The Huron Expositor, 1887-05-20, Page 1I
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NINETEENTH YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,014.
SEA.FORTR,. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1887
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aue erry OF THE 06Dis. •
(Ey D. E. McConnell, in the, Goderich Sizoal.)
• From Benares we direct our wander
• ing steps •to the famous Maleornmedaii
city of Allahabad—the City of God—
with a population of 150,000, the seat
of government of the Northwest Pro-
vinces, and one of the hottest places in
India. - After a sleepless • night in the
stifling hot compartment of a 'railway
train, •Sunday found us in thiapartly
attractive, torrid, well laid out, rapidly
growing, but withal dirty and over-
crowded city. It is only in spots beau-•
ful. The parts built upon and renewed
since the memorable and disastrous '57,
give some tone of comfort and superior,
ity to it in comparisen to most other In-
dian cities. The handsome buugalows
and pretty villas of the European resi-
dents outside the fort, the fine avenues
of dark foliaged shade trees, and the
solid romantic grandeur of the great fort
itself, make you feel like pitching your
tent once more within " cooey " of - the
haunts of civilization. . .
A room engaged we avail ourselves of
the comforts of a cooling bath. • The
water (its strongest claim to the name is
that it is wet) is brought us by a eooley,
whose sole business is to carry to the
guests a donkey -skin full of this blessed '
fluid so essential .to a languid existence
here: We envied him his codl occupa-.
tion as he dripped in and out of the bath
room burdened with the leaky, dirty
donkey skin. Our sleeping rooms are
large, high, airy and comfortable, con-
sidering they are in India: Attached to
every bedroom is a bathroom and a
dressing room all fairly well furnished,
and opening out on a wide verandah run-
ning around the four sides of the house.
The cuisine here, like at most Indian
hotels, is good, but displaying a great.
variety of curries and hot pringent spicy
dishes - strongly in keeping with the
prickly' atmosphere: Ice is used in
abundance, punkahs are kept continual-
ly going, natives stand at your chair -
back fanning yoU, and to further lower below us ; -the evening is pleasantly cool
the blood -heat temperature woven grass after the oppressive heat of the long day;
" tattles " are placed against the open darkness is creeping about us, but we
windows, and buckets of water dashed are glad ,to get away from the stuffy
against these, which, if kept up regular- streets and the ghostly attendants who
ly certainly lowers the temperature, but are aAways shadowing our movements at
proves a useful contrivance to fill the Lawrie's Hotel ; &nd here we sit and
coffers of the resident physician. We* think and listen to the distant melodies,
observed a peculiar looking notice stuck. and 'Wonder why it is that this wonder -
up in the reading room here, and on ful people, the. British, with a paltry
closer inspection find it to be. a novel 140,000 residents can keep in subjection
style of insuring payment for boardand this ,vast nation with its 250 Millions.
lodging bills. A long list of delinquents fItimayoor, Akbar,Shan Jehan, Aurung-
is given who found it necessaty to leave zeae, and all the illustrious and power -
between two days and not coaveniet to fill .princes of the pest only helped,
pay their little balance due. It ran through varying fortune, to increase and
somewhat'as follows: Major Smith, consolidate this magnificent but dissolute
board and lodging 500 rupees, Colonel land jute one great empire, that it might
Scott ditto; ditto 3,000 rupees, CaPtairt in clue tune come under the sway of the
Carlow, board, lodging and washing 650 all-powerful British nation.
rupees, Viscount Valentine, accomme- Our thoughts again wander, and we
dation, 900 rupees, amounting to 'over are picturing to ourselves a human sacra
$3,000. We were informed, that many fine which was a few centuries ago -alarm -
of the gentry and noblemen, belonging ingly prevalent among the aboriginal
—to Her Majesty's Indian army are ac- tribes of India. • They may have occur-
eustomed to beat their way among the red near where we are now sitting on the
better class hotels here in this way. We banks , of the Jumma, a sacred river
admired the ingenuity of the landloral's which has ever been such, and here, at
plan, and if it did not have the e ect Of its continence with the Ganges is looked
securing the amount of debts eont acted • ppon as a h-oly of holies. With a high
before _the list was pieced there it- urely sounding and dramatic ceremony, sur -
will cause all distinguished guests who • pa,ssing that of ancient Greece or Rome
see it to cash up promptly in futu 6, in grandenr and awful beauty, we can
This is Sunday, and as we are 1 desir- picture the victim called upon to meet
ousof reachingCawnporeto-morro even- his fate. He may be an unfortunate
ing, the town and its sights are IastiIy Brahmin, the most sacred caste, whom
the, aborigines hated and who now expi-
ates the -wrongs of hail Oppressing priest-
hood by his life. He is tied to a post
aid wounded slightly, that the crowd
,
anay be exeited by the sight of blood,
the unfortunate victim is stripped of his
fleSh the possession of avhieh to the
crowd who invoke their god, Pari Pen -
nu, insuees- participation in the merits of railwayforthe past ten year, as brakes -
the sacrifice. Such a sight has doubt- man and bagga,geman, without getting
less been witnessed in these parts often- hurt, got -a bad nip whilst making a
times ; but what a strong contrast lathes
mental picture to the quiet calm of the
Sunday, evening service of song now be-
ing held within a few rods of us. Has
-this contrasted 'picture anything to do
with the fact that a handful of British
soldiers holds in subjection about one•
Sixth of the world's inhabitants ? Doubt-
less it'has ; but again our thoughts are
on the wing, and we recall the fearful
scenes that were enacted thirty years ago
around the very spot vvhere we now sit,
and -which were principally brought
about through the inability of the poor
starving, wretched slaves, to pay exorbi-
tant taxes imposed by the more power-
ful nationunderthe "blessing of whoee
rule" they were brought: Again we pic-
ture the present state of nine -tenths of
the nation with whom we come in con•
tact, The" ryots," or cultivators of the
soil,are ground to death by taxation and
unprincipled money lenders; the labora
ing marl with his familegis obliged to live
.on a rupee and a half a week, equal to
about 50 cents; a handful of rice washed
down With water, is theia principal food,
• and periodically the dry season visits
the land, wheu famine and pestilence
are Sure to. 'carry off thousands of the
haggard starved villagers. It is truly
pitiable to look upon such utter wretch-
edness, such inhuman misery as the un-
1fortanate tenants of God's fair foot -Stool
are subjected to. But still the thank
offering chant continues to float heaven-
ward on the still Sabbath evening, and
India still claims the distinction of the
brightest gem of England's Crown. Our
wandering thoughts are recalled by the
approach of a very tall native soldier
who is attracted no doubt by our sleepy
attitude on the wall. Hastily pulling
ourselves. together we " Salaam " the
sentry and are making fel- the entrance
where the guide and carriage has been
waiting some time, when we notice a
p of fine native soldiers off duty,
aring their dupper. Curiosity
pted us to i stand beside one of
e fellows to ket an idea of his height,
'Cardno's Block, Seaforth.
May No. of Butterick's Fashion Sheets
Just tq Hand.
Perth Items.
Mr. W. R. Davis, Mitchell, has s
a 75 acre lot in Elam, to Mr. Edw
Henry, for S1,100.
—Mrs. John Brown, of Mitchell, ad
her arm fractured the other day by 411-
ing down stairs.
—Over three hundred shade t4ets
were planted in Mitchell on Arbor dey,
at e cost to the corporation of nearly $5.
—St. Marys is now assessed at $1,1 1,-
500, an baerease of $S,000 over
but the population remains the sari' =-
3,400.
—At Stratford on Saturday, Joseph
eit
at
oid
ret
Ament, convicted of passing counter
money, was sentenced to teio years
,Kingston.
—The congregation of Knox char
St. Marys, have purchased a large st
dwelling house on Water street fo
mensal.
—Mr. Pettapieee, mail carrier
egg gatherer at Motherwell, takes o,
„200, dozen of eggs from that place
St. Marys weekly.
—The St. Marys people have chan
the time of holding the weekly tem
h,
n.e
a,
nd
rer
to
ed
er-
ance meeting from Sunday afternoon to
-Saturday evening.
—The stable of Mr. Edward Fitz
aid, of Mitchell, was burned down
other day.. Children playing -
matches cansed the fire.
—N.Ir John R. Clarke has been lectores.
of
a-
munition and war material. A peculiar
story` is told by the hatives that now
within a secret room in the under-
ground part of the fert a sacred tree
grows, which, when cut, runs blood,
and that the same room is the beginning
of a su-bterranean paesage to Benares
over 100 miles distant,' through which in
olden times the kings of these two
countries assisted each other in times
of war. The eyes of the faithful can
also see here a third sacred river—but as
we are infidels in the Hindop faith our
eyes remained. closed to the beauties of
this stream. Wending. our way along a
narrow, sloping, serpentine military
road, walled on either side by heavy
stoney. (irk defences, and guarded by a
score of frowning black cannons ready
to sweep out of existence all unfortu-
nate intruders we come to the ditch and
draw -bridge Which is of little practical
use now in warfare • this crossed, the
-gates are reached. 'A number of red-
coats are pacing up and down in front,
but a military salute is sufficient in theses
quiet days, -and we pass in, no questions
asked. .
The Wall encloses an area of about 75
acres, coveredover closely for the most
part with strongly built stone barracks,
magazines, store rooms, the residence
of the governoeand the officers' quarters.
Within the fort thete are generally
about a thousand British and about
twice as' many native soldiers; these
with the wives and, families of the
British g'oldiers and the servants and
attendants swell the population to four
or five thousand.
As we direct our way within the great
wall, passing giant-like Sepoy sentries
every few rods, we hear floating on the
quiet evening atmosphere the pleasine
strains of a church organ accompa.nied by
a strong chorue of voices. It cheers our
weary, homesiek 'heart to listen to the
sweet strains :of Lux Benigna, and to
realize by the familia..r chants that we
-are not wholly among -the heathen. We
seat ourselves on the wall at a point
where the Juinma washes its dark, mud-
dy waters against the masonry sixty feet
er-
he
ith
big Listowel forthe penefit of the /id
edist and Congregationalist chum
The Banner says " Mr. Clarke is on
the most popular lecturers in both Ca
da and the United States."
—On Sunday two valuable hounds,
the property of Mr. Richard Penge ly,
of Stratferd, succumbed to poison
. ministered by some unknown pers
Monday morning another hound,
which Mr. Little, its owner, refuse
largeprice, died from the same cause.
—Mrs. Simon Elliott, of Logan, on
Sunday, Sth bast., brought her infant
child to Dr. Hodge's residence, Mitchell,
to learn what its ailment was, but on
lifting the shawl just at the gate, he
was horrified to find that the infant ad
died in her arms on the road witho t a
struggle of any kind.
—The other day while Mr. Jos
Pequegnat, of Stratford, was maki
run through New Hamburg on
hicyele, svasattacked by a furious b 11,
which ha,ving got loose from the par ies
wn
rly
te.
ar-
d-
n.
for
da
ph
g a
his
leading it, was running. amuck d
the street. Mr. Pequegriat narro
escaped, being killed by the furious br
• Abraham Davidson, of Ful
tort, started this week on a trip to his
native land, Ireland. This will make
his ninth trip across the Atlantic. His.
object in gang home is to .visit his eldest
brother, the Rev. John Davidson, who
is new an old man, and to, place a railing
around the family burial plot, where the
remains of his father and ,other near
done. . The first point of interest is the
celebrated tomb of Kashroo Baglia'situ-
ated inside an extensive welled *dem
There are three enormous square' stone.
structures of excellent masonry 1 sur7
mounted by large artistically betutiful
domes. Within the mammoth tombs
(monuments which will proba.aly laet fed
hundreds of years after all theegood
deeds the despotic emperor did have long
been forgotten), are the sarcophagi of
the emperor and members of. his family,
each carved in peculiar Indian designs
and inscribed with parts of the Koran
and the history of the entombed. In
the cool of the evening we drove through -
the native bazaars all astir With the'
thousands of buyers and sellers bicker-
ing over the price of a handful of vegeta-
bles, a measure of rice ma a hand's
breadth of red cotton._ Oh past strange-
ly painted Hindoolemples side by side
with the Mahommedan mosques,remind-
ing us of the denominational differences
but neighborly nearness in our own re-
ligion; here are bullock certs with two
wheels and a dozen occupants starting
for the country, here a domineering be -
togged English soldier astride a fine
cavalry charger galloping through the
narrow streets scattering the parti-color-
ed mass of white cottoned, red turbaned,
black faced. humanity with his Tiding
whip; now a wedding procession headed
by the boy groom dressed in red, the
central figure of the crowd, mounted on a.
prancing horse and followed by a Ideef-
ening and discordant crowd playing
on tom-toms and wind instruments,
untilyoa would think the last trump had
raised all the amateur' inusiciansi that
had ever caused their fellow mortals. to
misquote scripture texts; now we pais
a number of the lowest caste Hindoe
women who make a livelihood by pre-
paring for fuel the manure gathered
from the streets Of the city; naked
children in hundreds grace the narrow
relatives are buried. . streets and fill the dark, cheerless , door-
-The Milverton cheese factory corn- ways as we gain the European quarters
meneed operations on the lith inst. once more and direct our cm rse to ,the
i.
Last sells= the sum of $18,000 wtss dis- fort—that famous citadel s -hich stood
tributed amain/ the patrons of this fax- the siege so well in the stirring days
tory. During among
last four years the when th,e fiery Neill ended his, brief
manufacture of cheese has increased career of glory. Here it was that
enormously, having during that period Lord Canning- after , the elose Of the
been, owned and superintended by its mutiny ; distributed $15,000000 among
present energetic and enterprising pro- the chiefs who remained loyal to the
prietor, Mr. la McGillivray, who has British. The position of this 'splendid
manufactured the cheese in this factory fort is just at the point of confluenCe of
for the last 12 years. This is one of the the Ganges and the Jumna, the two
largest cheese manufactories in the Pro- great sacred rivers of India. It is; built
vince, having this season a patronage of of red. sandstone, and has -Within it's
185 patrons, being an increase of GO over walls the palace of the governor, the
last season, aggregating a total of 1,000 barracks of the garrison, the officer's
caws supplying milk. quarters and enormous stores of am -
warlike dozen men could no.
1 .
serving in British ranks. The
easured six feet four inches
s me of them were six feet si
d all well built in proportion
•
e found
shortest
height,
inches,
They
smiled good humoredly as we• passed
long measuring our boasted six feet
gainst their superior six inches, and
rying to make ourselves uederstood;
nt with poor success, for to these men
'ho are always addressed in their own
opgue by their officers, English is of
ery little use, and with us, as early ex-
lorers generally put it, " coaversation
aith the natives was carried on by
eans orsigns."
Canada.
The R'ev. Canon Wilberforce is lec-
uring in Toronto this week on the sub-
ect of temperance reform. I
—Fire on Saturday morning in St.
• och's, a suburb of Quebec
troyed property to the value
—Premier Mercier was ban
uebec on Saturday night and presented
vith a valuable gold watch and chain.
—A day or two ago from $6,000 to
7,000 worth of lumber at Back River,
n the Lake St. John railroad, was de-
troyed by fire.
---A Berlin woman recentlp.gave birth
Ito her twenty-first child. Mother and
hild are reported well and the father
s cheerful as can be expected*
—At the re -opening services least Sab-
ath of the First Methodist Church,
Hamilton, over $2,000 was rail3ed to-
wards the cost of the improvements.
—Mr. Shepherd, the Canadian Pacific
Railway telegraph operator at Regina,
has skipped out with some $4100 of the
company's funds.
-e-Numbers of fine fish are being spear
ed from the river at Ailsa Craig. A\
mullet weighing eight pounds was taken)
out the other day and a pike which
weighed 17 pounds.
—Messrs. McCrae & Co., Of Guelph,
have secured the contract of isupplying
the Northwest Mounted . POlice with
2,000 shirts and 2,000 pair a- of heavy
drawers.
city, de -
f$70,000.
stetted in
nearly three hours and swam about 50
miles. The name of the individual is
Renaud, and he h als from Amherstbutg.
ii
—Mr. and Mri(. John Wickson, of
Toronto, celebrate the golden anniver-
sary of their wedding on Monday. The
' nine el ildren of ti e happy couple were
all present. The
gether previous to
eral years.
—Rev. Jas. 13
Presbyterian chui
ceived a summons
to preach before h
12th. Mr. Bard
ilar command tw
sail for. England n
—Patrick Glynp, Canada Pacific
Railway yardsman, was run over by a
freight train while shunting cars at
Toronto, last Saturday night, and both
-A fire occurred in Quebec last Sat-
urday morning, which involved a loss of
$125,000, with a very small amount*of
insurance. A whole square ie in smoul-
dering ruinst
—Ex -Chief Justice Sir Wm. Young
by leaving $170,000 to the public
charities of lia.lifax has made the. moil
princely bequest Over cnade by a: Nova
Scotian.
—The postoffice at Levis, Quebec,
was entered by burglars the other night,
who blew open the safe and took $400
in cash, four registered lettera and some
notes.
--Some very fine trout- have lately
been taken in the vicinity of Lucknow.
Willie Gone°, of Kinloss, captured one
18 inches in length and weighing nearly
two pounds. •
—A company with a ca.p4a1 of five
million dollars has been otganized in
Kingston by New York ca0talists for
the development of the iron mines along
the Kingston and Pembroke railway.
—The Kincardine township councilt has
settled with implement a,geat Ta4art
for damages sustained about year-ago
through an accident at Eyana' hill. The
cprporation pays $200. es
—Reginald Boulton, tho old-time
Toronto cricketer, who in a fit of mental
weakness attempted to shoot Dr. Gras -
sett a few nights ago, has been pro-
nounced insane and committed to the
asylum. • -
'—Among the exports at St. John,
New Brunswick, for April $235,000 in
value, were 60 tons manganise, 840
cords hemlock bark; horees to the
value of $14,67-2`; fish, $8,225; potatoes,
17,129 bushels; square timber, deals and
planks..
—Wm. Nicholls, who has been on the
y had not all Met to,
this occasion for sev-
gro
pre
pro
the
observing this a dozer', jumped up from
the grass and arrayed themselves in a
line, and a finer formed, more powerful,
and, at the same time, a more fierce and
coupling in the yard at Pahnerston the
'other day.
--The trustees of the Trafalgar In-
stitute, Montreal, will accept Sir
Donald Smith's gift in aid of the higher.
education of women, which has been in
creased to $30,000. It is expected the
institute will be opened in tbet. autumn
—Half a dozen boarders Lira Winnipe
hotel have been poisoned through in
haling red precipitate, which had bee
placed upon the beds to kill bugs. Som
of them, had a narrow escape. Th
doctor, when called in, at first reported
them to be cases of smallpox. ,
—Dr. Fulton, a leading medical praci-
titioner of Toronto, died on Sabbath taste
His death is greatly regretted by the
faculty and citizens, as he had long been
intimately connected ,with the medical
institutions in the city. He Was 50 years
of age. '
1—It is proposed to sink a well in St.
Catharines to test the possibility of 'get -
cost is es -
is proposed
ink a well
000 feet.
s and pro -
it Liverpool
lections are
D. Special
, fruit and
tched from
archly, of St. Paul's
eh, Montreal, has re -
from Queen Victoria
r at Balmoral on J tine
also received a sire -
years ago. He will
ext week.
of his
to the
o'cloc
—D
egs were. cut off. He was taken
hospital, where he died about 4
Sunday rnerning.. •
can McDougall, a boy 10 or 12
years pId, ran away from Toronto a few
days Ivo- and went to Detroit. Not
finding it easy to paddle his own canoe found her body Was burned to a crisp
there be made his way to London, and and 'her hair singed off. It was not
was taken chargelcif by the *police until
his father could be communicated with.
a --The Rev. Lewis Norman Leith, for-
merly a student ,of McGill University
and also of the Episcopal Theological
College,. Montreal, has just been re-
ceived into the order of Deacon. Be -
has received a Una -nil -nous call from a
wealthy congregation in the State of
Ohio, and has accepted the offer,
—At C1andeb4e, on Thursday, last
.week, the folloWing were tried before
James Noble, P. M., for breach of the
Canada Temperance Act, and fined $50
and costs each: 1Alex. McFalls, Isaac
Hodgini.3, both of Lucan ; Wm. Drought,
of Ailsa Craig, two cases; and A. M.
Munroe, of the same place, three cases.
Total of fines for the -day, $350.
—Michael Doyle, oiler at the Ottawa
waterworks pumphouse, was caught in
the .machinery Friday morning last and
his left leg crushed'so that it had to. be
aniputated at the thigh. He remained
in the grip of the cog wheels. for an hour
and a half before the murderous ma-
chinery could be raised sufficiently to re-
lease him.
—A fire at Boissevain, Southwestern
Manitoba, last ,Sunday. morning, de-
stroyed the Ryan hotel, of which Mr.
Headly, formerly' of Winnipeg. was the
proprietor. The guests had a narrow
escape. .Mr. D. G. McBean, manager
for McBean Brother* grain dealers of
Winnipeg, was burned to death. The
loss on the building and . contents is
about $6,000.
—James Keyes, the Burgoyne hotel -
keeper who had charge of Richard
Webster, the Chicago millionaire, has
been sentenced at Walkerton, to three
years in penitentiary for being accessory
to Webster's death. His hired man,
Henry Raymond, who was engaged to
assist in caring _for Webster, was sen-
tenced to two years in penitentiary.
—At a barn ;raising in Southwold,
Elgin county, on Friday evening, a tim-
ber fell from the top of the building.
James Lawton .and Wm. Somerville,
who were Undetneath, ran to escape.
The timbergrazed the head of the for-
mer, but Soinerville tripped•and fell, the
thnber falling across him. He sustained
serious and painful though not fatal in-
juries. •
--About 15,000- people assembled .in
the Queen's- Park, Toronto, on Saturday
afternoon at the public meeting called to
protest against Mr. Wm. O'Brien's mise
sion. Resolutions to that effect and also
expressing confidence in the Parliament
of the United Kingdom for a wise and
just settlement of all questions relating
to Ireland were carried almost unani-
mously. _
—The Gallic Society of Toronto met
in Shaftesbury hall on Thursday even-
ing last week to commemorate the fes-
tival of Beltane. Mr. John Macpheison,
the President,occupied the chair.
Gialic addresses were delivered by the
President, Mr. A. Fraser, the Secretary,
an& Mr. D. Spence. An entertaining
programme of Gtelic songs, dances and
pipe music was enjoyed by the large
audience.
—The annual report of the Canadian
Pacific .Railway, Cosnpany shows that
the company has discharged in full all
its obligations to the Government. The
operations of the past.: year, after pay-
ment of working expenses and fixed'
charges, show a surplus of $635,444, and
the company has a nominal surplus of
assets over liabilities of $109,305,716.
The total mileage ofthe system is 4,651
miles.
—Monday morning Mr. Tyrrell Dun-
combe, a member of the St. Thomas Bi-
cycle Club, was thrown from his ma-
chine by the tire -slipping off, and when
he gathered. himself together h e found that
his right arm was dislocated and one of
the bonesfractured near the elbow, his
left wrist sprained, and he was also bada
ly bruised about she body. He was
taken to St. Thomas and his injuries..
dressed. -
—The Winnipeg Free Press 'declares
that a butcher in .that city recently im-
ported from St. Paul eighteen carcases
of mutton, weighing 1,56q tbs. The
charges *ere: Eight -and af-half cents
per pound first cost, one cent per pound
duty, and $47 express charges. Thus
the cost of the mutton was thirteen cents
per pound. "This is money going out
of the province that should go into the
pockets of our own farmers."
—Rev. Messrs. Goforth and McGil-
livray, two recent graduates of Knox
College, held mission services in St.
Andrew's church, London, on Sabbath
last, which- were very largely attended.
Mr. Goforth will shortly enter upon
missionary work:in China, and Mr. Mc-
Gillivray in India, and in their sermons
they set forth very ably the claims of
the vast heathen populations of those
countries upon the Christian sympathy
and liberality of the chuach of Canada.
Many more missionaries both male and
female, are required. As' a result of the
had been appeal made, Rev. Mr. Mt rray announc-
ting illuminating gas. Th
timated at $2,500, which it
to raise by subscription and
to a depth of not less than 2
_ —A collection of miner
ducts of Canada has arrived
for exhibition, and other co
expected during the seas
shipments of cheese, butte
vegetables are being desp
Canada.
1—Influential deputations
steel manufacturers, founde a and hard-
ware merchants of Montreal re in Ot-
tawa to protest against the increased
duty on irpn, which, it is c a med, will
act most injuriously on the on indus•
tries of Montreal.
. —As the ferry was leavipg Windsor
Saturday night on her last rip there
was e splash and shouts of ' an over-
board" followed. In the glien ner of the
electric light the form of a ma could be
i seen struggling in the water' A brake-
man named Whittaker did vith t he could
to save the man from dr ing, and
with assistance succeeded. rescuing
him. Altogether the half -d ned man
was in the river about 20 onds, but
when he was drawn out on t e dock he
stoutly maintained that lie
ed the receipt of a letter in which 12
members_ of the congregation pledged
themselves to contribute $12 per month
annually toward the support of a mis-
sionary, while 50 others proposed giving
$2 per month.
the Insane Asylum,
Trebly of the case of
1. P. for Addington,
nfined in that institu-
tion since the 6th inst.! His affliction is
melancholia in its-aimple form. He is
i .
morbid, depressel and . pessimistic, and
his monomauia that his friends are
conspiring to do aim some great harm,
which he fears will happet him, and that
everything is goingwrong. Apart from
this monomania,
—Mrs. Aurelia
county Of Elgin,
was going on a
place.the other c
.field :plaied 3igh
which set her dr
mencecl running,
the flames, and e
ing was burned fr
—Dr. Clarke, o
Toronto; thinks fa
John W. Bell,
who has been c
e talks rationally.
Tozer, of Malahide,
-ho is 70 years of age,
visit to a neighbor's
ay, and in crossing a
ed pipe in her pocket,
ss on fire. She cons -
which only increased
-ery particle of cloth -
m her person. When
of iron and
thought she could live many hours.
—Last Friday afternoon seven 'boys
were found lying asleep in one of the
stalls of a livery stable in Toronto. A
policeman was called, who arrested them
on suspicion of being the parties who
raided a couple of jewelry and fancy
stores in the city a few nights previouss
ly. In the - stablewhere the arrests
were made, con ealed in an oat -bin,
_
t
were feand a n . mber of pocket -books,
several .packages of lead pencils, and
some other small rticles.
—Last Saturday's Hamilton Times
has the. following: On her return fi..tom
on, Captain Mrs. 6.1-
n this city last night
made the occasion of
n meeting, which the
led with her accus-
d ability. Her forte,
ited the usual marked
forcibly drew atten-
nee between "saying
and "praying to the
her visit to Lon
roy staid over
and the event wa
a joyful salvati
intrepid little lad
tomed spirit a
Bible readihg, ex
interest, and sh
Von to the differ
prayers to God"
Father."
—As Mr. Za
itz of Parkhill, was
driving a covered buggy along the street
and leading a ikerse behind, the rear
a.nitnal became -frightened at something
and suddenly springing up placed his
fore feet on the buggy -top, and in a
twinkling the rig was upset and the
driver narrowly escaped being crushed.
The front horse then became frightened
and ran away, dragging the overturned
vehicle after him, and nearly ruining it
before he was stopped'. .
—About midnight on Wednesday
night last week the house of Angus Mc-
. Kay, License Inspector for the East
Riding of Simcoe'was raided by half a
dozen roughs, who pelted the house and
front door with stones. Some of these
were well directed and smashedthe win-
dows and entered the roman, damaging
and disfiguiing the walls and furniture.
Inspector McKay's activity in bringing
offenders against the Scott Act to justice
is supposed to be the cause of this mid-
night attack*
, -
—Thomas Lewis, aged 15, son of Mr.
Thomas Lewis, of Hatnilton, died at the
family residence in that city on Thurs-
day, last week. The death was attend-
ed by peculiar circumstances. A few
days before deeeased partook freely of
some candies and other fancy sweets,
and soon afterwards became sick. He
appeared to grow sleepy, and, as, if
going to sleep, he died. The candies
which proved the young Min/ 'S death
were of the rich -colored sort, and it is
thought contained poison.
—At Oakville the other day, James
Edwards, a bare-footed tramp, attempt-
ed to derail a Grand Trunk railway train
by throwing a heavy chain across the
track. The obstacle was not seen by
the engine driver until it was too late,
but fortunately the train passed over it
safely. Edwards was arrested, com-
mitted for trial and sent to Milton jail.
He told the constable that he had been
released from the Central Prison only
last Saturday. He admitted having
attempted to wreck the train, his object
being to revenge himself on the train
men faa having refused him a ride.
—Mr. J. Jaques, of Cornell station,
Michigan Central ,Railway, went to St.
Thomas to transact some business and
four small children were left at home
with the hired girl. She left them for a
short° time, and they found a revolver
with which to amuse themselves. In
their sport one boy, 8 years, shot his
brother aged 5, the ball entering the
side of his head. Their cries brought
the neighbors to their assistance. A
physician extracted the ball and hopes
are entertained of the little fellow's re-
covery.
—On Monday afternoon, last week,
while .ilichael Dunn; of North Oxford,
was working a seed. drill in his field
one of the reins caught, and stepping
on the pole to loosen it the horses be-
came frightened and ran away, throwing
Mr. Dunn -from the drill, which passed
over him, inflicting seriouh injuries.
The teeth of the drill fractured his leg
and ce, his face badly. Although so
severely hurt, he drove the team to the
stables and reached the house in a dazed
condition. Mr, Dunn is about 70 years
of age, and this is one of five serious
• mishaps that have befallen him during
the past few years.
—The other evening a couple of young
men while out rowing on the bay at
Toronto, were suddenly startled by
hearing lusty screams for assistance.
Following the direction from which the
cries came they discovered two yopng
Women clinging to the bottom of an up-
turned row boat, and almost exhausted
from the immersion in the chilling
water and the struggle to k
The half -drowned girls were
their rescuers into their boat,
at once headed for the B
landing. On the way one'of them
siate,d that while changing seats the boat
suddenly careened., throwing both of the
fair occupants. into the bay, the good
fortune in catching hold of the boat
being' attributed to a sheer acci-
dent. As soon as the boat struck the -
wharf the girls leaped out and ran
a:Way, without stopping to thank their
gallant rescuers.
—Emigration to Canada is assuming
large dimension. Last Friday •the
Dominion steamer Vancouver left Liver-
pool, haring on board 175 persons select-
ed by the Society for the Promotion of
Christian Kuowledge • also 22 young
gentlemen sent from Manchester, and 70
Norwegians, who intend to establish a
farming. and fishing colony at Kromax,
British Columbia, in addition to a num-
ber of German emigrants, Sir Alex-
ander Campbell was a, passenger by the
Vancouver, and. altogether :there were
1,000 persons on board. On 1Friday 135
boys and girls left Liverpeol by the
Allan steamer Circassian, youthful emi-
grants from the Catholic Protective
Society of Liverpool, and neighborhood*
-C-On Wednesday morning last week
a serious accident occurred at the Galt
Collegiate Institute, in which five men
were more or less injured. • The plaster-
ers working in the large upper room in
the Institute building had erected their
scaffolding in order to put on the last
coat of plaster, and had notbeen long at
work when the structure onwhich they
were standing gave way precipitating
the five men to the floor. They were ll
more or less hart, bat the most serious-
ly injured are Geo. Mogg, leg broken,
and Chas. Crawl, leg very badly hurt,
and a laborer had his foot severely in-
jured by a plank, A cross piece of one
of the scaffolds was defective and un-
able to bear the weight of the men and.
the plaster they were asitag..
—Mr. Charles Rayinond, of Guelph,
has just completed a dozen sewing ma-
chines got up in an elaborate manner for
his general agent in Quebee. The ma-
chines themselves are in no way superior
to those manufactured for 1 the general
trade, only they are more highly finish-
ed. The cases are open and full -finished
cabinet, in walnut with French walnut
duplications; white ash with bird's eye
maple duplications, and bird's eye top;
cherry ebonied case, inlaid: with gold,
and cherry with bevelled cherry veneer.
All the -tops are veneered with the -same
veneer as the duplications, which makes
them look very attractive. The ma-
chines are handsomely nickeled and in
with pearl work. Never before in
the history of the Raymond sewing sna-,
chine manufactory was there turned out
snch a magnificent lot of machines, any
one of which would grace with caedit
the palace of a princess.
1 —A great sensation has been caused
in Strathroy and throughout the county
of Middlesex by the sudden disappear-
ance of L. Cleverdon, Reeve of Strath-
roy and Warden of the county. It is
understood that he has left. the conn -try
under very painful circumstances. Mer-
chants, bankers, brokers insurance
egeuts and, in fact, everybody has been
taken in. A very large amount of
forgeries have come to light, one bank
being taken in to the amount of $.18,000.
Cleveedon was one of the largest cheese •
exporters in Canada, is at ' the present
time Reeve of Strathroy, Warden of the
county of Middlesex, one of the direct-
ors of the Western Fair and superinten-
dent of the Methodist Sabbath school.
He is one of the best known men in
Wcetern Ontario, having lived in Strath-
roy many years, and held various muni-
cipal positions. His wife 'says he bas
gone to Brazil,
—Henry F. Mertin, an old resident of
Oxford county, died. at his home in
Woodstock a few days ago. He was
born in 1:814, was educated at Casenovia
College, Casenovia, New : York, and •
studied law in 'Hamilton -ender Myles
O'Reilly, now the oldest QUeen's Coun-
sel in Canada. His sight f-iling him, he
was obliged to give up Iewei He enlisted
under Sir Allen McNab in the rebellion
of 1837. He was married in 1845 and
settled in Beach ville, but, removed to
Woodstock in 1873. He was a member
of the council of North and West Ox-
ford for many years, also of the county
council, and took an active part in tem-
perance matters. • He leaves a widow,
four sons and one daughter. Through
the loss of his eyesight he was unable to
read for forty years, but by the devotion
of his family he was kept posted on the
news. He was a devoted adherent of
the Conservative party.
—Rev. Mr. Brick, missionary at
Peace River, Northwest Territory, is
Ottawa endeavoring to get the assistance .
of the Government for the establishment
of a grist mill and industrial school in:
hie field of labor at Peace River. Mr.
Brick has interviewed the head of the
pertinent of Indian Affairs and has
dertaken to raise $2,500 if the Gov -
most will _grant a sufficient sum to ,
mplete the work. The reverendi
ntleman says there is a .band of 8001
diens in the Peace River district, who
ve never been assisted by the Govern-
nt. When game is scarce he has!
n hundreds of them die of starvation. ;
ring the five years he has been among
t em he has taught them to follow agri-
c ltutal pursuits and now all carry on
fa ming en a small scale. 'There is no
rnftl within 400 miles and it costs $16 to1
nspoit a barrel of flour from the east -
n cities to that place. Mr. Brick has
ised $1,100 towards the sum required.
ep afloat.
ragged by
which was
ocle street
tr
;
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ra
—Last week, while Mr. John Stew-
t's boys, of Stanley, were working in
t e field with twe teams, they both ran
a ay, one with the seed drill and the
other with the harrows. The drill was
bfi.dly smashed, and one of the horses
Was so badly hurt that it had to be kill-
ed, the cords of his hind legs being cut
t Li ugheh.
i
following Statistics are taken
from the assessment roll of the town- '
ship of Grey: Total value of real prop-
erty, $1,696,320 ; personal property,
$77,675; real and personal, $1,773,995.
Population, 3,731 ; number of dogs 415;
cattle, 6,643; sheep, 3,091 ; hogs, 1,089; •
horses, 1,704. Number of acres, 64,-
500 ; acres cleared, 33,327-
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