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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1887-09-23, Page 1)0s 1sTINETEEINTH YEAR. OLE.NUMBER 1,032. SEAFORTH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1887. then Sete will sus - le services, from the the geed h. e pleased. k autherit rise, have ` 40 feet to r to meet ()knee of already a eating the will have tion house , together l obliging limed of and Itic ancl en- ge makers, having re- t the inter- ts busy as ; out vehi- ieving that. trollied, are flaking upa all kinds. enced and and t� give 1 we wish ,artnership, ar, the old at to Gode- ial for hay - assault on et for trial eh on Fri - le evidence aim of the His Honor Garrewe aer, and the and wife, country for week loek- Ruby, who ussels foun- )hio. Harty lere.—G. A.. r his herd of ast week at . E. Bower& .laday under trch, he he- ly, his sub - Scrip tures'"' ge who and a nine cora- Med by W. men, cap - I at base ball fe.vor of the Ian innings. next day.— nidents are Is, taking in dings are oa reek.—F. 0. f his salt at has �. Martin, y departure sorrowing this vicinity Exhibition >bell, of the venty stook& -The rain on auch good te. fires.—Mrs. e, has been time., We 'er.--"00011r sment these Ins to lodge ree, which is -Mr. Gideon to have been her, left last Lanarkshire, alien is the g all classes. 1.1 the Clinton , had a, log - 1 About fite in the even- ; close.—This 6t communion Thursday of rn Grey ,ncl hear Rest neebe—Those !rase at once: Buffalo or oot anthehe ri- Education for efficielleY nection with fans held last. Fall 8c Winter MILLINERY Opened & Ready for Inspection & Sale. Dress Goods, Trimmings In all the latest designs, Mantles and Ulster Cloths. Wenever before had such a complete stock. Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Frillings, Ribbons, But- tons, etc., in all varieties. Underclothing, .Mantles, Shawls, Flannels, Blank- ets, &c., At the very lowest prices at the Cheap Cash Store —OF— Hoffman & Co., SEAFORTH, Over the Manitoba Plains in Harvest Ti e. BY REV. PROFESSOR 6.YCE. WINNIPEG, Septei ber 3rd, 1887,, Now is the time to jonrney through our prairies. The weather is cool, the air is clear and the sea on is restful. Manitoba is bursting witht plenty. The hopes of ,the people have een realized, and now', they are gladl bringing in their tril;hutes to Ceres. Visitors from, abroad are filled with wender as from the railway trains they look upon the continuous miles of the harvested elysian fields. Old Manitoban declare the former days have returned, and the late comers admit they, have never, in any land, seen such abundance. Letters from the east but serve te increase the wonder of the prairie dwy.lers, for they tell that few other parts of the continent have had such plenty. The westbound traveller on the Canadian Pacific Rail- way isfirst surprised at the magnitude of the PORTAGE LA. PRAIRIE HARVEST. - Agents for Butterick's Reliable Pat- terns, Sheets and Books of the latest styles. O Year after year the Portage plains have' been yielding their abundance. The early Canadian farmers nearly twenty years ago were attracted here. Many of them were goocl farmers from Ontario, and knew how to give our land an opportunity, for while our Province rejoices in affording a home to the poor man, yet the broken-down tradesmen and unsuccessful merchants who have taken to farming on the prairies have at any rate in the early years of their ap- prenticeship, made poor Work of it and not done our soil or climate justice. Successful work for years has made the Portage la Prairie farmers well-to-do, and brought the land into a good state of cultivation. Though the prairie farmer is free from the toil of the On-, tario pioneer, of having to level the for- est, yet he must pay tribute to the genius of toil by working off the wild- ness and rawness of the prairie soil be. fore he can lay it under full contribu- tion. No doubt the well tilled acres of the Portage Plains are favored by the salubrious climate caused by the nearr ness of Lake Manitoba, which moderf ates the temperature along their north- ern side. As mile after mile of wheat in stook, or much of it in stack, is passed one is thrown into the humor of poetry, and feels like making a Maniitoban " Georgie." These are fields in reality'. The stooks are so white and unstained by rain ; as far as the eye cen see lines of them extend until they converge into one. - Not only the size bf the fields, but the crowded stooks suggest to the On- tario visitor a plenty'Ithat quite over- whelms him. What it grand harvest home the Portage farmer will have undEjr the September moon es he looks at his shorn fields of stubble and his number- less stacks of gathered grain. But has- tening west we have business in the country, and feel glad of it, for from the railway line but a poor view of the prairie is got after all. We go to see the BRANDON NVIOATFIELDS. We return from Rapid City to Bran- don—twenty-five miles by stage—and the journey is a constant delight. At one point we draw up for a moment to look at a field of wheat in stook one hun- dred and sixty acres in size. That field will yield five thousand bushels of grain. The writer has never heard the farmers complain before of having crops too heavy, but this year this is the cry. The only safety of the country is the self - O binder. Any one who has seen the army of peasants needed toe attack a grain field in England or Scotland, or even the number of men required for an old fash- ioned reaper in Ontario, looks with sur- prise at the farmer,' with his self -binder drawn by three horees'and followed by a single man, begin to harvest with per- -Mrs. Hayes, the inhuman mother who leftsher twin babes 36 hours alone in her house in St. Thomas, some weeks ince, on which occasion one was found dead, was tried before County Judge Hughes, on the charge of manslaughter, was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in the Mercer re- formatory. On the charge of a,bandon- ing the living child, she was also found guilty and sentenced to six months in the same institution. The alleged father of the children admitted having a wife and seven children at Port Hope. He was committed to jail for contempt of court during the trial. The wo an's husband is in the Old. Country. —General W. T. Sherman passed through St. Thomas last Friday morn- ing via the Michigan Central railroad from Detroit, where he had been attend- ing the re -union of the Army of the Ten- neatee. The many America,ne residing at St. Thomas decided upon tendering the veteran General a reception, and when the train rolled into the depot a crowd numbering about 2,000 people, headed by bands of music, was there to receive him. The bands played several selections and the General wan heartily cheered by the crowd. He m de a few remarks, thanking them for he recep- tion. A number of handsome bouquets were presented to him, which lwere suit- ably acknowledged. Several citizens were introduced to him, and the recep- tion was an immense succes . He left feet equanimity a field, of sixty or eighty at 11 o'clock en route for the past. acres. The harvest time, however, will - , I allow no aluggards. One farmer a little our party was a prominent member of the FARMERS' UNION. He discussed the Red River Valley rail- way, and held that this movement is simply the outcome of the principles laid dawn by his much maligned society. The farmers are the patriots of the coun- try, have no other end to serve than the good of the country, and have quickened the Provincial conscience to make our politicians :.tand up for the right as they are doing. This country, he maintained, had been compelled to fight an unequal battle with other iminigration fields, and it would be much in the interest of all the railways to giye lower rates of freight for so the farmers would be able to embark in greater operations and pro- vide more freight. !The rest of the party would not admitthat the Farmers Union had had all the patriotism of the Province, but yet were not very well able to answer his arguments. We all agreed that the present harvest, with its estimated export of 6,000,000 bushels, would be a great boon to the farmers, and assuage many of their sorrows. Perhaps the most interesting member of our party was A WELL-BORN LADY, the wife of an Irish gentleman engaged in farming north of Brandon, This lady is connected with a family well- known both in Canada and Britain for its literary work. She had been brought up in Ireland, seen much of the world, had traveled largely on the Continent, and came to settle down on a prairie farm. And she was so fond of it that she could not think of going back to the old country. She and her husband had been accustomed to ride over the prairies on horseback, but two sweet little chil- dren, one of whom accompanied her on her stage journey, make a more elabor- ate mode of transport necessary now. She had with true British pluck under- taken the heavy duties of farm life, and yet was a lady of intelligence and culti- vation, and unless the writer is mis- taken, could with her imagination and observing power, write , a good book descriptive of prairie life, as one of her relatives had done of the backwoods of Canada. Too often we see our British immigrants living on driblets of money received from time to time from the old country, and we call them in contempt "remittance farmers. It is pleasing to see well born and cultivated men and women coming to engage with pleasure in prairie farming, and able at the same time to make it pay . Arrived at Bran- don our pleasant party dispersed, and the writer ensconsed him in a C. P. R. for the far west, when AN EPISODE of another kind occurred. Certain marriage arrangements of a friend of the writer in Brandon had been altered by circumstances. The writer was compel- led bodily to leave the train about to start, and marched up town between the determined bridegroom and the equally decided father-in-law. This made a delay of a day and the cancelling by telegraph of certain engagements further westrbut refusal was useless. To make kindred hearts happier is, however, always a congenial task. Next morning in the church three hundred of the youth and beauty of the city gathered for the ceremony, and an old clergyman present remarked a good many more than would have turned out to a prayer meeting at nine o'clock in the morning. The bountiful harvest is likely to bring on a plentiful crop of marriages in the province, and even a wholesale marriage excursion to Ontario is in favor in the west. At last we are out of Brandon, and hurried along are soon amidst THE CROPS OF VIRDEN. The region about Virden is very at- tractive. The soil seems lighter than further east, but there is here a pleasing alteration of ridge and bluff and prairie lake. The railway belt seems less settl- ed, for as we go west the land for a mile on each side of the railway was by a mistaken policy for a time reserved. But enough is seen even from •the train to show that the same plenty as found elsewhere had come hither also. A rather intelligent young man became a traveling companion here. He was a Canadian from Ontario, who had been for a number of years settled in Missouri. His observatimis were interesting.' The harvest fields 'were something astound- ing to him. Accustomed to see fields burnt up with drought, the green herb- age of Manitoba, and the fall corn in the ear in the abundant sheaves delighted him. He said he noticed a difference between the people of the Northwest and those of the Eastern Provinces. The peo- ple here, said he, are more sprightly and have much grander ideas than in our older Canadian districts. There seemed to wave an air of progress about every- thingthing • and it will be strange, indeed, if our every- ; visitor does not throw in his let with us. One is much pleased to see the improving appearance of our - MANITOBA TOWNS AND VILLAGES. As we draw up in the train at these points the neat churches and good school buildings always attract attention. It is true these have been hurried on by the several denominations and the local tax -payers without thinking much of the burdens to, be borne. It would give the traveler much greater pleasure if he could know that all these were paid for, but the rich returns of the fields this year will do tomething towards paying off these necessary debts incurred. The merchants, now that they see the fields in stook, are more courageous, and large business orders are being given for the autumn and winter trade. The outlook for Manitoba is most cheering. GEORGE BRYCE. Union ForOver 1 Exclaimed the customer who found how splendidly Edward MeFaul —HAD UNIrED TEE— BEST QUALITY —WITH THE— LOWEST PRICE Dry Goods, Goods, M —AND-- Ilinery Readymade Clothing. THIS UNION Is Throughout the whole ESTAB L I 5 HMENT Edward McFaurs POPULAR DRY GOODS, late with his cutting , explained that a wheel of his reaper had broken, and find- ing by telegraphing to Winnipeg that the wheel could not be replaced he was compelled to purchase a new reaper at once, costing upward of $200, for har- vest, like time, waits for no man. Among such scenes ones mind rises in indigna- tion against a policy •erhich puts artificial obstacles in the way of the farmer, either l obtaining cheap imeil menti for his work or getting his produca to the markets of the world at rdasenable, raees. We were much interetted in our fieet morn- ing ride by the comments on the prairie scene of • OUR STAG PARTY. It was made up of 'five besides the writer. It was a geoup illustrative, of the country. The driver on a wes4rn stage in the hands of Mark Twain or Bret Harte, is a character of as much in. terest as Sir Walter Scott's dwarf or vil- lage natural, but our driver was simply a brawny sonsie faced young Seetchnean, only three or four menths Out from the land of cakes. He and his companion being mechanics had found trade dull in their native Glasgow, had heard of far off Manitoba, and had come to it. His companion had made a year's engage- ment with a farmer near Rapid City, and though at smell wages he would gain experience in farmieg, be comfort- able for the winter and have a little " siller " in the -spring. Onr driver was a good, faithful fellow, and we savv a considerable sum of money handed to him in Rapid City to be deliterecl in Brandon. On our journey the! conver- sation turned on Thomas .Carlyle. The young stage driver quoted quite correct- ly a sentence from, Sartor Resartus," of which we were speaking. Such im- migrants—and Manitoba has received _mthem area of the—are a splendid material for nor young society. Another of our passengers was an intelligent farmer's daughter. She had driven 25 miles to reach the stage and i by 111 o'clock that morning had completed 4 the house of a relative near Brandon,' a journey of 50 miles: When Manitoba maidens can get up so early in the morning they are sure to succeed in life. Anotlier of , bring them home to milk, and found them in a thicket and sent a dog in to bring them out. The dog , enraged one of them to such an extent that she be- came frantic and rushed out of the bush just where Miss Miller Was standing, and instead of pursuing thp dog rushed on her, hooking and bruising her in a + A 11111!iii McLEAN BROS. Publishers. { $1.50 a Year, in Advance. Kennedy, their commander, was taken down with the most malignant type of smallpox. Of the men, McDonald re- mained and nursed him until his death, when he was taken down with the dis- ease himself. Miss Ferguson was the nurse who attended him through his severe illness. As usual in such romances terrible manner. Had it ,not been for an attachment was formed, and before the young woman's presence of mind in holding on to a strap which secured a bell about the animal's neck, she would undoubtedly have been killed. • Letter From West Africa. Some time ago we made mention of the departure from Dakota of Dr. and Mrs. Webster as missionaries for Africa. Mrs. Webster is a niece of Mr. Alex- ander Murchie, post master of Win- throp. The following letter received from Dr. Webster has been received by his friends here: BENGUELLA, W. 0., Africa, } June 5, 1887. We arrived here at 7 a. m. on the 2nd inst. both of us well, although very tired. We are stopping with Mr. Wal- ters and are very comfortably situated. Mr. Stover writes that it may be several weeks before carriers can be secured to take our effects into the interior, so we are liable to remain here a month or more. Will give you a brief history of our trip since we last wrote you, when off Princess Island. St. Thomas Island was the next point touched after leaving Princess. Here our vessel stopped some twenty-four hours and we spent most of the time on shore. This is a very fer- tile isle, bananas and pine apples grow- ing wild everywhere and palm trees load- ed with cocoanuts. Here as well as at Princess we noticed the ruins of many buildings which were much better in their day than any the island now con- tains. We first saw Africa on May 25th at Cabinda, sixty miles north of the Congo. We went on shore and had a walk. This is a small place, only a few houses with a population of ten to fifteen whites and two or three hundred blaeks. The blacks here live in little 6x8 houses made of bamboo. I think they are the size of a good dog house. A majority of the na- tives(men) wear cloth of some descrip- tion fastened about the Waist and hang- ing down to or below the knees. The women have more cloth nsually fastened under one arm and over the opposite shoulder. Some of the young women have really some claim td good looks, if color be not taken into account. Occa- sionally one is met with a large piece of blue and white cloth draped tastily about her and with a sort of head gear which makes them look very neat. Metal rings worn around the ankles and wrists are very common. `We arrived at Banana, at the mouth of the Congo, on May 26. Here our Baptist friends left us. So far as I know this place has the only good harbor on the west coast, or I should say, has the only dock where a vesiel can tie up, for all vessels of any size usually anchor out a mile or more from the shore and everything must be carried to and from in boats. A very slow process which apparently suits the Portugese taste ex- actly, as they do it even at Lisbon. Ban- ana is a little place. There are a few large business places. The town is situ- ated on a little peninsula eight or ten rods wide extending out into the river from the north side. The Congo is an immense river. It colors the water and creates a current in the ocean for three hundred miles we are told. It is several miles wide at the mouth. South Of Congo, the shore be- , came more barren and rocky. At Loando very little farming is done, because of the scarcity of ram. We reached Loanda, the capital of the Portugese provinces, on the 29th of May. We went on shore and called on the Ameri- can Consul and also at Bishop Taylor's Mission situated here. They have a nice house just completed. The station is manned by two families, Mr. and Mrs. Radcliff and Mr. and Mrs. Arling- dale. We enjoyed the Visits very much. They have a very flourishing school and will do well. It is said that there are 10,000 flocks in Loanda so that they will have plenty of material. We called at the market, and I will 'describe it in an- other letter when I have not so much to write. Loanda has 12,000 population. It is a very pretty place situated on a promontory of land which extends out into the bay. The buildings are mainly only one story high and are whitewashed. They are mostly built of abode with cor- rugated iron roof. They have telephones and telegraph systems, police, paved and lighted streets, but from an American point of view the town is as dead as a doornail, but it is a very good Portugese town. The Portugese have no git or snap, they never move unlesss it is ac- tually necessary. I never saw a Portu- gese hurry unless he was mad and then he got over it in about 60 seconds. The natives here live generally on fish, Cas- sava root and sugar cane, the latter two being brought dotvn from the country. Saw some sweet potatoes of immense size. Writing this I ani wearing the same clothes that I should wear if I were in Chicago, but as one exercises he real- izes the intense heat. It is simply pros- trating. We will have to be careful if we retain our good health. This place (Benguella) has some 5,000 or 6,000 people, mostly blacks, has some very fine streets, and presents a pleasant ap- pearance. Will give you a further _de- scription of this pIacein my next Yours, &c., 4. H. WEBSTER. he left they became engaged. After McDonald's arrival home the ardor of his affection never cooled, but he con- tinued to correspond with her, and they intended to havebeenmarried at Hali- fax at the residence of his uncle, Hon. Wm. Ross, but she decided to come to North Sydney, and arrived on Friday morning accompanied by Messrs. Don- ald Ross, of New Zealand, and John Ross, of New Glasgow. In the after- noon they were quietly married at the manse, Sydney Mines, by the Rev. D. McMillan, and left for their residence in Litttle Bras d' Or. Millinery and Clothing House, SEAFORTH, from starvation. He was picked up by some Esquimaux, and lived among them until the trip of the Bear into the Arc- tic, when he was found among his pro- _ teeters. The cutter brought him down and connected with the Rush in the Behring Sea, the latter bringing him to Sitka. —The settlers and others in the North- west whose claims against the Govern- ment for losses during the rebellion have either been rejected or greatly reduced, are organizing for united action. Their intention is to proceed against the Do- minion Government in the Exchequer Court unless the Government agree to submit their cases to arbitration. —Sir Lionel Sackville 'West, the Brit- ish Minister at Washington, states that Mr. Chamberlain, Sir John Macdonald and himself will represent Great Britain in tee Fisheries Commission, and are expected to meet in Washington in the latter part of October or early in No- vember. Sir Lionel expresses confidence that the conference will effect an ami - Canada. cable settlement of the fishery dispute. A packet of registered letters was —Mrs. Normoyle, an old resident of stolen a few days ago from the mail bag Oshawa, while purchasing goods in a shoe store last Friday morning, died suddenly of heart disease. She was in apparent good health and was chatting pleasantly when she fell prostrate on the floor, expiring instantly. She was seventy years of age and a widow, her husband having been killed on the Grand Trunk railway some years ago in Whitby. —A demented character named Joseph Lizette, living at Hedleyville, an ad- joining municipality to Quebec, hits for some time past been anxious to go to England. The other morning he was missed and so was his brother-in-law's skiff. It appears he started off about 2 a. m. and was seen at an early hour passing by Montmorenci Falls. Friends have started in pursuit, but up to latest reports had not caught up to the "voyageur." —On Thursday of last week while James Jarnoll was selling Grand Trunk Railway tickets outside of the Exhibi- tion grounds, he was set upon by two men who attempted to rob him. They had succeeded in getting half a dozen tickets, and were endeavoring to secure play on board that vessel Saturday night his money, when several citizen t came at Quebec. —The Smith's Falls School Board have asked for the resignation of both teachers, who engaged in a personal en- counter in the schoolroom recently. One of them, however, refused to meet the views of the Board and the school has been closed for a week. —It is said that the season's disbars- ments in the blueberry industry in New Brunswick will add $10,000 to the re- ceipts of the people engaged therein. One Boston dealer has taken as many as 100 crates a day. The market has ruled firm from the first, there being a brisk demand from the United States. —The largest stone ever taken out of the Credit Valley quarries was last week shipped to Toronto. It measures 7 feet 4 inches long, 4 feet wide, and 3 feet 3 inches thick; it weighs nine tons and contains 91 cubic feet. It will be used in the new Parliament buildings. —The price of coal in Montreal was last week advanced 70. cents per ton, stove and chestnut being up to $6.70 per ton of 2,000 pounds, delivered, and it is understood that a further rise of fifteen cents per ton, to $6.85, is about to be established. —Murdoch McCauley, for some time past a clerk in Duluth went to Levis, Quebec, a day or two ago intending to sail for England on Saturday by the steamship Circassian. The previous morning he was found dead in bed at the Montreal hotel, where he boarded. Death resulted from disease of the heart. —One of the first results of the Col- onial Conference is the admission of ca- dets from Canadian families into the Royal navy, The examinations on the flag -ship at Halifax show that all the Canadians who entered passed. At pre- sent the routine is tiresome, but better arrangements will shortly be made. —The dredge while at work in the harbor at Belleville brought up on Mon- day a portion of a leather satchel, cop- per -bound and studded with copper nails, which is supposed to have belong- ed to Henry K. Waterhouse, who was found dead in the river nineteen years ago, and was supposed to have been murdered and thrown into the river. —John Beal, aged 18, employed in the Michigan Central car shops, at St. Thomas, had a narrow escape from death Tuesday of last week. While removing a car wheel with a hydraulic press, a piece of iron packing, weighing six pounds, flew from the pressure, striking him a glancing blow in the face, literally tearing off his nose and terribly disfigur- ing his features. —The other day while Mr. John Mills, of Garafraxa, was closing in a colt that was being weatted, it kicked out and struck him on the right side of the chest with both hind feet, crushing the chest in and breaking several ribs. A doctor was summoned, and although Mr. Mills is 70 years of age, the brightest hopes are entertained of his speedy recovery. from Valleyfield to Montreal. —Muddy Creek, Prince county, Prince Edward Island, possesses a Frenchman who is the father of 33 children. —The ratio of births for 1886, in Mon- treal, was one in eighteen amongst French Canadians, against one in thirty- eight amongst Protestants. —Two children named Omer Du- breil and Ovide Ouile, respectively, were drowned in the Lachine Canal at Mon- treal the other day while playing truant from school. —The Brantford Bow Park herd has again been successful. At the Minne- sota State Fair, held at St. Paul, Bow Park got the first prize of $500 for a grand beef herd. —By the accidental discharge of a gun the end was blown out of a buggy belonging to a Grey county sportsman. He was driving home after a day's hunt- ing and had the weapon in the rig beside him. —One midshipman and nine blue jack- ets of her Majesty's ship, Bellerophon, were more or less injured by the explos- ion of a rocket during a fireworks dis- Buffalo under some pretext, and a deter- mined effort was to have been made to steal the tug and take her away from Canadian jurisdiction. Captain Fraser, however, being suspicious, did not go to Buffalo, but reinforced himself on board the tug. During the night a number of men assembled on the dock and were about to board.the Charlton, but finding that she was well guarded they quickly dispersed. —The time for receiving tenders for the carrying of the mails between Great Britain and Canada has been extended until December 8th. /t is understood a number of capitalists are organizing a new steamship company for the purpose of tendering for the service. —At dayfight last Friday morning a lady was found lying unconscious along- side of the Grand Trunk track about one mile east of Lancaster, and vras taken there and cared for till noon, when she recovered consciousness. It was then learned that her name was Mrs. Birrall, and that ebe had been a passenger on No.4 express going west -Thursday night. She knows nothing about bow she came to leave the train, and it is suppose(' that she arose in her sleep, walked out onto the platform and fell off. She is badly bruised, and it is feared has sus- tained 'severe internal injuries. —A man named Alof Criesten, 24 years of age, while stealing a ride on an east -bound Grand Trunk freight train at Colborne, fell between the cars, having his right leg badly crushed and other portions of his body badly injured. The limb was amputated, and. he was conscious long enough to give his name and age, but no other particulars and died at 2 o'clock Sunday. Half Of the face aide of an envelope was found in his pocket, the address on which is "Peter Nelson, P. 0. Box 55, Port Arthur, Ontario." On the other side, written in pencil, is "Robert Johnson Chresber, Canadian Pacific Railway Ontario." —A singular discovery has been made by workmen engaged in repairing the wall of a building on Talbot street, St. Thomas. On removing the back stairs and platform in rear of 'the wall to be repaired,a hole about 12 feet square and six feet deep was discovered, where all was supposed to be solid earth. The earth from the hole had been thrown in- side. the cellar, and the entrance to the hoewas from a trap door under the steps. No one not knowing of the existence of this apartment would ever have discov- ered it. The workmen found what is supposed to be an old still pipe in this hole, and other evidences that a succese- ful trade in liquor had been at one time carried on there. The older inhabitants state that about 20 years ago there was a tenant in the building who sold liquor, and it was a general subject for remark at that time that he appeared to get rich very fast, but no one could tell Just how he acquired his wealth. —Official information has just reached the Indian Department at Ottawa of the emigration of the Metlakahtla Indians under Mr. Duncan. About 280 of 'these Indians have arrived in Alaska, and an equal number are now en route. Met- lakahtla is virtually deserted, most of the houses being torn down and taken away. Only 150 Indians altogether re- main, composed largely of the chiefs and their families and a few followers. None of the chiefs went away, Mr. Duncan having made it his policy never to give them any important position or trust -in the church or eumnrunity, in order to break down their power over the tribe. The once supreme Queen • has lost every vestige of her power, and her husband, once the great chief, is a common labor- er. The Indians about Fort Simpson are talking of taking a similar step. There is some probability that the de- serted village will be soon occupied by some interior tribe. —The Department of Militia has de- cided to proceed at once with the or- ganization of "C" Battery at Esqui- malt, British -Columbia. The efforts made in England to Secute pensioners of the Royal Marine Artillery for the Cana- dian service having failed, it has been determined to call for sufficient volun- teers from the existing batteries, "A" and "B," to compose the half of "C," All those willing to serve will be re-en- listed for the full term of time years at the standard rate of pay, forty cents a day. In addition to this, however, there will be the good conduct pay, and as an extra inducement to the men to go to British Columbia a bonus of ten cents a day will be paid on the expiration of the three years' service, about $110. This it is thought will be a guarantee against desertion. The scheme to bring men from England failed, it is under- stood, becauee most of the pensioners were married men, and the cost of transporting them and their families from the Old Country to the Pacific coast would have been very great. —Leonard Karn, who is at present lying in jail at Woodetock, awaiting removal to the penitentiary to serve a term of two years for the larceny of some buggy wheels, madetwo attempts to break jail on Saturday night la.st and Sunday. On Saturday enight he attempted to quarry a hole through the wall of his cell, but had no more than a few bricks removed. when he was detected. On Sunday morning he made a bolder at- tempt. He made a rope by tearing his straw mattress into strips, which he knotted carefully together, and this not being long enough he tore up some of his towels to complete the rope. A hook ma -de out of . an iron rod, about eighteen inches long, was attached securely by means of a shoestring to the end of the rope. After the prisoners were led into the yard on Sunday morn- ing, Kern threw the hook over the wall, where it caught in the shingles and re- tained a firm hold. He at once began to climb, and was within two feet of the top when he was noticed by Turnkey Ross. Mr. Ross could not reach him, but a few vigorous tugs at the rope made him release his hold and he fell to the ground. —A young woman named Nancy -Mil- ler, who live e with her father in Nesse- gaweya, had a terrible experience with an enraged cow the other day, nar- rowly escaping with her life, and with every shred of clothing torn , from her body. It occurred in this way: Hiss Miller went out for the cows to —The marliage of Miss Isabella Fer- guson, of Jersey, Erie., late nurse in London Hospital, to Mr. D. McDonald, of Little Bras d' Or, Cape Breton, which took place at North Sydney, Nova Scotia, the other day, was a pleasing sequel of what may be termed a roman- tic courtship. Mr. McDonald was one O of the Nile voyageurs, having been in active service in the 8oudan. After the arrival of the voyageurs in London Col. upon the scene and they fled. They were afterwards arrested when -they gave their names as Albert Patterspn and Daniel Thompson. —Last Friday morning as the two o'clock train arrived at the Grand Trunk railway station at Chatham, a young man named James Adams, of London, stepped off while the cars were in mo- tion, and slipping, fell beneath the weeels. His right leg was very badly crushed between the ankle and knee. Medical aid was obtained and after the limb was bandaged he was removed to London. The accident caused about an hour's delay. —A man named Frank Powell was coming into the market at Hamilton with a load of meat the other day, and his horse was just crossing the rails of the Northern and North-Western track, when an unusually vivid flash of lightning occurred and the horse dropped dead. It is supposed that the electric current passed along the rails and,that the horse formed a conductor between them by stepping on both at once, and that the shock killed it. There were no marks on the animal. —In contrast with good fruit crops in Ontario, the Annapolis, Nova Scotia, fruit growers now estimate the smallest crop of apples for many years, and some experts who have gone over the apple districts of Nova Scotia state that the crop will be about one fourth of what it was last year. Early in the season it was expected that a good export trade would gladden the hearts of the orchard- ists and storekeepers in the Annapolis valley, but all their bright anticipations have been dissipated by the canker worm and the drought. —Simon Brown, an Indian from Muncey, imbibed freely while visiting the circus at St. Thomas the other day, and while going home fell from the train on the St. Clair branch just outside that city, receiving a terrible scalp wound seven inches long, the whole scalp being loosened from the skull. O The wheels also passed over the left foot, grinding it into a shapeless mass. He was taken to St. Thomas and his leg amputated, and was then taken to his home. He is a married man, with a child. —On Sunday, September 4th, the body of a man was found upon the beach of Lake Ontario, near Oswego, and a description of the clothing published led the penitentiary officials at Kingston to believe that it was the body of one of the convicts who escaped on the yacht Juno. The clothing was sent there by request, and it has been identified as that of Kelly, who acted as engineer of the yacht. It is supposed that he was wounded in the escape, and, dying, was cast in the lake by the surviving convict, Schoones. —Two boys had a narrow escape from an awful death at Quebec the other day. The axle of a caleche btoke and one of —Mr. James Virtue, of East Oxford, the wheels dashed through the plate has quite a curiosity in the shape of an glass window of a eewing machine store. Indian pipe which he plowed up in one Shortly after the accident two little of his fields a short time ago. The pipe boys put their heads through the hole has been modelled out of a solid piece of made in the lower part of the window stone. The bowl is somewhat larger to examine the damage inside. They than that of any ordinary pipe and the had barely withdrawn their heads when stem is flat with a rather wide bore. the upper part of the heavy plate of The whole was carefully polished and glass fell upon the spot they had just carved with many curious .figures. left. Had the fall occurred a few ,—Captain Warren, of the schooner seconds sooner both boys would 1.111 - ()Eimer, arrived at -Victoria, British Co- doubtedly have had their heads severed lumbia, from Sitka, stated that by the froin their bodies. cutter Rush there arrived a sailor in i --For nearly a year the tug Charlton Sitka, who is the only survivor of the I has been laid up in the canal at St. whaling echooner Napoleon, which was Catharines. A short time ago she was wrecked in the Arctic two years ago. 1 sold by Sheriff Dawson for some old He tells a terrible tale of suffering. The i claim, and was bought in by an agent of vessel gOt crushed in the ice, the crew I Mr. J. Charlton, M. P. Since then she hb.ving to take to their boats, and the l has been in charge of Captain J. Fraser, man who arrived in Sitka was one of the of Windsor, who has kept strict watch 18 ,who were on the ice for 30 days. over her. The other evening an attempt During this time his 17 companions died was made to entice Captain Fraser to 4n.