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The Huron Expositor, 1887-07-29, Page 1re ea t tc, uT Stook ne 0 s, Pri s. nts, ery, knYeof these e )e Particular Toronto thit the medical Tuesday.— ullis left for Little Harry 'here is some iainess. We A. Turnbull, t A. Smith's., reaperty near Way proe of or ton. soon move bought of De itlarkd e Presbytery non church,. •July 12th. ding. Nine - and a =g- ainer commit- ppomte a3 D. G. Cam, aGKay with ans, Messrs. and Ballan- e of Religion, McQuarne elders; Sabi- ison, McRae, their elders; ey, Murray, d -McDonald ammissioiaert It Winnipeg The report visit Walton lification ex- esuIt and the Dir diligence. eonsisting of luirray, and was appoint-- , This corn- auth. Kinlosta July, at 1 nrer's books cirrect. The ernmissio era ereamended. revised and - hief of which dietary meeteld 'annually' etings to be y -of ma ch, d December. t9 112C UPOO ice for h bi- ne Presby[da.y to meet on TueselaYa 'ging to Mr. of the sec nd thope while head caught was strangled ;he ‘Vaterioe Lg westward en` angton„ the ellen r g meet° vest the old ir iaY i3 t'll° death of 0e ad esteemed Weir, wilr' ankment au& s ago laY upon him - rani the @Ye and homes the pioneer J ohn Chal. sons —John, - beg mnigr 't - e, and dared erheee, hithe trails - later, Robert -1 concession, i James_ C°''- ae towill)1° were raPidlY he combined 4 thrift auci converted a into one ef I 1\ NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,024. SE.A.F0 TH, FRIDA.Y, JULY 29, 188'5'. {McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Great Cheap Sale —OF REMNANTS. AILTSLINS, PRINTS, GINGHAMS, DRESS GOODS, SIIIRTINGS, FLANNELS, CLOTHS, TWEEDS, And in fact all kinds of goods at the Cheap Cash Store o Hoffman d Co., Cardne's Mock, Seaforth, —A Sarnia carpenter named Frank Howard had recently been paying mark- ed attentions to a Miss Lafarge whose riends are said to live in Tilbury Centre Matters fina.11y came to a crisis and the pair were to have been married Thurs- aay at the Farmers' hotel in Sarnia. All the preparations were made, the would- be bride, the witnesses and the clergy- man were on time, but the bridegroom was missing. After waiting for a con- siderable time a general -search was in- titated and the dead body of Howard was found suspended by a rope to one f the beams in the barn on the hotel premises. It was evidently a case of uicide, the motive for which has not yet transpired. _ —An amusing incident—til the .on- ookers—occurred in West Nissouri the th,er day. A farmer of that township ad given two young St. Marys men permission to pull all the cherries on ertain trees, and as the black knot had appeared on the trees, they were allow - d to out them down, and thus make the pulling process much easier. The young men commenced their work of titting, when a daughter of the wner noticed them. She was not ware of her father's action; and walk- ing up to the fellows with a stout whip n her hand she laid. it on several times, to the great discomfort of one of the haps, before explanations could be made. —On Swaday evening inaToronto Miss Taylor, a yaung girl, who was keeping •ouse for her brother-in-law, Mr. Moses Pa.ullewhile he and his wife were paying visit to Gananoque, in taking a kettle if a gas stove wrapped a towel around t, which caught fire. She started for he back door, intending to throw the kettle and towel on the ground, but the ames, when the door was opened, were lawn towards her, and in an instant he was enveloped in them. A friend, who was living with her, on hearing her creams, ran to her and extinguished the re by wrapping a heavy garment around er, but not before Miss Taylor had re- eived injuries which resulted in her eath Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. min were telegraphed. for, but did not rrive in time to see their sister alive. —Thomas Abbott of New York, was ducated for the ministry, and was given harge of a church in Canada. He mar- led a girl near Toronto a.gainst the wishes of hia family, and was cast off. He went to St. Louis with his bride four weeks ago and got a job as silver -plate, a.ving learned the trade before he be- ame a, preacher. The couple strugglecla long in poverty and distress until ten ays ago, when the woman died, at the odor said, from cholera morbus. Next ay her husband found a letter written y her before she died, in which she de-• lared her intention of taking her life by oison, and begged him to follow her. She said she was to blame for all their rouble. The second day after her death Abbott disappeared, and his employer ot a letter in which Abbott declared is intention of following his wife. his letter he enelosed his wife's last epistle. Nothing has been heard of hini, since, and it is believed he committal uicide. —Dr. Rourk, of London, whose miss - ng was advertised in the city; NORTHWEST INDIANS. nainin CONDITION AS VIEWED BY PRO- FESSOR BRICE, OF WINNIPEG. _ THE i3EA UTIF L'L (2U P PEL L E r What a grand valley! Every one ex - Claims as he arrives on the heights over- looking the western river. The prairie table land is three hundred feet at places above the river bed. Great undulating baiake rise from either side of the stream, those on the south heavily wooded by tereste of poplar and elm; those on the porth bare and , gray—an indication of the great heat of the suMmer sun on •the southern exposure in these western &aides. The Qu'Appelle is a small stream winding with a silvery line through the level flat of the valley. At -times it is, so crooked as to remind one Of the links of the Forth as seen from Sitirling Castle. It is to the enlarge- ments of the river in its windingocourse that the name "Crooked Lakes " is given. The undulating heights on either side are exceedingly grand, though Perhaps somewhat monotonous. On the northern side the bare, winding clay hills are not unlike those of the Seine as seen below Paris. At one point on tlais part of the Qu'Appelle is a settle -- Malt of French people, two of the Settlers, Taillefer and De Cares, being Well-known in Winnipeg as having been years gone by officers in the Provis- 4ona1 Battalion. The rdsidence of one Of these families is •peculiarly beautiful; it reminds one irresistibly of a rural -sieene in France. At the base of the hill ia seen a white cottage. From its front saopes gently to the river a green plain Several hundred yards wide. For two er three hundred feet abeve the cottage rises the' hillside U stream from the house and behind it in the coulee is a fresh green grove of our soft maple. It needs but the planting of vines along the hillside to make the scene one of south- -eastern France. For twenty miles along the south side of the Qu'Appelle in this part stretch the four reserves included under the Crooked Lakes Agency. The reserves run for ten or more miles to the mouth of the river, and are made up of !What are familiarly known on the prairie as bluffs. Many lakes of clear, sweet !Water are insterspersed, and the appear- ance is not unlike that of a great English park. If the gentle spirit of nature can ever soothe the savagesbreast it ought to be here. Some 15 miles -north of Broad- eaiene station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, we came suddenly on. the en- ea,mpmeiat of a great Cree chief, KA-KEE-WIST-A-HAW. His log -house and outbuildings are on eising ground, a,nd are surrounded by a *ood crop of wheat and potatoes. But in slimmer, according to custom, an en- eampment'is made on the lower ground beside the lake, and we are fortunate to -day for the chief is at, home. The aay is warm, and apart from his tent, aitting in the shade of a cluster of pop- lar branches thrust in the earth, and on a. large white robe of dressed ox -skin, sits the patriarch of seventy summers. As our party approaches he rises, and Salutes us with the ordinary "How !" He is above six feet in height, and still straight as an arrow ; has a good face of the ordinary Cree cast, ears pierced, air long, and is fairly well dressed in ndian fashion. He is one of the font Northwestern chiefs taken by Colonel McDonald to witness the unveiling of Brant's statue at Brantford last year. But " Flying -in -a -Circle," for so his name means, is of distinguished descent. His grandfather was a Cree chief of great mark. He was of such gigantic stature and great prowess that he bore the name among the Indians of the plains of "-The Eagle that sits where he pleases." He was known as the " Osteuguide " by the traders. He is most celebrated to us as the great Cree chief who signed the, treaty with Lord Selkirk at Red River, in 1817. Anyone looking up the treaty as given in Morris' Indian Treaties," will find his name there as " Mache- Mkeosab," or as "Le Sonxiant." Among Indians as well as whites it will be seen that " blood tells." But " Flying -in -a - Circle " having been limited in his flight, must now get a pass when he wishes to leave the agency; he has settled down with his people to be farmers instead of buffalo -hunters; and hi 's band now com- prises 166 souls. But we must hasten on northeast of this point, some ten miles away, and in the valley of Qu-Ap- pelle we met 00 -.CHA PE- WE -YAM. The significant name of this chief, who has the largest band of the four, • numbering 264 souls, is "Strike -him -in - the -Eye." Even Indian seem at times misnomers. Instead of a daring and vindictive chief as one might sup- pose, "Strike-him-in-the-Eye"has a most insinuating mariner, and even made the suggestion to the visitors that a supply of provisions and tea would not puble sChoolhousehere, as elsewhere, be at all wasted upon him. It did not, , impo sibility. A couple of years however, strike his visitors in tha.tway, ! more since, the Rev. Hugh McKay and the chief, who wore an enormous tniasi fur cap though the thermometer stood ' took apers, returned home with the young about 90, accepted the refusal with be- reser ady Saturday evening last, }we'll ound her in Paris. It seems she ha letermiued to visit an aunt from the self. His house and farm are worth see- ing, and instead of being like those of an Indian suggested the thought that they might belong to some one white enough to be called O'Brien or O'Grady. His two large log houses, joined together by a smaller, which served as a vestibule to both, ere clean tidy and well furnish- ed.N: A 'splendid 'field of wheat of thirty or fort acres, and plot of excellent pota- toes, showed the advance made by these •retired buffalo hunters. The western _reserve was not visited as being out of the way. It is under Chief ! . SAK -I-MAY, or Mosquito. On this reserve. are 193 souls. ! Thus on the reserves are living 778 Indians in all. They almost all live in houees. These houses are distributed through the `reserves, and are perhaps half a Mile apart. Some of them, along with the farms, are in the valleys,others of the newer' farms and houses are on the prairie level or "kench" as it is called. During the winter the people keep largely to the valley, for there -much of their hay is but, and the neighborhood seems most p)easing to them. FARMS AND GARDENS. The great object of the Government is to turn the Indians of the prairie into farmer* Amidst many difficulties i must be said from a survey of these re serves that the work is advancing. Oxe and implements are used by the Indian!, under the direction of the farm instruc tors. One Indian whose farm was visit ed hadi very nearly fifty acres of wheat It was well put in, and presented an ex cellentl appearance. It will probabl yield between 800 and 1200 bushels o grain. I If any one doubts the eapability of the Indian he has but to see this fart of a man who, ten years ,ago, lived by the chase, to be convinced. Fields o from 10 to 20 acres of grain belonging t an Indian are quite common on thee reserv s. A special feature of the In rms is their freedom from gophers of your readers may know tha her or ground squirrel is mos a.nt in the Northwest Territories present time much damage is bein Ilie fields of the white settlers b st. On the north side of the Qu' e river, opposite the reserve, wa of ten acres of wheat, brown an through the ravages of th 1 . The explanation of the absenc gopher from the Indian farms i e Indian eats the gopher, an gales himself with his savory dis es his crops. A hint to the whit is sufficient ! A careful compute- ows that on these four reserve r6 BM acres of wheat, barley,oat as. One field of peas especial] iter never saw excelled. Ther 00 bushels of potatoes planted o ervea this year, and there are no 1115 acres of turnips. The garden Indians are most interesting. Not raise vegetables, but to tear dian f Many the go abund At the done t this p Appel a field useles gophe of the that t thus r and sa settler tion there and p the w were the re less th of the only t their nalue and use, indicates.a civilizin proce Is. Beets, carrots, onions, India corn, etc.,. are in excellent conditio The g rdens of the agent and sever farm instructors are in excellent order'. misfortune to lose Mr. J. Coburn on Re not seen by us. He i man and has an ex Mr. J. Slitherland is He was for some year police. His wife is a ess and can be of ser Mr. Sutherland him structor but can carpentering, and is a veterinary art. The other implements bro ed might have alarm of smiths' himself. No. 4 is Mr. E. Mc adian farmer from th no wife, but like the - structors unmarried, notice from the Go capable -instructor, a band. • He will no d his time expires. THE AG It wohld be tfamle out were we to close to the veteran In Allan Macdonald, w valuable and popula ating the present I residents of Winni him as an officer battalion. Colonel of Archibald Medd whom all acquainted colony, will rernembe Selkirk's most truste a pamphlet with an a expeditions. After the Hudson Bay Co St. Andrews, on the Canada. Though Macdonald's good wi to the east, the C agency in good old pany style. He tind thoroughly, is very a provement of the Ind is a good friend to the teacher, a.nd poss of old and young on a. pleasure to go • far west, Rev. George McDougall, feels herself bound to carryon the work in which her deceased br ther fell. Messrs. McKay and Jones fell o work with their own handsand made an addition to their building a year ago which enabled them as the parties appeared to be respectable to accomodate 33 pupils last winter. En- enough, and their poverty apparently couraged by his succees, Mr. McKay ap- was no fault of their own. Strange to pealed to the Christi ladies of Ontario, say, nobody could be found to assist and the result is that $3,500 have been from different sources put at Mr. Mc - Kay's disposal for further addition. The addition will far exceed the original building. In two or three months from now will be completed a husband stated when he got to London he would get work there. All the means they possessed had been used to send the children by train on before to the Forest City. The case was a sad one, • SUBSTANTIA of buildings in which trained, and the plans most admirable buildi a deep stone foundati L PILE 50 pupils can be seem to promise a ng.It is built on n, will be heated by hot air, and be a model school in many respects. Mr. lylcKay began this work largely at his own expense, his salary being paid him by the church. Christain ladies in the Eastern Provinces have supplied clothing The expense of keepin considerable, and it is note that the Dominic) been so impressed witl experiment that there ance of $30 a head f in the estimates for ne Kay is determined to has an institution lar all the school childre say 120. Extensive erected to show the proper care and man and horses. THE OPE of the new building three or four month's, terest is taken in t whole surrounding col ntry, it is expect- ed to be an event of importance. The school is situated at t e eastern end of Round Lake, one of the lakes of the Qu'Appelle river, and the view from the door of the school up the lake is most beautiful. The good already done by the school is surprisin . It is now holi- day, but on our visi to several houses we saw children we I dressed, clean, and with hair combe , and on enquiring found they had been pupils last winter at the school. Stoppi g to ask our way at the house of " Stri. ed -Back," a noted conqueror, a fine lad f thirteen came to our assistance, well- ressed and intel- ligent. .Though his of superstition, and o trees about it were to cloth of various colors ings to the spirits; y that two or three ye school will give him faith. THE OFFI One chief object of the officials about wh so much talk. On R serve No. 1 the in- structor is Mr. J. Ni hol, formerly in- structor at File Hi ls. He ie from Wentworth County Ontario, was . brought up a farmer and is a young, 1 active and suitable an. He had the wife last year. erve 2 was the one a young married ellent reputation. nstructor at No. 3. in the mounted excellent tailor - ice to the Indians. lf is not only in - o blacksmithing, quainted with the roken plows and ght in to be mend - d Vulcan, the god The instructor in eil, a young Can - Ottawa. He has ew remaining in - has received his ernment. He is a d has. the largest ubt, qualify before n large quantities. 50 pupils will be very pleasing to Government has the value of this len been an allow - r 50 pupils placed year. Mr. Mc- ersevere until he e enough to hold on his reserves, tables are being Toung Indians the gement of cattle "IN G. ill -take place in nd as much in - 'e school in the 1I1 them on their long journey. At Paris one young man offered to subscribe 25 Cents towards paying the woman's way on the train, when he saw the condition she was in, but none of the large crowd gathered around offered to assist in the truly humane and sympathetic offer. Canada. George Hume, grain buyer of Mil- ton, is charged with perjury by Thomas Kerby, of Winnipeg. —Rev. Dr. McTavish, of Inverness, Scotland, and formerly of Woodstock, has been preaching this week in Toronto. —Hon. Alexander Mackenzie and party spent Friday taking in the sights at Regina, and arrived at Banff on Sat- urday. —The mounted police authorities state that about $100,000 will be expended in barrack construction and repairs in the Northwest this year. —Two clergymen, well known in the diocese of Niagara, are devoting a por- tion of their vacation time to laying a floor in a little English church in Mus- koka. —The Berlin Council has granted $200 taward the preliminary survey of the Canadian Pacific Railway junction from North Dumfries to Berlin, and the ground is now being gone over. ! —George Alcombrack, a farmer of Sidney, while fishing near Foxboro, fell between the logs and was drowned. He leaves a wife and one child. His body was recovered. —The contract for building a perma- nent dyke at Poirit St: Charles to pro- tect the city of Montreal from the annu- ally recurring floods was awarded yes- terday, the price being $70,000. —Capt. Dyson, of the Belleville Sal- vation Army, is playing third base for the local baseball club. His action in joining the club has created consternation in the army ranks. —The contract for building the Agri- cultural hall in the Western Fair grounds at Queen's park, London, has been let to ome is the abode Tarnbling & Jones fin- $2,570. The the bushes and painting will cost about $200 more. be seen strips of floating as offer - t it is quite plain rs at " McKay's a truer and nobler IALS. hese visits is to see Irt there has been Probably four or five acres of gardens i all are to be seen in the reserves. CATTLE, ETC. As explained in a former letter ti Gover ment encourages the Indians i In breed ng cattle and other farm animal . A cow is lent to an Indian on condition eturn or its equivalent, in two r ears. In this way the Indi ri a herd of his own, and actual y thered from 6 to 10 in some case overnment does not assist in rai rds of horses, probably because in g in the direction of the old li of its three grows has g The ing h it lea(, of the plain hunters. Every reser,- howeter,has a plentiful supply of ponie The f llowing is a summation of ti farm animals on these four reserve given in the order in which we ha menti stood Gove Cattl 44, 6 to p 107; 18,2 India prope total Th gans. reser erect by m religi certa direc class. on th The- a sm acter ation lies 11 • -e oned them. It is, of course,under- that the animals belonging to the nment are for the use of the band. belonging to the Government, 47, , 32—total 187; cattle belongi g ivate Indians, 4, 26, 68, 9—tot 1 pigs belonging to Government, total 24; pigs belonging to priva, e s, 9, 30—total 39; ponies, private ty of Indians, 20, 30, 66, 20- 136. EDUCATION AND RELIGION. r most of these Indians are yet pa - Every year in some part of t es the booth for the sun dance d and these dances are attend n, women and children. This is a us festival. It is connected wilth n cruel rites, and is :under the ion of the medicine memor priestly There are a few Roman Catholics • reserve, a priest and a teacW. chool is a day school, and has but 11 attendance. The scattered char - of the people, and the deterrnin- of the Government to isolate faMi- s much as possible, renders the an Or , a nary of the Presbyterian chur0, up his abode on the borders of these es. He -has already obtained! a influence over the Indians. een for some time laboring in M Island, and had become somew le is '1 coming •coolness. Perhapa the most ad- grea vanced band on the agency is that of had I Cowesis, or • ,.touli Northwest, who! is •at present stopping. LITTLE CHU D , fa•mi n Ottawa. Her parents some aule This band numbers 155; and has at • deci viten the subject of the proposed visit. present no chieftcain, Little Child having man vas mentioned,. wished her to wait until died a year or more ago- All- accounts the some friend was going, so, that she would go to show that he wan a ' most in•telli- 'To have protection an the journey. The gent and good Indian. An old Indian roac matter wae then dismiesed from_ their! official related. to the Writer almost. with. the s minds, but not so with the young laden, tears in his eyes the virtues of this de- who- was reeolveal to make the visit, and, ceased chief. He told of • Little Child's is al with that view started on foot and walk- desire years ago to know the reify -ion of ! th ed to Paris.. While there Messrs. Tore the white man, of his going withbhim to a sn 'arice and \Vhitlaw, after a conversation with of the -ellati‘- lanyar grati M his ter, took her to the residence of atter and communicated with her ,s in Lendon and in Ottawa. Di. wishes to expeess his feelings of ude to Mr. Torrance, editor of the laeview, who took such an interest auehter, and to Mr. C. Whitlaw and hie kind and amiable wife, who treated her as feelingly as they could their own child. III - at iar with Indian' ways. Of a quiet, ed disposition and a very kin( er, he:seems just the man to 1 oor savages in the way of tru r. McKay belongs the credit ing what seems to be ar9olutio -hool question. M 'KAY SCHOOL • eady known beyond the lin Crooked Lakes reserves. Erect all mission building, :NIT. McI ly ad gave us much inform b. assistant is a most of man named !McNeil, of ward Island. His official documents w and we gave them a its ing. Our return w Lag view in a hurry to ca Is NCY. with Hamlet left without refereace ian agent, Colonel o has been a most officer in origin- dian system. Old eg will 'remember the provisional acdonald is a son nald, of Glencoe, with the Selkirk was one of Lord agents, and wrote count of one of the 0 years service in pany he settled at Ottawa, in Lower e found Colonel e away on a visit lonel lives at the udson's Bay Com - ratan& the Indians xious for the irn- ans in all respects, he missionary -and • sses the confidence he reserve. It was n our long rounds through the reserve, accompanied by the agent and his c ever son Archie, a lad of twelve, who jabbers Cree with any native and acted as an interpreter. The official interpr, ter, is an Indian from Oxford House ri med Geddes, who tion. The agent's interesting young from Prince Ed- ooks, papers, and re in capital order, horough overhaul- s made to Broad - ch the west bound a,g train, and if we dream to -night of In- service on several occasions, of the great took a few of the children into his home diens and instructors it will not be sur - interest expressed in what he saW, and and. gave them such accomodation as he Prising. GEORGE BRYCE. of his determinetion to lead a good life. Wag 6.ble. Being himself a trained or- od —A Brantford p per says: There rt passed through the city Friday from od Hamilton, on foot, a young man accom- b- panied by his wife. They were on the having no means, it. At Paris the ry sick, as the re - 11 Shortly before his death Little Child mal was baptised by the Rev. Hugh McKay, hold missionary. of Crooked Lakes reserve. time school teacher, he soon got a g of the children,and has in the sh of his residence gained a g The vacancy caused by the chief's death knoldedge of Cree. Last year he has not yet been filled, though possibly tain d the assistance of Mr. Benjazldn er O'Soup, the chief Man of the band, may. d on succeed to the office. Our party visited the his house, but did not see O'Soup him- of t s, who has had much experience Torthwest, and whose wife, a sis le late Methadist missionary to way to London, an were obliged to tram woman was taken v he suit of the long walk — Rev. Di. Cochrane returned last week from his trip to the Northwest and British Columbia. He traveled over seven thousand miles from the thne he left Brantford until his return. —J. We Ney & Co., of Bracebridge, have shipped upwards of 4,000 bushels of potatoes this spring. We understand they found Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron, the best-selling varieties. —It is believed that the Quebec Gov- ernment will accept the offer of $125,000 made by the city of Montreal in full pay- ment of all claims of the Government against the city. — The total value of the exports of the Dominion for the fiscal year ending June 30th, exclusive of British Columbia, was $86,507,709, about four millions more than the reports of the preceding year. — Great quantities of telegraph poles, hoops and staves, are being shipped from the vicinity of St. Thomas to the United States the present season, the value of the exports from that city ex- ceeding $62,000. —Mr. Wm. Sutherland, south bound- ary, Blanshard, had five ribs broken and was terribly jarred internally, on Wed- riesday last, by the horses running away with the self -binder. The large wheel passed over his body. —Mr. Currie, the Merchant Bank clerk who successfully defended the bank's money from a robber at Anti- gonish, Nova Scotia, has been presented by the directors with a gold watch and chain. —A young man belonging. to a very respectable family at St. Francois River shot himself on Thursday night last be- cause his girl discarded him. His in- juries may not prove fatal. He was well primed with liquor at the time. —Dr. Ira Brown, of London, who was educated in the medical department of the Western University, died at Chicago on Saturday. He was on his way back to London from California, where he had gone for his health. —Two Hamilton young men hired a span of horses last Sunday from a city livery keeper, and drove the team so hard that one of them dropped dead at the corner of King and Queen streets on their return home. —There is a lively competition amongst cheese buyers in the Belleville section, who are scouring the country for goods. They began a few' days ago paying 9 cents, but have now run the price up to 9i cents. —The drought has not only injured the crops in South Hastings and Prince Edward, but lumbermen have found the water so low in the River Moira that nearly half of this season's drive has been left behind. —Mrs. D. G. Hatton and Mrs. G. W. Hatton, of Peterboro, were the victims of arsenical poisoning while eating break - fast the other morning, but are now out of danger. Where the poison came from is a mystery. ! —Miss Annie Salmon, daughter of Rev, John Salmon, of Embro, has de- cided to devote her life to mission work in Central Africa. She will leave short- ly to pursue her laborious work among the heathen of that country. —Last Saturday in Quebec while one of the large. vaus belonging to Robbin's circus and drawn by eight horses was being drawn up Davidson's Hill at Levis the front horses refused to act when near the top of the steep incline, the consequences being that the traces be- came detached, causing the van to re- cede. In its mad course down the hill it came in contact with a carter' s horse and vehicle, killing the horse and luckily escaped injury. The van then went at a terrific rate till it brought up against Mr. Simpson's house, which it damaged to the extent of several hun- dred dollars. One of Robbin's horses, a very valuable one; was killed, and the driver, named C. Smith, fatally injured. —Sir Adolphe Caron is about start- ing, like his colleagues, for a short holi- day to Gaspe and the Gulf. On hie re- turn he and Sir Fred. Middleton will proceed to British Columbia and inspect the site for his new fortifications at Van- couver and Victoria. —The Wimbledon competition con- cluded on Friday. The Canadian team did well, and, in addition to capturing' the Prince ol Wales' badge, took a large nuMber of inioney prizes. The English team won the Elcho challenge shield. —The Renfrew Temperance Alliance is not satisfied with the working of the Scott Act in that county and at its last meeting hauled the inspectors, some of whim were appointed at its own request, over the coals on the grounds that they did not do their duty. —John Haines, son of W. P. Raines, Division Court bailiff at Dundas, is in custody at Hamilton on suspicion of being the man who committed the lassault on Mabel Reid on Tuesday night last week. The prisoner stoutly denies all knowledge of the affair. —Mr. John Mather, of Ottawa, is pre- paring plans -for a mammoth flour;mill to be built on the Lake of the WoOds for the company in which Sir Donald Smith, Sir George Stephen, Allan Gilmohr and others are interested. The mill ill be as large as any in Minneapolis. —The man,Jarnes Dodds,of Br who cut his throat on Friday afternoon last week, was removed for better nur- sing to the John H. Stratford Hospital on Saturday, but died early Sunday niorning. He leaves a wife and two young children. —A little daughter of Horace Harvey, living in Hamilton, is likely to be com- pletely blinded as the result of a blow from a stone thrown by a neighbor's boy. The sight of one eye is completely lost, and if a cataract forms in the injured eye the sight of the other will be lost also. —A local paper says that Mrs. Inglis, widow of the late Rev. Walter Inglis, and her daughter Miss Inglis, are about to remove from Ayr to Toroiato. This is a matter of regret. to their many friends as both ladies are greatly beloved and respected in Ayr where they have resided for nearly 19 years., —Mr. J. P. Ford, wife and family, of Kansas city, are visiting in Ayr just now. Mr. Ford was formerly one of Ayr's leading merchants, but he gave up business and removed to Kansas, where he has gone into the cattle ranch- ing busineas. They intend remaining in Canada till September. —As a Mrs. Wright, of Hill street, London, was traveling west Monday morning by the day express, a Ander from the engine flew into her right eye. At Chatham the aid of two physicians was secured, but it is feared she has totally lost the sight of her right eye. ntford, during a freshet, followed by the death of a son last winter, had operated so strongly on his mind as to render him subject to periods of mental derangement. He was a highly respected farmer, and was about 60 years of age. Ile leaves a wife and six children. —At an early hour last Sunday morn- ing in Georgetown the Bennett House stables and contents and the livery stables, used by McCallum & Watson were destroyed by fire. The latter lost eighteen buggies and rigs of all descrip- tions, harness and other property. Their horses were saved. Their Property was insured for $1,500. In Bennett's stable five horses and a cow were burned: The building was iusured for $500. —The Galt Reporter says :—Mr. G. W. H. Ball has in his possession a valu- able relic with historic associations, in the shape of General Brock's hat, which, while not worn by the General at the time of his death, was then on its way out from England, and has been twice used on the removal of the- remains. The interesting relic of the great Gener- al was presented to Mr. Ball's grand- father by General Brock's aide -de camp, • —There is now in Toronto a lady who has gained an honored place among mis- sionaries of the Gospel, Miss McGregor, lately returned from India. She was sent out by the Presbyterian church ten years ago, and has been teaching school and doing mission work in Indore ever since. Miss McGregor gives some most interesting accounts of work in India. She looks as though the climate of India agreed with her. They get used to the be—atAshneasuadyise.nce of over 300 persons as- sembled in Knox church, Toronto, last Sabbath afternoon to hear a sermon in the Gaelic language by Rev. Dr. Mc- Tavish of the Free church, Inverness, Scotland. The sermon was based upon the third chapter of John, and must have been very refreshing to those who were thus privileged to hear their native lan- guage. The order of the service was in the good old way which has prevailed in the Highlands of Scotland since the Reformation. —The house of a farmer named Haynes, near Simcoe, caught fire the other day from a defective cooking stove, and Mrs. Haynes tried to put it out. Her clothes ignited, and both she and the house were burned. Some workmen near by, seeing the flames, hurried to the spot, but were too late to do any- thing. They could see Mrs. Haynes writhing in the fire for several minutes. The deceased was 46 years of age, and leaves one child, about 7 years of age, alone in the world. The child was play- ing in the barnyard at the time. • —The Monetary Times says: When C. H. Girdlestone left Windsor for Win- nipeg, several years anterior to this date, he was not blessed with much of this world's goods. But being a man of _ pluck such a condition did not hisheart- en him. He commenced, in a modest, not to say primitive, way, the manufac- ture of spices and gradually worked into a large business. That he made it pay seems doubtful when we learn that a bank has obtained judgment for $8,000, and a local wholesale firm has placed the sheriff in possession on a claim Of $1--,871.r. Chas. Black, who has been the active spirit in the formation of the Humane Society in Hamilton, says that a meeting of the Society will shortly be held, and if the financial returns of the collectors will warrant it, a paid inspec- tor will be appointed. rhe society should be liberally supported, for there is much need for work on its lines. Par- ticular attention might be paid to the ruffians who get drunk on holidays and Sundays, and drive poor livery horses almost to death. Unfortunately ruffians of this ilk are not by any means singular to the city of Hamilton alone. —Portions of the western counties of Nova Scotia have been without rain for many weeks and the country is parched and dry. Tremendous forest fires are reported in sections of Shelburne and Yarmouth, and only by the greatest ex- ertions have many buildings been saved from the 'flames. People have had to dig trenches and work for several -days spading to prevent the fires from sweep- ing away their dwellings and other pro- perty. At Meteghan, on the Western Counties railway, last Saturday -a yoke of oxen were . urroundecl by fire and roasted. —A sad accident happened in Toronto Saturday afternoon. Percy McDonald, son of J. K. McDonald, of the Confeder- ation Life Insurance Company, was with another gentleman and a lady rowing on the lake, opposite the rifle butts, when a stray bullet fired by one of the volun- teers who were practising struck him on the Bide and passed clean through his body, after passing through the side of the boat. The unfortunate youth was brought to shore, and afterwards convey- ed in ambulance to his father's resi- dence, where he died Sunday morning. He was about 17 years. of age, and a fine laTdr.unk authorities have a t h1 et —Theicruanngd just completed a new set of ears for horses, which have been specially adapt- ed to secure the greatest possible com- fort and convenience for the animals shipped. They are constructed on a plan submitted by Mr. J. Kimball. The cars are 50 feet by 9 divided into two sections, thoroughly ventilated, and each horse is in a separate stall, the par- titions allowing space for 12 or 16 horses, according to size. Then, instead of being placed sideways, as heretofore, they are placed "fore and aft," with their heads towards the centre of the car. The feeding and water troughs are placed in position, and space is provided for trap- pings and provisions for a journey of 2,000 miles. The cars are constructed oia passenger coach springs. In case oi accident or trouble to any of the horses, the attendant can now easily remove oi attend to one without disturbing the others, which is a great bobn to the rrrn, as considerable difficulty has al- ways been before experienced. —A series of what "are called "Believ- ers' Meetings," is being held at Niagara. On Monday Rev. Mr. Parsons, of Knox church, Toronto, spoke on "The Holy Spirit the Seal of Believers:" Dr. Brooks succeeds him on the subject of Inspir- ation, and Pastor Denovan upon Sanctifi- cation, followed by Mr. Goforth upon Foreign Missions. —A peculiar mishap occurred to Mrs. Wood, a resident of Hamilton, the other night. She yawned so extensively that her jaw was dislocated, and her mouth remained open in spite of all efforts to return the jaw to its natural position. Finally she went to a doctor, and with his assistance succeeded in getting her mouth shut. —Mr. Alex. R. Saunders, for three years Assistant -Secretary of the Toronto Y. M. C. A.,writing from London, Eng- land, July 6th, says :—"I am glad to be able to say that the Lord has gracious- ly answered prayer, and that last night I was accepted by the China Inland mission." Mr. Saunders intends leaving for China within a few weeks. —A sad drowning accident occurred at Arden, near Kingston the other night. Mrs. W. B. Mill's, her two daughters and sister-in-law went in for a bathe in a lake. One of the children got beyond its depth, when the other three went to the rescue, and the result was that all except the younger daughter were drowned. —The Rev. Gustavus Munro, M. A., of Ernbro, having obtained a fetv weeks' holidays, was waited upon by two young men representing the congregation, on the 16th inst., and with the compliments of the -congregation, presented liirn with a purse of $56. Mr. and Mrs. ! Munro, with their youngest son Master John Candlish, leave at once for the Upper Lakes. —Mr. August Fuchs, a much! respect- ed jeweler of Berlin where he had been in that business for 26 years, died a few days ago. He was born in Eslingen, Baden, August 23rd, 1820, being there- fore nearly 67 years of age at his death. His disease is pronounced by the doc- tors as gastritis, a stomach , trouble which has been thought by many to be cancer, and from which he suffered most intensely all these years. —At Belleville on Saturday a boy named Ruttan was shot in the throat at the rifle range and will probably die. He stood behind the iron target, and a piece of the bullet passing through be- tween -two of the sections in which the target was divided struck him in the throat. The occurrence was entirely owing to the victim's own rani -Ines, as he had refhaed to leave the vicinity of the target. • —On Sunday morning 17th hist. a farmer named John Nicholls, residing on the 13th concession of East Zorra, swallowed a dose of Paris Green in a fit of temporary insanity, and died from the effects on Monday night. An . accident four years ago, by which he and two of nd the heat. The damaging the vehicle; all the occupants his children - were nearly drowned