The been in feeble health for some time, and coagregation -was almost paralyzed with in consequence of over-exertion during astonishment at the sacrilegious and di - the election has been ever since confined gusting offence. Morningstar left the to his house: He • was exceptionally church, and on the following morning popular in the House, and the calamity made a complaint against McPherson, which- has come upon him and his family who appeared before Squire Gair on _ is a sorrow to every man who sat with Taesday, admitted the charge and was him in the last Parliament. -The London division of the Salve - tion Army, were presented with a haa some flag Monday night in the harra'cl by their caption, D. O. Wm. Burchet fined $20 and costs, and bound over to keep the peace for one year. There has been bad blood between the parties for some years, which may account for the original method adopted by the defend - The colors are of the regulation type, a ant in getting even with his enemy. ••