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NINBTEEWTH YEAR.
P7110LE NUMBER 1,028.
SEAFORTH FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 1887.
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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.
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—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 -
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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
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