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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-08-05, Page 1Want to Stock ods, Print lOsiery, "tSy &c. may of these bg- particular • ; , - same bush. -1r8. J. lc , in Sebring- ks, has re et visit to her el ite making r am clock for mild sell sir It would of men. - :y low with llInet recover.* eV last Friday - id intends to insiting relit- '..; Schluchten Itelligan, waa ii father and a0d home last ups his sister I". disease. It ther she will nge„ -Means, ling an extent, I wells. -The rye and the !. The ladies - the shortage , t help it, - - many friends >leesed to hear reed from kis kake the grest- f lest he have ismd Brussels 'the new race leer's tro ' herself a g c(. have a chal- ' The farmers ekl hayingemd th the wheat e -wheat be - rid the sample rally a very t. -,.-Mu. Ent - Gm" me adittle ke a little ex at base ball nr. what stabl- e Sixth Liners trued the true rs would not horeason was eat it. 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MITSL[NS, PRINTS, GINGHAMS, DRESS GOODS, SHIRTINGS, FLANNELS, CLOTHS, TWEEDS, And in fact all kinds pods at the - A LADY MISSIONARY IN .. INDIA. • 'Dr. Marion Oliver, M. D., of Avon - beak, in the county of Perth, is known pOrsonally tonot a few and by -teputa- 1 tion to many of our readers. Having completed her studies and received her - degree as a medical doctor, she, about two years ago, went as a missionary of the Presbyterian church to India, and has since been laboring there most zeal- ously in the service of the Master. She was accompanied to India by Rev.. Me. Wilson, of St. Marys, and Mrs. Wilson, and is engaged with them in the work in Indore. The following interesting de- seriptien of a summer holiday enjoyed. by herself and friends was contained in 84 letter to her former' pastor, Rev. R. Hamilton, of Motherwell, in the county of Perth, and we take it from the St. Marys Argus: liAsusua, May 30, 1887. • I was so pleased to get the photo. One likes to know we are not forgotten. • It adorns the mantelpiece of the one little rough, wooded house, which at present forms the abode of Miss. Beatty and my- self, a house so rudely constructed that backwooks shanty might be called a mansion. A few steps from our house are the Wilsons, in a similar house, and of a little farther on the Wilkie family, but they being a large family must have at least a two -roomed house. Just as in the early days in Canada, so 'tis here. Everybody is on the same level as far as their house is concerned. We have gen- erals, colonels, mayors, even the agent of the Governor-General,all around us with their families, and all in just such grand palaces as ours. This is the way English people in India seek a change instead of going to fashionable watering place, and cer- tainly it is a much surer way of finding health, for if one can't get strong in this bracing air, one may give up the search. Where are we you begin to wonder. 'Away on the top of the mountains of -'1(ashinir, some 10,000 feet above the sea, )vhere the air is so rare that for the first -few weeks neither Mrs. W. nor I coeld find room in our lungs to breathe when we attempted to walk up hill. Kashmir may be called the Sanitarium of India, though it is only within the last few years that English women have ventured into it, owing to the great dif- ficulty of getting over the Hirnalays k into it. To me that was by fat the pleasantest part of our journey, and I think I may say the same of all our party. We came in regular gipsy fash- ion; taking a couple of weeks to get over the nearly 160 miles' of mountains. ,We made a march of from ten to fifteen miles daily, pitchine° -our tents or else staying over nightin the travelers' 'bungalow. The whole way, with the exception of ithe first 40 miles is a narrow mountain owned mad used by Messrs. Harvey and path, over which no one could venture McQuesten as a dye house and wool , to take a vehicle of any sort. Coolies house, in connection with their woolen carried our baggage and provisions; also and cetton mills at Tlespeler. The ;Ithe children, invalids and weakly ones alarm was promptly given by the night I of our party had to be carried by Coolies watchman, but before the water works ' , in a sort of boat in which one could sit system on the premise& could be got or lie. Not being an invalid I preferred fairly into operation the fire had made i to walk, when a hill pony could not be great headway. By strenuous efforts, obtained. .I must have walked not less however, the fire was got under before than sixty miles: Mr. Wilson grew so the entire building was destroyed. The strong over it that he walked the last sortine and wool rooms being kept in march of 16 miles without being in the tact. 'The remainder of the building,- least fatigued. I walked it too, but comprising picker, drying, scouring and, must own that it was almost too much dye -house departments was completely for me. gutted, nothing but the bare walls re-, What magnificent views we got; great Training. The loss will be between ten towering snow-capped mountains above and fifteen thousand dollars, which ha us, with streams tumbling down- their probably well covered by insurance'. sides, and below us the roaring ; Jhelum. The cause of the fire is believed to have The roads follow the course of the river been spontaneous combustion in some of all the way and are often a thousand the oily wool. feet above it. It seemed like hanging • ; in mid air. Of course the road was clan- -A. dispatch from Stratford on Wed-. gerous. Donkeys carrying loads often nesday last says was reported fall over the precipices into the river among the errand Trunk Railway ern., below, but hundreds of people travel ployee,s a few days ago that brakeman over it every summer and no lives have John Knox had been married in Blyth been lost, so why should we be afraid. to Miss Gallagher, of Stratford. Knox The valley of Kashmir ie very much was at the time acting baggageman at like .some parts of Ontario: When we Blyth. Knox inserted an adversisement cameein the middle of April the apple in a local paper denying tho rumor, and' and peach trees were in full bloom, and Miss Gallagher, or Mrs. Knox, is taking everything except the people and the proceedings against him. The case is s houses made • one think of our finest peculiar that it is exciting considerabl Canadian spring weather. The houses interest. Both -the parties have hitherte are rudely constructed, even the palaces borne good reputations. and all the -roofs are covered with grass. -A young lad, son of Mr. D. McTaan I saw one roof a perfect mass of bright -ish, who is working for Mr. B. Cole; tulips. . near Russeldale, had quite a tussle with, Srinagar, the Capital of Kashmir, is a a bull a few days ago. The bull attack- city of about 125,000 inhabitants and is ed the lad in the field, and after getting an abominably dirty place. The part his horn under his intended victim gave reserved for English residents is away him a toss into the air. Mr. Cole hap, beyond the native city, and would be all pened to see the boy as he flew up over the better were it a few miles farther the bull's head, and. made for the spotaway from Srinagar odours. The river When Mr. Cole arrived the boy was Jhelum forms the main street of the city. holding onto the ring in the animal's There is no such thing as a wheeled nose,and remarked to his rescuer, "Now vehicle in all Kashmir. People go to the you belt him while I run and get over the fence." -Mr. Thos. McLaren, blacksmith, Of Mitchell, came near being gored to death by a vieious cow a few -days ago_ Ile had just purchased the brute, and was tryieg to get her into his yard by means of a rape attached to a ring in her nose. She ran to the other side of the street, dragging him upon his back, and he had no sooner regained his feet than she • plunged at him with her horns, throW- ing Cum down and tearing his shirt from his back. Fortunately assistance was at hand, and to this he owes his escape. He was badly injured, and has not since been able to work. -John McBride, M. A. who was in the first year of his medical course at 'Trinity Cotiege_, died of typhoid fever at his home in Bradford last Friday moral- ity of seeing something of the varioue in- being told that the church was cl The deceased was a brother of Mr. teresting cities along the line, and also for the holidays., Prof. Swing had Win. :McBride, M. A., of Stratford, who afforded us the great pleasure of meeting the city and would not return unti has been at his bedside for some weeks. with and seeing something of the Wor k, first September. We also learned both of the Rajpootana mission and the all the churches "down town," th in this part of ;the city, were close the same reason-holidays-excep • First Methodist Episcopal, corner and Washington streets. We f this church occupying the second of a large 1,)lock, the first story of is devoted to a variety of business sl a tobacco -store being one of them. Cheap Cash Store of Hoffman d Co., Cardno's Block, Sealorth, -Monday afternoon a sad accident occurred at the gas works in Woodstock. Aman named Burbanks was engaged in cleaning out a hole in connection with some part of the works which was being fixed. He was told. not to go down him- self by the manager of the works and wa.e warned to the same effect by his comrade. He apirears to have neglected both the order of the manager and the warning of his comrade, for he was found lying at the bottom of the hole with his face in the water. Ile was taken up and a doctor immediately sent for, but life was extinct. He had gone down in the hole when alone, and had become overcome with gas. The water in. the hole at the time was not more than sufficient to cover the unfortunate man's face. Deceased was a very in- dustrious, hard-working man. He was about 40 years of age, married, but had 120 family. -About three o'clock Saturday morn- ing a fire broke out in the large building driving Mr. and Mrs. W pelf 'to [see its manobjec while ed ove the Misses missio stand I, Wise which UIwlar is like Jeypore clean 'City for India, bein draine and w round perfec Lea us we our place. acres bon and my- -s of interest, iCs Beatty rested. We remain - Sabbath at Ulwar, another of nited Presbyte ian stations. Ashcroft and Jai iieson are the ares there. The have a sub - 1 and pretty stone hurch, such as d like to see at Avonbank, in Mr. Wilson preac ed. a marvellously all thorougly paved streets ompletely sur- iich render it a e hot season. a desert behind ub, passing on next 'halting thousands of ost of it in the rch. At Lahore Being the capi- also a city in sbyterians have half a century, too short for al d Mr. Forman orma.n,who wa nter stirring u , whom we me o have been in s, and are now et still working} ough their boys' •out 1,300 boys, ey have nearly attending their ill soon be won dons. ay ride brough also to the en t lies just at the nd being so nea is an important we spent thte and Wilson tak- r. Taylor, th6 n earnest, good esbyterians haVe e afternoon we ee service, eon - Mr. Ullman, a hale, hearty old miss onary, who also has held up the cross o for half a century. his hand did me good. The inhabitants of Kashmir are nearly all Mahotnmedan but1 are ruled by a Hindose Maharajah, who keeps them in a state of almost slavety. None are al- lowed to leave the Va special permission. He try from the English d e,nd having well atetworks. It is d by mountains w t furnace during ti big the Rajpoota entered the Punj ay to Lahore, ou Thousands upo f wheat fields, ear th ugh it was still M ained two days. the Punjaub, and the American Pr mission for almos t that one day wa- shed to see. Dr. a the geandfather of Mr. in Tol-onto during the w theistudents on mission there l are both men w India' ahout forty yea white hired old men, Mr. Forman took us th school, Where we saw a all as busy as bees. T 2,000 boys and girls schoels.' Surely Lahore from idark, dark beetle A tw-elve hour's rail us to Rkwal Pindi, and of our journey by rail. foot of the Himalayas, the border of India, it military station. Her Sabbath, Messrs. Wilki ing the services for Presbyterian Chaplain, man. The American P a mission here. In t went to hear their Ur ducted that day by Re we re tal of whic had a we fe we W regular past D. D., former own desk. appearing m ing a powe through the verberating s pensed to th seemed to be two-thirds Although th Christ in India he very clasp of r, Rev. H. W. Bolton, y of Boston, occupied his e is a large, earnest, plain n of middle age, and hav- ful voice which rung empty galleride with re- und. Sacrameht was dis- members, of whom there a large number, more than f the people partaking. galleries were empty, the lower part of the auditorium Was well- filled, and 500 there m congregation pipe organ, ist and cho' This, howev my way of tional singi the best I e The whole and feelingl sentiment o done singin Ages," I f Encore! This in Rel mon was s ley Without his bought the coun- overnment for 65 lachlof rupees. • He compels the people to hand over to him half of all that is grown lor manufactured, also half of all cattle and sheep. The'Church Missionary Society have had a mission in Srinagar for about 20 years and are doing god work. Espec- ially sticcessful has their medical work been under Dr. ElmSlie, and now under Dr. Neve, both trained in Edinburgh medical mission. I have been spending my days here over Hindi, and hope I may master enosigh of it to do something with the being seated for over st have been a considerable present. There is a fine ut it was silent, the organ - being absent holidaying. r, was but a slight loss in hinking, as the congrega- g was exceptionally good, Ter remember of hearing. ongregation sang heartily , and in sympathy with the the words. When they had that grand hymn "Rock of It like shouting, Encore! r. Bolton's text was " Do embrance of Me." The ser - ort and ractical. Sabbath School opens at 12 o clock, immediately after church service. The children had assembled and were singing while the was dispersing. This is e fashionable churches. The ded me very much of a Sen - congregatio not one of t people rerni -forth audience, plain, decent respectable looking people, both men and women. In dress, appearance and manner, differ- ing little from the Methodists or Presby- terians in oer own town. The collection was taken in long handled ladles. We were Shewn courteously to a good seat and then let alone. In the evening after scanning the columns of the Sun- day Tribune for some information con- cerning places of worship, with very ction as only two or three, oo far away, were mentioned evening service, we started one of some sort. Walking ash avenue we stood for a certain which way to turn. people were going in every ut to follow the crowd was n that we would finally bring urch. We faced southward and after walking some distance dis- covered wl building inquiries to the SN find a Pre the street, would be churches N days. W There seems to be an abundant supply of water, and from the elevation of the locality, it is not' improbable that suffi- cient head might be obtained to supply our town with water. Here is a nut -for the city fathers. Who will, make the start and immortalize his name? Canada. Guelph will have a band toernament on August 17th and 18th. -The crops in the Northwest are re- ported to be in magnificent condition. -Upwards of 12,000 emigrants have so far arrived this season at Winnipeg. -The import S of Canadian lumber at the port cif :Buffalo from January -to July amounted to 4,831,330 feet. -The next eXamination by the Board of Dominion Land Surveyors will be held in Ottawa on A gust 9th. -The Moar al coal dealers will make a further advan e in a few days, and the price of coal will be $6 a ton. -The first train load of coal from the mine of the Canadian Anthracite Coal Company has been received in Win- nipeg. -Chief of Police Smith,of Woodstock, carried off three prizes at the Caledon- ian games held in Philadelphia last week. -The by-law granting a bonus of $6,000 to the Eesex county brass found- ers, of London, to remove to St. Thomas, which was voted on last Thursday, was defeated. little satisf and those as holding out to find out to Wa moment u Crowds of direction, no indicati up at a c 0 • at appeared to be the sort of e were in search of. Making 'e were told that it belonged edenborgians, but we would byterian church farther down but it was doubtful if there ny service, as nearly all the ere closed just now for holi- walked on for probably half a mile w en we reached a'very large Catholic church ; a quarter of a mile farther on we found one where a tablet on the Wall informed people • it was Methodist Episcopal. It was lighted up, doors wide open, and had a pleasant, in- viting appearance, but we passed by still trying to find a Presbyterian church that was not taking holidays. By and by we reached a great unlighted, mas- sive pile, with crows on the turrets and closed doors. "Holidays" was evidently patients when I get to Indere. written all over this structure. Aching • Sabbath in [WRITTEN FOR TII The rattle of vehicl of horses' feet on the hrick paved streets and the tap, tap, of pedestrians heels on the flagged sidewalks began with the dawn of day and were quickly followed by • the rumble of street cara ; bearing their human freight to the various centres, stations or landings, thence to proceed on their chosen Sunday pleasure excursions. So numerous; in this great city, are the avenues for pleasure seekers on the first day ef the week that the applicants have no cause for.hesitation except the inde- cision' of choice. Looking out of the window shertly after 6a. m., I observed an emnibus, full of people and with valises and traveling traps piled on top, paesing along. Several delivery wagons rughing different ways, half -a -dozen hansems, uglys would have been a more appropriate name, for the vehicle seems . . • to be a sort of mongrel between a cart, months, ministers, laymen, Sa at gi and top buggy, some of them unoc- school teachers, all in a comatose &tate cupid except by the diiver perched on so far as the duties of their sacred offices his high seat at the back, others with passengers. Two or three groups of men women and children were hurry- ing ? along carrying satchels and parcels as if makieg for a railway station. Two ment were scra.ping rubbish off the street while a stream of water from a hydrant was completing the cloning process. tl At the first corner a couple Of s eet fruit stands were being spread ith apples, pears, peaches and other season- able fruits which the crafty salesinen were arranging in the manner n est likely to attract the attention of the paseer-by. These,so far as I remem er, en er- limbs and weary feet reminded es that Chicago. we had done considerable walking, so re- YXFOSITOR.i tracing our steps we turned in at the M. s and the clatter E. tablet. Here we found a large,plainly seated, well lighted auditorium, with beautifully painted and frescoed walls and ceilings. Service commenced with a rather sparse congregation at a quarter before eight and lasted till nine o'clock. There was • a large choir and grand organ, but the singing was not so hearty and spontaneous as at the morning ser- vice we attended. I did not learn the preacher's name, but he delivered an ex- cellent discourse from John's Gospel, chapter VII. verse 17. If we had not found a Presbyterian church we certain- ly heard a Presbyterian sermon. It was 10 o'clock when we reached the Palmer House, and ae we had not yet had sup- per, that was the first business we at- tended to. This church holiday busi- ness, when viewed through a Canadian lens, appears to be rather over -dorm in this city. Churches closed up for two out and was badly bruised about the body, while his face and head were seriously smashed. -When assistance came his injuries were found to be so serious that the ambulance was telephon- ed for, and McAuley was 'removed to the hospital. -At the closing examination of the Yorkshire Technical Dyeing College, out of one hundred, and four pupils, the first place was taken by J. D. Allen, son of Joseph Allen, of the Britieh-American Dyeing Co., Montreal and Toronto, who received 83 per cent. of the total number of marks. The college contained stu- dents from Canada, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Spain. -Some of the leading Ottawaforward- ers have stated that during the present season since the opening of navigation, there has been shipped from that city by boat some 150,000,000 feet ef sawn lum- ber; some of this was last year's cut, but the greater part has been cut this year. Of this amount more than three- quarters has gone to the United States and the remainder to England. -On Monday last the citizens of -Port Arthur waited upon Professor- Goldwin Smith, who was passing through to Win- nipeg, and presented him with an ad- dress, thanking him for his advocacy of unrestricted reciprocity, to which he re- plied in happy terms. He compared the surface of the two Algomas to a casket containing a rich treasure, but American capital was required for its develop- ment. -A report just issued by Mr. John Winchester, inspector of legal offices for Ontario, shows that the fines imposed under the Scott Act in the Province in 1886 reached $41,195. Of this sum $8,843 went to the municipalities, and back to the bush in the afternoon, oaten - $9,590 to the inspectors. The offenders sibly on his way to Granton, and while failed to pay $900, and were committed there cut a deep gash in his throat with in default. Fines to the extent of $2,620 a razor which he had taken with him. were appealed against, the sum of The cut not being deep enough to wound $15,582 mains unpaid, and $4/360 is in the blood vessels he was unsuccessful in the he...itis of police magistratesi• his object, and after a time returned to -Rev. Dr. Potts, of Toronto, met the house. The old man has been for with a serious accident a few days ago some time past somewhat deranged in which will confine him to his room for a mind, and,tiring of life,took this method month or more, and perhaps leave per - of getting rid of his supposed troubles. manent results. Dr. Potts was getting At last accounts there were good pros - off a train at North Toronto station, ects of his recovery. when he stepped on a short plank in the P -The long pending dispute betsveen platform, one end of which was not the lumbering firm of Gilmour & Co. properly nailed down. The end on which he stepped went down under his and the settlers in the township of Egan, weight, and he fell heavily forward on Ottawa County, has culminated in the of Rev. Father Parodic and a one knee, injuring his knee -cap and arrest slightly hurting one of his elbows. settler named Brouillard, on a charge ef -A serious accident happened on Fri- removing the mark of Gilmour & Co. logs and substituting there: day last to Mr. James Legge, a young from a let of for the mark of another party, to whom man who was working oia the farm of Mr. John Grant, third concession of •the logs were sold. Father Paradis has a,lso been summoned to appear before the London. Mr.Legge was engaged shock - Hull police magistrate on a charge of ing oats when Mr. Grant's team became frightened and ran away with the binder. forgery, preferred by an employe of the Young Legge attempted to stop the run- Gil:flours. This charge is based upon the fact that the priest endorsed the aways, but was knocked down and run name of Major White, of Amnond, on a over by the horses and the binder, cheque for some payment in connection sustaining a broken leg and such in - with the disputed lots. Father Paradis juries to his spine as will probably prove fiL -The first ,passenger car and engine crossed the new Canadian Pacific Rail- way bridge over the St. Lawrence River at Lachine at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning. -It is reported that a Mr. Ward, of Beckettown County, Welland, 89 years of age, took quite a long walk the other day, and on his walk killed a black snake nearly six feet long. -Mr. Powderly, General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, will probably be a guest at the labor demon.- stration which will take place in Hamil- ton on September 28th. -The Manitoba Local Government are now considering a proposition for the construCtion of a line of railway between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie. A subsidy of $200,000 is said to be asked. -While blasting in a stone quarry in London township, James Brien sustained serious injuries by an untimely explos- ion. He was hurled about twenty feet, lost one of his eyes, and was otherwise burned and bruised. He willrecover. -Mr. Eraatus Wiman will address the Board of Trade and merchants of Detroit on the subject of Commercial Union with Canada, on the 30th inst. He will be aceompaned by Senator But- terworth. • -An ex Torontonian named West is wanted in St. .Louis for murder. It is said West eloped with a servant girl named Beck and afterwards poisoned her with arsenic. West is alleged to be insane. -English commission houses warn Canadian buyers' against paying any- thing like last year's prices for apples. They say prices in England will run 35 to 40 per eent. lower than last year, owing to heavy crops there and on the continent. -The St. Thomas police magistrate decided in a recent Scott Act trial that ton, ber father's name being John it was the duty of the prosecutor not Power. She was visiting friends in only to prove the. sale of liquor to sus- Prospect.. The other young lady was a tain the charge, but to prove that it had daughter of Wm. B. Christian, of been sold by the defendant, his servant Prospect. or agent. -A drunken Indian row occurred -Sir J. Blackwood, Secretary of the near Selkirk, Manitoba, last Thursday) Imperial Postoffice Department, will which will probably result fatally. Set: - leave England on the 6th prox. for Canada, his mission being to enquire into the advantages offered by the Cana- dian Pacific railway as an Imperial .mail route to the East. -A case of rape by a prominent 'citi- zen of Ottawa on a little girl 12 years old is reported, and, it is said, will be before the courts in a few days. It is said that the girl was enticed into an unoccupied house on Monday night of last week and outraged. -A political demonstration in honor of Mr. Wilfred Laurier was held on Tuesday in Somerset, Quebec. There was a large attendance, and numerous addresses were presented to the leader of the Liberal party. Mr. Laurier spoke for two hours, defining his position and policy. -The jury empanelled on the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the St. Thomas railway disaster, returned a verdict on Tuesday morning at three o'clock, to the effect that the deceased persons came to their death through the criminal negligence of the engineer and conductor of the ill-fated train. • -About nine o'clock last Thursday night a fire occurred in the centre of the city of Kingston and appearances in- dicated its spread' into a great conflagra- tion, but the flames were checked, and the damage confined to. the properties of Maloney & McCutcheon. Loss about $S00; no insurance. -At the inetance of the Crown, Peter Nettle, liberated by a coroner's jury at Fort Erie last Thursday, will be brought before Polioe Magistrate Hill at Niagara Falls and giyen a hearing on a charge of •murder. If sufficient evidence be ob- tained, Crown Attorney Raymond will ask that!Nettle be committed for trial at the October assizes. -Last Thureday afternoon while Chas. Harding, a. farrier living near Ayr, was proceeding home from town, he was run into by the 240 p. m. Canadian Pacific railway train going east. The horses on Mr. Dunn, who lives a short distance were instantly killed and the buggy sed Ifrona the top of Brisbin's Hill. !Sir. smashed to pieces, the old gentleman left Dunn had started..2. well and had blasted being thrown against the water -tank the down a distance of five feet a cavity and seriously,but it is hoped not fatally, that some thirty-six feet in circumference, injured. t is, when finding the rock too hard, he -Matthew McAuley, a teamster, who for abandoned the idea of blasting, and de- lives at the sand pits near Bloor street, drill the balance of the well Toronto, was seriously injured the other day through his team running away. He was driving an excavating cart,when a passing train's ehrill whistle stertled his horses, and they ran away. The frightened team tore up the street at a bazar in boats. We tented for the first were the most noticeable objects ta three weeks in the part of the city re- in during. two or three minutes o served for English visitors. When find- vetion. ing a lovely spot on the shore. of a lake- Shortly after 10 a. m. we set ou the lake celebrated in Moore's Leila find, Central church, the pastor of w Rookh-s4e moved our tents to it and is the celebrated 'Prof. David Sw remained there. It began to grow sultry whe created a great furore some and warm, when ten days ago we climb- years ago amongst the orthodox by ed the mountains to this table land, unsoundness of some Of his publicly Von see we are becoming , very nomadic pressed ideas. He is adjudged on as all dwellers in tents are. This, how- the most popular and eloquent preac ever, -will be our last move until we set in the city and he has either. ba out on the homeward journey, in about into -the traces of orthodoxy agaa k hence. the mood for criticizing doctrinal p to ich ng, few the ex - of ers ked • or ints are concerned. Are we to infer from this that his majesty,the monarch of the lower regions, is also resting on his oars, or out rusticating? We are told that he "Goes about like a roaring Lion, seeking whom he may devour, nothing said there about laying off for holidays. Surely a kind and faithful Shepherd would never close the corral,shutting the flock on the outside, unless he had made assurance doubly sure that the "other fellow," the roarer, was away beyond the possibility of ravaging or worrying, or leading astray the sheep and lambs entrusted to his caret The saloons, pleasure gardens and theatres are not closed for holidays on any day of the week. We passed a very large circular building last night, devoted to pano- ramic and theatrical performances. Peo- ple were going in couples and groups, and though dark on the outside, except up at the roof, the inside was brilliantly illuminated. . . I had intended giving some descrip- tion of Lincoln Park, which we visited Saturday last, but time forbids at pres- ent. Yours very truly, M. E. McL. r ,Cutc.wo, August 1st, 1837. Miss Beatty is not yet strong enough h'as passed away and the great cong-re- . for the journey and will not return before gations calmly listen without a ri ple • -The Picton Times of last week has September. Owing to her extreme weak- of ylisapproval. On arriving at Ce tral the following: • What might be an ad- ness we were obliged to make a slew Music Hall, corner State an% Rand lph vantage to this towh, if utilized,was dis- journey,even onthe railway when coming street, where the congregation vor- covered a few days ago on the farm of . • I d e This ;rave usran oppo• rtun- ships, we were greatly disappointe Some time ago Mr. McBride supplied Ids brother's piece in the Collegiate In- stitute at Stratford, and while doing 80 made many friends there by his fratik and courteous manners and manly char- acter. Only thirty-three years of age and well up in his studies, Mr.McBride'a success in life was assured, and his un- timely death is a serious loss. . A • American Presbyterian. After leaving Neemuch our first halt was at Ajmere, where we were called upon by Mr. Gray, Dr. Husband and all the ladies. We stopped again at Jeypove, which wonder- ful city we were able to see a good deal of, through the kindnese of your friend, Mr. Train. He spent the whole day 1 of the Circassian lady or the fat girl no amount of persuasion would lead the horse to divulge. Both occupants were thrown from the, wagon and the latter demolished. The suit is broughtmerely for the price of the. wagon, which was paid under protest, and a law firm re- tained to defend the case. -On Friday, the 29th ult., Alexander McFarlane, of EtObicoke township, died at his residence on Dundas street in tthe said township, at the advanced age of 88 years. He was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, came to this country with his parents and other members of the family in 1823, and settled OD Dundas street near where he died. He was a consist- ent member of the Baptist; church, and for about fifty years superintendent of the Sabbath School at 'Islington. He was also Reeve of the township council for many years. • -On Saturday Mr. James Orr, a well- known farmer living near Emery, on the 6th concession of York township, was hauling in grain. When turning the brow of a hill the load upset and Mr. Orr fell a distance of fifteen feet, sus- taining such injuries that his recovery is doubtful. The baekbone is either broken or dislocated -the doctors in attendance are as yet not sure which. Everything possible is being done to pull Mr. Orr through. He is about 35 years of age and well known in the township. Dr. Charlton and Dr. M. Aikins are in at- tendance. sad affair occurred on the Cendar Swamp Line, in the vicinity of London . recently, when Mr. John Bruin, sr., at- tempted to take his own life by cutting his throat. The old man, who is 83 years of age and lives with his son, went does not deny the endorsation, and says -While a party of two men and seven he had full authority to use Mr. White's young ladies were out in a sail boat off name. Prospect, West Halifax, on Sunday, the -We clip the following from last craft was capsized and two -of the ladies, week's Pluton Times : Mr. J. P. Blake - Bessie Power and Annie Christian, were ly, of this town, brought to the Times drowned. Their bodies have not yet ' ' office on Saturday a potato vine the been found. •Miss Power lived in Bos - main part of which was about eight inches in length. About two inches of the top of the vine were withered and dead. In the inside just below the withered portion was a live grub, 1.1 inch long, covered with feet on the low- er side, and armed with a strong beak. This grub had. evidently eaten his way up through the stalk from near the root, eral Indians procured a. supply of w is- EP. t. ; •••;1;,;.' 4 t ; pro- 1 leaving the stalk hollow. It would seem . k at Selkirk and before they had ceeded three miles from town they had a fight, several of the number taking part in it. The climax was reached when James Settee struck a fellow -red- skin with an axe, splitting his skull and rendering him insensible, in which state he still continues. He is not expected to recover. -A fire broke out at Petrolea about one o'clock Saturday, supposed to have originated by some parties throwing hot ashes out on the dry grass, and before it could be checked spread for over half a mile, consuming everything before it, burning several tanks, derricks and buildings, and a considerable amount of crude oil. k ortunately the wind was blowing directly opposite to the town, thereby preventing a disastrous fire. The full fire brigade was on hand and rendered valuable assistance. The loss is not yet known. -Two Canadian fishing vessels have arrived at Canso from the Banks, and report that American fishermen had robbed them of their fresh bait, and had etripped the hooks off their trawls and partly destroyed the latter. Similar complaints have been made by other Canadian schooners, and the facts have been reported to the Department of Fisheries. The Canadian fishermen say that fish will not bite at the salt clams thrown over by the Arnericaus, hence the latter steal fresh bait from Canadian trawls-. -James R. McLean, the second son of Widow .MeLean, of Ekfrid township, near Strathroy, aged about 14 years, while riding a horse home from the har- vest field the other day, was dislodged front his seItheand thrown back. The horse having its harness on, the boy's foot got entangled in it, and he was dragged with his head on the ground to the stable, a distance of some forty rods or so. When released from his fearful position, it was found that life was ex- tinct. He was terribly bruised, and the scalp almost completely torn from his head. -A novel law suit, in which D. A. Holme, of Springville, -N-Ova Scotia, is the lark und floor hich ops, The ;I ciaea which he did, and -when only eighteen feet below the surface struck a vein, that in a few minutes filled the large basin blasted and ever -flowed the surface so as to thoroughlt, wet the ground for a considerable distance from the well. plaintiff and Frank A. Robbins, of Rob- bins, of Robbins' circus, is defendant, the top of the train, the latter part of will come before the Nova Scotia Courts. which did not go over the embenkthent. It appears that the circus billposters A carload of live stock belonging to one for a consideration obtained liberty to Mackenzie went down, killing several post their bills on a barn adjacent to horses. The top of the car was wrenched the road, and as the plaintiff and his out and the balance of the animals wife were driving by their horse took ',Reaped into the water and swam ashore. as though when the vine had shot through the earth about an inch the egg had been deposited in it from which the grub was hatched, and that the grub had grown and preyed on the plant just as the latter had grown. Since Saturday Mr. Blakely has found other vines simi- larly affected, -two of which with ac- companying grubs he has transmitted to Mr. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist at Ottawa, for identification and descrip- tion. The potato affected is known as the early Ohio, and the area Mr. Blake- ly has planted is three-eighths of an acre. This 'grub is a much more formidable looking animal than the so-called Color- ado potato bug that has so long been such a pest. ; -A peculiar accident occurred on the Canada Pacific Railway on Friday even- ing last between Port Arthur and Rat Portage, at the second trestle, the point being known as Summit. The trestle had been filled in, but the embankment had slid into the lake, carrying about twenty yards of track. A heavily -laden freight train of seventeen cars came thundering round the curve. Engineer Geo. Gould, instantly recognizing the terrible danger, whistled down brakes, the hard shock being so great as to throw the passengers in the caboose from one end to the other. The brakes were applied too late, and the engine and ten cars were pitched headlong down the steep embankment, rolling into the lake and being frightfully wrecked in the descent. The engine was completely buried in the water, and seven cars were smashed to pieces, lying with their freight, coneisting of dry goocls,groceries, merchandise, instruments, etc., in the bottom of the lake. Three cars are not so badly wrecked, and the remainder of the train was saved without damage. Engineer Gould stuck to his post till the last moment; and just as the train was going over he jumped with it. Every- body thought he must be killed, but he was afterwards rescued from the debris and found only to have received a frac- ture of the ribs and other trifling in- juries. The bra.kesman saved himself by ushin from the tender and back over break -neck pace. McAuley was thrown fright. Whether it was at the picture • • .,•