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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-08-12, Page 14 'nth to: alt 4 S'_ ;OOds, Prints, O$ cry, Is &c, ny of these 1e' pa/tie/ear pre ability,. ifornied that m ' a`- similer ung :—Con.. NINETEENTH YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER 1,026. Great Cheap Sale -0F .REM N A -N. T S. • Quarterly Evaingelical J ; I. "mbach, .v Hamburg, the 'meeting foil Oreditoa ilai meeting: ►Ir.' Wendel. John arrived 'oat Indiana, ',there who it Bricker, of guest of Mr. week'orso.- ;11 the work Y a ditYPassea r the village. reewarra and kg for rain.— Is driving to horse became the animal it li;eked the other damage esswe1ler has id =tends to° rom'Monday. hesr-.ty.—Our coneiderabla atter shape.— home in Wisp iCi4 Sind Port Df V SLINS, PRINTS, GINGHA IS, DRESS GOODS, SHIRTINGS, FLANNELS, CLOTHS, TWEEDS, And in fact all kinds of goods at the Cheap Cash Store of Hoffman c& Co, Cardno's Block, Seaforth, TRAVELS. IN INDIA. "I.UCKNOW," THF CITY OF RUINS. (By D. E. McCrimmonf in Goderich Signal.) We reached Lucknow, the `.` City Beautiful," with its , population of 300,- 000, late at night, and found oomlorta- ble quarters at Hill's Imperial hotel. This old city—for it, like Benares, claims to be the oldest Indian city—is the capitol of Gude, situated on the Pumti river, by which it has. navigable - communication for small craft with Cal- cutta. Here, previous to 1856, the lIn- dian rulers reside in stately palaces, surrounded by to al n:agnificerlce and splendor, and exercising all the . powers with which eastern potentates are . vest- ed. But, alas, its magnificence is a. thing of the past ; its stately minarets and mosques, the symmetrical, gilded domes, the grand fantastically built arches, the " bagts " or gardens and garden -temples, the many once beautiful palaces, the grand quadrangles, the pala- tial tombs, all now re left to the domin- ion of desolation and dust, and in ap- pearance are only fitting monuments of the splendor, wealth, and magnificence of this once beautiful city. Very early next morning a " giarry " is engaged to show us about the city, for we intended to remain but a day or so, and 'must do our sightseeing in the mornings , and. evenings on account of the extreme heat. This city has seen many Beiges and • charges. The resi the British am -bassi stands as a p the troublesome paratively early d tory shows it toh wars and sees u times. The reside ruins, riddled by battered and burnt out of all rec but to deeply cont heap of ruins, a "bagh" surrounds t deal of sick - killed in one \-Ve may just rie snit had a h. MeDermott, sh414 125 PIP n- pound, and k John Scott, (= Messer hse- eheeee at 14 Duff and hie ir contract at leist Sabbath —Mr, Robert ke refused $451 how to raja° :he harvest and the steam Ike beard again, to drop will hi otts fast horst), 0- b0 ft nlidt 'ret :hes bought ef ife 1163 - le of Thomas Is to the stager' Jod rnart for the tweak emploYeu ,got caught ' was being ties 11 nets making te at the time, ouh,ler, tearing agNisitanCO le little fellow tiring the °F a stoic- Th, —A letter was received from the Brit- ian War Office lately by Capt. Harston, of Toronto, ordering some of his con- verted Martini magazine rifles for final trial at Woolwich. Until the Harston rifle was subnaitted the Lee -Burton was the favorite with the small arms com- mittee. The fact that the War Office has a atoek of 500,000 new Martinis, which would be useless in case of the adoption of the Lee -Burton, and that these can be converted at a cost of about . $1.25 each into the _ Ilarston magazine rifle, no doubt induced them to give this order. This is a feather in the cap of the Canadian militia. —Last Thursday the eight year old son of Captain Jenkins, of an American barge called The Cross, was drowned at McLaren's boom, New Edinburgh, near Ottawa, while at play. The boat came aloi3gside the boom to load with lumber and a plank was placed between the boat and the boom on which two or three little fellows pfayed. The Cap- tain's little boy stumbled and fell off, and as he could not swim he sank. The anguished father plunged. in after his son, but as he could not swim it looked like as if he too would be drowned. The father on being rescued plunged in the second time and was again rescued, and had to be restrained. In the meantime the little fellow sank and was drowned h). 40 feet of water. The body was re- covered. —It has just transpired that Viau, the notorious convict now incarcerated in St, Vincent de Pa.ul Penitentiary, re- cently received 25 lashes for attempting tek kill a gua.rel. The hardened criminal took the punishment with his usual bravado. The Minister of Justice had a long talk with the prisoner on the occasion of 'the Minister's first visit to the penitentiary in the winter. Viau spoke very bitterly to him of the long sentence of 35 years he had to undergo. He else, complained that he was regard- ed as the champion of the insubordinate convicts, and, evincing seeming sinceri- ty, asked Mr. Thompson the other day to be removed to Kingston penitentiary. There is, however, little likelihood 6f his request being granted, as his conduct appears to be growing worse. —A freight train from Hamilton, on the Great Western division of the Grand Trunk, ran off the track at the foot of Strachan avenue, Toronto, Sunday morn- ing about six o'clock. The train was moving at a good rate of speed when a Tiffany refrigerator car mounted the rails, cut across the track and. complete- ly obliterated the switch house, scatter- ing the splinters in every direction, and altogether five cars were piled up. A brakesman who was on the front car when the accident occurred had a nar- row escape. He hung to the brake until the car got within a few feet of the switchhouse when he jumped on the track and escaped unhurt, although a smashed car lay on each side of him. The cars were refrigerator cars loaded with, butter and cheeae. Most of the freight was saved without much damage. The cars -were badly smashed up and be- yond. repair. —A serious railway collision occurred at Milton en Saturday. While a heavy freight train on. the Canadian Pacific Railway, laden mostly with cattle, going east, was Grossing the Northern and North-Western Railway, it - was run into by a runaway train on the latter railway, consisting of a conductor's van add 16 freight cara, which had got clear while the train was shunting at Lawson Mill, &bout three or four miles north of Milton. As it was quite a down grade from that point to Milton the runaway Came at a tremendous speed, quite out- doing the engine which undertook to catch it. The conductor was on his van on the runawa.y,the only man on board. His car struck about the middle of the Ca.nadian Pacific Railway train, amash- ing up three or four of their cars and killing !our fat cattle. The conductor on the runaway train was badly injured, but it is hoped he will recover. It is supposed that he was asleep in his ca- • boose when it struck the other train, and the reason of this supposition lies in the report, that he had been on duty over 30 hours. If this is true, no wonder he fell asleep. ency, in; which dwelt dor, previoqs to 1857, tiable example of ays of even a com- e, and the city's his- ve been the focus of .ceasingly in earlier neer is now .a mass of shot, ognition as a palace cast this dilapidated magnificent garden or g it has been laid out and kept in perfect trim by the British Government. Close by is the monument to us in history as a he inscription reads of one well known brave soldier. T "To the memory of Henry Lawrence who tried to do his duty." Here also are monuments. o Henry Havelock, or Banks and many he siege of Lucknow. Bazaar or "Chowk," tonishment as we en - General Neill, Ma others who fell at Passing on to the we viewed with a tered the strange architectural freak of a gateway with ite.arehes,curves, filigree lines of beauty land strange figures. Within the bazaar are shops and busi- ness places of the better class of Hindoo tradesmen. The wide street is filled with busy, brightly dressed natives, elephants and eamOls loaded with what we would consider unbearable burdens.. Passing through, another arched gate- way we are within the palace grounds of the ancient kings.' On the side of _the gateway and along the two sides of the quadrangular wall are the lodging places of the thousands Of servants and guards by which this potentate was surrounded. Even now in their,dilapidated desertion and strange pictutesqueness the palaces' gardens and pondst arched bridges1 walks, courtyards, fountains and water- falls are beautifel. The Hoosimabad Imambara, or Palace of Light, is a very large, square marble building with a wing at either side, of an. indescribable style of architectere, _but withal very beautiful, sum -minted by an immense fluted dome- tape4ng to a high finial, and pointed by the Mahommedan gilded crescent. Within is to be seen some of the departed glory of Thdia's former rulers. The king's crown and sceptre, the throne and a glittering general col- lection of what new only can be styled costly curiosities, In another part of the palace is to be seen a very fair col- lection of paintings of tbe ancient kings of India and if the artists force of imagi- nation hies not carried them too far when dressing those mighty men with their paint brushes they certainly have been a gorgeous people, and Solomon, with, his boasted glory coeflcl not have been ar- rayed in more splendor. of stre domes are city, and sight. T small wall poy rebels recapture their hope brick wall of a Britis played fo wall, a. breach large enough to admit at a -time was made, and the British, excited by the fear- cres and cruelties shown by put every one of the 2,600 to Soon: we are at " La Mar - the Martini Palace, now con - o. a college. This fantastical SEAFORT , FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1887. 1”i • McLEAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 . a Year, in: Advance. is or buildings. Mosques and plentifully scattered over the hade trees bury it half out of e next point of interest is a d garden, in which .2,600 Se - took refuge when the British the city in 1857. Alas,. for of safety ! for even a six feet will not withstand the charge soldier. After a cannon had Some hours on a part of the two men revengef u] vful massa the rebels the sword tinier," or verted ini piece of architecture was the work of Claude Martini, a French soldier, who became the favorite of one of the.kings, and rapidly rose from the ranks to riches and greatness. ' This great palace is more European in style than any other in Lucknow:' Statuary, rampant lions and Norman turrets, features distinctly European, are here seen, and it is said the king was jealous that one of his sub- jeots should have a more attractive palace than he, and offered Martini a sum equal. to $5,000,000 to give up his; right, title and interest, but it remained; his palace and his tomb. He died in, 1801, and was b ied in a small, marble - lined room in the basement of the palace. This part of the building was delight- fully cool, and we longed to linger here and pore over the inscriptions on the elaborately carved kingly sarcophagus. We fancied we could detect.odors that did not properly belong to- " Those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres." and on" closer inspection and inquiry found that the masters of the college stored their beer in the cool repository for the dead. Our companion here work- ed off some joke about the founder of his bier,. reason - that he he beer. into the the institution being found on when surrounding circumstance ably pointed to the conclusio was brought there by being on The guides then conducted him open air. Lueknow will ever remain in ory as a picture of desolated g I will recall its gilded domes and gay palaces as vividly 15. ye as I now recall some of my s experience and the streets and 15 years forgotte ago in the little town picture now dancin 'ted States ed in U lll which was invest securities, until Edward or his parents should claim it. The money has since increased, until now it amounts to about $500,000. It has been learned that Ed- ward engaged in . business in Michigan and also prospered, but all trace of him has been lost. Mrs. Wallace, the claim- ant to the fortune, is sister to Mary Finn, the mother of the Kenneallyboys. 'In theFevent of no nearer of kin turning up she claims she is entitled to the en- tire fortune. As Others See Us. AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION ON THE WORK- ING OF THE SCOTT ACT. The official organ of the United King- dom Alliance recently published an in- teresting article upon the Scott Act, written by Mr. J. M. Skinner, who had spent several weeks in Canada, looking into the practical workings of the Act. In the course of the report Mr. Skinner says :—"I am happy to report that it is, on the whole,successful and satisfactory. That the Act is well enforced in many places may be gathered from the fact that in Middlesex county, recently, dur- ing three months,out of 124 informations laid of violations of the Act, there were 110 convictions and fines imposed, amounting to $5,500. The first town we stayed at where the Scott Act is in force, was Prescott, in Grenville county, on the St. Lawrence. The counties of Leeds and Grenville united in voting on the Act, and out of 9,442 votes, there was a majority of 674 in its favor. In the town of Prescott (where we stayed a -night waiting for the steamer to take us up the St.. Lawrence, Lake n- by the Thousand Islands to L ak O tario), there are two breweries and one, distillery, `employing at least one hun- dred families. The vote in Prescott was hostile to the Act, but not being a city the county vote prevailed. Thus we. reached, in an accidental way, one of the very worst places—a Canadian Burton - ardens rs hence hool-boy uildings f Luck - before me of : my first days' expe ience at school here. . It was recess, and the boys n turally wanted te• see what " stuff "II was made of, and go me into the upper part of the old town hall and did not eel disposed to be " lassified" that da and reft!sed to "wade in" as I two bi er brothers there, an no one was "o my side." He kno ked the stick o my shoulder "once, t the thir time," but my onl was for him to wait till I'd e "alone. ' I was very pleased them d clare the fight "off" for but nex . day my' opportunity was sti cliously spelling off Berry's when my mortal ene sight, a d alone. Now was We bot edged up to each oth street, nd unaccountably tried the sa e Space: He was ga was sm terday, further stage o braces, sleeves locks o both re fray w dogs r barkin some o centre Queens neither but it w degrees I manage by sheer good fortuue to get is head between my knees, ai d was pr eeeding in the orthodox style exempt fy the disadvantageS of "Cha eery," i•vhen some one broke through t ring and a rough hand was laid on ea of us a brough me a v stroke terrup advent gettin nevert to see it prov bad fo in very of the little is quite as 'indelibly impres memory as are the recollectio crated temples, deserted hall gorgeons palaces and garden in what remaies of that once Indian city. --Mrs. Wallace, wife of Robert W carpenter of L-ondon, is claim ortune of $500,000, left by Y‘ ally, who died at Broeklyn, . in 1868. John Kenneally, while a British soldier, mar Finn, in Tipperary, Ireland. I‘ Kenneally accompanied- her hush when his regiment, the 68th, cam Canada many years 'ago. In thia;e try two childree, twin boys, were to them, and they were left here n ten years later the regiment was orcl back to En eland . The youngst Willi m• and Edward by name, \ 'ere placed in charge of an old priest at Am- herst kurg, but su.bsequently ran away to the States, one going to New York gain. William accumulated a for- and set up a whisky shebeen on the r rk the iron business, and when he of another man, who had been convicted in1868, left behind him $200,p00, of a similar offence and had fled the The great Imarnbaraeis the nekt point of attraction, an immense building 160 feet long, 65 feet avide, and 80 feet high, with no pillars e}r supports other, than the four wall& which are 16 feet thick. This wonderful hall, the largest in India, was buqt about 100 years ago, at a cost of one pounds, and is now used by the British as an arsenal. No scaffolding or woodwork was used in its constructien,1 and the architect's original plan of building an immense mound of earth,y and erecting the build, ing over it, and removing the earth from the interior When completed,was approv- ed of by the King and carried out. A narrow winding stairway in the wall, leads to a gallery running round the hall near the top hone which people moving about en the floor beneath look like children. The ancient Kings must have had an uncontrolable desire for posses- ing themselves of costly chandeliers, we counted 16 of these cut glass glittering adornments, foul- of which contained 1 0 lamps each ; we gave up counting at t fifth. Close to position feature and deepest we we can easily conceive, was the work of some great king who was emulated with a spirit of healthy rivalry, to do a more woiaderful piece of work that tl e builder 60 feet in we look disc, ap- Inter, but ✓ 20 feet. no' down • eulat fulness Of ormed us eet deep, re of our th. v of Luck - mosque he great hall is an f attraction, the larg 1 in India. This w st 11, • of the ereat 1 he well is diametcer at the top, and as down we can see a small silve parently but a few feet in dia which, we are informed, is ov The well has a stairway lead to the watenbut we were not 1, ly desirous of testing the trut the guide's story • when he ih that it was several- hundred but quietly strengthen the fil conscienchbe, an exercise of fa A magnificent panoramic vie now is obtained from a larg within the palahe grounds. Almost as far as the eye ea all sides we are surrounded by parts of the city, but there is on -Trent on a small scale—under t Scott Act since last May.- But even there we saw no open bawand the hotels all looked exceedingly dull and uninvit- ing. There were a few oungers g ing about, one or two of them smoking and spitting, but we saw no drinking. The landlord of the leading hotel, who was our host for the night, confessed in answer to our enquiries that he sold liquor, but had to be very careful in doing so. Some of his neighbors had been fined, and he did not know when he might also be "pulled." Here we found, under the most adverse circum- stances, that the Scott Act, although not rigidly enforced,largely removed the ordinary temptation to drinking and drunkenness. We saw the Presbyterian minister and some of the leading citizens, who, ‘vhile regretting that the Act was not better enforced, testified that there was a marked improvement in the town since its adoption. Halton was the first county in Ontario ice, and that adopted the Act, the votes polled • defence 2 885 giving a majority of 81 in its tch him to hear that day, came. I the long e G. W. y hove in county. There have been 174 convie- y time, tions for violations, and fines imposed ✓ on t d amounting to $9,550. The Police Mag - to occup istrate told us that during his experience e and of over six years, he had examined 2,200 witnesses, and only one out of that num- ber testified that drink was sold openly. Imeonfirmation of this, Mr. McCraney, ex-M.P. for the county, offered us $100 if we could as strangers buy a glass of liquor anywhere. in the county. We accepted the offer, promising if we got the money to divide it between the Can- adian Alliance and the United Kingdom Alliance. We visited several places in the county, and soon found that Mr. McCraney was quite safe in making the offer. We found comfortable quarters, and good food wherever we went, but no liquor. In the town of Oakville the leading hotelds now kept by a keen tem- perance man. In other towns we saw one or two suspicious looking characters calling at some of the hotels, but we could never see any drink. In one case we stayed at a house where we were in- formed that we were looked upon as whisky:detectives. This was at a house the landlord of whiehhad been convicted for illegal sale. We spent two pleasant days in Guelph where the first tree wee cuein 1827. Guelph has since , developed into a city of nearly 12,000 inhabitants, famed for Bell's organs and Raymond's sewing machines. It has many beautiful churches, fine schools and city buildings, and a free library and reading room. The Government Agricultural College is also close to the city. Here the Act came in force last May, and is fairly well enforced, although not to the satis- faction of its supporters. One liquor seller has been sold up since its adop- tion. Several others have been convict- ed and fines imposed amounting to $1,000. , There are upwards of a dozen hotels, biet no open bar.oe public sale of drink at any of them, only those who are dulel initiated in the secrets of law -breaking, can obtain liquor in the ‘Ve have attended two courts where offences against the Scott Act were tried, and witnessed four convictions for illegal sale of intoxicants. The other cases arose from the Bennett House, George- town. The landlord of this hotel was convicted for driukselling nine months ago, and. to avoid a prosecution for per- jury fled to the states, leaving his wife in the house and a man named Fry. Fry being -convicted of a second offence was fined $100. The magistrate, in _ The manwhose life she saved in erbss water. country.The same magistrate examining one witness told him that in I has not, it is said, seen fit to repay her his opinion the man that broke the law in any way for the great. service rendered by purchasing liquor was nearly as bad him. "All. that a man hath he will give manthewho sold it It was most for his life" may be true enough, bu* save lives they very often do a thankless Sergeant Lepiene, George Lessard and job. Jas. Beauchamp. The two latter jump- -The Ontario Car Works Cbtnpany ed in to find Mrs. Brennan's dead body of London gave their men notice on Sat- floating, while her son was also dead. urday that the shops would be shut —Mining operations in North Hest - down on Monday. Some of the work- ings are booming now. H. J. Ritchie, men feel uneasy, from the fact that their .president of the Central. Ontario Rail - wages are in arrears, and propose to way, will'open the Baker iron mine in a secure themselves by attaching; several few days. J. B. McMillan, late super - completed cars. intendent of the same road, has bought —Mrs. S. G. Zealand, of St. Thomas, a gold mine near Bannockburn, which who was injured in the recent' railway he will operate at once. The ore will accident in that city, succumbed to her be sent to the crusher at Malone. The injuries on Saturday evening. She was St. Charles mine is also to be opened at the eldest daughter of !E. Holmes, assis- once. tent Parliamentary Librarian, Toronto, —The body of Captain Hemel was and formerly publisher of they Clinton found floating at the canal locks at Ot- New Era. taws on Sunday. Foul play is suspected. -Mrs. W. H. Williams, wife of a When the body was recovered a portion newspaper carrier, in Ottawa, Made an of the coat on the left side had been attempt on her life Sunday night about rent away and a large piece of skin had seven o'clock by cutting her throat with been torn off his head. He was a resi- a knife and stabbing herself in the dent of Hull, Province of Quebec, and stomach with a small saw file. 1 She has was part owner of a barge. 13e had been remanded to await an examination drawn $40 and bad expended $20. He as to her mental condition. was a man of sober habits. —Colin Campbell, aged about 84, one —During the severe thunderstorm of the oldest residents of Harwich, met Saturday afternoon a new house being with a serious accident on Friday last, erected at West Toronto Junction by a while driving along a piece of new road builder named Spears blew down, crush-. on the 3rd concession. It is supposed ing beneath it a man, named Wakefield, his horse took fright, throwing him out, who had sought protection beneath it badly crushing his skull and injuring from the furious elements. Wakefield him seriously on the neck and shoulder. was a single man aged 30, of some -The case against Father Paradis, of means. A brother is his only relative. Egan Township, Who was charged with Wakefield was crushed beneath the appropriating sawlogs belonging to Gil- timbers and instantly killed. sed mour & Co., has collapsed. When the —A lady in Toronto has demonstrated case was called before the Hull Police her right to the approval of the Humane Magistrate last Wednesday, Father Para- Society by placing a vessel on the boule- die was on hand, but there was nobody vard, near her residence, which is kept present to prosecute, and the complaint filled with water for the benefit of the was dismissed. dogs. g dogs when he was swept away. His mother, to seeing her child's danger, jumpedin, meet her own death, The current is so strong at this place that bathing is strict- lyas prohibited.- Mrs. Brennan's sister amusing to hear the witnesses give their when people put themselves about to raised a cry that brought to the spot evidence. None of them ever asked for beer or whisky, but for " long " or ' " short" or " nerve food." " Short " was described in cross-examination to be whisky or something like whisky, and " long', or "nerve food" were found to be beer or very much like beer. None of the witnesses admitted getting drunk with the drinks they had, but thought they might have done so by drinking more. This evidence is deemed neces- sary to prove that the liquor was intoxi- cating. As a 'proof that drink and crime go together, in one Scott Act county the proportion of criminals to population was one in 996, while in three adjoining counties it was one in 227, one in 141, and one in 39 respectively. During the two years, prior to the adoption of the Act in Halton, there were 70 crimes, and the first two years after only 37. favor. It came inth operation in May, 1881. An effort was made to repeal in 1884, but the result was an increased. majority of 180 out of 3,714 electors polled. The Act is exceedingly well en- forced throughout the whole of this rting under the disgra e of ye so we both pitched in without parley.- During thei incipient the proceedings little Ilium w 8 xcept a general demolition collars, Val, buttons, shi and the dislodgment of a fe hair which, doubtless, we cou dily part with. Gradually t n .round the ring sniffing a , and evidently anxioup to see their canine relatives , were t f attraction. We did not obserye ury, rules closely for we hei.cl seconds nor:succeedbeg rounds, as one lon continuous', firat. if reach on straggling io regular- into play for what seemed ry long time at the rate of to the minute. This serious ion was made at a stage not ve geous to me for I felt it was j down to earnest wo eless seemed a great y enemy's grown bro d to be, leading him o k, bnt atisfacti her, wh in rat 0 Canada. The salmon' catch on the Pacific coast this year was very small. —Hon. Mr. Pardee is reported to be seriously ill at his home in Sarnia. —At Quebec last Friday an unknown man deliberately committed suicide by jumping off Jones' wharf. —The fortifications at Esquimalt will be built at the expense of Canada.. Eng- land agrees to supply the armament. —The duty collected at Winnipeg during the year ending 30th June amounted to$4974197. amo —Captain Dyson, the Salvationist, has retired from the army ranks and will play as a professional ball player for the season. —A farmer of St. Irenee, county of Charlevoix, Quebec, has discovered garnets on one of the mountains in hi& locality. —A Kingston man named John Theo - bald, is said to have recently shot a specimen of what is a very rare kind of a bird, -viz., a white blackbird. —Sanford Soden, a farmer living near Millbrook,fell from his wagon on Friday last and broke his neck, death being instantaneous. —Mrs. Col. Robbins, living near Am- herstburg, committed suicide the other day while temporarily insane. She shot herself through. the heart. —Whilst a gang of men were putting in a water pipe Monday on Notre Dame street, Montreal, they came across a quantity of human bones. —A water famine is imminent at London. It is alleged that the supply of water in the reservoir would not last over half an hour in the event of a fire. —A brick of gold from the Cushing Gold Mining Company, Caledonia, Queen's County, Nova Scotia, was pur- chased by the Bank of Nova Scotia at Annapolis last week for $5,000. —The Fredericton (N. B.) Recorder! tells of a six-year-old girl near there, who weighs over 100 pounds and has six toes on each foot, and six fingers on each hand. —According to official returns, 14,384 head of cattle were shipped for Great Britain by the St. Lawrence route in the month of June ; 1,548 sheep were carried on the same vessels. - —A roofer named Ryan,while at work last Thursday morning on the roof of a new building in Toronto, fell to- the ground, a distance of about 40 feet, and was almost instantly killed. —Erastus Wiman has been asked to speak on Commercial Union before ea meeting of farmers at Varty Lake, neer Kingston, in September. He will likely accept. —Denamur, the Christian Brother, who recently stole $800 from the Brother- hood, confessed his guilt and wars sen- tenced to one month's imprisonment on Monday. —The supply steamer Canada ' ran agrouud last Thursday at Goulais Point, about 50 miles west of Sault St. Marie. The crew and passengers are safe and assistance has been sent to the vessel. 2 n- st it er m 'about the face and etill puttng good work with the business e d ath. It seems strange that t is ed on y of de e- d tow rs, of deli ht lace, to a Kenu York, al - an t ew in ied rs. nd to un- orn en red rs, and t met tune sentencing Fry, remarked that while had some degree of eympathy with tl w4o had been hotel -keepers before adoption of the Aet, he had no sy thy Whatever with a man who wen he ose the Pa- in ins The sufferings of during —Mr. P. Glen, said to be a trine mer- these hot days owing to the lack of chant of Toronto, fell from the fourth places where they can quench their story of the Grand hotel, Caledonia thirst must be great, and an act of this Springs, Saturday morning, and sustain- kind, which costs little trouble, relieves ed a fracture of the right thigh, as well the misery of many. as supposed severe internal injeries. The —It is not generally known that a crash startled half the household and bogus Canadian quarter has been rife the unfortunate gentleman was found -since the beginning of last year. It may prostrate on the ground. be known by the sharp burr which is =The Germans are a strong element the result of the milling operation, and of the population of Hamilton. They is never found in coins from the mint. have one Catholic and two ]Protestant Those who recognize it, pass it round, churches, and a lodge of Knights of however. Business men in these days Phythias, in addition to their ordinary cannot stop to pronounce on the genuine - social organizations, and now a German ness of every coin• or bill which they Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters handle. is to be instituted. The new Court will —Hon. Allen Francis, United States be called after Prince Bismarck. Consul of St. Thomas, died very sud- -There is a dispute about the body of denly at 12 o'clock Wednesday night of the late Hon. A. Francis, United States last week. This adds another victim to Consul at St. Thomas, who was a victim the list of deaths resulting from the late of the late accident, having been run railway accident,. He was knocked ,over by a hose cart, Mrs. Francis want- down and seriously injured by the hose ing the remains sent to Victoria, B. ,C., reel at that time. His death was quite. while a son-in-law in New York has unexpected, as hewas apparently im- - —John Kennedy, a C. P. R. section man, was struck on the line near the depot at Winnipeg Monday morning, sustaining injuries to which he succumb- ed after remeval to the hospital. —The DePartment of Fisheries has re- ceived advices that three Canadian ves- sels, the Grace, Dolphin and W. P. Say - ward, have been seized by a United States cruiser in Behring's Sea and taken ap'hoid fever prevails in Montreal in excess of any previous year. There are about 40 cases in the Montreal Gen- eral Hospital, and a large tent has been ill probably go to the Courts. died. The immediate cause of death was —On Wednesday night of 'last week, some affection of the heart. Lizzie Robinson, returning from work, —A heavy thunder storm passed over was passing througb the Grand Trunk Ayr on Friday evening, doing a great yards at Point St. Charles, near Mont- deal of damage, Lightning struck Alex. real, and jumped on one of the car steps Reid's barn, setting it on fire, but it was of a passing train to ride home. Just promptly put out. The large bank barn before Wellington street was reached of Mr. David Goldie, of Greenfield she fell off, four wheels passing over her Mills, was also struck, and all the out - body and crushing her all to pieces. buildings and contents, also three cows, —About eleven o'clock last Thursday a oantity of poultry, cutters and morning La Minerve, the French frigate, sleighs, and three cutters belonging to steamed up to the old fort at Montreal. his men were destroyed. His horses A large crowd on shore gave rousing were got out with great difficulty. cheers of welcome, which were respond- —Last Saturday evening about four ed to by the visitors, and Vice -Consul o'clock a number of Montrealers were Schwob, ex -Mayor Beaugrand and other at Perry Island, on the Back river, French gentlemen were most courteously when one of them went in to swim be the received. vicinity of a whirlpool. He soon began —The Government have pa- ssed an to sink and one of the spectat,ors jumped Order -in -Council reducing the cost of in after him with his clothes on and transatlantic messages passing over the endeavored to rescue him, but he also Government telegraph lines to four began to sink, when another party cents a word. The Government owns plunged in, all three being sucked. in the about 430 miles of cables and land lines whirlpool and drowned. Two bodies along the shores of the Gulf of St. Law - have been recovered. rence and over 700 miles in British —. News was received at Halifax last Columbia, besides their Northwest lines. /nclay night from Souris, P. E, I., that —While a young man and woman, Customs Collector Foley had arrested who were betrothed, were promenading the United States fishing schooner J. H. in St. Sanveur, Quebec, three men drove Perrin. The charge is shipping men in up in a carriage and, upon alighting, the provinces to prosecute a fishing voy- assailed the young man. Seeing the age, and it is probable the former charge odds against him he made off to secure will be a violation of the fishery treaty. the assistance of the police. While he It is stated. that the customs and fishery was absent the men kidnapped the officers have been on the lookout for the young woman. The affair causes great Perrin for some time. The schooner is excitement. owned in North Haven, and is corn - .—A young daughter of Mr. Joseph mended by Capt. Charles McDonald. Lemieux, a farmer of Levis, Quebec, ca.ressed one of her father's horses the W. J. Fischer, of Toronto, went to other day,which had always been regard- ed as a quiet animal. It . seized the Hamilton on business. When the train young girl, however, and bit her in the was drawing inte the station yard he bosom, and would probably have killed attempted to get off, but failed to do so her had not some one providentially properly, and was swung in between the come to the rescue. She was rather cars. The train passed over him, but without doing him any very serious in - erected in the yard for the accommoda- badly injured. —Last Friday evening at 6.15 the jury, as he lay flat between the rails. He received a blow on the left side of - tion of patients. —Burglar entered the postoffice in large barn of Mr. David Goldie, miller, the head near the temple. He was pick - Belle River Ontario, Monday evening, ef Greenfield, one mile frorn Ayr, was and drilled hole in the door of the safe struck by lightning and totally consum,- ed up and assisted to the waiting -room, 1 fore they discovered it was not locked. ed, together with a carload of grain, this whence he was sent to a surgery and had - his injuries attended to. Then they Opened it and found it con- season's crop, a quantity of lumber, irn- tained nothing of value. plements and three cows. It was one of —Dennis O'Connowaged 65, and John Two Oran eville men driving on a the best constructed barns in that part Carroll, aged 60, have kept pork but - wandering about in a nude state. from the London city hospital, went to treal, for several years. They were rivals in business,and a feeling of jealousy has existed, between theM for some time. —With a consideration that many a livery stable and hired a horse and ing Carrell continuously about taking owners of horses do not show, the Ham- buggy, representing themselves as com- away the latter's business, and had been ilton street par company, during the very m rcial travelers. They drove to Sarnia tormeuting him a good deal during the warm weather, sends out its horses with ankl crossed the river to Port Huron. day. This enraged Carroll, and the lll- a wet sponge fastened between the ears Wednesday last week the police at Lon- feeling had a fatal termination last of the animal as a prevention against don received word that the two men . Thursday evening as the men were about sunstroke. had been arrested in Port Huron, with 1 leaving the market for the night, when —Two men were driving over the the horee in their possession. Their Carroll took up a large butcher knife Arthur bridge, near that village. Part names are Robt. Field and J. Browning. end without a word of warning ran it of the railing WaS off, and through its —A drowning accident occurred Mon- through O'Connor's neck. The wound - being off they were upset into the river ' day morning on St. Helen's Island, near ed man fell to the groand in a pool of and injured. One of them was saved , Montreal. A Mrs. -Brennan of that eity, . blbod, and before the hospital arnbu- frorn deowning by,. the heroic act of a along with four children, three of whom lance, which was telephoned for, arrived ' M lie was dead. The body was removed -Wild hairy man bathing in the river of the country, having taken nearly two years to build. The loss is placed at recent Sunday, assert that they eaw a near Credit Forks. Many other- persons $5,000 ; partially insured. latel seen such an individual —Two young men recently discharged Mrs. Drake, who went to his rescue at , belonged to her, wi er s , • the risk of her own life. The men re- ' Couturiere, left for the island about 10 covered some $3,000 from the corpora- ; o'clock. After landing they went to the The lady who acted so bravely has Militia Department enclosure to the left to the general hospital. Cerro was immediately arrested and confined in the Central station. He was under the influence of liquor when he committed been an invalid ever since, having caught 1 of the landing stage. Mrs. rennan s a severe cold through leaping into the son, ten years of age, went in to bathe, the rash act.