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SEAFORTH FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 1887. 1 { MclLIBAN BROS. Publishers. *1.50 a Year, in Advance. mat Cheap Sale ----OF-- REMNANTS. AliJSL/NS, PRINTS, GINGHAAIS, DRESSGOODS, SHIRTINGS, FLANNELS, CLOTHS, TWEEDS, And in fact all kinds of goods at the Cheap Cash 'Store of Hoffman te- Cardno's Block, Seaforth, THE WONDERS OF THE GOLDEN STATE. RAMBLES THROUGH CALIFORNIA; THE YOSEMITE VALLEY.—THE WORKS Or ART AND THE WONDERS OF NATURE. • . _ . DEAR EXPOSITOR,—As every person has not an opportunity of seeing all that is to be seen in the world, and as peid haps many of your readers may never have an opportunity of beholdingi the wonders -and beauties :of the Golden State, a few words from one who has enjoyed this privilege may interest some Being weary and worn out in. body and mind I recently determined that come what might I _would' see some Of'the world, and with this object in view I traveled through the great wheatlgeow- ing State of Minnesota, throirgh Iowa, - where, if you asked a man whet invest- f ment he considered most likely to yield - a fortune, he would probably, with Colonel Mulberry Sellars, put his hand to his mouth aid whisper " It's corn,',' or " hugs," through the great stock -rais- ing State, Nebraska; through Colorado, with -its immense store of mineral wealth ; over the niountains and across the deserts ; through Utah, Nevada and California, until at last we find Ourselves in San Francisco. The old familiar odor of the sea is in our nostrils, the cool breezes of the Pacific fan our cheeks, the ruggedness of the mountains and the heat of the deserts are both forgotten as we stand on the shore and look out upon an ocean that encircles half the giobe. THE GOLDEN GATE CITY, built on sandy hills facing the bay, pre- sents a pleasing appearance as the ferry steamer_ carries us across from Oakland. Fine views of the city fhay also be had from Telegraph Hill or from the ceme- teries on the crest of the ridge which separates the bay from the ocean., A closer inspection is somewhat disappoint- ing, for • while there are many fine and substantial business blocks, and some palatial hotels, in the residence part of the city the buildings are mostly of _wood._ If you expect, as we did, to find abundance of fruit growing in the vicin- ity you are doomed, as we were, to be disappointed. But the profusion and luxuriance of flowers in every garden and lawn surpassed all our expectations. In no other city of the United States the writer has everv'sited do the men dress i with so much stye or the ladies with so much taste as in San Francisco. It should also be added that in no other city is there such a large proportion of rea-lly handsome women. And then, 0 fortu- -nate circumstance 4. that chilly sea breeze—we would , call it a gale—gives them a sufficient reason for wearing their sealskin or fur -trimmed jackets early every afternoon of the summer. It also compels gentlemen to don their over- coats. After several winters' experience ha Manitoba we can wear an overcoat daring the winter without much incon- venience; but we must confess that we do not take kindly to wearing one in dog days. The winter in '/hiset) is doubtless very pleasant; but wedo not like its summers. 'Frisco has been called the Paris of America, and in the matter of morality the comparison is a just one. It is noticeable that Germans form a large part of the eity's popula- tion and do a large share of its business; and another noticeable fact is the ab- ‘ sence of Scotchrnen. Then there are the Chinese'but we will leave thern to— Dennis Kearney. Our Yankee cousins boast that they have within the bound- aries of the Union every variety of cli- mate, surface and soil; every kind of animal, vegetable or mineral product required by their people •' all the re- sources necessary for the fullest national development. You will be told in Cali- fornia that the sarn.e thing is true, in a slightly restricted sense of that State. Bounded by the ocean on the west and shut off from the rest of the continent on the east by lofty mountain ranges flanked by extensive deserts, it is a little world in itself. In the southern part of the State THE CLIMATE AND, PRODUCTS . are subtropical, oranges, lemons and grapes grow in abundance; and the fields yield two crops annually. In the north the climate and products are not unlike those of many parts of Canada. In the San Joaquin valley it is no un - unusual thing for the therrnometor to register 120° in the shade, while at the same time it will not register more than 75' at San Francisco less than a hundred miles west and in the mountains less than .a hundred miles east, the never - melting snow may be seen. Winter is the most pleasant season of the year. Indeed it may fairly be said that except in the mountains where it is very severe, there is no winter. In 'Frisco snow has fallen bat once in the past seven years. During the rainless summer the valleys and hillsides become scorched and brown ; but after the spring or a.uturren rains have begun, dame nature dresses them in garments of such a brilliant green, and decorates them with such .a wealth of georgeous wild flowees that the stranger can hardly recognize the country as the same. In the smith fruit raising he the chief industry; but the valleys of the Sacra- mento and the San Joaquin rivers are largely devoted to the. production of grain, particularly wheat and barley. From the Sierra. Nevada. Mountains, the latter valley, as it lay spread out before us, looked like one almost continuous grain field. Tho wheat raised bete is tlem —The petition a.gainst the return of lion Edward Blake, of West Durhaan, has been withdrawn, as the petitioners found they had no ground to sustain —The Bank of London has suspended it. payment. Homing failed in its negotia- tions with the Bank of Toronto, which it hoped would take over its business, it was found necessary to close its doors . Friday morning last. —The store of Mr. Christie, at Irish Creek, Ont., was burglarized Monday morning and $500 in cash, $50 in gold, aa well as $2000 in notes, were stolen. Three men arrested at Brockville on sus- picion were released —Only four miles of grading remain unfinished on the Red River Valley rail- way, The Provincial Governmeiat are credited with the determination to complete the road in spite of legal or other obstacles. —Mr. A. A. McArthur, the well- known Winnipegger, who started on a. trip to the Arctic regions this spring but was forced to return, died suddenly on Moaday last at the age of 44 years. —Mr. F. r. Shutt, a fellow of the Toronto- University for m number of years and a chemist, has been appointed chemist in connection with the Central Experimental Farm. In company with Prof. Saunders he has just returned. from a trip to the best known labora- tories of the United States. —On Thursday of last week during a lightning storm, the barn, with its contents, belonging to Mr. Alex.Ledger- wood, in Greenock, in the county of Bruce, was struck and burned to the ground. Loss about $l,200, no insur- ance. —One day last week an old man resid- ing in rear of Point Levis,Quebemfell in a fit of epilepsy, and remained so long Speechless and motionless that he was given up for dead, and arrangements for the funeral were commenced. These preparations and the grief of his family were somewhat abruptly terminated by the old, man opening his eyes. —The Canadian Pacific railway is making arrangements for the representa- tives of leading Eastern newspapers to attend fairs in the Territories. An in- vitation will be extended to fourteen of the leading newspapers in Ontario, four ia Quebec, five in New Brunswick, three in Neva Scotia and two in Prince Ed- ward Island. —The Department of Justice has pplied, to the Washington authorites for the metra,dition of the two half- breeds arrested in Montana, charged with the murder of Hector McLeish near Wolsley, North West Territory. The Mounted Police Department has appoint- ed an officer to take them into custody hist as soon as the American authorities are ready to hand. them over. —Mrs. Greenwood, of London, on awakening the other morning felt a sharp pain in her left ear and along that aide of her head, and at the same time noticed blood ofi her pillow and neck. .Upon washing the blood away it was noticed that the lobe of her left ear was nibbled and pierced, and the ligament connecting the ear with the face was separated -by the piercing and nibbling. The wounds were examined by medical Ellen, and were pronounced to be inflict- ed by the teeth of a rat, but no poison of any kind was found in the wouad. —A terrible drama. occurred Sunday at St. Laurent, Island of Orleans, near Montreal. Jean Leclerc, a fernier, rose at four o'clock and went to his barn. Before going out he lit his pipe, and, it ls suppesed, threw the burning end of the match on a palliasse of straw lying beneath the eteire. When he returned a few minutes later he found fire in the house. Rushine Mite carried out the burning bed in his arms. severely burn- ing himself. The stairs were or. tire, and, it was impossible to ascend them. Ile then broke in e. mansard window frora autside with a ladder and enabled hia wife and two children to escape. A hey of thirteen years could not be got out and perished in the Ilainee Leclerc lost everything he possessed, while his wife, already predisposed to insanity, hat. gone out of her mind. In the next field- you -will probably see several gang ploughs turning up great strips of the soil as they move along. The writer saw one of these at work which was drawn by a team of thirty- five mules. THE GREAT DRAWBAN TO AGRICULTURE in California is the absence of rain, :which rarely falls during the summer months, though it is plentiful enough at arome seaaons of the year. This compels the farmers to have recourse to irrigation. In the neighborhood of the mountains the streams which flow down the slopes are utilized for this putpose,and in other places artesian wells are sunk, from which the much-needed water is primped by windmills. At best irrigation is ex- pensive and unsatisfactory, and the fact that it must be practised to ensure a crop would ,condemn the country in the eyes of a Canadian farmer. One very disa- greeable result cf this Summer drought is the immence quantity of fine dust which Covers the roads and fields, fills the air, and with provoking persistency penetrates the clothing, eyes, nostrils, mouth and lungs of the hapless traveller, and another is the increased danger from fire. California is rich in _mineral wealth, but owing to the abnormally low price of silver at the present time that metal can- not be mined with much profit, though gold -mining in many places is being pro- secuted with success- The slopes of the Sierras are covered with forests of im- - .mense pines, *cedars, spruces and firs. How it wauld rejoice the heart of a lumberman to be felling these gigantic' trees, five, six, and even eight, feet in diameter and often running up a huhdred feet without limbs. But the extreme difficulty of getting milling machinery over the steep ridges and across the deep canons of these moun- tains and the equally difficult task of get- ting the sawn lumber out te a point from which it can be shipped greatly retard names in addressing them; and it seethe etrange, indeed, to hear a group of rough grey -bearded men: speaking to each other s "Charlie," "Bill, or "Jack,'" like so nany schoolboys.1 The mining laborer is much.lower and less agreeable char- eter in every war than the prospector. THE CHINESE QUESTION is still California's great unsolved prob- lem. We, living so far away, cannot fully appreciate its difficulty ; .to be understood it niust be studied on the spot. To prohibit .the immigration of ' Chinese does net solve it, for they are already in the country.. The recent foi- mation in nearly every county of the State of local organizations for the pro- tection of white labor, and ' of a State league • for the same purpose, has not solved it. M.eantinee the Celestials are working out their side of the question in a very simple and practieal wa.y. Slow- . ly but steadily the railway navvy, the .mining ilaborer. . the lumberman, the farmf hand, and even the domestic ser- vant are being crowded out and their places taken by Chinamen. If you. are ever in 'Frisco visit that part of it knawn as Chinatown; you will learn facts about these Mongolians you wciuld •scarcely credit otherwise. The reports which come to us of their immorality and diabolical practices and the horrors' of cheir opium dens may sometimes be ex- aggerated, but the bare facts, as far as we could gather them, were more than enough to cenvince us that there is rea- eon in the cry, '" The Chinese must go." During the present simmer, however, this question has been eclipsed by an- other, perhaps nearly as important but_ more easy to settle, namely that of , .RIPARIAN RIGHTS. , In a country where agrigulture is such an important pursuit, and where there is so little rainfall during the summer, facilities for irrigation are of the greatest value. Sometimes a company will be formed, which buys a large tract of -un- lumbering operations. In one case we. improved land, dams some mountain saw the latter difficalty -overcome, in a . novel way. The dumber was shipped ail Madera, but was sawn at mills about 6 miles up in the mountains. A flume was built from the mills to the town, and a stream of water from the Fresno River timed into it. The luinber fastened to- gether in lots, each containing several hundred feet,was put into the flume and went rushing down to its destination at railroad speed. The most vigorous laws have been enacted for the preservation of this yaluable timber. In California it maynotproveaveryseriousmatter for one man to kill another; but woe betide him who stants,ietentionally or otherwise, a fire in the woods. The good effect of such laws is apparent. 'We passed through nearly a huzidred miles of woods in trea- ding through the mountains, and. -saw lit- tle or no timber damaged by fire. Wheh we • crossed the Selkirk mountains a few weeks later and saw the timber --- the onlythingwhieh gi.ves the land there any value—being burned in all dire - tions, it occurred to hs that it would be well if equally stringent measures were adOpted-ior the preservation of Canadima . forests. The mountain slopes are also used for pastures for large flocks -of sheep. They start from the valley and as spring advances up the mountain, they are drie- • en up and. Up, feeding on the grass along the etreams., and the scanty . herbage which finds a place to grow among the reeks, until they reach the line of per- petual suow. As winter descends from the mountain summits the sheep retreat before it until the plain is again reached. A fleck numbering from six hundred to two thousand requires two herders, several dogs, and a third man with two or three mules or jacks to pack provision, move camp, cook, etc. . -THE PEOPLE, especially if they have not come in con- tact with these ofether atates to any ex- tent, have sonie peculiar characteristics. They are very reserved in their manlier and treat strangers with a 'kind of sus- picious coolness which is not at all pleas- ant, and which contrasts .strongly - with the affability and bonhomie of the average Yatikee. :The isolation of the country seems to have led to one curious, result. Many of the people have not yet learned to think of California as a part of the Uoited.States. They will ask, -"did you. come to California from the States?' "1 or are times better in 'the States' than here ?" -showing that they regard "the States" as a country. With which Cali- fornia has no connection. Among Cali- fornians to be "an old forty-niner," or tot have come into the country between '49 and '5.2 is almost equivalent to having "come over with the Conqueror" among the English. The "olcl forty-niner" is an aristocrat who ' looks down__ upon the "pilgrims" and "tenderfeet" of more -re- cent. years with a good deed of pity and__ conteinpt. ; THE' CALIPORNI-A MINER, or rather the prospector, as we found him, is .aninteresting character. He has generally some education; a great deal of intelligence, and a wide experience. He ' knows all the indications of; "mineral" and is acquainted with nearly every min- ing district from Mexico to Alaska. -He has probably made and spent two or three fortunes, and -expects to make at least one more. He has perhaps done "a little shooting" on one or two occasiions, on- ex- ses and his ev- en- the lower and. chestnut, the scraggy manzamta, and and dwarfed pi es. Myriads of quails scuttle is shipped to the Eastern States iand he will be more than glad to share vith away from es at every turn in the wind - highly value or • even to Australie. But little of ' the you his supper and his tent. When tray- ing road, a d a raven croaks hoarsely grain raised is stored in graincriel or eling over the mountaine he seldom car- from a hill op ahead. On the right is storehouses. As there is no rain it is ries any prnvision. but helps himself Quartz 111 untain where a French com- On Glacier Point you are nearly 8,000 hor 1 ut in sacks -ancl piled beside the freely to ane food he may find in the pany rece tly erected buildings, all the feet above the sea ; the n hole valley lies c imps of other miners, and expects them machinery for gold -mining, houses for insight under your feet; on one hand ' h b cloned you see the Yosemite Fall and on the stage road, pass the hamlets of Enter- prise and Fish.Camp, and begin the as- cent•of Mi. Raymond. A bard climb np its steep and rocky slope will bring us to some silver mines, whose holders await nothing more anxiously than the advent of capitalists. And now, if we work our way round the bald, grey summit of the mountain,a walk of about two miles will bring us to the Mariposa group of BIG TREES. stream, builds a reservoir, and lays pipes to its land. This land immediate- ly becomes very valuable, and will sell for ahnost fabulous prices. Not long surprising statement in 'In some _parts of Cali- ved land is :selling for an acre." fit was, of which water had been since I saw thi a newspaper: fornia .unimpr $400 or $500 course, land t brought in the way above mentioned. Dat to explain what is meant by riparian rights: Suppose A and B own land along a river, A's land lyipg further up the stream than B's. To iirigate his fa.hre B must gerierally draw the water from the river at a point some distance above his owe farm, and lead it along that part of the river bank claimed by A. Has B the right tit do this if A objects, and has A the right to make B pay for the privi- lege' of so doing? This is the question at the bottom of all the discussion about riparian rights. Shannon vs. Lux was made a test case before the courts, and even judges before whom rgued decided in favor of ndholder, and against the o irrigate. Of course there cry against this decision, y generally re-echoed by Long before we had reached this eleva- tion the oak and chestnut had given place to evergreen trees. And such trees! In no part of the world do pines, cedars and spruces grow to such an en- ormous size. Except occasional patches of deer brush there is little undergrowth. Straight, symmetrical and clear of limbs, these great trunks seem like the columns of some grand temple. Almost unconsciously we find ourselves repeat- ing the lines of Bryant's poem, "The groves were God's first temples, etC." But these pines are mere saplings com- pared with the trees now before us. The sequoia gigantea is the largest tree known to naturalists. The tree of this species of conifer number but a few hun- dreds and are found only in California. Right in front of us is "Wah-wo-nah" (Indian for big tree), twenty-eight feet in diameter. . An arched passage for the road has been cut through its trunk, so that the stage with its six hones and load of tourists literally goes through the green and growing tree every day of the season. Not far away is the "Chimney" —an immense hollow stump about a hun- dred feet high, the inside of which has been charred by fire, and which looks,as you enter at the base, like a huge smoke- stack. A little further on you see "Whittier" and "Longfellow" standing tinn and patched with fields of snow. If you are fortunate enough to see a sun- set or suerise-from this point, the whole makes a view which for beauty and grandeur cannot ibe surpassed in any part of the werld., F. H. S. Canada. It is rumoretl in Montreal that Mr. Chapleau hashlecided to retire from the Cabinet. —Fraser Institute, Montreal, will Soon open a splendidly .equipped free public library. -e-The new suspension bridge at Nia- gara Falls will be rebuilt' to accommo- date a double track for teams. four of the thencase -was the riparian I man wishing was aloud ou which was ve the press thro ghout the State. A special meeting of the State Legislature was called about the middle.of July, and it was thought that before the end of the :session a bill would be introdued to settle the whole matter. SIGHT SEEING. We must not leave California without seeing some of the sights it offers to the tourist. We must at least visit the ferried Yosemite valley. Crossing to the depot at Oakland, for there are no railveays in San Francisco, we board a Southern Pacific train and are whirled away along the shore of the bay and up the valley of the San Joaquin. We are struck with the peculiar formation of the hills which bound the valley on either side. Their rounded fern $ suggest a collection of giganticbub ed at the rid of boiling ling toute men a ing grain; a of grain a freight train Men are pre son's :mop o next. Num pumping th ed soil. Ev with one obj At Merced taining sixt had been se passing eng-ne. As it was pretty well insured and water was scarce in the neighborho d, the grain was a total loss. One hundr d and eighty miles from 'Frisco we ome to Barenda where our car stops rotthe night. ; Ten miles fur- ther along. e see the flourishing town of Madera in ames, and go on to watch the fire. I little more than an hour three-fourt s Of the town was destroyed,' there being no water to stop the pro- gress of the fire among the dry wooden buildings. , From Berenda a branch line iles runs to B,a,ymond at the —The Windsor Oil and Gas CoMpany which is boring for gas at Belle River, has struck salt. The company will keep on boring in hopes of striking either gas or oil. —The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk railway for the week ending August 13th were $372,1,105, an increase of $26,034 compared with the correspon- ding week last year. --The Fishery Department has re- ceived official information that no cruiser was in the vicinity of Buctouche at the time the alleged sinking of an American fisherman is reported to have taken place. —Kman named Smith, from Toronto, was arrested the other night for having entered a laundry in Montreal and attempted to cut the throats of two Chinamen with a -razor._ Smith was captured in a saloon, and made a bold resistance. —Joehn Gain, a well-to-do firmer living near Hamilton, teied to kill him- self last Thursday afternoon by cutting his throat with a butcher knife. He is Gould not swim, and he got safely to shore. Stewart couldn't awim, and Fear - man tried to save him, and succeeded in getting him on the skiff, but he Was wattled off, sank and did not reappear. Stewart ,was a young Scotchman, 21 years of age, employed as a clerk by Mc- Pherson, Glasgow & Co., wholesale grocers. He had. been in Canada five years. His only relative in this country is a brother livipg in Hamilton,. —While drilling for water on the Nor- wood road, near Peterboro, the other day operators steack natural gas. —Matthew McMahon, of Preston, Nebraska, arrived at the Union station, Toronto, last Thursday morning en • route for Peterboro. While waiting for his train he made the acquaintance of a gentlemaely young man, who said his narne was Stewart, banker, of Port, Hope. , They became very friendly, and Stewart asked McMahon for the loan of $50 till the express office opened, when he would be able to get some money that was lying there for him. McMahon fooliihly did so, and now the detectives are hunting for Stewart. —At Niagara Falls on Monday after- noon of last week, while C. H. Frank' was standing near the residence of Peter A. Porter, he noticed what appeared to be the head of a man rapidly going down stream. He called the attention of a_ man working near by, who got a pair of glasses, and with their aid plainly saw a, man swimming down the stream as if making an effort to gain the head of Goat Island. As they watched him he was carried by on the Canadian side of the island, and a little later on a -couple of strangers reported that as they were crossing the bridge connecting the first Sister Island with Goat island .a man's body passed under it and was plainly visible. —Application was made to the court last Thursday on behalf of W. J. Gage & Co., of Tornnto, for an order to put the estate of John Crilly & Co., of Montreal, into liquidation. The court ordered Mr. Crilly to be summoned by public notice to appear before the court on the 25th inst., and appointed Mr. Wm. Angus as provisional guardian of the estate. Information was received later that Mr. Crilly was seen on the 4th inst. at the Union railway station in Chicago, and that he took the train for Denver, Colorado. The conductor of the west -bound train on the night of the 2nd inst. remembers seeing Mr. Crilly on the train., It is now believed that he is with relatives in Colorado. together like twin - poets' as they are. not expected to live. e was m goo Facing them stamd a nameless pair, ci rcurnstan ces financially. Melancholia which might fitly be called ,Scott and is supposed to 15;3 the ca.hse. - . ' Burns, You meet "Columbus," "Hain- --Capt. Nlelninald, of the Salvation ilton," "Andrew Johnson," "Lincoln," Army, while parading in St. Ann etreet, "Grant" and other worthies. "Grant" Quebec, last Thursday night, was simul- the base. Those eomparatively slender hit by two Stones coming in is one hundred feet in circumference at eeenceenh opposite directions and was knocked in - trees near the log -cabin have been found sensible. Her injuries, though severe, by actual measurement to be three bun- are not serious. l dred and thirty-seven feet high. The —A fire occurred *early Sunday morn - largest of the group is the 'Grizzly nig in IVIarkham which , consumed. about Giant," thirty-three feet in diameter. $16,000 worth of property. The fire the wind. Mount its trunk by the help see building and low by started in the rear end of the Markham The "Fallen Giant" has been laid. of a ladder ana-,1 in walking from root to cause of the fire is unknown. Mr. spread rapidly. The top you will take a hundred good paces. Chauncey of the Sun ' and Ms family in -the woods gives you a good view of —The two Montreal wholesale grocery with their lives. From the "Diamond Group" an opening barely escaped the entire See Joaquin valley. - Beyond firms who refused to miter the grocers' the blue mountains of the Coast Range, combination, and who in consequence which bound the view to the west, lies were unable to purchase sugar in Canada, the wide Pacific. We have thirty-five have carried the war into Africa, having miles yet to traverse before reaching our imported a large quantity front Scot - destination. In our upward progress the land, which they offer for sale at atmuch climate has changed from tropical to tem- lower price than is charged by the com- perate. The breeze, scented with the bination. . : . odor of pines, is cool from recent contact —The other day an elderly gentleman with fields of snow, and the water in the arrived at Dorchestern N. B., by the -brooklets which gurgle down the ravines early morning train from a St. John houses not very far above us. And pow, 1Rtaidvenr seen.ecvearntYtomaHrreyo; aamleadtyo wthhe"lhouhsee has been cooled at Nature's own ice - having toiled up the last weary ridge, of his financee, lie savii- her, and after the road runs along the precipitous side breakfast and a brief interview he (Inlet - of a deep canon. We ask oue compan- ly slipped from the house and disappear - ion if a stage overturned here would stop ed, not waiting for the wedding cere- in its descent before reaching the bottom, mony in the evening. . . about 1,500 feet below. He concludes —When Philip Williams, one of n the that it would not and we are satisfied to messengers of the 'Imperial Bank at To- accepthis demonstration and do not in- route . went to bed in his room in the sist on having the experiment made. bank 'building last Thursday night he Soon we reach Inspiration Point. To placed his revolver on the chair' .beside the west is the wild, deep, rugged valle Y him. When he arosehtext morning he of the Merced; across the canon is the took it up to put it by for the day. when steep Wall of ;rock -over which the Ribbon it exploded, the slug lodging in his leg. Fall makes a narrow, white band; before Williams will be laid' 'off for a month or us lies so, but the wound is not at all serious. • THE YOSEMITE VALLEY —The mortuary Tenants for the month in all its awful grandeur. Black prcci- of July show a death" rate in Montreal pices, rocky peaks, towering spires, of 706, Toronto 327, Quebec 263,, Handl - gleaming falls,ancl a silvery river flowing ton 72, Winnipeg 86, .a.nd. Kingston 22. through a verdant, tree -covered valley Ottawa's death rate' ;lumbers 92, of seem mingled together in one grand panorama. The geological history of the valley is peculiar. It is not a great split in the mountains as sc many of the can- ons in thatpart of the continent are, but has evidently been formed by a part of the range slipping from its place and dropping into the interior of the earth. That partof the mountains which must once have filled the space now occupied by the valley has completely disappeared leaving no trace of itself. What Titanic forces must have been at work, what terrific convulsions must have taken place in 'bygone ages, to have left such seams and sears on the face of mother earth! No pen can give an adequate description of this wonderful . place. Think of a valley, or rather a pit, about four and a half miles long and from one-third to three-fourths of a mile wide, walled in by almost perpendicular precipices -of black, discolored granite which average four thousand feet i,n height,and oyer whichnumerous streams having their sources in the snows and glaciers of the surrounding mountains and got into more or less trouble in sequence. He is bearded, breezed b posure, and horribly profane. He dr universal:blue' flannel shirt ean overalls, and lives runch o lone. Hardened and rough, he less possesses ipany traits of a n He has a rude honor, . vini ur oses scores all mean Loan Visit his cam in th blue life erth les which might have gather - of some immense cauldron or. Everywhere along our e cutting,threshing or haul - every station great heaps ait shipment, and every we meet is laden with it. sing the straw of thie sea ploughing for that of the roue windmills are wearily water to moisten the parch- rything seems to be done .ct—the production of grain. -e saw a pile of wheat con - thousand bushels which on fire by sparks from a of twenty r foot of the Mountains. Here you must take the Stige for a ride of eighty miles through fit a road. it is possible va never level when it mi merely for The sun is from one t ,Sieira Nevada range, NI. hat ! Curves and angles of every iety, and grades of every It is never straight and It . goes zigzagging about ht go straight ahead, up hill he sake of going up another. ot and the dust on the road three inches in depth. On lopes we find the live oak,the leap in stupepdous falls to the valley be- low, and perhaps you will have a faint idea of the Yosemite valley. When a man has seen the Merced River descend 700 feet in the Nevada Fall, or the Bridal Veil swayed back and forth by the breeze as in one plunge it comes down 940 feet, or the Little Yosemite River falling 2,630 feet in three leaps, the first being 1,600 feet; when he has looked up the perpendicular face of El Capitan, 3,300 feet high, guarding the entrance to the -s-alley, or the Sentinel, 3,100 feet ; high, keeping watch not far away, or at thmDome.s, Clouds, Rest, or Star King, rising from 4,000 to 6,000 feet above the valley; when he has climbed to the pro- jecting rock on Glacier Point, and lean- ing against the iron railing there, has looked sheer down 3,200 feet, the words height and depth begin to have for him a meaning they never possessed before. railway ti tick until shipped. The meet improved machinery is used by thefar- mere. In yonder field you see a coMpli- cated machine at work. • Before it the grain is in the standing straw, when it hes passed along the grain is in sack.s wIhich have only to be tied and hauled atvay. 1 —Three seizures of American fishing boats for violation of the customs laws have recently been made in the vicin- ity of St. Andrews by the stealer cruiser Intrepid, Captain Pratt. The fishing sloop Ida Brown, registered at Eastport, - but owned at Deer Island, was let off with a fine of $40. Two boats, each named Willie, belonging to Newport, were seized while loaded with fish. Knowing that if the boats were detain- ed the fish would spoil, Captain Pratt allowed the fishermen to proceed and dispose Of their fish on promise to return -and give up their boats. They did -so, and the boats are now held at •St. Andrews, awaiting instructions fiom Ottawa. —About 4 o'clock last Friday morn- ing two freight trains collided a short distance easttef-Aylmer station on :the Air Line, comPletely destroying the en- gine and several cars on the east -bound, while the West -bound, which had come to a standstill, had its engine damaged considerablY. It seems both trains had orders to mess there. The east -bound ar- rived first, and pulled through regardless of orders. The operator in charge of the station on Seeing the train going through put up the 'east semaphore to stop it, but the engineer seemed to pay no atteetion, and soon struck the west -bound, which - whom 41 were males knd al females. had stopped on seeing the semaphore. Hull has a remarkably heavy doth rate Tho 'trainmen jumped and escaped in - ••• to use his owe provision with the same the nuner, , etc., en freedom. But if sheep herders, for i the place. A few miles further up we other the Vernal and Nevada Falls of whom he lean a profound contempt, take come to a }place bearing the euphonious the Merced; before and around you are a similar liberty, he will anathemize name of Grub Gulch where several gold , the mighty cliffs which shut in this _them most vigorously. He invariably mines are worked with great profit. awful chasm • and beyond lie the high .calls his fellow -miners by their Christian Some miles further we turn off from the peaks of the 'sierras, devoid of vegeta- considering its pope lattOw of 12,000 people. The returns show that in July - 65 persons died there. —A melancholy accident took place Sunday at the residence of Mr. E. W. Strathy, of the firm of Strathy Bros., brokers, of Montreal. . A fortnight since a young girl named Frances Dinan enter- ed his service as a domestic. Sunday she committed suicide by taking .Paris green. No cause can be assigned for the rash act. The girl came to Montreal about two months ago from Chatham, N. 13. —An orphan lad nerned Lacombe, 16 years old, was the victim last Thursday of an accident in the Quebec Shoe Company's factory in that city, which will cost him his ;life. He was caught by the shafting and hurled with such fence against the ceiling as to fracture his skull. Then he fell to the ground, breaking an arm and leg and sustaining severe internal injuries. He was re- moved to the hospitalp but cannot long survive. —Two society young men, of Toronto, quarreled about a yeang lady to whom they were both paying their addresses. They decided that nothing but blood would satisfy them, and on Saturday junction and Dundas station the ttrain night they, with their seconds, met in came to a stand owing to the fact that Rosedale ravine. One of them now has the one engine did not furnish sufficient his arm in a sling. They declare motive power. The train was cut in the affair was only a hoax designed to halves and part went on to Dundas, frighten the young lady, but residents while the caboose and four loaded freight near the scene declare they heard two cars were left standing on the track. pistol shots. The young fellows are . After awhile they began moving down evidently ashamed of their conduct, and the grade to Hamilton station, and start - are trying to laugh it off. ! ed back at a speed that increased con- -James Stewart, of Hamilton, woe ' tinually. Fe obstruction was enceun- drowned in the lake at Grimsby Park ; tered on the way until the cars ran right last Saturday evening. A party of five ' up the yard within a few hundred yards youtig men went to the park Saturday of the station. There a pilot engine in a sail boat. They anchored the boat barred their further progress. The ea - a short distance off Oa pier and iotended boose dashed into it, completely wreck - to stay at the pare over night. When a1 ing it and two lumber cars foil() wing. A storm came up in the evening, and a brakeman sleeping in the cupola on the heavy sea began to roll, they concluded roof of the caboose escaped without in- to go aboard, fearing thatthe boat would jury, althoegh nearly every part of the drag anchor and drift, Three of them, 1 car was knocked into splinters. Robert H. Forman, W. Moore and Stewart put 1, Martin, driver of the pilot, was rather out from the pier in a skiff. When near badly shaken up, but not seriously hurt. the boat the Skiff was swamped and cap- 1 The pilot was badly wrecked. The sized. A life -preserver was thine out track was cleared by 8 o'clock, and no from shore and was seized by Moore, who delay took place. jury, except the brakeman on the east- bound, who was thrown violently to the ground, but not hurt fatally. —A boy named George Ogg, aged 6 years, residing in Toronto, met with a horrible death on Saturday evening. With a number of other children he was playing about, while a large iron street roller was being driven past by David Milnie. The little ones followed the horse and endeavored to get a seat on the roller framework. The driver hunted them away several times, but they per- sisted in the dangerous amusement, George Ogg succeeded in getting a seat on the frame, and Milnie turned round to put him off, but before he could do so the child had fallen under the weighty roller, which went clean over him, crush- ing his head to a regular pulp. Death was instantaneous. The body as at once removed to the home, wherethe child's mother became almest delirious upon seeing the mangled form. 44 —Freight No. 69 left Hamilton thr the west at 2 p. m. on Saturday, and a train was light no pilot was sent el help it up the long grade to Cop About half way between the Desj the g to own. rdins 3, .44 1 •